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we go from here. So I'll just call on people to introduce them. So I'm Paul Backelman, Town Manager. I'll go to Mike. Sure, I'm Mike Morris, Superintendent of Schools. And why don't I call in the next person then at the end of your introduction you get to call in whoever you like. I like that. So why don't I go to Steve? To me? Yeah. I'm Steve Schreiber, I'm the Counselor from District 4. And my other job is I'm the Professor and Chair of Architecture at UMass. And I'll call on Kathy Sheing. Thank you Steve. I'm also a Counselor. I'm a Counselor from District 1 and I'm on the Finance Committee. So we picked two counselors. One had to come from the Finance Committee. Who do you choose, Kathy? I'll pick Sean. This is fun. I am Sean Mingano, the Director of Finance for the Towns. And I served on this type of committee last time around for Wildwood. I will call on Ben. Hello, I'm Ben. And I'm here as the Representative of the School Committee. And I'm also the Assistant Facilities Director for ARPS. With that, I'll call on Rupert Warwick-Lark. Hi, I'm Rupert. I'm the Facilities Director for the Schools. Who do you gonna call on Rupert? I'm gonna call on Allison. Hi, I'm Allison Estes. I'm the Assistant Principal at Wildwood Elementary School. And I will call on Phoebe. Hi, I'm Phoebe Mariam. I don't have a school job. I'm a parent. I live here in Amherst. And I'm, you know, happy to be here and excited to join you guys. Diane. Good morning. I'm Diane Chamberlain, Principal at Fort River School. Jonathan. Good morning. I'm Jonathan Salvon. I'm a parent of two children at Fort River. And I served on the Fort River Study Committee. And I will pick on Anthony. Anthony Delaney, Procurement Officer. And I think last. I think that's it. The one person who isn't here is Wayne Chambl, but hopefully he'll join in. We are recording. Good. And Anthony, can I make you co-host, right? Just in case anything happens. There's somebody else who is at the controls. And we do have some audience members. So the first thing we'd like, I'd like to do is see if there's any public comment. Usually we reserve public comment no more than three minutes. So let's reset, receive some, if anybody has any public comment, please raise your hand. I'll bring you in. And say none. Hopefully we have one. Or no. Yes. Irene, would you like to raise your hand? Please unmute yourself and you have three minutes. Yes. My name is Irene Lujovne. I served with Jonathan and Anthony for reverse disability stability. I would urge you, I see that you're recording. I would urge you to make these recordings public so that everybody has access to the meetings. Thank you for your comment. I'll let you manage that. Anthony, if you can. So I'm just wondering how many people have been able to get sworn in. I know that it's been tough with the kind of clerk's office. Sometimes they've dissuaded people because they're just swamped with the election. So but I know that a number of people who has, who has not been, if you've been sworn in, yes. Okay. And who's, you know, Kathy, I know hasn't. Allison has not. And Ben has not. So we have some who have not been sworn in. So what I would suggest then, one of our topics is to elect a chair and vice chair, and maybe we hold that to the next meeting when everybody has had opportunity to be sworn in. And we can make that call at the next meeting. And so the next thing we're going to do is just give an overview of the MSBA process. And Mike is going to walk through that a little bit. Yeah, I'm just going to share my screen if that's okay with you, Paul and Anthony, to show some of, let me make sure I have the right screen up. Hold on one second. How I should be able to do it. Can folks see that? Especially the graphic in the middle. So this is from the MSBA website. And this describes the process that they they work with districts. So to start with MSBA is sort of a quasi-public agency. They are funded from tax dollars. In the most recent Student Opportunity Act that passed last year, they were going to have an additional $250 million, I believe, in funding. Candidly, we all don't know exactly where the Student Opportunity Act funding sits given the current status of the world and funding in Massachusetts. But in general, they're funded from tax dollars as per statute. There's a very competitive process that we many districts submit statements of interest because there's many districts in Massachusetts who need an upgrade of their facilities. I want to thank Rupert, in particular, Ben and others who worked on our statement of interest last year. We were fortunate to be accepted into the process. Most districts that apply are not accepted into the process. Also want to thank the school committee and the town council for voting to allow our application to go in because I'll be honest, not every community supports the application because they know that the majority of the funding comes from the town, not from the MSBA. The project actually goes through. So we're fortunate, I feel like, to get in from our application. We're also fortunate to have elected officials who see the needs in our elementary school buildings and who voted to support this process moving through. So I'll go through this graphic from the MSBA website a little bit. Let me see if I can zoom in a little bit more. Hopefully that a little easier to read on people's screens. So the things that are in blue are done by districts. So that'd be us. The things that are in the greenish olive color are construction professionals. And so we are currently in the eligibility period. So at this point, we are in charge of all the work that is occurring. So one of the things about the eligibility period is forming a building committee. We're here. The district has communication with the MSBA on enrollment and enrollment projections. As that process continues, you know, Paul's been involved, someone else from the town as well looking at future population growth in the community. As that process kind of continues, we'll be sharing that. There's not really much to share at this point, but we'll be sharing that back with the building committee. So you're aware of those discussions, those conversations and where MSBA is. You know, at the end of the eligibility period, the town council needs to vote to appropriate funds to get the project started. And MSBA will have to vote that we they approve us to move on from the eligibility period into what's what's called feasibility. The reason those votes have to take place is as a financial element. Once we start forming the project team, that's adding on owner project managers and architects that are hired through a competitive process that we'll get into probably meeting or two from now. The owner project manager in particular, we would run that process ourselves. And so because there's a financial element, there needs to be votes of the district and the town are ready to move forward with that process. So once we have our owner project manager, who really helps us manage the project and our architects who helped design it, and they come with a bunch of consultants along with them, we start on a feasibility study. feasibility study is what it sounds like, you're looking at multiple options, trying to understand, you know, what should we study? What, what, you know, we'll have the enrollment. At that point, we'll work dynamically with architects and owner project managers about site information, design information, you know, Amherst being a green community, how we want to approach the net zero by law, all those things go into a feasibility study. The end of the feasibility study is a major report that's presented and voted by the committee, and then then brought to the MSPA, then looks at multiple options to study. At that point, the committee will have