Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I'm going to attempt the impossible. I'm going to try to go from yesterday's bun to having my hair down today. I know, I know you're thinking that I am insane, it's never been done, but I'm going to try. Now if you're watching and you have straight hair, you might be like, um, what's, what's the big deal?  Well, with curls, uh, it's not that easy. Once we have our hair in a ponytail or a bun, we must commit to that ponytail or bun for the rest of the day. There's no turning back. If I just decided midday that I don't want to have my hair up on a bun anymore, I'd be walking around like, hey, how's it going? Good to see you. Oh no, no, I'm fine. Yeah, why do you ask? Not okay. So let's go ahead and assess this bun. The problem is I already went in with this bun knowing I was going to wash it today. So I did not prepare my hair the way I should have to make this really reviveable today, but I'm still going to try. At this point, I don't even know if I'm going to be able to call this a how-to video. This is feeling pretty impossible and might not work out. When I did this bun yesterday, like I said, I had no intention of refreshing today. So I went ahead and grabbed my got to be ultra glued styling gel. This gel right here is insane. I don't even know what's in this gel. It probably has like cement super glue. The ingredients actually check out. That's surprising. But I really only bought this to use when I wear my wigs and I need something that's going to glue the wig to my head. That's when I use this. And when you use it for like a bun or a ponytail, your hair will be slicked back. No flyaways. It is not moving. I had my hair in a bun for 12 hours yesterday, went to bed, took a shower, and my hair is still pretty slicked down. The better option for me to have used if I knew I was going to refresh my hair would be something like the curls blueberry bliss edge control.  But this does have a good hold but not a crazy hold like the got to be gel. So my curls actually don't look that bad. It's just these straight pieces for me slicking back my hair. And this back part right here is crunchy. Like look at that. It does not want to be revived. So the first step in reviving any curls, you're going to need some water, some good ol' H2O. And I'm going to use my Curl Keeper water bottle. This is called the best water bottle for fabulous curls. It's literally called that. Like they were very confident when they chose the name of this bottle.   So I'm going to try to scrunch away that cast. Luckily you will not see the back part of our head. So no one. Okay and now we're going to go back to my good ol' movement that I always do with my hair. Just kind of smooth through it. See? We're getting some curl back. Getting back to life. Back to life. I think we're getting somewhere. My hair is starting to feel like hair again. Now we need a styling product to help revive the curls and get rid of some frizz. So I'm going to use my can to moisturizing curl activator cream. I'm hoping that this will reactivate my curls from the dead. So you don't need too much. Our hair probably has enough product in it depending on what day you're on. Whoops. I'm going to use about that much. Smooth it through my hands. And then we're going to flatten them over all the curls. Oh this stuff smells good. To diffuse. And I'm back. But they are very crunchy. I forgot that the curl activator cream does have a little bit of a hole to it. But I prefer that because when I diffuse it will be perfect. So since my roots are already dried, I just kind of want to diffuse to get rid of some of this crunch and make it a little bit bigger. I'm going to use my diva dryer with the Curly Co attachment. This is another diffuser that I've been using and it kind of just collapses. Really good for travel. And I like to use this diffuser when I'm kind of in a hurry. It gets a lot of my hair at one time. And we'll get rid of that crunch. Let's do this type of gel. But I was still able to revive these curls. So if I could do it with that gel, you guys could do it with any type of edge control you're using. Well, I don't know about you, but I feel pretty darn accomplished, you know, for doing the impossible. Hope I gave you some hope that you could revive your hair even after the tightest or slickest bun or ponytail. And if you enjoyed this video, hope you gave me a thumbs up, leave a comment and subscribe. I post two new videos every week, once on Friday and once on Sunday. And if you want to become curl friends, you should definitely follow me on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat at Ms. Bianca Renée. I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Bianca Renée today.


So I'm going to enter a check and I'm going to type in that we got this on well 1005 Okay, let's say this is on the 14th, and then we're I think it should be 1004 For some reason I'm going to keep it at that and then I'm going to say this is for epiphone Epiphone Tab and there's oh and it says there's open purchase orders exist for this vendor Do you want to receive against one or more? I'm going to say yes There's the two purchase orders. I'm going to select both of them And say okay, so now we're getting that and then it populates down here Notice it jumped from expenses because I'm not just going to go to an inventory account because we're buying inventory Because if I did that it wouldn't be able to track the sub ledger By item the unit item on a perpetual inventory system. So that's why we have to use the items which are populated We set up the items in a prior presentation here And then we used those items to to populate the purchase order the purchase order then just pull them over Into the actual bill if I scroll through this we can see that this ties out to the same data We entered into the two purchase orders these two down here are billable These are billable because when we populated them in the purchase order We said they were for a specific customer. We imagined in this case, Eric music Our customer came in said we want this stuff. We said we don't have that right now we will order it from our vendor epiphone in this case and The vendor didn't need to know about Eric music But it's useful for us to see that now I have this stuff I can turn around and bill or invoice Eric music our customer now that we have the inventory on hand That'll be the next step these ones up top are not billable because We we are just buying those guitars for the shop hoping people will come in and purchase those that would be the general idea


So the Ethereum Classic Summit, this is the second time it's been done. The first time was in Hong Kong, and it was a lovely, very intimate setting, and this one's about twice the size, and we're right now here in South Korea. But the point of the summit is to bring all the leaders of the Ethereum Classic community together and the general Ethereum Classic community for the purpose of having people just meet each other, get to know each other, build great relationships. The thing about Ethereum Classic is that it's actually a very decentralized community. Like Bitcoin, it actually doesn't have a leader. There's no one entity you can point to and say, oh, well, they're in charge or they run the roadmap. Rather, it's a truly decentralized ecosystem, but it's a very small cryptocurrency. So unlike Bitcoin, which is like this 800-foot-long cruise ship that's extremely time-consuming and expensive to change course, Ethereum is still small enough where their people can actually innovate. So it's a really exciting ecosystem because you can do the dual experience of being able to figure out how to go about a new roadmap, a new path, but at the same time, be able to go about that path without a huge coordination cost. So in many ways, it feels like the early days of Bitcoin, back 2010, 2011, and that's really fun to play around in. So when we entered the Ethereum Classic space, those were some chaotic and very difficult times. Early days, it wasn't clear whether Ethereum Classic was going to survive or not. There was no community management. There was a lot of people who tried to enter in the project to co-opt it and take it in one direction or another. Some people tried to create a counter foundation. It was a really strange event. So one of the things that we contributed with this was a goal of trying to bring some stability and calm. So we set up Let's Talk ETC, we got dedicated community management. But the other thing that IOHK wanted to do was to prove that ETC was not just a copy and paste coin. It wasn't just a fork of another cryptocurrency. We felt that as an ecosystem, we had to prove that we could actually write our own code. So we put money into building 100% new code client, the Mantis client, and that client is written from the ground up in Scala. So we started with a completely new team. We started with the yellow paper, the documentation, and we systematically built up that client over about a year and a half period. So last year we were able to demo an earlier version of the client and now Mantis has actually reached a great degree of maturity and it's capable of not only being interoperable with the Ethereum classic ecosystem, but also soon the Ethereum chain. So the purpose of our time here is to demo the progress we've made with Mantis, the lessons we've learned with Mantis, to have some discussions with the community about improvement proposals that we might want to adopt, as well as to talk about some new foundational technology that we're really excited about. For example, Nipah Pals, non-interactive proofs of proof of work, from Dionysus Zindros, and then other potential collaborations like the relationship with Horizon and ETC and so forth. So very productive conference. I kind of like them at this size because you could actually have a meaningful conversation with people and also it's reasonably technical that we can have great conversations about the future and direction of the clients that we construct.


