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Today we're actually calling the program Yarnamentary and we're gonna do

our kickoff today! Today's our kickoff our official kickoff and this is about

introducing fiber arts into the public school system. My name is Doctor Natalia

Russo. I am the principal of PS 145. We can create curriculum around knitting so

this can spread throughout the district, borough, city, and then possibly even

nationwide. Lion Brand was generous enough to donate all the needles, all the

yarn for all these students. We're gonna bring up knitting to a whole other

level today. I really think it's important to teach children to knit

because it helps them with hand-eye coordination, math, learning how to

make something with two sticks and a piece of string. It's pretty amazing.

I think it helps them imagine and create more what they can do. It gives them a

sense of confidence. They may not be great in one thing but they might be

fabulous in this thing. My dream for today is to simply have

these kids knitting a little swatch. If I can get them to knit a swatch, I'm good.

I first thought was exciting but once we first done it, it was very hard. And when we kept doing it, it was much easier.

I'm an advocate for boys who knit and for actually

bringing the craft of knitting forward into the future.

Being here as a male knitter, it's extremely exciting because we have a lot

of other male knitters here today teaching these young children how to

knit. It makes it even more exciting to be a male knitter and showing your

presence in the community. My favorite thing about knitting is that you can make anything you would

like to knit. You don't just have to knit a book mark. My favorite part of knitting is how

it grows. If you want to make anything to help anybody to become a superhero, start

knitting. I will say that everyone can do something no matter the gender. If you

make something and you try your best you will make it. Today we're planting a seed

and that to me is what's most important. They may not look at it tomorrow, they

may look at it two years from now and say, "Hey I remember that cool guy or that

cool girl that taught me how to knit." Today's about planting seeds and

building relationships.

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1983-0318 Public Program Day 4, Australia, DP - Duration: 1:34:10.

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WATCH UPDATE: 'Senseless act against public servant' - Duration: 7:55.

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Melania Trump « humilie » son mari en public - Duration: 1:35.

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1983-0318 Public Program Talk Day 4, Australia, DP - Duration: 40:17.

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Miami-Dade Public Schools Name New Interim Police Chief - Duration: 0:33.

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Is a mandatory TB TINE Test Medical Product Placement in Private & Public Schools? - Duration: 2:33.

okay I have another question here why do kids have to have a TB tine test how

come the schools don't pay for it at the school board since it's a requirement to

go to school but that's the same with any shot so if it turns out that the

child is a low-income child and doesn't have the money to go to the doctor is a

school board going to pay for it if it turns out that the test the TB tine test

or screening is positive for tuberculosis is the school board going

to pay for it or is that a partnership and product placement in the school for

medical so so we have two things here that I'm questioning it's like so we

have on one hand low-income people who may not be able to afford all the

medical services who are left out of programs or programs that's made harder

for them to get you know to reach or is what this is is product placement in the

school so shouldn't the school boards be paying for low-income children and

teachers and people who need help or assistance shouldn't the school boards

be paying for it since you know I mean we all know times are really tough for

everybody right now and so yeah that's what I'm wondering that they should be

paying for it or is this product placement in the school for medical for

an advertisement for the TB tine test in school yeah that's just what I'm

wondering so thank you guys for listening to me ask my questions here

about schools and the other thing I'm thinking to colleges don't require you

to have to have a series of tests or a series of tests and vaccinations in

college it's not a requirement to have to go to college why is it in grade

schools or in the public school system why are all these shots and everything

all in the school system and is there some partnership going on here

with the medical community in the public school system that's that's all I'm

asking is there some partnership so thank you guys and I'll see you soon

love you peace love marijuana green leaves green leaves and avocados

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Quick Vocal Warm Up For a Powerful Voice | Presenting & Public Speaking Skills #Spon - Duration: 8:43.

