I'll show an environmental here to order. Councilman McDowell, can you hear us? Yes, I'm in. Awesome. All right, well, Madam Clerk, please note that all three members are present and we will go ahead and jump right in to the first agenda item, which is the tree and appearance commission update, Mr. Russell Jeter and Ms. Kristen Dowell. Y'all can come up here so that we can make sure that those listening remotely can hear you. That would be wonderful. Thank you all for having us here. Happy to share with you results of the heat mapping effort that we did a couple summers ago and the deliberations of the tree and appearance commission about approaches to addressing this issue and some unrelated topic. So this is a slide you probably are really familiar with or maybe not because we tend to underestimate heat in the South. This is the weather fatalities for 2022. What we're seeing is that they're higher than floods, lightnings, tornadoes, hurricanes, any of the rest of them. It's a serious health issue. And if you could read the very fine print and I didn't blow it up for you, it says that these numbers are likely to be an underestimate because often in our reporting, if someone comes in with a heart attack that was exacerbated by heat stress, they're going to record the heart attack and not the heat stress. So these, it's well known that the academic, the medical codes do not capture all the fatalities. This is also important because our heat risks are not well integrated into planning. If you look at all the other things that we do in emergency management, this is not the one that gets a lot of attention. Next slide. But we're seeing the changes. This is the shift in planting zones. You may not tell it from today's weather this morning, but the temperatures are changing and rising. Next slide. And within the city of Columbia, one way of addressing heat is by having adequate shade. This is a GIS based analysis with machine learning. It compares, you get two images here from 2020. And what we're seeing here is that the tree canopy loss between 2005 and 2020, within the boundaries of the city in 2019. Okay, so these are the 2019 boundaries, which means there was a lot of land annexed into the city between 2005 and 2019, but in that land as it's held, there was approximately 21% tree canopy loss. Yeah. Lost to what? Building? Lost to cutting and dying and removal, clearing for different purposes. This was done at a square, the resolution was about a meter. So what we're not seeing here is the efforts of the city to replace those trees. The large canopy trees and the replacements don't show up in an analysis like this. We don't have a tree inventory. But we do know that we've got this and it's overlaid on a heat map, which is a not a, this is a map of what they call skin surface temperature. So if you were to lay your hand on it, that's how it would feel with the darkest red areas being up to 121 degrees on this particular day. But we wanted to go beyond that. We knew that we were losing tree canopy and we know that we're famously hot and we joke about it, but we know that there's also the downside to it that happens July, August, maybe September. And next slide. So we joined this heat mapping campaign, which allows us to pursue an understanding of the heat risks that we're exposed to. Next slide. So we were able to successfully get this grant with the support of the Richland County Conservation Commission and the CTAC and Columbia Green and many, many others. Got about 40 volunteers to go out and we took these instruments and drove prescribed routes, 16 prescribed routes around the city and collected data at about six feet high and in the air and at temperature. So we're looking at the air temperature and the humidity at the level that people experience it. Next slide. And what we see here are some pretty dramatic, I think dramatic findings that on this one day, August 6th, there was an 18.5 degree temperature differential in different parts of town. Some parts were much hotter. The heat index was up to 100, almost 115 degrees and the scales indicate different times of day. 100 degree maximum temperature, but the airport was only recording 93 degrees. What we see at the airport in those carefully maintained NOAA places where they make sure they're kept away from buildings and surrounded by grass and that transpiration tends to be much cooler. The other thing I want you to see here is that the morning temperature differential, the pattern is pretty similar. So first thing in the morning, these volunteers were out there at 5.30 in the morning getting ready to start their routes at six. So six to seven in the morning and then again from seven to eight on the second day because of the rain. What we're seeing is a similar pattern of about nine degrees difference. So you walk out your door in the morning and you're already in really different, your forecast for the day is really different. Next. This is just to pull that up a little bit more. So what we've got here is information on areas where it's really the experience of being outdoors is quite a bit hotter. And if we look at it in terms of a heat index, next slide. What we're seeing is that large parts of the city in these, it's red on this map. I apologize, you couldn't get the colors to match. But in those red areas, you're in the area of danger for the heat index on a 93 degree day in the summer. This means that the National Weather Service calls this a probability of experiencing heat exhaustion, potentially heat stroke. So we've got things to think about in terms of how we manage this heat risk for folks, you know, what people can do personally and what we can do collectively around the temperature in the cities. And I'll stop here and let you go ahead and share the rest of the thoughts. I'm Russ Jeter. I've been co-chair of the committee commission for the last three years. I'm a lawyer. I can tell you it's hot, too hot here, but Dr. Dow with her geography background has brought a lot of science to our efforts and helped us focus where we think the city can best spend its limited funds. I was part of the heat mapping and I had an infrared camera and I went out to the corner of Jervay right by the Capitol and took infrared readings of the temperature of the asphalt, the temperature of the sidewalks and the temperature of the asphalt and the sidewalks under shade. There was, this is surface temperature so it's not what we feel, but there was a consistent 25 to 30 degree difference in those two measurements. So the problem in Columbia with heat can be solved very simply. Trees and painting the roofs white. We're not in the area of roof painting so we focused on the effect trees would have. As she told you, stepping into shade gives you an immediate feeling of nine degrees coolness which we all spend a lot of money in the summer on air conditioning to achieve that kind of result. We assume that everyone on council is in favor of a prettier and cooler Columbia. We don't think that's the problem at all. So we have been focusing our efforts on where is the money and how do we come up with helpful solutions that won't break the budget. This did not make it into our presentation but just to remind us, this is Jervais Street before undergrounding and the planting of trees and the ugliest entrance into a city according to the national media. And this, excuse me, this is the before, here's the after, so. You like to mark that exhibit one and two? I'm sure. Pretty compelling. I feel that way about Elmwood and I saw Elmwood is one of the hottest parts. When you come in, it's so ugly. There's no trees. No trees. No cabling underground, yeah. Well, we've got some recommendations for y'all to consider and hopefully take the council. Number one, and I hope y'all have this as party materials is an ordinance. Okay, yeah, that's it. That's right, thank you. We've spent several years working on this ordinance and we've consulted with city staff in doing it. And the main objective of the ordinance is to prohibit new utilities above ground where we've successfully undergrounded them. And it happens. It happens on Sumter Street, which is pretty clear but you're seeing new, I don't know what kind of lines they are, but new lines being strong. And that will put us back in the same situation we were in. That all new projects of a certain size or all renovations of a certain size be require undergrounding of any utilities they use. And that the ordinance would strongly encourage to require the planning of trees where undergrounding has been accomplished. Otherwise, you simply get asphalt and concrete at 30 degrees hotter if you don't put some trees in. And of course, the overall objective is to get people downtown spending money, increasing the value of property downtown, increasing the tax base so that money can be spent on other projects that the council sees fit. And then we've got the franchise agreement with Dominion and that calls for a million dollars a year if matched by the city. And the city so far has concentrated on major projects using that fund. We would like to see the city do smaller and more projects that people will see all over the city and that will have, we think, a greater overall impact on the citizens. Also, we do not think Dominion is the enemy. They are a leader in the utility industry in the effort to underground. The utility industry's had a sea change in the last few years as we understand. The wildfires in California and in Hawaii has forced a rethink of how they make their power lines more resilient and undergrounding has become a major solution for them and Dominion is actually a national leader in undergrounding. So we've got a utility we think we can work with to improve the situation here in Columbia. And this ordinance would set up, we have a half million dollars in there as a number to start a discussion for undergrounding on a small scale and get our people used to what they've got to do, how to plan it, how to execute it and get efficient at it before you get into a big project. We would request that you request that the city staff determine the cost of a truck, employee and all the related costs. We know about what a truck costs, water truck costs and employee costs, but we don't know the other costs. We don't wanna give you a figure and then have you find out it's wrong. So we would request that y'all determine the cost. Right now we have one water truck and that one truck plants 500 new trees a year. So a second truck would be another 500 trees per year. Right now we're losing 380 canopy trees each year to various causes. Most of them are just aging out. And we're replacing them with sticks. Well, that's all we can replace them with. We can't help that. But we need to up, and that's a cheap way of getting extra 500 trees a year planted to replace the canopy we're losing. Secondly, there's a lot of money out there right now from the infrastructure act and from grants that the forestry department can make and others, but we don't know exactly where they are, how much they are and what they can be used for. We're asking you to fund an intern for us to have somebody investigate that so we can come back to you with possible sources of money. We're asking that you consider undergrounding one to two blocks annually. If you don't