In recent news Travis Scott just celebrated his 29th birthday by showing off his brand new Bugatti and considering those cars can cost millions we know the rapper is living in luxury. We also know that Travis was spending most of his quarantine holed up with baby mama Kylie Jenner and their daughter Stormy and Palm Springs. But what's his full-time home like? In this video we'll look at Travis's Beverly Hills mansion, the place he bought for his parents, and more. Jacques Berman Webster II, known to the world as Travis Scott, is a rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He's 29 at the time of this recording and over the last few years, he's accomplished a lot in his career. His musical style seems to set him apart from other artists, described as a fusion of hip-hop, lo-fi and ambient. Travis has sold more than 45 million records in the U.S. alone, nominated for multiple Grammy Awards and won a Billboard Music Award too. Let's not forget he also makes headlines for his relationship. Travis is the dad and shares a daughter with a mega-famous Kylie Jenner. It seems the public always wants to know whether the pair is back together or not. And with the current lockdown, rumors are they've been spending more time as a family. Kylie just bought a brand new 36 million dollar mansion, and it looks like she's settling in pretty nicely. We actually did an updated house tour on her gorgeous new place, so check that out because I'm sure Travis will be spending a lot of time there too. But where does Travis spend all of his time now? As far as we know, Travis' current home is the Beverly Hills pad that he went halves on with Kylie to buy a couple years back. At the moment, Travis has an estimated net worth of about 40 million dollars, and while he may not be a billionaire yet, he's come a long way from the days spent sleeping on the floor of a New York studio. Hey guys, it's Karen. Today we're doing another house tour here on Famous Entertainment. We're going to look at where Travis Scott calls home, including the main home he bought with Kylie and Beverly Hills, the house he got for his parents, and more. If you like these videos, make sure you subscribe to make that bell to be notified when we post so you can always be up to date. We've also done house tours in the likes of Michael Jordan and Kylie Jenner's new mansion like I mentioned, so we'll link to some at the end. Follow me on Instagram because I love connecting with you guys. As always, I want to hear from you guys in the comments down below. I need you to let me know who to do next and whose home you'd like to see. Now let's get into this video. Alright, so I'm about to surprise my fam, one of the most like craziest gifts of all time. It's actually too big to put a f***ing ball around, so I can't wait to see these motherf***ing reactions. I'm gonna grab this other f***ing thing. So yeah, Travis may have split the cost on the Beverly Hills mansion with Kylie, but he has riches on his own. But let's not forget the rapper gifted his parents a multi-million dollar mansion for Christmas in 2016. We know that Travis hails from Houston, Texas, so apparently the home he got for his parents is here as well. I guess now when he goes to visit, he has a lavish spot to stay at too. Judging from the snaps he posted, Travis's family was so grateful and excited. But I mean, who wouldn't be? His parents, even his granny and the kids in the family were moving in by the looks of it. We can see the double height entry with chandelier, large open spaces like kitchen, dining room, and family rooms. There's also an arcade room, and we can even see a Pepsi dispenser on one of the floors. It looks like there's a wrap around balcony on the second floor that spans the whole house, so everyone gets a nice view of the property. And how about that pool? The backyard looks like it's straight out of a resort with the lagoon-style pool, waterfall, and surrounding palm trees. There's also an extensive deck and patio for tanning, entertaining guests, and lounging. Travis went on to share that he's been working his whole life to give this gift to his parents, tweeting, use to sleep on floors, now we walk on marble. Now if that's not the ultimate Christmas gift. As you probably know, Travis's home base is in none other than Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Here he's close to not only the action of Hollywood in his career, he's with his daughter Stormi and on and off again baby mama and partner Kylie. In the past, Kylie's opened up about the pair's living situation before they had their current mansion. She said, I'm actually scrolling through Instagram right now and it says that me and Travis don't live together, and so I just want to say that we never miss a night with each other. We go back and forth from my Calabas's house in the city home we actually got together. Reports say that before Travis's multi-million dollar mansion, The Hills, the two had another smaller home in central Los Angeles together. And Travis also used to live at Kylie's hidden hill mansion that she still owns. In 2018, however, Travis and Kylie made a big purchase together of a modern Beverly Hills house, costing them a massive 13.5 million dollars, but apparently they split the cost. The home is described as fresh and designed with clean lines and is located in Beverly Hills Post Office area of Los Angeles. This is the famous 90210 area of the city and is a community that values seclusion and upscale living, perfect for a high-profile couple like Travis and Kylie. We can see that Travis's home is surrounded by a ton of greenery and trees, which gives a sense of added security and shields the home from the paparazzi. The mansion sits on a 1.1-acre plot of land and inside spends over 9,600 square feet of living space. Built in the 1970s, the property was once owned by actress Louise Currie and received an extensive renovation a few years ago. This made the home fully updated and more of a contemporary style. Inside Travis's Beverly Hills patio find seven beds, 10 baths, and a handful of perfectly decorated open concept living spaces. A two-story entryway opens up to an indoor-outdoor living and dining area complete with European oak floors, modern fixtures, and a fireplace. On the main level of the home, there's also a family room, a chef's kitchen with an oversized center island, and state-of-the-art appliances, as well as a formal dining room. The master suite is extra large here, spending 2,300 square feet, which is bigger than the average home. It has an elegant and spacious ensuite bathroom, oversized walk-in closet, its own sitting room, office, and storage space. Not to mention, the room opens up to an extensive private balcony with city and ocean views. Other features inside Travis's house include a home movie theater, gym, library, wine room, and extra den. There's also a three-car garage and additional parking space. Looking at photos, some may say the backyard is the feature of the mansion. The large pool and spa seems to cover most of this space and the surrounding patio makes for great space to lounge and entertain guests. The garden and pool is surrounded by a thick wall of trees and hedges, which gives the family a lot of privacy, as I mentioned. The listing of the home even described the mansion as one of the most private compounds in Beverly Hills. The multiple outdoor seating areas and the decks on the first and second floor of the house all get the same privacy thanks to the greenery. On the property, there's also a separate guest house for visitors with its own kitchen and living area, bedroom, and ensuite bathroom. Now before we wrap up this video, let's see some of the cars Travis keeps in that garage. We know that Kylie's car collection is hard to compete with, considering it's worth something like 14 mil, but it doesn't mean Travis plays small. He too loves his luxury cars. Like I mentioned, his most recent addition is the Bugatti he just got for his 29th birthday. I'm not sure what exact model this sleek black Bugatti is, but I'll guess it costs in the seven-figure price range if not a million plus. One of Travis's favorite cars he owns is a Ferrari 488. While many celebs get the 458 Italia model, Travis upgraded to this one. His Ferrari sports a burnt orange color and wasn't interested in the typical red Ferrari trend. This one likely cost him over 300K. Next up, Travis also has a Lamborghini Aventador SV. He got West Coast Customs to wrap the whole vehicle, and now his Lambo is a matte brown color with bright white rims. It seems like Travis likes his custom Lamborghinis as he also has a Lamborghini Huracan. Although this model isn't as fast as the Aventador, the look of it stands out even more, considering Travis got his wrapped in a bright purple camouflage. Which one of his cars is your fave? So now, we've taken a look at where Travis Scott lives in LA, which was reportedly the Beverly Hills mansion he went dutch on with Kylie. We know the man has a high net worth, so I'm sure he could afford his own mansion, but since the pair spend so much time together and was stormy, I don't think it makes a difference. Considering the parents have spent a fair amount of time in this quarantine together, you gotta wonder if Travis will be shacking up at Kylie's new mansion in Holmby Hills too. I guess only time will tell. After seeing Travis' house, what did you guys think? Were there any properties of his that I missed? I think that modern Beverly Hills home is gorgeous and I'm obsessed with that pool, but honestly, after seeing Kylie's new mega mansion, it's really hard to compete. Be sure to let me know in the comments as well as what other celebrity houses you'd like to see. Follow me on Instagram if you want to chat more and I'll see you all in the next video. Bye!


