All right. Mr. Brennan. Present. Mr. Rickerman. Here. Mr. Mcdowell. Yes. Duvall. Here. Mr. Vines. Here. Mr. Davis. Here. Mayor Vincent. President Ma'am, thank you. Mr. McDowell, would you please bust us with the word? Sure. We hope and pray that each one of you had a joyous and. Happy Christmas is coming. Lord for all that you've done for us as we approach the. Add that season. We pray and thank you for the blessings you've already bestowed upon us. We pray that the advent of. The creator in our lives. That we are fortunate to feel his presence. Touch us as we go through these hectic days. And allow your presence to heal. We ask it in your name. Amen. Thank you so much, brother. Thank you so much. There are no amendments. Madam city manager. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? Yes, sir. We don't have an amendment. All right, please, please. I'm sorry. Just holding item 29, Mayor Benjamin. The council calendar next time. And as well as additional executive session item. To 31, which would be adding the state of South Carolina. And Allen Wilson turn in general versus the city of Columbia. Under legal advice. Okay. Super. They cover everything you're going to say. Yes. Okay. Super. Okay. With those amendments. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? So. Move. All right. It's a move in second. Any discussion? I'll move the previous question. Call roll. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Okay. Okay. Mr. Rickerman. Hi. Mr. McBowell. Yes. Mr. Deval. Hi. Mr. Barn. Mr. Davis. Hi. Thank you. Thank you. At this time, we would ask council to approve the minutes from October 20, 2020 and November 5, 2020. move move move move move move move. But miss divine second by Mr rickerman discussion move the previous question car car roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Alright. Thank you. Thank you. And counsel prior to taking up the city council discussion action items. I think you're going to get a kick out of this. And I just had to do it. We need to recognize a 50 year. As of today. Employee. Mr. Oscar Davis who is on the line with us because I told Robert Anderson. But Oscar, Mr. Davis has been one of our longstanding, solid waste employees. He started as a laborer. He's worked his way up to operator lead. He can drive anything. He has a CDL. He can drive any piece of equipment, Robert says we have, and always with a smile. He said he told him that I wanted him to join us today, and he just brushed it off. The humble guy is smiling, but he's just the epitome, I think, of what we want our children to be, humble and hardworking and, you know, just stood the test of time.  He said, to just think about the year Oscar started, we celebrated the first Earth Day. A new car averaged about $3,600 and was 36 cents a gallon, and a stamp cost six cents. The minimum wage was $1.45 per hour, so with that, I wish we could. And Tamika and Will weren't born yet. Very true, but with that, I mean, still, this isn't to say he's leaked. Even though this is just his 50th year, he's still going strong, and so I just wanted to share that. I think Oscar was featured in a new story back in the summer, and he just loves to still come to work every day, and we certainly appreciate him. Oscar, if you're listening, I can't see you in person today, but I've got a little something for you.  Robert, are you an Oscar on? We are. If Erica could turn my camera on, he could, he's asking for it. Oh! Yeah, we love to see you both. Look, you have to turn your camera on, Robert.  There you go. There you go. There he is. Hey, Robert. Hey, Oscar. How you doing? I'm good. 50 years. I really had a hard time telling Oscar earlier that I was seven years old when he heard it here. And happy birthday, man. Hey, hey, thank you so much. This puts life in perspective, man, 50 years of service serving the people. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for your commitment to the people of Columbia. It's so rare in the world we live in nowadays that you hear about folks who have jobs for five years or 10 years, five decades, and you are a role model for a lot of folks. So thank you on behalf of the people of the city. We have to have some follow-up conversations on this, too, to reason. Yes, sir. Absolutely. To recognize them. That's amazing, brother. Amazing. So I wish I could. I got so many people on the screen. I was trying to get a good screen shot, but I can't get them. So we'll figure out. Well, if he talks and then we put it on speaker viewed. Will that work, Erica? Robert, say something. Oscar's sitting right in front of the camera. Oh, is it? Oh, yeah. It shows up better on Zoom on YouTube than it does on Zoom.  And brother, may God bless you for many, many more years and just thank you on behalf of everyone. All the citizens and the folks in the city of Columbia who serve us over these years. I'm sure you got some stories, man. I want to hear them someday. You know, if I ever suspended him and I know we're on live TV, I did it one time. He regretted it though. I regret it. All right, good deal. Take care of yourself. Be safe out there. Thank you. Okay. Thank you all. Take care, brother. Thank you. That was that was the one of the coolest moments of my last year. And I tease, I tease as well. And to me about not being bored, Daniel and I would probably could still wear diapers. One. Thank y'all for allowing me to do that. I knew you would want me to. Absolutely. That is amazing. You know, just a comment. That is a, that is super. I've always told folks it's, there's a difference in working in government. And public service. I usually refer to it as public service. That way you're, you're true to the cause and the reason that you're in it. In the first place. So for 50 years, it had to be something. There's got to be something about what he's doing that he likes. I mean, Good deal. I'm a city manager. Thank you. With that, Mayor Benjamin, if you have any comments prior to. Situation. We want to hear from director Tinsley. I did make a comment. We'll make a comment about the article about when we, Chris, trying to do the great article on when we go back to normal. And you know, we're going to do what we've always done, which is follow the data, follow the science, and we want to make sure that we, we not only make sure that we protect the health of our staff and the citizens who come and visit with us, but certainly our fellow colleagues on council. The, I will tell you, we are, we are eager to be back together. This group actually genuinely likes each other and love each other. So having a chance to get together, but we will make sure that we continue the model of the, the type of the age or that we want others to engage and understand the importance of physical distancing, especially right now as COVID continues to hit record, record numbers. So, but I just want to thank everyone on this call and certainly mostly to our citizens who have indulged us as we try to do the right thing. We're going to keep on doing that. And hopefully by, by we closer to the late spring, early summer, we'll have an opportunity to get back together. So just leave that for director Tinsley. Yeah. To jump in. And Mayor Benjamin, I think to that point, if I could add the, the approach that you all have taken and allow me to take has allowed us to still have folks like Oscar working every day, but in a safe manner. I think people sometimes, and we don't want them to be thinking about the services that they need because they should just, it should be seamless and they should be getting them. And so I think that, I think that, you know, the frontline staff, I have to give a shout out because they haven't missed a beat. I mean, we, we have remained working. There may be some offices that we've closed intentionally to keep everyone safe. But 80% of our staff is working on the front lines every day and the other 20% are just working differently. And that is so the water is clean. And so I think that's a, that's a great question. And I think that's what the municipal government does. To Mr. Davis's point about public service. And so that should be seamless to our citizens. And any question about, you know, not being at the normal. You know, a council meeting may be virtual, but everything else is still going strong for the most part. So thank you all for allowing us. Thank you for bringing up your question. And I think, I think Chris had asked that question as well out of 2,300 since March. And those positive cases typically have come from, you know, just social interactions not in the workplace. So we, we appreciate that the effort you've allowed us to continue down the path in a safe way. Hi, hey, can you hear me? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yep. Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm Mr. Mayor and members of the council, Madam City Manager, just a brief COVID update on some of the numbers. I know everybody's watching these very closely is what is happening around the country right now. So worldwide now we're over 63 million cases, global cases of COVID-19. And unfortunately there's we're north of 1.4 million deaths globally due to COVID-19. Here in the U.S., as of today's numbers, we're over 13.5 million confirmed cases, 260,000 deaths for COVID. Our case numbers reporting out as of this afternoon for our state, right now we stand now as of today at 205,004 cases, we're over 200,000 cases to date. As of yesterday's report out, the new case counts, confirmed case totals, we have an additional 1,297. That brings our positivity test rate to 17.6%. And unfortunately there were 13 new confirmed deaths. As of yesterday that brings our confirmed total to over 4,000, so 4,091 to date. So here in Richland County, we are now, our case count stands now at 8,875, and we had 79 new cases as of yesterday's reporting. It's interesting to note over the last 14-day reporting period in Richland County, we've had 1,297 new cases. So we continue to average between, in Richland County, between 70 and 90 new cases daily. Now the upstate is really spiking pretty good, but here in Richland County, we've continued to maintain between a 70 and a 90 new case per day. It's nothing like we were seeing in July, but we're definitely starting to see some increases. So for Richland County, the report out today is 284 confirmed deaths, unfortunately. So with the case counts by zip code, the highest zip codes over the last 14 days are 29063 with 105 cases over that 14-day report out, 2901 had 107, 290210 had 100, 290223 had 130 cases and 290229 142. As of the November 25th report out, 39 of the 46 counties in our state have a high recent disease activity rate, with only seven listed as medium. So Richland County continues to be at high hour 14-day recent disease activity incident rate was 306.7 per 100,000 with our test percent positive rate at 10.4 percent. Additionally, the state recovery rate is estimated at 91.3 as of the 28th of November reporting sample and the state fatality rate is at 2.08. So just the statewide, there have been over 8,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past week. So our state is averaging over 1,000 new, 1,200 new cases per day. And for that report period, our average statewide positivity rate is 14.9 percent. Statewide hospitalizations remain high. There is sufficient fiscal bed space as the bed utilization rate still remains at 75 percent. It has remained within that 72 to 76 percent in the most recent past. The ICU bed utilization rate stands at 76 percent. So as of today's report out as of last night, there are 980 patients currently hospitalized due to COVID-19. 201 of those are in ICU and 84 are on ventilators. And our state public health officials continue to aggressively evaluate case counts, positivity rate, and hospitalizations. And just as of today, DHEC urges continued vigilance with a focus on prevention measures as we await vaccines. So that concludes my report. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you, Harry. Always helping us keep the facts and data in perspective. And we encourage everyone, you know, we get more and more encouraging news on vaccines and hopefully we'll have a role in helping influence the rollout of the vaccines in a responsible way, equitable way that makes sense for tamping down the acceleration of the virus. But in the meantime, we want to continue to encourage everyone to keep wearing your masks, keep physically distancing, keep washing your hands, the very basics and that will help us all stay safe much, much longer. But there's light at the end of the tunnel and it's good to see that. So let's just keep doing our part. Thank you so much, Harry. Thank you. Thank you, Harry. Thank you. Mayor Benton and council, there was a letter that came out today. I hope it went to you. I couldn't tell from the way we received it from the DHEC interim director thing to local government officials. If you don't have that in your inbox, we'll make sure we'll forward it to you. Good deal. Let's keep on trucking. Okay. Right now we have an update from the Central SC Alliance, Ms. Tracy McMillan, the interim president and CEO. Welcome, Tracy. Thank you so much for having me today. I really do appreciate everyone allowing me just a few minutes to update you on what's been going on here at Central SC and I will try to be very cognizant of your time today. So if you have questions, just jump in and ask as I move through the presentation, but I'm always available to answer questions later if you want to catch up with me then. I'm going to try to share my screen. Make sure you guys can see. Can everybody see that? Okay. Okay. So Central SC has been around for quite some time since 1994 and our mission is to engage in regional economic development to nurture prosperity by representing the city of Columbia and the eight counties in the heart of our state. While the city and the counties that we represent all have their own unique needs and assets, the region creates synergies with the sheer goals and resources that eliminate duplication of services by fulfilling our mission to lessen the burden of government. Synergy of regionalism propels us quite a bit because we have greater visibility with the population of a million roughly in this region and it gives us the opportunity to be very diverse and the recruitment of companies and talent that help raise the standard of living for the city, which in turn increases a lot of things like wastewater, wastewater revenues, sales and hospitality taxes for the city as well. So we have been here in the office since May 1st, hard at work as soon as things are picking up after the initial lockdown of COVID-19. Our staff of seven, we kind of see as an extension of the city staff that we're always on call to the economic development staff with a wide range of custom services. And while our staff might be small, I always like to think we're mighty as well and we have an extensive experience amongst us that we can bring to bear at a moment's notice. We've had quite a bit of change recently as of July 1. I fully assume the role of interim president and CEO. And while this change was under difficult circumstances for us, we have taken it as an opportunity to evolve. So we began somewhat of a listening tour going out to speak with our member counties as well as the city to truly understand what they needed from us and how we could change to make things better. And one of the ways that we did that was realigning our team with our mission. And I'll just hit on a couple of highlights for you. One of the big things that we saw is lead generation is so critical to our members that David King, who was our VP of marketing, shifted over to become our VP of global business recruitment. And we did this because it was important to really be truly focused solely on that lead generation, not only for the region, but to provide that targeted lead generation service to the city because you guys have unique needs and targets. That was one of the big things that we changed recently. When we shifted David's position, we had to kind of backfill that marketing lead. So Carrie Turner took over as our director of marketing. She's a true creative and an asset to this organization. I can't say enough good things about her. But she's really driven a lot of our agencies. And Carrie is our director of research. She's been in this role for quite some time. But I mentioned her because she's phenomenal at what she does in providing services to our members. And she is a critical component to those top three truly important things, lead generation marketing and research that we provide. So economic development, as we all know, is a highly competitive landscape. We're all looking for that needle in a haystack project and it's not easy. COVID complicated that quite a bit more. And as we've all seen everything shifted to virtual meetings and webinars. So we immediately looked at doing more on our own and generating webinars and meetings that were virtual. And we've done that focusing on industry groupings and biogeography, especially looking at doing some more tech targeted type webinars moving into next year to follow the city's interest. And some of the targeted recruitment programs that we are currently working on with Ryan and his team. We did hire on a newly generation firm this summer. So we're really excited to have a really solid lead generation firm behind us now that's very research based. And we're looking at adding in some new programs you can see that we've shifted with some of the growth industry focused for COVID-19. But we also have implemented a new LinkedIn program where we are targeting companies through LinkedIn. Our first round of this is going to be focused on the life sciences industry and then we will be launching into other industries when we see success from that fall out. Another really interesting and unique tool that we have available is Gazelle. It's an artificial intelligence online lead generation tool that we've also made available to the city staff. We can use this to use business intelligence to identify growth companies to help support our lead generation efforts made it forward. I'll just touch on a few of the marketing items that we're working on again because of COVID we really had to change our direction a little bit and pivot. Virtual is so important so we've really partnered with the city to continue expanding a library of photos, videos and really tagging in those testimonials and success stories to better tell our story as a community and in a more cohesive way across organizations. Two of the collections of videos we already have available for the city is the city's existing industry and quality