Karolina Mukova vs Anastasia Pavliachenkova is the first quarterfinal for the ladies French Open for 2023. And both ladies were not supposed to get to this stage. Pavliachenkova entered the tournament with a protected ranking and would take on Fruvatova in the first round. There's no problem for her, winning in straight sets, 6-2-6-2. In the second round she'd take on the 15th seed Sampson over. And after dropping the first set, would fight back to win 4-6-7-5-7-5. In the third round she'd take on fellow Russian Potipova, who'd been very good this season. And again, after dropping the first set, Pavliachenkova would fight back to win 4-6-6-3-6-love. In the fourth round she'd take on the 28th seed Mertens, who had just taken out Pagula the number three seed in the previous round. And again, Pavliachenkova would go down a set, fight back to win 3-6-7-6-6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals. Mukova entered the tournament, unseeded, and would take on Sakuri the number eight seed in the first round. And after a close first set, Mukova would win in straights 7-6-7-5. In the second round she'd take on Potoroska. And after getting bagled in the second set, she'd take it out in 3-6-3-love 6-6-3. In the third round she'd take on this 27th seed Bogu. And again, an easy win for Mukova, getting through in straights 6-3-6-2. In the fourth round she'd take on the lucky loser Avanessian, who'd beaten Benchich along the way. But this was no problem for Mukova, getting through in straights 6-4-6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals. These two have played three times before, with Pavliachenkova leading the head to head 2-1. Their last match being two years ago at Wimbledon, Mukova getting the win. But their only clay court match being in favour of Pavliachenkova back in Madrid of that same year. If Pavliachenkova is going to win this one, she needs to get the first set. She's been coming back from a set down in her last three matches, and she is coming back from injury. So she needs to get that first set so she doesn't run out of steam when we get to a third set. Because the longer she plays these matches, the harder it's going to be, the more she wins. If Mukova is going to win this one, that first set is going to be crucial. But also she needs to be aggressive. She was so good against Sakurai, being aggressive and winning those close sets. She needs to win this first set and try and extend the match because we know that Pavliachenkova has had a lot of time on court. This is a very fun matchup with two players that we probably didn't expect. I mean Mukova has been good this year and Pavliachenkova has been here before. But in terms of unseated players, it's a very random quarter-final. I'm going to go with Mukova to win this one. I think Mukova has played less time on court, so I think it might help her in the end. And she's been so good this season, not just on the clay, but beforehand as well. But let me know down in the comments below who's going to win this quarter-final.


Forecasting future metric trends helps software leaders make data-driven decisions. GitLab Duo's Value Stream Forecasting empowers software leaders with predictive planning capabilities. Let's see how it works. The Value Streams dashboard gives you a high-level, custom view over multiple DevSecOps Teams metrics and how they are trending. You can customize the dashboard to compare the performance between groups, projects, and teams at a glance. It helps you identify which teams and projects are the largest value contributors and which are overperforming or underperforming. Every metric is accompanied by a tip icon, providing additional information and a direct link to the documentation. Let's look at one of the built-in Dora metrics called deployment frequency. This is the frequency of successful deployments to production over the given date range. Software leaders can use the deployment frequency metric to understand how often teams successfully deploy software to production and how quickly they can deliver improvements and features. By using Value Stream Forecasting, leaders can see the forecast for their deployment frequency and use predictive planning techniques accordingly. Value Stream Forecasting unlocks deeper insights into your organization's teams and practices so that you can make informed decisions, safeguard against risk, and deliver software faster.


The word parent should not just mean mother and work needs to be done to stop fathers feeling marginalised by society. That's according to a new report by the Scottish Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee. As part of their inquiry into fathers and parenting, the committee heard from dads who have encountered obstacles in their day-to-day lives. I took them to mums and tums and to baby bouts and all that and being the only dad in the room and nobody speaks to you. I was refused to go to breastfeeding support sessions run by the health board. I feel isolated even in the playground. You know people look, it's not a nice situation to be in. The committee suggests that NHS Scotland work with local health boards and authorities to ensure that new fathers can access pre and post birth classes and support networks, as the committee's convener explained. The presumption that we are trying to tackle with this report is that parenting only means mum and it's not, it actually means father as well or dad as well. There is a lot of fathers who want to be very hands-on with their children and also with the mum but when they go to places like antenatal classes they're excluded or they're not included. There's not a lot of support for them to give them advice about antenatal and prenatal care as well. The imagery in the hospitals in NHS is very very poor, they don't show fathers as in the caring role either, it's always the mums with the babies as well but also the attitude of the NHS staff that when they're actually dealing with the mums and the dads that they should actually automatically include the dads in all the discussions as well that's very important. To read the committee's report in full please visit the Scottish Parliament website.


Amazon has started requiring writers to disclose if their work includes artificial intelligence material. Part of what makes that relationship strong is Amazon's recommendation engine. When Amazon recommends something, ebook consumers very often take them up on it. What Amazon does not want is a infinite flooding of their market by way of AI writing. And we're living in the world of 2023 for which AI is very helpful for writing. Eventually we're going to get to a point where these AI models are good enough that they can rip out books that are good for the readers. And when that happens, Amazon has a whole new different problem.


All right, guys, go ahead and get started. Josh, you're on screen. Kick it off. Arthur, after you went back and looked at the tape, what did you think of the offensive line play? Well, we didn't really do much well at all. It was the entire offense, Josh. When you get into too many obvious passing situations and we had to adapt to some things and you're sitting back there, it can make it hard at times. We got to do a better job all the way around. What can you do schematically to help them? There's a lot of things. The biggest thing is this is what happens. And obviously, we play two pretty good teams back to back. And clearly, it hasn't been good enough. But there's a lot of things you can do. But when you're constantly creating self-inflicted wounds, the pre-snap penalties, you're in second and 15s. First and 15s certainly makes it hard. So especially when you're playing a really good team to overcome those odds over and over in a game that's going to be field positions critical when you're playing a team like New England and the style they're going to play, they won the field position battle.  That's on us. And then you put yourself back. You go from third and three. Those are the little things that add up over time, stall at drives, and then you get to a point in the game the way things were going. If you get in a pure drop-back game, that's a pretty good defense. You get some of the results that we got yesterday. As a former offensive lineman, do you find yourself, your mind migrating to that position more than other things? Or you pass that now? Do you find yourself hanging out with different practice? No, you pass. I mean, you got to consider the entire offense, what the issues are. And there's always, there's a matchup issue you got to be smart about every week. I mean, it's the NFL. There's good players on both sides of the ball every week. And you got to figure out what issues you need to try to protect and things that you can do to try to exploit. And so, obviously the last two weeks, we haven't done much of that. Dylan. All right, there we go. Yeah, coach. Any help with people coming back? Calvin, Matt Gano, or Carter-Rail that could help screw some life into the offense? But yeah, we need to just check it in on Calvin if there's any update too. There's no update. There's no update there. There's no update on Gono. CP, Patterson. So we'll just take it day by day. And like I said, he wanted to try to see if he could go yesterday, but that doesn't know. We'll see how it plays out in the next week. Okay. That's all I have for now. Michael. Harry. Hey, Arthur, just a couple of questions for me. First, on the third downplay where Gage and Sharp ran into each other, what happened there? What was the situation? It's not a design there, Michael. So some social media, Vince Lombardi, breaks it down like that. Clearly, we were stacked. Rob Depp was wrong by one of the players. As bad as we've been, I promise you we didn't design two guys and run into each other, but it happened. And the illegal formation that was called on the field goal, what explanation did you get from the officials there? Yeah, we were lined up at the tight end. He was too far back. Again, here's what it is. I don't think that's been called since 2017, but you can see why they called it, I guess, so they called it. Appreciate it, thanks. Tori. Yeah, just a couple for me. I know that last time when we were talking about the game you were talking about, it's the offense as a whole, but when you kind of looked on the tape and you kind of look at the pressure that the Patriots had, what kind of did you take away from protection and kind of what needs to happen moving forward with these guys? Well, there's a lot of things. I mean, they sat back, which we figured, well, they're gonna make you earn everything. And that's what's frustrating when you get in a game like that. And it shows that we got a ways to go when you're playing a team like that.  Now I'm talking about the penalties that you get holding those happens, penalties of aggressions. That's what the Patriots have feasted on for 20 plus years. And that's what's frustrating.  And then like I said, a lot of things in life are easier said than done and to implement it. Yeah, it's pretty frustrating. And I thought the defense fought and played pretty well yesterday and we haven't put a game together recently with all three phases playing because they gave us a chance and we didn't take advantage. I know stats usually don't tell the entire story, but kind of when you look at the last couple of games, I think it's three for 22 on third down conversion. I mean, what kind of does that stat play into this offensive performance of the last couple of games? Yeah, I mean, there's no way to, there's some stats you could manipulate when picking it, but Cluzzi, you put those kind of numbers and back to back weeks, that's why you get the results you've gotten. So, everything's on the table. We'll do a lot of self-reflection over this weekend, use it as a mini buy and come back. And I promise you this, we'll come back and all we care about is finding a way to go Pete Jacksonville. And that's the journey of the season. Charles. I realize it's early in the day after a late game, but do you know any more about Matt's toe? I don't, but I don't think, you know, I think we'll be all right, but we'll have to see. See you on the next four or five days progress. You've given some different guys looks at running backs the last two weeks. And I know you explained the short week as being the reason for Gaumann's usage of Sunday, but can you say what you saw from Quadra yesterday and your plan going into the Jacksonville game at running back? Well, you know, as we get to the game plan there, Charles will figure out who we wanna play and where, but it's certainly Quadra ran the ball hard and he ran well and had his moments and that was good to see. All right, anything else? Do you lead? Do you lead? Yeah, coach, I know you just gotta get ready for Jacksonville, but any thoughts on the NFC South as you all try to move forward and get in the hunt here?  