Okay, I have 530. So with that, I would like to call to order this May 19th meeting of the Board of Directors of the San Lorenzo Valley Water District. Holly, would you take the roll please? Hail May Hood. Here. Vice President Ackerman. Here. Director Foles. Here. Director Hill. Here. Director Smalley. Here. Okay, so first order of business tonight will be that I am going to turn over the presiding duties to Jamie because I'm in a rehab center.  And I'm recovering from hip surgery. I'm actually doing very well. I'm gonna bust out of this joint on Saturday, but between the chances of them bombing into my room to take my blood pressure, which they seem to do like every other hour, and my sort of opioid addled brain, I thought it would be better to let Jamie run both the closed and the open session tonight. And so I will be, I'm participating, but I will be off camera and Jamie, take it away. All right, thanks Gail. We all are glad to hear that you're on the mend and that you will be out of there on Saturday. So good news. With that, are there any additions or deletions to the closed session agenda? Not hearing or seeing any, let's see. I don't see any attendees. Are there any oral communications regarding any of the items in closed session? I would assume not because there's nobody here in attendance right now. So with that, I think we will adjourn to closed session. Thank you, everybody. We'll see you on the other side. Okay, that's 6.30. Shall we convene to open session? I just want to make an announcement as we return to open session that at the beginning of the meeting at 5.30 before we adjourn to closed session, Chair Mayhood gave the gavel to me for the meeting. She is here and voting, but she has asked me to run the meeting for personal reasons tonight. So that is why I am chairing. And with that, we are back from closed session. We did take an action in the closed session regarding the litigation with the County of Santa Cruz. So we voted unanimously. I'm sorry, I'm pulling up the language in the front of me, give me a moment. I'm sorry. Board voted unanimously in favor of authorizing the district manager to sign on behalf of the district a proposed settlement agreement resolving the County's dispute with the water district about the Bear Creek Road collapse which occurred in January, 2020. A copy of the settlement agreement will be made available to the public once it is signed on behalf of both parties. That was the action that was taken in closed session. So if there are any comments on that, I believe we can move on to our next item to reconvene the meeting and take roll call. Right, President Mayhood. Yeah, you're muted. Yeah, sorry, I'm here. Vice President Ackerman. I have to say that Jamie made it sound like maybe I got a facelift. I just wanna say that's not what I did. I'm not that frivolous. Okay, go ahead. I'm sorry, I just, I will leave it to you to share any details of your current situation if she is absolutely not getting a facelift. She is definitely taking care of herself in very important ways. So please go ahead, Holly. Vice President Ackerman. Here. Director Fouls. Here. Director Hill. Here. Director Smalley. Here. All right. Are there any additions or deletions to tonight's agenda, Rick? Yes, Chair Ackerman. Requesting to pull item 12D, the new staff position. We did not include the salary schedule that needs to be approved by the Board by resolution per the personnel system rules and regulations who are, what we will be bringing this item back to HLIME for review and action. Thanks for that. Any other comments on additions or deletions? Not seeing any. We can move to oral communication. This is the opportunity for members of the public if they have a comment that's not on the agenda that they would like to make to please comment and Amanda, I see your hand and welcome. Amanda is an administrative committee member. It's nice to see you here tonight. Thank you. I actually don't have something to comment on that's not on the agenda. So I don't know if this is the right time to comment on the agenda. If you have a comment on a specific agenda item, if you wouldn't mind holding it until we get there. I mean, I believe that's the typical protocol, but... Not a problem. I can wait. Thank you. Amanda, I appreciate it.  I've never flown this plane before. So, okay, are there any other oral communications then related to anything not on the agenda? I'm not seeing any hands. So we can move to the president's report and Gail, we had talked before. There is no report from the president. Yeah, thank you very much. So no report from the president. We can move to unfinished business. The remote meeting authorization. We're all very familiar with this. Does anybody want to just go ahead and move our extension of the remote meeting authorization? We'll make that motion. All right. Second. Mark is motioning and Gail is seconding the recommendation as per the agenda. So... Vice President Ackman, I just wanted to provide a reminder to make sure to get public comment notwithstanding the lack of discussion. Thank you. I appreciate the reminder. So thank you very much. Is there any public comment on this agenda item? Not seeing any. I think we can move to roll call vote. President Mayhood. Aye. Vice President Ackman. Yes. Director Falls. Yes. Director Hill. Yes. Director Smalling. Yes. Excellent. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is the filling of a couple of vacancies on the Budget and Finance Committee. So we did have a couple of applications and I believe the recommendation is to appoint both of those individuals to the Budget and Finance Committee. Do we want to start with, let's see, Director Mayhood or comment? Yeah, I think the recommendation was to discuss it but I do favor the idea of appointing both of the applicants because I think they both bring something to bear on the Budget and Finance Committee. We will welcome them and with that I'd also like to recommend that we increase the number of members on the Budget and Finance Committee to five. Thank you. And Director Falls, do you have any comments? Yes. I think it's great that we have two people that want to be in the Budget and Finance Committee. It's been our practice to try to appoint as many people from the community as possible to serve on our committees. And so this is really a great thing to do. I just want to ask Gina a question. We do have a policy about people serving on two committees at the same time so I'm assuming Monica would need to resign from the Administration Committee. Can that take place tomorrow without any problem? Sure. Yeah, I think we would just ask I guess for an email to document the resignation. Right. And then I think concurrent with that then we would have an opening on the Administration Committee so we would either need to change the membership number on that or leave it as is and recruit for them. So I'm not sure which way we would go but probably just easiest to leave it open. If that's the case then we would need to recruit for that as well. If I could just respond to that briefly. I would agree that I would be interested in leaving it open but I definitely would want to take that back to the Administrative Committee and have a conversation with the rest of the committee members about their preference but that tends to be my preference as well, Bob. Fabulous. Director Hill, do you have any comments on the two applications before us? No, they both look eminently qualified and I'm always happy to have well qualified people serving. Excellent. Director Smalley. I concur with what Jeff just said. Great. Okay, so I think at this point then before we go to the public for comment we could take a motion if it sounds like we are broadly in agreement about increasing the number of positions on the committee and appointing these two individuals who applied. Gina. Yeah, I just wanted to add we could avoid the additional administrative step of an email resignation just by putting in the motion that the individual, I think it's Mrs. Dejasus would be. No, Monica Martinez. Okay, I'm sorry. Would no longer be on the Administrative Committee and would instead serve on the budget and finance committee. Thank you for the suggestion. So before we go to public comment, stop. I moved that we, sorry, there's some background noise and hopefully it's not me. I moved that we appoint Elizabeth Paulson and Martina Monica Martinez to the budget and finance committee, increasing the number of members on the finance committee to five and accept Monica Martinez's resignation from the administration committee. I'll second that. Thank you. So we've got a motion and a second and we will go to public comment. Do any members of the public have any comments about the motion before the board or the two applicants? Not seeing any. I'm really glad that it's not Amanda because I don't want to lose her. So great. Thank you very much. So we've got a motion and a second. So Holly, I think we can go to a roll call vote. President Mayhood. Aye. Vice President Ackerman. Yes. Director Falls. Yes. Director Hill. Yes. Director Smalley. Yes. Motion passes. Excellent. Welcome to the budget and finance committee. So our next item of business is ordering an election and requesting the county elections to conduct the election. Do we have any discussion about this recommendation? I'll start with you. I did want to make sure that Elena Lang's questions got answered as she had sent an email to the board asking some questions about it. I think Gina is probably in the best position to answer those at an appropriate time. Otherwise, we do need to move to getting the election on the book. Bob, I did actually apply to respond to Elena's email and answered her questions and I just didn't, I can't CC it to the rest of you without creating the potential for Brown Act violations, but I did get back to her right away. Okay. These were largely, these are rules that are set at the county level that we don't control and that the ballot does indicate whether somebody's an incumbent by virtue of appointment or election. Okay, great. Yeah, I just wanted to make sure there was no confusion on her part. Thank you, Kale, for taking care of me. All right, Mark. So from a procedural aspect, if four candidates are running, none of the four of them elect to place their name for that two-year seat, we elect three individuals and that two-year seat is then open. Is that the way this process could work? Gina, I think I see your head nodding yes. Yes, that could occur. Okay. But it is three that, right? That's open. There's actually four seats open, three four-year term and one two-year term. Correct. Correct. And I think that's what I stated with, you would elect three candidates out of those four that wanted the four-year seats and the two-year seat would then be left vacant and we would end up appointing. That's correct. Okay. Okay. Or, I mean, not necessarily appointing, but that would be an option that would arise. That would be an option that would present us. Okay. All right. Okay, I saw, I think let's go to Rick first because he may have a clarifying comment and then Bob. Just real quick, usually that doesn't happen. Usually it's watched very close at closing of putting your papers in and if there was an open seat, usually someone will put their name in for that open seat. That's usually watched very close up to the end. Okay. Thank you. Bob. Yeah, specifically, Mark, what happens is if the incumbent does not file for the O or the C, then the nomination times extended, I think it's another five days. And so in that five-day period, usually somebody comes forward. I didn't want to clarify something with Gina though, just to make sure that I'm on the same page about the question around incumbency. So if, for example, I were to file for the two-year seat, would I be an incumbent at that point? Because that's not the seat that I currently hold. Conversely, if someone were to run, that held the two-year seat, I guess in this case, Bami were to run for the four-year seat, would that be an incumbent situation? Well, I don't like to deflect, but in this case, I really would have to refer you to the elections office because the code doesn't really get that specific. And I'm not sure exactly how they would make that designation. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay. Mark, I see your hand. Yes, I believe that the other matter that we have in front of us regarding this is the extent of the Kennedy statements. Am I correct? Let's see here. 200 words versus 400 words is what I... It does appear that we had made a, well, perhaps it was a past selection. When I looked at the documents, it looked like we had already determined that we were selecting the 200 words or no, was I misunderstanding that? Can I help with that? Yes, please. Yes, I merely stated what we have done in the past and it can be changed at any time. These are requirements by the state that we make this choice of either 200 or 400 words. In the past, the board wanted to make it paid for by the people that are planning to run for the position and that is to save money. And then the reason that we went with the 200 words is because it is cheaper for everyone and it makes it so that everybody's on an even space so that somebody that can't afford to run with 400 words can still, we just keep it to 200 just to keep it kind of on an even playing field. And if I don't need, and if somebody doesn't need 200 words, can we buy 25 words instead? Name that tune in three words. Exactly, that's where I'm going. Gina, do we need to, because I'm looking at the recommendation, do we need to actually indicate specifically in the resolution what we would prefer in terms of the statement of qualifications? The resolution does provide for the district to submit the notice to the county clerk of elective offices to be filled and that is where the district has to select the 200 versus 400. So it is part of this decision. And it does have to be made by the district. Right. One way or the other. All right, well, I mean I, my personal bleeding liberal heart would say that $200 for the district to eat per, I mean, we're not gonna have an overwhelming wave of candidates and it makes it an actual reduction in barrier because it means anyone regardless of whether you have $200 could run for the office if the district just covered it. Now, perhaps I'm wrong and historically we have dozens and dozens of people filing to run for water district, but that would be where I would come down in terms of the cost of filing, but I do appreciate that the $200 and 200 word filing is splitting the difference in terms of the cost. I just want to clarification. I think if I remember correctly from 2020 there's a charge to file and then there's a charge that's additional to, so which one are we talking about here? I was under the impression that what we were talking about was that we were, there was an opportunity for the district to either set the number of words that we were going to require the ballot language to be set at and then determine whether we pay that cost or whether the individual filing pays that cost. So if we set it at 400 words, right? Then and then determine that the individual filing pays that cost and they would be paying the 400, whatever the cost is for that. If we set it at 200 words, then they would be paying that cost or we can make the decision to take that on as the water district and pay that for all of the candidates who file. And I think if I'm understanding it, those are the two questions that we need to answer. Rick? Just one question at the appropriate time before you vote and this question for Gina on if the district did elect to pay for the candidate statement would that include current incumbent board of directors or is there an issue there? No. I wouldn't be fine to exempt ourselves and say that we had to pay for our own filing as incumbents but that new applicants could be covered by the district. So I hear what you're saying there, Rick. I just wanna be sure that we don't get ourselves into any hot water right in the middle of the election. Right, no, we don't wanna make it appear that we're trying to pay for our own election. To be sure of that. There's really no way to make that distinction. It's either going to be for all the candidates or none. So how much does this cost? I mean, what's the difference between 200 and 400 words? Good question. I mean, are we talking about tens of dollars, hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars? A friend of mine is currently running for board of equalization and he had to pay a whole lot of money for this. It wasn't like the $1 bucks. Yeah, the cost is based on the number of, the cost for the statement is based on the number of voters in the district which I believe right now is roughly 18,500, 19,000 somewhere in there. So, and it's a per head cost. And I don't know what the cost is gonna be. It kind of depends a lot on how many people contribute to a statement because you don't have to. It's entirely voluntary. So the more people that do statements, the lower the cost overall. It's printing distribution, that's what I'm talking about. But it's hundreds. I mean, it's not thousands, right? It's not tens. And it's my understanding that this does not include the filing cost. You still have to pay for filing. This is just at an extra expense if you want to make a candidate statement. That's all that's talking about. You do have to pay for your own filing costs as a candidate. Bob? I wish state law had some flexibility in there, but if there's no way to exempt us, then I mean, in the interest of all the things around the governance, I just don't see how we can do that. And I think that's probably why it hasn't been done. Yeah, I think that's a fair comment. I certainly wouldn't want to, I would want to be exempted from that. And I just also believe that making people pay to run for office limits people who don't have the means to do that. And so I wish we could take that factor out of it for all people who wanted to run, but fair point. So then I guess I would be in support of keep limiting it to 200 words. I agree. Okay, so unless there is any further comment, I think we could take a motion and a second before we go to the public for comment on this item. Do I have a motion to recommend that we adopt a resolution ordering an election requesting Santa Cruz County elections to conduct the election and requesting consolidation of such election for San Lorenzo Valley Water District as well as the notice to County Clerk of Elected Officers to be filled indicating that candidate statements of qualification shall be limited to 200 words. I so move. Thank you, second. I'll second that. Thank you very much. Thank you for reading anything. Oh, yeah, no problem. All right, and with that we can go to the public if there are any comments on this item. Seeing no hands. Rick? With that resolution or that motion cover whether the district is offering to pay or not, I didn't hear that. I might have. Yes. Yeah, we are not going to offer to be sure of that. Okay, so I think we can take a roll call vote. Holly. President Mayhood. Aye. Vice President Ackerman. Yes. Director Falls. Yes. Director Hill. Yes. Director Smalley. Yes. All right, moving right along. Okay, so the next item on the agenda is what we've pulled the construction inspector. So we are moving to public outreach. Excuse me, I'm just. Okay, I guess I would like to take a point of privilege here if that's all right to just sort of set up this discussion. As the administrative committee chair, we have been talking about the district's public outreach resources for some time and looking at the amount and complexity of the, you know, projects and information that we know we are going to be wanting to communicate to the public over the next year at least. We thought that it might be prudent to take another look at the consulting resources that we currently have available to us. So we asked staff to take a look at what was both available in terms of additional budget and also what, you know, resources. In particular, we may need as we go forward this next year that our current consulting contract with Buzz PR is not necessarily able to fulfill. So I think I've framed the conversation. Rick or Carly, do you want to jump in? Sure, thank you, Director Atman. I'd like to just touch on what the Buzz has accomplished since we've hired them in 2020. So they did complete a customer survey looking for information on how customers really wanted to receive their information and what types of information they were interested in. They've also launched us on a couple of different platforms for social media, including Twitter and Instagram. They do keep us very active on all our social media accounts. We're pretty much posting at least once a day and at the very minimum, probably three times per week. They've also done a lot of our design for some of our special projects, like the customer confidence report, the CCR, as well as the state of the district that we've done over the last few years. As Director Atman mentioned, their technical writing is not up to par with what we think we need for the district. And that's why we're looking to go out for a request for proposals from some new potential consultants. Thank you. So I think at this point, we can turn to Director Foltz as my fellow administrative committee member for comments. Would you like to say anything at this point or? Yes, just to make sure I'm clear on what we're doing here. So this is going out, so we're gonna develop an RFP or is that RFP already been developed? I believe that if we were to take this action tonight, we would be asking staff to develop an RFP. And then would that RFP come back to the board for approval or would it just go out? Even on my meeting, gentlemen and Jamie, our plan, Director Foltz, was to develop the RFP and bring it back to the admin committee. Probably wouldn't bring it back to the full board, not unless there was something that came up in admin, but we bring it back to admin, then go out, release it. And the RFP will discuss the objectives that the district slash board are trying to accomplish over the engagement with whoever would be selected by the RFP. That's correct. Great, thank you. Director Smalley, I'll start with you. Do you have any comments? Yes, I guess I read the information incorrectly. I thought we were being asked to approve an additional 15,000 on the existing contract that we have with Buzz PR, but I didn't remember reading about RFP issue and sort of. To clarify, we do not have the contract with Buzz expired and the board elected to discontinue on a month by month purchase with the Buzz, so we had the admin committee review. And so we would be putting out an RFP to enter into a contract and we're asking to, because this is a mid-year and a two-year budget, we're asking to increase from 35,000 that we have in our current budget to 50 with the technical writing and wordsmithing and so forth. We feel that for that level of communications that we would need an increase in budget. So if I could clarify, Mark, we're asking to forward or what we would be being asked to approve is an increase in the district's overall available budget for public outreach activities. And then we would be further directing them to prepare an RFP because we do not have a contract right now, we're on a month-to-month basis with Buzz PR that would outline the activities that the district needs public outreach for. And we would put that RFP out, Buzz PR could bid on or submit a proposal just as any other public outreach firm could. But that's what I think we're asking the staff to do here. Bob? Oh, I'm sorry, Mark, could you speak? Okay, so you're asking the board for two different things, I think. One, do we increase the budget from 35,000 to 50,000? Two, are we approving the district