And a motion to approve the minutes of August 25th, 2020. Council Member Peck. No moved. Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded. Assuming there's no further debate, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed, say nay. All right, the motion passes unanimously. Any agenda revision, submission of documents or motions direct the city manager to add agenda items to future agendas. Council Member Peck. Thank you, Mayor Bagley. Actually, it's a question and if it's, there may not be a motion. So at a previous meeting, Harold, we directed staff to put on a future agenda, the amended air quality contract. And I'm wondering if that has been assigned to an agenda yet. I know we were working on the amendment and we'll be working on that. I know we were working on the amendment and we're looking at either the second meeting in September or first meeting in October. This is the number of Boulder County residents newly reporting as tested positive as of September 8th. And part of the reason why I wanted to show you this is that we have two fairly significant. Well, not fairly significant spikes related to the number of cases in Boulder County. This is an interesting chart. I mean, so again, what you're seeing is that growth in the 20 to 29 year old category. The good news that we're starting to see is if you look at this, all of them tend to be in green. The ICU beds is still in yellow. I remember the available med surge beds. And again, this is related to elected procedures and that have been going on and things beyond COVID and we had been a little further in the red were right on the line. Earlier today before the change in numbers it was actually in the in the yellow. I do assume those spikes that we see that we attribute to the university because it's in Boulder County would would be a factor in keeping or preventing the count of the county from from qualifying among or meeting the seven standards. That's one of the conversations that I want to have with have with the county health department is to understand that because what's different about this is because of the testing is a bit of a nexus in terms of then they're testing, I guess, dormitories and other areas. So the difference in this is it's not like they're just seeing widespread in the community and so they are understanding where it's coming from. So what I was like, it's okay. So, as we watch this nationwide and look at this fight, a lot of them nationally are coming from universities in the opening of colleges. I also heard the discussion that sending these grat these students home is also going to add to a problem that they are carrying this back. So my question is, has the university or the county thought about doing a quarantine dorm. So I have every Wednesday I have a conversation with the other managers within Boulder County and James on that conversation. So that was going to be one of my questions. You know, multiple schools are doing different things. Exactly. Some are canceling some are quarantining and one of my amazing teammates just said see you does have dorms set up for quarantine. And isolation. So, Marika just so you all know Marika is the one that just sent me this Marika is on the just team. And so she's interacting with with them on a much regular regular basis. Councilor Christensen. I would like to point out that see you also has its own hospital where I spent my winter break one year. So they are well equipped to take care of it. I hope they do a good job. Let's go ahead and move on to first call public invited to be heard. Let's go ahead and take. And thanks for your time tonight. I'm calling to ask council to reconsider their recent motion vote on short term rentals. Specifically, the one that eliminates the ability for Longmont residents to rent out one investment property. In 2018 I came before the council twice to plead my case regarding owning a second home and being able to rent on a short term basis. As soon as your ruling became law, we immediately went to the city. We paid and were issued the third str permit and then applied and were granted a sales tax license. Since then we have paid the city over $3,500 in sales and lodging taxes. And it was coming to my attention that you would like to revisit this ruling and a possible make amends to it potentially eliminating the opportunity. The second home by a resident for short term rental income. I'm calling in to speak to item nine C updating the development code to include protections of riparian area areas habitat and species. Two years ago, council approved the first set of major updates to Longmont's LDC in 17 years. At that time, council directed staff to include several riparian protection amendments and to develop a sustainability evaluation tool. As a result, this section of the updates was delayed. The wildlife management plan was completed last fall and hasn't formed the LDC. This ordinance is ready to go and will help protect riparian areas, wetlands, streams, creeks, open space and the wildlife that depends on all these. Desperately needed our resources for education, advocacy and enforcement to protect these places now. Several of us spoke to you in person at the council meeting in February on the dangers of microwave radiation, the same radiation that smart meters emanate 24 seven. At that time, to my recall, we brought each of you a copy of a white paper from 2012, authored by Dr Timothy shackley in collaboration with the National Institute for Science, Law and Public Policy called getting smarter about the smart grid. In fact, he is uniquely qualified to have formulated this exceptional and game changing critical analysis, getting smarter about the smart grid. I'm calling into voice or concerns on the amount of traffic and unsafe speed of traffic coming to our neighborhood on South Kauffman Street. We have gotten accustomed accustomed to the slight increase in traffic. The project was developed, but now it has become like a speedway to our neighbor neighborhood, because it is wide and it is downhill with the light and the collector street designation. It has become unsafe. And I have actually experienced where we have motion motion with our hands to slow drivers down because of the kids in the neighborhood and drivers have actually sped up. As residents of sophomore park are asking that there is some consideration and how our neighborhood and our lives are now being impacted. Mayor Bagley and council members, I hope you got a chance to read my comments I sent you about the updated riparian code and the 2021 budget. Please implement my recommendations and address specific issues I brought up in my comments. I would also like to reiterate the importance of filling the environmental sustainability planner position. Please hire the environmental planner as soon as possible and approve the position for 2021. And finally, Longmont needs more park rangers. Let's not go through another year where we have to where we don't have enough rangers to protect the city's natural resources and to handle the large influx of people into our parks greenways and open space. Thank you so much. Bye. As I'm starting the application process for my short term rental I was appalled to learn that this council is considering taking away the rights of property owners by limiting and preventing short term rentals.  We were having a hard time to find our Airbnb to spend the time in Colorado so we found a beautiful place in Longmont, beautiful house. And that gave us the opportunity for my family and I to get to know the area we fall in love with Longmont. I gotta say that you guys have a great community. And this is the main reason of my call. So just to let you know the important important how important is for us as a family is that you guys provide this kind of service. There is no way that living in a hotel will enjoy as much as we did in an Airbnb. I would like to pull nine C for discussion and nine H just for a comment. All right. Can we have a motion. I'm going to actually move the consent agenda less C and H. Second. All right it's been moved and seconded all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say nay. All right. The motion cast passes unanimously. All right, let's go ahead with item 10 a ordinance 2020-34 a bill for an ordinance many section 4.16.010 of the Longmont Municipal Code and allowable investments. Are there any questions from Council. Yeah, I I'm a little uncomfortable with that we are taking we are adding as good investments municipal bonds and mortgage backed securities which were two of the things that you know which under good circumstances would be fine. However, you know they have proven to be very both of them have proven to be very problematic in times of financial meltdowns. I'm pretty confident we are invested in triple a type investments when it comes to these securities that are mortgage backed through federal instrumentalities. As far as the municipal bonds go. Again, we would only be looking at the highly rated municipal bonds. We don't have those built into that investment policy that we have those limits on on how high those need to be graded. So we don't get into any junk type bonds or junk documents that that would be more of a high risk to the city. Okay, thanks Jim. We have a motion regarding ordinance 2020-34. I'll move. I guess not. We just when you put bring that screen up. I can't thank you. I'll move approval of ordinance 2020-34. It's been moved by Dr. Waters and seconded by Council member redog actually a dog a fairing was that you. Okay, seconded by Council member dog a fairing. So you know for the comment or discussion let's go ahead and vote. All in favor say aye. All right, ordinance 2020-34 passes unanimous. Can we have a motion. Council member Christensen. I move. Zero 2020 34 B. I think I think I okay I'll second that I'll read I'll take the motion as a motion to approve the amended council rules and procedures specifically rule 27 regarding boards. So item 10 B. Second. All right. Okay. It's been moved by Councilor Christensen. It's been seconded by Dr. Waters. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right. The motion carries unanimous. I would move resolution 2020-92. Second. All right. Council member Christensen made a motion was seconded by Council member Martin all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right resolution 2020-92 passes unanimously. All right. Polly let's go ahead and address ordinance 2020-37. Plus ordinance 2020-37 as previously amended and was seconded by Councilor Martin on. Favor say aye. Aye Aye Aye, oppose say nay. All right, ordinance 2020-37 passes unanimously. Let's go ahead and move on to general business items public caring regarding long prior grounds marketplace business improvement gets. Long Fairgrounds Marketplace Business Improvement District, specifically ordinance 2020-38. It's a bill for an ordinance organizing the LFM Business Improvement District providing for an election of the board of directors of the district and approving the 2020-2021 operating plan and budget for the district, public hearing and second reading scheduled for September 22, 2020. The term extraordinary, that there's an extraordinary expense to do what has to be done. And I read in the enclosure about the infrastructure work that has to be done, the connector road, etc. But in this application, I raised the same question when we approved the Metro District, the only one we've approved. What's the standard or criteria for extraordinary expense? I could ask Carolyn White to weigh in as to her understanding of what would constitute some of the requirements of the operating plan because again they operate. So the question isn't whether you think it's extraordinary or not, it's whether you think it's met the criteria in the state statute and I can go through some of what those are if you would like or you could ask the applicant to explain what they met by extraordinary. That's not a legal criterion. Okay, I'll ask the applicant. I didn't use the term, I didn't go back and maybe it was a counter communication in their actual application. All right, do we have a motion pertaining to ordinance 2020-38? All right, I would move ordinance 2020-38. I'll second. All right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. All right, the ordinance carries six to one with council member Christensen opposed. Jim, go ahead and start this movie. All right, mayor and faculty members of the council, Jim Golden, chief financial officer. So this is the first of our 2021 budget presentations this evening. Council, Joanne Zeus, chief human resources officer. I would like to take a few minutes tonight just to speak to you about employee compensation and our budget recommendations in light of the current labor market outlaw. So the data that you're looking at there for Colorado is July data. The data that you're looking at there for June is the counties. Compensation is no different in this environment. It is an uncertain environment. We do typically create compensation plans from projections. Those turnover, I wanted to give a little bit of information. Even though the market has a pretty high unemployment rate, we do have a relatively low turnover rate within the city. So this is our projection for retirement eligibility. It's a little bit small, but what it's showing is that we have over the next two years, we will have about 264 of our employees or about a quarter of our employees who are eligible to retire. Many of you have probably seen this slide before. This is our compensation philosophy. And so this is what we're working towards. And what we always say is that we want to provide prevailing market rates. So essentially for 2021 to start, we are not making any market adjustment for employees. We're just looking to keep those salary ranges where they are. We have made some space in the budget to move employees who are under their market salary towards that market salary. So if they're below that rate, they can move towards it. Just a little bit of notes in terms of the future compensation direction. What we're hoping is that as we have the ability that we will go ahead and start to move towards that pay target. I don't know that that's going to happen in the near future, but we do want to keep that on there as a goal. It's been something that has been a goal. The mayor and the mayor pro tem are both on the old hire pension boards. Those are defined benefit plans. And they have an annual actuarial review performed on them each year and talk about the general employees retirement plan. And it's also a defined benefit plan. The GERP plan has been has had a history traditionally of being fully funded. In 2016, the GERP board made a change to our funding policy to amortize the liability over a closed 30 year period. So it was previously over an open period which continued to revolve. So under a closed period, we have a target. We move towards that target to reach fully funded over that. So that period will be 26 years from January 1st, 2019. So another 25 years or so to go. So in the budget message, we, we've laid out all the detail on the history of the contributions to this plan and how it's grown over time. We are recommending that in this budget that the contribution, well, actually the actuarial recommendation here is that the contribution requirement is going from 13.9% to 14.2% of compensation. So the contributions for 2021 are proposed as 8.4% city and add that to the 5.4% employee. It's below the total required contribution of 14.2%. And so now the health benefit funds. So the council communication does have some information on it that is explaining how we budget for employee benefits each year for the health benefit fund. So in the 2021 proposed budget, our health benefits are based on negotiated cost with Kaiser 7.11% increase for 21. So the CIP, it's a planning document that shows all the infrastructure needs of the city over the next five years. So our 21 to 25 proposed CIP is a total of 200 and almost 244 million dollars over five years. Only the first year 2021 will actually be appropriated, although the council does act to adopt the whole CIP. The other thing this here is show on the amount of the funded CIP projects by year. So this is the breakdown of 2021, the first year of the CIP. And this is also by project category. I'm going to turn this next over to Jeff Friesner to pick it up from the next slide forward. First project is improvements at the Callahan house. If next project is the firehouse arts center facility improvements. As you're aware, this is a city owned facility on fourth that the firehouse arts center uses. The next project is the museum entry concrete replacement. The next project is replacement of the concrete at the Roosevelt pavilion. So you can see with the 2021 overview, it's approximately 11.2 million. So one of the activities is the electric system up the electric substation upgrades. I grouped these together because realistically, these are a trio of projects that work together. And they're very interval to part of our goal or this decade's goal of 100% renewable energy. And so advanced metering. So this is a multi year project council actually last year approved the rate changes to support this project. Another one that we have in there is electric vehicle charging stations. We have several charging stations available out there to the public. We recently completed one at the library. We have another one out at the museum and serving sort of the museum and the facilities out there and then also another one at the service center. Okay, I think it is my turn. So good evening Mayor Bagley and members of council Valerie Dodd the executive director of next slide. I have one slide and one slide only. So if someone will please jump to it. I'll skip through that and then I'm hoping to come back in the next few weeks so that I can provide a more thorough and broad overview of the operations. So I think there have been some questions. Good evening Mayor Bagley and members of council. My name is Cherise Montgomery and it's my pleasure to be joining you tonight as staff. We've got four bond projects underway. Phase one of the civic center rehabilitation project was the stabilization of the finance parking garage and that work is complete. The garage with recreation actually has five bond projects. First the U Creek golf course maintenance facility project. So I'm back on again. Carrie Sheehan senior project manager of facilities and maintenance services. I am working with assistant chief Scott Snyder on the two fire station replacements. So of the approximate $9.3 million in bond funds we've got $7.6 million allocated to the design build services. So wrapping up rest of the presentation we want to go over some public works and natural resources. We've broken them out into basically five main categories starting with drainage, parks and open space and trails, our sewer waste water transportation and water projects. We bring into the table about $63 million worth of capital improvement projects for next year. The first item real quick is just to go over kind of the drainage project summary. So shifting over to our parks, open space and trail projects. We have about $4 million programmed with not over nine projects. So one of the projects that we'll be working on actually currently working on with some design this year into construction next year is the next section of the St. Brain Greenway. Following under our asset management component in parks and natural resources is the park infrastructure rehabilitation replacement. We're focusing on Lumillar park next year. Shifting over to sewer about four and a half million under six projects. The key project I want to focus on tonight is our wastewater treatment plant Reg 85 improvements. So over at the sewer plant one of the challenges and across the board for a lot of our areas that are regulated by the state is when they impose new state regulations. So in our transportation we have some key projects that overlap into other areas. We're bringing about $16 million in next year. CRP 11 our transportation system management CIP covers a multitude of areas our safety multimodal and some minor capacity. We usually see an intersection improvement section. This is tied in with our quiet zone project as we're trying to get a crossing over BNSF railroad tracks. That brings us to railroad quiet zones. We have been working on design as per direction from city council. We were anticipating going to construction by the end of this year. That has gotten pushed into next year in major part because we did receive an FRA grant. So one of the projects that's tied pretty closely with our resilient saint for rain project is the boston avenue bridge over saint for rain TRP 118. We have been working on design with construction in 2021. So in closing out we want to go over some of the water projects which is probably the biggest investment we have $37 million next year. So underwater supply we are going to be working on our supply pipelines up around lions. So price park tank replacement original open water storage reservoirs in the black and white photo on the right. You can see real quick giving overview of the Nelson Flanders water treatment plan expansion. That is also funding proposed through the bond election design. We're doing a design build on it and it's currently designed as underway. All right let's move on to council comments. Anybody? That's awesome. Good. Here I move to adjourn. I'll second that. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. Have a good night guys.


