If you're the attendee with the initials BK, if you can please use your entire name just for attending purposes and minutes. Okay, so it looks like we are waiting for town of Windsor. Oh no, maybe so. Hold on a second. Drew, I know that Christina Boulart from the town of Windsor will be joining as she sent me an email this morning to that. Okay. And she's new staff there if you're, if you haven't made it. Yeah. Thanks, Paul. I did add her recently for some of our emails. Colin, do you know if Jennifer or Peter are gonna be joining this morning? I would assume the answer is yes, but I have not seen any email or heard anything from them. So I don't have any update on that. Drew, I did receive a message from Christina with towns of Windsor that they're having an invalid meeting ID issue when they try to log on. So I will try resending the information one more time for those that may be running into some type of error. I'm not sure if maybe it's on their side, but I'll go ahead and resend that. So I had the same problem Easter, but the link in the agenda worked, but the one in the email did not. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Tell them to click on the agenda link, not the invitation. Okay, thank you. I'll go ahead and send that message right now. It was a little late, Drew. This is Craig. Morning, Craig. Morning. We got, we definitely have a quorum. We're just waiting to see if apparently town of Windsor is trying to join. And then we'll get going. There's Jennifer. Good morning, Jennifer. Good morning. Sorry for being late. It's all right. We'll get started in just a minute. We're trying to see if we can get town of Windsor is trying to get logged in. So we're just waiting another minute. Okay, Easter is Gina on the call too? Yeah, I see. Hi, Gina. Yes, Gina is here. Okay. Let's go ahead and get started. I'll go ahead and call them the meeting to order. It's 904. You're gonna follow my logistics protocol here. Just remind all the TAC members when we're doing roll calls to state their agency in the full name, that'll help Gina or Easter get all the correct information together. And be sure to mute your phones or microphones if you're not speaking.  I will today. Okay. Why don't you go ahead and get started, please. City of Katari. Craig Scott. City of Petaluma. City of Petaluma, Kent Carruthers. City of Brunner Park. City of Brunner Park, Mary Grace Pausen. City of Santa Rosa. City of Santa Rosa, Jennifer Burke. City of Sonoma. Northruin Water District. Northruin Water District, Drew McIntyre. Town of Windsor. Valley of the Moon Water District. Valley of the Moon Water District, Matt Poehler. And Marin Municipal Water District. Marin Municipal, Paul Sellea. And for staff and public attendees, we have Don Seymour, Pam Jean, Lynn Rizeli, Paul Enclose, Paul Piazza, Barry Dugan, Bob Anderson, Claire Nordley, Margaret DiGenova, Peter Martin, Tony Williams, and Grant Davis. Okay, welcome everybody. Let's say we're gonna go ahead and obviously just follow the agenda here. Agenda item number two is public comments. And so we're now taking public comments on any non-agenda items. So if you wish to make a public comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. Or if you're dialing in via phone number, you can hit star nine to indicate that you will raise your hand. So if you can do so, I'll stand by briefly here to look for any indications from the public. Secretary Perez, do you see anybody indicating that they'd like to make a public comment on an item not on the agenda? There are no raised hands. Thank you. And then let the record note that there were no voicemail messages or any emails that I received on public comments for items that are not on the agenda. So we will move then to agenda item number three, which is two parts here, three A has an attachment. And it's basically water production relative to 2013 benchmark. And we have various tabulations here. If you look at a year-to-date water use, which is the most stable data here for, we're almost completing a full year now. You'll see here that water use compared to the 2013 benchmark is down 10%. Chart two or chart one essentially has a graphical representation of the deliveries and also the gallons per capita per day. And then chart two is the one that shows actual gallons per day per capita for a much longer period, much earlier than 2013. And again, it shows that the partners have invested significantly in water conservation practices and the results are demonstrated quite satisfactorily in terms of looking back at water use in 1995 and where we are through 2019 in terms of overall water use. And this graph also shows that the population increasing over that period as well. So with that, we'll now take any public comments on item three A. So if there's anybody that from the public who would like to speak on this comment, please raise your hand and zoom or hit star nine if you're talking via phone. Secretary Perez, do you see any comments? There are no raised hands for this item. Okay, thank you. And again, there were no questions raised via voicemail or email to me over the weekend. Any other comments from the TAC on agenda item three A? Seeing none, we'll move to three B, just an update on the 2020 urban water management plan and Colin, this is yours. Excellent, thank you so much. So just a quick update as you all will recall, the staff from nine agencies have been working with a consultant together to develop shared methodology for projecting demands out to 2045 and for analyzing our water conservation programs and looking at what shared programs would be preferable. We met with the consultant EKI on November 12th to discuss our draft final reports. So we are in the final stretch here. Six of the final reports have been delivered to retailers, three are in progress. Some agencies did revise some key data inputs or made some assumption changes. So that may impact their demand projections slightly. In addition, this did require some use of contingency funds. I think I've mentioned before that with COVID and fires and a number of issues, we definitely ended up taking more time from EKI than we had originally intended. So final reports will be sent to Sonoma water once I have all of them all set up a one drive folder for those so that Sonoma water can easily download all nine of those at their convenience. And just a couple of outstanding pieces. So that's one part of the work that we do together. There are some other pieces that we do together on the urban water management planning. One of them is the water agency Sonoma water is going to be analyzing their water supply out to 2045 based on our demand projections and they'll be getting back to us. So I did let them know that some of those projections from I think it's going to be about three of the agencies may change slightly. So once I have updated demand projections, I will provide those to Sonoma water and then they can finalize their water supply reliability assessment out to 2045. Another piece is the drought risk assessment. This is a new urban water management plan requirement. This follows on the heels of the drought that we all experienced statewide. The agencies now must assess their water supply reliability for a five year period specifically 2021 to 2025. And they have to assume that the hydrology will be the same as the five driest years on record. So the state held a training on this on December 4th. In the meantime, the nine contractors have been all working together to come up with a shared methodology for estimating our water demands for 2021 to 2025. Obviously we will have the 2025 from our contractor, the consultant that we worked with, excuse me, but we needed to find a way to pro-rate out between our current water use and our projected water use for 2025. So we came up with a methodology. So we will fairly soon be able to send to Sonoma water our projected water demands for 2021 to 2025. So I've asked all of the water contractors to let me know if they could get those to me and then I can compile those and get those to Sonoma water. Another piece of the urban water management plan is that is new. We are now required to provide in our urban water management plan a methodology for analyzing our annual water supply and demand, assuming that the current year would be followed by a dry year. And so we need to include procedures for assessing the reliability of each water supply, each of our sources of water. We will need to turn in the actual assessments until July 1st, 2022. That's when the first assessment will be due but the methodology will be due with the urban water management plan. So I've mentioned this to the partners and I've reached out to Sonoma water and I think all parties are agreed that we'd like to work together on a shared methodology so that there's a regional approach and so that it all makes sense. So Sonoma water is needing to do some internal work coordinating, discussing this new requirement and then they'll reach out to us in scheduled meeting. And then the other piece I wanted to mention on urban water management plans is the SBX7-7 compliance. That was to reduce water use per capita 20% by the year 2020. So in this urban water management plan we will close out our reporting to the state. During this period we'll include a chapter in our urban water management plans that reports how we did on meeting the targets that we set together back in 2015 and any individual targets that each agency made. So during the training on Friday that I attended the DWR staff mentioned that they are aware that some agencies have quite unusual 2020 water use, particularly agencies that have lots of folks who commute out of their area and work elsewhere. Their water use has gone up considerably with shelter and plan. And you'll need to bring your urban water management plan and water shortage contingency plans to your board or council for adoption. And that concludes my update and I'm happy to take any questions that folks might have. Thanks, Colin. Very thorough update. And again, appreciate all your efforts in coordinating this through all the different water contractors. So we'll start first with any comments from the TAC members themselves on Colin's report. I don't see any comments from the TAC. So we'll go ahead and open this up. Again, this is agenda item 3B for any comments on the 2020 Urban Water Management Plan update from the public. If you wish to make a comment, please raise your hand in Zoom or if you're talking via the phone, press star nine. Secretary Perez, did you see any comments? We don't see any hands raised at this time. Okay, thank you, Easter. And let the record reflect that there are no comments that I received via voicemail or email on this agenda item. So that means we move to agenda item number four, water supply conditions and temporary urgency change order updates. Is this gonna be Pam or Dawn? Morning, Drew. Dawn's seeing more, I'll take this one on, okay? Okay, you bet. Good morning, everyone. So starting in the upper watershed, storage at Lake Mendocino is currently just under 30,500 acre feet. And that's a little less than 53% of the target water supply storage for the reservoir. Release is about 115 CFS and that's meeting the minimum stream flow at down a yield of about 110 CFS. It's interesting, we're tracking almost exactly where we were, storage at Lake Mendocino is tracking almost exactly where we were in 2013 for this time of year. At Lake Sonoma, storage is currently about just a little less than 163,400 acre feet. And that's about 67% of the water supply pool. And the releases there are about 160, about 115 CFS and that's meeting the minimum stream down at Hacienda of 160 CFS. We're currently trying to keep those flows about that range right now, because we have Chinook and Steelhead coming into the system and we're trying to make sure that areas where passage is difficult has adequate stage for the fish to get through. And so with that, just wanted to also give an update on the major deviation request. We recently had conversations with the Army Corps. That's moving ahead, but it's likely the timing for