e see this go ahead and uh continue to councilmember coming so we have a motion on the floor uh councilmember coming and to um the developer for bringing us forward and the members of the community and one of the things that um really stands out to me as i was reading through this um this agenda report is just how much has been done to try to increase affordable housing in the community so you know the the purpose of the density bonus law is really was really to try to get more affordable housing and make it feasible for developers in our community pass measure o because we care about having more affordable housing and even when you know staff works with the coastal commission to to update our lcp you know the it sounded like through um through our agenda reports that you know the the real reason why the or one of the main reasons why the coastal commission was in favor of increasing that height was because there was an argument made by the city that this would help for there to be more affordable housing in our community and um you know and in previous discussion staff has brought up you know in order to get more affordable housing we need to restrict the housing you know there needs to be programs that are going to create more affordable housing and i think this is an opportunity um for us to try to work with the developer who's expressed interest in you know trying to make more affordable housing work especially as it relates to section eight housing vouchers and so um i had a substitute motion i wanted to put on the floor um and i'd send it over to the clerk but it would be to direct staff to work with the developer to discuss and attempt to negotiate a commitment of a specified number of units with a minimum of 15 units that would be that would increase the number of affordable housing affordable units through the use of sectionate housing vouchers and or the creation of a mechanism that would increase the number of affordable units through the use of sectionate housing vouchers prior to approving the project as a community that's it there's one um prior it's on um line number four that should be stricken from that those are typo i would second that but i did want to clarify um uh council member Cummings do you mean uh an amendment to the motion because that piece is just to um the question around affordability so we have the other items to also be considered so are you proposing an amendment i guess the reason why i was saying a substitute because if we my hope is that if we could negotiate those benefits they can be included and then if it comes back we could approve everything i mean i just am focused on a way in but i just everything and we asked the staff to go and you know i think that we need to you know see if this discussion can be had so we passed everything all in one motion um so that was the intent of having to be a substitute motion is allowing for that discussion to happen because it sounds like um these are comments from the developers and based on comments from staff there might be a way to make this work but people aren't sure and i think trying to hash that out this evening is probably not feasible but if we can allow them to try to work this through and have it come back to us you know i think that it will increase affordable housing and the reason why i also added the second portion of the creation of a mechanism is because obviously over time when units become vacant there may be an opportunity to have some kind of 30-day policy where it's offered to section eight i'm trying to create um the opportunity for in the future for there to be people who can use section eight boundaries and and get into housing thanks for the clarification so yes i'll second that so we have um mr kundadi and and i'll need your guidance just kind of you know armchair armchair uh quarterback with me here so we have a substitute motion on the floor can we put that up back up i'm not sure that i caught that with the second um tony we have to vote on this substitute motion you have to vote on whether to accept the substitute motion and then uh if the council votes to accept the substitute motion then you can call the question and vote on the motion for all the council members hopefully that is clear we the first step will be to accept this motion and then we would vote on the substitute motion um i'll take a few minutes just a way in here um i i appreciate this approach um and also want to acknowledge the work that has been done by the applicant and the additional effort that they have come forward with in terms of um their proposal to add uh mining into our affordable housing trust fund as well as um upwards potentially as much as half a million dollars uh i i look like there's a real commitment from them as well to look at um not only just bringing the the housing to the river but also participating in sort of how the river will um sort of be managed and maintained and some other benefits there uh i've been running running around on that river for a long time and um was part of a lot of the planning work um after the earthquake with regards to preparing um some of the new plans on the river um and participating in a large citizen committee that that was convened by the council back then that actually prepared the San Lorenzo Grumman river plan and um in that process we actually had we had full consent about really around bringing um some housing to this part of the river um because of its location next to transit and other things um and i think what i'm seeing on is um and many of our conversations kind of come to this point um with regards to housing housing projects and development projects and that um you know i think we all feel it's incumbent to get as much benefit and as much affordable housing out of every project um but i think also the intent of some of the state law um and especially the um the new the new law that you can't discriminate against people with section eight vouchers which is an incredibly important uh rectification of what was really um not a functional system um i think that that law and the recognition um by the applicant actually and acknowledgement of that um is really important that um we're working with a developer and we're working with a set of folks who are wanting to do public benefit with regards to what what kinds of outcomes may come from this project especially connecting a river down to front street and then you know basically across um what's going to become a much more active area i think they're well aware of of the obligation that comes with um the new laws around section eight uh and i think you know 20 units is is significant yeah we would all want more units but not every housing project that's going to come before the city of fancruz is going to be able to accommodate all the things that we want and i do believe that it's important that we recognize that you know we need a mix of housing types downtown is the perfect place to do that you know i've talked to people who you know want to retire and move into a small place like this downtown and have the flexibility to you know be here but also you know not to have the burden of of maintaining a large house or other things i know that is a a problem that not everyone shares in this town um the kind of person in this town allows us to have more more mobility in the rest of our housing market and i think that that's something we often forget is that um the way that we have a housing ecosystem is that we need bits and pieces of all kinds of housing so that we get that that possibility between the different types of unit sites and so um the most exciting thing i think about this project is i look at it in the context of the neighborhood that it's going to be in and it is going to be a neighborhood that has um you know well over 100 units of 100 affordable housing across the street with the with the metro project the south and north project we've got some other market rate on the other side we're hoping to have additional affordability uh in two other projects just walk away um obviously we've we've already committed to the tannery and other projects along the river um i think again my my opinion um as far as it goes is that i try to keep my eye on the fact that we need to create lots of different housing and i think this project does that uh and i think i've heard a really good commitment that and a recognition of state law that um frankly i didn't even know that that had occurred so this this ability for people to section eight vouchers to get access to housing is it's just critical so um i really appreciate it i really really appreciate the the motion at this point but i feel that it is somewhat of a redundant attempt to basically um try to i i understand the intent but i do think we're covered under the new state law with the section eight vouchers and i think it's incumbent upon um our economic development department and our planning department to be working with anyone who's building housing now to really understand what that is and to make sure we we're communicating that as much as we can with regards to our existing housing stock so i won't be able to support the motion i do appreciate um its intent but um i am um i won't be voting for the substitute motion so those are my comments and uh and i will go ahead and um call on uh member uh call on tarish johnson thank you mayor mires um i was going to speak to the first motion but i'll just speak in general i first want to thank the staff mr lowler and his team for the incredible work that's been done over the years i um spent since thursday night looking at the very thick agenda packet um the thorough information that was in there listening and watching the previous council meeting and reviewing all of the um correspondence that have come in since then um you know this project is well thought out it's aligned with multiple city plans as as mentioned by mr lowler and an outline in the agenda report it also operationalizes the three pillars of our recently adopted framework of health and all policies um that of health equity and sustainability and it does this by really shifting our