Welcome back. Hopefully everybody's excited about the weekend. Not only that, I'm pretty excited about what happened.  Let's go hop over there and check out what happened. Oh, it's going pre-market. That doesn't look good. But let's look what happened yesterday. Great earnings.   You could see that thing start making a big comeback. EDU had a great run up, look at that thing. And by the way, if you go back and EDU, it was up into $200 price range, but it's filling a gap fill. But that Amazon, you know, the whole idea about trading though, just kind of let you know that even with swing trading, you gotta wanna take a profit. You gotta know when you gotta walk away and it says, you know what? Made money, that's it. And just remember one thing. Good traders never buy at the bottom and we never sell out top. And if you did, it's luck. And you have to admit when you're lucky.  But we got resistance levels right around here, which you saw right around 38 back in February. And that's what it basically peaked out on right there. So it's starting to back off. So, you know, it could probably come all the way down right around here, around 33 or something like that. So, you know, some profits, people want to take profits over the week, you know, overnight and that's basically what you're seeing right now because people did do really, really well. I mean, the stock really ran from a price of around $100 to about $140. But that, listen, that's the past. That's where about the future, right? The future is this. What's going on today? And we had a couple of really nice stocks that are moving in pre-market right now. And the ones that were from yesterday are actually kicking in today. And I want to start off with TBLT. Now, TBLT, you could see it's up really nicely right here. It was one of the good pre-markets of yesterday, ran from $4 all the way to $6.50. She's up again today. We traded a couple of days ago. The stock was at $2, ran almost as high as $10. I'm hopping over here on level four. You could see right here that we got a couple of big iceberg orders that are kind of supporting it right around seven bucks. We're right around there. The guy canceled his order and he uptick there, which is actually a really good sign. So that one's doing pretty well. But we'll talk a little bit about that in a little bit. Want to also talk about some of the stocks that we traded yesterday. For some of you that were not here, and if you're watching YouTube for the first time or maybe you missed this couple of days, SkyX was actually a really nice mover yesterday. $4 stock up to seven. Look how cheap these stocks are, okay? So listen, why you have to go out there and risk $140, $150 stock. Listen, these things move up just as big. That one was good. Plug was awesome yesterday. And we talked about this yesterday regarding about, we'll talk about that norm, about the BHC too. That one also was a pretty interesting one, BHC. So we all know about Build Back Better. It looks like it's gonna pass. They did a smaller version of it. So a lot of those stocks had anything to do with what Congress is looking to pass and what the President is gonna pass about Build Back Better. A lot of it trickled in.  So here you have a stock. So anyway, for us, those opportunities make opportunities in the market and plug in a few of them. What was the other one that did it? Blink was the other one that moved pretty nicely. Couple of those stocks obviously did pretty well. Sega also, another one, great moving stock yesterday. 17 dollar stock, this thing just did not knew how to back off, didn't have that many shakes. 18 dollars all the way up to the close, went to 22 dollars, another good mover. And you could see here on the long-term chart that this stock had a really good also day trade and then convert to a swing trade. Now it's a gap fill, you know, that's where it is. But it's trending down now. Sometimes you've gotta look at what happened yesterday to find support levels for today because when you look at it right here, you're like, oh, is there really support levels around 22? Well, when you go back, you could see it from yesterday. But anyway, that's the path, let's focus on the future. And the future is what's moving on today. So I was going through the watch list, there was a couple interesting stocks. AYLA was really interesting to me. This stock had a really, really good move right around 8 a.m. and it had a really nice pop. It wasn't on the morning watch list because by the time we got that watch list kicked in right around, you know, we usually put that list right around 7.45, 7.50, something like that. So this was what part of the program trading time, 8 a.m. It's had a really nice push right there. I mean, beautiful buck 38 to right around 225.  Well, listen, you could see it as resistance levels here on the long-term chart. And when I see where the orders are, I can see all these orders are starting to pile up right around 230 and 222. So that's really gonna kind of hold it unless somebody's gonna take those sellers out, not really going anywhere. So we're gonna keep up, but that's gonna be on the B list. Okay, so we'll get AYLA, and then we have the TBLT. All right, and those are the two biggest percentage gainers on the New York. Another stock that's moving pretty nicely. Also this morning, it's up about 22%.  Good after hours trading, I guess we must be earnings. But it's cheap, it's got good spread. I still like the trend right now. I don't like how it's moving. It's kind of like trending down. So I would also put this on the B list. It is up 23%. It did trade 8.7 million shares so far. Mark is not even open, but I'm not completely sold on that one either. So I'm a little bit skeptical. Oh, I've got to mention what Norman brought up before about the trade of BHC. So BHC, for some of you saw the stock yesterday, we actually trade the stock in our phase three. And it was really cool because it was started only here at eight bucks and the stock got destroyed, dropped down to four. And what was nice about it, if you are a student of Cybertrain University, you have to watch all our classes recorded. Watch the trade I did with the stock BHC where I talk about the Falstow flag and we watched it how it consolidated and then bam, the stock just dropped from 4.75 all the way down to four dollars. We did really well on that short. And I think we made about 50 cents on that. 50 cents on a thousand shares, 500 bucks, a hundred thousand dollar a year salary. And what was cool about it, it got halted too. So, but then you could see it took a while for it to open up and it opened up until late, late in the afternoon because it was getting halted constantly yesterday. And you could see these little gap fills that kept getting halted, halted, halted. And then it must have came out with some good news because by the time it opened up was sometime like late, late in the after, once the market closed and you could see a stock really kind of took off. So this is why it's important.  But she obviously was a very interesting learning stock. Yes, Grant, it was a great class. I really recommend a phase three, lesson three if you get a chance to watch it. All right, what else is moving on our watch list?  