Youths across the country have been charged to ensure they stamp their feet in the political space of the country by ensuring total participation in the coming 2023 general elections. Deputy National Youth Director of the All Progressives Congress, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Nicholas Felix, gave the charge while addressing party faithful in his hometown in a south-east local government area of Edo state. The party's faithful assured of a resounding victory for his presidential candidates alongside other candidates of the party in the 2023 general elections. I've repeated this in every interview.  As soon as the inauguration is done and our flag off is done, we're going to be going around the 36th state of the federation in governising and speaking to the youth, the essence of them voting for the right candidate. We need a both president who will take some both decision in ending the insecurity in this land. That's why we must vote for Senator Bola Metsinibu. We are very confident and happy that our illustration is being given such opportunity and position to help governise our people. We are expecting so much from him.  You know, honestly, personally, he's my brother. He's my younger brother. I'm very proud to say that and I'm very happy that I have somebody personally out there and I believe my local government also think the same way with me. Come 2023, APC, all the candidates in APC will win. Our Jagaban will be the next president of this country. We are moving around and showing that our candidates, they all came out victorious. We are moving from one place to another, reaching out to the market place, telling them about this party, about the needful, about how they will come up and vote for our candidates, most especially from the president down to the local government states.


Our Lakota people relied on Mother Earth to provide everything for the values we see in keeping her as healthy as possible is one big thing that drives us. Some of the ways we incorporate it with the seven W's of the Lakota humility and how we do with wisdom is how we try to manage our ground to try to make sure that it's the healthiest we can for future generations. I want my daughters, I want my grandchildren to be able to utilize the ground and be healthy for them for years and years to come. What we mean by showing that we can change is there's always better ways to manage your ground and if you just change your paradigm to see that it can be so much better for you. Years ago before I started this I was still conventional ranching, calving in late March early April, going through some tough times and my kids seen it and you know I went through a bout of depression and I didn't know it but my kids got to the point where they told me they didn't want a ranch, they didn't want to be part of this, they didn't want to be getting up every day stressed and they told me that they did not want to do this. So that was one driving factor to help me, there's got to be a better way, there's better ways to do this that are less stressful on your family that will make your kids want to be part of this. Started ranching 2008, did conventional ranching until I got tired of taking the losses in 2016, went to ranching for profit, Allen Savry and South Dakota Grasslands Coalition all within a year and started my regenerative practices in 2017 and just in four short years seen amazing progress. I've done some cross fencing with NRCS and then within that I've also done some rotational grazing in smaller paddocks and what I've noticed is more plant species coming back that I kind of always wanted back, big blue stem, you know other things that prove that my pastures are healthy and in the last couple of years I've seen a lot more of that, I've seen bare ground go to covered ground in a short amount of time with rest and I'm only four years into the regenerative and going full into it. He had a plan and he wanted a little help so come to NRCS for a little of assistance and we ended up you know writing a contract through EQIP and selecting some of the practices that he wanted to do and getting some of his water development started and some cross fencing and planted some trees and did some fabricated windbreaks and other projects that he needed to get done and help improve so he has farmstead protection, livestock protection, livestock water and he wanted to do a little rotating with his cattle and you know it takes the producer to do them. We're just here for help and assistance and we try and help anybody that walks through the door and he was one that came through and we were able to help so. I learned a lot from my failures and I failed a lot through this. Through this regenerative ag it's a learning process, there's no cookie cutter with it. You might think certain grazing practices work here while they might not work here but this other grazing practice works better here for the environment, for the terrain, for other reasons. When I go for a walk now I try to look for some of the species that tell me that my pastures are healthy. I've always wanted big bluestem back because I know that's a trademark of good pastures. I started seeing that back in my pastures. Walking today, Dave from NRCS showed us PsyDote's Grandma, just different species of needle grasses that show you that you've got a lot of good diversity and show you that your pastures are healthy just being part of the South Dakota Grasslands Coalition and them telling me the species that are good indicators of your pastures rebounding and also the ones that are telling you that it's not doing so good. So you've got to look for both of them, you've got to look for the ones that are telling you. We've been hitting this area a little too hard. Now we drive out and we look in areas where we used to see bare ground, there's grass coming in so it's helped the soil health in its pastures quite a bit by him implementing his management practices. The way I handle my cattle and the way I look at the land and the things I do for it, it brings me joy now. It's fun. People actually want to do this with me.


what's up going like hello everyone I just want to let everyone know that the giveaway for the month of December is over one person did state that they could give their name out that was Jack the other two one of them has not come out yet the other one said no they don't want to do it in addition to all of this we also had discord exclusive steam game giveaways and a lot of people did win now for all the things that you guys and girls are here for what about the January giveaway well simple rules to enter the giveaway all you need to do is subscribe to the channel so smash that subscribe button really hard and leave a comment on a video preferably this video that was a lot easier for me to tell you up who is here and who is not the other thing that you can also do to improve your chances of winning the game is join our discord on our discord channel we do have a thriving community with a lot of active members a lot of people that are there and the benefit of joining the discord channel is that you not only are automatically entered for being in the discord exclusive random steam game giveaways discord is also have extra thing is about to start name added for winning the money but first let me get some water in the meantime enjoy this music yes you can enjoy the music like that better than any other legs of the whole world so stand by I joined my you join my discord thank you so much too by the way I also joined my discord I'm there right now as soon as the game loads up I'm gonna be turning the music off that we all the queue queue and that's taking place in the game you guys can listen to it or as soon as the music ends all right I think we're done all right come on let's go I think that guy got a decent bit of bad feeling about this all right go go go go you're a recon come on man oh my god that guy just neighbor come on man I got counter sniper I didn't know the CLR as a single shot kill or are we gonna cap or what I don't like this let's go up man come on that was dumb you bought some food what kind of food did you get I've never been to a demort I've actually not really been there ever so I'm using a wrong type of scope on this weapon by the way somebody's font on me let's take that buggy and let's go there all right you want us to attack an objective that just happened that was crazy some chips and cake kind of stuff but kind of chips you simply cannot say the chips man use your main use your voice come why are you actually talking in the thing what is this magical light they got to go I did yeah thanks for stopping in I'm going to cap it come on one on top where is he where is he where is he time to equip the stinger hello hi I got revived and I got taken out instantly that is amazing I need to change my weapon I need to change a put a different kind of scope on it oh my god I've not had ages dude I love I have not had them in a really long they don't sell them yeah use a sniper I should use a sniper because everybody is camping which sniper should I use the J engine 90 of course all right I'm gonna go camping right now actually my team might not like it because somebody wants me to use a sniper Soviet hopefully I've been counter-snipe hopefully the round doesn't end soon I'm gonna put my spawn beacon right here come on spot them oh that's too far in that case stop moving why I'm seeing flying fireballs that actually is a bolt action sniper rifle that actually is to tossing out what do you call the tracer round because somebody wanted me this I saw he moved this is the only disadvantage the range is too much I got a hit on him this is the only good vantage point which is the other guy what the heck Oh that guy's gravity I wonder if somebody's gonna be kind of have an experience in battlefields but I only played pubg and call of duty mobile only mobile only mobile all right this one you can actually counter-snipe a lot longer I'm actually kind of surprised the sniper that I took out is not what is he going to who is he shooting at I sometimes play with pistol I will see you call of duty mobile I got him I got the sniper second time I wonder if he's gonna counter-snipe me again is this team that match or no this is conquest conquest you basically kept the point and you win like our team is so this is a long way to capture yep I have to catch your point but I'm not catching anything I'm camping camping is a really bad thing when you're a sniper somebody's shooting at me I don't have to camp actually this is not camping this is sniping just sitting and looking around for it the guy that I was shooting or the guy that I almost killed try to shoot me from there where is he where is he come on man I'm trying to spot him I cannot see him is that it or can we zoom it more I think it can be zoomed more right now I keep using 20 times zoom as in a board I caught one hot see the bullet travel it by the time we get the guy it goes out yeah if the guy is faster than a bullet or the bullet is lower than the guy that's the biggest this is what is somebody's engaging me let me see let me see should have got the variable zoom have that all the snipers are man where are the bad guys why don't you just move some forward say what move forward that this is a long range sniping weapon man I cannot move