like a civil suit because an injunction in a civil suit takes a lot longer than the landlord tenant court at least in this county? Yes I'm I'm not as familiar with the landlord tenant court I have not appeared in that venue but in the these would normally go to superior court and would but there are preliminary steps that can be taken so that an aggrieved person can go in and apply for a temporary straining order to prevent the rental to going to someone else and then you'll be followed by a preliminary injunction you know a couple of weeks later so those processes can be for court proceeding fairly truncated that being said this hasn't been tested so how willing would a court be? How strong of a case do you have to have for a court to to suspend a rental while waiting to hear of the facts we don't know? That's my thought because I know that you know current tenants have a specific court here the landlord tenant court that you know stops them being evicted or allows for an eviction so that the landlord can move on but it seems like someone who is not currently in the rental or on the other side has moved out of the rental has to say protections as current landlord-tenant relationships so that's why I just don't know if an injunction is something that would be useful right it's going to be particularly helpful and we have had conversations with a couple of other jurisdictions that have had this type of an ordinance in place and so we are learning from their experiences and learning what what works and and what doesn't thank you commissioner test I was at the city council meeting the long one and I left before all of the public comments were were presented what occurs to me is do we keep tabs on how many evictions that we have through the section eight or the housing choice voucher program so we have information on how many what our program attrition is so that's some of the but not the specific reasons for those terminations so that's some of the data that we're starting to collect to be able to answer some of those more specific questions and I can say that anecdotally it's very few that are evicted through the court system for violations of the rental agreement because that actually may work in you know a positive direction for the property managers to know that very few evictions take place through the housing choice voucher program sure and one of the things you know Dave mentioned the suggestion about you know talking about marketing our program and selling our our strengths of our program and one of them certainly is the tenants incentive to follow the rental agreement as it's laid out because if a tenant violates the rental agreement it's also a violation of the voucher and then if that's a serious or repeated violation and their actual subsidy could be at stake and so from our perspective they have a greater incentive to to follow the rules and be a good tenant yes thank you commissioner downie and I were speaking before the meeting about uh there's also and it's it's great to hear that there is an effort to educate landlords about what the program is but um commissioner downie and I were speaking about how like it's not known that the qualifications to have a voucher in terms of not having specific types of um criminal history in your background such as I think it's drug use and I think domestic violence are also is is there as well that those are benefits that are already built into having a voucher holder as your tenant that those are the kinds of things that probably you know really would sway the the tide and let let landlords feel more comfortable with their decision to have a voucher holder all good comments so our utilization rates always been very very high it's not as high currently what are the I mean we were always bumping up against 100% over the years what has it been recently the utilization rate in other words the number of utilization great yeah right now it's 89% for all the vouchers so um you know we have more than 100 voucher holders looking for units right now so so it's it's up in 90 so was it has it dropped recently or is it um it it had since the rents have increased and then when the economy was booming the landlords prefer to choose non section 8 um um you know renters two things number one they could charge as much rent as they want and also um you know like they said um um there are some restrictions for us they don't want for the inspection you know they don't want that government you know kind of consideration that's included in the housing choice voucher program and also we have to report whatever income they get to IRS so those are some of the considerations and since the rents have skyrocketed when somebody first move into a unit we have to follow the what um HUD has um set for their fair market rents and then we can increase that up to 110% but um you know as you know HUD has always been two years behind and we've um you know as an organization of the housing authorities we've been talking to HUD to change that and it looks like um you know it's going to happen not maybe this year but next year yeah so in the perfect world you have enough landlords in different parts of the city where you have the people with vouchers that can find units and be placed and kind of gets the city out of the business of having to you know um litigate in certain cases and and and to administer a program that's the perfect world and I've worked here um 19 years and I've been through the ups and downs when the economy is down landlords love to rent to us because they know it's guaranteed rent then when the economy booms and they could increase the rents and can request whatever they need to make it work for them that's when kind of like our voucher holders become kind of like second to the ones they want but based on the studies that for all the cities that have the anti-discrimination against the source of income it um all the studies say that it has improved the the leasing rate for voucher holders between 10 to 15 percent is there any discussion or concern about landlords particularly when they can given the economy raising their rents so that they're above the fair market rents that can be offered by the program we have 10 percent so in place right now we still have locally and at the state level a price gouging ordinance that is preventing rent increases of greater than 10 percent of the pre-fire rate so that is right now sort of impacting what landlords are able to to charge um but to answer the other part of your question yes the landlords are still free in jurisdictions with uh just the source of income uh discrimination ordinances and not any other type of rent control the landlords are free to to charge whatever the market will bear for their rents so we are right now waiting for the the new fair market rents to come out that's usually around this time of year probably by the next housing authority meeting we'll have that information and so we'll be able to see what our new program limits will be so that's a potential downside I suppose to the enactment of the ordinance um you know well no it just reminds me of the mobile home ordinance you know when that was first being considered um you know if if the landlords you know had been more proactive in terms of engaging the needs of the community they might have averted having had you know the whole bureaucratic process of setting up a mobile home rent control board but it didn't happen and I don't know what the what the landlords might do in this situation but anyway so talk a little bit about what you're doing with the outreach I know that was a major part of the discussion before the city council too and what's happening between now and the 24th so we are we I've met with the affordable housing property owner managers and then we are meeting you know we've had we're having continuous meetings with the landlord group and the real estate broker group we also have been meetings with legal aid and all the you know our client advocates and also we're meeting with cab tomorrow night so and we're going to meet with the NAACP so we're trying to reach all the groups that we can and hopefully what our goal is to have the tenant advocates and the landlord association group meet together so we can come to a consensus so that we can hopefully all work together to make this ordinance pass thank you thank you for that so in terms of process this is the study session so there's no action being requested but I so what are the expectations of staff in terms of information coming from this board to the city council between now and the 24th of September much like the inclusionary study session it's to get your feedback number one do you think it's a good idea that the city adopt a non-discrimination non-discrimination it's source of income ordinance and so that what you might think about what you heard from that meeting such as the marketing and promotions efforts we heard other comments from the property owners group about incentives the risk mitigation pool or leasing bonus we have mixed feelings on that and what it means for our program what does it what does it mean for the kind of the reputation of our clients there's the property owners are not consistent in what they mean when they say for incentives so that's one thing carmelina the rest of us are trying to clarify with them what do they mean so just feedback like that would be useful the the other portal discussion there's just just let me finish the thought it would be the I don't have a good word for it but basically it's the fund that would be there to support losses and and tenant cause damages that was discussed on the city council and the source of funds for that so that's another item that's being explored in terms of resources we're we're asking the property owners group if that's something they want us to advance or not yeah just you know I'd used to under the section 23 program they provided the rents and they provided funds to support tenant the payment of tenant caused damages and they decided that they wanted to move away from that model primarily because it was costing the federal government too much money and so it's been passed on to cities and counties now it's coming back in terms of you know where these funds going to be to protect the landlords in the case of damages I don't know if there's anything like that in state law but I but I know that's that's that was part of the discussion the city council as well and ask us to comment go to miss me mr. Danny then I want to come back and ask when our next housing authority meeting is because maybe there could be you know from your work some set of suggestions that you could present to the housing authority that could be considered and passed along to the city council excuse me mr. Danny so I wanted to propose to the house I mean to the staff side of the house I'm sorry to draft some sort of best practices for tenants to deal with and identify uh sources of discrimination what it looks like what resources are out there what are the things that you can do to help bolster your case as far as taking it to a court and receive some sort of damages because I think a lot of people don't know exactly what discrimination is and what exactly they can do so kind of help me help you show that you're being discriminated against so that I can help you resolve the situation without having to worry about getting evicted or having the sheriffs come because you really