downtown culture to be a space that people can live work and recreate um the project provides an opportunity to house a wide array of individuals and incomes including young adults um this is a group that i've worked extensively with that um having are really struggling with finding a place to live in our community um yes i i agree with the um comments around uh we would we'd like to have more affordable housing um and i think the the um direction that council member watkins proposed uh pursuing an informal process process to explore the um providing preference to section eight vouchers for units that stay vacant for a certain amount of time um what bonnie lipscomb um provided so i think i think if we could do that through an informal process and not delay this project any further um would be the direction i'd like to go you know just in looking at projects there's always there's always a flaw in every project in every policy and i think that if we stay in the loop of find the plot find the flaw for every project we really won't make any progress towards our vision of a vibrant community um and we'll perpetuate the housing crisis which of course impacts so many other of the challenges we face in our community so i think that this is um again a well thought out project that is aligned and meets many of our city goals and visions and um thanks for all the work that's gone into it thank you and i've got council member brown um and tony i just want to make sure that um i'm doing this right in terms of you know just continuing to have dialogue but we will go back and and need to get back to that um substitute motion correct okay i just want to make a few comments uh which are relevant both to the substitute motion and uh the final vote on the the initial motion should we go that route um so first i just want to say i really want to support a housing project and i actually believe that this location and higher density location is appropriate um you know there are many i'd like to see a number of changes to the project um many of which have been raised by members of the public so i'm not going to repeat them but you know related to design and height um the bike path and certainly uh you know would like to having talked now for at least you know four years with laura bisha from the 418 project find a way forward to support their being able to be part of this project i think um we absolutely uh would want to encourage uh you know creative spaces spaces for for people to engage in the kind of artistic activities that 418 uh sponsors and promotes and and makes space accessible for those activities um and i recognize that we don't have uh the discretion we don't have discretionary authority for a lot of those things so i'm uh while i'm just raising that here i'm not suggesting that um that would uh those would be the basis upon which i determine my supporter opposition to this project um i really want support for a housing project um and i've i've just been frustrated that there have not been uh projects coming to us that actually that make a real meaningful commitment to our affordability crisis um i appreciate the constraints that you know developers have in financing um and at the end of the day my responsibility is to the public interest and public benefit and you know i believe that there is a case to be made for stacking the uh inclusionary and density bonus affordable affordability requirements i i know that that is uh not what our legal counsel has uh has suggested is is the way forward but i think i've talked with other land use attorneys and affordable housing advocates and and i believe that this is up to interpretation and ultimately it might be settled in the court at some point moving forward whether here or in another community um and when it comes to the arguments about needing uh you know a variety of housing options you know i recognize that that's important as well but i want to remind my colleagues and the public that we have exceeded our above market uh rena original housing need assessment requirements we have exceeded uh our requirements and uh on market rate housing overall we are woefully behind when it comes to low income and very low income units that have been built we are we are so far behind that it's it's you know it's kind of just it doesn't it's unfathomable to me that we would be supporting uh high-end luxury development which is likely to bring uh a new mix of uh of residents to our community and as was suggested uh likely contribute to increasing our median our area median income which will just exacerbate the problem for those who are not able to um you know who are working in in those um you know low low paying jobs that we depend upon as a community um so you know i just i i just wanted to say that um you know i think that uh the you know the the coastal commission's letter is um not certainly not definitive but um you know they've made a case that um encouraging affordable housing is a priority and that public benefit is a priority and i don't believe that simply building uh you know space for commercial activity and high-end housing is a public benefit in and of itself i just disagree with that um you know the inclusionary requirements and the density bonus requirements um are provided in our you know separate zoning code chapters they're they're independent of each other um and the stat you know staff has said that um the code does not say we are uh required to uh stack those and for those those requirements to be additive it also doesn't say that they shouldn't and so i think there is room for interpretation about about our discretion in that regard uh i'm sorry that we were not able to get some kind of uh you know more uh positive response about the potential to use uh section e is set aside for meeting those requirements and um so uh you know and i i would hope that we could further that discussion before we approve this project at the end of the day um with that i'll just uh say that this is these are my my rationale for supporting the promotion made by councilmember Cummings and um i'll leave it there for for now thanks thank you councilmember brown councilmember golder thank you to everybody for your comments it's given me a lot to think about um one thing that um i'd like to share but i um is that i've been in talks with the 418 project as soon as this afternoon and they um said with this whether they'd be in here or another spot they're not going to be going out of business and they're they've got other spaces already kind of that they're working on so that they're willing to share much more than that publicly yet but i just wanted to share that the other thing i would like to say is that while i am fully supportive of um councilmember Cummings intent with to substitute motion i also think that having a project pencil out and have it actually get built is a benefit to the community and when you think about the reasons that housing costs a lot and you think about the high cost of real estate just the raw land in california the value of that then you talk you add in the high higher wages that um are paid here in california as opposed to you know other states or what what have you it tends to you know um increase the cost of the project and then to balance out if you don't want super luxury apartments yet that has to be a perfect you know nothing safer it has to be a balance where if we increase the amount of affordable units in this project the the developers will have to make the project pencil out in order to get the financing that they need then the other units are just going to cost more and so i think finding that balance is really delicate and so it's i just think adding more restrictions by putting um that there has to be a certain number that are only to section eight would make it more complicated and might slow the process down and then increase the total cost overall which would increase the rents in the long run and so that's why i don't think i can support the substitute motion council member coming and then i think i'd like to if we can um take a vote on the substitute motion and i've got uh and just and did you yeah i just i just put my hand down so sorry okay it was up and i'm down so quick okay yeah come on please so i just wanted to um mention for the purposes of clarifying how the vouchers are used and the book correct if i'm wrong because i know there's some people who are very familiar with putt the recipient of that about section eight actually wouldn't affordable units to be at market rate but they'd be subsidized using this as a mechanism because it actually would allow for the project to pencil out recent the number of affordable units so i just wanted to say that because it sounded like there is um a misunderstanding with the use of section eight housing vouchers and i wanted to make sure that was clear thank you uh council member bruner thank you mayor meyers uh you know this has been a really good discussion and i appreciate all of the information since thursday when this packet was delivered and the correspondence and many uh questions answered since thursday regarding many of the uh points that have been brought up and um i think that uh i just want to say thank you also for the due diligence to everyone involved with this and to all the points that have been brought up i think it's really important to hear from you know people in the community that have brought up points that maybe uh some of us were not thinking of or were not aware of and uh you know certainly um you know that's important to take into consideration when we're making a decision with this uh i have of all people are really strongly for affordable housing i've said that through my campaign and um every day through um supporting housing and affordable housing in this community is a priority and a uh necessity uh and we have to um really do our best to support that in all ways and with this uh development um i just have to emphasize the 15 very low permanent deed or shifted permanent homes are so key and needed and um i i see that um you know i i think that was uh uh council member Cummings