of life video. There's also one available for Richland County and the region all on our website for you to view. And then one of the other really important things we have done is start a property drone video program. And that is so that the clients that we're speaking with these companies that are interested in taking a look at the region can see for themselves what these available sites and buildings have to offer. The first two we did for the city is Bull Street and the Enterprise Campus at Midlands Tech. And we will continue building out this program as Ryan and his team see fit and they need additional videos we will jump in and help out. But we're also partnering with some of the brokerages around Columbia just to make sure that we are expanding that collection of videos as quickly as possible. We do have quite a bit of in house design capability. We're working on a lot of different things, one of which is a lot of different industry sector specific brochures as well as county and city specific brochures. We do a lot of E blast direct marketing to companies and site consultants right now our database is a little over 2000 so it's quite large and covers across the globe that we know either have projects and play or or may have them moving forward. And you can see an example of us highlighting the Enterprise Campus and one of those E blasts recently on the right hand side of the screen. One of the big initiatives we took on this year and if anybody's ever redone a website you know it's a huge overhaul, but we launched a new website in the spring to enhance our messaging. And in tandem with that we rebranded so you'll see it across our website but we're we've rebranded as the heart of South Carolina because I think it really speaks to who we are as a community. We've relaunched and rebranded our made in Central SC campaign. We feel like this is very important because what really speaks to our ability as a workforce in a community are the things that we are able to make. And so we created this logo that we have shared with companies around the region that they can put in their branding as well to share and take pride in what we make here in Central SC. I'll just touch on social media for a second because that's so important in today's world. And that's something that we've really amped up in working with the city to make sure we're supporting the news and events that you guys have going on, and that we're highlighting your properties and marketing materials the right way. But also making sure that we are being creative and adding to that. So one of the really interesting things we've done lately is the five fun fact series. It's a little video that talks about some of the unique things going on right now in the city. One of the other big initiatives that is so important moving forward for us is expanding our collaboration. It's not something that admittedly we've done very well in the past and it's very important to us moving forward. So we launched our insights from the heart of South Carolina newsletter this year and we are now running that quarterly to update all of our stakeholders on what's going on. You should all be receiving that but if you're not please reach out to me I'm happy to make sure you guys are on the list and you're receiving it to the right email. We are also very focused on making sure that if our members have action plans or initiatives that are important to them that we are helping in any way that we can. And one really unique effort that took place is the Columbia Action Plan. This was very unique in the sense that it brought together Richland, Lexington counties and the city of Columbia along with a CRA and the University of South Carolina. All after the same goal of being more competitive and recruiting knowledge based jobs. And this collaboration was launched in the summer. Central I see has taken a lead role in the marketing aspect of that, but we will continue to work in all of the different components of that plan to help me that effort forward. I know everybody's probably heard about the mark Anthony brewing announcement that happened recently, the $400 million 300 job announcement in lower Richland and we couldn't be more excited about this for so many different reasons. It was important because of the collaboration again that happened between the city and Richland County and Central SC, but we were all able to play a part to make this a team effort and make it a successful win for this region. I will try to share with you guys. There is something called a story map that we developed for this program. And we did this because when Mark Anthony brewing first came to town we knew we had a very, very limited time frame to really showcase what Columbia had to offer. Tiffany Harrison, the deputy director at Richland County came down to visit us and she said I need your help. We have to showcase the city, and we need to do it quickly and only have time on the bus from the airport to the site. And so Kate bugby and Kerry Turner on our team quickly went to work and figured out how to put together this story map so that as they rode in the bus from the airport to the site. They can see all the assets of the city pictures videos all embedded in this display, and they could learn more about what the city had to offer. And even at the end when they land at the site, they can see the industries nearby, they can learn about the infrastructure of the site, the rail, the nearby airports and port. So it really gave them a feel for their surroundings. And we are, we have taken this initiative and launched it out to our membership made it available to them to use for future prospect visits. And, and just to do virtual visits that makes a lot of sense in our current environment. So we'll see the right a really neat hand sanitizer label we customized for the project when they came in and we did all that in house as well. So again we were really excited to be able to have such a great team put together to really make this a reality for the Columbia area. So currently in the city of Columbia contract agreement with us includes a lot of different things, a lot of which I've already touched on. These are sort of our core services available to the city, but we're always open to suggestions and ideas and would love to hear more from from you all if there are things that you're interested in us helping the city with membership in the City Alliance is on an annual basis, and it's only for governmental entities, including the city and the eight counties. And they are the only ones that have access to our services as a as our membership. I will say one of the things that we also wanted to change going forward is our transparency so we are working very closely with our local developers including Ryan Coleman and Kay Hampton and their team. To make sure that we are transparent and all that we do. So, early summer, we created this SharePoint site for our local developer team so they can easily access any resources, see upcoming trips and events. And moving forward we're going to have a dashboard for performance measurements that they can see live on a daily basis. All that to say that the city's current position with us is is for a half year so running July to December. And what we would like to ask is that the city consider moving back to a full time year round membership that would take us July through June, and allow us to strengthen our partnership by better aligning our services and deliverables for the city, and by providing that uninterrupted service to you around. And again, I'll just reiterate I think it's so important to have everyone's input and please feel free to call me email me contact me anytime, but I'm happy to take any questions or comments for me today as well. Let's go ahead to make a and then Howard. Tracy, thank you for that presentation it was a very good presentation and certainly our condolences on Mike, he will be missed. I think that the information given is is really good to help us figure out the partnership and and the asset of having someone like Central SC. I think the data dashboard that you talked about is critical for us to understand where we are on deliverables where we might need to tweak. And what return we're getting on our investment. Do you have an anticipated date that that would go live. Thank you for your question. No, we currently do not have a date for that we have some other things in the works and unfortunately we have to shift around our internal system a little bit to make that happen. But we were hopeful that early next year that would be available to all the local developer teams said the city's economic development office they already have access to the SharePoint site, but certainly the dashboards we hope to have early next year. The information that will be on the dashboards is that is that able to be produced in a hard copy form for Ryan to share with us. Yes ma'am we can certainly look at that depending on what type of information you would be interested in seeing and develop something specific for the city. Thank you. You're welcome. This is Howard of all two comments number one. There is a town in South Carolina near Clemson South Carolina called Central South Carolina. I am sure they're going to like the publicity that you're doing with your rebrand made in Central South Carolina. The second