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Lindy Miller doesn't look like the typical Public Service Commissioner.

But that's not all that's different.

She started a clean energy company,

and will fight for small businesses for a change.

Lindy's a win, for all of us.

Democrat Lindy Miller.

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Lindy Doesn't Sound Like the Typical Public Service Commissioner - Duration: 0:16.

I'm Lindy Miller

and I don't sound like your typical Public Service Commissioner.

That's because I'll use my voice to fight for lower utility bills for families for a change

Lindy's a win, for all of us.

Democrat Lindy Miller

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Public Speaking How To: 6 Steps to Ace Any Networking Event and Gain Connections and Clients - Duration: 8:51.

(gentle music)

- Hello, this is Victoria Lioznyansky,

and I help entrepreneurs overcome

their fear of public speaking

and transform into confident, compelling,

and captivating speakers.

And today, we are going to talk about networking.

Here are my six steps to ace any networking event,

and to gain connections and clients.

Step number one: be yourself.

This is so important.

When you come to a networking event

pretending to be someone you're not,

everyone can see the mile away.

You go there to build actual, authentic human connection,

and the only way you're gonna do that

is if you are your authentic self.

So don't pretend to be more important than you are.

Don't pretend to have a bigger business than you have.

Don't pretend to be somebody you're not.

But don't underestimate your achievements either,

particularly when you talk to somebody who is

an influencer in your field.

Don't try to look at them as a groupie looks at an idol.

Be an equal.

You want to be your authentic self,

but you're still equal to everybody out there.

They're still real people.

You know they may be influencers that may be really, really,

really important people in your field,

but they're still people.

They're still just like you.

Keep on reminding yourself that.

They are just real people exactly like you and me.

So when you are out there talking to

an influencer, be yourself.

Do not try to underestimate who you are.

Step number two: listen.

Some people think that it's how you talk is

the most important thing at a networking event.

This cannot be further from truth.

The most important thing is how you listen.

You need to listen a lot more than you talk.

Make this all about them.

Don't make it about yourself.

Don't be, me, me, me, me, me, let me tell you about me.

Listen to them.

Let them talk.

And don't just pretend to listen when

in reality you are maybe thinking about your own thing

or maybe scanning the room for somebody else.

Actually, truly listen.

Listen, ask questions, make thoughtful comments.

Show them that you're very interested in this one person.

Be very real in your interest.

Don't fake it.

Find something very interesting about that person,

there's always something, and ask questions about that.

People will remember you if you listen.

People love to talk, right?

And so most people out there are gonna be talkers,

and if you are a listener,

a smart listener who asks questions,

who comments on what they say, they will remember you,

and they will appreciate you for who you are.

Step number three: build a connection.

This is a continuation of step number two.

While you're listening, you are trying to establish

a connection, and the easiest way to establish

a connection is to find a common ground.

So as a person is talking, you're trying to find

some common interests that you may have,

some commonality in your business,

maybe some people you know in common,

but you're looking for that common ground to build

a connection with this person.

Finding a common ground

is the fastest way to build a connection.

Step number four: state your elevator pitch,

focusing on the benefits to your clients.

Here is what I mean by that:

at some point in your conversation, if you've been listening

and asking questions and building a meaningful connection,

the other person will ask you, "So what do you do?"

And this is your moment to shine,

this is your moment to say exactly what you do,

and it's very important to state it in

a way that shows benefits versus what you do.

Here is an example:

"So what do you do?"

"Oh, I do web design."

Okay, it was informative; yes, I understand what you do,

you do web design, but that tells me nothing.

It tells me absolutely nothing about what you do.

Versus, "So what do you do?"

"Oh, I help small business owners build websites

"that convert leads into prospects and clients."

Now you stated not just what you do,

but how what you do benefits your clients,

and that is huge at a networking event

because you don't wanna just tell everyone what you do.

You want them to have

a very clear idea how you can help them

or how you can help people that they know.

Step number five: be generous in your offer to help.

When you're building those connections at

a networking event, other than listening carefully,

it's very important to think of ways

how you can help the other person.

That should be the first thought in your mind,

not, ooh, I wonder how he can help me,

oh hmm, I just found a way how he can possibly help me.

No.

How I can help her.

Let me think who I know,

let me think what can I do to help her in her business.

You may think of some ideas right away on the spot

or you may tell them, "You know what?

"This sounds really interesting.

"Let me think who I know

"who may benefit from your services."

Remember, giving not receiving.

Receiving will eventually come, it always does,

but you need to start from giving.

And step number six: call to action.

Don't just end the conversation with,

"Oh, well, you know, it's nice meeting you.

"Bye, have fun."

Now that you've hopefully built a connection with

the other person, hopefully you've found some common ground,

you know a lot about them, they now know what you do

and how you help your clients,

finish it off with a call to action,

and call to action could be anything.

