So we are running with about 45 minutes ahead of schedule, which is kind of odd for us this year's the other way around. So next up, we have the Burlington Electric Department with Jennifer Green and Darren Springer talking about building electrification policy recommendations. Before we get into that, do you want to give an update survey on the Public Works Commission since we're getting kind of some informal commission updates? All right, thanks.  Since I'm here, I might as well, I guess, give you a comment about that while we have time. My name is Solvei Overby. I've been on the Public Works Commission for quite a few years. And I've usually handed out a handout because a lot of people don't really understand exactly what the Public Works Commission does and what the Public Works Department does comparatively. So if anybody does have an interest in that, please come find me, and I can help you out with that. The Public Works Commission has a few things right now. I think on the agenda for next week, one of the items is going to be adding in the bike lanes two directions for Platsburg Avenue. That would be one of the few responsibilities that the Public Works Commission has is dealing with parking, which tends to be a lot of what's on our agenda lately. Removing a spot, moving a spot, things like that. But one of the items on next Wednesday's agenda and Public Works Commission, just backing up a bit, the Public Works Commission meetings are always on the third Wednesday of the month, 6.30. They're at the Public Works Commission meeting down on Pine Street. You can also watch online because they are live-streamed. But next week, the item that is probably most interest is the bike lanes on Platsburg Avenue, which would mean we would be voting to remove parking on the west side of Platsburg Avenue, which is they've done a parking study. There's hardly ever anybody parking on that side of the street. So if you have an interest in that, you can watch that meeting. You can send in an email to the Public Works Commission. We do have a guy that does all the communication stuff. But if you have an interest, my email address with the Public Works Commission is silverb at burlingtonvt.gov. If anybody has any questions about other things, Public Works related, they are going to do an update on the North Winooski Avenue bike lane change, which has been somewhat challenging for people to work out all the details of where people park if we do not have parking on the east side of North Winooski. So that will be an information item on Wednesday. I haven't read that part of the back, and I just got it today. So I'm just starting to read prepare. Does anybody have any questions about anything generally Park Public Works Commission or Public Works Department or next week's meeting? We're always looking for somebody to participate in that commission. So if anybody is interested, there'll be elections next June. And so it would be nice. People can start participating in the meetings, and you can get an idea of how it works. I'm more than willing to mentor people if they're interested. You had a question? This one. When is the university place going to be open? Because the construction on that was finished four weeks ago. And they just repainted all the lines, but the little cones are still blocking the road. I haven't been told that. The question is, when will the university place renovation? It's the construction and it's four weeks ago, so. Yeah, I want to go to the university. Yeah, the question is, the university places the street that goes across the east side of the green on the UVM campus. And it's been closed in order to make it more of a pedestrian friendly area. And it also is going to be one way only. It's not going to be able to be driven both directions. And I bet we can find the answer to that at the meeting next Wednesday. That's something that I can ask. We have a commissioner communication. So if there are questions that the community has, usually people ask me to bring them up at that meeting or make a comment about a problem. Yeah, I haven't paid attention to that to know. And I'm wondering if there's, I don't know what they're waiting on, but I can ask that question. And if you want, I can find out and email you that. If you want to give me your email address, I can find that out for you and email you. Anybody else? Public Works is just so interesting. However, I have to tell you, it is the foundation of our civilization. So it's not a small thing, even though sewers and clean water and your streets, all of these things. The parking isn't so exciting, but the water, wastewater, stormwater, all of those are really important. And all of that is discussed during these meetings. So I encourage anybody to watch those meetings. And I also encourage people that are interested in actually making decisions to help build the infrastructure and make sure our infrastructure is affordable and can be maintained, participate in that. It's really an important commission and an important department. And they do a great job. There's a small staff. I do have my difficulty sometimes being in the minority on some of the decisions that are made. But all you can do is try to inform people. And if the decision is what it is, it is what it is. So I encourage people to pay attention to that. Very important commission, a very important department in Burlington. Thank you, Solveig. OK, I think at this point, we're going to move on to the presentation from BED. So without further ado, let me introduce Jennifer Green and Darren Springer. Thank you. Take that one. Good morning, Chair. I enjoy it quite a lot. I always say the green. No, I don't. I don't. You want to go to the top. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Here we go. Perfect. I would like to thank the team for their help. Thank you. I'm going to introduce you here, Darren. My name is Jennifer Green, and I've been a director of sustainability at work at BED. And my job is to help the BED team. It's conditioned away from the fossil fuel and ground transportation that goes to migrants. And as you know, it's saying that you are all part of our Grand Sierra Landry Strategy, which is coming on the co-tail of our county co-tail for renewable energy stats. So as you may all know, 2014 is the first day that you have 14% of our electricity from the wind. So now we're moving on to that hero. And now you have a charge from the city council to move beyond the things that we need to incentivize people to move towards that hero. I think these are the things for the city council and the lack of the vehicle and part of the city council to take up the policy. Because the city council, and we all know about it, we know just how much we can do to keep a lot of things before and before the financial incentive that we offer. We probably will need some policy there. So we think from this part of the city back then around the ancient time, policy could build fire or build us. So I'm here with Darren. I think Darren needs to hear the evening tonight to talk a little bit about what the thinking needs to be, a real representation policy for a large-scale buildings. But what we really need to do in the coming years, we are sort of there to be an update it's to your thoughts about what we're considering in the future of us. Thank you very much. Thank you. Questions for the people out there? Very good everybody in the room. Let's get into that. A few more folks. We've arrived at 4.28 the last of the day and we're going around all the ideas to talk about what really stems from both the community that back in 2021, time of the day. We had 65% of the community vote yes to authorize the charging. We have a city that will be in regular admissions and building. The governor and the legislator approved that earlier this year. And so in May, the city council passed resolution again that evening, asking us in the department of permitting and looking at policy options to expand upon some of the work that we've done over the past year. We have mental wellbeing safety standards that are already in effect. We have new construction requirements that can put in a renewable heating system when we're building new. So everything we're going to go now to build on those existing requirements. And a couple things we're thinking about and then we'll take your questions or your feedback on new construction. We're thinking about going on to the heating system and saying, you're going to build a new building in Burlington. It has to be all renewed. And that means you can have either a contractor or a renewable fuel if it has a conventional system or you can have different options like thermo or heat pumps, heat pump water meters, different types of technologies that basically use no powerful fuel and we're talking about the needs of clients of cooking, water heating, everything that would go on in a building. And this would be starting in 2024. The same thing that we're thinking about we're talking between larger existing buildings. We're talking about buildings that are over 50,000 for a fee. There may be a couple hundred of those buildings in the community. A lot of them are going to be with larger institutions like the Medical Center in Indiana, the city, government itself, the school district and from college and then others as well. And saying, if you're going to pull a permit to replace the heating system or like the water heating system one of those existing buildings they have to be in your role as well. So these are new requirements. One feature that we're looking at is to say that you can't need that standard for different reconstruction or for existing buildings. We would use carbon pollution pricing. But really for the first time I think a community would have done this in a month and say that you would have to pay alternative compliance data that would look at the amount of carbon that you're putting out from the heating system or the clients over the lifetime that system and pay that impact fee up front. And that would be a way to help a level of playing field for the renewable technologies or cleaner technologies and a way to ensure there's a cost requirement being accounted for in the building environment and growing. One of the exciting things is that a hundred communities are living in what we're doing and they're starting to move in the same direction south of the building continuously to the process of adopting a similar renewable heating requirement that will be adopted in the world in 2021. And certainly there's a lot of conflict that you might say about what we're doing as well. So we just wanted to share some of what we're thinking. There's a report that we put out in D.B.I. that they have a few different ideas around these issues. And we're scheduled to issue a final report to the council to account for the take up in December and possibly if there are any agreements that people were proposing, there could be a vote to approve some of these items in the market in 2023, as we expected. So we'll stop there. We'd love to have questions or feedback. You might have a question about what we're proposing here or how many communities and pick what's considered fully animated that we