This conference will now be recorded. Okay. I would like to call to order the City Council, the South Burlington City Council special meeting of January 29th, 2024, and the first item of business is the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let's hope that it continues, you know. Item two, instructions on exiting the building in case of an emergency and review of the technology. Jessie? Thank you. So for those who are joining us in person in the room, if there's an emergency, you can go out to the rear of the auditorium on the left or right side and then turn left or right to get outside. For those participating remotely, thank you for joining us. If you'd like to speak on any item on the agenda, please turn your cameras on and the chair will call on you. If you'd like to speak and if you would like to, you can indicate to me that you would like to speak in the chat and we will call, I'll have the chair call on you, otherwise we are not monitoring the chat for content. Okay. Thank you. Item three is the agenda review. Are there any additions, deletions or changes in order of the agenda items? Seeing none, we'll move on to comments and questions from the public not related to the agenda. Oh, please come up. Thank you. And Dave Ulbricht after you. Dan? Or Dan, do I say it's this? Sorry, Dan. It's the light, is it on? Okay. It's very bright. Yes. Yeah. Basically, it's just- Can you share? Yeah. Public. Yeah. Cindy Freeman. One, I want to say thank you for the two straight arrows heading west, route two, that was brilliant because it was always, when it was right toward the highway going 89 north or straight, many people didn't understand that they would move into you. So the two straight arrows were brilliant. I think that another more demarcation would be good for heading 89 south from the Staples Plaza. Many cars, when they turn, they think that they can still go straight when they're turning right onto 89 south, and I'm surprised an accident hasn't occurred yet, because they are constantly moving quickly into the straight lane. So just I would love that kind of demarcation for that. So thank you. I think I would agree. I think that's a challenge. I got caught there the other day, not, you know, I was thinking I was on the other side where you'd stay right. You know, you can get on going north or you can keep going to Dorset Street. So it is even for those of us who travel there all the time, you can. Cindy Freeman again. When you're taking the spare street turn, so you're heading from route two heading toward the hospital, and then you immediately take that turn and you go straight onto spare street and take another turn. There's a yield going this way, but people don't see the people here on that turn. I think the yield would be better for the people who are making the turn, not for the people coming in, because we get to see the people better from that turn than they do. And they're going kind of at a pretty fast speed usually. So it would be better. I think reversing that yield. OK, well, thank you. Dan, Albert. Hi, can you hear me OK? We sure can and we can see. Great. OK, thanks. First off, let's like to thank I know it's you, Gustav. Both of you still have a few meetings left for you officially. Well, you're not writing off to the sunset, but at least I'd like to thank both you, Alan and Megan, for your many years of service. I know we perhaps disagree on some issues, but I do thank you for your many hours. I think you'd be out of all that's a lot of hours there. So thank you very, very much for that. I know your hearts are always in the right place. It's not on the agenda. I just certainly I did want to speak briefly again along the the issue of the potential purchase of, I guess it's now the Bellavance properties along on on Spear Street there and just reiterate some of the reasons and perhaps some some new considerations. So I think this would be a really inappropriate use of city funds. I'll just leave it to leave it at that in the broad theme. But I'd like to put it a reason for why. So the purpose of one of the many purposes of zoning is that it it sets the ground rules for what you can and can't do on your property. And the city is blessed with having or could be a burden to very detailed zoning regulations. And part of that is that it makes it very clear both to an owner as well as a butters what can and cannot happen to a property. And the city has invested many, many hours in coming up with very detailed zoning regulations. And those the interim zoning process is over. The regulations were adopted and it lays out clearly what can and cannot happen on the property and the and the gist of it is contained in the zoning district map, which I was looking at again before I got ready to testify.  And it's, you know, in looking at the map, it's, you know, it's it's very clear that. You know, that that portion of the property that's in neighborhood residential makes sense because indeed it is bounded on the north by a high density residential neighborhood with a south point drive into the south over one of the cities, also very high dense neighborhoods of the south village complex. And indeed the DRB, which I was a member of and other prior DRBs assume the connection between those two neighborhoods, assume the density. And so, but again, to the larger point of the reason you have this zoning is to take the politics out of land development. You go through a comprehensive process like the city did and the city put in a much more stringent environmental protections, the habitat block concept. So as others have pointed out, paying, buying the land or buying a conservation easement is just redundant. It's already protected through the zoning. And yes, hypothetically zoning could change. It's true of any single parcel in the district, but for the city to get involved in this just seems like an inordinate waste of funds. That's part of the purpose of zoning. There was a time years ago when towns and Vermont land trust or others were running around like chickens with their head cutting off, preserving more farms in more areas. But this is just really inappropriate. The other thing that really troubles me is I just were Champlain Housing Trust coming to the city with a project or Ever North or one of the true nonprofit housing developers. Then I could see where the genesis would come from that it was truly gonna happen. And I just, I would worry that even if the city did go through with the purchase of the property that the politics of it and the neighbors already stopped development there once and there's no reason they wouldn't push it forward against and it becomes a political decision when it shouldn't be. And then there's the larger issue of what the city is gonna do this for the bellevances. Why isn't it doing for J.L. Davis Realty or UBM or the Ferrells or anybody else or the Pomerlos who own large properties where the city could come in and those developers could reasonably say, well you bought an easements on the part of the land that couldn't be developed from the bellevances, why wouldn't you do the same for me? So I just think it's a really sticky wicket and the city should sort of stay out of this because it just would set a really bad precedent. And then lastly, as I said previously, it would be nice to see the city putting some effort into open space and recreation areas closer to where all the future growth is going. So I'll just leave it at that. Thanks. Thank you. Bridget, did you want to speak? I did, I wanna ask Dan. So, well actually the city and Dan and everyone. Can you give your name so the public message speaking? I am Bridget Jean Gracia. Our family owns 1336 Williston Road. We've owned it for since 1940 and that corner lot was my grandmother's. It burnt down and we were to advise my mom and I after my dad passed that to tear down by Ray Blair, which the zoning would come in in our favor. And that's our family corner. And it's getting, we're, you know, we're not a pommel or we're not nothing. This is our homestead, this is our home. And it's getting taken. Or every time I turn around there, you can do this, we're trying to sell it. My brother and I and in the estate and it's, and I've never seen anything like it after we're probably, we pretty much are the oldest residents in South Brawlington. My dad owned Gracie's store. My grandfather owned it way back when. And my hands are tight on this. It's like, I don't know. It's heartbreaking.  Well, I'm just trying to accurately understand which parcel. It's just the one across from Gracie's. And there was a- Yes, I am where I did Gracie's in Gracie's store. And then the house burned down and you- My grandmother's home. Okay, so the issue for you is that you're trying to sell it and you're not able to or? No, they actually added. So when it, there was a fire, it didn't burn all the way down. Rape Blair said to my mom and I, my dad's gone and said, you would benefit from the new zoning that's gonna come up. So tear the building down. Well, we listened to them. We tore it down and all of a sudden the zoning come to find out. It was in, it wasn't in our favor because, well, I still have a foundation under there. So they said, now you're not grandfathered in. So now you need it to, I don't mind the two store, four storey, minimum two, four, but they all of a sudden, we have trip ins. So I have an unmarketable piece of property. You have trip ins? Yes, the city went and put trip ins. So I can, there can only be a certain amount of cars I mean, this is open lot. Yes, you can. So if I was to sell my parents' property and they told what it's listed as T4 or whatever for, we met with Marty multiple times. It says, all of a sudden they're throwing, well, you can only have a certain amount of cars now in and out. Ray Belair said, no, don't worry about parking everything. It's the best thing. And so we tore the house down. It was a big mistake, which I can build it on there. I still have foundation under the ground, but it's a beautiful piece of property. There's a, I don't know, I'm in charge of it. There's housing issues. I sold off the other properties to give to Habitat I'm all for all that stuff. I don't, it doesn't matter what goes there. We just don't want the city to keep misleading us with different, we were misled. And the trip ins is something you might want to look into. It was, don't Marty knows all about it. They changed all the zoning on us. I mean, after, I don't understand after 1940, owning the property and you change what was there. And we were the only anything in South Brawlington. Okay, I think our city manager would like to make a comment if that's okay. So, Absolutely. Hi Ms. Gracie, I'm glad you've been engaged with Marty. We do, the community regularly does update the zoning. That's one of the primary roles of the city council is to, and the planning commission is to look at zoning changes. Right now, you can't see him, but Paul Connor our planning and zoning director is in the audience. The planning commission is working on transportation demand management strategies in order, we hope to address the trip end issue along Williston Road because you're absolutely right because of that trip end issue, we are curtailing development in a way we don't intend. So I didn't, I don't have your contact information, but if you want to shoot it to me in an email or call my office tomorrow, I'd be happy to connect you with Paul and he can describe the timeline of that transportation demand management strategy process. Okay, in your name again. I'm Jesse Baker. So it's Jay Baker at southbrillingtonvt.gov. Thanks, Jess. Yeah, it's all, I mean, selling real estate and everything, I always worked with, you know, Todd and Martha and everybody in our family for a year. I mean, we're from southbrillington. We are southbrillington, but thank you very much. It's a little bit of hope that we're looking for. Great. Okay, thank you. Thanks for being