at 8375 Blue Mountain Road. That's the Northwest Community Center groundbreaking. Also as a reminder, there is no council meeting next week on November 22nd. The next council meeting will be on November 29th. And that's because next week is Thanksgiving week and to remind everybody that most city offices including City Hall will be closed next Thursday and Friday, which is November 25th and 26th. Of course, emergency services will be available. Garbage pickup will be modified and you can get all those questions answered in our website there. Next up, informal reports. The first informal report is on the 2023 street sweeping program. Brandon Bennett is available if there are any questions. And I've already seen pictures of some of you. Crane. I have a question, David. Now, I don't know about that driving thing because you don't have a commercial driver's license.  Council President Nettles. I drive it. So this is exciting for our community for sure increasing the amount of sweet sweepers. Is there a mechanism where residents can request it to come down in that area? Yeah, absolutely. Right now they just call the city call center and say I'd like my street swept and we'll put it in as a work order and we'll do it as resources are available. First call probably first served unless it's a big cleanup. And then as we start getting our, we're using a contractor right now as we start to get our own street sweeping equipment in then we'll be able to do it a lot faster. We are also working on adding a link on the city app so you can click request the street sweeper and we'll go and do ad hoc street sweeping there. As far as regular street sweeping, if it's a street that needs regular street sweeping, we can add it to our list. But I think a lot of these requests that come in will probably be one time and then we'll let the resident know if it gets dirty nine months down the road again and give us a call back, be our eyes and ears and we'll come back and hit it again. Is there either way for council to request or do the same? Yep, do the same thing, right? You can just shoot me an email. But yeah, you can do it through the call center, shoot me an email, anything like that. So we're contracted now, how many do we have that are available now? We went from two to what? We, I don't know exactly how many that the contractor is using on the lane miles. What they're doing right now is they're doing what's called a pre clean because we haven't done street sweeping. So some of the streets are actually requiring like three and four passes before they're clean. And then probably by January we'll be doing actual street cleaning. But again, we have two big ones in-house and we have two small ones in-house. And those are the ones that we would use for ad hoc cleaning. We're gonna have the contractor focus on the ones that need to be regularly done around the major interchanges, just off the interstate, you know, those areas, hospital district, those areas that get a lot of litter. Okay, well, appreciate your work. I mean, a lot of us are going around saying we got 12. So we can get the 12, that'll be good. So we won't be lying. Yeah, don't be bashful. Don't be bashful about telling people that they give us a call, we'll figure out a way, right? We got nighttime hours, we can sweep, we got weekends. There's all kinds of off hours that we can use to pick up these ad hoc projects. One thing I'll say when I did sweep the street that day, there was, because we don't sweep on a regular basis, there was debris in the way. So the guy had to go clean that up and then come back, or he said practice would be that they would clean it up and then come back another day. So I thought maybe in your staff understood maybe someone advances to make sure none of that's there so the street sweeper can just come in and actually do its job and not. So yeah, the litter team is doing it. Yeah, so one of the things the litter teams are doing at some places where there's a lot of debris, there's now grass and seedlings and everything else that are growing in the gutter. So we are doing that, we just, there's so many lane miles, we just can't hit all of them that way, absolutely. Thanks Brandon, appreciate it. Done? Well stay right there, hold on. I don't think I need to go anywhere. The next informal report is on residential solid waste collection and the route adjustments and Brandon and Valerie are available, if there are any questions. Yeah, I see Steve Keller here from Waste Management as well and we had a very productive conversation on the phone this morning, but we got this really wrong. Yes, you did. We got this really wrong in some major ways. We didn't communicate with our residents, we didn't communicate with our council members, we had incorrect information on the website. So we all know how much I love late night emails the night before, so it's 747 on Sunday, we got an email notifying us and for my district it was 18, I believe 18,000 residents that were impacted. There was no information about which neighborhoods were impacted or which routes were impacted. We actually had to request that information before we could even start communicating with neighborhood leadership. And then when we sent our leadership, the information of a lot of the website that we sent them to was not updated so it still had their old trash date. I can tell you in mistletoe heights, they missed a whole week of trash pickup and it took five days after the first missed one to get some of those locations picked up and then in sunset heights, their notification was a sticker on their trash can the morning of and so we failed our residents in a big way when we rolled this out. And so I don't know exactly where it went wrong. I'm sure y'all are post-processed that. I'd like some sort of feedback on where those missteps were where you've identified missteps so that we can prevent this again because it will happen again. And so you can't mess with people's trash.  I think we all plan our lives around when we set the trash out. I know when I moved neighborhoods and I went from a Wednesday to a Friday, I thought I had moved to a different state it felt like. So I would like an IR in the future on what went wrong so that we can make sure this does not happen again. And I'll just add to that. It's great we sent out these postcards but Michael Crane got his yesterday and this is for the week of seven, last week it's changing. So I'm not sure what process, what we did. But let me just throw just a couple of things out. First and foremost, the buck stops, it stops with me. I'm not going to say that this was anybody else's fault on my own. I'll take full and total responsibility for this. That I was leaving town on the 21st something, I guess it was the 23rd, 24th. And I had just made sure all of my new staff and they're all new. You got to make sure you let council know and you got to make sure the citizens know and you got to make sure that the database is working. And I went through everything and the one thing that I missed telling my staff was if there's a hiccup, stop the process, delay the implementation until we can get it right. And that falls on me that I failed to do that. So there was a number of things that happened that delayed in getting information to mayor and council. It was never the intent to be delayed, it just happened. One of the things that we did was we sent the card out to arrive the week before the change. So the card that you're showing up right now is actually the second card that went out. There was a card that went out last week and arrived. There was a card that went out this week and arrived. And there'll be one more card that arrives this following week to remind people of their new garbage day. What we've learned over the years is that there's no magic way to doing it, but we always tried to do it a little bit better each time. This time we used postcards instead of an envelope because one of the feedback we got last time or when we used the envelopes was that people didn't open it. We did door hangers one year and people said that the door hangers fell off the doors. So this time we really felt like the postcards because it had the date, everything on there. And again, one of the things we missed was it was an election cycle. And what we didn't have from the debrief last time was all the postcards, election postcards that people get in their mailbox. So it got out, right? It just a lot of people missed it with the election flyers and stuff were in there. Again, that was part of the debrief and we'll make sure that doesn't happen. We elected not to do the robocall because a lot of the phone numbers we have are for landlines that don't exist anymore. We didn't feel that that would have the impact. And then when we worked with our national collection partners, the industry folks, Republic, Waste Management and others, all of them said that for rerouting the recommendation was get the cards the week, the week before, right? Or the week that week of, don't do it beforehand because people get confused which week. They have to remember is it in two weeks, three weeks, something like that. That's been our experience also. All of those things will be fixed for the next go around, particularly with notifying you, the council, that you should have actually been notified about two weeks before this happened and then it should have been going out on the webpage and everything else and that didn't occur. So again, I apologize for that. I will tell you at the end of the day, this is not to delight in the failure any bit, but I can tell you that this time around isn't any worse or any better. It could have been better, right? If we had done some other things, but it's not any worse or any better than what we've done. Anytime we do a reroute, Ms. Beck is right, you don't mess with people's taxes and you don't mess with their trash, right? And anytime you do that there's always something that just doesn't fire off right and we know that. So we did about a third of the routes that changed about less than 2% of the folks reported absolute misses where they wanted us to come out, get the carts.  In my area, I live on the other side of Mistletoe Heights. I was a Wednesday collection that moved to Thursday. I got up real early in the morning because I knew the street was gonna be a horrible thing to see and there was only two carts out on my street. They're both rental where the owner pays for the garbage so the tenant didn't get the notice. So one of the things that we did, and this will be the last thing we can move on to other IRS or other questions is, so one of the things that we do is we know that people are gonna put their carts out on their garbage day even if they know it's moved and we talked to people and they told us that. Just to be double sure their garbage gets picked up, they'll put it out on the old day and the new day. When they put it out on the old day, we drive around and put a tag on the cart.  