It could be, "Let's exchange business cards

"and maybe get together for lunch."

Or, "Let me give you a call next week.

"I know of somebody who may be interested in your services,

"let me tell you who it is next week when we talk."

Or "Let me send you an email with a couple of ideas

"that I have that may take your business to the next level."

or anything like that, but end it with a call to action.

End it with something tangible that you are planning to do.

And do follow up.

If you promised that you were gonna call next week,

if you were gonna email, please follow up.

Even if this conversation didn't lead to

a specific call to action,

still always follow up with anybody you spoke to.

Tell them how excited you were to meet them.

Mention something from what they told you.

Remember, you were listening

and you were actually asking questions.

So something about that person that they mentioned,

include it in that email.

Mention it because it shows

that you actually were listening,

that you were paying attention.

You're gonna be one of a very few people

in that networking event who actually paid attention,

and people remember that.

I hope you found this six steps helpful,

and I hope you're going to implement them right away.

And for more training videos,

you can subscribe to my channel

or you can visit my website at ByVictoriaL.com.

If you liked this video, please hit like and share buttons,

and good luck with everything.

I will see you in my next video.

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Public defender case overload is 'ticking time bomb' in Mo. - Duration: 10:01.

JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: When someone is charged with a crime, but can't afford an

attorney, the court is required to provide one.

In most cases, that person is a so-called public defender.

But what if that public defender already has too many clients to serve as competent representation?

That's a situation playing out in many states, including Missouri, where public defenders

have started refusing cases, throwing a wrench into the machinery of the criminal justice

system.

John Yang has that story, produced by Frank Carlson and with support from the Pulitzer

Center on Crisis Reporting, and it's part of our continuing coverage of Broken Justice.

JOHN YANG: In December, Rayshod Ashton was arrested in Platte County, Missouri, charged

with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.

Unable to make bond, he'd already spent four months in jail when his public defender told

him that his caseload was so heavy, he wouldn't have time to take his case to trial for another

six months.

RAYSHOD ASHTON, Defendant: Like in six months from now, I could totally repair all the damage

that's been done from the four months that I have already been -- you know, this is my

life right here.

JOHN YANG: Ashton spoke to us from jail.

RAYSHOD ASHTON: We shouldn't even be here.

I mean, there's a room full of 40 guys right now who haven't been sentenced.

They're all just waiting on the next thing to happen.

It's just a waiting game.

I'm just sitting here waiting.

JOHN YANG: The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees every American facing

trial the right to a lawyer, even if they cannot afford one.

The Supreme Court enshrined that right into law with its landmark 1963 ruling in the case

Gideon vs. Wainwright.

One way society meets that responsibility is with public defenders.

But across the country, that system is being stretched to the breaking point, underfunded

and overworked.

MAN: We have created a counterfeit defense, and it's only the illusion of fairness.

MAN: The public defender's office says it's at a tipping point and the outlook is not

good.

WOMAN: We want the state to give them public defenders or to give money to appoint lawyers

who can represent them in the way that the Constitution demands.

MAN: We are dealing with a crisis.

JOHN YANG: Missouri may well be ground zero, the state's public defender system widely

seen as nearly broken.

The state ranks 49th in per capita spending on indigent defense.

Last year, its 320 public defenders handled 80,000 cases, on average more than 240 cases

each.

Listen to these lawyers in the public defender's office in Jackson County, the state's biggest

district, which includes Kansas City.

MAN: Most days, it's overwhelming.

WOMAN: Over the next six weeks, I have some very, very serious trials.

MAN: They deserve a lot more attention than I give them.

MAN: Mostly all the time.

MAN: I think I have six murder cases right now.

WOMAN: Too many for me to be prepared for.

MAN: Pretty much, if you ask any lawyer in this office, they would say the same thing.

JOHN YANG: Do you feel you're able to give them all the time they deserve?

(LAUGHTER)

DAVID WIEGERT, Public Defender: I don't know if -- this is a long answer that you're asking

for here.

No is the simple answer.

JOHN YANG: Michael Barrett is head of Missouri's Public Defender System.

MICHAEL BARRETT, Director, Missouri Public Defender System: Defendants routinely sit

in jail for weeks just before they meet their attorney.

And we tell them that we are very eager to work on your case, but it's going to be a

while, because there's an awful lot of people in front of you.

JOHN YANG: In 2016, Barrett convinced the Republican-controlled legislature to spend

more money for his office.

And when then-Governor Jay Nixon, a Democrat, slashed that increase, Barrett took a bold

step.

MICHAEL BARRETT: I wanted to bring attention to this matter because so many people were

being incarcerated without competent representation.

