l the idea was to send it to gel which is the group that is in fact um over does count does review the counts the town manager's goals and comes back to the council with recommendations that was the whole reason of doing it rather than sitting and having a big debate on this particular issue but mandy joe you have your hand up and you're on gel um yeah i'm not commenting as a member of gel but um i guess my only thing is i have one question and if the manager could answer it now then i'm not sure i'd need a referral either and that is does the manager think this is a reasonable thing that can be completed or substantially made progress on given all the other goals that we have in the next five months since there's only five months left in this year mr ron paul yeah so it is a priority for for town staff so and i think it's important you know it's good for the council to weigh in on this as well um and you know that um whether it's part of the goals and that will be working on this so um because and i think it's a it's because there's an urgency as mr ryan mentioned council ryan mentioned is that there's a there's a date certain when the shelter will be leaving the uu and we need to be in working in conjunction with craig stores to make sure there's a place for that to happen again come november one okay um george yeah i think i would like us to go on record um i really don't see the value of sending to gel um if it goes to anyone it should probably go to tso in the sense that it's about a policy decision and has many different impacts but i i agree with darcy i think maybe we're both wrong but i think that there has been a strong consensus amongst the my colleagues that this is an issue that we need to address as mr bachmann just pointed out time is pressing november the season will begin again and we will be back at ground zero and uh this i'm not maybe the town can't find a solution but i think i'd like us to go on record as a body asking him to do what in fact he is doing and to give him a sense that this is a priority for us okay then in that case um athena can you find the original set of motions where this was in fact a motion i believe i've got it and could read it athena then mean did you why don't you make the motion okay um let me just get to the right page that motion would be um oh wait that's the hold on i can read it as well man if you want oh i'm sorry george fine yeah this is what was yeah if you've got it i it was sent to you but that the draft motion would read that in the document titled town council performance goals for the town manager july 1 2020 to june 30 2021 the following text be added at the end of section five of the policy goals entitled housing affordability quote and exploring the possibility of creating a permanent seasonal or year-round shelter and amherst either through the repurposing of surplus town building or land and or through working in partnership with concerned community groups or individuals to realize this goal and a quote that would be inserted at the end of item in section five after item three we come now item four is there a second second de angeles is there any further discussion on this alissa you have your hand up yes it's just a variation on what's already on our motion sheet our motion sheet is fine it just needs a couple of adjustments which includes the fact that what george just read off it needs to say adopted september 14th 2020 just like we did under the previous one so it's just a matter of slicing and pasting but all the words are there athena are you clear enough on that or do you need that read again well i i've got it thank you okay any further discussion on this then i'm going to move to a vote and i'm going to start with evan ross yes george ryan yes kathy shane yes steve schreiber yes steve uh andy steinberg yes sarah schwarz hi chelony bonell yes elissa brewer hi uh pat de angeles i darcy demont yes win grease mers and i bandit joe hannicky i Dorothy pamm i okay that motion passes now we're move on to the suggested additions to the racial equity and social justice goal which is goal six of our town manager goals and alissa you were the one that suggested this would you please speak to it yes so as it so happens i had a chance to see the motion sheet and i saw the one about housing and i was like hey while we're working on this already so since we were already digging into the town manager's goals and as you can see on your motion sheet basically all this one does is it doesn't change any of the items one two and three that are under the goal what it does is it inserts the additional resolutions that we've had since the one about george floyd right so the ones about structural racism and because we're so timely the one we just did tonight because it's important once we do these things right just like historically we we know that town meeting would get excited about doing a really cool thing and then like plop like it got sent to mcgovern and everybody else but like what did we really do with it and so what we're trying to do is show that we really are engaging in a path of remedy and one of the many ways we do that is we include all these resolutions that address these very issues about ensuring all community members feel a part of and are listened to community free of intimidation etc so it just makes sense to go ahead and if we're going to mention any of our proclamations and resolutions to go ahead and include these two newer ones as well while we're already making edits because we need to kind of keep them together is there any further well you know let me ask for a motion then because it appears to me that what we would like to do is have a motion to go ahead and pass this versus a motion to refer so alissa so i think if athena could get the wording exactly right much like george did earlier and that is along the lines of and my screen's not cooperating with me right now um sorry it's kind of like scrolling madly past where i want to go but looking at the motion sheet itself instead of it being a referral it should basically just reflect the same kind of language we just used with the previous motion which is to amend the town council performance goals for the town manager july 1 2020 to june 30 2021 adopted september 14 2020 by changing under policy goal and in this case it's six vi racial equity and social justice so that it reads so that it adds in the two additional resolutions the town council the town council resolution affirming the town of amherst commitment to end structural racism and achieve racial equity for black residents adopted on december 7 2020 and the town council resolution condemning the january 6 2021 insurrection and violence at the u.s capital adopted 2020 january 25 2021 so that the section reads and then it goes on in full objective to explore recommend and implement policies and procedures that address racial equity and social justice consistent with then it lists all three of the items that we're now including here and then it says that one ensure all community members feel and are a part of amherst and feel and are protected listen to and serve by their public servants to foster a community free of fear intimidation and violence and three incorporate significant involvement of by pock residents in shaping these policies and procedures is there a second back in ryan okay any further discussion okay seeing none we're going to move to the vote george ryan is first yes kathy shane yes the schreiber hi andy steinberg yes there's warts hi shally belgnum yes elissa brood hi pat de angeles hi barcy gemant then greasmer's eye mandy joe hannity hi garthy pam i evan ross i unanimous 13 000 we are going to move on to the 7 b which is the proposal for anti-racism training for counselors and i'm going to call on pat de angeles and shall any ball millen to discuss the proposal i i want to read a little bit from the proposal because it's reflective of some of what happened um at the community safety working group um where council members have entered have participated in the conversation not just in their last saturday's meetings but at other times and there's a sense that that's okay uh when it um and so we are really a council with a limited racial and social socioeconomic diversity and we are not representative of the larger amos amers community our experiences and understanding about structural racism and white supremacy are limited and often and this is the critical part that reflects on things that have happened our bias is often unconscious and so in order to analyze issues from more than one perspective we need to develop the ability to listen with understanding and integrate seemingly conflict conflicting needs and viewpoints and we need to do this work together in an environment built on trust in each other and in our desire for an ability to change i feel like if we are going to become the anti-racist town that i think is a desire of every council member uh and the staff then we need to do the work and it is personal work um and i know from my own experience that it can be uh intimidating um it can be scary to do this work but we have an opportunity and chalene is going to explain the workshop and the group but we have an opportunity to come together um to look at ourselves in an environment that where we can trust one another chalene yeah thank you pat um i'm going to talk a little bit about what we are proposing as a training but before that i just wanted to share two things about the training that thanks to pat i got to participate in and uh so it's personal and it was really powerful for me so two things that i took away from the training that we did um with the people's institute the first thing that i learned from that training was the system is not broken it's working exactly how it's supposed to be working and that was really powerful for me yet the system is not broken it's working exactly how it's supposed to work and unless we make undoing racism a priority and take deliberate steps we are perpetuating these systems of racism the second thing that was really powerful for me was also that why do we need to do this work of course with 300 years or more overdue but besides that is that it's all of our well-being is tied to ending racism so this is not that we're doing this for those people or it's all of us need to do it because no one is safe unless we're all safe and we can only flourish as a community when we create conditions for all of us to flourish so and besides that as pat said we need a safe space to do this deep work this is hard it's deep and you know just the every other day we're coming up with new situations that require deep thought and reflection and honesty and and safety even for us as counselors this is very vulnerable stuff and for us to really learn and change deeply we cannot we have to have the safety to