Good evening. I'd like to call the 13th regular meeting of the 2020 21 Common Council to order. Would the clerk please read the quote for the day. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. Thank you very much. Would the clerk then call the roll? Alderperson Ackley, Alderperson Ackley, Alderperson Bourne, Alderperson Decker, Alderperson Donahue, Alderperson Faldi, Alderperson Mitchell, Alderperson Phillips, Alderperson Savaglio, Alderperson Sorenson, Alderperson Flicky Pineski, There are nine present. Thank you very much and Betty Ackley is excused. Next item on the agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand and join me. 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. Next is approval of the minutes from our 12th regular council meeting which was held on September 21st. Alderperson Sorenson. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I move for approval of our previous minutes. Thank you for that motion and support. Those minutes are before you. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor please signify by seeing aye. Opposed? Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Next item is public forum, City Clerk. There's no one this evening. Very good. Then we'll move on to the mayor's announcements. First of all I'd like to review the COVID numbers for the last week. So as of today we now have 2369 positive tests. That's up 683 from the numbers last week. Right now we have 295 active cases and that's up 103 from last week. We now have 1547 people who have recovered and that's up 69 from the previous numbers. We have 11 people in the hospital versus 13 last week and unfortunately we had three more deaths this week. We're up to 19 deaths versus the 16 from last week and we have 40,917 negative tests registered and that's up 4,029 from last week's numbers. Wisconsin has been identified as a COVID-19 hotspot in the United States. Sheboygan County has contributed to the outbreak of these new cases. Some of our uptick in the cases has been caused by the outbreak at the Kettle Marine Correctional Facility where roughly one third of their inmate population has tested positive for COVID-19. There continues to be isolated positive cases reported at some of the Sheboygan schools. The ones that are affected are the Sheboygan Central High School, Sheboygan North High School, Sheboygan South High School, Lutheran High School and then some elementary schools Grant Longfellow and Sheridan Elementary Schools. At this time the schools continue to make school days with virtual learning and in place learning. Sheboygan County Safe Restart Plan. We are currently in phase two and we remain there but we have a lot of negative markers right now and are on the brink of falling back into phase one. Sheboygan County School risk level is currently at the high risk level and Governor Evers recently continued the mask order through the late November. It was welcome to see many of our commercial businesses taking action to require mask while shoppers conduct business in their facilities. It's good to see that they recognize the role that this can play to help protect the health and well-being of the community that they serve by following the evolving guidance of our health officials. Remember to wear a mask and slow the spread of coronavirus in Sheboygan. Join the mask up campaign. Thank you. Next, today we have a proclamation to present for National Arts and Humanities Month. I'd like Katie Gladoski to please come forward. I wanted to do some of the other people from the different organization. Katie is with the Wild Center for the Performing Arts. Jackie Erdman is with Above and Beyond Children's Museum. Josh Herenday is with the Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra. Travis Gross is with the Sheboygan Historical Museum. Garrett Erickson is with the Meade Public Library. Jackie Blindauer is the board president of the Sheboygan Theatre Company. And Sam Katleyer is with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. That's fine. A proclamation, whereas the nation's 120,000 non-profit arts organizations, the National Endowment for Arts, the National Endowment for Humanities, and the nation's 4,500 local arts agencies and the nation's Arts and Humanities Councils annually issue official proclamations designating October as National Arts and Humanities Month. And whereas the arts and humanities embody much of the accumulated wisdom, intellect, and imagination of humankind. And whereas the arts and humanities enhance and enrich the lives of our families, our communities, and our country. And whereas the humanities help diverse communities across the United States explore their history and culture. And whereas the arts and culture industry strengthens our economy by generating $166.3 billion in total economic activity annually and $27.5 billion in government revenue and by supporting the full-time equivalent of 4.6 million jobs. And whereas the creative economy drives tourism and commerce, supports American workers, makes up to 4.5% of the annual gross national product, and proposed federal legislation titled the CREATE Act S650 and HR 1519 and the PLACE Act Senate Bill 3232. I would support economic development of the creative economy. Therefore, I, Mike Vanderson, the mayor of City of Sheboygan, do hereby proclaim October of 2020 as National Arts and Humanities Month in Sheboygan and call upon our community members to celebrate and promote the arts and culture in our nation and to encourage everyone's participation to take action to support the arts and humanities. So I'd like to present this to Katie and the rest of the people in here and thank them for everything that they do. And I wanted to offer Katie a little chance to say a few words. Many of these organizations are really in need of more support and sponsorship during this tough time during the pandemic. So Katie, the floor is yours. Well, thank you for your recognition of Arts and Humanities Month. I'm Katie Gladoski, the Executive Director at the Wiles Center, and I'm proud to briefly speak on behalf of the amazing consortium of Arts and Humanities Leader in our community who are here with me today. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw how much the world needed arts. The arts brought us together while we were apart. People sang off balconies together, enjoyed live concerts from the comfort of their couch, downloaded art projects, read books, took virtual tours of some of the best museums in the world and more. In our community, our arts organizations worked and still work together to support each other. We're all invested in collaborating when possible and helping each other succeed because together we make Sheboygan a vibrant place for arts and culture. But as you can imagine, with the COVID pandemic, our organizations need your support and the support of our community now more than ever to safely engage with our guests, stay relevant on a virtual platform, and for some of us simply to survive. The mayor asked if we could share how the community can support our organizations this month and throughout the year. Rather than having everyone present, we prepared a brief takeaway piece to share with the council members.  We have a few specific asks of you this month. Simply learn and share about our organizations. Take the time to educate yourself and your constituents on the benefits of engaging with the arts and humanities this October. It's easy enough as highlighting us in your e-blasts, on your website, in your social media posts, and you are always invited to visit any of our areas of work for a tour, a chat, or a special experience so you can share your first-hand knowledge with your constituents. So with that, we look forward to seeing you soon, and thank you again for your recognition of such an important month. I think our world needs it right now. Why don't we just step out here and take a picture? Yep. A few other announcements on returning your absentee ballot. If you're opting to vote absentee, note that the ballots need to be returned by election day to be counted. The options for returning ballots include by mail or via our two official boxes, drop boxes. You can bring it to your polling location on election day as well. There's a new official absentee ballot drop box located in the drive on the west side of the Meade Public Library, and it's available 24 hours a day. There's also a drop box that is inside of City Hall right next to the entrance door, and that is open from Monday through Friday at 7.30 a.m. until 4.30 a.m. This weekend we had a Roots kickoff at Evergreen Park area number five. I want to thank the restoration of our Tree Sheboygan Roots and the Sheboygan Rotary Clubs for their contribution to the Emerald Ash Boar mitigation project. This included tree planting projects with local municipal governments to combat the devastation caused by the Emerald Ash Boar infestation at Evergreen Park last Saturday. The leaders and representatives from the City of Sheboygan Rotary District 6270, the Sheboygan Rotary Club, the Early Bird Rotary Club in the Lion Energy is sponsored the project and Lakeshore Natural Resources Partnership spoke to the significance of these projects and participated in the tree planting ceremony. The Sheboygan EAB mitigation project includes the planting of 127 substantial non-ash trees and six of our city's most popular and utilized parks. Total project value will exceed $79,000. So we thank them for that assistance. Today at 7 o'clock this morning, Sheboygan Park Department started to accept 2021 reservations for park shelters and picnic areas. If you want to have an event at a city park, see city staff at the Department of Public Works at 2026 New Jersey Avenue. Reservations need to be made in person and paid in full. And I understand that if you're paying with a credit card, they will take some phone orders. National Night Out is having an annual community building campaign that promotes police and community partnerships in neighborhood camaraderie. This has always been a well celebrated summer event in Sheboygan, but this could not be scheduled this year in person due to the coronavirus pandemic. There will be a virtual National Night Out tomorrow, Tuesday, October 6 from 4 o'clock to 6 30. It will be a virtual Facebook event. They're asking the community to turn your porch lights on and share photos from previous years when you've attended. From October 12 through November 20, the City of Sheboygan residents are allowed to rake leaf piles into the street gutter area for pickup by the Department of Public Works crews. Please rake the leaves away from the curb to create space for water to flow properly and prevent flooding for any storm sewers. There are five collection zones in the city, one for each day of the week, and you can see the DPW website for more information. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is our 2021 Executive Budget Program. And for that we'll turn it over to Administrator Wolfe for program. Thank you, Mayor. Hard to believe three months ago. I never thought I'd be standing up here delivering the the Executive Program budget. So thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council. Thank you, Department Heads. So you should have already received our Executive Program budget in brief. And you should have received the letter from myself to the members of the Council and Mayor Van der Steen. So there should be plenty of information for you guys to review. And if you have questions, please let us know. So moving forward, our city's mission statement, as you guys know it well, has not changed. And our vision statement has also not changed. Our city's values, though, I'd really like to review those with everybody. Accountability, fiscal responsibility, innovation, respect, service and teamwork. These are six values that I believe that we need to focus stronger on in the future. And it really I'd like to see us add communication also. These are things that really make us what we are today, and we use them daily. Moving to the next one. State and city restraints. As you can see, this we have our state laws, our tax levy, our budget parameters, our expenditure restraint program, tax rate CPI or lower, minimum fund balance and our target of 25 percent, which we've continuously performed better. So I just want to be reminding everybody about our limitations. It's a balancing act, which I found very interesting, obviously, in the last couple of months. We're looking to better plan for our TID closures. We're looking to map out a strategic plan for the future of each TID closure so that we can look at growth and projects in the future. Obviously, this limits what we can can raise tax levies also with our with our restraints. Next, I'm sorry, go back one and go back. Okay, perfect. Nope, you're good. Tax levy limits. I just wanted to touch on that. The state the state law restricts the percentage of increase of our city's tax levy based on several areas. Previous tax levy year, our new our net new construction, which technically we had a 2.89 percent or an 84,255,500 for 2020. Our TID closures, as you all know, TID 11 closed and that gave us 99,148 or 45 sorry, and then TID subtractions. Next. So when we talk about our expenditure restraint program, obviously, that allows us to increase the general fund expenditures by 60 percent of the percent increase of the city's net new construction and the allowable CPI. We also have the 2021 the city is estimating a 3.1 allowed increase in expenditures. Please understand that our constraint growth and development is better than a spike. So what I mean by that is year over year, if we were to have continuously have development within the city would actually affect us better on our on our taxes than a spike like we had last year. So if you remember back in 2019, we had a little bit of a problem with with our some some of our development not carrying over by the IRS. So we kind of got penalized because this last year we actually had a large growth. Next. Equalized tax rate and CPI or lower estimated consumer price index is 1.4 and 2021 executive budget recommends an equalized tax rate of negative 7.98. Next. So when we look at our assessed tax rate, our 2020 is estimated due to timing. 2021 we had a we're looking to have a 15 cent or a 1.49 and you can find that in your budget facts sheet in 2020 just to review. We had a 13 cent or a 1.33 percent. And in 2019 we actually had a 19 cent per thousand or a 1.194 percent. Next. Our fund balance. This is quite unique. The city's goal is to maintain a fund balance 25% of the year of the next year's budgeted general fund expenditures. That's our target. And we do a very, very good job of that. We're also fiscally responsible. And we use that as our safety net consistent with our Moody's credit services recommendations on the calls that I've been on. This has been a very good thing for us to help us maintain our double a 2. Our 2021 executive budget fund balance is approximately 41%. So remember, our goal is 25%. We're at 41%. Last year, we were at 39%. And if you remember, we actually, I believe it was back in 2018. We actually used $5 million to help the remodel out of our fund balance. So again, we've already replaced it. And we're already at 41% for 2021. We have to be cautious on spending and expenditures due to COVID. But the additional, we are looking to have some additional training and munis upgrades to get us off the AS 400. So a lot of these are going to be looking at to come out of our fund balance in the future. Next. So as you can see, in this graph, our uncommitted fund balance, you can see how how we've been increasing our executive. Our target we shoot to be is at 9 9,995,259. That's the 41%. And if you look at where we are, we're at the 16,280,752, our actual fund balance. Next. So on here, you can see our 2020 budget facts. So if you guys can't sleep tonight or the game is not looking so good, you can look this over. Oh, we'll be fine. Next. This is our favorite page property tax levy. Just because it's so colorful. You can see that it's consistently split. We've had an increase in our property tax levy by 50,667. We increased that for the meet public library levy portion. That'll give them a 2% for their wages. We had a decrease of $40,716 in the levy for transit. So we reduced our contribution there. Our debt service, we did increase $299,043. And our capital improvements, we decreased by $80,025 to $812,000. So by doing that, it allowed us to have these increases in the meet public library and our debt service. Next. Our 2021 personnel changes. Our first one was on FTE program coordinator senior services. That is actually net neutral to the budget. The friends group for the senior center is actually funding that through the city. The second one is an FTE page supervisor that was requested by the meet public library. That will have to be reviewed by the public library board of trustees for final approval. We were not able to provide them with additional funding for that. We're trying to obviously maintain the budget and keep it net neutral. The third one is the transfer of one FTE in public works, streets and sanitation. And that was actually planned in the 2020 budget. And it's just kind of happening now. Next. In this one you can see our general fund revenues. You can see how it all, how it breaks out with all of the different departments. Next. The details are here for the general fund revenues. Next. The 2021 general fund expenditures. Again, this is basically the breakdown from all, from, you know, public works, public safety, a general government, all of our transfers. We're very consistent. We've had, we have a flat budget. So the team did a great job looking at under every rock to be able to see what we, what do we need and what do we have to still maintain. Next. Here are the details that you can see from 2020 to 2021. Next. Special revenue. Special revenue funds expenditure. This is basically changes in our, in these areas are minimal as you can see. Just looking through it, you can see the general government, public safety, public works, very minimal overall. Next. Special revenue funds notables. Basically, this is where we have the urban forestry management plan contribution of 110,000 neighborhood revitalization. This is the second year of TIT 11 increment. The South 10th Street reconstruction ADA infrastructure. This is also coming from, which is 72,000. This is also coming from the TIT 11 increment. The Stonebrook crossing subdivision grading. This is being brought to us through the park impact fees. So that'll be 15, $50,000 out of there. And then the increase in tax levy contribution for the meat public library. That is the funds that were provided for the 50,667. That, that will be used by the meat public library for wage increases for the year. Next. Oh, sorry. Special revenue fund notables. This is really where everybody kind of asks how, how are we doing? So tourism room tax revenue due to pandemic has a decrease of negative 546,000 estimated. The Harbor Center Marina, we're looking at estimated 225,000 negative and we're continuing to transfer. We are moving things as far as receipts in that we're looking at 26,000 is anticipated. And we're also looking at the Marina rentable storage units of 25,000. So they're one of the things that I did want to bring up is that there is a lot of use in the area due to the local businesses. So when we talk about the hotels and things like that, they're actually doing better than estimated. And a lot of that I can tell you is from my past life, because there's there are businesses in the local area like in Sheboygan Falls that actually had to bring in like 60 plus employees to temporarily live in Sheboygan in Sheboygan Falls because of the pandemic. So that obviously brought in quite a bit of revenue. That's not a norm. Next. So the debt service fund. This is quite interesting. So basically in the 2020 and 2021 is deceiving. So part of this that we want you guys to remember is when we did the 18 to 19 and 19 into 20, if you remember, we were moving a lot of dollars in the in the general obligation because of the the borrowing for South Point and for the for the remodel of of City Hall. The same thing is going to happen basically in 2021. And that's why you see an uptick of 36.01%. The reason that's actually showing is the NANDs that we did for for our past obligation did not show up in our debt. So now they're going to become geo debt, which will actually show up. So now we're borrowing this in 2020. But we're actually expensing it or spending it in 2021. So this will the reason we're doing this is we wanted to get away from the the NANDs. We needed to extend it into the geo debt. But I also wanted to remind you that the actual interest rates are much better much more pleasant. And that's another reason why we're doing it. Next. So the debt service fund notables. As you can see property tax levy increases of $299,043. We stole our maintaining our Moody's AA2 and it's been very favorable for us. Late 2020 refunding of the 10 and a half million NAND. So the timing difference and the expenditure offset as I explained before the 2021 plan geo debt issue of $4,254,038 to fund the approved 2021 capital improvements fund. And that was approved in June of 2021 2020 sorry. Next. Capital projects. Just to kind of review those real quick. So we have the traffic flow improvement of 14th and Taylor and Erie and Kohler Avenue. Kohler Memorial sorry. That's a million 943 800. We have the Geely Avenue. So North 3rd 3rd Street to Calumet Drive that's a million dollars. The four police squad and and the computer upgrades of 243,000. We have those Boots