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This information comes from the tax guard for small business for individuals who use schedule C publication 3-3-4 tax year 2022 you could find on the IRS website irs.gov irs.gov looking at the income tax formula we're focused on line one income remember in the first half of the income tax formula is in essence an income statement but just an outline other forms and schedules flowing into these line items one of those the schedule will see having business income minus business expenses the business net income in essence flowing in from schedule C to line one income of the income tax formula the first page of the 1040 noting that the schedule C flows into the schedule one which flows into the first page of the form 1040 line number 8 the schedule C profit or loss from business is formatted in an income statement format income minus expenses were focused on the expenses here more specifically on those related to legal and professional fees so legal and professional fees legal and professional fees such as fees charged by accountants that are ordinary and necessary expenses directly related to the operating your business are deductible on schedule C so that is great make sure to pay your accountant well then since you get to deduct the legal and professionals obviously that makes sense because if the legal and professional work was for the purpose of your business you would expect them to be ordinary and necessary and something to be deductible obviously it gets a little bit more confusing if your accountant is also doing professional work possibly doing your taxes and helping you with that as well which could have a personal component to it as opposed to simply a legal component in that case and when you're talking about legal expenses oftentimes we're thinking lawyers in that situation the question would be are you paying them for business related items or are you paying them for some kind of personal related item to see whether it would be deductible as a business expense so however you usually cannot deduct legal fees you pay to acquire business assets so add them to the basis of the property so you might think well wait a second that's still a business item that I bought business assets so let's say you bought a building or something like that then really what's happening here is if you had to pay the lawyer or something to go through the purchasing process or the professional to go through the purchase purchasing process then do you get to expense it or you do do you have to include it into the asset of the of the building and possibly get the benefit from the expense by depreciating the asset if it's a depreciable asset as opposed to land which isn't depreciable so that would be the the item there so right so the question is do you have to capitalize it as something that's a fixed asset and then possibly depreciate it we would rather not have to do that usually from a tax standpoint because as we saw when we looked at depreciation the general rule is that we would like to get the expenses early as possible usually for taxes so there's that situation if the fees include payments for work of a personal nature such as making a will you can take a business deduction only for the part of the fee related to your business so now you're paying for something that might have some link to your business in which case you have something that's once again personal and business that's often where the fuzzy problem areas come in with taxes we have something that we can't neatly split up between business and personal and typically have to find some method to break out the business versus personal portion of something we're paying in order to deduct the business ordinary and necessary part so tax preparation fees so you can deduct on schedule see the cost of preparing that part of your tax return relating to your business as a sole proprietor or statutory employee so here's another area which gets complicated because now we're thinking tax preparation and you're saying well I have tax preparation on the schedule see but I'm also doing whatever the schedule a and the rest of it so then you have another expense that has a business and personal component to it in essence and you need to be breaking out the business versus personal components of it so you can also deduct on schedule see the amount you pay or incur and resolving a certain tax deficiencies for your business as a sole proprietor or statutory employee so other kind of tax issues that come up could have a business component related to them because part of the tax issues is the schedule see component which is your business


Narcissists are fake people. They are not genuine. They are an imitation of something real. Everything they do is intended to deceive you, to deliberately cause you to believe something that is not true. For their own personal gain, they give you a mistaken impression, which causes you to hold beliefs and opinions that are incorrect. Based on a vague idea in which some confidence is placed, they may look like real humans but that is just on the surface. It's an artificial intelligence. It's a machine. A piece of equipment that only works when it is given power. And their power comes from you or other people. They can't generate it from within. But as empaths, we have the tendency to project human traits onto them to where we believe that we are dealing with a real person. When we're actually just projecting our own positive traits, which a lot of times is what causes us to be fooled. Narcissists lack effective empathy, so they don't experience any sensations or feelings in response to other people's emotions, which is why, unlike ourselves, they don't feel stressed when they detect another person's fear or anxiety. Instead, it feeds them. It makes them feel alive. Because although they don't have effective empathy, they do have cognitive empathy, so they're able to intellectually understand why someone feels a certain way, even though they may not be emotionally moved, which means that they actually have an easier time understanding the lack of effective empathy in other people. Their cognitive empathy allows them to be highly observant and skilled at recognizing patterns of behavior. They can observe subtle signs that reveal someone else's narcissist tendencies right away, while we may be unable to see it. Because although as empaths, we have high effective empathy, we may lack cognitive empathy, which means that we may often be unable to recognize when we are dealing with a narcissist, but narcissists see each other very clearly. And they often work together to target people who may be unsuspecting, because that's the only way that they can survive. They have a hard time keeping and forming relationships, because they need to manipulate control and exploit the other person. But your self-love is your greatest offense against narcissists, and once you become self-love abundant, you will begin to see narcissists everywhere, and you won't want to be around them.  You will feel fear, anxiety, uneasiness and nervousness, because that is your body telling you that something harmful or unpleasant is about to happen. But narcissists don't experience those same sensations, and in fact they are drawn to other narcissists. They like other narcissists, because they lack self-love and they share similar traits. They have a need for attention and praise, as well as a lack of empathy and a sense of entitlement. So they tend to bond over their target's destruction. It's what keeps them together, and it prevents them from turning against each other. Which can appear very convincing, and it's often what they will use to persuade you that you are the problem. And it may even cause you to doubt whether or not you are actually dealing with a narcissist, because narcissists are maladaptive. Get the narcissist you are dealing with maybe adapting just fine, just not with you. And they may even tell you this. They may tell you that they are able to get on with other people very well, to make you feel like you are the problem. And then as an empath, you will naturally self-love and blame yourself, which is exactly what they will want you to do. So that they can feel like they have something real, because it's all an illusion, a facade. And it's intended to deceive you, so that you hand your power over to them. And then your energy will be used to feel the illusion, so that they can feel alive in that moment. Because although it isn't real, you may believe that it is real. Because your eyes and ears are able to perceive all of it, so you make the assumption that you would see an adult person who is able to communicate and possess some level of mental power. Even though your brain may already know that it's not true, which is very similar to when we watch movies or television, in order for us to watch it and to be entertained by it, in that moment we have to believe that what we are seeing is real. But watching a movie is usually harmless, while interacting with analysis causes severe stress on most people, because what we are seeing and hearing does not line up or connect with what our brain already knows. So it will irritate and confuse you. And you may wonder why you keep experiencing the same situations with them, when you know that you should be wiser, but you assume that they're going to understand or care, even after you've already seen that it's not even possible, because educating yourself on narcissism is not enough. The brain has to make certain assumptions. It has to project certain things so that you're able to interact with them, but this does not happen for the narcissist. And even if you're aware of it that doesn't change anything, your brain will function how it's designed to. It will perceive the narcissist as a real human being, and it will naturally make assumptions about things you may already know to be incorrect, as if you're dealing with an actual human being, because the knowledge is not enough to override your sense or of how your brain works. And that does not mean there's something wrong with your brain. It means that your brain is working correctly, because the brain is meant to make assumptions about who it's dealing with, but this also means that you can be fooled, regardless of the information or education that you may have, which means that you will read understanding and empathy in situations where it is not possible. You will fill in the gaps for the other side of the conversation and the relationship, because projection and assumption is necessary for communication. So your projected emotions, perceptions and words that don't even fit the other person or the experience that they're having, which makes it very confusing because your brain assumes that it's there even when it's not. You assume that the narcissist is lonely and that they're yearning for human companionship, but for that to be possible they would have to be able to see you as a separate person, rather than them seeing you as an extension of them, which isn't something that they're able to achieve or retain. Instead they will try to embrace the very things that make you a person. They will treat you as an object that exists to meet their needs. They won't try to understand anything that makes you who you are.  