ted by council member Glover and council member brown okay we still had council member brown and council member Matthews on stack for comments so would you do still have any further comments I comment at least on this round was to suggest that like other community programs that the warming center provide a copy of its agency budget Matthews do you have any further comments nope okay does anybody have any further comments seeing none we'll take the vote all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed that's just unanimously okay so at this point I'm going to ask my fellow council members whether they would like to move forward with our next item or if we should take a break and then hear the mid-year update after oral communications all right personally would just say go go for it all right seems like there's consensus to move forward with our mid-year update I just also want to let council members know that oral communication since oral communication stop is at seven that if we haven't made it all the way through then we'll need to stop at that time okay let's make it all the way through great all right so next on our council agenda is item number 21 general business we're going to start the presentations off with the fiscal year 2020 budget adjustments and information on city's financial status and that presentation will be done by Tracy Cole our principal management analyst yeah sorry yeah so I'm going to do a brief introduction here so there's a before you are really there's three components to this evening's item and the first is a just a general update on our mid-year budget picture as far as how we ended the year what our projections are for the next fiscal year and then some of the factors and variables that we have to take into consideration with respect to our budget projections so Cheryl will do that she'll do an update and then council can have an opportunity to ask questions then we'll move on to the next items which are action items the first is a request for the council to amend our personnel compliment in classification compensation plans to make some additions to classifications and some changes to classifications and I think I guess Lisa's going to be here to do that and then there'll be questions from the council that you can take action on that one following that will be a brief presentation from staff on the budget adjustments which are the adjustments that we need to make to the budget that we've had to make up to now for a variety of different reasons and staff will go over those and then the council can ask questions and then you can take action on those so those are the three overall pieces well again we'll start with Cheryl we'll give a kind of overview of the the big picture and then move on to the next two items thank you hi thank you Cheryl five acting finance director and I'd like to introduce Lapita alabos Bisby she's now the budget manager in our finance department and this recently joined us she has a budget team of Tracy Cole and Jillian Morales as an accountant thank you first this is our start just trying to get this good question mayor we just get a sense of how long presentation might take might be it's uh it's pretty quick it can go quick it depends on questions okay it's only around 16 slides or so and they're pretty quick so okay um this is a local government finance trends basically the local governments local governments are not in a boom cycle pension payments are increasing California cities need to move stable revenue base there's recession uncertainty and low reserve levels good we have reserve levels but they're a little low we need to build them up a little more the city budget is stable but we're being cautious the cuts you made for the fiscal year 2020 budget the 3.9 million dollars in cuts that we did over a three-day process they have put us in a better financial shape we're cautiously stable at this point there's no new projects added this year and we did see service reductions from those cuts still were the messages were being careful we see with our five-year projection we're seeing slight deficits in fiscal years 21 and 22 we think we can manage those this coming year we're seriously still seriously underfunded in our capital needs and deferred maintenance we need to we need new revenue sources or additional funds to address priorities that are coming up so that's where we stand at this point I want to bring your attention to the slide here it's it's a it's a the 2020 slide if you see in the lower hand right hand corner there's a 2019 adopted budget comparable cities and you'll see that the city of Santa Cruz adopted in fiscal year 19 a balanced budget and then in fiscal year 2020 we had a little slight surplus so the city of Santa Cruz continues to adopt balanced budgets and that's our goal for the next year also this is the fiscal year 2019 financial report and at the end of the year we had a we weren't projecting a surplus but we did have a slight surplus of 0.9 million and however that's not enough to fund the needed capital investments and for maintenance this is the reality show the budget makeover that again this is addressing the 3.9 million dollar cuts that you did in fiscal for fiscal year 2020 budget and you can see below the the slide under that is what our projections would have been had we not made those cuts and then we see the little circle around there you can see in the future years the revenue is popping just a little above the expenditures and we're pretty neck and neck prior to that so this reflects the what I mentioned before that we have deficits in 2021 and 2022 projected deficits okay now this slide shows general fund deficits so this kind of quantifies what our deficits are going to be if you add them up they're almost five million dollars but this is what we're going to manage behind the you can see the expenditure are the bars going up behind that is the revenue base so this is a slide you put probably saw in a prior year but it's been updated to reflect our new projections after again after the 3.9 budget cuts million dollar budget cuts okay included in these projections are a slight decline in sales tax and property tax revenue increases a better way to say that is we're we're not we're not increase and we're not increasing our revenues as fast as they were so we've we've considered that they won't continue to increase at the same rate they're going to they're going to cool down a little bit and it includes all council approved colas for all the bargaining agreements just did a number of renegotiations with the bargaining units and it includes future increases in our CalPERS rates and if you've been told that our CalPERS rates continue to climb we've incorporated that into this projection and then future decreases in debt service payments and again that's the major one would be the pension obligation bonds which is final payment is in fiscal year 2022 and that runs around three million dollars or so a year what we still need we need support for aging the aging infrastructure you can see we need the roof for the civic auditorium we need you know repairs revetment repairs to west cliff and we need storm drain replacements these are some of the things that are on our unfunded CI capital investment program list that we don't have the funding for so we still need that funding this is a CalPERS pension update and basically on the right you'll see some of the things that CalPERS is doing that's causing a problem and why we're having increasing rates and there are total assets although they're in the billions of dollars only represent 71% of what they calculate their future benefits to public workers are and they're projecting an investment rate of 7% per year but they're only they're coming short by about 6.7 I mean they're coming short in only meeting about 6.7 and then again it's their their their fiscal projections are falling short so on the left hand side though you'll see some of the things that the city has done to mitigate these problems with CalPERS and one of them is establishing the IRS section one one five trust and currently we have over 10 million dollars in that trust we've done agreements with the employee bargaining units for them to pick up the share of the employer cost and and we've also a paid at 8 million dollars toward our unfunded liability saving lowering that unfunded liability and we also which isn't on their on this chart on this slide but we also so we prepay our unfunded liability each year and that saves us several hundred thousand dollars of interest and we're able to do that and it helps with our with our actual reports where we show our unfunded liability okay has the recession been canceled basically everybody's waiting for the recession because we've gone longer than we've ever gone in history in a recession period in a recovery period and so everybody thinks that okay when's the shoe going to drop when are we going to have the recession and basically the Chris Thornberg who recently gave a presentation on the on economic on the economy of the country said that we're kind of in a not too hot not too cold we're in a Goldilocks error right here basically nothing's moving very fast it's just kind of just kind of stagnant and not stagnant not to you know it's okay so their fears are that where what's going to happen what's going to cause us to go into recession basically right now we're at low interest rates low in employment and low inflation and we've got a stable expansion what may cause us to go in is not the wind it's the why and it could be reactive global impacts and there's a quote from the Wall Street Journal concerning the the Kona Kona the virus in China and then climate change might do that but every every agency is saying it's the next unforeseen event and of course unforeseen means we don't know what it is but it'll put a shock to the system right now there's they're not seeing anything like that so probably won't have a recession in 2021 but yeah you don't know what the unforeseen event would be okay the pizza's gonna talk about our 2021 budget plan we're going into next year's budget great thank you Cheryl good evening Mayor Cummings council members so as we just heard on Cheryl's presentation given our economic and fiscal conditions the direction we'll be moving this fiscal year is a status quo budget we'll be seeing an increase in the budget reflecting employee costs but we will maintain a status quo as it relates to operations there are no anticipated budget reductions as of departments at this point and the budget process this fiscal year will be different from the last two or so fiscal years or where we plan for extra meetings to discuss budget reductions this year departments will be presenting their budgets to council over two planned budget hearings scheduled in May we'll also take advantage of those public hearings to invite the public for engagement and also different this year are we're separating our public hearings for operating and CIP budgets the council will first hear the CIP budget in early May followed by the operating budget in mid-May so the separate public hearings will hopefully help focus discussion and allow more time for each of the two processes so that concludes our fiscal year update and budget plan before we go on to the next section there are any questions I had one question I know recently it had been stated there was a court case that found that Amazon is now going to have to pay local tax and so I was wondering if any analyses had been done yet to determine how much sales tax revenue might be generated from Amazon purchases and sales locally or how that might you know fit into how much revenue we're going to get from those types of sales taxes yes thank you Marcus had done an analysis of that early on and it seemed that we wouldn't fare much better we might fare a little worse from that from that so but we could do an analysis and see currently what would happen you know what where where we would be thank you are there any other questions from council members at this time saying none we can move ahead with the next portion of the presentation um next up is Lisa Murphy Good evening Mayor council members Lisa Murphy your Human Resources Director what I'm actually passing out to you is an updated version of what you see on the PowerPoint slide I neglected to include a position on this table which I'll go over with you in just a moment so what you have before you is each