The makers of Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum invite you to enjoy life, life with Luigi, a comedy show created by Si Howard and starring that celebrated actor, Mr. J. Kellan Maxx, with Alan Lee, Dice Pasquale. And the makers of Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum are glad to bring you life with Luigi because they feel it's a friendly, good-natured show that offers you relaxation and enjoyment.   Wrigley's Spearman Gum tastes good, it's refreshing, and the good easy chewing gives you comfort and satisfaction. Now, Wrigley's Spearman Chewing Gum brings you Luigi as he writes another letter describing his adventures in America to his mama basco in Italy.  Here, if somebody is to fix up his story, he's hanging out to sign closed during alteration. Well, when I'm about to go to school every night, I'm going to hang up on my sign closed during education. There's so much you can learn about America. And I'm lucky, I'm going to teach you like Miss Pauling. She's just so beautiful with a blonde hair, blue eyes, lovely voice. My mommy has cast a lot of words to her teachers like this. All the farmers would be in a school and the cows would have to milk themselves. But this week I'm afraid, I'm afraid I'm not going to enjoy night school so much because Miss Pauling is going to leave us for a week.  Excuse me, mommy, here comes the bus driver. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi. Hello, hello. Hello, bus driver.  You look like you lost your best friend in the game of Canazza. I don't realize about the school of bus driver, Miss Pauling is going to wait for the week until Milwaukee and we all are going to miss her.  My heart's breaking the teeny-weeny pieces of field. So, Miss Pauling is going to wait and leave you for a week, eh? Yes, sir. That's the matter. She can't email any of your zeros from Milwaukee. Bus driver, that's not the funny to me. Ah, you make me sick.  That's not a natural. Oh, bus driver, you're joking. Women ain't made to think, Luigi. That's not their best part. A woman is made to cook and clean and keep a house. She's got so much of brains that she makes her husband do all those things.  No doubts about it. I take a woman. She's got a smaller head, a smaller ears, and a smaller brain. Now, look at me. A man. Look at that head.  You're so right, Pascuali.  That's a funny thing. When I say it, it's a come out of difference. Now, Luigi, how about my daughter Rosa? No, no, no. Tonight, excuse me, Pascuali. I'm going to go to my school and I'm going to say goodbye to Miss Spaulding. Miss Spaulding is going away. All right, guys. I'll call the roll. Mr. Baskow? Here. Mr. Howlitz? Here. Mr. Olsen? Mr. Schultz? Come home, Miss Spaulding. Howlitz, forgive me. Mr. Schultz, what are you talking about? Nothing. I just heard the rumor. They got a big sight loan in Milwaukee. The houses are being carried away. And the lake is covering up half the city. Mr. Schultz, where and when did you hear that crazy rumor? Right here, 10 seconds ago, and I started it. Oh, come now, Mr. Schultz. Miss Spaulding, please.  He just expressed our sentiments. And we're going to miss you this weekend when you're going away, Miss Spaulding. Well, thank you, class. I feel highly flattered. Of course, I miss all of you, too. Why are you going to Milwaukee, Miss Spaulding? They got plenty of beer right here in Chicago. Miss Spaulding, who's going to pitch us whether you're in Milwaukee? Well, I'll tell you later. Now, let's start the lesson. Miss Spaulding. Please, no more interruption. Oh, excuse me. What are you going to say, Miss Johnson?  Well, let me decide. What did you want to ask me? No, Miss Spaulding. I had no right. Oh, yes, you do. Oh, some Oscar before Milwaukee's disease from the Union. Miss Spaulding. Perhaps if you do have the time, perhaps you could give us a phone call. Oh, it's enough. What is it, Miss Spaulding? A millionaire? Well, we'd like to hear from a Luigi. Maybe a little telegram. That is still a cost too much. A special delivery? Yes, only a little. Luigi, give her a blanket, a can of sternum, and tell her to send a smoke signal. And don't mind us, Miss Spaulding.  Well, I know you don't mean that, Mr. Short. Class, I expect you all to study your lessons and listen to Mr. Hein. Mr. Hein? We've got the fourth grade, Vera. We've already had him as a substitute.  He gives out lower grades than a thermometer as the north forward. My son is a character to my English so much I must not have talked to myself for an Italian. Miss Spaulding, look, Mr. Hein, say you are only chosen. Well, Mr. O'Rourke, our principal made the assignment, and it's only for a week, five days. It's only five days, Miss Spaulding. The electric chair is only five minutes. And I would rather have the hot seats than the hot bed. Good evening, Miss Spaulding. Speaking of the deficit. Here he is. What? Good evening, Mr. Hein. Class, you all know Mr. Hein. Good evening, class. Good evening, Mr. Hein. Class, as you know, Mr. Hein will take over during my absence, and I'm sure he will treat you the same as I have. Of course, Miss Spaulding. Mr. O'Rourke, our principal sent me in with instructions to relieve you at this moment. Now? Pleasant little surprise, eh? Our principal is aware of the fact that you're catching the 10-45 tonight, and he knows you can use the extra time to get ready. Of course, how sweet of him. Well, goodbye, class. Goodbye, Miss Spaulding. I know you'll get along wonderfully well with him, Mr. Hein. Yeah, fine, class, really. Yes, yes, I'm sure. Well, have a pleasant trip, Miss Spaulding. Thank you. Right, now that we're alone? Agenda! All right, front. Head to the back and listen to me.  Well, this time, you're in my care for a week. Let's get this straight. I'll stand for no tiredness. There will be a zero handed out for each lateness, a zero for untidiness, a zero for coming in unprepared, a zero for talking out of town. Stop! You got enough zeros right there to bring back the Japanese Air Force! Mr. Schultz, you have the honor of collecting the first zero. Does anybody else feel like talking out of town? Mr. Heinz? A zero for you, Mr. Vasco. That will teach you to raise your hand before you speak. Now, before I give you your first test, if anybody has any questions concerning today's work, raise your hand. Yes, Mr. Vasco? Mr. Heinz, we're wasn't supposed to get to no test today. You used the double negative in that sentence, Mr. Vasco. Correct yourself. We're wasn't supposed to not to get to no test today. Now it's a double negative. We're never supposed to not to get to no test today. That's a quadruple negative. You need to keep going. Try for Clint Doppler. You may take a zero for that remark, Mr. Schultz. Mr. Heinz, may I leave the rope? What for? Where are you going? To my draught for to enlist. Before we return to life with Luigi, here's a suggestion that millions of people find helpful and enjoyable. During the rush of a busy day, chew a stick of delicious wriggly spearmint gum from time to time. You'll be surprised how much that little stick of wriggly spearmint can do for you.  Then, too, the pleasant easy chewing helps relieve that feeling of strain and tension, gives you comfort and satisfaction. For you see, chewing wriggly spearmint gum helps you keep going through the day, feeling your best and doing your best. Try it and see for yourself. Wherever you go, carry a package of refreshing, delicious wriggly spearmint gum with you. From time to time, chew a stick. Chew it for enjoyment and chew it for the help it gives you in carrying through your day's activities. Let's turn to page two of Luigi Basko's letter to his mother in Italy. Well, my mom and dad a week ago, they started without the misspelling words the worst we ever had. Mr. Heine is handed out so many zeros you would think it was all the walking around with empty brains. Then when we complained to him about the zeros he used to say, you're right. You don't all deserve the zeros. That's the lowest mark I'm allowed to hand out. Monday was a terrible, but it was the part of all it was the next day when Mr. Heine was a teller of the very bad denusion. I knew something was going to be a little bad because as soon as these have come into classes, Mr. Heine is around the school all the time. Sit down, put your hands behind your backs. Eye front. Now I'll call the roll. Mr. Basko? Hey, here. Mr. Basko, do you stutter? No, no, no, no. You're doing it right. Count yourselves. Basko? Two, three, shoot! So how Mr. Schultz wants to play games, huh?  The smile. This was around zero, Mr. Schultz. We'll make you smile from the other side of your face. I wonder how I'm going to look smiling lefty. Well, as long as you're happy, I might as well tell you the good news. Mr. Orth is coming in this Friday to see what grades you make this week. Oh, yes. I thought you'd be a little surprised. And I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of this week we might see a little break-up of you four musketeers. But what about Ms. Fung? I have no worries about a teacher that treats her pupils as... as a human being. All right. So, you're smug. Let's start the lesson right now. Mr. Vasco named ten constitutional powers of the federal government. Ten? I always said the government had too much power. Ten powers of the federal government, Mr. Vasco. And I'll give you ten percent for each correct item. If you guess wrong, I'll give you ten percent for each wrong guess. Talk slowly, Jean. Charge him six percent in ten. Mr. Joe, that whispering will cost you one zero. Go on, Mr. Vasco. Ten powers of the federal government. And raise the taxes? Regulate the commerce? No. Coin of the money? That's thirty percent you've earned so far. Go on. I'll give you ten percent for each wrong guess. Fifty percent? Are you finished? Well, I'll press up at the banks on a holiday. The president is the wedges. But the states are clean. Zero, zero, zero. That's thirty percent off. Forgetting, Mr. Vasco.  