They just want to keep people as their possessions. They don't care about what you want or what you need, but it doesn't matter to them. You will eventually see through their actions and the things they say, because they want a person who exists just for them. A person with no wants or needs. A person with no self of their own. A zombie. A dead person who has been brought back to life without human qualities, who is only able to move because of witchcraft. Because they're under a spell, as though they've administered a drug to induce insensibility. To wear your inner hallucinatory dreamlike state, a state of consciousness in which you lose the power of voluntary action, where you're highly responsive to suggestion or direction, which they may use to recover suppressed memories or to allow modification of your behaviour. Because they already know that if you were in the right state of mind you wouldn't want anything to do with them. And you would be running in the opposite direction. So they have to hypnotise you. They have to put you in a state of not being completely conscious or in control of yourself. To wear your attracted and holding interest as if by a spell, and you're in a heightened state of concentration and focused attention, because that's their core desire. They just want an inanimate, lifeless person that is under their control. Because they have no meaningful understanding of kindness or compassion, which goes against how the brain naturally operates. Because the brain assumes that these faculties are present, and it does whatever it can to provide evidence to support this conclusion. Because regardless of what we think, the brain cannot perceive that this is not being true. So we assume that they're just lonely or that they need companionship. Because the brain makes the automatic projections and assumptions that it needs to make. So that it can engage communication with another human being.  Because just like artificial intelligence, the narcissist mimics the way that normal empathetic people interact with each other. They learn what to say or do through experience, which creates a powerful reaction. Because of the projections and assumptions that the brain is making. But time reveals all. And eventually the narcissist does reveal their inability and limitations. Or you notice flaws in their skills of imitation after critical observation. Whether it was done to entertain or riddle you. Because you may stop overlooking it or seeing it as an important. But either way you cannot prevent these automatic assumptions from happening. At least not until they reveal their inability to have empathy and compassion. And when that happens it is very painful. You feel exploited and betrayed. As though they broke your trust. Because initially all of their focus was on you. They said nothing about themselves. They had no needs once or preferences. It was all about what you thought, how you felt and what you wanted. Which may have made you enthusiastic. It may have made you excited, happy and slightly out of control. But it may have also left you in a state of insensibility. Where you had a lack of awareness or concern. Because they struck your ego. They made you feel special. They made you feel good about yourself. They made you feel seen and heard in a way that you had not felt before. As though they actually cared about you. So you may not have even noticed that you were tricked and duped until later. When you tried to find out more about them. And then you realized that it offered no hope of progress or advancement. But in the beginning you overlooked it. Because you felt a connection when there wasn't one. You were talking to yourself. Because anything you say only applies to you. It cannot be applied to them. Even though they may appear interested. Because they have a script. They have a list of things to say or do. In response to certain words or phrases you use. Because they lack intuitiveness, empathy and good judgment. So they use scripted responses. Often in situations where they are irrelevant or inappropriate. And if that isn't successful. Just like artificial intelligence they will often appear to malfunction. Because they lack mental capacity. So they cannot provide an appropriate response. Especially when their response is challenged. Which is why they typically won't give you an opportunity to challenge them. Or they will resort to coercion and intimidation. To distract you and to get you to focus on something else. Because they cannot see their own limitations. And they may be unaware that they even have any. They may assume that they have all of the information that exists. So if you challenge their response it won't make any sense to them. They will persist that you are wrong. Or that you're just being rebellious or oppositional. Or that you're trying to manipulate them.  They may try to get you to doubt your own memory, perception and sanity. Because they can't understand deeper meanings of the things that people say. They lack intuition, morals and compassion. So they have an inability to share your feelings or experience. Which will result in them trying to rewire your brain.  Because their mental disorder is maladaptive. They cannot adjust adequately or appropriately. To the environmental situation. Which results in undesirable and socially unacceptable behavior. That interferes with the acquisition of desired skills or knowledge. And with the performance of everyday activities. Where they are unable to fit in with other people's wishes or needs. Or to reconcile or bring into harmony. Because vulnerability and opening up means losing control.  So they believe that you're bad and wrong. Which makes them think that they can't change or they don't need to. They're incapable of evaluating information. That they are not programmed to recognize or evaluate. So they're unable to incorporate parts into a whole. Because they lack intellectual, mental and emotional capacity. It's a machine. It doesn't take your feelings and needs into consideration. So the longer that you interact with them. The more unsuccessful you will be in protecting yourself from them. Even after you have identified what you're dealing with. The only way that you can protect yourself. Is to have as little contact with them as possible. Because when you interact with a narcissist. It will trigger mind and body trauma. Which includes low self esteem. Feelings of confusion. Tonguitative dissonance.  And this is not something that you can control or change. So you will always be exposed to the possibility of being harmed by them. The only reason they even made it this far in life. Is because they learned how to imitate how other people behave. They don't adapt or adjust. They just pretend to so that they can blend in and fly under the radar. Which is why even people who work with narcissists or study them for a living. Still get fooled by narcissists all the time. Because narcissists are master manipulators. It's essential to their survival. Which is why the only way you can protect yourself. Is through education and by limiting your contact with them. And then making an exit plan at the earliest opportunity.  Which is what the brain is supposed to do. Because you're not supposed to do that around a person with a mental illness. Because they're mentally impaired. So all they're going to do is damage you. As a result of their loss of mental capacity. And for most of them it is instinctual. It's virtually the same as a heroin junkie mainlining. And the narcissists drug of choice is narcissists that supply. When they're around an empathist like a feeding frenzy. They're emotionally starved. So it's like an aggressive and competitive attack. An episode of frantic competition or rivalry for your minds. To where they become very excited. And they're in a state of wild activity. Without any concern for your emotional health or well being. Because they're not a complete human. They're missing the key components that make us who we are. They lack empathy. And that is why they have a void. It's why they're always miserable. It's why they can never be satisfied. Because they never cared about anyone but themselves. And that is what makes them so dangerous. Because now they have to imitate emotions and connection. In order to get what they want from their victims. Which is their narcissistic supply. They're the cause of their own misery. They're the fuel to their own fire. And to their own demise. It's like a suicide bomber. At some point they are going to malfunction and self-destruct. As they nurse themselves into a chronic habit of justification. So the best thing you can do is to stay far away from them. Thank you for watching. If you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up. Share your thoughts in the comments section. Hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications. If you would like to support the channel. You can donate at payable.me.narchsafiva. You can book a one on one with me on my website. It's narchsafiva.uk. Thank you for watching and they'll talk to you soon.


