Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Give the people what they want. Your weekly movement news round up. Show 103. Give the people what they want. Brought to you live. Today it's just Prashant from People's Dispatch, your favorite movement news site, peoplesdispatch.org. I'm Vijay from Globetrotter. Coming to you as we do every week this week without Zoe unfortunately. But we're here, ready to go. Peace talks resumed in Venezuela between the various remnant factions in the Colombian Civil War. Perhaps good things will come out of it. Lots of things to talk about today, but I think we're going to start with Prashant. Prashant, you know, not only was there the ASEAN meeting, not only was there the G20 meeting in Bali, but there was that COP 27 meeting. Seem to have been anticipated there was some drama, strum and drum during the meeting and then boom, silence. What actually happened at the end in COP? Right, Vijay. This is the third week we're talking about COP 27. We talked a lot about COP 26 as well. And, you know, there's an unfortunate tone that often accompanies, I think, all of our coverage on this, which kind of encapsulates the situation. So COP 27 ended over time as usual there was, it was a bit of a mixed outcome on the one hand. The loss and damage fund that we talked about was finally agreed upon in principle, which is really the operative word, operative phrase here. It was agreed upon in principle. And there were a lot of outcomes which people were very disappointed about. We'll come first, of course, to the loss and damage point because that's, as Prashant means, celebrated a lot. So as we know, it's basically to help adaptation. That's help countries which are dealing with clay effects of climate change right now. Like for instance, Pakistan, which is suffering, it suffered billions worth of damage after those disastrous floods and then had to wait for funds. So the idea was that, you know, if a disaster takes place, do you have to wait for months until you can scrounge together some kind of international funding for aid or should there be a dedicated fund for this? Now, common sense would say that yes, there should be a dedicated fund for this because it's due to climate change. But what's been finally decided is that next year there'll be more clarity of this. So the key question is the operative aspects regarding who's going to pay, which is the single biggest question. There's a lot of disagreement on that. The richer countries, especially the Western European countries, what the classified is developing countries also to pay for this loss and damage fund which is causing a lot of controversy. Then of course, the other question is what kind of form will this money come in? Will it come in the form of say, loans will come in the form of insurance schemes, for instance, will come in the form of private financing, all of which brings with it its own set of issues. And if you look at generally the kind of funding that has been taking place for climate change related issues, a lot of it has been in these forms. And activists in countries in the global south have very rightly called it out saying that, you know, this is kind of a cop out in all kinds of ways. In fact, increasing the burden maybe on developing countries. So that's one aspect of the discussions that took place. The other, I mean, the most, maybe one of the most crucial aspects is that the question of reducing global warming to 1.5 degrees below pre-industrial, I mean, about pre-industrial levels looks increasingly difficult because, you know, say the emission of greenhouse gases continues to increase right now. We are not looking at, you know, science says that ideally we should peak by 2025. It doesn't look anywhere close to happening at this point of time. Maybe 2030 is a more realistic estimate maybe even later. So the possibility of that happening looks very, very slim at this point. And this already means that we're going to be seeing way more of an impact than what we're seeing right now in terms of extreme weather events, in terms of destruction of sources of food, in terms of livelihoods, in terms of people having to migrate in huge numbers, in terms of submergence of coastal areas, you know, it's really a recipe for disaster in so many ways. So that too, there's no real, I mean, there's been no real concrete action on a lot of words, a lot of promises, but again, a depressing outcome. And I think another key aspect which we really need to highlight, probably the more one of the important point is something which I think I want to quote the Bolivian official, the Bolivian street negotiator who said that this principle of what is called common but differentiated responsibilities, which has been the bedrock of action on climate change since 1992, since the UN framework was devised as slowly vanishing. So according to him, he said that what seems to be happening is that it's becoming common but shared responsibility, where things are becoming so bad that the rich countries now can say that hey, you know what, it's everyone's problem, let's all pitch it together, ignoring the historic inequality that led to climate change in the first place, ignoring the question that the rich countries have been responsible per capita for a huge amount of the emissions. And so they've taken things to such an extent that now it's easy for them to say, you know, everyone should just stop emitting greenhouse gases and this is an extremely dangerous precedent that we're seeing taking place here. It might get even heightened in the coming years as well. So all in all, not a very positive COP meeting, we know that fossil fuel representatives numbers were at a historic high this year and next year is going to happen in the UAE so you can possibly assume that might be the case there as well. So these are some of the important outcomes I think we need to highlight again the fact that no real answer to the question of debt. How are countries going to deal with climate change when they're so indebted? With the more millions of loans you have to take. So all these are issues which are not really seriously addressed. There's been namesake lip service, but that's about it. Prashant, come on. You know, we already mentioned that the problem of this loss and damage is hardly something novel. You know, and I think it's interesting that the media as it reports the aftermath of COP 27 is suffering from acute amnesia and has forgotten that the loss and damage question was agreed upon at COP 25 in Santiago where there was the Santiago loss and damage agreement which is basically been recycled in COP 27 as a victory. It's extraordinary, isn't