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Can you imagine slowly losing the ability to live life as you know it? To slowly lose the ability to see, to walk, to grab an object all the while experiencing pain, fatigue, and depression? These broad symptoms impact the quality of life of patients with the debilitating autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord called multiple sclerosis, MS. MS affects many people worldwide including young adults. Unfortunately, there is no cure for MS, but researchers are working hard to develop strategies to combat this devastating disease. What exactly happens to the brain and spinal cord in patients with MS? The brain and spinal cord are made up of neurons, a type of cell that delivers information from the brain to the spinal cord and then to the rest of the body, where it tells your body to carry out its important functions like breathing and moving your muscles. The information is delivered through the part of the neuron called the axon, which is a long projection that acts like an electrical wire. Much like electrical wires send signals and are surrounded by insulation, axons carry the information and are wrapped in a protective material called myelin, which helps the information transmitted along the neurons flow more efficiently. In patients with MS, the myelin insulation around the neurons becomes damaged, so the signals from your brain to the rest of the body go haywire. Why does this happen? It is mainly due to immune cells. The immune system is our body's natural defense system. It keeps us healthy by recognizing and killing foreign invaders that cause disease or infection, such as bacteria or viruses. However, in MS, immune cells go awry and instead of attacking foreign pathogens, they begin attacking the protective myelin that surrounds the nerves. This eventually damages both the neurons themselves and the cells that produce myelin, which are called oligodendrocytes. All of the current FDA approved treatments for MS limit the destructive immune cells from entering the brain and spinal cord to try to stop them from damaging myelin. However, these treatments don't do anything to help replace the damaged neurons and oligodendrocytes in these patients. Instead of trying to repair a broken machine piece by piece, currently available treatments only prevent the machine from enduring further damage. A collaboration of scientists led by Dr. Craig Walsh from UC Irvine are taking a new approach to treating MS, a regenerative approach. Their strategy involves transplanting a type of cell called neural precursor cell, NPC, into the brain and spinal cord. What are NPCs? This is a group of cells that can become three different cell types, including neurons and oligodendrocytes, the cells that produce myelin. The idea is that if healthy NPCs are transplanted, these cells can first make new neurons to replace the ones that are damaged in MS, second make healthy oligodendrocytes, which can make more myelin to insulate the neurons, and third regulate the immune system. Amazingly, these treatment works. Mouse NPCs transplanted into mice that had damaged neurons and their spinal cords could become oligodendrocytes, leading to increased production of myelin around the axons of neurons. And the researchers also found that damaged neurons were replaced with healthy ones. The scientists are now hard at work trying to figure out how exactly NPCs help repair damaged neurons and boost the immune system. And to use this information to design new therapies for MS. Overall, the research currently being done by these scientists is a promising step in treating patients with this disease. As we build on the progress enabled by California's stem cell research and therapy development program, we must keep the momentum going. We now have more advanced tools to develop better ways to treat devastating autoimmune diseases such as MS. Only with continued support for biomedical research can we increase our understanding of the therapeutic potential of stem cells and translate the understanding into meaningful treatments that help give patients their lives back.


I'm going to talk to you all about data management in my little project, which exists within the bigger project of Asia Beyond Boundaries. My project, Land Settlement and Society, is investigating a series of societal and cultural changes, largely the appearance of new forms of political economy and the spread of Hindu temple institutions that took place during the reign of the Guptors in South Asia, so between the fourth and the sixth centuries CE. A lot of these changes are encapsulated in and are often understood through a series of copper plate charters that record royal grants of land, mainly to Brahminers, which is a practice that really started to spread throughout South Asia at this time. And lots of ideas and theories have been made on the basis of these inscriptions and contemporary texts, but they've rarely been tested archaeologically. So my project is focusing on one particular region, the region of Vidarbha in Central India, which was historically one of the first regions to adopt this practice of land grants. And it's examining the archaeological context of those land grants to ground these inscriptions to try and get at what was going on, society culturally around them before, during and after they were used, and in doing so test certain hypotheses about them and the effects that they are supposed to have had. Logistically, this project involves the work of 30 colleagues, including myself, who work in 11 different organisations across four different countries. And what this project means in practice is that archaeologically we are looking at three main types of evidence. Artifacts, the material culture, the stuff of archaeology if you will, the things people made and used, archaeological sites as the places where lots of different activities were concentrated. These are often categorised as settlement sites and religious sites, and then the landscape, both in terms of the wider environment and the space within which everything happened. Examination of all of these subjects generates lots of different types of data. I'm not going to list all of those, but what's important is that there's a complexity to data in this project. It's not just one thing, it's lots of different things. There's not only a breadth to the range of data that's being incorporated in our analyses, but also the sorts of information that they provide. We can, if we're thinking about data management, reduce all of that down to different categories of data. We have the basic components of the data, the physical objects, the material, the sites in which that material is found and the landscape in which it's all contained, and then the digital data that comes from that or is associated with that, which itself can be categorised into documents and texts, databases and spreadsheets, raster imagery and vector imagery. I know that what we're all talking about is digital data, and that's by and large what I'll be concentrating on, but I just want to make the point here that in any sort of archaeological project we have to recognise that it is impossible to separate these two broad categories of data, the physical data and the digital data. They only have meaning in relation to each other, and both are physically carried right the way through the course of the project, through that data management process. Obviously each of these different types of data have to be managed in different ways. It's not quite as simple though as managing all of the texts in one way and all of the spreadsheets in another way, because each type of data is comprised of different data pertaining to various different subjects of inquiry and all of the different questions we might ask of them. And so they all have to be approached and interrogated and managed in various different ways. So that means that a fairly complex data management plan has to be formulated, which governs every single aspect of the workflow from the collection and production of the data to its analysis, its curation, its storage, how it's shared and ultimately how it's archived. Though of course there's considerable overlap in how each data set is managed at any part of that process. So rather than detail the data management plan for each and every single type of data that exists in this project, I'm just going to talk through each stage of that data management process and highlight some of the complexities that are involved in managing that data. So the first stage in the data management plan is data collection. Data in this project is both collected and produced. I make a distinction here between collection and production. That's largely artificial. I use that separation just to distinguish two different stages in the workflow between data that is collected and becomes instantly interrogatable and usable and data that then is produced from other data sets through a variety of processes. In terms of that initial stage of data collection, data is collected through both desk based research and field work. So looking first of all at data collected through desk based research, that's essentially background archival research, the research that has to happen before anything else can happen. So looking at sites and inscriptions that have been found, pulling together existing, mapping resources and spatial imagery, all of which results in texts of inscriptions in translation, I must admit, spreadsheets of data pertaining to sites and artefacts in those sites, raster images, vector images. And those resulting data sets either become the subjects of analyses themselves, in which case they go straight to that next stage in the workflow, or they feed back into and inform certain decisions governing other areas of data that are collected through field work. Either way, much of this data is digitally born at the point of its collection. It's collected in such a way to enable its use by multiple participants in the project. So we all agree on particular file formats, which for the most part means Microsoft software specifically for documents, spreadsheets and databases, Adobe for illustrations. For raster imagery, we use TIFFs and raw formats as standards. For vectors, we use various formats specific to the programs that use them. All of this is with a view to eventual archiving, to facilitate the ease of eventual archiving, but of course we recognise that many of the file formats that end up being archived will have to be changed. At the point of collection, data is collected according to predefined and commonly agreed templates using predefined terminologies with no additional formatting that will introduce difficulties in file conversions later on in the process. Data that's collected during field work involves a whole bunch of different types of data sets collected in various different ways. We have archaeological surveys, we have excavations, we have sampling, all of which generates attributes about sites, artefacts from those sites, environmental remains, samples for dating, various environments. I'm not going to go into any one of those methods or data sets in specific. In digital terms, what all of that results in are a series of written records, objects, physical material and raster images and vector images. Obviously, with the data that's collected in the field, there is a lot more analogue data, if that's the