preparing this RFP and then soliciting? Correct? Okay. That's my impression, yes. I missed the part about the RFP. My review, okay, apologize for that. Okay, all right, I do have a question about that 15,000 and if we don't do that, what does the district not get? What are we missing? Do we not get information about leaks that occur? Do we, you know, I'm struggling with that, but I don't use Twitter or other social medias. I'm kind of the ill-informed dinosaur in those aspects. So Rick, could you help me here on what do you see the gain to the district is? Well, you know, there's a good question, Mark. I see a higher quality of what we're doing with the wordsmithing and polishing of communications. I see a more professional firm in reaching out to our targeted customers and helping staff make those determinations. You know, we do have some items coming up of great interest to the public. And we most likely will be doing some public workshop, such as the constructability of the pipelines, possibly a rate evaluation coming up. So there are some areas that we, that the existing staff could use some assistance that, you know, we don't believe that, you know, Buzz is doing a great job on the day to day. I don't want to take anything away from them. Yes, we did have a minor issue here, not too long ago. But I think we need to bring it up a notch or two in our professionalism. Kind of Jamie. Yeah, I see Gales had her hand up. So I'd like to go to Chair Mayhood. Yeah, I would just like to say that I'm in favor of this. And it's largely because I believe that with the, the large pipelines that we're putting in to replace after the CZU fire will be a lot of interest on this. And a lot of the communications will have to be of a more technical nature than what Buzz is used to doing. Similarly, if we're gonna have consolidations with Brackenbray Forest Springs and especially with big basin water, there's some pretty complex issues that have to be communicated.  I'm somewhat of a dinosaur. I don't use social media. So I see the social media part staying about constant that Buzz would continue to do the, as Jamie calls it, the day-to-day stuff and that this is an increment to deal with what's gonna happen in the next year and a half or perhaps longer that would really help our staff and augment our staff in terms of communicating at a higher level or a more professional level than we have in the past. Thank you. Thanks. If I could, I think I'd like to check in with director Hill here. He hasn't had an opportunity to say anything and just give you an opportunity. Do you have any comments? I think my comments align very closely with President Maygood. This is an area I have quite a bit of experience in my background, but not with public relations but with business public relations. And I think when we have large projects coming up and some of which may be controversial, it's very important that we get the message right and we do it correctly and we reach out to the people proactively before opposition bubbles to the surface. Some people start getting upset because they don't know what's going on. So I'm basically in favor of this. Thank you. All right, let's see. I think I'm gonna go to Bob because Gail, I think you may still have your hand up from your previous comments. So Bob, go ahead, take it away. Well, I guess then I'm a little bit perhaps confused because I think I saw the RFP but the money is not being something that was being committed to now. So maybe just, I wasn't reading it, right? Apologies for that. But I've done a lot of marketing communications in my career as well. And typically what you start out with is sort of a notion of what the budget might be but really you're putting together your objectives, what the goals are, what the deliverables might be, what have you as part of an RFP. And then based on that, you then sort of get into negotiations with the company you wanna select and what budget you can afford. My concern is if you're going out into the RFP was saying we have basically $15,000 incremental here to spend on all of these things we're talking about, I'm not sure that's really gonna float anybody's boat. Yes. I mean, I hate to say it but I've spent 15K in a month and more on really critical communications at companies I've worked at. I think what might be beneficial would be to put out an RFP with what it is that the district believes is critical in terms of these projects that are coming up and seeing what kind of response you get back rather than setting a budget. In fact, I'm not even sure 50K would be enough if we're really talking about a very expansive and significantly a broader communication scope than what we currently have. So I'm okay with going out for an RFP and that I'm not sure that it's really the right time to be talking about money until we understand what people are gonna charge. Plus with the inflation that we're seeing right now who knows what those numbers are gonna be coming back or so maybe better once we get into a recession they're gonna be looking for business but I think it's really premature to be talking budget now. It could be much higher than 15,000. I think that that's a really fair comment and in fact, something that I know I myself had wondered because not only are these, we have pretty complex projects and issues to communicate around but they are multi-year issues. These are not projects that will be wrapped up at the end of 2023. So I tend to agree with you, Bob, that 50,000 is probably not actually enough to do the things that we'll wanna do long-term. I think that we identified this $15,000 already as being available in the mid-year review that we just took a look at last meeting or so. So I think that that's just identifying the fact that this money can be made available in the public outreach budget. We don't have to set a $50,000 contract authority on a request for proposal. In my view, we can do exactly what you're saying which is put out a request for proposal for on-call consulting services for the needs that are identified here in the staff report and for the project priorities that we have agreed upon as a board and team need to be addressed. In my experience, the way that that would then typically work if we had a certain amount of budget available to use toward that on-call contract, then it would just be a matter of giving the district contract authority for those specific projects to spend down towards that budget. I think that 15,000, I mean, no matter what we do, there's sort of a baseline in terms of communications activities that any public-facing entity today just sort of has to do. You have to be on Facebook, Twitter, and you have to have a website. You have to have those forward-facing things because that's where the public expects you to be. And for us to continue on a day-to-day basis, just running those operations, there's just sort of a minimum amount of money that costs the consultant to do that work every day. And unless we're saying that we no longer want a consultant who's doing that work, anything additional that we're seeking in terms of communications, technical writing, assistance planning, and workshop is going to be additional money, and hence the reason for the increased budget authority. So in my thinking, Director Hill. I would like to propose that we actually hold two votes here. One vote is to authorize staff to put together the RFP and go out and solicit the proposals including proposed budgets that they might suggest. And the second vote to address the $15,000 increase in budget and discuss that as you said, something that we may need for ongoing activities that we're already doing really. And I think that would make it easier for all of us to vote if we split this under two motions. Okay. Gina, do you see any issue with that or what are your thoughts on that? There's no issue with that. Any board member could make a motion within the scope of the agenda item. And splitting it into two would be. Okay. Director Smalley. Yes. Along the lines of what Jeff was suggesting within the RFP potentially suggesting a budget amount of what the district might be expecting. When I prepared RFPs for clients where we were trying to keep it within certain budgetary ranges. What I often did was in the district anticipates that we would need your services X hours a week or X hours a month, something like that to put bounds around the amount of time expected from them. In addition to what we would need for deliverables. And in that manner, a consultant can see, well, you want me to spend eight hours a month, I need 20 to do what you're saying. And it would cause some amount of, I would hope some amount of discussion between an interested consultant than us to come to some better frame of mind. And if you're getting two or three consultants to say that, then I think we need to scratch our heads. Because I'm seeking some way to keep proposal costs that we would be getting within some type of a range that's realistic rather than getting one proposal at 25,000 and another one at 72,000. So because that to me is then very hard to objectively compare that. All right, Rick? Yeah, just something to keep in mind in the regard to the budget. Staff's thinking as we put this RIP together and hopefully that we get qualified consultants to bid. And part of this is to have those consultants on contract. And then as we move into the specialized projects such as say big basin consolidation and those, we talk and get a proposal what those costs are and charge those to the project. So a lot of this budget that we're talking about right now is the day-to-day Facebook and what we put out and polishing and editing where we have that we feel that we have efficiency right now. And then when we get into like a five mile pipeline constructability in that, those will be specialized projects that we will get a cost to do the outreach and then charge that to those projects. So and I agree that that may sound that price may sound low but when you include the capital and other projects that will support that those funds to pay for those projects, I think that having this consultant firm on contract ready to rock and roll will save the district a lot of time and energy moving ahead. Right. Just a comment. All right, Bob. Yeah, thanks, Rick for bringing that to our attention. In terms of the anticipated grant money that would come to support the consolidation activities do the grant funds typically allow for that kind of spending out of the grant money? They should, yes. I'm not sure we outlined outreach in the Bracken Bray consolidation but we see very little on that consolidation but the big basin and probably the constructability when we're holding workshops big basin will be many workshops. Those consolidation grants will cover those costs and for engineering and outreach. And in terms of the, well, I sort of look at it in two different buckets. So there's a bucket of FEMA money for and then our money for the five mile pipeline or all the pipe, the raw water type project. And then there's grant funding that comes from a different bucket for the consolidation. Now that could change assuming four springs gets FEMA money. I'm assuming that since money is fungible we could always take the cost of outreach for the raw water pipeline constructability out of whatever we're contributing as a district. It's really the grant money that I'm concerned about here. I did also want to say that with respect to our current consultants I think they definitely have increased the outreach activities inside of the social media. But I don't look at plagiarism issues as being minor. At least in my background those are typically pretty major situations. So I'm in favor of finding, of sending out an RFP but given that we're currently at two thirds of our revenue number for the year, three quarters of our expenses and one half of our operating margin relative to budget. I wanna see what they come back with