What's up guys, we're in a new episode of Talk of the Town, today we have a special guest, went to the bride. Hey y'all. Alright, so we're going to do a little icebreaker to warm you up. So I'm going to ask you questions. Answer as fast as you can. First thing to come up, describe one word in New York. Describe New York in one word. Fuck. Crazy.  Last song you listened to. Little baby, um, something.   Mom? No, anybody. Who got the worst song ever? I don't even know. The odd bitches. Okay. Okay, which rapper would you not let date your daughter if you had one? Little baby. Okay. Alrighty, most underrated, who's the most underrated artist? Who slept on? Who's underrated? Me. Okay. Celebrity crush? Crush Brown. Okay, um, what's one hit one day that you like, one hit song that you like? One song that you like? Who's the one hit one day that you like? One hit one day though? Like, I don't know. Yeah, they had a banger and they just fell off. I have no clue. Alrighty. Alrighty. What took the town, what should Winter the Brat be nominated for? Um, and I don't, I don't know really. Say I don't know one more time, bro. Cause I really don't know, like, of a most underrated artist. Okay. For the people that I don't know, where are you from? Mitchell's. Where? Mitchell's Projects. I mean, I'll call it the Projects, those, the P's. Where's that at? 1-3-8. Where? In the Bronx. Okay, I don't know. I'm not from the Bronx. To the Bronx for me? Right before Harlem. Right before, okay. Alright, so what's your background? My background, they are. Like, what are you mixed with? Spanish, American, Puerto Rican? I'm Puerto Rican, Dominican, and black.  Okay. And what was it like growing up in the Bronx?  This is just metal. Okay. So what made you get into music? Honestly, I was playing around and then Niggas was really jacking it, so I just kept going. What song was everybody jacking?   But you kept going? Yeah. It was just fun. It was fun at first.  And then after I just really started taking it like seriously, nah, this could be the way for me to go far and get out of here. Okay. And then what inspired the name One to the Brat? Honestly, my name was One to Kenzo, but I just wanted to change it up. So I changed it to One to the Brat. That's not for me. And I feel like it correlates with really how I act. People be saying I act like a brat for me. So a lot of people have the brat now. Well, a lot of people are getting the term the brat added to their name. Big brat, Asian brat. I guess what makes you stand out being One to the Brat? I'm just different. I'm not like none of these bitches. I can't relate to none of these bitches. They can't relate to me. All right, but do you feel like competition? Claiming the word brat now because other people got the name? No. Not competition with nobody. I think bitches say what they want. Okay. So when did the name change? Because you said it was Kenzo first. When did the name change? I think I had to make a whole new page. Instagram? Mm-hmm. And I just changed it. I was already having that as my own. I think I changed my Facebook name tonight. And then my Instagram got deleted. I had 15,000, so I just ended up making a new page. Mm-hmm.  Because I was already calling myself that while I was rapping. All right. And then everybody was working with it? People started calling me that.  But I wasn't jacking that. I'm not Golan. That's a lot of Kenzo's right now. Too many. That the bitches had that. So you feel like it's a good choice changing your name? Yeah. For sure. Okay, so what the music you start, then you stop, then you start, then you stop again. So what happened? I don't know. I got to be consistent. I'm not Golan, but I began distracting. And I smile for honesty, but I know niggas want me to drop more. So that's what I'm doing. And I also expect to see more for me, like this whole month and shit. Okay. So what's the reason you're stopping? Was it that too much going on? Was it inspired? What was the stopping about? It was really not. Like I wanted to have the right images. So like I want to look a certain way.  That's going to get me out with my voice and what I'm seeing. So that's how I'm going to move from now on. What would your ideal image look like if it was up to you though? What do you feel like you would change? I just want to be mad, like mad drippy, but I know the money is going to start coming in when I really make it. And I get out of here. Everything that I'm seeing now is really going to change my future. So then I can really have everything I want. I don't need that now. What I'm doing now is just going to help me get what I want. Okay. So like, so when you say drippy, you just mean like flash it. What do you do? Like the heels? The makeup and stuff? No.  So that was discouraging you from dropping music? Yeah. And I mean, not everybody a rap now got that?   And they going to see it. Okay. So not everybody has started rapping. It's mad up at first anyway. No. I'm supposed to make it out with my son Jeff, but I'm not going to do it for him. What happened with Jeff? Tell the people who Jeff is. For me, I'm not going to. Niggas know who Jeff is already. I don't even got to tell too much. My son Jeff helped me get my name, put me out there for me. It's all relatives. It's not going to happen. Okay. And how you met Jeff? On my blog. Say I grew up together. That's why me is here for me. And where is he at now? My son is booked. But I mean, that's why I got to go hard. Cause what we was trying to do together, I got to do by myself now. So I got to go 10 times harder and really get the bride so I can help him too. Okay. And I mean, what Jeff has locked up now. Does that worry you that like your friends is getting locked up and stuff? Yeah. A lot of, a lot of artists are going to jail right now though. No, I should have done like, I don't even care.  Like I'm going to just pray for my, all of them. It's free, all the stuff is free to match. All right. So what's the plan? How do you plan to like avoid, I guess jail and cops? It's no way to really avoid them. Just for me, you move tight. Got to move tight regardless. I rock. So I got to, I got to be tight forever. I'm not about to be liking for nobody. Not going to be loafing, struggling, nothing. I don't do that. Okay. All right. So I guess you a girl. So what's moving tack?  Certain people in a circle. Like what does that look like? I'm always by myself.  I don't really like to, I don't like that whole, whole group of friends. Big eyes crowd.  But I like to be by myself. Have one or two good friends. Can't trust nobody. I don't, all my friends, all my real friends is really in jail. So. And what does a good friend look like to winter? Like what's a good friend to you? Somebody who feel me like, tell me when I'm wrong. Even when I don't want to hear it. Tell me the truth just all the time. Like really try to help me and better me as a person.    Okay. Okay. So you feel like you have? Well, you said all your real friends in jail. No. Females is not you. Well, we know. So. For me, but I'm not going to lie. The members would have told me if I looked dumb, I'm not going to lie. But they going right now. I mean, but female wise though. I feel like you know, you say you don't dress up. You don't really get girly. So how was that like? I just, I don't, I don't know.  I want my face breaking out. I don't care about having my hair done. I really don't.  What matters to you? What matters to you? I really just want to make money.  Like I don't have to have my hair done every other day. I don't have to have my nails done. I don't have to do nothing. I'm not impressing nobody.  Like when nobody thinks I don't care.  Okay. Okay.  So, um, is that, do you think you would keep that going? Like even with money you think you would keep all natural or do you want to try and waste yourself? Yeah. I mean, the most I do, I don't want to waste. I'm not gonna, my forehead is not little. So I could do like a little sewing or something.  Like there's not room for none of that. But that's just not me. Okay. So you're not really a girly girl. You're more of a tomboy. I guess. Okay. All right. So getting into the music, you and Jeff was like a dynamic duo for sure. Mm-hmm. So like, so now you making more music by yourself now? Or you gonna find like... Yeah. I already got no features.   Nah. Party features in the future. But a lot of people right now, I'm just shilling. I didn't think about myself. I got to show them what I could do by myself. Then I started doing features. Okay. Anybody been hitting you up for features? Reaching out? Mm-hmm. People been hitting you up for features? Reaching out? Yeah. But all I should is in the works. Okay. Okay. And you often go live on social media and things? Often? Low-key. Kind of. Sometimes. Wins is definitely on live sometimes. How do you feel about the whole New York scene? Like, I feel like every artist from New York be going live and stuff like that. Honestly, going live is just like... Well, most of the drill rappers, I want to say. Every good live, you just got to be bored. And you have nothing else to do. Honestly, last time I went live, niggas know.  I don't care.   Like I said, I'm real. On camera, on camera, I'm the same person. So what I see on the internet is really me. That's really me. I don't know what everybody else be doing, but I don't know. If I go on live, it's for a reason. Sometimes I just be bored though. Nah, it's the facts. Everybody be bored. Okay. So you not going live to start trouble? It kind of just happens? Nah, nah, nah. I'm not going live. If I go live when I'm bored, it's just because for me like... Talking to your fans? Yeah, I just want to see what survives. Maybe I want to go outside and get high with the members.   Everybody's going to see all the fans, all the ops, all the randoms, nobody's, they all going to see that.  But I don't know what everybody else be doing.  I'm not even going to be for me. Do you kind of regret doing that sometimes?   I said what I said.  So I don't apologize, nothing.  I say things with, like, feel me, like, I really mean it, like, with my heart. If I disrespect you, I meant that. If I'm being nice to you, I meant that. Like, I'm a genuine person. I don't have no reason to cut. That's not me.  So like, what happened? You could sum it up. You don't got to go too much into detail, but. Niggas be, I'm not going to lie.  I'm going to be honest. If you smoke in my, not even if you smoke in my mans, if you chill with niggas that's smoking somebody, I really used to chill with being in a house.     Like, I don't jack that, nothing. Like, I'm not, niggas could say anything they want about me. I don't mean nothing to me. Rosa, like, talk, talk whatever you want to. You giving me clothes.  I don't get it. Talk about me.  Ever since I was young, nigga, before I've been doing this rubbish, the niggas been talking about me. I've been relevant. I don't have to do nothing to be talked about. Y'all just going to keep doing it because y'all love me and I appreciate that. I love y'all too. Thank you. So do you feel like people talk about you because they don't like you or you think people talk about you because they want to hang out with you?  People, it's really a mix. I'm not going to lie. I'm going to be honest. People be mad because they can't chill with me. People be mad because they can't get with me.   Like, people really wish they could be friends with me.  It's mad. Where should I not?     Who is y'all to me?   