I'm going to talk about something that's really difficult to talk about but it is imperative that we actually talk about it. But I'm going to give everybody a trigger warning and tell you because it's very heavy and because it might get heavier than even expected if you need to give yourself time and space to step away please do so and when you're ready feel free to come back but it is a heavy conversation oops the mic's not being nice today it is a heavy conversation because those of us in the mental health field who have been working with the muslim community for a long time we've been seeing changes over time some of these changes are actually not necessarily new it's just that we're more alert to them and in the topic of mental health would you guys agree that in the last five years at least there's been a lot more conversations around mental health than ever before do you remember how in your message and maybe that's still true in your community centers and other spaces that you're in they would never really have a topic on mental health and call it mental health I remember in a time where when we wanted to do topics that were very specific like for example substance abuse and we would want to actually call it that there would be one person to show up in the room and then they would actually start pulling people from the hallway like come on in come on in because it was so taboo and so difficult to talk about that nobody wanted to go in or even be associated with somebody that went into the room to talk about mental health lest they too be called crazy so panel of the tides have shifted you have actresses and actors activists athletes all people to all types of people who are open and talking about mental health now and how they're seeking out therapy and support and they're being open about that journey and you have on the other hand a lot of our religious leaders and imams I realize it may not be your imam okay but there are in fact those within the religious community that are also standing up and saying all right enough is enough we're going to be open and talk about this there are even some who are willing to say that they themselves or their family members are going through therapy and I think that's an amazing change of tides but here's what I'm going to talk about today even with the changes that are happening there's some real serious stuff so panel lot not just the mental illnesses that you may hear about that have names like depression or anxiety bipolar disorder schizophrenia and so on and so on but also things that maybe don't necessarily have names or you don't know what to call them within yourselves or your loved ones just feelings of angst if anything that this pandemic taught us is that all kinds of uncertainty is coming with it when is this going to end I don't know am I really truly you know vaccinated enough and against Omicron I don't know right as a panel there's just so much uncertainty and that builds in you a sense of anxiety and angst even if you're not somebody that has clinical anxiety right isolation which many of us going into lockdown at a lockdown into lockdown at a lockdown it's been hard and the close quarters you've kept with family and those whoever you live with roommates and so on or if you've been completely isolated alone is also wrecked havoc on ourselves and so I think finally the conversation around mental health is finally being had in a more open manner and you know me I'm all about this is not a new story to the Muslims if you've heard me speak before you've heard me talk about the history of mental health and the heritage of mental health and how Muslims had always been at the forefront of this discussion always because in our world view as Muslims mind body and soul are together you never separate them out and because of that the early Muslims always had treatment centers and healing centers for all kinds of mental health conditions and they were the first to do what you guys answer come on they were the first to build what and what are the matter stands the hospitals the healing centers that had what in them that had in them yes my body and soul but what do they have that was special that no other hospitals in the history of humankind had before the Muslims mental health wars exactly when you think about how do you have a civilization that the others before Greeks and Romans and all the rest couldn't do what is it about Islam that prompted that because there's something and this is where we're going to talk about when people have that stigma or that shame or I'm not going to go and get help this is very important to remember that you all we all are part of the heritage that never separated out mind body and soul they were always connected and because of that our healing centers and institutions it's no surprise that they had the mental health within it I'm talking about talk therapy did you know Muslims were the some of the first to develop talk therapy you know the talk therapy that your mama tells you or your hana or whoever tells you no no no no no no no we Muslims don't do that that is a shame to us that somebody would say that Muslims don't do that when the Muslims themselves are the ones who created talk therapy come on now subhanallah sound therapy music therapy natural sounds and feelings emotions with aroma therapy and color and sound all of it was integrated into these healing centers why do I make a big fuss about this because I'm tired of the stigma I'm tired of the shame that surrounds mental health and I'm tired of people when they're talking about this topic calling others like it's an other thing like it doesn't affect them they're the ones who are crazy and don't call me that because I don't have that the reality is we all have that you can't have lived through this pandemic and not have something related to mental health with my all deference and respect to you every one of us if it's not clinically diagnosed it is there right under the surface whether it be a depression or an anxiety or something more serious it is right under the surface in each and every person am I making too bold of a statement am I exaggerating so the end of the line for mental health when we worry about people not getting the help they need either they start to spiral down and things get really tough right and they think I can do this by myself I'm a man I'm a believer I believe in God I can do this God's going to see me through inshallah God will see you through but God also gave you the means to get the help you need the means the early Muslims when they built these institutions that I'm talking about this was a lip service to the sunnah this was actually understanding the sunnah this was understanding the hadith that say things like when Allah sends down an illness he sends down it's cure well for Allah's going to send illnesses like mental illnesses and clearly he's also has for them what cures treatments professionals people who know how to help you this is part of our sunnah and the early Muslims had no shame and stigma around this in fact they built these amazing beautiful institutions fountains and greenery we have these papers coming I'm not the worry with our research papers you can read them inshallah at our website at the lab the Stanford Muslim Mental Health and Islamic Psychology Lab talking about the talk therapies the music therapy the aroma therapies the gardens and so on and so forth holistic holistic I named the nonprofit that relates to my lab Maristan after these institutions because it is my dream inshallah that we revive the matter stems this is my dream inshallah we're going to do this we're going to do this we're actually going to revive this Islamic tradition heritage where when you get the help you need it's holistic it has mind body and soul it has the spirituality because as Muslims you don't take that away from us you've got to keep the slam in it you've got to keep the connection to God in it and honestly secular psychology has lost its soul that's not me talking that's what the literature says and now the new wave is bring your whole self into therapy well everyone in this room for you to bring your whole self into therapy that means bringing all of your identities into therapy and if you were a Muslim that's one of your identities is that right so now i'm going to tell you something that's really difficult the end of the line when people do not get help not only do they effect they're affected themselves but their family members are too their loved ones their friends it's a ripple effect you have to realize it's not just you and when you say i'm going to rely on myself i'm going to do this alone you don't realize that sometimes not only are you harming yourself but you're also harming the people around you because they don't know what to do either they see you suffering they want you to be better and it's affecting them too so there's a certain part when people say i'm going to do this on myself that's selfish part of connecting to the broader circles is understanding that you are part of a bigger system and when we don't get the help we need the end of the line that i worry about and the reason we wrote the paper that you just heard about and published it this summer and people kept saying don't publish that don't publish that it's going to make the muslims look bad well even after we published and i'm telling you in the highest ranking medical journal jamma which is the journal of american medical association it is hard to get anything in that journal unless it's like really rigorous and really well studied even after it was published there we had people imams and different people and so on and not just imams even regular people call it false news fake news i'm like really people really have you seen the community lately masha'Allah do you know how to do research no anyway masha'Allah i don't know i love it but the but the reality is it was so hard for people to stomach the results that came out of it so what were the results in brief we compared muslims to all other faith groups christians jews hindus buddhists and people of no faith atheists and agnostics and when we compared suicide attempts okay this is where the trigger wording comes in attempts we found that muslims had double yes i just said double double the rates