I was charging for coaching, one day I woke up and I realized I'm not running my coaching business like I'm teaching my agents to run the real estate business. I'm telling them relationships over transactions, but here I am trying to charge them a little here, a little there. I said I'm done with that, I'm going to flip this and I want to do something brand new. I'm going to be the first completely free coach and I'm going to blow up, be the number one. It's the same conversation on two channels. Oh my God, he was right there on bad channels. Yeah, you know more about than me, I'm not really going to be paying too much close attention. I'm going to meet like 25 agents and answer some questions tonight, somewhere about Rouge and then do this speech thing tomorrow. I'm just so focused on reducing the failure rate and selling properties, you know. Yeah, believe me, I'm actually a literacy and I appreciate all you do is create information.  All right buddy, later man. Something cool to do. We're out barbecue shrimp. Let's go there, let's go there, yeah, let's do that. We'll see you then. All right. The weekly email gives you an opportunity to scale your business. It doesn't matter if I have a thousand or five million people on that email. It still takes me that same 30 minutes to an hour every week. She said, how do I do work-life balance? And like, there's no work. Everything is like, I don't have to do this. I do this because I want to do it. This is my life, see what I'm saying? My wife loves that I do this. She supports me. She knows where this is going. And we're loving it. I'm not there 100% of the time but our communication is at such a level and we, you know, work-life balance is one of those things.  Henry Ford did an experiment. He gave his workers 60 hours to do something for so many weeks. They did it. And then he gave them 40 hours to do the same task. Guess what? They figured out how to do the same production in 40 hours. So what happens is, if you have kids, if you have to do this, if something's not working right, think about Henry Ford and say, okay, cool. Well, let me condense what I was doing in three hours, down to two hours or an hour and a half so that I got that extra hour of the same production. But I got that extra hour I could spend with my family or whatever it was I was trying to do. I just want to appreciate Ricky coming down here to Baton Rouge. I'm Frank Ruby from New Orleans. Ricky's zero to diamonds program is really entertaining. There's a lot of information. Appreciate Ricky doing this at no cost. He's a man of his word. Hi, I'm Joe Lorenzo from New Orleans. I just found out about Ricky. I've been in the business about four years. He's totally changed the way that I look at real estate marketing. And I think that the free tips that he gave us are going to really change the way that I do business and help me get to where I want to be in the real estate. And I just want to say thank you very, very much for everything that you've done here in Baton Rouge today. Hi, I'm Gabriella Francescon from New Orleans. I've been following Ricky for about two years now. And Ricky's made a huge impression on me. The main takeaway I have from his program is not to get attached to the results. It's about the process. It's about the relationships. I had a coach that was paying $500 a month after following Ricky's program. I hired that coach. That coach said that, you know, don't be attached to the results of your actions, but they were having me do actions that were supposed to produce results. So I am thankful for Ricky and I'm happier in my business in seeing more results. And it's free. So I appreciate that. Thanks for being here. My name is Karen Carey. I'm with EXP Realty. And I have enjoyed this session today. I've been following Ricky Carey probably for about three or four years. And all of the information that he has given has been free of charge. He's really about helping agents to succeed. And everything that he tells us to do, you can put into practice immediately. There's no expenditure required. It's just time, energy, and effort. And if you want to succeed, follow Ricky Carey. Thank you. You can find him at Zero2Diamond.com. Hey, this is Tony Rucker with Rucker Group. I'm in my partner's there with my wife. And we have the real estate baby, Paris Scott Rucker. She'd probably been about 20, 30 closers. She only six months old. She go to every event. This is Tony Rucker. Hey, shout out to Ricky Carey and Blake. Thank y'all for providing the batteries to my hometown. If you have any referrals for Texas, send us a text. We got referrals<PHONE_NUMBER>. Anything in Texas, we can help. Louisiana, Texas. Louisiana, Texas. Any referrals,<PHONE_NUMBER>. Shout out to Rick, Blake, Zero2Diamond for life, baby. And I want to say thanks again to Rick for coming out. He was very, very informative. He is a great coach. And once again, I just want to say thanks again for coming out. And we're going to show you his systems work between Market Expansion, Louisiana, and Texas. Give us six months, we're going to show you the results. Zero2Diamond, the Rucker Group. My name is Michael. I'm a realtor in New Orleans. I just want to thank Ricky for coming out. And he's given me the confidence to actually succeed in this business. I've only been a realtor since October 2018. And I've already got three deals on the books. And I'm going to get more from Cole Collin. And I just take a picture out of his book from seeing Cole all day. And I'm doing that. I'm grinding. And I just want to be like Ricky. And I really appreciate him coming out here and giving us some good knowledge. I'm Tanya Visee with Remax Plus in the Greater Baton. I just would like to thank Ricky for opening up his wealth of knowledge to me. I've been a realtor for 14 years and just never felt like I've really been able to break the ceiling of where I've been, the level I've been working at. But he's opened up his book and been very transparent about the way he conducts business. And what you've got to do in order to increase your business. Something that he talked about today that I found very helpful was that you have to take a two pronged approach and have a more balanced view of where your business comes from. One, of course, is your past clients and nurturing that aspect of your business. But also, you have to lose your business. You have to lose some inhibitions and reach out to many more people in order to keep your business growing. And if you don't nurture both the past clients and work on increasing your business with the new clients, you just become a revolving door if you're focusing only on the new clients. So it was just a wealth of information. I'd recommend that any time you get an opportunity to receive him in person. That would be wonderful. And also, he's there every day on YouTube with a wealth of information. So thank you, Ricky, for everything you're doing. Hi. My name is Debbie Coins. And I'm with Calla Williams First Choice in Prairieville, Louisiana, which is near Baton Rouge. Just heard Ricky speak. He is awesome. He's with Zero2Diamond.com. He's a very honest person. He believes in relationships and not just the sale. So he has a wonderful program. And I'm looking forward to learning a lot more from him instead of being just like everybody else. I always do try to establish a relationship with my clients because that's what's important.  I actually help my clients out a lot more. So if you're looking for a good coach and he's free and he's honest, go to Zero2Diamond.com. Thank you. I'm Tanya Tupes-Cotro with Calla Williams Realty Team Leader. And I'm so excited that we were able to bring Ricky here today to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to talk to our agents and share how he is able to have over 100 transactions per year as an individual agent. Leverage and Mindset is something that we talk about often at Calla Williams. And so it's really exciting to be able to have Ricky share that with all of us. And we're really excited he came here today to Baton Rouge.


