Ahoy hoy! Last Thursday, I think it was, I did a video about the rubber's channel. It was a reaction video, and it was a blind react. And I found some very troubling things about it, and I mentioned some of those troubling things, but I didn't go into a whole bunch of detail on it. I don't know if that was a mistake or not. I always intended to maybe expand upon it a little bit later as to what my objections were. So today, we're going to talk about two things. First of all, why that channel in particular is, or at least appears to be, focused on attracting child viewers, and two, why that's bad. So first of all, we're going to answer the biggest, I left comments on that video for about a half hour to an hour, and I noticed a strong trend of children leaving comments. Now you might be like, how do you know they were children?  Those were the general kinds of comments that were being left early on. There were some reasonable arguments, but there were a lot of that. But once I noticed it was mostly kids responding, I decided to leave the comments off. There's a fair to middling chance I'm going to do the same thing for this video. Probably leave the ratings off too, just because I don't want any engagement from children. Not that there isn't a valid place on YouTube for children. Obviously YouTube kids exists and all that other stuff, but my channel is not for children. Period. So if they're coming here, then they need to not be engaging necessarily with the content. And there's only one real way to prevent that. So now we should probably talk about how I feel the rubber's content is specifically fun. Now I'm going to say this. I don't know for certain that it's intentional, right? There's a collection of things altogether.  Let me grab my headphones. I'm going to play the intro real quick to the first video, or not the first video, but the latest video they've done. From the tallest of the piles of the dead came a monster. It burst forth from the dead like a great fish from the sea, and its bellow was so evil it could not possibly come from a godly creature. Hello, everybody. I'm the rubber. Today, we bring you SCP Foundation Keter Class Object SCP-4715. So, okay. Two things I want to say real quick. This is a brilliant intro to Fortract. I mean, this is very well crafted. However, first of all, I will say the animation style differs slightly. When we talk about this cutesy little mascot here, there's a big difference between that and some of the other artwork that you see. The cutesy mascot is the biggest issue I would see with this. When you create a character like that that looks like a child, children tend to want to be associated with it. They'll be like, oh, is this for me? When your mascot looks like a kid, kids will view your stuff. Secondly, the very, very simplistic language here. From the tallest piles of the dead came forth a monster. This is... I assume this is just something that this person came up with. And I understand from what I've been told that this person's first language is not English. So, what they're doing is they're using simplistic language because it's the language they understand best. But the problem is that it's also the language that children understand best. The simpler the language, the more easily digestible it is to children, period. And then we move on to the... there's a little bit more lines, all of it very simplistic language, followed by a child's mascot. The tone of the reading, the tone of the reading is very... I'm not going to say condescending because that has negative connotations, but very childlike, like you're speaking to a kid. Like, hello, how are you doing today? Versus just normal speech. I'm not entirely sure I can do the... because I constantly am condescending, but regardless. The real issue I have with this isn't necessarily what the intention is. I don't know if the intention is to market this to kids or not. Maybe this is just this person's art style combined with limited grasp of English, combined with a particular design that they didn't give too much consideration to for their mascot. Maybe these three things combined accidentally to form a perfect storm, and the only reason I know about it is because those three things together really attracted a lot of views. That's possible, right? But that doesn't change the fact that the content itself is much more focused on attracting those child viewers. Now I want to talk a little bit about why this is bad, and also ways that this could be fixed. Animation is not just for children.  I'm not going to mince words on that. Anyone that tells you animation is only for children is dumb. However, there is a significant difference between animation that is focused on attracting child fans and viewers and animation for everyone. And that doesn't mean that the stuff that's meant to attract child viewers and fans isn't itself also valid as an adult piece of entertainment. This is the other half of it. When we talk about whether animation is or isn't for kids, that's a dumb distinction to make because animation is for everybody. People will make this thing where they think that kids shows is a derogatory thing, as if the quality of a show is dependent upon whether or not it's focused on adults or kids. There's plenty of kids shows out there that are amazingly well done and have plenty of adult fans for that reason. So I don't want to get bogged down in that or confused as to what's actually going on here. But this content needs to do either one of two things. First of all, if it's going to continue to act as though it's intended for children and then displayed adult content. By the way, I looked this up on the YouTube Kids app. It does not show up there. So at the very least, the YouTube algorithm is doing a decent-ish job of keeping it away from kids, but that doesn't mean that it's still not appealing to the kids. But this is where we're going to dovetail into the question of is SCP content for or not for kids?  So SCP content runs the gamut. There's more than 5,000 SCP articles. There's probably at least that many tales, maybe less. I think it may be the 3,000 to 5,000 range. It's hard for me to know for sure. But regardless, there is plenty of content on the SCP Wiki right now that is appropriate for children. However, there's also a lot of content that isn't and it's not really differentiated. So the SCP Wiki itself is something that you should not be steering kids towards since there's no way to know if they're going to encounter some fun piece of entertainment or something that's vicious and gory. But YouTube content's different. You as a YouTube creator get to decide what you're putting up on the screen. And if you know that even if you didn't mean to, for example, and your content can change over time, mine's content's changed over time, even if you didn't mean to market to children, if you look at your demographics data and you look at your pop, you know, whatever, and you see that it is a thing that is actually happening, you can shift your content. Or if you think this is happening and you'd like to continue doing what you're doing, you can put a warning in front of it.  That's fine as long as it's corrected.  Just as an example, on like adult swim, when adult swim starts, when cartoon network transitions from cartoon network to adult swim, there's a disclaimer on the screen, and when certain shows go on, even during adult swim, if they're particularly adult, and I think even if not, like all of their stuff gets a disclaimer at the beginning. By the way, this is adult content just in case you somehow tuned in after the last warning. That's important.  So if we want to, we could choose to pick the cutesy Wondertainment, cutesy, you know, RoboDoo, that kind of stuff. There's literally at least a thousand, probably multiple thousands worth of SCPs that are appropriate for any age. Well, maybe not any age, but most ages. The thing is, the SCP Wiki itself is another thing that we definitely don't want to be steering kids towards. One, the content. The content is very adult, and it's mixed in with stuff that's perfectly child-appropriate, and you can get your kids very confused, and your adults very confused when they think that it's safe for work, and it's not. You know, we use the word safer work to mean like appropriate, but we talk about kid-friendly and not kid-friendly, and it'd probably be more accurate here. So you think that the content's kid-friendly, and it maybe isn't. And secondly, and I hate to have to put it this way, the SCP Wiki is home to predators, for lack of a better way to put it. And it's not our job to necessarily protect everybody all the time from everything, but I think we can agree that protecting children from predators is a pretty good goal. And the SCP harassment team does a job in trying to prevent this, but they don't have a great track record, and the secrecy surrounding the way they handle things can be very, make it very difficult to truly evaluate how good or bad of a job they're doing. So I have to assume from, you have to make certain assumptions on how that works. I'm not saying that the SCP Wiki has a child predator problem. I don't think it does. Well, it depends on how you define problem. Is it systemic? I don't think so. Is there a problem because people who are in that community are child predators? Yes. But that's true of any large community. It's how the community deals with it and responds to it that's important. And I just don't see the SCP harassment team doing a solid enough job. And they have made a lot of improvements over time. But that's important to keep in mind. So I very strongly would believe that steering children towards SCP content is somewhat irresponsible. Once people reach their mid to late teens, you have to assume that there's some level of personal responsibility on their parts. But when we're talking about kids below the age of 13, we have to do a better job of identifying what is and isn't kids content and in making it clear to our own viewers what is and isn't kids content. I mean, look at this here. This, and I put this picture in with my thumbnails from time to time. This is an animation while it's not animation technically, but this is a cartoon character. This is a drawing, right? But if you look at it, it's always been one of those things is like, you know it when you see it. You look at something and the issue is also that what one culture or nation even or country, I should say, thinks of as adult or kids focused content differs. There are probably places even in the Western world that would look at this and be like, I don't see any difference between this and anything else. And then there would be other places that would be like, this is clearly kids content and this is clearly adult content. We have to work from our own assumptions of like our own cultural biases. There's really no other options to do. We can recognize that there are other other opinions and other views, but we also have to operate on our own assumptions and deal with this kind of content on those assumptions. And I've talked to a lot of people about this and I've shown them some of this stuff and they mostly, not all, but mostly agree with me that it is clearly if not deliberately kids focused then accidentally kids focused and probably deserves at least a disclaimer to make sure that kids are warned that this is not kids content. Because if you come across that intro just now and you're a kid, you very well may think that this is kids content. It's pretty reasonable, but it isn't. That's it. That's the long version of my reaction now that I've had about a week to think about it and actually put together a video about it. And like I said, there's probably not going to be comments enabled on this video because as I said, the people who are attracted to the last video based on the content that was in it tended to be children. And YouTube does automatically, if you choose that something is intended to be focused on kids will automatically disable comments and ratings. I did it preemptively because I could see that it was kids. That was on me and I'm probably going to do it again. That's it. Thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, please hit the subscribe button and then hit the notification bell next to that so you're notified when I upload new videos. 