You know what they say, don't judge a book by its cover, don't judge a box by its shitty appearance. Okay, it was a nice gentle un-lappening. Probably be done with this. Here you go, cottage. Thank you. Okay, the first item is, uh, whoops. That's why you shouldn't use knives to open boxes. That's a good lesson to learn. Blumhouse and Universal Pictures. You hear that? Universal and Blumhouse are sending me stuff. That's the sound of someone making it in this industry. Blumhouse and Universal Pictures are proud to present their new horror thriller, Ma, starring us. I mean, this is the big leagues. We are excited to be delivery.  We are excited to be delivery. You are film exclusive. Oh, that's not, that's not pro at all. Please check your email from us for a Ma GIFs pack and other fun content from the film. I didn't get an email with a GIFs pack. G-I-F-O-K-S-S.  That's kind of shitty. I didn't get that. Okay, well, please use hashtag MaMovie and share your pack picks on social. I didn't get a GIFs pack. Salad. I didn't get a GIFs pack. Don't sass me, Salad. I will toss you right out. I will toss your Salad right out of here. Wait, was I not supposed to read that stuff out loud? Was that just for me and out of them? Everybody's welcome at Ma's, but good luck getting home. Oscar winner Octavia Spencer stars as Sue Ann. So there's a lot here. I'm not reading this. We're done. I'm going to paraphrase based on what I saw from the trailer.  So naturally, they should fear for their lives. What I love about the cardboard box is how it really sets the tone for what's to come. OMG. God, yes. Oh my God, yes. Please tell me, Fitz. I love that the bill's already billed out. It's not flat like a lot of hats. Sorry, I don't have to work it. It's already worked. Extra protection for my hats. I feel like I blew my load early. Let's see what else this thing has to offer. A little bit more tish. It's just paper. Okay. This is so good because there's a drinking game. You may know about it. You may not. It's been around for a little while where you play the ball cup. I think it's called and you try to hit the ball into the cup or you the cups down and you try to flip the cup up. It's something you do with friends when you drink and I want to be frank with you. I've never had friends and I've never drank because drinking is wrong, especially when you're underage in college and it's really drumming up a lot of emotions that I never had friends in college or in high school and I never got invited to parties. So I don't even know what this is. I don't even know what this is. Is there anything explaining it? It's just tissue. It's all tissue. Why is Octavia Spencer doing this movie? I wonder if Octavia Spencer would invite me to her house to teach me how to play ball cups. I got my ticket for the long way round to bottle whiskey for the way and I sure would like some sweet company and I'm leaving tomorrow. What do you say when I'm gone because that song is called cups and I've got cups in my hand go out and see the shitty movie. Maybe this is a one person game.  Let's see what else is in the box. I mean Oscar or Lord winner Octavia Spencer is in this so there should be some pretty cool tricks and treats in here. Paramount and Bloom House think I am valued at the cost of a sexy bedazzled hat and some cheap plastic cups from the dollar store and a plastic ball that may at one point have been part of someone's anal bead. Crazy idea. Here's a crazy thought. Maybe give me tickets to see MA so I can reveal it. That way you get two videos out of this dipshit. I feel like I'm losing my mind here with these unboxings. I haven't done one in so long. Put on a happy face Khaleesi. So head out and see MA in theaters this week. It's definitely not going to be the first Razzie nomination for Octavia Spencer. Cool beans. Hope you guys enjoyed the video. I felt like doing a really long pregnant pause there for no reason other than to make you feel more uncomfortable than you already are. Listening to me sing cups. I got my ticket to the long. I don't remember the words. I'm dressed as Blue Beetle today. Shout out to Tony who is apparently listening to this on mute. He's from Hack the Movies. I'm sure most of you know that at this point we've crossed pollinated channels several times. There's no way I'm keeping this on for more than a few minutes. I'm going to go ahead and throw that away. Tony got me this costume.  And that's how I know Tony is not married. He doesn't have children or a lot of responsibilities because that comes at a price Tony. It comes at a price. Hopefully you guys can hear me. Anyway we have a fun show. I'm going to go ahead and roll up these sleeves too. This is really kind of these light sign felt. We have a fun show today. First off happy Halloween. Happy trick or treat time. We have some Halloween TVs going in the background. I have celebrated this Halloween with a few different movies. Tonight we decided as a family we were not going to go out and do the trick or treating thing. We have a few thousand houses in this suburban hellscape. That's a lot of candy. You go to 15 houses. You are absolutely chock full. Packed to the brim with candy bars and pretty much diabetes all around. We don't eat it anymore. Okay. Our family works out every day.   They said you know what?  Let's kick our feet up. Let's watch some scary movies. So tonight we watched Sleepy Hollow. A movie I haven't seen in a very, very long time and I have to tell you I dug it. I thought it held up really well. Special effects were great. A lot of practical effects. A lot of good stunt work. Johnny Depp. You got Christina Ricci.  Sadly a lot of them are dead but it was cool seeing some of them. Michael Gambon. Of course we have Professor Dumbledore the second in there. Anyway, really good time. I also watched Final Destination again this year. I thought that was fun. My son enjoyed that. And then the big one which is what we're going to be talking about today are all of the Scream movies. There's six of them folks. We have six Scream movies. How am I still wearing this costume? It's not going to last much longer. I'm sweating bullets. Megadeth. There's six Scream movies. My daughter was excited to watch them again. She's 14. It's the prime time to get her invested in the Scream franchise. She and my wife watched the first one. I opted out. I was busy providing stuff for you. And now that, speaking of that, speaking of the gift that keeps on giving over here, it would be great instead of tricking me, you throw a treat my way. And I would be in the form of a super chat. Let's bring up the banner. Let's go ahead and bring up the banner right now. Boom. There's a banner at the bottom. It says, oh, nope. It's gone. There it's back again. Subscribe, like, hit the notification bell, and super chat me your favorite or least favorite Scream. It gets featured in the video. It also goes up on the podcast. People hear your name. It makes you feel special. But really, it makes me feel good doing these live streams, providing a service. And, you know, I'm tap dancing out in the streets. I have a hat on the ground, throw me a dollar, throw me five bucks. And I know it's worth it then. And then I'll continue to work it. All right. Scream movies. Like I said, my wife and daughter watched the first one. I was busy working, but I did join in for Scream 2, 3, 4, 5. And I didn't see six. I wanted to watch it before the stream, but I didn't have time. I did quickly refresh my memory. So I'm not going in completely blind. I saw it in theaters. I have seen the movie. And of course, I've seen the first one a few times, and I quickly refreshed my memory there too. But I have ranked them today.  They're never consistent for me. In fact, I think I've ranked the Scream movies before. And I'm pretty sure I put the fourth one at the first. Spoiler. It's not the first on my list anymore.  But it's a great way to at least jump into conversation, compare the pros and cons. And so I'm doing it. You know, we have to, we have to do it, or we could have tiered it, but either way, I have, I have stars on there.  Thank you, son. I'll just call you son. I like the first Scream. This is what he's saying, not me, verbatim, what he says. I, or she, I like the first Scream and the two newest ones. Go, Adam, you demand. Well, you demand for the $10. I actually don't know what Sun Solar is. But yeah, Scream is great. It's held up very well. And I do, I agree to an extent with the new ones as well. We're going to get into it though. Well, we might as well dive in. Do I have any updates for you? Um, not that I can really think of. Everything's pretty business as usual here. Oh, I do have an exciting movie roast coming up.  And this is one that I'm not sure I'm going to get out this week or next week, because it's going to be an investment in time.  We're going to be movie roasting it, which means I have to unfortunately watch that film again, take copious notes, write copious jokes.  We'll keep it on. We'll keep it on as long as I can.  Tony, thank you again for the costume. Okay, outside of that, not a lot, not a lot to report. Is there any big movies coming out this Friday? I was looking at the upcoming movies and I have one scheduled and it's not even anything I'm excited about. I don't even know what this movie is. Let me go to the coming soon again. I have on here Priscilla, which you couldn't pay me to go to. What happens later with David DeCove, short for David DeCovney, and The Marsh King's Daughter, which is the one I opted to see because it has Daisy Ridley in it, and that's like the only kind of big actor anymore. I don't even know if Daisy Ridley is a big actor anymore, but that's it. Those are the movies I have at the Regal app. Perhaps there's more. Oh, well there is a Trolls band together, early sneak peek. I guess I could see Trolls band together if I wanted to kill myself. Yeah, let me know if I'm missing something obvious. Oh my God, we got to get this off and get back to a basic outfit. We got Goonies on. Hey you guys, it's kind of a costume still even though I wear this shirt all the time because I have like, I own like 10 shirts. Thanks once again to Tony for the the Blue Beetle costume. It's going to be going to Connor's collection now. All right, let's begin. I'm excited. Let's dive in. Final thoughts. The Scream franchise to me as a whole before I even jump into this is the most consistently good movie franchise in the scary horror space.   Friday the 13th, are you out of your mind with that? Jason, those movies Nightmare on Elm Street? No thanks.  Well Jason, well Jason's Friday the 13th.  I don't care for any of them. I usually bail after the first two when it comes to the horror franchises because they just don't do anything that excites me unless they're sending someone to space like Jason acts. Outside of that, I think Scream really just consistently says good and I think a lot of the reason why is because of the meta commentary because they're almost parody in nature and I know the scary movies exist. They've done some fun stuff with at least the first one I think is pretty good. But all right, let's go. Let's start. Let's start with the first one which is Scream 3.  