be able to ask and share what's going on for us and if we don't have that opportunity we can't really change deeply so with that in mind we're proposing that the council participate in the undoing racism workshop with the people's institute for survival and beyond this is a virtual training it's two and a half days long and it's limited to 20 to 22 people the cost will be paid by the council budget and is about $350 for attendee this organization is really credible credible it was founded in 1980 and by community organizers Ronald Chisholm of New Orleans and Dr. Jim Dunn of the Yellow Springs it's impacted over 1 million people around the world with over 100 teachers and I just believe it'll be a great opportunity for us to develop a common language to to even talk about these issues to understand racism to understand how we can then work with our constituents with more sensitivity and yeah there's just so many benefits so we'd be happy to take any questions and Sean I'm going to make sure that we have the timer um questions from the council I'm going to start with one or two that I have and then we'll see what other people have how long when you say two and a half days are we saying eight days can you give be a little more clear about what that means yeah usually the first night which is a Friday night is from 5 30 to about eight um and then Saturday and Sunday would be between nine and five nine and four um with a break a reasonable seriously reasonable break for lunch is there any way to break it up so it's not a solid two and a half days I think that would be a mistake I don't think they will do that but I also think it's a mistake because part of the process is really diving in and and focusing for a period of time and you know we're all home anyway it doesn't mean we don't have other commitments and things like that we all do but I think that this is a commitment that would help us move miles in terms of creating bridges with the BIPOC community and building trust with the BIPOC community I'm going to take questions Mandy Jo my question is similar I support this initiative um and obviously have scheduling concerns um especially as one of the few counselors that has a kid at home that is at home on weekends and if this is on weekends but um so so my question relates I guess to would it be expected that we are all um doing the same training on the same weekend um such that you know I don't even know whether we could find a weekend but all 13 of us are available but beyond that if we aren't or would we be offered a number of different choices that we could pick the weekend that is most fits in our schedule even if not other counselors are attending that I I guess I'm asking what the vision for that type of participation is from you um shallone do you want to say something first yeah I I feel in a discussion we were going to plan for something out in April so everyone we would have enough time to plan and do uh you know that thing what's it called doodle pool doodle pool thank you uh so we can try and find and if you're not able to then we probably could plan for having to that go ahead I think though that the reason that we are hoping we can bring the council together and hopefully um Mr. Backelman and other staff members who is we work together and we work together collaboratively um and this is a chance for us to be um both learning uh facilitate each other's learning and to be vulnerable with each other in a way that we um our society doesn't normally allow us to be um I think it would expand our ability to function as a group of people um on so many levels uh as well as beginning to move us towards a real and and a deep and true anti-racist stance personally um so and we would have to we could decide to spread people out and have some kind of um make you know a way to make sure that everybody is followed through but there's something there's power in our this group doing it together a clarification is there a minimum number of people that have to enroll in order for them to run the class that I don't know okay we need to find that out so that if we ended up with two options or something can they still do it or would they be adding in other people which might be fine as well okay uh Alyssa you have your handle thank you having participated in a variety of different types of anti-racism training since I entered school committee in 2002 I can appreciate that there's a huge variety of ways to do this and while the schedule is somewhat daunting I also understand the purpose of having that intensive period of time because I know that some of the things that I was engaged in that didn't meet very regularly it was kind of hard to keep up the conversation in between particularly because then somebody would have a scheduling conflict and so it wouldn't be the same exact people associated with the particular conversation so following up on on what Lynn said about minimums and then just the scheduling in general I think what appeals most to me about doing it through you know this particular venue at this time rather than just saying we'll all go off and do some kind of training right that we should just check that off that we've all done it like our ethics training or something is that the I understand the purpose of the group doing it together much like when we try and have retreats and have all of us there but I have two concerns one is that if all 13 of us can't do it but 11 of us do it that's going to feel a little weird to the two that aren't there but so I'm just not sure how feel feel about that but then the other part of it is is if it's going to be 13 of us plus maybe Paul plus maybe Athena whether they think that's appropriate or not is another conversation and then five random people from the community like that doesn't know that I want to be clear that's not discussed anywhere here in this proposal that it's only for us I thought I thought it was I apologize and so being clear on that and so the number that you're talking about that's greater than 13 would be the expectation that staff would do that and I can understand that some staff may not necessarily feel comfortable doing that with us so I guess I'd like to hear a little bit more about that right I it's um I really excuse me Pat Sean we need to have the clock thank you one of the um I've lost my train of thought I apologize I'm sorry Pat no that's okay um one of the things that um it is the reason that we're opening it to more staff and it would be their decision is because we feel like we work together and yes there are the counselors but there's also staff but my real point was that we're not I'm not I'm trying to make sure that we feel that we are in a in a in a safe space and the inviting outside community members feels that does not feel at this particular point comfortable to me I've been talking to other people about you know Debra Snow about the possibility of ongoing conversations about race that included residents and I think that may be a place that we get to but as a white person who has just when I first started doing this work and in workshops and each time I do it I need to feel that I can say anything or do anything and it's not going to be then spread out through um my community whether that was living at Pomeroy Lane Cooperative being part of the council or um being a member of a church which was the case in the 70s when I did participate in my first uh rate anti-racism training so it's very important that we and uh I'm going to go on I have a little bit more time this is weird the other thing is we thought very much of having um the chief of police and I actually hope that he would want to do it and then um chief Nelson from the fire department Jennifer Moisten and all of a sudden I'm saying wait a minute um we're going to invite two people of color maybe more I don't know how many are on staff I know um Elwood and I'm blanking on his last name who's a maintenance person is a person of color and a friend but um I don't want them to have to speak for the entire BIPOC community or black community and I think that this is a time where um the trainers and the facilitators are people of color and they're used to working both with integrated groups and BIPOC groups only and white groups only and I think that's it um Darcy Dumont you have your hand up yeah I just wanted to say that I um support this idea I think it's a good idea um I would try to make myself available to do it um I do I did google uh the link that you put in your report and um I it looks like it wasn't available during the pandemic um no the training we did was virtual that Shalini and Shalini and I participated in and this would be a virtual training and um I just look at the link because it has a big red uh notice on it saying not probably not in person that's all I don't know just because we just did it during COVID we took it during COVID virtually recently yeah okay yeah I will look but Steve Shriver you have your hand up yeah so I I'm going to echo what everyone else said that I think that this is incredibly useful um somebody with a full-time job I would love to make it work but that's going to be the real challenge for this many people I guess I have some technical questions here one is procurement so we're talking about multiple thousands of dollars and do we have to get proposals from other groups or this can be a sole source provider yes okay less than ten thousand dollars and we don't need to I believe okay um the second one is open meeting law so if we all meet as a group isn't that a no it's not I've also I've already contacted the attorney general's office twice as a matter of you want to use up my three minutes so thank you and then the third one is timing so in April which is of the day discussed we have six months left together as a council and you know a lot can be accomplished in that six months but to me this sounds like an amazing kind of training or that should happen at the beginning of every council term so that doesn't mean it can't happen again in December when the new or I'm sorry January when the new council when is it December it's January right January is when this morning my math is off here so we have eight months left together so it sounds like an amazing thing to do every January um this being but so it may end up we do it twice or whatever but I think that we should think about that also or just the timing of you know our recently big expense for council that will be is almost our term together is in the late afternoon it's in the the twilight uh Evan rosh yeah so thank you to um panache alan me for putting the work into this proposal um and I think it's a good idea for the council to do an anti-racism training but I did just hear my one concern which you probably will expect is that I do worry about setting the precedent of committing the counselors to a two