here. Thank you for sharing that with us and hopefully you can work it through, Jesse. Thank you. Thank you so much. Absolutely. Okay, are there any other people who would like to make a comment on an item not on the agenda? Okay, seeing none, we'll move on to number five, which is the counselor's announcements and reports on committee assignments and the city manager's report. So Larry, do you want to start? I can start and I have nothing to say. Okay. Well, no report then. No report. Well, that's okay. Megan? I attended the Forelaw Housing Committee meeting January 17th and they were working on their work plan for the year and they were talking about how they can support climate related quality of life improvements. For example, how to connect historically and served residents to resources, to weatherized homes, access renewable energy and switch to low carbon transportation options. They also are looking into ways to collaborate with other committees, such as the Energy Committee, the Bike Ped Committee and the Economic Development Committee, as well as the various city departments. So I thought it was a really good plan that they're working on a nice way to really work with the city plan in place, but also work broadly with everybody else. Great, thank you. Tim? Well, of course I was here last Monday for the steering committee meeting, like other people were, but that's it, there was one CCUD meeting. I couldn't get into the team's meeting. I'll have to talk to Ann-Jan about that, but there's another one scheduled this week. And then the Board of Civil Authority was canceled because I think it was a lack of a... A lack of quorum, yes. That's too bad. So hopefully we'll get that together, yeah. That's all, thanks. Okay, great. Actually, two weeks ago, I guess I had a airport commission meeting and I brought up both the issues about the Striping Machine. I don't know if I mentioned that at the last meeting. And so potentially that's at least being discussed. And then also I asked about the path and whether that was gonna go through the Picard Circle. And it is not at this point. The path plan is before the DRB in March. But that portion of airport property is not included in that larger path plan. Has there been any movement with the community gardens in that area? Do you know? I don't know that, yeah, okay. They also, I just to bring you up to date on sound mitigation, there was testing since I said next week, it must have been this week for the sound mitigation efforts for the new homes and they're working, no, I'm sorry, for the homes that have been undergone the mitigation and so they go in again and test to see if it is effective. And what they've heard back from residents have been very favorable. Everyone has said the construction workers were really good. They cleaned up, they were thoughtful and polite and they kept people apprised if there was going to be a delay.  So they were very positive about the experience. So that was helpful. Helen, could I ask, did people have to leave their homes for that work to happen? I don't know what's required. I guess it depends what work is being done. They have to move a lot of their furniture. They have to move some of their furniture. Get to the windows. Yeah, yeah, that I don't know. I noticed a lot of activity on Kirby Road and I just wondered if the people were still living and they were still staying there as they were doing that work. It was quite extensive. Yes, it is quite extensive and it probably depends on the individual. I mean, some people, I've lived through construction and you can do it or people move out. So I think probably it's a preference and certainly there's be affordability or a place to stay while it's being worked on. There are 50 new ones and that they're going out for the next round and homeowners are currently signing up. They're also going door-to-door so people know that they can sign up this time, be part of the next 50 and this also includes some multifamily units. I think that's the first time. So the project or program is moving forward. Okay. Jesse. Thank you. So biggest news of the night is that the timeline has closed for people to submit petitions to run for office. So this is all in the council's inbox but just for the community, these are the candidates that will be on the ballot. So for the school board, there's one candidate each for the three, two and one year terms. In order that's Chelsea Tillinghouse, Elaine Sistai is I believe how you pronounce it and Tim Warren running for the remainder of that one year term. For the city council, for the three year term, Lori Smith and Linda Bailey are running. For the two year term, Mike Scanlon, Julian Keenan and Lydia Diamond are running and for the one year term, Elizabeth Fitzgerald is running. So those are our candidates for elected office in South Burlington. Thank you for, I see several of them on the screen. Thank you all for volunteering and giving of yourselves and service in this way. We will be inviting some of them to future leadership team or inviting the city council candidates all to future leadership team meetings for to kick off their orientation and make sure they are well-informed candidates. Also wanted to share that in front of you council tonight is our FY23 annual report, Andy Broombar, New Communications and Outreach Coordinator did a I think really exceptional job on this report. It's also linked on the front page of our website. So we encourage folks to check that out and thanks to the leadership team who put a lot of time and effort and the committees into putting together this annual report. We are also working with the school department to finalize the FY25 budget book. We hope those are up online tomorrow as well and copies available towards the end of the week. Both of these documents will also have hard copies available at the clerk's office and in the library. We have a couple of different events coming up to talk to the community about Town Meeting Day and the items on the ballot on Wednesday morning. I will be doing with the leadership team a presentation to the South Burlington Business Association. On Thursday evening, Tom DiPietro and I will be doing the budget presentation for Town Meeting TV and that will also be recorded and we will push that out through our communication channels. And then Tom and I continue our road show on February 25th at the senior center. So hopefully folks will tune in and get engaged about what is happening on the ballot on Town Meeting Day. And then finally, I mentioned this to the council but for the committee, we have a really exceptional deputy city attorney, sorry, Steve. He is exceptional. He is exceptional. That's true. We have a really exceptional deputy city attorney, candidate who's accepted our offer of employment and as soon as they notify their current team we will notify the community of that but we're excited about that hire. That's what I can share. Okay, that's great. And I was happy to see that all, no, there's some action on all the different openings both for the city council as well as the school board with the school board news with EC1 27 and the CLA, I was concerned that someone would be listening to that and say that sounds too complicated for me. I'm not gonna jump in but we do have three people who two returning in a new one and I think that's very positive. Next item is the consent agenda. We have one item disbursements. I'll move that we approve. Second. Are you ready for that vote? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. So the consent agenda is approved unanimously. And Andrew Chalnyk will not be with us tonight. He is en route from Florida. He's in a plane right now so we can't even call in. Yeah, well it's good until you get caught, I guess. So item seven is the morning for the, our second public hearing on the charter change proposals. So I welcome everyone who's here for that tonight. We will be holding our second public hearing on a possible charter change that would expand the number of school directors from five to seven. Prior to this evening, we've received an update from the charter committee on their work been provided, proposed charter change language, warned these public hearings and received process recommendations from the city's legal council. The purpose tonight is to hear again from the public. We won't be responding to individual comments, except perhaps to ask a clarifying question to make sure we understand a commenter's point. After we close the public hearing, we'll take all that we've heard tonight and last week together with any correspondence we received and have a council discussion. Following that discussion, we may vote to place this item on the town meeting day 2024 ballot. Procedurally tonight, we'll have comments from folks who are in person and folks attending remotely. If you're in person, please walk up to the podium and I'll call on you for those attending remotely. Please indicate that you'd like to speak in the chat function and our city manager, Jesse Baker, will keep a running tab of those wishing to speak. To be fair to anyone, to everyone, I'll attempt to mix in both person and remote attendees and if you are participating remotely, turn on your mic and your video if you wish when I call your name. And lastly, I just asked that everyone keep their comments brief and succinct and to the point. And I ask that you not be redundant with your comments if they've been made by others. And if there's time remaining for everyone who wants to speak, who has spoken, I'll entertain a second comment if it's new information. So I would open, I'd like a motion to open the public hearing. I move that we open a public hearing on a charter change proposal to increase the number of South Billington School District Board members from five to seven. Second. All those in favor? Aye. So our public hearing is open. Do you wanna say anything? No. Okay. Is there any public comment? Bridget, do you? Oh. Nope. Okay. We have your voice thing on, so I thought. I'm sorry. Okay. So is there anyone in the audience? Nobody? All right. Well, then I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. So the public hearing is closed on the charter change proposal. Is there any discussion by the council? No. No. No? No. Okay. Well, then I'd entertain a motion to have this added to the ballot. I will move that we approve a charter change ballot item to increase the number of South Billington School District Board members from five to seven and place it on the town meeting day 2024 ballot. I'll second that. All in favor? Favor? Aye. So that passes. Thank you. They should all be that great. Number eight. That's what we just did. Okay. So number nine, we're right on time. Oh, I'm sorry. We have to approve the warning. So you have approved once the warning for the town meeting day ballot after you approved the budget, but that was before these public hearings on the charter change. We needed that warning in order to put it in the budget book, et cetera. But now that it's official, we need you to approve it one more time with gusto. I'll move that we approve the 2024 town meeting day warning. Thank you. Second, with gusto? Second. Okay. All in favor with gusto? Yes. Yes. I just mean we need you to do what you've already done again. Thank you. All right. So now we get to go to item 10, the warning for the city plan. I think I'll just quickly go through. We've had prior to this evening, we've received several updates from the planning commission. We've held council work sessions. We've hosted two previous public hearings. We've provided additional direction to the staff and finally warned this public hearing. The purpose tonight is again to hear from you. We won't be responding again to individual comments except reps to ask a clarifying question. And at the close, we will take all that we've heard tonight and over the last many months together with any correspondence we received and