Okay, we'll call the meeting to order This is the third of our committee the whole meetings. We'll have roll call first and wangaman 16 here Oh, excuse excuse. Sorry. Sorry Bowers Decker Gisha here Hanna here. There's a surprise Heidemann here cat Kittleson, thank you Clayunas here Montemay or excused rindflesh excused suric Vanderweal Voo wangaman I believe one two three four five six seven eight nine ten We have a floor so I'm on the property, but I Has to be excused for 10 minutes. Okay, and contract. Thank you very much. We will wait turn Okay, we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance. Everyone stand, please I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands One nation under God and indivisible with liberty and justice for all Bit of a time crunch today, and I appreciate everybody coming here for this. This is a presentation on the IT from the IT consultant, Mr. Andy Palki He's going to give us his overview on where we are with the IT situation And we also have the finance director to Erie Hansen here who's on vacation but came in for this meeting so we appreciate that and We hope to have time for questions. So we're gonna ask Andy to move things along as much as he can Andy, take it away. All right. Thank you very much Use the microphone It's on television Minutes have been approved and second moved and seconded to be approved all in favor This July 21st. Thank you very much Okay, can you hear me? Yeah. Yes. All right. My name is Andy Palki I'm the IT consultant that was hired to look at your IT organization to figure out where to go with it I have spent the last two months or so doing various things to that end. I have some High-level recommendations which I need the council to understand approve because the Recommendations that we're going to come after are sort of within scope of that And so if the council doesn't want us to go this direction We need to you know the recommendations that we give you from this point forward will change So this is I'm going to speed this thing up a little bit First of all, we have to look at what an IT what should an IT department do an IT department is supposed to provide the following services Consulting project management software development training support and preventative maintenance These are all things that we should be doing So just briefly let's go over what those things are consulting. What is it consulting provides advice in a wide range of IT related topics? Including identifying business needs Recommending the most appropriate solution to meet those needs Developing a strategy to ensure the ongoing operation of the organization. This is called institutionalization And planning for system failures backup and recovery Project management project management is the discipline of planning Organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of a specific project goals and objectives Project management is an entire field of study. That's important project managers make sure the process keeps moving and that milestones are met Project managers make sure the individual contributors who may report to different people are doing what they're supposed to be doing Project managers measure and report on progress. They let you know early that a project is in trouble while you still have time to do something about it That's important. You don't want to wait till the near the end of the project and go Oh my gosh, we're in trouble The report whole point of milestones is to find out early that you're in trouble when you have time to adjust a Project manager will ensure the successful outcome of the project Software development. What is it software development produces a computer application to solve a business need? Software is written in a particular programming language such as cobalt basic or C sharp Most of our custom applications here at the city were written in cobalt, which is one of the oldest programming languages There are software development is expensive. So we don't want to do it unless we have to Training very simply training provides hands-on instruction and how to use the solution to fulfill a business need Support support is needed to fix systems that are not working as designed Fixed problems the user has created via some mistake. They made Support can include small enhancements to correct design flaws or to meet business needs not previously identified Support is commonly managed via a help desk, which we don't have Preventive maintenance preventive maintenance includes installing software patches that fix known problems It includes installing software updates to retain vendor support often times if you have old software and you call the vendor for help They'll say what version are you running? Well, we're running version 2. Sorry. We don't support that anymore So we have to you have to keep up to date with software to get vendor support Preventive maintenance includes cleaning hardware devices such as printers and desktop computers and most importantly It should be done regularly on our time to avoid installing updates during a crisis Which can lead to further problems that you didn't know about so you want to preventive maintenance Not when it's app becomes absolutely necessary, but when it's an opportune time to do so Okay, so again These are the kinds of things that it should be providing to the various different departments in the city at 50,000 feet we have two problems One is that there's a huge gap in what we should be providing these items over here Versus what we are actually providing and I sort of faded them off to the Relative percentage so the fact that you can't read this thing. That's a software development is because we don't do a whole lot of it And project management we do almost none We're doing very little of any of this stuff. We're really spending all of our time is doing support Just break fix break fix break fix little support kind of items. No projects. No consulting No, not much training. No preventive maintenance. We're just not doing it okay, so We spend very little time understanding the needs of each department as a result Our consulting is limited to a small amount of product research done occasionally and only by request We do not have a business analyst to do this kind of work We have not managed projects for a long time several years at least we do not have a project manager For the last few years our software development has been all support and maintenance No new applications have been built no significant additions to existing applications have been delivered. We're just not doing it Our focus over the last several years has been on support which has consumed most of our resources Preventive maintenance is often deferred which means it's not getting done and one reason for the gap is that the number of IT Resources has been shrinking while the amount of technology we're using in all departments has been growing Usually as the departments adopt new technology and reduce staff There is some incremental in increase in the IT department to support that new technology That's not happening. It's going the opposite direction So many of the complaints Departments have today and I've talked to all of them with IT are due to this gap in service That means that closing the gap will reduce the complaints However, it will not eliminate all complaints to eliminate all the complaints We need a shift in thinking about what IT is and what it isn't in other words. We need a new business model The IT department needs to think of itself as a service organization helping departments as customers Fulfill their IT needs in a supportive slash consulting role. Some people will say this is what we are This is what we do. Well, it's not really true when I got here. There was definitely a With all good intentions it wasn't done out of malice or anything like that with good intentions The IT department more thought of themselves more as an authority an authority over the computer systems that everybody uses You know, we control it to where the authority Which has led to some problems The IT should not think of itself as the controller of all information technology It should advise its customers on what to purchase, but the customer makes the final decision That customer by the way usually a department head is accountable to the mayor on their decision So it doesn't have to be IT. There will be accountability. It just won't be from the IT department The IT department should advise the city on what policy should be adopted to prevent wasteful spending and to avoid Unnecessary problems across all departments. However, this should not be should not be IT department policies These are city city policies for example One of the things today is that there are no people in departments that have admin access to their computer That's to prevent them from installing software. That's the city doesn't know about that's not necessarily a bad policy But it should not be an IT policy. It's a city policy We just implement it slight shift in thinking but very important because of this credibility problem that IT has Because of this authoritarian kind of attitude The mayor and the common council should seek opinion of the IT department before approving specific IT expenditures This is important You know one of the pushbacks you'll get from the people in IT is that we need to be of the authority to make sure that money isn't wasted That was the department has don't go around the IT department go to the council ask for money for something Which they really shouldn't be doing so the simple way to solve that problem is just to simply make sure that the council knows that if you're asked to provide Approval on a specific IT expenditure that the natural question you should ask is well What did IT say and if IT says it's a good idea? Well, then you're sort of now moving on to well Is it a good use of money if IT says it's not a it's not a recommended way we would do it then it's like okay Wait a minute. We need to understand the IT department's perspective on this problem And maybe look at it a little deeper, okay? That'll be sufficient to head off wasteful spending on you know people that just asked for stuff And maybe don't quite know what they're doing Department should pay for the IT direct for IT directly out of their budgets The city as a whole should pay for IT services like consulting that it needs all departments to have Okay, and that's because if you make the departments pay for IT directly out of their budgets They might tend to short circuit things like getting good advice because they want to save money which in the end costs money So it's not completely an IT each department pays for all IT services The city should probably pay for some of that as the IT department should be paying for some of the work that I'm going to talk About later in these slides, but for the most part the departments control the dollars. They control the decisions They're accountable for how it's spent Okay, so the vision of what IT should be Looking at these two Recommendations that I'm making these two problems that I see the vision for IT is that the IT department should become a service Organization not an authority helping departments as customers fulfill their IT needs in a supportive consulting role This means that in the future departments We want them to prefer to use the in-house IT services because we will get we don't have it now But we will get a reputation for successful outcomes and low cost This will only be possible if the IT department does the following obtains a thorough knowledge of the city's business We have to understand the business in order to recommend the right technology to meet those business needs That's