I don't know how many more times she can go taxing on everybody. How many more times she can what? She can go to Houston. It was really tight. She's disoriented. She's not quite sure. The difference around them. How are you? My name is, oh there it is. I think these must be new. I thought they used to be in the bottom. Let's hope they work. Yeah, you may recall we were having some fun. I saw some fun areas. Okay. It was a very nice piece you put up. You sent us about the obituary from the paper in Linsbury. Yeah, it was amazing. I was up there today. Really? It was amazing. I had two minutes. Amazing. Not so far. Good evening. I'd like to call the Durham City Council meeting to order. Monday, October 2nd. I certainly want to welcome all of you that are here for us this evening. Since I've been mayor, I've spent a practice that we open our meetings with a moment of solid meditation. And it's not for the purpose necessary for anyone to pray or do whatever. It's just an opportunity to take a few moments to reflect before we get out of business. And I was telling the manager this evening, I was up in the office before I came down. Just looking at the news. We've had so many tragedies over the last few weeks. Some natural with the hurricanes in Texas and Florida and Puerto Rico. Mexico with earthquakes. And then last night, the human caused tragedy that happened in Las Vegas. So I just would hope that you reflect however you choose. And we've also had one of our council members who's not here, Steve, who recently lost his mother's past few days. So if you could just take a moment to reflect or meditate, I would appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. I was talking about things that happened everywhere else. So we've had our share of the centers here in Durham also. But I haven't said that. When I was, comes from Davis, who lives in the Pledge. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You rise. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Mayor Bell. Present. Mayor Pro Tem Cole McFadden. Present. Council Member Davis. Here. Council Member Johnson. Here. Council Member Moffitt. Here. And Council Member Rees. Here. Council Member Shull has requested an excuse absence. So moved. Second. It's been a proper move. Second. Madam Clerk, will you open the vote? Close the vote. It passes 6-0. Thank you. We have several proclamations this evening, but I want to start it off with a happy note. We talk about things that are happening and around the world and in our state and in our city. Well, let's talk about good things happening in Durham.  And I invited George, George, George, George and my government, whoever else you want to bring them to come to our meeting this evening to show off and maybe tell us a few things about what the Durham Bulls have accomplished. When I was talking to Michael and to the manager, I said we ought to have a tic-a-tac parade, but these guys get in and get out so fast. It's sort of hard to coordinate that. But I didn't want this to go unnoticed because obviously Durham Bulls mean an awful lot to us in the city of Durham as they do around the region, around the state. So George, if you don't mind if you could come and just share with us the good deeds that the club has accomplished. Because we all know about him. I call it George because he's the man that does all the stuff. He brought Michael along to support him. Well, yeah, I brought the boss along, which I thought was a smart move. So thank you. We have two trophies because first we won the International League Governors Cup, which is the more impressive trophy. Back there in the corner by the door. The original version of the Governors Cup is in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. So we get to keep a replica of it for one year. And well, maybe we'll get to keep it. We'll win again. And then the smaller trophy is the national championship trophy. So we won both of these just by happenstance in playing in Scranton, Pennsylvania. I spent a week in Scranton and not to crack too badly on Scranton, but I came home really thankful for Durham. So I'll stop. I'll control myself. So that's an outstanding shot of the trophies over there. We should have had a parade dog on it, but this has happened to us five times now. As you know, all but one or two of the players, well, they don't live here with the exception of a couple. So as soon as the season's over, they go home. So we'll try to do something later in the fall, some sort of celebration. But we are proud to haul all of that hardware back to Durham and get that attention for the Bulls City. Thank you. Thank you. Did the mayor get? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, George. George, can I get some steels? Thank you. Don't forget steels. Definitely. We'll get it to the next, George. I have to take the mic from George. I want to say how proud we are to have the Bulls in Durham. I mean that. One very unique trait about the Durham Bulls that you might not recognize unless you experience the minor league culture in other cities is that this team is beloved in Durham. You can't go anywhere without seeing Durham Bulls gear, Durham Bulls hat, Durham Bulls this, Durham Bulls that, Durham Bulls license plates. And that's something that we're really proud of and frankly something we're really grateful for because it's a very unique trait in minor league baseball. You know, we're family entertainment, we're community proud, but we're also people proud of the team and proud of winning national championships and proud of what we do.  So we're really proud of that. We're thankful for that. We're going to win it again next year or else everyone's fired. That's it. Thank you. Thanks for coming. I should have recognized Mrs. Abel. Every time I go to the ballpark, she's always there and probably is really the force behind what George is able to do. So, well, thank you for being here. Okay, we have National Disability Employment Awareness Month. I like the representation parks and recreation. The proclamation reads, whereas workplaces welcoming of the talents of all people, including people with disabilities are critical part of our efforts to build an inclusive community and strong economy. Whereas in this spirit, the city of Durham, North Carolina is recognizing National Disability Employment Awareness Month. This October to raise awareness about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of people with disabilities. Whereas activities such as disabled, the label and annual program celebrating employer, employers who regularly hire persons with disabilities, we reinforce the value and talent people with disabilities add to our workplace and communities in the firm, Durham, Durham, North Carolina. It's commitment to an inclusive community. Now, therefore, we will be building the city of Durham, North Carolina. Hereby proclaim October 2017 as National Disability Employment Awareness Month in Durham. Hereby urge employers, schools and other community organizations in Durham, North Carolina, to observe this month with appropriate programs and activities to advance this important message that people with disabilities are equal to the task. This is my hand in the corporate city of Durham, North Carolina. This is the second day of October 2017. We want to present this to you and you can make remarks to present on the center here. Thank you. Alright. Our departmental mission is to play more, connecting our whole community to wellness, the outdoors and lifelong learning. While working on this mission statement in 2016, the word whole was an intentional addition by staff to show our commitment to be inclusive of all of our community members. Our continued work with the EOEA and the Mayor's Committee for Persons with Disabilities are two examples of partners both here in Durham and in North Carolina. Thank you Mayor Beall and City Council for this proclamation as well as your support of Disability Awareness Month. In keeping with the proclamation, I invite you and our whole community to disable the label hosted by DPR at Northgate Mall on Saturday, October 14th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thank you. Next I'd like to ask Mr. Cheryl Thomas, community outreach coordinator for the Durham Crisis Response Center. The proclamation speaks to the fact that we care about the safety, security, physical and emotional well-being of our neighbors. We recognize that domestic violence has many faces and we believe all individuals have the right to live their lives free of violence and fear. And whereas domestic violence is a serious, preventable, public health concern involving physical, sexual, psychological, or emotionally aggressive behavior, this is part of a systematic pattern of power and control of one person over another. According to the National Intermittent Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, one in three women and one in four men report experiencing violence by an intimate partner in their lifetimes. And whereas we believe that everyone deserves their life free of violence, whereas we recognize that intimate partner violence has significance and long-term consequences for survivors, families, and community health outcomes, including the effects of trauma, depression, traumatic brain injury, and other chronic conditions on productivity and well-being. Whereas in 2017, while Durham Crisis Response Center provided an emergency shelter to 147 women and children, fleeing domestic violence for lack of space, DCRC directed 90 individuals to other shelters, illustrating the urgency to expand shelter services in our community, and DCRC answered more than 3400 calls on the 24-hour English and Spanish Crisis Lines, in addition to providing crisis intervention, counseling, court advocacy, and other services, still 1500 victim survivors with more than 14,000 volunteer hours supporting our mission. Whereas ending domestic violence starts with education and