Come to the City Council public comment meeting Before Mayor Parker calls the meeting to order we ask that you please turn all off all electronic devices For those who have requested to speak there are two podiums in the chamber The podium in the back is for individuals with mobility concerns. We ask all others to step forward Each podium has a countdown clock located to the speaker's right that will indicate how much time is remaining a bell will sound when you have 30 seconds left Before you begin your comments, please state your name. Thank you Welcome to your four city council public comment. I will call meeting to order Tonight's invocation will be by pastor Jeff Shaw from all all Saints Presbyterian Church Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance Let's pray together Father in heaven, we thank you for establishing good government and for just administrators and For the important work that you call them to do Lord We recognize that all of your magistrates while determined by our elections or Appointments by men they are ultimately ordained by you and therefore they should be we should be subject to them at all times And we pray that our leaders would acknowledge your son Jesus Christ as Lord the king of kings and the Lord of lords and all things Lord, we thank you for our wonderful city We live in a prosperous place and we enjoy peaceful times And yet we recognize that many people were shaken yesterday by the blast at the Sam and Hotel and this disturbed us as a reminder of Accidents and tragic events that are out of our control and can take place at any time But in the midst of that we thank you for your providential care and your gracious protection Sparing the loss of life and we do pray for those who remain in the hospital and are in serious condition Would you watch over them and show them your mercy so that they might make a full recovery? But we thank you for a city that's not in disarray. It's prepared to handle these situations Thank you for those first responders who came to the aid for the police and firemen who were there and even for the utilities Who worked behind the scenes and we thank you for their efforts Lord father? Would you bless this gathering tonight? May these council members represent the interests of their constituents May their decisions be just and equitable and may you Grant peace in all the deliberations here bless our city and its citizens Bless us keep us Make your face to shine upon us be gracious to us turn your face toward us and give us peace We pray all these things in the majestic name of your son Our first speaker this evening is Bob, sorry, I apologize we have to do consideration of minutes Marin council our first action item will be approval of the minutes from the October 17th November 28th and December 5th and 12 2023 council meetings Motion a second, please vote motion carries Now we'll move into our public comment section. Our first speaker is Bob Willoughby followed by Julie West It's Bob present. He's not here You haven't seen him. Okay, Julie West followed by Julie Ledford Good evening. My name is Julie West and I'm the owner of paper planet in historic Hanley Paper planet is a boutique custom invitation stationery store I started my business in my home in 2001 and moved to historic Hanley in 2003 My peers and I through great effort have cultivated the Hanley wedding district on the east side of Lancaster We bring business to the east side of Fort Worth from all corners of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex and the state of Texas at large Through the tenacity of our brick-and-mortar storefronts and owner occupied buildings. We are a powerhouse of destination retail Cumulative cumulatively we have over 100 years of entrepreneurial business Experience in the events industry and have earned regional state and national recognition as event specialists I am here as a representative of the Hanley wedding district and an east side resident to request this locally preferred Alternative regarding the expansion of East Lancaster Avenue to six lanes be delayed for further review and that more transparency be employed in its handling What happens here affects all of us businesses and residents alike The Hanley wedding district is just one block that is an anchor point for the strip at East Lancaster Have the other important pockets of East Lancaster businesses been informed What consideration was given to the business community along East Lancaster as business and building owners and Hanley We are not in favor of a six-lane road expansion Jamie Holder of Cremdella Cram was told by Mayor Maddie Parker that this proposal was not in the plans for East Lancaster during the December 5th public comment on December 19th Kelly Porter along with six other people attached to the proposal had a meeting with the business owners of the Hanley wedding district Advising that the six-lane expansion was imminent and requested our support as As this proposal is being given to the state as a response from local government We would like to make sure adequate consideration is given to the needs of local residents and businesses alike We feel that transparency has been severely lacking on this project Alternative information has been presented by city staff differing from what was said at a city council meeting There were last-minute changes and dates for public comment, which has limited the opportunity for people to speak on this issue We have also received a less intolerable amount of public awareness on the proposed changes and how it will affect our businesses and homes If major changes and decisions for this corridor are being discussed Why have we not received full information on these plans the information available online lacks continuity from department to department and Getting a straightforward answers from officials has been met met with placating and non-committal answers We need a clear plan. We need more time for better understanding and review of the proposal Ask the people who it will directly affect. I encourage you to visit our growing and prosperous area for yourself We are hosting an open house on February 29th. That is open to the public. We deserve a second chance from our city Thank You miss West miss West let me ask you Did you have a chance to watch our work session today? I did not it might be helpful And I'll make sure that Lorne prayer sends that information to you directly and it follows up with any additional questions We take this very seriously. I was just in Hanley a few weekends ago to shop for my future sister-in-law's wedding dress Wonderful what you have there is very important to preserve and you have our commitment on council And I think some of the the conversation today at council might be helpful for you to watch as well All right as we submit this LPA. Wonderful. Thank you very much for taking the time Thank you for your time, of course our next speaker is you dr. Julie Ledford followed by Judy Taylor Do I wait for the time to start you can start and let's talk with you. Thank you Thank you for taking the time to listen to our comments this evening I have attended all of the recent meetings in the open houses, so I'm well informed on this topic There's a potential to have positive effects, but the property owners need city council support So our current concerns include new mixed-use zoning implications traffic concerns and primarily safety And some of this has already been mentioned already, but it's important that we follow Trinity Metro's recommendations which include having a center lane as opposed to lanes on Entering on either side for the bus because that's been statistically determined by research to be the safest option I do support the new proposed station on collard street that would be accessible to Texas Wesleyan students including International residents in the dorm who might not otherwise have access to transportation Here's a plan Including the map of the new station at collard. I think that'd be beneficial to Texas, Texas Wesleyan and As I mentioned before it's important that we follow the recommendation of Trinity Metro's Center lane to maximize safety for travelers on the bus route and to serve the communities And it's important also to protect the property value So historic Hanley won't just be a pass-through and the destination that TPW plans have mentioned The mode recommended by Michael Morris is a curb-based transit and it's less Safe statistically than the center lane The center lane is statistically the best option Here's a comparison of the proposals from Trinity Metro versus the other recommendations There's a visual of the center lane and here's the letter from Trinity Metro. That was forwarded to city council Suggesting the center lane and The comment from Michael Morris was we're not funding that vision and Also, there was a recent article And including comments on this on the Fort Worth report I forwarded a copy of that article as well Including some of the opposition to the sixth lane and and versus the four lanes And then finally my concerns are there's a lot of traffic accidents right there at Hanley and Lancaster, I think if we expanded it to six lanes versus four, it's already a very dangerous intersection. So We'd need support from our local law enforcement. I'm concerned about changing it to mixed use instead of single family Other also we had a free and limited bus passes during 2020 which made an issue for safety in our neighborhood and the last thing I wanted to say is Pythagoras told us a thought is an idea in transit and I think it's important that Hanley remains a destination and not just a pass-through Thank you Thank You. Dr. Ledford. Our next speaker is Judy Taylor followed by Lawrence Walker Good evening. I'm Judy Taylor past president of Hanley neighborhood Association. It's good to be here with you tonight I support changes for East Lancaster from Riverside to 820 we need many changes. We need need many things there I've lived there when we had many opportunities at this point. I'm wondering if a bus there is putting The bus business there Putting the cart before the horse if we have a bus before we have businesses not sure it's going to work to help many of tonight's thoughts are important to this the six lanes that are Suggested from 820 to the Arlington border are my concerns This just this destruction of our historic buildings in the 65 and 6600 blocks of East Lancaster is very Concerning to me and Just a point of history Bonnie and Clyde spent much time in that area So if you ever want to know something about Bonnie and Clyde, they were there So check in with Hanley the loss of our caboose