All right, Mr. Horowitz. Next, just to shave no haircut once over like this. I'm sorry. You may tell us ten powers of the federal government. And don't repeat the five that Mr. Vasco mentioned. Naturally. I wouldn't think of that. Now, let me see. The government can raise an army, they can raise a navy, they can raise the marines. In emergencies, there's the air aid wardens and the voice cops. Zero. You may sit down, Mr. Horowitz. Now, let me see who's next. Mr. Chelsea! Oxel, suddenly! I've got a weak heart! You name the ten powers of the federal government. And what has your weak heart got to say about that? It's the oxygen tent in the house. Well, where's the answer? I haven't got any. All right, zero. How's that? I feel like I just got the purple heart. Mr. Olsen. With somebody in there as a prize. Next time, I will be happy to name every single power that the Constitution gives to Congress. Very good. If that were your question. As it happens, I have a different question, Mr. Olsen. Huh? Mr. Olsen, tell us, if you will, three powers that are constitutionally denied to both the federal and state governments. What? Don't know. Do you, Mr. Olsen? I wouldn't say that. Neither government can grant titles of nobility, levy duties on exports, or pass expo-specto laws. The point is, how much about the Constitution that Thomas Jefferson forgot to put in? You've got a hundred percent to have, Mr. Heine? I have no talking out of turn. Now, Mr. Olsen, you answered that three-part question correctly. Three-part? Now, if you will tell me the first seven amendments that were voted on in our 1946 city election, you will earn a hundred percent. That man should get the job of singing up the questions for child jackpot! 1946 is hit the amendments. And word them accurately, please. You have ten seconds. Go on. Uh, uh, float alone for the schools. Build a new highway. Improve the city water supply. Rear-round gases reduce you to a zero. A zero? That's impossible. It's unbelievable. It's treason! Olsen, sit down. Close the door, Luigi. Let's start the meeting. I'd like to show you something. Fellow classmates and sufferers, you all know why we called this United Nations meeting here in Luigi's anti-sharp to discuss ways and means of dealing with a common enemy. You should excuse the expression, Mr. Heine. Or death. Big yerk. You gave me a zero. You're on worst than that. If this keeps up, Miss Bonding won't have a class when she comes back. We are just here from the delegate from Sweden. Don't the Italian delegate have any objection? Yes, Mr. President, sometimes we do better with good than bad. How about if we talk to Mr. Heine in a nicer way? No, no, I stand on the record against the Peasman. Mr. President, the delegate from Israel has the floor. Thank you. It so happens I was talking to a former pupil of Mr. Heine today, and he strives every mark from the record as untrue. Any former student of Mr. Heine couldn't possibly be alive. If Mr. President will allow me to proceed, maybe I got the solution. The President will shut his trap. Oh, please, Mr. Delegate. Oh, they should call me Trin Vichult. Tell us, tell us I got the solution.  That's illegal, huh? So we do the next best thing.  For the kindness I had also a reminiscence. Well, like I was saying before, today I'm at the pupil of Heine's, and he told me Mr. Heine has one big weakness. Girls, I said, human blood. Now, friends, it's food. For the food? That's right. He loves to eat. The man just can't resist food of any kind. Oh, I see. Tonight we all bring in apples. Sure, if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, maybe ten apples will keep Heine in Liberia. Not only apples. We bring in whatever we can, and let's hope it works. After those in Heine, well, for me all of my life, I'm not going to trouble with the people who like to eat. Well, that's all about the plan works. I see you've brought more food today. Well, thank you. I'll call the roll. Mr. Vasco? Here. And I've brought you some delicious rust to be for sandwiching, Mr. Heine. Just leave it on my desk. All right. Mr. Horwitz, present.  Good, good. Mr. Olsen? And my wife Olga sends you this cake. Good, good. Thank her for me, Mr. Olsen. Mr. Schultz? One box of my carbonate of soda. Mr. Heine, I really got you a can of stock. Well, gentlemen, I'm really flattered by all this sudden attention. Mmm. This banana is delicious, though. I hope Mr. Orts doesn't know that I'm eating a class. Oh, no, no, no. He won't are going to know because we wouldn't have killed a principal under you. And Mr. Heine, when the principal comes into the tomato, are you not going to tell him we all have got zeroes and so far, huh? Certainly not. Mr. Heine wouldn't do such a thing, huh? Of course not. I certainly will. He was from all the doubles of ancients. Dear friends, to hurry up, Mr. Heine is a communist. All those families on top of those cases of rude beer. Over there next to the Coca-Cola bar. How many Turkish you got there? I cleaned out my delegates. You can talk of these turkeys against Horowitz's rye breads in the corner. My barefoot is going to reach up to the window.  Sure, let him bust.  And I'm going to give him a bottle of red wine to drink before this. If our kindness don't break him down today, boys, we're sunk. The principal is coming in today to find out about our marks. Shh, shh, shh, shh. Hey, there's a coming in. Good evening, class. Good evening, Mr. Heine. Good evening, Mr. Heine. Oh, bye. What's all that food doing in the corner? Dirtiest knot worth. Milk, cheesecake. All for you, Mr. Heine. We love you. I'll call the roll. The seated roll. Mr. Harlott. Here. Mr. Baskill. Here. Mr. Salami. Here. He's so gestaught, he fell asleep. Must be the wine I'm going to give him. Oh, that's wonderful. Now, he won't bother. That's all right. But, boys, this is a bad night. The principal is coming in to get our marks. We should have given him a Mickey Finn Monday and woke him up tonight, and now we do just the opposite. Why don't we let him sleep? We'll just get him in trouble. Not, Heine. You blame it all on us. You're right, Harlott. We got to wake him up, as if the principal sees what we did to Heine. He'll never let us get near me. Hey, principal, as you come in, oh, my God. Harlott, Harlott, it's nice to have you here. Slap him, don't help. It only gives me pleasure. Has anyone got some smelling salts? We've got Limburger Chiefs under his nose. That's great. Don't help, Schultz. Don't help. Hey, quick, quick, the principal has got something to do. Oh, dear, if you only had some water to throw on his face. You'll have to hand me that bottle opener. What are you going to do? I'm going to give him a bath in rude beer. Hey, hey, hey, hey.   What is that? Rude beer. That kills dandals. Hey, hey, hey. Here's a package for Mr. Schein. Wake up, wake up. Here comes the principal. What? Good heavens. Well, Mr. Heine. My goodness. What's happened in here? Well, I can explain, Mr. Orson. And what's all this in the corner? Are you running a delicatessen on the side? Mr. Orson, did you ever hear funders for Breton? This is hamburgers for Heine. What? You see, we love Mr. Heine so much that this last day we all brought him presents. Well, I'm glad to see you're doing so well. Mr. Heine, you asked me to come in tonight to find out how this class is done during Miss Balding's absence? Well, you can ask them yourself. I'm sure they'll be fair in their grades. Sure. I have a hundred percent so far. What? And I got a hundred percent so far. And I made two hamburgers a hundred percent, too.  Only 99. Miss Balding will be delighted. Keep up the good work. Thank you. No, no, no, Mr. Heine. Quiet. Quiet, all of you. Get to your seat. We'll see how long those hundred percent last. I just decided to give you a history test. Mr. Vasco, who was Vice President under McKinley? Mr. Brinus? Zero. Mr. Horowitz? Mr. Tillham? Zero. Mr. Schultz? No, stop being silly, Mr. Heine. Would anybody care for a professor army on rides? Many. Otherwise it's terrible a week without a Miss Balding. And I'm never going to forget that first day when she's finally come back. Hello, class. Miss Balding. Miss Balding. A human voice again. My God, he's so good. The Marines have landed.  The terrible week, like all the bad things, was finally come to an end. You'll have a son, Luigi Vasco, Lily McGinty. 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Hello, this is a video about linear regression, finding critical values. You wish to run a test for significant correlation among two variables. You have a data set with 13 subjects, find the critical value for this test. So in this example, all we have to do is find our degrees of freedom, and then we will go to our critical value table and literally just pick out the critical value from there. So my degrees of freedom for this type of test, for a test for correlation, it's always n minus 2, 13 minus 2, which is 11. Degrees of freedom is 11. So go to your critical value table. There's one given to you in the exercise that you're working on, and this is always for a point zero five significant level. You'll never have anything different than that. You go down to your degrees of freedom, and we look at 11. So the critical value when your degrees of freedom are 11 would be 0.553. So once again, degrees of freedom is sample size minus 2, and 11 degrees of freedom give us 0.553. So your critical value is 0.553. So there's an example on how to find a critical value for a linear correlation test. Thanks for watching.