to have lots of discussion and community outreach should be part of all of these work to identify a specific scheme or design that it wants to pursue in more detail. feasibility study is still where there's boxes on a page, right, that are that are more or less interchangeable. That's maybe overstating it, but it's been explained to me that by architects. At schematic design, you're getting much more specific on what this building actually looks like, how exactly it sits in the land, we have a lot more tests of the land of, you know, it's getting down to a more narrow slice, both of, you know, what we're planning to do, as well as what the design looks like, still not at the construction design document level, like they're not designs that you could give to an architect, say, or to a construction company and say go. But it's a lot more specific than the feasibility study. I'm going to stop here because I've been talking a lot and see if there's questions in the first half. There's a reason why this visual is designed with the top half and a bottom half of the process, which I'll get into a second, but I thought, you know, I would pause here and see if there's questions from the committee on what I've shared today. And if people who know more than me like Rupert Ben, Jonathan about construction and others, Steve, if there's anything I'm saying that you would disagree with now's a great time. I'm very open to divergent opinions on things. So if there's something as those of you know me well, I don't always have the right language for this stuff. My wife can tell you in great detail my inability to solve simple problems in our home. But if there are any questions people have, I want to pause and see if we have it. After you had a question. Yeah, Mike, it's not a question so much about what you just described, but just some sense of timing on the project team. How long to that point to the feasibility studies and the schematic design that first that middle row? It's great question. So what I can tell you is what's typical, not necessarily what will happen here. The form of the project team, that's a bit process. So legally, that's going to take longer than people think it'll take. Because it has to be posted in, I don't know, I don't have the right words, but it has to be publicly posted. We have to solicit bids. There'll be likely a subcommittee of this group that will look at those and shortlist people to interview. There's an interview process, a public process, or allows for some nature of that of public input. At the end of that, there's a selection, there's contract negotiations, and then we do that same thing for the designer for the architect. So those processes are not week long processes. They generally take, you know, I would say six to eight weeks from start to finish in terms of putting it out, getting bids, getting proposals, excuse me, interviewing, shortlisting, finalist contract negotiation. I think all in all, when you look at eligibility period to end of the year, what I've seen most frequently is about two years. As a rough estimate, you know, some districts are able and towns are able to go quicker. Many are able to need more time. You know, and again, people in the field can definitely correct me if that feels like an incorrect estimate. But that's what I've seen in terms of some other districts, how long they've taken. I don't know if Rupert Ben, Steve, Jonathan, if you have anything that you'd want to add to that, my rough timeline of how long that would take. You know, input, I'm assuming dangerous to take that as consent, but I think for now I will.  Many of you have heard me say that many times over the last five, six years, and rushing a process and ending with a result that doesn't have broad community buy in. And our our ability to make changes throughout is really critical. So it's always balancing the urgency with making sure you get it right. That's how I sort of frame it. Does that help answer it, Kathy? Yes, thank you. Other questions anyone who has. So what I'm not being as explicit about is that there's multiple stop points. Kathy's question was a great prompt for this that we have to vote as a body. But actually MSBA has to vote for to advance us to the next phase. So even at the designer, who hires a designer? OPM, the owner, project manager is all done by this committee. There are three representatives of this committee who drive to Boston. We'll see what world we're in in the future, but it might be virtual. And the interviews for the designer occur with three representatives of the building committee. And then the rest of the voters are representatives or MSBA either employees or board members. Lead board member, but definitely employees. So even that process is not not purely our own and the stop points of the end of feasibility studying the end of schematic design involve approval of presentations and approvals from the MSBA. So that's something else that takes some time. The board meets roughly every other month. So some of it you lose time just because of when you get on the calendar. So there's other points that take more time that aren't just because of our own doing or time we need, but we need to get approval from MSBA and we need to get on their either a subcommittee calendar or their full bullet board calendar depending on the submission. Then we get to funding the project. So typically the way it would work is the MSBA agrees to fund their share of the project. You know, in general for our district like last time, it's in the neighborhood of half of the cost. So that's a lot of money. And they're going to take their time evaluating every single part of the project before they put their stamp and their commitment for funding. And the same thing will happen locally. However, you know, that'll be a local decision that's made from the community to vote it, whether that's an override or not an override will be up to the town to just the town elected officials to decide. But at one hand or another, it's going to be both of the community, their elected officials or elected officials plus the general populace to fund the project. At that point, if it's funded both at the commitments made at the MSBA level and at the community level, the architects get into detailed design, which is creating design documents that construction firms can actually utilize. The construction process, again, generally takes in the neighborhood of a year and a half to three years, depending, you know, how complex the construction process is. And completing the project is also a critical piece that there's there's evaluation at the tail end and commissioning and all that work that's less public but still matters. So on all building committees, you know, take, you know, can take upwards of six years because they may continue to meet after the kids are in the and adults are in the building because there is there are work, there is work that's occurring even after that timeframe, particularly in our project, which will likely have an intensive focus on energy efficiency. You can design all you want and then you want to test it and evaluate how it's going after the building's actually being used because, you know, we'll notice a change in energy efficiency from a shiny building or shiny renovated building that no one's in versus the actual use by human beings on a regular basis will affect the efficiency there. So that's sort of, you know, again, the nuts and bolts of the process. You know, I would encourage people, the website is massschoolbuildings.org. It's a really helpful resource. You could look at other projects that are in, you know, in design that have been approved, that are completed. There's a treasure trove of resources around that. It'll go into each module, which describe all of these rectangles in much more detail than I did today. So, you know, at