w the projects were scored just to share with you how each project was scored. So, just for example if you look at the basketball saves lives you can see it was selected by the staff to be transformative, served a subset of the population, it did advance equity, it aligned with the strategic plan objective, it required recurring funding I believe over two years, and that it would be a new process would have to be implemented to implement the program at the city. So that's an example. So here's the overall ranking, according to the staff ranking. You can see the deer program was number one immigrant legal defense fund number two, so on and so on and you see the dollar amounts associated with those. Again, a higher score would go to a project that had was one time funding versus recurring and several of these required recurring funding, not necessarily long time, long term but at least two years. So here are the positions, obviously, that would be the even longer term funding. So here is the overall ranking council scoring. This is my first time seeing the scoring, this was just finished this morning. So you can look at this as it compares to and john you can flip back and you can see deer was number one, for example, according to the council scores and also number one on the staff scoring. Obviously, you did not have this presentation before today, because we just finalized it this morning. But because there are only 10 projects on the list. It's pretty easy to see how they align with the internal scoring as well as the council scoring. And just as a reminder at the February 4 agenda item included a summary of all the projects as well as staff analysis with additional information that you could use as many you probably did to make your scoring decisions. So any questions before I move on a question on the on the staff ranking for city council salary equity. What new process would be required. That's a very good question begin we struggled with that. John Laura assistant budget director, because on the one hand you say well you're just you're just an employee you're just going from from part time to full time. On the other hand, what we struggled with was finding comparative analysis about what other councils are are giving full time staff who are in a counselor or a administrative position such as a as a council. And that was the new process was that it would need to be some sort of evaluation of what would be how you benchmark it with how other people pay full time councils. Okay, thank you. And I think the other part of that was how do you move forward with that would you continue to do increases each year what would you tie that increase to the salary. Would it be performance would it be merit based would it be population would it be growth would it be. So what process was being placed to keep those pay increases moving forward. I had so I'm just going to share that on some of these. And I'll say this was around the language access coordinator specifically. So in some of these cases what I did not see in the formula which I'm just curious about is. So in some cases I think there's duplication. Right, so some of the components that is not a question that's asked is this duplicative of other work the other departments are doing. I think that we have identified another question I had, you know, if you're asking for what the language access coordinator it was a new process and a new staff, I think on the, on the staff scoring and my scoring it was just new staff, because we're supposed to have a language access plan that the person wouldn't in theory be implementing so I didn't understand how that was a new process on the staff side, and then further there's no place to say, what is this a need in the long term that hasn't been met. When I think about a language access coordinator the city of Greensboro has had one for 10 years. And that could be applied for other places I'm just using this one. So there's not anywhere in the in the formula itself to think about that to think about the the need in the organization as a whole because there's that is not there, even though it should be. I remember this just I'm just naming some of the places that I struggled with. I incorrectly did a couple of, because I thought the deer funding may end up being recurring, like even if the amount is lessened. So I did not do that one as in one time and same with El Centro I thought that was recurring and that was my miss so I think those would have ended up higher although both of them, I think dear ended up my number one anyway. But I just wanted to say that to my to my colleagues that in some of those I ended up doing them reoccurring when they actually aren't at least based on what's being shared today. And so they would have moved up or down based on that. So I want to point out a few respond to a few of your your questions and comments. So the analysis that we share with you as part of the agenda item had all of that information in it. It had whether it's recurring or not. It also answered asked answered questions around. For example the basketball saves lives, it went out to parks and recreation they were provided information back in terms of what you know how they would move forward with that if they were given additional funding. So that was part of the analysis. And then so it's not part of the ranking but it was part of the analysis and then I would also say that when we talked about the scorecard we went through it and we asked, you know, if there were other things that you all wanted to add in terms of the story and obviously we can't add everything so you have to keep it to a manageable number of criterion, but that information was part of the analysis and I'm happy to reshare that Lindsay can send that out as a matter of fact she sent it to me this morning. She can go ahead and send out to you all that has that analysis that you saw it was back and back on February 4, but it did have a lot of that information. I appreciate that I use that analysis and part of my ranking specifically around where else does this live and so is there are there other departments even though it wasn't directly asked, you know, are there other departments who do this work who could expand their work and so does it need to be dedicated funding in this way. Yes, I had a couple of. So, could I ask you all to go ahead and email this to us now. Yes, absolutely. So we can look at our, we can look at all the slides, you know, and then the just a couple of considerations that were in my mind. I did not write rate the stipends for the boards and committees or the grant funding for the boards and committees high, although I support them. But I didn't write them have, but they're also inexpensive. And I think that's another thing that's that's is a consideration for me is what are things that we want to do that we can fit into our budget that will move us along. So, and then there are certain things, for example, in the, we are the ones that you know the staff had indicated that, you know, and wreck previously. And I can't remember. I maybe was in this, you know that there are certain parts of this that they would be supportive of funding, and you know that's that seemed like good guidance to me. So, all of this is just to say, you know, I don't think the impact of having grants for boards and commissions is very high. I don't think I'm going to comment on these other things, but I also think that the cost is very low, or relatively. So I just wanted to put that out there as well. I would just in budget. That's something we struggle with all the time. Sometimes aspirational things cost a lot of money and sometimes things that are not really big priorities. I think a heavy lift and just remind everybody it was a council member who said this a number of years ago I forget who that these kind of tools are, are just that they're tools to help make decisions but they're not the decision making itself. Yeah. Thank you john. All right, colleagues. Other questions and comments I can't see all of you all, but I'm happy to just, you know, pitch in here. Now I can see. Jump in. Sure. Thank you. Sorry I was hiding because I'm eating a snack. So just in terms, I mean in terms of the making of the decisions, what process are we using at this point, like I think it would be helpful to get a sense of which proposals that a majority of the board wants to move forward. Those can be included with the big package of all of the administrative ask that the staff wants to move forward when we come back and look at all of the proposals together. But I so I'm just wondering what like what is the what is the thing that we have to do now so that the next thing can happen. So to john's point, you all agreed that you wanted this to be information to use in decision making. We talked about, and I think we had it. Maybe we skipped it in presentation we talked about, you know this very thing whether you all wanted to say, we want to choose, you know the items the top five ranked items. We want to set aside a dollar amount for council budget request. That is what you all need to decide. Once you make that decision, we will finalize that list and share it back out with you all. And then that that is what we will include in the budget development guidelines that projects ranked one through five will be included in the budget, or a second item will be included in the budget to, to support city council request, which means you also don't have to necessarily use those dollars the way they're ranked in this presentation you could set aside a dollar amount and say item to, you know, it right. But we really think this other item is an item we we rather move forward at this time so it's up to you all to make that decision we just need to know how you want us to move forward. Okay, so we should do that now. Yes, yes. Okay. So, Steve, I don't know how you want us to do that. I'll give you some thoughts. Did you all send us the email yet Bertha with the with someone let us know if they sit out the, the presentation. I haven't received it yet. The reason I'm asking is I think that way we could look at be sent to you but now I'm not. That's way. Okay, thank you john. Yeah, I'm just thinking that that way we'll have it up, we can put it up on our iPads and, you know, our on our computers and be able to look at those things and have a discussion at the same time. So, I would offer one other suggestion. Since you're waiting for that presentation was scheduled to go the one o'clock if you all want to take a few minutes and look at that. So that you're not trying to do it, you know, in real time if you want to take a few minutes and look at the presentation. That's a great suggestion. While we're waiting for that email to arrive. It hasn't hit my box yet but I am going to take this opportunity then to have another quick discussion with council. We had, we're trying to schedule a closed session on a personnel matter. As you all know, we were, we're hoping to have it on March the fourth, and everyone could do it 11 o'clock but several people could not stay until can only have to leave it 1145. So I wonder if I can ask you all now to check your calendars and see if possibly that you could begin the meeting at either 10 or 1030 on March the fourth. Could you all just do that right now and let me. Mr. Mayor, I have a meeting at 10am but I can move it if it works for everyone else. Okay, thank you. Other colleagues. Mr. Mayor, I'm trying to make it so that we at least get an hour together. Mayor, I can't believe we will need longer than 45 minutes on that topic. I just, I don't, I don't see it. Okay. But if you want to meet at 1030 that works for me. Okay, 1030 as well. Let's see if Deidreana can and Pierce pierces a thumbs up. Deidreana, I know you have tight schedule are you could you meet it. You got a thumbs up. Okay. We'll, how about this. We'll, we'll meet at 10. Yeah, so we'll meet at 1030 Mark Anthony. I guess you're the big question mark. Do you think that would work for you. I make 1030 work. I may be shuffling about and won't be on camera, but I'll make it work. You might need to do that. Great. Colleagues, thank you. Madam clerk. Can you advertise that meeting for 1030 on March the fourth. Yes, Mr. Mayor. I'd be happy to. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Thanks. Thank you. Colleagues, thank you. Madam clerk. Can you advertise that meeting for 1030 on March the fourth. Yes, Mr. Mayor. I'd be happy to thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Thanks colleagues. I thought the birth I had a great suggestion. We've now received the email from Lindsey. Would you like to take a 10 minute break to look at these and give it some. Thoughtful consideration. And we could come back at 1215. And discuss it. How does that sound? Everybody good with it? Okay. We're going to take birth as thoughts. We're going to, we're going to give this some consideration. You have a. An email from, from Lindsey Beno in your, in your inbox now. See you all in 10 minutes at 1215. All right. Thank you, everyone. Bertha, thank you for that suggestion. I think that was really helpful. Lisa was to me. I'm going to make a suggestion and answer to Jillian's question about how to proceed and see if you all like the suggestion. We have. We have a number of proposals that we had. And I'm going to suggest that we had four. Of the proposals that ranked. Highest amongst both groups. There was. The deer program ranked first. Amongst both groups. The staff rated the legal defense fund and we are the ones funds. We are the ones and legal defense funds, second and third. And the El Centro funding was, was ranked fourth by each. I would say that those four proposals where staff and. Council were in. The. Total agreement. One thought I have is that we could advance those four. And the other one is that we support. They are the council's first, second, third and fourth choices. The second and the total cost of those just to. I would be a 462,000 plus whatever portion of the, we are the ones fund that we wanted to fund and staff had some recommendations on that. That's my first recommendation would be to advance those four proposals. This, this, the groups that the ones that had the second highest average between staff and council. Where the community resiliency fund and the stipends for the boards and commissions. We could discuss those. Of course, as well. So, and we can discuss any of them. But let me just start with those first four. And. See if there is. If we can come to agreement on that, if anyone has any thoughts on, on how to proceed other than what I'm suggesting. Vietta. Thank you. I would just like to have some clarification from staff because in the council's part is 250,000. But within the staff analysis, it was less for the, it was less for the staff. I think it was less for the ones fund. And I know that they have also applied to PV. So just want to have. Some conversation on the amount. I think that that's right. As far as the top four, I just want to understand the money. So I will ask. I believe Lindsay and Robin are both on questions about the dollars. It was also, I think they broke it out in the attachment we sent today. I'm sure you didn't have, you know, but I'm not sure if that's right. I'm not sure that. So I asked Lindsay to come on and, and respond to that question. Everyone. I'm Lindsay peanut budget analyst. The amount that's in the analysis. And that's on this table is that 250,000. And that was the total amount requested by where the ones. For the city. And so we did, we. Included that total amount. Obviously with the understanding that council could choose to fund different components. Depending on what year of thoughts on, we're on doing so. And so that's the analysis dives deeper into what those different components are and sort of creates like a. Laundry list of possibilities. Lindsay, you recommended funding certain aspect of that. Can you speak to that? Yes. So we recommended funding the. We're the ones ambassadors. We're the ones ambassadors. We're the ones ambassadors. We're the ones ambassadors. We're the ones ambassadors. Primarily because it seemed like those were the first, that was one of the primary steps in the. Process for. Information gathering for future projects. It also appeared that some of the other components were a little bit less developed in terms of how much funding would actually be needed. For example, the. The mutual aid centers. It was unclear whether or not. We were the ones ambassadors. We were the ones ambassadors. We were the ones ambassadors. We were the ones ambassadors. We were the ones ambassadors. And so we wanted to be determined. I believe in Q3. And so it seemed like the timing worked best. To begin funding. We are the ones ambassadors. Do the information gathering and see what sort of projects would come from that. And then potentially if council wanted to fund those projects in the future have. We are the ones. Come, come back and. Give more detail around those projects. Okay. And I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point. But the. I think that's a good point. The data of the aid centers. And Lindsey confirmed that Durham County has not committed funding to this. Is that correct? That's. As far as I know, that's correct. Yes. I wonder if we know. I wonder if Pierce knows any more about Durham County's interest at this point. Do you know? No, I'm not sure. Okay. The. three here 24 page numbers are a little funky we're the ones fellows ambassadors total request 187 our third of that would be $62,400 is that what you all are recommending as the first step Lindsay yes that is okay um okay and then there was a comment or question about the PB and I think bertha you said that robin was here and maybe could answer some questions about that about the are they applying to PB is that is that the question for the micro grants yes i'm here Andrew Holland budge an engagement manager we actually had two interest meetings for nonprofits over the past couple of weeks and the grant application actually opened about a week and a half ago so there's still time for nonprofits to apply they have a month so the deadline is march 17th to apply but we will be sure to follow up with the nonprofit and just to see if there's some interest for them to apply and i also believe robin has been communicating with them about their interests or their communication with Durham County yes sorry robin baker with participatory budgeting and the budget and management services department and so based upon the last correspondence that we had with that we are the ones um representatives they were in the process of working with county staff to get on the commissioners agendas they were waiting on the December appointment of the new commissioners and that is the latest information that we have two weeks ago thank you robin and Andrew okay um colleagues i guess then i will modify my proposal a little bit to say that we support the uh the the 62 000 is an initial investment in the we are the ones for the ambassadors that we and we support that and the other top three uh that we begin this way beginning with deer the legal defense fund and um and the alcentra funding as the top four items and very happy to entertain any discussion that you have i'm sorry how veer did you i was just letting you know that charlie's had his hand up for a little bit charlie sorry it's okay thanks steve um so with respect to the um ambass the we are the ones ambassadors um it looks like the the in the presentation which by the way lindsay you did a fantastic job on this analysis and the um and the uh scorecard uh ranking so thank you for putting all that together that did not look easy um and i know on the on the the budget request analysis i can't imagine what it's like for a staff person to go through and vet requests from the elected officials um who ultimately you work for um and uh that is uh that was awesome so thank you for that guidance and help um we appreciate that and you forgot to add that we're super mean yeah we're we're horrible we're horrible people so um uh the i guess my confusion about that if we is that we don't without a commitment from the county on their portion first of all it's difficult to understand it's difficult to see how we can commit to our third of that number one but number two was my understanding the staff recommendation was actually to to ask um the we the cypress fund slash spirit house to use the philanthropic funds they've already raised for the um for the administrator and programming costs for the for the centers um for the mutual aid centers and for us to then pay for the fund the ambassadors so i guess i'm i'm a little bit confused about what what that recommendation means i heard uh i heard staff say in response to your question steve that the staff recommendation was 62 7 uh for the ambassadors but it's 62 4 but it seems like if i read that recommendation correctly it isn't the staff request actually for 187 200 for up for the city to pay for the ambassadors and for the for the non-profit to pay for the uh mutual aid work um and administration that's not the way i read it but let's hear from uh maybe we can hear where's the whole thing contingent the county doing their part that's the sort of what i was i was thinking that i mean we'll hear from staff the way i read this um request city 62 400 for the WAT we are the one fellows ambassadors but i'm i may be wrong as i often am so we'll hear from hear from staff mr mayor if i may uh one of the things that that we you know we typically do when we receive a proposal and it includes multiple funding sources you know our analysis up to a point that we we know for certain that the other funding sources are not going to be received we would you know we would look at our part being if it's a three part we would look at our part being one third of the total total dollars and so this analysis our staff did a did a wonderful job under those assumptions over the weeks um you know not having as much information about the other funding sources you know we can certainly you know reshuffle the the support or investment based on dollar figures and based on um you know other more finality around the total uh initiative but that is the reason you see the one third there because we our anticipation is that the other funding sources would be also supporting um those um