gs since that time the planning commission for a million and one little reasons just missed a lot of meetings along so they had one in august one in september one in october one in november because of snow and they'll only have one in december because of where christmas falls so they just had a bad run of luck setting up their meetings and so they really haven't worked on the city plan but that's really where they want to start in january um and so that is their goal is to really put a lot of effort they have nothing else scheduled for being on their plate next year um sorry can i go back a topic um and thinking about the changes that we might be seeing in january um i mean i just want you to know that i um i have some worries about trying to make changes to the steep slopes zoning and i'm not opposed to um considering that but i want to make sure that whatever changes we make uh do you have some kind of environmental protections built into them i mean in my head it's it's something like uh you can build on a steep slope if it meets certain criteria that show that the detriment is minimized and or you know having some kind of an environmental engineer sign off on it that kind of thing um so the requirement right now says that if you are have slopes more than 30 you cannot develop on them period there is no exception there are no waivers there's no nothing and what we have are people who come in and have i need to put a culvert in to put in a driveway the culvert ditches on the sides of the roads are three to one slopes which are 30 slopes i can't put a culvert in to build my driveway that's it and so we have no way of working around that the rules are crystal clear black and white you can't do it and so what the rules now would say is any impact to slopes over 30 percent require engineering and will require a hearing okay and so we're not we're not just letting people go it's it really is the changes are just minor to the effect of taking out prohibition and saying you need an engineer and you need a hearing if you're going to impact 30 percent slopes great thank you we can talk more about that then i just wanted to get the early warning on that one thanks so the the really quick for the for the the city plan is to what you should expect is to hear a lot more in 2019 about the plan in the outreach you will be getting a lot more because they plan to have that as their primary focus there will be the adoption of this these zoning fixes but that really is going to probably be a minor piece it's something that they could take out a piece of their day it's not the zoning we went through last year it's it's not that all over again these are many many small corrections and a number of pieces that really just needed to be clarified or talked about so those were the two quick updates the official map was supposed to be on the next agenda but while i'm here while we're doing updates i thought i would just kind of go through that now because the next next one is pretty your next agenda is pretty busy too so i met earlier this summer with a conservation commission and a parks commission rep and we had a lot of discussion what we found was that what the parks community really bless you really what the parks commission was really looking looking for was a way to make their green print plan which is a specific document that had been developed in like 2011 they really wanted to make that official and give it some standing and it was adopted after the last master plan so it wasn't included in the last master plan they wanted it inserted in the zoning we couldn't do that but i really kind of misunderstood where they were trying to go with it they just wanted to make that document official and what they didn't realize was that in the end they could the council can just adopt that they really want to have the green print as the official parks plan for the city of Montpelier and we don't need to make an official map to do that and in fact the official map is not what they wanted to because they didn't want to take property the official map gives you the power to take property and that's not what they wanted to do they just wanted to make that the official plan so we informed them that they didn't need to go through this uh they didn't need to go through the planning commission so you should expect to hear from the parks commission on a review and adoption of the green print not dissimilar to what we did to adopt the stormwater master plan the edsp the complete streets plan these are all plans that we develop that we kind of want to put our stamp on that says that's our official plan going forward the green print should go through that same process we should review it and see if it's still meet what our goals and objectives are and if it is then we can get that adopted and they can start moving forward on implementing it in the way they want which is to go to various property owners and say hey your property is identified on the green print we'd really love to see if you're interested in selling it to us and by the way this document has been blessed by city council so um so the expectation there is you'll probably hear from the parks commission and hopefully i don't know what their timeline is for that but we'd probably reach out to them and and remind them that that was something they were going to follow up on questions awesome yes donna you you mentioned there was going to be some follow-up to the meetings dealing with the city plan they had the pavilion of all the committees has there been anything written about that meeting or any summation we compiled all the notes all the things that had been written down i think barb conre was the the kind of the scribe up on the state we've transcribed all of those notes and we've started to pull things together the easiest place where this is going to start to come together is when we start to get the the google driver putting together and start to make that give it a public face to it because i hope is we'll start being able to collect from each committee their their individual pieces and having a place where people can see what's going on and then the planning commission will start to pull those pieces into documents that we can put on the drive and try to put all that together elements of that then will become part of the city plan yes okay yep don't want to lose it no we definitely don't want to okay for other questions okay oh yeah please go ahead i was just wondering about the critical changes when they go to the council will that it's saying it's not going to have the full review process will it still have a public hearing process yes certainly thank you for the for the interim interim there's two different processes is one for interim zoning and one for the full hearing might explain the difference between the two thank you for that clarification and i'm sorry would you mind repeating your name thank you so you want me to explain that just quick okay yeah so the interim zoning will have a process full full zoning adoption has a public hearing by the planning commission and then there's 30 day time windows and then the city council has one or two it's always confusing because they make them slightly different between the adoption of a plan and adoption of regulations but i believe two hearings you would have in an interim um you would go through and have a meeting and then you'd have one hearing on it and the reason why the shorter window is allowed is because it's it is an interim which means it's a temporary so all of those temporary changes would also be included in this permanent update that's going through the full process so usually go through you make an interim change because boy we've got to fix these rules because it's making a mess of the zoning process so we'll make an interim fix while we go through the permanent adoption so the january um proposals will be for interim for the interim yeah just to make those changes to the to the slope rules and to the landscaping rules in the first meeting we would have would be to discuss do you want to adopt them and you may decide we're willing to adopt the landscaping but not the slopes because i don't think the slopes are ready we want that to go through a full process whatever that's that's what the first meeting is in the second meeting would be basically like a first reading in the second reading type okay but there will be public plenty of public comment yeah definitely there's public comment for the interim but there's a lot of public comment for the full full adoption as you guys have experienced okay thank you great okay any further questions okay thank you very much okay next up is the budget discussion well Todd's setting up i'll just uh teed this up uh we had a discussion with you folks uh saying that you wanted to be looped in early in the budget process so we have a not hand um we don't have our full budget compilation yet we had a preliminary meeting yesterday our full team effort is next week and we'll be really putting the the pen to paper and and all that but what i think i hope Todd has come up with is is uh basically it outlined the four major categories of our budget what what doing same thing next year looks you know this year to next year looks like and then what on the table for possible changes the things that you've suggested things that others have suggested and it's really just to give you a chance to have an early way in about what's important or if you want to prioritize things these are a lot of the stuff that stuff you've heard before either from staff or from yourselves but anyway i'll turn it over to Todd yeah so this wasn't an attachment this was not an attachment this is a working process that has uh that bill has not even had the privilege of seeing this sometimes we get it in a separate evening i wonder yeah no i haven't even seen this this has uh been a working process and we've we've discussed it and there is no decision making that needs to happen tonight so keep in mind that this is the end of the evening i realize that i'm not putting anyone on the spot um and i will send distribute copies to everybody what i am trying to present to you here is just a baseline um kind of budget discussion preliminary budget discussion before we have a our final um sit down with the permanent heads will work on this for a couple of days and go through and hash out um different items but essentially what we're looking at here is the first highlighted item which is the core government services here um that is essentially maintaining a baseline no let's not do anything make any changes let's just continue our operations in the next year we're looking at plus or minus you know just a little over three hundred thousand dollars of an increase that is you know increases for health insurance that's increases for wages for contractual union contract issues that's presuming you know a two percent increase for personnel plan employees those types of baseline fundamentals um what that number does not include is new requests so what i have tried to do on the right hand side is just give to you an idea and a scope of what we're looking at for new items um and can everyone see that okay i'm also i'm just 25 part nine now in my eyesight seems to have gotten exponentially worse so um in addition to you know maintaining our baseline what we're looking at for various requests and requests that we've discussed here at the council level um our items that enhance our existing services adding a new police officer there's been discussion of a facilities manager there's discussion of an energy manager um i put an asterix next to facility and energy manager because there seems to be some