and a half day training um only because this is where I'm conflicted because I know you can't do a two hour training in anti-racism be like oh all right we're good now I've done these things I know they take time I know they take um investment at the same time I do have some concerns um at a time when we're trying especially going into an election where we're trying to send the message that the counselor job is not a part-time job that it's very workable um and one of the things that I've really tried to do is carve out weekends as time when I don't have to do council stuff which is why most of you notice I don't respond to your emails on the weekends um I'm going to give a weekend to do this but I do just worry a little bit about a precedent of people looking and saying not only do I need to do six hour council meetings twice a month on Mondays and committee meetings and district meetings and go to public forums but also there might be mandatory trainings that take up an entire weekend and so I'm not arguing against this and I'm perfectly willing to do it but I but I am saying that it always does concern me a little bit anytime we create an additional requirement or an additional expectation of counselors um because I have the privilege to be able to do it I don't have a family I don't use my weekends to kid take my kids to soccer whatever parents do um but but I do want to air that concern I just want to reply but in the last two years I mean this time it was different we've gone to Boston to the MMA conference away from our families on the weekends the town paid for it nobody had any problems with that um so um I think if your desire is to do the work in terms of looking at ourselves as participating in a system of white supremacy then you're going to put aside a weekend and I feel strongly that what you will get in back is so much richer than either Chalene or I could explain to you um and I and I you know whether it becomes mandatory for every council in the future that'd be great but that's not my goal my goal is that we have been wrestling in many ways uh with two very unique issues as a council COVID you know none of us ever anticipated anything like that but we're also really dealing and and wrestling with racism in the United States of America which has been here and is embedded in the capitalists you know you don't I don't need to go on and say all of those things but we really need to do this and do it now um and for the life of our for our own lives and life of our community Dorothy I'm going to take your comment and then I'm going to make a suggestion please go ahead Dorothy um having been part of jobs such as this in the past I really am sad that it would have to be virtual because the in-person is much stronger um in response to Evan in terms of of making the job seem doable to possible new counselors we used to deal with this by offering food um maybe you can deliver us food who knows but my feeling is sooner is better than later because I've got some stuff I have to do once I get my vaccination and I can go someplace I've got I've got things to do right now I'm stuck at home and I'd rather do it now than in April because April I hope to be visiting some new possible in-laws etc so um that's yeah I got some exciting stuff going on so I would I would like to suggest that uh Shalini and um Pat uh go back to the source and come up with a proposed uh set of weekends and that we use those weekends to poll or how we can get how close we can get to getting everybody involved in one or two sessions and I would suggest that you take those weekends as early as March as late as the end of April and then stop at that okay can I just oh yeah sorry go ahead can I offer a few clarifications to you that um came up that there were people who who stepped aside for some commitments for an hour or two so that you know there are all of those things it's not like once you're locked in your I mean the preference is you're locked in but um given that we'll have enough time to plan hopefully you all can get that and secondly this is not just work for the council this is just as human beings I think we're all going to benefit and we just better people because of it so I just feel that we're lucky that as counselors we get to do it I don't and and um third thing is we didn't bring this up yet but in case we need to split it up is there a willingness to invite other counselors from other neighborhoods it's like a regional thing we could be building also and invite other counselors to maybe be part of it and that way they could be in case we need to we could have two blocks and let's find out what the deal is in terms of minimum registration okay and do a poll before we go there Alyssa do you have another point just a point about that last new idea of having other people and the answer for me is no that that's why I would be interested in this particular range of two and a half days is if it's us because of our shared culture and what we're trying to get moved forward because of what we're trying to learn I'm happy to participate in other trainings with lots of other people and have done so over the years but that doesn't feel like the right move right now so finding a good date for a huge percentage of us seems like the only way to go okay um is there any further discussion at this point I think we're going to then uh as fast as we can get those possible dates do a poll and um move forward okay thank you thank you I think you're showing I personally look forward to the training and thank you Pat and Shalini for putting this together the next item on the agenda is the there's no town manager appointments but we have some appointments and let me just jump over and say in serious and significant consultation with each of you I did make the appointments to our to our council committees but we still as a council need to decide on who will represent us at JCPC join capital and planning committee who will represent us on the budget coordinating group and let me just mention we haven't actually called this group together but in case we needed to we still need representatives and then we need to re-look at the liaisons to our multiple member bodies so let me start by saying as you know I do extensive polling of counselors I pull that together and provide for you both a history of who has represented us where um in first year of our council the second year and then I also give you a sense of the priorities different people have placed on various things um so given that the names of there are five people who are interested in the JCPC appointment the let me just mention the way that the charge reads is there can be no more than two people from the finance committee but one definitely cannot come from finance okay and the five people and I'm just going to explain are Councillor Griezmer I am on the finance committee Councillor Haneke she is not on the finance committee Councillor Ryan is not on the finance committee Councillor Shane is on the finance committee and Councillor Steinberg is on the finance committee so you can pick what you cannot do is put three people from the finance committee on this so what I would like to do is um ask individuals who are interested to make a statement of their interest and then um I think we should ask each councillor to name their top three so let's start in reverse order Councillor Steinberg can I get some more potato chips thank you um did you put an order in for me as well I want mine french fry okay enough of that go ahead Andy I'm holding off while everybody's got their food order placed before I go and say anything now I have been on uh during capital planning committee for number of years both in the original finance committee on a select board and um from the council and so one of the things that I offer to the committee as you considered is the history and under in somebody who has been through various years of the history the other thing that I feel very strongly about is that I think that there is a an important link between finance committee and what uh joint capital planning committee is doing and recommending a capital plan to the town manager because the capital plan has to fit in with the budget as a whole that there are expenditures that at times can fall under operating or can fall under capital um and that one of the charges to the finance committee is to think about the large projects which come out of the amount that's available for capital so that as we divide capital um and say that we're going to give uh six seven eight ten up to ten percent of tax revenue for um capital purposes that um that includes paying back prior capital debt um new major capital expenditures envisioned in the future and uh the uh integration therefore is very strong okay so I that is why I put my name forward okay and we're going to keep our remarks short maybe even a whole lot less than three minutes. Kathy Shane um I when I ran for town council JCP was always the committee I wanted to be on and I had did not succeed in the first year so I made myself an understudy and I went to literally every meeting but sat out in the public comment area last year I this past year I did get on and was appointed or elected chair and it was a most unusual year in that we had almost no capital to spend during the year so we didn't write the normal report and we didn't go through the normal backlog and so I would really like to be on a second year um and as Andy said what I found is that the link between really knowing what's in that backlog in the queue and our operating budget and thinking in the future is critical you just you just can't get a picture of total town without knowing both so um I would appreciate being on both I have more than enough time I'm not under time constraints and if for those of you who worry that it conflicts with the elementary school committee the good thing about JCPC it's the concentrated period of time that we have and the work is done before the work of the other intensity the other committee will start so I have plenty of time I'm only on one council committee the finance committee um several of the other people are on two not counting JCPC so I would really like to continue thank you council ryan well I have held back in my first two years from putting my name forward for either of these bodies um partly because of sheer ignorance um but I feel like I'm ready and very much motivated to dig in I'm deeply concerned about the financial well-being of the town I'm deeply concerned as all of us are about the capital projects um so I feel I'm ready and definitely um eager to serve so I would be open to serving on both bodies um I do have two other committees I serve on um but the good news is I've retired from your other job that used to pay you that other job yeah okay um councilor hannicky yeah I think all I