Good morning, we are general questions. Is there a question on Neil Findlay? To ask the Scottish Government how many women in the last year have been treated with mesh or tape products to treat pelvic prolapse or stress urinary incontinence. Cabinet Secretary or Secretary, LEE Rocket有點 дыed. 2013-14, till the end of March 2014, 1,360 women had a mesh implant procedure for either stress urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse or both. mhysh ymgyrch yn ymgyrch yn bwysigol ac yn polypropolain mhysh? The answer that the cabinet secretary gave was not in the last year, but I understand why. On 17 June last year, I like Neil told the Petitions Committee of the Parliament that huge survivors that he was suspending the use of mhysh for the treatment of those conditions. On 16 July, the deputy chief medical officer Francis Elliott wrote to health boards and dengweld i'n bwysig i ddechrau gwahanol i ddynnu gwahanol i ddweud yn ddechrau g да Moncwil, i ddredd o'i boblach o wneud i wneud i ddynnu gwahanol. A karnaith cyfraitwch yn ymddangas mewn cyflawn eraill hefyd, fe fydd yr ystyried arweinydd am gweithio gael y cenderfyn a fydd yn dechrau i ddynnu gwahanol i ddynnu gwahanol i ddynnu gwahanol i ddynnu gwahanol sy'n gefnfyn gyrdd. I'm very concerned that women have suffered complications following their surgery and that's why, of course, we set up the independent review announced by the previous cabinet secretary on the 17th of June. All health boards who carry out these procedures have considered this request and almost all have suspended these procedures. The review is analysing the number of women who have undergone these procedures in Scotland and the number of complications, and from that information we'll be able to consider the level of underreporting and I will be able to give Neil Findlay figures beyond March of 2014 and I'll write to him about that. In terms of the issue of clinical trials, the clinical community fully endorsed medical research in this field is the most credible way to answer what are legitimate clinical research questions and improve the care of patients. Of course, it's only where women have agreed to participate in a clinical trial that they're fully aware of the fact and associated risks, so no one is going into clinical trials without all of the full information. The acting CMO did write to all health boards on 20 June requesting that they consider suspending mesh implant procedures, as Neil Findlay knows. That request to health boards has been framed in the strongest possible terms, but that has to be balanced against the wishes of those women who, having fully considered the risks, prefer to continue with the procedure. Consultants are providing additional counselling and are using the new patient information and consent leaflet developed by the expect group to make sure that any woman who wants to go forward understands the risks. Those are difficult issues to balance, but I hope that Neil Findlay will understand that the letter to health boards was in the strongest terms, but individual patient choice still remains as an option. The cabinet secretary will be aware of the growing number and size of successful compensation claims regarding mesh implants in America. In addition to the pain and suffering caused by those implants, does she therefore give her concern that, notwithstanding the cabinet secretary's instruction to health boards to stop those treatments, some health boards are still using mesh implants that may leave open Scottish health boards and, ultimately, Scottish Government to compensation claims? As I laid out in my previous answer, health boards have been given a very strong letter from the acting CMO about the suspension of the procedure. However, if individual patients in discussion with their consultant and full knowledge of the risks decide that they want to go ahead, that is obviously a discussion that the patient would have with their consultant. Meantime, of course, in terms of looking at the issue more fully, the regulation of medical devices, including implants, is within the remit of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, which is the UK body responsible for regulating all medical devices. It works with the European Commission on those issues, and it has responsibility for the regulatory framework. We follow the guidance in exactly the same way as other UK countries. Evidence is required before suspension is mandatory, and the current European Commission has not proposed a change to that, so that covers that issue to some extent. Should that change, and then, of course, the situation would change here in Scotland, as we would follow that advice, Scotland has written to the European Commission seeking assurances that the results of the research that it is carrying out at the moment will be acted upon swiftly. As I say, I will be meeting some of the women concerned on 23 February. I will listen to their concerns. Anything more we can do, obviously, we will do, and I hope that that reassures the member. 2. What progress is making towards meeting the target of 11 per cent of demand for heat being met by renewables by 2020? The most recent UK data on which progress towards our renewable heat target base shows that, in 2.12, renewable heat generation equated to 3 per cent of Scotland's non-electrical heat demand up from 1 per cent in 2009. Claudia Beamish I thank the minister for his answer. I would like to turn our thoughts to actual district heating, if I may. Colleagues on the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee received evidence highlighted in their report to the draft budget this January that Scottish renewables and others were concerned that Scotland is, and I quote, still very far off meeting its target for district heating and that the committee wished to relay a plea for a step change and investment in renewable heat. Can the minister tell me his response to that plea and also how many of the recommendations of the expert commission of November 2012 are at present being actioned? I acknowledge Claudia Beamish's interest in this matter. I will look at the evidence given to the EET. We accepted all but one of the recommendations of the expert committee. We are dealing to make progress with all of them. I have chaired an expert commission on district heating on 11 November. We have a target of 40,000 homes to be supplied with affordable low-carbon heat. We are working very closely with local authorities, housing associations and the NHS to deliver district heating schemes, retrofitting it to existing buildings is expensive, complex and logistically challenging, but we are making progress in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Wick. I want to see, as Claudia Beamish sees, a step change so that Scotland can see, like Denmark, district heating, forming part and parcel of the way in which we provide heating for our homes for people in this country. 