As we celebrate Teacher's Day today, I would like to take this moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every single one of you present here. Thank you for your dedication and for being the backbone of the Institute. Happy Teacher's Day to all. As we look down upon God, let me pray. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, we just want to... Good afternoon everyone. Happy Teacher's Day to all of you sitting here. On behalf of the governing body, the executive leaders, I would like to extend our warmest greetings to the entire staff of Ditzel College as we observe this special day in the life of all of our teachers and all of our staff members. Teacher's Day. The people of Ditzel College are what make the Ditzel College community so vibrant and that give meaning and purpose to why Ditzel College exists to this very day. It is all of you who have worked so hard, sacrificed your time, gone above and beyond and provided a service to the Ditzel College community and all of its stakeholders which include the students, the parents, the guardians and to all those invested in the higher education of our state. And so each one of you, from whichever department you may be from, from the teaching faculty, academic department to the administration, to the support services, to the accounts, to the IT and media team, all of you are providing a very important service and are all role models in your own way. From the hotspot team to the transport team, the drivers, the handyman, the sweepers, every one of you are, I would say, role models to the students that we are molding and teaching every day because they are watching how each one of you performs your responsibility and your duty to provide the best service we can to the members of the Ditzel community. So I would like to appreciate each one of you for the efforts and for the concern that you have. Ditzel College, I would say, is known as one of the most hardworking institutes and I know that everyone is so hardworking here at Ditzel College. And above and beyond the hard work, the care and the concern that you have for the students and for the parents and the guardians, the care and the concern that each one of you have for every member and the extra lanes and efforts that you go to extend your service to the community is so appreciable. And that's why on this day we have selectively handpicked a couple of individuals who have made such outstanding contributions in the various departments that they're from.  These people have shown exemplary performances and gone above and beyond their duties showing concern and genuine compassion and the need to fill the gaps when they see it and provide extended extra hours of service. And for that, it was very tough for the executive leaders team to narrow down on certain individuals.  Apart from that, we do know that we appreciate each one of you. Each and every member, although you may not be receiving an award, we know that there are so many people who are working behind the scenes and it's difficult to recognize each and every member individually up here on stage. But for all that everyone does here, I would just like all of us to give yourselves a round of applause as we celebrate Teacher's Day today. Thank you very much to the Ditzel community members for their hard work and efforts. We always tell the students to dream, think and do and we tell them to be dreamers, big dreamers, to be deep thinkers and most importantly proactive doers. And so I extend this thought to all of you sitting here today to continue to dream, think and do and go above and beyond and continue to strive for excellence in whatever it is that you may be doing because our dream and our hope for the Ditzel staff is that you will continue to move forward, you will continue to excel in whichever department you are and you will be able to see a growth and a maturity within all of you as the years go by. So that is my sincere wish. With that I conclude my speech and once again I'd like to wish you all a very, very happy and warm Teacher's Day to you all. Thank you. So this award, I'm nominating Ms. Asani, the best teacher from Department of Commerce and Management and I would like to highlight some things about Ms. Asani. She's a member of, but member of Nahalan University for the management and then now she's the first person came to the level, level, level, level. So she met all the criteria for that to become in level 11. So leading student council and efficiency in organizing college level and events and handling external participants, she did nothing, she did her performance very well and like there is no words to express her performance such a kind and such a best performance she gave to the department as well as to the college. We all know that very well that she's handling the student service council very well and then every semester she used to publish one research paper, that's the best uniqueness of Ms. Asani and then right now for the last year she published two research paper and then one in progress for the semester and then she completed many FTPs and for the semester she completed one FTP and then you know like effective communication start strong adherence of professionals she is very professional with the students and she support always for the students like she always stand with the students to motivate or encourage whatever the thing she would be the first person from the department she used to do and then she's a good team player and anthropologically collaborate with all of her faculty members so I'd like to call upon her for the stage. Ms. Asani if you want to share something you can share with me. Doesn't feel okay without saying one or two words. So I'm so thankful for this honor to the management to my entire department and to every one of you happy teachers day. Thank you Ms. Asani. So you may think that still I'm here. For what? So the next thing is best teacher from our department is Mr. Prasanjit Batra and he's also a back member of management in Navan University from our college. He's proud for our college also. I would like to highlight some important things about Prasanjit and he initiated the department newsletter Tetscom Connect so far it went two publications, two issues. It's a quarterly issue. Everyone met up to receive these things and then effective solving multiples of problems during the exam timing. We all know that very well whenever we had some small problem to the big problem we'll be calling sir Prasanjit where are you? Pick out a different question paper. What to do? Students are standing outside what to do? So is only man can solve like multiples of problem in a time, in a fraction of time. So I really appreciate sir Prasanjit for this and then I'm managing the exam committee team efficiently organizing the examination part. It's not an easiest task for the thing but he's doing with his team and committee. It's really great. And then he also like every semester he used to publish. Most of our faculties, department of commerce and management faculties used to publish at least one paper in a semester and he is also one of the faculty. So for the last year he published two research publications and one FTP in this semester and last semester he did three FTPs and then as cash. Sir Prasanjit, I'm not going to leave you. Please you can share your experience. Good afternoon everyone. First of all I want to wish teachers a happy teachers day to all of you each and every one of you. I'm truly honored to receive the best teacher award on this special occasion that's teachers day. I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to the college administration, my department, HOD, dean and especially to my students for making my journey so rewarding. Once again thank you very much for this prestigious echo leg. It really encourages me to strive for excellence in the field of education. Thank you. Thank you sir. So which does not mean that only these two teachers are best in our department, Best in Commerce and Management department. So all are doing their best. So these two are the leading person which meets. Okay thank you so much for the time and I'm hand over this time to the next supervisor. Thank you. Once again I wish you a happy teachers day. I'm here to award from our department.  Because whatever tax that you assign, whatever job that you give it to him, he will just say yes, no complaint, no nothing. He will just carry it and he will just go for it and he just do it efficiently. And that is the reason why I've nominated him and we have selected him. Here during the admission counseling time, admission period, I think most of the teachers have got off days. They were relaxing and of course some of us were coming and take turn by turn to take the counseling. But he is someone who never take off during the time. He came every day and he assisted the IT team when he didn't have the counseling. And after that whenever he has assigned for counseling, he will go there and he will take the counseling. So he was one person who never took off days during the counseling admission period. And along with that one extra thing he did was again, if you can see our computer science, it has grown from one lab to now six, actually six labs, four computer labs, one networking and hardware lab and one IoT electronics lab. Now to increase this lab, it's with all the device we have to setting up and the computers which are now almost 250 plus computers. All those things are not, it just didn't came as a package. But what we did was we came, we ordered all the device piece by piece and it has to assemble. So to assemble one computer, at least we take almost 30 to 40 minutes. So of course initially, Ronit and I has trained five semester students currently and now we have assembled around 50 computers and now this person has assembled more than 100 computers and trained the third semester students which took almost I think three to four weeks for them. But they have done a tremendous job out there and if they do a single mistake, it will cost them 10 plus thousand. So it was very costly thing, but they did it so fantastically. So I'm just proud of the teacher and the students as well. And along with that, his political science is considered to be the biggest and highest number of students, but I will say Ron, because Nelit is handling the TensorFlow student. You just named TensorFlow student, everyone is in Ron for Nelit. So handling all the admission papers, filling up the forms, and filling up the examination forms again, again it's a tedious task and of course our admission office staff is usually to that, but currently our staff headed by this staff, he is handling all the forms and admission process as well. So that is another thing that tremendously he's doing and recently, just recently, under his supervision, he has done a tremendous work which is why I've nominated and selected Visalto Sotso for which I would like to come here and receive this award. Thank you everyone. First of all, I would like to wish each and everyone here a very happy teachers day and then I'm very grateful for this opportunity. This is the first year that I started working and this is the first job that I've started with and I'm really thankful to the management for employing me here. I've had a very good experience. I'm learning a lot of things. I finished my studies just last year so I didn't know a lot of things but after coming here, I've learned a lot more than what I've learned in my master's and bachelor's so I would like to thank my HOD and then all the other stuff. I've learned a lot of things from this college how to have a very professional life so I would like to thank and nothing I did was possible by only me. I've had a very good supporting stuff. My music stuff and the stuff of computer science they've helped me a lot. I have never done anything by myself but with the help of them, I'm able to achieve