this point it's a quieter period. Eligibility part we will need again to identify a cost to the feasibility study that will need to be voted at the town level. We have enrollment work that's occurring and this this this building committee needs to, you know, start meeting not as frequently as we will once we get into the project. Those are really the key points of the eligibility, but once we hire an owner project manager and a designer everything starts accelerating very very quickly. So just to foreshadow that for the committee, it may be the first couple meetings feel a little bit like this one. We're having some general high-level conversations, but the reason we're doing that is once we're, once we start going, I know from last time and from other districts, it feels like we're going pretty quick. So I wanted to just foreshadow that for everyone on the group as well as for the public who may have an interest in knowing about the pacing and it's not linear that I can assure you on the process. So I think with that unless there's further questions I'll hand it back to Paul. But, you know, please feel free, you know, and Paul and I are sort of co-chairing at the point at this moment until we get everybody sworn in and we can take a vote. If there are questions in between, you know, my email address is morrisammitarps.org, please feel free to email me anytime if you want to have a conversation, which is generally my preference these days. You know, please let me know. I'm happy to share, you know, from my experience. I won't speak for the committee. That's not my role, but but if there are specific questions I can help with, please do access me. I'm happy to do whatever orientation anyone would need as we kind of slowly enter this process. Great. Thanks, Mike. Are there questions for Mike on this so far? Great. Thanks, Mike. Also, I recognize Dwayne has joined us. Welcome. So we introduced ourselves, Dwayne. Do you want to take a minute or introduce yourself? Yes, everybody can hear me. Good morning. Hello, everybody. I'm Dwayne Chambl. I'm the out-of-school time coordinator for the district and I am happy to be here and I do apologize everybody for being late. I don't know why my eyes was seeing PM and not AM. So thank you for email. I'm like, oh my god, Paul. So I apologize. Good morning, everybody. That's good. Thanks for making the effort to get in. Also, you know, we didn't, I just want to, I didn't, I should have done this earlier, but I want to thank you all for stepping forward and taking the time. Appreciate meeting at this hour. I, this committee can decide if it wants to continue meeting at this hour or not. But it's, you know, this has been a long wait to get to this point. We're on a long journey and, you know, Mike just talked about what the journey looks like and it's, you know, we all want to get to the ribbon cutting, but that's a long wait away, many years away. But this journey, you know, this is a really important task for the town. It's something that's, the town has needed for a very, very long time and it's so exciting to get started. And this is, and you're the tangible evidence that we're moving forward. So thanks for that. That's going to take a lot of work, you know, big commitment, a lot of education of ourselves. Some people have been through it, others have not. And, and I think, you know, one of the key things is that there are no dumb questions and always ask the questions that you feel like you need your jobs. Our jobs are to represent the public in this process. The MSBA has a very strict process that they follow because they're putting in the bulk a large portion of the money in this project. And they want certain types of skill sets on the committee and we are fulfilling those, you know, procurement, architect, finance, members of the public, things like that. So I think we have a really broad-based, very strong committee, so I'm really proud of this group. So as we move forward, again, we all will have our roles, but we'll be having an owner's project manager who's really going to help us manage through this process where it's not going to all be on us. We are going to need to have someone who's done this a lot of times move forward with us. So I guess there's just some logistical things on terms of when we would like to meet, what time of day works. You know, Mike and I talked a little bit about this and we think that our next meeting could be in about a month. That'll take us it'll take us that time before we have another, you know, ready to go with the next phase of things. So maybe like either right before Thanksgiving or right after Thanksgiving. And I'm looking for people's interest. If you, we had advertised that these meetings would be a 730 in the morning to accommodate people's schedules, whether that actually works or not. And now that we're doing it, if you can raise your hands and say that was a bad idea. People want to chime in and see what they think. Just, people should. I like it. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead, Steve. I'm sorry, please. Oh, I'm sorry. I like it. Yeah, just sure that the 730 came from two places in my conversation with Paul and some of this was based on our experience at the last time. So we have a number of school staff members involved and, you know, if meetings were to occur during the workday, it complicates a lot of things for staff when we want their input. I think the second thing was for a lot of working families. Last time it was hard to do it in the kind of late afternoon or evening. There's no perfect time, but, you know, pulling some people from who are in the last group, just informally, it seemed like if we could do these meetings frequently, efficiently, in a time limit of way that worked well. There are a number of other communities we've heard from architects we've worked with who do like this, you know, before people head off to work. You know, many of us on the school side and many of you on the family side have child care responsibilities in the evening or work responsibilities in the evening and I'll be candid you get to a certain point of night, I'll be at tonight and sometimes the efficiency of how we're doing doesn't improve with as the sun goes down. So we're thinking maybe if the sun goes up might work better for us. We'll see. But that was the thinking that's not to suggest that I'm not open or we're not open to divergent opinions, but it wasn't just, you know, throw times on the stairs and see which one, you know, makes it to the top stair. It was done really thinking about some of the challenges that people experienced the last time and people routinely experience with late afternoon or early evening meetings. So that was sort of the thinking. It could be wrong headed thinking but it was at least, it tried to take into account feedback we were hearing. Phoebe, does it work okay for you? It actually does. It's probably the best time of the day between work and three kids and everything else. So yeah. And Allison and Diane, fits your schedules? Okay. Okay. So while we, is there, you know, let's stay with us at 7 30 a.m., let's look at a, you know, I think that we're best off looking at, you know, I think we might, next meeting, one of our agenda items will be to elect a chair and vice chair. Another one will come up with a meeting schedule.  Mike and I can sort of sketch out what that might look like based on other people's experiences. You know, and so maybe we just look at calendars and see when we can meet again. Mike, your guidance on how soon we should meet is would be welcome. Yeah. So I mean, I think like you said before, either before Thanksgiving, maybe the week before or the week after, makes a lot of sense. At that point, hopefully we're, you know, a little further along with hearing from MSBA, from an enrollment perspective, we can share that back with the committee at that point. Probably the town council will have to schedule their process for voting, you know, and appropriating funds, you know, which MSBA will guide us in that they're really a wonderful partner in my experience. I'm not sure how much need there is to meet in between, you know, those two, you know, we're trying to be respectful of everyone's time.  