move forward into the next block, which is our international perspective on wisdom management and urban metabolism. The theme of the seminar is wisdom management. The reason we choose this theme is because wisdom management is more and more attention in China. And international as well, if you haven't heard about the wisdom separation that's happening in Shanghai. And also China is not accepting the wisdom from the other countries. So those are bringing a lot of changes. So first we want to talk about the human border, our international experience on wisdom management. In this block we have two speakers. First I want to introduce Mary Akali Fuus, who is a Brazilian but now based in Germany. I learned that during the exercise we just had. So she's a chemist and energy and material flow assessment specialist. She has involved in many different projects including water and whistle water treatment and wisdom to power generation in Brazil. Since 2012, she has been a scientist as a staff of the research field energy resource technology systems of the Institute of Technology Assessment and the system analysis of KIT, okay. Welcome. It's okay because I'm the one that I look like to use so much microphones. So I'll try to speak louder. If I get five, please just end. Secondly, I just say thank you very much for all the invitation. It was great just to get in touch with me and invite me to be here to kind of present our study case. And secondly, I just say okay, we are working with Waste Management in Brazil. We are talking about how we can move, how we can tell them about sustainability and how we can also discuss with industry regulatory department. So this is such a huge approach where we are in Europe quite familiar, but when I'm coming back to Brazil, it's like playing different piece of the puzzles. So this is a kind of a challenge where we are just coming back and tell them okay, we need to take parts of this puzzle, bring it up together. If you want to work forward, we got single development, we got a single outcome. So this is the approach where that's what we are working since private use, let's say. It's also part of my PhDs, and then let's come in and tell what we are doing here. How close that we are talking with different technologies. First of all, I was surprised when I kind of, this was really a little bit about over the table, is that what's that called. This has something regarding what I'm doing.  So let's go back. First I will give what I'm presenting today and add up in product, how we are doing. A second, below-resort, why below-resort, why it's below-resort, for example. And then the third, let's say, what we are building up, a concept of system ability to gather together. Let's just give some tips, how is our fund, and finds what we are achieving with the policy makers, what we are achieving with the policy makers, just a little bit showing up some results and some conclusions that we are taking out. How I start to say, strict economy is a new strategy that's already not in the room. So they are looking for industry development, they are looking for national development. National development. And then when we are coming back to energy coming from the country like Brazil, it's like a concept that is familiar for industries, because for them they are all the time looking for, okay, we need to achieve a simple economic strategy because we also want to achieve an international market. So for the industries, they say, okay, we really need to focus because we want to get an international market. So we're going to sell a product internationally, so we need to follow that. But, and then on the other side, it's okay for the packaging industries, they say you need to fill, but when we come back, they say, how is our waste management here? And then they are saying, we are still on the end of the pipe, just meaning like, we have our disposal is based on that here. And how it can just bring it back and tell, okay, we have also provided a strict economy. So this is a kind of how I start to say, is to play puzzles, but how to build it. So then in this section, I need to say, okay, how is it for our idea that we are talking? We're first of all to say, okay, how we can talk about how we can talk about the concept of sustainability. Because at our institute, we are based in Germany, they have a concept of sustainability that is trying to say how we can spread it, how we can also talk about different questions regarding sustainability, where we are applying, say how we can apply sustainability. So, and then also how I can include society because when I come into Brazil, I don't talk worldwide, I just say about Brazil, this example we cannot think of, this is called worldwide. We have white speakers. So people that are on the streets just picking the ways for their own supply. And in Brazil, we have since 2010 a policy that municipalities must include white speakers in their white supply. So since 2010, they need to look for how to improve the society. Because like white speakers is the society. So society is trying to, they are not in the grip of the idea. They are trying to pick in the ways, send the ways and provide a kind of informal sustainability problem, let's say. And now the approach of many researches, how to make this feasible. And say like, are we really providing security? And how this can be done? So the approach now, let's try to say, how we can properly understand waste flows, how we can properly understand recycling, and how we can understand principles sustainability in our energy economy companies, taking that example after a lot of research. But what is a lot of research? But a lot of research is located in southeast of Brazil. In the states of Minas Gerais, it's considered the fourth important city of Brazil, and one of the most important in Latin America, because it's a business city. It's also considered one of the important cities on the mine sector, because they have steel, they have iron, even the cast gold. So it's one of the most important cities regarding mining in Brazil. This one comes from the name of Minas Gerais, this means of a state of mining. So that one is not the cap of the state. So they say, how do you do this? Nothing. So it's just 331, you don't ask, but it is. The city at all, this is just what I thought about in New Beijing, 2.4 million captains, but it's part of metropolitan region which comes across to 5 million captains. So the population growth nowadays is not that high, almost half it, so it's growing around 0.61%. But on another side, we say, okay, the city has a high social inequality. And also high social inequality is the best. On the solid waste management, we have, I just took this example, but we have searched how this has grown according to the years, 0.784 kilogram per capital. A collection coverage is 96%, but recycling comes just to 2%. So 100 waste comes to 98%. So how I start to say, this city has a really high social inequality. Where I just put some sentence of a quality data we are searching together. Belo Horizonte has 487 districts. Just in comparison, this city that I've indexed, at the same city, you find 0.62, which is like a virtue of India. And the other side is 0.95, which is not a virtue of Finland.  Really high poverty. So it's really, when it's, are there any rules to say, oh, I'm too worried. So on one side you see like, a house that is standing there with like 1,000 is quite a meter, and the other side you see, 30,000 is the same area. And then you look at the same clock. How this covers it? And how can you work with it? And then on the other side, we have, but it's also known worldwide as a social integrated model. Because how I start to say, they have one speaker, and since 1990s, they are fighting to be recognized. To tell to the whole society, hey, we are here, we need the help of the society to meet our survival. So they are known, how I said, since 1990s, they are fighting, then since 2010, they start to be recognized as a national thing, also part of several studies that's looking about. And then how this is coming up? They start with a group of people with the support of the church to tell them, just say, okay, you might provide a word, but if you do this together, we get more profitable. It's more profitable for everybody. So then they start to organize by themselves and meet some groups and also talk with the ceiling and tell to the ceiling, hey, we can support you. But the problem, because the city's not trusted them, because they come with really low level of income, they are not having their awareness that all the kind of posts are waiting for them. And then this comes up, a break and say like, okay, that is not trust, but now since 2010, we have the most important because now it's a national policy. But nowadays, how they are placed? But on the social I say, they have, today, eight wave speakers, they are thieves. But now in our study, we got to qualify them to say, okay, how many we are? So this is part of my work that is on the app. And also, they are also not more organized in cooperatives, but network, so which means that they are also trying to cooperate outside of the results in a sense that now they have a network that the nation recognize as like, this is a work that has been done. They also support it. But how much come to the research case of this was showing up? This is a research that's applied to science is more a problem, so we're looking where we are looking for resource management combined with social science because we need to understand how this is working as a society. And the outcome of this is, our outcome is guidance, provide awareness, and our competence is also communication skills because like, since we are talking with from voice speakers to policy, this is a different level of skills that we need all the time, try to understand it first of all. And provide awareness and put speed and which kind of tools we are modeling software is we are, I'm sure, later on. Yes, let's see. Now the search, we start with the concept of sustainable beauty. It's called Interactive Concept of Sustainable iPods, which is placed, this concept was started in our institution since 2001, and now, I was the first one to apply internationally because this concept was just journal based. And then since then, we start first to understand how we can adapt, how we can understand, and we show you later on. And after, we show the tool that we are working material analysis because it's the one that we quantify and we show that, okay, this is happening. This also showing, also like who are the era, which kind of technique is there for what it's not, and how we can play the scenario is also to tell them what can come after. This is the approach that we are looking for material analysis. And also we are working with social agency analysis, structure agent analysis, which means that we are also looking for the agents stakeholders and what are the approach and how we can come together with that. And everything we come as an interpretation at the end. And now I show this step by