Doris height. Yeah. Oh, oh she said some. Yeah, that that part was hard very seldom do you just get it to us that's why we need help. Why won't you help us very seldom put that I don't think we can have any concerns. What's that meeting with him and Javier about the. Yeah, I skipped the conference. Yeah, I'm really wanted to have a year of having just. Yeah, I wanted to make this. It's there. We went out after I do mine. Okay. Okay. And that you just. Meeting of the Durham City Council to order. For Monday, March the 19th, 2018 at 7 o'clock PM and we certainly want to welcome everyone who's here in attendance. Thank you so much for being here. And now could we please pause for a moment of silent meditation. Thank you. It's always nice when there's a baby during the silent meditation. Make sure you get this grounded. Yes, it does. And now I'm going to recognize Councilmember Reese to lead us in the pledge. Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you everyone for being with us tonight. If it is your practice to do so. And if you're able, please rise and join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Will you please call the roll? Mayor Schuyl here, Mayor Pro Tem Johnson here, Councilmember Alston here, Councilmember Caballero here, Councilmember Freeman present, Councilmember Middleton and Councilmember Reese here. Councilmember Reese, do you have a motion regarding Councilmember Middleton? I do, Mr. Mayor. As you know, so this is for the edification of the folks in the audience and at home. Councilmember Middleton had to travel out of state today for a personal matter and has been stuck out of town with a broken airplane and will almost certainly not be here before the end of our meeting. And so for that reason, I would move that we grant Councilmember Middleton an excused absence tonight. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we grant Councilmember Middleton an excused absence. Is there any discussion? If not, Madam Clerk, will you please open the vote? Close the vote. Motion passes 6-0. Thank you very much. And now we'll move to our ceremonial items. And the first ceremonial item tonight is the Neighbor Spotlight. And we will be recognizing tonight as our Neighbor Spotlight Constance Wright. Ms. Wright, are you here? Great. Please come up. And if there are friends or family that you would like to come up with you, please invite them. Good to see you. Congratulations. Thank you. How are you? Great. Hey. Hey, how are you? Good to see you. So as you all know, we give out a monthly neighborhood spotlight to amazing citizens doing amazing things. And this month's recognition for the month of March 2008 to 18 is presented to Constance Wright of Red Maple Park Community. I'm going to read a little bit about Ms. Wright. And then I'm going to let you say a few things. So get ready. Okay. Constance Wright is the recipient of the Neighbor Spotlight for the month of March 2018. The Neighbor Spotlight Award recognizes community members that have gone above and beyond in volunteering their time to serve the community. This month, Constance Wright, a resident of the Red Maple Park community, was nominated and selected because of the wonderful work she has done in her neighborhood, including but not limited to organizing neighborhood projects, including cleanups, events at the park, and the construction of a caboon playground, starting the neighborhood watch and attending PAC Two meetings, sharing information with neighbors, and conducting outreach to support community activities. Congratulations, Mrs. Wright, on being the March Neighbor Spotlight for the city of Durham. And thank you for all the work you do to improve our Durham community. And we are just really happy to have you here tonight who congratulate you. And I'm going to give you this plaque and let you say a few words. So congratulations, great honor. It's an honor to receive this award. It was a surprise also when I was told that I was going to get it. I couldn't imagine who had nominated me. Well, it was my neighbor and friend, and she's always helping me, Pat James. I want to thank all the people in my community. I want to thank my family and my friends that come out and support me when we do our cleanups, when we have our events in the park. We do a lot of things around there, and I always have a lot of help when that goes on. So I just want to thank everybody for recognizing me. Like I said, I'm surprised, but I'm honored all at the same time. Thank you. Thank you all. And if you haven't been to Red Maple Park lately, it's a different place than it was. Thanks to Ms. Wright and people like her. It's an absolutely wonderful park in the city of Durham. Right. And now the second ceremonial item tonight that we have is a proclamation for the Crop Walk. And I'm going to ask my council colleague Javier Caballero to come and to read this proclamation. And I'm going to ask Karen Haldeman. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Karen Johansson to please come up and receive the receive the proclamation. Is there anyone else, Karen, who's with you? Oh, yeah, Spencer in March. Please come up. This is a very active trio. Please come up. Javier, here we go. Whereas at the end of World War Two, American citizens wanted to share our country's abundance with European war victims, and Crop's first purpose was to gather wheat and other crops from US farms and send to Europe, send to Europe on friendships. And whereas today, the Durham Crop Hunger Walk is an important part of community life bringing together people of different faiths, different socio economic levels, diverse cultures, and all age groups to provide local and international hunger aid. And whereas in the last 43 years, Durham Crop Hunger Walks have raised over four million to help and bring hope to hungry people in need around the world and here in the US. And whereas the Durham Crop Hunger Walk has awarded more than one million to local agencies, including Meals on Wheels, Urban Ministries, Housing for New Hope, Double Bucks for Snap, Threshold Clubhouse, Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, Families Moving Forward, Open Tables, Partners for Youth Opportunity, St. Andrew's Society, Changing a Generation Outreach, and Mount Cavalry, UCC Food Pantry who provide food to our Durham neighbors in need. And whereas the Durham Crop Hunger Walk raised 153,900 last year, and whereas the 2018 Durham Crop Hunger Walk will be dedicated to the memory of friend of the walk, Baba Chuck Davis, and whereas the Durham Crop Hunger Walk in 2018 will dedicate all of the internationally designed funds, excuse me, designated funds over what was raised last year to the Safe School Zone program in Kenya in memory of Chuck Davis and whereas the Durham Crop Hunger Walk is the oldest fundraising walk in NC and will hold its 44th annual Crop Hunger Walk on Sunday, March 25th. And whereas the Durham Crop Hunger Walk helps the community become aware of hunger and its causes and allows them to take action, action to help end and whereas the Durham Crop Hunger Walk remains the second largest Crop Walk in the nation out of more than a thousand walks demonstrating the tremendous compassion and altruism of Durham citizens, and whereas Durham Crop Walk successfully raises funds to help stop hunger one step at a time. Now therefore, I, Stephen M. Schul, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do hereby proclaim March 25th, 2018 as Durham Crop Hunger Walk Day. In Durham and hereby urge all citizens to take special note of this observance, witness my hand, and the corporate seal of the City of Durham, North Carolina, this 19th day of March, 2018. All right, thank you, Councilwoman Javier and Mayor Councilman and staff. I really appreciate your having us here. I don't want to repeat all the things that she just said, but I do want to draw attention to a couple of them. One is that we are now the second largest walk in the country. We've held that for two years in a row now. We're gaining on Charlotte, which has been number one for 35 out of 40 years that they were, they've been walking. So this is going to be our year. So with our special designation, we think we can do it. So we really need everybody's support to move into number one. A theme of our walk this year is peace, love, and respect for everyone. And some of you may recognize that that's the call out that Chuck Davis uses or used in his at the end of his dance routines. And so because we dedicated the walk to Chuck this year, we wanted to use that as our theme for the walk because we thought it was fitting. I have brought we have t shirts here for the councilmember and staffs up here. This was designed by an NCC use art student as part of one of their one of their their class has been designed logos as part of the class assignment every year. So we get the really awesome shirts. They put a lot of work into this. We had 25 amazing logos to choose from. And you could tell they really did the work. So I'm gonna have Margin special start handing out shirts. So again, the walk is on March 25. It's Sunday poem Sunday. You can bring your poems if you want. But I would like to invite all of you to come and meet us at Duke Chapel. Thank you very much, Karen. Excellent job. Excited about going into first place on the walk. What do we have to do in order to do that raise more money? How much What do we got to do? What's our target? Okay, 200,000. Okay, we're that's awesome. Thank you all so much for being here. Really appreciate it. Wonderful work. Here's the logo. You haven't seen it. Beautiful. Alright, and and finally, we will be memorializing now. Dr. Dorothy Irene height and I'm gonna call up Joyce Scarborough, president of the Durham section of the National Council of Negro women. And I believe that she has some people with her who would also like to join her here.  