forward once I'm done with this if somebody takes me out then I'm gonna move forward absolutely how big is this is a really large that this extra I mean the island is very far than the boat you're on am I out of weapons no I'm not thought he ran out of bullets I hope the guy is on the strip there is no counter sniper what the heck man I should definitely move forward but this is getting boring and we have another sniper right next to me now and the bullet gets to him the guy moves man that's a detective part normally people are camping on the starboard I don't see anyone hello are you doing I'm doing good man I'm playing camping similar I was playing in junior class before but there is a you know what let's get research for snipers and wow is that a bullet and the storm is coming and camping means just sitting there shooting more one and waiting for the enemies to come yes that's a sniper there is a sniper there is a sniper there is so but the guy jumped off the tower man and I ran out of bullets well guess what now it's time to now it's time to move forward this guy took the boat I need to put on the boat come on man get me the boat take the boat up what song are you singing you're singing the song of a people I'm singing different songs all together what song is that yeah it's called dancing dancing no no it's by Aaron Smith who is Aaron Smith think he's a DJ I'm trying to cap a point come on and somebody count is like all right I'm gonna spawn back on the board now this is it this is too much well I have a variable zoom interesting I don't need a suppressor I'm gonna use a bipod that's fine although although laser sight let's cap and win some actually the guy was camping I can't believe he was camping do you have battlefield 3 or battlefield 4 man it's gonna try to flank us no whoever is on anybody has battle any battle feel at all yeah what about you here comes a storm this thing is yeah I'm actually I won't play battlefield you actually gave it to me you know giveaway oh yeah I remember you got the battle three you're right yeah but then I won't come because I'm actually doing schoolbook at the same time school what kind of schoolbook physics physics I mean you'll get some free time right yeah then we can play yeah I want your parents what you played no battlefield somebody said no battlefield what oh he doesn't have battlefield yeah we are camping well we are camping now is there any story line yes actually there is there is actually a battlefield for campaign and the campaign is really good actually playing multiplayer now yeah they're in the build to cap this come on man he's rushing he should not be rushed let's go let's go man don't do it that's okay I guess I used to use the RPK a lot I also used to use the M60 that's a really heavy duty weapon why are we like machine-gun yes it is I have a stinger oddly enough I could have taken him out you know what I will actually let me spawn in finally the chopper is down yeah actually I'm controlling the recall dude that was crazy that was to that guy is down to fantastic oh that's a tank how bad is the recall the recall is honestly not that bad in this game or if you can manage it there is 50-50 I spawned in and I got taken out by just my luck watch is there a storyline yes there is he said it was just a fighting game yep do you have any weapons in that ah you know what I can actually switch to oh right now as a matter of fact I'll switch oh I got a couple of medals and stuff this is good to everyone out of 20 we are 50% and I think camping in sniping didn't help should I play the campaign which is a single player mode in this did you complete the storyline of this game yeah I can restart it though I can continue the story good story is definitely good man but there is bad language in the story that's the only thing you have to be careful of right and this one this map this map this map man why no campaign cause he's sick of the campaign oh sweet I thought I got left in the chopper man it is realistic actually this happened hostile helicopter in east of my position okay that's on that side okay that's chopper right there perfect you said any movies lately ah man do you see any movies once in a while I should get a different scope on the last movie you saw in a theater ah I think it was a couple of many many years ago as a matter of fact in India or Florida and Michigan in there that's a different state now this is gonna be chaotic I should not go like this what happened my game what did they do don't tell me the server you said connection lost lovely lovely I lost connection as I was playing because actually it does I don't know man gonna join a different server different map on that map I could have got a flare weapon come on game come on it's loading up can you still hear me yep yes sir all righty what is water game what hello yeah something wrong yep the game is frozen this is called technical issues man technical issues is this game for stream free the game proves well guess what we're going to relaunch that stupid game and jump back in really interesting yes really interesting and when are you gonna play the orderly craft again that one that one that's a good question actually I have that installed too honestly so I'm thinking I can play that I know but I'm actually thinking I can play that again if a battlefield keeps on acting up and we're gonna be jumping into the canals because I think at the end of the game the damn breaks oh lovely this is gonna be this is gonna be something else all right man I gotta head out and sleep all right dude see ya good night I'm long range fighting in this game right now I don't know why the server seems to be full so why are they not any people coming in I'm really low and actually somebody is oh that's where the campers are okay good good good and he's a 14 times scope well guess what I'm gonna go sniper too and fire from a really long range but which one to use gold magnum will be definitely nice change in 98 days this morning get killed really let's see if you have any counter snipers on the other team I don't see nothing yet see a tank and I'm playing as Chinese people the other team doesn't have any snipers man what the heck from your face come on it to reload in the wrong thing were you kidding me my team is right here I'm trying to support them it's a plan or not I don't know what you're talking about the guys behind the tree come on and drink the curvy yeah what about it man they're by a mortar seriously and he's out good night he moved right in the very wrong second come on man he's jumping well I'm out of bullets time to go in all these good shots somebody got dropped over there look like a friendly well I guess we are engineers now yo we get a ride from you man see a tank over there there's a lot of running in this game man you have a revolver with a red dot yep I have a revolver with a red dot now cuz I picked up that kid this guy knows or it maybe we are not going okay he did see me play minecraft play minecraft play minecraft okay I will play minecraft look this is a lot of fun multiplayer dude there is the other team sniping wow look at that sniper when I sign in on a guy yeah yeah yeah yeah all right that's okay to have eyes on the aircraft but where is the enemy sniper I need to count a sniper man where are they going where are they going if I can find where these guys are going is gonna be nice I'm trying to serve with the entire location to find where the snipers are who are you asking and why what do you mean why am I asking reload of course reload in the rock time why you do this game let me reload before I get too aggressive took a boat just to get to me seriously guy in the front do don't go in there remove a bit forward and I think after this I might switch over to minecraft I might repeat what do you mean repeat what are you talking about stop moving when I'm shooting at you do you not want to get killed by my bullet hey come on man give me a right give me a right give me a right don't move don't move I I got skills I can help you or maybe I'll just take a Jeep and run forward yes platinum meditation or premium edition actually this game is well worth it even a single player mode is amazing the multiplayer is better there's a suicide mission actually we are going to go right for the base don't shoot man why you shooting you're gonna give us position away you're gonna take the point and there is gonna be armor now I know that this is how it happens we've got some bad guys coming over there yeah let's say I'll take it yo banana what's a banana what's the system requirements any system that you have can work honestly there goes a tank yes a 2013 game but it's definitely good still spot insist I'll take it there's one more okay where was this guy 40 times ballistic scope there is no way I can match that one what no yeah there's no it actually touches your arm you're dead no pubg dude I don't have pubg yeah this is not a good spot I'm still getting there up somewhere somebody's shooting at me how is that possible 338 is the longest range scope weapon that I have 20 times scope variable I don't need a suppressor I don't have straight full that's the only problem with this weapon your team lost of course because we were camping play CDM what is CDM dude I have to play stranded deep I have that game man I have not installed it though let me see what I play hello hello hello hello Minecraft I might play a little bit like you know what let me stop the stream really quick let me launch my craft but first let me see if oh watch is up to date sweet oh watch is up to date and it's not up to date wow really game why why you do this so what you up to man let's jump into oh watch if the game loads up at all alright let's do this while we're waiting let's jump into the practice range no I'm not stopping stream man I'm playing the game I'm jumping in the game right now welcome to Rialto Rialto Italy lovely we are going to get lean up we're gonna go with me assembling team in 10 seconds let's do this we got Mercy this is my game now it's gonna be rather different play a different game let's go let's do this and yes you heard it right that's it after six kills lovely they also got taken out by Symmetra Symmetra is used to be my main I shouldn't have felt in the water I'm too young to die Hindi yes they did one of the characters in this game is actually Symmetra she is Hindi or she speaks Hindi yeah this game is so hard that this game is not that bad just takes time to play that's all can I switch to Symmetra though I can't no no the payload is about to approach the destination somebody just go to exclusive winners are going to be there probably three just go to exclusive yeah there's a just go to exclusive they got all the tanks out right now that's crazy let's push them back gg is all around of the game McCree of course that information was on the video bro come on are you kidding me our snap 45 percent kill participation look at that 25 elimination all right let's actually go to loot boxes what is the special offer I don't want to buy anything in this game hero gallery and this is the main hero that I was talking about by the her name is Symmetra let me see do I have any voice things of her everything by design such a lack of imagination victory is everything exquisite what interesting ways your mind works so dramatic so dramatic why do