like seems really obvious, but we don't Maintain experience with today's mainstream and proven technologies build the track record managing projects Which we don't do incorporate training into all projects Build the track record of providing timely support and we need to make sure we have an income stream to pay for maintenance So that it gets done Okay, so this is the vision today your IT department has no vision I asked somebody what their vision was and they're like well somebody had said well Yeah, we do and so what what is it? Well, they didn't really couldn't really say what it was So if you don't know what the vision is, do you really have one? You know a piece of paper in a drawer doesn't quite isn't quite cut it So let's look at the vision that I've outlined here and how we stack up today The IT department should be a service organization not an authority helping departments as customers fulfill their IT needs and a supportive consultant role today Currently, there is no clear direction on this the IT staff is confused on their role as an authority And this has created an unhealthy tension between IT and some departments, which has greatly damaged their credibility Really, that's very true In the future again part of our vision in the future city department should prefer to use in-house IT services because of the reputation for successful Outcomes and low cost today quite honestly many departments feel stuck with IT IT manages few if any projects and has not accumulated any track record therefore a reputation for successful outcomes has not been achieved So we're not there IT should obtain a thorough knowledge of the city's business Today business knowledge within the department has not been maintained For example when Margie left no knowledge was transferred to any other business analyst all that knowledge was gone The staff remain the staff that remains does not have the time nor the directive to reacquire that knowledge and the department does not have a dedicated business analyst IT should maintain experience with today's mainstream improvement technologies today the city uses a fair number of mainstream technologies IT has the still and they have the skills to support them the biggest problem in their technology set is that We run all of our wind our desktops run Microsoft Windows But we have little if any ability to develop applications for Windows most of our applications are done in cobalt Which run on an AS 400? Okay, so we're really running and screen screen emulators to an AS 400 the desktop really provides no value in that particular situation Part of our vision IT should all the track record managing projects currently IT has managed very few projects in the last several years and therefore has not accumulated any track record a reputation for successful outcomes has not been achieved We're just not doing any project management at all really at all I T should incorporate training options in all projects training currently training should be part of the project plan since IT Has not managed it manage any projects it is not delivered training consistently and I heard that over and over again from departments We want training, but we haven't done it consistently. We have done some but just not consistently Okay, so any new project where you're putting a new technology part of the project plan has to be well Where's the training coming from? Now to be honest with you with training Recognize that most training should be outsourced since the need for training is temporary and rather uneven if you bring in a New camo software for your cessers department They have a need for training on that camo software, but that needs temporary It's when we get it in we need to know how to use it once we've used it for a year or six months You know it we know it so we don't need any more training So it's really best done by the app the person who created the application the vendor who created the application And it really should be outsourced. There's no point. We don't have enough stuff that we need to have people in House worried about training The departments that use the application on a day-to-day basis i.e. the assessor department should be maintaining that knowledge gained by such training So as their employees come leave and then new ones come in they should be responsible for maintaining that business knowledge Future IT should build a track record of providing timely support Currently we have no method to measure this although we do spend 90% of our time providing support There is a significant gap between what our customers expect and what we deliver I mean the time to forget support is often well we get to it within a week Well a week is an awful long time when somebody needs help for their computer I mean some stuff happens really quick But there's just there's a lot of support work not a lot of people and we have no way we have no help desk We're not measuring anything so there's a gap between what they expect and what we deliver. It is what it is, right? Future IT needs an income stream to pay for maintenance The city as a whole has built up a lot of information technology over the years at the same time The IT department shrunk we talked about that less resources it means less is getting done and choices had to be made about what gets done What does not here's the kicker departments don't complain about preventative maintenance not getting done unless there's a problem Which means maintenance is deferred which means departments aren't going to pay for it Which means it won't get done and that's why there has to be some sort of separate income stream Not necessarily paid for the departments maybe To make sure that this preventative maintenance gets done on our time not when it becomes a crisis So a summary of how we stack up to fulfill our new vision IT needs to see itself as a service provided with the various Departments as our customers we need to expand the services to meet all of our customer needs which is means doing more than just support Our current situation is no accident We've been had we have years of deferred investment and a lack of vision has resulted in a department that has only resources to focus on support If nothing has changed Problems will accumulate as we continue to defer investment in IT eventually the city will reach a point where a massive overhaul is needed at an Inopportune time and this is going to have a high price tag, so we don't want it to get that far Okay, so Any questions so far 19 minutes. I got 11 minutes left So the recommended change number one rebuild the IT department by adopting the business model of a for-profit IT service Accept run it at cost. This means the IT department should view itself as a business with 27 clients the city being one the 22 Departments and four other outline municipalities that we service with the needs of our clients taking front and center stage The reason why I'm recommending this is that this model this for-profit business model We'll provide the guiding principles of how to address aspects of how we should do business How do we respond to a situation will be dictated by this? It will provide both the IT staff and the clients with a clear direction on what the role of IT is and what authority they have This in turn will alleviate the tensions that exist between IT and other departments, which will greatly improve our credibility Okay, so we need to have the IT department needs to if the IT department is a Third-party for-profit business. We don't come in and tell you how to run We don't tell you what you can do with that computer. We don't tell we're not an authority. We're a consultant We provide recommendations. We provide options option a this would recommend option B There's another recommendation. We don't think it's as good because of whatever reason So we try to influence you without having any authority over you, which I think is a better business model than what we have today Recommend recommend a change number two We need to give the IT department the means to provide all of these services right now We only have the means to provide support So this other stuff isn't going to get done if we Means to do this this means and it's not it's going to be that I think this is going to be the hardest thing for the council to Swallow quite honestly is that at a time where we're talking about budget cuts and saving money now I'm coming to you and saying we need to spend more on IT because we've deferred this investment and our IT group is shrinking But we're trying to bring in more technology that needs more IT people to manage I mean that we're going in the opposite direction. Okay, so that's that's going to be the toughest part We're to find the money for it So how will this change things the IT department will expand to include if we follow these two recommendations The IT department will expand to include services. We are not providing today, but we should be The IT staff will be focused on servicing the needs of our clients not dictating to them It will eliminate all of today's common complaints The city will move forward again to become an effective user information technology Okay, now I'm going to stop here for a minute because we only have nine more minutes and the rest of this just gets in More detail, but I guess the the the reason why I wanted to bring this to the council the IT department has seen this The IT steering committee has seen this the department heads have seen this Okay, they all agree that this is these are sort of high level. This is where we need to go but the important thing that you need to understand about this is that the recommendations that are forthcoming like hiring a business analyst is going to cost money and if you don't Buy into this vision or if you want me to go to another direction I need to know that because otherwise the work I do from this point forward is going to be going down the wrong path okay, so So skipping past all this stuff So what we're going to be doing as IT as a service organization is understanding who our customers are Understanding their needs Assembling the right people with the right skills to meet those needs This is what you would do if you were starting an IT for profit business This is what these are the things that you'd be doing have a written agreement with each client Including a statement of what we will and will not do for them I am working on this right now And I'm using that to collect the backlog of project work that I have to give you on August the 14th Okay, so in other words, we haven't been managing any projects. There's a huge list There's a huge backlog of project work that hasn't been done that you know we've wanted to do for many years and One of the ways I'm getting that is is by going through these client agreements So I have an IT service agreement with every different every department sets expectations What we're going to do and what they're going to get Provide the service get paid measure results Recognize reward people for outstanding performance and then revisit this every year when you look at okay Who our customers are what are their needs? We have to we have to change their needs change We have to look at the people that we have the right people still these client agreements are going to be done Over every year there'll be a service agreement in place for every client done for a one-year period of time and Obviously provide service get paid, etc Okay, so I'm going to kind of zip through this stuff here These are kind of this is I want to show you this because this is We talked about assembling the right people, you know, we need a department manager. Yes But we also need a business analyst or business