They were swing trades, they're not day trades. It wasn't pretty good day trade in the half hours, Amazon, for some of you here, but we did really good on that swing trade. Now on the losers, Roku is getting crushed, crushed Roku. This is one of those big high flyers that did really well with COVID. The stock went from a hundred all the way to about almost $500 a share. And you could see just like Netflix, this stock right here, this one was like, Netflix was at the 700, dropped down all the way down to like 179. So a lot of these streaming, subscriptions are not really doing too well. So, but Roku taking a huge, huge hit. So, and you could see it, when you see something like that, we know what that means. That was an earnings announcement. So they didn't do too well on that. But can we get a dead cat bounce on it? Listen, it's a $65 stock. We really wanna trade expensive stocks. It's gonna be very risky. It's gonna give you a lot of headache. Hopping over here with Intel. Listen, I was never a fan of Intel for a long time. I mean, Apple basically crushed Intel. But Intel, when I originally traded was like the gold standard of stocks to be in. It was like one of the blue chip stocks out there. They didn't do too well yesterday on their earnings announcement. So you could see a stock, another one, took a hit from $40 down to $35. It does got some support levels though at $35. So I will put it on the B list. It's not terribly hard to trade. I'd probably give it a category three, but that's about it. New York Stock Exchange, this is interesting. $5 stock rate at $10 stock. It's almost at $35. It's a new IPO. Is this Getty Images? Okay, the one that sells all those pictures. I didn't even know anyone in public. Getty, I'll be really careful. The stock to me looks like a extremely volatile stock. We traded stocks like this before. 1.5 million shares already traded. You could see the spread is very, very thin. That means it's got a very wide spread, low volume stock. So unless you're a category five, then you could trade it. AMTD, I don't know, this stock is not really going anywhere. Dang, these are old ETFs, not really going anywhere. So New York Stock Exchange basically looks all crapped out. AVYA, my God, this thing is getting hammered. Isn't that the life insurance company or something like that? I know they had those funny commercials, but Jesus, this thing is just like no end in sight. It's down to a dollar. When they break five, that's not good. When they get below that five, usually that means that mutual funds, just can't trade that stock. So the stock is not looking good at all. Is there any support in sight? Nope, breaking all time lows, that is not good. So I would define a dead cap ounce on that. To put it on a C list, listen, what's today? Today is Friday, okay? And what does Friday entail for us? Everybody wants to go away, the weekends, the Hamptons. The summer is gonna be a beautiful weekend here. So these are things that you have to take in consideration. Nobody wants to stick around on Fridays. COVID really changed everything.  Listen, life's very short for some of us. So, but when it comes to Fridays, be very, very careful of trading it. So that's why the list is not really that big, all right? So which is fine, which is fine. We did well yesterday. We got a couple of good swing trades that we did well on it. And like I said, we'll go out there and worry about the day trades later. All right, anything I'm missing, I did not call out. Can you share information about level three and level four market data? I've never seen it before. Thanks from Spain and YouTube. Taylor, the best thing to do is this. Why don't you email me, send me an email and I'll be happy to kind of give you more detail on it, okay? And I have a couple of videos that I could actually show you can watch on it and how to get it. But you gotta be careful, Taylor. You gotta, I gotta teach you how to use it. You gotta watch it because it could do more damage than good.  Where do I buy one?  You kind of give in the keys to their coffin. All right, so it's not that easy, no problem. In the meantime, just one last announcement. Josh put in his resignation. Yo, he doesn't wanna work for C2 anymore if he hits Lotto today. Okay, so, and I said, you know what, Josh? I might be the same thing. So Lotto's over $1.1 billion today. Go out there, make sure, you know, you gotta be in it to win it, just like illustrating. But just giving you breaking news right now, Josh told me, if he hits Lotto, he's gonna retire, all right? And then I think we will retire. So, don't worry, Josh, you got, it's like 365 million to one chance to win it. All right, everybody, good luck today. We'll see you back when the market opens up. If you watch YouTube Facebook live, we'll be back here at 2.30. And you know, like I said, and don't forget to watch that class if you're a student of phase one. All right, everybody, good luck, everyone. Happy trading.  We'll see you back here on Monday.


All right, so I get to set the pace for this very first time that we do lightning talks. I will try to do my best. So hi, I'm Shelly. I implement verification solutions at several open projects, and you've heard what some of them are. Eclipse OMR, Eclipse OpenJ9, and Adopt OpenJDK. And particularly, I'm interested in ensuring a free and open and fully verified Java binaries are available to the Java community. And what I'm going to try to cover in the next four and a half minutes is what is scaffolding, why would you want to do it, and why is it an art? So scaffolding as you may know refers to temporary structures or solutions to aid construction. And let's look at a simple real-world example of that. A development team wants an OpenJDK 11 testing enabled so they can find and fix problems that they're working on Java 11 features right now, and they want to find the failures, fix the failures as they're developing. The build team has not yet completed automating and publishing the builds to a location expected by test scripts for automated pickup and testing. So in this scenario, we have a couple of choices, or I'm limiting it to a couple of choices for this lightning talk. You can tell the dev team to go away, no way, wait until the build team is finished. Or you can scaffold. You can build a temporary solution which unblocks the dev team. So in this case, some temporary scripting that picks up the build from some sketchy location built likely out of pearl code and gummy bears. There are common mistakes that you can make, that projects make, and I'll quickly cover them. So you can only, you can choose to only build scaffolding, and this means you're hacking around and it doesn't scale and it becomes a rickety and demoralizing mess. So avoid this. Scenario two, mistake two, no scaffolding. So you're never trying to unblock teams and have them work in tandem. It's always serial. You're working on building the monolithic thing. You may never get completed, or it's so late that the requirements changed underneath your feet and you didn't solve the new problems. Scenario three is subtle. The mistake number three that you can make, your scaffolding falls apart before the real solution is ready. At this point, you have a choice. You can try to rebuild the scaffolding or push hard to complete the real task. This is going to be a judgment call. How close are you to building the real thing you need to build? And then scenario four is you love your scaffolding so much that you keep it. Even though you finished the real story, the real solution, you keep your scaffolding around. So congratulations. Now you have two things to maintain and go forward with. So how do you know if you did scaffolding right? You can ask yourself a couple of questions to know this. Did you achieve the goals you were trying to achieve? Did you build the thing you set out to build? And secondly, did you help people along the way? That's actually an important and subtle part of scaffolding, the notion that you're actually looking for ways to help people who depend on you. You know who depends on you and you ask them often, how can I help you? And the reason that's kind of the important story is because then it builds a community and it has people want to come back and work with you. So in these last few seconds that I have in a lightning talk, I just want to remind everyone. I know everyone here knows this already, but innovation happens in the open. And I'd love the opportunity to innovate and collaborate with all of you. Gummy bears included. So these are the details of how to get ahold of me, how to get kind of involved in the projects that I'm involved in. Some of the talks I have upcoming at several conferences that I hope to share with everyone online. Thank you so much for your attention and let's stay in touch. Find me at some of the events or in the conference later this week. All right. Thank you.