museum Will be a great loss to us the impact of the gas of Pump station and storage stations in the 72 and 7600 blocks of Lancaster are concerning The loss of the cemetery plots at Rose Hill the impact of five new Warehouses how that's going to put hundreds of new 18 wheelers speeding through our neighborhood the intersection of green oaks and body Lynn is a It's designed to Stop and in approach on our trees and our historic Indian preserve there We the people already drive Just too fast in that area and if you open it up to six lanes You're going to give us a whole lot more of very dangerous Accidents. Thank you for listening and we'll see you. Thank you. Thank you, Judy Our next speaker is Lawrence Walker followed by Dan Hayes Mayor we tried calling him. He's not answering Dan Hayes followed by Paul Karpow Good evening. My name is Dan Hayes and I live in district 11 today the locally preferred alternative for East Lancaster was presented to you I'm thrilled that there's a plan, but I believe This is a solution that could do more to spur economic development and improve pedestrian safety It's also needs to be a solution that does no harm to historic handling Inside the loop the roadway needs to consist of four traffic lanes and two day lanes dedicated to public transit much like this illustration from Detroit Reducing traffic lanes would improve pedestrian safety and dedicated lanes for transit would present themselves as a premium Option, which would attract developers and new riders alike There are plenty of case studies to prove that as a likely outcome In fact one I read said that the only reason not to put the transit in the middle is a lack of right right of way or a lack of political will No matter the technology behind it. I don't believe a curb-based bus solution will accomplish this Presentation is everything when it comes to public transportation Over more than a century Lancaster has never been sized for the traffic it carries I'm told that techs dot won't approve a roadway with less than six traffic lanes But the traffic on Lancaster simply does not justify that We have five major east-west roadways in a freeway for a total of 22 lanes in a roughly two mile wide swath Isn't that enough for a strong argument? The new trinity lakes TRE station got a lot of attention for its economic development potential and with two areas of economic emphasis on east Lancaster The value of a premium transit off the offering should be obvious Twice before east-siders have had major roadway projects done to them instead of for them in 1957 the DFW term pike now I 30 Isolated East Fort Worth from the growth the rest of the city saw in the years ahead It snuffed out East Lancaster's business model of serving the traveling public the resulting decline is still very evident in 1963 loop 820 sliced through the Hanley neighborhood Resulting an inappropriate zoning and a lack of protection for that historic neighborhood Both times east side leadership complained to deaf ears From the beginning this has felt like an exercise in checking the right boxes So NCT cogs recommendation could be implemented when this project was announced in June 2022 Michael Morris said the community should be driving the process yet before any public meetings that occurred The answer was no to funding trinity Metro's recommendation of bus rapid transit 18 months later the LPA you saw today is virtually identical to the original announcement of this project Please ask more questions before voting on this plan Thank you For pole followed by George Charles Good evening Paul Kerpole Fort Worth I'd like to start by amending my Speaking terms here. I recently signed up for this last weekend to speak as an individual yesterday evening the Hanley neighborhood Association Affirmed that I can speak on behalf of our association. So I'm speaking for all of Hanley tonight For about the last 10 years, I believe I've attended every public meeting on Lancaster BRT TOD transfer transportation all of them and I've repeatedly pointed out to the presenters that the situation on Lancaster in Hanley is different from the rest of the roadway Excuse me We have a narrow strip there and we have a lot of old development that should be preserved The proposed six lane right-of-way Requires a significant widening of the right-of-way and in the process. We will have to demolish eight or perhaps ten buildings We will have several shops that will lose their parking space essentially becoming useless And I didn't do an exact count, but approximately 100 graves in the cemetery are gonna have to be removed relocated I think this would be terrible for Hanley Please don't inflict this pain on us. Thank you Our next speaker is George Chiles followed by Cindy Bowling I'm here because of remarks made on November 7th 2023 by the self-styled hard-working John T. White neighborhood Association It's my belief that what this organization is working hard to do is expanding its long-standing differences of opinion Bob Willoughby To include those who employ and defend freedom of speech more than JTW&A deems proper This is in order for it to strongly insinuate that the aforementioned t-shirt tycoon is leading what amounts to a coven The first step is it always is was to create an other JTW&A's other is quote self-serving showboating chronic malcontents where entire lives seem to be dedicated to their weekly performances and council chambers Unquote oh, and they're all attracted to Bob Willoughby The fine piece of othering indeed approximately Excuse me appropriately crowned by guidance to the root of the problem both problem and route not just manufactured out of thin air But air so thin that if it was if that if it was literal it would cause mountain goats to carry oxygen bottles I would inquire if the hard work of the JTW&A includes Classifying as showboating crowning my chronic malcontents Those who have appeared here more than once about the death of miss Jefferson and those who have done this in regard to the possibility of early death and echo heights I believe that JTW&A chose to mock expressions of heartfelt concern in this manner because their portrayal of Bob as a threat Obviously would be magnified if it can include his having followers matching JTW&A's profile Thus, it is not a case of us being attracted to Bob, but rather JTW&A being attracted to us for that purpose I believe that the threat theme also it also Supports the astonishing astonishing excuse me exertion That by any definition Bob is at war with the city in the novel 1984 this is found quote the consciousness of being at war and therefore in danger Makes the handle it makes the handing over of all power to a small cast Seem the natural unavoidable condition of survival Unquote if all power is neared to mean power to decide who can speak at City Council There's any particular small cast to come to mind In some if someone is planning to write a book titled a beginner's guide to the basics of witch hunting I suggest they watch JTW&A in action on November 7th and take notes Our next speaker is Cindy Boling followed by Jim DeLong Thank you My name is Cindy Boling. I live in District 11 and I live a city block north of East Lancaster I'm very familiar with it First I'm very excited about the millions of dollars that are going to be spent on the improvement of East Lancaster in the transit system It's exciting any kind of influx of money to our area. Thank you I learned a couple hours before coming here for Monique Ward That It's not stopping Here that the city is looking at more ways to improve the economic development of East Lancaster And that changed my speech here. I'm excited about that and we have long-standing properties that Jeanette is well aware of That have been a blight for years and we don't understand why we can't get rid of them the Echo Motel The TNL the VNN the Jimenez auto that the Substandard multi-family Why can't we get rid of them, you know, it's taking years and we're told reasons we don't understand We'd like to get rid of those and I'm encouraged again by what Monique told me I would ask that all decision-makers regarding East Lancaster Please become familiar with it drive it drive it during a weekday Drive it in the evening drive it on a weekend Focus at thirty two hundred East Lancaster where the Echo is go up to forty seven hundred where the VNN is Go further where Jimenez is where sometimes it looks like there's about a hundred Wrecked cars parked there. Why? But again ending on an up note. I'm really excited about the funds on this project and excited to hear from Monique That it's not stopping here. Thank you Thank You Cindy our next speaker is Jim DeLong followed by Bonnie Rudd Good evening. My name is Jim DeLong. Happy New Year's to you. I Missed our city council meetings that we didn't have it was it seemed like years Since I've been able to be in the same room with you miss you guys. I'm so thankful for you and What you want to do for our city and I'm going to talk about my red ball Last time I talked I said this is a red ball and I could teach my son colors And I could say Jonathan. What a color is this? This is green Jonathan This is a green ball Jonathan. What color is this green? He could pass a lie detector test Him being able to do that. He has a perception of reality That in himself he comes to think is true But the truth of the matter is no matter what color you call this ball it's red and I brought up the Instance in the Middle East Hamas Calls this ball green We must wipe out and have genocide against the Israeli nation They'll go to the mat for it.  