have a council discussion. And following that discussion, we may vote to adopt or amend the 2024 city plan. So same process. If there's anyone who is in the audience who would like to speak on the city plan. Oh, we have to open the public hearing. Excuse me. I move that we open the public hearing on city plan 2024. Second. All in favor? Aye. So the public hearing is open. Do you have any comments, Paul? Just briefly as is outlined in your memo, the draft in front of you incorporates the changes that the council requested on January 8th. So it has all of those in there. Following the public hearing tonight, you have the ability to adopt the plan if you choose. The current plan will expire on February 2nd. So the end of this week. So if the council decides to make additional changes tonight, it will need to warn an additional public hearing. The current plan will then expire, which will mean that there are certain actions that happen, the city will not be eligible for grants. In the meantime, there may be implications of Act 250 and you will not be able to amend your land development regulations or your capital program while you're in the time during which you don't have a plan. So, yeah, just providing that context for you. Okay, thank you. So we are in a public hearing. Are there anyone who would like to make a comment? I will acknowledge we got a email comment from Dan Albrecht. Would you like to speak, Dan? Yeah, sure. So I was thinking about, I'd submitted written comments before throughout the process. It sounds like you made some tweaks to that first page of the, I'm not really gonna speak to that regarding the issue of a climate resiliency or whatever. I do wanna, I sent you a link, put it here in the chat as well for the benefit of the public. There was a nice article by the New York Times about the climate impact of your neighborhood and basically what they're doing in that analysis and that article is looking at, it's done by census tract and we have four census tracts. So it's, you know, a lot of our planers know this well. You go to drill down and you find out that your town is one of five towns lumped into one census tract just because of the minimum amount of data points you need. But the climate impact, this climate footprint map neighborhood really shows sort of like the two sides of South Burlington as it were. And when you look at the map there and you can play around with it to what's nice. It's sort of auto-loads figuring out based upon where you are. So actually Burlington, South Burlington show up right away. What's really fascinating but also very troubling about the data is that it very clearly shows that the district of the Southeast quadrant is has greater, higher than average greenhouse gas emissions. And it's not hard to figure out why it's because it's all single family homes with very little commercial, if any. And so as I put in my testimony to you guys I really, really think you need to put some language in the plan that encourages, to put it bluntly it's almost like it's a rezoning of portions of that part of the city to encourage some commercial development. Because right now everybody in that entire area has to get in their car to go anywhere and do anything. And that's why it has such higher than national average. And then you can also look to see that the other parts of the city are doing their job. And just so as I pointed out it's inconsistency in the city plan to preach climate resiliency yet one portion of the neighborhood of the city does not have to make any changes. My neighborhood makes the changes. We're right next and Proctor Avenue we're right next to the high density commercial zoning district. And the city about a year ago maybe, maybe longer changed the transfer of development rights to potentially quadruple the density if somebody had transferable development rights. We're taking all the high density apartments as well as city center and the Williston Road corridor. Yet this neighborhood is untouched and it's really, really frustrating to see that. It's just a sea of single family zoning if it was ever to be done now and you were starting over from scratch that would never happen. Planners know better now that that's not the way to go about things. And so it's really frustrating to see that sort of status quo for those folks. They get, yeah, I'll just leave it at that. So that, it's not just me saying it. It's the media pointing out the obvious. So I just encourage you to put in some language which I put in the email to encourage that rethinking of the zoning there.  Well, we all have to change. My neighborhood's changing. We've got plenty of traffic. We've got plenty of density. Right, 100 yards down the road from me and it's time the rest of the city chip in as well. So thanks very much. Thank you. Yes, just Gracie. Yes. So Dan. Your South East. I'm sorry, this is, would you identify yourself for the public? I'm Bridget Gracie. Bridget Gracie, my owner of 1336 Williston Road and also some other properties there. I was just curious, where is the Southeast? You're talking about Quadrant. It's not Kirby Road. Are you talking Kirby Road from Williston Road to Kirby Road then? You know, I think this is a public hearing really for the council and not a dialogue actually among residents. All Connor can answer your question, the rough boundaries of quote unquote, that zoning district as well as the census district. Well, the only reason I say is cause Kirby Road, which I had family members and everything, that is, I've been selling real estate for over 30 years, is a very high rate on. So you're, you know, it's, I don't think it's your commercial, anything to do with emissions or anything. If anyone tested the soil and everything down there, my family members all died from it. It used to be an old, we don't even, I don't even, I won't even sell on those down there. Right, not down there, but it has the highest, there used to be an old, old back in the day, dry cleaning. Sorry, I don't need to bring up old stuff, but I lost my aunt into it. And it's all the, they pull P card avenue, right on the point, it's not a good area. And it has nothing to do with commercial, anything to do with traffic. It's the soil, but just saying, being born and raised there. Friend porch forum today, the state posted an item for free rate on testing for residential households in Vermont. Absolutely. There's an email. I beg my, thank you. I beg my uncle to get it done for his home. He didn't, my aunt never smoked. My uncle, nothing in the eight out of the garden in the backyard on curvery road and they all died of cancer. But it's, it is there. There's a lot of people. And I wish someone would look into that area. But yeah, sorry, didn't mean to bring up something, but yes, thank you very much. Are there any other comments on the city plan 2024? Hi, Ryan Doyle speaking. I've spoken to you a few times in the past about transportation related issues. And I, I know that at this point, you're not going to change anything about that in the plan and that you're going to adopt it as it is tonight. I will reiterate the importance of doing more than just an active transportation plan. I know not many of you will continue to be on the council next year as some of you are retiring, but the active transportation plan will basically do half of what a complete streets policy would do complete streets is supported by the federal highway administration. It lays out 10 really important principles for making places more livable and also safer to bike and walk. One of the principles that's missing from our active transportation plan is element number six, which is about adopting very good multimodal design standards, which we do not have here in the state of Vermont. And also a mechanism for updating them as best practices evolve through research and understanding in this country. It's something that I want to keep pushing for and promoting. I know that last time Jesse was really satisfied with the MUTCD standards that the state of Vermont has. And then we're at the Safe Roots to School Task Force meeting two Fridays ago. Hoyle and Tanner gave a presentation and they suggested crosswalk treatments, which aren't allowed by MUTCD. Hoyle and Tanner is very proud that they do work across New England and they've even in our active transportation plan, the promotional material itself from CCRPC, Hoyle and Tanner points out that they have experience with the mass dot multimodal transportation standards. That's where their crosswalk idea came from that they gave in our presentation. Of course, we can't do that treatment here right now because we haven't adopted design standards. We are beholden to what Vermont has. V-Trans has given optional standards, but they are completely optional and we don't follow them. They give really good guidance about how much spacing, for example, a sidewalk should be from a road, but you see with just the work we've done on the traffic lights for Dorset Street, we took out a sidewalk along Williston Road by the North On Ramp, which sees just the on ramps. It sees over 7,000 vehicles per day. The whole width of that road sees over 30. And we went from having a wide sidewalk to a narrowed sidewalk that's curb type. Even the 20 year old V-Trans standards would say put that eight feet away so that there's place for the snow to go. That's still an outdated standard. With three lanes, you would actually go to 10 feet now. That would be best practice, but you can see how, I know Tim's comments last week that the steering committee meeting and the last time we discussed this topic were about making changes to the land development regulations. And that is a part of it, Tim. We really do need that. And Complete Streets Policy does advise that too. But what the city does, separate from what private developers do, is even more crucial. And we do need to move towards having design standards. So for those of you who are going to persist, it's Tim and Jesse next year. And for those of you who will be more alumni to the council in the future, to keep being aware of these issues as infrastructure is not the easiest topic. But we really do need to, as a community, move forward with those things. And if it's not in this plan, it will require constant advocacy to actually get us there throughout all of the other political changes that come with municipal elections. So I want to encourage you again to keep learning more about that. And even those of you who are retiring so that you can help us move that direction in the future. Thank you. Thank you. Any other, oh, yes. Cindy. Cindy Freeman. Yeah, I just want to say thank you for both you, Helen and Megan for your service. That was great. I read up to just page 31. I know there's a whole bunch of pages I didn't read on the city plan. I have a hard time because I know this is going to sound awful, but having everything directed through the climate action or climate change is hard for me because when I think of Vermont, Vermont has the lowest carbon dioxide emission out of all 50 states. So I feel like, won a lot of committees presented ways for the ARPRA funds to be used for the community and that those ARPRA funds went to a new climate change job. I just feel like I'm not sure that we're looking at what Vermont is and also that our our electricity is pretty clean.  