have transformers on the line, you can underground pretty cheaply. I'm gonna throw out a number, it's probably not accurate anymore, but 100,000 for per block used to be kind of the number. If you have transformers, you can probably add another zero to that figure. So if you can pick out streets that don't have transformers on them, you can do the undergrounding very cheaply and yet you've learned how to do it and you've made progress with tree planting. And then we also recommend that you encourage the city to re-institute negotiations with Dominion mending the franchise agreement. Y'all may remember the city ran the bus, I mean, the SC and G ran the bus system. To get rid of that, they entered into an amended franchise agreement and part of that franchise agreement is the million dollar matching funds a year for undergrounding. And we think this is not based on any knowledge, this is just intuition, but we think we've got a willing partner there and that now would be a good time to talk to them about solving a mutual problem. So none of those are bank breaking and yet they're a very good start and we spent a number of years looking at this and so these are very thought out proposals and we hope y'all will give them good consideration. No, we appreciate this and appreciate the time that you all took to think through some of these things and cover your bases in terms of having the ordinance reviewed makes the process a lot easier. So thank you to Dr. Dow and to Russell as well for your presentation. I'm gonna stop and see if there's any questions. Mr. G, I was just curious about the annual funding for burial of residential power lines on a rotating basis. You mentioned per each district in the city and cost to be shared by the city and the affected residents. Are you talking about using that nine standard service fund to do that or? That would be and this would be for each year switch to a different district for residential lines coming down where the resident pays half the cost and the city pays half the cost. And so that would be coming, that would be a budget item, not part of it. The assessment of the residents in that district. So correct. They would pay it back through the utility bills over the five years. I believe that was a half a million fund that you recommended. No, the half million was to city-wide do some undergrounding. The, I would suggest, and this was after talking to Will Brennan a couple of years ago. I don't know his thinking now. He suggested a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year per district for on a rotating basis for residential. Clint, we do have some current undergrounding underway that isn't necessarily us, but DOT? So yes, ma'am. Provided update on that, yeah. South Main, there's some undergrounding happening there. And that was a nine standard service project with Dominion. So there's some funding through the language in the franchise agreement to help us do that collectively, and of course we're funding 50% of that. And there are a couple of projects planned. I think Bull and Elmwood are some underground plan there with the transportation project that's occurring. There are a few others out there. Assembly Street, the gateway to the state house, that block between Lady and Gervais along Assembly is being considered for some pedestrian safety improvements, but also potentially undergrounding of electrical as well. But you're exactly right, Mr. Jeter. I mean, we focused on larger projects in major corridors more than pushing it out in the communities in previous years. And we don't want to interfere with that, but we think the other needs to be done. So, and then our negotiations, we just recently negotiated that, right? We did re-up our franchise agreement with Dominion. It was part of the city's initiative to secure and protect the property along the river. Right, okay. Which is a great benefit to our tree canopy as well, you know, in a tree city, USA, but so the agreement was extended and renewed. Not to say we can't have conversations with Dominion about non-standard service fund and what we might do with that and what others are doing, I'm certainly open to that. Okay, and that leads me to my next question. I think the idea of an intern, I looked at Ashley because we started an intern program this past semester. So there may be some opportunities there, but I think it would be great to see because it is very expensive. And I think it's more that extra zero that you're mentioning as opposed to 100,000 per block. I'd love to see what's out there in terms of grants. You know, of course the Dominion route is one route, but getting some federal dollars would be great. And I know the governor is interested in this too. So we could have some pull there if he's willing to support us on applying for some of these things. Absolutely, we'll look into our intern with sustainability and Ashley, the intern, we may have some capacity there to make some assignments already without specifically adding another position. But so I think we've got some bandwidth there. And they're very impressive young folks. And I think it would be motivated to help us find some dollars. We're working on it right now. Okay, yeah, that's right, the tree. You're from with USDA, I believe. So for the, and then the ordinance, I know we didn't spend a lot of time, but DK, I know your team might have reviewed this. Was there any comments, questions, suggestions about the ordinance? This is the first time I'm seeing it. I don't know, Robert, if we looked at it before, draft ordinance. Yes, sir, we... Okay. I believe this ordinance came out a couple of years ago. Talked a lot about residential undergrounding. Talked some, if I remember right, Mr. Jeter, it talked about the amount the people would have to pay if they came into the district. It's kind of based after a Charleston model, I believe, or something similar to that St. John's Island, some of that area. But I think one of the holdups, I'm not gonna say it was a holdup at that time, was when you bury undergrounds in a residential area, I think it requires the residential drop to the house. Also has to be buried. That cost was, I think, picked up by the homeowner, and I'm not sure about that. And I don't know if that was dressed in the ordinance. Will... Yeah, I was, can we... If you all can take a look and then come back with, you know, feedback, then we can make a decision about pushing it forward to all of council. Councilman Bailey, Councilman McDowell, any other questions for our Tree and Appearance Commission? No other questions for me. Okay. I have no questions. Well, thank you. Thank you very much for being here. We appreciate it. All right, well, we will then shift to the next agenda item, which is the rental housing ordinance. I'll pass it over to my colleague, Councilman Bailey. Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. A few council meetings ago, after there was a fire at Columbia Rising, where I believe over 20 or something residents were displaced in looking at all these situations with the colony. I started looking at the residential rental ordinance that we have in place to give the city attorney's office more tools when there are emergency situations. And I refer this to this committee. And there's a lot of different mechanisms, mechanisms in this ordinance, but today what I would like to do is have Jessica Panard from the city attorney's office talk about some of the issues that the city attorney's office had when the colony situations happened. And there's another case they had and what this ordinance would do, giving them more tools so we could know the actual landlord from some of these larger housing units. And we're not stuck having to put the bill when people are forced to leave their residence. There's some other things in here, but today I wanna focus mainly on the tools. And you could attorney Panard give us a little more information about some of the tools that sit up to your will. I might just get kindered. I'm a senior assistant city attorney. So basically this is in response, as he said to the colony fire and the Indigo 52 issues. And Councilman Bailey brought it to our attention and asked for an ordinance draft about what can we do to help these people that are displaced, especially in situations due to landlord neglect typically. So in the city of Columbia, we do not have a civil cause of action. We only have criminal enforcement procedures and a criminal court. So if we wanted to go after them, it would have to be outside of the city to the court of common please if we wanted to do something civilly. So we were trying to think how do we affect, especially these larger landlords, the business landlords, where it would really affect them and the answer is always in their pockets. So under Councilman Bailey's suggestion, he sent us some ordinances from other places in the country that gave us ideas about, well, what if we started requiring emergency plans from these landlords? What if we started saying, if a major event occurs due to your neglect, due to issues that you've allowed to go unchecked and tenants are displaced, you have to be responsible for housing them in a relatively similar manner and area. So that way schooling is not disrupted, jobs are not disrupted, so forth. So in order to be a landlord under certain guidelines in the city, you have to file an application for a rental permit. And we're still working out the details, but the idea is that for units or complexes that are deemed high risk, they will also have to file an emergency operations plan. So that will include information such as how to notify the tenants. If there's been an emergency, what the emergency is, how the management company will take steps to help the tenants, ensure they have a safe place to reside. Remediation for the underlying cause of the event, and then the owners plan to reintroduce the tenants back into their prior living arrangement once everything is resolved. This also has to include a copy of the certificate of insurance. And we thought that was important because that helps guarantee that things will hopefully get back to normal. And if there is no insurance, then the owner or property company has to inform the tenants in writing. And that will actually happen through the city housing official. So it will be very clear that the tenants are kind of at a little bit higher risk by living there. So the way that this actually gets into their pocket, so to speak, is that if an emergency event occurs at one of these high risk units and they fail to adhere to the emergency plan, then they will not be able to have or renew a rental permit for three years from the date of the abatement or resolution of the emergency event, meaning they're out of business for three years on any property that they own in the city. So that's at least what we're looking at right now as a way to enforce that. So that is clearly, you know, hitting them where it hurts, which would be their wallets. One thing to note in this is that if an emergency event is caused by behavior of a tenant, then most of these things don't apply. This is to handle landlords, probably managing companies that are having these, like we said, high risk units that are really risking things. Code enforcement, which is under our police