That is not truth and we find that everywhere During the task force on race and culture. I went to every Community conversation meeting after meeting. I went to some of their training and this was a comment in every every Community conversation in mayor. This was even spoken when you and and other council members your first Inauguration where you took your oath this quote was said We speak our truth in ways that we speak that respect other people's truth Our views of reality may differ, but speaking one's truth does not mean Interpreting correcting or debating what others say this sounds really Magnanimous and inclusive But in one of the training sessions We were asked to speak on on a list of statements and this is what this was one and I said so in other words The gentleman that murdered those people in Las Vegas that massacre He did that because that was truth to him He would go to the mat for that truth And it was wrong no matter how right he thought he was it's wrong and so Part of my point is is that there's a saying perception becomes reality But reality doesn't equal truth And so my encouragement to you every one of you every one of us in this room we have ideologies We have things will go for the mat to the mat for But what we hope From you all is that you follow truth? Thank you Jim our next speaker is Bonnie Rudd followed by Adrian Smith by phone Is miss Rudd here? She's on line. Oh, sorry. There we go. Hi Bonnie. Go ahead Good evening neighbors. First of all, I want to thank everyone for their efforts to better our city and neighborhoods I've heard a lot of good things tonight Second of all, I want to be very clear as I believe in explicit communication That I am only one generation removed from my native heritage and only one generation removed for my German Jewish heritage My grandfather spoke German as his first language and I've been taught the lesson of the Holocaust since before I can remember I'm speaking from both Jewish and native perspectives tonight And I want it to be known that Fort Worth since 11 million six hundred twenty-nine thousand seven hundred seventy dollars annually to Israel's weapons fund and we're often told that because it is a federal fund that it cannot be changed I Was taught too much of this state's fierce independence So I call on those who stand with states rights tonight and let me be explicit There is not one Jewish voice which represents all of us Being Jewish means being part of a very specific but diverse ethno religious group However, there are millions of us both abroad and in the US who are calling loudly for a ceasefire in Gaza Millions of us are saying never again for anyone. Do not commit a genocide in our name Do not pretend that this is about Israel's existence or the safety of Jewish life worldwide because it's not This is about money and as a state's right. We have that right to stop Funding these things. There are many Israeli Jews who also call for a ceasefire for Palestinian safety and for an end to this apartheid We're not all one opinion, but there are majorities which must be listened to on this front We need to stop funding these weapons to give you an idea the over 11 million dollars Which Fort Worth sends annually to kill children could instead be used to provide over 1,000 people families with public housing To give over 4,000 children free or low-cost health care to fulfill the annual salary for a love for 126 elementary school teachers and for 33109 households to be provided with solar electricity 307 students to have their complete loan debt canceled and 10 million 112 844 and 95 respirator masks We must hold our government's accountable and we must speak up for freedom and the right to it We cannot be silent in this genocide Thank You miss red our next speaker is Adrian Smith by phone followed by Arsalan Jaffrey Adrian Smith I am one with the people Wow, thank you. Thank you to the last speaker. I did not know that information. Thank you for sharing it important information with we the people of Fort Worth regarding how Fort Worth Waste taxpayer money for causes that don't have anything to do with us. But thank you for that. So, yes Adrian Smith I am one with the people it stated that you all in the upcoming January 2023 meeting that you all are going to propose possible change in how developers Set aside affordability as it relates to I believe apartment complex is new development Yeah, you are going to set it basically you are them you basically you all about to make some changes some changes that should have been Been had that should have been made but I think I think the train has already left the station We know that Like miss big stated at a previous council meeting and I am going to find a miss big that the regardless of what you all Regardless of how you all vote that the developers They control the market at the end of the day. So I think this is a This is all smoke and mirrors I think that you all could do more to hold developers accountable and It is also reported that the developers who already have their contracts in will not be affected by this decision. So How many are lining up to get the applications in before you all make this decision come January 23rd Now you all had a special call meeting maybe 30 minutes ago as it relates to Expansion of the Fort Worth Convention Center How how ironic that this this is this is this is coming back online when you all just scrapped a 70 million development Plan for the historic Southside community now One was asked the question Was it the was it the developer or was it the city's failures and I know there's a narrative out stating that the developer failed to meet their obligations, but I Had reached out to that particular developer and I'm hoping that they were gone They were gone record to let the city of folks the city of Fort Worth Constituents know the people of Fort Worth know what truly happened because you all have spent on America's that It's typical of you Kind of lost my train of thought this is the first meeting, but I just want you all to know that 44 days My voice will be louder and my presence will be greater. Thank you Our next speaker is Arsalan Jaffrey followed by Isaiah Jaffrey. Hello. So my name is Arsalan Jaffrey And I'm here to talk ask the city of Fort Worth to pass a resolution for you know the Commitment and support for the congressional worldwide cause for an immediate ceasefire I'm asking because in the start of this meeting we made a pledge for liberty and justice for all and Justice will be had I'm asking because one day I'll be standing in front of my maker I'll be presented with three-year-old Reem and five-year-old Doddick and they will ask hey You know You saw us being killed by the planes that were made in your community by the bombs that were made in your community That was paid for by your community members Then they'll ask me You know and then as you saw our mothers fathers Grandfathers grandmothers brothers sisters live streamed their executions What did you do? And I'll be asked this at least 11,000 times for all of the innocent children that have been killed By the weapons that you know, we have been paying for as a community. I'm also going to be asked South Africa, you know stands up and raises the alarm of genocide What did our community do? and I'm going to Impotently say hey, I did the only thing I can do is I stood up and I raised my voice You know, I called out the hey there is wrong happening and it needs to be stopped You know every hour five more children will be killed So by the end of this session there will probably another 10 to 15 children dead under the rubble That means every day of our silence is 120 lives that are not going to be accounted for it's There is no accounting for this on our souls justice will be had and I just want to make sure that Myself and my community Spoke up and ask for the violence to stop our next speaker is Asiya Jeffrey followed by Rizan Rahami. Hello esteem members of the Fort Worth Council. Thank you for giving me the chance to speak today. I Am a 13 year old and I consider myself the family's historian. I love all history but the most fun for me to learn is early American history my family and I love to go on road trips and We often go to national parks where I feel like my love for this type of this particular part of history came from It makes people proud that I'm American when I see how we bought and built this country on the ideals of those who built it This country was not built to be perfect. It was made to be open and an accepting country Where people are the only legitimate fountain of power This past weekend I had the opportunity to go to Valley Forge where I learned about Washington's perseverance and leadership and the determination of the soldiers posted there Witnessing first-hand the hardship that these soldiers had to go through it to Liberty's Nation I was able to learn a lot from this experience even though a Great part of the park was closed due to a visit from our president mr. Biden I felt like it was a slight insult to the memory of the soldiers there who lay down their lives there for the ideals Biden So blatantly disregards as Washington said guard against the imposteries of false patriotism now upon reflection of our nation's history and enduring principles it was built upon it is crucial to extend our ideals past our borders The ongoing genocide and was a fraught with hardship Weren'ts our collective concern and empathy as Patrick Henry said give me liberty or give me death Why not extend this cough all for Liberty beyond our choice and the people was that know of all Palestine? They deserve liberation after what they've had to endure for the past 75 years The Palestinian people deserve liberation and this is not evacuating them It begins with a permanent ceasefire and ending in all military aid to Israel Instead of using my family's tax money to go against the ideals of my religion and my nation Use it for the betterment of our city like if we didn't give the money that we did to Israel for one year We could size the population of homeless in the city in half So, please I'm asking you to sponsor a resolution for an immediate ceasefire Our voices can't be heard by the president, but they can be heard by you So, please your voices are louder than mine and remember as we're Washington said the truth will ultimately prevail Where there is pain to bring it to light so in that time come and please be on the side of the truth. Thank you very much Our next speaker is Rizan Ramami She's gonna correct me. So I'm sure I did not pronounce her last name correctly Thank you It's Rizan. Thank you Dear esteemed members of the Fort Worth City Council I'm here to ask for the adoption of a resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Rizan I live in Fort Worth having moved to Texas a couple of years ago drawn to the vibrant city and welcoming community I'm also an infectious disease physician who like all of my colleagues in medicine has taken an oath to hold all life's sacred My fellow healthcare workers in Rizan have also taken the same oath and are having to perform their duties under the threats of bombardment hospital raids and evacuations Lack of adequate medical and protective supplies and what constantly fearing for their own and their family's lives Since October 2023 greater than 300 healthcare workers including physicians nurses dentists paramedics and others Have been killed and more than two-thirds of the hospitals and clinics have been have gone out of service Due to severe shortages and fuel medicines and medical supplies and the continuous Receivement and bombardment of those facilities the remaining hospitals are only partially functioning It is utterly