that to be approved by the Corps if it is. Keep our fingers crossed is the late January, mid-February timeframe. Kind of as a stock gap measure, Sonoma water requested from the Corps a minor deviation which allows the Corps to, can everybody hear okay? I'm sorry? Yes, I can. Which will store about an additional 5,500 acre feet at their discretion in the flood control pool. And again, that's kind of a stop gap measure in case we're able to get to the top of the water supply pool before the major deviation has been approved by the Corps which we anticipate it will be. With regards to the temperature change order, it expires on December 27th of this month. So we have a couple more weeks of complying with that order. With the dry water supply conditions, we're still facing precipitation is almost exactly where we were this time of year in 2013 going into 2014. So Sonoma water staff is really closely monitoring water supply conditions. Status of Lake Pillsbury, QNU of inflow, which will set the threshold for whether we stay in a dry water supply condition or move into a normal water supply condition which would significantly increase minimum stream flows. So kind of in a wait and see on whether we take additional action going into the new year or out of the new year whether we need to pursue another order. So I don't know if anybody has any questions I'd be happy to answer them. Questions from the tack. John, I have a couple of questions on the release is did I hear you correct it? The release is both at Lake Medesino and Lake Sonoma. They're both at 115 CFS. You're about 115 CFS. Okay. And then the major deviation So that's around what that's around 11,000 acre feet into the water supply or the floods pool. It is, it's about it's about 11,000 acre feet and also includes the cores, new use of, you know, pure road city support tools in managing that water that's in the flood control pool. And because the major deviation is the request was for a five year period. We'll loosen you a little bit. As a stop gap measure. And that's been, that was approved about a week ago. So we're currently operating under the minor deviation which will go away once the major either as a March 15th or when the major major deviation is approved. Okay. And then as far as what was, what's the timeline again as far as when releases would have to be increased? January one is when the water supply condition or the water for the Russian river is reassessed as based on cumulative inflow starting October one through January one at Lake Pillsbury. As of today, that cumulative inflow is just under 4,000 acre feet, which is the trigger has to be under that to be a critical water supply condition. So it's definitely going to go about that into the dry for dry water supply conditions. But the next metric is to become normal for a normal water supply condition would have to exceed 8,000 acre feet. So fairly low bar. So that's why we're going to be keeping a pretty close eye on things. All right, thanks Don. Any other follow-up questions from the tech? Okay, let's open this up to the public. Again, this is agenda item number five water supply conditions. Agenda item number four, water supply conditions and temporary emergency change order update. If anyone from the public has a comment via zoom please raise your hand or press star nine if you're participating via phone. Okay, is it Easter Gina? Any indications of interest on the public on this item? There are no raise hands on the public. All right, thank you. And then let the record reflect that there, I did not receive any emails or voicemails on this agenda item as well. So we're going to move, we're going to move now to agenda item number five, water supply conditions, public outreach messaging, timeline and Paul Piazza, you're in the lead on this. Thanks Drew. So obviously the winter has been dry so far more in terms of the extended forecast not seeing any rain to come. And so it's been on our mind obviously that we want to be prepared for any needed conservation messaging whether it's starting now or early in the spring into summer. And so anticipating that the community and government affairs staff Barry and Andrea along with my staff met to discuss initial work to develop a framework essentially for the implementation of that annual summer ad campaign. And part of this was needed not necessarily because it's a dry year but just to kind of put the workflow in place to make it easier for our staff to develop the thematic messaging on an annual basis and to anticipate what the needs are in terms of the additional review by the partners and the work that actually has to be done to create that campaign in order for it to launch every year in time which traditionally has been the last weekend of May the Memorial Day weekend holiday. So we met once already this month we'll be meeting again in the next couple of weeks. As I mentioned again, essentially it's just to detail the workflow and timeline that we're going to be following each year internally and externally. And then we included in those initial discussions that the thematic content would include multiple tracks essentially anticipating the different and changing hydrologic conditions related to our water rights. So as Dawn was just mentioning we do start monitoring at the beginning of the calendar year based on cumulative inflows whether we're in a normal dry or critical dry hydrologic year. And so initially we were working to use that with developing multiple themes essentially so that as we move further into spring we're able to change and be nimble to the changing hydrologic conditions. And again, as we move further into spring that message becomes a little bit more clear we'll be able to narrow down which of those different themes that we've decided to come up with would be the needed theme for the summer. Start developing some of the campaign materials working with the TAC water conservation subcommittee for initial input and review and then elevating that to the TAC ad hoc before the launch at the end of May. So that's really all we've started doing in that regard. We hope to have a little bit more clarity on those steps in the coming month. But for now, given the dry winter conditions that we're experiencing, although it's too soon to call it a drought we wanna be proactive. So we are gonna be putting together some winter outreach for social media essentially and websites both to put out on cinema waters, social media sites but also to push out to the partnerships so that they have some consistent messaging coming from us to go out to their customers and the idea being that although it's a dry period for winter it's still the case that we wouldn't wanna have supplemental irrigation running except in extreme cases where they may have outdoor potted plants that need a little supplemental irrigation. But otherwise most of the perennial landscapes at this time of year in spite of the low rainfall are in a dormancy period and there's enough moisture in the soil to keep them through the next couple of months. And so we're advocating that people make sure their irrigation system is off for the winter as would be normal for this time. It's also the winter averaging time for many agencies who also provide sewer based on an average monthly indoor water use. So most of the partners are already in the habit of pushing out similar messaging every year to make sure that their customers are not adversely impacting their sewer rates for the coming year. So it'll be a combination of those two messages that we envision going out in the next couple of weeks. And then again as we move further into the winter months depending on how things are looking we'll be making adjustments as we go. So that's all I have on that right now Drew. I'm happy to take questions. Okay, thanks Paul. Questions from the TAC on Paul's report. Paul, do you know, have you? Oh, go ahead Jennifer. All right Drew. Thank you. I did the right hand, but thank you Paul. I appreciate that update and report. You know, I know that we're trying to balance the messaging and I continue to hear that we're tracking the same as 2013. And I believe in 2013 we had already launched a pretty robust winter campaign by this time. So is there, I would like to request I guess if we could put more of a timeline together in terms of conditions and check in point and win that would trigger launching more robust outreach and communication related to where we are and water supply conditions. I don't understand, I have a watch went off. Sorry, my watch went off. And if we could request that the Water Conservation Subcommittee convene and really start looking at what those messaging should be. I know in Santa Rosa we have already put together our winter messaging and have been putting that out, requesting folks to suspend the irrigation and we're doing some supplemental radio ads and a number of things just related to encouraging people to be water smart and water wise. And I'd really like to see more of that throughout the region and kind of what our plan is between now and May. Thanks, Jennifer. Thank you, I appreciate it. Happy to reach out to the Conservation Subcommittee to start talking earlier. As I mentioned previously, our internal discussion, we've only had one meeting to try and lay out a timeline. And working with our staff internally, there are not any indices that I can rely on in December essentially to determine if we're in drought because we had still a long runway in front of us in terms of the opportunity for additional rainfall this winter, but we're certainly keeping a close eye on it and helping to coordinate better with all of the contractors in terms of the messaging that needs to happen. Any other questions from the TAC on this item? So Paul, I think just to follow up with what Jennifer, Jennifer's comments is, you know, I think it would be good if we again just kind of go back and look at towards the end of 2013 and what all was being developed and rolled out in early 2014, just to see, you know, review again that effort and lessons learned back then and how we might operate moving forward, especially as we keep tracking this and updating it. If conditions continue where we don't get any rainfall. So good suggestions, Jennifer. I'm gonna move now to public comment on this item. Again, this is agenda item number five for water supply conditions, public outreach messaging timeline. And so if you're participating via Zoom and wish to make a comment, please raise your hand. If you're participating via the telephone, you can hit star nine. Easter or Gina, you see any comments from the public? There are no raise hands. Okay, thanks Gina and let the record reflect that I did not receive any comments from the public via voicemail or email as well. So that brings us to agenda item number six, biological opinion status update. Pam, I think that'll be yours.  Please, if you can participate via video it always helps show the strength of the group visually. So with that, Pam, I'll go ahead and turn it over to you. Okay, I don't know who put this up, but thank you, whoever that was. Hopefully everybody got this in their agenda packet. And there's some great photos included in this particular update of the biological opinion implementation. I'm just gonna hit some highlights.  