Let's do a short vocal warm up and this is going to be really helpful to get your

voice ready if you are about to do some public speaking, perhaps you have a

presentation and before we jump into it I want to say a huge thank you to

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link in the description box below. Now let's warm up. When you start your

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see you so that you do the exercises in full. Firstly we're going to stretch and

squeeze the muscles of the face. Stretch them out wide, raising the eyebrows and

stretching everything, and then squeeze everything, and stretch

and squeeze. One more time stretch and squeeze. Good now completely relaxing

those lips I want you to just blow through your lips like a horse.

And again if you are able to do that do it one more time. If you're struggling

place the fingers at either side of the lips place on a little pressure and try

again. If you can't do it, don't worry not everybody can. Next we're going to

warm up the tongue. The tongue is a huge muscle and is very important for

speaking so we're going to do tongue bootcamp. This is cleaning the teeth with

the tongue, six circles in each direction. Okay keep the lips closed here we go.

Good if you've done lots of these types of exercises then you might find it very

very easy in which case increase the number of

circles that you do with the tongue. Now we're going to stretch the tongue out.

Place the tip of the tongue behind the bottom teeth and push the body of the

tongue forward, really stretching out the back of the tongue and relax. One more

time and relax. Good now we're going to make a hum sound the hmm will

eventually open up to a ma sound and what we're doing is warming up the

resonance in the chest, the nice low vibrations. So I want you to beat your

chest waking up all the muscles on a hum follow me. Hmmmmmmmmm

Pat the ribs. Open up to a Maaaaaaaa

Good now in good public speaking you should be engaging the diaphragm in

order to project your voice so let's warm up that diaphragm muscle. Place one

hand on the diaphragm which is just below the rib cage and you're going to

give me lots of short sharp SH sounds. You'll feel the diaphragm bounce. We're

going to do ten of these and then one long one and when you give me the long

one I want you to squeeze your tummy muscles as tight as you can until you

have no air left in your body. Okay here we go.

Follow me hhhh hhhh relax good. Right the face is awake the body is awake

let's do some articulation to make sure our mouths are fully working follow me.

We're going to be saying B D G again and again and again really fast here we go.

And now we're going to try P T K

And now we're going to try M L W ready

let's finish off this warm up with some

tongue twisters. Here some famous ones

Finally three very simple words make sure the

tongue comes out for the th

Very well done. Remember it's important to warm up your

voice every time that you're speaking publicly, giving a presentation, or a talk.

By warming up your voice you protect your voice but also you make sure that

you're performing at your best so you can project and your voice is strong and

easily understood. Don't forget that fantastic offer from italki, working

with a teacher one on one can really help to boost your language skills

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until next time very best of luck with your presentation

take care and goodbye. :)

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Public Input Wanted On High Line Canal Plans - Duration: 0:19.

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Beyond The Plant Wall: Justice and Public Safety Degree Completion (S02E07) - Duration: 3:13.

Hello and welcome to Beyond the Plant Wall, where we get down to the root of the

information and we tell you everything you need to know,

about the University of Guelph-Humber.

I'm your host Mark Onufer and with us today we have

Glenn Hanna representing the Justice Program.

Thank you for joining us here. - My pleasure.

Let's talk a little bit about the program. What is the program all about?

It is about taking the working professional who has a college diploma or some

degrees and helping them cross that line and to graduate with a degree.

It is providing the critical thinking theoretical models that will help them

do their job even better.

So what can someone who is already in the working field, and they're coming into the program,

what can they expect in their time here in the program?

It is specifically designed for the working professional.

So it's a hybrid delivery.

A Friday night, Saturday, Sunday in class here at our campus in Toronto,

and then that's followed by six weeks of distance.

So you're doing readings, you're doing quizzes,

you're doing online discussions, preparing papers,

then you meet a Friday night and Saturday morning.

That's the end of that course, six weeks.

Right.

So in 12 weeks, you do two courses,

one course at a time, which we very purposefully had done so that you can concentrate on

one professor, one set of requirements, one course at a time, in addition to your work.