you struggle am I supposed to be impressed who watched the skins actually hang on the skins are much better than there is a skin called Devi by the way the vampire looks amazing in my opinion but I didn't do the event so I didn't get the stupid thing and I'm not spending any money in this game I'll stick with the best thing in the whole world card of him and this is overwatch by the way people so let's switch over to Minecraft launching Minecraft only when I'm streaming Minecraft acts up for whatever reason we're going to create a brand new world team we're going to call it new world and we're going to make it survival normal difficulty cheats not allowed create a new world let's jump right in shall we shall we build and we're going to play this game with one mode and one mode only not to make Minecraft but do everything opposite of Minecraft chopper tree you know the regular stuff that we do normally get these dicks make a pickaxe this is a good spawn actually this is definitely actually one of the best spawns I've ever had in this game like look at this I'm not joking this is a good spawn what the heck there's a board over here all right let's actually first do what we do normally hello hello hello hello hey yeah besides hello you can say something besides hello come on man should I survive on this island only and not do anything else what do you guys think just live on this island I cannot leave this island this island will be my paradise what do you think the island adventure we will call this series the island adventure game what do you guys think and uh yeah no no no not having that it's too early for that nonsense all right so island adventures are starting right man what happened I was typing yes do it okay okay I will do it man and we have sheeps look at that game game this game likes me I think this game is okay I need to make sure that I have and we have a bed how about that we got our bed situation taken care of we have our wool and let's do this this is going to be you know what I'm going to make a house like a house here that was seen before you'll be like who comes up with this idea of this kind of a house you know I'm going to make an MLG pro house what is this is this game trolling me seriously I got diamond already I got iron too what the heck man this is actually a really good spawn look at that we we already got diamond we also got iron like what else do we need a bed probably to sleep but we need to make some basic rules of what we can or cannot do on this come on man give me some grass sounds a little weird yeah actually it's a new thingy what do you call the patch note that's what I'm playing right now let me also make a shield and for shield any what do I need I need wood I don't have wood for shield so the patch note seems like there is a little bit of a grass sound that's coming up weird so alright now we are in a much better situation than we were at the start come here creep I saw some coal I do need coal for torches so let's actually go and get the coal so the casual we do not leave this island at all and survive how many days 10 15 20 30 give me a count okay this is not the right spot 45 days all right and what other rules are there holy mother of god that's a lot of people this might be closer to a spawn of some bad guys so why are they are so hostile man okay thank you for breaking that up you have to check my health and eat you can leave wait what and you can't leave or no charge armor what do you mean no charge armor alright so bed is down let's get some food in our system so you mean don't get any armor that can be charged I guess surviving 45 days in a deserted island truly a cast of a situation yeah I do hear the grass sounds weird actually right actually when I'm breaking it actually sounds rather weird almost like an echo coming through and I just need some coal dude your zombie go away man I got nothing from you why is it so dark in this cave man come on bro okay let me make some charcoal actually it's stranded deep you're stranded deep minecraft addition I like that okay there is coal that's the coal I was looking at that will provide me the much needed light to protect myself wow they were trying to flank me man what's up with that all right new rule also in this I cannot sleep without a house so it's similar to real life situation when you're outside you know you need a shelter to sleep let's do that let's actually bump up a little bit let's make it a little bit more challenging okay that was foolish of me why did I do that I need that tree though I need that tree that boosted him dude what the heck another creeper what what is going on over here minecraft creeper behind a creeper that's crazy look at that what what is this the water has an edge clearly I underestimated these guys now I have plenty of torches I can finally secure the base new rule I can only light up half of the base or half of the island I cannot light it up completely what do you think good rule ah come on this will be horrible if I die to this stupid idiot that was crazy I think there is some issue taking place with minecraft that is not allowing me to hit the baby zombie I guess so the first rule of survival is so this is what happened actually in this game they're going to make a little bit of a storyline we had a like a ship and the ship got into a really bad storm and when that storm happened we ended up getting stranded on this island and some of the survivors that were there they ended up becoming zombies you know and now once the zombies are killed they turn into skeletons that's the reason why we have skeletons similar to real-life survival situation the first thing that you do is you salvage whatever you have and because the boat got shipwrecked it cannot even function as a proper boat unfortunately my axe is almost out I just realized that and my axe broke wow there's an enderman while it's tempting to kill the chicken uh I'm not going to do that because limited foods I need to escape these guys man I need to uh man this is getting more and more difficult and we got creepers falling over there wow this is going to be difficult and I want to look at you enderman I got no business okay this is this is bad how much longer for the sunrise come on cool I cannot make another crafting bench I can only have one crafting bench in this game try to make it a little bit more challenging the crafting bench is like you know that's your area to uh survival island yeah survive the night you're right look at all those zombies I'm just I'm just good thing that the zombie passed out now we got two drunk now we got all of them are drunk that used to be my friend man he died when the ship collided with the place and now he's trying to eat me and this is really sad god when is the sun going to come I need to keep these zombies away from me because otherwise if I don't they will destroy the port that I have left I need to get the wood from by the way drowns aren't affected by the sun lovely yes what I needed to know oh thank you thank you the sun is up finally I can get something to eat in my system let me go and take care of the zombie new rule uh new rule man uh for the next 10 days I cannot uh plant trees or start forming reason being I have not learned it yet let's start right that was a mistake you're still in shock for the reason exactly exactly you're absolutely right and trees take time to grow also so I'm not while I might pick up samplings I'm not going to start planting uh so this is day number two technically there needs to be a mod that actually is a Minecraft survival I hope there is one I mean not survival as in like you know Minecraft survival mode but I'm actually thinking there needs to be a mod that allows you to play like a survival game yeah day c2 yeah day two this is day number two you're absolutely right so day number two please tell me I can make a fishing rod do I have material for the fishing rod I need one more stick seriously I need to be careful with wood because I cannot break down all the trees starting the base building finally I didn't mean to do this why did I do this you should make a small house uh yeah that's exactly what I'm doing that way I can sleep fine let me get more tools god I don't have yeah I need to get more cobblestone actually I'm going to make a cobblestone house initially that way it is protected from to some degree from creepers and enderman I don't want to use wood for roofing material either because if I use wood problem I'm going to run across us because we cannot use anything for wood for 10 days and the rate at which I'm going through the tools that's going to be a problem it's still midday that's good and let's break this hello who joined in state your name human did you see that I placed the block and the dang thing disappeared man yes we have iron finally now we can make some stuff getting better and better protected now finally let me see I need to make some to get some food when is the giveaway giveaway is going to be taking place on the 1st of February sir which is tomorrow what the heck leather boots I'll take it I needed the boots early enough I'm thinking I should just go in there and take out the fish with my axe luck what do you mean luck man finally I can eat finally I can eat I just need one more for the thing oh god this is bad now it's even more urgent for me to my base as soon as I can let me get out of this place apart from my channel other content too yeah man yeah you're right actually thank god I didn't waste that on making a shoe and the house does need a light so I'm going to put one light in I keep on running out of cobblestone I need more cobblestone so I can complete this house and sleep and tie a piece I'm going to make a simple roof initially no what we cannot do remember because for 10 days I'm not going to be able to plant trees that's a problem because right now the ship got wrecked and I my player is still in shock so it's not able to do anything when it comes to farming or anything for 10 days yep you're right thank you so much man see rules you have to follow bro that's the thing that I enjoy about this why did that wrong why finally the shelter is completed let me just make a wooden door really quick yes now I can sleep finally finally yeah the door house has to has a door if you don't have a door then you cannot sleep and in this case for cross ventilation we are going to be opening up a window making like a bay window kind of okay this this is okay this is doable this is this is possible this is livable actually this we can live with now let me take care of the fishing situation the reason I'm actually fishing first is because uh wait what the heck happened that thing did just despawned how is that possible when you meet someone say hi hello I did say hi man I did what you mean like zombies and stuff yes that actually is a good idea you're sorting out the wood situation fine and I think I'm going to use these planks for making a wooden roof like a proper wooden roof read it all together okay you must not sleep okay let me see they're really efficient house roses are red when you meet someone say hi you may not sleep if there is a monster nearby okay share the seed of the server yep I will man so now that this is done let me get a water bucket yes I have planks finally I have planks oh are you kidding me come on you know what the crazy