would have talked about but maybe something you could point out about all of it to the electric department. So we'll stop there. I'll take questions for your feedback. Anybody any questions for the folks from BED? I was going to be. I'd just like to know where can we get more information about it to read like what the proposal is. So probably the best work that we can imagine will be. I don't know what it's all about, but it is. It's kind of the work that we're studying with the company. If you put it in the first part, if you go down to the points, the bottom part of the page, it was supposed to be in the last couple of days. So we'll do that again. Thank you. We're all in the middle of your talk. My question is do you have a projection of how much additional electricity would be used by Burlington residents if we were to say have 25% of us using electric vehicles or 50% of us or 100% of us? Cause I'm just curious as to how that might be factored into your planning. If we all really did get electric vehicles and we're plugging them in and what would that do for our needs? That's a great question. We do. We have a lot of swing off and that zero will enter the department. It really looks at what if we really would use the electric vehicle towards heat coming from electric vehicles. And the projection is that if we're going to do that fully, you would be having about 65% of our electric needs in the community. We'd be more efficient overall. We'd use less energy overall and we'd be bringing out carbon emissions. And so part of what we've done is 20.1 in the community and thank you for this voted for revenue fund of the world electric called the net zero and revenue fund. And part of that funding is to prepare for that future upgrade portions of the grid so that we have the ability to accommodate what kind of long-term vehicles going in heat pumps, we can remove the water for the purpose of the new possibilities. Great, well done. That helps my website, www.rohwensmallercrate.com and if you put in a slash and see for net zero energy I'll record it right here. Thank you, Darren. I'll just forget because I don't think that's on, but I don't mean to be like a downer, but I'm very concerned about where some of the materials for all the electric batteries come from as a francophone, francophile, French teacher and a well aware conflict minerals issue and that a lot of that is mine much like the blood diamond industry and people are exploited in African countries and we see it in our devices that were marketed to update every six months. We don't really need to do and I just, I hope that you all shed a light on sourcing from companies that are following legislation and policies that call for even working conditions because that's increasing and I also, my other concern is, you know, I'm all about less energy use and then I like hear the F-35s going over when I'm teaching and work and I'm like, how much carbon are they using? So how to solve this local grassroots efforts? You know, and I'm saying this like genuinely, like sometimes it's like, what, you know what I mean? Like how does that dovetail with so much carbon being skewed out into our environment? Like I'm not sure, you know, and I know that's probably out of your words, but I hope the city is like, my city is following some of those predictions, you know, the F-35s that every time they fly, there's so much carbon skewed into our environment. So what's the point of getting an electric car? So I think everybody heard that with kind of about the F-35s and also the materials, you know, the batteries. I think if some of it's in that part of our economy, but you know, the roadmap really focuses on brown transportation getting within the city was the big source that we look at. In terms of the battery materials, there's a couple pieces of kind of new components that are interesting. One is in the federal legislation that this path, it acts pretty strong and increasing standard for the battery materials to be produced in North America or in the United States as opposed to coming from elsewhere. The materials that go in, like all the chemical that go in there? Yeah, so they're, so to get the electric unit and the fuel tax credit in the future is going to be dependent on where the material is stored. That's a big change from what it's been in the past. So in the impact that it has on the supply chain and it's developed here, all of it's that. And then the other thing is recycling materials. Finding the use, half of that battery is to get done in the vehicle. Whether that's moving into stationary energy storage, or using it that way, or the company that I'm aware of in Nevada seems to be able to get up to 15% of the supply chain that we need from the recycling material in the batteries it's with. So we're continuing from it. We don't have the ability necessarily to fully impact them from rolling the electric but we're confident in some of it. First of all, our wind biomass. So any time you plug in, you are using renewable sources. So if this, our installation is being plugged in then you can be assured that it's coming from a renewable source. What we're really working on now is transitioning away from fossil fuels and inviting people to the grid, inviting infrastructure to the grid that depends on, say gasoline, cars, for example, buildings, which predominantly is natural gas. So I hope that answers your question. If the installation requires electricity, then you're on the right path. You're supporting that. Hi, Erin. Hey, good to see you. Quick question about energy retrofits for heat pump water heaters and heat pumps. Obviously in the old American, we've got a lot of natural gas and are you planning on expanding or continuing the sort of the incentives for that technology, for placements. Personally, I'm using natural gas for hot water and it's kind of tickling that $4,000 mark for installation costs for just a water heater. So I'm just curious. But I'm also curious too, with the new building that's going up in the big hole, whether that's been included in all this and the requirements for that. Thank you. Yeah, two good questions. In terms of incentives, and I'm glad you brought them up because we should mention this everywhere we go. We have great incentives to switch to a heat pump, switch to a heat pump water heater in your home. 95% of Burlington is on natural gas and so there's a great opportunity to reduce bottle fuel use with heat pumps. We have great incentive, you can get up to 75% of the cost of a heat pump installation rebated and then we also have, I think, over $1,000 off on the heat pump water heaters. Those are all on our website. We're going to continue those. The revenue bond was important to ensure that we had funding that could continue to offer those incentives over the next several years. And the other exciting piece there is that the federal bill is going to bring some new money to help with that as well. So stay tuned, there could be more opportunities coming from the federal bill as well. And then in terms of new construction downtown, that would be subject to this renewable heating ordinance that we mentioned. So any new building going in and pulling the permits going to need a renewable heating system. And then if this proposal here gets enacted then probably starting in 2024, it would have that all new construction has to be 100% renewable for all the thermal uses in the building. But currently at least the heating system, which is the major bottle fuel use in a typical building has to be renewable. Yeah, thanks for those questions. Okay, actually, so what you just said, only concerns wired to buildings not single family homes or new buildings? Yeah, so great observation. In terms of new construction, those requirements apply across the board. But in terms of existing buildings, the only thing we're looking at is large commercial or industrial scale buildings that are 50,000 square feet or above. No residential, no multi-family, just commercial and industrial. But thank you for that question. I think, did you have a question as well? I am going to clarify, there's many like renewable appliances, the medicines are electric and currently we're like 26% renewable energy in Vermont with electric grid and we would say all. But it's not currently, just wondering how we're probably working on the electric energy generation, not with the appliances. Yeah, no great question. So, yeah. Okay. So the question was in Vermont, we're roughly 66% renewable. How does that apply when we're thinking about appliances and building, so in Burlington, we're 100% renewable. So we're ahead of the curve when it comes to what the state is doing. The state itself is pretty far ahead of the rest of the country. But in Burlington, since 2014, we've been 100% renewable. So all of the appliances that use electricity are also powered by 100% renewable. And obviously, there's a question earlier about solar, like we love solar, we have a lot of new solar coming on in the community. We support that, we incorporate that into our mix as well, but we've been renewable since 2014 100%. So the real question when you get to that point is, how do we get off the fossil fuel for other uses and can we rely on the grid for some of those uses? And that's kind of what we're focused on. And there are other renewable fuels as well, but electricity in Burlington since 2014 100% renewable. Any further questions for the question, Davey? We'll follow up. This might not be a question for you. Early on, when the city place project was being proposed, there was a plan was to include the district heating problem in the nail plant. So I'm just wondering if that's still now when it's not through various new development and other revives. So the question is, is that still a new plan for the new current witness and radius development? You might not want to answer to that, but it's still needs to be in discussion. What's going to be this electricity? So is it still a new plan for the new structure of the city place, whatever it's going to be? No, great question. We can definitely speak to that. So district heating, just for everybody's benefit is talking about taking heat from the McNeil plant, which is an electric plant and getting it up to some of the buildings that are using fossil fuel and using that renewable heat to display spot the fuel. We've talked about it in the past at the hospital at UVM at the downtown project as well. The version that was going to go downtown was going to be a hot water week from district energy. And when I became general manager of 2018, we looked at this project and the better route was to essentially try to focus on the hospital and UVM and do a steam system as opposed to a hot water system. So we've gone through three different phases of feasibility and then this summer we had a letter agreement with Burlington Electric, the city, the hospital, UVM, the Interveil Center, which is also a partner at Vermont Gas and we are in the process of trying to develop a steam-based system that would go from McNeil to the hospital and do a significant amount of renewable thermal steam to the hospital, moved to a couple of different UVM buildings potentially and then