Good afternoon, everyone. It looks like we are still waiting for Commissioner Olson and Commissioner Downey at this time. Good afternoon, Mrs. Kaylee. I do apologize for the delay, Chair Owen. I just tried to reach out to Commissioner Olson and Commissioner Downey. And I did not, or was not able to reach them. I do believe that we need four people for a quorum. How would you like to proceed? Is Council Jeff Burke on here? I am. What say you, sir? So we do need four Council, four form of commissioners present to conduct business. I suggest waiting at least a few more minutes. We do have one agenda item that regardless of the technical aspects of the quorum, I recommend proceed. And that's the proclamation. But let's put that aside for a moment and I don't know if somebody can reach out if we can text or whatever, but I think we should try to at least wait a few more minutes and see if we can get a fourth for a quorum. Okay. Following Council's advice, it's 138. I understand staff is trying to reach the other two commissioners. Yes, this is Kaylee. I left messages for both of them. I was unable to reach them. We'll send in, Steve and I will send an email right now in case that's a better way to get a hold of them. Okay, so let's stay on hold for another five minutes or so and we'll see. Okay, thank you. I'll send an email to Commissioner Downey and Commissioner Olson. Hopefully I'll hear back from them shortly. Thank you. Jeff, I have a question for you. I have Commissioner Olson on the phone. He is able to dial in. Will that work to get the quorum or do we need him on video? We can proceed with him as long as he is able to hear everything that's being said and he can communicate with us. I think that that will be okay. We really just have a couple of consent items and I'm comfortable proceeding in that fashion. Okay, thank you. Jeff, is that okay to start then? If he, as soon as we get confirmation that he is here and we'll do a roll call and then we can proceed. Okay, thank you. Commissioner Olson will be calling in momentarily. I have Commissioner Olson phoning in. Chair Ellen, Commissioner Olson is present if we would like to begin. Thank you very much. I would like to call the meeting to order. And little housekeeping is to remind the commissioners to keep their audio on mute and unless they are speaking. The commissioners other than the chair can mute themselves. Staff will remain muted until needing to speak. As members of the public join the meeting, you will be participating as an attendee. Your microphone and camera will be muted. Only today's panelists will be viewed during the meeting. If you're calling in from a telephone and choose to speak during the public comments portion of today's agenda for privacy purposes. 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The host will then call on the public who have raised their hand. Public comment will be limited to three minutes and the timer will appear on the screen for the council and public to see. Once all live public comments have been heard, the meeting host will read email public comment. If you provide a live public comment on an agenda item, but also submitted an email, your email public comment will not be read during the meeting. Additionally, there is one public comment period on today's agenda to speak on non agenda matters item five. This is the time when any person may address the housing authority on matters not listed on this agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the housing authority. Thank you. And right now last the court for roll call. Indeed. All right. Start with Commissioner Burke. Commissioner Burke. You're on mute. Steve, you're on mute. Still on mute. Should be able to hear me now. I am here. Thank you. Okay. And next. Mr. Olson. Mr. Olson. He's on mute. Thank you. And then I've got Commissioner Downing. And vice chair test. Here. And chair Owen. Here. Thank you. Thank you. I could show that all commissioners are present except for Commissioner Downing. Item number three is a statement of as abstention or any commissioners need to file a statement of abstention or any item today's agenda. Hearing none. We have item four, which is a study session and there is not a study session this time. This is the public comment on non agenda items. We're now taking items on item five, which is the non agenda minds. Non agenda matters. This is the time when any person may address the housing authority on matters not listed on this agenda, which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the housing authority. If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. As the clerk to proceed with the outlined public comments procedure and let us let the commission know if there's any public that would like to make comment. A countdown timer will appear for the convenience of the speaker and viewers. The first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you are invited to do so. Your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown or at the conclusion of your comment. The public comment will be from Colin resident and phone number ending in 5549. I have enabled your speaking permission. Hello. Hi, please identify yourself for public record if you so choose and your time begins now. Hello, Dwayne deal with from Roseland. I'm here to thank you folks today for continuing to try to provide more affordable housing in the entire city of Santa Rosa. I've been waiting outside the building as I am not an internet connected person and thought that by coming here I could at least see the files. And I find this problematic because many people in my disadvantaged neighborhood of the Roseland Creek area of Santa Rosa are also not on the internet. And they're essentially being zoomed out. By the way, the city is conducting these meetings and essentially excluding the opportunity for people to talk about how we could have a better approach to affordable housing and the homeless. We have lots of homeless who've come over into our area and essentially been be dabbling our community. And the city's policy of essentially focusing and steering more affordable housing over into our area than perhaps anybody else in the entire city, especially working with Burbank housing has really become problematic for a lot of us. We're hoping that you folks will open up the process during the supposed general plan update that allows the public in the community, the homeowners and the taxpayers, along with their renters to have a voice in the sighting of where affordable housing will go. In the past when the city has claimed certain housing will go forward on sites and that would get their housing on the improved, then they haven't made the sites available or the sites haven't been used for affordable housing. Santa Rosa Avenue is a perfect example down by Yolanda, where a project was supposed to go in on Santa Rosa Avenue.  So please work with the community, involve us and let us know that you appreciate us. I appreciate Mr. going who will be apparently leaving and I can't stay for these proclamations. I also appreciate that you folks are giving more affordable housing units under article 34 for both the cannery and the veterans project on Western Avenue as a veteran I appreciate that you've been able to work with those folks. Now we need to work with the rest of the community to have affordable housing scattered throughout the city scattered site. Mixed income, mixed use affordable housing, the housing authority could do that time to move forward with a new approach in a better way. All the best to you in the new year. Be well and stay safe. Chair oh and I see no further hands raised, and we received no email public comments. Thank you and thank you Mr. do it for your comments. Moving on to item six which is the approval of minutes. I, Jeff Burke to these. Does this need a motion to approve the minutes. I can be approved by unanimous consent if no commissioners have any questions or concerns about them. And do we do that via a vote. No, you don't have to take a vote. Okay, thank you like to go ahead and move that the minutes from our last meeting are approved. Thank you. Thank you. The next item is item 7.1, which is a proclamation and Megan and you get to do the honors. All right, thank you. One moment while it loads on my computer. All right. Chair Owen and members of the housing authority, we'd like to present a proclamation of appreciation to David E. Gwine in honor of his retirement from the city of Santa Rosa. Whereas in March 1999, David Gwine joined the city of Santa Rosa as the program manager for affordable housing. And whereas David promoted to the director of housing and redevelopment in 2004. And whereas over the course of his leadership, David saw housing and redevelopment evolve to include neighborhood revitalization, economic development, parking, homeless services and code enforcement. And whereas David led the city's redevelopment agency to finance major projects benefiting Santa Rosa, such as the Hyatt Vineyard Creek Hotel and multiple affordable housing units and led the city through the dissolution of redevelopment. And whereas David led the neighborhood revitalization program, a citywide task force dedicated to improving conditions in neighborhoods throughout Santa Rosa through code enforcement and neighborhood outreach. And whereas during David's tenure, the city opened two homeless shelters with more than 200 emergency shelter beds, assisted Catholic Charities in purchasing the block for the development of Caritas Center. And whereas David led the city's efforts to expand homeless services and programs to address the changing needs of the community, including the adoption of a comprehensive housing first strategy. Implementation of a multidisciplinary encampment response team and activation of innovative programming in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And whereas David led a team to bring over 1500 affordable housing units to fruition and assure their continued affordability for future generations of Santa Rosa residents through ongoing compliance and monitoring. And whereas under his leadership, the Housing Choice Foucher Program grew by approximately 40%, earned the High Performing Agency Award from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for 12 years and continues to provide ongoing rental assistance to over 2,000 households. And whereas the City of Santa Rosa, the former redevelopment agency of the City of Santa Rosa and the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Rosa have greatly benefited from David's leadership and insight. Therefore, be it resolved that David is recognized as a consummate