Most of this information comes from the tax guide for small business for individuals who use Schedule C, Publication 334, Tax Year 2022. You can find on the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. Looking at the income tax formula, we're focused online. One that being income, remember in the first half of the income tax formula is in essence an income statement. However, it's just outlined just the scaffolding many other schedules and forms flowing into these line items. For example, with the income line, we're focusing in on a Schedule C often used for sole proprietorship, which in essence is its own income statement having income minus expenses, which are basically business deductions. The net income of the Schedule C flowing into the income line item here of our income tax formula, which in essence represents page one of the form 1040. So when we look at the form 1040, we're focused on line eight other income from Schedule 1, meaning the Schedule C net income will flow through to the Schedule 1, which will flow through to the first page of the form 1040. Here's an example of the Schedule C profit or loss from business where we have income minus the expenses. The net income in essence, the income minus the expenses is what flows through to the Schedule 1, then to the first page of the form 1040. Now we're going to go through basically an outline of different topics that we will be looking at as we go through and think about a sole proprietorship that is going to be reported on a Schedule C. Remember that a lot of us, there's a lot of different components of the income taxes or the income statement that are affected from a Schedule C, such as the Schedule C, the Schedule 1, the self-employment tax, we have other deductions that could be impacted. And so when we talk about these different items, there will often be changes or interrelationships between them. So there's not really an easy way that we can just go through one topic to the next topic because they're interrelated in some ways. So we will try to lay them out so we can talk about one thing at a time. And every time we do so, we're going to have to take a step back and think about the interrelationships between these items as each of them change. You've changed, man. You've changed. So what you need to know. So Table A provides a list of questions you need to answer to help you meet your federal tax obligations. After each question is the location in this publication where you will find the related discussion. So these are going to be some of the concepts that often come up when people think about reporting their sole proprietor business and we will be touching on many of them. And you can also, of course, go through the publication if you want to jump to more information about any one of them. So the following is a list of questions you may need to answer so you can fill out your federal income tax return. Chapters are given to help you find the related discussion in this publication. Okay. So first question, what kind of federal taxes do I have to pay? How do I pay them? So obviously, when we're thinking about the income tax system, we have the income tax that we're dealing with, but they also kind of sneak in there the social security and Medicare taxes, which are the self-employment taxes. That's the other big one that we have to basically take into consideration. Oftentimes, one often ignored because when we think about a W2 employment situation, the employer takes care of the withholdings of social security and Medicare and when we think of the form 1040, we don't really think about anything other than the income tax. We don't really think about payroll taxes or social security and Medicare, but when you're doing a sole proprietorship, it becomes a big factor. So what forms must I file? So we're going to go through some of the forms. Obviously, we touched on this in a prior presentation when we've looked at all the different changes that happen to the tax return when we just add a Schedule C, right? We got the Schedule C that's going to be on there, and then we also have the self-employment tax. We've got the Schedule 1 and so on and so forth worksheets that are going to be included. We'll try to touch on those as we go through some of the other options with relation to a sole proprietorship. And of course, if you want to look at this and jump to these questions in the publication, you can see Chapter 1 and the other question, what kind of federal taxes that's in Chapter 1. So what must I do if I have employees? Note that as a sole proprietorship, you're saying that you have one owner. One owner generally owns a sole proprietorship. There could be an exception if you're a married couple and you're in a community property state and so on and so forth. But generally, when you're filing a Schedule C, you've got one owner of the business. If you start a hot dog stand, you don't incorporate it. You just start earning money. Uncle Sam wants his percent of it. You're going to be a sole proprietorship at that point. Note that when you grow, then you have some options. You're saying, I need help here. How am I going to have that help? Am I going to hire employees? Am I going to pay contractors? Or am I going to take on partners? And those are some questions that you've got to think about. And what are they going to be the consequences of those decisions? If you take on a partner, then you're not generally a sole proprietorship anymore, but a partnership and you're going to have to file a partnership return from a tax perspective. And it also takes on more liability. You want to make sure your partnership agreement is worked out well between the partners. If you have a contractor, you want to make sure that they qualify as a contractor and not as an employee. Otherwise, the IRS could get upset and call them an employee and then get you in trouble that way. You have less control over a contractor, but it's an easier system to set up. And then payroll, if they're an employee, then you don't have the situation where they have revenue splitting and you still have control, a lot more control in that situation. But the IRS is going to require other stuff of you, such as the reporting of the W2s, the withholding of the payroll taxes and all that kind of stuff, which is quite burdensome. So you want to make sure that you consider that. It's also a little bit confusing to think about the difference between paying other employees as a sole proprietorship and the fact that the government kind of treats you as a sole proprietorship as an employee of your own business, not because you have to issue yourself a W2, but because the net income that you have from the business is being subject to the equivalent of payroll taxes, that being social security and Medicare and the form of self-employment taxes. So that kind of confuses what it means to be an employee sometimes when we're thinking about a sole proprietorship. We'll talk more about that in chapter one. Do I have to, or you can look it up in chapter one. We'll discuss it more as we go through our presentations. Do I have to start my tax year in January or can I start it in any other month? Now, note when you're starting a business, oftentimes the calendar year is the default that people think of what their business cycle is going to be. Obviously, for individual tax returns, they are typically due by April 15th, but sometimes you might want a different year that will be lined up to your natural year when your business cycle ends basically and that can be easier for just logistic purposes oftentimes. But because you're a sole proprietorship and you're reporting on a schedule C, you might have some limitations in terms of can I have some calendar year that's going to be or a fiscal year for taxes that's different than the calendar year. So we'll talk a little bit more about that in chapter two where you can look it up in chapter two. We'll probably touch on it in our discussions as well.


The Eisenhower and his deputy commanders chart the liberation of a lost continent. Plan when and where the mighty armies of the United Nations will strike. Today, northern France is that battleground. Into the building of their defense system, the so-called West Wall, the Nazis poured the slave labor of conquered nations. Pictures made by the Germans themselves to impress their satellites with the strength and invincibility of their fortifications. In placements, four years in the making, the Germans have amassed every known weapon of defense. Whether those weapons are enough to stop the Allied onslaught will be proven in the struggle that lies ahead. Other side of the channel, Britain and armed camp bristling with tanks and trucks and guns from the United States and Canada. Here is the fruition of four years of planning and production. Here is a glimpse of England as the Allied armies awaited D-Day and tank cars to replace rolling stock destroyed by the Germans. All this and more is included in the gigantic preparation for invasion. Here is something of the gigantic naval armada assembled to transport the Allied armies across the English Channel. Here is something of the ingenuity of Allied engineers. Assault boats and invasion barges launched directly from the decks of the ships that brought them to England. Steel ships of every description. Ships expressly designed and constructed for the mission upon which soon they were to embark. To chance, every loading operation was rehearsed and timed in advance. Every soldier knew his station. Every man knew just where he was to fit into the gigantic pattern. Daily they boarded their ships for all they knew they were bound for France or Belgium or wherever their commanders had decided to strike. Every jeep, every tank, every piece of mobile equipment was assigned its place in the grand strategy of attack. In 1444, just as you see them here, a fleet of more than 4,000 ships put out from England. This was D-Day, fourth anniversary of the Battle of Dunkirk and the Allied armies were striking back. As underway, squadrons of bombers and transports led the way, more than 11,000 planes spearheading the attack. Paratroopers landed in Normandy behind the coastal defenses. Landings made with timing and precision perfected only through scores of rehearsals like this. Proat shore ready for instant action. Some bearing artillery and rocket missiles already open us as in these scenes, the armies of the United Nations have made their first landings on the soil of Western Europe. Another of the great decisive battles of world history has been joined. This is the day for which free people long have waited. This is D-Day.


