All right, at 505 I am going to call our special board of finance to order the first item on the agenda is the agenda is there a motion. Thank you, is there a second point. Great, all those in favor please say aye. Any opposed please say me, and the motion is unanimously adopted. Is there anyone here to speak to public forum. There must be two that are joining us attendance. They are and they are both staff members. So, seeing no one, I am going to close the public forum and welcome the mayor. We are ready for item 3.1 mayor so Jeff and shape it if you want to come up and talk to us a little bit about authorization of parking revenue financing. Hi, Jeff pageant director of traffic, and we're here tonight seeking for finance council approval to enter into a $750,000 bond to pay for repairs into downtown garage and the marketplace garage. These were critical repairs, replace the stair home massively significantly repaired a sterile downtown garage that was actually closed and repairs made to the marketplace garage are intended to give us five years of planning time so start to think about what might be next to the vision of what might be and to go out to the patient because the facility is 50% This very similar memo and actually the request went to the Works Commission last week, and we got their approval to enter into this bond instrument. So, I'm going to go to the next house, see if I see any questions about specific terms and points, so five year bond. Thank you I just have a question you had said that the market place, market place that is five years, you mean three to five years that would be key. What did you just say. Market place garage is embedded in the useful way, and we don't have a plan yet to do something else in other patients be time to buy ourselves. We don't have a plan at the time, so that is a useful way back around years. These repair bias. All right, and then that's the market place what about downtown, the downtown garage the stairs were rustling out. They were falling down and you have to close. And so it doesn't have the same structural concerns that the marketplace and the other college street has received recently as much more comprehensive repair so the future of that garage both have so that I think are more secure than I guess the only concern that I have is that usually, you know, on the life of what you need. And, you know, by years you're not going to start this year three. So that's a, and I wonder is the reason why you're doing that because you don't have the funds for year one and two are still recovering both. So, I mean, I think that's, you know, your main issue is to, you know, obviously you're planning for years that are far into the future or so, assuming that you have a plan, or there is something else that's being retired or something that would, I don't know, Catherine that would give you the research to leave the 250,000 in three years is not going to be I have been left. So President Paul, if you see at the end of the memo that I miss something I'm sorry something about it is in there and I think it's goes to your question which is that I've asked Jeff and Jeff and to come back and the next three or six months with a basically a plan to ensure that they would then that this is a plan to ensure that they will be able to pay it off on the schedule. This is an area where to some degree we control the future revenues through policy decisions that we make and it's been many been quite a few years now since there have been really adjustments to policy or rates that could generate additional revenues. So we're left with to do that for I think, you know, good reason during the during the pandemic and media years after. And we think well, need to make some decisions in the future, such as, you know, something that has been on for years that has to do it, don't charge anything in the garage or something is that's kind of possible that they need to be evaluated if the revenues don't recover kind of organically on their own. And there are other other decisions like that that are within our control so this gives us five years to figure this out and I've asked for a report that we would present to you and get approval on three six months from then. Okay, so I actually read the payments and didn't read the spare groups. That was in there I obviously that I mean you know it's not a, it's not the it's not the ideal situation. I mean I think we should all be honest about that this is not the ideal situation. But, you know, and of course the other thing I wonder is, I mean, is it possible on, you know, the rate 375 just seems I mean I understand that. It's a bond counseling. You know that was the, the recommendation. There aren't. There aren't other. There isn't another solution to this and I don't, I don't know what it is. But I don't know if it's for ourselves or there's some other way to do that. Yes, I don't know, but it does some. It's not the ideal situation I mean I'll support it but I sort of, I think it's unfortunate, but three to five months and three to six months will look forward with great anticipation to the ideas are that you should agree with us. I can't wait. Thanks President I understand your perspective and largely, you know, I think it's worth. I think it's probably the area of the six finances or hit most heavily and permanently by by the pandemic we just haven't seen all the other referees dreams have largely recovered parking. It's probably the flip side of the good news we were reporting last week that people are driving less and that emissions are down. Certainly, the people are coming into work less. That's one of the major drivers of the garage so this is an area where you know we've really been dealing with both many, you know, a long list of deferred maintenance to address as well as large economic forces. I agree with you. That I think it's really important that we follow up and we go to what is said here that this there needs to be a plan that comes back early in this in this loan. So that we definitely have a way forward I think it's a it's a man I'm confident this is a manageable number we can work on it. And I think it's really important to make sure that we don't get lost we like forget about it neglected this. I'm glad we're having this conversation to make sure we're all the same page this needs to come back or some top decisions can't fly. We've got to make sure we don't take the can down the road here and ignore this we may need to make some changes. Okay, get back to them. Yeah, I just had a question about some of the mechanics of the repayment. So there's no payment not even interest payments in year one and two. There is interest there are interest. There's interest payment on your point too. There. Okay, fast. Okay, so just wondering. So you're sort of getting put into the last three years. Okay, I understand. Sorry. Well, if we have data. You make a note and we should update the document. It looks like there's no payments. There's interest payments. There's one interest in 315. And there's also there was also I got a last minute edit. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that was some medical. Yeah, it's correct. Okay. So maybe if we take action on this, surely. Yeah. Okay. Great. Any further discussion questions? Are we ready for. I will be recommended action. Because Barlow. Yeah. I'm happy to say. A further discussion. Seeing. Let's go to vote all those. If you're the most, please say hi. And then you post motion carries the notes. Thank you. If you can. I'm glad to be able to work through the pro forma and assumptions that we have to return these two funds to health. Great. The revised memo. Yes. Or DT. I'll just get that up immediately. Thank you. Great. Thanks. Okay. We have two more items on this special work financing. I remember two is. Annual appropriation and budget for fiscal year in July 1st, 23 and I moved to 30.4. And then we will all talk about the kind of companion resolution, which is cleaning tax assessments. How the board like to proceed. We do. We have a PowerPoint. That. Catherine is prepared for. Full council discussion. It's, it's, it's. I think entirely made up of the information that's been shared. Prior person PowerPoint presentations with the board. So we could. We could go through that or maybe be more efficient to go straight to any comments or questions that the board would like to make. We will be making a full presentation at the. At the council. Body hasn't. I haven't seen everything on once. So how. What is. More like. That's to proceed. I mean, I personally am going to see the, I'm going to see the presentation and it's effectively unchanged from when I was on the 12th, is that about right? It is. I mean, I wasn't here for that board of finance meeting, but I did look back at the. It is a combination of that one and one from the 1st of June to kind of get everyone up to speed. The idea is that. I think we've got three of you. And it's okay. I think that the three of you and counselor, Jen have been along for this journey and the other counselors. Maybe not so to provide like a full overview of kind of where we've been up to now. But it is all. I just took slides from everything you've already seen. I just put them into one new slide deck, but I did not create new content. That's a case. I mean, I don't. again. It wasn't planning. But I certainly can. Okay, then so let's add my hope. Although I think maybe maybe get quite a memory. That's the 12th budget that I've been responsible for. I great majority others the board of finance has taken action making a recommendation on the budget. Well, we're out there before the council voted. I think I think there have been one or two times one for whatever reason, the board shows not to do that. So it's not an absolute requirement. But the idea that we, as we discussed on the 12th was that we intend to do that and to be in this meeting at a time, which it would certainly I think, yeah, that's the purpose of us really gathering. And I was welcome to look into that fact that I'm on the floor. Yeah, that's one thing that we could do now or we can have further discussion. Well, I have, I, I don't make a motion, I just really make a comment. I, you know, so I have, as probably everyone knows, and certainly anyone with Facebook knows, I did have a period of time where I was not as typically engaged in the, in the process as I usually do to circumstances beyond my control goods circumstances, but nevertheless, a little bit more challenging, and certainly tried to keep tabs on what was going on. I did not see, and there haven't been notes, there haven't been minutes that I've seen posted for the July and the June 12th Board of Finance meeting. I basically went off the conversations I had with people about that meeting, and then also the PowerPoint, which was pretty much unchanged. I mean, maybe there were a few missing, but I mean, I think it was mostly the same. I guess the, the only thing that I will say is that I don't think I've ever, all the years that I've served on the scene, so I don't think I've ever interacted with a city councilor who wants to vote no on a budget, because it's a, it's a huge document. It's the most important thing that we do all year. And since that's the priorities for the coming year. And I, you know, I never give up hope that there is an opportunity to find a middle ground, you know, collaboration, compromise. I'm not saying that I laid no fault with any one person, any two people, I take responsibility for it myself. I think that there still are opportunities just within the normal fluidity of an entity the size that there is $290,000 that over the course of this year would present itself in such a way that effectively no public, no public safety, no non, no non-union, no current non-union positions are affected. All of the principles that I believe you put out in the narrative could still be honored and still have a way to have a meeting of the mind. So streets, the streets get done in the way that we want them to get done and people feel that, you know, taxes have not, that we have done the absolute even further best we can do. We've already done the best we can do. Now we're talking about the best best.  And I feel like doing that in a, in a public setting probably isn't fair because some of them are either vacant positions, positions that soon become vacant that really are not appropriate to talk about publicly. So I don't really want to go into all the nuances. I'll give you one example. And then maybe that would lead to some sort of a discussion. So Catherine, you know, I asked you about line 7850. 7850 for those who are not as well-versed in line 7850. And I, I want anyone to raise their hand if they know what line 7850 is. Okay. All right. Do you know what line 7850 is? All right. Well, now we're all going to know. So line 7850 is contingency. And line 7850 in FY 20 and FY 19 was around $3,000 that was spent. Last year, it was budgeted for $100,000 this year, this year, right now as we live and breathe FY 23 according to Catherine, $22,000 has been spent. So $100,000, $22,000. Now, of course the word contingency means contingency. That means if we already know that it's going to happen, it's somewhere else. If we don't know it's going to happen, well, we don't know what's going to happen. So we certainly have to plan for that. This year's line item contingency is $175,000, which begs the question, if it was $100,000 last year and we've gone through an entire year, we've gone through three years of incredibly difficult and challenging pandemic uncertainties, is it possible that $175,000 could at least be level funded for this year? I haven't asked you that question. I apologize, I don't mean to put you on the