Hello St. Lucians, ladies and gentlemen, 2016 has been a heartbreaking time for many of our stakeholders in the agricultural sector. Christmas is a special time of year, one filled with many holy, joyful and festive events. It is a time to uphold the Christian values of caring and sharing. This Christmas, as we celebrate the Booth of Christ with friends, families and neighbors, I would like to make a special mention of our farmers, market and food vendors, and all those who have worked together in the past year to ensure our country's food security, despite the deleterious effect of climate change. We are aware of the negative impact of tropical storm Matthews. Therefore, I would want to make a special mention of the many farm families who have lost acreages due to natural disaster in recent times and to all those who might have had a difficulty. As minister with responsibility for agriculture, fisheries, physical planning and natural resources and cooperative, I want to on behalf of my ministry to pledge my support to restore livelihoods to a sustainable socio-economic level. As a government, we react with empathy to all those associated with the food chain and encourage you to remain resilient and to restore not only your farms, but to help improve the environment that creates these farms. All in all, I beseech you that as we reference the Christmas story and its values that all time we work not only to grow and make food available to the nation, but we do so with earnest concern to preserving our environment. We beg that you all during the season to eat more of what we grow, as this would impact positively in reducing our food import bill. I urge you during this season to continue to promote the environmental, social and economic sustainability of agriculture, as well as food security for all. Not just for the new year, but for years to follow. To my constituents, I say a special thank you. I was humbled that so many of you all choose to continue to place your trust and confidence in me. I am indeed honored to serve you, and I want to take this opportunity to thank you with all my heart. As we usher in the new year, I look forward to your continued support as we strive together to make Barbono and by extension St. Lucia a better place for all. Finally, I want to express my sincere thanks to the staff of the ministry for their warm welcome, support, commitment and hard work in transforming this sector. I would like to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all St. Lucia. I thank you.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industries finished down $392, Nasdaq got $522, S&Ps off $90, this is a big down day folks, no doubt. You had the Nasdaq composite down 3.3%, the S&Ps 1.5 and the Dow Industries won. Gold. Gold contract trading down $480 at $1809 an ounce, we had Silver down $0.30, $22.75 an ounce, light sweet crude, up $0.14, $0.77, $0.14, a barrel, notes and bonds. They continue to lower, you get the 10-year down 10 ticks, trading $128.30, the 30-year off 14 ticks, at $156.12 and $Kingdala, $Kingdala's down 73 ticks, trading $96.189, Euro is at $113, the yen is at $116, the British pound is at $135 to one the U.S. dollar. Let's get over and take a look at the spy, because we have it the spy, the spy had broken topside, bottom line, had a 500 price projection, had an ABC structure up, guess what? You're back inside the lower range, and the lower range starts at approximately, let's say, $470, you're $468, that's it, guess what? You're in the lower range, not go to the lower range of the consolidation, which is that $448, so this is going to be interesting, if this is a failure on the breakout, which was the break of the consolidation as well as the ABC structure on the way up. And because we've got 91 shares, 91 million shares that are traded, and besides that, you've been up forever. We take a look at the NDX100, the three cues, you get the same set up inside the three cues. In fact, what the three cues have done is this, you get 72 million shares, last time we down was 82, so you still have a contraction of volume, but guess what, you man, you are right next to the lower end of this consolidation, which is the $378, that's only six points from where we are right now, and if you got into that, when we, last time we got into that, that's the lower range and rejected it. If you get in and stay in it, then it's a whole different ballgame. Now we're dealing with $350, and that'll be a quick $350 when we're just at $404, but that's how that baby is set up. Gold, gold contract out here didn't hold price out here today, but we did have volume, that's always good when you have volume, and you have higher price, it didn't hold, that's saying you can go to higher price again. We're down 460, we had 165,000 contracts traded. Have a great night folks, have a safe night, come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, kicks us off, 9 o'clock in the morning, it's a great show folks.


So let's continue to look at equivalence classes and talk about operations on equivalence classes. So here's a very general overview for how mathematical research is conducted. One basic strategy for mathematical research is to start out with something. So for example, some set. We'll define a relation on the elements of this set S. So for example, we might define an equivalence relation. And now we have a defined operation on these elements of S. And for example, given two of the elements of S, what can we do to create something new? And here's an important distinction between a relation which tells us two things are somehow connected to each other and an operation which takes two things and then creates something that is entirely new. We see where this relation and these operations take us. And if they don't take us too far, we define a few more relations and a few more operations. And much mathematical research goes along the same line. So again, a useful component, useful guide for becoming a mathematician is he never stopped doing this process. He never stopped trying out new things. So we defined a thing, the equivalence classes of S induced by some equivalence relation. We know that the equivalence classes are set. So we don't really need to define new relations for them. We can just recycle the standard set relations. But how about the binary operations on those equivalence classes? So I have a thing, equivalence classes. What can I do with a couple of equivalence classes? Well, again, the equivalence classes are set. So we could use the binary operations we've already defined for sets, union, intersect, complement and so on. But we find that these don't do anything interesting or at least they don't do anything really new. If we want to create new mathematics, we have to create a new type of binary operation. So we can try to define a new operation on these equivalence classes. However, there is an important warning. One of the problems we're going to run into when trying to define binary operations on equivalence classes is the following. So here's my equivalence classes A and B. It's very natural to try and define that binary operation in terms of A and B. The problem is that I can have two equivalence classes that are the same but represented by entirely different elements. So this equivalence class A could be the same as the equivalence class C. B could be the same as D. And if I define my binary operation in terms of A and B, I want to make sure it identifies the same equivalence class as the one using C and D. In particular, I want to make sure that the result of the operation does not rely on which element we use to represent the equivalence class. And mathematically, we say that the operation is well defined if the result does not rely on the particular representation of the operands. If I switch the operands around, as long as I'm dealing with the same equivalence classes, I should get the same answer. So again, let's try it out. Our overview here is I have some set S. I have some equivalence relation. That equivalence relation induces a partition of S into a set of equivalence classes. And because these equivalence classes are things, they form a set of elements, a good question to ask is can we define a binary operation on this set of elements? So we can define a binary operation any way we want to. But what we have to make sure of is that when we define that binary operation on the equivalence classes, we have to make sure that it's well defined. So, well, let's continue to work with our ordered pairs in N2, with our equivalence relation, A, D equivalent to C, D, whenever the outer sum A plus D is equal to the inner sum B