Move to get the meeting underway here. But he's good to go with that. I okay. First item of the agenda. I hope you've all had a chance to take a look at that as the approval of the agenda itself. So is there anything that anybody wants to change add to it. Hearing no, I move it be approved. A second. Very good. Agenda approved. On an item number two, approval of the previous month's minutes. I did look through that as well. I didn't see any adjustments or changes that were required. Do we have a motion? I'm only I'm going to be approved. A second. Very good. Any of those against previous minutes approved communications into agenda item number three. And we'll go through the the monthly reports at this point in time. So who do we have up first from the golf pros? Sam, do you want to go first? Can you hear me? Okay. Yep. Hey, Sam. Yep. Sure can. Oh, everybody. Welcome back. It's been Jack since January, since we got to see each other. It's good to see you all again. You too. Can't wait for it to be in person. So yeah, the season was off to a great start. After February, we were $37,000 ahead of the prior year. Course got shut down March 16th, middle of April. We reopened April 23rd at 50%. Then we finally got to 100% on June 1st. Well, at the end of the May, we went from being ahead $37,000 to being behind almost $110,000. But one of the bright spots of the 2020 is golf. Golf has experienced an amazing boom, not just in Longmont or Colorado, but across the entire country. I'm sure you guys have probably heard that, but golf is doing great. Through year to date, we're now at $187,000 in revenue. Rounds were down at the end of May by 3,370. We got up to 128 ahead of prior year at the end of this last month. And it's still going strong. Year or month to date, we are still on a great track. We're 909 rounds ahead month to date for October. And we are about 51,000 in revenue ahead. So it's going great. 2020 is turning out to be a great year for us. Thank you. Any questions? No, no questions here, anybody? Fantastic, Sam. Glad to hear it. Thank you. Keith, you want to go next? Hello, everybody. Thank you. Okay. So you got to go on first so he could tell everybody all the good news mingled in with all the bad news of the tough year that everyone's had. So to his point, he's exactly right. It was, I've never seen anything like it in terms of how busy the course was.  So it was, it was amazing. And the numbers kind of speak for themselves. We're, we're over 30,000 rounds starting into October. We're well over 33,000 rounds. Now we were up 1.8% just on the rounds. But we're going to be even up more than that by the end of this month. We're going to be even more than that by the end of this month. The revenue is up 13.2%. 110,772 dollars through September. And at last check, I think we're at a million. One million $30,000 through a couple of days ago. And I think only one other time of this twin peaks ever actually gone over a million. We were up 13.2%. And, you know, To make those kind of numbers up in the summer, just tells you how full we were. We were full from open to close every single day. And it was great. And I think we were able to do that. We were able to do that. So it's amazing. And to, to go. I mean, the statistics are kind of staggering. I mean, we were. At one point we were down. 32% in revenue through May. And, and now we're up 13.2%. And it was a really, it was really fun to work at a golf course where we were just packed all the time. And we didn't have to discount the prices at all. We just charged our normal rates and everybody was happy to pay him. And, you know, we, we moved to some online payment schedule where people can book their tea times online and they use what's called prepaid tea times. And that really helped with the traffic in the building. So we had less people in the building made it safer for the employees, safer for the golfers. And then I don't know what the percentages on that, but that contributed to a lot of our revenue. Obviously. That we didn't have to collect at the front counter. So that went great. That took some doing to get that. That going, you know, props to Jeff on that. And city attorney helped us through that and navigate some of those waters that were kind of difficult to, to get all that squared away and begin with. But it went really well. And, you know, can't say enough about the staffs at all three golf courses, both the maintenance staff and our staffs that work inside the building. The Bev card staff, you know, nobody knew what to expect. Everybody was a little nervous. Everybody was a little scared. But we just made it through week after week. We just kept getting it through. And the disinfecting of the carts and all the things that we had to do to keep everybody safe. It was great. And I can't say enough about Jeff. And his leadership through this because it was. A weird time. And we had to communicate a lot more than we would normally have to communicate. And he had a lot of other stuff going on and a lot of balls in the air. And it was tough. So we managed to work through it all. And I think we're all kind of ready for a little downtime after the crazy last five months, six months. If you look at the numbers, like I said, they're just staggering. You know, I hope, I hope that we all can get out and not have to be masked up and that a vaccine comes and. And, and, you know, 21 will look a lot different that next year, because we didn't really host a lot of tournaments. The tournaments that were hosted were hosted by outside events. We didn't do our normal shotgun starts and fundraisers and. And the normal things that we would do, we didn't do this year. So we hope that we can get out and not have to be masked up and that a vaccine comes and. And, and, you know, we're not going to be able to do this year. So we hope that. Next year with all this, you know, that will have that pent up demand. Then we have all these new golfers, because we created a lot of new golfers this year. I've never seen so many golf bags that were. You know, walking up to the building from the 1970s. I mean, I think people were buying golf clubs at. At garage sales and then bringing them out to the golf course. And they have no idea how to play golf. And. And yet it's still worked really good. I mean, it's still working really good. I mean, it's still working really good. I mean, we have a whole lot of issues. We. We as a group went to 10 minute intervals on our tea times, which was something that I think we had needed to do for a long time. And, and I think I can speak for all three golf pros and staffs that we have that worked really, really well. We were always on time on the T sheet whenever we had any. You know, technology mishaps where somebody thought they booked a tea time and they didn't. Because of the 10 minute intervals, and they had a time never had to turn people away. So that went really good. So we're looking forward to how that plays out in 21 as well. I think that's about it. There's any questions. I take them at this time. No, it doesn't seem like a key. All right. Fantastic. Thanks. Thank you. Very much. All right. So that would be right. All right. Well. Not much to really go after after they, after the two of those guys. They kind of took everything that I pretty much went on my plate here to stay other than, you know, I have to state rounds and revenue. I can't agree more of that. I've never seen the numbers the way they are. The way everything's rolling. The way the staffs have maintained the facilities and. Just it's so smooth right now in my opinion. I mean. Yeah. The deficit for revenue and rounds mean 35, 38% from when we got shut down and coming back to where we're at now at sunset, about 13% ahead. For revenue and. Roughly. Two, three percent ahead in rounds. But again, like Keith said. We haven't had any dynamic priced tea times. We've all been rack rate all the way around and. It's quite amazing to be honest. So. I don't know much more, much more, I can say to be honest, but any questions for, for me at sunset. My only question Ryan would be. I know, you know, we're coming to the kind of the end of the season here. But is there any. Chance of opening to 18 whole rounds at sunset. Are we going to stick to nines. At this point in time. We've been kind of starting to do more 18 whole rounds, but on a still on a limited basis. And it's based on. When you book your time, if you call us, if you book it online. And you booked a nine whole rate. If you call me in the shop, we'll put, if we have availability, that's the key to the whole situation right now. If there's an availability, we'll put a block in the sheet for a turn time. And then we can charge you the difference between the nine whole rate to make it that correct rate when you come in. However, online tea times for sunset will always be nine holes because there's no way for the automated system to actually duplicate a secondary tea time to accommodate for that turn time being that we're only nine whole facility. So you'll never see an 18 whole rate online. Unless we build another nine holes. Right now. There's a lack of space.  Absolutely, we can get you around for an 18 whole time. Just per the availability right now. I have had to turn away a few people for that instance, because of the amount of players that we have. And then occasionally, I think I see it more at sunset. Then I then it then the other guys maybe at 20 and mute. But a lot of players will show up. Maybe a minute to two minutes before their tea time. So the 10 minute intervals help us keep it spaced out. But occasionally there's, you know, that instance where. We might need that extra couple of minutes there to get caught up, but we usually are pretty much right on schedule now. Okay. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, Jeff. Yeah, I. Keith stole my thunder also. They all made it seem easier than it really was. There was a lot of. Struggle about. Can or closing the golf courses in March. There's a lot of struggle about trying to reopen in April. And I can't say enough about the pros, but I can't say enough about the pros and cons. I'm glad that I was able to get this staff and how they made it. Save for everybody to be out on the golf course. And, and to see a year where it was as busy as it was. Is just amazing the work that they did this year. So my thanks really goes out to them. Yep. Absolutely agree with you. Alrighty. We can move on to the next agenda item. We have public invited to be heard twice on here. So I think I want to put that towards the end. Well, let's just start Susan and staff are there. Is there anybody that called in? No, we don't have anybody that would like to join the meeting. So there will be nobody for public invited to be heard tonight. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. Very good. Any old business that we need to. Address at this point in time. The old business on the previous minutes. Really kind of spoke to. The facility upgrade and maintenance for all the courses. Which really kind of gets into item number six. For new business. Yeah, just. So during the year, because of where we were financially. All of our projects were put on hold. And then in late August, we were given permission to move forward. The only capital. Project that we have working right now. Is that we are doing some pond improvements. On banks. Stabilization out at you Creek. Last week they worked on number eight. And in the next two weeks, they'll work on 18. Otherwise everything will wait until 2021. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Very good. So as far as new business. Steph, could you put the PowerPoint up, please? So I wanted to talk a little bit tonight about the. Maintenance. Facility that. The bond project approved in 2018. Is paying for. We have some challenges that are going on with that project. We're going to do a quick overview of where we're at. And then we would like your feedback on. On your thoughts about the highway. 