It seems like I'm always a little ahead of myself on goals and where I really want to end up at the end of the year. That's why yearly goals to me are so dangerous because you're never going to hit it right on the head. The only time you hit it right on the head is if. What's up everybody? Ricky Kruth here, another episode of live with Ricky and one. We're going to change that name pretty soon guys. So you're ready for the reveal, but uh, yeah, I'm Ricky Kruth, your co-host. I got one B. We'll call him one. Let's go by want Carlos at this point. Come on. Well, Carlos, that's it. Keep it simple. So, I mean, what, what does the deal with that? Like Carlos, Ben, G, whatever. Like, what, what, like, is it two last names? Is it your mom and your dad? Is it your, what's the story, man? So listen, Juan Carlos is actually two separate names. We got the first thing, which is Juan. Carlos is the middle name. Okay. Keep it simple. Baronette, she's the last name. Juan Carlos, but I mean that you're branding yourself, though. I'm branding myself is that, you know why? Because the only one Carlos that's famous in history is the king of Spain. So I got to take his throne at this point. You know, we just got to make it literally going away with your last name and your, your, your new, like stage name is Juan Carlos. Yes. Like Kanye, you know, what's Kanye's last name, Wes, but you don't have to say that in order to know who he is. You know, so we're going to try that out. Okay. Juan Carlos, it is, bro. Everybody heard it right here. Ricky C. Juan C. And we got Daniel P. You know, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah, we got my guy, Daniel Perez down there. And where exactly are you? Are you in Clearwater or are you in Tampa Bay? You're in Tampa.  St. Pete is about 25, 30 minutes depending on where you at in Tampa. Do you do deals in St. Pete? I do deals everywhere. St. Pete, water, Lakeland, Orlando. I love St. Pete. Yeah. Daniel, go ahead and tell everyone your, your Instagram handle. Best realtor in Tampa. Is that self-proclaimed or how did the other realtors feel about that? I mean, uh, I'm, I'm, I'm selling, I'm, I'm making deals, you know, so I think I'm the best realtor here. So they got to work with me. They got to own it, man. It is what it is, right? Got to take it from me. So tell everybody like how long you've been selling and a little background on what you did in the last 12 months in terms of volume and all that good stuff. And let's hear the greatness. So I got my license back in 2016. Um, uh, I got started real estate August 2016. I sold one house that year, only one. And believe it or not, my, my first deal came from, uh, an app called OfferUp. I went to buy some furniture from a lady I saw it for sale sign outside and I asked her, oh, you're moving. And she told me, no, I ran here. They're selling the house. I got to move out. I found a one bedroom condo in Brandon for 1250. I'm like, 1250, I can find you a town home that you can own two bedroom for less than 1250. And she's like, really? I'm like, yeah, you want to go see it? And she's like, yeah, let's go. I was my first sale ever. So you never know where your next deal is going to come from, you know? You really don't, man. You really don't think it's always going to come from somewhere. Yeah, you can. You, you don't know. So last year I made the switch to EXP with you guys. I got started with EXP in a March beginning of April. I sold, uh, 50, about 50 homes last year, uh, 43, 44 with EXP. And I did like seven or eight deals with my previous broker for a total of about 10 million. I, I made IconAgent, which is the, the highest production award with EXP in eight months, basically, because I got started, you know, April and, you know, by this, by November, I made IconAgent. You're crushing it, man. And what's cool is, like I said, a lot of people don't realize one deal your first year.  What changed from year one to year four that just made that switch happen? I mean, uh, I think that the thing that helped me the most, I started helping people with their credit. That's, that's the one thing that I did different in the, it's, you know, this is how I see it. I either get you qualified today or I put you in the credit program and sell your house in three months. One or the two, you know? So I don't tell no to nobody. I don't lose clients. Either I sell your home now or I sell your home in three to six months after I fix your credit. So you just got to find, find your niche, you know, and, and find something that works for you and credit repair and, and kind of like first time home buyers is kind of my thing. And, um, you know, as long as you do a good job and take care of the client, they're going to refer you business. And, and that's the best kind of lead you can get referrals. You know, so I tried to get referrals from every client that I close. Nice. Nice. So, so where do you get leads from? Like, where do you find these first time home buyers or these leads? I do a lot of social media, you know, posting. I don't even do as I just post every time I show a house, I make a post and, hey, you know, showing this house in Tampa or, you know, St. Pete or whatever the case may be, I post, post, post social media. I'm consistent every day. You know, again, I have the credit repair business to fill my pipeline, get me clients that are looking to buy in the next three to six months. And then referrals to me, referrals is the one thing that, you know, I, I always try to get as many referrals as I can because buying leads, you know, the conversion rates on buying leads is bad. So I don't I try not to, you know, I don't buy leads. I either try to make my own leads by converting a credit repair client into a buyer or getting referrals from previous clients or, you know, getting new clients from social media. So you have the marketing, you have the personal circle and then you have the credit business. Do you own the credit business or do you have a partner that you send all the clients to? So I created an LLC with my own name, credit repair geeks. I don't do any of the work. I have a company that does the work for me because I don't have time for that. So they basically manage and nurture all of your future leads for you.  Right. Yeah. They clean them up for me. I stay in touch with them.  That's how I keep them with me. You know, people want to get that credit back at the end. So they stay with me. Cool. Cool. Now, the way I see your business is that you're putting all and all this time and effort to work with her some home buyers to kind of establish your brand, if you will. But then what I see long term is that you're going to have so many of these people that you've helped over time that you don't even have to worry about where to get leads from. You're going to have so many people selling that first house that you sold them and upgrading, referring three other people to you over the course of two years. Like that's where my business is. It's all just past client referrals and stuff. So we're going about it two different ways, but it's the same result.  So I mean, my next question is in order to really capitalize long term on the real to like really squeeze it for every last drop that it's worth.  What are you doing in that department? So that's that's where I'm trying to implement your strategy, the weekly email, you know, I'm I've never had a database. So I started creating my database and trying to organize it. I'm going to start doing the weekly email. But so far the past five years, I've just been, you know, really unorganized, you know, I haven't organized myself. Database, Durbkin campaigns, I've never done any of that. So, you know, I'm looking to do that now and hopefully that's going to lead to instead of 50 homes, 100 homes a year, you know, 200 homes. It just takes a lot of work. It's not it's not that easy and a lot of people don't know how to do it. How to do what do the weekly email or whatever organize a database and market to that database and do the weekly email.  So that's that's something that made me start following you. Yeah, I mean, you just have to have a central location that you put everybody right that you can use whatever central location that is to market to them, you know, whether no matter what I mean, there's a lot of different places and CRM's and different things you can use. You just got to pick one, put everybody there and then use that platform to to market to them. You're right. You're right. It's not as easy as like one, two, three. There's a lot to it. But at the end of the day, you know, you know, it's something that everybody needs to figure out because you need the two machines. You need the machine that you already have in place to get leads coming in. But then you need the personal branding machine on the back end so that you retain as many of those clients as possible. So that's the problem. Most of the agents are just a rotating door.  You know, just think about how big your business will be in two years.  I don't know. I really don't know anything else.  They're too expensive. You know, as far as that goes, like direct mail to me is good for farming. If you if you're hitting a subdivision, social media, the organic reach is so low.   