and Sports Complex of 190,000. We have the sidewalk improvements. Citywide which is our typical 100,000. We have the LED street street lighting upgrade citywide of 60,000. The one thing I did want to bring to the council is that the senior center is not included in this in this funding. We're looking to come back to you and ask to use fund balance. We'll also be applying for a HUD 108 loan. So there'll be some information coming to you guys in the future. Next. TID related capital projects. TID 19 North Commerce Street in construction. That's two and a half million. TID 17 South Peer Street expansion is a million. TID 17 Indiana Avenue Trail project phase one is 875,000. TID 17 Indiana Avenue streetscape improvements 750,000. And then TID 20 our newest TID is South Business Drive Georgia Avenue intersection improvements of 700,000. And that's the Oscar project is to remind you. Next. Proprietary funds expenditures. As you can see above the includes water utility for projects and increases. Next. So on this page basically it outlines the water utility. So you have the South Lakeshore sewer interceptor of upwards of $10 million dollars. Sewer line reconstruction relining of a million dollars and that's that's a project that is continuously happening throughout the city. Aeration blower number 2 replacement that's 350,000. And again that's an ongoing plant maintenance upgrade. So you're going to see increased billing costs to the water utility of 125,000. Also due to that is the chemical treatment cost of 37,430. And the estimated increase will be a 4% which is approved. So the water utility board of water commissioners approves their increase. And the wastewater increases are approved by the public state commissioners. And they approve it every 1 to 2 years by the DNR. Next. So proprietary funds, notables, employee health insurance premiums increase 5%. Employee HSA contribution reinstated 375,200. Transit maximizing CARES Act funding. So transit facility maintenance upgrades is 200,000. And then paratransit vehicles is 260,000. One of the things I did want to outline and talk a little bit about is the IT 6%. And the motor vehicle 2.5% maintenance fee increase, continuation. This is a process that the city's been undertaking the last few years. So we're charging each department. So if it's IT related, they get charged 6%. And then if it's a vehicle related then they get hit with a 2.5% maintenance fee. This is basically to allow the city to not have to borrow so much. So by internally charging it to each department then we're able to build a fund so that we're able to replace our fleet on a strategic plan. So this is a really good way to actually manage and not have to borrow for funds in the future. So it's to help us support and be self-sufficient in the future. Next. So bringing all good things to an end and trying to keep you guys awake, our budget information, as you can see, is here at the city hall, Mead Public Library. And it's also on our website. And again, I just want to have a shout out to the city staff and Kerry, for everybody that's had to work on this and the countless hours, especially in the finance department with Marty and his team. Budget time is very difficult. We're trying to find ways to streamline it. But and I think we will get there year over year. We're making strides to make sure that the information is much easier to get, and that it's obviously accurate and efficient for us to get this information to you guys. So that's my presentation. Thank you. Thank you very much, Administrator Wolff, for that presentation. Are there any questions? Mayor? Go ahead. Not necessarily a question, but I do just want to echo just the thanks for Administrator Wolff's work on this coming three months, you know, kind of new into just under three months. Yeah. And Kerry, you know, we're glad to have you back as well, too, for all your work on this and Marty, the finance department help and all the department heads to I know that budgets aren't an easy thing, especially with planning for the uncertain future as well. So and definitely encourage the elders once this budget gets disseminated and we'll kind of, you know, pick at it and look at it through the at the committee level too. So please take time and I know in our leadership meetings, we've had a lot of conversations about the budget process and how this is going to impact a lot of different services in our city. So it'll be interesting stuff. So just want to encourage everyone to do their homework and ask some good questions. Thank you for those comments and just to remind everyone this year, the budget in brief is what we're going to be handing out. We're not going to be handing out the large binder of all of the details. If any elder does want that, let us know and we'll provide them a digital copy, but there's just so much redundancy in that in that information that the budget in brief really provides everybody with the information that they need. Thank you. Thank you very much. Administrator wealth. Great job. Next, we'll move on to the consent agenda. That'll include items 3.2 through 3.8. All the person sorenson. Thank you, Mayor. I move to receive and file all reports of officers receive all reports of committees and adopt all resolutions and ordinances. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on any of the items on the consent agenda? Seeing no discussion with the clerk, please call the roll for passage. Nice. Motion passes. We'll move on to reports of officers. Item 4.1 is our own number 77 of 2021 by the city planning commission to whom was referred. Resolution number 88 of 2021 by Alderperson Boran and our own number 70 of 2021 by the city clerk submitting a final plat for Stonebrook crossing addition number one and recommends receiving the arrow and adopting the resolution with specific conditions a applicant shall obtain all subdivision approval from the appropriate agencies, including but not limited to the city, the county, the state of Wisconsin, the DNR, et cetera. B, the applicant shall submit a final plat that meet the city of Sheboygan subdivision ordinance. C, the developer's agreement shall be executed prior to signing any of the final plat. D, the applicant shall submit a temporary signage to staff for review. If staff has any concerns with the proposed signage design, the matter may be brought back to the planning commission for their consideration. In addition, your commission reports that that as part of this consideration is considered and granted the request for variance as follows. The street standard for Stonybrook crossing addition number one will be pavement with with a marked on the street path with drainage ditch as proposed only the main streets Stonybook Drive and Rimrock Road will have on the street four foot wide pedestrian bike paths that will be located on each side of the road. No street trees will be required. All the person born. I make a motion to receive the RO and adopt the resolution with conditions. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. The document is before us. Is there any questions? Mayor, I just wanted to make a couple comments. Alderman Boren. Go ahead. Thank you, Mayor. The stonebrook development over here in my district can word 23. It's going to be well over 100 residential homes. And the price point of those homes from what I learned at our plan commission meeting last week are going to be anywhere from about 240,000 up to $500,000 per home. And the property taxes that there that that's going to generate is probably anywhere from $5,500 on the low end up to almost $8,000 for the high end houses. So that's going to be a tremendous addition to our property tax base, which is going to be desperately needed and as time goes along. So I'm very excited to see the stonebrook development kick off and the benefits it's going to bring us as far as property tax revenue. Thank you. Thank you for that comment. Next, I'd like to call on Chad Pellecek. Thank you. I just want to echo Alderman Boren's comments and say that we're very thankful for the efforts that the Warner Homes Group has put together. This is the first time we're having a new subdivision in this community in probably 18 years. And it's the first time where the city has not put the infrastructure in the developers putting the infrastructure in. So echoing what Alderman Boren said, this is about a $50 million ad once fully built out to our tax base and the first subdivision that we've had in a number of years. So I just want to thank the Warner Homes Group for working with us through multiple steps to get to the finish line. Thank you very much for those comments, Chad. Is there any other discussion? Please go ahead. My question is about the parkland. I unfortunately was not present at the last BTW meeting when this was brought back for discussion. I'm wondering how much of the currently the current city parkland is going to be developed under this revised design. Chad, please answer. Under the plan, the parkland will not be disturbed. They reconfigured the roads and the lots to not have any impact with the current three acre parcel that's dedicated as parkland. Under the development agreement, they actually will be will be purchasing another lot or two to get access to that parkland in lieu of parking of park impact fees. So we're waiving new park impact fees for the cost of basically trading with them to get the lot to be able to access that existed wooded area. Thank you for those comments. Are there any other questions or discussion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll for passage? I'm going to take a roll call. Alderperson Donahue, Alderperson Bourne, Alderperson Sorensen, Alderperson Toboglio, Alderperson Decker, Alderperson Phillips, Alderperson Mitchell, Alderperson Feldy, and appreciative. Alderperson Flicky Panoski, nine eyes. Motion passes. Next, let's see items 4.2 and 4.3 will be referred to various committees. Under resolutions, item 5.1 is resolution number 97 of 2021 by Alderperson Sorensen and Decker, authorizing the appropriate city officials to execute an agreement with GIS Inc. to develop a software tool to allow the Sheboygan Police Department to analyze its data with the city's ESRI GIS software. Alderperson Sorensen. Thank you, Mayor. I call for the suspension of the rules. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none. I would like to object. I have a question about why we are suspending the rules. Alderperson Sorensen, I guess I don't have an answer on that one. Does the chief or mayor want to answer that one? We're suspending the rules because we're using CARES funds to pay for the project and the funds have to be spent in the work completed within the next three weeks. Thank you for that explanation. Alderperson Flicky Panesky, does that answer your question? Thank you very much. Okay, one more call. Is there any objection to suspension? Seeing none, would the please proceed with your motion. Thank you, Mayor. I move to adopt the resolution. Thank you for that motion and support. The motion is on the floor. Is there any discussion? I have a question for the chief, Mayor. Please go ahead. Alderperson Sorensen. Thank you, Mayor. Chief Domigolski, I read I read over this document but I couldn't get much out of it as far as exactly what this software is going to do for your department. Could you kind of describe it for us, please? Sure. What they're doing is creating an interface so that our records management system data can be pushed out to the city's Esri system and it can be mapped in the analytical tools that are available through the city's GIS system can be used to analyze that data. Okay, thank you. Is there any other discussion? I have a question. Please proceed, Alderperson Sovoglio. Thank you. Could you expand on that a little bit more, Chief? Like how will this benefit the police department of the city overall? Sure, the efficient and effective use of our resources requires us to know what's going on and how best to deploy those resources as things change. So in this case in the pandemic we receive and share information with other government entities and by being able to take that data and put it in the GIS system we can better understand what's happening in real time have better situational awareness to make decisions and push those decisions down to the lowest level rather than up at top because more of that information is available in real time and in a manner that is understandable by more people. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any other discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll for passage. I'll try one more time here. Nine eyes. Motion passes. Item 5.2 will lay over until our next meeting. That's the recognition of Keeney Park Neighborhood Association. Items 5.3 through 5.7 will be referred to various committees under reports of committees. Item 6.1 is RC number 154 of 2021 by the Licensing, Hearings and Public Safety Committee. DOOM was referred resolution number 91 of 2021 by all the persons Sarnson and Decker authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into an agreement with big brothers and big sisters of Shavuigan County Incorporated regarding the Bigs With Badges program and recommends adopting the resolution. All the persons Sarnson. Thanks Mayor. I move to receive the report of the committee to adopt the resolution. Thank you for that motion and support. That motion is before you. Is there any discussion? Seeing none will the clerk please call the roll for passage. Nine ayes. Motion passes. Item 6.2 is RC number 155 of 2021 by the Finance and Personnel Committee. DOOM was referred direct referral resolution number 95 of 2021 by all the persons Donahue and Barron authorizing entering into professional services agreement with MSA professional services incorporated for a city of Shavuigan comprehensive affordable housing study and recommends adopting the resolution. All the person Donahue. Receive the report of the committee and adopt the resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. That motion is before you. Is there any discussion? All the men for Lake Yponewski here. Please go ahead. I would just like to support this. I think it's significant and I think it's an important baseline for our continued growth and the growth of the community. Thank you for those comments. Chad, did you want to make a comment? Okay. Seeing no other discussion, would the clerk please call the roll? Nine ayes. Motion passes. Item 6.3 is RC number 156 of 2021 by the Public Works Committee. DOOM was referred direct referral resolution number 96 of 2021 by all the persons Decorants and Authorizing the appropriate city officials to enter into a contract with both infrastructure and environment LLC for the Sheboygan five-year restoration plan and recommends adopting the resolution. All the person Decor. Thank you, Mayor. I move to receive the report of the committee and adopt the resolution. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, will the clerk please call the roll? Nine ayes. Motion passes. Next move on to other matters authorized by law. I'll turn it over to city attorney Charles Adams. 8.1 submitting various license applications for the series ending June 30, 2022. That'll be referred to the Licensing, Hearings, and Public Safety Committee. Next, all the person Sorensen. All right. Seeing that we've have a packer game tonight. We've exhausted the agenda. I move to adjourn. Second. Thank you for that motion and support. All those in favor of adjournment and the packers winning tonight, please signify by seeing aye. Aye. Of course. Motion passes unanimously. Let's go.


5 Simple Ways to Discover Who You Are Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist and writer, said one must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover the truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. We are all in a quest to find happiness for the rest of our lives. Although we mostly assume that to become happy, we need to make more and make a lot of it. Happiness lies in discovering who we truly are and how we intend to spend the rest of our lives living freely, doing what makes us happy and, yes, making a lot of money alongside. But hey, it is first about living freely before making money. See that? According to Buddha, your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart, give yourself to it. S.I. Hayakoa, a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry, said and I quote, It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die. In this video, I'll share with you 5 simple ways to discover who you are. This I believe will help you become a successful person. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you won't miss other interesting videos like this. 1. Take time to be alone Chalma's brothers, an author and certified personal executive coach, said observing yourself is the necessary starting point for any real change. The first step to discovering oneself is to consciously take a break to be alone and enjoy some quiet and silence. You see, the reason why most people haven't discovered themselves is because silence scares them and makes them uncomfortable. The truth is that to discover yourself, you need to be alone to evaluate yourself and be completely truthful with yourself so that you can discover what you like and what you dislike, the good and the bad, as well as your strengths and weaknesses. Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, said, your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes. When you take out time to find out more about yourself, you'll discover who you truly are, not who you want to be or what other people think you should do and become.  If you had all the money in the world, how would you spend your time? What would your perfect day look like? Describe every detail. What activities set your soul on fire? Being able to answer questions like this will give you an insight into who you are and what you like. Here's an extra tip. When taking time alone, get a pen and a journal. You'll be noting down a lot of things. 2. Find out what you are good at Many times, we spend time trying to find the perfect career, the perfect job, or the perfect business, ignoring the one important thing, finding out what we are good at. To find out what you are good at, think about the things that you do with so much ease because they come so natural to you. The truth is that this might be the most difficult step. It requires trials and error to find what you are good at and hey, don't get tempted to quit before you've had more than enough attempts. So, how do you know what you are good at and what you aren't? See, when your actions do nothing but drain you, rather than produce more passion and increase your drive to do more, it is a good sign that it isn't something you love to do and if you don't love it, you'll never be able to be good at it. Joan said, the people who make it to the top, whether they are musicians or great chefs or corporate hunchos, are addicted to their calling. They are the ones who'll be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid. It might take longer than necessary, but finding out what you are good at will motivate you to put in your best to attain mastery in that field and when you do, it'll be one of the best choices you ever made. Maya Angelou, an American poet and civil rights activist said, you can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money, you're gold.  To find out what you are good at, you can ask yourself questions like this. What are the things you would do even if you didn't get paid for it? What do other people say you're good at? Or that you should do professionally or do more of? 3. Incorporate mindfulness exercise into your life. Most times, in trying to discover ourselves, we get carried away, analysing the past and worrying about things that we no longer have control over. We become plagued with regrets about the past and worries about the future. To overcome these thoughts, you need to practice mindfulness as often as possible. For instance, meditating often or doing certain exercises, such as yoga, can help you focus more on the present and stay in the moment. With this, you can easily look back at your personal history and merge it with your present passion and discovery about yourself. 4. Pay attention to opportunities around you. Pay attention to some other things that pick your interest, such as jobs, internships, trainings or even organisations. This will give you a clue or two about the things you like and the things you don't. If you can, go ahead and give it a try. You may never know where it will lead. 5. Ask trusted friends, family and professional coaches for perspective. Sometimes people will see things that you don't and can help guide you to find something hidden inside yourself. Also, you need to realize that you are not alone in your existential crisis. Finding purpose is a common endeavor to all humanity. Talking to a few people may help because they might have some useful tips or experiences that they can share with you. Conclusion Finding yourself takes time. However, when you do, you'll find more peace and you'll find success quicker than ever before.  Take it one step at a time. Thank you very much for watching our videos. We'll like to give you another interesting video for you to enjoy next. But before then, our team will be very happy if you can like this video and share it with your friends on social media. If you're new here, don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss other interesting videos like this. Look at your screen now to see two other videos we handpicked for you to enjoy next. We love you.