awareness, changing gender and violence social norms, immobilizing our communities, including men and boys in our faith institutions, we urge our educators and agencies working with you to teach, respect, consent, and healthy relationship. We encourage local government, health professionals, law enforcement, faith communities, and civic organizations to collaborate on creating a supportive and inclusive environment for survivors of domestic violence in Durham. We strongly can't commit to a deliberate effort to ensure that every individual can access appropriate and affirming resources to address and end violence in our communities. Now, therefore, I will be billed by all mayor of the city of Durham, North Carolina. Do you ever proclaim the month of October 2017 as domestic violence awareness months in Durham? Do you ever urge all residents to recognize the many faces of domestic violence by increasing awareness, taking actions to change the cultures, and working together to end the violence? And witness my hand and call to the city of Durham, this is the second day of October 2017, and I will present this to you for the comments you might have. Thank you so much. Thank you Mayor Bell and city council members, staff, and my colleagues that are here with me today. I'd like to say again, thank you Mayor Bell for all that you have done for us and with us all these many years that you've been here as mayor. We will miss you. But I'd like to bring your attention to one item that Mayor Bell did speak about, and it was about those that were turned away from our shelter. We are now in a crisis mode in that we are turning people away, and that is unacceptable in this county. We're asking the community and our elected officials to join with us to try to help us to locate and to eradicate that situation within our system. We would like to also say that we've come a long way. This year we've only experienced one death here in Durham County, one death is unacceptable as well. But we had one death and her name was Katrina Wright, and we have had over 54 deaths in the state. So I think that we have come a long way and we still have a long way to go. And I think it's because of all the comprehensive services that we offer at Durham Crisis Response Center that that number is at that low point. And I want to thank all of the community members that have helped us to achieve what we have all these years. And I appreciate what you've done and thank you Mayor Bell for your attention to detail as you help us to do what we have to do. I want to say that my executive director, Aurelia Sands-Bell, is here with me and our board chair, Eric Moyes, with me here today. And we all thank you for what you've done and what you will continue to do in the future to help us. Next we have some other happy things to celebrate. National Arts and Humanities. Senator Woodett and Sherry DeRise, the executive director of Durham Arts Council, if you would join me. Whereas the arts and humanities enhance and enrich the lives of all Americans. Whereas arts and humanities affect every aspect of life in America today, including the economy, social problem, solving job creation, education, creativity and community livability. Whereas cities and states through their local and state arts agencies and representing thousands of cultural organizations have celebrated the value and importance of that culture in the lives of Americans and the health of thriving communities during National Arts and Humanities Month for several years. Whereas the United States Conference of the Mayor has actively participated in National Arts and Humanities Month since 1984. Whereas the United States Conference of the Mayor's National Arts partner, Americans for the Arts, will again coordinate this year's National Awareness Campaign of Activities for National Arts and Humanities Month. Whereas the nation's 95,000 non-profit art organizations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the nation's 5,000 local art agencies, the Arts and Humanities Councils of the 50 states, and the 6 U.S. jurisdictions and the President of the United States have participated again this year in this national celebration. Now therefore, I will indeed be able to be able to meet with the State of Durham, North Carolina, to hear by proclaiming National Arts and Humanities Month in Durham and hear by words all citizens to take special notice of the servants and witness my hand, Corporal Silver City of Durham, the second day of October, and present this to Sherry, and you can have your Board Chairman and Senator Mike Wooden come up behind you. Thank you, Mayor Bell. And thank you, Council Members and City Manager Bonfield. I'm Sherry DeVries, Executive Director of the Durham Arts Council, and I would like to encourage everyone here tonight and everyone in Durham to celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month. October is National Arts and Humanities Month, a coast-to-coast collective recognition of the importance of culture in America. This was launched by Americans for the Arts 30 years ago and focuses on the arts at the local, state, and national levels. Encourages individuals and organizations to participate in the arts and allows governments and businesses to show their support of the arts and raises public awareness about the role of the arts and humanities in our communities and lives. And we want to thank Durham, the City of Durham, for your tremendous support of arts and culture for many years, and thank you, Mayor Bell, for your great support of arts and culture. Ways that individuals can celebrate the arts this month participate and show your art, a social media campaign for people and communities across the country, using posting your Instagram photos and videos to hashtag showyourart2017, and those will be featured nationally in the month-long celebration. The most important thing is to enjoy and participate in the arts and cultural events. Grab a friend, go to a museum, a play, a festival, an outdoor concert, have kids, make it a family outing, try something new, take a creative class in writing, dance, painting, or whatever strikes your fancy. Enjoy the arts with people you love. Sing, play music, read a book, dance, or draw together. Write to your members of Congress letting him or her know how important arts and arts education funding is to you, your family, and your community. Here in Durham, North Carolina, 69 arts and cultural organizations just the month of October are providing over 630 arts and humanities events this month for the public to enjoy. From the Durham Arts Council to Scrap Exchange, the NCCU Art Museum, Durham Library, Duke Performances, the National Museum of Art, the Carolina Theater, St. Joseph's H.I. Heritage Center, and many more. There's so much to enjoy in the arts and culture in Durham. So we invite you to celebrate with us. Thank you.  On Saturday I parked on the Parrish Street lot and as I walked up Church Street to get to Maine I saw a couple coming out of the Church Street deck. And I could tell, as we say down home, they weren't from round here.  They were dressed in all black, long sleeves, black coats. And they looked a little lost when they came out of the deck. So I said, are y'all looking for center-fest? And I guessed correctly. And I said, well, I'm headed that way. So as we walked along Maine Street to get to the festival site, I learned that they had just moved to North Raleigh from Brooklyn. They'd been here about six months. Well, they decided to come to center-fest. So I got them to the site. A couple hours later they came through the gate where I was volunteering. And I asked them if they had a great time. And they said, yes, indeed, they really had. They loved Durham. And they really enjoyed the arts that they got to experience here in Durham. And the wife leaned over and said, and as soon as our lease is up we're coming to Durham. I share that with you just to remind all of us how much the arts and culture in this community is a magnet for people all around the region. And we could not do center-fest without the support of the City of Durham. So when we come each year, this is a great opportunity for us to once again thank the City of Durham for all your support of the Durham Arts Council of all of our arts and culture and specifically center-fest. We didn't set an attendance record this year. We came just a few hundred shy of our attendance record from a couple years ago. But we did have a record number of artists this year, including for the first time our rising stars, 10 artists from Durham who were featured in a special part of the festival site. We continued our programming on Saturday night with two bands down at CCB Plaza. And if you missed Cool John Ferguson, you missed a great time. The Plaza was covered up during Cool John's performance. We couldn't do those things without your support from the administration right on down through all the departments and of course the council. We couldn't do it without the support we have from the police department keeping the site protected and safe from Friday night on through Sunday night 24 hours. Solid waste making sure that our streets are cleaned up Sunday night and Monday morning from transportation for assisting us with blocking the streets, providing parking amenities. So throughout the city many departments are assisting us. So thank you again, Mr. Mayor, members of council and administration for your support of CenterFest. We look forward to our 45th next year, 44th next year CenterFest. Thank you all very much. Let's recognition the proclamation says imagine a day without water. We have some people behind us that want to emphasize this. You know, it's sort of ironic that we have this and just earlier we were talking about the tragedies that happened in Florida and Texas where, Puerto Rico where people without water for so many days and weeks. But anyway, whereas water is our most valuable natural