of suicide attempts from other faith groups or non-faith groups i didn't expect that i knew it was high because i could see it in my practice and i could see in all the people that i supervise in all the cases that are coming through for mental health i could see it we knew there was something high but we didn't know how high now mind you i didn't say death by suicide because that's a different category and alhamdulillah that's a lot of muslims are still at the very low end of that but when you increase attempts you're going to increase deaths by suicide eventually too it's going to catch up and that's the fear so what do you do so i'm going to share something with you because when people hear bad news they're like oh no now what now what this lab that we do the research in and i told you about the nonprofit we started i am committed like 110 committed to making sure that all of our muslim leaders are activists our community and religious leaders are all trained to work on this topic of suicide it is not easy i went through entire medical school and psychiatric residency and high-level specialty i'm a professor at stanford subhanallah and i didn't know how to deal with this i had to get extra training in this if anybody feels like they know how to do this even as a mental health professional they don't it is specialized training to talk about suicide prevention which is all about education and this is i want you to know some very important things before we kind of close today with this topic one suicide is a hundred percent preventable there is no other mental health condition that i can tell you about that is a hundred percent preventable this one is because it's about education it's about knowing the signs it's about intervention it's about helping it's about bridging people to care before it gets too late now i know there might be people here who have lost loved ones to suicide and my all my love goes to you may all make it easy for you and you may be thinking but how was that was that prevent subhanallah i'm not talking about individual cases rather i'm looking into the future and telling you that if there is solid interventions in place and our communities are willing to talk about this very difficult thing and be trained how to appropriately intervene we can prevent so much you know what inspires me there is an ayah in the Quran that you know as well or allah says whoever saves a life it is though they have saved all of humanity this is a this is a muslim driven mission it is part and parcel of our islam when someone says no that's not part of our story it is so you know what i want you to do if you're already on social media people parents get mad at me they're like you to told our kids to get on social media i'm like your kids already aren't social media friends mashaAllah if you are there check out the handle go to maristan at maristan underscore org m a r i stan st an i want you to follow that account specifically because this is where all the trainings and education is coming out we're putting out mashaAllah every week is coming out all kinds of resources that handle and also the one for the lab the muslim health and islamic psychology lab at stanford if you want little kind of knowledge bites size but you know bite size pieces around mental health these are some great accounts to follow because we're constantly taking all that academic research that we're doing and translating into things that all of you can benefit from we have these articles and we have these little charts of things are like what happens what to say and what not to say well la hispanela sometimes people just get stuck they want to say something they want to help someone who's in trouble or they feel like someone is not doing well or maybe someone has had a loved one who actually did pass from suicide and they feel stuck they don't know what to say and then you worry about saying the wrong thing and then you don't say anything at all and that's just like a whole spiral right so we have these tips and techniques for you if you check the website and you follow it you can download all kinds of resources to help you and your communities i want you whatever message you come from whatever community center or you know organization you're connected to go to that page maristan.org go and download the khutbas and give it to your msa khatib give it to your imams there is ones that literally completely written out on suicide prevention and it follows all the standardized really rigorous scientific knowledge on how do you talk about suicide but of course all the fifth parts of the correct ways of saying the khutba written the whole thing is written out there's one on prevention there's one on postvention which is what you do in the aftermath there are resources for you at your fingertips if you know where to go and look at them so please do and the last thing i'll say and shah about this topic is we have a campaign it launches in just a few days it's called the 500 imams campaign that maristan is launching you know what the goal is that no less than 500 imams religiously trained women and men ustad and ustadas are trained in suicide response and certified in it in 2022 inshallah the goal inshallah inshallah inshallah the manual that comes with that we took years of writing years of research but it's like a hundred page manual and you can't really give a local leader a manual a hundred pages and say now go do this so we develop the training and everything is kind of what we call in medicine and science evidence spaced so we do all this research and make sure it's working alhamdulillah we have all of our irb and ethics approval not the not the boring research stuff that i'm going to bore you with but just to let you know that this is very sound information but you know what's special about it every resource that i looked on on the topic of suicide was either too secular so when you tried to give it to the religious leaders yeah it didn't really work and on the other hand there were other resources but they weren't scientifically rigorous enough they weren't accurate so we took the two and kind of married them together so now these imams and community leaders and youth leaders and msa leaders and so on they realize that the training that they're getting is something that speaks directly to them what do i do at the janaza prayer do i make du'a for this person how do i help the person the family that's left behind and so on and so forth all of this is dealt with in the training and it's a certificate training and all of you can eventually take this as well because we hope to make it virtual inshallah to ala if there's anyone here who's interested in kind of supporting this and kind of making sure that it comes to your communities let us know you go to baristan.org and kind of let us know talk to us in there or through our dms and our social media but here's what i want to tell you the last study that came out about how many muslim centers are there in america do you know how many there are how many message do we have in america that's not a lot i love it give me a number very close 2500 it's really close it's about 3000 3000 message in america you know what my five-year plan for maristan is i want all 3000 message are trained say amen and with that inshallah turning it over to linda inshallah but we'll keep on this conversation going because we need to have these conversations going we need them to be open but i'll tell you what else we need them to be we need them to be grounded in accurate knowledge this is where the researcher and professor and dr me comes out okay but we also needed to be grounded in actual islamic information and this is where my sharia training comes out you got to put the two together in order for it to actually work for our communities so may Allah bless you may this come as ease and help to your communities inshallah and please do make do out and support the missions because these are not easy trust me it is not easy to roll out mental health work or to even get it funded but please inshallah with your duaz and support because we like the is says we need to save even the one life you've saved like all of humanity and all of us about us is about a lot of people most of all want to say


Brother, I made jokes about it, but uh, maybe, maybe Deku is the villain now. We'll go back to the channel, we have episode 136 of our MHA Watch Today called Deku vs Class A. I only say that because of the title, but there's no way he's actually gonna force them to fight him, right? I mean, I didn't think he would go silently into the night, but still. We're gonna hop right into it, only two left in the season after this one. If you knew the channel, drop us up and let's get started. I liked how all my statue was behind them, too. I'm back to stain, I think. That's what this is from. He brought the receipts, baby! The memory, the flashback receipts! He just looks like an animal! Or he'll just try to dip. Yeah, cause he's not gonna wanna have to fight them, but the title kind of implies it. I think it's like gonna be them versus him because he just, like, disagrees. He doesn't want them here, he doesn't want to come back. Kota just sending birds after Deku? Oh my god! Well, can he use his tape on Blackwhip? Ohhhh... He kind of put, like, he gave him how to do it. Like, I guess it is sort of a similar technique. I like how it's all of them. He's having a sort of moment just showing him the impact that he had on them. Aw... If they can't physically get to him, they'll emotionally get to him. I understand it's trying to give each other a moment, but I don't feel as connected to every student the same, which I don't think I'm supposed to, but... Some of them have definitely had more development and emotional stake than others. Just sees everything that happened the first time this season all for naught. My god! Maybe he does end up having to fight back. That's interesting leverage. Someone else can make airy the candy apples. Oh my! What are you just walking down with? It's gonna come to a head eventually. I feel like he's gonna hurt one of them, and it's gonna change things very drastically. I don't want it to happen, but... Oh my, yeah, I was about to say. Oh, that's actually kind of sick. I guess it's showing all those moments he