Say his name. Say his name. He died at the hands of a racist or precious government in a place where there was two sets of laws One for the haves and one for the have nots. So say his name You better not forget his name You better not forget how he died beating and having his life just leave his body in excruciating way while others just stood around just looked they killed the wrong one though His death is gonna start a movement It's gonna change the whole world You're gonna know his name So you might as well say his name Say his name Jesus


Hi, I'm Cindy Kang, I'm Associate Curator at the Barnes Foundation, and in celebration of Women's History Month, I wanted to take a look at a French artist, Marie-Lan Saint, who was active in the first half of the 20th century, but she's not very well known, though she's getting more and more attention these days because she was actually much more complex than meets the eye. So, Lan Saint ran in the male-dominated circles of Cubist artists and modern writers in Paris. She was friends with Brock, with Picasso, with Frances Picabia, and for several years she was in a relationship with the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. But despite this group of friends, she generally didn't paint in a discernibly Cubist style. She instead developed her own signature style of elongated stylized forms and her signature motif of this willowy ethereal woman child who inhabited an almost exclusively female world, as you can see here. This painting at the Barnes, Woman with a Muff, shows a fashionably dressed woman. She has fur collar and fur cuffs, and she's holding a muff in one hand, and she's adjusting her pink ribboned hat with the other hand. And her elegant manner is very much accentuated through Lan Saint's use of elongated forms. Her neck, her fingers, her entire torso. And she is perhaps seated in a theater box, which is indicated by the parted curtain behind her. But she looks straight out at the viewer, coolly regarding us as if we are the spectacle. So Lan Saint was considered a quintessentially feminine artist of her time. So that was because she mostly painted women, and you can see how she painted these women to be ethereal also through her paint technique. So if we zoom in a little bit, you can see how thinly she laid the paint down on the canvas. There's a very thin ground layer, and these very almost transparent washes on top. So it gives this canvas, again, this very ethereal quality. And actually, if we can scroll up, if I can get to that corner, very interestingly here, you see that she's got her initials here. There's ML kind of in cursive here, and then ML again underneath. I'm not really sure what that's about, but that's definitely worth more investigation because she also, of course, signed it here on the lower left. So in any case, there's the subject of women, there's this very thin paint technique, and there's also her pastel palette, these blues and pinks that are very much related to 18th century French painting or Rococo art. And this era in French history is very much associated with the feminine, with patrons like Madame de Pompadour, with the decorative arts. And Lan Saint actually did begin her artistic training as a porcelain painter at Sevre, which was the location of the national manufacturing for ceramics. And then she moved on to flower painting. She trained in flower painting before she decided to go in a little bit of a different direction. And she enrolled at an independent art academy in Paris called the Académie Umbér in 1903. And that is where she met Brock. And that is where she began to fall in with these young modern artists of her time. So she fell in with this group of Cubist artists, and she worked on them or worked with them on a very ambitious project called the Maison Cubiste or the Cubist home, which was exhibited at the Autumn Salon in Paris in 1912. And to this model home in the Cubist style, she contributed four oval portraits of heads of young women that are very much like the Barnes painting that we're looking at. And they crowned full length mirrors in a model living room. So Lausse certainly provided an overtly feminine counterpart to her male Cubist friends. But she was actually far more complex as an artist and as a person than the quote unquote girl in the group painting like pink ribbons. First of all, she was in fact probably of mixed heritage. Her mother was apparently Creole, and her father who was not married to her mother was a French politician who paid for her schooling and her upbringing but was really not present in her daily life as a positive father figure. So I wonder how much of her experience as this participant and yet outsider of middle class society contributed to the way she created her own vision and her own path for herself in her art. And it was through her art that she created very much an alternate feminine universe, this kind of feminine space that was actually related to a whole sapphic, we call it or lesbian subculture that blossomed in 1920s Paris. So Lausse, who had both male and female lovers, was not only part of the male-dominated Cubist circles, but she was also part of this lesbian literary set that centered around the salon of writer Natalie Clifford Barney who was American expatriate who lived in Paris. So in any case, Lausse's work is very much ripe for new investigation, and I hope you will take a look at her here at the Barnes or elsewhere as we honor Women's History Month. So thank you and see you next time. I'm Tom Collins, Newbauer Family Executive Director of the Barnes Foundation. I hope you enjoyed Barnes Takeout. Subscribe and make sure your post notifications are on to get daily servings of art. Thanks for watching and for your support of the Barnes Foundation.


So could you take us back To your early years and and and tell us how you got to the United States where did you grow up and Explain the situation your family found itself in and what propelled you north well I grew up in a small town outside of Mexicali Baja, California the peninsula maybe about 60 80 kilometers down from the border between Mexicali and Calexico I Start working on a small gas station that my parents Had when I was five years old they own the station they own the gas station It's more right way outside of the city limits, and then we have the sort of an economic crisis And the meat to late 70s the devaluation Evaluation of the Mexican peso that went from you know two Pesos per dollar all the way up to 23 and eventually 200 pesos per dollar And then we lost everything and as you know not only Mexico was going through a crisis the United States by 1983 1986 was going through a crisis So there was a bifurcation of classes, and then that got exacerbated we ended up losing the little bit we had and I saw myself in a predicament even at a very early age of not seeing Food on our table how old were you I was by this time I was about nine ten years old, and I remember my uncles used to be Well they called Bracero they used to come to the United States and work for a certain amount of time during the season and then Bring back food for us, and I as I look back and I write about this on my book Probably the seed the DNA my DNA was beginning to change right there and then and maybe the idea of One day me coming up north just to put to be able to put food on the table for my parents and siblings was born So the DNA began with the change began with watching your uncles cross the border I would assume that the border was Sort of a fundamental part of the of the conversation and the culture in Mexicali and in the town that you grew up because of Your proximity was there a lot of flow of people across the border? You're your uncle yes, absolutely I mean that was that's how I grew up hearing about stories of my uncles and older cousins Coming to the United States to make a living and that got exacerbated as the economy got worse So that was part of the normal conversation Although we also if one of my mom's brothers died in that journey around that time actually in the 70s So we knew it was a dangerous journey even back then in the late 70s early 80s It was already getting a little bit more complex So it was not as easy as it would have been 20 years prior to come to the United States What were we never never knew obviously, but he just he left when he was 19 years old incidentally the same age I had in 1987 when I first came to the States and he never came back and the people that Traveled with him that said that he got into a situation right in the desert and they never found them So what what kind of conversation was happening around your your kitchen table as you began to approach this decisive moment where you?  I think that the conversation is very simple There are no jobs There is no food we got to do something, you know, and I Wish, you know, most people think that you know, I came to the United States You know and I've been blessed by some of the most wonderful Things at this country the American dream can give you incredible education from Berkeley to Harvard now at Hopkins You know about to become a full professor within six years, you know So I accelerated through the process and most people think that I you know I wanted this in my life and the truth is that I found myself in necessity and when I first came to the United States I thought I was just gonna come here make enough money and go back to my country But then I realized that the situation wasn't changing that not nothing was changing back in my country and I at one point back into 1989-1990 I decided that I wanted to stay in the United States looking back into the experiences that my uncles had so did you have brothers and sisters? Yes, did any of them? Yes by this time This is 1987 1988. I Realized that my parents were suffering back in Mexico even though I was sending money So we arranged for them to come to the United States with my younger siblings, right? Okay, let's go back though So you you made the decision to go how what was your route? What did you what route did you take? How did you get into the country? I literally just have defense What what I was 19 years old right between Mexicali and Calexico just like spider-man were you on your own? Were you with the group by myself? I couldn't have a time nighttime. I couldn't afford to to actually pay For what was called a smuggler or a coyote that's 600 bucks, and I only had 63 bucks in my pocket You know so I figure that if I can have defense and somehow around the time It was a little bit different you could actually go to San Diego and Potentially catch a flight between San Diego and LA and for those who understand the border They realize that you bypassed the checkpoints and highway five and that's exactly what I did So I had two dollars and several cents left when I landed in LAX And what did it feel like to jump the fence? I was a very decisive moment I mean the first time that I did it. I was young I didn't really know what I was doing.  