it? Absolute case of media amnesia in reporting on this COP and believing in a way the headline that the leaders of COP and Egypt wanted to promote. We had a breakthrough on loss and damage. Excuse me. You had a breakthrough in 2019. You're just repeating the same press release. Anyway, you know, talk about repeating. How many times on this show have we come back to the question of Mali and France over and over again? Very interesting story. November 21st, interim Prime Minister of Mali, Colonel Aboulaye Maiga releases a statement on social media saying, hey listen, French NGOs no longer welcome in Mali. Now, in a sense, Colonel Maiga's statement didn't come from nowhere. He didn't initiate this. From February onwards after the junta led by military section that had taken power in Mali last year in a second coup, really an anti-French coup. From February onwards, the French government said, look, we are no longer going to provide Mali with ODA. That's the overseas development assistance. France was quite categorical. You're out. Why France? Why did you cut ODA in February? Interesting. The French didn't talk about the military coup. They didn't talk about corruption in Mali. The normal things one hears about. France directly said, we're angry because the Malian military is associating with Russia's Wagner group. The principle reason they said was the Wagner group. So Colonel Maiga, when he retaliated as it were on November 21st, said in his social media post, not only, look, no more French NGOs operating in Mali, but he said, we are retaliating because of your absurd allegations. Interesting. There are two narratives at work here. Number one, there is increasing French anti-French sentiment such that in actually 2019, before this, you know, spate of coups in Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea, before that, the French basically had to come to terms with the fact that no longer could France hold 50% of the reserves of the West African countries, holding them because these countries operate with a currency called the CFA franc, which is actually controlled by monetary unions in West Africa and in the Sahel to be fair to the French. They don't really control it, although about almost half of the personnel in these monetary unions were seconded from the Treasury department in Paris. And as I said, 50% of the assets had to be held in French banks. 2019 France said it will divest from this. Just as a back note, people may have forgotten in 2011, there was Nikolai Sarcozy's war against Muhammad Gaddafi. Gaddafi had been on a tear for at least two or three years arguing for the substitution of the CFA franc by something they wanted to call the Afriq, a new African currency. Didn't happen. Gaddafi was overthrown. That was the end of that. Well, interestingly, one narrative is that there's this anti-French sentiment, very plausible because there's a lot of anger at France from Algeria onwards saying you've been colluding with the Islamists who hold about maybe almost 50% of the landmass in Mali. Mali is a very large country. The second narrative is France's storyline saying that no, no, the real question is that the Mali and military is working with the Wagner group. Now, it's true. The current defense minister in Mali, the chief of the state staff, they were both in Moscow twice last year. They were in Moscow again this year. Indeed, there are Russian mercenaries in Mali, about 800 of them. Very insignificant number in terms of the number of French troops were there in Barkhane, which was in the tens of thousands. But at any rate, there are some Russian troops. The dispute is whether this particular confluence, this particular clash between France and Mali is about Russia's involvement in the Sahel region, or it's really about anti-French sentiment. Smells a lot like part of the anti-French way, but what do I know? You want to hear more about this? Don't read the press either in Paris or in New York. You might have to actually listen to the Malians a little bit. But again, what do we know? I mean, we just run a weekly show where we focus on Mali a lot and try to get you the news about it. A lot of anti-Russian propaganda in Africa. Some of it is sticking, but not all of it. Not all of it. And I think that's the bottom line in this. Speaking about tough stories, Prashant, back to Palestine, back to Palestine, over 50 children killed by the Israelis this year. What's the story with Palestine? Right. We're talking a few days ahead of what is called the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. There's a 29th of November that's marked every year, of course. And this is the 45th year on which it's supposed to be marked the first such day was marked in 1977, I believe, or that is when the resolution was passed. So this is the 45th anniversary of that. Curious, the time frame is 45 years, 1977 when it was passed. It was 10 years after the 1967 war, which altered the ground reality considerably in Palestine, Israel's occupation rose to new heights in the period following that war. And it's something that was, of course, never reversed. But in the 45 years since looking back in 2022, when you look back, it's horrifying to the extent to which the ground situation has changed if you look at what's been happening. And this year I think exemplifies those trends because on the one hand, like you said, you have the kind of atrocities that are taking place purely in terms of brutal killings. Alone, this year has been the worst year since 2005 in the occupied best bank when the UN started collecting numbers and I believe the total number of 203 people, Palestinians have been killed in all the occupied territories together. And of course, we see other forms of brutality as well just yesterday in the new scheme that 20 year old Ahmad Mansara who is who has been in jail for over 7 years a judge has extended his solitary confinement by another 4 months saying that he is a threat to himself and this is after lawyers have said that his mental health has been significantly deteriorating and Israel's answer is that the Israeli establishment's answer is that, oh that means he's a threat to himself and others. So he should be kept in solitary confinement. It really there's no way there's no way of even comprehending this kind of logic but you know, of course there are killings that are such instances but also this year also marks yet another right word lurch as far as Israel is concerned and there's no greater example of that than the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu and Atmar bin Goyil, his new ally who earlier even Netanyahu was reluctant to ally with it that is our right