But before I appointed a private lawyer who didn't cause this problem, I thought I would

start with the one person with a law license in the state who could do something to fix

it.

WOMAN: A bitter budget battle in Missouri going to a new level last week.

MAN: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has just been recruited to be a state public defender.

WOMAN: And Missouri's lead public defender has ordered Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to

represent a poor defendant in court later this month.

JOHN YANG: The courts said Barrett didn't have to power to do that, but he had made

his point.

Now the courts are considering a $20 million class-action suit the American Civil Liberties

Union filed against the state.

The five plaintiffs, all represented in criminal court by public defenders, say their constitutional

rights were violated by long delays.

Barrett acknowledges that when defenders are handling as many as 200 cases at a time, there's

no way they can fulfill their professional and ethical duties to their clients.

MICHAEL BARRETT: You have to go visit with your client.

You have to look at the charges that your client faces.

You have to investigate the case.

You have to meet with witnesses.

You have to talk to the police officer.

You have to file motions.

You have to receive the evidence that the prosecution has and then discus the evidence

with your client.

To think that you can do each one of those steps in 150 cases is absolutely ridiculous.

JOHN YANG: As a result, defendants like Rayshod Ashton often end up pleading to crimes they

say they didn't commit just to get out of jail.

It's called pleading to daylight.

RAYSHOD ASHTON: I was in jail four months already, and by the time they came with a

deal, that was probation, I just took it, pretty much knowing I wasn't guilty of the

charges that were being brought about.

JOHN YANG: After resolving those charges with his probation plea, Ashton remains detained,

waiting for his public defender to help him address other charges.

The issue with overworked public defenders in Missouri has been building for years.

Now it's come to a head.

Last summer, the Missouri Supreme Court sent shockwaves through the system by sanctioning

a public defender for neglecting clients.

David Wiegert has been a public defender in Jackson County for six years.

DAVID WIEGERT: This whole thing is a ticking time bomb for all of us.

It is probably due to our clients' inexperience with the system that they don't know how to

file proper bar complaints against us.

That allows us to keep going with the system in which we don't give them proper service.

But if they were ever made aware of the ways in which they can file formal ethical complaints

against us, I think that the gates are open at that point, and I think we drop like flies.

JOHN YANG: On the day we visited, 16-year defender Laura O'Sullivan was heading to court

to tell a judge that, given her workload and ethical responsibilities, she couldn't take

on another client.

What is the judge's reaction?

How do they react to that?

LAURA O'SULLIVAN, Public Defender: Most of the time, they're denying our request to decline

the cases.

I think they don't know what to do.

JOHN YANG: That's because judges themselves are graded on how quickly they move cases,

putting public defenders and sitting judges at odds.

Some judges and prosecutors say the problem with Missouri public defender offices isn't

too little money or too few people.

They say it's too much mismanagement.

DWIGHT SCROGGINS, Buchanan County Prosecutor Attorney: You have to do more with less.

JOHN YANG: Dwight Scroggins served as a public defender before becoming the prosecuting attorney

in Buchanan County, north of Kansas City, 28 years ago.

He puts the blame for delays on the defenders themselves.

DWIGHT SCROGGINS: The public defender's thinking is limited to, we have a lot of cases.

We need more money.

We need more attorneys.

And guess what?

They have gotten over the years more money and more attorneys and what are they saying?

You have to start looking somewhere along the line at efficiencies.

JOHN YANG: While it's true that, since 1994, funding for the state public defenders office

has continued to grow, so has the number of cases the office handles, which leads to the

question, how many cases are too many?

STEPHEN HANLON, National Association for Public Defense: Missouri is the epicenter of this

whole movement to end this abandonment of the rule of law.

JOHN YANG: Stephen Hanlon is a longtime pro bono attorney who serves as counsel to the

National Association for Public Defense.

Its members includes 16,000 public defenders.

By auditing the work of both public and private defense attorneys in Missouri and three other

states, he's developed a standard for how many hours should be spent on a case.

The results are striking.

STEPHEN HANLON: They're handling three to five times as many cases as they can handle

competently.

If an obstetrician has three to five times as many cases as he or she can handle competently,

terrible things happen.

If a public defender, with people's liberty at stake, has three to five times as many

cases as he or she can handle competently, terrible things will happen.

JOHN YANG: He hopes his data will eventually lead to reforms in what he sees as the systematic,

unconstitutional and racist underfunding of indigent defense across the nation.

STEPHEN HANLON: You cannot do mass incarceration unless the whole justice system rolls over

and plays dead.

JOHN YANG: In the meantime, defendants like Rayshod Ashton wait for their day in court.

RAYSHOD ASHTON: We're your sons and we are your cousins.

And there's a whole bunch of pods over there that are your daughters and moms.

I don't understand how this is continuing to be the case, like, over and over again.