Please do. Do you all notice that Mayor Pro Tem and Meredith Carl, Carl, Carl McFadden is in the house. Thank you all for being here. Alrighty, Miss Scarborough, I'm gonna read and then I'm gonna give you an opportunity to say a few words. Okay, thank you. Alright, thank you so much for being here. Whereas Dr. Dr. Dorothy Irene height, a native of Richmond, Virginia was born on March 24, 1912. And whereas Dr. Height was a leader in addressing the rights of both women and African Americans as the president of the National Council of Negro women. Excuse me. And whereas Dr. Height after working for a while as a social worker joined the staff of the Harlem Y WCA in 1937. And whereas Dr. Height had a life changing encounter not long after starting there, when she met educator and founder of the National Council of Negro women, Mary McLeod Bethune and the US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who came to visit her facility. And whereas Dr. Height directed the integration of all Y WCA centers in 1946, established Center for Racial Justice in 1965. And whereas in 1957, Dr. Height became president National Council of Negro women and through the center and the council. She became one of the leading figures of the civil rights movement. And whereas Dr. Height worked with the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, John Lewis and James Farmer, sometimes called the big six of the civil rights movement on different campaigns and initiatives. And whereas in 1963, Dr. Height was one of the organizers of the Fame March on Washington and stood close to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he delivered his I Have a Dream speech. And whereas Dr. Height despite her skills as a speaker and a leader was not invited to talk that day, she later wrote that the March on Washington had been an eyeopening experience for her, her male counterparts, and this is a quote, were happy to include women in the human family. But there was no question as to headed the household according to the Los Angeles Times. And whereas Dr. Height joined in the fight for women's rights and in 1971, helped found the National Women's Political Caucus with Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Shirley Chisholm. And whereas in 1994, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And whereas in 2004, President George W. Bush gave Dr. Height the Congressional Gold Medal. And whereas the first African American President of the United States, Barack Obama, who she befriended, according to the New York Times, called her the godmother of the civil rights movement. And whereas on February 1st, 2017, the United States Postal Service kicked off Black History Month with the issuance of the Dorothy Height's forever stamp honoring her civil rights legacy. Now, therefore, I, Steven M. Shul, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do proclaim the 24th of March, 2018 as Dr. Dorothy Irene Height Day in Durham. And hereby urge all citizens to take special note of this observance and to commemorate her 106th birthday, honoring the memory of her humility, grace, brilliance, dedication and passion for women, especially those of African descent, their families and communities, as we continue to observe Women's History Month. Witness my hand in the corporate seal of the City of Durham, North Carolina, this 19th day of March, 2018. Good evening. Again, I'm Joyce Scarver. I'm the President of the Durham section of NC and W. And we are so happy to be here with you today. I have some of my sisters standing here for support. Coral Cole McFadden is our Vice President. I just want to thank Mayor Shul for allowing us to be here and for honoring Dorothy Height. I would also thank all of you for having us in your community. We continue to support you and we will ask you to come on out and when we have an event, please join us. We will let you know and come to our meetings. We accept women, men and children. We thank you very much. Thank you all so much. Thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Ms. Scarver, do you think you could get Ms. Cole McFadden one of those cool purple sashes? All right. And now, are there any announcements by council? Any announcements by members of the council? All right. And now we'll move to priority items. Are there, I want to recognize the City Manager for any priority items? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council, good evening, everyone. The City Manager's Office has one priority item this evening related to agenda item number 14, which is the 2017 fourth quarter annual crime report presentation. This item will be deferred until the April 2, 2018 City Council meeting. Thank you very much. Do we need a bushel on that, Mr. Attorney? You don't. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Attorney, any priority items? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. No priority items. Madam Clerk, any priority items? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. No items. All right. Thank you very much. And now we're going to move to the consent agenda. The next order of business is the consent agenda. All items on the consent agenda can be approved by a single vote unless an item is removed by a member of the council or a member of the public for separate consideration at the end of the meeting tonight. And I'm going to be reading each of the consent agenda items. Item one, approval of City Council minutes. Item two, FY 2016 2018 Emergence Solutions Grant and City General Funds Housing for New Hope Subrecipient Contract Rapid Rehousing Project. Item three, FY 2017 18 Second Court Financial Report. Item four, resolution authorizing the negotiation of an installment finance contract and providing for certain other related matters. Item five, donation from Durham Arts Council to 12 art wrap banners for Corcoran Garage. Item six, contract with Public Ground Studio LLC for Public Art at Downtown Mixed Use Parking at Downtown, Mixed Use Parking Garage. Item seven, proposed conveyance of various property interests to the North Carolina Department Transportation for the Dye Creek Bridge Replacement Project. Item eight, proposed sale of various property interests to BH-AG Durham Foster LLC. Item nine, agreement with Center for Documentary Studies to fund the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Item 10, agreement with American Dance Festival Inc to fund the cultural arts programs. Item 11, reimbursement agreement with Lenora Carolina's LLC Copley Farm Sewer Outfall. Item 14, this item can be found on the general business agenda and that was the priority item of the manager. Item 15 through 18, these items can be found on the general business as well. These are public hearing items. You have heard the consent agenda. Can I hear a motion on these items please? I move approval of the consent agenda. Any discussion? It's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda. Madam Clerk, will you please open the vote? Close the vote. Motion passes 6-0. Thank you very much. Next on our item, next on our agenda is the general business agenda public hearings. And the first item is the public hearing on FY 18-19 budget and FY 2019-24 capital improvement plan. Good evening, Mayor and Members of Council. Bertha Johnson, Director of Budget and Management Services. This item is to receive public comments on the proposed FY 18-19 budget and 2019-24 capital improvement plan. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you very much. You've heard the report from staff. I will declare the public hearing to be open and will first entertain any questions for staff from members of the council or any comments. Council members? All right. And now we'll move to the citizen comment. I have here six people who have signed up to speak. Let me just say now if you have not signed up to speak on this item, this budget hearing, and you would like to sign up to speak, please make your way over here to the table in front of the clerk's office, get one of these yellow cards and fill it out. Okay? So just wanting to let you know that if you have not signed up, please do so. I'm going to read the names of the people who have signed up to speak. And if you would, if you would just come over here to my right over near this podium in the order in which I call you, that would be great. So first, we have Daryl Brunson. Second, we have Romy Gaddy. Third, we have Donald Quick. Fourth, we have Monica Byrne. Fifth, we have Ashley Melzer. And sixth, we have Monet Marshall. Is there anyone else who believes that they have signed up and that I did not call their name? Okay, great. Alrighty. You have three minutes. Each person has three minutes to speak. Please start by sending your name and address and we're very, very glad to have everyone here tonight to comment on this, on this budget and the capital improvement plan. Daryl Brunson. Good evening, Mayor Shul, City Manager Barnfield, City Council, Durham residents, and City of Durham employees. Again, my name is Daryl Brunson. I am an equipment operator in the Solid Waste Services and have been working there for 12 years and a steward of the City Workers Union, UE150. As you know, this month marks the 50th anniversary of Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike in March 1968. Dr. King responded to support the workers' demands and address the dangerous working conditions, low wages and lack of union rights. Some of which we are still dealing with as City Workers in North Carolina tonight. We wish to honor those workers and also Dr. King who paid the ultimate sacrifice when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968. On behalf of the UE150, we are here to present our 18-19 budget proposal. These suggestions are the results of ongoing continuous discussions with workers across the City and ongoing frustrations of your frontline employees and even some management. The consistent rise of health care costs, the cost of living, stagnated wage increases, favoritism and even current grievance procedures are just a few of the solutions that we will be providing tonight. We appreciate those of you that have found the time to meet with us over the last few months and years. We will also request a continued relationship with meetings with each one of you quarterly. This will hold everyone accountable to make sure that the City of Durham is showing more appreciation for its frontline employees and not just upper management. Durham is only as good as it is as an employees, residents and local businesses and partners. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Brunson. Jeremy Gatti. Thank you. Councilor Anderson, City Manager and Mayor. I'm talking about tonight to replace our day's equipment. I'm currently a employee in water management. Now I've been there over five years and in a five-year period we do like cleaning the sewers. We only bought one truck and the other trucks are over five years old. Now in order for us to our duties efficient, we need equipment just as of today. The same this truck I'm talking about last year I had driven that truck and it would better go for 25 miles per hour. I contacted my supervisor and told them that. They put the truck in the shop so they fixed it. I got it back. It was doing the same thing. So they done it again this year doing the same thing.  