plus C. And again, it's worth keeping in mind that A, B, C, and D are all elements of the natural numbers. So A plus D, B plus D, B plus C, these are all defined quantities. However, things like A minus C, B minus D might not actually have meaning in our set of natural numbers. So again, that's why we define it in terms of plus, because adding two natural numbers is always possible. We don't want to introduce minus because subtracting two natural numbers might not be possible within the natural numbers. So now this equivalence relation induces a set of equivalence classes. So here's an equivalence class. Here's another equivalence class. How do I want to define the equivalence class sum? Well, because A, B, C, and D are all in the set of natural numbers, let's try this out. We're going to define the sum of the two equivalence classes to be the equivalence classes formed by the, if you want a fancy term here, component-wise sum of the elements that define the equivalence class. And so here we've defined the sum of two equivalence classes in terms of the component-wise sum of the representatives of the two equivalence classes. And we're done. Except we do need to ask the all important question, is this operation well-defined? And again, what that means is if I can represent this equivalence class in a different way, I want to make sure that the sum doesn't change. Because if I add these two, I get this equivalence class. If I add these two, I get what looks to be a different equivalence class. And what I want to make sure of is that these two equivalence classes are really the same thing, as long as these two are the same thing. So let's take a look at that. And so here's a good, useful method of proving things. I want to show that this is a well-defined operation, which means that whenever I have two different ways of representing the same equivalence class, that the sum doesn't depend on that particular representation. So useful proof strategy is to know what our goal is. We want to show that this sum and this sum are the same. Know where we're starting. The assumption that we're making is that these two are equivalent. And we should work our way towards the middle. So here's where I'm starting. Here's where I want to end. If I can meet in the middle, I will form a proof. So, well, I know these two are equivalent. Means that the outer sum is equal to the inner sum a plus b prime has to be b plus a prime. That is our definition of that equivalence relation. And I have no idea what to do next. So let's work the other end of the bridge. So my definition of sum of equivalence classes is going to be component-wise. So when I add these two together, this is a plus c b plus d. This is a prime plus c b prime plus d. Now I know that if two equivalence classes are equal, then the representative has to be in the other equivalence class. So I know that a plus c b plus d has to be an element of this equivalence class. And, well, if I'm going to be in an equivalence class, that means I have to be equivalent to the other one, the representatives. So our representatives are going to be equivalent to each other. And my definition of our equivalence relation is the outer sum a plus c b prime plus d has to equal the inner sum b plus d a prime plus c. So this comes from our definition of the equivalence relation. I can do a little bit of algebra because everything inside is a natural number, so I don't have to worry about anything peculiar happening. And so now what do I have? a plus b prime c plus d b plus a prime c plus d. And actually I can get from this line here to this line here because all I've done is I've taken this line and I've added c plus d to both. I've regrouped things. I'm allowed to do that. I've used my equivalence definition here that if I have the outer sum equal to the inner sum, the two ordered pairs are equivalent. And that gives me my inclusion in the equivalence class. That means the equivalence classes are the same. That means the sum is the same regardless of which representative I use. And my operation is well defined. Now one minor qualifier here, I change the first term. What if I change the second term? And we should check to make sure that it's also going to give us the same result. But we'll leave that as an exercise and we'll continue to talk about equivalence classes next.


I'm going to call the meeting to order. So, do I need to have the roll call? I will call the meeting. Fantastic. We have Tashila here. We're public invited to be heard. Would you like to make any comments? No comments. I'm sorry to be losing such a fine direction. Thank you. Yes, congratulations. Yes, congratulations. I'm excited. It's a wonderful meeting. It is. It's a wonderful meeting. It is. Okay. Did everyone have an opportunity to take a look at the minutes that Joanne sent out? Is there a motion to approve the minutes? Hitties, they're seconded. Thank you. All in favor? Yes, it's fine. I hope that is unanimous. I did catch the second. Second of the thank you, Joanne. All right. Perfect. I will turn it over to Eric for the great percentage. All right. Sorry, it was not organized enough to hit up on the screen today. I only have two exceptions. So if you have your printout or I can just hold it up. The first one is it will post cards. She has no third term to win with Wilkie. So this is from the 1940 presidential election. We don't have a lot on a particular election. So even though this doesn't have a direct long line, it doesn't seem like something we would fill out our mid 20th century political memorabilia. I will note I didn't text them. I leave a bit of description talking about a video that isn't strong, previous, et cetera. So I'm going to ignore that. But it's basically an end to this. But it's a representative of the 1940 presidential election. It's a cyan type, which is a fluid process used to make blueprints. The actual fabric is about yay by yay. And it was used to print photographs as well. So this is on fabric and photographs of historic long long buildings. It is a founding collection of accession. It has been in museum possession for at least 20 years. But we weren't able to track down any documentation prior to that. So I will be noted that this is a founder collection. Someone comes in with a long paper that says, I loaned that from museum in 1972, and we would need the extension of the term. But we think it's pretty long. So this is kind of a cool piece because it does have some photographs of that. We didn't have previously in the exception collection. It was kind of a cool fabric photo. I don't know why there are those exceptions. Are there any clues to just how old the second one is? Just so I know. Based on the photographs, what buildings are shown, it's between 1906 and 1921. The photo of City Hall is a city hall that was torn down in 1921. And there's a photo called by Alan who was built in 1906. So between those two lines. Probably before or earlier. So was it found in the process of cataloging everything that you guys have been doing? Like all of the cataloging you've been doing? It's actually been sitting on a shelf in the archives for most of that time. And we had very few exceptions in January. And I was like, you know, we've got anything in like the fountain collection. And I went over, oh yeah, there's this cool cement type fabric that we could dig into. And so I verified that, yeah, we didn't have really any other documentation on it. So we had a few exceptions. Is there a motion to approve the exception? I'll move that we approve the two exceptions for photos. Maybe one second. All in favor? As unanimous. Fantastic. All right. We can move on to reports. So I'll turn it over to Kim for the report of the museum director for the last time. Well, first of all, I would say it's a pleasure working with all of you on this issue. So very, very much. And maybe the case that tomorrow we'll learn more about what's happening with the surveys that went out is what is potentially a tax that will be put on about it in November. When we report to the city council about what results of the surveys have been. And then the city council will give recommendations about what to do. What will be included if anything is going to be put on about it. And it's more important for you all kind of what your role will be in all of it. Because I know that a lot of the advisory boards have been asking questions about, you know, what can I say, what can I talk to, what is the messaging around it, so on and so forth. So we'll get more guidance tomorrow at that city council meeting and Eric and I will be in conversation about what it will mean for all of you