wing he was but now everything seems possible in Israeli politics. They agree to sort of retroactively legalize the illegal outposts which even Israel used to call illegal until recently so we know that through the system of settlements and outposts they are basically encroached massively on Palestinian land they are basically broken Palestinian land into small bits which makes you know continuous travel impossible there's this whole network of checkpoints of you know the apartheid wall for instance and these settlements and outposts are in many ways they're the tip of the spear whereby they basically destroy the possibility of a Palestinian state and while Israel has legally you know has encouraged both these settlements and outposts in which over 700,000 people live settlers live it it somehow maintained this fiction that while they considered the settlements legal the outposts were not legal according to them and this is what they retroactively decided to legalize as part of this new government formation that is taking place so that itself I think again goes to show that from 1977 when we look back it's kind of when we look back when we look at the situation today it shows how you know immeasurably the situation has changed so you know this is a part of the issue of course the other larger part of the issue the other aspects being you know we talked about Sheikh Jannat in the past we talked about the attacks we talked about the rhetoric so all in all I think a very difficult time for the Palestinians their resistance of course continuing like a resistance continuing very bravely and valiantly but I think it's up for the international community to sort of ask itself this question as they mark this day the UN has an event for instance you might find regular statements from the European Union and others promising to uphold Palestinian sovereignty and rights but I think the real question is something else what has the international community done after making all these claims and making all these commitments in various resolutions Prashant it's a distressing story and has been so for a very long time and it's important that we keep on it you're listening to give the people what they want coming to you from people's dispatch that's Prashant is the editor of people's dispatch along with Zoe we don't have Zoe with us today she'll be back next week I'm Vijay from Globetrotter happy to be with you I'm here sitting in the independent Republic of Dongshankistan with my colleagues and Marco from Dongshank and Manolo keeping me company happy to be with you I want to talk a little bit about that war in Ukraine Prashant which has been going on and on stunning news recently we of course already talked about the fact that there was a missile that came from Ukrainian territory likely shot by the Ukrainians landed in Poland well one would have thought that after the mishap with the associated news where the Associated Press came out and said well it was a Russian missile in fact the Associated Press let go the reporter who wrote that story after all that it looks like increasingly NATO is going to be putting patriot batteries both in Poland and other states that border Ukraine very dangerous in fact the Polish Premier and defence minister said that the patriot batteries coming from Germany are going to be actually flush on the border between Poland and Ukraine which means if there is any error they can now again be the accusation that there was an attack on a NATO country pretty striking and scary stuff over there including of course now we know 400 million more dollars coming from the US in often military, lethal military equipment that amounts to close to 20 billion dollars coming from the United States into Ukraine I mean there is also other things the United Kingdom for the first time is sending seeking helicopters to Ukraine these are manned helicopters, lethal helicopters coming in now nobody is saying that the Russian assault hasn't been quite brutal and hitting areas where civilians are and so on but I must say they're ramping up both of the of these financial support to buy military equipment from the west on the one side and secondly the provision of these patriot batteries into frontline states around Ukraine very chilling and disturbing I think storylines which of course we've been following trying to make sense of I have to say I've reported a number of conflicts wars and so on very difficult to actually get a handle of what's going on people are too quick to rush in and make claims about what happens in battlefields very ugly situation as reporters of course most of us pretty sensitive people we'd like to see some kind of resolution ceasefire taking stock of the damage and so on looks unlikely Prashant not with more money coming in from the United States into Ukraine to in a sense prolong the war looks unlikely from Moscow where this has really become a prestige issue ugly war all wars in a sense ugly this one ugly for being prolonged beyond I think the time that it needed to have gone on for point is made I think on all sides but let's see we'll be watching carefully as we have been watching carefully trying as best as possible to make sense of what's going on well speaking of belligerence war and things like that United States is of course made a habit of coming in poking its stick in the areas around China you had Nancy Pelosi bringing two congressional delegations into Taipei making all kinds of comments about what should Taiwan do and shouldn't do of course the Taiwanese not so much a protagonist in this as US Congress people well now it looks like the United States has sent another honorable guest into the Philippines who's that Prashant right this is of course Vice President Kamala Harris who visited the Philippines and received received too many contrasting welcomes on the one hand of course Ferdinand Bong Bong Markov's government going all out to receive a red carpet welcome and then you had activists in the ground raising a slogan which is interesting among many slogans of course one of which was just said Harris imperialist which I think you know conveyed pretty much what this entire segment is about so like I said civil society organizations not very happy with the visit for multiple reasons and I think there are two aspects to look at here of course on the one hand we do know that the Bong Bong Markov's government has has a very problematic record in various ways you talked about it on this show before inheriting a legacy which is also is not a great legacy let's say both in terms of the previous Rodrigo de Tepte government that it succeeded and the legacy of the older Marcos senior who