We're very fortunate in Vermont to have such a clean energy mix. And I feel like a lot of money is being put into this and not really benefiting the community. And when I think of, you know, just the how far we are in Vermont in general. And then I think that in general, it can be a weapon. And we're seeing that used in the Southeast quadrant was 63 acres. And, you know, putting those aside, putting the unclear properties aside for conservation versus development. I'm just not sure we're seeing our people. And that's that and it's me because I feel like I know that, you know, we only have so much information we can absorb. I mean, I only read to page 31. But I think that as a city council and all the other committees, I think that looking at the fact that Vermont is very clean should direct us more so than climate action plan. So that's my little thing. Thank you very much. Are there any other statements or comments? Okay, see none. I'd entertain a motion to come out of public hearing. So moved. Second. All those in favor? So now's our chance to have any discussion that we wish. Well, do you want me to say something first or? You can do whatever order you want. Yeah, so I mean, I recognize that the document has a heavy emphasis on the city's future responsibility to take action, to take some action on climate change. And we have worked over the last three sessions to modify that opening paragraph because there was some concern that there was too much emphasis, right? And I, you know, I don't disagree with that. But I just, I think we've struck the right balance in this document about a whole lot of forces that are descending on Vermont and on Chittenden County and on South Burlington, right? You've got pressure from development, pressure from, you know, loss of open space, pressure from loss of habitat, forest blocks, pressure from climate change, pressure from lack of housing, pressure from transportation needs, right? So, and this is our attempt to try and deal with all that. To make a comment about the fact that Vermont emits, let's say, the least carbon dioxide, I think if you look at the per capita number on that, you might be surprised because we have a lot of rural areas people have to travel long distances and transportation is like one of the number one causes of, so we burn a lot of fuel. We also burn a lot of natural gas to heat our homes today. But I think that everybody has a responsibility to take some action to decrease burning something.    They make a real difference. And if we see that spread across the whole country and across other parts of this world, it will have an effect. It's got to start at home. So I think this document does a really good job of setting and putting that model in front of us so we have an opportunity to take those actions. So I appreciate the document and I plan to support it tonight. Okay. Other comments? Go ahead, Larry. Thanks. I think that the draft that we've received, I agree with Tim, de-emphasizes to the extent that we heard criticism for too much emphasis. And I think the opening, the edits that the team made, I think reflect that sentiment that was expressed so well from at the last meeting. So, and I agree that supporting this is important. I think the timeline, we've sort of run out of the timeline. I think there's probably, we need to recognize that as Paul mentioned earlier. So I do plan on supporting it as well. Megan. Yeah. I'll also address Dan Aldrich's comments because I, like you live in an area that is going to be prioritized for that dense development. And that does not mean that the other areas in the city are not candidates for infill, however. And it has to do more with a timeline. In order to get public transit on more sure footing, there has to be kind of a critical mass of a population. And so that's why there is some prioritization in the timeline, but any part of the city that is not natural resource protection can be a candidate for infill. So I just want you to know that there is not my neighborhood and all other neighborhoods are not being given the same treatment, just to use your word. So I think that timing is everything sometimes and that's something that I wanted to share with you, Dan, that I read the document very carefully with that in mind. And you aren't the only one to have made that comment. And so I was very sensitive to it, not only for you and me, but for other people as well. With regard to transportation, we all need to advocate. I agree with you completely, Ryan. So I will continue to do so. With regard to the climate action, I think that we have really been responsive to concerns in those members of the public who have come forward, just like you, Cindy. And I would say that on the whole, the breakdown of where climate change and climate action needs to occur, what I heard is 50% industrial, 25% residential and 25% municipal. So we're part of that equation and every municipality is a part of that equation. And we all have to do our part. It doesn't sign us up for anything other than we make a commitment to do our part as well as we can. And I think that's a fair commitment and I'm proud of the city for making that commitment. So I too plan to vote for this document. I would just like to start by really thinking both the staff and the planning commission and all the public that have come forward with attended their meetings or sent them emails or suggestions on all the different committees have weighed in. And I think it's a pretty daunting effort to take all of that information and come up with the city plan. It's aspirational. So I guess with a cynical lie, if you read through it, one could say, well, this is crazy. They're never gonna get there. They're never gonna do that. So why even put it on the piece of paper? I think it's important to have that kind of plan for a city that looks ahead is even visionary in a way. That helps lead us to good conversations and decision-making changes in zoning or our daily activities or as a community how we even interact and congregate with one another. So I think it's a really well-written, well-crafted statement about this community. And we all can find something, I suppose, that we would like worded slightly differently. But I think overall, I'm very supportive of the work and I really thank all the people, especially Paul and Kelsey who put the words together. It's hard to do. And I think they were very careful and sensitive and also willing to make the changes that the council and the planning commission suggested. So it really isn't their vision. It's really, they reflected with really good language, I think what, I don't know if it was hundreds of people, but it certainly was 30 or 40 people who were very active in putting this together. And so I think it's a real accomplishment and I strongly support it. I like what it says. I hope we can be as successful in attaining some of the goals as possible, but I understand that life can get in the way or the economy can get in the way or just, we can't make people develop where they don't wanna develop or people sell their land for development if they don't want to or businesses to come and if they don't want to, but it's always, has to be a really a collaboration of ideas and conversations and agreements. And I think this is a, I'm very proud of what this says about this community and I support it wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, Andrew's not here and he can't vote on it, but I think he certainly is would be supportive as well. So if there's no more of our discussion, I guess I would appreciate a motion to adopt this. Did we come out of public? Yes, we did. That's why we're having the discussion. You made that motion too.  Yeah, we've had a few meetings this month. Yeah. And quite a few public hearings. When did we get a break? This has been going a long time. So a motion to approve? I'll move that we approve the city plan 2024. I will gladly second that. Okay. Is there any further discussion? Ready for the vote? Okay. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. So we've approved the city plan 2024. Nice job. Well done. Thank you. I guess both you will take this year. All right. Time to start working on the next one right now. Thank you. Is there any other business to come before us? All right. Seeing none. What are we going to do next Monday? Oh, that's right. That's right. We have a meeting. That's right. We have a meeting. And it overtures over. I just had to make sure. Well, you almost had me. I thought, oh. But it is February coming right up. Is Vince planning a candidate forum? Or a debate, so to speak? He is. I believe it is February 5th. Is that right? No, that's not right. I will, he is planning it. Andy's working with him. I will circulate that date to you. And the same for the budget review on the night before. Yep. Okay. All right. So we have a motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor. Aye. Okay. Is that a record? What are we going to do with ourselves? That's pretty close to a record. I don't know. I mean, I could have had dinner. Well, there are people here, of course.


Maritime sector facilitates over 95% of India's Ex-Im trade and is a key employment generator for the nation. Recognising the pivotal importance of the sector, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, under the ABLE guidance and leadership of Honourable Prime Minister Trinarindram Modi has embarked on a path-breaking journey named Maritime India Vision 2030 to reform and transform ports, shipping and waterways of India and energise them up as we sail towards Atman-Nirbhar Bharat Whenever ports are more efficient, it contributes to India being Atman-Nirbhar and a global hub for trade as well as logistics. The Maritime India Vision 2030 identifies 5 key areas to propel India's growth into the next decade. The Government has planned several initiatives to create world-class port infrastructure which will reduce logistics costs and benefit MSME and manufacturing sector in the country and drive realisation of both Atman-Nirbhar Bharat and make in India for the world. Government has identified 39 birds which would be operated on PPP bases. Maritime India Vision plans to implement several digital initiatives which will increase operational efficiency and benefit stakeholders across shipping, trade and logistics. A landmark reform was the passing of the major port authorities at 2021 aimed at giving impetus to operational efficiency for major ports. MIV 2030 will deliver tangible benefits to the logistics, manufacturing and agricultural stakeholders. 5 key pillars of India's shipping reforms would not only pin India at the top of the global marine map but also boost local manufacturing, recycling, tourism, creating millions of job opportunities. The vision seeks to significantly increase Indian tonnage on Indian built and Indian flag vessels. Most Indian shipping breaking yards today are Hong Kong convention compliant and the government is committed towards doubling the capacity and making India the number one destination for ship breaking globally. Cruise traffic in the country has risen five times driven by timely and visionary policy level interventions in the sector. Vision lays out multiple initiatives for India to be the preferred global destination for maritime education, research and training. The Maritime India Vision 2030 offers to take multiple steps in augmenting navigational capacity seeking private partnership and all-inclusive and sustainable development for freight passenger and tourism network for our national waterways. In addition to cargo, river cruise tourism will be provided support and impetus. The development of water aerodromes and the provision of seaplane service for the benefit of passengers and tourists is being jointly undertaken by Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways of the Government of India. Vision 2030 also provides a roadmap for comprehensive development and promotion of urban water transport system across major urban centres. Which will provide a safe, low-cost mode of transport for citizens. Maritime India Vision 2030 takes Indian maritime sector to world-class levels, generating more than 3 lakh crores of investment, more than 20 lakh jobs and will provide an unparalleled platform for our port-dependent MSME and local farmers to export their products by gaining access to national and international markets. Led by a visionary leader and followed by a nation, the vision is all set to lead us to an unprecedented phase of development and prosperity.


