15 seconds. Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting of the Durham City Council to order at seven o'clock on Monday, May the 18th, 2020. Another meeting that we're having over this digital platform at this extraordinary time and I want to thank our staff once again our technology staff and all who work to make this possible. Thank you so much. Before we have our moment of silent meditation, I just want to note that we have 37 Durham residents who have died of COVID-19. We have a thousand people who have contracted the infection here in our community. We have thousands of people out of work. We have many businesses that have shut their doors temporarily. And I would ask us to remember all of them and please join me as we take a moment of silent meditation. Thank you. And now councilmember Reese, I would ask you to lead us and pledge the flag. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I will do that as soon as I can get my situation together. There we go. Thank you. All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much councilmember. And now Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Mayor Shul. Here. Mayor Pro Tem Johnson. Here. Councilmember Caballero. Here. Councilmember Freeman. Present. Councilmember Middleton. Here. Councilmember Reese. Here. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. We'll now move to ceremonial items. We do have one ceremonial item tonight for Children's Mental Health Awareness, the Children's Mental Health Awareness Month Proclamation. Tika Damsen is not here to accept this, but I know that Tika is listening and on behalf of all those who are working for the mental health of our children. Children's Mental Health Awareness Month. Whereas to promote awareness of positive mental health, well-being and development for all children, youth and young adult ages, birthed 26 years in North Carolina. And whereas the leadership in Durham, North Carolina recognizes that mental health needs and treatment be on a par with medical needs and treatment. Whereas families should not feel stigma and shame to seek treatment for their children and youth and be able to discuss openly their need for help without public retribution. Whereas Children's Mental Health Promotion needs to be available to everyone. Education on the identification use of children of child strength to support success and promote mental health. As well as anti-stigma, inclusion, and social skills education should be available to all citizens of North Carolina. Whereas available school-based mental health programs and positive behavior interventions and support should be considered as best practices and be encouraged to be practiced in every Durham, North Carolina public school. And whereas children are recognized for having unique needs for recovery of mental health, emotional behavioral and substance use issues, and not being combined with the adult mental health population for treatment. Whereas effective mental health treatment services to strengthen families, youth leadership development and family partner peer supports results in children and youth overcoming trauma, becoming successful in contributing Durham, North Carolina citizens in a safe environment in their home schools and community. Whereas the Durham City Council, North Carolina Mental Health Planning and Advisory Council, National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, Alliance Behavioral Health Care, NC Families United, the NC State Children's Collaborative and the Families, NAMI NC, Public Health, Department of Social Services, all medical facilities, all legal entities and communities who have children, youth and young adults struggling with emotional behavior health issues, joined to recognize Children's Mental Health Awareness Month and Safety. Therefore, I, Stephen M. Schull, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do hereby proclaim May 2020 Children's Mental Health Awareness Month in North Carolina and commend its observance to all of our citizens. Thank you so much. And maybe we could have the traditional clapping of the hands. And thank you so much for the folks that are working in Children's Mental Health. That's such important work. And now we'll proceed to announcements by the Council. Are there any announcements by members of the Council? If so, please raise your hand. All right. I don't see any. Thank you very much. We'll now move to priority items by the City Manager. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. I'm out of the City Council. This evening there's one priority item, which is agenda item number three, the Affordable Housing Loan Service Portfolio Agreement. And I just wanted to mention that there's additional information that has been added to that item at the request of the City Council to work session. That's my only priority item this evening. Thank you, Mr. Manager. Madam Attorney, priority items. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Madam Mayor Pro Tem, members of City Council. The City Attorney's Office has no priority items this evening. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Attorney. Madam Clerk. Good evening, everyone. The City Clerk's Office has no priority items. Thank you so much. We'll now move to the consent agenda. The consent agenda is made up of items the Council has previously worked on. It can be approved by a single vote of the Council. Anyone, a Council member or resident, can pull an item from the consent agenda, in which case it will be taken up separately at the end of the meeting. Item one, FY 2021 Budget Development Guidelines. Item three, Affordable Housing Loan Portfolio Servicing. Item four, Municipal Agreement for East Club Boulevard, Sidewalk Spot Safety Funds. Item five, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Scata on On-Call Services Contract. Item six, South Durham Water Reclamation Facility Administration Building Renovations Award of Professional Architectural Services Contract. The DTW Architects and Planners LTD Limited. Item seven, Proposed Advanced Acquisition for the Future Expansion of Lake Mickey. Property of Russell Ellis Estate, Parcel 192276. Item eight, City of Durham Employment Training 2018-20, Grant Project Ordinance Superceding Project Ordinance Number 15305. Item nine, Ordinance Recognizing the Reference Guide for Developing, Development and Establishing a Related Fee. Item 10, Contract Amendment Number One for ST302, Street Repairs and Repaving 2020 Project. Item 11, Contract Amendment Number One for ST300C Utility Location Services. Item 12, Contract Amendment Number One for ST301C Paving Services 2020. Item 13, Contract Amendment Number One, SW39C for Additional Construction Engineering and Respection for SW39, University Drive Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities Project, Tip Number 5514. Item 14, Utility Extension Agreement with 919 Storage NC98 LLC to Serve Carthage Industrial. Item 15, Street and Infrastructure Acceptances. You have now heard the consent agenda and I will accept a motion for... Move to accept. Second. Been moved by Council Member Milton, seconded by Council Member Caballero, that we accept the consent and approve the consent agenda. I'm going to ask council members please raise your hand so that I can see them and the clerk can see them. All in favor please say aye. Raise your hand. Aye. Thank you very much. All right. I'll oppose no. The ayes have it. The motion passes unanimously. Thank you. We'll now move to the general business agenda. We have our first item. We have two items on the general business agenda tonight. One is a public hearing but our first item is very important and this is a very, very important presentation by our city manager on our budget, our capital improvement plan. I'll just say that before the manager speaks, I just want to say how much we all appreciate what he, the budget staff, deputy city manager Wanda Page, Bertha Johnson, our budget director, and everybody in budget and finance especially, but also all of our department heads and everyone who's worked on this has had to totally turn a budget that was once right side up upside down and do it again. And I'm just so grateful for that. And so, Mr. Manager, I'm especially grateful for your leadership and I'd like to introduce you now to give the presentation. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I appreciate those kind remarks. Good evening, everyone. Mayor Schull, Mayor Pro Tem Johnson, members of the city council, city staff, and those viewing on the Durham television network, the website, or on one of our social media live streams. I am pleased to be with you here this evening, virtually, of course, presenting the proposed 2020-2021 fiscal year budget for the city of Durham, the 12th budget that I have had the privilege to present to the community, but certainly the most unique in my 42-year career. At this time last year, Durham was concluding its celebratory sesquicentennial year and my budget message celebrated the city's foundation of inclusivity, diversity, and innovation that continue to successfully propel our city into the future. Even only a couple of months ago, our budget and community trajectories were on a path to significantly ramp up these efforts and initiatives. Of course, our world, country, state, and community have almost overnight been rocked by the ravages of COVID-19, while our values and aspirations have not wavered, our immediate attention and budget priorities have had to shift to COVID response, recovery, and restoration, along with routine service delivery, while at the same time acknowledging the resource limitations of which depth and duration remains uncertain. As always, the city's strategic plan and the five goals remain the framework for the city's programs and services as we develop budget recommendations. However, immediate needs require pivoting strategic planning initiatives and priorities and activities to respond to COVID impacts. As we have quickly had to adjust how we conduct city business, provide services, and begin to reimagine our work, we are truly appreciative of the trust and support we have received from Mayor Schuyl and City Council members, and I thank you for your leadership and direction during this difficult time in our city's history. Additionally, the City Council's collaborative development of clear budget guidelines for the administration and budget staff continues to be an incredibly helpful in the budget development process. While my previous recommended budget presentations have traditionally been integrated into a topical theme, this year it is difficult to focus on much more than the numbers. The numbers that reflect the devastating financial impact that COVID-19 will have on our budget. The total proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 is $504.3 million, compared to $477.8 million for the 2019-20 fiscal year, an increase of $26.5 million. But this increase is primarily in the debt service fund, $24.3 million, due to an accounting requirement related to a debt refunding that's anticipated in October of 2020. And the transit service fund increase of $4.1 million related to service expansion enhancements that will be paid through intergovernmental revenues, such as the Durham County Transit Tax and Grants. The proposed property tax is $53.17 per 100 of assessed value, segmented for designated uses, and is the same tax rate from the prior year. Due to continued growth in Durham, total new real property value is projected to increase 2.31%, generating an additional $2.5 million, compared to fiscal year 2020. However, actual property tax revenue will not increase at