Thank you. Hello and welcome to Towne Meeting TV coverage of Towne Meeting day 2024. This program is part of a series of forums. We are bringing to you in advance of Towne Meeting Tuesday, March 5th 2025. 4. Yeah. Towne Meeting TV host forum with all candidates and cover the questions you will see on the ballot introducing you to community decision makers and connecting you with issues that shape our local community. You can find all of the forum at cctv.org slash 2024 or on our Towne Meeting TV YouTube channel where auto-generated captation are also available. On tonight's program we will hear from three candidates running for two positions the Willysky City Council and those candidates full name they will introduce themselves we have Thomas right we have Aurora yep and we have Nick. Thank you guys so much for that. We have prepared a list of questions for you and you will have 90 seconds to answer each question. If you are tuning in live we also welcome questions from the listeners and the watchers at<PHONE_NUMBER>. I repeat<PHONE_NUMBER>. If you call in we will do our best to prioritize your questions because they important and we also want to make sure that the questions are not repeated and also the questions are also for all the candidates instead of just one candidate. Okay thank you let's get started with one minute opening statements and we will start with the incumbents let's start with Aurora first and then Thomas and then Nick. Hi my name is Aurora Hurd I use they them pronouns and I'm running for re-election. I love Wenusky because of its diversity and the work that we've been doing towards equity. I also love our library the community in general and I really love that we are truly on the way to be a walkable city that we have some improvements with accessibility and access. I also really love that our staff are very dedicated to supporting the community and the events that kind of bring us all together. I really want to continue to serve as a counselor because I want to be a voice for those who have been historically marginalized. I want to help shape our city into one where everyone has that equal access. There's a lot of work left to do and I believe that we're making progress. I also love hearing from the community so please reach out. Thank you Aurora. Thank you so first of all I'd like to thank Town Meeting TV and thank you for moderating us today. Truly what's not to love about Wenusky from our community to our businesses there's really nowhere else like it in Vermont and a keyword to that is community. We are a community the most diverse community in Vermont. We have amazing cultures in our city amazing people some of the most industrious people that I've ever met and I truly love the diversity that we have it's one of the reasons why I live in Wenusky it's one of the reasons why I ran two years ago to represent Wenusky and represent everybody who's in the city. Serving on Council these past two years has truly been one of the biggest honors of my life to be able to take what I'm hearing from the community and translate that into policy and talk to fellow counselors about that is truly something that really just completely fills my heart to be honest. I believe Wenusky is already a great place but there is a lot of work that we have to do making our community more walkable making our community completely accessible to all folks and continuing the work that we're doing in the equity sphere. I love hearing from people from the youngest members of our community to the oldest members of our community. I encourage you always to reach out and I'm really excited to continue doing this work and to represent everybody. Thank you and let's go to Nick. Hi my name is Nick Brownell. I'm running for city council because well I love it here you know Wenusky is a warm and welcoming place. We have such a diverse community as you've already heard is one of the most diverse cities in the state of Vermont and I do definitely echo the fact that we have much to do in terms of making the city walkable but as it is it's definitely a place where you can walk from you know where you live to pick up some food and get some groceries. I'm running for city council in particular because I've been inspired by the work that people have been doing in our community. I myself am a renter. I am an IT worker and I'm also an organizer and an activist. In my experience I've helped organize around labor rights, renter rights, reproductive justice, and racial justice. I feel that I can bring widely and deeply felt issues from the community to the forefront of city council. I've had experience working with folks and winning issues that directly impact their material you know living conditions. Last winter myself and other Wenusky citizens helped pass just cause eviction which is a big success for tenants in the city but we still have so much more work to do. As city councilor I want to continue to work on this type of work and tackle the housing crisis. We need to concrete plans to address the lack of housing, the rise of increase of cost of rent, and the lack of protections that working class people have in the city. Thank you. Wonderful, thank you all so much for answering the questions beautifully. We are going to now talk about both the city budget and also the school budget and for this question we will be starting with Mr. Thomas. So do you support the proposed 10.98 million city budget and associated with 8.07 percent tax increase? Yes or no? And also what experience do you bring to the overall financial management of the city of Wenusky? Sure yeah, thank you for the question. I'd like to start by saying this budget was extremely difficult for us on council to figure out and propose to the residents of Wenusky. We knew just to continue services as we had then we had to raise the budget by about 6 percent. On top of that our city manager proposed to us a budget of about 12 percent that included investments in various areas of the city. But from conversations that I was having with residents I knew that we could not propose a double digit tax increase to folks. It just wouldn't have been plausible for people's budgets. Some people told us they'd have to leave the city if we did something like that. So we had to find a way where we could get the investments that we wanted. Council was really looking for some infrastructure investments as well as in other areas of city government. Some of our folks on council were hoping to go above 8 percent. Some folks were hoping to go below 8 percent. And what I did and where I really feel like I'm a pivotal person on council is I proposed a number where I thought that we could work together. So some folks would get what they wanted. Other folks would get what they wanted. I try to always make sure that I am championing fiscal responsibility on council. We come from a community that struggles financially for the majority of our residents. So it's important to me that we are giving them the services that they want and need but we're also not breaking their budgets. So yes I do support this budget. We did a lot of hard work to get it to where it is and the things that are incredibly important to our residents. Wonderful. Thank you so much. And now we will start with you, Nick, for the same question. Well I will kind of echo a similar thought that this is kind of a tough budget. This is something that a lot of Winooski citizens are maybe not used to. I do think that what this budget does, it does tackle some issues. It does provide funding for some things that I think a lot of people want in the city like repaving our sidewalks. It does offer a lot for the city to operate, do as it does for its citizens. I also sort of think a large part of budgetary increases is it also provides rise of living balance for our city workers, which is really important. They're the people that really keep our city running. Health insurance rates have gone up as well, which is also a part of this budgetary item. In my conversations with people, talking with people door to door, I've heard a lot as well from people who are on, you know, fixed income or in their own house. And people are, you know, went from paying $1,000 a year in taxes to now $7,000 and more. And these are very challenging issues. I think this is something that we need to look to the state as well in terms of identifying a more progressive way to tax people, basically, and not just simply rely on property taxes to fund our municipal government. Wonderful. Thank you so much. And Aurora? Yeah, I do support the budget this year. We did, as mentioned, focus on increasing funds for that municipal infrastructure. We all touched on accessibility, so that's really one of the focus, make sure our sidewalks are usable, especially considering a lot of our students still walk to school that we do have a great bus program now, too. We also included some items under safe, healthy, connected people, specifically our library and our fire and code department. I believe the experience that I bring to council, of course, from the past two years, so that practical experience. But one of the biggest things that I try to bring to doing this work is diversity, equity, inclusion. The budget really is a moral document. What we put funding towards is what we're saying that we value. We really need to think about who benefits and who doesn't in all the work that we do, but definitely in the budget because it affects all of our residents so immediately, questioning, like, are we increasing inequities or are we doing work to repair harm? I also believe that we really need to use data-driven decisions so that we can see what services are really serving our residents and what services they most need to really get their needs met by the city. Excellent. Thank you so much. And it seems all the candidates support the budget and the tax increases. Yes. Now, let's talk about the school city, school budget. And this time we will be starting with Nick. Do you support this year's school budget, $31.97 million? How do you address the challenges facing the state education fund and the impact on Winiski's school and taxpayers? Yeah. So, you know, first off, I do support it. I think, you know, part of the issue is operating the school, running the school, even if we didn't want to propose a higher budget than perhaps normal, would still, it would end up costing us more. This budget, of course, also includes, you know, raises and cost of living for the staff that run the school. I think part of the issue that we're seeing, which starts as a good thing, Act 27, which actually is an act that would definitely help Winiski. You know, we're a city where multilingual city, the school itself also works a lot with families who do not need