Then you have three weeks off, and you just keep repeating until you're done.

The total number of courses is 16.

Right.

If you have some specific additional education,

four more courses can be knocked off that, so 12.

So some of our students take 12, some take 16.

Now we want to know if there are any

limitations, misconceptions, difficulties in this program, that students should be aware of.

One of the big things is nervousness in going back to school.

So a lot have been out of school for many years, myself it was 24 years.

And you can speak from experience? - I was petrified of the thought of being back.

But we understand that and we are ready for that.

One of your first courses, a reading and writing course,

we teach you how to read and write, the way universities expect you to,

and it's a very good, smooth transition into university life.

The other is the level of demand on time.

You know busy people with family lives, with busy professional lives

how can I now add something else on?

For our degree completion program, the BAA,

I say its average is about 10 hours a week, and it's very manageable while working.

Thank you for joining us here today on Beyond the Plant Wall.

My pleasure, thanks for your interest.

That is all for today on the show. You heard it from Glenn himself, if you're considering it, just do it.

Thank you so much and we will see you next month.

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Marrickville Public School - Making healthy food fun - Duration: 2:58.

[music]

Most schools have the unhealthy stuff like slushies, burgers, hot chips.

The good thing about Wil's canteen is that it's really healthy and it's still delicious.

[music]

The Healthy Canteen Strategy was a perfect fit for our community.

It actually reinforces what we teach the kids

about healthy living and healthy eating.

The advantages of having a healthy school canteen is peace of mind, really.

I don't have to worry that he's going to buy something that doesn't tick all the boxes.

Lots of children like this canteen and Wil sells lots of healthy food.

[music]

I've been running the canteen here, now for six years.

I cook, prepare all the food here from scratch, with very little processed ingredients

and next to nothing bought in from an external supplier.

The specials are really nice and they're different each day.

Pasta and sushi and meatballs and stuff like that.

Beef, pasta, mac and cheese, and sushi.

My favourite item is frozen yoghurts because they're really nice.

Food can always be fun. It can be as simple as putting a stick in it and freezing it,

cutting it into amusing shapes.

Yeah, I love apple slinkies, it's like when Wil puts an apple stuck to it,

a little winding thing and it peels all the skin off and turns it into toy slinky.

What can be good for them, can also taste good, can be interesting,

enjoyable, a talking point.

My favourite healthy food there is the oranges

because it's super yummy and they're also frozen. I even like the frozen watermelons.

Actually, I've never had junk food at the canteen.

[music]

It's not hard to do this. I've never done a canteen any other way,

so I couldn't envisage serving processed food. I just make it all myself.

As long as you've got some space and refrigeration

and a couple of ways of making stuff hot, you can do it.

You can really see the dedication that the school takes towards

putting together a menu and something that is really going to benefit our children.

[music]

It's not just the physical change in children and how they can improve themselves,

but it also impacts on their learning as well.

They're eating healthy, they feel healthy, they feel happier, they learn more.

If I can do it, anybody can.

[music]

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Eureka City Council -Public Comment 4 17 18 - Duration: 32:36.

okay thank you. I will move to public comment period

and this is the time to remember the public members of the public who wish to

be heard on matters that do not appear in the agenda and pursuant to City

Council resolution 2011 - 22 a City Council policy is limit each speaker to

three minutes and such time allotment or portion thereof so not be transferred

other speakers the public will be allowed to speak concurrently with the

calling of a agenda item following the staff temptation of that idea and

pursuant to the Brown Act the City Council cannot take action on any item

that does not appear on the agenda so like to address the council go ahead and

step forward. Good evening Mr. Mayor, ladies and gentlemen of the council. Yes

I am a board member of HSAA, Homeless Students Advocacy Alliance. The

seating is for 300. Thank you for announcing that. I am here tonight to

speak on a very sensitive subject. It is on the criminalization of

homelessness... and what this city has been doing... and what hasn't been doing. We have

been before this council. I've been here since November of this 2017. We've asked

for agendized items for homelessness to be put on the agenda...to no avail. There

has not been. And I have been doing some record searches in regards to specific.