powers, are also involved in this as far as how we're going to make it all happen and the discussions about this going forward. But the big tools are how to use our, like I said, code enforcement, which is technically criminal violation, but as well as our business licensing and rental permitting to really enforce how these landlords will work in the future. Can you talk about some of the problems that the city experienced after the situation with the colony? I don't have as much personal knowledge as that of the colony. I know that once the inspectors went in there, the situation was just absolutely terrible. It really wasn't quite fit to live. And then these people were being, well, a lot of these places, home, house, people who have not very great means and they can't just go sign a new lease or stay with family or drive somewhere else necessarily. So these people were completely displaced. They know where to go, nothing to do and no money to do it with. And we were seeing some of them, unfortunately being unhoused, trying to find other places to live and in those type of units that are high risk due to their nature of how they are kept as well as who they house, it's just a bigger problem waiting to happen. And high risk units in the ordinances built prior to 1980 and at least 16 or more units, correct? And the draft we have now taller than four stories or any combination of those three things. And has the majority of problems existed in older units? Certainly, yes. Mostly older units that have not been maintained as they should have. Any questions from anybody? No, this is very helpful. It does make me think about Councilman Rev. Remember when we talked about the tenant bill of rights in the administrative committee? Yes. Is that something you feel like we could bring back up in tandem with this? Like we had started working on creating even just a easy to read document that we wanted to share with folks. Might be another thing to think about in terms of creating a tool for folks that are living in these high risk units. What do you think? Well, that's something perhaps we could revisit. Okay. That's something perhaps we could revisit. We talked about this several months ago. Mm-hmm. And what Councilman Bailey has the resolution there has implications of what we talked about few months ago. Yeah, let's do that. Let's do that. I think it would be good if we would, we would at least share that information with us. Okay. I think state housing, Madam Chairwoman, because after that discussion in the administrative policy committee, the community development staff was directed to work with state housing staffs where the tenants still have rights really lies for these tight housing units and developments. And so since then they had a really great forum. I think at the... The workshop. Yeah. The workshop that they did in conjunction with state housing. So I think you're exactly right to keep in that to those dots with, with, you know, really making sure these homeowners are aware of their rights. There is a process in place through state housing that this could just amplify that, I think. Okay. That's exactly right. Not interrupt, but that HUD. Sorry, Rav, go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's exactly the route we ought to take. There's not being that kind of, that kind of follow that would lead us in that direction. The state housing piece is already in place. And what we needed to do was to make sure that this resolution could be aware of your part of what we're actually trying to do. Yes. And in a way, this can fill some gaps between this. This is an emergency measure is what it creates. Housing has resources, certainly more long-term, but this is what do you do tomorrow when your house burns down today? Right. Yeah. And it might even be, you know, if we decide to move forward with the changes to this ordinance that we kind of re-release that Bill of Rights document too with it so that the media can share with folks that, you know, this is a mechanism that we've put in place, but also we've partnered with the state housing authority for this as well. So. That'd be good. Well, sounds good. Well, thank you. We'll look forward to hearing updates next time. All right. Thank you. I think that the resolution is right on time. I think putting the other pieces of the proposal together creates a kind of dynamic, which I think could really turn this audience, this resolution into something that could be very, very, very useful. So yes, I think the creation of that is useful. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Well, then we will circle back on that at our next meeting, Rev. So stay tuned. Last but not least, we have an update on, I'm just going to call it PFOSC, because I don't want to perflornated substances and drinking water. So Clint and his team, including our brilliant scientist over here, came a couple of months ago and introduced the concept to Councilman Duvall, Councilman McDowell and myself. Obviously since then, there's been a lot of attention around it, both in terms of a national perspective with other cities and water systems. Also grappling with this, but just in general as the science is emerging. So we wanted to get an update, given that there are potentially some regulations coming down from the Environmental Protection Agency that could affect us. Yes, ma'am, thank you for the opportunity. I apologize for my voice. The pollen is getting the better of me, but so not a whole lot of technical changes, but a lot in the public space. As you spoke to Dr. Bussells, I do want to introduce our staff, our excellent utility operations director, Frank Eskridge and Dr. Alejandro Bayer, our water compliance manager. They've been following these issues very, very closely and have helped put this information together. I think one of the, I'm going in the wrong direction, it's me, Leveny, it's me, I'm sorry. So one of the things we wanted to make our customers and the citizens aware of is that these compounds are not something that we're adding in the water. It's not something that the city of Columbia or Columbia water is doing through our treatment processes or our treating compounds that are causing the perflornated substances to be there. These are things that are rather ubiquitous in the environment. They're compounds that have been used in manufacturing for quite a good many years. The things that make nonstick pans, nonstick. The things that make your sandwich wrappers at fast food, the cheese doesn't stick to your wrappers. Those types of compounds are these perflornated substances. They're also found in firefighting foam and many other personal care products. And it's interesting that chocolate cake has a very, very high concentration of PFAS. So remember that as we enjoy our chocolate cake next time. When the water professionals get together and they have the dessert tray of cupcakes, nobody eats the chocolate cupcake. Because it's really, really high in perflornated substances. So it's an interesting thing. But again, we're tasked to address this occurrence that is in the waterways of our state and our nation and subsequently is in our drinking water because our treatment processes aren't designed to remove these substances, particularly down to the per trillion level. So just a little bit of background. You've seen this before. This is rather rapidly evolving science. Up until just a few years ago, we couldn't measure down to four part per trillion, which is the proposed regulatory limit that's been published by EPA. It has certainly has not been finalized, but that is a draft. But again, we believe these substances have been there for quite a good many years. One of Frank's I'm making it famous quotes is just because we've got a stronger telescope, it doesn't mean there are more stars in the sky. These have been there. We can see them at lower concentrations now because the analytical methods are getting better and better. And these analytical methods get better and better and the epidemiological studies are occurring. That is, it's prompted EPA to move toward the regulatory framework and propose this draft regulation. You'll see what we've updated our most recent testing data and looking at our average information from 2020 to present for both the canal and Lake Murray water treatment plant finished water. You can see at the canal for PFOA and PFOS, we are above that proposed limit of four part per trillion. And we've taken a slight tick up of one-tenth part per trillion since the last report. Glad to say the Lake Murray water treatment plant has taken a slight tick downward of one-tenth part per trillion. So right now, the average of all the data that we've got for our finished water would show that we would be slightly below that regulatory threshold. Now, the proposed regulation has you monitoring quarterly for a year to establish a running annual average. And then that's what your compliance assessment would be based on as proposed. So, you know, we're certainly, we can't take a sigh of relief about our Lake Murray data because we're very, very close to the level. And we're again watching that very closely. In terms of when this regulation may be finalized, we had heard initially that it would be the very first part of 20, we're at the end of 2023, the first of 2024. Now we're hearing potentially by mid-April of 2024, the Office of Management and Budget is running numbers on the regulation and checking some math there. So we'll see what they come back with, but it's possible that it could be promulgated as a final rule next month, as early as next month. That schedule has tended to slide. So really no guarantees there, but that's what we're bracing ourselves for in preparing to move to the next step. So what are we doing about it? I mentioned the data and we showed our data that we've been collecting since 2020 and really a little bit before that. That data is readily available on our Columbia Water website. We've been very transparent about that ever since we started analyzing for these compounds, putting that data out there and with an explanation of what this might mean to our customers and where the sources of these compounds are. So we're sharing that information. The treatment technology and level of investment is significant. We shared that last time. There are some best available technologies like granular-activated carbon and ion exchange and reverse osmosis. There's also some novel treatment concepts that are out there that we're looking to explore. So a lot of evolving research in the area because this affects not only drinking water utilities, we think ultimately it'll affect wastewater utilities as well. And so us being a utility provider for both, we're very, very interested in these PFAS removal technologies but also destruction technologies so that we're not just moving the problem from one point to another if we're required to address it. We're also advocating strongly that these compounds be regulated out of our economy so that they're not allowed to be from industrial or personal care products or whatever to be put into our receiving streams because they pollute our waterways. That's not good for our aquatic environment, for fish consumption, for recreational, you name it. We'd rather they just be removed from the economy