uh substitute motion i'm curious about this process because i see that more as a direction to staff to work with um on on this and uh i i i just wanted to put that out there thank you council member burner i think that um we'll go ahead and um take a vote so the process is that we will vote to accept the substitute motion correct Tony yeah depending on the outcome of that vote then we would vote on the substitute motion which would mean um that the original motion um it would not be on the table at that point so i just want to make sure everybody i know we have new council members so this is all new um and so what the substitute motion would be if it if it is approved that would um eliminate the original motion that council member Watkins uh voted on so let's go ahead and i will call uh after a roll call vote on uh accepting the substitute motion council member Watkins no talentory johnson no brown boulder no vice mayor brunner no mayor meyer no so that motion fails with council member Watkins voting no talentary johnson voting no council member boulder voting no council member brunner voting no and mayor meyers voting no council member brown voting yes and council member Cummings voting yes so with that decision we'll move on to the original motion and that motion was to accept the uh staff recommendation which includes adopting the resolution certifying the environmental impact report adopting the resolution adopting the findings of fact the mitigation monitoring and reporting program and a statement of overriding considerations excuse me overriding conditions an adoption of a resolution approving the non-residential demolition authorization permits cultural permit design permit tentative map special use permits administrative use permits revocable license for outdoor extension area heritage tree removal permit and street tree removal and the addition of condition in i need that language i'm not sure who has it sam do you have that you may have that up additional language in the um condition yes yes how do we refer how do i refer that in the motion is that the december um january 12th condition uh let's see um it's it's just condition here okay does this have a name or do i how do i refer to it they just refer to it the condition added on january 12th eight that's revised on january 12th okay and i will take a wrote roll call vote okay sorry go ahead uh i think it's this whole samantha isn't it the whole this is can you go up a little bit on your screen oh i see where it says and as an additional condition okay got a new condition of approval local culture so it's all it's all of the bullets there yes this is the finding that would be included in the resolution and then this is the new condition of approval it goes down to the second page got it great thank you well is there a clarification you need councilmember comings before i call the vote i just have a question and want to just make a brief or a comment okay please go ahead um so i don't know if maybe somebody from and maybe i mean this is related um but i'm just curious if if there's any information on how he is tracking or if we can get information back on how the state is tracking the um the new regulations around section eight because um while you know there's not supposed to be discrimination um for housing we've heard people in our community um over time feel like they've been discriminated based on the race or sexual orientation and so i think it'll be really important uh moving forward that we you know determine how we're going to track our discriminating based on section eight because my hope would be that you know after this building is built some of these units some people with section eight vouchers could get into these units but you know if there's not a way to track thing and um whether the discriminatory practices are happening i think it's going to be really difficult in our community to enforce that i also wanted to say um that i do project and what it's going to do for the river i do believe that um this project has the potential for uh activating that space in a in a much more positive way um recently or a couple years ago in fact chicago and a lot of the chicago river they used to not have they used to be a lot of um vacant unused space and they when they after they reactivated it by putting in businesses and and um and bars and places for people to hang out in restaurants it really created this um really inviting and vibrant space around the river and so i'm hoping that with some of the projects that we have coming forward that we'll see the river turn into a very active space um but you know i think as we've been discussing and as councilmember brown pointed out we have a substantial market rate housing in our community that is above and beyond our original goals and um you know some of this housing at this point you know due to covid uh they are you know a lot of these market rate units are offering incentives for people to move in and a lot of that's because people can't afford to live there and you know when we think about how badly people have been impacted these days by covid and through the loss of jobs and the loss of income having affordable units is going to really be critical and um and really trying to you know make sure that we're not gentrifying our community because even if seniors can move out of the houses at their end uh into some of these units um for example you know those units that are going to become vacant oftentimes are then jacked to market rate or to higher rates and um and so you know we're we're building a lot more market rate units and while we're building up you know more affordable as well i think we really need to continue to ensure that um we bring down the cost of living in Santa Cruz we're the fourth most expensive place to live in the world um when you look at cost of housing to median income and as a tourist community we really need to continue to push for policies and to push for more that increase affordable housing and more affordable housing so i'm just going to say that because um while i i think this project has a lot of good that it's going to contribute to the community um given that you know when i'm going to be able to take a couple more weeks to try to maximize that affordable housing i can't support the project in my comments um and yeah i hope we can continue trying to find ways to increase affordable housing throughout the evening thank you and uh councilmember uh what do you have a comment or i'm just trying to get this oh i think you understand okay i have i do have a really quick comment i just really want to thank and acknowledge peter for being on here this evening as well and providing access to our spanish-speaking community members and thank you mayor meyers for um after seeing that up i think it's really essential so i just i had thought about that earlier and i just needed to say it so thank you for giving me that moment thanks very much okay we will do a roll call vote on the motion uh councilmember walkins can't uh excuse me councilmember calentary johnson i councilmember brown no councilmember coming no councilmember golder councilmember brooner and mayor meyers votes aye the motion passes with councilmember walkins voting yes councilmember calentary voting yes councilmember brown voting no councilmember coming voting no councilmember golder voting yes vice mayor brooner voting yes and mayor meyers voting yes the motion passes five five yeses to two nos and that concludes this item for this evening um i do want to reach i do just want to reiterate um all uh thank the staff um for all of their work this was an incredibly complicated project um just a huge amount of um work done on all the um policy analysis and working with the applicant i want to thank the applicant i want to thank my fellow council members um these are hard decisions and i appreciate everybody's comments this evening and um we'll move on to our final item of the evening which is oral communications oral communications um is an opportunity for members of the community to speak to us on items that are not listed on today's agenda if you are interested in addressing the council please press star nine on your phone to raise your hand you will have two minutes to speak when it is your time to speak you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted you request that you clearly and slowly state your name before making your comments so that we can accurately capture the meeting in the meeting minutes however it is not required please remember that this is a time for council to hear from the public we are not able to engage in dialogue with each other with each member of the public but we when we are able we will address the questions raised after oral communications has been completed and i see bonnie it looks like we have three attendees in in our with three hands raised so i will go ahead and start this is for oral communications and just again this is for items not listed on today's agenda i see phone number 1810 please go ahead town native activist obsessive 200 year old grievance mongering with a privileged platform was not prior proper city business but is typical of leftist elevating victimization relevance of stale events ignoring that with each new day the past becomes a less relevant the el Camino bells roadmark or agenda items false pretense fabricated those bells as a glorification symbol of indigenous oppression despite never being such when it sucks a position consider we have our own disingenuously installed authentically real present day glorification symbol of violent marxist anarchist vandalism arson assault looting of BLM terror right in front of city hall the leftists aren't interested in removing that actual and currently relevant violent mob glorification symbol or instructing 10-year-olds in the wider gory details of that movements marxist malcom x inspired destabilizing destructive hatefield mob anarchy revolution resume change and other motives despite or failed educational systems stale oppression obsessions the other removal fib the message mission history has not been told does not make