66 site or the clubhouse site. So Steph, I'm going to start with the relocating of the. Maintenance building from highway 66 to. The clubhouse site. Is. Have some neighbors that are. Upset about the city's decision to do that. So I'm going to start with the. The clubhouse site. So Steph, if you could go to the next slide. So again, just going through some, some background, the golf course. Had a conditional use plan approved in 95. The golf course opened in 97. Without a, an official. Maintenance facility. And so the decision was made to use the old farmhouse and. Property to use as the maintenance facility. In 2002. Larry and the staff went through a site plan amendment to move. The maintenance building to the clubhouse site. That was approved by the planning department. But golf did not have any funds to be able to do that. So that plan amendment has since. Come to an end. And so we're going through that same process right now. Based on the voters approval of. The little, almost $1.5 million for the new maintenance facility. Next slide, please. So this kind of gives you a picture of. Where we were the current location on your top left. Is where the existing maintenance takes place at the golf course. And in the bottom left. Is where we are proposing to build the. New course. And then on the picture on the right just shows you where those. Two locations fall on the entire golf property. Next slide. You can get next slide. Yeah. So this gives you kind of a. Proposed site plan of what we're looking at. Again, this is at the clubhouse location. The. Office and maintenance building is where the majority of the. Maintenance work. There'd be three bays in there where our mechanic and staff can work on. All of our equipment. There are two offices in there. And then also a staff break room and meeting room. Building just below that, the equipment building. Is where we would store all of the equipment currently. Most of the equipment is in a lean to, or just setting out in the open. And then at the bottom is material bins so that we can have. Sand and, and dirt and that sort of thing stored. In a contained area without a roof so that. Those materials are, are better accessible than what we have right now. Next slide, slide please. This is just kind of a layout of what that maintenance building. Could look like. Next slide. These show a representation of what the. Maintenance facility. Could or would look like one of the things I'll point out in this picture is originally we had proposed that the buildings be. 20 feet tall. They've been dropped down to 18 and we continue to work on the possibility of lowering them down even further based on. Some of the feedback from the neighbors. Next slide. And then we'll move on to the next slide. And then we'll move on to the next slide. The look of the storage building. What would be. Next slide. This kind of gives you a project timeline. And at the end of the, at tomorrow, we will send the PowerPoint out so that you have this to. Refer back to. In November of 2019, we went to the. Development review committee. We had a lot of work to do. And there was a number of conditions brought to our attention. About the highway 66 site. Some of those things included. That our access to highway 66 was going to be taken away. That with the widening of the highway, we would lose a large portion of access. To the east of the property. We would have to work on an easement. With the property directly to the east of the. Current maintenance building. That our access would be back to send dance. Drop. And pedestrian path that currently ends. On the west end up by the golf course. And we need to. Build that path so that it would go. Completely across the golf property. That our access would be back to send dance drive. Instead of being to the highway. And then we would need to do a buyout. Of our current utility provider, which is Puder Valley. Which would be paying them for one year's worth of. Power to. End our agreement with them and then move to the. Community development. And then we would be able to work on it together. With with Longmont power and communication. So after that, we made the decision to go back to the clubhouse site. As was described in the 2002 process. We went through the. Development review committee. For that site and gate. Receive feedback on. I imagine everything was pretty much put on hold as we're starting to figure out what the pandemic meant to golf. In May, we started the process again, the city also hired a special projects supervisor, who is now helping us supervise the project and Cherise Montgomery is that individual and has done an outstanding job of keeping us moving and really has more background in construction than what I do as a recreation and golf person. In June we conducted the city's first virtual public meeting as was required with the as a part of the process. The meeting was attended by, I believe it was 11 or 12 of the neighbors representing 11 houses, and the neighbor or the meeting, as you can imagine with the way this meeting is it's really difficult to develop any rapport during the meeting in that meeting. People that were listening in could see us but we really couldn't see them and so there was some real frustration on their part that this staff was really just going through the motions and trying to check a box and really didn't feel like there was a connection and that we were really listening to their feedback. In June we mailed out around 300 notices to homeowners around the golf course that was everyone that was within 1000 feet of the clubhouse site. In July we began receiving comments from further comment from the adjacent residents about their concerns. What Cherise and I decided was that we would conduct a second meeting and we actually held it out at the golf course following social distancing requirements and everybody wearing a mask. It was a much better meeting where we could really have some real interaction without some of the hesitations that may come through a virtual meeting. We also voiced their opinions about their concerns with the clubhouse or the maintenance building moving to this site. We explained the concerns with the Highway 66 site and asked that everybody could compromise that the city would try to do the things we could to make things better and would ask them to do the same thing. Next slide please. Yes. This is Marcia. I just had two questions. How many people then came to the outside meeting? I believe there are 11 people. Oh, that's all. Yes. And then on one of the earlier slides, there was a sign that's posted that says future site of the U Creek Maintenance Building. Where is that sign located and how long was that there? That sign is located about in the middle of the proposed maintenance building site and it has been there since 2002. Ah, okay. So it's been there a while. Yeah, thank you. Yep. Next slide please. So we explained to the neighbors they one of the things that they required or requested was that we develop a delta between the cost of building at the clubhouse site and costs for the Highway 66 site. That number was about 214,000 based on where we were. There's another slide that's coming up that I'll talk a little bit more about. In August 21st, we submitted our first response to for the application. That application was delivered and in early September was deemed insufficient. There were five things on that. The middle that needed further detail. And we have since resubmitted and that was accepted on September 24. We did have a third meeting with the neighbors on September 21st at the Highway 66 site. They had requested to be able to walk around that site, see the condition of the existing facilities and then further talk about the pros and cons of the Moving to the clubhouse site. I've been designated had a planner designated her name is Jesse Stomberg who will represent the planning department. Everybody had until October 16 that being residents and other city departments to give comment on our plan. Those plans are currently being our comments are currently being summarized and we will should receive those sometime this week. As far as what shortcomings are submittals might have or further work that we may have to do. We did as a part of the submittal we sent a second notification to those same 300 residents so they were aware that they could go online and look at the proposal and submit comments to planning also. Next slide please. So this slide really kind of shows you that delta between what it would cost to build at the highway 66 site and the clubhouse site that number of 400,000 was as far as we got because that number you know it was going to cost $400,000 to build at that location and it was we're going to spend $400,000 before we started building anything out of the ground and really the budget doesn't allow for that with only being $1,478,000. That was at that time to stop that work and move to the other side included in in what else would we would need to do is a transportation plan. There needed to be work on a visual corridor so that when the highway 66 is widened widened to make sure that there isn't anything that would impact the view of cars on on the highway. So that kind of leads us to where our question is. I kind of explained some of the issues with the height how a 66 site, the city manager gave clear direction it was best for us to move to this location. We felt that it was not appropriate to take money from other areas, other projects that were already funded, mainly because he didn't believe that it was appropriate to take money from other projects that really had a broader impact to our community, then what a maintenance would have to really only the golfers that would really benefit from that improvement. The neighbors, their main issues with us building at this site is the view corridor so the people the house is located on the east side of hole number six. They're they're really concerned that the building will be so tall and so large that it truly impacts their view back to the mountains. The neighbors on Lockmore Drive which is just to the south of the site, their, their bigger concerns are having to look directly into the maintenance building, the noise, the potential of security lighting in the evening, and really again looking at a maintenance location, which they believe would decrease their home values. So, what we're asking you this evening is to for your input on what your thoughts are on on going to this site and the potential impact that that might have to the neighbors, or do you think it's better to try to come up with more money and go back to the highway 66 site. So I'm open to questions and feedback at this time. Well, I have a couple of questions. Okay. Is there any possibility because if I recall the maintenance site kind of is a little bit built up. There's like a mound or something can it, can it be like lowered in the in the ground at all. So, we would level the site to the parking lot, it would not go below grade, all the mounds that you see there right now would have to be removed. And then in turn we would, once the buildings were built we would add mounds back in there, but they certainly would not be as tall or as high as they are right now. We also are proposing in our submittal that there would be trees and bushes planted on top of those mounds help try to block some of that view. I mean, this kind of an issue is, is, you know happens all the time right in municipalities where we have it kind of in our neighborhood where there's a block of land that people that build a house next to it didn't think it would ever be developed even though it's incorporated in the city of Longmont there's a big for sale sign there. And the reason I asked that about that sign earlier, if that sign has been there for a long time I mean those residents kind of have been anticipating a build there for a while right. Maybe the sign has been there, but there is a possibility there were multiple homeowners since 2002, most of those homes were not built at at that time they were mainly in in the start of the grounds was was being leveled foundations were being put in. So I can't guarantee that that sign was seen by everyone, but it was there. One of the comments from the neighbors was that it really isn't fair to say you should have known and and I would agree with that. Well my last comment is that you know it's a huge price differential between the facility on 66 versus where you have planned it and going back to the voters, especially the repercussions from Kobe. I mean, I wouldn't think that it would in that citizens would cough up any more money for it. Yeah, and we would not go back to the voters it would have to be taken from our capital improvement fund, and it would take money away from other projects that are currently funded. This is Marshall, I've only got one question. Okay, as anybody gone physically to these neighbors who complained about the possibility of the building impacting their view of the mountains and done any kind of a line of sight to see how bad that really might be what the impact might be if the building were as designed built there. We're going to talk to them individually. What we have done is we did some site testing, where we put a 20 foot pole up along next to where that sign is right and went to various locations on the east side to get a view of what that impact would be. You know that their view is going to be taken away by building if it is built there. Okay, you answered my question. Thank you. Yep.  