thing is now I can also finally put what do you call the lightning rod once I make the wooden house yep this is a great starting home yes that is correct yeah I shouldn't have done that actually I'm going to put that thing back on and I'm going to take this extra thing off from here yep this is a great starting home for sure let me see how much fishes I got four fishes come on fish that's a great idea I think I'm going to do that man let me go and make some wooden planks this should do the job great suggestion man great suggestion I like it all right so this is going to be our fishing platform so I need to destroy all of this wait a second I didn't see this just new rule the buddy treasure map after 100 days I can open it up or after 45 days wasn't it 45 days hi how are you I'm pretty well man how are you new rule in order to survive or once you have done surviving for 45 days to exit the game I need to get to the buddy treasure map area what do you think new rule yep that's what I was thinking it's night time and this is the limitation of the place that I cannot have any more lights than that in that area right day number three yeah that's a good idea man that's I think that's a definitely good idea how do I make a smelter yeah I don't want to hear a man or neither man but baby zombies can catch on fire now when can when did that happen the baby zombies can catch fire oh that was dumb that was really dumb I need to get food blast furnace is the finest already I can might finally make class I can protect the house with windows and stuff by the way when we are exiting the location the catch will be because we are going to be traveling to the extraction point I cannot have let's say a bed along with me so I have to destroy the bed if I die I die if I don't die then it's all good let's make it more challenging you know yep make sense I'll be only carrying the stuff that I can carry here on the hot bar anything else over here I'm not gonna be able to get I should fix this step if you come to think about it I don't need any more cobblestone do need coal though so I can make torches do I have more wood yes I do fantastic spider yep spider over there man see a creeper too over there and I see a cave spider and I see a second creeper what the heck come on creeper okay I need to get back actually this is this is too risky I'm taking too many risks man in a survival situation in real life we won't do that kind of oh god I'm stuck I'm stuck all right let me get out of this place this was too risky I'm taking unnecessary risk man that's not good finally we got some glass now I can finally spell some iron what can I make uh do you have subtexture pack loaded nah I don't think so finally we have a proper shed where are you from man that's a good question I'm from the planet earth hey yeah just take a question for sure what kind of questions are you asking me why is this not connecting oh because there is a torch over there that's why okay this is the we'll we'll work with this why people from other countries can speak hindi what are you talking about oh that would have been bad that could have ended badly one more yes done done and done done done done done would you look at that this looks like a proper fishing pier right get rid of the blocks speak french there you go I speak French can I make lightning close the door go to bed I legit know it dude I legit know it all right what day number are we on we are on day number where is the day number let's do the way here gotta play minecraft so much why can't I tell the day number seriously day number four where do you see the day number man I'm not going to do this menu in such a long time it's not even funny where is the day number yeah I forget about the day number I said first epic after local difficulty browse the biome what are you saying man you're confusing me sir okay this is the demarcation point we cannot have any more torches ahead of this with an exception of in the cave of course with this cave connects interesting this is the other cave that I was in actually oh yeah this is where the creepers were okay I see I see you came I see what you did okay I'm not going to take out the sheep because I need to survive using the food that I have sugar cane now we can make paper and what is a puffer fish what do I do with this can I eat it or what does it do no mate I end up right mate I just drink a lot of tea mate okay mate will be Australian technically right log of my stay yeah I should but where do I write it I need to have a book a guy that was in the chat he said I'm British I'm a British oh thank you now I can save some coal I still don't have a helmet so let me get a helmet to protect my head and proper boots so I can put something in my feet I'm from India all right that's good man let's make some paper let's make some sugar I don't have rabbits so I cannot make this that's not gonna be possible honeycomb how do I get a honeycomb dude uh break one LG what do you mean break one LG okay so the bee's nest is right there okay big mistake big mistake I shouldn't have done that how long will the bee stay is angry yet yep you're right but it did share a bee comb too and nothing happened oh that's how you do it why do I hear a enderman wait what I can make a beehive now what the heck and a honeycomb block for Kendall I need a string though do I have a string I don't have a string how do I make string lovely yep speaking of which hang on a second I'm going to be right back I need to get something to drink BRB you want to know how long the stream will be well till we exit man that's the objective right now the question that I have for you is should we continue in search of diamonds or should we just continue on search for survival by the way I was also putting on a pot to make some Maggie noodles you know Maggie noodles do you know what Maggie noodles are yep hopefully by the way the Maggie that I make I make them different I just don't boil them in water I put a little bit of onion a little bit of carrots a little bit of peas basically like a turka hello Muhammad oh wow will the sunset first or will I get the fish first let's find out I need to run I need to go to sleep all right what day number is it now well they didn't even see me this time interesting yeah we are actually on day number five in Minecraft where I spawned in on a desert island the ship that you see right in front of you that actually got shipwrecked and when that got shipwrecked all the people that survived it was only me as it sold survival everybody else turned into a zombie more iron I'll take it I mean what is this cool it's all good dude need to get out of this place I need to make uh I do have a good one dude thanks so much for stopping in appreciate your help and thanks for this idea this survival based idea this was amazing oh god that just happened wow that wasn't smart uh no I don't use cheats man I don't need them where's what's the fun in having x-ray pack at that point you might as well just use uh create it more and do whatever you feel like you know come on bees fill up this thingy keep on hearing that enderman is scary I don't care about diamonds dude diamonds doesn't matter takes the fun out of the game what's the point of diamonds and you're not having like when you're not playing it properly let's explore our desert island actually we have this area here what else do we have here oh we found gravel nice yeah I tried that dude it didn't work the technical issue put flowers around the house yeah I think I should do that oh interesting I didn't know that thanks for the tip dude sheer immense I'm going to make that right now actually put as much flowers as I can wait what I can breed bees now what the heck I did not know that all right new objective find the flowers and breed bees now the question is do they become friendly once I breed them hello goodbye yeah that's exactly what I did dude thanks so much for the tip I didn't know that wow they are growing big I think I'm going to also have a biodiversity by adding different color flowers over there now the real question is can the bees attack other hostile mobs if they attack come on bees where are you there's a what in the world all right there's more than the flowers for the bees six oak planks okay I'll give that a shot but why is this bee following me is this normal yo I have a question yo what's a what's a question my how is battlefield gameplay the battlefield gameplay is amazing dude the game is really sick it's well worth it all right time to go outside and get a spider so I can finally make a candle I've never made candle in this game come on spider spider spider hi hi hello hello I'm waiting for a spider so I can make something to mush flowers what what do you mean to mush flowers oh gg my axe broke when did I get a bow I don't remember getting a bow all right time to make time to find a spider so I can make a candle but first we sleep they are wiping in chill all right dude I shouldn't have gone to bed because I was waiting for the spider all right you know what let's go inside the cave and there's a you want to go he died fairly quickly all right your turn come on he missed he didn't miss I should make some lights this is a very inviting cave kind of scary that this just is spawned in and saying hey come on through here and keeps on going I'm a little bit worried now and that's another side that ends lovely well the cave is lit up so no more issues hopefully let's get that hopefully tasty spider yeah I was like you're trying to find a spider only enough I have more than enough iron now that I'm stacked to the max okay this is a concern let's get out of this place oh that was happened bad in case I didn't jump all right I'm gonna call it for a little second I need to get a little bit of a break why can't I type in your discord you must be in the wrong area man everybody can type in my discord comrade unless and until you're in the system or the you know the other section I'm gonna be back let me get a little bit of a break I was hungry as I sit before I'm gonna get something to eat BRB thank you so much for stopping in I'm gonna see you in a few minutes