those fellows so that hopefully that that that is helpful that's that's that's i appreciate that clarification that's right so if the initiative i guess the i guess what i'd like to add uh our ask is um it seemed are we recommending then or are you all recommending that we um that we is this something we could do even if they didn't come in with this i mean it seems like with the ambassadors the ambassadors really is about the number of ambassadors that you have and so we could fund a number of ambassadors i think it's the total cost is for in nine and so we would be funding essentially three of them even if the county and the other partners didn't come in and so i guess we could make an evaluation about that once we knew their plans and i think an important point about this particular recommendation is that we you know we do we do support that component because we feel like it it is a direct benefit to the community but certainly the other administrative um infrastructure that would you know would have to you know be part of that that structure would also have to be in place and we you know we anticipate that with the private support uh you know and not knowing exactly what the county is going to be going to be doing there there would certainly be you know other funding other than the city funding and we will be we will be anticipating that so i think one one thing and i want to just notice that uh the the staff righteously put in the last slide in our presentation that we would make these choices at the march first meeting and then the manager would decide whether or not she wanted to put them in her budget presentation on the final date so let's just be real real clear about that uh this decision does rest with us but we're going to be under the continual care and guidance of our city manager and our budget director um yeah charlie thanks steve um the one of the other things i wanted to ask about was the language access coordinator and want to can you give us a preview about whether or not that um has been i believe that's been a departmental request um can you give us a preview about how favorably you intend to view that request because it might help us scratch that off our list so so we we actually don't have a whole lot of requests that cross you know cross cross lines if you will but this is one of the requests that's coming you know came from the administration as well as as as a council we have reviewed our requests we have not prioritized them and put them in the in the totality of the um you know of the overall budget budget asks but this is a very high priority for for the administration to provide resources to our language access plan so i can say that you know in in this meeting as well that's great thank you for that update the last thing i wanted to talk about is the council salary proposal first of all i just want to thank pierce for bringing this forward it's not a subject that that it's easy to talk about as elected officials um politically it can be very toxic um to say to to say that we need to vote ourselves a raise especially during a time when state when city employees didn't get a raise last year we're looking at some modest raises this year but certainly not anything close to what the adjustments we were considering pre-covid and i think there's just an an an inherent discomfort with um with folks talking about raising their own pay uh that's just the way it is the flip side of that is uh as as pierce rightly uh says this is a significant equity concern the circle of people in the city of Durham who can afford to take on this responsibility like financially afford to take on this responsibility is small and is necessarily circumscribed by by incredible layers of privilege and wealth and so the the idea that we should pay city council members a living wage for the work we do is a great idea in a number of different respects um but there's always the problem for me that if it cost you know 80 thousand dollars this year to do that that is not the first second or third place i would choose to spend an extra 80 thousand dollars in our budget but that's just inherent in the budget process um i think we ought to consider um trying to leapfrog some of those concerns by taking a look at when the latest term of any current sitting member expires which is i believe december of 2023 at this point changes to the elections notwithstanding i think that's right um and uh and consider codifying an increase in the pay of city council members that is pegged to the living wage Durham living wage at 40 at 2080 hours a year basically um to increase every year as the living wage increases not linked to the kind of the performance measurement process in any way because i don't know how you do that um and to have that be effective um in january 1st 2024 that way none of us is actually voting ourselves a pay increase because there's absolutely no guarantee that any of us will be in office then and the voters will be able to have their say in between a decision to do that and the effective date but it we will have made a commitment that going forward we are going to do our level best to make sure that everyone can afford to do this job without regard to their financial circumstance that has nothing to do with running for office which is his own kettle of fish and incredibly hard and expensive in itself time consuming but to my mind that seems to be a way to try to square the circle that we find ourselves in on that issue um and for that reason i won't support putting in the budget this year but i do think it's a conversation we need to have and i think making it effective uh after all of us have faced the voters one more time if we do um makes a lot of sense uh that's um i think those are the things i wanted to oh oh one other thing um i think we should consider adding the stipends for boards committees and commissions um as mr steve as you said it's a very low dollar uh addition to the request pool it uh it it it has a lot of the same benefits that increasing council salaries do um and i think the burden on resident participation in our volunteer boards committees and commissions has been somewhat less in some ways during covid but in in some ways it's been higher in terms of the need to have technology you can't just get in your car hop on the bus and come downtown for a meeting and so um i think but under unprecedented times when we're not under covid i think um we had a really good conversation about the barriers to entry the barriers to coming to meetings we talked through some of the ways that might be administrated um in ways that are that are as low impact as possible about encouraging um board members who don't need the stipend to defer taking it um but i think as between the the um the stipend and the grants for the boards committees commissions which i both think are important and good ideas i think the stipends makes a lot of sense um to go ahead and move forward this year for those reasons so that's what i wanted to say thank you steve thank you very much let me um i want to try to pare this down a little bit uh so we can focus on we i'm not trying to i know everybody's got some comments but let me go to the first first well let me let me just start with the first four items and see how people feel about these and then we'll we'll open up discussion to more of the items um do we want to recommend that the funding of the deer program the legal defense immigrant legal defense program a portion of we are the ones and we'll work our staff will help us give us some guidance and the alcentro funding those are our top four and i just want to see if there's consensus on that okay i see some thumbs uh marquette they'll let you comment okay yeah sure you wanted to comment on those i did i was giving my thumbs up now but i did want to comment but i'll reserve until you're ready to entertain okay great um so i know that um yeah so uh jillian are you good with those okay great so uh i think that we have a consensus i don't i think didriana may have had to she'd said that she'd had to leave briefly and be be back oh no but here she is okay here she is with her thumb great thank you very much okay super um so the those four then we will recommend and then uh i'll now just ask we've had some comment on some of the others but looking forward to other comment uh and i'll start with marquette thanks steve and and thanks colleagues so i think it was a really really productive conversation i'm totally in agreement with those four moving forward with the four um one question i did want to ask i i was part of a conversation not too long ago about phasing out the um crime cabinet and one of the points that was made was that uh uh we were cautioned against or we were advised to look for a duplicative effort in the area maybe there are some other things that do some other initiatives that do what the crime cabinet does i'm wondering um and i can't get a sense of it from the reading from the staff reports if the el central funding and immigrant defense fund funding are they in any way overlapping in their mission and if not fine but but i i'm just wondering if they are um but i support moving forward with the uh the four um i was gonna raise i wrote a note to myself to raise the issue about council pay increase and councilor charlie said that you know we can have a discussion about it i disagree i don't think we need to have any more discussion i think he nailed it i think that was a classic mike drop mike drop moment what i wrote to myself far less eloquently than he was that i think we should pass it but give voters a chance to fire each and every one of us for doing it before it goes into effect so i want to totally associate myself um with his comments i'm totally for increasing it but tethering it to the next election for the last one of us don't want to whenever all of us have had a chance to be fired for it then it goes into effect so i don't think any more discussion is necessary i think he nailed that um i support also the uh the uh moving forward with the stipends i do remember our conversation uh when we discussed this prior that at least a soft commitment to somehow identifying folk who who are needful of the stipend um or or or not giving it to folk who get needed because the concern was the folk who who participate in our boards and commissions now don't need it um and that's the problem that we want to get more folk to participate in our boards and commissions and one of the ways to do that was to to you know incentivize that through the stipend it wasn't to address you know lack or an equity issue with the folk who are already participating it was a purpose for it so i just want to revisit that that animating proposition about the board and commission cut because i remember us talking about that and and ask if that's still going to be built into um our boards and commissions stipend structure or are we looking at it the same way mr. mayor uh steve when you spoke about kind of the across the board tiered uh bonus conversation with our with our employees i mean if we're going to give everybody the same stipend on the boards and commissions is that really equitable or is that just equal