resource and one that is absolutely vital to the quality of life for all citizens of the city of Durham and Durham County, whereas Durham's water customers use nearly 27 million gallons of fresh, high quality water every day. Whereas dedicated city employees work every day to ensure delivery of this valuable commodity. But careful management of the water supplies, vigilant operation of the treatment facilities and attentive maintenance of the distribution systems. Whereas the critical infrastructure and investment needed to deliver this precious resource are too often overlooked, misunderstood and unappreciated. And whereas changes in our climate due to extreme weather events are likely to place additional strains and pressures on our water supplies. Whereas investing in our drinking wastewater systems now will ensure a healthy and prosperous Durham community for many generations to come. And therefore, William and Bill Bell, mayor of the city of Durham, North Carolina do have our proclaim the 12th of October 2017 as they imagine a day without water in Durham. And hereby urge all citizens to take special note of this observance, recognizing that water is essential to our quality of life and economic competitiveness and call on all citizens to consider the value of water for each individual, community and economy of our city. And hopefully we'll never have to live a day without water. I further challenge our citizens to learn how to protect our waters from pollution, practice water efficiency and conservation and our daily lives, support efforts for improved water and sewer infrastructures and become informed, witnessed and involved in the local water issues. And again, with my hand called the City of Durham, this is the second day of October 2017. I'm going to present this to Don Greeley, our director of water and sewer resources and you're going to hand this out. Good for him. Thank you, Mayor Bell and members of the City Council. And bringing this item forward, we realize that this would be the last special proclamation that Mayor Bell made on behalf of water management. So we'd like to thank him for all of his support over the years for our many celebrations, proclamations and activities. Thank you, Mayor Bell. Wayndrop and I are honored to accept this proclamation on the behalf of more than 300 employees of the City's Department of Water Management, who provide water and wastewater services to over 270,000 customers. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Our department's goal is to ensure that each and every time our customers turn on their taps, clean, safe drinking water flows out. When we imagine a day without water, many of us think about our morning shower or a cup of coffee or not being able to flush our toilets. Or have a day without water would be much more grim and frightening. Durham's firefighters would have no way to tackle blazes. Our City's hospitals and healthcare facilities would not treat their patients. Local schools would close and businesses would grind to a halt and the list goes on. The devastation in the wake of the recent hurricanes also highlights the importance of drinking water plays in public health and safety. To encourage more people to imagine a day without water and to think about what it really means, we ask that on October 12th, Durham residents to pledge to give up just one item or action that relies on water. We have a special contest going on right now with some great giveaways. Durham residents can take the pledge online at www.durhamsaveswater.org and enter to win one of five water efficiency prize packs. Or our grand prize, a brand new rain barrel. We are also promoting this contest on Water Management's Facebook and Twitter pages. By the way, you might have noticed that some of Wayne Drop's friends who are part of our water efficiency and conservation staff are not here tonight. They are out of town at a National Water Smart Innovations Conference and rumor has it they may be collecting some hardware of their own to bring back to Durham. We will keep you posted. Lastly, we'd like to thank everyone to remember that water is essential to keeping Durham a great place to live, work, and play. Can you imagine a day without it? Thanks again for your ongoing support of our efforts. Thank you. I recognize the city management. I wouldn't ask the city council also. We have any comments? Yes, if you'll indulge me for just a moment. Oftentimes, one or two of our governing bodies, the school board, the board of county commissioners, the city council, we often overlap sometimes. And this is one of those occasions on Wednesday, October 4th, is International Walk to School Day. It's a global event that involves communities from more than 40 countries around the world walking and biking the school on the same day. It began in 1997 and over the past 20 years, it's gone from one-day event to long-term effort to create places where children have more opportunities for physical activities. And everyone feels a little more connected. Today, thousands of schools across America, from all 50 states in the District of Columbia, participate every October. This year, Lakewood Elementary in Durham, our very own Lakewood Elementary, our Lakewood Elementary, will serve as North Carolina's official media event for Walk to School Day. That's the state. It's serving as the center for the state. The school expects 200 students, parents, and community members to participate. And it ties in because the city of Durham is committed to making streets safer for everyone, including students, to walk and bike. Benefits of walking and biking include good exercise and physical activity. It helps children build strong bones, muscles, joints, and decreases the risk of obesity. And active kids are more likely to become active adults. Less traffic congestion and reduced emissions are part of the environmental benefits. It ties to the City of Durham's Vision Zero Durham Initiative, which you all might recall that our Transportation Department is heading up. It's to make the streets safer for all of us, including students on bikes and on foot. Vision Zero Durham aims to eliminate deaths and severe injuries on Durham roadways, down to zero. By implementing the 5E Strategy, Engineering, Education, Enforcement, Evaluation, and Encouragement, the city is continuing to invest in bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure in order to diversify the transportation options that people have. We have 44.3 miles of bike lanes currently, and we're adding 8.9 miles this coming year. We have more than 20 bicycle and pedestrian projects currently in design, and will certainly soon be constructed, adding more than $20 million of federal and local funding. Additionally, 15 million has been allocated to construction of sidewalks, identified in the recently adopted Durham Bike Walk Implementation Plan. So the other thing I want to tell you about is that our very own Transportation Department is working with Durham schools to teach traffic safety. So on September 13th, members of the department visited Lakewood Elementary School and taught a traffic safety lesson to the entire kindergarten class. At the end of the lesson, our director, Terry Bellamy, led all the students in a game of red light, green light. So the Transportation Department continues to work with Durham Public Schools to make traffic safety accessible to all students. And last I want to say is that city is doing its part, but each of us individually have our own role to play in making Durham safer for people on bikes and people on foot. Don't drive distracted, and whatever you do, don't text when you're behind the wheel. Thank you. Thank you, Don. Thank you, Councilor Maurice. Thank you. First of all, thank Councilmember Moffitt for reminding us that we all have a part to play in making our schools safe places for our kids. So I think often we tend to think, oh, that's just somebody else's problem, because we're the city council, but I appreciate you bringing that up. Also, Mr. Mayor, I wanted to apologize for horning in on your photo with Wayne Drop there. Wayne Drop is near and dear to my heart, and the heart wants what the heart wants. And so I had to go get that photo taken. I appreciate your patience. Speaking of the heart, Mr. Mayor, I hope you'll indulge me for just a minute or two. I had the opportunity to travel to Lynchburg, Virginia this morning and spend some time with our colleagues, Steve Shul. As you mentioned earlier, and as many of you may know, his mother passed away over the weekend. I also had the opportunity to attend her funeral today at their family synagogue, and I have to say it was one of the most emotional events I can remember attending in quite some time. I just wanted to share a little bit about Roselle Shul and her life. Some of you may know that Steve's father is a former state senator from Lynchburg. He served almost 20 years in the state legislature, representing that community. But as is often the case, it's really an open question whether or not an elected official or their life partner is the one that's contributed the most to the community. I think that'll be an open question for me and my wife as we go through our time in Durham. But with respect to Steve's mom, Roselle, she was a faculty member at Lynchburg College for almost 20 years, served on the board of trustees there for 36 years, including four years as the chair of the board of trustees. She founded the Lynchburg League of Women Voters. She served as the first president of their local synagogue where her service was held today. She served on a number of Blue Ribbon commissions dealing with education. And just several years ago, she founded Beacon for Hope, which is an organization somewhat similar to Made in Durham that works with high school kids to figure out kind of what their next step would be, whether it be apprenticeship, occupational counseling and training, and guidance counseling for moving on to college and college admissions and that sort of thing. That was sort of her passion project at the end of her life. And any of that, I thought it might be appropriate today as our colleague is not with us and is sitting Shiva right now tomorrow night for his mother with his family in Lynchburg that we just honor his mom's contribution to her community. And so I appreciate you giving me that time. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Well, thank you, y'all, and thanks for sharing that information with us. Steve said his mother was as rock and he's already spoken to that. Are there other comments recognized in their program? Among other things. Yesterday I had the honor of attending a pastoral installation service at Fisher Memorial United Holy Church. And the special thing about it is that the new pastor is an employee in our water management department. And his name is Elder James Blake. And I told Elder Blake that I could not tell him what to do since he's a sitting employee. But while I was in the church, I told him some things that he needs to do to help clean up the evil kinds of things or ill kinds of things from faithful and umpstead and South Roxburgh and he accepted that charge willingly. So I thought I'd better share with you that I did ask him to do that. In the church, not in city hall. I congratulate him for his work. Well, thanks again for sharing that information also. Other comments? Recognize Councilman Mark. Yes, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. I want to remind folks, I know everybody in the room is cognizant of this, but if anybody's watching, that may not be thinking about it, it is election season. We have a primary on October 10th, which is before our next council meeting. So I want to remind folks, the importance of voting will be electing three city council members and a mayor's seat, a majority of the council. And there are early voting sites open now and of course all the precincts will be open on October 10th. So there's no reason not to vote. Get out and vote and do our civic responsibilities. Thank you. Thank you. There are no further council remarks to recognize the city manager for our times. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, everyone. No priority items. Likewise, City Attorney. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. No priority items. Likewise, City Clerk. No items, Mr. Mayor. We will proceed with agenda first. Part of the consent agenda. The items may be approved for a single vote unless I remember the audience pools that I am going to discuss later. I read the title of each one of the consent agenda items. Item one is the Board's Committees and Commission attendance reports for the year of July 1, 2016. June 30th, 2017. Item two, the Mayor pro tem, it asks that the pool is a resolution memorializing FEJ McDonald Steel to be done at another time. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Okay. Item three is a contract amendment number four for North and South Durham water reclamation facilities process improvements. Item four is phase one construction of North and South Durham water reclamation facilities process improvements. Item five is the contract we've made in Durham to support business engagement for youth. Item six is a contract with Eckert Youth Alternatives, Inc. to deliver services for the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, known as WIOA Youth Program. Item seven is Seward's only extension agreement with Fletcher's Chapel United Methodist Church to serve 1919 Fletcher's Chapel Road. Item eight is the contract ST266 for 2018 brick paver repair. Item 15 is Durham Open Space and Trails Commission Appointment. Item 16 is an item that can be found on the general business agenda. I entertain a motion for approval of the consent agenda items as stated. So moved. Second. It's been a proper move. Second. Madam Clerk, we open the vote. Close the vote. Passes. Six to zero. Thank you. We move to the general business agenda. Item 16, the revised City of Durham social media policy for elected officials and their appropriate boards. And that was it. I agree. We'll have presentations. Any questions? OK. I recognize Councilman. Beverly Thompson, Public Affairs Director, City Manager's Office. I'm here to answer any questions that you might have. I recognize Councilman Moffitt. I don't have a question. I just wanted to comment that I thought I wanted really appreciated the process at the work session where everybody worked. I thought pretty collaboratively to come up with a consensus. I realized there may be issues that need to be, still need to be resolved. I'm not suggesting that it's completely done. I just wanted to appreciate the process that we used and thank people for it. Thank you. Recognize. I just wanted to thank the staff in public affairs for the work that you did on it. And I knew you were updating the policy for our employees. And I'm glad you included us in this process. Thank you. Thank you. If there are no questions or comments, entertain a motion on the item. So moved. Second. It's been properly moved to second. Madam Clerk, will you open the vote? Close the vote. Passes 6 to 0. Thank you. Thanks to the staff again. Are there any other items to come before the Council tonight? If not, we're adjourned at 7.44.  Ice cream. Get ice cream tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


We think we've made some progress, which I'm sure you know all about already, in reference to our little problem on credentials. And we've had consultation here this morning since nine o'clock with the chairman of the convention committee, the governor Lawrence, we've had it as subcommittee chairman, we've had it, Walter Mondale and Congressman Lowellman, Eddie Weitzel, and of course, Tom Binney was over here, Walter, myself, and now we've been in touch with your assistant, Mr. Jenkins, Walter Jenkins, and we call Clark Clifford, and I also call the Speaker of the House. And I'm confident that you had this relay to you, but we thought we had these daughter reports directly to you. Yeah, go ahead. Well, what Walter says, I'll turn him loose here in a minute, and what we've tried to do is to preserve the legal prerogatives of the party by what we'd agreed on earlier, namely that the Mississippi regulars are to be seated if they take their loyal, and they meet the requirements for call of the convention. Number two, that henceforth the Democratic Party will make a declaration in terms of an open party that we will establish standards of full participation in the party without regard to race, freedom, color. And since the freedom party itself is not a party, but a protest movement, and surely cannot be considered a legal entity in a political party manner, it obviously cannot be seated as a party, nor should the state of Mississippi be denied any votes because of the freedom party. Therefore, it has been recommended that since this is a protest movement, since it does represent the struggle of the Negro for his right to vote, and since he wants to have a vote not only back home in the precinct, in the general elections, but also a vote here in the convention, that we recommend to the convention as a body that two delegates be seated in the convention, not as Mississippians, not as deductible from the Mississippi vote, but just two extra votes at large for the chairman of that delegation, Mr. Henry, Dr. Henry, and for the other man, the national commitment as they call him, Reverend Edward King, not Martin Luther, but Edward King, one white and one colored. And these men be heralded not as delegates from the state of Mississippi, but as an expression of the conscience of the Democratic Party, as to the importance of the right to vote, a political participation by all peoples in our country, and that we in this historic period when we passed the Great Civil Rights Act, which establishes a whole new pattern of social conduct in our country, that we take the lead here in our Democratic Party of showing that we mean business, and that we are prepared to make official recognition of the all important right to vote, and of active participation in political affairs. Mr. President, I think that this will go together and we can avoid a war fight, we can unify the party behind your leadership, and I think everybody can go home feeling good, because what we will have demonstrated is the capability of harmonizing legal problems with our moral obligation. None of us other people can be in any way opposed to this because it gives them the kind of legal basis which they've been fighting for. On the other hand, we do commit the Democratic Party and give historic recognition to the fact that there are some of our citizens who have been denied to date the right to participate as free American citizens in the political structure of the Democratic Party, and I think we can unify. Now, Hubert and I have got a meeting set up at 3.30 with Dr. King and Ms. Bella Henry, and I think we can put this together so we can leave this city, we can get the credentials committee fight off the television cameras and get the positive image of the Democratic Party on the television cameras, and we can all leave here together united and go back home with the hard work of winning this election behind your leadership. Mr. President, we want to make it clear we're not meeting with Dr. Luther King or anybody else to negotiate. There is no negotiation. We've taken a position now that at least we're recommending a strong position that we can advocate with honor because we know it's right, and we are about all we want to do with the men that we'll see at 3.30 is to tell them of the decision that we've made that we're prepared to move on it, and to ask them to give this serious consideration and to cooperate in the best interest of our country to get the president, Lyndon Johnson, re-elected as president of the United States so we