ere's also significant risks or uncertainty that will actually ever be able to build a passenger rail project. And first of all, there's the environmental risk. As we saw with the atmospheric river storms, we could have significant flooding in South County through the sluice. We could have just continued washouts that we can't deal with. Then there's the Manresa Bluffs which potentially environmental risk but also regulatory risk is we go in front of the Coastal Commission and we've seen that in similar situations like in Southern California, the Coastal Commission has asked that the rail line be moved 100 feet inland which may or may not be possible in LaSalle at least not with a expense that's too great to handle. So, I think that by treating it as a certainty though that we would ultimately remove the interim trail it allows us to come to these perverse and frankly inaccurate a conclusion that the ultimate trail is the best environmentally. I mean, in fact, Santa Cruz City Council basically came to that conclusion. It's just not true. I mean, a basic high school understanding of statistics. I mean, probably even a child would understand that it's better to have a 100% chance of $50 than a 1% chance of $100. I mean, that's in the same way here, the interim trail cuts down 124 trees was the ultimate trail 381 trees. That's three times more trees, 256 trees. Now to go from the interim back to the ultimate you have to cut down additional 23 trees. That's basically a factor of 10 between how much you have to absolutely will cut down for the ultimate trail and how much you more you might need to cut down if you were to go back to the ultimate. Now, save you a little math here, but basically the equivalency of those 23 trees to the 256 trees is you have to have a more than a 9% chance of, or sorry. Anyway, basically you'd have to be 90% certain that we were gonna move forward with the train for it to be better to go right to the ultimate trail. Nine out of 10. I mean, who in this room would actually bet that there's a nine out of 10 chance we're gonna move forward with the train? So if it's anything less than 90% certain that we move forward with the train in the future then actually the interim trail is the environmentally preferred alternative. And it does prevent a huge number of significant impacts that are outlined in this report. So my question is, I mean, is there any reason why this report couldn't consider the like probabilities in terms of doing one thing or another? I mean, again, I understand the legal requirement to consider that we might have to go from interim back to ultimate and it's good to have that analysis. But I feel like without understanding that that's not a certainty, it's a chance the analysis really leads to inaccurate decision-making. Questions for staff. I would say for reminder as what the CEQA process is which is disclosing the potential impacts and evaluating them. So that's what the document has done. In addition to analyzing the interim trail and you pointed out there's different parts to that and you discuss the certainty of that it does identify the potential environmental impacts just of the first part one of the interim trail as a way to provide decision-makers and public with the most information possible. So that is what it's involved in the CEQA process. I think a question about certainty and equivalency that would be considered by the decision-makers when they come to make a project approval. Guy, did you wanna answer anything else to add to it? No, I actually thought that was a very excellent answer. Disclosing the impacts is what the EIR did and as a decision-making body I think you could certainly make those considerations prior to making a discretionary decision as to move forward with the cooperative agreement for one of the trail phases versus the other. Okay, thank you. I just had a couple more questions. So there was this discussion about the historic resources, right? And the fact that in our own segment 12 analysis that we're conducting turns out that really the rails themselves would probably not be considered historic even though this particular environmental impact report before us for segments eight and nine considers them historic. And I will just point out, I mean, it's this as well because it's confined to just looking at the trail segment and not the rail segment. I mean, it's a little bit strange since in reality it's the train project that would have would require the removal of the capital or trestle replacement of other trestles through historic impacts if those were to be removed. So, I mean, the question is this environmental impact report improperly claims that the ties themselves are historic and that doing the interim trail is, has a significant impact on historic resources. Does that inaccuracy in the report open us up to any kind of legal action whether the report itself or this commission? Thanks for asking that question. So the approach that was taken in this environmental document was a conservative one and that was based on the information that was available during development of the draft EIR which was prior to the analysis being complete and how it relates to the discussion in the EIR it really comes to the portion about the environmentally superior alternative which is towards the end of the document. And so it did inform what was the environmentally superior alternative that responsible or lead agencies do not need to approve the environmentally superior alternative as identified in a CEQA document. That's where a different outcome may have occurred if the historical analysis had completed prior to the development of segment eight and nine EIR. It's in the absence of that information I think it's appropriate to take a conservative approach to disclose the potential impacts to the greatest extent possible. You wanna look at the greatest potential impacts and instead of later finding out that you'll have more impacts it's better to find out you'll be able to reduce those impacts. Answer your question. Actually the report is not open to a legal challenge because of its treatment of historical resources. I think I deferred to Steve to answer the legal question. It is important to keep in mind the timing as Grace indicated of the new information regarding what was identified as part of the segment 12 analysis. And so we don't believe that the EIR as it's presented to you today is subject to a legal challenge in part because it has actually analyzed something to a greater extent. A responsible agency does have the ability to when they approve a project. So the second phase that all of you have been talking about today they have the opportunity to include things that reduce impacts even further. And that's where that discussion could come into play when the commission is ultimately making its determination as to which approach it wants to support. Thank you. All right, I'll just conclude by saying I mean the ultimate trail, we're talking about coming into the Live Oak neighborhood, my neighborhood and cutting down 380 trees. If someone was going to come to your neighborhood and cut down 380 trees, I suspect you'd be concerned as well and would want to be dang sure that they absolutely had to do it. So hope everyone can understand at least that that's where I'm coming from. Second, I think that I do have concerns that the way I think that the environmental impact report does do some basic analysis that is helpful regardless. And I appreciate it again, the overall suggested approach of staff. I'm concerned that it's construed in such a way that it considers possibility of certainty and leads to inaccurate outcomes and actually can support poor decision-making as we saw already with Santa Cruz City Council. So I think that if we consider again that we're trying to address how certain it is that we'd ever use that to rail tracks themselves, that's what we should focus on, right? And of course it's what this agency is focused on by conducting the passenger rail EIRC and addressing some of these largest risk factors in the concept report. But I think getting that information that we actually are certain we need to remove this monarch butterfly habitat, remove this bald eagle habitat, remove this shaded walkway for low-income communities. That's what we should be focused on. So thank you. Mr. Rodkin. Just to make two points. First, so people understand the reason that they had the city of Santa Cruz as a responsible agency had to look at the ultimate trail is because if you don't do that, you're involved in what's called segmenting a project.  And so you're asking me where could this possibly go and give us information about what the consequence of that would be? And for that reason, even if you think the ultimate trail is a bad idea and some later point when it's gonna come to us is you're gonna support the interim trail or think that that's the way we should be going. You don't have much choice but to support the CIR. Because if you didn't do that, believe me, you would get sued over that really quickly because people would be talking about not having done an adequate study of what the potential environmental impacts of this project in some form might take eventually when you came back to it. And again, because a lot of our easement depends upon not totally removing the possibility of freight or other sort of, even if we don't think it's gonna happen and we don't have a rail banking option that's real that I'm aware of, we don't have much choice but to approve this today. Which means that the comments that you made about the trees and the butterflies and so forth, they're not inappropriate comments or concerns but they're really more appropriate discussion at the time when we're gonna decide what project to proceed with and whether the city of Santa Cruz decides they're gonna go X and then we decide we don't like it and we're the owners of the right-of-way we have some control over that. But they're not inappropriate comments but I don't think the time means right for them because we don't have a choice but to approve the CIR I think at this point if we want any kind of a trail to happen here. I will only therefore only make a very brief comment in response to the issue of trees and butterflies because I think that discussion is better held at a later time. But since you said so much about it I thought I should at least say something. And what I would say about that is the potential for a train to address the issue of climate change for a way for this county to provide affordable housing for people at the scale that it needs to do if the state's not gonna just come in here and build boxes and pose them on us.  And so when people pose when city of Santa Cruz is facing this on other projects and other people are as well that cutting down trees is a negative environmental thing and how can you possibly do that if you believe in the environment. Sometimes one environmental issue trumps another and I'm just gonna make a brief argument that climate change is so serious and so impactful to us in so many ways that at some point you might make a decision to do something that otherwise doesn't seem like an environmentally great thing to be doing. But that's a discussion I think we, if we're gonna have it we should be having that over the, when we get to the issue of what project to finally approve rather than whether this EIR is an adequate EIR as Andy I think pointed out at the beginning of the discussion, thank you. Thank you Commissioner Rockin. Commissioner Schifrin. I'm concerned about a couple of comments that were made about the adequacy of the EIR. The one is that the interim trail should have been the preferred alternative if the EIR was done correctly and there were a bunch of inadequacies in the EIR. The city has adopted the EIR, certified the EIR it is the EIR in effect. It is if the commission majority feels that that EIR is inadequate that there should have been other conclusions the commission has the ability to reject it and do its own EIR. There's no reason why we can't do that. I don't agree that that is the case but I think it's important to know that one the commission has that option if they really want to reject the EIR because they consider the findings inadequate but I would also point out a couple of facts. One is that the interim trail requires the removal of the tracks and measured D over 70% of the voters that they don't want to remove the tracks. So doing an EIR and trying to justify a project that's going to fly in the face of what the public