analysts. I don't know how many yet We need project managers these people have Very specific set of skills that are needed to provide these services. We need web windows AS 400 developers today All we have is AS 400 developers no web no windows We need testers network administrators, which we have hardware technicians we have Okay written agreement, I'm working on providing service getting paid measuring results, okay Performance measurements outlining client agreements We got to be held accountable to make sure that we have and we want to make sure we have measurable results So help desk response time time to resolution client satisfaction team performance measures These are some of the things that we'll put in place when we run a for-profit IT organization kind of business Okay, so Where we go from here? I need you to approve these two recommendations or give me a new director These recommendations will allow us to provide the services. We will be forthcoming with more specific requests based on this vision If if you're okay with the direction we're going okay, so I got six minutes for questions Okay, any questions from the Okay All the person Kailson first thanks chairman Andy how long do we have you how long are you here with me? I will be fired at the end of the year Okay, so we have until the end of the year to yes to keep rolling along with obviously and the other quit Who are our customers you flip? There are the city is one of them there are 22 departments, and we do actually work for other cities. Did you handle it? Yes, there's four outlying cities There's a swim at Kohler. There's four that we're actually providing IT services for Thank you. That's interesting for them. Okay Thank you We actually have a contract in place with all these municipalities The fee schedule and the whole thing problem is the hours have never been tracked that has been work has been done And they've never been billed since 2002 We're now in the process of at least starting to build them from the beginning of 2009 I don't think it's fair to go back to 2002 Older man Hannah. Thank you. What is the current IT budget? Terry Yeah, 565 I Don't know yet. How many of these other people we I know we need someone to do project management I know we need a business analyst. I don't know how many of those we need yet That's what I'm working through this backlog of projects and project lists. Yeah, so I will have that answer for you in my next presentation Alderman Heinemann thank you chairman when you're mentioning project just give me an idea of what the project is Okay, okay. Well, you have you have Support work, which is you know, I have a request for something. That's a short period of time My computer is printer printer isn't feeding correctly or something. It's very short support break fix kind of stuff A project is a larger deliverable. It's delivering some piece of functionality that you don't have today It's not fixing something. It's so for example implementing munis would be a project. It would have very specific deliverables Implementing. I know that for example building inspections wants a program to do Housing inspections. All right from start to finish. That would be a project Alderman Bowers Oh I disconnected it What program We have we have been providing IT services to outlying communities like four of them for Oh, well the billing sort of fell off the cliff in 2002 Yes I'm sorry, not seven. There was a list of roles that we needed. We need a project manager We need a business analyst. I don't I'm not at the point where I can tell you how many we need We have none Yes, we have no business analyst and we have no project managers. There was seven different roles. Yes Well, we already have we already have hardware technician we have a network administrator we have an AS front of developer We have a department manager sort of But we don't these two roles here are our Big roles that we don't have some of the stuff my Recommendation might be on some of the stuff that we're gonna outsource some of it like for example web development Maybe we can share with a county's web developer. Maybe we know something. Maybe we don't do the development house I don't know that yet, but I know that we need these roles Yes Correct Yes Yes I Not sure what you mean by salvage Not sure what he did in his last days Well, I'm look what I did was I looked at What I started with what we have I'll just go back to this slide This is the kinds of stuff that an IT organization should be providing and then I looked at how much of this stuff Are we doing and I looked for concrete examples of where are we managing projects? We take the munis project for example, did we really do project management on munis? Well answers. No, we didn't and And you know, we're not doing this. This is where we're spending our time So I can see and I can Approximately where the time is being spent what kind of service are providing and I'm very confident that we're spending all our time on support And not doing at the detriment of the rest. Yes Correct Alderman Hannah Thank you So the will there are potentially opportunities To share and certain some of these functions with the county Yes That for example, there's two I could think off top of my head They have a part-time web developer who could use some more work and they have a help desk Which we don't have now I'm not to the point where I can recommend using their help desk We are currently developing a list of Requirements for a help desk that we would create and then we can take that list of requirements and look at what the county has and say Does it match up what we don't want to do is look at a particular solution and then go well Gee it does this this and this. Yeah, that's what we want because then you miss you You're you're skewed towards looking at what it does You know the bright shiny light kind of thing and then you're not seeing what it doesn't do so you need to develop Independent of any solution what you what your requirements are and then match it up. So we're doing that right now Okay, I'll do all the person can't Thank You madam chair because I'd like to read this again. Yes, is there a way I could have this email sure thing I'm in our hard copy. Yep sure Where do you want me to send I'll send it to? Somebody said you can send it to the city clerk and she can get it out to us sue. Yes, okay So I'll send it to sue asking her to forward to every copy everybody. Yep All the person gives you your microphone. Thank you And I'm glad you mentioned outsourcing because I I see Project manager and business analysts would seem to be the two highest things on your list of needs Plus all the other stuff we do and it seems to me We would be creating something that already potentially exists just by contract There's companies all over the place that do this well much of this would be city employees and how much would be? Yes, okay, I don't think you can outsource I would not I'll tell you the tasks. I wouldn't wouldn't be on my top of my list outsource and that would be the project management and the business Analyst you can outsource Building of specific pieces. I'm sure one of my recommendations is going to be buy where you can build where you have to and and then when you talk about build where you have to maybe opportunities to Reduce costs by doing things like sharing the cost with another municipality not the county Okay, but their municipalities are more in common with us than the county has with us So for example, let's say we need new building permit slash licensing slash Inspection software and that the market for that kind of software is pretty weak. There's not a lot of good players Okay, well, we would say geez in order to meet our requirements. We'd have to build that well before we do that What we do is go and visit talk to other municipalities like Pleasant Prairie City, West Alice other similar communities and say You know, do you need new building permit software? Oh, yes, we do by the way So let's go in together and and share that costs So there is a lot of opportunity to share costs with other municipalities probably more so than there is with the county But certainly if we can buy something you get a lot more bang for your buck than if you build something Sometimes you have to build but I would say that of those of those things That project management and the business analyst is not something to outsource software development is something we can outsource training Is definitely something we can outsource Preventive maintenance not so much support not so much but the development part in the training part definitely are high high Thank You madam chair Andy when you've been going around talking to the various departments What are the skill levels of the city employees as far as even basic computer skills? I've heard something but I want you to confirm it. Well, I am surprised that we have Microsoft Outlook as our Calendaring package and I'm surprised at how many people don't use it so I'm not sure why that is but I On my IT service contract that I have with them with the various departments that I've already visited a good number of them have Microsoft Outlook training as the one thing that they need training on I I have not assessed the individual skills of individual employees in terms of their ability to use a computer use office use windows use But I would certainly say that there is a because we do run windows here And we do have office here which includes Outlook that there ought to be some basic competency in those Technologies, there's no reason why they shouldn't have that skill if there's somebody who works on a computer And if they don't have it we need to get them that Thank you. Yeah The any other questions? I think this is a lot to chew on and All the person kid also Just Andy just reiterate to us you are looking from this from the council for what what are you looking for from I'm looking For you to tell me good or go forward or don't go forward on these recommended changes and that is Rebuilding the department as a with under this sort of third-party business for profit kind of thing this is how we operate this is how we behave and secondly to Give us additional resources that we need the means that we need to provide all of these services So if you don't think that we need all of these services, then you'd say okay, you know We don't need you doing consulting or we don't need you doing preventative maintenance or whatever that is But these are the things I'm recommending that we should be doing and we're not so I need to build it up And as well and we don't really have a dollar amount of resources at this time That's right And I will be forthcoming with specific recommendations on how to get here But I don't want to go on that path if you're like, you know, we're thinking something completely different I want you to know where where I'm coming from when I give you these recommendations that are will be forthcoming in the next several weeks Thank you So just I understand then with the mud there's no money on the table right now It is it is the concept of going ahead with more planning and you want that permission from the council You want that endorsement and they will fall they will fall inside of these recommendations So I know for example one of the things I'm going to ask you for is someone to do project management It's someone to do the business analyst and I don't know if that's one or two But we need at least I know we need at least one business analyst So now you know when I make that request, you know where it's coming from Alderman Bowers I don't know if that's a question for mr. Palki. Yeah, because he isn't involved in the billing that would be more I think