So recall that the set p sub n is defined to be the set of all polynomials whose degree is at most n and in this particular situation for coding theory, we're viewing this as by binary polynomials. So our coefficients are only 0 and 1 and arithmetic here, of course, is in that finite field z2. Now this set does have a lot of algebraic structure. p sub n is in fact a vector space. It's an n plus 1 vector space so we can identify it with the vector space z2 to the n plus 1. It has n plus 1 dimension there. But because it is a subset of a ring z2 adjoin x, we are able to use the multiplicative structure of polynomials in our coding theory. In particular, we can encode matrices by multiplying by some fixed matrix, but there is a very important defect here. p sub n is not a multiplicative, it's not a multiplicative close set. So it's not, it's a subset of z2x, but it's not a sub ring. If we've used z2x as a infinite dimensional z2 vector space, then yes, pn is a subspace, a finite dimensional subspace. So there is some algebraic structure there, but it doesn't, pn does not have the full algebraic benefit of being inside of a ring because it itself is not a sub ring. So it turns out that the fault doesn't live on pn. The fault we're actually going to place on z2x here. Actually, we're going to replace it with a different ring. That is, we can identify pn or more specifically pn minus 1 with a different polynomial ring and go from there. It's not exactly a polynomial ring. It's actually the quotient of a polynomial ring. So I want us to think of the following as a vector space. We can identify this the vector space p sub n minus one with the vector space z2 join x mod out by the ideal x to the n minus one. So let's look at this thing on the right for a moment. This is the quotient ring of the polynomial ring where we mod out by this principal ideal generated by the polynomial x to the n minus one. Basically, what we're saying is we want to identify x minus one with zero going forward for which that's the same thing as x to the n equals one. So we're turning our indeterminate symbol x actually into a unit, a unit of finite order, and that order is specifically going to be n. All right. The significance of this, of course, is that if you ever get a power of x that's larger than n like to n plus one, this is the same thing as x to the n times x to the first. So this would just become x. Essentially, by modding out the polynomial x to the n minus one, we're saying that we can reduce the exponent of our indeterminate x by we reduce it modulo n so we can reduce the powers like so. And therefore, if we have two polynomials, let's say something like one plus x and we're going to then times this by one plus x plus x to the fourth. And let's say that we reduce the exponents mod five here. Well, when we multiply this thing out here, because both of these polynomials, right, both these polynomials would live inside of P four, live inside of P four, which, of course, four is the same thing as five minus one. Be aware there. If you multiply out these polynomials, we end up with one plus x plus x to the fourth, that's the first one. Then we're going to get x plus x squared plus x to the fifth. But x to the fifth, because of the reduction here, since x to the fifth minus one is now considered equal to zero in the quotient, we get x to the fifth is equal to one. So we can make that substitution in combined like terms. The ones cancel, the x's cancel, and we're then left with x squared plus x to the fourth, which is a polynomial that lives inside of P four. So if we reduce the exponents of the x's mod n, then it turns out that P in minus one is, in fact, turned into a ring and we it's exactly this ring right here. These things are isomorphic as vector spaces. But then we can give we can give the multiplication of that quotient ring onto P n minus one and therefore it makes a ring. And so then there's the hope that, hey, if we can make our code into a ring, then maybe we can benefit from the ring structure. After all, group codes are cool. So maybe a ring code. What's going on there? Now, be aware that this ring, this quotient ring of a polynomial is something that we've already considered in the past. In particular, in our lecture series math 42 20, which is the seek, excuse me, is the prequel to the current lecture series. We did introduce the idea of a group ring. So remember what a group ring was. If you have any ring whatsoever and you have any group whatsoever, could be finite, infinite, typically with the group, we do believe it to be multiplicatively defined. Then that is the operations, like multiplication, we then can create the so-called group ring, the group ring RG. For what is the group ring? You make a ring out of the group for which when you look at this thing RG, this actually is an R module. That is this RG with respect to addition, you take the group elements to be a basis and you look at all possible R linear combinations of those group elements. So you have formal addition of the group elements with R coefficients. But then you define multiplication to follow from the distributive property. So if you have a combination of group elements, you can distribute the coefficients come from rings. You multiply those together. The group elements come from a multiplicative group. You multiply those things together. And so you can form this so-called ring, the group ring. So every group and ring can be combined to make a ring. Now, this polynomial quotient ring Z2X mod out X to the minus one. This is just a group ring. This is isomorphic as a ring to the group ring, whose coefficients come from Z2 and whose group is then the cyclic group of order N. Because after all, this right here is the fundamental relationship of the group Z5, that is, you reduce everything mod 5. That's what you do. And so if you allow the modules to vary, this this quotient polynomial ring is just a group ring. It's in fact a cyclic group ring. And so what we can do is we can identify the generator of this cyclic group. Some people might give it a different symbol like T. Personally, I just call it X. We just know we're going to reduce it now. But the idea is, so there's no confusion with this original X. We might introduce a new symbol where X is an indeterminate. There's no algebraic relations on it. But T has the relationship that T to the N is equal to one, like so. It's that notational choice isn't one I bother with too much. You just need to know, are you in the polynomial ring? Are you in the group ring? Because in the group ring, there's reduction in the polynomial ring. There wouldn't be, but use a different symbol if it's hard to keep track of these things. So as a ring, PN minus one is this. We're basically making PN minus one. We're identifying it with this group ring Z to ZN, which again, the first thing right here, this is the ring of coefficients, in which case we have a field here. So this makes it into a vector space. And then this group is then the symbols, the variables that we have. But these variables do have algebraic relations on them because of the group structure. Now, in this situation, in these in these cyclic codes we're building right here, this is actually why we call them cyclic codes, because cyclic codes come from cyclic groups, cyclic group rings, certain certain subspaces of that. They're going to be ideals. We're going to see that in a second. But we're going to take ideals of this group ring and we make codes. And there's this one to one correspondence with the cyclic codes compared to the ideals of this group, this cyclic group ring. And in fact, in general, when people do algebraic coding theory, they look at ideals over group rings. And that is the basis of where coding theory takes place in the present day here. So PN minus one, we can as vector spaces, these two things are the same thing. So we're basically saying, I'm going to give PN minus one the structure of a group ring and then let's see if that helps us out at all. Now, we're going to keep things simple. The groups that we play around with these group rings are only going to be cyclic