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ciate a question from the commissioners to how much we've already spent on this EIR and we don't want to follow in the trap of the you know the sunk cost fallacy because I know it was 13 million on the draft EIR I don't know what it was for the final but since we already spent so much money that means we need to spend more money that's in vernacular that's throwing good money after bad we have the slides yet we do okay great okay I'll ask if you can advance so you can go back one slide please okay so this is a photo artist depiction of the HOV dream that looks really enticing next slide please next slide the reality is that the full funding will be implemented after 2035 you want to data there it is after 2035 and you know your people that know what that really means which is maybe never the operational reality of expanding highways we know that there's a consensus a scientific opinion there's not a dispute about this that adding capacity of roadways fails to leave a congesture for long because it actually increases vehicle miles travel this is Susan who came to Santa Cruz a few years ago next slide so if the draft EIR is recirculated none of the things that I have to do is comply with new secret regulations which require analyzing vehicle miles traveled next slide including induced travel okay so Caltrans is now saying induced travel is for real back when they did the draft EIR or the EIR that we're talking about today they were not considering several aspects of induced travel they're going to have to go back and do that next slide they will require to mitigate increases in vehicle miles traveled the EIR says the increase in vehicle miles traveled of the HOV project would be 29% it will be much more than that once Caltrans uses their new metrics counting induced travel so we have to mitigate how do we mitigate that I think that's a question you really want to answer don't you unless if you're going to spend money on a new project like how are you going to do this next question so yes that's my conclusion the idea that EIR can be easily fixed is mistaken so we're talking a lot more than 250,000 here next slide does the community want the HOV project Mr. Rockin already replied next slide we had the vote in measure J it was a needed a two thirds vote it got 43% next slide so this is the what I hope the commission will adopt as your policy time to tell the voter's truth about congestion is use travel means we can't reduce congestion beyond the short term we can't do it with with new lanes we can't do it with new bus lines we can't do it with transit on the quarter we can't do it with bus on shoulder not to say that those projects are not good projects because they give people alternatives but they're not going to reduce congestion on the highway it's physics right next slide George Chander was at this meeting with Susan Handy he asked the most important question there he said so what can we do for South County commuters who are stuck in traffic next slide Susan said give them alternatives so we're not going to tell them they're going to have congestion really we give them alternatives next slide I think the RTC staff understand that I've had conversations with them and that's why they talk about moving people and not cars so whether we appeal what can I say about that I'd love to I can't say I can't speak for the Sierra Club or the campaign for stable transportation I can speak for myself but I'd love to see something happen today and if nothing happens today what choices do we have next slide I'm just going to ask you to wrap it up I think I'm done any questions I'll be here alright our next speaker I thank you again Lonnie Faulkner equity transit and thank you for your time I just want to back up Rick Lunginati who provided the wonderful data looking forward to no sooner than 2035 do we really want to spend funds these STGP funds that can be used for other more pressing pertinent projects whether they be supporting bus metro the rail projects that we're looking at and whatever other projects that are really pressing currently so I would like to recommend that the commissioners decline item number 25 today and think about better uses for those funds thank you my name is Micah Posner I've been fighting highway widening as an activist for about 20 years because I think it's an ethical and unreasonable to widen highways in the face of global warming and I don't think it works to help anyone I was convinced early on by Tony Compos actually that if I don't want to widen the highway that I need to support a train and other alternatives for people from South County so I've also been doing that for 20 years because it does matter if we do need to support the people in South County but not with something that's ruins the world's climate and it doesn't really help for more than a few years so I'm here to ask you to please just stop with the HV lanes we've wasted like 13 million dollars it's never going to pass like you need local money you already we already voted not to give it to the commission and the state money as your executive director so honestly said it's getting harder and harder and harder to get you know that you're never going to widen you're never going to put in the HV lanes I mean whether you want to or not you disagree with me you know that I mean I would imagine if I was sitting up there that I would want to spend the $250,000 just because you might be pissed it's like you're getting sued and blah blah and you have this project but I'm asking you to have some humility and just admit that it's not going to happen and not spend money that you could spend on things that can happen that you do have consensus for the community that can really make a difference I know it's easy for me to ask you to have humility when I you know whatever I'm just fighting the highway for 20 years so I thought as a symbol I would just kneel down and say please please just stop it just I'm going to do that I'm going to say like please stop this this crazy battle that's been going on for decades just just stop you know we don't have to agree but anything happening anyways and this is money that can be used for things we can agree on just stop it okay thank you I do not see any other members of the public in the chambers who which wish to speak so I'm going to take it out to callers and our first caller is Brian from trail now hey this is Brian from trail now we absolutely support staff recommendation we need to widen the highway to keep big heavy traffic on that highway corridor so they're not driving through our neighborhoods which they're doing now actually because of the delay more carbon dioxide has been impacting the environment with all of the delays it's interesting that they're saying we'll never get it until 2035 while at the same time you're going off and doing a major train study and investment that you won't get until 2045 and studies have shown that will have zero impact on traffic the way you manage traffic is you understand that it's a surge that comes through highway one right you have to have the capacity to do that and then you apply policies like you know toll roads and hov and car pooling and bus pooling and you allow metro to run buses on that we absolutely need the corridor opened now when I hear the train advocates complain that we need a solution well the solutions right in front of our eyes it's the Santa Cruz coastal corridor and we continue to delay the opening of it that corridor needs to be open and that's really an alternative that we need done as soon as possible looks like the clock is keep slowing down so I'm feeling like you're giving me more time but I won't take up more time there you go anyway so we support it moving forward and we support hov lanes and we mostly of support opening the Santa Cruz coastal corridor as a transportation resource for active transportation let's stop delaying this 2035 that the train advocates are complaining about well you're just imposing that on us now on the coastal corridor so thank you for your time thank you our next speaker is Michael St can you hear me chair Brown yes okay I do have a slide presentation also but your timing thing is right in the middle of my slides so I'm not sure how we can fix that okay thank you I appreciate it go ahead and watch the timer okay it's worthwhile to consider the information in making the decision that you have before you today next slide please bus the definition of bus on shoulder is a dedicated bus lane as you can see here next slide please the current plan is not a true bus on shoulder the bus only segments are only under the overpass next slide please the buses will operate in locks lanes with other traffic next slide congestion benefit of ox early lanes are none congestion the ox lane alternative would slightly worsen traffic operations in southbound peak commute hours next slide please there is no safety benefit the total accident rates overall would be the same as the accident rates for the no build alternative next slide here are the results from the poll the RTC commissioned in 2016 the weak support for the ox lanes would be even weaker if the question contained accurate information the EIR stated there would not be enough congestion relief to attract vehicles that had diverted to the local street system back to the freeway next slide please imagine express buses in dedicated lanes next slide please the 91 express bus makes good times after the morning commute during commute times a dedicated bus on shoulder will be better than what actually automatic wheels will be able to do next slide Mr. St. your time is up so I just want to ask you if you can quickly finish up this is the last slide but you threw the timer in the middle of it again I'll just keep talking there you go the 91 express bus makes good times in the morning commute and as we said during commute times a dedicated bus on shoulder would be better and this slide goes to my wife commuted to her job in stanford on the highway 17 bus express but she had to drive to either Santa Cruz or Scotts Valley to catch this bus it is very easy for me to imagine good ridership on a highway 17 express directly from either Watsonville also Aptos or the Capitola transit center please help us today by voting no on agenda item 25 and bring us closer to a 21st century transportation system the voters mandate was to get Santa Cruz moving not necessarily widening the highway for more cars thank you thank you our next speaker jack nelson you're up sorry I needed to unmute now here I am jack nelson so Mr. Longinati raised an important