would say is I've enjoyed serving on this committee um trying to figure out how what its role is in a new form of government and I think that's still sort of evolving at this point um and I would love to continue service on it okay and I'm going to say I was on this the first year I went to the meetings the second year but was not on it and I'm actually going to withdraw my name in the interest of allowing another councilor to have this experience I do want to point out that I felt it was necessary to put my name here so people understand that this is where my interests are uh I am continuing to serve on the finance committee however I also have given up gel so that other counselors can have that experience so it's really down to uh counselors hannicky ryan shane and steinberg and I'm just going to go through and I want you to name your top three and Athena I'm going to probably need you to um help me keep a record okay hold on okay so uh we start in this case with Kathy Shane okay and Lynn can I just clarify it's up to two finance but doesn't have to be two finances that's correct okay then I um it's Mandy George and Kathy okay Steve Schreiber um can I pass can you come back to me I'm still um Andy Steinberg um Mandy George and Andy Sarah Schwartz Andy Kathy and Mandy Andy Kathy and Mandy okay got it um shall I keep on them um Kathy Shane um Mandy and George Alyssa Brewer I'm sorry I'm struggling a little here too if you could come back to me also that would be great I'm not counting boats I'm just trying to make sure I understand what I'm doing Kathy Angelus Hannicky Steinberg and Shane Darcy DeMont Darcy sorry um I think I'm gonna just vote for two Kathy and Mandy Jo Christmas gonna hold Hannicky I'm gonna vote for um Hannicky Ryan and Shane Darcy Pam Ryan Shane and Steinberg Evan Ross uh this is a tough vote y'all and especially doing it separately from the BCG I just want to say I wish we could do it together but I think that I'm going to go with uh Shane Hannicky and Steinberg George Ryan uh Steinberg Shane Ryan and I'm back to Steve Schreiber George Kathy Andy and Alyssa Hannicky Ryan and Steinberg four-way tie no I've got I've got ten for Shane I've got nine for Hannicky and I've got eight each for Ryan and Steinberg is that correct that's what I got the same I got the same let count Lynn Zina yes great then may I ask if everyone is voted no I'm the only one that hasn't I was trying to avoid it well I could I would withdraw my name then I'd prefer to have stand Andy if it's between Andy and myself I would withdraw all right so it's Andy Shane and Hannicky okay that one's done we're moving on to the next one and I'm going to make it easy by withdrawing from that one because if we get into a really serious budget discussion I'm going to have to be involved in anyway so let's just move on and because in this case there are two people from finance I'm sorry budget coordinating group oh from finance committee well it has to be finance no it doesn't that's wrong thank you it's Ryan and Shane okay any problem with that want to vote it mini Joe um we should check the rules of procedure because the charge doesn't require it from finance but I wonder if that came from the rules so before we go and I'm in saying that I would still love to see where George Ryan on this but uh it's enough for someone can you quickly pull up our rules and see whether or not this committee requires that you talk to me on finance but wait sorry it wasn't the rules it was the finance part I'm I'm trying to remember where the conflict was it was the finance charge and I think GOL fixed it so hopefully we fixed it so there's no conflict well I was just going to say maybe we should just fix the charge if it hasn't been and go ahead yeah that makes sense yes yes all right I'm gonna call for a vote the people in this case are Shane and Wayne are you thinking to say yes all right uh I'm going to start in this case with Steve Schreiber and the vote is yes or no yes or no yes Seinberg yeah sports yes yes I'm sorry I know it's voting time but I'm confused there's only two people and there's only two seats because I but that means that one of them is on both bodies uh that means that Shane is on both bodies yes no okay that doesn't make sense to me no all right uh the angels yes Dumont yes Reese Mersey yes panicky no uh Dorothy Pam yes yes Kevin Ross yes George Ryan yes Kathy Shane yes so the vote is actually 11 in favor two opposed no no abstentions and no absence uh would either Alyssa you told you mentioned your reason Mandy Jared you have a issue that you want to discuss I would just say I um supported Alyssa's reasons okay thank you so those two are done let's very quickly look at the um Kathy has a hazard hand up that Kathy okay Lynn I just want to say something um I almost didn't put BCG on for that reason and it hasn't really been meeting as a committee we've been meeting the one time we called it together was the crisis this past year where we had to have everybody there I'm in and the whole council came so it's on paper a committee so I just want to explain you know I put it as a number two when asked to ranked and I actually considered not doing it and then we wouldn't have even had two people saying yes so just it's a point of clarification on what does this committee actually do and and it has never met in the history of this town council in the past it used to meet if there was budget crisis and the reality is we've tended to use the finance committee and then when we call a committee that when we call a meeting that includes the school committee and the Jones library trustees for the purposes of dealing with the budget we refer to it as the budget coordinating people in the future may want to change that or there may be reason to change it but we now have two representatives all right on the next memo is the whole issue of liaisons and we had only a couple instances where more than one counselor has expressed interest in a being a liaison so for affordable housing pat de Angles is the only counselor before George Ryan has been doing that and Dorothy Pam has expressed interest hold on gotta find my raise hand yes Dorothy um I just was being accommodating so withdraw my name got it this is what we did last time uh we're licensed commissioners the only person that is expressed interest community preservation act was Dorothy Pam and Kathy Shane either one of you want to withdraw I could I could withdraw council on aging Dorothy Pam is the only person expressing interest disability advisory access advisory committee pat de Angles is the only one expressing interest lsse commission Dorothy Pam Steve Shriver if needed so I would say Dorothy Pam well you know I yield to the distinguished counselor from I was going to yield to you Steve so they say I was just being obliging to fill those things out um so what about Steve if you take that on sure okay I've got a lot of committees I attend yeah and I'm happy to do that and then transportation advisory we have de Angles de Mont and Shriver if needed uh Dorothy Darcy is the person who's doing it now I'd like to keep that if I could de Angles pat or Steve any concerns oh yeah yeah um second for Darcy your Darcy okay pat any concern where is Pat I'm here there you are I've been here I don't remember putting my name in for transportation um advisory committee it might have been a year ago that I did that I'm not I don't have the time now because I'm involved with some other stuff like the mobile market following up would be serving as liaisons until this is a motion to appoint following town counselors as liaisons to town multiple member bodies under town council rules procedure 10.8 counselors as non-voting liaisons effective immediately for the terms expiring January actually it's January 5th 2022 uh affordable housing pat de Angles uh Board of Health George Ryan Board of Licensed Commissioners Alyssa Brewer Community Preservation Act Kathy Shane Council on Aging Dorothy Pam Disability Advisory Committee Pat de Angles LSSZ Commission otherwise known as Amherst Recreation uh Steve Shriver and Transportation Advisory Committee Darcy de Mont is there a second Dorothy Dorothy Pam is seconded we're going to quickly take that vote and we're starting with Andy Steinberg point of order is um probably should just say Recreation Commission and not say LSSZ at all at this point so Andy just taking about now yeah we vote we're moving to the vote and it's your turn and I vote yes okay aye kelly bowman yes Alyssa Brewer yes Pat de Angles aye Alyssa Duvont yes greasemer's aye panicky aye ma'am aye Evan Ross aye Ryan yes yes yes driver yes excellent thank you we're done with that um moving on to um uh the Midian liaison reports CRC Midja yeah um just a couple of short things because I know it's late I want to first thank outgoing CRC member Sarah Swartz Councillor Schwartz and your contributions have been invaluable and we're going to miss you um but I also want to welcome back I guess Councillor Pam who is rejoining CRC so and I want to give you a warning I hope you're ready for a busy committee calendar and because it's it's going to be busy the next couple of months um housing policy as you saw in the the CRC report uh please read it please get the comments to us if you have any comments I also want to state we're hoping to have a council discussion in the near future on this housing policy so it's not just your only opportunity to we're getting comments to the committee in writing will not be your only opportunity as a counselor to comment on this draft before it gets a vote in the CRC um we'll be working I'll be working with the president to figure out when that's happening but there will be something at a council meeting coming and so I just wanted to make that clear and and then similarly with zoning priorities we're meeting CRC is meeting with the planning board on February 3rd so um I'll I'll say that again for Councillor Pam because she might not have had it on her calendar and she'll be a member as of that point February 3rd at 6 30 um at the request of the planning board to discuss the zoning priorities and and we are working on engagement plans and outreach plans um both for counselors and for the public regarding zoning priorities discussions are happening um and I just want to give a heads up to everyone that uh likely part of that will include district meetings so I hope the district counselors are all on board with talking about zoning at district meetings to get feedback and so I just want to give a heads up but but when we get a better definitive plan I'll definitely bring that to the council to let the council know and present it. Thank you. This is my third clarification. I think we're obviously excited to welcome member bodies. Bodies motion to appoint the following town councillors as liaisons to tell multiple member bodies on your town council rules to proceed. Thank you. Um what was that? There's somebody listening to a tape um so uh all of that aside Mandy Jo there are district meetings scheduled I believe for every district in February. Do you believe it'll be ready for discussion then?  