있고 STRANGE  defeating  one's Motherland Fire Puṁka... Flowers and fruits in the trees of course burst of very happy... you can see tha, One is because there is so much fruit, luxurient growth of greenery. Another is all human beings and the lockdown. Double celebration their all heaven. you saw the image going around in the ashram on our rooftops, the peacocks are dancing, even when the peahens are not around. Just out of sheer joy, absence of human beings, they're just dancing. So, let me read a poem today. It's called Dirty Little Logic. As flowers become fruits with a touch of magic spring, as flowers become fruits with a touch of magic spring, green leaves did become flowers, brown branches became leaves, knotted roots became a luxuriant tree exuding the very plasma of life. All this from the soil that some call dirt. Is this a dirty life or the magic of creation? You shall know as per your incline. All this from the soil that some call dirt. Is this a dirty life or the magic of creation? You shall know as per your incline. Incline to pay attention to the magic of creation or engrossed in your own dirty little logic. It's called lock-up. Up, not down. Do you need to be locked down or do you possess the needed sense to sanitize distance and disinfect? Do you need to be locked down or do you possess the needed sense to sanitize distance and disinfect? Are you in appreciation of those who strive for you? Are you in appreciation for those who strive for you? Or are you allowed with a vulgar sense of entitlements or a religious nut who can only live well in a paradise elsewhere? If you have no sensitivity to appreciate the dedication, commitment and selflessness with which doctors, nurses, police and even most politicians are striving to save your life and mine, what you need is not lock-down, lock-up. So lock-down till May 3rd after that lock-up. Well, there are good news first or bad news. The good news is well certain nations which were majorly hit like Italy and Spain sort of brought it under control but with lock-down. When the lock-down is relaxed what will happen, that's another matter. But right now the number of deaths have come down considerably, number of new infections have come down. Even in India it's taking a downward trend though the fatalities have crossed 500 in India, the curve is slowly dipping. And hot spots where infections were either being spread by ignorance or intent have been all barricaded and separated. So under control in those places a certain number of deaths have happened so they are also getting disciplined a little bit. So on the whole it is slowly dipping which is a very good sign but tomorrow is 20th, tomorrow midnight onwards. Some relaxation will happen for certain types of economic activity. Of course agriculture and a few other vital industries which are needed to keep the society going. After this little bit of relaxation we must see how the curve will move. And third of May is not very far away because the virus has shown certain other qualities that it possesses which initially we did not realize. We thought it is only attacking the respiratory system so we tried to find simple solutions for that. But now it is seen that it is damaging what is called as T cells or the lymphocytes which are the main forces within our body to fight the virus. They compromising them almost like how the HIV virus does. That means it's destroying the immune system at a certain level. Maybe not at the same scale as HIV but in a similar fashion. Should this new sense of knowing about the virus is causing much concern because our only answer to this was to boost the immune system. Now we still don't have a vaccine that's far away as far as we can see right now. The only thing was stronger immune system but it is attacking the core of our immune system and neutralizing it. The T cells or the lymphocytes kind of do not know that they must fight the virus because the virus goes and neutralizes them. This is a cause of much concern. I think it's worrying the scientists quite a bit because simply treating it as a respiratory problem is not going to work because it's attacking another more fundamental dimension within our human system. So of course there are people that I mentioned in the lock up porn. There are people who are protesting. In United States a few protests are happening against the lockdown though it's not a complete lockdown like India. In India also there are a few people here and there breaking the lockdown and you know doing irresponsible things. Today the prime minister has made an appeal for all the youth in the nation to take the leadership and see that lockdown is successful because by making it a partial success it's just waste of time, energy and economic damage to the nation. Only if it's a complete success then it's worthwhile locking down. I lockdown but you don't lockdown. This is no use.  But women have an advantage. The virus is largely killing men. This is the good news I was about to give you because generally women have better regulated immune systems because body is equipped to handle pregnancy. The first when the pregnancy happens it is like a external or a foreign body within the women system so the immune system is always at a more regulated condition. So there are no numbers coming out right now but generally people are saying it is largely men who are dying. Tch, gender bias even with the virus. Anyway, we are glad at least women will be safe. So many many things are taking shape but the two things of great concern is they are not limiting themselves to the respiratory system. Kidney and liver damages have been noticed in some patients. We do not know if it's an isolated case or this could be a trend. And more something of more concern is it is behaving like HIV virus that it's attacking the immune system itself. Well as most of you know by now the real problem with this virus though its fatality rates are not as high as SARS or MERS or even the Spanish flu of the past. The problem is asymptomatic transmission. There are many people who are infected. Up to three weeks they have not shown any symptoms but they are spreading.  So all said and done anyway in a couple of weeks economic activity will be back but the important thing is even if government relaxes the lock down people must follow their own personal lockdown. Only do what is really necessary and keep distance and whatever the you know, the respiratory adequate that people have become conscious of let's keep this not for lockdown period for life and sanitizing ourselves in such a way that we don't bring a second wave of infections. It is also feared in colder countries where temperatures go below seven degrees probably by October end or so it is some scientist are estimating that a second massive wave will come at that time because winter is a time when people are naturally more susceptible to infections and a much bigger wave may happen then. Having said all this, well a human being is a resilient creature we'll figure out something before that we'll find a way till then everybody must keep distance and it's very very important for your life for your well-being and the well-being of others you may think i'm very strong or you may think i'm willing to die because people are making such statements i'm saying somebody says i don't care i'm willing to die i have to go out and do what i have to do you may be willing to die but you need to understand you are a big problem both alive and dead yes if you just folded on the street dead bodies can infect hundreds of people so both alive and dead you're a problem please contain yourself and see that you're not you're not a threat to everybody else because this sense of pride and entitlement is very strong in people a whole lot of people maybe that's one reason why more men are dying danger means generally women step back very easily a man cannot step back he has to step forward when there is danger that's his natural instinct this happened an american man was staying in a london hotel and another man came from glosco to meet him and he asked him when they met he asked him from which quandary do you come from the american said from the greatest nation in the world so this man from glosco said me too but you don't sound Scottish at all so these entitlements will infringe and cause much damage this is not a time to be macho this is not a macho time this is a virus time step back it's very