synergy between those two positions potentially and maybe we have an opportunity to uh to merge that into one um there's a request for an additional part staff person there's also a request for a tree staff person that would be dedicated more to the emerald ash borough problem um going forward there's been discussion of fuel alternatives and seeking out um different options for uh fleet fuels so at present we don't have a really good option but there is a renewable diesel option that is coming to the market and we're not going to say it's available to us now but in f y 20 it's a it's a real possibility so there would be potentially some premium but that is a developing story um we also have to look at our network security issues our data storage i think we've all come to the realization me begrudgingly at least that um cloud-based solutions for a lot of our data is becoming more and more of a necessity individually maintaining networks and servers and the infrastructure cost that goes along with that comes at cost both in maintaining the equipment and the staff to and contractual obligations to maintain it in warranty services so that's you know a potentially wide open item that could you know really really jump the cost dramatically but there are some offsets as well there's also data requirements that are statutory in nature police department for instance um you know as we're currently using uh cursor video cameras and and those that video data needs to be backed up currently we do some of that onsite and some of the offsite but moving more of that to a cloud based solution is something that we should be addressing in f y 20 new building maintenance there's going to be some maintenance requirements associated with buildings such as one taylor street we're in the process of building it now but setting creating a reserve or creating some sort of set aside for the future repairs and maintenance that need to happen on those buildings i mentioned crew or cameras body cameras is kind of a policy issue that's been discussed and i know tony was here recently i'm talking about that that's a discussion item that we're going to be going through as well is there sorry yeah is there a request right now to upgrade cruiser cams as well as okay so it's just about body cams it's just the storage piece it's the storage component of that yep um and then from the city manager's office and i think council is expressing interest in doing a citizen survey as well um some cost in hiring that out so those are some of the um items that we'll be discussing next week and what i'm looking not so much for answers from council this evening but um just to get feedback if you have any that is going to direct our conversations um as we go through this because we don't want to miss something that's a major concern for you can you tell us that three hundred thousand dollar baseline change what is that in a percent increase that is just about three percent depending on how you play the grand list it's over here i've um indicated that you know one for discussion purposes at least and rounding purposes one percent is about one cent which equals about a hundred thousand dollars just for for round uh numbers uh debt and capital projects um we have planned on increasing uh the capital projects budget by about fifty thousand dollars uh this year um that is always i've got asterix here as well that number fluctuates a little bit because if we fund a capital project with that once that final debt is issued that offsets the amount that's available for capital projects some of the big items that are on the list for this year are um street lights there's been an ongoing um need to upgrade some of the street lights downtown into led but there's wiring that goes along with that which is a fairly significant project portions of the roof of this building um are if not an immediate need in the very near term um there's need for replacement there uh fire equipment continues to be on the radar every single year and the reason it's on the radar every year is because it's so expensive um so even if we're not purchasing anything we need to be talking and planning for uh future purchases because you know a new tower truck might be eight hundred thousand dollars um energy improvements uh kind of goes along with energy manager facility manager and how much do we want to dedicate to weatherization of city owned buildings and improving the energy uh efficiency of of each building that we have whether it be lights or heating supplies or uh water and sewer moving down and bill feel free to cut in at any time uh if you if i have miscategorized anything um memberships that we currently have you know we are members of vlct i think we've uh get a tremendous value for our membership there we also vlct also provides our property and liability insurance and workers compensation insurance um so and they have been a great partner that's money well spent uh central Vermont regional planning commission um we use tremendously for gis and mapping and planning related resources uh outside entities are things that are on or included in our budget that we raise essentially raise money for but we don't necessarily have direct control over them as agencies so these are the various agencies within that subset um that are autonomous to our operation that not under direct uh city council control but that we raise funding for i thought our green mountain transit was like 40 000 so green mountain transit has there's a uh per capita uh component of 30 ish and then 40 for the circulator service or just the circulator that's yeah okay and the cvpsa i know that that's historically been included in the budget but net with the impending resignation of the executive director i i guess and i missed the last meeting so i was not not feeling well but that it you don't have a formal request so this is where we're at right now so we're anticipating things that have been in the budget and just trying to break out for you folks the buckets that they kind of go in that we think about them as the request comes from these agency including right i guess it's just it would i mean if this is being sort of included in that there's been no formal request it doesn't seem as though so to your to your point actually though the um that that 28 000 that's included there is not included in this baseline it is broken out separately okay um so if that were to go away it would be a direct reduction if it were to increase it would be a direct increase to the overall um package i just want to be clear that i would not support paying that right now community enhancements are uh you know mostly Montpelier alive and those related fundamental um things that we participate in you know the 4th of july celebration the welcome legislators dinner um holiday lights we make a contribution each year to the uss Montpelier to help assist in the housing costs for this for the sailors when they come to visit for the 4th of july um so that's kind of those small but just to be clear the top line comes from the downtown improvement district tax so it's it's that is a separate tax and that's a dirt essentially a direct pass through um and then we get into policies and relationships and things that council has taken um a stance on uh in years past um and i'm presuming will continue to do so uh the Montpelier Development Corp there was uh for economic development within town there was a a commitment for a hundred thousand dollars a year the Montpelier Community Fund uh slightly lower last year because we had some changes in one of the underlying recipients but has historically been a hundred twenty thousand dollars uh meek in years past has been five thousand i'm holding the line on that their request primarily has been not so much in the operating expenses but in in moving forward with an energy manager type position that could see some of these projects through uh the housing trust fund again last two years has been at or last year was at sixty thousand i'm holding that at sixty but the request was four hundred and fifty thousand and i think that happened a couple months ago um so that would be a projected increase of ninety thousand dollars uh there was recently a request for from art synergy and paul gamble at a prior meeting uh for fifty thousand dollars in funding for our related projects in the downtown uh invasive invasive species uh that is um of the plant nature so poison ivy and goats and those types of uh treatments and then invasive insects and this would be in addition to uh staffing for treatment of ash borers and and the related um operating side of that uh that gives you a very quick synopsis what i wanted to do as well though was kind of come back here um and when i was when i met with you about a month ago um we had gone through and a person by person and just made a bulleted list of you know what's important to you um before as we start this this process and all i did here was just kind of color code things that um were mentioned by multiple people so i don't need to belabor this and i will send this to you in a summary but you know energy and facility manager came up housing trust fund came up more than once police officer came up more than once ash borer came up more than once um so those are the kind of the highlights that i'm looking at going into our discussions uh as it as a management group and again i'm just looking to get feedback from any of you if you have it with regard to are we going off the rails here going in the wrong direction or is there anything you want to um was that at the meeting that i missed may have been okay no actually no you weren't you weren't uh because you're on the bottom here wait hold on hold on oh so you had brought up us the amount whether we could oh you're right yep i remember someone in house to um to address the cost of studies and then clearly identifying the outcomes thank you and ash borer was also on your list i get one sort of question that i have i know uh chief came and talked sort of generally about body cams i know state police are also trying to figure out what that would look like it's certainly something you know i am in favor of but i'm wondering if it seems realistic that that if we were to allocate those funds for this year if all of those sort of issues would be able to be addressed in this this fiscal year this upcoming fiscal year or if that's something where you know we engage in the policy planning process because that takes a long time given the myriad of concerns um and i was just curious if there had been yeah so i think you know tony you know that that's a decision obviously for counsel and for police um it's a no i we haven't you know i have some estimates of what it would cost right you know initial investment in body cams six thousand dollars for discussion purposes uh annual fees for storage of all that data after you get it fifteen thousand so you know we're right about it's a twenty thousand dollar year commitment but beyond that you know it really is policy and all the other issues that go along with having that that data um that is at the bigger return and then also you know here we are it's november 28th is it realistic that we're going to want to do it in you know before that's a conversation we're having to 20 so those are the types of like we said we we haven't made any decisions either this is kind of the you know we've consolidated a lot of the information and the requests that we're about to go into our you know closed door locked knock down drag out meeting to decide all this stuff but we wanted to run the decisions we're going to be looking at to get um feedback from any of you as we and i mean i know