to speak English. And that's a huge resource for families. But part of the issue is loaded out of Winiski and more. And the state house is, there is a 5% tax cap that has kind of caused some issues. And so the legislature has tried their best to try and rectify that sooner than later. But we really need to be working closely with our state legislatures, giving our input and letting them know that this is something that's very serious. It affects not just Winiski schools, but schools around the state. Wonderful. Thank you so much. And let's go with Thomas. I also support the school budget. Let's be honest, our students in Winiski need a budget that reflects all of the difficult ways that they need to be educated. And it's a lot more intensive than some of our neighboring schools. So that's why our school budget might be a little larger than some people would hope that it is. We're also paying for a big, beautiful new school as well. The school board, similar to City Council, worked really, really hard on this budget. They were dealing with a lot of difficult financial outcomes. And there's still so much in the air. Nick alluded to it a little bit, but between the citywide assessment, folks really won't know what that tax bill looks like until that's done. The common-level appraisal numbers, the legislature is still figuring those out. And as Nick said, we need to be working with our state legislatures. And that's why I have been in constant contact with both of our representatives on the House side, our three senators, and as well as other senators and state representatives in the Vermont legislature, relaying to them and making sure that they are aware of the importance of the current weights that Winooski is a recipient of that good weighting calculation. We need that to continue in order for our students to thrive. So I support the budget. I'm having those conversations to make sure that the state funding for schools continues to benefit Winooski residents. Excellent. Wonderful. Thank you. And Aurora? I also support the school budget. The new student weights that have come in place really are, as I think both Thomas and Nick mentioned, here to help the needs of our Winooski students, we have a high population of multilingual learners. And we also have a high population of students experiencing poverty. And these with the weights allow us to equitably provide that high quality education that students in wealthy districts like Stowe or South Burlington also have. So making sure we have that equity. Our school budget looks a lot bigger because of this new capacity provided by those weights. So showing that those weights really are working towards equity and allow us to invest in those supports most needed by our residents while actually decreasing the school tax rate. As also alluded to, there are a lot of complicated things that determine what that looks like for our individual residents, especially the property owners. But I do think the school board and superintendent did the very best for our students and our residents. That said, I think the system of funding education in Vermont is too complicated, and I would encourage our state reps to look into more progressive alternatives to property tax, such as a wealth tax or income tax to fund education. Wonderful. Excellent. For our listeners again, you can call to ask the candidates any question that you would like at<PHONE_NUMBER>. 862-3966. Now this is a housing question, and we are going to start with Aurora. And what can Winooski do to meet the needs for safe and affordable housing for the people that work, leave, raise children, study and also visit? Definitely. So the housing crisis has definitely hit Winooski very hard as it has across the state. We are a majority renter city. We have already been making some changes at the city level to try and alleviate some of the crisis. One of those is incentivizing larger bedroom units, licensing and then potentially putting in caps for short-term rentals. We have a Winooski Housing Trust Fund, a rental registry to keep landlords accountable, but there's a lot more work to do. I think some of the biggest things coming up that our council are going to be working on is making sure that Act 47, and now that that's in place, that the incentives that we already have continue to be incentives to get the housing that we most need. And I also think we need to start looking at inclusionary zoning. I'm also really interested in exploring getting some data on rent caps or at least caps for down payments. I want to ensure as well that they're just cause eviction charter change goes through despite the complications and errors that have happened. I've been a renter in Winooski and I just really want to see renters' rights taken seriously. Thank you so much. And we are going with housing. Nick, you second? So I'm a renter. Renting anywhere means that you have a little bit less privilege than you would if you owned your house. Winooski is facing a housing crisis very similar to a lot of other locals in the area. And I think in particular the ways that Winooski can help fight back against this is looking to invest in a more robust public housing system. That's public housing for all that serves people who can afford it as well as people who need help to subsidize their rent. We need to be able to provide additional help to people for speaking with their landlords, being able to negotiate fairly. I think one way to do that is to be able to recognize tenant unions. They're very similar to labor unions and the fact that they are organizations that work with people in order to come to a fair negotiation. That would help with negotiating a rent increase as well as taking care of much needed maintenance that needs to be done on a lot of the properties in Winooski. And I also think that Just Cause Eviction, while it did pass last year with 73% approval rating, we have had a lot of trouble in getting that to the state legislature. We're going to have to vote on it again unfortunately. And the hard part about that is that Just Cause Eviction is much well needed in our city. One of the things I think I'm most excited about with that is it offers the city council to negotiate what's a fair rent increase. That will allow Winooski citizens who are being priced out of our neighborhoods and priced out of our apartments. People will stay longer and be able to really participate in Winooski for as long as they can. So housing is key to so many things. Student performance, how people do in their jobs, how people feel about themselves has a huge impact on your self-worth. And this housing crisis is being felt everywhere. Not just in Shetland County or Vermont, but across the country. That's why I've been very insistent with our planning commission that they work on incentives that encourage common sense housing development in Winooski. We need to build housing that works for everybody who currently lives in Winooski and who would like to live in Winooski as well. On my first year in council, I introduced a memo that asked council and staff to look at Just Cause Eviction. I knew we needed this form of policy so that we could protect renters who are our most vulnerable housing folks in the city. I've currently been supporting alongside other members of council short-term rental policy. We just looked at that last night in our council meeting actually. And this is another thing that we're trying to do so that we can increase rental units within the city. I'm really looking forward to continue working with our housing initiatives director to tackle this housing problem and not just on these small policy levels, but on creating more housing because that's ultimately what we need to do in order to make sure that everybody can be housed. Wonderful. It seems that we have a question. You will answer the housing question and let's answer the question here. Hello? Hello, can you hear us? Can hear something. I need to press the conference. My question is actually still about housing availability and the affordability crisis. Again, this has been a great conversation and rental protections are important, but I know for example Just Cause Eviction now still in the legislature's hands. And the main problem that seems not only in Winnieski, but other Chittenden County communities is actually just a lack of housing to begin with. So could each of the candidates talk actually a little bit more about what Winnieski could be doing to incentivize building more housing actually? Thanks. Thank you so much for that question. What Winnieski can be doing to intensify more housing? And I think for this question we will start with Aurora first. That is a really good question and I think Thomas started to talk about we really need to give guidance to our planning and housing commissions because they're really navigating those state changes coming out of Act 47. We really need to continue that incentivizing and really what that comes down to is building the housing that Winnieski needs, which is the larger bedroom units as well as affordable units. We've seen a lot of big buildings go up, but often they're one bedroom or studio apartments. So one way that we can incentivize is around parking minimums. So looking at that another way is if decreasing some of the application processes, the cost and other ways that we can support different businesses applying or sorry, applying to get that help. I also think one of the other things with housing is that it's the best way to retain our diverse residents and really continue to build community. So I think there's both the renting side and also partnering with organizations like Champlain Housing Trust to create some opportunities for affordable home ownership. I think we have that growing problem of some vacant and underutilized properties. So I'd love to explore, especially during a housing crisis, how we might change some taxes to really incentivize generating the city revenue and encouraging developers to build housing and store funds that we really need. Wonderful. Thank you. And Thomas? Sure. It's almost like we're on ice on the same board. Incentives is really where we're going to tackle a lot of this housing crisis. You know, the Planning Commission came to us several months ago with a plan for incentives that included things like parking minimums, bike parking minimums, and other tools that they were hoping would be successful to get folks to build in Manuski and build what we need, which is the three plus bedroom units. What they brought us wasn't good enough. So we sent them back to the drawing table because we need things that will truly create the housing that we're looking for. We don't need more studio apartments in Manuski. We have those. But it's really important