had with characters that we got to see. Ragnarok? Oh my god! Locks him in. Ahhh... They're all stronger because of him. Take a bath. Oh no, he's overheating! They are not strong enough to hold him back, man. Deku's different now. He can't look like Doc Ock with his arms at the tape. It fell off. Just don't want him to get hurt. Oh my! I was wondering where the rest of them were. The ones he's even closer to, like Todoroki. I don't know if it's a dumb pet peeve or not. I feel like by now, they don't need to show the cork anymore. It's kind of just like a style thing. I know they know that we haven't forgotten, but still. They all got to get their word in. He knows that this is something that they all had to just be together for, yeah. They can't even make a good argument that he's inherently like leaving them defenseless, too, by being out here and not with everyone. They're weaker apart. It's like all for one's poison Deku's mind. Not just that, but like the goal. And that's why all my feels guilty. He's not completely wrong. They can. Dude! Has it been a minute since we've heard? Is it? You say run? Oh, here's Minetta. Here we go. He actually got him! Good times. What would Minetta do if he actually pulled himself all the way to Deku? What then? It's not that simple. Oh, that's dope! If I did this, it's dope. I like just the application of it. Oh, here we go. Oh, she couldn't catch him. I thought it was going to be like a parallel to the training last season. Yo! They're like a train track. What? My God, they're all... Oh, my! It's beautiful. Oh, and then she's going to have them float. They're going into the atmosphere! They just want to fight next to him. Not above or below. God, dude, there's one thing I really do like about MHA is the voice acting. Just certain ones. Like Bakugo and Todoroki start for sure standouts. After this guy's sending Todoroki. Oh! Eda! Pro Eda's like ripping apart trying to keep off. It shows you how stupidly fast Deku's going. Friends. You say wrong, baby. Mobile change is mine. Nothing. He's taking the name! That's so sweet. Oh, my gosh. Did he say like he wouldn't take it until he knew he was strong enough or he knew he was ready for it or just kind of the whole mantra? Oh, my God, it made Bakugo's name his new name. Oh, my God, he actually collapsed. Yeah, now what? That's what I'm asking. There's no way he's just going to catch them. He had his moment. He was there. I don't know if they showed him originally. I don't remember that. I wanted one of them to be like, Midori, remember when you lent me a pencil? That changed everything. And they're all there. He's not going to say yes. I don't think. I don't know if they could change his mind. Wow. I don't think I've ever heard Bakugo speak that softly. Holy. He did say he moved on his own. He's saying this kind of everyone too. Oh, my God. He just didn't want them to believe that they could. God damn. Yeah, for real. I didn't think they could get to him. Not in any sense. I'm glad they did because I don't know the dynamic just I'm glad. I want them to be included. Oh, my gosh. Have we ever seen her face? His face? What a random reveal. Kind of like my hair, but in reverse. Whoa. This is so apocalyptic. The system. Combine. They came in God a man. Oh, people. Citizens. Oh. Oh. Dang. Kind of like who delivers the mailman's mail. Kind of. That was a very, I mean, I want to say surprisingly emotional episode. Maybe I should have seen it coming since they were literally confronting him. Trying to bring him back. Oh, wow. That was so powerful, man. Just that entire conversation with Bakugo. Like I said, has he ever spoken that calmly? Yeah, he's talked regularly before, like not screaming, but he dropped himself to a level I have never seen in my life before. And it was really good to see because I feel like near the beginning of the season, it was trying to have some of the development for Bakugo, especially leading up to him taking the hit for Deku. Whenever he took the hit for Deku, I don't think it hit that hard because they hadn't had many moments. Like, I mean, they've had moments, of course, especially when they fought and all might have to stop them. But I think this season, if nothing else, has developed Deku and Bakugo's relationship like tenfold. And like I said, bringing in the rest of the class because, well, I guess I did enjoy his time just with the other pro heroes. I think just abandoning the class as part of the storyline would be a mistake. Because as we've seen, we've gotten to know them so well over the years. I mean, not all of them do the exact same way, but still. Guys, that's been it for episode 136 of our MHA Watchthrough. Only two more left in the season. If you need a channel, drop us up and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Peace, peace.


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Okay, good afternoon PNR broadly programs and resources of folks out at TSO Indianapolis Folks out in Kansas City, Quantico For getting all the way out to the folks that we have McNaphas out in Pendleton Folks across the board if we got folks dialing in from RPX at some of our aviation sites You know Yuma and Buford Miramar all the way out to Iwakuni Good afternoon. Good morning. Good evening. Oh, hi goes on us Hey, it's it's been a while since I've been here in front of you And it's a little mark of the the time I suppose The time of COVID and how it's really colored a little bit of everything Or a lot of everything depending on your own circumstances, so You know, there are many people who've had challenges life events Good and bad during COVID that COVID affects so COVID affects deaths in the family funerals that cannot be had It affects marriages In terms of weddings And it can affect sometimes just the the wonderful events of the birth of a child And so we've all had our circumstances and in my family has had ours and and so I Got to tell you it's very good to be back as odd as this is we did a few of them And I feel pretty comfortable in this virtual environment with you It's it is honestly and truly a pleasure to be back talking to you all today And I wanted to start off a little bit talking about the fact that I'm really pleased with Leadership across the Marine Corps You know, we really said that you know, it's a people business It's a family have done well And that one of the most important things that we can do is to recognize the folks who are working So hard whether it be just by an enduring level of effort a great idea a special project Or even and perhaps most importantly a team So one of the things that we said that we would do is is find more ways and impactful ways to recognize people Through action through deed Not just word and we tried to you know find ways of doing that and I'd really like to thank the leadership in particular You know the the branch heads Supervisors leaders who took the time to reach out and recognize folks and Because it has been some time There's a lot of folks That have been recognized so I will tell you You know, it's I Think it's good for everybody Mostly for me. I suppose to have the opportunity to recognize people who are doing Really great work You know given the time and the number of people who've been recognized I Think it would almost be counterproductive if I took the time to read through The names of individuals and on the spot and impact awards or teams that have been recognized So what we thought that we would do to try to focus on You know that the positive impacts a positive energy And focus on that and not turn it into a chore Where we're you know after the first couple of names it becomes just the reading of a list That we would try to at least for you all publicly to recognize be able to recognize your teammates individually If you have the opportunity by by listing out the people who have been recognized And with a little snapshot of the reason for which they they have been recognized I'd also like you to consider Very positively think about who those people's leaders are Their branch heads their supervisors their directors think about the people who took the time to put them in for recognition to recognize the good work that they're doing and and I'd ask you also To recognize the circumstances under which this has happened so I mean we're all still trying to I mean after all this Time it seems like about a hundred years Still working through processes and trying to understand the best ways to maximize participation to to meet the mission To try to you know do things efficiently and effectively as we can from this very highly very very highly distributed environment so You know, you know, please consider that along those lines You know, we said in here in this environment would be better with a full auditorium here and You know, perhaps I don't know if you know Indianapolis is still going through the you know The practice of going over to the the War Memorial there and gathering as a group and so forth and how it's done and Other smaller geographically separated locations But to recognize people, you know on a more itinerant basis and so we not only for performance, but for achievements in terms of promotions And in other life events so likewise we have a list of a whole host of Marines in here have been selected for promotion You know one of the most rewarding things for all of us whether, you know, whether You know in uniform or out But a sign of advancement a sign of the recognition of our past performance and really the sign of Most importantly of our potential for future leadership and responsibility. So likewise, there's a whole host I mean, there's three pages four pages of You know promotions in there as well and then we have a couple of a couple of life events here in terms of you know, welcomes to the family and You know because this is out, you know over the internet I won't I won't read the names out of respect for people's, you know personal information and Folks we generally check to see if it's okay with them if we put something out, you know emails and so forth, but I ask you to look and we've had some, you know, some Some new members of the family arrive in the world here So I'd ask you to you know consider that and again consider that here and in the time of Of coven so I think they got there's a serum a glockland