So I'll start off with the Fishflow and Water Rights Project, which we commonly call the Fishflow Project. That project, we continue to work on the draft environmental impact report with the expectation of recirculating the draft in the spring of this year. So that is ongoing. And other than that, there's really not any major changes there. As far as the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement Project goes, our contractor that was out there working this year is wrapped up now. They completed the project elements that were required to be done in 2020. And they ended up actually working beyond the normal October 15th date that is allowed by permits because it was so dry. So we got extensions from the regional board and California Department of Fish and Wildlife. So they kept working through November 6th and got the work done that they needed to get done. There is still work on two remaining projects for next year in that phase three portion of the project. So we do expect that to start in the summer of 2021. That same contractor, which is Hanford also completed some maintenance activities for us on four locations out on Dry Creek. And that was mostly to remove sediment that was deposited in February, March of 2019 during the pretty high rainfall and high flooding at that point. They also repaired some minor erosion and a few other things. So that work also got completed this year. As that work was going on, we were also working with the Corps of Engineers to make progress on phases four through six of the Habitat Enhancement Project. And they're continuing to work on right of way out there and are currently reviewing the 99% design documents and preparing bid packages. So the big bid package is hopefully gonna include construction for 2021. It's a very fast timeframe, but they're hoping to get there. And just in last month, I believe it was our board approved a project partnership agreement. This is a formal agreement with the Corps of Engineers that describes financial terms, roles and responsibilities of this project which is a core led project. So we expect the Corps to approve that public, sorry, that project partnership agreement in early December, early this month. There's quite a nice little write up in here about fish monitoring and what's going on out there. Of course, one of the purposes of the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement Project is to create Habitat for Coho salmon. Because there are so few Coho salmon out in the watershed, it's kind of hard to validate exactly what's going on. So we do, however, I think everybody is aware of the brood stock program at Lake Sonoma at the Hatchery. And so when they take those fish and they out plant them, the small fish, the juveniles out plant them into tributaries to Dry Creek and the Rush River. They tried something, I don't know if it was new just this year, but where they took those fish and the young fish that you see in this photograph here and they've kept them in those tributaries in cages for a few days in order for them to sort of imprint or get used to the water that they were in. And they found that instead of having the fish leave those locations, which are habitat, they're enhanced locations, they're meant to be occupied by these young fish. They actually had a larger percentage of them stay in that location to rear. So it seemed like a pretty good program and there's a nice little write up in here about that. And it sounds like they're working on improving that as they go along. Next item in here is the Rush River Estuary Management Project. The management period ended on October 15th and the river mouth is currently closed. And we do have an expectation to be out there later this week on Thursday to mechanically breach the estuary, the sand bar across the estuary, assuming that physically they can get equipment out on out there. So that we spoke with the resource agencies just last week about this and that's the current plan is to go out and to breach it mechanically on Thursday this week. And I think Don already talked about interim flow changes and the temporary urgency change order, which expires at the end of this month. So I won't speak to that and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thanks Pam. Any questions from the TAC on Pam's report? I don't see any hands raised. Pam, just a couple comments. I was happy to see and I can't remember if this was discussed previously, but on the cores project for their construction on the bid packages being worked on, I was happy to see that there's an option for constructing the remaining sites. So that potentially everything could be done kind of during, I assume, is through one bid effort and not go out multiple times depending upon what those options come back on. Is that, do you know, is that the intent then to try to streamline then the number of times the projects have to go out to bid? Yeah, I don't, I honestly drew, I don't know. I don't know, Grant, if you know any of the details about that. It has been discussed, I think they're working through a number of different provisions, but ideally if they could lump it together, that would be a significant savings. I'm not sure whether that option's actually the preferred option at this stage though. Okay, and then just related to that, it indicates that the cores San Francisco district office is supposed to sign off on that project partnership agreement. Has that happened yet? Hi. We actually had the general up to view the Dry Creek Habitat Restoration Project as he was touring Lake Sonoma with his staff. And we had the board chair, Susan Gorin, sign it on our end. It turns out that they need to go through a, what is a customary step on a congressional side to notify Congress they're actually doing this. So I think that step actually has to still take place, but it's eminent, it will happen. We hope to do it in a larger way, but just too many things can conspire against us. But I will take this point just to say that Jay and Dave Manning had an opportunity to brief the general and the colonel and staff involved with things like the major deviation, forecasting for reservoir operations and whatnot. So it's just pretty good, solid relationship building with the core at this stage. So really a lot of work to staff on both organizations. Okay, thanks Grant. And then Grant, can you remind us again with the colonel? So this is the colonel that's based out of the San Francisco office, correct? And this is, they rotate every so many years in this particular individuals on what year two now? Yeah, I think so, believe it or not, entering into year two. So it's damn near impossible to keep up. I think that probably looking at 20 of these changing of the guards, it's just so rare. In fact, you guys know this, that we have Len Cardoza, who used to be the colonel for the district in San Francisco on contract through Interflue to stay on top of running our XCOM meetings and making sure that all the stuff we've done over the years takes place because one of the thinking is, Len knows core speak better than anybody and can stay on top and can get through the red tape unlike others. It's nothing like having a colonel that's been through the ropes, but forgive me, all of us, it just seems like whiplash every two years, you're welcoming somebody new and sending one off. And it's hard because you have to reeducate much of the leadership at that time and it takes time and effort. Yes, that was a good idea to tap a past colonel to help continue on. Any other questions from the tack on this item before we open it up to the public? Okay, we'll now open this. This is agenda item number six, biological opinion status update. We're looking for any public comments on this item. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. Or if you're dialing via telephone, you can hit star nine. I'll take a brief pause here to look for any questions, comments. Gina or Easter, do you see any comments from the public? There are no raise hands for this item. All right, thanks, Gina. We will now move to agenda item number seven, Potter Valley project relicensing updates. Pam, is that gonna be you? Sure, thank you. So we are in early December now. In mid-November, all interested stakeholders, agencies, et cetera, filed comment letters with FERC on the initial study report that was released in September. And the meeting notes from the meeting that was held, I can't remember if it was now September or October when that meeting was held. And so that, again, was mid-December that those were all filed. We've been working very diligently since, well, even before they were all filed, but diligently to respond to all of the comments that were made and our response to comments are due as the two basin solution partners due to FERC on December 14th. Following December 14th in mid-January, we expect that FERC will issue a study plan determination. And at that point, we will have hopefully a full picture of what they expect in terms of studies in order to move us towards a licensing proposal and a licensed application that's a couple years out. So right now we're working, as I said, very hard to get our response comments document done. It's always an interesting thing to have five different entities reviewing and commenting on things, but we're working at it. And we're also working on making sure that we have a pretty good understanding as a group of what priorities, what studies are a priority and what order they all need to go in, et cetera, in order to help us with funding them.  We're working on that and trying to make sure that we're doing the most important things first in terms of the studies. But again, we won't have that study plan determination until about mid-January, and then we'll know exactly what we're gonna be required to do by FERC, so I think that's about it for me, Drew, unless there's any questions. Thanks, Pam. Questions from the TAC on Pam's report? Pam, any new communication at all from FERC staff over the last month or so? No, we really haven't had any contact with them beyond after the initial study report meeting was held. We did talk to them just to check in with them, make sure that they were okay with the way it went, and check to see if they had any questions or anything. So, and since then, we haven't heard from them. Kind of, I know we've gotten questions about scoping document four, and we don't have a timeline from them on that at this point, so I'm not sure what their timeline is. Well, you answered my scoping document number four question already, so thank you. Any other questions from the TAC before I open this up to the public? I don't see anything, so we are going to open up a general item number seven, Potter Valley Project re-licensing update to the public for any comments. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand or press star nine if you're participating via phone. I'll take a brief pause here. Drew, I do have one member of the public, David Keller, and I'm going to allow you to speak. Morning, David. Good morning. Nice to see all you guys and hope everybody's healthy and staying safe. Thank you. And so speaking for Friends of the Eel River, we're working with Caltroud through our NDA with them. So I have a couple of questions. The first one is on response to Congressman Garamendi's letter and the pressure coming out of Lake County to keep Lake Pillsbury and keep Scott Tam. And so I'm wondering if the agency has any specific outreach to Congressman Garamendi and Lake County interests, including supervisors, pushing back on their demands that Lake Pillsbury and Scott Tam be retained, which of course is not at all compliant with the two basins solution. So just Pam, is there any specific outreach that you guys are doing? Well, David, the partners have met with Lake County supervisors, the principals from the partners. I don't think it's specifically to tell them what you just said, but we do continue to meet with them. Sorry. Sure. There was supposed to be a meeting of that group set up earlier in the early part of this month. I haven't heard whether or not it has been set up or not. But there is definitely dialogue going on. And I think that the Lake County supervisors are pretty clear about what they would like to see. And I think the partners have been pretty clear about what the current plan is. So that's kind of where it's at. Do the Lake County soups express any understanding or recognition of the costs and liabilities of trying to keep Scott Tam? Brian? Yes, they do. We've made that part of our discussions. What prompted us to have to take action at this stage. Doesn't mean that they subscribe to that same point of view, but they've made their case to first pretty clear as supervisors and they've obviously got a strong year in the congressman who represents that portion that's his district. Right. Yeah, and looking at his letter, it seems fairly uninformed regarding some of