comment is I did not think that we were going to a half a year membership. I thought we were going to the level of membership that did not include an extra bonus that the city of Columbia had thrown in for a number of years. But we were going to the same level of membership that other cities had. Councilman DeVall for your question as well. So the latest contract we had in years past the city was a full time year member but in recent years there was a reduction in the funding available to us for membership and in fairness to the other members the other counties. Our membership is a steady rate for the whole year and there's not a partial membership available. So what we did and what we thought made the most sense was to at least provide the services to the city for half a year to be able to provide you with as much as we could. Tracy, I think this is probably the first time the council and I am hearing that explanation of the half year. The way we've done all of our contracts and understand what you're saying about the rate and how you all I guess we calculate a rate but that wasn't Mr. DeVall is right that wasn't understanding the council had we simply you know we reduced the amount and came up with some services that we thought were indicative of what that amount reflected with the reduced amount so we never looked at it is as being half a year versus whole a whole year of services but if that's the way that you are interpreting it. Then you know so be it but that is not the understanding that the council nor I had. He's my apologies for the confusion. I do believe it's in our contract for the half year it was one of the ways we compromised to try to still provide services but these are the same services that we provide them an annual basis to all of our other members that pay the full rate. So it was really the only fair way we we could figure to make it work with the city at the reduced rate, but we are happy to look at options moving forward if you guys have a better way we can work together to make this work. It's probably timely to have an offline discussion about about membership in the Alliance and the terms that we discussed over the years with Mike and David primarily Tracy but yeah that's a as the primary advocate for the Alliance of Council. I just said we need to have a level set so we'll we'll we'll do that postase maybe a quick call me, Teresa, Brian, and we'll go from there. Yeah, so. All right. Thank you, Mr Mayor. Yes, I will. Yeah, well, this Wilson could you share any agreement we have with sent rusty with council member so we can review. Yes, sir, we'll do that. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. Thank you. Let's keep it moving trees. Yes, sir. The next items are your can make up your consent agenda Mayor Benjamin and Council items for through 21. Is there a motion. I'm a little bit of a consent agenda items for through 21. The second. Second. Any discussion. Moving to the previous question. Yes. You're muted Daniel. Yes. All. Hi. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Hi. Thank you. Moving to a period of ordinances second reading item 22 is ordinance number 2021 06 approving the use of certain funds of the city of Columbia, South Carolina in order to acquire construct, equip and develop land and improvements within the bull street facilities and motion. No, it's not approved. The second. Second. Discussion. With a previous question. Yes. Mr. Rick, and then. Mr. McAllum? Yes. Mr. Bob. Hi. Mr. David. Hi, Mary Benjamin. I. I'm 23 zoning and planning matters for first reading. 17 to 53 design and development city center design development guidelines the leading three point five four. Is there a motion moved? Is there a second? Do you second the ed? Yes. Second by Mr. Dowell. Discussion. Say nothing with the previous question. Mr. Mac, Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. Rickerman? Aye. Mr. MacDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mr. Vine? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye. Thank you. Ordinance is first reading item 24, Ordinance number 2020 one, zero seven, consenting to the inclusion of property in a multi-county industrial business part. The Gable Oaks affordable housing project of 5530 Randall Avenue. And a motion. McEwlatoon. So moved. So moved. Move to a second discussion. I'll get Daniel. I just was curious. Has anybody met with the developers or something. That's always been an area of challenges and I'm excited to see some reinvestment and to do whatever, but I had not heard anything about it until the agenda came out. So if someone could just brief me at some point, that'd be very helpful. Absolutely. There's an email in your inboxes and I know Mr. Davis has been in a lot of discussion regarding the project with the county having passed similar ordinance last time. And I'm going to step away for a second. This is an exciting opportunity for us to continue to use these tools to not only hopefully incentive more affordable housing, but preserving affordable housing. So I'm very happy to support this. Madam Clerk, I vote aye. In favor of this similar discussion, I vote aye. I'm going to step away, Mayor Pro Tem, for a moment and I'll be right back. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, sir. All right, Mr. Davis. No, just follow up on Daniel's question. I, you know, chat a little bit with, with Missy Daniel and I can fill you in on little conversations I've had with Yvonne McBride. She sort of, sort of walked along on this because it's in her county district. And so we've had some conversations. They've had, they're in a minute, they've concluded that basic conversations with the developer. And as I understand it, as of Friday, they are in agreement and it's ready for the third reading. Yes, there's some language in there that, that they were working based on the history of the property. That's basically it. All right. And how, how Mayor Pro Tem, we got a message from Missy Gentry with a paragraph that she suggested that we add to this. Can we ask the clerk to please include the following the city is communicating with colleagues at Richmond County regarding this ordinance and as a mayor of modifications being made that will address safety protocols for the property. First reading is being approved with acknowledgement that the city will receive a final credit agreement document for this project from Richmond County following their December the eight County Council meeting. That document will be the version considered by the city for second reading if first reading is approved. All right. Sam, yeah, I'm just saying that was an attachment to her email. I think she sent. So how would you you included that as an amendment to what we're doing now in 24. I think we just added it as a comment, not as an amendment to the. All right. All right. If the clerk would just add it does a comment. Councilor McDowell. Yes, sir. I want to comment that that language points to proper property management, keeping property managers to task for for for these. So I applaud that additional language that the county worked in there. Well, I also thank you, will also applaud that. Also, I've had some conversation with Council, Councilwoman McBride. And I think she was the chair is the chair of the Economic Development Committee. And I think in that part of as Sam has said, that would be certainly an addition to our to what we're doing here at Gable Oates. Any other statements? All right, we're not including this as an amendment, but an attachment to item 24. Is that correct? Right. All right. And sir, if you would, if you'd move to approve this, would you indicate would you indicate? Yes, ma'am. Call the road. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Vernon. Yes. Mr. Rickleman. Hi. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Vine. Mr. Davis. Hi. We already received an affirmative vote from the mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Madam City Manager. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. Moving into resolutions. Item 25 is resolution number R2,02100 authorizing the purchase of 62 49 Yorkshire Drive in Columbia identified as lap 13 block one in Yorkshire, Richland County. Walter way burns as the former owner as trustee under the revoked trust agreement of Walter Ray Burns stated April 29 2019 project named Yorkshire stormwater improvements as part of our second. Second. Second. Second. All right. It's been moved and seconded. Um, Madam City Clerk, would you call the roll please? Mr. Vernon. Yes. Mr. Rickleman. Hi. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Vine. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Thank you. All right. Madam City Manager. Item 26 resolution number R2,020104 authorizing the city manager to execute an encroachment license agreement between the city of Columbia and Dominion, South Carolina or the rich tech space to pipeline project on People Street in Richland County. I move approval. Thank you. Is there second second second by Mr. Rickleman, Madam Clerk, Would you call the roll please? Brennan. Yes. I recommend. Hi. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Vine. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Thank you and city manager. Yes, sir. Other matters item 27 council is asked to approve the installation of one speed hop on Holly Street between Rosewood Drive and burning drive is requested by the public works department motion to approve. Second, is there a second second by Mr. Rick, I'm Eric, if you would call the roll please. The burning. Yes, sir, recommend, I Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, bye. Hi, Mr. Davis. Hi, Mayor Benjamin. Hi, did the good Reverend break anything all the time? All the China's gone. And the silver. Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Protel. Thank you very much. Item 28, Mayor Benjamin is a final other matter council is asked to approve a four way stop at the intersection of Claremont Drive and kennel work road as requested by public works department. Is there a motion? Move move them. Secondly, any discussion? Move the previous question. Mr. Brennan. Yes, Mr. Rickman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis. Hi, Mayor Benjamin. And we we took 29 off the agenda. Do we have any any council committee reports or referrals? Not that I know of Mayor Benjamin. Mr. Davis. Now there's a message to the clerk. We did not set a date for the the last recommendation for the Economic Development Committee. Will. So if you can do do a little checking with now the two colleagues and we need to set a date on it. Yes, sir. I'm working on those emails now. I appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am. Erica. Yes, sir. We also we also at our last meeting talk not talk through but administrative committee. We need also to do that to do that scheduling also. Yes, sir. Thank you, ma'am. And Erica, we're taking a close look at the at the meeting agenda or proposed scheduled agenda proposed for next year and we'll wrap it up in that next meeting. Okay. All right. Thank you. Do we have any citizens online, ma'am? No, sir. Super. All right. Well then, Mr. McDowell. I mean, Mr. Duvall. Mr. Mayor. I'm sorry. Again, please. I'm sorry. Before we get started, I just wanted to take a point of personal privilege. Actually, right now, as we are speaking, the home going services for Ms. Burke are beginning for those. The Columbia community grew up on Ms. Burke's cooking for many, many years. And she was actually on the very first businesses that the empowerment zone worked to grow her business. And so I just wanted to take that that point of personal privilege to say that we will certainly miss Ms. Burke in our community and we give our condolences to her family. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you to make it. Thank you so much. No more input. Mr. Duvall, you have a motion? Mr. Mayor, I'd like to move we're going to executive session for receipt of legal advice related to matters covered by 20 client privilege pursuant to 30-4-70a-2 COVID-19 hate crimes ordinance. Receipt of legal advice related to pending threat and no potential claim pursuant to 30-4-70a. Sally versus Officer Myers. Strom versus City of Columbia. IJ Inc. versus City of Columbia. State of South Carolina. Allen Wilson, Attorney General versus City of Columbia. Discussion of matters related to proposed location or expansion of services to encourage location or expansion of industries or other businesses pursuant to 30-4-70a-2 Project Richmond and Project Cross. Discussion of negotiations incident to propose contractual arrangements pursuant to 30-4-70a-2 public art project. Segrod naming rights. The comment and 22-21 divine. I just want to note for the record that's LJ Inc. just important to make sure we note that. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. All right. Any discussion? With the previous question, Carcaro. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. Rickerman? Aye. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mr. Vine? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye. Thank you, ma'am. And thank you, everyone, for signing on the day.


Coach, what all contributes to a loss like this? First of all, you know, the Atlanta Hawks played great basketball.  They shot lights out. They're the more aggressive team, more physical team. But that's first thing off. I think they played great. I think on our end, again, when they made shots, we could have put our head down a little. And when they missed shot, they got their offensive rebounding. So the part where we didn't kind of told the line is our physicality in the rebounding. And we knew they're an athletic team, a young athletic team. If we didn't put a body on them, they're going to hurt us. And sure enough, they did. So they made shots. They destroyed us on the glass. The guys have been playing solid defense for most of the month of February. Sorry, I didn't. That's kind of where we're seven to the league in defense. And tonight, we look like 800 in defense. We lost our defensive identity tonight. It's one game. I'm not going to start changing things or go crazy. And like I said, I think they played a great, great game. Credit to Lloyd and Hawks. Is that a lack of communication on your end? Or a lot of times when people think physicality, they think on the defensive end, but their physicality on offense seem to obviously give you go. Yes, I think it was just both sides of the ball. I mean, again, they're a very athletic team. And they just had to hit first mentality. They were by far the more aggressive team. Kenny, I imagine that at halftime, you must have had some issues with the first half defense. And then they come out in the third quarter and allow 40. Is the message falling on that? And usually our guys, and again, guys, it was one game. Like our guys have been great defensively all year. Not good, great. So sure, we made some adjustments. And they came out and they started hitting shots again. We made some changes. When they started hitting shots, we played some zone mixed in, excuse me, some blocks of one. Nothing worked. We threw the kitchen sink at them. We tried our basic, went to other options. They hit against everything. And then when they missed, like I said, they gathered the rebounds. That big second quarter run, I guess from about 7 and 1 half left, all of the way to the end of the half, Karris was out that whole time? Was that just a matchup thing? Or did he get dinged up at all? No, no. We wanted to, you know, there's a reason behind it. We wanted to get him more minutes in the second half. We felt like previously we were putting him in too late in the fourth quarters. So it was a way to get his minutes back there and get him back at the end of the game. You talk about losing your defensive identity this game. Yeah. As a team, an overall team, are you struggling to decide who you are these past three games, do you think? No, we know who we are. No, I know the team. I know their identity. I know the guys, you know, haven't played well enough. He's had chances in two of them. This one was obviously a blowout and it happens in the NBA. But there's no questions about our lineups or our guys or our talent, none of that. Do you see any common thread in these last three games? Two different, two close games and then a blowout. So I don't know where there's commonality there. Every game's a different animal in the NBA. You feel like there's a gear that you guys have not been able to get to, whether it's crunch time in the previous two losses or where it was in the first half, third quarters. I don't know if it's a gear. I think it's in the close ones. We didn't make the plays necessary to close a game out tonight. We haven't been blown out in a long time. You have games like this during the season just happened. So they had much more energy than us. And that's kind of the story of the game. Can you challenge the defaults defensively? I think their zone defense is one of the best in the league right now, statistically. Yeah, they've played a lot more zone. I think that helped them a little bit. We weren't great against it. But offense, we shot a lot more offense. That was not the problem tonight. We got plenty of firepower offensively. It was strictly a defensive breakdowns on our part that caused us a game. With respect to the three teams that you just lost to, I mean, those are all three losing teams. And now you've got Miami on the road and Boston on the road. What sort of sense of urgency do you have? There's a sense of urgency every game we play in this league. And was Boston or Miami, there is no easy gains. And it's going to be that way the rest of we knew this was going to be a tough schedule after the all-star break. And we'll get it back. I have confidence in the group. Hey, listen, we've lost seven in a row. We've gone through the streets.  That's the only mentality you have to have. I think we talked about this before and how you balance defensive breakdowns with guys who don't typically knock down shots getting hot from long distance. So everybody made shots for them tonight. And as far as you keep saying, give them credit. Like, I mean, they made shots. And everybody made shots. The whole team. And it went from until the end of the game. I think their second, third team came in and made shots. So you have to give them a ton of credit. Great game by the Hawks. Do you have any feeling that Jared Allen has struggled since the break? I don't know if I'd say that. I think he's the good and the bad, like everybody. Of course, we always wanted to play more aggressively and dominate more. But I wouldn't say I'm disappointed in him.


