to vermont and its way of life the whole city benefits from the values activism and cultural contributions made by uvm faculty staff and students i'd like to give a few specific examples of what our department contributes to the community bearing in mind there were only one of many programs that are being terminated or terminally damaged for 45 years we've hosted vermont latin day which brings hundreds of high school and middle school students to campus each year from all over state for many of these students it's the first time they meet kindred spirits excited by what they are interested in and they learn what opportunities can be had by pursuing their higher education in state we've also engaged in teaching at the women's prison we've taught military veterans in life changing and even life-saving experiences by reading homers odyssey our productions of ancient drama involve community artists and bhs student staff and teachers our land grant mission also extends to the residents of connecticut main and rhod island who come via the new england board of higher education tuition discount program which uvm's administration has willfully buried uvm's planning a multi-year program of cuts will strip the university of meaningful education in the humanities and arts this will decrease the contributions that can be made to the city and that all residents of burlington enjoy and benefit from when we all retire in 10 years we will not be replaced and it'll be a huge hit to the cultural contribution that uvm makes to the city and therefore urge you to support this resolution because only public pressure will have any impact on this administration which responds to no that is not responding to its students faculty and staff in the what should be the official channels of review so please support this resolution thank you our next speaker will be Julia pupco I'm enabling your microphone hello can you hear me all right my name is Julia pupco I use she her pronouns and the first thing I want to speak on tonight is agenda item 6.03 I am a former alumni of the university of vermont and still work part-time for uvm um I just wanted to remind this council that uvm has a long history of disregarding their staff and their students which are the components of the university who are supposed to matter while continuing to pay the people in power more and more money and to kind of summarize these thoughts and tie into the next thing that I want to talk about I recently applied for another position at uvm which now I'm thinking about not even going for if I get an interview but uvm now apparently requires diversity statements and this was the end of my diversity statement so it is all well and good to have a diversity statement requirement but where is the action to back it up where were you uvm when your black indigenous and students of color felt unsafe in 2018 and led a campus-wide protest where were you when john nisha went on hunger strike where were you this past year is the battery park movement erupted demanding accountability of bpd and true community oversight of police where is your action uvm you are defined by your actions not by your words right now your words say one thing and your actions speak loud and clear of inaction inaction is complacency inaction is complicity and I would also like to remind the council that the same goes for disregarding what community members have been telling you are needed over and over for months thank you thank you our next speaker will be zandy wheeler to be followed by lori mochat zandy just gonna get a second to find you zandy i'm not able to locate you not find you zandy i'm gonna go to larry larry i'm also not able to locate you and zandy i cannot find either of you and not seeing any other sign-ups at this point so gonna go ahead and close the public forum so that we will we've gotten through everybody that i was able to locate this evening thank you to all our speakers for that very much appreciate it we will now get into our agenda itself so the first the next item on the the agenda is the are the climate action report or climate emergency reports sorry so does any councilor have a climate emergency report that they'd like to offer okay seeing none i will go and move on to the next item which is adoption of our consent agenda councilor stromberg may please have a motion on the consent agenda uh yep i'd move to adopt the consent agenda as amended and take the actions indicated okay we have a motion from councillor stromberg is there a second seconded by councillor pine any discussion okay hearing none let's go to a vote all those in favor please say aye aye aye any opposed okay hearing none that passes unanimously we are now into our deliberative agenda but i do want to make sure we deal with the board of civil authority so i'm going to recess the city council meeting and go into the board of civil authority i believe this is a meeting that mayor weinberger you'll need to take over for this one mayor are you able to okay we um i guess we can come back to that i'll go i'll go back into the regular city council meeting and we can go back into that another point in the meeting and we'll just get into the deliberative agenda so let's get into that deliberative agenda the first item on the deliberative agenda is 6.01 a resolution licensing fee waivers for ADA qualified animals i'm going to go to councillor shannon for a motion on that thank you i move to waive the reading and adopt the resolution and ask for the floor back briefly after a second okay so councillor shannon has made a motion on 6.01 is there a second seconded by councillor pein go ahead councillor shannon thank you um we got a uh i think the full council got uh communication from a constituent who uses an ADA service animal and she alerted us to the fact that at one point the um clerk's office was not charging a fee for uh for licensing of these animals and they all do need to be licensed and more recently the fee was seemingly reinstated i suspect that what happened was that the fee wasn't being charged but we didn't actually have a policy in place to not charge the fee so this would make it legal for the clerk's office to not charge that fee except for the eight dollars that's required to go to the state and in order to qualify for that there are two questions that the ADA permits to be asked to establish if this is an ADA service animal and so the form will um if somebody wants to apply for this waiver the form will ask these questions i'm i asked for this to be put in all stages of passage because if we went through the normal process of two readings and sending it to the ordinance committee it wouldn't make it back in time for this year's licensing so that's why i am asking for what i think is a pretty modest step to accommodate service animals and and the people who rely on them um and i appreciate the unanimous support that this received at the board of finance thank you thank you councillor shannon any further discussion are you ready to vote okay all those in favor of item 6.01 the resolution on and on these first fee waivers for ADA qualified service animals please say aye any opposed that carries unanimously which brings us to our next item which is item 6.02 councillor shannon i'll come to you for a motion on that sorry i muted myself i move to waive the reading except the communication and place it on file i'm sorry that's not the right one yeah no worries i move to waive the rules placed in all stages of passage and adopt the the ordinance thank you for that councillor shannon is there a second to the motion seconded by councillor stromberg did you want the floor back councillor shannon no i spoke to this um in my previous statement thank you okay excellent any further comments from councillors okay if we're all set let's go to a vote all those in favor of 6.02 please say aye aye any opposed that carries unanimously which brings us to our next item which is item 6.03 a resolution regarding the impact of university of vermont budget cuts on uvm community councillor stromberg may please have a motion on this item yeah i move to waive the reading adopt the resolution and ask for the floor back after a second please okay thank you and um just for clarity's sake which version there are two versions on board docks um is there one you're looking to the revised version okay the one that's up top that says clearly says revised okay thank you okay excellent so we have a motion from councillor stromberg is there a second seconded by councillor shannon go ahead councillor stromberg thanks um so there is um a lot of good out there in the world a lot of good people but we cannot sugarcoat the true nightmare reality that has overtaken the uvm community regarding faculty staff and students um these draconian budget cuts that we've been seeing at uvm could not have come at any worse time um this issue here is simply about people not politics not procedure not profit but people and families on december 2nd just a couple of months ago the dean of the college of arts and sciences sent a letter to uvm faculty and staff announcing the termination of three departments 12 majors 11 minors and four masters programs this announcement was made with literally no consultation or any process that included the hundreds of affected faculty staff and students so my first instinctual question to that even when I saw that back then um was you know where's the transparency in that there are numerous values that uvm ascribes itself to and I believe it is incredibly hypocritical that there is an obvious disregard for democracy and inclusion in their decision making this is unfortunately not a new pattern but this year it's different this year uvm is exploiting a global pandemic to further marginalize vulnerable educators and staff a lot of the people who spoke in tonight basically said that and um I personally believe that job security is physical health it is mental health it is well-being it is growth and it is safety and I can't think of a more disrespectful and heartless expression of disregard than the cuts that we've seen toward faculty and staff from an educational standpoint and also like as a graduate of the of the university but specifically the college of arts and sciences these liberal arts programs offer a well-rounded education one that is unique and and fortified by social sciences and language and culture and art and music and and science um things that we take a lot of pride in um in having within our community um so you know this resolution itself wouldn't even be on the floor tonight if it weren't for the dedicated organizers that were behind this effort people who have personally been impacted by these cuts and genuine inequity that has been perpetuated