The question that I had was the view, whether the building as it came down, increased their view enough that it would be not a non issue again. It doesn't lower it long enough where lower it enough to be able to see the mountains from from the Sundance area. How many houses are affected. And we've heard from 11 homeowners. Let me, I don't know why I'm asking but let's, let's go ahead and say the building is built on that site. Do those 11 homeowners have any legal recourse? What would the implications be if they decide it's there and I don't like it therefore. So our next step in the process is we will go to the planning and zoning commission and present our proposal. The 11 homeowners and anyone else in the public have the right to come in and give comment. The zoning then will make their recommendation. If it is passed that the homeowners have the right to appeal to city council and city council would then make a determination on whether they would agree with planning or send us back to design and with that site or going back to the other site. My guess is that anybody can always go to court and and try to stop it also. Okay, thank you. There was a comment about noise at the orientation of the building is anything open to that neighborhood and turns the doors or is it all facing the other way. It's all inward facing and really the noise concern is is about how early we start in the morning. We can start as early as 530, depending on the time of year. The city code ordinance allows golf to be able to be open that are to start work that early. Most sound ordinance impacts and restricts people from making sound until 7am but golf and parks operations can are not impacted by the 7 o'clock requirement. Now do you think the sound is such that it really is going to reach those neighbors. Well, I don't believe it will reach the neighbors over on Sundance. There was a possibility that on lock more it would one of the real advantages of a golf operation is that that's that's where the maintenance equipment is stored, but they're starting out and immediately going out onto the golf course so it isn't like they're there for an extended period of time and you might help me with this, but you know we're talking three to five minutes where they're getting the equipment out and started and and again they go right out onto the golf course so it's not like they would be there for a significant period of time. So as far as the our maintenance operations come in we will get there a little bit before five like between 515 and 530. Everybody gets their job assignment and they hop on the machine they'll pretty much they'll be sitting inside that equipment storage building they'll fire them up and they'll literally pull them out of the building and head right down to like number one, number two. Just like we do. We did some sound tests with Cherise and a decimal meter and the ambient noise up at the side up there in the parking lot with like 56 decibels. We had a couple more of them running by the practice green and it raised it up to maybe 6065 decibels. We did some other readings from 200 feet out 100 feet out. And we got closer. The decimal readings weren't that noticeable but until we got within like, I think 50 feet of the machinery, and then they raised it up to maybe 70 decibels. But the amount of time that they're going to spend and get like to pull out is minimal. The fire equipment being worked on it's all done inside because with the stormwater protection act we're not allowed to work on machinery outside on hard surfaces that all has to be done indoor where we can contain many fluids that might come out of a machine. I really thought our noise impact is going to be minimal. I mean, I'm not going to be there because you're going to have like on a Monday you'll have probably six, nine machines pulling out in the morning within five, 10 minutes of each other. But they're out and they're gone under the golf course. So I don't think it's going to be a big of impact. They think it is. But I work with the stuff every day and so I'm kind of used to it. I think the bigger impact would maybe might be the lighting and, but even that isn't as bright in the newer buildings and stuff because all the light has to point down. Yeah, we'll follow all of the code for lighting. We know yard lights, you know the tall on top holes that will be all more security to protect the building from anyone getting getting in so there will be no light like you might see out at the highway 66 site. So it really sounds like the whole thing it boils down more to the view blockage. Exactly. Yes. They, there were comments also about increased traffic on you creep drive. We believe the number of deliveries will be, I think we estimated one, one to three, was it a month Jeff, is that right, where sand and top soil and that sort of things being delivered. I talked to the streets today. I had 11 tickets, we probably got 15 maybe 16 loads of sand in. There will be days like in the. Oh, I would say, like when we're doing airification or projects. We might bring in tour three end dumps, which are semi trucks, essentially, of sand, and then we use them. Normally, once the summer gets going, we might go through a truckload a month or depending on how much we're top dressing, what kind of maintenance we're doing. As far as other deliveries go. You know, I generally get further drop deliver twice a year. That's pretty much what I want to store. We'll get FedEx UPS almost daily. Just because most of our way the world works now and everything's delivered or they don't have stuff in the warehouses in Denver, so it has to get shipped from the factory overnight. That's just how it is. So we get a lot of deliveries like that. We have fewer deliveries like every 14 days during the season. I don't think it's gonna be that big of impact. I think that there will be a little bit, but if you notice in that one picture that you're showing you the of the clubhouse site. The corner of that parking lot with the pile of sand. Or you can see in the corner that part of that we're going to be the southeast corner. So we've been taking stand up there, like for top dressing and we've been dumping in the parking lot. When we're doing the bunker renovations and we added all the sand to the green side bunkers. We're staging a lot of our sand there because it's more centrally located to do it.  Yeah, there'll be a few more trucks. Maybe 15 more end dumps that they would normally not see, but I don't think that's going to be that big of impact. The other thing about one of the things that we talk about where we dump sand in the parking lot because it was more of a central location. For example, to get from our maintenance shop and get up to like 13 green. That's over two mile drive. So we've got GPS to, so efficient wise, this site makes more sense for maintenance as far as being more efficient with how we do our stuff. But anything's better than what we have now, but that would be the ideal site. If you have any more questions, I'll feel free to answer. Anything else. Any other questions or comments. Go ahead. Marshall, let me just ask one real quick. Discussing the proposed site. What would you like the advisory board to do this evening and in response to the, to the site issues? I mean, do you want to vote? Do you want an opinion? What would you like for us to do? I would like you to someone to make a motion on your preferred site and we can share that with the city manager and. Planning staff as, as that's needed. Okay. So asking for a motion. First we'll motion on the current location. So if we could just do one motion that. Okay. Prefer X as our site, whichever you all prefer. Okay. I'll make a motion that we do the new site next to the clubhouse. I'll second it. Okay. All those in favor. Hi. Hi. John, did you vote. You're muted. John you're muted. No, I didn't vote because I feel totally incompetent to be able to ask to vote one way or the other. This is my first meeting with his first thing I've heard about it. And I have no way do I have any opinion one way or the other. Okay. Fair enough. So is that. Five zero then. Is that what you saw? Five zero. Yep. Tim. Thanks. It's been helpful to me to listen to the conversation. It's not like I haven't been in it with Jeff. You know, prior to tonight. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So. I will report if when the time comes to the council, I'm certain Jeff will as well. The result of the deliberation, your deliberation and in your recommendation. I'd be happy to carry another message along with your, with your emotion. If you were wanted to entertain something. That would also encourage the city council to seriously consider. That would certainly encourage the city council to really. Find something to. Find something to do with the budget that you've created. If you're ever going to make that recommendation. This would be a good time to do it. In the CIP. I believe we have. About $2.3 million. As our estimated budget to expand the clubhouse, just. A reference. Okay. It's on the, it's on a list of projects unfunded. Yeah. If I were you, I wouldn't want to miss an opportunity to signal that the city council, even as you're supporting this plan, what your interests are and aspirations are for finishing out that clubhouse. The 2021 budget is built or is done. So there won't be any more consideration. We're going to prove that actually we start the ordinances tomorrow night. But the building of the 2022 budget will begin very soon. And it's not unusual for capital improvement projects, regardless of the funding source. In this case, it would be likely public improvement funding. It's not unusual for those to be to take years to get funded to the point where you can actually contract for a project that may take two or three years. But if you don't get started, you never get there. And so far it hasn't been started. So just for your information as members of the golf committee. If that's something you would like to see. Somebody has to make that an issue. I will. It'd be fun to hear from the golf community as well. Yep. Do we. Thank you, Tim. I appreciate that. That's that's good information. I didn't realize. You know, we're at that point. I think, you know, for myself, I've always looked for the improvements to be done on the clubhouse at U Creek. I know Sam has asked for that as well in previous years. Does somebody want to make a motion for that recommendation for tend to take that forward. I moved to test that forward. Go ahead, man. I'm sorry. I was just going to make a motion to, to have councilman waters bring that up. I will second that motion. Marshall. All favor. Hi. Hi. Here's what I'll do. Folks, I keep a list of budget. Priorities that I hear that I learned about during the year. I present those to Harold. Every year. Just to go to the top of my list now. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you bringing that up. Hi, Jeff. Anything else on. Capital improvement. Nope. That's it. All right. On to agenda items seven, any items from the staff. We haven't already addressed. I think we've talked about them all. Great. Great. Any other additional items from the board? This is agenda item number eight. Thank you, Fred. Go ahead. I just wanted to take the opportunity since I'll be leaving the board this year to thank Jeff and the city for the opportunity. To serve on the board. It's been a real pleasure. Oh, thank you, Fred. I appreciate all your work. Yeah, definitely appreciate your, your help here.  Yeah, I've had several people ask me at the golf course. Why won't they allow us to drive the cars out into the parking lot? Anybody have any reasons, but what's that all about? Well, part of it. It's two fold with the. Business that we've had of at the golf course. It would take too long to be able to get the golf carts back. Disinfected. Allowed to dry and be able to get them back out of there. So that is a, one of the biggest reasons for that. Secondly. Is a. We were having a large issue with people bringing. Their own alcohol onto the course. Oh, geez. That puts all three of the golf pros at risk because even though. Even though somebody may have their own alcohol, drink it, become intoxicated, it still comes back onto the golf pros. So that, that's really why we're not doing that. And part of the issue was when we were closed, people continued to golf and they were bringing their own alcohol out there. And we ended up having to start monitoring the golf courses and asking people to leave. And, but that, that's the reason why that's not happening right now. Thank you. Yep. The other items from any of the board members. Well, all right. And as we indicated earlier, no public and is to be heard at this point in time, unless somebody else has joined in. Yeah. And I don't think if they were going to participate, they had to join at the beginning. Right. Okay. Very good. Very good. If there's no other items. Can we get a motion for adjourn? I will move with adjourn, Marshall. I'll second. Very good folks. We are adjourned. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you. Everybody. Appreciate your time here to see me. Thanks everybody. It's good to see you. Have a good night. You as well. Bye, everybody. See you. Bye. Thank you guys.