And you know, see the city used to replace trucks over the five years. They don't do that no more. Some trucks like I said over 12 years old because I believe the truck I was a day was a 03 model. Here's a 18. Now if you run something every day for eight, eight, nine, 12 hours a day sometimes it won't last for years and years. But if you say anything about it your supervisor will say something like, you know, it's a policy error or something like that. How can there be a policy error when it's like just old and the city needs to conduct a comprehensive study on that survey on their fleet because I've seen some trucks. They wasn't even the water management trucks they were using. It was public works.  That's how it is. Eating up from the bottom because holding all this salt and sand that will eat a body up. Thank you for letting me speak and listening and I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you for raising those important issues. Thank you, Mr. Gally. Mr. Gally. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Good evening. City Manager, Council. My name is Donald Quick. I'm a steward City of Durham Workers Union Chapter UE 150 Public Works Department City of Durham. Tonight, we speak about the proposals making regarding the wages and our benefits. Right now, what we're requesting is $2,500 raised across the board for everybody. This merit system that y'all seem to have us under is not working because you know, they called it the pay for performance. But we come to work and do our job and we do it diligently. I mean, that's our performance. They see our performance. You know, I mean, y'all seen that when the snow came? You know, I know the police and the fire they get theirs, but they talk about the first responders. Now, we was the first responders because when that snow started falling and we start cleaning it up, a lot of citizens, it didn't take them alone to get what they needed to go. So, you know, I think y'all really need to take that into consideration that Public Works got out there and got it done. And a lot of people was very, very satisfied with the work we was doing. Not to mention, we did have a few incidents, things or things, but you know, for the most part, we got it done. Also, the healthcare, we deserve, you know, we don't deserve to have to pay more than the healthcare. You know, I mean, we paying enough now. And then I just found out that they're switching from one to another. Also, we are asking that all workers, including part-time, temporary workers should be included in the $15 an hour, you know, to schedule this year. All of them should be paid because if you see the taxes going up, food is going up, gas. You know, we just want to make a living wage. That's what we want. That's what we hear for. That's what we fight for. But it seemed like to me, like I say, when it comes to the police and fire, they get theirs. But when it comes to the first responders, it seemed like the first responders sometimes you forget about. So I hope that y'all will take that into consideration knowing that public works are the real first responders. And also the guys in water and sewer, you know, like I said before, when these mainline breaks, you know, they're the first responders. They're the first ones to get out there and get it done. So I thank you for letting me speak. And I, you know, pray that y'all take this into consideration that you know, the first responders are really, you know, public works. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Quinn. Appreciate all those comments very much. Hello. We have a kid with the clerk. Hello, and thank you so much for having me. It's a great pleasure and honor to address the council and to address the mayor. My name is Monica Byrne. 12 years ago, I moved to Durham because of its affordability and its incredibly rich independent art scene. Today, I'm a full-time novelist, playwright, performer, and activist. Independent artists like me have played an essential role in making Durham a place where people love to live. Now it's becoming unaffordable like me, unaffordable for me, and for all the independent artists I know, both as a place to live and as a place to make work. Of course, that is the case for a lot of Durham residents as the previous speakers demonstrated. I want to stress that artists are no more inherently special than any other kind of worker. But because we are treated as such, that means there are a few crucial points I'm asking the council to consider when building a new budget. Number one, that in all private and public sectors, including the city of Durham, because art is treated as a hobby and not as work, artists are vastly undercompensated to the point of no compensation at all. Two, that compensation for artists is an intersectional economic justice issue. Art is something all people of every age, race, gender, socioeconomic class, nationality and ethnicity do to make meaning out of and in their lives. But only some kinds of art are recognized and compensated by our institutions. That art is overwhelmingly made for white men made by white men for white audiences. Three, that the city's arts funding as reflected in the current budget overwhelmingly prioritizes institutional and corporate art at the direct cost of independent artists in Durham. Four, that the commitments to institutional and corporate art must be balanced by an equal commitment to the independent artists who make our city a place people love to live. The good news is that it would take very little for the council to start making meaningful change. I'm asking for three very simple things. One, treat individual artists and small arts organizations as businesses. That is offer them the same access to capital and low interest loans that any other business might have. Two, set an example by providing for compensation for all artists hired by the city at least at a living wage. If you have questions, hire artists as consultants at a professional wage. Three, please do not confuse funding the Durham Arts Council with funding artists. They are not the same thing. The ways in which the leadership and the board of the Durham Arts Council fail to meet the needs of independent artists in Durham would take much longer than three minutes to explain. If you would like to talk about that more or anything else I've mentioned please get in touch with me or my colleagues. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Byrne. Ashley Melzer. Thank you. Thank you for having me. My name is Ashley Melzer and Monica asked me to be here partially because we thought maybe artists had never come to speak to you before and tell you about what our lives are like. I'm a filmmaker, writer, photographer, and improv comedian and in 2016 I founded Metalsum, a 2017 indie arts award-winning organization that produces improv sketch storytelling mainly in Durham. I am an artist who makes my living mainly through doing art. In 2017 I believe we did something like 79 shows and I would say around 60 of those were in Durham and no one in our organization makes even a part-time wage off of our work and all of our shows are roughly five to 15 dollars. I moved to this area to study folklore or the artistic communication of everyday life. I think without much thought we can agree that art is something everyone can participate in and everyone values. Importantly when thinking about communities and governments, governance art is important because it engenders connection. Love. We know that when children are loved they thrive so why wouldn't we take that into consideration when governing our cities? Recent research on the way emotional attachment to city's drives engagement was done by the Knight Foundation and Gallup in their Soul of the Community study. They interviewed 43,000 people in 26 communities and came to the conclusion that the drivers of attachment were three things. One, social offerings. Two, aesthetics. And three, openness. People who love their cities don't love them because the city's filled the potholes. They love them because of arts events, public arts and parks. I think Mrs. Wright gets it. Cleaning up that park. More relevant to your bottom line the Knight Foundation found in their survey that cities with the highest levels of resident love and passion also had the highest rates of GDP growth over time. Similarly, Peter Kageyama an author and senior fellow with the Alliance for Innovation who incidentally spoke to the city of Raleigh leaders last year and at the Innovate Raleigh summit. He travels the country touting this idea that cities with the most emotional attachment have the highest GDP in economic vitality.  So how do we harness that? Part of Kageyama's argument starts with this question. How many of us have written a Wikipedia entry? Not that many. I think 1% of users have written this Wikipedia entry. Statisticians call this the power law distribution. Sociologists call it participation inequality. And what that means is there are a small number of people who do a lot of work and then a lot and the rest of us consume it. So one thing that we can do is increase the number of people doing the work. The number of people if we're using the soul of the city study who create social events play with the aesthetics of our city and draw us into open spaces like parks. We can increase our emotional attachment that way. And if we can make art easier by making art and making arts easier for people then perhaps we can raise the GDP of Durham. Thank you. Thank you. Monet Marshall. Good evening. My name is Monet Marshall and I've been living in Durham for six years. An artist and a creative consultant. And art and funding art work is an equity issue. As we know how Durham's demographics are shifting we know that many of the folks who are moving here are because of Durham's cool. I don't know if any of you have ever looked for a job in the arts field on like a one of those big software please try to find a job. I have. And in that you will find pages of pages of medical jobs from Duke University first because in every job description they tout Durham's art and cultural scene as a reason to move here. You have to do pages before you find a job that's actually related to an art scene. Which is to say that our businesses our companies our they're using the arts as a reason to move here. So when we don't invest in that we are stripping the things that make Durham what it is. But I say it's an equity issue because we know the folks who can afford to take time and be artists the folks who don't have to work another job the folks who can pay for materials and things like that that often relates to privilege because it's there's a particular risk in art. I feel very privileged that I had a family who supports me in my art but I also have a mother who has an associates a bachelor's and a master's in theater who has never called herself a professional artist because she can't afford to make art full time. We are losing resources real tangible resources. And