year we consolidate it to twice a year if operational needs dictate that the departments want to make any adjustments or changes in their the number of staffing or reorging of their staff we do either at the mid-year or we'll do it at the budget time so what you have before you is some recommendations from each of the departments of some mid-year changes and I'll just list each one give you a brief description and give you the fiscal impact so the first one you have up and I'll again point out the correction in the table the first one you have on your before you is for water and what they are adding is a principal planner and an associate planner and then they're going to delete a professional engineer the details of the each explanation if you were like me to go through it is in your agenda report and for the sake of time I'll just if you ask me questions I'll respond to those for public works given the new requirements that they have for food race recovery and the number of recovery resources that they have to conduct at the landfill what they're asking for one is they're going to do a bit of a reorg within their department and then they're going to add four positions and I should note all four of those are actually SCI positions and except for sorry three and one is a supervisor and then in economic development they're adding a halftime economic development coordinator you will see in the communications manager the city managers adding communications manager in addition they are removing the special events coordinator from the city manager's office and they are placed in the parks and recs so that's what you see there and again the last one is in the police department what we're going to do is create a career ladder for the police property and evidence specialist so now we'll have a senior and once we fill that from an internal ranks then we'll come to you at the budget and we'll remove the the position so it'll be net neutral for the PD the overall economic impact is identified in the fiscal impact and you'll see the majority of it actually is in the enterprise funds while there is a very very slight savings in the general fund and partly that's due to the restructuring of the funding of some of the positions in particular such as the community communications manager we're spraying that costing out amongst the departments so as I said there's a slight negligible savings in the general fund majority of the cost is by the enterprise funds so having said that I recommend approval and if you have any questions please ask that's what I'm asking I do and this is so embarrassing so on the water on the chart that you gave us you add two and you take away one so that to me would be a net one I'm sorry I'm adding to you but I you are right I'm embarrassed my math is this late in the evening was a little bit off so we are adding the two positions taking away one so it is one I did I was worried I couldn't do that the only other one that I left off of your chart because there's no change it's just a title change for one of the positions but there's no economic impact for that I have to tell you I rushed to put this together and I'm failing to see will you show will you just point it out because I see one one one one yeah there are two there are two supervisors in resource recovery supervisor and supervisor and the others there's no added positions I identified it as SCIU is that correct is that what you're saying that's incorrect yeah okay yeah there's two the numbers are correct that's the supervisory position I apologize that's my matters had a question yeah I just wanted to just clarify when you say enterprise funds so just so everyone's clear that may be watching so water and public works those are all enterprise those would be the enterprise fund positions yeah it's a solid waste fund and the water fund okay thank you to be more specific that's the water fund the wastewater fund the refuse fund the parking fund the storm water fund which are enterprise thank you with respect to the like the communications manager we're spreading amongst all the funds that's all getting divided up even into enterprise fund departments correct thank you so will you want to motion on this now do we have one more I don't think so okay we'll do it at the end okay I think Council Member Brown had a question yeah this I know this is a budget item but it raised the question for me if we could hear a little bit more about the timeline for hiring a communications manager what's the plan yes so if Council approved position today we would begin the recruitment process as soon as possible and we do we did have in the process of putting together the recommendations that came to you beforehand the opportunity to put together a job description and so we have a lot of the work done so we'll just be working with the HR department to get the recruitment process going so that's it's pretty close to done what was included in our packet job description yes and one question this is for the City Manager I know that there's been this was expressed last year during the budget but my understanding is that there's a like a river restoration specialist position I think that's with the water department potentially I just wanted to know if there's river coordinator position I just wonder if there's been any traction on yes that is in the it's in the existing budget and trying to see if I know it's something that the departments are working on really trying to define the scope but what happened with that position it was originally funded and it was allocated to different funds we had a deficit so then we allocated it to the water department and the honest truth is that it's been difficult to sort of scope out the work just in the water fund because you know the realization is that the work of this position involves a variety of different funds not just the water fund so the staff has been going through really trying to figure out what is the best way to scope the position and allocate it so we are and going into an effort to reach out to because I know we have stakeholders like the coastal watershed council and others who are interested in the work of this position and so we are initiating an effort to get all that input and come back to you with the revision so that position so it can actually reflect the work rather than trying to sort of shoehorn a position that's funded for a certain fund and that and it's not working out to just make it realistic and so we'll bring that back to you and I can't recall what the timeline for that is but certainly with respect to the current the next fiscal year budget we'll do that Any other questions from council members at this time? Yeah, just about the could maybe explain the hundred thousand dollars of fuel costs Oh that'll be coming We're about to do that next Yeah, that's next so we'll move on to the next portion of the presentation Okay So I'll cover this part as well so as is routine each mid-year we bring back for council approval and the administrative or cleanup budget changes or requests additional appropriations in response to unanticipated needs the table before you summarizes those changes and requests and I'll try to go through this pretty quickly since they're they're pretty articulated in the staff report The first is the only impact to the general fund it's a one-time request of 75,000 for the Pogonip lead remediation assessment The second row is really just a transfer of funds from the carbon reduction fund to various projects Expensed in the general fund and some examples listed were a new hydration station at Loch Lomond LED upgrades to the teen center and electric conversion of gas landscaping equipment just to name a few The next line item Public Works is requesting 100,000 to cover unanticipated costs to operate generators at various city facilities resulting from the two-day PG&E power shutoffs So Council Member Crona I hope that addresses your question And then the next item includes a transfer of the liability fund to the Wharf fund in the amount of 100,000 for the Wharf railing safety improvement project The next item is a transfer of money within the wastewater fund and the amount of 85,000 to support the transport and provide reuse of biosolids And then finally the water fund has a list of requests totaling about 4.2 million outlined in the staff report Included in the list is a new appropriate or examples are new appropriations for unanticipated repairs to the Newell Creek Pipeline Change order on design work for project starting construction in 2021 along with other emergency needs just to name a few And again the only this last one is redundant and reflecting just the liability fund supporting the Wharf railing project So the only fiscal impact to the general fund that we bring forward for Council approval is the 75,000 requested for lead remediation So that concludes our presentation for mid-year adjustments and we're happy to answer questions Are there any questions for staff at this time? Councilor McCrum Yeah, about the 100,000 So just running generators Is there anything about how do we get that money back from PG&E? Have I've seen other people other communities sue PG&E for losses during the shutoffs This isn't really on the recovery part of it This is on paying the bills for the extra fuel So we'll proceed if there is any exposure that we can obtain but that will take quite a while I don't know the details on that I know we are tracking it but I don't know that I don't know if finance or anything is working on that to be honest with you but I'll check on that I mean it's something we had to keep the lights on and keep things working I don't anticipate it Great, thank you Are there any further questions? This is so trivial but on the staff report the 4,000 per hydration occurs twice Part of that It's an award from the carbon reduction fund to the water funds so the appropriations have to be in both places Oh, I see I see the way it carried over there I didn't see that Okay Council Member Glover Council Member Cron This kind of harkens back to our last topic with regards to the amount of money that we spend on so many different things I just find it interesting that the $10,000 that we're going to spend on a daily case replacement at the Civic Auditorium It's interesting I just thought I'd point that out Council Member Cron I wanted to point out the $13,000 a month that's just in salary not benefits for communications manager I don't think the city communicates well for the council hasn't done well in the last couple of years at least in my case and I would like to push that out of the main motion and maybe vote on that separately because I will not support a communications manager I think it's not a good investment and again I would urge folks consider taking that money it's probably about $150,000 and having stipends for council members and they can hire people to communicate for them and not have I think if the city's done abysmal in communicating in case of Council Member Glover and myself and a couple of different press releases haven't worked Any further questions for staff? Seeing You want a motion? I was going to open up for public comment so All right if there's no further questions at this point in time I'd like to open it up for public comment is there any member of the public who would like to address us on our mid-year budget update and any of the items that were presented Okay You'll have two minutes Hello Council Just an overview First I want to say Cynthia that just because it's a conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's not true we all know that is grown ups in the political world that's a standard political powerful technique so I would really appreciate if you would stop countering everything I say when I get up if you have to really disagree that's fine but just don't on principle counter everything I'd say I think that would be respectful the second thing I want to say is I did not see the presentation I'm sorry I don't know your name that was that Cheryl fine Cheryl presented in the binder I would like to see everything that's presented up there duplicated in the binder so the 16 slides weren't there and the reason I'm questioning that is many experts on the economy actually think we're in a horrible recession already and it is not being really fairly presented by our mainstream media nor most of the power brokers who are in power in the democratic and republican parties