in terms of relative costs here prior to increasing the budget. At least that's my view. But I think an RFP is certainly in order and I would support Jeff's suggestion which I think is very good on a lot of these kinds of things to split the question to allow for those kind of votes to have. Okay, well I think that at this point we could go to public comment and then come back and entertain a motion. So I see Amanda's got her hand up. CTV, we could, Amanda, are you unmuted? Yes, I am here. Excellent, thank you. The floor is yours. Thank you. So first, hi directors. It's good to see you all. My name is Amanda Dejesus and I live here in Ben Lomond. As a admin committee member, communications and, whoa, that just covered my screen. I am a communications and community engagement professional and I work in local government. And obviously I am an SLVWD rate payer. I view high quality communications and public outreach and engagement as a crucial element to the district and government in general. I believe it is the job of the district as a government agency to provide accurate, timely and relevant information to the public in an easily consumable manner. This job, of course, is not easy. I know this firsthand. As a public agency, the district has a strong responsibility to providing consistent and excellent communications. The modest increase that is being presented to you this evening to hire a consultant and increase the communications budget really will provide us with someone, some people with a know how technical skills and abilities needed that will ensure you can stand behind any and all communications coming from the district. Having a full service communications expert is much needed. In addition to communications, engagement with the community is at a pinnacle of transformation, as we know. As we head towards this, quote unquote, new normal, having engagement professionals who think innovatively is key. Our community is unique and requires new expertise when it comes to engagement. So spending a little bit more money to hire, and so spending a little more money annually to hire a proficient expert will give the district credibility, build trust within the community and provide the information our community wants and needs to know about. And as a side note, as a comment on Best PR, I never saw a community survey in 2020. I am a government nerd. I follow local governments as a hobby on social media, through electronic newsletters, et cetera. And I sought out the district and found information without it being presented to me. That's an issue. So one thing that I wanted to bring up to you with this is that in my opinion, a budget of this sort doesn't necessarily need to be solely used on a consultant. I think expanding communications into electronic newsletters, EBLAST, is a really good way to reach people these days because you're right, not everyone is on social media. Many people are using email. So it could potentially, and maybe I'm wrong about this and my misunderstanding of how this budget would be used, but it could be used for communications platforms like different emails. I urge you to approve this $15,000 increase to hire communications and community engagement professional and keep an open mind to potentially increasing it in the future. Just to give the district services, it honestly desperately needs. Thank you. Thank you, Amanda. I appreciate the comments. Larry Ford, who's up next? Thank you. Appreciate the opportunity to make a comment. I'm really impressed with the conversation about this issue. You guys are way ahead of me in being able to understand what we need to do. Anyway, I just wanna say that I think this is a really important additional service that you need to add to be able to function well. As a consultant, I would be, I'm not worried about something like on-call services and having certain fees that I could charge with approval for specific tasks. So that would work out really well. Having some kind of an estimate of what the minimum income would be for my services would help and be attractive. So I think you're going in the right direction. And I also think that as has been said that there are some really important challenges that need to be addressed, coming up in the near future. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, let's see here. And Cynthia Zenzel, you could get her unmuted. Great, thank you very much. Cynthia? Good evening. I just like to agree with what Larry and the previous speakers said. I appreciate the process you're going through to set this up. I just have a question. When and how and to whom will the RFP be released? How will you be recruiting and deciding who will be invited to bid on this? Thank you. Thank you. Rick, did you wanna respond to that? I'm unmuted. This will be put out. We will send out to the different communication consultants that are local and in the area. And we will also publish it on the website to get out and anybody will be able to bid on this. I'm sure Carly has a list of outreach folks that we've worked with before and we can reach out to other agencies to get a good comprehensive list. Obviously, the more people we get it out to, the better pricing and see what's available. Great, I don't see... Oh, we've got April Zilber's hand is up. Hi, thank you. I just wanna reiterate what other people have said. We do have these complicated projects and decisions coming up in front of the community. And I go to meetings by Zoom and I read agendas and stuff and I still find it hard to understand some of the details. So having a very professional firm help with that aspect of communication, I think we're getting community buy-in. So I support the idea of putting out an RFP for a little more assistance. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, are there any other comments from members of the public? I am not seeing any other hands. So thank you all for your comments. I think at this point, unless there's further discussion, we could probably go ahead and entertain a motion on this recommendation. But before we do, I just wanted to clarify one thing, which was, Rick, I know you had mentioned that we had identified that there was $15,000 available in the mid-year for the review. I do appreciate the comments that Bob is making that $15,000 is probably not enough in terms of this single contract. But if we were to go ahead and make the increase to the budget, the money is available to do so, that's correct, Rick? That's correct. But keep in mind, the board has not approved. That was just informational. And we will, I will ask if we didn't lose Kendra. Kendra's still there. Our plan to come back with that budget adjustment would be after you get back from leave. Am I correct? Yes. But that money is there. Yes, I'll answer your question. Yes. Thank you. Okay, so with that, do I have a motion? I guess I heard two approaches to this. One is that we make a motion to recommend that staff prepare an RFP for comprehensive outreach consultant and increase the budget from $35,000 to $50,000. And I heard a second suggestion that we break the motion into two pieces. So I guess the first question is, does somebody want to move the entire thing in one effort? Seeing none. All right, then let's go ahead and can I get a first motion on the preparation of the RFP for conference outreach consultant? I move that we, the board authorized district to prepare an RFP for public relations services and circulate it within the local community and the larger community in the Central California and Northern California area. Thank you. Do I have a second? I'll second. All right, so I'm calling the roll call vote. President Mayhood. Aye. Vice President Ackman. Yes. Director Fouls. Yes. Director Hill. Yes. Director Smalley. Yes. Motion passes. All right, thank you. So now the second part of the question is whether we want to take the action tonight to direct staff to increase the overall public outreach budget from $35,000 to $50,000. I'm not seeing, I'm seeing Mark, Shakey said no. I guess I personally don't think that I have any problem with taking this step tonight because I know there will be things coming up that we may want to have a consultant working on in the short term. So I just, my preference would be to go ahead and take this action tonight. But I know that we can revisit this question once we have received proposals and we can at that point make a determination about where we want to set the budget. So I guess I would ask Gina what your recommendation would be about how we move forward. Do we just leave aside the question of the budget? It's not necessary to make that determination night. I don't, I think Luke, I think I saw you agreeing with that concept. Is that right? Yeah, and we would bring the budget back at the same time we bought the contract as a board for approval and then we would approve the budget, hopefully at the same time that they approve the contract. So, and that's somewhat standard from time to time. And we've done it that, done it both ways. Is there any further discussion about that from members of the board? Not seeing any. I think then we can move on to the next agenda item because we have taken the only action we're going to take on this agenda item tonight. All right, so let's see. We have tabled the construction inspector position. So, where does that leave us? We are on to the consent agenda. Gina. I would like to ask chair to pull the April 21st meeting minutes for a correction. Right. And the correction I'd like to offer is that, and forgive me, Holly, if I'm kind of stepping on your toes in terms of how you've done minutes but I noticed that the written communications item on the minutes says none. When in fact there was an item of written communications on the agenda. And so I want, I'm not sure how you've done that before but I wanted to suggest perhaps changing that to say no discussion as opposed to none. And Holly, does that sound consistent with your past practice? There was no discussion. I don't know what to say. Yes, that is consistent. Bob, did you have a comment? Yeah, I think past practices we've identified who the written communication was from if there was in fact written communication. It was just a line item like letter from, you know, person, so-and-so. I believe there was something, was there not? So we would normally include that as a line. And we can change practice and say, no, there was something but no discussion or just no discussion. But that would be a deviation from our practice. So are we... I just have a comment. I think it would be useful just to do what we do on the agenda, which is list the name and date of the communication. And then if you want us, no discussion, that's fine. Right. That's just consistent with what we have on the agendas, the name and the date. So that should probably appear in the minutes. Right. Gina, did you have another comment? Oh, no, I'm sorry, I'll put my... Okay, so we are pulling those minutes to make that correction and they will come back at a subsequent meeting. Are there any comments on the other meeting minutes on the agenda for approval? Or can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda meeting minutes for May 5th, 2022? Do we need a motion for consent? Oh, thank you. Yeah, if I could just clarify here, there's no need for a motion on the May 5th minutes because nobody pulled them. Got it. So as long as there's no objection, they'll be deemed approved, but the April 21st meeting minutes, because I effectively pulled it by my comments. So we need to make a motion to amend them per your comments. Right. Okay, got it, sorry about that. And there should be, sorry to complicate, there should be an opportunity for public comment on this as well. Right. So why don't we, if I have a motion and a second and then we will take public comment on this to make the recommended edit to the minutes per Gina's suggestion to indicate that there was no discussion and