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People say, I know you don't, I really do. And I know you, maybe a lot of people don't believe me, but I'm going to try and explain the best I can. In every jobs, there is no perfect job. Do you agree that there's no perfect job that you like every, everything about it? It's impossible. My job as a professional athlete and mixed martial art on 365 days, I fight, normally when I was very excited, I used to fight twice a year approximately. Not more than that. I never wanted to more than that because I wanted to stretch, especially when you want to stretch when you're a champion because it's better for advertising also for longevity and everything. So more time, more money, more business wise and everything and longevity. So about twice a year, in 365 days, there's two days that I hate the most. It's the day that I'm fighting. It's freaking unbearable. The feeling of uncertainty that if you don't know if you're going to be humiliated, you're going to be the victor, we're going to be the loser. It's, I care so much about it. That is freaking unbearable. As much as I try to dismiss it, it's unbearable. However, I like the fact that I'm a free man. I'm my own boss. I do whatever, whatever, whatever I have. I have access to certain things like VIP stuff that most people don't, my quality of life, the money, I didn't have it before, now I do. I love my job. I'm very happy about my job.  I freaking hate. I love the study of fighting. I love the science of it. How I'm the tactical, the physical. I love to train. I love to walk in a room and feel strong. I know if something happened, I'm the man. Even though it's an illusion because with a bullet and nobody's faster than this. But I like that lifestyle. I do it for the lifestyle, for what it is. I don't do it for the fight. I freaking hate to fight. I had this talk with Rory McNullo at one point. I was like, hey, why do you like fighting? Oh, I guess I like to fight. He said, you like to fight?  And everybody in the room turn around and they look at me like I'm crazy. I'm like, you guys are all crazy. You think I like to fight in a cage and a million of people maybe get humiliated, knocked out or die?  I don't like to fight.  I like to win. When you win, the feeling is unbelievable. It's so good that it's worth this. Yeah. But I hate it, man.  But once the fight starts, how do you feel? Once it starts. When it starts, it's gone. All this is gone. All the anticipation's gone.  The build up. The day. You're dead. And the closer I get to the day, I start, I love it, but I start to hate it more.   Sir Pierre, are you ready? No, he's not there anymore. Unfortunately, I used to like Bert, he used to give me the- We rollin', we rollin', bubble. So, I used, it's like a bubble that built up in my stomach that hate, hate, hate, and I freaking hate.  My last fight, it's crazy. I saw my friend, Eamon, got knocked out and I go at the dinner. Everybody is like dead people like this. And I see something is wrong, I say, what's wrong? And they told themself before I get in the room, don't tell them that Eamon lost, don't tell him he's gonna affect him. So I get in the room and my friend Eddie, who wasn't there when they tell each other, first thing he says to me is like in the room, he's like, hey, Eamon lost.  He's like, yeah, it's okay.  So Eamon lost. I remember Joe Defilas, Mickey Gall lost. So I go in my locker room. I see one guy with the ice bag.  And I'm like, man, all my locker room lose, man.  I freaking hate this job, man.  It's one of my agents like, don't worry, it's gonna be fine. It's like, it's okay, man. Don't talk to me like this. I choose be here. I'm a warrior. So go sit now. It's gonna be fine. Like I want to be a warrior. I don't want to be like. You don't want to talk to them. Yeah. Oh, it's gonna be fine. Don't worry.  They go like this. Yeah.  Like when I put my news the first time, they go like this guy. They grab me like, don't worry, Joe. It's gonna be fine. They look at each other like. Like he's fine. He was slamming everybody on his head.  I'm feeling like I'm going to like a cemetery. Like someone just died. So I'm in the locker room. Everybody freaking lose. I'm like, damn. Then I'm like, shake it up. I go in the bathroom by myself. I go, I go look myself in the mirror. And that's why I do before the fight. I use James Lange theory. James Lange is a, they say that the spirit can dictate your mind. They say you thirsty. Your mind tells I'm thirsty. You grab the water and your spirit can dictate your mind. But your mind can dictate your spirit. So I go in the bathroom, close the door. People think I go to bathroom to piss or whatever, but I don't close the door.   I say to myself, I say, try to convince myself. Like a kid, you know, like, I'm the greatest. I'm the strongest. And I think of it, look at me and I'm this. I'm beautiful. I'm strong. I'm this. I'm faster. I'm stronger. I'm gonna win. It's like these young guys, they lose, but I'm gonna show them the way to do it. Maybe they fail, but I won't. I'm gonna show everybody how it should be done. So I come back in the gym with the glory to show them that I achieve it and that's how it should be done. They're gonna follow me. So I try to boost myself. Open the door, go back. I still hate my job, but I'm a different person than when I got in the door. So I play with mind games like this with myself all the time. It's stuff that I try to change your attitude. And it's very important for a fighter because the confidence is a key for a fighter. Some guy, they do stuff very basic in a fight, but they do it, when they do it, they do it so good that they believe in it. They don't hesitate. And you have no room for hesitation in a fight. You go 100% and when you go 100% with confidence, that's when the magic can happen. You know what I mean? If you have the skills, but you don't have the confidence is John says that you have the skills and you have no confidence. It's like having money and you don't spend it. That's what John Daenerys told me. But if you have the confidence without the skills, it's not good too. It's like a dream that cannot be achieved. You don't have any way together, but if you have both, that's when the magic can happen. I remember when John says that to me all the time. So you have the skill and you have the confidence. And confidence is not a choice. Confidence is not a state of mind is a choice, man. You can build it in your head when something bad happened, you build it and work. Try to work on your person to build it. This is something you can work on yourself, you know? And that's why I've been doing. Yeah, it's like all these other things you're saying, there's no one answer to how all this is done. All those pieces have to come together. All those pieces have to be together in order for you to be able to just go out there and do it. But I love the fact that you say that you don't like it. I freaking hate it, man.  Like every other night that I'm finding, ask my agent, ask given for us. I always tell my look and I'm like, so what the hell I'm doing here?  I should have, oh my God. And we always laugh at it because now it become at the point that I know it. People say, with experience, do you become more courageous? Do you become, how do you say, do you lose the fear? You don't lose the fear, you never lose the fear. You learn how to deal with it. You accept it. Before I did not accept it. In my earlier fight, like Matt used, my first time I fought Matt used, I was fighting this monument, this, oh my God. I didn't sleep for the week, man.  I was like, oh my God. Like even in the start down, I couldn't even look at him. I look up like this. It was like I couldn't imagine myself. I knew I was going to lose. The confidence was not there. The skill was not the confidence. So it's very important, the confidence. For a fighter, confidence is very important. That's why you have guys in the gym that are very good in the gym. They get into a fight. They shitty fighter. They king in the gym. They go in to fight. All that stuff crush them. You have guys that are normal in the gym. I've seen guys in UFC, they fight in UFC. They're freaking bad.  When they fight, they do stuff that it's amazing. I'm like, I didn't even know it. That wasn't his repertoire of technique that he just did a kategatami or something. I'm like, man, it's amazing. I didn't even know he knew that because of confidence, man. And when you have both the skill and the confidence, like you see like John Jones, man, his magic, man.  Like you don't hesitate, he goes, man. Yeah, Roderick is amazing. Like bam, and stuff like that. He's just beautiful to watch, you know? And I really like that. The new generation, man, is carry as hell. Oh my God.