wants I don't think that's what this commission wants to do and I don't think it's the appropriate thing to do. It's not the appropriate thing to do around the EIR because I think the EIR is adequate in its analysis of the impacts and based on the information back with substantial evidence in the EIR it reached a proper conclusions about the preferred alternative. I think that's what we're being asked to accept today and I think we should accept it. I wanna say one final thing about trees I think it is unfortunate to cut down trees but that trail is gonna be there for a hundred years. Trees will grow back, there'll be more trees and as Mike says that you have to have a balance. Knowing that this issue is gonna come up I looked at the very fairly quickly at the draft EIR on the segment that has segment 12 state parks to Freedom Boulevard. It's gonna cut down 1100 trees. So these projects have environmental impacts and it's just a question of are the benefits that come from those projects worth having some of those impacts? And I think just as this commission is gonna find that that EIR is adequate despite the fact that it cuts down 1100 trees and I think it's important to accept yes there are some negative impacts the interim trail would have some negative impacts as well maybe not as much but they will be significant. And so and that's what the EIR found that the impacts were significant for the interim trail and in fact because of historic impacts the ultimate trail was considered the preferred alternative. So I think it's important to keep the discussion in context what's before us today is the EIR if the commission wants to find that it's inadequate or steps that it can take to do its own EIR but I think that would be a very poor decision for the commission. One question which to this point and could the commission find that we should request additional alterations to the environmental impact report at this point by the city as opposed to conducting our own environmental impact report? No that would not be an option for the commission today. Thank you. I see a hand up over here. Okay, Commissioner Johnson. Thank you chair. I guess I just wanted to question that a train or even Metro is a true remedy for climate change. I mean, it's not a panacea. The assumption that massive numbers of people are gonna use a train as passengers is fallacious much like the argument that Metro is now the total remedy for climate change. So when you take that position, it's such a monumental position that every argument that is being made by the chair for example is diminished because we have this climate change argument and a remedy that doesn't really really meet the criteria as far as facts are concerned. People here are attuned to the threat of climate change, okay? I would ask, I would bet that even 50% of people took public transportation to get this meeting today. I would argue no, I bet 10% didn't. So you're making the assumption that people use trains and Metro and so forth but the availability of convenience so often overrides the option of public transportation. I just don't want that to all of a sudden, this is a fact that climate change is going to be rectified by trains and buses. The facts pretty much say that that's not the case. Thank you, Commissioner Quinn. Commissioner Sandy Brown. I'm gonna need to hear her. We've migrated into comments. I'm gonna try to keep those brief but I wanna start out by asking a question with a comment intro. So I am a member of the Santa Cruz City Council. We unanimously did certify this environmental impact report and support the ultimate trail configuration as the project that we wanna pursue. It is the preferred alternative in this environmental document. I am not just really, really immersed in that document but I'm familiarized myself with it enough to make that vote. And so I wanted to ask and I'll say one thing about the trees. I can't help myself. I will advocate for a four to one replacement on the trees here at this body and with the city. I already have said that at the city council. I think that we do wanna take that seriously. It's a very important climate mitigation. It's a carbon sink. I'll stop with the comments. My question is the Santa Cruz City Council certified this EIR on March 30th. Has there been an appeal? I am not aware of any appeals, Nathan. Do you have any additional information? No, in the period of statutory period of limitations has closed. And the period's over. Okay, I just wanted to clarify that for everybody here as well. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Sandy Brown. Other comments or questions from the commission? Commissioner? I just wanna thank you. I just wanna confirm with staff. I think I've been on RTC for maybe two years now. And I can't say that there's been a single agenda item related to the rail trail that doesn't kind of evolve into an entire debate about every single aspect of this project from beginning to end. And so I just wanna confirm that right now, what we are asking to do is confirm that the EIR in front of us is adequate in its preparation and the information contained therein for this commission to make any future decisions on the course of the project. And that's it. Is that correct? Yes, there is a second step there, which is adopting the findings to support the findings effect for the ultimate trail and the interim optional trails. It is, I don't wanna confuse you, but I feel like it is a second step. It's in the staff recommendation that's important. But yes, it's related to the environmental review as the action before you today. Thank you. If I can add on to that too. I mean, there's been a lot of talk about two alternatives interim versus ultimate. It was not presented in the EIR as two alternatives. It was presented as one alternative. Preferred alternative in the document that was prepared by the city was to build an ultimate trail and to have an optional interim first phase. Our findings are different than that of the cities and that we are looking to adopt findings that include the ultimate trail and the interim trail as an optional first phase. And that's the difference between how we are making findings in the cities, making findings and that allows us to maintain flexibility and that the document is adequate such that we can make decisions in the future as to the best course of action. Thank you, Director Preston. Yes, Commissioner Hernandez. So does that mean that we're gonna go through entire process going with the, with the optional, I guess, trail as opposed to the ultimate option? Yeah, because it, you know, I was thinking maybe that there'd be certain segments that it would make sense to look at the optional but not going through the whole process, going through the whole process, looking at the lens of the optional. Like only certain segments that we look at. So, you know, let me ask a little clarification with respect to that because this is a 32 mile long rail line. They were talking about just segments eight and nine, not the entire rail line. So they're gonna be separate environmental documents for the rest of the corridor. Right now, segments 10 and 11 are under environmental review by the county. They're considering both the optional interim first phase and the ultimate trail. Segment 12 project as part of the Highway 1 EIR, which has just been released is also doing the same thing. We have not started the environmental document for the rest of the segments on the rail line at this point. So with respect to that, yes, but with respect to this individual section, the way the EIR was prepared, it's pretty much one or the other. We have the flexibility with our future actions with the findings that we propose that you make today will allow you to choose one or the other and then we would have that discussion when the cooperative agreement is brought forward. Hope that answers your question. I'll follow up. I guess I used segment and that was the wrong word. Yeah, yeah, okay. Thank you, Commissioner Hernandez. All right, so no other comments or questions from commissioners? We'll open it to public comment. Hi, Brian from Trail Now. Thank you, Commissioner Koenig and Commissioner Johnson on your statements. Clarification, I appreciate that. Understand what the vote is here. So let me just give some background on the city vote. So when the city of Santa Cruz voted, city staff told them they had to vote for the ultimate trail because the grant required it, they couldn't change it. It's on the vote. Actually, one of the commissioners said that when she voted, I have to vote for this. I don't have an option. That was stated. So we contacted the CTC, the California Transportation Commission to clarify about the grant. Can it go towards the interim? They said, absolutely. They actually liked it because it was gonna save them a lot of money. And they actually said, well, that's the common process done across the United States is to do an interim trail where you rail bank it, you pull the rails up. That is the common process. So what we're doing now in segment nine, Andy, you commented about the cost. Well, the cost estimate is 30 million a mile. That is more than the highway. That's an estimate today. We're gonna see by the time they do construction, it's gonna go through the roof. One of the things that's not really highlighted here is the same thing we're gonna see with Palm Street. Remember how we have that railroad track that prevents the disabled and the physically challenged? It's going to occur. When you build a trail next to the tracks and you continue to do that, you're gonna have those barriers from those people who can't get over that. Do we really wanna create that? And that's what's gonna happen. And then finally, we really need to step back and understand are we going to be able to have a train that goes on the coastline? And honestly, when you put in fencing that blocks beach access, when the trail or the rail corridor goes 20 feet from the ocean, Mr. Pupils, doesn't work. Thank you. Anyone else here in chambers? Hi, Sally Arnold, friends of the rail and trail. So just to get back to the focus here, I encourage you to accept the EIR. We've looked carefully at it. There is substantial evidence that it's adequate. And it did find that the ultimate trail option is environmentally superior and therefore the preferred option since it had a much lower environmental impact than the interim trail option. Because the interim trail, this was alluded to in some comments, but you have to go through the hell of rail banking, which is not gonna happen. Then you have to tear up the tracks. Then you have to build a trail. Then you tear up that trail. Then you put the tracks back. Then you build another trail. By phases of construction, how could that possibly be less environmentally impactful than one phase? And in terms of the comments about like, oh, well, people will do what's convenient when they're for transportation. That is exactly right, which is why we need convenient transportation, public transportation, and which is why 74% of the county wants to see convenient public transportation. So I don't think that, I think that we can expect that our elected officials are going to do what their constituents want and that we will see transit on the tracks. And therefore going through five phases of construction and destruction don't make any sense, the EIR showed that. And that's why it's really appropriate for you to accept the EIR today. And you can find about what project you want on another day. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Arnold. All right, so anyone else here in chambers, we'll take it to online comments, starting with Ryan Sarnitaro. Yes, I think that the presentation as well as the EIR reflects a bias on the part of staff or even a blindness to the downsides of doing the ultimate trail immediately. And for instance, raising the ties to the level of a historical resource while ignoring the fact that a fence is going to be blocking access across those tracks throughout the entire length of it with a few exceptions. I mean, to me that's just not the way to do the presentation here. In terms of greenhouse gas emissions, who's talking about the amount of GHGs from the extra cement that has to go in for all the retaining walls and how much earth has to be moved, how much GHG benefit there is from leaving the trees in place rather than taking them down now and possibly only possibly cutting them down in some long-term future for the ultimate. The idea that trees grow back when the ground that the trees are on is now turned into cement or whatever it's turned into for the trail surface. The idea that 70% of the voters in this county would actually agree that this is the thing to do in that segment I think is an extrapolation that's essentially irrational. That's not what people who really care about the environment and care about greenhouse gases look at how much opposition there was to taking down 12 trees in the parking lot in the city over the farmer's market library issue. And I do wanna thank Manu for the context. The idea that you wanna look at this in terms of the odds, what's the percentage chance that the actual train with this lack of delivery of public service is going to be funded? And if that's really such a long tail event, the massive destruction that's proposed now and the destruction that you see on section seven B where now the sewage treatment plan is exposed as fumes in the neighborhood, there's noise. I'm sorry, but there's something else that needs to happen here. Ian Brocklebank and Michael Lewis. Hi, commissioners. Thank you, especially to Commissioner Koenig for really speaking about the real environmental impacts of segment nine. I appreciate that. It is scientifically not true that climate change overwhelms wildlife habitat destruction. For millennia, for thousands of thousands and thousands of years, wildlife has adapted to climate change, but they need to have habitat to live in while they're adapting. It's not also not true that 70% of voters did not say they didn't want the tracks removed for an interim trail. They were confused. They thought an interim trail meant they could never have a train. The trees will not come back in the rail corridor and the lead agency even says that they don't know where they're going to plant replacement trees. So that's absurd also. Today, I understood before I came to this meeting that the RTC resolution is to accept the EIR as a decision-making document. And part of that decision-making will belong to the RTC and it will be during the in cooperative agreement portion, the RTC can say, you know, we've decided we want to go with the optional first phase. And that's what we're going to make our cooperative agreement with you. So accepting this EIR does not endorse it. It does not approve it. It doesn't give it the high five. It just says, okay, we've got the document and now we the RTC can, because we're a responsible agency can also do some decision-making here. And the last thing is that the second part of the resolution, it changed from accept to approve the findings. And as I wrote to commissioners earlier, words have meaning, except means consent to receive. Thank you, Ms. Brocklban. Okay, I got close enough. Next up, David loves car free nature. Good afternoon. Can you hear me okay? Hi, this is David Van Brink in Santa Cruz. Sorry, I couldn't make it today to a beautiful downtown Capitola. So despite Koenig's claim that a hypothetical school child is smarter than the Santa Cruz city council and his rather speculative monologue on math and statistics, as a commissioners Schifrin, Rotkin and Brown point out that's basically irrelevant for today. Please approve the staff recommendation. We're all excited to get started here. It's going to be a lovely trail ultimately. Thanks for all the great work. Thank you, Mr. Van Brink. Joanna Lighthill. Thank you commissioners for considering my comments. I want to point out quickly that the slideshow showing earlier today is showing the ultimate trail. It looks like there may have been an error describing the trail width. The slideshow trail is 10 to 12 feet with shoulders, but the actual width is eight feet, excuse me, eight feet with a two foot shoulder. Anyway, about the EIR, just despite its length, I wanted to point out that something really big was missing and that's a reference to freight train. As you know, ours is considered as an active rail line. The RTC is currently in contract with the rail operator. The rail operator owns a freight easement 10 feet from the center of the tracks and the trail as proposed would be built to overlap to be within this freight easement. Yet the EIR does not address any potential conflicts between trail users and the railroad. The master plan did, it was impact T4 and I hope that the RTC will acknowledge this as an important consideration. That being said, I hope that you can clarify what you're voting for today. The agenda asks you to accept the EIR as adequate for decision-making and adoption of these findings would allow the RTC to maintain flexibility to take discretionary action. In your packet, however, today you'll see that by accepting the EIR and adopting the findings means that, quote, in the RTC's judgment, the benefits of the project as approved outweigh its unavoidable significant effects. Any one of these reasons is sufficient to justify approval of the project. Thus, even if a court were to conclude that not every reason is supported by substantial evidence, RTC would stand by its determination that each individual reason is sufficient, end quote. It appears that by accepting and adopting it today, you're telling your community that you've determined that the benefits of the ultimate trail justify the removal of more than half of all the trees in the corridor. That does sound like a commitment to me. So thank you for your consideration. And your important decisions. Thank you. Thank you. David Dean. Yes, thank you for your time. I would like to urge the RTC to move swiftly in accepting this environmental review and proceeding to build the rail and trail. I would like to make it known that yes, indeed, voters do care about this do oppose removing the rail. And if we, in fact, do want to move swiftly, this interim trail nonsense just makes things worse. It slows everything down. The estimates in the agenda packet show that the ultimate rail would begin, the ultimate trail would begin construction in about two years. But the interim would be put off to about four years. This isn't what the people want. They want a trail now as soon as possible. So please move swiftly and accept this report and get on with building the rail trail. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dean. All right, seeing, okay, equity transit. Hi, thank you, chair and commission. Equity transit. This is Lonnie Faulkner on behalf of equity transit or just support of this segment eight and nine EIR on behalf of countless community members that are looking forward to equal access to the beautiful Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail. People in our community who are people with disabilities are elderly that finally will have access to an ADA compliant trail of this magnitude is truly a great step for our community. So let's move forward quickly with that. Our voters voted in the majority, many whom in this community are well versed in science such as myself as a scientist in the mitigation of the removal of trees and understand the huge environmental benefit to a future possibility with rail because of the incredible large carbon reduction that we'll have with the numerous people who are very excited about the possibility of rail. So we need to keep that. Also want to point out at a recent meeting with the department of transportation and the CTC, their maps show and they're very excited to show that within 10 years we can have rail in this community if we have the leadership that stands behind that and supports the voters in terms of the majority voters of what we want in this community. And I also want to point out in terms of scientists our Sierra Club, SCCAN, that Santa Cruz Climate Action Network, Land Trust, Santa Cruz County and many other environmental organizations and environmental scientists stand behind this program, this EIR and a future with rail. Ironically, I want to point out that the proposed Greenway Trail which some of the people that are opposing the ultimate trail right now are Greenway supporters actually supported a 26 foot wide trail which would be much more destructive. So let's move forward with the ultimate trail and approve the EIR. Thank you so much. Ms. Faulkner, I see no further hands online or folks in the audience. I'm sorry, if you scroll down, maybe there's, I believe that there is one additional public comment because Jean Brocklebank and Michael Lewis share a line. Go ahead, Michael. Thank you. Can you hear me now? Yeah. I'm concerned about the comments that we just heard from Johanna Lighthill about the results of an approval of the EIR and adoption of the findings. I hope Grace can look this up real quickly and find out if that's really true, that if you accept the EIR and adopt the statement of overriding considerations that you're committing your decision to the ultimate trail only and not including the optional first phase. And if that's true, vote no. And if that is true, then I ask that you vote no on that and not tie yourself to that one particular outcome. Thank you. Thank you. All right, last speaker is Sean. Very good, sweetheart. Thank you. Hi. The former Greenway Executive Director on the commission does not have the chops to say what is correct and what is not correct in this report. And language does matter. There are people on the commission and there are alternates who will take some of this information, use the same information online and when they have meetings elsewhere. When they are misrepresenting, misquoting, it's the responsibility of the commission to correct that language while we're talking about it.  