spot. And I'm not saying that $175,000 is unrealistic. But let's just try to see if maybe $175,000 could be $100,000. Well, you get a little bit closer and a little bit closer. Again, I can't really go into all the little nuances. I started calculating it myself. And even based on one month, I think there are opportunities to at least go half of that of the $290,000. But that's me as someone who doesn't know all of the intricacies of every little line item, of every little department, of every big department. I can't pinpoint all of that. What I can say is that in the past, there have been times where we have done budgets, where we have either put placeholders in knowing that over the course of a year, there will be other opportunities in an $80 million budget to find those little smaller amounts. Or when there are things that we've really wanted to do, we have said we will revisit this in six months and we will find some of those efficiencies, vacancies, attrition, whatever they may be. So I guess what I'm saying is that I think that it is tremendously powerful and sets a wonderful tone for the coming year. If we as a body are able to find a way to honor all of the priorities that are important for the administration and all the priorities that are important for those who must vote on the budget. And that's where I will leave it. We don't usually legislate in this way. Probably if I had been here on the 12th of June, I probably would be saying this now and saying this then and not now. As I say, I know there's only a couple of hours here, but I still feel that we should at least have that opportunity. And I would just ask you if you think that there is that opportunity in a way that we could find a meaning of the minds. So that's those are my comments. I won't be saying anything at the board at the council meeting. I'm saying no. Thank you. Thanks for listening. Great. Thank you, President Paul. I certainly understand. Sorry, I'm doing grazing. And if you want to respond to that, I just want you to go ahead and you can comment first. Sure. I always appreciate the opportunity to find a way for us to come to a compromise and be able to vote yes. And sometimes we're just not going to get there. And I have a hard time seeing us getting there in the two hours we have. And we're likely to vote on the budget finding a solution that we couldn't find in the last eight weeks of these conversations. And I would have a hard time trusting that whatever we found to try to come up with that additional money without raising taxes. I would have a hard time making that decision without knowing the full impacts of deciding where we'd like them to come from. And so I appreciate that effort. I think at least from my perspective as the councillor planning to vote no tonight, that also having that conversation between now and 545 or 630 whenever we're discussing the budget of the full council. And I feel comfortable making that decision, changing my vote. So I was going to save my longer comments for the full council. And I think I still will. So I guess I will just leave it there for now. Thank you for those comments. I appreciate where you're both coming from with those comments. Something I will repeat when we're upstairs. I in many ways think this of the 12 budgets that we're responsible for was the most difficult. We have been grappling with some, just a host of difficult forces and issues, many of which are beyond our direct control. We, for a second year in a row, are facing historic inflation. We have continued volatility and some, we've just been discussing some shortfalls related to disruptions of the pandemic. We made some big changes to our programs and our efforts to allow address equity issues in prior budgets. And we took on the challenge of phasing that out over three years. And we're in the third year of that phase out of the last year that there was some federal support for those. We have kept those equity commitments high and the federal support for them is going away as we knew it would. That had to be digested in this budget. And we're also trying to be sensitive to our constituents who face rising costs and pretty much all aspects of their life. We don't want to undo, make city government an additional burden. So with all those constraints, this has been a very tough budget to complete. I think we can, I think there's a lot to present at your point. I think there is a lot to be proud of and excited about in this budget, despite all that. This continues to advance the city, advance the community in numerous important ways. It continues our efforts to rebuild and really retool the police department and prove and change the way we deliver public safety. It continues our major commitment to improving our infrastructure. It continues our commitment to those equity commitments I was just talking about including fully funded and reorganized RDIB department. It for the first time has nearly $200,000 in it for opioid related interventions. It's the first time we're able to hear something. So we're able to use new revenues that are coming to us from the opioid settlements and deliver progress in more. So to get to deliver all that while also overcoming these challenges, we have had to push very hard in areas and really push up to the edge of what I am comfortable budgeting for. We are one of the complicated projections we do every year is around attrition and around to your point President Paul, what's going to happen in the normal course of business that's going to end up saving us money because positions are not refilled as quickly because vacancies come up and we have really pushed those assumptions for example to double our attrition numbers in many departments from what we have in the past. In the face of that and frankly knowing how challenging it has been to control personnel costs since the pandemic because of our challenges competing in the workforce because of inflationary pressures. I think we did explain this somewhere. We did feel that it was prudent to bump back up the contingency number from $100,000 to $175,000. In contrast, we have had some years that it's been as much as $500,000. It's been a while since we've done that but it's not it's really not a historically large contingency number. It represents on a hundred million dollar budget. It is quite a small contingency. So I appreciate the sentiment that a lot of the budgets over the last 12 years have been unanimous budgets and we have worked hard for that and I did have some communications over the past week exploring whether there was a way to come to a meeting in line. We haven't gotten there yet. I'm hearing and I respect your sense that we talked to to bridge that gap now. So I that's my kind of reaction to the last two comments. I guess I would hope that with councillor Nguyen's point that maybe it would be possible. Are we in a position