i know this is always a little strange but to me and i know that we as a council right now can't find the next council into things but you know i would i would certainly i am in favor of you know mpd adopting body cams as a sort of standard practice but you know the policy planning and coordination piece of that needs to be not just with mpd but it's on a much larger scale especially since the legislature may be taking the issue up and so i i am supportive of that although it strikes me as someone who's you know sort of been doing law enforcement policy development over the years that that's something that's going to happen in in a very quick fashion and so i i wonder if it might make sense for us to um as a council if everyone is willing to commit to that like you know sort of adding that to the next fiscal year's budget plan rather than i mean earmarking funds now and then not using sure that um and i know that you can't sort of marry the next council to that but it just seems like there are other ways that we could be using some of those dollars now rather than just as a as a placeholder and allocating them absolutely um and that's those are the types of discussions that we'll have in our and some of those newer positions like a facilities manager and things like that like really drilling down with city staff what that job description would look like rather than sort of you know allocating something then realizing it's not enough money that we've allocated to get the the person with the skills that we need you know and so maybe prioritizing those things you know in terms of what is feasible right now right we could hire a police officer right now all of the things exist for the training you know the academy attendance all of that stuff um the emerald ash borer you know we have the resources to tackle all of that and and then sort of spend the next year making sure that we're putting plans in place to do the these other things that are really important things but right can you go back to that uh the spreadsheet uh with the the different categories okay um so i there are some things on this list that uh i really want to push for and there are some things that i want but don't cost very much and so like for example like i love the goats right like but that's two thousand four four thousand dollars like that's not very much money um so i'm gonna leave that on side so but the things that that are rather big that i want to push for i just want to tell you like i have a list of priorities for like things if i had to choose an order for things on this list what would my the my priorities be number one is the police officer the extra police officer number two is some kind of a combined facilities director and sustainability coordinator um number three is taking care of money for the emerald ash borer which i think maybe that i don't know how the parks fits in for that for me but emerald ash borer is right up there um number four for me is the housing trust fund and number five is art synergy money there we go i challenge you all do you have a priorities list i would agree for me the police officer is probably one of the highest priorities i mean you've got officers who are working a lot right now um yeah having oh sorry um and and i guess the the facilities manager piece is really important to me but i want to make sure that we actually put together a comprehensive job description and make sure that our salary you know our salary matches like what we're looking for because i don't want to set this position up for failure because i think it is an integral part of how we move forward um i also agree with the emerald ash borer um and the art synergy plan i'm assuming that's the $50,000 ask um yeah that's on my list too so i don't think our list or two for our part great i also want to uh echo what you were saying ashley about the um we just figured it out right right before sorry before before we get too much further and then i do want to hear other people um i i also have hesitations about the body camps for this fiscal year like i think that is a worthwhile goal but let's do some more research sure that's that's where i'm at with the i think tony's in the of the same opinion okay sorry other though other thoughts so i i guess this is a little late in a like this is we're almost at 10 o'clock at night and the staff haven't done their work yet so i don't want to say this is my absolute priority um and i don't know that that's appropriate right now this way um but one of the things i did want to point out on that list that we kind of assume is this $1,000 for the USS Montpelier for their hotel rooms for the crew to come and it's fine but i'm also not sure that i would spend that on them rather than spending it on say the teen center or some of the other you know um opiate addiction work or you know there's there's we have to make choices every time we decide to spend money here and i don't know that that one's a priority for me so very good thousand dollars okay and in all fairness the the bfw does support the ball yeah i actually had a discussion with bill about this all right perfect uh done there is a committee very much involved in that group so i think you would need to hear from this senior group of our community that's involved with that i'm really relieved that you're willing to put the body cams off i think that's a huge discussion that'll be put off for many many years uh just uh it's terrible uh for us to leap there just i mean if tony's there too all the issues the policy issues let alone the mindset it just drives one thing i don't support uh but within this there are a couple of things of which like we can talk about housing and i assume that if we're going to put facility manager just like housing that will get numbers from the staff and they will tell us what they need and what the cost will be so it'll be appropriate you know for what you want to do uh the housing has given us a number the arts have i really appreciate that i don't know we really have a number for the police officer i mean i want that position but i don't think we have a number yet so that would be good to see yeah yeah okay well i didn't see one up there no we yeah i don't but whereas the housing so yeah i and honestly i purposely didn't um assign specific numbers or costs to positions i mean i have some very reasonably good rough ideas um but at the same time i also don't want to be in a position where i scare everybody out of the room because i throw a number at every single position that's proposed before we've even made the decision so i think if you're if the consensus is that you know police officer is important to the bulk of this council then that's something that we're going to firm up well i don't know that everyone i didn't see it doubled in your list but i'm really interested the one thing i'd add here is park staff we have two people uh one who has so much comp time he doesn't have to work for months on end if he doesn't want to um and rightfully so because they've been so overworked that we really need a third person in our parks it's just and they double dip with their job with the tree board so in both of those sort of arenas parks and trees we need a third full-time staff but i'd like to see some numbers on that if you're going to look at facility and police officer costs and they are that isn't there as well staff tree staff sorry very pure i call i want to see some costs that's all yep yep absolutely yeah other thoughts i'd like to just see overtime numbers by department okay i would have a credit but um just the thought as we're looking at the i know it's good for our buck um i can't support uh vlct we're spending one dollar lobbying against minimum wage or paid family leave the state house this year using taxpayer dollars to do that so i think maybe that's just a message to back to the board there that we'd like to see their position on that yes i would anyways before i approve anything there um and i think i'm with ashley um between paco quitting after the last meeting and having another member of that board come up and say would you put a set of our misery i felt guilty when they came in here and did all this work you know they suffered over this work um and i don't feel like they got clear direction on what to do next so i'm inclined not to appropriate that money without giving them clear direction if you want you don't have to i don't think i have much to add i think i was captured pretty well uh in your your list i had two items and those are those are still my priorities i think and i i um am uh certainly very interested in all the other things on the list but i don't know that i've made uh a mayor uh suggested prioritized order a little bit of the other ones so yeah i can safely say i've hit 100 of their requests of at least one yes absolutely yes so there you go it's always always satisfied thank you anything you want to if not that's fine i think it uh the list captures my uh what i i mentioned three priorities uh housing trust fund which i would say is number one um police officer and emerald ash borer um it uh i could make may wind up needing to use myself on the issue of the emerald ash borer and and staffing for that um i'll have to think about that a little more why would you refuse yourself for that because my son just got hired as the arborist that's that makes sense part-time arborist yeah there we go and get your further thoughts another time unless you want to add anything neither one of us is supporting i guess i want to see some numbers and i want to see what the staff want what the staff are willing to fight for before making a call okay well i think what we we just want to make sure that there was nothing that was you don't want that's on the list or where the high points are i think what you'd help i'll just say and i it's no surprise that when we total up even the mayor's list with with the things that we're going to be probably higher than what you had all indicated was your level of of tolerance but at least it gives us a place to start and so while you know so i think you want to be thinking about at what level do you support these priorities if if we have to make tough decisions because you know and i guess that leads me to how what you want to see from us you know we talked about this a little bit in terms of you know years past we've had a hard target this year you know we opted not to do that in lieu of this process and so i think we'll be happy to put together a detailed operating budget detailed numbers on these kind of things and just leave these open and then you can work down to where you want to get or we can we can do it in increments of this is what you know but again you know we're prioritizing our own two versus uh their own versus what the council wants so i mean i i think the next step is just to see what the numbers are associated with all these things and then i'm not sure that that's much different than what we talked about sorry i'm starting to like lose it no i got it so it's like yeah unlike when the staff positions are only other than going for a time are hard to negotiate but how much goes into housing how much goes to be hard we could start increasing those in a more smaller level than requested but these have been present so i think that's important you see it great one final item of business um cip we exchanged emails a little bit is for at least for ann glenn and donna monday still good for everybody and five or five thirty do you have a preference and i'm gonna vote for five sure and i will send an invitation out in the morning i'll just make a request that i don't mean to single you out but there are people out