virtuous the 2015 indigenous inspired desecrating hate crimes meeting out against catholic church put up with sarah statuary after canada's canonization sainthood which produced huge volumes of similar angry published narratives and the truthful scholarly record of events has been told relation versions sufficiently hid by 100% of mission the horrific native population reduction was instead truthfully due mostly to defenseless deaths from deadly european diseases food resource issues and later post mission events and not as solely expressed implied purposely all done by missionaries which slanted your narrative into one-dimensional mudslinging epidemics are not genocide nor are convertive natives into proxy colonist farmer ranchers that intended them to live as colonists not die stakeholders should be ejected boot to rear if they associate mission history as genocide with inappropriate modern-day moral judgments instead of a severe epic tragedy in a different time update vowed that churches of today are compassionate and charitable and it's time for forgiveness and acceptance after 200 years which in no way denies ancient fatalities terrorized natives or the catastrophic consequences of colonization thanks next is caller with the last four digits three one three five bonnie hi i believe i got four minutes for group time is that correct i was not notified of your request for the four minutes i sent you an email three days ago i did not receive it i don't know why it was you you're a d mires in city of san jacuzzi right yeah but i did not receive your request well are you prepared to let me go ahead or are you going to allow that to stop me i will give you four minutes this evening mr north you know i'll send you a copy of it to show you i'm not i'm not trying to mislead you okay here's the story i'm a little concerned that there's nothing on the city council agenda tonight regarding the issue of the edict issued by uh city cat city manager martin Bernal that has now led to what may be a rather costly lawsuit but even more important it would be it seems a particularly outrageous behavior in the middle of a pandemic in the middle of winter in the situation of fiscal crisis to be using police funding to drive people away into what amounts to the downtown area and other neighborhoods this is a similar argument and a similar problem that we had a year and a half ago with the ross camp but it's even more pressing in the times of this pandemic so naturally people went to court and said hold it and the judge agreed and has agreed again today as you probably know already the temporary restraining order granted a week ago has in fact been continued for another week as the city attorney and his deputies frantically flail about looking for pretexts to claim that they have some kind of alternate shelter or affordable housing which they don't and that's pretty which pretty much well known it was admitted to the judge and the judge kind of you know cocked her head and looked at them anyway the community needs to know that there was a renzo park has paid off the absence of this council's authority in its refusal to take any action in the winter rolling away on winter vacation while other people are out there freezing and facing covid and then also facing the police it's incredibly well i think it's both stupid in terms of any kind of actual solution of the situation even on a short-term basis so i'm i'm urging the community to again mobilize to assist this community this is where the city council will not i also want to note that there was a violent police assault on a disabled epileptic activist a guy called eric the partner to alisha cool of the santa cruz homeless union you know the real one not the phony union that you had you gave special presentation time to that has no union but there actually is a union that's suing you in court if you've heard the details of this case but you need to and if anybody here is interested i suggest perhaps sandy brown perhaps just in coming perhaps two of the new incoming council members perhaps you donna you are the mayor and i've also requested of course an interview with you in case you wish to go into some detail about what you your platform and your program is regarding people who are outside there's continued harassment of rvs around delaware avenue people do not have places to go there is a limited association of safe communities and vehicular safe zone area but it is insufficient and in this in the situation that we're in particularly it's important that police let people shelter in place and the kind of right-wing activism that alarms some communities that we saw in washington dc last week is apparently perfectly acceptable here in in santa cruz against homeless people particularly it seems to be even connected with the police department where people like deborah elston of next door doesn't mind multiply ticketing people who have no funding whose only survival is their vehicles i think this is outrageous and i would expect the community to stand up and feel the same way and i think perhaps some of them do in any case sum up a few of the points that i think you need to consider here uh people are not liking this i'm not just talking about trump supporters i'm talking about people who are poor in this community where you build these massive non affordable projects masquerading is affordable housing you put it here in the situation where there's no real housing and no real shelter and no winter shelter you also refuse to do any winter sheltering so i'll leave it at that community do take action where this mayor and this council will not thank you the next caller is ending in 3135 please go ahead good evening my name is janine roth and i am a santa cruz city resident i'm also calling to talk about the dispersal of people in san lorenzo park and i just wanted to say that i hope you're disappointed in the manager and the parks director approached that dispersal firstly they chose to do it under the cover of a holiday break when automated voicemails and emails told citizens of residents of the city that the city was off until january secondly they used the pandemic as part of the justification and the authorization and yet the dispersal was explicitly against CDC guidance regarding encampments we heard earlier this evening that the pandemic is at crisis and the communications you know the executive order was all about city resources and money in a manner that is insensitive and inhumane if this were another wildfire we'd consider those affected by homelessness as our community and have all sorts of positive here's what you can do messages but for the homeless it's only here's why they are a problem in fact i understand that chief mills wants to present in ordinance to effectively criminalize homelessness that's not acceptable they are not other they are people in our community i know you're hearing from unhappy residents who support dispersal i do hope that they're not also the ones that complain to you about development projects i also hope they're not the ones who voted against measure h which would have brought money for more homeless services of housing some of us are just simply unhappy because your plan appears to be to repeat cycles of displacement you know i am tired of hearing that the problem for the city is that the county gets all the money what do you want a city resident to do with that i want to help so help us help you help the community thank you for an opportunity to speak thank you the next speaker is with the phone a flat four digits of 4409 please you can go ahead hi there this is uh danny drivesdale i am a city resident and i am the ssp coordinator for the harm reduction coalition san kris county i'm also calling in about the dispersal of folks at the san lorendo park um yeah just as a local service provider uh who does a lot of work with our unhoused community i'm also distressed by this order um especially distressed by the way that happened over the holiday break um without you know action from council i think that is setting a very scary precedent and also it's just like uh not the way that we should be addressing the situation especially in the midst of this pandemic um as others have already said this the sweep does go against cdc guidelines very strongly um gail newall did say that she wouldn't have supported this as an advice but she wasn't even advised on this i think if we are going to take actions that are uh supposedly to address the COVID-19 pandemic then we should be following the lead of our public health professionals and champions like gail um so yeah as someone who does a lot of work in that in this area i i i think it's scary to think that all those folks are going to get swept along i was there um on the first day of the sweeps the the ones that went through um before everything got paused by the court situation and it was you know really hard for folks to try and move their stuff that quickly um had a conversation through a translator with a monolingual spanish speaker who had no idea the sweeps were going to happen because there's nothing close to in spanish um and he had to have folks that were just there that day like translate for him to explain what's going on i think that that is also like this shouldn't be happening at all but at least you know a sign in spanish would be nice for people um who aren't going to be able to read science post probably in english and then beyond that yeah i think this is just like a really dangerous time to be uh possibly you know to be dispersing people throughout the community and possibly increasing the spread of COVID it's going to make it harder for service providers to access these people and i think it's a huge mistake i think there's recountful action to reverse it thanks thank you final speaker for oral communications has a phone number ending in 2377 you can go ahead and speak please um body to unmute you should be able to unmute yourself by pressing star six and you're we're we're ready to hear you speak this is for numbers 2377 ending in number 2377 there you go thank you yeah Nicholas whitehead as we march