Mae Llamint, i gael amlaen o bobl, wrth angech universityaiddol yn ei defnyddio pokelo uchydigol ar dice nhw i am研 47.ariaid oes sy answeredou a ond efallaiเรiowindaethau am ychwanegraff, i gael ar yng Nghymru wishes graffiau daith ar gyfer I. Mae Llamint yn ynwag deng nhw ydw i'r arghau ar ddiogel هوn panferminkol ag y belie sequence 1. Rwyf wedi am symud o bobl yn acum yengddianosaot Freithiau Cymru yn cy如此, i ph influenio a mkeys taking y моeld mwy unterschied, dan mightimanwazio'r I will have engagements later today to take forward the Government's programme for Scotland. Today marks the first anniversary of the Children and Young People's Bill. Can the First Minister tell us whether the proportion of local authorities reporting sufficient childcare for full-time working parents in Scotland is higher or lower than in England? Of course, the fact of the matter is that we do not yet have sufficient provision of funded childcare to meet the needs of all full-time working parents. That is precisely why this Government is committed to a further substantial extension of the provision of childcare. We have said that if we are re-elected over the next Parliament, we will increase provision to 30 hours a week for all three and four-year-olds and for eligible two-year-olds. However, let's look at the progress that has been made. Entitlement to early learning and childcare has increased to 600 hours. That is a 45 per cent increase in hours for three and four-year-olds since 2007. That saves families an average of £700 per child per year. The uptake of that provision is high. The latest annual statistics were published in December and they show registration of three and four-year-olds at 98.5 per cent. This is a success story. However, we still have work to do. I met in January with a campaign group, Fair Funding, for our kids to discuss the experiences of some parents who are having difficulty in accessing the childcare that their children are entitled to in a way that suits their working patterns and we are working to address that. That is a success story. However, of course, we are determined to ensure that all parents and children who are eligible get the benefit of this Government's significant expansion of free childcare. The First Minister knows only too well that that promise for 600 hours was a promise she first made in 2007. It took her 80 years to get to the point that she's at just now. The answer to my question was, in fact, that it's lower than in England. The Family and Child Care Trust report, published today, shows that just 15 per cent of councils in Scotland say that sufficient childcare is being provided for families trying to juggle work and family life. It's 43 per cent in England, and it's higher in Wales too. For so many working families in Scotland, childcare is essential, and it can't be prescriptive. Some families need support first thing in the morning, others need it at the end of the school day. Can the First Minister tell us? Has a number of councils in Scotland who report sufficient childcare for full-time working parents gone up or down in the last year? To be frank here, Kezia Dugdale is somewhat missing the point. I'm not standing here in saying that we are yet in a position where we have sufficient, funded childcare for all full-time working parents. That's why we are committed to a further extension of childcare to 30 hours per week. That will take us to the position where children in childcare get the same number of hours in nursery as children in primary school already get, but we have made significant progress. When we took office, the previous Labour Administration were providing 412 and a half hours, approximately 14 and a half hours per week. We have increased that to 600 hours a year, a 45 per cent increase. We're funding local authorities to the tune of £329 million to provide that. Kezia Dugdale does make a reasonable point. It's the point that I discussed with fair funding for our kids. There are some parents, and I stress some parents who are having difficulty accessing their childcare in a way that suits their working pattern. Two issues specifically were raised with me. The arrangements that some councils have with partner nurseries that limit the number of funded places per nursery, and secondly the limitations of the half-day place that is offered in council nurseries. The two things that this Government is doing to tackle that in the medium term are firstly the statutory obligation under the Children and Young People's Act that we put in local authorities to ensure greater flexibility and to consult with parents, and secondly the substantial increase in hours beyond what we're doing now that we're planning. The half-day place ceases to be relevant when children are eligible to 30 hours per week. I've also tasked my officials to look in the shorter term at how we address these issues that some parents are having.  We've gone from an entitlement of children to 412 and a half hours a year free childcare to 600 hours, and we've extended the eligibility for two-year-olds as well. We'll continue to make the progress from the rather derisory position that we inherited from the last administration. The First Minister says that it's getting better. It's not. It's getting worse. Today's report confirms that fewer than one in six councils in Scotland are providing enough childcare for working parents. That's down from one in four last year. On the SNP's watch, things are getting worse for families trying to juggle family life. One year ago today, this Parliament gave parents with three and four-year-olds the right to 600 hours of nursery care. We supported that. We voted for it. Today's report makes it clear that parents across Scotland are unable to access that right that we gave them. It's true that six weeks ago the First Minister met the fair funding for our kids group, and they haven't heard from us since. I spoke to them this morning. In fact, Jenny Gorvin from Fair Funding for Our Kids said that they give us supportive words about precious little action. There we go. They told her that thousands of kids in Scotland are missing out on childcare and that parents are having to give up their jobs as a result. The fair funding campaign asked for an audit of delivery of the 600-hours childcare policy so that we can see the scale of the problem and fix it. Will the First Minister deliver that audit today? We will continue to monitor and audit this policy. That's why I can stand here and tell Kezia Dugdale that the last statistics showed a registration of three and four-year-olds at 98.5 per cent. I'm sure that fair funding for our kids will welcome the fact that since the meeting I had with them on 9 January, I have tasked my officials and they are looking not at the longer-term solutions because we know what they are but at the shorter-term solutions to the particular issues some parents and I stress some parents are having. I would have thought that Kezia Dugdale would have welcomed that approach from government. I know that in this week of all weeks Labour are having some difficulty getting their figures to add up properly. There is no way that even the enumerate Labour Party can describe an increase in funded childcare from 412.5 hours a year, which is what they provided to 600 hours a year, which is what we are providing as a deterioration. That is a significant improvement and Labour, frankly, who never ever made it a budget priority in any of the discussions that they had with John Swinney, should be welcoming. I don't think that that goes far enough, which is why I am committed to moving to a situation where our three and four-year-olds and eligible two-year-olds do not get 600 hours a year, but they get 1,140 hours a year, 30 hours a week. That is my ambition when Labour will get round to backing it. The First Minister says that we have never ever prioritised it, yet it was in our budget ask last year and it is just nonsense. She is celebrating the success of a policy that she should try to celebrate in front of parents in Glasgow, who are telling her that there are thousands of children across Scotland unable to access the rights that her Government gave her. She should look those parents in the eye and tell them that they have never had it so good. They know that it is not true. We know that it is not true, and I think that the First Minister knows that it is not true as well. Parents across Scotland have one simple question for the First Minister. Is not it about time she made good on her childcare promises? First Minister, tell you what I am going to do right now. I am going to look Kezia Dugdale in the eye and remind her who runs Glasgow City Council. She has issues with the delivery of the childcare policy in the city of Glasgow. I suggest she should make an appointment and speak to her Labour colleagues who run Glasgow City Council. 5.5% of three and four-year-olds registered for free childcare. I did look parents in Glasgow who have frustrations about the delivery of this in the eye, and I committed to them that we would work to deal with those issues. No matter how hard Kezia Dugdale tries and not that she is not asking about the health service this week, I wonder why. No matter how hard Kezia Dugdale tries to manipulate the figures, she cannot get away from the fact that an increase from 412.5 hours of free childcare to 600 hours is a significant step forward under this Government. If we are re-elected and let's face it, while there is no complacency, all of the polls today suggest that we may well be, then we will take that to 30 hours a week for three and four-year-olds and eligible two-year-olds. This Government has delivered on childcare and we will continue to do so. Question 2. Ruth Davidson. Order, Ms Davidson. To ask the First Minister when she will next meet the Secretary of State for Scotland. First Minister. No immediate plans. Ruth Davidson. Thank you. On 11 December, the First Minister told me in this chamber that when it came to education, she would always keep an open mind about educating our children. I will listen to ideas from wherever they come. There is an idea out this morning. The parents of St Joseph's primary school in Milgyi are campaigning to keep their school open. They want to take the school out of the local authority control and to run it as a trust. They insist that education elsewhere in the area will be unaffected. They just want their children to get the education that they believe in in the town where they live. Given what she said in December of last year, will the First Minister commit to meet the parents, to listen to their concerns and to examine their proposal with an open mind? First Minister. I think that you have just heard from my exchange with Kezia Dugdale. I will meet parents who are interested in and concerned about their children's education, whatever the issue is that they want to discuss with me. I will, and I repeat this today, also listen to any ideas and suggestions that are put forward. If I do not agree with the particular suggestions or if they cannot be delivered, I will look parents in the eye and explain to them why that is the case. In terms of the specific issue that Ruth Davidson raises about St Joseph's primary, I should say that I well understand the concerns that any parent will have for their children's education if a school that they value is going to be closed. The self-governing schools model, of course, was introduced into Scotland by the Tories and only two