I Had a choice to make I was either gonna give up or try it again And I tried it a second time and as you can see because of my journey I rarely make the same mistakes twice. What did you do differently the second I started the situation I went back and I lay down on the floor of the border and I started started the pattern I wish the highway patrol was passing by same night same night same time window They literally caught you the first time and tossed you across the border It was just a kid, you know for them. It was just another kid trying to have the fence You know and they did it and I came back and I the second time I was successful So you said earlier when you came to the country when you first came you thought you would work for a little while And then return to Mexico what happened? Well, I Start working on the fields, you know in the tomato in California in California The San Joaquin Valley, which is a beautiful valley and I was so Happy to have a job and to be able to just win make three dollars and 15 cents an hour at the time and you know picking tomatoes and doing all this kind of stuff and immediately I ascended within this Farm labor within a year. I was driving the most Sophisticated machine or you can possibly imagine which is quite interesting Kirk because they spotted a smart guy Super ambitious and ambitious I think I'm not quite sure that I Considered myself brighter than anybody else in this room or anywhere else But I can tell that I have that passion in my belly and I always had that passion for life And I enjoy every single thing that I have done in my life No matter how menial it has been I enjoyed I truly did and I ascended and within a year I was driving this tomato picker that it was like sitting like an astronaut chair Which is incredible because that's what I do today in the operating room I control when I operate I connect to my patient and I control everything with my feet hands I operate in the brain I take out brain tumors except that I also have a microscope that is connected to my mouth in My head and I can move the whole thing as I'm doing surgery just a little bit a step above of what I was doing The stakes are a little bit higher How much education had you had in Mexico I was an elementary school teacher, okay So you graduated from high school Equivalent to high school at the time it had changed since then at the time you could actually get an accelerated take a special Exams and get accelerated to become an elementary school teacher. So I was 18 when I was teaching Sixth graders and then when you're in California, where did you how did you make that transition from the Fields to the classroom? He was this is by 1988 You know, I talk about this in my book you were how old I was about this time I was 19 okay going on 20 and I realized I told one of my cousins It was the first year it was in the first within the first year within the first one month I told one of my cousins, you know, I Think I love to learn English, you know go to school and he looked at me and he says What are you talking about? This is your future just like everybody else in the field You can spend the rest of your life working as a migrant farm worker and nothing wrong about being a migrant farm worker once again I love working with my hands. I'm doing the same thing that nowadays But I felt that they had to be something else beyond that and that's when I made the choice one night And a very famous night I literally wouldn't put myself to sleep crying thinking about what I was doing here You know, my family was struggling my siblings were struggling and I decided to leave the fields and I went on to a Small town and stuck in California where I started once again at the bottom But this time I began to learn English in community college. So you stopped working or did you know? I continue working, but what happened is this is around the same immigration reform of California Which was that with the Reagan administration with the amnesty. So, California gave me a working authorization I paid a certain amount of money. I don't remember it was several thousand dollars I got a working authorization To be able to work legally I couldn't cross the border back and that's a if you work and you pay your taxes and you're a outstanding citizen this Little red card eventually will become a temporary green card Eventually a green card and by the time I was a Harvard Medical School. I became a US citizen That was my trajectory. So get us to Harvard Medical School from this community college This was the San Joaquin San Joaquin Delta College and then you studied there and then you made your way to Berkeley as I recall. Yes, Berkeley was It was amazing. This is around the time. This is 1991 to 1994. What was the how what was the transition? It's so I mean You've already indicated you had mentors. Was it a mentor who got you to Berkeley? It was a I found a lot of mentors people say you should apply to college and I said what do you mean? I am a community college. I said no. No, this is beyond that. You got to go to university a four-year university So I applied I mean a lot of people say how do you get to Berkeley and how do you got to Harvard? And I said well the moment you apply your chances just go up really they really do you'd be surprised So I did I applied and I you know I got a combination of good luck good mentorship vision being able to do well in your exams Everything comes together and I was like remember when I interviewed for Harvard Medical School sitting by the time at this point I had long hair had a long ponytail and I remember they came to you know, we all did we all did I was in the room. This is 91 94 that we had Andrew Martinez who was walking around naked. I used to Berkeley I didn't but he was and so it was an incredible time and I had a just a connection With this institution not only Berkeley, but also the Harvard Medical School So they the trajectory was I mean I can't say that it was easy I mean people tease me now this because they asked me if Harvard Medical School was difficult and I say You know compared to being a migrant farm worker. I knew exactly what I needed to do I just needed to get up every day at four in the morning, which is no different than what I do today today I get up every day I get up seven days a week I get up a four day four o'clock in the morning go to bed at midnight every single day 365 days a year and Continually and I done that since I was a little four hours of sleep a night more or less It's unfair and you know more or less more less and sometimes less You know it's under someone call all night. I mean that's you know I think it was why but it's not like I would get up in the morning and I'm not tired I'm tired just like everybody else in a 4 a.m. The alarm was off and I'm going like this I'm tired just like everybody else But I still have that desire to make a difference in this country, right?  It takes energy. It takes drive ambition Determined, you know tremendous self-confidence. I mean what what drives you well I would say it takes all those things But it also takes a wonderful country and I still think that what I have been able to do here in the United States I don't think I would have been able to do it anywhere else and we know we argue and we say You know sometimes we say well, it's not ideal But I still think that we have a beautiful country in it and a ground that is fertile for people who want to succeed And no matter how difficult we make it or not people who want to succeed in this country They will it may take instead of 10 years that it took me to get to harbor Maybe if I would come today, it would take me 20 or 30. Why is that? Well, because I think the atmosphere is changed, you know when I first came in the 1980s this country say come over We welcome you work in the fields. No problem. We want you we need you in nowadays.  There's a lot of negativity a lot of you know sort of Difficult time that the country is going through and I think that the first thing that we do is we look around and say Who can we blame? You know, but I think it takes that that particular drive all those things that you mentioned plus a wonderful fertile ground I think the ground was probably more fertile in the 1980s at least for me the way I see it today would be much more challenging So to go back to I mean what is driving you and how much did being Coming from fairly desperate circumstances with you where you were concerned about actually Having food on the table How much has that did that drive you? I imagine it did initially how much has it continued to drive you? I would say that it drives me every day I still think of myself as that little kid that you'll see in the back of my book You know people always tease me because there's a picture of me where my head is as big as my shoulders And now as a brain surgeon I can tell you that I do not have water in the brain is called hydrocephalus Although my friends at Hopkins they tease me about that I am the same kid with the same ambitions and I define my goals You know right now my goal is very simple even though it's very complex I want to find a cure for brain cancer and I have dedicated my life Since I was a medical student in a resident to find a cure for brain cancer And that's what I wake up every single day. Why because my patients our country is going through a desperate time Do we have time for some questions? No, no no time for questions. Okay, well you asked all the questions already. So I have kind of I apologize I could talk to dr. Q all afternoon long I just want to ask one question. Are you engaged at all in in any sort of political advocacy or in on in the issue of immigration I You know I I have gotten more involved especially the last two years I wanted to secure a position it took me six years to be promoted to full professor Hopkins Which in my department the only other person who's taken 12 years as my chairman so I accelerated all them all always Takes about 18 years So I wanted to secure a position where I was a full professor at Hopkins And that's when I published my book this year and I have gotten more involved and I realized that if we don't do Something to change the current atmosphere and to change the discussion. We won't be able to move forward. Thank you Dr. Canionist. Thank you very much