Call the order the 24th regular meeting of the 2018 2019 Common Council with the clerk. Please call the roll There are eight present in all their person rin flushes attending remotely. Thank you very much Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance With a clerk, please read the quote for the day. Thank you, Mr. Mayor Life is like riding a bicycle to keep your balance. You must keep moving Thank you very much Next we'll move on to approval of the minutes from our last council meeting all the person wolf Thank you mayor. I make a motion to approve Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed Motion passes Next we'll go on to an election of an older person About a month ago Rosemarie Trester tendered her her resignation and tonight. We have two candidates that are vying for that position And this has been identified as the date for the election of a new older person to fill the vacancy in district 4 The council wishes to receive nominations this evening and vote on the vacancy it may do so However, the council is not required to vote tonight on this vacancy The council does have the option to include none of the above or on any ballot that's distributed so with that I Call on all the person wolf Thank you mayor. I make them. I move the that nominations be received from the floor with voting to be done in By open ballot if an option on the ballot does not receive a majority balloting Shall continue until one candidate receives a majority Is there I think we for that support? nominations are open Are there any other any nominations? All the person wolf. I would like to place that in nomination John Holds Holdsward and Betty Rose Ackley second Thank you very much for those nominations And we have a second. Are there any other nominations? All the person wolf Thank you mayor. I move that the nominations be closed Is there a second? Okay nominations all those in favor of closing nominations, please signify by saying aye aye opposed nominations are closed at this time we'd like to see if the nominees would like to come and speak before you vote and I'd offer the Podium to a Betty Rose Ackley first Betty on I Did write a statement just because I am terrified of public speaking and I apologize in advance for this However, my name is Betty Ackley. I have been a resident of Sheboygan for 10 years And I've resided in the fourth district of my husband Ted and my four children since 2015 Ted is a native of Sheboygan and his parents were involved in this community His father was with the Sheboygan police department for 31 years and his mother was a beloved German teacher in the school district My husband and I decided that Sheboygan was a great place to raise our family And we have every intention of living here for the rest of our lives I am currently a part-time student at Lakeshore Technical College, and I'm the vice president and student council there I will be transferring to UW Green Bay in the fall of this year to continue to pursue a bachelor's degree in psychology I also work part-time as a market research analyst for a business consulting firm as I mentioned in my letter of interest I have found that many residents keep to themselves and are not involved with the community beyond their own backyards or nearby neighbors I am the first to admit I have not attended my neighborhood association meetings But I should have I want to ensure that my area flourishes and I want to see our city grow in a positive trajectory I must look beyond my immediate family and find ways to provide service for my community When I consider this it reminds me of the story about four people named everybody somebody anybody and nobody There was an important job to be done and everybody was sure that somebody would do it Anybody could have done it, but nobody did it somebody got angry about that because it was everybody's job Everybody thought anybody could do it, but nobody realized that everybody wouldn't do it It ended up everybody blamed somebody when nobody did what anybody could have So I must now ask myself who am I and I the nobody that didn't stand up for my community Maybe I should be the somebody that will do something instead I realized that there are some hot-button issues that have been points of contention Such as the armory in the state of our city roads I believe that there must be fiscal responsibility and I understand that not everyone will be happy with every single decision that the Council makes However by offering level-headed communication without allowing personal opinions to motivate decisions The Common Council can assist city government officials in allowing Sheboygan to grow for the decades to come I Realized that some people may feel that a position on the Common Council is a form of the status symbol However, it should be far more than that the City Council should be filled with individuals who are willing to discuss civilly the best way to help our city I feel that by communicating with the Constituents and bringing their needs and desires to the table the Common Council can't understand what the people want However, those who serve must also Maintain not only a fiscal but a moral responsibility to the citizens of Sheboygan to ensure that the city thrives If I am chosen as a district for older person, I can assure you all that I will be involved I will ask questions and If a constituent asks questions, I don't have the answer for I will find the correct person who can answer their question I am not someone with an ego that feels I need accolades for the things I have done I am a resident of district 4 and I believe in my neighbors in my community I feel that there is something I can do to help my neighbors in my district I know that being a representative means professionally representing the district not allowing personal opinions to cloud the vision of the city But listen to the constituents and help the city continue to thrive It would be an honor and a privilege to serve my fellow residents of district 4. Thank you Thank you very much Next I call up John Holzworth John Hello, yeah, my name is John Holzworth and I'm grateful for this opportunity to talk to everybody here and Tell you a little bit about myself. I I'll try not to be redundant with anything that I've already stated in my letter of interest but Yeah, I'm born and raised in Sheboygan I My father was born in Sheboygan my grandfather and my Great-grandfather came here from Ryanwald, Russia. So I I'm pretty comfortable in this town and I it has a special place in my heart. It's It's kind of funny when I travel. I tell people I'm from Sheboygan I keep thinking of my friend from Arkansas Sheboygan. I just love saying the name Yeah So I wear my Sheboygan t-shirt when I'm out and about I mean a little more about me is and you've probably read too that I'm I'm hired as a historic demonstrator, you know, and so I do travel a little bit And I never thought I grew up to be the broom maker, but I make I make brooms and put on the straw hat and suspenders and I go to different fairs and festivals and And but I'm always happy to come back to Sheboygan where it's familiar, you know, which is I really love being so close to the lake and The Kettle Moraine nearby etc. etc. I Really Want to make a difference in my community, too You know, I mean I I see a lot of other great things happening in other communities and other parts of the country And I think I'd love to bring that back to Sheboygan or do something like that in Sheboygan Really cool, you know Yeah, so I'm a little bit selfish, but I would like to travel less, you know I'd like to ride my bike here, you know to a job instead of having to take my cargo van five states away, you know, so Yeah, I really I Really enjoy being here in Sheboygan and I want I want to give back I want to contribute I You know speaking of my travel, too I mean I I have booked some fairs this year ready, too So my my busy season is July August September October, but You know, there's still eight months where I'm home And from my understanding that there's a potential to do some remote Connection through a Skype or some sort of remote meetings, which is which is great Because most times I have access to Wi-Fi or internet when I travel If chosen to to be the older person in district four, I believe that My communication skills would be a big asset. I've taken some intensives with the subject of nonviolent communication, which is a model of communication developed by Marshall Rosenberg back in the 1960s or 70s And I've also done some other personal growth work, too, so I I See myself as a pretty humble guy and I think that I can bring that humility as a servant To this community Thank you. Thank you very much John We have two very good candidates for this position I think you're gonna have a difficult vote to make but at this time I'd ask the assistant city attorney Thomas Cameron to distribute ballots Please mark your ballots and Hold them up when they're when you're done and we'll come and collect them and then count the ballots. Thank you Just hold your hand up when you have your ballot finished Ron Yes, who is your vote for please? Thank you Well, congratulations to Betty Rose