intuitive from the first glance is that it's a really good way to quickly say that Winooski is in a good position today, is that by and large, if we use the bottom axis here, the average parking occupancy by segment is out of those 70 segments that we studied is that the vast majority, if we look at the Y axis on the left is that fewer than 5% of the segments reach over 60% occupied over those AM and PMP periods. We got a few segments in the afternoon that are really full today. And we've got a little bit more, kind of that 60 to 75% occupancy in the afternoon as well. But you can see by and large, particularly in the AM, the vast majority of street segments are in that kind of 20 to 30 to 40% occupied. And that means that you've got majority of your space is open. Not it, but it doesn't diminish anybody's one experience because we know that some blocks particularly are of demand and it does vary by time of day, but that's why we use the approach that we had and we tried to estimate then how it varies throughout the day and the mix of land uses and all of that fed into the parking model. The amount of on-street observations is that we conducted over 1200 unique observations and some of you in the audience participated in some of those observations. And so it was much appreciated that people went out all different times a day. And the benefit is that we used an approach that values every observation because it had a unique time of the day and it had a unique location. And so we were able to help calibrate the model to say, well, at 9 p.m. it's supposed to do this. Okay, at 2 p.m. it's likely doing this. And we also had numerous city staff out there driving up and down the streets, conducting their day-to-day business and doing on-street parking observations. So many thanks to everybody who participated because the amount of data that was collected really helps us with a rigorous analysis. The amount of off-street observations also provided us that at least every parcel was looked at. We tried to stay out of private property and stay on the sidewalk and try to get a sense of how many cars were parked behind the building and it made it difficult. But again, thanks to the RPC and others really leading that charge for how many parking observations we were able to collect. So really what I wanna leave you with at this slide is that the general sense is that Winooski's in a good place and we're getting ahead of any of the parking challenges that we really see, particularly for outside of the downtown core. Now, the reason why we did such an extensive existing conditions is that we built that parking model, as I mentioned, so that we could assess how changes in the future conditions might affect the parking demand. Over the next few years, Eric's just was talking about the future housing challenges and the rate of growth that we're experiencing is that we expect over 300 new housing units and let's say it's five to 10 years from now and probably more than that within the 10 year horizon and up to additional 10,000 square feet of non-residential space. So the primarily the driver is residential development that seems to be occurring and that with those 300 new housing units, it's projected to add approximately 450 off-street parking spaces. What we'll discuss here then is that on and off-street parking demand will grow, particularly where these land uses are occurring. Main Street and East Allen Street, we realized that the main street revitalization, it's going to reduce the amount of on-street parking from today. And it will inevitably shift some of the parking demand onto the side streets and increased competition for those that remain. And so it's going to change the conditions for those who live and work, particularly on those side streets, but also a long main street. And so that's what part of this whole study is all about is to saying who's going to be affected by these changes and then how can we get ahead of it and manage it. Other side streets such as Manso, Bellevue, La Fountain, they're all anticipated to grow and accommodate some of that overflow demand from some of those key corridors that are changing. So the next few steps, I'm going to say out of all that changes, what does it mean for us and how do we move ahead? Chapter six in the report sets out a process. There's a phase one and a phase two for how we can implement the findings. First is that we're getting ahead of the issue. The PMP, the parking management plan identified areas where we have those elevated area levels of parking, occupancy, going to start challenging us, where it's going to be harder for folks to find that one or two parking spaces on a block face. And we identified that we can start to monitoring their streets and more active management and monitoring because right now we don't have a systematic process put in place where we're observing parking. Now we have a method or at least we have a report here that says these are the streets that are most likely going to become a parking problem or become elevated for residential and commercial tenants. And that we can say how can the city start to monitor whether when these thresholds are starting to be met. And typically we use a threshold of 85%. That generally means it's a rough rounding but almost two vehicle spaces on a block face. That's the general length of how many parking spaces we're talking about, about 10 spaces. And if you can find one to two parking spaces. If once those thresholds start being met continuously for several hours, that's the general threshold that we would say we want to do something and we need to be more proactive on the management strategies. So the second set of bullet points here is that what are those strategies? So we have a set of rules and management strategies that are set out in the report. And this is not rocket science is that the set of rules are rather well-established. The challenge though is identifying which rules to apply where and to acknowledge who will be the most affected. We first define and prioritize the users on those streets and so that we can identify what management strategy would be the most appropriate for them. A residential street would have a different mix of strategies than a predominantly commercial block face. We then look at once we identify what management strategies might be the most appropriate for the particular block face, we then looking at phasing the strategy implementation is that it's a first to go in with a low minimum effort, hopefully lower financial obligation and cost from the city's point of view. And then we start to affect change slowly, but surely. And then over time, those changes become a little bit more significant, both in terms of the impacts on parking demand, but also to those to the city in terms of the level of effort that it commands. So we have three more slides here. We go through these recommendations. This is the first short-term recommendations. First thing is that we need the mechanisms in order to do any enforcement. In many parts of the city, it's not well-defined where exactly the parking could be, how close are you to the driveways? It's codified. There are some codes in our comprehensive in the ordinance. However, people day to day may not be realizing it. So we need improved signs and striping. Then the idea is to say, when are things gonna be coming a problem? We can start to develop a monitoring schedule. Alternatively, we could set up a mechanism to engage the residents and say, can they do a, I don't know what the process is in the city, whether it's a C quick fix or something like that, but whether there's just call your counselor or set up a email ping on a website to say, hey, this street is starting to get busy for parking. I would love some observations and so we get some real data again. So that's what that second bullet points all about because you need to start from a place of some confidence. There's a number of short-term parking zoning requirements that should be recommended to be updated. And I know so Eric's already been well aware of these things and some of them are probably underway today. But probably one I wanna call out is that the idea is parking requirements for affordable units being sensitive to equity and where we are just talking about today is that this is a difficult subject is that the facts are persons experiencing lower income typically own fewer vehicles and therefore they need fewer spaces to park them. The second fact is that parking spaces are expensive to build. And so if we have individuals that may be experiencing lower income, I think it's factually, it's not a big jump to say, well, we need fewer parking spaces. The question of eliminating it and then also the downstream questions is to say, are we preventing those who would like to reach job opportunities further afield once they need a vehicle, are we somehow restricting that ability? So that's where there's some others, there's some much more conversations that it's difficult. But I think there is a recommendation that at this point in time, there's sufficient on-street parking, particularly around most of Wyniewski that we would recommend removing the marking, the minimum parking requirement for affordable units. There's also opportunities to reduce the net parking minimums for residential streets. There's numbers that we've provided in the report and to Eric to say what those numbers might be. And so there's an opportunity to phase that in over time. There's a number of other zoning requirements here that we're not gonna go into. One thing that I will point to is the idea for residential permits and more formal process for soliciting interest in that. So moving into the medium and long-term recommendations is that unfortunately, but typically it does pay for itself is that it does require additional budget and staff training for the initial data collection and enforcement of parking. The idea of whether the fines of parking enforcement pays for that staff and what's the financial mechanism of that and the cost center, that is a whole other subject is whether the pricing of the fines are sufficient so that one, the behavior reduces, but also that