Because I have been the team's biggest skeptic, I was kind of prepared of finding just a stone. For me it has been an amazing experience, I must say. The team were completely dwarfed by the mysterious object, which is about 60 meters in diameter and lying almost 80 meters down on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. There are visible formations on top of the object which are set at a 90 degree angle and look like passageways or walls, as well as something that looks like it could be a staircase. The Baltic Sea anomaly is an anomaly in the best sense of the term. It is a 70 meter long object with numerous sharp edges and right angles prevalent throughout its structure with a set of stairs on one side as if deployed from its shape and left to ruin. Sonar has also found drag marks behind the object. Samples have confirmed it is made of metal. Geologist Steve Weiner said that according to his tests, the object was not a geological formation, suggesting that the structure was in fact made from metals which nature could not reproduce itself. Electrical equipment also has mysterious issues when near to the anomaly. Professional diver. Stefan Hageborn, part of the OceanX team said, anything electric out there and the satellite phone as well, stopped working when we were above the object, then when we got away about 200 meters, it turned on again. Lindbergh isn't convinced that the object is actually an ET spacecraft. In response to one question about what the object might be, Lindbergh responded, I think it is very odd in its shape. It is tough to give an explanation as to what it might be exactly since different scientists had many different theories. Whatever it is, it is something we do not usually find in nature. Sitting in the dark cold depths of the Baltic Sea, it is thought to be over 140,000 years old. OceanX is currently investigating the object. I will keep you updated. The Sea of Galilee Although not a real sea, it has remained named as such due to the staunch traditions, mainly religious which have grown and flourished from around its shores. The first century historian, Flavius Josephus, for example, was so impressed by the areas surrounding the Sea of Galilee, he once wrote, quote, One may call this place the ambition of nature. Reporting a thriving fishing industry around the lake with well over 200 boats regularly working the waters, archaeologists have since discovered only one such fishing vessel found in 1986. It has been nicknamed the Jesus boat. According to Christian religion, much of the ministry of Jesus Christ himself actually occurred upon the shores of the Sea of Galilee. And a recent discovery within the waters themselves has continued to perplex specialists within the area. Astounding all who have been exploring said discovery in ways an estimated 60,000 tons according to researchers. An astonishing size, making it much heavier than any of our modern day warships. Rising nearly 32 feet out of the ancient seas sediment, it also has a diameter of about 230 feet. Stonehenge, for example, which is an impressive ancient structure in its own right, has an outer stone circle diameter of only half that. First discovered in 2003 using sonar exploration of the southwest portion of the sea, divers have since been down to investigate the presumably ancient structure, writing regarding their finds within the latest issue of International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Researcher Yitzhak Paz, antiquities authority, and Ben Gurion University believes it could date back more than 4,000 years. Quote, the more logical possibility is that it belongs to the 3rd millennium BC, because there are other megalithic phenomena from that time that are found close by. Paz told LiveScience.com in an interview, noting that those sites are associated with fortified settlements. Could it be that this is where the peoples of Bette, Europe buried and honored their dead? Is this a proverbial city of the dead, or something else entirely? As more research is undertaken, it is only a matter of time before we understand this amazing structure for what it truly once was. We will of course keep you posted. Thanks for watching guys, and until next time, take care. In 1996, Italian mineralogist Vincenzo di Michele spotted an unusual yellow-green gem within one of Tutankhamen's necklaces. The jewel was tested and found to be made of a type of glass known as Libyan Desert Glass. The interesting thing regarding this, however, is its origins. To this day, no one seems to be able to explain how it formed, no trace of a crater has ever been discovered. An ancient meteorite, or indeed outer space object, scorching across the skies of Egypt, is the basis for many religious teachings within this once amazing ancient civilization. They associated the objects and the flaming tails during such events with that of a phoenix, and the collected items, presumably nearly always meteorites, were then hammered down into wares. Nine small beads, stored at the University College London's Petrie Museum, dated to around 3200 BC, were found in necklaces along with exotic terrestrial minerals such as lapis lazuli, agate, and gold. They are some of the earliest iron artifacts ever found, and archaeologists have confirmed that they came from outer space. Meteoric iron is much harder and more brittle than copper. They were rolled and hammered into shape. This is a very different technology from the usual stone bead drilling, and shows quite an advanced understanding, showing the metalsmiths know exactly how to work this rather difficult material, said Thilo Rarin, a University College London professor of archaeology. When American geophysicist John Wasson was consulted regarding King Tut's strange gem, he curiously linked the event with one within an extremely remote forest of Siberia, an event we have covered before. When the thought came to me that this required a hot sky, I thought immediately of the Tunguska event, he told Horizon. In 1908, a massive explosion flattened 80 million trees in Tunguska, Siberia, and whatever landed there over a century ago is still there, and it kills any living organism which settles above it. And what is most interesting surrounding all of this is the ancient Egyptian accounts of what they did with a rather peculiar, rather special type of object that was, at one point, retrieved from the glassy sands of Libya, a particularly different object which they called a phoenix egg, that hieroglyph state was secreted away within a secret chamber deep within the Great Pyramid. We have covered before the hypothesis that these stories etched in hieroglyphics may be far older than the Egyptian culture which may have preceded it. Yet the question is clear. What could this phoenix egg be? Guatemala littered with ancient wonders, temples which pierce its dense canopy, all once declared as separate structures. Modern technology, however, has shown that these structures, mostly now submerged by dense undergrowth, was once one huge mega metropolis, with Tikal in particular also once containing a plaque displaying a great deluge, with the site submerged in what is depicted as a cataclysm, with a volcanic eruption also in the background of said image. With mysterious megaliths still found litteraling the foliage, one site in particular it would seem evaded destruction, and the subsequent rainforests creeping grip which has consumed much of this enormous ancient site. Known as Kirigua, it remains virtually untouched. Yet the most intriguing thing regarding this site, apart from its superb preservation, are the enigmatic stone carvings not only found at the site but throughout the jungle itself. Statues and megaliths, presumably often depicting queens and kings in strained contraptions, seemingly familiar in form to modern vehicles or the interiors of an aircraft. Once claimed as mere signposts, the sheer abundance of these mystifying tributes, however, now makes this explanation unlikely, for even if merely artistically inspired, what do they depict? Why would an ancient civilization show such passion in casting these particular looking technological devices into massive stones all over the Guatemala rainforest? With Kirigua thankfully so well preserved, we can explore a number of these baffling carved megaliths in detail. Were they trying to tell future generations something? Did they find something crashed within the forest, possibly documenting a find and proposed purposes upon these stones? Did they witness a form of craft take to the air and seemingly into the heavens? Could this have been the inspiration for why leaders of these tribes would want to be immortalized in carved, similar appearing machines in the hope of eternal life or indeed a craft capable of transporting them into the heavens? Vast questions still surround this ancient civilization's knowledge, one now known to have been over 10 million strong. Did this enormous, once incredibly powerful ancient civilization get visited by beings from another planet? Possibly found a crashed craft? One they attempted to depict a reverse engineering of? The fact that many depict what modern man would perceive as complex craft concepts, many find highly intriguing. We also find these massive stone megaliths, the efforts undoubtedly applied to create them, their source inspiration and indeed the images they depict by a civilization we now know were undeniably advanced and extremely ancient, once lost for millennia and only now being rediscovered highly compelling. I was kind of prepared of finding just a stone. For me it has been an amazing experience, I must say.