There's a tag on the cart that says your new garbage day is, right? So they know when to put their garbage out. And then lastly, we're telling people that if you have any excess garbage, bag it, put it beside the cart and we'll pick it up at no extra charge. We'll do that for several weeks just like we've done in the past. Yeah, I appreciate all that and I appreciate what you're pointing out. I think one of the things the biggest that you missed is the communication piece that we can help you do. And you said, well, we didn't think it was election. We didn't focus on it. Probably somewhere around this table would have said, oh, it's November 8th. There's people are gonna be paying attention. So I feel like we keep having this conversation again and again, but I would say major things like that when you are gonna mess with someone's trash or anything, just float it with us even in a, doesn't even a formal capacity. Hey, we're thinking about doing this. I understand the need of telling people right before it happens, but there may be other problems that we might be able to solve for you. Or we, as soon as we knew about it, we were emailing our neighborhood associations just to let them know. So I don't know if neighborhood service, if they were involved in it, community engagement was involved at all, but that was also something that could have been done to help besides just the postcard and everything else. But we appreciate what you do. I just think we have- And I apologize to all of you and to our citizens that we didn't get it right this time and we'll make sure we get it right next time. Next time, can we get a brief to council before it goes into effect at a minimum? Yeah, absolutely. Thankfully, we don't do this very often. It'll be probably another six, seven years unless the city keeps growing like it's growing. It could be sooner, so, but we'll let you know. Thank you, Brandon. We appreciate it. Maybe when we send out that next postcard as a reminder again, just say I'm sorry, like as a city, we're sorry if we confused you. Just as a reminder, here's your new trash day. People might appreciate that. We appreciate you. Thank you very much. Thank you. You didn't tell us where you were when you left town. It was very important. You wanted a honeymoon. Yeah, well. So it's okay to just connect on your honeymoon. There's no excuse. No, it's okay. All right, thank you. Let's see, our next informer report is on the adoption of the city of Fort Worth 2023 state legislative agenda and TJ Patterson is available if there are any questions. Anything you want to add, Michael? Yes, actually, I want to say thanks TJ and staff for putting that together and the legislative affairs committee for putting that. I do have one addition that we've discussed just to make sure after we had a great presentation today from the Institute for Justice about what their small business task force about what we're trying to do. And a suggestion that was added to add the word, add as an item supports funding that allows continued recovery and growth for small businesses. So if I don't, if there's no objection here and TJ and I've talked about it to add that to the legislative agenda too. Yes, sir, we'll be happy to add that to it and bring it back when it comes to on the 29th should you decide to move forward. That sounds great. Yep, thank you. All right, our next informer report is on the curfew ordinance for minors and I'm going to go ahead and have Assistant Chief Aldrich come up and at your place you have a revised informal report with different dates. Chief, if you'd walk us through the different dates. Absolutely. Good afternoon, Mayor Council, Executive Assistant Chief Robert Aldrich for Police Department.  This isn't something new that I'm asking you to do. We've had a teen curfew ordinance since 1994. State statute requires us every three years to either renew that ordinance or not vote for it. The current ordinance will expire January 14th, 2023. We're not looking to modify the existing ordinance but we're recommended that the council renew the ordinance for another three years. As you can see from the charts, this ordinance was used sparingly. Over the last two years we've only filed 48 cases. Over three years it was 120 cases and most of those violations were resolved through the teen court. The purpose of the ordinance is reduced victimization of our youth population during late night hours as well as provide a deterrent for potential criminal acts committed by use. I apologize because you saw quite a few revisions of this ordinance. Originally it was council districts two, four and eight. That was a typo. It should have been two, four and seven that have filed most of the cases. That was oversight on my part. I really apologize. You can see from the charts that we provided this information by council districts and patrol districts. The reason why we provided them those ways is because their boundaries are totally different and there's some crossover with the boundaries. You can see council districts two, four and seven. There were approximately 67% of the filings but what was also interesting is 61% of those filings were in patrol divisions north and northwest. So we have two scheduled public hearings for November 29th and December 13th. That's a little bit different than what you originally saw. The change is from January 10th to November 29th. We realized that that was a work session, not a council meeting. And so we wanted to make sure that public hearings were on council meeting days. With that, I'll answer any questions in reference to the teen ordinance. Questions, Councilor Elizabeth. This isn't for you, Chief. It's actually for municipal courts because I'm supportive of continuing. What concerns me is when we look at the total number of closed cases, open pleas, and then those that have not had any pleas, I've not been pleaded at all. These are minors and a lot of them are looking to move on right after high school, whether that's joining the military or college or a trade school. And so not just this particular ordinance, but any time we have a minor in our municipal court system, I think it's imperative to try to clear those as soon as possible because we don't ever want to be the barrier to entry to a next career or a better life. Correct, I agree with you, Council Member. The information that was provided was a snapshot at that time. We do know that we've been working through the caseloads that we've had ever since we had some of the backlogs related to COVID. Fortunately for us, we've been able to work through a lot of those. What we can do is provide you a more recent snapshot. I will say, kind of looking back at the history related to those that are currently open, we have seen those cases move along the case cycle. So some of those already either set or going through the team court program, but I can provide you that update. Council Member Flores. Thanks, Mayor. Chief, I've been trying to think how you might get this data and not to make it into a science experiment, but I would be curious for the council districts identified, how many schools in the areas within a certain radius where the violations were found occurred? I'm looking for patterns, basically. Are there schools that have more of a curfew problem versus others? And so essentially that, just looking for a correlation of violations to school enrollment. We can definitely try and work on that data and get it to you. Okay, thank you, sir. You bet. Anybody else? Council Member Nettles. Okay, I have a few questions. One of the things is how we communicate this information out. I heard you say we've been having this for a while, but I think when we had a couple of the shootings in the summer, a lot of the communities all come out and saying, asking for the city to implement a curfew. But we obviously already had it in play. So is there something that maybe we can go back to the community and say, hey, this is the ordinance that is in play. Maybe if we're gonna re-adopt it, how can we get that communication back out to the community? That'd be a great opportunity to use our social media platforms and reach out to the HOAs and all the community members to let them know that it's in place and that we have one. Okay, so I was reading this ordinance and I believe it said somewhere they are given a citation on scene once they define if they are violating the ordinance. Is there a mechanism where, so these are young children, these are minors.  We do. Okay. So let's issue a citation and let them continue to walk down the street.  Okay, do we have a warning process or are they each time there? It's not each time. I mean, we definitely use our discretion and in what situation we find the use in. So not every situation are we gonna write a citation. I mean, if it looks like it's something very harmless, maybe they're at a school playing basketball, there's definitely opportunities for us to reach out to the parents, have them come pick the kids up and no citations issue. However, if we're getting multiple complaints of criminal activity or let's say cars getting broken into for an example, then we would probably issue that citation, call the parents out and have them come get them. Okay, and I saw that it talked about public places. Public places are more like stores, schools, city property. What about neighborhoods? They're hanging out in front of the house or two doors down, is that considered public place or something so you may be getting calls that you got kids hanging outside, it should go in the house, whoop, whoop, whoop. I mean, if we get those calls, we'll probably knock on the door or at least say, hey, can you go in the house? I mean, we do have an ordinance in place. I wouldn't anticipate we would go out and write a ticket if somebody was just a couple of doors down from their house. Okay, and you can verify that by maybe ID or where you live. Okay. Thank you, Chief. You bet. Any other questions for Council? No, I'm curious on the- I'm gonna make it. Go ahead, Jared. I was just gonna ask Chief to speak to, I was looking at the curfew filings by race and ethnicity and notice that our black kids are double in terms of proportionality to the city's representation. Could you speak to that a little bit? Well, a lot of those are depending on what area that we encounter these individuals. I mean, if they're near their house, near a public place that isn't far away from their house, depending on the demographics of that community, that's how some of these filings actually occur. Unless I looked at every one of the calls, it's hard for me to give you a definitive answer. Thank you for that. I just asked that question because similar to Councilwoman Beck's concerns, I'm always concerned when we're creating records for youth, especially when it's disproportionate to our population. Yeah, Councilman Nettles. Okay, I'm sorry, Mayor, let me just add, and that was a good point that Jared brought up and I was gonna bring that point up, but then when I looked at, because the front page says two, four and seven, which in some cases are not minority areas. If we look at the demographics of the council districts and to see that 2020 and 2021 for sure, not so much in 22, the black percentage was higher. And so they kind of, I'm throwing this out there, but it kind of concerns me that are certain areas like district two, four and seven are we getting a lot of calls because of the race and they're being targeted or whatever you have you, getting citations, because if you look in district eight and district six and five where we as a city know the majority of the minority black community lives, the percentage is much lower. So that kind of concerns me. I think it's worth looking into how we, how are we getting these calls in for the curfew? Sure. Who's calling them? So just so I'm clear on Councilman Nettles' concern, if I'm looking, Chris go to that second page on page two of four. I'm looking at the curfew filings by race and ethnicity looking at 2022, which is lower. I mean, back to 2020 compared to what they've seen. So you're, if I go across looking at Asian Pacific two, black was four, 13.8%. Hispanic Latina was 11, 37.9%. One other and 11 white. So it looks like we're in a better place based on those percentages of 2020. You're just saying looking back, you were concerned. Okay. Just to make you try to understand. Thank you. My question relates to Councilmember Beck's concerns about the disposition of these cases. If you look in that column, see how many are still pending, no plea are open. And based on the percentages you see in number of age of the youth on average is usually 15 or 16. There's a likelihood that some of those, like the 39 from 2020, those are probably 18, 19 year old kids that are now adults. And I would like to see like Elizabeth said, let's get rid of those. We got to figure that out pretty quickly. We don't want those pending in municipal court. I know the teen court program is unique. We don't have time to go over that today, but just making sure we're giving special consideration to that, especially