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Thanks for watching!
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Here's a song coming your way right now, Nowhere to Run To by Martha and the Vandellas.
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Yes!
Hey, you know what I mean!
Too much?
Welcome to Martha and the Vandellas!
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It's my blood I'm running from.
It's the heartbreak I know will come.
Cause I know you'll never fall for me.
So just become a part of me.
Every time I go, your face I see.
Every step I take, you take with me.
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Yeah.
Nowhere to run from, baby.
Nowhere to run from.
Cause nowhere to run from, baby.
Nowhere to run from.
Alone, you're no good for me.
The three of you are never gonna be.
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No.
Each night as I bleed into my heart, you bleed.
I wake up feeling sorry I left you.
I'm hoping you'll soon, and I'll forget you.
And I'm looking in the mirror to comb my hair.
And I see your face, just a smile in the mirror.
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Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you, baby.
Find nowhere to run from, baby.
Nowhere to run from.
Alone, you're no good for me.
The two of you come upon me.
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How can I fight the love that shouldn't be?
And it's so deep, so deep, deep inside of me.
My love reaches so high, I can't get over it.
It's so high, I can't get around it, no.
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Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you, baby.
Just can't get away from you, baby.
No matter how high I go.
I know you're no good for me.
The three of you are never gonna be.
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Metro computers, your attention, please.
The next Metrotrain approaching your station
will be a Metra Express train.
It will not stop.
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It will not stop.
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Welcome everybody to Voices Carry Live.
My name is Randy Scott.
You are joining me in the beautiful village of Cary,
and we are broadcasting live to X Rumble,
YouTube, Twitch,
and a number of other podcast feeds.
And this is your megaphone, and this is your microphone.
And the reason why we do this, the reason why I do this,
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is I started it because I saw a need in the community
to kind of get ourselves away from social media,
and not entirely, but to start talking with our neighbors.
And to start, you know, if we see something in the community
that doesn't feel right, we need to not just sit on the couch
and just think it's somebody else's problem.
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It's our problem, and we should voice up.
And this is a platform for you to do that.
If not, if you don't want to call in,
I have the phone system on, and the text on, and the multi-chat.
So I'm going to try not to sit so much like Larry King all the time.
I have it on.
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You can literally bring up anything.
It can be on topic, off topic, preferably about Cary.
Illinois, not Cary, North Carolina.
But if you're from Cary, North Carolina, and you're watching
and you want to tell us how everything's going on over there,
feel free to.
But at the very least, I want to just have a platform for you
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to where if I say something that might align with something
that you're thinking, at least you know that you're not alone.
That's my goal is...
I've had a, you know, I think a lot about, you know,
there's actually, I was doing some filming today.
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The family was helping me do filming for a few spots
for the local election coming up.
And I took a whole bunch of stuff out of here,
and it went with me, and I forgot to bring it back.
And if you want to pause the video now, if you're watching not live,
you can still do it live, and find out what's missing.
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There's no prize, but it's a fun game.
Spoiler alert.
Okay, here we go.
The Blueys are gone.
The name sign's gone.
And fun fact, I didn't use either one of those.
So those are the things I forgot to bring back to the studio
for the podcast.
But the Blueys are safe at the house with the kids, so that's good.
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But yeah, if I say something that aligns with you,
and you're like, wow, that guy's thinking kind of the same way I am,
or if I'm not thinking the same way that you are, that's good.
We need to have disagreements.
We need to have friction to move forward.
But we have to have that friction respectfully.
Like if you disagree with something with the village,
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go to the village board meetings, be respectful,
thank them for their service.
And it's a really complex issue.
It's a complex machine, government is.
And I'm trying to break down not only the barrier between resident and municipality,
but there's a lot of complexities within municipalities that don't need to exist.
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And we need to get back to fundamentals and get back to basics.
So last meeting, you can tell how fun, I try to make it fun,
but last meeting, they're going to have a board meeting tomorrow.
And they do a village board meeting and a trustee meeting.
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And I thought before we got into that whole fun,
what I like to do is we do live watch parties of board meetings,
and it's not to, you know, I say party, it's kind of just a get together.
There's no drinking or anything.
And what we do is we just watch,
and it's a different way than just watching the official YouTube feed.
You can still go to the official YouTube feed,
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but it's a way of watching it with somebody and bringing it to a new platform.
When I hear something that I might be able to add context to,
I'll chime in and say it.
If there's something that I don't understand or I've never heard before,
I'll look it up and bring it to you the next show.
And I've been trying to do the shows more regularly.
When I started this quite some time ago, it was kind of sporadic,
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because, you know, we're all busy in family life, which is priority.
But this will be at 9 o'clock until I look forward to doing it for a while.
So thank you for joining me.
And let's go through a few things here.
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I posted something on social media.
Let's take a look.
I posted this.
It's called Winter is Leaving.
And it's a picture of me painting the fall poles.
And that was a fun, fun time.
That was last year.
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The grass is not that green out there.
I know I just saw it the other day.
I was getting some video.
And I grew up on these fields.
This was my first.
One of my first jobs was umpiring at Cary Youth Baseball at Maplewood.
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You can see in the background, that was our only child at the time.
And now we have two, and we have another one on the way.
And then our dog out there.
And at this point, that structure to the left, the concession stand has been torn down.
And all the fields are completely flooded.
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So there's some work to do.
I got the yellow paint there.
That's commercial grade yellow paint for like streets.
So that'll last many, many years to come.
So I thought that was fun to see.
Kind of spring is coming up.
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Oh, that's just me closer.
Hold on.
You don't want to see me closer.
You want to see.
There we go.
Hi.
Okay, so we'll do some more current events.
There was a recent article about the Maplewood property in Northwest Herald about how the districts,
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they said after a year-long dispute, it was actually more like a 13-year dispute,
but I thought the article did a pretty good job conveying that the district,
school district kind of was fighting for something different.
And the village said, well, this is how it's going to be.
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And that kind of relationship is not good, especially when it comes to our kids.
And that's what I'm here doing, trying to mend those relationships, not just with school, but everybody.
So we'll do some more current events after this.
So let's go through the – actually, let's just go through current events now,
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because that's more fun.
And then we can save the backend for the meeting packet.
I like to go through the meeting packet before so it can fan your flames of, you know,
if you want to go and talk or if you want to call in.
I think there's – they're talking about adding a tree ordinance on,
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and we looked at the Chris Lake tree ordinance.
So I try to bring it up the day before so that you can be educated on the issues of what they're going to talk about.
They always welcome you to go and talk about things that are not on the agenda.
So if you have something affecting you locally out in front of your house or across town,
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they, you know, come on in and don't feel intimidated.
That's one of the things I want to break down is that intimidation, you know, coming into –
I want to break down that fourth wall of the municipality and its residents that it serves to welcome people into discussion.
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I think you get a lot of – you get more bees with that.
I did want to show you how I found this packet, which I thought was interesting.
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This is a live show, if you can't tell.
So I wanted to show you – that's not it.
So I did want to show you how – I'm going to resize this so you can see it.
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Okay, so to find it – I'm going to show you how easy it is to find it.