finance answer The finance director Terry Hansen wants to speak a little bit and I think we maybe he can answer that question plus some other He's been working closely with Andy. So I think we need to hear his perspective from a you know city employee city department Okay, as far as I'm getting billed. I don't know but If they if they do not pay there is a contract in place to provide the services So when those services are provided now, they will be billed and if they don't pay then then we'll have to deal with the Ramifications of them not following the country will have to deal with that when we cross that if that happens I don't anticipate that they would do something like that. You know generally municipalities want to be good neighbors, so the other aspect to this on just a Financial budgeting aspect is this will put all the IT services into an internal service fund Right now we have the support that all the departments pay for their various programs Go into an internal service fund and they get billed for internet service and whatnot But this will take all of the salaries that are currently in the general fund Put them into an internal service fund and then each of the departments will be charged an IT charge And that's how that funding will happen but it's it's very important to know that we move forward with this the budget will look different and We like Andy was saying he doesn't want to go down that road if you're not comfortable with it We don't want to start budgeting that way because that'll be that we're going to be calculating different rates and whatnot So if we do not if the council is not comfortable with this We don't want to put all that effort into the budgeting and then also all of Andy's work as well too We'll be wasted so we don't want to do that without some sort of nod stating. This is what we want to do I think I understand he's looked at it and he's seen what we need to do He's not doing anything yet. And so he's showing us the picture and if we want to go ahead, you know All the person Hannah Thank You Terry as it stands now. Does this concept and direction have your endorsement? Yes, it does Give it that Yes, you may 4809-10 857 It's been moved and seconded to approve resolution 4809 10 you have a copy of it in front of you and this again is the City Council supports the recommendations of impact consultants, which is Annie Pelkey's Presentation and authorizes staff and impact consultants to develop plans to implement such recommendations So we're taking the next step if we approve this madam chair We're just recommending this to the full council for the next meeting. Yes, we're recommending it's not It but we're recommending him favorable recommendation Any other discussion All the person kill some things chairman. I think this is an excellent start. It really looks great and I Appreciate the the work here and I think now I think we're going to go down the right path and Get something organized and put it all together. Thank you very much I stole it back. Okay Alderman Gishan Thank you Andy I Know you've done you've got to give it a superficial thing here I'm on the IT steering committee along with all the prison Decker there You've done a lot of work here. You you've mapped out flows of work and so forth I just want people to think that I just kind of looked around and saw some ideas You had one particular slide. I know with this showing the work flows of the various departments and the interactions And I know you've visited with every single department head every single one of our other business partners with this And I've done more than just what you're seeing here And I didn't want people to think that you just pulled off some boilerplate presentation You can see each one of these up on the screen and he can better explain it of course than I but To come up with the final conclusions. This is some of the data. He put into it So I thought people might find that interesting Andy Or not yeah, yeah, well one of the things I had we had to do is take inventory of what we have and This diagram which doesn't fit on the screen entirely shows the departments across the top and the applications that they use in the middle and the servers and hardware pieces that that run them in the various different locations like City Hall and the police and the Meg unit would have you and Just to give you an idea the green stuff is the stuff that runs on an AS 400 and the and the blue stuff is the stuff That's you know windows kind of stuff So the previous direction was to get rid of the AS 400 in a hurry There's an awful lot of applications on green here getting rid of it in a hurry is a rather reckless approach, you know and each one of these Applications, you know provide some business function that runs that department and it has to be carefully replaced They can't just willy-nilly throw it out the window and bring in something else and we're all happy anyway Myself, thank you You know my favorite movie is dirty dancing and the bit my favorite line in there is I know Yeah, is Is when when baby's father Stands up and says when I'm wrong I say I'm wrong and I just want to go on record when we Had our previous incarnation of the IT department in its direction I was fully 100% behind it because I knew what a dinosaur we were in IT and thought this is exciting and this is great We got a let loose the hounds and And I'm saying I was wrong we let loose the hounds I think but without a plan and direction and a foundation and I was I was wrong It was right that we made the change. I think we needed to make a change in IT I'm not saying that that I think was necessary to be done But I think how we did it and and my personal support of it was a mistake I screwed up. Maybe others did. I wasn't the only vote Okay All right, I think we With I guess we have a motion and a second all in favor And he be opposed Okay, okay, we'll be going on to council for approval. So thank you very much everyone If there's a motion to adjourn second The only thing I want to mention is that we do have another meeting. This is this committee of the whole is very involved Two weeks from tonight August 18th harassment training Is mandated for all city employees. We are city employees and so human resources will be Bringing in some presenters for us to it's an hour-long presentation. I believe so I hope everyone can make that it's important for us as Right, I yes, we don't need help with that, but we need to understand the whole topic Yes Okay, so everyone August 18. 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Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself Have a coke and now Claudia Claudia will you please sit still? I'm being still mama. All I'm doing is straightening out the pictures on the wall Why must you because they're crooked, but why must you this minute because I just noticed Pictures hanging crooked make me nervous when you're making me nervous David distinctly asked me to come over here and keep you quiet I thought at the time he was asking me impossible now. I'm sure of mama There is nothing the matter with me anymore as a matter of fact. There never was might have been I Can't remain in a chair the rest of my life because there might have been something the matter with me that there isn't If it weren't that I'm counting on a grandson I'd let you walk tight rope across Niagara Falls But with only five months left to go you're going to take care of your mama.  We didn't even know each other Now that really seems long ago. There you go again not making sense Starting to feel that there never was any time before I knew David. I remember very well Too well when I was I can't even imagine any more what it would be like without David But if this past hours any example, I don't want to imagine seriously mama Is it going to get more and more like this all the time? I suppose so I hope so Never knew there would be a man like David Except he isn't just another person anymore. He's a bigger part of me than I am myself It couldn't ever be without him again not for one day That's the way you should feel dear But always with the thought that someday you might be I don't want any such thoughts Why should I David and I aren't ever going to be a part of that? That's what I said once But things turned out differently You know mama till I was married to David and never even imagined what it was like for you Now I Don't want to let's not have any of your sympathy Mrs. Norton you and I we managed fine as a matter of fact You were such a handful. I would have had time for anybody else not even a cat Say where is Shakespeare? I haven't seen him in our wherever he is. Let him be but he might need me He might have fallen in the bathtub if he has good might give him some practical ideas But he won't be able to get out besides her like ice and he'll catch cold Mommy you wouldn't want that to happen. All right. All right. You're breaking my heart I'll go and see what that cats up to thanks, but if he's sound asleep and nothing's happened to him I'll never forgive him David I'll answer you don't have to ring again here. I am made it almost Hello, David I suppose I knew it was you by the ring of course. Oh Was a nice tweety ring Mama. Oh mama's in the bathtub with Shakespeare No, how would I know what she's doing there? Oh, here's mama now. Mama. It's David. Where was Shakespeare asleep in the sun on David's bed? Hello, David Yes, darling. I'll be good. Why don't you be home in a little while of this wonderful? I miss you Terribly say bring home a half pint of cream What's that? Yeah, but hold on doesn't that husband of yours have anything more important to do than talk to you on the phone? What is more important mama? Roger just came in David had a message for him. I'm holding on while he talks Roger Roger don't go away.  She's on the phone now. Just saying goodbye to her. Oh give her my regards Hello, darling Sorry to keep you waiting Roger sends his love. That's even better than regards Fine.  It's a good sign when two people have so much to say to each other My wife and I we used to stare at each other from down a long dinner table They were the most quiet meals Where is she now Roger? As a matter of fact my eldest son has informed me that she's due in New York tomorrow We'll have one of those dinners tomorrow night. No doubt. Oh, it'll probably be a lot better than you expect I don't expect anything anymore David But tell me is Claudia still excited about the farm and impatient Roger do deeds always take so long now. Don't you start getting worried the place is as good as yours. Oh David it's going to be a good life for you and Claudia on the farm Makes me very glad for you Very sad for the rest of us. That must be Carrington now Hello Hello, Mr. Carrington. Yes, this is Norton. I'm fine and you Good good. Oh You've got them and Of the estimates all right You want to form a corporation to finance and administer? That's what I expected him to do all along. You've got a committee already fine Meetings tomorrow evening and Friday in Chicago. He certainly moves when he moves I see and you'd like me to make the presentation Well, of course, mr. Killian and I've been planning to come out Chicago We want to see the site first-hand and discuss matters further with you The Mare Yes, I can see it's pretty important for one of us to be there of course Why the mr. Killian or I will call you soon as we land Chicago Fine very kind of you mr. Carrington, but I think a hotel might be simpler Right. Goodbye Well, you heard it. He's really underway. It's great, isn't it? I still can't believe it So one of us must be in Chicago tomorrow.   