orward an idea at a recent meeting With me to work together and jointly fund a strategic planning Exercise that would engage an outside consultant to help help facilitate this effort So that would cover the Number of things to give bring some clarity on The public safety stressors if you will that we talked about or Housing and other other issues and that how can we work most effectively town and gown? So I've expressed to him my openness of that and the notion of working together and jointly funding Such an effort so you can expect to see a specific proposal in the next couple of weeks Also going down working down the list that's in the packet number 31 rental regulations That's the safe and healthy neighborhood work group. My intention is to Take those recommendations and then offer offer recommendations to the select board for possible inclusion on the war And then at the very bottom of the list are a series of petition articles one zoning related article and Nine citizen petitions for a variety of things. I know during the month of April will be Scheduling time with with the select board to review each of those Thank you. I'll just know which number is it General number 39 by law nuisance house select board I'm not sure if that's gonna happen around this is the one we've been talking about for a couple of weeks now I was working with a citizen to try and do this the citizen did put forth their petition Which is number 43? I Think that they actually left out a part that was important to the select board And I think they did it inadvertently and I'm not sure if we're able to fix that at this point Or if it's kind of too late for that So I haven't been able to give that enough time to kind of work that through yet But um that that would only be sort of a catch-up to to deal with what the citizen petition I believe has has overlooked so we'll see how that goes Questions or comments about the the list as it is Mr. Hayden, I'm Sort of noticing that they're 49 and maybe only 48 articles in the end Which reminds me of why and we're such a great place to be really is very diverse the number of issues that are addressed in this are What the exercise that I was trying to do with it was to figure out where the consent calendar would be which ones of these could be lumped together in a consent because that was something we mentioned as An idea for town meeting and I Really can't find that many maybe the easements, but So there they're six or seven that we could lump together, but everything else not even the not even the budget issues can really Be clumped together. I do know mr. Pistrang Who's the only person running for the moderator position this year is thinking a lot about the consent calendar So that is something that hasn't been used for a number of years, but he is going to look to pursue that I'm not sure what he's decided But he's he's definitely thinking about it So let's encourage him on that. Yes indeed Mr.. Do we know yet? It's a two-part question. I guess do we know yet if town council who you know, obviously does lots and lots of things for us Has been able to at least give these enough of an overview that we know these are going forward. It's too soon Isn't it the petition articles? Yeah, they all have to go forward They go forward whether or not they've received the minimum number of required citizen citizen signatures They are at town council Now and he's actively reviewing those We end up putting them on the warrant, but then we sometimes have to dismiss them because they're just not viable, right? So that that's what his recommendation right as to form. We'll have that prior to the 8th of April But everything will have to just I don't want any citizens to think that their stuff might not end up on the warrant It will because it has to Whether or not there's a recommendation that is in fact viable and can go forward. We'll know we're closer to town meeting Yes, thank you I didn't mean to mean that town council was the gatekeeper because I wouldn't want that to be true either And the rental housing info by-law petition. I actually haven't read but I'm wondering if that reflects I'm showing my ignorance, but I'm going to go ahead and wonder if that reflects back to The long-time by-law we have that says how we send out this book about landlord tenant regulation because I know that came up Associated with early work of safe and healthy neighborhoods I'm assuming that when a by-law that currently my point to bringing this up is that our current by-law says we pass out This but we don't pass out this book So well, I don't know what this petition article says we obviously are gonna have a new by-law That's gonna have information that talks about which is going to be incredibly useful for people I guess I would just like Town council at some point to mention as an aside to us When it's a simple thing like that like we're gonna pass out a book and then we don't do it I mean it would be nice to clean up our by-laws and get rid of that, but it doesn't it doesn't matter I mean like like how to describe to people like yes, we don't do that anymore Yes, we haven't gotten around to asking town meeting to take it off the books But that doesn't mean like somebody's in trouble or something. It's just an old thing that hangs there And I don't know I mean just one of those things nobody ever gets around to fixing because we got way too many other things to do All right anything else on Tell me more an article so I did send an email to select for scheduling purposes that we had talked about that April 16th meeting being just if If we had to meet at that point We didn't know what the warrant was gonna look like now that we have practically 50 articles like that's necessary There's no way to fit. I mean this is gonna be essentially, you know, 12 articles per night roughly. Obviously, it's not exactly how it will work out But um, but regrettably we need to meet all those meets meetings in April All right, mr. Musanti. Yes, I want to make a couple of staff recognitions First Vera West Davis who has worked for the town for the past 30 years including the last 23 years in the fire department as Administrative assistant in the fire chief's office. She's retiring March 29th And I just want to thank her for her many many years of dedicated service Chief Nelson has described her as a Quote constant who's provided support to three different fire chiefs and Describes her as dedicated to the work of Amherst firefighters and the department and I want to wish Vera well in her retirement Secondly Wanted to tell you in a public setting I am Have Decided to transfer Debbie Gordon one of the administrative assistants in my office to the fire department to fill the position that was held by Vera West Davis Debbie Gordon Provides a lot of Administrative skill people skills and will be a real asset real critical Part of the fire department team, and I think it's a great opportunity for her she's excited about it and Debbie has been very very helpful to all of us and particularly so to me during Long time ago now when I was newly appointed as town manager we're going through a number of transitions and Debbie Debbie has done great work, and I think she has a long career ahead of her with the town and wish her well In the fire department the third one Susan weight our DPW's solid waste and recycling coordinator Recently received an award In celebration of women award from the Amherst League of Women Voters It's an award given annually To mark International Women's Day. It's really related to community service and Susan was recognized for her excellent work on things like developing and doing the educational outreach and researching and coming up with a proposal that Passed either unanimously or almost unanimously at the Amherst town meeting on the polystyrene band a real forward-thinking environmental initiative and she's done is continuing to do excellent work on Refuse management committee as we look at Reducing our waste stream short-term long-term, and so it's great to see her recognized by the League of Women Voters Could just pause to note that Debbie Gordon has been such a terrific resource to the select board She has as you noted been the been the constant through the big transition and the town manager's office She's such a huge help with licensing with stuff that has to do with committee work She is just she's a lovely person. She's a helpful person and We'll miss her, but we're very excited for her new opportunity Mr.. I'll leave a hole I just wanted to add that oh, yeah, we're gonna fill that Yes, we are we've begun the recruitment process and You know we're we're going to try to attract top tier candidates and I intend to fill ASAP Again reiterating everything you said about Debbie's importance not only daily But also during the transition their last town manager has been critical and I'm thrilled that she's still staying with the town You know if like if we have to lose her at least we're losing you're doing other part of town. So that's excellent One of the things that's always fascinating just fascinating everybody in the world I want you to know about select board work is separating the process from the people and One of the things that is really important to me based on previous town managers Perhaps versus current town manager is I think it would be valuable for the select board Which does depend a lot on staff in the select board slash town manager office to see the job descriptions For Debra Russel as your assistant and for Debbie Because there's been a number of transitions in the way those positions were laid out through the last transition from the town manager And I think it's just important for the public to understand You know what these people do and for us to understand and we all work together Marvelously and I don't think we tax people unnecessarily etc. But because they're under the select board budget to a point I think it's It's appropriate for us to know what those job descriptions look like more so than necessarily for 99% of the rest of our wonderful No, I'm happy to happy to share those with you and you can imagine that that's a pretty Encompassing yeah all kinds of stuff from you know the day-to-day kind of real administrative work to a lot of the constituent services and things like that that people regularly Come to my office or seeking Action from the select board, etc. So Mr. Heaton, I just want to add my appreciation of the Vera service She was the second person that I met when I Came to join the service of the town Chief Hoyle was the first but I was before I was recruited up to join the call force way back when Appreciate her work 30 years of the town. That's pretty impressive. That's wonderful. We wish her well. Thank you and congratulations to Susan Next there is a A letter that's on your draft letter on your desk and is one in the signature folder this is related to Notice of intent received by the town from WD Coles Giving the town right of first refusal On a three parcels of land off of Henry Street and Flat Hills Road That's considered chapter 61 Land under that state statute the town Needs to be offered a right of first refusal refusal Within a hundred and twenty days of receipt