So we want to meet when we have some substance to meet about, not meet for the sake of meeting. I don't think people would be thrilled to have 730 meetings where we talk for 20 minutes and say, yeah, no updates to give, you know, I'm not sure how satisfying that will be to the groups. So that is sort of, you know, I think that timeframe works pretty well. I don't know which morning of the week, you know, and that maybe that'd be good to get some feedback on. But that's sort of where, how I see it anyway. I'll throw a date out there. What about Wednesday, December 2nd, since we're already here on Wednesday? That's the week after Thanksgiving. It's fine on my calendar, Paul. I'm just, you all know how much work we need to get done. Does that push us, I guess your other choices, Wednesday the 25th or the 18th of November, does that push us off at all by waiting until December? I look to Mike for that. Yeah, I think I tend to agree probably with Kathy. I mean, I'd rather probably meet in that time before Thanksgiving. I think if there's really no updates, we can always bail and say, hey, we're going to move it to December. But at least if we get it on the calendar and there are updates and more substance, then we're not, you know, I'd rather schedule it and cancel it than not schedule it and go too long if that makes sense. So you all look at the 18th? Yeah, that's what I was thinking about. Okay. How's that look to everybody else? Fine with me. See, no negative none. So we'll look at November 18th at 7.30 p.m., a.m., going a.m. I said p.m. Good. What are their agenda items would we put on there? Again, Mike or Sean or somebody's been through this before. Yeah, hopefully at that point we'll have a little vote, as you noted, for, you know, chair and vice chair. That's just a plug for everyone to make sure that they get sworn in by that date. I think maybe we'll have some information on enrollment projections from MSBA at that point in time. Mike, too early to draft a request for services? I think it is. I think the thing that we'll have to talk about at that meeting is trying to come up with an estimate of cost of the feasibility study so that we can go back and forth with MSBA on that and then the town council, because the town council will have to, the way our MSBA works is the towns or municipalities vote in the full dollar amount to let's say the feasibility cost. I'm just going to make it up because it's ridiculous and no one can claim later that I was predicting. So it was $100 to do the feasibility, right? Then the town has to appropriate the $100 and then the MSBA reimburses whatever the percentage is back. I think I'd probably work on that as a committee before we get the scope of services for the next steps because the scope of service is going to need whatever that dollar amount is. Does that make sense, Sean? Yeah. And you've been through this before. So I'll lean on you. This is fun for me doing that again. I'll lean on you for some thinking about potentially and I'm happy to help. Looking at COMPs and what's in the market right now in terms of cost of feasibility studies. But I do think that's something that we should talk about and I do think actually it makes sense to do that in November to give the town council enough time to hear that recommendation and be able to act on it. Yeah, I just had a question on coming up with that estimate, Mike, and conversations you're going to have with MSBA. We did a wildwood study and then we did the preliminary design and look at Fort River figuring out to what extent some of that work will be considered by MSBA have already having done parts of it or do we have to redo some of that? So it's a question, not a statement on it, on a if we knew that some of it would count, then it might affect the rough estimate of how much this round would cost us. Yeah, so I'll make a statement in response actually, but that's it's a right question to ask. You know, we have had some preliminary conversations about that MSBA will not fund for the wildwood site to work to be redone for work that was already completed that they contributed to. The upside of that is we may not to do it need to do as much work at the wildwood site because work was done. I think there's some savings there. I'm not an expert on this, but I think much if you look at how we spend much of the money, it's not as much on some of the technical aspects. I'm going to look at Jonathan and others, but a lot of the money is on design. So I think that you probably net some savings there, but the majority of the funds of the feasibility study aren't paying for sort of landscape architects to do the work that was already done or testing of soil that's already done. I'm not saying there's not cost. I'm not saying it doesn't cost real dollars, but I think much of the funds is going to kind of design the meetings, the feedback from this group that probably does need to be done independent of work that was already done.  So I don't know if you have any thoughts about, you know, what we might yield in savings, not as a dollar amount, but just in general versus things that we'd want to have an architect at OPM be working with us on. I would agree with what you've said so far that things like borings and site investigation should be very, from both prior studies, should be very reusable. And that Mike's right that this study will mostly be about asking the designers to do additional design. I think MSBA is going to require that work, even though both have been looked at in a design way, they're going to require that part to be redone because really it's a different process. It's a more global process that's going to look probably at both sites in a way that's different than the prior two times. Does that sound right to you, Mike? It does. Yeah, that's spot on. Thanks for giving me the language. You know, again, this isn't my forte. Is there anything else we have on the agenda for the next meeting? Sean, did you have ideas? Well, I can connect with Mike and we can look at the estimates and see if there's or at least do the preliminary research into what that might be. And I know MSBA is usually pretty good at also kind of giving us some direction about what they're seeing for feasibility studies and the costs. So we can work on that for next time and see if that's ready to go. Is there anything else on our we want to have on our agenda next next time anybody wants to bring up? I don't see anything. So is there anything else anybody wants to bring up today? This is awesome. I mean, this was intended. Oh, Diane. Well, I'm just curious. I know that we have to appoint a chair. So I just wonder if we should pull informally, pull folks and see if anybody's actually interested in that role. Well, yeah, so we don't want to vote today because not everybody is able to vote because they haven't been sworn in. But I guess it's if there are people who are interested, you know, you could express your interest either now or, you know, or or prior to the meeting or at the meeting next time. I think it would make sense to review the responsibilities of the chair so everybody's aware. OK. We must have them together like that. Basically, yeah. So that's good. That's a good thing to do also. Good suggestion. OK. Anything else anybody wants to talk about today? And everybody can make it on the 18th at 730. That's clear. That's good. OK. So with that, I think we can adjourn the meeting at 8.11 a.m. Thanks, everybody. Thank you.