haven't done anything one of the things that we're working with legal aid has volunteered with the tenant group that if this is approved they're willing to work with us on an outreach to our tenants and would maybe at the landlords would like to join so that they could both discuss kind of like what is discrimination what is necessary or you know what are the laws of regarding this ordinance so we are prepared after this passage to make our outreach really good which includes some of the tenant advocates that are willing to help us make you know do this and because you have a very good point about discrimination would it be possible to because you'll be on the 23rd is when we're supposed to meet next to have an item on the agenda with with your you know you'll be have a presentation like to the city council the next night we get to get a preview of that say we can do that yeah we can use our housing authority meeting the day before to share what we learned and what we plan to present yeah and then you could get you know whatever uh response to that might be which i'm getting a person that's going to be pretty favorable good point any further discussion on this particular topic anything else you need from us if not we have a opportunity for public comment i see paula cook at the microphone so paula you go first since you have a card as does uh going to it there is thank you paula cook community housing sinoma county i just wanted to make a couple quick comments relative to the marketing issue community housing sinoma county as you know owned several properties we accept section eight vouchers as well as the hud bash vouchers and in my experience since 2013 when we first started accepting section eight vouchers the inspection process has been quite quick and i would say relative to a project that opened in february of 2019 i i can't imagine the housing authority staff would ever wait a full 10 days to inspect as a matter of fact what rebecca lane just described to you earlier happened to us which was we had a homeless veteran waiting to utilize his voucher but the unit had to be inspected i believe it was inspected on a friday afternoon and he didn't have to go live under one of the bridges under the freeway and so staff made every effort i think it's smart to advertise that it would be less than 10 days but in my experience we have a tenant moving into benton veterans village on saturday and they're inspecting uh thursday afternoon so uh it's quite expedited and i think it's really important to underscore that in your marketing what it's really like and i think vice chair johnson morgan's comments regarding the screening criteria for the vouchers is a really good comment because it's important that we dispel the fear as to the risk mitigation fund i think it's that in hand with the training that goes on for the perspective tenant for example cots who operates in south county but now of course is in santa rosa as well they operate operated a program called rent right for many years i don't think they brought it back again but each tenant and maybe you know all this so i forgive me if i'm telling you information you've already heard but each perspective tenant going through their program would be trained in how to be a good tenant and that would result in a certificate and that certificate would be presented as a quote guarantee and i think you know i can't speak to mr. Burke's comments regarding a state a comparable state program and or a federal program and what that might have actually cost landlords um or the state rather to reimburse landlords or the the feds but they actually had a very very low rate of payout for damages or deposits that were required so to be made up so i i actually think that would be a perfect public private partnership that maybe the community foundation would be interested in seating along in partnership both with the city and for example legal aid and the landlord organization i mean everybody should be in their singing kumbaya so those are my remarks as a landlord thank you thank you thank you thank you mr. duane hello my name is duane duit i'm from the sonoma county housing advocacy group which has been in existence over 20 years because there's been a housing crisis for over 20 years in sonoma county i come today to advocate for you folks to be fully supportive of this type of an ordinance some preliminary research you showed me that over 14 states have allowed this type of ordinance and they withstand legal challenges and it's the type of thing that rather than be scared away by the bogeyman tactics of various landlords saying they can't do their business the way they'd like to you'll typically find that not only will they be able to do their business as they wish they're able to prosper during difficult times because as miss howard pointed out when the market's down they come to that government tap and they get the funding that they need to make sure that they can thrive even during recessions so it's really important also that you focus in especially on the veterans program known as HUD housing urban development bash veterans assistance supportive housing that program has helped a lot of people but it's very difficult for people to find spots and right now i've been trying to help some veterans for months and months and i know there's available units out there i've actually gone and seen some of the units that are available and apparently it's all looked at like well you know that's just part of business and if we don't want to rent to those folks that's okay and to me it's one of the ultimate insults you've asked those veterans to support our country to lay their lives on the line if need be and you say yes you know we're supportive of veterans but then when it's time to put the rubber on the road they discriminate against them outright saying well no we don't accept that so for all the flag waving that goes on and for the current leadership up at the top of this nation spouting all these types of patriotic situations to people i would say it's time to put up time to shut up one or the other if you're going to support veterans you help them let them use those vouchers as soon as possible rather than have them wait in a limbo for months and months on end with the thought that they might lose the voucher because they couldn't find a spot and then they're still stuck out on the street and that's what two veterans i'm working with right now are feeling so we here could do our little part our little corner of america we could stand up and support those in need indeed thank you very much for your time thank you thank you for your comments okay so we are now to five which is a public comments on non-agenda items and i have a card from mr duit hello my name is duane duit and not only am i a proud resident of roseland and a veteran i'm a person that looks at ways to try to save money and use that theory that's often talked about reduce waste reuse things recycle all that stuff you hear when they talk about sustainability and resilience so currently the city of san erosa is the owner of six houses it also happens to own on a site of town where i'm very familiar roseland six residentially zoned lots where they tore down houses as they built stony point road out to a wider amount of space it's dear to my heart because i was on the redevelopment project area citizens committee for southwest san erosa 20 well 19 years ago is when it started and the discussions were about how you could widen stony point road and we advocated that you save the houses they could have widened the road within the right of way but due to politics chamber commerce pressure and other things that go on they didn't do that they decided to tear out 17 housing units stating that that was going to help well they probably never claimed any of them were affordable because of those narrow guidelines but to the people that lived in roseland those were affordable houses they're all gone now so myself and other veterans have been talking about the possibility of having the city stop being the force of no and perhaps become a force of yes on how to try to save those six houses one just down the street on sonoma avenue across from the police station one over in howard park and four over in roseland and work with different community members to save the houses and move them house moving is a time-honored profession it's been going on for over a hundred years so it's one of these types of things where we have to get the forces of yes together and i'm hoping that the housing authority would become the forces of yes in their own way and advocate and say well you know what that's not such a bad idea to save six existing houses that all of them would cost more than a half a million dollars to replace you can't replace them as cheaply as you could save them so we'll be talking about it and if it ever comes up hopefully you folks would be forces of yes and say yeah we'll work with some nonprofit group to let people live in those houses over there in roseland we're thinking of veterans village in roseland all six of those houses could help veterans using vouchers thank you for your time i can't stay thank you gotta go so please let miss cook get her loan for that western project thank you okay we are to um the approval item six which is the approval of the minute minutes from the june 17 2019 meeting and let me ask if there's any questions or comments about those minutes and if there aren't we will accept them as presented look fine everybody okay the minutes are accepted thank you sir we are to item seven which is chairman commissioners reports and i do have some things but let me ask if there's any other comments from members of the housing authority i'm gonna get to my comments here my machine has decided that it wants to take a leave of absence um so i'll try to make this quick um so um first of all um we i'm just gonna go to the so so we had a board and commissioners lunch uh last wednesday i believe and um that's with the mayor and the boards and commissioners share items that are of kind of high priority involving the boards and commissions for the city and the mayor does the same and from the city council's perspective and so i shared with them the contents of today's meeting which i knew was going to be a long meeting and a difficult one shared the upcoming there's going to be a joint city council housing authority committee and this is the first time i think it's happened that's going to meet later this month i think next week to review proposals that will come in for the benna valley um it was a senior center and it's going to be converted to a reuse to provide housing some of which will be for homeless am i correct in that regard dave so that's coming up um and it may be the precursor of um similar kind of a process in the future um possibly with the uh with the funds from cdbg for the relief uh effort um i was asked to make sure that i made everybody aware of the merit award um effort that's coming up later excuse me that's in i've got a date here but no it's october 21st um submit forms if you have people in the community that you feel are worthy and uh join because if you can be there it's a very positive event so i encourage everybody to try to be a part of that and they're asked to me to inform you that you'll be receiving an upcoming notice for training on conducting these meetings i guess there's a desire to kind of bring the meeting process