Unfortunately, epilepsy is one of those conditions that it's very misunderstood and has so many stigmas associated with it and misperceptions. So that's part of our awareness is to raise the awareness level of epilepsy, the impact and consequences it has on individuals with epilepsy and then also to provide them with help, hope and support to live as well as they possibly can with this neurological disease. One in 26 Americans will develop epilepsy and epilepsy takes more lives than breast cancer in the United States, so even if you're unaware of it, you probably know someone who is affected by epilepsy. Well my son, we found out very early on that he had epilepsy and we had such a hard time finding out what to do, finding information or things. One of the biggest misconceptions about epilepsy are the signs of an epileptic seizure and those misconceptions often keep those from receiving treatment as soon as they need it.  My son was diagnosed in the third grade was when he had his first seizure and since then we've just kind of tried to bring a lot of awareness to the disorder. He had been diagnosed with some stomach issues due to some of the symptoms but after a while we realized that all along he had just been diagnosed with epilepsy because where they weren't hit your stereotypical seizures they were just misdiagnosed.


What was the most fun thing about BMT? If you ask the MTIs, there is absolutely nothing fun about BMT, okay? Okay, on airman vision, we asked newer airmen, what was the most fun thing about BMT? Also, if you're a new airman and you want to get involved with videos like this, use the contact information in the description below. This sounds ridiculous, but the peanut butter shot, okay? It's literally the funniest thing.  I hate freaking needles too, but it wasn't necessarily for myself. It's looking at the people in your flight and your wingmen. All those people who try to act hard and all those other people just go from 100 to zero real quick and just to see the fear, the look of fear in people's faces, but it really brought a lot of us together as well. We were about to go through something. It was about to go down. It's about to go down.  So that was definitely the funnest part for me. Now looking back on it, the most fun thing was Beast, but not really. Beast week, you're out in a deployed environment. You're with three other flights. For me, I was with two other male flights and a female flight that were from different squadrons. So I've never interacted with these people. I've never seen these people and we had to work as a group to get our jobs done. For me, it was Beast. Going through Beast week, it's different. So you've been doing the same thing over and over. You get up, make your bed, go to PT, go to breakfast, but this is different. You get to go outside. Now I went in July and it was really hot. You get to implement some of the stuff that you learned in the classroom. It's just fun, you know, being outside, running around, just enjoying some time outside of your dorm in the classroom. Well, my favorite was honestly Beast week just because we're in a new environment. It's kind of like a simulated deployment and we're doing different things every day that we're not used to doing. I really liked the obstacle course. Towards the end, we had to do like this rope swing over the pool. Everyone except for one girl in my flight fell in, but it was a ton of fun. Definitely the claw, which is the obstacle course you do. That was pretty fun except for I didn't really get to do half of it because it was way too hot. It was black flag almost the whole time I was at Beast week where it was downpour and rain toward the obstacle course was too wet. The most fun thing for me for BMT was definitely graduation week, eighth week. Knowing all your hard work is about to come together that Thursday, the grad run and coin ceremony and then your family tapping you out. That's a feeling like no other missing your family for eight and a half weeks. Almost never really get to talk to them. All the hard work paid off and I got to see my family and them tap me out was just amazing. Most fun thing about BMT was definitely the people that you meet. There's got to be clicks and everywhere you go, but the people I met, I met some of my really good friends there. Actually, one of my friends made a cartoon and everything while I was there, so that was definitely the most fun part was meeting the people. The most fun thing about BMT, I would say that I like being around your wingman, getting to know each other, even expanding out on Sundays when if you do go to service, it's so fun. Just be around these people, just talk stories on your off time before lights out, stuff like that and you get to learn where everybody comes from. I would say the most fun thing was just because we didn't have our phones with us, it really forced us to talk to each other. I got to meet and talk with people I normally would have never gotten the chance to meet or talk with just from all walks of life. Opening letters. To me, opening letters was that one time that gave you feeling that you could not find anywhere else in BMT. I'm telling you, when you've been waiting three or four days for that one letter from your girlfriend, from your boyfriend, from your mom, from your dad, from your grandma, it makes your day. It absolutely makes your day. It makes you feel better. It feels your heart with love that you can't find anywhere in BMT and it does make the weeks go by a lot quicker. So if you have someone that's going to BMT, send them letters, send them a lot of letters. I love that. The most fun thing about basic training was the memories that I made and the camaraderie that we had on Sundays. You would be surprised what people come up with in a dormitory when guys together, paper and pencils and they just try and entertain themselves. You would be surprised but your hat works really well as a makeshift frisbee.