I don't like nobody. I really like being by myself because nobody can talk. I talk to myself when I have problems. So me, like, I don't care about y'all.  Like, bitches be day room, niggas be day room, niggas be chime, niggas be fans. So is the fame more self-frustrating or like, all the attention? Do you like it? Do you not like it? Are you working on it still? I don't like attention like that. I've never been on type of person. Actually, I'm the type of person that starts something. And then, like, when it starts getting heavy, like, I'm like, nah, I don't want to do this, but it'd be fun though.  Like, it's really mad funny to me. Like, I really sit in my house in line.  People talking about me. It's entertaining. Like, y'all keeping me alive. Thank you. Like, y'all keeping me relevant.   Yeah.  People talking about me. Honestly, I don't like bad attention, but for me, the views are going to be the views and the views are going to make the money. Do you feel like that's kind of what comes with, like, New York drill? Like, they want y'all in drama? New York is full of drama.   I don't want to be in New York. It's not here for you. This is a place where you grow up and you leave. You get, for me, you get higher than this. The energy around here is not it.  And for me, violence is sometimes needed, but honestly, not when you're losing your friends. Violence is not always needed. You guys can talk through it.   Wow. Alrighty then. So, move along.  Do you read comments or do you try not to read comments? What if there's some comments? I'm not going to read comments. Only because, not because it hurts my feelings or anything, or I'm trying to avoid conflict.  Y'all don't know me in real life. It's nothing I could say to hurt me. Y'all could believe whatever y'all want to believe. Y'all don't know me. It really can't affect me.  You don't know my mother. I don't know what you're talking about. So it's like irrelevant because you don't know. Wow, irrelevant. I don't care about that. Comments. Comments is, y'all just giving me views. I don't even watch nobody. Everybody watches me.  Y'all always talking about me. So you ignore comments and stuff like that.  Yeah, I'm not going on. What's your response to that? Or do you have a response? Or you just don't care? Or those with your friends? At one point? Negative was cool. Negative was all cool. Beef started happening.  Yeah. But like beef is beef. It's size is size. You got to pick a side. You can't be on both. So me being from the match, like I have to decide I'm going to pick regardless.  That's where I'm from. That's where I grew up.  I'm not good at, like for me, I'm good anywhere I chill at. Yeah.  Okay. He's all causal. Niggas is gang. Niggas is telling me they jacking my music.  Like niggas want me to be a part of what they got going on trying to affiliate me with their gang.   Like, I'm not even talking at all. I mean, it was more so about that.   Definitely do be boy stuff. Not going on. I don't know. It's not even that I brought myself up around this.  They don't like where I'm from. They don't like me. If you're talking about me, I'm going to defend myself. I've never been the same person of, Yeah, I've never been quiet.  I've never lied, ever. I don't, I can't even think of a lie. Everything I see is real. Okay.  So do you feel like it's hard being a female artist? Definitely. Being that all the guys are into it and stuff? Definitely. Because niggas won't come for your character. It's just how you react and how you deal with the situation. Honestly, every time somebody come for my character, I really don't, sometimes I black out for me, but I really don't care that much because you can't tell me something about myself when I'm the only person living in my body. Okay. Okay. That's a good month to talk. Alright, so I mean what the guys, we know it's beef, but then it comes guys. So like, what's the dating like, like, like, what?  Like what's your type? Like what's, because I seen you did a YouTube video, it was like five guys try to get winter. So like, so ideally if somebody went to shoot a shot, what's the, I like tall niggas. Okay. I like tall niggas because I'm tall. I'm like five, seven, five, eight. Okay.  I like skinny niggas. Okay. Roll skinny, roll tall. Okay. Roll cute, for me. Okay. So rapper, no rapper, you don't want to my industry? Like what? I don't want to talk to nobody who's not on the same level as me. I'm not going out. Like, I don't know. Anybody who's ready for me? I'm not going to say anybody, but for me, like, if I'm really feeling you then I'll talk to you, but I don't be feeling niggas like that, to be honest. So maybe niggas in the industry be wild. Okay.  Yeah, but when you really meet them in person, it be a different, it be a different thing, like, okay, should be metal, not, not. Okay. But like I said, I'm not going to do YouTube video when they was trying to get you, but you also do the videos when they do the pranks and stuff. Do you feel like when they do the whole oh, your song is wack, you feel like they be doing too much when the pranksters do that? Nah, I'm not going on. I know it's a joke or whatever, but I should be like, nah, like, low-key be like, you trying to be funny, but then all the time it's like, it's a video, but you that is trying to be funny, like, I laugh at everything. Like, everything is really funny. Life is really funny.  They be disrespectful. Don't get me wrong, but. So how do you feel? How do you deal with that? I don't really care. It's all for the views. It's all for the viewers. Like, that's what they like to see for me.  I've been chilling on my feelings. Okay, okay. You got the song, How Does Young In? I'm not going to lie.  What? I've been way better than that. I've been getting way better. People like that song though. I've been getting way better. I've been getting way better. It's most of the hit for me.  I know they like that. I know they like for me what I be saying. They gon' have to bump that soon. New track coming out next week. Okay. But How Does Young In though? What does that mean? Like, define How Does Young In? I'm not young. I'm not going to lie. Everybody keep asking my age. I'm just cleaning this up. I just turned 60 years old. Feel me? This year. So, everybody thinking I'm older. I don't care. This is my age. What are y'all going to do about it?  Anyways, regardless for me, I'm not going to lie. I've been getting talked about since I was at least 10.  I didn't even know nothing about gang because nothing that has been talking about me. Like, I've just been relevant. I'm going to forever be relevant because of the person I am, my personality, how I look, how I act in person. Like, people just love to talk about me. So, tell me. Okay.  Yeah.  Like, being a trending topic. Like, regardless, people's going to talk about me. I know they're going to talk about me. People love to know what's going on in my life. They love to be involved and what's going on in my life. And they just can't. So, they be tight. But, definitely, the hottest young in. I'm going to be the hottest young in. Okay. Okay. So, we're going to play a game. I'm a named three artist. And you tell me who's the hottest young in out of the group. They don't have to be the youngest one.  The lit one. All right. So, young thug, young inmate, young car. Young out of them three. Young car. Okay. You don't have to pick them because they young. I'm just saying. Nah, but he's that fire.  I'm not going on. Okay. All right. Next one.  Who the hottest young in. Little baby. Okay. Because, he just.  I'm not going on. He be happy for me. Like, I'm not going to be getting my mom over there. I be like, damn, like, all right. Next one. Kodak black. 21 Savage. Y and W. Melly. Which one's the hottest young in. Kodak. Okay. Because he was spicy. He low key spicy. I'm not going to say Kodak because I'm not going to Melly and Jill. So, he not very posting and who you said. 21 Savage. 21 Savage. Um, I don't really bumping like that no more. Like he fired or whatever, but I was bumping. I, I was bumping on it. 2018 maybe. Yeah. Well, I just said Kodak. Kodak. My Kodak be posting.  It be like, right. I got to be here and I should be low key catchy. Yeah. So Kodak and 21 before right now because 21's jack and he could be Kodak in a versus. No. You think Kodak would beat him? I was fake listening to Kodak. I'm going to keep it a stack back then, but for me, it's more Kodak. Okay. That's fair. All right. Next one. Rod Wave, Roddy Rich, NBA Young Boy. How the singer? Definitely Young Boy. Young Boy is really golden. I'm not going to lie. He's, you should have named him first. I'm letting you pay.  No, Rod Wave is fighting with that whole um, the melodic pain.  I'm not going out. That was fake 2018. I was like, but um, Young Boy, he just keep coming out.  I believe I'm tonight.    Yeah, Rod Wave. Yeah, but you also picked Young Boy. You think Young Boy does that too? Both of them. Both of them?  Young Boy. Okay. All right. I just asked him. All right. Um, okay, we're going to go into some girls now. Okay. Glow Rilla, Lotto, Megan Stallion. What is how this young is? I'm going to say Glow Rilla because she fake, um, Glow Rilla, she fake, like, she fake, she's going up right now. Like, she's like, like she's making moves.  Lotto, I would have picked up because I'm not going off from the rap game. Like, she fake, I fake Ben watching her.   Like that was fire. Like, I used to listen to her songs when she was mad young and I was wild little.  I've been jacking Lotto, but Glow Rilla is really making the heart rate now. So I'm jacking heart rate now. Okay. All right. And then we're going to take it a little to New York. So, out of these three, DD Osama, Boob of the Savage, Sugar Hill DDot.  Nah. Boob of the, Boob of the Libra, I'm not going to lie. That's gang. That's big. I was like, you know who the Libra is. So, DD making it, nah, yeah, DD making the heart. I'm not going to lie.   Oh, DD too, but Booba is the Libra, so feel me, I'm a Libra too, so I'm not going to have to pick my fellow Libra. Okay. All right, yeah, Booba just turned 16 too. He just turned 16 too, I think. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. So that's my son. For me, big L. So how do you feel about like the whole New York scene? Do you feel like they be like showing love out here? What do you, what do you think? Certain people, so you love out here and it really just depends on how they feel, and I'm not going to lie because if you love in here all over, to be honest, you don't know what you're going to get.  Like, it's rare that you really find someone genuine. Like, I really don't know. I don't know how to really answer that question. Like, it's really hard to find genuine people in New York. Everything in New York has to do with social media and how you look.   The same way that you see me here talking is really how I act in real life. I never front for the camera. That's never the type of person I've been on live.  And for me, I don't like, I don't like nothing that I wish. Like, if I knew you in real life and we got beef now, like I can tough. That's why I would date you because I know you in real life. You're not like that.  Come on.   They be showing you love? Nah. Definitely not.  Before, um, before I lost my old page, me and Ice Face was texting a little bit. We were supposed to get on the on the song. I don't know about that though.  I was, that was my while long ago.  Oh, that's good.  Like for me, niggas is cool but, um, nah, nobody else really. Some of them, um, actually, my son Zephy Lee. Okay. That's, that's my, that's my man.  