in the mainstream so I think we're having a horrible recession and many people are not making livable incomes in the country so I think that needs to be investigated the other thing I want to say is that the city of Santa Cruz housing program specialist that's I think it's a for higher role in government is is one that I'm really questioning because we're still not defining what is affordable housing my understanding of affordable housing is that you have to have a really excellent income as in six figure income over a hundred thousand dollars so you have to be working in a really high level paid position to be able to afford affordable housing in Santa Cruz and most of the units that are going in that are so-called market rate are actually luxury we are now living in a luxurious elite wealthy enclave that has been highly gentrified by moving many middle in many middle and low income income people out of the community and or onto the street so I'm very concerned about the this position but I'm running out of time so I can't say more but I think we need to examine these positions and this one reports reports to the principal planner that's a problem when the planning commission is all developer friendly wealthy people I want to recommend the solar economy which is a book that was written in 2002 by Herman Shear and I'm out of time so I'll stop there I would like the downtown forward program investigated because I think they're using city funds and they're supposed to have an alternate argument presented if they're presented to the public in the library and they're not so please investigate that I want to know if they're using that at least you've gone over your time thank you okay next hi I'm Nate Alex dot Kennedy at Gmail 3469888 I would like to talk to all the council members here in private at some point so please get back to me and let me know if you need that email again with the budget here something that came to mind I'm not sure how 100% appropriate this is but we should switch as many of the county cars as possible over to electric or even lacking that hybrid at least it will bring fuel costs down a lot yes I would love to see a cop cruiser car that was all electric stuff like that an ambulance that's all electric city vehicles we need to try and get them all converted to something that is a zero emission no tailpipe thank you yeah right is there any other member of the public who would wish to address this on this item seeing none I'll bring it back for action the liberation council member Matthews thank you I'll go ahead and move to approve the mid-year position changes and also approve the mid-year budget adjustments as presented I'll second that and I just want to say I really enjoyed the rationale for each of the changes I mean it was really clear as people retire or the needs of the different departments evolve and particularly in the public works and water the just increasing expectations for regulation for recycling and so forth I thought the the write-ups why things had to shift around or be added really made sense to what what the departments are facing in all of them so I thought it was a well-written report thank you so we have a motion made by council member Matthews seconded by Vice Mayor Myers to approve the mid-year position changes and approve the mid-year budget adjustments council member Glover I saw your hand thank you yeah so I share the concern that was voiced by council member Crone about the communications manager and the cost associated with that there is an estimated salary of $9,717 per month up to $13,152 per month that is an exorbitant amount of money to pay to someone to manage the communications I don't I don't even believe we need a full-time communications manager maybe a half-time communications manager and reallocate that money somewhere else because at that top step of that position that's in one month paying for basically all of the money we just argued over to get to the warming center to support people from freezing to death outside so this gets back to something I said on the campaign trail which is a budget is a moral documents and we are making our moral statements by how we're allocating this money and if you would rather spend $13,000 a month for some communications manager as opposed to figuring out ways that we can offer that to supportive services of people that are going to die if we don't provide them and have failed to provide them throughout the winter it speaks volumes to the issues of the priorities of the city I think that's concerning and I just want to acknowledge when the speaker is saying that she felt that her perspective was constantly disregarded and or belittled by members of the body and there's a term for that it's called gaslighting and gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a target individual making them question their own memory perception or judgment often invoking in them cognitive dissonance or other changes such as low self-esteem using denial mystic misdirection contradiction and misinformation gaslighting involves attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim's belief so just it's concerning that there's members of the public to feel that way and I don't think we should spend $13,000 a month on a communications manager Cron just so we can make this given the time could we just separate that the maker of the motion can we separate out the communications manager and then I'm fine with everything else so there's a friendly amendment made by council member Cron we'll just divide the question so we're going to divide the question as it pertains to the position changes by pulling out the communications manager I just get further clarification for the mid-year budget adjustment there was not a resolution brought forward for that the only resolution brought forward were for the mid-year position changes there was a resolution to approve the mid-year position changes motion to approve the mid-year budget adjustment thank you all right it's as as I understood it as is implicit so um yes we can take the first section of this which is all the other positions with the exception of the communications manager and to approve the mid-year budget adjustments is there any further discussion on those items seeing none all those in favor of please say aye aye any opposed so that passes unanimously and then I will return to vote on the position of the communications manager so call for the vote yeah so I'll call for the vote on that so the motion currently is to approve the communications manager position all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed nay okay so that passes with council members Watkins Matthews vice mayor Myers and myself voting in favor council member Glover Crown and Brown voting against and so that completes and concludes this item on our agenda and so we will recess until oral communications which shall begin on around 7 p.m. thank you all right good evening everyone and welcome to our 705 session of the Santa Cruz City Council at this time we will have oral communications oral communications is an opportunity for members of the public to address us on items that were not on our city council agenda today oral communications will be for half an hour and given that we're starting a little bit late we'll extend oral communications to 735 and before we begin I'd just like to welcome the students from Cypress Charter middle school for being here with us today okay so if I take roll really quick oh yeah and I'd like to ask a quick to please call the roll thanks council members Watkins here Matthews here Brown is here Glover here Cron here Vice Mayor Meyers here and Mayor Cummings here sorry okay we'll begin oral communications so if any member of the public would like to step forward you'll have two minutes nope just in order where you are online and if any member of the public would like to speak to us like to ask you that you please line up to my left so my name is Freya Sands thank you for your service and thank you for your attention to this letter which will be coming around it's about 111 Eretz Circle which you've heard about before thank you for your attention my only further comment beyond the letter is that if it is unfair to the owners to designate 111 Eretz Circle historic two plus years after the sale then it is truly unfair to the neighbors and the citizens of the city to not have examined the wealth of this 130 year old property long before the sale thank you for your service thank you good evening good evening next speaker two minutes two minutes okay hi my name is Sue Powell I live at World Circle on the west side of Santa Cruz and I am here to support the appeal of the recent historic preservation commission decision about the historic and cultural significance of the Circle Church at 111 Eretz Circle as you know at their meeting on January 30th commissioners decided to recommend that the site not be listed on the city's historic building survey or as a city landmark neighbors of the Circle Church submit an appeal yesterday and wrote a letter communicating their concerns about the meeting and the decision so there are five points that I'd like to highlight I know I'm not going to get through the details of each number one is that neighbors and friends of the Circle Church think that the second developer paid historic report and the peer review were very superficial and inadequate in our view commissioners did not address the problems with the reports and did not consider the age of the building the history of the site going back to the 1880s the decades of the church benevolent services to the community is ties to the neighboring Baptist Church and the site's role in neighborhood integrity as a community gathering place an open space and a commons number two in my view the historic report uses affluent values and criteria which are not the values of the Circle's neighborhood this church was designed and built by one of the congregation not a nationally known architect it was constructed with less expensive materials and this is what the developer paid consultant used as a criterion deciding that the place was not historic I'm going to have to skip to four and that's that Ross Gibson was asked by the chair of the HBC to recuse himself and I would like to ask the city council to request that the city attorney determine if that request was actually correct because we don't think it was and I only have eight seconds so please read what I submitted and thank you for listening Good evening mayor and council members I'm Deborah Elston and I'm coming to you in hopes that you will address another investigation that finished in December regarding council member Drew Glever once again violating the respectful workplace policy this report was brought to my attention a couple weeks ago and I had heard nothing about it in the media or otherwise I felt the public should know so I posted it on next door and closed the discussion people I have spoken to were completely unaware of this report and wanted to know more I'm asking you our council how come this has not been agendized for discussion or consideration how is the city council once again going to handle this severe and egregious behavior those are the lawyer's words not mine sadly the public is getting very tired of hearing about these episodes so please hold your council member accountable for his actions and words thank you very much next speaker Good evening mayor and city council my name is Heather Walts I work in public education I am a parent and I am a concerned community member I am here tonight because I have read both the investigation report by Tim Davis and the UCSC Democrat statement about their experience with council member Drew Glover regarding his behavior towards women and his demeaning of both women and men Mr. Davis stated that Drew Glover unequivocally violated the respectful workplace policy and that he engaged in conduct on social media with a willful and conscious disregard of the feelings, rights or safety of two city commissioners Mr. Davis states that Glover's behavior can be perceived by a reasonable person as derogatory insulting bullying humiliating sabotaging slanderous malicious and retaliatory those were his words what more can be said before you hold Glover accountable and address him for these behaviors when the rose report findings were discussed in October council voted that only one incident did not justify censure but now there