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But equal opportunity must happen. Opportunity may not happen per se, but equal opportunity must happen. Unfortunately that's still yet to be achieved. Though by law all of us have equal opportunity, socially we still don't have equal opportunity. Variety of people are in many ways eliminated from this opportunity or not available for this opportunity to reach them. But that to happen, it's most important that, see spiritual process means just this, that your identity is not with your body. Once your identity is not with your body, it's not about parentage anymore, it's not about pedigree. The privileges of pedigree must go. Only then there will be a social democracy. But privileges of pedigree are still continuing. Who is your father is still of some consequence. This must go. Who my father is not my… not your issue. That may be a personal issue for me, nothing to you, who I am is all that matters to you. This has to come in the society, it's not happened yet. We are in many ways practicing feudalism through a democratic system. Why whenever there's an election, there's so much talk about caste, creed, religion, who you pray to, what caste you belong to, what does it matter. But it matters because we are practicing feudalism through democratic means. Everybody knows, if you get this caste, what is a percentage, if you get that religion, what is a percentage, Ambedkar's vision was a social democracy, not just political democracy. This political democracy, any democracy for that matter is an endless debate and a confusion. It is worthwhile only when we achieve social democracy. Only political democracy is actually an impediment in many, many ways. While we don't get there straight away, we have to have political democracy first and then reach out to social democracy, that's what we are doing. But after seventy years, I would say we are going a bit slow.  Unfortunately still the lits have equal rights in by law, but socially we have not achieved it. Still the same level of discrimination is happening. The poignant story that he talks about in his life, when he was nine years of age, when he traveled from a village to go to some place where his father was working, a punaya wherever, this nine-year-old boy and his rest of his family traveling, when they got off in the railway station, they were not allowed to stay in the waiting room. No bullock cart was willing to take them to the destination. And after much haggling, some bullock cart walla decided to take it, but he puts them on the bullock cart and prefers to walk, because he does not want to sit on the bullock cart along with these people, because at that time it is believed that you will be polluted by their contact. Unfortunately the same reality continues in rural India, if not to the same extent, but it continues. Still this idea, another human being's touch could pollute you or even their shadow falling upon you could pollute you, unfortunately continues to this day, as a generation of people we must put an end to this now, because the very idea of India as a republic will fail if we do not fix this. In a country like India, whatever laws you make, particularly concerned with having certain privileges, misuse will be there. We have to weigh between use and misuse, a community for which for millennia, not for short periods of time, for millennia has been discriminated against, that it is strongly believed their very birth is of a low nature. If you don't bring them up with some privileges so that they come level someday, it would be very unfair. Just because today somebody is getting some reservation and you think it is not fair, because you didn't get to get into your college or whatever. I understand the angst that is there. We need to understand that's because of we have too much population for whatever infrastructure or education or the facilities we try to create. But reservation in many ways as I have seen, particularly in the south, maybe it's not been very well used in the north, but in the south, a whole generation of people from those communities, Dalit community have gotten well educated, gotten well placed mainly because of reservation. Now resentment will come on various levels. So this is a little adjustment with reservations may have to be done as time goes by. See for example, you can give admission to somebody, but you can't pass him, because he belongs to certain caste, then you're bringing down the competence levels in the country. They must be given opportunity and they must be given extra coaching to make up for whatever loss they've had due to lack of proper schooling. But we should not compromise on competence. And similarly for jobs, if you they must have reservation so that they can enter the job situation, but promotions must come only with competence. This adjustment needs to happen, but as we said in a democratic process, there is always... I've drawn an election has to be won. Nobody dares ever to talk about any change, whether positive or negative, which concerns because anything that concerns a particular community becomes a volatile election winning or losing kind of thing. I feel, I strongly feel that reservations in its... in the present level of development, where the Dalits are in this country, they still need it. But if a distinction is made between urban Dalits and rural Dalits, because the maximum discrimination and disadvantage happens in rural India, they must be given far more advantage than those who are already living in urban societies. It can also be made like this, first generation to get out of that social pit that unfortunately has been dug for them, they must be given reservation. Second generation, it must drop a little bit. Third generation should be out of it. But for rural Dalits, it is very, very essential. There is no way out of that right now, because the discrimination is so cruel. So we should not underestimate this and think, oh, they are getting all unfair advantage, you must take off the reservation. No. Such people should expose themselves to the rural situations in this country. How discriminatory it is, horribly discriminatory it is. They cannot even enter your house from the main door, they have to come from the back door. That is not acceptable for any human being. They can't drink tea in a local tea shop. That is not acceptable, all right? So this privilege of pedigree has to go and reservation is not a curse upon the country. We can fix some timeline, two generations if they come out of it. Those who have come out of it should voluntarily go out of it. Something like this must be created. Dalits who have come out of it should share their reservation with those who have not come out of it. I mean this is from responsibility only. See, these privileges we must understand or because of a certain existing injustice, we should not make the privileges themselves into another injustice. So we need a more conscious society for that. We should stop looking at people as this community, that community, because all of us have only one vote. Nobody has extra two votes for one person. So that means by law we're equal socially that has to manifest. See, Ambedkar is a stellar example of taking charge of one's own life. From the type of background that he came, the intellectual brilliance that he displayed is an inspiration for any generation. So social disadvantages did not put him down. Whether he spoke about it much or not is not the point.  