then when we fund the Durham Arts Council or institutions to support artists instead a lot of times the trickle down of it is not actually happening or if it is you have to know all the ins and out all the numbers you have to have your 501c3 you have to know your demographic breakdown you have to have all this information that becomes a barrier for folks to get resources even for money that feels small for a grant of $3,000 or $2,000 which once you pay for materials and you think about time I just did a show and I think I average maybe 200 or 250 hours of work in the show right there's no way that I can just from ticket sales or just from donations like paying myself an adequate living wage and then I can't then pass that on to the other artists I work with and the artists I work with are predominantly artists of color so that means if I don't have it I can't also spend it but if I'm a small business if I can then access resources I can then spend that money to other artists who are also small businesses so I just want you to consider how our arts community is not just folks who can afford a gallery downtown they're not just the folks who know how to work the system and get a public arts grant they're also some of us who are working in our bedrooms and are creating art and putting it on the internet because we just need to create and we are part of the reason why people think Durham is so cool and a great place to live so I really hope you will consider us as you think about your budget thank you thank you Ms. Marshall Mr. Mayor I have a brief remark Mr. Mayor I just wanted to for those last three speakers let each all three of you know that the Durham Public Art Committees accepting applications for members for the next three weeks applications are open the Public Art Committees and Advisory Board to the City Council and City Manager and works with our Office of Economic and Workforce Development on matters relating to public art and also reviews proposals for projects brought to it by the City Administration and makes recommendations to the Cultural Advisory Board regarding project approvals and it's one of the places where the kinds of decisions that you're talking about are made and so I wanted to bring that to your attention for you to take a look at it thank you Mr. Mayor thank you very much Council Member Reese Erin Beak could you state your full name sure yes Erin Bryant thank you esteemed council people Durham residents lovers of freedom my name is Erin Bryant and I'm a member of Black Youth Project 100 which is an organization here in the City of Durham across the country committed to radical freedom for all Black people but tonight I want to talk about and support the advance of participatory budgeting for the City of Durham and I want to give three reasons for that the first reason is because democracy Mr. Brandt yes sir could you stand just a little farther from the my friend having a hard time hearing yes thank you should I start over oh no you're good okay great the first reason is because democracy is justice we know that inside the borders of the United States there is an increasing imposition of right-wing authoritarian rule and last year's election here in the City of Durham is proof that when people come together and make decisions about the way society ought to be organized good things happen we have to have faith in the people and this is the first reason why we should support participatory budgeting the second reason is because money is powerful money is not power people are power but money is a particular way that you can organize society and put people at the front of your program Durham can depend on the people and the third reason is because participatory budgeting is an example of courage in the face of fear history both in the City of Durham and across the United States show that history is not just progress it's also a regress it's advancement and defeat history is struggle courage is a virtue that allows us to take action in the face of uncertainty it takes courage for people to come together and make decisions about society it takes courage to invest in those people and it takes courage to make the world a better place participatory budgeting is needed because democracy power and courage are almost gone and the City of Durham has an excellent opportunity to show not just North Carolina not just the U.S. South not just the country but the world that it is dedicated toward radical freedom for all people thank you thank you very much Mr. Wright Scott Barish good evening esteemed council thank you for allowing me to speak today my name is Scott Barish and I'm here to speak on behalf of participatory budgeting Durham in support of funding participatory budgeting in Durham and specifically at the level of two and a half million dollars with $250,000 for implementation Erin gave some excellent remarks about why participatory budgeting is so would be so impactful for the city it is an important tool in our toolkit to be able to create a more just and equitable Durham that I know everyone on this council wants to build and it is a way for us to expand democracy and include those who have been excluded from the process for far too long but those commitments are meaningless if we do not put our money where our mouth is and commit to a level of funding that will allow people to make decisions that will actually lead to material benefits in their lives and real change that makes their lives better so this is why we're asking for two and a half million dollars it is only 0.64% of the city's annual budget and it but it is enough to be able to inspire people to make the kinds of decisions about how to improve our communities collectively and we would like to move this proposal forward specifically at this funding level so that we can ensure that this is a just and equitable process and that because if we do not adequately fund it we will find that once again the voices who are too often at the table that are now too often white and male will be the voices at the table for participatory budgeting so when we commit enough funds we will begin to see our we will actually be able to live out our values of expanding democracy and making this a more equitable city thank you thank you Mr. Barish down y'all cure for and I'll get to you in a minute Mrs. Faizon yep you're next you're last come on up Ms. Purefoy thank you good evening to the council and thank you for listening my name is Danielle Purefoy and I am here on behalf of Durham Beyond Policing a campaign focused on building an alternative public safety system for our city I'm here to talk specifically about the public safety budget 60 percent of which was devoted this year to funding the police department this year over 60 million of the 100 million dollar public safety 100 million dollar public safety budget was spent on the police in addition to 71 million dollars borrowed for the new police headquarters and yet 85 percent of the crimes committed in Durham's past year were property property related in the three quarters of this current fiscal year so the problem in our city as we have said persistently and many times we've been before you is not a crisis of morality or violence it is a problem rather of structural poverty and racism none of which are resolvable by the police and in fact the police as we've also said have been agents in contributing to these problems and we've seen this manifested in many ways including the skyrocketing eviction crisis increasing homelessness and displacement of our communities and through lack of investment in the communities that needed the most the public police budget was increased by 4.3 percent or 2.6 million dollars last year so what we did was we got together in our campaign and thought a little bit about how we could redistribute that funding in ways that do keep us safe across six main categories we allocated $370,000 for restorative justice programs in schools which have been defunded in recent months $680,000 to support jail diversion programs $225,000 to support emergency responders besides police including people who could help with mental health crises better than police could $600,000 to support a small pilot program for universal basic income as had been piloted in Stockton California $600,000 to further support the rehabilitation of housing other housing related programs and $200,000 to support a youth workforce this is just the beginning of what we could do to build a new paradigm around public safety in our city there's been a lot of discussion lately in the media about the ways in which the city government is hamstrung by the larger state government while we are excited about the prospect of participatory budgeting in our city there's even more that we can do and here as we presented is another example of how the council could use the power it does have to keep us truly safe thank you Marie-Hilt Faizon nice to see you Mayor Shuler yes ma'am city council thank you I wasn't prepared to come and speak this evening I came to support the city workers and then I realized that I need to get up here and talk about the work that I do here in the city and I work for the data access paratransit and I think you are familiar with that service and I would like to have this budget approved so that when we have issues like compression and longevity and things of that nature that affects our work our workers that we would be considered in that budget because like some of the city workers here explain there there are a lot of loopholes here that are missing and this $15 increase that is is going to be implemented is pushing some of the drivers that have been there for years five years 10 years 15 years 20 years 25 years and those are important people that are bring experience to their job and they should be compensated for it and those that budget that we're asking for could definitely suit that purpose so I thought it was good that I got up here and and I represent teams this local 391 and my issues were that we do have contracts and things of that nature but this is something that had been done in the in the past and we should honor it and have that compression honored too so I just thought I'd come up here and speak for the drivers so thank you thank you Ms. Basil let me thank you very much those who have spoken so far is there anyone else before I close this public hearing that would like to be heard for three minutes on the budget is there anyone else who would like to speak we very much appreciate everyone who came and everyone spoke very well and I want to tell you all that we were all listening very carefully and really appreciate your input on the budget any comments by members of the council before I