So you can go to their website, and it's in the calendar at the bottom.
But this is pretty much the only forward-facing that they do for finding out what's on the agenda.
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So you go to the Village of Cary Facebook, and usually it comes out in this Cary News Weekly.
And you click on that, and it's a rundown.
Mayor's hosting a business roundtable March 13th.
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Regional transportation plan questionnaire.
I covered that in a prior show.
Maplewood property information.
They have a whole website for this Maplewood property.
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Hillstriders March-Mandus Half Marathon.
That's March 16th, spring cleanup dates.
Going down, budget workshop meeting.
We have shows that covered that.
That was about a two-hour presentation, and we kind of got into the weeds of that.
Cary Grove Youth Baseball and Softball registration open.
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Same for soccer.
Public Works is having some fun there.
Talking about safe travel for all.
Overnight parking restrictions in effect.
Cary Winter's Farmer Market.
Board and zoning planning and appeals application.
So the mayor appoints board of zoning and planning and appeals.
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So parents, we went through this in a prior show.
We went through the entire application.
It is not a difficult application.
So parents, I encourage you to get involved in shaping what you're going to be turning over to your kids.
And the kids are going to be turning over to their kids.
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And I look forward to doing that.
McHenry County Housing Authority Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Cary Caps. You can buy a Cary Cap. $20.
And all the way at the bottom here, what's on the agenda?
And then you click on this link and it gives you the full packet that we're going to take a look at right now.
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And then we can have some more fun with current events and stuff while I go through XFeed.
I used to do all that before I went on air.
And I was like, I could be doing all that while on air.
It doesn't really make for must-see TV.
But I was like, it's not really must-see TV now to begin with.
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So I'm like, might as well just be live and go through that so I can hear from you some of your comments, questions,
and other things that you want me to take a look at and pay attention to.
Village Board of Trustees meeting.
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So they have a call to order, roll call, pledge of allegiance, and then open forum.
That's where you can get a chance to speak.
Mayor's Report, Employee Recognition, Director of Community Development, Brian Simmons, 10-year employment anniversary.
Congratulations. Consent Agenda.
Consider for approval warrant dated March 4th, 25.
A warrant is just literally something that looks like this, detailed notes of how they spent your money to make the wheels turn.
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Board meeting minutes. Those are things they take detailed notes and those are just from the prior meeting that they approve.
Budget workshop meeting minutes. We had that show.
Partial closure of Three Oaks Road, South Rawson, March 16th for the March Madness Marathon.
Consider for approval resolution authorizing the village administrator to award a contract 2526 sludge hauling services.
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Sludge is a byproduct of wastewater treatment that they sell to a company that uses it for other items.
Consider for approval Class F temporary liquor license for the Stars and Stripes Fest at Cary Grove Park.
You've heard me say this before, that's kind of why I like going through this is because you get to see kind of inside baseball.
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No pun intended.
Consider for approval resolution authorizing the village administrator to enter into a contract for purchase electricity from lower cost or from the lowest cost electricity provider for the purposes of street lighting and commercial accounts.
We've touched on this.
The electric collaborative was something that was opened up by Illinois at a state level to make electricity selling more than just from ComEd to make it more competitive.
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Be sure to look at if you do, you might have been switched over automatically, which is a bugaboo for me.
I wasn't not a big fan of anybody telling you how to run your household.
So just take a look at your bill in the top left corner.
It says who sells you electricity if it's not ComEd and you're not happy about that.
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There is a resource online for that on ComEd's website.
Administrators report, Department heads.
This is just a ledger of the totals of all the money that came out.
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This is for training for police.
Looks like they had a meeting.
And then this is this is what they call a warrant.
Telephone, life insurance, cell phone, dental, mic or
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stuff to keep the wheels turning.
This is a this is for leasing of their vehicles.
They do a lot of leasing through a out of state company.
That actually I like to keep things top of mind.
That's actually.
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That's going to earn a flag.
I'm going to remind me to look into leasing.
Not against leasing.
I just.
When you lease police vehicles, you can't do as much stuff to them to keep your
officer safe when you lease other equipment or if it's through a different company.
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There's a lot of moving pieces there.
So I think that's worth reviewing.
So if I get the opportunity to do that, I would like to do that to make sure that you're getting represented properly.
Telephones.
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And then this is just a recap of what we just saw.
So a lot of fun stuff.
Printing.
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Looks like the police department purchased a Berna, which is one of those nonlethal.
Guns that they advertise.
I think there's some opportunity there for those to be implemented into many different areas.
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Now you got some public work stuff, mower works.
And I just enjoy going through this because I'm kind of like a nerd.
And I when I get to the public work stuff, I always get jealous.
Like, oh, they're getting the wrench on all this stuff and I'm here just reading about it.
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Street light repair.
This SCADA improvements thing we looked at at a prior meeting, SCADA is pretty much just communication equipment for their water handlers and stuff throughout town.
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And they're going through and updating all those.
This one's interesting.
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So this district number three, Cary School and Main Street Property.
They're their law firm out of the city of Chicago.
They had a quick three grand.
That's why I always say time and resources.
And when I say time and resources, there's a lot of things that are it's time and resources and priorities.
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There's a lot of like you come into work at the village of Cary.
And if you're tasked with a lot of other things other than services that affect you, the resident at home, I mean, that's fine.
I understand you have to have the best of both worlds.
But if it's not, it should be more 30 percent outlook and 70 percent resident issues.
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Like it visibly like taking like we have we have some roads like we've touched on this in past.
We have a trend of roads going bad in our town.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg to where time and resources are so heavily allocated to a whole bunch of these fun projects.
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Like we have a thousand apartments on the books to come in the carry.
And that takes money, as you see here, like that just that TIF handling costs legal fees, which it should be more I would say like.
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Forty forty percent outlook, your your dream projects, your your board goals and then.
Which is a term that I'm still coming to terms with, and so 40 percent that 60 percent or even higher of.
What makes your what makes your quality of life better and if it if it means like the village staying the heck out of your affairs, so be it.
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When it comes to like this this tree ordinance that's coming in, I'm all for keeping trees, but it depends how it's worded to where it can be invasive, to where you got to say somebody on a fixed income got a tree struck by lightning.
And now you got the village saying, hey, I need one hundred dollars for that.
We need to humanize this a little more to where it's not just.
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And then this is itemized.
From what we saw.
Shredding crossing guards.
They're always looking for crossing guards and they they're they're paying them.
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Deicing liquid.
And at the very least, I think this is just cool like what like.
After this, after I go through this whole packet, you're either going to be like, wow, that was not just a waste of time.
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It was an incredible waste of time.
Or you're going to be like, well, I feel better. I feel like I'm.
I'm part of it now. It's not just the man behind the curtain.
I feel like I got skin in the game and.
I think you need that that fabric in the community to to empower and rise up. It's not a community is just not about.
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I think the word village goes back a long way.
And I think when when you have a village and I'm going back to like, you know. Before. Before fire was invented.
Before they discovered fire. A village.
You got to you got to be tight knit.
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So that you can help others when it's in time and need.
And you got to take care of yourself first. And that's not out of selfishness.
