Please read the quote for the day. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change. Thank you very much. Would the clerk please call the roll? Alderperson Bourne? Here. Alderperson Donahue? Alderperson Felde? Here. Alderperson Ackley? Here. Alderperson Phillips? Alderperson Decker? Here. Alderperson Sorensen? Here. Alderperson Savaglio? Here. Alderperson Wolfe? Present. Alderperson Mitchell? Here. There are 10 present. Thank you very much. Next, I ask you to please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, elimination under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from our fifth council meeting on June 1st. Entertain motion. Alderperson Wolfe? Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to approve. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any? All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Item 4.1 is a presentation which is an update on TIF districts by Chad Pellecek, the director of planning and development and Marty Halverson from the finance department. Gentlemen. Thank you, Mayor. So I'm going to start out and this will be a tag team if you've got any financial questions as we review the current status of our TIF districts. So just a little bit of background. What is a TIF district? A TIF district is a mechanism for funding development and infrastructure related to development. It allows all taxing jurisdictions benefiting from the development to share in its cost. We interchangeably use the word TIF to TID. So a TIF is a financing option that allows a municipality, a town, village, or city to fund infrastructure and other improvements through property tax revenue on newly developed property. And the TID is the actual district that identifies the area where the TIF incentive or TIF development is to be. So it's the municipality identifies an area known as the district as appropriate for the certain type of development. A little bit about the TIF law background. So Wisconsin adopted TIF legislation in 1975 to eliminate blighted areas and urban neighborhoods. Before the TIF law was enacted, if a municipality wanted to expand its local tax base, the municipality alone would have to pay the cost. But the overlapping, overlying taxing jurisdictions as in the other school district and county would also benefit from the growth. The legislature saw this situation as unfair and viewed TIF as a way to remedy the problem and encourage cooperation between local governments. And in our case, it makes up Sheboygan County, Sheboygan Area School District, and the Lakeshore Technical College. So what kind of types of TIDs are there? So you can either have a blight elimination TIF or TID, which requires a hearing to blight properties, a rehabilitation district. This is a district very similar to blight, but it doesn't, you're not blighting people's properties. This can be open for up to 27 years. An industrial TIF funds industrial and business parks and can be open for 20 years. A mixed use TIF is used when there is a mixed development. So if you have residential and commercial together, it would be a mixed use TIF and they're open for 20 years. And then you can use it for environmental cleanup for areas. If you had a factory that had significant environmental degradation, you can use it for environmental costs related to the cleanup. And those districts can be open for 20 years as well. So how does TIF work? Upon creation, the value of the TID is frozen for property tax distribution purposes. So in the city, the county school district and technical college continue to receive tax revenue off the base. So whatever the value was at the time that the district was certified to be created, the taxing jurisdictions continue to receive that revenue. And then any new revenue that's generated as it relates to the development is then kept by the municipality and must be spent on projects specific to the district in accordance with the project plan. Once the TIF closes, all taxing entities start to realize the benefits of the new value. So this graph just shows you what that means. So when you can see the line on the bottom, TID created and TID terminated and how the kind of segregation happens under each one of those taxing jurisdictions. How are TIF projects funded? Since incremental values are delayed, municipalities must decide on how to fund the improvements that lead to the creation of the increment. So you can do one of three things. You can bond for upfront funding for projects using municipal bonds. You can do what's called city-led pay-as-you-go harnessing new development and using that income to pay for future projects. And then you can do developer-led pay-as-you-go asking the developer to finance their own improvements and agreeing to pay them back all or on a percentage of the tax increment received over a certain amount of time. So most of the time what you're seeing when we have development agreements with developers is the developer-led pay-as-you-go where the developer funds the development and then we pay them back a portion of their taxes over time. We have done in some situations bonding where we went out and borrowed money and gave upfront incentives and we've also do upfront borrowing for public infrastructure improvements. So TID amendments, a TID may be amended for four reasons. Number one, to modify the project plan to add or subtract property to extend the maximum lifespan and to donate tax increments to another TID. TID amendment boundaries may be changed four times. There's no limit on the project plan amendments. One expenditure period amendment if not cash flowing and then TID, any of the TID amendments and or project plan changes must be approved by the Joint Review Board. So what is the Joint Review Board? They're to establish and maintain a Joint Review Board that's made up of one representative of the school district, one representative of the technical college, one representative from the county, one representative chosen from the city, and then a public member. So this is a listing of the current TIDs in the city of Sheboygan. We'll go into more detail on their current financials, but TID six we like to call as a south pier and the waterfront, basically up to the marina. TID 10 is Water Street and that's primarily where the Kingsbury Development Project is under construction today. TID 11 was the area around Washington Square, including Washington Square. That district has been closed as of April 15th of this year. TID 12 is an A Street office building, primarily the Nemshoff, the former Nemshoff building in downtown Sheboygan that now houses Rody Dales. TID 13 is the landmark condos. It was developed for the landmark square condos and it includes the Founders Club. TID 14 was originally developed for the construction of festival foods and was expanded for Meyer foods and the redevelopment that happened around the former Memorial Mall. TID 15, Pick and Save, that's the area where Kmart was demolished and the new Pick and Save at that time was reconstructed. TID 16 is downtown A Street, so it primarily is an area from the bridge up to Niagara Avenue by the Children's Museum. TID 17 encompasses Indiana Avenue, basically from the lake to 14th Street. The River Bend neighborhood is TID 19 and that's the area where both doctors was redeveloped into Lake Shore Technical College. And then TID 20 is the one we created in March and that's for the redevelopment of the former Vanderva property. So we're just going to run through some of the financials of the districts and then be happy to answer any questions you guys might have. But TID 6 was started in 1992. Its expenditure period is now closed. It closed as of 1231 2017 and the end date of that district is January 20th 2023. It was amended and had a number of changes so this one exceeded the amount of years primarily based on moving into the recession. So it's been open for 33 years and it's to close in 2022. It was created as a blight elimination district. If you look at the current status of the district, the revenues based on 2019 shows a positive cash balance between revenues and expenses of about $250,000 and then there's about $750,000 in the fund balance. TID 10, the Water Street. This is the area basically from Pennsylvania Avenue out to the Walgreens along the Sheboygan River was created in 1997. It closes in 2024. It was created as a blight district with a maximum life of 27 years. The revenues right now are positive at about $280,000. There is a deficit in the fund balance as of the end of the year but we're projecting that the new Kingsbury development will help fill that goal with fill that deficit with the plan to ultimately close it in the positive. TID 12, the A Street office building. So this is the Niagara North A Street. You can see the map on there. It basically goes from 7th Street to the middle of North 8th and North 9th from Wisconsin to Ontario. It was created in 2000. It closes in 2027. This district has substantial or has fund balance and has no additional expenses. So right now it's a donor district and it's sharing excess revenue with TID 17 which is the Indiana Avenue TID. This is a rehabilitation district open for 27 years. Although it shows a negative fund, negative balance as of the end of 2019, it does have $340,000 in fund balance. Landmark Square condos. So this is TID 13 that includes the Founders Club in Landmark Square was created in 2005, closes in 2032 for 27 years. Sorry, I don't know there's something underneath here but oops sorry. Anyway, it's a donor district to TID 17. It's got $632 as the end of 2019 with a fund balance of around $221,000 and it'll see some new increment with the Founders Club development being fully assessed now. So then there's no expenses in that district. Taylor Heights Festival Foods in now Meyer was created in 2011, open for 20 years as a mixed-use district, closes in 2031, has a positive cash balance as of the end of 2019 and a fund balance of around $462,000 does not include the new increment that'll be generated from Meyer and the Panera redevelopment as part of that project. TID 15 Pick and Save was opened and started in 2011, closes in 2031, open for 20 years as a mixed-use district, has a positive cash balance as of the end of 2019 and then the fund balance is right around 350,000. TID 16 Downtown Sheboygan and A Street, so this was created in 2015. Really the reason this was created was to facilitate the development of some market rate apartment housing. It runs through 2035 as a mixed-use district. It has a negative cash balance right now of $219,650 as well as about a million dollar fund balance negative. That's to be given. Typically the TIF districts this early on that you would see those expenditures and then over time the payback of the taxes would pay off the debt and we've done a number of capital improvement projects and different things