that we bring both sides of the development structure to the table. We really need to have our Planning Commission listen more to some of the development partners that we want to work with in the city. And I have encouraged them multiple times to invite those partners into their Planning Commission meetings so they can hear what it is that those types of folks are looking for. This includes Champlain Housing Trust and other developers who are doing good development in our city. There are many folks who are looking to do the development that we need. There are just some barriers that we need to break for them. So we've asked the Planning Commission to do that. Hopefully they will do that if they bring back something that we think doesn't accomplish what we need for housing. We're going to send it back to them. Thank you. Wonderful. Thank you. And yes? So yeah, I mean some great examples already brought up. I think what Manuski has done in the past is adopted a form-based code, which was the idea that we would be able to sort of fast-track development in the city, which I think for a while has proved to be very successful. However, I think part of the issue that we're facing and we've kind of touched on a little bit is the way that Manuski is zoned is we are only really allowing new construction on the corridors of Manuski. So what we really need is large-scale housing and unfortunately the way that Manuski is zoned is we don't have anywhere to put that. So what I'd like to do as a city counselor is work with the Planning Commission and be able to offer them guidance on what Manuski needs. We need to be able to, you know, reform our zoning laws. We need to be able to develop more housing that isn't just in the corridors. We need to get creative with what kind of housing we can offer for people. Part of the other issue is, you know, developers when they're looking at projects, they really only want to take on these studio one bedroom apartments because that's going to make them the most money, right? So incentivizing is a good idea in terms of, you know, if developers are looking at projects, potential projects, we want to be able to make it easier for them to develop. But we also want to make it so that they are for sure developing three bedroom apartments. These are things that a majority of Manuski residents want. Excellent. It's clear that you're all very good at the time. Thank you. And this, thank you again for that call. And again, if you want to call, you can please call in at<PHONE_NUMBER>,<PHONE_NUMBER> to ask questions for these great candidates. This question now is about the addiction and opiate crisis. We will be starting with Thomas. What is the cities doing right now in addressing addiction crisis? What is the biggest changes that needs to happen to help both the people suffering from addiction and those around them impacted by the effects? Do you support overdose prevention sites? You know, one of the things that we love about Manuski is that we approach most things with compassion. And that is one way that city staff has approached this crisis. The city and its police force have long partnered with the Howard Center in making sure that people are being treated with respect, that they're encountering in our community who have this addiction and this illness. And our police force, you know, I frequently said, I never thought I would talk positively about a police force. But the Manuski police force has a deep understanding that this is a crisis of addiction. This isn't about bad people. And we are encouraging them as members of council to continue that approach when they're dealing with folks and trying to help folks. You know, this is a statewide, well, really this is a nationwide problem. Manuski alone can't address it. But the steps that we are currently doing, I think, assist with that. There's no singular solution. But yes, overdose prevention sites are one of those tools and I do support them. But we also need more mental health care workers.  We need more doctors and APRNs in the field of addiction recovery. Without that, we will not be able to solve this crisis. And I've advocated both on the state and the federal level that we need to create programs that allow more doctors to come into our communities and assist with these problems. Excellent. Thank you. Yep. And then we are going with Aurora. All right. Yeah. Our city staff, some examples of kind of what they're doing on the ground is our police, as Thomas mentioned, as well as the staff in some of our physical spaces, like our community center and our library, do have Narcan on hand and training on how to administrate it. So we have some of those really practical things of how we can support individuals immediately. As Thomas mentioned, we are also working with community partners like the Howard Center as best we can to do that support. But it really is that state level work. We really need the state to kind of move away from studies and surveys. We really have that data and we need to move to that real action and real support for doing that work. I would be in support of overdose prevention sites and there is certainly a need that they'll help everyone be safe. I'm the liaison to the Safe Healthy Connected People Commission, which is discussing some ways on how we can support residents and their families. That's thinking that commission also oversees the police as well as community services. So how we can support our staff to have those tools. But as I think Thomas really touched on, it's a systemic issue that's not going to be solved by us alone. Wonderful. Thank you. So I do support overdose prevention sites. I support safe injection sites. I think these are crucial to keeping people alive. It prevents life-threatening situations. When we talk about the addiction crisis, we also have to understand that the addiction crisis is not just that. It's also a crisis of poverty. It's a crisis of homelessness. It's a crisis of trauma. And so when we're tackling this issue and when we're working with, as we mentioned, this is a large part, a state issue as well, that we need to be thinking about how we can build a foundation for people to be able to pull themselves up. I think, as we mentioned, the Winooski Police Department has a strong connection with Howard Center. Howard Center workers do great work in terms of helping people improve their lives. I think what the City of Winooski should be doing is looking into ways to be able to house more people, period, but we need to be placing a focus on people that are currently unhoused and getting them into shelter so that they can actually start the process of addiction and not relapse into that. Thank you. Seems you all set for that question. This question is about the ballot items. I'm going to make this question a little bit because you guys are very similar in your policies. Let me now see. What are the two ballot items currently in Winooski? And also, do you support them? What are the two ballot items? And this time, we're starting with Nick. Sure. So I do support the two ballot items. One of them is the Burlington Bridge Project, the other being the Main Street Revitalization Project. As we talked about a little bit earlier, Winooski is a great city. It's a walkable city, but a typical complaint is that the sidewalks are not always safe. And if you have accessibility or mobility issues, that's not going to work for you. People can't necessarily get to our voting polls safely if they're on a scooter, for example. So I think this definitely addresses part of that issue. I'm pretty excited about the Winooski Bridge Project. That's something that we... The Winooski Bridge has been in existence for most 100 years. And if you like to bike to Burlington as I do, you'll notice that sometimes there's holes in the concrete. This is something that I'm very excited to see. And this vote itself, what I'm also happy about is we are approving a budget. We are not necessarily approving the final design of it. I'd like to echo what I've heard from environmentalist groups as well and just mention that I think that we need to continue looking at the design and making changes to it that long-term, we are developing our city to be more eco-friendly and encouraging more public transport and bike transport. Wonderful. Thank you so much. And Aurora? Definitely. So with the first ballot item, which is around funding sidewalk and street paving, this has no effect on the tax rate. It is to reallocate some bond funds that we already had, that we already asked residents and they already approved. The project was originally... Those funds were originally for, came in really under budget. So there are these leftover funds that because it's a bond, we can't pay them back early or invest it in other ways. And in fact, we are starting to be charged a fee on it. So reallocating those funds really to do work that we want to do and need to do anyway with funds that we already have, to me is the best way to make use of that. And again, there's no potential tax rate increase. For the Winooski Bridge at this time, I do not support this bond because I don't think the funding as it stands is equitable to Winooski. It is unfair for our taxpayers to shoulder this burden when data shows that Burlington not only has the tax base to fund it, but also Burlington gets a lot more benefit from the bridge. We have to... We've tried to advocate with the organizations we're partnering with, with Burlington, with folks at this date. And we've yet to be successful in having them listen to us and correct that inequity. So I will be voting no on this bond vote, which I never expected to say, but we'll continue to vote no until the inequity is corrected. Wonderful. Perfect timing. Yes, Thomas? Again, we're on the same table. So a lot of the same things. What I really want to emphasize is the bond vote of the real reallocation of funds. This is money that Winooski has already raised and paid for. So we just need this as a procedural process in order to do the work, to repave streets, make them safe to walk on, make them safe to drive on, but there will be no change in what you see in your tax bill for voting. Yes, on that. Similarly to the bridge, I am actually still making my mind up on if I am voting for that or not, mainly because I'm hoping that the state will see that the bridge is really a community bridge. This isn't just Winooski or Burlington's bridge. This is Colchester and Essex and Lilliston's bridge as well. 25,000 people cross the bridge every day. Winooski has 8,000 residents. So it's not just our bridge. That said, I do want the taxpayer to keep in mind that we currently have a very large grant from the federal government that covers the majority of the cost of this