to make a recommendation on this on this budget? Given we sort of know where everybody's at at this point, I would be happy to recommend the action to make it out so to recommend the budget resolution on this. Thank you. Would anyone like to make any further comment? That's for you. I'll just say briefly before I go for the first time. Thanks. I recognize that we're in a challenging budget here and I recognize that future budget years should be even more challenging. We have local matches on a number of shorter projects that we still don't have a funding source for and we have vehicles that need replacing the deferred list that's going to grow even longer and come in years with a perfect moratorium and that the cost of living increases that we negotiated as part of the union contract will also add additional pressure to future budget years. And with all of those things, with those being the predictable things that we see coming at us in the future, I see a need to increase taxes potentially next year, year after that. Thank you. This year, we were able to find a way to bridge the deficit that you all brought us at the beginning of the budget conversation to have a budget that met the needs that we had without cutting staff or services. And I appreciate that very much for us to ask for an additional amount beyond what was planned for this year in terms of paving and patching. We all know the streets that are in dire need of improvement. I'm not aware of that. But to ask people for more this year, we'll know that we're going to need years in the future, we're going to maybe even have to ask for a larger tax increase. I just, I can't support that this year. And I think this is now is the most important time for us to be talking about more sustainable ways for us to fund city services going forward, because it's clear that with the reappraisal, the property tax is not going to be a sustainable method for us to find so many of the infrastructure improvements that we need to maintain in the sanctuary city services that people have come to expect. In fact, we need to find a better way to do this. And I hope that we can do that over the next year, over the next two years. And with the legislature to do that, they have to go to Montpellier to get a move on these things, changing the way the state is funded education and services for decades is not going to be an easy ask. But I think it's imperative that we make the examples. So with that, I will not be supporting this. So thank you for being so transparent, Councilor Geary, on your thinking. I do want to make sure, you know, we have a number of counselors here, we've got the public watching. I want to make sure that it's my understanding, I think you just started getting this, but you've lost your vote on this over the half a cent increase to the street stacks that is in the budget that is before you. This is true, it was not, you know, it's accurate that when we began at the beginning of May, our kind of draft budget, that increase was not in the initial discussions. I think this is an example of how that process is not intended to be just a kind of pro forma process. The idea is to engage you in the board and public council in our thinking when still in draft form, and in this case, after doing the street work that was going to get done in the coming year and understanding that we are below the voter approved caps for the street tax by a couple cents, I believe, we started discussing in really a response to council feedback, whether there might be some, and really understanding that because of our constraints, the street patching budget was going to be very limited this year. That's one of this discussion of an additional half cent, which what is the for the average taxpayer, just to begin, it's clear what we're talking about here. It is just over a dollar a month, hang on, it's in this other power point. Okay, Catherine gets, I figure I'll just finish the point. So this a dollar fifty-four a month. So that's, you know, it's not going to be the same for everybody, that's on a three hundred seventy thousand dollar home because that's the median or the average home. The median home, pretty most recent assessment. And, you know, what's, here's the difference that half a cent is going to make is it's going to see engineer, Norm Baldwin is here. He is projected with the initial budget we were talking about there being a approximately $450,000 deficit in our patching need citywide for the upcoming year. And with this change, we'll still have a deficit. I've reduced that deficit by more than 50 years. That will be an under $200,000 deficit. And that will allow us to get more patching done citywide. It will be on first arterials and then neighborhood streets is the kind of way that the patching is prioritized to basically get that rate. Artillery streets, collective streets. I missed one, that's right. So the biggest bank of the book is the arterial streets. Obviously, there's a secondary review that relates to how bad a condition the road is in terms of volume of patches needed. So it's our best way of kind of spreading those funds to the specific targeted need so that we have serviceable roads come springtime through the winter. I think that's our biggest concern. Obviously, our preferred choice would be to really fully repair and redevelop streets. But if we were to fix one street and leave all those other streets kind of in a severe state of disrepair through the winter season, spring, so it makes sense to at least set a triage basis, deal with the patching that fix these kind of problem areas. But even with the half cent, we're not achieving problem with something all patching. But it is where we are. That's what we're going to work to make the best of what is not a great situation, but is reality we're living with. And I guess just to finish the point, I mean, from my perspective, while it is accurate that there is some additional cost in this budget, if it's passed with that additional half cent in there, the nature of the patching, the patching slows the deterioration of roads and it is an attempt to is a preventive maintenance attempt that has some benefit in sustaining the assets that we have and to reducing future costs. And so I think it's at least debatable whether this eliminate this half cent increase would actually reduce whether that's really a true savings or whether it's going to sort of be result in future costs, although we don't think it's stopped it totally project that sitting here right now, but that's what the patching is intended for. That's the way we will spend it. So, in fact, there's no further comment. I think we're ready for a vote on the motion. All those in favor of the motion please say aye. Opposed? Nope. Motion carries three to one. Well, we didn't mind these. There is one more on the agenda, which is the tax resolution. Of course that it was a little lucky that we did these separate actions of that. I'm quite sure. No, it would happen if we passed one and not the other. Certainly, they are companion bills, if you will. So, I'm not sure that we need further discussion. Maybe we can have a motion on that as well. Sure. I'll move the motion. Thank you, President Paul. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll go to a vote. All those in favor of the motion please say aye. Very important post. Okay, well, former quarter finance member comes to a high top. Can you count that? That's just a three to one vote with budgets. That completes our Warren agenda. Mayor, any second questions? Yes, go ahead. It's more common question about where we're at. Over a year ago, Council would be in a work with Council would be put a resolution in asking the city effectively in analysis of taxation, particularly property taxation and how, among other things, how the homestead or sensitivity related to city of Georgia. You realize that the time of that resolution is complicated to get the information because we're in the middle of being facing. And so who knows the mouse is complicated. We're now this year at a point where that sort of settled. We know that 70% of citizens get some sort of equalization, but we don't really have it drilled down. And I really think it would move us to understand that. I mean, the cutoff is actually up to $140,000 a year. The more major cutoff is up to 90,000. People below 90,000 get a pretty significant homestead credit. And we need to understand how that matches up with the people around you. Because it's faith on people's income, there's a lot of issues with the tax department on how to get that analyzed. And I think that resolution asks the city to employ a consultant to do it. But I just strongly encourage it, particularly going into the session next year, going into city budget, you know, we're going to have increases because of high school. We need to understand how good or not good that credit is. And I think it's better than we expect, but we don't know that. You know, we just don't know that. And I really encourage us to follow through on that analysis. Okay, thank you, Councillor Carpenter. And actually it reminds me in my response to Councillor McGee, I meant to mention another thing that I think we should feel good about this budget is that it recognizes that we do have major challenges coming in future years, both because of the trends that we talked about previously and additional trends like the cost of the new high school and the impact that has on our bonding capacity and other pressures. And so in this budget, we are funding a number of studies that will that will look at operating efficiencies that will look at our fleet that will look at how alternative ways of funding, some of the activities with CEDO and a HUD funded effort and more, this combines with some ongoing studies that are underway. So something, you know, anyone who's just tuning in now, something we've talked about repeatedly at this board is that over the first year, we're going to push for the bring those studies back as quickly as possible. So over the first six months of the year, we are really looking to the future challenges and being in a strong position or for those future budgets. And certainly we can make sure Councillor Carpenter that we have the best data we have about who gets those home state exceptions as part of that. Because I think the math of that program was like black box, but but probably value caps and income caps and, you know, those things that could be fixed, we know that. Great. And we do, you know, have this one of those studies with reference in the field I think is adjacent to what you're saying is this property tax equity study that is going to have a lot of really interesting information along these lines as well. So thank you all for your patience with that sort of extra curricular discussion here. Now seeing no objection, the business being done, I will adjourn the board of finance at six. That's all right. What time? 5.52. Thank you. We'll see you in a minute.


We're here to airy, here to IBC at the 100 year anniversary, how about you? My name is Henrik Foss, I'm the product manager for the electronic control system at ARRI. Yeah, it's a special year, 100th anniversary. We have a very exciting history and the future for sure. 100 years, that means in 1917, the first camera came out? You know that is actually when the company was founded by the two founders, August Arnold and Robert Richter. What was the first product? One of the first products were cameras, but they also did several products and they founded the company on 12th of September 1917. And then it went on, there were two teenagers founding it and then from this it started to develop to what we are today. And you are basically the standard, nobody can match you, right? And the high-end camera? Yeah, you know with 100 years of experience you have some experience and you have some history and you are carrying a heritage forward to the future. So that is how our products, what you feel and see when you work with our products, even if they are very new and innovative and digital, there is still the knowledge that we gathered over the years. But you are high-end, is this the most affordable solution you have? Is it one of them, the most compact or what is this one? This is actually a very compact and lightweight solution that is the Alexa Mini camera with the f-mount and the f-lens in the master grip. And the nice thing about it is that of course you have a very high image quality that is the Alexa Mini that is where... What is the resolution of this? It can record 4K but we have several formats that is recorded. The resolution is not really the most important thing, it is a mix of parameters and we have a very high dynamic range, we have a high resolution, we have high frame rates, a big color space and the combination of all those things is what really makes a good image. You can feed the signal out to a recorder that can be externally, right? You can but we have an internal recorder so you don't have to do that, usually you would record internally. Then there is some SDI, all kinds of stuff.  Some very big FPGAs, they do a lot of work in there. It varies on the package but you can be around 40,000 euros. People can shoot movies with it. Even independent films can afford to get something like that. That is a great thing about the Alexa Mini, it is a very flexible camera, it is a small form factor and can be used in different applications. Many times at the end of the movie I see the Arri logo. Is that standard, is that they have to put it or if they do it it is a partnership with you? It could be that the movie was served by the Arri rental for example but it is not a requirement that you have to put our logo in there. Alright.