JOHN YANG: An all-too-common refrain for those who must rely on public defenders to represent

them in court.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm John Yang in Kansas City.

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Obama Center To Have Chicago Public Library Branch - Duration: 0:23.

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TICTeC 2018 interview: Gift Maxwell, Public and Private Development Centre, Nigeria - Duration: 1:20.

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How has Public Sector Bank Helped Indian Economy? - Duration: 9:28.

Well

Everybody knows that private institutions are for-profit

Their focus number will be on service

especially service to the common, man

but how to make more profit

any institution you can take

That'd be banks. Let it be educational institutions that it's the hospital's

Private sector is always looking for more and more of profit

Whereas a public sector is created for the purpose of serving the society at large?

Today the concern in our country

among the bankers

among the general public

the customers the farmers the women is that

The banking sector is moving towards privatization

Because different people in the government as well as RBA

Repeatedly keep talking about privatization

Privatization is not going to help this country as a whole

for example

banking sector

after

Independence as well as before independence

Well in large was firmly with the private sector

between

1947 and 1969 on an average every year almost

35 banks collapsed the customers were not getting their money back

number two that period

The banking sector was only serving the industrial houses

because banks were owned by industrialists

So they were only mobilizing the common man's deposit and using it for their own business purposes

That's why dr. Harker hasari was a Planning Commission remember that time

Had given a report to the Parliament

In which he had stated that unless the clutches of the business houses

From the banking system is removed

Banking sector cannot serve serve the larger masses of the country this was one of the major reasons for

nationalization

similarly if you see the

credit availability

in

1967 only 2% of the total loans given was given to the farmers

the legendary economist dr. Malcolm

Malcolm Donnelly had made a statement that a

Farmer in this country is born on that leaves on debt and dies on debt

Because they were totally dependent on the moneylenders and the banking sector was not giving them credit

similarly the artists on small industries

They could not mobilize funds for their growth of their respective industry

And they were all different and on the moneylenders that is the purpose for which

nationalization was brought in and

after

Nationalization we have seen very clearly that the credit services have gone to the common, man

There was a famous program called integrated rural development

program a

RDP through which crores of ordinary people got credit and that

Helped the economy to grow it generated employment

Similarly there was another scheme called the it still exists lead bank scheme under which the country was

Directed that a very block headquarters should have a bank branch

And today we have branches in indeed here places like under mounts

Now the island where I have worked there

Was a branch there is a branch called Sun Sanya where it is a blockhead quarter, but the population

There is hardly 300 still the bank has been serving there for years together

And that is helping the economy that is helping the farmers there

Similarly in our natural produce mr.. Rajiv Gandhi went and opened a branch in a place called La Nina

Which could be reached only by road?

Traveling by food for three and half days

He came by helicopter and inaugurated it so that is a kind of development, which has taken

place in the interiors

Second thing is you look at the credit deposit ratio

there are states, which had been complaining and there are few states even now complaining that the the faucets mobilized by the

Banks from that particular state he's not given as loan in that state, but it is going elsewhere. That was the situation

earlier before

1969

most of the

deposits were collected from rural semi urban areas

Whereas the credit was given more in the urban areas in the metropolitan areas?

now after

Nationalization that has changed the credit deposit ratio that is what?

Percentage of the faucet you have collected is given as loan in that particular area. It is tremendously improved

Especially even in the backward state so-called backward state the credit availability has increased and various studies are showing

That because of this

There has been growth in agriculture there has been growth in small industries there has been tremendous growth

in employment

opportunities, so

Talking about privatization in this country is not at all correct India is still a developing country

After seventy years of independence. We are still having to lease our six percent of our people as illiterate

only 20 percent of our children go for higher education

Healthcare by and large is now in the private sector

And in this country if a real growth has to take take place especially for the larger majority

instead of this miniscule minority

The banking system has to remain in the public sector. They have to be encouraged to give

Or credit to the common man see people talk about

targeted credit

Narasimham committee started this discussion after 1991 where they were saying that banking is a business

Now the Prime Minister of the country also has made a statement once or twice and some meetings that

Government has no business to be in the business

Government cannot take look at it like that

Banking is not just a mere business

Banking is also a service

Banking also has a orientation towards development of the country at large

So for that directed lending is needed

Earlier the priority sector lending targets were very strict

18% of the total credit towards targeted to agriculture 40% of the total credit was targeted towards

Priority sector

But subsequently after 1991 the government made changes in these policies though the priority sector still

Exists they have been like diluted

diluted in such a way that any allied agriculture is also considered as

agriculture lending for example

you are giving loan to a

Company which is processing water

making

This portable waters, which is there like this Larry and dog even that will be considered as an aggregate la tigra culture

huge forms like

Ambani has Alfonzo forms which is used only well export

thousands of acres that is also considered as a priority sector because it is a lady agriculture so that

Norms have been diluted

Similarly in the case of housing law even huge housing loans are given as priority sector

So that way what has happened is the small credit has got reduced?

here what the government as well has to

Change the course of direction

What people have to demand is that the flick sector should really support the public?