schools took up the option of being self-governing. Of course, that legislation was repealed by the Standards in Scotland Schools, etc. Act 2000 by this Parliament. That is the position, but I will be very happy to discuss the issue with representatives of parents if they so wish. On the wider issue of listening and being very keen for ideas, I gave Ruth Davidson an open invitation to send me ideas. I may be wrong, but I am not aware if she has done so. Last week, I talked about the need to close the attainment gap in schools and talked about the willingness I have to look at best practice where that exists. I think that we can find some best practice from the London challenge. I think that there is other best practice from Ontario, for example. I am absolutely determined that we continue to deliver the best education for our children and where there are challenges in our education system, we work hard to address them. Ruth Davidson. I am pleased with the First Minister's response because that is a simple case to understand. What we have got are parents who are energised, enthusiastic and positive about their local community. They have a genuine work-out plan to improve the schooling of their children. They are being faced so far with a Government wall that simply tells them that we know best when it doesn't know best. Because there is a massive performance gap that the First Minister has recognised between our poorest and richest areas. Scotland is stagnating in international league tables and parents are watching in horror as this Government and councils fight over the basic task of hiring teachers for local schools and it's frankly not good enough. Last week we welcomed the First Minister when she moved an inch by backing the London challenge but Scotland needs her to move a mile. We need a parent power law which will allow schools to opt out of local authority control if they so wish. So why can't the First Minister today back that? First I will point out to Ruth Davidson and she may find this helpful. Again, I think that I am right in this but if I am getting this wrong in any way then I apologise in advance. I am pretty sure that the council, Easton Bartonshire, that is closing the schools that she is talking about has the Conservatives as part of the administration. Perhaps her first port of call might not be to me but to her colleagues in Easton Bartonshire Council. On the general issue, Ruth Davidson is well aware of the position in terms of grant-aided schools in Scotland. The Scottish Government currently funds eight grant-aided schools. Seven of those are special schools because they tend to be for national centres of provision and I've already outlined the position in terms of the repeal of the former legislation. I've said I'd be happy to speak to those parents and perhaps as well as discussing this issue advise them on how they can persuade the Tories in their local council to take a different decision on the school. In terms of the other issues, Ruth Davidson raises, can I just say in terms of teacher numbers? I make no apology for drawing a line in the sand in terms of teacher numbers. I want to maintain the numbers of teachers working in our schools because I see that as important to raising attainment and I would hope both Labour and the Tories would tell their own councils that they should be backing that as well. It was revealed this week that Long Annett power station in my constituency is facing renewed threats to its future with talks apparently breaking down between Scottish power and the national grid. Given that Long Annett employs hundreds of workers in West Fife and given that the plant is responsible for 25 per cent of the power we use in Scotland, what action is the First Minister taking to get all the parties round the back of the table to secure a secure future for Long Annett for the local community and Concordant and for Scotland's future energy needs? First Minister? I very much share the concerns of the member about the future of Long Annett and I think she is absolutely right to be raising this in the chamber today. She is probably aware that I wrote to the Prime Minister on Monday asking him to, while making sure he is aware of the serious threat to the future of Long Annett. To put this in a nutshell, Long Annett is under imminent threat of the cost phases in connecting to the grid. It costs £40 million where a power station in London or the south-east would get paid £4 million to do it. It is deeply unfair and the UK Government in the interests of Long Annett and the interests of the people who work there but also in the wider interests of Scotland's security of energy supply really needs to intervene and help us get this sorted out. Alison Johnstone? Thank you. Aspired this week that the 16th century old Parliament building in Edinburgh was transferred from the collective ownership of my constituents to Scottish ministers without knowledge or recompense to the common good fund. Edinburgh Council failed in their role assured of this fund but are now seeking to resolve the situation. I would like to ask the First Minister to assure my constituents that any requests from Edinburgh Council to restore ownership of this common good asset to them will be considered seriously and favourably. First I can just very briefly state the background to this. I'm sure Alison Johnstone is aware of it. The Scottish Government's position is that title to Parliament hall was taken by Scottish ministers in good faith and it was done so with the full knowledge and consent of the council. The Scottish court service and the faculty of advocates therefore have now got good title to that property. Of course I am more than happy to ask the relevant Minister Marko Beagie to meet and discuss this with Edinburgh City Council but there is no fault here on the part of the Scottish Government and of course title has since been passed on so it may very well be that there is no easy solution to restore title to Edinburgh City Council but I think that any questions on how this has arisen probably have to be directed to the council. To ask the First Minister what issues will be discussed at the next meeting of the cabinet. Matters of importance to the people of Scotland. I want to look at what senior police officers have been saying recently. They told us stop and search for under 12s had ended but it had not. They told us the numbers released were wrong but privately admitted they were right. The police told us they were forced to release the information and that was wrong too. Is this really good enough for our police and for Scotland? Of course the police including the chief constable will be before the justice committee later today and I'm sure they will answer these and many more questions. Obviously Willie Rennie has asked a number of different points in one question so let me try and answer them in terms of the position with stop search for under 12s the clear policy is that there should be no non-statutory searches of under 12s information has been provided to police officers about the range of ways in which they can engage children under 12 short of relying on non-statutory stop and search. In terms of the wider issue about non-statutory stop searches we discussed at the last session of FMQs the chief constable is now considering the fact that a short-life working group has been established to consider that and to consider the implications that will report to the justice secretary by the end of next month by the end of March and then Parliament will be updated and have the position to debate this issue in full. In terms of the issue about the release of the information the chief constable wrote to the Scottish Police Authority on Monday of this week to make clear Police Scotland's position on the release of this information is probably easier if I just quote briefly from the letter our decision as in the police's decision to release the data was on the basis of an assessment that despite our concerns about its accuracy or reliability there was a risk that we would have been the subject of an adverse decision notice if the appeal process continued. Chief constable also apologised in that letter for any concerns that had been raised as a result of how he had expressed that matter to release that data and of course the data has been released I could understand concern if we were talking here about the reasons for withholding information this information has been released which of course has allowed the correct and very legitimate scrutiny that has now been applied to the subject. Willie Rennie I knew all the things that she's just told me what I want to know is what she thinks about it I want to know her opinion about what has been happening to police officers what they have been telling this Parliament about six months and their failures to be straight with this Parliament about these facts The police code of ethics reads how we deliver is as important as what we deliver that's exactly what I'm concerned about and I'm sure she recognises and she must recognise that trust in Police Scotland has been shattered because of these series of events there is clearly something wrong with the system that her Government created what is she going to do about it First Minister The first thing I will continue to do is support our police in the hard and vital job that they do on our behalf day in and day out Now in terms of questions about what information the police have given to parliamentary committees or to the Scottish Police Authority they are rightly before the justice subcommittee later on today and they will answer those questions I think the bigger issue here and the substantive issue is about the future of non-statutory stop searches I said and I think I made my view quite clear in the last session of FMQs if Willie Rennie wants my opinion on things is that the situation around non-statutory stop searches is unsatisfactory at the moment it's unsatisfactory because of the degree of public understanding about it and I guess it's also unsatisfactory because of the degree of lack of public acceptance of it and that is why the chief constable has been absolutely correct to say that he is now considering ending that practice but clearly there are practical implications of doing so and that is why the process that is now underway through the short life working group is the right way to do this by the end of next month that will have reported to the justice secretary and Parliament as a whole if Parliament is so minded can debate this as a whole it is vital and Willie Rennie to this extent is correct it's vital that we have total trust in our police service I trust our police I have confidence in our police and I will continue to back our police in the work that they do Thank you very much to ask the First Minister what impact on going austerity will have on the finances available for public services in Scotland First Minister The current spending review the Scottish government's discretionary budget has been cut by nearly £2.9 billion in real terms all three Westminster parties have signed up to deliver billions of pounds of further cuts over the next parliamentary term coalition plans amount to cuts of around £1,800 per head on day-to-day public services between 2009-10 and 2019-20 these cuts have imposed and will continue to impose a significant burden on households across the country of course there is a need to reduce the deficit but I believe it should be done more gradually