bridge. The bridge will cost about 60 to 80 million dollars, which would be near impossible for Winooski or Burlington or even the surrounding communities to fund. So if we do not pass the bond vote, we may risk those government funds and there's no guarantee that we would get them again. Okay, wonderful. Thank you so much. I think you all answered the question, Nick. Okay, perfect. Now, this question is about racial justice. Where do you see systematic racism showing up in Winooski? What can the city council do to solve the problem? And we are going to start with Aurora. Okay. So unfortunately, systemic racism is definitely still part of our systems in Winooski. I think some of our civic systems in particular. I do believe we are very aware, both at the city and at the school, and are trying to work in different ways to dismantle the racist systems. As a member of council, as I mentioned previously, I serve on the Safe, Healthy, Connected People Commission, which provides that support and feedback to police, to fire and code, and to community services. I also serve as the liaison to our now just over a year old inclusion and belonging commission, which provides feedback across our city departments and the council, and we have it kind of separated from those traditional power structures to be able to let it really influence the other parts of the city and provide that feedback normally that has been left out. I also helped put together an equity assessment worksheet last year because I felt our FY24 budget process did not prioritize equity enough. And this tool now is helping guide us in policy creation and in budget review, so really making sure we consider who's benefiting, who is not. I also think when we're talking about updating zoning and housing, we can encourage more housing throughout the city. I think as Nick stated, like being able to build more housing and bigger housing units throughout the city. And I do hope that will help with some of the segregation that has happened by making housing more affordable and participating with partners. I also think we are supporting and being a part of a bunch of community events, especially around thinking how we can plan to use the equity audit that we did in a previous year to make both the school and the city more equitable. Wonderful, thank you. And Nick? Yep. So I see systemic racism and make up our neighborhoods. A lot of our, as we kind of pointed out, a lot of our neighborhoods are kind of segregated. That's based off of racial divides as well as economic divides. We go through Winooski, go to certain parts and you'll find that a lot of houses that need a lot of maintenance are being rented by new Americans, people that don't necessarily have the resources available to them to actually better negotiate fixes on those properties. I think one thing that the city could do in terms of helping with this is sort of like I said before, tenant unions I think historically do work with communities of people that don't necessarily speak English as a first language, people who are new to the country that don't have a great understanding of lease agreements. A lot of people born in the country don't have a great understanding of lease agreements, right? I also sort of see our systemic racism as we've all seen and has been brought out of 2020 with the Black Lives Matter movement in our policing system. I think Winooski has taken great steps at combating that. It's certainly not what it used to be, but I do think that we still need to be vigilant in identifying who's treated unfairly as well as filling our vacant equity director's position. That's something that we still haven't done yet. Okay, wonderful. Night on time. I'll go now. Systemic racism exists everywhere, everywhere, so it'd be foolish to think that it doesn't exist in Winooski. It's embedded in institutions without knowing it's embedded in people. And then let's be honest, racism is also a factor that is still faced all the time in our city and other cities in Vermont. Winooski is the most racially diverse town in Vermont, yet there's only one BIPOC member on council who's sitting right here. There's only one BIPOC member who is running for council who's sitting right here. City council is taking and making investments so that we can consider racial implications along with the work that we do thanks to the tool that Aurora made. We use that for every single piece of policy that we're looking at, everything that we read. We conducted an equity audit that really highlighted what the school and the city need to do, but we continue to do that work and know that there is work that needs to be done, which is kind of half of the battle. A lot of folks do not acknowledge systemic racism and the city as a policy has done that. I'm reminded all the time and one story I like to tell that just really hits on where we are still with systemic racism in Vermont. When I was first elected to city council, my nephew who lives in the city came over to our house and we had a little celebration and said, Uncle Thomas, I didn't know that people who looked like you and me could serve on city council. So until that question is no longer answered, we still have a systemic racism issue. Wonderful. Thank you. We have less than five minutes now,<PHONE_NUMBER>, 862-3966. And Thomas, to give you the time to breathe because you are going to stop. This is question and it is about public safety. Do you feel safe in Winiskey downtown? What do you do as a city council to make Winiskey a safer and more equitable city? Yeah, so I do feel safe downtown but I say that with a caveat. I'm a very tall man. I don't want to assume that how I feel is how anybody else would feel in the city. I've spoken to residents who don't feel safe downtown for a variety of reasons and I can't discredit that. So it's something that we do talk about and I've spoken with our police chief and I have conversations with him about things like that and as well with our other department heads at the city. One thing I really can say, a moment where I do feel unsafe and I know that many residents of our town feel unsafe is when navigating our streets, whether they're walking or they're driving. Speeding is almost getting out of control in the city. Dangerous driving. Just recently, very unfortunately, right in our downtown, a woman was hit while she was walking her dog and her dog died. Due to that, I've asked our city, we need to invest in more signage, both illuminated and non illuminated, with flashers and non with flashers, more crosswalks, visible and elevated, so that people do feel safe walking around all of Winiskey. We need to empower our police force to be able to ticket people who are speeding. Winiskey is famously known as a speedway that needs to stop and one way is allowing our police force to take care of that. But for any way that somebody feels unsafe in Winiskey, council needs to keep that in mind. The feeling of being unsafe is something that we need to take seriously. And I encourage anyone to reach out to council if you are feeling unsafe in the city. Thank you. We go with Nick. Sure. You know, I'm someone that also feels relatively safe in our city as well. You know, I'm originally from New York and I think, you know, Vermont as a whole, I've always felt a lot safer living here. And talking with constituents, people have brought up the idea that, you know, they feel that they feel unsafe. They feel that there is an issue of crime rising in city Burlington as well as Winiskey. And I suppose, you know, how I feel about that is we have an obligation, I suppose, to identify what people are feeling and respond. I think when people say that they feel unsafe in their city, they're talking about, you know, other people, I guess, basically, really down on their luck. You know, we're talking about unhoused people, we're talking about people facing addiction. And what we need to do as a society, as a city, is invest in more programs that are going to be able to, you know, improve those people's lives. I wanted to talk a little bit about, you know, what Thomas brought up with the idea of speeding in Winiskey and our safety. I do feel that as well, that, you know, we have an issue of car traffic in the city. But I think rather than investing more in ticketing people, we need to be looking at structural changes towards the city's streets. Winiskey is a very small city. We have a lot of cramped streets. And I think we need to be looking at an overall of how we're addressing public access to transportation. Wonderful. Thank you. All right. I do also feel safe in the Winiskey downtown and really throughout the rest of the city. I think unlike a lot of neighboring communities, we haven't created a hostile environment for people just to exist in. I think when I, when thinking about public safety, I think situations that make our residents unsafe often are not getting the health and mental health care services that they need, landlords lying to them and bullying them, losing housing and unsafe housing quality, language access needs, the F-35s, not having access to safe third spaces and not having that necessarily reliable public transportation. So yes, a lot of those are large social problems that really need to change at the systemic level, but we're doing our best to alleviate them thinking about policy and procedure. Another way I think as a city council member, I can make sure that we're doing that work is ensuring that our staff have the funds and resources they need to best serve our residents. That's part of the reason why we're investing in our fire and code department by having a new fire chief with this budget, as well as investing in our library, thinking about those safe third spaces. So I'm really excited that we are able to prioritize those. Wonderful. Thank you all so much and for being here, and I just wanted to allow you for each to take 30 seconds to do a closing statement. Yes, and this time around we'll be starting with Nick. Sure. Yeah, so thanks for joining us. Again, my name is Nick Brownell. I'm running for Winiski City Council because I believe that we can make a significant change in improving people's lives. We need to tackle our housing crisis. We need to think about more radical change. We need to be improving our ability to take public transport, to be tackling our environmental crisis, making significant changes in a way that only municipal government can on a local level, which is doing a fundamental change in our zoning and improving our local infrastructure so that as time goes on we're able to live happily. Thank you.  