step. First, we start with the material analysis, just as an example, if you have more questions later on, you can just come to my side and not go so much into detail or that now. We start to quantify what is there, who is there, and which kind of techniques are there, which I also consider like the way speakers operatives play as part of the technology. So I need to know by looking how many are there, what is coming in, what's coming out. And also considering also the construction site. And we also have input of tables to know what is coming in from outside. And then we say, okay, how we can look for coming back to the circular approach. So and then we are basis of the product, which means that we are looking which kind of products are there, because the way speakers, they are the one that will provide product place for like a game, we are separate products, it's not just plastic at all, we are separate products. We are separate quality and we are separated. I had the keys of everything. So they are really based, we are such detail, because they are looking for where the components that we can incorporate. So and then what we are doing, we are also working with the software standard, bring us this approach with Showa, how is it, and also look for the uncertainties. In a sense that we are also working on research, we also want to publish, of course. And now let's look for the agents analysis, structure agent analysis, which I start to say, okay, who are they are? Because it's also like everybody's working, but no one's, how I say, communicating with each other. This is the main challenge. There is a communication of local tolerages in the private sector, because the private sector is providing the service of transportation or provide assistance.  This is a really great number for Brazil. So they are communicating with the private sector, but the private sector, in this case, where they are holding the service, they also communicate with the waste cooperatives, which means that they take the waste from the city and deliver to the waste cooperatives. The waste cooperatives are also provided door-to-door collection. So this is also not a communication. They have to work, that also provide communication with the citizens. Because, how I said, they are in door-to-door, they're just not door-to-door, and say, like, please, can you just provide this specific material? They also teach you. This is another perspective that they have to teach you, the society, how to separate. Because they say, hey, you should separate this, I get the money, I get the value, because I need to pay them all the time, tell their histories. But in another way, who are supporting also these waste cooperatives? First, we have the NGOs. They are the ones that support a lot, the waste figures. They also provide awareness and also provide their conditions to tell them, okay, now we need new sheds, so new work places, now we need this machinery. Because they start really from the, how I can tell you, basic separation, the state in which they have to. And nowadays, most part of the NGOs, they also tell them, okay, if you have a bill, in the beginning it was really hard to find the names. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry. That's it. So, I will run out, sorry. And then they also providing, together with public agencies, which support the waste power funds, and also they have some other donor agencies. So just some pictures that you can show, who are those people on the streets? We start with those that are the cooperatives. They have their transport systems. We also have the others who are on the streets, for which they are not on the cooperatives. So they are leaving on the streets. They also looking for, okay, how like, this is also not the approach that we need to talk with them why they are not the cooperatives. What's their reason? So this is part of our research. And we come to the consequences and ability just to tell, okay, first, what is this concept? We start with the capability approach to tell them like, okay, what is acting here? It's something that can be also part of sustainability, which should not just start from zero in this plan. Just look what we are doing and understand first. And this was also done there together with very far different stakeholders. We also made workshop with them to understand this approach, what we are doing. And then we just came, okay. So first, what the concept provide for us, we should think about to improve the quality of life, because it's one of the most aspect of this concept, to think about, we should be a society, we should improve the quality of life, we are living there. We should also prove the capacity of them to take active life. And also to look for the present and future generation as the ecosystem really stands for. And also to look for what they are doing has also global recognition, which means like, wait, this is a global problem, as everyone knows. So then we start to compare action versus part of life and versus further development. And this was a workshop that we did that we asked them, asked the study for people like these dogs to come bring them together. What is to sustain? Why should we sustain it? And who is this one? This was a three-in-five that we came and discussed work with them in order to sense to improve and build up our own perception of sustainability, based on what they think is right for us. And based on that, we just bring up the constitutive elements of sustainability with the base of this concept. First, we should secure the human life, we should bring our set actions, more things like acting, and also present the culture. Because we cannot just come without knowledge, because for the place, we are really afraid just to say, okay, let's just bring ways to power and then we say, what is this, Tyler? They are really afraid to just say, come with a consideration and they won't have more power or to take the ways and provide recital. So this was a concept that we are working with them. And just, if you have more passion, please just come to me. This is very welcome because of our minutes. And we brought with us a kind of diet plan based on three goals, the secure human life systems, maintaining the action of the society, and also provide the protection of the culture, and with a global nutrition. And this one also has 15 different roles that we discussed, each role with them. And we did also some criteria, which is based, okay, this first criteria is based on the white speaker, second criteria is based on recycling and then so we build up different goals and we have 18 different indicators. So we made a diagram, this diagram is a semi-contractive diagram where we are able to ask all the time, the second, what is the situation? And they just give us the distance to target, okay, we achieve this, percent achieve that, and at the end we can quantify it and tell them the information. It's a kind of simple tool, but I see that it's hard to understand. We understand with the policy, we understand also the white speakers when you talk different ones with them, they say, okay, so now I understand what I'm saying. And then just kind of, obviously, what we come to from the material flow analysis, we just base, okay, from product base, aluminum cans, and also non-ferrous composition products, polyethylene bottles, they are cardboard, they are some of the commodities that achieve the closed loop recycling, which means like, from the consumption, we turn to the industry, the product with the white speakers are doing their just taking. Why? Because the industry is also motivating and have some sort of cooperation with them and tell them, okay, this is this material we want. And then they also provide the market is also higher for the products. So this is the main life on the street, for products, it's really returning. We have a closed loop. But on the other side, waste, since any as we are moving from any approach has increased a lot. So like 65%, if you just compare them briefly, and also we can just come to say, okay, who are really doing this, how I said before, is this waste because they are providing the service that's not on the approach. From the agency, agent structure analysis, we just come up with some, just some challenges that we identified versus the culture value, but why is it culture value? They started with social waste speakers approach, they start to integrate with each other, they have a community. But the problem is they ask a lot from waste speakers that we do not want to be integrated, because they say that if I'm free, I don't need to speak like that kind of stuff. They are afraid to share their work with the others, and this is not a part of the project. So this is also an approach that we identified as a challenge for all those that are on the streets, that they say that we really do not want. And also from the market mechanism is, this is also a challenge again, because you have just these four products, high-part of them, and all the others start. So another way to say from the legislation approach, we also identified that like, from the Brazilian legislation, just these four products are allowed to go back to this cycle, all the others aren't. Because of population, because of many reasons. So from the legislation, it's also a challenge, because if we want to achieve international market, the legislation stands for primary resource. And from the system, the big assessment based on this diagram, if you have no questions, you can show it later on. We made that kind of research, and also interviewed with them, they achieved from all these roles and features, just 30% according to our definition of sustainability. And one of the advantages that we identified that like when the idea of birth gives a child label, it's a boy. This is really another, but it's a role of them. So coming to the end, some conclusion remark, when we are talking about these three aspects, we have guaranteed, how I start to say, child label, no child label, just leave it. Okay, fairly co-continent. And because it states that when they are in cooperatives, they are also sure that they get at least a minimum salary. And you have other community efforts to keep there. Also, the advantage of such idea of cooperatives is that it's causing such a great super-economy and it's a direct different state for the decision makers. And with this idea of this diagram, when we are coming back, when I come back to Brazil, try to talk with them and see that they start to understand, because we start to talk with the language of them. And if we want to look for cultural adaptments, constitute all the energy countries, first of all, we should recognize what is the problem. This was one of the advantages that I tried to find in Brazil, which was already recognized and came to the policy. Again, since this was a policy, they say, okay, we have identified ways to solve it, and let's go forward.


