we're going to be able to get the work done. We're going to be able to get the work done. We're going to be reviewing and digesting material and asking questions as, as often as we can. To get the work done. So Jenny, thanks for, for that clarification. If, if I may, I, I think. Between what you just laid out for us in terms of the, the regularized timeline that typically happens and what Barbara is suggesting here. I think that there's a lack of understanding from those who don't go through this every year as to what is about to happen. And to Barbara's point in terms of the way that she's laid this out, what stage I'm in at each, at each, at each step in the process and what the timeframe for that looks like. So again, I think looking at this year as. As an example, if there's a way for us to, to take what Barbara set out and then put that against the, the regularized process and, and really create almost a manual, if you will, for this is what you expect. This is what's going to happen. You know, we know that there are additional meetings that get added here and there based on the volume that we're dealing with every year. But to make it. More transparent. And, and easier to, to digest for, for those who are engaging at different, at different stages with different knowledge levels. Both from Barbara and from other people who have, have chimed in that's, that's what I seem to be hearing is the, is the need, not necessarily to follow the exact time that Barbara has laid out here. But I'm curious to see if others on the board have, have other thoughts on that, David. Oh, respond to some of the other comments that I've been thinking about. So I appreciate Katie's point that there's a cost to delaying policy decisions. And I'm not proposing that we take. An infinite amount of time or not necessarily long amount of time. To make change. But as, as Jenny said, the time, the timeline around town is, is the same every, every time. And having been on the board for a number of years now, I can say with a pretty high level of confidence that we're always working with about a 12 week timeframe with respect to, to town meeting. And when we are talking about, about zoning proposals, experience and that that is not enough. And part of it may be that this is the natural start of the, of the warrant season. So proponents are putting their articles together and saying, okay, this is the beginning, but for proponents to come to us with, with proposals now. And for us to decide, are we going to do something or that, or are they going to file a citizen article and then to work on getting the actual language together. For what the proposal really is and then doing public education about what the proposal is, get it garnering public input that may cause us to make changes to it and then go through the hearing process and then to get to the report that 12 weeks gets compressed really fast. And, and, you know, we've had multiple situations over the years where we have ended up making fairly significant changes to either ARB proposed or citizen proposed articles kind of the last minute right before, you know, during the hearing process. And, and that, that has not been an optimal process. And so I think we shouldn't, we shouldn't assume that we can, we've got 12 weeks now. So let's do the best we can and try to see if we can have kind of more orderly. I won't say orderly because it's always, there's always an order to it, but, but a more complete process within the same frame, we may need to next time around based on our experience. This time we may want to think about starting earlier, like a move it back a few weeks and see if that helps and maybe just incrementally try to find what is, what is the right time frame that lets us comfortably deal with these more complicated zoning issues in, in a better way. I just like to add on to what David said, I'm not quite sure what the right timeline is other than to agree with David and he's been on the board long and I have that there have been times when it's ended up getting so compressed at the end that I felt that another go at what the actual language of the main motion would have been would be much better. It sort of seems to me that we have some things that we should be doing. One is figuring out what's the best public policy for whatever either we are working on or the citizens propose warrant article is proposing. So that's one. The second is how to get good public input. But the third is how to craft the main motion because that often becomes part of the zoning bylaw so that, you know, it doesn't end up being ambiguous or hard to understand or contradictory along the way. And I think we are usually okay on sort of trying to figure out and figure out what we think is the best public policy for that particular issue. And we're usually okay on getting some amount of public input, but where I find that we could be better is the last piece. And we often, I felt I haven't had enough time to go through the actual wording of what the zoning bylaw change would be and feel comfortable with it before it got into the warrant article. So I'm looking for sort of, you know, the timeline that has all those pieces, but gives us more time on the last piece. What's the actual wording of the proposed amendments to the ZBI. And I know it's hard to fit in with all those other things. Rachel. Okay. So, Jean, I understand what you're saying. I think that. I know you were saying it's okay. Right. Rachel. I was sorry. I'm just apologize. An immuted type of way. Yeah. I read you. I did some lip reading. So what Jean, the thing is usually that language. Tweaking, if you will comes. When we're doing the actual hearings. When we're doing the meetings. Which are, you know, generally speaking, not always, but almost always late February and March. That's, that's basically the timeline of when that is happening. So unless you want to add more hearings. Or meetings in general to talk about. Those motions. I don't know when else. We would do it. And I'm, I'm, I'm actually, if it's okay, Aaron, if you have any thoughts about this, I think it's okay. I think it's okay. One thing that's laid out in, in Barbara's memo is this idea of a tech up technical pathway. It's in quotes. So I'm quoting. So if I think we can easily put together like a sort of the technical pathway with the timeline, we do that actually internally just for our own. Like. Get, you know, grasp of all of the things that we have to. Remember and do. But we can. We can do that. We can do that as part of the. The hearing process, but I think that we could do that, but I'm curious what you're. If you have any ideas about how to deal with that main motion, because usually we're crafting that language as part of the hearings. That's the time that that actually comes to be. Thanks, Jenny. I have one thought. That I think helps the timeline. I think it's really important when we have to submit a legal notice. And then when we have to prepare a porch town meeting, that's statute. So that's the requirements. But for example, you know, the annual town meeting warrant for 2021 opened on December 1st. I know we were still in special town meeting so that with a little bit of a headache with all of that, but I might suggest. The final date of the hearing. But we'll be back in a minute. And hopefully that will be the final date of the hearing. The meeting that the article opens. To get to this 12 weeks out from a hearing. And it's not exactly 12 weeks out, but it's, it gives it a little bit more time is to put a note out there to the community for people that are thinking about more in articles or thinking about zoning on their free time to, you know, at that time approach the staff. we furthered the conversation around the ABU article is that we have a couple of more meetings where the board can informally talk with petitioners about their thoughts and about their proposals in order to get to the point that statutory, and I can't change that timeline, have the item or the article at that point in a more prepared version for lack of a better word, but something that has already been thought about by the ARB and can move through the process a little bit more straightforward because the members have already had the chance to lay their eyes on an article. That doesn't necessarily help the things that are coming from the staff, but at least it starts the conversation with potential petitioners earlier in the process, particularly those petitioners that desire the feedback from the board. You know, other petitioners might just say, well, this is what I'm going to do, so I'm going to submit this, but at least things like Posse's proposal gets a little bit more time in front of you, and then you're not surprised going into a hearing on the first week of March being like, what's this? I have all these thoughts and all these questions and I want all this is this other information, so that was my thought in terms of being able to extend the timeline a little bit. That doesn't necessarily help or answer the question that Jenny posed to me, but it might be one way to think about how this event gets calendar going into town meeting. Thank you, Erin. That was very helpful, Jean. Something to think about is a lot of times we don't see what the actual, we see the large article, but we don't see what the actual proposed wording change to the zoning by-law is until sometime in March. And it just seems to me that one way to maybe give us more time and that piece of it is to try to get those sometime in February possible. So if it's the citizen learn articles, we can at least ask people if they could get us something. And if we put out like working backwards from when our report is in, is due in April, this working backwards and figure out is there sometime in February where we can at least request it from the citizen proponents if they're willing to give it to us. So we can see it ahead of time, but I think we should make it a commitment among ourselves that any articles that the board is going to be putting forward that we have at least draft wording for how to change the by-law in February. It was a lot of times we haven't gotten that until sometime in March. And I think that's one of the reasons why I felt the compression in the schedule. So if we can move those pieces to February this year, for example, I think that might help. Jenny always, we always ask petitioners to provide this to us. So it's, I think kind of building off of what Aaron said, maybe sort of announcing it as early as possible. Also, most times people communicate with town council, but don't always include me in the process, even though it actually says in the warrant article packet to talk with both of us. This is not a, it's not a big deal because it could be either way, but it does present a little bit of a problem. When I haven't been part of it, then we're receiving something usually the week after the warrant articles have been filed. And then we're sort of reacting and doing the things that we need to do to file a legal notice, making sure that we have all the right information. And then we're pursuing the information we need for the board. And that's the part that often takes us actually a lot of time, especially if it's not the, obviously not the articles that we're filing. But I think the, Aaron, your suggestion about trying to do this as early as possible once the warrant opens is probably, that would actually help a lot. And when we started to have this conversation in December, that was partially the intent, as well as to have the conversation about industrial zoning this time around. But I think we can try to figure out ways to queue that up earlier, of course, in the future when appropriate. But I guess my takeaway from this proposal is that perhaps if this is responsive, let me know. But I think picking up the main suggestion is sort of laying out the technical pathway for petitioners and sort of what that process looks like and when specific pieces of the proposal will be evaluated and discussed. I think we can easily slot that into the timeline that we always prepare. And then communicate that. Is that, Barbara, does that? I know that's not like everything in what you've put forth here for discussion, but that's my main takeaway. Yeah, Denny, I think you've really hit the nail on the head. I'm listening to this and I'm so grateful for this really excellent conversation