Alrighty, let's watch this here. I'm gonna sound a tiny bit tiny bit higher. It's a lot of work Watch out There's something weird about those eyes right there. Hey, they're also a bit high Generally, I would kind of look at maybe you can have a bit more focus on Like you know at this point looking off looking off. He doesn't really feel super engaged. It's based out So maybe that could be something you kind of adjust The darts to really follow that a bit more Feels nice, though. Yeah, that's the only thing. I don't like it. It's it's it's super complex It's a lot of work getting these guys in there You get a nice little offset. Maybe feels a bit cyclical or maybe maybe offsetting legs a bit more I don't know. I think that's super picky. My main thing is probably this as watching this and then as your eyes go over They just feel Where is it here? There's another one hold on hold on that It just tricky when you have eyes go up over so many frames and then just go straight down with that a hold and focus I will keep that a bit sharper over one or two frames and just kind of dark Careful here. You'll pop in the corners And there hi there How does corners go in and out they pop a bit see that go out Baman it in watch out if you can bring in any Arcs in the corners would always help also then asymmetry you can draw a line here This face is fairly mirrored Gonna get some asymmetry in there and then don't forget when you have hi there like this is a massive move with the jaw That might hold on should probably just change the colors to sound exactly the best here You would have like a little bit of a rotation in the head just to get so that this doesn't feel like a separate element So whenever you have a jaw movement, it does impact the head for some accents That's cute. Whoa Stops maybe a bit fast. I think I would try Around here ish to start having lean back so that when this happens She's also almost leaning forward a bit and then comes like whoa, this comes like a nice stop without any Like imagine he's going to stop with the body more like this And then he stops and then he gets to this position Maybe a bit more and then goes back a bit just a bit more looseness in this then watch Arms goes up There's a bit of a pause there right the arm goes up stop and then up again. Just watch out against general smoothness So it's not so stop and go This is a bit straight. I know it is extremely complicated I can imagine doing all this but if you could have a bit of a Path so that you can see a bit more of the wheel here bit more wheel here and back just for complexity So it's not so super one axis and then I will probably show that arm higher So that we see the arm go back Which then leads into that turn so it's not just like an isolated turn and then this arm comes up later I mean I get that you're doing that. He's kind of out of control that and the arm drags But then I feel like it's just this Turn here without I think we can just bring the arm more into play to really show more like whoa Trying to balance and going back and forth. I Like the loosest in the head though Ready That is nice here too Here but then you have a whoo and that needs a bit of a up in the head maybe the shell moves a bit and Then you can have almost like a move up and then as he goes forward then the head goes back down again to almost kind of lean into this and Then on that it can go back up into that straight for the laugh. Oh That's nice. It's maybe a bit slow. Hold on right at the end. I'll probably take a couple of frames out Around here is when we one or two maybe this frame. It just feels just we're getting there And then it's almost a bit even in the drop And that too, I could be home. I think we're resting a bit long In here and then I will go up a bit faster. Maybe a bit higher and then plot back down I want to play this at 25% faster. Let's see So ignore the rest just when it drops and let's see That drop at 25% faster was better But then even that drop back this one feels slow so 50% faster on the on the other drop It's hard to kind of understand that there That's what I would do there 25% or yeah, 25% faster 50% faster here So if you hear any laughs, I would have a bit of more chuckle. I get more rotations in the head It just was a bit stiff and I'm just kind of tricky with the shell, but See almost imagine like ha ha ha ha he goes back and almost leans the head back You can see more of the nostrils and then he comes back up For congratulations. So it has a bit more impact of congratulations And imagine a bit more left and right congratulations little left and right head accents I think that that A little bit louder like that is such an exertion in the voice That I would have that a bit more I mean almost like the head back a bit more with a slight rotation over just it feels stronger He just feels very soft compared to the voice watch out you're having some over extension Pops in those arms Or that one arm This was a bit even in timing. I Will go a bit more slow and fast Same thing here. This was really even in timing going back down same thing here just a little bit more like Those nice little bit of a heart stop at the end right there It just was like, you know concrete and like a bowling ball Bung But that's kind of that. This is super cute by the way. I really like those All right, that's it. 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Okay. Thank you for being the tech wizard today. Okay, number two, we're resuming our open session and the public here we have no public hearing. Recording in progress. I'll report there were no, we did discuss every item on the agenda of the closed session, but we did not make any actions, especially no public hearing none. Item three are board members an opportunity to remove items from the consent agenda. Nothing from me. Nothing from me. Tom? No. Okay. Well, I will comment on one item. Okay. And we have a public comment. I have a public comment. Any items? Thank you, Becky Steinberg. I have questions on to the consent agenda items. Item 4.3 that is information within the general managers report that there were two change orders. Number five and number six with McGuire and Hester. So these are regarding change orders in the injection wells and those changes were implemented on September 12th. I'd like to know what those changes were. Change orders are very expensive. So I think it's a good transparency to let the public know what those change orders involve. That's item 4.3. Item 4.4 is very curious that there is a claim for $38,172 for hotel costs for McGuire brothers. They're a local, they're a local drilling company. I don't understand why the district would be billed such a high amount or an amount at all for hotel costs and also trim removal. I really question the wisdom of drilling a new well in the same area where there is contamination problems already and so I'm assuming that the new well will be clear of those contamination problems but I really question the wisdom of doing this. I'm glad that well is going to be having some sort of remediation because it has been a problem well with contamination for a very long time. Thank you. And then the thank you for putting the net of app or transpiration and total production graph into the consent agenda. And I guess on page so it's item 4.3 there's a graph on page 9 of 35 that it looked like in July that the production was going up and then in August it went down so it didn't continue on and if you go to page 11 of 35 it kind of shows why that happened with the VAPO transpiration going down also or it's a likely cause. The purple dotted graph went down in August and likewise the production went down. So not necessarily a one-for-one relation but it I think that the weather is one of the reason one of the big well it's obviously a big driver. It helps me in framing my thinking about our water use especially with with the rates new rate structure coming up in the near future. So thank you for including it. Yeah, let's have you did that we were thinking we'd bring it back quarterly or unless you want to find yet just shows the trends and she updated a little bad things you made it even nicer. We'll let her know. Yeah, it's great. It's just it is kind of interesting but there's also you know another factor that I didn't really take I didn't really understand until COVID hit in that how many empty vacant houses were occupied during the pandemic on a full-time basis when they weren't uh who weren't before and then you know I think sometimes the water consumption during the summer especially what's going on with tourism and the weather could affect that also. Anyway yeah thank you for that adding the transpiration. A little harder to hear the data. I don't know why. Would you say?  I don't know whether you hear. Oh you can't I can't.  I heard most of it. Pull the mic a little closer I noticed it. Yeah. Thanks. Yeah I was worried that that was an echo actually. Thank you. It wasn't an echo it was just my actual voice. So anyway okay thank you. Thank you. Are there any other comments? Do we have a move a motion? I'll move approval the consent agenda. Second or all in favor? Oh we have to do it by sorry about that. Director Balboni. Yes. Vice President Jaffee. Yes. Director Lehu. Yes. Director Lather. And President Christensen. Yes. Okay item five is the next item is oral communications and this is an opportunity for public members of public members to speak and any item that is not on the agenda. Thank you. Becky Steinbrunner. I just want to again ask that the district put documents available regarding the Peerwater SoCal project and both of the addendums the 2020 and the 2021 addendums available in the public libraries. They're not there and as I said I am planning to on my own expense print them and get them bound so they are available if the district continues to refuse. So this is one last request. I've requested it through the library. The library has requested it and each time the district refuses saying it's available on the website well it's hard to find and a lot of people do not use the computer. They would like to know about this project and do use the public libraries as their informational source. There is a public comment open now on the City of Santa Cruz's Pollution Control Permit that involves the wastewater outfall into the National Marine Sanctuary and the Pacific Ocean. This involves the district because once the advanced water treatment facility for the Peerwater SoCal project is up and running that brine will be going directly out into the bay. There's been no study about that and that's part of what my lawsuit is about. There's been no study about the effects of fluctuations in brine concentration at the outfall or in temperatures which is also of a consideration in the marine environments. So the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board will be looking at this permit application renewal for the City of Santa Cruz in early December. The public has the ability until October 12th to comment on that analysis and anything to do with that permitting and I encourage everyone to look at that document. There still is a problem with a rupture or a slight leak, some people say, in the effluent outfall pipe that is quite near to the shore and the Water Quality Control Board has asked the City of Santa Cruz to monitor it. They have been but it still exists and it shows up every year in the dive plumes. So it would behoove the City and the State Water Quality Control Board to require that be repaired especially with the incoming brine coming from the water treatment plan, the Peerwater SoCal. Thank you. Anyone else? I just wanted to mention that there's some new desal technologies that we should be aware of and today the Las Virginias Municipal Water District has announced that they've got a new pilot project, probably read about it in the LA Times this morning and it's a new way of implanting these desal pods. They're placed on the ocean floor about a mile or more out into the ocean