All tickets and citations under the "arrest," and "arrest for panhandling,"

"aggressive solicitation" [force] set forth in the city of Eureka Municipal Code as

of January 1st 2016 ...April...through April 30th of 2017, 78 cases have been filed. I

would like to also remind you and I will give you this as a document. Challenges...

bans restrictions of panhandling. Cases in from 2013 through 2015... First circuit...

Fourth circuit... Sixth... Seventh Circuit Tenth Circuit and Eleventh Circuit deems

it unconstitutional. I have also made a records request as of December 4th 2017.

As of January 1 2016 through April 30th of 2017. 976 arrests... or excuse me... I

apologize... cases have been cited to homeless people for camping in public. I

would like to refer to a document called California New Vagrancy laws. The

growing encampment enforcement of anti homeless laws in the Golden State. This

was released February 2015 from Berkeley law school. And the statement of interest

that was given by the United States Department of Justice. I have filed this

with the civil grand jury... hand-delivered this to the grand jury foreman as of two

days ago. I made a presentation to the Human Rights Commission. And my intention

is to ask this council to immediately put this upon an agendized item and ask for

a willful moratorium on the six ordinances that you have that

criminalizes homelessness. I will be at this point making the declaration to the

complaint about law enforcement officers and law enforcement agencies with the

California Department of Justice. And I will leave that document with you also.

And I encourage you to meet with me with the press after this forum. Thank

you so much for your time, your concern, and your consideration on this matter.

And if there's any questions I'll be glad to address those. Thank you for your

time. Thank you

good evening city council mayor city manager my name is John sheltered New

Directions program and a lot of people thought I'd be upset that you guys

invited the downtown streets team into town but instead I'm actually kind of

excited because it shows seven years ago we had back to basics at the North Coast

Resource Center in Arcata we ran that program for $225,000 a year

providing food boxes for the low-income families sixty showers hot meals for

anywhere from 150 to 200 people the big thing is is that we've already done that

and been there I know them just as well their program because when we shut our

doors at North Coast Resource Center they had just started the coyote Creek

project if we look at their budget and all their other remember paperwork that

they've shared out the big difference between New Directions and the downtown

streets team is that the city's supported them the county supported them

recreation supported them public works - supported them homelessness affects each

and every one of our departments in all of our cities I think there are some

jobs out there that maybe the homeless can do are willing to do and can thrive

that we need to really start looking at self-supporting not bringing another

nonprofit in but look at what we can get for a return on our dollar New

Directions has never asked for a penny all we ask for is work we work hard we

pay our homeless they move from their tents and move forward in their lives

this isn't about New Directions this is about making the right decisions why

would we want to bring in somebody from Santa Cruz or wherever they come from

originally to teach our homeless what to do when we already have a Bible program

here that's already experienced and grown out of their stage into the

self-supporting stage isn't that what we want in our communities

we want the homeless to work their way back and they are willing to if we give

them the opportunities unfortunately new directions just a small little business

because in 2011 our board decided that employing the homeless was too risky too

much of a liability that's not true seven years later we have not had a

workman's comp claim or unemployment claim now maybe some could but they

never did because they thrived they moved back with family members they

moved on our program doesn't work for everybody just like their program

probably doesn't work for everybody but it's sure a better start guys I thank

you so much and you guys are a lot smarter than I am so let's put our heads

together and figure out why we're not involved thank you thank you good

evening mayor council my name is Sean Swanson I'm the founder of River Life

Foundation from Fortuna I've worked with John shelter for the last I would say

just about six years for about a year I worked for John I'm heading up his

cruise when we did the spartina on the safety corridor I'm the only reason why

I ended up leaving John is because the government shutdown and the funding for

that program ended up ending during that time we had helped several people get

out of whether they were living in motels living in the brush John gave

them a chance gave them a hand up not a hand out and helped to change many lives

I personally now work for a construction company unfortunate and then I also run

River Life River Life Foundation uses John shelters guys they come down they

volunteer for when we do our River Bar cleanups they have also been paid to do

river bar cleanups when we can afford to do it they've also come to my personal

residence and mode mode my Hill and very respectful do you awesome jobs the these

guys that he gets or have been downtrodden I've been homeless myself so

I know what it's like to be totally lost with nothing

John helps to provide hope just as River Life Foundation provides hope River Life