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I keep trying to tell people man. EDC got y'all But people don't want to hear me. They don't want to listen. They'll just ain't sleeping all EDC taking today off All EDC got PTO. No, let that man do his thing. It's coming man. It's happening. It's on the way He just chill. I know we as Ravens fans. We are so Impatient we want everything to be handled in the first two and a half days of free agency We want the whole team the whole roster the whole depth chart all sorted out in the first two days of free It takes time man, and we know this we know this Like y'all know man that been tell I've been super frustrated with the way that Ravens be doing things But again told you after last year EDC you're in my trust man. He earned it That's why he ain't been tripping out this year, man. He been tripping out over nothing man I know they got it man. EDC be reading y'all comments. I'm telling you I know he does he be reading y'all comments He'd be looking at him like Look what that guy said about oh look what she's oh look what they say. Oh watch this watch this and Obviously not saying that this move is the end all be all to the offensive line because it's not but this is a start Before you into it team keep it clean make sure you subscribe to the channel turn notifications on and run them Baby Let's go So Eric Acosta and the Baltimore Ravens announced out of nowhere. We didn't hear about no visits I mean, I ain't here about no visits. I didn't even know that he was in a building Then all of a sudden we see a picture we see a picture of Josh Jones sign the contract taking a picture at Orange Meals When did he even get there like see this is how we know EDC be working when we don't even think or know that he be working Anyway, so the Baltimore Ravens announced that they have signed veteran tackle Josh Jones Who is Josh Jones? What is it about Josh Jones? Well, Jeff's ribbon gave us a quick breakdown and I'm gonna give you what I heard About him to he said a Jones a third round pick by Arizona in 2020 has started 24 games over the past three seasons The 26 year old was with the Texans last year Don't think this will impact the team's draft plans along with the offensive line or along the offensive line But it does add some depth and experience after Ravens lost Morgan Moses Kevin Sightler and John Simpson now what I read about him and see to like You look at 2020. That's the year he got drafted. He was a tackle. He played tackle that year 2021 he played right guard 2022. He played left tackle and then last year with the Houston Texans He played tackle. So he's played some left tackle. He's played some right tackle He's played some guard. So he's somebody that is flexible He can be used at different positions along the offensive line now One thing that I did read about him is that while he did play some right tackle before too for the Cardinals um He's he was more comfortable as a left tackle. That's what he played in college That's what he played with the car. He was more comfortable as a left tackle, but DJ Humphreys was their guy at left tackle. So they had him and he was straight. He was solid So then that's they they ended up trading him to trading Josh Jones to the Houston Texans Because again, they they didn't have any use for them then because they had their guy at left tackle already now The Baltimore Ravens have their guy at left tackle already. So Oh Yeah, they'll work it out though, but again depth depth Depth there have been countless amount of times when the Baltimore Ravens they have signed a player Whether early and free agency whether later, but a lot of times later They've signed a player and I've thought okay.  I thought that about John Simpson last year I didn't I think that he was gonna end up being the Baltimore Ravens starter I remember when they signed John Simpson and I continued to say oh, I don't think they're starting left guard is even on the roster yet And boy was I wrong? Hey, he got the job. He earned it, huh? And I and now he cashed out cashed out with the New York Jets with it So with Josh Jones, you just hope that it's not necessarily a similar thing But you hope that he can have the potential to be a starter cuz he has starting experience He has plenty of starting experience like Jeff's reaping highlighted.  So one thing that I did read about him though is that he can move He can move. He is an athletic Offensive lineman So that helps with pulling when you got a run from one side of the offensive line all the way to the other That helps with blocking Because obviously an offensive lineman, they are a wall. They're protective for the quarterback But if you got athletic offensive lineman because I know that has been something that's been brought up for a long time amongst Ravens fans and this a serious concern It's a very very good point is the the type of offensive line that the Baltimore Ravens have a lot of people talked About how the Baltimore Ravens their offensive line They are and have been built To run to run blocked. They've been a good run blocking offensive line But as far as past protection, it just hasn't been there. They haven't been really built for that So them getting more athletic on the offensive line This could help them a lot now Linda Flinda Now that boy athletic man that boy that boy strong that boy can move Hey, he can move some people can he and even Ronnie Stanley like when Ronnie Stanley is healthy Hey, that boy can move too. I ain't ever gonna forget Ronnie said, I know y'all know the play I'm talking about. I don't remember what game it was. I don't know y'all know the play I'm talking about Well Ronnie Stanley, maybe I think maybe Lamar took off or somebody was running down the sideline I want to say it was Lamar and you saw big 79 running like this charging down the sideline I said, okay, Ronnie. Let's go. Y'all know what I'm talking about. I know somebody will but um, yeah, man This is this is cool man. This is cool. And again, it goes to show that as a general manager Your job is literally never done ever your job is never done Because like we continue to say it when it comes to free agency free agency starts in the middle of March Yeah, that's when it starts but Free agency never ends. It never ends. It is never over. You never stop signing people through the offseason You never stop signing people during the season.  You may have somebody requesting a trade You may have this player this grunt old this player wants a contract this player wants to deal this player wants to be Cut and release to go you go somewhere. You always got something that you got to deal with always So life as a GM. Oh, I Know them checks be nice. Oh, I know the checks are nice. Oh, I know the checks are nice, but That's a tough job my friends That's a tough tough tough tough job So shout out to Eric the cost of man Eric the cost. I got your back. You know that already because again look He don't prove it lad last year was enough for me because last year Eric the Costa he built a team that was good enough to win the Super Bowl that team was great enough to win the Super Bowl They should have won the Super Bowl anyway He did he did what he had to do on his end He did everything he had to do and more on his end to give the Ravens a team that was good was good enough to win the Super Bowl So that's why he has my trust. I trust Eric the Costa. I really do and I'm I'm gonna continue to defend him now if he do some like some silly then I'm let you know I'm saying that 80s me. That's a that's a little silly. I don't know about that one, but So far there ain't been no silly stuff And I know that um With the offensive line, I know a lot of people have been questioning like what's going on with it What's what's Eric the cost is gonna do? What's gonna happen? What how is he gonna address it and I get that because it is a major concern like we've continued to talk about It really is because you want to know how Eric the cost is going to put these guys in place to protect Lamar Jackson How who's it gonna be? All right, Ronnie Stanley is gonna be at the left tackle Tyler Linda bombs gonna be a center Who's gonna be a left guard?  Who's gonna be a right tackle? Who's it going to be? And we talked about the possibilities in the prospects of Andrew Voorhees We talked about the possibilities in the prospects of daniel filele We've talked about the possibilities in the prospects of ben cleveland and those are options But now you add josh jones to the mix. All right cool There is still more to be added to the mix There's still more bodies that are gonna be there. There's gonna be draft picks It's gonna be more free agents. It's going to be more people on the added to that offensive line I personally do not think the offensive line is set I know you personally don't think the offensive line is set And I really don't think Eric the costa thinks the offensive line is set. Why? Because it's not set We just free agency been here for a little over a week Because remember it officially started on Wednesday a legal tampering period But anyway, it officially started Wednesday. This is Thursday the next week that so we and we one week into free agency literally one week And people been tripping out like crazy What why why are you driving yourself crazy one week in a free agency? Like the Ross is supposed to be done by now. No, it's not it's not But again, this is a start You like think about this because I know I know people been going crazy about the offensive line and I get it I get it because it's not only about Lamar Jackson. Think about this. Why would the Baltimore think about it? Why would the Baltimore Ravens? Pay Lamar Jackson all that money, but then get this in the very next year Why would they pay Derek Henry all that money and then be like, you know what offensive line? We ain't worried about that. Let's let's have a garbage offensive line Let's get rid of everybody and we're not going to retool. We're not going to reload. We're not going to restock. Wow. Think about that Why would they do that?  You don't want that investment to go to waste You got Derek Henry signed to some significant money. You don't want that investment to go to what? So of course they're going to fix the offensive line of course We just got to wait it out. That's it. We just got to wait it out So let's see how this goes and let's see what other under the radar signings EDC got for us We know the visit like everybody was so focused on the visit with Michael Gallup today It's okay. What's gonna go happen with Michael Gallup? Well, I was reading the comment sections. I was just like 14 keep it clean boy. Y'all boy. I don't hold back. I appreciate it though Y'all don't hold back and let everybody know how y'all feel about whatever. I love it though I love it because y'all do it with respect. I appreciate that Then some people like, all right, Michael Gallup will be cool. Then some people like, oh, no, I don't want no Michael Gallup So I get it man, but um EDC is working Baltimore Ravens are working Now let's just see how stuff works out


She was saying, I have to say something about myself and I feel very embarrassed to talk about my work like God. I have a plan A and a plan B and a plan C. I said in my life, the first time ever happened when I become a captain, they want to make me a captain. He can't talk in English how we can make him a captain. I didn't say then, but I said within myself, I said call somebody from Oxford, he will talk, I will play. They say it's not the language I look for tomorrow, not for yesterday. Whatever happened, I learned my lesson during my life and one person, senior cricketer said to me, Gahil, if you want to be successful in life, you have to keep your eyes and ears open while sleeping also. Now understand my background, agriculture background, if somebody say keep your eyes and ears open while sleeping, I put two and two together. I said must be mad, what are you saying? How can I sleep with my eyes open while sleeping? Then he took a pause. Now youngster understand, understand the meaning what I am trying to tell you. His weak meaning is awareness and that's what you people do here giving knowledge to other people. And knowledge in my mind is 10. 1983, I know this question you must have answered million times. What is it that happened in that tournament and the team which had never even imagined or dreamt that they would get there? As a captain, my job was to convince them and once the self-belief within the team comes up, after that I was in the captain. The captain's only job is to win the matches, not look for his own performance. But certain days for you special days, keep your mind and eyes open for that day because tomorrow you can be out on zero. So when the good time comes, don't go out of the office, keep working. I wish to our non-german organizations today since we share the stage for them today. I think I have to learn a lot of things. If they reach here to achieve so much, I think they are very passionate. People work have to be passionate because you are not working for yourself. When you work for yourself, you become a selfish also. Hit the bell icon to get notified for more such videos.