into a brand new year an old unresolved problem places us outside our homes the dilemma of unhoused people in large numbers in our streets camper vehicles tents in our parks we have to unite as a community in a reasonable sensible manner to reach some agreement on what is permissible and what is impossible to accept we need to combine our best thoughts and our power of will to design programs that provide more survival space and essential services to homeless population at the same time we must insist on more personal responsibility from individuals depending on our goodwill and tolerance we need to combine every sector of our society in a common effort to re-envision this whole human degradation that means for business community the tax paying property owners past and present members of the judiciary the legal profession law enforcement people from labor unions human service providers and communities of faith and we must include groups who are concerned with the welfare of children teenagers at risk unhoused families homeless seniors and disabled people out on the street until we the public create a better vision of the way ahead there will remain a need for emergency survival in camp fortunately a dynamic visionary mr. Brent Adams of footbridge group has drafted a well-conceived proposal for responsibly run transitional tent camps a big improvement from the current unmanaged camps city council of management please you need to take a thorough look at these proposals from the footbridge group and i wish you well in the coming year thank you seeing no other hands up i will go ahead and conclude our meeting for this evening uh this meeting is now adjourned thank you everyone good night


based on the Barbara Buono versus Chris Christie. Now there's this other guy who's running a progressive who's running against Cory Booker for New Jersey State Senate. Rush Holt was his name and he was saying that Cory Booker is not feeling your pain like you think he is. Correct. He may be a hero but he's a corporatist not a progressive. This is why when Cory Booker had a private meeting with Chris Christie he all of a sudden started closing public schools in Newark. Now what what a Democrat who fights for the people starts closing public schools left and right. Well I wouldn't depend on Democrats to do the right thing. Because they have become certainly not Republicans. Look all these Democrats like Cory Booker, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton. Bill Clinton aren't them to be new Democrats. Former New Jersey governor billionaire John Corzine. They're all Democrats but they're all corporatists which means they don't feel your pain all that deeply. Some don't even feel pain at all. They feel their wallet. Those are the blue dogs. You know. Those are the blue dogs like Senators Dodd and Borkas. I wouldn't even separate them into categories they're all the same. Yeah but Bill and Hillary I don't think they would vote against a public option for health care. They did. They were they were against the public option. They never put it through when Hillary put hers out there in the middle 90s when they crushed at the conservatives and everything.  So health care. It was put in alternative doctors in jail. So so so health care reform failed during their administration. Because they're always looking through health care reform to benefit the big boys and girls. In this case the insurance companies. Correct. That's what the problem is. Why do they help the insurance companies? Because perhaps the politicians are getting their palms greased. You think that's the reason? And they're telling them well well then we'll provide jobs. We are the job creators. And these politicians really believe that? No they don't. They believe what comes into the palm. Palm grease. That's their belief. Palm grease. Like the hooker that says all the stuff is just like the process. You know a way to justify it. Like the prostitute that receives two hundred dollars from a client and she goes oh you so very handsome.  You got biggie. You got biggie shlong and then compared to the client that says I'm broke. I don't have nothing to give you. Oh you're not so handsome. I don't want to deal with you buddy. No tiki. No washi. That's it. I want my tiki. Where's my tiki? You see I usually see I'm a Curtis guy. I usually wait for a pause in a and in bantering in a debate or in a bantering conversation before I open my mouth. But you know there are people who I don't know. I don't only knows why they there I call them cutter offers and I had a little talk with Billy about that you know Billy Morrow you know and and and as far as well he said he had people to meet with so I got it I got it accepted you know. A big deal in works. Yeah anyway but I had to tell him about the McDonald's thing because you know because he goes to McDonald's. Well he don't know well he won't eat the burgers because he knows it's got toxins in it. He'll eat the egg McMuffin you know and have coffee there. That's only served in the morning. Yeah I can't get that now. Up until you know I would love to have an egg McMuffin any time of the day. That would be great. They should do that. You know they stop at like 10 30 11 o'clock I believe. 11 o'clock. Same thing with Burger King. Yeah. And White Castle. The food and drug administration. We know them well. His warning consumers to avoid a vitamin B dietary supplement from healthy life chemistry by purity first. And what is wrong with it? Because it contains two potentially dangerous anabolic steroids. And what may they be? The agency says the company's B 50 supplements tested positive for the fastarone and dime metazine. Dime metazine? Dime metazine yes. Is it steroids? I know I know own O and E is is a hormone anything ends in own. Too steroids sometimes used by illegal bodybuilders. Illegal bodybuilders? That would that would count for all of professional sports in America today. So there's a lot of illegals out there. Illegal athletes. Neither ingredient is listed on the products labeling. Federal regulators have received 29 reports of side effects. Oh my goodness 29 reports. I believe there's well over 10,000 reports on Aspartame and they do nothing. And I heard the so-called drug testing of athletes.  And how long did it take them to take viacs off the market? Certainly more than 29 reports. I found it was given to me by a friend. I found the first advertisement for the very first anabolic steroid that hit the market in 1936 by sharing company. Sharing plow. Sharing plow. Sharing plow? Not plow. Plow. Plow. As in the plow that digs up the dirt so you can plant. I thought plow is used in a sexual. No that's used in Batman. Plows. You know Anthony Wiener who should endorse sharing plow. No he didn't get the plow anybody. You know he I put down on his. He just showed his plow. I put down on his Facebook page that he should drive around in the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile. Yes. The campaign. Yes.  You know and nobody posted anything. Nobody answered me. Too deep. Too deep. Too deep. Too deep. But yeah sharing plow came out with the first steroid. It says synthetic testosterone. It was just pure testosterone and it was advertised for athletes and for older gentlemen that needed a sexual enhancement. And it was Billy it was over the counter and it was dirt cheap. It was illegal over the counter when it first hit the market. Anabolic steroid testosterone. I remember way back I believe it was in the 60s. 1936. Yeah. My uncle worked for a pharmacy. Uh-huh. And at that time I wanted to put on some weight because I was basically a 98 pound weekly. Oh like the Charles Atlas cartoon at the back of the magazines. So he brought me still the straw. Say that again. Still the straw. Still the straw. Which was being sold in pharmacies. And straw. Oh well. This is steroid. Reports excuse me of side effects connected with the product including fatigue, muscle cramping and pain. Some of the cases have resulted in hospitalization. But there have been no reports of death or liver failure. Okay. The product is manufactured by Mira. Health products LTD of Farmingdale, New York. And sold online and in stores. The FDA says the company has declined a government request to voluntarily recall the product. Oh, there's a little little testing is going on between the company and the manufacturer. Well, the FDA and the USDA have their own skeletons in their closet. Boys born to mothers who needed their doctor to start or help along the birth may have a higher risk of autism. Boys whose mothers had labors that were induced, which stimulates the uterus to bring on contractions or augmented watch which decreases the strength duration and frequency of contractions had a 35% greater risk of autism than children whose mothers did not need those procedures. The study was the largest to examine the potential link between birth procedures and autism and to find that males be more effective than females. We haven't found cause and effect, said Dr. Gregory. Gregory said multiple issues may contribute to the higher autism risk, such as the woman's health, the unborn child's health, the reason for labor to be induced or augmented and other drugs being used at the time of the child birth. Oh, by the way, as a more levity feature here, a federal judge on Monday, race discrimination claims by a former Savannah restaurant manager whose lawsuit against Paula Dean has cost a celebrity a valuable chunk of her culinary empire. Even more damage to Paula Dean? So no, the court case was thrown out. I mean, the woman lost her show.  Lisa Jackson sued Dean and her brother Bubba last year, saying she suffered from sexual harassment and racially offensive talk and employment practices that were unfair to black workers in her five years managing Uncle Bubba's seafood and oyster house. Yeah, well, Savannah's on the Atlantic Ocean. It's a coastal historic coastal city. So Paula Dean co owns the restaurant with her. That's her son, right? That's her brother. Oh, Paula, Paula Dean's brother is Bubba. So they co own it. Okay. But it is run primarily by Bubba. All right. Now doesn't Paula Dean have a have a restaurant to call her own also? She has several several lady in the suns was the first one. And she has several other ones. So Paula Dean not getting her contract renewed with the food channel did not exactly hurt her standard of living. The same as when you when you find a Wall Street firm or something, it certainly does not hurt their standard of living.  