correct term in these digital forums, that needs digitising. The paper records, of course, the objects and physical remains themselves and that digitisation is done using similar protocols that are already in place that we've already defined during other phases of data collection. On top of that data collection then, we also have data being produced in four main ways. First through documentation, second through recording, third through compilation and fourth through analysis. The documentation stage is crucial. While we are collecting data in the field, we are documenting absolutely everything that we do, so that documentation of what we're doing, why we're doing it, how we're doing it becomes another data set in itself. It's really important that that documentation stage is in place and that that data set is produced in an archaeological project specifically for three main reasons. One is that archaeological practice is inherently destructive. You cannot ever repeat exactly what you are doing at that moment. You can never dig the same hole in the ground. You can never discover that same artefact that you're discovering. You absolutely have to ensure that a record is taken of exactly what's being done, primarily to inform other people who may want to return to that site that they know how to interpret an absence of information in that space that you've been looking because you've taken all of the artefacts from it. They need to accommodate that in their own interpretation of what they're looking at. The second reason is that so much of how we approach and interrogate that data is utterly dependent on where it was found, how it was recovered and why it was recovered. Third, because archaeological sites are being destroyed and landscapes are changing at a really alarming rate in South Asia especially, means that a sort of parallel point to the exercise is to record exactly what you're seeing at that moment in time. That then becomes a snapshot archive to help future generations of archaeologists who might come along in just two years' time and not even see that there's an archaeological site there. We're preserving things at the point of destroying them at the same time, if that makes any sense. For all of those reasons, there needs to be that detailed record of what's being done that then runs parallel to all of the data sets that we are creating. Data is also produced through recording. That's very much pertinent to the artefacts that are found through archaeological fieldwork, the pottery, the coins, the monuments. They're all catalogued and recorded and photographed. What data and thus the amount of data that's recorded very much depends on and is dictated by the material that's being recorded and what analyses are going to take place of that data. Most of that data is recorded directly and stored in spreadsheets and databases, which one is used very much again depends on the material type that's being recorded and what analyses are going to take place. At the same time, multiple photographs are often taken of the same object, which in some instances absolutely have to be taken in a very high resolution to record the level of detail that's needed. There are certain issues of scale there as well, not nearly in the same magnitude as the Buddhist project. If we just think about pottery assemblages, any one site would maybe have 150,000 sheds of pottery. Each one has about 40 different variables recorded and at least one or two photographs taken of it, so suddenly there's terabytes of photos, tens of millions of little bits of data pertaining to individual potshares, all of which needs to be managed. We rely a lot on implementing the same protocols that we've already implemented at the primary data collection stage, being ruthlessly standardised about our file naming protocols, the file formats that we're using, really trying to ensure some level of standardisation and integrity to the data within those data sets. But we also now start needing to link various data sets together in more meaningful ways, so at this point of data production we're also making sure that we're using unique object identifiers within data sets that are carried through into file naming protocols for photographs that can be linked together with the attribute data that's stored in spreadsheets and so on. The third type of data production, data compilation, in many instances data sets are single entities, they can be looked at separately or in conjunction with one another as needs be, but we have another aspect to data in our project which is the construction of and use of a geographical information system, which in a very crude sense is a compilation of numerous digital data into a single geodatabase that then becomes something usable as a resource that is larger than the sum of its parts. That GIS comprises all sorts of different data sets from aerial and satellite imagery, digital elevation models, to certain types of spatial data that pertain to various things in the landscape. They need to be created, points, lines and polygons are generated based on pre-existing information and then also go towards the compilation of this GIS system. In the construction and the use of a GIS there are all sorts of data management concerns, for instance there are different processes that are required to make all of the data relatable to each other, converting them all into the same projections and coordinate systems. And it's also crucial really for the use of a GIS that all of the spatial data, our points and our lines and our polygons are associated with the attributes that explain what they are, so that necessitates not only having relatable spreadsheets that contain the values for that data but also assigning metadata to particular shape files within the GIS. There are thankfully various criteria and standards and conventions in the management of that data that exist, so we're not sort of having to think anything up ourselves, we're very much relying on decades of codes of practice that exist, have to do this. Then there's the data analysis, data is produced during the analysis of the data that's been collected, the results, that's data, all of which then feeds back into other points in the data management plan. So some results of analysis are research findings in themselves and so feed directly into later data curation stages, some results feed back into informing further strategies for data collection, some results of analysis feed back into informing further sets of analysis and some of the data produced during analyses goes towards the construction of our GIS which is then capable of forming extra analyses in itself. In terms of the analyses themselves, various types of analyses take place at various points in time during each stage of project activity. I'm not going to go into the specifics of each type of analyses but just to give you some idea we might talk about and think about the analysis of background site data, the analysis of the text of inscriptions, a whole bunch of different analyses that are applied to different artefacts and environmental remains, sites themselves are analysed at various scales, there's GIS analysis, all of these different types of analysis that are carried out all follow, I have to follow, set protocols specific to those types of analysis, they each have certain processes, they each have certain methodologies and all of that is again documented. We're sort of adding to this parallel data set that runs the entire way through which is the documentation of each and every stage of the process. In terms then of data curation, the fact that data curation is coming after analysis is a bit artificial of course, it's not just after analysis that we think about curating data but it's just for convenience that it's positioned here in this order. Curation we identify as having three main elements to it, one is the storage of our data which of course pertains to both the material objects and the digital data, the sharing of that data. We within the project share data via email, it's quite simple or using a cloud service, all parties agree to and work within certain parameters, preserving and maintaining data integrity, keeping to the same file formats, continually checking for errors. Because we work in so many different locations geographically, there are certain logistical problems when it comes to sharing the data, not every single member of our project team has access to the internet for instance. So from time to time data, digital data, has to be transferred hard copy, there is just no other way around that. So that creates certain challenges both logistically and in terms of workflow and the timetabling of research. And it's also importantly in this post analysis stage that that's our main preservation intervention point and that's where we decide really what data we are going to discard and what we're going to keep. And it's largely older redundant versions of files which pretty much means incomplete data sets that we feel comfortable we can discard after finalised clean data sets have been analysed. Data is disseminated, I suppose in the usual ways in academic formats, that is through reports, publications and presentations. All of the different foci of research and lines of inquiry that lead up to publications and presentations on specific topics have data sets appended to them. And they are, as well as the main outputs themselves, all uploaded to open access repositories, which leads neatly into the archival of data. Zenodo, as has already been mentioned, is our open access repository of choice. With having implemented and being so strict with all of our protocols of maintaining clean data sets from the very point of data collection, the turning them all into an archival format really doesn't take that much work. We are able to just upload data sets that lie behind publications and other outputs, neatly to Zenodo, and there we really take advantage of the fact that they are assigned unique DOIs to create further linkages between our outputs and our data sets, so that they will always relate to each other and are thus discoverable and usable to anybody that might want to use them. There are certain challenges within this project. As I just mentioned, working across countries, we've identified certain weak points specifically in terms of the transfer of data, ensuring that similar standards of data accuracy are maintained across these different countries is something that we are aware of. Though none of those issues are wholly insurmountable, on a different level though, and this is my last slide, all of this works really within this project, how all of these data sets link together, how all of that's managed very much makes sense within an archaeological project, in part because doing this is such well-established practice within archaeological projects. We're not having to reinvent the wheel here, this is how we run archaeological projects, this is how data is managed within archaeological projects and has been for at least a couple of decades. The next challenge, as I see it though, is how we can perhaps take this project, this data management plan, the linkages that are made between disparate data sets within this project and establish links between other sub-projects that are part of this wider project and think beyond the boundaries that still separate them from each other. That's where we still need to do some thinking.