watching these meetings who don't know what things like cip means so i just want to encourage all of us to remember to say what we're talking about absolutely um we take those things for granted sometimes the cip is the capital improvement plan and it is the committee uh that will be meeting on monday we'll be going through to look at the f y twenty uh initial proposals for infrastructure improvements to streets paving sidewalks and building repairs and maintenance so it's a fairly significant and sorry equipment right and equipment yes the big dollars okay thank you just assuming we're having conversations with bethany church sir about the warm shelter i know there were a number of calls that went out both from the police department and the fire department last year so i think this is a really important service that they offer our community i'm sure it saved lives i just want to make sure we're doing what we can to support those guys okay and donna sorry i may have just said December 5th monday december 3rd monday the 3rd at 5 p.m cip capital improvement plan meeting great thank you thank you okay amendments to the sprinkler ordinance what do you think it can read are we okay team well we've got to do two readings of it so i think we could go ahead and get one of those readings done tonight thank you're right um i can do you want yeah go ahead um so as you know we made a bunch of significant changes to the um sprinkler ordinance uh last winter spring um and uh glenn and i serve on the building appeal committee that is basically known as the sprinkler variance committee where we hear the request for variance from the ordinance and um it came to the attention of the committee that one of the weird things that happened as a result of our changes is that um under effectively under the um zoning and um under under the zoning ordinance uh and the sprinkler ordinance um let's see how to put this um we effectively treat a uh a duplex as a single family home under the the new zoning um and the state requires that you are allowed to add an auxiliary dwelling unit under a single family home um so effectively we treat triplexes as if they are single family homes um in both the sprinkler ordinance and in the the zoning um and then once you get up to uh four units or more then you really consider in a multifamily building um so the way that this ended up working was that um there were exceptions um and uh two requirements for sprinklers if you had up to three units because we consider you a single family home and there were exceptions uh above four unit no above five units um if you met the state level requirements to have direct exits to the exterior um but there was if you went from a um a three unit two or four unit you would be required to have a sprinkler added and there wasn't really any way for us to um there wasn't an exception um so the staff suggested a change um the wording change that would allow you to um go through that and uh that's we're proposing so I'm sorry that I've not articulated it very well it is 10-05 but I did in writing so hopefully you read the memo and I will um attempt to articulate it better at the second uh hearing and Bob you're okay oh yes so we're going to officially open the public hearing on these uh amendments uh and Bob you're okay with these changes okay they came from came from us yeah Chris actually came up with the wording change Chris Lumber yeah and I know how concerned you all are about safety so that's very comforting uh well if we have to have it then I agree with the change fair enough yep yep by the way I hear you don't agree with the initial change no I I remember okay so um comments from either the council or the public council the public going once going twice okay I'm going to close the public hearing on that uh and we'll set the second hearing for the next meeting yes while we're on this topic just uh flag another issue I mean I suppose we could amend this as a second reading but I think that wouldn't be appropriate but um came up in light of the parking garage discussion which was that our ordinance requires all new buildings to be sprinkled and the state ordinances for park for sing freestanding open air concrete parking structures uh requires certain standpipes but doesn't require the this full dry sprinkler system and um it's about four hundred thousand dollars in project cost which isn't we don't it isn't necessarily that much of a benefit to public safety I mean obviously if it was a safe true safety issue we would be more concerned and whether it was us or any private person building a building of this type to spend money that isn't getting the value for um you know that makes sense so we propose that we I mean one choice as we go and seek a variance through the committee but what's you know the real basis for that under our ordinance and the second would be to simply amend the ordinance for structures like this and so like I said we could do it as an amendment at second reading I think that's not necessarily in keeping with the spirit of the process of having two meetings you know where this hasn't been worn so I'd recommend that if people are interested in taking that out that at the next meeting we do a first reading on that one and and Bob how do you feel about such a proposal obviously I like sprinklers in every building but you know there's some you know there's some common sense in an open-air freestanding parking garage great yeah okay Rosie I would suggest that the ordinance variance process does really allow for a city to make the argument that they've taken x additional steps to protect public safety and therefore I like how we structured the variance process to put the onus on the developer to prove that they've done other things that will protect public safety so my inclination would be to just let it go through the process although I'm there's three members of the committee and two of us are city councilors and so that seems a little yeah I mean I think conflicted and I don't know how we would deal with that properly but I think you know I'm we talked about both options and I think we felt it was more straightforward and honest to just say here's you know this is the way it is and and you know it's it's not out of the realm of possibility someone in the future could build another one of these structures somewhere a private person and again why I like the chief I strongly favor sprinklers and in the investment in sprinklers for safety but but you know the the cost versus the the benefit in these particular cases where they're not occupied you know I mean it seems you know personally that we've we've backed off on the residential sprinkler requirements and those kind of things that insist on them in a parking garage seemed silly so that's not right and no people you know so I think it's just more straightforward to say here's our intent here's what we're going to do and and that anyone in the future would not have to go through the appeal process but I think we should be upfront about it Donna would you be proposing the same language that's in the state rules yes oh yeah no yeah absolutely we couldn't we can't we can't be less restrictive in the state anyway but I think we would probably just say parking structures would follow the state code and that's what and then refer to it and we haven't actually dragged a good way to go yeah we make an amendment tonight no I wouldn't wait on that I think we should propose it and put on the agenda and let it be clear that's what we're doing okay is we would like I would like an opportunity to add some different some more wording to that also if it wasn't sprinkle would have protection stairwells things like that okay is there any other opinions about which direction alarms well but if we made a change it would also be posted and maybe would that not get the same attention between now and then versus waiting until you know that's your call I it doesn't get posted until the Friday that our agenda gets posted yeah I get it I guess I'm just subject I'm conscious of some of the comments and and things that we've received about the parking process the parking structure process and I think if however well intended if we were to you know we had an argument I think warned about changing two and three unit buildings and suddenly we amended it to include the parking garage I think it would be could be construed inappropriately as we were trying to slide something through and I think we ought to just be straightforward and put on the agenda that's what we're talking about and I think it's more public notice to put it in and then well then we'll still have public notice and I think that's good we should have more public notice it'll it'll be an ordinance change so it would be two public hearings once we make the notice so we caught it in time we could have added it to this but we didn't just how is that okay yeah that sounds okay okay great so we'll go ahead with that plan yes and I make just one more observation as I was going back through the language of the sprinkler ordinance I was realizing that one policy decision that we may we we made without really thinking about it which is an okay policy decision potentially but I just wanted to draw our attention to it is that in our rush to earn our desire to allow for more units to be added to existing buildings without throwing up additional burdens we did basically allow assuming you weren't expanding the building of the footprint by more than I believe 10 percent or a thousand square 50 percent 15 percent 50 there was anyway there was there is a small addition that you were allowed to make without having to add a sprinkler for somebody who owned a multi-unit building an existing apartment building say of two units or you know or two two bedroom units there is nothing in the state law or our ordinance that would prohibit them from breaking that up into much smaller units without adding sprinklers and right now we haven't really seen that as a problem happening but I could foresee an instance where you know you have a landlord who decides that they're going to make a quick buck by breaking these up into really tiny units and in old building without sprinklers where we haven't been able to kind of come in and add some of these additional life safety requirements you could have a bad situation where people are you know in an unsafe apartment basically that aren't protected so we kind of we decided that it was more important to be able to add additional units but that is a decision we made and so I just want to make sure we all know that and it's just kind of on our radar is something to think about if we do see you know there's suddenly a lot of landlords trying to squeeze more units in or something um that could be a problem so thank you okay well I've already closed the public hearing on this ordinance and we do we need to vote to set the next do okay well is there a motion to set the second reading for the next meeting for the discussion one favor if you say aye pose great what can I have one more yeah you made me wait to last so I know right yeah and I just want to remind people of Monday nights um we had a fire at five state street on Monday night and that building is standing today and there's people living in it and working in it because of the sprinkler system that was that building we all know there's only one you can only see the front of that building you can't even get to the back of that building it's surrounded by buildings and this fire was in a fourth floor apartment in the back corner it would have been extremely difficult to get to that fire extremely difficult and extremely dangerous to the firefighters if that