It's because like the airplane mentality, you help yourself so you can stay alive to help others.
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Some other fun stuff here.
This is the consider for approval, the board meeting minutes.
That was the minutes from last meeting.
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The gentleman brought up that they had just found out about New Haven.
And New Haven Road potentially.
Or actually, I mean, this is this is their this is their plan is to blow through New Haven to 31 and put up.
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Four to eight hundred apartments, four hundred in the first two phases for four hundred.
And then they have some other land that they're going to play with, too.
And then Google Maps is going to be routing people to get the 31 through that area.
So now you moved your family to New Haven because it's like, well, it's a dead end.
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You know, we're going to it's quiet.
Now, it's going to be a K1 speed speed track.
I got to get the 31 to get to work all during school school time.
So we've got to watch out for our own.
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Special Village Board of Trustees minutes.
This was the budget workshop.
That had I'm still I'm still unpacking that budget workshop.
There was a lot of fun stuff in there that I noticed about things that I want to take a closer look at.
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But it was it was fun to see the outlook of what they got in the works.
And we talked about the banner behind me.
They had banner designs.
They had banner designs for what they want to have on banners throughout town.
And I was like, let's throw these suckers back up.
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This is for the Hill Striders Running Club.
The March Madness. That's their route.
It's always fun when that comes through town.
This is a sludge hauling.
Company in Woodstock.
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Cary Park District for the alcohol permit for Stars and Stripes Fest.
That looks like it's going to be another fun time there.
And they got the they got a sheet.
This is the park next to Cary Grove by the sunburst bay.
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I think this is where they had it set up last year.
And then on this picture, this the park district has this land, the Cary Junior Highs back here.
And eventually, I think they're going to push this road through.
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And there's room for they have planned for baseball fields back here.
I think that's I think that's what was being debated at the last.
Park district meeting.
But when you when you when you have baseball fields ran by the park district, those aren't cheap to use.
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So that's why the Cary Youth Baseball and Softball Association is so vocal about negotiating that.
And they kind of had those baseball fields at Maplewood are like 80 years old.
And we pulled up on my Facebook.
You can see where Maplewood School used to like originally started in historic aerials.
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And then there was just a little outline of a baseball field of like just where people were wearing down the grass.
And we're just wiping that all out.
So 80 years of baseball fields and I have some ideas that I won't get into right now, but that definitely gets my attention.
I think it's it's worth I like have a fatherly duty to do something about it.
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And it's really not at the.
My selfish interest of like, well, I played baseball there.
I think for the sake of those 80 years of families that have memories there.
They put 14 years of.
Question onto the school district.
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And then somehow position it to make it seem like the school districts dragging their feet.
Is not playing nice in the sandbox and we need to do better.
So that was the fun village board meeting packet.
And then the meeting following that meeting, they'll be talking about the fun new tree ordinance that they're thinking about bringing in.
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So if if that is something that you might think you'd be affected by, go to the village board meeting and hear what they have to say or join us for the live party.
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There is a comment.
From somebody that said one or signs can be available. I don't like to use this platform for.
Like solely pushing my my goals with trying to.
Bring better priorities to the village and to.
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Better align the village with its residents and get back on track. I like to focus on the issues and not use this because this is essentially this is your microphone.
And you're calling your text and so there will be a time when I just it's like a whole show dedicated to that.
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The stuff I was filming today has a lot to do and it will answer a lot of questions.
And I look forward to bringing that to you as soon as tomorrow or by the end of the week.
Most likely tomorrow. So that's what we were finishing up filming today and.
It means a lot to me to be able to throw my hat in the ring and.
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Throwing my hat in the ring I understand there's a lot of.
Logs that have not been.
Turned over in a long time and I'm knocking on a lot of doors that I don't know what's exactly behind it.
All I know is what I've seen and I've seen enough to know that I should be involved.
That's what I'm here for.
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Also here for you so.
Voice up I got the phone. Live.
Let me reorient this.
Screen here give me one moment.
And then we'll go through some current events.
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Our viewership is.
I've said I've said this before I'm not trying to break any records this is not like.
You know you know I'm not going to start selling supplements I'm not going to start selling.
T-shirts I'm not going to start selling this is all.
My venture.
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To bring us together and to be strong for when we might need it.
And for the betterment of our kids.
And for you right now.
We all see what's happening at a federal level.
To make things more efficient and I think.
We can learn from their mistakes and apply that.
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All right so let's pull this up.
I just had somebody else say.
And I don't mention names but.
Are you going to put up signs that is all going to be explained in the video that I made.
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With my family went out and we had a blast filming it.
And you're going to enjoy it you're going to enjoy the.
Thinking behind it and I can't wait to bring it to you it'll be out.
Tomorrow we'll roll out that campaign tomorrow.
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All right.
So this is I'm going to go through some current events I follow a lot of stuff I like to go through current events and sift out the Debbie downer stuff.
And kind of just bring you the meat and potatoes for the area stuff that might affect you so.
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Let me let's get started.
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See like this.
Hold on let me this is about the drive in movie theater.
I got to add this button on to my.
This do hickey here real quick so it's easier for me to switch between.
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Okay now we're rolling.
News release McHenry outdoor theater set to open March 21st Joe Cicero just got a job there from the morning show at Star 105 and he's been having fun over there.
He's in charge of marketing over there now so.
Now is like a better time than ever.
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Take the kids out there.
Do a nice old drive in.
Another comment saying I look forward to seeing your video.
Thank you very much.
See what else we got here.
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Carrie Grove Trojan Trojan tennis great first day outside and had 43 guys out on the courts tennis balls being hit is such a great site and sound I agree.
We'll like that.
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You know what I haven't done in a while.
I haven't checked to see if the.
Village of Carrie.
They had a Twitter.
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That was not active.
Let's take a look.
Official Twitter account.
Of Carrie Illinois.
This was from June of 23.
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This is first of all this is a free tool.
And it's pretty much like a newspaper at your your fingertips and you could be getting out.
The board packet.
To more people you could be having fun with it you can be doing scavenger hunts through the community.
There's a lot of potential there.
That's not being utilized.
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Like for instance let's look at.
There's a city of Crystal Lake.
Oh there's this from 22 as well.
Carrie Park district.
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Two thousand twenty three.
This is.
I mean it's technology I get it.
But I think you have a responsibility to leverage.
Platforms.
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To.
Not allocate so much time to that to where you're bogged down.
But it's not hard to have a.
Their software out there that businesses use to.
You post a Facebook and it throws it the Twitter it throws it to Twitter.
And it's hearts and minds like you can you can you can do so much to to elevate the community and let them not be in the shadows.
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To where you can keep them informed.
And I know.
I don't think I'm alone in that thinking it's a it's free it's not free to generate the content but if you're already making the content for Facebook why not.
Put that on another platform.
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This.
Of course I can't find it.
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This is a town of Kerry North Carolina.
And I like to I've I kind of just fell into it I'll tell you a fun story.
When I was working at the fire department one of my like.
First few days on I got a phone call at the house phone and it was for Kerry North Carolina not Kerry Illinois.
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And I.
Told another firefighter about the road and they're like that road doesn't exist in Kerry.