Yeah not every zoning priority um because that you know you you kind of have to give the planning department some time to figure out the zoning you know drafts um and stuff but no I I really don't know the the CRC hasn't fully discussed a plan yet I know there's some meetings tomorrow to discuss some stuff you know I've had meetings with our vice chair and Dave Zomek our liaison about this and so you know and CRC will discuss a potential plan even if the dates are are vague tomorrow but you know I hope to have more information soon. Okay thank you um Kathy you submitted an elementary school building committee report are there is there anything you would like highlight briefly from that report and if not we'll ask for questions. Um yeah I would uh just one major highlight um we received back from the MSBC these um the certification of enrollment and I highlighted in the report what that is what so what the school building committee will be looking at as we go forward is uh two possible designs one is a grade k through five consolidated school where we go from three schools down to two but they are k through five and the sixth grade moves to the middle school and that would be at about 575 enrollment and the other would be keeping all three schools and doing one new or one new renovated k through six um with and in each case the site would be determined whether it's Wildwood or Fort River down the road so we are down to those two enrollment certification choices um and and uh there was a discussion of this initially at the school committee before we signed off we did raise in a discussion just before we had to sign it was a sign it or come back another year and get in the queue but there was a discussion of an option of k through six with Crocker being bigger and unless we were ready as a town to pay for the Crocker share um we weren't going to be given that option as a study design and we should come back again if that's what we wanted so we're down to these two choices we as a committee have selected a subcommittee that will be working on the our requests for proposals or requests for services for an o p m so that would be the next stage that we would be invited into and our next meeting i put the dates in it is in February after msba meet so we're trying to get ready to be on the street with that as soon as possible after being officially invited in so i'll take any questions we haven't put out the one point at what thing i'd like to say is we have not yet as a town or as a school committee put out um a press release or anything that would make this widely known to the town and one of the advice we heard was communicate as soon as possible and as often as possible so these are the choices we have if we stay in the pipeline which we are planning on doing so there is an implication for the design of our school system here tonight's uh ask Kathy just before i go to questions you know this is you finally got to the point that the committee had done enough that there was something to report do you see this as a monthly report or a report that comes when some significant next step has been accomplished um i think i think um it can be a monthly update so for example next month that might be the request for services is out on the street um but it won't have an activity i think we absolutely would do a a longish report you know more substantive when we're before we're at a key juncture of making a decision it's something elissa had raised in our retreat and i think that's right that we would be saying you know a month from now we're going to have to be making this decision um and and there'll be a meeting about that and we will know that the way the process works the timeline it's it's pretty slow it's not like oh dear next week we have to make this decision you know we it's it's in a series of stages with msba also signing off on are you ready for the next one yet um so that so i think it could be just an update lin in the future but it's certainly not every two weeks reporting because it's not moving that fast yeah uh do you there are questions marver dorthy um i have a question with numbers on page one and two on page one the second bullet new k6 grade elementary school with 320 students but on page two place three has a new school with 420 students um that i can i can explain so it might not have written it clearly we originally went to msba saying this is what we'd like our choices to be and we specified 420 and that 420 which is designed that allowed a bilingual program and an option of english only in a school in school um that that was the classroom sizes you needed to make that work msba came back to us and said not 420 but 320 because you have space in all of your schools to accommodate it i got it we we designed your curriculum because you've got enough space so just figure out how you're going to do the curriculum they like the bilingual program but it's um we're not going to give you the extra space in that school good thank you moving along maybe go yeah i guess one of my questions is on a similar vein um i know these numbers were lower than the committee and the school committee and the superintendent had originally wanted and talked about when we initially applied for the program and i'm guessing part of that is because um the msba capacity calculations assume classroom sizes that are larger than classroom sizes in our school committee's policy and so i guess one of the things i want to talk about or just bring up is um what how is that going to be dealt with um going forward um the fact that a 320 k6 fort river assumes capacities that are superintendent generally has reported would be above bursting at the seams particularly at crocker that they say is already ops really full um and they assumed a crocker study at 50 students more than where it is now um and how does that affect and and these aren't questions you can necessarily answer now but how does that affect the reimbursement rate if we have to build a school larger than that because we are subsidizing our classroom sizes um so i think that's just things to keep in mind as we're going forward um and i did want to comment on the subcommittee i'm glad there's a subcommittee i noticed though that there aren't any quote school members on that subcommittee that it's two community members and then three members from the town side of the committee not the school side and you know i'm not questioning the qualifications of anyone on that committee i want to say that but i did notice that that seemed a bit strange for a opm subcommittee that's going to be picking an owner's project manager manager um for an elementary school building to have no one from the schools on that subcommittee um so let me just respond and steve can respond to um the first task of the subcommittee is drafting the request for proposals or request for services and we had a full committee discussion of specific items and some of this is almost boilerplate where you just fill in some blanks on it and then we talked about what other elements and we fully intend to bring that full draft back to the the full committee and so mike morris the others will be um reviewing that and similarly the subgroup will be doing interviews and background checks and bringing three or four finalists back to the full committee um so it won't be that all the decisions are made by a subcommittee um so this was a group that was willing to focus on the elements of this initially so steve i don't know whether you want to add anything to that well i think in principle the the committee members are selected from the various bodies but in the end we're one elementary school building committee so our you know our we have the same commitment so i don't think that we think of it and the way that you're thinking of it um councilor hannicky that we're representing the town council on this but that basically we're representing the school committee of them by extension a larger community on this subcommittee you know i think paul paul had his hand up also thank you kathy uh mr paul so i just want to point out that dwayne chamble is an employee of the school district and uh the superintendent was pleased that he stepped up to represent and representing school in a certain way thank you for that because he's listed as a community member on the he is but he's also an employee of the school okay we skip over dorsey and go to elisa because dorsey's already asked a question dorsey elisa thank you i just want to and i appreciate the report and like you said kathy i really wanted this and so i really look forward to continuing to get them um looking near the end of the report where it says we tentatively agreed that the town school committee would issue a press release to regarding receipt of the enrollment certification and next steps so it's late even though it's not as late as usual but that press release has to be much more user friendly than anything that's been done before ever because the place we're at right now makes no sense to people in terms of how we're supposed to possibly figure out not only the details of what mani joe just talked about in terms of the numbers which the numbers don't make sense to what people's experiences are of the school but also this idea of making this choice between doing something with fort river and doing nothing with wildwood because that's what that choice is and doing a consolidated school so people need a much better understanding of are we just opening this up to the whole world of the community to say sure we're going to do a survey pick one and then we'll go with that or is there actually going to be a drive to figuring out what makes sense for our school population and saying this is our better choice and this is when the decision points are and this is who makes them um i'm saying you have your work cut out for you in terms of a press release that's going to actually mean anything to anybody um i don't think that requires a response but just a you know observation felony yeah it was very similar to what elissa was going to say in terms of uh just making sure that the community community is moving along with you as the critical decision making points and what and maybe even setting them out on the website the town website or somewhere that this is when what is going to happen and so and then and also having a good plan for besides press release how are we going to let people the stakeholders teachers students parents how to keep them informed have a good plan for that okay kathy thank you for a thorough report we look