the liabilities and problems with Scott Tam. So I appreciate any continued strong pushback to both his staff directly to him as well as to the Lake County supervisors. The other concern that we have is about the engagement of Russian River break growers and wineries who I'm not sure if it's a specific formal or informal outreach to them about understanding changes that may or may not come. We know that there's a fair amount of misinformation out there and wondering if the agency is doing any specific outreach to push back on that. So we are working on an outreach strategy, so to speak with regards to not just Sonata County but Mendocino County and some outreach has happened in terms of trying to understand what folks know and what they don't know and we're moving forward with that but there is no formal process right now, I guess you can say. Yeah, and one of the, I appreciate that. Kambigos, one of the things that obviously needs to be addressed is how do you guys pay for, or we all pay for all the studies to move forward and given the $2 billion grape industry in both counties, it seems like there's, should be if there's understanding and as beneficiaries of water transfers, there should be, I would love to see some formal conversations with them on setting up some kind of structure to be able to tap into their profits, shall we say, from converting water to wine. And I'm hoping that that's part of the conversation with them. Difficult one, but nevertheless critical. David, I guess I feel like commenting is one of the folks that works with Cal Trout on this and communicating directly to you that that is far more difficult to do than maybe realized. And that's why this takes time and it will take a concerted effort. We've been meeting for many years but to achieve something like that and to say we'd like to top your profits and keep this going is far more difficult than some of our environmental colleagues think. And it's quite a challenge. So I'd appreciate a little bit better understanding when you say that the Congressman has a lack of awareness on what it's gonna take the Polo Regional Solution off, I would say this is another part of it that is gonna be extraordinarily difficult and take time and energy and a lot more information exchanged. Yeah, I'm fully cognizant and appreciate that Grant and it's one of the conversations that we have on a continuing basis of what would be the vehicle, how would it get established to be able to gather some of the expenses from that industry. And so yes, I fully appreciate that and recognize exactly what you're saying. This is not going to be an easy task but necessary. So do appreciate that and do appreciate the outreach that you're doing. We're concerned as well about the continued resistance in looking at studying the issues of Cape Horn Dam which might involve redesign or full removal and replacement. And we think that's a very important piece to go forward as part of the two-basin solution. Okay, thank you, David. Any other questions from the public on this topic? Gina, let the record reflect that I did not receive any public comments via voicemail or email on this topic as well. So moving on, that brings us to agenda item number eight. FY20 Sonoma County Water Agency budget year-in review and Lynn Razzelli is going to be giving this. So Lynn. Good morning, everyone at the tack. I'm Lynn Razzelli, Administrative Services Division Manager for Sonoma Water and I believe Easter is going to be bringing up the presentation for everyone to see. There we go. Okay, so we have prepared a brief presentation doing a financial recap of fiscal year 1920 budget versus actuals for revenues, expenditures and water deliveries. Can you go to the next slide please? So we're going to start off with water deliveries because those from the basis of the rate and the revenue that we receive, we receive about 90% of our revenues in water sales. There was an increase or actuals of 45,649 acre feet actually delivered through June 30th, 2020, 4.1% increase over what was originally budgeted. The original budget was based on 12 months of water deliveries through December, 2018. And for those who may not be familiar with our fiscal year, it runs from, this 1920 would run from July, 2019 through June, 2020. And for, so our deliveries are remaining in that 45,000 acre feet in deliveries, actual deliveries. We're anticipating that we are beginning to prepare the fiscal year 21-22 budget and we're expecting somewhere in the range of 45,000 acre feet, it will be based on the three-year annual average water deliveries. We believe we don't have all the water data in yet but that's where we think we're going to land for the fiscal year 21-22 budget. So let's go to the next slide, please. And so here we can see that the revenues were 5.65 million higher than budget of 42.67 million. The budget is the 48 million that we had for actual revenues, 90% of that or more is made up of the water rates and the water sales. But and because we delivered a little bit more water, 1,780 acre feet more than the budget that increased our revenues by about 2 million. The remainder of that increase that you're seeing there that 5.65 million is due to grants and interest earnings and other miscellaneous revenues that either were not included in the budget or were not envisioned in the budget at the time. And then on the expenditure side, we have a 13.26 million less in expenditures than budgeted. And in the subsequent slides, we'll go into some detail about where we expended our funds for our budget for fiscal year 1920. Next slide, please. So this is just a pie chart to give you an example or show you visually how we expended the funds, 63% were spent in operations and maintenance. In capital projects, we spent 9%. The budget that we showed you back in 1920, well, back in 1819 for the 1920 budget showed about operations and maintenance at 53% and capital projects at 21%. So there was a big switch there between operations and maintenance and capital projects where we spent a greater portion of our expenditures on operations and maintenance and less on capital projects. And we'll go into that in a minute. We'll on a subsequent slide. Next slide, please. So this slide tells you by function, how we expended our funds. We spent three million less in operations and maintenance. And that is largely due to the tank maintenance agreement not having been signed and negotiated and board approved at the time. Capital projects were 7.39 million less than budgeted. That's a big difference there. That is due in part because of the FEMA NEPA delays on the hazard mitigation projects. And because the capital projects did not get awarded, yet construction had been budgeted. And the biological opinion compliance, water supply planning and water conservation, there was 2.2 million less in expenditures than budget. And that is due largely to the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement right away negotiations being delayed. And that's probably in part due, some of this is in part due to COVID, but also just generally due to the challenges with negotiating right of way agreements for the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement Project. And then on the debt service side, we had 550,000 less than budget.  And there'll be another slide that shows some information on that. Next slide, please. So here we're showing what we did with the budget of 24.35 million. Most of that budget is for routine maintenance. The projects, the summary of some of the subset of projects and studies that we work on are shown here. Those made up about 2 million in expenditures out of that 24.35 million. So really the majority of expenditures and operations and maintenance is routine maintenance. Next slide, please. And on the capital projects expenditure side, we had 3.58 million in expenditures. The good news here is that we were able to advance capital project designs and the majority of these will be going to construction in this fiscal year or next fiscal year. We spent in 1920, we spent about 750,000 on hazard mitigation projects and the remaining 2.84 million on other capital projects that are shown here. And then we awarded two capital projects, the Sonoma Booster Pump Station, Seismic, Electrical and Pumping Upgrade Project, which is still in progress and the Water Transmission System Equipment Building. Next slide, please. And these are our sub fund expenses. We have four sub funds, water management, recycled water, local supply, watershed planning and restoration and water conservation. We spent $30,000 on the Urban Water Management Plan. Obviously more will be spent this fiscal year because the Urban Water Management Plan is due on July 1st, 2021. And on watershed planning and restoration, we spent 3.8 million. The majority of that was spent on the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement Projects miles four, five and six. For recycled water and local supply, we spent 362,000 on the Marin Municipal Water District LRT2 project, the final leg of that project that was completed. And we spent 2.1 million in water conservation for water education and water conservation and the Sonoma Marin Saving Partnership. Next slide, please. So for debt service, we spent 4.29 million. We expend approximately plus or minus one million in debt service on each one of these. We had the State Revolving Loan Fund and then the three water revenue bonds. The 2019 water revenue bonds were issued in early July of 2019. And we issued those 2.4% interest rate. We received a rating increase from S&P from AA plus to AAA on those revenue bonds. And so that certainly helped us get a very good interest rate. And next slide, please. So the next steps where we're going forward here, we're already working on the 21-22 water transmission budget and rates. We anticipate providing that to the TAC ad hoc budget subcommittee by January 15th, by middle of January. Then we then provide the draft budget to the TAC ad hoc on Monday, February 1st. The TAC votes on the budget and rates on Monday, March 1st. We present the budget to city councils and district boards as requested during the month of March. And then the water advisory committee will vote on the budget and rates on April 5th. And then it will be adopted by our board in April, usually in mid-April. It has to be done before April 30th in accordance with the restructured agreement for orders applied. And that is all I have. I'm happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you, Lynn. I will open this up first for any questions from the TAC. Don't see. Lynn, it's for you with city epsilon. Oh, sorry not to raise my hand and all that, just to interrupt. So anyways, I appreciate the update, Lynn, on financing a lot of the water contractors faced an increase in costs for buying water this fiscal year, but didn't increase the rates to our customers. I know in Sonoma we differed our rate increase for six months, just understanding the economic impacts of the pandemic on the community. And so it'll be really interesting looking at next fiscal year's budget and look forward to more budget info coming up. Thanks, Fergie. Any other questions from the TAC? Lynn, I have a couple of questions and then Easter, Gina, if you can pull up that presentation, I'm gonna refer to a couple of different slides by their numbers. If you could go to slide number four, which has a pie chart, perfect. Lynn, on debt service does the, so the debt service is about 11% of the FY20 budget. Is there a debt management policy that the agency has and how does this reflect overall debt right now? How does it reflect per what the agency has for policy? Well, the agency follows the county debt management policy and I don't recall the exact percentage that is in that policy, but certainly we were able to get a very good rating from S&P for issuing the bonds. And there was no concern regarding that debt level. And we also just recently had a review, a surveillance from Fitch and they also indicated that this debt service amount is not of concern. It is a reasonable amount. I just don't recall off the top of my