question can Caltrans and the RTC only produce a focused revised EIR and circulate that that only addresses a few questions or does it need to recirculate the entire EIR my read of the court decision is it's not that clear but nowhere in that decision can you search the PDF and find the word focused or focused EIR so maybe your commission should at least wait until the court and the litigants come up with the follow up instructions that are maybe more explicit about this I'd also like to underscore what Mr. Longinati said about these funds that are proposed to be used are being stolen from Metro, from Paratransit, from Potholes from anything else that you could beneficially use these funds for and your it's proposed you're going to take these and waste them on an EIR for a project that would never be built so can't we do better than that lastly I do think it's time for a state change in the RTC's thinking and to finally and forever leave behind this combustion friendly morality in which it's okay to expand the greenhouse gas combustion the greenhouse gas production machine in order to vainly try to fix congestion and what it's really going to do is continue to burn down our planet that's you know if you don't believe me listen to the climate scientists all over the world who are telling us we're looking down the barrel of a very big crisis so let's do this right please please thank you thank you our next speaker is Jacqueline Griffith and you can go ahead and press star six to unmute yourself or use your mute button go yes unmute we hear you Jackie you can hear me okay thank you for the chance to speak on this I support the things that Rick Longianotti was saying I do not think I do not want you to go forward and commit this $225,000 under the all the circumstances that people have brought up faulty on this that may take four times as much to do it if it's so we should wait until we can clarify that just before this you pass this thing to find out about rail about the rail trail and if what we can do there so that's an excellent reason to wait because you don't know what your situation is either from what the EIR is or from other opportunities we can hope for everything says that widening the highway anything you do to the highway doesn't really get people off the other streets and it doesn't help the traffic in fact it increases it and good grief you know we're so lucky here where it isn't so hot most of the country is in drought terrible drought and terrible heat and this is only going to increase are things like Kentucky where everybody's underwater I just don't see that this is the direction that funding is going to go in the future I think that work patterns may change in order to reduce traffic on the highway there may be things that we can do but building out a freeway with extra lanes the bus only lane that makes a lot of sense and that would really help for Watsonville people coming and going to work it may be it's only during certain hours I don't know okay that's my time thank you for the chance to speak thank you Ms. Griffith next up is Adam Miller Ball welcome thank you Chair Brown thank you commissioners can you hear me yes thank you my name is Adam Miller Ball I'm a resident of Santa Cruz I'm also a professor of planning and I teach about transportation and climate change and I'd like to make two major points first of all we just can't build ourselves out of congestion and traffic in the region is already going in the wrong direction I just saw an analysis from the state resources board which showed that vehicle travel has increased 13% in the region per capita over the 10 years to 2019 so even before we start building new highways that's already going in the wrong direction building more highways is going to only add fuel to that and highway one would be just as congested as before because of induced travel we'd have exactly the same congestion in the long run but with more climate pollution this project isn't consistent with the counties and the region's environmental plans and then the second key point as many speakers have raised there's no funding on the horizon to actually build this project anyway so since highway expansion even Caltrans admits that highway expansion is coming to an end since it's an environmental and a fiscal non-starter why should we throw huge money after bad why plan for a project why do more analysis in a project that isn't going to happen so it's time to take a break if not to pull the plug on this project altogether and I realize that technically this item isn't a decision on highway expansion itself but if you aren't committed to highway expansion why spend this money and so I urge commissioners to reject the staff recommendation and to not do or to shelve analysis on the AR or at least to follow commissioner Schifrin's suggestion to use highway funds to the analysis rather than the STBG thank you very much for your attention thank you okay our next speaker is Ron Swinson and I believe Mr. Swinson is here in person and on the line so come on up good to see you if you only get to talk once though the phone will stay muted here thank you very much for the opportunity here to speak I was had the great good fortune in 1966 as I was a young teacher at San Jose State instructor I heard Bucky Fuller visit the class I was teaching for two months and after two months he got it because he said it over and over again we must save our oil for a rainy day you have heard that the United States is doing better than ever in being the largest producer of oil but let me tell you we're scraping the bottom of the barrel we're talking about this as a celebration it is not I just the other day that James Loughlock the guy that invented the hypothesis said my main reason for not relaxing into a contented retirement is that like most of you I'm deeply concerned about the probability of massively harmful climate change and the need to do something about it now Mr. Koenig, Commissioner Koenig you mentioned getting off the fossil fuels we can't just do it with electric cars that's not going to solve the problem I hear very clearly those of you who are traveling from Watsonville or places between here and there where you get this congestion clearly we have to rethink this problem I am not an advocate I'm a builder my grandfather built a Palomar hotel and you all know how many other buildings we've put here in many years I can help you build I can be a contractor and help you build a system that will work you just have to give me a call when you're ready thank you thank you Mr. Swenson no wasting money I will next for folks who are out there in the audience if you do want to speak on this item please get your hand up otherwise this will be our last speaker Barry Scott welcome thank you this is Barry Scott in Aptos in Aptos and I want to thank first of all Director Preston for pointing out that highway widening projects are harder and harder to fund indeed it's Caltrans itself has expressed the concern with induced demand it's not just Susan Handy at UC Davis anymore and I think as you all know Governor's Office of Planning and Caltrans is leaning more toward anything that reduces vehicle miles travel I have in front of me a page from the 2015 EIR for the tier one project it shows and you know these tier two projects are all incremental toward this gigantic eight lane highway I'm not kidding you if I'm looking at the Rio del Mar overpass after the tier one is completed this project is just a part of the overall larger project but eight lanes is just never going to happen I wonder and I remember that a motion was made at a meeting some months ago to move funds from metro to road repairs Commissioner Koenig made the motion and it passed one or two million dollars and so I wonder as we move ahead if we might not consider this kind of moving funds I know that Measure D of 2016 had its allocations and only 8% even though it started off higher than 8% it started off 20% and then was 15 and 14 dropped down to 8% per rail that's unfortunate but I hope we will keep in mind the potential for shifting funds from one bucket to another as long as we're getting to something that will really provide relief and less dependency on automobiles thank you thank you our next speaker is Casey Byer thank you Chairman Brown and commissioners I'll be brief in 2004 there was an initiative that went to the ballot in Santa Cruz County that was opposed by the people that are suing you and Caltrans have filed the legal suit they were then called the committee for sensible transportation at that time and they opposed HOV lanes which was included in that ballot measure it failed miserably we fast forward to 2016 we learned a couple of lessons one HOV lanes were not going to be part of the future of that rail of that corridor even though people want it so Measure D in 2016 did not include HOV lanes it did include the auxiliary lanes whether they're the right end result for moving transportation or not but that's what was in the measure I'm just making this point that this is both a legal challenge for the RTC and Guy I think you got it right Mr. Press I think you got it right you kind of got your hands tied behind your back and you're trying to move forward with transportation improvements throughout the county in the different buckets and then secondly this is a political conversation and I hate to get political but if you go through with the HOV lane plan and do the EIR and it has some type of simability that it could be potentially a possible I guarantee you there will be an initiative on the ballot to kill it so just bear in mind that you're in a rock and hard spot and I recommend that the staff move forward in its proposal thank you very much thank you okay I do not see any additional hands up virtually and I think we are we've completed our public comment from speakers in the room and so I will bring it back to the commission for deliberation and action and I'm looking for comments and or a motion Mr. Bertrand a motion that we accept staff's recommendation okay we have a motion and a second that was Commissioner McPherson was the second Commissioner Hernandez I see your hand up yeah you know you know personally I don't think that HOV lanes or highway widening are something that is going to be funded or you know now or in the near future and especially in 2035 and you know the I think what the last speaker was referring to I think you know really hit hits the nail have a nail about you know it's really confusing that we have to do this level of an EIR for this project when it's something that you know we're not really tied to what I