ructure this is the biggest issue obviously and it's also where most of the funding is so the good news is we've increased the CIP capital plan funding about $250,000 from last year. The bad news is that still $130,000 below the target that we've been trying to accomplish and had been out a year before so we basically built half of it back this year with the goal that we'll build half back next year. However, we felt okay about that because of some of the available ability of other funding. We have the ARPA funding. I'm going to talk a little bit more later about reserve funding that I'll talk a little bit later so included in these various plots of money is funding to get us to the level of 70 PCI street conditions. That won't happen this year. I mean we won't get to 70 PCI this year but if you recall when Zeck Blodgett presented to you he said if we have a certain amount of money each year we will get there over the next couple years. We've got $325,000 in for public restrooms obviously to be determined where and how but we put funding in there. There's fundings to pursue the land for the Beck Center as discussed. East State Street which is a combination street, water sewer, combined sewer overflow, sidewalk project, the street lighting and those kinds of things for the very main intersection which we've studied and you'd approved an alternative for. Downtown street lights not only improving their performance but converting them from their current lighting to LEDs so that would be more energy efficient and also higher performance and of course the water resource recovery facility dryer that you just heard about. Oops what did I just do? Something I didn't want. Let's see yes okay I moved a slide didn't I? Yes okay under the goal of improve public health and safety we've expanded the social worker and the NPD related social worker putting in another half. You may recall the police review committee we currently have a half that's shared with Barry and partly funded by the state. The police committee recommended to put in another whole plus half of a peer support worker. We weren't able to do all of that but we have included half of the new social workers expanding our half to one full-time social worker. That's what's in the budget. We did include the body worn cameras. Dispatch consoles had been in last year so we didn't have to spend the money so holding that because that those can be used as matches for grants. We're pursuing some funding to move forward the move the televate project forward. So we're keeping that as our beginning funding for that. I believe Barry is doing something similar but I'm not sure. As you recall from when the chief was here many of the police review committee recommendations are actually in the operating budget some of the training things and those sorts of things so those are moving forward and specifically calling out the CIT the crisis intervention training which we are proceeding with. It's included in the operating plan of the police department. So to go to the cap room and here's what we're talking about you can see and again you're going to get these charts so if you can't read them don't worry they'll be all in the book. But this is showing that the the plan is up $223,000 from last year overall which is $100,000 less than the year before. There's a whole list of projects that are proposed within that funding again the committee is going to be reviewing these on Monday Monday and then you but they will also be included in your budget may change after approves and again same thing there's a list of equipment that's included within the funding that we've talked about that's where you'll find the body worn cameras for example. I'm not going to get into detail but we're basically breaking up our extra funding sources what we're calling ARPA 1, ARPA 2 and the capital reserve. So ARPA 1 is essentially the first million that we've already received and as it turned out we finally did the five violations for lost revenue in pre-match with that one million. So we're going to allocate from our proposals to use that funding for items that have been approved in prior budgets that we had to delay and not do. So these are all things that have been in previous budgets and we're going forward with that. Then we have ARPA part two which is the new money this year which is not eligible for lost revenue. So we're proposing to put about 75,000 into a community outreach type effort to deal to get some more data about community needs that were included in the survey. We're prioritizing future events and also figuring out how we can communicate a little better and that we were we were directed this is where council member Richardson, excuse me, Erickson gets the data. He directed us for Montana which really shows projects and things going on and so we're trying to figure out how to incorporate that in. This could also be a place where we put in the mayor asked me about a C-click fix solution and this could all be part of us you know in terms of getting a sense of where community needs are. This is where we have the $100,000 for the housing and services hub and we can define that more fully. And then the remaining $500,000 for investment in water and sewer infrastructure. Obviously if you choose to do something different with this or you know do some sort of public processing but we just put the rest in you know we have old water and sewer lines and anything we can do to invest in those would be great but it could also be used for other things. That's our proposal. We have what we call the restoration reserve and this is Kelly will be able to explain this more next week how we have been cutting our budgets and putting things on hold trying to stay within you know we were doing some estimates and some of our revenues came in a little better than it felt some of these products but we had the reserve at the capital and $35,000 and that is not a normal thing that we have and so we felt since we're behind we need to invest so we're proposing to take $180,000 this year to reach full funding for PCI and as I mentioned next year we're expecting to increase the capital plan budget by another $30,000 that's that funding coming to that so this is to go to jumpstart that. We have $34,000 for the DM study included and then again more trucks that had been an equipment that had been proposed that didn't make it into the other fund trying to get caught up with where we've been certainly happen to look at all of this again all of this will be reviewed by the capital projects committee but so then there's bonds so even more infrastructure we're proposing we're suggesting that there's at least sort of five bundles of bonds obviously these can be bundled however council chooses we could each each one of these could be an individual item we could could potentially bundle the east state street and the water resource recovery facility if necessary but the first one is east state street $7.2 million that includes $4 million from the general fund for the street stormwater and sidewalk improvements between the water and sewer fund for the sub surface work we're proposing $1.5 million for purchase of the property club property we think it's going to be in that neighborhood to give a site control and a future looking for lots of recreational opportunities then we have a group of infrastructure projects that have been talked about the total $1.2 million the very main intersection improvement the downtown street lights the the dpw heating system the keeping it net zero so we'll see and then we have a failing retaining wall on marvin street that needs to be addressed so we want that in here confluence park we need about 600 000 to complete that there's an external funding that would be great and then the water resource recovery facility that you just heard about for 60.4 million so you can see the totals there as i said they can be lumped however possible i think it would be an interesting conversation whether we think the voters would think that east state street and the wastewater plant were related and so we're going to try to take a look at that also getting paid i'll say that all the funding for all of our plan because we will at least the first year payment payments that will come due in the f y 23 budget later as we've looked at the future built those in so so we can do them or not do them as you see fit but they won't increase the budget for next year any more than what's already proposed so proposed is a tax property tax rate uh about six point four cents five point five i know i was five word the city portion of the budget is five percent the library's request for about 45 pushes us up to the five point four five percent so if you hold everything from last year to this year uh we're at five and then then that additional money reminder that last year's was only zero point six percent really about three percent per year over two years and there you can see the city services are five percent the library ballot has a point for five we're not proposing any changes in the sewer benefit or in the cso benefit charges and we'll have all the detail tax rate breakouts that we normally provide to you uh when we get there um so as we we think about wrapping up i would say that from from our team you know and this is for you to judge not us but we felt like we had um stage or parameters you indicated and had funded the lion's share of the strategic plan within those parameters so hopefully we're making your work a little bit easily um you know we've got to try to get the budget done before the mayor goes out so we're going to have you lifting in december this year um so just a reminder of our schedule that next week next week we're here in this room at 6 30 would not the capital and committee and we'll have three hours or so to work this you'll have your spreadsheet that you can pop your options in and see how how that works um and it would be great if you know some preliminary decisions after that but if not that's great you've got more time the following week is a regular meeting we don't have a lot on the agenda but we will have a couple we will be setting aside time at that meeting as well to talk about the agenda we have set aside wednesday january 5th for a budget workshop if we need it so again that would be budget only and then we go to the formal public hearings on january 12 and january 20 and those will also be public hearings for bonds uh the all the normal the warning about all the things that we normally do um just so the way that works for um the the newer folks is typically the council adopts a budget prior to the public hearings so we go to public hearings saying this is what the council is proposing but the council could change it up until the 20th so after you hear from the public just continue discussion it's not final until you vote for the number that goes on the ballot and then that's time because that's the number for the ballot but it's uh but again typically the way you know I propose you a budget to you you work that budget between now and january five and then you then it becomes the council's budget being proposed to the public for their consideration and then finally of course then on tuesday march one is election day however that ends up looking um seven p.m. to seven p.m. and early voting to start at least february and I know we have an item on tonight's agenda to at least discuss what those options might be but that is our schedule and that is all I have in my presentation I'm certainly happy to answer questions about any of this in big picture as I said you'll have lots of detail to look at um coming up for you don't need this I can close this off and go back to my seat knowing that we have a fair bit of time to continue to discuss this any questions