it's not penalizing those that are unable to pay for a variety of other ways of other reasons. So again, that's a difficult one. There are transportation demand management strategies. These are the opportunities to say, does a development move in? Do they provide sufficient bike parking? Do they pay for transit for their residents? Do they fund other multimodal means of access? Do they have other financial compensations to avoid driving their private cars? So these are all transportation demand management strategies that could be required for certain land-use developments. Transportation impact fees, which we've discussed in the past in other contexts is that there could be other ways to raise monies for those investments to support a non-auto-centric means of travel. We could support funding for mobility hubs so that's kind of a grandiose term for where you could go to one location and get access to either transit, e-bikes, the bike share, the car share, other resources that would benefit you so that you don't have to have your own private car. Additional bike share and car share infrastructure and other non-motorized travel infrastructure could be funded through impact fees. And then lastly, I know is the one that we mentioned about, the earlier mentioned is that increased frequency and transit routes is a desirable solution to facilitate non-auto traffic and maybe it would be an equitable way to improve mobility throughout the city for students, let alone residents. And so if we provide transit options to Winooski, to major job centers in Burlington, to Essex, whatever it might be, if we can increase those frequencies we might provide greater opportunities for people to not only improve their economic viability and sustainability, but also prevent them from not needing to own a car and then parking spaces. So any conclusion here? So thanks so much for listening and we'll have some comments here, but the city's in a good place today. We've done this at the appropriate time period. We're just starting to see this, the parking pressures in certain areas outside of downtown. We realized that there's some opportunities to change that here today. We are also in a situation just before main street gets underway that things will change. And so now we have a plan to help us better understand and get ahead of it. Then we're building in a process for engagement. So we just followed up some of the other conversations today is that engagement with the community is a continual and evolving process. And we realized that parking will be part of these myriad of many other conversations. And so we're gonna start to hear from our residents and employees and business owners to say where parking pressure is challenging them and how they might provide solutions for that. So hopefully the report provides a good comprehensive review of everything that I've covered here. And I'll let Eric fill in any pieces that he might wanna jump in here with before we open it up. So thank you all. I think the only thing that I would add is that you did receive a copy of the full report and the appendices that has all the survey information that was collected. So there's a lot of data there. And if you have any follow-up questions, happy to try to answer information on that tonight or at a future time. A request. You mentioned this before the consultants presented about those segments only looking at the one block off Main Street and seeing far less usage next to that. Yeah. I'm wondering, Jonathan, if the report could be updated. So where these charts are about future parking occupancy to make it really clear that when we're saying Bellevue or LaFountain is at high occupancy that we're not looking at the entire street. So that if residents are looking at this, they have an understanding of that. Yeah. I think that's, we'll find a good way to put that within the limited space. We don't wanna clutter too many tables, but maybe a footnote, caveat, little asterisks, is that appropriate? Yeah. Like a sentence above charts or something. Great. Questions from council about this data? Bryn? I did participate in the draft meeting and review. And I at the time had mentioned electric vehicle charger considerations. I don't see anything that mentions that in this final report at all, as far as like future demand or further for further consideration. There is a section, section five eight that does talk about electric vehicle supply equipment and gets into some of that discussion. My control of fine did not pick it up then. Yeah. Going from memory and Eric, please the conversations that then unfolded. So thank you for bringing that up. Is that it's again, it's a tricky one. Once we put a charger at a location then you're really gonna have parking there forever or at least for a long time. So the question is whether we want to have that type of commitment to a parking space on the curb. The second piece is then the decision is who owns that infrastructure? And by and large, I know VTrans for instance, they do not wanna own these chargers. They're looking to find third parties to own them. And so the question would be, does the city want to go through a process of procuring and maintaining their own system? And so it was my professional guidance is that there would be some disadvantages to that. And so the city should really consider maybe an RFI or some opportunities to identify third party interest, particularly on curb spaces, just because of the density of chargers is so low, one space or two, one device for two ports, it makes the operation cost quite high. And then I don't see anything in here about, so it looks at your, you know, this one and a half, one and a quarter pages, doesn't go into anything about the economic opportunity I guess that can come with having fees associated with the chargers or with the reality that right now a level three charger does require up to a half an hour for a full charge and how that could bring additional stimulus to our local businesses. So I know that was not the primary focus of this, but you know, having maybe future research, I'd hate to lose, have a new ski lose out on economic opportunities that our sister municipalities are taking advantage of because we're not thinking about the future of transportation and the transition away from fossil fuels. But again, I know that that was not the focus of this study when it, on its own side. Yeah, thank you for that comment. And I think we'll see if there could be something out of there, Eric. Oh, were you gonna say something? I just wanted to follow up on the chargers and maybe you're already planning on doing this, but one thing you can do is have chargers be on private offsite property, you know, not off street property and require them, particularly in large developments. That's a way to do it so that you're not taking up on street space. And just a comment, electric cars versus regular cars, they both take up the same amount of space. So when you're talking about environmental sustainability, yes, electric has benefits, but when you're talking about traffic, they're the same. So that's just an important distinction to keep in mind here. And then there was a question in the chat from Michael about the ratios. And I think you answered that, Jonathan, when you said the 85% is the goal of parking usage, basically, that, and you implied that less than that is not efficient, which was what Michael's question was. He was asking if 20 to 60% ratios mean that the public space is not being used well. So, and if you wanna answer that quick. Right. Yeah, so the question is, he's reading it correctly that there is sufficient capacity today or that it's being underutilized to its full potential. The growth that is anticipated, particularly along Main Street and East Allen, does as well as the Main Street reconstruction, those areas will see there that available capacity go down significantly. And so it will, those are the areas that are gonna see some parking pressure. Other parts of the city will remain that there are streets that have a fair amount of capacity for parking, but it does vary by time of day. And so it used to be sensitive to that. Two things on that, one, going back to the chargers, is that something that would fit in with like transportation demand management strategies for developers? It can, it can, and that's actually something that we're, so there are some requirements through the, I believe it's through the commercial building energy standards that the state of Vermont requires that they do for a certain size of project, they do require a certain number of electric vehicle chargers to be included. CB Sony applies to above four stories though. Well, right, that's the thing. So for the, which is based on the size of the project. So there aren't many that are hitting the threshold yet, but we are, it is something that I've been as a request basically through the review to request right now that the developers look to include the chargers on their projects. It's also something I'm looking at developing as an incentive so that we can, we can exchange a certain number of chargers for parking spaces or something similar that would incentivize developers installing the EV chargers so that it's, it's the private side responsibility and not the city's responsibility to, to maintain and ensure that they're, they're, they're part of our, they're not part of our asset inventory. Okay. And then following up on the utilization, I'm glad we have this data. I'm looking forward to it being shared with planning commission and zoning recommendations at a future date. I think one discussion point that has continuously come up in planning is a concern about not having street capacity to have parking and bike lanes. And I think this data is saying we do have that capacity in much of the city. And so we can continue to consider both uses. That's it. And then I just have, in some of your short-term recommendations, I was mentioned about line striping. Is that similar to what was requested on Manso to optimize spacing by actually painting in spacing? Yeah. Yeah. In some cases we either where we've striped spaces, it's just worn down to the point