through COVID, which has been a really disruptive time period. So thank you. Excellent. Thanks, Chief. Thank you. Thank you. The next informal report is the economic development Q4 2022 update. Any questions for Robert? Robert's not here. Oh, he's not? Okay. We pretend. Good thing, Robert. Yeah. Now she does. Yeah. The next informal report is the monthly development activity report and DJ Harrell is available 30 questions. DJ, no. Go ahead, Carlos. DJ, in light of the increase in sustained uptick in requests for permits, both commercial and residential, I know that you and I taught briefly and you kind of stepped through quickly what your department's plans were. You know, I'm still getting feedback that their inspectors are scarce. We've had a lot of canceled, rescheduled and multiple postponements of these inspection meetings. So can you tell us what steps you're taking here just to overview? Yes, sir. Unfortunately, as discussed, it's been really hard to recruit and retain qualified inspectors and pretty much all the trades, mechanical, electrical and plumbing. However, what we've done as a department is we've outsourced some of those inspections to a third party. So about two months ago, we entered into an agreement with a third party company in order to be able to send overflow inspections to the third party and have them try to get us somewhat on track. Even with that, we're still behind on our ability because our target goal is to meet a 24-hour turnaround. So if you call for an inspection, an inspector should drive up within 24 hours. Right now, we're averaging about 48 hours and sometimes that stretches is out to 72 hours. We're still working toward a goal. And another thing I'll add though that second contract that the contract I just mentioned is a second contract. So we've got two third parties that we're currently working with. And part of the problem is we can only send them a limited amount of inspections because they're also struggling with hiring qualified inspectors as well. And so that's part of the challenge as well. I see. Thank you, DJ. That's all the question. Thank you. Thank you, DJ. Thank you. The next info report is on parking arrangements during daytime council meetings and Monning Hall is available if there are any questions. I do have a question. Monning, come on down. Thank you. Thank you for preparing this. This is, I think would be a great access for our city and those who come to the meetings during the daytime. I think it's in the second paragraph and I think it says required to pull a ticket upon entrance of the garage and then upon attendance in the city council. The citizen can be presented the ticket to the city managers who can give them a pass. Now, are you saying that before they come to the city council meeting, they're required to go to city manager first? No, no, not at all. They would go, when they register to speak, there'll be some notes on the website where they register, tell them what to do, where to go park. When they go into the Houston Street garage, they pull a ticket just like any other parker. After they speak, we still gotta work through the logistics of who's gonna hand off the parking coupons, but then we'll talk to someone in the council chambers. They will take their ticket, give them a voucher or a parking coupon and when they leave, they'll be able to exit the garage without any personal out-of-pocket expenses. Okay, okay, because I'm most ready to meet like they need to go to the city manager's office, but what you're saying now, they'll do that in city chambers. Right, right. We still gotta work through exactly those logistics, but that's the spirit of what we're trying to do. Okay, and do we know when this can be implemented? We're targeting to have that ready for the daytime meeting in January 2023. So it won't be available for this next daytime meeting in November, which is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, but we're targeting that first meeting in January to have all the logistics worked out, the website updated and all that stuff. And do we know we're gonna do a presentation or we're just gonna give our communication to the city? We'll have to work through what we need to do on that. We've got a little bit of time, but yeah, we definitely need to work through our communication plan. Thank you for putting this together. We really appreciate it. Councilor Beck. Thank you. Yeah. I think it's important that, moving forward with this, we not limited to registered speakers because oftentimes large groups come to be recognized or multiple people come as a group with one registered speaker. And so I think, I get where we're going with that, but if they've come into the chamber to attend the city council meeting, I think that should be enough to warrant the free parking. Okay. Yeah, we can work on adjusting the policy as appropriate for that. Okay. I'm assuming Monty will work with city secretary's office on the logistics side. Absolutely. Yeah, I talked to them and the city manager's office about that January date before. Okay. We can up here. Sounds good. Thank you, Monty. Okay. Our next informal report is on translation guidelines used for meetings and information and Michelle Good is available if there are any questions. Any questions for Michelle? All right. Our final informal report is on the update on Panther Island and the path forward and Dana Bergdorf is available if there are any questions. I know it's a short IR, but Dana, if you don't mind just pretty much reading off what that is for the public to understand. Thank you, mayor. Dana Bergdorf assistant city manager. So with the announcement of the federal funding for the central city project, the $403 million for the central city bypass channel and associated flood control improvements are attention turned to the property on Panther Island that is subject to a form-based code and subject to a plan from over 15 years ago. And so in discussions with property owners and other stakeholders, we agreed that we should come together and try to figure out how to address the planning for Panther Island. So we worked with, city worked with the Tarrant Regional Water District in Tarrant County who are members of the Trinity River Vision Authority as well as with the Tarrant County College District that owns property on the island with the real estate council of Greater Fort Worth because we're talking about primarily commercial and non-single family development as well as downtown Fort Worth Inc. It's adjacent to Panther Island and could be considered an extension of downtown as well as streams and valleys, which of course has been a long time stakeholder and supporter of all things along the Trinity River and the tributaries. And so the staff from those different entities, we all came together and talked about how we can update our plan, refresh it going forward with current market conditions. And so we decided that what would be best is to have a consultant help us, particularly one with national expertise with downtown or downtown adjacent and waterfront expertise with regard to, again, redevelopment. We wanna think about highest and best use, but we also need to consider the constraints of the infrastructure and the long-term investment that we're making with regard to flood control and canals and so on. So we've issued the RFP in October and proposals came in this past Thursday. We received six proposals. And so staff from the different agencies will be coming together to review those and select firms to interview at the end of this month or early December. And then we'll come back to city council with a recommendation since the city's primary role with regard to Panther Island is development and economic development then it's appropriate for the city to be the one to have that contract in cooperation and collaboration with the other entities that we're working with. Thank you, Dana. Any questions for Dana? No. Thank you for your leadership on this. Thank you. Mayor, that concludes my report. Okay, council next item is questions regarding city council M&C log for coming council meeting on November 29th. Any questions on that? No. Then we'll go to our presentation on proposed tax evapement agreement with beauty manufacturing solutions corp. I think Sherry Gordon is gonna lead that discussion. Thank you. The purpose of the presentation today is to provide information on proposed tax evapement for beauty manufacturing solutions corp. Punching. I am not punching. Thank you. Beauty manufacturing solutions corp is a high tech manufacturer of beauty products including Naterra, L'Oreal, Johnson & Johnson, Mary Kay, Unilever, Treehead and others based in Capell. Their current plant is 500,000 plus square feet and has over 500 jobs. They've outgrown that location. They're in their third expansion and have continued growth expected. They were founded in 1922 as superior products and acquired by the Song family in 94. They're a certified minority owned company with 70% women in the workforce. I'm gonna get this right eventually. We're looking at a location at 5650 Alliance Gateway, building two at Alliance Gateway in the top right corner. This location's been vacant for some time so it's a very nice fit for the project. Our competing sites included Mansfield, Texas, Grand Prairie, Dallas, Oklahoma City and Monterey, Mexico. The retrofit that existing 445 approximate thousand square foot building with a proposed capital of 70 million, 30 million in real property improvements and 40 million in business personal property, including 250 full-time jobs by December 31st, 2025. And the average annual salary for all jobs will be above 65,800. Again, the capital investment commitments are there 30 million by December 31st, 2024 and 40 million by January 1st, 2026 with the 250 full-time jobs as mentioned and the average annual salary and the 15% commitment. So the proposed incentive terms are here. We're recommending a 10 year tax abatement up to 70% of the real and business personal property that abatement caps at two million. The cap increases to 3.5 million if they invest additional at least 90 million by 2028. We're tying that incentive again to the investment cost, to the average wage and to the number of jobs. On the summary, we have a ratio of almost 45 to one and the payback at 3.38 years. And staff recommends that we enter into the 10 year tax abatement agreement up to 70% of the personal property taxes with a public hearing and MNC on November 29. And that concludes the presentation. Any questions? Questions for Sherry? No? Excellent. Thank you very much. Council, we're gonna move to our next item, which is with Brandy Kelp who's gonna update us on our open space conservation program. And yet again from open space, I know a lot of you have heard some of these updates in our recent comp plan update sessions, but we've got some acquisitions coming up so we thought we'd kind of go over where we're at with the open space program at this time. I've circled the areas in red. These are our top priorities for the city for acquisition. We're trying to create a linear trail system along the entire Sycamore Creek watershed, capturing land as we're under heavy development pressure in the Walsh Ranch and Veal Ranch areas. We're in the same situation in far northwest Fort Worth as well as out by the Nature Center. And you may ask, why would we be focusing next to the Nature Center? We're looking at free public access open space so it's a little bit different than what people would experience at the Nature Center, which is a paid entry. And one of the questions that comes up a lot is, why are we looking in a lot of these areas out in the ETJ? And it's really pretty simple. That's where most of our available land is. And by the time that gets annexed into the city, it will either be gone or it will be far outside our budget to be able to acquire at that time. So we're trying to be preemptive with that. At the same time, we're trying to focus on areas, generally smaller parcels where we can, anywhere