Foundation has gotten 131 people out of the area reunited with family or on two

jobs in the Fortuna area we've cleaned up two hundred and seventy-six thousand

pounds of trash that's because awesome volunteers that help get awesome stuff

done John shelter and new directions is a positive force in Eureka and the

community of Humboldt thank you very much

Good evening. My name is Jimmy work

Homelessness [ [gentleman] shelter America myself. You know the

Constitution is a pretty simple document. You know you can't just keep taking our

stuff every week. You can't just... you hunt us down down...down the Hikshari' Trail, and

this [Gator] they have. I see grown men and women sitting there like feral animals.

Their ears perk up to the sound of a motor. They run. Why? We didn't do anything wrong.

We're not trespassing. You took it. You took our stuff from us. What do you think

we're gonna do? Let our families go without? No we're gonna go get more

however we can. We're not the cause of the crime. You are. You make policy.

Policies and force... those jackbooted thugs you have running around doing this... insulting

us personally. Making it a personal issue. And you grant and empower personal

persuasion instead of political influence... or personal influence instead of

professional power. No one is stupid . Everyone knows what that means. I

mean what have we done so wrong to you? I'm a 17 year combat veteran of the United

States Army. This is my home. Who gave you the right to wake up one day and tell me

I'm not welcome. Who gave you the authority to adopt a self deportation

policy? What gave you the right? I gave you that right not to abuse it. That's

all you've done. You've taken my wife from me. She was gonna die outside. She was taken

from me. We didn't do anything wrong. She was taken by you. And then you take high

umbrage when people get offended. But every document that comes out of this

building that affects my life that makes it worse has your signature on it. And

you sit there and clear consciences... I don't see how you do it. Every citizen shall

be secure in their persons, dwellings, papers, and their effects.

You should not be infringed upon without substantial due process. [Neither] shall agents be

sent forth. Where are the warrants? Where are the affidavits?

Where is the due process? If you're gonna eradicate me... do it openly... publicly. Where's

the accountability? I have no quarrel with you. I didn't start anything with

you. But you've taken everything from me and you still take. You know I'm gonna

die out here. I'm going to die out here alone. I wonder how long my body's gonna be

bloated and eaten by animals until I'm found. Then will they even be able to

identify me? You know. I'm gonna get a brick over my head somewhere... with John Doe

Number 84 on it. If people want to thank me for my service... you should apologize.

You guys need to make things right. You're doing it wrong. And you know it.

Over half the nation is united against this type of action. I mean I make a lot

of people angry and I'm pretty abrasive. But come on... you guys are overachievers. Over

half the United States is upset with these policies. And you can't see that as

wrong. Come on. Stand up and be counted. Be accountable. Do something.

Thank you.