was a very close ally of the US also one of the most brutal dictators in the region so activists on the one hand were a bit unhappy about that aspect the fact that you know Kamala Harris was coming there in some senses sanctifying that regime so to speak but also the fact that although it will not be that well known the United States also has a you know very say close military alliance or assistance program with the United States with the Philippines for a number of years in fact I think between 2015 and 2022 it received arms equipment in training to the tune of about 1.4 billion and you know that itself kind of shows the you know how much it's investing in the Philippines and why it's doing so it's pretty simple because as far as the United States is concerned causing tension in Southeast Asia in the Asia Pacific region is quite a strategic relevance to the US and that's how this connects to what Nancy Pelosi was doing in Taiwan as well because as part of its encircling China strategy what the US would like to do is to sort of keep those conflicts going on in Southeast Asia in the Asia Pacific region now I think it's you sort of take it for granted that any region countries are going to have differences over borders, over trade, over commerce over a number of issues history there's you know there's no region in the world where everything is hunky-dory so it's undoubtedly there's no doubts about the fact that there will be conflicts and disagreements I think what's significant is that countries despite having them continue to move forward for instance we had a couple of years ago the RCEP deal being signed in that region the biggest trading block in the world and this was signed by countries all of whom have differences and I think that's pretty much how diplomacy works that's how relations between countries work that you have differences but nonetheless you also engage with each other and this is something which the United States really finds is not its own agenda and so it's in this context that you need to see Kamala Harris's visit and also the visit to what is called the Palawan province which is very close to what is known as the Spratly Islands where there is a bit of attention over issues of sovereignty there are multiple claims being made in the region so the fact that she actually chose to be there make statements from there actually made a lot of activists very jittery the fact that why is the United States coming and raising this bokeh once again at a time when already tensions are high in the region because for instance of the issue of Taiwan and intervention over there so all these things considered yet another visit by a US official which is not meant to promote cooperation or promote goodwill but to subtly and not so subtly promote these kind of tensions it often makes you think you only see this happening US officials landing in difficult parts of the world and making those statements reverse never happens just as you only have US warships in the South China Sea or in the Pacific Ocean where there are no business to be so it actually kind of shows the skews in the order which often we don't notice because we take it so much for granted US ships they go all over the world but nobody ever thinks why is it only that US ships are there in places where there are no business to be it's the habits of finger wagging the habits of finger wagging are unique to the United States incredible it's a tough week I lost a very close friend of mine of 30 years to diabetes he's been struggling with the disease for a long time the 14th of November was World Diabetes Day this is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin a key medicine to treat diabetes one of the great untreated ailments in the global South my friend was only 54 years old died of diabetes the reason I'm saying this is I'm entering into telling you about a story to do with measles you see a lot of focus over the last three years around the COVID pandemic there was a lockdown then there were the creation at rapid speed of vaccines vaccination programs and so on during this entire period there was a great neglect of other healthcare challenges including vaccination programs and the delivery of insulin to people in various countries simply had very much lower supplies as a consequence of a great shift to tackling COVID as a primary you know as the primary ailment of our times well the WHO the World Health Organization has been warning over the last few months over the decline in vaccination programs for other things other than COVID now must be said COVID vaccines are still not available in many parts of the world we know that in some countries 70% vaccination won't happen until the year 2100 we already know that I mean it's already scandalous any rate let's come to the pressing issue that the World Health Organization has just reported on and that's measles, measles is a big killer of children I think people don't appreciate the fact that in many parts of the global south ailments like measles and mumps continue to take the lives of young people who are not vaccinated WHO says that something like 90% of children need to get the first dose of a measles vaccine to allow for what is known as herd immunity I know there's a lot of controversy around the eye of herd immunity but nonetheless that's what the WHO says they say the threshold is about 90% the consequence of the lack of vaccinations because of the COVID pandemic in 2021 last year the vaccination rate for the first dose of the measles vaccine was at 81% the second dose was down to 71% now what the WHO worries about is that 40 million children will not have received the vaccine this is the lowest first dose percentage since 2008 this is going to be at least the WHO believes pretty catastrophic lots of countries are going to experience a pretty invisible death rate for children who will die of measles I say invisible because this gets reported very very little I want to urge you to go to the People's Dispatch website and follow the coverage People's Dispatch does through People's Health Dispatch which is produced in collaboration with the People's Health Movement very much like to have you go and look at the People's Health Movement work on some of these issues now Prashant, I don't know if the People's Health Dispatch is going to cover the measles story I hope it does, it's an important story these are the neglected stories about children in the poorest parts of the world and I must say whatever criticisms one has of the United Nations and there are many that one could have whatever criticisms you have about the World Health Organization they simply don't forget to keep telling us that these are real issues that impact poor children in vulnerable parts of our great planet please go and read People's Dispatch stories on many of these issues you've been listening to give the people what they want brought to you People's Dispatch today it was Prashant, Zoe's on leave she'll be back next week I'm Vijay from Globetrotter see you next week it will be show 104 looking forward to your selfies