A native forest is a healthy forest. UC is not working, UC is working with the Almamutsan Tribal Band to have a more natural managed land. We've heard a lot in the last few years about how management and native plant life is healthier, prevents fire and that is what's better for our butterflies, for our birds and for all the wildlife is for us to have native trees. And if anyone hasn't noticed, we live surrounded by forests. This is going through the city and as far as accessibility goes, those trees will be pulled for accessibility. The disability community needs people movers. We can't rely on the bus because increase in funding has been redirected by roads, redirected roads by the RTC. Those wheels are our legs for some of us and an open pathway, that's not enough. We have temperature sensitive conditions. Thank you. All right, seeing no further comments online or here in chambers, I'll return it to the commission for action. Mission Rodkin. I'll move the staff recommendation, including the findings. I'll only make one brief comment. I'm not sure the last speaker really wants what he asked for, which is for the commission to correct all the misinformation the public gives us in their comments. Thank you. Second. It does not. The commission retains the authority to make the determination. This resolution that is before the commission today preserves the opportunity for the commission to be able to make either choice at the time that it makes its determination. Sorry, just to clarify, the commission was by Commissioner Rodkin. I heard the first second by Commissioner Hernandez. The discussion, Commissioner Johnson. Thank you, Chair. I may be in the state of confusion. I'm not really sure, but this is confusing to me a little bit. I usually default to know when I'm unsure. That said, it's not my intention to oppose the authority and self-determination of a city like Santa Cruz because I fully respect that. But on the other hand, I'm not so sure that a decision may notwithstanding the assurances that this doesn't bind us in any way for future considerations. I'm not so sure that it doesn't lead us to some sort of road that we may not want to follow. So I'm gonna respectfully vote no on this, but again, it's not my intention to kind of disrespect the intentions and the actions of the city of Santa Cruz. It's just that I'm unsure. Thank you, Commissioner Johnson. Any other discussion? Sure. Mr. Nguyen. Hi, yes, if I may. You know, the item before you guys this afternoon is really to certify the EIR in its completeness that it's a robust environmental document that has taken into account both the ultimate trail as well as the interim trail to equal level of detail. So that's kind of the first action that Grace mentioned earlier. The second action is with regards to the findings of fact and statement of overriding considerations. Now, while the city of Santa Cruz has chosen to pursue the ultimate trail as stated in our statement of overriding considerations and findings of fact, the RTC staff has allowed you the commission more flexibility by including the interim trail as a part of that proposed project. And so today's action isn't necessarily choosing one interim or ultimate. It's really getting through the environmental phase saying that the analysis that was performed is robust and complete and that at a later subsequent date as the county and city and RTC continue to work together on a cooperative agreement that that will come back at a subsequent date. Since I don't, I'm hoping that with that today's action isn't necessarily pinning the commission down with one trail or the other. It's really more of a decision for clearing the environmental document and moving the project forward towards environmental or towards mitigations and permitting. Thank you, Mr. Wernher. Mr. Hernandez. I just wanted to say, you know, I'm supportive of staff recommendation to understand the comments made by Nathan. I have to say I am also, you know, a little uneasy like Commissioner Johnson having both options on there, but it gives me peace of mind knowing that it's found that the ultimate trail option is found to be more environmentally superior and that the city of Santa Cruz also voted on it. And so, you know, everyone knows me, right? I'm for the ultimate trail option and I'm against any rail banking. I think it's bad policy, but you know, I'm willing to support this. And I think that despite that language having the other option, I'm supportive of this. And I know what the vote is about the FEIR, so I'm supportive of it. Thank you, Commissioner Hernandez. All right, so no other comments. I'll just add that, you know, again, I appreciate that the decision before us does retain flexibility for this commission and does not identify a preferred alternative one way or another. I think one area that I'm concerned with is that the environment, and I don't really want to undertake another environmental impact report that's completely separate to this. I think that would take time and money. And I think that most of the critical elements are in the city's environmental impact report. However, as I said, I think the key question here is whether FEIR we have before us is adequate for decision making. And we've heard throughout this debate, several folks, including just here, Commissioner Hernandez, point to the fact that the ultimate trail is this environmentally superior alternative. And in my view, it depends. It depends on how certain we are that we're gonna build passenger rail or that freight rail will return. And so I'd be willing to support the staff recommendation or the motion if there was with the friendly amendment recognizing that the environmentally superior alternative depends on the likelihood that passenger rail or freight rail will return to this part of the tracks. Okay. I don't need to be personal in any way. It's just the language that we use. It's not one that would be adopted automatically. Can I ask for clarification, what you're saying is? No, I'm not suggesting that we select a preferred alternative. But the EIR is based on the assumption that the train is gonna come back. I'd simply think that we need some recognition that there's a chance, that the environmental superior alternative ultimately depends on whether or not the train comes back. But that's not what the EIR looked at. But it didn't. We did not assume that the train was gonna come back. Didn't, and that's what I think the staff was saying at some point, if the commission wanted, or if the lead agency wanted an EIR that just sort of had three options. One, the ultimate. One, the interim with an ultimate. And one for the interim only, that would be a different EIR. But can't really, you know, but since the EIR was based on the fact that the assumption that the rails would ultimately come back, that's what the EIR is based on. So, you know, to the extent that you wanna make clear that that's what the EIR is based on, I mean, it says so in the EIR. But to say that that may be wrong is sort of undermining what this EIR did. The EIR was done this way because that's what the commission wanted. And this was voted on by the commission to be wrong. But I think unanimously that there'd be two options that would be looked at, which is unusual under CEQA at the same level. One would be the ultimate. One would be an interim with the understanding of the ultimate. Understand that that's not really what it was like. But that's what the EIR is. And if you wanna add another approach, we have to redo the whole EIR to put that in. If you want another option.  So I don't know whether it really makes sense to try to do that at this stage. And certainly that would not be a mission in the position of saying, we need a new EIR. You see what I'm, I understand. I just wanted to offer that. I mentioned earlier that in the analysis completed for the document, as Commissioner Schifrin pointed out, it was an equal level of detail for both the ultimate interim. And then also for the interim, it broke down the project into the three parts. And so the part one, and there is a discussion in the alternatives analysis that talks about part one and that it being the environmentalist would have been the environmentally superior alternative if it is the only piece of the interim trail that's implemented. Kate, are you still here? Is that correct? I think I have that correct. I'm our environmental consultant. I'm not sure she's still online, but. Hi, I guess it is. You're correct. We acknowledge that discussion for information purposes in the environmentally superior alternative section of chapter five alternatives. But it doesn't change the findings around the environmental superior if it does provide disclosed that information to decision makers and members of the public. Correct. I'll call the question. That's a big issue. We're going to compete this horse to death going back and forth. We're not going to get anywhere. The questions, you know, it's been, you know, moved in second and moved to a vote. We have to vote then if you want to call the question. Yeah, we'd have to vote to vote. I mean, I just, I think we are almost done. I mean, all I'm asking for is that we have, I'm not asking for a new EIR. I'm just saying that this commission do something to recognize that ultimately converting the interim trail back to the ultimate trail is not a certainty. And that we're going, that's precisely why we're continuing to study with the, moving forward with the passenger rail EIR to understand the feasibility of that. It has nothing to do with the CIR. I mean, you may be right and I would agree passenger rail is not a certainty, but how is that relevant to the matter before us? The matter before us is, is the CIR, are we willing to accept the CIR as adequate? You know, I think. Well, no, it's under further clarification that will ultimately lead to how people use this environmental impact report for decision-making. We have heard this environmental impact report misinterpreted multiple times. And I simply think that if we're gonna deem it adequate for decision-making, we should simply acknowledge that that conversion is a possibility, not a certainty. If no one is willing to make the amendment, fine. I'll call the question. I'm gonna put it out there. There's no further. This is a vote for SLAM done for the ultimate trail I voted against it, but this has been stated time and again, this retains flexibility and we're talking about a segment here. So I'm gonna vote for it. All right, there's no further discussion. Commissioner Quinn. Maybe it may be too late, but I do prefer Commissioner Koenig's amendment that specifies that the ultimate trail is more environmentally friendly if and only if you do the interim trail first. And if you stop at the interim trail, it is indeed more environmentally friendly. And that's been called out, but I absolutely see that this will be used in the future to say even the EIR shows that the ultimate trail is more environmentally friendly than the interim. Yep, do you wanna move that as an amendment? Yes. Okay, I'll second. I'll remove my second. I mean, after all, it would take more than two votes to pass an amendment. If anyone else wants to second the amendment. All right, seeing none, we'll call the main question, which is to adopt the staff recommendation. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? No. Three noes. So that motion passed, any abstentions? Seeing none, that motion passes with three abstentions by Quinn Johnson and Koenig. All right, then that completes our open meeting. We'll now move into closed session. Council, do we have any reportable actions coming out of closed session today? We are not anticipating any reportable actions. We do have the two closed sessions that we would convene into. All right, we're going to be taking closed session in this room. So I'd ask at this point, all members of the public to please leave the chambers. And...