the other the other question I had was I'm very uncomfortable with and so was if the pollster told us if we had to go two-thirds he would totally recommend against the two-thirds for this particular sales tax and looking at the numbers you know there's a margin of error of three or four was said and then the six percent who may or may not supported or don't were undecided during the poll it I kind of think it brings it down to you know if somebody decides to run a campaign it's going to be awfully close doesn't mean I don't support putting it on the ballot but I would like to run something else also that would give us a backup should if you remember we were told by one of the folks in our conversations in our revenue committee that San Francisco had the sales tax on at the same time it had the sweetened beverage tax on sales tax got killed and the beverage tax was overwhelmingly passed again of course in that case in San Francisco's case there probably would have gotten a lot more money out of the sales tax than they are the sweetened beverage tax in our case with two cents it could be even could be a little bit more for the sales tax I just like would like to see some backup here because I don't think this is assured a sure thing I guess we had a couple more comments there was council member chase council member noroyan and then we'll kind of continue deliberations council member trace well I I wanted to appreciate the points that council has made so far and I wanted to respond to council member brown's concern I also wanted to really acknowledge that you know the three of us were on the committee and we we met many times we looked at the details of many different types of taxes all the ones that we have discussed here we talked about the timing we talked about the impact in our city we talked about what else would be on the ballot at various points in other municipalities and regionally took into all those those factors into consideration really listened to the feedback we got from council in our last meeting as well as the public who reached out to us and let them let us know what their concerns were so I'm I'm sorry that we gave the impression in the report that we didn't thoughtfully consider all of those other things regressive and progressive and we actually spent a fair amount of time talking about that those concerns were expressed where I landed with this is really it is just about timing is this right now we had done the polling on this and that we have this huge deficit coming and we probably are going to be looking at taxes for a while on multiple ballots and so our other municipalities and the county as well and for right now where I felt the most comfortable with this was because we had the polling because we know we have this deficit coming and because that we only have that margin left and somebody's going to take it if we don't we really need to preserve city services and I appreciate that the union came SEIU came to speak in support of it today I think they get it more than many other people what it would mean if we didn't do that so I certainly and the other committee members spent a lot of time talking about progressive taxes I believe they will be coming to us it's really just about having the time to properly poll and properly prepare and I really appreciate the feedback that council member of vice mayor Watkins gave us last time around sugary beverage we learned a lot subsequent to our last meeting about what it takes for that type of ballot measure to be successful and it was really helpful to us and really impacted my thinking on this I think our polling looked fantastic and we really want whatever we put on the ballot to be successful so we've got some work to do to make sure that progressive or aggressive taxes whichever comes before whatever we decide to do that that we've really put proper due diligence in making those successful so that's why that's why I support the pathway that we're recommending right now and it doesn't say uh that we won't do something else in November or even the following election so I'll just put that up can I go to council member Roy and then council member Brown and then council member Matthews yeah I mean we're not operating in any sort of ideal situation here I mean in an ideal situation the council itself would be able to raise revenue without having to go to a ballot measure every single time without having to labor under this two-thirds requirement which is just absurd you know when do we ever get to a point is a democracy there were one-third is is supposed to be able to to lead in any vote so you know the fact that we aren't working in the ideal requires us I think to go forward on things that you know in a perfect situation we wouldn't necessarily be in favor of and uh I would rather do progressive taxes as well but we all know those are harder to pass the opposition for them are fierce when it comes to doing I mean we just saw I don't know about you but I think I received around four emails and maybe five voice messages from the American Beverage Corporation or whatever the heck they're called wanting to speak with me about this tax and I in no way Christopher felt intimidated by them I let them know full well how obnoxious their attempts were at getting me to call them back and I let them know that I would have more respect for their position if they actually lobbied for cities to have more rights to be able to raise revenue and that if maybe perhaps they could get on that side of things I could respect their position a little bit more I kind of went I call I don't know if you remember the character Julia sugar baker I kind of went a little Julia sugar baker on them and so I appreciate that yeah no I did because I just want you to know there was no intimidation I felt and I felt nothing but annoyance from them so I'm going to go ahead and vote for this because we aren't living in an ideal world and um to not raise this revenue and what we would have to cut and you know that includes looking at our community programs budget we've just started on a new endeavor to have a homeless camp that hopefully brings some dignity and some improvements to people's lives I don't want to risk those things and so I'm going to go ahead and support this council member brown and then council member matthews so um in response council member chase I appreciate your comments and I didn't mean to suggest that the the committee didn't just they just ignored all the other possibilities that were in the grid I'm sure you you had long conversations about them and um I guess I'm just still disturbed that some of the justifications that I've heard at least for not considering some of those progressive taxes now just seem a bit hollow to me let's say and um so I'm I just still remain really dismayed that we're here today in this situation um and so again I I'm not opposed to placing to declaring the fiscal emergency I think it's we we really should do it and I'm not opposed to placing the sales tax on the although I think it's misguided to not place any other taxation measures because I don't know that this one's going to win once the opposition comes out on it um I think we we would be better off having two taxation measures one progressive and the sales tax um at three percent increase in the tot for example would get us as much money as the sales tax and that money could be used for the things that you all some of you all have been in conversation with the cultural community I have not been in those conversations um you know one percent that you've been discussing with with them and then an additional two percent to be used for the things that we really need it for so you know again I'm just I'm just frustrated and I can't support this without some um you know I'm not going to just believe that those progressive taxes are coming our way you know in the future I need some direction to staff to really take this seriously and bring us back a plan in order to support this today councilmember matthews um there's a motion on the floor and I want to say I am I understand the where you're coming from also there there honestly was they were long detailed meetings and discussions held and the decision to move forward in this way was based on some very expert information that we got and also the timeline that confronts us but I would be willing to also add direction I don't think it's directing staff to come back I think it's directing the mayor to because our revenue committee sunsets right to um appoint a new revenue committee to look at possible measures for the November election and and honestly that was discussed in our committee as one of our recommendations understanding that we are in a brave new world of public finance in our community values it's community service municipal services and we want to be able to fulfill those expectations so I will include that as a fourth recommendation great thank you okay um point of order mayor just uh it says in our minutes that the revenue committee sunsets on 6 6 2018 so I don't know that's uh I think that date I mean we have to double check that because I think it was formed last year so it's I think yeah it's six months from when it from when it starts but however once you this work is completed yeah you know you've made your recommendation so I think I think that that's a new one can start but it would be for obviously a different measure I think for the next term vice mayor Watkins I just want to briefly speak to councilmember Crohn's comment about the sugary beverage tax and and I and I appreciate the conversation that was just had and then all the different input and I appreciate also the recommendation to move forward in ways that acknowledge your your concerns councilmember Brown um I too was able to speak with the number of folks up in the Bay Area and I appreciate the staff doing the