Like that's how you get to 100 deals and retain. See, nothing's going to retain every single client. Right. There's no system out there that's going to retain every single client. I still have clients that go use other agents. I mean, you can't stop that. It's just going to happen. There's no way around it. But we got to put ourselves in position to where we have something in place that we feel like will retain the most, the biggest percentage possible. You know, we're never going to hit 100. But let's at least go get as much as we can, you know. So I think that's the next step for you. What's your goals for this year? 100 homes this year. Let's go. Yeah. I hear you, man. Are you doing anything different to hit that? Or you just feel like the natural progression of your business is just going to make that happen. I think I have the the clients in the pipeline to, you know, to get there. It's just a matter of executing. But this month, I think I'm closing like seven or eight deals. So I'm just trying to shoot if I close at least 10 deals a month, you know, then I should get there. But, you know, some months are better than others, you know. So you just got to keep going. You know, a lot of times, like a lot of the times when I was trying to hit 100 deals or a million dollars and stuff, like it's like I would always make that a goal a one year, two early. Like the year before the year that I had 100 deals, I was like, I'm gonna hit 100 deals. And I had like 70 or 80 or something, you know, because the year before that was like 50 something. And the next year, I'm like, I'm going for 100. And then I hit like 70 or 80. But then that next year, I hit 100. We're like when I tried to hit a million dollars because 2014, the first year I sold 100 properties, like I want to make a million dollars the next year. And I hit 600 again. But then I hit 750 and then a million, you know what I mean? So like it seems like I'm always a little ahead of myself on goals and where I really want to end up at the end of the year. That's why yearly goals to me are so dangerous because you're never going to hit it right on the head. The only time you hit it right on the head is if you see yourself getting to the goal, you know, sooner. So then you start kind of chilling out and pace yourself to where you hit it directly. And that's dangerous because you paced yourself. You could have went harder or most of the time if you go as hard as you can, you don't know what's going to happen. You might go past the goal or you may go under the goal. If you go under the goal, it's like you're disappointed.  It's just like the yearly goal thing to me is so overrated and people put so much weight behind their yearly goals. And it's really a dangerous thing to do because you're never going to hit it exactly. You're either going to be disappointed or it's either going to give yourself permission to slack or you're going to be disappointed. It's like, let's look at the five year goals. You know what I mean? Yeah, but I think it's important to do that goal because then you have something to shoot for. If you don't do the goal, then you're not where you had it.  But here's the point. I'm all about making the goal. It's about how much weight people put on the goal. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like I make the goal and I just look at it from afar. You know, like, OK, that's what I want to do. And then through the year, I'm like, I'm getting closer and closer. But at the same time, I'm being cautious, cautious, conscious that I don't want that to dictate if I'm going to slack because I'm getting close to it or that I'm disappointed because I'm not getting close to it. Like I don't let that dictate how I operate. I don't put a lot of weight on it. I want the goal. Like my goal this year, you know, is is there. And, you know, I'm like, OK, yeah, here we go. And but at the end of the day, I don't care if I hit it or and I would like to go past it. Yeah, like my goal is like I want to make a goal and I want to crush it and like go a lot further. That's really the goal. Yeah, no, I understand. Like last year when I joined EXP, I told myself, listen, I'm going to join EXP, but my goal is to make Icon agent. So I calculated I needed at least 30 deals. But I just don't, you know, I didn't even pay attention at the numbers of deals that I was doing. I just went as far as I could. And at the end of the year, I saw that I was at 50.  I just went to work and I didn't even count the deals. I just focus on helping people. If you focus on helping people, you know, the money and the goals are going to take care of itself. Now, Daniel, in order for you to double up next year, what are your plans as far as your routine goes? Are you going to change anything up or what's your schedule like at the moment? So, I mean, I started now that I hit Icon agent. It's like Ricky said, I kind of relaxed a little bit because I already got the goal and now I'm focused more on bringing, recruiting a little more and bringing team members to my team. So now I'm going to, you know, my goal is 100 this year, but I'm going to also use the team that I'm building to hit that goal. So, you know, that's what I'm thinking. That's how I'm planning to get to 100. And I like that you brought up the whole team thing because when it comes to you building your actual sales team and then like long term recruiting and possibly building your broker job, it gives you an opportunity to build a business long term that you can essentially automate and walk away from. So this whole entire fact that like your self-conscious about three, four, five years from now, while you still have your 12 month goal in mind, it means you're paying business to what you're doing.  I want to retire in five years. So my goal is to go as hard right now, you know, selling and recruiting, building the team, because I want to be retiring in five years. You know, a lot of agents don't understand, you know, real estate is a transactional base business. If you don't sell a house, you don't get paid.  I don't like that feeling. So my goal is I joining XP to grow that passive income and the revenue share and the stock options. And I'm going to go as hard as I can for the next five years. And in five years, you know, hopefully my plan is to for my revenue share to be like 20, 30, 40,000 a month. And if I want to sell real estate, I'll do it. But I don't want to work. I don't work. So, you know, I'm planning on retiring very soon. That's the plan. Ricky, that's a pretty bold statement. How do you feel about that? Well, I mean, there's a lot of things that I feel, you know, I don't know if I can talk about it right here. But like, but like, I mean, a couple of questions pop up by my mind. It's like, number one, like, what does that look like? Like, what, like, what does retirement look like? And then like, because I feel like I'm retired right now. Right. So like, I am retired, basically. Like this is, I'm doing this for fun at this point. So like, what, what does that look like? And, and, and, you know, be like, how much, like, how do you, how do I ask this? Like, like, what makes it to where you can retire? Like, what goals do you have to hit, I guess, on a financial basis? You know, like in your mind, how can you retire financially? What in five years is going to enable you to do that? And what does that look like? Yeah.  I don't know what retirement numbers are going to look for me. I haven't gone that far.  Not everybody, you know, can do good in real estate. You've got to hustle.  And, you know, it's, it's, it's just a matter of, to me, I don't mind working hard, working 70, 80 hours a week, 100 if it's, if I'm working for myself. I used to be a mailman before real estate. I was working seven days a week, 70 hours a week. I was making like 3000 a month and I was killing myself. I had no life and I'm like, I, there's got to be a better way and I'm working hard.  I don't mind working hard for myself if I'm going to see the fruits of my labor. So, you know, hard work doesn't scare me. It's just a matter that I also have a family.  So there's got to be a balance, you know, and I'm trying to find that balance for me, it might be different for you or one or everybody, you know, retirement might look different for me than for everybody else. So you just got to define what that means for you and then go, go get it. Yeah, that's what I was trying to figure out. Like what, what is it? What is it defined up for you? So, okay.  What do you do during a couple of months? Like what are you doing? Like what do you, what do you want to do? Like I really want to know. Travel, travel, travel the world, go, you know, I don't know, go live in the beach by the beach. Thank you. You already live by the beach, man. You're in Tampa. I'm always working. I don't get, I haven't been to the beach in like years, I think. I don't know. No kidding. I went to the beach. Yeah, bro. There's no time for the beach when you need to make icon agent or you want to sell a hundred homes, you know what I mean? So you got to prioritize your goals. Um, I think what I see for you is like kind of being, if you'll, if you'll start to build your personal brand and look at it from a branding perspective for your business, it will actually enable you because like I literally spend so little time on my real estate business at this point is ridiculous. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, if I wasn't coaching and building a team and doing videos and doing all this other stuff, if I was just doing real estate, I would literally be doing nothing like I would wake up and spend like 30 minutes every morning making sure everything's good, which is what I do. And then nothing the rest of the day. And I might have like one or two days a week, maybe where I have to like go somewhere, go to a closing or show a condo or something like that. Yeah. So rare, so rare that I have to leave the house kind of thing. So because it's all past. Well, it's all past kinds of referrals. You know, we know what we know how each other operates. We know we've done this before. You know, we we know how to do the deals between me and my clients and my assistant. And I have this machine in place that's running on autopilot really, you know, it's crazy because it's like a single agent business to like, but it's really automated to such a point in like fine tune to where I'm literally in a retirement stage with my real estate business still closing 100 deals a year. You know what I'm saying? So you could actually this is something that you could actually accomplish in the next five years. If right now you start actually looking at it from a branding, a personal branding perspective and really go hard with the weekly email with you're already doing social media. If you just add the weekly email to it to kind of tie everything together and let it be the glue, you know, that really holds it all together. Then I can see where when you get to the point where you want to retire that it's retirement in a way, but you're still closing the same amount of volume, you know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And that's definitely where I want to get to, you know, to where it's automated. And you don't, you know, I don't have to work as as hard as I'm working now. You're busting in on. Yeah, I work the whole weekend. You know, I'm at the office Monday through Friday. I mean, if I'm not showing I'm at the office tomorrow, I'm throwing a half a million dollar home in like an hour and a half away.  So let's talk a little about that because I always wanted people's takes on this. So Ricky, how do you feel about show engagements, meaning you actually get the client, you introduce yourself, they know what you're about. And then you say, hey, I'm going to go out my assistant opened the door for you. How do you feel about that versus agents actually going down there showing themselves? I mean, I'm I'm I'm OK their way, right? So like real estate, such an interesting animal. That's what it is. It's an animal. It's mother nature and every like there's so many different ways to structure your business. And everybody has a different way. It's almost it's like a fingerprint, not a single agent builds or business the same way or structures their team or their business the same way.  It's a fingerprint. Everybody has a different way.  Right. So like, if you're early on, I think you need to show all the properties. I mean, we're trying to build. We're trying to build relationships. You can't build a relationship with someone you don't see. But then there's a lot of different schools of thought on that because there's a lot of people who'd say, you know, that build a team from day one and build this sucker up. And, you know, so there's a lot of different, you know, schools of thought. If you get to the part where the point where Daniel wants to get where he's actually retired and still running a business that is producing a lot of volume. I like nobody needs to compare their self to me. All right, when it comes to this, right? I somehow can do it. I can, I'm still going to show the properties and all that stuff. So I'm not one to compare your business to.   It's all about whatever works for you makes you happy that you feel good about. Nobody can tell you what that is, you know? Nobody can tell you how to run your business or what's best for you or how you should do it. Nobody, you know? So I don't really have an opinion on it. I'm just, you know, depends on where you are, what stage your business. And I don't have buyer's agents. So nice. Cool, man. Well, listen, Daniel, good to have you on the show. Really enjoyed it, man. I think we, I think everybody enjoyed here and your little story, how far you've come, what your goals are, what you have going on. I think it's very interesting how you built your business on the credit repair versus the new home buyer situation. And it's going to be really fun to watch your journey from here as you grow and try to hit those big goals. And I'm excited to be on the team with you and help you and watch you grow. Where can everybody find you? They can go to Instagram, best realtor in Tampa is my handle or in Facebook, best realtor in Tampa Bay. What's your website? My exp website is Daniel, Daniel, a press.exprealty.com. You've got to get the best best realtor in Tampa dot com going. I had to do my best realtor in Tampa dot com, too. So either or. Yeah, they can find me there. Nice, man. Nice, man. Well, good chat with you for a little bit. This is us signing off. If you guys would give us a five star review on this podcast, me and Juan would appreciate it. We're going to be back next week with another killer, high producing real estate agent. And if you guys know of any really high producing or interesting agent that you would like us to interview, just hit me up on Instagram at Ricky Caruth, where I answer all my DMs. And Juan, where are you found? You could find me at Latino agent and we will be releasing the new platform for this podcast and for more real estate agent training tips. If you yourself find yourself in a situation where you feel you completely crushed last year or you have some unique system or model when it comes to your real estate business, reach out to us. We're open to having new guests on the podcast.  So reach out to us. We're friendly. Shoot us a DM.  That's what you have now, bro. We'll see you guys. Have a good one. We'll talk to you guys soon. Take care. And we're finito. That's funny. That's good. That's good. So you're Italian Juan? I'm not Italian. I don't know where Ricky gets it. He just liked meatballs. So what are you? Parcerito, not Spanish. Colombian. Colombian. Yeah. I'm not single. Let's go. Kotados. We got to teach Ricky some Spanish. Un poquito. That's it. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.  Daniel, before we go, what can Ricky and I do better to help you grow your down line and just make this entire experience better for you? Just answer the phone when I call you with somebody on the phone, ready to sign up for you. Give us something else, man.  What, you know, what I really would like to do is an event, you know, get you guys out here and that would help me a lot to grow the team even more. There's no team in Tampa. There's no dummy in an EXP team in Tampa. OK, there's a huge one in Miami and they're doing really well. You could go that out there. Yeah, there's a big one in Orlando, too. OK, as a lady called Veronica Figueroa, the Figueroa team. Yeah, like 900 age and she has a big team. But I'm trying to take over Tampa. You know, that's my goal. So so listen, give us some awesome dates in the future. Obviously, it's a little weird right now with what's happening. But like I said, if you could put something together for five, six, seven months from now, Ricky will go ahead and do a real estate training. I'll go in on the back end. We'll try to build something out. But we'll see how the whole event thing plays out. Daniel, can you get all the all the emails for all the agents in Tampa, Clearwater, St. Pete, all those areas that you want to crush? How? No, I'm asking you. No, I don't I don't know how to get them. What about your MLS? Well, I guess I can I can go to Jitar and see if they give me that information. I don't think they will. But you could go into each agent and have like pay somebody a pay a high school agent and high school student, eight dollars an hour to copy and paste all of them. Ricky, I got three dollar hour VAs, man. You're overpaying over that. Well, anyway, bro, here's what I'm saying, man. If we could somehow advertise to to them about me. OK, do a do an online event just for them, right? And at the online once we once we get close to like the vaccine being over with.  I mean, as soon as the vaccine's over with, we'll just do a huge live event.  Just I'm there. Like, well, so well, so rapid testing at the door.  I'm there, bro. All right. Later, guys. Guys, we'll talk. Take care.


Those injured are 23 US Marine Corps soldiers, and we are doing everything we can to return them safely back to Darwin for treatment. One patient is in Royal Darwin Hospital in theatre, being operated on presently. Four more patients are in Royal Darwin Hospital. We have more arriving as we speak. We are triaging at the airport with the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Team, with care flight, and some are going straight to the hospital. Our focus as a government and as the Department of Defence is very much on incident response and on making sure that every support and assistance is given at this trivial time.