Ackley. She's our new older person for the fourth district John, thank you very much for your interest. We appreciate it at this time I'd like to ask Betty Ann maybe they actually to please come forward and We're gonna swear you in and then you can take a seat in the district four position and function as an older person For the remainder of our meeting And we'll just be doing a voice vote for you when we when we pull the alderman So you will be able to vote on the other items that are coming up on the agenda And then we'll fit you up with one of our little computers. So you're all set for a future meeting Okay, next our mayor's appointments turn it over to assistant city attorney Honorable members of the Common Council. I hereby submit the following appointment for your consideration the newly elected older person Betty Rose Ackley of District four to be considered for appointment to the licensing hearings and public safety committee to fill the unexpired term of Rosemary Trester whose term expires April 15th 2019 and that appointment has to lie over until our next meeting And then we have confirmation of mayor's appointments I hereby submit the following for your consideration Paul got Sacker to be considered for appointment to the historic preservation Commission to fill the unexpired term of Adam Cain whose term expires April 20th 2020 All the person will thank you mayor. I make a motion to confirm Thank you for that motion in support. All those in favor of confirmation, please signify by saying aye. I opposed motion passes city attorney Honorable members of the Common Council I hereby submit the following appointment for your consideration Vicki Schneider to be considered for appointment to the position of director of senior services and Vicki Is with us in the back of the room With Wendy Schmitz welcome Vicki all the person wolf Thank you mayor. I make a motion to confirm Thank you for that motion in support all those in favor of the confirmation, please signify by saying aye. I opposed Motion passes Congratulations Vicki Next on the agenda is a presentation on the Mead Library Plaza renovation Presented by city planner Chad Pellecek. So thank you everybody tonight. I wanted to present on the renovation proposed renovation to the Mead Library Plaza area I've gotten some questions from some of you older men and thought it was a good thing to share with you So if you can go to the next slide, I'm sorry about the color because on my screen at the come at the desk It looks really good, but I'm there to screen it looks good too. So I'm sorry We will never use this color again. Anyway back in 2015 the city Development staff identified Six seven locations along a street that we called in living underutilized spaces. So these were primarily alleys and Library the library Plaza area that were identified as Places that we felt could be enhanced to be able to kind of either create connection between parking lots and make alleys more safe and and Usable as well as place making so a lot of the Red stars you see on this map is locations that have undergone some kind of place-making activity Primarily by the John Michael Kohler Art Center and their street alley Projects that they've instituted over the course of the few last few years The really key location that was left as part of this plan was the area around the library Plaza Particularly as it relates to the helper and fountain and that concrete area to the east of the library next slide So the area we're talking about is the block that primarily makes up the Library Plaza including the fountain and the drive lane that goes into service the book Drop off there will be some modifications also to the parking lot to the west of the library But the most of the work is happening either on the east side of the library or in the helper in Plaza area like So this was identified in the 2014 downtown Harbor Center master plan as a key location for redevelopment and it was particularly Brought to the table once the city green was developed to look at how to kind of create the library and the library Plaza with city green to serve kind of as that Center urban live urban core area where a lot of activity could happen. So That's really where it originally came out There was some plans of filling in the helper and fountain and putting plantings and stuff in it in that plan We did not go that direction, but if you were to pull up that plan today, you would see that next slide So the picture up on the left top right top left is the existing aerial aerial of the Library and then you can see the proposed plan So really what is changing is the entrance way as you walk into the front of the library from a street That's probably where you'll see the biggest change Right now. It's kind of a jogged pathway as it follows the contour of the fountain Under some proposed repairs that will happen to the walls of the fountain To deal with some maintenance issues The plan is to create this kind of straight through sidewalk on the north side of the library underneath the canopy of the library so you can see in the proposed plan the Area where the sidewalk goes straight through between the parking lot and the street and then the improvements that will be happening Particularly on the east side of the library Where that sea of concrete will be taken out and more landscaping with trees and grass will be put in next slide Also the area to the northwest of the library where you drive in today for the book drop-off will be Eliminated and greened up with trees and grass and you will enter the book drop off now through the parking lot So instead of having its own dedicated lane You'll come in through the parking lot and then turn on that little curve And you can then drive and drop your books off as part of the planning of that it was decided that that Kind of cleaned up that area where we've got a lot of pedestrian traffic and people not sure where to drive and which Laying they're supposed to be in and people going backwards and All that on that kind of little core there so the the idea behind Routing that road was really to deal with pedestrian safety issues that are Potentially happening in the front of the library next slide Also as part of the plan the clock tower Which has not functioned in a couple of years the clock and some deferred maintenance on that clock tower will be coming down Those panels you see on the four sides of the clock will be repurposed into a Sculpture that will occur along the street. So if you go to the next slide This is what the street will look like from basically across the road at City Green So there'll be a plaza area Just on the northeast corner Yeah northeast corner of the library and then those Decorative panels that were done as part of a art project when that tower was built will be relocated into these four pedestal columns that will kind of Be the backdrop of this Plaza area also these large block areas then will be served as place where people can sit down and you know Play on their computer their phone or read a book to try to give it a Defined area of where that's where that should happen and then everything basically in the clock in the east side of the library to the South will then be greened and and treed up And so a lot of that concrete then will be gone next slide Under the Halpern Fountain updates that the plan the original plan of the Halpern Fountain had a number of Landscaping and green trees that kind of Encompass the fountain so it wasn't this large concrete structure So the plan is to bring some of that back So you can see on the on the lower picture Towards the right the wall will be straightened out where the sidewalk will go straight into the north side of the library There'll be some additional planters added and some different tiers of Trees that will be happening in that area right now if you were out there that whole area is all this like steps Down and that are on an L-shaped so the L-shaped the southern leg of that will be removed and then put in with Planters and some landscaping to try to enhance that as well as some Landscaping that will happen on the right side and then some new trees and stuff around the back where the Christmas tree is in the Christmas season next slide So this is another look of that same area today These are primarily those those small steps that go down that area where the person is standing in the back then will be As part of a structural issue dealing with building some new planters in that area and greening up and adding additional trees There also be some new ballard lighting so along the street side of that Plaza down to the fountain. There's some round Looking concrete ballards that some work some don't I like to say that those look like little minions Those will be removed and this more modern type Ballard lighting will be there to be able to light the walkway in the path the area down to the fountain So the question I received a few times is how is this being funded in the TIF 16 capital and product capital improvement project fund there was 6,000 borrowed for this And then the difference is coming from the 2019 community development block grant Allocation of around 237,000 so