Hello everyone, a couple of weeks ago, my little brother James said that he wanted me to get him every episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. Unfortunately, I didn't have all of them. So I decided to go searching on eBay to see if I could find episode box sets. I had absolutely no luck finding any. I then saw a pop-up on the side of the site, saying in bold yellow letters over an ocean background, click here for all your SpongeBob needs. I figured that it might have what I need, so I clicked the weird ad. When I did, I swore I heard a faint sobbing noise right before I clicked it. I was quickly sent to a strange SpongeBob themed website. I've since forgotten the name of the site. There were different links at the top of the page. Some were labeled banned episodes, knockoffs for sale, and illegal episodes. The one that caught my eye was one that lost titled, Free Box Settlist Download Day. In it, there were images of SpongeBob's hand, holding up his left hand along which his fingers to associate what season each download link had in it. I was able to download season 1 through 6, since my little brother liked the older seasons of the newer ones. It took some to download the seasons I got, each taking around an hour to download. Once all the seasons had finished downloading, they showed up on my desktop with the icon displaying and same image of SpongeBob's hand with the numbers displaying which season it was. I checked to make sure the files didn't have any viruses or trojans in them, there weren't, luckily. I watched some of the episodes on the file sets and to my surprise, they were all in great quality. But when I got to season 4, I saw a file titled, Sadness.WMD in all lowercase letters. I was curious to see what that particular episode had. I burnt the file onto a blank DVD I had in my desk. After that, I went into James' room, which wasn't far from the living room and my own, and told him that I got all his favorite seasons onto one disk. His face being with joy and excitement. I then put the disk into his TV as he jumped up and down in pure joy. I then left his room as he began to thank me and give me a big hug. While my little brother was having fun watching his favorite TV show, decided to make some noodles for myself as a snack. As I was about to finish them, I heard my little brother scream and call my name in pure fear. I ran in the room, and he was curled up in the corner of his room, shaking and looking completely mortified which his back turned away from me. I looked at the TV, wondering what had scared him so much. And saw Patrick sitting next to SpongeBob's house.   Right before he could finish this and now in himself, the screen went to a faint static. I shot into a frozen state. I told James that what he saw was just a dream, and that he just tired himself out from getting exited earlier. It managed to calm him down slightly. I thought it was just some sort of demented trick or something of the like. Later, after James went off to bed, I got the DVD, put it into my computer and watched the episode. There wasn't the standard intro that played at the beginning of every episode, just a picture of a news while the theme song was muffled and slightly distorted.  It showed SpongeBob's house at night. It cut to show the inside of his house, SpongeBob, his parents, his friend Patrick, and Gary were in there. There was no music throughout the scene. Just the sound of the wind howling. Then Gary started sobbing, and his eyes started to gain blood in it, dripping from out of his sockets. I started feeling sick, and I felt like I just threw up inside my mouth. The sound of wind went silent, and SpongeBob's parents started talking in robotic voices. We're going on the road trip. Gary started crying even harder, but his voice sounded more deeper. He went completely silent, he was still crying but wasn't making any sound. Gary then suddenly died. He laid on the floor, missing his eyes and looking very sad. Patrick looked on the unsounded board, saying, No thanks, I'm not going to the road trip. It showed them all in the car, SpongeBob was in the back, messing around and taking some sort of pill, and began laughing hysterically. His voice sounded more deeper than the original. It now shows a picture of Patrick's head slowly spinning and his eyes were black, the same ones I saw when I found my mortified brother. He didn't have a mouth, just pitch black where his eyes should be, and he said, in a scared tone. I was freaking out at the disturbing image. Then, SpongeBob jumped out the car window, then shortly after, getting hit by an oncoming car. Patrick, now with his mouth back, began to screech as yellow liquid started pouring from his open mouth. SpongeBob's parents stopped the car, the brakes sounded like glass breaking, and begged to walk up to his body.  It shows them that SpongeBob and Gary's funeral, and their bodies later, distorted. SpongeBob's teeth were a pink color, his nose wasn't drawn on, and he was covered in a blue liquid. Gary was islas and his cell was soaked in the yellow liquid. Patrick began to sob, and SpongeBob's parents followed as well. However, it didn't sound like cartoon crying, instead it sounded like the actors were actually crying, which began to slowly discord as the crying got harder. SpongeBob opened his eyes and said to his parents and Patrick, as you are with me for my life, you will be with me for my death. Both SpongeBob's parents and Patrick ran away, screaming in terror. After the funeral, it showed SpongeBob's dad in SpongeBob's house, as he was seen, hanging from a noose in the kitchen. SpongeBob's mom, is in the bathroom with slit wrists and was lying dead on the floor, and Patrick is outside, cutting open his stomach as he groans in pain. The episode then cut to black, as the file closed itself. Ever since this, my brother has been having nightmares since he watched that so-called episode, and refuses to watch or do anything related to SpongeBob ever again.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com, our last break of the night, last break of my week, before my weekend, I'll be back on Sunday, Jason Jaspy will take care of you on Friday and Saturday. It's gonna be, last break of the night's gonna be a good one, 2022, National Treasures Baseball, Pick Your Team, 37, we know what kind of stuff can be pulled from a break like this. Also, we did this break straight up, no filler, I appreciate that, no extra work to do. A lot of people going big on this break, a lot of people with multiple teams, multiple spots, thanks to those people, Dano going big on this break too, gets the last spot mojo as well. Good luck everybody, thank you very much. Alright, full case, fresh case. Let's see what we got from this fresh case here, fresh and so clean, the big hit potential definitely strong in a break like this, slow play that hits a little bit right there. Alright, good luck my friends, here we go, Travis Demarite, 21 out of 25, two color colossal relic for the ATL, Brian C with that one, Brian was helping out with the late night rally, we got Angel Zerpa, 65 out of 99 for the Royals, that'll be for Dano, 19 out of 25, Alex Bregman, Astros, that'll also be for Dano, we got Die Cut, Materiel Sanders, Butter, Riley, was that what they call them, Dan with the Nationals, I think that's what his nickname is, thanks David, yeah, I went to the 2020 All-Star game and got this t-shirt, Brandon McKay, Jersey and Otto, 10 out of 34, that's for Zach and the Reyes, Nico Horner, not Nick but Nico, Nico Horner, 34 out of 74, Jersey and Otto Graf for the Cubs, Robert with the Cuggies, I like this, Kyle Muller, Rookie, Patch and Otto Graf, 20 out of 25, what do they call these again, the nighttime, nighttime very parallel, I don't think this is gonna go into a 180 top load, let's put that into a slider box for you, there you go Brian, midnight that's what it is, nighttime, oh Jersey and Otto, Bobby with Junior, 26 out of 99, Dano with the Royals, nice on-card Otto, the book, Harry Walker, 6 out of 10, legendary Jumbo materials, Cardinals that's gonna be for Ed Peep and we got John Gray, 2 out of 19, Patch and Otto Graf for the Rangers, that's gonna be for Zach, all right, not a bad start here in box number one, box two, Tyler Maley, 57 out of 99, yeah I like that the last late night rally teams are hitting a little bit, little reward there, try to get something, little something for everybody, Minnesota that's gonna be for Oliver, we got Alec Bohm, 85 out of 99, Stars and Stripes, Relic, with a little pinstripe in there, little Phillies pinstripe for Dano, last spot Mojo, 70% of the time, last spot Mojo hits 100% of time, there's Fernando at this Junior, 40 out of 49, that's for San Diego, Jared, with the Padres, with the Fires, die-cut materials signatures Andrew Stevenson, 13 out of 25, that is for Washington, that's gonna go to Dano and the Nats, we got Matt Tice, 32 out of 64, Matt Tice, the fake Mike Trout, no offense to Matt Tice but you know it's hard not to see like you see some red, you see a white right-handed hitter, you see a little M, you see a two, you know the three could kind of look like a seven right there, and then you're like Mike, oh it's Matt Tice, Ryan Hines with the Angels, sorry Ryan, Kyle Menzardo for Tampa Bay, 13 out of 20, hey you know what let's root for Matt Tice, wherever he is this year, let's root for him to have an all-star season, let's be positive, all right Kyle Menzardo, left-handed hitter, you see a hitter, I don't know my left and right Ryan, and we got a plate patch auto, Alec Thomas, Dano with the Dimebacks, Dan, all aboard the Big Hit Express, whoo-hoo, and another train whistle, one out of five, and my voice is feeling a little raw already but we got to do it, we got to do the train whistle, Ronald Runkel, Hall of Fame autograph, all aboard the Big Hit Express, whoo-hoo, and the book, book it, 78 out of 99, Curtis Terry for Texas, Zachary, rookie Jersey and autograph, and the card down here Joe Morgan, treasure Jersey numbers, nice, five out of eight, who's got the reds, Chris with the red legs, big red machine, all right, two boxes down, two boxes to go, that's right Connor, we do need Curtis Terry to stop by Jaspy's autograph camp, show him the finer points of autographing, guest speaker, the hawk, Andre Dawson, right, who would else would be a keynote speaker, Mariana Rivera would be a keynote speaker, Ozzie Smith keynote speaker, and if those kids don't want to listen to the old heads, how about, who are some current guys, Aaron Nola, right, Aaron Nola could teach some kids something, a thing or two at Jaspy's autograph camp, yeah and kids these days gotta still respect Derek Jeter, right, you know, like, and there's like different styles, everyone has a different style, like if you want to have like kind of a messy but cool autograph that's always consistent like Ichiro's autograph, right, it looks kind of messy but it's like the same every time, that's Ichiro's autograph, we can teach that if we want to, you know, there are some guys who have shorter autographs that still look pretty cool, you know, we can teach that too, Tyrone Taylor, Jaspy's autograph camp, we need to start that, 24 out of 99, we got Dano