She's done fire for me. Uh-huh. We cool in real life.  It don't really be actual beef, but it just be like, we can't do nothing. Okay. Do you think it's like that because I feel like a lot of girls nowadays try to sexualize themselves and talk about pussy and this and that. They can do that.  I mean, you don't do that too much though. I don't do that because, only because I don't like to talk about my body. Like, I'm not the type of person like, I really don't like attention. Okay. I really don't like attention. I don't want a thousand niggas on my body. That's not me. Like genuinely, I really like to be like, I'd rather be loved by one person. I'd rather have a friend. Like, I don't need a whole group of people. That's very overwhelming like for me. So like, so what are your thoughts on girls that I guess do talk about like sex and shit? Do you think they're intimidated to collab with you because you don't talk about sex? I don't know what they're intimidated to do.    That last track started a lot of problems.     Like, I don't care. Like, you say whatever you want about me. You not, nobody's gonna ever, ever, ever, ever gonna do anything to me. Like, nobody put their hands on me. Nobody's, nobody's spent like business spend so what, allegedly, we don't know. But okay. Yeah, I don't know.   Like, what is it? Cause, you know, like what you be talking like? Yeah. What does it sound like? Like, what is, explain to us.  If I really wanted to get on real, real type of, like, exposure type timing, I really would. But honestly, I don't even really care to expose niggas business like that. For me, that's, that's wack. I don't want nobody telling my business regardless. So, I'm not gonna expose niggas business even though niggas don't got information on me really like that. Like, niggas can't really say that I'm much about, much of the bright, for me. Okay. All right. But on the music tip though, is there any other artists, any artists you want to collab with or like connect with or, because I know you say you're gonna dip out of New York. Where would you go? Like what area?  Just somewhere quiet. I'm tired of this. Connecticut? I'm tired of it. I don't want the noise.  Matter of fact, not even, probably not even Connecticut. Because when I went to Connecticut, it was wild crickets. I'm not even but I'm not used to that. So, I need to be somewhere real quiet. Maybe one of the highest floor in the building. Oh no. But you would leave New York though for sure? Definitely.  It's nothing here. It's nothing here at all and I cannot stress that enough. Maybe when I just went to two years ago, I would have said not stay in here with the fuck. I don't want to leave my friends.  I don't get out of here. I don't get out of here seriously quick. Like, it's terrible. It's, it's niggas. I know that's losing a life. It's niggas. I know that's my, my friends are going to jail. My friends are dying. Like, not me. Let me not even say it like that because I'm not going on. We put on like, nobody's really dying like that. Yeah. Okay. Let me just say like that.  So, that's just pushing me to keep going and really, like break the cycle. Okay. So where do, where do we see Winster the Brat in five years? What does that look like? Five years now. Five years later, I mean.  My money. My money, family, kids, no. Maybe kids. Five years. Five years. It'll be what, 22? I don't know. I, I want kids for like, to leave my little mark on the world. Regardless of all kids and I, I'm gonna leave my mark on the world.  I want to be chilling. I want to have everything I need. I want to be kid-free.    Definitely.  Okay. The five years from now for sure. My grandma, half her grade, not stressing out the hood.  Old people, my grandma was never one of those.   Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, you making the lyrics sound terrible. It's wack. Maybe not queens. I don't know about queens, Brooklyn, fucking, whatever else. I'm from the Bronx, but in the Bronx. The Bronx is really like, it's not a scary place if you, if you was from here, but it's really why, like, I had to really grow up and really realize it's really not an out here for me. It's no opportunities.  Like, it's too much sometimes. Now everybody can handle that. I'm having trouble handling everything that's going on. All this other weird type of attention is good attention and bad attention. Yeah, people would say, like, Bronx is lit right now. Bronx going up. Everybody going up over there. You feel like it's just a lot of drama that come with that, though. The Bronx is going up for that specific reason. It's drama.  Facebook, if I would have went up on the Facebook days, it would have been crazy, but I'm not gonna, make us just get heavy over it. It's weird. Okay. So, you have a team, you working on a team? What does that look like? I'm just chilling. I'm not going out. Okay. What do you mean? Okay. So we should definitely see more music, more tunes? Definitely.   Like, it's crazy. But I gotta pick and choose what I want to say because I'm not going out. I'm not about to get heavy.   I know the real about a lot of niggas. They don't want me to start talking. Okay. Your song, All of the Lights, is going up. Everybody saying, like, that's their favorite song? I dropped that for the, for me, just for the, just for the controversy.   So the song was for the controversy, not the live, or the live just happened because of the controversy. Like, what happened? The live happened. I went live. Matter of fact, let me say it like this. I dropped the bed. I want to drop the bed because I haven't dropped the magazine. I was feeling the drop. I was like, for me, I got a gold. I got to get it started. Bitches is dropping. I need to drop.  And I was really joking around. So I'm taking this as serious. Like I'm going hard.   Like how I am. Nobody took my real experiences. Nobody took my nothing.    I missed it. So maybe I mentioned some one or two. So me.   I'm not doing nothing like. Okay. I'm not going on. I really honestly feel like. Okay. Do you regret not being consistent? Yeah. Honestly. All I said, that's what I'm trying to say.  Like I don't know why I was doing all that. I let bitches for me get ahead of me.  I wasn't dropping for months. That's not even me.  Oh, that honestly distracted me. But I know I really gotta take to make it. Okay.   It don't even. Okay.  People, well they tried to ban drill. But you know, drill is still a thing.  What's your thoughts on like them trying to ban drill music?  Let them do that.  Maybe, but I feel like I could do way more.  Like, I could, I could probably freestyle a little song faster than I could freestyle a, a rap. Like, I just don't sing because I never really tried. I never tried been more of a aggressive type, you know, artist because that's what I should make it. That's what people like. And that's what I could do. If I could do it, I'm going to do it. Okay. Do you feel like the music is more therapeutic to you or you kind of, the music is relieving stress or you make your songs when you have said, like what gets you in the mood to go to the stew? When people diss me, I like to get in the stew. When people talk about me, I like to get in the stew. And when I get in the stew, usually do numbers when I post a song. So, y'all just be helping my career and I really like, really think y'all for that. I'm not going to have all the bad attention.  Like, I feel like if you say something that I don't like or you say something that didn't make no sense, I'm going to find a way to make that shit wrong and I'm going to put it in the song and you're going to look down. So, for me. So, what's strategic when it comes to making music? Hmm? Strategic, like strategy when making a song. Yeah, definitely. Say something about me. Just so I can say something back. I swear my comeback is going to be way better.   This is the Bronx. She gets around.   She get around too quick. All right. But, so, new music on the way. Definitely. We got trillers that you posted that we never saw vids too. Honestly, most of my own.  What do you want to say to them? I'm sorry for not dropping. I think, like, I don't know. I really can't, I can't be dropping all the time. Honestly, let me not even say that. I don't be confident in all of my songs. Sometimes, I feel like, I should have changed this. I want to change that. But, I just got to post and see how people react and see what they like and then go off, die instead of judging myself first before the fans react. So, the message you want to tell your fans are, you say you don't be confident in music. Do you feel you over critical? Definitely.  Before you drop it. Yo, I can't, I have to listen to my voice.  I can't, I don't know, I have to see if everything is perfect. I have to hear my vocals. If I'm recording this soon, and I finish, let's say I finish the whole song. Boom, I'm telling the engineer, let me do my vocals.  Let me do my eyelids. Let me do my eyelids.  I'm so, everything has to be perfect how I wanted to. My voice has to sound the same, every line, same tune, every line, I got to get it right. If it's not right, I'm going to keep fixing it, and it's going to be perfect. Okay. So that's part of the reason why you wasn't dropping like that.  All right, but the fans that want to see your music and want to hear more shit, they should expect to see more. I'm definitely going to start dropping back to back to back because I'm not going to, I realize I missed a couple of opportunities that I couldn't hide bringing for me, bringing the wrong energy and on top of that, it's just that I could have did that wouldn't hide me already going out all this bullshit away from all the drama. I just decided not to do it because I was focused on the wrong things and I, I was really bad, I'm not going to, but right now I realize that I, if I really want to do music, that's what I should focus on and that's what I should really be having on and really just keep doing if I want to get out the hood. Like I shouldn't be focused on nobody else.  It's all about what I'm doing. The fans going like regardless. So, yeah. All right. Any release date to some music? Maybe a project on the web? Or maybe more singles? No, no release date. I don't know. I can't tell y'all nothing specific, but definitely expect some more new music though. I'm making new music. I don't care about none of that holding shit, seeing what track is better. Every track I'm recording, I'm dropping them since it's all fire, y'all all going to be jacking them for me.   So I'm going to just keep dropping music. All right. All right. So tell people where to find you, where to find the music, how can they tune in? Instagram, Instagram. Winter with two R's. DA, Bright, under school, that's my Instagram. You two should be winter to Bright. Y'all got to follow that. I'm not going to, y'all got to subscribe. Y'all bugging out so I can post on my page. Yeah, you keep dropping them raps and hustles. Where are we supposed to go? Raps and hustles, fake help me.  For me, even though, you know, I know he making better.  He gave me my start posting on my own page so I could get my own following and old line and maybe get filming. That's all in the works though. That's definitely what I'm swimming for. That's what I'm trying to go for. Okay. So Instagram, YouTube, that's where they could tune in now. Anything else? I don't think I have a snapshot like that. I'm not going to have a snapshot.  Y'all going to find me. Um.