throughout the uvm community because of the lack of thoughtful leadership I am endlessly grateful to the faculty and staff and families that have literally given and given to their community um for only the true better like true betterment of it and um you know we are we're talking about highly qualified and invaluable people and as a uvm alum I have a lot of favorite professors and co-workers and I can honestly see their faces as clear as day I worked at the how library the tutoring center the student accessibility services office which is under the trio umbrella that one of the speakers had mentioned um and all these departments are critically crucial departments within the university I have seen the necessity of each one of those firsthand and if anything it's only has grown honestly especially with the pandemic um and you know the thing is to know how hard this looming job insecurity during a pandemic has been on these people and to know that they are not being treated with the dignity that they deserve it's not just heartbreaking or immoral it's literally like it is that but it's more so the fact that like it's the very opposite of the values that we hold as a community and so it's like what has uvm leadership demonstrated with these acts as leaders we should be always asking ourselves what is our goal what is the mission for our community and how do our decisions get us there right and the very fact that we even need a resolution to call upon the leadership of uvm to be responsible in a way that goes deeper than fiscal priorities is to me like heinously disturbing we need to hold the largest institution in our city accountable and lead by example for what is expected from higher education institutions that are so deeply interwoven with Burlington life and just around I mean that's a huge of people come in from all over to go to uvm that's a fact our standards need to be higher and you know it's not by any means out of line or unreasonable for us to make this actually overdo requests to uvm so i i want to thank the organizers who have been doing this work for far too long and have been just a joy and amazing to work with i've learned so much from you i will continue to do so um i also want to thank the co-sponsors of this resolution counselors tracy hanson hightower pine jang and shannon and others for their input too and i really i just tonight i'm asking the council to send a clear and and truly firm message united tonight to call upon the administrators of the university of vermont as an exemplary exemplary model of burlington values to prioritize protecting jobs to respect staff's right to organize to work with uvm faculty and staff to reverse regressive austerity measures aimed at vulnerable educators and staff to cease non- educational bonuses and instead to make decisions with employees recognizing the community value of a liberal arts education and rewarding educational investments of lecturers with job security that reflects their skills and value and sustaining the foundational focus higher education must provide to serve the needs of the community thank you so much thank you councillor stromberg there are other counselors wishing to speak on this item councillor hanson yeah thanks councillor stromberg for that and for bringing this forward and for for all the folks within the uvm community who've been fighting so hard against this it really is disheartening what's going on and unfortunately it's part of a longer and a broader trend at uvm that not not just at uvm but really across our society of more and more pay and prestige to those at the top while everybody else suffers and it's just really sad that we're seeing that same trajectory at uvm and the data is clear that over time administrators there's been more administrators and they they get paid more and the disparity has grown between the top administrative pay and everyone else and now even going beyond that we're seeing people who's in and losing their positions entirely including people who bring so much to the community and so much to the university and really do it at a bargain they're providing these services at a really reasonable rate i would argue for the value that they deliver to the university and to our community and to these students and they're the ones that get cut and meanwhile there's extremely high pay for a lot of the top administrators so i just think it's it's really disturbing and it's part of this bigger trend at uvm and elsewhere and it's not what public education should be about and it's not what the our burlington community should be about so i'm really glad that we're that we're taking a stance on this and calling this out and this is not okay and it's not in line with the values of our community thank you councilor hanson don't have anyone else in the queue okay seeing none are we ready to vote okay let's go to a vote um all those in favor of adopting item 6.03 i'm sorry ceo shad did you have something uh i excuse me did i miss a second i was seconded by councilor shannon thank you so much thank you all right all those in favor of of the item 6.03 please say i i i me opposed that carries unanimously item 6.04 was removed from our agenda which brings us to item 6.05 a the resolution authorizing the resolution and of litigation and execution of an amended and restated development agreement with btc mall associates councilor paul uh thank you president tracy um before we get to um item 6.05 i was hoping that you might indulge a brief recess if that would be possible and i would ask if we could possibly have 15 minutes please um okay um i will i'll grant the 15 minutes um but let's really um try and be back um at so if that's um yeah so let's try and be back um just a little like at um what is it uh at uh 922 or yeah that's that's seven plus 15 yes thank you sorry it's 922 let's get back there folks and um yeah we'll we'll get back into that item thank you so much councilor paul thank you very much thanks president tracy i appreciate that indulgence um no problem i'm sorry i'll wait until others are on one second let's make sure that we have everybody on just want to make sure that counselors jeng stromberg and paulino are on i'm here okay counselor stromberg and paulino okay thank you and counselor stromberg okay great okay awesome okay go right ahead counselor paul okay so i'm also gonna need probably a little bit of help from um uh the city attorney but this is what i am proposing i'd like to propose that we amend our agenda to um to move item 6.05 which we're currently on uh to the end of our agenda uh do item 6.06 and um uh with 6.05 now last on our then last on our agenda um and and the reason for that is to make a motion at that point um or if i need to do that now um to recess uh the meeting and to ask the mayor to call a special meeting for next monday uh the 22nd of february and the reason for that is that um you know despite the amount of time that we have been talking about city place um this is a complex and multifaceted project um we're being asked to vote on a settlement that is important and um i think it's important that everyone have as much time as we can um to really absorb ask questions um and in that in that spirit of trying to give people more time uh would that is the reason for the um the motion that i'd like to make i hope that that would be amenable um to the city attorney and if i'm not doing this correctly i'm hoping that she will tell me so okay uh attorney black what are we is it possible to just call to move this to a special meeting now or do we have to make that agenda adjustment you can postpone this to a definite time so i think even if the meeting hasn't even been warned i still think you you can probably go ahead and uh and postpone it to um a special meeting to be held on on monday okay right my preference would be to to handle that motion now councillor paul if you're willing to make the motion in that fashion and then we can um just continue on with our agenda as as set forth is that amenable to you absolutely so um so what you're what you're saying just so i have this correct is uh to make a motion to move item 6.05 to the end of the agenda and then we would continue with item 6.06 is that right no so what i'm saying is to just make the motion to postpone to a time certain to next monday okay you got now and that that way we just don't have to go back to it again we just will have taken care of it if if your motion carries okay all right so i would make that motion to postpone item 6.05 um to um a meeting that would then be called by the mayor a special meeting next monday the 22nd of february okay so we have a motion to postpone um from councillor paul to time certain of next monday um is a special meeting to deal with just this item um is my understanding is that correct councillor paul yes is there a second to that motion seconded by councillor shannon any discussion on postponing councillor shannon um just hoping we can limit that meeting to just this item it is that um amenable to you president tracy yeah absolutely okay thank you and uh councillor and councillor paul was there a time that you wanted to start it uh hadn't hadn't really hadn't really thought that far ahead um i'm i'm i'm i'm certainly amenable to 7 p.m if that's good for most people um or if you wanted to do it earlier that would be fine i'll i'll leave that in your capable hands i was going to suggest six just to get to get us into into the debate earlier and keep us make sure we're fresh throughout that is fine okay is that all right councillor shannon did you have anything else no or okay i'm just thinking we we didn't want to recess the meeting rather we want to call um special meeting rather than recess the meeting just kind of questioning that i mean i guess functionally it's the same so well we've heard all of our public comment on this tonight okay so if we recess the meeting then we have that public comment and we can get to our debate and i think that that debate to be had at the you know our debate is important to give time to it and i think it'll be wonderful to do that at seven o'clock when we're all a lot fresher um and we have allowed for an ample amount of public forum tonight so i guess um thinking about it yeah i was nodding along when the suggestion was made for a special meeting but thinking about it i guess my preference would be to recess the meeting if others are amenable okay well that would require an amendment to the motion if that's what you'd like to do um because we have a motion on the floor so we would have to to amend the the motion to postpone to be one rather to amend the agenda and then to to recess before i make that motion i i'd like to hear from my colleagues if their support for that