um to a more consistent basis i think but we'll all find out when we attend those meetings so those are the things that i have uh under that item so we'll move to uh executive director reports and communications and the 9.1 item uh did you want to talk a little bit about that kind of how we got there with that letter just be happy to uh chairman but before we get into 9.1.2 i'd like to turn some time over to our city attorney good afternoon chairman and authority members um i just want to uh introduce uh our newest attorney in our office um jeff burk he's been sitting here behind uh behind listening today is actually his first day here um he is our new chief assistant city attorney it is a new position a new management position in our office and we are thrilled to have jeff join um he comes to us from the county of sonoma um i have worked with jeff for many years uh when i was over at the county um he has more than 25 years of experience uh in local government and and is a very skilled uh and talented lawyer so as i say we are thrilled to have him here and he will be um taking over uh the advice work for the housing trust and will become your new attorney who is here uh at your meetings and available to you for uh questions and discussions and so forth and again i think you will very much enjoy working with him and he is i know happy to be here and um i don't know if you want to say anything and what's the spelling of your last name jeff uh not quite the same as yours thank you uh move to e oh okay be okay okay welcome and i'm glad to have you jeff with us yeah thank you and thank you yes and you'll probably for a while be seen both of us kind of interchanged interchangeable but eventually jeff will be taking over fully so thank you thank you so commissioners there's a communication item in in my report today it's a letter for your consideration to have the chair sign opposing a proposed um federal regulation called mixed family status so just by way of background currently uh family could receive a voucher so long as one member of the household is a u.s citizen this rule would mean that that family would no longer be eligible for a voucher and so uh national association redevelopment officials our local chapter in the state of california housing authorities are all going on record to oppose this suggested regulation change and this allows the housing authority to do so as well yeah and there's a provision i think that uh that person would pay a portion of the rent it would be prorated in a way where it wouldn't be a detrimental to either city housing authority or to the hud program if i understand that correctly something that i uh david i talked about it was in the narrow journal and it seems to me it was something we'd want to support but i you know don't want to sign a letter if there's concerns about it and if not if i have your support i will sign that letter and it will be forwarded to uh to uh okay thank you so we're to uh the monthly activities report happy to answer any questions and i'd also like to add that the city council's evaluating a whole new business enterprise a rental inspection program and if the housing authority had an interest to hear about that proposed program we can back on the 23rd of september with uh an outline of what we envision a program designed to be then the following night on september 24th the council will have the benefit of a study session and then we are first question we would ask much like today is do you want this program and if the answer is yes we would be returning in the november time frame with an ordinance so if there was interest we could certainly spend some time with you going through that draft program i mean i'm thinking that there might be because there's a relationship i think between that and the anti-discrimination ordinance we talked about but seeing nodding heads we'll plan to do so okay i'll add that to the agenda and any other comments uh congratulations to the residents and the staff for their work on the self-sufficiency program the graduates that were recognized four different families and uh money was set aside and at least two of them were able to purchase homes i'm not sure how the funds were used for the others but um it's a very important program so i congratulate the good work um so we are to item i believe we're to items 11 point no excuse me we're 10 10.1 which is a consent item so uh this is receiving a ten thousand dollar donation from bedford lodging which i think they're the people that manage the uh maria that's under construction and so we don't need uh see we i guess unless there's a just a desire for any further discussion i would just entertain a motion in a second for accepting this donation do we know why they decided to give us a donation did they say why settlement we understand that it was part of a settlement um negotiated with the i think at the the neighborhood but megan megan bassinger has more context good evening uh megan bassinger housing and community services manager as part of the settlement between the union and the developer the developer agreed to donate ten thousand dollars to affordable housing programs within santa rosa and this was the hotel workers union that was in um negotiations negotiations with the developer so so megan it's uh it goes into the housing and reserve transfers what account is that and i would i would have thought it might have gone into the housing trust but is that a what way to get there it's a fund within the housing trust so the housing trust is comprised of a handful of funds um in excess of seven and so we put it into this fund because it has a lot of flexibility so it's not going to impact any of our federal funds or alter the balances of inlu fees or real property transfers so this is more of a mixture of funds that we generate through other sources or funds that roll over so finance advised us to put it in this particular fund so so just protocol but what we're experiencing is the i think a request from the housing authorities to pull this from consent for discussion is that where we're at it looks like we're there okay yes legally you may accept a donation any further questions or discussions on this item if not looking for a motion in a second i motion to accept the wait i motion to accept the ten thousand dollar donation from bedford lodging i second that motion okay we have a second uh commissioner test uh any further discussion and and if if i may the um the resolution is also to appropriate the monies to fund 2030 uh operating reserves and to appropriate the funds for operating reserves thank you roll call please chair berg hi commissioner downey all right vice chair johnson morrigan hi commissioner olson hi commissioner owen hi commissioner test hi let the record reflect that the resolution carries thank you okay we're to item 11.1 is report uh herne veterans village loan modification 2149 west herne avenue we have frank casanoff uh the staff recitation and if i may um chair berg before we start i'm going to hand out we have a modified resolution that we will discuss after the presentation it's just some modifications to clarify the intent but i'll pass this out it's in red line so that you'll have that when we get to that point in the presentation so it would be in lieu of the one that's in the correct material we have thank you chairman berg in housing authority commissioners the request before you is to modify a conditional loan commitment from a further loan to community housing sonoma county for the herne veterans village which is located at 2149 west herne avenue in 2007 the housing authority approved a loan commitment of 245 407 to community housing sonoma county for acquisition of land and a vacant residential care facility and the rehabilitation of that facility for a 12-bed transitional housing facility for homeless veterans on this very site this was a phase one project uh and we issued a no fund for 2018-19 last year around this time and in response to that notice of funding availability the community housing sonoma county submitted an application and in the second round of review that the housing authority did the housing authority awarded a approved a further advance in the amount of 285 thousand dollars for 24 permanent supportive housing of what were called bedrooms or efficiency units for homeless and at-risk veterans and this was the phase two of this of the project on that site the site as indicated before is on western avenues west of stony point avenue and this diagram shows roughly where the phase one and phase two sites would be built ultimately part of the phase two would be not developed in this particular development cycle but would come at a later time recently in in june community housing sonoma county requested that the that the new loan be separate from the existing so the further advance which was approved in february actually adds funds to the existing loan so it's entirely encumbered together with the existing project having a separate loan for phase two distinct from the phase one would benefit future lenders on the second phase who wouldn't want to be encumbered by the existing loans on the first phase so the solution is to modify this loan commitment from a further advance to a new loan to financially separate the phases the way this will work is that at first the new loan will be new loan documents will will be secured by the entirety of the property but then at some point prior to actual development community housing sonoma county will subdivide the property from one parcel into five parcels one of those parcels will be for the existing development and four will be for the phase two and at that point the the loan will be reconvened the existing the the new loan will be reconvened from property one to property two there'll be documentation to to completely separate the documents so that the loan one is is supported by the parcel one and the loan two is supported by the newly created group of parcels it is recommended by the housing and community services department that the housing authority by resolution modify the further advanced approved by resolution number one six five six to a new loan for the phase two project at her veterans village two one four nine western avenue allowing for two separately financed projects for homeless veterans the phase one and existing 12 bed transitional housing facility in phase two a 24 bedroom slash efficiency unit permanent supportive housing facility to be constructed and we'd be happy to answer any questions paula cook as you know with community housing sonoma county is here as well thank you and if i may i'll explain the changes in the resolution simply in the whereas as we've made some modifications to highlight the subdivision the proposed subdivision of the property and that the the the two phases will now be on separate either separate individual parcel or group of parcels and then in the actions it the resolution will now have the authority authorize the executive director to once the subdivision has taken place actually let me step back at this point when you approve if you approve this modification this new loan will still be will still encumber the entirety of the parcel the phase one loan also currently covers the entirety of the parcel that the new language in the resolution will authorize the executive director once the subdivision to take takes place to release portions of the property so that at the end