so there are some issues technical issues with the Completeness of the notice that has been received and in consultation with town council Drafted a letter for the board signature since the request is to the select board to go to the property owner Identifying issues with the notice and there'd be that would give the opportunity for follow-up So that the hundred and twenty day Clock is not yet triggered Until that notice is considered complete and that letter would make make them aware and then be follow-up with Town staff and with town council and the property owner Thank you So this this item wasn't on the agenda as of last week the late last week The thought was that this letter might be able to come from the town manager and didn't involve the select board at all but as Mr. Musanti mentioned town council said that because the notice came to the select board the select board is supposed to respond with the letter So so town council has created the letter for us, and we just need to sign it Other questions or comments on that or anything else from Mr. Really quick especially in the interest of time. I want to mention five very quickly Recent or upcoming things March 11th. I was had a great time with a number of you Serving as a Celebrity waiter at the empty bowls event over at the pub in support of the emmer survival Center It was a very successful fundraiser I'm told for the emmer survival Center, and we had a lot of fun seeing a couple hundred towns people come out in support It was a good time Last week. I also had lunch Meeting with Loomis Community CEO David Scruggs and Applewood's Administrator Rob Claflin just getting updated on all things Applewood, and so that was very helpful As a Proud parent I attended the emmer's high school musical this past weekend, Oklahoma and there were Big audiences at both the matinee on Saturday and the evening show as I Went with various family and friends to the performances, and there's over a hundred and there's about 150 high school students who participated in all aspects of putting on that Production and it just underscored for me What a priority that the emmer's schools and the high school place on arts and Performing arts and John Bechthold and other staff over there just really a Very positive and successful program Just wanted to highlight that This Thursday, I'll be in an ICMA International City Management Association they call this the Northeast Regional Summit I won't be coming back with any peace treaties or anything like that, but it's a great professional development Opportunity and another chance to see colleagues from all over New England on Thursday So I'll have a report next time and then also a plug this coming Sunday March 24th at 2 o'clock The friends of the emmer's senior center are putting on their fourth annual emmer's follies show At Buckley recital hall at Emmer's College, and it's a big fundraiser for the friends of the senior center We hope to see you all there Questions or comments from Mr. Miesanti All right moving along then to member reports JCPC update Jim's turn break routine another at this time Again in the interest of time since I'm trying to summarize at least four hours of two meetings I won't go through everything, but basically we're done now hearing presentations from the different Budget units and we'll begin deliberations and priorities and actual numbers Starting this coming week on March 7th. We heard from the Department of Public Works Information technology and the information technology component of the schools Basically DPWs asked about nine hundred six thousand dollars, which I'm not mistaken. It's about is down from one and a half last year 500,000 is for road repair coming out of chapter 90. They were to state money that we get So technically it's not part of the capital budget in the sense It's a different it's a different funding source, but it's traditionally listed there So that's part of the the reckoning here and among the four or six thousand dollars remaining a large part That has to do with heavy equipment that's really in dire need of replacement Snowplows trucks road crews things like that so that's taking up a lot of its smaller pieces money for the DPW building Sidewalk money light relamping and things like that So but those are the big-ticket items and there might be some flexibility as I understand it with chapter 90 depending how these things work So sometimes they're broken down in in ways that allow us some kind of leeway Depending how things break down Figured to be speaking. I mean the budget not the trucks the trucks are broken already a lot of them Possibilities also from tree removal work there for safety issues Equipment has to keep limbs that might fall in buildings and power lines things like that So that's the pretty much the picture there Town IT coming off a very successful year. Mr. Piconas says back to our most successful The town has been pretty good about funding requests and basically what IT has been trying to do is to streamline and Make things more efficient in a sense of for example consolidating to fewer large units of equipment while remaining of Maintaining the same service level so for example getting rid of lots of little personal copiers and printers and things like that in putting in big ones That means they cost more and each one is more crucial, but it works out better for the whole another big project there The total we're talking about here is three hundred twenty forty six thousand dollars You know hundred twenty three thousand for infrastructure replacements computer units big tasks seventy thousand dollars to digitize documents They're now stored in the basement of town hall some of those we need to do for preservation some for regular access But they're also freeze up space So for example if we get those documents digitized We can take the loading machines out of this wonderful space here and put them down there And the documents will then be stored in North Amherst school basement where the survival center used to be so there's a lot of Trying to make more efficient use of space and things like that too Other expenses include some Wi-Fi upgrades Munis modules that software that runs the town He helps us keep track of inventory fleet and job applications Interesting thing repeated from last year, which was not granted at the time is thirty three thousand dollars for a hybrid vehicle I think people don't realize that we have a huge a large fleet of vehicle over a hundred hundred twenty something hundred twenty three I forget There's no dedicated vehicle for it and yet We have multiple buildings the FBI service the town hall the schools the library and so forth people have to use their private vehicles for that So we're asking for a hybrid or I should say it is asking for a hybrid JC PC hasn't determined And it might be funded under green communities So there's a good chance to save some money there or to get some money even it's part of our Green fleet incentives Again copiers plotters scanner for the big maps we produce for planning things like that no surprises Schools have a lot of money in $26,000 for copy replacements again one for each business unit trying to centralize there About a hundred ninety thousand dollars for company computing equipment Schools are moving more towards smaller and portable devices in part because the way we use computers is changing But also for example, we're getting rid of the paper MCAS But we don't have a single lab where we can put eighty hundred computers and the students have to take a test in the Same proctored space. So laptops and iPads tablets things like that make that more more flexible also School facilities. We've got $671,000 different kinds of priorities. So for example, there's only $5,000 for a special Ed van But that's the highest priority in a practical sense because as Mr. Honowitz says if the kids have to get to school On the other hand a different high priority actually marked very high Which is unusual is $150,000 for security part in light of Newtown and things like that They're very and you heard about this also with regard to the the world would you know the places with open floor plans Very technical things how doors can be locked or not locked What kind of access can be shut off to a floor or a section and so forth. So that's vital I know Mr. Mutant to work on that this past fall You heard about generators and so forth for the schools Miss Lane is things like that. I'm not you sorry. You're heard about boiler replacement Generators also which are partly a safety issue. They were there for backup and for emergencies. So those are essential kind of things Town facilities about $190,000 miscellaneous things town hall bang center North Amherst Live at North Amherst former school to rehab the basement to make it a document storage area Safety the months and library steps things like that. So that's pretty much where we are You know, they all they all sound important But each group is asked to prioritize and we're going to sort through and try to make what 275 thousand dollars in adjustments between now And the time we get to a town meeting Thank you. Miss Stein. Did you want to have anything? The only thing I think I didn't hear Jim say and he talks fast so I know where he's catching. I'm not going to walk out yet. No, it was good There was a possibility that the car for IT might be electric that this was Interesting option that mr. Pooler suggested we explore and so I thought that was different Right something high high energy efficiency that would fit the community but still green communities eligible, right? Thank you question the comments on the JCPC report. Miss Brewer I actually want to drag the town manager back into this and see if he wanted to give a two sentence Synopsis of the really great explanation gave to a member who was formerly select remember who was here earlier But a DAC member now who was asking us about you know When we do things of capital at the capital planning table Do we think about all the other things we're trying to do in town as well? And I know that's coming up before associated with historic preservation, for example Are we effectively comparing what might be funded under CPAC? And he was bringing in you know Are we really are we looking at our transition plan associated with disability access and the town manager had a really good answer for that? So I'm putting him on the spot now just to say briefly that the answer is yes We are trying to make sure we are staying aware of all of these things while we're doing this It isn't that people are just looking in a very narrow or you know We're just talking about copiers and pieces of equipment. We're looking at bigger issues as well Yeah, the answer is yes, but it can be better and made more clear to all of the staff and so one of the Suggestions I've made to Finance director Sandy pooler as we you know to continuously try to tweak We review projects is to look at that project request worksheet that we developed a number of years ago that for every single project There's a list of criteria and there's a section on there that talks about what are the Objectives that are achieved in individual requests could be anything