in the central city along the River Legacy, or not River Legacy, sorry, Trinity River Trail Systems that hopefully we'll eventually connect into that. And like the Petino Road and Acilla Acquisitions, which again are smaller, but they're in the more urban developed areas. And so quick note on our funding. These are our current funding sources. None of them at the time, this time can be used for maintenance. So we are still exploring our options for a sustainable funding source for all of the capital improvements that we're making at these sites and all of the maintenance funding right now is coming out of park and rec and that is in turn coming from the general fund. And so we're looking at ways that we can better support the program in the long run without continuing to rely on the general fund and parks. And so some of the upcoming acquisitions on November 29th, we've got the MNC for Nosillo, which is a smaller site, but it is home to some rare migratory bird species. They've been cataloged by a member of the Fort Worth Audubon Society for several years. They're partnering with us, looking at potentially building some bird blinds out on the site. So it could really be a very unique environmental education opportunity. And that one, like I said, is going November 29th, along with the Lake Arlington shoreline. These parcels would help us fill in some of the gaps. The city already owns several parcels in the area and these would create a more contiguous connection between all of those existing parcels. This is a joint acquisition with parks where each contributing 50%. So half of that acquisition will remain open space and half will be park land, which will help extend Eugene McCrae Park and really kind of turn this into a destination along the planned ATP trails out there. And then at Primrose Station, this is one where parks has been working with the developer and instead of paying the park dedication fees, basically open space is paying for that and we will be able to obtain 50 acres for a little over half million dollars, or yeah, a little over half million dollars. So that's a great deal for us. And again, it's critical habitat. This stream flows directly into Lake Benbrook. This would also allow for a connection between the Candle Ridge Park, existing trails, the planned community park here, and then the developer will put in the trails connecting us to the Lake Benbrook property. So this would really extend the existing trail system in that area. And then the Melcher property is in Far South West Fort Worth. It's really beautiful property, not quite 50 acres. And again, this is a way for us to connect through the West Fort Trinity River to the other side of Lake Benbrook. And this is immediately South of all the Veal Ranch development. So it's a significant site in an area that is experiencing really profound development at the moment. And then this is just a table showing our completed acquisitions, those that are in progress here in blue, and then the MNCs are coming up, and then the ones that are in progress, these are pretty far along in the process. We've ordered the appraisal on Melcher and the primary station, we're in the discussions with the developer. So we do anticipate that we'll be moving forward with both of those, unless something really unexpected comes up. And so that puts us at a total of 2 million, a little over 2 million left on our gas lease funding and a little over 11 million on the bond. But of course, we're also exploring many other areas in the city as you saw. So we anticipate those funds will continue to be spent at a pretty rapid pace. And then just to note on external funding, we recently received the $150,000 grants. This will finish out the trails, broadcast till Tandy Hills and Strat for natural areas and help us install signage to prevent removal. It'll be a complete transformation for those sites. And then we're meeting on Thursday with COG and the joint reserve base on potential REPE funding. And this would help us secure some properties on the north side of Lake Worth. And then we had another foundation reach out because of the grant that we just got. And they're interested in funding some acquisitions or projects with us. And so some of the major initiatives, again, that sustainable funding source or exploring options, seeing what would be our best path forward to basically establish some type of fund for open space and whatever form that takes. And then we are drafting a separate chapter in city code. We're targeting spring for this. And this would basically just establish all of the rules for our natural areas. So very similar to the parks chapter, but just helping establish the difference between the two. And so are there any questions? Just when you have that conversation with the base and COG about the REPE funding, the Regional Transportation Council, not too long ago actually paid to purchase a piece of property on the southern end of the runway because it was in the accident potential zone. And so when you have that conversation outside of REPE funding, do they have any additional dollars to do what we did on the southern end of the runway with the northern end of the runway? I'm not sure there's any property left. I'll take a look, but- You said on the north shore. Oh, so it would actually be across. Okay, okay. Yeah, because I think the runways run all the way up on the south shore. So we're actually looking to the flight path on the northern end of the lake. But if it's still in one of those accident potential zones- Oh, absolutely. Yeah, okay. Any other questions from Rainey? Jared, go ahead. Is it Sour Patch Kids? Is that what you got? No, it's a Lemon Mint Ricola. Oh, that's not as good, okay. No, no, I'm slowly recovering. That's a lot sadder. Very much so. On the PowerPoint about Primrose Station, first of all, thank you for all the work that you did with the developers in our office and Great Plains Restoration Council on that. I'm really excited about it. I just wanted to clarify. The connection will be to C.P. Hadley Park, not Canderidge Park. I know some of our residents in Canderidge might be overly excited, but- Oh, apologies, apologies. That's actually, I must have pulled up the wrong one when I went through that layer, so sorry about that. No worries, just wanted to clarify for the record. And then really excited about those trails, ultimately working their way back to the Chisholm Trail Park and our Chisholm Trail Community Center. So thanks for all the hard work. Thank you. Any other questions for Brandy? That's all. Thank you very much. Looks like that's a conclusion of our presentations. Our last item, Council's request for future agenda items or reports. Anybody have any future agenda items? Go ahead. Jared, go ahead. One, okay. Go ahead, Jared. One second. So we recently had an incident in District 6 at the Park Lake Child Development Center. Long story short, a mother of one of the students there had made some threats to campus staff and also to her own children and herself. And there was multiple 911 calls made in the first response. Didn't show up till about two hours later. So as a follow-up today incident, I've met with Chief Staff and Carol Waddell with CCA. I wanted to request a future IR regarding the current policy for 911 call prioritization and then best practices regarding respondent to violent threats at childcare centers and elementary schools. And ACM Costa and Chief Aldridge, I sent them an email. So they kind of know more about that. So if y'all have any questions about the report, just feel free to reach out to me. Any other items? Go ahead, Allen. So the Urban Land Institute just completed a study of possible and property over by Gateway Park. I would like to see that brought here as an informal report. Michael, anything from you? No? Sure. Two things. One, in light of what we talked about earlier, the Institute for Justice did a report today. They looked at the city of Fort Worth and put together barriers to business steps to start businesses in Fort Worth. I'd like them to come or some way present to this group so they can see, because there will be some, probably we will have to have a discussion about policy changes to help our small businesses and if that's a route that we want to go. It was very great. Anybody wants it, I think Katie has it and we'll send it out to everybody here. So you see what they reported is very good. So that's one thing. The second thing I'd like to see just in line for our audit conversation, everything today we had today is when proposals are put forward, obviously with the budget and other things, we know the costs, but much like the state does a fiscal note on anything, I think that would be good for us and our citizens to understand what things would cost when they come forward. So if that makes, okay. Thanks, Michael. Leonard, no? Chris, go ahead. I did have an opportunity to meet with Dana today, but I do want to get the report of, I know she's made with our staff, I mean our council on the STRs. I'm getting a lot of calls and emails about when we're going to be bringing that back to council. So I'm asking for a report on that. Also, I'm asking, so when we was in council this last time during the election, again, I think we talked about trying to put the council video on the main page of the website. I think it happened one day and then it went away. It happened again. Yeah, I think it happened once and then. Okay, so I'm asking about that again, how we can make that possible if we're not able to. And then with that, I know I talked to Renee about when they were in training about the issue with Facebook, but if we can get a full report on that issue, it would be great. Also, I would like a report on the policy, and we talked about this in the exact, the policy on a reasonable distance when an officer is setting up a perimeter around a crime scene or a stop. What is the protocol for implementing the distance? And does the protocol change if the citizens is filming an officer on scene? We can get a report on that. And then lastly, let me see. Lastly, I want to report on ongoing training for our police officers. Does it change when they go into a higher rank and how often is, what type of training is given for each rank officer? So that's all I have. That's where we're back. Sure, I have two. I'd like a list of all of the both external and internal advisory boards that our police and fire department utilized to dialogue with about just various activities within their department. And those that are formal and those that are also maybe ad hoc or informal would be helpful. I'd also like to get an update on the number of firearms that we've taken off the street as part of our forward safe initiative. Since the inception of that particular program, I'd just like to get a handle on that. And then when we get that, if we could also get a breakdown of how many of those were juvenile folks that we took weapons from and those that were over 18 would be helpful. Thank you. Anybody else? Yeah, go ahead, curls. David, you may already have this in the pipeline, but I'll go ahead and state it. I think MedStar is scheduled to do an introduction to the new chief medical officer, Dr. Jarvis on the six. Is that the case? Are we lined up for that? Okay, good. They may have some additional information to share. I'm just waiting to hear from them as to what that format's gonna be and whether or not it's gonna be on the six as well. All right, thank you. Only Adam, I have is related to our conversation to increase our paid paternity leave from six weeks to 12 weeks. I know that HR was looking at that potential. I know there's a significant fiscal note for us, but if a new year, if we could just bring that back into Stux as a council, be great. Perfect. Thank you very much. May Parker, does that include council members? Sure, Jared. Yeah, you're right in time for due date, right? Seven weeks away, y'all, seven weeks away. Better social than me. Anybody else? Yes. Okay. Meetings adjourned. Thank you so much.