heartbreaking to me particularly since I have a blessings of practicing advanced medical care When I see or hear of Palestinian civilians including children having to endure surgeries or amputations without anesthesia or pain medications Patients are being treated on the bloodstained floors due to hospitals reaching much more than their normal bed capacity The United Nations has called the situation in Rizan unprecedented humanitarian crisis Over 1.9 million Riza Palestinians out of the total 2.3 million population have been displaced from their homes and forced to live in crowded and unsanitary conditions They are not just facing the constant threats of bombardment, but also starvation and harsh weather conditions including cold temperatures and rain According to the World Health Organization infectious diseases are thriving with over a hundred thousand cases of diarrhea Almost half of those are in children under five years old who are well known to be most vulnerable to dehydration and too many cases of Respiratory infections, meningitis and skin rashes are spreading among the internally displaced Starvation is a silent killer in Riza with the UN reporting 93 percent of the population Facing crisis levels of hunger 90 percent of children under two are consuming two or fewer food groups and 25 percent of pregnant or breastfeeding Mothers consume only one food group per day as a mother but also as a human and a physician I feel those pangs of hunger and suffering too deeply. I know I have limited time to speak But I want to slightly pause at these heart-wrenching facts in Riza and since October more than 10 children have had to have one or two limbs Amputated per day 24,000 Riza children have lost one or both parents and there's a new term that was coined in Riza WC NSF which stands for wounded child no surviving family this term should not have been coined in 2023 The humanitarian aid that's being delivered is far from enough and efforts to deliver this are severely curtailed I implore each member of this council to lend their support to an immediate ceasefire to allow full large-scale and uninterrupted Delivery of humanitarian aid alleviate the burnout of healthcare workers who have been working non-stop since October and start to rehabilitate those who have been physically and mentally affected Our voices amplified through this call can be a force to positive change encouraging dialogue and diplomacy in the pursuit of Thank you, Tasha Harahi. Thank you for being here. Our next speaker is nor Hasan followed by Lawn Burnham Dear esteem members, thank you so much for allowing me to speak to you today My name is nor Hasan and I've been a citizen of Fort Worth pretty much my whole life I was born in Fort Worth. The only time I've left is to go to UTA at Arlington Me and my husband have bought both our homes in Fort Worth I mean my sisters started our first business in downtown Fort Worth and I can safely tell you that through all of that I have seen the heart of Fort Worth. I have seen the growth of Fort Worth I've seen how much they government actually cares to better this city We are one of the oldest cities. We're one of the largest cities Our city has so much voice for Texas I feel and because of that I have come to today to ask for a resolution for the ceasefire of Gaza because as a tax-paying citizen, I feel like We should have a right to say that I want to keep our money in the country I want to keep our money in our city I feel like it would be better used to be able to say that we didn't participate in the killing of innocent children That you can stand up one day and say we took the right side of history Because everybody always says oh, what would he have done back then what would he have done when the genocides happen? What do you've done during the Holocaust? Well, you get to decide that today because what you do today is what you would have done then The country itself has so much civil unrest just today on the Jerusalem Post the legislation member Ofer Kassif himself has taken the side to go against Nianhu because he believes that the city and the people are more important and not going again not going for a genocide And they believe that they themselves believe that this is wrong and if the country themselves is in part now They've been divided Why don't we also take the right side and also help them out? And so my only request is that our voices are not that loud But your voices are and I would like to hope and believe that just like I see the betterment of this city over the last decade that I've been part of it I believe that Fort Worth would do the right thing and Want to do the right thing and step up and that's why I request it and thank you so much for listening Thank you. Our next speaker is Lawn Burnham followed by James Smith Good evening everyone. I'm Lawn Burnham and my wife and I have lived in District 9 since 1979 and I came here with kind of some mundane concerns about Parks and University Drive and Lancaster But I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that I never thought I'd live long enough to hear people at this city council talking about our role in Genocide and mass killings internationally because of our war economy here in Fort Worth I'm a benefactor of that war economy. My dad worked at Lockheed General Dynamics Convair for 37 years, but please Consider your role our role in the genocide that's occurring in Gaza I want the previous speakers to know that I spent a week in November working the Texas delegation asking for a ceasefire Now the reason I'm here first to thank you to the mayor I really appreciate your initiative on park lands in green spaces And I really want to have the opportunity to talk to you our mutual friend Joey Rios has been texting you We want to talk about how we think there is a problem along University Drive and the wrong solution is being proposed We don't have to cut out a dozen trees. We don't have to take away Parkland There is a state law Defending that Parkland for a reason and the city does not need to pursue changing that policy As for the Lancaster Avenue situation, some of you have no reason to know that I graduated from UTA Graduate School in the City and Regional Planning 1979 when I went there I went there to do park urban development for kids I ended up leading the school to go into Economic development in ghetto and Barrio neighborhoods, and I have office on Exchange Avenue working for the city for what I have office on Ray Street working for the city for what I have Officed on Evans Avenue and on Magnolia those projects were 40 years in the making and I was on Ray Street this afternoon It was great So thank you to all of the people that are talking about the right way to develop Lancaster Avenue And I'll end those comments was just saying you know back in 1973 the legislature changed the name of the highway department for a reason it is now called Text-Aught the Urban County that sees the greatest failure and addressing that name change and recognizing the philosophy that should be changed is Tarrant County. We have a totally inadequate public transportation system That's the reason we have totally bad air. So let's re think how we're gonna do Lancaster I'm thrilled to hear what you have your progress that you made this afternoon And thank you to all those people that spoke on that issue and only have 18 seconds left But I have one of the gripes. So who is the Police officer in charge that may have a short visit with Who's here today? We'll find you somebody long. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you And our last speaker is James Smith. Mr. Smith here. I haven't seen him yet You've seen him. Okay council that seems to be the conclusion of our speakers this evening. Thank you


Item number, SCP-053. Object Class, Euclid. Special Containment Procedures. SCP-053 is to be contained in an area no less than 5 meters by 5 meters, 16 feet by 16 feet, and give an adequate room to move. Toys, books, games, and other recreational devices are to be amply provided and rotated every three months. Proper bedding, bathroom, and medical facilities are to be maintained at all times. Food should be provided three times daily and two snacks are allowed if requested. No physical contact is to be made with SCP-053 without full atmosphere containment suit and eye shield. No eye contact is to be made with SCP-053 for any reason. Any objects given to personnel by SCP-053 may be removed, but must be given to quarantine for examination. Only one member of personnel may be present in the room at any given time, and must be secured by a safety line of steel cable. All personnel must be removed from SCP-053's containment chamber within 10 minutes of entering. Any personnel who begin to act erratically, scream, or attempt to grab SCP-053 are to be removed and quarantined. Any personnel attempting to remove their suit are also to be removed and quarantined. No sharp objects or firearms are allowed in SCP-053's containment room. Description. SCP-053 appears to be a small three-year-old girl. She is capable of basic speech and appears to be slightly above average in mental development. She has a generally pleasant personality and rarely seems upset, becoming agitated only in the presence of groups of people. Any and all humans over the age of three who make eye contact with, physically touch, or remain around SCP-053 for longer than 10 minutes will rapidly become irrational, paranoid, and homicidal. Most, if not all of these feelings will be directed at SCP-053, and afflicted subjects will attempt to kill SCP-053 after first killing or driving off all humans visible to them.  SCP-053 will regenerate almost instantaneously from any wound, regardless of severity. SCP-053 appears wholly ignorant of these effects and ignores any and all subjects affected. When questioned about the effect, SCP-053 is incapable of response. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-052, Time Traveling Train, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