Ring in the New Year with amazing savings from Appalachian Wireless. Get the Galaxy S7 for just $49.99 when you sign a renew a two-year service agreement. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. The State Auditor's Audit Report of the Knot County Fiscal Court for the 14-15 fiscal year was less than flattering for the court. Among the issues noted in the audit were problems with the expenditure of federal funds, a violation of state bidding laws, lax of controls over payroll, lax of internal controls at the Knot County Sportsplex, and other issues. And Knot County Judge Executive Zach Weinberg's response to the audit? It was pretty incompetent, really. According to the audit report, State Auditor Mike Harmon's office noted that the county's ledgers did not separate federal funding expenditures from normal expenditures. The audit report also said the fiscal court did not follow procurement procedures for non-emergency work during 2014's widespread flooding in the county, which was eventually declared a federal disaster. While Weinberg responded in the report indicating the ledgers would be corrected, he took issue with the alleged problems with the flood work, saying the situation is still a, quote, open case. The FEMA money has, we've not been denied, it's still an open case. And I've talked to the attorneys at the DOG and they think that we will receive that money. And so to write us up for something that's not occurred, it just doesn't make sense to me. The audit report also took issue with the handling of money at the Knot County Sportsplex. The report acknowledged the large amount of money that moves through the Sportsplex and took issue with how referees are paid for basketball games using cash from front door receipts. The report also noted that there were poor controls over receipts at the Sportsplex. Judge Weinberg responded that the county has implemented a point of sale at the Sportsplex to correct the problems. Weinberg also said the county's apparent violation of bidding laws for work performed on the county's swimming pool should not have been part of the audit report. Weinberg said the $47,500 repair on the pool was done with money from the county's insurance company and not with county funds. But even with the issues listed in the audit report, Weinberg said the audit, quote, nitpicked. There's no money missing, there's no foul play, there's nothing, we're doing the best we can with what we have. And like I said, on the 2016 they didn't write us up on the Sportsplex. So we have done some things and I'm always willing to make anything better. But some of the stuff they asked for is just not raiseable. Weinberg said there are currently no plans to change any policies or procedures based upon the audit's findings. Reporting in Hindman for EKB News, I'm Chris Anderson.


Okay, thank you so my avocado toast Good morning guys. Welcome to today's vlog. It is like 5 50 in the morning. It's why my voice sounds like this I am leaving for Pilates. I have Pilates at 7 But I'm gonna make a smoothie and like my first breakfast before and then I have like a 30 minute drive Maybe 20. I'm going to hop a lot of these. I'm gonna show you guys my outfit. Here's my outfit Lulu Lulu Adidas slides. I don't really know where this jacket's from It's just a random black jacket that I throw on over things. So I'm really excited. I'm just like, oh Feels so good to be up so early. It's just that the actual act of getting up sucks, you know But if you guys want me here be sure to subscribe. Here I am with my favorite bag guys seriously this bag is just like the best bag I've ever owned but My house got clean yesterday, so everything is so clean Turning all the lights off Okay, also so random, but I did a lunch or vacuum. I thought it was just like really satisfying to anyone else, you know So basically this is like a healthy fit productive morning routine I'm about to make my smoothie. So I'm gonna make my smoothie So last night. Oh my gosh Feel like I vlog from here all the time because of the kitchen, but last night I actually like cut up all of my stuff pretty much So it was ready for the smoothie as I was making dinner because I knew that I would be up like really early so I'm glad I did that because it's way less work now making the tropical Bob's smoothie I have a smoothie every single morning. It's from the Kinsey Burke 21 and baby reset. It's so incredible Seriously, it's so good Frozen mango water. I need a Vitamix so bad. It's like not even funny It says cucumber dates garlic and then you want your greens and a banana It's way faster when you have everything ready. Awesome. I got a lemon squeezer Which is so fun with a little afraid to use it, but we'll see Okay, so it's now at 615 and I have my tropical Bob smoothie and then lemon water So I'm just drinking my hot lemon water, and then I'm gonna drink my smoothie I try not bring this in my car because I spilled my green smoothie all over now all over just Over on my car after I just got to washed so awesome But I'm gonna drink this drink quickly leave in like 10 minutes and head off to Pilates. So I'm on my way again This is what I'm wearing. I'm gonna go drive to Pilates. I feel amazing Okay, I'm gonna listen to a podcast. So I chose leadership lean in one of my faves this Continual theme around you, but it's a hot plot Talking about live, and I'm like, okay, um guys 70 and pop bodies. I'm into it I'm like covering I always do this I'm into it. So can't wait I need three of these green like a pasta. That's like me and every of them. Yeah. Yeah, I should like The car maybe I was thinking as just finished Pilates honestly Incredible experience a 7 a.m. Workout class is so good because you're done by 8 we walked over because it's on sunset We just walked over and got an iced coffee. It's got an iced coffee with a splash of milk I can't believe I ever drink chai like now that I'm like off of like a lot of sugar and stuff I look at that and I'm like, oh my gosh But I would have never I literally was a tri-girl for like 10 years big changes are happening So I really did just decide that this is going to be a morning vlog because I'm going to start a new vlog When my mom gets here at noon and do kind of like a my mom does my lives my life in LA for a week vlog Which is going to be super exciting. So this is like again, like my healthy Productive morning routine. I'm going to go home shower Get ready and also like prep my house and organize so that we have like the best week and best weekend I'm so excited for my mom to get here, but I'm going to listen to this kind of confidential podcast as always and Animal podcast is a dear media production Okay, so since we are here already I'm going to show you guys the things that I got from lulu. So actually Um both pieces that I'm wearing right now are lulu.  Normally I get the black, but I decided to get a different color And then there's this sports bra In the back. It's like twisted. I normally honestly just like really simple sports bras I don't normally like the twist, but I decided to change it up. You know, I got these shorts I never wear shorts. I always wear leggings Um, these are the run times the four inch lined it gets really hot Where I live and I go on hikes a lot. So I figured that I would want these I also got these I also could have sworn I ordered biker shorts, but I guess I didn't Which I hate that but um these These are just I don't even know if I'm actually gonna end up wearing these to be honest with you They're the two and a half inch I think that this order just got messed up to be honest with you because I wouldn't have ordered two and a half inch Spandex, I thought I ordered four inch So anyways, but I still kind of like them. I have spandex for when I want them So they're really really nice like lululemon quality is amazing. I'll have all this linked below I got the align pant. Okay. So I might wear these today just to like get my mom So I've heard amazing things about the align legging Um, and they're high waisted. I always always always get high waisted leggings They're way more flattering that way, but I love these so everything that I got I'll have linked below They also sent me a pair of apls, which I'm so excited about because everyone loves apls They're like the most comfortable shoes ever I wore them the other day and they're incredible. So if you guys are considering like I love them I've seen them everywhere. I want different colors and stuff for sure I like the all black, but I just want every single color of apls now because I just love them so much I'm currently washing up my bedding right now Um, but I just showered and I'm in my robe and my ugg slippers that I literally swear by These are like my favorite things in the entire world. I mean I'm lighting a candle This is a really amazing candle from target I also have a diffuser going on over here with eucalyptus And there's just small details like this really just make my morning that much better So currently this is my setup for getting ready. Um, I don't really even touch except for the serums in here I have my iced coffee still It's pretty much just omuk at this point, but I'm gonna show you guys We'll first off my bag got so messy from being in my gym bag Um, just the products that I have been using I haven't switched it up like too much But I just wanted to talk about a few things that I've been doing in the morning my really simple Makeup look and just some like other products and whatever So this product right here guys, I'm so sorry. This is so messy and messed up But this product right here the tiger grass cream you guys have heard me talk about it billion times I really love this. I think it's an amazing moisturizer. It blurs at your skin I don't think it does the best job with cancelling redness out I think the jar is amazing if you're looking to really cancel redness get the jar that stuff's awesome Okay, I'm gonna show you the three facial oils that I go in between So the pharmacy, um, honey girl, this brand is really great. I know they have an overnight Like serum that people swear by but it does nothing for my skin I don't know why but I gave it to savants. She said it's like completely changed your skin And I see it everywhere and people love it. So it's just me. I'm sure it's great But this honey girl is just an ultra hydrating facial face oil I love hydrating face oils. Those are my favorite thing in the world. This is very thick I would not recommend putting it on underneath makeup because it just looks very oily Definitely wear this when you're not wearing like face makeup. I'm probably gonna wear this today Um, it's really thick and it's just incredible. So I love that This wonder beauty glow ahead face oil. I'm actually recording with the CEO of this company. You can get this at Sephora Um, next week. I love this. This stuff is also lighter better for under makeup But also just like literally throwing it in your gym bag and putting this on after it makes your skin look amazing It's a really really great oil. Love that as well And then I have the glow recipe pineapple C bright serum. So this stuff is awesome This is much better to put underneath face makeup if you're wearing face makeup It's kind of like the in between like this is thinner. This is the thickest and this is the in between You can also get this at Sephora. Um, it's a really great serum. I really like it. I wear this probably the most out of all of them Um, but I absolutely love this. I'm like obsessed with it. So