I think this symposium is a great way to say goodbye to Christon and Bourne who has played a major role in helping Saxon University of Applied Sciences to become more international so I'm really interested in hearing what will happen today. It's been of a great significance for the students, that's why I'm so enthusiastic and proud to enter that symposium for students. The stories of the students, the stories of the students. Significantly international success.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says, the salary of an officer is increased by 30% by what percentage should the new salary be reduced to restore the original salary. First let's recall the formula for increase percent and decrease percent. We have increase percent is equal to increase upon original value into 100% Then decrease percent is equal to decrease upon original value into 100%. This is the key idea to be used in this question. Let's move on to the solution now. First we assume that the original salary be equal to rupees 100. Then increase in the salary is given as 30%. That is we are given the increase percent. Now using this formula for increase percent we can find out the increase and this would be equal to increase percent that is 30 into the original salary that is 100 upon 100. So we would get this equal to rupees 30. That is the increase in the salary is rupees 30. So now salary after increase is equal to the original salary rupees 100 plus the increase in the salary rupees 30. That is equal to rupees 130. Now we need to find out that by what percentage should the new salary be reduced to restore the original salary. So to restore the original salary the reduction required would be equal to the salary after increase that is rupees 130 minus the original salary which is rupees 100. And so this is equal to rupees 30. So to restore the original salary reduction is equal to rupees 30. Now let's find out the reduction percent. This is equal to using this formula for decrease percent that is equal to decrease upon original value into 100%. So reduction percent is equal to reduction that is 30 upon the original value which is the salary after increase that is 130 into 100%. This zero cancels with this zero and so this is equal to 300 upon 13% and this is equal to 23.08% is the reduction percent. Thus we have the new salary must be reduced by 23.08% to restore the original salary. So this is our final answer 23.08%. So this completes the session hope you have understood the solution for this question.


to resonate through the room with this gadget that Hans just attached to me. The book that I have been asked to discuss is an autobiographical work called Encounters, and it comes with the additional feature beside my beautiful, carefully crafted prose of pictures of my parents, wife, children, and above all my basset hound. And I urge you to buy this book if you're no other reason than to contemplate the beauty of the animal in the pictorial part of the work. That's not why I've been asked to speak today. I've been asked to provide you with, I suppose, what would be called the political teachings of my work. I ran across that absolutely ghastly term, political teachings, while doing research for a book that I'm now laboring over on Leo Strauss' disciples and their political influence, and anything they like is a political teaching. Anything they don't like is dangerous to democracy and fascist or something like that. But my book has good political teachings, so I'm very happy to send up here and present them to you today. In addition to the anecdotal parts of the work, the biographies of famous people, which was part of the obligatory assignment that the publisher imposed on me when I signed a contract, there are two, should we say, sort of crucial political teachings to use the term again, or political doctrines, which come through to anyone who reads this book with some care. One of them is a very detailed and often sarcastic discussion of the various lefts. The other, which I'll get around to afterwards, is an attempt to distinguish right and left. And I've always been interested in the problems of political terminology and political epistemology and, you know, exactly what distinguishes one political position from another, and also with the mutations of right, left in the Western world in the last 150 years. And as I indicated in the book, perhaps somewhat disingenuously, it is not entirely true. I became interested in the Neoconservatives because they seem to be an interesting case of what is essentially a leftist group that has been able to present themselves effectively as conservative opposition. But what I do is sort of look at the left at the time that I was a graduate student, and I think you can see in Nuche sort of in sort of outline form what becomes characteristically leftist afterwards. If you read my chapter on Herbert Marcuse, it is more than simply a celebration of a fellow German Jew who was part of a very humanistic, a humanistically educated generation who ended up in the United States, who was in some ways very conservative, culturally conservative, despite all the goofy things that he wrote. And it was very nice to me personally. It also is an attempt to understand him as a kind of transitional figure between an older left, real left, I mean a kind of Stalinist communist left, as it exists at least in the Western world, you know, in the Parti communiste de France or the Partito communista in Italy, the two largest Western Communist parties. And somebody who always, you know, has a warm spot for Stalin is always willing to justify his crimes on the basis of the principle that it takes. You have to break eggs to make an omelette or something like that. But at the same time, at an intellectual philosophical orientation, that seemed to come out of the old world at an earlier period, out of the 19th, even 18th century. And in some ways he seems to be almost emblematic for this left that I encountered as a young man. And I cannot say that I was terribly fond of their politics, and I said I was absolutely nauseated by Marcuse's willingness to defend Stalin's crimes. On the other hand, I was impressed by what I saw of a traditional humanistic kind of learning that was mixed with this obviously repulsive political stance. But by the end of his life, particularly after he failed to obtain a post-retirement graduate position at Yale, where I studied with him, he went off to California and became totally bonkers. He just went off the deep end and helped possession his last few years to fashion the new left in its ugliest forms in the United States. I remember at the time that he died, National Review wrote some very nasty obituary. Almost as nasty as the one that Bill Buckley later penned about poor Murray Rothbard. And I immediately put pen to paper mode of defense of him, which National Review of course never published. Because he was viewed as a bad person because of his pro-communist positions, but of course I had a very different memory of him. And then I write about three different types of leftists that I encountered while sitting in the Yale Sterling Library in the Graduate Hall. And one kind of leftist, and this was sort of what pretended the future of the left, were very whiny New York Jews and they saw anti-Semitism in every gentlemanly wasp who was walking there. He really hates us and so forth. My own impression, as I also indicated in the book, is that the old wasp attrition class was totally disintegrating at this time. And they had been perhaps overly gracious to the newcomers by letting them come in and take over while they, you know, continued to commit suicide as a hegemonical ruling class in the United States. Their influence had actually declined enormously in post-World War II period and much of it was a kind of self-eclipsing that they engage in in this period. And the whiny New York Jews were always complaining about everyone's anti-Semite. This one's a fascist. And when it came to the war between Israel and the Arabs, they all became extreme Zionist nationalists. And so then you had the Catholics who also in America sort of view themselves as a minority and they would generally follow the lead of the Jewish intellectuals. But when the war broke out between the Israelis and the Arabs, their position was, we have to go to church and pray or, you know, we have to be Thomas Aquinas or do something like that or we have to put prayer visual. So that was sort of like more consistent. And then I finally described what I met of remnants of the old wasp attrition in my book and these people would play golf. They tried to get some position in their family business. Yet they seemed to elicit violent hatred, especially from the Jewish Marxists to where, you know, saw them as rivals or people who had excluded them from positions. I disliked them myself. I despised them because they seemed to be a ruling class that had lost any nerve and any sense of command. And my favorite of all political sociologists is Pareto who understood that classes fall from power because they lose their nerve, which is also what my friend Sam Francis taught. And other classes rise because they take advantage of disintegration. And, you know, I feel somewhat sorry for the old wasps, patricians. On the other hand, I feel utter contempt for them for the way they abandoned power and engaged in spasms of self-mortification afterwards. Self-hague, politics of guilt, et cetera. So this is sort of my descriptions of the left. And if you read the work, you know, and then I come to the old conservatives and I see this as a more moderate kind of left. And I post what I call post-Marxist left. I wrote a book on this trying to show how the post-Marxist left is different from the Marxist left because they're not really socioeconomic in their orientation. They're cultural. They're heavily influenced by Adorno and the Frankfurt School, which is an accusation that is sometimes made against them by religious fundamentalist and John Birchers in the United States. It's perfectly correct. It's perfectly correct. You read the authoritarian personality. You have the whole scenario, you know, of what the left intends to do. This is a cultural left. They hate the bourgeoisie, but not because they see them as economic oppressors. They see them as fascist, sexist, religious men. People will have to be entirely retrained if necessary, you know, sent to some internment camp or something like this. And this is the left that will land up taking over in the end and particularly after the disintegration of the Soviet Empire. And the true... But I would argue that in the West this left takes over earlier because this left are basically the kooks who are part of the communist parties between the communist sort of discipline and control. And they're also the nutcases in Eastern Europe whom the communists or the Stalinists are able to... These are the leftists who will take power. The anti-fascist left, heavily influenced by kind of Frankfurt School agenda. And what I suggest in my book is they take over the entire Western world. I mean, the extent of their rule and their cultural hegemony cannot be undone.  They have power over the state, the state apparatus, public administration.  