come back down the hill and help I eat some of the Interveil Center buildings as well. That's the current loop that we're looking at. The challenge with district heat is in terms of expanding it beyond that is the price per mile structure is significant and the load that we would pick up by going downtown is not enough to really justify the additional cost at this point in time. So right now the concept is not to go through the city place project. They would have to have a renewable heating system that's separate from the district energy system. Call of duty, question ideas, I'll just follow my line. I'll pass. Has the city ever considered a requirement to have all these departments to be solar-compatible or solar-ready? Not that they would have to put solar on because they had those that could post solar to have a feature, but a little techie reminds that wouldn't you get the teams that are on this that you must be able to see three solar units? You know, yeah, and we follow, it's a great question. Yeah, we follow the residential and electrical energy code for the state, which is getting more and more stringent and there's no conversation around that. And there's also a conversation around being electric vehicle ready, like having the wiring for the charging station. A lot of buildings are putting solar up, but it's a great point. Like when we think about solar in Burlington, we don't have to go from fields where we can put panels like they do elsewhere in the state. So using our roof pots using our boat environment is really critical. And even if they don't put it in, there are a lot of times after the fact developer might come and talk to them about if you have a flat roof, we love to put solar on the roof. So we'll share that with the folks on our team who work on energy code. That's a good question. Yeah. All right, Darren, any further questions? Anything to do? Okay, well, I'm gonna put it on my head. I don't know if I would just say that I think it's an opportunity to interact with the crew, through the VED, doing the work on college. I just wanna say that they did a very good job with that. It's very well executed. I received a letter of mail and I think we'll just leave it to you ahead of time when it looks coming. And I felt that was the way things should work and we just got it very friendly and it's funny what they were doing and this point just led the way to the door. I know. I appreciate it. I'll put it on my head. All right, thank you. Thank you all for having us here. It was a great idea. And yeah, good question. Yes. That's helpful. Thank you. I appreciate your comments about the rooftop solar but I saw 15 and it's up for you. I saw it down at the airport you were demonstrating a new wind turbine. Can you talk to us about the cost of narrative because we're talking about small groups that wind turbine doesn't generate more electricity than an array of panels that you put on there. Yeah. No, thanks for the question. So we had an announcement was a week ago at the airport. We have 500 kilowatts solar project at the airport and then we have this new thing called it's called the arc turbine port, ORB. And it looks kind of like a beach ball that's kind of turning slowly. It's 8 feet tall, it's a vertical axis wind turbine and we met this company there from Massachusetts through a local business accelerator program. And the idea is we're kind of doing a test run for a year to prove this out that it could produce up to two and a half times as much energy per watt as solar can and wind obviously produces at different times of the day different times of the year. So there could complimentary aspect having a rooftop wind turbine as well as rooftop solar. So right now that unit costs $20,000 the first one ever in production and we're testing it for a year and their goal they set at the announcement was to get it down to $7,000 and if they could get a three kilowatt $7,000 wind turbine that produces two and a half times as much as solar. I think it'd be a very attractive option for rooftops around the city and it can actually go in with solar or it can be in lieu of solar and it would really diversify our resource mix in terms of what we can build in the city. So I'm really optimistic that we'll get some good data hopefully and maybe it could be a partnership where we see more of these around the community but stay tuned, we'll have more data hopefully in a year from now to be able to say the words well. I think it's a great idea. The members of, you know, they utilize the rooftop page they'll put one down on their fix back. So I mean, if they, if we can try and break the energy through natural resources I think it's possible. Anyone who's over at the airport if you go up to, I think it's the fifth level at the top of the garage you'll see our solar panels on one side and you can see the orb hopefully turning when you're there and I think it's visible maybe from the street level as well but it's a, it's a neat technology. Yeah. Yeah, thanks for that question. All right. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks for coming out. Thank you everybody. Before we turn the topic over to the department and get the microphone back on the solar because she's got a lot of update regarding the question about the university place. Yeah, I was just going to say I think we're going to take back on the change in terms of the department. He said that in the university place there's a lot of sections that hold in the university, you know, it's doing the final line next week is where we address. Thank you so much. Thank you for coming out and the department's over. We've got a call from the board here from the University of New York so I'm going to invite you to come on in. I'm very impressed with this work. I'm here from the community to have a lot of fun out for this topic. So when they know the presentation of the department, they need to provide a complete schedule on the place and then where you live and work and free any, you know, straight up here. What was that? I have the whole sort of agreement there. I've got the whole side of it. I'm going to put it in the middle of the panel. I don't have any discussion here about the department. Put it in the middle of the table. Yes, I had a whole panel here.  Just a little technical glitch. We have two presenters online and they cannot hear questions from this microphone. So I don't know how to manage that. I think what I'll do is I'll just kind of float around and speak to this microphone Charlie will be able to work with you on that right? Okay, great. Thanks so much. First of all, we're going to be doing a presentation that spits a little bit of context to this sculpture setting, a little bit of the history, etc. So those of you who are sitting way back and they want to come forward, screen is, you know, it's definitely not a horrible screen. And yeah, we're, I'm going back from the executive director of Wellington City Arts. I'm delighted to be here. I did come for dinner. You guys are amazing. I think we also get to speak to some of your children who have gone home. So I'm in the park community tonight. As I said, I think the presentation is an opportunity for us to be able to take you back a year and a half ago and two years ago into the pandemic when the planning for the sculpture began a little bit about the relationship between the free departments in the city that are working on this project, our relationship to different aspects of it. And then really to listen to you and to after you've seen this in context, maybe there's a little bit more light than it needs. And you can, the concerns are, take them in, kind of put it front and back. And it's fine. We also are doing a larger community meeting at IAA on the 5th of December at 5 or 5.30. 5 to 6.30. 5 to 6.30. So please join us and get your neighbors. We'd love to we'll do our best to get the work done as well. So I'm going to turn it over. So everybody here tonight can say hi. Hi, everybody. My name is Vick. I'm a director. And so happy to be here. Before this, I was the NPA engagement manager at City of Sam. But yeah, thank you for having us. Yeah, definitely. We're going to decide on just a concept and goals of what we respect from this program. Hi, my name is Katie Green. I'm also with the REAB. And I am responsible for developing and facilitating our anti-racism training program. I'm Colin Storz. I work in public art through Burlington City Arch. Hi, I'm Sophie Sovey. I'm the parks comprehensive planner. So I work with the Department of Parks Recreation and Watercraft. Hi there. I'm John Adams. Colleagues. I'm a project manager with Burlington Parks Recreation and Watercraft. And then on your screen, people who are part of this presentation as well. Sarah Katz is here. Lower right. And Sarah is the deputy director at Burlington City Arts. And IQ Open, the artist of embracing belonging, is also with us this evening. Thank you and welcome. Okay, so we are going to start with a little bit of context to help frame this project. There we go. Okay, so in the coming 2020, the REAB put out a all-perfect voting for a landmark to go in a public space that would signify the REAB's commitment to racial equity. And this project was imagined and built in the context of the sort of magical movement to take down some of the racist attitudes and landmarks and then replace them with more representative landmarks and other forms of anti-racism. And what's more, also this also, you may have lost my voice. And additionally, Black and brown folks have been historically kept out of spaces that belong in, especially public spaces. And so this was a really important framework why we started to develop this project. So we have a few project priorities that were important to us. One of the ones that was the biggest of our consideration is the one that to be in a diverse neighborhood, to be beneficial to the community, to be a central location, and to be a focal point where there's a lot of community activity. And some of the places that we considered were a pledge park, the waterfront, the World North End, and we ultimately decided to place this landmark in the Old Norquen because it's rich history because there are a lot of local businesses that are BIPOC-owned and then also it's diverse community as well. And so we had considered a few locations in the Old Norquen, the first of which was Community Park. And we found that this was a space for active recreation, used for a lot of your gatherings. And this, we ultimately did not decide to use this space because it is such a recreational space and sort of tucked away. So the landmark would be as this one. And we also considered Pocket Park. And here we already found that there was limited space for any landmark that would be placed there and was already a pretty big one there to begin with. Okay. So we decided then to go with Duke Park. And the area we had considered, as we know, been several spaces in Burlington. And we chose Duke Park based on the following So this was named for Don Dewey who was a progressively fought for civil rights, including educational freedom, women's suffrage. And this is also as we noted located in a diverse part of the community. And