This paper presents various methods for calculating the depth of discharge of different XIN anodes in aqueous XIN metal batteries, reviews recent advances in high XIN utilization batteries with different structures, introduces the working mechanism and modification strategies for anode-free aqueous XIN metal batteries. This article was authored by Xianfu Zhang, Long Zhang, Xinyuan Jia, and others.


So good evening guys, I'm Juman, she's DRL, and we are here to share today how we won a HECAPHON after coding for three months. So yes, we are newbies, patient with us. We met at a coding board camp. So during this year of time, we decided to join a HECAPHON together and we had the privilege of attending a HECAPHON organize by Facebook and Wilson Tech. It's called HEC for a cause. So these are my group members myself, Gabriel, two other members who are not here today, Catherine and Yang Shun. So our beneficiary, they have a beneficiary where we had to HEC for. They are called Dayspring Residential Treatment Center. They support unsupported pregnancies and abused girls. So some of the problems that they were facing, just let me bring you through. Some of the problems that they were facing were their donation page. So this is their current donation page. You can see that it's lengthy, intimidating. You read chunks of information about what you're donating to and then you fill out a form with your name, NRIC. So user flow was congested and we felt that we could make improvements to it. So these are some of the problems that we faced. So at the end, after proving that you're not a robot and then you will click on the donate button and you'll bring you to the PayPal page, which is fine. But we wanted to make it, we wanted to make the user flow better. So Gabriel will talk to you about how we managed to come up with some solutions for this organization. So our solution was to revamp how Dayspring donors donate. So we have the live demo of our app. First of all, we made an interactive slider because we all want to know what our contributions contribution do. So you can slide it and see, let's say, if $3,000 you can help the girls with their residential costs and making the donation experience more interactive. And we also want to make it convenient. So if you log in with your Facebook page, it will automatically fill your name and the donation amount. So all you have to fill is your card details. That's the important bit. And you can also make a monthly contribution. So you don't have to log in every single time. And thereafter, we wanted to make donations meaningful so the users can submit a message to the beneficiaries such as, you go girls. And it also be inspired by what others have sent. So lastly, we created an admin dashboard because Dayspring requested a way to easily visualize the donation data. So they can see the top three donors, new donors, and we also have a functionality to post the messages to Facebook. So it helps them drive their publicity. Unfortunately, we took down the Facebook page so that we don't impersonate Dayspring. So we can't show you the Facebook page. So yeah, therefore our solution was just to make the Dayspring page more interactive, convenient, meaningful, drive publicity, and easy to visualize. So it was a 12 hour hackathon. So our stack was pretty simple. We used materialized for CSS, plot lead for the data visualization, angular as our front end framework, node for the back end, and fire base for the database. So this is the evolution of our app. So you can see that in the first picture, it's really the bare-bone MVP. And then after a few hours, it became slightly more pleasing. And finally, the final product that we just demonstrated to you. So our takeaways from the Facebook hackathon were the attitude of sharing. So Facebook flew down engineers from Menlo Park, and we were really privileged to interact with them. And they shared so much about their journey, not just in terms of technical, but also how they became the coders that they were. And we were very grateful to be able to learn that from them. We also learned that preparation before victory is important. So for this hackathon, they released a question early, and they encouraged us to form groups before the hackathon. So we spent the time before hackathon planning our user journey, planning the UI, and also contacting DaySpring to find out what were their needs. And lastly, we learned that just built it. So even though we only had like 11 weeks of coding experience, and we thought that our product wasn't that good, but you never know unless you try and build something. And yeah, who knows, you might win a Facebook hackathon. Yeah, so any questions for us? No? If not, we'll hand over to the next speaker.


Hello, welcome to another lecture in the course on computer programming. I am Dr. Abhiram Ranade and I am a guest lecturer today. Our session is titled Graphics Objects in Arrays and Structures. So, here is a quick recap. In the last session, we studied the graphics facilities in simple CPP. In this session, we will study how to use graphics objects in arrays and structures. We will also study a fun application. The reference for this material will be chapters 5 and 20 of the book, An Introduction to Programming through C++ written by me and published recently by McGraw-Hill Education. You can make arrays of graphics objects in the usual manner. For example, if you write a rectangle R 10, you will get an array R of 10 rectangles. This statement will create 10 rectangles, but they will be all degenerate in the sense that their heights, widths and position will be some unspecified number, typically 0. This is because when the array is constructed, it will be constructed using the default constructor. Yes, indeed, graphics classes do have default constructors. To give these arrays the position and height, width, etc., that you really want, you have to reset them. For example, you may write R 5 dot reset and pass the arguments 100, 100, 50, 70. In a similar manner, you can reset other graphics objects. For example, if you draw, if you want arrays of circles, you can do things exactly in this manner. You can also create graphics objects in the heap and this also happens in a natural manner. For example, if you write rectangle star RPTR equal to new rectangle 100, 150, 70, you know that this will create, first of all, this will define a name RPTR of type rectangle pointer and it will allocate space for the rectangle on the heap because of the operator new. You also know that in this form that we are calling, the rectangle will be constructed by an appropriate constructor which takes 100, 150, 70 as the arguments. Graphics objects can also be included in structures. For example, if you want, you may create a struct button which contains a rectangle which gives the border of the button and a text label which puts the text on that rectangle. This will create a struct and when you make an instance of it, it will create border and label but these will again be created using the default constructors. To give them the correct values, you will have to make a reset call. Now, I am going to use some of the ideas we have learned today and in the previous sessions on graphics to put together an interesting application. We will create, we will write a program which will produce a puzzle, a puzzle which you have to solve. The puzzle contains a 4 by 4 board and on the board are placed 15 tiles with numbers 1 through 15. Each tile is a single square. So, 15 of the squares are occupied and 1 square is empty. The tiles are placed randomly at the beginning. The goal is to arrange the tiles in order, top to bottom, left to right, so that it looks as shown. So, the first row contains 1, 2, 3, 4, next row contains 5, 6, 7, 8 and so on in the order specified and the blank has to come all the way in the last row and in the last column. How are you allowed to do this? Well, if a tile is adjacent to an empty position, it can be slid into the empty position. So, this is how you are allowed to move the tiles. Let me warn you that getting the required order is not always possible and I will have a remark about this in a minute. So, let me say something about the program that we are going to write. For example, we might say that a tile really consists of a rectangle and a text giving the number, the number that is on the tile. So, we will create a struct for this. The board will be a 2-dimensional array of type slot and we will give the name slots to it. Slots of ij will hold a pointer to the rectangle which is occupying that slot and also a pointer to the text inside that rectangle. We will initialize the board in a random manner. When the user clicks, we check if the clicked slot is next to the empty slot. If so, the rectangle, the text, the rectangle and the text in the clicked slot is moved into the empty slot and we keep on doing this. So, here is a part of our program. As I said, we will create a struct slot which will contain a rectangle and a text. But we are going to place pointers to the rectangle and to the text rather than the rectangle and the text themselves. When we go to the main program, next we come to the main program. We start by creating the canvas. So, the canvas has the title 13, 15, 14 puzzle and the width and height is going to be 600. The board will be a rectangle of height 402 by and width 402 placed at 300, 300 as its center. Ideally, I should not use numbers over here, but I should give the numbers names so that the functions, so that the program gets better documented. Then we will have an array slots of four rows and four columns. Slot ij tells you what is in row i and column j of the board. So, the width of the tiles is going to be 96. So, in this manner, I should really have given names to all these constants also. So, sorry about that, but when you write a program, you indeed should give names to all constants and not use constants like I have done here. The initial contents of the board are going to be these in top to bottom left to right order. So, the first part of the program is to set up everything. So, we are going to populate our board. So, all the slots are going to be populated. Row 3 and column 3 will remain empty and therefore, we are not going to place anything inside it. And all, so for everything else, we will be placing a new rectangle. So, dot r as you can see over here gives a pointer to the rectangle which is to be in the slot. So, in slot ij, dot r, we will create, we will place a new rectangle. These positions have been created so that the created rectangle is has will have this center and the width will be 96 as I have stated above. And similarly, we will create a label for that rectangle as well. The label will be initialized to the value given in this array initial. As I said row 3 and column 3 will be empty. So, empty x and empty y will be used to denote this that is empty x and empty y will give the column position and the row column index and the row index of the empty slot in the slots array. So, this is the last part, the main part of the program. We are going to allow the user to make 100 moves. This of course is completely arbitrary, you can change it. And you could indeed put in let this go on ad infinitum by putting in a while loop if you wish. The first step is to get the user to click. The user clicks somewhere and we get the integer click pass denoting the x and y positions of the click. So, click pass divided by 65536 will give you the x coordinate of the click position. But we do not really