professional and will be remembered for the kindness and professionalism that he brought to the City of Santa Rosa. Be it further resolved that David Gwine will be greatly missed and is hereby wished a well deserved retirement. Thank you, Megan. Do you want to say anything besides, do you want to add to the proclamation? Are you asking board members or Megan? Megan, we'll start with Megan. I just want to wish Dave all of the luck and happiness in his retirement. He has been a great mentor and a wonderful leader to our department and he's going to be greatly missed. Thank you. Any comments from the commissioners? Commissioner Berg? Thank you, Chair Owen. One of the things that kind of comes to my mind is that succession planning really works and it was proven back in 2004 when Dave took the responsibility for leading the Housing Authority and redevelopment agency. And it was interim at first, but then to the benefit of the city and its residents, Dave was appointed by the then city manager, Jeff Collin, to be the permanent director of the department. Dave's charted his own course and it's been a really good one. He's built an excellent staff of a very experienced professionals and that's the kind of the bedrock formula for success for sure. He's expertly handled just a vast array of programs and he's done that with calm and cheerful and very professional kind of leadership style. And bottom line is Dave has just kind of raised the bar in terms of the good work that can come out of a well-oiled machine led by a real professional. So thanks, Dave. I really appreciate all of your good work. Thank you, Commissioner Berg. Commissioner Olson, would you like to say any comments? Yes, I would. Can you hear me? Yes. Dave and I kind of came in together. He became the director of the first year that I was on the board. And David, you've always been a gentleman and a two professional. And I've certainly enjoyed working you over the over the many years that we've been together. Thank you very much for your effort and for your friendship. Thanks, Phil. Vice chair test. Yes. Next year, the housing authority will be in existence for 50 years. And with David's tenure, almost half of that time, I have to applaud him for everything he's accomplished. He's the public to us as commissioners, and he has fostered trust and guidance for all of us here in Santa Rosa. Thank you. Thank you. And I would just like to say an honor to work with you, David. I've known you being in the real estate industry in the, in the marketplace for a number of years and and actually running into you at track meets when our kids were doing track probably junior high age middle school age so always enjoyed working with you discussing with you. And it's been honored to be on the commission in this, this past year is as as chair. You've done a phenomenal job, excellent leadership style. Just all around good person, and you're, you're going to be missed. You laid the groundwork with an excellent team to move the progress forward and again that takes phenomenal leadership to do that. As Commissioner Burke stated in the succession planning that started for you to have the current job and what we have going forward so it's been an honor. You'll be missed, and wish you the best of luck, and we will be in contact be able to have coffee on other matters. So I'm looking forward to that. Okay. Yeah, let me just let me just say that in reading through the proclamation thank you Megan thank you everyone the reminds me of a sign we had in our high school locker room there's. There's no I in team. And so the going, you know, even the Hyatt Vineyard Creek when we were dissolving redevelopment it required a refinancing but that had its origins with somebody named Steve Burke. I'm getting two shelters at its origins with Steve and fellow name Mark Krug. So I'm just fortunate to be part of a succession of very talented people to keep the mission going forward and I'm, I'm extremely confident that the team we have in place will continue to do so. It's such a great system such great people. This housing authority is solid. It has great leadership it has good staff, and we'll continue to have the mission go forward so I thank you for that thank you. And to move on to there's item a which is the chairman or commissioner reports here oh and if I may interject we do have some hands raised for public comments for the proclamation.  Perfect thank you. We are now taking public comments on item 7.1 proclamation of appreciation for David Gwine. If you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand. You will have three minutes to make your comment. A countdown timer will appear for the convenience of the speaker and viewers. The first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak. Please make sure to unmute yourself or you are invited to do so. Your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown or at the conclusion of your comment. Our first public comment will be from Mark Krug. Mark I have enabled your speaking permission. Yes. Let me bring the timer up on my screen. Can you confirm you see the timer. I can thank you. Perfect. Please identify yourself for public record if you so choose and your time begins now. Thanks again. This is Mark Krug with Burbank Housing and I appreciate the opportunity to embarrass David a little bit here. I don't wish to regurgitate some of the facts that have been said already. I have a couple new comments to make. I'll start with the fact that because I now work for Burbank Housing in the development department I spend a great deal of my time probably the majority of my time. It's great. I'm just going to say that I have a very good background at this. I'm going to focus on some of the issues of the president's time. I'm going to say that I also have a very good background at this. I'm just going to focus on some of the issues that you have to address. I just want to say that for us in the department of Housing and Housing and Housing, help us all achieve our mission of affordable housing. You know, some of the funding sources it feels sometimes like the point is to screen out applications rather than to support the mission. And so David, I wanted to point that out that I think it's just extraordinary the culture that you've maintained that handed off to you from Steve Burke to really be mission driven and help those of us trying to develop housing rather than being a hindrance and really appreciate the support. And I can't say how different that makes you from our experience with most funding sources. I want to also say that it's been a tumultuous 15 years that you've led the department through the dissolution of redevelopment, which I don't think too many of the listeners probably understand what administrative headache that really involved, not to mention the loss of the resources, but a great deal of time and the unraveling of redevelopment. You went through a number of city sort of budget crises and reorganizations and a lot of ups and downs. And you've been just really steady. One thing that everyone in this community realizes is it's just been really steady in your department in spite of what's going on elsewhere in the city. And I think that's a credit to your leadership. You've always been focused on the mission and supporting organizations like Burbank in achieving our mission. So, we've known one another a long time, David, 22, 23 years by my count, starting out as peers and working for Steve Burke and then going our separate ways. And I feel fortunate that we've stayed in touch socially and professionally and I'll conclude by saying, I look forward to the post COVID opportunity to literally toast you with a pint in hand and with that best wishes and good luck in the future endeavors. Take care. Thank you, Mark. Chair Owen, I see no further public comments. And I'm not sure if there's any other staff members that would like to make a comment at this time. Are there any staff members that would like to make a comment this time? Hi, this is Kate Goldfein. Can you guys hear me? Yes. Hi, Dave, I just wanted to say thank you for your leadership and for particularly you and I worked together through some really hard things while we were both here. And I'll always remember how kind and patient you were through that. And I always appreciated that about you and I'm very glad that now you and Lori get to enjoy your time together. So thank you again for everything. Thank you, Kate. Thank you. Yeah, this is Kelly Kaikendahl. Can you hear me? Yes, Kelly. I'll jump in on the staff comment and appreciation to Dave Glein. I've worked with Dave in Housing and Community Services for 15 years and as a program specialist in affordable housing. And the last five years, very closely with Dave leading the city's efforts responding to homelessness. And in that time, Dave has really been a mentor for me. I'm now the city's manager or program manager for homeless services. And I just wanna thank him for that, for his mentorship, for encouraging me maybe when I didn't see it in myself to step into roles that I wasn't necessarily comfortable in. So thank you for your leadership and your mentorship over the years and you'll be missed and have a great time with your family in your retirement. Thank you, Kelly. Thank you. This is Rebecca. I would also like to jump in. I'm the manager of the Housing and Community Services Program and have had the opportunity to work with Dave even more closely over the last year than in my previous 15 or 14 or so years with the Housing Authority. And I also just wanna echo what everyone else has said. You're a role model to me and I know I can speak for my entire staff when I say that you will be very, very missed. Here the culture that you have created in our department and in our office will live on and we will still miss you every day. And thank you for everything that you have taught me and I really appreciate it and I'll miss you. Thank you, Rebecca. Thank you. Are there any other people that would like to make a comment? Okay, well, Dave, this is definitely a highlight of the agenda. So I would just say it's back to succession planning. Steve set up a great shop. We were able to continue that and expand on it. We have a great team in place and we will continue to do so from the folks you just heard from and saw. So the Housing Authority, the Housing Trust of Voucher Program is in a great space and it'll continue to be that way. So that's a credit to the team. That's everyone, all of us. Thank you, David. The next item is the item eight, which is chairing and commissioner reports and there are reports that are any of those. Same with item