very important there's no heroics with this the heroics is in saving people's lives the hero heroics is in protecting other people the heroics is what i want to do i will not do right now for the sake of everybody else this is heroics this question is from Rachel satt guru you are always making fun of the religions that promise us heaven but you have also promised this is the last lifetime for all those who have been with you for a moment how are these two things different this is persisting between heaven and what i said heaven means heaven paradise whatever else they call it what it means is in some places there is very good food in some places rivers of wine flow in some places other kinds of problems are there this happened in a very very special state in united states of america called alabama and sunday morning the sunday school teacher was going full fire unfortunately the audience were not like you all tiny thoughts catch them young policy going in full fire in his rhetoric he stopped and asked what do you have to do to go to heaven little marry who always sits in the front row stood up and said if i scrub the church floor every sunday morning i will go to heaven absolutely another little girl stood up and said if i share my pocket money with the less privileged friend of mine i will go to heaven correct another little boy stood up and said if i help those who are in need i will go to heaven correct little tommy stood up and said you got to die first well that's a qualification you got to die first once you die first you must know because you know our death book is titled as a book for all those who shall die only for them and most of you have realized you're all the dying sort not now i don't want you to die of virus at your own time so you're all dying sort you must know what is in heaven you don't know well in the hindu heaven food is very good if you are a foodie that's a place to go there is a they'll give you a or there is a vessel say akshay patra that is you can eat as much as you want it never gets empty always it's full so if you are a foodie hindu heaven is the best place for you to go if you go to another place there will be those white gown ladies floating in the clouds if you like that kind of ambience you go there there food is not good dry rye bread and water if you go to another place you will encounter virgin problems but to go to heaven first you have to die when you die mother earth claims back your body one way or the other so you went to heaven without your body when you don't have a body what do you do with good food and virgins what is there to do no wonder the vessel is always full and they always remain virgins if you go to the dining hall without a body food will be like that only so if you look at all the heavens in the world little carefully you will see these heavens were made up in the minds of perverted men not even women didn't participate in the making of this heavens looks like that very clearly because you're only a thing utility you're not you don't have a seat in heaven i want you to understand the ladies that's why the virus is also not touching you so i did not offer heaven to anybody if you understand you as a life you as a person let's look at it as a person you as a person was made with information with food material if we take out all the imprints that you have if we take out all the memory out of you i am talking about conscious memory unconscious memory articulate memory inarticulate memory karmic memory genetic memory you know evolutionary memory everything we took out all the memory out of you do you believe you will have a form only because of all this memory functioning within you you have taken this form you think you are a person you just a certain amount of very complex software in a way right now you should understand this now they're building robotic human beings see that also the first robotic human beings they create a woman the because you've been biased against in heaven we're trying to make up here so they're beginning to have their own characteristics they have their own character a personality of their own because software is getting more and more complex now slowly a personality is evolving that's all that's happened with you a very complex software so you have a persona so if we undo this software you as a person will cease to exist so it's up to you to see whether this is a reward or a threat but it's neither because with a certain amount of a bubble that you created of information and material you trapped a certain amount of life and it goes on for a period of time at some point it has to dismantle itself if you it is like a fruit once it is ripe it will fall so we are only talking about ripening the life quickly you want to ripen slowly no problem but before you get ripe enough parrots you hear them they may eat you up some local boy will throw a stone at you and you're down before you get ripe so many things can happen to you so what a wise one will do is once he realizes there is a way to ripen quickly he will start moving that way as quickly as possible i only said i will ripen you in such a way that naturally the fruit will fall i didn't tell you i will throw you up into heaven and i know if i give you a vessel which is full of food all the time maybe limitless expansion will happen that is not a good vessel these vessels were imagined during times of famine and drought when people had nothing to eat what would they dream of a vessel in their home which is always empty with some grace if this vessel becomes in such a way that it will always be full akshay this is the dream of a hungry man this is the dream of a man whose family is starving to death but that fortunately that face of life is gone it's it's time you dream of something little better it is time you dream of something little better and the other dreams i don't want to go into it will get bad so i am talking about ripening you and dismantling the persona so that life just floats around as life in its full magnificence and beauty not as a constipated person a person is a constipated life i want you to understand however great a personality you are personality is a limited existence once you're here as a person it is you versus the universe whether you become conscious of it or not it is you versus the universe all the time so if you have seen enough of it then you want to ripen quickly i said i can help you to ripen quickly and fall down not fly up this may look like a threat oh so sadguru is going to make us fall down this is not my desire that is how everything falls on this planet you know i said newton told you everything falls down only on this planet there are other places if you throw something it keeps going up but those places you are not fit to live where you are fit to live if you drop something it will fall down and it's good place down is not a bad place up means getting lost down means you found your earth the most friendly planet for you down means you can fall down and you know the mango wants to fall down it is not thinking of how you will enjoy the mango it is thinking of falling down and it's come with sufficient manure which you think is a fruit and it wants to come up another young mango tree wants to grow out of that that's its desire it's made sweet so that animals and you also can carry it far and throw the seed there otherwise if all the seeds fall under the tree shade what to do it is hoping that you won't eat the seed this is the wish of the mango tree i'm just expressing because i'm in love with them the mango tree is wishing that you will eat the fruit and have enough gratitude to plant the seed somewhere that's its wish but most human beings don't know mangoes come from a tree they think it's come from a shop counter so they are eating it and throwing it in the bin no no the mango tree is just hoping out of a thousand fruits that it produced at least a hundred will get planted at least 10 15 20 in a season will become real trees it's hoping please don't disappoint the mango trees and don't disappoint me by going to heaven because it doesn't look like a good place at all to me from whatever descriptions i have seen in different cultures the description of heaven is not attractive at all i see the isha yoga center is much better than the descriptions that they have made here the food vessels get empty the moment we've eaten the next question is from arjuna namaskaram