from you know safety or energy efficiency or You know various things, but having one that's explicit right on that checkbox about you know furtherance of the disabilities access Plan and having so that can be more easily flagged At the staff level my level and at the JCPC level Other questions or comments on JCPC Then other liaison reports It's time. Well the slide board office got a call today from Senator Stan Rosenberg and the state They are interested in our flag and they wanted to know when it would be ready Because they are actually trying to finish up having one flag from every town or municipality, I should say in the state and Obviously, we are one of the last half dozen or maybe we are now the last However, I am happy to report that I should be able to pick up the flags on March 29th And therefore we should plan to have a formal presentation from the Rotary at the April 8th meeting So that they can present the flag that they have purchased for the State House to the town and Then we can make arrangements for having it hung at the State House So I thought that was pretty exciting since we now actually have a pick up date Okay Other than that, this is the week that the Japanese middle school students and the Japanese contingent come To visit and they will be here starting. I think it's Thursday So that's kind of a soggy sister a city committee has been working hard on planning the agenda for when they are here I did not get to well, I got to the Community Reading together event, which was the secret life the brief wondrous life of Oscar Wow And Juno Diaz the Pulitzer Prize winning author spoke on March 11th and the auditorium the Amherst Regional Middle School auditorium was Full and people were extremely interested and he was Lovely use very colorful language, but he was very I think impressed with the nature of the questions that our Amherst audience Provided for him. It was very delightful and then the Community Preservation Act Committee met on March 14th and Did the best they could with a limited amount of money that they had for all the projects I think what they came up with is is pretty good The historical Society is getting the 21,000 plus that they asked for for preserving the artifacts well including Emily Dickinson's dress Amherst media is getting 54,000 almost for preserving historical records Recordings that that they have of the town The Tiffany window Will be restored and put back in the Unitarian Church for the enjoyment of the town for $106,000. This is of course assuming that town meeting approves the Community Preservation Act Committee's recommendations 14,000 will go for the Jones Library roof repair The Brunel phase one property will cost a hundred and fifty six thousand Okay, then there's I'm missing I have an abbreviation and unfortunately I don't Gonna have to think for a minute what that's for but 125,000 will be the Community Preservation Act Committee Support for purchasing the rock farm, which is the five acres in South Amherst That almost got to be the site of 17 condos and instead five acres will be preserved They had to work very hard to be able to come up with Basically half a million dollars and this is the CPA's Abduction towards that the Department of You see our concert you see our thanks Is contributing a hundred thousand towards it because they did believe that preserving the vistas next to the rail trail what's worth doing and Then this year we're not going to they're not recommending funding for the North Common They think that could wait Another year to be further developed the master plan for the community field Which everybody agrees it's needed but that too they didn't feel they had the money for it and 80,000 for Habitat the house that would have been The one on strong street That we purchased the Hawthorne house. They didn't get the Release on Restoring that restoring that would be so expensive They can't afford to do it, but they don't have permission from the state yet to tear it down and build affordable housing So habitat can't move forward on that. So that's That's report. What was the thing that I was going to ask you about housing the housing authority That's not the one. I'm thinking because there was something that we went from 30 back up to 60,000 But other recreation Well, it isn't just a shade thing there's a leak It's an event and the and there's fencing that needs doing and so when they decided that they were going to do this they Moved increase the amount back up to the 60,000 that was requested the problem with the housing is that after Mr. Jessup studied it very carefully. He's not sure that CPA money can be used for the project that was brought forward which was for providing repairs to the kitchens Which are in very bad shape but because Those that housing Units those housing units were not purchased with CPA money. He doesn't think this is legal So what is happening at the moment? Is there's a request from town council to find out if we can do this But the feeling was that we were walking on a icy Nice It was a little bit insecure shall we say so the way they were able to spend all this money is going to be by bonding it bonding part of these projects and the only Problem with that everybody was ecstatic with the things we did approve. You could just feel the air Lighten when when the vote went the way it did The only issue is that every time you take more of the CPA money and put it Into bonds there's less to spend the following year and so It's kicking the can down the road a little bit because if there are equally good projects next year There's it's it's hard, but this is a good time to bond in terms of the interest rates So that's that's my big much more lengthy report than I wanted Sorry, thank you very much question of the comments from this thing, Mr. I'm sorry I will just ask Miss Stein to take back to the committee the CPA committee One little person's concern about the rock farm project Just in general, I mean, it's it's fascinating that DCR has decided that's worth preserving That's certainly not been high on our conservation list of anything to do And so it was in fact at one point considered a potentially viable place to build housing Since we don't really seem to want to build housing anywhere in town of any kind It's kind of irritating Something else good to conservation, but that's a whole nother I'm just saying that often when we have these proposals come to town meeting It's so obvious like we've been looking for this piece of green space to fit all together And then this all works so well and it's this great flow and but sometimes when people hand us money It's kind of foolish not to pursue it as well. So an interesting little juxtaposition we have there I would just ask the town manager to follow up with us later to let us know after this plays out with Whether or not the Amherst Housing Authority project can be done with the money because I'm concerned Because that was supposed to be matching money to block grant money block grant money We may or may not be getting and it's a huge project And if we don't get the block grant money or we don't and we certainly aren't gonna get enough block grant money to do all of it Without the CPA money, then are we do we consider using joint capital planning? But we have to do something. They just don't get anywhere near enough maintenance money from the various other sources and they apply for grants and yada yada But I mean when cabinets are falling off the wall and you don't have faults or get interrupters You kind of need to do these things at some point. So It's just wondering, you know, where who who's who's lap does it fall into next, you know After all these other attempts have been made to fund it. So that we want we can't just say, oh, well Then and just not do it. Okay. What will be the next late? So let's all I'm asking one. Thank you Other questions or comments from this night? All right next reports It's blue It's been really awesome I haven't gone to a bunch of meetings because all my life is now focused on the regionalization of elementary schools and I really don't want to talk about it You do have one big report you got to give us on that for Except we're having a meeting on Wednesday and things may change. So, yeah So we we were all leading up to this vote on March 9th Where we were going to decide what was going to be the thing we were going to continue to work on or were we going To continue to work on anything were we going to just say oh done with this walk away Where we're going to look at a pre-k to 12 system where we're going to look at keeping the 7 to 12 system while changing its school committee composition and adding on a pre-k to 6 and Lo and behold it was determined at that meeting that the only Progress we seem to be able to make was to have a three-town k-to-6 with Leverett, Pelham and Amherst students Barry Representatives indicating although they personally may have been very supportive of the process They did not feel the town was quite ready to be there yet This was of course very frustrating for many people at the table But that seemed to be where we ended up after four hours with a half-hour break in there at some point Since that happened there has apparently been another subcommittee another meeting of because you know We're all these four towns which each have three member boards and their three member board got together since then and is Rethinking their position and wondering if something has changed sufficient in their town that they could consider Asking for reconsideration on our at our next meeting our very next meeting which is Wednesday We would have met sooner had we had the opportunity, but you know, there's It's kind of hard to get 12 people together in the same place We worked really hard to have all of us there on the 9th not all of us can be there on Wednesday the 20th So similar to old arguments we've had in the past at town meeting, you know different set of people's here tonight You know, when do you reconsider when do you make these kinds of decisions? So it's super complicated and it's super frustrating and I don't have no idea what's gonna happen So yeah, so we thought we were gonna be moving forward with the three elementary schools working together But now we don't know what's gonna happen, but we know we'll be doing something so yeah, there's that Thank you for dealing with all of that That's been an amazing process Questions or comments from spur All right anything else from a spur No, that'll do the side of the table anyone Mr. Wolff Let's see I was gonna add to the CPAC, but it's late zone Historical Commission took up the question of the rezoning of Main Street lots, which are your article 40 on the warrant You know, this is let lots the corner of Gray Street and Main Street that we've counted proposed to purchase with CPA funds before it didn't work out The new proposed what mr. Gidera the owner is to rezone them from General residential to neighborhood business What he's gonna do is? That would allow him to build more densely So basically who built on one of the lots the corner lot rather than both of them and we create a building there that could house Amherst media a CTV So that's what's going