So my name again is Aurora Hurd, and I'm really running to try and help ensure all Winiski residents have a voice and that we continue our progress to being inclusive and equitable city. One of the upcoming things I'm excited about is we're doing some language access review, and once we have that data, City Council will be able to put that into policy and procedure to ensure we're meeting those needs. So I'm excited about that way. We're going to improve access. You can find me across social medias, Aurora Hurd, VT, or feel free to reach out via email or Aurora Hurd VT at gmail.com. I really look forward to talking with you. Thank you so much. Yes. Thank you so much for hosting us today. Again, my name is Thomas Renner, and I continue to believe that Winiski is the best place to live. I think there's work that we have to do in housing, safety, and equity, and not all of it is easy, but I continue to commit to listen to all viewpoints and voices and to serve as a connector of ideas, to be a person of balance and reason, and to think of how any decision I will make will impact every single member of Winiski. It's a true honor to be your deputy mayor, and I look forward to serving you for another two years. If you would like to reach out to me, you can email me at thomas4winiski at gmail.com. Thanks so much. Thank you, viewers, for being with us today. Thank you, CCTV Channel 17. Thank you for tuning in on town meeting TV, ongoing coverage of local candidates, local budget, local ballot items. You can find them on ccdv.org slash 2024, or on our town meeting TV YouTube channel. And you can tune in for live election results also, when after you cast your ballot on March 5th, contact your local clerk to find out how to obtain a ballot and to register to vote. In Vermont, you can register to vote on election day. Thank you for watching. Good luck, candidates, and thank you for sharing town meetings with us today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo and I'm doing a Black Friday holiday sales sneak peek to give everybody time to think about what they want to sign out for. If you want to join, if you've been thinking about joining all of 2022 or even before 2022, there's so many people that have been following me for so many years, which really is a compliment and I thank you. I thank you for following me. I thank you for the loyalty and this is a beautiful picture of New York City. I'm very excited. I am moving in the next month and I'm moving right before the holidays. So personally, I am very excited about the holidays and that's one of the reasons also why I wanted to give everybody a preview of the holiday sales in case you're interested. If you want to email me or call me with questions beforehand, so I have time to talk to you before I move. So if you have any questions, you can email me at MelissaTheStocksWish.com. You can call me at 9 to 9, 3200 Gap. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So 2022 has been a very good year for the market. Why? We've had a lot of volatility. Also, I prefer to short. It's been a really good year to short the market and stocks as well, but I've just never, never probably in my life of 14 years of trading ever shorted the market as much as we did this year and it's not over. We still have two more months left in 2022. We're rocking and rolling tonight. Actually, the market is down this evening. So I'm really looking forward to the next two months. Like I said, not just because it's a holidays because I'm moving into a new apartment and I'm just excited about closing out the year.  So it's that time of the year again. Like I said, if you're thinking about joining, if you're thinking about signing up, these are the sales that I'm going to be doing for Black Friday. So the Black Friday sneak peek for the options is the following. For those of you that are interested in the options newsletter, the Black Friday sale is going to be a sale off the normal price. So the normal price is $69.99. I'm going to do a thousand off the 12 month subscription and you're going to get a bonus one month because you're actually going to get the subscription through the end of 2023. So if you sign up, actually, if you sign up now, if you want to, you get two bonus months. But if you sign up the weekend of Thanksgiving, you get the one bonus month, which would be December. And you will also receive the gap options course free with this as well. So it is a really nice combo deal where you get a little bit of everything here, the class, the newsletter, and it really you'll be set then to get all the options straight until the end of 2023. Now, for those of you that are interested in the Golden Gap course combo tuition, if you want to take the class, learn the 26 points, learn the rating system and the trends classes included with this too. It's called the combo. You do both classes, which is Saturday and Sunday, and then the trends is on a Tuesday. If you sign up for the Golden Gap course combo Black Friday special, you'll receive the following. This is absolutely huge. Really, this gets you everything. The stocks will show live trading room annual subscription. So you get one year free and the gap options newsletter annual subscription one year free. That's a huge amount of time to get all the day trains and all the options. And again, if you want to sign up for this now, you could and start your one year free if you want to join for this month for November. I'm allowing people to do it. I'm putting it out there so that people can see what it is if they want to sign up and join. And again, because I am moving the holiday week. So this gives people time to reach out to me and ask me questions, but this gets you both classes, which you'd be doing that in December. And then you could start trading now if you want. For those of you that don't know what I do, I'm interested in the fast trades for the morning for the day trading room. The room opens at 9am. Okay. I call the trains live. We're in and out in and out. Super different fast five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. If I'm trading all day, I'm having a hard day. You know, that's not really what I set out to do in the morning. I prep myself in the morning, rate the gaps, and I try to take the trade and get the momentum move in the first half hour of the day. It is about chunking it out, though. And the calculator risk for me comes into the prep work. So that's what you're going to learn in the golden gap class. You're going to learn the rating system. You're going to learn how to enter the trades. You're going to learn how to exit the trades. You're going to learn the targets. Okay. So 2023 is right around the corner. It's two months away. It's hard to believe this year. I really feel like it's flown by. And I'm actually glad for that, because I feel like I feel like, you know, going into 2023, I'm a lot more personally optimistic and feel positive about the future for my next phase of life. I'm going to be moving to a new neighborhood, a much, much better neighborhood, actually the best neighborhood in New York. So I'm really super excited, not just about the apartment I'm moving into, but about being in a different environment. And I think, you know, when you take, take steps in your life to improve your life, it always takes work. It takes work. It takes time. It takes effort. Sometimes it takes money. Sometimes it takes a lot more money than you ever plan for a thought. But in the end, it's always worth it. You know, if we if your life is not what you want right now, if you're not doing a career that you love, or you're not happy with the money you're making, the only way that you're going to change it is by taking risk and doing something different. And quite frankly, the only person that's in charge of your own life is you. No one's going to make it happen for you. You have to make it happen for yourself. And the thing is that, you know, if you really want to make improvements with your life, you have to be willing to take risk. And again, sometimes that involves hard work and money, but it's worth it in the end. Once you get over the hump, it goes like that. And sometimes for people I found it's not even the learning process, it's not even the class, the hump for so many people that have been following me like I said earlier for so long, the hump is making the decision to finally join. And once you've made that decision, it's done. And then you just start and you just move forward and you're on a new path for your training, a new strategy, and then go into 2023 with a new and positive optimistic attitude like I'm doing myself. So let's talk about meta. This was a gap. Stop closer gap down. This was earnings as strange as it was. This didn't go as big as I wanted it to that day. It had a move in it, but it really didn't do what I wanted to do. Today it did. Today it did in here. It was 31st. So this closed here held a little bit broke, broke on the last day of the month and fell. It was a short. And again, you will learn in the class, the golden gap course, how to rate this gap and determine if it's a short or if it's a long. It was a short. I was right. It was and we shorted this on October 31st. This was the play of the day. I did an ad in this and it was a good ad at something I teach in one of the advanced classes, but the entry was 9740 shares was 1400 risk was 2940 ad was at 9720 total shares 2800 average price was 9730 exit was 9490 profit was $6,720. So, you know, it was a really, really, really, really, really big train. One, we had a perfect entry. Then we did the ad. Then we got the drop. I didn't even hold this all day. I just want to let you know this came down in here broke 93. I don't know exactly what the load of the day was, but it was nowhere near where we got out. My target was 95. It dropped through that a little bit, but this literally went another $3 plus that you could have made in this. But as I said earlier, I'd like to get in and out of the fast trades. Now, this was another one we did. This was the spy. I want to show you what one of the options newsletters looks like if you want to sign up for this. This was Tuesday, September 13th, 840 in the morning before the market opened. I said this out and you can't do the trades until the open. Okay, but sometimes I'll send trades out at six o'clock in the morning because I know I like the gap. It rates good. We did the spy puts. It expired in 923. So, this was September 13th. Let's go up. Okay, closed here. Gap down. Again, I called the 402s. Here's the drop. Boom. It was a good trade. This cost $7.10 contracts. This was $7,000. Sold at 19. Profit was $12,000. Returning investment was 171 percent. And again, you could have made more. It kept going just like the meta. You have to set some parameters for yourself. I usually go off of the daily targets. Okay. And then you do have to watch your timing with options too. Cost again, if you had a beginner risk, two contracts, $1400, $7 apiece, sold at 19. Profit, $2,400. Return and investment, 171 percent. Again, you could have taken any risk in between more than this, less than this. You could have taken one. It's whatever works for you. That's something that you can ask me if you have questions about risk. Now, I'm also doing a gap options course Black Friday special. If you sign up for the gap options course, it includes one month free of the gap options newsletter. It's December 15th, 11 to 3. Class tuition is normally $2,500. The Black Friday sales a thousand off. Black Friday class tuition is 1,500. Class is online. You could be anywhere in the world and take it. And again, this is December 15th. For example, if you want to sign up for this now, you can. And then you can start your one month free on the newsletter actually now if you want. But you know, again, that's up to you. If you want to wait till after you do the class, then you take the class first. So again, the for the newsletter for the one month free. I mean, but this sale will be going on with all Black Friday sales the weekend of Black Friday. So getting back to what I was saying earlier, you want to train fast and be done in and out very, very, very quickly. It's one of these things where I think that people spend all day trading sometimes in trading rooms all day and they end up giving money back that they make or digging themselves whole.  