song about ordinary miracles that kind of seems to resonate lately so So there is that I Thought it really important to start off with that the most important thing which is really you And the things that you do to contribute To the Marine Corps and what it is that we're trying to do and I'll talk about that here in in just one second Kind of where we're at where we're headed But I would like to talk a little bit as we must about where we're at with COVID And just very quickly To say this You know, we track all of the you know, we've got you know, mr. Levy and his folks have done a wonderful job of You know kind of mapping out and we talked about this before all the trend lines for all of the areas in which we have PNR teammates be TSO or again, Kansas City across the board And we've all seen you pick it up generally in the news, but it's very impactful to see it in a simple trend-lined bar graph But the numbers are coming down significantly But I would like to just remind everybody You know to stick with it here You know, there's a lot of unknowns out there and unknown variants. I think it's pretty it's a pretty good news story it appears the the some of the data that's coming back out about some of the Some of the different types of Immunizations and the the actual effectiveness as opposed to in the lab effectiveness I know Israel's come out with a study the UK's come out with a study I think we're starting to see studies come out of the US and it's all very hopeful and I gotta tell you Nobody wants to get there sooner than me. It's I was walking around today as we were walking through the Pentagon and it just occurred to me that You know, there's just patterns. You don't see here anymore You just in a couple of things and you miss. I mean one is just the people in the passageway I mean there's days it here.  It's it can be unnerving sometimes when you can you know look in four different directions and see nobody But you kind of miss all of the the Pentagon tours, you know the backwards walking soldier sailors airmen and Marines or backwards walking with their memorized Sticks on you know telling everybody about this, you know all the neat stories about the Pentagon and the wind and the how and the why and All that stuff and you don't see families here, you know families coming to visit families coming for promotions families coming for lunch So Really looking forward to getting back to those patterns, but there's but we're not there yet Is the only point and not meaning to be a downer. I'm just saying that you know a you know Just be smart. I'll say be smart safe, but be smart and And you know, you're never in there till you're in there, you know, he never you know never declare victory early Don't spike the ball to five yard line all those kinds of things. So let's just kind of keep going Okay, so Where are we at? So, you know in in P and R we tend to You know bucket our efforts in in pretty predictable ways and a lot of them have to do with one of the The primary big wheels about the national security Decision-making cycle right and that's the PPBE and we've said the PPBE a so, you know, we'll go over Hey, where are we at and we kind of just work through it temporarily, you know So you can talk about we'll get into talking about the previous year as we get better about analyzing it So there's work on going within PA&E to try and analyze FY 20 Hey, what where do we really spend the money and how did that look relative to how we budgeted? How did that look like relatively programmed? How did that look relative to the plan? But I can tell you right now. We've got very unique aspects of FY 21 Stacked on top of that is a relook at The budget for FY 22 because there's a new administration nothing unusual about that new administration gets in and they say hold On on the budget, you know We'll submit it a little bit later and the constitutional stipulates per se they're allowed to do it and And to make sure that administration priorities in there palm 23 Which is you know kind of in a Critically important mode or modes Relative to Resourcing the commonance force design we'll talk about that and the things that we're trying to do for reform We're already talking palm 24 In the context of 23 all stacked on top of each other And that's not taking into account audit Audit where there's you know, we're really nobody can pressurize ourselves more than us That's the beauty about the Marine Corps. You'd say oh, there's a lot of political pressure to get an audit But there's nothing that a politician can do to pressurize the Marine Corps to get an audit opinion more than we're gonna pressurize ourselves because we're Marines so But there's there's pressure there that from us And then there's a lot of pressure relative to the transition from Sabres our financial management accounting platform into Defense Agency initiative the DAI Platform that's more of a business mission system broader than a financial management accounting platform taking into account a lot more things a lot more keep it, you know There's we're on a clock for that and a lot of these clocks lead towards Really late summer early fall and continue on out past that absolutely no question And then and then there's a lot of efforts Going on across the board for a lot of the things that we're trying to do for Reform efforts for PPBE a whether it be a Marine Corps strategic assessment In May for Palm 24 these commanders organizational risk estimates that BCG is helping us develop We're going into wave two on that. We just had the meeting with all the commanding generals on that this morning big level of effort to try and Get that set To go through a an integration phase between Planning and planning programming which we laid out that said we want to have more sessions with the commandant We're actually doing that all of this is oh by the way actually happening the things that we all talked about we all kind of envisioned Probably two years ago. I'm happy to report are actually happening And they're all happening at the same time. So that's kind of the big news, but So let me touch base on some of those things quickly. I'll talk a little bit of that the context Maybe a few other things and then and then take your questions So I'll just go kind of in order. Like I said, we'd really like to have a better understanding We're take the first turn on the a part of PPBE a and that's the assessment and that really start should start You know when when close out is finished in the three to six three and then another three weeks Whatever, but it takes to actually kind of close out. Is that about right mr. Gardner and after a 30 September you get into somewhere in Early November where you go the money settles and you okay? Hey, this is what we're submitting to D fast Am I getting all this right and we sign off and I'm getting only a half heart. Yes I only got that part right but But anyway, we're kind of signing that off and and and then we can analyze to see where the money went So there's that FY 21 FY 21 right now a Whole host of things going on again simultaneously because when we transition out of the current Continuing resolution into an enacted budget and took all those marks and everything puts and takes Congress You know we lay that in to the budget Which means that money is moving around and now we have people who are less happy than they were less happy before and You start moving up the money around at the very time where you're starting to see where the money isn't and start to aggregate Your demand signals in a mid-year review kind of framework In seeing where the money is under executing funds and all that kind of stuff So we're working really hard, but the news on so that's all standard right all standard But normally the way the timeline goes is that we would do a mid-year review Really kind of in March. We just put out the guidance for that and then you would submit that All the way up and then over to Congress and you know May time frame Maybe June get the money in August. Maybe September what we're doing a reprogramming in March So we're doing a bunch of stuff right now and trying to organize ourselves to take advantage best advantage of the common On some money for the common aunt And try to get that lined out All right now and get that you know socialized through the Department of the Navy and then up to OSD and so forth But it's a pretty I mean we're trying to figure this out pretty fast Along a timeline that's compressed by at least two months, but we're doing it and I think we got a pretty good plan We want to make sure that we don't leave a bunch of Military personnel money mill purse on the table like we have for a number of years past So we're going to take advantage of an asset there. So that's kind of 21 So I really you know thanks to all the budget and execution folks out there who really working hard on that You know Tom Osterhout, you know Colonel Gary Roch, you know, Denny Martino You know, we've got the folks You know major Rogers doing you know a lot of the mill purse stuff Eddie Pagan trying to sort out all the Investments so I really appreciate all the work to try and figure that out because We're kind of doing sort of that same thing for 22 So the budget should have been submitted to Congress in February every new administration comes in and like I said And so now we're trying to go okay based on 21 and based on 23 and Things that we know now that we didn't know we put the budget together. What are the demand signals? since OSD and really the White House asked With their folks in here now set sec des in here depth sec des in here Confirmed and in the in their seats in the office and so forth What are some things that you would want to do to change your budget if you could? So we're looking at a bunch of things that we had marked against us whether it be fuel charges or foreign currency fluctuation all these kinds of things to You know what what me we might want to do to lay in more? sustaining levels of resources for audit or even things that are flowing backwards out of palm 23 for em rocks that we've already had To include demand signals from t-com that they think they need more military structure for our ranges and some of our locations our learning centers and all these to improve our In kind of right size our training