are two independent investigations both finding violations of the respectful workplace conduct rules the second investigation and unambiguous findings as well as what happened at UCSC all make it clear that this is definitely a pattern of behavior for Glover unless you feel this is acceptable behavior you must make the statement clear it isn't I'm asking you to agendize the discussion of the Davis report so this can be made public and discussed by the council thank you hi my name is Nancy steward Mr. Mayor members of the council I'm here this evening because I've read the findings from a recent respectful workplace violation investigation completed by attorney Tim Davis in his letters Mr. Davis stated that Mr. Glover's behavior can be perceived by a reasonable person to be derogatory insulting bullying humiliating sabotaging slanderous malicious and retaliatory at the october 8th 2019 council meeting a motion was made by council member brown and seconded by then vice mayor Cummings that stated the council finds that censuring of two of its members is inadequate based on the findings of the rose report as it relates to the appropriate policy a single act shall not constitute disrespectful conduct especially severe and egregious unless excuse me unless especially severe and egregious in october Mr. Glover's behavior towards a city staff member was so egregious that the city manager directed all staff other than the city manager and department directors to no longer communicate directly with the councilman in november formal complaints were filed against Mr. Glover by former members of the commission for prevention of violence against women which resulted in Mr. Davis's investigation and most recently the UCSD democratic club chose to endorse the recall of council member Glover based on his rude and disrespectful behavior towards their members and others in the community these are all examples of behavior of our pattern of behavior that should not be tolerated by you as leaders of this community or by the citizens of the city of Santa Cruz Mr. Davis's response to the complaints was submitted to the city two months ago and yet there has been no action taken by the city council I'm here tonight to ask you to agendize this most recent report and the violations by council member Glover and to hold him accountable for his behavior thank you next speaker hello i'm Nate elix dot kennedy at gmail.com three four six nine eight eight eight feel free to call me anytime council members or public but something I do have to say about this whole recall it's basically the uh they're trying to get Drew and Chris impeached without a trial and without any charges they're you know the only reason for them being impeached is because there are people that don't like them and every single one of us in this whole room has people that don't like us so with that said also something I've been working on lately the Tom Steyer campaign and he is the one and only person running for president that wants to call the global warming what it is and it's a national emergency and none of the other people that are running for president right now um not even our treasured Bernie all of the other people just want to keep going business as usual and pretend that nothing's going on and what I have to say as far as what we need to do is a city all the council members and everybody here what we need to do is we need to start addressing these issues locally and uh you know it we we've finally got cannabis legalized in this state but what I think we need to do is we need to get a bunch of industrial grade hemp made meant for making paper clothes and all the other stuff that hemp can be made out of that is what we need to do and what I would love to see is have the city itself growing many many thousands of plants and allowing people not to be limited to an amount like six plants like the initial law has been but to of any open any dirt that you have you should be able to plant to seed in it up to a certain point and then tax it appropriately thank you next speaker Pat Kittle Santa Cruz the last guy talking about global warming is uh he's just the kind of person who I have in mind he no doubt is also for open borders and the rather stealthy sanctuary city policy which according to my understanding all of you unanimously support I brought this up at a recent forum at the Loudon Nelson Center where Chris and Drew were both present presenting their case and the audience was overwhelmingly in support of them I explained that I was not in support of them I think they should be recalled and I explained it was nothing personal because I think all of you should be recalled at least until you can explain something that I have asked you to explain for years and you never do and specifically that is if you endorse sanctuary cities you are basically inviting everybody on earth to move here that's what you're doing if you think about it and I'm not I mean it's pointless for me talking to the city council but somebody may be hearing this whose mind is open and is willing to do the math it's pretty simple if you invite everybody to move here this is the most notorious carbon emitting country on earth how are we going to reduce global warming if we invite everybody on earth to move here it's a very simple question Drew was very courteous in his avoidance of replying to my question Chris on the other hand was rather rude he told me that I am whatever kind of environmentalist I am he's not as though he should be proud of that Chris if you recall I was restoring habitat the day you called me to work in your yard thank you very much next speaker Keith McKenry you like the library I thank you for supporting the warming center and for your support of the student strike we're providing food and logistics also in support of this strike because it's very important because the wages here are not livable and the housing is not affordable and I also want to after listening to Debra's comments and her people that she brought in should be noted that on nextdoor.com if you speak and favorably about homeless women and how they should not be attacked and that they should have access to housing you get cut off of removed from nextdoor.com no one is really speaking about chief math mills and his turning a blind eye to employment discrimination against women and sexual harassment by officers in our department but Debra can be seen walking in and out of the police station many times a day so I think it's quite hypocritical that when people like drew and chris are standing up to end violence against women that they're being falsely accused of of sexism and really is it much worse to be raped and murdered on the streets or to be looked like sideways or something whatever these little things are that are made up by the city manager's office I don't think so this is like a smear campaign that you should reject you should call out women should be insulted that they are that these accusations are being made against drew when the city sanctions the shutting down of Ross camp and sending women to their death thank you good evening I'm Scott Graham there's a real injustice happening here in town and it's gonna it's on the ballot and it's the recall chris and drew are being accused of things by the the pro recall group that are platinally false they've made up a bunch of stuff they've gone marched around town telling people lies to get them to sign the the recall petitions they paid out of town signature gatherers to gather signatures because the group that gather signatures here in this county refused to do it for them because they didn't agree with the recall so they had to hire a group from San Jose to do it and it's just amazing instead of being forthright with what they were recalling these guys on which is that there's developers real estate agents and landlords that didn't like their policy and that's the whole reason these guys are being recalled this whole smoke screen about sexual harassment and stuff like that it didn't happen it's been made up but then we have as just mentioned the sexual harassment at the police department which we're only finding out about now there was a police woman that wasn't getting back up because she filed a complaint against a superior officer that was eventually fired she filed a complaint against the guy and nobody would help her if she was on a call no one would come and back her up back you know that's outrageous that this is happening yep and I know that Mr. Norris contacted me before on behalf of Huff and requested four minutes and so I'll honor that request thanks so silence means more suffering the Cummings majority at city council has spent a year of dither and delay on the most basic homeless issues we saw this kind of petty fogging pencil-neck plotting this afternoon and the delay around the pitiful pittance that uh given grit Brent Adams for services the city and its poverty pimp service providers are unwilling to provide in a city flushed with funding city employees like Susie O'Hara and her boss Martine Bernal are still telling the same tales after a year with the highest homeless death rate yet you know that where there's adequate shelter and all that sort of thing they need to be fired and replaced council members I want to get past the stacked agendas of the last years the phony censure motions the corrupt recall movement might have moved to call for this kind of a vote against the city manager and city attorney the real powers and the government hopefully in or out of office they will struggle to do this because unless you make these kinds of fundamental reforms you will get nowhere we can learn from the example of Oakland's moms for housing and the where do we go Berkeley encampment in standing fast against pseudo progressive hypocrisy with another liberal mayor our green up there who isn't liberal at all but has this pseudo progressive coloring last year as was mentioned a moment ago the most basic rent control and just eviction protections were shelved a direct slap in the face unfortunately by mayor comings to those who elected him and we still have no study of rents, wages and profits in Santa Cruz promised less summer. I've written and spoken about mayor Cummings cave into the Matthews Myers minority in a meeting with him Monday before last I presented a variety of questions to him which he has yet to answer clearly or perhaps he has answered almost all in the negative as I remember some of these questions are in the back of this flyer which I won't have time to read but I'll make available to the community and on social media and on Santa Cruz Indy media my advice to people in the general public is you need to phrase these questions in public places where you don't have a limitation of two minutes and the pseudo civility rules that are used here there's nothing wrong with being civil if you're in a position of equal power but when people are not in a position of equal power civility means subservience if you are outraged ask loudly and if necessary uncivially at public meetings important questions that are not being answered what is really uncivil is the way basic human rights and services basic human dignity is denied to hundreds of poor people outside and thousands of renters struggling to live in Santa Cruz and the political games played at this council ignoring these basic decencies on campus a loud angry persistent and hopefully successful cola for all movement stood up today and yesterday to police bullying administration stonewalling and city police collusion they're a tonic a lesson an inspiration and a hope for us all is there any other member of the public who would like to address us during public comment on any item that was not on our agenda today hey seeing students are welcome students are welcome to to speak if they'd like hey seeing none sure yeah I'd like to follow up on the comments we received this evening and I'd like to make a motion to agendize the discussion of the Davis report I'd like to add to that receiving an update on the work progress timeline and the council ethics committee and then also receive a report from the human resources department and city manager's office on current anticipated steps for training on respectful workplace policies as well as conflict resolution and mediation efforts I'll second the motion so we have a motion made by council member Myers seconded by council member Watkins I have a question sure did you have a