completely and then over time let that take care of it itself. We're gonna continue to monitor it twice a year until this final rule is promulgated in publishing that data. On new development since last time we spoke, 3M in DuPont offered a multi-district settlement, a class action type of settlement available to water utilities. And many of our peer utilities accepted that settlement as we looked at it. The calculation was showing we would get anywhere from 10 to 12 million dollars and that's not an insignificant amount of money. But when you're talking about spending potentially 150, 200 or more, it doesn't move the needle enough. So we've decided to go our own route and we'll talk more about that as we pursue that. But the other interesting point was if you opted in for this class action type settlement it prohibited you from claiming future damages against DuPont and 3M for any waste water regulatory actions that might be taken. And those are gonna be very, very costly when you think about your liquid discharge and your biosolids. So we were very strategic in trying to make sure we protect our ratepayers best interest in opting out of that. So our next steps other than continuing to monitor and watch very closely to see when and if this regulation is finalized, it just last Tuesday night, council approved a bench and desktop study with Black and Veatch consulting engineers to look at specific treatment options and the cost of those options. And we're looking at some of those novel treatment technologies as well to see if there are some interim measures we might be able to take to get us below the regulatory threshold because honestly significant capital investments like we're talking about are gonna take years to be able to design and construct and implement. So we're looking at a variety of different things and we'll leave no stone unturned there but that's essentially where we stand. I'll open for any questions and I'll also ask Dr. Byer and Mr. Eskridge if I've omitted anything clear enough. Well, thank you for preparing me. So questions. For the developing strategies for meeting anticipated federal regulations, I'm wondering and obviously on the national level as well, the National League of Cities, I think has a similar stance as we do. Most cities are saying like, let's wait and see how the science comes together to really understand what the thresholds need to be. But that being said, if EPA does come out, I wonder, do you see that with it being also an election year, do you see that it would be like reversed depending on who, you know. And so what I don't want to happen is then we have to meet these regulations and then a year into it, they're like, oh, never mind. And you've already invested in all this technology.  I mean, those things could happen. We're doing this study to really identify the true cost and what technology might make the most sense for us right now so we can plan accordingly. The regulation allows for a three to potentially five year compliance period after one year of monitoring. So you're looking at four to six years down the road and the real impact on our utility bills and our utility operations and having to construct something that said, we would have to start that design and construction sooner, but we certainly want to be rock solid in what the level is and where it's headed before we pull the trigger on anything like that. A lot of the comments that EPA received were geared toward patients, but also if you're going to regulate these very, very low levels, perhaps you would want to phase in and regulate the levels at 20 per trillion and take care of the highest concentrations that are out there first. So your top contracting community and equipment suppliers could focus on the higher numbers, the utilities with the higher numbers first and then step it down over a period of years, if not a decade or two, to get to these very, very low levels if we needed to do that. We're not sure they're going to move in that direction, but we're kind of hoping that that may be an approach that they're looking at. And again, the level may be set at four now it may move to two at some point, we really don't know. I think part of, as we do our study, we want to look at a technology that will not only help us remove all of the perflornated substances down to non-detect, but also if we're going to spend that money, something that helps us out with other benefits and is not a one-trick pony, so to speak. So if there's some taste in odor removal that would help us during those seasonal events, disinfection, bioproduct reduction, those types of things, we want to look for those if we're going to make a very, very deep, costly investment here, do something that's helpful from different approaches. And my question really isn't about the cost, I think it is, I know it says full knowledge about the health effect, not attained yet, but we do know that we would prefer not to have PFAS or drinking water. We absolutely know that, we do not want these compounds in our drinking water. And I think part of what we're doing is positioning ourselves to, if the regulation is finalized to let our customers know, look, we're going to do what's necessary to comply to meet these levels, and we are in compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act and with all the levels now, and we're going to do what's necessary to stay in compliance with those. That said, we're not health researchers, we do fund research to the American Water Works Research Foundation and other organizations, but certainly we'd prefer to keep these out of our environment completely. And that's why we're advocating for regulating, for EPA to regulate these substances out of the economy rather than making our customers pay. So if somebody asks, in the meantime, what can I do to remove it out of my water? Cause that was one of the questions I was getting. There's nothing that we can do currently, right? On our own? We do not have that capability at our treatment facilities. There are point of use devices, granular activated carbon point of use devices that, and we don't endorse a particular manufacturer, but those are fairly well known out there, those point of use devices, filters have to be changed periodically, but those are shown to remove at least a portion of the perflornated substances. Is in your spacing, you know, water, were PFAS, was it something that's commonly talked about even before the EPA regulations? So EPA has been talking about this and this has been looked at through unregulated contaminant monitoring rules for quite some time. And so we were happy a few years ago to report that we were well, we're below detection level. We did not detect any of these perflornated substances in our drinking water. The analytical methods then got tighter. And so we could see the lower levels and that's when we discovered, well, we do have these in our drinking water and in our source water and many, many, many others do as well. So up until just a few years ago, we were, you know, reporting that we're non-detected. We don't, we're not able to see these substances in our water. And we did not see at that time, we did not foresee a four per trillion level from a regulatory limit that's extremely low. Any other questions? We will continue to keep you apprised of regulatory developments and the results of our testing and study routinely. And don't be talking more about the legal ramifications and how we can hopefully help find any improvements that are needed by those that actually created the pollution. One last question. I can't remember, cause it was, I know it was on the consent agenda. Do we know when they'll be coming back, when they'll have completed the study? So there's some rapid column testing. There's a good bit of analytical work. So we're looking at a six to eight month window. Any other questions? No, for me. Okay. Thank you, Clint. Thank you. Thank you. Well, that concludes. If there's not anything else, our committee meeting, I'll take a motion to adjourn. I'll so move. Rev seconds. Rev seconds. Well, we are adjourned. Thank you all very much. Thank you.


Hello everyone. My name is Nasser and I'm a doctor living and working in London. If you've watched this channel for any period of time, then you'll know that me and Notion, we have this symbiotic relationship where we get along really well together. If you don't know Notion is an app on your computer or phone where you can build this highly customizable personalized workspace to do just about anything in your life. I personally used it throughout several years in medical school to keep track of all of my lectures, my notes and my studying. I use it to organize my day to day life and I even run this entire YouTube channel out of a Notion workspace. I've gone into great detail about what Notion is, why I love it so much and how I use it in previous videos. But in today's video, I want to talk all about Notion AI who are very kindly sponsoring this video. Notion AI takes Notion and boosts it to the next level, being a really creative writing assistant and generating text in a very useful way we've never seen before. In this video, I want to run through several examples of where I think Notion AI can be particularly helpful as a studying assistant, a writing assistant and more generally as a creative companion online. As always, you can get started with Notion for free by clicking the link in the description down below and you can unlock the power of Notion AI for just $10 a month. So this is my personalized Notion dashboard. I have all of my medical conditions that I needed to learn in order to become a doctor here. I have all the different things I need to keep track of whilst I was in medical school. But recently as a doctor, this is where I've spent most of my time. So let's open up a new page here. Let's call it AI land, give it a small little emoji and we'll get started. So in order to activate Notion AI within my workspace, I can hit the space bar and then it gives me this long list of different things I can start to do. We've got ask AI what to write, brainstorm ideas, blog posts, outline, social media posts. There's a lot going on. One of my favorite things that I've been using Notion AI for so far is write a blog post about. So blog posts and YouTube videos aren't really that different. So let's say I wanted to make a video about, you know, how to study in medical school, which is something I've made several videos on about in the past. And I can ask Notion AI to do that and it'll build out this pretty lovely and convincing outline of a potential blog post or video idea. So what have we got here? Introduction, OK, prioritize your time, utilize resources, take breaks. These are all things I will have mentioned in a previous video. If we expand on that a little bit more and we say, write me a YouTube video script for how to study in medical school. Welcome to our video on how to study in medical school. First, let's talk about prioritizing time, utilizing resources, discussing breaks. So if I think this is relatively short and I want a little bit more content to work off of, I can click continue writing. OK, so now we've added stay organized, taking care of yourself and remembering to ask questions. Great. Another one here that I