nine committee reports. There are no committee reports. So we're moving, calling item 10.1. And David is the presenter in this end. This is the executive reports. Excuse me for that, yeah. So we have two items to report to you today. The first is a 10.1 A and that's to give you a status of the community development block grant disaster recovery multifamily housing program or as we like to say, CDBGDR. You might recall that the last meeting of October, October 27th, the city council accepted the standard agreement with the state of California, what meant after approximately three years after the disaster, where we'll proceed to try and get a solicitation for multifamily housing projects going. City council delegated that task to the Housing Authority and the loan and review committee comprised of council member Schweldhelm and Sawyer and Burke and Chair Owen. And so immediately Megan and her team went out the following week and solicited proposals. They were doing 30 days, which was December 4th. We had 17 applications totaling just under 1300 units, totaling around $149 million for the 35 point, I'm sorry, $38.5 million available. And then combination in the Housing Authority to Rebecca side is we did a companion solicitation for project-based vouchers. Oversubscribed as well, 259 requests. And so nose to the grindstone, we're looking through those proposals this month. We're vetting them internally and we plan to pull the loan committee together. Again, Steve Burke, Chair Owen, council member Sawyer and Schweldhelm, ideally by the end of the month to review these proposals in front of us and get some preliminary direction so that we can then schedule a special meeting of the Housing Authority in early January, early January, so that we can get a recommendation forward to the state of California. The reason that timeline is critical is because state housing and community development, HCD, are the people that would be reviewing what we recommend based on our expertise and solicitation to then go, yes, these are good projects to proceed. And then at least of the developer ready to start hitting the milestones of 2021 for tax credit, 4%, 9%, multifamily housing, other opportunities. And that is our goal. And so right now, if you don't see Megan's eyes get wide, we're pretty much on schedule to do so. And that's the report for the status of community DR and happy to CDBG DR. And we're happy to answer any questions or maybe Megan, you wanna add something that I might have glossed over, skip through. I think that was a great summary of the process that we are undertaking and we're very hopeful that we're gonna have some great projects that we're gonna be able to move forward. Yeah. Commissioner Burke, you're on mute. Commissioner Burke, there we go. Okay, yeah, for some reason my space bar isn't working like it's supposed to. I just wanted to do, maybe you mentioned it, Dave, but are we also, I believe I recall, having a parallel request for interest in project based vouchers as well for this, yeah. Yeah, I maybe glossed over that a little bit too much, but yeah, we ran a parallel process to see if anybody wanted to solicit proposals for project basing in the voucher program. And that's what I said, yeah, we have 259 units under request in the 17 developments. And so again, way oversubscribed. Great news to have this interest in our development community. But to Megan and Rebecca's credit, I just keep using the term nose to the grindstone. Where do we know where we can move the best resource to get the family's house the fastest? And so that's going on right now to go on through the holiday. And ideally, Chairman Burke will be able to have the Loan Review Committee review both proposals here in the next couple of weeks. Are there any other questions? Commissioner Olson or Vice Chair, I have a question, either David or Megan can answer. So it's $38 million. The normal CDBG funds that come in are approximately, how much each year? On an annual basis, we have about $1.1 million in CDBG funds that we include in our Notice of Funding Availability. These are slightly different in that they can be used for construction purposes because they are identified for disaster recovery and our regular CDBG that flows to us from HUD can be used for acquisition of land. And that's how we usually position it in affordable housing projects. And this is an item we've discussed in the past. And David, if you could answer this question. So quantifying to $1 million is normal CDBG. Now we have $38 million for a different purpose. Not only is the dollar amount available so much more, but the purpose is different than normal CDBG. And just, you've not had any increase in staff and the process in terms of NOFA has been, how has that been received from, and Megan maybe you can answer if you would like, that many applicants coming in. Were there any issues in terms of the process from the applicant side or were they pretty familiar with that process? I'd be happy to answer this. We received some new applications from developers we have not previously worked with. So we are looking at their experience and capacity, but the majority of the applications we received are from projects that we have been in conversations with, have previously sponsored or are familiar with in our community. We are just taking on the review of the applications as Dave acknowledged it is, it's a fair amount of work but it's certainly something that we are excited to do and are looking forward to positioning these projects to move forward. And on that $38 million, are any of that money available to use for staff costs or is all going into the projects? We can use some of the funds for activity delivery which is essentially reimbursement of staff costs. And do you have any idea what percentage of that $30 million is going toward that cost? I believe about $130,000 to $50,000 we've identified as going towards staff costs. Small amount. 150 out of 38 million. And I now would add to what Megan said that comes on the compliance side of the shop. Community Development Block Grant is a federal resource disaster recovery has a lot of quote unquote strings attached to the money.  It's more on the back end where you have to monitor prevailing wage and title three and all the things that the federal government requires. That's really where the new administrative costs come from. And part B, which is Rebecca's area. Can you describe the process that you've had to go through for applications that they've been primarily from applicants that we know, applicants new to the area? Yes. Well, it's quite similar to what Megan said. There was crossover in the applications and that was actually part of our intention. We wanted to position projects to be able to use the DR resources in combination with the project-based voucher resources so that they're more likely to come to fruition and be more competitive, perhaps in the tax credit rounds. So that was our intention and we did see a lot of crossover. And so as what Megan said, there are projects that we're familiar with and a few that are new to us. There were four projects that applied for DR but did not apply for the project-based vouchers. And there were also four projects that applied for project-based vouchers that did not apply for the DR. And that is fine. We're still gonna review all of those in accordance with the voucher regulations. And as Dave had mentioned, we are oversubscribed on that request as well. We have 80 vouchers available and we got requests for over 250 units. So we'll be reviewing those carefully in conjunction with the DR applications. And of the applicants that came in for project-based vouchers for their projects, it's my understanding that a project can receive a maximum of eight project-based vouchers without triggering prevailing wage. So if they're in a funding category that doesn't require prevailing wage, who's gonna to only ask for eight? Can you discuss how many projects asked for eight or asked for the majority of the project just trying to get an understanding of how that played out? Sure, yes. You're right about that. And there were definitely projects that applied for just eight. I'm trying to grab the actual number. Sorry to put you in the spot. There were, there's definitely projects, I would say about four or more, four or five that apply just for the minimum amount that wouldn't trigger prevailing wage. But the majority did apply for more units than that. Some of them applied for the regulatory maximum, which is 25 units or 25% of the project. If that's for standard units, there's also exceptions that can be made under the regulations to have more units than that. If the tenants, if the project is designated for some kind of special population, so we did get a couple of requests for that as well. Okay, thank you. Commissioner. If I may, I just, I mean, just an observation, I guess, and that's, this is kind of like a no-fond steroids because I mean, it's much more complex, much more complex with the ability to use it for new construction. I mean, you know, you could probably have one or two developments that consume the entire amount just to be able to use it for new construction. I mean, hypothetically anyway. So I really appreciate the hard work that you are engaged in right now and looking forward to seeing the analysis come forward to the committee. Thank you. There any other comments or questions on the signer from commissioners? Hearing none, David, you wanted to go ahead with 10.1B. Yes, thank you, Chair. So the other item we wanted to update the commission on is a study session that occurred last December 8th, last Tuesday with the city council. And that was based on the request that the renewal enterprise district, known as the red, has to the city council to resource its efforts up to $10 million in match to what the Board of Supervisor by motion currently states. They received the chair's letter about lending systems that are in place, including you, the housing authority. So they invited me to participate in a presentation where the council heard both the renewal enterprise district ideas and the housing authorities ability to move one-time money into projects. If you're interested, you should look back to the council meeting of December 8th. It was a study session, started around three o'clock. But I wanted to let the housing authority know that that discussion took place and that the end result, I think, and several of you may have watched it, is that the city council now knows they have a choice if they wanna use one-time money from the PG and E settlement to help resource the development of housing that they could