can move on with our programs. If you talk to any of their people about this... We have had some informal talks because we couldn't formalize it because we hadn't yet cleared it, but I am confident that we can reduce the opposition to this to a microscopic faction so that they'll be completely unimportant. Have you talked to anybody that justifies that conclusion? Well, I think... Here's what I think about it. I think it's a good solution. I think that it has one danger in it, which I think we ought to take. Maybe in four years we can do a good enough job where we won't be confronted with it again. Our party's always been a group that you could come to with any bellyache of injustice, whether it was a pecan-shelling plant that paid four cents an hour of sweatshop wages, or whether it was the user's interest rates, or whether it was discrimination to vote, or a Ku Klux Klan whipping somebody, and all of these injustices have wound up, and we've symbolized them some way or other in the county or state or national convention for time and more, and that's what the Democratic Party's for, and that's why it was born, and that's why it survives, and that's why it thrives and exists, and long as the poor and the downtrodden and the bended know that they can come to us and be heard, and that's what we're doing. We're hearing them, and we're just saying that we passed the law back there in 1957 and said that first time in 85 years that everybody's gonna have a chance to vote, and we said it again in 60, and we said it again in 64, and then by God it still hadn't been executed, and we're gonna say it again in the convention in 64, and that's about all you're doing is recognizing a symbol now. If, incidentally, by doing that and stomping this damn foolishness, you can elect a ticket and pick up four or five seats in the Senate where we got 70 instead of 67, where we can get some real unity up there and pick up 20 or 30 in the House, then we can do something about this in the next four years, so if you'll just go and get ahold of those people and say to them, for God's sakes, we know we've pasted from the cup of injustice ourselves, but you've had two days here now and you've done more damn harm than we can undo, you're gonna have a president, you're gonna have a vice president without any question of current venture of a doubt of any kind that's yours, that you believe in, that you trust.  Now I just thought that we had as tough a platform as a person could have on civil rights, we put in enforcement, they knocked it out in San Francisco. We went all the way on labor, we went every bit of the way on Medicare and everything in that New York Times said it's a pallid platform and no good. Well we're not going to worry about that because we've got a damn good platform and this show that this thing that we're doing now as the president will demonstrate one thing that we're just, but we're not run out of the ballpark. That's right. And we're fair. Well I think it symbolizes that we're in the business of looking after injustice wherever it wears its ugly head and we symbolize it here and I see nothing wrong with it except that it's... One thing you got is a Preston. Now next year, next time and they come in from Brooklyn and Michigan and say hell we got a new freedom party here and accepting we're going to say that if we make the Democratic Party an open party in every state we'll need it. We want to use the channels of the party. Yeah that's right, that's right. That's right, well that's right. Well when you two fellows get together you can do anything and I just go on now and get you crowd to do it. Now what about Dave Lawrence? What does he... He's enthusiastic about it. We had breakfast this morning when we worked out this proposition and he's enthusiastic for it. He would have been here when we made this call but he got called over to his meeting. Now this thing, Hubert, I'm not a sadistic person as you well know and I feel like I understand everything and I'm just not trying to play coy with anything. I'm trying to play for the interests of everybody concerned which I think that we are reaching there pretty quickly and since our conversation on the phone I don't think we need to have anymore and back there two or three weeks ago, a month ago when Jim Rowe was here and he don't have to spell out everything and so what you ought to do you ought to talk to Walter Jenkins sometime today and Walter are you going to be down here in the morning? What if I come by at 10 o'clock in the morning? That's alright, that's alright.   I never heard of it, it's your proposal. My name's Joe Glutz and you haven't talked down here because I don't want to think that I'm trying to go into everything and you just carried the way you think you ought to because we understand each other alright. I'll be in touch with you. Don't even tell Walter you talk to me. Don't tell anybody, just don't. You talk to Joe Glutz, that's my name. Bye bye.


When we said we would eradicate smallpox from the world, the first disease in history eradicated. Everybody was a skeptic. Skepticism is the inevitable companion of every great idea. We've always had pandemics. They're naturally occurring. How can you end them? My vision initially was this control room that would monitor all the different pandemic potential outbreaks all over the world. It was a WHO top-down vision. And Mark Smolensky, who had joined me, began to supervise it. The challenge in starting any new organization is to take that passionate drive that everyone around the table has and turn it into something concrete. The priority was creating an organization focused on early detection and early response. One of the challenges was bringing technology to parts of the world that didn't have technology. I remember one of the earliest things we did was take some really, really fancy walkie-talkie satellite device to Cambodia to see, could you use devices like this in basically very, very rural areas to report on a regular basis should an outbreak happen. And it was very successful, which gave us an idea that why don't we bring a bunch of local developers together in Cambodia with developers from Silicon Valley and see what would happen. And that's when the concept of the iLab came up. When you're initially funded and your runway is a very short runway, and you have a very big task on your plate, you have to get super creative and super clever. One of the best things you can do there is have some early wins. We were fortunate to have that happen for us in Cambodia. Once we started to recognize that a team locally led on the ground could be a path to at least chip away at this enormous task, the floodgates opened, the fund then was finding who were the people that could do this. iLab was started in 2008 designing the bottom-up solution from the grassroots while helping partners in the regions to improve their work. It's not just about the capacity itself, but also having the local team that speak in local language, understanding the culture, understanding what's needed. So that one solution is deploy, people take ownership and then collaborating with each other. We have stopped an epidemic of disease in Cambodia, a country of 15 million people. That technology is spreading now to Vietnam, which is 100 million people. We've also built systems that work in South Africa that have caught and measured and provided data on over 10 million TB tests. We have worked with countries like Rwanda and Ethiopia and Tanzania to help them bring online systems that allow them to understand where they need to stand up new health facilities. We've had such tremendous success in other countries. Now we're going to bring some of that home. And the experience with INSTED has taught me that it's a minimum of three to five years just to get the organization off the ground. And then probably another good three years before it becomes the organization that you want it to become. You've heard the expression, fail fast, fail often. I don't agree with fail fast, fail often. I agree with fail smartly. Make sure you take that learning. My friend Jeff's goal says it's values, vision, mission, strategy, tactics, objectives, results, monitoring and evaluation. That's the catechism for good management. But I think it's people. Leadership can work if all you do or find the best people in the world, hire them, make sure they know what they're going to do and get the hell out of the way. While my vision at that time was top down, what has emerged is bottom up. And it's so much more powerful. It's just a better way to do it. And in fact, in truth, it's the only way to do it.


Okay. Out of the vault. Alright, from the vault, here it is. The last Trinkie I'm finally getting to. I know people have been so patient. So for each Trinkie we have a character and some of the Trinkies are not forever Trinkies and I will get murdered on Twitter when I talk about our not forever Trinkies because they'll think it's NFTs. It's cool, but it's worth it. We have a character for each one. This is the little proximity bat and this is the one for the proximity Trinkie that will be coming out soon. I think this overhead really wants to give up the ghost. Is that what they say? We're not going to let it. We're going to reanimate it. It was working. Okay, great. So proximity Trinkie, it's a Trinkie so it plugs in. It's got a SAMD 21 regulator. We set it over here. This is an APDS 9960 which is a proximity light and color sensor. It's kind of a nice all-in-one sensor that's also pretty expensive. It's only a dollar or so. Two Neopixels and two capacitive touch buttons. So I actually did finish the design and then of course I ordered the wrong thickness PCBs. So thankfully they didn't get into store and we did a very small run. I'm going to order new PCBs maybe in a week or so. This will be in the shop. Okay, and that's new. It's not new. It's top secret. So we're going to roll right in the questions.