really like is social media posts. So let's say write a social media post about moving to my new vascular surgery rotation. I'm so excited to start my new vascular surgery rotation. I'm sure it'll be full of new challenges, but I'm ready to take them on and make the most of this learning opportunity. Hashtag vascular surgery, hashtag medical school, hashtag med student life. And then we even have an option for write essay. Let's say write an essay about why fish populations are declining. Intro, point number one over fishing, point number two, pollution, climate change and conclusion. Notion AI is not going to produce a perfectly polished and finished version of whatever piece of work that you need to do in high school or university. And I would never, never, ever advise you to just copy paste anything that Notion AI spits out and submit it as your final piece of work in high school or university. That's just dishonest and that's not what this is supposed to do. The really useful thing about Notion AI is that it can act as a creative assistant. It can act as a source of inspiration and it can give you ideas for what to go and further research and go and further work on. And it can also help tidy up your writing, change the tone of your writing and things like that. So it's like an editing assistant as opposed to someone who you pay to write to an essay. It's not at all what this is and it shouldn't be that. So for example, if I was writing this essay, I might read through this and say to myself, I don't really know enough about what bycatch is. What is bycatch? Let me go and research that or let me just ask Notion AI, what is bycatch? Bycatch is when non-target species are unintentionally caught in fishing nets. OK, great. So now I can go ahead and I can go and research more into that. I can use these as general ideas or headings that I might not have thought of before. I mean, pollution and climate change are pretty obvious ones and overfishing, I guess, but you get the idea. So as you can see, you can use Notion AI to generate large amounts of text and then you can read through that text and you can decide, do I like this? Do I think it's accurate? Do I think it's useful? And you can use it and build on it and expand on it or you can say to yourself, you know, actually, I don't like this point. I'm not going to use it. The point is that it's helping you come up with content. It's helping you brainstorm and think about the task that you need to do. If we look at the other options on this list for draft with AI, we've got brainstorm ideas, which I want to cover a little bit later. Outline, press release, creative story, to-do list, pros and cons list, job description, sales email, recruiting email, all very useful things to help you get started. A really good practical example of what I think you could use this for is write me an email negotiating a lower rent for my lower price for my rent next year. Subject, request a lower rent for the upcoming year. Dear landlord, I'm writing to request you to lower the rent for my current rental for the upcoming year. I've been a tenant for a length of time and have been reliable and responsible throughout my stay. I'm aware of the current market conditions and understand the rental prices may be high than usual, hardware or somewhere of financial situation, etc.  And so being able to generate an email template like this, I think it's incredibly helpful. Let's try write me an email asking my professor for extra credit to improve my grade. I feel like this is a bit of a more complicated one, but let's see. I want to press extra credit for a name of the course. I've been a diligent student throughout the semester and worked hard on all my assignments. I'm not satisfied with my current grade and believe I'm capable of doing better. Amazing.  This is extremely, extremely helpful. So throughout my time in medical school, I made this pretty comprehensive list of, you know, almost all the different possible conditions, diseases and presentations that you could find or see in a hospital or in my exams that I was studying for. So, you know, as you can see here for every general body system, we have all the different kinds of diseases or conditions that you might have. And within each one of them, some important information about it that I should remember and that would help me answer exam questions properly throughout my time in medical school, making videos about how to study and how to improve your grades, etc. I've always been harping on one important point, which is the idea of testing yourself and asking yourself questions based on the content that you are studying. Now, the reason that I've been such a big advocate for this is because I believe, and the research shows that this is the best way to get you to learn material, to actually ingest it, digest it and understand it. And one of the best ways to do this has always been with question banks or past paper exams. You study the material, you look at the questions, and you try to answer them based on the material that you've read or studied. But now, with Notion AI, we can do some really cool things, so check this out. All right, so if we go to the musculoskeletal section of my notes and we go to rheumatoid arthritis, we have the title, some important information I wanted to remember, how this condition presents when someone comes into A&E or to the GP, what investigations we can use to investigate this disease, and then how to manage it and treat it. Okay, so if I go into Notion AI and I say, write me some questions to test myself on the above material. What is the classic early feature of rheumatoid arthritis? What is the DAS28 scoring system used for? What medications are used in the initial treatment of rheumatoid arthritis? What are the risk associated with TNF-alpha inhibitors, etc., etc., etc. Okay, great. So I've very quickly generated a bunch of questions to test myself on the material that's literally right up here that I just would have read through when I was studying for this exam or reading up on this topic. And then I can go ahead and say, give me the answers to the above questions. All right, so it looks like it's continued the list over here. So not the best format, but it has correctly answered or at least attempted to correctly answer the above questions minus skipping the first one it looks like. So I mean, I guess you can just go back up and read to check if the answers are correct, but you can also ask Notion what the answers are based on the above information, which is really, really helpful. Yes, you can go to a question bank and you can probably narrow down the questions to inflammatory diseases and look at rheumatoid arthritis in particular. But if you just want to quickly ask a bunch of questions and test yourself whilst you're going studying, you can do all this without even leaving Notion. You don't have to open the web browser and go to Google and start searching things. You can do all of this stuff within Notion, within your study hub and your study zone. All right, let's try this again for another disease. Let's go into cardio aortic regurgitation. Why not generate a couple of questions? What is the message sign? Oh, great. Questions and answers. What are the causes of your aortic regurgitation to do to your aortic disease? Great. So what if I say generate me a Q and A based on the above material? Fantastic. Okay. So very, very helpful. What I wish I could do is hide the answer and then click a button to release it kind of like we have the toggles here in Notion. I did actually ask my Notion representative if that was going to be introduced in future updates. And they said that, yes, they were working on using Notion AI to integrate cleverly with the blocks in Notion. So with things like toggles, but that it wasn't working yet. Maybe soon. But anyways, I hope this kind of gives an example of, you know, maybe you're not in medical school, you're studying something else. You can just take the information that you're using for your notes, ask it to ask you questions based on the above information. And so you can very quickly and easily test yourself and check. Did I actually understand what I just read? Am I able to re-explain it to someone else in the room? So the next thing that I want to cover is the brainstorming function. This is really, really interesting. Okay. So for example, recently I wanted to purchase snowboard, snowboarding boots and bindings. And my whole life I've been renting this gear. I had no idea what to think about or what to take into account when choosing which snowboard do I want, what shoes do I want, etc, etc. And if you're like me, and before you make these types of purchases, you go into an insane amount of detail, researching every single possible option and trying to learn everything about the thing that you're about to buy, then you know that you'll find yourself on a bunch of different websites and it takes a lot of time, but it's part of the fun of the process. Now how I usually do this is I go on Google and I type in snowboarding boots. And then I open the first 10 links and I start reading about what are the different boots? What's wide versus normal? What does it mean to have a stiff boot, a medium boot, a soft boot? What does it mean to have boots that can step on into bindings versus ones that go into clips? All kinds of different things. And I just go down this massive rabbit hole. Now what would have been really useful is if I had notion AI at the time and I said to it brainstorm ideas on what to take into account when buying a snowboard and snowboarding boots. Consider the terrain you will be riding on. So this is something that I found over and over again. Are you a free park rider? Are you a off-peast rider? Are you an old mountain rider? Consider your skill level fair enough. Consider your body size and weight. So it turns out the type of snowboard you should choose is very heavily based on your weight and your height. And that's how you want to decide how tall the board is and how wide it is as well. Consider the type of bindings you want, step on versus normal, type of snowboard design. So it turns out snowboards aren't flat. They've generally got a couple of curves in them. And there's a lot of different types of curves based on what kind of snowboard you want. So these are some things that I might have never considered otherwise. And when I was going through my, you know, long deep dive rabbit hole, I might have missed some of these things. It's now being able to go out and further research on each of those things. It's going to make sure that I make the best purchase incision for myself. So I could also ask Motion AI, for example, make a table comparing the different types of snowboard bindings. Strap binding, step and binding, speed, entry bindings. Okay. Pretty small table. I'll admit, but at least a good and easy starting point. Another really useful thing that I thought of for this is before going traveling, having a checklist or a to-do list of things to remember to pack in your bag or to do before you travel. Make some ideas. Write me a checklist before travel. So passport visa, travel tickets, accommodation, vaccination records, etc., etc., etc. Very helpful. How about this? Plan me an itinerary for when I go to