fire had if it had not been for the sprinkler system we um we calculated um based on the amount of time the sprinkler ran and the size of the head that probably 450 to 500 gallons of water flowed to the building caused a little bit of damage but if that had not been sprinkled that probably would not be here today that maybe some of the adjacent buildings could be adjacent buildings up there were people sleeping in that building when the fire started um the birds yeah the birds want to have made it but it's the importance of sprinklers you know that you know that that's a very valuable building that's still here today and occupied because oh it wasn't because of me or the fellas next door it was because of the sprinkler system the fire we got there in under two minutes and the fire was out when we got there well and if we need to be having any further conversation about like retrofitting buildings i mean that's that's kind of a scary i mean that's that's the policy decision we've made is that we wanted people to be able to add to existing buildings add units we wanted more housing units and so we took away a lot of those requirements to sprinkle in an existing building yeah it was a policy decision we made you know but it's true i'm going to continue to talk about including single-family homes including single-family homes because as we talked about 85 percent we had in summerville indiana today a family of six mom and dad and four children lost their lives in their home it burned and they lost their lives that was this morning it happens every day and we we need to continue to think about that thank you thank you okay council reports uh who would like to start sure um jump in around i would just like to remind everyone who is listening or watching or however you are participating in this meeting um that there are resources uh for addiction support and recovery here in our community and our surrounding communities that are critical lifesaving things um we've had a number of overdose deaths in the recent weeks uh here in montpelier and the berry area uh and i would encourage anyone who is uh dealing with any sort of substance use or abuse issues to um reach out to community supports we have a number of them available law enforcement actually and montpelier police department here uh offers um rides to anyone who is willing to or are ready to go to treatment they will take you there no questions asked um there are also lots of service providers here in the montpelier and berry area their door is always open the turning point center is a great resource and i would just uh encourage anyone watching this who knows anyone to to sort of pass that on uh because there have been an alarming number of deaths recently uh and it is entirely preventable thank you who else would like to go i i'll say something um the other night uh over at the berry granite museum there was a great event uh for people to come over and see the uh finished product of the series sculpture that's going up on the uh state house um there was a good turnout the artists were there i thought it was a great uh uh celebration of uh of public art and the whole public process of the artist uh uh being they're doing the work and interacting with the public as uh as as he was chipping away at the mahogany was a great thing for the public um maybe 10 or 15 years ago uh uh my wife and i had jerry williams who made the clay model for this do uh do a bronze of his previous uh iteration of that uh sculpture and so we brought that with us and so if you've seen any of my facebook page photos we'll see you'll see a picture of jerry with the clay model that he made which is about four feet tall and uh and the the bronze that he was reunited with and i think that if people don't know about it Friday morning it's going up on top of the of the dome i'm i'm not going to be able to be there but people should uh try to make time to be there very friday morning it's friday at noon it's being hoisted friday at noon and i was gonna say it's like 10 30 that people can see it before it gets lifted yeah um so i wanted to let you all know that i have decided not to run for reelection in march um so i'm gonna have my one term and i've uh feel like i've put my all in for one term but um i can't continue to to do it at this level and i feel that even at this level i'm just constantly in awe of donna and your ability to go to every meeting and participate so much and glenn your um your ability to listen to constituents and interact with constituents i just am constantly amazed by the level of work that my fellow counselors put in um and feel like i can't continue to do that um and still uh give to the rest of the parts of my life so um i've learned so much from the staff and from the fellow counselors and i don't want to waste that so i um i'm hoping to be able to serve on a committee or something going forward so that i don't uh don't disappear from um montpelier uh civic life but um i wanted to give folks plenty of notice um so that anyone who's thinking about running in district one uh will have time to think it through and i would be so happy to talk to anybody about what it's been like and uh what the commitment is um and to help you through that thought process and deciding if this is something that you can do i will miss you yeah i'm wow i know so just before we go any further oh my gosh rosie i am so grateful for all of your energy and time that you've been putting into being the best counselor that you can be because it really shows and uh whoever you know runs in your place uh these big shoes i mean i think that goes without saying um but we're just so grateful thanks for great questions and great thinking and i told bill i'm happy to continue sending annoying questions but please do please do we gotta be on the ordinance committee woman i think you've gotta be yeah i guess it's me um i am strongly tempted to say that i've just decided to uh talk rosie out of quitting um you got time yeah but i don't know that sounded like a pretty well considered decision and i don't want to to um disrespect that but uh i would challenge anyone considering running to try to do it as well as you have um and i would totally open it up to the public anyone who would like to try it persuade rosie to uh i i would encourage that um and i will be at baguitos tomorrow morning 8 30 to 9 30 if you want to talk about that or anything else thank you i know i haven't okay i've gotten comments from constituents concerned about streetlights and at one point we talked about a committee because there had been a committee that eliminated a lot of excess lights but maybe we've gotten it too dark in some places so i'd like to bring that back up and also a couple emails about deer and deer yards and there's a committee that didi who was here march is leading dealing about montpellier deer and then there's the commissioner of wildlife of a porter who wants montpellier to allow hunting for deer inside the city limits so i think we need to become part of this conversation so i'd like to put it out there as a future agenda item uh so one thought about the street lighting um if we want to get the committee back together that's certainly a possibility i do know that we will be considering um it's on the budget list to do the l leds downtown which would make a big difference um so you know we well we haven't got that many most of the complaints we've received have been about downtown and there's a couple of reasons state street outer state street and we removed lights out there yeah sidewalks people who use sidewalks a lot yeah and berry well maybe you know it's just one light maybe we can pop it back so i mean nation contact us so i had hesitated about getting the committee back together because there was this proposal that was um on the table right um so what we should talk about what's the best talk to staff but yeah let's i have constituents i have more than one that yeah i mean open to either i've also mentioned crosswalks particularly are not that well and it's been on front porch forum a number of times in the last few weeks so it's so dark so dark and the other thing i'm just really excited about potential of more green space downtown thank you for considering it free uh so i just have one uh thing to add which is that some time ago as we were considering um the charter change um regarding sustainability and we ended up narrowing it to single use plastics part of that discussion was also around energy efficiency and just want to update you that i'm continuing to have conversations and doing with our lawyer and doing some research as to what might be necessary to have some level of energy efficiency ordinances implemented and so just want to put that back on the radar that we may be having that discussion again in the near future so hope to have more information to you all about that soon but not yet so that's it for me city clerk um real quick speaking of the charter changes um speaking of the charter changes the city clerk's office has started to uh take an active role in uh trying to make sure that the legislature hears the voices of the citizens of Montpelier on the two charter changes that we uh we voted to enact on November 6th um so i will be reaching out to all of you to ask for help thank you uh just a couple very quick things one uh just to follow up on what Ashley said um there was a rash of uh break-ins in downtown over the last week or so there's a lot of talk about that in businesses in some homes um and while that person has not been apprehended by us they may have been apprehended by another agency for a different cause but there's a strong suspect and my main point is it was directly tied into substance abuse and addiction and um heavy issues so um we have our budget what we call budget congress next week so that is if you hear us referring to that that's just the staff gets in a room for a couple of days and that's all we do for a couple of days until we come up with a number so or numbers and one thing I just want to mention quickly we've come up and we've we've we're talking about this but you know we had a somewhat of an extensive goals or a strategic planning process uh this past year that I think most people liked and we talked some about doing it again next year and possibly also at least including some members of other committees or at least tying it into the master planning process somehow and I you know I know we're talking about something after the date of which at least one council member will not be a member but it um but there will be a majority of you returning assuming good health and um to the extent that we want to make some kind of commitment or try to start scheduling that ideally with Julia again um I could do that guy just happened to have a conversation with her and she said she's booking up fast so I thought I'd at least run it up the flagpole before we think I'd even sent you a note about that yeah sounds good okay so that's all I have okay then without objection we're gonna consider this meeting adjourned