And then.
And I received the proper amount of ribbing the rest of my career there for that as expected and it was it was fun.
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The resident got taken care of but the reason why I like to look at Kerry North Carolina is they have a very good.
Way of inspiring their residents like for instance they got my attention when during Halloween.
They turned it to the town of scary and they had a little pumpkin next to it for November 1st they brought in.
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They changed the mayor officially changed the town of the town of Kerry's name to Kerry C.A.R. E.Y.
Or Mariah Carey because that's when she comes out of the woodwork and does her her scene just like.
Michael Michael Blay.
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It's just little stuff like that that I can I think.
Breaks down that barrier not to mention the free.
The free newspaper that you have at your fingertips to educate your your.
Like they they leverage this text caster but it goes through there's an education process you have to educate.
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Your residents that it even exists and then you have to sign people up which I think you know text caster is great to have as a resource but then you also have Twitter.
To notify.
And rapidly if something's developing rapidly or even not.
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But then there there might be viewing of like well.
We don't want to just put everything out there because then it's like we don't want to say bad stuff that you know that happens it's like we were all adults we we know that stuff happens everywhere.
It'd be nice to know the not know though so that that's what I want to that's what I want to do.
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We'll do a few more here.
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Oh this is new.
Carry based school district 26 will pay 32,500 to settle a lawsuit filed by an ex teacher.
So that's interesting.
I carry Grove high school boys soccer.
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We'll like that and then we got something from three oaks here.
Our school is hosting an online book fair.
Make your orders.
Using promo code.
Those book fairs were always fun.
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And then, well, we're on the topic of.
There was a prior show that we went through when the district received letters from the village.
And the this is back pertaining to the Maplewood property the Maplewood property, they had their plans for they're like, let us do this.
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And
they, they got met with strongly worded letters that started off nice and then it went to like lawyer words.
And it pretty much in so many words said, yeah, we're, we're probably going to, you know, sue you.
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And, you know, if you don't allow us to do this.
So imagine that you're
at the at the steering wheel of a school district.
And then you have a nice property to where you can put a school
administration building, you already have
a bus lot that you can improve on greatly you can improve on.
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And then you can keep some outside access and some baseball fields.
So it's a multi use property.
But now the village is like, no, we're going to move you.
And I just thought of this earlier today.
We're going to give you five point five million to make this move.
And I was thinking to myself, I'm like, that's five point five million from the TIF district.
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That's essentially that that's their that that would have been the school districts money.
If that if that TIF didn't exist.
And that money didn't go into a special hopper to improve those areas.
It's just all creative funding to where it's like the village can say like, oh, we're doing good.
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We gave them five point five million.
No, that that's that the majority of that would have been their money anyway.
So now they're landlocked into a bus.
A bus area, bus shelter that's over by Aldi.
Aldi didn't want it.
They charge them 50 grand to get out of to get out of the contract because Aldi wants like minded businesses next to them.
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Excuse me.
And that's it just boggles my mind.
That 13, 13, 14 years of this property sitting and some of it early on with different leadership at the school district.
Yeah, it could have been some of their issues as well.
But then once the chameleon started to show its true color, I was like, oh, I get it.
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This is the village locking them up until they get every all the stars aligned for what what they want to put in there.
And me being a prior student of District 26 and one fifty five, I'm not going away.
I'm going to I'm I'm here to to to fight for my my school district that I grew up in that has taught me so many things.
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And has taught me the value of that you're not a number and you shouldn't just sit down quietly.
I think I think I owe it to the great education that I got there to at least.
Go up the bat.
And swing for the fences.
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So. I'm not against new development.
I'm not against new.
I just I don't want to see Kerry turn into the stack and pack them high rise.
Because when that when that love affair of all these high rises goes away, when the economy gets better and people are looking for homes, I want to position Kerry to be like.
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Honey, let's go take a look at Kerry.
I think it's time for the white picket fence instead of hate.
Here now you're in a ten foot by ten foot box that's thirty five hundred dollars a month with a pickleball court.
And then with everything else, it's like four grand.
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And then you feel like a number and then.
So much money is going out just for the lease, it's hard to put money away, so I want to get people of all ages equity.
And I think there's a great opportunity for branding the village of Kerry here as this is your forever home.
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And showing that we see people. Inside the spreadsheets, instead of just seeing spreadsheets.
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Great transition, great transition here.
There's another one Kerry Grove Trojan tennis boys tennis season is here.
Now we're in the March 2nd.
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Yeah.
So that's what I'm doing here.
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I like to bring you the I like to bring you the inner workings and if there's something that I'm not looking at that you want me to look at, let me know.
Text or call that number that you have in the description of the video.
It was this one.
And, you know, if there's something that you want me to take a look at.
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That's as easy as that.
I look forward to what the future holds and the the weeks ahead of us.
I'm very much ready for it and looking forward to it.
And you should be as well.
Thank you for joining me today on voices Kerry live.
We broadcast I broadcast every day, every weekday at nine.
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So if you at home, I can't do this alone.
You'll never hear me say.
There's a donation button.
I don't accept anything like that.
This is a fatherly duty and a mission from God, as the Blues Brothers would say.
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So, I love it.
And I can't do it without you though that doesn't mean you can't be involved like text call.
Tell your neighbor about the show, share the feed.
You are the news now.
Once you think about it, like this area only has one outlet for news.
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It's only one publication for news other than what is talked about on a chat.
And you can't do it on Facebook, which can easily get buried.
There's nothing that really floats to the top of issues.
And if nobody is doing independent journalism, there's a lot of slop slack in the line to where things could be things that you might need to know about or that needs to get sunlight that never gets sunlight.
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A lot of things are getting sunlight.
And it's just good for everybody.
Yeah. Thank you for joining me today for Voices Carry Live.
I will see you tomorrow at 9.
Or actually, not 9, we'll do the Village Watch Party.
And then it might be a long one to where we'll do 9 o'clock as well to keep that time slot.
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So thank you very much. It was nice seeing you.
And thank you for joining me. We will see you tomorrow.
And the Village Board meeting.
Six o'clock. So six o'clock we'll have the live watch party.
We'll probably start a little earlier and we'll have some fun.
Have a great night.
You're confirmed at 10 minus 10 seconds.
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And counting 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Reach for the sky.
Huh?
This town ain't big enough for the two of us.
What?
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Somebody's poisoned the water hole.
It's busted.
Who are you calling busted, Buster?
That's right. I'm talking to you, Sid Phillips.
We don't like being blown up, Sid.
Or smashed or ripped apart.
We?
That's right. Your toys.
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You must take good care of your toys.
Because if you don't, we'll find out, Sid.
We toys can see everything.
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So play nice.
Thanks for watching!
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Here's a song coming your way right now, Nowhere to Run To by Martha and the Vandellas.
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Yes!
Hey, you know what I mean!
Too much?
Welcome to Martha and the Vandellas!
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It's my blood I'm running from.
It's the heartbreak I know will come.
Cause I know you'll never fall for me.
So just become a part of me.
Every time I go, your face I see.
Every step I take, you take with me.
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Yeah.
Nowhere to run from, baby.
Nowhere to run from.