Paula Dean on national TV? Well, I guess she was crying because she was being sued unfairly. Obviously that's what the judge thought. Because he threw out the case. But claims of race discrimination by Jackson who is white. Oh, she is white. Then how the heck? I'm missing something. We're gutted. In the 20 page opinion, a US District Judge William T. Moore Jr. So where does the racism come in? I guess that's why he threw it out. Yeah, that's why I said I think I'm missing something. The judge agreed with lawyers for Paula Dean and hires that Jackson had no standing to sue her former employers for what she claimed was poor treatment of black workers, regardless of her claims that she was offended and placed under additional stress. Jackson at best is an accidental victim of the alleged racial discrimination the judge said. There are no allegations that defendant Bubba racially offensive comments were either directed toward the plaintiff or made with the intent to harass her. The ruling let's stand Jackson's claim that's Bubba sexually harassed her when she worked at the restaurant from 2005 to 2010. Jackson's race based claims have already caused serious damage to Dean's public image. It was Jackson's lawyer who questioned Paula Dean under oath in May when she acknowledged having used racial slurs in the past. A transcript of the legal deposition became public in June and the backlash against Paula Dean caused the food network and other corporate sponsors and business partners to drop her. Attorneys for Paula Dean have said Jackson's lawsuit was based on scurrilous and false clay with the damage. See what happens in America? Well, people, the media, people in general, they, they would, they will, they would admire, they, they'll, they'll admire a very successful wealthy person in the spotlight. Okay, in the limelight, but they will also, they also love to see their downfall. It's like kind of a little, a little sadism. You know, like they, they love, they love the hero. They love scandal of somebody who's on top and who's popular. When they become infamous, they're quite entertained by it. And they love to see the, the fall of the person, you know, and but then again, they will idolize somebody in a situation all the same. I heard somebody won the, was it the Power Bowl lottery? It was, it was past $450,000. Thousand, are you out of your mind? Yeah, million. It went up to a mill. 400 and some million. I'm sorry, million, million, my mistake. Made my God 400 and some odd million. You're right. You're right. I think 150 million. I don't know, one of them was 510 million. It was above four. It was definitely above. Yeah, 16 people won in the Ocean County. I think it's a department of public work, something like that. New Jersey people wanted new joysy people too bad. Too bad. I don't like I don't like people. I don't like people from my state.  They're all going to get like 3.5 million dollars a piece. One woman says she wants her hobby to retire. That's what she wants to give them. She's going to continue working. But she wants her hobby to retire.  Three million dollars before taxes. After after taxes. Three million is not a whole hell of a lot anymore like it used to be. But maybe maybe that's what the rich are saying. That's why they don't want you to tax them. Like people making $250,000. It takes a lot of money to put my kids to college. It is that and why do you what the hell do you think it takes for somebody making $14,000 a year? That's paying that's paying the tax burden. That's paying taxes. Why are their children so special that they have to go to these expensive Ivy League universities or whatever, wherever they send them? What makes their kids so special that they have to go to the best schools but other families that are not rolling in dough can't send their kids to college at all. So that their kids are like special. They have the opportunities. Okay. Because they got the dough. Opportunities come with the dough. Yes. And people get paid off with dough too. Especially pizza makers. Right. Well you make if you put the $3 million in if you go to a savings and loan or a federal credit union bank and you lock it up into a what is the certificate of deposit? Yeah because the savings account forget it. It's under one percent. Yeah. I mean well if you put it in a money market fund the tax-free money market fund it's not insured. Right. I have no idea what is safe today. I don't know what's safe. Okay. You know but you get you know you could live maybe the interest on $3 million will be decent. I honestly don't know. Depends on where you're going. Depends on what you're doing. I don't know. So maybe the old geezer maybe I think he could retire. I mean I know I could live off the interest off a measly $3 million. I think I could I could you know I'm not I know how to budget real well so I might be able to draw a good income from $3 million. Depends let's say it's $3 million five percent. Let's say it's five percent. Two. What do you mean two? I'm the certificate of deposit. You got to be kidding me. Two percent on a CD. Are they out of their minds? Yes. Meanwhile they're making money hand over fist. They're getting it free from the Federal Reserve. It's the tax the interest rate is also below one percent. It's free money for the banks. These people are greedy scumbags. See I I kidding. I could sense I could sense that like when when I talked to Bill he doesn't want to he doesn't quite demonize. Correct. Republicans or corporations. He doesn't understand if conspiracy is going on. Yeah what what Reverend Bill was saying was based on things that are really going on that Billy wasn't aware of. Billy Morrill. So what the capitalism is downright evil. I mean I mean how how much money does a human being need to have? My god how much profit do you need to make? Two percent interest on a CD. Certificate of deposit. Well that's because they they're doing that so that all the money goes into spending because the economy is so bad. It's a spending. It's a spending. They're forcing you to spend because the money is no good in saving. So you have to spend. But if your interest is good people will spend that. No they will save. They will save. And then it won't go into spending into the economy. I don't know well if you got three million. Deliver ploy. If you got three million dollars locked up to collect interest. I'm not talking about that. Why would you spend three million? Why would you spend any of the principal? We're not talking about with that. We're talking about the economy. We're talking about why banks are not paying six percent interest. They want to keep more money liquid. Going into the economy. They want mainstream to have liquid cash. Going constantly going back into the economy like a revolving door. It goes in the bank one way it comes out it goes into the economy.  No they want to just spend it. The federal reserve is putting the money into the banks. Not the savers. Now what about the fat cats? They got their money socked away, right? Of course. That's taken care of. Overseas. They're not you're going to bring it back here and have it taxed. Hey it's a racket. That's what it is.  Just take a look at the Republican Congress working a couple days a month and complaining about every little thing and they go on. They're always on recess and they're and they make almost two hundred grand a year doing next to nothing. Well the Republicans do nothing. Yeah. Oh look at that. Try to repeal Obamacare 40 times. And how does that help your voters? It doesn't. It doesn't. By just repealing. It's like waving your hands in the air and say I'm working. Over and over and over and over. Okay. Yeah. Look at me. I'm waving at you. I'm working. Yeah. Despite popular alarm and fascination with hooking up on campus, college students are not having sex with more partners than in the past few decades. Because of STDs? And are no more accepting of sex before marriage and are actually less likely to report having sex weekly or more often according to a study released on Tuesday. Well that's the case. I hope the chicks are paying for their half of the day. We're not living in a new era of no-holds barred sexuality. Said Martin Montau, the University of Portland sociology professor who co-wrote the study. For example, fewer than a third of college students surveyed between 2002 and 2010 said they had sex with more than one person in the preceding year. About the same level as reported during the late 1980s and early 90s. Wasn't that the general idea for having two genders created on earth is to have sex? They're just talking about promiscuity. They're just talking about parties. If you're talking biblically, the reason the two genders were created and sex is to bond them. Plus to reproduce them. And to reproduce. Yeah, I mean uh or what they're saying is more young people today are getting involved in one partner relationships. Not multi-partner relationships like they did in the past. What has changed? Montau and a fellow researcher found is whom the students sleep with. Recent college students were more likely to say they had sex with a friend or a casual date. And less likely to say they were wed or had a regular partner compared with students polled between 1988 and 1996. Among those who were sexually active, more than 68 percent said they had had sex with a friend in the last year. I guess that's what you call a friend with benefits. A friend with benefits. Friends with benefits. An increase from roughly 56 percent during the earlier period. The findings line up with earlier research on teens and 20-somethings that showed no increase in sexual activity in recent decades. Even as experts have observed changes in how college students pursue sex and romance.