college dropout. I just try and get out of my pajamas. This is the least I can do, you know what I mean? Hey guys, what is up? So for today's video or this week's video, I'm gonna be like filming the week for you guys and I'm gonna be kind of like just basically taking you through my week and I dropped out of college, dropped out like two years ago now, it just hit two years and I just wanted to take you along the week of a college dropout. Nowadays it's not like that popular to not be in school, university or college or whatever. So I'm like, why don't I show you guys like what I do in a week? I try and grind as much as possible and show you guys a different, who's getting hot in my car, and show you guys what someone not in school does with their day. You know what I mean? Cause it's not like I have to go to classes or homework or study or whatever. Just got a pumpkin spice off there. I'm literally so grateful for the position that I'm in. I'm trying to grow my YouTube channel. I do video editing and I also do background acting. So I have a few things going on. So I'm not just doing YouTube, but YouTube is my ultimate goal in the end. I always am going to be staying consistent with my YouTube channel no matter what cause that's what I want to end up doing. But I'm just doing these side hustles on the side in the meantime until I can make a full substantial income just off of YouTube. So I don't want to just be sitting around kind of waiting. I want to be hustling, making more money on the side if I can and I do squeeze in the time. YouTube is a very full-time gig though. Like there's a lot that goes into it that people don't realize. It kind of seems like fun and that's it. Like obviously it's so much fun and I love it but there's also a lot of work that goes into it. So I just want to kind of show you guys what I do that I'm not in school. So it's currently 1.13 and it's Monday. I'm working on set today for Riverdale. So I'm just, I have to be there at two o'clock and it's only half an hour away. So I'm actually early but I just picked up a coffee on the way. So that's what I'm doing. This morning I was just editing and uploading the video that's going up today in two hours. So I got that done. And yeah, now I'm just going to go on set. I'm probably going to be there for 10 plus hours or if I'm lucky it's going to be kind of a shorter day but actually I don't even mind the longer days being on set because the time goes by really fast because it's super fun. And also you get pay time in a half and then double pay when it goes past a certain amount of hours. So I honestly can't complain. But yeah, so I'm just on the way to do that. That's probably going to take up the rest of today. So yeah, I'll see you when I see you. So it is now Tuesday and yesterday I didn't get home until like 12 past 12. It was like a nine hour day for me there which is like really short. That was our shortest day on set because usually we're there until like 13, 14 hours. So that was like super short in comparison to all the other days. And the time flew by, I literally felt like we were there for an hour. But so much fun last night. I was just kind of tired this morning. So I woke up a little later. But now I just have a lot of emails to catch up on for my YouTube channel because I've been checking my emails since Friday so it's been like a few days over the weekend. And Monday is usually the day when I get the most emails and I didn't check it yesterday. So I have kind of like a pile up in my inbox right now that I need to look through, get back to people. Yeah, I have a lot. So first thing I'm going to tackle this morning is my emails because honestly, it's the most exciting and dreadful part at the same time just because I don't really like writing but it's really exciting in terms of talking to brands and all that fun stuff. So that's the exciting part of it but I also kind of dread them a little bit because it could get a little bit overwhelming. And like I said, I don't really like writing and I need to make sure that everything is like proper and you get the gist. So that's what I'm going to do now. First thing in the morning is just drink some water and look over my emails. Good morning guys. It is Tuesday. No, it's Wednesday. Oh my God, wait. Yeah, it's Wednesday, awkward. So today I just have a stay at home work day again just like yesterday. Yesterday I literally just edited one video for the whole entire day because it was a very long video and I just wanted to get that out of the way because it's posting this week. I just wanted to make sure that I finished that.  By the way, whenever I work, I try and be like cute and as comfy as I can be. I'll put on a hoodie and sweatpants and call it a day. I just try and get out of my pajamas. This is the least I can do to make myself feel put together. You know what I mean? So as long as I get out of my pajamas, like I feel, I feel fine. So this is my agenda and we're going to look at what I have to do today. Okay, so I need to upload the video that I was editing yesterday and make the thumbnail because I didn't get the chance to do that yesterday. I just finished editing it and I also have to edit a whole video for my editing job. I'm a freelance video editor basically if you guys are curious about it and I edit Instagram reels, YouTube videos, anything and everything I'll do pretty much almost but I do work for this company called Oasis and they're kind of like a natural adaptogen company who I've been working for for a while now and I honestly love editing for them to make their Instagram reels and their YouTube videos. So it's really cool doing that for them and yeah, so that's what I'm talking about when I say I'm video editing because that's like my main job right now. So I gotta edit for them. I have a sponsorship to film and upload this week for next week. I need to send it in to get approved. I need to also take photos for in the Instagram story as well, but I think I'm going to do that tomorrow because the sponsorship isn't gonna be in this vlog. It's gonna be in my next vlog. So yeah, it may not seem like I have a lot to do today but editing is really more than people think I feel like. Like just posting this YouTube video, for example, you may think that this wasn't a hard process but in reality I was behind the computer screen editing for more than eight hours, you know what I mean? So it's like you don't really see the work that goes into it unless I show you. So that's why I wanted to show you guys what it's like as a school dropout because I feel like I always get kind of looked down upon and when I tell people I'm not in school, they're like their face changes and they're like, so I just wanted to show you that, you know, just because you're not at school doesn't mean you're not learning, doesn't not mean you're working hard, doesn't mean you're not like setting goals for yourself. I mean, it can mean that, but it can mean that for people in school as well. So there's just a very, just very looked down upon and it's kind of sad. And at the end of the day, school just isn't meant for everyone, so do what's right for you.  