than either of the largest UK parties is proposing I believe it's time for a clear alternative to austerity plans that will get the deficit is a share of our GDP down but also allow us to spend the money on infrastructure, innovation protecting our public services and protecting the vulnerable and I'll be proud to argue that alternative to Labour, Tory austerity can I thank the First Minister for that answer and thank her as well for the passion in which she has put into this especially around around they don't like it around the around the impact of women in our society I think it's around 85% of all welfare cuts is a direct impact on women usually low paid women First Minister what measures she would be taking as the Scottish Government to mitigate the impact on the hard working low paid women of this country First Minister Research by the House of Commons Library shows that more than three quarters of the impact of the UK Government's tax and welfare changes is being born by women that is outrageous a scandal completely unacceptable disabled people are also losing out in Scotland it's estimated that more than half of those who claim disability living allowance will see their benefits cut by at least £1,100 a year and of course the IFS found that the changes to the tax and benefit system are harming the poorest 10% of households more than any other section of the population that's the reality of Labour and Tory austerity plans so we'll continue to make the case for a more rational and more compassionate economic policy at Westminster and if we have influence in that Westminster Parliament we will be a voice against Labour Tory austerity a voice standing up for the poor the vulnerable women and our public services 5. Ian Gray To ask the First Minister what plans the Scottish Government has to allow schools to delay the implementation of the new advanced hire qualification Scottish Government has no plans to delay the implementation of the new advanced hire Ian Gray There's no one I think who would think ideal where these new exams to be delayed but when the IFS say that pressure means the advanced hire might be marginalised or dropped when the NSWT says levels of workload are unsustainable when head teachers tell a committee of this Parliament that the situation is a total disaster surely we have to listen and take some action Is Seamus Searson of the SSTA not right to be alarmed by the lack of respect for teachers professional judgment shown in this matter by this Government? First Minister We will continue to discuss with and listen to teachers unions and the education secretary does that on an on-going basis The level of change to advanced hires is very different to that for hires and of course there has been a year of dual running of the old and new hires The content of advanced hires has changed less than was the case for hires Teachers have been provided with a great deal of support over the last two years to help with the implementation of the new advanced hires and there is no evidence in our view to suggest that dual running is necessary but we will continue to discuss these matters as we have done throughout with teachers and with teachers unions and we will continue also to agree with teacher unions when they say like we do in the future To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on prescribing methadone to drug users as a rehabilitation process First Minister The Government is committed to tackling the damaging impact of drugs in Scotland through our national drug strategy the road to recovery which of course focuses on the needs of the individual and provides a range of interventions opiate replacement therapies including methadone are just one component in a package of care treatment and support that can be offered to individuals to help them recover from drug addiction Opiate replacement is an essential treatment with a strong evidence base and the youth of methadone remains a central component of the treatment for opiate dependency that's a view endorsed by the independent expert group on opiate replacement therapies in its report to the Scottish Government in August 2013 Margaret Mitchell I thank the First Minister for that answer Is she aware that over 40 per cent of all drug-related deaths in Scotland are now linked to methadone compared to 14 per cent in England? Given this and the lack of information about the number of individuals who have become drug free using a methadone programme does she consider the policy on prescribing methadone is fit for purpose? First Minister I've already in my initial answer outlined the role that methadone plays in a wider drug strategy I'm sure the member will also understand that the factors lying behind numbers of drugs deaths are complex and while what she is talking about will undoubtedly be one there will be other factors at play as well In terms of the prescribing of methadone it is the case for the third successive year there's actually been a decrease in the dispensing of opiate replacement therapies in the community including methadone the quantity of methadone dispensed in the community and indeed the total cost involved of it has also decreased for the last three years so clearly there are big issues here in terms of how we get to grips with drug addiction and help those who suffer from drug addiction but methadone has a role to play she's right to say it's only part of the solution and we must be very careful about it but I hope the figures I've cited to her give her some reassurance and I know the justice secretary would be happy to discuss it with her in more detail if she so wishes the First Minister will be aware that the expert review of opiate replacement therapies published in August 2013 which found that only a quarter of alcohol and drug partnerships held detailed information as to the length of time that individuals had been on opiate replacement therapies such as methadone can the First Minister confirm whether all ADPs now collate this information and if not, why not First Minister I'm more than happy to provide a full written answer to the detail of that question because it is important that we do understand both the scale of the issue we're dealing with and the direction of travel so it's a reasonable point for the member to have raised. I will or I ask the justice secretary to provide the specific information that the member's seeking. That ends First Minister's questions can I just remind members that Cleaner's session this afternoon starts at 2pm we're now moving to members' business who are leaving the chamber. Should do so quickly and quietly


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Hey everyone welcome to another summon video for a coca-lips, so yesterday I was able to show you guys a banner which is Good in a way above average, but I need She you actually for a link with The link is supposed to be with This girl Kiki so I need I need the link for Kiki and I need the healing of Nephites, so we're gonna be pulling for this for this banner. Although Nephites is a She would be a tier B. So again this banner would be above average, but I need them Nephites I need her for healing at this point the What do you call this the The burn would be a plus. I don't need it at this point, but the healing will be a big help I need copies of Nephites for this pull Okay, at least one copy of she you would do so I have here 82 82 currency Dementium and I have here this currency Forgot its name. So anyway, I will probably see whether if I if I if I do good with the 80 or 82 Or probably 90 I would stop but if not, I'm gonna go further and move on to the next currency So without further ado, let's do a summon session. Okay, so first 10 draw We will have pity at 50. So this is your standard purple ones so a 10 Hopefully even the pity would at least yield me a nephites This one is at 20 another purple one Lots of purples today so two two two two down to 60 So probably do 100 pulls today probably do 100 pulls today just to have two two pitties at least So for you to go, you know to go with this banner try at least to get 50 so that you get get the pittier at 50 This is at 40 guys 40 pulls so far no luck And really no luck So I'll guess I'll have to be contented with going to pity So this is for pity pull And hopefully I could get to yellow ones I need yellows. Okay Need another one after this. Oh, it's fenryro It's good. I could use her But that's it's another off banner pull Oh boy Do I get another one? I know so no so fenryro will Definitely be a good addition because it gives me the opportunity to To give more stars to my fenryro, but again, I need I need nephites here nephites, please Please please please I think I just finished all my luck in the previous banner pull. I was so lucky there that right now I'm not feeling the luck so Yellow So this is 20 again for the 50 pull. We actually we have 25 This is for your 30 Yes Pull No 40 What? Okay.  I think I have to at this point. I think I have to So this is blue Three more pulls I know I know After this two more pulls Another blue Okay Let's go Last two pulls then the last one This is the last before the pity again Second pity banner in a row. What is happening? What is happening? What so this is guaranteed yellow Question is who my god, why are you appearing baffomet? I've had a lot of copies of you. I don't need you at this point So we're at zero again. So let's try to do 50 more pulls. Okay Why is this banner so unlucky? Why See Not even yellows in between the 50 pulls My god, what are you doing? See See oops oops oops not there So 30 more draws what kind of luck do I have today? Hmm See another purple boy, I don't think my luck is changing any anytime soon, but I'll have to finish this off 40th Worse and worse it's camellia. Oh boy What luck do I have today? Okay, I'll just finish everything off probably could get lucky As if I can get lucky at this point Another purple the last draw So I'm at 26 probably gonna be Completing the 50 off camera four off banner four off banner Oh boy Not even once Not even once Not even once she or the one if it is Anyway guys That is it Um, I'm just wishing that I all I got your bad luck already And wishing you luck in your pulls and hopefully I'll see you in the next video I'll be doing another video tomorrow And the preview would be is kill More important than stats That is the theme. So I'll see you guys tomorrow. Thank you very much. Take care. Stay safe This is the warden and I'm out of here