that folks want to ask right now thank you yeah yeah I just also wanted to say how impressed I am with what you all have come up with you've managed to do quite a bit with what was still not you know the revenues that we hoped would be have bounced back by now so very grateful for the difficult conversations I'm sure that have happened behind the scenes and um and that you've been able to come up with this um yeah absolutely and that's as I say about that I guess I think that's I think that's it for now for me anyway other thoughts questions um yes jack just a very uh I recall that the uh main street and very street intersection for different chunks one was the uh footy and ethical light the other was uh paying for whatever is involved in coordinating the uh the lights are those both in the what we've got here I'm I'm going to defer that question to when there's someone better able to answer that I think I know the answer but I'm not sure and actually I do have one other question um I think I probably misspoke in the wastewater recovery uh facility uh water resource recovery facility presentation um because I saw that the total uh cost was 16 million but there were 4 million left over from the previous one so I assumed that you could subtract but that I mean in hindsight right like that was not a part of the original bond so you couldn't just apply that 4 million to the next project well possibly okay so maybe so we were showing the highest worst case so yes and so and a couple things about bonds too to be clear um uh you can you can approve the bomb but not spend all of it so so again if if you were to get other funding for any of these sources just because we voted it doesn't mean we actually would let all of it you know again um bad example really but the parking garage bond is is an example of that we we approved 10 and a half million dollars well we spent one in a you know 1.1 million dollars so that's all we're letting for bond you know even though we had that remaining approval we're not going to ever use that because we don't need it and so if we were to get additional funding for a bond project then we can do that I don't know Kelly are you able to talk about the debt policy now or do you want to hold that um I I think it's the council and it's 10 o'clock yeah I think it's okay to do that later um for now just in light of the time for now and knowing that we'll have much more opportunity any other comments yes go ahead Conor quick was that was the hospice uh ballot item built into the yes I hope it was great thanks any other comments either in person or digitally okay Lauren um just curious when fully funding the staff which I'm super excited to see um we still we don't have an energy position like what Kate from me at right so so what I say fully funded last year we held six positions vacant so we basically we restored all the existing positions the only expansion of something that would be staff related was the extra half for the social worker so there is not an energy position in there now unless we were to rework something yeah just want to clarify get ready to yeah say that again what get ready for that proposal yeah fair enough all right yeah um all right any other comments yeah I just want to call attention to the comment that uh we're pursuing the funds to implement the telomate project that would caught me by surprise because this has been a confusion between what our police department does some of the investments in radio vehicle radios etc in the police department budget that were pre-approved or being slipped back in here even whether or not they're consistent with the design that has yet to been started the engineering design telomate was only a needs assessment it is next phase is the engineering design so it's premature to be spending money on towers and radios uh for our police department that are not integrated with the regional plan that we're working on but the idea that the city managers get together and launch their own initiative to but pluck off a piece of it before the engineering is done is totally inappropriate so I just want to raise that red flag you'll be hearing more about it thank you all right anyone else great presentation sets up in good shape for next week yeah I agree uh all right moving um on uh for that I we've got a couple of three more agenda items and it is a little after 10 um so wondering if we can actually flip flop a couple of them like I I would be in because I know we really need to to talk about the election update um that probably needs to happen tonight um I would like to do the legislative agenda thing I don't know how long folks think that will take um but I'm curious for I mean only if there's questions well let's let's do the the election update because I think that it's going to be um we've done the legislative agenda stuff before so it's a little bit familiar this is going to be um I think a little bit uh different so John are you okay to to um go now sure um and now I just uh uh warn you all I've been having trouble with the sound so I'm afraid it could be me I'm on an island off an island in the woods um so you know hopefully you all will be able to hear me um I have a presentation just to try to focus the discussion just so you all know and I apologize all of this stuff should have occurred to me uh a month ago but there were a lot of assumptions being made uh sort of assumptions made in silos and I only put it all together myself a few weeks ago and so suddenly we have uh some questions that need to be answered and I put a certain amount of urgency on the agenda but given what's been happening with meetings of other bodies since then I could wait till the 22nd to get the answers I needed if you all just want to hear what's going on and think about it um so the basic problem with the election coming up is the question of mail and voting I finally trained myself to stop saying all mail because that just sounds wrong when you say it um mail and voting and the fact that there are now going to be as many as four different discrete entities that are going to be involved in this election so I'm going to share my screen if I can um now you're gonna make me choose which screen fine we'll do that one we'll start a slideshow and the slideshow is not starting trying to start the ah lucky slideshow yay okay so I know you all in the past have wanted to you know regardless of what uh you know what's happening at the state level or what isn't wanted uh to do a we return to the mail and election which we did before sponsored by the state um so this is coming if this is about that now the Montpelier Rocksbury school district is in the process they the school board wants to do a mail and election as well so they are in the process of working through that process which you'll hear about in a minute so the question is what are the implications for Montpelier's decision to pursue to proceed with a mail and election or not and they are not insignificant okay Rocksbury's select board will decide on the 20th whether or not to allow the school district to proceed with a mail and election now the thing is the way the law is written the school district if it straddles multiple towns cannot simply decide on its own we want to have a mail and election they decide that and then that the towns in question have to give their blessing and it's all or nothing so if the school board wants to have a a mail and election Montpelier says yeah it's great come on in Rocksbury doesn't they are not having a mail and election so you start to see where things start to happen here if the city decides to have a mail and election but the school doesn't so to proceed the school board is going to need to decide to proceed with an election but also Rocksbury's gonna have to decide Rocksbury had the select board had an initial meeting on Monday and they punted their decision till the 20th they had the members of the school board from Rocksbury coming down pitching them on it because it wouldn't cost them anything it's just a matter of it becomes just a philosophical question unfortunately the the Rocksbury clerk who is also the school clerk is very much against it and is going to be arguing more vociferously on the 20th so this is all a big question mark right now it's hard to handicap what's going to happen here so if we choose another mail and election I'm going to assume at least to get going here because I think the odds are more in favor of it assuming the school settles on a mail and election then a shared ballot with the city and school sort of ballot people are used to seeing will be mailed to all active voters in the city okay that election will be coordinated through my office you know it's you know technically two elections on one ballot the way we've always done it and the school district then becomes responsible for most of the actual costs of the election which is great bad for them great for me that includes ballot printing and mailing you know all the fees and the postage to obviously does not include the ballots for non-citizen voters if there are any we still have zero but there's one I hear rumor about technically they're responsible for ballot design but you know I've always done that I'm going to do it it would just really make everybody's lives complicated if I didn't the fraction of the cost of programming the tabulators equal to the number of questions minus the cost of programming non-citizens and this sounds a little piddly because it may end up me billing them for only about 100 and 150 bucks but that's something I'd still kind of like to do and then half the cost of any part-time paid poll workers that I might need to bring on which is a great insurance valve for me because as you all know the we've been understaffed in the clerk's office there's rarely a week goes by that we don't have to have some closures at some point from our normal you know eight to four thirty five days a week schedule so having that possibility there will be tremendously helpful now if we choose another mail in election the implications for the central mont public safety authority are significant because they are in the same boat as the school the cbpsa would have to decide for their purposes whether to do a mail in election in the same way it's all or nothing both the decision would have to also be given the blessing of the Montpelier and berry city councils okay here's where it here's here's the deal right so now if they do commit let's say this happens if cbpsa gets permission and decides they want to do a mail in election they would share the physical ballot with us in the school as usual and their questions would therefore be mailed out unfortunately i think this is kind of a fantasy because i mean here's the thing we might say yeah but berry city they've already indicated they do not they're not having a mail in election the clerk there is going to send out cards again to everyone encouraging them to ask for absentee ballots so imagine for a minute first of all they're not going to be inclined to but if they did then you'd have a situation in berry where all the cbpsa separate standalone ballots they'd have to be separate would be mailed out to everybody in the city and the city ballot wouldn't be neither would the school so voters would be like what the heck is going on right um and that would that's not good for anybody because then the cbpsa would be on the hook for paying for that entire election which you know 10-12 thousand dollars possibly as i ask you a question about this uh cbpsa point um all right on this election are there going to be uh candidates running for at-large cbpsa seats yes there's two slots open and so what could potentially happen if cbpsa doesn't have a mail-in vote and we do then anyone in montpellier who wants to vote