I remember when the first email came in. It was just an ordinary day, not like any other.  I saw the first message from the student, but I really didn't read too much into it. If only I realized it was meant to be a warning. That fish. That's around the same time the first packages came in. I remember I was sorting through the mail and I saw a package labeled fish and nothing else. But I just threw it in the mystery packages and clocked out for the day. I was putting together the mystery package email and that's when I noticed that every package had fish, fish. A few weeks later, my entire inbox was flooded. It was just the same email, over and over and over. But we weren't the real victims. It was the students who lost everything. They were the real victims.  I remember opening up my bank account and my heart just dropped.  You just maxed out my credit card at Bass Pro Shop. All of my money was gone. The package just kept piling up and up and up and nobody came to claim it. It was all from Bass Pro Shop. All of it. There were fishing rods, fishing lures and even a few live fish somehow. When the students figured out what was happening to their money, the school descended into chaos. We had to get to the bottom of it. People had lost their life savings. This was a real problem now. I started with the students who had lost money. I asked them if they had gone on any weird websites or given out credit card information. We're getting barraged with all these weird questions. Did you buy anything off weird websites? Did you get any weird emails? That's when we had our first lead. Congratulations, Madeline. You have been selected to receive two un-awarded scholarships totaling to $5,000. These scholarships will be deposited directly into your bank account. Please follow the link to Roger Central to reconfirm your bank account details. Please confirm the information before 5 p.m. today or else the scholarship will be considered forfeit and awarded to another student. At first glance, the email seems fine. It's supposedly from myself, and it's asking students to just fill out some info on Roger Central, but that's when it all begins to unravel. The email shows a number of red flags. When the email tells you that you have to answer before 5 p.m., that's a tactic that makes you rush. If you stop and think, the school has never done anything like this before, so why now? Also, the school should already have your bank information, so why are they asking for it? When I got the email, I didn't want to risk losing money, so I just went along with it. If you look at the link closely, it's a tiny URL, not the normal Roger Central link. We follow the link through. It looks like Roger Central, but the details are off and the URL is wrong. This is what we call phishing. Through this site, the perpetrator was able to get user names, passwords, and bank account information, everything he needed for his plot. Through tracing the IP address of the website, we found out who did it, and it was none other than a student at Roger Williams University. I thought I knew him. How could he be such a monster? Do you know what this is? Maybe. Now, did you make this? Yeah, I did make it. Why'd you do it? Because why not? It was funny. But why fish? Because I like fishing.


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He's got a he's got a nice auto some good penmanship there Garrett Mitchell an outfielder Was picked 20th overall by the brew crew Nice and these college guys you would expect to see a little bit earlier If they progress stay healthy and progress naturally Or through the uh through the rankings Through the system As opposed to high school guys like make able 40 out of 99 It may take a few a couple extra years or so To see them threatened for a minor league or a major league spot. 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So with this ladies and gentlemen we are also approaching the end of this event and I think this is a high time when we move into the summarizing phase or the concluding phase or also a phase where we directly talk about the theme of today's event changing landscape of building strong bands and we've got two industry veterans to do the same with us. To begin with I would be inviting our keynote speaker for the day Mr. Sumit Sahani who is the managing director and CEO for Renault India. He's been the same since January of 2014 prior to this he was handling the entire operations prior to this he was also the executive director of marketing and sales at Renault India and prior to that he was the vice president of sales in marketing and after sales at General Motors. Ladies and gentlemen we would also like to invite Mr. Pradeep Divedi the CEO for Sakal Media Group and they would be indulging themselves in a one-on-one chat but to talk to you about Mr. Pradeep he's an accomplished industry leader with an experience of over 23 years of business management cutting across various functions and industries. He's also an active participant in many industries associated such as the International Advertising Association India chapter as honorary secretary and managing committee member and the advertising club of India as a managing committee member. Ladies and gentlemen with a thunderous round of applause please welcome Mr. Sahani and Mr. Divedi as they join us on the stage. Welcome gentlemen. We have the privilege of Mr. Sahani here so if I can indulge the audience in an address from Mr. Sahani and I think we'll pick up some very interesting cues from there and then have a one-on-one if that's okay with you sir. Good evening everyone building brands I believe for last couple of hours this is what exactly you are listening to and you are discussing and when I was on my way to this event in the flight I was thinking what should I talk you know I'm keynote speaker and I'm sure that since morning oh sorry this since afternoon you would have been listening to a lot of jargons in marketing because I think that's where all the market years start with so honestly I wish not to get into that side of the discussion. I believe marketing today is more of conversation than communication so I will be more interested in having a conversation rather than communication so I would just briefly share a few thoughts a little bit of the journey and after that with the with Pradeep we can have some conversation and and then you know it could be an open house so as you saw my journey largely has been in automotive space different functions and finally ended up as CEO but one thing I can say the reason I am in this industry is because I love this industry so this there's this passion of mine which drives me towards this industry and then we are seeing the changing world means I have been in this industry from an era where customer used to queue up outside the dealership to get his car paying premiums to today where customer is the king so I think as marketing as you would have also realized things have changed completely and in this new era in this new landscape it is becoming more and more challenging to build strong brands with conventional ways what I strongly believe is you know if you have to build a strong brand you have to build it from your heart strong building a strong brand is like raising your own child so I'll share my journey with you because as in my introduction it was said that I was working for General Motors most of my automotive life has been with General Motors and when I was moving from General Motors to Renault at that point of time it was a tough decision because when I was with GM till my last days the brand was doing good we had achieved very good market share strong brand and at that point of time a thought came in that you know let me try and see if I can do it again or not because sometimes the success when it comes to you you feel that you know you are arrived in life so that was a time when I got this opportunity of Renault which as a company had gone back out of India Renault had a joint venture with Mahindra and then that joint venture got broken in 2010 and then company was looking forward to coming back to India and it's very tough thing so in 2012 I joined Renault at that point of time there was hardly anything only 15 odd outlets in the country and and Renault became big after the launch of Duster Duster was was clearly the reason was innovation because there was a lot of innovation with that car it redefined a segment but after that we started thinking what to do next and one has to learn from his past so obviously if you see in India not many global big players have been able to succeed in a market like India so you may be number one number two number three in the world but when it comes to India you know all the biggies have never been able to make it so number one player which is the market leader has almost 50% market share even today and the number two has got 17% between two of them they have almost 67% nowhere in the world it's there and a lot of companies started thinking about coming into the mini car what we call the entry level car and and they failed because that's very very tough so the decision was you know what should we do should we bring all the big cars in India or we try to do something which is different and I still remember we took this decision of launching a mini car yes I'm talking about 2012 and when I was first time announcing this people said you have gone mad mini car nobody has ever succeeded only two players in this country have ever succeeded but if you see interestingly those two players are holding the market share for very long and all of us know the pyramid they are the only ones who succeeded in the bottom of the pyramid rest all the players came somewhere in the middle of the pyramid and they have not succeeded yet which means probably one thought which was in my mind was if you have to succeed you have to succeed first at bottom of the pyramid because that's how you build those loyalties with the customers we were working on three prong strategy after the launch of Duster whatever you have manage it well get the best results out of it get the best profitability out of it build the brand strongly so that was at that point of time Duster for me but also the second point was be disruptive before innovation you need to be disruptive and that's where we said how can we be disruptive in mini car and I'll share only two examples with you first when we were designing this project so at Renault just to share with you my first mission was that we need to build a strong runway so we created you know we have a technology center today R&D technology center which has got six and a half thousand people working not only for India worldwide based in Chennai we have got two design centers in India we have got a big plant in India so you have to build a strong foundation because you know India is a market for sure you can't have a half hearted approach so when we were working on this car we said we will build this car from scratch scratch so just to tell you and this is the car I'm talking is quid not even a fastener a page is used from any other car it was designed and built especially for this car now when we were designing this car we really went deep into understanding the consumer what they want so clearly design