all those. Thank you. Thank you so much. Now I hand over to the next department. Okay, good afternoon everyone and yes, of course happy teachers day to all of you. I stand here again to highlight some of the few things which one of our department teachers have made a positive impact in the society. So I'm just going to divert us to from academics to the society to the impact of how one of our colleagues from our department has impacted our society. Ms. Sanjumini, she has just completed one year and still going very strong and in this one year of her stay at that store we have observed a lot of things from her end and the most important factor the only one thing that we have really feel that she deserves this award is because of her impact towards the society. Not only this, we have seen how she has relentlessly and effortlessly supported the student community as well and it's not just her involvement here we see a lot of other teachers involving in their own area but if we look at how Ms. Sanjumini has actually contributed to the students here we have also observed that she has the ability to ignite the students for the patient of learning and also how they discover their own strength and interest. These are some of the events and also the activities that she has undertaken being the NSS coordinator with the involvement of the students considering the fact that our students they need a lot of inspiration and with many inspiration here we see the students who have voluntarily been involved in these events one important factor which I have observed here is how the students have voluntarily donated their blood to the people around. As a fact we already know how one donation can save three lives and I think Sanjumini has really inspired the students especially our students letting them understand how life is gracious and how donating their blood can save multiple lives and with that thought we felt the need that this award should definitely go to Ms. Sanjumini so with this I call upon Ms. Sanjumini to kindly come on stage and receive this token of love and appreciation. I was not expecting this but I am so grateful for this honour I just want to take this time to thank our Dean Dr. Anjan and Dr. Rosy as well for always trusting me and encouraging me to just carry out all my responsibilities efficiently they have always been so supportive of everything that I have done here so far so I just want to extend my thanks to the two of them as well and also to the management they have always been so supportive you know always whenever I send out a meal to them or whenever I conduct any kind of activity they have always been very spontaneous with their replies and then they have always thanked me and then complimented me for the hard work that I am putting in the college so I am grateful for that as well thank you so much once again I would like to greet all of you happy teachers day so I am going to seize the opportunity and would like to honour one of my faculty and also a colleague so yeah I would like to convey the tips of a lot of excellence to form the department of psychology to miss one of my own melodies the reason because looking at her contribution towards the department it was because through her that we were able to get strong networking capabilities and connections that we were able to bring in successfully and conduct and successfully bring in a good resource person both from within the state and also as well as from outside the states and also through her contacts we were able to visit the psychology department in DU as well as the Asam Downtown University the psychology department besides her contribution to this department she has also starting from 2020 till 2023 she has completed one FDP and one FIP looking at her contribution towards the college overall so she has been assigned as the role of the college coordinator for the OBC cell and given the responsibility she has successfully conducted various program competitive program and also conducted seminars again looking at the role of a counsellor for the college the psychological counselling specifically talking about here among all the styles she has handled the largest number of counselling cases and we can see that she is the most sought after counselling teacher out here so to be precise she has handled all together individual cases she has handled about 25 individual cases and if we calculate the sessions it's coming to about 41 sessions and moving on to form the student's point of view she always values students and is always ready to be prone to help them be it given her personal situations as well and she always completes her work and time be it her classes or be it the tracking tracker whatever details needs to be updated and she never procrastinates or delay about her work and also she is transparent and is concerned for the working environment and definitely she is compassionate towards the co-workers and for the students so another point is going to extra mile if anyone of you have seen her below the menhutri she is not there enjoying her channel mix after the class but basically she is there tutoring the students giving extra classes to how to track the grade exam or how to track the CUET exam or various other competitive exams and yeah so in a professional way she conducts herself and handles some work in a very professional manner so that's some of the few highlights about her and I think it's time to honour this excellence award to me Melody, can you please come over Thank you so much everyone I'm going to get a little emotional but I would really like to express my gratitude to all the faculties who are not here today as well so we began a journey together with so many faculties who have contributed all together it's not me alone who has contributed so much for the department as well as for the college so my heartfelt gratitude to all of you and even my quarter mates with all your support I think I was able to handle everything so well and thank you so much to the management committee as well thank you once again Hello, good afternoon everyone and happy teacher's day to everyone present here I am here from the support and service staff from the maintenance department we have nominated Kehoto from the security department some of the points I would like to highlight he has been a pillar of strength for the entire security maintaining daily records and log so we have so many work and then responsibility for the security also he has been doing that very nicely we're having a massive construction also taking care of all the records and stuff like that and then efficient and precise in every task assigned to him the legion attitude is able to carry out tasks independently his adaptability makes him the star of the security department so now I call upon Kehoto to please come up and then take a token of love from that college next we have the transport department Shelly Q his sincerity is deprecated from the fact that he does every task assigned to him diligently reliable seldom say no to any work or assistance whenever help is whenever help is urgently needed his polite and helping nature is the reason for the popularity amongst the students so before we assign them Shelly Q is the one who will be the first person to open a WhatsApp group then he will send all the information to the students like that and so I call upon Mr. Shelly Q to please come over to the stage first person to be present on campus as early as 6.30 and she'll be the last one to leave the campus as well and she's also responsible for expanding the product line in our hotspot provision as well as not forgetting our canteen so it's an honor for me to present this award to Miss Rokosano Hippo that's why she was nominated for this award just hold on for a minute, I forgot your certificate behind every successful man they say is a woman while I do not consider myself to be completely successful yet because I haven't achieved all the dreams and goals that I've set out for myself I do believe that I'm somewhere along the line and I'm really blessed to have not a woman stand behind me but a woman stand beside me as my equal assisting me in every task that is assigned at the workplace at any workplace it's a matter of joy and privilege and luck if your colleague is someone who always supports you encourages you and motivates you, inspires you and has always got your back and so it is my honor and privilege to announce the winner of the Tetsuo Award for Accidents of Accidents 2023 category supervisor goes to none other than Dr. Rosy Tep Dr. Rosy Tep is the HOD of the Department of English and she is also a member of the Board of Studies NU here's a few reasons why she has been receiving this award she has published two things first is a book which she has edited and the other is a chapter in a book both of which have the ISBN number moving on, she has attended two FDPs this semester she is the driving force of the Department of English they are able to achieve so much under her supervision and guidance including having to undergraduate students publish journal articles with ISBN codes and present in international level seminars for the first time in the history of the college she is the coordinator of two Tetsuo NTA Network Shops and she is also the coordinator of the Spoken Poetry apart from all the other activities she has also posted several other small activities like these Coordination of the Powwow Debate Competition and also another thing which we would like to highlight is that she was a member of the NCAA training workshop for which the college received a grant of Rs. 1 lakh she is a member of the disciplinary committee very diligently and she checks the skirts of every girl student that is there and she is very strict on it and during my absence from campus last year when I was on my leave she very efficiently stepped into my shoes and handled all the responsibilities very well she has also helped maintain the department page whose link is over here you can go and check it out but it's very well designed and therefore she empowers people towards lifelong excellence she helps create a positive impact in the world she puts students first and she values time and she definitely strives for excellence and so for this and much more I would like to call on stage Dr. Rosie Tep I don't know, this was so unexpected and we were just discussing I was just discussing with Sranjan that I feel with this award during this moment someone should cry we were just discussing about it and he just stood up but I'm not going to cry for this but anyway this is so overwhelming for me because there might be someone who really might have done so much more than me and might have deserved more than me in this aspect just to give you a few gist about this journey this is my first teaching job I've served here for more than four years and running and hopefully looking forward for good days ahead and I don't know whether I really deserve this but I just want to thank the management so much for considering me worthy of this award thank you so much to all the teachers who have molded me in so many ways my department teachers have molded me which made me which made me or which challenges me to strive for excellence thank you so much thank you so much everyone and happy teachers day