Oh my Dude it's a freaking toe Dude it's a big one Time you gotta See my line. Oh Dude, dude, dude, this is huge Yo what's poppin people welcome back to another video. Thank you guys so much for the support If you're new to the channel, please hit that subscribe button hit the notification bell Also hit the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content as you know We're traveling across Florida right now. We just left from Miami. We're here in Jupiter, Florida You guys already know what that means how to meet up with my boy Is fishing if you guys want to check them out listen link down below I say that a lot, but I actually want you guys to go down below check out his channel Also, my boy adub so go subscribe to my boy adub down below as well We're gonna have some fun man, and I was talking to Ryan We haven't linked up in forever man It's been such a long time excited to be out here very blessed to be going on this trip He came over to the RV last night, you know, I got the boys when we got everybody We were about to have a good time, but he came over to the RV last night and when you left I told them I was like dude that was like refreshing. It was it was kind of like just like a catch up It was a good little no, that's what I said though I was like dude. It's like it was refreshing to like kind of catch up. Oh, yeah kind of chill out It was like two in the morning, you know, we had like our sleep schedules been so bad We've just been driving this man has been driving the bus. Why are you wearing my sweatshirt boy? Are you looking fresh though? Walmart everybody always ask where I get my sunglasses literally all Walmart $10 $15 sunglasses Hashtag Walmart sponsored me down below Everybody do it down below the guys we're gonna have some fun today.  We're gonna have some fun Let's go ahead and hop right into it I'm gonna show you guys the rigs that we have and we're gonna catch the big ones today. Let's get it I'm just caught one first cast.  That's why I can't believe that dude you threw your first cast So guys we are starting off with a chatter bait you guys know my favorite bait of all time has to probably be a chatter Don't and I'm catches the donkeys We're pretty much all of us are throwing a chatter bait I mean, it's just you have such a great opportunity to catch a big one with the chatter bait for some reason and Man, it just catches them. So this is actually a black and blue chatter bait or something slow rolling it throwing it around This grass. I'm at this pond that Ryan just took us to and I'm hopefully we're gonna catch some big ones I'm excited about it We're gonna have to cover some water and I'm see what we can catch This place looks juicy, dude. Wait is this where Yeah, I know there's a big one in this pocket. I'm just waiting Hey, dude, I had to just low.  That's a good Yeah, that's a good one That's a good one right there boys first fish of the day for me. Oh, no, it's fine. It's fine two and a half pounders, too Now you got one No way giant. Oh little guy Oh man, well me and Christian just had her both of our first fish do they're down there Christian right there That's right where he bit me too. I'm out of fire them Let's see if we can catch another one. They might be loaded right there This wind is brutal That grass cuz all far Christian Oh, dude, I just got Yeah, I got slapped Look at the boil.  Oh, he's not as big as I thought but that's a freaking big That's a four pounder doggy. Yes, sir when I hook said he felt like an Yes, I don't know you might have a big big one dude, there might be more there Throw back in there. That's a good one dog First fish the day of four pounder. Let's get it, bro All right, there we go guys first fish of the day almost a four pounder I'd say he's a high three that is a freaking toad when I hooked him He felt like he's eight or nine pounds But hey, you can't complain with almost a four pound bass first trip of the Florida Sunday. Yeah Yes, sir that fish just hit my bait to burrow like literally I don't know dude. You might have had his dude. It was scary hit him in the boil was just crazy There we go first fish of the day.  Let's get back in we're out here, baby.  All right. So guys we just got to a new pond on there I just took us to this one's actually a lot deeper has reeds along the edge Which is just very interesting because now you just don't see that in ponds, but then again, like I'm not from Florida This is just like heaven best heaven. I just have a weird feeling that someone today Christian There's like a big boil to the earth big wake to the right of you I just feel like somebody today's gonna catch a trophy which if you guys didn't know a trophy in Florida is eight Plus so I just feel like I feel like one of us are gonna get one. Oh Dude some just hit bait in the middle Guys, there's actually Hydrilla in this pond too, which is I mean you don't see hydrilla in ponds. That's crazy It's got hydrilla has reeds like what you know, there's some giants in here. I just can't wait till we hook our first one I know we're gonna catch one It could be just a mega mega.  I got some strong one Really? Dude, that's ridiculous. What's up? You got crocs on You see my line.  Oh my god. Oh man.  He's trying to FaceTime me. Hey Adam tried to FaceTime me How big bro, bro, I already got a video of me. I'm not even kidding. We're on the worm Bro, I've already caught two fives hundred just caught a four and a half And we've probably caught about three or four other fish so we're smaller really Oh, I thought you had like an eight pounder. You're gonna show me or something Yeah, catch one for the video man. Yeah catch one.  He's running with it wasn't there Yeah, so we were at a new pond now Hopefully we're gonna catch the giant we actually came back here last year or Ryan took us here last year and Adam was throwing a big depth 10 inch when they did depth 250 and He actually broke it off in like an eight pounder's mouth.  I was like four That's crazy Oh my god. Oh, yeah, it's four pounder No, he ain't Almost three pounder Hi to three pounder can't complain, right?  Look look at that.  So my second fish Just came out to the new pond. It's a pretty one do the same That's not that that smells. I must say something smells But look how fat that fish's belly is that's a good one high-two number We're gonna have to toss them because we cannot get not by the water That's pretty one right there. Oh I've a duty ate it like five foot off and I was just kind of talking to you and just popping it Yeah, it was on the bottom Let's kind of hop in like a jig. It's time for the giveaway in today's video I'm gonna show you guys exactly what we got. Look at this man. So we got Pack of swim baits got a couple packs of worms perfect plastic These are actually red bug and then we got some green pumpkin worms and we also have the more finesse worms These are just some regular zoom finesse worms you guys want to enter this giveaway all you have to do You just have to be subscribed to my channel be subscribed to my boy Ryan's channel and be subscribed to adub's channel I'm gonna link them down below and also go check out the giveaways on their channels as well Because they're gonna be running them in this collab video if you could also hit the like button on this video Hit the notification bell and drop some comments down below on what videos you'd like to see on this trip because we got About seven or eight days left So we're gonna be reading through the comments taking your feedback and dropping some banging content So let's go ahead and hop right back to the video Guys, I am so ready. There's hook in the slob. Oh My god, that was him. That was him.  Yeah, that connects to the thing. All right guys, I am ready my adrenaline's pumping I just I feel like it's about to happen. I just have these like moments Where I feel like I'm about the oh my god, it's the biggest bull I just have these moments where I feel like I'm about to catch like a Really big fish and I just feel like within probably the next I'd say three cast I'm gonna hook a monster Get him boy, you got him that time you got him really.  Yeah, these fish are biting good, bro. Yeah, nice dude. That's a good fish though That's a good one Christian They are so fat. Is that your first one? That is that's the second one. That's the second the first one Oh a little tiny one. Yeah, that's a nice one.  They're munching dude. Nice. Good job boy. See you They do don't I It's my first time pond fishing in forever, man Just eat me and there goes one off the bank That was like a freaking eight pounder. That was like a dude. That was a eight pounder, bro Just saw his back. Oh my god guys. I just ruined it right there. I just ruined it I didn't let him eat it all the way though. That was actually the one swimming off the bank had a huge boil I hooked I just saw his back. It looked like he was seven eight pounds. I could be wrong But dude that that fish look like he's about seven eight pounds. Yeah.   Oh That is I get him my name big. Oh That's a four-pounder, bro Yeah, at least four or five these fish smell so bad Why these fish steam? Is that a four or five?  Yeah, dude. I was gonna throw him back, but I'm gonna try to hook one around try to hook one Nice, that's a four easy All right, look at that show him Christian.  I've never smelled bass like that. I'm literally like about to walk right here and Don't even Look at that Ryan's got a momma. We're releasing them fish They're down the pipe Oh Dude, that was a look at my tail dog All right, and Adam has a swim baits. You don't have a swim bait do I do have I'm fine. I'm fine for a second. I'm fine. I'm fine for a second. Give him boy.  I want to see it. Oh, that's a big and ain't it Is he little? Oh You skirt them on in here But you have one too Do they're eating those worms? I wish I had a hook I'm gonna have this thing like a jig on the bottom. It's gonna be my only only hope right now Well, they need well, they need some You just hit me right there unless that's a pipe. Is that where the pipe is? It's pawns already though Yeah, it's nipply.  What look at it? Look at one of his eyes, bro do you It's kind of cute. That's a good little fish. Look at his eye guys. That's weird Yeah, just literally hopping that charbie like a jig. They're getting all these bites on a worm I had to start doing it like that He felt huge though. I had to get momentum. He was running so hard. Oh my god.  I was just talking to Christian about it. What earlier Is he big oh, dude, that's a big one Christian What That's not is that another four Really no, huh? Oh Dude, that is a friggin digging Dude, that's a good one. That's for yeah easy four pounder. What a nice