because certainly, if we are put on about it, if you only get questions and you may want to talk to friends and voters and do so and so forth. So we'll be sure that you've got some copyrights and I'll sort of open those up. And one of the things that doesn't appear on here is that we will be, for the capital campaign for the museum expansion, we're working with an organization called Prismatic Consulting. Oh, hello. Hi, Stacey. Hi, how are you? Good, how are you? We're just talking about what to expect at tomorrow's council meeting with the results of the survey. So it'll be interesting to see what happens. The other thing I was just trying to say is that we, the friends of the Longmont Museum have paid for a consultant to publish with the capital campaign and so that is going to be launching probably in May and the consultant that we're working with is really helping pull together talking points and sort of messaging around the capital campaign and that'll move forward regardless of what happens with the ballot initiative. The idea is that we would eventually, assuming that the ballot measure goes forward, we would extract the capital expenses from that for the museum expansion and that the only thing that would go on the ballot would be operating expenses for the museum. And so that's, you know, 20 million dollars that we would be pulling off with the price tag of all of that. So our consultant has been really, really optimistic about the potential for being in the middle ways and part of the reason is that we've got so many things to be excited about. You know, we've got the children's room, we've got the expanded outdoor areas. We've got the rooftop space, we've got the cafe, we've got an expanded gift shop. You know, like all of these things, a lot of different people will be attracted to and given that there's like, this is a fundraiser stream, you know, to be able to have all of these things to sell basically. So they're really optimistic about being able to have a successful capital campaign. And so we'll make sure that you guys get those talking points and the sort of share of the funds and networks that all the things that we've got to offer. So with that, yeah. So they remain optimistic about the economy? Yeah, absolutely. Then what we've got going and part of the theme that I've shared in the report is that we've already got, so out of that $20 million, you still trust my math here, but out of that $20 million, we've already raised five definitely. We've got ran out for another one. And then at the last City Council meeting, I saw the patience of don't trust me here. But whenever that happened, the City Council also awarded the museum some oil and gas proceeds and said that we don't know the exact number yet, but that's estimated between $800,000 and $12 million. And so we've already got a good chunk of money raised for that all day. And I think with that momentum, plus all these other sort of, we've got the possibilities that we can work on, but we've really got a great change that raises them up before it. And we've got it lined up in a way that works really well too, and we'll be building in phases. And so the first phase basically is already funded. The second phase is pretty darn close. And then we kind of take our time with phase three. And so given time, the exciting things we can sell, and the momentum that we've got going, I think we've got a really, really strong protocol. So that's why I wanted to share this all with you. This is the latest hot-market presence design and I am super, super excited about it. I feel like our architect has listened to us really carefully and she has created spaces and, you know, adjacencies and various ways that we can do things like that. That's tiny, so I'm sorry for the tiny print on it. For instance, from the entrance of the museum, all the things that are available for free access are all right up there at the entrance. So for instance, the local art community gallery, that'll be available for free as people enter, and the cafe will be available free for people to enter. And then as you get deeper into the museum, those are paid areas, so we'll be able to kind of control the access from the front desk perspective. You see we've got the cafe, we've got an expanded gift shop, the new children's gallery will have a new front-range rising gallery and then new spaces for an artist's studio, for an artist's collection program, a much more expansive rotating plex gallery space if you can see the collections gallery there that basically will be able to have, you know, history exhibitions that really focus on our collections and be able to bring out collections that, you know, as you all know, we've got a lot of stuff in collections that we've done a lot of opportunity to bring out, so that'll be another opportunity to show the collections that you guys are, you know, approve all the time and so being able to see some of those things actually come out of those are joy. We'll be really amazing. And then on the other side to see, and this is just a first pass at what the elevations will look like from the outside, but I think you can see in this rendering it excites me to see how she can create those really interesting angles and the windows and the different materiality and all of that. I get super excited about seeing it in this rendering. So this is, again, it's just the first pass and we're still, that's why Eric and I are leading this in the contractors to look at the very first thing that we're going to be, which is the new textile storage, you know, that we're renovating that space. That has become the clean area for exhibitions construction, so the graphics and the labels and all of that are going to be moved up to that space and then it'll be on the spaces where Jared and his team and our public places are going to open up. So we'll be able to spread out, especially as we bring on new staff. It's called the SENSA Architects and the principal architect that we'll open up is Krista Plaza. They are on a new scale today. And they're an on-call architecture that does the vital work and I have to say they've been really great to work with. I've thought about this in the past, I was real about it, so it gives their specialty is the recreation centers, but I just feel like she's listened to us really, really intently and I think this design is fantastic and she's bringing line of items by the next few specialty museums who will act as just a peer reviewer. So while doing sort of the pretty work that we'll be able to have that knows museums and the needs of museums. So even that aspect is, I think, really impressive. From her perspective, she didn't have to do that, but just through the grapevine, she was like, you know, there's this local expert and we should put her on board. So that's it. I have one more question. Yeah, sure, great. Presumably, that's good to know. What's the... How do you see the vision of staff in these levels? Will definitely need to increase staff and I think that ultimately it's just going to be creative thinking and at the request through the city budget process. I've did some math recently and I think during our time we've been able to have something like a six-part team and that's been essentially outside of the city budget process. So it's possible and I think that it's just it requires just creative thinking. And so while it feels like it's really challenging to get staff, I think that that's what some thought that can happen about it. It's a position Yeah, exactly. And you know, the thing is that we'll be able to also kind of scale our work accordingly because I think that we can be able to do spaces really essentially as well for a while and then be able to as we can have staff that we can expand. So I think that this will just give us some ability to be able to do what we can better and then as we have staff being there. So I think there's some staff growth that we really want to be able to accomplish. But even without that we need to do some darker work. Good question. Well, it's pretty amazing. I mean, I would say it's important when it started out that we're a lot of different people and we're developing a lot. So this is really exciting. Well, and that's ultimately what it boils out to is that we've got a lot of demand and we can't do it right now. Part of the staff that you've come out and part of it is just the building to provide and see it. So this is an opportunity to do what we can and we've got to believe in all of this and clearly people like what we're doing. And it makes me really sad to be right now. There's exciting things on the horizon. So yeah. So I wanted to