But expecting every human being to do what he did is not fair. You have to facilitate something for them. It's utter shame. Personally I feel ashamed that even today, though we are active in so many hundreds of villages, we are still not able to change that. I've made efforts unseen. All you will create is conflict, it'll explode. So I feel for the Dalit community, education, education, education, economic success must happen because of education and they must move out of those communities. That is when it will change or it has to be only generational change. In this generation, if it has to change, they must get all highly educated and move out of those village communities where no matter what, they put forward disadvantage. It is a very debilitating level of discrimination. Though this culture has been steeped in spirituality for thousands of years and always we've been told our life is our karma, that means our life is our making. In spite of that in the last few hundred years, we've become such a helpless lot. I would say this is the consequence of being an occupied nation for nearly thousand years.  I think that's gone so deep into Indian psyche. And when a good leader comes up, when a capable leader comes, when a competent leader comes there, what he needs is many layers of leadership. Instead of that, what he gets is worship.  Unfortunately, we have not created those many layers of leadership because this is the psyche of an occupied nation, especially when it remains occupied for hundreds of years.  Best thing is to put down mind your own business and get away.  This has gone very, very deep into us. I think in many ways Ambedkar fought against that, that do not create demigods out of leaders, political leaders. So one thing you should do with Ambedkar is you do not worship Ambedkar, but you emulate his life. That's what is needed. Instead of emulation, he is getting what? Worship. No, you need to emulate his life.  You have taken charge of your life. That's what we need to demonstrate.


Yeah, so I tried to do five plugins, and then I thought yeah, it's really not enough So I'm not going into a lot of detail on each of them. Just kind of going through Going through a little bit. Let me just bring up my stuff here There's my notes. All right, cool notes are up. All right So as John said I run an agency here called Chili Bin. Some of you may have seen me speak before But yeah part of the organizing team here as well. So We don't have a lot of time so I'll run through this essentially where we're going to talk about some plugins There's over 55,000 plugins in the repository at the moment as well as a whole bunch of other ones that you can get on GitHub Theme forest and there's a whole bunch other ones you can get from premium like retailers as well So just kind of going to run through Some of the ones that I use here so I use a development agency So it's probably skewed a little bit more towards that or I tried to make it a little bit user focused So I had a friend call me last week essentially and she was just kind of asking what plugins They should install on a on an install. And so I just kind of ran through A list that I kind of install on most sites They're a mixture of sort of helpful tools I guess Yeah, so I've been building sites commercially for 10 years. So it's skewed kind of that way If you are looking for other guides, there's always like 10 best plugins for events 10 best plugins for For forums or something like that. So but WP beginner comm and there's a few others where you can get those resources So the first one I'm going to go through here is called pretty links This is used to kind of beautify links. Sometimes it can be used to minify Some links as well. It can also be used for affiliates and downloads and things like that So it can be used to shorten links on using your own domain name. So you don't need to have the Google One or bit. Lee or whatever that may be so you can import using CSV files And there's a paid upgrade as well, which does more advanced tracking. So that's what it looks like on the repository It's constantly updated over 200,000 installs Works with the latest WordPress as well. So it's been tested. So this is an example of a few that I have upon my site I mainly use it for affiliate links So if you're coming to me and you know, I use active campaign. So there's a little pretty URL at the end there Which essentially says like chili bean.com.sg forward slash out active campaign. So if I'm just writing a link I don't want to necessarily use my affiliate URL So I can just go through and send that out I'm also using it for Calendly, which if anyone wants to book a call with me, they can just use that link directly Not that many people by the looks of it And then there's a discovery questionnaire and download questionnaire down the bottom as well, which I use as part of my onboarding We send emails out to people Once they become a client which just goes through a whole onboarding process So there's PDF downloads that you can get which tell you how to build how we build your home page and things like that So that's what we use it for There's a little I think there's a gif here Yeah, so it shows pretty easy to add a link at a link you can do 301s, 302s and 307s You enter in the URL without making mistakes So I just doing a link to Google, right and then you can put in there whatever you want the pretty link to be I use out and then you can track these as well in your Google Analytics reports You can see how many people actually Clicking through on that so pretty simple in terms of setting up those and we use them a lot Sometimes clients or Can't fast forward that but sometimes clients We'll have like a very long PDF download that's just like WP content for slash WP uploads 2018 11 and then a long file name instead of sending that out to someone in just pop it in here and just have you know Download or something like that and you can manage it that way and it's all tracked and things as well, so That's pretty easy one to use broken link checker. This is good kind of SEO one as well So if you want it Take that URL photo of it. I can prop these slides up at the end as well So what broken link checker does? Essentially runs in the back end of your website and goes through and checks all the links comments, you know People's URLs that have left comments. It checks through all your posts and things as well So it's not constantly updated because it's not something that necessarily needs to be updated last update Was about a year ago Over 600,000 installs, so it's a it's a widely used plug-in and it's built with the latest Wordpresses as well. So as you can see there, I just installed this just for a quick demo So it found four broken links on my site still going through the 500 