where you can't tell or there's just never been, there's never been striping. There's also the, there's a discussion about in some transportation circles about whether it makes more sense to just strike, to strike individual spaces or strike the whole area where you can park because sometimes you can put more vehicles if they're smaller into a parking area versus individual spaces. So it's really just a matter of what makes the most sense for the on-street parking that we have. Thanks for clarifying that. Yep. And I know last year there was an issue with paint availability, which is why a lot of the spaces did not get re-striped, so. That's important. Jonathan called out staff, staff time and cost for enforcement, but there is also a staff time and cost for doing more striping throughout the city than we currently do. So any of these will require more resources essentially. So something to think about. Any more questions? One thing that I'm seeing with this is that and kind of one that the data from this looks like it can be applied to some of the actually higher priorities that are at least that people identified for prioritizing transportation actions. So it sounds like this report kind of includes some of that and I assume that's going to be expanded upon like I'm thinking about, we're talking about traffic safety with lines and stuff like that. And I'm also thinking about the ways that first, like how does wayfaring is one of our master plan goals? How can this tie into that? So it feels like this data can be expanded in a lot of different ways. So I'm just wondering about like a distribution to I guess different committees and commissions that might be able to pull parts of it. Yeah, I think so. And I think ultimately a lot of where that's gonna end up is what recommendations you all want us to move forward with and how we start to roll out some of these initiatives or these recommendations. Obviously I think some of the commissions can help feed back into to your decision-making. So it's yeah, but I think it's definitely something that can, this information can be useful across a broad spectrum. Awesome, thank you. I just have a quick question. It's on the one long-term recommendation of enhanced transit service. I believe with the public transit services there's a cost share that's involved and I believe that's generally the largest barrier, but I was just wondering if that is a true assumption on my part, if there are other things that the city can do to try to increase that. Public transit? Yeah, sorry, go ahead, Mayor. Yeah, we pay evangelists, like $260,000 a year to GMT. Maybe it's higher, because they just stopped it significantly. It's 300 something now. I think it's just over $200,000, right? One will be going up to $260 next year. Yeah, and we have had ongoing conversations. So during the budgeting process, I can't remember his name or his title, but somebody from GMT came to meet with us and spoke to some of the challenges they're facing and also heard from us, you know, what we're hearing from residents about wanting more service or different service lines. And I think that's, we're gonna have to follow up on that and like keep in dialogue with them. Yeah, and I think there are some things too, where it also depends on what our other towns are paying into. I think there's an issue, like Colchester doesn't, so people who wanna go up to the Shahs, like have a line up that way, don't have access to that. So yeah, it's such an important issue, but there's so much that GMT holds that we, like how do we best manage that relationship, I think is part of it. And also, I think one thing that's considered a lot is, you know, opinions other than the people who are actually using the buses. So thinking about how can we actually talk to the people who are using the buses and get their experience of both things that are lacking and things that are working well. When thinking about, I think with the equity and what's just thinking about getting feedback, we're talking about from the community on the parking too. Like, mm-hmm. All comes together. So for next steps, question for staff is, given the timeline of the Main Street project, when would staff feel it would be appropriate to start implementing anything? Like what kind of runway do we have to make that decision? Yeah, well, I think some of it's already being implemented, quite frankly, or we're working towards it, in particular with the recommendations related to land use. I mean, that's definitely something we're already exploring. Additionally, with the enforcement, that's something that we generally evaluate, whether or not we should be expanding the paid on-street areas or, you know, what that looks like and when we should start evaluating those areas for more enforcement. So it's, I mean, some of these things are already happening. It's just a matter of to what degree we're working towards implementation. So I think for a lot of the short term, it is, you know, there are things in place that we're doing and some of the issues we know about and are thinking about ways to refine. So for example, like the resident parking permit process. That's something that's a little clunky right now in our regulations that we've had conversations with the parking team about how we better refine that or what that looks like going forward. So I think some of it's already kind of programmed into our day-to-day and isn't really requiring much additional resource at this point. I guess it's maybe a long way to say that we're already working on some of this. And will this, especially thinking about the land use, will this actually help speed up or at least bring some more leverage into that process? So that's a great question. I know one of the discussions we've had continuously with the Planning Commission is related to parking and we've consistently held off on having those conversations until this report was finished. So this I think will definitely help inform those discussions and hopefully help speed those along. Okay, awesome. Thank you. I was just gonna say, whatever is involved, just a whole lot of change management. All right. Any other questions from folks? I just had a quick comment if I may about transit funding. I just wanted to alert you all that we did just wrap up the CCRPC, just worked with a consultant on transit financing and it explored various different ways and it kind of, you know, we're well aware of the problems around financing transit. And so that report I think we've just got finished in December. I don't know if it's quite on our website yet, but I can follow up with Eric so that I can get that into your hand so you can maybe take a look at it. And there's plenty of recommendations for how we could possibly fund transit differently in Chinatown County and throughout the state, but it'll require some political willpower, I think, to make some big changes, as you may imagine. Can't wait to see that. I see we do have a public question from the public. Hi, Sarah. Hi, how are you? Yeah, this is, I am Sarah Van Rijk-Forcel and I serve on the planning mission. So I wanted to have one comment about the eliminating parking on the affordable housing. And I think I would feel more comfortable if the city had some ideas about in the future, if people in affordable housing say needed to get cars or have vehicles and have parking for them, that we have some kind of a plan for those people, whether it's vouchers into the public parking spaces. I think I'd just be more comfortable as saying, well, they don't have as many cars, people don't have as much money to buy cars. I think that's going back into the equity conversation we just all sat through. So thank you. Thank you, Sarah. I think Jonathan framed that up a little bit too for us in his presentation. Are there any other public comments? Well, Jason, Jonathan, thank you so much. I know this has been under work for a very long time. And it's data that has been in demand as well by our commissioners. So thank you very much. Thanks, Sarah. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. We'll work to get an updated draft for a future meeting. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, so item E, right? No, item F. I have put forward tonight a resolution in support of adjusted student weights in Vermont's education funding structure. So for a little bit of background and for members of the public, in Vermont our education funding is based on the number of students in a school and students with higher needs like poverty or limited English proficiency are counted at a rate higher than one. The higher rate is called a weight and the weights are intended to equalize the cost to educate students so that districts with higher poverty or more English language learners like us don't have to spend and tax more than higher income districts, for example. Several years ago, our state legislature commissioned a study from UVM and Rutgers that looked at equity in our education funding system and said unequivocally that the weights do not provide the necessary level of funding for students at this time. The legislature then created a task force to figure out how to implement recommendations from that report. And after a lot of advocacy, the task force recommended updating the weights in the funding formula. The Senate then created a bill that would carry out that plan that as is process, their bill was passed to the House and the House Ways and Means Committee that's looking at that bill now is pivoting away from implementing the weights as were recommended by the study, by the task force and in the Senate bill. And so this resolution is aligned to one that the Burlington City Council is also, I believe, looking at so that we can make a statement as counsel to the state legislature to not make that change and to continue on the path of updating the weights. So I put this for you tonight for consideration. Does anyone have questions about this? No, I have full exposure. Yeah, it's so important. Okay. Public comment. I don't think we have any. Okay. So I would entertain a motion to approve the resolution supporting adjusted student weights in Vermont's education