Okay, very good morning to you. Hope you're doing well. Hope you had a good week and happy Friday. It is Friday the 13th So just having a look at generally what's going on in markets Looking at the close on Wall Street where we finished lower once again a little bit more even in terms of the percentage Increments the S&P Dow down about one the Nasdaq down about point six percent, but once again Economically sensitive cyclical stocks and some of the small caps Which of course were rallying quite aggressively at the beginning of the week on the back of the initial Vaccine news coming out of Pfizer and BioNTech has suffered some of the steepest losses now in recent days And pretty much when we cycle through these charts, that's very much as what's been happening It is a reversal pretty much that first half of the week move has been just grinding away Over the course of the last two sessions or so Hopefully the briefings This week have been particularly useful because we've talked predominantly just about the virus and we've been pretty pessimistic I'd say as a desk from the beginning and Generally speaking now that narrative started to feed through into most people's opinion now of the current state of play With that situation specifically with Pfizer So the US 10 year yields continuing to decline now as equities are softened up and Generally then the dollar has weakened the touch which has helped gold recover in the major pairs both in euro dollar and Cable which were both breaking higher earlier in the week have hit their respective highs already about two days ago and continue To edge it at lower albeit cables had a little bump this morning, which we can talk about in a moment Equity index features then as I said lower close on Wall Street and the cash has led to then a fairly Flat performance overall For US futures right now Asian Pacific markets generally followed suit of their US counterparts Japan Specifically did see a little bit of underperformance. They've had a record spike now in infections themselves with coronavirus And also as well, you know, Trump is still around although. He's been a little bit Vacant in terms of any commentary in regard to COVID-19 He has signed an order prohibiting US investments in Chinese companies determined to be owned or controlled by the country's military So that trade Situation is still there in the background and actually stocks like China mobile and China telecom very large companies in mainland China overnight Did slide on the back of that development? So just keeping an eye on that as well if tensions were to start to flare once again Going into what is as we'll review and have it has been all week a Continuation of worsening numbers across America with COVID-19 cases So elsewhere then oil continues to drift south without about sixty five cents here In the futures as well just playing into that theme generally of realization about where we're at With a number of different things and one of the other things of course to mention which is also To throw in the mix is stimulus and The latest on this was last night the Trump administration said they're stepping back from talks on the relief package and leaving it up to Congress to Revive negotiations with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi according to people familiar with the situation Pelosi and Schumer on Thursday reiterated their support basically for a package size of two point four trillion dollars That they they're kind of reverting back to what they propose earlier in the year now if you remember Steven Mnuchin was kind of the Treasury Secretary leading these negotiations with Pelosi going into the election that Conversation has gone cold now given what's happened with the outcome of the election And so McConnell at the moment backs a roughly five hundred billion dollar plan That is even less far less than what Mnuchin was was getting to which was more around Two trillion at the time getting closer to a deal so that even further apart on stimulus at this point As I've mentioned many times The COVID situation in America currently is getting materially worse Lockdowns are already being evident in the state of New York like we saw we discussed just yesterday So stimulus is needed lack of stimulus worsening COVID Inevitability of then more stringent lockdowns which is going to impede then mobility and overall activity in America and therefore have an economic impact That Overlaid then with the realization that Pfizer is not the silver bullet as we've said many times this week I think then it's just leading to a little bit of this general Reversal of the earlier week moves that we've had So yeah, quite a few things there to digest. I mean, I guess just looking at the Dow for one I think it's quite a good representation of where we're at at the moment and Here's the Dow future and this was that really explosive move of course when when the initial news came out But where we are at the moment there's a couple of interesting technical levels even for today's session just looking here at the trend taken from Kind of mid-week Wednesday had a retest of it in yesterday's session and also then this morning At the European entrance just above here then this rectangle. You've got the low From what was Tuesday afternoon on some of the reversal then on that initial pop that we saw at the beginning of the week And that's coinciding then with an area of support and resistance So the last 24 hours and in the Dow future with the pivot level seen just above and around this 29,000 levels So what's keeping an eye on that as a there's an area here of Technical relevance for today any further breakdown and obviously you've got this double bottom quite clearly with the s1 residing just below it any force and push through that more likely of course when the when the Volumes picks up going through the nice open later But then he breaks through that technically then would be anticipating a further decline back down to where we were basically to Reverse the entire move from what we had at the beginning of the week Which would be that down towards 28 to 642 type area? So yeah, that pretty much sums it up if I was looking at the US 10 year I mean Basically, it's you know combination as well with fairly tepid inflation numbers coming out the US a lack of stimulus So obviously there's not that Reflation kind of pressure that perhaps then would have been evident in that blue wave scenario under Joe Biden So here again, you can see the Pfizer news was this move here And what we've pretty much reversed now Three-quarters of that move quite key area then coming up of resistance if the US 10 years We continue to edge up if I just put a horizontal line here. You've got that low point of Where we initially were declining back on the 6th so toward the end for last Friday this time last week That comes in at 3812 and just above there at 13. You've also got the R1 on the day as you can see there then above there you then start to bring in some of these other key areas of technical Support and resistance and that would come at 15. So two spots really there I'd be keeping an eye on on the 10 year that of upside resistance and would then Constitute pretty much a forward tracement of the move that we saw in an initial kind of euphoric response on the Pfizer news So let's get into a couple of different things then I'm going to just give you an update on the COVID situation This is focusing on the US where coronavirus infections and hospitalizations Rising in 49 of the US states compared with a week ago now According to the COVID tracking project deaths a lagging indicator are climbing in 35 lagging by what we were talking about yesterday with around a three week Period New York City prepared for a possibility of closing its schools was reported last night while Chicago issued an advisory urging residents to avoid leaving home except for work and other essential activities As far as the UK is concerned reported just over 33,000 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday 563 new deaths Within 28 days of testing positive of COVID-19. So a lot of these numbers Still particularly elevated at this point of time particular emphasis though on America as we've been discussing throughout the week Jerome Powell, he was part of the discussions at the ECB forum spoke yesterday with Christine Lagarde and Andrew Bailey from the ECB in Bank of England respectively And he said we do see the economy continuing on a solid path of recovery But the main risk we see is that there's clearly further spread of the disease here in the United States And Fed officials their next meeting comes in around about a month's time 15 16th of December Middle of deck is when the next meeting is for them. So again reiteration if anything of what Powell has said recently just Increasing downside kind of emerging risks coming on the back and particularly developments with COVID-19 and it's seemingly lack of response that we're seeing In a fairly decisive manner on a coordinated front for the administration at this point Which inevitably means we're going to be behind the curve and these numbers are going to get worse before they get better The other thing then this morning that we've had you've probably already read about Well, actually before I jump to that one final thing that I wanted to mention was firstly this had quite a few questions About the vaccine so one of the things well two things here. I want to show you for one I mean conversations with one of our guys internally and he is particularly good at Understanding a lot of the background information about these different vaccines and so him and I are going to put together Hopefully a short video interview where we're going to explain, you know, what are the differences behind these different Trials that are ongoing. What do you need to look out for? What are the market implications? What are the timings all these types of things that will be coming out soon? But a couple of things here This is a hot list of Who are kind