research and reaching out to those folks as well and I think um what I was able to take away from that is that this felt rushed and not necessarily ready in terms of the sugary beverage tax and we want to get it right and um and I wasn't going to support it to be on our ballot in June personally um so um moving forward I think it would be important that we do do the groundwork so that it is successful and we identify the ways that it's going to best be re-invested in our community to meet the public health needs and uh those experts are incredibly informative and I just I I really want to thank the staff for reaching out and following up in that way because I know that was part of the motion so any other discussion comments councilmember Matthews one item two the third part of the recommendations excuse me can you put back the slide that has those recommendations the the motion okay motion um the third one is what where I was going with this it's to support the measure identify the authors and prepare the legal and fiscal analysis staff will do the legal and fiscal but um I would suggest that we ask the mayor to appoint uh up to three council members who could actually work with community as well at their discretion um and that's um identifying those people who appear as signers on the arguments in favor and um okay so I just designate okay ask that we ask the mayor to designate those those people okay to work on that yes councilmember crown I don't hear any firm language though that is going to address what councilmember brown's talking about coming back to us on measures of that of substantive issues that we're going to put tot we're going to put a sugar beverage tax on the november ballot um it'd be nice to get you know some assurances from the council that that's that's where we're headed and that's what we're doing and that's our intention I guess let me just and let me just say that I I looked over when councilmember Matthews from proposing the language and I thought I saw you affirming that you supported that so I just wanted to make sure that's clear the language that was presented by councilmember Matthews if I could clarify it would be really nice to have some kind of set report back date to the full council because um you know three months from now if the revenue new revenue enhancement committee does its business and we just get an agenda report that doesn't really explain much about the work that went into it we don't have a lot of information and we're asked to make decisions that's not going to work for me so it would be really nice to have us um updated more regularly with some detail about the progressive taxation measures by smear walkins my understanding is that we would have a pretty soon coming deadline to have the revenue committee report yes because the deadline to place a measure on the november ballot is uh early august but we take recess in july so typically we try to get it completed by june okay okay okay um councilmember crone follow up yeah councilmember brown talked about splitting the motion I don't know if you're still wanting to do that and so you don't have to vote for the quarter-cent sales tax if that's where you're you're at I think at this point I again I'm I think it's a misguided move but it's up to the voters to decide I think so I'll I'll be okay with just keeping it together councilmember Matthews I'll pass at this point okay I just want to say that before I go to the city attorney I really appreciate all the work of the committee members looked all these different revenue options we also had a fairly robust discussion at the last meeting which continued into this one um I think the one area that I feel I would like to see moving forward is that we spend as much time kind of polling the public in general about kind of our budgetary priorities as we do when we question them during tax time so that we're just looking at this on an ongoing basis are our funding funding priorities in alignment with what we're doing and sometimes the reactions that we have when there's when there's different issues that are posed in front of us may you know create these expenditures that sometimes can continue to grow and we need to make sure we're maintaining our our focus on our core city services because our parks our beaches our open spaces and programs for use sometimes get you know line items and not have the support because there's so many different options that are put up before us and it's important that we need to maintain some integrity in terms of our process so that we use good data and information in terms of as we prepare our budget in the future so see no other discussion could I interject some yeah first of all I'd like to just clarify because there is a little bit of difference between the language that's on the powerpoint and the language that's contained in the recommendation in your staff report specifically that the item three in the recommendation for the staff reported port is a motion supporting the measure for purposes of authorizing arguments provide direction regarding the authors directing city attorney to prepare the impartial analysis and providing direction to the city manager regarding the preparation of the fiscal analysis as appropriate that to me contemplates that the council will provide some direction on the on the preparation of arguments at this meeting the second was that the language requested by council member brown and and and include and offered as a friendly amendment by council member matthews was accepted by the maker of the second did you accept that okay thank you for clarifying that so council member matthews just in respect to your question about identifying the authors or preparation of arguments typically those arguments are based you only have 70 no it's 75 words that you guys work and we have that language here it's the argument in favor and but the length is 300 words and if there's an argument against then the rebuttal to the argument against and typically those do reflect the key polling issues and the realities and have up to five cosigners each representing a broad diversity of the community and so that's what I think we would ask the mayor to do would be to appoint a small group to work on those arguments and cosigners does that that would make sense yeah okay so we have motion on the floor in a second all those in favor please say aye aye those opposed say no that motion passes unanimously thank you for that discussion okay we're going to go to the next item that's the ucsc growth initiative that's item 12 council member matthews is the presenter on this item along with council members crone and chase and this is being brought to the council to put on the agenda on on the ballot because council member crone and I have been appointed to serve as the city's representatives to the ucsc community advisory committee regarding the long-range development plan for the future we've attended a couple of meetings and that process is on a pretty fast track the university is reaching out to the community with some opportunities to gain information and provide input they've said they want community input we've had experience I think everyone here in terms of for one length of time or another in understanding the the settlement agreement that was reached after the the previous long-range development plan there's been a significant amount of work on that and yet there are major challenges confronting us in in the current growth plan and the feeling was that the challenges presented by the projected growth of another 10 000 students the impact on our community would be mind-boggling and because we have been asked to uh council member crone and I to represent the city council on this advisory committee we felt it would be helpful to not only represent the council but the community at large and this is intended to provide the community at large to weigh in on this subject the long-range development adoption is a long process it's beginning and this election would take this vote would take place in June and would help inform not only the campus administration but I think more importantly as well the UC system and the regents who are the ultimate decision makers you all know and it we should just restate for the public the city council has no authority on the growth of the university but we hopefully can have input and can be directed by the community at large to do everything in our power to enforce the principles that are set forth here so that's what we're bringing forward for council to officially put on the ballot council member chase do you want to say anything on me I'll just briefly add and I appreciate working with again council members crone and Matthews on this we're kind of a team on this agenda today um and really it is for me the the university's impact on housing came up so many times during the housing listening session it is one of many factors that is impacting the housing crisis uh it is certainly not the only one and a lot of people like to uh oversimplify and say that that is the issue and it is not um it is many things but it was just so important I think for us to really say uh we need to give a strong message to the uc system to let them know as this process moves forward um the impact here and while we appreciate the uh incredible contributions that the university may uh makes to our community we also need to uh let them know the impacts that are negative to the community and do everything that we can to partner with the university to find some solutions that uh fit the community best council member crone thank you um I think we're fascinating this this 19 500 um if you go to the one of the websites they have it's nine it's over 19 000 um it's a uc sc uh website I think we're also um in line with the board of supervisors who have uh strongly uh supported I believe what we're doing here