I don't go in for that sort of thing board meetings and dinners and stuff But that's the part of architecture. I prefer to omit. You can't omit it. It's very important And sometimes just as exciting as it can be dull Tomorrow it should be exciting. Then why don't you go? Remember my wife in New York first time in seven months family dinner David. I can't go much as I'd like That means I know You've never spent a night apart from Claudia since you've been married I'm sorry, but no, don't be silly. We're an old married couple now Somehow I don't think Claudia thinks so David is that you none other oh David. I missed you. So It is if we got married yesterday. How do you feel otherwise? Perfect now, and I was disgustingly good all day. I didn't move out of the house I was mama in the kitchen preparing supper.  Oh, so they are. What do you know David? Are they for me?   Oh who cares about that? What else? Hey, you can't stand around holding things all night. Can't I? All right first something for you for me David. I'm nice of you. It's a surprise roses Yellow roses how beautiful I like the yellow one's best.  I can go out. Dr. Williams said so You don't have to be in bed for me to bring my wife flowers David They're so beautiful. I thought they deserved a good reason. They have a good reason. I Love you, and I always will David listen to my night. There's a Mickey Mouse at the corner theater. Can we go there? Here's a Another box for you another one for me. You sure this isn't for bluff. You're his keeper go on open it Can't imagine what it is. Oh David chocolate covered cherries. Oh, I love them. Can I eat one now? Why not? I'll have one too. Oh How delicious. Oh, I'll never be able to stop eating them Mmm David what about the Mickey Mouse tomorrow night? I think it's what I haven't heard you here is the last package And it's for Shakespeare Well, he won't mind if you open it. Oh, oh I love getting presents. Is that horrible of me? Disgraceful especially when there's no special. I mean no particular reason for getting them David it's a jigsaw puzzle as big as the dining room table. That's enormous. I'll never do it sure you will Take you exactly two days if I stay home all day, and we stay home every evening I'll get just one corner finished. Oh David you're sweet. I'll be fed and busyed for days and the roses are beautiful Why'd you bring them? I love you?  Certainly, but I know darling tonight especially You didn't have to bring me presents, but I'm glad you did then Then you know I know everything I have to know That's a relief David what about the Mickey Mouse tomorrow night to celebrate our being in love? Oh Then you don't know know what? Honestly your mystery isn't exciting tonight.  Yes, darling. I am oh Well, it can't be helped I suppose we'll wait for Mickey Mouse till Friday. I'll still love you on Friday, but I Claudia I Have to go to Chicago on business overnight over two nights You have to go you don't think I want to go to you Then don't let Roger go. He can't his wife's coming into town.  I'll wait up for you if you do darling I'm going to Chicago not Brooklyn. It's so sudden. I know I'm gonna feel like a bachelor only worse. Would you like to stay at mothers?  Please don't clean my pipes Go see Mickey Mouse and get lots of sleep. Will you oh David hold me tight? Mm-hmm That's nice. What's nice going away makes our being in love so exciting This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Miloni If you worked in a factory or an office You'd be able to step over to that familiar red cooler for a bottle of refreshing ice-cold coca-cola during work hours Housework is even more trying than outside jobs oftentimes So why not help yourself to work refreshed all you have to do is to keep plenty of coke in the refrigerator Then when you need refreshment pause drink and relax Every day Monday through Friday Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is Joe King saying on a war and remember Whoever you are whatever you do Wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of coca-cola or ice-cold coca-cola makes any pause The pause that refreshes


Hey y'all, I'm back to my channel. Today's video is going to be basically a haul of all the stuff that I got. So I just received one package from Amazon and I have a lot of stuff to go get out of my car. So I'm gonna be doing a haul first. I went shopping at online at Amazon. I went to Home Goods and at home today. And if you're new here, hey girl, my name's Akira Jenae. Don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave. So I'm gonna bring this stuff in but I just wanted to, I can't resist. Like, I just can't. Hopefully nothing's broken because I did get some glass. These are only two items. I ordered probably like nine or 10 items from Amazon. So yeah. Oh, I hope these aren't broke. Oh please, Lord, don't let them be. I don't even open stuff. This buddy down here is nosy. These are little. Watch out, this is not for you. The other ones, well, I guess that's why they were cheaper. These are smaller than the ones that I originally was gonna get. The ones I was originally gonna get were like $24 but some of them had a few bad reviews. These were kind of like hit or miss. So these are just the Ember glass soap dispensers and 16 ounces. I'll have everything linked in my Amazon cart. Hopefully these do pretty well. Some of the ones I looked at, they were like it wouldn't like screw back on but that's working perfectly and this one is working perfectly. Okay, so here are the labels that comes with it. I wanted to use these four. Not shampoo, not conditioner, not hand sanitizer. I wanted to do hand soap and dish soap. So these will be for my kitchen. I'm gonna peel these off and then stick those on here. Hopefully they don't get messed up. I don't know if these were waterproof or not. So we'll see, but I got these. And then the other thing that I got is these hat hooks. I have 11 hats. I counted last night.  I was just gonna buy the one pack but I literally have 11 hats and this only holds 10. So yeah, I got two. I'm pretty sure I will accumulate more hats soon. So these are the ones that you literally just hang on your hanger. I wanted these because I wanted to use my own hangers. I only use black velvet hangers and I wanted to be able to put this on my hanger so it can match my decor. Okay, so I may or may not have to take off my glasses because if I look up, it'll do that annoying little reflection of the ring light. So I'm gonna start with, I literally can't do that without him. I'm gonna start with showing you guys what I got from at, no, from Home Goods. I'm just gonna start with this, this is right here. I originally was gonna get like a little like coffee table centerpiece from at home but I found this one at Home Goods. I'm gonna put a picture of what I was gonna get. It was gonna be like $40 or $50 but I found this one and basically it's kind of what I wanted at first because what I was gonna get at at home was gonna be wood and this isn't wood. This one was only $16.99, that's why I did opt to get this one. It's white, it's very textured. I love the way this feels and then in the inside it has like pearls and stuff. Don't really care for that. So I'm actually gonna put, you're gonna see what I wanna do but I got this from Home Goods. All right, that one and then I'm gonna go ahead and show this. This is from Home Goods. It's a rug. It was $39.99. I was gonna try to find it at home because I had a 15% of coupon but I couldn't find one this length that was the same price because at home it's high on rugs. So yeah, this is what I got. I plan for this to go under my dining room area. So we're gonna see how this play out. If it doesn't fit or look right then obviously I'm just gonna take it back and keep searching for a different rug. One more bag full of stuff from Home Goods. This is what I got. It is the Lazy Susan. It says it's made in India. It was $24.99. Super cute. I originally wanted this to go on my island. No, anyways, I wanted this to go somewhere in my kitchen but I found like two other things. So we're gonna see. My man may not keep this. I may be taking this back because I did find some stuff at home. I did find some stuff at home. Oh my gosh. So yeah, this is this one. Super cute Lazy Susan. Definitely match the aesthetics that I'm trying to go with in my new place. The next few things I got is for my dining room area. If you watch my vlogs then you know I messed up my other little placemats. So these were $12.99 for a pack of four, 15 inch round kitchen placemats. Super cute. I'm trying to go with black, white and neutral colors. So that's obviously why I got this one. Love the material comes with four. I only need two.  And then I got these for $7.99. It's the four piece napkins. I'm gonna try to set my table like really cute, like how you see in like catalogs and stuff. So I got napkins because I'm gonna try to get a napkin holder and like fold these really cute instead of just having placements out. I also got more coasters. I think I was talking about buying more coasters in my vlog. So these are the ones I got. They were $6.99, really, really heavy. They match my other set slightly. These are Marvel. I think my cousin, Dinah, she got me these for either my birthday or Christmas one time. So yeah, I wanted to stick with the Marvel. And this is the last like kitchen related thing I got. It's just a soap dispenser dish brush set for $7.99. I had one of these saved on Amazon. The one on Amazon was $14.99. So I'm like, duh, I'm about to go ahead and get this one. It literally comes with the little bowl and the brush and it's so much cheaper. So literally all you do is just press it down and it dispenses the dish soap out. I used to have one of these a couple years ago. I actually really like this kind. So yeah, definitely cheaper at HomeGoods to buy this stuff. And this is the last thing I got from HomeGoods. I'm gonna actually like put in an overlay, but I bought prints and new little bed. It just matched my apartment decor a lot better. I'm gonna keep the other bed just in case if he doesn't actually sit in this because obviously I want it to be functional. I don't want to buy stuff just for show. So if he doesn't use this within about two weeks, I'm gonna take it back because I think they got a 30-day return policy or something like that. So the stuff that I got from at Home, I'm gonna start off with this. This was $7.99. It's just a storage rack. I'm actually gonna put like canned goods on here from my pantry area. I was gonna buy one from HomeGoods, but theirs was $14. So this one was the better deal at Home, got that. And the next thing I got basically, I wanna use it from my pantry. These were two for the price of $1.99. These are just the Lazy Susan's for the kitchen. Obviously got two. Got two gray because they didn't have any other color. They had pink, but I don't want pink. The next thing I got is, these were $2.99 each. It is from the Moss Collection, Preserved Moss. I got this because I wanna put it inside of here. This isn't the one I originally wanted to get, but hopefully it looks just as cute. That's why I said I don't care that the pearls are in the middle of this, because I'm gonna be putting this Moss in there. So this was only $2.99 from HomeGoods. And the next thing I got is this tray. It doesn't have a price tag on it, so I don't know the actual name, but if I can remember, I put it up on the screen. My envision for this was gonna go in my kitchen, on my island, I wanna put stuff on here to kind of be like the main centerpiece of the kitchen. This is what you will walk into. Super cute.  