off the coastline and they use 40% less energy and they use water pressure to power reverse osmosis and they produce zero brine and there are other companies that are working on these new smaller technologies for desal too that are being implemented regularly so I just thought that sounded exciting and we need to be true. I'm gonna follow these yeah so thank you. Nothing from me. I'm good. Tom you said I'm fine thank you. Okay reports for the district council report. Yeah thanks President Christensen. Just a couple of things this evening. The first is a reminder that the legislative process was completed last Thursday so all the bills for this cycle are currently in front of the governor and he has until October 14th to sign or veto them. Lots of interesting issues that went forward this year. We're in the process of reviewing everything to identify those that are relevant to the district and we'll be bringing reports back to the to the board as we kind of identify bills that are you know important for us to to be discussing. In addition one thing that was approved by the legislature was to place an initiative on the March 2024 ballot. This is ACA 13 and what it would do would be to change the voter threshold that would apply to a constitutional amendment that would change or that would change the the applicable voter threshold for a local agency to adopt a tax. So you know as you'll you know probably remember you know doesn't necessarily is relevant for us but for cities as an example if they propose a tax that would provide general fund dollars that requires a 50% vote. If they're going to propose a special tax which would be for an identified purpose that requires a two-thirds vote if there was a future initiative that would impose something more than a majority vote two-thirds or any other voter threshold that initiative would be subject to the same voting threshold. So as an example if an initiative were to propose a new two-thirds voting threshold for voters on a tax it itself would have to pass by two-thirds of the voters statewide for it to take effect. That's interesting. This is you know was an important priority of CSTA and some of the other local organizations in part for basic fairness you know with the idea being that what's good for the underlying initiative you know should represent the same level of voter support but also you know most impressingly the board may remember there's an initiative on the November 2024 ballot to substantially restrict local agency's ability to impose future fees and taxes and for our purposes it would change the current reasonable cost standard for water rates to lowest cost. You know if ACA 13 is approved by the voters in March it will apply to that proposed initiative in November 2024 and raise the required voting threshold from 50 plus one to two-thirds. A lot more information to come but just wanted to make sure you were aware you may see some press. You know towards the end of the legislative cycle there was some discussion both from local government but also from some of the Howard Jarvis type folks. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Really interesting. Yeah we are well we're aware of it we've been I've been barraged on every email account I have about that last couple last week or so. Okay thank you on item seven administrative business. Yeah Emma and I are going to tag team this one because she wrote the memo I'll just say overarching we wanted to just bring it to your attention give you some options if you want to consider those tonight. But Emma you want to dive into a little more details. Sure so typically as you know we usually review these appointments in December but with Bruce Daniel Fleaving and Director Balboni on the board we currently have an opening on the public outreach committee and the finance and administrative services committee. So we run and I talked with Jennifer director Balboni and she is not able to just fill into Dr. Daniels seats. So that's why option one is proposed is for all of the directors to look at the appointments and make them tonight. And by doing so we don't have to review this item again in December like we usually do. And so when we're thinking about that we decided it would make sense to also present all the external committees as well. So if the board wants to take action on that tonight too they can and then we wouldn't have to review it again in December. But if you just want to look at the internal committees tonight and do the external ones in December that also works. So if is there anything that you want to add? I would just say there's a third option you know because if you're not prepared it's a it's kind of a big decision you have to think about your schedule. Usually the meetings are set but sometimes they get changed. But I guess another option is if you want to just us just to bring it back at the next meeting or a subsequent meeting we can do that too if you're not prepared tonight. That's always an option. Are there any comments? Well public comments? We'll get to public comment but do you have any specific questions? Okay public comment. Thank you Becky Steinbrunner. You know I have often wondered what the purpose of the standing committees is. I've attended many of them and usually there is more staff there than members of the public. And so I wonder how robust is the search for people and inclusiveness of people to be on these standing committees. But other than you know saying that you have them what I've never heard a standing committee recommendation come to your board. What is the purpose of the standing committees? Other people have asked me that too and I couldn't answer. So if you can just review the purpose the fundamental purpose of standing committees I think that would be very helpful for the public. Thank you. Well I went back and checked the dates you know the number of times these committees are meeting that Dr. Daniels was on the public outreach. It has two more meetings before the end of the year and the finance and administration services meets one more time and both of those have alternates. So I was seeing we they're not sure we really need an action on these things right now. It's a good prompt for they have the items for everybody to start thinking about what they'd like to do and how they'd like to participate.  There's usually a couple of people who attend from the public who are interested and they want to learn more about what's going on with the district and they have you know they're actually chosen for their interest in a particular committee not they aren't randomly assigned to any committees. So it's more informal that's why there aren't any reported reports because no votes are taken it's and it's much more informal and that's the purpose of them is to provide a place where people can discuss and exchange information with the public and the public can make anybody who's really interested may give their opinions on or ask questions like you were asking. I'd like to add something is just you know my experience has been that some of the public members have really brought up some good ideas or pointed out information that was really helpful. So I would say that's a benefit in my eyes. Yeah they're not intended to be a board meeting. It's much more informal to facilitate an exchange of ideas. I was also going to just add you know whether we do it now or in December I mean if it would work if the scheduling is staying the way it is I mean I used to be on the public outreach committee I could do that and then allow space to be open on the water resources committee if I know director Balboni has attended those as a private citizen but if that was something she was interested in and could work that out that'd be I'd be okay with that switcheroo. I'd definitely be for all that and I also wanted to ask about the association of California water agencies ground water committee because director former director Daniels is not here and I'd be happy to sub for him on that. Yeah I may address that. In Josh you may help or Taj even I believe that committee you apply for it. Anybody can go though and the way it usually sits is the people that are on the committee sit at a table and then whoever wants to attend sits at the outer circle. We do sponsor or I think Scott's Valley does this year a consultant in Montgomery Associates and so they try to capture the essence of those meetings and share them with us verbally or in some fashion. But if you're interested I think there's a nomination period can anybody remember it's been so long there's a nomination period so the next time that comes up we can bring it up. I think the board I forget the process but we can get you going in that direction. Yeah and I think I'm going to guess that director Daniels was you know he'd done his PhD related to all of that so I'm sure that he felt like he could provide some input there. Yeah but there'll be an opportunity if you want to go down it starts the day before the actual usually on a Monday and you could you could actually sit and see see you know gauge your interest at that point it's very detailed I'll tell you that I've said it on a few. He did bring information on groundwater issues to the board after those meetings. Yeah but I attended a couple of them too very crowded and so sometimes you can't even hear um but once you got on the get on the committee much more of an opportunity for I'll investigate it and get back to you on a one-on-one and we'll let you know when that process is available and engage in it. Well any other so do you have any opinions on this my preference is zero one of the alternates. I lost anybody seen? Turned on that's why did you lose me? No I can hear you now. Oh okay sorry I wasn't turned on um yeah I'm fine I I was just looking at the next finance and admin services committee meeting and I'm good for that one so I think that's good I might also be interested in the aqua groundwater committee since I'm retiring from my day job I have more time but what was that? I'm retiring from my day job so I'm going to have more time to volunteer for Soquel Creek on committees so we may have to arm wrestle but I also will go at the meeting first and see if it's too dry for me I might so yeah but I think I heard Ron say that since it's close to December and there's not many meetings that the alternates could just fill in and I'm not sure I will be able to I still do have a day job so um if we want to have two people at the public outreach committee maybe we should fill that seat or have another option as well yeah and we and we can um you know get through a meeting or two with just one director um that's okay that's the other option yeah yeah I think I was the lone member on both of these committees at one point because Dr. Daniels couldn't I can't remember what the situation was he wasn't there he couldn't come okay and it worked fine because we had staff members and and more than just a couple of people at these okay participating from the public and all if I can attend I will okay um I don't even I'm not sure I even want to change the time at this point until next year right I wouldn't recommend doing that because often it yeah I think partially revolves around some of the public members too we should try to because we've had a hard time getting actually meeting I think we should just carry on as best we can and Tom you mentioned that you were willing to um was it the water resources management infrastructure committee yeah I mean if we're looking at if that's something somebody would like to be part of and I'm I I'm fine if someone wants to do that and then I I could probably do the public outreach committee if that's helpful but we can wait until December too I don't you know that's fine I think he's making that offer for you since you're part of that already as a part you were part of that as a public member right the water infrastructure water resources management infrastructure committee so basically I would still attend all