today at least letter they sent out previously along with our letter from from our mayor uh to the university um I think we have a unified community on this I I just want to I don't know city clerk did you get a chance to pass this out to our city council members um this is a resolution from the um student union assembly I was sent uh from uh Maxine uh Jimenez the president uh just to point out that um we're not anti-education we're not anti our young people this is about Oakland and about the uc regions and about the state of California providing resources to the towns that support uc and especially particular in particular this town Santa Cruz I wanted to point to um this is a resolution opposing uc Santa Cruz's enrollment plan for 2017-18 and it's passed by the student academic senate it's a student academic senate resolution and I wanted to go to the page um the uh page three with the therefore and it's the uh second therefore therefore the student union assembly is in full support of individuals who choose to stand against the actions of the governor uc office of the president uc regions uc administration specifically in regards to any mandate that requires uc sc to admit additional students when the uc sc campus resources are already inadequate and insufficient to support any additional students the next therefore the third second sentence to take action and stand against any and all additional enrollment measures as mandated by the governor uc office of the region uh the president and uc regions and the um the second to last therefore therefore be it resolved that the student union assembly demands that chancellor blumenthal vice chancellor uh and camp uh and campus provost trump publicly condemn any and all mandates by the governor uc office of the president and or regions to expand the enrollment of uc sc unless the campus has sufficient resources to accommodate the needs of every each and every additional student admitted excuse me so i think that we're pretty backed up as unified not only the community in town but also the community on the hill at least as represented by the student union assembly question customer brown well i'll just say i don't it's not a question so much i would just say you know i want to echo the comments of my colleagues and say thank you for um for putting the work in to bring this before us i am in full support i just wanted to add that i'm i'm glad that student the student voice is part of this as well because you know students experience you know we say uc sc is a problem but it doesn't mean that students are the problem right um and so they experience it in the same way that the rest of us do so i wanted to just acknowledge that um there's some language in the ordinance that i like about you know including quality of education and and acknowledging you know the students are our concern for what uc sc growth means for them as well so um that's that's my i just wanted to say yes i'm on board thanks any questions i have to remember norion when it comes time to um vote on this i do have some friendly amendments i like to put forth and so just wanted to let you know i'll be doing that after we take public comment and do our own deliberations but in the therefore be it resolved where it mentions you know um you know the student union assembly demands that the chancellor and that our um vice chancellor publicly condemn any and all mandates you know that don't include additional resources if you listen to the chancellor and the vice chancellor speak whenever they talk that's exactly what they're saying is they they are saying we really can't grow unless we do have this infrastructure so i hope that that's not lost that um you know folks that we may be looking to as maybe um trying to instigate this change are actually echoing these same concerns as well it's a student resolution i have a quick one i know this is one top of mind ever since that statement was made about future growth what do you hope will be like the outcome just a kind of validation of the position or what it would sure what you know by putting this on the uh on the ballot a clear message from the entire community a direction to the council uh officially to take whatever steps are necessary and i think you understand the steps that were taken uh following the previous l rdp um and um again just giving voice to the concerns the path beyond that is unclear one of the things i was just as a question if you've looked at this in terms of um whether there's been any kind of review of like what are the appropriate housing needs for the current suit or so that we're kind of having some data that shows like what are because i know that you know when we look at these things the the impacts we really kind of have insufficient amount of information to show what it means to have growth and what are you know in terms of we know what we feel it but i mean what are those needs if you had that in terms of housing what its impact on police and city services there there is language and i'm my eyes aren't following it on it right now that um there before any additional growth occurs that there be a full exploration of the needs for infrastructure which includes housing roads both on campus and off that will accommodate the increased demands before the enrollment is increased that that language is in here so it's it's exactly what you're talking about just want to make sure it's section four c thank you for finding it yeah section four one c and um just to to respond also david um you know although we don't have uh necessarily a seat at the region's table um what we're doing i think is is portraying reflecting as a council the severity of of what's going on in our community right now and sometimes people they have to hear it from multiple places um to you know it's just not anecdotal or or just you know but it's it we systematic as far as our housing goes we are losing we've lost lots of housing to and we have students who are coming to the university competing for for housing that you know is very scarce right now so i think if if we show a unity here and again with the students as well in that unity um the uc has been running this thing that you you know they keep sending students without resources and we're just saying yes resources a lot before students and then you build some housing and um before the students get here appreciate it all right well i'll go to the public to see if there's any members that like to speak to this item we're on item number 12 uc ucse growth initiative sir please step up anyone else who wants to speak please stand up so we can make sure we accommodate you during this period please step up now you may begin i guess i i guess i feel like i've done the math and uh 28 000 students if there were no population growth and that's that's actually like you know kind of a one thing to add to the mix uh because it illustrates you know how crazy it is to have 28 000 students that's that's more voting students than there are uh voting uh members of the public uh that's that's kind of bizarre i mean to just sort of add the university with the people uh but the community uh you know definitely it allows 2006 we had two two measures that were you know just very very firm and very very um directly that applied to the university that they were going a little bit probably you know probably should have this i i want to say i have three adjectives to apply to this uh prudent also necessary thank you next speaker please can you start the clock please on this issue it's very important and we understand that and we realize that and we're part of this community as well um we do have some concerns with the item before you today but that being said we think it's more important that we continue the dialogue and we hope that whatever happens today um it doesn't hinder our ability to um work together with you and with staff and with the community um we want to hear the input we want to hear the concerns we want to work together um so that's our message today um and i also in that spirit want to invite you and members of the public to come to um one of our upcoming community hearings um or our forums which is going to be held on monday march the fifth at the hotel paradox at seven p.m. um we hope we will come and share your comments and views um in addition to that you can learn more information about our long-range development planning process on our website at lrdp.ucse.edu so please take a visit you can also sign up there to receive future notices of public meetings thank you thank you next speaker please david yes uh council member matthews melissa uh i think you have three community input sessions scheduled correct there are um the one on march fifth is at the hotel paradox there's one on march sixth and that's in watsonville at the civic plaza community room and there's one on march eighth at the senior center in capitola great thank you thank you next speaker please can you put the mic around to speak into that thank you um my name is jenny i'm a student at ucsc i'm a third year um i'm part of a really large group of sustainable organizations um and this is a big thing that we've been talking about the lrdp the p3 and so we've been trying to like express our concerns for it but the university seems to be very like um they don't want to acknowledge the our concerns and they just keep kind of like promoting this other lrdp as something that's going to be great and it's going to help the whole community but at the same time it's you know there's already the housing crisis um of santa cruz county and just having this uh a new enrollment of 10 000 students is gonna you know affect the housing crisis even more you know you have uh account of homeless young people under 25 doubled in the last two years and 588 reported in 2017 most of those are probably students i myself went homeless for a