close the public hearing if not I'm going to declare this public hearing closed and I want to thank everyone for coming out for it tonight thank you very much can I ask Ms. Johnson just for the public's benefit quickly talk about the rest of the budget process I'll be presenting the final budget to the council I believe May 21st May 21st the manager percent the budget on May 21st at the Monday night city council meeting we will have then have another public hearing on the actual proposed budget on June 4th which is a Monday night meeting right and then the council would consider the final budget June June 18th thank you be the night of the adoption of the budget just want to clarify that for the record thank you thank you very much thank you very much Ms. Johnson all righty we will now move to the next public hearing item which is item 16 revisions to design commitments for Errington 2 good evening Jamie Sonjak with the planning department all planning items in front of you tonight have been properly noticed and advertised in accordance with law and affidavits are on file in the planning office to that effect the city council approved a zoning map change and development plan for Errington 2 on January 3rd 2011 this is legacy case Z0900015 this is a 95.6 acre track of land located east of Page Road in the southeast portion of Durham just west of the Wake County boundary the legacy case called for mixed use zoning with a development plan and stipulated a maximum of 1,550,000 square feet of office retail and commercial uses along with over excuse me along with over 1,000 residential dwellings a number of site plans have been approved for that area and construction is underway for the residential development the applicant Jonathan Parsons of J Davis is requesting some minor revisions to the design commitments if approved the changes will allow the developer some flexibility with regard to the materials and the design of non-residential buildings and signs no changes are being made to the rest of the development plan per the unified development ordinance any revision to the design commitments are considered a significant change and require a new hearing and recommendation from the planning commission prior to the case being heard by the city council the Durham Planning Commission at their January 9th 2018 meeting recommended approval of the proposed by a vote of 10 to 0 staff determines that these requests are consistent with the comprehensive plan and applicable policies ordinances two motions are required for this application the first is required to adopt a consistency statement and the second is required for the zoning ordinance thank you very much thank you very much Ms. Sunyak you have heard the staff report I'm going to declare this public hearing open and I'm going to first ask if there are any questions or comments by members of the council any questions or comments by members of the council all right if not we have three members of the public who have signed up to speak Jonathan Parsons Robert Schunk and Ken Spalding oh that's South Point Audemars I'm sorry I only have one for Abingdon I apologize I have one person to speak for Arringdon too and that is Jonathan Parsons Mr. Parsons are you here great is there anyone else that would like to speak on this matter not the not the other two matters that I got the speakers mixed up with anyone that would like to speak on Arringdon too are any are anyone either four or against proponents or opponents all right Mr. Parsons you have three minutes sir well my name is Jonathan Parsons I'm representing the client as the agent for this property I'm really just here to answer questions as the staff has well summarized this process was really about just clarifying the language to allow us a little more flexibility in our material placement but we are maintaining the quality of the development with the materials proposed we still have the same composition same elements we've just clarified the text and that's really what this is about thank you very much Mr. Parsons are there any questions for the applicant any comments or questions by members of the council if not I'm going to declare this public hearing closed to have a motion on the item we believe I believe we need two motions on this item the first will be to adopt a consistency statement so moved second it's been moved and seconded that we adopt the consistency statement Madam clerk will you please open the vote close the vote motion passes six zero thank you now we need a motion to adopt an ordinance amending the amending the united unified development ordinance so moved second it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion if not madam clerk will you please open the vote close the vote again motion passes six zero thank you very much madam clerk all righty we'll now move to item 17 consolidate item for page park two good evening jamie sanak with the planning department request to amend a previously approved future land use map amendment and zoning map change have been received from robert shunk stewart-ink this application involves the original page park development which is p03-20 it was approved by city council on october 6 2003 at that time the track was zoned for residential suburban multifamily with a development plan with a mix of residential and commercial land use is broken into three areas a portion of the site included 288 apartments which is currently under construction the applicant currently proposes to change a portion of the development identified as 4801 crown parkway or track b on the development plan to residential suburban multifamily with a development plan rsmd in order to construct 50 townhouses where the previously approved development plan permitted 29,100 square feet of retail the applicant is also seeking a comprehensive plan amendment request to change the future land use map designation from commercial to low-medium density residential to correspond with this request the Durham planning commission at their December 12 2017 meeting recommended approval of the proposed by a vote of 13 to 0 staff determines that this request that these requests are consistent with the comprehensive plan and apical policies and ordinances three motions are required for this application the first is required to adopt a resolution amending the future land use map designation the second is to adopt a consistency statement and the third is for the zoning ordinance thank you very much thank you very much miss Sunyak you've heard the staff report I'm going to declare this public hearing open and first I'm going to ask if there are any questions or comments from members of the council any questions or comments for staff at this point all right thank you and now I have one member of the public signed up for this Robert Schunk is there anyone else here who would like to speak on this item is there anyone else that would like to speak on the consolidated item for page part two either proponents or opponents all right thank you Mr. Schunk you have three minutes thank you Mr. Mayor good evening and mayors members of city council good evening I am Robert Schunk I live at 2627 University Drive here in the Rockwood community of Durham staff did a great job reviewing the project that is here before you this evening and we would certainly appreciate your support of the project I'm here accompanied with George Stanziel Erica Latham and Tim Legend and we're here to answer any questions that you might have thank you thank you very much Mr. Schunk are there questions or comments at this point by members of the council anyone questions or comments I have some questions Mr. Schunk is there anyone else that have any I'm sorry council member Caballero I'm just looking at attachment nine from the bicycle and pedestrian advisory advisory commission and I was just wondering that was not listed in the staff report and if there's any resolution to that request sure the the two comments speak to a crosswalk being at their Crown Parkway and that'll be included in the site plan okay and then the other request was a four-foot bike lane and when the project was built and constructed back in 2006 the time the standard that the time was to build a 14 foot outside wide lane and that has been constructed and it's customary that if there's no other road improvements being required being there's no other turn lanes it built at this time that will we just leave the 14 foot bike lane 14 foot bike lane 14 foot outside lane that has after your room for a bike lane so its standard typical lane is 11 feet sometimes 12 feet so the 14 provides the extra room for the bicyclists thank you would that be striped you may not know the answer to that question Mr. Judge might know the answer it is not striped it's not striped could it be striped would we want it to be striped bill judge transportation no the state will not allow it to be striped unless it's at least four feet wide and so thank you thank you for that question Mr. Schunk thank you for the proffer for Durham Public Schools I appreciate that proffer on the inclusion of that have you decided to honor my request to name the roads after King Lear's daughters okay good I think if we're going to have a King Lear street we need to have the other streets named after King Lear's daughters I'll be out to check on that thank you the the price point of the townhomes could you let me know what that is just over 200,000 less than 225 okay thank you that is a price point that we need in Durham and I'm glad to hear that you all are building at that price point there's no affordable housing proffer here we've discussed that Ms. Latham you have talked about bringing us some ideas on affordable housing would you mind coming to the podium thank you when last we met we discussed here I asked you all about that and I appreciated you coming back with the thought that you would have ideas to offer on affordable housing from LeNar and potentially some other developers that you would talk to and I was wondering what would you you know how do you think that that we might hear from you all on that or in what kind of timeframe well that's a good question I'm going to a meeting with the I'm sorry am I too close so maybe with the council of governments next month to talk about some comprehensive policies that involve not only the builders and the apartment builders in Durham but also financial partners as well as municipal government partners so it was a couple months to brainstorm and put some ideas together great thank you very much I look forward to hearing back on that that's a very important and appreciate your leadership thank you I appreciate the opportunity thank you any other questions or comments by members