for hair a product I've been loving is this ola plex blonde smoother. So I really love this It's just a leave-in like conditioner essentially and it hydrates and protects makes my skin look or my skin It makes my hair look so much healthier and smoother and it's just like it's less frizzy And altogether just better. Savon I bought this together and she's like it's literally saved my hair I also want I want more ola plex products to try because I know that they're incredible This was like $28 from Sephora But this is a lot of product because you don't use much like a little bit goes a long way So I think it's worth it If you guys have hair and you're just like kind of over it and feel like it doesn't look that healthy or Whatever I get this it will change your life. It's really incredible. So love that So I'm gonna get ready it typically I will just continue listening to my podcast I really like listening to podcast in the morning because it really motivates me and it gives me like Something good to listen to when I'm learning and I feel like it's just good multitasking, you know finishing my coffee I'm gonna do The rest of my look which you guys have seen before I just brush out my brows put on a face oil On top of the tiger grass cream lip balm and kind of call it a day. That's like pretty much what I do But yeah, I'm very excited and I'm gonna brush out my hair and put in this ola plex stuff I always always use a wet brush to brush out my hair when it's wet because it's really bad for your hair To brush it with anything that isn't like made for that, you know So the eucalyptus diffuser right now the oil smells so incredible And I'm really excited to get ready so I can go to the kitchen and make my avocado toast, but Big fan guys. Okay. So I changed into my outfit.  It's not like what I'm wearing later on But I am wearing the lulu a line leggings just so you guys know these are the most comfortable leggings ever Also, it's cool because these are so high-waisted that if I have like a sports bra And I'm basically like wearing a top so I have to like stretch them down a little bit I wish that I had a good white tea, but I just don't right now So I'm wearing this black tea just on top And then I'll end up wearing my easy sneakers and then I just put on some jewelry I always like to wear some like dainty jewelry and hoops or whatever with basically whatever I wear But especially things that are like more casual because it looks like I tried a little bit more And athleisure is in and I love accessories. So um my earrings and my necklace are actually both from princess poly This black shirt is Calvin Klein Um, I literally just stole it from my little brother. I never get back to him. And so I have it now And then again, I just have my a line leggings from lulu that are literally the best leggings ever guys I will have them linked below Like they're just the softest things you'll ever wear. It feels like you're not wearing pants But like even better than that because it's really comfortable. You know what I'm saying? It's just like wow I've been listening to this skinny confidential overheard la podcast episode. It's so good. I actually like love this one Okay, so I'm gonna show you guys my look in better lighting. Um, this is just the tiger grass cream I have the thicker honey glow pharmacy product on and then I brush out my brows I put a little bit of mascara on and I just have like, um the linage lip mask I'm gonna set lip cream lip mask on I'm lighting candles to my house and I'm gonna Make avocado toast Which I cannot wait for like I'm really craving right now. So amazing. I have this every morning But I'm like really into it and one day I'm gonna be so over it, but that day is not yet, you know I just did a ton of the dishes. I finished all of them. Those aren't mine. Those are my roommates, but I finished all of my dishes and I have Laundry going on my laundry room right now Now it is finally time for me to make my beloved avocado toast. So My favorite bread. Um, this is kenzie's favorite bread, but she got me on it It's the food for life Multi-seed rice bread. So it's wheat free corn free and soy free This stuff is just so good. Like this it's good. Just really good My last two pieces Also, I just got this new toaster and I like how does the timer on it. I will link it down below. It was only like $30 Um, I have the same toaster for forever and it was trash and I love this one. It's much better So this is my avocado toast. I make it really quick and easy. It's not fancy by any means I have my bread avocado And then oh my gosh this stuff guys this stuff is really popular from trader joes with everything with the bagel sesame seasoning one I've had this before it's incredible. Like it's so good and it's perfect On top of avocado toast and then I just squeeze a little bit of lemon and that is that Okay, so I have some mineral water my avocado toast in my laptop I'm just sitting in my little breakfast nook And i'm gonna get a little a few like emails and stuff to do like a little Things done. Why can't I speak? Okay, so I just got some work done did some laundry. I'm waiting for it to dry and I'm actually Let's see what time it is. It's 10 26 my nail appointment is at 11 I just last minute booked a nail appointment because they're so ugly And I thought I was gonna get them done with my mom like I always do but she got them done before She got came here.  Why can't I find them? Okay, I have them I'm gonna charge them And then I'm gonna head out to the nail place Get my nails done and then come back and like put laundry and wind stuff And that is it did the dishes did my laundry had a healthy breakfast both my breakfast worked out Showered got ready. I'm like really trying to go through Okay, I'm paying my meter currently. I actually love This is not it. Nope. This is it the royalty juice bar. I'm like, what am I doing? Okay, like I said, I'm going to get my nails done I found a place near me that does dip nails, which is like known as popular in california for some reason But there's so much better so I cannot wait Just finished getting my nails done. I will talk about it in the car Okay, so Oh my gosh, my car is hot right now guys. I just had a pretty great experience kind of so I went to allura allura Nails. Yeah, I'm in tira Okay, so here is the thing customer service wasn't like impeccable like they weren't like super nice or anything like that but I got dip nails guys the finding dip nails like s and s in california is actually like pretty difficult Like it's not the most common thing in the world. Obviously. I know it exists, but every place that has it It's like relatively new So anyways, I found this place. It's just it's just on the street for me And I got like this really pretty blue color. I'll show you guys better I'll show you guys like closer, but I get s and s dip because one it lasts longer Two, it's better for your nails three like if I get gel it literally is off within a week It doesn't even matter But if I get s and s it literally will last like mine were so outgrown and so ugly, but like they were still there You know what I'm saying? So this will last Three weeks. I can probably get away with like three weeks Honestly, sometimes a month and I got this really pretty blue There wasn't like a number or anything so I can't like Give you an actual number, but I just got this really pretty blue that I'll show you guys So this is it. It's kind of it looks a little bit almost like light purple, but it's definitely like very very blue Big big fan and then I just got red on my toes. I pretty much always get red on my toes That's like all I ever do and I listen to the best podcast Oh my gosh, so the hillstone creative podcast is one of my favorite podcast As is and so I just check it in to see if they had any new ones And they had with urn urwin mcmanus and it's like it doesn't matter like it's it's so good It talks about like creativity and like Just so many like real life things and like people and there were so many things in that podcast episode that like Literally, I'm gonna go back and listen to it and take notes. That's how much I love that So it was just really incredible big big fan like actually it was literally so good I'm gonna go buy urn's books now Which I haven't read them, which is weird because like they're very popular I'm reading his books like I'm in at this point like it was just so good It was such a good episode and I loved it So I'm literally looking up his podcast right now because it was like that good literally so good Okay, so it's really hot. I'm going to head back home And yeah, I feel like this has been a good morning. I'm just in a good mood and it's just I'm it's a good morning Bedding is back on my bed I have my outfit for today.  I just went to vlog and show you guys what I was doing for the morning. That's what that would mean So I don't know why I keep saying that I'll show you guys like my final outfit. Okay, so this is the outfit It's the same outfit clothing that I was wearing earlier, but I just put my Yeezys on I wish that I had the other like the blue colored ones because those would look so much better with this These align leggings guys. I'm not exaggerating. They are the most comfortable things I've ever put on my body I need every single color of them like I literally like I love these the wonder under I work out in and the align I wouldn't work out in these I mean, maybe I would I don't know if I went to like yoga or something But like these are just oh my gosh. They're so comfortable. They're just too comfortable I wouldn't want to ruin them, you know and then this bag I just posted the vlog today as I'm filming this of like the unboxing or whatever And I linked it. I'll link it down below. It's such a great bag. It's okay. So Bags are typically more expensive. I like investing in bags So 350 for a bag when it's like In comparison to like Gucci and Saint Laurent is not anything in comparison You know, like I recognize obviously 350 dollars is a lot of money Totally, but like I like investing in bags. So anyways It's only 350 and I love it. Like it's absolutely the best bag ever. I will have it linked down below I'm completely obsessed with it guys.  It's very odd and very convenient for me Um and in front of the poly jewelry that I wear every day. I literally cannot get over my nail still Like guys, they're so cute So that is it for this morning vlog Let me know if you guys liked it and what videos you guys want to see in the comments down below I love you guys so much. Um, hope you guys have an amazing day. I'll see you guys soon. Bye