date associated with the motion I'd like to have it on the February 28th meeting sorry 25th it's the 25th do you read back the motion a motion to direct the human resources director to bring a report on the Davis investigation receive an update on the work process and timeline of the council ethics committee receive reports from the human resources department and city manager's office on current anticipated steps for training on respectful workplace policies as well as conflict resolution and mediation efforts I just asked the chair to split the motion okay and how would you like the motion to be split well there's three three sections so we could split it into those three different requests so how about me so the first motion would be to bring back a report I don't know why we're I don't know why we're separate these are all related to the sound I think part of it well you can ask the and I've been I mean we've been I've been out you know I've been asking for this to be agendized for almost two months so I can I can speak to part of this trying to understand how to sure and I'm on the agenda and I can I can speak to part of this when this first came to the council's attention this item was or I'm sorry actually all that doesn't see I think so long as you're talking about what this what the content of the motion is it's fine to split the motion if that's the direction of the council but this isn't really an opportunity to debate the merits or get into depth about the the specific components of it because it's not on your agenda right okay so and I'll just say I think splitting the motion is and can't hear you Cynthia oh it's splitting the motion is something that can be done at the chair's discretion okay and I'm fine with splitting the motion so maybe what we can do is we can read off each part of the motion and vote on each part independently so if you could read off so first motion would be to receive a report from the human resources director on the December 6th 2019 report from an independent investigator Timothy Davis regarding the finding of a violation of the city's respectful workplace conduct policy by council member Drew Gleaver so I can just for clarification it's just to receive a report on the report yes from the HR director I'm just trying to understand a little bit more too about well I'm just again the the idea was that we would be voting on a number of updates and potential action but now they're being individually voted on so the intent behind the motion is to have the city council understand the investigation and have a public discussion about it and to understand where the ethics committee is in its work to understand from our city manager and human resources departments what kinds of further training is going on as well as our conflict resolution mediation that we agree to as a council and to take any action that the council sees fit to to discuss with council member Gleaver any further actions so I don't if we want to break that apart we can do that but they sort of all roll together that's what I'm trying to say I guess one clarification I'd like to know is is that report is that an agenda item or is that a report to city council in the form of a memo or trying to understand we've received we've received we've received the investigation on December 10th it was released publicly on January 17th we would like I would like to have a discussion about the findings of the report it is a public report it is now obviously available people are reading it I'd like to have the HR director available to go through the findings of the report and be able to have council discussion that I was just saying for me that that's that's clear okay okay council member Crohn and then I also have a comment to make which I was going to send an email out later but since this is a before us then I'm more than happy to speak about it this evening council member this really smacks of a political ploy and I'm happy to support this at the first meeting in March sure I'll just say there's a motion on the floor I'm sorry I if I may this feels like we're getting into conversation the motion is to agendize it for a conversation at the next meeting in February and just to sort of echo a count Vice Mayor Meyers comments this is something we've requested to be on the agenda just for discussion of updates etc and we're at this time now requesting it given that the community had came out and spoke to it thank you and in response to that go ahead city attorney if you'd like to say go ahead I don't disagree with what council member why can't you said okay I'll just say with regards to the vote that I'm already I've already scheduled as I mentioned and I can't say what I mentioned because it was in closed session but I've scheduled the meeting with council member Glover and with HR director the city attorney and the city manager to address these issues we're actually meeting on Thursday to discuss this so there is action occurring I do understand there's been requests made I also am much more comfortable with bringing this forward at the first meeting in March so that we're able to have a full discussion of with council member Glover and then bring forward any issues that might come out of that meeting and any resolution that might come out of that meeting so I'm more than happy with agendizing this for the first meeting in March but I'm not comfortable agendizing it for the next meeting especially because it'd be more appropriate to see what's coming forward in a gender review and ensure that there's appropriate timing so I'd like to call a question I would like to make a substitute motion I would like to make a substitute motion call the question yeah but I'm I have the floor we need to run on the no the question has been called by vice mayor Byron she needs a second she needs a second though second by council member Watkins so there's no more discussion on this item can I just get clarification so was there a friendly amendment to make it the first meeting of March no there was not however the motion has been broken into pieces so yeah so you're so the so the first yeah the motion to call the question and then after that we'll continue to take these in pieces motion to call the question all those in favor please say aye aye aye close no so the motion to call the question fails with Vice Mayor Myers council member Watkins council member Matthews voting in favor council members Brown Glover Crone myself voting against calling the question so council member Glover I'd like to make a substitute motion which would to agendize the discussion of the Davis report in the first meeting in March I'll second that so there's a motion made by council member Glover seconded by the mayor to agendize the discussion of the Rose report for the first meeting in March Davis report my apologies so no further discussion all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed no okay so that moves with council member we want to agendize it we just want it to be before the election so you can have a political thing so I'm very going to halt further discussion on this so that passes with council member Glover council member Crone council member Brown and the mayor voting in favor council members Watkins Matthews and Myers voting against there are two other motions currently on the floor and so if we would want to hear those motions be repeated now is the time there's actually one motion right which is split three ways but there's two other components two other components what is that substitute motion cover the agendizing of the item the report yeah so now there's two other motions on the floor unless the makers of the motion would like to we already we voted on we voted on it we voted on the we voted on the first motion which was to agendize the report we voted on accepting the substance I'm sorry I'm sorry we voted we voted on the okay apologies okay so now we'll vote on the motion that's on the floor which is to agendize this before the first meeting in March all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed no I'm I'm lost I'm lost friendly amendment to that sure if we're gonna I mean I think it it is worth hearing more about what's happened I mean the the one thing that is public here is the Davis report what is not public and we ought to be having in public discussion about I think is our efforts to move forward with conflict resolution training etc as we directed back last year so I think it would be nice if we're gonna have an agenda item to include all I would ask updates updates on progress made I think you need to vote on the motion that's before you because this really is an opportunity I I think a friendly amendment to the motion motion yeah I'm confused if I may in terms of just the amount of conversation around account that has gone that has gone fairly far afield to have an agenda is that the next meeting so I'm not sure it seems like a real slippery slope here for me Tony in terms of how we're heading in that direction so the discussion should be limited to the language of the motion and I'm not allowed to make a friendly amendment I would recommend that you voted up or down and then make a follow-up motion if necessary okay so if I can if I can please like bring us back there is a motion to call the question which was voted upon there was a substitute motion made by council member Glover that passed with council member Glover Cron Brown myself voting in favor vice mayor Myers Watkins and Matthews voting against and so now that motion still needs to be voted on which is on the floor which is to agendize a discussion about the Davis report for the first meeting in March and then there was a friendly amendment by council member Brown point of order I thought we you have a motion you vote we voted I thought we voted it yeah we didn't vote on it then we have another motion that's not a substitute motion that's a motion I thought is that is that wrong or I thought it was a substitute motion it was a substitute motion yeah but you called the question what was that question called about they called the question yeah on what we voted on that to to vote we voted to not call the question then a substitute motion was made that substitute motion was voted on so now that motion's on the floor and then there was a friendly amendment made by council member Brown okay so the current motion that's on the floor is to agendize the Davis report for the first meeting in March okay yeah and I'd be happy to incorporate the two additional leftover pieces of the initial motion if that language is still available or we can just vote on this and then restate those the motion was split okay so we'll vote on these and the pieces that I'm going to okay so motion to agendize the Davis report for the first meeting in March all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed okay no sorry okay so that moves with council members Glover Crone member Matthews Brown myself voting in favor vice mayor Meyers and council member Watkins voting against no I voted for it but I would like the record to reflect that I only did so so that the item would in fact be agendized for discussion and we were left no other choice by the council majority and I'll just say for the record that I'm again working with council member Glover and our city staff to address these issues and follow a process that I was thinking would be appropriate and was going to planning on bringing this forward as well so but now we're going to bring it forward regardless and so it all works out okay there's two other pieces to this item this motion that were made and we need to resolve those as well so the other piece to the motion was to get an update from the human resources director on the progress of the ethics subcommittee and on February apparently it's going to be in and training as well right all that's yeah yeah yes and the motion was to do that on the 25th I won't be supporting that I'd like to have all of it happen at one time agreed with vice mayor Myers but I'll be voting no on the vote and so the motion would like to I'll make the so for the record I've been asking since December 10th upon receiving the report to agendize this discussion I would I would recommend that you vote on the motion that's in front of you so I will we will get an up so I make a motion to get an update on the work progress and timeline of the council ethics committee including the development of a code of conduct for council members and a structured process to address workplace misconduct complaints that are not directly accountable to the human resources department but may require council action including consequences for substantiated complaints and to receive reports from the human resources department and city managers office on current and anticipated steps for training on respectful workplace policies as well as conflict resolution immediate mediation efforts for March for the first meeting in March I'll second that so we've a motion made by Vice Mayor Meyers seconded by Mayor Cummings all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed that passes unanimously and then there was one more piece to this motion I don't know was that everything was that everything is that everything okay she included it all together okay great well I guess that concludes our meeting for this evening and so thank you all for joining us meeting adjourned