while um and so just having those concerns out there is very essential for uh us students and for the community together so that we have this better relationship with you all um and yeah so i urge you to put this on on the ballot and so put it forth for election thank you thank you next speaker please is there any other member of the public that'd like to speak to this item okay this will be our last speaker uh members of the community and city council i'm robert north with homeless united for friendship and freedom a couple of the speakers including council member crone uh i didn't hear all the discussion i've talked about the importance of housing and the overreach of the university and its really negative impact on folks homeless and housed alike in the community but my real question is is this a substantive activity that the council is engaged in i mean you know concerns we have policies is there any substantive measure even being considered by this council like i don't know limiting water use or imposing new taxes or something that might actually hit ucsc in the pocketbook i am not at all educated on this issue but and i just walk into the room and i simply see this measure which you know sure but what about at a deeper level what's going on here i say this to the community because uh as this council knows and this community knows i have very little confidence in this city council our views are very different on a number of different views on a matter of different matters so i would really ask the members of the community and perhaps anyone in the council or staff who's interested in really considering what is actually being done to address and put some real pressure on the university other than uh token measures thank you thank you okay that concludes the public comment period on this item we'll bring it back to the council council member matthews or excuse me one moment city attorney i'd just like to make a brief comment and that is um the recommended action does not include a similar direction that was contained in the last matter involving preparation of an impartial analysis and arguments if the council determines that that's appropriate it would be appropriate also provide that direction for this and the following item on the measure k repeal thank you so i was going to move the motion right go council member crone and second did you make a motion earlier i was just about to make the motion and include the addition suggested okay motion by council member matthews and i heard council member crone second that is there any other discussion council member neroyan yeah i have um some friendly amendments that i hope will be friendly amendments um if bonnie could put that up on the board i'll also pass this out um as well just so we have our own copy at our desks um the items in red are what i'd like to add to these and i'll explain why you know the title of the ordinance i'd like to add in the california legislature i really believe the legislature needs to be mentioned in this what really drives these numbers and what drives the lack of infrastructure at these campuses really comes from our legislators wish to follow the california master plan for higher education and what's happened in the last 20 years is you know there's been an increase in our population the goal is that our top 12.5 percent high school students um we have spaces for them at our ucs and what's happened is is the populations increased that 12.5 percent numbers remain the same but yet the state of california has reduced its funding of uc operational expenses from 65 percent to 25 percent and so when we we have a state legislature in my opinion that shows a disconnect between actual resources needed when they keep demanding that more and more students become educated that they keep asking the universities to absorb more and more students and to stay by this 12.5 percent goal without providing any more uh infrastructure or money for it so uh section two under purposes i would just like to add and the california state legislature um to the other folks we already mentioned and then under findings in section three i put this here because i think it's really important and i know that we have other sections in this that show this that we are not against the california master plan for higher education that we do believe in um you know this wonderful program this wonderful system that was set up in the 60s before you know many of us on this council were even born and i have to say that it really you know set up my destiny as the first person in my family to go to college and the only person on my father's side of family to have a degree i i believe without the master plan i wouldn't be sitting here and i and i wouldn't be um college educated so i wanted to add this other section just to make the statement that we not only support the master plan for higher education but that we support the state reinvesting in the infrastructure and resources needed to continue meeting the goals of educating our state's top 12.5 percent um high school students and transfer students regardless of a student's personal wealth and i believe this goal will be impossible to meet without the state reinvesting in the infrastructure of current uc campuses and creating new campuses in the state let me take a pause there and see do you want to comment on that or no i have a i have another comment okay so is um and i'll bring it to the motion a maker of the motion and second um these look fine to me the only thing i might change is the word our concerns whether i think the language here is more kind of a third person oh it's it's just i know you're speaking from the heart but yeah i am i am but that's a trivial editing change so we're oh i see is these uh are you talking about under section three findings that clause um it's it's trivial we can figure out the words okay all right it doesn't change the substance yeah okay thank you council member brown i also as the second of the motion okay are you in fact the easiest thing is just to drop off the word our and just say concerns that's absolutely fine yeah that's what i did that's my brown well the last thing i want to do is start going through this and wordsmithing it because you'll put a tremendous amount of work into it clearly um but i do wonder if the maker of the motion and the second might consider striking section 4.1 b because so a says there shall be no additional enrollment growth at ucse beyond the 19 500 students allowed by the current 2005 l rdp that's a strong declarative statement we obviously can't make them not enroll more students but to then in b say if there is additional enrollment growth at ucse ucse should house the new net growth of students faculty and staff on campus it just seems like we're kind of conceding that there is going to be even though we're saying we don't want it and we can't control it so i'm i'm just wondering if it if we could strike that that one just just one 4.1 b personally think that's important because the growth is out of our hands and um i i got the feeling when the community advisory committee met that was one of the reactions of that whole room full of people and and the idea that ucse should house the net new growth of students faculty and staff because in the settlement agreement they did agree to house two we're not going to talk about the quality of housing but to house on campus two thirds of the additional growth but that still leaves one third of the additional growth plopped in the city of santa cruz so personally i think that's important with that i just wanted to i just seems like we're saying okay we you know we don't want you to do it but and you can do it um also since you mentioned that c says if there is additional enrollment growth it will only occur when the on campus and off campus infrastructure including on campus housing required to support the growth is provided prior to or concurrent with the growth so councilmember crown raises hand i would feel more comfortable with uh taking out the word concurrent there but um it seems a little bit weird to say no growth and then oh if you have some growth then you know i mean i i would agree i would make a separate motion then to um to include to exclude that language and be i just it doesn't make any sense um if we're asking them for no growth and then giving them an option i think it maybe it represents reality because of the fact that we don't have control over growth to say both things you know because we don't have complete control so it's it's like a clause to ensure two different scenarios that are you know one one one will happen and one won't and but to include both covers both bases let them say that let let them it's a negotiating thing right there we're saying no well you know it it it seems opposite or you know i'd like to ask the city attorney i just wanted to mention that there wasn't a second council's debating an amendment that hasn't been seconded correct i had um i thought it was i thought it was a friendly amendment the main motions on the floor and we had um discussion about oh yeah before the nobody's so councilman oroyan i would make it a motion then to um exclude that language as an amendment then right okay so do you state your motion and see if there's a second i would to exclude the language if there is an additional enrollment growth that ucsc ucsc should house the net the net new growth of students faculty and staff on campus so i'd like to exclude that from that language from the well since i raised the question i'll second it i but i have a feeling i know where this is going so so shall we vote on it i want to deal with reality why don't we call the question here so let's put this to vote um in terms of the um substitute motion to add this to the main motion those in favor of i'm sorry what i'm confused what do we vote are we motion on the