me yoga counselors in city manager my name's Donna Wright and I'm the

executive director at the Eureka Chamber of Commerce

I'd like to endorse the work of new directions and under the leadership of

John shelter six months ago the chamber had a large financial commitment to a

company for the well-being of our staff and visitors not including cleanup after

meeting with John and setting clear needs guidelines and boundaries to

assist with the homeless problem we were experienced almost immediately we found

new direction dramatically reduced people camping loitering and while we've

had the occasional problems and we've had the support of the police we have

dramatically reduced our costs additionally they do the cleanup for us

as well the reduce the costs and we now work in a safe clean environment so I

just like to endorse them

homelessness I am again asking for your support for that I also noticed on the

consent calendar is the agenda are not the attend to the minutes from your

strategic planning sessions the two days that you met to do strategic planning

and the first day that I was there there was a lot of people council members

voicing concern about homeless issues and people I think at the Town Hall took

exception to me saying that you hadn't been talking about homelessness but when

you talk about housing that is a solution to homelessness but that's a

long-term solution and something needs to be done now so when I applied for the

committee I was very open with them and said that I want to work on a camp and

that was a brave thing to do because half the nation is not with me on this

and I'm like mister it is not a popular position to be and to advocate for a

camp but that is not what I want but that is what is needed right now there

are people out subject to the laws that the were talk to you about and they need

a legal place to be so again I'm asking you to support my appointment to that

Commission or that committee it's I will resend it to you I heard that

they're not going to be making the appointments until next month so you

have some time thank you

good evening thank you for letting me come before you my name's Harry Wilcox I

live on n Street here in Eureka I love this city on private city I'm a

transplant from New York City I'm here again to talk about the ordinance that

we passed here a little while ago and the results of it is if you look on the

website for Hatcher's they print it up what I can only call this just cook

numbers I mean they won't even try to explain their numbers to you you call

them you contact them they can't tell you where they got those numbers from I

believe that they're including numbers from people like myself who volunteer

without that meaning to pick up needles and dispose of them or give them to them

some diabetic needles I believe are thrown in there but there's no way

they're doing anything I live right between Ross Park and Cooper's Gulch my

backyard is Cooper's Gulch I never see anybody down there as a group or

otherwise identifying themselves of being from Hatcher collecting needles

and I mean I can walk right along path and pick them up my dog stepped on one

thank God he didn't get anything but I'm here again to say we have got to put

some teeth in that measure we've got to revisit it put some teeth in it and make

these people yes I know there's more than this subject that had your handles

but I go to NA meetings I talk to people they have never tried to get those

people when they were active to go into rehab or any other program it's here

here's your needles were busy and that's a fact that's no bull crap what you see

online you go to their site that recent report I think they should have come

before the council and given that report not just release it on some website

hoping no one would see it and blow it under the table and I think that's part

of what we need to do is require them to come before this council and account for

the needles that they give out the needles they take in how they're break

it down for us you know I've volunteer to pick up

needles all the time yeah volunteering for Eureka is fine but if I got a spin

on my time picking up needles keep kids safe I ain't got time to go out and do

all this beautification stuff I'm doing my share by walking the streets and pick

it up the needles and chasing the bums out of the park thank you for your time

appreciate it else want to address the council on a non-agenda item evening

council mayor Bob Toole I want to thank Allison or Austin for bringing up this

climate change we're in trouble if it actually happens and Natalie for

bringing up your subject too but what I'd like to see is the council get back

to council reports your committee reports I haven't heard any of you give

a committee report that you're on for I don't know how long and I'd like to see

you get back to that put this other stuff on it on an agenda item so that

everybody has a chance to see it go over it and go from there but stick to your

council reports and I think it would be a lot better I'm glad he brought up the

needle exchange again again I direct your attention to that handout I give

you the work order work done on that ordinance and we do need some strict

teeth in there I looked at that report from Hatcher online and a lot of other

people have done it the numbers just don't add up and something has to be

done yesterday I walked the railroad track between T Street and Blue Ox

I picked up five bags of those easy touch syringe bags that have been

discarded luckily I didn't find any needles I was shocked

but I did find one needle down by the Eureka boiler works and the owner there

Dale Holger brought it to my attention and I put my gloves on and got my sharps

container and picked it up but something has to be done with this needle exchange