Milan next week. I feel like this might be a bit more difficult, but let's see. I doubt it's taking into account how close these things are to each other and how much time they take. I think that would be really next level. If it is, fair enough, that's amazing. But at least it's given me some ideas of things that I can go check out and I can go Google these things and see what they are and if I'm interested in them and if I want to do them. Another crazy thing that Notion AI lets you do is translate content within the app, within Notion itself. So we've got here this translate button and it has English, Korean, Chinese, and all these other languages. Very sadly, it doesn't have Arabic or Greek, which are the two languages I'd be able to verify, whether the translation is actually working or not. Let's give this a go. Let's translate English into Spanish. So translate this into Spanish. The duck jumped on the slide and ate a crab out of thinner. El pato salto en el tobogán y comió un cangrejo de la nada. Not even gonna lie, I have no idea if that's right or not. My Spanish has completely left my head. Let's try something I might be able to actually understand. I went for a walk with my friends in the park. You can see where my level of Spanish is. This is really exposing how good my Spanish is. We ate some ice cream and then we went to sleep. I can say with at least 50% confidence that that's at least 70% correct. So let's take it from there. Let me take this into Google Translate and see if it did anything good. Let's do from Spanish to English. I went for a walk with my friends in the park. We ate some ice cream and then went to sleep. All right, fair enough. I'll give it 10 out of 10. Let me ask you this. Have you ever been in a situation where you're writing an essay or an article or a piece of work in high school or in university and you find yourself over the word limit? I bet you have. This is something that absolutely everyone has and goes through. Something really useful you can do in AI is called make shorter or summarize and you can take text and condense it and make it shorter. So let's do an example. So here is an extract from a talk that I recently gave at Google and YouTube about the impact of YouTube videos on patients and the impact of YouTube videos to reach and power that they can have in medical education. So here's a quick sort of extract from that speech that I gave. And this sentence over here, in particular, I found difficulty phrasing. And in fact, I made it in bold so that I would look down at my piece of paper and read it word for word to make sure that I didn't stumble it or say incorrectly when I was up on stage. I want to see if Notion AI can do a better job of reading this sentence. I think the real-life impact creators can have by making medical education content on a platform like YouTube might actually have a more significant impact on the well-being of patients than our in real life day-to-day practice. Notion AI, can you please make this shorter? Creators making medical education content on YouTube can have a more meaningful impact on patients than daily medical practice. Okay, it is shorter. I don't think gets across quite the strength of the impact and delivery that I was trying to do. So let's try that again. Creators making medical education content on platforms like YouTube could have a bigger impact on patients than our in real life practice. Okay, I like that better because it focuses on the in real life practice. Pretty much taking this sentence and cut it in half, which makes it easier to understand it's the same thing, just less words and more to the point. Nice. So I can replace selection if I want, which replaces the original text, but I can also just insert it below, which is probably what I'm gonna end up doing. What I also want to do is make this shorter. So this paragraph here, make shorter. So let's say this is an essay that I was writing and I've gone through it multiple times, tediously trying to cut out individual words to try and get closer and closer to the word limit. I can use this tool to give me a good idea of where I can cut things out and where I can cut through the fluff. So here you see it's taken this decently long paragraph and cut it down into just three lines. So now I can say to myself, do these three lines adequately represent what I'm trying to say above and maybe I just use one of these shortened sentences. Maybe I use two. Maybe I use none. But the point is that it gave me an option and it gave me something that I can be inspired by and think about. Does this work? Do I want to use this? So as you hear, my YouTube channel has 80 million views, 10 million for each of your unique individuals and my 40 year career of training patients, I may treat 50,000 patients. It's easy to understand the impact each channel can have on its audience. Easy to underestimate. Even if the impact is smaller per person will multiply to cost 10 million adds up fast. I mean, not gonna lie, I actually think this is a really good summary of this paragraph above. I think maybe when you're giving a talk on stage and you want to have a little bit more sort of dramatic emphasis and things, it helps to have a little bit more of a story narrative in the paragraph. But if I was writing an essay, this is a good way to go. Now besides making things shorter, it can also make things longer. So let's say I'm a little bit stuck and I want to fill up my word count to reach the word limit, which happens sometimes. Let's see if we can make this longer. That worked well. So one of the useful things you can ask Notion AI to do is to summarize. Okay. So let's say we have a new topic that we're learning that we don't understand very well. And we kind of just want to understand the main details of it. Summarize a big chunk of information into a smaller ones so that we can try and better wrap our head around it. How Jet Propulsion works. Something I don't know about. Okay. So let's go on to this. This is how you know the information is good. All right. It's on a website built in the 1990s or early 2000s. We're going to copy this. I'm going to paste into Notion. Cool. So now I'm going to say summarize. Boom. Turbofan engine consists of X, Y and Z.  I think the fan is compressing and that looks like it's hot and cold air. I'll take that. That's really good to be honest. What is that? Six paragraphs and summarized into four lines. That's really useful. Let's think of another topic that I definitely don't understand very well. What planets are made of? Astronomy.com. I'll take it. Copy into Notion. Come on. Give me something good. Spectroscopy is a method used by astronomers to determine the composition of stars, planets and other objects involving instruments about light from larger wavelengths. Great. So we can take topics that I understand very little to nothing about and we can summarize them so that it makes it easier to digest and easier to understand. All right. So let's talk about tone of writing. Traditionally, this is something that I've been really, really bad at. And I remember this is something I'd always go to my sister Noor or my girlfriend Alexia about and I'd say, hey, can you please help make this sound a little bit more professional? Because a lot of my talking is just casual. So I think to demonstrate this what would be really interesting is if we took the intro that I said in this video about 15, 20 minutes ago or however long this video is and copied it here and we pasted it here. So this is pretty much exactly what I said at the very beginning of this video. And hopefully it was in a casual and friendly tone where you felt like we knew each other and we were a bit friendly with each other and it wasn't professional, overly robotic, etc. That's what I was going for anyway. So if we highlight this and we ask AI to change the tone, assuming it was casual and friendly, let's see if we can change it into professional. My name is Nasser and I'm a doctor based in London. I've been utilizing Notion for a variety of tasks in my life, such as note-taking and studying law and medical school, managing the YouTube channel and organizing my personal life. I've already discussed why I find Notion so helpful in prior videos. I've provided the links for further reference. I'm pleased to present the Notion AI who have generously sponsored this video. Okay, I'd say that did a pretty good job of formalizing the speech, making it more professional and confident, I guess. That's how I would describe that. Let's see if we can highlight the same thing and ask AI to change the tone to straightforward. Okay, I'd say pretty close, but it looks like the sentence lengths are shorter and it's just a lot more This is what I would describe as robotic and hopefully not what my videos sound like. And then finally, I think let's see if it can make it even more friendly or even more casual. Hi everyone, exclamation mark. My name is Nasser and I'm a doctor living and working in London. Many of you know that I'm a huge fan of Notion. It's an app that helps you create customized workspaces tailored to you. I've used to take notes and study during medical school to manage my YouTube channel even more as my personal life. I talked about Notion in detail in some of my earlier videos so I'll include those here. Now let's talk about the topic of this video, Notion AI, who are kindly sponsoring this video. You know what? Maybe before I started this video, I should have run my script through Notion AI and asked it to make it more friendly and more casual before before hitting record because I think that actually sounds pretty good. Interesting. Okay, maybe my next video will be edited by Notion AI. We'll see. We'll see. All right. And so I think that's it. That's the end of this video. I hope I've been able to show you a couple of particularly useful examples of how Notion AI can be used to help you with your studying, to help you with your writing, and for being this online creative companion. Like I said before, please don't use Notion AI to just generate something, copy it, and then submit it as your own work. That is not at all what the point of this is. It should instead be used as something to help inspire you, to help give you ideas, to help you with your research, and to act as an assistant. I mean, think about how useful this is in getting over writer's block. You're sitting down with an essay to write ahead of you and you're staring at a blank page. You know, or I'm sitting down, I want to write a YouTube video script and I'm staring at a blank page. That is some of the highest activation energy that exists, you know, before you start the piece of work. And so being able to type a prompt into Notion and it giving you a sort of outline or a skeleton structure or further things to research, I think is incredibly, incredibly helpful. And I've already been using it since I got access to Notion AI about a couple of weeks ago and I'm definitely going to be using it moving forward. Thank you again to Notion for sponsoring this video. You can find links in the description down below to download Notion for free and you can unlock the power of all this Notion AI stuff for $10 a month. If you're interested at all, make sure you check it out and I will see you in the next one. Bye-bye.