among you all to think about how this can be improved. And I don't expect any time warp machines to come out of this, but I'm thinking of it from my perspective and if I had known 12 weeks ahead of time that I was supposed to write a main motion and what that main motion was supposed to look like and if there were some rules and if I knew that what they were, it would have been a very different experience because I didn't write the main motion for the bill that proceeded through or the article that proceeded through the football field town meeting. I don't, you know, so this was a surprise to me and focusing on the technical stage would really help the applicant or the petitioner speaking as one. Thank you. Great, thank you, Barbara. And thank you, Jenny and Erin. I agree, Jenny, with the next step of laying out the process for the technical pathway and then also in the future, per Erin's suggestion, as soon as the call goes out, making sure that people know that as early as possible, we'd love to hear what people are thinking about proposing, give them feedback so that the first time they're hearing feedback from the ARB, which again, we heard complaints about this year was at the hearing. So we wanna make sure that we're giving people potential feedback as early as possible. Anything else? Rachel? Sorry, I can't see everyone, but please go ahead. Yeah, I'm going off topic a little bit, but let's say we get a proposal from the public. How do we go about outreach to, the public on their zoning proposal? You know how we talked about, well, we used to have hearings or have different precincts. I don't know, maybe 10, 12 years ago, maybe Jennifer, we had different precinct meanings and everything else, and had outreach to the public about what these proposals mean. And I thought that was really nice, what we did there. And then each board member took on different precincts. We did that a while ago. And then, but that does stuff well for us that we wanna put up for zoning proposals. But if someone else came up with a proposal, how's that gonna form into that kind of public outreach? Because they can't do that. They don't have the resources that say we might have. I think it's something that we should talk about. Yep, and we've done that pretty much every year, except for last year. So it just last year was different. Spring town meeting was not really a full town meeting. And I think we've already beat up virtual town meeting enough. So I mean, I think in the special town meeting, so I think moving forward, there will be precinct meetings again. We can talk about how to approach that with petitioners. We also would be working with Envision Arlington on usually they have an all precinct meeting. And I have been talking with the co-chairs of Envision Arlington about a way to get a little more integrated into that process so that we can discuss zoning proposals in a more proactive way, which is what town meeting members you typically request anyway. But you're also referring to the neighborhood meetings that we typically do, which is usually there's four meetings, neighborhood being just quadrants of Arlington. It's not exactly neighborhoods. And then inviting precincts to those locations. That's what we've done for the prior three years up until last year. So we can certainly explore something like that again. And it doesn't matter if it's the air base proposals or a citizen petition. We've talked about both at those types of meetings and if the petitioners is present then they can also participate. But that feels like something that could be addressed though. I think, yeah. And also we also had meetings where it was just the department heads where we just had a before the pandemic and Zoom but we had this department head meetings where we met with them and had their input too. That was, I think that was very helpful. Yep, yeah. And depending upon the types of proposals that we're talking about, I always speak with my peer department heads about what's coming up at town meeting. We usually spend at least one or two department head meetings just talking about that. No, but we're at the board. Department heads coming to the board? That's what we did a while back. Yes, where we had a meeting at the school Yeah, that, okay, right. That was a slightly different kind of meeting. It wasn't just limited, it wasn't just talking, that was zoning recodification is what you're talking about. I know what you mean though. Yep. Well, anyway, I'm glad to integrate any of these ideas into future outreach and of course in discussion with petitioners when it's relevant. Okay, I'm just bringing it up from past experience. Yeah, those are good experiences to reference. I agree. I'm sorry, we didn't have that last year and we probably won't be the same, the spring town meeting but we'll see what happens in the fall. That's fine. Any other comments or questions before we close this and move into open forum, right? Well, thank you so much Barbara for putting this together and for spurring this discussion. I think it was very worthwhile. Great, all right. So with that, we will close agenda item number three and move into open forum. So any member of the public wishing to speak, please use the raise hand function. And as a reminder, you will have three minutes. I'm trying to open my participant button here. Give me one second. Here we go. So you'll have three minutes. Please remember to state your first and last name and your address for the record. So the first person will be Colleen Cunningham which I think is actually Stuart. I guess it's Stuart or some Kensington Park. I just wanted to say that this process document is excellent. I mean, having a clear and well-defined process by which things go through the board helps everybody because it means that petitioners know what to do and it also means that, you know, the reputation board is good because everyone knows what's going on. So one thing I wanted to suggest is that, you know, you have a set of time-based, the document seems to concentrate on setting enough time in order to have the relevant discussions. And that's a good thing. An equally important thing that would be good to actually write down in the document is, I think Barbara started it. She asked the question, what is the public input that you wanna take? And so really in the document, there ought to be, you know, on this date or 12 weeks before this milestone, you have to have public input and it's advertised in this following way. And, you know, it's left open for these many weeks and public input can be this, that and the other type and there will be this or that meeting. So actually whatever the process is, having it written down so it's clear and explicit would help a lot and it would help, you know, ensure trust in the public, public trust in what the board is doing. Thank you very much. Thank you, excellent suggestion. The next person to speak will be Don Seltzer. Thank you, Madam Chair. Don Seltzer Irving Street. While we're on the topic of process, I'd like to refer back to earlier this evening when there was extensive discussion of the process by which Barbara Thornton would work closely with members of the board and the planning department on crafting the details of the ADU article. I hope it wasn't meant to imply that this was some sort of exclusive access that other residents wouldn't be welcome to join in this discussion. And after all, there was a second citizen petition article on ADUs presented before the board this fall. So to clarify this working with the board and planning is that open to other members of the public? Yes, that's exactly what we were just talking about that we were going to encourage that by ensuring that, again, for Aaron's discussion that as of December 1st, when the warrant article opens in the future and obviously this year, we are encouraging people to bring their thoughts and suggestions to the board so that we can continue to work with them as they craft their articles. Sounds good, thank you. Thank you. The next speaker will be Patrick Hanlon. There you go. I'm sorry, it took a little while to unmute. My name is Patrick Hanlon on Park Street. I'd like to comment and endorse the initiative that Barbara has on changing and making the procedure work better towards getting the product at the end and in particular not having hiccups at the end where you discover that the problem may not be a policy problem. The problem that you have may be a technical problem of drafting, but the ordinance is, the bylaw is sufficiently complicated that those can't be resolved very quickly. And Gene, I think, has put his finger precisely on the difficulty that proponents of anything that goes beyond a certain level of complexity have in actually having a technical product that is a well-drafted statute by the time it gets to you. And there's not enough time to fix that because typically all of that emerges sort of late in the process. Arlington is a little different from most places because we have very vague in general warrant articles and in many towns, you pretty nearly have to have the main motion as the warrant article to begin with. We've, the advantage of that is we preserve flexibility until the end, but the disadvantage to that is that you don't actually nail things down until the very end when the clock is about to run out. On the select board side, this is where Doug Heim does a fabulous job of working on making things into motions and sometimes in actually negotiating with the applicants, with the petitioners who in order to make something that is, that works for them and is more satisfactory or more likely to be approved by the select board. There really isn't an equivalent way of getting technical help here even though the statutory background is actually much more complex than most of the bylaws that Doug has to deal with. Doug is not really as, he obviously knows a great deal about zoning but there's also a huge amount to know and Doug doesn't deal with that every single day. At some point along the line, some applicants or some petitioners, some proponents need help in just figuring out some basic things like there's a difference between duplexes and two family and those are not immediately apparent to the average person and you don't wanna find yourself at the end trying to deal with the problem of just getting it technically right at the point where you really are trying to deal with the policy and changes at the margins. So I'd encourage you to think a little bit more about how it is that individual petitioners on citizen articles could get benefit or could get the help from the town in crafting an appropriate article so that you at least don't have those problems unnecessarily not because you need to put them in the warrant article but because you need to have something specific to talk to early on. One way of doing this, our process, everybody always looks at a deadline and you figure, well, that's when you have to act. If you look as Aaron suggested at December 1st is the key day, that's the point where you need to begin thinking about it and fixing exactly what you want to do. It may very well be that a useful thing to do for this and on the other side as well is simply say sometime around Thanksgiving have an outreach to the public about the process and say, look, you can be entitled so you wanna file a zoning warrant article this is what you need to do and go through this. And so at the very least nobody is surprised long way down the line that they have to do a main motion. So I suggest at least give some consideration to the practical way of going beyond the statutorily required series of notices and make it easier for people to avoid tripping over their shoe springs when they should really be tripping over the policies that they're proposing if they are going to trip at all. Thank you. Any other members of the public wish to speak? Okay, seeing none, we will close open forum. Let's see, and that brings us to the close of our meeting. Any other items from the board before we take a motion to adjourn? Okay, seeing none, do we have a motion to adjourn? Motion to adjourn. Second. We'll take a roll call vote. Ken? Yes. David? Yes. Dean? Yes. Katie? Yes. I am yes as well. Thank you all. I think this is a really productive discussion tonight and really appreciate it. Have a good evening. Bye, thanks. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.