funding. So moved. Motion by Brennan, second by Thomas. All those in favor please say aye. Motion carries. Thank you. We'll get that signed and distributed. Perfect. We are on to item G, ARPA grant funding assignment with Angela. Oh, you're muted, Angela. Yep. This is related to the item that was brought last week as an update that Treasury issued the final rule regarding ARPA funding and we have received guidance from VLCT and professional auditors that recommends that as a municipality receiving less than $10 million that we elect the standard $10 million revenue loss. This will allow us to use this funding towards government operations and report the use of all our ARPA dollars in one year. This will create a reserve of our tax dollars at the end of the year that we can then use for those initiatives that we've been discussing such as housing trust fund and business loans and those types of things that we're hearing back in those surveys that the community is submitting. So staff is looking for a motion by council as the administrator of this grant to authorize the use of ARPA dollars as revenue loss with most of the money being assigned to the general fund for general government operations and a sum of $250,000 to be assigned for revenue loss for the on-street parking fund which saw losses due to the free parking and non-enforcement during the height of COVID with revenue loss between, I think 20 and 40%, about 30 and 46% between the two years. The additional funding being sent to the on-street meter fund would allow us to meet our obligations with regard to the 70 parking project and keep that project moving forward. Thank you, Angela. Brandy, you have a question? I have, yeah, Angela. So with this memo, I don't see that it calls out the 100,000 that was council approved for small business so it doesn't specifically call it out. What it says is that less any other council authorized uses so we can assign the use of reserves for those other uses. We did receive only three applications for the COVID recovery grants. Okay, all right, I knew you had it in your head. I just wanted to make sure that we had that called out in this memo. Yeah, I think it was just one very small sentence. Yep, we would still have reserves equal to our award less any funding that has been allocated by council, including the COVID-19 recovery business grant program and PPE authorized to date. Perfect, any other questions? Looks good to me. Okay, I am seeking a motion to authorize the use of ARPA money as revenue loss, assigning $250,000 to the on-street parking fund, the rest of the general fund less any pre-authorized uses. So moved. Second. Motion by Aurora, second by Thomas. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries, thank you. Okay, next up item H, the fees for community services program and Thrive. Hey, how's everybody's doing? So as we do typically on an annual basis here to come and set rates for Thrive, which is called for in the city ordinance chapter 28. And also to add some fees here for programs that we had not yet established a cost for in resolution in the past. As you'll see here, most of them are non-resident fees. Reason being that we anticipate using ESSER funds to cover the cost for Winooski residents, but we have in past summers had some non-resident participation. So wanted to set that fee to allow for that, allows to build for that moving forward. So pretty straightforward, but I answer any questions that you might have. Questions on this one? Are non-residents able to apply for financial aid to lower the fees? Yeah, you have a great question. So in most cases, yes, the one place where we did opt not to allow that was for pool passes. So we did restrict scholarships for pool passes to Winooski residents, but in most other cases non-residents can apply for scholarships, yes. And then just in terms of non-residents using things like the pool, like do we market the pool outside of Winooski broadly at all? So it's interesting you say that and I have not done it on the numbers, but I'm seeing all the pool pass receipts as they're coming through. And we are seeing a lot of non-resident passes being purchased right now. I would say just anecdotally based on what I'm seeing in my inbox probably about half the moment of the passes purchased to date have been non-residents. So it's interesting in that we haven't actively marketed that beyond the city. We've done a little bit of local marketing. We're planning in the next couple of weeks to do sort of an email blast to pass holders from last year, which would capture everybody regardless of their residency. But it's an interesting question and definitely something we could look into as a way to kind of boost those sales. Right. Are these consistent with the fees from last year or are they an increase? So they are by and large consistent. One of the, so some of the newer programs. So for instance, the dance programs and then the swim team. So the dance programs were set based on a rubric we've been using with the ESSER contract to establish the billing rate for various programs. So these rates are consistent with what we'd anticipate billing those out to the school at. Swim lessons are same thing. We realized actually that we had not set a non-resident rate last year. So that's a cleanup item. And that's the same amount that we bill to the ESSER grant. The swim team rate is actually a little bit less than what was being charged in years past. We're taking that on this year as a new program whereas the Y had run it for years. And so the idea, the difference being that they used to offer a multiple child discount which was going to be pretty complicated for us to manage through our rec management system. So we dropped the rate for per child. But I think it'll come out in the wash in terms of not applying a multi-child discount for families that have multiple kids swimming. But again, that's a program with access to scholarship resources as well. Okay. And as a follow up between the ESSER funds and these fees, will that, what would be shy of having the program self-funded I guess at that point? Yeah. So I mean, so it's been a little bit of a complicated question to answer given some of the vacancy we've had. So with any leaving her role in January, our kind of winter early spring slate of programs is less robust than we were predicting it would be because we've been down bodies. As we're looking towards the summer, we've got a really nice slate of programs planned. We did just make an offer today to a new rec manager. So that's in the works. So I think from an ESSER billing perspective, we're feeling some confidence that that will pick back up to the point where those costs will be breaking us even. Beyond ESSER, I think that that's still a work in progress where we are seeing really good response to the scholarship prompt or sorry, the donation prompt in our registration software. So as folks are registering, we're asking every time, would you like to make a donation to support youth programs? And we are seeing a decent response there, which is good, but that's definitely not enough to sort of sustain those programs over time. It's enough to more or less cover the scholarship requests, but in terms of covering program costs, that's something we need to sort of continue to think about post ESSER and how we're gonna sustain over time. All right, thank you. Yeah. One question I have, and this was within the equity audit, so hasn't been out very long, but there was a specifically calling out new American residents, not knowing that the pool even existed or how to access it. So I'm just wondering, kind of considering that if there's additional outreach planned. Yep. So Claudine and I actually went up to the school, gosh, I think about three weeks ago now and met with the full group of liaisons that work there and gave them sort of an overview of the subsidy program that supports Thrive, what it's gonna take to get folks signed up for Summer Thrive and then also pool passes and gave them both a kind of verbal overview and then sent some written information as well. So it's definitely something I will say, again, anecdotally, looking at the initial sales, it tends to be more what I'm gonna guess are English speaking families buying those initial passes. So that is an area where we've got some outreach planned in the coming months, just to sort of try to get some more new American families engaged in the pool that way. Awesome, thank you. Yeah, no, great question. Any other questions? I'm not hearing any concerns. So would someone like to make a motion to approve this resolution setting fees for community services programs and Thrive? So moved. Second. Motion by Thomas, second by Aurora. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thanks, Ray. Thank you very much. Right. And now we're on to item I, chapter 28 fees. I think Angela's coming back again. Yes. Yep, so this is just another one coming back to you since you had gotten the text of the ordinance a little late at the last meeting. You wanna give you time to digest it before requesting that council make the introduction of the changes to the ordinance as proposed and set a public hearing date for your next meeting. Again, these were mostly fees to update, to be in conformance with statute, to meet costs associated with those fees administratively and to set fees for the public record request policy that was approved by council. Thank you. Are there any questions from council? Okay. Well, hearing no concerns, I'm looking for a motion to set a public hearing for May 2nd. So moved. Second. Motion by Thomas, second by Aurora. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. And which councilor will be introducing the ordinance for our city charter? Oh, that's new to me. We don't often make ordinance changes. Yeah. It's just introduced by one. Volunteer. Deputy Mayor. That's fine. Volunteer. We'll have councilor or deputy mayor. Oh my God, why is Jim's last name is speaking to me, Duncan. Yes, yes. Okay, thank you. You passed 930. That's exactly what's happening. Okay. Very good. So we are on to item J, appointing an interim city manager. Is John still with us? I think he is. Yep, there he is. Oh yeah, okay. I see you now. And then I'll just talk until he gets his microphone on. So this, you need an interim from tomorrow through May 15th and, because Elaine will start on May 16th. And John has graciously agreed to be that person. And he handled this as co-interim previously. And has been the backup for the city manager role for some time? Yes. Do we need to do anything formal, formal paperwork on this? Or can we just? There definitely needs to be a motion. Well, yeah. Yeah. But we don't need, okay. Yeah, not that I know of. I can double check with the attorney. Okay. John, do you have anything to say? No, just happy to fill in for the little bit. Thank you. Yeah. Do I have a motion to appoint John Rusher as our interim city manager? To move. Second. Motion by Bryn, second by Thomas. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Appointed through May 16th when our new full time starts. Right. Thank you. Moving on to item K. Wendy, I have a new thing for us. Right, this is a new item. And if you're interested in continuing to do this at other towns where I've been at the end of the meeting, the board will hear about potential items that are scheduled for the next meeting. And so it's just kind of a memory job because the public also gets an opportunity to hear because they don't get those agenda planners that you do. So what we have scheduled for the May 2nd meeting, we have the green up day resolution. The public hearing for chapter 28, the fee ordinance, which you just approved, airport commission appointment, consideration of applications for COVID recovery for local businesses. And then today you decided to put the master plan goals also on that meeting. So if you have any other ideas, you can mention them now. You don't need to. This is not at all equivalent to a warning for the meeting. For the meeting, it's separate and apart from that, it's not intended to say these definitely will be or if I don't mention something, it doesn't mean it won't be on. It's just an additional opportunity to discuss the following meeting. Yeah, and for public information, stuff often gets moved, so no commitment there. I had the airport commission appointment on for tonight until a couple of days ago when I realized we had a hefty agenda coming up, so things do get moved at the last minute. Will the ARPA survey be ready for review of that? I don't think so. I think, I don't know if Angela's still, I think there's still outreach happening. There is outreach happening. Paul may have a little more information regarding the in-person outreach that they're doing to non-English speaking communities. We're trying to get responses from those communities in addition to all the ones that have been submitted through the website. Speak a tiny bit to that. Thank you, Angela. Yeah, so Yasemin and I are currently in the development plan of that plan. And we will be coming back to you as council with more details at a future meeting. Thanks, Paul. It'd be great to have a timeline around that availability. I think some of it's depending on making sure it's accessible. So I feel like prioritizing accessibility than having a hard timeline is kind of where I'm leaning. Like I would obviously need long to know on anything that we can have before our kind of strategy meeting would be great, but also acknowledging that with the kind of our flexibility with how we're using the ARPA funds if we then make sure we get more input, use this additional time to get more input, I do think that's important. Let's settle for, can you give us a timeline estimate? Not right now, when you get back with the outreach plan. Moving forward, that sounds good, thank you. Let's move on to L, the settlement agreement. Do you want to share anything in open session or should I move right to open session? No, we should go into executive session because I doubt that you'll take any action tonight, but I can't tell you that for sure. Okay, and I am inviting you and Angela? Yes, please, and the attorney. Oh, interior and stackable. Should the acting, the interim, the new interim city manager? In this case, no. Okay. Yeah, so I need to wear that. Yeah, I'm looking for a motion to find that pursuant to state statute 3131E, pending a probable civil litigation to which the public body is or maybe a party, necessitates the need to have this conversation in executive session. Moved. Second. Motion by Bryn, second by Aurora. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. So now I'm looking for a motion to enter into an executive session, including Angela Aldiari, Wendy Harrison, and Karen Stackful. So moved. Okay. Motion by Thomas, second by Bryn. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. We're going to move into executive session to discuss only just one item, no other business will be discussed. We'll come out of executive session solely to, well, if we take action on this one item, that could happen or just two adjourned, but no other business will be acted upon this evening. Should we move into the bet? Let me, I think we could do it here.  Is she able to? Never please say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you.


Good afternoon, and thank you, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Chulit, for all of your hard work and that kind introduction. It is indeed a privilege to be here to conclude another remarkable historically Black colleges and universities foreign policy conference, and I share the State Department's deep appreciation to all of you for your participation today. As you learn about the work of the State Department, and I hope you are encouraged to think about how you, too, can become leaders in foreign affairs. I am a proud HBCU alum myself, having graduated from Howard University School of Law, and now serving as the first African American chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. My time at Howard is the foundation of so much of what I have done throughout my career. I've walked in the same hallways as Charlotte E. Ray and Thurgood Marshall and so many other notable Howard icons and Black civil rights leaders, which spurred my desire to pursue a career that would allow me to give back to my community. It's what inspired me to become an attorney, then an Assistant District Attorney, an Assemblyman in Queens County, and now a member of the United States Congress. And as a member of Congress, it has been my priority to create opportunities for those who come from communities like mine to explore careers in foreign service. After all, foreign service is public service. Our Foreign Service officers are representing America abroad, and it's important that those public service, our diplomats, look like the America they represent. When we have diversity in national security-related fields, our nation is better for it. Your opinions go a long way. Your thoughts are important. So I hope you gain a greater understanding of diplomacy and its value worldwide. This opportunity is unique and very important. I want to thank Secretary Blinken and the Senior State Department officials for acknowledging the importance of historically Black colleges and universities, and all the talent that they nurture. My good friend, who's a graduate of Howard University, and now the Vice President of these United States of America, Kamala Harris, serves an example of those contributions to our great nation. It is important that Americans around the country understand why U.S. foreign policy matters. You heard from diplomats who are committed to tackling the global challenges from climate change, environmental policy, to the utilization of technology and data to support our efforts abroad. Clearly, our world is more interconnected than it's ever been, and the global challenges we face require global solutions. And democracy is at the heart of it. So after you leave the conference today, we ask you to keep conversations going at your college or university, and in your communities and your homes. Talk to your brothers and your sisters, your nieces and your nephews, and your friends. I have no doubt that our future ambassador is viewing this live stream right now. And I challenge you to take today's discussions, suggestions, and testimonies to fuel your goals. Whether you plan to apply to Howard University's Wrangler Fellowship, or the Donald Payne International Development Fellowship, or the Pinkerton Fellowship, or take the Foreign Service exam, this opportunity at the HBCU Foreign Policy Conference was meant to build your leadership to become the future diplomat of tomorrow. So thank you for your time, and we hope to see you for day two of the HBCU Foreign Policy Conference. Enjoy.


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My name is Rida Khan and I am a fourth-year Public Affairs and Policy Management student specializing in Economic Policy and Administration with a minor in French. I am both thrilled and very proud to be recognized on the Dean's Honours List for Academic Excellence consecutively for the past four years. However, it certainly has not been an easy journey. I still remember the nerves I felt when beginning my Bepapam studies and university, I was incredibly intimidated by the academic pressure and the transition from high school to university. However, I soon realized just how approachable and welcoming the Carleton community truly is. They also provided me with writing guides which were incredibly useful as I outlined how to write and communicate effectively and to successfully manage the transition from high school to university. But I also took advantage of the resources and tools offered on campus such as the past learning sessions, the CSAS workshops, the one-on-one writing sessions. I also got involved on campus by joining an extracurricular club right away to meet new people and to truly get out of my comfort zone. That was instrumental and truly shaped my journey. And later in my first year, I had applied for the Alternative Spring Break program and was chosen to go on a one-week experiential learning trip. All of these opportunities combined really shaped my journey and had a tremendous positive impact on my studies.