Well, welcome to Berlin. Last talk of the morning.  So I work in the Advanced Systems Engineering Group. So we don't just work on the containers. We're also responsible for a couple of projects you may have heard of, ClearLinux, which is doing really well on Pharonics at the moment, and Chow, which is an example of an orchestrator. And there's a common theme running through those projects about reimagining what we can do in the whole container cloud stack. So can we make a tenfold difference to performance? As Jim said, we're at ContainerCon, so I will be talking about containers. And we all use them. I was thinking I was writing this talk. How many containers do we think we have active in this room right now? I reckon one each, maybe. You'll take social media, email, a bit of online purchasing while you're watching the keynotes. So I'm thinking 3,000 containers in the room. But not all containers are made equal. If I'm doing my internet search, I type in my query and I was thinking I've got about three seconds before I think that's timed out. I've got a rogue server, refresh, move on. If I'm doing my banking, if I get a guarantee that, well, give it a few more seconds and we might not leak your details, well, I'm going to be a bit happy about that. So containers aren't made equal. We all have different needs. And as an implementer, pretty much you have two choices. We'll get to that in a moment. So when we talk about containers, I think I need for this talk clarify. There's an overloaded word. There's two sorts of containers we talked about. So there's image, which is the thing you want to run. And then we have runtime, which is how do you want to run it? And today's talk is going to be about the runtime. I've got this container. How do I want to execute that? So that's the distinction we need to make. And today, pretty much you've got two choices. You're going to run Linux software containers with software protection, or you're going to run a VM with a hardware back protection system. That's a pretty hard choice if you're an implementer, unless you're doing that interesting one where you run a Linux VM in a container or a container in a VM, which is always a bit of a funky setup. A binary choice. We don't really want that. And those users, you don't really care. Is it running in a VM? I just want it to work and work how I need it to work. And when we say what do we want? Well, as we've said, there's banking, there's financial transactions, there's other high security issues. And there's things where I'm not that bothered about the data. If you want my browser history, I'll give it to you. Yeah, that's fine. So we have this spectrum of things we want to cover. Some people want one end of the spectrum. Really time critical. Other people want security. But we don't have that today.  So we want to be able to say, we're on the spectrum between fully featured, accelerated, secure, whichever VM features that you're trying to retain, all the way down to the various minimum lightweight container. Where do I want to sit? And that's something we're trying to enable. So how do we get there? How do we move from today's binary choice, all the way to, well, I can pick and choose, cherry pick, add the bits I want. Make that an easy way to choose. And I should probably also note this isn't just about the runtime. It's the whole stack. Predominantly today, if you're orchestrating, your orchestration is probably tired somewhat to your choice of execution unit. You can't mix and match. You go, well, this one I want to be on bare metal, but that one I'd really like to be in a VM. And this one could be in a software container. You don't generally get that option. You just get launch. Well, I want to have a bit more refined control. And that's something we do in Chow, one of our other projects. It's an example of what we feel the future should be. You can have one orchestrator looking after all your myriad of containers. But if I talk about how do we get there, like many things, I think we should probably talk about how did we get to where we are today. We can't talk about we want to fix the container issue, the VM issue, without talking about, well, how do we get into that situation? And it's history, it's legacy. VMs, I think VMs might even be older than me. So they've been around a long time and they weren't designed for containers. Containers are pretty new technology. VMs, you know, it's meant to be a whole self-contained.  You can't even tell you're in a VM. Containers don't come from that world. They don't have that requirement, generally. I'm a container. Pretty much I want a sea livery. I just want to run. I don't know which machine I'm on. I don't want to browse all the hardware. I've just got a small job to do. So, you know, we need to understand rather than looking at, let's look at the VM and improve it towards containers. Maybe we start at the other end of the spectrum. Let's look at containers and how do we get towards a VM. And I'd like to bust a few VM myths. So who thinks virtual machines are big? Well, they don't have to be. I've seen embedded systems running hypervisors.  Admittedly, that VM may not have the features that you want to run a container. But it's not actually that far off. Containers don't require that many features at the bottom end. So, and along with, a parallel with, I'm big. Big comes slow. Well, if you're not that big, it's pretty hard to be slow if you're very, very, very small. So, if VMs don't have to be this humongous birmoth that you can't really use in your search engine container space because they're just too slow, that's a legacy thing. We can move beyond that. So, what do we do about it? Well, this is where we come back to our tenfold improvement mandate that we're having in a lot of our work we're doing in the open source technology. Simple will not do. We've been told, you know, my boss basically says, if you're looking at a 10% problem, if you're trying to optimize 10%, you're looking at the wrong problem. I don't want to see a 10% improvement. I want to see a 10 times improvement. If we just do 10% optimization, it's nice. And we do that, but we don't do that on the big problem. Once we've got the small problem, then we'll do the cleanup. So, simple is not where we want to head. Yeah, it's not how we're approaching the problem. Need something a little bit more radical. So, and for us, this was look at the legacy situation and we don't need that. We don't need a legacy VM. We don't need to look like a whole self-contained computer, a PC, an IBM PC from when I was a boy. So, throw that away, start again. Pick out the pieces we need from the VM. So, how have we been doing this? Pretty much, first line, as I said, we dropped the PC legacy mode. If you look in QMU, QMU, I think the smallest PC you get in there is the Q35, which was a tiny PC from way back. Well, we pretty much took that and chopped bits off. So, about, I think it was about a month ago, we pushed some stuff upstream into QMU. So, there you go, gym or open source. We pushed a thing called PC Lite.  It's only got the PCs we really feel we need for a container. We did do the optimisation at 10% here and there, but we did that all layers through the stack. So, we did that on the host in the container itself. We did it in the kernel, we did it in the user space. So, we used a few key technologies that have come around in the last couple of years. Some interesting technologies. Non-volatile DIMs are bought with them, execute in place. We've got direct mapping through DAX. So, we map things from the host directly through into the container using these. And they save you not only space, because you are not using so many pages, but they save you a speed as well. You don't go through the buffer cache, you don't go through all the file system layers. So, we get a great deal. And a lot of there is this, if you win on one, you tend to win on the other. You reduce the size, you reduce the speed. No. And we're in a fixed environment. We don't have to support every PC model in the world. We don't have to support every PCI car you're going to scan the bus for. So, we optimise at that level as well. We've got a bunch of things we need to still push upstream for the optimisation in the kernel. And that comes down to me and finding the time. But all of this is open-source and going upstream. So, where are we today? This is something that's been available for probably a year or more. We're on version 2 at the moment. We've moved to a new hypervisor manager. We're doing some optimisations. So, we're getting sub-50 millisecond boot times on VMs. And you can come and see a demo at the stand. So, if I said VM traditionally, if we say it takes a minute to boot, well, shave 10% off. You're down to 54 seconds. That's pretty much a minute. If you do a tenfold improvement, when you're down to six seconds, well, we've done more than order of magnitude here. We've done two orders of magnitude. So, we're in the sub-second range easily for VMs. At that point, VMs become viable for many of the container workloads. And then with a VM, it is still a VM. You do still need a kernel. You still need a user space to launch your workload. So, we do still have an overhead. But traditionally, VM containers, you launch many of the containers like we saw earlier. I'll have 10 of these. I'll have 20 of these. You can share much of that container. So, the overhead goes down. We're down to maybe 50 megabytes per container instance overhead. That's not going to work for every situation for the lightest-weight containers, but for most containers, that's acceptable. So, now, we are in a position where you can think, well, maybe a VM does bring me some features I need, some accelerations, some security, some actual hardware protection. And where are we going next? We're still working on the basic infrastructure. All the work we do is at the commonality level. So, we work on the common kernel, the Quemuda, all the hypervices you use. So, we're not working on a specific stack up. And all this work goes upstream. So, it's sort of benefit of the whole for the future. We work with all the people doing the stack APIs. Containers are maturing. We're now getting standards. We work for those people a lot. So, particularly, we want to make sure those standards aren't too constrictive, that they're not just refined to software containers. So, we try and identify where there may be a case that a VM has a slightly different need. And we do continue to optimize for space and speed. Really, we want to look for that next tenfold improvement. What's that next leap of faith, that change of architecture? So, we are redefining what's possible. We're an open project. We're already upstream. No live demos. I'm not that brave. So, we've been upstream for a while. We actually went out on GitHub. The code is available, but we're now up on GitHub. We have an IRC channel, mailing list. Come to the website where there's clear Linux and clear containers, and you'll find Chow. And we are here on the booth all week, next three days, anyway. So, come visit us. We've got some demos. I'll be on the stand. My colleague, Sammy, will be on the stand. We'll be available for technical chat if you want to get involved or you want us to help you take this technology cos you can cherry-click parts out of the stack and put them into your runtime or your container instances. So, come on and have a chat. Thank you very much. I need some more coffee. I'm a half over here without coffee is killing me. And have a great conference.