Let's have a productive day. Okay, I have two contracts here with me and I honestly printed them, like I had them virtually, but I wanted to print them because when you get contracts for sponsorships and stuff, they usually will put in like talking points that they want you to like mention about the product. So I just want to make sure that I kind of highlight everything important so that I don't miss anything because once you filmed the brand deal, you have to send it to get approved. And if you missed anything or whatever, they're going to ask you to revise it and add stuff, take stuff out. So I just want to make sure that I kind of get it right away if that makes sense. So I'm going to read over these contracts. I still need to sign one of them, but I just wanted to read over it one more time and highlight everything important that I need to know for the video or else it's going to slip past me and then I'm going to have to do changes to the video which isn't the best case scenario.  Okay, so I just finished reading over the contracts, highlighting what I needed to, and I'm so grateful to be getting real brand deals now, but at the same time, it could be stressful in the sense that there's a lot of legal shit. I don't have a lawyer, so I'm doing this all by myself and I have Joel to help me look over and obviously anyone would help me, but technically I don't have a legal team, so it's basically all by myself. So it kind of makes it a little stressful, but at the same time, I'm so grateful for these opportunities, of course. And I also want to make the brands that I work with happy. I want to build good relationships and I also want to build good relationships with you guys. So every product that I promote, I want to make sure that I love and I genuinely use. So yeah, just know that I would never accept something if I didn't actually want it to promote it to you guys and if it was shit, I wouldn't do that. So yeah, there's like a lot that actually goes behind the scenes of doing a sponsored post and all the legal shit, the invoices and all that stuff that goes on behind the scenes that no one really sees you put work into. Oh, I just really grabbed my back nice there. So yeah, now I'm just gonna fill in my agenda with all the updated dates that I need to remember for when I need to send the brands the draft of the video, when I'm uploading them, when I need to film them. Get into it. Hey guys, so today as a school dropout, I am kind of taking the day off ish, not a hundred percent really because I'm gonna be filming all today. So today is a vlog day. So usually I honestly don't like create specific days to make vlogs. I'll just kind of vlog whenever I can, whenever I want to, whenever I go out and I'll just kind of make two videos throughout the week just kind of organically. But Joel had to go out today and he needed to go pretty far. So I was like, you know what? Why don't I get all dressed up? And I have to film a sponsorship for one of this week's vlog. So I thought that this would be kind of a perfect opportunity to get myself all cute and ready to go out and make like a vlog. So I kind of call these vlogging days where technically I'm still working because I need content, like this is getting content but it almost like doesn't feel like working because I'm having fun. I'm just taking the camera around with me and filming everything. So call it what you want. But yeah, so I sometimes just do these days where I'll take the camera out and we'll do some like fun stuff. Show you guys around like my city or local cute areas. So that's what I'm going to do for today's video. Like obviously not in this video but this is gonna be like a whole separate video. But yeah, so that's what we're gonna do today. And I'm have to edit this video that I'm filming today. I have to edit it and submit it to the sponsor by tomorrow. So kind of gotta be like on a grind for this one so I can get approved by Monday. Since this specific vlog is a week long vlog, it's hard to kind of make a vlog in between that if I don't just have a dedicated day for it. So I thought that this would be perfect and it's a beautiful sunny day today. So I'm excited. It's a vlog work day. I don't know, call it what you want to call it but it's gonna be fun and I'm still like getting work done and content made.  So I just got those photos done and out of the way. Going out to film content like this and having a vlog day is, don't get me wrong, it's so fun still. But at the same time, it's not really like a regular going out type of day because I do have to focus on the thumbnail, the pictures I'm taking for the thumbnail, I have to focus on the content that I'm getting for the vlog. So I kind of have to be on alert of that. It's not just, I can just completely have social media out of my mind and just not film anything. So these days are kind of different than the days that I go out without the camera. So that's why it's not fully the day off. The grind of a wanna be full-time YouTuber. So basically today, I just edited my YouTube video. I send my sponsorship in. The video that I needed to get reviewed. I did more YouTube videos, all editing on my computer. So it's literally on my computer the whole day. So there's really nothing entertaining or exciting to film. I just thought I'd wait till the end of the day to give you a last chit chat. So yeah, that was a week in the life of a school dropout. I wanted to keep this very work-related and show you guys what I was doing for work. Now I'm just gonna relax for the weekend and I usually try to not do work on the weekend. But sometimes if I fall behind, then I will do work on the weekend. It just really depends. So yeah, I try to stick to Monday to Friday as if my work week. That was my week and I just wanted to put out there that just because you're not in school through the meme that you don't have goals and ambitions in life and you're not driven doesn't mean you're not smart. School's meant for everyone. And I think that that just needs to be more normalized and not looked down upon because you can still be highly successful without any post-secondary education. I believe it's how you're driven and how what you're gonna make of yourself. Obviously for some jobs, you do need schooling if you wanna become a doctor and whatever, those kind of things. But you don't need school for everything. I'm honestly so happy with the life that I live and I wanna treat it for the world. I've done videos more in depth about this so I'll have them like linked down below or whatever. So you guys can check this out if you want to but I just wanted to do this trip you like a week in the life. But yeah, thank you guys so much for watching this video. If you guys wanna see more content from me, let me know any suggestions or whatever you guys wanna see from me. And yeah, I love you guys so much and I'll see you guys in my next video. Peace out. Oh my battery's literally flashing perfectly.