wanted to ask is what I wanted to ask staff is can we use whatever criteria or standards that we used for the EIR that we used from Soquel to the Fish Hook can we use that level of standards or criteria even though it might be less then but still use it for the EIR that we're doing just to be on the safe side even though it might be to a lesser standard of an EIR but also just to incorporate it just to fulfill the court ruling and to fulfill any future endeavors that we have you know I think any projects that we have to be feasible financially and I think also we have to make sure we do more sustainable options too so that was my question about putting different lesser standards on the EIR that will fulfill lesser projects Thank you Commissioner Hernandez I think Sarah, Ms. Christensen you're here to respond did you get that question? Yeah I'm not aware of an approach that would use like a lesser standard the way that this court ruling is being interpreted by Caltrans is that it is a very focused circulation so it's not opening up the entire document and having to redo an extensive amount of work it's not even really performing any additional analysis it's going through the process to allow public comment on information that's readily available responding to those comments and then recertifying so I suppose I I'm not aware of any lesser standard that we can do that too but you know Well I'm referring to whatever was used from like Tier 2 or from the project for the auxiliary lanes from SoCal to the fish hook for that EIR for example I don't understand So Commissioner Hernandez I'm hearing Ms. Christensen isn't clear about the question are you you're talking about for the EIR the portion that is ox lanes rather than HOV? Correct Okay so does that help clarify? So just to remind Commissioner Hernandez the court order is really focused on the Tier 1 and so there's not a lot of content that we could pull from other parts of this document or any other document for that matter because it is somewhat of a unique analysis being programmatic so I'm not aware of anything we can kind of cut and paste and so what I think I'm hearing is Not necessarily cut and paste but I mean so if we do this and then not go forward with HOV lanes we basically waste 250 I mean is that what I'm hearing? I mean it'd be good if we could use it for future endeavors or future projects I think Commissioner Hernandez providing the public with the information that the court order that has to do is is important and I wouldn't necessarily refer to it as wasted money I actually really appreciate your thinking outside the box we've done a lot of that too but unfortunately if we were to move forward with a separate project we'd be looking at a separate document and that is the Tier 2 document so we do still recommend that we move forward following what the court asked us to do and provide the recirculation of the document that he asked us to recirculate so if we start to try to do something different I fear that we may get ourselves into trouble and that could affect our ability to move forward with the rest of the program so I are you in front of me but I'd like to speak yeah gotcha thank you okay so next up Commissioner Parker thank you I'm gonna support this because it moves things forward and it is about the public getting from the courts a direction the public needs to have this accessible again to make comments to be understood because of whatever they found all I see this is moving this forward and the staff says we should do it it will create less complications in all areas as we move forward then we need to do this and all this rhetoric about wasteful let's just move forward staff knows what they're doing on this just like they did on before they're moving projects forward with opportunities they're complying with what the courts asked so let's just move it forward thank you thank you okay so I'm gonna call on Commissioner Schifrin next and I just wanted to say I'm getting used to trying to track the screen versus hands raised and so if I do miss you I forget just remind me as Commissioner Schifrin just did so go ahead here next and I'll come back around thank you a couple of things the staff report is in two recommendations or the staff recommendation is in two parts the first part is to authorize moving forward with the recirculation of the EIR for the HOV and the second part is to take the money to do that out of surface transportation block grant funds there's an irony that strikes me in our discussion of this and that is thinking about people who are HOV skeptics that we're hearing today and people who are rail skeptics and a lot of the discussion is very similar to my thinking there are people who think we will never be able to do rail it's just not going to be feasible it's not going to be fundable and there are people who believe we're never going to be able to do the HOV project Caltrans doesn't want to do it I'll never be the money in listening to what we've mostly heard about over time the rail skeptics is sort of like I don't feel very comfortable about projecting the future there's a constituency that feels strongly that rail is potentially feasible and we need to pursue it there's a constituency that feels we really need to widen the highway and we need to move forward to do that when we when Measure D was put together in 2016 it was a compromise it was a compromise about those people who really cared about widening the highway and those people who really cared about metro who really cared about the rail trail who really cared about the rail itself and it passed because there was that willingness by everyone to compromise and I think part of that compromise for me meant going along with those people who really felt strongly that it was necessary to pursue highway widening and it was important to do it and we should do what we could to make it happen whether it's going to happen or not there are skeptics and those skeptics might turn out to be right and I probably am one of them but there are also well meaning and reasonable skeptics about rail and I'm not one of those so my sense is we should move forward with this I am willing to support and I think it's important to support the commission with the project that the commission has been pursuing for decades and which has the commission has been pursuing at a very high cost just in terms of the environmental document so I support the first staff recommendation but just like the the recommendation on item number 24 which was to move forward with rail planning the cost of that is going to come out of the measure D rail funds and I think that's appropriate I don't think anybody raised the concern oh well we should figure out how we could take it out of some other source that doesn't reduce our very limited money for rail as we know it is limited and one of the concerns that staff raised was by moving forward with the rail plan some of the preservation work is not going to be able to happen or it's going to get delayed well I think that despite the fact that I wish we could there was another source of funds and maybe the STBG funds could be used for the rail plan it didn't come up and staff didn't recommend it and I don't know whether it's possible or not I do think that it's legitimate when we're talking about a project that is to related to widening the highway to ask that that fund the funding for that come out of measure D now it seems to me that if the commission agrees to a majority of the commission agrees to move forward with recommendation number one that's going to be sending the message to the court and to the community that the court's ruling is going to be responded to that the EIR is going to be recirculated and hopefully will meet the court standard so I think approving recommendation one is possible is sends the message that needs that staff the saying needs to be sent or at least should be sent I don't think that's that approving recommendation number two for where the funds come from undermines that just because it means putting off for a few months the amendment of the expenditure plan that would allow for using these funds using the measure D funds for this again prepare to support recommendation one I think the commission should support it but I would like to make a motion to amend the motion on the floor to revise recommendation number two to provide a direction to staff to return to the commission with funding for the recirculation of the EIR to come from measure D highway funds second that's what Mike Rockin seconded we have a motion to amend part two of the main motion which is the staff recommendation and a second by commissioner Rockin and I still have a comment by the way I know that we're coming back around here because we do now have another item and I see that miss Christensen is at the podium that means you want to respond to this no it's just that there's a process for that so it might not be immediate or it might not just be a one month kind of old there's a process to amend the expenditure plan that could take if we don't move forward on this item today it would be coming back to the next meeting being September 1st and then there's the 45 day process after that so just keep that in mind that that would be 30 days plus 45 days okay approximately thank you for clarifying that okay so I'll come back around now commissioner Rockin commissioner Bertrand so the first comment is that because of the court ruling taking longer does not delay in any way the construction work and environmental and construction work on the auxiliary lane projects would be a different argument of like while we're messing around with this court question and stuff we have to tie up our ongoing projects the court was very explicit in the decision that we can go ahead with those projects so I'm not clear what the cost of the delay is as Andy pointed out that we might take a little longer to make it happen but we're going to comply with it my bigger question is I'd like to get some kind of response to Rick Lanjanotti's only one of those points that the new first part of the question is if we recirculate the public have a right to comment on the recirculation I assume and therefore they will make those comments in response and his argument and I don't know if it's a valid one his are we going to be our secret requirements going to be such that we're going to have to explain what the mitigation is for adding more vehicle miles and the greenhouse gas production that that leads to will we have to do that in which case $250,000 is not going to do it that's a huge mitigation I can't even imagine that