URLs And it will check each link every 72 hours if you want that you probably don't want to check that often But that's the default anyway. If you have a multi-author blog as well And people are putting in their own content You can send those even now notifications out to the authors as well as the admin as well You can also do down the bottom there apply custom formatting to broken links So if you want your broken link to show with a strike through or a different type of underline They can do that as well. It will also which is quite good. It will also do suggestions For alternative to broken links now when I found when I was going through this before it mainly found links from The internet archive so it found archive versions of the existing links, but you may want to use or you may not But it gives you that option anyway So I think there's a Giffer as well so out of the 600 that we found you can either just unlink that and say okay Well, that's not found anymore This was from a Facebook plug-in that I had for Facebook comment URLs It's not used anymore. So all those will broken links and the more broken links Obviously, you have the worst result you're gonna get for SEO. So bringing all those down It was pretty simple. You can also check Did I do the check there? You can see the details there on the response as well to see why that's why that's failed And make that change You can go through that. So that's a good one to have and kind of check in once a week once every two weeks Just to make sure that you're not returning Too much bad content for your SEO Another one and this is mainly for my OCD because I like to have everything like really neatly organized in the admin I hate going to a home page and to a back end of a website and you see pages all over the place So instead of using the WordPress default, which is using the page attributes 10 20 30 40 50 As you go down a page. This allows you just to drag and drop each page it allows you to Drag and drop in hierarchy as well as sort of up and down as well. So It's been constantly updated 200,000 installs as well. So It's not really too much to say about it But here's a very basic demo of some SEO work that we've been doing So we just move that down to the bottom of the page because I like the home page and the site You are all structured to be correct So you can just drag and drop those into Into order Pretty simple that one Now the one is is for design as well. So design and development. So if you're using any type of Or you know retina screens on a MacBook or iMac or you know any high resolution screens as well this plug-in uses An attribute could sur-set SRC set Which is supported by WordPress anyway, but what it does is it just allows you to go through and You know show two different versions of the same image You might not want to necessarily show a 6,000 pixel image across the site because it's going to slow your site down But this will create high DPI Images as well. So It's been updated. It's not used on a lot of sites And mainly because it's a little bit of extra work making sure you've got all those assets Sort it out And this is how it looks in the back end So these are the original images that you have and then you can replace those retina sizes and other sizes As you go through it as well. So it gives you a guide there on what the full-size image should be So if it's you know 1800 by 1200 just make sure you're saving your Photoshop files or your jpegs it double that resolution So you can Drag and drop those into place there A spam plug-in that we like to use already the the ask him that one's okay, but it's a little bit Oops, that's duplicate post That should be zero spam, which looks like this This one it hasn't really been updated lately two years ago, but it still runs fine And I prefer it to the ask him at plug-in just because the whole sign-up process can be a little bit frustrating It's set and forget. You know, you don't really need to do too much with it at all does comments Just kind of set and forget no capture. It does moderation cues Essentially, it just disappears and you don't have to worry about it It's not kind of your users don't have to deal with it And then you don't have to deal with it as an admin as well And then there's logging tools and things like that The link here before now something I think should be in core because I use it all the time It's annoying having to install a plug-in, but any kind of site work that you're doing you can go through and just duplicate the post So if you're building up pages and pages, it's just easy to duplicate that change that And then edit that rather than starting new page and copying and all your content Especially if you're doing like a templated page Or a post or you have a source certain format to your posts then you can just bring that through as well One I use on pretty much all my sites. I don't do a lot of blogging work So we use disabled comments just because it's a part of the WordPress admin We don't need to use and by turning it off you also turn off all the spam That you may get as well. So this one one one million installs. So it's pretty active But it disables it globally. So by WordPress you can go into the admin and turn off turn off turn off on each post This will actually do it across the whole site So it's not a selective tool And you can sort of install this and then get rid of it and you don't have to worry about it again Turning them back on you'll have to install the plug-in and then enable them again Developer tool that I use a lot is better search replace Now we use this when we move sites from domain to another domain or if you're replacing your URL say, you know like the Like the the link checker that we had if we had a bulk list of URLs Google would change the URL for example We could go through and change from google.com.sg to google.com.au or something like that So we can just easily run through here. It's my team delicious brains. They do some really good work. They have a managed DB Migrate DB tool as well, which is great for local development But you know 600,000 installs pretty popular plug-in Essentially in the back end you'll go through and you'll search for the URL that you want to replace So if it's like a dev environment to be domain name dev or dot test And then you replace it with domain name com You would run through and you can select any of the tables So if you just want to replace it in comments where you can Control click and select them all There's a couple of options on the bottom Probably just make sure you have a backup first and then run as a dry run if you run as a dry run It will essentially go through and say okay. I've found 25 replacements need to be made. We've made 10 replacements If you're looking to add an SSL certificate this plug-in won't do the SSL plug-in Certificate for you. What it will do is make sure that all your resources are served over HTTPS So that's what it looks like as over a million installs really simple to set up essentially one or two clicks And then you're done you do have to make sure that you have this SSL certificate first Otherwise you'll end up