Images of a wind farm, commercial airliner, computer chips, digital car design, a robot, words appear. Including Universal Design in the Engineering Curriculum. Cynthia, student. By including accessibility in universal design in engineering curriculum, you're making a statement to all the students that you're teaching that the perspectives and the needs of people with disabilities is something that they need to think about whether they're engineering specifically for that group or for any other group. Cheryl Burgstahler, University of Washington. I think it's really important that we train our new engineers to be versed in the area of universal design and accessibility so that when they create products for the companies that they will work for, they'll be accessible and usable by people with disabilities and individuals with all kinds of different characteristics. Annette Caspi. As a creator of a technology, you have the onus and responsibility to address the needs of a variety of end-users. Universal design and related frameworks such as inclusive design, ability-based design and human-centered design encourage engineers to be proactive in considering the abilities of diverse users. Universal design is defined by the Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University as the design of products and environments to be usable by all people to the greatest extent possible without the need for adaptation or specialized design. Universal design requires engineers to question any assumptions a design makes about its users. Engineering students who understand these concepts enter the workforce prepared to design for a wide variety of users. Kat Steele, Mechanical Engineering Faculty. So just as we teach safety and material properties and dynamics within our engineering curriculum, incorporating universal design can ensure that our future engineers consider those small design tweaks and consider the breadth of the population in their design and future innovation. Terrell Thompson. Asking is this accessible or what are the accessibility implications? Technology accessibility specialist. That is a practice that can follow them throughout their engineering career. Engineer Billy Price used his own life experience as a person with quadriplegia to design a line of shoes. It's an example of universal design. A foot is placed into an open-toe box and the shoe is zipped closed. They don't have the ability to tie laces. Billy Price. And I know when it comes to laces, a common solution out there is to use Elkrow. Mechanical engineer. Even if you overcome the laces, you still have the physical issue of jamming your foot into the shoe. So staring at my feet for 18 years, in other words, like half a lifetime and not being able to put my shoes on, I knew there had to be a better solution. The shoe that we've created, yes, it has adaptive characteristics, but we're not marketing as an adaptive shoe. It's a shoe that's trendy, it's a shoe that everyone's going to want to wear. It's a shoe that will be in all the stores so anyone can buy it. The shoes have a unique zipper that runs along the outside edge of the shoe. It opens like a clamshell. Fast-motion video. A car speeds through store aisles. There are opportunities for universal design in thousands of consumer products and built environments that engineers help to design and build. Addressing these needs can improve the lives of individuals with disabilities and the general population. Engineering educators can help prepare their students to design for diverse abilities by introducing accessibility or universal design topics in a variety of ways. You could do maybe just part of a lecture, or you could just do one lecture on it or several lectures, not a whole course. And then the third option is to develop a whole course on accessibility universal design. In a classroom, when you're having a design challenge, if you think about how could somebody who's older and has arthritis use this thing you're designing? Could a pregnant woman use this thing you've just created? Start asking those questions of could somebody who's colorblind use this? You're actually thinking about a more broad population and it's an easy way to sneak some ideas about universal design and creating a product that's more widely usable into what you're designing. University of Washington's Terrell Thompson created a web design curriculum for high school students that integrates accessibility into design considerations. Kids are learning to code web pages using all the languages that you use to code web pages, HTML, and CSS and JavaScript. And they learn very early on some core design principles, one of which is the need for accessible design. And so they learn how people with disabilities access computers and access the web and what some of the challenges they face are. And then as they're learning new techniques throughout the course, they learn, or they're sort of taught to ask, how does this technique affect accessibility? But there are either ways that faculty can teach about disability, accessibility, and universal design in their courses. I think capstone courses, the purpose of them is to allow students to apply the skills that they've learned in a real world situation and so it can be a great opportunity for students to, you know, first of all, understand that accessibility and universal design can address real world problems, but also to allow the students to put some of the skills that they've learned into practice. I teach our senior design course, which is a common year-long course for engineering students that they take in their final year of their undergraduate. And that really is a natural place for integrating topics of accessibility and universal design. We have students working on projects from designing an electric skateboard to figuring out the next medical product that can prevent collapsed lungs. And in all of these, components of universal design can enter to help them do user testing on a diverse set of users, consider how small changes in their design can increase access or make a device easier to use. Often a design tweak that, for example, might make it easier for an individual with a visual impairment or someone who has limited dexterity will actually make the product easier for everyone to use. And so we inject universal design into our curriculum to encourage them to explore lots of different design spaces and hopefully ultimately have a better design. Nils Hackensang. In my class, I teach a biomechanics class. Biomedical engineering. Faculty. Momentum and linear and angular momentum and I demonstrate how I use momentum to swing my arm to get my hand up onto the joystick of my wheelchair. And so it's kind of trying to incorporate those type of examples in class. Giving students opportunities to meet and interact with people with disabilities is a great way to include it in the curriculum. We found that the students learned so much through just having a space to sit down and talk frankly about issues surrounding accessibility, disability and some of the societal implications. By teaching accessibility and universal design and engineering courses, faculty are producing engineers who can succeed in a competitive job market because they will be equipped to create products that are widely accessible to users with diversibilities. Users can get started by including a panel of individuals with diversibilities, helping students to consider universal design and address disability-related issues in design projects, requiring that students adhere to accessibility guidelines when they create user interfaces or websites. If we want an accessible society with innovation that includes accessibility, then students need to be taught about universal design and accessibility. Words appear. To learn more about how you can incorporate accessibility and universal design in engineering courses, visit the Access Engineering website hosted by the University of Washington. www.edu.co.uk. Access Engineering is supported by National Science Foundation grant number EEC-1-4. 444-961. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this video are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Described by AudioEyes. Copyright 2016. Permission is granted to copy these materials for educational, non-commercial purposes provided the source is acknowledged.


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Let them read it carefully From its first entry on that ill-starred day July the 13th July 13th today I bought a small Capuchin monkey from an organ grinder the animal trembled with fear when I took it into my laboratory and when I tried to Pet it it bit me I had to make it trust me completely fear causes an excess secretion of adrenal and resulting in an Abnormal condition of the bloodstream which would throw off my observations So I fed it and finally the creature voluntarily crept up into my arms uttering little whimpers of content And it laid its head against my shoulder. I stabbed it the surgical lancet It died instantly Well, david, what do you think of it? Well, it's pretty amazing. All right. See what I've done, don't you? I I think you'll think so good lord. Don't you know well after all dad. I'm only a second-year medical student What up? I was a second-year student. Who is it? It's me janice. Come in darling. Patrick. Dr. Schrat is here to see you Oh, come on in doctor You know our son david, of course. Yes, of course. How are you my boy? Fine. Thanks, dr. Well, patrick. Hard added as usual. I see patrick. You didn't eat the lunch.  I've been trying to see how long I can keep the tissue alive Is that it in that jar? Well, it's considerably more to it than just a jar though. Want to see how it works? Is it still alive? Yes, it's a fairly simple device actually doctor variation Corell's mechanical heart the brain lies in a bath of blood serum these Rubber arteries are fixed to the vertebral and internal Carroted arteries of the brain the blood substance is forced through the cycle of willis feed the tissue Over here. I've installed a small rotary pump that forces the blood circulation. You see but how do you know it's alive? It's very easy to determine the brain when functioning gives off infinitesimal electrical impulses They can be measured as a matter of fact. I've hooked the encephalograph up to a small amplifying system. The brain impulses can actually be heard Here, I'll turn it off You see Guide effective, isn't it? Yes, it's effective And it's it's wrong patrick terribly wrong. I've tried to tell him dr. Schrat In heaven's name. What's wrong with it? Oh patrick you and your mechanistic philosophy trying to reduce life to a mere matter of chemicals and test tubes the origin of life is from a higher domain than that patrick And your profanity nonsense you can't stop the progress of science every discovery whatever kind is a step forward If I can prove that the brain can perform certain functions outside the body Who knows where we may be able to go from there? Oh patrick, how do you know that thing in there doesn't feel pain? How do you know it isn't writhing in agony brain tissue itself is insensitive, you know that That's a feeling look I'll switch on the encephalograph See There Notice the faintness of the amplified alpha rays notice the comparatively slow rate of pulsation now Notice what happens might tap on the glass jar Isn't it faint? I wouldn't go so far as to say that but it certainly shows marked reaction to an external stimulus I wouldn't have believed it possible. The trouble you thought is that you don't really believe in science But your own way patrick that when you can manufacture love and sympathy and kindness and a test tube I'll be back you leading over Patrick Shut off the pump and let that poor thing in there die. Let it die But we're within my power to grant that little brain Would live forever I'm utterly exhausted from lack of sleep at the events of the past five days have been of such tremendous importance That I must set them down while every last detail is still fresh in my mind I've had no time to make an entry in this record since that day last week It seems a month ago now and I had my first partial success with the brain of the capuchin monkey That time however, it seemed that I was doomed to disappointment in spite of all my efforts The brain of the monkey ceased to live at 12 14 that night Tired and disheartened I