3. Jackson Carlaw To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve survival rates from brain cancers. The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that people with brain cancer receive the best possible care, early detection and appropriate timely referral is key to improving survival rates through our £30 million detect cancer early programme and the refresh of our Scottish referral guidelines for suspected cancer. We are working to increase the number of brain cancers detected at the earliest possible stage. The cabinet secretary will know that the survival rates from brain cancers are depressingly low with only 15 per cent of those surviving. It is the biggest cancer killer in Scotland of those under 40 years of age. Will the cabinet secretary join me in congratulating my colleague Cameron Buchanan, himself a brain cancer survivor, on the success of the recent gala dinner that he organised for the brain cancer charity, which raised just short of £20,000, all of which will go to research? Perhaps even the finance secretary will double that before the day is out, but will she agree to contact Health Department elsewhere in the UK with a view to jointly promoting and encouraging internationally further research into what is sadly regarded by the pharmaceutical companies as an orphan condition in research terms, in order that we look forward to genuine progress through research into improving survival rates for both brain cancers and other cruel conditions such as mutant motor neurone disease? First of all, can I join with Jackson Carlaw in congratulating Cameron Buchanan on the work that he has done around this? It is absolutely very important. Again, it highlights the importance of research. I am very happy to also write to the other health departments around a co-ordinated approach. What I can tell the member is that the chief scientist office recently announced funding of £225,000 for a research project led by Professor Anthony Chambers at the University of Glasgow, which is due to start shortly. The purpose of the project is to evaluate the clinical potential of a novel treatment strategy for one of the most common and lethal adult brain tumors. I am sure that the member will know that most cancer research in Scotland is not funded by the CSO, but by Cancer Research UK, which does a huge amount of crucial work in that area. Of course, the CSO provides funding of around £440,000 a year to the Scottish Cancer Research Network. There is some good work happening in that area. More can obviously be done. I am very happy to write to the other health departments to see whether we can co-ordinate further action. John Finnie To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to encourage industry to move from road haulage to rail freight. The Scottish Government is committed to encouraging the transfer of freight from road to more sustainable modes, including rail. That is why, in the current rail funding settlement to 2019, a £30 million Scottish strategic rail freight investment fund has been made available over and above the funding for the rail network as a whole. The separate freight mode shift grant schemes, which continue to operate, take together this substantial package of investment and funding will help to encourage growth in rail freight and support our vision for a greener and more efficient transport network. John Finnie I thank the minister for that response. The far north line carries nuclear fuel, unfortunately. It is no longer able to cope with existing or indeed potential traffic. Oil tanks travel to a layer of 75 per cent fuel due to restrictions on one of the viaducts. Lower platform wagons to take higher containers have been banned due to track conditions. What is required is dynamic loops, faster points and improved signalling. Will the minister agree to press network rail to significantly improve line speed and capacity on the far north line, please? John Finnie Yes, I will. I will look into the specifics of that case. Certainly there are rail improvement works that are working with network rail. We will proceed with on the line, but if there is further pressure required, I will certainly apply it. Paul Martin I ask the Scottish Government if it will order a review of the national accommodation strategy for registered sex offenders. Margaret Burgess The Care Inspectorate and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland are carrying out a review into how well the public is protected by the current multi-agency protection arrangements for assessing and managing the risk posed by registered sex offenders in our communities. Those will include an assessment of how effective the responsible authorities are in the discharge of their statutory duties, including adherence to national guidance such as the national accommodation strategy for sex offenders. When the review is completed later this year, a report along with the appropriate recommendations will be published. Paul Martin I think that the word review has been used on a number of occasions since the murder of Mark Cummings over 10 years ago. I think that the word review has been used on a number of occasions. I think that it has been recognised on a number of occasions and as a result of a number of reviews that have taken place, that sex offenders are disproportionately allocated housing in deprived areas, particularly Glasgow. Is that still the case today as we speak? Margaret Burgess I understand and appreciate his long-term concerns on the matter, but how is registered sex offenders in the community an important part of the risk assessment process? The location and the type of accommodation will always be determined by the circumstances of the individual offender and the risks that they may present to the community. Rodd Campbell Thank you, Presiding Officer. Current MAPPA guidance indicates that registered social landlords do not have to assess and manage the risks but have to co-operate with those that do. Does the minister believe that current guidance is adequate in relation to registered