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Well, I've said it before my videos and I'll probably say it again if you don't take advantage of your parks in your area You're missing out Well, we've woken up this bright beautiful morning to talk about defining and we're going to start with different kinds of definitions Let's hit the trails so We've got three broad kinds of definitions and there are particular kinds after that And we got defining by extension Which is by pointing to the things to which? the things that are You know through which the definitions apply We've got defining by intention, which is you know the meaning Right so extensions out here, right? So an extension of trees all these trees Defining by intention is what we mean by tree right what words What further definitions do we use to describe it? right and So that's to find about extension to find about intention and then we have defining by exclusion Now strictly speaking defining by exclusion is not really defining Right because that's defining by what it's not right, so You know these are trees they are not bushes Okay, I mean that that's helpful in some way, but telling me that that is not a bush is Not the same thing is telling me what it is Because it's also not an elephant and it's not a basketball court Now So like I said strictly speaking to find it by exclusion is not a definition, but that's okay And in fact none of these ways is perfect and for defining something So if you're writing a paper, I wouldn't rely on just any one way to define any of the any of your terms I would use defining by exclusion to find it by intention and Defining by excuse me to find my extension to find it by intention and defining by exclusion use all of them Okay, and yet if you're doing a good job But you know providing definitions of all these kinds You'll have what about a 300 word definition about a page Which is you know, it's not just you know just making a fluff, right? It's real work And you know before you know it these three to five page papers really aren't that hard to fill So extension intention and exclusion, let's take a look at defining by extension So the first kind of definition we're going to look at or with definition by extension is Demonstrative definition Now this might be a good time to point out a distinction between definite item and definite a definite item is what you're defining and Definines is what's doing the defining So hello, so suppose we're defining dog Right, and if we're going to define by extension The definite will be instances of dog. I'm going to point to or you know mention the Instances of the definite So the first kinds of definitions excuse me the first kind of definition by extension is Demonstrative definition and that's just where you Point to a particular case. So I'm going to define dog Right there, that's a dog Now you have to have the definitions right in front of you Okay, and the other viewer or the person you talking to has to be able to see What you're talking about?  If I'm giving an enumerative definition of cities I would simply start listing off famous cities New York, Atlanta, Austin, San Antonio Right, these are all enumerative cases, enumerative definitions for city And again it's really important to use kind of famous cases And, you know, one little shortcoming that we have here even with the definitions that are provided So far I've just listed American cities So if, suppose somebody actually doesn't know what city means But they know all these cities that are just listed off They might think that I'm just talking about American cities Now, you know, this isn't necessarily bad But it does show a limitation of defining by extension Even in the case where I provided the demonstrative definition of dog If somebody really doesn't know what dog is and I point to my dog and say, that's dog They might think that dog means pet Or dog means cute Or something like that, right? Now, again, it's not necessarily bad but it shows kind of a limitation for defining by extension And every kind of definitions that we're going to talk about has a limitation And again, that's not necessarily bad But it shows that none is just complete all on its own So we got a demonstrative definition and we've got a enumerative definition Let's keep going Well, the next kind of definitions by extension that we have is subclass Now subclass is kind of like enumerative Enumerative is where you list particular instances of the definitum And, you know, famous instances Well, subclass is where you list kinds, right? Or, you know, kinds within the definitum So suppose we're providing a subclass definitum of car So we could have sedan, hatchback, two-door, four-door, luxury We've got all kinds of ways where we can start providing a subclass definitum for car Suppose we're doing a subclass definitum for tree We can have oak, fir, cedar, ash All these different subclasses of tree for a definitum Like I said, it's like enumerative Enumerative you're giving particular instances Subclass is where you're giving a list of kinds within that definitum Now that wraps up our three kinds of definitions by extension Let's move on to definitions by intention So defined by extension is where you provide the definitions by pointing to cases Listing instances of the definitum Defined by intention is providing a definitum of meaning You're going to use further words and phrases as a definitum as opposed to, you know, objects or cases So maybe it's not, you know, people are going to argue about this But maybe a way to think about it is defining by extension is exterior to your mind Defined by intention is defining by what's already in your mind Okay, so the first kind of defined by intention that we have is synonym And this is where you provide a definitum that is similar or as close as you can get exact in meaning as the definitum So if we're going to define a dog We might use a synonym canine or pooch or puppy Or in today's internet vernacular doggo Yeah, there's all kinds of ways to provide synonyms Suppose I want to define speed I can talk about swiftness, quick, acceleration These are all similar, although not exact in meaning And when providing a synonym for a definitum You have to make sure you use a word that's more well known than the definitum So we all pretty much know speed, right? Well, suppose somebody doesn't know the word speed And I provide the word alacrity for the definitums Well, alacrity is probably less well known than speed So that wouldn't be a good synonym Now, again, as with all these, defining with synonyms has its limitations So first of all, the definitums that you provide has to be known to the person you're talking to That would be good when you're providing that sort of definitums And also, it may not necessarily be as exact So, you know, I say alacrity Well, suppose I'm defining alacrity and I use speed Maybe it's kind of close to alacrity Speed and alacrity are close to each other, but they're not exact Now, synonyms are helpful for kind of getting in the ballpark Or trying to get somebody more or less acquainted But they're not perfect Again, none of these ways are perfect Well, that gives a synonym Let's move on to the next defining by intention Well, the next kind of defining by intention we're going to look at is etymological Etymological definitums is providing a definitums of the history of a word So words have histories They come from previous words Other languages or earlier versions of one's own language Or the language that belongs So, you know, we had mentioned speed Well, an etymological definition of speed would be that it comes from an old English word Spoan, which in turn influenced Germanic languages And then went back to influencing old English To speed or speed n I think I'm pronouncing that right And spoan means the first version of it The first word, right? Spoan means to succeed or to prosper So it's interesting that, you know, I imagine that's not what you thought You know, given what you already think speed means You know, by today's usage It's histories begins with a word that means to succeed or to prosper Now, words have histories and it can get pretty interesting You know, some of the histories of these And when you provide an etymological definition And etymological definitions You're giving at least part of that history Well, the next kind of defining by intention is lexical And this is probably the kind that you first think of when you think of a definition You're providing a definition that's in the form, grammatically You know, of the sentence And you could do this in one or two sentences You know, one is best Now with a lexical definition You need to provide two things You need to provide the genus and the deferentia The genus is the kind to which the definitum belongs Remember earlier we dealt with dog? Well, the kind to which dog belongs is mammal It's probably a little high up there Lots of mammals But hey, mammal is a good start, right? The deferentia is what distinguishes the definitum from other members of its kind Now I am not enough of a veterinarian or a zoologist or biologist So let's give the zoological definition, very precise definition of dog So let's switch examples, let's go to chair So the definitum is chair And the genus of the definitum It's not like, you know, rocking chair, desk chair, lounge chair, recliner No, that's definitums by subclass Now you're providing kinds of the definitum You want the kind to which the definitum belongs So we're not giving specific instances of the definitum We're going up an abstraction Going to more abstraction So what kind of thing is a chair? Well, it's a piece of furniture So the genus of chair is furniture The deferentia is what distinguishes that piece of furniture That definitum from other members of its kind Well, what's helpful here is to remember or to think of what other kinds Or what other things belong to that kind So you might even work in reverse here So we're working on the definitum for chair By trying to find the genus and the deferentia What we want to think about this is let's start with the kind furniture And think of the subclasses So we got chair, we got couch, we got table, we have desk We have ottoman, lamp, right? These are all pieces of furniture So we've got the definitum chair We have the genus furniture We're looking for the deferentia That's what distinguishes chair from other pieces of furniture Well, what distinguishes chair from, say, something like a table?  