Cause nowhere to run from, baby.
Nowhere to run from.
Alone, you're no good for me.
The three of you are never gonna be.
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No.
Each night as I bleed into my heart, you bleed.
I wake up feeling sorry I left you.
I'm hoping you'll soon, and I'll forget you.
And I'm looking in the mirror to comb my hair.
And I see your face, just a smile in the mirror.
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Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you, baby.
Find nowhere to run from, baby.
Nowhere to run from.
Alone, you're no good for me.
The two of you come upon me.
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How can I fight the love that shouldn't be?
And it's so deep, so deep, deep inside of me.
My love reaches so high, I can't get over it.
It's so high, I can't get around it, no.
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Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide from you, baby.
Just can't get away from you, baby.
No matter how high I go.
I know you're no good for me.
The three of you are never gonna be.
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Metro computers, your attention, please.
The next Metrotrain approaching your station
will be a Metra Express train.
It will not stop.
It will not stop.
It will not stop.
It will not stop.
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It will not stop.
It will not stop.
Welcome everybody to Voices Carry Live.
My name is Randy Scott.
You are joining me in the beautiful village of Cary,
and we are broadcasting live to X Rumble,
YouTube, Twitch,
and a number of other podcast feeds.
And this is your megaphone, and this is your microphone.
And the reason why we do this, the reason why I do this,
(06:38):
is I started it because I saw a need in the community
to kind of get ourselves away from social media,
and not entirely, but to start talking with our neighbors.
And to start, you know, if we see something in the community
that doesn't feel right, we need to not just sit on the couch
and just think it's somebody else's problem.
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It's our problem, and we should voice up.
And this is a platform for you to do that.
If not, if you don't want to call in,
I have the phone system on, and the text on, and the multi-chat.
So I'm going to try not to sit so much like Larry King all the time.
I have it on.
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You can literally bring up anything.
It can be on topic, off topic, preferably about Cary.
Illinois, not Cary, North Carolina.
But if you're from Cary, North Carolina, and you're watching
and you want to tell us how everything's going on over there,
feel free to.
But at the very least, I want to just have a platform for you
(07:41):
to where if I say something that might align with something
that you're thinking, at least you know that you're not alone.
That's my goal is...
I've had a, you know, I think a lot about, you know,
there's actually, I was doing some filming today.
(08:03):
The family was helping me do filming for a few spots
for the local election coming up.
And I took a whole bunch of stuff out of here,
and it went with me, and I forgot to bring it back.
And if you want to pause the video now, if you're watching not live,
you can still do it live, and find out what's missing.
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There's no prize, but it's a fun game.
Spoiler alert.
Okay, here we go.
The Blueys are gone.
The name sign's gone.
And fun fact, I didn't use either one of those.
So those are the things I forgot to bring back to the studio
for the podcast.
But the Blueys are safe at the house with the kids, so that's good.
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But yeah, if I say something that aligns with you,
and you're like, wow, that guy's thinking kind of the same way I am,
or if I'm not thinking the same way that you are, that's good.
We need to have disagreements.
We need to have friction to move forward.
But we have to have that friction respectfully.
Like if you disagree with something with the village,
(09:16):
go to the village board meetings, be respectful,
thank them for their service.
And it's a really complex issue.
It's a complex machine, government is.
And I'm trying to break down not only the barrier between resident and municipality,
but there's a lot of complexities within municipalities that don't need to exist.
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And we need to get back to fundamentals and get back to basics.
So last meeting, you can tell how fun, I try to make it fun,
but last meeting, they're going to have a board meeting tomorrow.
And they do a village board meeting and a trustee meeting.
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And I thought before we got into that whole fun,
what I like to do is we do live watch parties of board meetings,
and it's not to, you know, I say party, it's kind of just a get together.
There's no drinking or anything.
And what we do is we just watch,
and it's a different way than just watching the official YouTube feed.
You can still go to the official YouTube feed,
(10:24):
but it's a way of watching it with somebody and bringing it to a new platform.
When I hear something that I might be able to add context to,
I'll chime in and say it.
If there's something that I don't understand or I've never heard before,
I'll look it up and bring it to you the next show.
And I've been trying to do the shows more regularly.
When I started this quite some time ago, it was kind of sporadic,
(10:47):
because, you know, we're all busy in family life, which is priority.
But this will be at 9 o'clock until I look forward to doing it for a while.
So thank you for joining me.
And let's go through a few things here.
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I posted something on social media.
Let's take a look.
I posted this.
It's called Winter is Leaving.
And it's a picture of me painting the fall poles.
And that was a fun, fun time.
That was last year.
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The grass is not that green out there.
I know I just saw it the other day.
I was getting some video.
And I grew up on these fields.
This was my first.
One of my first jobs was umpiring at Cary Youth Baseball at Maplewood.
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You can see in the background, that was our only child at the time.
And now we have two, and we have another one on the way.
And then our dog out there.
And at this point, that structure to the left, the concession stand has been torn down.
And all the fields are completely flooded.
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So there's some work to do.
I got the yellow paint there.
That's commercial grade yellow paint for like streets.
So that'll last many, many years to come.
So I thought that was fun to see.
Kind of spring is coming up.
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Oh, that's just me closer.
Hold on.
You don't want to see me closer.
You want to see.
There we go.
Hi.
Okay, so we'll do some more current events.
There was a recent article about the Maplewood property in Northwest Herald about how the districts,
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they said after a year-long dispute, it was actually more like a 13-year dispute,
but I thought the article did a pretty good job conveying that the district,
school district kind of was fighting for something different.
And the village said, well, this is how it's going to be.
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And that kind of relationship is not good, especially when it comes to our kids.
And that's what I'm here doing, trying to mend those relationships, not just with school, but everybody.
So we'll do some more current events after this.
So let's go through the – actually, let's just go through current events now,
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because that's more fun.
And then we can save the backend for the meeting packet.
I like to go through the meeting packet before so it can fan your flames of, you know,
if you want to go and talk or if you want to call in.
I think there's – they're talking about adding a tree ordinance on,
(14:18):
and we looked at the Chris Lake tree ordinance.
So I try to bring it up the day before so that you can be educated on the issues of what they're going to talk about.
They always welcome you to go and talk about things that are not on the agenda.
So if you have something affecting you locally out in front of your house or across town,
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they, you know, come on in and don't feel intimidated.
That's one of the things I want to break down is that intimidation, you know, coming into –
I want to break down that fourth wall of the municipality and its residents that it serves to welcome people into discussion.
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I think you get a lot of – you get more bees with that.
I did want to show you how I found this packet, which I thought was interesting.
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This is a live show, if you can't tell.
So I wanted to show you – that's not it.
So I did want to show you how – I'm going to resize this so you can see it.
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Okay, so to find it – I'm going to show you how easy it is to find it.
So you can go to their website, and it's in the calendar at the bottom.
But this is pretty much the only forward-facing that they do for finding out what's on the agenda.
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So you go to the Village of Cary Facebook, and usually it comes out in this Cary News Weekly.
And you click on that, and it's a rundown.
Mayor's hosting a business roundtable March 13th.
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Regional transportation plan questionnaire.