use your existing system called the housing authority or consider standing up a new organization called the renewal enterprise district. So it's on here just for your information. If you're interested, you can look at the December 8th slide deck and the study session that was at the city council and happy to answer any questions. Any questions from the commissioners? Mr. Berger? Just a comment, if I may. You know, it occurred to me, I thought that the study session was very informative and I certainly provided me some insight into what is being offered now by Red and their consultants and the opportunity to participate jointly with an effort. I guess I don't, and I think Dave did an excellent job of pointing out the experience that resides within the city of Santa Rosa and particularly within his department with the housing authority, in terms of reviewing these kinds of applications that might come forward if there is funding by the city that is joined with the funding that's being offered by the county. So it opens up another real opportunity for kind of a joint effort. And I guess I would see it as maybe not necessarily either or. I mean, I can see Red, which is more of an organization which is just kind of fledgling and has some objectives, which are obviously have a lot of commonality to what is being done within the city, but it also kind of is more focused on downtown kind of more dense developments. And Dave in his presentation mentioned that, you know, we can't handle lower income, moderate income market rate because the method that is being used is kind of interchangeable in that respect. So perhaps there's an opportunity there where we're used kind of the opportunity of some funds from the county with the expertise that lies within the city to review and have the participation by the city and county that kind of joins the two efforts together. Just a thought that I had after listening to the presentations last week. Those are my comments. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Olson, do you have any comments? And just to remind that you're on mute at this time. Commissioner Tess, do you have any, Mr. Tess, any comments? Just a little bit. So I was part of the public discussion and it was interesting hearing the comments from the public at large and the overwhelming were toward the affordable level of housing. And they mentioned medium priced housing. Maybe they know what that is. Maybe they don't know what that is. But I was heartened that there was quite a few who were for low income housing. And I also felt that the comments from the city council members after the towards the end of the study session were very interesting in that I think after the presentations, several of the council members signals sort of a feeling that perhaps the housing authority could very well handle these PG&E recovery funds and achieve some of the same things that Red was promoting. That's all. Thank you. Thank you. David, maybe you can answer this. Where is the city in terms of determining how much money they have? They're planning if this is even a possibility that money could go toward housing out of the PG&E settlement funds. Yeah, thank you, Chair Owens. So the process is tomorrow night, December 15th, the city council's hearing another study session and that's around fire safety and fire recovery and resiliency. And don't have the benefit of that presentation yet they want to, so far the city council said this is insurance settlement money based on a disaster from 2017 from fire. So let's make sure we address that. And so they're gonna go through that. They're gonna listen to that tomorrow night. I anticipate they'll be interested in some preliminary estimates. The next step will be they have a goal setting meeting set for February 18th and 19th. And this is annually where the city council sits down with staff and looks at where are our priorities and what can we make or may not achieve financially? And from that meeting, we anticipate as staff there'll be some direction to consider the budget for the 2021 June system year. And out of that, they'll be discussing how much they need to make sure the community is safe from wildfire disasters and how much are the other priorities in front of the city council? Everything from homelessness, housing, Rosalind library, everything you've been hearing. So it'll be quite the discussion. And we're not sure if the total PG&E settlement addresses all these needs, some of the needs or other. So that'll be a February into the spring discussion about budget. Okay, thank you. One of the things that, and I like that we have this executive director reports of part A and part B because I think they dovetail quite nicely. And that part A discusses $38 million at the city of Santa Rosa because the funds went to them first and then they, in the manner they already have in place. And that works well to the discussion that you had in the study session last time about last week about how the funds that can be used if there are any funds available for housing from the PG&E settlement. There's been prior discussion and maybe Megan or Rebecca can answer as well. The general administrative cost associated with a program in terms of what it costs, money's coming in and what it could cost to for the dollar amount that goes into providing housing units and what the average, and this is something that came up in a prior meeting we had with the mayor in terms of what the housing subsidy is per unit on a kind of an average basis. And David, I think you know that figure. And my point being that if there are funds available and again, the housing authorities ability to take those funds and plow them straight into housing units versus administrative costs to run the program as well as housing units. And if there are in fact funds matching with the counties putting out a $10 million and right now as we discussed in 10.1A, there's $38 million going through with really no increase in the staffing levels and the administrative costs on the front end, not talking about the compliance and I'm talking about the front end to be able to put those dollars out into units. So David, I think you have the kind of the average subsidy per unit that the housing authority puts out. Is that correct? That's correct. Yeah. And can you kind of run through that math? Sure, sure. So in very general terms, what we see is that the Board of Supervisors by motion agreed to put $10 million of their PG&E settlement money one time funds towards housing. And they're challenging the city council politically to match that. So 10 plus 10 is $20 million. So then you consider what's a reasonable administrative cost for this if you're standing up a new lending institution called the red. If you use the guidelines of the community development block grant, you can spend up to 20% 20 cents on every dollar towards your administrative costs. So that means $4 million goes into administrative costs under this example to set up a new lending institution called the red, right? 20% of $20 million. What does $4 million mean? Well, if you consider that the housing authorities looking at between $100 to $150,000 a unit as local match to get things built and you take, let's just say $150,000 divided by $4 million. Sorry to be a math instructor here. That's 26 families, 26 families that would not be housed because resources are going into a new lending institution. And so that's what we at the housing authority see prior to closure during the pandemic, having folks lined up at our front counter seeking help. Folks emailing us, texting us, calling us wanting housing is I think a key policy decision whether to establish an additional administrative entity or not, because it comes at the expense of low income folks trying to be housed. That's, sorry, that's my statement. That's good, I think it's good to be able to quantify because as we are working towards housing as many people as we can for a low income or housing people in general, depending upon what stratification you have for their income that taking a maximum of 20% allowable that doesn't necessarily mean it would be that number but it's allowable for entity to run that those funds would be available for administrative costs. Well, if you're using it pretty simple math, if you're using the money toward administrative costs you're not using it for providing what we're here to do, which is provide units. So just I wanna thank you for that and I'll look forward to see how this works and ultimately what the city decides to do with those funds and appreciate your efforts and your team's efforts in terms of being able to discuss this and present especially with new city council members what the housing authorities here and what they're able to do and how much money they do and what they do for from an admin cost and how much money goes actually to what we're here to do which is provide units. So I appreciate that from you, David and your staff. Any other director reports or comments that would like to be made at this time? Our own commissioner Olson would like to make a comment.  I would just like to affirm that whatever information we could give to the city council to encourage them to use the existing housing authority versus a whole new entity with a whole new need of staff and a whole need of time to get up. I think we should do whatever we could to make our case known to the city council especially the new members of the city council who may not be aware of the housing authority at all. That's it. Thank you, commissioner Olson. I'd like to not hearing any more discussion. Move on to item 11.1, which are the consent items. Sorry, chair, we do have a public comment on this item. Oh, okay. Thank you. We'll just go ahead to the public comment. You're now taking public comments on item 10.1 executive director reports. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand. If you are dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand. You will have three minutes to make your comment. A countdown timer will appear for the convenience of the speaker and viewers. The first speaker will be acknowledged and invited to speak. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you are invited to do so. Your microphone will be muted at the end of the conclusion or at the end of that countdown or at the conclusion of your comment. Our first public comment will be from Gregory Fierin. Gregory, I have unmuted your mic or enabled your speaking permissions. If you can please unmute yourself. I have. Can you see the timer on your screen? Yes, I can. Perfect. Please identify yourself for public record if you so choose and your time begins now. Thank you. I wanted to point out that Dave going just demonstrated the kind of gutsiness that I've always felt he's given which is to clearly state what it is the housing authority is capable of doing and in a way that lets everybody know where he's coming down. It's where I'm coming down and where a whole lot of other people are and that is that we have three concerns. He demonstrated or he indicated the clear ability of the housing authority to do housing for what I think can serve the 80% and below AMI target group. I'm a little worried and I said it in the meeting of study session that the red is going to end up doing all the Porsche Cayennes and not the Volkswagen bugs that they're headed for a target group that's far above what the group is that I normally run into. And in fact, I'm trying to get them down to the extreme Volkswagen bugs of 30% and below. So that's a concern of mine that whatever money gets put there, not only ends up being spent in high administrative costs but generates the kind of housing that if a lot more developer math were done and a lot other things were offered to developers we'd end up getting without having to have any administrative costs and not have to put a whole lot of public funds in. I noted that Jack Tibbetts and a couple of others spoke of this fund that they're trying to set up through red as a revolving fund where they really were gonna get the rents back. They're gonna get their money back 100% by having rents that can make the pencil work. Anybody who's done development of low income housing knows that you've gotta be pretty flexible as to what you expect back. As all of you know, I've been for years trying to get you guys to forgive some of the loans that were given out real early because we're not charging rents could pay you back those interests or the principal. The second point is, I think that this system is gonna compete against itself. This Thursday's meeting of the red has some 20,000 bucks being put out into a consultant who's gonna be applying for grant funds that are also available to you. I mean, I think competing grant writers between the two agencies is gonna be a problem. And I think you guys either gotta play well together or it's gonna be something that worries me. The third I think is that I think this system has to work within the homeless system. No matter what happens with this 10 million or this 20 million or whatever it is and your 39 million, there's also gonna be money that's gonna creep into the county to try to do homeless permanent housing. And I really, really want to see, I wrote in an email recently about homeless permanent housing and I wanna see them get a good shake whoever gets the money. And I trust the housing authority to give them a better shake than I do the red. That's all. Chair Owen, I see no further hands raised and we received no email public comments on this item. Thank you very much. And one of the things before we moved to 11.1 is I wanted to bring up the commissioners whether or not it was deemed to be a good idea to have an ad hoc committee to discuss this item 10.1B. And to the extent that discussion goes further because the city's ability and reviewing possibilities for use of PG&E funds sounds like it's gonna go on for a little while. And I think it'd be who's the housing authority to be able to have a commission in place from its commissioners to be able to set that up and be able to respond accordingly. The commissioners have any comment to that proposal? So if I may through the chair, I do think we have to be a little bit mindful of the Brown Act. And that sounds like you're asking for a little bit more of a formal creation of an ad hoc committee. This is just an information item to bring to your attention. So I think it's probably discretion is the better part of valor and that you come back. I think there'll still be time anyway, hopefully, I believe if you come back at the next meeting and agendize this in a more transparent way. Thank you, Jeff Burke. I think that's a very good idea. Commissioner Burke, you have a comment? I said a question about Jeff Burke's comment. Does the chairman not have the ability to appoint a committee without having to have consensus or input from the housing authority? I think that's consistent with the bylaws. You may know the bylaws better than I do, but if the bylaws do provide for that, then yes, it could be done outside the scope of a Brown Act noticed meeting. So that might be an option to look into. Thank you. That's true. Dude, when is our next scheduled meeting? This is Megan Bassenger. Our next scheduled meeting will be the fourth Monday of January, but as Director Gwine mentioned in his comments, we likely will be scheduling a special meeting in the early part of January to address the CDBGDR. So we can certainly put it on the agenda for that time. I'd like to propose that we put that possibility setting by ad hoc committee to discuss possible use of PG&E funds at the next meeting. I've made a note. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you, Jeff Burke on commenting and keeping us in line for that. Appreciate that. And then 11.1 is the resolution allocation of 15 additional article 34 units for Canary at Railroad Square. And I believe Megan Bassenger is presenting. So on a consent item, if I may, you could just ask if there's a motion to approve the consent calendar. And if somebody wants to pull an item off for discussion, that's certainly within the commissioner's prerogative. Okay, thank you. Are there any commissioners that would like to have discussion on these consent items? And this would be 11.1, which is the 15 additional units for the Canary Road property. And 11.2, which are eight additional units for the Heron Veterans Village property. Any commissioners have comments or questions? Seeing none. Since these are consent item, Jeff Burke, do we need? So somebody needs to make a motion to approve a second and then a roll call vote. Do we have a motion to approve? We'll make a motion to approve. All second. Thank you. And then we can do a roll call vote. Correct. And this is to approve both items on the consent calendar. Correct, 11.1 and 11.2. Steve, are you able to do a roll call vote? Do you want me to do it? I'm sorry. Sorry about that. It looks like Commissioner Olsen does have his hand raised. Yes, Commissioner Olsen. Commissioner Olsen, you're still muted. It looks like you're unmuted, Commissioner Olsen. Yes, I'm just waiting to vote. Okay. I'll do the roll call vote. Commissioner Olsen. Hi. Commissioner Burke. Hi. Vice Chair Tess. Hi. Chair Owens. Hi. That's the record show that all commissioners have voted yes on the consent calendar. Thank you very much. Thank you, staff for putting that together. And it's always nice to see that we are getting more units into the pipeline. Item 12 is report items. And I see none listed. So we will move on to item 13, which is adjourning the meeting. Just going, we are going to miss you. And thank you very much for working with us these many, many years. I appreciate that. Thank you, Jeff. And with that, I'll go ahead and adjourn the meeting. Thank you, everyone. Thanks.


The Spice Group was all created because I had Spice. I had Spice to whatever that you got. I'd take your seat and make it Blossom. My name is Antoinette McLaughlin. I am the owner of the Spice Group in Edgewood Studios. This is who I am. The Spice Group is a production company, Boutique, because we're still very small, that creates content for artists, for brands. The company started off producing photo shoots.  We started doing music videos, and then we grew to doing bigger videos and then even commercials. The clients liked working with me. They enjoy the process. They know that they can go back and forth with me. We can build. It's a fluid, organic scenario. You know, Atlanta has had many a visionary come through, help create and make this city what it is, and the Spice Group is leading that way. You saw what we were doing, and you got agencies in this space. I love it. As a teenager, my dream job was to be a professional dancer. I heard about an audition. I left school early, went to the audition, and I called you, and I asked you, could I leave school to go to the audition? And what did I say? You said, yeah. I did it. Yeah. I said, you could leave school. I don't know who that lady is. Well, I don't know who that lady is. Because I don't know that lady. Did the audition, and I made the cut. From there, I got a call from an agent in LA. That's when everything took a turn. You know, I was fortunate enough to be a professional dancer and work with some of the top music video directors, work with some of the top commercial directors. I had a niche to fix things and to create things and to make things whole. And I made a decision to stop dancing and focus on working in the music industry. Creative production in Atlanta is at the forefront of the visual revolution because we are not subjected to our circumstances. We see ourselves as greatness, and we exude that. Atlanta was building its production industry. I knew what it took to get those jobs. I knew what it took to keep those jobs. So I have this idea. When it came to me getting so busy that I couldn't take every job, and I wanted to keep the excellence up that I was pushing, I had to start recruiting and training. And so now I'm bringing a collective of creatives together to make amazing dough content. Whatever that you want and you need, we're able to deliver. Antoinette and what she has curated at the Trap Museum was supposed to be a couple weeks, a couple months tops. That's one of the biggest attractions in Georgia. The lines at the Trap Museum, it surprised me. I got brought the opportunity, not even realizing that the opportunity was what I've always wanted to do. T.I. and his team calling me saying, hey, we got this idea. It went from being in an escape room to an album release event to one of the number one attractions in Atlanta.  This was supposed to be a 60 day experience. It's three years later. So for the company as a whole, I want to grow the business internally in the perfect world. The next three or five years, the company has grown internally where we have a full staff that can handle several projects at one time. The biggest thing that is frustrating to me in Atlanta, as I look at just how much Atlanta's growing and it's expanding, we need more tourism. I want to create a museum, one of the top museums in the South. For the culture. You have to push excellence in everything you do.  You know, being your best self every day because that's not easy. It's not easy to be excellent.