the individuals. Do I have a motion? Sorry, I'm confused. So are we putting just no discussion or are we going to put the date as Gail was saying the date, the person and then no discussion? I'm not wasn't clear, sorry. I'm sorry, I was saying the date, the person and no discussion was my recommended. Let me state the motion. Go ahead, Gail. I move that we modify the April 21st minutes to read under written communication, the name of the communicant, the date of their communication and in this particular case, the fact that there was no discussion and that in the future, we will list the name and date of the communication. Thank you. I'll second. Wonderful. Holly, do we need a roll call vote? I think you need to go out to the public. Oh, thank you. We need to go out to the public. Like I said, a little turbulent, a little turbulent. We're just landing this plane tonight. Okay. Do any members of the public have comments on this? Seeing none. All right, now I think we can take a vote. President Mayhood, Vice President Ackman. Yes. Director Falls. Yes. Director Hill. Yes. Director Smalley. Yes. All right. Thank you very much. And we're on to district reports. Do any of the directors have any comments on district reports? Director Smalley. Yes. I'd like to note that regarding the cross-country pipelines aspect, the engineering department report indicates that we're doing this peer review for the geotechnical aspects. We talked about that at a previous meeting. I note that the environmental department report now indicates the same that they are going out of an RP to do a similar peer review on the environmental aspects, which is different than what we heard at the previous board meeting. So that has been added to the scope, which is a positive thing. I support that. Yeah, and I was going to report that on the district manager's report that I misspoke at the last board meeting stating we are doing peer review on environmental. Okay. I have a couple of other questions on the engineering report if you want me to continue, Amy. Yeah, go ahead. Okay. I note on the summary of construction items that the Felton Acres Pressure Tank, which we have seen before on these, is no longer listed. Have that been resolved? Because my recollection was that we were considering not having to do this tank if other tanks served or did it just get missed from the department report? I suspect we should say it got missed. I removed it because nothing has changed and nothing will until this summer when we are able to go out and determine exactly what those pressure tanks do so that we can then determine a path forward. I see. Okay, so you need summer weather to test. I understand. Okay, thanks. All right. And then on Altavia, have we resolved the pipe shortage aspect or the pipe non-delivery? We have not yet resolved it and I'm going to be reluctant to say that it is resolved until pipe is in hand. At this point, based on communication with Anderson Pacific, we are currently looking at four to six months. The six months is more likely and prices are changing on a daily basis. So I am working with them in order to get something nailed down so that we can get pipe and get this job done without having to deal with a huge change order. Okay, thank you. Okay, those are my questions. Thanks. Thank you. Director Foltz, I saw your hand up. Do you have some questions? I do. I was wondering if I might be able to do a hybrid that is I have a few questions here for the public meeting. And then Rick, if I send the rest of them to you, if I email, would you be able to get back to me? Well, we'll do our best to get back to you Bob. Okay, well, maybe. Well, I try not to take all the time here because I've got a bunch. I wanted to get a update on the Fulton Heights tank. Have we made any movement on getting that resolved one way or the other? We have narrowed it down now to two locations and our next step is to contact the property owner to get a final determination if he will give us an easement or not. And we have that location and we have the original location. And before a decision is made, we will come back to the port. So we have two new locations and the original or just one? We have one location that the new location where we've been looking at and working on for quite some time with the property owner. We ran into a snag with the neighborhood a couple of neighbors complained about it being in their backyard. The property owner contacted us and asked if there was another location we could pick maybe further up in elevation. We're not ready to move the tank up to a higher elevation. So either we'll go back to this property owner and ask for him to consider get a final determination or go back to the original where the tank is sitting now before any decisions are made, we will bring this back to the board. Okay. And is there a timeframe where this decision will be made by the owner? Hopefully we can have something by July. By July. We are in contact with the homeowners association up at Felton Heights. As of the beginning of this week, I spoke to the president of the homeowners association. So now it's just the property owner's tough to communicate with. He doesn't live in this area. So hopefully we can make contact with him and see if his concerns are met and come back from there. We're close to making a recommendation to the board to move forward. Okay, great.  And by the way, are we going through all the reports or one at a time? So which way are we doing that, Jamie? Sorry. I guess I, since Mark sort of ran through all of his questions it makes sense for you to run through all of your questions. I just have a, I think a couple more here. I wanna make sure that I'm reading this right on the operating revenue. It looks like if we exclude the surcharge word about two thirds of budget with one quarter of the budget year to go. And we're at one half of our operating revenue with one quarter of the year to go. Am I reading that right? This would be on page 62. Page 62, thank you. Hold on one second. 662? Oh, 62, okay. But page 63 of the whole thing. Okay. I'm sorry, can you repeat your question, Bob? So just makes from reading this right. So if we exclude the surcharge our operating revenue is at two thirds of budget our operating income is at one half of budget but we only have one quarter of the year to go. So in that one quarter of the year we're gonna hold on budget. We have to significantly increase operating. That is correct. Do we think that's going to happen? We have seen an increase in usage, but it's hard to say, it's hard to predict what the usage is gonna do. But we did see a significant increase in March consumption. And so we just, we'll just have to wait to see what it does these next few months. Okay.  So one of the things I'm a little concerned about here is making sure that we are still going to maintain a minimum of 1.25 debt coverage going forward for the next few years. The last five year projection we had showed it at barely 1.25 at the end of that five years at this point with this reduction that may move in a little bit. Yeah. And the debt coverage is something that I was going to include in the next budget adjustment because I know you have requested that and I didn't include it the first go around. So we will be monitoring that. Yeah. And then the other thing, I think I'm reading this right on the past due analysis. It looks like we had a slight decrease for the total of 30 plus days past due. Correct. Do we, are we expecting another slug of money from the state to help bring this down? So we have the LeeWAP program coming into play customers can apply for that starting in June. So obviously that won't hit until the next fiscal year. And then we also will have the second go around of the pass due balances to be sent to the property tax roll. So that will also decrease that as well. And that will happen. That'll occur in July. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I just wanna say on page 72 where there's the operating analysis year to date for July to March, the bottom line total numbers there are still including the fire recovery surcharge. I understand from a financial reporting point of view why that's there. But the fire recovery surcharge really is not regular operating revenue. Since it's dedicated, it's actually restricted to other activities. So it tends to skew the numbers a little bit when you're calculating them by including that in there. So on page 73, the operating analysis year to date trend I did add a line in there for operating income loss excluding fire recovery surcharge. So I did include it on that one. Are you wanting to see it on the ones with the graphs? Maybe a note that says just below the table there that says for the description rather than redo the table just point people to the other page because it is important that people understand that that money is not and be used for operating expenses and the like. Great, thank you. And oh, on the, and by the way on this reports that you're doing now on the fire recovery surcharge and the COP I think this is an outstanding report and also that you started it for the 15 million. I did have a question on the 2019 COP they're still showing expenses applied to the Lompeco tanks. And I'm not familiar with what those are. I thought we were done with that project. It could have just been in voices that hadn't been billed by contractors yet but I can check into that. Yeah, because it extends into the Q3, it looks like. Yeah, it looks like you're still getting numbers in Q3 of the 2022, excuse me 2021, 2022 fiscal year. Yeah, it could have been retention amounts. So I can look into that and see what those before. And then on the 2021 report I didn't see a column for the initial estimate like you had up in the 2019. Do we have numbers for those or do we not? For like what we think the contract amount's gonna be. Well, no, so in the 2019 COP, your first column with numbers is original project cost per loan agreement. Oh yeah, okay, I can add that. Yeah, I think these two reports are just absolutely outstanding and give a really good picture of how we're spending that money and where the money is going. My only other suggestion on the 2019 is that we might wanna add a line for the fish ladder. I didn't, I don't think I saw that in there. I did not include that on this one. That was my mistake. These are just great reports. I mean, at a high level for board consumption, really that's a great place to start and then you go from there if you need additional detail. So thank you for doing those. I think that is it. The rest will come in email, Rick, thank you. Right, I guess I kind of jumped into the district reports a little backwards. So Rick, I don't think you had a district managers report tonight, but remind me, did you have anything there that you needed to share?  I wanted to make the clarification regarding environmental review, peer review on the constructability study. I misspoke the last board meeting and that's been clarified by both Mark and myself. Thank you. All right, and are there any other director reports on the department status reports? Are there any comments on the committee reports? It's okay. We do not have any written communications and our next meeting is scheduled for June 2nd, 2022. And until then, I believe we are adjourned. So thank you very much, everybody. Have a great night. Time is 7.54 p.m. for our adjournment.