in the cbpsa election would have to come in physically even if they do everything else by mail which i just anticipate that depressing turnout from montpellier for the cbpsa election you just took all the thunder out of the rest of most of my presentation i'm sorry buddy i'm just thinking ahead man and you told everybody this is terrible oh well okay so to to go over some of that oh well there's another body in this too that i should mention there's implication the central vermont career center wants to break off and form their own school district so there's very possibly i think 50-50 at this point also going to be a ballot situation a question with them so they would be in the same boat now they could also choose to do a mail-in election but cbpsa serves 18 towns um they're going to have to have a standalone ballot anyway and i'm not sure exactly about the legalities of that carol daus is on that in berry city she explained it to me and i was already my brain was mushed by that point but they will have a standalone ballot all 18 towns would have to authorize the mail-in election otherwise it will only be available at the polls are they going to authorize it that one is a total fantasy that's not going to happen in a million years i'm hoping there's some buffy fans out there anybody remember oh well it was a great episode anyways so here's our most likely scenario in a mail-in election should you all the mission should you all choose to accept it right um bit montpellier city and the school questions would share a ballot which would be sent to all active montpellier voters non-registered voters would only would receive a ballot only containing the city questions cbpsa ballots would only be available or the polling place or by specific absentee request and cbcc ballots would only be available at the polling place or by specific absentee request so what this means yes jack you stole my big moment here this is going to mean very very low turnout for cbpsa and the career center i mean we could be looking at based on last time around with this you know overall city turnout could be um 2700 3000 maybe even a smidge more voters and in that cbpsa ballot you know they might only get four to six hundred votes um now i i'm not gonna handicap whether that's a good or a bad thing but it's just a thing you know um so now in case you're even though your brains are probably melted already what if the school doesn't opt for a mail-in election you can probably see where this is going the montpellier city and this is also assuming that you all do a montpellier city only ballot would be sent to all active voters a school only ballot will be available at the polls or by absentee request only and then you get the other two the cbpsa the cbcc although at least the cbpsa could be in a position to possibly arrange something and and share with the schools now the schools then have to pay for their own election under this scenario so they're paying for all their ballots they're doing all that um obviously i'm going to coordinate the you know the the actual functioning of the election and because you know if this were happened i you know we'd manage their absentee requests too just because i can't imagine the chaos if i didn't um so anyways so you could theoretically have someone go to the ballot to get three different no go to the polling place to get three different ballots that they didn't perceive in the mail potentially um anyways now if we opt against a mail-in election and we withhold the approval for the schools to proceed with one of their own then elections proceed as usual with the exception of that standalone cbc ballot which would be available um at the polls should that actually happen well now you get into the philosophical question here and this is where it gets really tricky is what's the right thing to do here because this um you know the the august in november elections are going to be mail-in the state handles those they've decided that's the law uh you know we had ours last time so this is no longer theoretical um there is no no inaction there is the action to decide to provide these ballots by mail or there is given the new paradigm of most elections there's going to be the the decision to limit access to the ballot and the way this is shaken out those are sort of the two choices there isn't just uh there's no longer a close your eyes and and look away possibility here i think that question has been called so that makes it tricky so how should you proceed if you don't want any mail-in elections do nothing that's um easy if you want to allow the school district to proceed with the mail-in election you need to pass a motion to give them your blessing to authorize them to do it um and if you want to have a mail-in election of your own obviously you have to pass a motion saying we're going to have a mail-in election so or there is a big or and that is that the legislature is working on a new emergency election bill now when they did one last time i was involved in all those discussions so i got to go to the meetings and i got all the gossip and i knew what was going on i guess they got tired of me out of no they didn't did not invite me to these so um and it's it's it's hard to glean what this what's happening and what's going on i've spoken to uh both chairs of the respective government operations committees um i've spoken with legislative council about uh about all of this and about how in the future what we'd like to see is because this is all a disincentive for mail-in elections all this hua and we want to incentivize it right it's why we have the ability to do it at all so the idea that the legislation ultimately needs to change so that if a multi-municipality entity uh holds an election that that election could be held under whatever the paradigm of that each individual municipality is so you know ideally if there's a question about cvpsa well we have a mail-in election in montpellier so it's a mail-in election in montpellier they don't have one in berry it's not in berry that's what would be the simplest clearest path of least resistance for running these things um and so that's what i'm advocating for um and that may or may not happen because i know there's some folks who just really don't like this whole paradigm at all but this emergency legislation at least senator white told me she's hoping it's basically going to do everything their other covet emergency legislation did which would mean we'd have a repeat of last year we just get all of it paid for we could all on be on one big happy ballot life is good and this whole mess gets put off to another year and who knows maybe by that other year they can clean it up the way i asked them to um it won't if i'm the only the lone voice and the wilderness on that so maybe that can be something added to the lobbying list that y'all are working out but so the or is maybe everything i just told you doesn't doesn't matter basically but that's what i got so if y'all have any questions or where you go from here obviously there's going to be a need for some decisions there but since roxbury has has punted on their decision on the school until the 20th and i'm not going to be able to get anything done you know in this regard december anyways since you all are meeting again this month i would just ask that you try to give me something uh you know by by before january don't make sense yep yes okay so we don't have to make a decision on anything tonight you don't have to like thank you for for this update it's good to know that this is like something i have to consider well thank you um and i do see your hand uh go ahead oh then donna yeah um yeah uh i'm concerned uh with the idea that the school could um have their own thing and then they would have to pay for it but what it really means is they can have their own thing and pass it on to the taxpayers because that's exactly what they'll do is they'll include it in the budget and we'll pay for it as part of our property taxes and that i don't i don't find that to be particularly palatable thank you will we the city pays for it it's still paid for by the taxpayers yes i know but if we have to pay for more than one election you know i mean i don't mind paying for one election but i don't want to pay for three just because people can't get their acts together just to um to clarify on that right now our normal pattern is we we do pay for three elections they're just a three for there are three for one they're all paid for together um and depending on how this works out if the schools end up essentially having to run their own election then yeah i can see how you could argue that that would be coming from two different directions now yep um so i i i appreciate another reason for them and so so let's i'd prefer to not get into a back and forth here mickey i'm gonna let you say one more thing and then we're gonna move on okay oh i i was just gonna say it's just um you know another way for them to i just don't understand any of that crap yeah fair thank you fair uh tana go ahead well my question and john thank you you gave me a heads up on this i appreciate it but your comment that school mail in is there a time a day a deadline on that for authority to the school if or decided no i mean it's just a matter of having all your ducks in a row by the by the time the election deadlines come it's not like it's not part of a sort of standardized election process it's just election law it's election regulation it doesn't say it's not like uh you know candidate deadline or certain public hearing deadlines it's just this is these are the rules for running the election so you got to figure it out before you get into it basically so if indeed the kennel though decided to do the mail in and gave the school the or approved the school that give them any initiative any momentum to do it i uh i don't know um i don't think so because i think there's an assumption that they've you know you've got their back with stuff anyways um so i i mean i you were cutting out a little bit so i may be making some assumptions on the question i was just trying to think if there was a way indeed if the council favored mail in if we could influence the school you know whether that's by giving them approval early or than they have their own decision but they know that we've already said yes to the possibility even if we just did like a straw ballot not making a firm decision waiting to see what the school did well that's that's that's what i thought you were asking even though i only heard every other word but you know um am i honest answer is i don't know because as i say they already sort of assume that we've got their back on it and it seems to be something they want to do now of course they could change their minds and i could be wrong but i've been speaking with uh jim murphy and you know there's a very sort of assumptive tone between us that we would all like this to happen so um i don't know that it really makes any difference i don't also don't know and this could be me being my you know paranoid self um if making such a decision and getting into the papers before rocksbury has made their decision could you know kick off some of that big bad mob pillar telling us what to do kind of vibe i you know that may be completely unfair to say um but it just occurs to me we can't even like offer encouragement oh you could pass something today say we authorize um but um i don't know i mean whatever you all want to do it's um i this is just me talking off the top of my head so thank you for doing the slides very helpful and a pretty pictures too um connor go ahead hey john no worries if you don't like the exact numbers but how did our mail-in turnout stack up against like a comparable election like when there wasn't a presidential