It's really important to trade in the morning and be done. If I did one trade in the morning like we did today, I'm done and out. Boom. Today we did Uber. I did it out. Done. Boom. That's it. Didn't do anything else. Fast trades really, really are the best. Now I get this question a lot.  Should you still do the Golden Gap course? The big class, of course. The class itself reviews charts at the beginning and Candle Six and that's a review for some people, but you see and get a window into my mind about how I look at charts in Candle Six. So it's still something new for people that have traded for a long time and if you're new, you need to learn how to read those things and then you will learn the points just like everybody else in the class. It's a learning process. You're going through the process and as you go, you're going to ask me questions. Again, being in the live trading room is extremely important because that's the place to ask me questions, but it is all about making money and having fun while doing it. I try my best to make the room fun. We're focused. I'm very focused on making money. Again, you have to be. You have to be in this type of market, but I try to make the room as fun as I can and lively so that people are interested in coming every day. So it's a happy place to be. But if you're thinking about doing something different for 2023, like I said earlier, if you don't like what you're doing or you want to find some way to make extra money, you've got to learn how to trade before you risk money. I know nobody wants to hear that. They just want to take trades and trade blind, but it's really not a good idea. It's not a good thing to do and you're probably going to lose if you do that. Many people trade the market and don't have a strategy and a lot of people have strategies that don't work. I've been doing this since I started trading. It took me three years to figure out my system and I've been trading for 14 years. I've been teaching people for 10. My system works and this year has been just a really good year. Not just for myself, but the people that have been in my group. So remember this. When you're thinking about it, if you want to join, education is really a gift to yourself because you're investing in yourself and your future. When you buy a car, that investment only lasts for a couple years. When you buy a house, it's a really big investment where you're investing in yourself and your family to build something for your future. That's really usually people's most largest expense. $69.99 or $7500 for a class or any of the other courses that I have is really a small price to pay for the money that you give back in the market if you take losses by taking trades blindly and not knowing what you're doing or aimlessly following people that don't know what they're doing. It's an investment. Again, it's an investment in yourself, but it's small compared to some of the investments that people make in their life to change your lives in big, big ways. But I do think it's important to look at it as a gift to yourself and an investment in your own future if you want to change careers or if it's something that you want to do part-time on the side. It's well worth it. I had a very nice email from a gentleman from the last class that said he's taken a lot of classes and my class was the best class he's ever taken.  I give it all I've got when I teach the class and I really don't hold back in any of the information that I know and it's so important to me because again it was three years of my life, three years of my life figuring out what I would I now teach in a two-day class. So again, you know, it's I make it easier for you by number one explaining it and then allowing you to learn it in one shot and not having to go through the process like I did back and forth in the market with losses which I did with real money and it was tough. It was really, really tough. I would never want to repeat that cycle in my life again. So think about your future.  So November 2023, what do you want to be different in your training? What do you want to be different in your life? So follow the process which is what? Using the golden gap checklist. This is a 26 points and this is what you learn in the golden gap course. So if you sign up for the golden gap combo, you get the golden gap course and the trends course. And again, the golden gap course, the last class of the year is December 10th and 11th. It's 90 a.m to 5 p.m Eastern time. If you want to sign up for the class alone, stand alone is $69.99. Classes online can be anywhere in the world and take it. But again, the Black Friday sales going on, the sneak peek, if you want to join, these are valid now through November 27th which is Sunday the weekend of Black Friday. So all the sales will end on Sunday, that Black Friday. You can sign up for this. Get the letter to the end of 2023. Save $1,000 and get the gap options course free if you want to just sign up into the options. Again, the one bonus month is great and if you sign up now, you'll actually get two bonus months. I will honor this sale through November 27th which is why I'm posting it now. And then the class, if you want to learn it, the golden gap course tuition. This is the Black Friday class special for the Golden Gap. It's $74.99 includes the golden gap course and the trends to get the room free and the options newsletter free for one year. It gives you everything. If you don't know if you want to do day trades or options or both or one of the other, you'll have an ability to participate in the live room and get both. And again, it's a nice special and I do this now once a year for people who are following me. If you want to join, this is the time to do it. Again, the last class of the year is in December. Have a great night everyone. Email me at bonus of the stocks, swish.com if you have any questions and stay safe.


Normally we call it as a thematic maps, thematic map means that particular map or information sheet contains only one thing. If it is going to be a soil map, so it will have only the soil information or soil variations within the thing, within the map area. If it is going to be a forest map, then only the forest will be available, rest of the things will not be shown there. So this is what this thematic map and the different thematics maps. So you can just physically join or physically lay one over the other like soils, slopes and vegetation cover and land ownership. So these are all the things which you can always overlay, overlay means superimpose one over the other and create a composite map that will tell you about what is the village natural resources. So second thing is the tracing of, see previously the tracing of the geographical information is taken, then it is digitized, then we have got into the mode of creating a data sets. Now the satellite images, what happens is the satellite images are used since it is coming in a different mode, in a different format they can be superimposed as a single layer itself. Now there are, as you say there are lot of layers, thematic layers and combination is possible, combination is that there is one layer, A layer is here and B layer is here, then when you want to have A and B together, then there will be A also will be there, B also will be there and there will be A, B also will be there in the derivative map. This type of map overlay is possible in the geological or geographical information system. So now what we have seen is we have seen what is the different input modes which are available that is a raster and vector modes and how these modes, this is for the data points whereas then another thing is we have a scale, scale is nothing, what is the distance on a map and what is the distance on the ground that is what we call it as a scale and the projections are nothing but when you go there from the equator towards the north and towards the poles, what is happening is some of the because of the global condition there will be, there will not be straight lines and it will be bent towards each other that curvature need to be understood that is what we have seen it in the lecture 3. So now when what are all the different topological different methods which we have got for a manipulation or analysis purposes normally our interest is what it is adjoining what. So when I buy a house I want to know who are all my neighbors so and what do they do, how they behave we want to do it beforehand. So that is possible from this type of thing and what encloses containment is inside the boundary what it is available then another thing which we try to normally use it proximity how far I am from the particular place like a school is there, how far the school is from my place. So this type of analysis are possible in the GIS similarly in agriculture practices what we could do is how far is my agriculture plot from the river or a drainage line so that I will be able to get water. Another thing is how if there is going to be soil saline areas in the nearby areas how far is my field from the salinity affected areas. So this type of proximity analysis is possible and so that we will be able to control and manage and mitigate properly. So now in another way is another thing is about the networking analysis networking is nothing but how do I reach a particular place where the faster or a