floor by council member matthews right right go back so this is we're voting on on council member crohn's let me let me clarify okay all right there's a motion on the floor by council member matthews and council member crohn that is the motion to put this ballot on the measure you've they've already accepted your uh amendments that are outlined in this slide council member crohn made a subsequent motion to delete a section of language from this proposal that was seconded by council member brown right now we're going to vote because it was not accepted as a friendly amendment so we're going to take a vote of whether or not that's added to the main motion okay and and just to respond to you council member matthews um i mean we we've heard and been can we have a motion let's have a discussion oh wait i thought we're discussing go right ahead um i think folks are really feeling like 19 500 is um you know enough and and and give us a respite i mean can we can can we put in like three to five years or some sort of moratorium because if we let this opening here it just sounds like oh well go ahead you know they're going to put up 3000 beds we we need to have some like okay if that actually works the public private partnership what was going to stop them from putting two or three more 3000 bed facilities up there with traffic and transportation and water issues um which i'm not necessarily opposed in you know on the face of it of doing that but i don't think we are contemplating at all if they do in fact house thousands of more students as the the chancellor's anticipating and we're saying okay you house those 10 000 up there if they actually go forward with it and with that under that kind of thing and we're saying okay go ahead and do that they could build three of those facilities three three thousand bed facilities is nine thousand more students let's let's we have a motion um your your substitute motion on the floor um and i appreciate your comments is there any other discussion on that i'd like to put that to a vote now if there's no further discussion so all those in favor of the substitute motion that was um that a substitute amendment amendment a motion amendment by um council member crone seconded by council member brown those in favor of that motion please say aye those opposed please say no no okay that fails um with council member uh crone and council member brown supporting that council member matthews council member um chase council member noroy and vice mayor walkins and myself voting against so now we'll return to the main motion um we have the motion on the floor in a second is there any further discussion i just i don't have any further i don't have any further discussion other than that i i thank you for bringing this forward i recognize also the intention behind your comments and and amendment and recognize the reality and the counter to that i also just want to acknowledge that the university representative was here and i appreciate her comments and that this is not uh us against the university this is a bigger conversation with a bigger entity at play as um as mentioned by council member norion and um and i and i appreciate the opportunity for the city to weigh in in that way and for us to move forward in a way that's collaborative because we all share this wonderful city um students staff and everyone in between and i want to um really acknowledge that it we we will work when we work together there are often better outcomes and so i just really want to echo those comments that were mentioned earlier um as we move forward in this direction thanks okay we have motion on the floor in a second all those in favor please say aye aye those opposed please say no passes unanimously so the next item is um we're going to go to is oral communication right at the appointed hour so we're going to go to that right at 5 30 and then we're going to wait 30 seconds uh no i think i'm going to start it right now anybody who wants to speak to oral communication please step up and when uh the city clerk's available we'll start the timer okay please step up you're ready to go leave it i was joking i had kiddles and a cruise i brought this up before and you might wonder well why do you keep bringing it up well people keep bringing up all kinds of things we've been bringing up uh university growth for decades have we not yes we have say could you guys um possibly listen to what i'm saying would that be all right we are oh i guess you're writing stuff while you're listening to me is that how it goes yeah right so anyway israel did 9 11 that is a basic highly documentable fact which uh you i really wonder how many of you people actually know this and really don't want to go there anyway because there's plenty of evidence we no longer have to depend on fox news or npr or any of the controlled media to divert our attention from the facts that israel did 9 11 i get called a racist for pointing this out i am trying to prevent wars against muslims which have been raging at least ever since 9 11 is a direct result in 9 11 when george bush got up there on the uh rubble of 9 11 and said you know they're gonna pay for this you people are still going along with george bush and george bush did all that because he thinks the israel lobby is where his butter guest bread and he's right and so are all the politicians since then like obama and and uh trump hillary she had her top seven campaign donors were israel lobby billionaires every one of them wants a war with iran and by god they are determined to get that war you better believe they're determined to get that war and they play dirty trying to set things up so that we'll do that i urge you to look at bolin dot com b o l l y n an investigative reporter right here from santa pruce next speaker please next speaker thanks good evening my name is veronica lopez doran and i'm back to remind you that tomorrow is giving day and so we welcome you and the larger community in sharing in our effort to endow in a scholarship honoring officer elizabeth butler the scholarship or endowment if we get to that level in her name would support community studies students who follow in her footsteps by pursuing field study in santa cruse county last year alone community studies students contributed over 7000 hours to organizations in santa cruse county we will be turning 50 next year and so that can give you an idea of the kind of impact that our students have had over time in order to contribute the easiest ways to folk for folks to do that that are out in the public can go to community studies dot ucsc dot edu that is the easiest way to get to our giving day page also if you saw the newspaper this morning if you get the print or if you're online you could have seen that last night and you will also be able to access our link last year um like i said students contributed over 17 thousand hours 7000 hours and again it is my honor to be able to say that there's a generous donor who has agreed to provide a matching gift of up to $15,000 so i think this is really our opportunity as a community and ucsc and community as a whole to say this is an important scholarship that we want to endow in perpetuity and have her legacy live on into the future so once again community studies dot ucsc dot edu and thank you all for any personal sharing that you can do through your networks thank you Veronica thank you next speaker please hello i'm nathan kennedy and uh i've said this before so i'll say it again uh something i think we need to do is provide some alternative cars for the county to use as well as the police department even uh something i've always i've thought would make a really cool cop car actually would be the chevrolet volt which is an all electric vehicle but it does have a gas tank that will take petrochemicals uh gasoline and what it does is it uses the gasoline for electric generator that will then drive the car so you can be driving an electric car that still is using gas that way you're not stuck if you want to make a cross country trip you're not stuck in uh i o wyoming or something uh miles away from anywhere to charge the car and you you don't have to select the car sit for like hours and hours and hours just to charge up also i think if not just the chevrolet volt uh all the different hybrids that are out there i think there should be some research done for that and uh i've also said that it'd be pretty cool if we could get uh um government vehicles including cop cars but not just to be just a diesel engine because on a diesel engine you can run a biodiesel uh basically plant uh oils that run the car but one thing about doing that is that it gets really complicated i've looked it up on on mercedes-benz diesel online and what it what it turns out is that like yeah theoretically you can pour uh just good old corn oil into the gas tank and it'll run but uh the reality is it would gunk up the engine really fast and shorten the life of the vehicle nate alex kennedy nate alex dot kennedy at gmail.com 831 3469 888 thank you thank you for that update next speaker please uh nate's gonna want to hit um all the scary aspects of global warming if he wants the city to buy more hybrids um yeah i uh i want to say brent's not here tonight filming because he worked so hard at the warming center uh last night in wassenville uh his program is absolutely a one of a kind and it really it really hits the mark when it uh when it's trying to you know save lives um a few things i wanted to talk about um one thing uh yesterday was the 25th anniversary of something that happened in our nation kind of uh significant uh it was the first attack on the world trade centers and uh eight and a half years later uh the uncle of romsey osef the individual who had planned that attack uh he uh he planned and and executed the 9 11 attacks um christ you were mayor when that happened i'm sure you