And, you know, it's about as rough as you could feel after, you know, the emotions of getting back to four and four and then really what I say is, you know, we deserve to be where we're at. We haven't played well enough and we've played two really good teams and you're sitting here in this moment and you're like, all right, you're four and six and it feels where it is, but you have that perspective and say, hey, we got seven games to go and we're gonna swing at it and all that matters is you go down to Jacksonville, get back in the mix and that's the truth. So, I mean, thankfully we're not in a one and nine hole here. So it feels bad and I get it and I get the frustration and like I said, you got to own it. We clearly have not played well enough for the last two weeks but it's not like it's all lost because we got tough guys here and we got the right coaches and we'll come back and we'll put together a plan. We'll go down to Jacksonville, try one football game. Thanks coach. Thank you. Michael. Yeah, I just have a couple more first. What did you think of how Darren Hall played last night?  I mean, he's, I think he's got a chance. I mean, I like Darren and you know, we played a lot of different guys since Isaiah has been injured and we've tried to play by committee and depending on the game plan and matchups. And lastly, as far as the offensive line goes, do you have enough maybe in the depth department to create competition to push some of the guys who are struggling right now or do you kind of have to almost roll with what you got at this point? In all options on the table, Michael and that's, you know, a lot of skill positions. I mean, you're dealing with injuries, you're dealing with people out and you got to find a way. I mean, that's our job and that's our charge. And you know, you can rationalize a lot of things and makes excuses, but this is pro football. We got to go, we got to play better and we got to go down and focus and find, whatever we got to do, we got to find a way to move the football, score points and go win a football game. Appreciate it. Anything else? Thanks guys. Thank you. Thanks, Arthur.


Thank you everyone for joining. This is the part of a planning assembly on December 22nd, 2024. I guess we'll accept emotions without the agenda. And I think you might be going before the residents make a motion. That's I will second. And the agenda, wonderful. Well, let's just do quick introductions. All right. That other people over there might belong to the five red. All of these. Yeah. Uh, Terry Golden and the East district school commissioner and residents. Thank you, uh, Ryan, Nick, uh, resident. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yep. Um, next time we'll also a couple of notes on the agenda. Yeah. You should all have your ballots right now. So please fill it out and vote. You need your prime presidential primary ballot. Yeah. I just want to learn about how the case function, Uh, I don't know if I can get a vote or what I can do. There's a certain. And so. And I'm really impressed with especially the first one with a full audience last night was not quite as full. Not quite as full, but I think that's great that people came and sat there and, you know, that's good. That's really good. There's, you know, an energy on the campus, which is really important. I think, and I think that it is richer for our community to have the campus. I mean, it really brings a lot of events and I'm not, but yeah, I can love with your 10s. I mean, I really came down to questions about neighborhood code, but it's not here and Hannah's not going to be here. She is out of that in the payroll. Yeah, we might try to catch that too. They think that starts at 7. Okay, never to get to this section. Uh, moving on to, uh, so, um, so, uh, I'm just going to skip over there. We'll have fixed costs and obligations on it. So, look, probably to the most that is doing school budgets. Um, and that was in the next day. For my bigger target job, the Senate right putting their vote on the. The amended bill. So, um, I guess it's the repeat of these tests. They didn't define my presentation, but. How for my fund, it's not actually not unusual as far as whether states. As far as the victim, the fixed cost of the local cost of what we grapple with. Um, as an administration, the school and then the board members. Um, and what's the balancing act is the, um. In the past, all the school budgets and tax rate were decided. By what local resources you have available. So if you were in Vernon. Come on back in the 90s, early 2000, he had to not get into that school. There's zero tax rate across, I believe, across the board. Um, IBM and their idea was to junction very, very low school taxes. Um, and that was how it was. The state tried to, I'll send that song with the foundation rate. But it was messy. Um, it never worked until a family in the planning and the not freedoms. Took the state to court and said, um, this isn't fair. And they made a civil rights issue, uh, based on Brown versus. The support issue, uh, the land park decision number. And they want went to the state supreme court and they. Sided on the variance part and left it to the legislature side. And that's been the mess since then, because, uh, we are this latest bill. I've lost track of them. Um, is 1 of the many attempts to. Brain funding into air. And act 1, 2, 7 was the latest. And here in Burlington, we've been applying additional costs. For many years as a refugee. And while we're wholeheartedly welcome. Our golden majority of population, they come with, you know. Federal funding is really to get them here to get them place. The local site will. So it volunteers to help with the settlement, uh, and the schools and social network that. Funded through. Uh, it's very costly. This, even early on, I was an employee of the school back when there's not going to. Early population showed up and we ended up having to create a classroom where the school. Uh, the medical teachers center for that population, which is more on this. And there were possible that the director of education that. Walked through, solve what we're doing, not into that. So, uh, we've settled that. That that cost of the additional hold. They have that has probably the lowest player student. And we also found. That's all. That's going to be. So now with that in mind, I'll come back to my show. So what we have control locally is fixed cost and obligation. But these are some of the costs that we are. Um, having a hand, you know, pretty much across the board, both the wages and the other costs are 5% or more due to inflation or the contracts. Um, even the healthcare, the rating increases at 18% again on top of, I think 12 last year. And so it's either been high civil digits or low double digits. Forever and no, and inside actually this one may be the highest. I think this may be the last three. Oh, thank you. Okay, um, we also have a long rental cost. First 2 lines of that space are about displaced programs from the high school. Either the high school itself, ranging from a million and a half a year for the mason's building. Um, the tech center is spread out over multiple sites. Um, most of them out by the airport or downtown, uh, behind the CBS that wall, uh, two-story structures out. So those are costs and then we're also innovating part of the, um, fishing center for the rice and alternative programs and the next year we're doing a pretty major, heating ventilation, uh, refurbishing, geothermal, um, placements and renovating of the building. That's the front part of, uh, that integrated of our, feel real, like those that's been on the, uh, this, that wheeler was the character. So, um, and then the other cost of services, uh, transportation. So go ahead to the next, uh, this is change and wasn't official to the base. I haven't done around it. So it's a 5% cap is gone. Um, way to people was what I was talking about with the actual cost for students. I need student poverty instruments that are all additional costs born by, um, even more districts or districts in that case of the, uh, resale, so I'd be, uh, my failure and I'm proud of her over the two rivers that fly back. 5% cap has gone away, but at least hope it's all that come. Um, hope the administration was on a parallel track to help us on the board with saying there have to be some internal costs, uh, reductions. We've made up, uh, some, you know, costs from the things from the, uh, funding, we've got to include additional funding. We kept it, not for those positions, but we also, uh, removed for full time equipment, teaching positions that, uh, consultants had told us we didn't need to get our students a separate shield up to its proper level. Uh, there were also to both redundancy. So what, so what came about from that, at that point was a 2% increase. Um, we would have to adjust them to that because of the cap going away. This is actually a still a minus 0.5% factor. So we basically leveled out, um, our costs will be in control. And we let a lot of the things go by. There was a lot of money requested by principals and their guidance groups to add more behavior positions, um, or mental health supports. We did what we could. The money that goes to each school to the side of how they do their programming, we increased that some, we also, you know, some more, you have to, you know, staffing. So that's pretty much where we stood. How did that happen? You had an increase in, I was here, and the 5% increase in salaries. In this direction, I also need to get down to like, negative tax rate by then. It was, um, very impressive, um, attempt to hold a line and really say we know we're asking a lot of the taxpayer. We didn't know about this. This is all happened in December and early January. So based on the numbers we had, we thought we'd get another 4%. We do get another 7% on the bottom. And then we did the appraisal numbers ourselves. So it really was, we just had to hold a line and not add things out of the cost. So part of it is that many of those additional costs, we were already there. So they go to the factory last year or so. But coming forward and losing the open money, we just said, okay, we can only do so much. Now, the department was, most of the college was sincere. In my opinion, the department, my thought was, um, that we're not showing where we're going to go. I think we should pass, I guess, if we're not doing that. And there were no guarantees the cashers. Because that, so they can't be a few more, more vulnerable to higher costs. It wouldn't have taken the cap away. I mean, yes, very much. And that's what a lot of the districts aren't going to have to go through. Because they did target all the padding. Um, there are limited sources of money out there because of my distance, but also, that what, what are you tapping to try to offset your increases? And there are, it's very little and harder to tell us what 55 to 60 percent of roads to properties, non-profit or non-taxable ones, including those from the country. That's a bulking there. So, of course, I'm sure we'll see how, I'm sure it's going to come up. So, yeah, we're just very conscious of what was going to cost. And then we'll realize, because they, um, the 5% cap was a last minute, my stones and other wealthier towns that were getting, they knew they're going to suffer a little without waiting people. But