social landlords? Margaret Burgess As the member indicated, registered social landlords have a duty to co-operate under the MAPPA arrangements. Their role is to contribute to the responsible authorities' management of risk by allocating housing that has been assessed as manageable for released offenders. The extent to which the duty applies in practice will depend on the nature of the accommodation that any landlord has available and the extent to which the responsible authorities consider that such accommodation would help to manage a risk in any given case. Fflusimeth Donaldson Question 6, in the name of Fflusimeth Donaldson, has been withdrawn, and the member has provided an adequate explanation. Question 7, Michael McMahon. Michael McMahon Thank you. Diolch yn fawr, Scottish Government. What plans it has for people assessment in schools? Fflusimeth Donaldson Minister of Education, Alice Rallon We are committed to improving outcomes for all children and young people. In order to raise attainment, it is important to be able to demonstrate success and identify my challenges in order to understand where improvements need to be made. That is why, in schools, teachers already gather evidence on pupils' progress across a range of learning and the Scottish Government and local authorities are always looking at good practice wherever we find it. Michael McMahon I thank the minister for his response, but does the minister agree that there can be no dispute? There is a significant difference in attainment between children and Scotland's most deprived areas and those in better off parts of the country. All of us want to see progress being made in relation to closing that gap. It has existed for far too long. Can the minister tell us how he intends to measure any improvements, especially among primary school pupils? Michael McMahon I do not think that there will be any disagreement between the member and I about the importance of closing that attainment gap. I think that it has long been acknowledged that one of the central aims of curriculum for excellence and one of the central aims of this Government is to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to succeed and fulfil their full potential. Schools are always measuring their progress on closing that gap. I have, for instance, been in conversations with Education Scotland about the role of school inspections around that area. There are many other activities, for instance, in-site. The benchmarking tool allows schools to make meaningful comparisons with each other about what they are doing to make sure that their policies and our policies are all centred around closing the attainment gap where they exist. Kevin Stewart To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with its partners about railway timetabling and capacity in the north-east. Derek Mackay We meet regularly with Nestrans, the regional transport partnership for the area, and other partners representing issues in the north-east to discuss a full range of railway issues, including timetabling and capacity. The next meeting with Nestrans is currently taking place. Kevin Stewart I thank the minister for his answer. In 2013-14, north-east stations accounted for 3.35 per cent of Scotland's patronage, compared to 2.44 per cent in 2004-5. There has been significant growth at all eight stations, notably Port Lethan, 350 per cent growth, and Inverruri, 290 per cent growth. In the case of Inverruri, we have seen passengers rise from 128,000 in 2004-5 to 500,000 in 2014. Derek Mackay Can the minister assure me that growth will be taken into account when rail investment resources are allocated? Can he commit to looking at increasing station numbers, rolling stock and services in the north-east so that rail patternage can continue to grow? Derek Mackay I can, Presiding Officer, give that reassurance. We have accepted there were issues with the current franchise in terms of demand, and that is why work was in place for capacity and crowding issues. We will do more of that with the new franchise. There are commitments on stations, journey times, reliability and new rolling stock, and I am sure that that will be the answer that the member sought. Cameron Buchanan The answer is a lot shorter than the question. To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to introduce new initiatives to help people with chronic migraine disorder. Cameron Buchanan All clinicians in NHS boards in Scotland are expected to be aware of and adhere to guidelines published by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. Sign, guideline 107, diagnosis and management of headaches in adults November 2008, provides clinical guidelines for the management of headaches, including chronic migraine. Cameron Buchanan Thank you. I thank the minister for her response. Is there any new money being put aside for this research? Is the Government aware how widespread this disorder is and how often it leads to prolonged absence from the workplace? Cameron Buchanan The chief scientific office has responsibility for encouraging and supporting research into health and healthcare needs in Scotland. The CSO responds primarily to requests for funding research proposals initiated by the research community in Scotland. We are not currently funding any research project on the cause or treatment of chronic migraine. However, we would welcome research proposals in this area, which would be subject to the usual peer and committee review. Margaret McAulch To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the review of out-of-hours GP services in NHS Lanarkshire. Margaret McAulch To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the review of out-of-hours GP services in NHS Lanarkshire. Shona Robison The Scottish Government is liaising with NHS Lanarkshire and being kept abreast of progress with the review of out-of-hours services in their health board population area. I would expect the outcomes of the review to be in line with any recommendations arising out of the Scottish Government's recently announced national out-of-hours review, which is to be led by Sir Lewis Ritchie. Margaret McAulch NHS Lanarkshire intend to make their out-of-hours service more centralised than their A&E service. Are the Scottish Government concerned that this could lead to extra pressure on A&E from patients presenting themselves at emergency rooms who are better dealt with in a primary care setting? Shona Robison To Margaret McAulch, the consultation is on-going, and it is very important that the views of the public in Lanarkshire are listened to. As part of that, of course, with the national out-of-hours review that I referred to in my initial answer, that any emerging direction of travel and findings and recommendations, we would expect NHS Lanarkshire to come into line with those recommendations with their local out-of-hours review. It is important that any steps that they take around out-of-hours do not impact elsewhere in the system, and, of course, we would be probing that carefully indeed.