there is one but maybe there is I don't know so trying to understand even if we do minimal work it doesn't take that much to sort of recirculate it be clear put out the information this is what's correct and so forth but don't the public get to then respond and don't we have to do something else about that or would they then sue us if we don't do something else I'm not sure what the process is there so the process that I understand because we've you know Keltran staff you know this is a very unique one this is not we can't just take some kind of template off the shelf and go through a process that is already done because this is out of the box programmatic documents are not commonly prepared for Keltrans projects we're pretty unique Santa Cruz but when we recirculate the EIR my understanding of how this will work is that we recirculate the document but we only solicit comments on the very focused areas that the court is directing us to recirculate on so those three very focused areas being the baseline year the project description and the MSAT the air quality health effects and so members of the community may choose to make comments on the whole document but the court is only ordering us to respond you know take comments and circulate on those very focused items but if the response to if the response to recirculated items is the question of the new standard about like what the increased vehicle miles traveled isn't I don't know that it's automatic but wouldn't that given a pretty big opening for any of the public or a member of the public or group to say well they haven't said how they're going to mitigate this new thing that this information now reveals clearly in a way that it wasn't revealed clearly in the first circulation sure I can respond to that so the the petitioner did make claims about the vehicle miles traveled for the project and the greenhouse gas emission analysis and the court rejected all of that thank you that's very helpful and also just to continue the discussion about VMT it is very important for this community that this commission to reduce vehicle miles traveled to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and our program this commission should really be proud of our program of projects we are extremely multi-modal and we are at the forefront of on a statewide level of delivering projects that are multi-modal that address the governor's executive orders for adopting the climate change and so you know it's a moving target though so you know there's been a new sequel requirement you know past you know when our project was going through the analysis since then there's a VMT requirement now for projects our projects have been setting VMT since before long before it was required and that's just because of the fabric of this county we're very environmentally conscious and multi-modal and so there is actually a VMT analysis we weren't even required to do it it was in the document the court threw out the claims about it so could I try to help with the EIR question because I teach a class on CEQA and this issue of what will be recirculated is there are lots of examples if Caltrans would recirculate the entire EIR then the public could comment on everything if Caltrans only circulated that those portions of the EIR that the judge found inadequate the public can only comment on those portions when the university adopted its EIR or they had a draft EIR for an earlier LRDP they decided because they hadn't analyzed the potential effects on Highway 1 that they would only recirculate that section on Highway 1 that was all the public could comment on it didn't reopen the Holy EIR so I think there's been some confusion in how it's been presented should the Holy EIR be recirculated and I don't remember the court's opinion act clearly Mr. Longinati seemed to imply that they required that the entire EIR be recirculated if that's not the case and only those sections that the judge found inadequate were need to be corrected then it's totally appropriate for the lead agency and the commission paying for what is done to just recirculate those sections and the public can only comment on those sections and the judge will then if that's then challenged determine whether the the EIR has adequately responded to the concerns that the judge raised so I hope that helps in terms of what gets commented on and what doesn't get commented on. It does and staff has continued to work with Caltrans on this and it's we don't have all the details figured out obviously we need the technical support in order to kind of get into the details and figure out a really solid approach and so that's why we're making the recommendation today to do that but let me just say that to the extent it is legally possible to just recirculate those sections that were the judge didn't approve it will save a lot of money time and grief to just recirculate those sections. I agree, thank you. Director Preston did you I thought maybe you were going to make a comment. Yeah I was just going to elaborate a little bit on what Sarah was saying with regards to analysis of vehicle miles traveled Senate Bill 741 is the legislation that the state passed that changed the way we analyze traffic impacts instead of looking at level of service which was the old method of continuing to try to build our way out of traffic we now look at vehicle miles traveled and so the legislation didn't require that every project comply with SB 741 from the day that it was implemented it had a kind of rolling out of one projects would have to comply and it was based on when the environmental document started and this project started well before that legislation was passed the court did not rule in the favor of the plaintiffs with respect to the MP analysis we were asked to go back and do that part of the project and we don't intend to Sarah is correct that we did go over and beyond what the requirements were for this project and doing a VMP analysis and we did provide that for public comment.  Yeah a lot of things have been said that I would have clarified I guess they have on this complex subject but along short of it is I think that we should follow the initial motion that I seconded supporting what the court directed and what the staff has recommended and destroyed okay so we are we have an amendment that we're going to just to clarify what we're doing next we do have an amendment to the main motion which we will vote on now and that is to related to the funding source for this recirculation so I'm going to make a quick comment about that before we take that vote and then we'll proceed to vote on the main motion so you know I just wanted to say you know I recognize that there are potential challenges with and a lengthening of the time frame for recirculating if we were to identify and utilize a different funding source but I given that I you know I'm a skeptic I'm one of those who's a serious skeptic of the feasibility both financial and kind of practical feasibility of highway widening to say nothing of the climate change challenges that we face and that we absolutely have a responsibility to be addressing now and and not kind of dancing around and pretending we're going to do something down the road that is is not does not look feasible and is going to be really detrimental to our climate with the increase greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle miles traveled as a result so I don't believe that we should be spending money that can be spent on other other projects that people want that can be delivered sooner and that can can actually be delivered and that will help us achieve our climate goals so I support trying to use a different source of funding I wanted to ask a quick question because I recognize that we are the implementing agency and Caltrans is the lead agency and it's been sort of referenced that Caltrans you know are implied I guess that Caltrans wants us to do this and so I guess I just wonder if we ought not to be asking Caltrans to fund this it's just I'm going to put out there it's maybe perhaps a rhetorical question but if there is any insight on the whether or not that's even something we could ask them just throw it out there before we take a vote on shifting to measure D rather than the RSTPX exchange funds So we did ask Caltrans whether they could fund this they don't have a funding source available to fund this it would have likely have been the STIP funds but back when they redirected STIP funds to the regions we became in control of that money and we programmed our STIP funds already for something different so the only fund source we could come up with without amending the expenditure plan for measure D is the STBG RSTPX funds to amend the expenditure plan we would have to put a notice in the paper let people know we're extending planning on amending the expenditure plan to add HOB lanes which may come across as being a little unusual we would have to then come back to the commission and then notify the local agencies Thank you okay and I will I do want to acknowledge that point but also say that in from my perspective if we're worried about what the voters might think about spending money to recirculate an EIR over HOB lanes then I think we have a lot more to worry about down the road with the potential to actually ever fund this project so but I do appreciate your thinking on that so I'll go ahead and I don't see any other hands up so we'll go ahead and call a vote on the amendment to the main motion and we'll do a roll call Commission alternate Schifrin Hi Hi Commission Sandy Brown Hi Commissioner Bertrand No Commissioner Rotkin Hi Commissioner McPherson No Commissioner Alternate Quinn No Commissioner Kristen Brown No Commissioner Caput Yes Commissioner Parker No Commissioner Alternate Hearst No Commissioner Johnson Johnson We have six no's Okay so that means that the the motion fails and so we will now move on to consider the main motion and I wanted to ask because we got kind of talking about the amendment so if does anybody have any comments you'd like to make before we take a vote on the main motion Commissioner Schifrin Yes with some trepidation I'm going to support the main motion but I would like to add a request to the staff that when they return with contract for the rail project that was approved in item number 24 that they also include some discussion of possible other funding sources for that project that are under our local control because we've been acting as if only measure D funds could be spent for the rail project but here we're seeing that for the highway projects it's not just measure D funds it's also things like