lay down to sleep on the cart in my laboratory But at that very moment Fate was contriving an occurrence which now seems destined to have the most profound effect not only upon my own existence And perhaps upon that of all mankind Huh, hello Hello, what is it dad? Oh david come in come in. It's the matter. It's dr. Schratt. There's been an accident or something He's pretty upset patrick. Thank heavens my boy It's the matter of what there's there's been a plane crash on the mountain only one of them was left alive and I've I've brought him this far, but he needs an immediate operation. That's your job. You're counter physician patrick It's it's multiple fractures of both legs. Harder is the seven the legs will have to be amputated Do you're not in any shape to do the job? Well, I well, that's not my fault. Take him to the phoenix hospital I'm not going to take response. It's too far. We never get there in time of patrick Please and it made me in a man's life and and your job is counter physician. No, no, I'm not thinking of that But it's it's an important man Will you make donovan donovan don't The wall street donovan. Yes, you've got to help me patrick donovan What is chances about even if we hurry well bring him in. Oh, thank you patrick. Thank you You'd better get some things on david. You may have to help Yes, uh, and we use the laboratory table before you go put the instruments the sterilizer And don't forget the gillie saw right. Oh, but but what? I thought the gillie saw was only used for for for brain surgery Hmm not always hurry. They're bringing me now from the car In here. That's right easy to round the table, please You better get yourself a gown and gloves doctor right over there. You won't have time to scrum. Yes Bad isn't he pulse wrapping Aren't very faint. I wasn't sure David, uh, heart cc of adrenaline david one to one thousand to venus right you men can go now Is there anything else we can do? No, thank you patrick. I don't you think I'd rather we were alone if you don't mind gentlemen Good night then dr. Schreier Good night. Now david david if you remove the blanket from his legs, that's yeah You see Fortunately a forest ranger got to him right after the crash Had sense enough to put a turnip cut on each leg even so Sure sure sure Sure sure sure we'll get it Sure sure sure it's a saying something like sure sure sure he said it over and over Huh, I hadn't realized he was deformed. It doesn't show as much in his pictures Patrick don't you think we ought to begin? Oh, there's no use amputating those legs No use. He'd be dead anyway by morning Well, won't it? Suppose you're right patrick, you know, I'm right, but still we ought to try we can't refuse to operate just because we are going to operate Serange, please david the large one here. You are dead. It's my anesthetic. Will you give it dr. Schreier? Right scalpel, please david scalpel and The jeely saw jeely saw patrick. Well, no no patrick. I won't let you after your performance tonight Well, I had but patrick. He's still alive precisely my mistake with a monkey was that he was dead I don't intend to make that mistake again. Come on david the scalpel.    I understand Did you put something in the skull cavity for the eyes? I filled it with cotton bandage. The whole cranium would look like any head injury I hope nobody gets any ideas about an autopsy. You're the coroner you've stopped there. Look Schrods This is a chance that comes once in a lifetime William Donovan had one of the greatest minds Has one of the greatest brains A world today and now you have it. It's been on the encephalogram Simple alpha waves of course so different from the monkeys You can't take a human brain out of its body and expect it to function. I suppose not but Schrods Did it ever occur to you that the brain might simply be asleep sleep certainly An operation like that is this would be a shock tap on the glass Lord patrick delta waves It was a sleepy woke it up It it's actually conscious. You see you see the three of us Three of us conducting this experiment now You and me And william holless donovan July 25th, I moved my bed into the laboratory, but I've scarcely slept in six days I've been no longer any doubt that the brain responds like a sensitive seismograph to vibrations near it including the sound of my voice Yet I've found no method of communication with it I've devised a simplified morse code consisting of taps on the glass container together with voice vibrations Perhaps Perhaps I can teach the brain July 30th Schrods has come to stay with me half out of a feeling that he shares with me a common guilt half out of scientific curiosity I've scarcely seen him and both david and janis have been avoiding me. Not that I really care You've been tapping out my code on the side of the brain's container endlessly day and night over and over a thousand times So that a baby could learn it if the brain can learn I sleep only when the brain itself falls into exhausted slumber When it wakes again, I resume my tapping I want to show you the matter. Yes, old boy.  Where are we going back to the laboratory? I can't believe it myself. I May have been dreaming delirians. What's happened? Come on. You hear that? Delta waves Seems disturbed. You've got to check my observations for me if my reasoning is wrong. Tell me I can't be sure of anything anymore Now listen carefully You know that I've been trying to communicate with the brain in code now If I were able to cause a distinctive pattern of the brain's delta waves by a specific command in code If the brain responded with the same pattern of sound each time I issued the command It would prove that I'd succeeded in communicating with the brain, wouldn't it? Yes, Patrick, I think it would. Now listen Donovan If you understand Think three times of the word talk three times Talk it answered it spoke then I'm right. It's true. This thing has learned to talk To talk July 31st Charlotte's romanticizing of course the delta pattern is so infinitely complex that it would be utterly impossible Ever to break it down into specific words yet that it understands me That it's trying to communicate with me is certain Charlotte suggests mental telepathy that I try to Make my mind a blank as the mediums call it Well at the same time increasing the energy content of the plasma that feeds the brain and the Hope of stepping up the brain's electrical potential as one would step up the power of a radio station Naturally telepathy is nonsense, but The feeding theory intrigues me I shall try it August 12th Notice today for the first time two distinct nodules of new brain cells on the frontal lobex electrical potential has increased to 510 microvolts I I've become smoking cigars Although I've always hated cigars before As I expect August 22nd nodules still growing electrical potential 1450 with no observable results lately felt a compelling urge to know more of donovan's life and have collected every available scrap of information about him a strange man he was strange ruthless Evil in many ways But nonetheless an extraordinarily brilliant mind We got What is it? I thought I had to wake you up. Patrick. You were moaning in your sleep talking talking what I say I'm not sure but your voice was so strange that Dennis, what's the matter? It's nothing. Nothing. I was dreaming.  Patrick Let me see your hand No, the other one. What about it? You're not left-handed. Are you no Then why have you got ink on the fingers of your left hand? Well, were you writing anything tonight?  Donovan shot. That's not my handwriting. It's what Don't you see what it means? The brain has communicated with me. Patrick, you don't look here Look at this magazine article. He has a reproduction of his signature And he was left-handed too. It says so here. Well, it is it It is exactly the same fool. I've been looking at these pictures smoking a cigar with his left hand I wondered why it certainly started smoking cigars the same brand too. Janice try to remember what you heard me saying Just before you woke me up. Come on Janice Think Patrick. I I can't believe think Janice All I heard was something like Sure sure sure sure of course. Don't you remember schrott? He said it that night. It was the only thing we ever heard him say It it it was an expression of his it tells about that one of the articles too.  It's ended ended It's only begun Patrick. Don't you see what this means? Patrick listen to me. Oh, what Janice? What you got to stop Stop I can't stand it any longer Can't you see where it's led you? When you cut yourself off from your family when you neglected your health began having fits of temper and were like Like someone I hardly recognizes the man. I married All that I tried to understand But don't you see what you've done?  Oh Janice, please I suppose you're right, but I'm utterly exhausted. I can't even think anymore You've got to think give me until tomorrow. Let me sleep and tomorrow I'll do something. I promise you all right Patrick tomorrow But if you don't do something if you don't destroy that thing, I will The brain It's almost as though it hurt you when we're raging Raging at you This way, please dr. Brian. Come on darling But Patrick Why are we going in here a psychiatric clinic? I told you I'd do something Janice. I've I've got an idea You mean you're you're having yourself psychoanalyzed something like that something like that. I'll tell you about it later First I want I want you to talk to this man alone Dr. Zanger, this is dr. Corey. How do you do dr. Corey? How do you do something in your work? Oh, yes And this is mrs. Cory of course. Excuse me. I'm happy to meet you mrs. Corey. Thank you, dr Won't you come in tomorrow? I will certainly Janice. Would you mind dining waiting in the reception? It won't be out in just a moment. Thank you. Why certainly do you in here, please doctor? It will Doctor she seems quite normal. I'd expected from what you told me on the telephone. I I know I I know I I can assure you I I I hate to tell you this but uh Doctor, she's quite insane. I see. Yes Paranoia She's always been, you know jealous of my work and well last little while she started she's got a delusion that she thinks I've made some kind of a monster and up in my laboratory that controls my mind and controls my actions So I'm I'm putting her completely in your hands.  Oh, yeah, here you are. Just your signature will be enough, doctor There you are You let me know about everything, won't you? Oh, naturally, doctor. We keep you informed Thank you. Well, goodbye then, dr. Corey. We will do what we can. Oh, all right Patrick, mrs. Corey is staying with us, mrs. Wilcox. Yes, doctor Patrick Mrs. Corey just come with me, please Where are you going? Let me go About the bill. How do you wish it to be handled? Uh the bill The The bill for sure I'll take care of it by the week The checks will be signed The William H. Donovan sure sure sure August 20th, it's nearly three weeks now since Janice went away I can't understand how she could have left me just when I needed her most When I try to question Schradt or David about it. They only look at me strangely and change the subject clearly They tune our in on the conspiracy. Sometimes it seems the only person I can trust is Donovan the brain Communicates with me more freely now each day. I know it has some great plan in mind for me for both of us I'm waiting Wait Donovan I'm listening Donovan Don't be angry Donovan. I'm trying to understand I'm listening Donovan. 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