the WRMI meetings but now I'd have a new role yes yeah I'm willing to do that sure it'd be fun I think it would be better if you went participated as a board member yeah one of the two exactly that's what I'm saying yeah no then just attend and Tom you said you're willing to get it the vacant seat for the next few months public outreach yeah public outreach that'd be good so we could make a motion or yeah sounds I think we could make a motion on that I'll make that motion okay that director Balmoney he replaced director LeHue in the water resources management infrastructure committee and that director LeHue take the vacant seat in the public outreach committee fine with me is that a second I'll second it okay um and I then think about these other other issues that that come up at the end of the meeting at the end of the year so that we could you know you'll be prepared okay all right can we have a vote director we didn't have do we want to say and public comment no there was yeah there was initially and and let me be clear because you're still the finance and administrative services that's open due to dr daniel so we're gonna address that come back at another time yeah well there's only one meeting at that okay I just want to make sure I think we shall and I can make the meeting is the alternate what was that Tom I was wondering if we shall was offering to just be the regular uh the second member on on the finance and administrative services committee yeah I can do it either way because I'm the alternate I would be there the next person anyway and then we could look at it in December if we want to make it perm meetings October 23rd and I'm pretty sure that you're going to the csda no oh no okay I'm not okay okay so leave it as the motion as is then for now it does the job okay okay director baloney yes vice president jaffee yes director lehu yes director latheur yes and president christensen yes okay onto uh that that is approved I think that's a that's a really good a stop gap until just think about it for the for the end of the year okay item 7.3 just to be clear so in December we'll the external committees will yeah we'll do the external committee and we might need to touch on the finance or did I miss something so we'll bring that back you need to do we need an alternate for finance and and rachel to be this one or okay however you want to do it we'll bring it back well I think we can bring all of it back in December okay we'll bring it all back and if you want to change it up again we'll that's with the whole idea what I'm back with the whole thing okay great yes makes sense because it's nice to see the whole pie right yes yeah okay item 7.3 approve the board attendance for the santa cruz area chamber of commerce community leadership visit which is october 11th and 12th today two-day obligation yeah I'll I'll touch on this and and president christensen I know you've attended some so you might want to yeah and it was very worthwhile comment on it so so what we have here is this is an annual event by the santa cruz area chamber which covers all the santa cruzion there's aptos chamber there's soquel capitol this is the larger of them and every year they do usually get on a bus and that's what'll happen this time and and go visit you usually a sister sister areas like napa we've done santa barbara to try to learn from them there's always a water resources stop this year it will be actually pure water soquel is their stop it's this one is to be more local just learn from the local folks there is a one-night stay at the the dream end I believe because they do like to get people together I mean I would say half of this is about learning from other agencies and then the other half is forming relationships with people throughout the community it's been very valuable what we did this year I think in order to get well we we reserved one spot and we reserved it under my name but it's open to anybody if the board would like to take that if the board would like to or up to two board members right Emma help me out with this we have a space and then and I get Melanie I don't think is available to attend and other managers weren't in that interested but I could attend with you or without you or even the the ultimate might be is to meet you at the bus getting on and just introduce you to some folks because you know I know that that group fairly well if you mean in case you might not know some of the people but the options out there for the board to consider whatever you like if none of the board members want to go I'll take up that role you know what the itineraries it's I haven't seen a full agenda yet yeah they let me let me if you got a link here I know it's local and the let me look and see there they pull it together so to me Santa Cruz Watsonville mccounty then day two is San Lorenzo Valley Scotts Valley city of Santa Cruz I'm not exactly sure where they're stopping we wanted to get it in why the discount rate was still applicable but in the past it's things like hearing about you know the housing challenges or homeless some of it's related some of it's not like I said there's always been a water stop on each of these they try to cross a couple of genres if you will I don't know what the details are this trip I think he's still trying to piece it together you have a date for that for the tour of the Pure Water Soquel Melanie? Yeah tentatively we're on the first day which is October 11th yeah so there's a lot of jostling to go on if I find out more I could present that but you're just asking for a motion to authorize board member if they are able to yeah and I'm behind that I see the value of being on a tour with with other leaders in our community and interacting yeah that's the I'll make the motion all we need public comment yeah okay but you can work you can work out the details yeah yeah I mean let us know I think there's a date in there to let us know by September 27th if you would if you want to attend and that'd be if you can let us know earlier that's great and then we can talk about whether you you know whether I should attend to you all right so I made the motion I seconded director Balboni yes vice president trappy yes director lehu yes director later yes and president christensen yes and and I would not be able to go just in case anybody was wondering well that's thank you I said anyway and I'm not able to go either yeah we're down down to two three right oh right no it was it was really that heard some really excellent talks on housing and and some really good water projects it was it was more than a couple days it was a couple days not it was still they choose the projects well too there's even a homeless you know a homeless you know a lot of about housing and it's really impressive okay item 7.4 uh this is an item called up I called for right Dr. Jaffe and there's a presentation of some data from 2013 it almost seems like a different era but the evaluate the analysis was was an interesting way of presenting it Bruce I think you should take this over yeah and I might say a few words before you oh no I would okay yeah so one of the things I maybe consider for tonight and just to throw in the mix of what you're thinking is in October the first or second meeting we will be having the rate consultant come and present some information so well whatever is requested of us by the board we'll have to decide whether staff can do it in house or whether we need the rate consultant but it may be unless you have specifics the what the first meeting the rate consultant does may help inform what you're looking for too that's what I'm trying to put out there so there's a couple options thank you so I don't know if this is the graphs are cryptic to the other board members a little I had to go down to the graphics instead of the tables because yeah me too I think I remembered that better but but it what I get out of it is from the from the graphics is how many of our customers are using water at different levels and that's critical to my thinking about how to set rates and I don't know looks like you've got one up there so when your single family by monthly use and this is in the x-axis is hundreds of cubic feet so that's roughly 750 gallons and the y-axis accumulative use so it zeroes at zero water use it's zero percent or close to it and then at the highest water use which is above 50 hcf it's at a hundred percent and so it's a cumulative use so um on this graph there's you can go to any level on the the y-axis and here it's um I think it's 34 percent and you can see where if you draw a line and where it intersects that curve shows what the water use is so within target here I think the target was 11 hcf and so 34 percent of people use 11 hcf or less and it's also done by percent of bills so that next the next one it's the same way since this cumulative use again it starts zero and goes up to 100 so 100 percent of the people if you go to the upper right corner um 100 of all bills use a cumulative use that's 100 percent zero percent at zero percent and but if you look at one again one of the horizontal lines here it's um 34 percent of the of the water again it's and so and percent of bills is up at at 61 percent where it hits the x-axis so with that that shows and it's labeled lowest 61 percent of bills use 34 percent of the water so there's a based on this curve you can see how many people how many bills are at what what level so there's a line also at 50 percent and this is this is winter and it it shows that um 50 percent 50 percent well in this case it's so the top 25 percent of the bills use 50 percent or more of the water so I the reason I'm I'm wanted to to look at these is because like Carlos said different error there are a lot of different things that have happened and I would like to see how this has changed with time and I think it'd be particularly interesting also to see what effect you know our last rate structure had although there's many different factors but if we looked at what the way you know what the use is and now and looked at what the use was before we enacted a different rate structure we might see some some uh relations that we could could help set the new rates so yeah no I thought it was an interesting graphic actually too but I wasn't sure how much work it was to put together not a lot of work it was done for free by Sioux Holt and basically all it is is taking the the tables there in here and graphing them so I forget Ron I had one thing that I I think the information that you're getting from this is valuable there might be a graphical way to present it that would be easier for me to get like I mean I do want to know what percent of the what you know like I like knowing what percentage of our customers are using you know ours are under the a given threshold or at different levels of water use I'm not sure this is the easiest way to graph it um or maybe I'm missing something but I mean I got it but it's yeah to me I'm not you're not used to looking at these yeah so maybe if we do end up doing something like this there could be you know of this and specific you know other graphs showing you know instead having it all on one graph with all the the data have that for those who want to see that the complete data but have um just specific questions like you know what how many customers you know use above a certain amount or right half the customers use this amount or less you could so there could be you know bullet points extracted or or graphicals um a graph that you know makes the points without getting into the details that you can pull off of these types of graphs but so what you're suggesting Ron is that yeah I mean first of all let this is it's we can I can find out the effort uh I will note that these are we were bimonthly when we did this and the and the rate structures changed twice so they're we'd have to cut things or multiply them or whatever that's not a big deal but um what I'm suggesting is might serve you the best and look is when we come back