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So hello everybody our next speaker is Ludovic Dubost with the talk Supercharger collaboration with an open source wiki please give him a warm welcome. Hi everybody so I'm going to have a talk about an open source wiki so first who am I so I'm Ludovic Dubost I I created the xwiki software and I've been working on it for 12 years with the company that I created at the same time what we do is is fully open source our company has been bootstrapped and it's actually fully owned by its employees and it's actually a particularity and a choice that we made to not raise money or get outside money so that we can keep our independence and choose the way we do our business and doing open source in particularly the company has has around 2 million euros revenue today it's for close to 40 employees I'm promoting as much as I can and my time permits open source in France in particular and I have a special interest in ethical open source business so what I mean by that is I have this interest of how can you live from open source so not just do it in your free time but actually do it full-time all day long and and still as a business and being ethical and and respect your communities so xwiki is a wiki software for enterprises has many innovative features it it's based on bootstrap has bootstrap and is fully responsive we have done a lot of work on on usability especially in the in the last few years it's also a software that is available on the cloud so you can actually go to xwiki.com and create a wiki in in five minutes and try it on the cloud and then eventually use our services to host it but it's also open source and you can download it either on xwiki.com or xwiki.org and well we have a bit of recognition one of the big things that we achieved in the last few years is that Amazon decided to switch their media wiki to xwiki and and now our software is in production and is serving is serving a lot of pages at Amazon globally what's interesting is that company like Amazon tech companies have wikis at the heart they use wikis much more strongly than traditional companies would and that's actually quite interesting for us to have this type of recognition we're a bit trending so this shows about this is this shows our our install rates so actually the curve at the top is the install rate so this is over a couple years it shows our install rates per month and the the number at the bottom is actually showing the people that keep it more than 10 days so after trying it out and and keep it running and actually it doesn't show as well on this graph but we almost doubled the amount of people per per per months that keep the wiki keep the wiki running we have about 3000 active install in the world and we hope to continue to grow that fast and this is our total active install and what is interesting is that we have seen that with the with the changes that we made in this year we have actually accelerated install rates so we were kind of growing regularly progressively and now we're we're having more acceleration and we think that we can we can accelerate the number of installs of wikis in the world what's what's unique in xwiki so a few features I'd like to point out that are quite unique in xwiki and so this this one has actually been sponsored by Amazon and we introduced in xwiki what we call nested spaces and so basically we have a we we can make a tree of page and at any we can whenever we're on a page we can create sub pages and create a hierarchy of pages and we can put user rights at any at any place in the tree so user rights and configuration of the of the wiki screen at any place on the street that actually one of the things compared to media wiki that is quite powerful in xwiki is the possibility of having user rights at at any place in the tree and this is something that companies very often need a lot we also have something called page structuration so in xwiki you can not only have text pages but you can actually create pages that have metadata and what's interesting with that type of feature is that it gives you additional structure in your wiki so a good way of using xwiki and using using xwiki is that we you start by creating a lot of pages in wiki style but after after a while you realize that your your content lacks a bit of structure for example if you make pages about projects you will want to know who is the project manager and in xwiki you will be able to decide to use to use fields in your pages and there will still be wiki pages that mean they will they can still be linked with other other pages they can still have history still have comments and all that things but they can have structure and this allows you to have a better way to navigate in the information so we and this creates these type of screens where you can navigate your wiki pages by different metadata fields this is actually quite powerful and makes wikis also much more accessible to non-tech people because one of the things that we learned over the 12 years that tech people knows wikis very well but when you open wikis to non-tech people they have a hard time understanding how exactly it works and these type of features democratize much more the way wiki works wikis work and they at the same time they keep the wiki principle another thing is that we have a flexibility and programming inside the wiki so xwiki and that is something that where we compare with tools like conference that are used a lot we can control the UI a lot so if you want to change what's in the menu on the left and then you're at the top if you want to change the skin you can change it completely and you can actually do that through scripting inside the xwiki tool another thing is that you can you can use macros to script inside your wiki so if you want to go access external tools in your wiki you can write scripts using the groovy language you can write scripts to get the data from these other tools and bring them in your in