they're, they're really, and that's what's being missed a lot of articles. So hasn't done the reading phases. So they, they're looking at like a 66% common level. Two more. Well, would they have opportunity to move within the districts? People move on, people retire. So they have the license to remain on the streets. And then myself, yeah, it's, it's not seamless, but it's, it's good. And I know what would be one person advice for the great teachers. So this is the Boogeyman skip to the bond. So stated, just a little tax appraisal based on current sales to the rate of uniformed tax burden costs from their website. So we're only 2 years out from our appraisal. We, and so what happens is the state looks across the, the state. And they track real residential real estate sales. And then they compare that number to the appraisal. And based on that, they find what that percentage difference is across the board. And that's, and that becomes the common level of appraisal. So in our case, we were in 94 last year, 95.3 last year. And they dropped us another set, almost a fish and that's what we weren't expecting. We were thinking threes and that would have been not so bad. So long. So now we're down to days and like was six. And like I said, still was at 68. They tried, they looked at a real price on 2 years ago. And at least this book, the article I read reflected and the political cost was too. It was bad here, there. It's going to be amazing and bad. And they just said, even though you're supposed to, now's our expected to do real price on every team here is, they said, we'll take the cost of being able to stay with the cost of real price. So I think it's convenient. Yeah, it has an interesting mentality, but they don't know when they don't say it. Their board chair and their superintendent have rigged at bunch of like seven, just back and forth and every committee said that's the culprit. They're culprits to see them because they're looking at it now. Well, if they had a re-appraisal fee for 15 or 20 years, at least 12. Oh, good. I think so. So I mean, if I was to drop that one, I mean, some of what I do think we'd like to get about $40,000 instead of $60,000. Yeah, I don't quite know for sure. That may have been 2023 number, not 2040. They posted those numbers and then they seemed to be really, so I can't find, but it's not, it could be their regards. And that would have left us with a 5% cap right at 14% tax rate. We're looking at a 1.5% tax rate losing capital. So that's how close we got. We were, I think the administration did their job trying to hold things down. But 15.4% tax rate is still there. Good news is it's sort of a one-year bond. The bond servicing costs next year will not be as high. Federal money will have come into place to pay off some of the buildings out there worth that we've taken over for the tech center. This is an amazing aviation program out there. They have 12 different planes and helicopters and they're taken over far too much together, completing certifications. So we didn't know how many they did. If they do the three-year program, that's something I would do well, but they're taking, they're planning certain interests. They walked up the data and made these at least $80,000. That's like, yeah, it's crazy. It probably wasn't a lot of money at all. So with that, one more. So these are things really, I tried to do a kind of a reminder of all the things that were lost, like the ester funds, that's the COVID funds, elementary and secondary school, emergency relief funds, that's it. That's what happened. CLA at that point, almost 8% adjustment. So all those, we did our best. And to be honest, this taxation was going to happen some. It's just the way it probably affects the design. The school's got it, not the city, the town. Part of that is, you know, poverty doesn't go anywhere, people can move. So it really makes it an income tax. The city and state get most of the non-homestead taxation. So business probably will possess corporations. So really, that's the balance. So these numbers, again, are a little bit off instead of for $370,000 homestead. It's more like $820 now. And additional taxes and income taxes are like $170. So it's painful. There are some solutions for taxpayers through, it's got homestead relief. I posted it to the progressives to do workshops to really help these populations maximize their tax-wise for the exception of us, but there are limits to what is happening. So we asked that you ask for your vote. What's the impact there? Well, if you're not a residential owner paying those taxes, you will be paying it through your there's a line in the process. The rest will be through the rent. The rent will become the bulk of it because there's a huge difference between that income pay imagine, which many of our renters will not because they're not residents. You know, it's an order that we can do that. Yeah, I can just stand down and let you know the figures like that. I was like, this was a figure they gave one, one of the things that they draw from them with the district promotion. I don't need to have some new consent to do pay the glass. And that I'll be right. My wonder would be equating that to your rent costs. I'm not sure how that, so that has a problem. I'll change the amount of people. We are going to vote. We could have closed the column, but so don't know that you have to give teachers notice in April. If they're not going to be, there were three higher. And the vote was 15 letters that we thought out that week. So I think we're looking at ways to offset that person. We did get 2.4 with any diagram. Our other has been five lines. This year, 23, which has been almost two years ago now. And now that money is free as a one time usage. I would probably use for that. That person would have a difference. Well, again, fortunately, we did the board early when we prepared for this. But in some of the best schools out there, other than still asking for. And we're usually benefiting from waiting. Yes, this is all brought into that. That I should have said that. That's how we kept a lot of it. Oh, yeah. That was that. Otherwise, yes, at all. Oh, yes. We're almost getting double the money out of the student study of all the others, of the non with people. Right. So we separate without that meeting to show the years. And we keep reminding them. And then I don't know what's going to happen on the state level now. The only new funding that's out there is the sports. The sports family. And maybe they allocate some of that to us. Back when the lottery happened that was front and center percentage of profits where you go to education. It does have a day where that happens. He goes directly to the education. It's not small amounts, which you would hope for. So the sports betting is public. You can hear our presence. More president is telling me after we did the town meeting show that Massachusetts dedicates about percent acts just to school structure. So that's how we just needed that. And we, our legislature, as well, just ended school construction. Even in us like 35% of the costs shown by the state. They, they saw the three plus six million server investment. How much money to take to bring all of our students. We had some discussions of what we did. That's what you a little crystal ball. So any questions that you can get in while I was Yep. I don't have a point about the rent to the high school. Yes. The market ran for a good deal. It was the only game in town. So, Don and Sean donated that. I mean, he was supposed to be able to get anything for other water. Yes. But he said that's not who he is. He wants to. Yeah. And we're thinking another 200, 300,000 something. So we negotiated that rate through the work. And we thought the school would be finishing. It's moved to another. It was supposed to be next fall, not this fall. So a year and a half from now. Now it's going to be the start of the school year. So he wants more. We have a lot of rent. I did. I did. I'm not going to say I'm a Google search. And I did rent the commercial space down at Lake Street. There was one for about a half a week. But I don't know if he's paying now. Oh, yeah. He was all out. All out. He used it to be a guarantee. And in the other local part of the school, like dunking down the one he wanted. Yeah. And then he went like, yes. That's good. Yeah. Yeah.  I'm not sure how the match was made between, but I'm just, it's all he said. You're not finding anything, are you? So there's nothing in the public. Pardon me. I want to keep the building and use that space for kind of an alternative. I school students who want to go do it all online or do build your own, perhaps a graduation, but not in those places. You know, galsh was a good idea. Any other, yeah, no. So the school population, that's what I said. That's one of my concerns and we'll be, you know, looking at that. It's dropped. It does. It's dropped. I mean, looked, I was, I left the district in 2011. That's decreased by, I think, two percent. That's across the board. Someone told me that the population of Burlington has also remained constant. Yeah. Yes. It's the child bearer. The children just aren't. Right. They have, you know, thousands of people. How it's done with all the new development, I think, though, and the added balancing, if we aren't meeting more people, why aren't we better shaped in the housing? But somebody told me that if we are, we have stayed level, well, let's first look at Daniel, because we have added 72 musicians in the city government in the last five years. So, and his point was, why has the city government cut expenses from if our population is? And I don't know my answer. Well, that's a pretty common question for school.  So I will not be able to quote anything other than my personal experience. What is documented is mental health, these algorithm and the staff that, or those students will not be able to participate in school. They're guaranteed a free, accessible education by federal law.  They can often be pretty disruptive, sometimes being dramatic with classmates. So, you know, schools need to provide that support. We also have a lot of those small schools to inform our commitment to those, but the state offsets the costs to those towns to keep those small school buildings the state knows that's the center of your town. That or church and the post office and maybe we'll judge the school. The school goes. So, those are some of the things. As far as staff and as far as, you know, we've picked up a lot of administrative status aside. And I'm still querying about that. Superintendent Flankel says our percentage of staff the full of our administrative state staff as far as our state staff is about three to four percent, which is a little average. And that's all, you know, that's what we'll have to come next year or maybe with the slow focus. We haven't, we've not, we did not have that. Because we just somewhat put that out there that there are options, because the options are cutting, teaching, and so forth staff. And that's pretty awful with that. And I didn't think that would be too much of a sport. Oh, man, it's first time, man. Seven, two, and... Yes, so it would be too early. Yes, we're making several studies at the WVM and a number of bison residents from like six or seven in the eighties to the thirties so far.  Schools are not, yeah, schools and cities are not. So we'll stick, it will be interesting. I don't, I don't have a lot of it. And we can have it. So we're hoping people will support us. Yeah, I think it will pass. But there's a bison bigger than any of that, so I think it's both being built against the school budget. It's so great. Yeah, well, one of the, our, we do have one contest for the award and during the discussion, that person had like, our, put this in combat, he accepted, not, quote, not transparent. So this, this is something. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I'm sure you've been making a lot of stuff that's going to be different. We'll catch you for the next time. Yes. With that, any comments for the comments? Seeing none, or any kind of motion to adjourn. Seconded.