I don't think it should come as any sort of pop secret for most. A lot of people are going to put Scream 3 at the bottom. Now I did ask my daughter who keep in mind hasn't seen Scream 6 and she likes this one more than she liked four. She liked four I think the least out of all of them that she's seen. She's only missing one though. I think Scream 3 has problems. Let's quickly read the synop short for synopsis and then I can jump into detail a little bit more. This is Wes Craven. Now right out of the gates, I want to say this. It does not feel very Wes Craven-y. I think the cinematography took a big step down. It felt cheaper. It felt like a B movie. It felt like a ripoff of his own stuff. Now that's probably intentional. It takes place in Hollywood this time. The characters have different job occupations. It really felt like he just didn't care. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dewey's now like a consultant on the set and so and so is here. Neve Campbell's character, Sydney is off in the wilderness. It was just weird. All right, what do they say for the synopsis? As bodies begin dropping around the set of Stab 3, a movie sequel based on the gruesome Woodsboro Killings, Sydney, Gale and Dewey are once again drawn into a game of four movie mayhem. Wow, they really give you nothing in that synopsis. This movie starts with Cotton, who's been in the previous two films. He was wrongfully accused of killing Sydney's mother in the first movie. He's always been kind of this tag along, I'd say like sea list or not sea list, sea storyline. He always had a little bit of an arc that would tie in here. He doesn't get much of one. We find out he's rich. He made a lot of money off of the name, off of the story, off of his persecution for being wrongfully imprisoned. And yeah, he's rich and then he's dead. It starts right up right out of the gates. It's the only screen movie to my knowledge that doesn't kill off a cute blonde in the first act. I think all the rest of them play off that cute blonde trope. The rest of the movie is not near as interesting. I thought it was kind of funny how he's in the background on the TV talking about traffic accidents and speeding and Hollywood will kill you. And then it jump cuts to him speeding down Hollywood Boulevard because he needs to get to his girlfriend who's about to be killed. Then he takes her place. There's a big explosion at one point. My favorite part of this one is the Carrie Fisher cameo where she's playing herself. But the two ladies mistake her as Princess Leia. There's this whole back and forth where she's like, yeah, I get that a lot. I'm not Princess Leia. I didn't sleep with George Lucas to get the role like she did, which was a funny little jab at herself. Good stuff. That's pretty much the highlight. I liked also the set piece of having Woodsboro inside of a set. Again, very meta commentary.  It's like inception, the level of meta commentary going on here. The final reveal with the director being at play and him being the long lost brother of Sydney was a pretty far reach for me. But again, it's really hard to criticize story because these movies are so brilliantly set up to be commentary on horror in general. So anytime there's a trope or anytime there's a far-fetched idea, you just chalk it up to the meta commentary and it works in that sense. Scream 3 is the weakest, but I still enjoy this movie enough. I gave it three stars to me. That's a fun movie. It's fine. It's nothing amazing. It's watchable. See if there's any more super chats before I jump to the next one. I was talking like a million miles an hour there. Probably slow down a little bit. This will be up on the podcast too on Spotify, Apple podcast, podcast of your choosing. It should be there. All right. We do have a super chat from Perm, a gorgeous $5 super. Thank you, Perm. I think I only saw the first screen. It was good and takes me back to good times, but I'll see what you say about the others and have a good Halloween. Well, thank you, Perm. You as well. Perm, I'm going to be spoiling all of these movies. I should probably have said that to begin with. A thousand apologies. I'm going to be spoiling these movies. The nice thing, the fun thing about Scream, and since I'm going through six of them, you might completely forget by the time I'm done, which would be good. The fun thing to me about Scream is I really like a who done it murder mystery, and that's what these are at their core every time. And they really play off of it as the movies get further in. They introduce characters who are shady right out of the gates. All right. One more super chat from Animal Science TV. Very interesting. Very cool. $2 super jet. Thank you, Animal. Scream one was scary. New ones, more comedy slash repeat. Yep. That very much is the case, and they would acknowledge that that's the case. All right. Let's go to the next one on my list. I'll hide it so you don't see the full ranking. Here we are. Interesting that I put this here. I'm fascinated by my own pick. Get to the right. There we go. Scream six is second on my list, and it's kind of pretty much what Animal Science TV said. I can kind of go through each screen movie and see the point of them, but I'm having a hard time with this one. Scream one, the OG, the original, it set the template. Scream two, the sophomore follow up. It doubles the stakes, doubles the tension, doubles the body count. Scream three, this is the final conclusion. Major characters die. A lot of tension. It's playing off of the trilogy. It makes sense as a closer.  Keep in mind, that movie is also now a decade old. What about modern tropes? Then we have Scream, which is Scream five. Even the title tells you, yep, we're making fun of the soft remakes. What do they call them? Requels? Sequels that are also remakes at the same time. You bring in new blood, but you also dust off the coats of the old people and bring them back in for one last ride to pass the torch. Very clever, very fun. Now we have Scream six. What is the point of this one?  What it brought to the table was the cool New York setting. They really played this up in the posters. They had the ghost face on the subways, ghost face on the city billboards, but we don't really get a lot of it when the movie actually starts. There is a really good scene in a gas station, a lot of tension, genuinely a pretty scary scene for Scream. We haven't had one of those in a while. There's a fun ladder across the apartment buildings, really frustrating moments in the film. Courtney Cox is kind of looking like Ghost Face at this point because of all the plastic surgery she's had done. It's a little scary to look at her and I love her. I love Courtney but she definitely went a little too extreme this time around.  The funniest one is the, I don't know the black character's name, there's only like one or two, but the guy, the football player from the last movie, he, I thought it was dead. The last we saw of him, he was looking through the bushes and he got like freaking viciously stabbed outside. His girlfriend goes into the house, she's like, he's dead.  It's wild. Yeah, I thought the final act of screen five really was a, I'm sorry, screen six was really a let down and that's why I have it farther on my list. Let's move on to the next one. Let me hide, let me hide one more time. Take a drink of sugar with a little water. Hmm. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I see you. I feel you. Scream four. I like this movie. It's fun.  They're all competing for best. I like all these movies to an extent. I don't hate any of them, even screen three. Scream four is a fun, like I already said, it sets the table for the modern retelling.  It goes a couple times and so many great actresses have these cameos. You got Anna Pakwin in here. You got Kristen Bell in the mix. You got, I don't know her name, someone from Pretty Little Liars or whatever that show is called. A lot of great cameos. Plus, you got Alison Brie. This is easily the hottest cast in a screen movie and I'm not complaining about that. The rest of the OGs are back. I'm for one more ride again. Dewey is a lot more competent in this one. He's not, he lost some of the, it's funny. Dewey over the course of the films, somehow getting stabbed more and more is making his body stronger and he's becoming immune to stabbing and somehow his body's healing itself. In the first film, he's got a pretty, I'm sorry, in the second film, he's got a pretty aggressive limp. He's got shot tendons and everything's all messed up. He gets stabbed a few more times in that one.  He's a little smoother. I like him here. I like him. Outside of that, I did like, what's her nuts, pretty woman's, is that her daughter or cousin or something? Emma Roberts. I know she's related to Julia Roberts. I'm not sure if it's a daughter or a cousin or something, probably a daughter. It's all, it's all nepotism. Emma Roberts is actually great. She's good in this film, liked her as the villain. That was a nice twist. I didn't see coming. Trying to become the hero. She wants to be Sydney and emulate her. I think it's her cousin in the film. It's hard, it's hard for me to keep track of all the blood ties because everyone's related somehow. And by the time we get to screen five, you have the new generation who's related to the older ones. Percy Jackson is in one of them. He's, he's, he's in a, oh, is he in this one? I think he's in this one. I think Percy's in this one, but I can't remember the actor's name. Dye's in the shower. I'm pretty sure it's this. God, I'm getting all of them confused. Maybe that's five. I think it's five, actually. Five is an awesome scene. Yeah. Yeah, because four introduces the blonde cop who I think is from Sean of the Dead. And then she's also back, hasn't really aged a day. She looked great. She's back in five. She dies pretty brutally in the front driveway in the front yard on the sidewalk. Percy's taken a shower because as we know, Percy likes water. He comes down and they keep doing this whole fun thing where he opens fridge doors and shuts them. No one's there.  A knife goes through the side of his cheek, rips out. It's one of the most brutal kills in the screen franchise. It would actually be fun to do a screen breakdown of best kills. I think that would be good. That one's definitely up there. There's two face cuts in that movie where the blade goes through the side. I appreciated that. And this is Wes Craven again. Interesting. This also does not feel, this feels like Wes Craven. I don't want to say maturing because he's done amazing movies, but this feels like Wes Craven going a different direction and really showcasing what a great director he was, RIP, with his ability to change the format of his own movie. This one has a more stock, solid camera shots. They're not moving around frantically as much. He's using a lot of more tripod shots. It's just so well done. I like how this one looks for sure. All right. We got Super Chat, I think. I think. Uendy for $10, a gorgeous $10 Super Chat out of a cannon, just showing support. Great content, like always. Thank you, Uendy. I have to say, fam. And I know I put out four or five videos a week, so it's hard to keep track sometimes, but I'm pretty bummed by the last couple podcast videos. Those did terrible numbers. Terrible numbers. The Leonardo DiCaprio one I did, where I pretty much went through his entire filmography, miserable. And then after that, I did the Halloween, my favorite Halloween theme songs. I thought for sure people would really enjoy that, but yeah, very low numbers on those. Little bit of a shame because you look at the algorithm, you look at people, what you like, what people like and watch. And then it tells me, all right, maybe this isn't the route I should go. Maybe I should back off of the podcast in this way and do it this way. So I'm not sure. I'm getting mixed reactions on the podcast. Okay, let's move on to the next one on the list. And I see that I have it up right now, so I'm spoiling everything. Wow. All right, we got Scream. Well, I guess it's the last two. Is it? Are we really already in the last two? Three, four, Scream two. Yep. Okay. There we are with Scream, not to be confused with Scream. I like this movie quite a bit. I don't know who these directors are. Matt Benettinelli, Olpin and Tyler Gillette. Double director duty on this one. Sometimes that works out well. It certainly did for these two because this was a good movie. This is your trope. It's called, it's a requel, right? We brought back the old dogs. We have a new cast. I will say something that holds this movie down a little bit for me is I do not like Samantha. She's the new final girl. I think they're referred to. She's the new Sidney. And I just don't care for her.  