the project has been bid out and you've awarded contracts at about 637,000 total there was a pre-construction meeting last week my caning construction is the contractor They will start work sometime in April and be completed sometime in mid-August whether depending So the whole pretty much the library area will be unusable for most of the summer However, there will be still access to the library and access to the book drop-off just in a few days that paving is happening those Accesses may be closed But the idea is to obviously keep the library open to the public during this time and work through these updates So that's it if anybody has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them All the person will from the board Thank you mayor chat. I think this is a great project for the city Our our library is one of the one of the many diamonds that we have here And I think by dressing it up modernizing the outside It's going to again draw more people to to the great facility that we have so good job All the person boring. Thank you mayor a couple of things Chad As far as accessibility to the building Has there been any consideration in maybe doing some heated sidewalks on that? Sidewalk from a street up to the door I know we're going to be heating the new city hall parking lot at least the area To make that less slippery in the winter and then my second question is On the west side of the parking lot are there going to be any enhancements made to that parking lot as far as not having to park and then Walk over that that hump and then you got the driveway where the book lane is now and then in then into the library How was that gonna? Can you go back a couple slides? So Go back. Okay. Let's go back that one. So if you look at the proposed plan on this slide the parking where the It's hard where the tree line stops on the west edge on the northwest corner there The that would be with the drive lane today into the library. That's going to become the parking lane where the handicapped accessible stalls will be so you will base and there'll be a sidewalk between the Parking stalls and where this oak Grove kind of of trees will start So you'll be able to just get on the sidewalk and come straight across and you won't have any more of those All of those that was one of the challenges because you've got all these different grades happening in such a small area So it'll be more conducive to Being able to park and get into the library the idea of the heated sidewalks there I mean it was talked about that we had to trim the cost way down to even get to this point The original estimate was over a million dollars To do it so we you know picked up the highest priority as we could and you know, unfortunately There wasn't enough funding to do it all Okay Well, I would think that you know from an accessibility standpoint with the handicapped parking If there was any way to do it it might be better to do it from there. Maybe then from a street in Any estimate at all what what it was going to cost to do that? I'm not sure that we even got an estimate because I think Darryl might have take trim that out right off the bat Is there any any possibility of just Getting an estimate for you know, maybe from that back parking in I Don't I have no idea how long it would be but is there any chance of maybe getting an estimate on that at David and Brian Okay, okay Yeah, it's it's no it was no problem the way it is now in the summer but in the winter particularly this winter It was quite difficult. Okay. Thank you Any other questions See none Chad. Thank you very much for the presentation Next item on our agenda is public forum. Is there anyone here for public forum tonight? There is no one this evening Okay, then we'll go on to Mayor's announcements Okay, I'd like to call up just childs from America or nourish farm to food school program Tonight we have a proclamation Whereas service to others is the hallmark of the American character and central to how we meet our challenges And whereas the nation's elected leaders are increasingly turning to national service and volunteerism as a cost effective strategy To meet their needs and whereas America core and senior core participants Address the most pressing challenges facing our communities. They educate students for the 21st century jobs They fight opioid Epidemic they respond to natural disasters and support veterans and military families and whereas national service expands Economic opportunity by creating a more sustainable resilient communities and providing education career skills and leadership Abilities for those who serve and whereas America core and senior core Participants serve in more than 50,000 locations across the country bolstering the civic neighborhood and faith-based Organizations that are so vital to our economic and social well-being and whereas national service Participants increase the impact of their organizations that they serve through their direct service by managing millions of additional volunteers And whereas national service represents a unique public-private partnership that invests in community solutions and leverages Non-federal resources to strengthen community impact increase the return on taxpayer dollars and whereas National service participants Demonstrate commitment dedication and patriotism by making intensive commitment to service and a commitment that remains with them in All their future endeavors and whereas the corporation for national and community service shares a priority with local leaders nationwide To engage in citizens to improve lives and strengthen communities and is joining with the National League of Cities the National Association of Counties the Cities of Service local leaders across the country for National Service Recognition Day on April 2nd of 2019 and Therefore be it resolved that I Mike Landerstein mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hear about proclaim April 2nd as National Service Recognition Day And I'd like to present this to Jessica Childs today and offer her opportunity to say a few words Hi, I'm Jess Childs. I am with AmeriCorps. This is my service here. I'm working with the farm to school program And my host site is nourish We're out in Sheboygan Falls, but I'm working with the Sheboygan school district So far this year I've taught 53rd through 5th graders five nutrition lessons They learn the food groups where food comes from food diversity and culture food identification and building healthy habits I also am writing grants for several of our schools with the highest percentage of free and reduced lunch To be able to break ground on school gardens this spring So as I said, I'm I'm stationed out at nourish. We're at the Just renovated Miley Dairy Barn in Sheboygan Falls If any of you have a chance to visit I highly encourage it. We're having an open house April 6th to kind of Showcase the barn our offices are downstairs and the loft upstairs is a beautiful barn space But also nourish is having a big farm to school fundraiser in september To further our efforts to bring local farmers together with our school district and get more of that Healthy locally grown food into the stomachs of our school children Thank you, mayor. Thank you very much You may not realize it, but our council meeting tonight is not being broadcast Live or streamed Seems that the recent floods have created some problems with some of the connections because the signal goes all the way out to UWS or uwg v Sheboygan campus where wscs is housed and then it's rebroadcast out and their service has been completely out since the the flood waters Got into that area So the meeting is being taped and it will be broadcast later on after wscs gets service back again Also want to remind people about the candidate forums coming up on march 28th in the roca room of the mead library Um Preparing for the election on april 2nd barb felde and nicolas to salt will be running for the open seat in the first district And they'll be on from six at 6 p.m. And then The district nine come incumbent ray michael and challenger dane schaefer are scheduled for 7 p.m The senior activity is having an open house on march 26 to say goodbye and happy retirement to the activity center supervisor wendy schmitz Wendy has dedicated the last 13 years of her life to the senior activity center Remind people that they should have tried to avoid late fees on their pet licenses They must renew by april 1st or pay a slight penalty of five dollars And we also want to remind people that spring cleanup is Under way at the wildwood cemetery and they need to remove all winter decorations by april 1st Or if they're not they'll be disposed of by the cemetery staff And then on april 2nd, of course our spring election And we want to remind people that early voting is available at the city clerk's office in the old social security office on 9th street And the times are from what seven o'clock until 4 30 monday through friday and this will end on friday march 29th when they'll be open from 8 a.m To 5 p.m. And i'm sorry that starts at 8 o'clock not 7 o'clock. Sorry about that meredith And then i just want to say that At prior to our staff meeting this morning The