i i will make the motion or i welcome others to okay i have counselors hanson jang and then mason point of order president tracy what that what you just said is not consistent with what i heard from the city attorney's office so i want to make sure attorney blackwood are you able to clarify um i i i think what he said is consistent the motion to postpone to a date certain that would you would have a a new special meeting called and you would hold that hold that meeting if what you're trying to do is to say we're just going to recess this meeting then probably the idea that you would um that you would table this item at the moment uh go on to your next agenda item i think that's what probably what you would do but i guess i i guess you can amend the agenda to move things around as long as you're not amending adding or adding things um after your initial time so i suppose you could amend the agenda to move it it's just kind of weird because you've already opened it i mean you've already called the item but but i suppose you can move it to the move to amend the agenda and add it to the end of the meeting and then at that point you could move to recess and take up this item so i think you could probably do it either way thank you okay thank you councillor mason i have councillor hanson uh councillor hanson jang itower and paulino councillor hanson thanks um so i would be supportive of of pushing this back to take more time i think that's that's wise um in terms of the meeting and the public forum aspect i'd be happy to i have no issue and would would welcome additional public you know public forum especially if there's amendments that happen between now and then i think it's really valuable to hear reactions from the public on that so i don't have any issue with the current way that we that we would be doing it which would allow for another public forum is my understanding um but the only issue for me i guess is just scheduling wise i do have three three back-to-back meetings next monday between six and eight um p.m so that's just a scheduling conflict for for me but i know we haven't i guess pinned down a time yet um so those are my thoughts okay councillor jang yeah thank you president president um i mean i think i shared the sentiments of councillor henson that currently there are a lot of things happening in the city and most of us have all the commitments that have already been taken that i believe that we need to respect right and all the element of this is um basically um why not just postponed until our next meeting like our next schedule regular city council meeting instead of next monday yeah thank you were you looking for an answer to that question from anybody in particular councillor jang or let me ask you differently why do we want to do it next week why specifically next week why special meeting okay councillor paul are you able to speak to that i'll certainly try um uh the um you know i think there is a desire to move um move this resolution forward um but i do think that there are several councillors who have expressed the need to have more time um the developers of the of city place have um a scheduled meeting with the development review board um in early in in march before our next council meeting and a fairly tight timeline of when um when they when they need to move things forward in order to be able to meet other deadlines that are obviously very important um and in an interest of trying to allow councillors more time but also find a middle ground uh having a special meeting next week would accomplish that okay thank you for that answer councillor jing did you have more down um yeah i mean i think we delayed this project for how many years four years now right um and i think also there is one element that maybe many people do not want to vote or are not ready to vote and that element is with the union right and it seems as if the unions will not need seven days but at least a 10 day commitment that they can sit down and talk to this double percent get it done right and was wondering um if if we can give more than just next week basically more more days or just vote vote vote this tonight and move forward either way but just next week monday does not work for me yeah okay thank you councillor jing i have councillor hi tower to be followed by councillor polino thank you um just to um one appreciate also the kind of um having more another having more time on this so appreciate the move to postpone the um i think we didn't hear that much public comment on this tonight so it would definitely be um happy to hear more public comment and also along the lines of us having more time to digest i think also giving the public more time to digest um the only thing is we do have a joint committee meeting scheduled on monday um so i think my personal preference which we can definitely happy to adjust to but it's hard to schedule meetings with 10 folks and three councillors so it could be either at five or at seven that would be helpful and not having to cancel the joint committee meeting and having to get to quorum okay understood um councillor polino i'm also a president tracy um but i will make a quick comment i do think that you know we should have a meeting as soon as possible we have lawyers on this the case file and we have a long history of trying to resolve these matters quickly depending litigation and doing executive sessions and basically going modeling when we have you know we're in core right now and i think taxpayers deserve a quick resolution to this once something's on the table even if it's a no vote thank you councillor freeman um i am also okay with postponing um i just did want to say you know kind of echo what other councillors said about public forum i you know i'm not not saying that having super long meetings is always um the easiest thing but i definitely fall on the side of wanting more comments and feedback um then less so just wanted to voice my preference for um that meeting whenever he gets postponed to if we postpone it also including a public forum thank you okay don't have anyone else in the queue council carpenter just quickly i um i'm fine with this having it be a postpone a regular meeting i do think we need to do it really before our next meeting in part because of um the timeline that we've also layered on them around the planning process so if it can't be monday perhaps it could be another day next week but i don't think waiting a whole lot longer than that um makes sense there's there is an emergency to this okay thank you uh councillor hanson um i already had you on first round anyone else on first councillor stromberg yeah um i feel like i can just try and make it work whatever day we choose um because this is yeah this is really important and i also i feel like i take a i understand um councillor james point of view with you know the fact that this took so has taken so long but i think the fact that it's so big and has taken so long like what's in what's some extra time on whether it be on monday or the our following actual scheduled meeting so i would like to take some time to do this right so i'm very very very supportive of more time and and public forum um so yeah that's just my two cents thanks okay thank you anyone else on first round who hasn't spoken yet okay councillor hanson go ahead yeah i guess i was just wondering if we could i'm fine with having i agree with doing the meeting next week i'm fine with that maybe we can move the specific scheduling offline to this meeting um if it ends up being you know monday and i i might have to miss part of it that's obviously fine but just trying to schedule the time that the most of us can be here for the entire meeting and i don't think we should try to do that right now so that would be my my thinking i would agree councillor hanson and i appreciate that um given that it is a special meeting that the mayor would call the mayor can i think we can coordinate with the mayor's office around scheduling and timing and those issues so i would encourage that is there further comments on the motion at hand to postpone to time certain next monday councillor mason i guess i'm just i'm sorry on a point of order like to the city attorney do we not have to postpone to a time certain we can i was not aware we could postpone to a date to be set by the mayor i just don't want to act on something and then have us all have to come back that's all right i think you're talking about postponing till to monday night and the question was did you want to start at seven and i heard yes to that that's not what i heard i heard let's let's figure out the time and the date after this meeting which maybe maybe i'm misunderstanding what i heard from president tracy but my my interest well let me state it differently my understanding is that as a we have to postpone to a date certain i appreciate that the start of that meeting could be determined based on a you know canvas of members of this group as well as the administration yes i'm sorry for not speaking more clearly on that information i was meeting date certain and so that was it so um thank you is that correct attorney blackwood okay mayor weinberger i slipped on your camera did you want to speak to this uh so if the motion as it currently stands is to motion to postpone to a date certain if if people are comfortable with that motion um then we can continue with that i mean if i do think an alternative option would be to table this and then i could call a special meet i could as councillor hanson suggested call a special meeting um for purposes of taking that up and that that would be another way to do this i i i guess i do just want to make it clear there cannot be a long delay with this from my perspective as councillor i think councillor paulino's point should be should be understood by all this is it this is a matter of active litigation uh we have essentially the court on on hold we have we have invested tens of thousands of dollars to get to this point we need to make a decision as to whether we are going to continue with that litigation or we are going to take this other alternative that the settlement that um after our many consultations um the administration has gone out and secured a settlement that meets everything the council has indicated it wants in a settlement agreement so that is what is before the council tonight um there's been a lot of process coming up until now i disagree with the suggestions that we have somehow delayed the project up until now that is absolutely not the case the city has never delayed this project city the delays this would be the start of delays tonight us choosing not to act and so that's okay if we do it for a few days uh but it can't beyond that that starts to be us