um so i just want to ask that javier yeah does the last i agree with um the first four i think that those are all i think there's consensus there um the the stipends piece at least what i remember was we were going to model it i thought off the pb stipend which is that everyone's asked um everyone's offered the form so it was and and you just did it anonymously and it was it was presented as the needs-based right so we're encouraging folks who really need the stipend to apply for it we didn't want to put a lot of burden on folks with like paperwork um so it was just and we didn't want folks to feel like they had to you know share that they needed it publicly so it was kind of like here's a form we're asking folks who who need this to apply for it if folks don't need it don't apply for it and i thought that that's how we did it with pb and it kind of worked well the folks who had and i know it was i think bus passes and things like that but the folks who did need that support of their ones who who ended up getting it and i might be wrong but that's what i remember from the conversation last year julian do you want to comment on this one since you put that forward sure yeah the conversation we had last year it was going to be opt-in so exactly what javier said folk if they if they need the stipend they fill out a form and everyone will have to fill out a tax form for the city um as well because it'll be reportable um on a w nine so the anyone who wants it can can ask for it and we the budget only includes it the budget um anticipates that about 50 of people on our current boards and commissions will ask for it i think that's a really conservative estimate i think it'll be less but the hope is that more people who for whom a stipend is um is helpful will then apply for boards and commissions and so utilization would go up over time that's helpful thank you very much thank you and i think um your first question mark anthony was about potential are are the um the immigrant defense fund and the el centro funding um do they overlap i would just say that i don't believe that they do um the el centro funding is really for supporting their infrastructure um they are you know a key institution they get supports from all the other area localities we have sporadically given them support in the past but this would institutionalize that um and then the yeah so that's uh i would say that i wouldn't say there's overlap and i would ask javier if she agrees yeah as far as i know there's no overlap well and let me say mr. mayor i you know i'm familiar with the work of el centro over the years and they're they're an uh you know indispensable partner here in the city and i'm excited to support um the immigrant defense fund as well i think it it moves us closer to who we say we are as a city i'm excited to support in large part to you know to the gravitas and leadership that javier has brought to it but on the merits of it as well i think it goes directly to who we are as a city so i appreciate the answering the question and i'm looking forward to supporting them both enthusiastically thank you pierce thanks steve um appreciate everyone's comments i just had a quick question about um with we are the ones uh and and kind of re-evaluating so how would that work in a typical budget process um you know we need to make our decisions and we vote on it in june what if we find out about the county chipping in and you know may how does that impact our ability to reevaluate if we're making a decision today only about 66 000 that's my question well i'll i'll give an answer and then our staff can pitch in uh i would say that if it's may that's really late uh but i wouldn't anticipate we won't hear from the county we'll hear from the county earlier than that um and then we could reevaluate but let me i see i see the managers here and let me uh defer to her yes so i was about to say um that very same thing and you know when we're talking about this level of support in dollars what we're talking about today you know may not be the exact penny that we we are we're looking at you know before we would enter into an actual agreement it would be an agreement that you know had a full scope of services and everyone would understand you know the the you know the investment and the return on it so i would just say that as we we have a protocol we're checking in with the group every couple of weeks just to get an update because there is uh the county um support but it's also the support of the private foundation and where that fundraising is so in the end there's going to be commitments for a pool of money and then we want to make sure that the city's you know contribution to that uh is one that uh that permits the initiative to be successful based upon the total the total sources of funds okay thank you for that um Wanda and i i would i guess i would just say next time y'all are talking with them i know you check in every couple every two weeks or so um if there are any deadlines around you know when you would need to find out about x before we can make a decision about why i would just want to make sure that we communicated that to the we are the ones folks um because it sounds to me like if we don't if we don't figure this out within a particular timeline then it might be put off until the next fiscal year or i don't know if there are other places where we could pull from budget to fill in the gaps so anyway i'm just kind of wheels are turning around really just deadlines uh how soon do we need to hear back from the county from philanthropy before the city is ready to step in for the full 250 which it seems like we're willing to do but today we're only committing to 66 7 because you know that's the portion of the program that we want to support now but even that's contingent upon uh the infrastructure from uh other partner that other partners will be able to provide uh support for so anyway i'm just kind of thinking through that here's i think also what would be useful and i'm happy to do this along with you is to have some discussion with our county commissioners and see where they are and see if they can you know do what you've done which is advance the ball you know uh and so uh your colleagues are supportive and so if you wanted me to join you with some discussions with uh you know a couple of county commissioners i'd be happy to do that and maybe we could uh you know talk next week and schedule a time maybe early next week you and i can talk and schedule a time to try to talk to them i'm happy to help with that but i think that you know you're it's going to take your leadership as well okay thank you yeah thanks for that context yeah but i'm happy to be you know in the meetings and join you as an advocate i appreciate that i know i know your colleagues on the council are as well um okay i'm i'm looking at the list now and let me tell you what i think we've done so far and i'll ask bertha if she's heard the same thing we have agreed to support the funding for deer the immigrant legal defense funds a portion of we are the ones with the discussions we're having the alcentro funding um and we are also uh i'm hearing general support for the salary increase for council at a future date after after the after 2020 after the 2023 election but that we i think we need some more council discussion of that to sort of formalize that and uh we'll look to the staff to bring that to us at a time you know sometime soon so that we can formalize that decision so i think that's what we've decided i've heard also substantial support for the stipends for the boards and commissions from at least three colleagues maybe four um so maybe i'll try to focus discussion there for just a minute since we have heard several people speak for that uh and i see javier is also adding her support to that so uh colleagues this is an expenditure of of at the max $50,000 do you want to add this to i've already heard mark anthony charlie javier and i see pierce uh and jillian and and digerona okay good so i think we have unanimity there the ones that we have not uh decided upon and can certainly discuss at this point are the basketball the community resiliency fund the language access the refugee and immigrant coordinator and grants funding for the boards and commissions does anyone want to speak at this point on any of them okay jillian thank you um yeah i wanted to advocate a little bit for the grant funding for boards committees and commissions um even in a smaller amount if folks were um not comfortable with committing $50,000 um but would be willing to commit a smaller amount i think would be really helpful for our boards to um to do their work particularly the boards that we have created that haven't that don't have an existing departmental relationship um because boards that do have that are able to get resources and support um through the departments that they are connected to but boards that we have created like the race equity task force the workers rights commission the women's council um that i've served on have had a really hard time um with getting access to resources to do to you know just to do small things so the race equity task force wanted to have a facilitator come in and facilitate a couple of workshops for them they needed money to pay them and it was this um you know we weren't able to like it was this process to figure out how to make that happen you know talking to tom figuring out like where there might be sources of funding um recently the women's council wanted a small amount of money to join um north carolina coalition against domestic violence and get access to those resources and so i worked that out through the clerk's office but had initially offered like to pay for it out of my expense funds obviously travel isn't happening so like there there's ways for resources to be allocated but i think it would be really beneficial to have some kind of central pot of funding where boards and committees and commissions could access resources for um for those pieces of work and we've heard particularly from the folks on the racial equity task force that this lack of resources was a barrier to them um and that they want some kind of resourcing for the commission moving forward um which i think is reasonable but i think it's reasonable to do it for all the boards so that they all have access to um to you know provide food at a meeting or hire a facilitator for for an event um and i'm you know i think the amount could be tweaked to fit you know whatever we think is reasonable i don't i doubt that that all of the funding that i proposed would be used in in the first year i kind of just wanted to make sure there would be enough and there are a lot of boards and commissions um but yeah some of them have access to resources that others don't and i think it is um a fairness issue right now thank you other comments on that i know i'll um i would say that uh that i mean i'm certainly open to that and uh you know i mean it could be a different number it could be 25 000 and see how that goes but i'm interested in other comments mr mayor are you interested in just the specific grant piece or on all of it the ones that we're still trying to work through i'm