of the day the phase one loan documents will cover only the phase one parcel and the phase two loan documents that includes the loan and the regulatory agreement and other associated documents will cover only the phase two parcels so that's the purpose of these modifications is really to clarify that intent and to have the authority expressly give that authorization to the executive director and we did include that it is conditioned on the executive director finding that the value of the parcels to be encumbered the newly configured parcels are sufficient to cover the value of the loans thank you that helps with that clarification and so the parcel to the development that's anticipated there it would be so the the parcel anticipated in in will really there'll be four parcels each parcel is expected to have one house and one second dwelling unit or accessory dwelling unit in each house there'll be six residents each resident will have their own room it's kind of like an efficiency it's the same units by the way that they community housing sonoma county has if you've seen up by the sonoma county facility for the veterans and so those are those units in fact they might literally be the same because there's a several year lease to a three-year lease up there and some of those might actually literally be moved here with the addition of constructing more so they're basically a little efficiency unit that has a little kitchen at a bathroom and an area for for living and so each house would have six of those plus common space and each accessory dwelling unit would have two similar units and some common space so that's eight units on on a parcel or eight bedrooms slash efficiencies on on a parcel and they will do that on three of the four parcels now this new loan will be a encumbered on all four parcels to start with and that fourth parcel at some point in the future would either be in addition to this phase or or perhaps it might you know be carved out as as a future phase but for now it'll be part of the valuation of the loan the loan to value the loan to valuation analysis so is the financing in place for the future development yet no it is not in place at this time this loan is this 285 thousand dollar loan is for pre-development it's to get ready for to do the necessary studies analysis and and and prepare the documents to to make application to the city of San Rosa the applicant and if you want more information Paula Cook and can fill you in but they're they're going through a process right now to acquire additional funding some of which will be likely to respond to the notice of funding availability that we have out right now for additional funds and perhaps future of the housing authority funding and also some the state funding the mhp and there they have some vouchers they're looking for using some veteran vouchers and veterans housing so if you want more information she can do but they have not locked that in but they have a clear picture of where they're going is there a tentative map in place at current time no it is not and the recording fees associated with the reconveniences will be picked up by whom which party oh recording fees are always paid by by the borrower they don't come out of that housing authority but they could they could use our loan money but it's out of their okay thank you you know proceeds commissioner also is there any time when all this moving around that we're not totally secured well they know the money is not totally secured well the you know the intent with with these with these changes is to actually document that and to provide that assurity that our money is secured that that there's valuation when we secure our land our loans with the land and the property that there's enough valuation there to do that so that's what we're looking for there's no naked period of time where that land is floating around and we're still not covered or secured no no that's exactly the intent so yeah and I think these changes help yes as well any additional questions no it sounds like in addition so the $285,000 as a pre loan they get the property ready and then after that that we an additional application for funding actually build the facilities to be used for the the veterans community is that a correct yeah there may be some overlap as they're doing this the the pre development work they will be applying for other funding during that same time frame so it'll be preparing all the documentation the applications doing the environmental studies and you know architecture design engineering different pre-development work as they're you know lining up their their funding so it can be a quicker transition from pre-development to construction I'm sorry we're anticipating that they will be making an application under the current round of the notice of funding availability that's out right now that's due applications are due the preliminary ones are due September 30th or 20th and so we're anticipating miss cook told me that they're they're planning to make application for some additional funding even at this time yes if I may clarify I just want to make sure that that everyone understands the 285,000 dollar loan was actually approved by the housing authority last February and this action is simply to convert that from that for their advance into the form of a loan but it is not new it's not a new or additional 285,000 we have a card from mr. DeWitt but I do not see mr. DeWitt in the room so I think we can pass upon that and unless there's any further questions be looking for a motion focused on this resolution I'll move to approve the resolution housing authority city of Santa Rosa approving a modification previously approved conditional further advance a conditional commitment of funds for a new loan her and veterans village and waive the reading of the text and I wasn't sure if I heard or not so you you made a point that it was the modified version correct yeah a second okay we have a second i commissioner morgan johnson any further discussion hearing then uh real call please chair berke all right commissioner downy hi vice chair johnson morgan hi commissioner olson hi commissioner owen hi commissioner test hi let the record reflect that the resolution carries very good thank you and I think we're at the end of the meeting so we will adjourn unless there's any further business to come before us I see none so thank you for adjourn


Hi everyone Joe for jazby's casebreaks.com. We've got one of the three National Treasures basketball number blocks Randomizers knocked out. We've got two more to go if you're watching live or if you're watching this video If we do two more we can unlock that full case break of National Treasures hoops really nice stuff in there full case Pick your team. All right, so two different dice rolls happening here. First of all, we're in each of those number blocks We're giving away two spots So we're only selling eight spots outright randomizing those eight spots top two get extra spots Which is pretty nice, especially at these price points here So the first dice roll will be the giveaway and then the second dice roll will be Randomizing your names and then matching up with the number big. Thanks to this group here for making this happen There's the first dice roll Let's randomize that list six times five and a one Giant starters on the background nicely doff hit five and a one six times Top two. We'll get extra spots one two three four five and Sixth and final time. Good luck. There you go Paul and Danny.  Let's gather this group here put you into that list Now we've got the second dice roll for names and numbers Good luck One and a five six times for names and numbers one Two three four five and six and final time We've got Paul Down to David and then one and a five six times for the numbers one two three four Five and six and final time after six. We've got three down to zero Now remember as it says in the description zero gets any and all redemptions Including one of one redemptions, but one will still get We'll still get live one of ones. Oh Cody boundary with a base it Lucks a third nice All right Paul with three and four Terry with a Danny with seven David with two will with one Brian with five James with nine Danny with six and David with zero So David, you'll get any and all redemptions for those four teams down there including one of ones But will you'll still get and you'll still get live one of ones. Let's order these numerically And thank you two more to go breaksville jazby's case breaks calm. We'll see you for the next one. Bye. Bye


It's a beautiful Chicago day out there, man. Oh, man. You just bring the rain. That's how I bring something. You really does feel like you're... I mean... There's no... Man, you sound like my wife. It's good. I mean... There you go. I shouldn't have a comedy doing that. I hope the camera was rolling through there. Yeah. The passing... You know, passing game, you all have been moving around a little bit. A lot, a lot, rather. But aggressive gauges doesn't seem like it's finding him. Is it just a matter of the progressions and the reads and so forth? Yeah, I mean, there's been a part of the season right where Rust was unfortunately not able to play.  Early in the game, there was a chance on the second play of the game, and unfortunately, the way the play worked out, Rust wasn't able to get the ball, and Matt wasn't able to get the ball off, and we took an unfortunate sack there. But, you know, typically how the games play out, it's our intention to, like I said before, spread the ball out and go where the coverage dictates it, and, you know, just happened last game that it didn't dictate as much to go to Rust there. And Taj, how does he play? And his numbers look solid, but you're not going to go down past those numbers? Yeah, again, I think it goes for us, you know, from a coaching standpoint, and for me personally, it's how you impact the game. And again, some of that shows up in the stat line, which I think is the low-hanging fruit to see if guys, how they're performing. But the reality is, you know, we ask a lot of the position groups to do a lot of different things that obviously don't show up in the stat line. And if it's Taj, if it's OZ, if it's CB, if it's Frank Darby, if it's Russ, guys that are out there, the reality is there's a two-fold, right? You have to win on your route.  