of the council if not I'm going to declare this public hearing closed and we have as for a motion on this item we looks like we need three different motions Mayor I'll move to adopt the resolution amending the future land use map to low-medium density residential for the subject site second it's been moved and seconded any discussion if not Madam Clerk please open the vote close the vote motion passes six zero Mr. Mayor I'll move to adopt a consistency statement as required by state statute thank you very much is there a second okay it's been moved and seconded any discussion if not Madam Clerk will you please open the vote close the vote six zero Mr. Mayor thank you very much Mr. Mayor I'll move to adopt an ordinance amending the unified development ordinance as specified in the agenda is there a second second it's been moved and seconded to adopt the ordinance is there any discussion if not Madam Clerk will you please open the vote close the vote six zero Mr. Mayor thank you very much Madam Clerk all righty thank you all very much and we'll now move to item 18 zoning might change for park at South Point 2 the Sun Yacht oh I'm sorry Jacob Mr. Wiggins apologize no problem I've been called worse things Jacob Wiggins with the planning department there's a request in front of you from Mr. Robert Schunk to change the future land use map and also change the zoning atlas for nine parcels generally located east of NC 751 and north of Interstate 40 located along South Point out of Park Boulevard the subject site is currently designation I'm sorry currently designated as office and medium density residential on the future land use map and the site is currently zoned office and institutional residential suburban multifamily and commercial general with a development plan Mr. Schunk is proposing to have the site designated as commercial on the future land use map and have the site zoned as commercial general with a development plan some key commitments on the development plan include a maximum of 55,000 square feet for an auto sales use I'm a prohibition on outdoor paging systems in the vehicle sales area increase project boundary buffers along for a portion of the site as well as 70% maximum impervious surfaces the Durham Planning Commission at their January 8th, 2018 meeting recommended approval of this request by a vote of 10 to 0 I'm I also note in the staff report on page one there was a typo on there that said that the Planning Commission did not support this item so my apologies for that I assure you they voted 10 to nothing on this item and then finally staff recommends or determines that this request is consistent with the comprehensive plan and applicable policies and ordinances three motions and three votes will be required one for the future land use map designation one for the consistency statement and then finally the zoning ordinance and I'm happy to answer any questions the council may have at this time thank you very much Mr. Wiggins you've heard the report from staff I want to declare this public hearing open and first I want to ask if there are any questions or comments from members of the council I have a question I just just recognizing the this is the Honda crown okay the site that this is at I noticed the landscaping was a lot more in detail like very and they don't work but um but there was a big difference from on the other side on Feveville street I want to say there's another dealership are you oh yeah the Hendrick south point below the mall yeah area yes ma'am I just wanted to know how that happened where there's like such great landscaping and the frontage towards the street and then on this one while on the other there isn't I do which one are you referring to as the prime example the Hendrick site yeah I my assumptions of differentiation there was different zoning ordinances and different codes and regulations at the time the existing south point auto park mall I'm a little over 10 years old if I recall so the differences and the ordinances were probably a result of some of those landscaping requirements it also could have been an aesthetic choice by the developer okay have they changed in the 10 years has our landscaping requirements changed there have been some changes over time I don't know what those exact changes are off the top of my head I apologize I would like to yes ma'am have a list of what has changed just to just to kind of keep track because it does seem quite inequitable how there's so much landscaping on one site and then the other there's hardly I mean mainly it's just grass like just grass frontage sure thank you yes ma'am thank you council member all righty any more comments or questions from members of the council at this point yes Mr. Mayor council member Reese thank you Mr. Mayor one of the planning commissioners in the written comments made reference to a proffer that was made at the planning commission do you have any information about that yes sir councilman Reese Jacob Wiggins again with the planning department I would direct your attention to the development plan that would be the fourth commitment so it wasn't a true proffer that was proffered at the hearing but the developer did indicate that they would provide a commitment at this stage that they'll be providing that commitment tonight and they have it's on the plan it was something that was discussed at the hearing and the developer at the hearing indicated that they would make a commitment prior to this item coming before you Jacob for the record you go ahead and clarify what that is now that we've raised that issue yes sir so the commitment is as follows prior to the issuance of a certificate of compliance the developer shall provide a single row of evergreen trees and or evergreen understory trees that will be installed eight feet on center and installed at a minimum height of eight feet or I'm sorry at six feet as shown on the development plan thank you yes sir thank you Mr. Wiggins thank you any other questions or comments for staff at this time all righty if not we have one person who's signed up to speak on this Kenneth Spalding is there anyone else who would like to speak on this matter as either a proponent or opponent of South Point Auto Part 2 all righty Mr. Stanzi I'll thank you anyone else that would like to speak okay Mr. Spalding you have three minutes welcome Good evening Mr. Mayor members of the city council my name is Ken Spalding I represent the applicant as was stated we are seeking a plan amendment and rezoning of our property from a mixture of uses which are office and multifamily to commercial this property is immediately adjacent to our currently existing auto park which is commercial and consists of the Lexus dealership and the Honda dealership and through our current that we already have zoned we have a place that will be housing a new business Durham and that will be the Volvo dealership and that will provide an opportunity for enhancing the tax base and and helping us with additional jobs in essence what we are seeking is to expand our current footprint however under the current office and multifamily the property has remained dormant for over a decade our proposal is flanked by our auto park to the south and significant Army Corps of Engineers properties was pointed out to the north we had two neighborhood meetings for the neighbors and that adjacent to our proposal our proposal does lower traffic and lower school enrollment I believe the traffic is lowered by about eight hundred and fifty eight trips and the enrollment I believe 23 students staff has presented their favorable review we are consistent with our city's plans and policies is laid out by staff in their report this evening and we did receive a planning commission vote unanimous of 10 to zero we thusly respectfully request your support as well which will allow this vacant and overgrown property to be put to its best use and consistency as aforementioned and I think Mr. Stanzeal just wanted a clarification thank you Mr. Spaulding Mr. Stanzeal thank you George Stanzeal 115 Cofield Circle and Durham Ms. Freeman thank you for bringing up the landscape treatment that was not a result of the ordinances at the time that was a very very significant commitment by the developer to to do that that treatment along 751 I think it was somewhere in the half million dollar range in terms of landscape and the walls the stone walls that you see out there so he has made a very significant commitment and then if you drive down the the parkway that goes back to Honda you'll see in the medians significant landscape as well as street trees that that line the the streets going all the way down that the Parkway it was a significant commitment on the part of the developer Thank you Thank you Mr. Stanzeal are there any other speakers on this item if not I'll ask Members of the Council if they have any questions or comments at this point just a comment to say I appreciate you sharing that information. I think it's important to highlight that as a developer over 10 years ago, making an investment in the community around landscaping and street trees and how it's paid off thus far for the city, it's important to note and just making sure that that's. Thank you. Thank you for that comment. I agree. Thank you. Any other comments or questions by members of the council? I will just comment that I think this is the appropriate use of the appropriate spot. So good. Any other comments or questions? If not, I'm going to declare this public hearing closed in the matters back before the council. Mr. Mayor, I have my commotion to adopt a resolution amending the future land use map to establish commercial as the site's designation. Second. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? If not, Madam Clerk, will you please open the vote? Close the vote. Motion passes. Six zero. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, I'll move to adopt a consistency statement as required by state statute. Second. It's been moved and seconded to it that we adopt a consistency statement. Any discussion? If not, Madam Clerk, please open the vote. Close the vote. Six zero, Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much. Mr. Mayor, I move to adopt an ordinance amending the unified development ordinance that's set forth in the agenda. It's been moved and seconded that we adopt the ordinance. Any discussion? If not, Madam Clerk, will you please open the vote? Close the vote. Six zero. Thank you very much. That concludes that item and all the public hearing items. I don't believe there's any more business to come before this body. If not, I will declare this meeting adjourned at 8.18. Thank you very much, councilmembers. Fish and use of time to that, Mr. Mayor.