kind of point those out. Those are things that happened after we were able to get the report together. So I'll jump back into the report. I did mention the storage and we've submitted the company for that. So that's getting underway because I mentioned just about the contractors who also benefit for that. They are also on city-wide awards and so hopefully that will happen quickly. That's resulted in that. As I mentioned, the survey for the library recreation and culture fund is going to be presenting the city council tomorrow. So we'll see how that goes in terms of their recommendations. And then at the last meeting that I attended I'll just put it that way. City council voted to award the money for the sale of the Broncos to children with family. And so they'll make decisions about how that money gets distributed. But then also promoted the oil and gas proceeds. I'll work hopefully to work with finance to figure out exactly how much money that is and make sure that it gets appropriated to the CIP for the expansion project. The rest of this I'm reading for the first time. So yeah, let's just wing it. In exhibits to agriculture exhibition is really looking forward. This is going to open soon. So Jared's been working to do the interpretation of the exhibit through the artists and former interviews. So that's the next fun project for them. They interviewed the folks who are involved in the project to give people together the interpretation. Amanda. Thank you. She was in town from Toronto and so the current is going to go to the Agriculture Heritage Center. So you see a picture of that on the right-hand side. That's the space that it's going to go into. And the left-hand side is an example of work. So basically that work is going to go into that barn and so they want to see how they're going to be able to pull that off. I think it's going to be really impressive. Sarah Stence was also in town. She's from Sacramento and she works with photos that are essentially working together. So she'll take here two photos or maybe more and basically read those together. And so she was here to be able to figure out exactly what kind of photos she would be able to use in the work that she'll be doing. She's an Indigenous artist so it's great to be able to include her in the project all together. And then Patrick is also a local artist but really nationally and he's going to be part of the project and he was here gathering corn stalks. He's going to be using the production of a 25 foot, by 10 foot, woven curtain that we used in the exhibition. He is, if you go to the airport, you may see his work. He created very enormous logs that are kind of in this environment that you see as you approach the airport. And especially if you come in on the train, you pass right by them they're really quite cool. That was a project that took years and years and years to do. So if you want to see you can see it there. We've also got six hands on activities that are going to be included in the exhibition and so we're really trying to make the exhibit that's going to be here in our galleries really active and sort of kid friendly. Because typically we have a kid's exhibit during that time, right? So we want to make sure that we sort of appeal to that audience during that time. Also in the process of hiring and use of an assistant and really this is part of sort of new museum professionals that we're trying to develop. So this is the first round of museum assistants that we'll be hiring that sort of stems from our intern program. So it's really geared towards new professionals. You may have seen as you walk in the building that we've got a new art public places piece that's hanging out within the atrium. It's called Angels' Wings and so the thought is that you see a great total amount. It's really exciting to have that wall has been sort of a challenge for us to deal with on a regular basis and so what we decided a year or so ago is that we were going to just dedicate that for our public places loan program and so that will change essentially on our annual rotation and so the museum staff won't necessarily have to program spaces that aren't public places and deal with that. Is there a certain percentage of the art on the move that's outdoor and indoor? You know I think for a long time it never occurred to me that was indoor art on the move because I was so used to art in public places being outside and I knew that. Yeah, Angela said a great job of sort of reconsidering this because the limitation is that in order for it to be art public places it has to be accessible for free to the public and they're not outdoor spaces that have that criteria and so we have certain areas of the museum that are available free to charge and those are the spaces that are available for art and public places. There are a couple of other places that she's programming in a civic center and in the what's it called? Safety and so those are the ones that she's not got on her slate that she's programming for indoor spaces. It really is a little bit making a point of doing it so it's kind of it's new and this will be part of the rotation. Yeah So 2D work that I mean it's also challenging because it's 2D work that gets loads of light and that aspect of getting loads of light is problematic in terms of conservation of art and so it's definitely part of the conversation in choosing this piece that it has to be everybody has to be fully aware of the light. So I actually love that piece and it's very cool. We've got in terms of the laboratory programming and the events and rentals we're back in business. We've had 24 events over 28 days so that's a lot of stuff going on. Mark is almost slightly less busy with the grant for 23 busy programs sponsored by Rentals and City Units. The February highlights include the grant deal tour to the worst one-man show it's called The Pump and Indian Romantic Comedy. We have so many apps from on the site of these animals and a new work created especially for one-man museum. Sold out Friday afternoon concerts featuring them jazz legend pronounced Dean and installation by the some winners of showcase. This has become an annual event I hope it stays one with Bonnie and Taylor basically curating her scene at show. Mark marks the return of the elder international film possible of the often not hold up motion picture orchestra and I don't know if you've ever been to one of those but they're really cool if you've had a chance. Basically it's a film that is accompanied by Latin musicians and they're usually really cool. Then we had Native American poets on March 15th and the sacred art of the pow-wow March 30th and so really just a great line up that has accompanied the grant deal exhibition. And then by members we have from before events to community partners over 1200 people revenue at $13,000 and ticket revenue rental revenue at $13,000 and ticket revenue at $39,000 you can see the percentages there so we could be able to date. We've got school tours we've got three lined up for the spring season this is something I think maybe Susie can respond to this that the slow coming getting people coming back for school tours but I think that we'll be seeing a rise in that as well. Dozens have been sort of beautiful in between it's been a challenge basically to be able to recruit for dozens knowing that the school tours have been a little slow coming back so I'm really trying to get a handle on the dozens of being able to train dozens in you know, to make sure that we honor their time. In summer camps we've got 73 equal scholarships have been awarded so far 320 campers in the room so far. We've got some that are full already which is kind of unexpected I don't know if you've dealt with this but basically for my kid as soon as the camps open so online in order to get those we've got great team volunteers lined up for those summer camps I feel like this is oh, I didn't even know this so the first time I read this Sam Mandigan who's one of the artists for the agriculture exhibition he is something to do a polo in the 1800s camp teaching a scientific process. I didn't know that, that's super cool Sam's been really active because he is also working with CU on this tree project that they have done that so he has shown it up in Colorado periodically and we've been able to think back on that so that's exciting to see that for us. I dance is the Lava Museum is hosting the first program July 17th to 21st so this is a special camp that pairs experienced instructors with children with disabilities and teach them dance what's true all the years of our science each cancer to serve about spotters providing customized