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. It is a massive Friday today with LaLiga team in the season here inside of FIFA 22. But it's a little bit different because we already know the team. We already know the players that are going to be in packs today. We know their exact stats, their exact ratings, positions. The only thing we don't know is some weak foot and skill move boosts. The cards are on foot, then we'll talk about that here in a second. But also, we have the team of the season swap rewards dropping today, which is massive. For all of you guys that have been grinding the tokens, collecting those, and you're ready to turn them in, we will be getting the rewards, or the way that you can turn those SBCs, that you can turn those tokens in for packs, for players, whatever you're going to turn it in for today is the day for those to be released. So we'll talk about that, how it's going to affect the market, and just what to expect today on the game since it's such a big Friday. Now, of course, the Bundesliga Tots cards are going out of packs today, but the Saudi League Tots players like Tlisca and Romorinho are staying in packs until Sunday. So don't make sure you remember that if those are cards that you're very interested in holding on to or wanting for your team, but those are the biggest things coming today. LaLiga Tots cards that look absolutely unbelievable and the Tots swaps being released, along with the last five tokens or six tokens, I think, that they're going to be putting out. So we're going to talk about all of that in today's video and more. So if you're excited for LaLiga Tots, make sure to thumbs up and of course, subscribe if you're new. Let's just start by taking a look at the team of the season that was tweeted out yesterday. Now, we talked about in last night's video that we were going to be getting the released team with the exact stats, face card stats, not in games, but it was going to be posted a day early and that it was. And a lot of the leaks that we saw were confirmed. Look at the juice on this team. 98 Benzema, 97 Modric, 96 Pedri, a 96 Vinny Jr. with upgraded stats from what we saw from the leaks earlier this week. Etter Militao looks absolutely phenomenal. There's only like two cards in this team that are actually considered fodder, right? Munein and De Tomas are like kind of the worst cards in this team. And that's incredible. This team is cracked. Arajo, Akunya getting in at that left back spot over Jordi Alba. There were a few surprises to see get in here. I think Akunya was one of those. Canales is a right mid. I think we were hoping for a center mid card, but that still could be pretty good with a nice green link to Fakir, who is also in the team. Kunde looks absolutely unbelievable. Alaba looks cracked. Again, I think the three most hyped cards for today, in my opinion, would be Vinny Jr., Modric, and Pedri. And then depending on if they give Benzema the real juice, I think Benzema could be really, really insane as well. But you guys might be like, Nate, these cards are on footpin and they don't have any skill move or weak foot upgrades. It tells us right here what they're going to be. These are not confirmed. As you can see, there's no in-game stats and the skill move, weak foot stuff, that is just the same as it is on their gold item. These cards that you see on footpin are just the stats and just the player and the design, right? It doesn't even have a dynamic image yet because we don't actually know what skill move or weak foot upgrades EA is going to be putting out for these cards just yet. We only know the stats. So that's one thing that I'll caution you with right now. There's more hype potentially coming today if they give Benzema a four-star weak foot, if they gave the Vinicius Jr. the five-star weak foot as well, five-star weak for Benzema or for Vinny Jr. And then some of the other cards that we're curious about, right? Like, is Pedra gonna have five-star skills? Is Fakir gonna have five-star skills? You know, all of that sort of stuff we'll be finding out today at the content drops when these cards actually get released on the game. So this is the team once again. I know a lot of you guys have seen it. This is from, tweeted from EA Sports. This is 100% legit, not leaked. This is like legit, the team by EA Sports. And the only surprise we're gonna have today is what the skill move and weak foot upgrades are on these cards. Now also today, like you see in the FIFA menus under the News tab when you log in and you're on the front screen of the game, it tells you here that these tokens are going to be exchanged for TOTS-themed rewards starting from the 20th of May. And that's today, right? We are going to have the rewards for TOTS swaps out on the game today. For a lot of people, they're gonna be taking that 84 times 25 pack, which is one of the rewards, or some people will be going for Premier League TOTS guaranteed packs, Bundesliga or Premier League TOTS player pick, or just the Premier League TOTS player pick, which I believe is 19 tokens. And I wanna show you guys the list of tokens that we have had so far, as of right now, and the rewards, I'll show you both. As of right now, we have had 19 tokens. The maximum number of tokens you could have is 19. So that means there are six to go, one of which will be in the store. I don't know when they're gonna release that store pack. If it is today, that could be very interesting for the market because that would be a pack that so many people would go out and buy with coins or with FIFA points, and that would bring a decent amount of supply on the market, even if today, or as today, being a Friday, a lot of lining rounds, a lot of packs being opened, that could add another level of supply because everybody opens that token pack, not everybody, but a lot of people open that token pack to get that extra token from the store. So just kinda keeping out for that. That's been something we've been watching for.  Also, today with content, I would imagine at least one or two more are gonna be dropped. So right now, if you have like 16 and you're like, man, I really wanna get that Prem Tots pick, then today you'll be able to get one or two more, and you'll be like one or two away. And then, if you're wanting to do some combo, right? The 84 times 25 is 15 tokens. Let's say you wanted to do that, and take a gamble on the Guaranteed Community Tots pack, you might be able to do that today as well, or if you're gonna do like the Guaranteed Prem Tots pack, or the Prem Reborn Instinct Tots player pick, there's just so many great options that you can use your tokens for as a part of the Tots swaps system. These are, once again, the rewards, and we should see them in the game today at 6 p.m. That's gonna be a really, really big part of the content today, right? Just imagine how hype it was, or just remember how hype it was on Winter Wild Cards or Future Stars when they dropped these token, swap token rewards days on a promo Friday. It was always very, very exciting, and they're dropping all of that today with a really, really insane Tots squad, right? As we talked about, it's just a huge Friday on the game for content in general because of all the cards that are coming out because of the packs that are gonna be opened, not necessarily saved up packs for these Tots cards, but more so the packs that are gonna be retained from the Tots swaps, all the grind, the tokens you've collected over the past week, and a half, two weeks, or whatever it's been since these have been released, now you can actually get those turned in for something. And then, of course, as you guys know, the Tots rewards will be only out for this next week. So for this next seven days, you'll be able to collect the last few tokens and turn in your rewards, and then after that, it's done, and we're gonna have a Tots swaps two coming pretty soon after that. That's just kind of something to watch out for and to know. So that's a really big part of the game today as well. What other content will we see, right? Cards and packs will have the Tots swaps rewards. We should see an SBC player or two today. In the last couple of weeks, they've started off with a flashback player, SBC. We don't have any leaks right now for a flashback player. All we have are two team of the season players that could be dropping as SBCs today. First off, we'll talk about objectives since I clicked on it here. Jesus Navas is one of the objective cards we should be getting today, and the other one, we think is gonna be an objective. This is not 100% confirmed. It's still a leak. Not sure is Ansu Fati, stats or prediction, but should be an objective released today. And that's common, right? We've seen two objectives released on promo Fridays for the past couple of weeks. Last week with Bundesliga and Premier League, they did two. So I think that would continue again. So it looks like Fati and Jesus Navas might be our guys for that. Now also, we have a SBC. We have a couple SBCs that have been leaked. This is probably the one that I would imagine would be today either Dan Juma or Iago Aspas. Those are the two SBC potential cards we can see dropped on the game today based off of leaks. If EA have some other sort of surprise up their sleeve, then so be it. That'd be a lot of fun and that'd be great. But as of right now, it looks like Dan Juma and Aspas would be the potential cards. A lot of left wings, if you think about it, right? We've got maybe a Dan Juma left wing. We've got an Ansu Fati left wing. Unless they change the position on a Dan Juma to like a striker, which would be pretty sick. That's a lot of left wings. And of course you've got Vinny in the team. Gonna be really, really expensive, but another left wing. So that's gonna be all a part of the content today on this game. Now also, it sounds like they might be doing something with foot draft, which needed to happen because foot draft is probably one of the most dead modes in the game at the moment. During La Liga Tots, this is a leak from Foot Sheriff. He says, we will have Tots 93 plus players and moments available in draft. And whenever this is tweeted out, this is probably gonna be something where EA try to get us to go and play foot draft. And we had this a couple of times earlier this year. If you guys remember, like I think it was during the showdown promo, they gave us extra rewards through objectives to go and play foot draft. And whenever they do that, they boost the weight. And they boost the players that you get in draft to make it actually fun. And it's not getting gold cards or like in forms. They actually give you like really, really insane teams. So if you've got a bunch of draft tokens, like I have seven of them, I've played like three games of draft this entire year. It just hasn't been worth the grind this year for the rewards because of rivals, champs, qualifiers and champs finals. This may be a time where it actually does pay out, especially if they do end up changing the draft rewards. I wouldn't expect that. But that's just something to kind of keep on your radar if something really interests you from draft or maybe if EA really juice up draft and make it pretty sick, who knows. But there seems to be some sort of change happening there with that on the game today. Now I wanna talk about packs. I wanna talk about market as well for the second half of this video because since today is such a high day and a lot of people do have saved up packs, not as many as Premier League or community team this season. But I know there's a decent amount of saved up packs. How is the market gonna be affected today on Friday with the release of these cards and packs? Now, one thing that we absolutely know is the specific league packs. Like you see this one here, the Special Bundesliga Foundation Pack. All of the crazy 35% and 25% TOTS weight packs from the Bundesliga from this last week are added in for LaLiga team of the season. Now there's a couple caveats this, couple things that are gonna be different. There are a lot more rare golds and especially a lot more fodder golds that are LaLiga than there are Bundesliga. So these packs that have been added to the code and this is just one that I wanna show you. This is very similar to the one that we saw last week. Right, the 84 plus star duo LaLiga pack contains nine gold rare players. Oh, just kidding. Yeah, contains nine gold rare players from LaLiga with two guaranteed to be 84 or higher. It looks like it used to be 12 and then they changed it. So it's only nine players, then it's 84 or higher. I think the pack weight's not gonna look as crazy insane today for LaLiga as it did from Bundesliga in these like league specific packs just because there's more gold rares that are in that higher bracket, higher rating in LaLiga than there is in the Bundesliga. So that's just kinda something to think about and also with this team being so cracked, like market wise today, since there's not a ton of saved up packs, I think they're gonna start off kind of expensive. Like we saw last week with Bundesliga, a couple of first hour fluctuations might be possible, especially with some of the rare ones. If you guys remember last week, like Kimmich went from 900K up to 1.2 mil. Virts, I bought it like, what was it? Like 580 and he went, I don't even know, it was like he went up like almost 100,000 coins.  