We remember that it is for a man figure and a woman figure so it would be nice to also bring it out in the packaging and we found out that the NITNAP team also agree with us and we're happy to see that so that it's a message out there that bringing up a baby is not just the woman affair, it's a man and woman affair so that's what NITNAP is about right there. So far it was a major statement and we're happy to be making it. You have got my toe. It is not a woman's responsibility. Let's share it. Right ladies, when I wake up at night you think the baby you would somehow just be awake as well. I am not giving this by myself. I may not show it but I do it. It is usually very late in the night. I don't have to introduce myself, I just change. Right now we have to introduce someone on stage to tell us why they picked Nameless and Wabu and of course to help close out the show. So Sahil Kotecha, Integrated Systems Manager. Sahil Kotecha, NITNAP 1019 the winner. A round of applause for Sahil Kotecha.


Let's review everything we've talked about in mastering the bent over row. So the first thing we mentioned was you need to master the RDL because if I can't stabilize myself, if I can't load my lower body muscles without feeling my low back muscles, then I can't even set up for the row. You need to be able to do at least the eccentric and the isometric hold at the bottom of a hip hinge or of a bent over deadlift or of a stiff legged deadlift or of a Romanian deadlift as I normally call them. And I need to be able to secure myself with the glute and with the hamstring. I need to feel that in my butt holding me up if I'm going to get anything out of this row. Otherwise, all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna feel it in my back. I'm not gonna be able to do it forever. And my ceiling of potential is gonna be lower and lower and lower. Next, we talked about not only doing the Romanian deadlift but we also have to worry about the upper half. We have to learn how to do a row. We have to learn how to lead a row with our shoulder blades coming backward, retracting and then letting our elbows follow to get that nice little squeeze finish at the very, very end. This just keeps your shoulders healthy for longer. It keeps the shoulder joint in the position that will allow the, or it keeps the shoulder blade in the position that allows the shoulder joint to move maximally. And so if I'm doing a row, I need to make sure prioritize that I'm feeling that upper back. Not just because that's what the row is for. It's for the lat too a little bit. But if I'm only getting lat, I'm not getting upper back. Then I know that I'm wearing away my shoulder more than I have to.  Number three we talked about after or during, well after really, after I've learned the Romanian deadlift and after I've learned how to row both arms back with my shoulders. Again, I like the seated cable row for that variation. After we've done all that and we're ready to try the bent over row with a barbell. The next tip, the third tip is to select an appropriate weight. Check your ego at the door. It's not about lifting as much weight as possible. It's about making good technique early on and as often as possible so that I train the strength that will keep my longevity. It will keep my body together as long as possible. It will keep my mobility as long as possible so I don't walk around like a penguin, right? And I'll stiff up, stiff like. You might still get some of that. That just means you're training hard, right? After you've selected an appropriate weight, make sure you're setting your RDL correctly. You're feeling it in your butt, in your hamstrings, your heels are firm in the ground. And then as you start to row up, you need the force to come through the ground, through your feet, through your butt, up your torso and then into the barbell. And so what we need to do is kind of think about initiating through the feet and driving the hips forward, just ever so slightly. That I even like to see people move just tiny bits, especially if they're having trouble with this, if they're feeling it a lot in their low back. If I start to emphasize that hip motion, then I know I'm stabilizing and getting the movement with the right muscles. After that, after we've learned the hip drive to kind of take the next step, we need to know that when we row up, our weight is shifting, our center of mass is now comprised of our body and the barbell. And as the barbell raises, so does our center of mass. And it starts to move kind of forward and backward a little bit even because of how it's shifting and hopefully it's not moving side to side that much. But in doing that, we need to be able to compensate with our own little body weight shift. That's the only way to keep your balance while you're doing the row. After that, big mistake that people make that I see all the time because I'm looking in the mirror is this crunch to stabilize. You don't wanna let everything crunch down. You don't wanna let your mid-back bend to stabilize you so much. You want that stabilization to occur from all sides and just kind of cinch itself in together and that gives you the stability, the pressure that you need to do this lift. So instead of letting your arm stretch that extra little bit and getting too much of a crunch and instead of stabilizing yourself with a sunken chest what I'm looking for is to be really tall from the heels all the way up through the spine. And that leads us into our last point which is that the spine is also the head and neck. I need to keep thinking about that tallness, right? I don't wanna tilt my head back too far and I don't wanna straighten it out, flatten it out, tuck my chin too far. Those are muscles that are necessary for stabilizing your body but if I'm going to keep the mobility that I need, if I'm going to activate the upper back muscles that I need during the bent over row I'm gonna need to keep a little bit of fluidity in my body as it's stabilized. And so if I just think about keeping my spine nice and long and tall like you got a string at the top of your head and someone above you is pulling it up that's all I wanna keep to make sure that I can keep the spinal position that will allow me to do the best row possible.