What is up guys? Joe Holland here. Welcome back to the channel. If you're new to the channel, we offer a hearty and heartfelt good morning. Good morning to you. Thanks for tuning in today. We're in for a super treat. You guys are in for a treat too because what we're doing today is we're making Donnie donuts.  They were incredible. They were on my last series of videos and we got so many questions and comments about the recipe and how he makes them and the history of the recipe that we just decided we're going to shoot a video for you guys and answer all those questions here. So stay tuned. Donnie's going to walk you through how he makes his homemade donuts. Here we are in my house in Jefferson, Maine on our video. I think it was day number three on our trip going down the west branch of the Penobscot. I cooked some donuts. People that have watched that video made a lot of comments and questions and so we're here to recreate the donut cooking process. My old recipe, I think you saw this on the other video, but this is my recipe for donuts and I keep it my wallet heading in there for years as you can see it's pretty well worn. You'd think I could remember it. I've done it so many times but my memories fade in in my old days so I have to keep it. But I laid out and I can't remember what cookbook that I got this out of. It was an old time cookbook but I laid out here on the table some cookbooks. Old times there's one here from 1949. There's one here I can't remember what. I think 1975. This one might have been. 1975. But these cookbooks were made by people and I'm sure in other towns other than Jefferson, small towns. There's like three. This one was made here in Jefferson by the historical society. This one was made in Jefferson by the women's club. This one was made by St. Giles Episcopal Church in Jefferson. One from Belfast. One from Nobleboro. The organizations in small towns would make cookbooks to raise money for different things. In one of these cookbooks I got my recipe. But I wanted to show you this. I came across this one in my mother's house and she had made this recipe book for all her grandchildren. I think she gave it to them maybe at Christmas time or something of all her and the grandchildren called a Mimi. She made up this cookbook of all recipes that she really liked cooking. I mean she was a fabulous cook. And I also found this one which I thought was quite unique. My mother. This is my father. She made this cookbook for my father and wrote down recipes of things that he really liked. Sour cream pie. That's an old time and that's delicious. And so if you ladies out there want to make something special for your man this is what my mother did for her man. So I know that's kind of a sexist remark but I had to put it in you know. So we're gonna on this trip we're going to use lard to fry our donuts in. Lard isn't really good for the hat. It really clogs up the arteries but it really has a unique and a great taste. Normally I use vegetable oil which is a little better but this time I want to use the lard.   Melt it down you run it through a strainer to get any impurities out you know like pieces of meat that might be on the fat and so forth and then you pour it into containers for use later and it solidifies like this and makes and it was used a lot in cooking before you know cooking oils were available but this time we're going to use some lard so I got to get a knife here to cut the fat cut the fat yeah I got two pounds of it hopefully that's going to be enough to float some donuts in we'll let this melt down as you can see I got a thermometer this year it isn't like camping out like we did up north I didn't have a thermometer I just kind of guessed it temperatures and you can guess pretty well by putting a piece of the dough you know donut in the fat if it floats to the top or whatever and but we want to have it between 350 and 375 okay we're here in front of all the ingredients I've pre-measured out some of them I've pre-measured out four cups of flour and I have two eggs which I'm going to beat I have a cup of sugar I have some salt some baking soda and some bake well cream now the recipe normally calls for baking powder but I like bake well cream it's a product made here in Maine I don't know if it's distributed outside of Maine or not but the local big stores have it it makes great biscuits if you want to make a great biscuit you want to use this stuff it does as the recipe is right on the can and when you use it for other things such as donuts or cakes or whatever you have to do some substituting normally you know if you use regular baking powder you know you put that in you wouldn't need the baking soda and so forth and so on but this one if you use it for things other than biscuits you have to do a little interpolation here if you're using a teaspoon of baking powder you have to use two thirds of bake well cream and one third teaspoon of baking soda as a substitute so that's what I have done I've pre-measured out a bunch of this stuff I have a cup of sugar I have a half a teaspoon full of salt baking soda and bake well cream I used king Arthur all-purpose flour on bleach flour I have Crisco which I have melted which will go into it a cup of milk two eggs beaten and then we will proceed to mix all this stuff up so I mix the first up to the eggs it's pretty good on those now I'll put in a cup of milk I kind of keep all the liquids together and then I add the dry ingredients up a milk whole milk always for that one whole milk or you know half and half normally I would put in pure vanilla and I'm still going to put just a dab in but I want to add something this time that I never have added before it might give it a little bit different flavor I'm going to put in homemade maple syrup and I think that'll give it a little a little different flavor you know I have a bunch of maple trees so in the spring I collect sap and have it boil down and get quite a bit actually so that's that's from my woodlock I have the sharpening melted and you could use lard for this rather than vegetable oil I just have the vegetable oil I'm going to add that to the liquid and I'm going to add the sugar to the liquid and stir that in I'm going to add the salt to the flour the baking soda the bakewell cream and I'm going to put in a little bit of make cinnamon you don't measure that you just kind of I just just throw it in you know like you know the old recipes they used to say put a pinch of this in or pinch of that so that's that's a good size pinch I just put in there I want to mix that in really well so I got this pretty well mixed up and I'm going to add the liquid to it whether that gets mixed in really well Joe you want to check the temperature on that lard 325 exactly okay what do you want it at well we'll start out at 350 but it might take 375 to do it okay now I'm going to put a little flour sift a little flour on here put the dough on it what do you know what you think that'll make donny boy I can't remember how many how many we had up I think we had like 16 or so maybe was it that much depending on the size I guess yeah I really can't remember they disappeared pretty quick yeah they were disappearing faster and we could count all right well I'm just kind of kneading in the a little bit of the flour I'll roll it out here don't want it quite as sticky as I had it now flour the rolling pin which will help it from sticking and I usually roll this out to about a half inch thick it will try that oh I got this was a donut cutter I used when I was up camping I found this one handles broke off it but I think it'll work just fine a little bigger a little bigger and we'll see how it works out just to kind of take the donut hole and I try it in the fat and just see how that's coming along I think it's not quite hot enough joey okay we got to get up yeah we're yeah we like it 325 I'm going to turn the heat up just to whisk it if the fat isn't hot enough it soaks up a lot of grease okay and that's what you really don't want if it gets too hot then the outside of the donut cooks too fast then the inside is still not cooked so it's kind of kind of critical that you get the temperature just about right now we're just under 350 put one of these in and we're up to about 350 on the temperature we'll see how that does team right up to the top yeah so we'll keep them on this side for like a minute a minute and a half then flip it and see what looks like like shape yeah looks like the donut hole is getting smaller and smaller as it's growing yeah well let's let's flip it and see what the hell looks like wow doesn't look too bad looks pretty amazing I hope it's good I think you ought to keep practice on this every week yeah till I get it right yeah keep going I think probably we'll try that I'm gonna put them on here first wow those came out nice Nick I hate for you to be the guinea pig but you know it's hot you might want to wait on it let me get you a napkin hold on one second there you go we just want to make sure they're cooked inside and that they're edible it smells wicked good too hot yeah I think it's too hot I don't want it might be too hot donnie try it out this is the first one wow they're cooked sorry that's a good donut donnie is that edible yep well oh look at people are coming in to try these donuts come on in donnie they're beating the path down to your door I changed my knife that's the worst donut I keep trying right come on in come on in yeah that was no good you guys don't want to eat what the hell are the donuts I want my dish to put them in oh my god did you bring any quarters the donuts I exchange change the donuts are 50 cents each I got chains a cup of coffee is a quarter come on sit in sit out are you ready yet yeah we've had so much company here we haven't we didn't get started on time how are you how are you doing it wasn't good I heard joey was up this year he was up the kids were all up young joey and what's his father ladies first you know my goodness can I have a little more cinnamon on mine thank you thank you Jesus you want a cup of coffee of course no thank you delicious you want a glass of milk or a cup of tea uh not right now thank you it's good though is that edible done delicious done these two are real hot oh nice those two are really hot just be careful do maintenance oh nice that's working on all of them did you try one though they're