now delaying something that we know our constituents very much want to see go forward so whether this is going to be set by me calling a special meeting or by a council action uh i i think this cannot go on beyond call it monday or tuesday uh of next week okay thank you mayor i don't have anyone else in the queue are you ready to vote under handset yeah i mean just to be clear because there was some confusion with that i was proposing what the mayor just laid out of tabling letting the mayor letting the mayor's office follow up to identify the best time next week and then calling that special meeting um because at least counselor jeng and i have already identified conflicts on monday and maybe monday is the best day i just don't know that and so that was my intention so i guess i'll just go ahead and and make that motion then okay so you're moving to to table this item table it yeah yeah and if i need to elaborate um city attorney blackwood but yeah the idea would be to table it and the mayor can then call the special meeting where we would take it off the table and take it up attorney blackwood is this motion yeah i think he can make a motion to um to table it okay so we have an amendment to the motion to postpone to instead table the the item so that's the motion that's the amendment is there a second to that amendment seconded by counselor stromberg further discussion on the amendment i'm sorry point of order i i'm not clear that a motion to table as stated gets it to then be at the prerogative of the administration to set the time for it to be taken back up something's missing from this motion unless i lean tells me i'm wrong well i think the mayor has the authority to call a special meeting but somebody then has to take has to take it off the table and the council has to vote to take it off the table once you then convene that meeting so the effect of tabling something is that you've laid the issue on the table it's not currently before the council and the council would have to then vote to uh take it off the table okay so the agenda for the meeting to be called would be solely for purposes of considering the table motion i mean i'm just trying to figure out what is the public know in terms of or is there no set agenda because there's no motion until we schedule the until we start the meeting there will be an agenda as determined by the special meeting that the mayor called okay sorry thank you for clarifying that so if i what i heard is the simple straight motion to table but the expectation again not binding is that the mayor will then set a special meeting monday or tuesday of next week and then it will be the prerogative of the council whether to make a motion to take it off the table yeah okay okay council shannon i was making the same point as council mason so i'll leave it at that it seems to me not really the best way to do this i would rather leave it to the mayor to schedule this get the special meeting according to um people's uh schedule and not have this tabled okay so what council shannon just said that is my exact intent intention with this motion is that we would allow for the mayor to to create the meeting based on folk schedules that that is to me different than the previous motion which was setting in stone a monday a monday meeting by council action so i maybe we're confused about what we're doing but that was my intention okay thank you for clarifying council shannon let's try not to do it back and forth here but council shannon go ahead um thank you yes well tabling is is a different motion because it requires it to be taken off the table it requires a vote to take it off the table so it would be my preference to say we're postponing action um and i'm not going to make this motion because there's another motion on the table but um we're postponing action on this item to our next special meeting to be scheduled by the mayor next week and i think that's as specific as a postponement needs to be it doesn't need to be to a very specific date and time but to a general time upon which we would act not an indefinite time which is what tabling does okay thank you for that any further comments okay so let's go to a vote on the amendment uh to table instead of to the the original motion of postponement so um will the city clerk please call the roll councilor carpenter i need clarification so i'm voting to table it and if we agree it's tabled um how does it get off the table i guess is my question if i vote if i vote not to table it um or speak to the underlying amendment i guess i i needed clarification here so this is an amendment to table a motion to take it off the table requires a simple majority um at you know at a future meeting um or even within a meeting um but it would require a simple majority if this amendment fails we're back to the original motion which was to postpone to a date certain of next monday the 22nd can that be amended to say or to another meeting stopped by the mayor i mean or does it have to be next monday because that's what we're trying to get around i believe so that could be but i'm not sure that we can amend the amendment yet again so we need to vote on take this vote which were which were in the process of calling and then if this vote does not pass then we get back to the original amendment the original motion and then you could propose a different amendment to that motion i know what i want to do i'm just not clearing how to get there um if if you want a table and have it taken off you vote yes if you don't want it when you want to go back and amend the prior um amendment you should vote no is that clearer yeah that's clear and is it will it be an appropriate amendment to uh have it moved to another date but we don't have an after time once if the motion to table fails then you can then that would be an appropriate amendment to the to the prior motion to postpone okay i guess i'll say no councillor jang yes councillor freeman yes councillor hanson yes councillor high tower yes councillor mason no councillor paul no councillor paulino no councillor pine yes councillor shannon no councillor stromber yes city council president tracy yes seven eyes five nays okay so the motion carries and we are back to the original motion as amended which now is to table this item i'm not sure you do that now i think you've amended and you have tabled okay so you don't need to go back to another amendment i don't think so on a motion to table there's really nothing that you've now well you go ahead and do it if you might as well okay that was my understanding that we would that because it was an amendment we would do that and i thought that we had done that in the past so okay then then you should proceed yep so is there further discussion on the motion to table okay well the city clerk please call the roll councillor carpenter maybe i'd be intense here so if if i don't know on this the or if it this fails is that are we still up for another amendment can that be possible what no okay back to your original you're back to your original item and somebody would have to make a new motion a new different motion a new different motion yeah um okay i'll i guess we'll hold table point point of order yeah yeah council shannon did i understand the city attorney to say if we voted this down we could then make a different motion yeah so council carpenter we vote this down we can make a different motion yes so i'll vote no councillor jen yes councillor freeman yes councillor hanson yes councillor hightower yes councillor mason no councillor paul no councillor paulino no councillor pine yes councillor shannon no councillor stromburg yes city council president tracy yes seven eyes five nays okay so the item has been tabled councillor paul um i just i just wanted to verify that um thanks so much for to everyone i just wanted to verify that um the next step although we don't need to i believe um vote on this is just simply asking the mayor to schedule a meeting for next week we don't have to vote on that do we we do not we do not a special meeting can be called as if a majority of councillors sign on to to calling one or the mayor can call the call one themselves fine great thank you yep okay now we have moved on to we since we've tabled that item that brings us to item 6.06 a reconsideration of resolution regarding approval of the public safety continuity plan councillor paul uh thank you very much uh well if that wasn't a little bit a lot of fun and out of the ordinary then this one will probably be even more so um i hope that i have this correct um in accordance with our rules i would move to reconsider the prior resolution that passed last monday at our last council meeting on february 8th um uh as referenced in item 6.06 and asked for a second in the floor back uh no once that once that i don't believe there can be any amendments to that um there could be debate and then we would go to a vote once we have that vote then i have another motion i would need to make okay so i see a second there um from high tower and you don't need the floor back councillor paul okay the floor is now open on the motion to reconsider okay seeing none are we ready to debate to vote okay we'll co-shad please call the roll councillor carpenter yes councillor jang yes councillor freeman yes councillor hansen yes councillor high tower yes councillor mason yes councillor paul yes councillor paulino yes councillor pine yes councillor Shannon? Yes. Councillor Stromberg? Yes. City Council President Tracy? Yes. That's a unanimous yes. Okay. So the motion to reconsider passes and we are, we can now reopen debate on this item. Councillor Paul, were you going to make it a motion? Yes. So then what I would do is be making a motion that would get us to amend the resolution before us under this agenda item, the approval of the public safety continuity plan in what in our agenda is called the further revised form would waive the reading and ask for the floor back after a second. Okay. We have a motion and a second from Councillor Stromberg. You can have the floor, Councillor Paul. Thanks so much. President Tracy. So I'm making this reconsideration because after our last meeting, there were some clauses that need some, needed some clarifying language so that they're in accordance with not only the approved plan, but also will allow the city to begin to hire the approved community support liaisons or CSLs, the community service officers, or CSOs and is, and that the, the cost for this is appropriately budgeted pursuant to the plan and our budgeting practice. Normally when a change is made to a, but it is made to on a budget, a budget item in a resolution, there's a format that's followed so that our revenues match our expenditures pursuant to the plan. That