we really wanted this to be a place where we could place the landmark and have it represent a metaphorical and physical crossroads in this area. And it's also a gathering point. A lot of the ways people are gathering is through the farmers market as well. And this was also an opportunity to interact with art, especially since there's the arts having me across the way. And then the opening of the park means that the monument will be visible from all around the park. And so then this is treating the landmark about diversity, inclusion, and belonging in the community. And these are the those that are doing the work that we do at the REID. And so therefore we found this to be a really significant I mean, did you just tell us what that meant at the beginning of your Sorry about that. I just see that every day. So I was, you know, I should I should notice that it's the racial equity including the belonging department at the city of Burlington. So thank you for that participation. Before you move on to the background of the parks, I know people would like to know why we felt part of what we considered, why we felt part of what we considered, also places in our But there's people who would also like to know why that, and why we felt part of what we considered bigger places, also places of diversity, also parts of older than. So I appreciate you sharing with that one of those other parts that you chose not to do. But could you please talk about the remaining parts that were not considered in why? Here. Yeah, in the end, it came down to three parts that were considered in the old north and that's when the parks department was some brought in. The three finalists were Pomeroy or Pomeroy, Roosevelt and Dewey. And we did a tour with our YG members, there were community members and chose Dewey because of its presence in the heart of the old north end, it being a very prominent crossroads in the old north end, a gathering spot, a place really where the sculpture could be a real focal point. I think Pomeroy is sort of hidden, Roosevelt is large and not really surrounded by, you know, closely by homes and there's no school, boys and girls, of course, but yeah, that's that's what came down to the final choices. Avery? Avery is a larger park and will be undergoing comprehensive planning process in the next few years and we felt that it needed to go through that larger process to look at it as a whole, rather than as one part of the park. And it already had some art in it. Thank you. So I'm going to chat a little bit about what you're going to hear this day. I mentioned really ongoing comments to the DVD regarding their recent project in outreach, how you received the letter in the mail that provides me that the work was going to be performed. So if you could kind of explain what kind of outreach was done to the residents in the immediate neighborhood and ask the three or four parks that were ultimately the finalists in the old north end, let them know that, hey, no, your park and your meeting was under consideration to host this sculpture that we're doing. I'm just wondering, you talk a little more about how you worked with the local community of residents in the neighborhood. I was hoping we do the presentation before we took the questions. I was hoping you've listened to the whole presentation before we took questions so that people would have more of the context of what did take place. Is that okay if we finish and then we take questions? We are running out on time with the agenda now, so we have a lot of time left for this and I don't know how much time it takes. I'll be five minutes. Can you hear me? We can hear you. You're going to have to speak really close to your computer. I have mine. Thank you to any closer than these guys. So BCA worked closely with REIB to create a call to artists that met the goals of the project that they described earlier in this presentation. The selection panel was convened that was comprised of community members from the Old North End representative from the Old North End farmers market. Students engaged with REIB and other community members and there was a focus on bipartisan participation given the focus of the project goals. We had 38 artists that met qualifications and the selection panel read all of those applications and narrowed it down to five finalists who submitted in-depth proposals and were interviewed extensively by that panel. And Humanity Memorial who's here with us today, IA2 and Bill Hopen were here today and they were selected because their project conceptually met all of the goals that were laid out in that call to artists. It creates a memorable landmark at this important time in history. It complemented the existing activities in the location, made a special focus on making sure that the farmers market would still be able to function as it as it had. It was an engaging project. It invites users to participate through its seating and through open space. It's a piece that is open for walking through, for seating, for encouraging participation from all users of the park. And it provided an opportunity for messaging that really transcended language, which was an important conversation that came up in the panel. How do we create something that is accessible to everyone? And of course the artist team that was selected has extensive experience working in public art and public spaces. So that's turning it over to IA2. Hi, hi everyone. I'm so glad to have the opportunity to talk to all of you because I'm thinking about you since the beginning of the project. So I wonder you all know that I created with you in my mind, with the community in my heart, because I just so inspired by the story and by the diversity of the community. That's why I applied for this project and that's how we create from the inspiration from you, from the community. And I'm also personally, I'm a daughter of a farmer. I understand so well how community raised me up. And I know this is all about connection and from the community, for the community. So when I design this piece, I have a very wrong feeling about this space. And I feel the space itself is inspired. The community itself is inspired, embraced. So I think the location and the art is inseparable because the art is about the soul of the community, about love, about how we embrace one another, how we embrace all the beautiful diversity, culture, and as a quick America. It's beauty of diversity. And that's how this piece, as a message, will be so important to give our children, to school children nearby. And that's another important factor inspired this piece, because this piece is about a timeless message about how, what are we going to value to show the role model of unity to our children. So it is timeless piece. And it is so important to reflect who we are in this beautiful community with spaces. So it's not in a big park and we're not going to get lost because this is about the people and reflect the spirit of your community. It was a big piece, I think, will fit in a space. You know, there's a saying that we have in the industry that sculpture gives meaning to a space. But in this case, I think the space itself helps give meaning to the sculpture. This was created from the ground up. It's not landing from the sky. This space is important and central to the community. And it created the work. And like I choose said, if you took this piece and put it out in a wide open field, it would get lost. It would almost disappear. But this space is a room that captures it. And it's also a room that's very special to the community. And the embracing of that room gives meaning to the sculpture. Then it bounces back on the sculpture and gives more meaning to this. What is now a lawn will become a plaza, a meeting spot, a landmark. Okay, so thank you for that. I think we all understand the value of the project and of the sculpture. I think the issue with people here in Burlington is that it's an inappropriate size for the size of the park. Am I wrong about that? Is anyone from the farmers market here that can give us an opinion on their, could you please come forward? Okay, so again, no one's really questioning the value of the sculpture. Hi folks, my name is T. Wolk. I live at 38th Street Street, right across from, I also work at Dock's Market right across from. I appreciate everything you put up. Now, realistically, we all live in real world. It's a very beautiful piece and I appreciate all your work. Has anybody thought about the crime? Has anybody thought about how much electricity we've got to pay for it? Just to split up, the way that we actually take the project. Nobody talked about how much money we have to give them. Is my property going to go up because of your sculpture? Or do we want taxes on them? This is the first time I've owned one of you. I've rented for 30 something years and I'm scared to death of what this could be used. I see none of you in this. And I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it gets down. But some reality is going to get pretty hard. So how much will it cost? They think it's broken or the average. And we ultimately fall pay for it no matter what. And I work very, very hard and I don't have to make proof of it. That's all my opinion and my question. Thank you. Was there any answer that wants to comment about the size of the sculpture as opposed to the size of the park? If that was my understanding, that's what the issue is. I'm just curious, I was going to edit a beautiful sculpture and I'm curious how it would coexist with the farmer's market there. Thank you. So farmer's market is not here because they were earlier and farmer's market it's been here. Can you speak to it? Yeah. Thank you. So I've been around and I also work more in the city of the Longton Parks Department. I was not aware of the sculpture and when I first learned about it, I was initially excited about the idea because I thought that a new public art piece to one of my favorite parks was another reason to gather there, another reason to bring people in, another reason to look at that park in a nice way. I was surprised by the size of it and I think the piece that was most surprising to me was just the way it was selected when you want a community park to feature a piece from someone from the community. But when things like this happen, I know that it's just sometimes a lot of people's control and I know that this was more to an opportunity to come together like this to talk about how we can re-envision that space. So if there's a sculpture coming in, I think that that's a great thing. We have to think critically how we can have the farmer's market and have the surrounding communities exist in cohesion in harmony. And so I'm excited to talk about this. I'd love to think about how the setting of the placement can live in cohesion with the farmer's market and also live perhaps some more plantings or seeding or public fruit trees or fruit shrubs. And so yeah, I think I'll just keep talking about how we can make this sculpture happen that fits the needs of everyone that needs assistance. I also just want to acknowledge that Hillary from the farmer's market sat on the selection committee with other members of the community and was