education environment in support of the common on in his force design So those questions are all being asked right now as we go into a bunch of deliberate examinations of some things that the new administration wants to take a look at Decisions made prior to them getting in here. So they want to look at shipbuilding. They want to look at nuclear modernization They want to look at decisions made on aircraft whether it be f-35s or tankers the new KC 46 tanker Whether it be, you know, mq-9s and you know, how many orbits around the planet, you know supported primarily and say all that kind of stuff so that's all you know really layered on on top and and really That's that's much more expansive. I really appreciate the work that the rpm is doing on that So, you know, you know, Rick Cruz out of the engine room are you know kind of subordinate engine room is really doing Great work, but across the Marine Corps really it's not just simply a budget review. There's a lot of programatics in that So we're working on that while they're working putting issue teams together For the strategic portfolio reviews for palm 23 So as you can see 21 stacked by 22 in the ways that normally does not happen and then stacked by 23 because of You know what we've done with our reform efforts and you know sessions with the common aunt and stacked 24 because we're already starting to talk about that Really kind of pressurizing I'm gonna tell you really appreciate again Jennifer Bumer and her leadership of DAI and all the folks that are working hard on that I know Colonel Gary Rogers Personally committed himself to that and a bunch of you people are working on that To really great ends because that that is a heavy lift You know, there's areas right now that we're looking in terms of you know constant You know kind of it kind of goes in waves in terms of concerns about Interfaces and how that's all going and getting past You know how we're handling big tranches of data in ways that they haven't had to before and you know, it's a big deal It's a big deal and you know, it's a big deal when you have a you know service level enterprise. I mean we it's somebody else's Program, but we decided to do it, but it's really being driven hard in partnership with us Out of the office secretary defense and you know, mr. Greg little is really a good partner there And then we have folks out of the Department of Navy really helping out. So, you know, we're looking to implement that In FY 22 and so going hot on it in 22, and then I think we it's mature by July or something like that in actual July of FY 22 calendar year 22 So lots and lots of work and very grateful for that And and again grateful for Jen for your steady leadership And you know real steady hand on that it's been it's going really well and then audit I Could not be happier about where we're at with audit and not sure where to said that about an hour ago we just had a really good meeting with The the lead for Ernst and young the independent public accountant mr. John short who's phenomenal by the way He was a enlisted soldier, you know when he was a young man and Then he made his way into what he's doing now And he's doing very well for by himself. Thank you very much at the Ernst and young and now the lead for our audit efforts But you know, he talks like a Marine He acts like a Marine. He's just really biased for action I'm not going to say he's aggressive because he can't be he's a he's a certified public accountant He's got to watch out for his license, but but he's really biased for action and they've got a very Adaptive way of approaching sampling and testing and all that stuff for audit Using get wait for it data. Hey and letting data queue you and be much smarter about how they're doing their approach So very pleased with that very pleased with general charati is D reared in their team Very circumspect about, you know, what's in the realm of the but anyway, we had a really great meeting So that's kind of audit right now is you know, you're Your thoughts about where you're at an audit kind of ebbs and flows as well And so what I've told the team is is how I don't want you all worried about whether or not, you know We're going to get an audit opinion. You know, that's really on me so So really happy with where we're headed with that So I think you know, those are some of the big really big rocks I'll tell you I'm really I'm really pleased with where we're at with some of the knowledge management pieces that continue to advance I really, you know, thank the folks who started it really got us going You know, mr. Dave sco sick and all the folks who worked on that, you know, the partnership You know now with Captain Jenny Blonio who's really working You know some of how we're trying to take advantage of the work that's been done for knowledge management information management and take advantage of teams and work our way Into something where you know, we communicate better faster more completely and really quite frankly be able to take advantage of our Of our own information to be able to get at Products get it insights that were previously created that we shouldn't have to keep Rebuying through work and analysis the same insights over and over and over again, which we've all seen in the Pentagon constantly reinventing the wheel and Re-engineering the same information sometimes over and over and over again So I think You know lots of other work going on we're gonna have an FM summit Major Moore is really excited about that his face lights up every time he talks about it But that's gonna be a big deal. I think for the Marine Corps And and we just really want to you know a PNR oversees the financial management community For the Marine Corps, you know Marines and civilians alike and there's a lot of exciting stuff to talk about it We just talked about a lot of it here. I'm not going to go over it, but really excited about that There's folks who are really excited about setting up a Headquarters Marine Corps Comptroller to kind of clean that up. We want to get some of the you know Headquarters Marine Corps non-discretionary budget items off of our the PNR budget But more importantly we want to work as a team. So there's a lot of great work done there blue dollar Transformation looking at that. There's a lot of synchronization efforts going on with respect to how we understand Congress and their RFIs And there are briefs to them and and so forth. So I think that's probably Probably some of the big picture stuff I will mention because we kind of oversee a little bit participation as a Kind of a third-party Neutral so to speak is Marine Corps community services and you know a lot of great work being done there. So I Really appreciate the leadership out at Indianapolis You know really done a phenomenal job of managing through a whole host of issues I appreciate You know Tony pretty and Kathy Maloney and really the communication that you've had in terms of your people And how they are doing and how you're taking care of them In notifications and so forth for a whole host of reasons. So really appreciate that Know that we're all going through a lot, you know even out at, you know, Kansas City and You know weather and COVID and so forth. So across the board. I really appreciate it And is there anything else that you think I ought to talk about? Okay, okay Michael anything else. We have a couple of questions in the Q&A, sir. Okay over to over the Q&A First question is has there been any decision on changes to telework for looking at the post pandemic? cycle Changes to about decisions for telework post pandemic. I I'd say Clearly the answer is no like we haven't set policies I think I Think what and I'm just kind of thinking out loud here Because it's a really good question is I think we are going to need to sit down and have conversations with leadership about, you know Taking a look at what, you know, what works well How to best take advantage of that and you know where some of the limits may be Relative to communication participation in those types of things I Don't know Michael. Is there anything else you think that people may be interested specifically in hearing about? Well the distributed work environment OPT continues. I know that the presentations have been made to dimmicks and above But there's not been a decision at this point that I'm aware of. Yeah No there hasn't And So I need to get I need to get caught up on on where they're at because it's been a while since I've seen I've had a touch on that So I'm glad you I'm whoever asked the question. I really appreciate it Because you know, I'd like to I know it's you know briefs already. There's an OPT, but Senior leadership in the headquarters Marine Corps can tell you have not we have not been engaged meaning both Passively and aggressively like we haven't been present in it, but neither has anybody engaged us for our perspective on that So I'll reach out to Major General Olson and The director of the Marine Corps staff just see where we're at on that and at least see what the timelines are for decision If you could remind me, please to get back out I'll personally send email back out to the team because that's a good question and people are very interested in it and Deserve an answer at least where we're at in the decision-making process that sound fair. Yes, sir. Okay Next question is is there any additional or new information regarding the possible move to the DFAS building? No, and I think that's something this so TSO moving to the DFAS building at Fort Benjamin Harrison there in Indianapolis. So I think the answer is no. I think the the decision So I was just talking with mr. Gardner about that. I Don't know Ed was yesterday or What day is it the So we're just talking about that and I think the near-term concern for me is Because there is an expectation of greater telework and what we've seen especially with the you know TSO workforce That my near-term desire is to understand what the possibility is for scaling down after just scaling up in the new contract But just take a look at how we might right-size in the near term, but We need to revisit Where we're at in that decision, so I think the There's two pieces of that decision point One is does it make sense standing on its own merit? And then the other one is does it make sense relative