How's it going forex traders? Is yours truly that poor? Well, it's not guys in this video. I want to share with you guys how I became so good at predicting and forecasting the forex market and how, you know, I use my focus and my predictions to make a lot of money. Now I know I love you guys are going through your forex journey and trust me, it's not easy. I know this. You have to understand that I've been doing it for 11 years and the first two and a half to three years of my trading career were absolutely horrible. Like I used to cry, I used to be sad. I'll put in money. I'll never be able to withdraw it. Why? Because it was blown accounts to blown accounts. But as time went on, I developed a set of skills, okay? From price action to risk management to, you know, I developed some skills that literally helped me extract money from the market on a consistent basis. Yes, I see this with utmost confidence because for those of you guys who follow my channel, you see me come on here literally before I get into any trade, please any trade, I come on my YouTube channel and then I predict the market and you guys can testify to the fact that I'm correct nine out of 10 times. So how does somebody go from blowing a lot of accounts to becoming so profitable in the forex market? There was a series of things that I had to learn along the way that literally helped me transition from where I was in my mom's house, you know, absolutely struggling and crying to becoming one of the most successful forex traders you see on the internet with verifiable results. How did I go from that obviously to living in Dubai and, you know, leaving the dream life that every single forex trader wants? So guys, if you are interested in, you know, taking your trade into the next level, if indeed you're interested in, you know, you want to really take this thing seriously and you're just tired. All I ask from you guys today is just to stick around to the very end of this video. Let me explain to you guys my progression path and hopefully my progression path can also impact you guys so that you guys can obviously, if you just make some tweaks here and there, you know, and hopefully educate you guys as to how you can improve your trading overall. So once again, guys, don't go anywhere. If you haven't subscribed to the channel, I suggest you do so. And once again, if you've made a lot of money, at least some money from the YouTube channel in regards to my analysis, whereby I predicted, guys, I mean, like I said, I'm currently at 110 times, if you have made money from this channel, all I need from you to do is drop a comment below and just say, thank you, Daps. Or just say something like, I made money from that Oasis channel. Give me some, you know, because I know I do this week in, week out, and I give you guys all this analysis and I literally pour up my heart here. So all I need from you guys is a comment down below. Anyways, guys, enough of that, let's jump into the video. Let's go. Okay, so let's actually break this thing down into little chunks. As you can see, I'm trying to get a bit comfortable, trying to get a bit wiggly, wiggly, right? So guys, I feel like the very first thing that literally helps me stand out from a lot of the traders out there that literally helps me predict the market so profitably. So, you know, not just profitably, but on a very consistent basis is the fact that I have put in, so the very first thing as to how I got so good at trading is the amount of chart time I have put into this game. Guys, you have to understand that in my early days as a university student, right, every little opportunity I got, I was always on my charts. Every opportunity I got, I was watching content, I was consuming videos. Even while I was eating, literally I'll be eating my Indomie, like my noodles, right? I'll be eating my stuff after uni and after class. Guys, 4.30 a.m. my laptop, I wish to sleep off watching Forex videos. I used to sleep off analyzing the charts. Now, what this really did for me was to basically help me understand what they call market cycles. Okay, it's just a classic case of, I've seen things happen way too many times, so once I open the chart now, it's almost second nature to me, like once I see that I already know what's gonna happen. I can tell a stop loss before the stop. I can tell a set up, a trade set up, that is most likely going to stop me out before it even happens. What do I mean by this? For instance, I can open a GBPUSD chart now and I can do an analysis and I can literally see a setup. And just from the way the market is just moving around is, sorry guys, there was a little break in transmission there, so just from the way the market is moving around the support and resistance area, just the way the market is misbehaving, I can literally tell, this guy is most likely gonna be a losing trade because chances that I've seen it happen before and chances that I have, literally probably taking a trade like that in the future, in the past, and he probably stopped me out. Same way I can literally see a set up that's about to happen and I can literally say, okay, this is most likely going to be a winner.  Guys, one of the things that really, really helped me was my dedication to the chart. I have put in a significant amount of hours looking at the charts, but you're probably saying to yourself, like, hey, Dabs, I'm new to the game. I've probably been doing this three, four, five, six months, one year. I haven't put in as much time as you have. And I want to be able to at least become as good as you. So what I've done is, most of you guys who watch this, follow me on my YouTube channel, you're already familiar with the Forex Mastery program. What I did on the course was very simple. I literally compressed 11 years worth of chart time, 11 years worth of experience. Literally I summarized it into 12 different modules, put it together as a course and I've literally published it on the internet for you guys. The program goes for just $99. For those of you guys who are interested, the link is gonna be down below. What this will help you do is, it will help you cut your learning curve in half. So what took me 11 years to learn? The course will literally compress it and you probably learn how to do it in what, two to three weeks. So once again guys, the link is always around here. Somewhere, feel free to click the link down below and grab the program. But enough about that chart time. I have put in a significant amount of time into this game. So before anything happens, I already know. This is why I can come on my YouTube channel and I can tell people like, hey, this guy is suspect. I suspect this guy. Why? Because my inner feeling tells me like, yo, you know, I've seen this guy before.  Or I've seen this guy before. Or I can tell people like this, or I can tell you like literally, wait for a market manipulation to happen before you jump into this trade, okay? Usually I like situations whereby the market goes to run stops. Now, and they want you guys to listen, right? There are certain situations whereby you can, and I want you guys to really listen to this. This part is very important. This is what I like to do. Sometimes maybe seven out of 10 times when I see a setup, right? I like for the setup to run stops. What does this mean? I like for the setup to act like it wants to trigger an entry, but I don't trade it. I like for you to fake all the new traders into the trade, stop them out and then start heading back down in its original direction. Then I like to get into the trade because when you've spent a lot of time in the game, you start to ask yourself, but my analysis was correct. I got into the trade when I should get. Babypips told me get into the trade now, and blah, blah, blah, but I still keep getting stopped out. The reason is very simple. I mean, I speak about market manipulation on the Forex Mastery program, which if you haven't gotten by now, the link's around here, you should get it. But my point is, think about it.  So I now realized that, yo, listen, they're trapped in this game. So I stopped being eager to get into trades. I started relaxing. I started looking at the whole thing as a hunter.  You get what I'm saying? With my helmet, with my, I'm moving around. I only come out to take down the most, like I need that trade to be clear cut, okay? And usually I'll allow the market falling to my trap. I stopped falling into the market's trap and traps, and I started allowing the market fall into my traps. Like I said once again, I allow the market to fake out all the new traders, stop them out, and as the market is about to start heading in the direction that it's supposed to be heading, then I get into the trade. Why? Because now I know for certain that at least I'm sure that 95% positive that this market has done what it wants to do. It stopped out all the people, and now it is ready to head in my direction. And this is one of the reasons why I'm actually so accurate and I make millions of dollars in the games. What I mean, tremendous amount of people. Sorry guys, I don't know why my camera keeps timing up, but that's absolutely, that's fine. That's absolutely fine. Okay, I think I know. I put this setting, guys. My camera is setting up, I think I put it to five minutes. Anyways, that's by the way. So guys, back to what I was saying. So I'm not the kind of guy who likes to take 100 pips, 50 pips, you know, here and there. No, no, no, I go for the big guns. I'm talking 2,000 pips. I just predicted the collapse of Jimmy PUSD from the top to the bottom. That was a 2,000 pip drop, probably 2,5 even, right? Those are the moves that I like to predict, okay? And I'm able to make tremendous amount of pips by still keeping my risk as low as 50 to 70 pips. So just do the math. I mean, this is literally trades with a risk to reward ratio of 10 to one. Literally on one trade, while still keeping my risk low, I can return 50% of my camera, probably even double it on one trade and still keep my risk low. Now how am I able to do that? There's something called zooming out. It's so simple and straightforward. And once again, I preach about this on the Forex Mastery Program. It's literally module five. It's called the top-down analysis, right? So what this actually helps me do is, guys, you have to understand that whatever move you're seeing on lower timeframes actually start off on the higher timeframe. Yes, the higher timeframe sets the precedent for the lower timeframe.  