Hey everybody. Thank you for coming today. My name is Zach Chandler and I'm with Stanford University and today I'd like to talk to you about Drupal and the Academy, why they matter to one another and why they should be more deeply acquainted. And today we heard Dries talk about the need to innovate and in my opinion we have a rare opportunity to innovate with Drupal in the Academy and I don't know that that's a given. So I think that I want to point out some of the emerging technologies we're facing. If I were to give this talk six months ago I would probably be talking about different things and I want to just call them out and then maybe we can start a conversation around them and if there's some interest we can talk afterward about how to go about addressing these. So Drupal and the Academy. Why Drupal matters to the Academy has everything to do with its architecture. I like to think of it as primordial clay. So when you download it and unzip it, it doesn't look like a whole lot but it can be shaped to really specific purposes. And in higher education we're not afraid of complexity and together with our domain expertise and the inherent flexibility of the platform, I think we can do great things. And as we've seen in other sectors from government and so forth that Drupal can be shaped to suit the mission of organizations and in higher education our mission is teaching and research. And I think sometimes it's easy for us to get heads down on a project and forget that. And I want to make a statement and we can argue about whether or not it's true but I want to say that we have yet to really leverage the potential of Drupal for teaching and research. I think that if we don't, we're really missing the boat. And there are exceptions, of course. So I would call out the ELMS project at Penn State. There he is in the back. There's Prince Edward Island. There's the Islandora project for connecting to Fedora repositories. And I have colleagues at Stanford, Elijah Meeks and Digital Humanities. He is using Drupal to connect to a Geo server and he's showing georectified historical maps that surface node data, entity data, and show it on the historical map which has proven to be a really interesting teaching tool. And about five minutes ago I learned about a service learning distribution for Drupal. So clearly no one can see the gamut. And I know that the statement that we're not using it for teaching research is not entirely true. But I think most of the headlines that are happening in higher education and adoption of Drupal, it's more using Drupal for communication technology than really using it as a teaching or research platform. So I want to make sure that there's not some opportunities lost here that we could have really engaged with and done something interesting. So the Academy matters to Drupal because Drupalers often want to work on interesting projects that benefit society. That might sound a little altruistic, but I think it's true. And then I think it has to do with the fact that many of the top Drupalers and the firms that are out there now, they got their start in things like progressive political campaigns and social justice initiatives. And they're still do-gooders. So the fact that we have substantive work to engage with is something that is of interest to them. So just to be conscious of the fact that part of the special opportunity that we have with the Drupal platform is not just what we can undertake under our own power, but it is open source. And yet we have this professional tier that we can engage with to get us places further and faster than we could have otherwise. And speaking to that draw that academia has for some of the top Drupal talent, we'll be solving some of the world's greatest challenges from AI, robotics, medicine, stem cell research, cancer research, nanotech, energy, engineering and design, basic science, universities or innovation centers. We also have experts in the humanities, literature, philosophy to help us build a thoughtful, compassionate future, not just a well engineered one. So coming back to this idea versus communication technology versus academic technology now. And so I was an academic technologist for a number of years and I worked in Drupal every day. And I would say that most of the projects I worked on were using Drupal for communication, collaboration, content strategy. These are the things that we know and we understand well and we're succeeding using Drupal for this in universities. And which is not to say that that's a really important thing. It is. And the successes we've had in that area are really, really valuable. But I think that Drupal can and should be part of a knowledge system that changes research and teaching. And if we're not thinking this way, then we're missing a huge opportunity. So I want to call out some specific challenges to the Drupal community and in particular the academic Drupal community for us to think about. Distance learning is becoming more important than ever. This has something to do with economic downturn. And but also it's, there have been some new developments that aside from institutions of higher education having to identify revenue streams and things like that, that there's, we're coming to an understanding that distance learning is going to be important for everyone and that it can have a transformative effect not just on the way that we teach but on society more generally. And here I'm speaking specifically of MOOCs. Massively open online courses. Has anybody ever heard of these before? That term in the particular? Okay. And in a related topic I would point to the social learning environment and how that differs from LMS. And I'm kind of joking when I say LMS is so 2011. I think that in particular, LMS is a very interesting project that deserves more attention and more developers. And Brian Allendike is the man in the blue in the back. So he's the person to talk to. One thing about LMS is that I've observed their use and adoption and how it's changed over the last 10 years. I started in academia in a small liberal arts college in the Northeast. And those colleges work together a lot because, you know, they're small and sharing ideas and collaborating makes a lot of sense. So talking with IT leaders there, one of the things that I noticed is that nobody liked their LMS. Everyone had one, but almost no one would switch. So there's this sort of pernicious cycle. I mean, there are cases where a university will make a big move. Say they move from Blackboard to Desire to Learn or something like that. Or to Elms. But I think one of the things that's interesting is that the new developments are sidestepping some of the baggage that LMSs have. They're lighter and more nimble. So the thing about MOOCs, the massively open online courses is that they scare the bejesus out of everybody. So for those of you who aren't familiar with these, it is distance learning at a massive scale. MIT made headlines recently by opening a MIT course, all the course materials for free on the internet to everybody. Anyone who cares to sign up for it. Now MIT has a really strong history with things of this nature with their extremely admirable open courseware program. But this is something else altogether. Open courseware provided syllabi and some readers and some, you know, materials. But this is an online course experience. And they are developing a platform for that. I don't know that they have disclosed any of the details about what that platform is. But there are others that have also come into being at around the same time period recently. So MIT has its official program, MITX. They're releasing what they're starting with one course. I think they want to get perfect. And then open it up to other courses. Stanford does what Stanford does. And they make companies. So there are two new companies that came into being from Stanford's recent foray into the massively open online course genre. And the first is Udacity, which is led by Sebastian Thrun. So those of you who may have read about the AI class that captures some headlines in the New York Times, that has now become this venture Udacity. Similarly, our computer science faculty have created an entity called Coursera. And one of the things that's interesting about Coursera that I noticed is that now they are getting collaborators from other institutions. I think the last I checked, University of Michigan was offering a course on the Coursera platform. And it's worth mentioning some of the other. So those are the three big ones that are coming from universities. And that's the headline-grabbing part, is that these degree-granting institutions are now opening up the doors to pretty much everybody. And that's one of the scary parts about it. But I think it's really important to note the Khan Academy and the massive success that they have experienced. And I think I suspect that that success might have something to do with the launching of these other ventures. So I don't think you can read from where you're sitting, but just above the logo it says, this is a screen grab from their website, 131 million lessons delivered. So it makes it sound kind of like McDonald's, but I think it's illustrative of the point. And peer-to-peer university, P2PU, which is another really interesting development, not so much in this same vein as the others. It's not an official degree-granting university, but it informs this space in some way that I think there's some thinking about. And it has to do with thinking about people not as students but as learners and leveraging the expertise of our peers to self-organize and to learn from one another. And that's part of this methodology somehow. Coming back to methodology and in that point of peer learning, I think one of the innovations that these platforms have come up with, well one is from the Stanford side, algorithmic chunking of video so that we're not streaming whole course lectures. There's a machine that understands how to break them into digestible chunks that are topical. And the other part is that how do you teach 160,000 people? So the video delivery is one obvious method and that one of the things I was talking with some Stanford faculty member who's involved in this and they noticed that the scrubber bar is a really important tool that obviously doesn't exist in a live lecture. If a professor says something that's kind of difficult to understand, pause, scrub, watch it again, scrub, watch it again until it makes a little bit more sense. So that never really existed before at scale. But also, I think they were using discussion for it in a really interesting way and that is using analytics, they could figure out a student that answered a question right and a student that answered a question wrong and they wouldn't tell them who was right and who was wrong but they could pair them and have them talk to each other. And I just thought that that was a really sort of innovative way to approach learning. So there was, I think Sebastian Thrun and his partner, Norvig, were talking about this, you know, opening up their AI curriculum. And to be honest, artificial intelligence classes are rare. You couldn't take that anywhere. So to be able to take it from the project lead of the Google Autonomous Car project is pretty amazing. They thought that they might have, they were arguing whether they might have a thousand students or ten thousand students show up and they had 160 thousand. Twenty thousand completed the course and I was just talking with John, Vicar, a colleague of mine about what do we think that means in terms of concurrent users? How do you support that? And this is the challenge part. Could we do this in Drupal? Does someone from the community want to have a horse in this race? I see somebody shaking his head. So, you know, I've asked this question