I covered that in a prior show.
Maplewood property information.
They have a whole website for this Maplewood property.
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Hillstriders March-Mandus Half Marathon.
That's March 16th, spring cleanup dates.
Going down, budget workshop meeting.
We have shows that covered that.
That was about a two-hour presentation, and we kind of got into the weeds of that.
Cary Grove Youth Baseball and Softball registration open.
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Same for soccer.
Public Works is having some fun there.
Talking about safe travel for all.
Overnight parking restrictions in effect.
Cary Winter's Farmer Market.
Board and zoning planning and appeals application.
So the mayor appoints board of zoning and planning and appeals.
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So parents, we went through this in a prior show.
We went through the entire application.
It is not a difficult application.
So parents, I encourage you to get involved in shaping what you're going to be turning over to your kids.
And the kids are going to be turning over to their kids.
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And I look forward to doing that.
McHenry County Housing Authority Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Cary Caps. You can buy a Cary Cap. $20.
And all the way at the bottom here, what's on the agenda?
And then you click on this link and it gives you the full packet that we're going to take a look at right now.
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And then we can have some more fun with current events and stuff while I go through XFeed.
I used to do all that before I went on air.
And I was like, I could be doing all that while on air.
It doesn't really make for must-see TV.
But I was like, it's not really must-see TV now to begin with.
(19:28):
So I'm like, might as well just be live and go through that so I can hear from you some of your comments, questions,
and other things that you want me to take a look at and pay attention to.
Village Board of Trustees meeting.
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So they have a call to order, roll call, pledge of allegiance, and then open forum.
That's where you can get a chance to speak.
Mayor's Report, Employee Recognition, Director of Community Development, Brian Simmons, 10-year employment anniversary.
Congratulations. Consent Agenda.
Consider for approval warrant dated March 4th, 25.
A warrant is just literally something that looks like this, detailed notes of how they spent your money to make the wheels turn.
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Board meeting minutes. Those are things they take detailed notes and those are just from the prior meeting that they approve.
Budget workshop meeting minutes. We had that show.
Partial closure of Three Oaks Road, South Rawson, March 16th for the March Madness Marathon.
Consider for approval resolution authorizing the village administrator to award a contract 2526 sludge hauling services.
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Sludge is a byproduct of wastewater treatment that they sell to a company that uses it for other items.
Consider for approval Class F temporary liquor license for the Stars and Stripes Fest at Cary Grove Park.
You've heard me say this before, that's kind of why I like going through this is because you get to see kind of inside baseball.
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No pun intended.
Consider for approval resolution authorizing the village administrator to enter into a contract for purchase electricity from lower cost or from the lowest cost electricity provider for the purposes of street lighting and commercial accounts.
We've touched on this.
The electric collaborative was something that was opened up by Illinois at a state level to make electricity selling more than just from ComEd to make it more competitive.
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Be sure to look at if you do, you might have been switched over automatically, which is a bugaboo for me.
I wasn't not a big fan of anybody telling you how to run your household.
So just take a look at your bill in the top left corner.
It says who sells you electricity if it's not ComEd and you're not happy about that.
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There is a resource online for that on ComEd's website.
Administrators report, Department heads.
This is just a ledger of the totals of all the money that came out.
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This is for training for police.
Looks like they had a meeting.
And then this is this is what they call a warrant.
Telephone, life insurance, cell phone, dental, mic or
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stuff to keep the wheels turning.
This is a this is for leasing of their vehicles.
They do a lot of leasing through a out of state company.
That actually I like to keep things top of mind.
That's actually.
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That's going to earn a flag.
I'm going to remind me to look into leasing.
Not against leasing.
I just.
When you lease police vehicles, you can't do as much stuff to them to keep your
officer safe when you lease other equipment or if it's through a different company.
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There's a lot of moving pieces there.
So I think that's worth reviewing.
So if I get the opportunity to do that, I would like to do that to make sure that you're getting represented properly.
Telephones.
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And then this is just a recap of what we just saw.
So a lot of fun stuff.
Printing.
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Looks like the police department purchased a Berna, which is one of those nonlethal.
Guns that they advertise.
I think there's some opportunity there for those to be implemented into many different areas.
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Now you got some public work stuff, mower works.
And I just enjoy going through this because I'm kind of like a nerd.
And I when I get to the public work stuff, I always get jealous.
Like, oh, they're getting the wrench on all this stuff and I'm here just reading about it.
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Street light repair.
This SCADA improvements thing we looked at at a prior meeting, SCADA is pretty much just communication equipment for their water handlers and stuff throughout town.
(26:04):
And they're going through and updating all those.
This one's interesting.
(26:27):
So this district number three, Cary School and Main Street Property.
They're their law firm out of the city of Chicago.
They had a quick three grand.
That's why I always say time and resources.
And when I say time and resources, there's a lot of things that are it's time and resources and priorities.
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There's a lot of like you come into work at the village of Cary.
And if you're tasked with a lot of other things other than services that affect you, the resident at home, I mean, that's fine.
I understand you have to have the best of both worlds.
But if it's not, it should be more 30 percent outlook and 70 percent resident issues.
(27:27):
Like it visibly like taking like we have we have some roads like we've touched on this in past.
We have a trend of roads going bad in our town.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg to where time and resources are so heavily allocated to a whole bunch of these fun projects.
(27:54):
Like we have a thousand apartments on the books to come in the carry.
And that takes money, as you see here, like that just that TIF handling costs legal fees, which it should be more I would say like.
(28:15):
Forty forty percent outlook, your your dream projects, your your board goals and then.
Which is a term that I'm still coming to terms with, and so 40 percent that 60 percent or even higher of.
What makes your what makes your quality of life better and if it if it means like the village staying the heck out of your affairs, so be it.
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When it comes to like this this tree ordinance that's coming in, I'm all for keeping trees, but it depends how it's worded to where it can be invasive, to where you got to say somebody on a fixed income got a tree struck by lightning.
And now you got the village saying, hey, I need one hundred dollars for that.
We need to humanize this a little more to where it's not just.
(29:24):
And then this is itemized.
From what we saw.
Shredding crossing guards.
They're always looking for crossing guards and they they're they're paying them.
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Deicing liquid.
And at the very least, I think this is just cool like what like.
After this, after I go through this whole packet, you're either going to be like, wow, that was not just a waste of time.
(30:16):
It was an incredible waste of time.
Or you're going to be like, well, I feel better. I feel like I'm.
I'm part of it now. It's not just the man behind the curtain.
I feel like I got skin in the game and.
I think you need that that fabric in the community to to empower and rise up. It's not a community is just not about.
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I think the word village goes back a long way.
And I think when when you have a village and I'm going back to like, you know. Before. Before fire was invented.
Before they discovered fire. A village.
You got to you got to be tight knit.
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So that you can help others when it's in time and need.
And you got to take care of yourself first. And that's not out of selfishness.
It's because like the airplane mentality, you help yourself so you can stay alive to help others.
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Some other fun stuff here.
This is the consider for approval, the board meeting minutes.
That was the minutes from last meeting.
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The gentleman brought up that they had just found out about New Haven.