get some teeth in that ordinance and start enforcing it anyone else want

address the council at this time y'all can do better I know it was a rush to

get it off of your agenda it was obvious from the fact that some

wanted to table it and others wanted it push through it was obvious from the

fact that you did it without all of the facts in place you didn't have the

answer to the question where does the control of the needle exchange reside

Matt Cain from the office of AIDS will do everything he can to avoid answering

that question he will tell you I can't answer that it's for lawyers to tell you

but the dots are there to connect the state has authorized needle exchanges

before the most prominent example being Orange County Orange County was voted

out of existence by their local board control of needle exchanges resides at

the local level so you'd needn't feared that and if you

had tabled it you would have known I do ask that you revisit the pharmacy sales

question I know that you can't stop pharmacy sales but it would be nice to

have a number it would be a simple matter of asking the pharmacies to

establish a separate UPC code they can track how many they're selling that way

and we'd have a number and we'd have a way of knowing what are we picking up

are we picking up Hatcher needles are these pharmacy

and if there's more pharmacy needles out there than we guessed we need to start

addressing the people buying there and getting them to Hatcher or the county or

somebody that can start getting them on a path to wellness you can do better

please do anyone else want to address the council on a non-agenda item okay

seeing no one will close the cover comment period and move to hearing this

I didn't expect to speak...but hearing this... what's been talked about. I think that if there's programs like new directions...

just think of the number of needles there'd be without them. I don't think

that they're spending their time you know lollygagging around. They're

in their work for a reason. It's not easy work. So without that there'd be even

more needles. And really a tiny house village or three... maybe one just

specifically for people needing to recoup from mental health issues would

go a long way to solve a lot of these issues. Because the only people suffering

more than those picking up needles are those shoving them into their veins to

try to mitigate the pain of running from police.

Mandatory medications... very little psychological support. And what support

there is... doesn't do much good when people are hiding in the bushes... or in

their vehicles... And as far as it's great there's programs like New Directions but

when you think about hand up versus hand out... where did your bootstraps come from?

What got you to where you are today? Because I think everyone who's anywhere

has gotten some handouts. And a lot of the people who are homeless have already

cleaned homes and done landscaping and cleaned up city streets and done all

sorts of things. And one too many traumas... one too many things maybe you can't even

imagine... a lot of the people that are homeless are from the foster system. They

have alumnies back from the day when there wasn't as many programs as there are now.

There are still not enough for the orphans... which are

euphemistically called foster children... except for no disrespect to the parents

who still want and should be having their children in their custody.

So really mental health hasn't been discussed here. And the terror of being

homeless and hiding and feeling like a criminal when all you need is a place to

rest and recoup and heal. That just isn't acceptable and I think it's

affecting all of our health. And so I hope something's collectively done about

it. And the tiny-house village seems like a great proven thing done elsewhere and

maybe more than one. thank you thank you

my name's Mike Oakland resident marquita I wanted to bring up an issue that is a

public health issue involving the medical partnership and denti-cal

situation here in Humboldt County where there's really only one facility in this

area who has not accepted any adult patients and somewhere around a decade

somewhere around ten years notice to say that they are not a designated pediatric

facility and they do have existing adult patients but they will not allow any new

adult patient over the age of 19 but if you're under the age of 19

they'll accept you at any time as far as I'm concerned that is discrimination

based upon age they can accept new patients if you're understand under 18

so they have the ability to take in new people and they're not a pediatric

facility so they do have adult existing patients but they won't accept anybody

over the age of 19 and that's been like that for somewhere upwards of 10 years I

spoke to a local news agency this afternoon I also spoke to a replica

representative from the administrative office of the open door

senator and they acknowledge that this is a serious problem but a serious

problem that hasn't been addressed and all in upwards of a decade it effects

you know I don't know exactly how many people but everybody that are you know

these are low-income people that are on Medicare under the denti-cal beneficiary

program that are not getting adequate medical care and I think that it's

something that needs to be addressed on a more prominent level and so I'm

presenting it here tonight so that you guys are aware of this existing problem

and that hopefully we can find a solution that is suitable for the

community because right now people in order to get any kind of care you have

to travel outside of the area in fact that you have to go to read way or Hoopa

and read way doesn't accept any new patients either and I'm not even sure

about Hoopoe but it's probably the same thing so and just in closing mr. Allison

I'd like to speak after to speak with your energy

thank you. good evening. it's nice to see you. it's been a long time since I've

been here . may 2nd will be two years since Paco Marsh... as push... you've pushed