My fellow Americans, yesterday Congress decided to send me a trade bill that threatens to destroy jobs and that would begin to reverse the policies of the last seven years. After three years of hard work by the Congress and the executive, it is unfortunate that I have no choice but to send this back to Congress. While there are many positive aspects of this legislation, some of its provisions would move us a step further toward protectionism. Others would create new bureaucracies. But my main objection to the trade bill involves the mandatory requirements it sets down for business to give advance notice of layoffs or plant closings. Now let me state very clearly that I believe businesses should give workers and communities just as much warning as they can when it looks as though layoffs or plant closings are going to become unavoidable. Advanced notice gives the community and the workers themselves some time to begin adjusting. It's the humane thing to do. But when big government gets in the middle of something like this, dictating all its rules and regulations, well, the humane way has a way of becoming inhumane and what's intended to help everyday working men and women can actually end up hurting them. When you study the plant closing provisions of the trade bill, you see that there are circumstances in which they would actually force a business to shut down. Once a struggling business issued a notice that it is likely to close or substantially reduce its workforce, then creditors, suppliers, and customers would disappear. Eliminating any chance of survival the business might have had. Under these conditions, temporary layoffs are sometimes necessary to manage costs and production. And while the bill does contain a so-called struggling company exemption, this exemption is too vague and unclear to be workable. Then too, businesses will be very reluctant to add workers when it would put them over the arbitrary thresholds in this bill and subject them to yet another regime of federal regulation. Make no mistake, these concerns are very real. One independent study shows that if these provisions had been in effect between 1982 and 1986, America today would have almost half a million fewer jobs. Yes, as I've said, our country should support advanced notification of layoffs and plant closings. But this should be decided by bargaining between labor and management, not by some arbitrary rules laid down by politicians and enforced by Washington bureaucrats. And if I feel especially strong about this, I guess it's because I was a union president for years myself. There were times when the union, the Screen Actors Guild, took a hard line in negotiating with management. But yes, there were also times when the motion picture industry was having its ups and downs, times when the union decided not to press quite so hard, because we wanted to make sure the whole industry remained healthy and profitable. The point is, it was up to us, the unions and management, to run the motion picture industry together. We didn't need Washington in on this act. I guess what it all really comes down to is this. Just what kind of a government do we want? For these past seven years, the administration has limited government, cutting taxes and regulations alike. The result? The longest peacetime expansion in American history. Unemployment at the lowest level in almost 14 years. The creation of 16 million new jobs. And I might add, in the last three years, four times as many businesses have opened as have closed. We could go back to big government. And indeed, many of those in favor of these plant closing provisions argue that they're already in effect in many European countries. Well, to tell you the truth, I'm sort of proud of being an American. Proud that since 1983, the United States has created six times as many jobs as has Western Europe. I don't want to leave the impression that the trade bill is completely bad. On the contrary, it contains a number of good and important measures, including new authority for American negotiators seeking to open markets abroad. It also included my proposal for helping workers affected by business failings by providing them with training, education, and job placement services, the truly humane approach. That's why I want a trade bill and why I so regret the addition of counterproductive measures that outweigh the positive features of this legislation. So I urge Congress to schedule prompt action on a second trade bill immediately after it sustains my veto on this one. And now one final message. At noon tomorrow in Washington, hundreds will gather to pay tribute to police officers and other law enforcement officials who've died in the line of duty. So wherever you are at noon, I hope you'll join me in bowing your head and in resolving to let our law enforcement officials know that we understand what our mothers and fathers taught us. The policeman is our friend. Until next week, thanks for listening. God bless you. Right on.


Good evening everybody. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening.  I'm councilmember Jared Williams It is extremely an honor to be able to Represent the great district of district six the district that I grew up in and many of you are raising families and have raised families in So again, it's just indeed honored to be able to have this conversation with each of you I'm going to give a few announcements before I hand it over for the reason why we're all here So there is a gentleman in the back. He is here handing out information a nonpartisan information about the upcoming fourth ISD bond election The polls are now open for that bond election And so if you need any information about what's on the bond there is information back there If you need updating your voter registration or anything like that He can help you so thank you so much for being here also, I Think I may have lost oh to my folks who are watching online and for those of you in the room this Conversation the entire thing will be recorded We will be sending that out on our social media It's at our social media is at Jared Williams TX and that's our city council page So a lot of updates will go out there. I'm speaking of updates We also have mr. Kindle lock who's my district director for district six If y'all are not receiving updates and same for the folks who are watching this online If you aren't receiving updates, please share your information with mr. Kindle lock We'll make sure that we're getting you on our regular updates from the district and from the city With that being said again, I'm super excited that y'all are here tonight's conversation again is on all things related to water And the purpose of our listening circles is really to be able to connect you the residents of forward district six to The folks who can help talk through some of the issues I'm in ideas that you have about of specific issues and so again tonight's conversation is very focused on water And so we have our city of Fort Worth team that does all things related to water And so please feel free. I know some of my friends here have folder. So don't worry We'll be able to talk through those as well I will be handing it off to Sandy She is another one of our teammates with the city of Fort Worth and she'll be able to introduce the team The team will be given presentations and also we'll be looking for you to lift up Questions ideas and even concerns that you have without any further do I hand it off to Sandy and thank y'all again Thank you, Jared You have influential friends because they approached us right away when they came into the gymnasium and said who do we Complain to and he didn't use the word complain Good evening. My name is Sandy Baker. I'm in communications with the water utility. I've been with the utility a little over three and a half years mainly responsible for the my H2O program, which is the new water meters and Customer portal I'm going to introduce our staff here tonight is our water director Chris Harder He's going to speak in a few minutes about the And here comes John Kassavich about with some maps about the cast iron replacement program I know you're all aware of that because of the winter storm We have Kara charar who is our deputy water director Jerry Presley who is an assistant water director for customer care? And he is going to talk and lead our discussion on the my H2O program Next we have Marty Barker who is our AMI administrator AMI stands for advanced metering infrastructure, which is the new water meters and Hazel Staluna who is a supervisor in meter services He did bring a new water meter with him to demonstrate if you guys have any questions about that so and I if we have time will lead a little bit of a Presentation on the new customer portal, so we'll get started with Chris. All right. Thank you, Sandy I'll say I'm familiar with this this venue here I've worked for the water department for 20 years now and my first public meeting When I got here was in this location and this is when we were doing smoke testing neighborhood smoke testing and you know, that's very Concerns people when they see smoke potentially coming out of their house So this this this auditorium was pretty much filled when we had a neighborhood smoke testing going on So I wanted to a little bit talk about some of the things that we have going on more regionally As far as our utility But also things that affect this district and so, you know, we suffered that terrible winter storm back in February That basically allowed us to kind of reprioritize some of the investments that we were making we'd planned all along to be Funding cast iron pipe replacement at a pretty high level, but that even more focused our efforts on that and so as far as Things that are going on within the district in response to the winter storm There's going to be accelerated amount of cast iron pipe replacement. There's also investment in some of the backup power supplies and Just if you look at just down this this area you see our ultimacy pump station That pump station is to plan to have a backup generator installed and hopefully that can be done in the next year a year and a half As far as this project that we're here to talk about the my H2O project It's a complete replacement of all of our meters about 270,000 of them We're now about 235,000 meters replaced But prior to actually doing the meter replacements what we did is we actually Inventoryed all of our existing meters and as part of that inventory process We actually looked to see what the service line material was and if you've heard the the name flint, Michigan Before you know that removing lead from water systems is a high priority both for the federal government But also for utilities in general. So as part of that inventory program, we were able to identify public lead services and so to date we've identified a little bit over 1,800 of those services and Thankfully we're getting to the end of our replacement program which started in about in 2016 so we think that we have about a hundred services left to to be replaced all those are under contract and I will tell you that with a lot of these These lead service replacement projects. There's also cast iron pipe replacement at the same time. So a Little bit more So there's been a lot of synergy between the cast iron pipe replacement and then the lead service replacement as part of these programs As far as other projects, you know, we are continuing to grow so Especially to the south of here, you know that we had the Tarleton school came in which Involved significant capital investment and really what we have is we have a program that's going to be Increasing our sewer capacity really all the way from the Tarleton area in the Bend Rook watershed All the way down to our Village Creek plant. So a significant investment in that capital infrastructure With that That's kind of a high-level Overview of kind of what we have going on as far as infrastructure work Especially in this district like I say most of the growth is relay is down further to the south so a lot of the investment you see through here is infill and Capital infrastructure replacement, which you know, we are funding at a much higher level. So who's speaking next? Okay, so and and John Kastavich is one of our Engineers in our infrastructure section. He can speak briefly, but I know he's has a lot of detailed information so it may be one of those things that Without being able to show a map it may be something that if you're interested in that You come and talk to him after the after the