Great. Yeah, so what I'm going to do really is Outline the process that led to a concept that we reviewed in February And then some of the comments that were made during that meeting and where we stand now so the As Brian pointed out, you know what this is this is a working group Which is part of the task force which sort of is mandated by the steering committee and then Ultimately the goal is to then run a clinical trial through C-TEP with Hopefully some some major impact on the disease in question and the working group members for the pre-surgical group that We we headed up Are as follows and Hyun Kim who's not here today? I think was was a co-lead this we had a medical oncologist and a surgeon for this pre-surgical Working group and we again tried to get a good representation of a medical oncology Urology pathology statistics Judy Manola was our our intrepid statistician in designing some some some Some constructs for us in this in this process so our mandate was really to sort of take that pre-surgical concept and to design a clinical trial that would answer important questions for the field of renal cell carcinoma and Our our mandate was to develop this clinical trial that really leveraged the pre-surgical approach to either or Improve our use of existing agents by understanding the interaction of that agent with a tumor micro environment and Also to identify deterministic response and resistance and to prioritize novel agents by assessing tissue and clinical response So the advantage of the pre-surgical design is that one of the the challenges that we face is we really don't have good biomarkers of much in renal cell carcinoma in 2013 and what we really need is we really need a certain amount of tissue and you know the girlinger paper and other Ideas and concepts of tumor heterogeneity Dictate that for us to really have something robust we at this point in time really need to have a fair amount of tissue to achieve it and these tissue end points are really rendered relevant by linking them to to meaningful clinical outcomes and Ideally some of the original thoughts that we had were that a randomized design would really again add relevance to these to these end points So when we think about how a drug interacts with that with the the tumor We have to think of the tumor really as as an organ That's that's made up of the epithelial cell the stromal cells and the endothelial cells and and this is a very plastic Environment you have the drug it'll interface perhaps with the endothelium which will modify be modified perhaps by the stroma And obviously the the genomic determinants of the epithelium are going to modulate that as well So it's a very complex and really sort of thinking through the action and reaction Again requires a fair amount of tissue And the other thing to sort of think about and this is something that was illustrated when we were designing The trials is that on the on the top right here? We have you know hypothesis based Mechanistic considerations, you know ideally what you'd have is you'd have some sort of a laboratory observation Which would generate a hypothesis and you would then test that hypothesis in it in a clinical study But practical considerations come into play how many patients of a particular population do you have? Can you access a drug a versus drug B? And so there's a practical overlay to to anything that you you do hear that ultimately results in in your trial It's you know the the sausage making of of science So as we went through this and we asked ourselves the questions, you know, what are the different disease states? What are the different agents and what are the statistical designs that we would use to? Narrow down the the type of trials would be interested in the first question is are we going to be doing a neo-agibent study versus a Metastatic patient study neo-agibent meaning patients that have a primary tumor in place But don't have metastases where we'd really be looking mainly at tissue endpoints We decided that so that we can have a clinical readout. We would be focusing on the metastatic patient population The second question is should we be learning? The biomarkers and the biology of existing agents or novel agents and at the end, you know We figured that novelty would be good We have new agents that are coming down the pipeline and and using this as a means to to learn something about the Biology of both would be really important The next question is were we ready in 2012 and 2013 to power a clinical trial by a Biomarker as opposed to a clinical endpoint and because we don't really have any validated candidate biomarkers that really You know rise to that level this by definition would have to be something that would be powered for a clinical out And an endpoint and then in terms of response is it primary response versus metastatic response Obviously, we ultimately care about the metastases But we make assumptions about the relationship between the primary and metastasis and hopefully get tissue from both so the the next question then is what are the most important questions we would want to answer from a from a trial design perspective which with regards to agents and so one of the ideas that we had would be we would use a Tki, you know sort of as a baseline plus novel agents that might modulate Tki response and resistance sort of a first past the post type of approach The second was with some preliminary data that young Kim had generated Would it make sense to combine an mTOR inhibitor with PD-1 because it looks like paradoxically mTOR inhibitors might actually augment immune Response and the third idea would be Tki plus PD-1 antibody and we we ended up saying that this third Choice would be the one that would be the most pragmatic and practical from again getting patients on trial perspective and and also having really the possibility for answering great scientific questions We then moved into and I don't have to tell you about checkpoint blocking agents You know, these are obviously very interesting We don't know very much about who's benefiting who should get these how best to give them and we thought this would be a great platform to design Trials and so we came up with ultimately because of Judy Manola's input a randomized trial between PD-1 antibody versus Tki asking the question whether or not we can a see whether or not There's differential clinical response between those two arms be are there any tissue factors that would actually guide us to which individuals were benefiting and We had the statistical design of a hundred and forty individuals randomized 70 per arm and We would then be looking at the tissue with a number of different tissue endpoints We had the meeting in Orlando in February 2013 where we discussed this in front of a panel of our peers and The the ultimate thing was that it was defined really as a fishing they it was considered that this was too much of a fishing expedition Yes, it's a clinical trial that you can do but what's the question and so the the trial was then refined and redefined as being anti-PD-1 versus anti-PD-1 plus a VEGF receptor inhibitor and this was based on the hypothesis that PD-1 inhibition Would be good, but perhaps not sufficient. There are clinical data that VEGF receptor inhibitors modulate the microenvironment a way that may augment the utility of a drug like nivolum up that There are negative immunoregulatory cells that are depleted by anti-antigenic therapy that the combination will be superior to the PD-1 antibody monotherapy alone and that there would be things that we would be able