to the Estimated moving cost so if it costs eight million dollars to move from you know downtown Indy to the north side Into the DFAS building. What's the break-even point on eight million dollars relative to the marginal cost savings per square foot? kind of thing comparing the two locations and then you got to do the qualitative thing too, you know, so how does the What's the name of that building? It's a new the building the bean building so the bean building in The DFAS bean building is you know, what's the layout? There's been some You know initially prior to COVID there's some concern about it not being kind of a unitary place not having integrity for the workspace just kind of you know TSO members kind of spread throughout the building with COVID you kind of go. Oh, does that matter? I don't know I mean we're doing all this distributed anyway, so I don't know But what I do know is I've lost track of What the disc where the decision point is so do we need to decide? Today next week next month sometime in the fall. I don't know so we have been talking about that It's been part of our conversation But again, I think we need to revisit that with With the leadership team and at least understand where we're at with respect to a decision space and then make near-term mid-term long-term decisions Hope that help Sir the next one. Can you speak to the COVID vaccination plan in the Pentagon with respect to? How vaccinations are distributed and expected time frames? I have some information if you don't I'll take it from a kind of a personal perspective and how I understand through my own Experience since I have received the jab as the Commonwealth people would say So The the vaccination so you know my folks, you know, I think it was major more came to me and said hey Do you want to get the vaccination?  I mean I I took it I don't have any problem with the vaccination if if you do that, you know personal thing and you know, that's people are dealing with that right now and We handle that especially with operating operational units But then, you know, he helped me major more helped me understand. Well, hey, there's actually a framework there in a framework in terms of You know people who are mission critical all the time And I'll probably get this wrong. You can correct me. So I'll apologize up front if I get this wrong He will correct me but So you get people are working in the National Military Command Center, for example And then you kind of take it down. I mean, I'm in like category three a which means anybody who is in a continuation of operation status meaning if something bad happens the Pentagon either it's just, you know, the power fails for a long time No malice or something other, you know bad actor thing Then people go to alternate locations And I know the people on the P and R team are on that list. So that puts us in category three a So all I can tell you is I know there's a framework. I know that we're working really hard to adhere to that to not make it a matter of preference about When you go but to simply go when it's your term relative to the priorities and Michael can you fill the in the gaps there? Yes, sir a couple of other details. That's correct There's there's a schema for all personnel and you fit in some place in the schema one a b one c two three three a b etc And and broadly and generally you write there's the high priority individuals such as yourself or critical to keeping the Marine Corps operating High risk individuals are of course very high on the priority list for getting vaccinations Then we have other high priority Uh personnel and then the the general population if I think of it in those terms In terms of what's practically happening boots on the ground Is there is some limited number of vaccines available distributed and allotted to P and r each week. We don't typically get a lot of advance notice for them But we maintain the list and m and p and we immediately Notify those personnel and check on their availability and see if they can make it because as you know Once the in accordance with the schema in accordance with the schema Because there's a limited amount of time that the vaccine is viable once thought So we try to make sure that we don't waste any and we'll run through the list based on the schema And ensure that we use every one of the shots allotted to us each week Yeah, okay. Yeah, it's kind of funny when we went down there to get the shot They had the first wave that had come through the Pentagon just in terms of delivery was uh, Pfizer and then the second wave was uh, Moderna So the the marines were the first to get to Moderna. So the the rumor was going around They're they're only given Moderna to marines.  So we just started shouting that it was a conspiracy theory and moved on The fact of the matter is it doesn't it obviously doesn't matter. It's you know in in nowhere in our history At least I can recall growing up what I have ever known the brand name of you know, you know, I think is a You know, I can rightfully claim that if I've done You know nine overseas deployments and then been Additionally been stationed overseas twice that I've probably jabbed as much or more than anybody else But never once can I quote you who manufactured any of those? So we're just grateful to have them whatever the brand is And grateful to to be able to move us past what I ask Michael is let's take a look as long as there's nothing Sensitive and anything we send out. Maybe we just send out to the team that that schema that priority Part of I'm sure it's already been out there But maybe because somebody asked we could send it back out if it hasn't already. Yes, sir. We'll we'll we send it. Okay. Thanks Anything else no, sir, okay Do you all have any questions? Okay, Ed anything else we ought to talk about Okay, all right. Well, I'll go ahead and and wrap it up from here. Those were Those were three good questions The questions here I got to tell you have really picked up over time. So I really do appreciate the engagement I hope you Had no problems dialing in and that it all worked pretty well We'll see if we can't get some feedback on that I was wrapped by saying that You know, I'm really grateful for a lot of things Given all the perspective that's going on In all of our lives, nonetheless mine personally And right at the top of that list.  And so I really do sincerely appreciate the way that you've all Worked together as a team try to fight your way through all the calm You're always fighting your way through calm always whether it's at home in the pentagon, you know out in operational environments Is fighting calm fighting your way through it? So I appreciate that you have and thanks for all the great work That's reflected. I would You just take some time If you could I mean it'll take you a whopping one minute and 45 seconds But just kind of flip through and reflect on some of the names in there Even if you don't know I'm gonna appreciate all the good work that people have done You know, say a prayer for the you know, the people who right now are afflicted with covet and other things that make That you know, covet has made very challenging, you know be grateful for you know, uh ordinary miracles and And thanks really appreciate it. Semper fi


for a lighting plan or just a plan showing where the lights are and what each picture has The second thing Thank you um All right, I I feel like I'm rushing a little bit, but I also think we're hitting what we need to hit so board members Tell me if you want if we need to do something different. Uh, we're All right. Thank you very much. Um, so we're going to move into the conditional use standards Which brings us to page 16 of our staff report Again, the conditional use that we are evaluating is the drive-through. It's only the drive-through that we're looking at Um capacity of community facilities and utilities. This is not going to increase park usage or water usage or um kids in schools The next item of conditional use has to do with traffic and we've received testimony that There's an estimated 125 vehicle trips per day 10 a.m peak 28 p.m peak peak p.m And it's the um staff assessment or It's the evidence presented is that the trip ends would be created with even without the drive-through So that's a thing about this conditional use. We're not evaluating How many trips the bank would generate we're evaluating how many trips the drive-through would generate and trying to separate those out um There's no request for a traffic study the only concern expressed by dpw's lack of clear markings and signage which we've discussed so the staff recommendation is that um The city's experts on the matter do not appear to have concerns regarding potentially increased traffic from the drive-through And the expected new peak hour trips do not trigger a traffic study I want to pause and see if this is something that drb members wish to discuss further So 10 to 28 trips per hour And peak and p.m peak respectively And if p.m peak four to five or is it varied by location? I think it's worth noting that the drive-through teller is only going to be during business hour There's no longer going to be a 24-7 access as the current Situation had been when there was an ATM there. So that would actually reduce the amount of of traffic on that right away So the the am peak and p.m peak most likely are within those business hours And and contributing to when one other things are I believe it's four to six It can vary based on area, but generally four to six Okay, thank you Um anything else on this from drb members Okay, references to character of the area That's another component of the conditional use review that we look at we've talked about architectural compatibility quite a bit There are really no changes to Yars or a lot coverage and landscaping is compatible with the character of the area It could be argued that the Rebuilding of the window improves architectural compatibility Staff points out that it is A shifting of the bank related drives reuse is as compared to a completely new use So my own opinion is one word number is that when things have gone dormant for a while We we kind of start over from what's there Rather than what used to be there and comparing it to that Um, hey, I think correct that it isn't improvement because now the window