sadguru yesterday you were talking about devotion and belief my question is thought and emotion are connected and both are created by me so one who's devoted may also have thoughts towards his object of devotion and one who believes in something may have strong emotion towards that so why is that a believer is less than a devotee see this part of the country particularly almost the entire country but particularly this part of the country now a few things have changed otherwise anywhere you go across southern india south of decan plateau wherever you go hundreds and hundreds why hundreds thousands and thousands of shiva temples devotees of shiva they spend their lives everything on just building one temple every king had to build one temple every family which is of some worth they want to build a temple putting all their money into it if you look at the elaborateness with which they have built you can understand they should have spent their entire everything they had they themselves lived in small homes but they built magnificent temples because this is devotion towards whom towards shiva well shiva is a destroyer everywhere everywhere everywhere it is clearly said he's not going to lift his little finger for you but people built temples and temples for him spending all their lives earnings on him a man who is not going to give you anything and not only that he's always looking at you like he's going to destroy you you know that incident where the seven sages the saptarishis are after decades of studying and learning and experiencing with him he says you go out into different lands across the world you must go and make people get acquainted with this science the yogic science 112 different ways so they're all prepared they don't want to go but they don't want to leave him and go but he's saying they must go so they're leaving so they say you're send sending us into strange lands we don't know what kind of people we will meet you must understand it's not 21st century where you know what sort of people live in every corner of this world every continent every little place what sort of people live there you know in some way at that time they don't even know in another part of the world whether there are human beings or giants or devils or who is there nobody knows so they are asking when we go there we don't know whether they will be receptive to us or not so in case we meet those kind of situations will you be there for us he looked incredulous so what if you meet any kind of adversity like that he said i shall sleep why would you want to build a temple for this man that's a devotee i want you to understand this is not coming from the intellect but these seven sages went out without understanding what he said because when you sleep you're one with everything if you sleep consciously you're one hundred percent one with everything and consciously with everything see when you're awake you are a person when you sleep you're just life there's no limit actually this is why we've been telling you if you can cause that little awareness at that moment of going to sleep from that moment of wakefulness to sleep if you can be conscious something phenomenal will happen we've been telling you but you've been sleeping so he said i shall sleep he's not saying i will be there i will come and jump out of the sky and save you nothing he says i shall sleep but the devotees don't care whether he will come he will not come he will do something he will not do something i'm saying there is no qualitative evaluation because they understand because they know from their it is not even understanding they know from their innermost experience their devotion has transformed them in such a phenomenal way they don't care if it comes or doesn't come that's devotion you cannot do this with your intellect you cannot do something illogical with your intellect you can do some lousy logic what is that dirty little logic you can do but you have to do some logic even the most illogical idiot has his own little logic dirty little logic but with your intellect you cannot do something illogical because that's the nature of the intellect so belief is done on the level of your intellect you're trying to make logic out of something where there is no logic everybody is looking up heavenward i'm saying this is this is increasing i'm just seeing if you look at the old videos of 50 60s where international football games when people score a goal they just jump in joy or shake hands do something they wouldn't hug each other because there were no deodorants at that time but nobody looked up and praised the lord but today almost everybody or most of them the moment they score a goal and the cricket matches well well we've gone through this many many many times the planet is round and it's spinning you have no clue which is up so definitely you have no clue what is up your goals are coming from there no it is just that you're trying to build confidence so essentially you build confidence belief builds confidence confidence will not give you clarity confidence will give you a bullheaded approach to life you can dose yourself through life sometimes it works unfortunately that is not the nature of devotion just see how a devotee stands he's never confident always like this but believers because you believe some nonsense you made it up a devotee has not made up anything he's just soften himself soften himself soften himself in such a way that life happens in a way that logic can never do and intelligence beyond the limitations of your logic anybody who's applied their intellect substantially if you apply your intellect within no time you will hit the limits of where it is most people have never applied intensely enough so they think they're stupid little what dirty little logic we should publish this poem i'm beginning to like it this dirty little logic is limitless so with this dirty little logic it is your dirty little logic that right now where you live is not good your accommodations are not good people that you live with are making you miserable so with your dirty little logic you created a better place up there a devotee is not creating any place up there he doesn't care whether he goes up or down all he knows is his heart is overflowing with the sweetness of his own existence well he may use a tool he may use something to inspire him but he's not making up things so this is a fundamental difference between belief and devotion you are it's like this legs are for walking hands are for doing things but if you train your hands very well you make it very strong you can walk on your hands and there are people who are handicapped somebody has lost their arms they are doing all kinds of incredible thing artwork with their feet some are doing it's fantastic but are your legs designed to work and hands designed arms designed to walk it is not similarly your intellect is designed to dissect to look at things logically and decipher a few things for yourself for your survival your emotion is not he's not created or doesn't have the ability to decipher things it knows only how to embrace something if you want to know the sweetness of life your emotion should flow if you want to figure out a few things your intellect should function but now you're using your intellect like emotion and emotion the only emotion most people know is stress anxiety resentment anger once in a way only on the facebook they feel some love because that's the safest place that is the safest place for a love affair because you never have to encounter those people so let us understand this intellect is not designed to illogically make up something it is designed to decipher life as it is the physicality of it the material of it so that you can function efficiently emotion is not designed for that emotion is designed for you to experience life intensely if you use it the other way around you want to walk on your hands and work with your legs all the best like this happened sankaran pilai was walking in the orly what that orly sea face in mumbai post lockdown so the first ones when the lockdown is released the first ones that will come out or the criminals the pickpockets you know because business is totally gone so sankaran pilai also took a walk so an arm thug pulled out a country made pistol put it to his head and said i'll blow your brains out just give me the money sankaran pilai said in in mumbai you can live without brains but you can't live without money you can blow as much as you want you're not getting my money brains needed intellect needed for something other things needed for other things other things needed for other things seba sarveshwarashamdhashamdha mahadhe