just going to stick with the grant one now i think if there are other ones we want to talk about yeah i think that will help i think it'll be better if we can focus um i'm open to depending on where we are i think we could lower the amount and then like many other things it's it's just not that much money and it could really help our boards and commissions out um so definitely open to having that conversation and uh would like to hear from my colleagues but if there's agreement on on a lower amount i you know it is in a lot of money i could be there too mr mayor if i might sure yeah i guess i um coming in i was kind of agnostic about this and uh i uh i was holding it in tension with the stipend piece and and when i say in tension with the stipend piece i i guess i was just wondering what the scope of work was for the boards and that it is our intent or how we envision these boards doing their work is it is it is it leaving the realm of kind of voluntary boards and commissions uh you know where they get into a realm where they would need grant funding to do stuff um but listening to the mayor pro tem i you know i i find her compelling and i think that uh you know the things she's outlined uh makes sense i was certainly you know supported um 50 grand or or lower at the $25,000 mark but but in listening to the mayor pro tem and thinking back kind of to my own work and and and the community and stuff it would be nice to give them the flexibility to to do uh some things again i was just thinking that were we looking at an expansion of their uh responsibilities that you know to more work than than we actually advertise but listening to the mayor pro tem uh kind of delineate kind of things they'd be doing with it um i think it's a good thing so i would support it even at the lower amount or at the state and amount thank you yeah absolutely so um i've heard four voices of support um i'm going to uh ask uh that we consider it at the $25,000 level and then we can see how that goes um i see a thumb from jillian i see a thumb from pierce i see i see a bunch of thumbs okay i'm going to add that to this then um we are now uh let's see i'm just working through my little chart here um by my calculation um i think if we did these just the things we've said uh we would and if there was a tax increase needed for them which we don't know yet but certainly quite possible it looks like uh about $603,000 depending a little bit also though on the expenditures they rise for we are the ones uh and so that's more than uh it's it's somewhat more than a sixth of a penny on the tax rate got got that about right i have that about right bertha um i'm not adding it but i'm sure some of the folks on my team are so they can drop it in the chat okay all right um other other uh and so javier you're next yeah so i'm the one who put in the language access coordinator and listening and the immigrant and refugee affairs coordinator knowing that public affairs has also put it in and and um city manager wanted pages already stated that it is a priority for staff i'm fine with removing it out of our column um because i know that there's alignment and i know that um staff has has seen the need for one um so that's where i'm at on that one on the immigrant and refugee affairs coordinator role that was put forward partly as both a city and county um position so if i think about you know and all i know is that i sent the budget analysis to commissioner alum who's leading it on the county side i'm willing to um say you know is there interest in moving it forward if the county agrees because then our commitment is basically half um which is at you know the highest pay range was 84 000 so uh we can have that number and if there isn't a commitment from the county to to do a joint funded position i'm comfortable with um not moving it forward um but just wanted to hear what my colleagues had to say about that um additionally and this is something that i've learned a lot about this past year um leading the immigrant and refugee round table i've done a lot of that work uh not necessarily what i would think you know um i i see the need for it in staff uh based on what the conversations i've had with our refugee resettlement organizations based on the fact that we will be getting you know we've had four years of not as much migration into Durham that we're going to be seeing in the next few years and the folks who are going to be showing up in our communities uh from the border um who are predominantly central american and then the folks that we will be getting through the kind of traditional refugee process expecting a lot of syrians and i guess for higgins is maybe the other population these are folks who've been sitting in camps for several years they're showing up in Durham highly traumatized and i think we need to be proactive in in really having the infrastructure to support these residents uh which is one of the reasons that i put the position forward thank you other discussion of that item mark anthony thanks uh steve and i did have i'm intrigued by the uh the proposition of having an actual um work of city municipal worker to deal with those kind of issues i guess i'm at my question is um and i defer to to javier is uh you know enormous amount of work in this area i guess what would the person actually do uh like what would their week to week activity look like and part let me be honest about part of what informs the question is i we've been so conditioned um oftentimes to think about these issues from a federal lens and and kind of federal restrictions and federal prohibition prohibition of what we can do at the state level let's forget about at the municipal level so i i guess from a municipal level what would having an fte dedicated to these issues that are so entwined with federal policy what would their work they look like or what what what would their job on the description look like i mean i can tell you what i've been doing which is a lot of who just hire you coordination between uh during public schools uh our county folks our refugee resettlement organizations el centro hispano our community engagement folks in nis um and and what we're hearing is how little interaction these folks have with local government um there is a huge gap on what they can access or or if they even know how to access it and while they have paid staff in these organizations they also have capacity issues so this is essentially a kind of bridge bridge building role and a coordinating role uh because there are so many moving pieces and i would not have um been this last year has been really illuminating for me um about you know because we were in a covid crisis it kind of brought it to the forefront but the need has been there for a while um and i am concerned about what's coming i will i will name that um i think our resettlement organizations are going to have a really hard job because the federal administration as you said mark anthony um really kind of limited the work that they were able to do in the last four years and so now the numbers are going to be increasing um and um while that's really great it also you know will very much shine a light on what the last four years at the federal level has done um and the kind of impacts of those decisions and how they ripple out locally even if it is a federal issue well i'm going to be totally transferred i'm deferring greatly to your leadership and and insights on this i know what would be helpful to me would be to see uh perhaps some an actual job description of what of what uh it would look like but but again i'm deferring to your i agree that this is a this is a storm we know is coming um and the situation that we know is only going to uh thicken as we move forward and i i can't imagine the city other than Durham um you know doing something like this and being in position and actually codifying it within our org chart but it would be helpful to me uh to see what this job would actually entail daily and weekly basis but i'm i'm certainly deferring to your leadership um in this area so thank you happy to happy to send that larger cities have entire departments they have immigrant affairs departments we are not new york city we do not have that level of immigration so that that is um wide as a position and not a full department ask got you thank you other comments on this so um i think that i had i had a comment okay sorry charlie thanks deep um i i've i've shared these thoughts with Javier this is not the first time she's hearing this but let me just share with the rest of my colleagues that um i i absolutely agree that we need more local government resources in this area and Javier is 100 correct that as refugee caps have been raised by the new president and rightly so Durham will get the lion's share of those resettlements here in north carolina um we're already a leader in the state in that area my kids have gone to school we live and we we went to hope alia we go to hope alia elementary just where a ton of resettled refugees end up um steve and i went with the unhigh commissioner refugees to some programming at our school that's geared towards the refugee community and the kids they're part of that community in our school it's amazing work i guess my hesitation with this is not the need it's not the month the price tag it's that when when javier describes what the what the position does it sounds an awful lot like what dss does connecting people with resources making sure that they are um connected with the things that they're entitled to support encouragement this this is the position that seems to me to veer deeply into the county's lane um and and although i but although i have hesitation about that and and the position and the proposal is defined um would have a split the cost which i think is fair and good um i think what we've seen over the last year is a little bit of the blurring of the lines between the city and the county in terms of what we choose to fund and what we choose to do um a lot of the back in the bull campaign is really a public health okay most of the back of the public health issue that we have spearheaded and funded and and because that work needs to get done i totally understand that um and um a little bit with the with the learning centers as well um and so that's that's where i am with it i have this inner discomfort um with uh with with doing it because it just seems so far out of our role i think larger cities that have these these positions of these departments don't have the city county dichotomy that we do um and you know they have city departments that deal with this stuff as well all that is to say i don't know how i feel about it and that's um that's and the other thing i'll say is that it's as as the as the size of these requests go it's pretty low on the cost side um in fact i think it may be the lowest dollar item on here because we're splitting the what is it 84 that we're splitting that with the county um and i know it's contingent on them on them doing it and if they so anyway that's all that's all i want to say about it so i'm undecided thank you thank you jillian thank you um yeah i i think it would make sense to continue having the conversation with the