is flushed with the building doesn't protrude forward And we're going to be repairing the brick wall underneath it, which is now Missing and we will match that and tooth those bricks in to match the rest of the brick wall. So The only thing that will protrude beyond the brick wall is the roof which is as it does now The best is Thank you Um, do you have any members thoughts on this um character of the area and the drive-thru anything you wish to discuss? Well, I mean I already see this A form of requirement here, but I guess I think uh, you know What I'm seeing everything together with these these two adjoining properties and these two projects is that Um, all three properties and the public would greatly benefit from you know Some clear pedestrian access all the way all the way through. Um, I don't know that that's something that Is required of us, but um And I don't know that this new drive-thru even really increases the traffic on this lane But um, you know, while this, you know, redevelopment of these adjoining proposals happening I think that everyone would benefit if that was uh, you know something that existed Thank you, Rob. In terms of Thinking into the future. I think that's something that we can um, we can hope for but not mandate We don't have anything to hang our hat on standards wise and in making that request at this point But I think it's a good observation anyway Um, Joe, did you want to chime in? No, I'm also Okay But um, really noted Rob. Thank you um, all right, so pause I'll take a breath. Um Are there any other items? drv members that you wish to discuss further or Get a better understanding of get more evidence on in order to contemplate this application and potentially vote on it I'll make a special pause for Michael in case you're muted and trying to talk No, I'm good. I'm good with the application and explanation from the Thank you, Michael Okay, um, what's the pleasure of the board? We have the option to deliberate Um, we have the option to vote now and articulate the conditions as part of that motion We also have the option to deliberate in deliberative session, which I offer because I want to make sure you get it right and um, I know we're um, a relatively new board There's nothing wrong with that. Um, so if it's a learning opportunity, we can take it if we want But if we feel this is fairly straightforward, um, and there aren't any outstanding questions Then we could proceed with the vote If those have any opinions about that I guess I'm concerned about the cross screen. Um, here It's a concert of mind and um My feeling is I I would like to give the applicant an opportunity that Maybe come up with a solution to make things not so extreme if one exists. Um, but that's just one board member Thanks, Rob What are other thoughts? While I share Rob's concern about the slide slope, it's not ideal This is hardly a ideal site. I think as we all know um And I think after I've been doing a lot of research here, I think While it's not ideal, it's it's acceptable. There's it's not breaking any rules or anything But I guess in summary I am ready to vote Are there any diagrams that you want to be related to this again? For example, there was a No need to put up yet, but there was a site plan um plan view that showed the current grade and then the Where the new grade would be And so that when you're where you encounter it when you're driving through that area Um, then we want to do that again. Does anyone want to see anything else or ask Felicia any more questions? I guess the only question I would have is is is there an option to lower the teller window Even just a few inches would make a big difference Let's talk about that Alicia. Could you speak could you just speak to that please? Sure. Um, and I I think I'll I'll let Jay since he's he's the inside And it sounded like he had done a whole bunch of figuring on counter height teller window the the drawer the outside curb lots and lots of Number crunching for that Jay to do that was that's as low as we could go we're pushing it Yes, the the issue is that the the hrita the The teller window inside is designed for what's ergonomically correct for most tellers from what the bank people tell me Frank's or that does this so if you make the inside too low Then over the day's time because the teller isn't sitting there. They're basically standing at another station walking over to this one They wanted at a certain height and The height that we have now is what they have recommended The exterior the norm is to make the exterior The same elevation as the interior because that's what they do in most urban areas where there's a bank walk up and a sidewalk And they're the same height They have agreed certainly that the difference that we've proposed our site plan is workable because I walked around several banks and made it it from the ground up to where you would need to use the Teller door and actually the teller drawer has a front end that folds down. So we've made it to An open door situation the door slides out and then the front of the door Folds forward towards the driver so you can reach forward instead of down in the One banker told me that that's actually a fairly new feature because it allows the teller to actually watch some Notarizing or signing a check Where we form into just a straight drop in drawer you can't do that so they could not offer that feature at the drive through So it's about 30 about 40 inches is what's comfortable for for Doing that access from the outside. So it's that that gives us the Eight inch difference that we have between the inside and the outside that we're Looking at and when I look across the whole width of the slope and I look at Alicia's diagrams from existing to new I don't see a significant difference there it's um You know, I suppose that if someone could say well, gee we if and I use that based on my car, which is an impressive I think if you had a You know tower SUV or truck you certainly could go lower than that But I we'd like to propose it as it is because We think that that trust a little bit within the norm for this kind of an activity for the use of this space and That's what we would like to pose. I don't That's so that's what depends on the application so that we can continue with that design and I do think that it is Workable situation. Certainly if it was not workable, it could be changed in the future But we'd like to pose it as it is to be the height that we're supposed Okay, thank you for that explanation Yeah, I'm satisfied that although the situation is an ideal you looked into it at least I've looked into it a lot and surveyed about four banks and and talked to two different bankers about it so I think that it's And they have agreed that certainly although the eight inches is more than what they show on the normal diagrams They agree to certainly work with that Kevin, thank you. Yeah, I I just If we were going to uh proceed. I mean, I think I think we're pretty much Have the testimony we need To move along Perhaps we could discuss what conditions we would want to make sure we had in a motion to approve And try try that. I mean unless there's a strong feeling here that we really need more testimony or or Input from Technical experts or something like that I suggest we explore the the possibility of doing a motion tonight Thank you Kevin. Let's let's talk about possible conditions Right. I think we have also I was not many of us have acknowledged that the the height is Not ideal, but that we do see it as meeting the letter of the law and being workable Related to that a condition I would be interested in seeing is DPW signing off on the storm water plan in light of this evidence Um, I believe we should also include a condition regarding Directional signage painted on the drive-through lane to um For the to get people to the tower window as well as show them where they're supposed to go to queue um There were some minor recommendations. There were some minor recommendations that the design review committee had proposed Would we want to incorporate that more? I would yes, um It's not signed off on by the applicant for the reasons that Alicia noted regarding the wording and wanting um flexibility Uh around that Um Kevin you're referring to the uh tree issue. That's the only one i'm aware of that there's an issue Is that what you're referring to? I'm referring to yeah, yes, it would be the so I think what what Alicia's referred to is is letting We just more consistent with exactly what was discussed design review meaning that We really want the opportunity to have an arborist advice on what's happened with those trees as opposed to just deciding in the fans and so that's oh in that in that case, would you be Uh amenable to a condition which would basically memorialize that approach that you would use an arborist to resolve the tree and and let the uh um the zoning office have a You would certify what your what your ultimate plan would be signed signed off by this by the zoning office We we want an our we want an arborist involved in a decision I don't think that we want to relinquish the decision of the owner for an arborist does not associate with the project Right I'm suggesting we give you exactly what you're asking for That easy, um, so the recommendation as it as as made by the d r c is that applicant clarified that the two Norway maple trees in front of the building will be pruned to improve appearance and safety I think we can keep that We you're going to do that anyway The then what it reads is that at any point these trees are deemed to be in poor health and no longer an asset to the property They may be replaced with historically correct species and with appropriate approval Um, I think we should so I think what what you want to hear and I hope so long can type this down because I can't write fast enough um in consultation with an arborist Trees may be replaced if it becomes necessary or In consultation with an arborist Trees may be replaced with historically correct species um Upon the what am I trying to say again? Um upon the arborist, you know in consultation with an arborist trees may be replaced as necessary with with historically correct species Right we could say it's like in consultation with an arborist The norway maple trees will either be rehabilitated or replaced Uh In