part of the decision to choose this piece to be in this park. So there was a lot more engagement with a larger group in an earlier time. I think one of the things that is so important and maybe so hard to be made by these visual images and we've been trying all day to alter some of the photographs to give you a better sense of how it is when you're actually standing within the park, within the sculpture or the transparency that there is within and the ability to walk through it and to sit on a bench and watch the light come through in so many different ways and during hot days for it to create shade and a place to gather and to sit as well as do very much center the farmer's market as one of the most important activities that takes place in the park. And we really thought this sculpture would uplift and give a new meaning and perhaps even new ideas that would come out from the engagement with this piece and that's what good public art does is not only its meaning to the space that marries that but also engenders new activities and new ways that the community can engage through the relationship with who those pieces. I'd love to remember to ask what your plans are for information. My platform is really good. For the biggest, I'm Andrea Todd. I've been emailing face to the big emails that have been going around and I've heard back from some of my most recent requests for information. I'm really glad that you'll hear us. You may have told me that it's really grateful that you're having with you in December that meeting and I think that I would like the project to be really kind of restarted in June some public engagement because what's not been presented tonight are the levels of public engagement that have come to meet up to this point. There hasn't been and some requests from the community if we wanted it to be part of I think that that's a really important piece that has been missing. I think during your point that Hillary was part of that committee but nobody in that committee knew the size and scale of this was when they voted for it. What I think the community also wants to see are things like a footprint map so that we can see where this looks, where this will be, how long this will be. I know you're trying to be renditions but what we want to see is like this is this square footage as I understand it from the farmer market 20 square feet and 20 feet high is really dominating. So many other questions that I've had that I want to make sure conveys with this evening or have a concrete be considered. It's considered a problem quite of ways when we were holding the farmer's market at the last day. Again, these are things that need to be coming from a public process that really has a thing for us in any way to call it robust. It's a really generous thing. I think the process that you want to be the selective part you know the hardest people I think is not it's you can't but for me the really important pieces very much missing is the inclusivity and diversity of the engagement. This project is meant to represent inclusivity and diversity and it has not been in the way that this reached into the community or asked the community what it needs or wants. And so I think another piece of missing is who to contact. So last week there was no link for us to see how the BCNA is so thank you for putting that out there but where are we, who are we to be speaking with? People have questions. It's three departments. I've heard people say that's an REIV BCNA project. We are in charge of that that's a part side of things. These are sort of a lot of mixed messages that are being sent to the community about how this project is moving forward. So I think the bigger question is can we can we sort of start over in terms of not the part but in terms of the process because this is really feeling like a project that's been hoisted upon a community versus a project that is being embraced by the community and that is the product of today and includes work in place and it really hasn't embraced the community's needs or the community's concerns because even putting something of a 20 foot by 20 foot by 20 foot on that park is going to drastically impact the farmers market. We'd like to know how people observe the farmers market 20 weeks or so the farmers market went by and there was one public moment of explanation of what was happening on the final day of the market when there were the least number of people in communities to see this happening. So I would really like to ask that this project be sort of taken back and if we wanted to do this right and I think all of them want this to be successful can we have this taken back to a point where we say yeah if we are actually going to select we can we make it on the concrete side and if it's going to take a long time for that concrete to be turned into the proper zoning area then let's take that time but I think there's a lot of moving pieces that haven't been kind of laid out for the community and seem to be happening without work and so we can hopefully by December pick thing we have a really wonderful opportunity to have the first publicly announced meeting for that for this process again I think we want to be moving forward and have like some robust ideas for what are the points of public engagement. A lot of people at that market on the last day they were looking at those pictures and there were anguish language bullets that we know or a language bullets trying to reach foreign languages in this community to try to explain what is happening. So again it's just an exclusion of the community can't understand what is going into their hearts. So I think I really am grateful that the community wants to give this that you can think. I think the project is beautiful. I think public art is beautiful but I think that it needs to come with a very respectful process and I don't feel like that. Does anyone want any other questions? If I could just follow a little bit that I would say that after the evening engagement at the Lansing Farmers Market we were very clear that we were getting some feedback about scale about location about layout and there was already a planned underway to schedule a meeting with representatives from the farmers market from the community about how we could work this in a way that was workable and really symbiotic in terms of how all of it can be worked together. So I would encourage everyone here to just you know take a couple of steps back and be willing to look at that again in a way with fresh eyes and maybe even try to celebrate the idea that this culture could become a well-known landmark in your neighborhood and it would symbolize something that we were feeling like we're pushing aside or pushing to another park and it is a neighborhood park it is a small park but it is a park that belongs to everyone in the city just like every other park in the city belongs to everyone and I would just ask that you consider some of those things. I just want to respond in the end area because I do agree that a robust engagement process is not how I would describe it and in so many ways when there is a robust project an engagement process it would do a large project that's part of something that's bigger and this was a standalone project run by multiple departments who had not worked together in this way before it was COVID it was racial reckoning it was the REIV department that wanted to move to bring this to June 2th to get it to the community as a gift in the fastest way possible and I think what we're hearing tonight is a desire to as you said step back and to look at it with fresh eyes and to imagine what it can be and I think we'll do that at the meeting on the 5th. We will work hard at some of the drawings and in any other way that we can to sort of give the feel of what this is going to feel like to walk through because I think some of the drawings and certainly some of the early drawings really the scale just was overwhelming and I think many people who responded negatively have seen some of the newer pictures and said oh my god it's such a different what happened to G.J. Twain but we need to see the edge right now still 20B has the selection committee did select by the way they knew the scale of the of the project when it was selected so yes we we you know we humbly submit there should be a better process let's do it thank you very much for coming out I love this community as we do and I think that all of us in the three departments really care to get this right and we have the capacity to do that and it just may be mean it may take a little longer that's all thank you any further comments or questions hi I'm Megan Humphrey and I want to just get out everything that Andy said I obviously have sent letters to lots of you and I'm an artist I think public art is hugely important and I think that usually doesn't work but I also was concerned about it with Andrea that maybe saw our normal and have a lot of fun with my artistry to be honest and so what happens there at a farmer's market is that there can be kids that are over from the school you have a library program which under any entire part of this building and I think they said that was the last day so they weren't even the number of vendors that would be there but it's all the rest of the time too that I'm worried about it's a public very public space it's utilized by lots of people or just hanging out or classes from across the street and certainly a part of my concern is that 55% of that school is minority and I think it's something like 40 languages are spoken there and I don't know how they were included in the process which would have also been really great so I do love the design but I just think it's too large for that space for that crummy pop part when it's like a thoroughfare through there it's a direct rhyme for lots and lots of people who are calling that and then I guess on top of everything else that's been said my other concern is the my life could be being put into that part specifically for that sculpture and I'm wondering farmer crisis and so I'm concerned that we're using my frisbee in a different context that would be included in that as well so thank you very much. Thanks for giving us the context on that which yeah I've agreed the context has been missing. I was in the last part of the market and it was a shock for me too. I think having assigned in the park would have been not long. This is where something is coming just the people who are in the park are in the garden. I've seen that happen and yeah my life has started to fall out of the green space that's used at the part of the market where there's a whole bunch of art state and we talk about it that's a thing and I don't think there is a difficult one to utilize in one of our state but it just seems kind of what's in the green space would be a pretty simple space so I'm like too concerned about the green space and the values that's what's good black and what type of work would be my life. I would be there in this year because he would have told us exactly how much it's going to be to one of those silly days and I think it's quite urgent and almost a year. This is the cost of it but I'm not going to Can I have one more from Dan? Hi