breaking stuff But it will check to see if you have your SSL certificate You'll fix your some of your mixed content as well. So if you're serving any HTTP links It will remove HTTP and just serve the Just serve it from there and you can also make it in a HTTP HT access redirect as well just so that Apache is dealing with it rather than Your server PHP code needs to run it So that one is pretty simple one for that I like to install on my client sites because they like to install Upload five or six megabyte images and then wonder why their sites are slow this one And there's a couple other popular tools around it. This one is quite simple And essentially what you do is you go through and select a couple of settings It's actually a maximum image size it essentially crops down to that maximum image image size So a few hundred thousand installs there But I mean these are pretty old settings. You wouldn't really want to have these anymore But let's say you look at probably a two thousand by two thousand pixel size Images into your meter library can be different and then you might have images into your theme could be different So you might want to have a 3200 pixel retina image that goes across a wide banner In your actual theme in the customizer But your posts you may want to limit to seven or eight hundred pixels because they're going to be in a short In a short thing. So you make sure you check those settings. It does BMP to JPEG But I don't know who uses BMPs anymore Select all the options that will run through it runs through 250 images at a time and then runs through again So you might have to run it a few times But it's there so while you use this it doesn't really do any additional compression all it does is resize the image so there's there's plug-ins like short pixel short pixel and Immigify Which do that as well so they do the compression they send your image across to another server? Compress it and then send it back They also do this Compression as well, but I like this and just let the other tool handle the compression That's it. Well, I run through that pretty quickly There's ten plug-ins Questions so I made the time John Yeah disabled comments Yeah, so you can do it post by post Yeah, but it still leaves it in the dashboard So this actually removes the whole functionality from the dashboard Yeah And then it's done It's just a default I don't build many blog sites and if I do I'll probably use something like discuss Which is a better commenting platform which allows for to Open those are open open ID allows for that. So It also works on the different post types as well So attachment plug it attachment comments and things like that are a bit harder to turn off But yeah, easy to set up The way that I do it is I create them in admin install Which is one and then I'll create everyone else an editor install essentially so day to day They'll get an editor and then they'll have an admin You know if if something goes wrong, but realistically we give them an editor with a few upgraded permissions There's a few things appearance widgets and there's a couple other things menus. They can't Access as an editor. So a couple of those things that we change and give them access to But it's their website because they've paid for it.  But you know, you always like to give full access back To the client. There's there's a few plugins could Admin adminizer in a few things like that where you can remove certain elements But I find it just gets a bit frustrating to manage that and certain plugins do things in different ways. It can be come tricky Yeah, there's a sort of another plug-in called were webs website administrator pro I think Webmaster webmaster admin pro or something and it creates Like that upgraded admin editor Creates it for you. And there's a pro version of that as well. But yeah, that's one way of doing it by using the webmaster tool So if you install multi-site Yeah, but if you want to know what I mean You're only allowed to install plugins and have what I mean for users So you could just limit all of the client users to Specific sites the site and then you have to control them. That's if you're using multi-site You can but there's some plugins that don't run well and if you then want to migrate away from multi-site to a single-site install That's a whole nother Or migrate into So if you've built it in a single-site install like I did last week and then the client said no We have a multi-site install Then we have to migrate a single into a multi which we did. I just made them buy a plug-in That's it anything else really it's a good one. I Think that's it really so I'll wrap up and you catch me out After if you want to sort of go through anything in more detail But yeah, my name's Sean and I run Chile been here. So cool. I'll see you guys around


So with the room open underway for another year the women's have actually already started the men are going to be starting the next couple of hours. Let's go look at the players that have withdrawn from the event because we did have some last minute withdrawals since the draws actually come out. Starting on the WTA and a pretty long list and this time over she's pulled out for personal reasons. Benchage is out until the French open. Collins, Halep of course is still out waiting for her to get her hearing on her suspension. Gavitva also pulled out. Rodocano of course has gone into surgery so she pulled out. Sidia Kober, Tomanovic is also pulled out recovering from her knee still. Teague, Song and Zoo is the latest to withdraw from this event. Going over to the ATP now and Baratini he's pulled out. Hopefully we'll be back for the French open. Bonzi, Brooksby, Gringo Buster pulled out again. He is still struggling with injury. Chillich is still recovering from surgery. Coria, Draper pulls out of another event. Isna is still out. Kirios of course still recovering from his knee surgery. Nadal out of another event of course because of the hip. Chappavala also pulled out and so does Ima. So a lot of key names there and a lot of players that have done well here in the past not playing this event. So there you have it. That is the latest withdrawal list for the Rome Open and at this stage we expect everybody who's playing or everybody who's in the draw to be playing. So Anstra Burr, who's meant to be playing in the next couple of days, she must be fine. Ready to go. I did see photos of her during the week training so she looks like she is back. She doesn't even have strapping on her leg which is good to see. So maybe maybe the tear on her leg was a lot less extreme than maybe we first thought. Also Rebecca is playing this event of course. She's had some injury troubles over the last couple weeks. Good to see her back and of course Djokovic being the biggest one. We'll see if he has that elbow sleeve on though because we do know that elbow has been bothering him lately but let me know down in the comments below. Who are you going to miss the most at the Rome Open this year? Of course Nadal is probably going to be the popular answer. The Rome Open is underway and we have some key names missing again from this year's event.