couple of people talk about how much just you love to play and when you finally get to come back today's is it hard at all you got to wait as into the second quarter before you finally get back on the quarter you're able to be patient like that easily yeah yeah I knew I knew I was gonna be able to I was gonna play at some point and play a certain amount of minutes so it all worked out for the best and I'm excited I get to be out there my teammates again. Bruce Beck with NBC New York. Kevin did you feel like there was any transitional period just getting back out there or was it like riding a bike again? Yeah it's like riding a bike you get your your foot in right and you know you just get your rhythm going and I think my teammates did a great job of looking for me all game and I just wanted to you know resort back to that work that I put in just the shots that I take in practice and shoot around try to get to those as much as possible to grant game my rhythm and you know I started to get a little bit more creative as the game you know started progress so it was it was a good start hopefully I built on this game and keep going. Greg Logan with Newsday.  I'll just deal with it and adapt to the situation. Coach asked me today if I wanted to start or come off the bench and I felt like it would be a bigger challenge for me to focus in and lock in if I came off the bench so I just wanted to see how that worked and if I were to shot bad I probably would have been pissed that I came off the bench but I was able to knock down some shots in but it was a it was a solid exercise for me to ease back into the swing of things. Christian Winfield with the New York Daily News. Hey what's going on Kevin welcome back. The Suns are what second in the West and I think they just beat the Bucks not too long ago and then also beat the Sixers do you look at this type of game as kind of a measuring stick for where you guys are and where you guys need to go or is it just another game? Just another game I think they look at us as a measuring stick too you know they're fresh on the scene as a elite team so you know this is pretty new to them you know so we want to gauge and you know take that physicality that they bring and that toughness and that quickness as they bring but that's all it was another another dead to office. Alex Schiffer with the Athletic. Hey Kevin obviously a 24 year 28 in the second half just what what do you think got going for you guys offensively it seemed like even though you were having shots with Blake going in the second half a few other guys just once you got once you started hitting them. I felt like the whole first half we were down like 12 shots like they had more shots than us the whole first half and I think we cut that down in the second half you know I might not turn the ball over and not taking quick shots you know so we you know early on they even if we made a shot they were pushing it out for the break and they got easy layups and three pointers because we're not focused so I think we just kept balling our hands made good shots made good reads and you know we were able to get back into it. Dana Jacobsen with the CBS News. Hi Kevin I'm going to take you away from today's game just a little bit curious about a program you guys have had going on all season with John Michelle Basquiat and the uniforms you've had the court what you knew about him maybe before the program or learned and then what you think of using a sports arena to introduce an artist like him to people. Yeah I mean he was a very impactful artist and a lot of you know had a lot of fans throughout his day and I think it's an honor for us to represent him and his family and where he comes from through our jerseys and on our court and you know a lot of guys say they want to they want to try white jersey next year the Basquiat jerseys so we you know it's a part of who we are and you know Biggie, Basquiat, Jay Z, those guys like that, artists like that really are in our DNA as a team and as a organization and as a city so it feels good to represent a guy like that. Had you known him before? Yeah for sure I mean obviously huge fans read you know newest story try to look for some of his arts hard to get but it's good that we can represent him in some way and have our own little art piece on our jerseys as well. Steve Lichtenstein with WFAN. Kevin first of all good luck at the Oscars tonight I want to ask about Lee Griffin and what you are seeing from him and how he's impacted the team. Well his IQ is through the roof he knows how to play the game of basketball on both levels I mean both sides of the floor and on all three levels on offense you know in the paint could knock down that floater in the midrange and could make threes now so we just need Blake to continue to be aggressive to score the basketball and make plays and tonight was one of those nights and he's getting comfortable each and every game. Last question Matt Brooks with Nuts Daily. I'm just curious about the pick and roll defense tonight it felt like you guys were switching a little bit more just to sort of take away those midrange shots for Chris Paul and Devin Booker just curious if that was the process and what you felt like that did for you guys. Yeah I mean we didn't you know when they come out CP loves to shoot you know when your bigs aren't a drop and off that pick and roll and that's that quick offense sometimes they get down 10 to 12 points CP would come up pick and roll and just pull up and they'll get them back into the game and I think we took some of that stuff away and made them dribble probably five or six more dribbles after he come off the pick and rolls now so the rhythm was all for him a little bit and they still great players and they made shots over top of us but we rather them try to shoot over top of us to get easy baskets in that pick and roll.


Welcome to All Hands Update. I'm Petty Officer Tony Rosa with your headlines from around the fleet. Beginning this week, about 85% of Department of Defense civilian employees will be furloughed one day a week through the end of the fiscal year. Furloughs are expected to save the department an estimated $1.8 billion by the end of September. For answers to furlough-related questions, visit All Hands Magazine online at www.ah.mil and check out their recent interview with Doug Lundberg of the Navy's Office of Civilian Human Resources. The Navy's official website Navy.mil now features a link to stories and resources for sexual assault prevention and response.  Visit the website and click the SAPR link for more information. You can read more about these stories at Navy.mil. From All Hands Update, thanks for watching.


Okay, we'll call the Tuesday, October 18, 2016, Sheboygan County Board of Supervisors meeting to order. Certification of Compliance with the Open Meeting Law. I was posted October 14th at 4 p.m. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Roll call. There are 23 supervisors present. Thank you. Approval of the September 20th, 2016 Journal. Supervisor Winkle. Motion to approve. Thank you, Supervisor Winkle. Supervisor Epping. I'd like to second that motion. Thank you, Supervisor Epping. Any questions or discussion? Please push your aye button, or nay. That motion is approved unanimously. Thank you. Presentations. We have none. Public addresses. We also have none there. See for three for three. Letters, communications, and announcements. No letters and communications. Just two announcements. One, the November legislative breakfast meeting has been canceled. And just a reminder that we meet three consecutive Tuesdays. So we'll be back here next Tuesday. That's all. Thank you, John. County Administrators report. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good evening. Good evening. On your desks are the 2017 proposed budgets. Are they not? You have some extensive binders. Wendy, Sharnan, and I are pleased to distribute those this evening. The proposed budget includes a tax-living decrease of 1% and a property tax decrease, a property tax rate decrease of 2%. And this will be the fifth property tax reduction in the last 10 years. So my compliments to everyone in the room. The budget reflects tremendous teamwork amongst this county board. Obviously, the Finance Committee has been doing the heavy lifting of late. But the board as a whole all has been involved with the development of this budget. Our department heads, our staff, once again, fiscally responsible in continuing to provide quality programs and services. This budget preserves core services that people in our community expect and rely upon. Clearly, law enforcement, health and human services, and our transportation system, an area we spent a lot of time on this past year. Key components of the 2017 budget include funding to establish a drug treatment court and provide non-hospital-based detoxification services for people struggling with heroin and other drug addictions. As you know, last year, the Health and Human Services Department, working with a number of our partners in law enforcement and the circuit courts, got rolling with the planning on this. But it actually just got implemented this year. And the funding will be there, of course, for next year to have a full year of implementation. The budget also includes the implementation of a half percent sales tax to maintain our transportation system, purchase equipment, and provide property tax relief, construction of a new transportation complex to consolidate three aging facilities into one, reconstruction and resurfacing at the airport, courthouse security enhancements that 90% of our employees responded in the survey. They very much appreciate the courthouse front steps, flagpole repairs are in this budget, new sheriff's department squads, HVAC upgrades at the University of Wisconsin-Chabuegen, roof replacement and fire alarm system upgrades, Rocky Knoll nursing home resident call system enhancements, as well as other quality of life amenities at Rocky Knoll facility is really improving. And I want to compliment the healthcare centers and all involved for that. And then of course, continued support for our Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation that's really been on a roll. We're hearing a lot of good things about activities in the county and the economic development. As you know, working together for years, for years now, we have implemented a number of cost saving initiatives. Our total payroll today, our total payroll today is less than it was in 2008. It's pretty remarkable. Because we know demands for services certainly haven't gone down, but we have streamlined, prioritized, consolidated a lot of good work by this county board, our department heads and staff. We have healthy fiscal reserves and excellent bond rating and hardworking caring staff providing quality programs and services. I'm proud to be a part of this team. The proposed budget consists of a total property tax levy of 47.8 million and a total budget of 146 million. The overall budget is going up, but predominantly due to capital projects such as the new transportation complex. The annual budget supports 19 departments, approximately 820 employees implementing over 200 programs and services. We've got a lot going on here and we're helping make a lot of good things happen in this community. Final budget review will be next week, Tuesday. Yes, next week, Tuesday, October 25th and final approval of the budget will be on November 1st. So once again, we've just about completed an annual budget process that started formally back in June, though really in February. Believe it or not, we start working on it already. So in a few months, we'll be right back at starting the next, but it's been a good process. I appreciate the feedback of the finance committee. Chair of the finance committee, Greg Wegman, couldn't be here today as a conflict, but I know he's really pleased with the good work that all the department heads have done preparing their respective budgets, the work of the liaison committees to review and refine the leadership of the county board chair and the executive committee. Everybody, I hope, shares some pride in the work and the budget. So please take a chance to review it in its entirety if you have questions on anything. Don't hesitate to contact myself or Wendy Sharnan and if we don't have the answers, we'll get them for you or work together to improve it. The last two topics that I have for the evening are a little bit on the lighter side, but are really, really important. Every now and then, the county has a county citizen leadership award. And as you know, we've done this in the past, and I don't think we've done that presented one for perhaps two, maybe three years. And this year, I wanted to make sure that we did so because there's so many good people in this community working hard and helping make good things happen, and it's nice to recognize them when they're still with us, isn't it, rather than talk about it after the fact. And so tonight, I'd like to first start with an individual, our first Sheboygan County citizen leadership award for 2016, Dave Smith. If he could please join me, if he could come up here, Dave, and then if the chairman and vice chairman could join me as well. As a committed volunteer and dedicated member of our community, Mr. Dave Smith is more than deserving of the Sheboygan County Citizen Leadership Award, and we're privileged to present this to him this evening. Although his list of accolades is lengthy, we only have five or 10 minutes for this, Dave. Dave is probably most well known for his time spent at North High School as a teacher and guidance counselor. He is one of those standout teachers that students remember years later and undoubtedly positively impacted hundreds of kids throughout his tenure. Since retiring from North High, Dave has spent a lot of time continuing to volunteer his time and talent to help make our community a better place. And that's so important, and he's been a role model. Dave volunteered with the Appalachee, thank you, project for 10 years, which works with teenagers on homes in needy areas. He also volunteered at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center for 10 years, even being recognized like his wife, Sherry, who's with us this evening, as a volunteer of the year at one time. Kohler-Henry State Park and most recently the Cedar Grove Fournethological Research Station, this cold isn't helping me any. Have also been recipients of Dave's hard work and volunteerism. An organizer of the Sheboygan Bicycle Club, Dave also helped out and organized bike rise and volunteered at our bike rodeos and bike corrals in the county. Dave serves on several committees, generally as a bicycle pedestrian advocate, perhaps why he's in such good shape. He was active on the Sheboygan County Citizens Advisory and Technical Committee as part of the non-motorized program, and he currently serves as a member of the Sheboygan County Recreational Facilities Management Advisory Committee and the Technical Advisory Committee for Sheboygan's Metropolitan Planning Organization Area. We need to work on the length of these titles. Yes. Beyond serving his community in these ways, Dave especially goes above and beyond by helping to make the re-bike program a success. This is really cool if you haven't heard about this. Along with several other dedicated volunteers, Dave has not only maintained, but has actually grown this program over the years. Re-bike serves individuals that might not otherwise be able to afford transportation by giving them the opportunity to spend a few hours repairing a donated bike and then take the bike home, free of charge, burn through their labor. He is responsible for the bike behind the scenes work including maintaining a database of recipients and regularly traveling around the town with a trailer to pick up donated bikes. So if you have donated bikes out there, Dave Smith is your man. This initiative has been going on since 2010, strong since 2010. In fact, operating out of the basement at Paradigm Coffee, they've given out over 1,400 bikes so far. It's now what? 1,600. 