The other part is obviously the run game. And so when you're in there, are you making sure that your guy is not the one making the impact player of the tackle? And are you doing what you're supposed to do? So when it comes to not just Taj, but all those guys at the receiving court, you know, we measure them how they impact the game, not just if the targets go to them, or if they catch the ball that way. And Taj, in your last Trafford's PR game, what's a good stat this week about the group having the most receiving yards as a group? Could y'all move more work over to then to help in the passing of Taj? Are you saying the tight ends? Oh, yeah, I got you. Yeah, so I mean, I think what they're running joke a little bit is Lee Smith having a career resurgence. Yeah. There we go. Great career there. But again, like I said, it's you've got Kyle, you've got Hayden, you've got Lee. Those guys all do different things for us. They're able to function in the past game and cause defenses at least to think about different things that wish they can do. And again, it's mass job to go back there, read the coverage, and then where the ball goes, the ball goes. You know, again, they've all done a good job of when the ball is coming their way to catch it and then make something happen after. And then when it doesn't come their way, still winning on their routes or trying to win on their routes to continue to put that on film so that when the quarterbacks go and watch the film and they see where the ball goes, you know, we tell those guys, hey, the ball went there, no doubt, but look how these routes have won in the backside or whatever. And you kind of put that in your memory bank in case you have to go back to that play. How much was Russ maybe limited to have you growing injury on Sunday? Because we saw him in week two, you know, playing for really two, you know, do guys get pulled for diagonal injuries? How much did you grow and play until that? That would be a question for Russ. I mean, guys speak for themselves, Coach Smith speaks about the injuries. To me, you know, if you're out there, you're giving everything you got, I think I can say this, even though I play quarterback and you don't get hit every day in practice, but I appreciate anybody who goes out there, tries to give everything they got. You're at this point of the season now, like I've said before, where, you know, guys are fighting through everything. And that's not just one position group.  And if they're on the field, you know, the expectations is no different they have from themselves go out there and perform at a high level. You mentioned Frank Darby. What does he need to do to get, that Christian play, what do they need to do at this point to get in some sort of receiver rotation or Darby's case, even a receiver wrap? For me, with all those guys, and I know you're saying about Frank, again, I think you go to practice.  Then you have a post-practice where you're working on stuff individually, potentially. For us, at the end of the day, it's no different than any position group. You want to see for every guy, if you go away to an undrafted rookie, you want to see them go out there every day and try to get better at something. And we try to, specifically when you talk about players, you want them to go out there and work on something that maybe they need to improve on, and stay strong where you're strong. I think that's the one thing, you know, not to go too much off subject, but when you talk about, and again, I always go back to personal experience, for myself, like when you get to the NFL, they're all good players. You probably had one distinct trait that got you here that stood out amongst the rest of the guys in your college class that got you drafted or made a football team in the NFL. I think you've got to remember to stay strong where you're strong. So if you're really fast, make sure you're always really fast when it shows up on film. It doesn't mean you don't work on your weaknesses, but I think, you know, I can say for myself what ended up happening is, you know, I watch Peyton Manning, he's in division, well, I don't feel like Peyton Manning. A, I'm left-handed, B, he's right-handed. His whole mechanics are different. So me, all of a sudden, want to be that kind of quarterback, you kind of lose yourself sometimes. And so, again, we ask, no different than Matt to Frank Darby to anybody else's, come out each day with an improvement, try to seek it, get better, and then remember what got you here. So... No, what I'm saying is with guys that you want these guys to come out and get better and work on what they work on, at the end of the day, you want to see each day a guy coming out and giving you improvement, a guy each day getting better. And I think all those guys have done that. At some point, right, in the NFL season, you're going to have to play different multiple receiver sets, tight end sets, offense alignment. And so, again, those guys are continuing to improve, and when there's a chance, they'll get a chance to make a play. What do you think you need to see Frank improve on then to get, you know, to get to that point? Just bring this, like he's been doing. I think Frank's done a good job of bringing the same attitude, the same energy. Again, there's only so many opportunities, and so when it's your chance, we expect Frank to go out there and perform. So I have, to me, Frank's done everything we've asked, and we continue to push him and get better, and his coaches have done that for him. And when it's Frank's opportunity, I'm sure he'll get a chance to make a play for us. How has Hayden Hearst done within the role... Yeah, Hayden, I can speak to Hayden as a person since I've been here. Hayden's been awesome because of his mentality, mindset, how he approaches the game. What I appreciate about Hayden is, you know, he goes in and he plays as hard as he possibly can on game day. It doesn't mean he doesn't do that in practice. I'm saying when that game, when the lights come on, you know, Hayden's going to give you everything he's got. From a coaching standpoint, I mean, again, I think if you pulled a bunch of different coaches, I'm sure there was different things that would come up. For me, like a guy who's going out there and literally laying it out there for you and that ranks up pretty high for me. I think Hayden has done that game in game out and he's done that in the practice and we come to expect that from Hayden, which has been awesome. Felipe, it looked like he was a little more diverse than what he did. Maybe that was just because you put him up there when Ridley came off. I don't know, but are you trying to look in different ways to incorporate him rather than just that Wildcat? Yeah, I think for... It's a great question. I think we're Felipe, right? We say this to a number of players. You want to be... You want to make yourself valuable and impact the game. I know Felipe is obviously coming in and playing quarterback from college and then obviously he's transitioned and he's come here and he's played quarterback in the preseason and we moved him around a little bit. What Felipe has done is had a great attitude of coming in here, doing anything that we've asked him to do, run down and practice on a special teams kick or go back and play quarterback. And what he's done is he's had a mindset in which whatever I need to do to help the team. And so I've got a great appreciation, even though he's a rookie in that first year in the NFL, he's taken that mindset which has been awesome. You point him to Taysum Hill and say as an example of a guy who's got lots of roles and has made it work. I mean, Taysum Hill is such a special talent. I'm not sure how many guys and maybe Delay can answer this through his history of the NFL. I don't know how many guys have been like him, honestly. He's won games of the starting quarterback. He's played last year against in my previous stop, he caught an in-cut for a touchdown as a receiver. I mean, so he's what they've been able to do with him and how he's done that role. It's pretty special. I mean, if you could find someone like that, I mean, I'm sure a lot of teams would be pretty excited, but it's hard to compare a guy to Taysum Hill because of what he's been able to do so far. Do you find yourself in the free-agent or drag process looking for guys like that because of him, or is he just so much like your life? Yeah, he's been so unique. I think I'm sure teams are always scouring to look for a potential of that just because of the stress that can cause to a defense. You don't know where he's lining up. He can impact the game with the ball in his hand or he can block and probably really get on special teams. And he basically serves a lot of roles which helps you with roster flexibility. Again, I'm sure teams have tried. I just don't know. He's carved out such a niche that I give him a ton of credit because he's done it a lot of different ways and he's accepted that role and he's done really well in it. Could you have done it? Have what? Could you have done it? No. I mean, it would be easy to run like four or five or something like that and can throw the football and again, a special player. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He played till what? 45-46? Something like that? Yeah. Like you guys know. What a good player, man. So you grew up in Cleveland, so you saw Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Colt, Bears, Packers, what's your take on it? First, about the same. I can tell you about New Orleans. So all my different stops, player and a coach. I think this is six or seven. I've probably played down there at every different stop. I've got such an appreciation for that atmosphere. Regardless of the time of year, you know, it's not just cranked up for the playoffs, not opening game, you know, not just an eight o'clock kickoff or a late afternoon primetime. I mean, they're ready to go and it's, you know, it's an exciting atmosphere as a visiting team to go into just because, you know, you feel the energy in there and they do, they're probably as smart as any fan base of knowing when to be loud, knowing how it affects the other team's offense. And again, it's just one of those atmospheres where you see it on your schedule each year and you know you're going down there. Not to mention, obviously, Coach Payton has done a tremendous job. You know, he's been a head coach for so long and he's won so many different ways, which is a credit to him and all of his assistants he's had through the years.  They win a lot of games and that crowd's behind them and it helps them really create that home field atmosphere that gives an advantage to them. Their entire defense is obviously pretty good. Coach Smith was talking about DeMario Davis earlier to diagnose well. What kind of problems does it pose going up against a player like that who seems to be really hot and playing really confident with a smart guy who can identify what you're doing? We can speak about him. I will quickly.  He's the full package of what you're looking for and that's not just him. Like I said before, it feels like even though I haven't been in this division previous to this year, I've been in a division opponent. I think we played him twice last year. We played him, I think, for four straight years or three or four straight years and I've got nothing but respect for that defense and what they're able to do from a schematic standpoint, they cause a lot of issues and the way those players play.  They communicate extremely well. They get into a lot of different looks for the quarterback.  I am a huge fan of what Coach Allen does defensively and obviously what they've been able to do over the course of these years and found different ways to win on defense and it's going to be a challenge for us. I'm just curious if a different like that person would say that is it weird to say you're a fan of a guy who's really trying to scheme to make your life options miserable? Yeah, I think in the NFL you have an appreciation for people that they do, their craft and how they do it. I don't know them personally. I just obviously like I said when you play against the guy a number of times, you grow in appreciation for how they attack offenses and how they play and how they instill that mindset for their players and you can see it. You can see the energy and what those guys play at. They've got really good players. They've got a really good scheme. That usually is a challenge for an offense but I think he's done a really good job there. Do you have a guy like Marshall Nottingham where he has a guy like Marshall Nottingham or is that just Cleveland right there? Do you love? I have state too. I mean, when you do have a guy like Marshall Nottingham or how much does that make life easier for what you might want to try to do to an opposing offense? Well, yeah, I mean, obviously he's been a very good corner for a number of years not just the Ohio connection there D-Led even though we're going to pump that but I mean, it's you know, they, again, I feel like I've played against Jenkins for a number of years and Philly and now I'm back in New Orleans again after he was there before but it's another player.  