slower what is the distance between from one section to another section is one query and that query will take you to that different routes this is one possibility that is another possibility that type of proxy networking analysis can be done which is normally done for transportation. Transportation is one thing which how fast I will be able to reach the railway station or how fast I am able to reach the airport. Second thing is they are used in the hydrological thing what is the shortest distance yet water can be transported from one area to another thing and also other infrastructure like canal alignments it could be made use of it. Now having said about all those things now let us see some of the practical applications which we have done it. So you have two images over here. So what I have got is I have got a boundary of this particular area. Now second thing is I have got the these are all what these are all the village boundaries the black ones are village boundaries these boundaries are taken from the census information or village information which is available. Then another information layer which you might notice is the coloration which I have given these are all the mandal or it is the tassel tassel areas in this particular zone these all these layers they were all combined together or overlaid together and this map is prepared. So this will be for an administrative units and also labeling when you see that labeling labeling is also done over there. So this if you are interested only these things to be shown it as a result. So it is possible. Now the second thing is which you see it here what you are able to see is this is the river basin boundary what you see the bluish color is the river. So what are the different colors which you are able to see smaller ones which you are able to see this those are all the small streams or we call it as a drainage networks and the filled one blue one these are all the cheroes or a tank positions where tanks are there natural tanks are there to store water and for usage purposes. So now when you see that so if I am interested in how many tanks are there in a particular area now what I would do is I will try to take it from a different sources then I will try to group them based on the area wise each tank can be measured based on the surface area of storages. So it could be classified into bigger tanks smaller tanks and the smallest tank that could be of some use for us in analyzing how much water we can store it in the traditionally created tank portions. So filling it though each tank has got its own tank is nothing but a it is only a polygon the polygon information can be stored either in the form of a periphery or it can anything you want to give you can give and it can be color coded so that it can you can show the differences between one tank to another area. This is another example which we have done third example is the water requirements see water requirements is a major issue now which we are talking about it see this water requirements is based on the it is the human water requirement that is a drinking water requirement the drinking water requirement is based on the village level. This village level information that is a census information about that particular village that can be heard from their census office and also then individually then individual members one man needs about 55 liters of water that is how we try to do it up then the total water per week per month per year that could be made use of it and it could be color coded as what we have done it similarly is the livestock anything which we grow in our which is living with us that is what the livestock is livestock can be a bigger animals smaller animals or birds of that kind of category their water requirement is something different all those things they can be added and then if you would like to see what is which are the areas where more water is required is these three red color villages they need maximum water that means the water should be available either in the form of a surface water or in the ground water to feed their requirements which are the areas which have got a lesser water requirement is this type of areas. So even when you want to plan an activity this village wants more water this village wants lesser water so that type of water planning and water release management can be done by this way now third another information which we have tried to do it is combining all the layers and then calculating it what is the storages which are available in this area for the tanks and other activities then what is the water level in the water level in the in the village village area or water level in the individual tanks everything is made available and it can be combined together then we can prepare a what integrated water management management practices during the drought conditions this is how this has been done the another information is if you are interested in surface water. Surface water depends on the rainfall conditions if the rainfall conditions are less then the surface flow will be less if the flow is late then storages will be less so then that area will be demanding more water at the end of the day for this purpose what is done is what is the for agriculture how much they depend on the surface water that is what is that information has been taken from the census area and then out of the if you have this is the total area of total area of the village and what we have got so how much area is cultivated so all those information we can get into in the form of a percentages and then can be shown over here that means here also when you look at it these areas these areas at the bottom at this center so they need more water more surface water they need when compared to the rest of the plant areas so now if the if the monsoon fails or if the rainfall is less these are all the villages which are likely to be affected by the water supply now the second thing is the storage system which is available under individual villages one among the solutions which normally we try to do is you distributed distributed section of the individual villages if they have a lake then it will be easier to get the water stored here and then supply will be easier so that they will be able to go to the place and then collect water and then go back. So for this purpose this image has been overlaid from a two different more this has been calculated water demand is calculated and like tank area then surface storages caption then you have the mandals and you have the this is an administrative unit this is the tank of area unit tank storage unit and whether it is sufficient or not those things are given over here now another things which we can do is overlaying another overlaying this is the image of that particular area and this yellowish line is the village boundary which you have created from a different sources so you can have this image overlaid by the village boundaries and then we can understand what all the different surface cover features which are represented by this images so this is a direct usage of monitoring directly you can monitor and then get the things done over here this image is nothing but it is a it is a village map where you are able to see the farmland boundaries and also what are all the different kinds of lakes which you are having it in these places. So this is the image this is the village map which can be joined together with the adjoining villages and it can be merged with the total area level information that is a 25000 measurements of a scale so those scales can be used for a water resources management purposes.


What's up guys welcome to today's vlog today I've got another men's cut for you my friend Matt is coming into the salon and we're gonna do his cut we're gonna take up the sides a little bit add a lot of texture to the top it's a shorter haircut very salon friendly what a lot of your guys are asking for out there so I think you're gonna like this cut definitely let me know if you have questions in the comments below let's get started with our step-by-step here we go okay so the first thing I did was I sprayed down Matt's hair with a little bit of water with my spray bottle and then now I'm going in with rusell grooming tonic and the thing I love about this product is I can quickly spray down his hair he didn't have a lot of product in his hair to begin with and then I can work the product in blow dry the hair and get it to be in a natural fall the grooming tonic has a nice really light hold but it does have a little bit of a hold so it's great for end styling but it's also great for just controlling the hair getting it ready for your clipper cutting so we're gonna use a number two guard like I said this cut is not gonna be a super fancy men's cut it's really a textured short men's cut something that's very salon friendly a lot of guys are gonna ask for so I want to go over just some quick tips with this and we'll go over some also some tips with cutting the top and creating that texture at the end so basics with the clipper what I'm doing is I'm going in and you'll notice that I leaf out or kind of pull the clipper out as I go up around the round of the head what that's gonna do is give me that graduated line so if you look at the top portion of where that clipper is finishing off there is a wait line happening in the hair we're actually gonna go in one of the techniques I like to use to get rid of that wait line is scissor over comb so we're gonna do that in a little bit so I pretty much place the wait line where I want it to fit on his head shape and then I start and I go through I get the length that I want and now I go to a little bit smaller guard this is the one guard so we start with the two guard now I go to the one just drop it down a little bit I'm trying to keep his hair line nice and natural feeling so the one guard takes it nice and close so it's not too blocky looking or something like that so we go through I'm using the one guard doing that little bit of a fade like I said I'm not I don't work in a barber shop I work in a hair salon so what we do is I wanted to create a nice clean look we have done closer fades on Matt in the past but I just find that lately a lot of the guys that we were doing closer fades on are coming in and wanting their hair to grow a little bit longer so you know and that's just what I'm seeing in the salon so you guys can let me know is that what you're seeing in the salon as well post that below I'm sure barbershops you're still doing a lot of the fade work it's still popular I'm not saying it's not but this tends to be a little bit of a transition for guys like Matt that we've been cutting so scissor-over-comb work key things I want you to see is that I have a steady blade that