remember more well than most people of this on this body um so uh i just think it's interesting to look at how this one guy ksm uh there's a great book called the hunt for ksm uh you know he sent money to the original people in 93 and then uh later planned and executed uh with the the funding of sangoon line well okay i had an idea and i just wanted to share it with you folks i made a graphic because graphics are fun and exciting so this is the intersection of moracy you guys really successfully made two uh roundabout intersections over uh by the wharf and i lived in that area when you made those and it was a little bit inconvenient and interesting to see it all come together and people just really seemed to like it i mean the one bus driver who hated it no no no it seems to work for metro um but uh here's something i thought would be kind of cool if you had a roundabout at moracy you've got all these inputs right one two three four five six seven eight nine you know different directions if you had a roundabout there you could actually take this little section of poplar just do away with it and have you know smooth flow of traffic and it doesn't have to be perfectly round and just a thought just something that i thought would be fun and interesting to talk about thanks good thank you excuse me last piece of the day thank you last speaker council members and members of the community tomorrow cops and rangers will be driving survival campers away from the san lorenzo benchlands the only immediate campground alternative is a barbed wire yes it's still barbed wire uh fenced off space at the edge of town that is about one third the size of the current san lorenzo campground homeless people are considered too dangerous to be able to walk to and from this campground and it is reportedly according to people who are out at the campground today almost completely filled the other shelter alternative is the winter shelter program slated to end in mid april it involves body searches strict entering and leaving times and other aspects would make it unsuitable for many outside but even if it weren't it's clearly insufficient for even a simple majority of the homeless people around and it's currently limited to 110 people there are no plans for a summer shelter program other than the have you found a path to housing with cash and vouchers out at the homeless lack of services center given these sober facts it's nonsense to believe government claims that san lorenzo campers are being given a real alternative when they're driven out tomorrow into the neighborhoods the downtown and elsewhere much of the bali who around these shelter proposals seems simply to be a way of dressing up mass eviction and possible city crackdown on poor people and repeating the same failed policies that have been used for the last few decades and intensified by many members of the city council here it is the community that needs to step in and it needs to be of course homeless people themselves that organize in berkeley first they came for the homeless organize themselves into a group of people and continue to resist the attempted evictions of police departments and when they were evicted they moved to another area i encourage community members to support any homeless encampment people who are not given options into a community space to support them in their need to find their own space and use it for survival purposes thank you thank you that concludes oral communication this evening we're going to bring it back to the council for the next item on the agenda which is item number 13 it's the resolution include measure on the 2018 ballot for the repeal of measure k just thinking back to want to make sure that motion we had for the prior item for ucse growth initiative you provided some language about you know directing ballot language that was incorporated into the main motion i just want to make sure that that's the case i was going to just to be clean move the motion with that added language that the mayor designate people to work on the ballot language and signer okay so that was for the item 13 i'd like to just revote that just to make sure that's incorporated you understand what the the the motion that we vote on to add that so i'd just like to make sure that's clear for everyone try to put it at vote again the appropriate thing to be to do would be to have have a motion to reconsider and then to retake the vote but can't we just add the language to this and it's know which is motion to reconsider the item that we already did or we already taken action on the item number 12 growth measure i'll move it we reconsider yeah i'll second that all those in favor of reconsidering the motion for item 12 i i passes unanimously okay so back at item 12 we took action on this already and there's need to update some language council member matthews i guess the proper motion would be to reaffirm the action on item on the ucsc item 12 and clarify that we want for item 13 to similarly have the mayor designate um persons to develop the ballot language and signers for the repeal of measure k okay and that motion was council member crone do you support that yes okay so motion by council member matthews second by council member crone is there any further discussion not necessarily repeal right measure k that's the next item this is the this is for item 12 ucsc oh you said you measure k yeah just for clear because i know we're trying to clarify then we're going to get to measure k yeah also yes okay for the ucsc okay perfect sorry just trying to be efficient okay that it's it's the ordinance language that we received with the friendly amendments from council member new ryan the whole thing yeah and just and so it will be the the arguments in favor with signers and bonnie and i will talk after just to make sure we're all clear okay so it's clear yeah okay all those in favor please say aye hi that passes unanimously and so we're going to bring that back to item three 13 and this is the resolution to include a measure on the june 2018 ballot on the repeal of measure k um and i'll take turn it over to the city attorney for a brief presentation it's really uh very quickly um to give you a little bit of background as i understand the history of measure k is it was originally drafted as a citizen sponsored measure but there were certain provisions of it that were determined to conflict with the city's charter and so the city initiated legal action to seeking to remove those from the ballot measure and subsequently entered into an agreement with the proponents of the measure to modify the language of measure k the result being that um that the only really operative language of the measure directs the city police department to make enforcement of marijuana related offenses its lowest enforcement priority and creates a an oversight committee to monitor um the implementation of that policy it turned out that the oversight committee's function didn't really make sense in line of what actually the measure included and so the committee after a couple of meetings basically stopped meeting um and since then we've had statewide ballot measures and the city councils also taken action to establish regulations for um for the operation of recreational marijuana businesses and possession of cannabis in certain quantities is no longer a violation of state law so so the impetus for measure k no longer really makes sense and it also potentially could conflict to some extent with the city's own efforts to ensure that its regulations concerning recreational marijuana businesses are vigorously enforced and implemented so on that basis the recommendation is to adopt the resolution placing this measure on the ballot and i would also ask the council to consider giving direction on uh preparation of ballot arguments and uh requesting a preparation of an impartial analysis as well all right thank you i can answer any questions any questions at this time no uh council member i'd like to i'd like to ask the and members of the public they'd like to speak to this item too can you please stand up and come step forward you want to go first uh mr. Norse can you let them go first so apparently we have this measure k that was to make it uh much less of an offense and lower priority for the marijuana laws but uh what i've got to say to that is now that the legalization is passed doesn't that make most of measure k just null and void and uh you know it it's one of those things where i what i want to see a study of what problems could be uh could we could still see if we keep it on the books you know that that's a big question for me and uh the all right i got over a minute left uh i'll let robert have it well nope you can't do that so it's tough it's tough the time well yeah okay you can you can be good again thank you next speaker please so this measure was originally intended by the community because the city council refused to pass it under pressure from the police department they refused to even put it on the ballot it was an attempt to essentially monitor the police department's behavior which continued to be abusive towards people who are engaging in marijuana youth smoking and so forth and uh the issue was whether there will be an oversight body and the city took action to cripple the measure and then appointed people to it who would not enforce it the chair and the vice chair resigned from this body a year after it was created not as the city attorney states because it was uh pointless no what it was pointless but because pointless trying to deal with a staff member who is now the assistant city manager who essentially helped to cripple the measure that is say the issue was to hold the police accountable and to have their records looked at police department resisted this and essentially very little was ever done about this so my point is to sort of clarify the record