She's not nice to Courtney Cox. She's not nice to, I mean, Sidney and Gail are there to help her out. And she basically gives him the finger walks away with her sister. I didn't like that. I think it's a little silly her connection with Billy. Billy Loomis. Is it Billy Loomis? I think that's his name. The Loomis family Robinson. I don't like that she's seeing him. And I actually had a fun conversation with my daughter about this. But anyway, let's let's do the synopsis. I stopped doing those for some reason. 25 years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has dawned the ghost face mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town's deadly past. Movie starts just like the original. So if we got Jenna Ortega, instead of Drew Barrymore, it plays out pretty, you know, kind of word for word at times. But what's different here is this is really brutal. He breaks Jenna's leg. She's on the ground hobbling. He stabs her through the hand. You think she's going to die, but she pulls through. She makes it to the hospital, which is going to lead to one of the worst scenes in any of the screen movies. We'll get to that in a second. But I really like Jenna Ortega in this. Obviously, she went on to massive success with Wednesday. And now the sequel pushes her more to the front than even her sister, Sam, I noticed. And that makes sense.   She's more competent. She's got weapons. She's able to fend for herself. She doesn't back down. You know, it was getting a little old by screen three and four, where she's still kind of cowering in the corner crying.  I know you can do it. Gail is still great. Courtney Cox has been solid through all of these. I really like her in this franchise, just a blast to watch. I guess I didn't mention how she, well, whatever, we're past it. We'll just keep, we'll keep pushing through. We get to a point in this one where Jenna Ortega's character, I don't remember her name, whatever it is, she's held up in a hospital. And for some reason, there's no one on staff. I don't know if the writers forgot how American hospitals work, but they're open 24 seven. And there is a lot of staff on every floor all the time. There's not just one lonely security guard rummaging around. No, we have people working at the front desk. There's ladies chatting. The lights are on. And somehow Ghostface goes up there, cuts the power to the floor. I don't know how he did that.  What is going on? You're telling me that this very high profile character is put on a floor by herself with one security guard? I know that we're, and again, this is where you can kind of go, oh, it's playing off the tropes. It has an excuse. I was a little too out of it on that point. I'm like, come on, what are we doing here? You got to make it at least somewhat plausible movie.  Outside of that, I dug everything else. Dewey's death was pretty cool, pretty well handled.  That's the only way to know for sure that they're dead because they always come back.  But it was done well, done tastefully, and I liked it. Now I got the Han Solo treatment, I guess. Scream's a good movie. It's fun. Again, the Billy thing, I was going to bring that up Loomis. So I was having a conversation with my daughter when this is done a day or so later. And she said, Sam's seeing her dad as a ghost was a little weird. And I said, yeah, because Scream has never been about supernatural stuff. It's always been practicality and just people in masks that aren't great at what they do. They're teenagers, typically, they get kicked easily, they fall over, they stumble, they make mistakes. That's what makes it kind of fun. But in this instance, we have a girl that's, I guess, mentally disturbed because of who her dad was. And she's seeing him as a ghost person. I don't know if it's a figment of her imagination. It's one thing if she would have gone to the mirror once or twice, and like half her face is his face, or she's seeing herself, or she's seeing him in herself. Fine. But she's having like conversations with him. And at one point towards the end, she's crawling around and she looks over and the dad's there like, go for it, champ.   But again, it's also kind of playing off trope. So what do you do? Do you get upset? You just roll your eyes and you say, I see you're mocking some of these other movies.  And they kept it going in the new movie, which I also kind of rolled my eyes at. I said, all right, we could have just, we should have just walked away with this whole thing. What are they going to do? They're going to make Sam the killer in the next one. Probably who knows? That's scream, scream five. All right, let's see. No super chats. That's sad, but we'll, we'll keep going. Let me hide this one, even though I'm pretty sure everybody saw what, well, I guess the podcast doesn't know. And that what they don't know won't hurt them. Let me go to the next one. And that is going to be 1996 is scream. Can easily make a case for this to be number one, but I'm calling it number two on my list just to be a little controversial. I don't know. I don't care. Again, these lists are dumb. It's just to talk about it. Scream, the one that started it all, or I should also point out in the other new ones, one of the characters name is Wes. And they did, they did say at the end of I think scream five to four Wes. It was, that was a nice touch. I thought that was cute. All right, 1996, a killer known as ghost face begins killing off teenagers. And as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the rules of horror films as they find themselves living in a real life one. Yeah. We have a great cast of characters here, a lot of fun teenager angst going on. We get that iconic opening where Drew Barrymore, who is all over the advertising at the time, we assume since she is a huge A-list star then, a lot of people under the age of 30 probably don't even know who she is. But back then she was huge. We assume she was going to be the lead character and she's iced within 15 minutes of that movie along with her boyfriend in the film.  It's good stuff. You have the iconic phone conversation. Hello, Sidney. I'm going to pump the brakes for a sec. I have to point something out about scream three. That also drove me up a wall. And that's the fact that the killers had not just a voice changer or modulator, whatever you want to call it, where it makes them sound like the ghost face killer. They had a dial that they could just twist and turn their voice into any of the other characters at any given time. It was so dumb. Like, rip, Sidney. Hi, I'm Sidney now. Rip. And now I'm Gail now. I'm Dewey. How?  And how do I get my hands on it? This is not like Kevin McAllister's Taco Boy that he had in Home Alone 2, which I did get as a kid.  Well, talk about good marketing. No, this was some new fangled tech straight out of a Hollywood fever dream. Anyway, I digress. That was absolute insanity. Back to scream. A lot more grounded here. We do have characters that are really going over the rules. They're talking about all the movie tropes, how you should never go alone in a basement, how you shouldn't sleep with your boyfriend when there's a killer on the loose, how the boyfriend probably is the killer, how you shouldn't trust your close knit friends. They're trying to figure out who amongst them is the murder. It was just really well written, really well acted. It has one of my favorite kills still, completely implausible, but I love it. And that's when, and I don't remember Rose McGowan, I think. Rose McGowan is trying to get away and she crawls through the doggie door of the outside garage door. And so, you know, not to be confused with the inside garage door. Ghostface sees this going on, pushes the button to, you know, bring this thing up, raise it up.  Like, there's no possible way this thing would keep opening.   Dead on arrival. Hilarious. I'm not in the garage installation business, and I know this was the 90s, things were a little bit more loosey, but I have a hard time believing a 130 pound woman holding that frame down is going to really get elevated to the point where not only is she going to get up into the air, but with so much force that it's going to crush her ribs, crush her internal organs. But it's a fun scene, regardless of the plausibility behind it. We get the introduction of all the iconic characters from Gale Weathers to Dewey, whose real name is Dwight. I always forget that until it's brought up once or twice throughout the six movies. It's like, oh yeah, his name is Dwight, not Dewdrop, or Dewey, or whatever other insulting names they give him. It's just, you know, it's it's it's withstood the test of time, I think. Some people have said it hasn't held up over the years. I don't see it. I had a good time with this. It's not like there's some wild special effects work going on. And since it is playing off of all these older movies, all these slashers and horror films, it kind of does hold up for infinity and beyond, as long as you're familiar with the slashers that it's poking fun of. But as long as Halloween can sit, as long as Michael Myers still exists, as long as a pinhead and leather face and Freddy Krueger and all of these dudes, this movie still has a place. Very good movie. All right, looks like a super chat came in. John Allen for $4.99, a gorgeous super chat, just greasing the wheels for a lost boys watch, wink, wink. Also, I think scary movie should get an honorable mention. I think I did mention scary movie a little while back. There's a scene. I can't remember which one it is. It might be scary movie too, which I don't like that much. I don't really like any of them outside of the first one. I think there's four. Anna, is it Anna Faris? Yeah, Anna Faris is really funny in those. She does a good job. There's a couple scenes that were really funny. One of them is in, I think, the second one where the girlfriend puts her ear up to the stall.  