the council overwhelmingly approved 11 to one. We are today. Today we would be approving the job description for the newly created CSL positions. And it would approve. The CSO description. That would be created. By the director of police transformation, following consultation. With the joint committee and other critical stakeholders. With the process to follow. That's explained in the resolution. And further, the changes to this revised resolution would address the funding by accounting for the expenditure through a reserve fund. As per the past resolution, and attrition savings. I'm happy to support this reconsideration as it keeps intact, the work that this body did to move us towards police re-envisioning. And we'll get the hiring for these positions going. Quickly. And, and it, and in the, and in accordance with financial practice, there are no further changes to this resolution. And would ask for the council to fully support this. Okay. Thank you. Councilor Paul. Councilor Hightower. Yes. Just want to. That I support this and give also the. Small clarification for the public that the job description for the. Community service liaison that has been approved is only for one of the three positions, which is the one that is to be in the Burlington police department. And the job description for the other two has not been approved. So that's the one that's still outstanding and would not necessarily be in the Burlington police department. Okay. That is correct. My apologies. Okay. Any further discussion on this. Resolution. Councilor Hanson. Just appreciate the follow-up and due diligence of the. Of councilor Hightower and Paul and the administration and city attorney and whoever else worked on this. Yeah, it's important to. To do that follow-up work and make sure that. That we're, we're doing things properly. So just appreciate. Thank you. Anyone else? Councilor Shannon. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else. Councilor Shannon. I just want to clarify. Last week, we did not adopt the plan. Is that correct? Is that correct? That's one of the changes is now we're adopting the plan. we approved last Monday as per what the resolution that we passed stated and that was to regarding the CSL's the CSO's that is what we passed on Monday last Monday but we did not approve the hiring last Monday correct the resolution that we passed on Monday needed some clarification this this reconsideration is to is to do that to clarify that language so that we are really doing what exactly we wanted to which was to create these positions to approve the job descriptions to get the process moving and to account for this appropriately with a revenue with a revenue and an expenditure that match that is what we're doing this evening thank you that's a high target do you have something else to add yeah I think for my own clarification we're not approving the full plan the whereas clauses refer to the plan and we're saying per the plan that we didn't approve but we're approving this part of the plan which includes the CSO's and CSL's so it's not an approval of the full plan but it's approvals of parts of the plan right what's laid out in the resolved clauses correct yes okay councillor shannon thank you so I think that that's consistent with what I was saying last week we did not approve the plan this week we're not approving the plan but we are approving elements of it to hire these officers correct councillor paul are you able to yes I think it's just simply a matter of semantics we passed a resolution the resolution is the police continuity plan as of right now this is what we passed and that's that is all that we are clarifying and and and moving forward with that councillor shannon I guess that's all I'm gonna get okay any further comments on the motion to the motion to amend the the resolution that we're reconsidering Councillor Freeman is sorry this line of questioning is just confusing me that is not open for interpretation attorney blackwood right the way that this is written it's only has one distinct meaning I just I don't want if it should have one meaning councillor should know what the one meaning is and that's what we should vote on any blackwood I agree with that and I think it has the clear meaning I think councillor high tower explained it that that you are approving elements of the plan okay just wanted to make sure that that's uh legally um it's that's thanks okay is there further discussion okay seeing none uh will seo shad please call the roll councillor carpenter yes councillor jane yes councillor freeman yes councillor hansen yes councillor high tower yes councillor mason yes councillor paul yes councillor polina I'm sorry councillor polina no thank you councillor pine yes councillor shannon yes councillor strongberg yes city council president tracy yes 11 eyes one day okay so the amendment carries and that brings us back to the the original resolution that we were reconsidering and so now we just need to we have a we need to vote on that that reconsidered resolution as amended there further discussion okay seeing none we'll see a shout please call the roll councillor carpenter yes councillor jane yes councillor freeman yes councillor hansen yes councillor high tower yes councillor mason yes councillor paul yes councillor polina no councillor pine yes councillor shannon yes councillor strongberg yes city council president tracy yes 11 eyes one day okay so the resolution the reconsidered resolution as amended carries on an 11 to one point of order yep i'm sorry the the first vote i thought we were voting on the resolution with the changes but we're actually voting to amend it and i'm unclear if we were amending from what we had voted on last week or from what was proposed last week and i'm sorry we didn't really have much time to to review this so what what happened is that we had a attorney blackwood i see you raising your hand go ahead yes the the document that is on board docs is um the mo is the what you adopted last time and then in blue shows the changes and those are the amendments that you just made and then you voted on the whole resolution as amended thank you so the amendment was amending what was adopted not the original then i'm good thank you okay thank you for that all right so that brings us to the end of the deliberative agenda for this evening but we do still have a couple different items we do have board of civil authority so i'm going to go ahead and recess the the city council meeting and convene the recess the meeting at 1008 and convene the board of civil authority at 1009 and turn it over to mayor weinberger thank you president tracy i will convene the board of civil authority at 1009 and the first item on the agenda is the agenda um could i have a motion uh adopting it council paul thank you uh mayor weinberger a motion to adopt the agenda thank you is there a second second by council shannon um discussion all those in favor of the motion please say aye aye are there any opposed hearing none i believe the motion carries unanimously and that brings us to 2.01 a motion to adopt the consent agenda uh are we ready for that motion councilor paul sure make a motion to adopt the consent agenda agenda and take the actions indicated seconded by council shannon discussion of the motion seeing none we'll go to a vote all those in favor of the motion please say aye hi are there any opposed the motion carries unanimously our consent agenda is adopted and i will adjourn without objection i will adjourn the board of civil authority at 10 10 p.m. back to your president tracy thank you mayor um we have a couple more items on our agenda for um this meeting um we have item number seven which is committee reports are there any committee chairs who'd like to offer a report okay seeing none uh council high tower was that a hand yeah um just quickly the joint committee i think i might have already said this with the joint committee will host two meetings next week um engaging the first round of stakeholders for that first rfb you all approved so um i'm excited about that and happy to forward the invitation to all of the city councilors excellent thank you for that any other committee chairs council mason thank you president tracy the ordinance committee's meeting thursday at six for i think a brief meeting a soul agenda item is continued discussion on weatherization thank you thank you council paul uh thanks president tracy the uh parks art and culture committee meeting has been rescheduled uh for tuesday the 23rd uh at five uh 30 depending whether or not there will be uh that that will be the evening of the special meeting but as of right now it's for 5 30 um and is on the city calendar as such okay thank you council jane to be followed by council pine you're on mute tomorrow wednesday the 17 at 5 30 the racial equity inclusion and belonging committee will be meeting um and the agenda items are posted on the city's website great thank you councilor paul counselor pine thank you the uh city council community development and neighborhood revitalization committee is focused on the issue of how to provide more of a supportive services and supportive focus around older burlington residents and we held our meeting last week and we'll continue to work on this issue for the next couple months and our next meeting is yeah next thursday the 25th so um just wanted to let folks know we will continue to to work um following up on the council's action back in 2019 regarding how uh to support seniors both through our senior centers but also more broadly whether we form some sort of a a seniors or aging council focused on the issues affecting older residents so uh we'll be back to you with something interesting after our work concludes thank you okay thank you councilor pine any other committee chairs and an announcement okay seeing none we'll go to the next item which is uh city council general affairs anybody have commentary on general affairs okay seeing none it goes down to council president updates i just want to let folks know that there is the wednesday uh on next wednesday the 24th we do have that public informational meeting um regarding the annual election ballot items this is an informational meeting at five p.m um just want to get that make sure that that's on folks radar screen um just so that we have counselors in attendance for that that's just an opportunity to give folks um further explanation on the ballots that they're going to be voting on on town meeting day so with that um that brings us to the mayor and general affairs go ahead mr mayor thank you president tracy um two two items from me um one uh just want to make sure the public is aware and i think the news is out there and a lot of people are moving quickly