And you talk about the nickel and the issues he can cause and you know he's a guy who's a great energy guy he gets in your face just like the rest of that defense and again I think you've got different mismatched pieces that cause offenses and some issues and you got to be on top of it either at home or when you go down there because you got to bring it because you know they're going to bring it Governor Johnson seems to like to Marshall Nottingham last couple weeks seems to like to try to get into Yeah, unfortunately, yeah Do you have to talk to him and say, hey listen, this is this guy's Do not get into Yeah, I think regardless of the week we try to make sure that we have a you know contain our emotions it's an emotional game I don't care how you slice it dice it I mean guys go out there they need to execute the plan but the reality is we're all human there's emotions involved good and bad you hope that guys contain their emotions and go out and do their job but you know it's it's one of those things where again I think it all is part of their defense they go out and they play with a tremendous amount of energy and as an offense if you don't match their energy there's going to be issues and that's why I think they've been so successful on top of scheme and player is how they go out there in their mentality anything else we could just give back Alexander played a little bit last week for the killings but you know one of the seeds bring a baby another veteran player great athlete you know I think it allows him more flexibility in terms of some of the things that he's done in his past frees up some other players and again it's you bring him into the mix and just another player that has an edge can cover it can do different things and again it's our work's cut out for us thank you


Hey, guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Roestel here. I want to do a video today regarding the cool feature on the Synology NAS known as Quick Connect, and just doing a little bit of looking into how exactly this works. Synology NASs are fantastic tools, really, really useful if you particularly are doing videography work and you are generating gigabytes of data every day, every week, and you need somewhere to store that stuff. The first thing I typically do when I finish a video, even one of these little sort of webcasts for YouTube, is I want to back up that video file and then put it somewhere on the network or out of my local environment. Now, for proper backup, you want to do one, typically on-site backup and one off-site backup, so you can put it on your NAS, but you also then need to go ahead ideally and get that over to the cloud or someone else's computer, for that matter. It just needs to be geographically separated from your home network environment. Now, typically when I would be traveling and making videos, which I've only been doing for the last couple of years, but I would bring along a external SSD, and if I finish the video project, I'd put that on my SSD, and then when I got back home, I would get that SSD, external SSD, a Seagate, whatever, and I would put that onto my NAS and then delete the files on the external SSD and rinse and repeat, and that's probably what most people do, in fact, but there is an actually simpler way if you already own a Synology NAS. Buried a little bit into the menu of the Synology NAS under Advanced Settings, External Access, you'll see a little thing called External Access, and what this is is Quick Connect. Quick Connect is a way to access your Synology NAS from outside of your local network, right? Typically, when you're connecting to your Synology, you're on your LAN, and it's all wired up over ethernet cable, and it's very easy to do. What happens when you are beyond the local network? So those of us who have done such cool and geeky things is running our own web servers from our homes, or I believe my first job was running a CRM from an old laptop in the office at one point. You know that in order to get local infrastructure accessible from outside of a home network or an office network, you typically need to set a port forwarding on the router in order to allow that port to be connectable from outside the network, outside the LAN on the WAN, the wide area network. Now, if you don't do that, there are some workarounds that I've seen over the years, and they typically require something called Proxying or some sort of Proxying system. So I used the Quick Connect recently in the US, and I was amazed and delighted with how well it worked. I would finish a video, and I could log in via Synology Quick Connect, and I could upload to my NAS just as if I was in my house. Now, the thing that made me a bit suspicious of how it worked, or I suspected it was a proxy server, was because of the speeds, it was a slower process. So I suspected that when I was uploading to my NAS via Quick Connect, there was a proxy server. Between, in other words, I was actually uploading from, let's say, a hotel room to the proxy server. Then the proxy server was passing that file on to my NAS, and if I wanted to grab something off my NAS, the reverse process, upload from my local environment, sorry, upload from my NAS to the proxy server, from the proxy server, download to where I actually wanted to access the file. So that was my suspicion, but I couldn't be sure. So I plugged into Google how Quick Connect works, and I came across this interesting resource. This is the official, now there's articles, and I didn't want to just kind of plagiarize someone else's writing, so instead I decided to plagiarize Synology, right, that's legit. So Synology have a whitepaper, and more seriously, I went for this resource because it's actually authored by the manufacturer. Now the cool thing was about Quick Connect, you don't need a, you don't need port forwarding, it really, really works out of the box. So how does this work exactly? So this whitepaper spells it out basically, and they get to the juicy part right about here. Quick Connect hole punching. I'm gonna read you the lovely words of the Synology documentation here. If no direct connection can be established, right, so if you don't have port forwarding set up on your network, therefore there's no way to directly connect from your NAS box at home to your hotel room in Rome or Bodega or Seattle, Washington. If no direct connection can be established, the client will attempt to establish a virtual tunnel between the client and the NAS via Quick Connect to allow a temporary direct link for data transmission. This technology allows the server and the client to experience internet synchronization performance very similar to connection via one IP slash DDNS without physically having such an environment. Hole punching works by initiating a virtual tunnel from the client to the NES with the aid of the Quick Connect server. Sounds very much like a proxy server. So here's how it works. One, the NAS sends out a request to the Quick Connect server and keeps the hole, a random external port punched by the request on the NAT in front of the NAS open to receive a hole punching request. Similarly, the client sends out a request to the Quick Connect server to create another hole on the NAT in front of the client. So both sides are using hole punching. You, let's stop talking about client servers. You trying to access your NES and the NES in your network.  Three, the Quick Connect server will deliver the whole information of the NES to the client and vice versa. So you tell each other how to get into one another's networks. The NES will try to establish a connection to the client through the punched hole on the client side. Once the client receives the hole punching request from the NAS, a hole punching response is sent back to the NAS via the punched hole on the NAS side. And we have a nice little diagram to make this easy. So there is indeed a Quick Connect server. There's not really a punching server. It's actually more passing on workarounds to the local network environments on both sides. Hole punching handshake, virtual tunnel. And that is the figure one here, Quick Connect hole punching mechanism. Once the virtual tunnel, I'm gonna put myself a little bit smaller here. Once the virtual tunnel is successfully established, remote client can use this connection to communicate with the NAS directly and no network relay is needed. In case where the virtual tunnel cannot be created, a relay service is available for data transmission when traffic is relayed. It goes through a Synology relay server before arriving at its destination, requiring more time compared to direct connections or Quick Connect hole punching. So I'm gonna read that again. Requiring more time compared to direct connections or Quick Connect hole punching. So this is a slower data transmission process. The Quick Connect relay service serves as the final option for data to be communicated between the NAS and the client. So they've got kind of various ways to do it. Now, I believe you can probably set up direct connectivity by configuring that port forwarding. I haven't gotten around to doing it yet, but I like the fact that they've given you all kinds of options. If the hole punching fails to create a connection, the client will make one last connection attempt by creating a virtual network tunnel using the Quick Connect relay service, which works as follows. To initiate the relay service, a client will send a request. They go into the detail again about how the relay server works. It's kind of what you'd expect. It can cause a significantly in-dated delivery and thus the last method a client will take in attempting to reach the server. And figure two shows that relay service working in the middle here. I suspect that might have been what I was using when I was accessing the NAS from outside of my network. And there is more details here that we're not gonna get into. So that is basically how this thing works. In other words, there is a preferential method.  And if needed, direct connection is possible and the hole punching mechanism doesn't work, it'll transmit data through a relay server. Now I get that that is super complex. As a non-IT professional, just as a guy who likes all this geekery and hence it's a big focus on my YouTube channel, I get the concepts there, even if the precise details to drill down into exactly how a hole punching handshake is established is knowledge for people on a different paid grade than I am on. So I hope this video has been useful. If you are a Synology user, you've been impressed by Quick Connect and you wondered how it worked, here were the tech details. Thank you guys for watching. And if you would like to get more videos from me, please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel and of course, have a great day.