If you've ever seen this article, which I kinda like, it lets you know that your personal carbon footprint was a little slogan developed by an ad agency at the request of British Petroleum to help make you feel guilty for stuff that larger, like commercial interests do. So with that, maybe you don't have to feel guilty about whether you recycle or not, or whether your websites are particularly fast slash energy efficient. But I would argue that you want to do it anyway because you care about stuff like this. Accessibility, and we're talking about accessibility in a couple different ways. There's kind of, you know, lighter websites are easier to process for screen readers, less messy. They're going to work better for people who have limited bandwidth. There's a lot of stuff in the way that this impacts how people experience your sites. That's nice. I think personally just doing a better job at something, like making it a little neater, a little less crazy, understanding the pieces that I'm using and why. A little more intimately has been a nice process for me. I kind of like that minimalist stuff. And in the bottom of the list there, I can't hurt to save a little bit of energy here or there. This is part of a larger trend and we'll look at some of the stuff, but like think about it. Like when we throw these big unsplash images at the top of every post, whether it needs it or not, just to have people scroll right down to get to the stuff they actually want. That's a global pattern that you see. And it's even worse when that unsplash image is 5,200 pixels across and it's being seen on a 1,400 pixel screen or something. Like this stuff's been going on for a while. And I heard this just this morning on a podcast, right? Like when you embed a mastodon toot, which is just a horrible word. It's going to load, react, font awesome, two versions of the Roboto font. And all these things are self-hosted on each individual mastodon install so it doesn't even give you the kind of caching niceness of CDN delivery. So this was complaining they had like four mastodon posts and the website, you know, page balloon to 10 megabytes. So the way we kind of build stuff on the web is a lot of this like, well, that's what they gave me. And it's attached to these other things which exist and are part of like big packages and stuff that we may or may not need. Now, I could not believe Brian Alexander to use this website this morning because this is my favorite website in the world. And they break down how they made it energy efficient. And this is to me like when we, they talked earlier in a couple of things about like dreaming the future. Like if you want to dream the future, this site is it. Everything is optimized towards energy efficiency. It's run on solar power off in Barcelona, Spain. And if it's cloudy for too many days in a row, the website goes off, right? To me, that's a commitment, right? This is not like I'm going to store in this giant lithium battery. This person thought this stuff through went all the way to the end of the line and said, here's my line in the sand and I'm sticking to it. And like to me like, oh, I love people who do that kind of crazy stuff.  And they break down even how they process the images to make them nice and compact. And I just show it again as an example of like how far you can go and how things can still become beautiful and interesting to look at. But without all the bloat that we often see associated with this stuff. And this is another one I decided to throw in after that since Brian stole my thunder. This is a project, or was it Swarthmore? And they ran so they could switch servers that were powered in different solar environments as the sun moved in different places. So I mean, there are ways even to make that kind of commitment sustainable in different ways. So I just think it's it's really cool to see when people are thinking this stuff through and how they're thinking about it. And there are because I promised I would show you some tools to look at your sites like this. This is a website carbon calculator. I have our D link. I'm Tom Woodward. I work at Middlebury College. And this is our site dlink.migcreate.net. And it runs on relic reclaim hosting. And our page is dirtier than 50% of the web pages that have been tested on this. Perhaps biased, but it kind of works you through the carbon usage, assuming, you know, around 10,000 monthly page views. And then it gives it to you in cups of tea and sumo wrestlers and trees and stuff. So that's one of the tools that tries to make a direct connection to carbon usage. It's all messy and it's not pretty, but like it's it's a thing that you can kind of think through. Let me show you a few more kind of stats so you can kind of see where we're moving in the world. You can just see what's been going on with the size of websites over time. You know, here we're starting around 500 kilobytes back in 2011. And here we are at 2.3 megabytes now. And that's just average stuff. We're six minutes in. Jesus. Let me show you this one because I think this is super fun. So one, you're going to see Facebook, which may make some of you twitchy, but like. And I'm in the network tab of my inspect element stuff. What I want you to see is down here at the bottom. I think I can zoom in a bit more. You see this piece right here, 2,124 requests. We're at 58 megabytes transferred 146 megabytes of resources. And of course, as I continue to scroll, more stuff will continue to load for forever.  Because I had never done this on this because what do I care what Facebook does or Instagram for that matter. When I was getting ready for this, I took a look at it and I was just like, holy cow. This is insane. And it just it'll just keep running for forever. Amazon, when you're scrolling along there, there's an art project that kind of shows you how that energy starts to get used and you just see these numbers climb for forever. And that's why I say our individual little sites in academia, compared to these things getting hit by millions and millions of people. There's another art project that's pretty good.  I'm just not that organized. But I will get to it. All this stuff is happening. It's absolutely crazy. I don't think we're going to stop it as individuals, but our own practice, I think can feel at least redeeming. And that's kind of what I'm going for. And we can do it maybe in the middle of the road where we don't necessarily have to learn about solar batteries and stuff. This is one example that I did around this idea of digital technologies and the environment. So you can see I've got the size and the speed calculated here on the refresh here. We were using WordPress anyway. So this is just a front end that was written in a little bit of JavaScript and HTML that uses WordPress as JSON data to make stuff. So I wasn't going to change and make people write and text files or markup. Things still use WordPress. Things still write on that. But when we load this site, which I'll do real quick. So I'm going to do inspect so we can watch it load. I'm going to click on like that. I like that. Network and I'm going to hit refresh. And that page refreshed. And you can see what we got here. We got five requests. We got 100 kilobytes. All this stuff happens really, really fast because we got rid of like the database query because this isn't changing rapidly. What you can do is take advantage of stuff like in WordPress got this blob of JSON. That's the text file. When it gets written, we can just stick it in a folder. We don't even have to do the live stuff. Just anytime there's a post in the detox category, that thing gets updated once. And then this site just looks there rather than running through the whole expensive time energy database look up to generate that content. So you can build like little tiny patterns like that that help you make super fast light sites. And I mean, like it's not gorgeous, but you can do little things with CSS that make it interactive that make it like it doesn't have to be ugly, you know, and it doesn't have to be non interactive. And that thing doesn't work anymore because this is two years ago. Web moves fast, right? And this background is the only image on the site. Even that text, the 3D effect is just by doing like layered box shadows and CSS. So you start to think about like, how am I going to create visual effects differently that don't weigh as much as other things? And it's all default text fonts. So it's another thing to think about. Every time you ask for something, every time you use an external library, Google fonts, they're free. All that stuff is another request that slows things down, uses more energy. So when you can internalize things or use