throughout this time so some and there's also some additional increment that'll be gathered from high-point apartments and the visitor center that's part of that is taxable. So there's there's there'll be some additional increment but it's this is a downtown district that has a lot of needs and TIF is one way to fund some of those needs. TID 17 Indiana this was created in 2018. It closes in 2042 as a rehabilitation district with a maximum life of 27 years. It's right now receiving it's a recipient TID receiving funding from TID 12 and TID 13. It has a positive cash balance as of the end of 2019 and a fund balance positive as well but I will note that we did take a note out for almost four million dollars to repair the infrastructure around the Badger State loss and and those debt payments have not been paid back or started payment yet they will start in 2021 so even though it shows pretty positive now it's going to have some significant costs going forward although there is new increment projected from the Badger State loss project and the south pier condos that are under construction. TID 18 the south point enterprise campus this is the new business park on the south side was created in 2018 it closes in 2038 it's a 20 year district it's an industrial district it has a negative cash balance of about 4.9 million at the end of 19 it's got a little bit of fund balance in 2019 but there is some outstanding notes nans that were approved by the council for roughly 11 million dollars that need to be paid back there's also some increment not projected not included in here that will be coming from the FedEx project to the tune of about 7.7 million and then the north half of the Warner subdivision that hopefully is going to be breaking ground this year those properties are within this district as well so it's it'll see some increment from that just a little bit on that so that we're doing an aggressive marketing campaign to a lot of economic development areas and there's there was interest in the property and then COVID hit so I'm not sure what that's going to do for us going forward but the goal is to try to get a few more developments to least get this district cash flowing TID 19 the River Bend neighborhood was opened in 2019 it closes in 2038 it's open for 20 years it's a mixed-use district it has a positive cash balance it has a fun deficit as a fund balance deficit as of the end of 2019 although it doesn't include any of the redevelopment that's happened in that area as it relates to the waters edge condos the bulldoctors and the Richardson lumber redevelopment projects and the last one is the former van der Waart TID 20 was created as of January 1st 2020 it's open for 27 years as a rehabilitation district through 2047 has no expenditures or revenues as it just was started but we'll be done to facilitate redevelopment of that property so how many tids can the city have like that's a question we hear a lot is you seem like you have a lot of tids one thing I would say the department of revenue just keeps adding the numbers progressively that's why you're seeing 20 some of them are obviously closed but it requires us to not exceed 12 percent of our total equalized value of taxable property so when we created TID 20 the city's total equalized value of existing tids was around 190 million and the max we could go to is 350 million so you can see we have a little bit of flexibility in there yet for TIF district creation advantages of TID so it can increase the property values spur private investment and development create a stronger broader tax base incremental revenue is reinvested within the district stimulates investment outside of the district and then benefits underlying taxing bodies at the end of the TID life as you saw with the TID 11 where there'll be some payments back to the jurisdictions the disadvantages is that the increment does not materialize as planned the city might must find other sources to fund those improvements under lab underlying taxing just districts have no benefit until the TID is terminated tids may be used in areas where development would have occurred anyway and then increases the administrative burden on managing local government entity so that's it in a nutshell if you've got any questions I know I went through it fairly quickly but if you've got any questions you know overall I think the tids are doing very well you know and hopefully we'll you know see continued investment in those particular areas thank you very much for that report Chad are there any questions for Chad or Marty I have one I have one mayor Jim born please go ahead Jim thank you uh Chad uh do you see any other areas in the city that look like they possibly could be TID territory within the next five years the one that comes to mind right now is if we ever do any redevelopment of the armory property so I would say that's a potential if Pentair develops that's already in TID 17 so I besides Pentair I can't say that there's any other ones that come to mind thank you any other questions well thank you very much Chad next item on the agenda is public forum city clerk there is no one this evening and then we'll go on to mayor's announcements first of all I have some sad news today when I read the paper I find out that former alderman person Dennis Bauman had passed away we prepared a resolution to recognize his service to the city as an alder person and I just like to read that a resolution commemorating the distinguished service of Dennis Bauman to the city of Sheboygan whereas God and his divine wisdom has called from this life our valued friend and fellow former alder person Dennis Bauman whereas Dennis A Bauman served the residence of the city of Sheboygan as an alder person in the third district for many years stretching from 1991 to 2005 and whereas during his tenure as an alder person Mr Bauman served as a valuable member of numerous council committees including the public works committee also serving as chair the judiciary and legislative committee serving as vice chair and chair and the public protection and safety committee serving as chair whereas Mr Bauman served his constituents and the city of Sheboygan faithfully and honorably being a man of outstanding ability and integrity whereas Mr Bauman was a valuable member of the city council and the committees upon which he served always giving conscientious consideration to all matters which came before him in legislating with an open mind putting honesty and charity before all else he will always be a good example to all therefore it be resolved that the city of Sheboygan common council go on record in their deep sorrow and offer to his family their deepest sympathy and whereas Dennis Bauman passed away on Friday June 12 and now therefore be it resolved that the common council hereby commemorates the distinguished service rendered by Mr Bauman to the city of Sheboygan throughout as many years of service expresses his sorrow in his passing and offers his wife Gloria and his entire family their deepest sympathy now this happened just today so it wasn't on the agenda for tonight this will be processed next week and this will be on our next council meeting agenda to pass this but I'd just like to ask everybody to stand for a moment of silence in honor of Dennis Bauman thank you tonight I have the privilege of sending out a proclamation to name the poet laureate for the city of Sheboygan you may remember that at a recent meeting the council approved this new position we had four individuals who applied for it and we announced our decision tonight um whereas poetry tells the history of human feeling and can sustain emotional memory of a community and whereas poetry allows us to perceive our experience with greater richness and complexity and whereas poetry can carry us to the frontiers of linguistic imagination so that we can articulate our vision of the future and whereas knowledge of poetic traditions allows us to know more about our own culture and can serve as a passport to the cultures of others and whereas the mayor's office and the common council with the support from the mead library have established and supported the honorary poet laureate position with a term of service from June 15th of 2020 through April 1st of 2023 I now therefore Mike van der Steen mayor of the city of Sheboygan to hear private claim that Lisa Viejos is the poet laureate for Sheboygan and I just want to say that Lisa has been resident of the city for 18 years she is currently on the staff of the John Michael Kohler art center as a grants manager Lisa's poems have appeared in many poetry journals both print and online she has four uh chat books of her poems published and has two poetry anthologies that she's edited since 2008 Lisa has received numerous awards for her poems from Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences and Arts and Letters Lisa's focus has always been to encourage personal transformation through poetry and the visual arts and she is well versed at bringing people of all ages together to develop creative vibrant communities we are so pleased that she will serve as the first poet laureate for the city of Sheboygan Lisa please come forward and I think she has a poem to present to us this evening let's see can you hear me through my mask well this is a great honor I'm very very excited about this concept of and reality of having a poet laureate for the city for the last 10 years I've been working with many people in the community to do events in fact maybe five or six years ago mayor van der steen was a participant in an event we were doing we've done for many years called poetic pairings and we pair a community member with a poet and the poetry creates a conversation and so I'm looking forward to many more conversations and tonight mayor van der steen asked me to read a poem so this is one I wrote recently and I think it'll resonate with some things that we're all experiencing right now it's called in the pick and save parking lot looking over the top of my mask my glass is already steamed I meet your eyes stranger and we smile we cannot see these smiles but we know we are smiling the twinkle in the eye tells all we raise our hands in silent salute nothing could have prepared us for this moment or maybe everything did if only our hands could meet right here we'd become a prayer we know we are members of the same tribe fighting an insidious evil that flourishes on the breath on the wind and has run unchecked in all the lies of now and in all the lies past let it be unchecked no more in the journey towards justice there is just us essential prophets seeing beyond the mask thank you smile welcome next I'd like to ask john samuels to come forward john samuels was born and raised in new york state and enlisted in the us marine corps in 1981 in the fall of 81 john was awarded an rotc scholarship