Today the policies have changed because of its public sector is being forced to support the corporates more

for example

Eleven thousand six hundred and forty three borrowers

Who have a credit limit more than under crows have got total loan of thirty eight percent as on last year?

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Andrew Geer on the San Francisco Public Library - Duration: 1:05.

This library in particular, not just because it's my city, it has some collections that

aren't found anywhere else, and I think the one that moved me the most was the Randy Schultz

collection, which is AIDS memorabilia and where you can watch- you read the entries

in the clinic when they think that these men can be cured and the get well soon cards and

the first time I did it I think I only made it ten pages in before I just broke down in

tears, the list of the dead starts filling up pages and it takes you back to part of

history that I remember of course, but I hadn't seen it so amazingly documented, it's gotta

be the only place in the world where they have that, and they really cherish it here

because it's transformed the city, it was like the flu epidemic- it just decimated

the city and this library has kept that legacy and I'm really proud of that

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BREAKING OBAMA'S BILLION DOLLAR SECRET GOES PUBLIC – THIS IS BIG - Duration: 14:31.

BREAKING: OBAMA'S BILLION DOLLAR SECRET GOES PUBLIC – THIS IS BIG

JUST IN: Barack Hussein Obama's darkest secret has just leaked…

And it could lead to federal charges.

In the year since Obama left office, the American people have been learning the many lies he

told us all.

Freedom Daily reported that new reports have confirmed that the money Iran received in

sanction relief from the Obama Administration has in fact gone to groups considered terrorists.

Back in 2016, the Obama administration controversially and illegally transferred $400 million in

cash to Iran at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport on January 17, the same day the Americans

who were being held by the Iranian regime as hostages were released.

Though Obama's defenders claim this was not a ransom payment, it's clear that that's

exactly what it was.

Making matters even worse, this was not the only ransom that was paid, as Obama's White

House later paid $1.3 billion to Iran for what they claimed was interest from the $400

million held by the US from 1979 to 2016.

A new report from the American Action Forum (AAF) found that $37.4 million of the ransom

money likely has been handed over to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the group

that carries out terrorist operations around the world and that has murdered Americans.

"Applying the official (Iranian budget) spending levels to the U.S. payment to Iran,

the $1.7 billion would mean $37.4 million for the IRGC," wrote Rachel Hoff, the analyst

at the American Action Forum who calculated this.

"Paying ransoms in exchange for Americans held abroad is one bad policy.

Indirectly funding terrorism is another."

There's no doubt that the IRGC is a terrorist group, as the State Department report from

2012 cited the "marked resurgence of Iran's state sponsorship of terrorism through its

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — Quds Force, its Ministry of Intelligence and Security,

and Tehran's ally Hezbollah."

It went on to say that these terrorist activities "have reached a tempo unseen since the 1990s."

What do you think about this?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.

h/t Any Politics

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05/01/18 Council Committees: Public Safety, Beer, and Regulated Beverages - Duration: 3:06.

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Top choice turns down job as Billings Public Schools superintendent - Duration: 0:56.

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School of Public Affairs student wins Barrett, the Honors College Dean's Award - Duration: 1:40.

My name is John Field. I'm a student in Urban and Environmental Planning on the

Tempe campus and in Public Administration here on the Downtown

campus. I'm also a Barrett student and a father of five. Most of my success, I

would say, I owe to the teachers who really held my feet to the fire.

So as an honors student, when I got my first F on a paper, I had a choice. I

could flip out and throw in the towel and get frustrated and blame the teacher

for his or her idiocracy, but instead I would go to that teacher and I would go, "Hey

what's going on here? This doesn't seem right," and I would take that feedback. I

would make notes, and I would improve, and honestly those situations provided the

most growth for me and in my college experience. The School of Public Affairs

has been wonderful. They've got excellent knowledge, they've got

excellent resources and they make them all available to the students and so

whether we have a question about anything or whether we want to get into

let's say an internship or a capstone project, they've got knowledgeable staff

here willing and able to help us out, and that's been fantastic. I feel totally

prepared, based on my education here at ASU in the School of Public Affairs, to

go out into the world and to be effective taking on a leadership role.

Find something that you love to do because when it comes down to it you're

gonna have to push yourself through the hard times and if you don't really love

what you're doing, you're gonna find that very difficult to push yourself through.

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VOA - Public Works & Protection - 5/1/18 - Duration: 19:43.