delicious are you done getting the coffee huh you done getting the coffee those two closest to you are real hot be careful on those yeah those just came up what can I get you I just want to see the process oh how'd you get the shape oh right over here oh yeah this is a donut cutter oh yeah and there's a different donut cutter too but that's the one I know I got the way that whatever the system is and what's this you don't want to read this are you my weight watches yeah I'm cooking them in pure lad clogs the arteries like crazy you can have one this is my fifth one already how many would you eat if your wife wasn't here I'm not a platter probably yeah they're that good huh I think I think this finish in touching the sugar and the cinnamon the nut bag really adds to it yeah where's the maple syrup in the dough I yeah I put it I've never done it before with the maple syrup yeah and and probably the cinnamon not make overpower it so you don't really taste it that much I don't know it's a wonderful flavor yeah oh you do taste it or you don't see it yeah wow this this one batch made a whole pile of them yes pretty good yeah huh yeah there's another crawler coming for Greg look at that that's quite a plate of donuts I'm hoping the crawler is cooked through it's a little bit thicker did you guys get homemade donuts growing up other ma'am over no I think you made it with lard too really oh yeah the old time was all we used lard that's what makes it so good they're really good on a camping trip even without the lard they were still good on a camping trip but if he heats it up to the 350 it doesn't suck in the grease oh yeah yeah if you get it if you cook it over 350 it's considered a health food yeah under 350 under it's under you had a problem see I can't cut another one there so I gotta bring this all together and just keep doing it till it's gone huh till it's gone yeah and then what's left you eat raw or you make a donut stick right right you can make a crawler I guess two pounds lard for the frying worked out really well okay about a 10 inch 12 inch band yeah that's gotta be a 12 inch maybe who's this guy uh and Darren you're not very good you might have a home that's what I've heard it tastes like it but good right sorry come on in grab a chair grab a donut you want a cup of coffee no how about you timmy another day they're not very good guys sorry I haven't had one yet drive a couple of them and you see if they're any good these ones are the health food ones is it hot no okay what do you guys think is that the best donut you've ever had oh I'll never eat them again if I like don't you have how many of you have he only it took he only tried one I said my wife wasn't there to flatter her it wouldn't be any for you probably made over 20 right try to fill some with jelly next thing try to fill them with jelly next thing the donuts don't they want to fill the jelly next time oh my god you want to raise donuts the next time okay all right you don't want to sit down I'll give you a chair over here we finalized on cooking all the donuts we've got a hell of a mess here to clean up the flour goes everywhere but who cares the donuts they they're raving about the donuts I don't know if they're lying to me or what but uh we'll we'll see you know you never never bitch about the cooking


If this place gets used up, you can go one space higher up, you can go one space below, that's not a problem. So, let's start with the L3L4 space. Now, don't press this area. There you go. Did you see the gift? All of you saw it, isn't it? We didn't see it. Okay, no problem. I'll do it for you again. Some people missed it, so the camera should roll. Those who didn't see the gift, come forward. Not only the person doing it will feel the gift, but those people who are watching will know immediately, oh yes, enter now. The moment you enter, stop immediately, because if you push it even one more millimeter, you'll find that the end is hitting the other side. Okay, so let's assume I've hit a bone. So I'm not manipulating anymore. I'm taking it out straight. This area is anesthetized, so don't worry, you're not causing the patient any pain. You have anesthetized the region. The patient relax. Okay, position. This thing is flat, parallel to the ground. Tip of the needle aiming towards the thumb bellicose. Again, don't touch this area. Steady your hand. Hold the way I told you. Thumb up, three fingers below.


Hey there, I'm Cedric Clyburn, a developer advocate at Red Hat, and in the next few minutes I'm going to teach you how to go from your local code to a Kubernetes cluster using the Odo CLI. Now, let's say that you got some code that you're working on locally, but you want to quickly build and deploy your work to your Kubernetes cluster. Could be to test your work or maybe debug an error. Now, you could write a Docker file, some Kubernetes manifest, and do a full image build for every small code change, or you could save time and resources and use Odo, the open source tool made for application development on Kubernetes clusters. This way, you're abstracting away the complexities of Kubernetes and you're spending less time maintaining your deployment and more time actually coding. So in essence, less time fighting DevOps and more time making cool stuff. So we know Odo can deploy our favorite framework fast and often to our Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster, but how does that actually work? Well, we don't even have to have really any knowledge of Kube CTL or OC. We only need to use Odo to deploy our application onto our cluster. Now, let's go ahead and install the CLI to our local machine. I'm using a Mac here, but you can find downloads for Windows and Linux at Odo.dev. Head to the docs and head to the installation page. Now, being on a Mac, I can simply use Homebrew to install the Odo CLI. As you'll notice, I've already got Odo installed on my machine, so I'll wait for the installation to confirm that. And then we're good to get started. Awesome. So Homebrew confirmed that we already have Odo installed and up to date. So let's use an example of a Node.js project with the Express framework as our example application. So let's go ahead and download Express with NPM install Express. And we'll save that. And then let's go ahead and create an example project that we're going to be working with Odo today with NPM Express Generator. This is going to download the kind of bootstrap that we need for an example application to use with Odo. So it's created all of these template files that we'll use as a skeleton project. And in this folder, we're going to only use three steps to deploy this application to Kubernetes using Odo. All right. So firstly, let's connect to our cluster and create a new namespace. Now, if we're connected to our Kubernetes cluster, like I am here on my terminal, we can go ahead and do Odo create namespace and then use whatever namespace we want. So we could do Odo dev, for example. And so this is going to create a new namespace and it's going to switch us to it. Now say that we'd like to use OpenShift, for example, we can go ahead and head to the developers.redhat.OpenShift sandbox. And so this sandbox is a 30 day free trial of your own shared OpenShift cluster. And we can do it for completely free. All we have to do is sign in with our Red Hat credentials. So I'm going to go ahead and sign in with my Red Hat credentials and we should see our own OpenShift dedicated cluster that we'll be able to use with Odo. So what we can do is head to our copy login command page and we'll go and copy that into our terminal and use Odo to create a new namespace with that. So we'll go ahead and copy the token, go back into a new terminal page and we'll log in with our token. Now that the terminal is confirmed that we've logged back in, we can do the same thing. Odo create namespace Odo.dev. Now the only limitation with the OpenShift developer sandbox is that we only have one project that we can use. So if we were to do the same thing with an Odo, we would do Odo create namespace, but then use the specific project that we already have assigned to us. So I'm not going to do this as we're already using Kubernetes, but this is the same way that we do this on OpenShift and the commands are the same for the rest of the example. The next step in deploying our application to Kubernetes is by creating a dev file to be deployed. A dev file is a portable file which describes our development environment and all of its components. If I run Odo init, it'll automatically detect our source code and it's going to download the appropriate dev file to our local directory, which is going to contain a lot of metadata, which we'll go over here in a little bit. The component name is correct and it's downloaded if we do an LS to our local directory. So we'll check this out later, but finally, let's run an Odo dev to go ahead and start development on our node application. This is going to allow us to edit using our IDE and we'll be able to watch as Odo rebuilds. So Odo is creating and deploying a pod with a container and that's going to contain our node application, which we just created, and a way to access it all in one command. So now that we can see that our application has been deployed to our cluster, let's go ahead and hop into our IDE and take a look at a few things. So we can see the dev file.yaml has been downloaded to our local directory. I won't cover everything in here, but we can see some associated metadata or using the JavaScript language with the node project we've got expressed right here. If we were to make a change in our project, say that we're changing the index page, we would see that Odo is going to automatically refresh and redeploy our changes to the cluster.  We can see that Odo is syncing and rebuilding our application. So if we were to wait a second and hop back into our express application, if we refresh the page and wait a second, we can see that this change has been redeployed to our cluster. And now we've just seen how Odo can help you rapidly iterate your cloud data applications without having any advanced Kubernetes knowledge. You can use all of your familiar tools while staying in the inner loop of development. And Odo can do so much more. So head over to Odo.dev to install Odo on your machine as well as learn more about cloud native development. Have a great day.