Yes, I do come to lower timeframes to execute my trades, to get into the trades. However, I would first of all kick off my analysis from the higher timeframe. It's called zooming out. I want you guys to look at this as Google Maps. I know I keep talking about this, but I'll keep preaching until traders actually start to do things properly. Because the most realistic approach to this is actually zooming out. Think about it. If you're driving somewhere and you're driving without Google Maps, you will get lost. Most traders, let me tell you what most traders are doing. They're literally driving from street to street. Imagine trying to drive from one city to another city and you're just driving from street, you have no map. That's what most traders are doing. But the moment you have the ability to zoom out, now you have a map. Now you know where exactly it's going. I give you, like, this is why I'm right nine out of 10 times. This is why I can literally come and say Bitcoin will collapse. Bitcoin, I predicted the collapse of Bitcoin from, well, 40K to 27K. I literally dropped Bitcoin on its head. Freaking hell, it's Bitcoin. Everybody's like, oh, how do you know that? Zoomed out. GBP is gonna zoom out.  How did I not just simply zoom out? It's called the top-down analysis. Once again, guys, the link to the program is always around here somewhere. Learn how to zoom out. This zooming out is what is going to separate you from the losing guys. Zooming out is what's gonna help you understand when it is time for you to start looking at trading opportunities. Zooming out is what's gonna help you understand when not to be in the market. Zooming out is what's gonna help you understand when the market is trending. Because don't forget, guys, the market only trends 40% of the time. So the remaining 60% of the time, the market is ranging and it becomes extremely difficult for you guys to trade range in markets. So this is exactly how I know when to stay away from tough market conditions. Do you know how to do that? Most traders don't. You don't always have to constantly be analyzing because you're going up against a ranging game. You don't know where the market is going to, but simply zooming up and doing what they call the top-down analysis will help you understand that, okay, now is not the time to trade this game. Now is the time to relax and go and spend time with my family. Okay, I'm saying, guys, so that's another thing that really, really has helped me. Sorry, guys, I keep looking at my screen. I just don't wanna miss anything. So yes, my ability to zoom out, once again, the move actually start from the higher timeframe and trickles down to lower timeframe. So don't forget this, guys. Like I said, you wanna learn all of this more in detail from a more technical standpoint. I speak about it extensively on the Forex Mastery Program which you can get in the link down below. Guys, another thing that really helps me stand out in this game, okay? Another thing that really helps now, so which spoke about why it is important for you to zoom out so that at least you can see the bigger picture and be able to consume and eat all the pit from a larger standpoint, right? Another thing that really helps me make a lot of money in this market is the fact that I allow my lower timeframe trade run into higher timeframe. So what does this mean? Simple. First of all, Forex Mastery... Yeah, once again, my camera cut off, but back to what I was saying. Forex Mastery students, you guys know this. Once we do our analysis on a lower, on a higher timeframe, we don't trade on higher timeframes. We anticipate the direction because we all know that the higher timeframes give us a clearer direction, correct? Everybody's established that, right? If the market is saying it's gonna go down on a higher timeframe, chances are that it's gonna go down. Now, once we're done with that, we then scale to lower timeframes to find entries because once we come on lower timeframes to find entries, then only then can we now refine the entries in such a way whereby we can risk this little because I mean, if you're executing on higher timeframe, your risk is gonna be very high, which is not worth it at the end of the day. The idea is higher timeframe's direction, lower timeframe's entry, so we can risk this little. Now, when you're risking, let's give an example, 50 pips, right? We can see GDP USD also for 2000 pips. But like we said, our sell trades are not gonna go beyond the higher timeframe. We're gonna come on the lower timeframe to look for selling opportunities. Don't forget the almighty higher timeframe is saying down. Good. Now, we come to a lower timeframe and we now find a trading opportunity. Now, mind you, because the higher timeframe is saying down, we should only be looking for sell opportunities on the lower timeframe. Now, once we come on the lower timeframe and we can see spot a sell opportunity, spell a sell opportunity, what we then do is simple. We get into the trade with a small stop loss. When we jump into the trade, and the trade starts to yield us profit, we move our stop losses and move it to break even. Now, what we then do after this is we hold onto that trade. Don't forget, the big boy said he wants to move to K-pips, right? So we hold onto that trade and then when we want to monitor our trade, we then scale back to maybe like a daily timeframe and we basically allow our lower timeframe trade flow into the higher timeframe trade and we start now looking at our trade from a higher timeframe perspective of 2000 pips. I hope this makes sense to you guys. So this is exactly how you can go about risking 50 pips and then as market gives you profit, you lock in that 50, move your stop loss to break even and then you don't scale because if you keep looking at lower timeframe, you feel, oh, I've made enough pips. Now, lower timeframe and then we allow our lower timeframe trade flow into the bigger timeframe perspective and now we're pushing for a large sum of pips or maybe 1000 or 2000 pips. This is exactly what has helped me make a lot of money. This way, I don't need to trade many times. I don't always have to be in front of my screen clicking this way, the market works for Dakpo Willis. The market has to work for me. I don't work for no market, okay? The way I predict the market, the market needs to work for me. I've been doing this for 11 years. I know exactly what's gonna happen from the top down analysis, right? So the market needs to have high lower timeframe entries and then it flows into the higher timeframe. So all my job, literally all I do is just come and lock in profit every day. Isn't that fantastic? Once again, you wanna learn how to do that? Click the link down below. I speak about this in detail in Forex Mastery Program.  So yeah, I just spoke about that. I always allow my trades flow from lower timeframe into higher timeframe. Don't forget, you must analyze from the higher timeframe. That is what is gonna give you the direction. Once you're done with this, come to lower timeframe, execute, and then go back to higher timeframe and let it flow. Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow. Okay, guys, over to the next point. Let's go. Okay, guys, so let's quickly summarize everything we've spoken about today. I don't wanna take too much of your time and stuff like that. Now, guys, to summarize everything once again, trading was a hassle. Trading was stressful. It was crazy. I used to hate it, but now I love it. Now it makes me love money and now it's literally helping me afford the amazing lifestyle that I have today. So, guys, one last thing that I need you guys to understand when it comes to trading is this. You see those setups that you're looking at, right? Entries and exit. What I like to do is, when it comes to my entries, I like to look for the most obvious trade setups. And this is why I only like to trade the majors, GBPUSD, AEDUSD, EuroUSD, because why it is obvious? I'm not trying to act like I'm the most technically skilled trader, which I believe I am, but I've been doing this 11 years, but yet I still look up for the most obvious trade setups. And even when the obvious trade setups are core, I still view every trade setup as a trap. The market wants to eat my money. So even when I'm going into these setups, I'm very careful. Like I said, I like for the market to, it needs to just press, it needs to knock on my door, like, yo, that's a do, man. Come on, I got a trade setup for you. What are you doing? Like the trade setup needs to knock on my door. That's a wake up, it's time to go. If the market trade setup doesn't do that, meaning that it needs to be extremely obvious, if I don't have a setup like that, guys, best believe I will fold my hands, man. Oh no, I ain't trading this market for no reason. You know what I'm saying? Like the market needs to tell me, boy, the market needs to be like, yo, that's, we need you, man. We need you, man, you know what I'm saying? So if the market doesn't do that, trust me, guys. I'm going to allow the market go to where it wants to go to, I'm never in a hurry. There will always be so many trading opportunities. Okay, so guys, that's pretty much my advice when it comes to, draw on my camera. That's pretty much my advice when it comes to trading the markets. Sorry guys, camera is playing up again. Anyways, guys, so like I said, that's pretty much my advice when it comes to trading. I only want to trade the most obvious setups and I view every single one of them as a trap.  Once again, guys, if you want to, you know, learn how to trade the market in the most realistic way possible, you want to learn how to make millions in the market without actually having to stress yourself and stress your life. The Forex Mastery Program is around here somewhere. I suggest you go ahead and grab it whereby I can speak to you guys in more detail. My videos are quite lengthy. People always complain like, why do you talk so much? Yes, I don't want to talk too much so obviously I have to put together programs so that you guys can learn in detail. Once again, my name is Dapo Willis. For those of you guys who want to keep up with my analysis, don't forget to subscribe. If you found this video helpful, drop me a comment down below. If you've made money watching this channel, please don't hesitate to drop a very nice and encouraging comment because these videos take a lot out of me for me to get done. So let me quickly recap. Chat time, ability to zoom out, allow your trades running from lower time frame to higher time frame. I only trade the most obvious setups. There's always going to be a catch to these entries. Of course, risk management. I always secure my profit no matter how little allowed trades running to higher time frame which you've already spoken about. Last but not the least, lower time frames are a distraction news. NFP, all those things don't work. Signals, indicators, they do not work. All those things are all a gimmick. What you need to learn how to do is a top down analysis from higher time frame to lower time frame, execute a lower time frame and then head back to higher time frame and then allow the market breed. Once again, it's yours truly Dapo Willis and that's my time. Thank you very much. Love you guys and kiss out.


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