meeting Like Chris said, we'll go pretty quick here. This is just kind of an update of of Projects that we have proposed for design and construction here over the next couple of years and this is Basically the north edge boundary of your district six here at 820 and You know, most of these here kind of clustered around around the 820 area Most of the cast iron pipe that Chris mentioned earlier here in district six is basically north of ultimacy north of ultimacy and south of 820 so that's pretty much the area that we're focusing as far as main replacements go there and Like I said, we've got individual maps here and Basically some street lists for you guys to take a look at if there's anything specific that you know, you have Questions on or whatever if it's you know related to the water department or the streets you can you know, let me know Yes That's a high school. Do you mean? Oh from the math, okay So basically so basically this is ultimacy here All right, so this 820 or 20s up here. All right, and so this basically this Boundary here. This is wedge or Wedgewood Trail Lake area here. All right wood way Here runs north south Yeah, yeah Yeah, so so basically yeah, this is your welch right here. So that yeah, you're basically here in relation to that So basically a lot of your cast iron here Pipe is is is from this from ultimacy here going going north to a 20. So yes Okay, so this basically what we did was like these these are basically planned projects So this is just a general area that we circled that we're looking at replacing, you know water and sanitary sewer Basically Walton Wren Yeah, yeah, it's it's on there, but yeah Right, right. Yeah, I mean, but we've we've got individual maps and List you know that kind of show you the street limits from it to and you know We do have a comprehensive plan meeting coming up. We can put together some some good exhibits for you councilman So that we can That you can share them, but what we'll do is we'll put together district specifics investment maps for you And I'll just say, you know if you have questions about your water bill specifically Our our staff is happy to like check in those individual Accounts and we can go and do the investigation and get back with you tomorrow I know Jerry's up next. I do want to say one thing about the AMI program and that is That is it is a Part of the actual state water plan so Why would an AMI project be part of the state water plan you may ask and that is it's all about Stewardship of water supply whether it's on the utility side on the customer side By having an AMI program what it allows is you the customer to have your usage information in an hourly increments Right now you only receive it a usage number once per month With an AMI program you actually have hourly data so you can use that to Evaluate your water usage and your usage profile So we think it's very very helpful to not only our customers But also to our utility and what we're going to be using the data for is we're going to be looking at all of our Water usage across our system. Yes, ma'am Yeah, we will Definitely. Yeah, because I mean you want to be able to use the data Yeah, so I look at it like this is a stewardship issue for the utility But also it gives that you the tools to be a steward on your end on the water use so for that I'll turn it over to Jerry Well, thank you Chris and good evening everyone And I mean it's Jerry Presley. I've been with the water department 24 years Yeah, and I'd like to say that My hair was a lot fuller back back when I started so working for the water department is dangerous to your hair But others over there, you know just prove the my thesis So I'm a scientist by trade I've had to learn the business of water In recent years and one of my backgrounds biology and chemistry and and the like and so When I when I approach what some of our customers questions. I really want to help you understand and What's going on from from really the technical level, but it so that makes sense to you? so Little bit about the water department the utility in general and that I've learned As I've come to know the business and that is we're an enterprise fund And that means that we're not supported by taxes We our rate that our cost of service is Generated by it's what really sets our rates. So whatever it costs us to buy raw water, you know treat it Distribute it meter it in all of those kinds of things that really kind of sets what our rates are So we recover those costs through through our rate structure and through billing meters are an important part of Equitably assessing those Costs to customers that use our services We went through a competitiveness assessment survey Study in about 2010 and really what happened the city was looking at whether it made more sense to For us to continue operating as a government utility public loan treatment work or whether it made more sense to Subcontract us out or consign us out to a private Operation and one of the things that study determined was that there was a we were we were highly competitive That were really good at what we do There wasn't enough money on the profit side for the for the private entities to make money without affecting your rates pretty considerably So we felt good about that study, but one of the things that came out of that study was was a an unsolicited Recommendation that we look at advanced metering infrastructure as a mechanism of means to To ensure that we're being good stewards of our resources that we are doing our part to help Manage and make sure the water is affordable into the future or that sort of thing so that our current idea my program Is is Something we you our customers have been exposed to recently, but it's been something. It's been underway for almost a decade so Yeah, it's it's a we did we thought there's a lot of studying One of the things that we really looked at carefully is the kind of meter that we wanted to install We did some tremendous research in selecting the meter type and the meter manufacturer wanting to go with a world Wrecking a worldwide recognized leader in metering technology. That's how we selected Census and then we also wanted to make sure we selected the right metering type of technology. There are different ways of metering water Turbines and and That sort of thing we selected technology called the positive displacement It's an oscillating piston positive displacement meter and what that means is in order to for that to really register that water water Goes into the piston fills it up And actually cause it to rotate and then discharge it So one of the really neat things about that is it's really not possible to over register the water I know that a lot of our customers disagree. I've heard about them But so so we really went into this making sure that we selected the right meters the right technology the right partner to get our program really launched and We as a city and under under Chris's leadership and Kara's leadership. We operate As best we can like like a business out in the private world We want to we want to make sure that we're being good stewards of resources when I make sure that our products are the highest quality we want to make sure that we're Producing keeping our rates affordable, you know, that's that's our back and we want to we really Care about our customers. We want to be transparent. We want you to feel confident in the services. We're providing so advanced metering infrastructure is is as Chris was alluding to earlier a best management practice Recommended by the Texas Water Development Board as a means of not only conservation, but equitability and be in metering and also ensuring affordability, so it's really Tremendous value in doing that and one of the the easiest To observe impacts is Really not not let me back up a little bit our decision to move forward with advanced metering infrastructure with my H2o Was is is that it's really a fundamental business transformation for us as a utility It's changing the way we do business and we'll get kind of get to a little bit of that a little bit later But one of the most visible means of of seeing that is in our remote reading technology that we've deployed So before AMI we actually had a contract with the vendor that went out and manually read meters And then they had to you know, punch those meter those readings into a handheld device bring that back and have it uploaded into a computer system But it was it was a manual process and it was the potential for misreads and the like was there with with AMI and Remote reading technology we are able to get those readings You know hourly instead of once a month, but then also remotely through our Transmitter that's part of your meter installation that right transmits through a remote network interface through through a Series of radio towers that then transmits it into our meter data management system. So again, we're able to Observe meter readings on an hourly basis and and so that allows us to do a lot of things Before we only had Your bill was taking the current month in minus The last month and that was the amount of water that you assessed for billing all oftentimes our customers would question those bills and We've actually done some studies that looked at high bill complaints before AMI and hike Meter installs and high me and high bill complaints after AMI and it's interesting that prior to AMI about five percent Of our customers would complain and it within a given year over in particularly in summer months when people are using more water Those customers that have the advanced metering infrastructure that the new meters installed That that number drops literally to two percent It's a vocal two percent And and honestly not everyone calls but when your meter Bills go up it gets gets customers attention in some cases those meter readings jumped pretty considerably Just briefly one of the things that we discovered in the process of exchanging meters Is that we had a class of meters that under-registered significantly and more than we anticipated actually They stopped registering when Under high flow conditions such as when you would turn on an irrigation system The meters would the meters would register fine at normal use you know normal day to day use But the second you know the second a customer turned on an irrigation system They stopped registering so a number of our customers that have irrigation systems Honestly, we're getting free water for a long time. So the new meters that have been installed you know Catch that right so and and so when we a lot of our customers again We want to be transparent. We tried to help customers understand what's going on So we we've done things like put a calculator on on the website That helps customers to really understand how much water their irrigation systems are using So one of the things that I again my scientific nerdy brain goes it goes and looks at is how much water Does an irrigation system use and what we by design most irrigators will Design their systems to work to use 15 gallons a minute And so every minute your irrigation system is running. It's using 15 gallons of water So when you start thinking about how most customers are going to be using the irrigation systems Three hours a day two days a week just doing the math there you end up with about 16 CCF of water It's you know about 20,000 gallons of water that most irrigation systems are being they're using So if you've been a customer that's had an irrigation system and your summer water bills were in the four or five CCF per month range That that you know just doing the math you can you can see where you weren't being charged for that irrigation water So again, we wanted to help explain it But but one of the neat things about a mi into a question that I heard earlier Is how do you get a get your hands on that data? the current the data as it currently exists goes through from your meter into our Meter data