county about the split position and come back to the refugee and immigrant affairs coordinator position if we are able to get the county engaged i think it would make a lot of sense for it to be a joint um city county position and i just don't know what the county is thinking right now but if the county were to be excited about splitting the position i would be i would be supportive of of the city putting in half um and also just want to express support for the request from public affairs for the language access coordinator that's something that we've been talking about through a number of budget cycles um and it's good to see that that's moving forward and um would definitely be a departmental request that i would be excited about um about supporting as well thanks oh and so can i go back real quick to salary equity i just wanted to say i think it's an awesome idea to do it in january 2024 i think there should be some sort of formal commitment to it so that whoever's in office in january 2024 has already has the template and it's and it's not on them so i don't know if that's a resolution or like programming into the budget in advance or something but that we do something to ensure that those folks have a free pass to raise the salary because we already decided look y'all you're getting more money um and that it's committed so that anyone who's going to run for office in you know in 2023 knows that when they come in they're going to be getting a living wage for a full-time job i would agree and so when when the staff brings that back to us with that's that's a great point we need to figure out some way to formalize that colleagues it's 10 after one our stop time was one um and just want to see if there are any of these other items that we want to discuss at this point i don't want to shut anybody off but i'm not seeing any um so you saw from christina in the chat that if all of this took a tax increase that what we've said we are supportive of so far that would be a 0.16 of the penny the housing bond is 1.38 roughly so 1.54 would it about a penny and a half now if if this was all to be funded with tax increase we don't know that we'll all be funded with tax increase but um and uh but i just wanted to give that perspective uh colleagues i'm going to now turn to bertha and and ask her to wrap us up or the or the manager i will turn it over to the manager for closing comments as well as any council members um comments after the manager thank you bertha so um mr mayor madame pro tem and members of the council uh today has been a good day we have discussed some very very important topics not just topics that are going to affect this one year's budget but really the future of our city as we continue to center racial equity in our organization and our community and consider the systemic racism we live with today it brings in to focus how intentional we must all be in our deliberations and our decisions if we find ourselves defaulted to something old out of expediency maybe a master plan that may be a bit dated or needs a new and a different look the kind of discussion that we've had today it really gives us the freedom to do so even if it takes a little more time or costs a little more money to just get it right you can count on us to do that though uh in my opening remarks you heard me say our team is always ready willing and able to bring new ideas to new situations sometimes very quickly with a renewed focus i will also add a new lens we use this lens as we continue our work and we have heard you today we'll be back tomorrow with more reports and more discussion culminating with the budget guideline discussion and document and then our difficult work will begin again i would like to thank staff here today who do this work every day and never give out of ideas and energy because we love this community and public service is in our dna so we will see you here tomorrow beautiful words thank you madam manager all right colleagues i will entertain any very brief remarks that you might want to make and then we will call it an afternoon javier i just very briefly want to thank staff for today and i'm looking forward to tomorrow also to my colleagues for all of their really helpful insights and and guidance today and looking forward to next number four thank you so much mark anthony i want to thank the staff as well and to say i'm i'm proud to be a part of this council on this day in particular jillian thank you um to echo my colleagues appreciations for all the work that staff did to um get this get us through this meeting and i feel really good about the choices that we made today in the conversations that we had and looking forward to some more exciting discussions tomorrow thank you charlie i just want to say how grateful i am that we decided to break these up because these days are much much better than than eight and nine hour days i can't it's just been so much better so thanks um uh i know we all rushed that recommendation straight to the head of the line when we started this i think javier may have been the one who was loudest about it for some logistical reasons in her house but i just want to say thanks to the staff it's made a huge difference for me in staying focused and energized and making sure that i can actually get up and walk around a little bit during the day so thanks everybody i see pierce's comment this has been a wonderful first budget retreat experience i agree it's just all right any other comments okay i'll i'll just say uh did you want to go ahead thank you i i um i appreciate i also appreciate my colleagues and their comments it helps to kind of color in all of the work that the staff has been doing and i will say that i have to apologize for the last part section i was a little distracted with another meeting but i do think that we're headed in the right direction and uh you know a penny and a half doesn't feel as hard and i'm i'm still nervous i'm still nervous so we still gotta get the rest of the season but i look forward to to having the conversations thank you thank you yeah i'll just add great work by the staff as always i don't always feel that we do as great work but i thought today we were good i really did i thought yeah we're we're thinking we're discussing we're you know um yeah we brought a lot of good thought to it today and i i think we served our staff well and i'm i'm proud of us if i don't know if mark anthony and i agree on the same idea right out of the bat that we had before the meeting and to tell each other about that's scared i don't i just gotta tell you i don't know that that gives me some pause but let's let's keep let's keep pushing forward i wasn't gonna mention that i'm gonna keep that off the agenda it's a good day yeah other than that we were good thank you colleagues a great day and so grateful for our staff just an amazing staff thank you budget staff finance staff public our our hr staff bo david uh jj regina everybody who presented today was awesome shawn got getting the mix so everybody so grateful we'll see you tomorrow at nine is that our is that our time tomorrow bertha that is correct nine o'clock and we're gonna dig deep into the 911 calls which is super exciting thank you so much this meeting is adjourned


Hi and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. Question says for the given solid, identify the top view, front view and side view. This is the given solid. Now if you see the solid from the top, then you are able to see this square, this square and this square. So this is the top view of the given solid. Really you can see these two squares represent the top view of these two squares and this square is the top view of this square. Now if you see the solid from the front, then you are able to see these two squares and this square. So this figure represents the front view of the given solid. These two squares represent the front view of these two squares and this square represents the front view of this square. Now if you see the solid from the side, then you are able to see this square, this square and this square. So the third figure represents the side view of the given solid. Really you can see these two squares represent the side view of these two squares and this square represents the side view of this square. Now finally we get first part represents the front view of the given solid. Second part represents the top view of the given solid and third part represents the side view of the given solid. So this completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and bye for now.


Hi, it's Mayor Ron Nirenberg encouraging you to join the Mayor's Summer Reading Club. Now, one more time. On the front, you notice the children are blue. So there's eight blue spaces and that's where the children are going to write the names, the titles of the eight books that they read. And back to the library, they get a certificate signed by the Mayor and get to select a free paper back for the key. We think that the best reward for reading is more reading. So, and we certainly appreciate the foundation in particular for their support of allowing us to have enough books that all the children get to select a book. They don't just get one that we get to select for them. And I know you want to talk about the teens, so I'll stand over here and I'll be there. Fantastic. Well, you do. So I'm teen services coordinator and the teen component of the Summer Reading Club is for 13 to 18 year olds. And what we want to do with that is encourage teens to visit their library and read. So every time a teen attends a program at the library, they'll get a chance and a drawing for awesome prizes. And for each book they read, they'll get a chance and a drawing for awesome prizes. You know, the San Antonio Public Library has been putting books in the hands of young people since 1903. 1903. That's a long time. And we believe, really, that experience of reading a book is super awesome. But we want to tell you about our digital collection too. You can download audio books, text books, not text books like school, but books you read. In print. Thank you. She's a pageant. And also video. So we're, but I want to tell you why we're better than Amazon and why we're better than Netflix. You can't beat our prizes.  And the other thing about the library is it really is a gathering place for you. It's a place in your neighborhood to meet new friends, to gather with old friends, to have new experiences, to learn new things, and really participate and follow your interests. So we really want to encourage everyone of all ages this summer to visit their library. If you haven't visited us in a while, you may be surprised at what you find at your San Antonio Book Library. And at many of our locations, you can have a free lunch. If you're 18 or under, courtesy of the Food Bank, or Northeast Independent School District, a number of our locations. It's a great place to stay all day. Come, have a lunch, read a book, use our digital resources, do a program. Visit us. Pick up a book. Enjoy the summer of reading together as a San Antonio community. And make sure that you're staying sharp for the school year. That's the Mayor's Summer Reading Club. We hope you join us.