to see in the tissue that would be able to guide us to that degree There are a number of of data that are out there that that suggests that things like PD-1 ligand might be a potential Biomarker, but it's in of itself probably not sufficient and there are circulating data on Myli derived suppressor cells that suggest that these are a cell population that may be Modulated by drugs like Sunita nip so the trial was as it stands would be anti PD-1 versus anti PD-1 plus TKI With the clinical objectives to explore whether anti PD-1 antibody plus TKI provides superior response rate progression-free survival compared to monotherapy that the regulatory cell infiltrates are Portend for worse outcome and are modulated by these treatments and whether or not PD-1 ligand Is is associated with and is modulated by the the drug the thing with this is that we don't necessarily have preliminary data to be able to Power this at this point in time and so at this moment what we're doing is we're developing we're generating these preliminary data So fortunately at MD Anderson we have several pre-surgical studies. We have this bevacizumab pre-surgical study We have the Sunitina pre-surgical study and also through the generosity of my collaborators around the country and around the world We have a number of other sets of treated samples to be able to ask the question at preliminarily whether or not compared to untreated controls We're seeing that anti-angiogenic therapy is modulating these different types of cell populations We have TMAs of these and in collaboration with a couple of really great pathologists and an intrepid Instructor in my lab. We're developing the infrastructure to be able to really look at this in a in a meaningful fashion so the problem with immunohistochemistry is quantitation and Doing this robustly.  That's the unsegmented versus the right segmented the percentage of of CD8 positive here. This looks like this is a very reasonable measure Here's a higher percentage. It fits very nicely And we are also doing Fox P3 So these are single stains at this point in time and we're in the process of moving to be able to do multiple Antibodies so we can really define these subpopulations properly some interesting observations We see that there are more CD4 positive cells in renal cell carcinoma compared to normal tissue we see more CD8 positive cells and Intriguingly initial data not multiple antibody We're seeing that synitinib seems to raise the level increase the level of Fox P3 cells in the tissue Which is counterintuitive So the plan really is to complete these tissue analysis to make sure that our hypotheses that we are using to design this clinical trial actually are Are validatable and the next step then will be to design to power the trial and move forward. Thank you


Good morning everybody. Hi. Hi. Thank you. My name is Kalea Taylor. Welcome to the very first database as a service dev day. I'm so happy to have you all here. I'm waiting for my co-speaker to come Veronica. I'm sure she's on her way. I know I'm loud regardless. But can you hear me in the back? Hi Veronica. So Veronica and I are going to welcome you all to today's event.  There's an adapter here for a Mac if you have it and then there's a heartline here for you to be able to hook up to Internet if you need it for like I don't know a demo or something like that. Okay. So welcome.   Ed's in the front right there. And I do want to go over the code of conduct for our co-located events. The code of conduct is be nice. If you have to think about it, don't say it. Just be nice to everybody and we all can get along well. If you want to see it you can go ahead and scan the QR code there. Okay. Just to let you know the agenda for today, we are a half day co-located event. So we're going to go from 9 a.m. to about 12 45 p.m. around that time there is going to be a small coffee break around I believe 10 10 50 is the coffee break. So we're going to have back to back sessions going. You will have access to refreshments and lunch. This is the standard slide that we have to tell everyone for all the events. So right outside you'll have access to the different lunch and different little snacks that they have. And there's also an evening reception at 5 30. And you have cards behind your little badge to attend that. Okay. Also to let you guys know that the call for papers for Paris is now open. You have until March night night team to wait it's not to March night team. Excuse me. You have until January. I believe to get your call for papers in November. Look I should have read this one first. Sorry. I didn't read it. Sunday December 3rd. Get your call for the papers and like submit by that time for the KubeCon Europe in March. And then we have captioning and translations if you need it. There's a QR code here to allow you to be able to access that. Lastly we have a Slack channel on the Slack channel. We want to engage the community further. Remember this is a brand new co-located event. Database as a service is still in its infancy. And we'd like to grow the community organically. So it'd be great if you guys would connect on the Slack channel under CNCF. And it's the database as a service channel. Hello. Good morning. Thank you for being here. Well you've met Kalea and this is me. I'm Veronica Lopez. I'm an engineer at Planet Scale and I also serve as a co-tech lead for the Kubernetes release team. And well welcome to the first edition of Database as a service day. We're very excited to have all of you here. I honestly was expecting like half of the attendance this morning. So this is great. So just wanted to reflect on a couple of ideas. I guess that if you're here you might be working professionally on the DBA space but well in case you aren't in its essence Database as a service makes it easier for businesses and developers to access and manage data. This means that ideally users won't need any help with the underlying infrastructure, the hardware provisioning among other management tasks. Obviously this sounds way easier than it's done. And a very specific problem that we have in this space is getting to reconcile the stateful nature of databases with the stateless nature of tools such as Kubernetes. I will use Kubernetes as the placeholder for any other cloud native tools but I hope you get it. So as I love to say creativity loves constraints. So tools that were originally designed for applications, cloud native applications are now adapting to accommodate databases. And from my experience both at plan scale and at Kubernetes I have seen that this is a specific spot in modern computing that consistently pushes the envelope on all fronts from requirements to cloud providers to innovative problem solving such as reimagining or even reintroducing what best practices means up to challenging the Kubernetes API sometimes. And all of this while emphasizing on security and of course trying to build all of this with the lowest cost possible. Yeah, not a challenge at all. So this is why events such as Databases Service Day are critical for the community. They bring us together to discuss deep technical issues and hopefully there are solutions. So thank you so much for being part of this inaugural DBA day as the way you pronounce it. Yeah, we're very happy to be here. And Kalea, thank you so much for introducing all the information that all the folks here. I see that people are still coming so that makes me very happy. Yeah, don't hesitate to reach out to us either in person or on the Slack channel. And yeah, does anyone have any questions? I don't think so.