want the x coordinate. We want the index of the rectangle in which the clicking is happening. So, we do a little bit of arithmetic to get that index and that is how we get click x. Then similarly we get click y. This 100 stands for the offset of the board from the left side. This 100 stands for the offset of the board from the top and this 100 stands for the space allocated to each click. Remember the rectangle is being drawn of width 96 and not 100 because we want some space to be there between the different rectangles. Next, we are going to check if the click positions, the click indices of the click position are adjacent to the indices of the empty positions. Click x minus empty x absolute value plus absolute value of click y minus empty y should be 1 because either the empty position should be adjacent in the x direction or in the y direction and only one of these. Therefore, if this sum is 1, then we know that the clicked position is next to the empty position in which case we have to move the tile from the click position into the empty position. So, slots of click x click y dot r that is the rectangle that is pointed in the click position is moved to the empty position. Slot of click x click y dot label is moved to this position to the empty position. This is the calculation of where the rectangle has to be moved and where the label has to be moved. So, we only need the centers of the positions where the label and the rectangle are moved and finally, we have to update the board. So, the empty position now becomes filled with what was there in the click position. So, the r component is updated the label component is updated. This by the way is actually physically moving the graphics objects. So, we need to move the graphics objects physically as well as we need to populate our slots board appropriately. Finally, we have to record that the empty position has changed. So, the empty position x coordinate has now become the click position x coordinate and the empty position y coordinate has now become the click position y coordinate. So, that is it that is the program. So, we are now going to compile this program and run it and play our game. So, here we have our board with our tiles inside it. So, if I may remind you our goal is to get 1, 2, 3, 4 positioned over here. So, let us see how that can be done. So, for that we need to get our blank in this position and then we can move one over here. So, how can we do this? Well, I can click on this. So, the blank moves there click click click click click and then one has moved to the correct position. Now, I want to move 2 over here. So, let me move let me get the blank near it. So, suppose I do this I do this I do this 2 is a little bit closer. So, let me take it even closer. So, let me get the blank to the right position. So, 2 is now even a bit closer. So, in this manner you can keep playing and you can get you can try to get all the tiles in their correct position. So, let me make some comments about this puzzle. It turns out that this is a fairly celebrated puzzle. It was invented in the 19th century and it has some interesting mathematical structure. In fact, you can prove the following theorem about it. From an arbitrary initial position you can reach one of the following positions, but not both. So, the position on the left is what we indicated was desirable earlier in the lecture. The position on the right however is more or less the same except you may notice that here the order is wrong. It should be 13, 14, 15, but the order is 13, 15, 14. So, the theorem says that from an arbitrary position you can get to this position or you can get to this position, but not to both. Or in other words if you are starting with this position there is no way you can get to this position. How to prove that this is impossible is outside the scope of this course, but you should be able to get information about this on the internet. So, that concludes this lecture and let me make some remarks. The main goals of the lecture were study how to create arrays structures, arrays and structures of graphics objects. I should point out that nothing really new was stated. Graphics objects are objects like other objects and what we did is really what we have been doing or what you have been doing for creating arrays of objects or structures of objects. So, this is just to assure you reassure you that graphics objects are not really some strange animal, but they are just they are just objects they just happen to have an image on the screen. Then we did a fun example of graphics and I should point out that arrays of graphics will be arrays of graphics objects will be needed if you want lots of graphics objects on the screen. For example, you may be writing a program to simulate the movement of gas molecules bouncing around in a chamber. Perhaps you have studied kinetic theory of gases where you have gas molecules bouncing and you may want to know well let us see what a gas looks like and if you want to do that you will need arrays of molecules maybe you will represent molecules by circles and then you will move them around. I should also know that chapter 20 of the book gives an example of a snake game that uses arrays of graphics objects. And finally, I should point out that point out and hope that the example in this lecture and the snake example and the other examples that we have covered should have convinced you or should have persuaded you that using graphics you can do lots of interesting programming projects and I hope you will have been inspired to do all that. This concludes the lecture series on graphics. I hope you have enjoyed it and I am thankful to you for giving me a patient hearing.


I'd like to call to order the 11th regular meeting of the 2017-2018 Common Council with the clerk, please read the quote for the day. Thank you mayor Saying hello. Good morning, or any kind word will not cause brain damage Thank you Next is a roll call There are 13 present All the person Schneider Bitter's and Donahue are all excused. Please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance Next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes from our last Common Council meeting Alderperson Wolfe Thank You mayor. I make a motion to approve second. Thank you for that motion and 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 public forum city clerk. There's no one this evening. Thank you Item 1.5 is a presentation Which is an update on activities and pure safety video of the water safety task force Joe Curlin our superintendent of Parks and Forestry and Marina is here to Give us an update Joe the floor is yours. Thank you mayor Just got Chad and I Chad put together a small PowerPoint for tonight Just we did some recent updates to the the piers and we've been working on those for the over a year now and I was just asked to give a little presentation. So we can go to the next screen Okay, so One recommendation of the lakefront water safety group in 2017 Was to install cautionary gates One one picture. I don't have what we did last year right away is put signage up Now this this is the first signage you would see along me at Lake Michigan at all We actually had the Army Corps of Engineer On our group several civil members on our group But they were working on the time at this time. They were working on putting a Signage together better signage to go off to all the communities that had piers and We were able to get that right away and our sign shop at Public Works actually designed ways to Incorporate it all and get it all on two posts and they they loved it so much once they seen it And we got those in right away last year. They loved it so much once they seen it They asked if we would make those signs for them. So they just picked them up Last week and they were able to see some other things we did and they said we just got to show everybody this so We've been doing a good job with with really promoting that peer safety The other part you'll see is In just a bit is swinging gates and the gates were actually made by in-house By the parks department lead man man Melbrook. He put the whole system together well did What we needed and how to put them together and I'll explain more when we look at them Sheboygan police department the process now. It's kind of the same process when we started using the barricades, but The Coast Guard will call in to dispatch They tell me wreck make a recommendation that you close the piers, you know, usually when the water is coming over even if the piers wet it can be dangerous and Dispatch then calls the police department now the police department can Just send someone out. They have the keys needed. They unlock the gate open it lock it in place And then when it's all clear, they'll just do the same thing but backwards. So So these gates once you see them, they're not designed to close off the pier completely, okay? There may be people out there We did a lot of talk about this. We talked to the Army Corps. We talked with the city attorney a lot of in-house talk Our goal was to put something out in front of people to say, hey, you know, this is not safe We're not officially saying it's closed, but we really don't want people out there. So next so these are the pictures of South pier and North pier so as you can see we have the ring buoy right there at the south pier But that gate again, it's it's only about five feet long and right now It's in the it's in the open position. So you're walking by you're really not noticing it But now when conditions are bad that gets turned out locked in place and it's right there boom in front of you So we have that along with the signage that you can't see in this picture So it's really jumping out of people saying hey this unsafe conditions Just be careful or don't go out there at this time and then the same at North pier Next please As part of this group another thing that came about was You'll We have new signage coming brand new signage. No one has yet It's it's through the water safety consortium through Great Lakes they put on a Big training session in actually in Sheboygan this year as a great way to learn but You'll notice if you Can think of the land park and you see the picture to the right That pier right there You got the currents coming in from North Point Going along the beach and shooting out our pier. That's a very dangerous area and actually Larry Williams who's bring surfing to Sheboygan was the first one to kind of really get that out there that we really start need to start watching that and try To do something so as we're waiting for those specific signs to come and we'll see those for later We have these three signs about 90 feet out one was taken by the waves because the waves got so high but for the season we'll get them out again and It just you don't even want to be swimming in that area something. I never knew I'm not not familiar with the you know the currents of Lake Michigan and and Unfortunately, there was an event where this year a girl 14 year old girl was saved by by two Three parents that just happened to be in there there at the right time. Thank goodness. Um, but exactly What the warning is about the current goes and it's acts like a rib current it shoots out along that structure and she got caught in that and thank goodness she could scream and Three three adults reacted and we're able to get her to safety So next that's that's right there explains We're gonna have three of those and and a no swim area and that's exactly what can happen You want to stay away from those pier structures