I have two points I want to bring together. I love the support for re-defining the park market thing and I love the support for the park market idea so I hope that people will still vote for it and I wonder what the process will be so if people vote for it in this process and then we do a re-frozen I hope that's possible. I'm not sure I'm not sure people are voting. I understand people are voting for voting for these things. No, no. I think that's what I'm saying. This was already selected. It's an improvement and it's not part of the voting for the war two and three's That's not right. I don't think there's a plan this year. So the ballot here is not related. Okay I don't think we're going to get that. Thank you. Thank you. If you guys want to have fun, comment here before we wrap up and move on to the the next part of the agenda. Yeah, this is a picture of what I mean. I just want to say thank you all for all this idea of the suggestions and comments because it really is important for our city departments to know. And the intent of this monument isn't about dividing the community. So we'll take that for a reason, you know? And so we're going to take back the positive impact and do an engaging process and be much more inclusive in rural bus communities. And so we're hoping to have more diversity. It's like on the panel, when we put it together, both the mostly five-hour community from the Old North Bay. But we hear you on like your concerns and it is important for us to know that the farmers' market is in the Old North Bay. But we don't consider, yeah, definitely the little bus of the whole community of the NDA and also the Lord's community, I suppose. So today is just a start-up discussion. So I would be welcome, you know, for you all to kind of get excited and invite your friends and those who are not part of the farmers' market, those who are identified as immigrants who are not attending the NDAs because we do want to hear a whole, like a whole scope of feedback. Is there a point person? Is there a point email that you can direct us to so that there's one, is there one solid place for us to reach out to or to look for information? I have been functioning as a point person for this project. So my email is cstores. So C-S-P-O-R-R-S at BurlingtonCityArtists.org. And I'm happy to field the questions because somebody can field that one. Thank you, Collin. All right, we're going to be learning a little behind the schedule right now. So we're going to start to forget a little bit about the grant support we've got here now. Excellent. We're going to roll on this one. We're going to have all the grant out and just come up, give a two-minute speech about their application and then what you're said, not clear the speech, all of that, and it's going to question things forward. I don't think there's a lot of good time. That's good. Something like that. I hope somebody's still here. Okay, after... After... That's how I'm going to do this, explain the process. So they understand everything works. I didn't do a great job of explaining everything. So what, we're going to give you a good time. Yeah. Okay, great. All right, so we're going to have all the applicants come up to the front and be ready to give you your two-minute field. And while they're coming up, just explain how the grant process is going to work. And then I'll ask them to read this to me. Take on what it is. So for those of you who might not have heard the current history of community dinner, it is a community grant process. So each of the neighborhood clients that are in the city gets $2,500 each year to spend as soon as they can. Here in Royce, we've been here for the past couple of years. We've got community grants as a way to It'll be the last one. How the community would like how this money is spent and then we'll have some community projects. And so I just want to make sure that everyone understands the criteria for these grants and what things can be funded. So the funded projects must adhere to the city's rules for any issue of funds. And that's what they're all on. They need to benefit boards to and work free residents in free community cohesion and or support the operating in our purpose of the neighborhood planning assembly. The projects must, the funded projects must be accessible and or included diversity of community members and also back into the NPA in some way. And so we had 10 applications this year. It was amazing. A really wide range of projects that you're going to hear about in just a moment. And so each person's going to have two minutes. We do have one person on the room. I believe, Jessica was last seen on Zoom, she's waving.  And then there's also a storage, storage for folks here. So there are two people who are not even here. So we all need their, their pieces very quickly. And so what's really important is how to go. So you can vote in two ways. You can vote here today where these page pieces of paper, read your ballots or you can vote online. And the link to the voting for those of you in the screen is on the agenda or you can go to https.slash-findingurl.on-npa-grants-2022. But if you go to the agenda and it's leaving, they'll be in there as well as all the information, the full application. It was really important that you would pull out the pages. You're only going to get a few minutes of presentation today. I want you to understand where all the projects are about. And then when you vote, what else do you think is a recommended paper? We want to hear it from you. Should each of these community projects be fully funded, part fully funded or not funded at all? You don't have to worry about that much. So we have about $4,500 to spend, but there's about over $7,000 in requests. All we want to know from you is what do you think we should do? Should we be fully funded, part fully funded or not funded? And then a certain thing is going to take all the information, everything that comes from the paper ballot, everything that comes from the online voting. Online voting will be open until November 18th. So there's plenty of time to make your vote and we'll be putting more information out about that. And then we'll figure out how we can fund as much as possible based on all of your recommendations. But one question that came up was, do I vote for one project or do I vote for the ball? And vote for all of them. If you put your recommendation card into the comments, it's also important to know that this is a one vote, one person, one vote process. We're trusting everyone to respect that. So if you vote today, don't go online voting and if you vote online, if you vote online, don't go to paper one because we want to make this fair as possible. So I think that's the overview. And then what we'll do is we'll, you want to go to paper one? Yeah, I think we'll introduce one in the file, if you order the song on the paperwork, it's distributed, it's made it easy so folks can follow up. So first the product thing we have up is not during one night in our festival, so this, thank you. Thank you. And I have a two. Say hi to Olivia. Yes. Give me a timer. Okay. Okay, so I'm going to give you a student a little bit of training so you can kind of guys that I'm using. I don't really think so. Okay, here it's up. Doesn't it? Okay, anything. Put it up. Okay. Good. Yeah. Hi everyone, I'm Sam. I'm a dancer, I'm a baker, and I'm a Latin female app. Hi, I'm Olivia and I'm a chef and I have been born in the last week. And we are interested in making a one night immersive art festival that will feature dance, film, poetry, music, installations, culture, and planning for the background of the region. The event will be called Nocturne, and they will be happening all the time in the spring and future recordings. So this event will bring together artists who provide like a cohesive organization for them to connect and share their art. We'll provide them with a platform and resources for their art. It'll benefit more to agree by providing a vibrancy to become and connect with our art and connect with our neighbors and collaborate with the art community. And we're thinking particularly about how to use this example for both for video art and for cultural goals. So our plan is to have a proposal of an application closer that would happen in local languages. And we'll distribute people digitally and communicating around the community. We are planning to charge for tickets to be in the annual tickets. And this, we thought a lot about this, that the ticket funds would be distributed evenly for the participating artists. And this is the way to make it both accessible for artists and for community members. So we really want to be able to pay on this more participating because we believe that our new value in the art community. But at the same time, no one would be turned away for lack of funds. So if someone can't pay, who wants to come, they'll also be able to come through there. And so we're investing $750. And the intention is that that would go towards like space rental, equipment rentals, as well as art supplies. We're hoping that there would be like a speaking moment. So ingredients as well. We would include the end-to-end application as well as the art festival materials and the art rooms and also an NPA support. Thank you all so much. Farmer's Market with Ben Rodgers. Hello, everybody. Ben Rodgers, I am a market manager at the Farmer's Market. I also work for the City Roads and Parks Department and I'm an educator street resident. I am here specifically to request $750 to be used for the upcoming Farmer's Market season. I stepped into this role in August when the previous manager stepped out, but I've been volunteering with Market for a few years. And there's obviously going to be some big changes going on at the park that's coming here. And so we've been working to think of how we can re-envision that space. And that is going to perhaps include a salt river, but also include plantings for fruit trees, native plants, grubs, trees for canopy cover and shade. And then we also want to improve our signage and outreach. And so we are specifically looking to create signage that is going to be outweaching the diverse community in different languages to engage with me in what types of, you know, how the market provides EBT and SNAP benefits and also just that the EBT Farmer's Market exists as the community and community's federal members apply. We'd love to see that at the market too. And then the last piece we are looking to do is improve outreach through social media, utilizing Edward Warrior's wonderful artistry. And so we've been actively talking about how it's going to get happening. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next up, we have the older band, the colleagues that are in class and performances. Let me just say one thing first. So people should understand when they make a presentation that far, far, far more people are going to see this online when they're here tonight. Hundreds and hundreds of people are going to see it. Thank you. Hello. Oh, thank you, Brad. Yeah. Perfect. I'm Brian Perkins. I work with the Old North End Neighborhood Band, the one band, and in a number of other capacities, I run the OneSings program at Integrated Arts Academy. And a number of musical education programs all devoted to providing musical training and performance opportunities for young people in our community. So the Old North End Neighborhood Band is teenagers playing the music of the immigrant communities of the Old North End. And that includes just dozens and dozens of cultures who brought their music and their families who are community over the past 200 or so years. And that repertoire is within here. And so the ensemble plays music from this repertoire. So access to musical education for young people is an extremely critical vision. And we have numerous screening processes whereby people from our neighborhood and our community are filtered out of musical education opportunities. And so a lot of the programs that I work with are brought together by the desire to make sure that young people are not screened out and they have numerous entry points into learning music and performing and being the voice of their community. So this has been a poly-seronging. This is an iconic instrument within the poly community. And so there's a training program that I'm running with assistance from a couple sources to make sure that young people have access to training and performance opportunities and access to instruments upon which to play. So an extremely important and targeted project. And so this deals with the program of teaching the Seronguee at Integrated Arts Academy. I will be, if this grant is funded to $750, I will be providing classes on the Seronguee in a central location provided for young people. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. Next up is the owner of that dance festival, Alice. Talk to you online. Is that me? That's it, since Alex isn't here, we'll leave the short description. So the Old North End Dance Festival is a celebration of art, culture, and our bodies that will be held in late May, early June, or Roosevelt Park with three components. Performance component, showcasing the breadth of talent with dance artists in the Old North End, workshops for old-age, old-generations, and movement classes taught by performing artists. And the dance party with DJ, so we're moving together to meet with YLJ. The event will be free, and it will be organized by Alex, following the tennis tour in my case. So since Alex isn't here to talk about the project, I'd encourage everyone to read through the details on that or something. Thank you, Jess. All right, next up is the everyday neighbors 2023 multiple community wall calendar with Ivan and Clipstein. My name's Ivan. I'm an illustrator and musician. I live in board three over here on Heart Street. And so this was just a little project that I just had an idea for. And this is like not the calendar involved, but this is, you know, we're familiar with this type of thing. Techno service, this is not where my project class came across the other day. So, you know, it's a 12-month calendar, we're proposing a 13-month calendar with an extra January at the end for those of us that are, you know, after a little late in getting to the next year's calendar. I write better than I speak and I had more time to write my thing than two minutes. But basically, I've done a lot of projects in the last few years documenting just what human life in our neighborhood. I did a book called Emboldened over 30 Lake, which is a lot of drawing to just like every day of people in the place there. There was only 100 copies of that. One of them is in the Library of Congress, which is kind of cool. And so for this, I was thinking, let's go color. Like, these are my old drawings, we can zoom in on these from the last project. I like to make drawings that include just everybody who's around, which is kind of like one of the nicest things about our neighborhood is the main idea for the calendar is that it's a multilingual calendar. And I have not seen that before, but I would like to make that just as basically like a really useful piece of everyday art that people can have in the home. They might even feature the names of the months and the days of the week in their language and I know that there's, as we've spoken about some of the other issues today, you know, there's 40 some languages in the neighborhood and this is gonna kind of hone in on the top 15 or so. And I think we're at a time basically, thanks for listening to my project. Yeah, that's fine, maybe. I wanna ask, will you just come along with me for a minute here? Imagine, wanna ask, will you just come along with me for a minute here? Imagine, it's May, so that late spring, almost summer can be and you're walking outside your house. What is the urge in your body? Perhaps there's some energy within you that wants to dance or move in some way. And maybe you do or maybe you don't, but say you take a walk downtown and you encounter someone at the park who is dancing. Do you not smile? I know I definitely do. My name's Alex Cobb. I'm a dance artist and teacher and I want to create an event called the Old North End Dance Festival to celebrate art, culture and our body. This event will bring us together to connect and do something joyful. It will be at Roosevelt Park, so it's in our public spaces and I really believe that dance is something we can all connect with. It transcends language, it exists in every human culture and it's just fun. So there's three parts that I envision. First is performance, to showcase the incredible talent of dance artists in our neighborhood and to create access to dance performance rather than it being on a stage in a theater where you need to take it just next door at the park. Second is workshops, so the audience not only gets to witness the arts of the dancers but gets to engage and learn with them. And third is a dance party just for us to groove and have a great time. So with the funds of the NPA grant, I can equitably compensate about four dance artists to perform and teach. I will also, if awarded this grant, seek additional funding so I can invite more artists and have a greater representation of dance styles, forms, background, also hire a DJ and maybe get some tasty snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. So this is my vision and my proposal. I'm grateful for you, for listening and considering this idea and I'll see you around. Next up is the press press, many press, many press number two, a lot of press members. All right, so here, here, here. All right, up to us, I'm L. L is my co-founder from PrepPTB for a new school collective and community very focused on bringing local musicians, artists, and videographers, anybody can have them all together. It's kind of important to know each other and build community. And I'll put in everybody. Earlier this fall, before our first press press, many press, myself and Alice spent two months signing out and we paid for it online for the podcast. We had a massive turnout, we had almost 300 people show up in the venue, we built in our backyard. We had people from all walks of life, families, older people, younger people, it was really cool. And we really realized that this thing that we started was really building that sense of community that we wanted in the musical community. And so what we're looking for is the grant, it's not gonna be $50, to throw another mini-press and you want to go to a higher rate than you can pay us for the mini-press. And the idea was the admission fee to be about $10, go towards benefiting enough from the local community, which would be really cool, really help that sense of community. And we would include everybody, we got a sign-up sheet, you want local artists, vendors, and food vendors to come just hang out, listen to music, maybe support their businesses. Last but not least, a couple of wheeler makers that did really well, really cool. And so what we're focusing on now is really building a sense of community running as a massive music scene and taking this band per capita. It's one of the biggest that I've ever seen. So it's always when the band is looking to expand and do something, and it's really great for the community because music brings everybody together, something we all have in common. I think it's really important for this community especially to do something like this. And everybody else has some really amazing ideas and it's fascinating to listen to everybody. I thought it would be really cool to incorporate a sense of the word together. For other things, it's a lot. Thank you. Our next project is Merrill, let's talk about playing. And I'm going to test if that was lost. She is obviously. Thank you. All right, does the audio come across okay? Yes. All right, I'm going to try sharing a screen too, if that's all right. Share. Okay, I just wanted to show you pictures as well. My name is Jess Wislowski. I'm the school librarian at Sustainability Academy. We have about 190 students. I'm really sorry I can't be there in person tonight. We're applying for full funding to install a mural in our library which is a busy common space at this school. Murals are an opportunity for time marking and storytelling and they can quickly establish a sense of joy for people in a new space. Here's why we need this. When I began teaching at Sustainability Academy, nothing was normal for the children. I started in the fall of 2020. It was my first year teaching anywhere. Inside and outside of the school, everything was a kilter. We had learners attending and shifts to keep numbers in the school low. And when we came back, kindergarteners who have come to learn are all about closeness and cuddles were always kept six feet apart and they had masks covering their faces all day long. When I taught, instead of kids coming up to the library, I had to go to them. All the books were on a cart and I could only see pods of students every nine or 10 weeks. We were really fragmented as a community. Then last year, when I was finally able to host students in the library, I wanted to be meaningful for them and connective and then give them a choice and making some changes to the space so it could be comforting for them. Our fifth graders tackled this project of trying to figure out what they would want in their space. And we had one class that entirely studied murals. And these are some of the ways that we studied murals. We did a walking field trip to check out the Meringa mural. And what they told me that was that they wanted a space that affirmed and reflected who they themselves are, affirming Black Lives Matter and LGBTQIA messaging and art and flags. The class that researched muralists found Eliza S who has agreed to work with us on this. They're based in the old North end and they gravitate toward messages that confront bias and assumptions and they reaffirm the value of all people. These are pictures of students of ours actually doing their final presentations on various Burlington based muralists. The MPA funds would help bring us towards our final project. The MPA's role is to give community members a chance to get involved in their neighborhoods and our students are themselves part of this greater community, as is our library. Having beautiful artwork will bring joy to all who enter. And those people include Ward two and three families and community members, Burlington school district after school staff, guest teachers, UVM student teachers, para educators, support staff, Sheldon farm staff, volunteers who come as part of our reading mentor program that brings 20 adults in every week, family translators, school administrators, school board meetings and subcommittees are held there frequently. We have as many as 750 visits to the library recorded on some days. The impact of the students will be strong and it'll help us continue to rebuild our cohesion as a school community and it'll help send a powerful message about who holds decision making power in our common areas. The answer is all of us. Give me your last thoughts. Give me your last thoughts. Huh? Okay, we're only over two minutes, so just give me your final five. That's it. I'm finished. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Christy. The next one up is the new ReFlo's Mid-Atterist Read Genes. The question comes from Superstorko-Atterist Read Genes. I don't believe Stuart is able to make it tonight. He's moving out of line. So the description for the project is any one in and outside of the college would store ReFlo's to the community. The city and property management have requested a proper wooden structure to local close with benefit of all types of people, rich, poor, people with families, public goods, people of different cultures and homeless folks. I just want to say that out of all of the different proposals that we've received, tonight this is the only one that would benefit an area of the downtown as a downtown resident. I want to access to this part personally.  I know that some of the folks in our unhoused community, a lot of folks need that. It's just kind of half out of the scatter. I appreciate the effort, but I think to the city's point into their request, having the community out there would help them. So that's my little plug for that. And moving on to the final, second last panel for me, sorry. Project, the NPA explainer comedy scene, which is Christine Tyler Hill. And Christine's not one of those things there. So Christine is proposing a 10 panel on the disease that can be distributed both online and print. And that explains what an NPA voices the perspectives on why the NPA matters and how to locate your own NPA meeting. Project copies will be distributed locally at sites of free little libraries, a ramble, low businesses, the old North End Farmers Market and a digital version will be shared out so that we can get any mail. Christine has her question, 750 per person. And then finally, we have the old North End prepared cafe for the laboratory meeting and the process is here, so that's where they're due. Hi. I'm trying to have an award to resident and a part of laboratory fee. We're at 12 North Street, so North and North it's a cooperative work space. We have a shared pools. And so the main thing that we do is this repair cafe it's every third Saturday. We've been doing it for about two and a half years now. And so the gist is anything you can carry in we'll help you fix your stuff or we'll help you fix it or at least give some insight about how it can be fixed. So it's free for anyone to show up. There's food for volunteers and the grant we got this MBA grant few times it's mostly paid for the food and it's also supplies and tools. I think it's a really long time when the next one is not the day after tomorrow but it will be from Saturday from about 11 a.m. to 10 3 p.m. at 12 North Street. So come on down and bring some stuff. It's fun to, you know, there's no, no skills or requirements, curiosity. So it's fun to have an expert in there's more info in a laboratory d.org slash repair cafe. And that concludes our presentations for the MBA grant application for the current cycle from applicants for both work and free. A reminder that if you're here tonight you can vote here if you'd like. And if you vote here, please go on your own and don't vote again online. For those of you that don't know that I'm not a Google person we have the online voting at tinygoral.com or slash NDA grants 20.22 is the URL for them. So without further ado, if anyone has any questions for any of the presenters on their grant process we'll open the floor up for questions. Yes, Ma'am. Here. I want to hold everybody up but if we think that every single one of them should be fully funded, we can write that on it or not. I think you can certainly write it on. I'm not sure how the math is going to work on that but you can certainly vote on any one. Okay, because that's my question because if all of the ballots come back and everyone wants them to be fully funded and then what is going to happen on your end? Thanks. Thank you. Thank you, Ma'am. So we're hoping that this is not true but if it does, what we would have to do is make a decision to appropriate everyone's and everyone's on that request. You know, we would reach out to individual applicants to find out whether their project could be successful at all and you know, and we'd get it on then in a few days this morning but yes, so they're writing us in conversation. They're asking us to vote online and write it and not everyone is selected fully fund all the votes so I feel that we'll be able to take the broad recommendations of the community and figure out the math to make it work but if we can't, then we'll be coming back to all the rules in December but I'm confident that we can come up with a proposal that honors the desires and recommendations of the voting community and thoughts as many of these projects make sense. That's all. Thank you again. Okay, just here. That's, thank you very much, Ma'am. I can't wait to start. I would like to get out of the acceptable and lowering costs first and then out of the acceptable. Thanks so much. I forgot to mention that. There's going to be 1,000 copies made that's got the proposal. We're going to raise a lot of funds we need. It could be a lower quality but the important thing that I want to stress is that it will be available for free if you're anybody in the community and I'm going to partner with all kinds of local businesses or as it's like small businesses about the networks, differences that they have on the counter or what not that you can just take them all and enjoy that. That's it. Any further questions or comments about any of those? Thanks. I don't want to set the fire here. I'm living over now. Yeah, that's already encouraging to do so. Thanks for being patient with every food dependent that wants to have a schedule that we're behind and out of time. Thank you.


The most common problem students in China face when learning English. Learning a foreign language in any part of the world is a demanding task which requires dedication and long-term commitment. However, it can be particularly difficult for Chinese students. From a completely different alphabet to the lack of professional foreign expert training due to a high demand, Chinese students face a number of problems in learning the English language. Few opportunities to practice speaking skills. In recent years, increasing competition among Chinese students has transformed learning English from an optional to a required course. In spite of this, the traditional teaching methodology applied at local educational institutions has, for the most part, remained the same. Due to a large number of students in a single classroom, there are only limited opportunities for practicing their language skills. Local educators simply do not have the resources to pay enough attention to students individually. On the contrary, they focus on rigid syllabi that focus mostly on grammatical rules and expressions, which ultimately results in pupils getting high exam scores, yet poor communication skills. The obvious solution would be to implement a variety of techniques instead of solely relying on narrow grammar translation-based teaching. Taking into account the large number of attending students, the teacher could more often serve as a moderator of discussions and group-based activities to encourage the practical use of language. This way, the students get a chance to grow their confidence and familiarize themselves with the new materials. Different intonation compared to Chinese. Although rich vocabulary and correct grammar are essential, the ability to express thoughts is the core of any language. It ought to be especially important for Chinese learners to begin applying verbal practice as early as possible, granted the two languages share very little in common. Mandarin alphabet, rhythm, pronunciation and word order, among other aspects, are completely different from those of English. Therefore, without a dynamic combination of several teaching methods and verbal practice, students are restricted from improving their fluency and apprehending the cultural aspects of English colloquial communication. For example, when students are presented with a verbal task, they should be able to carry out the conversations with their counterparts without the teacher's input. Inexperienced teachers in the classroom. Nonetheless, even with a foreign teacher's guidance, it would be wrong to presume that the success of Chinese students learning English well depends on a student's efforts alone. The English teacher also shares responsibility by having to adjust to the common issues of local language learners. Being able to apply appropriate methods and materials by taking into account the cultural aspects is a fundamental part of a teacher's job. Unfortunately, one of the problems in China is that due to the enormous demand for qualified English teachers, they are driven to compromise. More often than not, schools and language training centers hire inexperienced foreign teachers that fail to live up to a good standard of education. A feasible solution to this problem would be a shift in perception that merely being a native speaker versus a qualified and experienced non-native language foreign teacher is enough. Pronunciation needs to be drilled. Pronunciation is yet another major issue that causes a lot of difficulties for many local students of all ages in China. Neither Mandarin nor other dialects share sounds directly corresponding to the ones of English like R and L, or N and L. Among many others, these are the sounds that pupils in China must be taught from the ground up. A lengthy process in itself, it can often leave students struggling to differentiate between two sounds without proper guidance. I have effectively applied a method of physically, showing how these sounds are made which is later followed by listening practice and spelling games in order to train the ears and stimulate the student's muscle memory. Are you interested in teaching English in China? All in all, pupils in China have an array of difficulties to deal with when learning English. Although, some of the issues like pronunciation are inevitable, others like teachers applying the old-fashioned read, repeat and memorize teaching methodology to large capacity classrooms can be changed. Get started by taking an in-class TEFL certification course in China, and learn more about living and teaching in China in our country guide. Getting certified to teach English abroad and online.