with Tyrone Taylor, we got to talk to our hobby overlords maybe about that, 34 out of 99, Aaron Ashby, Dano Milwaukee, we got 25 out of 25, Bobby Dore, for Boston, that's gonna be for Ed P in the Red Sox, we got for the Dimebacks, Gerald Perdomo, 7 out of 10, Dano, Diamondbacks, die-cut material signatures, Daz Cameron, 19 out of 25, Mike Cameron's kid, remember Mike Cameron, that's for Jason K and Detroit, we got Hassan Kim, 44 out of 49, nice patch, nice autograph, Colossal, Relic and Auto, Jared with the Friars, do they really, Ichiro and Samberg's autograph looks similar, gotta check that out, there's Connor Wong, three-color patch and autograph, 5 out of 99, that'll be for Ed and the Red Sox, we got Stephen Kwan, nice, 14 out of 25, Century Signatures, Ed, Cleveland, this is for you, so he keeps it up this year, he had a great season last year and the book, it is 14 out of 99, Eli Morgan, also for Cleveland, Cleveland, this is for you, and I think I learned yesterday, let me double check this, I think yesterday I learned, that Eli Morgan is actually a local kid, if I'm not mistaken, yeah, actually right here in the South Bay, just south of Hermosa Beach, was born in Ranchos, Palos Verdes, California and went to Peninsula High School, you know, a lot of baseball, a lot of baseball players, Popinata, who else is out of, what's from here, that's Marlins, Garrett Cooper, is that who I'm thinking of, yeah, Garrett Cooper's from around here, from Torrance, right here in the city, what about Lars Nudbar is from El Segundo, just about 10-15 minutes north of the shop, yeah, Giancarlo Stanton is from LA, I think he's from the, things from the valley, just over the hill, about an hour away from us, I think that's where Yellich grew up too, and then of course everyone knows about like the Max Fried, Lucas Geolito, and one other guy who all went to the same like private school out here, Pete Crow Armstrong, also from LA, one of our guys here who works here at Jaspies, played high school baseball and said Pete Crow Armstrong hit two home runs off of him, so every, sometimes when they show like scouting video he says like that's me, Jonah's like I'm watching me, you know, this guy's hitting dingers off of me, poor Jonah, 95 out of 99 Detroit, it's gonna be Jason K, I think Jack Flaherty, yeah, I think, is he the third pitcher on that team, they're all different years, I don't think they're all in the same year, well back then it was Mike, he's going by Giancarlo now, we're respecting that, that's Alex Redugo for the Dodgers, former Dodger going to the Red Sox, Ed P, here's a Dodger, 19, 925, Freddie Freeman, David M, with the boys in blue, we've got Big Mike, Big Mike Bowman, for Baltimore, eight out of 99, that will be for Kevin in Baltimore, how big is Big Mike, Big Mike is 6'4, 230, it's a good size, Big Mike, got Matt Olson, 26 out of 49, A's edition going to Zach, we got Hyun-Jung Yang, six out of 25, Colossal Relic and Autograph for the Rangers, it's for Zachary in Texas, we got Greg Deekman, some nice colors there, Patch Autograph, 91 out of 99 for the Cubs, Robert, and a dual auto for Boston, Adley Rushman and Grayson Rodriguez, future battery mate of the future right there, the way of the future, Kevin with the dual autograph, way of the future, the book is 13 out of 25, legendary Rangers nickname, it is Bud Selig, the commissioner, wow, that's a randomizer, everyone's got a shot at the Bud Selig, alright, and the last card down here was is hashtag we believe Brandon Marsh, 44 out of 99, that's Angels edition of Brandon Marsh, and that will be going to Ryan Heintz, there you go Ryan, and there you go ladies and gentlemen, that is the break, now let's see who gets the Bud Selig here, so everyone gets a shot at it, let's flip back over here, let's gather everybody's names, one through 30, you dice, new lists, and let's roll it in random, a name on top gets three and a three, six the hard way, gets the commission, one, two, three, four, five, and six, name on top, it's going to be, it's going to be Daniel, there you go Daniel, thanks everybody, thanks for the fill, we got another NT case in the store, I'm Joe for jazby's casebreaks.com, I'll see you next time for the next one, bye bye.


Good afternoon, everybody. Nice to see you. Welcome. This is the Portland City Council. We're meeting in a regular council meeting this evening. It's Monday, March 6th, 5 o'clock. Welcome to people in the chambers. Welcome to people who are with us on Zoom. And we'll begin our meeting. So we're going to officially start the meeting. Will you please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? The Pledge of Allegiance is to the flag of the United States of America, to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Willa Clarke. Please call the roll. Councillor Forno. Here. Councillor Rodriguez. Here. Councillor Dyon. Here. Councillor Ali. Councillor Zorro. Here. Councillor Chavarro. Here. Councillor Pelletier. Here. Councillor Phillips. Here. Mayor Snyder. Here. The next item on our agenda this evening is the 5 o'clock public comment period on non-agended items. So anybody in council chambers or with us on Zoom who would like to address the council, we welcome you. We just ask that you don't talk about something that's on tonight's agenda. Please give us your first and last name and either the neighborhood you live in or the organization that you represent. You'll get three minutes on the clock and we appreciate you being here. And it looks like we've got somebody with us in council chambers. So go ahead and start us off, please. Hi, my name is Jay Gruber. I live in District 2 in the West End. And I've worked for Shalom House since 2018. And I'm here to share news about the unionization efforts led by Shalom House Workers United. Shalom House provides an array of community-based mental health services throughout Portland. A large portion of our services are staffed residential treatment programs, including group homes, supported apartments, and supported housing. Direct support workers in these programs provide some of the most critical mental health care in our community, supporting clients every day, which impacts the overall health of our community in Portland. For most staff, doing this work is a calling, but now we need support from our community. Workers at Shalom House are attempting to unionize to secure a fair and livable wage, improve workplace safety, and have a voice in decision-making that will improve our clients' well-being. However, Shalom House Workers United is facing harsh opposition from the organization's administration. The administration has sent out emails and posters with misleading and intimidating messages. They have scheduled mandatory meetings this week for full-time staff about unionization. Managers have held anti-union one-on-ones with workers, and the administration has attempted to require the election be held only in person at headquarters on a single afternoon, which would exclude workers who have multiple jobs or are scheduled at 24-hour programs. Shalom House is largely funded by grants and public reimbursements, and these funds should be used for programs and client care, not for union busting. Other nonprofits have unionized and seen their services improve as a result. Also, in contrast to the administration's actions, other nonprofits have modeled neutrality. For example, Planned Parenthood agreed to neutrality for their union election, and Maine ACLU voluntarily recognized their union, their workers' union. Using staff time for mandatory anti-union meetings and agency resources on a union avoidance lawyer is creating a hostile environment for employees and needs to stop. I'm asking that city counselors contact Shalom House administration and board members to let them know that this behavior is unacceptable and a waste of resources. Other members of the public are encouraged to show their support as well. Please go to tinyurl.com backslash, support SHWU to send your message to leadership in support of Shalom House Workers United. Thank you. Thank you very much. And we'll head over to Zoom for our next public comment. So just a reminder to please give us your first and last name neighborhood you live in in Portland or the organization that you represent, and first we'll go to Richard. Yeah, hello, can you hear me? Yes, we can. All right, great. Richard Ward, Parkside neighborhood, District 2. Free speech, white supremacy. I'm however grateful that due to so many sharing the photo of the banner that my message has reached more than I ever could in person. Social media has come out of the woodwork to support the message that yes, it is okay to be white. One podcaster alone received over 1.5 million views on Twitter with 99% of the comments standing with free speech over social justice, wars, hurt feelings. All races of people came together to condemn your anti-white propaganda. WGME has to keep taking down comments and re-upload in the same news articles to push the narrative that city counselors are the victims while actively attacking free speech.  It's one of you, are race-baiting hypocrites. The real racists in this city are you. You'd never call it beyond gathering in the city in act of hate or boo-hoo for the cameras. When criminals vandalized our city and attacked police officers, you went silent. Police officers were assaulted with urine, rocks and fireworks that anywhere near as much care. If members are really receiving hateful emails, they brought it upon themselves for lying and slurring white people. A FOIA request has not turned up any threats made towards city counselors. Prove it and release the emails. I condemn violent threats and would encourage you to demand an investigation into who sent the so-called threats. Without a police report, it leaves me to believe that these threats were never made or made by yourselves. You can't play a victim when you spout anti-white hate. Counselor Fonier has said she wants to create an environment where white supremacy doesn't feel safe enough to be in public and loud. With the city deeming it okay to be white as a white supremacy slogan, I'm going to take that as a city councilor wanting violence toward her political opposition. When did it become acceptable for city counselors to start calling for silencing private citizens? With seeing the response, it is obvious that leftists don't believe it's okay to be white and it's a message that needs to be seen more often. Not a single person of color could bother to attend city hall to speak out against it. It was a crowd of angry, self-loathing white people. Thank you for the inspiration to keep my head up in demand and end of racist hate.  