Welcome. This is our second Striving for Equity workshop. I am Corinne. I'm the person that has been emailing you. And I know many of the names on this call. I'm really excited to see you here. I think this is going to be really helpful. Just I'm going to start with just a few housekeeping things. This, as I said, is our second Striving for Equity workshop. The Striving for Equity project has allowed us to offer support and resources for housing committees and community groups doing advocacy around housing. In addition to our workshops, we have been doing our housing committee drop in, which has been a really exciting social space for housing committee members and other adjacent housing advocates to talk about some of the policies that they're working on, some of the things they're struggling with, what they'd like to see, what they'd like to know more about. And just kind of from a personal perspective, it's been really exciting and has bringing me a lot of hope to see other people, housing committee members kind of teaching each other about the field. That's been really great to see. As a reminder, all of our workshops, not our drop-ins, but our workshops are recorded. We are putting them on our Striving for Equity toolkit website, which I'm going to be putting in the chat right here. I just switched from a Mac to a Windows, so I always get my shortcuts mixed up. So you can find the past recordings and at the end of this workshop on this toolkit, as well as our calendar of events and some other resources that have come up in our workshop. The other thing I just want to turn your attention to is that we have some really exciting opportunities coming up for April. April is Fair Housing Month and the Fair Housing Project loves the opportunity to partner with communities across the state to further our housing education, especially around housing inclusion in the Fair Housing Act. And this year, we have the privilege of partnering with the Human Rights Commission to invite Richard and Leah Rothstein up to Vermont, which is huge to talk about their most recent book, Just Action. So we have a lot of activities that will be kind of coming up in proceeding the event and coming up after the event, including I'm hearing rumors of a book group, all to say that keep your eye on the email. I'm going to be promoting, I'm going to be promoting these events. Just this is me using the wrong shortcut. Again, I'm glad this is recorded so I can relive this. I'm putting our Striving for Equity website in the chat. And then as a reminder, I know I've said this a few times in my emails, please add fhp at cboe.org to your address book. If if you haven't, you might not be receiving some of our newsletters, which come in through MailChimp. So just take a minute at the end of this workshop, perhaps you're multitasking and add us to your address book. With that said, I'm trying to think if I forgot anything, I might just circle back and say once again, I'm Karin, I'm here with the CVOEO Fair Housing Project at Champlain Valley of Economic Opportunity. We have we're welcoming Emily Heyman, the senior planner of the town of Williston for our second Striving for Equity workshop.  Otherwise, I will talk right through this workshop. Thank you, Karin. Thanks for the introduction. Nice to meet everybody. My name is Emily. I started out with the town of Williston in 2017, entry level planning technician. Currently, I'm senior planning senior planner, and also recently, deputy zoning administrator, although I call not sure zoning administration is a promotion or a demotion. It can be fun and challenging. My role is wide ranging for the town. So I staff the Development Review Board, looking at development proposals, helping draft their decisions. I help review administrative permits. So I'm helping citizens from someone who's never gotten a shed permit before or is building their home to working with developers and engineers and professionals on big projects, major developments. So both ends of the spectrum. And also long range planning assisting with the Planning Commission, staffing our Historic and Design Advisory Commission, as well as assisting with the select board as needed. So my role is both current planning with permit review from large to small projects to long range planning with writing and revising the bylaws. Right now we're working on our town plan project and some of our advisory committees. So my presentation presentation today is called Get It Done, Community Engagement for Municipal Decisions. Some of my examples and stories and that I'll share are based on my experience, but also some of my experience with my coworkers. Most projects are the result of a good team effort. So a little bit about the town of Williston, most folks I assume have probably visited our town. We're population a little over 10,000 people. We're 10 minutes to the airport, 20 minutes to downtown Burlington, and we're in Chittenden County. So the fastest growing county in our state with a lot of jobs and employment opportunities and also a great need for housing. Williston seen a lot of change. So like most of Vermont, it has a lot of change. So like most of Vermont, it has an agrarian rural history. In the 1980s, being located on intersection of two state highways and the interstate 89 became a place where development was desirable. We've seen a lot of change over the past 30 years. And we're going through our ugly duckling our suburban retrofit phase. So the building from strip malls, parking lot forward development, single use commercial buildings to trying to retrofit in a downtown walkable pattern, more housing, more mixed use buildings. This suburban retrofit photo is the newly constructed LLB in Williston. The building is pulled to the street. It has a 10 foot wide multi-use and the Cisco truck is using the bike pedestrian path for loading. So we're seeing that sometimes challenges over trying to make it a walkable place, but the rest of the world is trying to evolve to it. The Cisco truck now knows to use the parking lot on the other side. So our agenda for today's meeting, I'm going to go over some of the tools in my toolbox, why I use them and several case studies explaining some of my tips and tricks. So it's in my toolbox. Some things are free, like Google, Google Forms, Google Survey. I do recorded PowerPoint sometimes. I'm not a video editor by any means. Mentimeter for surveying, target project journals, which is basically a Google form and some note cards I'll go into in the future, infographics, decision templates, and my words of wisdom. My focus here is that my tools that I try to use are either free or included in my existing Microsoft package or something that's not crazy expensive, worth municipalities or nonprofits with limited budget. So we need to be judicious with what we use. So why have a toolbox? Time and attention are our most precious resources and it's important to keep decision makers focused on facts, not on emotions. And in general, after about two hours of a meeting or things going past 9pm at night, it can be really hard to think clearly, make good decisions, especially when you're in nitty gritty of working on a bylaw amendment or drafting a development decision. So it's important to use our time efficiently. And our boards and committees, when you add it all up, for example, a planning commission that meets two times a month, 12 months a year, that's about 48 hours. So you have throughout an entire year, very little meeting time, and you need to allocate it judiciously. And those 48 hours a year can easily divert it to random tangents. We're working on big concepts and big ideas. People have a lot of passions. It's a lot of yes and solutions. So how do we keep random tangents from taking over? So the first example is the Williston Energy Plan. This was adopted in September of 2020, so a little while ago. And it was an amendment to our comprehensive plan, doing our required energy plan. So there's things that we were required to do by the state for substantial deference. And then our energy committee and our planning commission went above and beyond. It had major focus areas from transportation and land use, recycling, agriculture. So broad-ranging focus, a lot of places where tangents and passions could take over. So how did we address that? I constructed a pre-meeting survey. So I took all of the statements in the energy plan and had our planning commission do a survey. You either agree with it as written or you give a recommendation for to change it. You'll notice that no is not an option. And this is Google Forms, which is free. I looked at the responses and then was able to determine from the planning commission where is their consensus, where is their friction. The topics where no one had any feedback or everybody was in agreement. We're not even going to talk about that in the public meeting or we'll talk about it very briefly at the end. Where there are places of friction or a lot of feedback, we're going to prioritize talking about those town plan goals and policies first. Some of that was just nuanced language changes rather than creating a program, exploring a tiered program. So using the feedback from that survey to broaden language and present something to the planning commission in their meeting. So we're not spiraling out in the meeting. Here's another example where increase allowable density. That was a really hot button issue. Our goal here is to get an energy plan and get our substantial benefits deference through. So we just change the wording to in the future reevaluate density. A big takeaway from energy plan. So all of that feedback from the survey was there is a missing link. Often times municipalities, we have very little control over state or national influences that are affecting our town. So we added a third pathway to our energy plan to monitor state and federal policies. Proactively participate in legislative process. For example, ideas would be thrown out like, hey, why don't we put a local option sales tax on gas? It's like, well, municipalities don't have the authority to do that. And we didn't want our commissioners to feel like their ideas were wrong or being ignored, but just recognize that there's a greater context to what a municipal government can and can't do. And here's how we can take that pathway forward and address those concerns. So for energy plan, I use Google Forms and I created decision templates. So our planning commission would be talking not about do you want to change the language in this yes or no, but what language do you want to change and what words do you want to use. So we're having a much higher focused conversation in that limited meeting time. Second example was part of our form based code project. So in fall of 2022, Williston adopted a form based code after a very lengthy public process and we did hire an outside consultant to help us draft the form based code, but we as staff did a lot of shepherding it through our planning commission, some of our public outreach and engagement. And I'm really going to focus on after we had done our community engagement, our public surveys, that kind of thing. I'm going to focus on getting the planning commission working through the draft and transmitting something to the select board for approval. So we had a lot going on in form based code. We're developing whole new design standards and maybe one night we're talking about architectural standards, but someone read the parking chapter and has a lot of questions and comments on the parking chapter. So we had a park at journal where if something came up either