that rate due to expected personal and business financial COVID-19 impacts within the community, resulting in likely lower collection rates and tax revenues from personal properties such as vehicles. Total property tax revenues are projected at $189,143,923, allocated among the five funds as noted. But this reflects an estimated $1.1 million loss in property tax revenues from where we thought we were pre-COVID-19. But what this does mean for the average homeowners that their property tax bill should be similar to last year, about $1,229 or $102 per month on the median house value of $231,000. The proposed general fund budget, which includes the city's core services, is $214.6 million, a 0.6% decrease from last year. And I will discuss the details of this decrease later in the presentation. Total sales tax collections are estimated at $64.2 million, a 6.6% decrease, resulting in $4.4 million less revenue than the current fiscal year. COVID-19 is expected to have a continued negative impact on sales tax collections due to closures, job loss, and changing social gathering patterns. The depth and duration of this decline in sales tax remains to be seen and will have to be closely monitored throughout the year with the potential for further mid-year budget expenditure adjustments. Of note is the difference between the anticipated sales tax collection pre-COVID-19 to the proposed budget, a reduction of $9.3 million. While many business sectors have been negatively impacted by COVID-19, the hospitality industry has been starkly impacted. The impacts are likely to extend well beyond phase three of the state's reopening plan. And while not as significant as sales tax and absolute dollars, the revenues from occupancy tax are projected to decline by 30% or over $1 million from pre-COVID projections. Additionally, while we still are waiting for confirmation, it is anticipated that state-shared revenues will also decrease between 10% and 25% or as much as $1.5 million. These revenue projections are not yet included in these budget numbers, and we hopefully will have them available by the upcoming budget work sessions. Over the last decade, the city has prudently managed to build up fund balance as a continuity cushion for unexpected situations and natural disasters. I would never be so bold to suggest these reserves were anticipating a pandemic as well. But we must look to these reserves to offset the significant revenue losses just discussed to avoid property tax increases or significant reductions in service and staff. Fund balance is projected at the end of this fiscal year at 20.6% or $42.5 million, which is approximately $8.3 million above the fund balance reserve policy of 16.7%. While over the years, the use of fund balance has been limited to one-time expenditures, the budget proposes to draw $7.2 million for fund balance for one-time funding expenses of only $100,000 and to cover revenue losses related to COVID-19 of approximately $7 million. The proposed general fund expenditures of $214.6 million is a decrease of .55% or $1.2 million. Personnel expenditures did increase by $2.5 million, including a full year of funding for six additional police gang unit officers, as well as increases in employee health and retirement benefits. Net operating expenses increased by $487,000 after reductions in travel and conference budgets, fuel savings, and suspended programming costs totaling $12.6 million. These increases were further offset, but other personnel and operating costs reduced by other operating cost reductions as referenced on the next slide. And some of the most significant of those reductions are noted here. Other budget items of note, while street paving and maintenance continues to be a significant concern for residents responding to the most recent 2019 resident satisfaction survey, the proposed budget reduces funding for street paving from $10 million to $6 million. This limited level of funding is not sustainable for more than one year. The city will be able to continue to invest approximately $68.5 million in upgrading and increasing capacity for water and sewer improvements, including water and sewer rehabilitation, future water supply, and Jordan Lake reconstruction projects. A modest increase of about 2.9% for the average customer and the water and sewer rates are also included to continue to support these ongoing capital operating and sustainability efforts. As has been stated many times in this presentation, we are yet to know the depth, breadth, and duration of the impacts of COVID-19 on our community. We can anticipate that the city will likely need to provide additional resources to support small and disadvantaged businesses, community nonprofit organizations, and families, and to cover increased costs associated with sanitation and space modifications in city facilities. In addition to funding that may be forthcoming through federal and state channels, I am proposing a $5 million COVID-19 response and recovery fund be included in the city's debt model and available for use in fiscal year 2020-21. At this time, I do not have recommendations on specific allocations or programs for the use of these funds, but I believe it is prudent to set aside funding for what we know will be significant gaps in recovery and response needs. I anticipate we will begin work in the very near future regarding potential allocations and programs. As I conclude this abbreviated budget presentation, I want to talk about the most anguishing and difficult recommendation that I have had to make associated with this proposed budget, that being suspending employee compensation adjustments for the next year. Our employees have been the backbone of every success I and we have enjoyed for the last many years. Well in advance of this COVID-19 pandemic, Durham City employees have shown their dedication to public service and serving our residents with care, responsiveness, creativity, and compassion. Their response to unprecedented needs COVID-19 has imposed has shined an even more significant spotlight on their commitment to service. Over 1,250 employees continue to provide service front and center every day, exposed to dangers that the community was told to avoid. Over 700 other employees within a very few days pivoted their work and their workplace to the confines of their homes, never missing a beat of service while some even had added responsibilities of helping their school-aged children learn while they work. I have never been prouder of our organization and our employees and the leaders of this organization. The city has strived to put our employees first for their dedication and commitment and I am pleased that we have been able to provide premium pay to employees who have been at the front line of service and additional leave benefits to all employees, including part-time employees. Even said, however, the challenge of finding an additional $7 million to provide compensation adjustments for employees next year could not be overcome. I am confident that the City Council will continue to support future opportunities to support and recognize the incredible work of our employees in the brighter days that I know lie ahead. While it will be different this year, we invite residents to take a closer look over the next few weeks at the full recommended budget, as I am sure the Mayor and Council members will. Staff looks forward to delving deeper into the details of the proposed budget at next week's virtual budget work sessions. Please watch for times and topics for these sessions. Developing the budget is always a collaborative process, relying on the groundwork of long-term financial and strategic plans. However, the emerging impacts of COVID-19 has made this budget development process one for the ages. As always, special recognition to Director Bertha Johnson and her budget managed services team, department directors for their leadership, as well as Public Affairs Director Beverly Thompson and her staff, and Kerry Goode and the technology solution staff for their assistance with this virtual presentation. It is now time for the elected leadership and residents to review and scrutinize this proposed budget. Residents are invited to submit their thoughts for the virtual public hearing on Monday, June 1. The web portal to submit comments, along with the deadline for when comments must be received to be included in the official public record, can be found on the City's website at the address provided on the slide. We remain committed to transparency in the budget process, as well as in total operations. Copies of the proposed budget are now available on the City's website as well, and I also want to encourage our residents to continue to engage with us on any of the social media platforms listed here. We work hard to communicate what we're doing on these platforms and want to engage with you, particularly during these challenging times. In closing, let me say again how much I appreciate Mayor Schultz's leadership and the very difficult decisions he has had to make over the past few months, and for his continued support to me, our executive team, and our employees. Mayor Schultz, while it seems like an eternity ago, just a few months ago, you spoke during your State of the City address about the two big crises the city had faced in the past year, and little did we know. I hope that your legacy does not come down to be known as the crisis Mayor, but if it does, your leadership certainly is worth recognizing for the many years to come. These truly are very difficult and unimaginable times for all of us in our community. Durham was riding a wave of greatness filled with diversity, inclusivity, and innovation. We all remain hopeful and prayerful that personal behaviors and actions, no matter how inconvenient for the short term, and medications and vaccines in the long term will get us through this crisis, and that Durham and our lives will emerge more committed to our values and our priorities. May God bless Durham and us all. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mr. Manager. I really appreciate the kind words and especially appreciate your budget presentation in this very, very difficult time. It really is hard to imagine all the changes that we have had to make, and I so appreciate our city staff being able to pivot like this and present a very difficult budget, but a budget that I think it's very, very critically, critically important to make the hard decisions that you did, and I thank you for doing it. Before we move on, I'm going to just ask our tech staff if we put the video on for all of our council members and staff as everybody. I don't see the Mayor Pro Tem's video up, and I do see Council Member Middleton now. The Mayor Pro Tem sent a chat message saying she needed the host to enable her video. Okay. Okay. She has an error message that the host has stopped her video, so I'm sure that will have, there you go. Great. Thank you. Welcome back. Before we move on again to the, to our next item that I just want to reemphasize to Tom, how much we appreciate the presentation. We know you've had to make a lot of really hard decisions. We look forward to the budget public hearings that are upcoming soon, and I'm just very grateful for all that everybody has been doing. Thank you so much. Maybe we'll have a, we have the virtual clapping. Thank you. All right, and now we will move on to our general business agenda public hearings, item 17, proposed amendment to the FY 2015, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 18, 19, and 1920 annual action plans. And I will first ask, I believe that the resource person is Wilmer Conyers. Is that correct, Ms. Conyers? That's correct. Great. I just, before I introduce you, I would like to say that in an effort to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's requirements for providing accommodations, a sign language interpretation would be provided for our deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind residents tonight. Our sign language interpreter, who we see now on our screen, is Ms. Monica McGee. Ms. McGee has served as one of the sign language interpreters for Governor Cooper. Ms. McGee, thank you for being here. We're very grateful for your presence. Thank you so much. Ms. Conyers, I'm now going to turn the microphone over to you. Good evening, Mayor Phil and members of council. My name is Wilmer Conyers, and I am the planning and performance administrator in the Department of Community Development. The purpose of this public meeting, this public hearing is to receive citizen comments on the proposed amendments for the FY 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, and 2019-2020 annual action plans. The citizen participation plan contained in the adopted 2015-2020 consolidated plan requires that a public hearing be conducted for formal amendments that add, delete, or substantially change the consolidated plan or the annual action plan. Notice that this meeting was properly advertised in the Herald sign, the Carolina Times and Capasin newspapers, and was distributed via a general listserv and posted on the community development website. The proposed amendments represent a reconciliation of the community development block grant funds which are needed to bring the city in compliance to satisfy the outstanding annual expenditure test. These proposed amendments represent a reconciliation of $2,853,191 in CDBG funds. The proposed amendments were made available for public review from April 17th through May 18th, 2020, on the community development's website and was distributed via general listserv. Comments from the public hearing and a summary of written comments received from citizens concerning the proposed amendments will be included in the final amendments. Later on the agenda, we request council approval on proposed amendments to the FY 2015, 2016, 2016, 2017, 2017, 2018, 2018, 2019, and 2019, 2020 annual action plans for submission to HUD. Thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Conyers. You have heard the report from staff and I'm now going to declare this public hearing open. And as I do so, I do want to note that this is the first public hearing we have had as a council in this new era. And so we'll all do our best with it. Our technology staff, the clerk's office, our PIO staff, public affairs staff, and others have worked very hard to make this work. And Deputy City Manager Wanda Page, I want to appreciate you for this as well. There are four people who have pre-registered to speak at this public hearing. And I'm going to first give them a chance to speak, and then I will ask if there are other people who would like to speak as well. And our staff has arranged for that to happen if there are people who would like to. But first I'm going to ask Matthew Schnars. Mr. Schnars, welcome. I see you're here. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. And you have three names. That was, I was just testing the platform. I don't actually have any public comment, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. I'm part of the community development team. Great. I knew that, but I didn't know you were testing the platform. So thank you for helping us out and I appreciate it very much. The next is Linnea Foster. Ms. Foster, are you with us? Madam Clerk, are we able to recognize Ms. Foster? Mr. Mayor, there is no Linnea. First name Linnea Foster, L-A-N-E-A Foster. Mr. Mayor, there's no one by that name in the waiting area. In the waiting area. Okay. Thank you. Next is Pilar Rocha Goldberg. Is Ms. Rocha Goldberg with us? Mr. Mayor, I do not see Ms. Pilar Rocha Goldberg. Okay. I wondered, well, let me ask the last name. Sean Ross. Is Sean Ross with us? Unfortunately, Mr. Mayor, I do not see him in the waiting room either. Okay. Well, I hope that this wasn't a miscommunication. It may be that I did not see any written comments from them, but we did receive a number of written public comments, but I'm hopeful that this was not just a miscommunication. But let me just ask if they are listening tonight right now and trying to get in. What would be their process, Madam Clerk? I believe they're receiving a invite to the Zoom meeting. They have to click on the link. They will be entered into a waiting area and then one by one, they are given speaking rights. Right. As of right now, there's no one in the waiting area. All right. So Ms. Foster, Ms. Rocha Goldberg, and Mr. Ross, if you all are listening, please, you've received an email with the Zoom link. Please click on that link and you should be entered into our waiting area. I'm going to give it just a moment. So just in case they are listening, we will give them an opportunity to sign in. Madam Clerk, in the meantime, is there anyone else who is waiting with public comment tonight? To my knowledge, there's no one in the waiting area, Mr. Mayor. All right. We're just going to wait another minute in case folks are trying to get in and we will give them that opportunity. Council colleagues, I will note that we also received a written public comment that you all, of course, received this afternoon. Many of the comments were regarding rent relief and asking that the city have a moratorium on rents. We are not able to have a moratorium on rents. This is not within our power, but we will be talking quite a bit at our upcoming work session, our hearing from our community development department on a very strong commitment that they're recommending that we make for emergency rental assistance. For a moratorium on rents, I'm afraid there are only two possibilities. One is that our state Supreme Court Justice, who put that moratorium in place, could extend it through court action or our General Assembly is our other option, I'm afraid. All right. Madam Clerk, still no one in the waiting room? That is correct, Mr. Mayor. All right. Council members, are there any colleagues with any questions or comments for Ms. Conyers or staff on this item? Mr. Mayor, I just wanted to clarify on your last statement, the moratorium that has been put in place was on evictions, not on rents. I just wanted to not confuse anybody. I appreciate that. Thank you, Madam Mayor Pro Tem. That is an important correction. Council Member Reese. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You mentioned the public comment that we received in this item asking the city to enact moratorium on evictions. As you mentioned, local governments in North Carolina don't have that legal authority. We're currently under a moratorium for evictions that was established, as you said by the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. I can tell you that if folks are interested in submitting public comment to the judicial task force that is looking at when and if to lift the moratorium on those kinds of proceedings, they can go to www.ncquartz.gov and they'll find a comment box there where they can direct comments to the COVID-19 judicial task force. That's a really good way to get messages about how to handle these issues. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much, Council Member. I appreciate that good information. Any questions or comments for staff about this item? All righty. Seeing none and hearing no other public comment, I'm going to declare this public hearing closed and the matters before the council. We're being asked to approve the JAF proposed amendment for submission to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Mayor, I'm sorry. I was trying to seek recognition. I'm sorry. No, absolutely. Just a quick process question. My suspicion is that if 100% of the people that sought recognition to speak tonight didn't show up, that there's something probably going on other than all of them weren't trying. And I'm wondering, and so far as this was a requirement to hold this public hearing, with the inability of those folk to get in 100% of them, how would that affect the process moving forward and our ability to take any action we need to as a council? Well, that's a great question. And I'll ask our city attorney if she has any thoughts about that. And I see Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson, do you want to comment? Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for the question, Council Member Melaton. It would not have impact on prohibiting the council from taking action tonight. That's number one. And those persons still have an opportunity to present their comments and write and we'll receive them. Okay. Thank you for that. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Madam Attorney. Do you have anything to add? Just Mr. Mayor, as I pointed out in an email to the council this afternoon, that after the public hearing, we have to continue to receive comments for an additional 24 hours in any event. So those folks are definitely entitled to be heard through that process. Thank you so much, Madam Attorney. Council Member Reese. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. If I could just ask our clerk to make sure to send the link to the public comment portal for this item to the folks who did sign up to speak tonight. That way we can kind of close the loop with them. And if there was some kind of technical difficulty with them accessing this system, which we're trying for the first time tonight, then they can easily just click the link in the email and then leave those comments so that we can have them. That's a good idea. And I think it would be good also, Madam Clerk, to get in touch with the three of those people because we're going to do this again. Okay. If they don't respond, we need to reach out to them and make sure that the next time we do this, if there has been a technology glitch that we're we're on it. Okay, we will. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. Any other comment? Thank you for that. Those are good comments. All right. If not, we've been asked to approve the draft proposed amendment for submission to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD Attachment and to authorize the city manager to execute all administrative requirements and contractual documents for the implementation of the amended action plans. I believe we can do that on a single action. Can we not, Madam Attorney? That's correct, Mr. Mayor. Thank you so much. Do I hear a motion for the to approve the draft proposed amendment and to authorize the matter to execute the requirements? So moved. Second. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we take these actions. And I'm going to ask now, all in favor, please raise your hand. Everybody needs to. In order to out of an abundance of caution to be sure that they're we're compliant with the new remote meetings law. Can we actually take the vote by roll call? Yes, we can. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I was trying to get off of mute. There appears to be a few folks on the YouTube chat that are trying to get access to the Zoom public hearing. And I'm not sure if they if there's a way to give them access or to provide them access that they are trying to make public comments. Okay, thank you. Well, before we take this vote, we should hear about that. I'm going to defer here to our technical people and the clerk who might have the best advice on this. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to defer to Ms. Wanda Page. All right. Mr. Mayor, this is Wanda Page. I was on on with the technical team in the back, but I'd be happy to respond if you would please repeat the question. I'm sorry. Sure. There are a couple of or there are some people that Councilman Freeman says are on YouTube chat who would like to get into the public comment and make public comment, but have not been able to do so. So we would like them to be able to do so before we take action. Can you advise or can someone from the technical team advise as to how we can tell people to do that? Yes, there is a link that the four individuals who did sign up that link is the public's link. And I can actually get someone to forward that link to one of those persons if I can get there. Someone would chat me their email. I think these are people who have not previously signed up as a way I understand it from Councilmember Freeman. Is that right Councilmember? They can sign up during the public hearing. For people who have not previously signed up, where do they go to find the link to sign up? Just one second Mayor. Thank you. Thank you time. We're all learning here. Y'all I'm having some wireless issues and I'm going to try to connect my computer to an ethernet box in my house. So I'm going to turn off my camera for a little bit. I'll be back ASAP. Thank you. Thank you everybody for their patience and for those of you all who are trying to get in. Thank you for your patience and we're waiting for our tech folks to figure it out. We'll be with you as soon as we know. Mr. Mayor, this is Juan DePage. I just sent the telephone number and password for the meeting in the chat box. Sorry, Ms. Page, would you say that again? So I put the telephone number, the meeting ID and the password in the chat box for this meeting. Can you see that, Mr. Mayor? Yes, I can. Should I announce that number? Yes. Are people who are watching able to see the chat box or not? No, they cannot see it. Okay. All right. I'm going to then read the number and then I'll read the meeting ID and I'll read the password. These are a lot of things to read, but I'm going to read them several times so that people will have the opportunity and then we'll give people a few minutes to call in. First of all, the phone number. I assume the one at the front is not necessary, but one, three, one, two, six, two, six, six, seven, nine, nine. Let me say that again. Three, one, two, six, two, six, six, seven, nine, nine. I'm going to say it one more time. Three, one, two, six, two, six, six, seven, nine, nine. Then there's a meeting ID and let me read you this ID. So long number, so I'll read it several times. The meeting ID is nine, four, five, two, seven, four, six, oh, two, nine, five. Let me tell you again. Nine, four, five, two, seven, four, six, oh, two, nine, five. And the password is two, seven, eight, oh, six, four, two, seven, eight, oh, six, four. And this information was also posted in the YouTube live feed. All right. Let's wait a couple of minutes and see if there are people that would like to enter the waiting room through that method. And Madam Clerk, when you see the first person come in, please let me know. We'll get the public comment started anew. Mr. Mayor, there is a speaker in the waiting room. It's Pilar Rocha Goldberg. Thank you very much. And as other people come in, Madam Clerk, just please line them up. Colleagues, we have a motion and a second on the floor, but fortunately we haven't voted. And we'll hear this testimony prior to voting. Ms. Rocha Goldberg, welcome. I believe you have been handed the microphone. Welcome and you have three minutes. So far, your microphone is still muted. I don't know if you need to unmute it or if it needs to be unmuted by our staff. Mr. Mayor, the microphone is not unmuting. Okay. Mr. Mayor, this is Metsch-Nars. The panelists may be able to unmute by hitting star six or pound six. All right. Ms. Rocha Goldberg, can you hit star six or pound six? I believe she hung up. Okay. I still see her name there, but does that mean that she's still there or not? She's trying again. Yes, she may speak. Okay. She's under the... Hello. Is this Ms. Rocha Goldberg? No, this is Stella Adams. Stella. All right. I think you're the second person on our list. So we'll go ahead and hear from you. Thank you for being here. Ms. Adams, welcome. And you have three minutes. Thank you. First, I want to say how much I support the work that's being done with the CDBG program. I do have a question as to whether there are any of these amended funds that could be transferred and used for other projects affecting those communities. All right. Do you want to go ahead with any other questions or comments and then we'll we'll answer that. Yes, I wanted to comment on previous item, but I just want to say that I strongly support the tax assistance program. I believe that it should be included in the city budget. It meets the commitment that the council made to residents to support diverse income communities. And it is a commitment that I hope that the council will take seriously. You asked us to vote for an affordable housing bond on the premise that it would do so. You also promised that the proceeds from 505 West Chapel Hill Street would be used for the housing fund. And I think that anything that you need to do for McDougal Terrace can come out of the housing fund. That $8 million is one time money. And so we cannot, as a community, allow you to put it in the general fund without meeting the commitment you made that it would go into the housing fund and would be used to create diverse income communities throughout downtown and throughout Durham. I am asking you all hashtag to keep your word and to support the tax assistance program and to support projects and programs that emphasize diverse income communities. That money from the 505 West Chapel Hill Street is not money that can just be diverted to the general fund because the community will never get those funds back. Thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Adams. And let me also say that in relationship to the CDBG funds that you referred to earlier, I do think that there is some flexibility in the use of those funds. We'll hear more about that in our work session on Thursday at one o'clock. Thank you. And we'll be sure to ask that. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Madam Clerk, do we have another person lined up in the waiting room? Mayor, that's the only one. All right. I'm going to ask again if Pilar Rocha Goldberg would like to try again to get in. I'm sorry that she wasn't able to speak the first time. I'm going to wait and just make sure that she doesn't want to try one more time. I want to thank Council Member Freeman for watching that YouTube chat and letting us know that there were people that wanted to get in. Thank you, Council Member. You're welcome. Also, she noted that she's having some internet trouble, so she's trying again. All right. We'll be patient. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, just a quick comment. I'm not sure where this is on the agenda for the upcoming budget work sessions, but can we make sure that our admin gives us more detail about the funding from the sale of 505 West Chapel Hill Street and their recommendation that we move that money into the general fund? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sure staff has heard that and will be ready to do that. We're still waiting for Ms. Rocha Goldberg, and we'll just give it another couple of minutes and see if her internet situation works out. This isn't the most interesting meeting that we've ever had, at least this part of it. Mr. Mayor, at least we're not running our fine language prevents where the governor has. That's a great point. We're making it easy. You don't want to entertain us, Mr. Mayor? No, I do not. We already had the city manager's report. I think that was that was the important entertainment for the night. We've got the substance. Mr. Mayor, there are no additional speakers in the attendee waiting room. All right. All right. Colleagues, I expected this meant that because Ms. Adams could get in that this was probably something on Ms. Rocha Goldberg's end, at least in the second try. So we will, of course, be happy to take over the next 24 hours additional comments to this amendment. And I'm sorry that that we are in the situation we're in, but I look forward to hearing her comments. Let me go back now. We have a motion on the floor to conduct the to approve the draft proposed amendments and to authorize the city manager to execute all administrative requirements to contract contractual documents. And we are going to do take a roll call vote per the instructions of our city attorney. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll? Mayor Schuhl? Aye. Mayor Pro Tem Johnson? Aye. Councilmember Caballero? Aye. Councilmember Freeman? Councilmember Middleton? Aye. Councilmember Reese? Aye. Thank you. Thank you very much. The ayes have it. The motion passes unanimously. I will see you while I'm councilmember Caballero. I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm just wondering earlier when we passed the consent agenda and reading the city attorney's memo around passing if we need to do a roll call for that as well instead of just a show of hands if we that's going to be our new protocol.  I'm happy to do so if you advise so. I apologize. I missed that one. Yes. The remote meeting statute now requires that any vote be taken by roll call. Great. Thank you so much. We'll now take a vote again to we'll have we'll we'll I'll accept a new motion that we approve the consent agenda. Move to approve. Second. Been moved to approve and seconded that we approve the consent agenda. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll? Mayor Shul? Aye. Mayor Pro Tem Johnson? Aye. Councilmember Caballero? Aye. Councilmember Freeman? Aye. Councilmember Middleton? Aye. Councilmember Reese? Aye. Thank you. Thank you everybody. I really appreciate everybody's help tonight getting us through this. It wasn't the smoothest ever but it was our first public hearing in this new format and I think we've all learned some things and we'll continue to improve. I see no other business before us so there being no further business to come before this body. I'm declaring this meeting adjourned at 8.02 p.m. and I will see you all at the work session.


So, the consumer journey is really changing quite a bit and I think, you know, as our clients are, you know, searching for ways to better engage with their customers, one of the things that they're doing is finding it very hard to compete for the attention of their customers. Certainly, the application of technologies like AR and VR are starting to play a role in the way that they can be sharing more compelling information, inspiring customers and bringing them through the journey in new and more exciting ways, including, you know, the use of these technologies for things like shopping and commerce, the more immersive view of a product, the more in-depth overviews or features and things that they can understand about a product gets them more engaged and moves them further along the purchasing journey. As we look at, you know, the brand marketers and how they're starting to utilize these technologies, there's a mix in terms of maturity level and I think, you know, they're really starting to try to understand how to apply these in the way that they better engage with their customers and create better experiences for their customers. We're starting to see very practical uses and demonstrated actually outcomes and benefits associated with the use of these technologies.