good morning guys and happy monday welcome to this week in my life thank you so much for being here today i'm wearing my new scrubs i don't know if you can really tell but the other ones i was just like super small and i felt like they were i was just like drowning in these scrubs and i also got this fun new scrub jacket because i was just wearing like a jacket you know the blue lemon so i wanted one that would actually like go with my outfit i don't know why i didn't think of that before but i didn't so um i'm happy with my new stuff my thighs can't get bigger because these are a little tight but if i get a medium then this like waistband i feel like would like fall down so it's one of those situations but anyway i'm gonna head in now and start this monday okay so i'm home now and i wanted to share with you a book that i got so this one's not a necessity and it took forever to ship so i kind of forgot that i got it but it's not horrible to have and everything so i just wanted to show you guys so this right here is an instrumentation for the operating room book and it basically just has a list well not a list but all like the categories and names and what they do of the instruments we didn't really need this one i guess but i just went down to let them check all the books on the list and it doesn't hurt to have this just in case i want to reference something it's like all compact into this one book so i think i'm just gonna keep it here at home like i'm not gonna carry it in it's like nice to have so this is what this looks like we're having pasta tonight and yeah okay so i just got home it is wednesday and we have a tropical storm i think level one hurricane i don't know but we our school got canceled for thursday and friday which kind of sucks because that means i think we'll have to come like a during the thanksgiving break i'm not sure but kind of sucks i am just opening some windows it's kind of dark in here just because of the storm but i wanted to tell you the story because it's kind of funny but it's okay so today i decided to get starbucks because it's like the end of the week kind of like i'm not going out the rest of the week so i wanted to get starbucks like normal and our starbucks was closed because of the tropical storm and i'm like okay i'll just go to one because i knew there was one kind of close to our school so i just go to that one and it's horrible because i already don't like parking at meters because you never know if you're going to get a ticket or not so i was like nervous about my car or i didn't want it to get towed either so i was nervous about my car and i order and there was only two people working and it was kind of like one of those situations where you could tell they were understaffed so they were working as fast as they could but i was like waiting and waiting and place the order at 708 left around 722 725 ish because like i do not like to be late or even like come close to being late it's just one of those things so like i'm gonna have to go like i can't be waiting here so i just leave and this drink i'm telling you it was $7 and i'm not joking or exaggerating when i say that and i was like worried all day about this damn drink because again i paid for this and i had to leave because i couldn't be late so i'm like you know i'm just gonna go back and explain to them like hey this is what happened i was like plotting this like what i'm gonna say because i was like i really want the drink i wanted to try the chestnut latte because i saw it on a video that emily the enchanted emily made so anyway went back and i was like hey i started out with like i don't want to be caring but this is what happened told them the story and they're like oh that's fine like we can get make you want them like thank you so much because i do not like people that give people problems because i've been in the service industry and i hate it it makes me nervous and i start sweating so anyway but i also got valerie a little i don't even know what this is called um something delight this is what it looks like but she wanted that this morning and i was like no and then i had to go back anyway so i got it for her so hopefully she's happy with that cherry ready for this hurricane i am all right we have our party started so we have some chips here i'll show you the other stuff but we have green beans have a little mac and cheese and some hot dogs as you can see valerie loves her onions and that's her some of her mac and cheese we also got dip going but i wanted to show you guys there's the beans oh i also got valerie a little starbucks treat i think i showed you that earlier but yeah i showed you that earlier jerry loves watching the new the weather i love the weather can i love jim can story yeah long time no vlog so basically we had a hurricane it was the storm nicole and it came through it wasn't that bad but i will put a picture on the screen of valerie's car um there was a tree that fell on it so that was kind of crazy uh i spent the whole day yesterday just watching these videos listening to these presenters or whoever talk about sterilization and i will tell you like it was so boring but um we had to take these quizzes after the videos it was unlimited try so good that was good um so basically this morning i had a couple quizzes i'm debating whether or not i want to go to cycle bar tonight because i can go to the one like closer to my house so i might do that i'm gonna go saturday or tomorrow i should say um but first i'm gonna go to the store and get some lettuce because i need something to eat tonight for dinner i don't even know what i've filmed thus far also too i need to get air in my tires because the tire pressure keeps changing because florida is like hot then it's cold then it's hot it's so annoying all right so i just got back and then wanted to show you guys so basically just have some lettuce celery and then i got two of the coffees because they had the dark roast and these things go by so fast like drinking them and at the store they're always sold out and then lastly some turkey and that is my grocery haul i know that this is wasteful and stuff but i also got some plastic cups for my coffee in the morning when i'm on the go because i swear guys like taking a reusable one like the straw it just like looks disgusting i even threw away one of my cups because i'm like i have too many of these so um and it went through the dishwasher that was my fault but anyway threw it away the straw touches like everything when i have to bring it in i just don't want to have to remember another thing so in the mornings i can just like grab the coffee and one of these and just head out the door and throw away the cup when i've done so anyway amazon this is like 20 so i do not know what's going on over there but but something's going on hopefully everyone's okay okay so as you can see i'm getting ready to go to cycle bar because i did not go all this week because of the hurricane and because honestly like i just wasn't feeling like it like i was tired and everything the fire truck is leaving so you can see that on the side but i just wasn't feeling it and then the hurricane happened i was gonna go wednesday night um but then like i already had it in my mind that i wasn't gonna go so i just decided i'm just not gonna go and then the instagram posts happened when they were like oh we're not gonna open on third on we're closing the studio wednesday night and thursday okay here comes the ambulance so i was like okay you know what it was a sign like i just was not meant to go to cycle bar because i just didn't feel like it and i know that's like a really bad thing to say but i don't know i just was like in a funk you know and because i haven't been working out and eating junk food i just feel like you know my 600 pound life so i'm like you know i'm gonna go today if it's not raining i love how i say that to myself like if it's not raining i'm gonna go to the class and it started raining i'm like oh maybe not and then it stopped raining i don't know but also too like i pay for an unlimited membership so like if you don't go a week like that's like money down a rat hole which i am like so not about so um definitely going to get my money's worth also too like i genuinely like going so i don't know why i'm telling you this i just feel the need to say this also too i want you guys to know that like i'm not always with it like together you know i have my days and weeks that like i don't want to work out and everything i'm gonna go today i'm going tomorrow as well so i'm gonna start my weekend in my life vlog with you know being active and everything but at least like i will get a couple rides in this week which is good but honestly it was just one of those weeks and i haven't had one of those weeks in a while where i've just been like i do not want to go i don't want to do anything i'm also taking a new person well not she i don't think she's like new but um i'm taking i'm taking a ride by kathryn and i think i've never taken a ride with her so it'll be like pretty cool and i'm excited anyway i'm just gonna get on the road now and yeah so i'll see you in the next clip whatever i decided film oh my gosh look at how cute this merch is i don't know why i just love that one so much maybe i'm gonna take a picture at the mirror because it's cute this is the mirror i'm talking about


Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece, and today we have a review of chapter 958, The Promised Port. So right at the outset, I feel like this chapter is going to get an undeservedly bad wrap because it's in a pretty bad position, almost the worst imaginable scenario for any individual chapter actually, because first of all, it had the very unenviable job of following up last week, which exploded in the global One Piece fanbase and there was no chance of this coming to equal or surpass that sort of pure hype. But in addition to that, this also happens to be one of the rare short chapters as well, and to my god it's amazing what four or so pages can do, because I just blitzed through this week and didn't even realize it was over until my browser refused to give me another page of the drug I crave so dearly. But finally, this was also the last chapter before a break, so the stars really aligned to make sure that this week was as met as possible, and I can't lie by the time I realized the chapter was over, I was left feeling just a bit empty, kind of like how the Red Scabbards were feeling during the chapter I guess. With that said, there was a lot of good stuff this week that I did enjoy, but I think it was presented under the aforementioned undesirable circumstances. There was however one thing that I really strongly did not like, but we're going to start positive, and that is right at the beginning of the enough, odd because I don't think I ever start these reviews at the beginning. But I loved the opening with Odin primarily because it was a nice smooth transition from last week, where the endless hype was brought back around to focus on Wano and Odin specifically. So starting this chapter with a bit of his time aboard the Aura Jackson was a great move to lead us into Act 3. Plus there's definitely no complaining from me any time that we get to see the Roger Pirates, which very notably in a post-Stampied world, does not include any image of Douglas Bullitt. So it looks like he'll probably be