head what the county policy percentages are, but we were certainly approved by the county debt advisory committee to move forward with our issuance of bonds and they reviewed all of our bonds at that time. Okay, thanks, Lynn. And can we go to slide six? So, Lynn, you had indicated that the O&M budget expenditures were lower primarily just with a slower start on the tank maintenance program. Correct? Yes. And is the Forestville tank recode that is underway though? I believe that project is actually completed. So it was certainly in progress and awarded and I think it was awarded in probably 18, 19, but it was very much in progress in 1920 and I believe it has been completed. That's right. Okay, and then moving on to slide seven on the capital project expenditures. Okay, so on the capital projects, is it safe to say that one of the biggest projects that resulted in significantly lower expenditures was the Warm Springs dam hydro turbine retrofit? The Warm Springs dam hydro turbine retrofit is about a $1.2 million project. I would say that the Russian River Crossing project is probably the largest of those projects there right now in terms of when it goes to construction and it's actually been bid, it has not been awarded and that is a large project that had construction budgeted but had not been awarded in 1920. Okay. But it's expected to be awarded this fiscal year. And then any, Pam, can you give, do you have any updated on the bladder replacement? Yeah, my recollection and grant maybe, you can correct me if I'm wrong, is that we bid the project, we didn't accept any of the bids, we bid the project just recently and bids were not really any better. So I would expect that they're gonna go ahead and award that and it should be under construction this summer. The bladder itself, the fabric for the dam is on site. It was delivered, I don't remember what month, it's on site. And of course, one of the decisions on that was not just the cost, it was whether or not we were actually gonna receive the rubber bladder from China, it continued to be promised and get sliding back. So during COVID, this was a risk and it's one of those things that we decided to err on the side of caution and weigh back and implement the project this coming year. Would you do have the bladder now? We do. Okay, let's see if I had any other, yeah, those were my questions. So thanks, Lynn, Pam, Grant, and I will open up this agenda item for public comment. Again, this is agenda item number eight, FY20, SCWA budget year in review. So if anybody in the public would like to make a comment, please raise your hand via Zoom or hit star nine on your phone. I'll take a brief pause. Easter or Gina, any? There are no raise hands for this item. Okay, thank you. And let the record show that there were no comments that I received via email nor voicemail on agenda item number eight as well. So we're getting to the close here. The last item is just agenda items for the next meeting, which is January 4th. I just wanna remind everybody that the 2021 WAC-TAC schedule is that was approved at the last WAC-TAC meeting is, if it isn't posted, will be posted on the agency's website any day now in case you're trying to find ready access to that. And in addition to our regularly ongoing items, there will be a couple items related to the engineering or the emergency training and coordination group, some updates on new alerts, alert system and emergency parts items as well. So any other things that the TAC wants to have included on the agenda above and beyond what's mentioned. Okay, any final comments from the public on agenda item nine, just in terms of the January 4th agenda items. Again, if you wish to make a comment, please raise your hand and zoom or hit dial or dial star nine on your phone. Gina or Easter, do you see any comments from the public? There are no raise hands for this item. Okay, again, thanks everybody. It's 10, 18, the meeting is adjourned. Hope everybody has a good week. See you later. Thanks Drew, bye everybody.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 1986 film witch board now This is a film that I had seen some people talk about here and there on the internet I'm in this horror group on Facebook and I seen a few people post about it talking about it It's kind of like a hidden gem from the 80s And I assumed with with a lot of these hidden gems from the 80s They would be one of those films that falls in the category of so bad It's good and that's why it's a hidden gem But after watching this film for the first time I actually think it's a good legitimate film. It's not so bad. It's good I think it's written well the script is very good the dialogues good the stories good, you know It has its problems, but overall it's a compelling story, and I think it's executed pretty well So I was very surprised with what I was getting based off what I was expecting so let's talk talk about this obviously spoilers for this film because It's an older film. So I always do spoilers step This was written and directed by Kevin Tenney who did films night of the demons Witch trap witch board to Pinocchio's revenge and don't let them in amongst other films Tawny Cattain is in this fan. It is in the family in this film And she was in films like bachelor party crystal heart happy hour and most well-known for white snake videos Now I do have to say that most people would think oh Tawny Cattain from the white snake videos. She probably didn't do that good of a job She did a good job in this film her acting was good And in particular my favorite part with her in this film is at the end when she's in that standoff with Jim And the demons kind of speaking through her like her facial expressions and her lip movements of how she Delivers those lines was I mean it was right on for what you would want for like a possessed person at that point So she did a really good job with that. I mean obviously it wasn't her voice really coming through it was you know changed But she did a really good job with that Um, they had about a two million dollar budget and they made about seven point four million dollars off of it So it was actually pretty You know did all right for back then There were some unrelated sequels that ended up getting released to this film in 1993 There was witch board 2 the devil's doorway and then in 1995 there was witch board 3 the possession Now the key thing about this is unrelated They just kind of took the title and tried to get some sort of notoriety off it And they don't tie into the story. So I don't know if I'll check those sequels out or not. I don't know Tenny used the concept of progressive entrapment to create his script Which basically is the idea that that's talked about in the film by brandon About someone it progressively kind of being like pulled in by a demon or by some sort of spirit That they contact through a Ouija board or Ouija board. Sorry brandon make sure to You know correct everyone would say say Ouija, but it's Ouija But um, yeah, so that whole concept of the progressive entrapment. I've not Seen that covered or talked about in film having to do with you know possessions or you know ghost stuff So it was cool to see that used. I'm sure it's been used at some point. I just haven't seen it in the film But uh, it's a good concept to start with and that's where he started for uh started with for his script Tenny sought to make it a character driven film and based it and based the character of jim on himself Which I think did work quite well That's one of the things I like about the film so much Is it is about the Ouija board and it is about the use of the Ouija board and it is about the demon and the possession But primarily it is about the characters and it's about their relationships And the way it's written it is character driven in the sense that these are characters that are well fleshed out The relationships with each other are well fleshed out Including their past issues with each other with each other that kind of are the main Point of the film and how they kind of end up working through those But then also how they interact with each other and how Their actual dialogue with each other is it feels realistic and it just works Like that whole thing works the compelling stuff here for me Is their actual relationships and how? This Ouija board gets In the mix of it and actually makes makes things worse in a way But in a sense makes makes things better because I mean as messed up as the whole situation is the Ouija board bring and the demon Bring jim and brandon back together who obviously were Childhood friends and then they you know went separate ways because they started having beef with each other mainly because of linda And the fact that brandon was still in love with linda, but linda's with jim You know So it ended up working things out at the end So it's cool that it causes bad things and some unintended good things at the same time So I like that about it The film was originally going to be called Ouija But they found out that parker brothers own the rights to that name. So But by the time they found this out should done their due diligence beforehand They had already done some of the filming so they'd already used Ouija boards in the film They had already said the word Ouija board in the film. So in order to Not have litigation come against them. They ended up needing to pay $50,000 in order to Use continue to use the you know images of the Ouija board and The word Ouija board in the film, but they did have to change the title. That's why it's called witch board so There were a lot of pranks apparently that went on on the set, but also They reported some odd happenings. So it's potentially one of those films that could be covered for that series cursed films on Shutter, you know, I don't think anything like super bad happened with some of the films that are like some of the films that are covered in that series But apparently there were odd happenings And some people would say it's because of the Ouija board. So just saying Okay So even before I started watching this film when I popped the dvd in because that's how I got a hold of it I you did netflix dvd service, which I love I swear by everyone should get it if you're a true Film nerd and you want some of the good older stuff Why the hell have I not heard of steel breeze until now the the 80s band steel breeze Because their theme song that they did for this is a very catchy b very 80s, which I'm all about that. So when I heard it when it was the um the menu screen I was just like I just let the menu screen go for a while before I started the film because I was like This song I kind of dig this song and then I started looking at the steel breeze and I was just like Why am I just hearing about this band? What happened? So they went nowhere unfortunately, but maybe we can get them popular now and then maybe they can go out on tour. I don't know Um, so this film starts with the social drama You know, it's obvious at first at the party that there is tension that there's a problem in this love triangle with brandon Jim and linda and it establishes that immediately and it does it in a good way Because it also does it in a fun way. It's happening at the party There are jokes thrown around people having witty banter with each other and once again the dialogue is well written for the most part So it's a nice easy way to get into it and then establish that there is that kind of Problem with Jim and linda, but then also that relationship problem with brandon and Jim and obviously it also seems I thought they were going to go down this path a little bit more But it also seems that linda still kind of has some feelings for brandon They kind of abandon that though after the party's situation So I thought they were going to do more with that. They didn't in a band. All right. Not a big deal Uh, they do a good job of laying out the Ouija rules Which you know, primarily brandon is the one who brings all that out Uh, or brings all that up, but also the idea of kind of um, Injecting some doubt as to what's going on because brandon even says in the beginning when he's talking