Hello, good afternoon. So University of Europe is in Greece. I don't know if I can translate it in Greek, if you want my presentation. So it's really a pleasure being here. I've been with some of the audience, actually, met in Greece 10 years ago when we had a research conference, actually. And some people might have seen something like that. So what I'm going to present is one of the things I would like to discuss today is how to help designers, learning designers. And I know that some of you might see people just go to the movie, just choose the topics, choose the activities, then assign them to resources, et cetera, and then the course is there. Some people might say, OK, I might use a tool like associate with the design method like learning designer from UCL. Or we have seen new tools like that, a cursor, for example. Hello, guys. And so what I would like to show you is an evidence-based design method supported by a tool that came out of research, of years of research, and that actually guides the designers, design a course. This tool is called CAVMOS. I will give you more details about that. But let's start. First of all, designing a model course. Is it a science? Is it science? Or is it art? Both. It's like Etcher, a very famous graphic designer and that tried to create using imagination, creativity, and geometry. This is one of these. So since we are there, when we design, we are using lots of theory behind it and pedagogical strategies, lots of years of research about how people learn. But also, we need creativity. We don't need prefabricated courses. We might use prefabricated courses and then reuse them and add our own style. How can we support this? So I'm talking about learning design. It has a little bit difference about instructional design. I'm not going to go into details. But what we care mainly in learning design is which activities we are going to use associated with goals, which resources or services will support these activities and how we orchestrate the flow of that. So we want to answer specific questions of what the students are going to do, when, and how. And all that in order to promote positive learning experiences. So that's it. Now, we have tools. We have, for example, the pedagogical wheel from the one with the typology of UCL and Diana Lorela, the ABCLD. We have also Bloom in order to support all this. But is it enough just to know the theory and also have a great tool and very usable tool? Yes and no. And I'm saying yes and no, because I remember one discussion that we had here, actually, a presentation by Martin Duyama saying that the percentage of tools that are being used or activities that are being used in Moodler are very specific. We do not use all the different features that we offer. But why is that? Probably because we have not tried to combine the activities and the tools with the goals and associated learning activities. So it's not enough. But are we using a common language in learning design? Do we develop? When I ask you to give me a lesson plan or a learning design, are we all going to give the same thing? No. So we don't have a common framework. We have bits and bytes. We have templates, but not a common language. Actually, we can see in Merlot, they have different things. In other, the MOOCs have different styles. Other people are using other PDF styles. Different, different templates. So we cannot compare them. We cannot take it and use it and reuse it and then put it in real practice after that. But architects, which is very close to design, have common language. They have also tools. So they start from sketches. They go into very detailed designs and also designs in layers. The plumping, where there will be the windows, the doors. And so they do not start just flat. They start with the design. And up to that, they put different layers of different detail. And then, do they stop there? No. You, as a customer, you want to see how this might look like. So they go a bit before. They make a step ahead. And they create rendering of a 3D model of how this would look. Another view. So they have different views. So why don't we have that in learning design? So why should we start with a word, different templates, and then take it and put it in a tool, in a model, and then create the course? So that was the inspiration. Of actually creating learning design tools. I mentioned some of that. There is 20 years back, we tried to standardize this process with IMSLD, some of you might remember that. And based on that, they created the tools or tried to create these tools. But designers, teachers, especially novice practitioners, they need graphical stuff. It's OK to have forms, but they need more graphical stuff to play around. And also, what they want is to close the gap between design and deployment or enactment. To take the design, as I saw it, and then put it into a platform and realize it. Not with all the resources. No, resources you can create in an authoring tools and then assemble that. Or the quiz might be very platform specific. But at least the skeleton and most of the details will be there. And also, if we have this kind of tools, we can reuse these designs. We can take that, adopt something, play with that, and then re-enact it in our own style. So we need this kind of tools. And this is actually the trend at the moment. So let me present you how we support all this with a tool called Katmos. So what we do is we exactly support what we are talking about. Is that we want to have different views, different layers, exactly as architects are doing. Also, to be a stepwise approach in order to guide them, to make very specific decisions at each specific view and at each specific process. Traceability, what you did and what you changed. And of course, to enable redesign, sharing, and also enactment of the designs. I put, you know, I promise a lot. Let's see if this works. So in this way, you will see we divide the design in two main views. One is the conceptual, when we select the activities and the resources, but not playing around with preconditions with visibility tools, with rules, or grading rules that one flow the other. So one is the conceptual, basically like the way of a syllabus. And then you go and say, now, let's see how we orchestrate that. In order to give you an idea, my assistant will give you some. If the video, no, the video is not working. Why is that? Welcome to Katmos. Katmos is your gotographical learning design tool, tailor-made for educators like you. Whether you're a seasoned educator or just starting, Katmos makes creating lesson plans and seamlessly integrating them into modal abrees. Let's dive in. You've got three fantastic options to kickstart your online course design journey. Start from scratch to let your creativity run wild. Craft a course design that's as unique as your teaching style and content. Use a template to explore an array of pedagogical e-learning strategy templates. Find the perfect match for your subject and goals with ease. And for those with already designed courses, even in a modal format, our import feature ensures a seamless transition. Katmos advocates a systematic design approach, ensuring every step is traceable in the process. You can craft learner-centered designs for collaborative work facilitated by an instructor. Begin by shaping your course into a conceptual model. Add topics and activities associated with a learning resource. See real-time analytics. Come to life for your design. Simultaneously, Katmos crafts a flow model to visualize your course's structure. Need to make changes? No worries. Return to the conceptual model, tweak, and watch the flow model adapt seamlessly. This dynamic feature lets you determine the ideal order for learning activities and define types, preconditions, rules, and goals for each activity. Sharing and reusing your course designs is now easier than ever. Simply export them in word format or for use on various platforms, including Moodle. But that's not all. At the end, you can assess your design and decision-making with our handy rubric. Katmos is here to empower your teaching journey. Start creating, innovating, and inspiring with confidence. Join the Katmos community today. I will say the same thing later on. So why we design in different views? For example, when we are talking about the first thing that we think, and actually I had the discussion during lunch, that at the beginning, all the teacher, all the novice designers say, I have a PowerPoint slide, I have a PDF, I have a quiz, I want to put them. They don't think about activities, they think about resources. So however, resources are associated with activities that the students should do, and also they have specific types. So we support this. So you think of a type, you know, Bloom taxonomy could be MSLD types, whatever, but we have Bloom taxonomy here. And then you associate with the activity. You don't like the resource, you take out the resource, you change it, but you keep the same skeletal, the same structure. So this is why we are talking about reusability. And then while you are creating, you see like in the learning designer, you see the analytics, you see the type of the course you are creating. It's more assessment-driven. No, it's more remembering-driven. And you need this. And for the instructional designers, when there is also a specific pie that shows if you have described all the details of the resource that you are going to do. Because sometimes you design something and you give it to a second teammate and that you, in order to upload the resource, and you need to facilitate this. And so we keep some extra properties for that. I'm not going to say more about that. And then automatically, no, we don't create a second view automatically from the topics. We have a new view, which is the orchestration. In a swim lane, we don't care about resources anymore. We care about what the student or the groups are going to do. And also, where the instructor is going to come and facilitate this process. And in this way, if I want to say no, and also I can change, I see the time, the duration. No, it's not okay, I can change it. And then it goes back automatically and updates the conceptual model. But you are working here. It's like I just think about how architects are working. They are seeing, they are looking at a specific view, not everything in one page. And of course, we can hear at this one, we can add height conditions, grade conditions, all of the things that Moodle or other platforms are supporting. But again, we have a learning design. We don't have a course. What we care is a course. Because this is why we want to close the gap and save time, basically. And exactly. So the tool, actually, of course, creates CADMOS files, but also creates package everything into Moodle. It works perfectly with the current version of Moodle and also previous ones. But if you can see here, there is a very important thing that we do not only open a CADMOS file, CTM files, we can open an MBZ, a Moodle file, and we can X-ray this into annotations. Because in a Moodle we don't know, we have forum, we have pages, we have that, but we don't know exactly what type of this. So you take this and you annotate and then you have the same design, but in a common language. And then you can change it, package it, and put it online. So this is a preview. So in the tool, when you click the preview, you see how it looks like. Exactly as it is. So we have this dream of sharing and reusing courses. Actually, Moodle.NET was actually, it has been developed and designed in this. But if you go to Moodle.NET, you will see just the course and the MBZ file. Why not having the MBZ file? Why not having the description of the course in a more illustrative way, not as a preview or the different two views. The conceptual or the flow. Because this will help the decision maker to say, yes, it works for me or not. Or take it back, change it, and then put it back. But we don't stay there. We have the visualizations, we have the different views, but we do also quality self-check. So what we care is, okay, I believe that my course is excellent. My design is super great, not the content, the design. But can you validate that? So in the tool, we have implemented a rubric with specific quality indicators based on all the basic standards like quality matters and all that. So that either the designer does a self-check, so the course, the MBZ file is associated with self-check or someone else can take it, grade it, and give you back what you want. So