And in the first movie, I want to say one of the chicks who's making fun of Rose McGowan's huge like padded bra or whatever was going on in the first film, she gets stabbed and it goes into her. She has like gelatin implants. So she doesn't die because Ghostface keeps stabbing into these things like what the that's good stuff. I always got that confused with every, every other year, our family watches the Adams family and Adams family values. Those movies are freaking hilarious. They will always hold up great. There's a scene towards the end where the bad guy played by Joanne Cusack. Debbie is her character name. She's the serial killer. She gets electrocuted and she's up in the air and she turns to ash. And I always keep thinking that when she turns to ash, some credit cards fall and then her fake boobs are like breasts implants. But no, that is me conflating the two films. Scream has the, the gelatin stabbing. Anyway, thank you, John. And yes, scream scream one is definitely worth a watch, especially if you have seen the scary, I'm sorry, scary movie is definitely worth a watch if you've seen the screen films. Really, you only have to see scream one scary movies worth it. All right, that leaves our front runner of the night, the man of the hour, the woman of the hour, whatever you want to say. Did I already have it up? I already had it up. What was I doing here? Scream two, 1997, just one year later, they spun gold two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro. Sydney is now attending, what is it, Windsor College and Cincinnati and Gale Weathers bestselling book on city's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college students are killed in the theater while watching the new film stab, Sydney knows deep down that history is repeating itself. What really came getting yelled at by my wife. Hang on. I missed two super chats. Thank you, dear. Are you playing the game while you're watching or what are you doing? Okay. Lindsay was into Dream Lake Valley for a while, then she just kind of fell off, but she had three or four nights in a row where she was playing a dumb amount. It's probably for the best that she stops now before she gets way too invested, but it was getting pretty good. It was kind of an epidemic for a while. All right, she did tell me though, outside the door that Drew Schizzi. You know what the problem is? I don't have the super chat tab open. I have the other one open. Now I just have super chats only open, so they'll show up for sure. Drew Schizzi for $1.99. Happy Halloween, Adam. Thank you, Drew. I apologize for not seeing that sooner.  Love the Bart Simpson icon, by the way. We did watch a Simpson. We watched a couple of Simpson treehouse episodes this year. We try to watch a couple treehouse appores every year. The ones we watched weren't great. I like the classics. Everything from season one, not one, season two through, I'll go up to 12 or 13. We're pretty great. There was good ones in there, but these newer ones just not very good. Drew Schizzi for $4.99. Going to watch some South Park Halloween apps and eat dominoes. Got any favorite South Park apps? Oh my God, I got a lot of favorite South Park episodes. If you're asking Halloween specifically, I honestly don't remember a lot of the Halloween episodes. There was one a few years ago where Randy and the guys were stealing, I think all of the, they're stealing all of those bikes that you can buy throughout the town. They would go out at night and steal them like their witches or something. And that was kind of fun. Outside of that, I just remember the Halloween ones back in the day being making fun of Barbara Streisand and Mecca Streisand. If you just want to know in general South Park episodes that I love, fun with weapons is really good. It kind of plays off anime. I really enjoy trapping the closet with Tom Cruise. The Scott Tenerman Must Die is definitely a top five episode. I like Adventure or I like Imagination Land. The three-parter, I believe that's a three-part episode. They were going to make it a movie at one point, but they decided to just do it as a trilogy. I mean, there's so many that I could come up with. But unfortunately, this is Adam Does Movies, not Adam Does TV shows. Or I could do a South Park episode where I rank my like top 50 episodes. You know what this would be good for though, Drew? If you remind me on one of my game nights, because I've now been doing the while I've tried, I'm attempting to do streams where I'm just hanging out talking movies while I play a video game. That's separate from the streams that I currently have. But that's something that we could maybe chat about TV shows or music. And then I could give you some more South Park. But yeah, I really like the Wii episode where Cartman freezes himself so that he doesn't have to wait for the Wii to come out, but he ends up going way into the future. There's so many good ones. Thank you for that. We got one more super chat from Life is Good. Nice to see you. Life is Good. Thank you for the support. I appreciate it. I'm the only one, usually, but I like screen three question. When can I pick another movie review? Just wondering. Happy Halloween, dude. I don't know. Life is good. Are you what level are you at? Are you Mithril? Are you unobtainium? At the Mithril membership for 30 bucks a month, you get a movie roast to pick. How it's kind of been going is basically like if you have one, just throw it at me. And if I just did a movie roast for you, I'll do another one pretty early on if no one else has jumped in.  Send me a message on Patreon at patreon.com.au. Does movies or on the Discord at Adam does movies. I'm not very active there. I got a lot going on as far as trying to keeping the show going and my full-time job and the family stuff kind of gets in the way too. But I do my best to keep up with it all. But yeah, just send me a message. Say, hey, Adam, I'm thinking I want to do a movie roast. Could you put me on the schedule? And I absolutely will. Now, if you're talking about an actual movie review of a movie, not a roast, I don't do those anymore unless you are at the way high unobtainium level. Because I found that it turns out 30 bucks for a movie review is not a good deal for me at all. I have to watch the movie.  And I'm going to put a lot of work into it. And it's just not worth it, honestly. As much as I appreciate the support, it was coming at too much of a cost on my end. Thank you, though. Life is good. I really appreciate that. And you know what? Scream 3 isn't terrible. It's just the worst of these. My daughter enjoyed it a lot. So you have good company with you. Olivia, my daughter's awesome. She has great taste. All right. I think we're caught up. Let's talk about Scream 2. I have it as my favorite. I was reading, I think did I finish reading the yeah, I did. Okay, this one has a really fun intro. I love this. Mainly because I get to see... What's her name? Keep your wife's name out of my fucking... Oh, God.  Jada Pinkett Smith. I like seeing her get stabbed in this. That was fun watching her character get stabbed because I find her obnoxious. But that opening scene is probably 15, 20 minutes. They're at the stab premiere.  And they're at the premiere and it's really clever because the movie theater is handing out ghost-faced costumes to everyone along with fake knives. What could possibly go wrong? You wouldn't see that in today's modern cinematic experience.  Anyway, they watch this movie. It ends brutally with her climbing up to the top, to the front of the theater, bleeding out. It's awesome. We get the slash. We get the new Scream logo, which I didn't realize how awful the Scream title card was in the first movie. It's almost impressively bad. Like an angsty teen made it. The second movie really ups the ante on the logo. I like the font treatment and they carry that forward for the rest of the films. Outside of the cool intro, which also has the boyfriend dying in the stall, which is made fun of in Scary Movie 2, we go to campus. We're outside of our typical environment. Sydney's off in college. She's got a new friend group. Some of the originals return. Unfortunately, they don't last. And it really gives you a fun new kind of take on the genre because we do get more things to make fun of now to poke at because it's on a college campus. Unruly behavior. You have the fraternity, which one of them is, oh, God, what's her name? Portia from, you'll know her from Arrested Development. She's the sister in Arrested Development, who's hilarious, by the way, in that show. She's fine in this. Timothy Oliphant is in here. A very young Timothy Oliphant. Jerry O'Connell's in this. A lot of great characters show up. Jamie Kennedy's back, but he's unfortunately not going to make the cut for very long in this one. Sarah Michelle Geller has a small role. There's just a lot of people. Omar Epps is in this. The fun thing about screen movies every time is you get so many great characters that show up. So many great actors that have cameos that you wouldn't expect to be in the movie. And oftentimes they come from horror backgrounds. So it just works out really well. My favorite scene in all of the screen movies is in Scream 2. And that is at it's at night down in one of the hallways where Dewey and Gail are kind of, I guess they're coming back together. You're getting back together. They're sewing their wild oats. They're making out on one of the tables. TV turns on. It's clear that Ghostface is in the room. So they take off. They get separated. Courtney or Gail, I guess, goes into one of the studio rooms and she's hiding behind all these sound barriers and Ghostface is just kind of creeping around. And the way that Craven shoots this is so good. It's so claustrophobic.  It's super tense. And I found it to be incredibly well done. And then Dewey comes in on the other side and we have that fantastic shot in the mirror as he's getting stabbed and going down the hand smears. It's really fun. It's really wonderful. I also am a big fan of, and I don't know her name. Let me see if I can find her name on there. I just like the actress. Oh, yeah. I forgot Heather Graham plays. Heather Graham plays Drew Barrymore in the beginning in stab. She's Drew Barrymore in that, which is nice. Selma Blair's in this. Tori Spelling. Luke Wilson. This is a great cast. Who am I looking for though? She's Roseanne Barr's sister on the Roseanne show. She's also the neighbor Marcy in Uncle Buck. And I think she's the aunt of Sheldon's in Big Bang Theory. Is it Laurie Metcalf? It is. Oh, nailed it. Laurie Metcalf. She's always good in these types of movies. She plays the reporter. You don't expect her to be the villain of the movie. She's just kind of, I mean, you can kind of see it, I guess.  And then Timothy Oliphant is the other one that's revealed. He and her are working together. He found her. She found him on like Craigslist or something.  