we're going to come back basically with the revenue needs and the financial plan at the next either our their first October me or the second I can't remember which and when you hear Raft tell us present then it won't be rate structure it'll just be revenue needs here's what we're we're we're looking at needing to expand and this is the hence our revenue needs and then how is that roughly translated into percentage of revenue needs not rate structure because it's they they can change depending on how you do the rate structure but at that time I you could maybe have a good interaction there's one way to go about it with the consultant because this is what they do saying this is what we're looking for he's aware of this memo I believe I've sent it to him but um this is what we're trying to understand and then they can talk about how how they might approach that and the level of effort that's just one way yeah that sounds like a reasonable way to proceed I did find another thing from Sue that was not as you know not a memo but actually uh Alex uh Alex Handler yeah had contributed to it as well and it was just you know not not as um as clean but I do believe Alex provided the data to sue on the yeah either either our office did or sue it was it took a little time I mean it wasn't just a back of the envelope calculation she she did a you know a good job and put some time into this so that's why I'm suggesting maybe let let Raf tell us come and Kevin present and then there's good we're hoping to present once in October November and December so at that early October meeting gives you time the second meeting is why then you're going to be most interested that sounds like a good plan it's not a good plan okay and and thank you for passing on him this memo and yeah and I'd say the the the big question I have is how's our water use changing or is it changing and then um what I'm there of or numbers like means because the mean doesn't doesn't tell the story I agree with that yeah because we want to know sometimes also how many customers are affected by exactly a particular decision we make with rates to me that's a really big one you know and so the one of the grass you looked at how much and and and how many customers would have their bills go up go down all that right and then that's you can get that directly from that that graph that shows percentage of bills at different levels we got it big items and I'll pass this on and we can tell them be prepared for this for discussion and then you can also ask other questions or provide other direction great you know it may be out of the scope I'm not sure you know it depends on what we ask and then there may be some associated costs but maybe you can ballpark it at that point make sure I'm sure there'll be costs but I'm sure they want they need to spend some time presenting rationale for certain rates and they know we're going to want to know about when they do these bids they know that we're going to want to know about how it's going to affect our customers in various ways right I'm sure any tier structure or if there is a tier structure that that would be presented this is how many would fall in X tier Y tier Z tier yeah so but I think you're looking at it from a little more global point to try to inform that decision exactly yeah now there may be more limitations on that since 218 progressed a little bit but he can inform us I'm well aware of that yeah it has to be a nexus yeah costs and and and what what is charged for the water but it would be interesting it would be something that we would want to know how how these how many people would be affected by it you know and I cannot hear you call moving into another rate yeah another rate structure or another different tiers yeah there'll be multiple times we'll be back in October I'll tell them this is your interest then we can ask those questions again is that sound appropriate and thank you for oh yeah yeah they threw me back you know I because I was author of the other memo going back 10 years and yes you were yeah yeah member ensue any comments from the public please thank you Becky Steinburner it threw me back in time too to see your name Mr. Duncan there with that conservation I went with my wonderful neighbor who has now passed away Michael Mills to a presentation of what I think was some of this information at the New Brighton Middle School and that was something when your district was presenting water budget present ideas it didn't go over well and I also remember the meeting about a moratorium at the seascape seascape lodge too I couldn't even get in so I have some questions about this I I think it's interesting information too although I know because we've all seen the water use numbers and information that since 2014 when there was a drought the usage never went back up and that's wonderful so we know that it's much different now on their much better water conservation facilities appliances and things and people's use has just changed for the better I have a question how they came up with on page 29 24,641 bills sent out I think I've seen a number much lower than that for your district so has that changed I also want to point out that the I did see I was forwarded your quick sips and talking about the rate advisory committee but there's no information about that on your website so I would like to see that put up there is is is Dr. Sue Holt still with us I mean she did a tremendous amount of work is she still with us would she be willing to do this again for the district for the benefit of the people I think it's worth asking and meld her information with ref tell us because she's got a good handle on things thank you I guess that's my my last question thank you you know cabrio colleges is coming up with a lot of you please be respectful and so your unit I'm the only one here but it's our time please thank you we appreciate you being right just watch cabrio colleges units there it's sizable thank you I think this is in the bailiwick of the rate the rate consultant you know they know what the structure is and what information we want I think that they'll be able they could come up with a cost estimate I would get it done and maybe yeah I'll prep them for this just standard maybe no big deal we'll do we'll find out yeah so and it's not not a big effort really yes but that was the last item um I there is I don't think we need a motion for this do we know no informational so uh let's say just by motion to direct staff so I don't think that's necessary we're going to ask some questions and you're going to ask questions and bring it back yeah yeah what I'll ask is um be prepared um well item seven point some point three here take my glasses off um what what level of effort would it be to mimic some of what was done before and uh with the cost associated with that would be and and if if there's another way to kind of derive to get at this that might be more insightful based on you wanting to know um where certain customer where customers fall in certain categories and there's a summer winter aspect of as you can see through Dr. Holt's work so I think I've got it but again if if we miss the mark in October really that comes into play in the second meeting when they're going to present rate structures and that sort of thing I'd also like to one of the things one of the assumptions was clearly an average because they're said that were two adult two and a half person per household that is definitely average for a customer base it is it is it's done by there's either there's a ton of one person apartment dwellers and homeowners and there's a large family so it's it really is a complicated well that data actually in that other informal memo was presented based on census for all the tracks in in our district and I can send that to you Ron and you can send it out okay yeah I can't remember back that far but that'd be awesome I just came across it today well that would be good because that is one of the big problems with trying to do water budgets and things like that the household of getting strict counts on occupying the household any other anything else before we adjourn okay that's thank you all thank you very much bye can't give it from that easily


In fact, I want to place on record my appreciation and thanks to NewsClick. It was NewsClick which published my interview, which was a critic of the FRDA bill when no media was talking about it, no TV channels were talking about it, nobody was taking it so seriously. But when the bill was at the draft stage itself, I had gone through the draft and I happened to be in the studio to give an interview. That was seen by quite a lot of audience and they also copied it and started circulating it in. So that way the public got the idea what are the defects of this FRDA bill. The initial interview of NewsClick helped us as well as the public to know what is there in the bill. Subsequently, many major TV channels covered it up. I had been also participating in the debate in various channels and then we approached the political parties. I had a 35 minute audience with Mr. Rahul Gandhi. He gave a patient hearing. He discussed about demonetization. He discussed about the FRDA bill, what is there in the bill, what is to be opposed, why you are opposed to the bill and what support you need as an organization. And I requested that as a party which brought in the nationalization should fight to safeguard the public sector branch because this bill is only a indirect way of privatization. Now when you want to privatize a public sector bank, you have to go to the parliament. There is a rule that below 51% government cannot reduce their shareholding. But if the FRDA bill is fast, they don't have to go to the parliament. The so-called resolution authority can decide to merge banks, to privatize banks, to liquidate banks. All that provisions have been created and I also explained about how that bail-in class has been brought in, where in case of a crisis of a bank, the depositors money can be appropriated by the resolution authority, which had already happened in Cyprus after a similar bill was passed, where the customers got back only 60% and 40% of the deposit in case of two different banks. Then he assured me that yes, we will oppose it in the parliament at the introduction stage itself. They opposed. We expected that it will go to the parliament standing committee. In fact, he had asked me to meet Mr. Veeraf Amuly, who is the chairman of the parliament standing committee on finance. But the government cleverly sent it to a joint parliamentary committee of which they had appointed one Mr. Bhuvendra Yadav, who belongs to the ruling party as the chairman. That committee had majority members from the NDA. I tried for an appointment with him, which he refused. He had in fact made a statement to a friend of mine that there is no use in making, meeting because we have decided that we will pass the bill. So what's the use of your person coming and explaining to me? I don't want to waste my time. This was the reply he had given. But then I kept on writing to the joint parliamentary committee that we want to appear before the parliament committee. That they did not do. And then finally I had to write to the speaker of the Lok Sabha, deputy chairman of the Rajesh Sabha, saying that we are the major stakeholders. I am representing 320,000 offices in the banking industry. And we belong to the public sector banks where even now 75% of the deposits and advances in this country are handled by the public sector bank. So we have to be given an audience. And finally I was asked to appear and I appeared before the joint parliamentary committee and made a 35 minutes for our fine presentation. They asked certain queries, whatever queries they raised, they said that you should give a written reply also in addition to oral reply. We submitted, they wanted it again to be translated in Hindi, we translated in Hindi and gave. And in fact I remember when I appeared in the JPC, Mr. Saukatha