Every, every move I make is, is a productive, super hyperductive, efficient activity. This is what I believe. I'm sharing that with you for nothing.  At some point in your life, if you're going to achieve happiness and balance between happiness and production, you have to find something satisfying and gratifying. You have to find some kind of happiness balance there with what you did that day, regardless of what it was. So I know that when I wake up in the morning, I'm like, everything is productive activity, every second productive, productive product. I'm going from one to the next, to the next to the next, all the way to all about five o'clock is when I start just cutting it off. Right. And at five o'clock, when I cut it off, whatever I got done up to that point, I'm happy with, you know, I know that I did all I could do. And so I think, I think the problem is that, and then after five o'clock I'm done, and then I can relax. And then that relaxness that I take between five and going to bed, it recharges me to where I'm ready to go the next day. And I don't feel burnt out because I didn't recharge. See, the problem is maybe with you is, as you're thinking about it, thinking about it, thinking about it all the way to bed, and you wake up the next morning and you're mentally burned out because you never quit thinking about it. You never recharged. How do you, other than calling, how do you leverage that? Sold property into more, sold for sale properties listings. You just call all the owners of that own property around that, around that listing. Period. And that's it. You call them and you say, how are you doing? You know, this is Ricky Kruth. You know, I'm enjoying the day as in a gorgeous. Cool. Look, I don't want to take it too much of your time, but I just sold a house right around the corner from you. And I didn't know if there's anything in the world I could do for you today. Boom. Love it. Boom. Just like that. You didn't try to sell them anything, right? Yeah. You didn't try to sell them. Nothing. You're just letting them know. You just letting them know and you're letting them know you're here to help them too, if they are interested. If not, cool. Look, is there an agent you would work with? No. Well, I'm sure you're going to do something down the road, right? Sure. I love the opportunity to work with you when that day comes. What if you're hard, if I just stay in touch with you? Great. Very comfortable. What's a good email for you? Is this your cell number? Bam. Bam. I love it. Then you create that personal brand. Use that contact information and that email to do a weekly email on the same day of the week forever. Deals are actually, it's actually worth it to do a deal for free. And I'm not going to do one for free, but it's worth it. You know, I'll negotiate that commission. And I'm not going to go below the industry standards. However, if there's agents down the road doing it for way cheaper, then obviously I have to adapt.  So I think at the end of the day, hold on to seven percent because of your pride and what is seven percent of zero is still zero. Here's the, well, here's the bigger problem. Here's the bigger problem. If you hold firm on seven and somebody takes it at six, okay. You basically just turn that deal down for one percent. Okay. Now what happens is, is that agent that took it, right? They, they, they, they created a lifelong relationship with that prospect. And now that prospect does 10 to 20 more deals with them over the life of their career through repeat business referrals and referrals of referrals. Right. And so, and so through that, you just threw away 10 to 20 deals over the next 20 years because of one percent on a deal. You just threw away 20 deals for one percent. So when you really think about it in those terms, deals are actually, it's actually worth it to do a deal for free. And I'm not, I'm not going to do one for free, but it's worth it because the relationship and the future business, you're going to get out of that deal, you know? So I think the agents that are turning listings down over a half a percent or one percent or something, they're really losing big time.


Classic video. This one's an oldie, but a goodie. Now to be honest I'm pretty sure this type of video was popularized by lost and unbound, but then again, he probably slow from somebody too, so This is like karma Alright cool now that I have 500 dislikes on this video let's hop into it So this is the spin the wheel of random overalls now. Let's make one thing clear first not doing offensive line I'm gonna make the offensive line all like base 75 So we're right in the middle same thing with special teams. I'm just gonna fill a generic player So that leaves all of the defense I think all the defense definitely is required and then wide receiver half back Quarterback and tight end and I'm not gonna do full back offensive line is not as important as you think in this game So we're just gonna do the fun positions So without a further do whatever overall we get on this wheel will determine the player that we get to put in Starting out with wide receiver number one I've also sprinkled all the overalls in like random spots So I'm never safe at a part on the wheel so I can be thinking I'm about to get like 99 or something and then blam I guess I wouldn't be that bad, right guys because that's a funny number Let's just hop straight into this the first wheel spin I almost just called this wheel of mud Oh my god, I'm so used to doing that series the first wire see if it's gonna be an 85 overall Oh, that was that was a little mini safe spot on the wheel 85 overall Why do super start us up before you go any further today's video is sponsored by war robots and they have sponsored before So huge shout out to them war robots is one of the best apps you can have on your phone right now It's got so much action 66 multiplayer online battles There's a huge variety of robots and weapons with so many different combinations You can create a giant war machine to fit your own play style with insane 3d graphics and a ton of strategy So if you install war robots right now, you're gonna get a huge bonus You're gonna get the boa robot which has a ton of HP and a unique skin for it Additionally, you're gonna get a full set of weapons a hundred gold and 400,000 silver Doesn't sound like anything right now, but download the game and I promise you guys the huge advantage I really want to play with some of you guys So make sure you download war robots top of the description That's it for now. Enjoy the rest of the video and do not forget to download war robots 85 overall day-day Westbrook with 93 speed that's gonna be a good But he has to be wide receiver number one now that I think about it That might not be so good because if I could put him at wide receiver number three That might be good, but he's got to go to yrc 101 next overall. This is gonna be wide receiver number two That's gonna be the next position. We're gonna fill is oh no. This is no. This is not good.  No keep going keep There's an 83 and 82 to 62 we get 62 So our wide receivers are not gonna be very good for this episode Isaiah Ford sure dude sounds good now Let's just pray I get a good half back because this could get really bad really quick Alright, we're doing half back next please for the love of God 80 or better 80 or better is all I need here 90s Come on 90s. Oh, yes 85 sit sit sit. No, no, no I literally won't be able to get a yard.  All right, so we're taking L's left and right I need to get lucky on this quarterback home for the love that is I'm not gonna I literally can't look this is as too stressful. This is way too stressful If I don't get a good quarterback here I'm going to lose this game and I'm gonna lose by a lot. I need anybody 86 okay, okay, wait a second. This is so doable. All right, who's an 86 overall? Yo, there is a Mike Vic. I'm gonna go with the bum Mike Vic.  Thank God We're gonna need a fat miracle to win this game or we're just gonna need a very good defense first thing We're gonna get as a free safety on defense. I just need like an 80 overall plus on everything here Sure, I'll start with a 60 overall. That's exactly what I meant when I said 80 plus Xavier Woods 44 man coverage beautiful up next. We're gonna take our strong safety, please please for once, please 81 81. Okay doable hundred percent doable. Oh God looks like Kenny Vakara is the only one 81 strong safety But fine. Hey, it's an elite. He's red next up. It's gonna be our cornerback number one. Oh I was literally watching that intently that I first so intently that I forgot to commentate Okay, this is our first like actually really good thing other than Jordan Reed. We get a 92 overall corner. All right, Kyle Fuller Let's see what you're made of. All right, let's get another one of those So this is gonna be cornerback number two if I can have two good corners like that's so so good I can live with bad linebackers. I can't live with bad corners 97 oh No, no, no. Oh My god, that was way too close. Oh Mel Blunt is a 97 Hell yes, no bloods like my favorite corner in this game and I already have them because of wheel of mud So 97 Mel Blunt is gonna be our cornerback number two. Bada bing bada boom now. We're moving. Did I just say that really? What is wrong with me? We're moving into left outside linebacker and it looks like it's gonna be an 86 overall Yeah, I guess we're going with Derek Morgan. It's got 89 block shed speed isn't like the most important step But if I'm gonna use her anybody they gotta have at least 85 speed So this is gonna be our middle linebacker right here I don't really care the overall as long as it's above 80 and I can they can be fast 84 Shazir is Ryan Shazir and 84 80 how much 85? That's literally like exactly what I asked. That's really nice. The game made my job easy here Ryan Shazir Oh, that was bars the game made my job easy here Ryan. She's Right outside linebacker, let's just keep up the trend give me an 80 plus and I'll be happy 97 again That's 72 Keenan Robinson has 78 speed that's enough that moves us to right and left and and Detackle the final positions that we need to fill on this team This one's gonna be right end and it looks like we get an 81 Clies this guy's cambell is a very good car. All right We'll go with that we're getting we're getting a little Jaguars defensive players going here, right into 91 Let's see what left ends gonna be then we got to tackle and then we're out here left end is looking at a 79 no no sits it That was a close one we're gonna try out Brian Robinson here I don't know why but I just have a good feeling about it the tackle here is a spin.   