about the Ouija rules That you know, the the spirits oftentimes will lie Sometimes they misspell And then when he starts using it He even says that oh this isn't david because he's because he talks about how he's contacted david so many times because he's For some reason tied to that one board and he theorizes that the board was made on the day that david died Which is why he's kind of tied to that Which is also an interesting concept, but Then him talking about oh, well, this is another spirit and then that spirit's gone and then david comes through um, it's it's quick enough that People can be thrown off as to what's actually going on and think that going forward it's david But it's it's injected in there so that when it comes back later that it is not david people think back and they're just like Oh, okay, because there was another demon that showed up at the party or another spirit that showed up at the party And this one's not good Now because that was done, you know me the way the way that I watch these films when I'm doing notes I was like well that wouldn't be in there for no reason So I knew I knew going forward that most likely david would not be the one being contacted by lynda. So Um, also knowing that this had something to do with the progressive entrapment idea. So, you know Um, the eerie music and camera moving uh to the weegee to the weegee Is strong for shadowing of things to come that happens not long after the party Where it's kind of like free moving and it just goes to the weegee I think that's you know your first foreshadowing of something coming from it And in general, um, there were a lot of those kind of like free floating spirit vision type Uh camera movements in the film and I thought when they did those they looked really good Like they they put them high up enough off the ground that you could tell it wasn't a person That it was some sort of you know spectral something and the the way it moved was very kind of ethereal It was very smooth and I like that they did a good job with it Um kind of using the weegee on her own or I'm sorry lynda lynda using the weegee on her own is ill advised Obviously, which we find by the end of this film, especially knowing that another spirit had been trying to come through Now this just kind of speaks to the fact that lynda was just Not that bright with with dealing with this thing and she and she was warned like everyone at the party was warned To not you know take it with a grain of salt. It is a serious thing Which is kind of probably why brandon shouldn't have left it at the party in the first place Like if he was so serious about this isn't just to be messed with he should have kept it with him So that's kind of an issue there I assume the first dead I I did assume Um that the first deadly accident was actually meant for jim And not loyed the guy who gets all that stuff dropped on him and dies Which I was sad about that because I loved loyed as a character. He was funny But um, obviously it comes into question later in the film at the very end.  Whoa, that's a good twist moment But at the same time you're questioning Is this yet another lie because that's one of the things that was laid out in the beginning Is these spirits will lie consistently and I kind of view it as probably what was going on is that the The evil spirit was lying to jim to try and get him to kill himself because he was saying well, you're the portal So basically if you close the portal By killing yourself then problem solved. So he did obviously Entertain the idea for a little bit when he put the gun up to himself But he didn't go through with it. So for that reason and the fact that after he shot the actual board It got rid of the spirit for then Momentarily as we find out at the end I think that it was a lie that the jim wasn't actually the portal all along that it actually was lynda. So um I put down when I was watching it. Uh-oh This is how the spirit establishes trust with lynda giving her the location of her missing ring So that is actually talked about later when brandon is talking to jim and is at his job And basically saying, you know laying out what that progressive entrapment is and he kind of laid it out as you know First it'll be nice to her and then it'll you know help her with things And then after that it starts to be kind of mean and then it becomes abusive and tries to scare And then it just gets worse and worse and worse so I like I already talked about that one. I like how the lieutenant This lieutenant who shows up Not a lot in the film like he's not like he's this peripheral character.  So like it just felt it just felt so over the top for that guy to be that way just saying If what brandon brandon had to tell lynda was so important when he ended up calling her back after they're disconnected so The thing is i'm assuming the phone wasn't always dead and that's the thing So I feel like there's a little bit of a plot hole that he would have called back But then they had the part where you know, he goes to talk to jim at the at the um as workplace Which for the story works a lot better because then lynda still has no clue really what's going on She hasn't really been warned and then you also have the ability for brandon and jim to start talking again And to start rekindling their relationship because they now have a common enemy a common Goal to work for that brings them back together. So i'm i'm good with that. It works The knife in the kitchen That flies off the that board that it was sticking on and into the floor And then the ketchup tips over and it goes on the knife. I thought that was a cool scene I thought that was a really effective way to kind of for the spirit to scare lynda. I liked it um The psychic stoner chick, uh, that's how I put it as a bet. I think is that what she was calling herself She was fun. Really cool character. I like the way she talked I like the way she acted. She was a good time. Uh, it's she seemed like a stoner psychic, right? Am I right? She kept being like Oh psychic humor I thought that was funny The scene of lynda getting thrown around by david is was funny because that was actually not well done. That was kind of a laughable scene, uh, but I you know having that in there because from the 80s totally fine I enjoy that from time to time The positive out of all of it once again is jim and brandon coming back together And I do like when they join forces and the kind of adventure they go on to Going all the way to when they're using the Ouija board outside on that dock And then things go horribly wrong, which I think that scene is really good at kind of keeping the tension Keeping you a bit on the edge of your seat with how the Ouija, um, like the wooden piece on the Ouija boards moving and Slowly revealing the communication with david I thought it was done well and then the fact that it kind of like stalls a bit and then you find out He's here and then all the bad stuff happens. Um, they did a good job executing that. Um, that scene. I enjoyed it Uh, like I said, the dialogue is well done Although I think that one of the things they kind of messed up with on the dialogue Was when there was that really serious moment between jim and brandon in the hotel room Where they were kind of reconnecting and becoming friendly again and talking through the problems And that's when jim realizes that brandon was still in love with linda And there's kind of like this sympathy that passes between the two of them But then that's kind of screwed up with how they ended that conversation, which was with You know jim making the joke because brandon was like, well, why does she like you so much more?  Just saying Some people may love that though the scene of jim and brandon using the Ouija board Yeah, it ups the anticipation like I was saying Not it didn't look good for jim after that though. Like as soon as that hammer jim's hammer I don't understand why someone's using a hammer with a hatchet on the other side of it seems extremely dangerous For numerous parts of this film, but when the hatchet basically the hammer hatchet goes into brandon's forehead I was like, oh my gosh This is not going well for jim Especially with that lieutenant because as soon as they find him dead when they find the weapon they're going to be like Oh, isn't that dude jim the one who lost his hammer his hatchet hammer? Yeah, it wasn't looking good The demon saying jim was the portal had good implications once again And I thought that's the way they were actually going to shift with it But like I said before I think in the end that's not actually what was going on I think that was the moment of the the bad the evil spirit trying to trick jim into killing himself So that he could just take over linda and keeper They really got me at the end, you know after the scene where jim kind of like goes out the window They really got me at the end with uh When they're inside the church and the music is playing and they're doing like a slow pan over I legitimately thought that was a funeral and I know that's what was intended with how they start that scene But then it ends up being a wedding and I was just like, oh man, they they got me they got me So that was really good. That was some good directing right there Then the answer of the yes being shown by the Wooden piece for the Ouija board at the end was a really cool way to end it That was once again when the old lady and the younger girl were cleaning up the apartment where you know the fight between jim and linda had happened And they were talking about the Ouija board and they're like, oh I wonder if it still works even though it has all these holes in it and they throw it in a box And then all of a sudden it zeroes in on the the yes I thought that was cool enough But then all of a sudden for the wooden piece to like fly up from the bottom of the screen and encircle it Even better. It's like that that extra kind of like a little bit of a jump jump scare But like an exclamation point on yes, and there could be a sequel So the danger is still out there. I liked it. Yeah, that was a good way to end I do feel like the film was maybe about 15 minutes too long or so Some of the stuff really need to be shaved down Because it did start to drag from time to time, especially towards the end portion of the film So, you know, I'm talking about maybe around the hour mark or so Is when it started to kind of drag, you know, you could they could have shaved it down a little bit But other than that pretty solid The idea of using the pregnancy too Um of linda believing that she was pregnant and then you finding out later that no, she wasn't pregnant at all It was just all the symptoms that brandon had Described that sound like being pregnant that are actually this progressive entrapment happening I thought that was really clever. That was a really good idea for the script So once again, you know good ideas in the script well written script for the most part dialogues good The acting was good. Like I said, tawny contain did a nice job I mean everyone did I didn't there weren't any actors in it who I was just like, oh, that's rough Except maybe the lieutenant a little bit, but um for the most part. Yeah So this is a good film. Um, I'm I'm very interested to see what other people have to say about it. So overall Potential five stars available with half stars in play Hmm. I'm not gonna go crazy on this because it's a good film. It's not an amazing film It's not a great film. You know, there are some problems with it, but um good for what For what I expected or you know, which wasn't much honestly, so I'm gonna go ahead and put it at a three and a half star rating. I mean I mean I'm through three and between three and a half and four, but I don't think it quite hits that four mark I think it's a very solid three and a half if I did quarters I would do 3.75 but putting it out of three and a half right now But let me know your thoughts on it down in the comments Very intrigued on that one. So do me a quick favor though hit that subscribe button That's your best way to repay me. It literally takes you a second And it is totally painless for you and it means a lot for me personally and a lot for my channel and Basically my motivation for keeping these reviews coming. So I would appreciate that Um, but regardless, I do appreciate you taking this time to watch the video and until next time Keep it brutal