physical support association and encouragement throughout the week and the children can learn from one on stage until the last day so that's going to be a little bit of accessibility program that we've been doing and of course scholarships are available this is planning, the planning has begun for that so we're leading with Randy again who's helped coordinate the program for the last couple of years and we've been able to help expand the work we can do because Ann has been doing it for a long period of years so that's great and then engaging again the committee that works on that fall planning also is underway and we're looking to be able to work on the agricultural fall program since there's going to be less in the group at that time and some of the things that we're going to be doing is composting workshops and planning and food fermentation and all of those things are going to be cool and that adds to the exhibition in terms of collection and what Ann is going to learn you all know we've got a new collections management program and so really transfer all of that data and making sure that the new proficient unit of governments has been a massive undertaking and so it's much more powerful but also I think it's going to be interesting in terms of ongoing because it's not as simple as past perfect and so being sure that the volunteers have been training the usage of a lot of sort of in hands archival cataloging volunteers are learning the new software and I'm sure that we've got all of the cataloging that you guys are able to do essentially those new sessions in the system to see all the things that we've got to light up for the new sessions. Erica and me also led tours for the new collection center and so we have eight in the first one that came out of attending that tour and so basically what we wanted to be able to be just have you guys and the kind of VIPs have a look at the space and then open it up for additional public programs and I think it will then not continue those tours etc. I think that people are excited to see the sort of behind the scenes that incidents will have those available for the city. And the committee commissions led to our introduction to your question to be presented in the committee room and the committee's process has received a neighborhood grant leader's project of excellence award which is really cool and now we're going to start your question. Oh we'll see you, thanks Eric. Featured in an NGLA newsletter Council Member Sean McCoy has joined the ANP Council with Council Agnes on of you all in the second phase of the briefsway of the Mama housing thing that's begun, and it will be completed this month. I think it's already completed, which is the reason I'm like, huh, what? So the picture there that you see, I think he's I mean, look at that. And that is going to be what I haven't seen, and we'll have to share it with you when it becomes live, is that this mural is, you can scan a QR code, and on your phone, it's activated. And I don't know what it's going to do, but something will move. And so this is one of the two, then the state. And so this is going to be really exciting that you'll be able to use your phone and see something happen. So that's going to be cool. The mural, I think, is already done. So it's just a matter of adding the digital aspects to it. Thank you very much. Moving on to visitor services. The store has seen increasing sales, and so 2,300 dollars per month. February, Grand Canyon Islands are one of the best museum store customers, and so being in the gear up for some of those different things, we had 74 new, renewed members in February, and then you can see the attendance. I mean, it was January 22, a little over 1,000, and then January 23 of UCF bump at almost over 1,200, and then February 22, we had 1,800, a little bit less in February 23. And then visitor services manager, Elizabeth, and Sairi, and new visitor service staff. We do have one new person that's already started. He was, I don't know, we'll take up her title. I don't remember. Do you have her title? I can't remember either. Heather has been working with us at the front desk, and she's now taken on a new role. And I can't remember the title of it, but it's something like visitor services assistant, and that's a full-time, benefited position. And so she starts to, and we'll have her place our position at the front desk. So that's a role that has been vacated for a while, so it's really great to be able to have it fulfilled. And Elizabeth, it's really a struggle. I think this is common in bed, especially during this part-time, long-benefit position. There's sort of a constant turnover. So poor homes have been spending a lot of our time interviewing those jobs over and over again.  The city did talk about those salaries because of that, but we're still having a lot of trouble for those conditions. All right, talk to you a little bit about prismatic consulting. And so the first step is really to better people together with the donors for potential interviews. And I've got a plan of stakeholders who might be interested in being under the student city. Megan applied for a $50,000 grant from the Lowes Community Foundation to help support the needs and affordable access program. So this is the program that helps with our scholarships for the camp and for the discovered days. So this being a big boost to be able to help that program. High Plenty Bank has committed $2,500 to sponsor some concert series. Bill and Branty also has committed his support again. So likely similar to last year's $2,500 sponsorship for the concert series. So those are two quick ones to see. Megan's also talked to smugglers about donating unprocessed goals for the summer camps and then exploring other partnerships for PNF free options they did this for us last year. So we saw kids eating a bunch of unprocessed goals at summer camps last year, which was really helpful. And then we've got, I think we've mentioned this before, membership software as well in Lorraine. And so that's expected to go by a couple to six. Then it's really been, it's been a really great process working with Ben, troubleshooting the data transfer and troubleshooting all of the ways that we use the software. Joanne and Eve Lazy, who has been on the support before and is a volunteer within UCM and really knows the database very well. She's really been helpful in troubleshooting and so that's gonna be great to do that new software. The old software, what we had was also past perfect. So past perfect did not do for us. So it was the collecting action of the software and it was also the donor. David's management. And because past perfect is essentially going away and we had to find replacements for both of those, we chose Lorraine for the membership and donor software and it's got a lot of new functionality. And so it's really good timing in terms of the capital campaign because Megan will be able to really use that new program to its fullest advantage and be able to track donor relationships and touch points and all of that. So this is really good timing for the new software. In terms of marketing, we've got promotion in full strength for duality and I don't know if you guys have all been able to see that show or if you've had it, please come back and spend some time with us because it's really an amazing exhibition and we're lucky to have it. And so we've got NPR spots and Westwood and Times Hall and science throughout town and so we'll be using some of that and then we've got our promo video with the long public media and there's only a few to do there and if you wanna go check out it's really great. And then we've got a new Instagram account, we've talked about that before, but it does give us an opportunity to be able to really share some of those visual things in a better way than we have in the past. And then we'll volunteer at the value issues coordinator. We've got monthly updates for the survey collection that we've been doing and then we've got a draft volunteer manual underway and recruitment for team volunteers for summer camp. And I don't think that's a big question, just a lot. So it's been going well today? Yeah. I think it might be nice for Megan to present to us more maybe in May or June. Yeah. And just talk about it a little bit more quickly. Yep. We need to make sure that happens. Any other questions? Let's see the process for you. Let's go. Great question. That I obviously don't know the answer to this. I just had a game this morning with Jeff Bresner who's the head of the department and Jimmy March, who's the assistant city manager who's the head of the division. And so we'll talk more about what that's going to look like.  