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another Transformers review. But before I get started I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please hit that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Also, make sure and visit my sponsor toyhacks.com. Toyhacks provides reproduction and upgrade decal sets for Transformer toys from Generation 1 to the latest modern figures. Make sure and stop by the Toyhacks Armory where they can equip your figures with new weaponry in multiple colors. And Toy Stages provides backdrops for figure displays and photography. Each purchase with Toyhacks earns you RoboSense that can be used for future purchases. You can check your balance anytime in your cart. Toyhacks is a company run by collectors for collectors. So check out toyhacks.com and make your collection stand out from the rest. And tell them Patriot Prime sent you. Now, on to the review. The featured button this video is Transformers Studio Series 86 Jazz. I looked out and found this jazz today at my local Walmart in the bottom shelf stuffed all the way in the back behind a bunch of Batman figures. So big shout out to the individual who hid this jazz for me. And if you didn't hide this jazz for me, oh well. So let's take a quick look at the packaging. You've got jazz here in robot mode. Great artwork of jazz right here. Transformers Studio Series 86. Side of the box you got Jazz's head, big grin on his face, Studio Series 86. Back of the box you got Jazz in robot mode and vehicle mode. And this side of the box is more fantastic artwork of Studio Series Jazz with an 86 right there. So now without any further ado, let's get this guy opened up out of the package and check him out. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now once you get Studio Series 86 Jazz all open and out of the packaging, you'll see he does come with a sheet of instructions. And as usual, these are very well illustrated and very easy to follow. He also comes with his rifle and this really cool backdrop depicting moon base one. So if you have the space on your display, you can display jazz just like that. Unfortunately, I don't. So that's going back into the box and into storage. So now let's take a closer look at Jazz himself. Now right off the bat, Jazz looks amazing. This is one fantastic looking figure. I mean, he looks like he stepped right out of the screen. I couldn't be happier with the way he looks. And I absolutely love that head sculpt. Much better than Studio Series 86 Blur, who looks like he's addicted to meth. And Studio 86 Cup, who looks like his prunes just aren't working. Jazz, on the other hand, looks fantastic. Great paint applications there on the face with the blue visor, the silver face, the black helmet. Great paint applications all around. He's got the blue headlights, the blue up there on the chest. Blue designs right there on the crotch area, silver stomach. Moving on down to the legs, he's got silver paint right there. And the guy just looks awesome. He is very, very cartoon accurate. Now the Generation 1 toy had the wings that splayed out on the back. But in the cartoon, Jazz did not have those wings, so this guy is spot on. Looking all the way around the figure, he has a little bit of a backpack, but really it's not bad. And I think it's ingenious how this backpack works as far as the vehicle kibble. Now articulation for Jazz, the head is on a ball joint, can look up and down, do a complete 360. The arms, they can go up, they can go down, they can do a complete 360 as well. There is an elbow bend, there is an elbow rotation, but no wrist rotation due to transformation. That's a lot of ations right there. He does have a big glaring gap right there, that's so the fists can fold up into the forearm. I missed the days where you had a lever, you could slide the fist in and out. That would have made that look so much better. Carrying on with articulation, there is a waist rotation. The legs can go in and out, back and forth. There is a knee bend, actually kind of a double knee bend due to transformation. He's got this knee bend, which is the actual one, and then there's kind of a secondary knee bend right there. So you can really get some range of motion. And he has ankle tilts. So all in all, a fantastic figure. Now he also comes with his weapon that looks very generation one accurate, aside from these pegs here on the side. And what those are for is on the back of the figure, there is a hole so he can store the weapon like so. Me personally, I like to store the weapons in the fists of my character and I think that looks a lot better than on his back.  They really take away from the look of the weapon, but it could be worse. At least it's not a seat gun like the Titans return figures were plagued with. So now let's get into transformation. The first thing we're going to do of course is remove the rifle and we'll go ahead and fold the hands in. Now down here for the legs, we're going to fold the feet down like so. And then we'll go ahead and peg the legs together down here at the bottom. You got these two pegs right there. Peg those together, take these wheels right here and rotate those just like so. So now we have that look going on. Now we're going to bring the backpack out and then lift the chest area up. So we've got this going on. Now right here, I think this is really cool. Bring these sections down and now what you're going to do is bring the rear window out from underneath the backpack. And you want to be really careful with this because these sections here can catch on the doors. And you probably notice that's all clear plastic. So definitely go easy with that. So once you get that locked in place, you've got that look going on. So now what we're going to do is take Jazz's head and fold it down through the hood. This will rotate up this blue section right here and then you got this flap. Bring that up and there you have the hood complete. Now this is kind of tricky. It took me a while to figure out any instructions is we're going to rotate the waist section but only this silver part. So you're bringing that up and around because you want to be careful when you're doing the waist rotation that will go with it. So you just want to make sure and rotate this silver section. Now we're going to take the legs and just collapse those into each other like so. Bring this part down and kind of get that in position. So now with the arms right here, you're going to kind of rotate these wheels around at the same time manipulating the arms to get those all tucked in. Once you get those arms in, you want to make sure the forearm here is facing out. So this tab is sticking out away from the vehicle and just put that in position. Do the same thing here on this side. And once those arms are in place, you're going to shut the doors, see the slot right there. That corresponds with that tab. Get everything lined up, tabbed in together, flip the vehicle over. And right here, you got two little tabs that are going into slots. I don't know if you can see it. That's right there under that back glass. So we get that tabbed in place, get everything lined up. And now we have jazz in vehicle mode. And that vehicle mode is sharp. Very generation one looking. I love that vehicle. It's got the blue and red ray stripe all the way down from the hood to the roof or from the roof to the hood. Big Autobot logo right there. Of course, you saw this in robot mode, the grill, the headlights, the red pinstriping. The wheels, the front wheel, it's got those blasted clips where the back wheel doesn't look bad at all.  Now, with the windows, they're tinted, which looks good, but they're still translucent. So you can see all of the robot junk there on the inside. So that's kind of disappointing. Got the big 14 there on the door and he rolls really, really good. I dig it. This is a great vehicle mode. He's got a big old bumper though, the way the feet are, but that doesn't look bad. It looks like what was that movie, Death Race 2000. They had the tombstone back bumper. So that's in case any Decepticons try to run him off the road. So now let's compare Studio Series 86 Jazz with his Generation 1 counterpart. And to be honest, these guys, man, they're almost the exact same size. And I love that. That is a great throwback to the original Generation 1 toy. Now granted, G1 has a lot more details as far as the stickers are concerned, but I know for a fact that Toy Hacks has a set coming out for this version and I've already ordered it. Can't wait for it to come in. Now, of course, I showed this off earlier. You can put the gun right here on top of the vehicle via the handle or like so with the side pegs. But if he's going to be in vehicle mode, the gun can just lay to the side because that kind of ruins the look. But yeah, a great vehicle mode and a great throwback to that original Generation 1 toy. So there you go, guys. One final look at Studio Series 86 Jazz in vehicle mode. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is Transformers Studio Series 86 Jazz with Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Generation 1 Jazz, Generation 1 Classic Pretender's Jazz, and Reveal the Shield Jazz. Transformers Studio Series 86 Jazz is a great figure. This has now become the center point jazz in my collection, finally replacing my Reveal the Shield Jazz. This figure is cartoon accurate to the tee. Great Generation 1 throwbacks. I love the face sculpt and I couldn't be happier with this figure. So there you go, guys. Transformers Studio Series 86 Jazz. So does a Transformers Studio Series 86 Jazz belong in your collection? Absolutely. This is a fantastic toy and the best jazz figure that we've got in years. As I said, this guy is going to be replacing my Reveal the Shield Jazz that I've had front and center over there for years. I love this figure and I'm so happy that I grabbed him, so happy that I found him, so happy that guy hit him, and yeah, this guy is awesome. So you see him on the shelf. Don't hesitate. Pick him up. You are not going to be disappointed. Now, guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. And big news, today I hit 8,000 subscribers. So thank each and every one of you so very much. I never in a million years would have imagined that this channel would grow the way it has. So thank you again from the bottom of my heart. And once again, this is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hoorah!