So it's really hard for me to decorate my apartment exactly how I want, because it's hard mixing farmhouse and modern together. It's its own category, you know? So this is basically kinda giving me more farmhouse vibes, but yeah. That's just, I just like those three styles. So I got that. And then this one, I originally had this in my cart online already, and I actually found it in store. This was 34.99, what I'm about to show you. Get that moss off of there. So this is huge, like comparison to my head, it's freaking huge. I originally, this wasn't gonna go on my island because my island isn't that big. I wanted to put my utensils on here. They're already in its own little utensils, like container. So I wanted to like minimize everything being scattered out and condense it into one thing. So I got this. That was what this was supposed to be for. So obviously in comparison, the one from at home is bigger. So I'm just gonna play around with both of them and see which one I like better. And then take back whichever one I don't use because this one is huge and there's nowhere else. Literally I could use this. So whichever one works, works. Whichever one doesn't, then I'll just take back whichever one doesn't work. This one was 7.99 from at home. I was originally gonna make this myself, but the actual base that I wanted to buy from at home was $5 and then this was like $3 and $4 separately. So I just decided to get it already made. And I wanted to put this on top of this one in the kitchen. You guys will see how I decorate it, but that's kind of like the idea that I'm going for for this. And then the last thing that I got from at home is this candle. It is lavender and oak, 15.9 ounces. It is 9.99 from the at home store. So I got this one. I do have candles already from Bath & Body Works, but I specifically wanted this one for the black top. I think it'll look really, really nice on here. Like again, I want this to be the main centerpiece.  So I wanted to make sure to get something to the black top and then kind of just a really, really plain base. So that's my idea with this. As you know, I am revamping my entire apartment. I'm getting new everything, not the couch, but like as far as decoration goes and the theme, it's gonna be more condensed into black, white and neutrals. And like I said, farmhouse, modern, like boss chick vibes, I guess you can say, or like girly. When I say girly, I only say that because I still like pink and I still had a vanity. So my vanity is like really, really girly. So today is Sunday, March 20th. Excuse the way I look. I got baptized today and my hair, my swim cap literally busted open because my hair is too much in the back. Like I had it in a little bun and it like completely popped it. So I had to use a grocery sack or whatever. I probably put it right here. But yeah, so my hair is a mess. I was gonna have, but these are my other two packages that I've been waiting on. Mostly all of this stuff is from my bathroom. I didn't wanna start getting my bathroom together first, although I did buy little items for every other room, which I said I wasn't gonna do that, which I try not to, but I went in the store and if you see a good deal, you just gotta get it. So I did buy a majority of everything to redo my bathroom. So I'm kinda sticking to my work. It's just I kind of picked up a little bit more stuff. So I'm gonna go ahead and open it. These came earlier today. I don't know what's the top or bottom. This side, okay, reading is on the middle. So these came earlier today at about like 2.30 or so. And I just didn't have any energy to open them. I was so tired from waking up this morning, getting baptized and stuff. So I'm just not opening them. And usually once you get Amazon stuff open, you can just pop it open because the tape is like really easy. So I usually wanted to buy these in black. These are like a three tier like organization bin thing.  And I wanted them to not be as noticeable.  But this is what I got. It's three in one. You're gonna see what I'm gonna do with this. But I got these for extra storage that's kind of tucked away, but still cute because these are, watch out! These are gonna be on display. These are gonna be on display, but I still wanna be holding everything that I needed to hold. So I'm actually gonna stack these up and then have like medicine stuff in one. And I really don't know what else. Literally I just got it to store items. So one, two, three. They look pretty good. And then this is how they look all stacked up in one. This is gonna go under my sink because I don't have a cabinet under my sink. So I don't have any like cabinet storage. And then the next one I got. This one, these have been going viral on TikTok. It's the, I think this is like four or five pack of the colorful hair catchers. Easy to clean install. This is how the box look. I've seen it on a TikTok and it has a lot of reviews. I was kind of iffy about getting things because they said they do kind of like mowed over. If you don't like pick them up and like let them like air dry, like wash them off or whatever. So I just got things to test them out. The other one I was gonna get was like a two pack for like the same price, but they all kind of said they, you know, mowed at the time. So I just decided to go with it. One, two, three, four. There's five different colors.  So excited to use this. I'll probably start using one tonight and then kind of tell y'all how they hold up. All right, so, whoa. Oh, this was in that other box. I forgot the openness. This is basically a freaking chain. It comes with like 10. Yeah, so I literally ordered a pack of like two but it literally comes with 10. I saw this on a girl's YouTube. I was watching somebody organize their closet and she had these. So literally it's just a hook with chains and you put your hangers on these. It's kind of to get more out of your closet space which my closet is huge as you guys know but for like items, like I have a lot of, what do I have a lot of? A lot of crop tops and they're literally like the same shirt just in different colors. So instead of having them stacked out this way, I can like literally lay them down flat and it's, you know, just so I can know these are all the same items. So I feel like that'd help. And some of my bulkier jackets, as you guys know, I have high ceilings. So my closet is literally high and I have to use a step stool to even like get clothes down. So I feel like this will kind of help me out also in the long run because it'll be stacked down and it's easier for me to get to my clothes. So I got these, literally came in a pack of like 10 and I only ordered two. I forgot she said they send you a lot. So I'm glad I only ordered two because I would have ordered the four pack. It would have came like 20 of those little things. All right. This one, oh honey, let's get in Christy. Okay, now this is more bathroom stuff. I got the corner shower caddy. I was gonna get the shower caddy that was one viral that all the girls have like on Tik Tok and stuff. But I decided I wanted a corner one to just maximize my space. So this is what this is. It'll probably be an overlay pop in but you'll see me put this together tomorrow. So I decided to get the corner. I feel like for my shower, it'll just make more sense for me to get the one with the corner. Let me get you up so I can put these boxes outside from my valet trash man to come pick them up. Okay, these are the ZGO floated shelf set. I got this to go above my toilet area. Once you see the one I got, you'll understand why it kind of just ties in to what I'm trying to do here. So this obviously is the black metal. I have something like this in my kitchen. I think I showed that yesterday the little lazy Susan tonnable table. So everything is kind of gonna have like the black trimming on stuff. I'm just gonna open this and make sure nothing's damaged. It's supposed to be two in here. I think they got some stack pretty nicely. Okay, so these are the shelves. I guess it's the pretty decent size. I wanted something a little bigger, but it'll be okay. So this is the thing I'm going for. And then I just got another one that's the exact same. And the last thing I got is this, what is this? Oh, drawer organizers. So it comes in a pack, hold up, 21, hold up. Let me check real quick. Okay, so I was wrong. They sent me the right stuff. This is a pack of 21. I'm literally gonna use this in the kitchen, in my bathroom, everywhere. So I hope none of these are broken. It's so gonna be sad because I'm already to organize. I had to clock, I need to be breaking these boxes now. If not, I'm just gonna have to put them out there for tomorrow. And this was a pretty affordable price for 21 of these. They have the, what is this for? I think this is for the bottom of them so they don't slip around in the drawer. So you can keep up with that. I'm just gonna examine these real quick, probably speed up this clip just to make sure none of these are broken and that I don't have to send any back, but just to pull one out for you in case you're interested. This is one of the sizes that comes with it. So it looks pretty good in good condition. So yeah. And I also went to Walmart to pick up two of the home edit sets. If you love organizing, then use for sure know what home edit is and who they are. They do sell them now at Walmart. So this is the package, it's a five piece laundry set. And then I got the five piece pantry edit set. They have a few more other sets, but I felt like these are the ones I wanted to start with because this has the lazy Susan in it. And this also has the stackable tier set. So y'all saw that I bought one from, I believe, at home yesterday. I may return that because I forgot this one actually came with one unless I need it. But that's in my return pile. So obviously you don't have to use this for laundry. This is just helping like, this is basically like beginner friendly type editing. So I'm very excited to open these up. I'm not gonna open them because I'm pretty sure you guys already know what these are and what they look like. So I'm gonna open these tomorrow, but this is just what it comes with. And this is what this one comes with. Yeah, so I'm super excited about that. I also bought this little bread container. So I've been looking for one of these forever. The ones on Amazon are literally like $20 and up. I'm like, baby, I'm just trying to store some bread. Like yes, I wanted a cuter one, but literally I'm just storing bread. So this would be perfectly fine for what I needed for. And this one was like $5 at Walmart. And I got a discount also. So super excited about that. It just had the holes at the bottom. And then I also went and got Prince some more diapers. He get excited when people come over. So this is the brand and size that he uses. 12 count is like $9 almost 10. And then also bought him some more food. I did give him a different type of food this time. Got my lashes right here. Me and best friend went out last night to the wine bar place. So this is the new one that I bought him. I'm gonna ask his vet about this. I do still have my receipt. And I literally just put like a few pieces in there to like kind of warm him up to it. But it's been very, very good reviews about this online. And I really wanted to switch his food. This is the one I normally get. I feel like this is a pretty good one. He's been on this one for about two years or a year and a half. So I usually either get the chicken flavor or beef with this brand. But this one just caught my eye. They have puppy. They also have small breed, like senior and then like weight management one. So it just, I don't know, it just screamed out to me. So next time I take him to the vet, which may be either this week or next week, I'm gonna ask about this brand. If she don't really recommend it, then I'm just gonna take it back because he only used it once.