I mean, it's all connected. It's always connected. Yeah. I thought it was, I just think it's a great movie all around. It's a lot of fun. Sarah Michelle Geller has a really good scene too, where she's in the house. She gets to, she gets bodied pretty bad outside the balcony. We got one more super chat coming in. From life is good again. I've been Mithril since July between here and Patreon. I don't mind picking from the list. No rush. Just curious. Yeah. I mean, life is good. You pick, pick away. Send me a message on Patreon. We'll get you another roast on the list. I don't know if you were here at the beginning, but I have matrix resurrections coming up outside of that. I haven't heard from anyone else. So please, by all means, throw me one from the list and we'll have a good time with it. If you could, since I know you are an avid supporter and you like helping the channel, maybe think of something from the list that's, we're going into November, I guess, maybe Thanksgiving themed, maybe even pushing Christmas themed or, I don't know, something that you think might work well if there's an anniversary of something coming up. Actually, you know what? The Marvels comes out. Brie Larson and friends is coming out with the Marvels in, I think, a week from now or two weeks from now. Captain Marvel's on my list. If we want, if you want to do Captain Marvel movie roast, I'm all in for that or, you know, whatever. It doesn't matter. I appreciate the support. It's your choice to make, but thank you very much. And if you haven't, I guess that's a good time as any. Feel free to throw a super chat in. Tell me your favorite screen movie or just ask me any movie questions if you want. Maybe you want to throw a treat my way for Halloween. That's fine as well. I've wrapped up my screen monologue. I've wrapped up the entire, I guess, performance. I'm pretty happy with that. I think I covered my bases pretty well and talked about these movies at a good enough length, good enough clip. Let me know if you agree though, put a comment on YouTube, put a comment on some of these, you know, podcasting things that allow it. Give me your list. Give me a ranking of screen film films, why you believe that. Make sure to like the stream that helps, I think, with the Elgo or something, show for algorithm, subscribe, hit the notification bell, do all the things that help. And you can follow me on Instagram and Amazon movies. I've, I've started to become more present over there. I'm trying to put out more shorts over there. TikTok, obviously I've been putting shorts out with same as YouTube.  I'm just like saddened by everything that's taken place. And so I thought, yeah, threads, why not? It's another giant company owned by meta might as well, you know, who cares? I just like trying to connect with people and find ways to get my stuff out there because you're yelling in a giant void, an ocean of videos and other performers and people trying to make a name for themselves. And yeah, it can be hard. So that's, that's my list. I don't really have any other news. We went for over an hour. So I think it's a good, it's a good, it's a nice place to stop. We can stop here. Screen movies though, yeah, franchise wise, I think this is about as good as it gets from a consistency standpoint. As I've stated, even the worst one on my list, still pretty good. Still plenty of fun to be had. I'm very curious where they go with Scream 7. Obviously, it's going to happen. The writer's strike, actor's strike may have, may have hindered things. Is the actor's strike going on still? I've lost all connection with what's happening in that whole world and that space. I know the writer strikes over, which is great. Hopefully they got what they wanted. But yeah, I don't know when Scream 7 is even happening. Jenna Ortega is the huge star now. And so I think they're going to have to play off of the Wednesday schedule and whatever else is cooking. I'm also curious to know if Dev Campbell is going to come back because she was sorely missed in Scream 6. Obviously her time's come. It's fine if they want to sunset the character, but it felt like there was no closure after seeing her so many times. And it was all because of pay. She wanted more than they were willing to give.  Regardless, those are my thoughts on Scream. Really enjoy it. And we do have one final super chat that came in, Steve H for $5, completely unrelated, which is fine, because I said it's open. I'm open to any movie questions. Adam, have you ever seen The Last Dragon? It may be the most 80s movie ever made. Cheesy but awesome would be great for your list. The Last Dragon. What? I do not know what this is. 1985, directed by Michael Schultz, who's in this. This has Tullmick, Vanity, Christopher Murni. I don't know any of these actors or people. Jim Moody, Mike Starr, Faith Prince. Yeah, I don't know what this movie is. In New York City, a young man searches for a master to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow, different than the shining, I would imagine. That sounds incredible, Steve. I have not seen it.  Maybe something we could try to watch for an 80s celebration episode or something down the road, because there's definitely some great 80s, early 90s schlock. My favorite go-to was always Tough and Deadly with Billy Blanks and Rowdy Roddy Piper. That movie's freaking hilariously cheesy and bad in the best way possible. I appreciate you bringing it to my attention, Steve. Thank you guys once again for the support and watching. I hope everyone had an awesome Halloween. Like I said, ours was very chill. We stayed at home.   We had a great time. We watched Sleepy Hollow. We actually ended with a little Mario Kart. That was probably the worst case scenario to end the night. You're not bringing your family together. You're not bonding when you're playing Mario Kart. That's one step above playing Mario Party, which if you've played Mario Party with close friends or family, that usually ends everything. Relationships have been torn asunder from Mario Party. Alrighty, I will be back. I might stream tomorrow night too. We'll see where the road takes me. We'll see what happens or Thursday night. I don't know. It's up in the air. It's George Clooney at this point, up in the air. I will let you know, though, just keep an eye on the socials. Keep an eye on the community tab on YouTube. Thanks for watching. Trick or treat and all that, and we will see you soon. Take care.


It's one of many forums we are bringing you in advance of local elections and town meeting on the first Tuesday in March, March 1st, 2022. Town meeting is traditionally where voters weigh in on local government representation, municipal budgets, school budgets, and all candidates on the ballot are invited to participate in town meeting television election forums. Town meeting television election forums introduce you to community decision makers and connect you with the issues that shape your local community. If you're watching this live, we welcome your questions at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Watch town meeting television on Comcast channel 1087, Burlington telecom channel 17 and 217, as well as online at town meeting televisions YouTube page. Today we are here with the city of South Burlington, city manager Jesse Baker and deputy city manager, Andrew Bouldook, who will be reviewing the city's FY 2023 general fund and enterprise fund budgets.  Thank you very much, Elaine. I'm gonna share screen here. Jesse and I prepared a presentation. All right, so FY 2023 budget and Jesse Baker, myself, and our finance officer, Martha Mr. Char put this presentation together, but I don't think that nearly encapsulates the number of fingerprints that are on this budget, this proposed budget that council approved in January, on January 18th. We have 140 committee members and volunteers, which I just think is an astonishing number in South Burlington. And one of the things that makes me really, really happy to both live and work here. They had the chance to provide feedback when we started this process back in September. Jesse and I met with the city leadership team and department heads to bring forward their proposals for their sections of the budget. And city council has been meeting and seeing presentations from each member of our leadership team and department head since their first meeting in December. Just a quick kind of outline overview of where we'll be going in this presentation, but specifically for the public out there. I want them to be aware that all these budget documents in full detail are available on the city's website. There's a link below. You can find it right on the city's main page at www.SouthBurlingtonVT.gov. There is also a link to the individual department presentations, which residents may also find interesting. Hello everyone, my name is Jesse Baker. I'm the city manager here in South Burlington. And thank you, Andrew, for the tremendous amount of work he and the team put into developing this budget as well as to the council for spending so much time considering it. So one of the first public steps in this budget process is the council's discussion way back in September, when it was still warm out, of the goals they had for this budget process, for the budget that would be developed for FY23, starting on July 1st, 2022. So here you see some of the highlights, some of the things they highlighted, direction they gave to us as we, as a leadership team, built this budget. So they wanted to be sure we were sensitive to the taxpayers. Of course, everyone coming out of the pandemic, going through what we've all gone through in the last couple of years, there was a lot of concern that we were paying attention to those ratepayers. We do have three collective bargaining agreements in the city that are currently expiring. We are in active negotiations now. So we wanted to conservatively plan for the settlement of those CBAs. We also wanted to return to pre-pandemic levels of service. We had several positions frozen in the FY22 budget, and therefore services not being able to be provided to our residents. So we wanted to return to those previous levels of service. And then we also were, the council was very interested in ensuring that this beautiful new building we are in now at 180 Market Street with City Hall and our new public library and senior center, that we were really maximizing the operational potential of those buildings. And you'll hear more about that in a few minutes. And then also paying attention to strategic use of ARPA funding and specifically towards one-time capital expenses that had been deferred during the pandemic. So those are the goals we had outlined for us by the council. And now we will talk about the budget we put together in response. We'll pass it back to Andrew. So before going into sort of the overall terms, back in September, I identified the council, if we changed nothing from FY22 to FY23, what sort of a short list or expectation of what our fixed liabilities would be and what those increases would look like? We came up with a total number of forecasted about 1.3 million at that time. The final number ends up being pretty close to that. The first line item, which is the biggest is our salaries. And I think you'll probably hear throughout budget presentations, this fiscal year, that cost of living increases are significant. It's a very high inflation year. When we started putting this budget together, the CPIU for Northeast in August was about four and a half. That rose all the way to in November, 6%, and in December, 5.9%. So in this budget, we've conservatively estimated, again, our collective bargaining agreements have all expired. So this is an estimate at this point, but around between COLA and STEP, a little over a 5% increase in these positions that are currently funded. The second line here, these are ARPA salaries. In FY22, the budget only increased because of pandemic uncertainties, there was a less than 1% increase. There were built into that budget, there were not, sorry, not built into that budget, were three positions that council identified in FY22 as critical needs. And they looked to ARPA funds to fund those positions immediately. As part of that plan, however, because this is one-time money, they wanted to be able to build into the general fund, those salaries in future years. So they allocated 20% of that would be funded through the general fund in FY23, 40% FY24, and so on, until it's fully folded into the city's general fund. Group health, we're looking at a relatively market rate number that number has become so much, that increase is so much flatter than we've seen in past years, so much more consistent. And that's in large part