forward to new shrub dates uh finance committee andy i'll be very grateful the finance committee is meeting tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock there are essentially three items on the agenda one of which is the third quarter uh our second excuse me second quarter f y 21 finance report that's the end the regular quarterly budget report and those of you who are interested in it it is in the packet that is posted under the fund the finance committee page for the council um the uh other major item another major item we're discussing tomorrow will be um sort of the first time that the finance committee is talking about a matter that was referred by the council and that is the two resolutions that we will have to be considering later in the year regarding wastewater and uh there were a number of financial issues that were raised in our first discussion at the finance committee and we want to carry those over and expand on them through the process and then the third is to um work on the work plan for the year as requested of all committees okay great uh gel george yeah there's a detailed report in the packet i'm just going to highlight a couple of things it's really focused around uh gel's annual review of the rules of procedure um we're going to bring forward a couple of proposals with the uh perhaps fantastic goal of shortening or helping shorten our meetings um they're fairly small proposals one is to reduce the time that may not be so small but um rule procedure 6.3d and 6.3e it's in the packet um we will bring these together as a proposal to you fairly soon um in consultation with the president um we have some future items there as well so it's basically current recommendations we have some future items that um particularly urge the new members of the committee uh sarah and darsie to look at because as mandy said for her committee our committee has a fairly full plate as well um but we have a number of areas that we again are going to be looking at and again perhaps bringing some recommendations forward it's in the packet um we also had a whole host of questions and concerns raised over the course of the year and so we tried to we did discuss them um and so they're itemized here um perhaps the one that I can touch on most briefly um but there you can read it for yourself is emails and text during a meeting can't do it okay um it's against the rules um finally we're working on a larger issue related to the charter 8.1 open meeting of the residents we've had great help from the town manager and his staff um we hope to have for you soon uh both the process um and a document that would go with it there is an issue you'll find it in the packet related to the age issue about who how will you should be um and so the the committee is going to have to wrestle with that at its next meeting um and come to some determination. Kathy I know they're calling for the next date for jcpc so there's no report at this point correct okay uh tso darsie yeah we do not have a report in the packet today um at our last meeting on january 7th um there were no appointments um and we had the first presentation about the dpw stormwater bylaw proposals which will be reported on when um when we get further along with them um and at our meeting this upcoming thursday uh it's it's a meeting of it's a regular meeting plus the whole council is invited because we are going to be looking at uh the north common proposal again and we'll have responses to questions the counselors have asked at those before we're the manager um any liaison reports elissa it's not a liaison report it's a question about the gol report i'm sorry go back to i didn't see your hand elissa i'm so sorry not a bad we were trying to move along um george highlighted so many things there and there were so many more things yet in the report but he highlighted the main thing i was concerned about which was the idea that the charter language could be superseded through a change in the rules of procedure which i just find to be a jaw-dropping concept so what does that mean because there's a lot of other things we change like in the charter if we could just change them based on rules that actually say like the charter does 18 i don't have any understanding of what that could mean and if you're trying to explore doing that when that's not a thing what does that mean i think that's a fair question elissa and i'm not sure i can answer it um i don't know if any members of the committee want to speak but that was my understanding of the discussion at the time that even though the charter language is explicit there might be some way in which we could get around it um and that's why it's on the agenda for the next meeting because i have a similar question um okay yeah i i can explain further since it was my idea um which is not to supersede the charter language it was a you could have an open meeting of the residents under the charter which would require all the signatures or the names to be over 18 and at the same time you could create just like we've created these work sessions or these things there you could create a rule under a rule of procedure that mimics that 8.1 thing that 8.1 open meeting of the residents but applies to whatever age we set so it would not be a charter open meeting of the residents but it would mimic all of that thinking and be different so i hope that clarifies that that it does because all the hands went down um okay are there any liaison reports pathy i just a very brief one on the community participation committee they had a very interesting discussion about how to keep the period um of when they'll receive a proposal open longer and provide information sessions so they can increase participation of residents so residents would know how to apply for funds they might get some guidance um and it was all pretty much all of them were saying we need to do a better job on that um so that people can know what things might be eligible how you go about applying could get some guidance are you waiting on budgeting and it was a solid hour and a half discussion on improving that to with the goal of increasing participation okay great thank you any other liaison reports all i think we're up to the 10 managers report thank you so just a few things um we're spending a lot an inordinate time on uh covid vaccine and preparing for it distributing it you heard i appreciate it that the council gave time to public health director um Emma dragon so she could talk a little bit about the work that she's doing she's doing a really terrific job working very successfully with the fire department um as you're probably sensing in your own communities there's a lot of anxiety about the uh about the vaccine we're getting inundated with telephone calls through the senior center against our covid hotline um you know literally hundreds of calls coming in people and it's adult children with of their parents um who are trying to make sure that they don't miss the boat and we're trying to do as much as we can to help alleviate that what we meeting again to talk more about making sure we can help people know when they're going to get it so they don't feel like they're being left behind and that's a big anxiety for a lot of our seniors especially um a lot of our residents have been returning to town starting today and actually last week for some of the other colleges um and you know we have a large number who are living on campus about 5500 is the estimate and i think about 6700 something like that um off campus um and so but the university has a very good protocol as to do the other colleges that you arrive on campus in order to register and to get your keys to your room actually you have to go get a test um and then you are quarantined for four days and then you get your second test and then that that lets you move forward through the system um moving forward i think a lot of you if you're at the MMA meeting you saw that uh jennifer moisten was featured is one of our um people to help recruit a more diverse workforce for municipal sector she follows on the heels of brian sunriff who was featured previously and so you know we've got our rising stars right here in our own town who are out there the MMA has chosen them to be the faces of working in cities and towns which i'm really really proud of and they both did a tremendous job obviously and lastly um i'm starting something new this week off office hours so if people who don't want to come to a cup of joe or something they just want to schedule a time to talk um they can set up a time um you know designated time on friday uh through the town manager's office and we'll have a one-on-one zoom conversation sort of and that's available to folks also um if um and we're doing our community chat on thursday and on thursday we're going to focus on um pomeroy village so that it gives people the opportunity to ask more questions that if they watch the the um your meeting tonight they might have additional questions so chris restrop will be joining me and brianna on thursday for that and so i know you have questions i'll turn to those yeah yes thank you um just a couple of things one i also want to say brianna did a fantastic job at the mmca counselors association meeting and presentation too um she was just fantastic there and thank you so much for the fantastic update of all the board of licensed commissioners have been doing to it was just i can't say more than it was fantastic to read everything they're doing um question on public works what's the status of i think it's a water treatment facility that we funded i i don't i don't remember the name that we had to get back up online before our permit runs out um was one of the reasons we were borrowing for money so could you just update us on the status of that if it's been able to be going forward during this covid time and then one of the things that struck me in listening to the community safety working group public forums where they took some testimony was the issue a lot of people had with the umass police department and so i wanted to bring that up as what can you during these umass meetings or at other times um due to speak to umass about maybe working with our department to address those racial justice issues and all that we're working so hard to address here with the community safety working group how do we bring umass in yeah so um i'll start with that one first so we i have notified umass our contacts there about this the interest of the community safety working group and seeking more information and more cooperation from the umass police department i don't know where that will go but i you know but i think the you know as we talked about it at that meeting they were pretty the community safety working group it's a community safety working group it's not amherst police department safety working group and