to marquette university and graduated with a bachelor's degree in may of 1985 at which time he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the marine corps he was promoted to captain and served until 1990 in february of 1990 he was hired by the san diego police department and worked there until he was hired by the shabuigan police department on january fourth of 1994 while at the shabuigan police department john has taken the additional duties of a field training officer where he helped train and develop our new hires he served as an evidence technician where he was responsible for processing crimes and collecting evidence on major cases and he also served as a firearms and rifle instructor during this time with the shabuigan police department john also continued his service to our country as a member of the wisconsin national guard during his service with the guard he completed tours both in iraq and in and afghanistan chief tamagolstaya said that he is grateful for the 26 and a half years of dependable professional service that john has given to the city police department on john's last day of work with the city we will be on june 29 of 2020 upon his retirement from the city on june 30 john will transition to a two-year active duty assignment with the united states army where he will serve as the battalion commander of the soldier recovery unit at fort blitz in el paso texas john we thank you for the service you gave to the city and ask you to be blessed with the wisdom patience and energy necessary to lead the recovery of our soldiers thank you so much for your service john tonight i'd like to present a special certificate of appreciation from the city of shabuigan to john samuels for 26 years of dedicated service from january fourth of 1994 through june 29 of 2020 john thank you so much yourself i'd like to ask pastor michael thomas to step forward tonight we have a proclamation on juneteenth day uh whereas the president abraham lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation on january first of 1863 declaring that the slaves and confederate territory are free and paving the way for the passing of the 13th amendment which formally abolished slavery in the united states of america and whereas word about the signing of the emancipation proclamation was delayed some two and a half years to june 19 of 1865 in reaching authorities in the african americans in the south and southwestern united states and whereas june 19 has a special meeting to african americans and is called juneteenth confining the words of june and 19th and is the oldest known public celebration at the end of slavery in the united states and whereas juneteenth commemorates african american freedoms celebrates the success gained through education and greater opportunity and whereas on a larger scale celebration of juneteenth reminds each of us that the precious promises of freedom equality and opportunity which are at the core of the american dream i now therefore mike van der steen may or the city of shabuigan do proclaim june 19 of 2020 as juneteenth day in shabuigan and urge all residents to become more aware of the significance of this celebration in african american history and the heritage of our nation and city and we must continue to eliminate racial disparities and support efforts to increase diversity and promote racial equality in shabuigan uh michael i'm pleased to present this to you and uh you have anything you'd like to say it is an honor to be able to receive this i thank you all for bestowing this upon uh myself and uh members of the african american community and i believe that this isn't just a step forward but a leap forward and our continued unity as a people um and i just want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart and they understand there's going to be some festivities all day on juneteenth day at fulton park we have one more retirement certificate daryl hoffland daryl has served as the shabuigan administrator for the last four years and two months during this time he's made the city of shabuigan a more professional organization the city now has uh the city now is uh much more has documents that much more and more professional the city now has a much more budget document that is more informative for our residents and has received recognition from the gfoa who awarded shabuigan the distinguished budget presented presentation award each year daryl has overseen the renovation of city hall the development of a new business park the south point enterprise campus the development of a concept for the innovation district street resurfacing and development of a workforce housing he's focused on the development also of implementation of the city strategic plan daryl has worked to develop more communication with residents and instituted annual surveys to learn the issues that are most important and get feedback on the uh performance of city departments he also began to track the performance of each department so that the leadership in the community can see that they're being well served by city government unfortunately he has decided to retire from his role as city of shabuigan administrator i want to thank daryl for moving the city forward on many fronts and wish him a great retirement this is his last city council meeting prior to his final day with the city on july third daryl please come forward we have a certificate of appreciation to present to daryl uh for his four years of dedicated service to the city of shabuigan from april 25th to 16th through july 3rd of 2020 and uh i understand that daryl likes to do a little sailing so we've given him a little artwork that has some sailboats on the uh the harbor with the city and the lighthouse in the background is a commemoration of his time here at the city of shabuigan which is so important to us daryl thank you uh thanks mike and thank you council members uh shabuigan is a great community as we all know the past four years have gone very fast difficult issues that were debated for years but we're finally decided included the 10.5 million renovation of this building we also discussed the recommitment of the city's five fire station model and appropriate staffing and of course in the last month demolition of the armory was finally authorized during this past four years i am especially proud of the redevelopment of many long blighted properties in the community especially in the downtown development of the business park as you mentioned mike and transitioning the city government toward a high performing organization model in response to market demand and the challenges of local businesses to recruit workforce uh the city's during the past four years has overseen the development or planned construction of over a thousand owner occupied or rental units on 12 different sites most of these housing units again are on redevelopment sites that are in or adjacent to downtown also for the first time in a couple decades a new subdivision will begin construction this year on the city's south side containing over 130 single and duplex units the management team and common council works very well together in getting things done for the betterment of the community and as cost effective as possible i continue to be very impressed with the talent and creativity of city staff it's been rewarding to see the positive response by city residents to this transformation of the city of the city over the past four years in response to a 2020 community survey question about the overall direction of the city 78 percent of the residents selected improving or steady this is a 36 increase over the past five years after 35 years of municipal leadership in appleton little chute grafting and sheboygan i look forward to the next chapter of my career thank you so much yeah surprise you buddy you have your own hopes next i want to go on to a little update on uh covid 19 first of all let's review the numbers for today uh last week we had 119 positive cases this week we're up 50 to 169 positive cases last week we had 23 cases that were active this week we're up 26 to 49 cases last week we had 93 cases that had recovered now we're up to 116 cases that's an increase of 23 cases that have recovered last week we had no uh covid cases in our hospitals and this week we have one unfortunately last week we had one more death so we were up one death from three to four the tests i have increased quite a bit this week we have 6177 cases that were tested and that's 100 1289 more than last week if you look at our percentage of cases per the test about a month ago we were at about 3.4 percent last week we were at 2.4 percent and this week we're at 1.8 percent so it's going in the right direction even though we've had some higher numbers this last week this last week there was an outbreak of 20 positive cases associated with the church in sheboygan county and the other cases were associated with contact with no one cases and just community spread the sheboygan county health officials released the sheboygan county safe restart recommendations to plan to open up with strong controls for businesses and residents we are now in phase two of the plan and it says that if businesses open they need to follow the wisconsin economic development corporation's best practices and sanctions specific to their sector in phase two which we are now businesses that choose to open must do so using the guidelines from the wisconsin economic development corporation and any sector specific recommendations that apply to their work that's being done limit capacity to non-essential business bars and restaurants it's up to 50 percent of capacity now and events held outdoors should allow for people to maintain six feet of physical distance from others encourage curbside pickup to reduce in-store traffic and long lines and always wear a cloth mask for staff city hall is now open to the public the main library is open to the public with limited hours monday through friday 10 to 6 and saturday 10 to 2 but the third floor meeting rooms and meeting rooms are still closed municipal court is conducting virtual hearings and our city parks have remained open all city playgrounds will be open tomorrow residents can use at their own risk the city is not able to sanitize the play equipment we encourage residents to bring their own hand sanitizer to sanitize the hands of children after using that play equipment city parks and building shelters our city rather park buildings and shelters will remain closed the following restaurant rooms are available for public use as the phased reopening of city facilities continues the land community center the outside restrooms only the land beach house richardson shelter rotary riverview park evergreen park areas one and four south pier turnaround south pier fish cleaning station the land park fish cleaning station volrath park kawanas