Hi, I'm Stephen Esherbad. I'm here to tell you a little bit about Boltzmann's distribution of the energy that molecules could have given that energies have quantized energy levels. So that comes from quantum mechanics. So just to contextualize it a little bit, we just imagine, say we have some molecules and let's suppose they can vibrate, quantum mechanics tells us that the energy levels that that molecule could have are quantized there. It can't take on any energy level. It's discreet. So I've just kind of laid out a possibility here. So here's energy on the vertical axis, the energy levels on the labeling 1, 2, 3, and so forth. And just to reference those energies, if they were all equally spaced, and I arbitrarily said that the lowest energy, the ground state energy, had an energy of zero, well the first level would have an energy of say epsilon, 2 epsilon, and so forth. So an important idea here is what's called the thermally available energy, and you just imagine that you've got a molecule here and another molecule might come along and hit it, and therefore how much energy, you know, typically, you know, might this molecule that was initially, you know, quiescent, how much energy might it pick up? And the answer, well, you know, from translational, from the equal partition theorem that that's about three-halves kT for translational energy, and we're just going to kind of round that off and say, you know, more or less kT is the amount of thermally available energy. And so an important idea as well now is how many states are thermally accessible. That's given by this symbol Q, okay, a different meaning of the symbol Q. It's called the partition function, and it just counts the number of thermally accessible states. So going back to this diagram, we would imagine something like this, at kT, you know, had a value given by, say, that, then you would say, well, roughly, looks like Q must be equal to about two, because that states thermally accessible.  Q would be three, in that case, okay? So that's the partition function. Now, a little wrinkle on that is what's called the degeneracy, and it goes something like this, as long as each energy level, you know, has only one state associated with it, well, that's fine, we just count them like that. But in this case, the degeneracy is two, we would say g equals two here. That's because there are two states with the same energy, okay? So that's the degeneracy, and that kind of equips us, then, to talk about Boltzmann's function that describes the fraction of molecules in any given sample that, you know, that have a certain amount of energy, or put it differently, we'd like to know how many molecules in any given sample have the i-th energy, which I've indicated here as e-civil i. And it goes by this formula, I say, well, this is the fraction we're talking about, the number of molecules in state i divided by the total number of molecules. Well, that's the degeneracy of that level, okay, and times this exponential factor, e to the minus the energy divided by kt of that state, divided by q, because that's sort of, that counts the total number of thermally accessible states, okay? Now, what we often, you know, the way we often use this is actually as a ratio. I would like to know the ratio of populations in state two versus state one, okay? And to do that, I would just take this formula with i here, and then divide it by the same thing, but with j, and when you do that, of course, we'll get ni over nj. That's what that is. Total number of molecules then cancels out. The degeneracies in this exponential terms say, but now the partition function also cancels out. And so, if we were talking about n2 divided by n1, then we would have something like g of state two divided by g of energy level one times the ratio of exponentials. Now, in this particular case, since the energy of the jth level, the first energy level is zero, the net term goes away, and I just have times e to the minus epsilon of the second state, which we've already said is just epsilon, so I'll just say epsilon divided by kt. And so that's how you would calculate that ratio of populations of these two energy levels according to Boltzmann statistics. This would be the prediction that Boltzmann statistics would give you for the ratio of those two populations.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's Case Breaks.com coming at you with a Panini Clearly Donnerous Basketball Box Break. And at the end we're going to give away two Mamba Mixer Spots. I think those are like $1,500 value or something like that. It's pretty nice. There's going to be three different dice rolls here. First of all, we're going to give away an early bird spot within this Clearly Donnerous Break. Then the second dice roll will be the break itself and the third and final dice roll will be giving away those Mamba Mixer Spots. So big thanks to, so the early bird special, what was it? Buy one of the first 18 spots in the break and get entered to win a free spot. So big thanks to the early birds here. There's the first 18. Let's see who gets the worm. Early bird gets the worm. Let's roll it and randomize it. Two and a six, eight times. Spot name after eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, and then two more, seven, and eighth and final time. Thomas Mosley, congrats to you. Extra spot. Now let's do the break. Get your names in the new list. Thanks everybody for grabbing spots. There are the teams right here. So we're going to do this one box break. So names and teams. Let's randomize eight times again, two and a six, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. Two and a six, eight times for the teams, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. Got the Celtics. All right, no trade windows in these fillers. These giveaways breaks. Just want to get to the giveaway part as quickly as possible. Here's the first half of the list right here. So this is 2020, 2021. So Thomas, Timberwold, that's pretty nice. Canard, Charlotte Hornets. There's the second half of this right here. Let's see if there's any surprises in that box. All right, let's print and rip. And we got Warriors at Blazers on in the background, the late game on TNT. All right, there you go. Thursday the 24th. Thanks everybody for making this happen. So what can we expect in here? I don't think there's, it's a box for looking for hollow mosaic parallels. And we're looking for autographs too. I don't think every box has an auto. Wow, is it, Chad? You think it'll, how many days left? That's good for you. Donovan Mitchell, it's a green Yanis, nice. All right, so no autos here, but there is a green Yanis. That's to 25. 25 out of 25 for Jesse and the Milwaukee Bucks. There's a blank card here. You can kind of see the contrast there. That's pretty cool design. All right, now the big moment. Who is going to win those Immaculate spots? Who's going to win those Mamba Mixer spots? So let's gather everybody's names up again for the third and final dice roll. New dice, new list. And it's just the top two names getting in. So there's going to be a lot of sad faces, but two really happy people. Let's roll it, randomize that list, four and a six, 10 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and once more, right? Yep, 10. And again, 10th and final time.  This spot's the worst right here, it's even flat. Very close, no cigar though. Thanks to you, thanks everybody for giving this a shot. But there can be only two. Top two, happy times because you're in that Mamba Mixer, shot at some Kobe Bryant's graded cards. That's going to be Terry, congrats to you. And Canard Bolt, congrats to the both of you.  I'm Joe for jazpiececasebreaks.com. Thanks to everybody else for giving this a shot. We've got to do a few more of these, so there'll be some more opportunities to try to chase some of those spots for a fraction of the price. So give it a shot on jazpiececasebreaks.com, bye-bye.