your wiki for example we've done macros for elastic search or kibana we can we can show widgets from kibana or we can we can write scripts to call elastic search and see the results inside xwiki what I showed the graphs about xwiki trending data our install rates they come from an elastic search instance and they're shown inside our wiki so we navigate inside our wiki to look at our statistics and the data is coming from from kibana or elastic search another thing is that we have an extended API so you can access the data in the wiki from from anywhere outside with great APIs some other features we have templates so you can when you create the document you say plus document you have a whole choice of documents these can be text documents or these can be structured documents so if you define a structure for for let's say a project document you will have a template called project template and you do a plus you want to create you want to create a new document you choose just the type of document that you want create and you have easy to use templates to do that so this has been improved a lot in the latest version of xwiki to make it much more easier to use we also have PDF output so and this is something that people use a lot is that if you have created a lot of pages in your wiki you might want to share them so first you can share the pages that you create in PDF so export to PDF you can also do export to Word but what's interesting is that you can actually you can actually script to create to take all your pages and make a big PDF out of all your pages so this is actually quite interesting for documentation if you want to bring your documentation offline and we also do that for procedures we have projects with companies where we're doing procedure guides for for sales people or any other type of people in the company and they generate PDFs out of these sales guides we also have an extension repository with applications that in extensions that you can install so we have an upgrade system and we have also a bunch of collaborative applications that you you can add to xwiki all these collaborative applications they're built on top of the wiki model so every page that that any application in xwiki is creating is a wiki page it's just not a text wiki page it's a structured wiki page and it has history history one of the things that is quite interesting is that everything that is done in xwiki is historic that means you can roll it back at any moment even when it's even the preferences of the wiki you can actually roll them back to a previous version because everything's historic including the preferences of the wiki so now why why should you actually use xwiki so I want to point out these things that I already mentioned the flexibility the UI the structure that xwiki can bring to you you should also use xwiki because it's open source and we still use way too many tools in the developer community that are not open source and we probably should do that if we if we believe that open source should strive we also can get better support services actually if you purchase our support services compared to other to proprietary software it's not the same time of support you get you get actually people that help you so in our support services we go way beyond just telling people calling getting answers when people have problems we actually help them get get learn how to use the wiki better so actually our support services are cheaper than the price of the licenses of the of the proprietary software but our support services are actually much more advanced than what they are you can also use xwiki because you want to be nice and and you can use a actually not so good reason to use xwiki it's because it's free so when you have if you have difficulties bringing it in in your company the fact that it's free might be a way to bring it in but actually it shouldn't be a good reason for bringing open source software open source software should be brought in companies not because they are free but because they're they can be modified and because they're open source so actually I want to have this slide about open source versus proprietary because we have a bit of a paradox we're we're all we're all building open source the question is are we actually using open source when we're building open source and what I see is that well the thing is closed source companies they have a much bigger much bigger marketing and so they they get the software they do much more known one of the things we believe that we're we're we're not that difference our software is not that bad compared to the equivalent proprietary software the thing is it's what it's much less known and this is a lot to do with the marketing aspects and the lack of marketing and we also see closed source company they use a lot of open source software in their proprietary software but they actually don't contribute that much to that to that open source software now we know it's not easy to use not to use the mainstream software or or the very known software and I'm one of them because I have a Mac and and I know it's not easy to decide to switch you always have a glitch or something like that when you switch you need to get used to something new and it's not that easy to switch but at the same time if we want open source to be bigger I mean it's important to to help open source groups to complete their software if if the open source software that compete with the closed source software don't have the users and and don't have the services and the financing from these users they cannot make the open source software as good as a software companies that have a completely different model they put a lot of money at the beginning they make a great software and then they sell it a lot and then they they decide how it's going to evolve so and this is what we don't like when we're talking about open source at some point the closed source software has this problem of not evolving anymore because the company that sells this decides how to make it both and this is why I like to do open source software because I'd like that people can decide how to make it evolve somewhere so at some point we need to start somewhere and now the question so one of the things we talk a lot when we are at the booth that we get developers that come in the oh what do you use are we use conference and they say about but we didn't decide it so what I would like to tell you is that if your company is using proprietary software not necessarily