on this but if you know anyone who is 70 older as of today they are now able to sign up for vaccinations from the state that as of uh middle of the day already um something like a third of the total population had signed up many thousands of people signed up today but uh that remains the website and call center remains there for berlin 20 and 70 and older now to sign up for a covid vaccination and then secondly the other item the city clerk's office has now mailed out approximately 20 000 ballots uh they should uh if if you are a registered voter and you you you should have received one by by now or or certainly in tomorrow's mail and so if you have not um consider getting in touch with the city um but look for look for your ballot in the mail and then it can just is in the fall when there were multiple ways to return the ballot we are organized that way again so you can up until the 22nd of February there should be plenty of time to drop the ballot back in the in the return envelope in the mail and it will come back to the clerk's office there are also now four drop-off boxes around the city that you can drop off in any time up until town meeting day uh city hall is opening um uh during business hours for the return of ballots directly to city hall and you can vote on town meeting day as well either bringing back your ballot um uh or getting a ballot at at the polls so lots of options for voting and look encourage everyone to uh to to be aware that voting is underway and and um there's lots of information out there um if you need more on this that's what i've got president tracy thank you mayor um that concludes our agenda so a motion to adjourn is in order moved by councilor pine seconded by councilor high tower any discussion hearing none all those in favor of adjournment please say aye aye aye opposed hearing none we are adjourned at 10 16


Now, if you're looking for some faster recipes, I'm sharing some of my favorite 20 minute meals. Now, last week was a little bit different. I actually woke up at three in the morning, drove all the way to the airport because I was going somewhere special. One of my favorite places, Disneyland. I was actually headed to a YouTube conference, but I had a few hours before it started. So a good friend of mine and I spent a few hours eating and enjoying rides. So while I was gone, I decided to get the ingredients for my family so they could make some quick, easy meals. So if you guys are ready, let's just jump right in. The first recipe I'm making is our Disneyland Monte Cristo sandwiches, but they are sliders. You guys are gonna love them. For this recipe, I have a container of turkey and some ham. You need both because that's how sliders are made, right? Then I love King's Hawaiian rolls for my sliders. Raspberry jam, Dijon mustard. This is our mayonnaise, a little bit of butter. One egg. Hey guys, don't eat me alive. We're gonna call it Worcestershire sauce because that's how my mom says it. So Worcestershire. And then we have some Swiss cheese. And the thing that might sound weird that we need is powdered sugar, but if you know, you know. All right, we're gonna start by spraying our nine by 15 pan with some cooking spray. Next, it's time to cut the sliders in half. And for this, I'm just gonna use a bread knife and just try as carefully as I can to get right in the middle on both sides. Sometimes it comes out uneven, you know what? It still works, it's okay. So I'm gonna peel off my top and I'm gonna put my bottom right into the pan. All right, next we're gonna take the raspberry preserves. Gonna put about a half a cup on the bottom of this. And we're just gonna spread it on the bottom. Now I know what you're thinking.  All right, so we have about a half pound of ham and a half pound of turkey. Now I know that seems like a lot, but we want a lot of layers on these sliders. You guys can hear my dog. He knows I am working with ham right now. He's just whining. Oh, poor buddy. All right, so I'm doing all the ham first. Then we'll add the turkey. All right, time for the turkey.  Yup. It's gonna be like that for a while. Okay, we have our turkey and our ham and our jam. Now it's time for swiss cheese. Now if you don't like swiss cheese, you can use other cheese too, but the swiss cheese just gives it that, mmm, Monte Cristo taste. All right, we're just gonna set this to the side and now we're going to melt some butter. So we have a fourth cup of butter that we're gonna melt. Nice, then we have about one tablespoon of Dijon mustard. Gotta shake that up a little. Hate when you get the juice. You know what I'm talking about. Add a tablespoon or so. And one teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce. One tablespoon of mayonnaise. And then one egg.  Now I know what you're thinking, this is a weird mixture. Just trust me on this, trust me, okay guys. And you're gonna take the mixture and brush it on the top part of your buns. It's gonna be a little bit thicker. Almost looks like it's a thick, thick Dijon mustard. Once it's on, you can go ahead and put it onto your sliders. All right, now this recipe calls for actually another one-fourth cup of butter because we need to butter our tops so they won't burn because we've gotta cook the inside of those rolls, cook that egg. So we wanna butter these up nice and yes. I was gonna say juicy, I don't know if that's the right word to say. Just nice and buttery, there you go. Okay, now we're gonna bake these 325, 15 to 20 minutes. All right, we just pulled these out. Now, for my favorite part, we're just gonna sprinkle a little bit of powdered sugar on top. All right, you have, what's your name, dear? Sarah here, ready to try out the slider, are you ready? Okay, a big bite, thumbs up, thumbs down to the side. What do you think? Okay, oh, thumbs down, that's too bad because this is a thumbs up five best slider ever. So, you might think differently, huh? I love it. Now, the next recipe I'm making is our chicken Alfredo Noki Bake. Now, I love this because the Noki cooks so quickly that it just speeds up everything else. Now, to make this 30 minutes or less, you need two packages of pre-made Noki. Then we like to use just canned Alfredo. Again, you can make homemade, but if you're looking for a 30 minute meal, Alfredo sauce already made is the way to go.  Okay, we're gonna put our Noki in. And here's the secret with Noki that's already pre-made. You are going to put it in boiling water and then you're going to cook it for about two minutes or until it rises to the top now. Gotta kind of break it apart a little. While we're waiting for the Noki to cook, we're gonna start making the sauce. So we have 16 ounces of Alfredo sauce, about one cup of ricotta cheese, and I'm just gonna add this whole container because I love ricotta. Then about a half cup of sour cream.  And we're just gonna mix this together until it's all combined. All right, now we're gonna add about one cup of mozzarella cheese. And let's go check on that Noki. I think it's done. All right, so the secret with Noki is once it floats to the top, you wanna get it out of there. We don't want to cook it any longer than we have to, so I have my little gadget so we can drain out the water. Just to go on my dishes, we live here. I'm just going to dump this right in. We've gotta stop them from continuing to cook. Okay, and just mix this in. Now before we mix too much, we're actually gonna add our chicken in here too. Ooh, I suggest getting a big bowl for this one. So we have our nine by 13 pan here. We're gonna spray with some cooking spray. Now it's time for the good stuff. We're just gonna dump it all in there. So you're just gonna spread this out so it's as even as you can get it. Then we're gonna take our Parmesan cheese and kind of just sprinkle that on top. You know, we need more cheese in this dish. I love cheese. And then just a little bit of bacon bits on top. So you're gonna bake this at 350 for about 15 to 20 minutes. Well, the taste tester didn't want to try this one, but I love no geese top. That is good. I'm gonna give this one a four and a half just because it's just not as good as the sliders. And the last recipe I'm making is our mini chicken pot pies. I love these because they literally come together in about 20 minutes. All right, for this recipe, we're gonna need some mixed vegetables, some cheddar cheese. Hmm, you guys know I love my cheese. We have some onion powder, garlic salt and normal salt, two cans of biscuits. I like to use Grains biscuits because they're a little bit bigger. One can of cream and chicken soup and then some cooking spray. And of course you need some chicken. Now I love using this already pre-cooked, pre-shredded chicken, or you can use rotisserie chicken or you can cook some chicken in your Instant Pot, but I love the stuff that's already cooked. So I put my cup and a half or two cups of chicken already in here. It was nice and hot. Next, we're gonna add one can cream and chicken soup. Oh guys, it's not coming. There we go. Then about a cup or so of cheddar cheese or a little bit more, that's how we work here. Okay, then we have a package of vegetables. So we have about a teaspoon of onion powder and then about a teaspoon of salt or garlic salt. I'm just out of garlic salt, so we're using salt today. Then you're just going to mix this all together. Now you can add other things too, like fresh onion or whatnot, but we're trying to, on those busy, busy nights, trying to make some meals that are just super fast that you can throw together. All right, so I have my muffin tin and we're just gonna spray a little bit of long stick cooking spray in the bottom of each one just so it'll make your life easier. All right, decided this is the worst part about biscuits or anything in a can. Okay, then we're gonna take a little biscuit and we're gonna spread it out just a little bit, put it into the bottom of each muffin tin. All right, we have filled it all with our biscuits. Now we're going to just spoon in some of the chicken pot pie. And I like mine overflowing just a little bit. So we filled up this 12 and then we also added four more to another one because we had a lot of chicken. Okay, we're gonna cook these at 400 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes. Now my kids ate these so quickly that they didn't even have time to rate them. Like when I came home, they were gone. So that being said, I think they were a five. Now I did spend the majority of the time at a conference but I just have to say, I was the coolest mom for just like two seconds. They wanted me to say hi, I hope you have a good day. All right guys, if you want more simple, easy recipes, I got plenty for you. You can find them just right up there. All right, I'll see you later, bye.