city staff had a chance to go over to city hall and take a tour The way the the building's developing and it's really looking amazing. I think everybody's going to be extremely happy And it's only 77 days until we move back into city hall for our council meeting on june 3rd. Thank you Next we'll go on to the consent agenda That'll include items 2.2 through 2.8 all the person will thank you mayor I make a motion to accept and file all our o's accept and adopt all our c's and pass all resolutions and ordinances Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on any of the items in the consent agenda? Seeing none would the clerk please call the roll run Mr. Born I Decker Donahue Mitchell I Phillips Sovoglio I Swaranson I Wolf I Rose Ackley There's nine eyes Motion passes And then we'll go on to officer reports of officers item 3.1 Is our own number 229 of 1819 by the city planning commission to whom was referred general ordinance number 47 of 1819 by all the person Phillips and our own number 224 of 1819 by the city clerk submitting a communication from prohibition bistro Requesting an encroachment into portions of lot number one promenade south pier for the purpose of expanding outdoor patio area and wishing and wishes to report that this matter was discussed at a regular meeting of the city planning commission On march 12th and after due consideration recommends that the general ordinance and ro be accepted All the person boring Thank you, mayor make a motion to accept and file and pass the ordinance Is there a second? Okay, the motion is is on the floor. Is there any discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll run Ten eyes Motion passes items 3.2 through 3.5 will be referred to various committees And under resolutions items 4.1 through 4.7 will be referred to various committees Under reports of committees item 5.1 is our c number 273 of 18 19 by the finance and personnel committee Who was referred resolution number 182 of 18 19? By all the person's Reinflation borne authorizing appropriate city officials to execute the pilot agreement between the city of shabuagan and the wasterman redevelopment llc and the housing Authority of the city of shabuagan wisconsin with regard to the housing authorities rental Project located at 611 north water street recommends approving the resolution with the amended agreement older person Right well borne. Thank you, mayor. I make a motion to accept and adopt pass the resolution with amended agreement Second thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Just a little information the Wasserman project is going to be Undergoing a complete redo. They also got a grant from weta. So this will help to augment that project Seeing no other discussion will the clerk please call the roll run 10 eyes motion passes Item 5.2 is our c number 274 of 18 19 by the licensing hearings and public safety committee To whom was referred resolution number 183 of 18 19 by all the person's wolf and donahue Dissolving the sustainable shabuagan task force and recommends Approving the substitute resolution all the person donahue. Thank you, mayor. I moved to accept adoptive pass the substitute resolution Second thank you for that motion in support. The motion is before us on under discussion all the person sorenson Thank you, mr. Mayor. I'll be voting against this tonight And I encourage my colleagues to do the same as well, too I do have some concerns with dissolving the shabuagan sustainable task force I don't believe that the substitute addition to creating this as more of an internal city staff meeting Would really meet the best needs of the city as well Kind of going down the list. I know we talked about this at the committee level. Also. I did vote against it in committee I believe that That there's still a lot more that the public has a an interest in I think that if this committee sets new goals refocuses. I think that there's a lot to accomplish I served as a alderman representative for my first year on the council for one year I'm in at that time Excuse me one. I was on that committee There was a lot of good public input There were a lot of regulars that showed up and gave their suggestions and ideas and shared their thoughts to this committee as well as well as they had Each would high school also would bring their science class in To do part of their classwork as well, too I think that there's a lot of good ideas that we can do Utilize moving forward. Um, so I'll be voting no and I encourage everyone else to vote no as well. Thank you Thank you. All the person donahue and then born Thank you, mayor It sounds horrible, doesn't it? Oh my goodness. We're going to get rid of the sustainable shabuigan task force It sounds like it's a step backward It is my understanding based on our discussion at lhps and reports of staff That in fact the sustainable task force had trouble meeting a quorum requirement That although it had originally done A lot of fine work It had as sometimes happens with commissions and committees and task forces and so forth had kind of lost steam It is my hope that And I think Implicit in lhps's Approval of this resolution Was to task our city administrator In fact to create a city department green team and to have more than just an annual Report, I know the resolution just says annual But I think that the sense of the group was that We need to see how city staff is approaching this I would see as kind of an organic if you will Development from this is that more citizen input and more citizen participation will come forward sort of in a new form So the old body has More or less outlived its usefulness And we need to just make sure that the city green team and further sustainability efforts Remain forward on the plate. I think they will Thank you for those comments all the person boring Thank you, mayor I kind of tend to agree with alderman sorenson on this one I I never served on the committee, but being involved with the public works committee for a number of years I kind of followed out Followed what they were doing and I think it was similar to the similar to the parks committee that that committee is kind of an egg-jump committee to the public works committee and I think this one was in a certain way And you know, if there's if there was an issue with quorum I think this is the only committee that i'm aware of that met during the noon hour And I think some of the people on that committee were people that had nine to five jobs And I don't know was was there an effort to see if that if you know changing the time of meeting to You know like we most of our committees meet at four four thirty Was there was there an effort to do that? Was there a poll taken of the committee members to see if this was really going to work a noon meeting and The problem with noon meetings and people having to having to get back to work Of course, there's going to be people are going to be watching their their watches to make sure they can get back to work. So You know, I would like to see a you know an effort made to maybe pull the you know Pull those members to see if there was a better meeting time than meeting at noon. Thank you Chad Pellecek, can you respond to that Chad's been serving as chairman of the committee There was a number of times where we tried for four thirty meetings as well as noon meetings We found that given that the number of people on it were primarily from the private Business sector that it it appeared that noon meetings worked the best for them Um to try to get the quorum there was 15 members on that committee So in order to get a quorum we needed eight or nine people there, which is the size of most other committees So it was it was a challenge just getting enough People committed in the fact that we had representation from a wide range of people You know pose additional challenge, but at any given time for any meeting We would try three four different dates and had to cancel it because people would cancel out and we wouldn't have a quorum Thank you. Chad all the person wolf. Thank you, mayor I guess I Looking at this I I ask our elders to think of it a little bit different also Somewhat to what Mary Lynn was saying Sometimes groups do fizzle sometimes they accomplish a certain task that are that's needed at the time Which I believe that they did a great job of The city has continued to grow and change and morph and speaking of morph think of it as you know Like the butterfly it goes into you know when it's just the worm it it tends to build and Create into a cocoon and then sometimes we have to Cancel something see where the drive and desire is and we'll get a new group That'll come in with even more energy By canceling this one. It is part of our strategic plan. It is something that is On all of our management teams agendas So if there is an outcry from of support We'll be able to get new people that will have much more desire than for us to have 15 members that have become stagnant and Things just aren't moving forward. So I recommend that we we Continue to move forward on this and if it becomes an issue in the future We can always bring it forward again with a new drive and desire Thank you for those comments One