groups, but as you expand to other abelian groups, it may be even non abelian groups, you can get much more exotic codes, but that's going to take us beyond the scope of our discussion. Our discussion wants to lead to the idea of a VCH code. So the thing to remember about this group ring Z2, ZN, our coefficients are binary zero one and when we see a variable such as T or X, whatever we reduce its exponent mod N, so T to the N is equal to one. OK, now let's see why group rings is the right tool to use if you want to build a cyclic code here, because if you have a polynomial F of T and this belongs in this, this belongs, of course, to our group ring Z2, ZN. If you times it by T, since this is now a ring, it's closed under multiplication that also belongs there. Now, look at F of T here. If we give it an expansion here, it's coefficients a zero plus a one T plus a two T squared all the way up to a N T to the N minus one. If you times that by T, what's going to happen is that you're going to get a T times a naught, you're going to get an a one T squared. You're going to get an a two T cubed now all the way up. Eventually, you're going to have this a N minus two times T to the N minus one now, right? That's because you had an a N minus two times T to the N minus two. But then we times that by T exponentially, that raises the power by one. We get this. But of course, what about this last term from F of T? If you times this thing by T, you're going to end up with an a N minus one times T to the Nth, T to the N is now equal to one. This is the constant term, so it actually comes up front right here. So I want you to know what happened. The first entry then became the second entry. The second entry then becomes the third entry. The third entry becomes the fourth all the way to the end. The second to last becomes the last term. But then the last term becomes the first term. Notice right here that if you take if you take T times F of T, this is going to be a cyclic permutation of its coefficients. Ah, so notice that when you look at this group ring, this group ring is going to be closed under cyclic shifting because it's just multiplication by T. But in particular, the polynomial code Z2ZN is a cyclic code. And so if we look at appropriate subcodes, they're going to be cyclic codes as well. And this leads to, of course, the main result we want to do. Why did we introduce group rings into the study of polynomial codes? It's the following. If we have a linear code C that and as such, it'll be a subset. It'll be some subspace of Z2N. That linear code is cyclic. That is the cyclic permutation of a code word is still a code word. The linear code is cyclic if it's closed under the ZN permutation action. C will be cyclic if and only if C can be identified with a ideal of the ring Z2, the group ring Z2ZN under, of course, the usual in-bit code word identification. Right. So the thing is Z2N, we can identify that with P to the N minus one as a vector space and we can identify that with Z2ZN. And so if you give Z2N the multiplication structure of a group ring, then your code was cyclic if and only if it's an ideal. All right, so let's start off with that identification. So we're not going to use Z2N. We're going to use this thing right here. OK, so suppose that C is a subset of Z2ZN. The group ring. Let's first suppose that it is a cyclic code. So it's invariant under cyclic permutations. So that means that if you have F of T inside of your code, then any cyclic permutation, particularly the cyclic permutation of F of T will also belong to C. But as we saw a moment ago, the cyclic shift of F of T is just T times F of T. So if F of T is inside the code, then T times F of T is inside the code by induction, we just keep on taking cyclic shifts. T to the K times F of T will be inside the code. OK, now, since also by assumption it's a linear code, this is a subspace. It's going to be closed under addition. If we take things like this, we can take any linear combinations of things like F to the T to the K times F of T, where K could be any natural number. So that is we can take any linear combination of these things. So in particular, we get F H of T times F of T, where H of T is an arbitrary polynomial, because an arbitrary polynomial looks like a linear combination of powers of T. And so if you take a linear combination of powers of T that you're also divisible by F of T, you can factor it out. In general, we can get the product H of T times F of T like so. And so this is true for any, any polynomial in the group ring. As such, this shows that C is an ideal because if you take a polynomial in the code and you take any polynomial in the group ring and multiply it together, their product lives inside of the code. So this shows that the code is itself an ideal because it is cyclic. All right. Now, conversely, suppose that we know the code is in fact an ideal of this cyclic group ring, take an arbitrary element inside of that code. Well, since it's an ideal, you can take any polynomial times F of T and that'll belong to T. In particular, you can take T times F of T. But like we said earlier, T times F of T is the cyclic shift of F of T, which then shows that C is closed under cyclic permutation that makes it a cyclic code. So the ideals of the cyclic group ring are in one to one correspondence with the possible cyclic codes. So if we want a cyclic code, we look at the ideals of a cyclic group ring with binary coefficients, and this is a beautiful place to end this video here because it shows the connection between group rings and codes. And in fact, if one wants to then make even more powerful codes than the BCH codes, we're going to be making later on in the next lecture that comes down to understanding how ideals in group rings work.


deliberative agenda. We are back to debate on the carpenter amendment to the campring ordinance. Is there further discussion on the amendment? Didn't have anyone in the queue. Councillor Hanson. Great, thanks. And yeah, I was definitely not understanding the implications of the amendment the first time around. So apologies for that. So it is clearly, the amendment is clearly meaningful. And I guess I'm concerned by the city attorney saying that this amendment potentially impacts ongoing litigation because I don't know how that's, how ongoing litigation could be impacted. So is there anything else you can clarify in public session on that front? City Attorney Richardson? Sure, no, I apologize. I may not have been clear. I'm not talking about this current amendment affecting the litigation. What I was referring to is that if there were additional questions about the specifics of the Sears Lane and how this would play, how this particular policy played into the facts of that case that I wouldn't feel comfortable going into those details. But the passage of this amendment does not affect that litigation. And I didn't intend to imply such. Okay, thank you for clarifying that. Any further discussion on the amendment? Okay, let's go to a vote on the amendment. Will the city clerk please call the roll? Councillor Barlow? Yes. Councillor Carpenter? Yes. Councillor Jang? Yes. Councillor Freeman? No. Councillor Hanson? No. Councillor Hightower? Yes. Councillor McGee? Yes. Councillor Mason? Yes. Councillor Paul? Yes. Councillor Shannon? Yes. Councillor Strangberg? Yes. City Council President Tracy? Yes. Ten ayes, two nays. Thank you. The amendment carries and we're back to the original motion as amended. Further discussion? Councillor Barlow? Thank you, President Tracy. I have a lot of reservations about weakening our ordinances around camping in parks. Before joining the council, I've been involved in leading stewardship and cleanup activities in Luddy Park for the last 13 years. And it's been my views and I've made them known to the mayor even before I was on the council that we should be strengthening and enforcing our ordinances against camping in the parks, not weakening them. Unauthorized camping has been an ongoing issue in Luddy Park for years. And friends of Luddy Park, the organization that I'm part of has run at least one and sometimes