during a meeting or one of our planning commission members sent us a question or comment, rather than just checking it off in our heads, we had a shared Google doc to keep track of ideas and then respond to them. Oftentimes there would be ideas or questions brought up that we couldn't, we don't have the authority as a municipality to include in our zoning or weren't going to be addressed in the form based code by law package, but we didn't want to forget about them. So we used the park at journal to show that the planning commissioners were being heard responding to them with facts and data where appropriate and keep track. So after the planning commission reviewed their first draft of the code and was ready to warn a public hearing, they held a hearing and there were about 10 things that they felt like we want to tweak before we get send this on to the select board. And each one of these 10 things could have probably been a meeting of its own and we needed to be really efficient with our timeline to move this project forward to the select board. So we broke it down into these 12 or these 10 topic areas and did a PowerPoint video which is not going to win any, you know, Grammys or Oscars or whatever, but it helps convey to the planning commission and it made it possible for us as staff to remind them of all their process, what the code says, what the facts are around the issue that they're topic that they're concerned about, and we would talk over PowerPoint slides and then they would be able to watch it or listen to it on their own time. An example was building height, building height in the different form-based code area. So we summarized what they, all the building heights were proposed to be, how it corresponds to the regulating map of the form-based code, reminded them of the testimony that they heard throughout the public hearing process, an excerpt of what the existing building heights are in the bylaw. Some of my graphic design in this era is not super great, but it works, and reminding them about their public process, what did the vision plan say about affordable housing and height, building heights, energy and environment, taxes, and going back to the energy plan, so our energy plan has some standards for the bylaw as well. And then we brought this to a Mentimeter survey question. So rather than having the Planning Commission members dialogue on a yes or no, we gave them discrete options and then had them pull, and it kept everybody's answers, everybody's voices weighted equally in this format. What happened when we did the straw poll is we did a first round of voting, the Commission discussed it a little bit more, and then they did a second round and a final poll after working out any questions that they had, and this gave us really good direction moving forward, or if we're changing something in the code, we as staff have clear direction for the draft that will then be transmitted to the select board. A second example from form-based code was there as a property, currently being developed, some of you may know this is where Community Bank and Junior's Pizza are located in Williston. We reminded them of all of the facts and data that went into developing the regulating plan like existing right-of-ways, state roads, conservation areas, wetlands, easements, and utility lines. We hot linked to the relevant testimony so they could easily access the comments they heard during the public hearing. We reviewed the permit history for the property, some facts about the acreage, showed them the map overlaid on old wetlands data. I actually did this in PowerPoint. I have no photoshop experience at all. I've created all of this stuff in PowerPoint and notes, and then brought them to the question. So we gave them all these facts in really quick little PowerPoint slides with some voiceover recording, and then asked them, based on all this information, do you want to change the regulating plan map yes or no, or do you have another idea? We did a straw poll again, and they decided to, initially the vote was 3-3, and then they decided to keep it as is after another discussion. So doing that initial poll gives them the opportunity, okay we generally know where our seven-member board, well in this case six attended the meeting. We know where the folks are feeling, and we can have our jumping off point for discussion there. Next example is the development review board process. So staffing the DRB is a big task in Williston. We have a lot of meetings with big agenda items. This for example was the annex, which is going to be about 243 dwelling units into apartment building. So it's a pretty large development for town. And the staff report is a template that I designed based off of an APA article for designing staff reports. So during this process we get citizen comment letters, where a lot of times the comment letters are beyond the development review board scope of authority, sometimes beyond the scope of a municipal bylaw. So when I get comment letters where there's questions and concerns about traffic, this one even goes on to say that they would prefer it if DRB would deny a project or hold off on deciding until you know you can do more about traffic, that kind of thing. So when I read a citizen letter, I'm like oh my gosh everything's connected. There's so much here to share about so much information that can help this person understand the decisions and policies that go behind development review. And it can be easy to get frustrated with or overwhelmed by citizen comments, but I always remind myself that people want to be helped, heard, or hugged. And we're not actually hugging people, but we're trying to be polite and empathetic in our words. So I looked at this comment letter and I'm thinking about what are the principles and standards that go behind traffic studies? Why does Williston have zoning districts? The whole CERC alternative highway and the CERC highway that canceled in 2011 and its impacts on traffic in the region. Building homes together data, county and local transportation plan, demographic data, due process that applicants are supposed to have their applications reviewed in a timely manner. This is a quasi judicial proceeding reviewing an application. My staff report template helps to address some of these citizens concerns. It's a roadmap for the Development Review Board and professional developers and engineers who do this time and time again, but it's also designed for the first time reader. Someone who's never participated in a development review process. They can understand what's happening, the zoning district, the standards of the bylaw that will apply, what the recommended action is for the DRB. So they're not shocked when they find out that the development got approved. For each chapter of the bylaw, I have a discussion for the DRB and the applicant they see at the top standard complies as proposed for the rest of the chapter. It's discussing state highway standards where VTRAN supersedes local review for their interstate highways. Looking at, there was a lot of concerns with this application about it connecting through an existing neighborhood. So I brought in that subdivision plot from the 90s for a budding neighborhood. I discussed what is and is not considered in a traffic study. I linked to the town's traffic calming policy of when speed humps or other traffic calming measures are considered on existing road. I excerpted the bylaw. So someone who's never approached our bylaw before, they can see the standards right here. And also for the DRB, they have a quick reference as well if a question comes up in the hearing. This application, I got a lot, or the DRB received a lot of comment letters. When that happens, sometimes I write a memo. It's depersonalized. I address it to the development review board, not the individuals. And I respond to a lot of those reoccurring questions and concerns. I always start by summarizing what the DRB's role is and is not. They administer the bylaws. They don't write or revise them. And then I provide links to relevant background information. So there were some misconceptions in the public comment about prior approvals. I provide links to those older development reviews. I provide a lot of information about state roads, towns, policies on plowing. I even go as far as to link to the metropolitan transportation plan and other regional planning documents just to help provide citizens with as much information as possible. Even though I can't address all of their concerns, the DRB can't resolve all of their concerns. There's a lot of existing information out there that can help understand the topic area that they're concerned about. Glazer specific plan. So this was a unique zoning process in Williston's bylaw. There's a Williston observer article out that got repeated in Vermont Digger all about it. That came out the other day. It's a process similar to a plan development or planned plan unit development review, but it's legislative where a developer is working with the planning commission on bylaw amendments to support a specific proposal. Long story short, it's complicated. This is my flow chart to help break down all the various steps that go through the specific plan process. This is confusing to me. It's definitely confusing to the average citizen. So I was trying to break it down in a way where folks could understand what's happening along the way and also help the planning commission feel confident that they are following all the rules and procedures to this rarely used zoning process that's codified in the bylaws. Any time a big project goes through the process, any time a big project or residential development especially is proposed, you know that there's going to be a lot of citizen interest. This one especially because a horse farm is leasing the land for some of their pasture in Hayfield. So when that type of thing happens where I know that there's going to be a lot of public comment, rather than just asking for folks to submit comment letters, I like to do it in a different way. So I can break down, I can get an idea, are people going to be coming to the community meeting? How many should I be expecting in person and on Zoom? And then I break down the questions. So what are your comments or concerns about the residential development? About the open space. So this project was proposing open space donation to the town. Do you have questions about the public comment process that is codified in the bylaw or any other questions? So helping break down what kind of input I'll be hearing from people. And then I'm able to analyze and update an FAQ based on that. So I got 76 survey responses. And I like the survey method for public comment because it gives people time to calmly articulate their ideas and concerns before a public meeting. And I think when emotion and when emotion and fear of the unknown is tied up in these kinds of things, being able to work through them before being in an in-person meeting really helps things go more smoothly. Setting boundaries with imagery. So throughout those 76 survey responses and five comment letters, there was a repeated theme. Why can't this parcel be developed in its entirety or conserved in its entirety? Could it be developed for more units if this doesn't happen? At the end of the day, the planning commission was going to be having a very narrow focus in their community meeting. And so I wanted to remind people that tonight we're in the specific plan community meeting. We're going to talk about this railroad track on the left. And there's all these other railroad tracks like conventional development or land