I will not be intimidated. My rights trump your feelings. You will never stop me from peacefully standing up. I'll never quit. I'll never surrender. I'll never give up. Next commenter, please. Anybody else in chambers who would like to address the city council? Come ahead and step forward, please. Good evening, council. My name is Grace Nichols. I live right here on Casco Street. And the reason I'm here this evening is on behalf of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, which is an international effort led by the nations of Vanuatu and Tuvalu, both nations which are expected to lose land to climate change in the near future. To compliment the Paris Agreement and the most recent COP 27 agreement, but which do not mention coal, oil or gas and fill that fundamental gap to call for the, to stop fossil fuels at source everywhere, non-proliferation, to phase out existing fossil fuel reserves in line with the 1.5 degree Celsius pathway and to support a global, equitable transition to renewable energy. So this is a zero fiscal impact resolution and we'd be joining cities all over the world, including my previous hometown of Albany County, New York, but also Vancouver, Hawaii, a lot of different cities. And 76 noble laureates have all signed on. And the idea is to set a leadership for taking some necessary steps like ending fossil fuel subsidies around the world in order to really get online to a clean energy transition. So I know Maine supports these causes and I think it would be lovely if Portland, Maine would sign on to the resolution. So this is not on the agenda for tonight, but what I did was I brought six packets of the information with a model resolution and all the reasons why it's a great idea. And so I was hoping to hand those to you guys and have you think about it? My name, my email are up on front so you can contact me if you're interested in sponsoring or endorsing it. And then I'm a law student and there's several law students who also support this. So if we can get sponsorship for the resolution, we'd be happy to bring some people here to support it and have different voices to be heard. So thank you very much for listening tonight and I hope to be speaking with you in the future. Thank you, Grace. And our interim city manager is gonna grab your papers from you. Thank you for bringing those and we appreciate your comment. Okay, I will head back over to Zoom for the next public comment. I have somebody on named Tom Dillion. Hello, can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. My name's Tom Dillion, I'm in district four. I've been a resident of Portland for almost 50 years. I've been hearing a lot of stuff lately, disturbing things about Portland. There's a lot of accusations that city council, that there's a lot of members, there's a lot of members that are socialists or communists and it's disturbing. I've never done a city council meeting. And they told me that if I came on, I would watch city councilors not stand for the American flag. And I told them that there was no way that was possible. And I came on and my daughter showed me and I don't even know what to say right now. I watched them not stand, what is happening to our city? Everyone is sending me videos of stuff that's happening in Wyndham schools. You saying that it's not okay to be white, that you won't stand for the pledge of allegiance I don't even know what's going on in the city anymore. If you guys aren't socialists, would you at least make a comment and say you denounce socialism or communism? My father fought in the North Korean War. That's all I'm gonna say. Thank you. Is there anybody else in council chambers who would like to offer public comment on items that are not on tonight's agenda? Okay, I don't see any. I've got a hand up on Zoom from George Rowe. George Rowe, Hanover Street. I had made a request of the council to do a motion to reconsider the North Deering Park approval last week. The basis for that has to do, and you did it with the Munjoy Hill Historic District. It's one of the kind of the bigger items that you've done it over the years. So the procedure is very familiar to you. But the reason is last week's discussion was really in no way, shape, or form enough for this city to get comfort that this transaction is on the up and up. For example, the trust for public land was able to basically do a propaganda video in the middle of that that had absolutely nothing to do with this transaction, absolutely nothing to do with its specific work in Portland over the recent decade or so. But I also included in that request to you, I included an email that had two video links. One was to the Land Bank Commission meeting on December 9th, 2020. It was kind of the genesis of this whole transaction. And in that video, Simon Rucker, who a member of the Land Bank Commission basically admitted that he was proposing this transaction as a favor to his friends. He was wanting public money to be used to assist friends of his. And that may not be a direct financial conflict, it is certainly the appearance of a conflict. And it set off, he was basically the project lead for the Land Bank Commission on this project. He spent an enormous amount of time queuing it up and sending it off to Greg Mitchell and other people in the city administration who pursued it. And that conflict was never made known to you, I don't think explicitly, or to anyone else in the public who didn't have the benefit of being at that meeting, which by the way, that meeting video was not available to the public until fairly recently. And then the second video was the one public meeting that the city of Portland and the trust Republic land had about this transaction. It was the literally over two and a half years, the only time that the public was invited to weigh in on this idea. 30 second warning. And there were no renters invited or present, there were nobody there that was supposed to be the low-income disadvantaged members of our community who were supposed to primarily benefit from this transaction. And so those two videos just help put a pin on why you should be doing a motion to reconsider this evening. And you should be postponing action on this proposal until there can be more public discussion. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Okay, I have, is there anybody in council chambers who would like to step forward? I don't think I see any action in chambers. So we'll head over to Zoom again. Somebody named Alex Jones. Yes. We can hear you. All right. My name is Harry Johnson, district three. I wanna say why did the mayor turn public comment soft last week before giving anyone the chance to speak? That was about 50 of us bastards on Zoom.  Okay. Thank you for public comment on items and not on tonight's agenda. I will close public comment at this point in time and we will move on in our agenda. I did wanna draw attention to the fact that Councillor Ali is with us this evening, but he's on the attendee side and he's joined us by phone, which, oh, oh wait, maybe we got him. Anyway, I just wanted to let folks know that Jessica is working with Councillor Ali to try to get him over to the panelist side. We don't see him at the moment, but I think he's on his way. Okay. Are there any announcements from my colleagues on the council this evening? Okay. Seeing none and I have none. We will close announcements and move to the approval of the minutes from our previous meeting. Can I please have a motion to approve the minutes from our February 27th council meeting? Move passage. Second. Councillor Zahra with a second from Councillor Dyon. Is there any council discussion on those draft minutes? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and vote to approve them. Councillor Fornir. Yes. Councillor Rodriguez. Yes. Councillor Dyon. Yes. Councillor Ali. Jessica, if you're with us and you can let Councillor Ali speak, then he can go ahead and vote on this item. Looks like you're available to speak, Councillor Ali. The wonders of zoom. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Peter. Okay. We'll keep trying. Okay. Councillor Zahra. Yes. Councillor Trevorrow. Yes. Councillor Pellett here. Yes. Councillor Phillips. Yes. Mayor Snyder. Yes. Those minutes are passed unanimously. The next item on our agenda is Proclamation 14. Will the clerk please read Proclamation 14. Proclamation 14, 22, 23, recognizing March as Women's History Month, sponsored by Kate Snyder, Mayor. So we have a proclamation before us this evening, recognizing the month of March as Women's History Month, whereas women of all races, classes, ethnic backgrounds and beliefs have made historic contributions to the growth, economic vitality and overall quality of life in the city of Portland. And whereas throughout the history of our city and despite a history of hardship, exclusion and discrimination, women have strived and sacrificed for equity and equality to ensure that the daughters of Portland have the same opportunities as our sons. And whereas despite their numerous contributions, and as described in a 2020 report issued by Maine's Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, Maine women still disproportionately struggle for economic security, experience domestic and sexual violence, lack access to healthcare. And whereas throughout history and still today, Portland women have led and lead endeavors to create a more fair and just society for all. And whereas for the first time in the history of the city of Portland, the majority of the members of the 2023 city council are women. Helping the body better represent the needs and priorities of the population and now therefore be it proclaimed that I, Kate Snyder, Mayor of the city of Portland, Maine and the members of the Portland City Council do hereby recognize March 1st through 31st as women's history month. So that is signed and sealed this sixth day of March 2023. Thank you. That's it for proclamations this evening. We do have a communication. Will the clerk please read communication 26. Communication 26, 22, 23, updating, permitting and inspection rules by Jessica Hanscom, Director of permitting and inspections. And I'll look to the city manager. I think we've got, we have Jessica here with us tonight. Correct. There she is. Director Hanscom, please take it away. Good evening, council. Jessica Hanscom, the director of permitting and inspections. So we've just updated our outdoor dining on public property rules to include a rule that we've consistently had throughout the years that you can't cook on public property. And then we formalize the rules for the parklet program. When the parklet program was created in 2017 and 18, the rules were all just listed on the application and we never actually made a set of rules separate from the application process. So we did that this year. Those are the two updates. They both will be uploaded to our website for anyone that has any questions. And I'm happy to answer anything that anyone has. Thank you so much for being here with us this evening, Director Hanscom. And we have two resources available in our packets tonight, which reflect the updates that the director just told us about. Does anybody have any questions or comments with regard to these updates? Councilor Phillips. The only question that I have is under the, is it called the parklet? It says that a restaurant can use their parking lot, other parking spaces right in front of their restaurant in order to use that for outdoor dining. But