Sweet Jesus, is that Cletus Cornwood? It is. It is Cletus Cornwood. Yeah, look at that. New apartment. Damn door. Wouldn't open. Well, you mean I'm okay? Of course I'm okay. I just moved back here. I've been gone for a few years and I gotta get my feet under me. I gotta get my bearings under me, okay? All right. Mr. K, do you need a ride?    I wonder if there's a way I can like sneak into the PD. Oh, perfect. Armory. Okay. Uh-huh. Okay, everything's in order here. Yeah, I think you need to be police to be able to interact with anything. You're not caught. They wiped the server. They wiped the server and there was like a five-year time skip. It's like the lore. Dude, it's so funny that somebody left the door open. Dude, is that not the most Cornwood thing ever? To go to the PD? How do I sit?  Howdy, sir. Howdy. Can I help you? Can I help you? Captain Slacks, what am I speaking with? Captain Slacks? My name's Cleetus Cornwood.  The stories I read about Cleetus Cornwood is a tall, handsome man built like a Greek statue, football player statue, built like a wall. Uh-huh. Yeah, that's right. What the heck is this guy? I look at you and I'm wondering if you give me a pass of physical.  These texts is Baptist University. You know that, right? What position? Wide receiver, ran a 4240. I don't believe you.  First of all, you're trespassing.  Let me see your ID.  Look, first off, this pen is a, I've tried to sign in. The damn pen don't work. It's out of ink. Number two, I come in here and there ain't nobody working. It's a dad gum travesty. Okay. I check the jail cell.  I go, I check the damn evidence room.   Well, Cletus is a lot we need to talk about. First of all, I don't believe you're Cletus Cornwood. Okay. I got to make sure I do a background check, verify that and then give you keys. Okay. Also, you need to, we need to rent to the hospital and do a physical. Okay. Well, here's my question to you.  That's a really good question. I'm about to know. Yeah, I'm surprised. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, Christ, Denzel, you want to tell us Cletus? What happened? Yeah, I walked in. It's my God giving a lot. No, not for me. It wasn't manifest destiny. Amen to that. Well, it's good because if you want to get on duty, there's some steps you got to take. Cletus, are you ready? Yeah, I can do that.  No, I need you to prove to me that you are Cletus Cornwood because I'm looking at your name on my list and he says there's a lot of quality description about you here. We've done a background check on you and that's some information I have. So I look at the information listed down here on my clipboard. I look at you. I'm wondering if I'm looking at the same person.  Climb this counter right here so we can head to the hospital and do your physical. Cornwood is back. Come on. What's your football player? Yeah, I don't want to make it numb. Look, look, listen, here's what you got to understand. I respect my area. Okay.  I built this thing my own two hands. Maybe not this thing because they remodeled it a little bit. Okay. And I'm not going to disrespect this area right here and get my feet up all on the counter. My mama taught me not to do that. All right. So I'm going to go around gracefully. Hold on. You passed the first test. We should probably look this way. Cletus. This is the door. Oh, it opens only one way. Okay. That's probably what happened. Okay. All right. All right. Follow me. Come on. Let me give you a little bit of the backstory as far as what's going on. I'm not sure the Los Santos you really should remember but this one is a lot different. A lot of change. Our police department got defunded. The sheriff's office got defunded. The state troopers got defunded. Los Santos decided to focus on the LSPD as a main department they want. And then there'll be future expansion where, you know, the blank county sheriff's office will come in. That's my cop car. Well, you want me to drive? Do you remember how to drive? How could I forget?  You remember your ABCs, right? Yeah. Okay. Kite, get well soon. Oh, Jesus. God, you just... Hold on. All right, here, I got this. Give me one second now. Kite, is this automatic? Is this manual or automatic? This is automatic, but it's got... Oh, I'm going to drive manual here. Maybe you should drive. What do you mean you don't have to drive automatic? Well, I learned manual. What do you mean? You... You stole it. Okay. All right. Yeah. All right. Yes, sir. That makes sense. The police department, like I said, got defunded. There's going to be a lot of different ways and efforts and fundraisers we got to go through for the civilians' help. The problem is, everybody's broke. Nobody's got money. So even if we're trying to start a fundraiser, try to get more of a better equipment, and nobody donated to the police department. The whole government broke.   It could be dead or alive, I'm not sure. But it's something in the water for some reason. Oh, I tripped over his leg. I'm sorry. Sorry. He's so punched like Cleaver. Yeah, I tripped over his leg. I'm sorry. Look, hey, this... Yeah, no, it's...  Like we're at the hospital. Yeah, his assholes knocked down on the ground.  I was just trying to catch my balance. Now, what would you say your name was again? Was Slacks? Slack? Leo Slacks. Captain Slacks? Captain Slacks.  Captain Slacks. That's where they matter to me. Okay. I'm Leon. Cassidy. I didn't ask you what your name was. Okay, sorry.  Slacks. I'm here for our meeting. I'm here for the meeting, but also I got Cleetus... I'm here for a physical... Any doctors for physical? Pixie would know better than we do. You need a PD physical? Yeah, for Cleetus Gord. Alright, let me go. I miss those. Wait, why'd you like doing the physical so much, ma'am? They're fun. I didn't see a doctor, too. Cleetus punched me right in the... Oh, you just got punched? This is your doctor. Oh, yes, hello. Sorry. Oh, this gentleman, okay.  Yeah, I mean, I need a uniform, too, probably.  I'm going to put you to work. I'm going to put you through it.  Damn, okay, that's a powerful stance. You looking to become the big man again? You trying to climb? You trying to meet the captain? The sheriff and all that shit? Oh, listen, I'm going to be honest with you.  I just care about putting criminals in jail. After I shoot him. That's a good mentality to have. Uh-huh. All right, Corwin, I want to see you do some stretches. I want to see you. I want to see how limber you are. No, I can do. I can do plenty. Get the quad for sips right here. Damn. That's good. That's solid. Solid work. Thank you. Okay. Jesus Christ. We're going to work our way back down to the floor. Yep. Even I can't do that. So that's a good sign. Pretty limber. All right, let me get a timer set up on my phone. I want you to do two laps to the top of the stairs and back down as fast as you can. Okay. Count down from five and then I'll start the timer. Okay. I'm going to get my stance with three point stance here. There, I'll count myself. You got this formwood. Three, two, one, go. You got a head start. You got a little bit of a head start, but I'm not against cheating.  Peep-a-pop corn, cornwood's back. Let's go. All right, back up and back down. One more cornwood. Careful cornwood. Careful. Is that a vacuum? All right. 44 seconds cornwood. That's not bad. That's actually not bad. Thank you. I saw that. I want to see how long it takes. Yeah. Denzel, you want to run up and down? I got this. I don't need to stretch. He's being over stretched cornwood. All right, take a load off there, cornwood. I just need to... Oh, well, that doesn't count. Denzel! You know, I think I'm going to keep the timer running until I get you back on your feet. I'm going to take a look at you. Luckily, you didn't break anything on the fall, it looks like. That was a tactical roll. Well, it ain't too tactical if you're laying on the ground now. It ain't it. I got one personal thing.  I want you to box one of these officers. Well, I got you pretty good earlier, didn't I? Let's do that again, actually. Okay. Are you ready? I'm ready, cornwood. I'm ready. You sure you don't? Yeah, I'm ready. Yeah. Come on, corn.   All right. That's disrespectful.     That's damn disrespectful is what that is. Wait. Is he okay? Yeah, you good? For you, for money. The funniest thing you could possibly do right now is to make it. You got about, you got a bottle of water or some of the form.    Well, that was your fault. Okay, thank you, Dr. Cornwood. I think that's gonna, I think that's gonna conduct, uh, clue the, uh, the PD physical here. All right. I don't know what I think, I think you're more than, more than fit for duty after what I've seen today. Absolutely. You're welcome. All right, gentlemen. Well, we can head back inside and you guys can get back to, uh, protecting the streets. Mm-hmm. Okay. Oh, oh, hey, hey, hey, we gotta handle this. Leonard.  I can't get him out there. Oh, good lord.  Hey, hey. You might need to take a nap. Hey, oh, oh.   Oh, what are you doing? What are you doing?  Come on. Oh, wait. Hey. Hey. What just happened? I got, let me take care of this guy. Oh, my God. Oh, the NPCs are going nuts. Hey, leave sort. Oh, you're gonna be sorry. No. I said it. Don't worry, Cor, but I got you. Cletus, first down a job. You were in the hospital bed? No, I'm just taking a nap. I'm fine. Okay. All right. Oh, God. I'm feeling fine. Do you see how much blood is on the floor? Has he been treated? Oh. Let me help you up, okay? What's your name, ma'am? Dr. Valentino. What's your name? Officer Cassidy. Leon Cassidy. All right. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. How are you feeling, mister? Are you okay? All right. I got to treat other patients. I'll see you later. Thank you, Dr. Valentino. No problem. My dog. How are you doing, honey? Hornwood, look under the bed.  Okay. Let me take a look at you. Oh, my goodness. What happened?  There's no way that's my blood. Whose blood would it be? Let's go outside. All right. Yeah, let's go. Okay. Let's go outside. You feeling all right? Wrong way, Cornwood. That's a wall, Cornwood. Cornwood, you're going. Oh, Lord. I just had a... I was having an out-of-body experience. Oh, okay. Yeah. I don't know what that was. Wait, did somebody take my hat and glasses? I didn't. Oh, my Lord, here we go. I think they got knocked up. I think they got knocked up. Probably somebody picked it up. We got... That's got to... It's probably out front. Cletus, you all set? Yeah.  Let's go back to Mr. Opini. Get your old sword. Get your keys. You can saw and do it. Come on. Hey, oh, you want to do this again, son? You want to do this again, son? You got two of them. Oh, God. Cletus. Take the lunch money. Take the lunch money. Come on, Cletus.  Oh, oh, sorry. Okay. Oh, no, no, no. That's all I tripped. I tripped. It was one for one. One for one. One for one. All right. Oh, Jesus. Cletus. It's all right. I was trying to give him an extra one. I tripped over his leg again. Oh, no, no, no, no. Okay. I got... It's like a hay maker.   Oh, what the heck? Whoa. Hey. All right. That's good work. Good God.  Not right now. I don't know if that happens. How do I stop bleeding? Okay. I'm not... You know what? I'll be fine.