of Pantheon and it's not clear. I think we have to, if we want to have a shot at this, we have to think about this and think about it right now because we make hasty platform decisions. So if we want to be involved in this, I think we have to be ready for some of these questions. One of the interesting things about the Coursera project is that the stack sounds really similar to Drupal. However, they rely heavily on MongoDB. There's Mongo module for Drupal. How would all of these things work together? We have experts in performance and we have commercial firms that specialize in performance. So I think, seems to me, we have a really unique opportunity at having an open source platform with professional services attached that could provide something really compelling. So I don't think we have to be afraid of MOOCs. So I also wanted to call out the notion of a social learning environment. Now, there are other projects underway right now where they specifically and vehemently, they say that they're not in LMS. And what they attempt to do instead is they leverage social media and learning outside the classroom. And I think that going on networks is a good example of this. And I think it's an idea that we might want to consider for LMS-like projects that we entertain in the future. So I think scale issues are solvable. We're at an inflection point right now. I would really like maybe during DrupalCon this week to talk with some folks who think that they might want to take a shot at this. Distance education at a massive scale. So the engagement of academia and technology, the story has a hero. And I would say that those are the instructional and academic technologists that are working in colleges and universities across the country. Instructional and academic technologists. So for those of you outside of academia, these are jobs. And they're occupied by real people. And there's, to give those, the developers that are interested in working with this group. And I think that's the connection I want to make is to make sure that we have the academic technologists working together with the Drupal folks on campus if they happen to be different groups. Because in some cases they are. Academic and instructional technologists, there's an inherent propensity towards a hacker-dabbler approach seeking expedient solutions to meet their own needs, that is, their faculty's needs. And the scope of the possible is often bounded by academic semesters, 15 weeks or quarters, 10 weeks. So if it can't be done in less than 10 weeks, it's not a viable option in many cases. Staff teams are small, often a single individual. And they have to be very careful about how they invest their time. And sometimes cannot afford the luxury of deep expertise in any one technology. So these are the subject matter experts that I want to win over to Drupal. And whenever one of them realizes that time invested in learning Drupal is time that is an investment that pays off again and again. And there's a leverage principle. The learning that is required for building at one project, you get to reap that reward later for other projects. There's a handful of folks like that around the country. And I think we need to infect more people, because there's thousands more. So I think we need to evangelize and we need to take this message back to our campuses and maybe do some outreach at other conferences, other venues. Because I think the adoption isn't anywhere near where it should be or where it has a right to be. So teaching and research. We do both. I would say that Drupal is a research grade platform. And we need more people to know about that. Part of, I mean, I've mentioned this before, but I think one of the aces up our sleeve is that we do have, Drupal has a professional tier that we can engage with to do kind of really magical stuff. All of us operate at our limits and we have limited time. We can't always execute projects to our satisfaction. We have these constraints. We have these constraints of terms and quarters. So for big projects, I think it really behooves us to think of the Drupal professional tier as partners in this. And they're interested in helping us solve problems. And for example, I'll point out the Open Academy project from chapter three. So that's something that they believe in. I was involved in helping them think about how to do that. And I can tell you that their motivation is not, their first motivation was not to make money. Pantheon did not even exist at the time. And really it was chapter three seeing that so many separate colleges and universities were all individually struggling to spin up a robust web architecture for academic departments and so forth that they wanted to solve it for everybody. So I would encourage you to attend. If you're on a campus that's considering moving to Drupal, I would encourage you to attend the Open Academy session and talk to chapter three about that. So here's one of the challenges that I talked about. Can we establish Drupal as a credible research platform? It can do so much. So web services, handling data, mapping. We can do some really, really incredible things with Drupal. And I'm really dismayed that there are so many folks in research computing and in academic technologies that don't think so. I think Drupal is for websites. So for example I would point to the Mellon Foundation. So Mellon funds a lot of research in the humanities and I worked in the humanities before I joined Stanford Web Services. So Mellon was a big deal to us. And I was talking with the project manager at Mellon and he was fond of talking about the canonically bad digital humanities proposal that he would see time and again. And it inevitably revolved around an individual faculty member with a small boutique project that had their own personal collection of 19th century French poetry that they wanted to digitize and mark up in TEI. Which is not to say that that's not important. I'm a huge advocate for the small boutique projects and the individual faculty interest. But Mellon is really now focusing on platforms. So they want to solve big problems and they want to build platforms rather than fund small boutique projects. And so Project Bamboo. Is anybody involved in Bamboo? So it was they spent so they got a lot of funding and they asked a lot of people about how to design a services oriented architecture for academic research and collaboration. And I don't think so. I would love to talk with the Bamboo guys that raised their hand. I don't think Drupal is on that roadmap at all. Despite the fact that we have Drupal Services module. Yeah. Okay. So that might be coming soon. So we have some really great folks here this week. And as you know what we heard from Dries today about Symphony being working to Drupal 8. So at Stanford we're also extremely interested in and developing best practices around web services. So anyway that's really heartening that that's on the radar for Project Bamboo. So I think that we are a community. We help each other on Drupal.org and in IRC and on our campuses. But I don't know that technologists in academia that are working in Drupal. I don't think that's a community yet. Maybe there's a hesitancy to share across institutional lines. You know maybe we don't want to have our colleagues at other schools to see how sketchy our code is. But I think that that's got to go. So I think institutional classifications are one liberal arts college. Those are meaningless in this context. As our rankings. Rankings are totally meaningless for this community. Small liberal arts schools have amazing people and some of the most creative minds. And a single individual can be incredibly influential and prolific in Drupal development in the academy. And this was something that Bad Camp, Bay Area Drupal Camp, really brought home for me this past fall. You know we all came to that. Stanford came with like 20 people. We were just absolutely blown away with what Cal State Monterey Bay had done. Just really kind of blew the doors off of everything. So we really have to get over ourselves a little bit. And you know the prestige of institutions because that has really has no place in a community of developers. We're all peers. So to the question of how do we work together? A group of us at Bad Camp got together and we started talking about the features module. Can you raise your hand if you're familiar with the features module? For those of you who who aren't familiar is this really amazing technology for bundling your configuration choices.  And that's the potential for the domain specific business logic. All of that can be bundled into a feature capital F. And that then becomes a portable installable module. Unzip drop and it behaves like a module. So there's maybe a little bit more to it than that. But it really works and it's really easy to get started with. So I am not near the top of the Drupal ninja ladder or whatever it's called these days. But it makes sense to me. And one of the things that we realized, so there was a table where we had people from University of California, Cal State, and Stanford, and we all realized that we had one or two projects that we were already working on that had components that could be released as features. And it's sort of done on us, why don't we do that? What would happen if we did? So we resolved to start sharing. And again, this has ties back into the fact that there is this commercial Drupal sphere with people that are interested in working with us and get what we're trying to do. And they are using features already as a part of their development practices. So we also have folks from Drupal companies that are interested in sharing these as well. So what would it like, what would it be like to start sharing features? I think we want it all. I don't think we want anything that's necessarily polished. I don't think we care what your release status is. We want messy, hasty, pluralism. Because the best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas. That wasn't me, that was Linus Pauling. So I'm thinking that we should run an academic features marketplace much like a bizarre style of development. Does anybody recognize that picture? Peter Chen, you're not allowed to answer this question. Yeah, I know. So that is the original Google server. So that was the, that was, that, this is the actual server that Larry Page and Sergey Brin assembled in their dorm room. They built it out of Legos and what appears to be some plastic from a overhead lamp. I'm sure the university does not care that they did that now. But what I wanted to point out by sharing this with you is that they didn't wait to have a perfect case and there's detail on the side. This is the part that I love. It's held together with packing tape. So I don't think we should wait for a perfect wrapper. I think we want to release early and it's okay if it's, if it's not perfect. So another, I think another instructive example is in, in his influential book on interactive design, Alan Cooper writes about how the post-it note was invented. There was, there's a worker at 3M who was in a church choir and he, he was tired of how his, he kept losing his bookmarks in his hymnal and he wanted to have a way to keep his bookmarks without hurting the pages.  