I'm happy. It was bad never been happy for getting a bad player before but a 67 overall detackle Sounds good to me Clinton McDonald sure dude. Welcome to the team. Well, certainly say this is the most bizarre team Our left end right under good G tackles. I've never really that concerned about I just don't know how I'm a score I'm gonna get some pick sixes or something 78 overall the wheel of overalls team if I take a dump I will be happy dude This will be fun 97 93 92 were the best spins we got on that wheel. That's it That's a depressing one. Oh, can I get a Roblox death sound? So how do I go about doing this? How do I go about scoring on this? Oh Oh blitz. Yes. Oh Michael Vic that's yep. That's 86 Michael Vic for you another blitz. Let's go this time. We connect to pass Louis Annie fumbles this might be the blitz so maybe I can Mistakes seem to have been made Another run play and we do not get off our blocks that time ouch Oh another run play Mel Blunt comes up with the cackle though, bro.  He's gonna run the ball every way he's gonna score because he's they're just gonna hold every block because there's so much higher overall Okay, that's totally there. Oh, you're kidding Okay, if that wasn't an 80 speed silver and that's a 95 speed fall cross that is there Oh, he runs a play action and we get a sack. That was a that was a big mistake I blitz literally every single person I have he might is he just gonna go straight drop back. Yeah, that's a straight drop back Yo Wow, that was a deep punt. No get that. I want you to return it Well, maybe maybe Mel Mel Blunt had a good idea by not returning that Because there's a lot you can do against a detackle user Like throw dots to jerk McKinnon who drops it. I'm feeling so bold that I'm gonna go for this Jordan Reed and another Michael vick is horrendous. Is this a pitch or is he really gonna? Is he really gonna pass it? He's a run It's really not. Oh He digs me out. He digs me out. Yeah, good job. I despise this human whoever's sitting behind this controller I genuinely despise you if I ever met you in person.  Oh I bet this is really tough for you. I bet you're having a tough game Alright, it's Reggie Bush. My man can run literally anything and it will clamp me And there's a drop pass. Okay The revolutionary at back toss Pancake pancakes my deep my d-line every single person might be lines got pancake Remember what I tell y'all about pay-to-win fellas Three days later.  I'm taking my focal I want my three points. I can't leave the I can't leave the donut up there, dude. Cairo Santos Just hit this Three points.  Let's see if we can get this fourth and four Let's see if he runs it or if he audibles audible Stopped in those time up for the four the two last possessions were mine the first 15 were not mine Well, that was um the worst idea I've probably ever had but thank you for watching it And it was kind of fun anyway All right guys, that's it for now. Thanks for watching videos always take care


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Good morning, it is now Saturday morning and we're just getting ready to check out of this hotel. It's been a really nice day and I've really enjoyed it and I would definitely consider staying here again. We stayed at the Waldorf Hilton Waldorf London and it was relatively affordable compared to the other hotels and this was the hotel that we felt like had more space. So yeah, we enjoyed it and we're gonna see if we can leave our luggage downstairs. I actually need to call downstairs and just make sure that that's okay and then we're gonna check out and Jasmine's on her way. We're so excited to see her. And I've got a little bit of a risky OOTD today because essentially it's cold and I don't know what I was doing when I was packing. I felt like I brought so many layering options and I kind of didn't and I wore tights yesterday so I kind of like don't wanna wear tights again today. So I don't know, we'll see about that. But here is my OOTD. I am wearing this cute dress from Thread Up. Is this about angle? Yes. This dress is from Thread Up. It's seriously so cute and I wanna keep my arms accessible because we're getting tattoos today, we're pretty sure. Maybe if they can take us. And then this denim jacket is from like the Rose Bowl flea market or the Melrose Trading Post. I thrifted it. Got my necklace on from Drew. This is my favorite necklace and I like wearing it when I'm traveling cause like I don't know if that's corny but it kind of feels like he's with me and stuff and it's a locket. I think I've shown it before on vlogs but he got this for me for Christmas either last year or the year before and it's a picture of us from a date night that we had when we went to Tokyo in like 2018. And then I'm wearing my thrifted cowboy boots and yes I do have bare legs however. I do have a pair of tights in my purse in case I get really cold and need to put them on like in a bathroom somewhere. And then Alexa here is looking so cute.  She looks so cute and she's gonna have her arms accessible as well. And I'm so excited to be able to wear this. Oh yeah, I bought one yesterday and I kind of thought about wearing it but I was like, no I need to like wash and stuff her. So anyways, that's our plan.  Oh, for those that are so concerned about my sleep schedule because when I don't sleep I make it everyone's problem. I slept from 2 a.m. is when I fell asleep. I don't know what's going on or like 2 30 and I slept until nine and I had my ear plugs in and Alexa was outside like she had been up and out of since like 6 a.m. And I thought she was sleeping next to me in the bed because I saw this. And I was like, Alexa, she wasn't replying and then I texted her up.  So anyways, okay, that's our plan.  There's possibility we might come back here like later on and maybe we'll go try to head towards like the palace and see the queen or something. Not like see the queen because that line is like 17 hours long but like just go in the area. Goodbye, big beautiful room with the beds pushed together that we think is kind of weird but honestly was fine. We will see you next time. So we're going to brunch at this place called Mildreds. It's a plant-based place and it looks really tasty. So let's check it out. Look who has arrived. She got on the wrong train but she made it. Just in time. We're at brunch and we have a nice little avocado toast and Harissa home fry situation. So Lexa got a tofu scramble that looks very delicious and then these, are you joking? These like maple, banana, pancake situation with some kind of cream, delicious. All right, next stop, oh, hi. Next stop is a bit of a brave one because we actually have a little bit of time before we get our tattoos done which we did make an appointment for 3.30. We are going to attempt to head near the palace, Buckingham Palace just to sort of see the environment, like see the area because we're obviously not going to be able to get anywhere near the queen but we might just see like how far we can get and what we can see and maybe, I don't know, it's like an interesting time in history. Obviously as Americans, we don't understand it but it might be a cool thing to like, you know, see an experience. So that's where we're headed. All right, so we came and went. The situation was very crowded which we should have known and we did kind of know but we did see like a couple of the areas that people were leaving flowers but essentially like the main park was closed and then it just became like really, really crowded so we dipped but now we're heading to Candon and we're going to get our tattoos and Jasmine's getting her ears pierced and we're very excited. It's Rocket Vintage where we filmed a YouTube video a couple years ago. There's the print we went to. We're going to stop at this food stall inside of Camden Market where Jasmine is going to try something she saw on TikTok which is essentially like a Yorkshire pudding wrapped roast burrito thingy which sounds amazing. She's going to let me have a bite and then we're heading to our tattoos which we already located the place. It looks really, really cool. I hope they'll let us like sneak some footage in there. It's actually kind of warm outside. It feels amazing. It feels like a spring day. I love it. All right, she found the place. It's called Yorkshire Burrito. I am very curious to see how this turns out so Alexa and I are just going to walk around. You like it? What's in it? Better than I thought. It's chicken, potatoes, spinach, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, and just a little bit. No crying. It's like a two out of ten. Oh, it's not bad. How have you done that circle so perfect? Are you kidding? Oh my God, it's so cute. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, it looks so cute. Yeah. Love it. Yeah? It looks so cute. And it's so soft. I literally decided like four minutes ago. Yeah, I know. So soft. She got a heart attack. Yeah. You'll see. You'll see. I'm like her Instagram and stuff, but we just made a quick stop to get some pizza or a Camden Pizza Co. I think I just accidentally ordered an entire pizza, but that's going to be like our plan. Just like eat something really quick and then head back to the hotel, pick up our bags and then make the train journey over to like Jasmine's neck of the woods and we're very, very excited. Okay, so I just got back to Jasmine's and she left a little care package on the bed. So she got me some Yorkshire tea, obviously. And this is biscuit flavor, which looks delicious.  Got a little sheet mask. I will definitely be using that. A candle, no armor and vanilla bean. Amazing, a cute little succulent. A happy, wait, what is this? Happy hippo biscuit by Kinder. Like how precious is that? Adorable. We have some nice fuzzy socks. We have, I think this is like hand sanitizer. I'm pretty sure. Cute and then some hand cream. How cute is that? I've already started, you know, putting my stuff in. So I've already made myself at home. Now I think we're going to head to Tesco and get some food because we can't go shopping for food on Monday. Because the queen passed away and so they're closing the grocery store on Monday. So we're going to make sure that we have food to make for that day. So that's where we're going now. But my cute little room is all set up. I'm so happy. Okay, it is the end of day two. I'm currently in the guest room at Jasmine's. It is 1.25 in the morning. The last couple of nights I've stayed up really, really late, but like it's felt normal to me. I don't know, jet lag is very weird, but I just took my CBD slash melatonin gummy. So hopefully that will kick in soon. I will be able to fall asleep and have some decent sleep. And we have a really fun, exciting day planned for tomorrow. And it's been a really great day today too. I've got my new tattoo. That was very exciting. I can't even remember if I vlogged it, but I left my camera at the tattoo studio.  And thank God it was still there. And we ordered some Indian food for dinner. We went to Tesco's, got some food, some snacks, some other exciting things for a future main channel video. That'll be really fun. And yeah, we're gonna have a great day tomorrow. So thank you so much for watching and for hanging out. And I will see you tomorrow. Good night.