one swimming? Next The next thing the city worked with Ron Hayes He's an instructor for Lakeshore Technical College to develop short commercials and public service announcements about the unsafe condition of piers during highways Right now. So this just got out Towards the end of summer here the videos on YouTube at the Chamber Lobby WSES and Closed-loop TVs in the hotel. That's one thing we really wanted to get out to the hotels The big thing was how do we reach people that? Don't understand Lake Michigan and that's the people coming to visit our community And I think that was one of the biggest things we could do to try to try to get a hold of those people So we are actually going to show One of those commercials at this time We can waterfronts a beautiful area their structures that are there for navigation And they have created a Amazing place for people to go out and walk on to But they are for navigation not made for people to walk on One of the main concerns is being washed off of these structures in these piers There's large waves that come over the pier Unexpectedly when the weather changes and most people don't realize that the weather might change Being out on these piers and structures I think most people don't take into account the Changing weather changing fire changes so rapidly with the wind-generated waves Wind shifts when the wind picks up With the storm that blows through, it brings these big waves that people don't recognize coming And the wind picks up that could bring a wave over the pier But even with the wave that isn't splashing over the pier Just splashing onto the pier creates a slippery surface not a pier that's not meant for Foot traffic Before you ever make any trips out onto these piers or structures You want to know basically what's around, what are your surroundings, what life rings are available, what are the cold boxes Is your cell phone going to work? Do you have service? No checking the weather, making sure the weather You know there's not storms coming in If somebody does go into the water, don't ever take your eyes off and call them with a cell phone We feel the efforts that we made over the course of the year have helped to have a No drowning season It was reported to me this week that Lake Michigan had 33 drownings This year So we're happy at this time that none of them are in Sheboygan here The story I told you about was a story told to the mayor by email About a couple that are from Illinois and they were traveling through Sheboygan, love Sheboygan Always take the opportunity to stop at the beaches with their kids And she told a very story ended well but a scary story of what could happen along those structural currents So we are really appreciative, she did that so we know these things so we can document those things And the other thing we've been doing a lot and if you're social media at all You've seen it on Twitter, you've seen it through the police department You've seen it about everywhere Basically beach hazards, closings, things like that have been out and about all through those And then we feel right now we've really built upon, we've got some smaller things More signage, things like that that we're working on But education we believe is probably the biggest thing we can do at this point And we are as a committee going to continue to meet and grow this But at this time I'd like to introduce Jason Dreyer Jason is the officer command at the Coast Guard office in Sheboygan One of the nicest things for me for having this committee is I got to know a lot of the city departments I got to know the county, I got to know the Army Corps of Engineers But this person right here is just at our commercial, Jason Dreyer I thought they were a little chained off community where you just don't touch But he is so receptive to bring people in and be part of the community His family goes to school here, his kids and he's been great to know I'd like to have as an asset to our community here and for our committee But Jason Dreyer, I'd like to see if you'd like to say a few words Thanks Joe, and thanks for having me here tonight It is important for me to be part of the community and do what I can I know it gets lost sometimes that, like Joe said, on both sides of the fence Where we're just this little federal Coast Guard that sits here and we do our own thing The community does our own thing, but for me it's important We live here, our kids go to school here and we're part of the community So I'm here to do whatever I can, I've worked with all the first responders I've met with all of them to see how we can better work together with our relationships And it's been great, and I enjoy being here and I enjoy being part of these committees and meetings And I enjoy this community, so I'm here to help if there's anything that comes up in the meetings or anything I'm here, just give me a call and I'll do what I can Does anybody have anything for me? Any questions for you, Alderperson Wolfe? Thank you Mayor, I just wanted to say thank you Obviously for us Alders, this is a great example of how there was a cry for a need We take it for granted, we live on Lake Michigan So many of us have been born right here in Sheboygan with the lake And we take it for granted that we don't understand some of the safety hazards And the things like you brought up before swimming along the pier and things like that Or just walking on the pier, like you said in the video it's not meant for walking on It's a path to a structure, but we take it for granted And when a tragedy happens there's an outcry and we wonder what's going on So I think this is a perfect example of how the community gets together A team of people get together, a solution is defined And we come up with a win-win where we were even complimented on being ahead of the game Correct me if I'm wrong, so compliment and thank you Thank you gentlemen and my compliments to the committee that I had many meetings To determine some of the measures that should be taken And we appreciate your time and effort and it's good to see positive results We have a double feature tonight and next we have a presentation of the 2018 Executive Budget by Administrator Daryl Hoffland Thank you Mayor, I don't know if I've ever been introduced as part of a double feature before I'll take that as a compliment In front of you tonight we've distributed a binder of 477 pages Hopefully any question that you would have Hopefully we've been able to anticipate that and put it together into the document And again the goal is for you as decision makers to have a comprehensive understanding as to the numbers As to the activity associated with the different budgets And ultimately how this document fulfills some of the strategic goals that many of you approved back in January of 2017 Again earlier this year a budget calendar, budget review and approval calendar was distributed I know that you will begin in earnest as early as this week Meeting with your department heads on a committee, commission or board level Ultimately those reviews should wind up or wind down by October 16th Where public hearing will be held in this room and the earliest you would be able to consider action on the 2018 budget Would be your first council meeting in the month of November 6th As I alluded to earlier this budget closely follows the strategic plan As you approved again the 2017 to 2021 strategic plan Each of the 93 program budgets have a mission, have a purpose, have a description They identify any budget highlights, they identify staffing if appropriate Objectives are identified and then performance analytics Next slide He does have a mission statement, I won't read it for you The city also has a vision statement Key things that are taken in consideration in developing the budget are state law restrictions such as tax levy limits Also the budget parameters were discussed with the finance and personnel committee my recollection in April Ultimately approved by the common council which is compliance with the expenditure restraint program Equalized tax rate at consumer price index are lower and maintain a minimum fund balance in the general fund of 25% For the tax levy limit the city is allowed to grow its levies every year by the amount of net new construction The city had a great construction year for 2016 So as the 11 2017 valuation again a lot of new tax base construction specifically occurred in 2016 If the city increases has any increase in its expenses associated with debt service The city is also allowed to raise its levy by that new debt service need All in all I'm recommending tax levy increase of 5.3% The other item I mentioned that the city has participated in and my recommendation is that we continue it And that is the expenditure restraint program This is a state program which recognizes communities and provides a financial reward to communities that keep their budget Below inflation and a small allowance is given for net new construction in the community 1.57 is our guess we do not receive a final percent from the state until probably toward the end of October So this is the one last piece of information typically we do receive it prior to your November approval And as a result oftentimes there's really a last minute the 11th hour adjustment for us to be able to maximize the potential spending plan Even if it's putting additional money in contingency just so you protect your abilities for future years As far as being able to capture a capacity for future years budgeting Next slide identifies that the CPI at this point is 0.64% On an equalized tax rate our goal is to come in at or under that consumer price index For equalized tax rate I'm recommending actually a negative number, a negative 1.56 The 0.64 is lower than last year's inflation I think the lowest in 10 year period was actually in 2016 it was 0.3 We will not know this consumer price index again for roughly a month Next slide identifies the assessed tax rate Again as many of you are aware there is an equalized tax rate and an assessed tax rate The equalized tax rate takes in consideration a possible change in the economic or market value of a property As we know after the Great Recession many properties went down in value In fact good news I shared with you earlier is that for the first time since 2008 On average residential property in the city of Sheboygan appreciated Almost 6% where up until two years ago it had steadily declined Last year it held steady or two years ago it held steady and this last year was roughly a 6% increase Again this assessed tax rate is only a guess we won't receive information until the very end of your deliberation The end of October On the assessed tax rate it's expected the assessed tax rate is expected to go up 19 cents per thousand So on a $100,000 property whether it's residential commercial or industrial $100,000 value $19 is what the recommended increase will be And again we'll know better what that equalized assessment ratio is toward the end of October Next slide identifies fund balance again the goal is to maintain in the general fund at least 25% With the decisions as a group by the management team we will be at 49% as opposed to 25% And that's even after the planned use of 2.5 million to partially fund phase one of city hall renovations Without the city hall renovations this fund balance would be at 56% again compared to the goal of no less than 25% The chart identifies the purple line in the front or purple boxes in the front identify that 25% The gray boxes in the back identify where the