steady blade rests on the bone of the comb so this is my seven inch Mizetani solid scissor I love this scissor for scissor-over-comb because the handle is nice and small but the blade is really long so I get a lot of reach with the blade as I go through and it's got a lot of power to it when I'm working scissor over comb so I just keep that base steady work on moving just that one blade and now we're moving into cutting the neckline now the neckline this is a trick that I actually saw somebody on I think it was Maddy Conrad on Instagram do this live and so it was something that I kind of made a shift pretty quickly so I really liked this technique and what he did was he outlined where he wanted to cut first and went in with the clipper forward and then scoops up the hair and meets the line with it later on so what I loved about this is you're not attacking the neck with the blade down but it does allow you to kind of etch out your line first and then go in and cut so I thought that was a really cool tip so shout out to him on that and you know I wanted to add it I've been using that technique now that I've seen it on a lot of my men's cuts so I just kind of knock off that corner I don't want to corner it off too much or square it off too much in the back like I said I want to keep it nice and natural so I didn't really mess too much with his natural hairline which will give him a nice easy grow out also I'm going to go through and just work the outer edges of the haircut the perimeter of the haircut cleaning it up what I'm really doing is just removing some of those little hairs that grow in in different places and it makes the the outline the perimeter of the haircut look cleaner same thing around the ear just cleaning it up like I said guys this isn't a super fancy cut but another thing I want you to notice already right behind the ear right there on Matt's haircut he's got an end dent in his head which is right around his occipital bone which is pretty normal but you could see that shadowing we're gonna go in with our scissor over comb later on in the cut and actually remove that shadowing and I'll show you how to do that so now I section off the top right at the parietal ridge and I just work basically partings on each side and now I'm going to blow dry the hair down what that's going to do is really start to show me because when the hair is wet I see a lot of shadowing so I get a little bit you could get confused as you're working through the head so if you blow it dry and you work the hair down you're going to see how natural the hair falls you're going to see the real shadows that are happening and it's just going to give you a better result so now I'm going to start working on that shadowing this is where his head goes in a little bit that's something that for me a clipper because it's so wide doesn't capture these shadows as well as scissor over comb so I go in with the fine teeth of my comb and I work just that steady blade up and I cut through and I leaf up as I get to the top so I kind of pull back a little bit still keeps that graduation in there but my goal is to just start working out that heaviness that shadow that's in there so we'll finish up a little bit more scissor over comb again kind of the benefits of this we had the grooming tonic in the hair so as soon as I start blow drying it I get a little more control I use my comb to blow dry and then I get a nice soft feel nice natural feel to the lay of the hair makes it a lot easier to do your fade work or your your you know your blending work up the head so now we're gonna work on the callic this is a really cool tip I think here a lot of people have challenges with callics the best thing to do with a callic is to not fight the way that it wants to fall so what I'm gonna do is how Matt's call it kind of spreads out what I'm gonna do is bring everything straight out from the head I'm gonna work diagonal sections diagonal partings following the head shape and that will allow the hair to do what it wants to do naturally and then I can show him some blow drying techniques later that will kind of help him out with styling it so you can see I'm working almost like a pie shaped section so or little triangles so I can work all the way around the head and then when I get to behind the ear that's where I'll stop my sectioning so I shift around triangle sections all the way to behind the ear and then I work the other side you can see how nice that falls you don't get any of the weird callic things happening because we followed the way that the hair wanted to fall in the first place so same thing I'm working that diagonal you'll notice I'm pushing the hair away for me the reason I'm pushing the hair away is because I'm pushing that new hair into the guideline we talked about this and pretty much every cut every video that we do you never want to pull your guide to the new hair because that's pulling the guide out of its position so it's no longer a guide or it becomes shorter than you wanted it to so just make sure as you're working through the head that you're always pulling the new the new section to the guide now we're gonna go through I'm gonna call these vertical sections all the way through the top of the head it's about a half an inch wide you don't want to go too far we're trying to get a nice consistent feel to the top of Matt's head I'm gonna follow the head shape all the way down but then once I get to this fringe area you're gonna notice that because of his head shape because the head kind of moves down it grows doesn't grow but it adds length to the front of the haircut so even though I'm following the head shape I'm following the head shape and then the head starts to peel down so I get more length in the front which is a way more flattering look than just following the head shape all the way down so allowing your finger to kind of follow the head shape and then just give it a little over direction right there at the very front will give you a little extra length and complete the style so another thing you're gonna notice is that we're following the same rule that we followed when we were cutting the calic everything the new partings are coming towards the guideline we're over directing them towards the guide the key thing here again is to make sure that you don't take too thick of a guideline or too thick of a section because if you do you're gonna be over directing the hair way further than you want what we want to have is a nice consistent feel so if I pass my fingers over this vertically I have the same length and if I go through horizontally we have the same length we're trying to create a nice consistent round shape on the top of his head but we are over directing everything up so it will pass a little bit of weight over to the bridal ridge which will give it a nice even denser look on the very corners of the head which is you know flattering for for most male head shapes so you can see that little bit extra length this is a different view I want to give you guys two different angles of it so this is just a different view of what we did what as we work on the opposite side another thing is we are combing so you see me pushing away now because I'm pushing that new hair towards the guide so just staying consistent as I cut the hair is you know the most important thing in hair cutting just keep the same motions you'll get the same result on both sides so notice the thickness of the sections they're not thick at all because we don't want all that over direction so just really stay focused on those little details throughout the cut another thing I did switch up my scissors so this is the Mizetani DB 20 scissor I talk about it in pretty much every haircut it's my go-to scissor for everything we used a longer scissor for scissor over comb but I like a shorter more powerful scissor for any precision work cutting lines in the haircut so I use the Mizetani DB 20 you could check out all those scissors on our website freeselineeducation.com and don't forget that we do have a 20% off coupon if you put in the code Matt Beck vlog one word in the checkout so now I'm gonna go through cross check everything you can see it's a nice even line that's because we didn't do a lot of over direction so nice smooth feel to the to the hair and then because I added a little extra density to the very front I go through and I point cut a nice soft point cut just to the ends of the hair to soften it up you can see how clean this look is this isn't you know it's nothing fancy but it's a nice clean cut and it has a lot of purpose to it everything is nice and smooth the lines are good you know we used a lot of different technique in this and also that calic being able to adjust the calic area I think is gonna be a big beneficial thing for you guys so I always finish the style with a blow dry shampoo matte out you know get the loose hairs off of them blow dry the hair for the finish because we did blow dry it for the cutting part but now you're gonna see me giving it that extra volume and I'm gonna go in with my brocado carved this is a product it's kind of a staple in what I use for texture so it's a cream based product doesn't have a strong hold to it so people that like that more natural feel to their hair this is a great product for that so definitely check that product out it's brocado carved you can see nice texture style everything's nice and smooth clean cut you can wear this haircut anywhere it's very versatile so hope you guys like the cut I'm gonna finish up my style work a little bit here we're also gonna clean it up with the edger so we've got our tea trimmer back out and I'm just going in and just removing a couple loose hairs that I saw right in the front after I styled it so just always checking those details I mean a lot of people can get out a clipper and start trying to cut hair the biggest thing it separates us as professionals as we focus on every little detail it's why people shouldn't cut their own hair and we get to go in we clean it up and we really bring that value into doing a haircut so hope you guys like the cut let me know what you think in the comments alright guys and like always if you liked Matt's cut then hit the like button hit the share button share this video with all of your friends out there and if you want 20% off your purchase on free salon education calm then use the code Matt Beck vlog at checkout Matt Beck vlog at checkout you'll get 20% off scissors carving combs brushes all kinds of different stuff on there for you guys to enjoy so thank you guys for the support also if you're not a hairdresser and you saw this video and it inspired you to get your hair done somewhere else and you're looking for a salon then go 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