Thank you Priyanka. Yeah I'm really excited to be here today. It's multi-cloud is something near and dear to our heart and I'm very happy to discuss the multi-cloud maturity model with you today. And before we dive in let's make sure we're on the same page. According to Wikipedia multi-cloud is the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single heterogeneous architecture. It's good for scrabble this heterogeneous word. In other words multi-cloud means leveraging multiple cloud providers. And there's more of them now like in the beginning it was AWS was everywhere. March 2006 they launched and since then clouds have steadily gained traction across end users but also we've seen more of them. And when deploying an application people want options both for business and for technical reasons. So no one wants to be handcuffed to a cloud provider. And we're seeing both that spend on cloud increasing but also companies embracing multiple clouds. Nowadays most enterprises have four to five clouds in their organization and 84 percent of companies have a multi-cloud strategy. All this to say is that multi-cloud is becoming very very important for the enterprise. And there's different reasons for this trend. One of the reasons are technical reasons. If you want to use Lambda or something else DynamoDB for example it's only available on AWS. If you want to use BigQuery it's only available on GCP. There's also negotiating with the cloud providers. If you don't have a multi-cloud strategy you're going to have a much harder time negotiating rates with your cloud provider. And there's the practicality of if you acquire a company and they're already building their application on a separate cloud. They're using services that are specific food for that cloud. People don't want to move off.  So it helps you be able to shift workloads to different clouds for different customers. Another thing that's happening is that open source is eating infrastructure software. In the past we had proprietary technologies and cloud started off as proprietary technologies. But these days you have things like Apache Kafka, Redis, Elastic and those are being offered as a service by the clouds but at the same time they're open source, open core. And in the future the management layer for making projects multi-cloud is very likely to have a multi-cloud foundation. Not in the least because it's going to be based on Kubernetes. It's a great equalizer for multi-cloud. It's the best way to deploy and operate containerized applications. It gives you a common interface to different cloud providers and it's loved by developers and operations and I hope everyone in this room because we're here for Kubecom, right? As I mentioned in the beginning there's various degrees of maturity when it comes to multi-cloud applications. In my talk today I want to talk about what those are and how to get from one to the next and there will be lots of talks today that talk about increasing your maturity for multi-cloud. In the beginning there was only monocloud. You selected one cloud and not too long ago that was what everyone said you should do. You should go all in on one cloud, move all your applications from your data centers in the other cloud and use just one. And then we figured that it was better to use multiple clouds but different clouds provided different workflows sometimes even different tooling. So the way you worked was specific to that cloud. Things like ensuring security, productivity statistics, things like that were specific to that cloud and different teams would work in different ways. And this impeded collaboration and it led to a loss of velocity. We're now moving to cloud independent processes that enable workflow portability. And most companies I think if you look at enterprises most of them are now aiming for this. At GitLab we have customers like Delta Airlines and Genworth who have achieved this and you'll hear from Genworth today later in the talk sessions. After workflow portability comes application portability. It means that your application can be deployed to any cloud. It's not necessarily running on multiple clouds at the same time but you're not using any services that are specific to a certain cloud. You'll see a demo of this today of GitLab and a product called Crossplane that enables this and that should be really exciting. After the next step after workflow portability and application portability is disaster recovery portability. It means your application can fill over to another cloud with limited downtime. After that you get workload portability. GitLab.com doesn't have workload portability for everything. But for example for the CI component running the CI workloads we used to balance between multiple cloud providers. And the final and highest stage of portability is data portability which means that not only your compute your workload is happening at multiple clouds but even your data is synchronized across multiple clouds. And there's a demo coming up by Yuga by today who will talk about how they can achieve that. So to recap we're going from one cloud to multiple clouds but different processes, same processes being able to deploy an app to different clouds. Live failing over the app having the compute run on multiple clouds and then having the data run on multiple clouds. And our goal today is to share the strategies to be successful in maturing your multi-cloud implementation. So to provide an avenue for end users and cloud providers to come together and make this revolution happen. There's going to be more and more multiple demos today so you'll be able to see the stages of work. And I want to call out again the application portability demo, I'm proud to say that GitLab and cross-plane in a demo is something we worked on together to have here for you today. Priyanka already mentioned the on conference. Tonight after the programming we moved to Harbour Cafe and there'll be food and drinks and tables for everyone to get together. I want to say thank you and I'd love to take any questions if there are any. Thank you very much for your attention. We can take about three questions. Just raise your hand and I'll be the mic runner. Come on, somebody has to, all right, there we go. Good job. Heard some confusion around whether something, an infrastructure is multi-cloud. If it's only using different virtual machines or different container technologies on different clouds and how specific SaaS services fall into that, there seems to be some confusion on Twitter in particular. Like what does it mean to be multi-cloud when you're thinking about the different layers of as-a-service systems? And yeah, what's your perspective on how people should differentiate and think about their journey in this model? Yeah, thanks for that. Multi-cloud is like an umbrella term and this maturity model I presented here is one way to look at it. The reality is even more complex. Like how do you call something like elastic search or Kafka that is provisioned as a service by the provider? Like you can buy it from Confluent or Elastic Inc. They will provision it for you and then you do VPC peering to kind of link it to your own service. I don't know exactly how you would define that but I think we're starting to see that a multi-cloud is more than running on multiple cloud. It also means how portable is it? If you, as a company, use three clouds, which have different processes and different ways to work on every cloud and every application is written specific to any cloud and you never move them between clouds, like you have a low level of maturity and I think we're gonna see companies be more articulate about this. This is an attempt, this maturity model is an attempt to give us kind of the naming for that. It's inspired by Mitchell from Hashley Corp. He talked about it at a conference and I added a few stages to it. Let's see if this is a good way to talk about it but I'm open to suggestions to further improve it. Great, other questions? Yes, I'll be over. Yeah, I saw VMware on one of your slides. So do you see a lot of people sort of multi-clouding across their data center and providers? Or where do you see the trend lines there? Yeah, I think VMware is doing a super good job like in the last half year, year of embracing multi-cloud. You gotta recognize that almost every enterprise is running a giant VMware installation and they're now fully embracing Kubernetes as the next avenue. And they give you a dashboard that both includes your VMware virtual machines and Kubernetes and I think that's attractive because most enterprises are not gonna move off their virtual machines based infrastructure for the next 10 years. So a Kubernetes-only dashboard will always have only half of what they need. So I'm seeing a lot of traction and they seem to be very genuine in their embrace now of Kubernetes. And I think with the acquisition of Pivotal, we're gonna see a lot of exciting products coming out from them. And I think in the West, we basically have these. These are the top five like IBM Red Hat, VMware Pivotal and the three hyper-clouds seem to be the dominant players. And then if you include the ESA, we'll be Alibaba. Awesome. We have time for one more. Thank you. Oh, wait, was there somebody? Okay, great. I'll repeat the question. Do you think the hyper-clouds will cooperate with the multi-cloud trend? That's a great question. I think there's some hesitance there's a hyper-cloud that recently at one of their events recommended people to not talk about multi-cloud too much. So I think it's interesting. Like you saw the applause at the beginning, like everyone's excited to be here today. Like by the time what we're gonna talk about today is kind of getting banned at other events, you're in the right place. But I do think the hyper-clouds will embrace this. In the end, if you're looking at, there's basically free hyper-clouds. They take a massive investment to kind of do the data center architecture, to do the hyper-vices, to do all the other stuff they're doing. There's not gonna be a lot of them. And it's probably always gonna be a great business even with multi-clouds. So I don't, I think they'll embrace it, but I think there's a lot of work for us to do here today to bring it a bit further along. Yeah, to add to that, I had the same question. And so in the agenda today, later in the day, we have a panel with cloud providers on it telling us about their take on multi-cloud. Thank you so much, Sid, that was amazing. Thank you.


Rob, yesterday the New York Knicks season came to an end against the Atlanta Hawks. However, it was a season a lot of people didn't expect. 15-1 pre-season for the Knicks to make the playoffs. How will you remember this, Knicks team? I'll remember the days when the season was just getting tipped off that I said I would sign up for a 500 season right now. And it's because of that I haven't lost a minute of sleep after losing the series. For me personally, it felt like it felt like when you're betting with house money and the bet didn't work out. So you ended up making nothing, but we had fun along the way. We learned a lot and you went home with your clothes still attached to your body. And you didn't lose your shirt at the casino. It's kind of a corny way of just admitting that the Knicks are exactly who we thought they were in a lot of different ways. This season was great because it exposed exactly what they will require moving forward to be a legitimate title contender one day. They got to get Julius Randall some help. He is all NBA. He's an all-star. But if that series against the Atlanta Hawks proved anything to us, it's not that he could be the primary option on a championship-winning team. It could certainly be a complimentary star version. Those exist. The same way Kyle Lowry became a complimentary player to Kawhi Leonard in 2019. It made him better. Dwayne Wade became the complimentary starter. LeBron James on those Miami He-Bake three teams, that made him better. But the Atlanta Hawks in this series were just better, more talented, significantly taller, faster, stronger. Every subplurative that you say about SEC football, the Atlanta Hawks had every box checked against these Knicks. So the fact they even got a game at this point in hindsight is wow. And that's a credit to the Knicks in their home crowd.