So I think that's what we want. I think we want, we want post-it notes. We want to have a lot of things on the shelf. By pluralism we want to have not one canonical event calendar feature. Maybe we want a bunch of them because I think we can learn from each other by establishing a community of practice around this. And I don't think it's going to look like this. I think it's going to look like that. So, so the group that formed after bad camp, we've been talking about this. We want to focus on features-based development, kit-compliant features, and this is the community of practice part. We need to establish some, some common rules around atomicity and that is, you know, what are the boundaries of a feature? Just because you can include the kinsync with them should you. If they're going to be plug-and-play, what, what is the atomic unit of a feature like? So that they're, we maximize reuse. We're going to need to come up with some, some norms around namespaces, some general conventions about hosting and feature servers, things like this. So I think what we want is not a consortium, but an unconsortion. It's going to win by being unofficial and as members we want individuals, not institutions. And we have a lot of stuff we still have to figure out for a bizarre style features marketplace to work. We have a feature server up and running at Stanford. It's not very pretty, but it's up and there's one at Penn State. Can you raise your hand if you have a feature server running on your campus? Great. So if, if, so let's talk more about that after and just underscore that we, we really want a plurality of voices and if we can create a community of practice that links the islands of creativity across the academy and we start sharing code as well as ideas, I don't think there's a proprietary system they can compete with that. I just think that there's too many of us, there's too many good ideas and we understand our domain better than anybody. And if we're also experts in a flexible tool like Drupal, I don't, I don't, I can't imagine a single proprietary system that's safe from that. So, so I want to get started and I don't think we have to ask anybody else. We can decide right here that we have everybody we need in Denver and we want you to join us. So, thank you very much for your time. Oh yeah, there's a, there's a mic which I guess we're supposed to use. Thanks for your talk. I think it's very interesting. The thing that struck me about one of your last points about we don't need a single calendar feature, we don't need a single event feature or something like that. In my experience in my university, I think one of the things that freaks people out about Drupal a little bit and, and these are people who are not necessarily heavy duty technologists but people who are tasked with establishing websites for projects or departments and they're often people for whom technology is not actually part of their job description. What freaks them out is that there isn't one calendar feature or that there isn't one event feature and then when you start to explain to them the multitude of ways that they could accomplish feature X and, and you know I'm always thinking man it's so awesome that I can do this like five different ways. Their eyes glaze over and they're like could you just show me the way to do that so I can do it because I don't like thinking about those type things and I totally get where you're coming from but I'm, I'm really interested in where the cultural roadblocks are to adoption especially like at my institution but I'm sure this happens in other places and that is definitely one of them I think is a fear of options. So I think that's a really common story thank you for your question. So in my mind that's not the person I would want to send to, to this group. I want maybe you there and I think probably what will happen is that you know we'll know about the ten different options. You know maybe this one event feature has some workflow tied to it. You know maybe in that system there's a, there's a feed parser and things are not published by default and that doesn't make sense for this other use case. So we're going to know the right one to suggest I think and so I think we're still going to have some, some you know filtering we have to do and you know maybe we can you know maybe this marketplace will have a website around it and we'll have some sort of voting API or some sort of way to capture you know non-authoritative metadata about which one you'd use in which scenario. I mean I'd love to hear other people's ideas about that too. So I'm from Babson College and we've been doing a lot of stuff with Drupal and and we've been challenging Blackboard in their space because Drupal does so many, so many things a lot better. We, we're a business school so great discussions are a big deal and out of the box the forums module does, does better than than Blackboard does quite honestly and we've, we've souped up that functionality with lots of Ajax and stuff like that so there's expanding collapse and Mark has read that kind of thing and yeah actually I think Brian left from, oh he's right there, right. You actually know each other through, through online but I never knew what he looked like. We'll have to connect but, that's a great thing about a conference right? Yeah we were talking about how to, how to share. I don't really know what a features server is. I mean we've got some modules, do you share modules? So I wanted to introduce myself so we could continue the discussion and like I have a Drugal module which integrates with Google Docs. We have this idea that a lot of our documents should live in the Google space since a lot of us have been integrating with Google anyhow and if students have Gmail out of the box then why not have your docs right there and then in your Drupal site just list the docs and then you can, you can connect to Google Docs and view your document and you have collaborative, you have the collaborative space and collaborative documents right, right there. So Drupal does come from but Google you know I was copying their, their naming so you know where do we, where do we share Drupal? It's on Drupal.org but nobody knows it's there. So what's with the features server? How does that work? Well I think there might be some other folks in the room that are more qualified than I am to answer that question but, so feature server so it's a module. So you can go download it from Drupal.org, F server and it's one of the things that I would like to, this community to hopefully do is adopt that module and improve its documentation. So if it's configured right you can upload your features to your feature server and your, your GitHub flags inform how, how things get sorted in the feature server and it has all sorts of other functionality like I think feature modules can be updated via Drush just like regular modules. So it's, it's a, it's a, it's a really pretty powerful architectural approach that I think has a lot of added benefits. So if you are then the maintainer of this feature, people around the country start using it.  If it's all done properly on the ends people can just update the module. So that's pretty magic I'd say. So maybe we can, you know, huddle up and, and you know, a buff or something like that and talk more about that. Oh and for the Google Docs integration something that I would, I would encourage you to talk to the Monterey Bay guys. Talk to Kevin Miller, can I call you up. They've done some pretty amazing stuff with Open Atrium and the Google API. Hey Ryan. Do we have a name yet? Nope. I mean, other than unconference I know what you keep saying we need a name. No we don't have a name. So, so let's, let's figure that out. There are, there are probably what, like 10 of us or so? Yeah. We hang out, literally Google Hangout on a monthly basis or so. Thank you for the plug for Elms, quite honestly. I think what we need to do from here is kind of try to organize a lot of buffs. There have already been a couple and I see a lot of faces that haven't been at them. So if you're involved in education really need to get to the buffs because these conversations can get hashed out and unconference or unconsortions get formed and then you actually have meaningful lasting engagements with people. What you mentioned with the way too many solutions is definitely a fear that you have to get over or get other people over. The way that I've been able to do that is through a distribution model and being able to say like, look, there's a million different ways to make an intranet. Literally, there probably are. Here's one and people can actually stick to that and be like, oh, okay, it's awesome open atrium. Even though you're probably going to branch from that anyway, they don't need to know that. It's really important.  Something that came up yesterday was kind of the idea of almost getting to a point of social engineering to get these things through because our institutions are massive. They're not used to this kind of thing. You mentioned we have a system that's implemented done. You're like, no, that's not, we're not used to, you know, being agile for the most part. Really, the tools are all there. It's about getting people behind the tools and coming up with the right way of presenting the tools in Drupal because there's a major disconnect right now. I guarantee if this was a Moodle conference, there would be a ton more education people here just because of the assumption, whereas Drupal does not immediately trigger EdTech and we need to come up with a way of making that happen because it's not just my platform. It's a lot of other platforms that are starting to come out. You mentioned chapter 3. There's also Julio by FunnyMonkey, which is also a similar option. So there's all these solutions that are really at the cusp. Right now there's a hackathon going on in room 202 that I just kind of wanted to promote. We're auditing a module called Learning Registry, which will allow for the open publish of open courseware to a basically a search engine that is not owned by anyone. It's a government infrastructure. Oh, it's the .gov project, right? Yes. Yes. It's a .gov project, PBS, and a bunch of other NASA researchers are tying into it, but then you'd be able to actually produce learning materials in Drupal and automatically have them. You basically push a button and say send it to the learning registry and now anyone else connecting the Learning Registry can see that that course exists and get that information. Another project is Mozilla Badges, which probably had a few conversations with people who will actually terrify large institutions because it kind of runs counter to what we do. So it's kind of a distributed certification system, digitally signed. So we're working on it with Open Michigan. They have something I'm trying to get them to make a distribution called OERBIT that is an open educational resource house. It's very similar to what MATX is probably promoting, but they don't have the press behind it. And MATX, as you mentioned, doesn't really exist yet, which is kind of fun.  Do you know what it's written in? I don't know what it's written in. It's open source. That's neat. It doesn't exist. I've looked for it. I came here just for birds of a feather. I'm not really sure how to answer that. Yes, there's also that. Yes, so. Hey, Greg. Hey, Greg Poole from Cal State Monterey Bay. Along those lines, there was really a lot of similarities between what you were talking about and what I heard earlier in the transforming government talk about community of practice and also reuse and just not trying to reinvent the wheel.  So if you want to check out that video, that presentation earlier this afternoon. And if I can plug what surprised Zac at Bad Camp is going to be talked about tomorrow at 1 o'clock by my colleague, Kevin Miller. We used OpenHRM and Drupal to create a portal for 6,000 users and 10,000 applicants. It's running quite nicely. And we're very proud of it. So check that out tomorrow. Yeah, you guys should be. It was really amazing when we saw that. And the other thing that really blew our minds was just how quickly you guys rolled that out too. It was pretty unprecedented. So yeah, I encourage everybody to go to that session. It's the OpenHRM, Kevin Miller session. OK, well, thanks, everybody. Hopefully we'll be talking more after this.