Okay, we want to thank you all for joining us tonight for the autumn drive water and sewer improvement community construction meeting at Tony Shalola, who is our assistant water director of a water capital project delivery is going to stand in tonight for Dina Johnson, who is your project manager. We do have Fabian on the line. He is our inspector. And we have Keegan Yonkers from Circle C, which is the contractor. If you think it's something you want to ask during the presentation, you can type it into the chat and then we will wait until the presentation is over to feel those questions. No, I think that is it. I'm going to go on. Sorry, we are recording this. We will post the video of this meeting to the project page by Monday at the latest. And we will also post a PDF of this PowerPoint to that project page. And I'm going to hand this over to Tony Shalola. Good evening again. Like Sally said, I'm filling in for Dina Johnson. Who is your project manager agenda today is we're going to introduce the project team. We're going to have a project overview. We're going to have a project area. We're going to go over frequently asked questions and timeline. And can everybody have it? Okay, I'm assuming that's a yes. So if you look at the overview that's in front of you, if many of you recall probably about two years ago, we were conducting improvements on ranch view road, which is the road that bisects autumn drive. So now it's we're going to go down autumn drive and go to work. And if so, and those of you that leave on where autumn drive comes to autumn court. We've had several main breaks that I was personally aware of maybe two or three from the last three years. This project is going to fix that. So we're going to go with the presentation again. Your project team is Dina Johnson. She can be reached at<PHONE_NUMBER> at the email address posted right there. The city inspector is baby ideas.<PHONE_NUMBER> at the city email address posted. And that's going to be your primary contact on the project. So, basically, a project team also includes circle C construction. And we have Keegan Junkers is online. To also answer construction related questions. The design consultant on the project is RLG. And Brett Lewis is the project manager for the consultant. So, basically, on the project, the area is bound by autumn drive to the north, autumn drive, autumn slide slash autumn court to the north. Bella, Bella circle to the east. We'll slow drive and over them part to the south and over them part drive east to the West. So we're going to have water main replacement. We're going to replace water sewer mains on the roadway. And the water means range in diameter from four inch to 10 inch in diameter. And those will be replaced an auto drive and auto court. So, I mean, will be replaced in autumn, autumn drive. From the south cul-de-sac to auto court as shown on the previous exhibit. We will conduct sewer main easements in the, in the easement, not a ranch view road. From 660 feet not of the right view road slash auto drive in the section. And we're going to go west, west ones with that. So, I mean, we're also going to replace the old sewer main. We're going to replace the autumn drive from about 1000 feet north and 180 feet west of the right view road and autumn drive in a section. Then that line is going to go north about 290 foot. And the easements are located between autumn drive and over to five drive, which at the picture you're looking at is over to Park Drive. That's the project overview. The project is located in district three. And the construction will impact traffic for customers in the overton part neighborhood association. Tango Wood neighborhood association and the West and the West West neighborhood association. Typical landmines, the landmines, sorry, is the Fort Worth branch of the Trinity River is to the West and south of autumn drive. The picture depicts auto court at autumn drive. So, why is the city, a particular department doing this project. So, the department prioritizes replacing water sewer mains that have a high risk of failure. And based on available data that includes water main break history. Again, like I previously said, some of you are probably experienced water main break on the road. We have a leak history that we keep. We can see we can do close circuit TV inspection of our mains. The age of the line, the line material in this case for the water is cast iron. And if you, if you'll be watching the news lately, we've been having breakdowns and collapses of cast iron water mains. They were practically installed the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. And then we also have land surface lines we may have to deal with from time to time. So, which probably specific to this capital project. So, for right now, it's basically a cast iron water main initiative. To reduce the amount of water main breaks because those cast iron means constantly break and we're having to replace them. So, to that effect, we're missing cast iron water means in autumn drive and autumn court to put a stop to all the breaks. Some of you all have been experiencing. So, typically ask questions. We'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, there will be a closure during construction. I believe we're going to have at least one link close when the mains have been removed and replaced. This is the only way in and out. But you folks that leave to the non so we have to maintain one link of traffic. And we will post signs to let you know when the name will be closed. So, you may shift from one side to the other, depending if we're replacing the water main or the sanitary sewer main. And will the contractor need access to our property. So, basically the construction on this is in the public rather way and where we have easement utility. If we need to get on your property, you will be contacted. And over to the right hand side close to the driveway. A curve return is a water meter box, which will