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I feel like when the YouTube clips come out, it'll be like me saying, it's common. I'm sorry, you deserve better. I'm sorry. So here's the question.  Now, I know what you're thinking. Veeth, this doesn't sound realistic, but I submit to you that neither is life. Life is not realistic. Life is bold and painful and ecstatic and overwhelming. Why are you trying to cope with that with tepid emotions in your pocket?   And start really small.  Most of your life from now on will be spent in meetings. Meetings, guys, are where people pretend to be interested in other people because they're actually interested in things.  Then go in there and say the one thing that you are not supposed to say. Best case scenario, you win them over. Worst case scenario, you are fired, jobless, homeless, but still memorable. I promise you, no one remembers the people who agreed with them. If a world Indian man with spectacles turned around one day and said, hey, we should be an independent country, and everybody around him just went, eh, all right. He'd just be known as Mohan Das. But because people disagreed with him and he had to fight, he's now known as Mahatma Gandhi. Great point.  Get your heart broken. Shoot for way above your league. Say outrageously romantic things. Propose after a week. Go big, go home, probably alone. But the worst thing that could happen is what? You get a reputation as somebody who is mushy or clingy or needy. And as you get older, you realize those words actually mean generous and bold and needy. I once wrote down 101 reasons why I loved a girl and I stood in her garden and yelled them to her window like an angry stalker Romeo. That's all. Just, I love the world, the brown light hits your eyes. And by 0.24 that girl told me she was seeing somebody else. It didn't work out, but I promise you this.  Probably the only situation in her life where she might think that.  I'm serious. Enger emails with things like yours hungry. And my favorite XOXO dollar dollar hash hash pound pound and that you with the colon above it that makes it look like you hit your keyboard really angrily or typed in German. I like to use abbreviations that people can't understand. I end my emails with ha ha ha ha ha, L-O-M. Just to leave people wondering. Laugh out mouth. They'll either love your emails or hate them and show them to everybody but either way they will be looking forward to them.  Just one. No matter how your body ends up looking. There are just phases in your life that are dictated by how lonely you are, what magazines you are reading and whatever the Kardashians are doing. But I'm saying jump for no reason. Dance badly. Never underestimate the power of a pelvic thrust in a public place. Play with your body. Play with your body. It will save your heart when you are losing your mind.  And then I drop the towel and sing hey I'm free. As free as the wind blows.  I'm five foot eight. I have no muscles. My body looks like it was designed in Ikea.  If my wife ever finds herself in the presence of another naked man, hey he may be the flavor of the month but I'm the king of the jungle baby.  Come on baby. If an old people regret the push ups they didn't do, the keto they didn't follow. No they regret the puddles they didn't jump in. The lifts they didn't fart in. The trees they didn't fall out of. The pegs they didn't dive into.  I say find it every day. He's breaking awesome. And in success.   Show yourself and the universe that this moment does not own you. You own this moment. Yeah. Yeah that's worth applause. He's fantastic.   Your friendships are going to change at 4 p.m. today. Crap.  These adults that you will talk about paying bills and having kids with. But I say to you you need to retain these people who you talk about splitting bills and making kids with. Never outgrow these people. Keep them in your life. Do what it takes. Show up at 4 a.m. Peed up the douchebag boyfriend. Open up your couch even though everybody tells you to outgrow them don't because outgrowing them means growing up and what's the fun in that. Some of my best friends we don't meet each other more than once a year but there's not a thing I wouldn't do a flight I wouldn't take if I got that phone call. I met them here at this college they are sitting over there we smoked cigarettes over there for 4 years and we will be at Cherry Street later tonight. We had no money buy some old people a drink please.  If you're laughing too much or just one of you is laughing also not good sex. My personal strategy don't worry about performing worry about amusing. Tell a joke. Ask a question. Try something. Try something new Apologize when it doesn't happen. Admit that you were trying something tell a joke. Ask a question. Repeat.   You might learn something about yourself like who you actually wanted your bedside when that moment comes.


Studying Othello. Here's how you can analyze that choosing to. The scene opens on a street in Cyprus in here we can see the stage directions that Herald has entered and he is a messenger carrying a message for all the Cypriot people. The Herald speaks using Suzuru here to say that he has a message that's been delivered directly from Othello the general. He speaks using these adjectives to show that Othello is well known and admired as a general. He delivers the good news that the Turks who had waged war against Venice in Cyprus and tried to take over Cyprus have now been defeated. He informs everyone that's listening that not only would there be a celebration for the defeat of the Ottoman Empire over Cyprus but also the celebration will celebrate the fact that Othello and Zemono have been newly married. The Herald ends his message using this exclamatory sentence we can see that Othello enjoys a really powerful position both in Cyprus and Venice and everybody sees him as a skilled general who can win wars.


with the basic introduction of the and the sub topics which I intend to cover in today's lecture. So, the sub topics which I intend to cover in today's lecture are recent trends in environmental geomechanics and for that matter the geomechanics itself followed by some scenarios of waste disposal. And then I try to correlate how these recent trends and waste disposal scenarios are going to be of some use to us in developing this course further, a bit on soil improvement techniques and the philosophy contaminant transport mechanisms, a bit of introduction and how this subject may lead to the discussion on unsaturated soils this is what I will try to bring out in today's lecture. So, recent trends waste disposal scenario, soil improvement techniques or the philosophy, a bit discussion on contaminant transport mechanisms and unsaturated soils. Now, these are the recent trends in geomechanics, most of you might be selecting your topics for further research maybe for master's thesis or subsequently your high studies or maybe as a profession in your career, so it is interesting to know what is happening in present days as far as geomechanics is concerned. So, my intentions are to give you a very broad idea about what are the things which are happening in our subject, simulation and physical modeling, what do you understand by simulation, what is meant by simulation, let him complete here, what is the word simulation corresponds to, exactly something which is similar to another thing alright, so here you are trying to simulate a mechanism or a phenomena and this simulation is either numerical or physical. Now, when we say numerical modeling, we are trying to simulate something in a numerical form and we are trying to look for numerical solution by keeping boundary conditions and getting a solution mathematically and the physical modeling basically corresponds to in TOTO, if you are trying to study how a system was going to respond, so let us say prototype modeling or centrifuge modeling where you are making models of different prototypes and then you are trying to see how the model behaves and similarly this analogy can be extended to study how prototypes are going to behave. Now, this is where artificial neural networks, fuzzy sets and fractals are becoming quite useful in our profession. They are also termed as soft computing tools, so some of you must have taken up some projects related to this and you are undergraduate you know, anyway many of us are resorting to these techniques, our colleagues, artificial neural networks, fuzzy sets or fractals and getting a solution to a problem which is of physical nature. Now, coming to the model versus prototype, this is where you can use centrifuge modeling which is also known as accelerated physical modeling and you are doing a course also on this as opposed. So, why do you say that it is always accelerated physical modeling, why not chemical modeling?  Now, this corresponds to the limitations of physical modeling, that means you can only do physical modeling and not chemical and mineralogical modeling, why? It has something to do with the time, okay, the geological time it cannot be simulated under small durations or in a sample. So, basically as you are saying correctly that this is the acceleration of the processes or the mechanisms which normally take place in nature and you are interested in seeing how a system corresponds to or responses to. The second big topic on which many of us are working is soil or ground improvement techniques. Though people say that it has become quite saturated, there is still lot of challenges are there and this require attention of researchers and scholars, you must be aware of geosynthetics, geotextiles, geomembranes, geofoam, preloading and use of additive. What type of additives you use for modifying or improving the ground, the simplest possible form of additive would be lime or cement mixed with lime or some pozzolana mixed with lime. So, this is what is coming on this long, it is nothing new, but then why people are not satisfied with this type of ground improvement, why should they be studying this further? So, this is pro use of resin, but my question is why people want to augment additives or this petrology further? Why do they want to use resin further? So, you can achieve easily by putting lime or cement lime solution, then the question is how do you define durability? So, one of the attributes of durability is something which lasts long, that is correct. So, again the question is why people are not happy with conventional additives, which have been added to the soil mass, any guess? When you say durability, that means you are trying to say that conventional additives were not durable, that is right, but can you justify it, why they are not durable? That is true, yes, so what happens, if lime reacts with water then what is going to happen? There is a diffusion of calcium, you know, which takes place over a period of time. Any example where diffusion of calcium takes place in human body, what is the disease known as? Osteoporosis, alright, osteoporosis, so what happens?  