Botanically speaking, seeds are small embryonic plants. The whole plant stuffed in tiny seeds surrounded by an outer layer packed with vitamins and minerals and phytochemicals to protect the seedlings' plants' DNA from free radicals. No wonder they're so healthy. And by seeds, using the formal definition, we're talking all whole grains. Grains are seeds. You plant them and they grow. Nuts are just dried fruits with one or two seeds. Bay gooms, beans, peas, and lentils are all seeds too, as well as cocoa and coffee beans. So finding health-promoting effects in something like cocoa or coffee should not be all that surprising. There is substantial evidence that increased consumption of all these little plants associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Of course, much of chocolate research is just on how to get consumers to eat more. Well, it didn't seem to matter what kind of music people were listening to when it came to the flavor, intensity, pleasantness, or texture of a bell pepper. People liked chocolate more when listening to jazz than classical rock or hip-hop. Why is this important? So food industries can integrate specific musical stimuli in order to maximize their profits. For example, chocolate companies may incorporate their chocolate products with jazz-like background music to increase consumers' acceptance. They cite an earlier study that demonstrated that people rated oyster consumption more pleasant in the presence of the sound of the sea than in the presence of the farmyard noises. You'd think chocolate would just sell itself, given that it's considered the most commonly craved food in the world. There's certainly not the same degree of interest among patients as to whether or not Brussels sprouts might provide similar cardiovascular protection, so it's understandable to hope chocolate provides health benefits. Meanwhile, despite their known benefits, Brussels sprouts languish, unloved, and unconsumed. One of the potential downsides of chocolate is weight gain. Though cocoa hardly has any calories, chocolate is one of the most calorie-dense foods. Here's 100 calories of chocolate compared to 100 calories of strawberries, for example. A few years ago, a study funded by the National Confectioners Association, who, among other things, runs the website VoteForCandy.com, reported that Americans who eat chocolate weigh on average four pounds less than those who don't. But maybe chocolate eaters exercise more, or eat more fruits and vegetables. They didn't control for any of that. The findings of a more recent study, though, publishing the Archives of Internal Medicine, were less easy to dismiss. No parent ties to big chocolate, reporting that out of 1,000 men and women they studied in San Diego, those who consumed chocolate more frequently did have a lower body mass index, weighed less than those who consume chocolate less often, even after adjusting for physical activity and diet quality. It was a cross-sectional study, meaning a snapshot in time, so you can't prove cause and effect. Maybe not eating chocolate leads to being fatter, or maybe being fatter leads to not eating chocolate. Maybe people who are overweight are trying to cut down on sweets. What we need is a study in which people are followed over time, but there was no such prospective study until now. More than 10,000 people followed for six years, and a chocolate habit was associated with long-term weight gain in a dose-response manner, meaning the greatest weight gain over time was seen with those with the highest frequency of chocolate intake. It appears the reason that those cross-sectional studies found the opposite is that subjects diagnosed with obesity-related illnesses tended to reduce their intake of things like chocolate in an attempt to improve their prognosis, explaining why heavier people may on average eat less chocolate. And then the strongest type of evidence in interventional trial-ways. Split people up into two groups, change half their diets, and indeed, adding four squares of chocolate to people's daily diets does appear to add a few pounds. So what do we tell our patients? Because many cocoa products are high in sugar and saturated fat, family physicians should refrain from recommending cocoa. That's a little patronizing, though. I mean, you can get the benefits of chocolate without any sugar or fat, by, for example, adding cocoa powder to a smoothie. But too often doctors think that patients can't handle the truth. Case in point, if your patients inquire, ask them what type of chocolate they prefer. If they respond milk chocolate, then it's best to answer that it's not good for them. If they say dark chocolate, though, then you can treat them as if they actually have a brain and lay out the evidence.


The south coast of New South Wales has areas of great beauty and fascination, where nature is both the lesson and the teacher. At Kiola, students visiting the Australian National University's Field Station can experience the variety and complexity of nature as they develop techniques for scientific field study and research. Stretching from the Tasman Sea to the Maramarang Hills, the 384 hectare property includes a variety of ecological patterns and vegetation types. Sand dunes and salt marsh, a lagoon and a saltwater creek, open farmland and forest. Joy London lives in the main homestead, which has been her home since 1929. As I said, Dad was in Kamassie, West Africa, which is now Gama. And he died in 1920. Well, Mum bought the mother, her mother and father, and a sister out back to Australia. Mum was looking around for a properties and in the bank one day in Bradwood, the manager happened to mention to Mum that there was a property down on the coast. She had had a look around other parts, down Eumerala and all around different areas like that and came down here. And that was in March and flood rains. I don't know why she bought it. Anyway, she liked it. And from that, we've been here ever since. It was built originally in that four rooms in 1910. 1910 lived somewhere around about that time. The cottages were all built at that time. They were all occupied when we came here, different people there. And when the war started or the mills had been closed, they gradually drifted. Came round, our holiday makers came, so we used to let them for holiday times. Of course, not up to date like they are now, although they are still original. They've only been repaired, those cottages. This has been added on the homestead here. The trees have been planted. It was all bare then. The bedroom on the front here on the right as the windows on that came off the northern firth. It was wrecked on Brush Island, the northern point of Brush Island. I was in 35, I think there was. We saw the boat go by. It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Reasonably calm. Well, my brother was here. My uncle was here as well. We used to work the property. You know, the cattle and growing our own crops. We had horses then in those days too. And a blacksmith. And eventually we went into like a small dairy and supplied the camping ground and bully point. The people ran. We made the road up the back for 12 miles. We did ourselves up through the forest. We used most of the Jinka roads where we could widen them. And that way we took them out. This was the forest area for the mill. The original school was on the right-hand side. But that was not used while we were here. But then my uncle had trucks. And his drivers, the family. You know, there'd be families of them and a few kitties around. So Mum supplied the timber and the rest of us built the schoolhouse which is now in the avenue. They threw it over. They pulled it over. Pat Walker was here when she used to come over sometimes for vegetables and milk. I have a clear memory of coming up for vegetables. Or really I was primarily coming for your company. The interest of your company and so on. Mum used to do the flowers and I'd do the vegetables. Then she'd come along and I'd put this in there. And I'd make her cabbages. You said to me, Pat, do you think the university would be interested in this place? I thought, oops, absolutely brilliant. Wonderful. What an amazing thought for a person to have. Yes. When there were all those real estate agents out there who'd only be too keen to go gobble, gobble. Gobble in there. Yes. That's how it came about really. They came my way, that's one thing about them. It's what I'd set out to. I wanted them, I agreed to. Well, I came into it I suppose when my wife came back from gathering vegetables with Joy and told me that Joy was interested in giving the property to the university for some purpose or another. So when we got back to Canberra I went directly to our administrators. In those days in Anya we were very lucky. We had a very small highly intelligent and responsive administration. I put it to the council fairly soon as I recall after Donald's interview and it was discussed on council as to whether this was a wise thing to do. It stands to reason if somebody offers you a mile of lovely Pacific Ocean coastline with a hinterland of varying types of agriculture and forest country you'd be a lunatic not to go for it, wouldn't you? Now certainly this was not an easy decision for me to take it to the council because it had the riders as you probably know that in accepting a gift we're accepting a responsibility favour. And that's a very unusual thing. I think only a university or maybe a church could undertake such a responsible deal or give such a pledge. Joy had this property which she received from her mother