Sai wanted to come on here and ask you a question. It just so happens that Sai declined an offer to hang out with friends this weekend. It can happen, right? But no, instead the friends called Sai anti-social in the group chat. Have you ever been mislabeled as anti-social when you prefer staying at home rather than accepting your friend's invitation for a day out? Like many other psychological concepts and terms, anti-social is often misused in everyday conversation. And it can really make you feel bad. Real bad, just like Sai. Often it's not like you don't want to, but more specifically a case where you really can't. Introverts are often lumped in with anti-social people. Many defining characteristics can distinguish between introversion and anti-social behavior. So let's take a look at the signs you are an introvert, not anti-social. Number one, you prefer the inner world of your mind. Do you tend to be more withdrawn, retiring and reserved? Do you prefer the inner life of your mind that is your thoughts and feelings over the outer world of other people and things? If you relate to these questions, you are most likely an introvert. According to the American Psychological Association, introversion is defined as orientation towards the internal private world of oneself and one's inner thoughts and feelings rather than towards the outer world and of people and things. What about anti-social then, you ask? Anti-social is defined as denoting or exhibiting behavior that sharply deviates from social norms and violates other people's rights. Number two, you can relate to others in a healthy way. Despite enjoying others' company, do you sometimes need time for yourself? Are you comfortable contacting people and arranging occasional lunch dates or meetings? If you are selectively social, this makes you an introvert through and through. Although you enjoy spending time with friends, you may need more time to recuperate from a particularly training social event. Being anti-social, on the other hand, involves working in ways against society regardless of the feelings of others. They don't care much about meetups. As anti-social, the ability of an individual to engage with others in a healthy way is severely undermined. Their irresponsible and reckless behavior makes it difficult to sustain long-term relationships. Number three, you enjoy deep connections with the people you are close to. Do you have a desire to establish a deep, genuine connection with the people you are close to? Yes, you can be an introvert and still crave the idea of having a deep, meaningful connection. The only condition is that the introvert and you want that connection to be established with a select few or even just one person. Being an introvert, you cherish the idea of having a romantic relationship, companionship or close friendship. According to research, having close, healthy relationships is rewarding to introverts and increases their level of happiness. On the other hand, for someone who is anti-social, it is impossible to seek out or establish deep connections with others. Number four, you are highly empathetic. Do you easily relate to other people's experiences?   As an introvert, you feel uneasy when you know that you've hurt someone else's feelings. However, anti-social individuals behave oppositely. They don't consider the fact that their behavior may come across as blunt or offensive to others. Number five, you enjoy doing things with your friends and the people you love. What kind of activities do you enjoy? Do you prefer quieter activities rather than going to social gatherings? Similar to popular belief, going to quiet coffee shops, bookstores, or parks instead of loud social gatherings is surely an introvert's preference. Contrary to popular belief, you can still be an introvert if you enjoy attending social gatherings. You can be an exciting and adventurous person who enjoys the company of your loved ones. But yes, there's a condition for this too. Only with friends and the people you know. In contrast, having fun with groups of people doesn't appeal to anti-social individuals at all. People often think that being an introvert and being anti-social are the same thing, but they're not. People usually assume introverts do not have social skills and don't enjoy the company of others. Their reclusiveness can be viewed negatively. It's just a matter of protecting their energy and respecting their boundaries. On the other hand, an anti-social person isn't protecting themselves. Rather, their behavior is often manipulative or reckless. Do you think you can use these types in your life? If you made it to the end, drop a heart emoji in the comments below or let us know what you think. And don't forget to like and share this if you think it could help someone else.


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So this will be the spoiler free review for Dan Trachtenberg's prey aka predator 5 which is releasing tomorrow I guess on Hulu the embargo is lifted. So this will be my review for it This is again directed by Dan Trachtenberg is written by Patrick Eisen and it stars amber mid Thunder Dakota beavers Dame digital D legaro stormy kept Michelle thrushed Julian black antelope Now this movie is revolving around a character named the root. We are set 300 years in the past So it's a prequel. It's one of the it would be the very first one in the series as far as going off the timeline now with this one It's in the Comanche nation in 1719 a fierce and highly skilled warrior again named the root learns the prey She stalking is a highly evolved alien with the technologically advanced arsenal. So I Will say this This approach worked for me for the most part the stuff about it being better than the original that I've seen online I don't know where that's coming from if you feel like that. That's fine. I I don't feel like that about this movie Only then I can see maybe is that maybe there's some aspects about neru that just make her a better character to root for Over what we had in the original with Arnold and all those other commandos So prey has a vibe to it where throughout the movie it just builds to this one-way one that you know It's coming and when it happens or when it happens It's a very satisfying and entertaining battle between naru and the predator a battle that again We know is coming. It's not a spoiler. So as far as how that approach is handled I really liked that and I thought I was handled tremendously well We're constantly being shown all the strengths of the opponent Naru's gonna have to face while we also see naru Struggle and also see some of her strengths that could help her later on during this battle. So That's not this that's not to say that again just because it builds to this satisfying Conclusion that that this movie doesn't have some hiccups along the way So for starters the dialogue is quite repetitive in terms of how people talk to neru Neru's vocabulary seems far superior to anyone around her because it just seems like all they're able to do is tell her how She's not ready or that She she can't do this. She can't do that And it's like I understand why the dialogue is there But it gets to the point where it's like I don't need to be sold on this idea anymore I get it these people don't think she's ready But me as a viewer and all of you guys that watch this movie should have faith in her capabilities Even though there are several instances that will make you doubt her abilities But you'll end up admiring the desire to keep trying that's in her because she has a never say die attitude Which makes her a very likable character Also, I'll add that I can see where some might find the dialogue to be Unrealistic considering the setting that we're based in Naru is pretty much the only notable character that has any development honestly as mentioned Countless occurrences highlight she she cannot go toe-to-toe with the predator So it's not going out of its way to make you think that she can go into a fist fight with the predator The predator is definitely established as the alpha, which I know many of you will like There's the instance that we already see in the trailers with the bear And then there's another where her brother has to carry her home afterwards So she's not established as someone who can go toe-to-toe with the predator Thus how can she be a threat to the predator, right? That's what many people are gonna think Well again, Naru has a few other skills that will assist her later on again I'm not gonna spoil it She again is the only notable character with proper development as everyone around her only exists to add to the kill count But it's all for the best When considering the phenomenal choreography that's featured throughout the movie The action is easy to follow and the editing as a whole only makes it better Honestly the breath the the action in this movie if you're someone who followed me on Twitter You already saw what I put it is very breathtaking and it is very phenomenal in terms of how It's done in a way that it makes it easy to follow It never becomes incoherent a lot of movies when you get to the editing of the action sequences and certain brawls the Action becomes difficult to follow. It's incoherent about who's who especially depending on how certain people are dressed But prey has some amazing Choreography and fight sequences and just overall great action that a lot of people are gonna latch on to So I do wish the pacing was a bit slowed down But it works overall for the most part since it's engaging from start to finish Traktemberg is able to effectively spend time building tension and suspense Constantly throughout