And New Haven Road potentially.
Or actually, I mean, this is this is their this is their plan is to blow through New Haven to 31 and put up.
(32:30):
Four to eight hundred apartments, four hundred in the first two phases for four hundred.
And then they have some other land that they're going to play with, too.
And then Google Maps is going to be routing people to get the 31 through that area.
So now you moved your family to New Haven because it's like, well, it's a dead end.
(32:54):
You know, we're going to it's quiet.
Now, it's going to be a K1 speed speed track.
I got to get the 31 to get to work all during school school time.
So we've got to watch out for our own.
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Special Village Board of Trustees minutes.
This was the budget workshop.
That had I'm still I'm still unpacking that budget workshop.
There was a lot of fun stuff in there that I noticed about things that I want to take a closer look at.
(33:54):
But it was it was fun to see the outlook of what they got in the works.
And we talked about the banner behind me.
They had banner designs.
They had banner designs for what they want to have on banners throughout town.
And I was like, let's throw these suckers back up.
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This is for the Hill Striders Running Club.
The March Madness. That's their route.
It's always fun when that comes through town.
This is a sludge hauling.
Company in Woodstock.
(34:54):
Cary Park District for the alcohol permit for Stars and Stripes Fest.
That looks like it's going to be another fun time there.
And they got the they got a sheet.
This is the park next to Cary Grove by the sunburst bay.
(35:19):
I think this is where they had it set up last year.
And then on this picture, this the park district has this land, the Cary Junior Highs back here.
And eventually, I think they're going to push this road through.
(35:41):
And there's room for they have planned for baseball fields back here.
I think that's I think that's what was being debated at the last.
Park district meeting.
But when you when you when you have baseball fields ran by the park district, those aren't cheap to use.
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So that's why the Cary Youth Baseball and Softball Association is so vocal about negotiating that.
And they kind of had those baseball fields at Maplewood are like 80 years old.
And we pulled up on my Facebook.
You can see where Maplewood School used to like originally started in historic aerials.
(36:28):
And then there was just a little outline of a baseball field of like just where people were wearing down the grass.
And we're just wiping that all out.
So 80 years of baseball fields and I have some ideas that I won't get into right now, but that definitely gets my attention.
I think it's it's worth I like have a fatherly duty to do something about it.
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And it's really not at the.
My selfish interest of like, well, I played baseball there.
I think for the sake of those 80 years of families that have memories there.
They put 14 years of.
Question onto the school district.
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And then somehow position it to make it seem like the school districts dragging their feet.
Is not playing nice in the sandbox and we need to do better.
So that was the fun village board meeting packet.
And then the meeting following that meeting, they'll be talking about the fun new tree ordinance that they're thinking about bringing in.
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So if if that is something that you might think you'd be affected by, go to the village board meeting and hear what they have to say or join us for the live party.
(38:05):
There is a comment.
From somebody that said one or signs can be available. I don't like to use this platform for.
Like solely pushing my my goals with trying to.
Bring better priorities to the village and to.
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Better align the village with its residents and get back on track. I like to focus on the issues and not use this because this is essentially this is your microphone.
And you're calling your text and so there will be a time when I just it's like a whole show dedicated to that.
(38:53):
The stuff I was filming today has a lot to do and it will answer a lot of questions.
And I look forward to bringing that to you as soon as tomorrow or by the end of the week.
Most likely tomorrow. So that's what we were finishing up filming today and.
It means a lot to me to be able to throw my hat in the ring and.
(39:18):
Throwing my hat in the ring I understand there's a lot of.
Logs that have not been.
Turned over in a long time and I'm knocking on a lot of doors that I don't know what's exactly behind it.
All I know is what I've seen and I've seen enough to know that I should be involved.
That's what I'm here for.
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Also here for you so.
Voice up I got the phone. Live.
Let me reorient this.
Screen here give me one moment.
And then we'll go through some current events.
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Our viewership is.
I've said I've said this before I'm not trying to break any records this is not like.
You know you know I'm not going to start selling supplements I'm not going to start selling.
T-shirts I'm not going to start selling this is all.
My venture.
(40:43):
To bring us together and to be strong for when we might need it.
And for the betterment of our kids.
And for you right now.
We all see what's happening at a federal level.
To make things more efficient and I think.
We can learn from their mistakes and apply that.
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All right so let's pull this up.
I just had somebody else say.
And I don't mention names but.
Are you going to put up signs that is all going to be explained in the video that I made.
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With my family went out and we had a blast filming it.
And you're going to enjoy it you're going to enjoy the.
Thinking behind it and I can't wait to bring it to you it'll be out.
Tomorrow we'll roll out that campaign tomorrow.
(42:15):
All right.
So this is I'm going to go through some current events I follow a lot of stuff I like to go through current events and sift out the Debbie downer stuff.
And kind of just bring you the meat and potatoes for the area stuff that might affect you so.
(42:40):
Let me let's get started.
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See like this.
Hold on let me this is about the drive in movie theater.
I got to add this button on to my.
This do hickey here real quick so it's easier for me to switch between.
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Okay now we're rolling.
News release McHenry outdoor theater set to open March 21st Joe Cicero just got a job there from the morning show at Star 105 and he's been having fun over there.
He's in charge of marketing over there now so.
Now is like a better time than ever.
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Take the kids out there.
Do a nice old drive in.
Another comment saying I look forward to seeing your video.
Thank you very much.
See what else we got here.
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Carrie Grove Trojan Trojan tennis great first day outside and had 43 guys out on the courts tennis balls being hit is such a great site and sound I agree.
We'll like that.
(44:51):
You know what I haven't done in a while.
I haven't checked to see if the.
Village of Carrie.
They had a Twitter.
(45:18):
That was not active.
Let's take a look.
Official Twitter account.
Of Carrie Illinois.
This was from June of 23.
(45:39):
This is first of all this is a free tool.
And it's pretty much like a newspaper at your your fingertips and you could be getting out.
The board packet.
To more people you could be having fun with it you can be doing scavenger hunts through the community.
There's a lot of potential there.
That's not being utilized.
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Like for instance let's look at.
There's a city of Crystal Lake.
Oh there's this from 22 as well.
Carrie Park district.
(46:24):
Two thousand twenty three.
This is.
I mean it's technology I get it.
But I think you have a responsibility to leverage.
Platforms.
(46:45):
To.
Not allocate so much time to that to where you're bogged down.
But it's not hard to have a.
Their software out there that businesses use to.
You post a Facebook and it throws it the Twitter it throws it to Twitter.
And it's hearts and minds like you can you can you can do so much to to elevate the community and let them not be in the shadows.
(47:17):
To where you can keep them informed.
And I know.
I don't think I'm alone in that thinking it's a it's free it's not free to generate the content but if you're already making the content for Facebook why not.
Put that on another platform.
(47:55):
This.
Of course I can't find it.
(48:36):
This is a town of Kerry North Carolina.
And I like to I've I kind of just fell into it I'll tell you a fun story.
When I was working at the fire department one of my like.
First few days on I got a phone call at the house phone and it was for Kerry North Carolina not Kerry Illinois.
(48:57):
And I.