it doesn't say how many spaces they can use. Does that make sense? So how many parking spaces can a restaurant use in front of their spaces at four? Is it 10? The ordinance specifically states they can have one or two spaces. So it depends on how much frontage they have in front of the restaurant, what they have for occupancy in the restaurant will depend on how many spaces they can have. But the max is two spaces. Thank you. Thanks for the question. Any other questions or comments from the council on this communication? Okay, again, thank you, Director Hanscom. And we have no more questions on that front. We're heading into orders. Will the clerk please read order 145. Order 145, 22, 23, setting a public hearing on citizen initiative regarding an act to improve tenant protection, sponsored by Ashley Brand City Clerk. Thank you so much. And so I think I'm going right back to you, Ashley, for a little heads up on this or are we going to court council for this setting of the public hearing? I think this one's just pretty straightforward. It's just setting the public hearing date, which will be at our next meeting. And then we'll be able to take public comment and the overview up. Okay, thank you. So again, this is straightforward. The item before us tonight is not on the content of the initiative, rather the setting of the public hearing so that we can make sure people know when we will be offering that public hearing opportunity. So I'm going to ask if there's any public comment on this item before I come back to the council for a motion. I have a hand up from George Rowe. George Rowe, West Bayside. So in terms of setting this particular date, you have the distinct advantage of only having one referendum, fortunately, to be wrestling with. But a lot of people find these meetings to be inconvenient. It's still technically winter. So Monday nights are not always great times. And there's also a lot happening at I think your next council meeting. So what I was going to propose since there are some pretty high stakes with this referendum as there almost always is with a referendum from somebody's point of view is to hold a special meeting just for the purpose of giving the public an opportunity to weigh in. And as with any public notice, people may or may not take advantage of the opportunity.  I would say this is the least hardest working council in a long time in terms of the way that you've been using your meetings. But occasionally you have long ones and the public really never benefits from long evenings where there's lots and lots of different competing people trying to get your attention to focus on something. And so to me, this is absolutely a right issue because there's probably going to be a fair amount of money spent by the landlord interest groups to pass this and there's some merit in what they're doing in terms of looking at a lot of rent control regimes across the country and over time, but the main thing is that one side of this, renters, are not well organized, do not have a well-funded interest group and are not likely to be able to probably have much of a rebuttal campaign. And so creating a special meeting night or a special meeting afternoon on like a Saturday, which is not crazy or unheard of. I don't think it's illegal for you guys to have a special city council meeting on a weekend allows a few hours of our community's time to be spent solely focused on this and let people show up for, against whatever, often even asking you to just pass it outright. And so we can then return to another city council proceeding to maybe hash out either future amendments or adjustments. So that's where I would love to see some leadership and some creativity. I think it basically only serves your interests to have this be a scrum match in a busy city council meeting in a couple of weeks. I don't think it benefits the public, thank you. Thank you for your comment. Is there any other public comment on setting a hearing on the citizen initiative regarding an act to improve tenant protections? Seeing none, I will close public comment. I'm gonna come back to the council for a motion. Move passage. Second. Councilor Zahra with a second from Councillor Fornir and we now have a motion in front of us again. What we're talking about tonight is setting the hearing date so that we get that on the schedule and that we make notice of that hearing date. So I ask if there's any council comment or discussion on this matter. Councillor Fornir. Thank you. I have a question on the timing of the hearing. Does it have to be our next council meeting or does it have to be a certain number of days before the election just so we kind of understand the timeframe in which this public hearing could happen? Thank you. I think there's multiple considerations. So I'm gonna look both to corporation council and the city clerk. Just a quick response. It does have to be held within 30 days of today. So anytime between now and April 5th. Any considerations with regard to timing of the ballot? The ballots would have to be ordered in April in order to receive them 30 days before the election. So we'd need to receive them in May so that we can start absentee voting. There was a tight timeline for this to get the petitions back in and turn back around so that we could have public hearing and whatnot. Thank you. Councilor Rodriguez. Thank you. And just to follow up to that. Does the public hearing have to be part of a council overall meeting or can there be a standalone time for the public hearing to take place? Much like Mr. Rowe suggested. Yeah, I don't know of any reason why you, if the council chose to do so have a special meeting on a separate date as long as it happens within that timeframe but that's a decision for the council to make. Appreciate it. Just because I asked the question, I should say in my personal opinion, any day of the week, any time of the day is gonna present barriers to certain people. I think that today's both labor force doesn't have the traditional nine to five schedule. So we don't have like that framing to kind of follow. I do think that there's certain things that we can do much like we've put in place in here like the hybrid meetings that allow virtual participation and things like that. And again, as Mr. Rowe said, the expectation is not that we fill the room with everyone. These things, regardless of our efforts are simply gonna have limitations for people to attend but do appreciate the clarity. And as Mr. Rowe's intention was, we're all aware now of what the options are. But I think holding it on the date that the agenda suggests and the first read is fine with me. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor. Any other comments? I too appreciate the public comment. It's always good to get thinking creatively about what the options are. As my colleague said, there's always a challenge. No matter what day of the week or time of day. And I do hope that having this remote access opportunity allows people to zoom in and call in and give their feedback. There's a predictability to Mondays for people. They know it's a council meeting night. They know the time of the council meeting. People can write us ahead of time for sure. We take public comment through written emails and those can be sent anytime and included in the backup so the community can actually see people's input if they can't do it in real time. So I like, I will vote in support of this this evening because again, I think there's a predictability. There's been notice. There will be further notice so that we can make people aware that we'll be having this hearing. For me to set a date on a Saturday feels like that would be very confusing to people. So I'm inclined to stick with our precedent here. We've usually gotten quite a good turnout and I expect we will again. Okey-doke, I think we're ready to go ahead and vote on order 145. Councilor Fornir. Yes. Councilor Rodriguez. Yes. Councilor Dionne. Yes. Councilor Ali. Yes. Councilor Zauro. Yes. Councilor Trafaro. Yes. Councilor Pelletier. Yes. Councilor Phillips. Yes. Yes. Thank you. That passes unanimously. Read order 146. Order 146, 22, 23, approving the purchase and sale agreement between 144 4th Street, LLC and Portland regarding Tam Street property sponsored by the Housing and Economic Development Committee. Councilor Pius, Ali chair. Thank you so much. And coming out of the HEDC committee, we've got Councilor Ali here with us this evening. If you'd like to provide some context, Councilor Ali, we'd be happy to hear from you. Thank you, Mayo. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. I think, I don't know if Mary Davis is with us today. I do see her with us on Zoom, yes. So Mary will speak to this. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Mayor, if I may, I'd also mentioned to Mary earlier that I'm happy to jump in with a brief introduction and then people have questions. Mary is here as well. Okay, wonderful. So if you're ready to do that, we'll be happy to hear from you. Sure. This is a, and Mary, feel free to jump in at any time if you feel like cut you short there. This is a purchase and sale agreement for remaining city-owned property down on Tam Street. It's been in the works for quite a while, but we finally have a final purchase and sale agreement that's been approved by the Housing and Economic Development Committee at its last meeting unanimously. And the long and short of it is, this is, it's a parcel currently owned by the city. The last remaining lot, it's a surface parking lot right now operated by the city. It, the city issued a request for proposals to purchase and develop the lot back in 2021. We received one proposal from 144 4th Street, OZ, LLC. A copy of the request for proposals and the proposal are included in the backup materials. The sale of the property would bring $1.15 million to the city, including cash contribution for public restrooms, some additional parking spaces, five additional parking spaces under an agreement that we already have with an affiliate of the purchaser. It would also, the purchaser would also, convey to the city, Freedom Way, which is the block of a land that's currently a private street connecting Thames Street to 4th Street. And we'll also be being granted two substantial pedestrian and public pedestrian utility easements that run east west and north south between Hancock and the connector road and between 4th Street and Thames Street. The, what else can I tell you? I think that sums up the big picture items, but I'm happy to take questions. And Mary, if you think I've missed something important, oh, I would go through just the various values that are addressed in the memorandum that was included in the backup, just specifically that the property sale price, $1.1 million, the value of the connector road that's gonna be conveyed to the city is at $1.2 million. Cash contribution of $30,000 is included in the purchase price to help cover cost of a connector road sidewalk. As I mentioned earlier, $50,000 for a public restroom, the easements that I mentioned earlier, which are