primary did we see a big increase sir um we we didn't see as much of an increase as i would have thought i mean and based on the other numbers around the country but it was big it was definitely big and there's no question that it was bigger than it otherwise would have been so it does have an effect i think that's that's easily demonstrable um that's just i'm just geeking out a little bit saying i expected more but yeah i know it was way up great uh steer i i'm not an expert on this but uh i did appreciate uh john's presentation uh a couple things come to mind it it strikes me as it's almost the risk of disenfranchising uh a lot of voters uh which we you know the one text does it intentionally uh is not worth if we've just imposed a mask we can put air cleaners in it it's almost akin to a jury verdict has to be unanimous and that if we know roxbury or very city is going to prevent that we've created this mess with our overlapping jurisdictions and i just think that at this point my advice is to plan encourage people to do absentee voting but plan for a real election in order to get it all on one ballot because there's no way anybody's going to understand the complexity that john just so eloquently laid out for y'all and a whole lot of people are votes are not going to be made or not going to get counted and i just think that's too great a risk especially at this critical time in the evolution of cdpsa so uh that's that's my advice go for a regular election thank you right any other back and then jay or jay and then jack you go ahead just a quick question john thank you for the presentation but um what's you talked about the possibility of the legislature you know passing emergency rules for for this coming um election what's the timing on that they're going to pass something the first week of january they said they're going to pass it more quickly this time than they did the one last time which was in within the first two weeks and it's uh you know right now the energy is all you know there's there's the just the the omicron happening um people are there's momentum for it so uh i honestly i think there's a pretty good chance you're going to see the same thing pass again because i do think there's still money for this but i know how much we hang our hat on that probably should proceed as though it's not jack um i'm thinking about terminology uh you've been referring to an all-male in election but what that really means is ballots get mailed to everybody but nobody is stopped from coming in in person and voting in person if they want to do that um geezer that i am i love to come in in person to to vote at the election but objectively it just seems that having creating the structure that gets the most people to vote is objectively the most democratic way to do it which makes me lean very strongly in favor of doing mail-in for the city and voting to authorize all of these other bodies to vote by mail also fair enough um well so this is something that we are going to be talking about again presumably right john yeah so any other comments that folks would like to offer this evening okay right thank you john that was amazing it was yeah i don't i don't think i've ever seen a gif in uh in a council presentation before so we're gonna have to have our game you didn't see a gif you saw a gif thank you very much i was always getting wrong no gifs no gifs gifs gifs thank you thank you yeah yeah that's the question of the voter turnout and um track of them every year just because i'm interested in like the the city budget votes but they have the combined total so we had 2800 votes 2842 voted on the city budget last year and in in a non-presidential election year which are always highest that's the highest one i have during my time here the next highest was 23 something in like 2015 or something um so we had 32 the year before was the president of the primary and um but it was still a pretty it's still like the fourth or fifth highest turnout even including presidential primary story in my 20s years so definitely a higher turnout and a thousand more than 200 2021 was 20 history would have suggested we were going to break 3000 but um you know we're making our own history here right fair enough all right just uh i want to check in here team we're at 10 for five um and we have one other item that i well the executive session i assume that we really do need to do that this evening as well um do you want to also tackle the legislative agenda i have one suggestion for that we can do it okay we're here let's this is what's going to happen all right um legislative agenda anything um that crew the committee would like to say about legislative agenda introducing it i i mean a lot of it's just chasing the dollars you know um it's going to be really important to you know pay attention to the appropriations committees and all the moving pieces uh because that didn't inform like you know what we can do with some of these other agenda items but we have things like you know the dams in there we've got like the public restrooms in there um absolutely like lauren's all over p fast like white on rice there so uh but but a lot of it i i mean i'd probably turn it to bill because he did the draft but it's not too dissimilar to like last year's legislative agenda aside from the currents the current stuff right the elinor we basically just went through last year's got rid of the stuff that was outdated and added the this year's new things and i took the liberty of adding the highest priorities at the end and sent them out to everyone and no one said those weren't it so you know i i'm remissing that because i would recommend that we add one other thing to the highest priorities um which is um trying to find the exact wording here it's the item that includes uh funding for net zero stuff i mean that's that's something that we will probably spend a lot of money on and so if we can get state dollars for net zero um infrastructure that is i'll speak for myself that's a high priority for but i think it is a high priority for for everybody so yes jack if you look at the top of the back page the third bullet advocate for climate change mitigation includes yeah that's that's the one um if we can add that to to the list of highest priorities if that's okay with folks i mean i mean i realize that makes it five bullet points but i'm not sure that matters too terribly um do we need to we need a motion do we need a motion you i think might as well make a motion that we adopt to present a 2022 legislative agenda and thank lord and Connick and whoever else worked on it thank jack thank you thank you thank you motion the second we're going to have some discussion here um steven you can go first then morgan i just want to raise the issue the uh especially when you're talking about dam removal we've just been through a real community traumatic event with a garage i think most of you are going to should be conflicted out from recommending removing act 250 jurisdiction on any project for the city uh anyone anyone who supported that garage the ask should not be this is a protection against a stacked development uh stacked council in the future that's just very very dangerous ground to go to so with that one exception i support the other uh legislative agenda but act 250 removal within the city is should not be on that list thank you um i will also add that uh that is not how we use the word conflicted um go ahead yes morgan go ahead uh sorry um just if john odin still on john it's not just you uh there's a sound quality problem uh i'm no techie but i think it might be a bandwidth problem maybe on the city's end i don't know i have no idea anyway um i'm glad you took up uh the 2022 legislative agenda because i missed it last year so you know i didn't get into the weeds on things but i looked at tonight and i have a question and uh two or three comments uh under create more housing uh i'm all for the first item first bullet item of course uh just on funding uh to agencies such as down street to bill housing great uh the second item though um here's the alphabet soup again ad us what's an ad what's an ad u i have no idea and uh then um i have a problem all right i'm all for anything that creates more housing that's really essential however the next item i have issues with eliminate act 250 regulation and designated downtown to growth centers well unless you're more specific about that you know uh what you're asking that opens up a can of worms in my opinion and uh you know i mean people if you if you do that all kinds of problems could crop up including you know there's all these people who they're very interested in development housing but it's not necessarily affordable you know and uh you take out act 250 regulation that i'm no lawyer i'm no geek on any of this stuff but you know i i have a problem now if you if you do modification in these regards that's a little different as long as it's tweaked very carefully you know and it's centered around housing but you're not really saying that in that you know sentence that bullet item you're not being specific and it'll be really important to be very specific and even then it's kind of a can of worms it really is and you know that said i'm all for more housing then the last item i have is down under practice good environmental stewardship you know continue the bullet item on continue funding microtransit opportunities first off you know if you're talking about my ride not everybody's a big fan of that and there's a lot of problems with it however i'll stick to you know environmental stewardship well you know i've gone by the transit center many a time in the back walking along the path behind the the building and there'll be buses sitting out there running idling for a long time more than one bus sometimes you know that's a problem now i did bring it to the attention of somebody at uh sustainable mapea coalition and you know it's sort of going to address a little bit sometimes they're not running and that's good but you know especially for the bear Berlin route route i'm all for the mapea pot but the Berlin loop you know these buses the gas fuel guzzling huge taxis oftentimes empty you know and they're taking six to eight trips up the hill when before you know sometimes they were empty here and there but they'd be running up the hill with up to four to six people sometimes more you know or down the hill one or the other and you know it's costly and it's also you know they're going up more times now with maybe one person on the bus and sometimes empty because sometimes they're not picking somebody up in the hill right so they're empty on the way down so what's the point you know environmentally environmental stewardship i don't think so anyway that's my take uh thank you if i may thanks morgan yeah go ahead adu stands for accessory dwelling unit and it's allowing people to put an extra unit into their house quickly i would point out that under a designated downtown is active 50 it's already exempt in those areas for some for most projects and this has been a policy position of the city since before the parking garage got involved in this um housing is one of the few things that housing over 50 units is still regulated in active 50 in a designated downtown and our argument is that if you're going to build high-rise housing or whatever you're going to build it ought to be in the center of a downtown and not out in the field the whole point of active 50 was to prevent sprawl and push development into downtown and so active 50 should not be used as a tool to prevent uh what is otherwise allowed development in downtown so i agree with that the only reason in fact that the hotel became part of active 50 is that someone had ruled that hotel units were equivalent to housing hotel rooms were