everybody to the streets. and I've been watching and listening and I hear that

we have a crisis. they're in every way in this city. and I've been waiting. for two

years we've been waiting. and the thought of 900 tickets. what concerns me on that

is that what we're doing to the people in breaking them down...it...with that

criminalization. but also the money that you're spending has got to be in the

millions of dollars - to do this. and it's not working. and I think that if you

talk to anybody that lives here or drives through here or comes to the

music festivals will tell you it's not working. because what we have done is... you

have taken them from one area and put them in the streets. and you've put them

on everybody's doorsteps. and I know because my children live here and I deal

with them every day. but what we need is a place for them to go. so the money that

we spent in law enforcement which has to be in the millions in the last two years.

I'd like to look at that. we should look at those figures and maybe

it would be more convincing. but we could use that money to put them in a place

where they're safe. I watched yesterday the police harass people for sitting,

laying down, and I and I get it. we don't want them laying down on our streets. and

doing all those things. but we have to give them a place to do that. so thank

you. it's good to see you. it's nice to see you mayor. and I wish you well. thank

you

hello I haven't been here for a while because I was having some trouble with

my foot. so it's pretty interesting to come back. and what I want to say is if

it's anybody's fault... because we're all blaming... it's mine because I can think of

a million things I could or should be doing. but I think the real key is not

about blame it's about taking responsibility... shared responsibility and

I'm thrilled to hear about the summit. Lynette Mullen made a terrific

presentation at the board of supervisors. but this is what has concerned me from

the beginning and I think we need to look at it. and I hope that people

watching will consider this. that the housing first strategy the focus

strategy with good intentions with love and hope in your heart sets out policies

which have ended up leading to where we're now criminalizing demonizing and

letting people on the street with no hope. and what it says is that she

actually doesn't even have a policy for emergency care. but she says she

discourages it .and said that there should not no offering services that in

creating legalized... expanding emergency shelter capacity. she talks against that

but. she also talks against evicting people. which we did. and then later. at

January 26. and I keep bringing this up because I think it's so important. she

actually said when she was asked whether you should have an emergency respons.e

she said in a flippant manner. you can look at it it's January 26. because on

the one hand people die outside and that happens all the time

homeless people die outside and they die for lots of reasons but if they weren't

outside in many cases they wouldn't have died right. she has I have a transcript

at that presentation. it is a powerful one that she made to the board. lots of

great ideas that I think we should go back and look and Institute. and you

know and adopt and I'm thrilled about the summit. but the thing is why would we

even think it's okay to arrest people outside because we think they've made

some kind of choice that they're criminals that they're less than human... you know

less than human and you know if you watched the January 9th 2018

presentation heroically... the county staff

Connie Beck said that they can only help the people that they're mandated to help

and Sally Hewitt was also you know I'll give her title because I'm always

forgetting titles bare with me here... but but she talked

about she's with it she was a program manager with with the Department of

Health and Human Services she said that if people don't have money for rent

they can't help them .so and if you call the Eureka rescue mission I think it's a

terrific organization I celebrate everybody who helps people who need help.

but we're leaving people outside and what I'm asking for as as a community as

a council we start to care about it instead of having a policy of

disappearing people arresting them demonizing. and one woman that I talked

to on the board said she often thinks about killing herself and she's a

vibrant vital interesting person and this is what's happening. people are

losing faith and hope. they're being shunned they're being chased around by

the police. they're being arrested and cited .and they're made to feel like

they're subhuman. and nothing good comes of thank you thank you thank you for not

turning off my mic. does anyone else want to address the council on a non-agenda

item okay so you know one we closed a public comment period and move to public

hearings Wendy