conservation that are still theoretically possible. But tonight the focus is the applicant applied for specific plan and that's what the planning commission is talking about this evening to help people break down all the various potentials on with this land and where the planning commission's focus was going to be. My fourth example is a eclectic mix of infographics that I've come up with over time. This was one that I used for the Glaser specific plan. So the density would have allowed 218 homes, 109 units are proposed. I think I created this either with just with PowerPoint and maybe Excel for the grids. So keep it simple. Infographics are they can seem challenging and overwhelming. So keep it simple and also the Coco Chanel saying like when you go out for the day, look in the mirror and take one thing off. So it's an iterative process. You're going to design something and you'll need to simplify it. Here's one that I created to help folks understand the roles and process with development standards. So planning commission proposes the rules select board approves them the DRB administers them and then how the town plan informs what the zoning bylaws will stay and how it's administered through the DRB. I think I created this one in PowerPoint. So really simple kind of dorky looking, but it gets the job done. And I really do think it has had an impact with citizens who are just for the first time approaching a bylaw amendment process or development review process understanding how the various entities and town policy documents work together. I use Canva. It is free. You get a little bit more capability with the paid version, which is fairly cheap. Which meeting would you prefer to go to? The one on the left or the one on the right? They're both the same meeting. So if something is really important and you want to have people interested in it just a little bit of effort on some graphic design and using a pre template even in PowerPoint can go a long way. We had another process where there was a development of a citizen driven bylaw request to reduce or change the amount of open space that our bylaw would require to be set aside in a subdivision. And throughout that process we were hearing a lot about traffic and schools and sewer and police and emergency services. So we were hearing a lot of concerns but those concerns wouldn't be addressed by the bylaw amendment that the citizens were asking for. So we were trying to break down what would a minimum percentage open space standard have on XYZ factor. This one came out of our 15 year growth center report. So looking at the new dwellings that were created in different parts of town and through this iterative process of working through the data Williston's growth center is 5% of the land area and 70% of the new homes. So by working through this growth report and analyzing the data I was able to come up with this really quick bullet point that explains a lot of information about the town that this very small center is where most of the new homes are taking place in town. I can't take credit for this graphic for the data that went behind it but I wanted to share it as well one of my coworkers worked on this showing that simple projections how many units would be built in the future. We hear a lot of concerns about sprawl and that the pace of growth is really fast but what our data is showing is that most of our homes are going to be in a consolidated area and the rural part of town is going to see very few homes by 2030. This it shows school milestones compared to Williston K-8 enrollment numbers. I haven't actually used this table in a public meeting but it is helpful. I have used the story behind it. We often hear with development that it is going to have an impact on school population and we looked at the data of number of homes that have been built in Williston. This is from the census to the number of school children both existing and projected out to 2030 and that there is a difference and also recently there is a discussion that the school might have to cut teachers because the student-teacher ratio is changing with declining enrollment. I created this in Excel and then made it look a little bit prettier in PowerPoint. This is a visualization I also created in PowerPoint. Open space and density I think that is something that citizens often struggle with understanding where you have a parcel and then if it is an open space subdivision it is going to appear denser but it is still the same overall land area so helping folks understand density and development standards with a simple graphic that you can make for free in PowerPoint. One of my mantras is let's get in the car kids. On the weekends I also teach skiing to children so this philosophy comes in mind there as well but it also works with adults and citizen committees so you are framing the questions to get the desired discussion not trying to lead anybody to certain answers or outcomes do you want to get in the car is going to be a yes no answer and a grumpy kid might say no can you get in the car seat on your own or do you need my help gives options but then you can have a more informed discussion so framing your questions and framing your discussions rather than should new houses be built present some data we know that there is a need for housing in our community and our town plan says that we should provide housing for all people in our community so where is the best place to do that and where is not the best place to put new houses in a conversation based on facts and based on data in your town plan or other documents about your topic area so for example we would turn to not only our town plan the regional planning commission documents for Chittenden County we could look at building homes together so there is a lot of resources you could look at and then frame questions based on data that already exists we did a survey once where we framed a question so you have 100 homes where would you put them in town so we are not asking do you want more homes in town we know that the data says that Williston is going to keep having development pressure so where would you like to put them in town and what we found was that and what we were able to show citizens was that their preferences lined up with existing policy that the majority of homes would go in the growth center some in our remaining sewer service area and very few homes out in the rural part of town remind decision makers of prior input so these excerpts come from our form based code adoption process where we kept track of how many people visit our website and email subscribers how many hours did the planning commission put into the process how many survey responses and map comments did we get how many people attended the meeting so reminding decision makers of all of the pre the efforts that went into something before it ends up at that final adoption hearing and thanking them as well thanking those citizens and participants who gave their time and hours even from a couple minutes taking a survey to a planning commission meeting that went over time thanking everybody for their work in that process my last example is Williston 2050 so this is our headline tag name for writing our next comprehensive plan I can't take credit for the logo here we had an iterative process with leadership Champlain where they worked on some colors and that logo my boss created that font I think it's just called bumper sticker font and the resilient livable equitable came out of iterative staff conversations about what would a cool tagline be for Williston 2050 and playing around with some chat GPT examples this was from 4th of July some of the creativity comes from practice getting out and talking with citizens in person this was like the first time I think the planning office had ever had a table at the 4th of July talking to citizens about projects and at this time it was right before the form based code was having a hearing with the select board so it was a really important time to do outreach and it helped get the creative juices flowing talking with people trying out new ideas and it was definitely a precursor to thinking about our Williston 2050 engagement so we had teaser activities last summer we did our in person and online big events in the fall our survey just closed on Monday and we're getting ready to write our town plan this hangs in my boss's office do the thing and keep going so trial and error iterative process is what can lead you to cool things basically this is our website we built it with Google sites our leadership Champlain people picked a couple colors and we ran with that color pellet we tried to keep fonts consistent reused the logo these are power point icons I'm not a graphic designer but it's just pick a couple things colors and fonts and run with it this is our Williston 2050 fabric of a new town plan I can't take credit for it it was designed by my boss but it definitely was the result of everybody in our office brainstorming ideas cool ways of visualizing things sharing examples of other communities or articles in the planning related world cool infographics and designs looking at other town plans and brainstorming these are the 12 elements that state law says a town plan needs to talk about and then the top are core values so how can Williston be livable, resilient, equitable in the future in 2020-50 and beyond so we made it a game we printed it on a banner at Staples got some sticky balls off Amazon this was also from July 4th folks could throw a sticky ball at the fabric and see where it landed how can transportation be beautiful how can education be affordable just spitball and what comes to mind when you think about that topic area and that adjective we also did postcards from the future so folks could fill out a postcard you're writing from the year 2050 back to the present day so you get that space time travel imagination going it's fun with kids, it's fun for adults and this was, you know, we designed it I think in Canva or PowerPoint following those simple colors from the beginning we did have a consultant that is working on our Willis in 2050 however we did most of our community round table design and facilitation on our own so provided food, small facilitated groups the main event was advertised as an hour and a half and then we had a little bit of buffer time on the beginning end and we had five topic areas at these events so your facilitated group you had 15 minutes per topic area keeping things quick keeps people efficient and brief as part of the activity we gave folks an alter ego card so there was one where it's like I'm a six-year-old kid and I like to ride my bike but the streets are too busy so getting people to answer the questions and prompts as themselves but also their alter ego and I think adults found this to be fun because you the ones that got like a kid or a teenager were like oh I'm 16 and I just got my driver's license and could play around with it and then we used park it card so going back to that original park it system we used with our planning commission we brought this to our in-person events 15 minute format per topic is really fast especially even if you have a small group you have a lot of voices so if someone had a question or an idea or thought that it gets your heart pounding and you want to be able to share it but it's not really relevant to that quick conversation your group is having you park it and we got a lot of these as part of our process this one on the right is I think a good example of what we experienced was a slow down growth but at the end it says increase affordable housing so the