Well, a chair is for one person to sit Good again, right?  Stool Well, a stool, a chair has a back and a stool does not Okay, there we go So a chair is a piece of furniture with a back for one person to sit That's the genus and the deferentia We're given a single sentence definition Single sentence definitions for chair By the way, being able to develop this skill is very useful If you can provide a single sentence definition for the terms you're talking about off the top of your head You will be very capable at explaining yourself in a moment's notice And you give the impression and hopefully not the delusion that you know what you're talking about Alright, so we've been defining the extension and defining by intention Now let's look at exclusion Again, strictly speaking, defining by exclusion is not defining It's just sometimes helpful maybe clearing up confusions or kind of getting a person in the ballpark And you know, it's defining by what the defininum is not And again, that is not actually defining Alright, because hey, look at that, that's not a computer Alright, but it doesn't tell me what it is And if you're going to take that approach, right, I had to list everything that exists Everything else that exists besides that thing in order to provide that sort of definition by exclusion But sometimes it can't be useful, it's not always useful, but it can be useful So let's take the first way we're going to define by exclusion And that's by defining by antonym Now defining by antonym is actually a lot like synonym You're providing a word that's more or less the opposite So you're providing a defininum that's more or less the opposite of the defininum This has varying degrees of precision, but it can be useful So, laggard, that's a fun word, laggard And somebody says, well, what's laggard? Well, you might start with the defininums by antonym By saying, well, it's the opposite of quick or the opposite of rapid Notice, quick and rapid are both synonyms for speed I'm kind of touched on a theme here But yeah, so laggard, it's a fun word So I was like, well, what's laggard? Well, it's the opposite of quick or it's the opposite of speed Or opposite of rapid, rapid, excuse me, not rapid, rapid So defining by antonym can be useful It has some of the same rules as defining by synonym You have to provide a word that's more familiar to the person than the defininum that you're trying to define And it can come with a varying degree of precision So rapid is not an exact definition, an exact antonym of laggard But it's close, right? It's close So in the opposite direction Another kind of peculiar thing about defining by defining by antonym Excuse me, providing a defininum by antonym is that not every word, not every thing has an antonym So we've got lots of trees around us I have no idea what the antonym of tree would be So it's going to have its limited uses, but sometimes it could be useful And in this case, yeah, laggard, real quick antonym, rapid or quick We've got one more definition by exclusion The last kind of defining by exclusion we're going to talk about is specious similar And you're probably not really familiar with this kind of definition And in fact, I couldn't find a word that means specious similar So I had to resort to the clunky phrase, specious similar So when we're talking about specious similar, I'll talk about these instances where words kind of get confused Where defininums kind of get confused with one another So one way may think about it, talk about confusions of vagueness and confusions in ambiguity But by the way, another one, vagueness and ambiguity are not the same thing So those two might actually be cases of specious similars And really the idea here is, especially if you're writing a paper You want to just set aside what you're not talking about, right? Say, okay, so the defininum that I'm dealing with here is sometimes confused with these other words, these other meanings But I'm not dealing with these So one of my favorites is evolution and improvement So sometimes we talk about a species evolving And we're talking about, or a theory evolving, or society evolving, or an individual evolving And you just need to evolve, sometimes this is a phrase What they mean is, or people use this, what they mean is improve So I'm more evolved, or that society is more evolved than ours What they mean is that society has improved Okay, that person has improved, okay, but evolution does not mean improve, right? Even the word progress, sometimes we talk about making progress, or, you know, that person has made a lot of progress To mean that that person has improved or gotten better But neither evolution nor progress mean improve, right? Evolution is just, I mean, if we're dealing with the theory of evolution, that's just an explanation for the diversity of a species But a species can go from, you know, good to bad, or, you know, somehow better to somehow worse Through the process of evolution, I mean, probably chickens came from dinosaurs, right? At some point, just because a species has evolved, it doesn't mean it's gotten better You know, in our own area, the Texas Blind Salamander, right? Well, that species evolved and adapted to its environment, but it can't see anymore And if you were to put that salamander, say, up here, it would have fewer capabilities than, you know, other lizards in this area So it's not necessarily better, right? And, you know, this is like a really bad version of Superman, right? Superman came from a tougher planet, so he evolved into a tougher being He's like, no, it doesn't work that way. That's not how evolution works It'll become stronger by being in a worse environment No, so, you know, species similars is where you're trying to distinguish definitums from each other Because we sometimes get them confused for whatever reason So yeah, species similars, it's where you're trying to, you know, differentiate between two terms That sometimes get confused with one another And again, it's not strictly speaking providing a definitums But it's trying to make sure that you're on target right from the beginning And frankly, when you're dealing with papers, right? And if you're writing out a nice explication of a term It might be helpful to start out with species similars Say, look, this is not what I'm talking about. I want to distinguish this right away, right? Okay, that might be helpful when you're writing Okay, so we've got three kinds of definitums. We've got intention, extension, and exclusion Extension is by pointing to cases or instances What's exterior to the mind? Intention is providing a definitums using meaning And then exclusion is defining, even though it's not really defining Defining by what it's not, right? And with these, what, eight kinds of definitums You can clearly, very clearly explain what you're talking about to someone else And perhaps will support me to yourself


The 2019 Monster Energy FIM Speedway of Nations rolled into Landscher, Bavaria, Germany. Covers did their trick on the track after rain throughout the course of the afternoon. They were taken off and they saved the meeting without a doubt. And the action was fast and furious as soon as it got underway. Freddie Lindgren of Sweden and Vaclav Milik of the Czech Republic were standout individual performers. They were almost unstoppable throughout the course of the evening. Sweden and Poland as expected, right up there. But one of two surprise contenders, Marco Leveshin, the under-21 Ukraine rider. Very positive and had an impact on the event. Germany came good towards the end with Smolensky and Huckambeck. But even Michael Hartle, the under-21, played his part just what he needed to most for the Germans. As the meeting progressed, it looked like Sweden and Poland would be the dominating nations. But he went down to the latter stages and Germany just held on in there and managed to get a three-origan's Poland late on. And that just about kept them in the hunt for third place. Third place put them in an advantageous position of going straight through to the final knockout. But again, Freddie Lindgren, Peter Young, riding nicely for Sweden. And they timed their move to perfection to just get the better of Poland for the overall meeting victory on the night. 25 points for Sweden, with Poland on 24. Peg back by the Germans late on. Went down to the knockout stages. The straight knockout was for Heat Number 23 to see who would join the top two of Sweden and Poland in Russia. Slovenia battled out against the Czech Republic. And it was the Czech Republic who went through and the final knockout, Germany, with a three-or did enough. Sweden, Poland, and Germany go to Russia.


As you can see, we've located on last week a large number of weapons that were located at an Alexandra Hills address. Police have made some inquiries and subsequently charged the resident with a number of Weapons Act defences. We have about 20 odd long arm rifles as well as a handgun. The rifles vary in calibre from a .303 bolt action rifle to shotguns and semi-automatic pistol. The seizure is large and considerable. It does reflect what's out there in the greater community in relation to unregistered firearms and weapons. Police often call on the assistance from members of the public. We do that through a variety of means and including through the Chromstoppers 321 campaign which is broadcast recently. It's a campaign driven to reduce the weapons throughout the community. In this instance we've made a number of inquiries which have also included examining the address where we've searched today. In this instance this person has got no previous criminal history. It does highlight the example of people that wish to store weapons in an unsecured manner. Where it does become a matter of concern is when the weapons are unsecured and subject to break in our defences where the weapons can be stolen and distributed through the wider criminal network and community. I think the community is in their benefit to report any activity of illegal firearms or persons that they may believe are engaged in criminal activity with a firearm and they can do that through a number of mediums but also included through the Chromstoppers campaign in 1800 triple 3 triple 0.