and there's always this feeling of dread and looming danger over the movie once the predator arrives The camera is definitely working over time to make sure you're locked in and Surveying the surroundings for the predator who is mostly cloaked for a lot of the movie and again I like this because it's a plot device it acts as a source of that suspense That's constantly building to the inevitable design reveal, which for the most part. I also say I was a fan of the design Truthfully though, I don't see that the CGI in this movie is gonna age very well The abundance of CGI animals that just aren't believable or quite laughable honestly And I do want to jump back to the dialogue really quick Just to say that it doesn't beat you over the head with a men bad women good narrative But the but the men I would say yes are shown to be quite idiotic in this movie Everyone outside of Nauru really is depicted as as an idiot just to be honest And again as far as like I didn't talk about this Performances are pretty one note as well outside of amber mid-thunder herself who stars is Nauru She genuinely just puts her heart into the role and Nauru is very likable Despite if you find yourself not sold on the narrative completely Mid-thunders emotional driven performance has a lot to do with that aspect the cinematography is incredible as mentioned there is constant feeling of danger in the atmosphere During night sequences the lighting is always just right objects are easy to identify because a lot of times during movies When they have night scenes you can't see certain things and has nothing to do with your your TV settings or anything like that You just can't see it because of the terrible cinematography at the time So outside of the breathtaking visuals constant tension building and mid-thunders wonderful performance Prey only crumbles from its overuse of CGI paper thin characters and its questionable dialogue choices. So It's basically a straightforward back-to-basics predator film that isn't anything overly special with the execution It just has a lot of qualities that kept it afloat for me and again the movie is again very entertaining It is featuring a fun It does have a great score that constantly adds a lot of emotion to certain aspects of it And you will be engaged throughout the majority of this movie given how it's fast-paced and very hard-hitting and Straightforwarding to the point. It doesn't overstay its welcome There are just some aspects of it I know people are not going to vibe with such as the dialogue and how repetitive it can be and how it Seems like it's trying to oversell you on what these people think about in a route And other aspects like the CGI that's not going to age very well I enjoyed it. It is one of my more favorable predator movies I'm going to give it a six and a half out of ten if you have an array of course Make sure you subscribe turn on postification near miss a video in the description I will have links on the social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there of course to limit as any movies news reviews Let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video


Thank you, thank you. I'll take the round of applause, man. That'll suffice.  Yeah, that's it, bros.  Yo, Craig. Yo. What's up, man? There he is. He said, what's up? He didn't tell a joke. Yo, I declared today the annual celebration of technical difficulties, my guy, because I have reached a career high in my lifetime. And I don't know what happened. I can't hear nobody no more, bro. All right, my PS4 bricked. Why did I do that? Why did I do that? Why did I open up the notifications? Yo, what's wrong with game chat? Bro, vortex. What is happening today, man? I cannot believe it. Game chat just, and Craig got kicked from the park or something because he's not there. And I don't have my friend list. So guess who's out of a big man again, yo? What if he's a delayer and we're playing with him? Well, he's getting bad for it. He gotta specify. Oh my God. Someone's gonna take a screenshot. I knew it. Agent, he's been playing with delayers this whole time. Bro, vortex, oh my God. I was a big fan, bro. Bro, you ain't a fan of me? What? It's Agent. Oh my God. You're with vortex. I see how it is. OK. Oh my God, bro. I don't care about it, bro. If you get that. Man, I got a dial, Mike Wang. Hold on, let me talk to Mike. Mike! I like that. He's up to something. He shot from Agent, really. Yeah, bro. Y'all, send you guys a squad invite if you want.  Stop, stop, stop.  You serious? It'd be followed with a bunch of smiley faces, isn't a word from a different language. You might not understand.  Yeah, let's get it. Lock up. There we go. Yo, Agent, so Agent, so Agent, yo. Like, can I send you a message first? It's going to say it's Fuego, and it's going to have a bunch of emojis. Are you fine with that?  You got all 11 points. What do you want to say for yourself? Yo, yo, this is my first. You got 2K, bro. It's my first year. Are you bad at this? These guys have been playing since 16, my god.  I don't got no boosts. I'm just, I'm too poor for it. Bro, are they all still? It's 90% of the 2K community has stretched big, man. I think we're all for serious. Yeah. Yee. I won. Get off me. Are you kidding? Yo, like, like, I am so close, I can probably pick his nose and get away with it, my guy. I don't know, I don't know. I don't know, I don't know. You see him, Mike? RIP. Ah! I got him, I got him. Yes! Yes! Yes! Come on, please, please. I can't. You got to carry it. No! I didn't mean to do that. Stop it! He's dead! He's dead! He's dead! No! You crazy man. I got snags, I got snags. Except Link.  Get out of here. Hey, y'all.  Wait, hold on.  Your trash. Come on, bro. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Gotta step it up. Jesus, man.  Imagine, imagine shooting away right open release. That couldn't be me. Imagine getting blocked on a dome. Imagine being proud of the clicking triangle. Ah, potato. I think being proud for holding square. Are you different, man? Yeah, you are. Yeah!  No, the map was so annoying. It keeps switching up. Yo, stop trying to zig-zag! Oh, never mind. That's all. Let's get it, bro. Well, agent, hit the screen.  A lot of screaming. I'm fine, bro. I need to let my energy out. I had a very rough last day, man. Not for this, man. See, this guy looks terrible. That was great physics. He likes... Yo, agent, why are you pretending like you could just... Damn! The amount of turnovers that they should have had in this possession. Damn! Hey, agent, push him! Take it, take it, take it.  Help us to meet everybody. I see. So I can really ain't got it like... Damn. All right. Hold on. We're giving these guys hope, bro. What are you doing? We actually... That lands... Did you see that pass? I'm trying to set a stream. Okay. Pick up, pick up. Pick up.  Vortex, no joke. Link hit me with a message said, Yo, it's link underscore main. The peer stretch for with 14 on your head. Can I run threes? Bro, that's wild, my guy.  And frame it on as well. Agent, you got to catch this one, man. And you always say that. I just want you to know that. I don't want you to know that. Everybody who comes up here always says that. For the name Young Tay, man. We out here. The limit is... The limit is name. Yeah, I will do that. I memorize all the people I play. Just making sure. Hey, Agent, let go. I beat you. You might as well add me, kid. Give me that, buddy. I want you to know that everybody also says that. Why you... You took the flag of Agent.  Oh, my baby.  Bro, why would you swear on your baby? Oh, my God. What is wrong with you? Why are you just swearing on your baby, bro? That's wild, man. You made me put that on your YouTube. That's real.  I know for you guys, this is just the game of your life. But for me, this is just another game. This is another game for a long YouTuber. I'm sorry. A long YouTuber that gets paid to play this, bro. What have you made playing this game? What have you made playing this game, my guy? You didn't only get a hundred games, bro. You're not even famous, bro. You're not even that famous. You're not even that famous. I never heard of you. I never heard of you. It's much. I never heard of you. Who made the dot need me? The dot don't need you. You need a dot. The dot needs you. Hey, the dot needs you. You need the dot needs you. What does that even mean, man? Bro, you got that to me. Come on, bro.  Yo, snag. We just need you to step up. If you don't step up on the screen, you at least have to get the rebelled, man. If I need to try hard, bro, I got a suite of try hard senators, my guy, to go to. What do I do with that information, man? Who can play, bro? I can't play, bro. You off the court. Catch you later, kid. Who are you guys? I'm your buddy. Oh, my God. So when you were slurring on his son, it was you, my guy. He was swearing on you. Yo, that right there, Vortex is out chasing 101.  Then the second they're like, wait, what?  If you really get paid, like, what? What? Wait, hold up. I need to head to the ATM real quick. What game? What other game would have had an ATM and that's perfectly normal? Literally a... We're 2K and our game is not gambling. But hey, look, you can enter a casino and go to the ATM. Why can't there be welfare in this game? It's for these vouchers. Bro, can you imagine if they did that? 2K 19 welfare program for those 70 overall and under. If you play the game enough, you will get access to these amenities. And then they start to tax us about ridiculous amounts based on how much VC we have. Like, Ronnie would hop on a stream like, guys, we just added this new economy to the My Park. It is brilliant.