The same thing happens if you are injecting lime in soil mass, you cannot control water table, you cannot control flowing water, so what happens? In the due course of time, all these additives diffuse, because what you are doing is you are creating a concentrated source within the soil mass of these chemicals. And we have been discussing this quite a lot that whenever there is a concentrated mass of some chemicals, the diffusive contaminant transport will take over. So truly speaking, this type of methodology is not lasting long and that is the reason why people are still interested in, you know, creating new additives and another thing is lime, cement and all these are precious materials. So there is a environmental hazard associated with the mining of lime itself, that is the natural resource. So how long we will be digging out mines from the nature and then using it for some purpose. So that is where actually people are trying to work on new additives which is of the type of resins or PVC granules or polymers and so on. So this is where geomechanics interfaces with, you know, applied material science also, particularly PVC and so on advanced materials. And good example is geosynthetics, geotextiles, these are nothing but PVCs which are being used by geotextile engineers in a good form. Another big challenge is selection of fill material. Why do you think that selection of fill material is becoming such a big issue? Can you justify this? No, first of all, the natural resources are depleting. There is a ban on using the top cover of soil itself for making bricks in most of these states in the country. Why? It is a natural resource and this resource is used for agriculture purpose. Now if you are digging out the soil of the top cover which is very vegetative, very fertile, what you are left with? So this causes people to think again for selection of different types of fill material. Where do you use fill material in geotextile engineering? For making foundation pads, filling purpose, embankment, retaining walls, backfill and so on. So this is where you can use coal ash, fly ash, mine tailings. I am sure you must be aware of water mine tailings. No? Can you guess? Yes? Sorry. What is meant by tailings of mine? Mine tailings are nothing but tailings of mine. So after extraction of the ore, whatever is left over is known as mine residues or ore residues. A better name is mine tailings. So the biggest question is how to dispose of these tailings? This is becoming a very big environmental issue. So the more and more extraction of metals, ore, you go for the biggest challenges that you are creating tailings of mine and then how you are going to deal with them? It becomes a very big issue. Now this is where mine tailings can be used as a backfill material provided they do not interact with water and nothing leaches out from these materials because of environmental interaction. So it should be a passive material. Paper pulp, some environmentalists are against paper industry, cutting of trees that is one. Second issue related to geotechnical engineering, what is pulp of the paper? You will find lot of papers in the journals on related to paper pulp disposal. So paper pulp is nothing but after processing the paper whatever is left out is nothing but a silt slice particle. This is slurry made up of silt which requires your attention to be disposed of properly. Now I am sure that you are aware of that when you are making paper you use lot of chemicals. So think of a slurry which has lot of silt particles or silt slice particles plus chemicals. So now the question is the more paper you produce, the more sludge we are producing and the question is where to dispose of the sludge. So this becomes a very big environmental question. Glass furnace slag from any iron industry, metal forming industry, you will produce this in abundance ok. So whatever the residues are in the boiler unit they form the glass furnace slag after the recovery of iron from the ore and then question is how to use this. Now if you granulate this, if you powder this material this becomes GGBFS, ground granulated glass furnace slag alright. So it becomes GGBFS and its reactivity is very high. So this can be used as a replacement for cement. But in the pore form, in the pellet form you can use this as a good foundation material as a fill material. What would be the problem? Suppose if I use this material as a replacement of soil, everything has a pros and cons. If you use this material as a fill material, what are the problems you speculate? What is the specific gravity of iron? 7 that is right, not 6, it should be 7 plus. What is this unit specific to the gravity of soil? 2.6, 2.7. So you are using a material which is almost 3 times heavier than soil mass. So what happens ultimately? If you use it as a backfill what is going to happen? So active earth pressure, pressure pressure will enhance by 3 times. This is one of the reasons why people are skeptical in using this material. Otherwise this can be a good fill material for the foundation and foundation slag. Another problem sometimes is if you use glass furnace slag directly as a foundation replacement, it may consequently react with water and iron and iron oxide will leach into the water table. So this may also cause a problem. Fiberglass, can you give an example of what is fiberglass and how this its production is creating more and more environmental issues? Most of the nations are becoming IT major. So the more IT expansion related work, the more and more glass fibers, cables are required and what are glass fibers? These are nothing but the industrial ways when you are producing fiberglass. So whatever is remaining amount requires a very special attention to be disposed of properly because this is a very fine silica material and this silica happens to be highly carcinogenic. It may cause cancer if you inhale it, highly active material. So this is where people try to mix glass fiber with soil and then dispose it. This is one of the techniques. So these are the issues which are also gaining a lot of attention of people, particularly people who are related to environmental geomechanics type of work. And of course conventional environmental geotechnology where the issues related are what type of waste disposal strategy should be adopted which are going to be beneficial. In the previous lecture I was telling you the nowadays the concept is not to dispose the waste of only waste but you would like to use this waste after certain time. So the intention is today's waste may become tomorrow's utility or necessity. So the disposal should be in such a way that tomorrow if I need this material again for any specific purpose I should be able to take it off easily. So solid waste management becomes a very big challenge particularly when you talk about hazardous and toxic waste like radioactive waste management and so on. You must be hearing in newspaper now India is anatomic major is it not. What has happened recently? Not nuclear treaty that was long back. Recent most recent one five days back. Yes please I think you are from the forces here, India. You are from Indian forces know maybe army ok but you should be aware of. What are the developments? Atomic submarine what is the name of the submarine? Aryan that is right. So the more and more industrial activities are taking place research oriented weapons and so on. Radioactivity is becoming a major issue you know in our environment and this requires attention of civil engineers and particularly geotechnical engineers. How to deal with soil contamination? It is containment and remediation. These are the steps which we had discussed in the previous lecture. Then ultimately environmental impact analysis what type of impact a system is going to have if these practices are not correct or the disposal of waste is not done properly. What are the consequent effects on the environment, mankind and so on. So these are the issues which are you know quite major and important in today's profession. Anything else which comes to your mind should be added up here? Yes, bio waste should come under solid waste management. So you can talk about here chemical waste, bio waste you know and bacteria, bio everything will come in this. Waste from hospitals, waste from industry, research laboratories, toxic waste, hazardous waste and all those things should come under solid waste management.


It's round four of elections and Israel is in political crisis. My name is India and today we are going to find out what the world can learn from this historic fourth election to decide who will run the most debated country in the Middle East. According to the EIU Democracy Index, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East allowing all their citizens to speak for themselves at the polls. But now Israel is having its fourth election in just two years because of the political stalemate crisis. So let me explain to you why this is happening and what we should all learn from this dire situation. Israel is a parliamentary democracy and in this type of government the prime minister's position is given to the leader of the majority coalition of parties in the Israeli parliament. So known as the Knesset. With dozens of political parties in Israel there are a wide range of political views represented in the government unlike with the dominant two party system in the U.S. Israel's system is an example of democracy promoting political diversity which is incredibly important in a free society. But with so many different opinions it can cause issues when it comes to forming one stable government which Israel has been struggling to do for two years. Israel's current prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under indictment for corruption charges and he's been in office for around 12 years. Because of this the people can't agree on whether or not they want the current prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue as Israel's leader. Number four the country gets thrown into elections again again again and again. The 120 Knesset members from various political parties meet right here. This building located in the heart of Jerusalem is a symbol of democracy in the Middle East but it is also a grave reminder of the current power struggle. This political crisis is affecting the economy and the lives of Israeli citizens which is why they often come here to Balfour Street in Jerusalem to demand change. After all Israelis are very passionate about politics and want their voices to be heard.  The basic rights that many countries in the Middle East deprive their citizens of. On one hand Israel's fourth election shows the flaws in a system of politicians that can't come together to form a stable government for their own people. But on the other hand it does serve as an example of the democratic process in the Middle East and true democracy may not be the solution to all the world's problems but at least it gives the people a voice. Because the right to be heard is a right every human being should have. This is Democracy in the Middle East. This is Inside Israel. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.