Hi everyone, Sam here with late in sports cards. We've been, oh, there's where's the break title. 2022, can you select football H2 hybrid, five box break number one, random team style. So look again at your random results. As always, you can find those on the website under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. You gotta, I'm actually gonna upgrade you to a red for dropping your pretzels out there. Let's like, let's not be butterfingers out there, let's get it together. Tighten up a little bit here. Ooh, we got a gold first pack, nice. Silver, Kate York. Gold disco, Isaiah Spiller. Ice one there, that is gonna go to two of 10. For the chargers, nice one there, chargers. Isaiah Spiller, Rookie, and AJ Dillon. Disco, Christian Harris, Rookie. Matt Corral, Rookie, and Rahid Shahid. Ooh, we got an auto, first box, auto, nice. That is gonna be, wow, Bailey Zappi, 13 of 25. Four colored RPA going to the Patriots. Brennan R, congrats, Brennan, there you go, buddy.  You can recap it, it's Zappi for sure. Red, Joe Mixon to 49, 42 of 49 for the Bengals. Zeke Elliott and CJ Mose, again, highest numbered card in this entire product is gonna be to 49 on the Reds. Silver, Chris Olave, Rookie, Blue, Justin Fields. 20 of 25, nice one there for the Bears. Hey, CMC and Jonathan Taylor, stuff kinda loaded actually. I would say like Blues and Under. Red's probably fine, because they'll probably be a decent amount of them. And then obviously in the auto and anything. Yellow, Yellow on Forest. That's pretty cool, yeah. Nasty, drink London. Yeah, 25. That is gonna be Silver, Kingsley, Enoch Barras. That's super rare, though. Yeah, they must be old. Blue, Keenan Allen to 25, nice one there for the Chargers, Concourse. I think one auto and one or two, okay, it's in. Generally, yeah, one or two. I'm sure the patch odds are way rarer, I'm sure. Linderbaum, Cam Jordan. There's a Red, Micah Parsons to 49. 49 of 49. Jolani Woods, Rookie, and Collimer. Dude, take a look at the Bowman break really quick. And look at the Frank Thomas. You got a buyback? Yeah, finally. Garrett Wilson, Red, Drake London, sweet level. 49 of 49, there you go, Falcons. Pierre Strong Jr. and Trey Hendrickson. That's nasty. I pulled a couple of those in previous years. They seem rarer this year. They are, dude. Silver, Adam Thielen. Blue, Patrick Mahomes, sweet level now. 17 of 25. There you go, Chiefs. Chris Sadler down by the way. Well, no, Chris Sadler down by the way. Whoa, Chris. Kade York and Deontay Johnson, very nice. Again, I think we're down to 14 to go now in the next one. I mean, not in the next one, but in the third one. Next one is sold out. Yes, 13 to go now. 13 to go. Again, 50 bucks a spot on this one. Yeah, World Pickleball Champion here. Y'all rocking with pickleball? Can you not go past that line? That's like the... Yeah, there's some rules to that one, yeah. You can step in it at some point, and you'll know exactly what's going on. Cole Strange, Christian Harris. There's Micah Parsons against sweet level. This time 38 of 49. Sweet level. I guarantee I didn't go with this game. Oh yeah, I'm sure. All could be really good. Yeah, how easy this is. Kevin Austin, Russell Wilson, Bernard Raymond.  I'm sure it takes a lot to be very good. Oh, green. I'm just messing around. Green, green, green. We've got... Charger. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Mike Williams, Mike Will, three of five. Nice green. Made it, Mike Will. Yes, he did. Irish Spring, green, green, green. Marcus Jones. What? What's that? What? It's kind of, this YouTuber plays 2K. Every year, he like reams a shot, and in 2K, he'll go Irish Spring, green, green, green. It's like, it's so weird. Sam Howe. Dude. Silver Kobe Bryant. I know. That sounds like I would stop watching. Ron Dillmores of 39. I actually stopped watching. I know. I know.  Right, exactly.  We grew up in the OPT Platinum yesterday.  And Donny obviously didn't go to sleep from the night before up to the bowl. He was like. Ooh, a gold again, another gold. Silver, make up Fitzpatrick. Tyree Kill on the gold, nice one there. That is gonna be two of 10, going to the Dolphins. Let's go the Dolphins. Go the Dolphins. Crash. Tyler Algier, and Darren Blend. Vaughn. Kyle. Oh, gosh. Oh, it's Trashless Day. It is Trashless Day. My dad was in here earlier talking about it. EJ Speed, nice one there on the sweet level. He said, oh, a lot of trash this week. Tyree and David's price is too low. Oh, yes. Yeah, there was a lot, man. There was a lot. There's still time to make on the list, too. Traylon Berks, yeah, I know. I'm sure y'all don't have to worry about that, though. No, I'm good. I'm already locked in at one. Red to 49, Jalen Tolbert, sweet level. I will not be tuning in to Trashless today, to be honest. You didn't even need to, you know what you're done. Yeah, there's no reason to watch. No surprise. Silver, Aaron Rodgers. Blue, Isaiah Likley for the Ravens to 25, seven of 25. God, there's a lot of color in this, dude. Two golds, a green, an auto. Kyle, you might go with like top five.  Yeah, you're top five. You're definitely top five. Sure. Silver, Traylance. Blue to 25, Felix Jones Jr. Rookie. Nice one there, too, 25 for the Bears. Hey, Jeremy Ruckert and a Joshua Azoudouk. Jonathan B with a spot in five. C-fan, dual case, Andrew H. Mosaic. Andre P with a spot in both, thank you, Andre.  You're still gonna sneak in. No matter what. Marvin Leal, Nick Bolton. Nice one there, Amon Ross St. Brown and Charles Cross. Malik Willis, there's Red to 49 of Damon Clark. Nice one there for the Cowboys. Patshima Holmes and Patshima Holmes. Christian Watson, Silver is Romeo Dobbs. You got a blue, Nick Chubb, sweet level, it's 25 for the Browns. And Otto Bikite and Kirk Cousins. Very nice, man. There's a great break right here. This stuff's fun. I mean, that's just our stuff that we're recapping right there in five boxes. We're not guaranteed autos, too. To 25 blues, Nick Chubb, Vilas Jones Jr., Isaiah Likley, Keenan Allen, Justin Fields, Patrick Mahomes, Golds to 10, Isaiah Spiller, Tyree Kill, Green to five, Mike Will, and Bailey Zappi, RPA. Four caller to 25 for the Patriots. I was gonna do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for getting this filled up. Up next is number two.


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What do you think is the number one reason people unfollow a brand on a social network? Welcome to the We Are Slam Show where we share marketing agency insights, best practices, and ideas to help your business grow. My name is Tyler Kelly. I'm the co-founder and chief strategist at Slam Agency. We are a small but mighty full service marketing agency that really works as an outsourced marketing department for marketing directors like you, marketing directors that have an idea and a vision for where you want to go, but you don't have the team, the time, or the bandwidth to make it happen. That's where we come in. Now today, we're going to give you some insight into how we do social media. In fact, these are my best practices for social media networking. Now typically, this is the type of information that an agency would want to keep to itself, but we're not that way. As a matter of fact, we know that the more we give, the more we receive, and so we just want to give you as much knowledge, as much value, as many insights as we possibly can, and this show today is going to do just that. Okay, so let me ask you a question. What do you think is the number one reason people unfollow a brand on a social network? Any ideas?  I'm going to share with you our rule here at SLAM. We call it the 80% rule. This is a big one. I want you to write this down. No more than two out of every 10 posts should be promotional, and this is true on every network. No more than two out of every 10 posts should be promotional. This is the 80% rule. As a matter of fact, here at SLAM, we try to make that the 90% rule, and with many of our clients, we try to make that the 90% rule. Now I know you're thinking as a marketing director, well, my job is to promote the business that I work for. My job is to promote my brand, so you're telling me that I shouldn't really be doing that in social media. What should I do? Good question. The key is to really create content that people on an engagement network can get behind, can share, can engage with, can have conversations around. This is the type of content that you'd like to share. As a matter of fact, we do social media for an HVAC company. Can you believe it? An HVAC company. Now, typically, this would be, you would think, pretty dry content. It's like, okay, let's fix the boiler. Let's fix the furnace. Those are all promotional types of things. When we got around as a group and we began to brainstorm what types of content would work well, we had to come up with content that wasn't necessarily focused on what they did. What we did was, we looked at associations. We looked at where were they giving money? Where were they donating their time? One of the things that we realized was that they were really dedicated and devoted to the humane society, to making sure that pups had a home. What we wanted to do was, number one, was highlight that association, highlight that relationship. We did it by creating a pet of the month contest where, essentially, people would submit photos of their pets and we would select a winner each month where professional artists would then create a portrait of their pet. We would give them the portrait. The client would give them the portrait and then that portrait would be hung in a pet hall of fame at our client's office. This has been going for over, for almost two years now and it has been one of the most viral campaigns we've ever put out because people are engaged. What this does is it puts our client on their radar so that when it's time to pick an HVAC company, they know who they are, what they do, and they have a connection to their brand. They're going to call this company. That's one way that you can promote without promoting in social media. One of my five best practices, number one, is what I call P2P. We hear all the time about B2B and B2C, which if you're wondering, business to business, business to consumer, these are these acronyms that we hear all the time. In social media, I really want you to be focused on this idea of P2P. This stands for person to person. Social media is a personal experience. When you log in and you're scrolling through your Facebook feed or you're flipping through Instagram photos or stories, it's personal. It's personal to you. As a brand, what you have to do is you have to make sure that everything you do is personal. It's person to person. Don't think of it as like you're on this big hill and you're talking down. It's never about me as a brand talking to this massive people. It's about me as a brand as a person connecting with another human being, person to person. If you keep that in mind, then when you sit down to write your social media post, when you sit down to communicate, then you're no longer communicating to the masses, but you're communicating to individuals, to human beings. And you'll notice that your copy will dramatically improve if every time you sit down to write something, you think P2P. The second best practice is the 80-20 rule. I mentioned it again because it's key. No more than two out of every 10 posts should be promotional. The number one reason that people unfollow brands on social media is because they post too many promotional posts. My number three best practice is perception is reality. Now, I really want you to think about this because this is really key. Perception is reality. What does this mean? Well, what it means is that however I perceive you to be as a brand, that is my reality. Now, remember, social media is P2P. It's person to person. So it's not about what you