And I think that's totally doable. In May? Yeah. I'm hoping I'll be able to do that. So the- I think it sounds like the episode will be in line for the films. Well, I don't think that there's anybody in mind per se, but certainly there are networks of people that we can share with. But ultimately, it'll be important, I think, to have somebody that is sort of the champion of the project and really out there as the one person in the movie. And I think it's totally doable.  I'm not taking that one. And I think that Jeff and Joanne are committed to making sure it happens too. So I feel like there's a lot of movement behind it, so I can go about it. I mean, it's so exciting. I really am like, this is a terrible time. This stuff is like, you know, a director's dream. But it'll be the next director's dream, too. So, yeah. Any other questions for me? We'll be sure to keep you guys in the loop about what happens tomorrow with the state council meeting and what that'll mean. I think, probably, it'll kind of jive with the launch of the Catholic campaign as well, especially when it comes to those talking points and sort of how to be a master's from using them. Is there a date, certainly, that you're going to have the grant of the people? That is supposed to happen in April. I know it's in April, but I wanted to know if it was early April or late April, or... Oh. Off the top of my head, Dale, I think it's the 15th that we're supposed to hear. But don't put lots of stuff in that date of April. In fact, is the 15th a Saturday? The 15th, because what Megan has been saying is that it's weird that they would have said it was on a Saturday and she hopes that we hear it before that date. Yeah. So that's the dating announced. But since it's a Saturday, it's likely that it'll either be the Friday before or the middle of the afternoon. Anything else for me? I really am serious and sincere.  I really, really do. And I want you all to feel free to connect with me on my personal email and if you have any questions or if I can help in any way or if you just want to talk or whatever. I really want you to know that I'm sincere about that. I care about this place a lot. And there's a lot of me that is super, super sad about leaving especially right now. So please take that seriously. Okay. That's it. I'm cool. We'll miss you. We'll miss working with you. Congratulations. Thank you. You're an exciting new adventure. Thank you. I appreciate it. When is your last date? The 31st. The 31st. It's now going back. Wow. Okay. I'm psycholized people. I don't think there's any going back. All right. Report for chairs next. I do not have a report. And so we move on to unfinished business. Does anyone have any unfinished business? I cannot recall anything from January meeting. All right. Any new business? Okay. Any board comments? Okay. Okay. All right. We have a motion to adjourn for meeting. No, we want to adjourn. Okay. Thank you first. Is there a second? Second. Thank you Linda. All right. All in favor? All right. All right. That is unanimous. We are adjourned.


from Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. It's theCUBE, covering IBM Chief Data Officer Strategy Summit, Spring 2017, brought to you by IBM. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE alongside Peter Burris, our Chief Research Officer from Wikibon. We're at the IBM Chief Data Officer Strategy Summit, Spring 2017. It's a mouthful, but it's an important event. There's 170 plus CDOs here, sharing information, really, you know, binding their community, sharing best practices. And of course, IBM is sharing their journey, which is pretty interesting, because they're taking their own transformational journey, writing up a blueprint and going to deliver it in October. So, drinking their own champagne, as they like to say. We're really excited to have CUBE alumni, many time visitor, Seth Dorbin. He is the Chief Data Officer of IBM Analytics. Seth, welcome. Yeah, thanks for having me again. Absolutely. Again, these events are interesting. There's a series of them. They're in multiple cities. They're now going to go to multiple countries. And it's really intended, I believe, or tell me, it's kind of a learning experience and this great little tight community for this very specific role. Yeah, so these events are actually really good. So I've been participating in these for, since the second one. So since the first one in Boston about two and a half years ago. And they're really great events because it's an opportunity for CDOs or de facto CDOs and organizations to have in-depth conversations with their peers about struggles, challenges, successes. Really helps to kind of, for one piece is you can benchmark yourself. How are we doing as an organization and how am I doing as a CDO and where do I fit within the bigger community or within your industry? And how have you seen it kind of evolve? Not just the role per se, but some of the specific challenges or implementation issues that these people have had in trying to deliver value inside their company. Yeah, so when these started three years ago, there really were not a whole lot of tools that CDOs could use to solve your data science problems, to solve your cloud problem, to solve your governance problem. And we're starting to get to a place in the world where there are actual tools out there that help you do these things. And so you don't struggle to figure out how do I find talent that can build the tools internally and deploy them. It's now getting the talent to actually start implementing things that already exist. Is a CDO job well enough to find at this point in time that you think that you can actually start thinking about tools as opposed to the challenges of the business? In other words, is every CDO different or are the practices now becoming a little bit more and the convention's becoming a little bit better understood and stable so you can now do a better job of practicing the CDO role? Yeah, I think today the CDO role is still very ill defined. And it's really industry by industry and company by company, even CDOs play different roles within each of those. So I've only been with IBM for the last four months. I've been spending a lot of that time talking to our clients. Financial services, manufacturing, all over the board. And really the CDOs and those places are all, like I said, industry specific, they're in different places and even company by company, they're in different places. And it really depends on where the companies are on their data and digital journey, what role the CDO has, right? Is it really a defensive play to make sure we're not going to violate any regulations or is it an offensive play and how do we disrupt our industry instead of being disrupted?  And so that's kind of the scope, the breadth of I think what CDO role CDO plays. Do you see it all kind of eventually converging to a common point? Because obviously the CFO and the CMO, those are pretty standardized functions over time, but that wasn't always that way. Well, I sure hope it does, right? I mean, I think CDOs are becoming pretty pervasive. I think you're starting to see there's, when this started, the first one I went to, there were literally 35 people and only half of them were called CDOs, right? And so we've progressed now, we've got 100 people, over 170 some odd people that are here that are CDOs, most of them have the CDO title even. And so the fact that that title is much more pervasive says that we're heading that way. I think, you know, industries have some, I think industry by industry, you'll start seeing similar responsibilities for CDOs. But I don't think you'll start seeing across the board like a CFO or a CFO does the same thing regardless of the industry. I don't think you'll see that in the CDO for quite some time. Well, one of the things that we certainly we find interesting is that the role the data is playing in business is evolving. Yep. And it's partly the CDO's job is to explain to his or her peers at that chief level how using business or using data is going to change the way that they do things in the way that their function works. And that's part of the reason I think why you're suggesting that on a vertical basis that the CDO's job is different because different industries are being impacted themselves by data differently. Yep. So as you think about the job that you're performing and the job that CDOs are performing, what part is technical? What part is organizational? What part is political, et cetera? Yeah. So I think a lot of the role of a CDO is political. Most of the CDOs that I know have built their