it felt like to me that that was a that was a legitimate thing to explore i mean the challenge for our the working group is that the issue is so gigantic and that but they need we need to focus on what what we can achieve and so it's but they are they're the experience is so dramatic and so large so their umass is alert to it um i don't know what their response is going to be um in terms of the it's the centennial water treatment plant that continues to move forward on design um the unfortunately the costs continue to be what they are it's a it's a large number um but that's moving forward and um in terms of getting that plant back online i mean jo thanks for asking about the emails please them because that was that was very very prominent in the discussion uh dorthy pan um would it be possible to have the presentations by uh the staff members be on the town web page for which presentations the one you talked about jennifer's and um rihanna's sure yeah shallony yeah um thank you again for the mma participation i always find that really helpful and even though it was zoom it was super helpful and i just wanted to bring one thing up that i heard and i don't know what is where is the right forum to bring that up so i'm just gonna say it now uh the keynote speaker was west moira ceo of robin hood foundation and uh the question to him was um how do we get how do we make anti-racism a priority given you know there's so many different priorities that a town has and how do you get everyone on board or and what and so his answer was that we need it has to start with measurement and uh that we need to be able to measure like in our town where the systemic gaps are and and so i don't know what is the forum to ask for allocation of funding for measurement because i don't believe we have and if we do have measurement maybe we need to highlight and where we need to measure um so where can how do we go about having that discussion but budgeting for measurement of systemic gaps i don't know the answer that i know there are groups you know the reparations group is looking at the different measures um the legal women voters have looked at some certain things as well i think it's something that i don't have a good answer for you i don't for that where to go from here on that honestly yeah i don't need the answer now but um but lind can you suggest like is that something that where do we discuss or is it something paul that you will think about and get back to us or is it something we're supposed to discuss let me talk about that with paul and see whether or not there's resources and whether the existing community safety working group has any of that kind of flowing from their recommendations as well okay right or even if you can support the reparations for amherst group like if they're doing the work and have these so it's like we should be supporting them or someone should be doing it basically but not redundancy like if community working group is already doing it then let's make sure we support them or if the reparations group is doing then let's support them let's just be clear who's doing it but someone should be doing it thank you alissa i was just going to mention that um brianna's slides from the counselors association meeting are already in tonight's packet thanks to lin and athena and then the other thing that and so we should put a balloon to the video too for um both of them but the other part is that in regards to the umass i think that's a multi-layered thing with the umass police i think because of the relationships you have over the covid discussion the reopening discussion that that will help figure out those conversations but i think it's not just a conversation i really appreciate you bringing up many joe it's not just a conversation between the two police departments because many moons ago i went to both their citizens academies and there shall we say ebbs and flows as to how much they're willing to even talk to each other and so there there's this very siloed approach typically except when a big event is happening and so finding a way to talk about that not only with the chiefs are one thing right but it's the actual people doing the work that are another conversation all together and so finding a way to work at it from both like the community relations external relations standpoint as well as the peer to peer police standpoint i think that i think there's just a bunch of different ways it needs to be approached if you get pushed back in one area and then for another because the thing is if if people are having bad experiences on the amherst college campus the reality is the amherst college campus is a private school the umass campus is a state school that's this giant property that lots of people have interactions with and so it's entirely appropriate that they're considered part of our community even more so than an amherst and a hampshire and so finding you know whichever levers we might need to pull in terms of those relationships i'm saying it's not just one thing it's perhaps a bunch of different ways of approaching umass to say we need to be able to have some conversations thank you any other comments for the town managers report and we look forward to the town council comments you received my post president's report i've asked for questions i've gotten a couple particularly about the scheduling for the uh library and i'll come back for the more full answer on that um darcy you have a question or a comment yeah i just wanted to comment that um the ecac annual report was in the packet um and i think lin has plans to do something about that at the next meeting is what what is i was i really wanted to know we put it in at the last minute so first of all you really haven't had a chance to have done it this is the report that's just required to them annually and i wanted to ask whether the council would like of the chair of ecac to come to the meeting a future meeting or do you want to wait until they're ready to come forward with their recommendations which i believe is in april isn't it darcy uh it yeah it's supposed to be in april um but yeah i personally think that it makes sense to have a very brief update um this is the annual report and the um and there's a funding funding request in the in the document okay anything else darcy okay maybe joe yeah thank you for the written report lin i really appreciated it um just a couple of comments and questions uh library engagement i'd love us to consider a weekend i think the community safety working group that held one on the weekend showed that weekends can attract people um and so we probably shouldn't avoid that um the meetings with senator comford since they're not regular could i request a note that maybe a week or so or a few days ahead of that meeting those meetings that you just sort of ping us so that if there's something out that um we can get it to you at that time because we don't really think ahead to a nebulous there might be a meeting next month um and with that um just you know some curiosities i had one was what open meeting law changes are being considered for permanent adoption at the state level that might affect what go l is looking at in terms of their own covet moving out of covet and what changes we can keep and not and and then it sounded like from your report that the rcv special legislation has not actually been filed yet um my understanding was it could be filed at any time so i'm concerned that they are choosing not to file it um i know there's no committees formed but i would urge you and the senator comford i don't know whether it has to go through her officer rep dom's office but um whoever files it i would urge to file it now not wait another month um i thought it might get filed in early january that came up at the very end literally fall was running one way y'all was running the other and i didn't get to push that i'm going what so thank you i will follow up on that even well before next month yeah and then the final thing the big conversation about the spring farmers market i i guess spring farmers market i was unsure of the term i assume this is the farmers market that starts in the spring but runs through november um what's being discussed um i guess my concern is it's a council decision if the plan is for a public way or on the common um and so maybe that should be at a committee level instead of just at the town manager president level yep agree and let me just say that it got raised in the bid meeting and i can say that both paul and david said oh yeah i think we better get on that so yes a recommendation and then that does have to come because it is a request for this of the public life it has to go to tso at a minimum okay anything else bandit y'all nope that's it okay any other questions yes y'all any i just wanted to thank you like if it's not like you're doing enough already now you're creating this long report for us so i just wanted to acknowledge that and it does bring more transparency and else is pretty scary i don't think anyone wants to be a president after looking at that report it's a good way to hold on because yeah that's a lot of work and i really appreciate you thank you and continue to look for opportunities where you know another council might go with me for some meeting or that kind of thing i i just needed to kind of get a grasp on what is it really looks look like i this the first time i've ever put it's not even a month it's only three weeks on paper and i'm going oh my god okay thank you that was enough uh shall any anything else okay let me also mention that on the 8th we have now invited umass to come at 5 30 and you know this is optional uh i mean it will call it a council meeting but it's really the purpose is one of these information meetings about their spring and how it's going and so forth but we're also going to use it as an opportunity for updates on vaccination plans and so forth uh expanding a little bit and maybe we'll have even more information but that will be on the 8th and at 5 30 and just to add uh paul mentioned the um we've been pushing them for these numbers and we've got them to get today uh they do feel that there's like about 7 thousand five hundred seven thousand and fifty umass students who are living in the area and of that about 650 are living in amherst and then they also mentioned that there are about 6000 unique students i thought this was quite interesting who are doing face to face classes and of that about only 3100 live on campus so there's a lot of students who live in the area who are going to campus for classes and those are the kinds of numbers and information we're asking them to provide they'll have much much more solid numbers on the 8th because they begin classes on monday i'm looking at evan i'm looking at us and um they will also provide us more information about oh that