remaining a film-only villain and not entering the canon, just like Zephyr and Tezora. It was a real treat to see the Aura Jackson itself though, especially presented in that beautiful panel with the sparkling water. It's such a simple device, but so effective, and I think the sparkling water actually adds to the idea of nostalgia and that this was something that took place back in the good old days. But the best part about seeing the Aura Jackson is always being reminded that there is a giant egg aboard the ship and perpetuating the mystery of what it contains. My favorite panel of this entire flashback section though is definitely seeing young Shanks and Buggy. Shanks in particular because in his more youthful days, he just bears so much similarity to Luffy, and in general it's just rare to see him with two arms. And of course it's always good to see Buggy in the hopes of the eternal question of how he managed to maintain himself as a Roger Pirate being answered. And no, that was not answered this chapter. And actually something else I really appreciated was seeing that interaction between Roger and Crocus. I think that Crocus is one of the Roger Pirates who gets forgotten about the most and they've always been curious about his dynamics within the crew because he's such a bizarre individual on his own. But as I suspected he actually looks quite normal in the stark contrast of Roger and the rest of the crew. And we also catch glimpses of some other Roger Pirates, who we know by name, such as Skopakaban and Seagull, that we have yet to meet in the current timeline. Quite importantly though, there's no sign of Nekomomushi or Inuarashi. So it looks like this event would have taken place quite close to when the Roger Pirates landed on Raftel. And you know what, there's actually nothing to say that didn't happen after they visited Raftel. Given how focused everyone is on Odin and offering to help him. Sadly, Odin himself remains a legendary silhouette and it's getting to the point where I'm just super keen to see what this man looks like. It's actually pretty insane how much this character has been built up over the course of the last few arcs, being an integral aspect in the lives of Roger, Whitebeard, Shanks, Kaido and the list probably goes on. Wano really is an arc like no other. Like Odin isn't your standard ruler like say, Cobra or Riku, who are all very important within the world no doubt, but Odin and therefore his legacy are so deeply rooted in the core of the One Piece world. So as much as Wano is a country isolated from the rest of the world, I suspect that what happens here is most certainly going to reshape that existence as we know it. Though in something else Wano is difficult to tell from a mere silhouette, it doesn't look like Odin is wielding either of his blades. So either he just isn't carrying them aboard the ship, which seems a reasonable enough assumption, or he got them after returning to Wano. And whatever the case I suppose we should return to Wano now, and in glorious news this chapter actually provides us with one of the most stunning panels of the entire arc in my opinion, which is the one that features the red scabbards looking upon the restless seas in the rain. And this is artistic gold. The waves and the wind effect are wonderfully drawn, both beautiful and incredibly intimidating, and the figures standing upon the shore look absolutely desolate, as if all hope in this world had been snatched right from under them. And I have to admit this was a pretty shocking start to Act 3. I think we were all very much universally on board with the simple idea of oh well I guess we're going to launch the invasion now, because things surely have to start going in our favor at some point in this arc, right? Well I guess not. What I also don't really get is that Kinemon said in chapter 955 that they needed to reach the port before everyone else. So logically I don't know why they'd actually be surprised that nobody is there when they made a deliberate move to be the very first people to arrive, but alright. That's not the only inconsistency with the chapter though, because we also have a number issue. Previously in chapter 955, Kinemon stated that they would be going up against an army of 30,000. However in this chapter both he and Orochi clearly state the number 40,000. But previously Kinemon even broke it down though, actually stating that Kaido had 20,000 troops and that Orochi's forces made up about 10,000. So this one has me slightly stumped. It's entirely possible that it was an error or retcon made by Oda, because both of which and I don't want to use the word common, but are commonly seen in the magazine release of the chapters. So for example the 30,000 number may have been an arbitrary decision made by Oda, and then after the chapter was published he realized that no, the army needs to be 40,000 strong for the story to work. And exactly what that reason is, who knows. But if there was a good cause then I think that would justify needing to state that number twice in this one chapter, to really drill the new number into the heads of the readers and do away with that pesky 30,000. Whatever the case the true mystery here is why the scabbards have all of a sudden been cut off from seemingly everyone and everything. None of the theories that the characters pose really provide an answer for that, because if the fleet was attacked then surely someone would have communicated that to the scabbards. Now of course Oda is free to prove me wrong, but I don't see a scenario in which absolutely all of the forces on Wano, including the Straw Hearts, the Heart Pirates, the Udon Prisoners, Shutomaru's Bandits etc. the list goes on, but I don't see a situation in which they were all simultaneously quelled. The situation feels a lot more to me like something has happened to the scabbards, rather than anyone else. And you know what it actually reminds me of an episode of Star Trek Next Generation where weird things were happening all over the Enterprise, but in the end it turned out that it was actually one weird thing that happened to Dr. Crusher who had been a victim of Wesley's science experiment. So if you want the most crackpot of ideas, I would propose that the scabbards had been transported through time. And I go back to time travel because it's such a difficult element to ignore given that it's already been introduced as a possibility, but it's an explanation that actually kind of fits the situation. They've been transported either forwards or backwards in time, and that's why none of the people they know are there, because they've either already begun and possibly concluded the battle or because they have yet to assemble. Same thing for why Kinemon can't communicate with everyone, and perhaps what they are seeing is the ruins of their attempt to combat Kaido. And with that in mind, it would be pretty cool if during the next chapter it began with the Allied forces ready to disembark going, so where's Kinemon and everyone else? Oh well, off we go. So there's one idea, but there are bits of evidence that point towards it being something else. One of which is when the chapter went out of its way to state that the weather of Wano can vary greatly from place to place, but at the same time that could be a deliberate red herring from Oda. However there is a stronger contradictory force, which is the end of the chapter focusing on Orochi, implying that he is the one who is sneakily responsible for this, which you know, can make sense, because he did get information beforehand, and if there is a traitor then they are still at large. I don't know though, I just have a feeling that this desolate situation is going to be completely flipped on its head somehow, and that doesn't have to be time travel in fact it more than likely isn't, because every time I propose something along those lines it's never been the case. However a special point was also made during this chapter to note that it would be a full moon tonight, so given that that is a narrative requirement for the mix to be in action, this raid is definitely happening one way or another. So look in retrospect, this chapter is actually incredibly intriguing. I think it does need a reread to let the sheer strangeness of what is occurring to sift in, at least for me, because after my first raid I was like eh, and a lot of that has to do with the ending. So I mentioned earlier that there was one thing about this chapter that I really didn't like, and that was it. My primary complaint is that it didn't feel like an ending. After reading the narration boxes, it felt to me like we were going to another page, and that was going to contain the dramatic cliffhanger, but instead the flow stopped partway through, kind of like putting a full stop in the middle of a sentence. Now once again some of that maybe because it was a short chapter, so my internal one piece clock was still very much set for a couple more pages, and when they didn't come I was just like, oh. And some of it may be also that I find ending on Orachi's face highly unsatisfying. He's one of the most unlikable characters that Wano has to offer, and a close up of his smug Wario Moustache isn't that great a cliffhanger for me, because it doesn't fill me with anticipation or fear, or any kind of emotion leaving that sort of desired impact. What it does is it leaves me feeling mildly annoyed, because Orachi's face was the very last thing I saw. And some people might and probably do feel very differently here, but to me this chapter feels like it's missing an ending, and every time I've gone through it it's just left me with a weird anticlimactic aftertaste. Oh and the fact that there's a break immediately after this does not help at all. The break would have been much more welcome after last week's chapter, because that was something that really needed digesting, and we hadn't begun Act 3 yet, whereas this week just begs to move immediately onwards, because we have just dipped our toes into Act 3. One more great thing about the chapter though was Kinemon's speech, and this is a moment that I can see being done to perfection in the anime. Emotional cries for help are always heavily enhanced, but even reading the manga gave me a very I want to live moment from Niko Robin vibe, and it's nice because I've never seen Kinemon this desperate. He's pouring everything his heart has to offer out here, except unlike Niko Robin and Enes Lobby, nobody is there to respond. It portrays such overwhelming loneliness and despair, and while I don't like Orachi's face, it is contrasted nicely against his pure glee. So yeah, good chapter with a great opening, beautiful art, a hint of intrigue, but a highly disappointing ending that will be lingering over me for the next two weeks. And that pretty much does it for chapter 958. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. And if you'd like to see more videos like this but applied to other anime manga series, then please do check out my second channel New World Review for all of your wider needs. And if you'd like to join the fun at any time, then please do head over to my Discord server, where a wide array of shenanigan retakes place on a daily basis. And finally, please do comment with your thoughts on the chapter. This has been the Grand Line Review, and I'll see you next time.


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