and she didn't want to see it broken up into small seaside dwellings and fishing houses and so forth. So she made it a condition that we should agree to use it forever in simple state, keep it in simple state and use it for university purposes in simple farming and not to be subdivided other than for university's own purposes consistent with the use for biological studies both teaching students and research. Joy was not... Joy wasn't giving away something useless she wasn't giving away something which had even become useless to her she was giving away her major asset and in a sense her only... well certainly her only major asset and it was one into which she and her family had put an enormous amount they put half of their lives and this was half of the lives of an extended family. All she was asking was that the place should be kept more or less in its present state in perpetuity. Now of course to Joy that would seem a very small thing to be asking and indeed it was a very very small thing indeed but to an organisation like the university the notion of doing anything in perpetuity produced all kinds of legal problems now it was simply the practical matter of how far can a university council at this point in time set up rules which were going to be binding on their successors a hundred years hence. It's something which Australian universities really haven't had a great deal of experience of those years preparatory to the actual handover were years which led to the principle of characters in the plot learning to trust one another entirely. A large garden party was hold at Kayola on the 1st of March 1975 when Joy London officially handed over the deeds of her property to the university. Kayola is now called the Edith and Joy London Foundation in memory of Joy's mother and in gratitude for Joy's generosity and foresight. Professor Donald Walker was the first chairman of the management committee form to coordinate the activities of the foundation. Academics, students and other helpers repaired the cottages to make sleeping quarters and installed a dining and amenities block. A donation by the Frankel family enabled a laboratory to be built and the Edith and Joy London Fund to be started. In August 1992 the committee held its 100th meeting. Several of the founding members are still active in the committee. I wanted it kept reasonably in the same condition as we had it and it had to be for research and all their ins and outs and it will be. It's taken them many years to follow what we wanted but it's coming and it will improve. For some years Joy took on not just the managing the farm assisted by her long time manager Neil Evans but also the management of the place of the university's aspect of the place. It was Joy who handed out the keys to the cottages. It was Joy who answered all the queries. It was Joy that she bit people about closing gates and so on and she did that for many years and in an utterly unpaid capacity she was getting nothing out of this except an involvement in the place and she's always been very keen to have that involvement both on that personal level and by her membership of the management committee which has been very important to it. The characteristics of the agreement that were made the major characteristic of the agreement that was made between the university and Joy London was that the property should be used for certain restricted university purposes particularly the teaching and research in the field sciences and that the university would protect the general organization and layout of the property in perpetuity. Now I think we could see the academic people concerned could see that we had here the opportunity of setting up a place for teaching and research. Now teaching is fine you can bring in your students in job lots as it were and take them out and teach them field techniques which can only really be taught in the field of course and introduce them to the recognition of problems because for many subjects particularly biological subjects the problem first presents itself by observation of what is happening in the field what is really happening and you may later of course take the solution of that problem back into the laboratory and tackle it with all sorts of clever machinery and so on but you begin and you finish in the field. If you want to do any long term monitoring research then you have to have security and the security of tenure just pure security of tenure was something like a place a better place like this could offer. Most people who visit this place I mean yes most people from outside the university who visit this place and particularly in these open weeks have very little idea about what the university is about but here tucked away in the countryside with nevertheless a big holiday population arriving from Sydney, Wollongong so on and so forth the university reaches quite a different quite a different public and I think that it should we haven't really thought of that in the early days as a major feature but I think it should now be seen as a very important development. Before we forget those early days we should record not just joy's generosity in giving us the place that of course is the major the major act but the immense amount of time and energy and thought that all kinds of people put into its early establishment and I think particularly of those members of the first few years in particular of the management committee or practically all of the academics who gave so much of their time and their energy to the basic needs of the place like replacing the roofs on the cottages quite apart from designing teaching and research and so on and so forth these were labours of love. I've been a member of the management committee until recently when I resigned from it it's obviously been a great advantage to the students and to research workers based at the ANU and what is now the University of Canberra and also as a conference centre for people coming together to discuss like this but I think the main advantage of it will appear in 50 years from now maybe 100 or 200 years when it is still a simple scientific habitat that is accessible to the university accessible to all sorts of people but is a part of the history of the coastal area. I wanted it kept as they could and I thought well why not do it while you're alive see what happens I think it's beautiful as it is.


So after 30 years, three decades, China economy has a rapid growing in the past. But now we face a lot of challenges. So like pollution, population, and we change the economy structures. One of the challenges is education. So everyone knows education is a long-term challenge. We have to face a lot of today's problem and the future's problems. So one of the challenges in education is cultural barriers. So how can we overcome the cultural barriers to educate our students and future leaders? So everyone knows in the past, like 5,000 years ago, China has their cultural. And 3,500 years ago, there's a concept set up the Confucianism and a lot of cultural schools. We call this 100 schools of thought. And today, the history flows today. So today we face how can go to the entire world, the modern world. We need education reform. Absolutely. So in the past, we have a different style, so teaching and learning. But now for both teaching and the learning, we need deep reform. That should fit today's development. So we have internet, we have a lot of tools. But the internet can bring the people closer and closer. But we still need face to face. So we try to set up a platform. That platform will attract students all around the whole world. Come to China, to Beijing, to Tsinghua to understand China. So when you study, whatever you try to study, you have to understanding and you have to get a trust. So we try to bring the students to China to learn China, understand China and build up the trust in the future. In the past, we have brought a lot of students to China already.  Over half million students go to the whole world, Europe, Australia, everywhere. But less students come back, come to China. So we try to attract a lot of students to China. We build up that platform. That platform will change starting from the teaching style. The one is the interactive study. We'll break up the classroom to the very small classroom, interactive. And then we bring students to the field trip. We go to the Tianjin, like the divided area. We go to the rural area, the inland China. And there's a second one. The third one, we use our current teachers, current leaders to teach future leaders, like domestic leaders and international leaders to teach our students. So that teach will give students experience. And we use that as an experimental and practical training for our future leaders. One, the students live together. They're dining together. They play together. They study together today in the future. They are the leaders in the different countries, in the different world. And they are friends. And they can talk to each other. They can friendly make the crisis get down, get the solution. So one day you can imagine, so the one leaders from China and another leaders from the US, they can talk to each other because they are classmates a long time ago. So we build up that platform. We tear down the wall, bring them together in that platform. That's what we call the Schwarzman College. As Schwarzman said, in the 21st century, China is no longer an elective course. China is a core curriculum. Thank you so much. My question, the question is how to overcome cultural barriers in leadership education. Thank you so much.