management system and into a database where we can actually track and monitor and share the data right now It's it's sort of on a case-by-case basis if you have a question We're glad to pull that up for you share it with you right now It's email of probably a PDF and we can pretty some graphs and some nice reports for you When and when fully deployed with our portal that I think we're hoping that if I don't keep talking all night That Sandy will have an opportunity to Share with you what the portal look like the portal will allow you to see that that usage on a near real-time basis So basically Every six hours that meter will communicate with our system and upload that data Once a day is she will be uploading that into the our customer portal So about a day behind probably is what what you'll be looking at that able to see the data You'll be able to set up alerts That's what to let you know if you've got a leak or you can kind of set up a water budget If you want to use a certain amount of water and have it alert sent to you by your preferred method of communication You'll be able to do that and so whether that's email or text or or That sort of thing you'll be able to set up those as as preferences in your in your account. So We're really we're getting close to our portal launch and so I know a lot of you will be looking for that I'm really looking forward to it So that the data is is compelled compelling though Now one of the things that that the data can tell us is how much water you use in a given hour It doesn't really tell us how you're using the water just that the water is being used and and we've we've over time We've sort of learned to recognize patterns Irrigation systems usage has a pattern if somebody's using it appropriately, you know twice so twice a week and You know three to three hours a day You can you can see those patterns. You can see what time of day they're running how much water was used during that hour And one of the things that I think is really neat that we've been able to do in advance of the portal launch Is we can see when there's a leak or we know what we call continuous use? Is so when water is being used at a rate we the parameters we've set on our current algorithm is such that If we have water being used continuously at a rate about one cubic feet per Hour for more than 72 hours we create it's as pretty it's gets funneled to us in a report We're actually mailing customers An advisory to saying hey, you know, we've we've observed this Situation in your water consumption. You might want to take it and evaluate whether or not you have a leak and and on it We were seeing about 1.5 almost 2% at times of our customers at any given time have a leak And that's significant I mean so typically when when we get a high bill complaint We see one of three situations as we evaluate what's going on. We see potential for continuous use or leak We see irrigation use or a combination of the two Those are the primary things that we see when we're talking with customers about about high bills So a leak is something is and oftentimes from what customers that they've had their plumbers out They don't see a leak they've checked things out, but when what we often tell our customers is a leaking a toilet a running toilet a flapper valve that's not sealing well or a Float that's not properly seeding Those can use a quarter of a gallon a minute up to a gallon a minute And when you look at 1440 minutes a day a quarter gallon a minute a day is over 300 gallons times 30 days You're looking at a lot of water 9,000 10,000 gallons a month just on a small toilet leak if you got a gallon a minute leak You're looking at 43,000 gallons that can be in that they can go it can be used and we see that a lot and so so one of the things that Came out of our customer concerns last year early early in the deployment process was You know we didn't know and and and so we actually developed a One-time after meter exchange Credit for customers. So it's it allows you our customer to get used to the sort of new reality of What the impact is of irrigation usage on your water bill? We've now we've traditionally had two other billing adjustment credits that were made available one of those is an undefined high-use or a Leak adjust leak repair adjustments So we've had those kind of adjustments available to customers in the years past And and and really those were intended because we only were getting one meter reading a month and customers might not be aware of the fact that they had a leak until You know they get the water bill and then it's you know You might it might even go run the course of two months that before you really catch on that you had that leak so we want to be want to give our customers the option to To make those repairs and kind of sort of split that cost difference with you a little bit So those leaks those adjustments are available the and then the one time after meter exchange Adjustment something we did wanted to do to sort of soften the blow of the new meters But again, we you know making the data available helping you understand your water consumption is what we want to be about Again, it's it's What we don't want and it related to the affordability aspect of water is customers that are using a lot of water They're their bill being subsidized by customers that Are not so you want we want to be fair equitable in our solution and in the meters these meter replacements dollars to do that so a lot of information to me pretty quick and Think I'm pretty close to being done before we start to answer questions But just the AMI program I mentioned that it was a fundamental business transformation So there's the meter replacement aspect of it the data collection and data mining that we can do that the It's affecting our ability and influencing our ability to water monitor water loss So water loss is Something that we have to report to the state It's the amount of water we produce versus the what amount of water for which we collect Payment revenue and so we've been pretty negative that number has been pretty highly negative So we're under collecting But on the basis of amount of water we Produce so a lot a lot of customers that were complaining that you're these new meters are gonna make you know They're over registering well even with the new meter replacement. There's still a certain amount of water loss We're not over-collecting. We're not collecting more money for water than that which we're producing and it's been pretty significant So the metering that the technology that we're able to introduce allows us to affect our water loss and our That and the efficiency of an op it allows us to optimize our organization so we're Along many different facets We're developing a data lake that will help us to Inform our engineering sections or other other parts of the department and in terms of making data-driven decisions I mean that's that's what we're about in this It's just there's so much more to my H2O that I'd love to take time to talk about but I'm not even about clues about time It is but Kara Chris anything y'all would want to mention that I haven't that Let's get to the demos So so maybe two quick questions and then we'll let Marty show you some things and we'll take some more questions at that point Yes, ma'am So great question, I'm not an engineer I am a scientist and I've got an engineer over here, but let me try just real quick so The pressure in the system is there to make sure that we can get water to all the parts of the distribution system Where we need it your proximity to the either pump station or to the towers means that you are your pressure is going to be a little higher the plumbing code Requires that if your pressure at the meter is greater is 80 psi or greater it's your responsibility customer to install a pressure reducing valve to lower that pressure to below 80 psi so You know again, we're trying to meet system-wide demands With a district with a common distribution system That means that there are going to be some customers with higher pressure in their zones Or the customer is going to have lower pressure We have we have a certain a minimum level at which we are that we have to operate at And then we have them. There's a maximum But generally that that maximum is going to be set by the tower levels and over the pump pumps that are running again We have some areas that have 120 psi is kind of the highest I've seen but Again if it's higher than 80 customers are required to have and maintain a pressure reducing valve at on your side of the meter Yes So so Try to make a point and that is the the meter in the meter box really is for the city The pressure reducing valves should not be installed in the meter box there That's private plumbing and these be installed outside the meter box Yeah, along with that pressure reducing valve customers should have by plumbing code a Separate shut off valve to be able to manage the water at your at your premises a lot of customers have them Don't know the where they are they the houses have been there for a lot of years They've been covered up with dirt or they're in the flower beds and people just can't find them But we really don't want you in the meter box We at we accept and understand and if you in an emergency situation you've got to use that that curb stops to shut off your water But that's not that's not what it's for and invite by city code You shouldn't be in that box. So if you have questions about your pressure You know, we can we can tell you what the ambient pressure is in your area, but at your specific house Really, it's gonna be a private plumber that's gonna need to assess that for you and I get one. Yes, sir I Yeah, sure we can do that and if you'd like we can give it to you councilmember Williams and You can distribute it, but just to talk about system pressure in general So you I mentioned to this pump station over here ultimacy pump station installed in the 70s We have a russum ranch pump station installed in the 40s. There's the new McCart pump stations installed in 2006 russum ranch and ultimacy the pump stations that Have been used historically to fill the Armstrong ranch tank. That's tank was installed in the 60s So really the distribution pressure within this area has been Pretty much the same for decades But the distribution pressure is controlled by the elevation of the tank So those pump stations pump up to the tank to fill up the tank So there's some slight pressure Differentials between if the level of the tank is high or the level of the tank is low There's usually 35 feet of working ball working height within a tank So there's minor changes depending on what the pumping rate is and also what the tank elevations are But what we can do is we can provide a a pressure contour map that will basically Factor in the ground surface elevation to give you a contours of what the system pressure will be in this area All right So Marty, I think we're going to turn it over to you or do you have anything else Jerry? All right, so this is our demo of some of the data and how we can utilize it Thank You Chris again. My name is Marty Barker. I'm the a and my administrator here for the city of Fort Worth I can't say that I've been with the city for 20 years because I haven't I'm fairly new to the area, but I've been in the water utility business for the past 30 years So I've been around this a lot and I've seen a lot and this is actually a second AMI system that I've been involved with So I'm just thrilled to be a part of this and I appreciate you coming out tonight I understand things have changed for you since that new meter came in and That's that impacts you greatly and that's why you're here tonight And we want to be able to help you understand What this does for you what this does as far as water consumption analysis how we can see it how we can monitor it and Then you can make decisions based on what you see and at the