only confidence if you want to convince them to use to use proprietary software what can you do so you can tell your boss that the software is free that that sometimes helps instead of paying you you can you can give references so for example in the case of xwiki you can tell them that high-profile companies are using that software in our case for example it's Amazon you can pitch the key advantages that the software have so try to learn what the key advantages of the open source software are compared to to the proprietary software and pitch that to your boss you can pitch the fact that you can do custom projects with that open source software so you can actually if the company has specific needs you can use that open source software to solve that specific need inside the company and that's an interesting way to bring open source software inside the companies you can pitch the support services I believe and I generally believe that the support services of open source companies like when there is a when our company is behind the open source software have much better support services than the proprietary equivalent and so you can pitch that level of services and tell that there are services like that that you can pitch anyway the last thing you can do is that if you if you want to convince them to use our wiki well give them my phone number give me their phone number of the of your boss and I'll try to convince them well how can you try xwiki you can download it on xwiki org you can also try it on the cloud so you go to xwiki com and you can try it in a couple of minutes you can also go to the xwiki playground and you can visit an instance of xwiki actually if you go to xwiki org or xwiki com they're both websites done with xwiki so they're you we're using our own software for these websites and that's the laptop going and I'm going to finish and so you can join the community and come help us thank you thanks a lot little week yeah we don't have time for questions but please meet little week outside for if you want to talk about xwiki


It is 3 30 and I'll call the joint review board to order for those in attendance. Would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance? All right, is there a motion to approve the minutes from June? Motion and second any discussion see none all those in favor, please state aye Even opposed chair votes aye minutes are approved Consideration and appointment and a reef reaffirmation of joint board review public member Well, the public member is not here The public member is actually Roberta Flicky Pineski so we just need to reaffirm her even though she's not here Second any discussion seeing none all those in favor, please state aye Anyone opposed chair votes aye. Thanks for reaffirming her. I will let her know Reaffirmation or election of the vice chair Everyone cool with keeping me Right no, that's what we're doing right now. Oh, you said vice chair. Oh, I meant chair Yeah That's what I was thinking the words just came out different. All right all those in all those in favor, please state. I Anyone opposed chair votes. I thank you Reaffirmation or election of the vice chair. I Think the vice chair was Roger before I Know it's a lot of work Would you be willing to continue on Thank you In second all those in favor You would oppose chair votes. I that's approved 3.4 discussion responsibilities of the joint review board So most of you know what this is but this is related to approving and disapproving of TID amendments and TID creations I know a number of you sit on other Communities joint review boards, but that's really tied to tax incremental financing districts and the stuff related to that so I Be happy to answer any questions, but I'll keep it short because you guys are very familiar the additional questions for a chat All right three point five discussion interview of subtraction amendment to the plan project for the tax incremental district 18 so if I handed out a map to everybody in the Attendance and I would I would refer to the spack of the map that I handed you that has a green and a red line so The the let me just say the front of the map shows the TIF district boundaries for tax incremental 18 Which was created back in 2018 for the city to expand our business part known as self-point enterprise campus This district also includes part of a subdivision on the east side of South Business Drive That Bob Warner in Stormborough crossing Subdivision is being developed as we speak and then it goes up north and it includes some parcels in our current business center Through a little leg to the west to the east of South Business Drive if you look at the map on the second page It kind of divides in and the challenge We have is the real property Lister as well as the city assessor's office has contacted us to tell us that there's Three parcels that are split Between being in the tit and being out of the tit so if you look at the map The green boundary is the previous line that followed a parcel lying to parcel lines in that subdivision And then when they came forward and planted out the subdivision it split those parcels that are grayed out those Six parcels so what we're proposing here is just to subtract those so the area in the Red on the north side is the TID boundaries Everything in the south side of that area is out of the TID so we would just take these three these six parcels and Subtract them out of the TID and redo the boundary to follow the red line That's showing on here and then those parcels would not be split because the real property Lister can't have a house That's partially in the tit and partially out of the tit to try to make it work on their end so the easiest thing for us to do was to amend the district by taking Those six parcels out so that's what we're here to discuss. There's no value on those Parcels because they're just building this subdivision, but going forward it'll make it easier for everyone questions I Know I guess a question I had so what what's the thinking and you know this for me just kind of as curiosity questions So what's the thinking between taking them out instead of just wrapping them in? Because we're gonna have some challenges when they move forward in phase two because it's un Planted in this area as well And it's easy. It's an easier process to do the subtraction than it is to do the To do the addition. Okay, so we just thought that it was beneficial to It's beneficial to all the taxing jurisdictions Because we'll get property taxes off of these