field house and king park the facilities that are available for the public to use as part of the phased reopening are the deland park tennis courts moose park tennis courts veterans park tennis courts the volrath park tennis courts and pickleball courts will be open this wednesday the kawanas skate park kawanas kayak launch although it's a little wet going in all basketball courts all trails and all beaches the senior activity center will remain closed and starting today charlie metro resumed weekday service late in the day from 545 to 845 p.m and will maintain capacity at 15 riders on each bus and they currently have one hour service and complimentary fares for riders thank you very much the next item on the agenda is the consent agenda that'll include items 2.2 through 2.18 all the person will thank you mayor i make a motion to receive and file all our o's receive all our c's and adopt all resolutions and ordinances thank you for that motion and support those items those items are on the floor for discussion seeing no discussion i'd ask the clerk to call out call the roll for passage older person donahue oh there you are ten eyes motion passes under reports of officers item 3.1 is our own number 22 of 2021 by the transit commission to whom was referred resolution number 33 of 2021 by all the persons wolf and donahue authorizing the appropriate city officials to sign the final offer of the city of shabuigan with the attached tentative agreement which document has been approved by the amalgamated transit union local 998 recommends adopting the resolution all the person wolf thank you mayor i make a motion to receive the ro and adopt the resolution thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on the motion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll ten eyes motion passes item 3.2 and 3.3 will be referred to the finance and personnel committee under resolutions items 4.1 through 4.6 will be referred to various committees under section 5 reports of committees 5.1 is rc number 54 of 2021 by the finance and personnel committee to whom is referred resolution number 30 of 2021 by all the persons wolf and donahue authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute the first amendment of the development agreement between the oscar apartments LLC in the city of shabuigan with regard to the development adjacent to south 15th street and recommends adopting the resolution all the person donahue she's maryland you're not coming through i heard you say i move second foreign and we have a second that item is on the floor for discussion move to approve second foreign is there any discussion seeing none will the clerk please call the roll ten eyes motion passes under other matters authorized by law i'll turn it over to city attorney charles adams license applications for the period ending december 31 2020 april 14 2021 june 30 2021 and june 30 2022 that will be referred to the licensing hearings and public safety committee the next move on to adjournment all the person wolf thank you mayor i make a motion to adjourn thank you for that motion and support all those in favor of adjournment please signify by saying aye aye opposed we stand adjourned motion passes thank you for your time tonight


Ah, yes, Commodore Jeff Zanbello, a very kind fellow whose words are not mellow, and muscles are the total opposite of the Jell-O. I'm at the Royal Tabachi Buffet, Route 46, out of New Jersey, and I am proud to show you, of course I'm in the men's room, right, I am proud to show you that they have finally installed a bathroom sink with optimal water pressure. No cheapo water saving forces, like them, like that one, look at that, and it's not cold water, it's nice, you can adjust it, isn't that wonderful? So good things are happening this spring, okay, in the middle of March 2019.  Also, I give a shout out to the exorcist Bishop Brian, the star of the Travel Channel show, Ghost Adventures. Okay, here Royal Tabachi Buffet, Route 46, out of New Jersey.  They attack the roast duck, and they attack the cod, and they always end up getting nothing. So I better get it now.  It's telling you, people, now I know why I don't deal with the general public anymore.  Yeah, finally. All right, good. Excuse me. Okay, let's see what we got here. Bones or meat? We got meat, we got bones, and I don't know. Well, there's the duck. The duck is out of luck. There might be some good parts there. We've got to put out more duck. What's going on here? What's going on here, Jeff Zanbello and exorcist Bishop? Look at this. What's going on here? You know what? Whatever, whatever. You got that.  So I don't deal with the public anymore. I'm telling you, look at this. Look at this. Shrimp and creole sauce. Here we got brown rice with chicken. Look at that. Look at that. You're bronies. Now, I was very fortunate enough to procure this surf and turf. Comet or Jeff Zanbello and exorcist Bishop. Okay, now we'll do a little promo for the takeout. Now, for the very best chicken wings, buffalo chicken wings, you can get Royal Hibachi Buffet, Route 46 West, South of New Jersey. There you go. Takeout for your favorite or any sporting event. Could be soccer, could be baseball, could be football, could be professional wrestling, pay-per-views, could be anything. It doesn't matter. Look at that. Come in, get your takeout container, and load up for your special sporting event parties. Okay? The best buffalo chicken wings going. Look at that. All right? All right. On the other side, for those that don't want sauce, we have either light on the sauce. All right, these are officially the buffalo chicken wings. Okay? Okay. So, you got two styles. One, the other side was mild. It says mild on the other side. And this side is spicy. All right? So, come in and get your takeout buffalo chicken wings for your sporting event parties at home. This is James P. Madonna of Megalife 21, a progressive discussion is telling you to do it. My friends are not in a great mood because they saw me and they did not present their greeting, which I am highly insulting. But believe me, they will hear about it. They haven't seen me in a week. You would think they'd say something to me, right? All right, the ice cream is in good shape. All right? Okay. Like I said before, look at it. Somebody forgot to close it. No wonder the ice cream gets soft. The people leave the door open. I bet it's kids that do that. They leave the door open. Okay. Lemons are back, baby. Lemons are definitely back after a long period of absence when I saw nothing but limes, which I really have no problem with limes, but limes do have their place and function. Here at the Royal Hibachi Buffet Rue 46 West, out of Brooklyn, Jersey. And I'm going to need this for my ice water and the Skrodkot filet. Okay. And that should do it. Of course, there are people who will grab my favorite seats. I usually sit on the corner on one side, but I had to sit on the opposite side. Just like there were people that frantically grabbed my ideal parking space, so I had to walk maybe, I don't know, 30 feet farther because the general public basically sucks. Oh, look at this. We have both papaya. That's right. Papaya and mango. How about that? And fresh pineapple, of course. Right over here we got, okay. Time to sit for round one. Nice surf and turf to start. The boneless Skrodkot filet, lightly battered or breaded, brother. It's probably broiled, I think it's broiled with some roast duck. That is definitely out of luck. This is stuff plounder. This is stuff plounder with... Okay, this is round two. I am getting some... I'm not talking to myself. I'm getting some... People think I'm talking to myself, I gotta talk. I'm getting some nice succulent barbecue lamb ribs, you see? Lamb ribs. Ready? I'll take some carrots. Carrots. Peasant food, peasant food. But they're flavored with lamb, of course. Sacrificial lamb, Chef Sambello. And exorcist Bishop Brian. Sacrificial lamb. Yeah, yeah. Actually, I had no grease on my fingers. Exorcist Bishop Brian, the star of the Travel Channel show, Ghost Adventures. I had no grease on my fingers because I used a steak knife. I used a knife and fork. Okay, now... Well... In order to get... In order to take some of that, I'm gonna have to put some angel hair, chow mein... Mayfun rice in there. Oh, I'm sorry. It was chow mein stir fry. I have to put mayfun or brown rice on the bottom. Soak up that white sauce, which looks like... It contains olive oil, parsley, lemon. Lots of garlic. It's like a bouillon base. A bouillon balls. I gotta find something else. Can't just keep it a... A turf. I have to... I have to find a surf. I already had a car. I kind of stuffed myself in the car. Ah, let me see. What am I gonna do? Ah... Now, does a... Does a turf... You know what? Let me see if there's fried calamari. No. No, no fried calamari there. I don't know what to do. Oh, I know what to do. I get some of those marinated mussels. They are grape leaves. All right, there you go. New Zealand... New Zealand green-lipped mussels. One of the highest sources of omega-3 fatty acids, as well as being good for osteoarthritis.  I don't know. Kind of blows away the old stringy pastrami, huh? The old stringy kosher pastrami. I don't see any females. The females are pinkish. And the male... The females are pink. The mussel meat and the... The males are grayish. Oh, look at that. Look at that. They put out more papaya. Oh, how lovely. Gotta get another... Gotta get... Woo, gotta get a photo of this. Here's a little Mongolian barbecue action in the middle of a march. Some garlic. Looks good. Vapors of life. Some hot chili pepper. All right. Mui Pekante. Got some... Mayfran. Chinese rice noodles. Got beef on the other side. Broccoli. Commodore Jeff Sanbello. There's a new one. A little turf-and-turf combo there. Got the shrimp... Shrimp, beef, broccoli, Ongyong. I don't see any hardcore sushi out yet. Just all the usual, you know, Nambi Pambi, California roll items. Got some kimchi. Some guacamole soup. Chili salad. Pickled ginger, the usual. Wasabi. I gotta decide what I want. They got crabs. Oh, they got crab soup. Good. All right. Crab soup. Crab soup goes with this color. You gonna give me the contact after everybody? A bucket? Oh, you mean I'm gonna go... And then it'll... I mean... Then I need a baby bib. Like a lobster bib, you know, like... That's what they give me in a Chinese takeout. That's 132 ounces. Then I need a bib. That would be funny. Right? Baby bib? All right. Crab soup. She was gonna give me a big basin that they wash utensils in. That's a pink one, actually. We got the pink one. Fire... Fire... Juanita, we leave for four o'clock. You? You and me. Yeah. Leave for four o'clock. There's nobody here. Got a spoon. No, I already have a big spoon. Yes. The little spoon is for ice cream. Some crab soup. This has been a Mega Lab 21 production.