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Hey coach, welcome back to our channel So if you haven't yet make sure you subscribe because every single day we are putting content out Which is designed to help you to either start grow or scale your business So the next level now if at the end of this video You want to get in contact with me to maybe ask me questions Then there's two ways you can do that number one You can set up a free 15 to 20 minute call with me if you visit the calendar on My the description of this video you can set up a free 15 to 20 minute call or If you want to send me a direct email Then you can do that as well to my email at make money coaching sports at gmail.com Right, so those are the two ways to get in contact with me If you want any of your questions answered and You currently have a have a training business, right? So today I want to share with you five ways That you can add more value to your your football slash soccer coaching business Right. So a question I get asked on a regular basis is Leo, how can I add more value to my coaching service so that I can Up the the value of my program and also I can charge more For for my services, right? So I want to share with you five things That I've worked with coaches on and five things that coaches are currently implementing That we are currently working with right. So what I want to do is I want to go through them one by one This might be a bit of a longer video, but I'm sure it's going to add a lot of value to you and What I would recommend is make sure you get a pen and paper make lots of notes and also once you've finished Right go back and review this video Because I know it's really really going to help you so in order to charge more for your Your training service, right? You need to add more value away from just your one-to-one or your small group training session right so And the screen in front of me. I have five things that I implemented in my business When when I started my football academy But also these are five things that over the course of time. We have helped coaches that we work with Implement into their business, which they've been able to to double and triple Their income and also charge more for their services per client, right? So ultimately what you want to do is you want to charge more per client But in order to do that you need to up the value of your program Right. So the first one in front of me is review player goals on a monthly or quarterly basis So a big mistake a lot of coaches do is they don't review or they don't set goals with their clients Right something we encourage coaches in our program is that every child that The coach works with they have to provide a notebook like the one I have here like a notebook like this with a pen and every client Has to bring the notebook and pen to each training session Now the reason why that adds more value and the reason why it's going to help you in this this this first bit Is because once you get to the end of the session You will be able to review what you did together during that training session So that way your client can look back and say right, okay I work last week we did this the week before we did that but also it helps because You can then the child or your your the the player you're working with can then show the parents What they have been working on during the training session with you, right? But also At your first training session that you have with this client in the notebook you too can sit down and set at least two or three yearly or quarterly goals And what you can do is week by week you can go back and review them right go back and review them to see Whether that play art has been reaching the goals that you guys set on the first air training session, right? So if you're working with a client for the three months first training session you set two or three goals together and Then what you do is week by week You design your training sessions based on the goals of that that client And also you can start to review right have we reached goal number one? Have we reached goal number two and if you have then you can go back review them and either change them or Focus on one of them until your client has received as has received and achieved them Right because once your client achieves them then ultimately you're getting results with that client Which ultimately that's what parents want right they want results with their children when you add Value when you achieve results. Okay, you can up the price and charge more per client So the second one is a 10 player games in person to give feedback once per month or once per season Right, so this is a common one. We work with especially with one-to-one trainers that once a month you're going out to To the fields to the pitch to go and watch your clients play in their matches Okay, now this is really valuable Because when once you see your client in an actual competitive game situation But the goals you guys set together It's it can change Okay, because one thing seeing your client on a week-to-week basis Just it you and them in a training session The other thing is actually seeing them how they how they react and how they respond in a game Environment right where they're under pressure where they have parents screaming from the sideline where it could it might be a physical game Right. So what you want to do is you want to attend at least once per month Or once per season right some coaches that we work with who who Specialise more in one-to-one one-on-one training Because they're working with 20 to 30 clients on a on a weekly basis It becomes very hard to go and watch Their clients once per month. So what they can do as part of the program and how to add more value is they can They can go and watch the client play once per season And when you go and watch your your clients play once per season Right, ultimately you can see them in a game situation You can provide feedback and you can have either a zoom call or an in-person Meeting with the player and the parent to discuss And a feedback that you've provided for them with regards to their performance during that game Okay, so that's it. That's another way to add a lot of value Because parents can get any a good insight Into your thoughts on how their child performed Okay, the third one is have the client fill out their own game evals during the season so that you can better understand Their development during the year So this is a really simple one that you can do and some of the clients that we are working with Have their their players Fill out weekly game evaluations So something you can do is on Google You can set up a Google a form and You send that link of that Google form to your clients And what they do is every week after their game They fill out that form and what you do is on the Monday morning You log in and you can see what your clients have said About how they performed Now something to keep your clients more engaged is you can change you can have about five to seven questions Specific to their performance how they felt they played What was this their rating one to five and what they what could they improve on in the next week? How was their mindset? How did they feel physically? Did they prepare well for the game? right, so there's a number of questions you can ask them and Every month we can go back and we just customize the questions So they're not always the same Okay, because sometimes when you answer the same questions every week, then it just gets repetitive and sometimes kids Lose their motivation to do it, but if we every month we're changing the questions To make it maybe a little bit more challenging and and thoughtful for the player Then there's more chance of then filling in out filling it out Every single week and that way you have the data of them and You don't have to physically go and watch them every single week You can have them fill out the game evaluations Each week and you grab the data and then on that date with that data. You can then design your next training session So the fourth one is speak with their club coach during the year to better understand What they want their clients to do better? Okay, so something that I see a lot in this industry is the lack of connection between Club coach and private trainer right sometimes club coaches See private trainers as a threat okay But in reality what you want to do is if you want to get great results with your clients Then you need to be communicating and making an effort to communicate with their team coach now Also, the reason why this adds a lot of value is because sometimes parents Want to talk to their team coach but They might be afraid to talk to them So they might be scared to talk to them or ask them questions They don't know how to approach them and you as the the trainer as the specialist Right, you kind of take that role in the sense that you communicate With that coach on how they're put the player is doing during game situations Because what ultimately want to do is we don't want Your client to be training one way with their team and then they come to you and you're training them a different way and Then their performances change depending on their environment why we want to try and keep everything streamlined So that the training they do with you can then be transferred into a game situation with their teams So that's why I believe and I'm a massive Advocate for it is that we need to have good communication with their team coach Right, we need to be speaking with a coach see how they're doing how they played how they performed and what they want Me as the trainer to be working on that way also you can get more data more information and you can design your training special specific Towards the needs of your client Now the fifth one is give the player more access to you during the week They can ask you questions to tell you more about what is going on. So What you can do and Something we help coaches with this is building a communication a platform or channel That the coach and the client can have constant communication between one another So a very simple one All right, if you go on to Google and you type in slack Right slack is a communication platform Where you can set up a group chat between the player and yourself And you can ask that player questions throughout the week So if you know that your client has team training on a Tuesday evening Right, you can message them and say how did your team training session go Right, and then they can respond to you say it went well. I Work we worked on this we worked on this I feel that I need to maybe improve on this Okay, and during the week you're constantly in communication with them So that way it doesn't feel it doesn't feel like a one-off thing Right doesn't feel that the parent is just dropping off their kids You there you're training with them. You're doing some drills and they're going home, right? We want it to feel like an actual complete experience and You are adding a lot more value away from your training session Okay, so One platform really simple to use is slack Okay, you can set up a group between the parent the child and yourself Right, and you can send the message messages during the week Where the child can can respond to your questions, right? So simple question might be if you know they train on the Wednesday Then tell me three things you did well during that training session and they can respond with the three things Right, and then when you get to the weekend and you do your one-to-one session Then you as a coach have date have enough data to figure out. All right Because they said to me right they need work on their first touch They felt that they weren't confident enough in one one one one v one situations You can maybe design a session plan around What that player needs more work on? Okay? So hopefully these five things have helped you and if you want to get in contact with me to discuss any of these five Right, I am available during the week Monday to Friday for a free 15 to 20 minute call Like I said at the beginning of the video There's two ways you can do that the first way is if you visit the calendar in the description of this this video You can sell up a free 15 to 20 minute call with me Where we can jump on zoom I can ask you questions and we can go through any ideas or Or plans that you have for your business and I can point you in the right direction Or if you just simply want to send me an email send me a message. You can do that as well I check my emails every day for coaches so Send me an email to make money coaching sports at gmod.com I respond to every coach that that reaches out to me and Monday to Friday All right, so thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next video


An Umbra State Government has set up a family court to handle matters relating to domestic violence. The Commissioner for Women and Children's Affairs, Ifi Ubinabo, stated that the court already has 10 pending cases with nine suspects remanded. Ubinabo, who spoke during a visit by a delegation of a women's group, the United Business Women and Farmers Association, said the Government of Charles Saludo has zero tolerance for domestic violence.