valued at 300,000 or over 300,000. And then the five additional parking spaces for four years valued at 43,000. So it's total value of the city of 2.69 million. I think that about sums it up. And I'm happy to take questions or defer to Mary. Okay, Mary, would you like to add anything else at this time? The only thing I would point out is in the attachment in the backup, the purchase and sale attachment, page 25 and page 32 have diagrams that show the parcel that is being sold. Okay, thank you for that reference. So what we'll do is we will take public comment on this item and I'll come back to the council for some discussion. So is there anybody in council chambers would like to address the council on order 146? Okay, I don't see any. I'm looking for hands on Zoom. If anybody would like to provide public comment on 146, go ahead, George. George Rowe. George Rowe, West Bayside. So a couple of quick questions just about the materials in front of you. When is the likely estimate of when this public bathroom will be open and operational for the public? Just kind of curious about that. I'm also wondering there was some attention paid to trying to preserve a once thought important corridor basically a ghost paper street bringing Montfort Street down all the way to Thames Street. And my question there is if I am a disabled person, either in a wheelchair or just otherwise, not able-bodied enough to negotiate stairs, how do I make available or make use of that pedestrian corridor slash easement? I know it's kind of hard to describe exactly what's going on there. How does that benefit me as not somebody who can negotiate stairs? I also just wanted to besides the couple of those questions, I wanted to just ask about the values are a little bit strange and I don't see an appraisal in the packet. So I don't know if that was included at any point along the way. It's weird sometimes public transactions have appraisals that are public and sometimes they kind of keep them under wraps, but property has skyrocketed since this transaction initially I think was proposed and kind of conceived in the RFP. You can go all over the place on the peninsula and see some crazy numbers. I know like Barbara Vestel and Ned Chester who hated to see anything happen in the Eastern Waterfront, like they just sold a building on 22 O'Brien Street for like 1.3 million back, a while back, like a year ago or so. And that was like a little parking lot and like a six unit like triple decker. And that went for 1.3 million. This is a much, much bigger piece of land. And we're saying that it only would have been $3 million for this choice property. It just seems a little bit strange. And I also just wanted to know that, I just wish that these transactions are difficult, but the city knows how to sell land and ask for a lot of conditions when it wants to. And it doesn't seem to wanna do that on any public open space land in other parts of the city. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Any additional public comment on order 146? Seeing none, I will close public comment on order 146. And I'm gonna come back to the council and ask for a motion, please. So moved. I can. Councilor Ali with a second from Councilor Rodriguez. Okay, I wanna open it up for council discussion. Councilor Zaro. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have a few questions, public comment alluded to one of them already. I remember when this came before HEDC when I was on it last year. And I had a few questions then that I'm gonna reiterate now. I think I'll start with the most recent one though that Mr. Rowe asked, but we did sell in a budding piece of land in 2017. It was a 1.1 acres for I think $3.3 million. And now it's what six years later. And this is just shy of an acre. Thank you, Corporation Council for explaining kind of the larger package of the sale that got us closer to that 2.699. But I didn't see an appraisal either. And in this market that is very competitive. I'm curious if we can get a little bit closer to how we landed at this number because it does feel low, quite frankly. Thank you. Yeah, I would defer to Mary. Mary, I don't know if you've got a, if you have that information. Yes, I'm just pulling up some information now. There was an appraisal that was done in April of 2021 on the property. And it has a value range of between $3.9 and $4.1 million. And I think the value of the property and the contributions that the developers proposed and agreed to make to public access. That was part of the consideration in the total value to the city and reflected in that purchase price of the property. Thank you, Mary. So that would assign that value at around $1.5 million, the difference for looking at the 2.699. I'm curious, I remember talking about this last year to a point, but why isn't there a housing component on this parcel? Mary, I'm gonna, I know that was, I imagine that was covered in committee work. So I'm gonna first look to you. Yeah, I would really have to go back and take a look at it because at the time this was not a project that I was working on and my memory isn't serving me well tonight for that issue. I know the area around there is in that essential area where we're talking about has a lot of commercial buildings around it, but I would need to go back in and look at the committee work to know specifically why housing wasn't included there. Thank you. Yeah, I think that would be for me pretty helpful. I know right across the street, there is housing and I know in the 2015 master plan that may not have been present. My last question, and then I'll take a break and let my colleagues dive in, is this the last remaining parcel of this size on the waterfront? And I'll let whoever wants it to take that question. I knew you'd looked at me, Mayor. I don't know that I could say with any certainty if that's true or not. It's the last city-owned property that's owned down in that area, but I don't know if it's the largest available one. Thank you for clarifying, that was my, I meant city-owned, so thank you for clarifying that for me. Thank you, those are my only questions for now. Councilor Zahary, you've got me thinking so I'm gonna jump in with a question. I know that this issue has straddled various council years and even leadership and staff with regard to economic development.  I'm wondering, Mary, if there's an opportunity to look deeply into the issue of housing on this parcel, if more time would help in that realm? I can quickly find it, but probably not for the meeting tonight. So I know that we've been working on this for quite some time and the developer is anxious to move it forward, but I don't know that if we had a short delay just to gather that information, if that would be a problem, I don't see why it would be. Michael can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that would be okay. I would, just in response to your questions, Mayor and the councillor Zara's questions about housing, I will say that this was the only proposal that the city received and the proposal was for a, for a multi-tenant commercial office building. There hasn't been any proposal from anyone as far as I know. Certainly we didn't receive one that included housing. It was always just a commercial building and that was the proposal that the committee had encouraged the city to move forward with in terms of negotiating the purchase sale agreement. Thank you. That's helpful information. This is in response to an RFP councillor, Diane. I have a couple of questions. Corporation council, how much time have you spent negotiating this purchase and sale agreement? Sometimes one of the benefits of working for the city is not having to keep track of billable hours, but a lot. It's been, there have been some delays on both sides in terms of this sort of lying dormant for a couple of weeks here and there, but it has been, it would really be hard for me to estimate it, but it's a complex process with multiple easements and multiple sort of side agreements and it's taken a long time. I wasn't looking for the hours. I really wasn't. I'm just saying how many weeks has this been going on? It's been going on for probably, I mean, are the negotiations have been going on for over a year. Okay. And how long did it lay on the table on committee before it came out? I would say it was several months. I just want to make an observation, mayor. I mean, I think we have a responsibility to the business community or any party that looks to engage in a business transaction with city to have some predictability and consistency. You know, this issue has been present before the committee. It's been worked on by corporation council. We knew about that at the last meeting. I just, I will vote against any delay. I think the other parties entitled to see the deal resolve in the good faith that it was negotiated by corporation council. Thank you. Thank you, councilor Diane. I agree. I think that it's been in front of this group for a while. We've had, we have a unanimous vote for zero from committee, but I also really respect the questions from my colleagues with regard to options and, you know, all of the factors that we want to think about. And I did want to acknowledge the change and the transitions that have happened. When issues take a while as this one has, we straddle council years and committees and that kind of thing. So I appreciate the comments and the questions and the conversation. Is there any other councilor who would like to weigh in or ask a question at this point in time? Councilor Fornier. Thank you. It's a pretty robust packet. And I remember vaguely when this came up in AGDC. So what I was trying to find and to councilor Zaro's point is kind of the difference between the value of what this is and what we're getting in exchange for the monies that are being paid. And that isn't clear to me, I guess, in the purchase and sale agreement. Just that seems to be a pretty big discount for some parking spaces and maybe a potential right away. And maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but I feel like I want to make sure we're not giving the store away for a deal just because it's taken a little bit longer of a time. And so I don't know if Mary or corporation council have that within this purchase and sale agreement that kind of outlines those different prices. I've looked through this a number of times and I haven't seen that clearly outlined. So also to the public's point where they charge us with making sure we understand what we're agreeing to, I just want to make sure that that's outlined. Thank you. So I think that question would be directed to Mary. Is there a specific outline in the purchase and sale? We do have that summary that was provided in the memorandum that corporation council outlined, but any additional information, Mary, that you'd want to share? Um, the, um, I want to first go back to the original RFP. And there were some specific requirements that were included in that RFP for any proposals that came in. And the, um, the issues around parking, the connector roads, um, the public rights