that's the other thing they are committed to ongoing testing of asymptomatic for residents they won't do it this week this coming week no because of the students returning but they will resume it the following week and i think they're going to be doing as many as three days a week for asymptomatic testing of residents who are not affiliated with the university at all okay this and then um are there any other counselor comments and i want to make note that um yeah that was it any other counselor comments yes um just a quick one lin on what you just said about 530 um and umass could you provide i wrote it down quickly but could you provide a sentence by email because i'll get the neighborhood association to put it in their little updates because there's a lot of interest in north amherst on the students returning on updates on what's going on and then we could maybe not have to have a separate district one meeting on it but you know but just so if you give me a sentence i literally will just send it over so they can say um you might turn on okay garcy very quick question in my date book i had written in on february 8th out underneath town council the word vote but i don't know what it is that we are voting on i took could so could you refresh my memory imagine we're going to vote on a number of things so i don't know what that one particularly would refer to i do know that we have two we have two resolutions coming forward that are being reviewed by gol this week anybody have any other recollection i'll as we put together the account the agenda will not be maybe it'll maybe it'll dawn on you okay is there any other comment or question at this time then i am going to call the meeting adjourned and it is 11


What is up everybody, my name is Noah Banks, also known as a millennial health coach and today we'll be going over four ways to find time to work out with a busy schedule. So the first thing I tell my clients to do when they say, Noah, I just don't have time.  The reason why I say this is you would actually surprise a lot of us really underestimate the time that we have available to us. Usually have them do this because you can usually find at least 30 to 45 minutes in there that you can actually fit in a workout. This could be instead of watching two hours of TV, you maybe watch one hour TV. Maybe those 30 minutes that you use in the morning to catch up on social media, Facebook and Instagram can be used to go take a walk or take a jog outside in the morning before you get ready for the day. Once you plan out your day, you can actually find the little spots in there that you can find time to work out. The second way to find time to work out is to either sign up for a class or hire a coach. Now this is super important because accountability is key.  And then two, you can actually leverage this in the workplace. Imagine going up to your boss and saying, hey Jim, hey Susan, I'm really taking this year to really invest in my health and take care of my body.  If your boss doesn't let you go to that class or get that coach, might need to look for a different job. So if you leverage your health and you put somebody else in the equation that helps you once they a little bit more accountable and then it also allows you to kind of use it as an excuse or a reason to leave a little bit earlier or to get in a little bit later to the office. Now you may say, no, that's not gonna work. I really just don't have money for a trainer or coach or classes. Then I ask the next question, how can you split up the workouts? Experts really recommend only 30 minutes a day of activity. Now that 30 minutes can be broken down into two 15-minute activities or three 10-minute activities. Now 10 minutes, you can find 10 minutes anywhere. You could take 10 minutes while you're cooking your food to do some body squats and some push-ups. You could take 10 minutes to just run up and down stairs in the morning before you head up to work. If you break down the workouts into smaller chunks, it makes it a little bit easier to stick to.  So you gotta have three small wins rather than one big one.  That's when I say leverage your office. There's a lot of different things you can do during your work day that can help you stay active. One is walking around the floor. I usually get up during work while I'm on a phone call. Maybe I'll stand up, stretch a little bit. That's a really good way to stay active. Another is to take the stairs. Try to avoid all type of mechanical modes of transportation in the workplace. So if it's an escalator, walk up the stairs. Just find some way to keep your body moving. Another thing you can include are exercises that you could do at your desk.  You can also do body weight squats. You can also do different stretches. You can do isometric holds while you're sitting in the chair by holding up really good posture. People may think you look weird, but at the end of the day, you're being healthy while they're not. So those are the four ways to find time to work out on a busy schedule. One, actually plan out your day and see what you can do. Two, hire a coach or sign up for a workout class. Three, chunk out the workout times throughout the day. Four, leverage your office to do some type of activity. So I hope this video was helpful for you. I do have one last question. Which of those four ways do you think will be easiest to stick to when it comes to finding time to work out? Put in the comment box below and let me know. So I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, feel free to like, subscribe, and hit that bell button at the bottom for all my upcoming videos. I'll catch you later. You already know, embrace the hype.


Life is good all this month at Appalachian Wireless. Get the LG G5 for just one penny with sign-up or renewal of a two-year service agreement. That's almost $100 off the regular price. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless. Motorists traveling US-23 in Pike County today couldn't help but notice an increased presence of Kentucky State Police commercial vehicle enforcement officers on the road. The agency is participating in the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance international road check campaign and officers from several Eastern Kentucky counties worked together today to check commercial vehicles traveling in Southern Pike County. Anybody that's certified with the CVSA will be inspectors officers will be out these 72 hours from June to 6 through the 8 with special emphasis on cargo security. Sergeant Field says these high volume inspections are being conducted throughout the US, Canada and Mexico but are especially beneficial here in eastern Kentucky. We have a lot of two lane roads, a lot of curves. With that said you know these these the 18 wheelers that's flatbeds that's hollow equipment you know that's one of our concerns is making sure everything's strapped down correctly because of the terrain that we live in. And while some violations were found and citations were issued at the end of the day the bottom line is safety. You know these guys right here they're making their living when we're out here just make sure they're safe doing it doing their job just make sure everything's tied down correctly make sure everything's secured. For more information on current laws and regulations for commercial vehicles you can go to CVSA.org. Reporting from Pike County I'm Shannon Deskins for EKB News.


Okay folks, Larry Pesavento mid afternoon update. I put the chart of Tesla up here because we were chatting about it yesterday because it had a really strong probability of completing this little Gartley pattern. You can see we had it marked in here at 181. If we go down and I'll just do this on an hourly basis, you'll be able to see it a lot easier. There was the pattern we were looking at right here. This was the ABCD I'll draw it in. For those of you that like to see a Gartley pattern and you'll draw it in right here and you'll see that it went right up. Let's see how close we came to the exact ABCD by using the old miracle tool here from Ensign. There's your AB leg. There's your CD leg. It said it should come in at 183.10. The high today was so far 184.25. We'll count that as a maybe possibly whatever it could be. Anyway, this is still a very various chart, folks. I don't know what the news is, but it's our good friend Al Christopher says there at TFNN. If he can't hear it, he ain't going to write in it. I'm the same way that Al feels. I've only written in the Tesla three times in my life. It seemed very nice, but I don't trust him when you can't hear. Anyway, let's move on and talk about the stock market. We're still in a relatively strong mode, folks. If we take a look here at the NASDAQ, this is something that we talked about on the show yesterday. There's absolutely nothing bearish about what's going on in the NASDAQ. Let me get this up here so you folks can see it. Hopefully I'll get it up here before time runs out, and that's where we want to go is right there. We're going to just put the hourly chart up, and I think you'll be able to see it easy enough. There's where we have over the last couple of days, but look at this, folks. This is from the high that we made. Look at this. There's a high we made just the other day on the 21st. Look, all we've done so far is make an A, B. Look at this. A, B, C, D. We're at 10 points at the exact low, at less than 10 points of the exact low that we've had. And on our rally back, all we've been able to do is rally up to just about that 61% level. We're a little below it right now, but that's what we see going on. Now, we've already sent out some signals, of course, in the S&P on the 3A2. That's working okay, but stay with us. We have a special report about hot chocolate and Willy Wonka cocoa $10,000 a ton. Can you believe it? We'll be right back.


Hello everyone. I am Sira Satish Kumar, consultant clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry in Manipal Hospital, Spangler. Most of the people who are at stress at work usually do not talk to others just because others might judge you. Whenever a person talk to other always feels that the moment I start sharing my issues to other person, other person might take advantage of me or other person is getting to know my weakness. Hence people do not share. When you are under stress, especially in a work environment, it is always good to talk it out. Talk it out to your friend, talk it out to an HR, talking out, venting out itself makes you feel better. So what you can do is you can talk to somebody as a chief factor which helps you and taking a lot of break and taking break only to relax yourself. And how do you do that? Just by listening to music or just looking out of the window, taking few seconds of break where you just give time for yourself and relax is something that is of a great benefit.