looks a lot of features I won't go more into details of that but key thing is you need to have if you have to win anything in India you have to have five rights with you and that's my belief first of all right product with right features with right value with right timing and the last is right strategy so for us it was very very important if we have to compete in the market like India where you know even if you are selling a three lakh rupee car or a one crore car customers is definitely going to ask you you know what is the mileage that's a mindset so we were working on this car and you know you know lot of you those who are engineering or science student f is equal to ma you know so which means if you have to have a better acceleration better performance you have to reduce the mass of the car weight of the car if you reduce the weight which means you have to take the steel out of it if you take the steel out of it then obviously you have safety challenges so how can you do it and I still remember you know we talk about millennials we had this young engineer sitting and one of the guy came up with an idea and that idea was and this is what was implemented is that in any car of that size mini car you have got roughly around 16 to 18 kg of fasteners pitch so what we did was we did a very specialized new age technology welding which made car more stronger and we were able to take six kg of fasteners out which means we never compromised on the safety of the car and at the same point of time we were able to reduce the mass rather we made it more safe so sometimes as marketeers we have to go and think out a box that's what I mean by being disruptive you have to bring disruption you know it was very easy for us to say okay we will use pitch from their tire from their XYZ but no so so there are a lot of examples which I can quote about this car and this was the first time Renault is a 119 year old company and in its history for the first time a global car was getting conceived and launched outside of Europe and that was India so it was a global launch of this car so it is still the biggest make in India story because we made this car at the time of launch 98% localization even the market leader has not been able to do it so you have to be disruptive another example I would like to give you of innovation and this is again part of the journey in May of 2015 I had showcased the car for the first time to people in India 20th May and we said we will launch this car around festive period you know September October is a festive period in India and the business we are in you have to make sure you are making a global car so you have to make sure that till last minute you are checking quality and I realized somewhere in June that we are delayed we are delayed now imagine taking a such a big risk of getting into mini car which is nobody has ever been able to win other than two players and we are late so which we will which means we will miss the festive period what to do and that's where came the innovation and I think lot of credit goes to the young people in our organization I think the management style today you know has to change so you have to listen to more to your younger people because they can come with ideas and I can only share two ideas with you I was with my leadership team and I said guys we are late what to do so they were not able to come with any creative idea and then I had diagonal slice I was meeting the guys you know those who were you know our younger managers and I said what can we do so they came up with innovative ideas I don't know how many of you would recollect my car was not ready but we had to display the car outside so what we did with lot of innovation we had car which was hanging at airport the car all the display of the car was on a ramp because actually the reason was we could not have afforded the customer to open the gate because the car was not ready but that's where the innovation came we were not able to give test drive so we went for Oculus technology where you know in the malls we were giving test drive like that and another interesting thing happened is that lot of our dealerships were in progress of development so we were the first automobile company this idea came in by again you know young people and they said why can't we make virtual showroom which means that we created a showroom in Delhi and it was a virtual showroom where people can log in take the demonstration live 50 people can log in you know and this was every half an hour there was a demonstration show and it was very very successful for us and then came again we were late so we were not having the car and we were approaching the festive period and I had to take a call to launch a car or not or not to launch a car and probably I can say this was the biggest ever professional risk I took in my 24 25 years of career imagine the pressure I had to launch a global car because if it doesn't succeed in India it won't succeed anywhere you know and to launch a car without a single car at my dealership we didn't had a single car at dealership to show not a single car for test drive and we are getting into the most difficult segment so virtual showroom was one innovation and then I said guys you know can we really sell the car online something in digital again in my management team and my team came back to me and said no there was one manufacturer who did that and he was able to book only 87 cars so it's not a great idea again so few of our young managers came up with some directional thought and I ended up meeting someone who was into this industry and he said why don't you think of an app I said there is no app in the country for a car and that gave me an idea and I said okay fine I didn't share that with anyone and I just told my assistant please book a flight and I want to go and meet the employees of this company and I went to meet the employees of these companies this is the software company and when I entered into the room conference room you know they were delighted you know because never ever a car company CEO had ever come to their office and I said tell me what all we can do and that's where they started polishing the idea and they said you should launch an app with an app what you do you don't have a car but a customer can have a virtual demonstration of the car he can compare the car and we will put e-commerce into it and he can even book the car now my management team was telling me only 87 cars somebody had ever done and with that we went ahead and launched the car in India so virtual showroom and I'm just giving two examples and this app and with no car in showroom nothing to test drive and we were able to book 23,500 cars only on the app you know that is that is innovation so manage what you have today be disruptive and after that bring innovation because marketing you know maybe you know in this room we will have bigger marketeers but whatever little knowledge I have I can say marketing has completely changed in last few years and when we talk about the audience today which is taking decision they don't want to be told you know what to do or how to do you have to be first thing what I believe be simple and short the content has to be very simple and short to the point they don't have time lot of time people say millions of their attention span is very short you know so don't do things no their attention span is short because you are trying to do lot of blah blah to them you know you give them content and they will stick to you you have to be consistent you know I still remember the old marketing days you know okay guys you know we prepare you know for three months one big campaign and then we relax and see oh what's the result it's like playing golf you hit the ball and then you see oh going there and then you start walking no today the marketing is like squash you know you have to be consistently working in building your brand you know whether it is social media whether it is digital space but most important thing is there has to be a human element to it because after all the five rights I said you know right product right features you know right value right timing right strategy most important thing is you need to be authentic because today's customer can clearly see what is the marketing game you are trying to give and what is the reality and I think that's very very important so for an organization it is so important to build your organization culture in line with consumer culture because that's very important if organization culture is something different and you are trying to build a brand on that you know which is talking something very different you won't succeed so I think I will stop here because as I said this is the conversation session so I'll stop here and and obviously let me and Pradeep have some conversation and as I said this let this not be a communication session this should be a conversation session so please feel free after that to ask any questions thank you so much Mr. Sani that was an absolutely impressive and a fascinating journey if it was not for real one would have thought it was imaginary because you know from dusting the market with Duster to making the quit count to now literally capturing the market with capture I think you've you've successfully led a brand a master brand in automobile industry into a market which is one of the toughest automobile markets in the world so I'd like the audience to give him a really big hand for all the success that is delivered I was fascinated by your address on multiple counts and I thought there were a few queries and expansion that we could speak about and then I would give the audience a chance to ask these questions I think the first thing that you addressed from the heart was that instead of having communications we should have conversations with the audiences with the consumers and obviously in a business like automobile industry or trade your dealers also matter a lot so how do you set up the right kind of listening posts to be able to hear the right insights get the right insights so that you are able to have meaningful conversations and you're not in your own imaginary world of what the audience wants so what are the kind of listening posts that you think brand managers today and marketers today should really have in mind can really let you know how to break the millenials the millenials in your own organization you have to have an you know inside outward approach which means you have to encourage people especially the younger people to sometimes validate your strategies because you know at management level at middle management level we think we know everything but the