This area in the North Thompson River Valley has been decimated by the downfall of the forest industry, which was of course impacted in the recession in the U.S. housing. But a lot of the people that are living in Clearwater and Vavenby have to travel to the oil sands for work, so that's very hard in family life. We've got terrific support from the community, the mayor, the town councils, all of the people that we've talked to in the community meetings who want to know when the jobs are available. We're getting resumes on a weekly basis even though we're not in a position to hire yet. So for example, the operating costs of this mine will be about $200 million per year. A large part of that money will get spent in the North Thompson Valley. We're looking at hiring 350 full-time jobs for the operation, up to 500 jobs during construction. So it's going to be a major impact on the valley and it will benefit the first nations in the area as well as the other communities as well.


Income tax 2021-2022, social security benefits. Get ready to get refunds to the max, diving into income tax 2021-2022. Here we are in our income tax formula. We're looking at the top line, that being the income line. This is the first page of the 1040. We're looking at line 6, 6A being the social security benefits, total 6B being the taxable amount. Quick recap of the social security in general. When you hear social security, you wanna think about what side of the coin are we talking about? Are you talking about the point in time during your work in years, when you're paying into social security? If you're a W-2 employee, it's being pulled out of your wages with payroll taxes, for example. And if you're self-employed, then you pay it in self-employment tax. We'll talk about that later. Or are we talking about the time after our work in years when we're receiving the social security? That's what we're looking at at this point because we're looking at income and whether or not now that you're receiving.


Even this crap woke up right even even the leader of the cesspool today took out 1118 took out 1135 and trading to the 1150s So you had a realization today Welcome to access a trader the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success profitability and longevity Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge master your process and own your future Hey guys, give me a buddy welcome to another edition of the axis of traded calm Nightly wrap-up show. Hope everybody is doing well. I just want to welcome all our new friends who hopped on The squawk box audio feed hope to work with you guys soon. Hope to meet a lot of you guys soon So more important again as you saw today doesn't make a difference what it with the case may be Technical analysis whether you're trading Amazon you're trading a meme stock We'll get to them in a second It all as long as you have volume right as long as you have volume and a confirmation channel Whether it's the long side to the short side you have a high probability of making the right decision. That's all it is It's all probabilities of knowing that the wind is at your back. So let's talk about this So last night we discussed about Walmart the whole retail The whole retail reporting trade this week, okay We talked about last week or three weeks ago To kind of paint the picture how strong the market has been Walmart guided lower three weeks ago, right and everybody was screaming. This is the end of the world and the world and now That news is already out the way.  Were they great? Were they bad? Who the hell knows doesn't make a difference This is how strong the market is. It took the information that it got three weeks ago engulfed it right completely engulfed it just the way technology names have been doing this for the last Three weeks or so and took Walmart and took all pretty much all the retailers with it You had Walmart moving had a big big day at Kohl's who's reporting a little bit later in the week Yeah target, right and all these companies basically showing it doesn't make a difference that people are not spending money We know this the most important part is how the market is trading Trading on this news after fact, and it really does show how exaggerated the market is and before before we even talk about the Meme stocks, okay? I just put something at the perspective the spies hit the 200-day moving average today, right? This is three weeks after reclaiming the 50-day moving average. That is crazy, right? Just think about this This is absolutely crazy a dead cat a balance that have been here here would ended somewhere around here This is three and a half weeks going from the 50 day to the 200-day moving average, which is Magnificent absolutely magnificent. You have the cues right going up 40 points in three weeks Okay, that's not a little deal. Okay, that's not a what one of those things. I'll come back later This is a 40-point move in three weeks. That is a big deal and it really does show you kind of a Putting the gas on the fire of what Walmart did and what technology did kind of brushing off earnings This market is pretty powerful. Okay, and if you if you Really don't have an understanding on a day-to-day basis how really aggressive this market is Well, I think we could all agree right forget about if you're trading Tesla if you're trading Amazon, right? Those are speculation darling names. Those are hedge fund names. Those are mention a mutual fund pension fund means right? Those are institutional money flow So you're going to get a lot of speculation money because everybody wants to own those stocks and upward bias But the most impressive thing what we saw today. Okay was the rebirth of the meme stocks, right? And it's something I usually don't talk about I don't care about them, but when in Rome, right when in Rome The rest of the NASDAQ if you look at the NASDAQ stocks for the exception of Amazon that woke up today And we'll get to individual pivots in a second. They all pretty much rested Okay, and the new res day for the NASDAQ composite is down 25 handles, right? That's nothing I mean look at this move. They held a five-day moving average business as usual But what's crazy about it is these meme stocks they represent Speculation they represent retail and they represent what everybody fears that their career is going to turn into the chasers Right the chasers that it's going to the moon crowd and with all the stocks kind of Basically resting today you could just see for the exception of for the exception of Amazon They all rested today you had on Netflix continues to digest recent gains You have meta they're all resting right they're absolutely all wrestling But they're resting in a consolidation channel, which is super duper bullish instead all the money flow literally went from Beta right technology names and they hit names like BBB why? right BBB why they hit names for example like EAR talk about Stocks are not strong look what happened to be and look what happened in EAR just in the last hour, right? So it took if you go if you go my Twitter feed you'll see 165 got rejected twice right This has just happened in the last hour. Okay the stock went into the 220s again This is called chasing speculation money again. I'm not judging here You know again today was a perfect day to kind of see where hey chasing today would be good But chasing today would be good out of technical levels and we'll get you know We'll get to that in a second again. If you know you take a look at names like apron right again These are pivots. We had right apron our names like what's the other name we had we talked about last night I'll show you on the Twitter feed in a second, but names like BB, you know blog the blockbuster a Blackberry woke up right the the cesspool of the cesspool right the leader the commander in crap Even this crap woke up right even even the leader of the cesspool today took out 1118 took out 1135 and trading into the 1150s So you had a realization today that not only is the market strong in retail technology Now everything is waking up and again you can make that count the argument again I can make that count the argument again as well If I wanted to take the other side of this trade or the other side of this kind of conversation I would turn around say well, that's it the bulls did a great job They traded to the 200-day moving average on the spies. They got rejected off the spies You can see this intraday hiccup here, right? You can see this kind of intraday hiccup here They get you know, they hit they hit the 200-day supply and everybody knows again, this is not a this is not a Untruthful statement and you can turn around and everybody knows the last group is always to go is the crap, right? You can make that statement and that's a probably not a far fetch off type of statement But if you look at how the market has been trading, okay? This is not like the 55th day these stocks are up. This is one of the very few days Yes, I grant the BBY was up for the last few days. We even talked about that on on on last weekend's video But the point is money is being allocated to different asset classes Whether it's beta whether it's retail whether it's banks, right? Look at the look at the move the banks have been on right and this is a this is a group who literally wakes up once a year So you're getting something for everybody, but the most important part is and again We discuss this every single day. Don't be naive, right? The market's not going to go up forever at any given point. It could just stop There'll be a buyer strike, but I tell you the way we saw the market today It probably won't be tomorrow, right? Just the way the market is moving up here and I will say this much Technology I've been praying every single day. Please rest. Please rest. Please rest. Please rest and they've been resting, right? They've been doing a pretty good job resting against a lot of the symbols We just talked about but here's kind of the most important part of everything here is going on You don't need the indexes for these stocks to wake up, right? The Dow was up 200 points today, which is fine. Okay, which is absolutely fine I really just show you the strength of the S&P and strength