be replaced in conjunction with the water main replacement. So, in the event the property is damaged. Before we get to that point, the contractor is required to take videos and pictures of the property before beginning construction. We also encourage you property owner to take pictures and video to document with a day stamp. So, to document the condition of your property prior to construction and any damage the contractor cause that is documented. That you didn't have that damage before construction. The contractor is obligated to take care of it. Now, we'll construction affect my irrigation system. The contractor will cap irrigation lines before constructions that you will also ask property owners to turn on their irrigation system. So, they bring our sprinkler heads and be located and flag. That's just typically what all our contractors know to do. The contract or replace damage. The contract or replace damage. Contract or replace damage damage, but my heads or anything the damage is doing construction. So that must be done. So, the construction hours typically are construction hours are from 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday. And if requested by the contractor 90am to 4pm or 5pm on Saturdays. The contractor cannot work on city holidays, which include Thanksgiving day. The day after Thanksgiving Memorial Day. Christmas day, June 10th, New Year's Day, Independence Day, Martin Luther King's Day and Labor Day. So we have access to our driveways during construction. The inspector and the contractor will work with what what what our customers will need driveway access doing active construction. And again, those hours are 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday. And if requested by the contractor 90am to 4pm or 5pm on Saturdays. So, a lot of questions come on trash day. Will we pick up resident to be able to pick up their trash day and recycle during construction.  The contractor will take your trash and recycle cars to the opposite side of the street. So the trash collection vehicle can pick it up. So, basically to know when construction will start. If you live in an area that's impacted by construction, keep an eye on your front door for anger from the city of Fort Worth. You will receive 2 hangers on the 1st 1, you will say construction starts in 7 days. And it looks as such we have English and Spanish translation for it when construction will start. The 2nd hanger will say construction starts tomorrow. The city inspector will include his or her. I think we have a guy who include his business card and contact information on the door hanger that will be placed at your door. On the timeline because for this reason, this project we got when construction so the face is the notice to proceed date. When the contractor expects to start is April 8, 2024. And it will commence with construction and did not end of autumn. You may see the contractor maybe make some preliminary inquiries in the area and look around to maybe look for space. Two store material, maybe set up temporary water, but the main we anticipate construction started on April 8, 2024. And the projected end date for this water capital project is September 2024. I don't know if you can find any unforeseen circumstances. So, once construction starts, maybe rain delays or whatever delays. The construction contractor, sorry, may encounter, but we expect the job to be done by late September. So, to get more information, you can go to www.WhatTexas.gov. Project number 102785 or 102785-2, which is specific specifically for autumn drive. And in the search for the autumn on the homepage, autumn drive water and so improvements will pop up. To get project updates, scroll down to the bottom of the project page and click on subscribe to this page. The project map and PowerPoint will be linked to this project date. So, to report an emergency or non-emergency, if it's a water main break or sewer main break for 24 hours a day, you can call<PHONE_NUMBER> and select option 1. If it's a water call center for non-emergency, you can call the water call center, which operates from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. one day to Friday. And that number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. That call center is closed on Saturday. You can also download my F1 app, my F1 app from the Apple Store or Google Play. You can report sewer overflows, leaks, water main breaks, mason or broken middle leads, water tests, water valuations, no water service, water pressure issues, and other sewer, sanitary sewer concerns. Again, your project team consists of Dina Johnson, Sina F1 at<PHONE_NUMBER> and Dina.Johnson and F1texas.gov. The inspector is Fabian Diaz,<PHONE_NUMBER>, and that's Fabian Diaz. Thank you for attending today's presentation and I want to hand it over to Sally. Okay, Tony, I made a typo on Fabian's name if everyone wants to write this number down. His phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. He typed it in the chat if you can see the chat. Okay, and now we've got a question from Craig. I'm not sure how to say your last name Craig Dible. You said describe how you will access the easement between Autumn and Overton Park East. Will you be clearing vegetation under utility lines? I believe the contractor will probably access going from the front yards to get to the back. Keegan, have you thought about that yet? No, I haven't thought about that yet. I'll have to get over there and take a look and see how best we can clear out an area to work. So nonetheless, if he has to go to your front yard, he will probably knock on doors and ask for permission to go from the front. But that's still to be resolved, but we'll find a way to get to it with this intrusion to your property. Okay, and Mark, the answer is yes, I believe, but Tony, will you verify? Did you say the construction will start on Autumn Court? So, do you plan to start? Okay, we're going to walk away from Autumn Court and walk our