of the things that happened over the last several years is sheboygan became a member of the green tier communities of wisconsin and In there we've looked at best practices with some of our our other compatriots in that group And I'd like Chad to talk a little bit about I believe it's so claire and he patterned this concept after that Sure. Thanks, mayor. So We we did pattern this after the city of eclair. They were in a very similar situation Where they had this private public private sector committee and basically like us had challenged getting the people there to Serve and as well as the people that were there. They provided some good Information and ideas, but there wasn't a lot of Implementation so it have it would fall on the city staff members to try to implement those ideas and and a lot of times they lost steam So they reorganize into the same model that we are where they have a city green team That's primarily representation from the respective departments that gets together on a quarterly basis And talks about sustainable issues As it may relate to capital improvements programs as it may relate to just general budgeting and products and services that We contract for so the this isn't something new for us that well, it's new for us, but it's not new for Being tried because Eau Claire. This is really modeled after the way Eau Claire has operated The other thing I just wanted to mention is I do sit on the board of the green tier Committee so as on the executive committee and I'm very involved with those Sustainable efforts on a statewide basis and and the other thing is is we're also looking at building designing a Sustainability guidebook that will be used for our neighborhood associations and residents to be able to implement sustainable projects on a how-to way How to move forward on sustainable strategies within their respective neighborhoods So we've had communication with some of our neighborhood associations as it relates to this and it appears that people are on board with this approach Thank you. Chad. Is there any other discussion other persons of aglio? Thank you, mr. Mayor I'm really torn on this one. I walked into the meeting today thinking that I was definitely going to vote against this And after hearing the comments from the room. I'm very pleased to see that we'd be pushing forward with Sustainable items, however, I really feel like we're not going to get to the big ideas if we get rid of this task task force The smaller ideas the the day-to-day operations how we can Implement capital improvements to be more sustainable sure But where where will the big ideas from our community come from if we don't really have an open and accessible way for them to come to us I would I guess I'll be voting against this at this point in time just because I don't see a way forward for that Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Is there any other discussion? other person Phillips I guess I also am feeling a little bit torn as All the persons of aglio mentioned I have been appointed to this committee and served on it since april of last year So I know that we have only had two meetings in the past Remember that is nine or ten months due to the fact that we haven't been able to have a quorum. So that has been an issue I do think that the community needs to be able to have input However, and I am curious if we could at least have someone from the council Still appointed to that committee where the community could bring forth their concerns to that older person to bring forward to the committee Thank you for those comments older person sorenson Thank you, mr. Mayor. Just a few additional comments that I kind of want to have been popping up in my head with other discussion Kind of just want to make talk about difficulty meeting quorum. I reject that argument I'm on the mayor's international committee that committee has 17 members I'm also on the maywood park board that board has 30 36 members on that as well, too Those committees, you know, I haven't really struggled at all since my time on those committees, you know meeting quorum at all You know, if you if you want to make the the argument that oh, it's difficult meeting quorum We should restructure the entire committee. I mean at the time when we only had about Four members on the licensing and public safety meeting. I mean we struggled quorum if we struggled quorum was so much We're just going to get rid of that committee. I I don't buy that at all um I I agree with uh, older person svalio and uh, philips their statement as well, too I think this really comes down to transparency and creating a good space for folks in the community to share their thoughts Get innovative ideas on how to move the city forward. Um, I definitely want to see big bright ideas Brought to the forefront of this as well, too. I think if you look at sort of our docket We got a lot of issues down the line that relate to sustainability I think we would benefit as a city from having public input I think if you look at how we're restructuring Garbage collection, I think that's a sustainable effort that definitely will need public input as well, too Um, I mean I could go down the list composting. We talk about water resources. We talk about parks You know, whatever it might be. I think there's a lot of things as well, too Um If we're struggling with members that are on this committee if they're not showing up, you know, then Quite frankly comes down to the mayor's responsibility to make sure that we're appointing members To this committee that are showing up and then have dedication and passion for this issue So again, I'll be voting no and encourage others to do so as well, too. Thank you Alderperson Boren Just expanding a little bit on what alderman sorenson said, you know, we're coming to the end of this council year And I'm wondering, you know, you're going to be making appointments to the various Committees and commissions. I'm wondering if we shouldn't maybe hold off on this decision until Unless your efforts, you know, you make the best effort Maybe work with chad maybe to even downsize the committee but still try to have good citizen input And see what you can do for the new council year and if it looks like it's going to be an impossibility To people that are going to be able to dedicate the time or You know Come up with a a meeting time that's good for everybody. Maybe we should give it one more shot on the new council year And if you don't have any success Maybe then bring it back But maybe not give up on it until you get another chance to maybe work on that committee for the new council year All the members of the committee are one year appointments So everyone's term would be up if you Keep the committee in place and all of them will be asked Either if they want to continue or not and if they can make the meetings So we'll go through that process and we can fill in the empty slots and bring some new people in if that's what you desire Would it be would it be appropriate then to make a motion to hold this document until Early in the new council year to see what success you have on forming a new committee I think it would probably be better to vote it up or down and And we'll live with your decision I'm going to I'm going to make a motion to hold this document until The end the first the first meeting in May And that would give you time to you know to form a committee If it's going to be possible to form a committee to come up with the members And then let's take another look at this at our first council meeting in may But my my motion is just to hold it until the first meeting in may Is there a second? Second Okay, we have a second on a motion to hold Assistant city attorney. Is that debatable? Yes, yes, okay. Is there any discussion on the motion to hold? Seeing no discussion on the motion to hold all in favor of holding, please signify by saying aye. Aye opposed Please roll roll No Thank you, Ron So an aye an aye vote is to hold it The motion to hold Eight ayes, two noes Motion passes Mayor, I'm sorry. I thought we had voted orally And my vote was no And so if the record would reflect that my vote would have been no So then we're seven to three Okay, motion still passes Next item is item 5.3. That's RC number 275 of 1819 by the licensing hearings and public safety committee to whom was referred resolution number 184 of 1819 by All the person's will from donahue changing the starting time of the organizational meeting of the new council Year for uh of 2019 and 2020 and recommends approving the substitute resolution All the person donahue Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none. Will the clerk please call the roll Ron 10 ayes motion passes Under general ordinances item 6.1 through 6.3 will be referred to various committees And uh, we'll next move on to other matters. I'll turn it over to assistant city attorney thomas cameron Thank you. We We have uh item number 7.1, which is r o 234 Dash 18 19 Submitting various license applications for the period ending december 31 2019 april 14 2020 and june 30th 2020 that will be referred to licensing hearings and public committee And we have item 7.2, which is resolution number 194 dash 18 19 A resolution authorizing the purchasing agent to indicate the city's intent to obtain a new vector truck in 2020 That also to be referred to the public works committee Next is a contemplated closed session. All the person wolf Thank you, mayor. I make a motion to convene in closed session under the exemption provided in section 19.85 sub 1 sub e wisconsin stats where competitive and bargaining reasons require a closed session related to the opportunities for land transfer related to the parcel number<PHONE_NUMBER>1 comma<PHONE_NUMBER>0 comma<PHONE_NUMBER>0 and<PHONE_NUMBER>2 located in the town of wilson. Thank you Is there a second? I'll take that as support We we have a motion before us with the clerk. Please call the roll for closed session All the person in push Ten eyes Motion passes. We'll take a three-minute recess and this and we will plan to adjourn in closed session So this will end the tape taping of our meeting for tonight. Thank you