Welcome to Monet Cafe Studio. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and in today's pastel painting tutorial I'll take you through the stages and reveal to you what happens when we combine watercolor with soft pastel. The combination of these two mediums produces a result that is romantic ethereal and full of light. Are you ready to make the magic happen? Here we go. And it really does make a difference. If real quickly you will like this video I think you really will like it. Subscribe to this channel by hitting that subscribe icon and leave me a comment. I love to hear from you. The reference image that is so filled with brilliant light is from artificial intelligence, one that I created using Adobe Firefly. It's a way that you can verbally give prompts to create what you see in your mind as a reference image. If you're a patron of mine on my Patreon page you will have access to this image to use as a painting reference. Even though I'll be sharing my particular supplies for this lesson I like to share that you can use whatever you have. Use whatever simple watercolor set you have. I just use a small set. The surface can be anything that's water-friendly. You could even use watercolor paper and apply clear gesso to give it some texture or grit. As far as the pastels go I use various brands. If you're a patron of mine I give you a full list, my color notes, and a photo of all of my pastels used. Alright let's get started. You don't even need a very large set of watercolors since you can mix the colors. I started with this set that was new to me. It's made by Golden and it's called Core, Q-O-R. And what makes these watercolors unique is that it's made with a different type of binder than most regular watercolors. It makes the color very intense and vibrant. But as I always say, use what you have. But this really is a neat little set and I absolutely love the colors. Let me give you a quick little demonstration of these colors and you can see how they're applying just like jewels of color. I love them so much. Now you could totally use white watercolor paper for this initial watercolor portion and I often do use regular watercolor paper to combine watercolor and soft pastel. This is from a video tutorial I had a few years ago where I took a couple of my already painted watercolor paintings and I applied clear gesso. Make sure it's clear gesso, not regular gesso. It has a little bit of texture in it and when it dries it allows you to apply quite a few layers of soft pastel. And I actually started this painting that way and changed my mind. You'll see why in a minute. So I started applying the watercolor to the white watercolor paper and I felt like it was a little bit too bright in color. I wanted to neutralize it a bit. So I grabbed some pastel matte. Now I've used pastel matte in white before with watercolor. This is a wonderful pastel surface that is water friendly. But I decided to try it on a tan surface. The reason is I wanted my watercolor underpainting to be a little bit neutralized. And this because these colors with the core golden product are so intense and it definitely softened and neutralized things a bit. And the other great thing is that this surface, once I'm finished with the watercolor underpainting will be totally ready for pastel because this surface takes pastel beautifully. You can get so many layers of soft pastel on this surface and it works great with multimedia projects like this. So as you can see, I did not do a sketch at all. I started when I first started with the watercolor paper. I did do a sketch. I thought, you know, we've got an elliptical object, this jar. So let me get my sketch in. And I realized it was feeling too tight. And one of the goals of this underpainting is to have this loose and soft impressionistic beginning very painterly and free. So I decided just to paint and get in my basic shapes very loosely. Now, if you haven't painted or sketched a lot, you might want to go ahead and get a sketch in. But the more you paint, trust me, the more you do this, the better you will get. And I like to describe my method of getting my objects in. I use what I call or what is spatial relationships. I am constantly comparing and contrasting spaces between things, proportions, how one object relates to another. And don't let that intimidate you. Again, the more you sketch and the more you paint, the better you will get at seeing those relationships. Let me know if you'd like me to do a little sketching or drawing tutorial sometime. I'd love to do that. So as you can see, this surface is just taking this watercolor and just making it so soft and gorgeous. And it is totally what I had envisioned for the underpainting. Now, let me describe something else. I'm using for the underpainting is literally what it sounds like. It's a painting under a painting. And it really just serves as a roadmap. It serves as getting your values and your colors down. And it's a great way to start a painting. But what I'm doing as far as my color palette, this is called local color. Local color just means colors that you kind of see in the scene kind of natural to it, as opposed to something like a complimentary underpainting, which is using a color that's a compliment to the main colors in the scene. And I've been doing so many complimentary underpaintings in my latest tutorials that I thought a local underpainting color would be really nice to do as well. And again, the point of this was to look very romantic and soft. And I didn't want that high contrasting color underneath. I wanted to keep it very local and romantic looking and feeling. And as you can see, the colors are melding and almost melting into one another. And I want you to notice though, that while this is loose, and some of you may think, well, that's just a big mess. There is some rhyme and reason to it. I have my values and my colors in areas that are pretty accurate. So again, this works as a great roadmap when I go to start applying soft pastels. And it really just sets that foundation for a loose and painterly beginning. So as I mentioned, there are three L's that I'm wanting to achieve with this light luminosity and looseness. And this is definitely got all three of those going the luminosity is from just the luminous transparency of the watercolor. The light is from at the sum of the light colors that I used. And the looseness is another inherent quality of watercolor water period just loose and flowing. So here is my very romantic and loose beginning in watercolor. And it's time to apply pastels once it dries, of course. This is a set that I used quite a few of the colors from it is the Diane Townsend Landscape A set. There is a landscape B set. I love her pastels. Also, I chose some purples, some blues, magentas. And here's a quick glimpse at some of the pastels that I used once the painting was complete. Again, if you're a patron of mine on my Patreon page, I'm going to make you some color notes so you can see more specifically the colors that I used. Before we start applying soft pastels, let me tell you how to become a patron. If you want all the extra goodies and to support this channel, it's only $5 a month. Again, you get all of the hundreds of videos with full content. And you get to be part of my beautiful Patreon family. I love that. And if for some reason you don't want to become a patron, but you'd like this full lesson, I have a shop feature on my Patreon page. You can just follow me for free on Patreon. And on the computer version, you can click shop and you can access the full version of this tutorial, not the abbreviated one here on Monet Cafe. With all of the extras, all of the commentary, this particular tutorial is about an hour long, and lots of goodies that go along with it. So if you don't want to become a patron and you ever just want to buy one of the tutorials and all of the extra goodies, you can do that from my Patreon page. And now it's time to apply pastel. Again, the surface will just take it right away after the watercolors dry and note the watercolor will dry lighter and a little less vibrant. This pastel painting portion here on the Monet Cafe channel will be sped up substantially.  I do want to make mention that even though I cover up quite a bit of the watercolor portion of this, I still felt its influence peeking through. And it also acted as the perfect roadmap and guide for my color and value application. I hope you will stay to the end because I have some final comments to make on this painting and this process. And while I paint, considering that there seems to be so many trials and tribulations in this world, I thought I'd read some hopeful scripture along the music. Don't worry about anything. Instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all he's done. Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right and pure, lovely and admirable. Think about these things that are excellent and worthy of praise. We can rejoice when we run into problems and trials. For we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character. Character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us because he gave us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. Then Jesus said, Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.  Let me teach you because I am humble and gentle at heart. And you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear. And the burden I give you is light. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable and keeps no record of being wrong. It does not rejoice about injustice, but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Three things will last forever. Faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love. Now things are really coming together. And I'm beginning to add some of the lighter highlights on the flowers and the flowers that are sprinkling back through this meadow. And I really loved creating this painting. I felt the light was just so invigorating and gave me a sense of happiness and peace. I hope you learned a lot in this lesson about the beauty of combining watercolor with pastel. And even though this portion was sped up, keep in mind I have hundreds of lessons here on the Monet Cafe channel for free, lots of beginner tutorials, and there is lots to learn. Let me know what you thought in the comments. I'd love to hear from you. And as always, God bless and happy painting.


Hello and welcome to the latest in a series of interviews that Main Voices for Palestinian Rights is conducting with various outstanding leaders in the area of seeking a just peace in Israel and Palestine. My name is Bob Scheivel. I am the chair of Main Voices for Palestinian Rights. It is our primary mission to educate the people of Main about the history and current happenings in Israel and Palestine. We are very fortunate today to have with us Anna Baltzer. Anna has been an outstanding leader in this field. She has appeared on television some 500 times, including the John Stuart's The Daily Show. I believe I had that wrong. You've been on TV over 100 times, but I remember looking at the publicity stuff somewhere. Anna has spoken at some 500 venues at churches, synagogues, mosques, policy institutes around the world. And so we're very fortunate to have her here in Portland, Maine to speak with us about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Anna, could we begin by having you tell us a little bit about your life and how you got involved in this issue in the first place? Sure. Thanks so much for having me here in Maine. It's been really great to be here. It's beautiful. I'm a Jewish American. I grew up with a very positive view of Israel. It was when I had graduated from college and was living in Turkey and was backpacking around the Middle East. I loved to travel. I started to hear a very different version of what was happening on the ground in Israel-Palestine from anything I had ever heard growing up, and it was through my friendships with Palestinian families that I met along the way, that I began to question what I had grown up hearing and believing, and I decided that it was very hard to kind of figure out the truth, and I wanted to go and see with my own two eyes to really try and understand the situation, and so that's when I went and began to live in Israel-Palestine, documenting the situation, human rights abuses, and working with farmers and women and others who were working non-violently for justice in the region, and since then I've been really interested in sharing some of what I saw with people here in the United States. I've been here to Maine, and I'm really happy to be back to talk about boycott divestment sanctions as a really tangible way that people in Maine can support justice for all people in Israel-Palestine. And you have also authored a book, and I regret to say that as I think about that question, I don't have a copy with me that I can hold up for everybody to see, but it's called a news... It's called Witness in Palestine, a Jewish American woman in the occupied territories, and my website, AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com, A-N-N-A, InTheMiddleEast.com, it's got the book and the DVD and other stuff. And I can say to all of our viewers that it's a wonderful book. It has lots of wonderful photographs in it, lots of personal stories about people living under the occupation. It's well researched and documented, so it has a mixture of research, documentation with personal stories. Is that, you think, covered pretty well? Yeah. It's got a lot of photographs, it's full color, and it really... It also sort of documents my journey of coming to understand and the interactions I had with people there. It's very personal, and then there's also a lot of history and other