Hey, hey, hey, you guys. We're back with another video. Girl, let me make sure I got this camera. Oh yeah, that's better, honey. So, y'all, I am here to go over my hair regimen, which those of you who've been following for a while, it will be revealed that not much has changed. But what is going to have to change is some of the styling products I use. I will have to say how I style my hair would definitely have to change just a little bit in some of the products that I use because I've gone from an area that is extremely dry, Phoenix, Arizona. And by the way, I went natural in Phoenix, Arizona. I went natural when I was 30. Phoenix to now, humid as, bipolar as, sorry, humid weather, bipolar weather, hair in East Dallas, or Dallas, D.A. to the area. So I'm gonna take my hair down so you can see what she's been doing.  That just is what it is. But it's so fluffy, so, so very fluffy. So this is what my hair is looking like. This is three days after a flat iron. Yeah, she's very fluffy, but I'll just put it down so you have to see what it looks like. And as I stated in my flat iron video, I do this because I love the styles I can create. Normally, I like to get two minimum, two hairstyles from a blowout flat iron. And so I'm going to be doing, this is my hopes and dreams, is to do a pin curl and to do a flexi ride. That pin curl definitely is coming with a flexi ride. I'm not so sure, y'all, because the weather is so crazy right now. And the pin curls I'm gonna be doing, I've done pin curls before on my hair. I'm going to be doing, I have some alligator clips coming in. You know, the old school metal, it looks like a silver looking with the alligator teeth. So I'm gonna be doing my pin curls like this. Girl, why are you playing? How am I gonna do it, y'all?  I'm gonna wrap it around my hand like this. And I've done pin curls before.  Roll it up and then you pin it. Yeah, it's been a while since I've done them and I've never done it on this month of hair. So anyway, you guys, let's get to what the meaning of this video is gonna be about. Since I have moved, like I stated, from an area that is very dry to an area that is extremely humid, even though it's springtime here in Texas and it's not necessarily summer yet, we are still feeling the humidity because it's raining. It's spring, it's raining. It's raining almost every week, sometimes twice a week. Let me tell you something. Within a week, within three weeks, we have seen snow, hail, rain, wind. It is absolutely crazy. Y'all know how it is if you live in Dallas. It's crazy. And if you live in Houston, even worse. So I'm gonna be going over what I've been doing to my hair since we moved here. What I plan on doing and also some products I'm going to be purchasing. I know I got rid of a lot of products recently, like a hundred plus products and I'm not kidding you. I got rid of quite a few products and gifted them to some deserving women. And so I definitely need to up my hair products because I don't actually have a lot of styling products. So for the purpose of this video, we're gonna jump right into what I've been doing with my hair, what products I've been using. I'm also gonna cover a little bit of the reviews that are coming up, meaning product reviews. I have several that are coming up. I do apologize, y'all, it's a lot going on. And overall, how I've been taking care of my hair. So as far as daily wear, this is the second time I've blown out my hair since I've been in Texas and not bad. I'm okay with the fluffiness. I'm okay with it not being bone straight. I'm okay with this. This is a blowout slash flat iron. I wash my hair. I have increased washing my hair to now weekly. No real reason for that only because I just want my scalp to be healthy, okay? I am moisturizing as needed, not a lot because honestly, you guys, I don't wear my hair out. I typically keep my hair in two-stringed twists which would definitely be one of my go-to hairstyles in the summertime as it starts to get humid. And that's just something I normally do rock. Moisturizing my hair as needed. Oftentimes it's twice a week, okay? Washing my hair weekly. I deep condition now with every wash only because I have so many products I need to review. But I have a feeling that I'm going to forego, now hear me out, I'm gonna forego my rinse out conditioners and just switch to deep conditioner. I'm gonna talk about that later on, but I have a, there's a reason for my madness why I think I'm going to just skip the rinse out and just go straight to the deep conditioner because I feel like it's almost redundant, like you're wasting product because a lot of the times I like to use some of my rinse out conditioners and my deep conditioner. So why are we conditioning and they deep conditioning? So yeah, yeah, it took me 10 years to realize that. As far as special treatments, protein treatments not even going there yet because for a while there, I felt like I was having protein overload while we were in Phoenix, not really going into that. Hot oil treatment, no, not really, I don't really do treatments. If my hair is in a healthy state and I don't really care for it, the only thing I will say that I do try to do is the hydrolyzed wheat protein every now that I need to purchase some from the green beauty channel. Hey girl, I absolutely love the product that she sells. Again, it's called hydrolyzed wheat protein. And the reason why I prefer the hydrolyzed wheat protein over, hold on, or as hair mayonnaise, the hydrolyzed wheat protein is at a smaller molecular structure to where it can actually penetrate the hair. This right here will penetrate it, it'll be great. But with this, it's not as great as using hydrolyzed wheat protein. So that is on my to-do list and that is something that I try to do every two months, okay? So for washing my hair, I stick to cream of natures, argan oil from Morocco, sulfate-free, Morster and Shine shampoo, I absolutely love this stuff. I also have TGIN's Morster-rich sulfate-free shampoo. But every now and then you do have to get rid of that buildup, okay? And this is where clarifying shampoo comes in and I stick to the swab. It's very good. I have no problems with it. I've used just a little bit. Every now and then I may do an apple cider vinegar rinse, but I would be lying to you if I say, yeah, girl, I make my own apple cider vinegar rinse quarterly. No, 75 cents or a dollar from a Dollar Tree. This is what we do. As far as rinse out conditioners, I stick to my swab coconut conditioner, which I don't have an example of. Or my Nifty VO5. I love any of the Morster milk lines. This is a strawberries and cream. I also like to detangle with VO5 or with swab, no problem. Sometimes if I remember, I may pick up a fresh Oliveira plant, cut it up and use the gel to help with detangling my hair. You guys, I've really gotten a lot better with detangling my hair. I know it could be a pain. And I am a stickler for pre-pooing. I do believe in pre-pooing because it just makes the entire wash day, wash process a lot easier. I know we'll be linking in the cards several videos on how I pre-poo. If I have some extra coins, I will purchase the African pride pre-shampoo, which is great, but honestly, it has Oliveira. So you can get your hands on fresh Oliveira plant. It's the same thing, girl. Just add it to some conditioner and you're good. Okay, as far as deep conditioners, I've been using anything that I have on hand. I had some Queen Helen. I used up all of that so I can show you any examples of it. I have several videos I need to be doing reviews on and those are gonna be my deep conditioners for the week. So again, Queen Helen, okay? As far as leave-ins, we have as I am Long and Luxe, Chromagranic Passion Fruit Grow Yogurt. Love this stuff, no problem with it. Also have Oyan, Herodue, Moisturizing Leave-In Conditioner. For what I understand for some of the small research I've done, this is great for areas that is high in humidity. So I'm gonna keep this on the roster. I'm gonna keep this on the roster. Giovanni, Weightless Leave-In Conditioner. Another good one. And me and Jay, we have both been still using Cantu Shave Letter Leave-In Conditioner Repair Cream. They changed their, I think they changed something. Something, they said they have a new look. They have a new look and I feel like this leave-in is a little thicker. I'm not complaining, I'm not complaining. But I feel like it is a little thicker. Do y'all feel that way? Something's different about this product. I'm not complaining like I stated. And it's working for me. I still have my nifty-difty hair oil mixture. This is mostly fenugreek oil, sweet almond oil, olive oil. I no longer use coconut oil just because we have a hate love relationship. What did I say? Fenugreek oil, sweet almond oil, olive oil, and jojoba oil. That is it, okay? So I don't have a lot of stylers. I really don't. But when I do, I have TGINs, Twist and Define Cream. This is an example, but she's not in here instead. Instead, I used the last remaining product that was in here. And I still feel so bad about Christia Rest in Peace. She was the CEO of TGIN. Anyway, so I used a little bit that was left in here and mixed it up with mango butter and shea butter. I'm going with some oils and make my own style. It's a little thick, a little hard, but it's because actually this part is not that bad. It's a little cool here in Texas right now. I also have the Coconut Mango Hair Butter by Kinky Tresses. I absolutely love this stuff. And then we have the Texture ID Coils Twist Butter. I like this. I still feel like it will be better with another style or like a gel. So this is everything that I am using now. As I stated before, definitely after I did that twist style, I can tell that I'm going to have to purchase some different type of mostly stylings. I think I'm okay with the leave-ins that I have. So some of the products that I have been looking at is Jane Carter. Jane Carter is great. Also, Oignon. Oignon is also good for high humidity areas. Taliyah Wajid.  I have about seven products that I placed in there that I'm going to, once my pocket book is a little bit better, I'm going to go ahead and purchase those products. But again, Oignon Taliyah Wajid. Miel is good for Miel and Maine Choice actually, are great for areas that are very high humidity. I just wish that I could purchase the Jane Carter that coils line. It was a line that was formulated for four type hair. And we all know about it now that Jane Carter was basically pushed out of her own company, which is just sad as a hot mess, you know. But I am going to purchase those few products. I'm going to purchase also some products by Apogee. Remember that green tea reconstructor? It was in the spray bottle. And they have a leave-in that is supposed to be great for high humidity, you know. So I'm going to be purchasing those. And again, it will be another video coming so please look for that. So I have some other products here. What to expect as far as reviews. So again, we have those Cream of Nature Pure Honey Hair Mask that's coming. This is the Rich Honey, excuse me, Pure Honey Rich Coconut Oil, Creamy Shea Butter and Avocado that's coming. I got two of them. I made it to get two more. Let's just be honest. Again, the Blue Magic Cholesterol that's coming. This is coming first, because I'm excited about this. We have the Eat-In Body Works Split-In Repair Mask, OK? And then I have this in my collection. I'm like, girl, I was like, I literally have had this product for a while. And then I checked my content. And it looks like I've never done a review of this. This is the Aunt Jackie's Curls and Quails Intensive Moisture Sealant. So yes, I will. This is basically like to seal your hair. I wouldn't call it a leave-in conditioner. I'll have to read the instructions. Oh, you can use this, a leave-in conditioner. I want to open it up. Can y'all wait for a second? You ain't got no choice. I want to see the consistency, because I feel like, oh yeah. Let's put it on. It's like the can too, before they made it thicker. That's what we have. I'm not going to put this on my hair because, yeah. Yeah, so this is definitely a leave-in. Pretty sure you could use it as a, what am I trying to say? A styler, but I'm going to use it as a leave-in. And I was at my Walmart, and I was like, what? I'm a deep treatment conditioner, rice, water, and electrolytes, super charge, hydration, and growth. Yes, and look how big it is. This looks like it's about 18 ounces. 20 ounces. If your girl knows her, I'm a little off on the measurements.  Oh, it's a pie. Y'all, look how I look. And I couldn't see it. It's a plastic cover on it. I thought that was water. Girl, get it together. So this is coming. Super excited. My Walmart has tons of products that I've never even seen before. And again, when it comes to hair products, I don't want to review anything by a line that I'm not familiar with. I know there's some great lines coming out and there's some great lines that have been out, but I want to stick to the tried and true lines. So yeah, this is what I'm doing. That's one, two, one, two, three, four, five reviews. And then the pin curl, the flexi ride, then Busby and I have been talking about for like three years. That is it, everyone. Thank you so much for watching. And be on the lookout for these product reviews.