STBG and I don't know whether there might be some way of making that rail project and STBG project as well so it could provide some of the support for that but I would like that to be part of the staff report when the contract returns as I said I think in good faith based on the compromise that was reached with measure D in 2016 I will support as I have supported and supervise our commissioner Coonerty has supported highway widening projects over the last six or seven years as part of the compromise and recognizing that there's a real problem on highway one and it's important to try to respond to it so I will support the motion I'll call next Commissioner Hernandez I will support the motion too and I really want to echo Commissioner Schifrin's comments as well again I'm one of the non-believers of the HOV lanes but when it comes to I think the auxiliary lanes I think we have to listen to some of the voters and some of the folks in South County as well so thank you thank you are there any additional comments by members of the commission already has her hand up oh there we go Commissioner Parker you're up thank you I just want to follow up with Schifrin's comment the STGV funds or block grant funds if we're just going to find out what they can be used for maybe that's a better way to have that report brought back to us what can they be used for and then we have a more we have a clear understanding of whether it's metro auxiliary lanes rail you know whatever it may be used for and then Director Preston can give that clarity to all of us I think that would be great thank you I I just want to make one more comment before we move forward with the vote so I you know all of these all these thoughts running through my head things that I have heard said today and you know I'm in agreement with much of it I and I'm but I'm going to speak frankly now I have made comments at this commission over the years that I do not believe that highway widening is going to it's going to address the problems that commuters that the very real problems that commuters face and I I have a hard time if I may be unresponsive to those concerns because they're very real and you know working families people need to be able to get to and from work in a timely manner people are suffering I recognize that but and I have made comments that I don't believe that highway widening is going to address those those challenges because of induced demand I believe that the modeling that's done the projections and I believe that a lot of the research that has come out suggests that induced demand is real and that this will not provide relief so I've said that I've talked about my concerns about continuing to spend a lot of money on infrastructure that is car centric and I have also voted as part of that agreement that compromise that was made around measure D I have voted to support my colleagues and what I hear from members of the public you know that they want to see the highway widened and but I can't do that today I can't do that because I think we're at a point now where we've made it clear that we're going to move forward with the ox lanes which I also didn't support but I have agreed to to support because I know that's what my colleagues are asking for and I will just quickly say I've been saddened that many of my colleagues have not had the same spirit of compromise with respect to the rail and moving forward with environmental review for rail planning and so today I think that the challenges are too great climate change is real we are heading towards and already in a major catastrophic change that has to be addressed by reducing greenhouse gases and this is the single largest greenhouse gas emitting project of any that I've ever seen during my time in Santa Cruz and my time in office and I can't support recirculating an EIR and spending money that could be spent on other matters that are much more immediate and are possible to achieve more in the future. So I think that's what I'm going to do right now and if it were to come from highway funds perhaps I could have taken a different view today but I'm not going to be able to support the main motion and with that I didn't mean to have the last word but in my role as chair that's kind of what happens sometimes so I'll go back. Commissioner Sandy Brown? No. Commissioner Bertrand? I agree. Commissioner Rockin? No. Commissioner McPherson? No. Commissioner alternate Quinn? Yes. Commissioner Kristen Brown? Aye. Commissioner alternate Hernandez? Aye. Commissioner Johnson? That passes. That vote passes. I will go ahead now and actually I see a comment. Nope, never mind. My hand up yes. Commissioner Hernandez go ahead. Commissioner Schiff's request I don't know if we need to put that as a future request or something but looking at different funding sources whether it's the STG or the the different STPX different sources that we can look at for rail as well. Director Preston already indicated that he was going to do that I think. Yeah, I think. Sorry you're not in the room so you don't see the heads nodding but we will that will be forthcoming. Okay, so we are now at the end of our meeting our next meeting will be a transportation policy workshop meeting I'm scrolling to make sure I get the date right I believe that will be Thursday August 17th and our next regular commission meeting will be the first Thursday in September. Thank you all for your participation and your support with the logistics and getting this meeting happening this first hybrid meeting and we'll look forward to more see you at the next meeting take care. What is it again? Our next we have a transportation policy workshop which will be via zoom on August 17th Wednesday August 17th Thursday August 18th I'm sorry I'm trying to scroll and it's not happening there we go we're having a policy workshop and now likelihood that that meeting will be cancelled okay it's a placeholder at this so then I thought it was only on here when it was for sure happening okay so our next meeting will be September first Thursday first Thursday in September thank you


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What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysCaseBase.com. Another case here, guys, of 23 Topps Archives Signatures Baseball Active Edition just sold out. 20 box case number four. And here we go, guys, so again, everybody that's in here has a team. If you have a little character sign at the end of your name, that means you won that from a pack filler. And again, another case down, guys. So, of course, we have another case on the website that is had single digits on its own. If you guys obviously want to run that back, we can. Let's offer a little Logan Gilbert a 68 for the Mariners. Mariners go to Walter. Yankees out of 12, it looks like seven of 12. Oswald Paraza. Kind of hard to see that out of 12, but it's right there. Yankees, that's going to Matt Smith. Out of 73, Matthew Labrador for the St. Louis Cardinals. Cardinals is Mickey. Redemption, autograph signer, Carlos Rodan. So, again, these guys, Redemptions, if you go to the checklist, there really isn't a checklist for it, it just has the player name, because it obviously can be from any year. So, obviously, we're just going by team that they're currently on, team that they've put for the longest, they're not in the MLB. So, obviously, Carlos Rodan, let's see where he's at. He's been with a couple of teams, I believe, but Carlos Rodan is currently a New York Yankee. Been on the White Sox for a little bit, Giants one year and now the Yankees. So, Yankees will get that one there, guys. So, New York Yankees, that's Matt Smith. And we don't know, of course, if that's even going to be a one-on-one or whatever the case may be. Bobby Dalback to 99 for the Red Sox. That's from a little Bowman base. Red Sox is Jeffrey. And how about a little Adley Rochman, nice, at a 64, 42 out of 64. And that is a glorious Baltimore Orioles, Mark. Out of 76, Nick Ladolo, Reds, Walter. Randy Arrozirania, little St. Louis Carnals edition. He's also a great start this season. Nine out of 49. Carnals is Mickey, that's a nice one there. He actually had a walk-off RBI today, too. CJ Abrams, High Five Futures, and that's four out of four. Nice one there, that's still San Diego Padres edition. So Padres, that's going to Travis, who got that from a team random as well. What's up, man? Yeah, no, I did, actually, man. How about that? Biggest WWE card, right? Modern. Out of 73, Pablo Lopez for the Marlins. Ed with that one. We have the 99, Andrew Vaughn. We hit a one-on-one of his in the last case. 24 out of 99. White Sox, going to Nick. Nine more than halfway through now, guys. Nine boxes left. Out of 63, Jaren Duran. Boston. Red Sox, Jeffery. To 50, Ozzy Obbies. 25 out of 50. Nice one there for the Lana Braves and Ed. We have out of 16, Matt and Hanning. That is a West Michigan White Caps. We have Detroit Tigers. Detroit Tigers, that is going to Walter. Six more boxes to go. Out of 54, Tyler Stevenson. That's another one there for the Reds, Walter. And again, gotta have a Tristan Casas in this, guys. 27 out of 99 for the Baltimore, or sorry, not Baltimore, Boston Red Sox. All right, guys, we ended it off with three straight one-on-ones at the end. Let's see if we can do the same thing here with the last four. No one-on-ones yet. Nothing's super crazy yet, so hopefully we got one here. Here we go. Woo-hoo, there we go. How about a Ronald Acunia Jr. One of one. Ed, who got the Braves straight up in number four. There you go. That is pretty sweet. And that's from like 2019. It's a top, what is that? I don't even know the set, but who cares? It's a one-on-one. There you go. All right, back to back. Come on, back to back. Out of 99, Cal Mitchell for the Pirates. Pirates, that is Joe Christian. All right, come on, give me another couple here. Been averaging three of the last couple cases, so I feel like we're still due for another one or two. Gavin Sheets, Bowman's first auto. It's a 99 for the White Sox. Nick, all right, maybe not. Maybe one, please. Give me another one. One more. That Acunia was pretty nice, though. Nice, Jesse Winker. Okay, we did get another one-on-one. This one is a Topps Chrome, looks like Refractor, one-on-one. Which is for the Reds, who had a nice break, little Walter there. There you go, man. Two one-on-ones. So again, this one got one less one-on-one, but we did get a big Superstar, like Acunia one-on-one, so that was pretty nice. But again, guys, another case down, another case in the store, number five, jaspyscasebricks.com. Guys, let's do another one.


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