appendices, original maps, those kinds of things. So it's a good introduction for people who are not... Yeah, who maybe, like myself, didn't really know very much about Israel-Palestine. Well, maybe as a way of leading into, or as preparation for getting to BDS, people, which is Boycott Divestment Sanctions, about which people will say, well, why do you even need to do that? Why do you do that? Maybe a way of getting into that would be for you to say just a few things about what you experienced when you were traveling through the occupied territories so that we can have a better understanding of why is there a need for this. Yeah, good idea. So I worked with the International Women's Peace Service documenting the situation, and I was horrified by what I saw in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. There are segregated roads, one kind of road for Palestinians living there, and the other kind for Israeli citizens who live there, who are settlers, and who I can talk about as well. Really, very blatantly segregated roads. There's segregated license plates. You can tell which car has which kind of person by the color of the license plate. It's really what many South African leaders, including the anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, have called apartheid, or in some cases worse than apartheid. Israeli settlements are towns and cities of Israeli citizens that have moved onto the Palestinian West Bank. This is land that's internationally recognized as Palestinian land. It's owned by Palestinian farmers and families who've been living there for generations. And yet Israel, which occupies the area and has since 1967, a military occupation with soldiers and checkpoints and everything, Israel is moving its own citizens onto this stolen land basically and building up towns and cities. And meanwhile, Palestinian farmers and families no longer have access to their olive groves. Their homes are demolished to make way for settlers to move in. If they resist, they're put into prison with no due process. In fact, not even charged a lot of the time. I could talk for hours about the ways in which Palestinians are suffering under this military occupation and their very basic rights to access to their own water, to their own trees, to their own jobs, to be able to visit one another, to be able to hold down a study job, to be able to get an education. Things that we really take for granted here in the United States are things denied to Palestinians every single minute of every single day because of this occupation by Israel. And this occupation is not happening in a vacuum. In fact, it's happening with full U.S. diplomatic and military support. The way that Israel is able to carry out this military occupation is through the billions of tax dollars that go to Israel in the form of weapons every single year. So we are very much a part of this. We are complicit. And that's why it's so important that we all here in the U.S. understand what's happening and do something about it. What you were saying there about the money at the end, I saw figures recently that the state of Maine between 2009 and 2018, people in the state of Maine will, through their federal tax dollars, have spent over $73 million to support Israel. And you can go online to a website. I think it's aidtoisrael.org. And punch on your state, click on your state, and you'll find out all the other ways that money could, if that same amount of money were used here. And I know that there's some 30,000 or 40,000 people in the state of Maine for whom basic health care could be provided if that money were here. So that's something for people to think about. Absolutely. Absolutely. There's a real cost to this. And the good people of Maine don't want their tax dollars going towards oppressing another population. And the people of Maine need their services and their own rights to be respected. You can even, on that website, you can click on your own city or your own county and see how much of that money is going to support Israel's oppression of Palestinians instead of being used in ways that respect human dignity and rights. When I am making the case for Palestinians in various venues, I will frequently hear, well, they have to have those separate roads and they have to have that wall and they have to wall off and protect the settlers because the Palestinians are a terrorist and they throw bombs or they throw rocks at cars and they're suicide bombers and that kind of thing. That's the reason we have to have all of this, including the occupation. How do you respond to that? I'm sure you've heard some of this. Sure. And that's actually one of the most, that's one of the ways in which it's been most important to see the situation with my own two eyes, to see how many of these institutions just don't make sense within the context of security. If you want to secure your population, why would you move them onto more Palestinian land? That doesn't protect your civilians. And the State of Israel pays its own citizens to leave their homes in Israel to move on to occupied Palestinian land. That cannot possibly make the Israelis or Palestinians safer. Building this apartheid wall that Israel has built, it's not being built between Palestinian towns and Israeli towns, it's being built between Palestinian towns and other Palestinian towns so that Palestinians cannot reach each other, cannot go to their jobs, cannot go to their schools, cannot go to their olive groves. In what way does it make Israel safer to separate Palestinians from their fields and from water and from education? I mean, when we read about these things in the US media, we are able to chalk it up to security, but when you see it on the ground, it just doesn't make sense. If they wanted to make those people safer, they could just bring them back into Israel and put that wall right along the green line in 67. Personally, I don't think that the way to peace is to just put one group on one side and one on the other and stick a wall between them. I mean, there were people who said that was a way to address apartheid in South Africa. There were people who, after slavery in this country, said, well, black and white people can't get along anymore, so let's just separate them. Personally, I would like to see a situation that gives true freedom and rights to all people in the area and does not try to solve the issue with ethnic segregation in apartheid. But certainly what we have now is even more absurd, which is that Palestinians are separated from each other and from their basic human rights and of course they're going to resist. Do you think the people of Maine would do nothing if their water was taken away from them and their children was taken away and their food and their land and their dignity? People are going to resist and if you're serious about seeing peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, you have to address the very basic human rights abuses that Israel is perpetrating with our tax dollars. Well, let's talk then a little bit about boycott and investment sanctions. So why don't you, first of all, just tell us what that is and then we'll go from there. Yes, I'm so passionate about BDS. I'm so excited to talk about it. In 2005, the Palestinian civil society, a group of 170 Palestinian civil society organizations issued a historic call for BDS, boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and complicit institutions until Israel complies with international law and three very basic human rights of the Palestinian people are realized. And these three rights that the BDS call is focused on are, first of all, ending the occupation that we've been talking about. But it doesn't stop there because there are more Palestinians than just those living in the West Bank. There are those and Gaza. There are those living inside Israel as non-Jewish citizens of a Jewish state who are denied their equal rights, living inside Israel as Israeli citizens who are denied and we could talk about that if you wanted. People can also look online. There's a great group, Adallah, in Insight Israel that documents the situation. And then the majority of Palestinians who are refugees from 1948 when Israel was created as a Jewish state in an area that was predominantly non-Jewish, they had to remove the vast majority of the Muslim and Christian Palestinian population in order to create Israel as a Jewish state. And there are millions and now Palestinian refugees from this initial and in the words of Zionist forces, ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Anyway, the BDS call aims to achieve the basic rights for all Palestinians, those living under occupation, so an end to the occupation, equal rights for Palestinians inside Israel that they should not be second or third class citizens. And then that Israel must respect and promote the right of return for Palestinian refugees who are living today in exile, which is the majority of Palestinians. And this exciting Palestinian call for boycott divestment sanctions is very focused on these three rights. It's not focused on one solution or another, but it says that if we wanna see a real just and lasting peace, Palestinians' basic rights need to be respected. And so the ask is basically, I mean, to put things in perspective, the way that Israel is able to continue its oppression of the Palestinian people and its gross violations of international law and its war crimes, the 2100 Palestinian men, women and children, more than 500 children killed in Gaza last summer, the way that Israel is able to carry out these massacres of the Palestinian people and the military occupation in the West Bank and deny rights to Palestinians inside Israel and deny the right of return to Palestinians outside who have been living in exile. The way Israel can do this is with the, really the support of the international community, the outright diplomatic and economic military support from the United States and then really an international community that has done nothing. And so the idea is basically, there is no incentive right now for Israel to change its ways. And we need to create a cost to this occupation. We need to show that there will be consequences when Israel is violating these Palestinian rights and that if our governments are not going to do it, then we are going to do it. And we're going to do it non-violently. We're going to do it in a way that follows a time-honored tactics of the anti-apartheid movement. In South Africa. In South Africa, that's right. To say that we are going to end our complicity. And I can talk about some very sort of basic ways that people can do that. So for example, did you wanna? Well, I just wanted to ask you, how do you respond to an objection to BDS that comes from even so-called liberal Zionists in our country who will say, really, BDS sounds innocuous, but when they talk about the right of return, let's be honest, they're really talking about the end of Israel. They're talking about the destruction of Israel. They're talking about the demographic swapping of Jews with all of these Arabs. So how do you feel about that? How do you respond? Well, so the, okay, so Israel's Jewish majority is not an organic majority. The fact that Israel today as a Jewish state has a Jewish majority is not an organic phenomenon. What do you mean by that? It's an artificial one. Israel's Jewish majority was created and is maintained through the violation of Palestinian rights, through the removal of non-Jews from the area in 1948 up until today, through the preventing of Palestinians from exercising real self-determination and having equal rights. So what I would like to turn the question back and say if having a Jewish majority in a Jewish state requires the perpetual discrimination and brutality against non-Jews, what does that say about Israel? What is, you know, the Palestinians do not have to defend that they are human beings. That they, I mean, that if somebody said, well, allowing people of color to move into Maine that's gonna threaten the demographics of Maine, I would call that person a racist. And so we have to be really clear here that everybody deserves dignity and everybody deserves their human rights to be met. And absolutely, I want security and peace for all people, including Jewish Israelis, absolutely. But it can't come on the backs of the Palestinian people. This is the indigenous population of the land and they need to be included in any solution. And they need to have the right to live on their historic lands in the same way that Jewish Israelis are able to live there. So the right of return is not controversial.  