just the position that I think people are feeling and all our communities are trying to work through so to conclude some words of wisdom that I had in the back of my mind through all these examples is really embrace the iterative process these infographics and quick facts are the result of trial and error explaining things multiple time bad first drafts some of my PowerPoint slides even today I'm like too many thoughts and working with teammates I'm always happy to answer citizen questions on the phone or in email and talk through folks multiple times the more you try to understand an idea yourself and simplify it the better you become at telling a story in a really simple way without being dishonest because sometimes if you sometimes if you try to distill information you cut out important facts that are important to the story so distilling things in a manner that keeps everything truthful also maintain trust stay neutral and show respect so those are pillars of facilitation and when a citizen comes to me with a comment or concern sometimes often it's because that has been violated in the past institutional memory can include past hurts that linger so where are you rebuilding relationships within a community and how can you rebuild it with every interaction whether it's email phone or in person for example our historic preservation process many years decades ago was pretty tough on homeowners where I'll have citizens that come in and yeah I had such an awful time and I felt so berated trying to put a little porch on my historic home back in the 90s that I've never wanted to come to the town again to do anything again and I'm like well I hear that now I have to recognize okay this person that felt this had this bad experience before I was maybe even on the planet and how can I help them understand that the process would be different today and that if they wanted to do now they want to change the siding on their home well the development standards are different and the committee operates different than it did back in the 90s. I remember that people have come before me and I'm always working to help build trust stay neutral and show respect to my community members another word of wisdom and my strategy is acknowledge don't ignore you don't need an answer to everything you really just need to know how to search for things we're dealing in our communities with big issues housing affordability homelessness climate change failing infrastructure it's like these are really big topics I don't have the answers to all of them but I know how to search the web and search to see what other communities what other resources are out there that can provide facts and provide information to help fill in the gaps and provide links to other resources so we don't have to go reinventing the wheel we can just help curate to whoever is asking the question and be polite and firm but firm with boundaries so an example during our form-based code process there was a citizen that was really concerned about the new zoning standards and future development on the impact of co-utility lines and the electrical grid which are something beyond the scope of form-based code and beyond the scope of where municipalities have authority through zoning but I recognize that this person is really interested and really passionate so I explained through state law how zoning is superseded for utilities I linked to state and utility companies planning for a resilient grid a lot of resources out there on the state website and then I also explained I understand that you have these concerns but they won't be addressed in this by law package because we're working on development and design standards that apply to essentially private development and these utilities are a different entity and you know with those examples with other companies it's like here's or the state public services planning processes like here's where you can direct your questions and comments and have more of an impact lastly some reading and resources this article recently came out five conflict resolution tips to design better meetings and it's like oh this is a lot of the things that I've been doing it's really helpful I linked to a Vermont digger article about open meeting law so just make sure that if you're using collaborative documents that you're maintaining open meeting law requirements a lot of it is you know decisions and policy conversations should be happening that public meeting so that planning commission survey the survey results were filtering to me I was basing my agenda off of them and then everything is made publicly accessible so anyone from the public can see all those survey results reaching for higher ground is an old book but a good one and lastly a planner's guide to meeting facilitation technically it costs money but I think if you Google it you can find a copy out there and with that thank you let me know if you guys have any questions thanks so much Emily yeah so folks that have questions you can go ahead and either put it in the chat if that's what you prefer or you can use the raise hands feature which is at the bottom of your screen I always feel like it's a different place for me it isn't a different place for me because I'm the host but if you can't find your raise hands feature you can just put in the chat that you'd like to ask your question out loud or of course anyone can put your question in the chat but while I'm letting you all kind of think it over Emily I feel like you addressed this pretty well in your presentation which is why I invited you in to talk speak with us but I'm just thinking about when like the in the kind of groups of vocal folks there's sometimes folks that just are not gonna you know they're really like stuck on an idea and they're not gonna come around to a yes and they might be maybe the loudest voice in the room and I wonder if you can speak to how you direct someone with that kind of intention yeah so ideally I've had time to you know chat with them one on one outside of a public meeting where I can understand where their questions or concerns are if it's a planning commission member or a board member fortunately we're really lucky that most our board members are pretty even keeled but I would how do I frame this I always go back to you know the policy documents you know at the end of the day we're working on town plan goals we're working on a bigger community vision and try to frame it in that broader framework and remind folks that a lot of these concerns and questions it's usually yes and solutions there's usually many things that need to be done in order to have an impact it's not gonna be a one size fits all solution and that there's often times no right answer and kind of remind them that we as communities are working with the tools that we have to affect a change that there's always especially with a bylaw amendment there's time to course correct in the future and try to remind them of the bigger context and go back to what are the guiding principle documents that the town has via a town plan regional planning goals and remind of the bigger picture that's at play thank you yeah that's really helpful I was just checking to see do you have an example for the decision template oh that's do you have an example for the decision plan templates um yeah so with the planning commission it would be you know outlining a couple of options of what the bylaw tax would be for them to choose from with the development review board we're drafting out you know findings conditions and conclusions for them to have a specific question on one I'm happy to help or if you want to reach out to me directly I can link you link you to some decision templates that we've given our committees I'll let SJ had to pop off who asked the question but I'll make sure I convey that information do we have other lingering questions any comments big takeaways you want to share with us thanks Emily I really loved your presentation I got to see your boss Matt present at the Katma transportation summit in the fall and it's just what you're doing will listen is really cool cool stuff I think particularly as you're envisioning kind of trying to retrofit the suburban development pattern into a kind of renovated village concept and like the information you provided on I think getting the community and on board with it is is awesome and it's like it's really inspiring to see but I'm also curious about how you manage to get interested property owners and developers to kind of also get on board with this new plan I know that in particular developers or property owners who are used to the sort of suburban development pattern think that you need to have a box store look like a box store and and are not interested in having like street forward buildings versus like big parking lots so yeah just if you have any tips or just thoughts on that getting yeah well form based code was our prior zoning was an iterative walkable standard so it wasn't what we didn't really go from 0 to 60 we probably went from like 20 to 60 the development community was already somewhat familiar with trying to pull buildings to the street form based code definitely kicked it up a notch working with developers working with anybody I really try to be build trust by being straight up about the development standards and how they're going to apply so whether I'm answering a citizen question about getting a backyard permit shed or how I think the DRB conditions are going to fall on a certain type of development proposal I'm giving them all the answers I can about the bylaw like if the Lorac speaks for the trees then I'm speaking for the bylaw and I'm trying to be as clear and straight forward and fill that trust with the development community where it's like hey if you propose that thing to the DRB it's not going to go so hot so you should change it to come more into compliance so really building trust with the development community about how the bylaw standards are interpreted and then like when you have when you have the trust with your community I think then you can help build the interest in okay we're going to transition to something that's going to be a little bit different it's going to be more challenging but we're trying to achieve a certain vision. Willison has a lot of cumbersome parts of its zoning bylaw so I think it's been easier to get our development review community on board because they see the benefit of a simplified permit process more allowed density more allowed building height so they do see that there is a benefit to them as well and the benefit to the community as whole it's like we need more mixed use buildings we need more housing yeah. I just want to say anyone who needs to leave feel free to leave when you need to if there are lingering questions feel free to send them to my email seont.cvoo.org you probably have it because I've promoted this workshop and I just want to say again thank you Emily this was an incredible workshop I knew it would be and it has so many helpful pieces that I have brought up kind of in conversation with people working in all different realms of advocacy and the housing world and so I'm glad that we now have this workshop as a permanent resource to share with people yeah thank you so much for having me I dropped my email in the chat and I shared my contact info as well I encourage folks to reach out to me anytime I'm happy to share my tools and tips and tricks and resources and help if you're struggling with an idea and you want some feedback reach out I'm always here to help our neighboring Vermont community groups similar and thanks everyone for joining