two cleanup days per year. And the abandoned campsites in the park have created some of the biggest challenges for volunteer cleanup crews to tackle, including significant amounts of garbage and discarded camp items, damage to the park plants and trees, campfire pits, and hazards like broken glass and needles. And some of the camps have blocked walking paths, created conflicts with existing park uses and users. And all this has been happening within an ordinance that prohibits camping in the parks. So weakening it I think would only worsen that problem. I will, however, thank the Parks Department, Lacey Smith who've been doing great work addressing camping in the parks, immediately as it arises, minimizing the impacts and conflicts with current use and connecting houseless campers with options and services. And so I would support doing more of that, but camping in the parks is never going to be a good solution to solving houselessness in Wellington. So I have real reservations about it and I'll leave my comments at that for now. Thank you, Councilor Barlow. Don't have anyone else in the queue. Councilor Shannon. Councilor Shannon to be followed by Councilor Jayne. Thank you, President Tracey. I will be supporting the plan I will be supporting this for really one reason and that is that it includes the adoption of a policy that should have gone before this council long ago. And I think that it's a reasonable policy that had a lot of thought going into it. And I agree with everything that Councilor Barlow said. So I won't repeat that, but I am supportive. Thank you. Thank you, Councilor Jayne. Yes, I wanted to clarify something that I have heard here and I believe that I was on the public safety committee and this discussion started in 2018 and not 2019 or 2020, very long time ago. And back then it was Councilor Roof, Councilor Jayne and Councilor Payne. We were serving in that committee. We may look into city records, whether or not is that policy. And I'm specifically talking about the uncomplement policy. If we find people camping in parks, what is the process of camping them? It just strike me that we never voted on that and was just wondering if we can dig into the records and see if whether or not the city council voted on that. I think that's something important we need to look into and maybe Attorney Richardson and Tim can look into that. And it was a very well thought out policy in collaboration with ACLU. I remember that correctly. I will be supporting this and not for the reason that I have heard from a couple of Councillors here. I'm supporting it because, you know, I think Councilor McGee has demonstrated a commitment of really serving and helping those who are houseless in the city of Wellington. And it's been over a decade maybe that the city is finally starting to pay attention to the homelessness issue. And also for the public to also understand that this is not the council nor the administration do not want to house people. But the only concern that I have, especially about the resolution we just voted on in putting over $2 million about houselessness, I think it would be important for people to look into how do we sustain all of those great, wonderful ideas coming into the pipeline. So Councilor McGee, again, thank you so much. And City Attorney, please look into whether or not we have voted on that, you know, uncommon policy or not. And from my perspective, that's the basis in which we used to make sure that CLM is cleaned out. So thank you so much. I'll be supporting this. Thank you, Councilor Chang. Mayor Weinberger. Thank you, President Tracy. To speak to the question, Councilor Chang, I'm trying to clarify the history here. The policy Councilor Chang you were just referring to that was negotiated with the CLU and the city has been operating on there since that agreement. We've looked into this fairly carefully and it was as I think Councilor Powell described that policy never made it to the council floor for a vote. It was, there was review by the Public Safety Committee but the pandemic hit and it never came forward for a vote. So we have been operating faithfully under that policy ever ever since. I do welcome the Council backing the policy with the action that's on the floor right now. I think that will be a, you know, it's always thought to me, I've always thought it would be a stronger, better policy if it had the full backing of the council. The, I also think it's fair to review that policy and for that reason, I'm supportive of the motion as a currently to get significant additional due diligence both that sheltering on public lands policy as well as the current ordinance on camping and parks. And what is laid out here is a kind of multi-prong review that I think is healthy. And I'm supportive of that. I do want to make it clear much like Councilor Barlow and I think other councils have suggested that this motion, this action as I understand it is in no way endorsing the Councilor McGee policy. That is something else that will be reviewed and considered here, but this is not a step towards that very substantial change. You are our current campaign parks policies and one that I think while there may be targeted changes that could support as Councilor Barlow suggested, we, this is an area that I think we have to be very careful about the changes that we make to it, both from a perspective of not impacting other valuable uses of the parks that the public really, you know, expects as well as because it's not a good way to improve our housing of our most vulnerable people in Burlington. The way to do that is through actions like the ones we took earlier tonight. If we want to move towards making housing a human right, making sure that making good on the promise of housing is a human right on ensuring that homelessness is rare and brief, that is that you do that through the hard work of building a lot more housing, building better systems, that is the route. I don't think there's some sort of major change in our public lands policies. Thank you, President Scherzi. Thank you, I have Councilor Freeman, Mason and Paul. Councilor Freeman. Thank you. Yeah, I don't know if it's a great process to have us sort of adopt the policy that mostly on the fact that it sounds like most counselors have not really seen or like have not been able to familiarize themselves with it recently, like freshly. So I don't really like love that it was just added as a last minute amendment. I do know that that policy was created through negotiations as have been mentioned with the ACLU to basically my, maybe in others opinion as well, but to essentially bring it up to the floor of like legality and in terms of sort of the bare minimum protections that we can provide to people. The previous sort of practices were called into question in terms of that. So that was a slight improvement and to Councilor Jayne's question into many, what many folks have said it was not something that was approved by the council, but as Mayor Weinberger has said is in good faith has been a practice of the administration and was something that myself and other members of the Public Safety Committee reviewed and then as has been mentioned, as we all know, timelines kind of got all mixed around and here we are now looking at it. So I will vote to support this. I do wish that councillors had had a chance to sort of look at that particular policy while it was being added as an amendment. I very much support and have supported since my time on Public Safety Committee sort of further enhancing that policy. And I think going through the route of creating an ordinance is a really smart idea. I think that it needs to be sort of officiated or codified or have whatever you wanna call it. So yeah, at this late hour, I will be supporting this. Thank you. Yeah, I have councillors Mason, Councilor Mason to be followed by Paul and Hanson. Councilor Mason. Thank you, President Tracy. I too will be supporting sending this because I believe it is time to continue the conversation and with the reservation and I've relayed that to the sponsor that I do take issue with some of the