People come to Washington with revelry and song to celebrate the inauguration of a president of the United States. In 1965, it was to celebrate the inauguration of the 36th president, Lyndon Baines Johnson. America returns here every four years to keep a rendezvous with history, with the memory of earlier presidents who served the nation. Abraham Lincoln took the same solemn oath as did William McKinley, whose inauguration in 1897 was the first to be recorded on film. In 1905, it was President Theodore Roosevelt. There are people who remember being spectators at the inauguration of President William Howard Taft. From William Howard Taft to Woodrow Wilson in 1913, for Mr. Wilson, champion of the League of Nations, it was the first of two presidential terms. The inaugural parade followed the traditional route of the presidents. Warren G. Harding was the new president in 1921. President Calvin Coolidge in 1925. Inauguration Day, 1929, the president was Herbert Hoover. President Hoover left the White House and turned the executive powers over to a president who looms large in contemporary history. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Beginning of an era, President Roosevelt gave America new courage to face the crises of the 1930s and fight for liberty during World War II. President Delano Roosevelt, you solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for four consecutive terms. In 1949, the architect of post-war reconstruction, President Harry S. Truman. You will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States. But I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States. In 1953 and again in 1957 Dwight D. Eisenhower, an immensely popular leader. The Constitution of the United States. So help you God. So help me God. Execute the office of president of the United States. And will to the best of your ability. And will to the best of my ability. Every four years, the presidents from George Washington to John F. Kennedy have kept this rendezvous with the people. On inauguration day 1965, it's the 36th president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Baines Johnson, do solemnly swear. Lyndon Baines Johnson, do solemnly swear. That you will faithfully execute. That I will faithfully execute. The office of the presidency of the United States. The office of the presidency of the United States. And will to the best of your ability. And will to the best of my ability. Preserve, protect and defend. Preserve, protect and defend. The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States. So help you God. So help me God. On this occasion, the oath I have taken before you and before God is not mine alone. One nation and one people as a nation and our future as a people. Not upon one citizen, but upon all citizens. Is the majesty and the meaning of this moment. Even now a rocket moves toward Mars. It reminds us that the world will not be the same for our children or even for ourselves in a short span of years. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way. Our nation's course is abundantly clear. We aspire to nothing that belongs to others. We seek no dominion over our fellow man. But man's dominion over tyranny and misery. But more is required. Men want to be part of a common enterprise. They cause greater than themselves. And each of us must find a way to advance the purpose of the nation. Thus find new purpose for ourselves. For myself I ask only in the words of an ancient leader. Give me now wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people. For who can judge this by people that is so great. Came to Washington to perform for the president in celebration of the inaugural. The mandate from the people, the words of a North and a vision of the future. A president begins a four-year journey into history. He follows in a tradition of leaders who were inventors. Inventors of the American Revolution, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the League of Nations, the Four Freedoms, the Marshall Plan, Atoms for Peace, the Alliance for Progress, the Peace Corps, and now the Great Society. Where as a hundred years ago President Lincoln had given his second inaugural, 100 years from now in the year 2065, there will be another man upon the steps of the capital taking the same oath. His name is unknown for he is yet to be born and he is yet to read of the men who came before him and he is yet to find out the American purpose. But it is sure that in the winter of 2065 he will look back and say, 100 years ago President Johnson stood in Washington. He stood where I stand and lived in the house where I live and dreamed the dreams that I touch.


And I didn't understand what was going on. I ignored it. It continued with Honorable Smiley, the Minister of Religious Affairs. I was doing my ministry in South Africa. And she was asked why was Siawan deported. No, Siawan was busy initiating our young people into Satanism. Siawan was killing people. Siawan, she made a lot of allegations. Siawan was sleeping with young boys in Zambia.  I condemn it. I don't even, I don't know how that into me. But this news we are coming in those different things, different things. And I had no one to defend me in Zambia. It kept coming and coming and coming and coming. Many men of God, we are celebrating Siawan has been. Because when I was in Zambia, churches were closing. Just like the way it's happening in Nigeria here now. Just like the way it's happening in Amos State here now. Churches were closing. People were losing their members to me. And one thing you will never see me do is invite people to my church. I have never done it anywhere. I have never invited anyone to my church. Even those that believe me, even here, you have never seen me come on Facebook and ask you to join me in my church. I cannot do that. My ministry does not look for people. People look for the ministry. My ministry does not evangelize. You can never see us carry poster, move around, come and take Jesus, come and receive Jesus. No, no, no, no. I don't do those things. People that have problem are the people that look for my ministry. That is how it was happening in Zambia. So when I was deported, many stories were coming. One of the men of God, he is not a man of God anyway.  I am just mentioning men of God because he has a church. So I must respect the church. Because he is a church.   He is a local champion. He is a woman. It is nothing. In fact, you can see, I remember when I was in Zambia, the first day I performed miracles at his church. Thousands. Where were you going to pack cars? Thousands. Those days when you talk about standing in the gap. Oh my goodness. Standing in the gap overnight. It was stadium. I think every last Friday of the month or what. I forgot how that. But any time you hear standing in the gap, my God, it was fire. But look at him today. Since he fought here one. He cannot even manage to feel that two by two he built that he called church. That thing he use his leg to measure. The measurement of that church building. He use his leg. And told the bricklayer, he put block, he put block. That useless building. He can't feel it. He can't feel that thing. But I helped him. I am the one that raise money that builds shalom embers. I am the one. People gave. When they saw the miracles that I performed there. People gave and gave and gave. Unbelievable. Because where people see miracles, they give. That's why if you come to our church here in Nigeria. We don't even preach about giving. Once I tell people why I carry and come. You will see people are running. Because they are seeing power. Where there is power giving is very very easy. You don't force people to give. They give because they are seeing something. And they know that when they give they are blind. So I raise a lot of money to build that content. But that Sunday I called church. I told him that me, I am a parasite. I am a cancer. Once I, that's why I always tell people. Avoid me. Don't look for my trouble. Avoid me like a millipede. You know millipede. Avoid me like a snake. When you see me run. Go your way. I go my way. In businesses you mind your business. Once you cross my path.  There is no forgiveness. I don't forgive anybody. I don't have time for forgiveness. I will not. That's why I don't look for trouble. I don't have friends. Ask anybody that knows me. I don't do things of organization. All group of people know. Because I know that. I don't have good heart. Once my problem starts. It never finish. You are going to ask for forgiveness. I will forgive you but I will still be eating you. I told him. I want him that. I said my dear. This battle you have started. You are going to end. Today go to Shalom members.  And few. The other day I was watching the overnight that they did. I felt pity for that man. I said ha. Is this standing in the gap overnight? Those of you that are watching me right now. You can bear with me when standing in the gap was standing in the gap. Today is it what it is? No. It's useless. It's gone. It's been messed up. The church is gone. And I am still eating him. I am going to eat him until the day he dies. Because I don't forgive. He is the one that rules up. Hey. See you are. We have chased him away. In the name of Jesus. He was diabolic. He was initiating our men and women of God. All those men and women of God that you said that I was initiating in Zambia. I didn't even want to talk about this thing today. But somebody asked me a question. I wanted to show you how I left South Africa. All those people that you were telling me that I was initiating. When I was with them, they were doing very well. Because I gave them the secret. They had crowd of people. They were not struggling. Thousands of people were following them. When you took them and did your deliverance on them. We have disconnected you from the spirit of sea. We have disconnected you from the spirit of God father. What is happening in their life today? They have churches. I mean churches where you don't have 20 people on Sunday. And you stay called at a church. That is not even a sale group. Close that thing and go and look for something that you are going to do. There are business opportunities. A lot of businesses you can do. You can go and buy maize. Now there is no mail mail. You can go in the bush. Next year, that will be a lucrative business. Close that your church. Sell those useless things you build. You call church building. Use it to do business. And help yourself and help your family. You are doing church. You have one year 50 members. What are you doing there? Are you mad? At these 12 disciples. Those were workers. Jesus had thousands of people. Crowd does not matter. By the way, Jesus had 12 disciples. What do you call them? Disciples. Those were his workers. But he had crowd. Dr. Bishop Revren Congolo. I am coming to Abodja Hope to meet you. Wow. I can't wait to meet you here in Nigeria. They are Bishop. I love your comedy so much. Yes, after the broadcast, send me a message on WhatsApp please. So that when you arrive in Nigeria, you will meet. You are welcome to Nigeria. They had crowds when I was with them. They were doing very very well when I was with them.  Sunday we say he defeated Seah 1. Seah 1 was deported because of his prayer. You defeated Seah 1. Your members is not up to 50. Seah 1 you are talking about. He is here in Nigeria and the membership is in thousands. Uncountable. Who defeated who? Even when I was living in Zambia, I knew those of you that were my church members in Zambia.  And on Wednesday I was deported.


Hi friends and how are you all today? The question says, the mean and variance of a binomial distribution are 4 and 4 by 3 respectively. Find probability of x is greater than equal to 1. Now here first let us write down the given values we are given mean that is n into P as 4 and we are given variance that is n into P into Q as 4 by 3. Now if we divide let this be the first equation, this be second equation. If we divide the second equation by the first equation we will get the value of Q isn't it? So dividing second equation by the first equation we get npq upon np equal to 4 divided by sorry 4 by 3 divided by 4. This implies Q is equal to 4 by 3 into 1 by 4 that implies Q is equal to 1 by 3. Now further we know that Q is equal to 1 minus Q right. So if Q is 1 by 3 then the value of P will be equal to right it will be 2 by 3. Now we have the value of Q as well as P so we can find out the value of n we know that mean that is n into P is equal to 4. This implies n into 2 by 3 is equal to 4. This further means n is equal to 4 into 3 by 2 which gives us the value of n as thus we can write down that probability when x is greater than equal to 1 is equal to 1 minus probability that x is equal to 0 which is 1 minus Q raised to the power n. Now we know the value of Q as well as n so we have the value of Q as 1 by 3 the value of n as 6. So this further implies 1 minus value 1 by 3 raised to the power 6 comes out to be approximately 0.0014. So we have it like 0.9986 approximately. So probability of x is greater than equal to 1 is 0.9986 approximately right. So this ends the session hope you understood it well enjoy it to have a nice day ahead.