due to the efforts of Jesse and our predecessor of moving to a captive health insurance model. That model has shown incredible savings for the city ever since year one. Our pension increase, that's lower than we originally forecasted. I think it's no secret, the market has done well and that's increased our total liability there. That is both our Vemur's contribution, we have a number of employees in Vemur's as well as a number of employees in the city's now closed city pension plan. Retirement match, that's a function of salaries. Property insurance, that's the increase in our overall property insurance costs by adding to the city's inventory, so 180 Markin Street. And then there's also this last line here, which is the pennies increase. And I'm gonna talk a little bit about that now, but kind of rolled into this next slide. The pennies increase of $190,000, that is the special fund levies that the voters have previously approved in South Burlington back in 2000. The voters approved one cent on the grand list to fund the acquisition and conservation of open space in the city. That has stayed consistent since then, although there have been a couple of amendments to allow for recreation to also be purchased with those funds as well as for ongoing maintenance costs associated with the purchase of those properties. That again is a fixed levy of one cent on the tax rate. There's also a second penny, the penny for Paz, which the voters approved back in 2018. That is only a 10 year levy. Now, why does this matter? Why am I talking about this year? In prior years, that amount has been built into the city's annual budget process and into the general fund budget. In a typical year, that's no problem because that sees almost no change in the total amount of gross revenue. However, this year, because we were in a reappraisal year, we saw a 30% increase in the amount of revenue. It's perfectly aligned in the amount of grand list growth that we have this year. So what we're trying to do in this budget and what's built in is we're removing that from the general fund. It will still show up now separately in your tax bill. But in doing that, there are some other numbers I wanna highlight here. The first is the overall increase is a 6.27% to the taxpayer. And that's with the $190,000 included. There's only a 5.19% increase in the overall operational budget of the city. So if we look at the bottom number, impacted taxpayers for an average residential home, looking at an annual increase in this budget, if approved of $118.13 for the average condo, $79.13 of that number, the pennies specifically account for $20 in the average residential and $13 for the average condo. I'm gonna pause there for a second just to make sure that that makes sense. Thanks, Andrew. So for those increases, the investments the council is making into municipal operations really focused on three different buckets. One, there is increased staffing to maximize the services provided at 180 Market Street, which is the city hall and library and senior center building that includes increase in library staff time to expand the hours of operation of the library that we've heard a big demand for, as well as invest in a handy person to help maintain this building. We are also investing in technology infrastructure for a more resilient service delivery over time. That will look like increasing staff person in our IT department, but also automating some of our permitting processes moving to office 365 for staff so we can have more continuity as we're working remotely or working throughout our building, as well as finally implementing body worn cameras in our police department, which has been a priority for this community for many years. And then finally, we're investing in our capital planning strategy and ensuring that as we invest in our infrastructure, that those investments are tied to our ongoing maintenance needs. This is something we've heard a lot from our committees that Andrew talked about in the beginning, a lot of volunteers working for the city who are really committed to ensuring that as we're building out rec paths, as we're building out new streets to service new neighborhoods, that we're ensuring that we can maintain those at the same standard South Burlington residents have come to expect. So Jesse talked a little bit before about the ways we're leveraging ARPA funds to offset some of the one-time costs of deferred capital expenses from prior budgets. In the first line, I talked about it a little bit before, those are those funded salary lines. Now at 80%, those three positions council identified as a critical need. Those are separately allocated in a revenue line. We also have these other ARPA projects that are included, the dispatch consoles over at the police station at 19 Gregory Drive are well past their working life. This allocates ARPA funds to upgrade those. We have an ambulance that's, excuse me, in year 13 of a 10-year life cycle. ARPA funds allocated as well. Our Microsoft Office 365, those upgrades that Jesse talked about before, there are some one-time startup costs associated with that. It'll also enhance the city's cybersecurity. Felt that was ARPA eligible, planning and zoning software. Planning and zoning is working with a vendor will eventually go out for an RFP if this budget is approved to improve their user interface for better online access to permitting. This will also likely include GIS software. It's a really, really incredibly customer service facing software upgrade. There's also some backend improvements involved that will include our efficiency. And so though the amount of ARPA funds allocated for that are sort of the one-time startup costs. Firefighter clothing, that's also our firefighter PPE. We have a large number of deferred items from prior budgets that are all coming due at once. We also, council had a very long discussion at their last meeting about how we would fund an additional Fire EMS staff person to support our Fire and EMS services. 50,000 of that is going to be coming out of the general fund. We're looking to offset some of that impact with 50,000 out of ARPA this year. So that total amount in the budget and this proposed budget is close to $1 million in ARPA funds. That means we still have around 4.5 million which we're beginning to start the process of having a public process to identify what those priorities will be for use of those funds in the future. Some of those ideas are to fund our housing trust fund for specific projects up to a million dollars. Also, some of the CIP cuts that we saw during the pandemic that's, you know, 952,000 dollar number so that isn't immediately back into the, put on the tax taxpayers, smoothing that out in future budgets so that there's not a one-time increase. Funding to support businesses, commerce and hospitality events. We just received a great grant to be working on some of those initiatives to really see the full functionality of our new TIF district and Market Street. Stormwater and wastewater projects. There'll be a little bit more on that with council. Jesse and I will be talking with council this February to identify what that public process will look like. Jesse, if I could pop in for just a moment to say that we're watching the FY23 presentation of the budget for the city of South Burlington and we'll be taking questions from the public. If you have any questions, you can call in at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Thank you. Thanks, Elaine. And certainly if folks are out there would like to ask questions, we would happily interrupt our presentation for those good questions. So you've heard a lot of numbers. Here's another way to look at those numbers. Andrew has said our total FY23 general fund budget is about $28.5 million. Here you can see how those expenditures are broken out across service area. Again, this is linked on our website at SouthBurlingtonBET.gov if folks would like to zoom in on this. The other side of that equation, of course, is the revenue side. Andrew, if you can click to the next slide. Let me thank you. So here in South Burlington about 63% of our revenues come from our property taxpayers. The rest come from other funding sources, local options, tax permit fees, program fees, ambulance billing, et cetera. This budget does contemplate returning to pre-pandemic levels of our local options tax. That's both sales tax and rooms, meals and alcohol. We've been tracking that very closely this year and believe that that is a fair projection of what we will experience this year. And if you go to the next slide, Andrew, you can see those revenues broken out across different service areas in the city and where those are collected. And again, you can zoom in on any of these numbers at our website, SouthBurlingtonBET.gov. Thanks, Jesse. So again, just to be clear on this, even another slide about these special fund line-of-ease penny for PAS and open space, this breaks out that increased revenue that I talked about before, about it's 30.7%, which directly reflects our overall grand list growth during the reappraisal. Of that overall 6.27% property tax increase, 1.08% of that is attributable to this increase. We've talked a little bit already about capital improvement plan, some of the projects that have remained funded and some increased funding. The first is the Capital Improvement Reserve for City Center. This is the city investment that we've built up over the years to build up the tax base and resources to fund City Center TIF projects like this new one beautiful building at 180 Market Street that Jesse and I are both enjoying right now. We've also increased the paving budget by 50,000, this was a community need we have heard over the years that we're not adequately funding our paving line. We've brought that up 50,000 this year and the hope to incrementally improve that. We've also heard a lot from our folks that use our recreation pass that there need to be some dedicated improvement dollars. So we have 30,000 that's been specifically dedicated for Recreation Path Maintenance. Our parks department was during the pandemic because certainly on the revenue side with programs they were hit, their capital improvement line items were reduced by 145,000 from FY21 to FY22. We can't completely refund that this year but in hopes of sort of incrementally bringing us back to that original number that our parks desperately need we've increased that line 65,000 this budget. I've talked a little bit already about this ARPA funding. Talked about the special funds of the city's overall $52 million budget. Special funds account for $12.5 million of the overall annual city budget. In stormwater we're seeing very modest, very low rate increases from FY22 to 23. Same for sewer and water is at an even 3% increase although this still remains one of the lowest rates in the state. The overall increase to a homeowner just on utility fees we're looking at $16.80. This is some historic data on the tax rate. As you can see during a reappraisal year this very much skews that number significantly. This is what's gonna be on the ballot. We have the article one of course, election of city officers and city counselors and the annual city budget line. This is the way it's been presented in years past although you will note in the section here there's an additional line added excluding previously voter approved levies. That's again what I talked about before with removing these prior voter approved levies out of the annual budget