proposals, but I'm looking forward to the conversation that will occur just I wanna clarify something because if I think if the public's watching this there may be some confusion. We have an ordinance that precludes camping in parks, period. The policy we're referring to refers to public lands, not necessarily parks. I just wanna make sure that at least the public understands that there's been a little bit I think of mixing and trying to explain. I appreciate the sponsor's proposal is to remove the ordinance, preclusion on camping and parks, but that's a discussion that is to be had as far as I'm concerned. So with that, thank you. Thank you, Councilor Mason. I have councillors Paul, Hanson and Jang, councillor Ann McGee, councillor Paul. I just wanted to quickly state that when I was giving that history of how we find ourselves in the place that we are in, I didn't look far enough and I apologize to Councillor Jang. He is correct, the policy was, the conversation was started in 2018. The members of the committee were councillors, then councillor Ruth, Jang and Pine. It was after that that there was a change in the committee and that's when the other members of the committee that I had mentioned had moved that forward. That was in 2019 and that's when the policy was negotiated with the ACLU and so to speak, codified in terms of what the policy was on the part of the administration. So my apologies for cutting the history short, thanks. Thank you. I have Councillor Hanson to be followed by Jang and McGee. We're starting to get into second and third round here so please try and if you're adding, see if you can add, please try and add something, please try not to repeat yourself and so that we can move towards the decision. Councillor Hanson. Great, thanks. And I think I've only spoken to the amendment so far and on the underlying I support this and I appreciate Councillor McGee's leadership and his collaboration with others to develop this and I appreciate that folks are sharing their opinions on it at this stage in the process and I do support the policy itself, not just having the conversation but I do support this policy direction itself. So this is obviously gonna be a debate that we're gonna be having as a council. Over the next few months and I just think, yeah, I agree with what others have said that this doesn't solve the issue of houselessness. I don't think anyone's claiming that it does. I think we all agree that we need to continue to get as many folks as possible into permanent and stable housing but I think this is also necessary in addition to that because A, we're not there yet and B, I think there's always gonna be folks for a variety of reasons that's not gonna work for and are gonna need this solution. So I do think it's something we have to address while we simultaneously try to work on that other front as well around permanent housing. And I have a question for the city attorney which is, does referring this to CDNR preclude, referring it to ordinance until it comes back from CDNR? Not necessarily. However, I think that's a practical question which is if one of the purposes of referring this to CDNR is gather up stakeholder feedback or input sending it to ordinance, the ordinance, there might have to be a stay where that would have to sort of wait in ordinance until the feedback unless it's sort of hard to run the two parallel tracks in meaningful ways together but there's no requirement. It's a discretion of the council how they want to proceed with any referrals. Okay, all right, understood. I'll leave it there for now. This is gonna be an ongoing debate, but thank you. I'm so joined to be followed by McGee and Carpenter. Yeah, it will be fast. I mean, two things or it was three but thank you, Councillor Hanson for that question because it was one of my question. Why CDNR and not ordinance committee? But also wanting to also just make sure that as we move forward, especially Councillor McGee or whoever to consult, to please consult the department heads when an issue is specific is at their purview. Because I was a little bit surprised at this resolution. This proposal has never gone to the park commission or Cindy from director of parks was not consulted so that we keep that in mind as we move forward. But also, I wanted to particularly thank one community member because since this year's land issue, she or he has been very consistent because advocacy sometime is not some when just an issue is in front of us, there is momentum into it but I really wanna appreciate Lee Morrigan for her consistency about this issue since the beginning, just that. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor McGee to be followed by Carpenter, Councillor Mead. Thank you. Yeah, I just wanna take a second to say this absolutely has not gone to everybody. And I think that is a large reason why it's going to CDNR before it goes to ordinance so that we can have these conversations in the public setting. I think it's crucial for us to begin to have this public engagement process. I felt comfortable enough with the draft as it is to get it to this point and to start it in this public process. And so that's my intention. I do apologize for not having a chance to send it to every department head who will have a role in forcing this. I have heard from members of the Parks Commission who are very interested in giving feedback. So I look forward to engaging in those conversations as well. And I also just wanna state that the proposal as it is in front of us right now does not expressly condone camping in public parks. But it says that folks can't be arrested for sleeping or camping in public parks or on public land. So I just wanted to make that clarification as well. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor McKee, Councillor Carpenter. Thanks. I just wanna concur. I see CDNR, because this is a huge issue for us, almost in sort of a coordinating role. It absolutely, whatever outcomes come, we have to go to parks. We have to go to public safety. We need to see what the work is of Attorney Richardson and his analysis. So I think it's starting with CDNR and will be the beginning committee to get more input, but it won't be the end committee. And I think we can't hand it off to ordinance until I think we shape the policy behind it. And that's not been done yet. Okay. Thank you, Councillor Carpenter. Don't see anyone else in the queue. Okay. Let's go to a vote. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Sorry, I didn't hear folks. Let's do, didn't really hear anyone on that. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. Any opposed? The motion carries unanimously. Thank you folks, appreciate that. All right, we are on our last item of the agenda, which is the, an item that came to me from city attorney Richardson regarding again, redistricting for this agenda as well. He advised that we put it on this agenda as well, so attorney Richardson, are you able to just speak to this item? Sure, this is the local redistricting question. And I know Megan Tuttle is going to join me for this. And actually I'm going to let her get started because you've heard enough from me tonight, but I'll chime in after she gets started. Sure. Thank you and good evening. Attorney Richardson and I are here in follow up to the resolution that this council passed, I think in the summer or early fall about the local redistricting process, which outlined a number of steps that you wanted to take in order to pursue the creation of a potential redistricting plan coming out of the 2020 census. So between Dan and I and Brian Pine and his team at CEDO, we have helped support the work of the ad hoc committee on redistricting that you heard from at your January 24th meeting, who provided you a memo of the public input that they had collected in response to the questions that were in your resolution and kind of helping you establish guidance for how you wanted to move forward with considering the redistricting process. So we're here at councilor Paul's request to continue this work to follow up with you and to collect your feedback on how you would like us