For those of you familiar with this channel, you know how much we love the Karate Kid and the Cobra Kai TV series, and one of our primary focuses has been trying to determine what type of Karate is Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai. Now, with the release of season three, we now have a definitive answer, so we're going to look at that real quick, but also the season also brings to attention another very important aspect of the martial arts that I don't think gets enough attention and that enough people are talking about, so we're going to dig into that right now. So I have to upfront say, spoiler alert. We're going to be talking about events of season three and in the Cobra Kai TV series. If you have not yet watched Cobra Kai season three, pause this video, go watch this. If you have not yet seen Cobra Kai, pause this video, go watch this series and come back. If you have not seen the Karate Kid movies, then that's just like a cranky to the face guys.  So with that out of the way, going forward, our previous assessments of Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai, we're not going to go into it too deeply now because we've already done a few episodes on that, but we had determined that Miyagi-Do is a version of Gojiru, an Okinawan-style Karate, and that Cobra Kai was actually a variant of Tonksu-Do because of the different Korean art elements that we have had peppered into the movies and the series. Now, if you want to see a full breakdown of how we came to these conclusions, you can check out the link below. We have some of those episodes there, but basically that's what we came up with, Gojiru and Tonksu-Do. Now, of course, we're talking about what's canon, what's actually in the narrative structure of the story. We know that there are different people who are stunt doubles and other coordinators and choreographers that brought their influences of other arts. And of course, on screen, we see a lot of mixture of arts from stunt work. I'm talking about the narrative arts, you know, what in the story are the styles supposed to be. And the season Cobra Kai, season three, came right out and confirmed it. Cobra Kai is in fact Tonksu-Do. So that was actually really interesting that they actually just came right out and said it. They confirmed the instructor that Terry Silver mentioned, Kim Sung-Young, so he was actually telling the truth.  So there we have it. Narratively speaking, canon Cobra Kai is Tonksu-Do, or at least some version of it. Now, with Miyagi-Do, we determined Gojiru from a variety of factors, based, you know, just ranging from, you know, Miyagi's name to the village he's from, and then there's Versailles and the Kata's Hughes, the screenwriter practiced Gojiru, and he based a lot of it off himself. In Chronic Kid II, Sato's nephew, Chosen, actually wears a Gojiru or the Goju Kai patch right here on his gi. So some of you might be saying, okay, so what? That's Chosen, not Daniel. Well, let's not forget that Chosen's instructor, Sato, trained under Mr. Miyagi's father. They trained together. They were basically brothers. So Miyagi's father trained both of them, and then they each had their respect to student, which was Daniel and Chosen. And we broke this down in the previous episode. Well, what's interesting is Cobra Kai, season three, pretty much came out and gave almost the exact same explanation. You know, Chosen takes Daniel to his home dojo, and Daniel's looking through the scrolls, and he realizes that this is actually Miyagi-Do karate, and they come right out and say it. And Daniel even says, we're basically karate cousins because they explain the lineage. So we have to assume they are the same art, Gojiru, because it's confirmed by wearing the patch, or at least Sato's school was registered with the Goju Kai. And I know Jesse Enkamp, the karate nerd, actually issued his own theory about what kind of art the Miyagi-Do style is. And it's actually a really good watch, and that's in the link in the description below as well. The thing though is this theory is different than mine. However, they can coexist because his theory actually really more explains the background of Miyagi-Do's family lineage versus what I'm talking about, what we see in the films and what's supposed to be in the story going forward. So all that aside, we now have confirmation that Miyagi-Do karate is Goju-Ru and that Cobra Kai is Tonksur-Do. So that was awesome. And I love the discussion that we had. So many of you out there have proposed so many different ideas, and it was a really fun debate and discussion to see what perspectives people were coming from. And there were a lot of great points made. But as fun as that is, I think this show actually brought to the surface a much more important issue that I don't think enough people are talking about. The whole premise of Cobra Kai is talking about the ultimate rivalry, Daniel versus Johnny. We see them as polar opposites. We're like, you know, here's an example of politics, here's an example of opposites, here's an example of how different styles can diverge and all that. The thing though is, I don't believe that Daniel and Johnny defines that duality of karate and the division and the split. I believe that that distinction goes to Daniel and Chozen. Daniel and Chozen show a much deeper opposition to each other than Daniel and Johnny. Even as Ali brought up in season three, she said to them, she goes with this rivalry that they see a lot of themselves in each other and they might not like what they see. And if you look at the conflict, the problems between Daniel and Johnny are personal. It was over a girl, it was a high school drama. It wasn't over the martial arts. The martial arts were just a tool that they used, but their actual personal conflict was petty issues. And when they put them aside, they actually get along together pretty well. And we've seen that a few times where they do work together and they work together well when their egos allow it. With Chozen and Daniel, the problems go a little bit deeper and it's more about honor. Even though some of their conflicts were superficial as well, but I think that the dynamic here shows us the grand scheme of the martial arts and one of the biggest problems we have in the martial arts today is the division, the politics, the splits. The show was showing us how easily the martial arts can splinter. Look at, for example, Mr. Miyagi's father. In this case, we're going to refer to him as the grandmaster because he's the one who kind of started this particular lineage that we're following. Mr. Miyagi's father taught Miyagi and Sato. Look how drastically different their teaching methods are. And look at Daniel and Chozen, how different they are. We're talking two generations. Right off the bat, you can see, you know, Gojiru means hard soft. Miyagi is the soft side of the martial arts. Sato is the hard side. It's very evident. Sato is very, very bold, very strong, very powerful. Miyagi is always on the defensive and he's always doing the more softer techniques and they pass those values down. And that's what happens in the martial arts. When a teacher learns something, they take their lessons, they take their instructions, they pull out the values that mean something to them and they go with that and they cultivate that. And many times they'll leave out stuff that they don't like or they don't find valuable, although mixed in other influences. And it doesn't take long for the art to look different than what it was just one generation back. So in season three, Chozen is enlightening Daniel that there's more to Miyagi Do than he knew because Daniel's like, this doesn't look like Miyagi Do when they start sparring. It's because Miyagi didn't teach him this part of the art. He must have learned it, but he chose not to pass it on. Why is that? Was it because it was more aggressive? We know that Mr. Miyagi was a much more passive individual. So did he find these techniques too brutal and aggressive? Or did he feel like Daniel couldn't handle it? Daniel was a hothead. He had a temper. If you recall in the first movie when Mr. Miyagi asked Daniel why he wanted to learn, the very first thing out of his mouth was revenge. Daniel's a hothead. We all know that. Miyagi knows that. He might have thought that might not have been appropriate to teach Daniel or maybe he just didn't believe in it. We don't know, but the bottom line though is Chozen has part of the system that Daniel never learned. And Daniel, after all this time, just realized he didn't know everything. There's more to it. And I think that shows a massive split. We saw the reverse of that in Karate Kid Part Two. If you recall, you know, in the many conflicts with each other, there were moments where Daniel was employing the soft side of the art that Chozen did not recognize. For example, the ice breaking scene in the bar when Chozen forces Daniel to do the ice breaking competition. Miyagi has Daniel stop, breathe, focus, and Chozen's laughing and joking the whole time. But we see over across the room, we see that Sato recognizes it. So that was part of the training that Sato was part of too. He didn't pass that down. So Chozen didn't understand that part. Chozen was definitely strength and power and aggressiveness. You know, so Chozen's a little bit blown away when that works. We see that later in the end of the film too with the drum technique. Again, obviously Sato knew it because the second Miyagi pulled that drum out, Sato followed suit and started doing it. Chozen, once again, was perplexed, baffled. He didn't know what this was. Right there, Sato and Miyagi cultivated their own different opinions and values of the art and they passed that on to their students. And there was some interesting overlap too. The Crank Kick. You know, Johnny didn't know what the Crank Kick was. He walked right