equivalent to housing units because it had 80 rooms they got pushed in as a hotel itself it would have been exempt as was the parking garage okay thank you thank you bill any other um so thank you morgan any other comments or questions all right loren sorry um i i had i i know that like we've had that before i was wondering about possibly rewording the active 50 to say support smart growth policies that encourage and and incentivize housing development in designated downtowns or growth centers i think like it's well understood that active 50 is part of it but i think there's also more policies that are going to be considered this year lumped into smart growth and incentive programs i would support that if it also said including removing active 50 regulations i don't love that phrase i mean i think that would be part of a negotiation but to me it's like if you're going to remove that i would hope there's a better forest protections and other things paired with it just removing exemptions without a broader smart growth approach as i mean there's like a smart growth designation bill that's going in so i think this is like in line that that would change active 50 jurisdiction in downtowns and like would essentially accomplish this but it just has more parameters around it than just eliminate so i think it's getting it basically the same thing but again these are broad strokes when you go in and actually talking to people you can add the smart growth you can add whatever but i think this really nails it personally that they're not looking at all the motivation of why we have zoning and why we have active 50 in the more rural areas like bill brought up and so i want to overwork smith this and if you do then i suggest we put it off it's almost 11 o'clock so other thoughts jack go ahead i'm happy to put it off to probably not next week because we're doing budget but if there are other substantive comments that people have they'd like to see change i'm happy to push it back we haven't we haven't invited them yet we pending to see what happened tonight we tentatively hope to have them in on the 22nd to go over this with them i mean i think we could still go over the ideas with them and maybe get some feedback from them before you adopt it so um it's still work it's what you want to get the feedback on them yeah send them the draft could like they like purchase it could be like sure that sounds good yeah i mean i guess along the way i see us changing this all the time folks and so we i'm i'm just a little frustrated and uh that we spent 20 minutes on this to say we're going to put it off and that's what should change is happen in the state house so this is like in grant i think it's super so that's you know do you have a motion actually put it on the floor i'd like it at least adopt this draft move forward with for discussion purposes yeah well i think we had a we had a motion in a second i mean we could um the alternative is to table it right but um yeah or we could just take out the active 50 line for now pass the rest of it and then suffer over it later can we get it on what i mean is that amenable to the no fair enough vote it down and then you can have another motion um okay uh jack as a point of order do i'm not sure i heard a second did did somebody second i'll second it we don't have one but uh okay one maybe the clerk maybe i had imagine that john odham do you have any recollection of this john is probably not gonna go through the record you're still here if nobody remembers second it i know you can't unmute himself there i got unmuted that wasn't able to unmute i was gonna ask the same question did anybody recall second me so now it's me okay so so jack is seconding uh all right so i'm i'm you know whatever happens is all good we'll talk through it or you know either now or or either acid or we'll talk through i mean we're gonna talk through it again later um but uh nonetheless here we are so do we have a any further comments as is well i assume with the addition of the changing the okay um uh all right so um all in favor please say aye hi all right and opposed i mean had nobody opposed i think these are the opposed so i think the motion passes and right so uh we are going to revisit it we keep talking about the act 250 part of it and that is fine um all right so moving on uh we got one more impossible acquisition of labor in pond uh all right uh and for this anticipating that we may want to go into executive session and actually before we do coming out to make the decisions uh i feel like we might we might okay so um just want to make that note before we get it jack call good call yeah let's do that uh council report um it read i have nothing move on okay jack one that i should have mentioned when we were discussing the uh consent agenda one of the items we uh passed was funding for for a mini excavator for parks and when i saw that item on the agenda i asked the manager if uh if we had investigated uh the possibility of getting an electric excavator in consistent with our interest in moving towards electric vehicles when we can and the answer was yes that it was investigated and uh it would have been prohibitively expensive we're spending somewhere around 45 to $50,000 for this and to buy an electric one would have been another 40,000 so we are for people who are interested we are looking at electric vehicles when we can but this would not have been practical at this at this point um and the other thing is to follow up on the uh on the reapportion because we discussed your house district into two um the uh reapportionment were decided to create all single member districts um and you know the clerk and i were having uh conversation earlier and we could get into the same thing here because the the vote on the uh favor of this single member plan way the members of the board lined up in voting was very very weird from um the most farthest left and farthest right member of member districts going to be decided by the legislature not by by this board so a lot a lot of towns didn't like the single member district idea and it's i would be surprised if it stayed this way that's all i got so thank you great uh okay i also don't have anything john anything from you here we go just that the office is going to be uh my office is going to be closed tomorrow because of a staff crunch um and it will be open on friday but neither myself nor crystal will be there so it's really going to be limited to payments thank you uh bill i'll pass given the hour okay super uh all right so i think we are anticipating going to an executive session and i just want to make sure that when we do that that we also invite make sure that we're clear that we're inviting christine zaki okay still on yeah she was yeah uh uh go ahead jack i move that we find that premature general public knowledge would place the council or person involved at a substantial disadvantage concerning a potential uh real estate uh transaction okay um for the session may all in favor please say aye and opposed okay so uh we may be coming back to um take some action yes i move that we enter executive session to discuss the possibility of a real estate transaction pursuant to one bsa 313 a1 whatever the section is great thank you uh is there a second please second okay um for the discussion all in favor please say aye hi and opposed okay all right so we may be back matters is there a motion to come out of executive session so move second all in favor okay and is there a motion i think we need to make sure we're we're in the right place well here are we are we are casting still okay and i think we're okay unless you want us to wait till okay uh yes go ahead jay so i'd like to make a make a motion that we authorized the city manager to uh pursue and enter enter into a purchase and sale agreement for a uh lot adjacent to berlin pond based on the conversation and the parameters established in executive session weren't adjacent okay close enough okay uh okay so there's a motion and a second any further discussion uh okay all in favor please say aye and opposed okay and so with that we are done with our business for the evening uh so we will without objection adjourn at 11 19 we made it good meeting


Hi, my name is Jen Diamond, and as of August, I'm a developer at the UCLA library. Woo! Yes, I get to pension some day who knew that word still existed. So my team is working on a very important project for the library, and we chose an open source solution to implement it. The project is to create a digital repository for millions of rare and unique objects that UCLA has, and they have a huge incredible collection of treasures. Previously, these collections were only available to be viewed by researchers and students because they're incredibly fragile. You touch this medieval manuscript and it disintegrates in your hand. You have to go to a special part of the library and put on white gloves and look at it on a pillow. We want all these resources to be available to everyone all over the world. Many of these collections have already been digitized and stored on an existing website, but that site's about 15 years old now, and it's tightly coupled, this horribly old operating system, and it makes updating it and maintaining it incredibly difficult. Because we're a library, we have to be a reliable source for locating data and storing these treasures long term, so disaster recovery is not the same as digital preservation, as my co-worker, Hardy Prudinger, has said over and over. To rebuild our repository, we chose the open source solution called Samvera. It's a versatile and feature rich solution that is being used by institutions worldwide to provide access to their digital content. It's being used by like-minded institutions like all these listed here, and because so many institutions are involved in this community, we all contribute to long lasting solutions. Samvera is primarily used in libraries and digital repositories. It allows storage of any type of digital files for the purposes of access and archiving, and it's suited to both large and small collections. Our collection's quite large. So, the stack. Slide please. So, our stack of our project is based around four major components. The Fedora repository software, which provides a robust and durable repository layer for persisting and managing digital objects. Solar index, which provides screaming fast searches. It's what Elasticsearch runs on, I believe, and it's also open source. And TripleIF provides access to high quality image resources. When you go to the show page, you can get a huge image of these ancient artifacts and zoom in onto like the button that someone is wearing in 1920 and see that it's, oh, it's a tiny bird. Blacklight provides faceting, searching, browsing, and tailored views. And it's a Ruby on Rails engine, so we have entered into a modern phase at the library. The library's also starting to use Agile for the first time, which is propelling our project forward faster than any other project that the library's had previously. And we're lucky to be working with a consulting company called DCE, Digital Curation Experts. Some of their developers were even responsible for writing Samvera and Blacklight from scratch, so we get to leverage their expertise in a very direct way. So this project is about bringing the treasures that UCLA Library possesses in the world for anyone to discover and create with. Lisa McCauley, the woman who I work with and is the lead of this project, is an incredible woman and she is just projecting this project forward very quickly. Our motto is higher education is a non-profit organization working to improve our society through teaching people skills and knowledge, but most importantly teaching people how to learn. End of presentation. Thank you.