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Alright folks, before I get into the news here and the discussion around it, I want to remind you of a couple giveaways we have going on. The first one is for a Nintendo Switch, an Xbox Series X, or a PlayStation 5, and then the second one is for two copies of Pikmin 3 Deluxe, so you can like the video, comment on the video, subscribe to the channel, hit the bell icon, all that jazz. Go down into the description and there'll be more details on how to enter these giveaways and I wish everyone luck. Alright, so Nintendo has a customer support Twitter account in Japan, and the customer support Twitter account isn't extremely active, but when something comes out it's usually just a little pro tip about taking care of your Switch, something that is just common sense for most of their tweets. But this time around, they put out something that apparently must be a problem, a pretty big problem that is not addressed in any Nintendo documentation and has not been talked about publicly. The Nintendo customer support basically says this, you need to charge your Switch at least once every six months. If the battery isn't charged for a long period of time, it might become impossible to charge it ever again. What they're saying is, you let your Switch collect dust, say it collects dust for 7 months, your Switch might not charge, the battery might be completely toast, and the interesting thing here is I can still pick up my old DS and plug it in and charge it and it'll hold the charge. Now, it's not holding the kind of charge that it held back in its heyday of course, but it holds the charge. This morning, I've never seen put out by any company ever with rechargeable batteries. Yes, there is degradation.  It'll still hold the charge, but it'll degrade it some over time. But usually when a battery is discharged, it degrades much slower. Now you should still charge it here and there, but it can usually bounce back. As an example, let's say you had a brand new car battery.  I just actually had this happen. You let the car sit for three years. That battery is completely dead.  You'll get at the start, but then it'll quickly die and it'll feel like that battery won't hold a charge. But if you trickle charge that car battery, which means you slowly charge that battery, usually with two amps, one amp or two amps over a course of a number of hours, say 24 to 48 hours. At the end of it, that battery will actually hold that charge again and it'll be like it's brand new. This is just how battery technology works. Just in general, batteries don't just completely die out of nowhere. It takes a lot of time, a lot of use, a lot of wear and tear. So to see that just not using your switch for six months to a year could lead to this is troubling. Now, it's not going to be a problem for me now, but this is going to be an issue for people who worry about the longevity of the platform because when we move on to the next generation or the generation after that or the generation after that, you're going to get to this point where you might not be playing the switch more than once a year. And if you don't remember to charge it or keep it on the dock or whatever, your switch just might not work in handheld anymore. It might literally be only a system that can be used in docked mode.  It is very, very strange. Obviously, you'll be able to buy replacement batteries even a number of years down the road. And if you're comfortable taking apart your switch, which I totally am, you can replace the battery and it's not that big of a deal and they're not that expensive. But this is interesting that obviously they have had switches sent into Nintendo that won't hold the charge and they have diagnosed that the reason the battery won't hold the charge is because the switch wasn't in use for, you know, a year or however long, you know, like, hey, when's the last time you charge this thing? Oh, I don't know. Like maybe September last year. Oh, yeah. You know what? You killed the battery by not charging it like one time in the last year. It's a very strange thing because there's been a lot of weird things around charging the Switch. Remember, like it uses USB-C, which is great, but it doesn't adhere to the USB-C protocol for charging, which is not so great. This led to people actually bricking their switches, use the wrong cable as an example because the cable might not adhere or might might add here to the official USB-C spec, but Nintendo was operating outside of that spec. So it would charge the switch with an incorrect voltage, which would then damage the switch, damage the battery, damage the components. And we had this issue with power banks. We had this issue with third-party wall chargers, basically anything that wasn't Nintendo branded, it felt like Nintendo purposely messed with voltages for charging specifically so they could force the sale of their Nintendo branded stuff, which happens. We've seen Apple do this and that's why official Apple branded chargers present less problems over years than third-party ones. But I digress. The point is here that this is another issue with charging that we weren't even aware existed because most of us obviously charge our Switch at least once a year because we're playing games. There's at least one game a year that comes up we want to play. But still, I do, you know, this is just kind of another one of those things that I've never seen them. This isn't the first time Nintendo's had batteries, right? Like they've had batteries. They had the 3DS. The DS, you know, going all the way back to the Game Boy Advance, SP had a rechargeable battery. Switch Pro controllers have rechargeable batteries. But this warning doesn't exist for any of those accessories. It doesn't exist for any of those platforms. It's just the Switch. You have to wonder, this does make me wonder, has Nintendo just cheaped out on the battery to the point that whatever company's making them is just using bad cells. Just using bad, bad cells that degrade quicker than they should. We already know the Switch is cheaped out in other areas using plastic locks instead of metal locks, obviously not fixing the Joy-Con drift issues, stuff like that. Plastic screen instead of glass, although there's a point to plastic because it doesn't shatter, but it does scratch. They had warped docks at launch that were warping Switches. They didn't put padding in the very first edition, the very first run of the docks. So then the rails in there were causing scratches on the screen. We've obviously had a lot of Joy-Con wobble that's still an issue to this day. There's just been a little issue. It's a little issue to kickstand. Like isn't that great of a kickstand at all for the Switch? Like at all. It doesn't balance the Switch well at all. Just a little tiny tap and it'll fall over. Even if you're playing tabletop mode on an airplane, good luck. The airplane has any turbulence, even the smallest bit that the Switch has fallen over if you're doing tabletop. They've had these little design choices that were clearly made to make the system cheaper and easier to get into people's hands for that $299 price point, so they wouldn't have to increase the price. But at the same point, maybe they should have increased it by $50, did a better design, put higher quality metals and products into it, and then we would have less issues. They should have conformed to the USB-C charging spec. There's no reason, like fast or charging or something, to go outside of that spec. The only reason is to make things more difficult. So here we have Nintendo Switch's battery needs to be charged once every six months. Again, not an issue for most of us now. Not going to be an issue for most of us for a while, but if you haven't touched your Switch at all in 2020 because there's been nothing to play, hey, go plug that bad boy in and make sure it gets a full charge on that battery, alright? Alright, if you're waiting for age of calamity, don't wait and then don't charge your Switch until just the day you buy it because it might not charge. Kind of a strange issue. Come on, Nintendo. You're better than this. I know you're better than this, but what are you going to do?