of the people to follow if you really want to be on top of what is the definitive driving force of markets right now? Which is COVID-19? I strongly suggest I pinned it to the top of my Twitter account if you just go through and follow these people It's going to help build out and broaden your understanding of this particular situation Then also I just saw this morning Goldman Sachs latest research I'll share this as well with our community, but Here one of the things I was talking about yesterday was about how long it's going to take for full inoculation of a population This is irrespective of the logistical and kind of distribution issues that Putting a virus into society is going to inevitably create and One of the things here is about the hierarchy who's going to get the virus first and at what point then can you start to? See then greater numbers of vaccination in this kind of tiering system to the point of which then Economies can start to reopen back to a degree of normality prior to the pandemic and obviously that's going to help accelerate the recovery and so on and so Yeah, I just thought this was a nice summary and this was looking at Goldman's expectations as they stand today And they're looking at kind of four phases Which is phase one high-risk health workers first responders these types of people elder demographics aged 65 kind of plus in crowded settings, so I think nursing homes things like that Phase two then would be those with certain conditions. So obesity Diabetes diabetes things where they've probably got them more susceptible To COVID in terms of their current health status with underlying conditions And then, you know, essential workers food production construction utilities transportation things that help just generally the the system function A societal point of view, I guess as well as economically and then phase three, which phase three They're not anticipating really until we start getting towards the summer of 2021 and that's when then we start talking about young adults Workers and important industries. So factory workers restaurants and then the rest of the population Which would actually constitute probably the smallest amount because most people would fit into those previous three phases That wouldn't happen really until towards the back end of next year So hopefully that gives you a bit of context around that of timing wise But yeah, what away from COVID let's talk about elsewhere We have seen a little bit of bump up in the sterling currency if anything a bit about performance I'll just show it to you here which is Pretty pretty decent move lower actually in cable over the course of the last two days, of course And that does come after rejection of a of a fairly interesting technical level. We were talking about this This was when we initially hit the high which was the force of sep high Technically has had other periods of relevance as well at around that level as you can see here back in Toward the end of last year the gap up that we saw on the 13th So it is a technical level at 3320 in the sterling futures But that was when we then started this material decline of cable after it became clear that the the timetable of this Sunday Of striking a UK EU deal is not going to happen But this morning, we've just seen a little bit of a move higher We've gone through the pivot already and we've come back up to I guess an area of short-term resistance, which would be If I just put that here and then extend out this rectangle quite an interesting area You've got that previous load that was seen on the tensor midweek and support resistance on the previous price action So around here, but an acceleration this morning and in the news you probably would have read already Everyone's favorite chap Dominic Cummings The headline suggesting quits as UK Prime Minister's top aid now Couple things here Dominic Cummings has said he'll quit as Johnson's aid and will leave by the end of the year According to people familiar with the matter. He's been quite explicit with this I think he spoke with Laura Koonsburg. She was sharing it on Twitter last night This does come after a parent tiff because of the communication director Lee Cain who obviously announced his Resonation just a few days ago and the split about some other appointees that have happened in the close in a circle now It's difficult really to delve too much into Why or what this implications are? I'm sure more will emerge Over the weekend, but my initial kind of feeling on this is that and perhaps some of the reason why the pound has risen Dominic Cummings was obviously the chief architect behind the the vote to leave campaign the whole e referendum It's kind of a lifelong anti-EU kind of critics. So the fact for me, I think And again, this is just my opinion is that it's inevitable that the UK now must strike a deal as the Prime Minister Covid is heaping a monumental amount of pressure on on the government and the economy And so Brexit kind of is secondary at the moment to dealing with this major crisis that is happening It far outweighs in the immediate term that of Brexit and I don't personally think Dominic Cummings has any Will to deal with Covid. It's not really what he's about It's not really what he was there for and so he had already stated in one of his blog posts at the beginning of the year that he Would indeed leave At the end of this year, which as we know is the legal end date of the transition because as far as he's concerned, it's Job done and so this is a retro iteration of that It just so happens to come at a point where obviously the government's under quite a lot of pressure at the moment to deliver on multiple fronts given the economic situation Largely born out was the pandemic but compounded by the uncertainties of Brexit, of course, so perhaps then this brings about Again, my main point with Cummings though was that a deal is gonna happen I think it's inevitable because it has to economically for Europe and the UK I don't really think Cummings wants any part of that kind of compromise deal to be quite frank That's not what he would want his legacy to be. I'm sure so I don't think it's massively surprising But from a Brexit negotiation point of view Does this now give Boris a little bit of wiggle room to perhaps then get closer towards a compromise Perhaps so I mean sterling price reaction might suggest that that actually You know Brexit talks at the moment. Well, let me just scroll up. We basically ended this week and Nothing's happened, but you know, I just want to remind you this is exactly what we said would happen on Monday's briefing Our expectations were low of a breakthrough despite these kind of self-imposed deadlines So I think you just ignore those deadlines. I don't think it was that surprising The main point here though is that going forward now. This is the timetable that we're working to with Brexit, which is effectively here so To the end of October mid-November was the original three window to intensify talks That's now a pass. So the week of November 16th Monday Talks in Brussels are already set to resume now. So it's not like they've ended this far from it They continue on and the EU has suggested it is prepared to continue to deliberate into December If necessary according to people from all over the met familiar with the matter. So here then let's skip over the EU leaders conference on the 19th the European Parliamentary meeting on the end of November, you know I think we really start talking Turkey literally as we get towards Mid to late December You've got another EU summit happening on deck 10th and 11th and then you've got European Parliament Parliament meeting for the last Time this year on the 14th of 17th personally. I think a deal gets done between the 17th and 31st We do know that despite the gravity of Brexit politicians obviously don't want to miss their Christmas lunch And a sherry. So I'm sure that they'll wrap it up before Christmas But even between Christmas and New Year's I wouldn't be surprised if they're still at it This whole idea of ratification in time for the transition there's always time for legislative change to be put into place in order to just Roll that out in order to get this this through from a legal process in that as long as the initial framework is agreed So yeah, my thinking on this really hasn't changed and if anything then if Cummings is removed From having control, let's say behind the scenes then I think Boris now will will want to get this wrapped up And and really his priority is dealing with with the COVID situation Which ultimately is getting worse at this point in time. Brexit is Creating more of a distraction and a benefit at this point And it really does no longer matter or carry the same political weight as it did because the general public is is is more I guess it's more weighted towards the government's response to the pandemic at this point. So Yep That's the latest on that so Wrapping things up having a look what's on the calendar for today You've got your own GDP preliminary numbers for Q3 is coming out shortly later on this morning from the US point of view PPI data a couple of Bank of England speakers ten reiro and The Bank of England Governor Bailey speaks again. He's been particularly prominent this week But hasn't really said anything new ten reiro keeps Reiterating the kind of success of what negative rates has created for other areas that have adopted it But none of that talk is particularly new. We kind of know her Her stance and her being fairly favorable to that as a policy tool So overall Canada is pretty quiet. So I think that markets could well continue to Focus on on the coronavirus situation the vaccine situation I've interested to see whether or not we finished a week and and actually comparative to the the more Kind of optimistic state of how we started we actually finish on a fairly sour note and overall pretty flat from where we started and Such as a week in markets in that respect. So yeah, that's it from me Tim and the other guys are gonna go through all the technical charts and the setups So obviously on the live stream throughout the day on Amplify live So look forward to seeing some of the guys in there. Otherwise have a fantastic weekend as ever stay safe and I'll see you on Monday. Thanks very much