parcels right away versus having to wait 20 years till the TID closes. All right very good point Additional questions I know that you can put a certain amount of residential lots in TIF districts now, but In general, that's good not to have them in the TID district. Anyone's correct. That is correct. I Think in an industrial TID you can have up to 35% of the land area in residential By taking it out. We don't have to get into that whole calculation either to make sure that if we're not exceeding that So that's why we're just going the route of removing them Thank you additional comments feedback Emotions if I can just say further comments, so we We thought that we appreciate you guys being able to come in and deal with this We had thought we had until the end of the year to do this and then the Department of Revenue called us and told us that it's actually Needed to be approved by the end of September So that's why and that was at the end of August So we're scrambling to get this done But we appreciate the support of it and it'll go to the Planning Commission at 4 o'clock tonight and to the council on Monday And we'll meet the timeline for amending it and the real property list or we'll be happy Thanks, Chad for work and your department on it to and Janet. I bet you were helping out on this Is some some part to so thank you Additional comments questions motions I'll make a motion to approve. All right Is there a second Motion and second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor, please state aye And you want to pose chair votes aye that is approved next meeting TBD Then so the next meeting process of the council will adopt the resolution on Monday And then we'll probably we don't have to have the joint review board meeting By the end of the month But we'll be getting in contact with the four of you in the next couple days to Line up the next one because you'll have to come back and consent to the resolution that the council approves Who made that rule your legislatures? All right, all those in favor, please. Oh, never mind. We did that. All right, most do adjourn So Motion second all those in favor, please state aye And you want to pose chair votes aye. We're adjourned at 3 38. Well, I know some of you had a drive-in. 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Oh, oh, so low. Thank you. I'm on grubs Yeah, I'm not keeping track of the time on when it's available. But yeah, there was a What's up here bio the man who's you were awesome and even though I play her a lot You've probably heard me say that countless is the worst hero in Paragon the over prime This was mainly due to her shadow slip not working correctly and her inability to assassinate people late game Well with the new patch they fixed her shadow slip and while they did lower her early game damage They increased her scaling which makes her feel much better in the late game.  I figured it out. What's a figured it out We started rocking and rolling Anyway, I'm queued up with menace and neurona this match So I'll what's again for go the commentary and just let the game play out like the video if you enjoy it sub for more Third-person mobile content, but for now, let's get to it TV is so easy to kill it started yet chill It's Murloc.  They nerfed it I'm glad they didn't Pay attention to the word I'm gonna get off for now. Y'all have a good one Hey, bro, give me give me like a month. I'll be top 15 with you bro I just moved bro. I just moved to Florida.   Hey camera.  I don't want to get invaded on Missing my lane Yeah, we have a raid playing support from the bush. I'm not cute. My cue is not working.  That was weird kidding me now I guess we're just gonna have to play safe. We need to get that shield up. That's super annoying Oh my god, the support is something different on earth man. He just He's supporting from the bush. That's next to the river like with a rave How toxic can that be? Okay, shield size is still decent It's a big shorter time though He's right here We need to get to six ASAP.  I die here. I die here. I die here. I die here Redock Help me. Oh Shit, I made it out My cue is not working, bro.  Connecting and connecting back in. Okay, it's it's like working half the time. It's like so weird Okay, they got two junglers Wukong and cuz I know I've seen Wukong on red buff when I went toward their jungle And crux just came out of my double smite. That's the new thing now. That's meta Every game even in ranked I'm seeing so many smites on the team Oh, yeah, it's a must because objectives are so important Hmm don't You little thing for the race on the race. He's back at me. He's back at me.  He escaped Wukong's coming mid. He's over here. Oh my god. You are so annoying.  They got like jungle beef going on like one person wanted to be jungle and so want to kill you When Porta comes up when Porta comes up, I'll go straight over there.  I thought Brux was coming after wukong Yeah, we had wukong here now. We still have them and we had a grub stare just now for a gank I guess I'm I guess I'm about to get there. Yeah. Yeah, just keep pressure on that on their tower Yeah, so they leave us Yeah, well I'm gonna bat now. I can't help you. Hey legend. I want to skin code how thanks, um Do you play do you play the game? Obviously you do I'm hoping I think you do that's why you want the skin code. Yes Um at the end of the stream like I've said, this is going to be a short stream I will be giving out skin coats to the viewers list Are the skin codes wrong? They're not skin codes they're renar, right? So you can use the renar to buy skins Definitely not the new skins because the new skins you actually have to use keema.  Yeah, hit me instead. I'm I'm big.  Hey, you're getting a rotation from a race. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here hair Murdoch Shows and calls with you.  He can't jump. He can't jump What's hard I kill him. Yeah, I get stuck there's or to heaven is close my guy. Yeah, it's a rotation from TV. I got no dash on nothing. Maybe Murdoch understands Okay, I'm hurt. So I'm gonna back now. Oh, I just realized you took your Nice job, I think I think They're double juggling or like they're pissed off at each other cuz one took it from the other It actually was That rotation though wasn't in his favor.  Cuz you're in the dual lane. You should be moving together Nice damage goose. Nice damage a race is missing from Lane care. I'm gonna have to leave this murder. Maybe not Nice She left the lane now, I don't need him here Yeah, that shield time is definitely lower. I see the difference that it's okay. It's not a big deal I'm a war crime. Okay. It doesn't go through.  