We can call the Village of Ashwaubenon

Public Works and Protection Committee

meeting together for Tuesday May One, 2018.

Role call please.

Mike Malcheski. Here.

Allison Williams. Here.

Joann Euclide. Here.

And Josh Kohnhorst. Here.

[Committee Member] And Bukowski's excused.

Okay, it's customary to recite the pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag

of the United States of America

and to the Republic for which it stands,

one nation, under God, indivisible,

with liberty and justice for all.

Okay, we can take action on the agenda as presented.

Move to approve the agenda tonight.

Second. We have a motion and second

to approve the presented agenda, all in favor?

Aye. Aye, motion carries.

Action on the minutes from the April Third, 2018 meeting.

I'll move to approve. Second that.

The only two that can approve would be Mike and Josh.

You weren't at the last meeting, Joann.

Right. Oh that's right, okay.

I'll make the motion to approve.

Okay. I'll still second that.

Okay, we have a motion and a second to approve the April

Third Public Works and Protection Committee meeting.

All in favor? Aye.

Aye, motion carries.

Comments from the public, we have no members of

the public in attendance so we will skip A, B, C, D, E and F

and move on to action item seven.

Number 7-A, action on ordinance number

05-1-18,

an ordinance amending section 7-360B

and C, Chapter Seven, Traffic and Vehicles.

Article Three, Speed Zones of the Ashwaubenon Municipal Code

relating to the speed limit on Sand Acres Drive,

Village of Ashwaubenon, Brown County.

Good evening.

Tonight this is more of

a clean up the books ordinance change.

A couple years ago Sand Acres Drive was rebuilt

and the ordinances went through and for some

reason in our codes, it's listed as 35 miles an hour.

So we're just asking that the ordinance be changed to

the 30 mile an hour as it's posted out on Sand Acres Drive.

So it is posted already? It is.

We're not doing a speed limit change.

We just want the books to reflect

what's out on the roadway already.

Okay.

Has there been any recent enforcement

on South Ridge or Sand Acres?

The speed boards are being deployed this week.

We got a lengthy list and actually at West Maine,

we received two citizen complaints over this past week

asking for enforcement out there.

When we lose the snowbanks, people tend to speed up.

So we'll be out there. They've been doing that.

There was a motor home had to park

most of Sunday afternoon that took up

maybe eight or nine spaces, it was that big.

I don't know if you saw it when you went by.

Yep. You did, okay yeah.

We'll entertain a motion. I'll move to approve.

Second. We have a motion and second

to approve ordinance number 05-1-18,

Ordinance Amending Section 7-360B and C,

Chapter Seven, Traffic and Vehicles Article Three,

Speed Zones of the Ashwaubenon Municipal Code

relating to the speed limit on Sand Acres Drive,

Village of Ashwaubenon, Brown County, all in favor?

Aye. Aye, motion carries.

Action item 7-B, Ashland Pond Expansion

and Ashland Access Road, Hanson Road Storm Sewer Projects.

Bring on the engineers. (laughs)

Well lucky for you tonight,

Steve had to take care of some matters at home.

So I'm before you tonight just to

give you an informational update.

If you remember from the Last Public Works

and Protection Meeting, we had a couple

projects we did the same thing with.

We have the bid coming up for the Ashland

Pond expansion and the Ashland Access Road,

Hanson Road storm sewer project.

Those bids will be opening next week.

We'll be bringing 'em to the Village Board

at the end of the month.

So we wanted to fill in the Public Works

and Protection Committee on what these two projects

are and what they're being designed and used for.

Both are being funded out of the Storm Water Utility.

The first one is the Ashland Pond expansion.

If you remember, I think it's three years ago now,

we bought the Skylot Motel, the former Skylot Motel,

put a pond there to provide

storm water treatment for the neighborhood in that area

and area west of there actually encompassing Village Hall

and some of the development just west of Village Hall.

There was always a second phase to that project

where the pond could be expanded to incorporate

a lot of the area that is along Mike McCarthy Way

and Morris Avenue as that redeveloped and as luck had it,

redevelopment is happening there quicker than anticipated.

So we're proposing and moving forward with

the design and bidding and construction of

the pond expansion in that area to be able to

take all of that storm water and treat

that storm water instead of each of those

developments building their own storm water pond.

In turn what happens then is

there is a calculation that's put out based on acreage

in which they can, instead of building the pond,

they can pay the Village for their portion

of acreage that is going towards that pond.

So it not only works out for the developers

in that they don't have to take up land

putting in a storm water feature and it helps

the Village in that some of that cost of

building the pond is offset by the developers.

Second project is the Ashland Access Road

and Hanson Road storm sewer project.

I'm sure you've all seen after heavy thunderstorms

or large rain events in front of Ganyell Clay along

the Ashland Access Road right by the train tracks there,

that's one of the three or four areas in

the Village that floods on a pretty frequent basis.