It's very, very clear. Palestinian refugees have the right of return and it's been prevented year after year by Israel and that has got to stop. You know, I'm sort of reminded as you're talking about a statement I read, it was in a book called Wrestling with Zion and it's a set of readings by many Jews. I don't know if they're all in America or, but anyway, many, many different Jews. And one of them is a piece written by Albert Einstein when he was being urged to support this new Jewish state in the Middle East. And his comment was that, no, I will not support that because what I would like to see is a state created by the two great Semitic peoples and see what kind of civilization these people would produce. And so it sounds like maybe that's sort of what, you would endorse that, I think, that why not have a cosmopolitan state that would invite and welcome all people and see what they create instead of just a narrowly defined state for one group. I mean, a narrowly defined state for one group is we've seen, it's not sustainable, it doesn't work. And it can't be called a... The violence today is not because there's not enough separation, it's because Palestinians have been left out of the solution, absolutely. Palestinians must have equality and the solution is not for us to decide here in Maine but really for the people on the ground too, but it can only be built upon the foundation of equal rights and justice and freedom for all people, including Jewish Israelis, but not only Jewish Israelis, it has to be Palestinians too. And this BDS call gives us a very tangible direction from the Palestinian people and I think many of us have often searched for, well, how can we support justice in Israel, Palestine? We're here, we're so far away. What does it mean really to follow the voices of the oppressed themselves? And we've been given a very clear answer. Palestinians from all parts of Palestine and in exile have said very clearly that if you wanna support our freedom, please end your own complicity in our oppression. And that means boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. So for example, when you shop at Haniford, grocery store here in southern Maine, are you buying products that are produced in Israeli settlements? Are you economically funding the military occupation of Palestine? You're a professor at the University of Southern Maine. Is USM invested in US and other corporations that are carrying out the occupation of Palestine and perpetuating Israel's apartheid policies? The University of Southern Maine, if that is the case, is complicit and needs to end that complicity, needs to divest its funds from these corporations in line with the Palestinian BDS call. Same with Bowdoin College recently had a BDS campaign where the student body had a referendum about the Palestinian call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel, which I'd also like to mention. Yeah, would you talk about that? Why is that so important? Absolutely, it's so important. So there is a Palestinian call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel. I think a lot of people tend to think of academic and cultural institutions. So for example, in the Israeli Bacheva dance troupe, the Jerusalem Philharmonic, Israeli state academic institutions, we tend to think of these things as sort of separate from politics, separate from Israel's oppressive apartheid regime. It's just art, it's just academia, it's just culture. But they are part and parcel of Israel's occupation and apartheid policies. It is in these academic institutions that settlements are designed, that state-of-the-art weapons used against the people of Gaza are designed. It is these cultural performers that are specifically tasked with representing Israel in a positive light as they tour around the world. So if the Jerusalem String Quartet comes to Southern Maine to do a string quartet performance, that is not just about music. That is about rebranding Israel in a positive light because Israel's image has been so deteriorating around the world because of its horrible policies and because of the good work of activists who are trying to bring the realities to light. Israel is in a PR crisis and basically has said, well, since people no longer believe that we are just a victim, now let's try and distract them away from our war crimes. And we know, right, that they're deliberately- Yeah, it's called brand Israel. You can Google it. It was developed by an Israeli think tank called the Reut Institute in conjunction with the Israeli government. That basically the idea is to rebrand Israel to divert attention away from Israel's political situation with the Palestinians and instead focus people's attention on Israel's cultural achievements, artistic achievements, academic, technological, scientific achievements. So when you see things about how Israel is so good of with ecologically sustainable technology, that is part of a branding campaign that is about whitewashing Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people. And don't they tell, that I hear you say at one point earlier that when art groups or performing groups are coming over that they are foreign ministry or to actually it tells them. They have to actually sign a document that says that they will be coming as representatives of the state of Israel. They are ambassadors of the state of Israel. Academic and cultural boycott as all parts of BDS never targets individuals, it targets institutions. So when we evaluate whether to boycott a particular Israeli dance troupe, for example, it's not about the politics of the individuals involved in the dance troupe. That's the relevant. They can be as racist or progressive as you want. What's important is are they here as ambassadors of the Israeli apartheid state? Are they here with a political angle? Are they connected institutionally to Israel's oppressive systems against the Palestinian people? That's what's important. It's about the institutional ties. And what you'll find as you do research is it is quite insidious that many of these cultural ambassadors are here precisely as representatives of the state and not simply to tap dance or do ballet or whatever it might be. So academic and cultural boycott can be a really, really powerful tool for us to use here in the United States. If you see institutional partnerships between universities here in Maine and those in Israel, those are things to look out for and could be good targets for a boycott campaign. I also wanna mention normalization which is part of the academic and cultural boycott call. Normalization refers to basically instances where Palestinians and Israelis are presented as two equals who are coming together to solve their problems through dialogue and through getting to know one another without actually talking about the political situation. So you can imagine how absurd it would be for someone during slavery to say, well, these slaves and their masters don't seem to be getting along very well. Maybe they should have some joint dinners together and tell stories and listen to one another and hug a little bit more and hold hands and sing kumbaya. You would say, what? The problem is not that slaves and their masters don't know each other well enough. The problem is slavery. And likewise, it's very tempting a lot of times for us here in the West to wanna bring together Palestinians and Israelis to talk, to get to know one another, to have dialogue, to see past their differences. But if you're coming together to coexist without resisting the system that is keeping these two people apart, you're doing more harm than good. And Palestinians have said very clearly. Because you're normalizing. Because you're normalizing. You're taking something that is utterly abnormal, namely Israeli apartheid, and you're making it seem like these two people have a normal relationship, but they don't. One has power over the other. And so if we really wanna see Israelis and Palestinians living together in peace, which I believe from the bottom of my heart is possible, we have to remove the system of apartheid that separates them. And so we need to be not coexisting, we need to be co-resisting that system. And I think it's worthwhile stressing, isn't it, that the BDS movement is a nonviolent movement. People, you hear them say, the Palestinians are so violent, they're so violent. And yet here's a nonviolent process.  Would you comment on that? It's really quite hypocritical and unreasonable for people who have been saying how Palestinians have to be more nonviolent. Well, here is something that is 100% nonviolent. It's built on tactics that were used by Nelson Mandela and Gandhi and Martin Luther King. These are well-tested, time-honored tactics to use in anti-colonial, anti-racist struggles throughout history to shame Palestinians for now using, what do you want Palestinians to do? You know, it's really quite hypocritical and unreasonable to not support this effort. It is nonviolent, it has incredible power, and we've seen incredible successes actually around the country which I can talk about. Yeah, yeah, so this is, I mean, I'm a BDS organizer today, and I remember a time when we were just kind of getting started and now I can't even keep up with the number of victories unfolding seemingly every day from corner to corner of this country and of the world. There are victories happening on campuses around the country where student governments are voting in favor of divesting their university's funds from companies involved in the Israeli occupation and calling on their universities to divest. Churches, the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America, voted to and divested from corporations involved in the occupation, including Caterpillar, Motorola, Solutions, and Hewlett-Packard. And that's pretty mainstream. Absolutely, just get more mainstream than that. It's not just a fringe, it's not just a fringe movement. No, no, the Quakers have divested and the Mennonite Central Committee has divested and the United Methodists will be considering divestment next year in 2016, other denominations are considering it this year, including the Episcopalians, including the United Church of Christ. I mean, this is not marginal, this is really mainstream and I'm hopeful to see churches taking the lead on this in the way that they very much did in the civil rights movement. What about Soda Stream? Soda Stream, so Soda Stream is a in Israeli settlement product. It's a homemade seltzer maker. It's made, or was made, manufactured on stolen Palestinian land in the Palestinian West Bank. And Soda Stream came under such scrutiny through boycott campaigns around the world that it finally was forced to move its plant out of this Israeli settlement. Unfortunately, it chose to move into the Palestinian Negev, which is inside Israel. Human Israeli, the Palestinian Negev. Well, it's onto the Negev, which was home to Palestinian Bedouins who are now displaced, unfortunately, by the factories. So we have to keep the pressure on and say, no, Palestinians in the Negev are also human beings. But it really shows the power of this movement. That there's this Gandhi quote, I may not, I may, I'm not sure if I'm saying exactly right, but the essence is, first they ignore you and then they laugh at you and then they fight you and then you win. And it's very clear, it's very clear that they can't ignore us anymore and they're not laughing, they're trying to fight. I mean, there's anti-BDS legislation being considered in Congress because just showing just how powerful this burgeoning grassroots movement has become, there are millions and millions of dollars being poured into fighting BDS efforts and yet the movement is only growing, becoming more creative and having more victories with every passing day. It's really holding us all accountable as individuals and it's also giving us back our power that we're not gonna wait anymore for the U.S. Congress or for the Israeli government or for the president to come to their senses.  What do you think we in the state of Maine can do? How can we become a part of this? You can, I'm so excited for Maine to become a part of the BDS movement and I know that there are already groups that have been working on BDS. It's really, one of the great things about BDS is that it's context specific. So it's up to each local community to evaluate different potential targets and then come together to focus on one. That's the most effective thing, is to really focus. And it's really up to you to look, what are targets in the area? Is it gonna be a product in Haniford stores and you grow a campaign asking Haniford to de-shell that product? Is it gonna be a local university where you're calling on the university to do it best? Is it going to be a remax, which is a real estate seller provider that's based in Denver, Colorado and has franchises all over the world, including inside settlements, they're selling settlement property and making a profit from it. And there are remax agents right here in Maine. There could be a campaign asking remax to have a policy of not selling in settlements and stopping profiting from the occupation. There are lots of exciting possible targets next time there is an academic partnership with an Israeli academic institution or next time there's an Israeli official cultural ambassador coming to town. That could be a great campaign. I'm so jealous at the wealth of possibilities here in Maine and I hope that those watching will be able to follow up and contact Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights and the Maine BDS Coalition to get involved. Let me just mention that there are actually two groups. One is called Maine BDS Coalition and the other is called Down East BDS Coalition. And so I think we've got a basis here for work and if there's anyone in our audience, you out there who would like to get involved with this at all, you can just send an email to mvprites. mvprites at gmail.com. That's rights like R-I-G-H-T-S. R-I-G-H-T-S, right. So it's sort of Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights. We just go mvprites at gmail.com and express your interest in this and then we will send on your name an interest to those who are heading up this particular campaign. Well Anna, it's been a real pleasure having you here and hearing your voice and getting your ideas about what we might do and just learning more about BDS. Thank you very much. I'm so grateful, thank you so much for having me and I can't wait to see the great work that happens here in Maine. Let me just add that you are seeing this particular interview on a CTN slash five, community television network channel five. And if you'll go to their website and look under memberships and then the members and go down to mvpr, you will find some other interviews on there that you might really be interested in seeing. Thank you.