end of this sandy will come up and talk to you a little bit about the Portal that again is something that you'll have in your hands. It's a tool That's going to help you as you monitor your water usage Again, I've been around the water utility business for 30 years and that's why I'm excited about AMI because Again, what was mentioned earlier about Jerry had mentioned with readings You get one reading one month and one the next month and that's how much water you use But with the AMI system we have a tool and you will soon have a tool that you can see your hourly consumption And see how much water you're actually using when it comes to your irrigation when it comes to inside usage And if you have what we call constant usage, which could potentially be a leak that warns you of that So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take you through some slides that I have and these are pictures graphs demonstrations of hourly consumption and What I've taken is I've just randomly pulled from different customers that we have within the system that Will show a typical Summertime billing period so again our billing period is 30 days give or take a day or so But usually it's a 30 days worth of water usage that you get billed for and that's what I want to demonstrate for you and show you and different aspects of what I want to show you is Patterns in usage that you'll see based on this chart that comes from irrigation systems and I don't know how many of you here tonight have an irrigation system But usually when you set it up the water comes on at a certain time Every day that it's programmed for a certain period of time and then shuts off and you'll see that in this demonstration of Irrigation patterns of people's water coming on at a certain time and the amount of the water that's being used and then with that as we go Through this I'll show you With the water meter the new meter that's in place and that irrigation pattern or that consumption pattern that you'll see and the total consumption that was used during that time period and then compare it to the same time period last year and maybe even the year before of The consumption that was used for that homeowner with the old meter and we'll be able to do some comparative analysis so let me let me open up my computer here and We'll take a look at these and Again, this is going to be something similar to what you'll see With the portal So this is our first one and I just want to demonstrate again This is and I apologize if it's a little small a little weak or hard to see But you'll see from August the 3rd to September the 1st and then this particular one it does Show an hourly consumption again It's going to be hourly and we bill in cubic hundreds of cubic feet But this graph and your portal will show consumption in single cubic feet And or gallons as well. You can see it in gallons But in our system what we have we see it in cubic feet because we're really trying to compare apples to apples of what we build a customer And then what we see Granulated down from hundreds of cubic feet down to a single cubic foot so to just Just review on that a hundred cubic feet is approximately seven hundred forty eight gallons of water One cubic foot is approximately seven point four eight gallons of water So for this particular customer You can see the spikes in usage up to almost a hundred and eighty cubic feet in one hour so you can see them each time consistent and Oftentimes again, that's from irrigation systems because we all know that if we run our own sprinkler systems with the hose We may run it for 20 minutes one day and 45 minutes the next and forget and run it the third day and leave it on for an hour It's just all over the place, but when we have an irrigation system We can set it and it make sure that it's consistent and this is what it shows in this particular demonstration Sometimes I can So let me show you the next one So here's here's a customer as you can see there's multiple spikes here Which indicates they're watering quite often from a sprinkler system And what I wanted to demonstrate is again Here's here's their bill the billing periods from July 14th to August the 16th with the total consumption used of 34.2 ccf Now this was at the new meter because the new meter was installed on the 28th of May and this is coming after Again, this is the heart of irrigation season. We all know it's a little warm in July and in August So water is going to be used But then what I wanted to show is the previous two years same billing period same time frame For the August bill of 2020 they use 9.2 and for 2019 they use 6.4 Probably didn't change anything with their irrigation system or with their yard. It's probably pretty close to the same But it does give you a comparison of what? The old meter as Jerry spoke earlier the old meter that was and has been and I just wanted to say real briefly in my 30 years of Being in the water utility. That's all I've known as positive displacement meters So when I came to the city of Fort Worth and I learned of the multi-jet master meter that was in place It was fairly new to me and learned again. It was more designed for residential use and not for irrigation use So to me positive displacement has been all that I've known and I've been around at my whole life in the water utility business and It's proven to be a rock solid meter It's a positive displacement. Absolutely. Okay, so let me keep going because we're short on time Again, I just wanted to do these these examples of what I found here's another typical residential and again July 21st to August the 16th Total consumption was 48.2 ccf Compared to their previous two years at that same time of 6.6 and 11.2 You can see the big spikes in consumption and we all know that it's coming from irrigation We do have a couple of systems and one of our system with it does show a temperature Pattern along with that and it does demonstrate that yes But again, that's a lot of times a home owners depending on their controller a Lot of the older controllers do have some of them have the old radon sensors that are out there Sometimes they work. Sometimes they don't Newer controllers that often times can come on your phone and as a phone app those take in a weather Pattern as well and when weather systems come in that they shut your system off completely and That's amazing thing to be able to utilize this particular Customer as you can see these they're small because there's so many of them But look at the total consumption 147.5 ccf Wow, that's a lot of water So they called and we're concerned about their bill which I understand I would do it's like what's going on here so this is for July 14th through August the 12th and They called around the time that they received their bill which is about the middle of August and So there's notes on their account to say well, we've noticed you've been watering quite a bit You might want to cut back on your watering So we look at their consumption history for the next billing period and what do we find? They did just that So you can see where they really ramped it down here and then completely shut it off here So 30 days August 12th through September 11th when the irrigation systems almost shut off Consumption is 11.3 ccf So you can see how much irrigation can use in total water consumption one more slide and This is one where the system again the beauty of the system it picks up constant usage Potential leak Sometimes those leaks can come in our toilets when we don't even know it and it runs down the drain and we never see it It we don't know it exists, but it happens and a lot of water can be used This system gives us that ability and that's what the portal will also help you do Set up alarms for yourself. So if you have constant water usage for six seven hours straight Then you say wow, that's not typical. I shouldn't be using water like that on a regular basis You'll be notified and the beauty of that as you get notified sooner rather than later when you receive your bill It's like why is my bill so high? Well, I had a leak for the last 30 days. Well here You'll be able to pick it up for much sooner So as you can see almost over half of their billing period they had this leak They learned of it got it taken care of But their total bill usage was 46 cubic feet or 46 CCF for that billing period and again Most of that is attributed to because they had constant usage There's some irrigation spikes early on but most of it's constant usage So the next billing period after they get or not full billing period because it starts at October the 8th So I just took from October the 8th up till today And you can see they had a little bit of consumption here for some sort of irrigation But other than that they got that constant usage fixed and over 13 days not quite a billing period yet They've only used 4.8 CCF So you can really see what happens in usage when you have a constant Leak, we don't really like to call it a leak because we don't know Where water is being used all we know that there's constant usage every hour on the hour so again, this is Just some examples of what consumption analysis looks like for different customers Again, the the most water really when it comes down to it that you use that we don't realize how much is being used is through our irrigation systems and Once we learn that we can then modify that make adjustments There's better controllers out there. Maybe that you can look into I Have one on my phone that I do monitor my sprinkler system and it does tell me if there's a weather pattern coming I got rain it shuts off. I'm not using it tells me how much water actually saved by not having it on So it's there's just so much new technology out there that really helps us and that's why I'm excited about this That's why I like this it gives you guys a tool to say how can I manage my water better? I can still have a green yard But maybe I water a little less a little less often a little different time of the day and I can still manage that and Make it what I want it to be and yet conserve again as Chris talked about this the AMI the Mike's 2.0 project really Stims a lot from how can we be good stewards of our water? How can we promote conservation? How can we really monitor and watch that closely? And this system really does that for us and it helps us So we have questions by all means yes, sir When the usage went down with new meters I don't think went down, but we have examples of where it's pretty much stayed the same And a lot of that was when customers that didn't have outside irrigation. They really didn't see much difference Yeah, so I was just gonna Repeat just exactly what Kara said there the biggest predictor in terms of the water usage is whether right You know when it's a hot dry folks just turn on their systems or use outdoor You know this the walking sprinklers and just really have no Concept of how much water they're using the slide that that Marty put up there that showed the the continuous use Say again Rates for Gotcha sounds like wastewater water so so We charge Commercial customers their wastewater is the same I get there We charge wastewater based on the amount of water they use if you get fused 10 gallons of water We're gonna bail your wastewater on for 10 gallons residential customers We use what's called a winter quarter average to set what your wastewater rate is So we know that customers in the in the summer months are using a lot of water and for irrigation purposes And in some cases 98% of the water used in the summer months in most cases that have High bills you hit with irrigation systems 98% of the water used in summer months is is irrigation So we don't want you to pay an irrigation bill based on water that's going on your I mean We don't want you paying sewer bills based on how much water is going on your lawn So what we do is we take those winter quarter months when most likely irrigation systems are turned