careers on stomping on people's toes, right? And how do I drive change by infringing on other people's turf? Effectively. In a nice way. Well, and it depends in the appropriate way. In a productive way. In the appropriate way, right? It could be nice, could not be nice depending on the politics and the culture of the organization. And I think, so I think a lot of the role of a CDO, it's almost like chief disruption officer as much as it is data officer. And I think it's a lot about using data, but I think more importantly, it's about using analytics. So how do you use analytics to actually derive insights and kind of next best action from the data? I think just looking at data and still using gut based on data is not good enough for chief data officers to really have an impact and really be successful. It's how do you use analytics on that data, whether it's machine learning, deep learning, operations research to really change how the business operates because as chief data officers, you need to justify your existence a lot. And the way you do that is you tie real value to decisions that your company is making and the data and the analytics that are needed for those decisions. So that's really the role of a CDO in my mind is, how do I tie value of data based on decisions and how do I use analytics to make those decisions more effective? We're the early days more defensive and now shifting to offensive. It sounds like, and that's kind of a typical case where you use technology initially often to save money before you start to use it to create new value, new revenue streams. Is that kind of consistent here? It's kind of interesting that you say they have to kind of defend themselves sometimes when you think it will be patently obvious that if you're not getting on a data software defined train, you're going to be left behind. Yeah, I mean, I think there's two types. There's kind of CDOs that are there to protect freedom to operate and that's what I call, think of as defensive. And then there's kind of offensive CDOs and that's really bringing value, more value out of existing processes. In my mind, there's kind of this, every company's on this digital transformation journey and there's two steps to it, right? One is kind of this data science transformation which is where you use data and analytics to accelerate your business's current goals, right? And so how do I use data and analytics to change how my business, to accelerate my businesses march towards its current goals? Then there's the second stage which is the true digital transformation which is how do I use data and analytics to fundamentally change how my industry and my company operate? So actually changing the goals of the industry. For example, moving from selling physical products to selling outcomes, right? You can't do that until you've done this digital, this data transformation, until you've started operating on data, until you've started operating on analytics, you can't sell outcomes until you've done that. And so it's kind of this two-step journey. So you've said this a couple of times. I want to test an idea on you and see what you think. Industry classifications are tied back to assets. So you look at industries and they have common organization of assets, right? Data as an asset has very, very different attributes because it can be shared. It's not scarce. It's something that can be shared. As we become more digital and as this notion of data science or analytics, the role that data plays as an asset and analytics plays as assets becomes more pervasive. Does that start to change the notion of industry? Because now by using data differently, you can use other assets and deploy other assets differently. Yeah, I think it fundamentally changes how business operates and even how businesses are measured because you hit on this point pretty well, which is data is reusable. And so as I build these data or digital assets, right? The quality of a company's margins should change, right? So for every dollar revenue I generate, maybe today I generate 15% profit. As you start moving to a digital, being a more digital company built on data and analytics, that percent of profit based on revenue should go up because these assets that you're building to reuse them is extremely cheap, right? I don't have to build another factory to scale up. Right, I buy a little bit more compute time or I develop a new machine learning model. And so it's very scalable unlike building physical products. And so I think you will see a fundamental shift in how businesses are measured and what standards that investors hold businesses to. And I think another good point is that a mindset shift that needs to happen for companies is that companies need to stop thinking of data as a digital dropping of applications, right? And start thinking of it as an asset because data has value, right? It's no longer just something that's dropped on the table from applications that I built. It's we are building to fundamentally create data, to derive analytics, to generate value, to build new revenue for the company that didn't exist today. But the thing that changes the least, ultimately, is the customer. And so it suggests that companies that have customers can use data to get in a new product or new service domains faster than companies who don't think about data as an asset and are locked into how can I take my core set of my organization, my plant, my machinery and keep stamping out something that's common to it or similar to it. So this notion of customer becomes the driver increasingly of what industry you're in or what activities you perform. Does that make sense? I think everything needs to be driven from the perspective of the customer. As you become a data driven or digital company, everything needs to be shifted in that organization from the perspective of the customer. Even companies that are B2B, right? B2B companies need to start thinking about what is the ultimate end user? How are they going to use what I'm building for my business partner, my B2B partner? What is their actual human being that's sitting down using it? How are they going to use it? How are they going to interact with it? And so it really fundamentally changes how businesses approach B2B relationships. It fundamentally changes a type of information that if I'm a B2B company, how do I get more information about the end users and how do I connect? Even if I don't come in direct contact with them, how do I understand how they're using my product better? And I think that's a fundamental, just like you need to stop thinking of data as a digital dropping, you need to, every question needs to come from how is the end user ultimately going to use this? How do I better deploy that, right? So the utility that the customer gets, capturing data about the use of that, the generation of that utility, and drive it all the way back. Does the CDO have to take a more explicit role? Absolutely. In getting people to see that. Yes, absolutely. I think that's part of the cultural shift that needs to happen. So how does the CDO do that? I think every question needs to start with, you know, what impact does this have on the end user, right? What is the customer perspective on this, right? Really starting to think about, you know. See, I'm sorry for interrupting. I turned that around. I would say it's what impact does the customer have on us? Because you don't know unless you capture data. And so that notion of customer impact measurement, which we heard last time, the measurability, and then drive that all the way back. That seems like it's going to become an increasingly a central design point. Yeah, it's a loop, right? And you got to start thinking, you got to start using these new methodologies that are out there, these design thinking methodologies. You know, it's not just about building an Uber app, right? It's not just about building an app. It's about how do I fundamentally shift my business to this design thinking methodology to start thinking, because that's what design thing is all about. It's all about how is this going to be used? How is this, and every aspect of your business, you need to approach that way. All right, Seth, I'm afraid they're going to put us in the chafing this year if we don't get off here. I think so too, yeah. So we're going to leave it there. It's great to see again and we look forward to seeing you at the next one of these. Yeah, thanks so much. He's Seth, he's Peter, I'm Jeff, you're watching theCUBE from the IBM Chief Data Officer Strategy Summit Spring 2017. I got it all in my mouth for we'll be back after lunch, which they're setting up right now.