And I gave these lectures in Romania. And these seem to be sort of a relatively untouched people because they had the good or bad fortune of living under Soviet rule for a while. Churchesco, I know, is a horrible man. But at least they were spared Western cultural Marxist influences for a few decades longer than the Germans who seem to be the worst basket, psychological basket cases in the world. But the same thing is, of course, tapping France and England, Spain, certainly in Spain. And in the United States. And I think many of the impulses leading to this cultural, this new form of cultural hegemony, come out of the United States. I mean, one of the things I try to show in my book on cultural Marxism, and the post-Marxist left, and I suggest this here as well, is that the United States is a breeding ground for many of these ideas. The authoritarian personality was not considered to work of quirky leftists in the United States. It had mainstream respectability. And people like Seymour Morton-Lipsid wrote in defense of this because this was to be what we, as American patriots, could do to overcome prejudice and build a pluralistic society. So let's say the model for this comes out of American globalism. Globalism and bureaucracy. These are the fatal combination which we now see in the European Union, not only about Europe, but it's about global bureaucracy and the re-socialization of nations. So if you read my book carefully, it is obvious that I'm heavily influenced, or the book shows the influences of other works. And if there are any kind of political teachings there, it's an attempt to show how the left, as we now know it, came to be formed during my youth. I can see these different groups. And the Marxist and the traditional Marxist losing influence to this. And I, you know, I just want this one conversation between Eugene Genovesi, who went from being a sort of, a very unusual, a biosyncratic Marxist to becoming very conservative and very Catholic, is having a conversation with Eric Hausbaum, who has, I think, I don't think he's still alive, if he is. He is still a member of the English Communist Party and will defend Stalin, or did to his dying day. If he's alive, it's about 98. But Hausbaum and Genovesi are lamenting the fact that the Communists, we used to have good Communists.  You know, what is the left coming to? And I was at present in that conversation back in 1970, because I was young, I was giving a presentation at the American Historical Association, a panel with Genovesi, and Hausbaum came over and congratulated me for my remarks, in which I showed the difference between true Marxist Leninism and the sort of new leftist sentimentality, which eventually morphs into this cultural Marxist monstrosity in the West. And all the Cathedral Communists liked what I had to say. I always told people, I have a warm spot for Communists after seeing the absolute disastrous types who have taken their place in the West.  The second, I might say political teaching here, which is sort of interesting to me, and also I was interested in Richard Spencer's remarks, because I sort of recognized in some of them, not as remarks on race consciousness, but as the other ones, the effects of my book on the conservative movement, in which I show to what extent the conservative movement gives up on classes, nations, you know, and becomes preoccupied with values. And it lands, of course, the values change. It's a new value every week. It depends on the election year. And increasingly their values are leftist values. So the argument they then make is that they believe in values and the left has no values. We have values you don't, but leftist values too. They're leftist values, and you have leftist values. You know, what's the difference?  They have newer leftist values. And this is the only difference that I can see. But that's what happens when a movement, I think, really becomes disengaged from the bourgeoisie or from traditional nations or nations or something like that. So basically, the right and the left are both peddling globalist ideologies. The right's globalist ideology is human rights, democracy and bombing other countries to make sure they get the message from us. The left's ideology is, you know, is reconstructing everybody's consciousness at home. So this seems to be like the major difference. But they both are operating with leftist values. It seems to me that the right, insofar as it is distinguishable from the left, and that this sounds very basic. It's sort of like the kind of basic definition that one of my intellectual, if not always political heroes, Karl Schmidt, who I did the book, comes up with. And Schmidt, of course, gives you the le sens du politique or the begriff des politiciens. And this really comes down, to the way that the Gianfranco Emilio, who was quoted before, comes up with the essence of the political as friend-enemy distinction. Well, I would say that the essence of the left is equality, egalitarianism. That is what holds everything on the left together. Now, the essence of the right is not necessarily liberty, it's inequality. I think I presented this last year, people were aghast when I said this, but I'll say it again, that libertarians, to the extent that they're on the right, such as Herndon's time on top of that, would believe that inequality is fine. This is the natural state of people. Left libertarians tend to be egalitarians. I would make that distinction. They want equality, they like civil rights movements, quality of lifestyles, the cross-borders, everybody's interchangeable with everybody else, and everyone has human rights or something like that. I would say that even among libertarians there's a very definite, there's a critical distinction that I see. This is how in my book on the conservative movement, I could say that even some fascist and some libertarians belong on the right because they were opposing egalitarian projects. And they believe that human beings are inherently unequal. Now I'm not saying this to praise everybody on the right, I'm just saying this is what distinguishes right from left. The problem now is that what is the legitimate political spectrum and those political parties that are not being denounced as fascist, racist, anti-Semitic or something like that anti-feminist are all committed to equality. And they're all committed to using the state to achieve equality. So the only parties I see in the United States are leftist parties. By the way, I know that this may be an expression of either naivete or senility in my case, but I was struck by the fact that the neo-conservatives and the Republican party then acted Rand Paul for simply questioning Provision 2 and 7, I think, that it gave the government too much power to interfere in private social relations in this. I think of anything that that is a glaring understatement in terms of the effects. This is something which has been used to sue the pants off people because they don't serve blacks or some other group or women and it's not warm enough or whatever. The Civil Rights Act has been the beginning of all kinds of government mischief and social engineering against the private sector. But once he had said this, and of course he cried, he goes back and he expresses his regret he couldn't be on freedom rise with Martin Luther King and he had this, but once he had opened Pandora's Box the entire respectable Republican, which of course means neoconservative, establishment violently attacked. Now I cannot understand how you can get government off your back, that this is what they say they're going to hear Jonah Goldberg who attacked him as the ally of bigots and you know, he always is yapping about economic freedom this guy, how do you have how do you have freedom unless you can push the government out of these relations at the minimum and of course I know the people using it have no desire for any freedom, they just want to bomb Iran I fully understand what this is and they're not going to get rid of Obama's medical plan, they're just going to re-discredit, do something a little bit different. I understand why the Republicans are useless, basically leftist and also bellicose opposition to the Democrats but you would think that a remark like that would be allowable you know if Jonah Goldberg can accuse FDR of being like Hitler and they're all Nazis he says this and nobody cares but as soon as you touch the Civil Rights Act and you notice that it infringes on privacy that does not allow you to form men's clubs, that all the evils that go on in terms of government, social engineering diversity classes all of this goes back to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You would think at the very least you'd be able to question this but even this is unacceptable and I think that the reason is that both of our political parties left and acceptable left and right which will appear together in every issue of the Washington Post, you have the Neocons and the Liberals, you open the New York Times, you have David Brooks Ross Doudad whatever what type of pronounces name some silly name even sillier columns but if you read this stuff it is obvious that there's no significant difference between these people and they're all equally on the left and this is something that I became interested in and one of the things I do in my autobiography is I look at people who are generally considered leftists but who seem more conservative to me rightists than so-called conservatives of today and I look at somebody like Christopher Lash who has these crazy guild socialist ideas at first he was a kind of quasi-Marxist later he became a Catholic corporatist although he remained a Presbyterian but if you talk about family issues, he had very traditional men and women and other things and was actually appalled by the cultural books attacking cultural Marxism and I showed that even in the case of Genovese when he was a Marxist and even expressed sympathy for the become he sounded much more like a conservative than any conservative that I heard on Fox News I mean this as you read this work and as I wrote it, I became aware of how far my country had drifted in about 30 years and I think the change in Europe is far greater I mean in a country like Germany or France or Spain or England than anything that we've seen in the United States because for a long time I think the United States while it spread these poisons it was also sort of protected against them because Americans don't take ideas very seriously you know and just the way Romanians have not been exposed to cultural Marxism yet and you know, it doesn't work it's good for business or something like that but I noticed that what happened is that American patriotism became defined because even during the Cold War in terms of whether you support certain kind of radical social engineering I think Richard Spencer mentioned Harry Jaffa and Jaffa of course who becomes one of the major spokesmen of the American conservative movement believes he's a conservative because he favors universal equality and sees the American state as a vehicle for spreading equality everywhere and this is conservative and as he becomes the leading figure at National View in the early 1970's something that I think Peter Brimlow and I would probably have been unaware of for many years after this happened it was obvious that these radical left radical left this even Krootsky as Jack they all became part of the conservative agenda and this is before the neo-conservatives took over the conservative movement and I think this I should say this in closing my discussion of Murray Rothbard shows that although he expressed these very individualistic ideas and so forth that in some ways he was profoundly conservative in his social cultural views there's no question that I have this sort of touching scene in which he and Russell Kirk who is sort of this Berke and conservative come together in the living room of Pat Buchanan I was on his committee when he ran for president in 1992 and these people were there for different reasons obviously Rothbard did not buy Buchanan's protectionism neither did I but he liked him on foreign policy and generally agreed with him on immigration Kirk was there because his wife nagged him into going or something like that a very domineering wife and she generally controlled all of his actions and she told him he was going to serve on this committee but when the two of them began to speak it was obviously agreed on much more than they