off and we use that period of time as a It's a study to it to really set the rate that we're going to be charging you for the rest of year for for wastewater Every customer should be paying a wastewater charge that that if most customers are going to be in the 10,500 gallons up again, I think it's about five five to six CCF Is what your wastewater rate should be if you're at a hundred dollars a month new one wastewater We need to probably look at that AT&T bus Yeah, let's let's let me look at that. I'll give you my card. Give me a shout Well, and I'm gonna I can Absolutely bet we have all of our calls recorded to go in our call center I will listen to them if they're when there's coaching opportunities. I want to address that Well, we'll listen to those calls and we'll look for some coaching opportunities Let's the main thing is let's get your your costs fixed and then I'll certainly address the the customer concerns But yeah, if you're at a hundred dollars on your wastewater for residential We need to we need to address that and we will we'll make that right for you Great question So obviously this is new technology and it's a process that incorporates numerous different systems, right? So we are incorporating our billing system data We've got our payment processor that has to be a partner in this so it's numerous vendors that are coordinated So we actually kicked off this project About 18 months ago and we have been working on it since then We have gone through and we're in our second round of final acceptance testing But it's really critical that everything is working properly, especially because it involves Customer wallets that will transfer from an old payment system to a new one So we want to make sure that your bill is represented properly that you're not having to reset your payment methods That all auto pays transfer correctly. So that testing period is really critical. So we have a weekly call with our vendor Everything has been configured. It is testing and then correcting any any issues that arise from that testing at this stage Right because the portals not running yet Right so the idea is that the portal is the tool that is available to all of our customers to see their data And yes The intent was to have that to you in late spring when we went through that first round of user acceptance testing It wasn't ready to go and so we have had to go back and work with our vendors and ensure that it is Where it needs to be to give you the data that you need and the accuracy and protection of payments So we can certainly work with specific customers if you've got some some questions again if you want to look at your data monthly or But where we are very close But you know it's hard to put in a date on it because again We want to make sure that we can meet that date and that our vendor is providing everything we need So we really need to have a firm schedule in order to be able to tell you that so what we have done is we've prepared all the marketing materials They're ready to go. We have Videos on how to use the system how to access it those kinds of things so everything is ready to go Once we can confirm that the data is accurate and that what the customer sees and Sandy's gonna walk through what it what it will look like That's what triggers the notifications to our customers and Sandy you can speak to that a little bit more in terms of What that rollout looks like so there is a full rollout to educator customers and let you know it's available Right and Sandy you might want to speak to that a little bit, but we do have everything Ready to go. We just don't want to send anything out in terms of providing a date If we're not a hundred percent sure that we're comfortable releasing it So let's let Sandy to speak to the overall communications plan and share a little bit about the portal Trust me. We are going to make a huge splash Pun intended When when this portal is you'll get mailings it'll be all over social media It'll be bill inserts and it will be ads You'll know it When I'm showing you is I Have been part of the testing of the portal and this was the account that they gave me to do the testing on it So that's what you are seeing a test account and this is the main page. You can see You'll be able to pay the bill There's some redundancy if you don't want to register and get Into the portal itself to have it to operate it. You can just go to this web page and you'll be able to pay it We have our a lot of FAQs our terms of services there and our private policy So I'm going to sign on and we'll go to this page and we'll have tabs across the front This is the home page on this. Please ignore this guy's name and address it's not real anyway, but He doesn't have any an account to it this time, but you can several places where you can go you can view your bill from here No, I'm just showing you some of the features, but this your bill will show up on here like this, okay? And I'll get to that. You'll have your account where you have all your account information you and you'll have a To the left on the side going down your payment your All your settings and stuff your notification preferences that you can set you'll go here to set your notification preferences How you want to be contacted and I'll show you where you can set up the alert as well Billing I'm just kind of going from tab to tab You'll be able to link several accounts like if you have a couple different accounts You won't have to go to a different portal page that you'll be able to pay all your bills If you have several different water account like if you for rental houses and you pay or you pay for an elderly parent You can watch their bills and pay their bills for them if you're a caretaker. You'll be able to manage all that My test account unfortunately doesn't have the hourly showing they took that one away from me But this is what it will look I like This is on a monthly basis. There will be a Tab here that will show hourly And this is one of the things Kara was talking about we want a perfect We're we're supposed to have the weather Temperatures and stuff that will go on top of this graph too that she was referring to And this is where you'll set your usage alerts If you don't want your bill to go over a certain amount You'll be able to set your bill amounts and that we will send you an alert when You're getting close to that amount We will also do that for your usage if you only want to why are you laughing? Well, no, we don't turn it off you're turning it off You can set your usage amounts that how much you want to use that month like say you don't want to get we have some customers who Operate on very little water and they don't want to go over a certain amount every month And they'll be able to set that and we'll send them alert when we're they're getting close to that amount So what do you just put drinking water for the last four days of the month? No, that's up to you how you want to manage. This is a conservation part of a conservation program Well You would have to go back and look at your usage to see how you're using the water, you know Maybe maybe your irrigation system switch to a different setting and you're not realizing It's going off one night And when you thought you had turned it off for that night That will show up on the hourly you'll be able to go in and say why I don't have that set for Wednesday night as my water running You know, we do have some cases where people steal water from their neighbors Yeah So you'll be able to see like in the middle of the night And it's just a matter of looking at how you use your water That's up to you. We're we can't tell you how to use your water Yeah, you know maybe to combine more clothes and one Load of wash instead of doing three loads of wash things like that We will have not in this rollout because we do want to get it out We will have conservation tips Well, we will have conservation, you know information about our conservation programs that you will be able to access on the portal You'll be able to communicate with us and get that kind of information. Yes This is just a real high Yeah, I know I was just saying this is just a real because I know we're running out of time, right Jared. Yeah, I'm sorry What's your question? Okay, my life does not revolve around the forward water department And I support the US Post Office. Can I get a monthly bill period in the mail? Yeah, you still get a mail Yeah, you can choose to go paperless But if you still want the bill you will still get the bill Yeah, okay. Oh, yeah, I'm the same way. Yeah I would just like to say that just over the last few days. I've been dealing with the last three months being very high I think I'm a victim of the irrigation not registered previously to this Well, one thing I do want to say is every representative I spoke with at the water department has done an exceptional job And I want to commend that department. Thank you All right, let's give it up for our water team. They really answered a lot of questions today so So the the giveaways and the chairs are yours if you see an extra one in the chair give it to a kid that you know in the Neighborhood, I'm sure they would really love it Kindle and I have taken a lot of notes also on the issues that you'll raise. We've heard about water pressure We've heard about wastewater And as many of y'all were interested in the lead pipe replacement program as well So and we are also doing our due diligence to try to address some of your concerns from a council level Where possible? Also, our water department team will still be here after today's conversation So if you would like to connect with them about some more specific issues related to you know, your residents They'll certainly be here to exchange contact information so that y'all can connect later on. Yes, sir Are we Yes, sir, they'll be staying here after the event so you can ask them some technical questions as well Well definitely thank y'all again for coming out like I said These listening circles are really designed so that we can connect y'all in the neighborhood directly with the people Who can help you with some of the issues that you're facing today. It's about water We'll have another listening circle here in a couple weeks. That'll be on transportation and public works Kindle am I correct in that that? Listening circle will be at Hallmark Baptist Church So it'll be on Thursday, November 4th from 6 to 7 p.m. At Hallmark Baptist Church. That'll be on That conversation will be in partnership with the transportation and public works department. We'll be talking about Speeding and we'll be talking about traffic infrastructure And all things related to that will also be talking about some of the infrastructure improvements that we're making All throughout the district and so if you've had issues or if you have ideas with that topic Please come out to that listening circle as well again listening circles are designed to connect you all directly with the Experts in the city of Fort Worth that can help you solve some of the issues that you and your neighborhood are facing So the more that you can come out to our listening circles the better we can get at solving the issues that the neighborhoods are facing Again, thank you all so much for attending tonight I hope that we were able to answer many of your questions And if we weren't please connect with us after I will be sticking around with my district director Kindle lock and we'll also share our information with you as well for those of you are on social media Please follow our council page. It's at jared Williams TX. That's where we give a lot of updates About these type of events. Also, please feel free to share your information with us I think there's a sign-in sheet flowing around We also have email updates and we do robo calls so you can hear my voice every now and then Personally inviting you to events like this. So again, thank y'all and we look forward to seeing you out the next one Thank y'all take care