We were in Cheyenne Mountain and we actually heard one or two events that were occurring and we heard initially That there was a small aviation airplane that hit one of the towers in New York City. Hey, this does not look like a General aviation kind of attack and then again we saw in real time the second aircraft hit the second tower And we knew that that it was not just a normal day if you will It wasn't just a normal general aviation episode I think that prior to 9-11 we really focused on that external threat really going back to the roots of NORAD against the Soviet Union and a threat that potentially could be Threatening both the US and Canada externally 9-11 showed us that we also need to be looking at that threat that could come from us could come from us internally At that particular time we only had seven locations that had fighters on the work and The alert capabilities back then we really didn't even fly with live missiles on the aircraft And so we had to make some modifications to our Standard tactics techniques and procedures and we were doing that as we went along So on day one the first thing that we started to do is trying to get access to as many Fighter in command and control and tanker aircraft that we could to be able to flood the skies with a counter capability In case there was additional attacks that were forthcoming Operation no we go is our air sovereignty mission within NORAD This really came out in 9-11. In fact US Northcom was born out of 9-11 That US Geographic combatant command called US Northcom was a direct result of the attack and the need to have a single commander That was responsible for home and defense


Welcome into the original gangsters podcast. I'm Scott Bernstein, another quick hitter edition breaking news out of New York City, former Colombo crime family acting boss Ralph DeLeo has been released from prison after doing about 15 years. The story of Ralph DeLeo is quite unique. And I'll give you the quick Ralph DeLeo 101 in and hopefully three, four minutes. DeLeo was the front boss for the persicos in the late 2000s from about the summer of 2008 until around Christmas 2009. What's most interesting about it was that he was a Boston guy that on paper at least was running the Colombo crime family, which was in, you know, the persicos are out of Brooklyn from Somerville, Massachusetts, right outside of Boston. He originally was a patriarchal crime family associate back in the 60s and 70s came up under the Anjulo brothers was very close to Jerry Anjulo, the underboss of the patriarchals. Ralph DeLeo then was a bank robber, a loan shark, kind of a cowboy. And he went to prison for a murder that he committed while on the lamb in Ohio. He had escaped from prison in in Boston. He was doing a sentence. For bank robbery escaped, made his way to Ohio where he was hooked up with a cellmate that had a farm in Ohio, a doctor that was doing some prison time in Massachusetts. And when he's on the lamb in the 1970s, he meets another doctor through this doctor that was hiding him in Columbus, Ohio, who has a beef with yet another doctor that was allegedly had drugged and raped this doctor's wife. One doctor drugged and raped another doctor's wife, two separate doctors from the doctor that he was staying with on the farm. And Ralph DeLeo murdered a doctor by the name of Walter Bond, Halloween 1977. Bond was accused of drugging and raping another physician's wife. DeLeo ends up getting caught trying to rob a bank in Columbus in spring of 78 and flips helps the government with the bond homicide investigation, as well as debrief for the FBI, Boston office, giving them what he knows about the patriarch is an endulo. Back then, you know, it was different, you know, there wasn't 24 seven news coverage. There wasn't the internet. Anyway, this cooperation that DeLeo gives goes under the radar is kind of unintentionally buried, you know, not buried in the sense that somebody was covering it up, but that it just it slipped through the cracks. And because of the fact that his he worried that going to a Massachusetts state prison or Ohio State Prison would put in put his life in danger, he convinces the government after his cooperation deal is cut to go into the federal system. And within the federal system, he meets some pretty powerful New York LCN figures, including Colombo mob prints, Alfon's little alley boy, Perceco, who's along with his father, Carmine Perceco, the head of that dynasty ran the ran the Colombo's for four, four to five decades, died in prison a couple years ago, alley boys probably to die in prison as well. But the Perceco still, you know, they they are in full control of that crime family still 50 or almost 50 years later.  So from meeting alley boy, DeLeo gets out of prison. Still nobody knows about what happened back in Ohio in the 70s, and the faculty debrief with the Boston guys. And he gets made into the Colombo's in the summer of 2000, sets up a satellite crew in Somerville, Massachusetts, got activities going on in New York in Boston, in Connecticut, Florida, Arkansas, he's got a state out in Arkansas, where he's moving dope. And then by 2008, they, you know, the Tommy shots goes to gets locked up, he'd been running, running things on the street. For the Perceco's Tommy Gioli just got out of prison as well recently. And they need a guide to step in and they tapped DeLeo. DeLeo is merely a figurehead. He really has no idea what's going on in terms of decision making. But he's put out there as the acting boss for about 18 months. And within a couple months, they get a wire up on him related to another investigation that dovetails and then eventually comes together with the investigation into the Colombo's. But he's he's talking to a sister, and he's he's telling her kind of the ins and outs of when he has to go to New York, and preside over he presided over making ceremony, he gets introduced around. And it was a real whirlwind for him, he would he would come home or go to his hotel room and call his sister and kind of decompress and vent about how there's all these people making such a big deal about him and drawing attention to him.  And he was a total unknown factor. Nobody in New York knew him. He didn't know anybody in New York outside of Alley Boy. And he was also connected into a wing of the Gambino's through Ernie Boy Abamanti. But you know, Delio, it's it's a very, like I say, very unique. It was a unicorn of a situation, a small slice of New York LCN history, where you had a Boston guy, ostensibly running the Colombo crime family on a day to day basis for about a year and a half. But since he got locked up, it was revealed that he had been an informant back in the 1970s. And he's on the shelf right now. I wouldn't think that he's in any danger, per se. He didn't give up anybody that's alive right now or active. But you know, it isn't coming back into any role within the Colombos. But he had a halfway house about a week ago in New York City. He's 80 years old, will live out his final years in mob retirement, forced mob retirement. But interesting story, Ralph Delio out of prison after 15 years stint had ran the Colombo crime family throughout 2008 and 2009. I will be back with more breaking news. Always here on the original gangsters podcast, YouTube channel, Benny behind the glass, always producing me VIP status for for Benny 24 seven. He's the guy. And thank you so much, Benny. We'll be back next time. Scott Bernstein, OG


Me, I'm so excited. This is one of my most anticipated roller coasters for 2019, and vertical construction has started. I'm absolutely thrilled to, I guess, announce and look at the vertical construction for steel curtain. So a huge thank you to Kennywood Connection for allowing me to use their photos yet again. We used some of their photos early in the season when they were making some footings for the coaster, and now they're letting me use their photos again for the vertical construction. So huge thank you to Kennywood Connection. I'm gonna link them down below, make sure you go follow them on Facebook or even Twitter, and check them out because they have some really awesome construction shots of steel curtain and then even just stuff for Kennywood. So definitely give them a check and go follow. Not much to discuss in terms of like what we can see inside the park. So these are shots outside of the park, but nonetheless, this thing is towering, and it's not even anywhere near the height it's going to be at. So obviously people are gonna be able to get some really awesome views of this coaster without being inside the park. Again, I'm so thrilled. So what a great angle of steel curtain supports. There's three support structures that are currently up that we can see. There's probably track and supports on site. I've reached out to Kennywood to see what I can organize with Kennywood through the off season. I'm excited for a response. I really hope we can get some awesome stuff from Kennywood. But yeah, nonetheless, some awesome shots of Kennywood supports going up for steel curtain. The yellow is very vibrant. I have a feeling this coaster actually will look really good in person. I know a lot of people weren't the biggest fans of the color scheme. People were saying banana or the black and the yellow should have been reversed. The name, they're not the biggest fan of. And I think this is one of those coasters that everyone's gonna end up falling in love with once it's open. And it's a great sign to see vertical construction starting. It's November, vertical construction starting. Maybe there's a chance that this coaster will open on time. I know a lot of people are like, oh, will it open on time? Will it not open on time? SNS this, SNS that. But nonetheless, vertical construction has started. Hopefully that means this coaster will be complete March and testing will be able to start on time. Cause this is for how amazing this coaster is. It is still a very small footprint and building this is probably going to be like a month to two month long project. As long as all the footings are poured, again, I don't see what's inside the park. So I don't know how far along they are in terms of footings and stuff like that. But I have a feeling that they'll be able to get this coaster project done on time. Fingers crossed, knock on wood. Hopefully this will be done on time. Anyways, I'm going to link the video for Steel Curtain at the end of this video. I know I have a lot of Canadians on this channel who don't know much about other parks and roller coasters. So at the end of the video, I'm going to have Steel Curtain's POV playing for you guys just in case you don't know what it is and you can check it out. I know my channel has a lot more general public on it which I totally love and thank you for watching my channel. So I'm going to try being as informative as possible in my videos. If there's a project in another country or across the pond in Europe, I'm going to try and let you guys know what I'm talking about, something what it is in case you don't. But I assume a lot of you do know what Steel Curtain is in a lot of my videos. I talk about how excited I am for it. But anyways, hope you guys really enjoyed this construction update. Smash that like button, subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to enjoy. Thanks for watching guys. Have a good one. Bye.