Hey, welcome back everybody. Jefferyk here with theCUBE. We're downtown San Francisco, the Hotel Niko. It's International Women's Day, March 8th. There's stuff going on all around the world. But we're excited to be here at the Accenture event, about 400 people, a lot of great panels, some familiar faces, some new faces, and one of those familiar faces joins us in the next segment. He's Mark Carell from Accenture Louds. Mark, great to see you. Great to see you too. And a new face, Mary Hamilton, Managing Director also from Accenture Louds. Mary, great to see you. Great to see you too. So first things, just kind of impressions of this event. I don't know if you did last year, we weren't here, you know, it's a lot of energy, kind of initial takeaways from some of the early panels. I mean, the energy is there. I mean, definitely last year we were here. I mean, we do that every year, for sure. And last year it was amazing as well. But I think this year is even bigger than we had last year. We have kind of a hub and spoke type of organization where we have also our top leadership to go from different cities.  So this year, the hub is here. And that's the reason why there's so much buzz and so much excitement. So that's really cool. All of our leadership is here. And just phenomenal guests from, and we really aim for diversity. Even not just gender diversity, but diversity across all of our different panelists. The kind of thing they're thinking about, the way they're thinking about diversity. And for me, just some of those takeaways, Vivian Ming, her point was, when she showed up, and is there a difference between how men and women are treated when she showed up as herself, as she is today, as a woman? She said, she's never been asked a math question since. And that just blew me away, that it's so black and white. And they're really, from someone that's lived on both sides, there really is a difference. Right, right, yeah. So what are the topics, you guys are involved in labs is innovation, right? So there's digital transformation, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but really innovation is kind of a more concrete thing that people are trying to achieve.  At labs, diversity is a big part of being more innovative. So how do you guys see it in your customer base? And how do you see it within the work that you guys do within your own department at the labs group? Well, I'll start just, you know, if you think about innovation, innovation that taps diversity is stronger innovation. Right, our clients are delivering products and services to a diverse audience. And as we serve our clients and try to help them transform and be more digital, we have to reflect the consumers or the buyers for their products. And if we don't have that diversity, we're not going to deliver the right kinds of innovation. I think Mary's actually right. And then what's very important to us is that we absolutely demonstrate that through numbers. So, you know, we have like seven labs, two of our leaders, our women from those labs. We have five research domain out of the five research domain, three out of the five are led by women. And I think that's pretty amazing. Now you see that from an organization perspective, but I think if you look at who are the researcher, the most prolific that we have in the labs from a few hundred people that we have, they're women, hands down. And I'm going to give you some numbers, which is again, amazing. We're kind of publishing about 2,000 clothes of patents, I mean, from the labs, I mean, since we exist.  And then our most prolific labor is a woman. She has delivered like 124 application and patent. How did that? I mean, it's just amazing. When it drives is such an important piece, right? Which is one of my favorite quotes. And God we trust, but everybody else better bring data. And right, so if you don't apply data, if you don't measure the data and you don't actually put in processes to specifically address the problem, it's just conversation, right? It's just interesting words. Absolutely, Jeff. And I think Mary will be shared with you. I mean, also we're putting a process and approach a culture that is really changing the mind. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we focus on programs, you know, not just at the junior level of recruiting. We do spend a lot of time and effort on getting out where women are. So, you know, we do things like Grace Hopper. We invest a lot to go to Grace Hopper and meet those technical women. We do things with women who code, with girls who code, you know, what's the pipeline going to look like? But then once we have them in, how do we retain them? And so we've created a community and a network where we do a number of things. We mentor them. We create external networks. We create internal networks. We create kind of a social space, a safe social space where you can bring up questions like, what should I wear to International Women's Day without, you know, having to feel awkward about asking those kind of things. We create a community that empowers and makes people feel comfortable. And do the clients get now that they, for whatever good, bad, or otherwise, they just need more good people? Yeah. And you just can't not pull from the greatest population of good people that she can pull from. Yeah. Absolutely, you're absolutely right. And I think that's another aspect from what I see what's happening in the lab. And I think Mary is a great example of that. We're looking at role models, like amazing women like Mary that's going to be driving, basically, striving and showing that our people that you can really have a fantastic career pass as a technology person in the lab and in the Accenture organization overall. I think that's very, very important for us.  And I try to bring that to work, right? I try to show people, you know, I'm not just taking the, you know, hardcore path. You know, I'm balancing a family.  And I let it show, right? This is hard, you know, how can I help you? Here's what I'm going through. You know, here are the challenges I'm facing and try to bring others along too. So funny we did an interview years ago, actually at an IBM event and it was a great woman who was from an HR kind of consultative background. And she said, you know, we spent all this time trying to find these great people that have all these great attributes.  Now you need to not be you, the mom. That's right, we gotta judge you. You just gotta be this little machine. And that's really not the way anymore, not at all. And credit to our leadership, to Mark, to Paul, Ellen, all the way up, right? There's a true support for being truly human, bringing yourself to the workplace. And they support it, they encourage it, right? And I think that that culturally seeps in to how we bring diversity to innovation too, right? It's bring your whole self to how you think about innovation. When we're hiring, I mean, I have a great example.  And he came in and we were talking about his work. And then I took him out to meet the team that was building the proof of concept for him. Some tangential areas. And he met people from not just men and women, diverse, but also different backgrounds, engineers, researchers, you know, business folks. He met people from all kinds of backgrounds around the world. And he was able to have conversations about sports science, cricket, you know, extended reality, and bring all those conversations back. And at the end of his meeting, he said, I was just floored at how many engaged conversations I was able to have with different people and the diversity of your workforce. And it's not just male, female, right? You need that broad spectrum diversity to fuel innovation, fuel new ideas.  Well, I was just going to say, so, you know, obviously it's a feel-good day today and it's a feel-good place right here. But what are some of the significant, is it just execution or are there still some big hurdles that we have to overcome? Especially, Mary, from your perspective. Mark's got it all figured out so we don't have to worry about him. Well, yeah, I mean, there absolutely are, right? There is a pipeline problem. There is a pipeline problem both from girls in STEM coming up, right? What culturally we're telling girls. And then there's a pipeline problem for, you know, we need to hire today. And I'm actually on the board of Women Who Code because I'm so passionate about their mission is, let's get women to understand that technology's approachable. That it is for all of us, right? There's so many, the spectrum of what you can do with technology is so broad. And it's so, really, if you think about it, so appealing to so many women, if you hit the right, you know, focus for them that I think we can bring more women into tech even now, right? We don't have to wait for the pipe. We have to work on the pipeline, but we don't have to wait for it. We can start now. It's great. I mean, we do stuff with Girls in Tech and Girls Who Code and obviously you're Grace Hopper too.  And she learned how to code. And I don't know how old she was, but she wasn't. And we have so many, we have so many of those stories at Women Who Code. It turns their life around. And maybe the tech for good. Yeah, I think that's interesting. I mean, like also the nature of some of the project we're doing also are driving women, I mean, basically to be involved in this project. You know, the tech for good. I think I discussed that with you. I mean, for some of those interviews where we're using technology innovation to really change the world and society and everything. We really believe, and we're not the only one to believe that. You know, I mean, there was like other CEOs from other organizations that believe that like women are really attracted to build solutions or projects to be involved in projects that are really a purpose. They're meaningful to the society. And so the tech for good that we have launched, first of all, got an incredible success not only within the firm, but outside of the firm. And the second thing is that it attracted tons of woman talents. They love these kind of things. And then because they love that, they want to stick with Accenture and they're going to be striving. Yeah, I mean, you get both sides of the coin. You're doing things that are empowering women in many cases. Right, right. You know, all the projects we're doing. And then that's also attracting women because, you know, we're excited about the development of society and humanity. Yeah, it's interesting. You know, I got to give a lot of credit to kind of the younger generation coming up in terms of the prioritization of purpose within their hierarchy and deciding what to do, what companies to work for, how to spend their time. You know, it's very different than when we were coming, we didn't think about purpose, trying to get a good job, right?  They don't want a car. They don't want a mortgage. They didn't want to do the nothing. And I'll tell you something, Jeff. I mean, it's just like the tech for good. I was just discussing with Mike Sutley just before that, our chief officer for digital. And I was telling him that the tech for good, the reason why we decided to do the tech for good in the lab and talking to my leaders and everything, it's just like, because my kids come to me, it's just like, hey, dad, you have the best job in the firm now. I mean, you need to do something with it.  That's it. I love it. All right, we're running out of time, so give me the last word. When we come back a year from now, I'll probably see you in a month since I see you all the time. But a year from now at International Women's Day, what are you working on? What are your priorities? How does this integrate into what you guys are doing at labs in your brand new space, by the way? Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, part of the mission in that brand new space is to create these accidental collisions, right? And I think that is about. Accidental collisions. Collaborative collisions, I should say. Accidental collaborative collisions. I was like, I love that term. We're not just colliding with each other. We're collaborating in these collisions. And Adam's quiet. These big things happen, right? I'm sorry, not to train the thoughts. No, no, no, that's perfect. And I think that whole mission is about how do we create that diversity of thought? How do we bring people together that wouldn't have collaborated in the past? So my mission is we're moving into that new space is to get my labbers who are on our own little floor, doing our own little thing, to expand our horizons, right? To think about diversity across the spectrum. How are we going to work with other groups? How are we going to bring different pieces to the innovation? So I hope we can reflect that even as we come back next year to this program. Great, all right. And my job is really to, I mean, as to pile on what Mary says, like I'm going to continue stretching particularly the boundaries of our research because I think that there's nothing better than to do like hard research to solve a hard problem, to elevate our people. And to be honest, whether it's woman or man, they're all labbers, they're all part of our family and there's no better basically reward for you to see those people basically shining and explaining their passion to our clients, changing social ideas and everything. That's what we're going to do. Love the passion, Mark. Mary, it's always great to catch up. It's great to see you.