I'm actually going to a for sure any party tonight apparently the party is canceled. Do you want that me? You vlogmas guys it is finally December and I am going to attempt at doing vlogmas and please don't hold it against me because I'm a college student and honestly my life is really boring Sometimes and sometimes I just like don't have anything to like share with you guys That is that exciting to watch on YouTube I'll probably just like combine two days at a time if I don't have that much to vlog about I also apologize for my voice all the time like every time I start vlogging in the morning My morning voice is so apparent, but I can't really help it I'm not gonna put on makeup today cuz I might go to the gym might not I don't know what I'm doing really, but if I was getting ready I just usually like play my watch later Playlist on my iPad and honestly I just found out about this YouTube feature that you like press watch later on the subscription screen So you can click here and add to watch later, and then all you have to do is go to your playlist It's right there, and that's actually so convenient because I used to like Scroll through everyone and like pick which one I want But now like whenever I see a video that I want to watch later. I added it to my watch later Okay, that was redundant Feel like I'm never ready this early, so I'm just gonna do Largets mad at me because I buy bananas and never eat them Which is very true I bought these like on Sunday, and it's now Thursday But I'm just gonna be kissing me really quick because I'm planning on going to the gym before me a plan So I should probably have something in my stomach I feel like isn't weird to bring like your big iPad there And just like wash my face I'm not sure if I even like that my file it you know Like in that gym, I don't like the canvas like I like reaches or whatever.  What's your favorite song right now? There's a lot of new stuff I'm gonna check my Spotify, but follow my Spotify. I think calling me might be one of my favorites So i'm at katie right now doing some homework while I wait for meal plan to start I was going to go to the gym before meal plan But then I asked charlotte to go to the gym with me and she was like, oh, do you want to go at 12? So I was like, okay, whatever because I didn't really want to go alone So I'm just gonna wait for her and try to get as much homework as I can done But I need Lara for one of the homework things because we have to do like a live chat It's like funny because like I'll be in like my room and she'll be in the other room And we'll just like do the video chat, you know, like we're like in separate houses But we live together so it's kind of weird And I can like hear myself echoing through the walls meal plan today is breakfast burritos and they're always A one so I'm really excited But I'm also not excited because I really shouldn't eat that much Especially before I go to the gym, but like also because I shouldn't eat that much I feel like I always get so much food and then feel bad that I'm gonna waste it So I eat it all and that's not good They made me rent the gym and we're doing abs and we're gonna do butt and leg stuff on the mat All of a sudden started raining right when we were leaving the gym, which was like perfect timing I am really proud of myself. I did 10 whole minutes on the stair master 10 minutes guys. I know it's not much but it's a lot for me. I don't really work out ever So I'm really proud of myself because I feel like I never could get past like five But you know a little bit out of time is good And we did like a lot of abs and stuff like that It was pretty short workout because it was like our first day back in forever Now I feel so gross and like itchy and sweaty and little icky And I'm gonna go take a shower and maybe put on some makeup and film. We'll see Hey guys, so it is later in the day.  I'm really bad at like surprises And all of his presents are here right now And I wrapped all of his presents last night. So I'm really excited for him to open everything I just needed to be christmas So I can like get all this stuff to him and like out of my room out of my apartment first of all But second of all watch him open it and like get all happy and stuff because I know he's gonna love it So I literally painted for like four hours straight on just like Little things it was so annoying, but I finally finished it and all I have to do is like touch-ups here and there So that's like perfect and then I finally took a shower I usually shower right when I get home from the gym, but I knew if I showered I would not want to paint So I was like, you know what? So now I get this done. You need to get this done today I'm actually going to a for sure any party tonight. It's christmas themes Actually, I don't have like a christmas sweater or anything. So I went to walmart I found this vest sweater and I don't even like it that much and it was 24 dollars at walmart So I was like so annoyed because I could have just gotten something out for over 21 for the same price And I actually like liked it a little bit better But the walmart one I'm totally gonna return because I'm never gonna wear it again And it's not even that cute like it's not even like Cute ugly if that makes sense like it literally has like a candy cane and like a star It's just like the stupidest thing and it should not have been that much My friends are coming over before the party because it's really close to where I live So I should really clean my room. I feel like if I have people coming and I know they're coming I will literally clean in like 10 minutes and my room will be spotless beautiful clean And when I really need to clean and there's no one coming I take my sweet ass time like I literally will spend the whole day getting distracted by youtube videos netflix Like finding things in my room that I didn't know of and it's just so annoying I wish I could just power clean every day, but I get so distracted I didn't vlog at dinner there was like barely anyone there So it would have been really awkward if I like vlogged But I had pork sirloin and it was actually really good sometimes things on the menu don't sound that good but Everything chef rye makes is like so good, but I just put on my snowman slippers. They're so cute The air postal and waterford lakes is actually shutting down. So everything was on sale. So I got these cute shoes And they light up How cute is this and I've been wanting slippers like this for a really long time I just didn't really want christmas themed one so I could wear it all year around But these were only $15 now. I have to do what I have been dreading the most and that is putting on makeup Apparently the party is cancelled. I'm literally so upset like I'm really sad I was so excited for it bought a christmas sweater We had a gravitate today and it was to blue man group universal and it was literally seven dollars And regular tickets are a hundred And I didn't go I should have just freaking went so the party did get cancelled It's official. We're just gonna go tonight's pub instead. So it's all good in the hood We're gonna have a good night, but I got ready so early. It's gets so dark so fast in my mind I think it's eight o'clock and I'm like, oh my god I'm have to leave in an hour or something like that and it turned out to be only like six 6 30 when I started getting ready and we're planning on going out at 10 So I have time to film a video which is good because I wanted to film some kind of video and get it up Um, so I'm going to do a what I want for christmas and a lot of things on this are like really Just random things like I feel like when you're in college, you just want more practical items But I think what I'm gonna do is if I do post like a main channel video I'm just gonna not post a vlog or I'll just combine Two days of a vlog into one And make it one day if that makes sense so that if I do have a boring vlog day I can just upload a main channel video and I feel like that will work out a little better We'll see if I like actually do the vlogging thing because I know when I get home Like it's going to be so much fun vlogging because I'll be doing stuff But right now I'm in college finals. It just it's boring I just put up the kylie one because it fell I gotta straighten that out because I feel like that's gonna be bothersome I just got done filming and now I'm kind of trying to pick out an outfit for tonight But like I bought this like really Big sweater at walmart.  I really don't like my eyes Remind me never to do a freaking gold shimmer eye again Even though I'm probably gonna do it like five more times in my life Probably more actually Um, but I just want to show you guys my outfit. I don't know if I actually did yet But I'm wearing like a ribbed Crop top from forever 21 I don't really like the material that much honestly. I just needed a black crop top So I guess we're gonna have to roll with it Then I have this black skirt, which I literally am obsessed with I wear it like all the time I wore it on my birthday I wear it everywhere And I got it from forever 21 and it was so cheap I have this sweater from walmart and I literally hate it. I'm probably gonna return it I did take off the tag. So hopefully like They don't say anything like I have the tag I'll bring it with me But like I took it off because it was like on the outside I just didn't want to go to pub with the tag on my sweater Then I have these booties and they're from henry girl Do you want that be? Do you want that be? Do you want that? Do you want that? Do you want that be? Now slide Chop Hate the felt so soft You know I'm not gonna do it. I don't know why you put that in my pants Do it for your grandma No, I don't want that be Our matching Christmas sweaters kind of Mine has more at the bottom Yeah hers is like cuter I'm gonna use Santa But it kind of looks like a corset doesn't it? I really am not Oh wait, yeah I just put it to the leg I thought it was a corset Oh it's funny And mine just has joy Like before like I do something Outfit of the day Oh, oh Wait, wait How cute Where are you Charlotte?  That's pretty good Smells like peas What'd you get? Okay I'm like too tall for this table to like stand I'm really annoyed but those chairs like Oh sit with you over here Can't move them I know Wait there's four chairs over there Are there only three here? Yeah Late plates for the win