reality is actually no and at least I can talk about myself I have learned so much in this journey it's still you know we have not arrived it's still a journey for me that every 15 days every 15 days and that is like I do this diagonal slice meeting which is and most of the audience are for sure you know less than 32 years of age young managers and I just have conversation with them for one and a half hours just to hear them you know it's not that I'm telling them something every 15 days there are 20 people in the boardroom and which means every every month I end up meeting almost 40 people because it's so important to understand how today's audience the customer is thinking because that's where the purchasing power is and I think I I learned it by one of my you know boss many years back we used to have these marketing pitches coming into you know every organization does marketing pitch I'm sure a lot of agency guys would be there and there was a pitch where we had the full battery right from the CEO of the company to the you know the brand director or the creative director so whole gang was there and you know the CEO was the biggest celebrity one of the biggest celebrity in the country and they said okay you know we are we are here in the pitch and and stands up the creative director oh so this is what we are going to do and I had learned it from my boss you know and I said you know you sit down the person who has worked on this strategy should stand up and give the presentation and it was a big shocker because actually that person was sitting not even on the boardroom table on the side chairs and we did this pitch with all the companies and this was a surprise element and finally the pitch went to again the company where the employee the young the guy who had worked on the pitch was able to convince me so I think that's very important and fortunately for us you know I can I can say we were having big challenge on a particular car not only on the advertising on the car but overall brand direction and then we changed the direction and and the results were five times better sales so I think it's very important to listen that's what at least my mantra is that's been an amazing precision and I think the kind of insights that you've managed to get because of going right to the heart of the matter right to the core of the subject in especially the younger audience you know has clearly delivered the results to you when we look at younger audiences today so maybe earlier had in the presentations today Mr Amanpreet Bajaj was the country head of air bnb and you know this millennial audience that we talk about is all into air bnb snapchat uber the generation today I'm told believes that owning a car is perhaps not as important as long as you have the use of a car so why you know own a cow if all you need is a milk so how do how do and I'm told that this is not just a not just a trend but it's a conversation that is happening in auto companies boards across the world including gm and port etc how do you see a large automotive manufacturer such as yourselves coping with this expectation that the audience is actually going to fundamentally shift their purchase behavior and go into a completely new mode of consuming your product and service see we have to see why this audience is changing their behavior and this is not limited to younger audience means a lot of people in especially in cities like Delhi Mumbai Bangalore they're using these you know olas and ubers of the world because of the traffic condition we have huge infrastructure problem you know so what they believe is where to park the car what to do you know so this is the growing trend right now is it going to affect automotive industry to a very large extent probably my answer would be no because at the end of the day we are in the business of selling car so somebody will have a ride you know whether it comes through owning a car or sharing a car or or you know taking it on rent but clearly we are thinking what is going to be the future so automotive industry as I said you know we are seeing a lot of disruption and when I talk about my company you know most of you would know Renault Nissan and Mitsubishi we are one alliance so we are the world's largest automotive alliance today and the future is what I call ace autonomous cars connected cars and electric cars so and this is not a distant future today we have got autonomous cars we have got connected cars and we have got electric cars and we are right now working on how we can bring such kind of technology in the emerging market imagine a situation first of all you know government wants to bring a lot of change on infrastructure you know a lot of cars will go off with new regulations coming in off the road so we will have some space and these autonomous cars the today's generation they don't have issue in terms of financial power their biggest point is they don't want to be hassled so imagine a situation where you are sitting in a car which doesn't require an IC engine so it's small it is autonomous you just say I have to go from this place to this place the car will go on its own and the cars will talk and we have those cars with us so it's not I'm talking some space age thing connected cars so your entire you know facebook you know snapchat xyz everything is there you know iot of things will connect very clearly and tell you you are on the way back home by the way pick up the milk because the refrigerator you know will actually talk and that's what we are working on plus electric cars it's inevitable lot of people think you know you have heard government saying 2030 India will be 100% electric and maybe two years back all all of us were laughing as automotive manufacturer it won't happen but I can tell you it is coming and my belief is it will come much before 2030 so so I think again you have to bring disruptive and innovative technology amazing and I think that's what the audience is kind of looking forward to and that's what the consumers are looking forward to you know there is a saying that business is all about marketing I am sure it is more than that but I think marketing is the face of the business that gets seen out there looking at your brand and the way it has evolved I think Renault has created a lasting impression in the mind of the consumers and one of the ways we in marketing see as that having manifested itself is through a lot of events engagement you know you associated with the sunburn festival and a lot of other ideas a lot of media people here marketers agency planners and creative designers actually want to understand how do you look at your choice of combination of media vehicles given the fact that the audience preferences are shifting and that there is a demographic difference across various markets so what is the thinking that goes into the ideal combination of media mix when you look at a go-to-market approach for let's say a new brand see it also depends which which car we are talking but if we are talking about mother brand and we are talking about car obviously you know digital is something which is really moving fast but digital is such a big word you know there's a lot which is there so I think most important is that you need to be getting into a mode of not communication but conversation and that is where you get digital into play because today's generation is not willing to watch your 30 second ad and you know clap gone are the days they don't have time to read a newspaper so so that's why digital is is catching up fast and we see what kind of an audience we have to reach to and and you know earlier I remember many years back we used to talk about demographic okay you know let's talk about this customer audience less than 25 years between you know 25 to 35 years I don't think age is anything which you can track now you have to track your customers by their social groups I still remember you know and I'm sure a lot of us will agree there were times at least when I was growing up I never had a courage to go to you know my grandfather to talk have a conversation father was at best but that also was not very easy you know and most of the times whenever we were out in a social function the youngsters were on one side you know they were not conversing with the elders but today if you see you know it's completely changed the guy doesn't care you know he will call a 50-year-old guy with his first name you know so so it is more important to catch the social group what they're liking are rather than you know doing the demographic slicing so so that's how I believe you know when you do your media planning you have to keep all these things in mind awesome I actually have tons of other questions but in the interest of audience time and I'm sure they're you know dying to ask a few questions I'll say one for the last which I'll ask at the end and I think we have time for perhaps two or three questions at best so please make it count if you can just raise your hand if you have a question we'll get try and get a mic across to you yes the gentleman hang on Satya I think you're number two so just have to wait can we get a mic over there please gentleman in the third table please sir hello I'm Anu Bose I'm a senior advocate supreme court I'm also a special advisor to Tata consultancy services limited now we see India is elsewhere in the world is beset with what we find today is the impact of the fourth industrial revolution in robotics artificial intelligence nano technology automation to the extent that it was a humanoid robot which greeted Modi and Ivana Trump in Hyderabad at the last summit yes so I'm just taking I'm just asking this question to do intend to ride on the wave of this fourth industrial revolution in the 10 when you're offering new products would you renown offer say a robotic driver or a chauffeur along with the car would you offer a robotic female companion to a lonely driver when we need company I'm just the science is progressing to that extent or maybe a robot to drop the little child in the school without the aid of the driver now these are things which will become real within the next yes 23rd Japan already has moved ahead in this field and the reason why they had a robot greeting Trump and Modi was to show India's impact also in this field sure so thank you what is it that you as the CEO and and the of Renault feel do we ride the wave and if we ride this wave do we also have any texture balances thank you sir I request Mr. Sunny to address the question see yes we should ride the wave but we should ride ride the wave the wave we want to ride the wave that's very important so I will I will answer your