essory dwelling unit could be also on a park occupied as a co-op arrangement could that be like to owed or would that come under a duplex bylaw if somebody wanted to make two owner occupied units on the parcel is that is that going to be something that what might be possible down the line like under fifty age fifty two fifty or something like that again i can't i can't see people um chris breastrup has her hand up um i think the permitting might need to be changed but um my first initial reaction is that the zoning bylaw doesn't really deal with um the owners the types of ownership like condominiums we don't talk at all about condominium so if that's what you're referring to things like you know one of the or condominium could be possible but it would be a legal um a legal mechanism outside of zoning and that that would be my opinion but would the zoning allow that to happen if if you've got an extra unit that's not becomes non-conforming as a duplex we probably need to ask our legal counsel about that but it seems like it would be possible unless rob has a different point of view yeah there's nothing that prohibits the condominium but the form of ownership as chris said isn't regulated by zoning so there's nothing that would prohibit that from occurring even right now because that sounds like a good idea when you get two units without the added square footage required for duplex to owner occupied units thank you helta very good uh janet so um i was going to say which seems strangely pertinent right now is i went to a presentation by chris lee about backyard ad use and he did point out that you could have um an adu and then you could turn it into a condo so you know the property would be owned in common and they could be the condom you know the adu could be sold as a condo or the original house and so you know there is a way to change the you know change that from owner occupied with the adu to just two condos sharing the same property but that is something that just is not covered by our zoning so yeah i will say i'll just jump in you know habitat did that um on the duplex on 235 east pleasant street and they did that also further up on north pleasant and i think you know it's like a convex it can be difficult if there's common areas like the driveway you know if there's not you know if it's a shared driveway and shared um you know storage areas for trash or other and recycling then it can be difficult to you know come up with a condominium association just on two units so you know habitats done it they you know it is a lot of work the town worked with them with the one on um you know the hawthorne property and it is a lot of work for two just for two units and especially depending on how the property is configured you know it would be easier right if it's a detached structure accessory dwelling um but you know i do think that something that the zoning doesn't regulate in it you know i think legally it depends on i think a number of things number of factors with the property owners and also the banks uh depending on how they would view it you know the mortgage holder on the property but it is possible good good um rob yeah i just wanted to clarify uh an earlier comment that you know i i was responding to what i thought hilda was asking about a duplex example um when we're talking about the accessory dwelling unit permitted under this section even the way we're drafting it now uh when you create a condominium and put them both into private separate ownership it's no longer an accessory situation so you ended up with two principal uh dwelling units essentially so that would be something different so i think we'd have to to janet's comment if we wanted to um embrace that possibility we want to build we would have to build that into the bylaw that doesn't uh wouldn't permit that now because just the simple relationship between principal and accessory use good okay so i see no further hands up so i'm wondering we're definitely going to take up footnote m uh next week what's what do you see the action item here uh chris for for this item the adu item i don't think there is an action item i think people need to have a chance to look at the material that's been posted and sent to them and then maybe next week they'll be ready to um decide if that's what they want to go forward with okay good so i'm also you know so we're like uh three hours into this and the and the next one the bl um is a big one i'm i'm wondering if uh we could you know take a a poll here do people want to gut out you know more complicated item uh you know at this time at night um and so that that's just my opinion i'll forge for it but i i feel like the there's been a lot of a lot of heavy lifting here by everyone and i just want to make sure that it you know it doesn't fall on deaf ears if we're doing this presentation uh given um you know it's 9 30 so often it's going to do a quick straw poll um is that sound reasonable to you chris my recommendation would be to um ask nate's for baron's and put this off till next wednesday if nate is available to present it and i think we'll all be um you know much more bright eyed and ready to accept the new ideas okay nate what do you say uh sure maybe maybe i'll even update the presentation a little bit then okay oh you know again i i know we have a lot uh but i just um so i mean i i think you know i i think the slides were at least emailed to the board and you know um like with the adu if there's comments you know board members have comments individually you can also send them to staff and you know that could help you know refine the presentation okay well i know they weren't in our package i know i'm i'm they're they're in my email i'm sure if you say so uh i'm behind any here let me get anybody want to put a hand up on the board with regard to moving forward with with the next item which is dealing with the bl uh janet um i would love to start next week with the bl i'm i'm tired yeah good uh and maria i wonder if we could just do two topics per meeting so you know three was a bit of a stretch i think so maybe next week start with bl and choose one of the other two well um yeah i guess three you know uh we can always do what we're going to do tonight it looks like uh andrew yeah i would like to postpone it i think actually maria that's a pretty good suggestion just to help keep us focused um yeah i would i would support that okay all right with that uh let's put um the bl and we can kind of discuss what's in order because i feel like we're close on them um it'd be nice to kind of and i know bl was the first one that that the zoning subcommittee took on so you know maybe we can talk chris and work out what what order uh we don't want to do and kind of get some feedback on that but um we'll be meeting uh next next wednesday uh on these zoning priorities so with that um we can skip to old business you know business no new business and you don't have to do any reports and we have a form a that's coming in but it's not here yet and yeah you as far as uh new things that are coming in i know that the north amherst library is probably coming in tomorrow so that's something for you to look forward to for mid march and there are other things out out there in the wings sure okay uh and then you put in the packet the there's a little summary from the planter valley planning commission i did yeah on the highlights so um um and i want to apologize to dug for not having answered his questions i think i did forward them to the planning board members did i not oh i forwarded them to ben and expected him to answer them in his presentation so we'll look back at those questions dug sorry and another good reason to uh to push this to next week is is tom uh never was able to make it um he gave us warning that he's he was dealing with a personal issue so um with that i mean reporter the chair i have nothing i want to thank my wonderful planning staff for all the work they've been doing in the last few weeks it's really impressive thank you it sure is all right i think we're gonna adjourn um we'll see y'all next week hey thank you can i jack hey i might i gotta turn up the recording how do i do that do you want to stop cloud recording


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Good morning everyone. My name is Kim Jameson-Crafton and I'm the President of Historic Columbia's Board of Trustees. On behalf of the board and I want to take a moment and recognize some of our board members that are here. Roderick Schriver, Laura Folline, Mary Elam, thank you all for being here, as well as Patrick Cleary, President of Palladium Society. We welcome you to the new Boyd Foundation Horticultural Center. We stand on a four-acre site that has held one of Columbia's signature landmarks, the Hampton Preston Mansion and Gardens, since 1818. Today this site is a cornerstone of Columbia's Robert Mills Historic Garden District. The history of this place is significant and its future is bright due to the completion of the Boyd Foundation Horticultural Center. To tell you more about what this building means for Historic Columbia, I invite Robin Waits, my dear friend and Executive Director of Historic Columbia to the podium. Good morning. Exciting day. Anyone can see just by walking through these doors or walking around the block or in the front gates that the Boyd Foundation Horticultural Center is a really stunning addition to the landscape of this site, but not just to this site, really to Columbia more broadly. But why is it important to Historic Columbia? So it completes a major component of a cultural landscape master plan that we adopted in 2006, and it was designed that cultural landscape master plan was designed to do three things. The first was to guide the establishment of period appropriate gardens across the 14 acres and six sites that are managed by Historic Columbia. That plan also established consecutive links between these sites that allows us to showcase 