of the diamonds But most important today was even when the you know, even when the Nasdaq today was down 100 100 and change Nobody even felt it because again the scoreboard is just literally a conversational piece Stocks that are being pulled up every single day above supply. They are waking up because this The money flow has to be retop. We kind of rotated into some place and that is a sign of a really really Strong market. So let's talk about the technical aspect of it cues look cues Probably still have you know a good run in them I think the top of the channel here will kind of represent what the spies did But what it shocked me for tomorrow that we get a rest again at the end of the day The spies did hit the 200-day moving average if you thought the first time hitting the 50-day moving average was important Well hitting the 200-day moving average is kind of a big deal So I think in a perfect world these stocks just rest right just rest. It's what what's one's what Wednesday Rest tomorrow rest Thursday every single time I want to rest right want to rest these Stocks just keep on going and going going and we keep on pushing and pushing and pushing But again, we're not we're not you know We're not blinded that in fact stocks have continued to go up in this very very strong market But the point is again be wary right just be a little bit wary Let's watch, you know, especially the members of the spies if they start dragging everything down And we'll really confirm that today we hit like a little bit of a soft a little bit of a soft buffer Right not a concrete wall and the most important part is let these stocks breathe for a couple of days And when they do when they finally start waking up, it should be really really good again. So let's talk about it, right guys so Crazy day.  So Look for all you guys have been swinging Tesla for the last three days. We knew how important 941 right was right and this is kind of you know But we're also not naive that stocks could stop at levels of interest And that's what's cool part about technical analysis You don't need you know, you don't need a thousand different opinions, right? Stocks are either going to confirm on a level which is very very important, right?  No, you have to react. That's the most important part So this morning we talk we talked about 941 only area left that matters if it confirms on a second entry Which it didn't okay, that's the most important part This is why we trade second entries for you guys who don't know what a second entry is That's part of the ps60 theory But if you guys notice it took out 941 went to 944 and that became the second entry because that's you're waiting for the first First pullback and it never got the second entry. So we knew right away and we talked about this at morning strategy If second entries confirm it should get to 960s But look there's a flip side to this and this is where we talked about don't fall in love with the stock Don't fall in love with the side of the market, right? Be open-minded trade both sides of the market if it fails that area It will create an earnings double top which it did and we will look for a channel for a backside move Obviously, we want to give the bulls the benefit of doubt, but again in life. We usually don't get well most of the time Don't get what we want. So life gives you lemons you make Right, so we'll talk about this in a second. So Amazon Broke out today. This is actually the highest close in this whole formation But Amazon is going to mirror the the SPY and it's going to mirror the Nasdaq 100 So it was actually a pretty decent move it went 44 60 ran up about a couple of bucks and then once the SPY's got pulled It got pulled as well But this is the highest close in the whole formation if Amazon goes sideways for the next couple of days and Starts reclaiming today's highs and starts building that much airspace. Yeah, there's a lot of airspace in Amazon But a couple of dollar move on Amazon You know one of the very few beta names that actually Stood out so nice move there TTD I still like never got there on the video. I still like never got there AMD I still like never got there, right? You see you see a recurring theme here. Everything was in the smaller cap names This little little sucker looked good. I'm still in this thing. I mean, it's down like 10 15 cents I kind of like this thing still this thing could start reclaiming $8. Let me show you the chart You know this thing is just building here as long as it doesn't lose today's range tomorrow If this thing could just reclaim back to $8. I think this thing could wake up So I'm I'm still in this thing underwater a little bit, but I still like the chart I'll give it one more day to see if it wakes up and here is where you I kind of sat there and I go Wait a minute.  And if somebody goes those are the meme stocks and once I saw BBY and by the way speaking of BBY It got so crazy at one point with these meme stocks They were buying size in the january get this not 30 dollar calls not 35 dollar calls They were coming in for the january 80 dollar calls in size Right past what you got allegedly Allegedly so we started watching all these meme stocks right because everything else in beta kind of rested expr 236 needs to build again. Usually you're not going to see a lot of small cap stocks I try to give our guys a lot of people do trade them Um, I try to give some you know some of these things. I think we talked about this thing yesterday Even the last night in the video So it got above 236 went all the way to 270 on this supply zone really really nice move on expr But that's not all right. That's not all that's when it just started up Then you got aprim right they started coming for aprim. I said look there's a shot this thing gets to 540 Right there's a shot shot it gets to 540 right and that's a crazy shot No way aprim gets to 540. It didn't get to 540. It went to 640 absolutely madness Here's the 540 confirmed this channel went to 640 again Absolutely bananas what these things are and here's kind of my point where we talked about earlier if the if the earnings highs fails Let's watch the downside. So here was tesla 923 is the double support if it builds below can flush I said 915 907 next stop tesla got the 908 nice move nice move But the point is it's still consolidating in its range. So again, you got a finagle, right? There's something called the juki pookie. You got a juki pookie yourself around this market You can't just sit yourself on one bias watching the stock move up and down You have to know levels and where these levels can have price action So look, you know 540 next stop figure 60 cents on a $4 stock, right? Apparently it's not enough went to 640 EXPR new highs 56 next stop went to 70 Hood I figured look I figured like this, right? I figured like this If all the garbage is moving up and I say that in the nicest most respectful way to each his own Right, wouldn't the king of the septic tank have to wake up first, right have to wake up as well 1120 1135 big areas. They had taken up all the crap Right respectfully speaking, of course, so here was hood not a huge move But here was hood it took out the 1120 right took out the 1120 took out the 1135 went to 1160 nice move there Uh, and then I started joking around how strong this market is would anybody be really really shocked if today tesla confirms the 944 area. That's how crazy the market is right now and that's how crazy the action is Um And I think that's it. I think that's it everybody was pretty much in a good spirits Um Amazon to the house amazon was up 22 points Um I think that's about it. I yeah, I think that's about it And good job for danie one of the people who took advantage of the squawk box So anyway guys the most important part Is technical analysis is your friend your savior your priest your rabbi Whatever you god you believe to okay, you don't need anybody's opinions all the information is right in front of us So going into tomorrow Yeah, I think there's a shot that some of these stocks can still Rest a little bit now you're getting another pop here bby after the close Maybe everything else starts being pulled up uh as well But most important part is remember you don't need to trade every single day your stocks will not be um Thrown into the spotlight every single day just because it's rotation everybody trades a little bit differently But the most important part is never settle never deviate and if you feel comfortable You can spread your wings through other things like a little bit of the meme stocks But if not wait for the value trade right don't wait It's one thing we always say don't short a dull market and at this point in the juncture I think a lot of bears are starting to figure that out guys. God bless. Hope to see a lot of you guys soon And I'll have god's help. I'll see you all tomorrow. Take care


Joey Burrow, everybody's talking Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, which I appreciate and respect. And I was a part of the conversation. I even asked Josh Allen, like, hey, when you and Patrick Mahomes look at each other and chat with each other, do you know that you guys are potentially the next Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and the AFC, you two are gonna see each other. You two are gonna be running into each other probably the next 10 years. I wonder if Joey Burrow heard all of that and was like, what the f**k is all of this conversation about? Now he's basically at the end of his rookie year. Now everybody's gonna say, he's not rookie, he's not rookie. That hurt last year and we missed a large portion of his rookie season with him. When we saw him playing, holy s**t, this guy's a guy. Oh, he just dies every other play though. There was games last year where he would literally look like he was beheaded. He was getting hit so hard in his shoulder. His head would be bouncing a different direction. He'd get out there and play, make great decisions. He'd be able to, you know, kind of break down a defense and do his thing. But now he's back. I feel like he learned from that whole thing. He doesn't take as many big shots. He's still mobile. He still extends plays. He has this ability to break down defenses.