and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. If we could have a motion to approve the minutes of our July 13th meeting. Move to approve minutes. Second. Second. All right, we have a motion in second. Is there the, who's the second? Was that you? Give it to tree. Okay. Is there any other discussion? Is there none all in favor. Stay. Aye. Aye. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to have to unmute and any opposed? Chair votes aye. The minutes are approved. We have Chuck joining us. We're going to 3.1, which is a resolution submitting financial trends monitoring analysis from 2015 through 2019. Who would like to take this? I guess I can take it, Mary-Lynn. These are the financial trends for 2020 monitoring and analysis. This is something that's been provided by the city administrator in the past years, so we thought it would be good for the committee to read and review. As you can see on page 4, obviously you can see a lot of the trends are saying very favorable. Again, this is mainly just for review for upcoming tax, tax revenue and the spending that we have coming up. Any questions? All right. I know that Jim Warren had wanted to know where the information came from, and that's going to be a pretty good question. Do we know who compiled this? It looks pretty official to me. I think Marty got back to me, and I think he said that Daryl was working on this with his assistant at the time, and I believe it came from audit to data. This is Marty. There was some discussion that maybe Noah had provided some information. Is that true, Marty? This was one of the projects Daryl had been working on, and he did have Noah, the intern, compiling a lot of the data. We did have 2019 draft financials available for him to pull for the current information, but previous years would have come out of the audited financial statements. As Todd alluded to before, the numbers are favorable, but this would just become one of those where do we find good value in this report versus other reports and trying to determine what the right metrics are to give you a clear and timely picture over all of the city's financial position would be how I'd want to approach this going forward. I guess my question is to any committee members or Todd, do you remember seeing a document like this before? I mean, has this compiled year over year? I believe this is a trend analysis that has been started. I don't think it was much before I arrived, and I think this was one of Daryl's newer reports that he started to pull together data. Todd, have you had a chance to look at it? Yeah, I believe that it's basically just giving us an overview of the past five years, and as we continue to move forward, we'll be able to add to it. It's just to give the council and the committee a better feeling of where we are and how things have been fluctuating. Obviously, 2020 is going to be a unique situation for all of the trends, and as we've heard, a lot of the groups are probably going to end up looking at 2020 as more of a skip over a year when it comes to trending. Go ahead. As a newbie, I really like the report because it gave me a helicopter view. It gave me, I really appreciate trend lines. If you give me a number in the middle of nothing, it means not a whole lot. So I would like it going forward because it's high enough overview, and it would send a warning signal if there were trouble, so I appreciated it. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? One thing that I think we've gotten periodically since I've been on the committee, but I can't say lately that something that might be helpful would be kind of like how we're running on the budget for the various departments, maybe quarterly or at least semi-annually, to let us know if we're meeting our targets budget-wise, are we over under anything we have to look out for for the rest of the year, that type of thing would also be helpful, I think. That's why I was kind of asking at the end of the first quarter and at the end of the second quarter for information on our revenue streams. I know our revenue streams are going to be nowhere near what they were in 19, but to it give us at least some kind of an idea where we were standing so that we don't get a shock at the end of the third quarter going into finalizing the budget. You may remember Jim that we did ask Nancy Busk to do that, and she did it briefly. She would do quarterly reports. It's not that the information wasn't accurate, but I think certainly we need to be striving for the kind of reports that any of us who serve on non-profit organizations would expect from our financial folks on a monthly or quarterly basis. I understand now that that's difficult and Nancy's system was quite bespoke and so as we're moving into a more standardized kind of reporting, it's my understanding as well that the information is a little hard to get, but I think that we clearly need to have that information available. Any other comments or questions? Hearing none, I would ask for a motion to receive and forward the document to council. That was Trey, is there a second? I'll second it, Warren. Seconded by Jim. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, all in favor, state aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. The motion passes. Okie dokie, we're going to move on to 3.2, which is an ordinance amended in section 82-33 of the municipal code to modify the Department of Finance table of organizations. And Marty, are you going to take that, Todd? Yeah, I can start. Todd probably will add to it and possibly even Vicki, but as the changes that were made to section 82-33 where City Administrator has a bit more autonomy to be able to add positions when needed, this was a identified area of support that's needed for the finance department with the awareness of policies and procedures lacking, which were identified in the CLA assessment, the audit findings that have occurred, and the action plan that was put together with that, the SKA's, as I call them, skills, knowledge, and abilities. I stole that acronym from a very intelligent individual that certainly I'm going to use it frequently. Finance department is definitely in need of some growth and training and knowledge along those same lines. We have technology shortfalls both on the software side, but also on the training and implementation of what we need to do to become more efficient. Functioning in an AS-400 legacy system and Munis is not ideal to get off that AS-400 is going to take not only software conversion time, but training and resources to be able to put modules such as park and rec into place or project management into place or our loans, which business and personal loans are being tracked on spreadsheets AS-400 and sort of reconciled into our ERP Munis, which it needs to all get into Munis so that it can be using the efficiencies built into the software to reconcile automatically and then not spending a lot of staff time kind of chasing the dollar. The capital assets are a significant undertaking that are all being done on very archaic inefficient spreadsheets creating significant amount of staff time at year end to try to bring them close awareness of inaccuracies definitely are being recognized within the audit process. So there's just projects upon projects and much of it is foundational and or historic and so it's trying to develop what's going to be a good process going forward without all the tools yet in place and in order to accomplish all of these different areas of need the awareness and assessment of of CLA saying it's difficult to probably accomplish all of that with the existing structure make up and staff would be difficult. So the need and discussion that has taken place with myself Todd and Vicki this account in three is you know something that we discussed we've already revised all the other job position responsibilities which will be communicated and working with the staff to bring together a longer term plan and making sure that we can be held accountable to those those tasks all getting done. I would appreciate your thoughts before we open for questions. Yep, no, thank you. Thank you chair as you guys as the committee should know obviously according to section 82 the city administrator does have the the ability to make changes to the table of organization the reason we're bringing it forward though is it's it's my responsibility as well as our department heads to find ways to make improvements and in the short period of time that I've been in this position working with Marty and Vicki looking at the human human resources department as well as the finance department it has been determined significantly that before we can actually make improvements within these departments whether it's through job descriptions job processes and training we need additional horsepower in that department. I'm not going to go into depth on the deficiencies and things like that because you guys have read the report there's also additional information that was not covered in the report and I'm asking for support of the committee and the council that we are allowed to fill this position so that we can address the additional changes that need to be done within this area of focus. Presently we've already met or we are meeting with different people within this department just like it was done in the human resource department and what will happen is these the employees will be looking at their job descriptions the changes the cross training that's going to be addressed we will be identifying any training needs and while this is happening we're looking to bring in an accountant three so that we can speed things up as far as training deficiencies and in positions and processes and basically as I call it start filling the holes in the boat so that we can get reporting done quickly and accurately because we all know that there's been some deficiencies so I'm again asking that this this position be supported by the committee and the council so that we can expedite expedite the improvements that are needed and again as an example AS 400 if we stay on the course that we're on it'll be you know three to five years before we get off of it by bringing in this this position it also it allows us more horsepower to get off of these systems and get them on to munis very quickly. If you have any questions please let me know. Questions for either Todd or Marty? Jim? Thank you. I'm looking at the document now we're going to be deleting the accounts payable purchasing assistance is that eliminating the position of the person that recently retired? Yeah, thank you Alderbaran. The accounts payable assistant retirement was a component of this kind of I guess restructure between HR and finance the position was filled as a office services admin services clerk two we had previously had an admin services clerk one created about probably about a year ago and we felt creating another admin services clerk two whose emphasis was on accounts payable and some of the purchasing related items it gave us a little bit better structure and succession planning so to speak and coverage clarity that position now they'll reports through human resources both the office service or admin services clerk positions do and then all the accountants now report through finance so one used to be on HR and we kind of group them so that they'd all be within either finance or HR so office or admin services clerks are HR and accountants are finance is that is that clerk two in the salary range of F as in Frank as the as the as the one we're deleting Vicki informs me that that is a salary grade E as an elephant okay and then the the new position which I support but just asking a question about the salary under under Emma's and Mary the range on that is from 64,147 and the maximum on that on that M is 86,819 I suppose where we start on that on that salary range Emma's gonna depend on the on the candidate that we interview for that position or do we usually try to start in Q2 or Q3 or what's our thinking on that Jim this is Vicki Schneider I can speak to that the policy for the city has been to bring in individuals generally in quartile one and again assessing the the individuals assets and their experience that that could be that person could be brought in at a higher quartile that discussion is meant to be had with human resources and with the city administrators so that that's not it's not a unilateral one-person decision to make that okay so it looks like it looks like we'll be picking up additional salary in the HR department but then is it going to be somewhat lesser about a wash because there's about a there's about a $20,000 difference actually $25,000 difference between F as in Frank and M so this is an additional position for the finance department so with the AP purchasing clerk that person did move over that level F went to a pay grade E and that person had that position is moved over all right thank you sure Mary Lynn I look then for a motion to recommend to the council amending that was me Mary Lynn I just wanted to add one more comment if it's okay thank you thank you chair I just to kind of expand on Alderborn's questions one of the tasks that Vicki and I are undertaking is while we're looking at job descriptions and processes we will be coming to the finance and personnel group in the near future because we will be reviewing all of the pay scales throughout all of the departments that's one of our goals to achieve this year so we're looking to make sure that everything is within basically the guidelines of the minute municipalities and make sure that the then the number of categories are accurate to what the job description and position are thank you any other questions comments then a motion to recommend to the council with the finance table what finance department table of organization be amended support so moved don't move board second Marcus very good is there any further discussions hearing none all in favor state aye aye aye aye any opposed share votes aye motion passes I notice I know rather our next meeting is August 10th do we have any quorum issues I suppose with nobody going anywhere anyhow anytime that's not as much of a problem as it used to be could I have a motion to adjourn so moved second all right we have a motion in second all in favor state aye aye aye any opposed share votes aye we are adjourned thank you all