question in two parts first if you talk about fourth industrial revolution and I go towards the production side you know lot of countries have issue in terms of labor costs so they are moving towards robots so areas where you really need precision for a country like India we have got very skilled intelligent manpower so for areas where you need some precision yes robots but otherwise you don't have to copycat because all of us know countries like Australia the automotive companies have stopped manufacturing because of the labor cost and even robots were not a substitute for that coming back to the consumer side of it what I just mentioned earlier autonomous cars connected cars are the reality which means that you sit in your car put so they are like robots you know what you just put your destination the car will take you there when while you are there you are not lonely because it is also connected your hands are free so you can talk to not robot but you know your wife if somebody wants to otherwise anyone and obviously you know it will be much silent because I see engines are going so it's like you sitting in your living room you know and we have all these space age movies but that's all going to be a reality when I was a child trust me you know I used to think the biggest invention in my lifetime is this whole Skype where I can see someone and and talk because I am from an era where you know you had to book trunk calls and this was the biggest innovation in my lifetime yet you know so I think what we are saying we will see that very soon happening on our own roads in India fantastic that's excellent could we have the next question please gentleman in the center I think in order to be gender balanced I think there's a lady over there who has a question let's give her a chance to please I'll definitely come back to you after this could you could you pass the mic along second row second table could you just get that mic switch on please thank you hello chick yeah good evening everyone I'm Shalini from Lakshya media the question is that with increasing number of cars every day on the road we have increasing pollution so how is it not going to be handling that because of course you want you will be wanting to have production to increase the demand to increase and everybody buying more cars like everybody they're four members they're four cars plus a family car but that's not going to help solve the traffic problem and the pollution so what's the stand for company on that okay so I don't want to give you a political answer because very easy for a car company CEO to say that but I think there's a multiple level of strategy at least I can talk about I'm working first of all with the government I was the first one two years back who said please bring scrappage policy because on one side we say we want to jump from Euro 4 equivalent which we call BS4 to BS6 in 2020 so BS4 was implemented in entire India in first April this year and we want to go to Euro 6 April 2020 which means three years we want to do a quantum leap Europe took 11 years to do it so yes that's a good step let's be disruptive but we also have to get rid of old cars which are 25 30-year-old cars which are polluting so so government is now very positive towards that and they're working on this strategy and obviously we are ready today to even give BS6 technology and you were the front runners to say please bring BS6 fuel earlier in New Delhi at least so that we can bring the cars you know first hand and the last point is we are the world leaders in electric cars world leaders and and this is what I think you know what we call ZD zero emission cars and we are you know I'm working with the with government right now to work on the strategy how India can transform towards electric mobility and how it could be good for us and how it can help the overall ecosystem because a lot of times you think electric car is like you know I will just drive my cars no you know electric car will help in the grid stability because you know when we produce electricity so there are times when grid is you know cool that's the time when cars will take energy and when the grid is hot you need energy the cars can give back the energy to the grid so that's the kind of an ecosystem we are working with the government at this stage that's our involvement right now amazing that's seriously amazing I'll give the gentleman a chance for the last question since I promised it to him we are running a little late on time but I guess it's definitely worth it I'll repeat the question why don't you just say it so that we save some time go ahead sir I can hear you so I'll repeat the question that you ask please go ahead who's looking into a target audience of three million ex-servicemen right sir we are finalizing something if we found something about a note it surprised me amongst the four names taken by them Renault did not come into that for the simple reason that they felt your network in the rural areas is not strong your brand in the rural areas is not strong so I thought this is what we finalize the next one week and I'll meet you meet you I need 25,000 cars immediately within one month but I'm just looking at why can't Renault bring in reliability in the villages why can't people even ex-servicemen don't believe in it I want to ask you that question can Renault do something beyond the electric things what you are doing because the basic need of India today is a car which is reliable the service is reliable and I need your support in that and can Renault give it yes so first of all I should thank you because this was not a question but a business proposition and I'm always open for business excellent but you know it's important because Renault is still the youngest brand in the country we are seventh largest player today in the country so all the players those who are holding one to six position are at least 15 to 40 years in this country and all the players those who are below us from 8 to 18 are also at least 10 years old so we are the youngest brand but that doesn't give me a reason to say that to a consumer so we have increased our dealer network very very drastically I'll just give you one example when we launched quid I had only 150 service outlets today we have got almost 270 service outlets but on top of that by 31st December I will have something called which was again the first innovation in the country called workshop on wheels because when we launched quid we thought this car will sell in Delhi Mumbai you know Jaipur's and Ahmedabad of the world what we saw this car was going to interior villages you know and today you know I'm very proud to say in in less than two years we have been able to sell more than two lakh quid quid is the top 10 selling cars in this country for last two years so we came with this concept of workshop on wheel I said by the time I'm building the infrastructure and this workshop on wheel is a full workshop which goes from one village to another and it's not a service van where you do know it opens up and becomes a workshop so I'll be very interested to understand which are these areas and by end of this month we will have 75 of such workshop on wheels and by next year 150 plus more workshops so at least I can assure you of that confidence and on top of that when we launched quid the biggest challenge for us when I said five rights one of the right was right value our cost of ownership because we are 98% localized my spare part value you know and I still remember the figure at which we launched is 17% 17 17% lower than the market leader probably we are a younger brand we still have to you know communicate we need to converse more with this kind of customer so I'll be very happy to you know have your details and share what all we can do and I take this as a good business proposition fantastic I think I think you've got all the convincing reasons from Mr. Sani just now on why you should forget the other four and go only with Renault so sir I think Mr. Sani will be available for a few questions thereafter please go ahead sir in the year 1917 the Indian 4th Army saved Paris from the German attack and in those 400 600 Renault taxi cabs that saved Paris most of the soldiers who traveled in those taxi cabs where Indian soldiers and most of them were Sikhs waiting that goes for a big hand which your company must highlight thank you thank you for the army which disrupted disrupted the chief and plan the Germans have faced their biggest defeat outside the gates of Paris excellent Renault cars 660 taxi cabs thank you sir thank you thank you on that note I think I'm coming to the last question which I had reserved for myself so if anybody has got other questions I'll request Mrs. Sani to perhaps address them one on one so Sumitji what's your personal success mantra what motivates you what gets you getting up in the morning and going what drives you sorry sir longish one but I guess what really motivates me is my passion you know as I said in the beginning I love automobile but trust me you know like most of us in life this was not my first love you know I wanted to be a fighter pilot in my life but I was not successful in that and and yes you know so I ended up becoming a corporate executive and and that's my passion my passion is building business but apart from that my passion is also flying so I learned flying so I I love flying and my other passion is that you know sometimes we end up you know when we talk about brand I was talking about human touch and you have to build the culture in your own organization because I strongly believe in that famous saying culture each strategy for breakfast you can have great strategy but if your organization doesn't have culture if your people are not engaged with you you know you will not succeed so so for me that human touch is very important and and you know where so that is another side of me where I love to go out in villages and my biggest I would say achievement and now is that we have built a 125 bedded hospital in a village in Madhya Pradesh I don't belong to Madhya Pradesh so you know when you get something you should always give it back to the society so these are a few of my passion which drives me every day absolutely amazing and totally inspiring ladies and gentlemen I think a really big hand is called for thank you very much and at this point let me also invite Mr. Krishna Menon CMO for Sakal Media Group to join us on the stage to to facilitate with a small memento for Mr. Sani and Mr. Devedi please welcome you can put a runner for applause ladies and gentlemen for that one thank you thank you


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