Told another firefighter about the road and they're like that road doesn't exist in Kerry.
And then.
And I received the proper amount of ribbing the rest of my career there for that as expected and it was it was fun.
(49:20):
The resident got taken care of but the reason why I like to look at Kerry North Carolina is they have a very good.
Way of inspiring their residents like for instance they got my attention when during Halloween.
They turned it to the town of scary and they had a little pumpkin next to it for November 1st they brought in.
(49:43):
They changed the mayor officially changed the town of the town of Kerry's name to Kerry C.A.R. E.Y.
Or Mariah Carey because that's when she comes out of the woodwork and does her her scene just like.
Michael Michael Blay.
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It's just little stuff like that that I can I think.
Breaks down that barrier not to mention the free.
The free newspaper that you have at your fingertips to educate your your.
Like they they leverage this text caster but it goes through there's an education process you have to educate.
(50:26):
Your residents that it even exists and then you have to sign people up which I think you know text caster is great to have as a resource but then you also have Twitter.
To notify.
And rapidly if something's developing rapidly or even not.
(50:47):
But then there there might be viewing of like well.
We don't want to just put everything out there because then it's like we don't want to say bad stuff that you know that happens it's like we were all adults we we know that stuff happens everywhere.
It'd be nice to know the not know though so that that's what I want to that's what I want to do.
(51:16):
We'll do a few more here.
(51:44):
Oh this is new.
Carry based school district 26 will pay 32,500 to settle a lawsuit filed by an ex teacher.
So that's interesting.
I carry Grove high school boys soccer.
(52:14):
We'll like that and then we got something from three oaks here.
Our school is hosting an online book fair.
Make your orders.
Using promo code.
Those book fairs were always fun.
(52:39):
And then, well, we're on the topic of.
There was a prior show that we went through when the district received letters from the village.
And the this is back pertaining to the Maplewood property the Maplewood property, they had their plans for they're like, let us do this.
(53:02):
And
they, they got met with strongly worded letters that started off nice and then it went to like lawyer words.
And it pretty much in so many words said, yeah, we're, we're probably going to, you know, sue you.
(53:24):
And, you know, if you don't allow us to do this.
So imagine that you're
at the at the steering wheel of a school district.
And then you have a nice property to where you can put a school
administration building, you already have
a bus lot that you can improve on greatly you can improve on.
(53:48):
And then you can keep some outside access and some baseball fields.
So it's a multi use property.
But now the village is like, no, we're going to move you.
And I just thought of this earlier today.
We're going to give you five point five million to make this move.
And I was thinking to myself, I'm like, that's five point five million from the TIF district.
(54:12):
That's essentially that that's their that that would have been the school districts money.
If that if that TIF didn't exist.
And that money didn't go into a special hopper to improve those areas.
It's just all creative funding to where it's like the village can say like, oh, we're doing good.
(54:33):
We gave them five point five million.
No, that that's that the majority of that would have been their money anyway.
So now they're landlocked into a bus.
A bus area, bus shelter that's over by Aldi.
Aldi didn't want it.
They charge them 50 grand to get out of to get out of the contract because Aldi wants like minded businesses next to them.
(55:03):
Excuse me.
And that's it just boggles my mind.
That 13, 13, 14 years of this property sitting and some of it early on with different leadership at the school district.
Yeah, it could have been some of their issues as well.
But then once the chameleon started to show its true color, I was like, oh, I get it.
(55:31):
This is the village locking them up until they get every all the stars aligned for what what they want to put in there.
And me being a prior student of District 26 and one fifty five, I'm not going away.
I'm going to I'm I'm here to to to fight for my my school district that I grew up in that has taught me so many things.
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And has taught me the value of that you're not a number and you shouldn't just sit down quietly.
I think I think I owe it to the great education that I got there to at least.
Go up the bat.
And swing for the fences.
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So. I'm not against new development.
I'm not against new.
I just I don't want to see Kerry turn into the stack and pack them high rise.
Because when that when that love affair of all these high rises goes away, when the economy gets better and people are looking for homes, I want to position Kerry to be like.
(56:52):
Honey, let's go take a look at Kerry.
I think it's time for the white picket fence instead of hate.
Here now you're in a ten foot by ten foot box that's thirty five hundred dollars a month with a pickleball court.
And then with everything else, it's like four grand.
(57:16):
And then you feel like a number and then.
So much money is going out just for the lease, it's hard to put money away, so I want to get people of all ages equity.
And I think there's a great opportunity for branding the village of Kerry here as this is your forever home.
(57:39):
And showing that we see people. Inside the spreadsheets, instead of just seeing spreadsheets.
(58:01):
Great transition, great transition here.
There's another one Kerry Grove Trojan tennis boys tennis season is here.
Now we're in the March 2nd.
(58:27):
Yeah.
So that's what I'm doing here.
(58:49):
I like to bring you the I like to bring you the inner workings and if there's something that I'm not looking at that you want me to look at, let me know.
Text or call that number that you have in the description of the video.
It was this one.
And, you know, if there's something that you want me to take a look at.
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That's as easy as that.
I look forward to what the future holds and the the weeks ahead of us.
I'm very much ready for it and looking forward to it.
And you should be as well.
Thank you for joining me today on voices Kerry live.
We broadcast I broadcast every day, every weekday at nine.
(59:36):
So if you at home, I can't do this alone.
You'll never hear me say.
There's a donation button.
I don't accept anything like that.
This is a fatherly duty and a mission from God, as the Blues Brothers would say.
(59:57):
So, I love it.
And I can't do it without you though that doesn't mean you can't be involved like text call.
Tell your neighbor about the show, share the feed.
You are the news now.
Once you think about it, like this area only has one outlet for news.
(01:00:24):
It's only one publication for news other than what is talked about on a chat.
And you can't do it on Facebook, which can easily get buried.
There's nothing that really floats to the top of issues.
And if nobody is doing independent journalism, there's a lot of slop slack in the line to where things could be things that you might need to know about or that needs to get sunlight that never gets sunlight.
(01:01:03):
A lot of things are getting sunlight.
And it's just good for everybody.
Yeah. Thank you for joining me today for Voices Carry Live.
I will see you tomorrow at 9.
Or actually, not 9, we'll do the Village Watch Party.
And then it might be a long one to where we'll do 9 o'clock as well to keep that time slot.
(01:01:31):
So thank you very much. It was nice seeing you.
And thank you for joining me. We will see you tomorrow.
And the Village Board meeting.
Six o'clock. So six o'clock we'll have the live watch party.
We'll probably start a little earlier and we'll have some fun.
Have a great night.
You're confirmed at 10 minus 10 seconds.
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And counting 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Reach for the sky.
Huh?
This town ain't big enough for the two of us.
What?
(01:02:15):
Somebody's poisoned the water hole.
It's busted.
Who are you calling busted, Buster?
That's right. I'm talking to you, Sid Phillips.
We don't like being blown up, Sid.
Or smashed or ripped apart.
We?
That's right. Your toys.
(01:03:00):
You must take good care of your toys.
Because if you don't, we'll find out, Sid.
We toys can see everything.
(01:03:23):
So play nice.
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