to begin moving forward with presenting you with some maps for consideration. A couple of updates for you based on some things on our end with kind of supporting this from a staffing perspective. When the resolution was passed, I know there was a lot of discussion about a mapping specialist coming from the city and it's our understanding that there was a broad level of support for a city employee who worked for planning and zoning named Jay Appleton who had provided support to the redistricting process the last time the council undertook it. We weren't totally sure what Jay's longterm plans were with the city when that resolution was passed and fortunately for him, he has made the decision to retire from the city and he celebrated his last day just a couple of weeks ago. So we have been talking and we knew that this might be something that was coming. So we did a little bit of work to prepare internally to make sure that we would have a smooth transition and handoff to someone else within city hall that could help support this work. So I just wanted to share that we are proposing that Nancy Stetson who is a data analyst in the planning department is available to help support the work of the council in the map making process. Nancy has worked previously as the data analyst for the police department and now works in planning as a data analyst providing a wide range of support to city departments on a whole number of topics. So definitely very capable and willing to have some time to be able to jump in and help support this process. So just wanted to share that update with you because that is a change from the last time you talked about this. Otherwise when the three departments were engaging with counselor Paul Barlow and Carpenter about the resolution that they initiated, one of the things that we discussed with them was just a change to the overall timeline from what was in that initial proposal due to the deadlines associated with getting things on the March ballot. So we have been working with the understanding that the goal would be for the redistricting plan to be presented to the voters later this year. I think whether that exactly what ballot that is on we can still determine. But I think the interest of the sponsoring counselors was to make sure that this body had the opportunity to weigh in and to consider maps that responded to the resolution that you passed as a body. So counselor Paul has proposed a timeline for us to bring you some draft maps and for your feedback and refinement on those by the end of March essentially. So we're going to work, do our best to support that timeline and to bring you both some initial maps and some revised maps that you can consider over the next several meetings. So I think with that those are the updates I wanted to share. And I think Dan was going to help us walk through some of the questions that we have that you presented in your resolution and that we have for you so that we can get started on drafting maps for your consideration. Thanks Megan. So just as a reminder from a legal perspective this process is technically a charter change. Meaning that the way the districts are set out are by charter and to change it to redistrict to reapportion is essentially a charter change process. So for those of you who've been through the charter process which is all of us at this point know that you're on familiar ground. But because we're doing this as reapportionment and redistricting we do have some other considerations just in how we get to the point of something to present to the voters. So there were a couple of questions I'm gonna walk through them sort of one by one to just outline them and give you a chance to think about them. But these are questions that Megan and I believe are necessary to come back to you in two weeks with some potential maps and ideas to see how you want to go forward. And the first question is really how many maps or alternatives does the council want to consider? In other words, are you looking for us to crew give you sort of minimal changes, maximal changes? Are there a wide variety? And this may be also geared towards how many districts and I'll get to that point in a second. The question, are there areas that are currently divided between wards that the council wants to see united? Are there areas that are currently united in wards that the council would like to divide? The fourth question is would the council like to preserve a ward that primarily accommodates students or would the council want to break that up into reconfigure? And that's essentially the ward eight question. And then two more questions is really the number of counselors that the council wishes to see or the number of wards or districts. And I think that's important and I'll just outline it as a, for example, there was some feedback that was given at the public ad hoc committee level about the number of counselors. Now, if there was to drop the district system and adopt a ward system and keep the number of wards that are existing, but perhaps give every ward to counselors that could double that to 16, which would increase the size of the council. Does the council, so giving us guidance on your predilection on that versus maybe creating bigger wards so that if a bigger ward that had multiple counselors serving it like two counselors but fewer wards rather than eight, you might have six, in which case if you gave every create six wards and had everyone with two counselors you'd still be at 12. These are the points of oversight that we're sort of looking for in drawing up the maps because as you can see, obviously these inform the type of decisions we're gonna make. So sort of going back and this may be the best way to sort of proceed, the question is to you, the council, how many alternatives do you want? Do you want a variety, a wide variety of alternatives or are you rather sort of more narrow, precise in your focus and I'll simply throw that out to the council. Thank you, Attorney Richardson. Are there comments on the questions that Attorney Richardson just forwarded? Yes. Officer Jane. Yes, I mean, I think it's very late right now and was just wondering if this discussion can continue when the council come back again together as part of what we talked about earlier about the statewide redistricting instead of having one agenda item we could have two and also for the city attorney to send out the questions again, all of those questions are pertinent and important and to send it to us via email and maybe people can think about this further and then come with fresh mind whenever we are going to meet to tackle, it's just a proposal that I wanna put forward instead of trying to deliver it right now. Thank you. Sure, I understand that Councilor Jane City Attorney Richardson, is that possible to add that as another item on that meeting? Well, you'd have to warn two separate meetings because the one that you're talking about having next week right now is a board of civil authority. So you'd have to also warn as the city council, but yeah, other than that, there's no problem and I'm more than happy to send out the questions that I've outlined, if that's all helpful. The only thing obviously is that it takes away a week of time that we would otherwise be drawing maps. I will add and this may be, and again, this is a point of policy and by no means am I attempting to throw off any timeline that people have thought out, but you're looking at a November vote on redistricting. And so there is time because what the board, the council has to do is to create these districts and then at least from a legal process. And again, there may be very important reasons, but I just simply wanted to say it's not as if there's a legal timeline that if you don't approve this by tonight, this throws off the legal train of cars. Councilor Jane. Oh, nope. Okay, Councilor Paul. Thanks very much, President Tracy. So thanks, Megan, for the excellent summary and to Attorney Richardson as well. I just wanted to sort of backtrack just a second just so that people have a basis for how we came about this timeline. And that is that the sponsors