Some of these cards could start off a little bit rare today, because a lot of the packs that people are gonna be opening from tot swaps, from the saved up packs, like I have the 81 times 11 LaLiga, a lot of those are going to be untradable, which is really just gonna stock people's clubs with fodder and maybe send these team the season cards. But it's gonna take something really, really crazy today from EA to make these tot cards really, really cheap. I just don't think that anybody in this team, you know when you look at Fakir and Kunde and Arajo and these guys that are gonna get released on the game today with tots cards, I just don't see a way where they're gonna be super duper cheap unless EA do something absolutely wild. This is not like Prem tots where so many people have saved up packs and they've been saving packs for weeks to open and pack blues. Yeah, there's a few saved up packs, but like I said, a lot of them are untradable. Maybe some champs rewards in there, maybe some tradable rivals rewards or like marquee matchups packs. But I think EA's gonna have to either increase the pack weight by incredible amounts today to make these cards be really, really cheap or they're gonna have to drop preview packs, which we have not seen preview packs in forever just besides the 7.5K, so I wouldn't really expect that. But since that's the case, you know, I know this team looks really, really cracked and because of this, you've seen some of the market drop off. Some of the tots cards that were really high yesterday tots Kimmich was 900,000 coins and after all of the release of these brand new cards coming out for La Liga, he's dropped down into the 800K range. Of course, you have your cards like Taliska and Romarino who are going to be in packs today. These guys have dropped down a lot. This is mostly just panic selling and not too much else other than that. It's mostly just panic selling as people are worried about them getting packed today. They're still gonna fluctuate. They're really, really rare cards, still really good. But I really think the out-of-packs market today, like let's say you have some Prem tots cards in your team or the Bundesliga tots cards, I think you're gonna see a little bit of panic selling in that first hour, like Sanldo's even down like 20 or 30K. I think you're gonna see a little bit of panic selling on the out-of-packs market in the first hour today, maybe the second hour as well, kind of like we saw during Bundesliga, or sorry, during Premier League and Community Tots. And the reason why I think you might see that is because everybody's gonna be worried about those swap tokens and getting their swap tokens packs or looking at the brand new tots cards when they drop on the game. This team has so much hype and the players are so good that people might just sell some cards from their team to go out and try some of the brand new cards. That's just kind of how the way it might look today with these cards being that cracked. Now, what would make the market drop a lot, like I said, is if EA find a way to make these LaLiga Tots cards really, really cheap. I just don't see how it's gonna happen. But if they find a way to do that and if these cards come on the market and they're super duper cheap, then that is really going to make a lot of the market drop off. But if they're not super cheap and they're kind of expensive, then the rest of the market might dip a little but then kind of maintain its prices throughout the weekend. And then we'll kind of just have to go from there. But that's kind of the scenario for today. I mean, realistically, we have a Tots Vinny Jr. today that should be four million coins plus. I mean, we've got a Modric card that's probably gonna start over a million coins today. I mean, looking at this team in general, we might have five cards that are more than a million coins today. Benzema, Modric, Pedri, Vinny, and Militao, I think could be around that one million coin range if not even a little bit over, depending upon some work rate, skill move, weak foot boost and stuff like that. So it's probably gonna be more of an expensive day. Some of the lower tier cards like Arajo, Acuña, Canalis, those guys might be a little bit cheaper, but we're just gonna have to see, right? And that's gonna really set the tone for the market today. Now, I will say one thing, remember what happened to the Bundesliga Tots cards on Friday night. On Friday night, if you remember, what happened was these cards with the late night lightning rounds, the 84 plus star pack, the 83 plus duo that were the league specific ones, these cards got destroyed on that Friday night. Kimmich was down to like 600K. Yeah, Saturday, even in Shosa, he was like 600K flat and then he really went up after that and he's gone even more into the week as the content's just been pretty quiet. The content doesn't look like it's gonna be that quiet because this team looks cracked, the LaLiga team that is. So all I'm saying is just watch these cards in the late night, Friday night timeframe.  You have the combination of that and those league specific lightning rounds running at night time that might hurt some of these cards' prices and make them really tradable, like flippable.  So just kind of keep that in mind. Probably the price is gonna start pretty high and I would assume they would fall down pretty greatly into the evening to nighttime hours. That's something that's pretty common on Fridays anyway but we'll have to see if EA do anything crazy with pack supply or preview packs or anything like that today with LaLiga team in the season. Let's talk fodder really, really quick because a lot of people are gonna be getting fodder today via the 84 times 25. I honestly think that a lot of people are gonna take this 15 token pack from the rewards seeing how insane this team is gonna be in packs today. Fodder right now is still up but it's starting to drop as people are selling their investments off selling the cards that they have bought and the demand lessens as we head into a promo Friday with a lot of packs being open. The normal weekly trend has been these cards get low on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays and then they start to go up during the week. Definitely watch these cards today. They might not drop a lot until those later hours though because again, like I said, if you're opening an 84 times 25 today you're gonna be able to go out and do an icon upgrade SBC right? We have the 92 plus moments pack that people love to do even though it's not a player pick people still love to do an SBC like this and it's been repeatable two times. So if you've only done it once people are gonna go ahead and do it again and since we have this SBC out we've got still a lot of other cards. You know, I think like Dele Alli and Foden and some of those Christian Ronaldo play of the month if you haven't finished that one Dele Alli expires today I guess so he's like one of the last ones from Prem Tots that is still available but then you still have a couple other SBCs but most specifically the 92 plus moments upgrade since it's repeatable twice. I don't think you're gonna see fodder just get like destroyed and priced right away unless EA do something crazy. Again, I think it would maybe drop a little bit maybe have a slight rebound and then drop off later in the nighttime as those lightning rounds are open and as it gets late at night and some of that SBC demand kind of ends. So that's just kind of my thoughts and my thinking right now with the fodder on the market today but really you guys know the hype is with these cards right here just because this team looks so freaking good and GGs to EA sports they're really going all out with this and I'm a fan of it. The real surprise today though is gonna be are the weak foot upgrades good or the skill move upgrades good on some of these cards? Do they maintain that or do they not? That's gonna be the big question. Now if you have some La Liga cards let's say you bought some out of packs cards. You can see I'm trading with some stuff at the moment but I have some of these Vinny juniors right? A lot of your out of packs La Liga cards have risen really nicely. Vinny was over 800K he's now just slightly under at the moment. I think I have a Busquets here right I bought Busquets for 140 and he's like almost 200,000 coins or he is 200K. Some of the lower tier cards you know like this Burchiche I'm thinking about selling him off. I got him at 26,000 coins and he is I believe approaching like 40K. Some of these cards if you wanna take the easy cash we talked about it in the last night's video too. You can go ahead and do that as the La Liga hype does build. I think that some of these cards are very invested in the ones that are not as rare and they're just not as hype that could be over invested I think are the lower tier ones and so just kind of just be careful with your with investing and then holding on to any of these La Liga out of packs special cards today or any sort of La Liga link that you maybe have invested in unless it's really rare. I think the rare cards like the Vinny that I was talking about like I bought Militos at 300K he's up almost 100,000 coins and I know we're getting Joel Felix who's cracked but this guy gets green links to everybody in La Liga and he's really, really good and really rare. So I'm gonna hold on to some of my out of pack stuff but I'm also gonna sell some of the other stuff here probably this morning on Friday just to take the easy cash on that one. So that's kind of how I feel about the market today. Again, it's just, it's gonna be an insane day of FIFA. It's gonna be a very hyped day because of how good these cards look and we'll see what happens after the content drop if they're super cheap, if they're kind of expensive. I think I'm gonna err on the side of expecting them to be pretty expensive but still there's a lot of people that are gonna want to get their hands on those cards today or open packs just because they look absolutely incredible. So if you're hyped once again for La Liga team and season hit the thumbs up on the video. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's a hype day on FIFA and it's been Nate the Foot Account and I'll catch you guys later. Peace.