U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Thursday on a Middle East mission to prevent a wider war from erupting after an attack and hostage-taking by Palestinian Hamas militants and an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip Blinken will first meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, then travel to Jerusalem to meet Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu later, in the day. Before boarding a plane bound for Israel, Blinken told reporters he will work with regional U.S. allies to. Try to secure the release of more than 100 people that Israel says Hamas holds captive, some of whom may be American citizens. At least 22 Americans were killed during the attack, Blinken said, warning the number will probably go up.


Hi everyone, Joe for JaspysCaseBrates.com with a quick little random number block randomizer for Impeccable Basketball Number 19. So it's a number block randomizer for that group of teams right here, and that's how that works right there. Big thanks to these folks here. Thanks to the numbers right here. Let's roll it and randomize it five times, one and a four. One, two, three, four, and five. Here five times, we've got Alexander down to Jeremy, and then five times for the numbers. And five, we've got two down to zero. Alright, so Alexander you've got two, Robert your block of numbers, five, Ryan with one, Fuad with three, Jeff with four, Eric with nine, Kevin with eight, Matt with seven, and six, Jeremy with zero. So Jeremy, you'll get zero gets you any and all redemptions for that group of teams down there, including one of one redemptions. Ryan, you'll still get live one of one's just FYI. All right, the break itself will be in a separate video, so check that out and I'll see you next time. Bye bye.


Hello, welcome to this lecture on White Balance and Color Temperature for Art 234, Color Photography 1. So color temperature describes the light appearance of different light sources. Each light source offers a different color of light based on the Kelvin scale. So here we have an interior room and as you can see, the tones of light are very different. So we've got sort of like a greenish-blueish fluorescent light and something that's actually a little bit more white or magenta. Again, these could be adjusted based on the camera, but you may have noticed light has different appearances based on its source, whether it is electronic, natural, etc. So here we have sort of an image here from Wikipedia, which kind of outlines the scale of different lights. So remember, light temperature is measured in units of Kelvin. The lower the number is sort of not as powerful light. So we have match flame and then the higher the number it is, the brighter it is. And it also changes the tone of light. So some are more orange and yellow and some are more blue as well. So it can kind of change within that scale. Remember, when the color light shifts, we don't see it too well with our visible eye because our brain will compensate for it. However, the camera doesn't have a brain, so we need to help the camera. The camera needs some help. So this is what white balance is about. It's sort of correcting color cast. So your camera will adjust color based on the white balance settings that you choose. Here's a sample of what cameras may have. They may have more or less, but they have auto incandescent, fluorescent, direct sunlight, flash, cloudy and shade. Again, this is only a little bit of what possibilities of light could be. But your camera will sort of make adjustments on it. And it's funny with film used to, for color film, you would either buy daylight film, daylight rated, or you would buy incandescent film. Incandescent film is not as popular. I don't think anyone really makes it except for anything with tea on it, which could stand for tungsten or incandescent. There's a few popular films that use it. We'll talk about film photography a little bit later. But you used to actually have to get a filter on your camera to correct for indoor light if you're using daylight film. So this is an example of one scene with different white balance settings. It also shows the color temperature. This is actually going to be a little bit what you're doing for your white balance exercise. Taking a picture of a scene and adjusting just the white balance settings. But you can see there's a different color cast with everything. It really changes how the image looks. You may have taken pictures on your camera without adjusting the white balance setting and it may have turned out really wonky. Or images turn out really yellow because they're indoors. So it's always good to adjust your white balance in camera to have a correctly colored photograph. This is another example with tungsten bulbs. You can see the color shift at daylight rated color correction, which is the camera actually adding color to the scene to correct how the camera is recording the media. You can see it's really yellow and just kind of gross looking. And the auto white balance is okay, but the tungsten seems a little bit more accurate. Personally, I would kind of balance somewhere between the auto white balance and the tungsten to have more of an accurate color balance. Remember setting your camera is the first step because we want to make sure we can get everything correct in camera. You can create a custom white balance, which is actually preferred. And you'll be doing this for your white balance exercise. So the custom white balance icon is it always looks like a little flower to me. I don't know how to describe it. It's good to see it circled right here, but it always makes me think of a little flower. Typically, you can use a white sheet of paper.  So I'm going to adjust all my color shifts based on this being white. Now some photographers will use a gray card. I have something like this.  You can use a gray card for a true neutral. Some people say the gray will give you a better neutral than white, which will sort of absorb colors around it. There's a video that I will like you to watch for more information, but you can use either or just be consistent with whatever you're using so that you can find whatever looks best and most neutral to you. And you can use that as a guide to set for your white balance. Keep that in mind. If you can't find anything, if you don't have everything, a white sheet of paper works, but I prefer these little cards to carry around, put it in my camera bag. They're great. Now, you want to think about white balance when you come into situations with mixed light. And this will happen. It's really hard to color correct, since you have two different light sources. One is sort of a warm light, and maybe one may be like a cool light. And so it's really hard to balance. And this is where you're going to have to make a choice to see which one would give you the best balance. I have this scene that I shot. This was very difficult because I had incandescent light. I had sunlight coming through the windows of the doors. I had roof lights that were fluorescent. And then there was a skylight, which had a shade look. So I pretty much had four light sources in this room. And it's a very large room. So it was very hard to white balance. You could see some of the children look a little bit more blue or purple. Some of them have more of an accurate color balance. So it was really hard to balance this correctly. I had to look at my neutrals in the scene. I had to look at the skin tones. So this was very difficult to work with. But if I mess it up in camera, you can always fix it in post. So you can adjust white balance in post processing, which you should be aware of. This is what it can look like in light room. So you can have these presets to change what everything's looking like within the balance. You can also adjust with the sliders. Typically you want to get everything accurate in camera first and then make the adjustments in post. So this is an example of something that's been edited in post using the profile. So this over here is as shot. The white balance is not correct. Again, we have different types of lights here because we have these interior lights, exterior. So if you go to auto, it actually is the best out of everything offered. Tungsten took a really blue flash to blue cloudy. So auto white balance actually would be the winner and then I would go into my sliders to adjust it more finely. Again, you can always use the eyedropper to pick a target neutral and set that as your neutral to make corrections. You can also use the gray card in a scene as sort of your first image. Set that as your neutral and set the white balance to your whole batch of photos at the same time. The other important thing to think about when we're thinking about white balance and color temperatures, how we see color. You may have noticed maybe you see pictures differently on your computer and you put them on your Instagram and the colors are awful or Facebook just strips the colors. We want to make sure that we're looking at accurate colors. So color calibration is important. You can set your calibration for your monitor, your laptop, your projector. I do that to my projector to set the color. And there's a couple of different ways. So there are free adjustments either if you're using Windows or Mac to sort of set an accurate color. This will help you sort of get the best color, the most true colors based on what your monitor or laptop will offer. Next is something that's free or free software. So some websites will help you and some programs you can download will also help. And then you can also buy the monitor calibrators which are a little bit more expensive but they kind of take the guesswork out of it for you. It is important to actually set the color calibration often in thinking about your atmosphere of light. So if you're in a room with a really bright light, you know, you want to make sure everything is correct. It remains consistent and you actually calibrate on a monthly basis. There's some extra readings and videos that will help you understand white balance, color correction, color temperature and color calibration better. I hope all this information helps you to succeed as your photography journey for this class.