of the resolution, which were myself, Councilor Carpenter and Barlow did meet with Megan as well as Attorney Richardson, I believe Brian Pine was also there. And we felt very strongly that this was a resolution that was a unanimous vote, which really started us off on the redistricting process on a really good foot. I mean, we felt really good about it and we were all supportive of the process. One of the things that was in that resolution and it was something that was an attempt to consensus that we also reached with Councilor Hanson was that this current council would vote on the redistricting that. Now, honestly, I don't know how important that is. I don't know how important that is to the 12 of us that are here today, but that was part of the resolution. So because of that, we really, we were the ones that really pushed the city staff to try to figure out a timeline so that we could vote on this by the end of March. Now, we're not gonna be voting on this as a community on a charter change until November, but that's okay. I mean, we can vote on this in March and it will, you know, wouldn't that be wonderful? We'd have something that we agreed on and it would be done and we would start the next council year fresh with that behind us. But that's the reason for the shorter timeline is that we really felt that, you know, we had given our word in order to reach consensus that this would be done this year. If that is not a pressing priority for the vast majority of us, then we don't need to be doing it that quickly, but I just wanted to point out why that was done. We just wanted to honor our commitment that we made to all of you so that we, and that may have been part of the reason why we did get a unanimous vote. Hopefully there were other reasons, but that was certainly something that we were trying to adhere to. So just wanted to put that out there and counselors Carpenter and Barlow may have other things to add, but that was the idea behind the timeline. Thanks. Thank you, Councilor Paul. Who else? Director Tuttle. Thank you, President Tracy. And thank you for that additional commentary, Councilor Paul on the timeline. You know, I'll speak specifically to Councilor Jang's question about being able to discuss this at a meeting next week if you have one. I'm happy to be there to be part of the discussion and receive feedback about these questions about your local redistricting process. From a staffing perspective, we will not be able to provide those maps for the February 22nd meeting if that's when we receive the feedback. So, you know, definitely we could look at providing that for you at your first meeting in March, but just wanted to express that limitation of being able to prepare them in time for your next meeting. Thank you for that, Councilor Hightower. And I have a question, I don't know if it's a stupid question or not, but what is the possibility of aligning the state maps with the, or even the like positives, the pros and cons of aligning it with the state house map. So, you know, if we are, you know, have 10 or five districts having 10 wards with one councillor each, like what and having them be half of those districts are the same, what does that look like? Or is there a lot of impracticality to that? Well, I can certainly speak to some of that and Director Tuttle may have more to add, but you can certainly do that. And you could take either the single district member map, there may have to be some adjustments because if I'm remembering correctly, the single member districts may not have adhered strictly to city lines. So there might have to be some slight adjustments and tweaks there, but, you know, if the council was wanting to go in that direction, that's certainly easily done. Same thing with the five member, the five ward model. And we can certainly follow, you know, the question of course is, is the state going to follow either of those models in how it ultimately districts the house? But if you wanted to pursue that line of inquiry, absolutely, that's completely on the table. The only thing that I'll add is there was a little bit of discussion about this, that the ad hoc committee engaged in about whether that was something important to the community and I think the feedback that they received was not, you know, specifically directive on that issue because the state process hasn't been completed yet. And so many members of the community didn't know what the outcome of that process would be. So as attorney Richardson said, it's something we can certainly pursue if that's something the council would like us to, but how closely that those maps will ultimately align with the feedback you received from the community about our local districts is too early to tell, I guess. Great, thank you for that. I don't have anyone else in the queue. Councilor Hanson. Just going off of that, do we know when we're going to get the final legislative districts? I will have to check or go ahead, Megan, if you know. Oh, no, so if you look the redistricting process, I think they're expecting it by this spring because they have to have it approved and voted on for the August, well in advance of the August primaries. So I would expect that the legislature would have this completed by late March, perhaps early April. Okay, I mean, this goes to councilor Hanson. Councilor Paul's discussion, but I mean, there could be a benefit of waiting to see where that lands because we might wanna try to align it, but then it would sacrifice potentially, this council being able to decide. So it is a trade-off there. Thank you for that, Councilor Hanson. I don't have anyone else in the queue. Okay, seeing none. Councilor, Attorney Richardson. Sorry, I just wanted to, and I realize that recognize it's late. You know, one alternative, if the council wanted to keep the timeline is for Director Tuttle and I to develop a couple of different maps that we think reflects the sort of public input and some of the considerations. And I would propose probably one that sort of tried to do the most minimum changes to the existing map, one that sort of took into account, maybe doing both a ward 8 as it currently exists and a ward 8 that would not as it currently exists and perhaps distribute some of the student population has been suggested. And one that might take into account sort of alignment close to what we've, what some of the counselors have mentioned would say like either the 10 or five ward system trying to align with the district maps. And we'd be happy to do that as a sort of starting point to save you the work of doing it. This is another meeting. And then treating the 21st as an opportunity for feedback and additional direction, if that would work. Councilor Shannon. I don't really understand the importance of adopting this with this council when this council is not gonna be the council that ultimately has to vote to put this on the ballot. So if we push to get this done now, the most contentious part of this whole process is the map drawing. And it involves a lot of debate and processing. And to rush that through at this point, I'm not sure that that's gonna be fruitful since it could be changed by the next council if even with a small shift in opinion. Yeah, so I am for one, not really married to this timeline. I think that it would be helpful to get more information about what the legislative districts are looking like. That might be informative for us. I'm also interested in potentially aligning with those legislative districts. So that's just my two cents. Thank you, Councilor Shannon. Don't have anyone else in the queue. Okay. Councilor Carpenter. Well, I go back and forth. It feels like, and I was supportive of trying to fix this, but it's almost like we need to decide do we really want to get this done by the end of March or not because it's, I feel like we're wafflings. How much information do we need? How much do we push staff to do the map making? And I don't know if we should take a straw poll and ask ourselves that question. I'm just feeling difficult to make a decision. Thank you, Councilor Carpenter. Anyone else? Councilor Hanson. Yeah, I