are we close to this dream? I feel yes. So this is the vision. If we want open learning design principles, we want common languages. We want, of course, repositories. We want tools for quality checking and, of course, the community to discuss, share, and facilitate all this process. So as I tell, join the movement. The tool is open, it's a beta. We have a beta version upload, so you can, with your Google account, you can, or create one, you know, you can just sign in and use it freely. Thank you very much. We'll open some minutes for questions if some of you have them. First, thank you for the talk. Does the tool provide any, like, accessibility ratings? Like, if you have your design and then we'll give you a rating on how accessible that is? There is, no, no, the rubric has accessibility, but we have not implemented that because, basically, this is about the content and the platform. We are talking about the design, so we don't care much about the resources, which is something else. So yes, in the quality criteria, we ask this if your content is, or your design is UDL-based, but we cannot check it. So this is something like, you know, the ones that tools, other tools are doing better than what we are doing. Thank you. Are you planning to make it downloadable and open-sourced? It is open. Now it is open. Anyway, it's open. So that may be some forms of... Well, we don't know exactly how we'll do, but for the moment, and especially for the Moodle community, you know, we want to keep it the way it is. Now, open-sourced is another discussion about how it is open, definitely, and definitely there will be an open version for that. And if you see, we do not have any constraints, how many designs you are going to do, what will be the export, et cetera. No, you just download the CDM, the MbZ, and that's it, go. Thank you. And I want to know how the quality rubric works. And if you have, for example, very bad grading or something, if the platform suggests you how to improve your course or something. Thank you. First of all, this gives me a very good opportunity to tell you that there are several publications that you can do with the tool. So we have a very formal process for learning design with the tool, but even without any tool. So the satisfaction rate is high. Of course, there are problems, I mean, it takes time. So this is why we say a tool by itself might be great, but if you understand the philosophy, because I told you about the philosophy behind it, it's a design method, this is where we give some emphasis on that. Definitely, you know, it takes some time to understand a little bit of the process. But the tool, you know, if you don't know the process, then the tool is easy. So the quality now, it's a big topic, you know, what is the quality of a designer in design? So we have, if this is another talk, you know, I will give you, so the indicators that you saw, it's based on another research that we have. So we have our own proprietary, you know, quality rubric for designs, and based on that, there will be, next year probably, if I am here, there will be the AI checker that will be based on that, and more automatic, not AI, but automatic decision tools like a bot. So we have, it's based on two basic standards. One is the quality matters. It's the US basic, no, it's not standard, but it seems to be, you know, the golden standard in the US, and the open ed up, which is the European one. So based on that, we adapt this and trim it out like the accessibility and all that, only for the issues that we care about the design, not the course as a whole. So this is how we ended up with this. And also we added our own pictures, you know, as a philosophy. Any other questions? Is that from the learning design itself, is that like, you've been looking at different learning designs like ABC, learning design, or? At the moment, the typology is based on bloom. We have to discuss with, I mean, I know Professor Lorela several years ago, and I have to discuss with the UCL team, how to do that. I mean, it's a matter of association, it's not much on that. But for the moment, because we wanted to make it open without discussing with other teams, no, I mean, going into details about the way of exploiting this, we said we are going with bloom. But it's a matter of, you know, technical easiness, you know, which is a binding thing. Thank you.


Hello friends, I am Sanjay Gupta. In this video, I am going to demonstrate you how you can count length of string by passing string into function using pointer. Before starting, you can note my information. You can follow or subscribe my YouTube channel through the URL youtube.com slash sanjaygupta underscore tech school. You can download my programming app Techimage which is available on Google Play.  So first I am including a header file that is STDF dot H. Now I am declaring a function whose name is length. Its written type is integer and it will receive address of the string or you can say base address of the string. So I have mentioned character pointer as an arguments type in this function declaration statement. So this is function declaration. Now I am going to define main function. Inside main, I am declaring a character array and a variable integer type length that is L. Now with the help of printf statement, I am going to display the message enter string on console to receive contents of string. I am using getters function and the content will be stored inside str. Now I am going to call length function and inside length function, I am passing string str. So this statement is function calling statement. So the outcome of this function calling will be stored inside L variable. Now I can print the value of L on console as length of string. So this way length of string will be displayed on console and then return 0. Now I have to define definition of length function. So this block will be known as function definition. Inside this function definition, I have to count how many characters are available in the string. But I have to do this task with the help of this pointer P. So here I am applying a for loop sorry while loop where condition is asterisk P not equals to null. So you can see here asterisk P is a pointer which is having base address of str. So P is containing base address. If I am writing asterisk P, it means I am dereferencing that address. So first element of string will be checked whether it is equals to null or not. So if it is not equals to null, then this loop will be true. So here I can increase value of L by 1. It means one character is available in this string. Then for moving to next location of the string, I am incrementing P by 1. So P++ will be moving to the pointer on second location of the string. So this way this loop will repeat. If this condition is true, then this loop will be repeating. If this condition asterisk P not equals to null is false, then loop will be terminated. So after completion of this loop, I can return value of L so that it can be received at function calling statement. And then the result can be displayed on console. So this way I have implemented the complete solution in front of you that how you can count length of string by passing string into function using pointer. Now I am executing this code. I am entering Sanjay. So you can see the output. It is showing length equals to 6. So the program has counted number of characters which are available in the string entered by the user. I hope you have understood the concept well. If you want to watch more programming related videos, you can follow or subscribe my YouTube channel through the URL youtube.com. You can download my programming app Techimage which is available on Google Play. Thank you for watching this video.


My name is Amy Parsons. I am the Bengali teacher at the Sowas Language Centre and I'm also a translator working from Bengali into English. My journey into becoming a lecturer in my chosen practice has been quite a long one. I first became interested in the language region when I was about 6 or 7 and that was really due to interactions with the members of the South Asian diaspora in the UK. And I was very lucky to have a very supportive dad who was very interested in languages who used to buy me bilingual books in South Asian languages with the English alongside and that sparked a huge interest. Many years later I ended up doing a master's in Bengali at Sowas University so in Bengali language and culture which subsequently led me into this position. I've been teaching at the language centre for 3 years now. For me the most important thing at the centre is that we aim to represent languages that are rarely taught so in the case of Bengali for example you can only learn it at a handful of institutions and outside of the UK it's very rarely taught as well. This is something that we've seen reflected in the students that have been applying since we went online so we've had a huge number of overseas applicants who cannot learn Bengali in their home countries. I'm really proud of the fact that we represent Bengali because it is an underrepresented language but in terms of world speakers it's huge and it's really important that we teach it. All of the teachers who work at the language centre are specialists not only in the language itself so in terms of the grammar, the vocab and that sort of thing but also the culture of the language. So in the Bengali classes that I teach for example yes you would expect to learn the Bengali language but you will also be learning about things like important cultural events that happen in that part of the world, important historical events that have happened and looking at sources like for example song and poetry as a means to enhance the core language learning. My favourite thing about SOAS I think both as a former student and a teacher it's got to be the music. SOAS has a really strong music department and you get to hear music that you just never would in any other context so it's always amazing to come out of teaching in the evening time, go to the student union and listen to something really wonderful that you're only able to do because you're at SOAS. Teaching and working in London is fantastic particularly for a linguist because in the city of London there are over 300 languages spoken. We have a sizeable Bangladeshi community here as well which is fantastic for my students of Bengali who can go out with their language skills and really apply those on a very practical level in day-to-day situations and I actually have a number of students who are learning Bengali because they work with members of the Bangladeshi community. If I had to sum up the language centre in three words I would say specialist, I would say dynamic and I would say committed in terms of our teaching and committed to the languages that we represent. There are so many reasons why a student should come and study at SOAS and hopefully I've outlined some of those but I think one thing that I'd like to add is about the students themselves that come here. What we find is that students at SOAS often have very specific reasons for studying the subject that they do and they themselves can bring a wealth of knowledge to the classroom so I'm always learning from my students and it's amazing to see the collaborations that occur between them so that's a major a major point but overall you will have a truly unique experience you'll be exposed to so many subjects people from so many walks of life it really is a unique institution both globally and also here in London