Alright guys so today we are doing problem practice on the gravitation chapter so as you can see we are we have already started and here are the first two questions I have taken it from a well-known source which you will find out if you do enough problem practice anyway since you haven't done it you will not able to know right now start solving it you have four minutes to complete these two questions so the first answer is B for Bombay and second one second one is C okay all of you understood or should I discuss I will quickly discuss expression of moon with respect to earth is given right so the force between earth and moon will be expression of moon is given which is what V square by R only second literal expression okay so suppose this is earth and that is moon so it's acceleration V square by R is given so the force between earth and moon is mass of moon into acceleration simple right mass of acceleration is force acceleration is that much so mass of moon into acceleration is the force now if it stops revolving then what will be the initial acceleration towards the earth so this was balancing this this this was balanced by the gravitational force now if velocity is becoming zero the gravitational force will still be this much only in magnitude okay this will be equal to mass of moon time the acceleration of moon when it is coming towards initially when it was revolving around the accession was because of the circular motion now when it stops the acceleration will be because of its movement towards the earth okay either it will have second literal expression from the same force or it will start moving towards the earth same force will be same so that is why excitation in magnitude is same excitation of the moon just before it strikes the earth how much why so the when when it hits the total distance will be okay so the radius of the moon is it given one fourth of the earth radius so this is the earth and stop talking there's a moon moon's radius is r by 4 so how much is the force on the moon right now mass times g effective okay and g effective for the center of mass of the moon is g0 1- 2h by r so 2 h by r if you use is it g0 by this is an approximate formula isn't it the exact formula is how much g0 divided by 1 plus h by r whole square so this is this is the g so here you put h is equal to r by 4 to get the exact g0 so here so here if you put what you get g as g0 by 16 by 25 g and here if you put this what you're getting it as g0 by 2 right so these are there's a big difference so you can use this because the height h is not very less compared to the radius of the earth okay simple question okay okay what is the answer for this one see suppose the accession due to gravity at the earth surface is this and the surface of Mars it is 4 okay why it is seen anyone there has to be some point where the net gravitational force of traction will become zero there should be and there should be only one point so it can't intersect at two points okay it can't work see negative is like which direction you take positive or negative so it can you can say negative also but definitely it can't have two points so then it also shouldn't change sign which should not change a sign as in now here the weight they are assuming it to be a magnitude of it okay but they can assume the width sign also that's what I'm saying that it can be negative also assuming what you're printing positive negative but definitely it can't have two points having zero gravity first one D for donkey how will you do the first one explain who are deep but I calculate the force on earth you get you know the M.E.M. by R.E. Swear then you calculate the force in that other planet writing stuff in terms of writing like the mass and the radius in terms of the earth's quantities so mass is twice how how are you I didn't continue okay so G M.E.M. by R.E. Swear what is this G M.E.M. by R.E. Swear what is this the force on earth the force on earth okay then then a force on the other planet is let him only speak is G into 2 M.E. 2 M.E. M by so if you do 4 by 3 by R.E. Swear you get the radius is radius and if I do 4 by 3 by R.E. Swear if you use volume and density to calculate the mass of this second planet okay so two times mass of this should be equal to density is how much is equal to the density of earth rho into 4 by 3 pi R.Q which we don't know yes okay and mass of earth is rho into 4 by 3 pi radius of earth Q okay you can divide it and yes this is what you get R is equal to 2 ratio power 1 by 3 times radius of earth this is what you got yes right the substitute here you get 2 ratio power 2 by 3 stop talking R.E. Swear right yes so is that what they're asking huh so 2 divided by 2 ratio power 2 by 3 is 2 ratio power 1 by 3 this is D okay so you can see that this is that much times of that yeah straightforward this one mdr by 2 others yeah how you solve this work done is equal to change in mechanical energy kinetic energy doesn't change initial activity is 0 final category also 0 slowly you're bringing it there okay so what was done is equal to final potential energy minus initial potential energy and how much is the final potential energy equal to you do equal to minus g mm by 2R earth surface is lifted up by R so from center it is 2R so you want is minus g mm by R so you get g mm by R this is equal to your work done sorry 2R and g m by R square is small g so this is equal to half mgr okay so problems like these come in j means done yes both smart we haven't done the second one do both questions answer for the first one see and for second one see I think second one is straight forward these correct is wrong the plot of V against R is actually continuous it remains constant till the radius and then it drops so it's a continuous graph whereas the field is zero and suddenly picks up and then it goes okay so see for this and here it is work what is it? So work done is u2 plus k2 so k2 is equal to half m1 into 2 square stop talking from infinity right so u1 is 0 and k1 is 0 and w is minus 3 so u2 is minus 5 so potential is minus 5 potential is mass into potential so mass is 1 so potential is equal to potential energy in front of you okay what's the next one so it is independent of mass how will you derive it mv square by R is equal to g m1 m2 by R square so from there you get velocity and 2 pi r divided by velocity is the time period you'll see that mass of satellite disappears it's independent of that okay have you seen the gravity movie? Debris was flowing in the same radius irrespective of their mass after some time it again and again comes back to the same point so what I didn't understand is the gravity was going to be faster than the no no no actually the thing is that the speed will be same your movie like this they are coming like that oh so they can't catch the speed is same velocity is in opposite directions but if you are there you can't change the direction of your own velocity you can't apply force on yourself these two so it can't be used negative it can't be it is a little magnitude you didn't take magnitude see in J in the exam like J they want you to make errors so they they will do every such thing possible so that you make silly errors it is not a game of knowing a lot of concept J means is about not making silly errors simple J means is about not making silly errors advances about knowing concept to the depth okay so you can't just do silly errors and laugh about it you just gone behind 12,000 ranks if you get this wrong okay it will hit you badly this one both are B yes it is also be anyone who did not get this it is capitalist law of areas so equal areas will be swept in equal time so that is why see almost every time we assume that whenever it is not given we'll assume that planets are moving in a circular path if it is elliptical it will be mentioned separately like this okay then you have to apply capitalist law these two no no no it's cna cna because it's moving in a radius so normal force is you normal swing balance is a normal sensing thing that is cna logic may or may not be correct so because like this the spring has no force acting on spring guys man it's a spring balance the spring has no force on where it is oh second when I was looking at the first one so answer is c and a so basically if you are revolving around the planet okay then you will feel the weightlessness the reason for that is that whatever is the force acting on you this direction on your frame suppose you are standing inside the satellite with respect to you a pseudo force will be acting on you which is mv square by r and there will be g m1 m2 by r2 both will be equal always it doesn't matter what if you sit in a chair you will not be able to generate an extra force extra normal force to feel your own weight what you feel is a normal force what humans are designed to feel only the force humans are not designed to feel anything else okay you're designed to feel change in velocity which is acceleration but you can't feel the absolute velocity okay and similarly you can't feel the anything else other than force so there is no force which you are feeling so you feel weightless because whatever is the force applied by gravity is balanced by this anyways this one a body is suspended from a spring balance the recording of balance is w1 when the satellite goes in orbit of radius r w2 so weightless both both are weightlessness so w1 will be equal to w2 it doesn't matter actually whatever the radius of revolutions it is weightless ring can't apply any force okay spring balance the weight is kx whatever the force spring applies that is what the spring will show as a weight