on this and also to suggest to you the same drug war mentality is still stalking Santa Cruz and is embodying the city council's attempt to restrict marijuana consumption areas in retail businesses and refusal to allow for example a place where you can smoke marijuana or eat marijuana edibles within the city limits we need to have real action on measures about marijuana such as amnesty for any prosecutions and people still in jail for this kind of marijuana involvement that the city attorney has been involved with and i acknowledge most of this is done by the district attorney and also some indication of the costs and suffering caused you know by some of those great police department activists that are that are being celebrated otherwise like officers butler and baker who actually caused lots of suffering that this council never talks about and that's never attempted to rectify that's my point is there any other member of the public that would like to speak to this item bring it back to council for deliberation council anybody yeah i'll move the move the rec and the staff recommendation brown makes the motion direct direction to prepare ballot language analysis sorry i'm happy to second okay and second by council member neroy and thank you and so we have the standard language on the ballot thank you for that city attorney so then there's a motion on the floor and the second is there any further discussion no further discussion all those in favor of the motion please say aye those opposed please say nay no so it's uh passes unanimously okay we're going to go to the next item on the agenda which is the review of our meeting calendar any updates or changes i saw there was a special meeting that's coming up and i'm just curious when we solidify that uh it tentative right now but yeah okay what's the topic well we talked about it not recently there's a couple that we're going to do during the year and i think we'll get back with you on you know when that's finalized but there's three that we've talked about and the dates do you have the dates for them it's on the calendar there's haven't been secured yet so but we'll definitely provide a date well in advance when it occurs um ten may i think may is the first one okay at the water i think at one point didn't we hold all our we had the i mean they're still on my calendar so nothing in the immediate future nothing in the immediate future okay keep your keeping you enjoy that time okay so the next um the one is the uh next item on the agenda is any opportunities we've talked about every uh month instead of doing it every meeting for updates on what's occurred um during the since the last you know update you've had we've uh had a lot of activities here in the council but what you've been doing while you aren't here so anybody would like to talk about their meetings please uh take this opportunity to do so council member brown i was just gonna say i don't have any uh reports from since the last time that we reported out that i can think of okay the rts maybe our blueprint well yeah we constantly that's yeah that's true external stuff or yeah i don't have no i don't have anything that's a moment orion did you want to report on anything um no i'm good council member walk or vice mayor walkins um just that we had a live oak uh santa cruz youth violence prevention meeting finally and um had an opportunity to sort of revisit the effort and think about how we want to move forward and that will be still kind of forthcoming and we also had our city schools subcommittee um and was able to kind of collaborate with some of our school partners and understanding where they're at with some of the issues and other concerns and how to best work together but i don't need to get into details contact me if you want to know more great okay council member crown did you want to yeah um the next lrdp meeting is march 16th and you all should let council member matthews and i know if we're you know if you want something urgently brought up i i assume it might be a an interesting meeting um you let them know we're putting something on the june ballot yeah we'll let them know that if they don't know um the the um the next integrated waste task force meetings coming up as well as the um next week is the uh the climate action uh committee that i'm on but i did want to say a word how well this council was represented in san diego this past weekend council member martin Watkins and rachel neroy and myself we're all down in san diego and really it's a great place to uh visit with our representatives so um i think we all probably visited with mark stone and bill monning and many others a gavin newson on my part and uh it was i guess the shocking thing was that our senator did not receive uh uh the endorsement of the democratic party feinstein senator feinstein did not get it but uh kevin delion did i i didn't think they they gave anyone an endorsement i'm sorry i'm sorry he won the majority of the vote but yeah he didn't get one major that's that's your excuse that's what i read in the sentinel this morning i believe but i highly recommend it for people if you've never been to one it's a it's a great experience and it's you meet council members representatives from all over the place and uh this is a really really good experience council member matthews um in terms of metro uh council member chase and i both serve on that and um a couple of things of interest um they are as you know um eternally strapped for operating funds um and among other things they will be initiating a fair study it has the um fares haven't been revised in about 10 years or so and um are substantially below what other comparable um systems are charging currently um the idea being to both um provide uh subsidies or um benefits for those who are um most most at need while still increasing ultimately the fares and importantly um the metro has to hit a threshold of 20 percent of its income gained from fares in order to qualify for a lot of the matching funds so it's not a um just a hypothetical issue so that will begin and there they'll be holding study sessions throughout the county on that um i can get you all information on that um related to that the there will be a an election on campus at ucsc uh in may early may uh asking the students to renew and over time increase the student fee that goes to subsidizing metro that is absolutely critical to metro being able to um continue the level of service to campus that it needs uh including for example the articulated buses that have just been added and um i met with some of the students involved in that campus election so that also will be important to the overall financial situation for metro and um other other issues you want to report on that you've been involved with the uh facility plan so i'm on the capital committee for the metro um and also now the vice chair because we just had elections in our last meeting and um we're going to have meetings coming up soon about pacific station and um the amount the money that was set aside for pacific station has been getting repurposed for various things all things of important they were all board votes um but what was a 5.8 million dollars set aside for that project is now down to just about two uh so that that is going to change significantly what metro is able to contribute to a joint project uh we hope that um the metro board still is in support of a joint project because their partnership is really critical for um the not just the city um and our projects which really do rely on and want to support transit oriented development but it's also critical for metro as a district to have you know as one a system that works and also stations that are inviting and clean and welcoming and support transit that is more robust than the system that we have now so we're going to be some interesting discussions um you know our partnership is clear we really want to work with metro on this and we think it'll benefit the entire district as well as the city and and uh the region uh not sure if that is shared so it's going to be an uh interesting discussion and hopefully we'll get a lot of support from the community coming out and talking about what kind of district uh transit district they want to have and what they think transit's role is in our region and uh we hear a lot about that at metro and also at the regional transportation commission where people are pushing really hard on improvements to our transit system because that is something that could be done certainly much quicker than any other transportation options in our community so I hope that the community continues to be engaged uh on the options for transit there's a follow-up to that too I had asked council member chase about the articulated buses going up to campus I had not realized that the UCSC is paying for those buses 100 there's two of them right there's three three and that's only going to be until the end of June or maybe June 15th probably when the school's out and will not be renewed as council member Matthews just said if the students don't approve this uh transportation funding right so those will for sure go away unless the fees are supported by the students in which case then they will come back and they have been a huge success there's fewer students that are being passed by and it's really been very very successful but we do need the support from the students to keep that going I'll just say there's been variety things since the last meeting and some of you might have received that invite to go on a um ranger ride along where you go out on the rangers out in the field and I think I went on that and I think council member Dorian I'd highly recommend it you go out to some of the open spaces with some of the rangers and kind of see some of the issues that they're grappling with during the day it was a really good experience and I would