Today we're opening the first legendary collection versus the fourth legendary collection. What's up guys we're back with another epic video and today we have the first and the fourth legendary collections as I mentioned we have not opened this one in a while pretty excited to open that one but first we have to give away I'll be giving away this Genesis Impact first edition booster box all you have to do is like this video be subscribed turn on notifications and let me know in the comments who you think will win the first legendary collection or the fourth all right guys let's hop right into this let's do legendary collection joey's world first because we do have the potential of LOB packs and we'll be we're gonna get an LOB pack but like blue eyes poles and stuff like that in the other one so let's start off here this is a pretty awesome collection though as you guys have seen many a time we have opened this versus another legendary collection and joey's world is usually pretty successful but at like winning these things so let's see if we can pull some amazing secretaries this time as well all right inside we get our promos as usual the blue flame swordsman very very cool looks awesome I think there's five packs in this one so pretty cool because like the kyber one only has three so it's not as many to open so five packs pretty exciting first pack of legendary collection four can they beat the original legendary collection with all those old school packs inside we're about to find out this is not opening very well there we go can we pull something amazing we have oh a twin barrel dragon right off the bat that's pretty cool there's some pretty good commons in here I think as well might be you use world that they're really good gilford we gotta believe monster this is a secret rare in retro pack one I know that's insane by the way I have one for silent tcg player if you're interested all right twin barrel dragon very nice metal zoa very cool a jurago mo pretty awesome oh oh we were excellent specialed at what is it back there so we have red eyes zombie dragon what is this next one the gates of the dark world very cool I think that actually has a little bit of value next one is it gonna be a super rare oh no it's the secret rare book of moon okay this is a pretty nice version if you don't want to go all in on the cp version or something like an ultimate rare you can get this secret rare version a lot cheaper and then baby dragon also another pretty good pull a super rare version that's actually pretty sick that's a good start to the first pack legendary collection for joey's world let's see if we can get any of those joey text cards if you know what I mean like where it's his text the text is in his voice I should say it's which I don't if you don't know what I mean you'll see if we can find it that would be great so we have uh oh maybe this was it yeah all right so we got the anthrosaurus this man like dinosaurs got a high IQ even though he's lacking in the strength department kind of like you as if you had a high IQ nah all right let's see that's maybe maybe it was all right okay hybrid hammerhead so as if you see that it's in his accent which is pretty hilarious the legendary fisherman pretty awesome labyrinth walls are pretty epic card from the anime always really cool to see that one the genzo very cool grave keeper stelae so another grave keeper card pretty cool no wait no that was that was dark world last time all right what's this one mystical space typhoon secret rare that's an amazing printing of this and an elegant ego test and then a fiber jar is a common weight does that have value I don't remember that being in here that's actually pretty sick this seems like a pretty decent star for joey's world so far some pretty amazing pulls let's see what pack number three can do we're only 40 into the opening of the joey's world so okay that opened like crazy sorry pack we didn't mean destroy you like that but that's just how it goes fiber jar being a common's actually pretty sick black pendulum pendant pendant that's pendulum this is not not what we're talking about gear free the iron knight oh here we go is it another one this big old guy with a big old lie shoots a nasty ray beam right at you me otoko I don't remember him ever using this it also has like a flat top which is pretty funny beast of tall war pretty awesome beige vanguard of dark world there's another dark world card okay and sabersaurus if you're gonna play those vanilla dinos this is classic dino rabbit strats right here and then a super rejuvenation pretty cool version when that actually went up for about five seconds and server night dragon is the common's pretty cool as well two more packs until we get into the original legendary collection all right uh oh we get another one we get another joey got the sword slasher all right no it's not that's not a joey card actually unfortunately we got a bearable dragon we got the malevolent mech goku in I don't remember that card from this set sword slasher just looks like it because it's a vanilla but it's also just an old school card dice reroll for joey very nice he gets a reroll which he doesn't ever need because he just rolls and gets it every time vampire lord of a genzo yet again as a rare what can we get is the ultra monster reborn okay ultra rare we're pulling some pretty nice stuff out of here okay what's the secret rare gonna be so far two for two on good ones let's see what this one is no two for three oh escape go wow another good one and another super rejuvenation okay scapegoat that's a big hit so we're pulling a lot of nice dm old school cards in secret rare version this is a very nice legendary collection so far I'd say it's doing pretty well now we have one more pack and then we get into the original legendary collection let's do this fairy meteor crush the premature burial just a common very nice he know tomma inflict 500 damage to your opponent very useful people use that all the time the skull stalker all right foot foist he's gonna grab you monster with his claws didn't get it didn't I can't even do this did attack against with his poison stinger then attack again with his poison stinger foist he's gonna grab foist all right I love it lesser fiend all right brawn mad king of dark world I'm laughing way too much in this episode very nice what's the secret rare gonna be oh trap could it be solemn judgment oh it's a wrench oh that might be even be better okay torrential tribute secret rare this might be one of the best joey's world we've ever opened overpowering eye and harpy lady let's just look at these real quick all right all in one monster reborn book of moon secret rare mystical space siphon secret scapegoat secret and torrential tribute secret rare one box that's gonna be tough to beat all right guys next up the original legendary collection taking on an extremely difficult task right now after that insane like just insane polls right there especially nostalgia version like crazy good let's see what we can get from the alleged the allegedly legendary collection that's what I'm trying to say but wait 50% of you guys are not subscribed to the channel according to this graph so go down below and click that subscribe button okay inside we get our five packs very nice our six packs sorry plus we get this pack of promos which is all of the cards in the mystery greater box they're all from this pack of promos every single one you can get is in this pack so uh yeah not exactly the best mystery greater box now we have six packs so there is a pack advantage here there's one extra pack so will that help they're gonna need all the help they can get because right now the first one is insane like legendary collection joey's world was insane let's see if we can do anything to at least battle a skill drain would be huge it would go a long way here just a regular rare we got ultra for tribute guardian elma mustering of dark scorpions the arch fiends roar pandemonium watch bear will this dark crisis provided so something amazing gakugai or panda the dark bishop arch fiend and the cat kotatsu there's no skill drain yeah okay yeah not the best start what are we gonna go with next i think spell ruler spell ruler we need some luck here guys we need to pull something amazing because right now they're way far behind they're gonna need a huge pull there's a lot of potential in these old packs though october sir or october sir whatever you know you'd like the monthly version then there you go performance disorder you got the slot machine the weather report hungry burger whipped tail crow very nice the reliable guardian karate man and tune world super rare there we go there's a hit something pretty decent a tune world super rare goes well with all those dm stables that they pulled i don't know if it's enough to actually win it it's definitely not let's say let's go invasion of chaos now i think can we get that big secret rare can we get that blacklist or soldier ultra rare that would be cool as well any of those are very helpful griffin's feather duster too bad it's not harpy's feather duster the big koala mind you of the 10 000 hands there we go it got another like two reprints recently but still has some value ojama black we got the stealth bird salty gray primal seed the robin zombie and here we go will it be something epic the inferno so no it won't be three packs to go ferro servant let's go come on ferro servant let's pull something amazing genzo it's been a while since we pulled the genzo deep sea warrior the key to tie drill bug gambling he's gambling kind of like we are with children's cards here we go earth shaker gradius very nice a high-performance jet fighter with power capsules for variable attack capabilities very nice cold wave good card shift all right will this shift in our favor when we pull an epic card here we go eye of truth and the eye of truth says no you're gonna lose no two packs to go we're saving metal raiders for the end legend blue eyes white dragon will it be the blue eyes white dragon dark magician red eyes black dragon exodia all those cards would be insane here we go we need any of them to come back still ogre grotto number one the fire grass he's grasping he's also fire doesn't work in pokemon we've got the ray and simpature sandstone umi urabi forest our ninja okay that's the rare and final card will this be it uh-oh monster reborn so not only do we pull ultra rare monster reborn in joey's world but we pull monster reborn in legend of blue eyes okay so this one's first edition but this one also came out like 15 years later so this one is still cooler unlimited legend of unlimited unlimited legend of blue eyes monster reborn that's actually a sick card wow okay that's a great pull so that means metal raiders you have a chance you've got a shot to win this pull something amazing you know what's a really good card out of here now change of heart it is now worth a ton of money so if we could pull change of heart out of here it would be insane let's go let's do this it's probably probably the most expensive garden here now let's go ancient brain feel the pain ancient brain protector of the throne king of a yummy makai thunder dragon that's worth a little bit of money okay that's something so pulling decent out of these old packs actually the big guy the germ infection i'm not going to mention any names water amotic sorry it's got a shirt on very nice canon soldier that's just a regular rare after this card is where we find out who will win the battle will it be change your heart will it be a secret rare gate guarding will it be someone's go will it be be skull dragon let's go oh it's just the little swordsman of ale so it looks like it's probably going to be the newer one but at this point pretty good legendary collections if you guys enjoyed this video make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this shout out to tcg trust your cards to info show tomato juice thainley 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