way back south. At this point, that is our plan to start at the northernmost part of Autumn Court and work our way backwards. Okay, so you're going to go back south? Yes. That's all that we have in chat. If you guys want to unmute yourself and ask questions. Dina, can you hear me? Yes, Dina. Well, Tony's standing in for Dina. Oh, okay. That's okay. Excuse me. That was a lot of good information. Is there any way that can be printed and emailed or at least a message where it could perhaps be accessed on the city side? Yes. We have a project page. Tony, yes. On this project page, I know that I can get the PDF of the PowerPoint posted there tomorrow. It might be Monday. It might be Monday before the video of this meeting is posted because that goes through our city communications group. But yeah, definitely the PDF and I will fix Fabian's phone number before I post it on the project page. Fabian would probably appreciate it if you didn't. But yes, I will get the PDF on the page tomorrow. All those other phone numbers and contact information and really needs to be in print. It's just too much to digest. Right. Thank you for doing this, though. You're welcome. If someone can send me the current board for your neighborhood association, I can also email it to them. Okay. I actually did that to alert them to this meeting tonight. I was told by the chair of the West Cliff West Association, which I remember that you all, someone's coming to their meeting in March, I think, the 8th. But I think I will tell her anyway. He said the project or the construction would start April 8th. Did I get that right? Yes. Tony, can you go back to that? Which slide? The start date. Okay. April 8th. Hopefully, hopefully through in September. So they have time I was concerned because she said that someone was coming to speak to the neighborhood association. But attendance there is fair. We, you know, that's a really busy intersection and that hill is well traveled. So we need to get the word out as best we can. Do you remember when we did, do you leave on the street? Right? I live on Bella circle at the top of the hill. Okay. All right. Does anybody leave on autumn drive? Yes, I do. And they, when they worked the hill, we were able to get up and down. Okay. So do you remember when we have you had main breaks in front of your house? So you and all of drive, not the court, right? I'm on autumn drive. Okay. So if you remember going north, we had a whole bunch of main breaks that we had to come back and fix all the time. So, yes. Yes. Right. You drive, right. You drive his face. Now we're trying to catch, catch autumn drive as well. Yes. Okay, we have another question. I'm sorry. Another question from Kelly. How frequent. Will water be turned off during the process? So, basically, we're going to install a temporary water line while your water line is taken out of service. So that when we do that, it may be turned off for maybe 20 minutes at the moment. Well, I can put the temporary line in place. And then as we get going with, when all your meters are being restored, it may be off for a little bit, but it should be not too long and you'll get notices before it's shut off on and off again. Right. Yes, that's correct. The only other time that the water might go off is if the. Cast iron main is to break from ranch view heading north or south. I think each. And a line is a dead end. And so if there's a main break from ranch view heading north or south and the temporary line is connected to that. And everyone will be out of water until the main break can be fixed. Mark, you have questions. Well, I live on the south side of autumn drive. How long will it take to get from autumn court? Down to our side of ranch view. Do we expect. So, if you look at the, it's going to start on April 8th. I work is way back south. Right. And that's where they finished it in September. So. You can your record say by September. August, maybe by July, you might be, you might be down south of all of court. Okay. Yes. Okay. So we on the south side of ranch view. Can expect. The spring to remain untouched. We might start some sewer work over there. So that we can do simultaneous work on North and South. So. I wouldn't say to plan on it. Okay, thank you. Sure. And it's starting to install. I keep in your planet install the sewer main first on the street. Before we do the water, right? Yes, we'll do the sewer main first. I'm just going to probably put down some temporary water to start with so that we don't have to worry about the water services while we install the sewer. That makes sense. Okay. If we don't have any more questions and chat, baby, and was there anything besides your phone number? No, ma'am, but now that you have my number, you are free to call me and email me and I'll try to respond to you as quickly as possible. Again, like I said, it is your primary contact. So. If you need more information, you can always call Dana or Sally and Sally knows where I'm at. So. Maybe on this out primary contact on the job, you'll see Keegan pick with me on the job. He's with the contractor. So those two guys will be very prominent once construction start on the job site. I don't see anything else in chat. We want to call it a night. I'm going to run through these really fast. We've got Roy Kay. Do you have any questions? I've got baby and Keegan Craig. You've asked some questions. Are you good? I think Craig still on Amanda. You've asked some questions. Okay. Laura. Nope. Yeah. Yeah. From on says all is good. I see our friend from TPW. She's just listening to it. So I want to ask her for any questions. Okay. So remember, remember we'll get the PDF of this PowerPoint on the project page tomorrow and probably give me until at least Monday to get the video of the meeting posted. Well, thank you everybody. We appreciate you joining us and giving us all your questions. Thanks everybody. Good night. Thank you. Bye.


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