Excuse me, the storm sewer currently goes south

there and discharges into Ashwaubenon Creek.

What we're doing is we're keeping that storm sewer

in place and we're installing a relief storm sewer

if you will that will tie in to the initial one,

bring it back along the Wesco property

and discharge it into the Hanson Road storm sewer

which goes to the Holmgren Pond

which is over by Vanderparen Way.

So what it does is it provides relief from

that storm sewer so that before it backs up,

there's a separate route for it to go

and it can go to a different system

and reduce the frequency in which that area floods.

Both of those projects will both be opening bids next,

the Eighth, so whichever day of the week that is.

I think that's next Tuesday, we'll be opening

bids on those and we'll be bringing them forward

to the Village Board for review and action.

Okay.

With that, I'll take any questions.

I bored you to death. (laughs)

No, I'm thinking about the difference in elevation to

see if it's gonna flow, what the flow rate would be between

the supplemental one and the one that already exists.

Yeah, the one that exists is a little bit deeper.

So I believe this one's going to be about two feet,

two feet higher than the one that heads to the south.

Like I said, it's one of those

features that's going to help eliminate or,

eliminate the frequency that that area floods

and when it does, it will allow it to go away quicker.

So the one won't be full of water all the time then,

it'll just be excess runoff. Correct.

Okay.

Boy I love these engineers.

No action needed, just informational

just so we keep you updated.

Okay, so we don't need a motion on anything?

No sir. Okay.

Let's move on to Action Item 7-C,

Action on ordinance number 05-2-18,

an ordinance creating section 3-2-111

of Chapter Three, Alcohol Beverages,

Article Two, license relating to public intoxication,

Ashwaubenon Municipal Code.

What you have before you tonight is a draft ordinance

that we're looking into for public intoxication.

Talking to some members of the public,

they thought that this is an ordinance

that we already had in place which we don't

and we're looking at this as a tool.

Over the years when we worked special events and

it's just not Packer game days, concerts and whatnot

in the Entertainment District, Public Safety is tasked

with people that overindulge and then we get caught in

a loophole because we're considered a community caretaker

and when someone reads to an intoxication level

of passing out or unable to take care of themselves,

then we end up taking them to the hospital

and they get medically treated that way.

But many times we deal with people that have had

too much to drink and we become the good time police

where we have to end their evening but the next morning,

there's no repercussion and we feel that

when we see repeat offenders is that we need to

adapt an ordinance so that the next morning

when you wake up and you have your citation,

it was an expensive night on the town.

So this here covers a lot of gaps.

On special events or even on a Friday or Saturday night,

we have people that get intoxicated.

They get kicked out of a bar or multiple

bars down in the Entertainment District.

Didn't cause a fight but they

just won't leave or anything like that.

If they cause a fight and a disturbance

to a degree where someone gets hurt or something like that,

then we have Disorderly Conduct that covers that.

We've had people get to a point where they pass out,

you find 'em sleeping in the sidewalk or snow banks

or so forth, public urination, just combative.

We've all been out there and you see these people.

This here is a tool that Public Safety would have

and help in curbing this and issuing them a citation

and getting something in order.

In personal or professional experience in dealing with

intoxicated people, they tend not to want to listen

and usually when you get the citation book out

or they're going to jail which is our last resort,

we'll get their attention and like I said,

the description we've put in there for all

the many circumstances it could be used in,

it's a catch-all for the behaviors that we're dealing with.

In looking at different municipalities throughout the state,

looked at La Crosse, looked at Menomonie,

the cities, they have college campuses.

They also host festivals, they've had experience.

We've vetted this with our Village Attorney.

Like I said, this is just another tool

that we'd have in our toolbox.

It's not a revenue-maker,

it's just trying to hold people accountable.

That way other people can enjoy their

evening or daytime activities here in the Village.

What's the opinion of Menomonie

and La Crosse towards its effectiveness?

In talking to one of the Chiefs, they've, it's a tool

and like I said especially with a citation

you can issue on the scene and more times than not,

that takes care of the problem,

their buddies take 'em away and so forth.

When they get to a point of jail,

well then it takes our resources away where we have

to transport 'em up to Brown County and more times than not,

it ends up costing the Village some money

by putting them in jail.

There's usually a compliance when

there's a piece of paper handed to 'em.

How did you determine the fine, the $200 or the $400 fine?

That was kinda modeled from other municipalities, yeah.

Do you think the bar owners are

gonna have any problem with this?

No, I mean this year, we're helping them out.

Especially

the bounce staff or the security at these places,

they're the ones who are asking them to leave

and they're the ones coming back.

That's one that like I said,

we're not curbing anybody's night on the town.