city has been for the last four years In the general fund even with the proposed use of 2.5 million for city hall renovation We in essence have 8.8 million in excess of that 25% minimum amount The next slide unfortunately has a lot of information it's a very small font In your budget book it's page 51 it's what I consider really one of the key pages in the budget document It identifies the details of your fund categories which actually are on the subsequent pages 52 and 53 It identifies 12.3 million dollar proposed increase and again many of the projects that are the source for this 12.3 million dollar increase Are capital projects are capital equipment all of which were presented to you earlier and which was approved by the common council I think in May or late May 12.2% 12.2 million is the reason for the 12.3 million increase And again these are all in the capital improvement fund Next slide discusses or depicts the property tax levy you see on the 2017 levy Looking at the bars red is a general fund which is the largest amount of where the levy is assigned Teal is a capital projects fund and purple is the debt fund The general fund is actually going down by 1.5 and what I'm recommending is more funds more of the levy be assigned directly to the capital projects fund Roughly 2.3 million There is some additional additional levy that's going to the debt fund debt service fund And again this is associated with as I alluded to earlier the state allows us to increase our levy if we see that our debt services is increasing The next slide identifies who's paying that increase in tax levy So of the roughly 1.2 million new construction is paying a far majority so 864,000 That roughly 19 cent per thousand increase earns the city 310,000 and that's in essence borne by existing property taxpayers So 1.2 is the recommended increase in the tax levy Next slide identifies the personnel changes Again really limited changes from 17 to 18 Expansion or addition of a 0.19 deputy city clerk Also a 0.4 assistant city attorney level 2 Elimination or reduction of the following positions 0.20 assistant city attorney so taking a full time dropping it to 80% or a reduction of 0.2 In the 2017 budget there was a recommendation you supported it to add to our personnel schedule and additional officer This officer is not listed on the above slide It was tied to a federal grant unfortunately we didn't receive the grant We're not expected to receive the grant in future applications and so as a result I did not fund that additional officer in the 2018 budget Also the 2018 budget is the continuation of positions that were created in calendar year 2017 such as a public works clerk As well as a battalion chief that started July 1st Overall the FTEs the full time equivalent positions recommended in this budget for 2018 is slightly lower than the 2017 approved It's a 0.61 FTE reduction And again the details are in the appendix of your budget document On to the general fund discussion General fund in this pie chart property taxes and intergovernmental revenues 40% and 41% respectively add up to 81% So 81% of the general fund revenues are tied to those two pieces of the pie Next slide identifies the detail I think it's helpful for you to see from one year to another how the revenues compare You'll see that as far as a slice of the pie other than property taxes which I mentioned before We're directly assigning additional property tax levy to the capital projects fund associated with the city hall renovation And so that's why there's a difference in property tax levy from one year to another Next slide Again we mentioned the property tax levy roughly $1.5 million drop and then we're using some fund balance to in essence make up the difference In order to fund general fund expenditures Next slide is a pie chart for the expenditures between the green and the red green being public works red being public safety 23 and 56% respectively is 79% of our overall general fund which is our operating budget 79% are just in those two categories Again the next slide gives you the is the detail for the different sections of the general fund Overall 1.22% increase in overall expenditure level Less than a half a million dollar increase in the general fund which is our largest fund of all Major changes is the next slide SEDC funding cutting another 25,000 out of the general fund We're trying to find another way to fund SEDC Specifically some of our new TIF districts election we're going from two in 2017 to four Estimated four in 2018 62,000 and change increase Again that battalion chief that was hired in July of this year we have to fund out 12 months instead of just six months So it's an additional 50 roughly 58,000 A controller position was limited in the finance department so savings of roughly 77,000 Street reconstruction materials I'm recommending a decrease of roughly 319,000 But in essence I'm directly funding that expense in the capital projects So the money is there it's just not in this fund it's in the capital projects fund And then the wage adjustment reserve as many of you are aware we have four unions Two police one fire one transit none of those are sent out for 2018 No settlement in wages have that decision has not been made for non-represented So instead of guessing what that percent or what that dollar amount is and putting them in all the different fund budgets In essence we have all that money in essence in this pot wage adjustment reserve So as you approve contracts or approve costs a little more non-represented Then we will reallocate out of this account into the individual program budgets Next slide starts to discuss some of our other funds for 2018 Our park forestry and open space fund this was new in 2017 Recommending 87,500 for trees they're roughly $300 a tree So we get 291 trees splash pad at Optimist Park Next slide as many of you are aware the commitment by the federal government to continue funding Block grant is up in the air Typically the block grant fiscal year is April to March So we're good to go between now and next end of next March But we don't know what's going to happen the next fiscal year of this program So we're recommending we're trying to be conservative and recommend a 50% decrease So that means a $467,000 potential decrease in our calendar year 2018 As a result other cuts public service contributions nonprofits Decrease 70,000 and change One project that is recommended that we fund with this with these block grant money Is a band shelter this was identified the five year cap improvement I think it was identified possibly in 2020 So between Chad Palaszczuk and Dave Bebel Recommendation is to move that up this will be phase one of roughly a half a million dollar project Park impact fee fund this is a brand new fund for the city Created in 2017 40,000 overall costs And again Joe is recommending that we put in additional ADA related walkways In the four parks that are identified on this slide Meet public library fund is the next slide for the first time in five years There's a recommendation I'm recommending that there be an increase So over and it's only a 1.3% increase overall in the city's contribution to help fund the public library As I mentioned first time in five years Ambulance fund again mostly due to a drop in the reimbursement rate by the federal government Again trying to be conservative Revenues are expected to decrease roughly 200,000 next year And as a result we have less money to transfer into the general fund And after all the numbers are added and subtracted Roughly 233,000 and change decreasing amount of net proceeds from this fund to help us Underwrite costs associated with our general fund operations Harbor center Marina fund The good news is based upon again financial commitment by the common council in years past We think we have a lot of the projects completed And as a result our capital costs are decreasing With the proposed budget My goal is that the marina fund is going to be self-supporting So no additional subsidies from other funds will be needed in 2018 For reference in 2017 identify that convention center fund transferred roughly $476,000 to help balance its budget One project that is scheduled for 2018 is to eliminate everyone having keys and go to an electronic FOB program $40,000 Next slide gets into the debt service fund Again this is one of our major funds The amount of taxes needed to fund the debt service is increasing by four cents per thousand And you see what the 17 rate was the 16 rate So we're somewhere in that middle $1.20 to fund debt service As far as capacity We're roughly 20% of our state or statutory capacity Again with our tax base increase Due to new construction and our appreciation of existing properties It helps drop that statutory percent This 20.5% includes a planned new issue of general obligations debt of roughly $10.25 million This fund also assumes that as a common council you do not continue to special assess for street projects So I've not included any funds, any revenues associated with special assessments Next slide shows the net outstanding debt $39 million Again it comes out to be 20.5% So we are the goal as a city you've approved a debt management policy to be no higher than 60% So you see that we are roughly 40% below the target Capital projects is the next fund Again sizable amount of vehicle registration fees will continue Our portion of the sales tax will come our way for transportation purposes Federal grant this is basically a project that we thought we were going to get grant money in 17 We're rescheduling it for 18 This is associated with funding for Evergreen Park Bridge You see other projects again there's two locations for city hall renovation This is one of the funds 2.5 Companion recommendation is $5 million in the capital improvement fund So again typically the two funds capital projects we pay cash for everything In the capital improvement fund that's where borrowed funds occur This is for phase 2 with the expectation the renovation will occur in 2018 and be completed in 2019 Boots and sports complex is substantially donations with limited city taxpayer funding Wildwood baseball complex the same situation we may oversee the project Almost all of that million is donations I mentioned the bridge Washington Avenue between 20th Street and Lakeshore roughly $1.2 million In order to accomplish our street projects We're going to need roughly $5.2 million which is the next slide Cooling towers fire station renovation fire station number one renovation Quint ladder engine by buses again I mentioned the city hall renovation just one slide ago Miscellaneous streets real quick little run through them North 3rd Street between Broughton and Bluff North 7th between Erie and Superior North 13th Street between Erie and Michigan North 17th between Erie and Seaman Other capital projects on the next slide Purchase of land I know you've already made a commitment for over $2 million which will close next year So the funding associate the accounting associate with that will occur in the 2018 budget As well as other possible land for an expansion of the drafting business center Purchase of right-of-way former railroad tracks north of Indiana running parallel to Indiana Avenue Expected to be a little over a million dollars in a new tid tid 16 helper in fountain plaza improvements Roughly a quarter of a million dollars 1.5 for Taylor Drive between Kohler Memorial and Erie Again this is associated with the demolition of Memorial Mall and the construction of the Meyer food store