200 years of landscape history all within this district. And then the third is to brand this neighborhood the Robert Mills District as the Robert Mills Garden District. Historically the Hampton Preston site was the finest garden in the region in the 1850s. In addition to having a unique design and plants from all over the world, a greenhouse also stood in this location. The Boyd Foundation Horticultural Center support allows us to return this corner of the property to its historic, but also allows us to build a much more robust future. This aspect of our work will enable us to do the following. Enhance the working capacity of our grounds team who tends to these 14 acres across our campus, and Keith Mearns is standing there hiding in the back because he likes plants and not people. Not really. Not really. He likes people too. It'll provide us new opportunities for plant propagation both in this building as well as the nursery that stands just east of here. And it offers a new space for programming, for events, for special projects, bringing people not only to the site but to the greenhouse as well. And we, I tell you, we have been really dreaming of this moment since 2006. And I know that others were likely envisioning this possibility before us. For members of our past and current board, for those who served on our garden steering committees, volunteers who work in the gardens, and again, the staff who stayed the course until we got this done. I'm really grateful to have worked with each person who helped to bring this project to fruition, but especially to Susan Boyd, who has been on our garden steering committee since 2007, and really enabled this to become a reality. Thank y'all. Just like Robin said, while each member of the garden steering committee was invaluable to the 2006 cultural landscape master plan, there was one member of that committee who had the resources and the vision to make a plan a reality. Susan Boyd through the Boyd Foundation. The Boyd Foundation's immense generosity is felt throughout the Columbia, felt throughout Columbia and the Foundation's projects. But the Hampton Preston site has been truly transformed by their donations. A $1.5 million investment in this site's building and grounds led to facility and garden improvements and upgrades. Now we stand in a $2.5 million gift from the Boyd Foundation that brings historic Columbia's work to new heights. That sounds like a little, I work for the airport, so I love any kind of... Susan, we thank you for your work and your support, and we invite you to share more from the podium. Well, I've known about this place for a long time because of the Garden Club. It's the only thing we had to put money in from our trips and stuff, which was readily reset, but wasn't quite enough. But we had fun doing it. And so I think to realize all that has done a very good job for very little money. And I like to say, and I won't go any further, there is another engine that has made all this possible. And if you put your thinking caps on, you will finally come to know the reason that I say this. It is the engine that has made all this possible. So think hard and you'll come up with it. Anyway, Donny and I were both born in Columbia and he has done very well. And so we thought we'd put it back into Columbia. And it has been very well-recepted. And I think Columbia has so many good things. And I know when I grew up, it had horses and I got on one in a hurry. But it has so many areas that can be made so much better. And Donny did it, I had nothing to do with it at all. I simply ran the house. But he did it and he wanted his money back here and thought it would make about a city. So that's what we've tried to do. And I hope you all enjoy it. Thanks. The Hampton Preston site has enjoyed travelers throughout its existence from those who visited its famed gardens of the 1850s to the days as tourist homes in the 1950s and 60s. We look forward to the impact that this building will have not only on historic Columbia, but also the community at large through enhancing the tourism offerings of our gardens. Now we will hear more about the importance of tourism from Charlene Slaughter with Experience Columbia SC. Good morning. As Kim mentioned, I am Charlene Slaughter. I'm Director of Communications at Experience Columbia SC. I'd like to acknowledge Kelly Barber who's here. She's our Vice President of Marketing Communications and the rest of our Experience Columbia team that's here also. Tourism's economic impact in the Columbia region cannot be overstated. It's a $2.3 billion industry. The Boy Foundation Horticultural Center will only increase the tourism appeal of Columbia for so many types of travelers. The gardening enthusiast, nature lovers, plant moms and dads, and anyone who wants to get to know the real Columbia SC. More than that, this building will tell another part of Columbia's story, one that we share with potential visitors throughout the Southeast and the nation. From the team at Experience Columbia SC, we congratulate historic Columbia and the Boy Foundation on this achievement and look forward to welcoming tourists, travel writers, convention attendees, and others to this beautiful structure. Congratulations. While historic Columbia cares for the Hampton Preston mansion and its grounds, the building is owned by Richland County and the incredible partner and the rehabilitation of the building and the organization as a whole. I'm going to take a quick second to recognize Councilman Paul Livingston and Councilman Gretchen Barron. One of our, who serves as our county liaison, Gretchen is here to say more about the county's role. Gretchen? I am so excited. I get real confused when I have historic Columbia and experience experience Columbia right in the same room because these are the two groups that I just, I enjoy working with a lot because here, this is Richland County. We're the capital county and the day has come that we now are bringing people to Richland County and they want to be here to visit and they want to stay and now we have something else great to offer because of the Boy Foundation. This is an excellent, excellent example of what private public partnership looks like. When I came on Council about a year ago, the one thing that I really wanted to see more of was collaborative efforts and I think this is an excellent example. Richland County has invested more than $1.3 billion in our facilities that Historic Columbia manages for Richland County and they've been doing it now for a very long time, just a very long time, like 1960. So here we are today to celebrate something just a few months ago we stood over by that tree and we dug into the ground and broke ground and starting today and for the rest of the weekend we'll celebrate what's to come here in this building. I was telling them earlier as I close that I was downtown with my husband and we passed by the building and we actually saw a class going on or a meeting or something and I told him I said it's open it's open and he's like what what are you talking about I said you don't see the greenhouse and he's like has that not always been there I said in our minds it was so it's now a reality that's come to pass I say congratulations I look forward to many more years of partnerships thank you. Historic Columbia's purpose is to preserve places and share complex stories that connect us in the present and inspire our future. Our next speaker is someone with the future of Columbia on his mind Mayor Daniel recommend Mayor. It's a great day in Columbia everybody once again we have a beautiful opening as we've talked about since since this election season has changed and we've transitioned that Columbia is open we're open for business we're open for collaboration and we're open for ideas and once again we're at an opening here uh it in a great I've been riding by this for months and months and looking at beauty and I've had more people talking about this structure than anything else going on in Columbia so thank you Mrs. Boyd thank you the Boyd Foundation. I live in a house full of women and today I'm in a room full of very powerful trailblazing women and it's very exciting you know the Palmetto State has more women and businesses we were in the top five in the country for more women and businesses and so once again we have a trailblazing uh patriarch here who who's really helping us move forward and I want to do something different I don't want to talk about the center today I'm Mrs. Boyd I want to thank you for your contributions to the city of Columbia and I want on behalf of the city of Columbia my fellow council members present you with a proclamation declaring March 9th the Susan Boyd Day in Columbia South Carolina and present you with the key for the city of Columbia for all your contributions and everything you've done we can't thank you enough there there's just not enough words to thank you but this small token from us to for all the everything you do and you continue to do and being such a great role model for our next generation and opening eyes for everyone thank you thank you Charlene may you recommend councilwoman Bearon Susan Robin for being here and for all of you sharing in this momentous occasion I've got a couple of thank yous I want to run through before we have a special presentation another special presentation thank you to Lambert architects and cone construction to the members of the historic Columbia board of trustees thank you to our wonderful and dedicated staff and I especially want to highlight the garden staff today as we mentioned Keith Mearns director of the grounds Melanie Murray groundskeeper and Dave rough this small but mighty team cares for all of the grounds throughout the entire historic Columbia properties I also want to thank Renee Chow our director of marketing and communications as well as David Turner the director of development here for historic Columbia they work tirelessly behind the scenes to make all these things happen and go off without a hitch so thank you so much also I would be remiss if I didn't say something about John cheer thank you for all of your dedication to historic Columbia over the years thank you to our volunteers who have donated and will continue to donate to the countless volunteer hours and available hours members of the Boyd Foundation Susan George and Ford Boyd Bailey Mary Bond Bailey Walter Taylor thank you for your support it's also Taylor boy I'm sorry if I missed him thank you for your support and your trust and guidance this project is just a small part of the investment you were making in this community which is transforming where we live where we work and where we play thank you