Like I said, more times than not, we're trying to

eliminate the person who's ruining other people's time.

I think this is really well done.

Me too. Absolutely.

We'll entertain a motion.

I'd like to make a motion to

approve the ordinance number 5-2-18,

an ordinance creating Section 3-2-111

of Chapter Three, Alcohol Beverages Article Two,

license relating to public intoxication.

And I'll second.

We have a motion and a second to approve the

action on ordinance 05-2-18, all in favor?

Aye. Aye, opposed?

Motion carries. Thank you.

There you go, Chief.

When will this go into effect?

This has to go

to the Village Board for final consideration.

Thank you.

Action item 7-D, action on 2018,

2019 retail alcohol license renewals, Mr. Clark?

It's been awhile. Good evening,

Mr. Chairman and Committee members.

In the spirit of the previous

agenda item, it is that time of year.

Seeking approval of those entities

before you for the renewal applications

and we received just about everyone.

We're awaiting on six businesses.

So it's a good turnout, those six

will be before this Committee next month

and the Village Board ultimately for the new

licensing period which begins July First.

So I would just ask for approval contingent upon

each entity meeting the expectations of

taking care of any outstanding fees

or indebtedness to the Village.

The Chief doesn't have any problem with any of these?

No, okay.

I do have a general question

that might be related to this.

The Press Gazette put out an article, Where Was Your

Last Drink when they're completing DUI or whatever booking.

Is that something we have a problem with here in the Village

in terms of should we be thinking about that type

of thing when we're looking at renewing licenses

or is that purely something that you

take into account for individual cases?

Funny you mention that 'cause this coming month,

or yeah, it's May now, we have an Alcohol Compliance Meeting

to which we invited all the alcohol license holders for,

they can attend one of two sessions

and we discuss those things.

The one thing that Brown County Sheriffs Department does is

that when someone is, there's an alcohol-related fatality,

they go back 24 hours in time to

document where these persons were at and yes,

we do have establishment but that,

in looking at that we also look at were they there all

night or was it one of many places that this person was at?

So the thoroughness of doing that along with other

sting operations that may take place in the county,

we do take that and evaluate it

and not just on a yearly basis.

We look at an individual basis when we do have

an occurrence, even of an underage person entering

a bar and they're arrested or something like that.

So from my understanding then,

you have the right to take a permit away at any time

or is it only at this time where we're renewing things?

There's an,

we'd have to bring it before the Village Board.

There's kind of an-- Kinda like a jury situation?

What's that? Kinda like a jury situation?

Yeah. Okay.

What we do is we want, we try to seek compliance first

and we'll have the meetings with the business owners

and so forth, see what the situation was.

If we see there's a gross negligence,

then what we'd do is myself and the clerk,

we would draft paperwork to bring before the Committee

here and ultimately whether it's suspension or

the denial of the license.

But in our Municipal Code,

it gives the steps that we need to go through.

One of the things we're gonna be discussing

at the Compliance Meeting is currently in

the codes we have a points system and we're

looking at going away from the points system

and going with a system that the City of Green Bay

has which our Village Attorney is very familiar with

as far as gaining compliance and if we don't get compliance,

here's the steps we take. Okay.

But for the 10 years that I've been here,

we've had two businesses that we had issues with

and they're no longer in business and it didn't have

to do with the Village, it just had, their business plan

didn't make it marketable for them anymore.

Thanks for shedding some light on that.

We need a motion to approve these.

So moved. Second.

We have a motion and a second to approve the 2018,

2019 retail alcohol license renewals

as presented in the packet tonight.

All in favor? Aye.

Aye, opposed?

Motion carries.

Action item 7-E, action on resolution number R5-1-18,

Ashwaubenon Blast Celebration.

As is standard every May and before you,

the fourth annual Blast Celebration will be this August 11th

and per Statue 125.06 sub Six,

a resolution is required to allow the selling

of alcoholic beverages on behalf of

the municipality in a public-private setting.

A municipality cannot own if you will a license,

thus the resolution for the one day event.

Okay.

Move to approve. Second.

We have a motion and a second to approve Resolution

R5-1-18 for the Ashwaubenon Blast Celebration.

All in favor? Aye.

Aye, opposed?

The motion carries. Thank you very much.

Have a good evening.

The next item is the annual distribution

of Public Officials and Employees Code of Ethics.

I believe that's in the packet.

That is for review and deep philosophical thought

about how we act as

public employees actually.

At the next meeting we'll have

a test on some of the sections.

Do we have any items for the next agenda

that anybody wants to put up at this point?

Terry? Nope.

None, okay and I have none.

We can entertain a motion to adjourn.

So moved. Second.

We have a motion and a second to adjourn, all in favor?

Aye. Aye, we stand adjourned.