encourage everyone to go and see not only in the downtown but also out in the open spaces and parks the other thing that's occurred since the last meeting is the county office of education does an annual high school mock trial and so judged earlier in the month and now tomorrow is the semifinal so I'll be doing that it's it's really wonderful to see these kids from all of the high schools come out and prepare and argue these cases they're really amazing and it's really special to get awarded you know these recognitions that you see a lot of the work they put into and it's really fun um one of the highlights though recently was um seeing council member crone as one of the biggest fans in the the kaiser arena or the kaiser arena rooting for the cuban team as they as they as they went to the to the locker room during halftime and a strong encouragement to greet uh you know jeff bong gundy who was coaching the usa team david took me up on that too he stood there and welcomed jeff to santa careers you know his captive audience right i couldn't see him but he does have a local connection as you might have read in the paper also so it was interesting and then last night the um usa v uh puerto rica played and it was really really amazing to have the first international basketball tournament here there's a really good crowd i think the puerto rican team was um brought an entire like rhythm section in the audience so had really good music by the fans uh bands and um it was a really great experience a lot of people were having a good time and then martin mentioned as part of her his presentation today um we've taken a couple tours of the uh temporary emergency shelter and i would encourage everyone to go out there and take a look at that just to see the work that went into it i know sometimes it's hard when you have these discussions here to see what the end results are but um i felt that it was very well organized at least how they have the the facility structured at this time and as we go into the details of the budget it's just important to see how it's laid out bonnie can you put up that picture just a more recent kind of more recent yeah from susie sent me a picture about maybe an hour ago okay oh there it is yeah jessica was there earlier i think yeah the um but also even going there to see some of the other facilities and how the intake process works i think would be helpful when you see the storage areas we talked earlier this morning about how maro is working on platforms he had a you know jacket and tie on he was like he was like uh kind of nailing together some of these platforms while we're there during this uh you know open house so if there's no other discussion of council member noroyan one item um just wanted to get a recap on there's aren't there going to be five community meetings at the police department's holding as they roll out neighborhood meeting pardon yeah the neighborhood plan right and then did did we mention the dates on that during this meeting i just think it might be a good idea to mention thank you for reminding i know i think it's on the city's website um and okay that's you know if there was a press release that went out and they're pretty but it yeah it'd be good also to have some sort of you know uh kind of update on those when they come up so that one for those not everyone can go to each of the meetings but get a preview of what it is you know to the council so we can see some of the changes yeah i mean i like to know what issues come up at each one and you know it's on our main our main website so you can click on it and those start though just to clarify i think they start march 6 is when the first one third saturday march 3rd that's right at the police community about the saturday one it's right there on the home page it's super easy to find yeah okay the first one is the downtown neighborhoods yeah also our website is really so much better than i mean i just really want to acknowledge that the changes have been really great it's very much external facing and very easy to navigate could we get the um city agendas pushed up to the top on the clerks page because people have told me so many times they didn't know they didn't scroll down to do the agenda they didn't know how to get it and so they go how do i do this and they have to guide them through it kind of thing and you just search agenda you do but you come to the page but you don't know to scroll way down oh yeah it's not intuitive i know what he's talking okay oh hey the other thing i'd like to know is when we have future updates for the website who they go to who's the webmaster to make those updates because i've seen there's some broken links and also i lean cross she's the web she's in charge of the website she'll get it to the right uh individual yeah okay great all right well that is the end of the day for all of us here so the most the meeting's adjourned good work david maybe for you it's the end of the day what's not the end of the day i said i said it's the end of the day here that's saturday there's so much going on uh-huh hi how's it going hold on a second


understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught. I'm not a professional educator. I don't have a degree in social studies or science. We send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have an expertise in the subject area and that is not my job. Does she just admit that she's not an expert that shouldn't be teaching in schools? I don't really understand this idea that parents should decide what's being taught. I'm not a professional educator. I don't have a degree in social studies or science. We send our children to school because we want them to be taught by people who have an expertise in the subject area and that is not my job. Yeah, you heard right. She admits that she's not an expert as a justification for why parents shouldn't have a say in their own kids' education. Doesn't Nicole Hannah-Jones actively encourage schools to teach the 1619 project? It's in around 5000 schools already and she's making lots of money on it. Despite the 1619 project being widely discredited as inaccurate revisionist history. Is this conflict of interest pointed out during the interview? Of course not.


Hey everybody, Dr. O'Hare, let's talk about proteins. So proteins are going to be polymers or long chains of these amino acid monomers. So all proteins are made of a combination of 20 different amino acids. They all have a lot in common. They all have a central carbon. They have that hydrogen. They have the amino group, which holds the nitrogen. That's the key there, right? Protein is our only source of nitrogen. It's the only thing. All carbohydrates and lipids and proteins all have carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, but protein is unique because of the nitrogen. And then it's going to have the carboxyl group on the other end as well. A carboxyl group is a carbonyl group, that C double bond O plus a hydroxyl group. But the side chain or R chain is what makes each of these amino, these 20 amino acids unique. So here we see all 20 amino acids. You notice the side group or the variable group, whatever you want to call it is what makes them unique. You'll notice that it changes the properties. Some are polar, some are non-polar, some are aromatic, some are positively charged, negatively charged. Don't really care much about that. It's going to be why each of your 20 amino acids behaves slightly differently. I think that's plenty there. But your body can make, there's 20 amino acids that make every protein in your body. Your body can make 11 of them. So those are called the non-essential amino acids because your body can build them. The other nine are going to be the essential amino acids. That means that your body doesn't make them or doesn't make enough of them. So you have to consume them in your diet. And those are going to be histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, or some say phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine. So those are your essential amino acids. They have to be in your diet. Now if you consume animal products, they have all the essential amino acids. If you don't consume animal products, you need to eat combinations of foods that would get you all of those. They're called complementary food combinations, but we'll cover that in nutritional topics later. So the other 11 amino acids are non-essential. You don't have to eat them. Nothing wrong with eating them. But if you don't eat them, your body can make them. Some amino acids are called conditionally essential. So if you have like a preterm infant or people that have poor digestion, some of these may actually be what are called conditionally essential, but that's not a huge deal. Another group of amino acids you might see highlighted sometimes are called the branched chain amino acids. They improve athletic performance, muscle growth, et cetera. So a lot of athletes make sure they get diets that are really high in what are called the branched chain amino acids or BCAAs. Those are going to be leucine, isoleucine, and valine. Just so you know. All right. So those are your 20 amino acids, the building blocks that make every protein we have. All proteins are going to be polymers or long chains of these amino acids, and they are held together as you can see here by what's called a peptide bond. So a peptide bond is a special kind of covalent bond that is formed between amino acids that form these long chains. So when you're done, you're going to have a peptide chain, and if you have short peptide chains, they're generally called polypeptide chains, and then we build out and make those larger proteins. All right. So those are the amino acids, the proteins they build, and peptide bonds. I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.


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