I'm dead So it looks like this TV doesn't know that his alt his TV doesn't go Do shields all she'll I'm here. We're all here. We're all here. We're here and grucks is very under. Oh Oh, so low. Thank you I'm on grucks I'm home every two minutes. Yeah I'm not keeping track of the time on when it's available. But yeah, there was a cool down on it They increase the cool down on it to prevent people from rotating too often. Oh, wait for Revenant wait for Revenant fight frequency I'm here. No, although I Would love to have my alt I'm gonna TP and split push. Got it. I got that You guys want to take a spirit? I'm not don't go. I can't definitely all all 10, but Like a level five to do what was that? My god, just chill from that bush, dude. We have three here guys Three man. Oh, let's go get the TV. Get the TV. I'm stuck on minions.  Then I get a nice toy Need it actually I Didn't know you're gonna out there. I would have stayed in I dashed in. Oh, yeah That's why I said I got out and I'm just waiting. So one of them TV was so hurt and it was just no spirit I'm going there right now. They do So the jungle I will board it revenue just tp revenue tp pass me should Alright, well, I guess I keep pushing Give you that chance to hit me again. So I'm just gonna take this route You got to put jungle camp markers like the white camps There's no time markers in the map for them Oh I'm always man. I got So back back back Gracks might be rotating to you guys in mid lane. Okay? Yes.  Why oh My god.  I looked at him. He wasn't even I better leave I don't want to get killed No armor Yikes Okay Blue yeah, blue race. I don't know please is still in here, but plead Steel still feels great. Honestly. I don't see a huge difference in his dad like a difference in his dash and His shield time up time isn't that bad really the fix the countess's dash is very nice Is your queue still messing up? It's not Messing up as much, but it's definitely a Dashing straight to them instead of on top of them. It's me and me and me Ow How come the clothes don't get knocked up by the rain deer or scary No, I'm the link hasn't been taken. Yeah, I'm gonna take this shoot. So The grugs and the Hong Kong word is blue on the blue in here bad I know they they both have so much like all for any engagement here Anybody know what the yellow bar is underneath them the yellow bar you see my goose the yellow bar It starts going down when it's about to die watch Or did yesterday at least what do you mean which bar? When you go to an objective, there's like a yellow looks like a yellow health bar underneath the red health bar If that makes sense, I'll take a look at it.  Okay. He's backing. Maybe we can make a play here. No, get out Yeah, use those auto lock-ons. They're great. Huh? They feel great.  I'm taking Dude, okay, you know what here I want to do it by now. I have to I use my old time I Got the kill on him. What are we looking at for stats here? He's farmed up Why would he why would TV start with his sort of kingdom just offered like that?  We'll come and actually kill him or yeah, I already did it twice. Okay, I Haven't been watching you. What's that Jack pepperoni? What's up, Carol? Take a middle. I want to get big too, man. I want to get big I'm just sitting here the support. I feel like steel support is really great But I don't know he feels better somewhere else like yeah, definitely hundred percent I I can do more with him being somewhere else.  I need to make that short.  There's a boner.  I think we'll come that's the bigger because do you see that thing? I think it's armed. I mean he can extend this pole. He can extend this pole. I get it Yeah, yeah, I got it Like this what is this organic pull first? Yeah, hey, I'm coming. I don't think I can catch him Maybe you can. Oh, yeah, you get stuck on minions too. I saw that And they're all on me Yeah, they're just a portal Rafe got a big bounty off me. You took portal right now. Okay. I'm down at three seconds I'm rotating care He backed me up all the way through the portal Um, I wanted to ask you something since you're talking about the portal yesterday Zena altered on me. I was going through the portal and she traveled with me to the other side. Is that a thing?  That's all Yeah Especially if you got a cc You guys wanna group and take prime now, we got a good push going on on their left side I think we end here. We just take it and Move forward. I think maybe Murdoch does a wanna and before he takes that tier one though Feels a bit of a shoe Don't know Come back come back come back come back. I need it. I'll definitely not like before I can I can get you that for sure but like Yes, we go What's up bouncing around this edge?  Hey, I need a rotation. No, I'm gonna die Only a matter of time when I can escape you. I'm ringing around the Rosie He's back in me.  You guys are awesome Perfect and that's why they need to nerf an addict's dessert. I think they need to nerf rate this range on that snipe Nice skywalk. Love it. Just love it See who comes on my team great Who come on the enemy team not so great I'm coming guys And I'm taking the long way. I don't know why Me You're coming I'm anxious. What do you what do you feel a little here?  I saw that The time I saw him to the time I decided to dash he went from full health to a Rip to dead. Yeah, it's a dead. Oh, they don't run. They don't run. Yeah, we rotate rotate I got no mana and I wish I can use all my comps Using this controller.  Hey, hey, right Turn on the right turn on the right turn on the right. Bye. Bye. Bye. Get him. Get him. Get him. He has no rewind I want to I don't want to use my ult on him.  Oh my god. I'm just gonna sit here and chill for a minute and I have nothing to help you with No, I can Let's get him. Hi. Oh, I figure that low. Can you take this? Can I take it? Okay? I take all the damage you hit I out in 10 seconds. Oh Man that that's that dash is actually so pretty good. I don't see any difference Back please controller problems It should give Wukong a skin where he has fake mouths weapon as a this is what We're gonna read Guess we just keep the lane pressure and we take the next prime I'm just gonna write in four sessions. I don't know how their Rev is higher level than me Only has a little bit more CS and nowhere near has been killed to me He's got the battle pass xp booster. Oh Shit, okay, that works too.  It was unaware and man