there Historical Commission seemed sympathetic to the general intention in part because it leaves the one other lot open But don't take a position and that'll take place next month 28th the zoning Board of Appeals will take up the Historical Commission's response to the request about the 290 Lincoln barn demolition and Then design review board had interesting things not just the usual signs, which are always fast-tending and I enjoy very much But what I call the cash cow That's not its official name. Mr. Gates, who you know is working great clothes who owns the carriage shops and of course has been a great patron of the Sir of the homeless shelter through the Baptist Church Wants to erect there or to allow it to erect on this property a Large cow sculpture made of recycled metal by local artist Camille Peters about seven feet high and six feet long It would have every receptacle so people could deposit money inside Or they could have themselves pictured there and there'll be memorabilia you can purchase the idea being that Counterfeit cow productions is making a film about homelessness in a university town and the money Therefore raised would be a way of calling attention to the plight of the homeless and the poor and it sounds like a very interesting idea So there'll be a large metal cow kids can ride on it. You can ever sell photograph there. It'll be lighted at night and Coming coming soon to a carriage shop near you I Fascinating, thank you Questions or comments from Mr. World. There's a frog in Northampton. There can be a cow A rabbit's appear. We have to have something down there Okay, so for my reports We talked all about safe and healthy So campus and community coalition we pretty much cover that too. I will just mention One other thing I've got a document in the packet the second element of the document This is called some UMF spring community activities is the walk this way campaign which you might have read about in the newspaper also I told you the campus and community coalition was Organizing itself into work groups to deal with very specific problems for the spring So one of those groups is the the moving around group walking around group trying to deal with kind of the roving bands of kids who kind of migrate from place to place looking for some place to be and they cause a lot of Disruption in neighborhoods often so so this group is Working to get them to particularly the the very large crowds that are going back to Southwest to try and get them to take a particular Route and so they're going to be doing that by having a whole bunch of students and other volunteers and Electronic signs from the Amherst police department just trying to direct them. It's not it's not like requiring You know, there's not going to be you know We're not going to you know all join arms and prevent somebody from going down Fearing Street or whatever but you know No, phalanxes or whatever But encouraging, you know to folks to take a different route and they've kind of mapped out a route down Phillips Street that would take you through Into the UMass parking lot that comes out at the end of netting Street That actually that's the back of the parking lot at fronts on Mass Ave But you'd be kind of going through that that back part They'll have the baby Burke UMass food truck there to kind of entice And so it would be kind of taking a less disruptive route to to Southwest There we're looking for volunteers to assist in this effort. This is a 10 30 p.m. To 2 30 a.m. On three nights I will be there on both the Saturday nights April 13th and April 20th I'm skipping the Friday April 5th one because you know, we've got that Stan Rosenberg's municipal conference first thing Saturday morning I thought I don't want to be up until 2 30 and then go to that at 8 but anyway I strongly encourage you or anybody that you know, especially town folks I think it's a it's a good thing to get involved with if you can stand it I mean this is not for everybody I recognize that but but if you would be willing to do that then let me know and I think it'll be fun And I think I think it's a it's a nice way to show real responsiveness to neighborhood concerns over there As you probably read in the paper They're actually looking this will be something of a test to see if maybe this could be a route more for the future That would be more permanent that maybe would be marked as sort of a they called it the Minuteman trail So that they're just completely Brainstorming at this point, but but really thinking about what could be long-term solutions So we'll see how that goes. So anybody wants to take part. You just let me know The other thing that's on that list that's not actually related to campus and community coalition But it is student stuff related to spring This actually came out of a meeting that mr. Musanti and I had with the Greek representatives from the Greek community a couple of weeks ago maybe a month or so ago and Olivia pijanowski the president of the Pan-Hellenic Council emailed me to update Us on what they're doing So what the Pan-Hellenic Council, which is the sorority council and the Interfraternity Council have done is Organize a neighborhood cleanup that's going to start on Easter Sunday actually March 31st and then be every other Sunday in April and I've outlined on here the roads that they will cover there So they're basically going to clean all of the litter off the streets and sidewalks on Phillips nutting Lincoln North Pleasant from Mass Ave All the way to Amity Street. I mean that's all the way downtown Fearing Street from North Pleasant to Sunset and the residential side of Sunset have All of the different chapters have been assigned different quadrants of those places to clean up and and again So, you know, we we talk about kind of the the the negative impacts that too few of the students make Considering how we generalize about them. It's really such a such a small Small subset, but it's vast majorities of the students I don't cause any problems at all and more than that are looking to find solutions So the Greek community was really interested in trying to give back in a way that would be meaningful to the community So we talked about kind of the whole litter concept and they really liked that a lot they completely seized that and we'll run with it and and I think that They they should really be praised for that great effort and much appreciated and and we'll see how that goes so so thanks very much to Olivia Pijanowski from Pan Health Council and and all the Folks in the Greek system for what they're going to be doing those weekends. That should be tremendous And I think that's all I have to report on liaison stuff Open meeting a lot update. I hope you don't have it Yeah, whatever. There's there's a thing in here. You can go to it if you want She actually also issued some additional information associated with sunshine week Which usually there's big write-up about the newspaper. I'll see if there's anything of interest and let you know Thank you very much. You know chairs report chairs report. I have bad news. Sorry So last time I told you about advocacy letter. You said yes. Yes, right. Did that be great? Yeah, that really hasn't happened yet I apologize. So it's supposed to be two letters It's supposed to be like one to our legislators and one to the public and mr. We say I think now we're gonna work on communication points and everything It just that has not been that kind of a couple of weeks for that to happen But but we think it's not too late We're still gonna do it and and we're really sorry and if somebody would rather do it instead of us then you can The goal is to do it and so I do apologize for that not having been done yet So anyway, that's where it is this time. It's a good little select board member I called every single one of those people and left a message excellent excellent. Thank you All right, so that's all my stuff. Do we have other things? Yes, we still have more licenses I can make motions All right, so we are working with different versions of the motion sheet So let's just before you start reading them just say what they are and we'll make sure okay Well, we have a special liquor license for the a senior pub night We have a two at least at UMass All right, so why don't I do those two I Move that the select board approve a special wine and malt license for a cash bar for the senior pub night at The Amherst College teat campus center Thursday, March 28th 2013 from 6 p.m. To 1 a.m. Charles Thompson manager second I move that the select board approve a Special liquor license No, I'm sorry. I move that the select board approve special liquor license Applications for the University of Massachusetts for receptions to be held on the following events dates and times Judy Bardwell clerk top of the campus incorporated wine and malt April 20th 2013 5 p.m. To 7 p.m. Fine Arts Center atrium UMass Amherst all alcohol April 27th, 2013 6 p.m. To 12 p.m. Recreation Center UMass Amherst Second for the discussion. No favor say aye. All right, and I have two taxi licenses I move that the select board approve a new taxi driver license application for Peter Belden on behalf of the ambassador taxi company for the calendar year 2013 second Discussion no favor say aye. Aye. I move that the select board approve a new taxi driver license application for Russell a brusso on behalf of Aaron's transportation for the calendar year 2013 second Discussion no favor say aye. Hi, and then I have minutes which I've read shall I go ahead and approve them Are folks ready to approve the minutes tonight? We've got two sets of minutes Yes, no minutes Can we approve them? Yes, let's go this time. I move that the select board approve the minutes of February 11 2013 in February 2015-2013 as amended because I have some amendments Mr. Ian second thank you for the discussion all in favor say aye. Hi As amended or as amended As amended and here you can have the amendment Mr. Moussanti also has a yeah in your packet you have a citizen activity form from Robert Brooks an applicant Conservation Commission, and I would ask the select board to Move to confirm My appointment of him to the Conservation Commission for a term expiring June 30th 2014 second Discussion No He's a retired U.S. Forest Service excellent credentials Back in the 80s. He was a chair and the green on the Greenfield cons-con He's got a background He's very impressive All right, that was moved and seconded right for discussion Discussed all in favor say aye. Hi. That's unanimous, okay So we have covered every motion on the motion sheet that we need to cover correct. We do not meet again until the 8th of April which is the night before the annual town election time. We don't usually meet but we did agree to meet I'll just note. We do have a liquor license hearing that night as is mentioned on the Calendar preview that's for Hickory Ridge golf course and the Stein mentioned the adding the flag thing to that meeting So we will do that And I think that's all does anybody have anything else that needs to be said before we go to mr. Hayden Then mr. Hayden moves to adjourn and without objection this meeting is adjourned at 955


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