What's going on guys, it's your boy DPJ here today with another Destiny video and in today's video I have something for all you loot cave fans. If you enjoy shooting endless spawning enemies for them engrams then this spot is definitely for you. Now me personally I have noticed an increase in drop rate for engrams since the taking king release. Now this spot is located in the raid, yes you heard me right, the raid, the king's full raid. Now you can do this solo, actually it's so easy to keep these enemies under control at their spawn point I think you could do this with one hand. So basically when I load up the raid as soon as you spawn in go right as to where I go in the video.  If you manage to do that they will all spawn at the exact same point but it's no biggie if you don't. Now you can see they spawn out of this door on the left up on this balcony and they spawn constantly. Now this was shown to me by MFKkliks and BornItalianHD whose channels can be found linked in that video description. Now you heard me say shown I'm not saying they are the founders as I'm unsure who is so if it's you message me on Twitter at DPJSC08 and I will give you full credit. But yeah like I said if this is how you enjoy earning that loot and XP and you will earn plenty of that here then that is cool. We all paid for this game so we can play it how we like. I personally feel you are rewarded more and it's more fun playing strikes but that's just me.  But guys loot cave lovers I hope you enjoyed the video if you do leave a like I do appreciate the support subscribe for daily destiny and I will catch you guys on the next one. Peace out until next time. Peace!


Aujourd'hui, aujourd'hui, je vais faire une banane à bête avec mon fils Lucas. La première fois que j'ai mangé une banane à bête, je pense que c'était un café, un café, ou quelque chose. Il n'était pas le meilleur, mais il était toujours bien. Après ça, j'ai un petit peu d'obsesse avec la banane à bête. Où est Lucas Chrissy, s'il te plait ? Il est en train de regarder un film dans la voiture. Ah, il est là, dans la voiture ? Il est là, dans la voiture, il ne veut pas venir. Ah, laisse-moi voir, laisse-moi voir. Lucas, t'es venu faire une banane à bête avec moi ? Ok, allez-y ! Allez ! Ouais, see you in the next video. Ok, bye Lucas. Let's go Lucas, let's go. Ok. Let's do the banane à bête together. Ok ? Ok. On va pack tout le dos de la maison, I get my sous-chef Lucas. And now, we're going to make the dough already. Ok Lucas ? So the dough is very simple. Butter first. And now, vas-y, on one or two. One or two speed. Voilà, parfait. And now we're going to make sure the butter becomes like a very creamy texture. Ok ? But imagine these days, we don't have a mixer like that these days. It was by hand. Imagine to do this thing by hand ? Yeah. Voilà, so we mix the butter. So I put the sugar slowly. Speed too, vas-y, slowly. So of course for safety, never put your finger like that in the mixer. Ok ? Or else it's going to fall off. Yeah, exactly, ok.   Lucas a the sense of cooking. It's crazy. Sometime he's doing a thing and he's like, Lucas, I know this thing.  He get it, he have the feeling. One more time, vas-y, on two or three. So it's pretty easy, banana bread. It's all about you have a good recipe, good proportion and a great assistant. Put the egg slowly. Go ahead. Hop. Ok. And now go. Bon, après on va mettre quoi Lucas ? Après, qu'est-ce qu'on met après ? Là. Non, la farine, la farine, la farine. S'entend-moi la cook with him, I speak French, English, French, I mean we mix everything, I mean we understand each other. Lucas has told me, I speak French papa, I understand you better when I speak French. Touché. Ok, on va tu teque 3 bananas et puche les bananas et puche les, ok ? Vas-y, don't eat them, I know you. Les choses de banana are very ripe, ok Lucas ? So more they are ripe, you know more they are going to mix better in the dough, ok Lucas ? Ok. Donc je commence with the butter, the sugar, the eggs and now I'm adding my flour, all-purpose flour and we're going to mix slowly the flour now. Now I'm going to add the rest of the dry baking soda and the salt. I'm going to mix very well one more time and then after we're going to add our banana. You like to slice, huh ? You not scared to use a knife ? No. Because papa teach you. Yeah, I also have 10,000 friends that use a knife like this. You have 10,000 friends ? C'est très important to know how to hold a knife. So you see the dough, Lucas, it's ready. You see the beautiful texture of the dough. I'm going to show you guys. It's very creamy, ok ? You see guys ? Now we're going to add the banana, ok ? My hands are all banana-y. Why do you slice them by half like that ? Because they're way too big. Because they're way too big to mix ? Yes, because then they're going to be all big chunks. Make sense ? Allez, mets-moi ça là-dedans, on y va. Allez. I'm going to put the banana over there. The little touch also, Lucas, lime, a little bit of lemon zest. Just a little bit, ok ? What is your favorite instant soul in the kitchen ? You have one ? What ? What's your favorite thing ? Knife. I know you're going to say knife. I know it. I don't know why I ask you. I know you're going to say knife. What ? I only kind of... And kids are going to make mistakes sometimes. Lucas, one day, take a knife, the night of Halloween. Remember what you did ? Four years ago. Four years ago and you cut yourself with a knife and we went to the emergency room.  So, now we have our banana. We're going to crush a little bit the banana. Lucas, can you melt the butter please over there ? So love to use induction in my house with Lucas because induction is very safe. So we're mixing now our banana. Voilà, that's the battle now guys.  So now, what are you going to do Lucas ? I know what I'm doing. Voilà, très bien. Put a lot of butter. Everywhere in the skillet. Stop ! Stop ! Ok, voilà. Parfait. Ok. Now, we're going to put the dough here. Voilà. So now, we're going to put our banana bread in the oven for like 10 minutes. We'll start at 425. 10 minutes in the oven. We're going to slice some banana now and we're going to add banana after on top. Nice slice Lucas. So now, we're putting the banana on top of the cake. We dip them in a little sugar and cinnamon and we put them nicely on the top of the cake. We bake the cake a little bit before. So banana is going to sink in the bottom of the dish. Voilà, good job Lucas. Now, we're going to put it back in the oven for 30 minutes. Hop ! 30 minutes. Ok Lucas. It was fun to cook with Lucas to lean the kitchen. I'm wanting to create memory for these kids if you have kids. I'm sure Lucas is going to remember today we did the banana bread together. Of course, because we're on TV but also he's going to remember this dish for sure. So I think it's important for the parents to teach that to our kids. Lucas, Lucas. Alors, little cake. Put a little bit of butter on top just to make shiny.  Go get ready. Vas-y. It's time to taste. Come on, we're banana breads ready. Really? Yep. It's time to taste. You want to cut it? Go on, this is so great. Good banana bread. But you want some more? I don't want. That's a good sign. That's a very good sign. The kids want some more. The bananas are falling off so I'm just going to put them on your plate. Very good banana. Bye bye. Bye. Bye. Bye guys.


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