Kremlin propagandist threatens Georgia with a blow. Representatives of the Russian authorities and Kremlin propagandists are actively commenting on the events related to the protests in Tbilisi against the so-called foreign agents. Some of them declare that the bill initiated in the Parliament of Georgia, which the ruling party Georgian Dream has already withdrawn after three days of protests, has nothing to do with Russia, while others are already threatening Georgia with negative consequences of these events. The Kremlin propagandist and head of RT channel Margarita Simonian claims that protesters in Tbilisi are shouting Sukhumi. Sukhumi and according to her it means that all this fuss is only needed to open the second front for us. As she wrote on her Facebook page, in case of repetition of August 2008 no one will scratch with Georgia and will not send troops there, but will just fire at Tbilisi without much consideration, because now is not the time for sentimentality. According to Simonian's claim, Tbilisi will be hit at least because there is no Kiev-Pachora Lavra and no one considers themselves a nation with Georgians, and the Russian Federation has never been a Tbilisi Russian state. The editor of RT points out that Russia does not want to destroy the city of Kiev because of the historical monument of the Kiev-Pachora Lavra, but there will be no such hesitation regarding Tbilisi.


Let's jump into those three prospecting strategies. The first one being rolling 100. So I semi-explained a little bit of it, but rolling 100 is a list of 100 warm market prospects. Makes sense, right? So you've got a rolling 100 and the reason it's rolling as you can see from the bottom is say you've got, you know, 98, 99, 100, right? So you've got John, you've got to have Betty, right? I've always got Betty and everything. John, Betty, and Sue. So if Betty, she's a buyer every time. Oh gosh, Betty's are buyers. So she buys from you, she buys car insurance, whatever, right? So you take her off the list, but you replace her with somebody else, right? So that's why it's a rolling 100. There's always 100 names that are active, active for you to talk to. This is something that I used early on and it freaking crushed it for me because it's a better concept than, hey, go write down 500 people that you know, right? It's 100, it starts small, 100 is easy. Like there's a book out there called Prospecting Made Easy that says if you can't write down 500 people, prospects, then you're not serious about prospecting. So 100 is easy and you have this rolling 100. So it's a list of warm market prospects. I always say that every agent has $100,000 waiting for them in their rolling 100, right? You guys saw me make at least half that, right? In eight months off of these and probably only about the first four or five months because I kind of slowed down on it. The problem is too many agents think that they're out of warm market prospects after they've run out of their close friends and family to sell. But that's not actually true. So let's go through some ideas of who could be part of your rolling 100. Obviously relatives, friends. As we roll through this, start making a list and thinking of names, right? You're part of this. Let's make some freaking notes and start to put some of this into action. Relatives, friends, friends of friends that you've met. I just thought of three friends of friends that I've met in the last month that I know a little. Didn't you? Parents, friends, grandparents, friends, teammates from high school and college. I just thought of several as well, right? I thought of a bunch actually. Coaches from those teams, coaches from other teams. Who cares, right? Former high school and college classmates. I just thought of a few. Former teachers. Some of the teachers liked you. Some of them hated you.  People from church. A favorite waiter from restaurants that you frequent. I've got this restaurant in Springfield that I really like going to. It's called Char, okay? There's a waiter there, Haristo. I like that dude, man. He waited on us at a Mexican restaurant before. Now he's at the steak restaurant. He remembered us and the dude's customer service is off the freaking chain. He would be on my rolling 100. He would.  The mechanic you always use. And think about people that you give money to should always be on this list. If you give them money, I believe in, I would tell them. I believe in doing business with people that do business with me. Okay? Perfect. So when you give people money, the guy that moves your lawn, the landscaper, the pool boy, when you don't even have a pool, whatever, right? The mechanic, former coworkers, former bosses, regulars from your last job, people you play rec basket league ball with, softball, right? People you see at the gym. I've got this one guy, like I'm giving you so many ideas right now. You've got to be jotting these down. I go to the gym. There's this guy named John there, right? That talks to me every morning when I go to the gym. He's probably 50s, low 50s, low to mid 50s. He's like a big CEO or manager at some place. The dude loves me. He needs to be on my rolling 100. As he does yours, right? I'm not saying he does because he's online. He can't be on yours. Your accountant. My CPA owns insurance with us. He just does.  Managers of your favorite stores, your landlord. I got multiple that I need to be on my list, right? Contractor, anyone in your fantasy sports leagues. I've had several realtors that I haven't sold to, and several I have, right? I've sold neighbors. It's on here. I've sold a lot of fantasy sports leagues. I like that. A lot of people in my fantasy sports leagues are friends, clients, or they're already agents because I've already recruited them, right? Parents of your children's friends. You got some there. Neighbors, right? I've got several neighbors that own policies with me. Previous neighbors, old neighbors, original neighbors, new neighbors, whatever. Barista. You guys think I'm nuts, but there's, and I shouldn't have this many stories, right? Because you guys are the one, I'm supposed to be helping you and I'm helping me. There's this check that knows, there's multiple checks that know this, know my name at the local Starbucks, right? And they talk to me every time I go in there. And when I don't go in there for a week because I start making it at home, they're like, oh, Cody, where you been? We missed you. There's always, always more people to talk to. Any of your insurance agents, any insurance agents you know, right? There could be, and by that, there could be agents that sell PNC that don't sell life or the sell life but don't sell PNC that don't sell group benefits, that don't sell Medicare, right? Whatever. The salesman who sold you your car, multiple. Actually, funny story there, I'd bought a BMW X5 about four months ago. And when I bought that car, the guy wanted a couple million dollar life insurance, quote, so there you go. Just from buying a car, right? This actually works. Like there is hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting and waiting on you to grow up and do your job. Realtor, several realtors. My sister's my realtor now, so that one's out, but several realtors before. So that's how it should look. You write 100 names, if they say no, they shouldn't say no.  I don't get a no. If they say no, or you can't help them slash can't help, there you go, that's good. If they say like, I'm gonna get a hold of all of them. No, can't help, or they buy, right? Then I mark them off the list like Betty, because every Betty's a buyer. So that's how it should look. Does that make sense so far? Okay, it's what I like to call the rolling 100. It's the best warm market concept in the industry, bar none.


Hi everybody, Joe for jazzy's casebreaks.com doing a quick mosaic football pack giving away the five Final spots. It's our last filler the five final spots in our high-end football mixer Very big thanks to this group for making it happen We're gonna do the break itself first and then we'll do the second dice roll at the end to see who wins those final five spots names and teams though four and a four eight the hard way one two three four five six seven and eighth and final time four and a four eight times for the teams one two Three and eighth and final time. All right. There's the first half of the list and then the second half of the list All right, let's print this out do the quick pack break and then we'll see Who ends up with spots in that mixer coming up in the next video a nice Jalen waddle Justin Fields NFL debut card going to Jose and the Bears Hoping he he does well this year Jalen waddle rookie mosaic pattern also NFL debut Josh with the dolphins. So if he keeps keeps things going this year as well. All right Now let's flip back over here. Let's see who's gonna win the final five high-end mixer spots You dice new list and your fingers crossed. Let's roll it randomized five into two seven times top five after seven good luck one two three four five five six and seventh and final time so Unfortunately from six on down that's gonna be sad times Josh very close, but not quite But from six to 32 Thank you. I appreciate you But ultimately sad times happy times though for the top five. You're in the mixer Alex is happy. So is Josh Jose Josh and Alex So congrats the top five right there Alex Josh s Jose Josh m and Alex again Alex with two of the five spots Thanks for watching everybody. I'll see in the next video for the next break. Bye. Bye