process. So the total city budget, $52.5 million. As I said before, $12.5 million of that is are the enterprise funds, penny for pass and open space, over 800,000 of that. The general fund about $28.5 million and our other special funds, $10.7 million for a total amount to be raised by taxation that the voters will be voting on is the 17,962,812 and 57 cents. So just to be real clear for the voters that language does refer to removing with the exception of the previously levy pennies for pass and pennies for open space. Those were previously approved by the voters. So very much are still being collected and will be shown on your tax bill. This budget is just not including them in the operation budget. So we are tracking some emerging issues. Again, inflation what we're experienced with the country is experiencing now the unpredictability of the cost of goods into FY23 and we'll be watching that closely as well as some of our other priorities working towards regional dispatch, launching our first ever climate action plan early in FY23 and associating costs that may come with that. And then still catching up from a very low tax rate increase last year to be very conservative as we were coming out of COVID. So we will keep our eyes on that. We're very thankful to the council that they are being so supportive of thinking about strategically how we use other investments, ARPA funds and other grants to address some of these needs and we'll look forward to talking with the community more about that in the coming months. So finally, as we wrap up, encourage our neighbors to keep their eyes out for other communication that will be coming out. We will be doing posts in the other paper regularly from now till town meeting, trying to get the word out about what's in this budget. Budget books will be available on our website on Friday and in print here at City Hall in the library in the senior center starting Monday morning along with our annual report. Of course, we hope voters and residents join us on our pre-annual town meeting on February 28th. That will be here in the auditorium at 180 Market Street and virtually, of course, and then join us to vote on March 1st. There are several ways you can do that. Ballots will be available as of February 9th. You can call the city clerk's office to have a ballot mailed to you. You can drop those off at City Hall, mail them back or bring them with you to your polling place on March 1st. And of course, you can always vote in person, my personal favorite between seven and seven on March 1st. So thank you very much for everybody's attention today and to Elaine for facilitating us and Andrew for developing the budget. We'd love to have a quick conversation about any questions that may have come in. Jesse and Andrew, thank you very much for this presentation and for your preparation of the budget for South Burlington. I'm gonna give the number out for folks to call in with questions again,<PHONE_NUMBER>. And while we're waiting to see if anyone calls in, I just wanna, I have a quick question overall as a reminder, what is the net effect of your budget on the taxpayers of South Burlington? So yeah, the net impact of the budget is the number I spoke about earlier for the average residential homeowner looking at if approved about a $118 increase in their tax bill this year. And for the average condo is $79 increase. That represents a 6.27% overall increase in the tax rate this year. And again, to break that out, 5.19% is the increase in the general fund line and operations. And 1.08% of that is the impact of the increased revenue being driven by the increase in the general fund during the, sorry, in the grand list during the reappraisal and of 190,000. So those funds will see an increase and it ultimately will lead to more projects that we can do with those funds. And Andrew, when you say the average homeowner, average condo, what is an average homeowner in South Burlington and what is an average condo value in South Burlington so that folks can put themselves in context? Sure, yeah, so an average residential homeowner, make sure I have a number, right, is it's about $450,000 average residential home and average condo is a little over 350,000 South Burlington. Great, I'm gonna give the number again,<PHONE_NUMBER>, if you'd like to call in and ask questions. And are there any highlights of, you did a lot of high level summaries of what you're looking forward to doing next year. Are there any particular projects that residents are super excited about or that you all are super excited about that residents can think about as part of this budget? All right, I'll throw out a few in Android. I don't know where to start, Jessie. So I think one, we got a lot of requests during the budget process for an increased focus on paving and specifically recreation path paving and the council made a very decisive policy determination to invest in those things into FY23. Additionally, body worn cameras is an investment that this community has talked about for a long time. It's really that meeting that standard of public safety that the community expects, ensuring we have transparency of service delivery that our officers are well-equipped and well-trained to best support our residents. So to me, those are two big investments. Oh, and then the third is the increase in staffing for the library to expand the hours of operation. That is, it's just such a beautiful facility and we know folks are hungry for more evening and weekend hours and with this budget, we'll be able to achieve those. That's great. Andrew, anything to add to that? Oh, I mean, I think that's, yeah, it's a long list. I would add to the increase in paving that we talked about before on recreation path maintenance, also an increase in road striping, which has also been identified as a community need, as well as some of the beautification efforts or landscaping contracts, a slight increase in FY23. I think people drive down Market Street and they love some of the things we've been able to do here and I think that has a big impact for what we've been trying to do in South Burlington for a long time and realizing with a city center is building the community identity. So I think a little bit of dollars will go a long way. That's fantastic. 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No hoods in the meeting, Paul. There you go. Yeah, but it's just the only thing I, one of the few things I ask players to do, so. I'm not a player, actually I'm not a player. Goes without saying. Hi, Teresa. Good afternoon, Mike. Mike, you talk about this team being at a crossroads. What has to happen to go the right direction? Is it offense, defense, execution? Well, it's everything. And the point that I was trying to make and that I try to tell them is that you have to be playing your best football late in the season. And that's just what happens in a national football league. There's all this jockeying for a position. Some teams every year end up with a really good record. And there's some other teams that kind of toil around. And they're kind of figuring it out. But then they continue to improve. There's some teams that kind of go in the other direction. And we've always gone in the direction of playing our best football late and improving. And we have to find ways to do that. And so there is no one answer. It's not about one particular player. It's not about one particular side of the football, all three phases. And obviously coaching, we all have to be better. Are lineup changes potentially on the table at this juncture? Well, I mean, I think we'll look at everything. You only have so many guys at this point in time with a lot of guys on injured reserve. We have guys that probably may or may not come back this week. We'll see where we are with Racy and Josh Thompson. Those guys could potentially be back. Their time is up. And Racy's been working hard to try to get back. So we'll see where those guys are this week and what we can do with them. You don't regret this very moment. I think you're always trying to look at that. I think you have to find ways to still stay balanced, still do things, and make adjustments with who we have, and looking at whether that's defensively or offensively, how we have to give ourselves the best chance to win the game. I understand that when you say it's not about one player because it's an 11-player thing. But if one player is not doing his thing or is consistently underperforming, isn't that a disservice to the other 10? And can't that hurt the team that way? Yeah. I think that that's always something that would not be beneficial. But I don't think that there's such a standout or such of you have to look at who's going to be playing in there. You have to look at some of the things. It's not all bad with every guy that you're going to tell me isn't playing well. There's certainly some plays that we can't have if we want to win at some of the positions. So we have to make sure we're doing everything we can to get the guys in positions to understand and be able to do their job and then find out if there's somebody else that we have that can help us better than that. You've kind of waved off a question about Dennis. Yesterday, you've gone through 16 defensive backs on the roster to find the right solution. But you plugged in Dennis, when Taylor went down and hadn't done anything else there, what's going to happen? Yeah, I would say after yesterday there wasn't a solution in any phase. So I wouldn't say that we had any solutions in any phase. Speaking specifically for Dennis, there are, you know, you can go through them. There's plays where I think he's doing his job. And then there's plays where we know we can't get beat inside. We're chipping for him and you can't get beat inside. And critical error in third and one, we've had guys jump off sides before. But certainly in the red zone, things are magnified. You know, I think on one of the sacks that he gave up, had Josh sweat at 10 or 11 yards at the top of the pocket. To me, anybody that's blocking Josh's sweat, if they block him at 10 yards at the top of the pocket, we're going to have to be able to step up. And guess what? Quarterback couldn't step up.  But, you know, there's, when you play that position, you know, there's some things that are glaring when you get beat. So, he's going to work hard. LaRaven's going to have a chance to compete, but that's who we got on the roster right now. We need to re-mention the struggles over the last few weeks. Is that something where the opposition, is it what they're doing? What is execution not going right on your behalf? What is behind the recent struggles? In the running game, or what did you say? It's a ground game, yeah. Yeah, we got to, we have to find ways to create some space for Derrick.  And, but also coming with that is we have to find ways to create some space.  