1,600 since writing this just this morning. That's outstanding. That's outstanding. So please join me and Chairman Wagner and Vice Chairman George Marthenze in recognizing Dave as a citizen leader, someone who's making good things happen for Sheboygan County. We're proud to know you, we're proud to work with you. Thank you. The group this big since I left North High School but there are a few familiar faces out there and if I can take just a minute. As Adam said, this thing started in 2010 in April and sometime in 2009. I had this idea but Tom Krause who was involved with the bike and walk to work week activities and Mary Evelling who was the director of the non-motorized project at that time all came up with this idea. So I can't take sole credit for that but Tom is still working and so he makes it when he can, he works out of town and still gets back on Wednesday nights when we do this, Mary is off to Madison so that left me sort of in the mainstream but I have to say that it was a great idea or it seemed like a great idea at the time but without Tom coming when he can and Aaron and Emily who we lean on with the county quite often for various things that we need and of course Kate Krause at Paradigm and the new owners of that building who not only are letting us stay there but they actually want us to stay there which is amazing. So we work out of the basement and we couldn't operate at all if we didn't have that place to call home. And the local law enforcement namely the Shwetton Police Department where we get the bulk of the bikes that we recondition and then turn around and donate to people or give to people. So there's all that. And then along with Tom Krause, my neighbor and friend Jim Gross, Tom Vandenberg who's here tonight and a former colleague at North High School, Paul Nickel who's retired from the city. He's a former student, he works with us since he retired, he hasn't missed a night. Greg Fields, Dan Goodine, some of these names I know you know, Bob Bono, Stefan Straylow and then an elderly gentleman, I guess I could say that. Henry Lipman comes in to clean up every, these are people who some of them have been with us since the start and some of us, some of them have come more lately but they're there every week and even though this was a great idea and it's a great program, it couldn't happen if it wasn't for everybody else just jumping in and take part with this. So I can't accept this without mentioning them because it wouldn't happen without them. So thank you. So I said we had two citizen leadership awards this evening and the other one may be a bit of a surprise to the individual but would Emmett Feldner please come forward? Oh and I'm sure he'd be in a three piece suit right now. I don't know, he's back in Plymouth right now. Three decades ago in 1985, the year I graduated from high school, Emmett Feldner joined the Plymouth Review, he committed himself to being truthful in word and print about what Sheboygan County's elected officials at all levels said and did. He shared his observations on community events, the ups, the downs of living in this area, mostly the upside. Emmett has a special talent of writing the lead to such stories which helps make you want to read them. What follows is then factual, fair, clear and clever writing, providing a very good history of what is going on. Review publisher Barry Johansson said Emmett is so good with facts, you know they can be trusted. And he's such a master of all the aspects of our style of intensely local journalism he added that we even trust him to load the mailbags. That's pretty high praise. Most importantly, he continued, what Emmett does every day professionally and in his personal life sets an example for how leadership in a community must rely on fact, interaction, good humor and tolerance. Sheboygan County is fortunate that he calls it home and all of us a friend. In 1999, Emmett wrote a story recognized as one of the best investigative reports in the nation about Sheboygan County's decision to hire its first county administrative coordinator. I bet some of you know this and others really. Let me say that again, in 1999, Emmett wrote a story recognized as one of the best investigative reports in the nation about Sheboygan County's decision to hire its first administrative coordinator. Some of you may not be aware of this, but I was actually the second county administrative coordinator. The first, lied on his resume, was ousted by Emmett, for he was only here for two weeks. If it wasn't for Emmett Feldner, I probably wouldn't be here. So you can either thank him or you can blame him. Since then, I've seen Emmett cover nearly every county board meeting, county fair, Plymouth Parade, high school graduation, German Fest, local sporting events, and the list goes on and on. He seems like he is everywhere. Touting is big, heavy camera. You know, they do have newer cameras now, they're a little lighter. He's everywhere. He has written thousands of articles about Sheboygan County, hundreds of editorials, many in support of the Sheboygan County Board initiatives, including the cleanup of Sheboygan River and Harbor, Amsterdam Dunes Wetland Mitigation Bank and Preservation Area, and most recently, funding and support of maintaining our transportation system. Years ago, Emmett Feldner and I participated in a WHBL Friday forum when Jerry Bader was first here and first created that program. One day, he gave me some advice that I frequently repeated to myself and others, and actually choked me up a little bit earlier today as I was thinking about this. I had shared with him some tough sledding of some kind. I think we were in the midst of maybe closing comprehensive healthcare center, privatizing Sunny Ridge, I think it was before that, but I was sharing some tough sledding. And Emmett listened, and thankfully, he said, off the air, this too will pass. That's all he said to me. Just looked at me and he said, this too will pass. And of course, he was right. And I can tell you since then, I have repeated that to myself and to others. I don't know how many times this too will pass. Sheboygan County is a better place because of the tremendous work ethic, passion, skill, and ability of Emmett Feldner. And it is my privilege, my privilege to be up here with the chair and vice chair to present the Sheboygan County Citizen Leadership Award at Emmett Feldner. Congratulations. So who was that I'm talking about? When Adam said that about being everywhere, and it seemed to be everywhere, I just remembered something that my father used to quote my grandfather saying, my grandfather grew up in the days of the horse and the buggy. And he would have said that I'm just like horse droppings, I'm everywhere. But just really, all I can say is thank you and there's probably a lot of more people who deserve this a lot more than I do, but I'm not giving it back. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Adam. Consideration of committee reports, Executive Committee, resolution number 21. Regarding approving revisions to Farmland Preservation Plan, committee recommendation to adopt. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll move for adoption of resolution number 21. Thank you, Supervisor Gehring. Supervisor Abler. And I'll support that, Mr. Sherman. Thank you, Supervisor Abler. Any discussion? Supervisor Gehring. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to mention, while the planning department has put a lot of work into this, that when we passed this tonight, we cannot forget Kevin Struck. Because without Kevin Struck, I don't think we would any longer have Farmland Preservation in Sheboygan County. He did a wonderful job in coming up with a plan for the town of Sherman, which is multiplied in Sheboygan County and throughout the state. So a big thank you to Kevin. Thank you, Supervisor Gehring. Any other discussion or questions? OK, please put your aye or nay bun. Motions approve unanimously. Thank you, Supervisor. Excuse me, resolution number 23. Authorizer in your location of highway offices and facilities, committee recommendation to adopt. Supervisor Winkle. Motion to adopt. Thank you, Supervisor Winkle. Supervisor Glavin. Support. Thank you, Supervisor Glavin. Supervisor Baumgart. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I'm going to be voting against this for two reasons. One, I felt very strongly that taking 40 acres of prime farmland is not the kind of leadership we should be showing. And the fact that one of the three places that we were going to consolidate was right close to Plymouth, although I don't have all the facts, I assumed we could have done a better job at looking at that for the location that would have been closer to a population base. But be that it is as it is, it makes us look a little bad at a time we're adding after present sales tax. But that's not the reason I'm going to vote against it. Because we, I think, poorly chose a location and used good farmland. And I don't think that's something a county that prides itself in being a dairy county should do. So thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Supervisor Baumgart. Supervisor Bemis. When we were coming up with the idea we originally had looked the area around the old Plymouth shed. And we found it would be almost impossible to other than to tear down and start over again. And that still would not have given us enough land. So the area we picked is a good compromise between Elkar Lake and Plymouth. And it covers the northwest corner of the county. Thank you, Supervisor Bemis. Supervisor Epping. Thank you, Chairman Wagner. Contrary to what Supervisor Baumgart says, I think we are making the right move in authorizing this relocation in new highways, sheds, and facilities. We are preparing for the needs of the future at a time when we can afford it the best. Because even though it's going to cost us money, it's going to cost us less now than it would in the future. And we will not be caught with our pants down with needs in the future. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Epping. Supervisor Urena. Yes, thank you, Chairman Wagner. I just have a few comments. I'm not going to be supporting this either. I know the way this is worded, we're just purchasing, or we're just passing on the relocate. But technically, we're actually approving here an extra $10 million of expenditures for the highway department. Last meeting, last month, we approved $15 million. That was part of the capital plan. And this meeting, we're approving with this resolution. And correct me if I'm wrong, Attorney Bissing, we're approving the remaining, because we're actually taking the funds that we'll be receiving from actually. I added up the seven different numbers that are showing up on this resolution in the financial section. Plus, there's additional information. And I was thinking, first, it shouldn't be a puzzle to have to figure out how much we're spending on the transportation complex. And I've asked a couple of people, do you know how much we're spending? And even our newspaper had published that we're spending $15 million on a transportation complex. And it shouldn't be a puzzle what we're actually spending on the transportation complex. So I had an issue with that. So technically, if we add up all the seven and also eight numbers, there's an eighth that's not on here, we're spending $25.4 million on the transportation complex. I'm going to repeat that. We're spending $25,428,000 on the transportation complex. And I think that should be transparent. That should be something that is right out there. We shouldn't have the newspaper getting that confused with a $15 million number. We shouldn't have to do the math when we're looking at it as board members. We shouldn't be asking other colleagues of mine who really don't know how much we're spending on the transportation complex. I appreciate we passed Resolution Number 6 last year. Long-term plan, we were purchasing land for just over a half a million dollars, which isn't included in this total because that's separate. The land purchase came out of our fund balance, or the Transportation Department fund balance, and the amount of $548,000. So now we're actually spending 50 times what we approved at that point just for the land for the transportation complex. So there are a number of reasons I'm not supporting the resolution. I realize many of you have been on the board much longer than I have been, and I realize the transportation complex has been a piece that we've needed for some time. I don't see the gap between where we are now with our buildings and the 10 times cost of where we're going with the new transportation complex. I wish I could be able to see that picture and support this and be able to explain to those that have asked me, well, what are we really doing? I wish I had that picture, but until I have that clear picture, I just can't support this resolution to fund that extra $10 million for the transportation complex. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Rainer. Carl, did you? I don't fact check the statements by supervisors. Otherwise, I'd be here all night. Supervisor Beams. I think our transportation system is probably one of the most important things we have going for us in the county. We want businesses to come, and I think that the people that you were probably talking to are people who live in the city that are not involved in the rural areas where we need more transportation. A lot of the people who work in the city come from the rural areas, and in a way, we're saving money by not having to repair old facilities, which are inadequate for the larger equipment that we've got. That's basically it. I've got to support this. I've been around here for a while, and I could not vote no on this one. Thank you, Supervisor Beams. Supervisor Epping. Thank you again. This will be my last comment. The funding paragraph at the end of the fiscal note for this resolution tells me what the cost of this whole project is going to be from its inception to its end, and that is the information I will give to my people that ask me about it and how much it's going to cost. This is information received from our finance director, and this is what I've been led to believe it will be the total cost, and I think it's all a reasonable amount, and I will support this. Thank you. Thank you, Supervisor Epping. Any other comments? OK, please push the I button or the A button. Motions approve, 21 ayes, 2 nays. Thank you. Resolution number 24. Regarding supporting, quote, just fix it for statewide road maintenance, committee recommendation to adopt. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move for adoption of resolution number 24. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you. Supervisor Tostruti. Mr. Chairman, I'll second the motion. Thank you, Supervisor Tostruti. Any other discussion? Supervisor Baumgart. I'm Mr. Chairman, just a little background. I go back a ways, too, as Mr. Bemis does, but he goes far back much further. Matter of fact, they might even name the facility after Richard Bemis because of his longevity. But I would point out, and maybe should, but I would point out that some time ago, we had passed in the legislature a mechanism that as the prices of things would go up, the gas prices could be adjusted on a regular basis. Well, we had a number of legislators, including at least one or two from our area that said, we should get rid of that. We should only pass the legislation to raise the gas tax. And then for the next eight years, after they got rid of that, never raised the gas tax and put the state of Wisconsin with others well beyond keeping up our roads. So I point that out that we had a mechanism there. We still needed more for road and transportation. But people that wanted to make sure that they controlled when the gas tax would be increased, got rid of the adjustment, and then never took on the responsibility of doing it. So a little history, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Surveyser Bamberg. Any other points of discussion? If not, please push your aye or nay bun. Motion's approved, 22 ayes, one nay. Thank you. Consideration of committee reports, finance committee, resolution number 18. Regarding authorizing County to lend Baylake Regional Planning Commission $72,600 to refinance pension liability, committee recommendation to adopt. Surveyser Damp. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move for adoption of resolution 18. Thank you, Surveyser Damp. Surveyser Winkle. Second. Thank you, Surveyser Winkle. Any questions or discussion? Surveyser Epping. Yes, I do have one question about this. Even though we're slated to make $11,000 on this, this is over a 10-year period. If what I read is proper, that's only making $1,100 a year on this money that we're lending. And I wonder if that's a wise use of $72,000, which we can use for our own benefit on this. Although I think they're getting a good deal on this. And now I was just wondering if that's a good way of spending our capital. So thank you for your time. You're welcome. I'll defer this. Corporation Council missing if you wanted to talk about that. Those numbers are correct, right? What Tom said? They're currently paying 7.2%. This refinancing allows this agency to pay off the obligation to the state immediately. And the term to us is a 3% interest over 10 years. So I'm not in a position to comment whether we have better investments we could make or worse investments. The point of this, I don't think, was to gouge another unit of government by making as much interest as we could off of them, but rather to help them out in a way that does not adversely impact our bottom line. Thank you, Carl. Supervisor Beams? I just kind of hope that this loan turns out better than the million dollars we loaned the city for the harbor. Thank you, Supervisor Beams. Any other questions? All those in favor, vote aye. Those opposed, nay, amen. The motion is to approve unanimously. Thank you. Resolution number 19. Regarding approving standard intergovernmental agreement for county sales tax, revenue sharing, committee recommendation to adopt. Supervisor Winkle? Motion to adopt. Thank you, Supervisor Winkle. Supervisor Tostruti? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll second the motion. Thank you, Supervisor Tostruti. Supervisor Epping? Thank you. Sorry to talk so much tonight, but I got questions, and I need them answered. I see in this resolution number 19 that there was one person who did not vote for it, and that's Vice Person George Marthenze, and I was wondering if he's not present that day or whether he has a reason for voting against it. Is it proper to ask that question? I was not at the meeting. I was not at the meeting. That was absent. I did not sign an opposition. I didn't sign it because I was not at the meeting when it was discussed. Can I ask a follow-up question if he does support this one? Go ahead. Do you support this, Vice Chairman Marthenze? I refuse to tell you who I'm going to vote for for president. That's the end of that, I guess. Moving right along. OK, any other questions? Jermaine to the issue or answers. OK. Hearing none, all those in favor, vote aye. Those opposed, nay. That motion is also a privy unanimous claim. Thank you. Resolution number 20. Regarding acceptance of dedicated donation for Amsterdam Dunes, committee recommendation to adopt. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move for adoption of resolution number 20. Thank you, Supervisor Gehring. Supervisor Dampe. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I second that motion to adopt the resolution. Thank you, Supervisor Dampe. Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor, vote aye. Those opposed, nay. That motion is a privy unanimous claim. Thank you. Resolution number 22. Regarding authorizing Sheboygan County Planning and Conservation Department to apply for county conservation aids, committee recommendation to adopt. Supervisor Gehring. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move for adoption of resolution number 22. Supervisor Dampe. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will second that motion to adopt resolution number 22. Thank you, Supervisor Dampe. Surveys you? No. Any discussion on resolution number 22? Surveys are epic? No, never mind. Just kind of a little fun in this job. Once in a while, OK? All those in favor, vote aye. Those opposed, nay. Most is a privy unanimous claim. Sorry. Resolution number 25. Regarding authorizing county aid for bridge culvert construction in the town of Wilson, committee recommendation to adopt. Supervisor Glavin. I move for adoption. Thank you, Supervisor Glavin. Supervisor Hoffman. I second the motion. Thank you, Supervisor Hoffman. Discussion? Roger, did you have a question? No. Any other questions? All those in favor, vote aye. Those opposed, nay. Motion is a privy unanimous claim. Bless you, Charlie. OK, consideration of committee reports, human resources. There won't be a vote on this. This is simply for information. So I believe it was handed out. Is that correct? Supervisor Ureiner. I'd like to just make a few comments on the health insurance piece, if I may. Go ahead. That was a tie. You may. So this does not look large. And I know many of you have, when I first joined the county board as a business owner, I realized that I buy my own health insurance and for my staff and my family. And it seemed small when you're looking at the monthly amount. But really, when we're looking at a family plan, it comes to over $20,160 a year. When we also add in the dental insurance, it comes to $21,637,000 a year for a family plan. And I don't know if any of us are paying that for our health and dental insurance. I know I'm paying a fraction of that. In addition, I see large companies, W-2s. And if you have a family member that pays for health insurance, it would show up on the W-2, the employer portion. And it's typically significantly less than that. Again, as a government agency, we should have really good benefits. However, it is exceptionally large compared to other large companies in our community. So over three years ago, when I joined the board, I had mentioned and communicated that really it's something that should be looked at. I did see that in our previous goals and objectives, that was one item that was looked at that we really need to do a better job of keeping those costs down. So I look at the health insurance as a lose-lose. It's a lose for employees and a lose for the county, even though we're self-insured. And by the way, that year we did find out that our fund balance was showing up as a liability instead of a fund balance. So when that was reclassified, we had an extra roughly $7 million of added fund balance. But my point with this is, think about that. $21,000 a year, we're paying for every full-time employee. It's a significant chunk of money. And I get that many of you aren't paying for your own health insurance. So that may be something that's not a piece that you can understand, but perhaps you can ask your family what they are getting for their health insurance. This is a huge expense for our county to the tune of over $16 million of costs go into our health insurance piece. So I just wanted to make those comments. It's been an area many of you know. I've been saying, boy, I wish we could really do something. We saved a million dollars last year by just making a phone call, and that was wonderful. I just would hope that we can continue to work on that piece. I want it to be a win-win for the county and for the employees. Thank you. Thank you, Sir Reza Beems. I think we'll have to blame the rising cost of health care on the Obama plan. And the reason I say that I was talking to a businessman and he said, see, the Obama plan was approved. His health care costs have gone up 100%. Thank you, Sir Reza Beems. Sir Reza, your reiner? No, no. Yes, yes. So Chairman Beems, I would encourage you to ask that businessman or businesswomen all over this community what they're paying for a family health plan, what their employer is paying for a health plan or what they're playing in total, and then compare that to our $21,637. That's all I'm asking. Yes, insurance costs have gone up significantly over the years. However, when I've seen W-2s from large companies over the years compared to what our county has, it's very much higher. And there's many things we can do. We can do health savings account. Most companies have gone towards that. Kohler has, Valrath has. We haven't even touched on going into some of those other avenues that are win, win for the county and for the employers. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? As I said, there's no vote on this. It's simply information received. Thank you. I'll turn it over to the vice chair now. Resolution's introduced. Resolution number 26 from the planning resources, agriculture and extension committee. Regarding approving revisions to farmland preservation plan. Resolution number 26 is referred to the executive committee. Ordnance is introduced. Ordnance number seven from planning resources, agriculture and extension committee. Regarding creating property assessed clean energy financing ordinance. Ordnance number seven is referred to the finance committee. On our agenda's adjournment, Supervisor Bemis. I move to adjourn. And Supervisor Winkle. Second. Motion second to adjourn. All in favor. Vote aye. Opposed if you want. Vote no. Supervisor Tostrodi. Supervisor Tostrodi and Supervisor Nelson. Roger. Henry Ed. Henry Ed. Supervisor Tostrodi and Supervisor Nelson. Vote please. We've got Henry. Roger. He got her. Thank you. We're adjourned. We stand adjourned.