Okay. I'd like to call the village of Essex Junction Planning Commission meeting to order for May 23, 2019. On the agenda tonight, we have public hearing on the updated comprehensive plan update. Before we start, I don't have to warn about anybody in the audience. So, Robin, any additions or amendments to the agenda? I just want to remind you that this is an ultimate meeting before it goes to the trustees. Okay. So, just to clarify, we are going to discuss some last minute changes or updates, and then we're going to make a motion to approve and send to the trustees. Correct? The next meeting. At the next meeting. Their next meeting? No. One more meeting. And then it goes to the trustees. Right. Then we'll have a meeting in July and August, I believe. We have one more. That's on the chart. Yeah, I sent you the schedule earlier. So, tonight is just opening and closing, making a motion to open and close the public hearing. And then between now and next Friday, I will make amendments to the plan. I will send it to you by next Friday in advance of your June 6th meeting. And at that June 6th meeting, you will make a recommendation for approval of the comprehensive plan and decide to send it to the trustees. And I'm still looking to see when their next meeting is. It's okay. I'm not going to be here the 6th, so everyone has to show up. Right. Okay. So, I guess we can start with that motion then. I move we open the public hearing. Do I hear a second? Okay. All in favor? All right. Any members of the public wishing to speak to us all now? No members of the public are present. Okay. Do I hear a motion to, well, any other comments? Do I hear a motion to close? Make a motion. We close the public. Sorry. Wait, wait, wait. Well, I don't get, how do we open the hearing and not discuss the. Because we're only opening and closing the public portion. Okay. We get to talk about it as long as we want, apparently, but the. Okay. So, does that make sense? Make sense. Okay. All right. So, John made a motion to close. Second. All in favor? All right. Okay. So, we did have some updates to discuss tonight. I'm not sure, Melanie, I'm not sure what you wanted to go over first. Okay. Yeah. I'm just, I want to give you that date on the trustees meeting. So, the trustees will receive the plan on June 11th and warn the first public hearing. And then their first public hearing is July 23rd. Okay. And then they have a second and final public hearing, which is August 13th. I can send you. So, which meeting do we approve? You approve. June 6th. June 6th. To send it to the trustees on June 6th. Okay. So, we have to, we will have everything completed by that. Yes. And done. Yes. That makes sense to everybody. Okay. All right. June 6th. Okay. So, I was thinking we would start with the two-page overview of the comprehensive plan, the executive summary. I believe this was sent to you in advance of the meeting. The purpose of this two-pager is to highlight sample objectives of the plan organized by the heart and soul values. This was created in response to a desire of the Planning Commission to have something more graphically and easily accessible to understand the objectives and general direction of the plan. You know, given the compressed timeline, this is what our communications manager came up with and with, you know, my input on the appropriate content. So, this is the first time that the Planning Commission is seeing this. So, I think we should have a discussion about how we should frame these objectives. The way they're currently described is they are sample objectives. We, you could decide to kind of change that language and make these objectives more about a high priority action-oriented implementation plan, which would somewhat address one of the comments that we received from the CCRPC Planning Advisory Committee that there aren't really measurable outcomes in the plan and what are the measurable objectives to help the Planning Commission understand the successful implementation of the plan? So, that's one question. Do we want to just keep this framed as sample objectives or put some language in here about these being priority objectives? And also, are these the right objectives? Are there concepts in here that you want to add? Are there revisions to these statements that you want to make? So, yeah, I mean, I think we can have a conversation about the the two-pager. Get some love to hear your reactions on it. And where does it get put into the comp plan like somewhere up front? Yeah, in the back. Yeah, that's a good question. It will become part of the comprehensive plan if that's the decision of the Planning Commission. It makes sense to be part of chapter one or before chapter one because it's the Executive Summary. Yeah, I like this. I think it's great. What do you guys think? Do you like that the top, you know, the way they have it broken down? Or do you see something that should be here that's not? Well, I like it fine. It feels like a plug though. We have had this heart and soul process and it's compressed into two pages and then slipped in somewhere and it feels a little contrived in a way rather than kind of broken apart and put into the document where it belongs to go in, you know, like not all these things belong in the same place. But that said, I'm not, I'm not sure it's a bad thing because I think it brings highlighted tension to those six items. So it may not be the way I was anticipating your work though, but I think it actually could make it more, give it more of a punch to put it all in one place. I think when people open up the book and it ends it up, it gives them these topics right away and they can be looking for them. I agree. I think your comment, John, about the heart and soul is actually valid. I would almost say that it was, it's not just heart and soul that's responsible for what's in this summary and in this plan. It's a combination of a lot of different feedback from a lot of different folks that have made this take the direction it has. Wouldn't you agree? So when you say it's almost a plug for heart and soul then, you know, I would have that same concern to a certain extent. But what I meant when I said plug is that it's a plug for the notion that we took the heart and soul points and put them into it. Not that I'm plugging heart and soul, but they're fine. But as a community, these are the values that we came up with. We spend a lot of time getting to this point and they are scattered throughout the document and particularly the graphics do show up in some other places. So I think providing this as a highlight, almost a, hey, look for these things as you go through the plan, it's going to work out. Yeah, I agree. So I have a question for you. The picture of the young ladies around the taste of Ramon and taste of Essex, the arrow pointed at the young lady in the green dress, is that the best example that we could use? I got to feel is that having that arrow there and that sign is probably pointing at that young lady. I'm not sure. I know that that sign was probably taken from somewhere else. Can we remove the arrow? Can we remove the arrow? I will check with Emma about that. Because I think that would be much better. Which comes to most, we can light it up. Yeah, I think we can just put a white box over it. Okay, and there's a piece on the under local economy on the other side. Well, there's a couple of them that, and I just want to make sure I understand the intention that, so it's talking about collaborating with the town. And is that what we mean where we, the village are collaborating with the town or do we want to say village in town? Is it about the village or is it about the village's collaboration with the town? Well, it's the village, and this will apply. So, should it say village? It's probably just checking. One thing I want to say is with the train, it says free at rail service expansion. Can we say free at commuter rail service? Well, we can expand if it doesn't exist. Yeah, maybe not. Talk myself out of that. Oh, there's a gentleman that wants to start a commuter. I like this sheet. I think it looks nice. I mean, I guess my only, my only issue is it's not really an executive summary. It's, I mean, it highlights some points that are important. I think it's interesting. I think it's a good thing to have in the front. It doesn't really summarize the entire comprehensive plan. It's just, you know, it's some highlighted points, which is interesting. Yeah, yeah, some key areas that are important. I don't know if that's nitpicky or not, but it's a good point. For you. We're going to call it that. We're going to call it the executive summary. Well, is there another name that people prefer? Does it even need a name? Just cross it. Highlights. You could call it the Highlights. Comprehensive plan highlights. I mean, this is not a in-depth, you know, summary here. And it does look like a highlight. Or you could call it core values. We came up with these as core values. Core values, that's a good one. I like that. It's very good. It's not my document. I'm just going back and reading that piece I read a minute ago on the town. You need to put town in there. I don't think it works if you don't put town in there. I think the point is we're trying to collaborate with the town, especially on the second one. Would it be helpful to understand the inspiration for that one? So if you go to page 19, the inspiration for that objective is objective 5.7. Work with the trustees and the Essex Town Select Board on appropriate and feasible consolidation models regarding asset management and services for Essex Junction and Essex Town. In fact, I think, you know, I basically that's like intended to be a summary of that whole section about public infrastructure. In the second one, because the Enhanced Energy Plan is a combined plan covering both the village and the town. So I'm fine leaving it the way it is. I just, I wanted to make sure we knew what we were trying to say and that it sounds like we do, so that's good. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Do you want to change the language in the second paragraph where it says the following are sample objectives from the plan? Do you want to change sample objectives to highlights? And we're also going to change executive... Or we could just take a sample and put in the following are objectives from the plan. You could just put the following are highlights from the plan or sample highlights, whichever. And we're striking executive summary and calling that highlights. I thought core values. Oh core values, sorry. I'm the photo on the cover, I'm good. That's right. Is it, is it acknowledged? This is the question. Acknowledging, you have to pay. When you didn't, a photo acknowledgement? You have to take 75 pictures where you got that one, you better acknowledge. Are there roles? Any other comments on the core values page? Those going to defer education to Diane or just to make sure you're comfortable with all of that. I like the word rigorous. They're each other, they would probably agree with it. But no, I checked, I compared it to what the school has submitted and yes, that agrees with what they have. Good. Agreed to it. Actually, I like drinks in color and it gives you the answer. Yep, good. Any other comments on it? And so, where are we suggesting it goes right after the table of content? On four. Yeah, in the front, right? Just after John's acknowledgment. Perfect. All right. What's next? Okay, we could go through the comment spreadsheet. Yep. So, we will focus on the yellow highlighted comments. Those are the comments where I need some planning commission direction. If you have any questions about the ones that are not highlighted, please let me know that. So, we can start with the first comment related to page 20 of the comprehensive plan. The commenter was asking about depot street not being a former or current street name and wondering if that's supposed to be railroad avenue. And I was not able to answer that. So, I'm asking if one of you can answer that. I have no knowledge of that need to be changed, do you guys? Well, if he's saying that there's no depot street, I'm sure he will look it up. Yeah, I'm looking it up now and it doesn't seem to me either. I thought there was a sign at the end that says depot street. And a four? No. No? It's railroad avenue. It's railroad avenue. So, where is it referenced us? There's one in Burlington. There is not one in Essex. Do you want me to read the sentence in the plan? Early buildings included additions to the Stevens Tavern, the Central House Hotel at Central and depot streets. Oh, so it's historic streets. Yes. Yeah. Okay. The commenter was saying they have access to information. So, if it's not historically named, so why don't we just make it Central Street and railroad in this plan? Railroad Ave. Yeah, I'd make that change. Okay. Thank you. Since we're on this page, can we? Sure. So that the headings of 3-1 and 3-2, it should be historic. I'll defer to Dan, but I think it should be historical development patterns for 3-1 and historic resources on 3-2 because the resources they're talking about in 3-2 are like historic buildings of historic significance. What we're talking about and the first one is how development has happened historically. So, I think the meanings are flopped. Is that you understand? Yeah. Yes. So, historical development patterns is 3.1, historic resources is 3.2. Is that correct? Yes. Okay. Okay, what's the next? Okay, so the next one is related to page 34. The commenter is concerned about retail business declining and is asking about focusing a discussion on attracting e-businesses core offices. Is that a direction that the Planning Commission wants to take for the village? I'm trying to find out where. There isn't any data in the plan that highlights whether retail business in the village is declining. I think we've taken perspective of encouraging businesses to locate here, whatever they generally are. Right. What they are. Yeah, we don't want to go down the road overspecified. I think the point is that if you have retail, you have pedestrian traffic intending to go into and out of these establishments. If you have e-commerce, you don't have pedestrians looking for places to go there because it's not a public offered space kind of. So, I would think you'd want to still encourage retail because we continue to try and develop pedestrian-friendly walkable communities and if we don't have places for them to go, then we're looking ourselves enough. But there's nothing stopping an e-commerce business from going into the second floor. Correct. Or even first floor. Correct. So, it's just business. We like having a nice healthy mix of businesses so we don't. Right. But I wouldn't want to be promoting one non-pedestrian type of establishment over another one. Correct. So, what does the actual language say at this point? That's 34. Yeah, I mean, the interesting thing is that we're not trying to track retail or e-commerce or anybody else. We just say, hey, this is what's here. Right. Yeah, I don't want to. Okay, so why is that pinned to page 34 because I don't really see anything on that. I think it's prior response to an area. Well, an area. The person probably read this and said, here are the employers and what about others? I'm thinking that if anything had changed, it would be in the goals. Yeah, this isn't really relative to what we're trying to talk about here. We're just stating what types of businesses there are here. We're not encouraging or discouraging any types of businesses. Yes, I think on page 40 it makes more sense if we're going to talk about it at all. Right. I mean, our first goal there in 2.1 is look for strategic opportunities, work with business and property owners on economic development. That seems to come for everybody. It's interesting the person said retail seems to be declining so maybe that it's a response to an interesting comment down the hall. We're not even here. We're not promoting any particular kind of business. We're just talking about our economic and development goals. So I don't see where we would plug anything in specifically about e-commerce or sorry, e-businesses, I should say. All right. So if we discussed it and we're happy with what was written, we don't need to do anything. Correct. Yeah, I don't see. I propose we do nothing. Yeah. I mean, it's a good point. It's a valid point. But you know, we're encouraging all business, not specific categories. All right. Next one. Okay. So this one is about being specific in identifying which significant wildlife habitat is being defined by use of the Vermont conservation design data. I think the best way to answer this question is to look at the, at map number one. I believe everybody has their maps, right? This is what map one? Yeah. So the language just generally talks about the significant wildlife habitat being defined by the Vermont conservation design project. But there's numerous components of VCD. There's landscape scale components, and there's species and community scale components. And then they're also rated based on their suitability for having ecological importance, you know, based on whether they're surface waters, riparian areas, forest flocks, and then at the species level, whether there's a presence of rare species or uncommon species. So our, is the planning commission comfortable with saying that both the highest priority and priority areas at both scales make up the significant wildlife areas? I mean, are we sure there, is there definitely not like a, in the industry, a definition? Is that like a term that's thrown around as a real thing?  We're just being more specific. Oh, and there's not a page number related to this. I apologize for that. So it's in the, yeah, it's in section 4.5. Well on the map, it has highest priority, priority areas for species and scales. So, Yeah, again, I mean, we're very specific about in the map and in the body of the, of the, what section am I in here? 4.5. 4.5, thank you, about the importance of these areas. I mean, I don't know how much more specifically we can get. Is there something more that we can do or I mean, do you guys think this is what we have here as adequate? Objective 2.5 seems to cover it. Yep. And then there's the map, which is good. So then maybe a way to address this comment is taking the language from an objective 2.5 and putting it to further clarify that the village is defining significant wildlife habitat as defined by the Vermont conservation design, both highest priority and priority areas. Yes, I think that sounds perfect. Okay. Yeah. Perfect. You guys okay with that? Yeah. Okay, so the next one is, does the village have building codes or not on page 76? No, it did not. Okay. Okay. So then I will, I will make those. We defer to the state. Yes. Yes, our energy code. So I will make that. Well, for all, there are codes for one or two family dwellings and they, and for commercial and everything else when they're driven by the state and the village has no specific other. Yes. Yeah. Okay. There's page 89 of contradiction in terms related to interconnected local streets. No, I just want to see what their comment was. Why they were saying it and why. So the sentence is the interconnected local street system reduces congestion on major arterials but increases the negative impact on local residential neighborhoods and should be discouraged. So it's in the second paragraph on page 89. It's the second to last sentence with the interconnected street system should be discouraged. No, using it should be discouraged. Well, that doesn't say that it says that it should be discouraged. The interconnected, if you take out the whole middle part of the interconnected local street system does all this stuff, but increases and should be discouraged. I think what they want discouraged is using side streets as cut cuts from the major arterial streets. So they're fine for local traffic, but most people who commute through as obstruction know how to get around five corners. Yeah. And that puts a heavy burden on on those residential areas that are right there. And I think that's what we want to discourage. School street, notably Montstriol Avenue, Vanceville Avenue, Pleasant Street. But we're going to fix the street. Yeah, but all I'm saying is that we need to have some extra words in there to say what we're discouraging. I mean, just simplistically, if we put the impact on local residential neighborhoods and cut-throughs or short cuttings should be discouraged. It was worth smithing the whole thing. We'll just make a separate sentence saying that that's discouraged. Neighborhood roads to like the five-quarters that says, you know, the ongoing planning should discourage, should implement measures to discourage cut-through traffic or something like that. That's more like that. Right. So there's all kinds of ways to slow traffic down. Like to put things in there that discourage the use of neighborhood roads. Let's see. We want to try and get people back or to stay on the major arterials is what we're really trying to do. Neighborhood roads should only be used for destination traffic. Everybody has this problem. We want to encourage appropriate measures to protect the neighborhoods and keep discouraged through traffic on neighborhood roads. There you go. So you want to take that sentence and take and should be discouraged off the end and do a whole new sentence. This discourages through traffic on neighborhood roads. Yep, that makes sense. There'll be a new sentence. I'm going to read it back to you on what I'm thinking. I wrote a lot of stuff. So okay, so ongoing planning should be implemented to discourage the use of neighborhood roads to discourage the use of neighborhood roads or for-through traffic. Right. The use of neighborhood roads by-through traffic. Okay. Good. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Perfect. Ongoing planning should be implemented to discourage the use of neighborhood roads by-through traffic. Yes, there you go. Perfect. Thank you. All right. Next. Is that the last one? Yep. The last one. Yeah, so the last one is about the goals and objectives are more general rather than measurable. Consider including a few key indicators to show success in the implementation of the plan. So, you know, it's the nature of the planning document to be very general. There are a lot of objectives. As I mentioned earlier, I think one way to address this comment is to turn this document into the high priority actions. And so that is a measure of success in that, you know, years from now, if the village realizes these core values, then they could say that there's a measure of success. There's also in addressing VHFAs comments regarding options for affordable housing, one of my recommendations is to add an action about the implementation of the municipal actions that were in the village and town housing needs assessment. I don't know if you guys have seen that, but I printed out the municipal action plan that's proposed. So we can just reference that. So we can just reference that. So that's another measurable way that we can address this comment. So it's not going to address it fully, but it gets at what the CCRPC PAC is asking for. And they've already made a recommendation to the board to consider the document for approval. It's just a way to, you know, enhance and improve upon the plan. What do you guys think about that? Providing off a lot if we decide that we're going to try and decide what the high priority items are and then summarize them and put them on these property pages. I feel like that's a lot that's just heavy to look at. What's the new reference to document like the UHFA one? If they modify it, then our reference is modified too. Well, there's a difference between deciding if something is a high priority and actually putting a number to it per goal. So there's a big difference. To me, it's fairly easy to say our priority is, you know, a more connected walking community to assign a number to that or what we want to see specifically is much more difficult. Does that make sense? So like Melanie said, the nature of the comprehensive plan is to be general for that reason because we're not exactly sure what shape it's going to take. We know what direction we want to go, but to assign specific numbers, I'm not so sure that's something that we have the ability to do. I have a suggestion. I'm looking at table 13, which is all of our goals and priorities and objectives. And what if we put in a statement that said that we would annually revisit the goals and objectives and discuss our progress? That's something that we do because we've got some nice targets in there, but if we just file this away and we don't go back to it, then that's a reasonable question. How are you medicating yourself against your goals? And if we say, okay, we're going to, on a scheduled basis, look at our goals and ask ourselves what we're doing. I think that's fantastic. And that allows us to change the priorities as things change. Sure. Things come along.  So I think we can, every time we have a chance to look at our land development code or any of our other rules, we go back to our objectives this day. Are we getting to our goals? Yeah, that's a great idea. And then we can tell them we've got them constantly in the forefront. We look at them all the time to make sure our decisions are getting us in that direction and we're checking them off when we achieve them. Okay, so what meeting are you assigning us to be done? January 1st. There you go. January's meeting. First meeting in January. Yeah, so we could put a statement somewhere in the body that says this is one of our goals is to have an annual update about where we stand with what we're trying to accomplish. That's a great idea. And then, because that's typically a little slow through the winter, great. Okay, so I can add a sentence that describes what we just talked about prior to table 13. Does it need to be anywhere else in the document? There was something that said, you know, we're committed to our goals and objectives. It can go even up front. I was just thinking the same thing. Isn't there a place where we talk about the document at the home? We talk about goals and stuff. Yeah, maybe some more words related to the implementation table and the reporting that we just talked about added to item three, the specific goals and objectives. Because that's essentially what the implementation table is. It's all those goals and objectives with information about the timeline and the responsible entity. Right. Yeah, I think that works perfectly. What are you guys saying? There's this big empty box at the top of table 13 where you could put in just, you know, a regurgitation of our commitment statement there. Okay. Okay. So that covers the comments that I wanted the planning commission to pay close attention to. Does anybody have any questions about any of the other comments that were provided? Basically when it says thanks for your comment, okay, that means that the comment will be addressed as suggested. Do we want to discuss so the comments from Mia? Yes, that's next. Okay. Yeah, that's one other thing that I wanted to bring to your attention that I don't know that it's in here. And it's, I guess it's a comment that came from Essex Town staff about the enhanced energy plan right now. It's in the comprehensive plan as an appendix. And I think it would serve both communities better if it was taken out of the appendix and just it stood as its own document and was referenced, which it is already now referenced. Can we have Darren speak to that? Because I'm thinking we're both going to appendix to our plan. And therefore it's, I mean, the danger of separating it is it's somewhere else when you want people to see it. It's not there. And, you know, there is just because we put it in as an appendix to ours, I don't think has any bearing on what the town does or doesn't do with the document. It's our combined document. So I guess I'm not sure why I would, if it's important to us and it is our energy plan and we're required to have it, I want it mechanically in this document. I don't want to have to go take another book out of the library to figure out missing something. If we are focused also in the core values part of working with the town, you know, when we're talking about the energy plan, then yeah, I agree with John. It should be in the document. Which doesn't prevent it from being somewhere else. Correct. So it doesn't turn on. Correct. Does that make sense? It does. You can't read our, you can't read our comprehensive plan without getting the energy piece with it. So why not? I mean, it's part of the document. It could be also sided as a link, you know, so I guess it's separate, but it's attached. It's just like the map. It's just like the maps. You can't not have those things in there. So we're on agreement. So it gets its own hot link? Well, we have a town planner with us. So I'm saying if Darren could explain the note there. Actually, you should be pretty soon. It's not my other way back from the town meeting. Thanks for coming. Real quick, you know, to answer that question about, you know, should it be in your, you know, actually in the text, like the idea of having it in the text, but also having it as a standalone document in the town, I think, will eventually incorporate it into the main document of the town plan, whether it's a combined town village plan, am I allowed to say that? Or, or they are still separate comprehensive plans, but the intended thing is eventually to have it incorporated. And I will also add that I think Burlington has an interesting way of doing their sort of sub studies and their comprehensive plan by having the main document. And then they do have references to other documents and do like a little summary in the main document. So you could lean more towards having more of the main of the appended document in the main document, but there could be goodies to find in the appended one. So my personal experience working in Burlington is I'm almost thinking I'm missing something.  And to make it easy for people who are planning in our community, I would, I would suggest that it's, it's nice to know that when you grab the comprehensive plan and the land development code, you've got what you need. And you're not looking or missing something else. Oh, did you know we also had to have, you know, these other documents and since it also helps in the section 248 proceedings. So if it's physically not, you know, going to make our document too big and it looks like it'll slip in there pretty well, I would be in favor of keeping it as an appendix and physically attached as part of our, and we can make it available separately as well. It's just fine. You know, it has a number of different hats since it did represents something that we are doing in conjunction with the town. So we'll have any document and they just have it on the website. Yeah. We've also over the years, we've had a click on the website, or you just click here. Yeah, you would just click a link. Yeah. Well, we've had feedback from residents over the year or two that they feel that they would appreciate it if we made it a little easier for them to access information and just another way to keep things all in one place so that they feel like they, like you said, they feel like they have all of the information in front of them that they need. So that's kind of my opinion of it. Okay. It will stay as an appendix. Sounds good to me. Okay. So now we can move on to VHFA's comments. I came up with some suggestions on how to address their comments. Okay. So their first comment is talking about adding some more or adding an additional action to section 2.3 that talks about the planning challenge. They're asking for the addition of a goal to increase more housing for residents earning 80% of area median income. So one suggestion for addressing that is to add an objective to that section and also replace one of the housing objectives in the housing element on page 87 with a statement that says work with the town of Essex to implement the actions identified in the town of Essex and village of Essex Junction housing needs assessment and action