Ladies and gentlemen, please join in welcoming our host for this evening, the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Eric M. Smith, accompanied by his wife, Trish. And now, please join in welcoming our guest of honor for this evening, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Christopher W. Grady, accompanied by his wife, Caroline. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the oldest post of the Corps, Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., celebrating over six decades of performing evening parades here in our nation's capital. The ceremony you are about to witness was first conducted at the barracks on July 5, 1957. While the parade is standard for Marine units throughout the world, some elements have been modified to showcase the unique abilities of our marching and musical units. The mass formation of troops on one long line at close interval made possible the massing of firepower from muzzle-loaded muskets of the past. The adjutant forms the line of battle, and in those early days that line consisted of two or three ranks, much like the parade formation you will see this evening. Tonight, we celebrate the pride, professionalism, and a spree decor that are hallmarks of the barracks and the Marines who have distinguished these hallowed grounds for over two centuries. They represent all Marines around the globe who embody our Corps' values of honor, courage, and commitment. With the performance by the President's own United States Marine Band, the band traces its roots back to July 11, 1798, when an act of Congress authorized the Marine Corps to employ a drum major, a fife major, and 32-fifers and drummers. Today, the Marine Band has more than 150 members who proudly carry out its mission of providing music for the President of the United States and the Commandant of the Marine Corps. The band will open with a march composed by John Philip Sousa, entitled The Invincible Eagle, the most famous director of the Marine Philip Sousa, who led the band for 92. Of all his marches, one so embodied our American spirit that in 1987 an act of Congress proclaimed it the National March of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, celebrating over 223 years of serving as the guardian of American musical tradition, the Marine Band will perform Sousa's most famous march, The Stars and Stripes Forever, the historic Home of the Commandants. It has been the resident of 1806. The present occupants, Mrs. David H. Berger, during our nation's bicentennial in 1976, the barracks and the Commandant's house together were designated a National Historic Land Fund. It is a replica of the National Endset, displaying 15 stars and 15 stripes that would have flown here in 1801. Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to introduce the official mascot of Marine Barracks Washington, D.C. Private Chesty the 16th, a pedigree English Bulldog Private Chesty the 16th enlisted in the Marine Corps on 14 March 2022 and completed recruit training on 25 March 2022. The first Barracks mascot was named in honor of the most decorated Marine in history, Lieutenant General Louis B. Chesty Fuller, a name that has been inherited by every mascot of the oldest post. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors. The card before you is unique. Planked by two Marine riflemen, our national flag is carried by the color sergeant of the Marine Corps, while the Marine to his left carries the official battle color of the Marine Corps. The 55 streamers and silver bands displayed with the battle color commemorate the military campaigns in which Marines have participated. They span the entire history of our nation from the Revolutionary War to the combat operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Decorated with palms, Oakley clusters and stars, they represent more than 400 awards and campaigns of the United States Marines. It is the privilege of Marine Barracks Washington DC to be entrusted with the custody of this battle color. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. The Marines in the spotlight represent over seven decades of marching and rifle drill precision, a legacy of honor, commitment and discipline that began during the sunset parades of 1948. The M1 rifles they carry with fixed bayonets are standard for all our marching platoons and weigh in excess of 10 and one half pounds. The platoon executes its drill sequence without verbal cadence or commands. Ladies and gentlemen, Marine Barracks Washington DC proudly presents the United States Marine Corps silent drill platoon. The United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps will open its concert this evening with the march composed by John Philip Sousa named after an iconic symbol of American freedom, the Liberty Bell. The concert continues with the medley of classics written by the iconic British rock and roll band of the 60s, the Beatles. Ladies and gentlemen, Marine Barracks Washington DC is proud to present the Commandon Zone, United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps. Commandon Zone has the distinction of being the only active duty drum and bugle corps currently serving in the United States armed forces. This evening's concert will close with a movement from Giuseppe Verdi's famous Requiem, D.S.E.R.A. Tonight's performance will feature the saluting battery of the Barracks, which will be fired by the body bearer section of the oldest post. Ladies and gentlemen, celebrating over 88 years of marching and musical excellence, here is once again the Commandon Zone. We welcome our Washington DC to have as our guest of honor this evening, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Christopher W. Grady. Our distinguished guest in the reviewing area are the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, General Eric M. Smith, and the commanding officer of Marine Barracks Washington DC, Colonel Robert A. Sucher. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for honors. As we prepare for pass-in review, please direct your attention to the two marching companies assembled before you. These companies are comprised of infantry Marines who were hand-selected to serve at Marine Barracks Washington. In addition to parade support, these companies conduct joint service honors ceremonies at the Pentagon, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the White House. These Marines also have the solemn duty and distinct honor of performing dignified transfer ceremonies for fellow Marines who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our country, as well as laying our Marines and their families to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. When not performing ceremonial functions, the Marines of companies A and B hone their infantry skills in preparation for future service in combat units of the Marine Corps' Fleet Marine Forces. As we observe evening colors, as we bring the evening parade to a close, the ceremonial bugler of Marine Barracks Washington shall emerge atop the ramparts and pay tribute to our beloved falling comrades by sounding taps. This historic bugle call originated in the U.S. during the mid-1800s as a way of signaling to troops the day's end and lights out. It would later become a way of saluting the honored dead throughout our American Civil War. Today it is the final and perhaps most solemn element performed at all military funerals. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing as we now honor those gallant men and women who have given their lives in the service of our country.


Hey guys, so I did something on eBay recently that I didn't think that I would do because I tend to be very, I guess you can say skeptical about certain things on eBay at times. One thing I learned about eBay is that you can get a lot of something without having to spend a lot of money. And I took a chance on that idea with buying a used puzzle lot. If you guys think buying puzzle lots on eBay is a great way to save money, hit the like button. Now I didn't just purchase it off right, I actually won an auction and it ended up being only $15.50 for a lot of six sets and there was $10 shipping. So in the end, it was like 25, 50, $26 around there, which to be honest, for that many puzzle boxes, that's not a bad deal. And on top of that, it's not like they were small sets. These were big sets. I'm going to open it now. Okay, we're open. Open for business. Is this what I ordered? Yeah, I guess it was. I don't remember. Okay, so this is the, I don't honestly remember. I don't have the open listing here, but the first one that I pulled out is a Buffalo games puzzle. This is a 300 piece set and it is the Las Vegas strip. This is going to be 18 by 18 inches when it's completed. Oh, that's fun. When I hear Las Vegas, you know what I think about my honeymoon? We went to Las Vegas for a honeymoon and that was a blast because honestly, I didn't think I was really going to like go nuts about it or enjoy it, but it was one of the best times I ever had. This is going to be fun. This will be a good quickie puzzle, you know, to like kind of, you know, do when you want to do something fast. Let's see what the next one is. Ooh, we have another Buffalo games puzzle here and this one is called, I'm guessing this is the series called Amazing Nature and the name of the puzzle is Inspirations of Spring and this is a 500 piece puzzle. And when it's completed, it will be 21.25 by 15 inches. Oh my goodness. This is such a beautiful image. It screams springtime. You have all the beautiful colors coming out of the trees and the flowers. You've got some deers running around. Oh my God. You know what this is? Oh my goodness. That's my vacation lock cabin.  Oh my goodness. Is that a, what is that in the back? Is that a bear? I can't even tell. That's kind of scary. But anyways, look at those mountains back there. The color of the sky. This kind of looks like where I live, you know, even with the bears. I actually had one on my driveway the other night and he ripped my garbage apart and threw it across the other side of the road. So yeah, that's fun. Ah, we have another Buffalo games puzzle. And this one is also, this is by Charles Wasaki and this puzzle is called Hero Worship. It's 1000 pieces and when it's completed, it is going to be 26.75 by 19.75 inches. This one looks like fun.   Oh man, look, he's enjoying a nice cup of coffee. Oh, I see what this is now. This is the US mail. This is a nice image.  But you know, I do it anyways. Box looks in pretty good condition. That was number three. What's number four? Let's see. Oh, we got a new series here. This is still from Buffalo games. But this is from the Kim Norlean series and she is known as the painter of peace and tranquility. This puzzle's name is peace like a river. This is 1000 pieces and it is 26.75 by 19.75 inches. You know what this places? This is another one of my log cabins.   Look at those people in the background on the porch. They're just they're just hanging out. I want to join them. You know, actually, what are they doing in my porch? Who are these people? I love how you can see the inside of the house from the windows. That's amazing details. And according to this box, there's 10 hidden images. Now I'm not very, I'm not at all familiar with this series. So I don't know exactly what I'm supposed to be looking for aside from what I see here is a burn on a branch. This is some great landscaping on this long cabin. I wish the front of my house looked that nice. We have another Buffalo games puzzle from the Charles Wasaki collection. And this one is called root beer break at the Butterfields. This is 1000 pieces and it is 26.75 by 19.75 inches.  