think of your brand. It's what I think of your brand. And for me, my perception is my reality. Now, you might be thinking, how can I influence someone's perception of our brand? And that's a really good question. As a matter of fact, we talked about that a few weeks ago in our show about confirmation biases. As a marketing director, you can utilize confirmation biases to your advantage by number one, being aware of them, and then number two, by utilizing them ethically. Social media is a great place to apply some of the principles in that episode, which we'll link to in the show notes. Here's three things I want you to think about when you think about perception as reality. Number one is familiarity bias. This is key. If you are building a personal brand, if you're building a brand where there is somebody front and center, then you want to make sure as a marketing director, you put that person front and center over and over and over again, because people buy from those that they like and trust. And in order to accelerate this liking and this trusting, you can build familiarity. This is called the familiarity bias, which simply says that the more people see you, the more they like and trust you. If you're a brand that doesn't have a person that you can put forward as the face or a group of people that you can put forward as the faces, then that's where you really need to take a step back and think about how can we as a brand that essentially is recognized by a logo, how can we become more personal? How can we be more P2P? So before you even get to this point, you have to think about P2P and how can you do that as a logo, as a corporation? If you're just posting from this entity that is unapproachable, then a lot of times you're not going to be as engaging in social media. All right? This is why in fast food, you see the trends with comedy. It's where Wendy's and Jack-in-the-box, they're really able to build this P2P, to build this perception as reality through familiarity by being out there, by injecting their brands and making them more personal. Okay? This is where comedy really comes into play. The number four best practice that I want you to be aware of is to follow channel norms. This is so huge because a lot of times, this just doesn't happen. Okay? We think that we can just create a video for YouTube and then just like distribute it in Facebook and all these places. But the thing is, number one, each channel has its own norms in regards to formats, in regards to times and links of videos, in regards to the way that people communicate. This is a big one, right? So like on Instagram stories, I'm going to communicate differently than I would on a Facebook post. I can't put hashtags in a Facebook post and expect those hashtags to go too far. The hashtags that I use on LinkedIn are going to be completely different than the hashtags that I use on Instagram. And so if you're taking social media as if you're taking the approach of, I'm just going to create one piece of content and then put it everywhere, you're taking the wrong approach. You need to follow channel norms. And what that means is like you have to be in each channel authentically. And a matter of fact, that's number five. Number five is be authentic. No one likes it when you're fake and in social media, we can tell. Okay? We can tell when you're not being your true self, when you're not being your true brand. Okay? It's obvious. People, they have a BS meter and we can see it. A lot of times brands get into trouble because they're trying to be something that they're not. Remember, P to P, remember perception is reality and kind of just be yourself. Be authentic. Authenticity is all about being true to your brand values, being true to your brand voice. If you can do that, then you can be authentic. These are my best practices for social media networking. I hope that you've been able to take something from this video. I hope that you've been able to pull something that you can use today. I want to leave you with this one final tip, editorial calendars. Use them. Okay? It's super important that you get organized as a marketing director. The best way to do that in social media is to utilize an editorial calendar. An editorial calendar just at a high level, it allows you to organize your promotions, any special events, any dates that are important for your business, your brand. You list those on a calendar and then you kind of high level, insert ideas for the types of content that you want to happen week in and week out on each of the networks. I promise if you aren't using an editorial calendar and you start using one, you're going to instantly feel more organized. You're going to be able to report on what works, what doesn't work.  You're going to stop doing things last minute or in the moment. It's really going to allow you to implement the best practices that we talked about. It's going to allow you to really level up when it comes to your social media game. Okay? A few quick tips for editorial calendars. Number one, editorial calendars, use them. Now, if you've enjoyed this episode of The We Are Slam Show, if you haven't already, please subscribe. You can do that. You can follow us on Spotify. You can subscribe on iTunes. If you're watching on YouTube, be sure to number one, subscribe, and then number two, hit that bell. If you're watching a clip on Facebook or anything like that, do me a favor, Instagram, TV. Do me a favor and let me know. Shoot me a comment, DM me, or you can email me at Tyler at slamagency.com. If you're a marketing director looking to up your social media game, we can help you with that. This is something that we're really passionate about and something that we're really good at. 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The Nigeria Police Force, the Independent International Electoral Commission, INEC, Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, and the Foundation for Human and Environmental Rights Protection have organized a stakeholder summit to deliberate on the coming general elections. The commissioner of police, Mohammed Ali, are stakeholders that adhere strictly to the provisions of the new electoral act and INEC's guidelines before and during the elections. Ali urged candidates to have their campaigns on issues rather than resort to a campaign of Calumny, character assassination, and hate speech. All abide by the rules of the game. If we must get it right, if we want on all of us, the actors, body, political parties, the youth, INEC, and also with the security agencies, if we want on all of us to play and advise strictly by the rules of the game. Once we are able to do that, we will get it right. And everybody will do what he or she is supposed to do and do it right. Imperative because of, you know, what we have seen with regards to electioneering process in the years before now, where there is so much uncertainty and so much octogry and all unwanted activities of the gladiators. With the coming into force of the electoral act 2022, majority of those ill-advised behavior have been taken care of by the electoral act. So we believe that we need to bring all critical stakeholders together, where the police are the lead agency on election security and all the sister agencies who brought them together. In the leadership recruitment process of Nigeria, it can be devoid of ranko, it can be devoid of, you know, killing and maiming of citizens. Representative of the resident electoral commissioner in the state assured that the commission was fully prepared for the elections, but revealed that a total of 254,000 permanent voters' cards had yet to be collected in Delta State after the 2019 elections. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


that has gone through an evolution similar to what happened in the 80s right in the Yankees own backyard when Mike Francesa and Christopher Maddog Russo set the industry standard for sports talk radio. We had the pleasure of simulcasting their program for quite a while before they went their separate ways and right now Doggy joins Michael Kay. Well thanks a lot, I'm here with Christopher Russo at 1.1 half of Mike and the Maddog and Chris I know it doesn't seem like 20 years but this is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of yes and the reason I bring that up is that you and Mike Francesa were a big part of it and I just wanted to run this by you when you found out that your show was going to be simulcast what did you think? Well I think we kind of needed a little pick me up we never we had done about 13 years prior to yes and it was lose something different because they were going to pay us you know as my old boss said I'm the only guy in America who got paid for doing the same show twice so from that standpoint it was a it was a plus but you know it was a little intrusive you had to get used to it cameras in the studio you can't go in here and have your lunch remember we were on at one o'clock so you had to make sure you you know whether you ate your lunch earlier later you couldn't do it during a break because the camera always rolled so it was a it was a it was a little different feel to it and don't forget Mike and I always used to have our little fisticuffs and our little battles so if you were a key listener or a watcher you could tell when Mike and I weren't getting along because he wouldn't talk during the breaks so from that standpoint you could pick up on that but I'll tell you one thing about yes never Phillip Kelly and the guys one time they bought me I had lunch with John breakfast at the Greenwich Country Club because one of the guys from Atlanta came up and he just wanted to make sure I wasn't getting too rough with the Yankees and you know me I'm not a huge Yankee fan that's the only time in all the years that I was on yes six years that they ever say anything to me about just you know let's take it easy I'm not going crazy so give yes credit for that all those years ago now I don't know if you've heard this part of the story Chris but when they were putting together the network they needed programming and it was George Steinbrenner who came up to flip and said how about those two guys on the radio did you know it was George I had heard whispers about that flip but always told me that you know George like this is that true by the way is that an accurate story that you want yeah so if you got the big guy behind your back you're a if the big guy has your back you're in pretty good shape we enjoyed yes yes did a very good job we went to the studios one time in Stanford to do a couple of shows up there too that I recall flip never had you know again the one time and only it was flips called never had a problem with me and you know Mike used to love to run out of the studio so somebody had to be in the studio when we came in and out of the breaks returning because you can't have an empty studio when you came out of the breaks so the yes people always say where is Mike for crying out loud we need to both of you in there with the two cameras so I can tell you all sorts of stories about that scenario I used to have my big a ham and cheese on mayonnaise on a roll I couldn't eat it in the studio I look like a slob so I had to go run outside during the commercial breaks to get bites of my sandwich if it was late in the afternoon if I was eating say at one 30 that day but always very good to us one on the road we never Mike on the road and they would bring this little camera so if we're at a press box I remember the Yankee Malin's World Series when we were at the old Joe Robbie Stadium there which has now been refurbished but they had that little camera it was almost like a tootsie mall that they put outside the window frame to do the two of us with the talk show they did a lot of stuff to get us on the air on a day in day out basis and they went to all the remotes superballs I think probably went to the suit I have to go back and look they went to the Super Bowl soup they did a heck of a job they were very good to me and Mike never a problem I loved yes you know that I've told you that before I loved yes what I did now when