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It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important issues of the hour, brought to you every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a presentation of the Lawn Jean Wittner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Wittner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening. This is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? CBS News Correspondents Larry Lisser and Bill Costello. Our distinguished guest for this evening is the honorable Mike Mansfield, United States Senator from Montana. Sometimes it seems as though the Republican Party is pacific-minded, whereas the Democratic Party, at least when it was in power, was and is European-minded. But the voice of our guest tonight is just to be beginning to be heard on the subject of the Pacific. Senator Mansfield is the leading Democratic expert on the Pacific, on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Mansfield, I recall that you served as a Marine as a young man in China, and now that you're on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, do you feel that the policy of the United States is a bipartisan one in regard to the Pacific? Larry, I certainly do. I think as a matter of fact that the President feels more at ease, more at home, has shown more courage and more patience since the election last November, and the Democrats took over than he did before. I think he has gotten away from his desire to cry and get along with the extreme right wing of his party, and in the person of Senator George, a great American as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he feels more confidence and he is showing the traits of leadership which the American people thought he had when they elected him two years ago. Does this mean that you're satisfied with our foreign policy as it points towards the Formosa and Straits in Southeast Asia? Yes, I am satisfied with the policy of late, though I must admit that I certainly was not satisfied with it in the beginning. I didn't like the idea of the President saying on January the 20th, 1953 that the Seventh Fleet was being withdrawn from the Straits of Formosa where it was protecting the Chinese Communists on the mainland. I'm delighted that tonight Secretary Dulles did give President Truman credit for stationing the fleet in the Formosa Straits for the purpose of protecting Chong on Formosa itself. I think that we made mistakes at Geneva and elsewhere, but within the past eight, nine months the foreign policy of this administration has been sound and I think it's been carried out on a good bipartisan basis. Well, Senator Mansfield, do you think that the administration is on solid ground in estimating communist intentions in Asia as a basis for policy? That is, do you think that they regard their Chinese intentions as for peace or for war? Bill, it's a hard question to answer, but I think that Eisenhower is a man of peace fundamentally. I believe him when he says that there is no alternative to peace. I think he is taking a calculated risk and that in his mind there is a good possibility that peace may be achieved through the Formosa resolution, through the treaty with Chiang Kai-shek and through the policy which he has pursued with the help of the United Nations. Well, will the Reds meet him halfway? That remains to be seen. If they do not, of course, that means war and if it means war, it might mean more than war on the China mainland for us because we have the Sino-Soviet Treaty of 1950 which you know has been emphasized very much in the past three weeks and we have other complications to think of such as the resumption of the war in Korea and the stepping up of activities in Indochina. Well, Senator, do you agree with Senator Humphrey that we should clear up the mystery on whether we're going to defend those coastal islands which are near to the Chinese mainland, which I believe are the largest ones, Matsu and Kimoy? Not at this time. I think that we have to place a certain amount of trust in Mr. Dulles and President Eisenhower and as long as they have all the powers which have been delegated to them under the resolution and the treaty with Formosa or rather with the Nationalist China, I think we ought to allow them a little bit in the way of Li Wei and let them exercise their best judgment so that if possible some degree of stabilization can be achieved in the far eastern area and some settlement which they think worthwhile can be brought about. Well, since John Kyshek has put one-third of his combat forces on those small islands along the coast, how could the United States fail to defend them? Well, it would depend if the resolution which the New Zealanders have offered in the United Nations is finally accepted. I don't believe the door has been shut on it entirely. Then of course it may be that in the minds of the administration there's some intangible such as a quid pro quo by means of which Chong would perhaps withdraw from some of the offshore islands anyway in that way ensuring the security and the defense of the Pescadores and Formosa. If however the Chinese Reds launch an attack against Kimoy, Matsu and the other offshore groups which we would deem to be in preparation for an attack on the Pescadores and Formosa then it would be war and no question about it. Well, Senator, do you consider Formosa as a geographic entity absolutely vital to the security of this country in the Pacific or is it vital as a symbol of a people who have fought against communism on our side and lost? The answer to both questions would be that I do think that it is a part of our island defense chain extending from the Aleutians down through Japan, Okinawa, Formosa to the Philippines and from there to Southeast Asia and to the Southwest Pacific. I think it's also a symbol of a people who have held out against the communist menace for many years and I think that as long as we are bound to a disposition, a finalist position of Formosa that we are bound also under the terms of the treaty which we just concluded with the Nationalist Government to protect it. After all, no one really owns Formosa at the present time. It is the property of the victorious allies. There has been no conveyance of deed or title and until its final status is settled then I think we do have to protect it. I do think it's vital in the American chain of defense, the island barrier extending along that part of the Pacific. Senator Mansfield, speaking of this island chain, do you think we have enough reliable allies in Asia to defend that line or any other? No, I do not, Bill. I think we have reliable allies in South Korea, a good-sized army of 600,000 there. We haven't got much of an army in the Japanese Empire at the present time, though I understand that prospects are that it will increase gradually. We have a fair-sized army in the Philippines, probably 54,000 Filipinos, and then you have Chong with something like 600,000 troops of which I understand probably 300,000 can be considered as effective. In Southeast Asia, we haven't got a great deal. The French have something like 140,000 men left in Indochina. The native Vietnamese army doesn't amount to a great deal as yet, though I imagine that its training will be stepped up very shortly and its effectiveness become more pronounced. Cambodia and Laos have it much in the way of armed forces, and then from there you have to go all the way down to Australia and New Zealand, where I understand the Australians have something like 100,000 and the New Zealanders something like 50,000 men. We have lots of friends, but nothing much in the way of strong allies in that part of the world. Senator Mansfield, I'd like to go back to something you said earlier. May, you said that something about clearing up the future status of Formosa, does that mean that you think it's possible to envisage a situation in which there would be two Chinas, or at least a Republic of Formosa and mainland China? Well, that is a possibility. No one can tell what will happen until the final status. The deed of conveyance, so to speak, has been drawn up as far as Formosa and the pescadoris are concerned. However, I would say that this government in seeking the help of the United Nations to bring about a ceasefire in the states of Formosa by that fact has indeed accorded a further degree of recognition to communist China and has implied at least that there are two Chinas, because if the UN is going to carry on negotiations, naturally those negotiations will be between Red China on the one hand and Nationalist China on the other. As a Democrat, do you think you could have done this if a Democratic administration were in power? Do you think you could have made this move without bringing the wrath of the right-wing Republicans down on your head? Not at all, Larry, and I will say that a lot of the right-wing Republicans are not too happy about their own administration standing this matter, but had a Democrat been in there, well, the House would have been set on fire. Senator, I'd like, if I may, just to shift for a moment to Southeast Asia. You were down there last fall just after we saw each other in Manila and you visited South Vietnam. What do you think has to be done or can be done to save South Vietnam from communism? Bill, we can't afford to allow South Vietnam to go by default. The only thing we can do, as was recommended last September, is to give our full support to Joe Dinh Diem, the present Premier, who has been struggling under tremendous difficulties to bring about order out of chaos and to bring some degree of real independence to the state of South Vietnam. He has had to overcome the obstinacy of Bao Dai. He's had to break down the army under General Hinh. He's had to combat the sex, but this man who has great integrity, who is honest, and who has a real sense of duty, is at last beginning to show that he has the necessary wherewithal by means of which the people of South Vietnam can be welded together into a national unit and I think our policy is paying off. Senator Mansfield, when we made this congressional resolution and also went to the United Nations with a resolution to neutralize those offshore islands, it seemed to me that we confronted the Chinese communists with a pair of aces, but they didn't seem to be impressed and they apparently raised a bit a bit. Now, am I mistaking this game? Is there a showdown coming now or is this, with your familiarity with negotiation, is this a bargaining period? Well, I would say that this is the bargaining period. No one should expect the Chinese communists to say yes or no just as soon as a proposition is advanced to them, such as the New Zealand resolution. However, while they turned down the New Zealand resolution, they did say that they would consider the Russian resolution if they were given a seat on the Security Council. Well, both of those are out of the question, absolutely, but it does indicate that as far as the communists are concerned that they have not shut the door completely and that they are open for more bargaining. After all, as Bill Costello knows far better than I, the Chinese are great at bargaining and I would look forward to some weeks of tossing the ball back and forth before a final decision or settlement has arrived at. Thank you very much, Senator Mansfield. It's a pleasure to hear from you tonight. Pleasure, Bill. The opinions expressed on the Launcine Chronoscope were those of the speakers. The editorial board for this edition of the Launcine Chronoscope was Larry Lecer and Bill Costello. Our distinguished guest was the Honorable Mike Mansfield, United States Senator from Montana. Launcine is the world's most honored watch and by any standard of comparison, Launcine is ranked as the highest achievement in modern watchmaking. 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