And, you know, whether he tries the corner or not, you know, that's on him. Like we hand him the football. He decides to stay front side. Okay, great. Like he decides to bounce it out on the corner. That's on him. We've given him the football and we have a lot of trust in him. And so that happens sometimes, but then other times there's got to be some space. And again, he's got to help us find that space. And so does the line and so does the scheme. It's all connected. And trust me, we're working hard to try to get it and try to figure it out and try to get him going and get our offense going so that we can stay balanced and use all those things to help us. With the lack of space that has been there for Derrick over the last four weeks, do you think your offense needs a shift in identity and is that possible to do this late into the season? Yeah, I think you have to be careful. You know, what identity would we want to go with is I guess the question. We have to understand what we think wins in this league and I'm going to remind you that it's taking care of the football. It's running the football and it's being efficient when you pass it. And those are the three things for the past 25 years in this league that has won. And so that's what I want our identity to be because I know that that's what wins and when we've won, we've done those things. And so maybe we could have run the ball a little better. We didn't turn it over, neither did they. So we didn't do enough defensively. We clearly didn't affect their quarterback. We had a 90-some rating. He had 130. So that's what I stand by. That's what I coach and teach every day. And that's what I'm trying to get our team to do. You talked about Clark earlier this year, Mike. I know you mentioned it. For anybody, him included, to come in and jump into a lineup after missing training, camp off season. Has he had enough time now or were that things might change in that regard that? Trader, anything could change right now. Yeah, I mean, just looking for ways to win a football game and looking for ways to move the ball and score in the red zone and not be 0 for 2, looking for ways to affect the quarterback and not give up X-plays and looking for ways to cover punts and pump better, you know, all the stuff that adds up. But you guys just focus on a few little things. So I'm just going to try to look at the whole list. You talked about the guys that were here with the dentists and the options that are here.  So I think my question is like, why aren't you looking outside for offensive line help the way you looked outside for defensive back help when all of those defensive bats have done such a terrific job helping? You know, you have an option of finding guys on somebody's practice squad that you can poach. You have the option to sign guys off the street, which I don't know what would be there. I mean, we're looking for players that are there. You know, we've signed a lot of guys off other people's practice squad that are playing for us. So at some point, you know, we've got to figure if they're not playing for them, you know, they're going to play for us. Is Traylin at the start of the concussing protocol process? He's doing well, I guess. If that's what you're asking, he's feeling well. And we'll see how we progress us through the week. But I'm happy to see him after the game, see him when we landed, see him this morning. So he's doing well. You've been through this before, but how difficult does that make it when you've got a guy that you just don't know how it's going to look come Friday or Saturday? Everybody will have to prepare, you know, as a starter. You know, we saw that yesterday. And I think it's probably a good lesson learned by CJ and offensively, you know, being ready to go. Something happens. You had the field goal penalty against the Bengals, and then you get another one this last week. Is that just guys trying to do too much? No, I think it's ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous.  I don't know.  Who's the hit on Burks and the Jaxson Ward, the play? I don't know. I think the league office handles that. I think Troy Perry and Walt handle those. So that's not done on the field. Again, you guys should just reach out to them. I haven't gotten a response yet. Mike, do you think you can be playing their best ball this summer here in December? What gives you the confidence that this team can be playing its best ball now? Because that's our job. That's what we've always done. I'm confident in this staff. I'm confident in the players to make sure that we figure out ways to win a football game. We're strong, efficient, like we need to. There's been some teams around the league the last few weeks that have run the ball another next week that have been almost all passed. Is this team built to do that if necessary to win a game? I think we have to always find ways to give ourselves the best chance to win. And you get behind, you kind of run out of options. And you have to. We'll continue to search and find ways to move the ball. And again, get some stops. It's all complementary. It's hard to play defense in this league. Without getting turnovers, it's hard to drive the ball 85 yards to get touchdowns. See last night, the difference that turnovers make in short fields and defensive scores and special teams, X plays.  But the league doesn't reward over throws. Does the competition committee need to look at rewarding under throws, which is something we've seen, I think, a lot of the last couple of years? Well, there's been conversation about it. And again, they will if you get back and you're in phase. And I've noticed that they let some contact go if guys are in phase and they turn around and they're maybe pushing the guy. So again, I think the only way to properly and consistently officiate it, this is just me talking, is that you have a standard. And the standard is if you're not playing the ball, that your contact is probably going to be penalized if the receiver does their job and makes an attempt to come back. And I think it's just so that it's consistent. Everybody sees it and everybody says, yep. Unfortunately, that's DPI. Defender not playing the football and a receiver going back and getting two arms across the shoulder pads of the defensive player. So just so that there's not any egregious mistakes. On the other side of that equation, offensive PI. When you look, now that you've gotten to see it, the double move that AJ had on Christian Fool, I mean, what is Christian supposed to do in that situation? Not sit on the row or something? I mean, I think we could say he could get over there half a second sooner. And then he'd be entitled to that space. I still don't think it's going to get called. I mean, that's what they'll tell me, is that the defender is entitled to that space. And if the receiver runs into him, it's OPI. I think we all know that that's not going to be the case. So play more physical. And play more physical as a receiver for us, too. I mean, when we're doing it. Because that's just what it's going to be. The OPI's, it's not, I didn't call. Couple of guys at the end that coverage a little bit earlier. Anything in particular that you noticed that they were getting a few of those good returns on yesterday? What'd you think? I don't know if there's anything in particular, but it wouldn't have been enough. We only thought that three of the seven punts were a vaticuit hang time. So when we choose to bang it down the field, which we feel like that's a strength of Stony's, Stony's got to do his part. And the ones that towards the end of the last two that he put were four, six, four, seven hang time, looked like we went down and covered them proficiently. It just puts too much stress. And again, we could cover better. We have to cover better. We can't guarantee that it's going to be a five second hang time. And we've been through this. You have to keep running. First guy's got to try to come to balance and make the guy go lateral or make the play. And then cast a net, get everybody in some lanes, and not let them bounce outside or stretch and cut. So it starts with a better punt. And then, obviously, the net coverage has to be better. Couple of guys were preaching together as the solution to the downturn. I understand the importance of that. But how does togetherness make up the gap in skill and execution that we've seen the last couple of weeks? Well, I think we always want to start with doing things together. And when you hit a rough patch or you go through a tough week personally, you get around people that you care about and that you trust. I think that that's important. Not straying away and getting in small groups. I think you try to get together in large groups and figure out ways to help. And I think that when you take that approach in all three phases, you get 11 guys working together. Sometimes the plays look a little better. And the communication, the coverage, whether you're in combination coverage and that works a little better or you're working up front and finding ways to help each other or offensively, finding ways to let whatever the play is, marry off. There's guys that have jobs of getting over the top, guys underneath, whatever it may be in the run game. So that's just what we've always tried to do around here and not to let guys stray and splinter. And everybody's going to have an opinion. And the one that matters is the one that's best for the team here with everybody doing it together. Racy didn't mention Kyle. Is he still rehabbing and trying to do it? Yeah. What is Racy's challenge if he does come to practice, after not practicing since August? So I think that the challenge, Jim, is that we are conscious of Racy's overall body. I think that making sure that he's recovered from his injury, but then also that we're just not, the volume doesn't get thrown on him because he's doing special teams and receiver. And his hip may feel better, but at what cost to other soft tissue? So we just want to make sure that as we work his way back and return to play that he can handle that volume because when he was rehabbing, you know, don't feel like he was able to do things that he would normally be doing to maintain his speed or that force or the power that Racy has. So I'm conscious of that. That's what I'm trying to be careful of. In terms of some of the issues yesterday that the receivers had in the past game, how much of that do you put on Ryan just not having enough time to get them the ball versus them not being able to get open? It's the same thing. You know, I mean, again, I thought we protected well enough in the first half and not well enough in the second half. And there were some times where we had some clean pockets and, you know, we have to be in spaces. We have to have spacing in zone coverage. And then we have to have route craft and man coverage. So that's, it all goes hand in hand. Back on Racy for a second. Do you need him more right now to help a receiver or on special teams if he's going to be limited in the number of snaps he can play? I think we'll just kind of see how that goes and how he feels throughout the week. What did you see from him kind of in his first exposure? Well, I know that he worked extremely hard with Rob to be ready, had some mistakes where, again, it's going fast and it's his first game action and with the game plan and things like that. So, you know, thought he did OK. I thought there was obviously some plays and alignments and execution that he'd like to have back in him. I think he'll be better the more exposure he gets. Is Chig kind of done to earn some more snaps out there and then to kind of answer the challenge and be more productive out there, too, in those snaps? Yeah, I mean, he's just working hard and understanding. I mean, he plays special teams for us and plays offense. And we've got to continue to find ways to get him a ball. We've got to continue to find ways to have him help us in the run game. It's not just a situation where you put him in there and it's a pass that doesn't work for anybody. So to keep searching for ways to, again, stay balanced in what we're trying to do.