 Hello again. Rob Custner here. Perhaps you saw the video I made with Amherst Media last month. I hope you'll continue to view that one. And I want to thank Amherst Media for this opportunity to present a briefer and newer version for the November 6th election. I'd also like to thank the 1,133 of you who came out to vote for me on September 4th. I'm grateful for your support. And I hope that you'll bring a couple of friends with you on the November 6th election and perhaps bring the vote count up to enough that I may actually be elected. So thanks again for coming out on the 4th and I hope to see you on the 6th. I want to discuss a couple of things that I didn't touch on in the earlier video. And these have to do with some of my goals for serving as a town councilor. Primarily, I'd like to try to build consensus on the council. The town is rather deeply divided now over a number of issues, the charter on the least, the school projects, and many other divisions about how the town is developing. I'm an independent candidate. I'm not supported by any PACS and have experienced to help build consensus having served on the select board a decade ago, having led a decade-long effort on the Neurotic Rail Trail Advisory Committee to actually get the rail trail rebuilt. And I discussed that more in the earlier presentation, but it was an effort in consensus building on a very large, very expensive project. And the key takeaway was we wanted to build something that was very, very good and we wanted to get buy-in from everybody. No divisiveness, good consensus building. That's what I aimed to do on the council. Let me tell you a couple of issues that I think we need to be addressing. And I think I have the ability and experience to build consensus on these. One of them is we really need to have expanded public transit options, both locally and throughout the region. Our most transit-oriented population are the thousands and thousands, more than 25,000 students that are on the various campuses, but also many of us, including myself, who use transit to get to and from our work, our school, airports, home, and so forth. We need to be working to improve that. For decades, I've led the effort as chair of the Transportation Committee and Amherst as an advocate with the PVTA and the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission for better local and regional transit. That's one of the top priorities I have. It's important for protecting our environment and for allowing people to get around without the need of a car. Unfortunately, as you can see in the background, I had an accident a little while ago on my bicycle and I'm now in need of a car. The other thing I think that's very important, given the university's presence and the students, is environmentally responsive development and better affordable housing at all levels. That includes for students, for older people like you and me, and for new people coming to town or having a hard time finding affordable housing. The university and the town need to work on what have been called public-private partnerships to get safe affordable housing for students on or near the campus. I support that effort, but it has to be safe, unlike some of the projects we may have seen recently built downtown. The most important thing I think for many of you is the need to rebuild or renew in some way our neighborhood schools. I spent several weeks before this accident walking and talking with people throughout Amherst, and many of them are very happy. In fact, all of them are happy with their current neighborhood schools. People live in South Amherst like Crocker Farm School, people live in East Amherst like Fort River, people live elsewhere like Wildwood. Those schools have been a problem for decades. It wasn't just the last election that led to the problem. We need to find a way to rebuild them, renew them in some way. In addition, people in South Amherst have been telling me for years, and they repeated that again, that we need to have a third fire station that will be close enough to them to serve them. If that were co-located with the DPW facility, we might have a good project. And finally, our libraries. The Jones Library is a treasure, but so are our branch libraries. We need to basically improve our branch libraries in North Amherst and on the Munson on the South Common, and we need to preserve the Jones Library. Thank you. I look forward to coming out again on November 6th, and I really appreciate your vote.