into it, even though it was horribly telegraphed and he should have seen that coming. But he wasn't familiar with it. Chozen was. If you go back and watch the end of Criedy Kitu when they're doing the final fight, Chozen recognizes the Crank Kick. Daniel takes a stance. He knows what's coming. We see this in season three. He's got the scroll right there. Chozen knew it all along. And that's why he does, if you watch closely, he does a feint and triggers Daniel to act early and then Chozen is able to deflect it. So there is definitely some overlap there and that, again, just reinforces that Daniel and Chozen are the same art, but they've gone down two different paths. And that's why I think this really is a little nugget of an example of how the martial arts works. And this is where a lot of problems in the martial arts comes from is this division, the split. Miyagi and Sato took what they chose and passed it on. That's not unlike Gijin Funakoshi. He learned Okinawan karate. He went to go establish Shodokan, but he took the values that he liked, that he believed in. Some of it was too aggressive for him. He left that out. He stripped a lot of it down and he made a system that he felt was appropriate for what he wanted to teach. His own son, Gigo, had different ideas. He wanted to hire kicks. He wanted more competitiveness. He wanted more aggressiveness. So just right there is a perfect real world example of the Miyagi Sato dynamic. And that's what happens now. Take these arts, you do this over generations, over hundreds of years, and then we can start to understand why there are so many splinters and why we have exactly 4,782 types of Kempo and numerous martial arts out there because each student takes what they learn and they pass it on or they pass on the values that they feel. And as fun as the karate kit is and as fun as the Cobra Kai series is, I absolutely love them. But I think besides, if you look past the entertainment, there's some real actual values there. And I think that this is one of the most realistic lessons that they've brought forth is that they're showing us right off the bat the kind of politics and splits that can happen in the martial arts. Yes, it's just a movie. Yes, it's just a TV show. And yes, it's fun to break it down. But it, yes, ultimately is made for entertainment purposes and the actual fighting is not always realistic. It's made for onscreen drama. But I think that sometimes the lessons that the show portrays are a little bit more on the nose than we realize. And I also want to give a great big kudos to the show for showing real life consequences. You know, my favorite things about the movies were, okay, the moves might not have been realistic, but the reactions were like there were consequences to being struck. Daniel looked hurt. These kicks, these punches actually injured their opponents.  It's not like in the movie, you know, the Chuck Norris film or Van Damme film where they take 20 hits with a weapon and they just brush it off. No, Daniel got kicked in the face. He bruised, it hurt him. It impeded his ability to fight. So I thought the movies really did that well. Cobra Kai, I think goes really well with showing the consequence of the story and action. We see a lot of fallout with these characters choices and that's what makes the show so darn good is these people start to feel real to us. They're rounded out, they're more filled in and more multi-dimensional now, but there is real consequence and weight to their actions and it carries the show forward. And I think it makes it much more dynamic. So a great big kudos to the show runners for keeping that integrity intact. So I think the biggest takeaway here is we don't all learn the same. You know, we all have our different methods of training and teaching. We find our own values and ethics, our own techniques, our own strategies that we, that mesh with ourselves. And I think sometimes we tend to lock out other ideas either due to ego or whatever or seclusion, but it's worth opening your mind up, listen to others' perspectives, because in the best case scenario, you both walk away learning something new. So I'd like to hear what you guys think about with the Cobra Kai series. Please leave comments down below, but if you do, make sure to put spoiler tags if you're going to reveal any story details. And also, if there's any other topics with Cobra Kai or Karate Kid you'd like us to cover, leave those comments below as well. Now, stay tuned for our next Cobra Kai video, which we might have found a storytelling mistake. So click that subscribe button, click on the bell so that way you get notified when it drops and we'll have fun with that one next. Thanks for watching.


Cymru, dyna'r Ym Mawr Richard Walters. Yn dweud ac yn dystrygiad, mae'n golygu yw'r teidasedig yma, ac mae'n golygu yw'r teidasedig cystyn olygu ym MirqSOFT. Felly, mae'n golygu ym Mair yn yw'r teidasedig fynd yn y gweithio'r estaillwn. yn dystrygiad, mae'n golygu yw MirqSOFT yw'r teidasedig cystyn a'r teidasedig cystyn i'r MirqSOFT. Cwp ddysgyniad eich teidasedig cystyn yn yr yw'r teidasedig, Yn hyn yn ffodd fath called actual project cost.  Y ddiddor lan iawn a blaen iawn. Felly, ddorol cwrs o bwysig ac arall, bod ni'n credu llwyddiadol, ac y ddiddor li'n ddiddor llwyddiadol. Felly, we can look into these quickly by going to the Project tab, Custom Fields, and in the cost section there's two Custom Fields here that have been created, and these are now going to be charted to actually show the baseline cost against the actual project cost and what the variance is. So to do this, we can go to the report tab, and we'll go to New Report, a bod hynny oedd ychwaneg. Felly, mae'r gael yn meddwl yw, ac maen nhw'n golygu'r dangos yw'r gweithio yw'r gweithio, ac mae'r gweithio gweithio. Mae'r gweithio eich gweithio o'r gweithio'r gweithio i'r llwyddo i fyddech chi'n cael eu gweithio. Mae'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio. A'i wneud yw, mae'n cael ei gweithio. Mae'r gweithio'r gweithio i'r list honno. Mae'r gweithio'r gweithio dych chi'n gwybod, felly mae'r barhau yw'n gwybod. Mae'r bwysig yn siarad. Mae'r bwysig fel ydych chi'n gwybod. Felly nid y dychydig ar y bwysig, mae'n gwybod, mae'r bwysig ar yr yw ddweud ymddangos fel ymddangos. Byddai'r bwysig a fyddai'r bwysig. Oherwydd, mae'n bwysig ar y bwysig. Felly, mae'n bwysig, yn y bwysig, mae'n bwysig ar y bwysig. now we want bas length cost, so when we come up to the work section we're going to go into the cost section now in the cost section we want the baseline and now you want the baseline cost so thats the bas length cost, that's what has been measured now we're going to use our two custom fields that's under custom and click on the first two because these are the ones that's been created 1, 2, here we go, it looks a bit messy right now, we can modify this, so with something we can do with the chart to make the labels go much lower, now this is on the chart format tab so I've clicked on the head-ins, I'm going to go to format selection, and in the label section, I'm going to go for the label position, not to be next to axis, but to go low, so now I can see them below the negative numbers, I'm going to close the field list down for now because it's tennis job, and I'm going to close the chart area down for now, it's tennis job, so I'm going to start formatting this chart a bit, so on the chart design, I'm going to pick a nice design that project already has in play, I'll use a style 8, and we might want to change a colour for example, so of the project cost variance, I'm going to change the colour of these to make them stand out a bit more, so I'm going to go to format, shade fill, and pick a slightly different colour, just looks a bit different, now we could add what's called data labels, so let's see what the actual variance is, so you can see the variance on the chart, so click on one of the variance bars, and go to the chart design tab, add chart elements, data labels, and on the go outside end, now you might think that looks okay, maybe a bit messy in some places, we can sort this out, I'll just make the chart a bit bigger for now, first thing I'm going to do with this is get rid of the decimal points, so now click on the data labels first, go to the format selection, I'm going to go to the number section, currency, and I don't want any decimals, so this is the way you can tidy up the chart, and I'll do the same for the axis, I don't want the decimals on the axis either, so currency, remove the decimals to zero, and the chart starts looking better now, now the zeros now, I don't want these zeros, so I can find a colour that goes with the back one of the charts, and I click on the first zero, and the font is what I actually want to change, and I want the font to be a slightly different colour, try another one, get rid of the zero, and when you've done one the others get easier, you can just click on the font colour now, so all I'm doing is changing the zero ones, just to tidy it up a little bit, and I might want to make the legend standard a bit more, make that a bit bigger, okay that looks easier to read, and maybe we've got a bigish overspend, I'll change the colour, so this is 1,700, that's a bigger overspend, the font colour, and now the chart becomes quite readable using custom fields, and now all of a sudden we've got a chart that is quite meaningful regarding the look of the chart, what it's trying to do, the legend telling us what's happening, the blue being the baseline cost, the orange being the actual project cost, and the green being the variance, so this is how you can create a chart in project using custom fields, and how you've then got to tweak around with the chart to get the look that you finally want, this now completes the demonstration on project reports and custom fields within project reports, see you in the next video.