I'm really loving the little plants on the roof there. I don't know how that actually happens to a house on a beach, but you know, they're there. I'm loving the look of the little boat on the side of the house. There's someone left the door open. I'm going to have to complain of somebody for that. This is my kind of beach. Oh, exciting. One of you guys left me a comment about this particular series from Buffalo puzzles and I didn't realize that I actually have one and this is from the Amy Stewart collection from Buffalo games. And this one is called banana split. This is 1000 pieces and it is also 26.75 by 19.75 inches when it's completed. All I am thinking about while I'm looking at this image is give me some darn ice cream please. This looks amazing. I love the bright colors on this. I'm a huge on bananas, but they have to be very unripe for me to enjoy them. I do not like sweet bananas, but everything else I'll take it. Even that waffle cone that looks that's good stuff. Amy Stewart looks like she's going to be another one that I'm going to, you know, start a collection of because I like the brightness of her images. This is great. I know I didn't necessarily handpick all of these puzzles, but I'm going to be honest. I kind of see why I, you know, kind of drifted to this lot. Some of them are not my typical picks. If I were at a store and I'd see them amongst other ones, but I'm excited that I have these. Really, all these boxes look fantastic.  I can't speak for all people on eBay, but this particular seller obviously cared about her stuff and, you know, clearly wanted to give them to a good home. Of course, there is that chance. There might be a missing piece. The listing I do remember did say that all the pieces were there. We'll see, right? I'm going to keep my fingers crossed, but so far my experience purchasing a used puzzle lot from eBay so far so good. Obviously, when you're in eBay and you're looking for puzzle lots, you want to read up on the reviews that reviews or feedback that people have left for the seller, as you know, because that gives you a pretty good idea of what you're getting yourself into. Would I purchase another auction or use a lot of puzzles? Probably. Obviously, no matter what puzzle box you get, either new or used, you're always going to have a chance of missing puzzle pieces. And yeah, even with new ones, I've heard it happen to many people. It hasn't happened to me personally, but I will definitely keep looking up on eBay and seeing what's available in terms of lots because this is a great deal. Six puzzles, $25 in the end. That's under $5 a puzzle and they look great. So I'm really happy with this purchase. Let me know what experience you've had with buying used puzzles, whether from eBay or from a thrift store. You know, I'm thinking of probably heading up thrift stores and seeing what they have to offer as well. So I'd be curious to know what your experience has been like purchasing used puzzles, but it's definitely something that I'm going to keep looking into because who knows what other great deal you can score. I think this was a great deal. If you want to see me put these puzzles together and others that I have in my collection, be sure to hit the subscribe button so you can keep up to date with that. And if you like to watch puzzle haul videos, be sure to watch my playlist and you can watch all my other hauls that I've done recently. Well guys, thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one. I just realized I don't know where I'm going to put all these. It's a lot of puzzles.


Why digital why now that's what we're all here to answer today, and my name is Doreen Bogdan Martin I'm the head of the ITU and if you've ever wondered what the ITU is for Think about us the next time you stream a video you look up and address on your device Or you do any of the things that are now part of your digital lives We're the UN agency behind the many complex systems technologies that power today's digital transformation Excellencies ladies and gentlemen dear colleagues and friends My name is Achim Steiner and I head the United Nations development program We are privileged to be working in 170 countries and UNDP is UN's lead development agency working to end poverty Inequality and climate change and to advance the Sustainable Development Goals Thank you for joining us for this event during the 78th United Nations General Assembly This year our global community is marking the midway point towards the 2030 agenda Much progress has been made towards the Sustainable Development Goals since 2015 and Important transformations are gathering pace Yet, we all know it is estimated that 15% of the STG targets are currently on track amidst an era of increasing uncertainty Emerging from COVID-19 we now confront an accelerating climate crisis violent conflicts at the highest level since World War two Including in Ukraine and the cost of living in finance debt crisis and have tipped millions more people into poverty Sharpening inequalities worldwide an era often referred to now as poly crisis However, the future is not predestined. We have choices We must confront and imagine the possible futures ahead So we can see where we might be able to steer change in the right direction towards the future. We want Just as we have shaped the world to what it is. We can make a new world in In particular the fourth industrial revolution and digital technologies hold almost limitless potential to drive game-changing progress Improving people's daily lives driving down poverty advancing gender equality and driving progress across the STG's Digital is opening brand new ways of working and thinking and new opportunities that we could not have imagined just a few years ago Digital technology, I believe is possibly the single greatest variable that is reshaping Development as we know it today Indeed countries all over the world over 40 right now have already invited you in DP often together with ITU to accompany them in Their digital transformation journeys to accelerate progress across all 17 STG's Doreen This new world that Akeem described as a world filled with new possibilities It's a world where a startup in Bangalore is using AI to decarbonize Decarbonize India's agriculture sector. It's a world where a young woman launched an online platform with around a thousand dollars And she's transforming the shopping experience in Rwanda Where 40% of the SDGs rely on earth observation and global navigation satellite systems But ladies and gentlemen, it's also a world that's filled with challenges a world where emerging Technologies like artificial intelligence raises ethical safety and accountability concerns Where too many people lack digital skills in sub-Saharan Africa alone over 200 million jobs are going to require such skills by 2030 It's a world where services They cost still too much too much They're too high for the poorest 40% of the population in many parts of the globe Where women account for a Disproportionate and a growing share of the global offline population Outnumbering male users by almost 20% and it all comes down to a single number 2.6 billion 2.6 billion people That's the number of people around the world that are still Unconnected worldwide and that's why Akeem and I are sharing the stage today because we believe We believe ladies and gentlemen in the transformative impact of digital and a shared digital future for all One that puts the SDGs back on track and the future Starts right here today during this SDG action weekend. We're going to show you not tell you What digital can do for people for our planet for prosperity and for peace These digital solutions are real The famous fintech platform and PESA is reaching millions of customers in Africa at a time when more than 350 million adults remain unbanked on the continent Giga the joint initiative between ITU and UNICEF to connect every school in the world has mapped Some 2 million schools in almost a hundred and forty countries helping to connect 5,700 schools and more than 2 million Students in 20 countries and let me also mention Something close to my heart very dear to me and that is partner to connect and each one of you We'll have an opportunity to make a commitment a commitment that helps us get closer to our new target a hundred billion US dollars in pledges towards meaningful connectivity and global digital transformation by 2026 all of these solutions are at the heart of SDG digital acceleration agenda the agenda that we will be launching today and Akeem and I wanted it to be our common Contribution to the SDG summit As Doreen has mentioned this new report provides countries with a range of real-world examples that can accelerate progress on Yes, literally 70 percent of the hundred and sixty nine SDG targets Please allow me to highlight just a few Consider the UN biodiversity lab that provides decision-makers with spatial data to put nature at the heart of sustainable development of war Consider the smart health facilities something that we support in UNDP They are using smart technology to advance more reliable tracking and delivery of critical medical supplies in new green medical storage solutions It has been implemented in countries such as Guinea-Bissau India Indonesia South to me in principle South Sudan and Uganda and the list could go on They have resulted in reliable tracking and delivery of over 2 billion routine Immunization and COVID-19 vaccines to date while also dramatically reducing emissions Indeed digital public infrastructure or DPI Will be crucial to allow governments to extend such services to citizens This represents the digital roads and bridges of our time that countries can then extend vital services to communities Everything from e-health and online education to digital cash transfers in The afternoon we will also have a session on the ITU UNDP joint high-impact initiative on digital public infrastructure Which will bring together leaders across member states international financial institutions the private sector and civil society To create a more inclusive society with safe accessible green Financed and future ready DPI before concluding this event. It's doable Ladies and gentlemen digital is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put the SDGs back on track That's why we're here today. That's what we're starting We want this to generate for to resonate for generations and generations to come We firmly believe it's the greatest test. It's the greatest opportunity of our time And at the same time we must ensure that data and digital technology are used safely and responsibly To benefit everyone everywhere while safeguarding our national environment It is imperative that we support people-centered Rights-based and inclusive approaches to ensure that no one is left behind That will require new forms of cooperation so that everyone Everyone can build their own digital futures To help turn those hopes and aspirations into a reality We will hear from global leaders late in the afternoon who will detail a range of new commitments to help build our digital public infrastructure across the world 17 goals 17 digital solutions 2.6 billion reasons to connect the world