Last but not least is Concord Drive storm water pipe extension And again this is associated with the FedEx distribution center Other smaller funds no changes workers compensation fund liability insurance fund Health insurance fund as may be aware at the last finance personnel committee there was a recommendation For both the employer and the employee portion of health insurance to increase by 10% This will raise an additional roughly $900,000 Also this recommendation for the city to reduce our HSA contribution by 20% Which will save the fund roughly $78,000 A wastewater utility fund recommendation for an 8% revenue increase In addition to city of Sheboygan customers being served by our wastewater treatment plant Sheboygan Falls Kohler the town of Sheboygan town of Wilson town of Sheboygan Falls and the town of Lyman Switch gear project design actually that was this year the project will occur next year It's I think roughly $3 million I forgot to update this slide and then a pump pump expense increase Parking and transit funds the next slide no material change Facility fund 23 docks on the wharf side for roughly $400,000 Last slide is again full copies of this document are available at the meet public library At the city clerk's office here at city hall This is going to be posted online in the next day or two We do have roughly an 18 page budget and brief Again hard copies will be made available here at city hall A meet public library and the senior activity center And later this week city desk mayor van der Steen and myself will tape A program to again go over many of the things that we discussed today So that should be available on the cable channel or on demand through our city website I look forward to discussing this with you As well as the department heads look to tell you all about their requests for 2018 Thank you very much. I'd like to commend administrator Huffland Our finance director Nancy bus and their assistant carrier ends For all the work that they did to pull this together And also all of our department heads for the work they did on their own individual budgets Next we'll move on to mayor's announcements I just wanted to remind everybody that this Saturday from noon to five at fountain park Will be a festival called come together a festival celebrating unity in our community And there'll be entertainment and food trucks there And at this time I'd like to call forward former older person bill feel And fire chief Mike romis I had the privilege of going down to walmart this morning They were kicking off some new product that that they're offering their clients and customers And we also had a presentation of a very important check for the fire department bill the floor is yours All right, thank you. Hey, maybe it's like a triple feature. We'll call it that anyways Yeah, this morning we had an opportunity this kickoff new program called online grocery pickup And with that we wanted to celebrate some of the contributions we made to the community And one of the contributions we made was the city shipwagon fire department I'm very well versed on budgets and how much money the city could use And I call up chief romis and I said we had some dollars that we'd like to give out And he had a project that he knew something that he was looking for I'll let him explain that Because we're us at walmart we want to give back to the community And this was our opportunity to do that with the city of sheboygan with one of them So this morning we presented them with a check for twenty four hundred dollars at our program It's serendipity that we're talking about water safety But in my budget I didn't have enough money to purchase ice rescue suits for water rescue water safety And we were going to do one a year for about five years But with this donation and because we can order three we got a price discount So we can get three new mustang ice rescue suits for our ice rescue program And believe it or not they would be used in summer because the water I lifeguarded on lake michigan as everybody probably knows I keep saying that But the water was forty seven degrees once one one day that I worked and I was in and out of it Shaking for half hour we need these suits year round So I can't thank the walmart corporation enough and for assistant manager thiel for what he did So thank you Bill thanks again for the contribution from you and the company you work for at walmart south Next we'll go on to the consent agenda that'll include items two point two through two point seven Alderperson wolf Thank you mayor. I make a motion to Accept and file all our oaths accept and adopt all our seas and pass all resolutions and ordinances second Thank you for that motion and support all the person's second fog Leo Thank you. Mr. Mayor. I had a question on two point five is Ryan sasma still available I think he just left Maybe What was your question? My question was we I From from what this says here is we're going to be filing filing two point five But I hear there's some more work that needs to be done on it. I Can anyone speak to it? Thank you Basically in Public works what we we did was we talked about it And I believe that Ryan had made a comment that he was going to be working with Aurora on this request So I don't see a problem with us accepting and adopting it. It's just that it's not Totally closed at this time Thank you. Thank you very much. Does that answer your question? It does. Okay. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll for passage 13 eyes Motion passes Next under reports of officers item three point one through three point four will all lie over items three point five through three point one six Will also will be referred Moving on to resolutions item four point one will lie over Items four point two through four point eleven will be referred to various committees And under reports of committees item five point one will lie over And item five point two is RC number one oh one of 1718 by the law and licensing committee who tumors referred our own number one oh four of 1718 by the city clerk submitting various licensed applications and recommends that beverage operators license application number 1751 You will our James senior be denied because of his record of Violations related to the license to activity as record is habitual law offender and his failure to cooperate with the committee All the person whole shoe. Thank you, mr. Mayor. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted Is there a second? Okay, we have a motion on the floor under further discussion is jewel James senior here It doesn't appear that mr. James is here he did not come to any of our meetings and Therefore it was an animus unanimously denied Thank you. Is there any other discussion? See none will the clerk. Please call the roll 13 eyes motion passes Item 5.3 is RC number 103 of 1718 by the law and licensing committee tumors referred pursuant to our own number 128 of 1718 by the city clerk submitting licensed application or recommends that beverage operators license application number 1806 Cynthia Batzoo Be denied based upon her record of violations related to the license activity or record as a habitual law offender In her failure to cooperate with the committee all the person holds you. Thank you, mr. Mayor I moved that the report of committee be accepted and adopted Second thank you for that motion and support under discussion is Cheyenne Batzoo here. I'm probably murdering her name. I apologize She did not Teared here tonight nor did she appear at our meetings and therefore her License was recommended to be denied Thank you for that information. Is there any other discussion? See now will the clerk please call the roll 13 eyes motion passes Item 5.4 is RC number 102 of 1718 by the law and licensing committee to whom is referred pursuant to our own number 128 of 1718 by the city clerk submitting various licensed applications and recommends that taxi cab drivers license application number 1780 Frederick C. McFade be denied based upon his record of violations related to the license activity His record is a habitual law offender and his failure to cooperate with the committee all the person holds you Thank You mr. Mayor. I move that the report of committee be accepted and adopted Second thank you for that motion and support under further discussion, please proceed is Mr. McFade here tonight It doesn't appear that he is here nor did he come to any of our meetings per our request So the committee did deny his application Thank you very much. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 13 eyes motion passes Item 5.5 is RC number 100 of 1718 by the committee of the whole to whom is referred RC number 60 of 1718 by the finance and personnel committee in our own number 19 of 1718 by the director of human resources and labor relations and the fire chief submitting a report on the audit and review of the fire department's job descriptions the identification of any overlapping duties and responsibilities and the recommendations resulting from the study All the person wolf Thank You mayor. I make a motion to accept and file Second thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll 12 eyes 1 no motion passes Item 5.6 was originally scheduled to be up for a passage But I'd rather see that lie over with the companion document that we lied over earlier in the agenda Next is general ordinances item 6.1 lies over Item 6.3 through at 6.2 rather through 6.5 will be referred to various committees Under matters laid over item 7.1 is resolution number 56 of 1718 by all the person born and wolf authorizing establishing an appropriation In the 2017 budget for information technology equipment all the person born Thank You mayor. I make a motion to pass the resolution second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none all those we have to call the roll clerk. Please call the roll 13 eyes Motion passes item 7.2 is resolution number 60 of 1718 by all the person savaglio and Lewandowski Directing a public hearing to be held in connection with the change of the city's official zoning map for property located at 2724 Kohler Memorial Drive all their person Lee Wendalski. I Make a motion to pass the resolution second. Thank you for that motion and support All is there any discussion on that motion? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye opposed Motion passes Next is other matters received after the agenda was published. I'll turn it over to city attorney Charles Adams 8.1 is a resolution by all the persons Donahue and borne approving the option to purchase Approximately 14.5 acres of industrial parkland in the Sheboygan business center between quashus enterprises in the city of Sheboygan That'll be referred to the finance and personnel committee 8.2 is an RO by the city clerk Submitting various license applications for the period ending December 31 2017 June 30 2018 and June 30 2019 That'll be referred to the law and licensing committee Older person wolf Thank You mayor. I make a motion to convene in closed session under exemption provided in section 13.85 Sub 1 sub e Wisconsin states were competitive and bargaining reasons Require a closed session for the develop for the development opportunity adjacent to I-43 Second thank you for that motion and support the clerk, please call the roll for closed session 13 eyes Motion passes. I'd just like to alert the viewing public that will be adjourning in closed session So this will end our broadcast for this evening. We'll take a short three-minute recess and reconvene shortly