All right guys, of course I'm hanging out with another legend. This is Rafton. What's up Rafton? Buona's U.S. Honor. Good. It's the last time. We were tied at Yohan's album. What's the name of the hotel? The name of the hotel? Kempinski. It was at Kempinski. Yes, yes. How do you feel? Are you fairing? I'm feeling better, Buona. As you can see, Buona.  This day has reminded me of the days when we were starting, Buona. And I've loved the audience, the fun, the energy was above the ceiling. And I think the sound was good. I think the organizers, the sponsors, everyone who came through. We're new guys. Thanks so much for being there. Do you know TSO is something you know? Personally, I grew up going to the shows and all that. And now it's back. How do you feel that TSO is back? I'm happy. But will you look at TSO and be happy? I'm happy because it laid the foundation. It's legendary. It was one of the events that actually laid the foundation for the gospel concerts. So seeing it coming back, I mean, we are only but excited. And you know, if it is not for them occupying this space, other people will occupy. And you saw even Rafton tried pure praise. There is groove. There is TSO, the more the merrier. So what I'm going to tell the TSO organizers is this is the best thing that has happened in 2022. Yes. I totally believe that. Now, you know, Rafton, looking at the gospel industry, where it was back then and right now, we feel like there's a separation that has happened. Some people have started doing secular music. Others are still doing gospel, you know, and others are doing collaborations with secular artists. What are your thoughts about, you know, the change that has happened? For me, it's very easy. I don't believe in... I've seen it, my friend is here. Jones is here, my friend. But I don't agree in doing collaborations because you two cannot work together unless they agree. And you even had the story of King Solomon. The moment he brought in foreign, you know, wives in the kingdom, they confused his mind. So I'm not saying anything, but I'm just saying, if you're of God, stay in Godbanner.  No. No, no, no, no. I can minister to them, but honestly speaking, I cannot minister with them. The same way, I cannot go to the clubs with Jones and I minister with him. The same way, I cannot minister with him in the church. So for me, I say you can love everyone, even Jesus loved everyone, but never in the Bible did you see Jesus preaching with the tax collectors. I mean, no disrespect, you know. He loved Lazarus, he told him, come to the tree. Today, I'll eat in your house, but in his house, he preached to him. So that is black and white.  So for me, I encourage, even me, I was a secular artist. I've been a secular artist. Many people don't know I was a secular artist and there's somebody who preached to me and that's how I got born again. So I'm calling upon everyone on the other side with so much love. Am I perfect? No. Am I holding them down? No. But you cannot, nothing can be further than the truth. Does that mean you would actually not, you know, consider to do a collaboration with a secular artist? I mean, consider is an insult. We don't, you don't do that. No disrespect. You don't do that. Even now, I'm in politics. And that's politics. So how much more salvation. So that's what I can say, but let's know the Kenyans on Twitter boss me. I'm saying I love them and God loves them, but you have to renew. You have to be, you have to be born again for you to start this journey. You cannot be born again, then born backwards and still in the same journey. That's, that's what brought this confusion. If I don't speak, maybe no one will speak. Yes.   What are your thoughts about that you've been a man of God and getting into politics? I think there's been a very serious misconception about politics. And should I say salvation? You know, I'm normally perplexed when people say that because King David in the Bible is a politician and also a musician, how did King David get into the palace? He used to sing. He used to be looking after the ship. And when the king in Stathouse had a matrimony, demons, they said, we'll bring a young boy, we'll be playing a harp for you so that the evil spirits can leave you. And that was King David's ticket to Stathouse. And that's how King Saul noticed him. He tried spearing him. And how did David again get into politics? He was a young boy looking after his father's ship, taking lunch to the soldiers, his brothers, elder brothers. And when he saw Goliath immolating the children of Israel, he said, who is this unsurpassed Philistine that is, disregarding my God and he challenged him and he killed him. What happened? Politics began immediately. The women started saying, King Saul has killed thousands but David has killed tens of thousands. Political hype began. And what happened at the end of the day? King Saul said, the one who killed Goliath, I'll give them my daughter as a wife. I'll give them land, I'll give them so many. And automatically, David became, should I say, familiar with kingship. And we saw him growing with favor with both men and God. And he became the king of Israel. They ruled for over 40 years. So that is a Christian musician, politician, and a king. It's in the Bible. And that's just one person. He mentioned Daniel, who was taken to Babylon and he was taken into kingship under the king Cardenas. And the guy was in the corridors of power but with integrity and faithfulness. He was even thrown into the den of lions. He served God so well that by the end of the day, King Nebuchadnezzar said, the God of Daniel is the one that we're going to serve. So we have so many men of God in the Bible. It is biblical. Politics is in the Bible. But when you go in there, then again, I'll mention another one, King Solomon, as I told you, where he was swallowed by women. Then that one also now brings problems. So God, the Bible says God anoints and chooses the leaders. He says, obey the law of the land. God says that. So that is all politics. So for me, I think it's a misconception. But again, I say with so much humility, once you've been called into leadership as a man of God, working integrity is not easy. But I can tell you there, those who worked in integrity, there is the lady, Queen Esther. She was married to a king. She was the first lady in politics. She worked in integrity. So I don't want to go on and on, but I can mention so many people in the Bible who are politicians or they were in the political arena. Next. All right. There you have it guys for both.  That was very elaborate for sure. Now, Rafton would like to know what is that one thing that is in your manifesto that you cannot wait to implement in the case that, you know, you get a position. Okay. If I happen to be a leader in this land, one thing people telling me that I took it. I'm to taste one young is a bad thing. May I tell them that is my manifesto. I've been, I can tell you I was born in Pumwani. I was raised in Islans and in Kakamega. And one thing that has really brought segregation in this country is the people who have, make sure the people who don't have don't get. So for me, my desire is to break the barrier, to make sure that I speak for the voiceless. God helps injustice. For me, I'll buy because of justice and to speak for the voiceless. That one sums up everything about my manifesto. Yes. Okay. Okay. We hear that. Now, Rafton would like to know what is that one, who is that one artist you have not seen in a long time? There are so many. One nono crew, MOG, Shem, Danco. I mean, I've stayed for so long without seeing them. I mean, I'm perplexed. So I'm really humbled. The list is endless. Like almost everyone haven't seen a very long time. So I'm really happy and I'm excited about that. This was the perfect reunion for sure. Now to Kimalizia, Rafton, I would really love you to talk to the artists that, you know, stop doing gospel music and started doing secular music. Please tell them something. The beautiful thing about God is arms are always open.  His gates are so open. His arms are so open that it can even scare the ones who are inside. The story of the prodigal son. He went exploited and he actually just, you know, degraded into something else. But when he was coming back, the father was always looking at the horizon, hoping that one day he'll come back. And when he saw him, he ran towards him. He was an old man, but he ran towards him. And he welcomed him and automatically said, there was such a big party that even the other brother felt jealous.  And we, the insiders, we are here. And the father said, this is the greatest thing that has ever happened. And Christ also says, if one ship, one, he leaves the 99 for one.  Don't come back because of anybody else. Come back because of Christ. His house is waiting for you. Your seat is there. Your bed is there. His love. You can never exhaust his love. Come back. That's what I can tell you. God loves you. We love you. Come back. All right, guys. You heard it from the legend. Thank you so much, Rafton, for talking to us. But as always, we wish you all the very best in your political aspiration. Thank you for having me. All of the pleasure. Mr. Iggy, me out. Love you.