plan to increase the stock of homes affordable to residents earning up to and including 80% of area median income. We can also add a sentence to the first paragraph on page 78 which is the introductory paragraph to the housing section that refers specifically to the housing needs assessment and action plans actionable steps for the municipal government of Essex and Essex Junction to help meet the identified housing needs in the community. The rationale for these suggestions is the plan already already refers to the housing needs assessment. A lot of the data that's in the housing element was summarized and at the time of that summary the municipal action plan that is part of the housing needs assessment was not developed yet. This I got a copy of after we already warned the public hearing and the public hearing draft was already developed so I think it makes a lot of sense to really specifically and explicitly talk about the action plan and reference it in this document and I think that it does address Mia's comments and I passed out an excerpt of the municipal action plan that's part of the village and the town's housing needs assessment. It's in draft form currently in case you were wondering about the status of it. So everything in yellow up here is what we're adding we would be adding? Yes. Okay and discussion of definition of affordability is that we're deciding whether to include that as well? Yeah so that's the next comment about I think Mia felt like the definition of affordability that's in the plan is unclear and so she proposed a clearer definition that might be you know more accessible to the residents and understanding you know why affordability is important and what makes things affordable and what makes things unaffordable so it's a choice of the planning commission to decide which description of affordability you prefer. Okay and then the other two comments that VHFA proposed I think make sense to delete for the first one about why homeowners are cost burden you know it you can't really tell right we don't and then the second one is about the burden that new houses have on the school district and the data supports the opposite that there is no burden so I think we can delete objective 1.1 as well given the student population is also declining. I agree with that as well. So the real question is the definition of affordability affordable housing and including this text on page 85. Anybody have any comments on that? I personally I'm wondering if the definition of affordable housing can be shortened I mean do we really need to get into a discussion about you know the other things that I mean knowing that your housing cost should be 30% or less of household income is basic right that's a normal standard so so can we just put in can we just send that in and then put the federal maybe the last part the federal and state housing programs use this definition when the term may affordable rents and home purchase prices in terms of subsidies subsidies for households earning 60% I don't know if that's important to put in there what do you guys think? I think at some points do you have to read this that it's not us reading this that it's next to a neighbor reading this so if you're next to a mayor would they understand what we have in page 85 or would they understand what is recommended by well I mean I would assume I think I know that my next-door neighbor is a lot more intelligent than I am so if I just put 30% in there and I understand that that's what the term that's what makes a house affordable or unaffordable or can we mix and match and put what you think is appropriate and then reference affordability and change the context defined by the amount of housing finances that works for me because it'll change from year to year to right more elastic correct um you know I think we need to give it some target so that you're not stuck going to a reference to find out what the baseline right exactly like you said you've learned all in the one document yeah I think we can give information but not be comprehensive about it if you need correct correct all right so a general statement about what's considered affordable or this generally housing is considered to be affordable if right we like that sentence yep if total housing expenses rent mortgage and utilities cost 30% of a or less of a household income period yeah that's the explanation and then we want to jump to the chitenden county reference correct that was my idea yes right does that make sense yeah and then it's okay to have something about what federal and state housing programs do with this definition as long as they don't change that would yeah that would be my concern but they haven't changed so far they're still using that definition can I to believe if you guys want to leave it in that's fine the area median income so I don't mind the last sentence either and it may be that you put the chitenden county information in after the last sentence because then you've gone from general to what state and federal do and then typically area median and then you tell them what the area median is and you're done so all we're taking out is the sentence when households pay for more housing it can be more difficult to afford other basic necessities that sentence is the only one we're taking out is that correct all right so if we're okay with that then can I go back to this the two bullet points that are yellow I'm sorry I kind of jumped ahead well I'm a little we we all wait before we go back to that I just want to make sure I have this right so looking on page 85 in the note about affordability we're ending it at income where it says generally housing is affordable to a person if the housing costs are 30 percent or less of their income of a household's income yes yep so we're ending it there and then we are we are only taking out the next sentence we're only taking out that all residents want their housing costs to be low we're taking that out no we're we're not 85 yeah we're taking are we taking that out too it's on the average how much money do you want to replace what's on 85 with VHFA's definition minus the sentence that starts with when households pay more for housing it can make it difficult to afford yes that's what we want to do because all residents want their housing everything after that is it's on page 85 yes okay and then we're inserting VHFA's definition minus that sentence I just read and we're going to reference what VHFA defines as affordability correct okay thank you sorry for the confusion with that no that's that's good um all right so the two bulleted points in yellow if I understand it are referencing a document that we haven't seen yet this uh village of s extension town of Essex and village of s extension housing needs assessment and action plan do we have that I believe I believe you were given a draft of it when we talked about the housing element earlier in the process and it includes statements about what we think we want for the future going forward yeah the version that you saw was about data you this is the first time that you're seeing the actionable steps because it came out this is in early May okay all right so I guess what I'm trying to avoid is is including um objectives and other targets that reference things that we're not we haven't seen we haven't seen yet or we don't know what they are or that we don't have control over them or we haven't and this is just part of the action plan that we're seeing yeah um we can hold off on including this statement and it could be included um I'm just I'm thinking about this it can be included on June 6th when you make a motion to make a recommendation to the trustees to approve it it could you your motion couldn't include um you know this language that I'm proposing here so long as you're comfortable with the action plan there's a lot of stuff in here that is pretty significant so I guess what I would say what I would suggest is that we um include a commitment to move forward with a municipal action plan that addresses housing and an affordable housing but I don't know that how we can uh go out and adopt this thing that's not even you know hasn't gone through all the steps yet and it feels like that's approved that's recommending or approving something that isn't hasn't been done yet but what you suggest the approval way to do it because it talks about it and says we're okay yeah and then we can check it off our checklist in January when we see how that works all right so can we have language that says where we uh we are commit we consider or no we're not considering it we're we're actually um you know we're uh we're committed to to moving forward with uh work on a municipal action plan in conjunction with the town to address housing costs and affordable housing done ending so whatever however you want to write that to have a goal and an objective and or whatever you're welcome to do that okay so committed to working with the town of sx um on the development how is it the development development of a municipal action plan to address identified housing needs in the community correct reading it right off the period because that's all i'm doing so far because this is this is pretty interesting we're agreeing to revise land use regulations we're agreeing to inclusionary zoning no we're just not necessary we're we're reducing development fees for affordable housing private yeah we don't have to do this establishing a housing trust fund we're struggling to get a landscape fund how are we gonna get a housing fund we don't have impact fees why don't we have impact fees everybody else does encourage to go to the center do i think no you've got a lot more of the village than just the but i think neither we got the neighborhood designation of the disney village center if people meet the requirements in the arbitrary designation avoid actually 50 the issue you know the hardship pay fees to the village yeah and if you had impact fees you could use not paying them as an incentive to get the things you want all in favor of impact all right so we'd have to talk to the trustees about that yes all right so let's see there's something for the planning commission to be working on work work work okay so we're okay with the language that we decide to use on on this about working with the town and the village yeah that's pretty close to what it says here yeah so now that we have everything on this page we're all set i think so yep till next time thank you very much thank you good work yes excellent does anybody have anything else do i have a motion to adjourn do i have a second all in favor all right thank you very much you go so you have to write an essay why i want to be an architect


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