disagreed about and Kirk had this might interest you Kirk always thought of himself within the American context as a taffoo Republican he was always a taffoo Republican and he was an isolationist and he sort of got draft into World War II when he was put in charge of minding some army base out in the deserts of Utah but he was never really in the war and I think that's when he first read Albert Knott when he was in a situation and as much as he spoke about Berke and European concern he was a small town American and the in the post-war years he writes about the conservative route which then becomes the conservative victory when he's able to sell the books or finds a publisher who changes the title of his book it wasn't the conservative mind you see it's alive and well in America and so forth he didn't believe that for a second but I think his conservatism in the American context was basically sort of anti-New Deal isolationist maybe American republicanism of the taff variety and that was pretty much Rothbard's view and I remember I was in them talking with them and we all agreed so they came to the United States what was best for America politically at that point I don't think there was much disagreement this really is the final point I must take exception with my gracious host on one point I don't think the John Randolph club, which both of us were involved disintegrated over the or fell apart primarily over Pat Buchanan I think actually people on both sides generally supported him and Murray Rothbard was an ardent supporter of Pat Buchanan it fell apart because of a person who remained unmentioned I think that everything he could to seize power within that group and basically drove the rest of us out whether you're on the paleo-conservative or paleo-libertarian side made no difference but I have to agree with Hans that it was a group that showed at one time enormous promise I do mention this in my book I think one can be critical of the fact that I do not deal as harshly with that event as I might have even toward ex-friends former friends in the work but I think the John Randolph club at one time was a very promising vehicle for a paleo-libertarian paleo-conservative alliance there were obviously differences but I think these differences became exaggerated because of the person who eventually caused the break to come about who was not in this room much I feel free to speak about this and I do go into a discussion at the John Randolph club it's a bit superficial but I do suggest that at one time it did offer a significant means for bringing conservative groups together and I also point out you do very well to pick up this book I read it over and I am delightfully surprised by the elegance of my own prose I usually don't write this way I write sort of in heavy Weberian terminology where I'm writing English or German or anything else but this book is very very it's a pleasure to read even for me and for my students to my side in any case thank you for your indulgence


I'm Dean Hefner and I'm joined by Kaffir and Kanuli with White Ribbon just around the corner on the 23rd of November and the importance of the day we thought we'd get together and chat all things football. So Kaffir, why do we play football? Okay, we play. For me I think I didn't have much of a choice. I grew up in an Italian family. I used to get working up at all hours in the morning to watch Italy play in World Carps and Euros. I had two older brothers. I used to be out in the backyard playing and kicking the ball around and there was no PlayStation or Fortnite back then so I had no choice but to kick a ball around and it's been been a massive part of my life and it still is and whether I'm playing, I'm watching it and I'm a big fan as well as the game. Yeah, brilliant. Much the same for me. My family, my older brother, younger brother, we always used to play football. We backed on to a soccer field at our local club so we were there every afternoon playing in the backyard playing, waking up early to watch the soccerers play, you know, watching that hour highlight show of the Premier League on SBS on a Monday. Yeah, just whatever we could do to watch football and to play, yeah, just lived it and breathed it. I used to love watching, I think it was called on the ball, wasn't it, with Les Murray and Andy and Johnny Warren and I remember they used to have the highlights of the Premier League goals and it was like, I gotta admit this, that when I was young and I was playing for Marconi under eleven boys, I think it was back then, I used to be so excited for my games that I would actually sleep in my full kit the night before. That's how excited I was and sometimes my mum would have, I'd actually put my boots on and I would be that excited about playing the next day and watching that show was definitely a massive pump up before my big under elevens game back then. It feels like such a long time ago now. Good memories though, right. Some of the greats of the game, you'll never forget those guys in that show and yeah, and just what it meant to watch the soccerers and to watch so many get up early and watch, you know, so many times where we'd go away to Uruguay and something would go wrong, qualifying for the World Cup or against Iran, 97 and all these different games that you would just live and breathe for even back then when there wasn't so much broadcasting of it, you just wanted more as a kid, you just wanted to see more football just because you loved it so much. Well I grew up, majority of my time was spent in the back car park of Marconi, so playing in the backfields there, so Marconi for me was what sparked my passion, obviously from an Italian background and living out west, Marconi was the pinnacle of football back then, so good old Joe, used to be the soccerer's kit man also, he was the Marconi kit man and good old Joe, our manager here now that looks after all the kid, used to see me as a young kid running around Marconi and hanging out with the likes of Gary Van Egmon and JP. It's funny how it goes full circle now, working in the game and working alongside and seeing what JP actually does in our game and Gary Van Egmon is assistant coach of the Matildas, Alan Staggi used to play for my brother, obviously head coach of the Matildas and you know I was such a young kid back then having all these dreams and I'm one of the lucky ones I got to play and I also get to now work in the game which is something that a lot of people dream to do but they can you know work in football and for me you know I don't I don't classify it as a job because it's something that I love I wake up every morning doing something that I love and that I'm passionate about. So with your football I know you were saying you played with the boys in the under 11s and I don't know for you yourself have you ever experienced any kind of gender inequality? Yeah back then there was no girls football team so it was either I played with the boys or I didn't play or I had to go play all age women there was no under 12s or under 13s when I got to under 13s unfortunately the association had said that now I was obviously getting older and that I couldn't play with the boys anymore and there were some barriers that I had to jump over back then you know I had to it was a hurdle for me and with my family you know I wanted to play football I knew already at the young age that I wanted to play for Australia you know I knew what my goals were I knew what I knew what I wanted to do and then as a family we discussed it and obviously growing up in Marconi and being a big part of that club at 13 years old I went and played for Marconi first grade women so now a lot of people look at that and say oh no these kids are too young no one would think about think twice about putting a 13 year old girl in in first grade in a first grade squad or 13 year old boy but back then there was no other pathways so that was that was the only pathway that I could keep playing so I did I played it under 13s I went and played first grade women I'd done I think it was two seasons there and then eventually I went over to the Institute of Sport you know which was up at Parkley and the programs were running out of there but you know in terms of as a young girl the opportunities now for young females are just endless you know there's so many teams that you can play for there's so many different levels you can play park you can play social you can play a summer soccer competition but yeah back then it was a massive challenge for a young girl and there was also a massive hurdle for myself coming from an Italian background for many years my mother didn't want me to play football you know I was told that it wasn't for females you know where my dad didn't care he just wanted all these kids to play he was passionate about the game and then eventually at 10 years old I actually trained for the first year didn't play and at 10 we finally went behind her back and went and signed up myself up for for Marconi and the boys team so yeah there was obviously a lot of hurdles back then and you know these days for young females the opportunities are endless and it's really really good to see so many different cultures and people aspiring to be footballers yeah it's good and I think you only have to look now at the the crowds and the broadcasting for the w league there's a game every week now I think I think it's the 11th season of the w league isn't it which is great as well and yeah big crowds for the Matilda's but I did see something where I thought it was a little bit um not a little bit but a massive gap and something that needs to be addressed um with FIFA I think for the for the men's World Cup it was something like 400 million for the winning team and um for the women it's 30 million and that's that's a massive gap and even for funding um for the Matilda's to go and prepare for their World Cup um it's a lot less um than what what the men get so does that mean that it's easier for women to prepare or you know what I mean like it's not it's not right it's against what FIFA and everyone speak about yet the numbers don't show up yeah look the whole world speaks about equality now you know and we need major organizations like FIFA to start um leading the way um in in these situations and in these uh it's it's a problem obviously all over the world whether it's a gender paid gap um whether it's a footballing issue it's it's a whole world issue at the moment that we're we're struggling with at the moment um but we need to be really really um mindful that you know we need the younger generation to start aspiring towards wanting to be an elite footballer or an elite athlete and it's really important for people like FIFA to start showing equality in the game and you know showing the equal the equal pay rides um equal uh money for if you win a World Cup you know what's the difference between a female and a male we all prepare we all train the same we all do the exact same things to be an elite footballer you know I'm sure there's just as many girls out there that do what Cristiano Ronaldo does you know so we need to um you know as a sport need to be able to give young aspiring children whether it's boys or girls the opportunity to become uh full-time athletes or full-time footballers I think it's really really important um these days you see a lot of young kids they get lost along the way um obviously the the big hype around social media and online games there's so many kids that aren't getting out and being active so we are the role models and as um elite athletes we need to give young kids something to aspire towards because there's definitely an opportunity there for so many young Australian um children yeah I've just picked up on something you said in there about how girls have to prepare just like the boys do um for major tournaments things like that and then there's another