mean, originally we wanted to get it, I think on the March ballot, which obviously didn't happen, but I think we should try to get it on the November ballots so that we can get it ahead of the legislative session and have a chance at the legislature adopting. So I think that is really important. I don't, that gives us more time than March, but I do think we should strive to get it done for a November ballot. Thanks, Councilor Hanson, Councilor Barlow. Yeah, I concur with Councilor Hanson. We definitely should get it on the November ballot if possible, and I think that's doable. I'm not married to getting it sorted out by the end of March so much as I'm married to the idea of getting it right. And if we can get it right by then and get it passed, we should do it, but if we can't, we should just take the time we need to make sure we do it right. And I don't know if it'll be helpful to have the legislative districts or not, some of the five district maps I've seen have some of the same contentious, sort of seismic faults that we had in 2013. So I'm not, I'm sort of skeptical that that could be a viable map, but maybe I'm wrong. Thanks, Councilor Barlow, Councilor Paul. Thanks very much. I think what we're seeing here is a fairly broad consensus that even though we went into this with the notion that we were going to endeavor to get this done during this council year, that very, very nicely we have, appears have come together to appreciate the fact that it is more important to be deliberative and get this correct than potentially to get this done in a very short period of time and still allow staff the time to get this, to get these maps done. So it would seem as though, I don't think there's really any need for us to have any sort of motion, but just simply that we would, we will, when we do meet next week, we're not gonna be discussing this because we would have to have a separate, it's not the Board of Civil Authority, we would have to call it a special council meeting and that perhaps we could just simply have an understanding that Director Tuttle and City Attorney Richardson would come back to us with a revised timeline and we would discuss that, we could discuss that in early March. Director Tuttle. I think that that proposed route sounds very workable from my perspective. I was thinking along similar lines to you, Councilor Paul, that we can take a look at the deadlines associated with a November ballot and back into a schedule that would be informative for you in moving ahead with these questions and would give you a bit more time to provide some direction on how you would like the initial map making to take shape. Great. Thanks. Councilor Hightower, were you? I'm awesome. Okay. Anyone else? Okay. We can conclude that item and that brings us to the end of our deliberative agenda. So a motion to adjourn is in order. To move. To move by Councilor Hightower, seconded by Councilor McGee. Any discussion? Okay. Not hearing any, let's go to vote. All those in favor of adjournment, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Carries unanimously and we are adjourned at 11-23. Good night, everyone.


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what's going on guys welcome back to another video so we are back at it again with another food video we know how much you guys love the food videos also we're also trying to figure out what culture of food we should be trying next we did the Indian we did African slash Nigerian I kind of want to do Jamaican next yeah but like we've had Jamaican food so many times so what we can act like we didn't have it before Jamaican food slaps maybe Filipino Filipino is a good one let us know if you guys want to see the Filipino food review all right but onto today's video we are doing off-brand versus name-brand foods so we got a bunch of juices sodas cookies chips all this stuff looks good and it's very bad and unhealthy for my diet because I'm fasting oh no you're not I've been fasting for 30 days already so I guess we are going to be trying these and saying which ones we like better yeah so we're just basically comparing them and we're gonna let you know which one tastes better name brand or off-brand I'm not gonna like can we start with like the soda or juice or something because I'm a little thirsty me too all right so let's start with the juices what's this all right so we got let's move everything else aside we have simply lemonade strawberry flavor versus lemonade public's brand store brand whatever strawberry flavor I'm not gonna I feel like the off-brand is gonna taste better I don't think so and I think this whole gallon I kid you know was like a dollar and change yeah it's like a dollar sixty and that was on it's the car it's car but jacking up the prices alright I'm gonna shake it though why did I pour so much yeah why did you pour so much I don't know why that was just to have it okay I'm just gonna do that much put this aside right off the back the color difference yeah I feel like that one has like I don't know all right interest all right toast up food coloring food coloring probably those that's we're like this is very light that's refreshing I don't taste damn you're the same this one's sweeter though yeah that one's sweeter this one I feel was watered down but it smells better this one smells sweeter but it's not sweeter yeah did you notice that I can't smell anything though yeah I smell a little bit stuffy nose shut up yeah but now that one smells sweeter but it's not sweeter I'm not gonna lie though I prefer this one 100% I prefer this I prefer this one I think this one tastes more authentic that's a sixer yeah we know Isaiah's unhealthy he likes to make sure I've been fasting I'm on a keto diet bro no you're not he's lying he's lying me and diet would never be in the same size exactly anyway yeah I'm picking this one tastes better doesn't smell that sweet but it is cheaper so I'm all for it I like this one I feel like it tastes more like authentic cookies and get out the way cuz I don't like Oreos you don't like Oreos no I hate or baby you know it stop I've been like you don't know I hate Oreos I didn't know you don't like Oreos the only time I would ever eat Oreos if it's crushed up like in cookies and cream ice I was gonna say so do you like cookies and cream or not I do but like I don't like eating them straight like this like they have to be mixed with vanilla ice cream or else I won't eat it okay so we got Oreos versus what is that no way it's called blue and free Oreos from public store that's insane this looks like a pack of baby wipes I you will never catch me eating those now I'm not eating those out okay I'm not a lot I think I'm gonna go with Oreos here off the rib I don't think anything could top Oreos I don't or yours are just two chocolate I'm gonna crack them in half yeah I don't want half give me like a quarter I'm not crushing the cookie down that small all right fine I'll just bite a little piece but I don't want that okay open this one you don't baby wipes like alright so right off the bat let's compare the way they look this looks like my grandma's like table cover wow that's disrespectful that's what it looks like like just a print like I don't you guys can't see it but it's kind of like a star diamond kind of thing and then you got the Oreo you guys know what Oreos look like but that looks thicker it does like more grandma in the middle right it or yours y'all skimping out and these ain't the Oreo things either those are the regular word alright here we go right here take this side three two orio is just so rich in flavor so like chocolatey mmm good off that the crunch and everything I thought it's just the perfect amount of every night I'm gonna try the off brand now I think they taste just like Oreos low-key I'll be the judge is that really chocolatey let's see off brand Oreo cheers they taste similar but they are not the same it's weird I feel like the off brand one tastes more light yeah that is so potent and chocolate flavor it's made for my god not actually it's not it's made for those it's okay I understand okay yeah thank God we got this over yeah honestly