of way, those were all key goals within the RFP. So that could, that could have been accomplished in a couple of different ways. The city could have just sold the property and use the proceeds of the sale to make those investments. That might have impacted what type of development could have been done in those areas or as what happened with the proposal that's in front of you, we looked at what were the city goals and priorities for this property? How best could we meet those goals and negotiated with the developer to come to an agreement to the point of how long have we been talking about this? It's been months worth of work that encompasses several departments. And so we've had input from public works and planning all around what would these rights of way and road work look like? How could we get the best possible benefit for the city? And so with that in mind, I'm switching back over to the purchase and sale. And I don't know that those specific numbers and that transaction is written into the purchase and sale in any one particular place or an easy place to point to but the attachments to the purchase and sale outline the work that is the responsibility of the developer where that work is located. And they are taking on the cost or bearing the cost to do that work. So unless Michael can correct me, I don't think there's any one place where we can point to those exact dollar numbers being referenced in the purchase and sale agreement but the work associated with it is referenced in the attachments to the purchase and sale. Thank you very much, Mary. Councillor Fornears, are you all set with that? Yep, go ahead. Just one other question based on their RFP that they submitted. I know, I think it was in 2021 when that came in and the estimated taxes were 170,000. I just wanted to know, is that consistent now or is that changed at all? I don't have the answer to that. We did not update that number. Thank you. The assessed value of the property. Councillor Zarro. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Why did I turn that off? I appreciate the questions following up. I just want to be clear that I am certainly not advocating for a postponement on this at all. I agree that, you know, this is a process and continuity is important for both, you know, business community and residents of Portland. For me, and I want to be careful because I cannot remember when I was on a GDC last session if this conversation was in public or an executive session. So I won't go into details, but I will say that I recall advocating for a housing component on this, even though it was outside of the context of the master plan for the waterfront because lots changed since 2015 to 2020, then 2022. And it feels incongruent. I mean, we have massive vacant office spaces and a housing shortage. And I just think about our council goals and I think about what we keep saying we need to do. So I don't think this is a bad deal in that it came up from where it was. I think it was at $840,000 last year. So there have been some concessions. I really do appreciate city staff for working on it. I get it. I know how much you put into it. That's certainly not my issue. My issue is, and this, it might just be me. I might be the only one. I'm fine with that. I just don't feel comfortable saying that we're checking the boxes of going after our council goals this year specific to housing and being okay with more commercial office space. It's nothing personal. It's just the situation that I think we're in right now. I know we can't force people to build housing on lots that we sell them. We can certainly incentivize it. So I just wanted to be clear. I'm not trying to postpone anything. I think tonight we do have an obligation to our community to vote on this. But I think that it's a missed opportunity, even though I understand the waterfront has been developed in a very specific lens and a lot of work did go into it. This for me, isn't it? So if I could have my way, we would keep working and find someone who does wanna build housing here or a combination of housing and office space and figure out parking and easements and infrastructure with the abutting road. And I understand that is a tall request, but these are difficult decisions that we have to be making. So I just wanted to clarify it for the record. That's where I'm coming from. Thank you. Thank you, counselor. So I'll jump in with a question. We are looking within the package we've got before us tonight at a net revenue of about 1.15 million from the deal. And I'm gonna turn to either corporation council or the city manager, I think, to talk us through the council's role in having a say about that revenue. Is there an opportunity for this council to contemplate investment in, for example, our housing trust fund as it relates to revenues that we see coming in from this deal? I think the next step after this, if you were to approve this deal tonight would be an order that would appropriate those funds. And so that order would direct those funds to specific areas. Obviously staff would provide you with a recommendation that we would propose that you consider, but you guys have the ability, I believe, to appropriate those funds to the place that you think they would be best used. Thank you, that's helpful. Corporation council. Thank you. Just one, I wanted to just draw the council's attention to one other point that I don't know if it's clear. I think it's in the materials, but I know there's a lot of materials there, which is that the, I know that the acceptance of the connector road as a city street is an important piece of the plan for that area. And I just wanna make sure that it's clear to everybody that the developer currently owns the section of that between the property that we own and four street. And so as the council considers whether or not to approve this, I think it's important just to keep that in the balance that in order to get titled to that, to the property that would make that connection, we'd need to move forward with this agreement. Okay, thank you for that clarification. I see a hand up on Zoom from councilor Ali. Thank you, Mayor, actually that was the question I was going to ask what was the city manager or corporation council, so corporation council have answered that about that connector road in between because I know this thing has been, I think I've been the longest person on this specific committee and deal with this back and forth and a couple of executive session on this item. So the question that I was going to ask is already been answered by corporation council, which is that connector road. I am aware of that. Okay, thank you, Councillor Ali. Next I go to Councillor Dyon. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just wanted to return to council Zaro's commentary. I appreciate his effort to reframe his position in doing so. I don't disagree with anything you've had to say. I think housing is a priority. My concern, and you use the word consistency and I think that's important is it's incumbent on us to make decisions as to the timing of such a request for housing. I think if it's front loaded at the RFP juncture that makes sense, then our potential partner is no going in. If I want a commercial tower, 35% of it has to be residential. I have no problem with that. I stand with you. I think in the future, there would be an appropriate posture for this council and it's committees to take in evaluating a development proposal, that makes sense. I always am reluctant to approve add-ons for lack of a better term this evening to anticipated projects and what they're going to look like and what we're negotiating for in trying to settle that transaction. That's all. 11th hour, I tend to want to reject those instinctively. But moving forward, as I said, I'm in concert with you in terms of we've got to be a little bit more intentional and affirmative about securing housing space in any development that moves forward in the city. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you, counselor. Counselor Zaro. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'm going to stop standing because I'm just getting my work out in. Counselor Dianne, you and I agree. I think we are aligned on this. The one thing I will add though is I did ask for the RFP to include housing when I was on AGDC. It was very clear about it. It wasn't comfortable with this then. And so that has remained consistent. I'm still in comfortable with it because I asked for it. I understand we only received one response. And that's just what it is. But I just want to be clear about that as well. One last question. The bathroom, 50,000 allocation for the public restroom, that leads me to believe that we are responsible for the maintenance of that. Can we just get clarification on that? That would be correct. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, everybody. I appreciate the conversation I'm looking on Zoom to see if Counselor Ali has a hand up, not at this point. Always good to have this conversation, I think, and share things across the dais. So I appreciate the dialogue this evening. I think we are ready to go ahead and vote to approve order 146. Counselor Fornir. Yes, Counselor Rodriguez. Yes. Counselor Dianne. Yes. Yes. Counselor Zaro. No. Counselor Gervaro. Yes. Counselor Pelletier. Yes. Counsel Phillips. Yes. Mayor Snyder. Yes. Order 146 passes eight to one. Thank you, everybody. The last items on our agenda this evening are first reads. So I'm going to ask the clerk to please read the following items, which are again first reads order 147, 48 and 49. Order 147, 22, 23, authorizing general obligation bonds to finance a portion of the city's fiscal year 2024 capital improvement program, an amount not to exceed 17,455,000 sponsored by the finance committee. Order 148, 22, 23, appropriating bond proceeds and other funds in the amount not to exceed 24,530,000 for the city's fiscal year 2024 capital improvement program sponsored by the finance committee and order 149, 22, 23 amendment to zoning map regarding IM-B industrial moderate impact on industrial way sponsored by the planning board. Thank you. So these items will be on our next meeting agenda. So our next regular meeting of the council is Monday, March 20th. So we'll see those and take action on those in a couple of weeks. Between now and then we do have two workshops scheduled for the 13th. And so of course we invite the public to watch and engage in those workshops with us. One is having to do with the budget. The other is having to do with clean elections. So we'll see one another in chambers next week on Monday. We'll see each other the following Monday. We'll see each other the following Monday. But for now I'm looking for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Councilor Ali, a second from Councilor Rodriguez. Councilor Fornir. Yes. Councilor Bradford, yes. Yes. Councilor Dion. Yes. Councilor Ali. Yes. Councilor Zahrao. Yes. Councilor Gervaro. Yes. Councilor Palatier. Yes. Councilor Phillips. Yes. Mayor Snider. Yes. Thank you everybody. We are adjourned.