side of it like what you need to sacrifice to achieve anything to be a professional to be a CEO whatever it might be everyone has to sacrifice as well I know for me it was probably more of a social social life um to to be able to play football and and play for Australia yeah I had to give up weddings and um 21st we're at the younger age and as I got older they turned into weddings and 30th and everything else but to be honest I was happy happy to miss that anyway but um I don't know for someone like yourself what kind of things did you have to sacrifice yeah look um my sacrifices are the same you know I used to have my friends always write me messages saying oh yeah don't even reply we know I can't you have soccer um and when I actually retired from the game everybody was really happy like yes we've got our weekends back we can start organising weekends away you're not going to miss things and I think it lasted about six months that I wasn't involved in football and I just got so bored at home you know growing up playing and training you know pretty much every night of the week I knew that I wanted to be back in involved in some in some way um and lucky for me I went and spoke to our local association Southern Districts and they gave me an opportunity to work within the women's program but the sacrifices are the same you know weddings birthdays um so many family functions that I've that I've missed nieces and nephews birthdays you know things that that mean the world to me but I wouldn't be the person that I am without football um football has taught me so many um life life um experiences of I've learned uh a lot of different things that I don't think I would have learned if I wasn't in football you know who knows where my life could have went also you know we put it straight to different ways um but with football it just kept me grounded it keeps you humble um gives you discipline you know and you make lifelong friends that in the long run you know their memories that you're going to have forever yeah for sure that's probably the main one isn't it the the nieces the nephews and missing out on the you know the closer family kind of moments but I guess the the other side of what you get with your your teammates and the ones that you remember for your life and that your friends with for life it's really good but I guess I don't know the last thing would be um around team sport and just a from a personal perspective because I know myself if I look back on my career if I could give myself some kind of advice one thing I've learned as I've got older is probably just to to be the bigger person and sometimes just to walk away from certain things or and not react um on the pitch or off it um which is something I've learned a lot um is there anything for yourself where where you'd look back on your career and um think uh what what kind of um advice because I give to my younger self yeah of course I always um you know it's something that I think about all the time you know I always replay my career and I didn't have a very um you know colorful career in terms of I got to play for Australia but it was the second time around where I played for Matilda's and actually capped properly um I went through a generation where Australian football for the women's um you know we're wearing jerseys that are four times too big for us you know we're now if I look back at what we had compared to where they're at now it's just an unbelievable spot where the game's going but you know I think back to what I could have done better you know could I have done things differently um and now I think that I held myself as as a mentor to all the girls not only within our Wanderers team but I'm out there to help any kid whether it's from grassroots all the way through to professional um Matilda where they can learn from the mistakes that I made you know um you know there's some small regret in terms of I should have played a lot more for Australia I know I had the talent to do it but in terms of um where my head was at in terms of having the balance of you know being still being a child and still being a kid um and being involved in a in a senior environment um and not knowing how lucky you actually have it and how lucky you are every time you put on that green and gold jersey or whether you put on a Wanderers jersey and playing in the a league or the w league you know we don't realise how lucky we actually are because there's so many people out there that would die to be an a league a w league player or a Matilda or a soccer group that's not until you get older they actually realise how lucky you were that you actually got to achieve that goal


I am Mr. P. P. Mitragootri, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department at Valchand Institute of Technology, Sholapur. In the earlier session, we have studied. Hello friends, I am Mr. P. P. Mitragootri, Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Valchand Institute of Technology, Sholapur. In the earlier session, we have discussed merchant circle diagram and how to graphically represent forces acting along shear plane and forces acting along tool chip interface and how to graphically calculate values of these forces. But graphical representation sometimes may be values may vary in graphical representation depending upon the scale. So analytical method of calculation of forces will be better to calculate the forces more accurately. So in this particular session, we desire to study analytical method of calculation of forces outcome of this learning will be calculation of forces acting along the shear plane and calculation of forces acting along tool chip interface during orthogonal cutting by analytical method for this what we desire to know is the required data before that assumption is important. Again assumption is same that is orthogonal cutting which is obviously two dimensional cutting only two forces acting will be considered, two dimensional cutting will be considered and two dimensional forces will be considered for analysis. In this case again required data will be cutting force denoted by letter fc, thrust force denoted by letter ft and cutting force and thrust force are measured by tool dynamometer cutting force acts in the direction of tool travel and thrust force acts in a direction perpendicular to cutting force and both are measured by tool dynamometer and measured by measured in Newton. Again during metal cutting and rake angle of the cutting tool which is denoted by letter alpha is recorded from the tool that we are employing for cutting because we are knowing the specifications of the tool and shear angle which is denoted by letter phi shall be known to us. But many a times shear angle is not given instead of that chip thickness before cut and chip thickness after cut is given, chip thickness before cut is denoted by letter t and chip thickness after cut is denoted by letter tc. So, from that chip thickness before cut and chip thickness after cut we can calculate value of chip thickness ratio r which is equal to t upon tc and once we know r we can calculate shear angle phi by the formula shear angle phi is equal to tan inverse of r cos alpha divided by 1 minus r sin alpha. And for calculation of forces we have to draw triangle of forces cutting force thrust force and resultant and now in this particular diagram we have shown ab as a cutting force acting along the direction of tool travel, bc as a thrust force acting perpendicular to the cutting force ac represents resultant of these forces ac as already said is a resultant. Now in this with this particular diagram analytically we are going to derive the formulae for calculation of tool force f and normal to the tool force an tool force f act along the tool phase and normal to the tool force acts perpendicular to that. So, we have represented these two forces in the diagram and tool force f obviously make an angle alpha with a vertical tool force f is represented by line ad and normal to the tool force that is n is represented by line cd. Now further construction is to draw the line from point a making an angle alpha that is rake angle with ab that is cutting force that line is extended. Now after that we have to draw the line from point c parallel to ad cutting the line which has been drawn earlier that line will cut the earlier line at point l. So, c l will be parallel to ad and c l will be equal to ad means c l will also represent tool force. Now after that from point b we have to draw a line parallel to c l cutting the extended line drawn from point a making an alpha with cutting force and line drawn from b will cut that line at point j. So, b j will be parallel to c l. Now next one more construction we have to carry out that is from point b we have to draw a perpendicular bk to the line c l from this we can very easily understand that angle kbc can be none other than 90 minus alpha and angle kcb will be alpha. Now from this diagram tool force f is equal to ad equal to c l c l is equal to lk plus kc which can be represented as jb plus kc. Now from the triangle abj jb is equal to fc sin alpha which you can very easily understand and kc will be bc sin 90 minus alpha, but bc is nothing but fc sin 90. So, fc sin 90 minus alpha is equal to ft cos alpha. Therefore, tool force f can be represented in terms of cutting force thrust force and angle alpha as f is equal to fc sin alpha plus ft cos alpha. Then similarly normal to the tool force can be represented from the diagram as aj minus jl, but from the diagram we can understand that aj is fc cos alpha and jl is equal to kb and kb is ft cos of 90 minus alpha. So, ft is sin alpha. So, normal to the tool force n also is represented in terms of cutting force thrust force and rake angle. As fc cos alpha minus ft sin alpha after analytically calculating the formulas for tool force and normal to the tool force we have to calculate formulae for shear force and normal to the shear force which are acting along shear plane. For that we again have to draw a triangle of forces cutting force thrust force and resultant force this triangle abc as shown in the diagram. Now after that we have to draw a line from point A making an angle phi extended line making an angle phi with cutting force or line ab. Then we have to draw a normal to that line from point C cutting that line at point D. So, cd will represent normal to the shear force and ad will be magnitude of shear force fs. Then we have to draw a line from point B parallel to line cd cutting the line at point G. So, bg will be parallel to cd then from point B we have to draw a perpendicular to line cd which will cut the line cd at point H. So angle HBC in this case will be 90 minus phi and angle SCB will be phi. Now from the diagram shear force can be represented as fs which is ag minus gd but ag is equal to fs fc cos phi and gd is equal to bh ft sin phi. So, shear force fs is represented in terms of cutting force and thrust force and shear angle as fs is equal to fc cos phi minus ft sin phi. Similarly normal to the shear force fn can be represented as dh plus sc that is cd cd is equal to dh plus sc but dh is equal to bg bg is equal to fc sin phi and hc is equal to ft cos phi. So, fn that is normal to the shear force can be represented in terms of cutting force thrust force and shear angle as fn is equal to fc sin phi plus ft cos phi. So, all the analytical formulas calculated in this session have been represented in the next slide. You can understand that that is tool forces are represented in terms of cutting force thrust force and rake angle and forces acting along shear plane are represented in terms of cutting force thrust force and shear angle. Hope you have understood the analytical method of calculating the forces for further reading I will recommend machine tool engineering by J. R. Nakpal and textbook of production engineering by P. C. Sharma. Thank you.