I would rather have the gluten free ones versus that my god what cuz that is so chocolatey like these I just also don't like the cream in the middle like what is that supposed to be vanilla cream cream like cream like what I just doesn't make sense to me like what is that support like I don't know okay I'm gonna get so much hate I feel for this no I really just don't I'm not a lot of packaging on that is mad tight yeah I know like how am I supposed to put that back there that we'll push it to the side for now yeah bam all right we got mr. ruffles all right not not so I don't know tiktok mr. ruffles anyway ruffles original versus dip style potato chips from publics and I think are they period yeah no way I think they're both yeah all right you know what this isn't a gluten free review you know I get very agitated when I get like jipped like this you know there's nothing like the fresh smell of fart when you open up a bag of chips disgusting I hate that like when you open up a bag of chips it's just smelling so afforded in your face like you're making me not want to eat anything ever again every time I'm every time I open chips that's what I'm gonna think of does it not am I lying let's not talk about that before we eat it okay well anyway I like the little curly chips so I noticed that the color yeah those are darker and let's hear the crunch that's great not too bad not too salty good balance yeah yeah I switch a little greasy greasy yeah right they say that oil this tastes like canola oil mm-hmm mm-hmm made with vegetable oil yeah now I'm choosing ruffles for sure ruffles be hitting especially the cheese one which one because this one the offering tastes like it got more salt and sodium 150 on these and then sodium on these 170 so off-brand has more salt that's why I don't like it that much oh no that just it tastes like I don't know like sunflower seeds like yeah or something nah I'm good off that yeah let's move that they are good not gonna lie they are good but not something I would like devour one sitting now I just realized we don't have one of the items we're trying on the table right now what I go up oh yeah I forgot we'll do that last okay good old soda gross cola versus Coca-Cola this is my thing right here now don't so I'm I think I say I made me try sodas before and I think I like Pepsi more right then Coca-Cola yeah Pepsi's sweeter Coca-Cola burns more yeah I think that's why I don't know I'm not very excited for this let me get us some fresh ice okay so the drinks the soda don't taste fruity all right we'll be all right back all right we got the ice fresh cups which one do you want to try first I'll do this one so I'll stick with the coke classic coke bam if you shake it if you shake it it tastes better no I'm not gonna fall for that I'm not dumb sometimes I'll be thinking what if they be shaking it like on the car right here and stuff like that you know the bumps OD that's a messed up delivery person all right that's all I'm classic coke versus regular cola yeah cola from public let's see she is so crisp man so crisp all right what we got sugar 42 39 that's a lot of sugar why is the off-brand one always unhealthy more sugar yeah it's more like unhealthy I don't know they try to get what you pay for I guess that quality difference is crazy yeah I don't know okay let me get the cola here just take that not as crisp it tastes flat almost yeah kind of like almost flat but I don't know I has like a I don't it has like a fragrant taste to it no no to me yeah like I don't know it does it tastes more like syrup yeah definitely I'm doing great that's such a bad description freight yeah fragrant yeah it's like flowery floral there's enough like I don't know like syrup I guess syrup is the best way to put it I taste I don't taste flowery coke is definitely more crisp more bubbly so I'm picking coke okay I don't like the bubbles of coke but I enjoy the flavor more than I do the off-brand yeah yeah right moving on water this is public spring water versus hit us up you know if you're not sponsored but anyway this is the best water you will ever have in your life I have to order just I can't drink regular water anymore I had to drink this water because it's so good okay as I was saying we got regular Publix brand water whatever versus by now all right which is I think is bottled in Italy I think is what is up Tuscany Tuscany where's the words Tuscany at it says it right there product of Italy where's Tuscany to skinny where is it anyway so we're gonna try you're gonna make me go ahead Google it babe Google where's Tuscany not about treat me like I'm dumb it's an Italian region okay it's my head's actually really nice over there all right it's about a 12-hour flight though so you will not catch me there now let's go no I don't think so yes you've got to knock me out because I'm not doing a 12-hour I hate opening these open let me hurt my hand I got strong boyfriend handle I opened it already you know I got rough hands my hands are actually really soft right yeah actually surprisingly soft hands soft hands all right so obviously I'm just gonna try mine you already know it tastes like drink of like four bottles a day it tastes like plastic yeah now stick to the coke let me say that damn I can keep going I love that water I'm not gonna lie it is smooth right it is smooth I'm not trying to get him to try this water imagine cold I'm not a lot that is smooth it's like that tastes like just like pure greatness right that that's impressive right it's just like you can't have any other water this spring water yes yeah spring water that's that's actually good but the difference is it significant and it's not like I mean not it's a lot they're like $3 of a bottle and then for a pack of this I mean four is like $5 go ahead drink the plastic that's crazy right the taste difference guys and I was always somebody was like whoa water all water tastes the same it's water no it's not I learned that like not too long ago actually like this is actually really smooth yeah it's between this and boss I feel like both of those waters are fire yeah this is just so much better this is actually up there this is up there to me I feel like ascentia I like this better than ascentia I'm not using big words all right guys so that is it for today's video we hope you guys enjoyed it if you guys want to see some more food reviews any type of food videos that you guys want to see drop them down below and we'll be sure to get to it anything else you want to say now should we try Dr. Pepper Dr. Pepper just to try it all right we this isn't part of it but we ordered what is that strawberry cream Dr. Pepper and it's zero sugar so I can enjoy it let's see just for shits and giggles we're not comparing this one we're just having a taste test all right I want okay the pop that's what happens when you get that name brand stuff wait but some of this is in there what I do with it you know I drink wine here drink wine and then we'll get it started okay right off the bat it looks like regular strawberries and cream that sounds like it's slouching the smelly show plays yeah you know the strawberry blow pops yeah that's what this smells like that's my favorite favorite only candy rock paper scissors shoot we have to taste the first rock wait let's move rock paper scissors shoot now you can try first that was okay babe good I'm not a loser that tastes like oh my god it tastes like a candy what candy is that wait let me see oh my god it tastes like a freaking candy no it tastes like the cough drops the strawberry cough drops that does taste like cough drops that tastes like the strawberry ones like the flavor cough drops yeah I don't drink cough drops oh as soon as you said it I got that like that tastes like the vanilla like cherry strawberry whatever cough drops no it's yeah that's oh my god it tastes just like the cough drops it smells like just like the cough drops problem alright guys so now that is it for today's video again if you guys want to see anything else drop the comment down below anything else no that's it so we did the taste test now we'll see you guys in the next video