such a way as to maintain the historical integrity of the structure No, I think you'd have to clarify that if if the arborist decides that they're fine as they are I think it needs to be the owner's decision really. He said he said rehabilitated Yes, um, so I think that kind of captures fine as they are Do you do agree? You leisure you have that language better what pad I think one and then what I'm referring to I think Wait, um Hey and Kevin we're saying is If the arborist and the property owner Feel it's in good health Then nothing needs to change but should the arborist and the owner agree that They're in poor health and are a hazard um, they need to be removed and then Replace at at that time We're in in the future time. I think I think we're on the same page. We're saying the same thing. I think our Words are about a third As the ones we were just talking about there. I think we're trying to get to the same place So it's just a matter of make sure we do that I guess I just like to add one thing What if the arborist and the owner disagree if the arborist beliefs they need to be taken down and the owner doesn't I don't think that situation was covered You're right Joe and in the original recommendation from the drc. There is that little phrase and with appropriate approval um, I don't know from whom That approval comes Based on the drc's. I I wasn't at that meeting and I've read their minutes Mike or anyone. Do you know who that appropriate approval is supposed to come from? zoning administration specifically I do I I know one of the concerns has been in the past that that If the trees were removed Or a tree was removed that they wanted the Tree to be replaced and in the past an issue has come up where the the tree was having problems And somebody had talked about removing the tree and there it was going to be removed and not replaced and and the concern is You're either going to rehabilitate the trees um And let them stay but if they come down then they've got to be replaced with it historically I don't think there's much of a of a care which decision happens except not ending up in the position of having an unsafe tree or Removing a tree and not replacing it. Those were the two things that the city wouldn't want to see happen Okay, I think we capture that I think everyone's agreement that we want to make sure the trees are safe That's that's a low break The other one is that if the trees are removed there may be an opportunity to improve the landscaping To something different than what was there and I think we want the right to look at that future design and progress without that with or without that's the approval because um Meredith indicated that because trees are part of a site plan they need to still be removed reviewed as Changes occur because it's technically changing a site plan. That was the um appropriate approval that's required Yeah, that would be that would have to go back to get an approval if you were going to take the trees down and not replace them and come up with an alternative Landscaping requirement then you'd have to come back and get a new approval for that Okay, so we talked about we talked about replacement Yeah, we talked about historically appropriate species. It doesn't say trees. So I think we're there. I think we're there as well All right Just looking at the staff report there's Okay, so one of the section 3010 vehicle access and circulation requirements have met. I think we've decided they have So we don't need to incorporate there I think we're I think we're good to go I'm sorry Just want to make sure that the shutter hardware the shutter optional shutter still comes in from the DRC we talked about the the trees. I just want to make sure the shutter still stayed in there Thank you. Yes, we'd like to include that optional optional provision To put on historically appropriate shutters preferably in a dark color. I think is what it said or something like that All right, we've talked about the conditions that um have done for them would be part of this motion We've agreed that we have the evidence that we need to make a decision We've for the record many of us have expressed concern about the grade But the stormwater approval we hope from DPW is going to be a way to make sure that that is within the realm of acceptable So with that I will entertain a motion Okay, so I'll make the motion to approve the application uh as submitted uh with the uh provision additional provisions that Uh, department of public works will review and approve the stormwater uh Final plan That there will be directional signage uh at the drive-through That and here's the tricky one. This is the trees that uh the recommendations of the drc uh Shall be incorporated in the approval and How do we want to address the the final Uh part of that We agree that Okay back a minute Words nothing we can still do even after we've done the vote just as we for the decision But I think we should try to be as clear as possible every effort we made to maintain trees in a trees such that they are safe and healthy An arbor the applicant will work with an arborist to determine if trees need to be removed maintained removed or replaced with historically appropriate species And we'll seek appropriate approvals for any changes to the site plan resulting from this consultation I just like to have the word historically moved from that because I think historically the trees that are there are historic But the one arborist told us that they're an invasive species and not really the best tree for that location I think my cat that we should just have the opportunity to have a new submission on a new landscaping plan if we take the trees out Okay, so it says historic species which I think opens it up to a range of possibilities and it needs a Norway maple in particular And I think the word appropriate historically appropriate gives some room to ensure I think that's for example Lead paint lead paint is historically appropriate, but we don't use lead paint anymore Um Yeah, okay. Okay. So is there anything else or we're ready to vote? I like the second because a very minor friendly amendment You said directional signage for the drive-through. I'd like to change the word signage or sign to pavement markings I don't think there's any signs I accept that amendment Kevin. I accept that amendment. Very good Is there additional discussion by board members? Did someone still need a second? We got to talk about the shutters too, right? Joe has seconded. Michael has raised the issue of the shutters. Thank you We wish to incorporate the design review committee's recommend optional Um, goodness, I'm on the wrong staff report. Um The option to restore the shutters with the fixed with the fixtures to historically using historically appropriate shutters I'm going to defer the language in the staff report that's not in front of me right now, but we've discussed it So I think we know what we're talking about Um As indicated in the application information shutter hardware is present on almost all the windows and is deemed to be original to the building Applicant has the option to install historically correct shutters back on the building probably in black color. It's so desired That's what it is. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? So Kevin and Joe, do you accept the amendment to incorporate this piece? I just read about the shutters Yes, yes Thank you. Okay. I'm gonna follow all Joe Yes Rob Stain Stain. Okay. Thank you. Roger Yes Um, Kevin. Yes Michael Yes And I vote yes as well Thank you. Um, you'll be hearing from the zoning office about the next step um Everyone will receive notice of the permit including information about next steps that can be be taken by any party to choose to do so Um, all right. Thank you all very much for participating We're at 10 22, but I appreciate the work that's been done and the fact that it's concluded. Thank you for working together Good conversation. Um, I already said that I appreciate it. Say it again. I do Um, that brings us to our next item on the agenda, which is Other business. Um, our next meeting is august 3rd Um at that meeting, uh, we will have a deliberative session We will be in touch by an email to determine and we will Lay out the agenda for the public so that it is known when that deliberative session takes place whether it's at the beginning or or later on and I would actually Maybe turn to mike and ask if you have advice on that. Um, how we should proceed with that On the august 3rd meeting The on the 3rd there are only two agenda items the continued meeting from tonight And the continued application from 99 east state 99 east state 100 east state Your east state Yeah, so, um, yeah 99 so those you have two continued applications I don't know if that other one is ready for a deliberative session or if that one still has more input Okay Start with the east state street application and then that way if we need to Deliberate privately on that one we can do both deliberations in the same batch Is that work for others? Which is the okay, kate. Sorry dinner up. Yeah, which is the other it's east state Is that is that one from the I must have missed that meeting. Is that what this is from? Yeah, it's from last week. So if you want to participate in the In that meeting, I suggest reviewing the meeting notes and all of the materials It has to do with the creation of a dwelling unit on the parcel where um Is it primer this located there from a piper edelstein primer or is it um Well, I'll tell you down Yeah, so it's um Please please check it out. Yeah Yeah, and um That's that's kind of reminded all of us that leading up to that meeting. Please Do review review the materials to maybe, you know, so the questions we may have coming out of this may be answered by for the review of materials um, and that will help us all be prepared to work expediently In our deliberative sessions um So let's shut it down before we hit three and a half hours Um, it's been our work And thank you all Thank you, Kate All right Second second Raise your hands if you say yes The motion to adjourn is unanimous and Mike Miller. You can't vote, but I will see you later anyway. Thank you all. Good night Thank you. Bye, Kate. Thanks for a great job Bye everybody


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