Hello everyone, this is Amit Dhan and on this channel you'll find financial travel and more videos if you like what you see Please do the thumbs up and consider subscribing. Thank you Hello everyone, this is Amit Dhan of AmitDhan.com If you have been watching this channel, you know that I just recently visited Bangladesh and I have lots of videos from Bangladesh and Coincidentally Lonely Planet, which is a very well-known Travel Resource Company, provides various travel resources via guidebooks and online publications and videos Lonely Planet publishes a top 10 travel destination ranking each year and for 2019 Lonely Planet has come up with its top best value travel destination and Bangladesh actually is on the top 10 list. Bangladesh ranks 7th Best value travel destination for 2019 and Today I'd like to just talk a little bit about that and while I talk to you about this I'll just show you some videos or some clips from my videos Which I took while I was in Bangladesh and if you're interested showing seeing my other Bangladesh videos just Visit the link which I'll provide in the description box below So I do have lots of videos from Bangladesh and I'll talk about my experience and Lonely Planet's decision why it ranks Bangladesh for one of the best travel value travel destinations to visit for 2019 According to Lonely Planet Bangladesh has always been an inexpensive destination for travelers and Bangladesh hosts several Inesco wall heritage sites and it has the world's longest sea beach and then it has the mangrove sea for a manned forest and then the wild Bengal tiger and Unbelievable national parks in Cinderbunds and Much more. The one thing you'll find in Bangladesh is that the tourist or the world Doesn't know about Bangladesh a lot yet. So you'll not see very a lot of my tourists And that's what the advantage comes in because you're going to be treated Very exceptionally and then the treatment and the celebrity like actually treatment You're not gonna get anywhere else because the tourists are considered a guest in Bangladesh And they will do everything to you know, they're very friendly and they'll do everything to make you comfortable and to answer any questions helping and the average population they're always curious about everything so they're pretty helpful and the way They treat tourists is not you know, I didn't see that anywhere If you watch my video at the barbershop, that's one example and there are lots of other examples that the twister treated very exceptionally in Bangladesh and also the Affordability is hard to believe you can like you know, you can go places it expensive restaurant, I have a video on that too, and you can like you know, take long distance beautiful trains and video on that too and They are so cheap that you can even possibly think of if you have visited other countries so things are still very, you know affordable and cheap in Bangladesh and then the other things that The It's not crowded yet in terms of like a tourist and everything so you'll not see like you know, lots of tourists are flocking everywhere and Whenever you go lots of places you're going to be probably the only one who is a tourist So that's where you know the reality comes in so you're gonna be treated Like nowhere else on earth So I stayed Bangladesh in about three weeks I didn't have any chance to actually go to the world heritage sites or the world's longest sea beach and mangrove forest to see the and Sunderbans to see the Royal Bengal Tiger and other stuff I only concentrated in the capital city Dhaka and then I went to a northern port called Sillat Which is a very beautiful. It's a very mountainous city with like in a lot of natural Resort natural tourist spots or natural destinations. So I have videos on everything you can see that as well So when I I'm planning to go to Bangladesh back again in the future and then I have to complete Seeing the world heritage sites or the other person on this which is called Chiragong Kulna and Pandurban so those places I haven't Doing my last visit so definitely this is a very Good news for Bangladesh and if you are if you haven't Visited Bangladesh yet. I would recommend going to Bangladesh. It's a very safe. It's everything is very exceptional the people's hospital in hospitality and the people's curiosity curiosity and Treatment of Tourist and everything you're not gonna find it anything anywhere else and Right now actually Bangladesh has one of the world's world sports traffic But that's another thing you want to experience because you're not gonna see that anywhere else as well. So in terms of a In terms of experiences, you're gonna get a unique combined experience of a bit of everything Which is hard to find all together in one place the capital city Dhaka can be hectic can be can be you know very Can have lots of people are very crowded but again the experience is going to be really unique and You will not forget the experiences So The lonely planet has a small video on Bangladesh because it's the one of the top 10 best value destinations for 2019 and Whenever you have a chance I recommend going to Bangladesh and seeing visiting this great country and You don't want to miss out Until it's too late when like, you know, everyone finds out about Bangladesh and start going there and things probably will be More expensive at that time because right now everything is, you know, very reasonable reasonably priced and everything is Inexpressive but once people find out about this country and start going in definitely is going to be More expensive that time due to high demand. So if you're still thinking about it This is the time to visit Bangladesh before, you know, the whole world starts Going to Bangladesh and make it a very popular destination like, you know, Thailand Vietnam other countries and If you haven't subscribed already subscribe to my channel now I bring travel videos from many countries in the world and then I have other types of videos So it's a very good place to Learn about many things and also watch my travel videos Thank you for watching. If you like what you see, please give it a thumbs up and I'll see you shortly There will be next video coming up soon. Thank you


So I'm sort of kind of last here at this session and I'm sort of standing in between everyone and drinks and food. So I wanna inject a little culture into this conversation and as we talk about the reasons that we make interventions in this work, the reason why we advocate for truth in the media and the reason why organizations like mine do that work is for our community, for the folks that we represent. This is my niece and my nephew Camden and Elon and we do the work because we want the world to look better for them five years or 10 years or 20 years down the line. And the work that we do at Color of Change and I'm also gonna actually spend some time talking about some work I did prior to Color of Change is about the truth in how do we, who gets to identify who we are, who gets to talk about our voice, who gets to define us as people in the media and determine the names that were called, the labels that are used to define us.  Color of Change at that point mobilized over the course of two and a half years over 285,000 of its members to get over 300 advertisers to remove its sponsorship, making Glenn Beck no longer profitable to Fox News. And it was a victory, it was a victory it sent a message, but it wasn't necessarily a systemic change, right? So shortly after Glenn Beck leaves the air, Eric Bowling replaces him and starts talking about why Obama is drinking forties in Ireland. And so I'm gonna talk about a little bit of work I did when I was the Senior Director of Programs at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. I've been gone from GLAAD for about a year now, but we did a lot of work in terms of terminology and working specifically with the Associated Press in how they define gay and lesbian people. The work started before I got to GLAAD, but it was sort of work that took place before GLAAD existed and then through that's currently being done even today.  In 1973, the American Psychological Association removed it from its list of disorders. It still carried a lot of pathology to it. It was a clinical term and it was consistently used by folks who opposed freedom for gay and lesbian people. It's being used over and over and over again by opponents to equality for gay and lesbian people or laws that were being advanced around the country. The Washington Post, AP Style Guide, Reuters and New York Times, all sort of listed homosexual as a word that could be used. And the work really started in the 80s by getting the New York Times to just start using the word gay.  You know, that was a victory. Over time, the community started advocating and pushing the associated press to start figuring out how they were gonna remove the word homosexual from its style guide. Listed as a pejorative term. The AP, as they do with sort of a number of terms, says that we don't make that decision at the national level. We really follow the trends that are happening all across the country. And so that's when the community was engaged. Community members all around the country were engaged. Every time homosexual appeared in a local AP story and a state AP wire, that they would start getting phone calls to change that. And over the course of about four to five years, it got to a point where virtually the word homosexual, you did not see it in any paper sort of across the country, where it got to the point where the associated press had to make a decision about what it was gonna do next.   Where they were gonna say it's, you probably shouldn't use the word, but if you wanna use it as a synonym, it's okay. There was a lot of back and forth over the course of a year. A lot of research was brought in and they eventually removed the word homosexual and listed as a pejorative. The work didn't end there. It actually sort of intensified at that point. That's when we had to make phone calls every time we saw it come up. That's also when a lot of work was done by our opponents to start making sure that any time they saw the word gay, they would switch it to the word homosexual. So I have a funny example here of a track runner named Thomas Gay, who, yes, yes. This comes from the American Family Association's Newswire.  So thanks to some great staff at GLAD and some fantastic gay bloggers, we were able to catch this and get a number of screenshots across the internet, not just of Thomas Gay, but of the Boston Celtic NBA player, Rudy Gay, who some of you may follow here, who's also been Rudy homosexual as well, probably much of the surprise of their family and friends and close associates. It kind of makes for really interesting titles like homosexual eases into 100-meter final at Olympic trials. Probably not what the American Family Association really intended, but really show sort of the power of words and the power that words have in sort of defining a community. We worked after that with Gallup and trying to get them to change how they were using the word homosexual in their polling and they said, we need longitudinal integrity, so we don't wanna change the terminology that we're using.  So we found some polling that they did in the 70s around if all things were equal, would you vote for Negro for president? And they certainly were not using that polling during the Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama primary. And they had made some changes around longitudinal integrity at that point to sort of suit cultural changes and the changes around how we determine how community has agency around who they are and who they're defined, what's actually their truth in the media. And so those changes were made. This is about truth. It's about how folks are defined. It's also about, I know that we're having these conversations around as it's a left or right conversation and so I will be completely transparent. Would you be okay with homosexuals teaching your children versus would you be okay with gays and lesbians teaching your children as a 10 point difference? It's 10 points. But it's also about how the community wants to define how they see themselves, how they should be represented. And so when we think about interventions and as organizations like Color of Change or GLAD or organizations that represent community, everyday people that wanna think about how their children are gonna experience the world 10 years or five years down the line, it really is about how do we sort of define and engage media to not just look at sort of what we consider as basic facts but sort of how do our lives, how is our dignity and how are the labels that are used about us represent who we are and who we should be in the press. Thank you. Great.