I do woodworking as a hobby. And one of the common traits that woodworkers kind of joke about is the fact that, you know, we'll be out in the world and we'll see something, whether it be a bench or a storage compartment. And we'll see it and be like, why would I pay X amount of dollars for this when I could build this myself for cheaper? And then $300 worth of tools later and four months go by. And then you finally have this brand new thing that's, you know, probably nicer than the one you saw in this store. But the added time and the effort and the headache that it took to make it, it's part of the journey. We just talk it up to that. Like, I'm curious with Brandon, I'm guessing that this is not the first time that you saw something. You're like, Oh, I can do that better myself. You know, like this, I feel like it's a, it's, it's not something that the spur of the moment it's more of like a personal trait. When you decided to tackle this backpack for the first time, you know, what was that process like for you? And what was the learning curve like? Yeah, that's a great question. I guess my whole life I've exhibited very classic industrial designer traits. It's probably similar to like woodworkers, you know, like I'd always be tinkering and taking things apart that I shouldn't be taken apart and traveling back together and who knows if they even ended up back together. Ultimately, you know, the process of building our first product was very interesting because it was just, it's just a problem. It's like math, you know, you're just, you just got to solve it. And so figuring out fabrics and weaves and wefts and, you know, how to make a pattern and bring that pattern to life and then like re-sewing things like three or four times is super interesting. So for that first prototype, you know, the first mock-ups out of paper and cardboard. And then you have like two or three that are sewn. And then the final one, I think took like 24 hours because I had to re-sew it over and over and over again, because it's a puzzle that needs to go together in a very specific order, which who knew, you know, but I'm sure that's very similar woodwork, you know, if you don't put the chair together in the right order, it doesn't go together like a key of furniture or something. And so I think something that, you know, something that we all feel that is probably similar to what you were expressing when you see these things in the real world is sometimes like we want a meter that we have internally at brevity for the product that we sell is, is it of a quality and at a price that we feel comfortable selling to our friends? Because like everybody who's building a company, your friends and family were like, I would love to buy your thing. And we always want to make sure that we're selling something that we're like, yes, this is of a great quality. This is at a price that is fair, that is reasonable. And so, you know, out in the world, sometimes I see bags and I don't feel that way. I'm like, that's a little sad for the end consumer. But that just is because we know the nuances of how much these things cost now and what it takes to make them. So at the end of the day, now like, you know, now that we've gone through the process of sewing our own bags and then now like spending like living over in Asia for periods of time to go and really understand the nitty gritty of the manufacturing, we feel very comfortable with the product we sell at the price point. We sell it at the quality that we sell.


All right we've reached the point of the Meeting where it's time for the council initiated discussion and Again, I think you know the drill here. We've been in charge of the agenda up until now And this is your opportunity to raise issues with us bring issues to our attention or maybe Plant the idea of reports or information you'd like us to bring back to you at a future council meeting floors open Remember one thing from the last one was a Presentation on the R01 portfolio just to put that in the text or anything else So that was was one of Jeff's slides went through pretty quickly I Don't know if you were looking for something more comprehensive than that Yeah, there were there were a lot of slides there, D. I think yes, you were looking for something more than that Missed it somehow. I mean I saw where it was broken down like how things were categorized and that included our ones and everything, but I Jeff you want to come to a microphone, but was the unsolicited he had a couple of slides about unsolicited I mean that's that's synonymous with R01 pull Well, I think what we what we remembered was wanting you wanting to get some understanding of how it distributed across the Domains, but maybe there was something more subtle that you were looking for Or more detailed when I go back and look at what's there Any things you For future open session presentations You know we have our list of things that we think you might want to hear about other people other topics at NIH Are there any things that you're curious and I can't make any promises because it's always gonna see what the health packed in this September Council schedule is but either September February. Yeah Two things that are very unlinked One is the an update from Jeff or someone on What are what is the technology development that is happening that is needed? you know a kind of a state of the art in terms of the genomic technology aspects and then a Second that's very related. We have you have a new director of the Genomes and Society or whatever the division very important. Yeah That we really haven't heard. Yeah, what his vision is We were planning for that for September remember that we sort of have that pencil then I think Larry thinks that's the case to Larry Are you back? Yes Larry September? We had said right? Something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh Yes, true. Yeah. Good point. So it's September We're gonna have a report from the Genomic Society working group. So that we maybe we will couple that with Larry Presenting some things and so you can hear from him and get a chance to talk to him or I think we'd even kicked around the idea of maybe a research Presentation from an LC investigator So you by the way, you're just trying to make up for your anti-LC comment before as you're asking Yeah, I was hoping you'd have it after September because I go up council I Been really excited to hear about all of the different initiatives Across the board and I just wondered if there were if it would be possible to get from each one of those initiatives an example of Where the sequencing or the technology has made a difference in a clinical outcome Me like me like a couple of examples. I mean, I'm just I've heard about Caesar I've heard about ignite heard about a merge and I'm just wondering sort of What the examples are? You know about a like a case study What it would look like but that sounds right. Yeah, okay And Howard were you talking technology? Were you talking about sequencing technology or broader? Well? I was I Was thinking sequencing technology, but I didn't say it that way because there might be some amazing things that they're coming down That I just don't know about the the you know, what's next for the $1,000 genome committee I mean is it is it down to go down to a hundred or is it do more for a thousand or The discussion in the last council about the need for more functional assays And so that would be something that would feed into the whole technology part as well Yeah, I was leaving it to Jeff or whoever the is lead technocrat, but All right, anything else Well, you know where to find us if something occurs to you All right, just a couple more things for the open session then Item of interest we have three reports from our liaison societies ASHG genetic Alliance and Society of Genetic Counselors These are lists of recent activities and items of interest from those societies They're attached to the open session agenda and they're in the ECB if you want to look at those and At this point, I'm required to read the conflict of interest statement This applies to the applications that you will review in the closed session You must leave the meeting room when applications submitted by your own organization are being individually discussed in the case of state higher Education or other systems with multiple campuses geographically separated own Organization is intended to mean the entire system except where a determination has been made that the components are separate Organizations for the purpose of conflict of interest You should avoid situations that could give rise to charges of conflict of interest where whether real or apparent For example, you should not participate in the deliberations and actions on any application from or involving your spouse or child Or recent student recent teacher a professional collaborator with whom you have worked closely a close personal friend or scientist with whom you've had Longstanding scientific or personal differences The NHGRI staff will determine the appropriate action based on recency frequency and strengths of such associations or interests Either positive or negative and will instruct you accordingly in Council actions in which you vote on a block of applications without discussing any individual one the on-block action Your vote will not apply to any application from an institution fulfilling the criteria noted above In your folders, there should be a hard copy COI form Please sign it and we'll collect it from you at some point and with that the open session is ended and you can gavel us to close Thank you everyone. So we'll give the IT staff a chance to take down the cameras And we'll reconvene in closed session in about 10 or 15 minutes. So don't go far