stuff that's already in there and built in the computer, all those things are better. You can track these things like I did, you know, just by going to inspect. And if you're in Google or Firefox or ARC or any of those things, and you just refresh it when you're on the network, you can see certain things. You can do the performance analysis here as well. If you don't like that stuff, there's a couple different page site analysis things you can do. There's this one, which I think is Google. But there are others like this one, which is not Google in case you don't like that. You know, there are different ways to analyze your sites and look at the speed. But you're always trying to go like, does this media really matter? Should it be this big? Should it exist at all? How many things am I asking for across how many places? If we analyze our D-Link site, dang it, two minutes over already. I think we ask for like 107 different items. So when I go to D-Link here, and WordPress can be bad about this, especially if you turn on a bunch of plugins, because each one's like, I don't know if they have jQuery or the version of jQuery I like, or this thing, and they just add and staple on JavaScript libraries and CSS libraries and things like that. And then you end up with this, 103 different requests on a single page load. That's ugly. There's a couple ways you can deal with that. There are plugins that will help you minify and consolidate those things if you're not a programmer. But also keep that stuff lean if you can. Don't install a million plugins and activate them on a single site. Less is more in most cases. Chances are your user didn't want to see this giant picture anyway.  Is this so important that we want every single thing above the fold to just be this? That's a degree of arrogance there. But maybe rightfully so. But I mean those kind of thoughts and thinking through like, how's your site loading? What's these things that we're seeing? Do these pictures even make sense?  Should it exist? It brings up accessibility concerns with that language. You know, are we duplicating that in all texts? Yada, yada, yada. So all that stuff comes up. All right, we're already done. Jesus. We have like a minute. Is there a question? Half a question that I won't answer. Yes. So I should close on my tabs then? No. Many tabs is possible open. I think that's the way I live my life. Can you not see this? It looks very similar to what I'm looking at. Right. So yeah. Yeah, like, I don't, I mean, like, I think that's the thing. Live your life, be happy. Make better websites for people. Not really, because it's going to save the world. Because it's not capitalism is a problem. Not JavaScript libraries. So like, I don't know if we're going to undo all that with this, but it is at least a little thing I can control and help with and be better about because it will make individual users' lives better. Yes, Timmy. Well, I haven't on the user end. We've played around with insanity on the WordPress end. So like, when you're giving this to people who maybe don't care about this in a network scenario, you activate the plug-in insanity. You can set some don't make pixels wider than this or this. So you can help kind of get a handle on that. Problem here is unsplash. It's giving you 5,000 pixel images. Your phones are giving you a billion pixel images. And a lot of our users are just throwing them up on WordPress full-size. So you got storage stuff. You got 100 of them in a post. And this at least helps keep a little bit of a border on that. WordPress does some resizing things based on the viewing stuff, on the nicer themes, I think, but not necessarily across all of them, at least that I'm aware of. Absolutely. Yeah. Yes? Is there a scale that does make a difference? Like, there are ways that we can simplify plugins. They're used by thousands of sites. Like, is that the scale that's worth it yet? If, you know... I think, like, I don't know where, like, website browsing electricity usage versus jets comes in in the scheme of carbon. You know what I mean? Like, I think that's the thing with it. It's something of such immense scope. I mean, what we saw from the COVID stuff is that, like, hey, when we didn't drive and go places, did that radically change our carbon output? It did not. So if that didn't do it, the chances of us radically changing it with a website or maybe we made it up for all of it with Netflix streaming, I don't know. It's a complicated question. I just feel like no one should feel like these little websites that we run with our limited audiences is going to make or break, like, the world of demons that we've created through so many different means. Do this because it makes you happy and you feel like it contributes to something. Awesome. You want to do, like, the solar side and make your site close when it's cloudy. I would love you forever. I may run a server myself just to have it shut down on cloudy days. I'd be out there, like, covering it with an umbrella. And I'd be, like, sight down due to shade.  I kind of like it, like, the idea of organic-ness bleeding over into the technology. I mean, like, how cool is that? And I'm now three minutes over. So I don't know. I love this stuff. I think it's fun and interesting to play around with. It's a topic that goes in a million different directions with lots of different things at lots of different levels of technology, you know, and lots of different ways to look at it. Rachel showed me, I think, this version this morning. This is to start up WordPresses and run them and put them static on places. So if you didn't want to do JSON stuff and things, there are lots of different other weird options. There are plugins that bleed into this stuff that let you opt out. All that stuff makes everything faster. Gets rid of the database, but you still use the tools that you're familiar with. I don't know. There's lots of different interesting options. And I...


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8 Classroom Activities that are great for kinesthetic learners. Kinesthetic learners are learners that learn through objects that they can touch and explore. They also learn best by discovering and experiencing, and particularly enjoy physical activities that involve getting out of their seat and moving around. Unlike visual and auditory learners, kinesthetic learners can be tough to accommodate in the classroom because of their need to be physically active. If they need to be active in their learning, they may get bored very quickly if you allow them to simply listen, and look at your visual aids or video presentation. As teachers we must always be versatile and understand how to incorporate different types of learners. Luckily there are many fun ways for kinesthetic learners to learn. 1. Charades. 2. Songs. 3. Roll and action playing. 4. Fly SWAT. 5. 6. Hangman. 7. Song Puzzle. 8. Storytelling Memory Game.


This gun is perfectly used for air defense, especially to fight with UAVs, helicopters, airplanes. And we believe it will be very useful in nowadays Ukrainian situation, in nowadays war, and will help to protect the people. This equipment is in full working condition. A week ago we had a training with the Ukrainian soldiers. We had a light firing exercise. Also the Ukrainians were trained how to use this equipment. And why we are doing this? The answer is very simple. Lithuania is with Ukraine from the beginning of the war, from 2014.


Today we are going to talk about eucalculations because a big part of chemistry is to study the properties of chemicals and chemical reactions and from that we design chemical reaction to produce the desired chemicals. For example, the ammonia production from the harbor process was one of the most well known chemical reactions. As ammonia is extremely useful and has a wide range of applications from being used to make fertilizers to making eyes and large refrigeration plans, clean products, you name it. For any chemical reaction you want to know is efficiency and you can do that by calculating the yield. So how do you calculate yield? You do that by dividing the actual yield that you collect and measure divided by the theoretical yield and by convention we multiply that number by 100% and that will give us our percentage yield, actual yield and theoretical yield can either be in mass or number of moles. So what does yield tell you? It tells you how your reaction went, whether your synthesis is efficient, whether you got the right temperature or pressure, the reaction design has too many side reaction and that. So the further you actually yield is from the theoretical yield, the smaller the percentage you and that means the less efficient your reaction was.