Rai, a member of parliament from Tarnamal Congress, he said that he has made a very clear presentation. He has explained it better than a Supreme Court lawyer, why this bill has to be rejected. So there is nothing to discuss, let us reject the bill. But the committee did not decide on that at that time. So we kept on putting pressure. More people like NAPM, National Alliance for People's Movement, they appeared before the joint parliamentary committee, Center for Financial Accountability appeared. So we had discussions among ourselves and different points we could bring in to the JPC. But still JPC did not, they deferred one. They kept on deferring the dates for submission of the report and we had been talking to members of parliament directly who are in the JPC. We had also sent a detailed representation to every member of parliament, both Rajesh Sabha and Lok Sabha. All members. Yes. Actually other political parties, Congress was one, CPM, Comrade Sitaram Yachuri, the moment we told about it is that you know our party stand, we will always support public sector. Sharath Yadav, I even met Mr. Naveen Patanayi, Chief Minister of Odisha. He said that okay, I will ask my people to oppose the bill, their party also has representation in the JPC. I met one member of parliament from AADMK who is also in the JPC, Mr. Karnagaran who represents CPM and the joint parliamentary committee. So they all assured that at least we will give a decent note. They also did not even expect that this bill will be withdrawn. But it is the media which helped. The public's anchor after sometime starting with news click, various channels and news papers started highlighting the defects of this bill. So what happened? We started a signature campaign, massive signature campaign in the streets of Kolkata and other places. So people started understanding that yes, there is something danger and especially that valine class and in fact the Prime Minister of the country went on air and said that some bank unions are spreading a rumor that there is going to be liquidation of banks. I will never allow any liquidation of banks to take place because that freshness started mounting because of this reaction of the public. People started withdrawing money, NRA started withdrawing money. They didn't know, it was so sad, they don't understand fully. One customer comes to me saying that, sir, I have kept my deposit, few lakhs, sir only saving I have, they are saying that this is dangerous. So let me withdraw from this bank and bring to your bank thinking that okay that bank can go bankrupt, this bank will not. But the act that will if it is fast, it has provision for every kind of bank, public sector bank, private sector bank, cooperative bank, RRP, non-banking financial companies, anything can be liquidated. So that fear which came in the mind of the people forced the government that yes, we have to withdraw the bill. So finally now they have withdrawn it from the parliament. But if acting finance minister has made a statement that that bill is needed, we might bring it up in some different form after some time. So we have to be on guard to see that the larger majority of customers who are ordinary citizens who have deposited the money with the hope that anytime I want I can get it back. That faith should not be destroyed. So we have to be on guard to see that some other bill in some other form does not come. So in the last few I would like to talk about the farmers agitation and the debt loan waiver that is going on and you attended the meeting so if you can tell us about. I am very happy that for the first time in history of this country to support the farmers, the trade unions, civil society organizations, middle class movements have come together. Today we had a meeting at Delhi which is a preparatory meeting to support these farmers who are going to come to Delhi by the 28th to 30th. Training is the most important activity in this country. Without food we cannot live. Farmers are committing suicide and these farmers who are feeding the 128 crore population of this country, we have given scanned regard for them. The policies over a period of time has not supported the farmers. The farm crisis is something which has led to a situation that today no youth will like to get into farming. He always tries to get into something else because farming is not seen as something which can feed him with adequate income. It is not a dignified job exactly. Although the farmer's agitation is very good, 201 organizations for the first time have come together. This is something unique. Earlier they were all fighting alone. Now the understanding has come among the people that standing alone we cannot win so we have to come together and now to support them the others are coming together. That is another positive development. I would like to call it 92% versus 8%. As per the 2011 socioeconomic census, 92% of the population in this country, the head of the household's income is less than 10,000 rupees. So only the 8% has more than that. Fortunately I belong to that 8% but this 92% has to understand what is happening in the country. The policies how it is affecting. So in this particular case of farm crisis, there are two demands. One they are saying that wherever there is a farm crisis there should be a debt waiver, waiver of the loans. They are not asking to write off all the loans. There are criteria. Wherever there is a crisis, that crisis has to be analyzed and that should be done. There what I had been talking about for quite some time is that when you go for a debt waiver, normally what happens is that only the debt given by the cooperative banks and nationalized banks is written off. Even in that case sometimes the primary agriculture cooperative societies are left out. State cooperative banks are sometimes left out. There are data which shows that only hardly 15% of the small and marginal farmers have access to credit in this banking system. Now out of that, quite a number of them would have repaid the loan because the banks go and threaten them. Today Mr. Sainath was saying that at Marathwada after the demonetization, suddenly farmers were sent a notice that their loan has been converted from a cash credit loan, agriculture cash credit to a term loan. So a 1.5 lakh loan outstanding became suddenly 10 lakh or total lakh outstanding. The interest rate got changed, cumulative interest was charged and when they were not repaying, the banks said that we will do a Gandhigiri.  So these are the type of efforts which was supported by some of the state governments. So what is needed is that when there is a crisis, as I told in a different thing, when you could write crores and crores of money for corporates, what is wrong in writing off when a farmer is in crisis? In most of the cases when I have discussed with farmers in their villages, they say that we do not even want write off, we want refacing of the loan and we want a fresh credit. What happens is that the moment the bank identifies your account as NPA, one it is forcing you to repay the loan, second it stops additional credit. Now you are already under the crisis, your crop was failed, so you require money to buy seeds, you require money for plowing, you require money for putting fertilizers. So what alternative you have? You go to money lender, borrow at a huge rate of interest. So the borrower gets into a debt trap. So what we suggest is that one, a borrower, an agricultural service to farmer who has repaid the loan, also should be written off their loan because it is because of this pressure, he might have sold some of his assets, he might have told his, sold his livestock to repay this loan, so he should also be encouraged. Then that tendency to default will not happen. He will honestly try and repay in future also. Apart from that, Kerala government has done once that even the money taken from the money lenders, that also is covered under the debt relief. You may be an agricultural laborer, you might have borrowed from a money lender for wearing a cow or goat, milk animals, livestock, for which you have taken that loan, even that is covered under a debt relief scheme. So that is what is needed. When you give debt relief, you cover all the people who are affected. That has not happened. Then is the implementation of the minimum support price. Today Mr. Hanan Milla from the All India Kisan Sabha was talking in the meeting. He says that the Prime Minister himself is uttering a big lie, that he is saying that I have provided minimum support price, which is not true. The M. S. Swaminathan Committee report, it specifically says on what grounds you calculate that 150% of the input cost. But they have not taken all that into account and they are just announcing a revised minimum support price and they are saying that we have achieved that, which is not true. So the farmer requires assistance in selling his product. Many times, even when there is a minimum support price, there is no buying. The government is not buying. So what is alternative? He goes at a cheaper rate to the shopkeeper. So what the farmers are demanding is that you take into account the cost of cultivation. The costs are rent for the land. That is the recommendation of the Swaminathan Committee also. And your labor cost. Many times the farmer is family contributes for the cultivation and allied agriculture activity. That is not considered as a labor in the present calculation by the government. If these three things are taken into account and 150% of that cost is fixed as minimum support price and the government also ensures that that procurement takes place, then the farmers will be saved. And that way the farm crisis can come to an end. And the government also support. Nowadays there is hardly any expenditure on irrigation. So the government has to provide the infrastructure for agriculture. It should also support the farmer through the credit policies, especially the present credit policies are not oriented towards the small farmer and marginal farmer. Everything is covered as allied agriculture activity. Earlier there was a norm that certain credit should go to direct agriculture. Now that has been diluted. To bank as per the norms 40% of the credit has to go for priority sector. Out of that 18% has to go to agriculture sector. Now you have combined agriculture and allied agriculture. So somebody is having a mango orchard like Ambani. That is also an allied agriculture. Ambani may be starting a lens fresh store. That may be also covered under allied agriculture activity. And you are raring some cows that is also allied agriculture activity. So the real forming activity for the small farmer, that has to be once again changed in the policy. That certain percentage should go to the small farmer and marginal farmer for direct agriculture. That is one thing. Ambani now they have expanded the norms in such a way that even the bigger farmers, they get all that lower interest rate. So that again has to be re-looked. This country, the majority of the farmers are small and marginal farmers with small land holding. Then there is a huge number of farmers who are tenant farmers who do not have any tenancy right. There are very few states where you have tenancy right, which was there in West Bengal. Now I don't know whether they still have. But all the other states, nobody will give you an agreement that I have given your land for two years for cultivation, because they think that after some time this fellow will not move away, so the land will go. State governments are also not supporting that. So the tenant farmers, how they will get access to credit. That has to be again brought in in the policy. See now there are, the award is promoting joint liability groups. They are saying that through that group you can take. And in my experience, wherever I have come across this joint liability groups, I find that it is only the rich farmers. Small farmers have not been able to organize themselves into this joint liability groups and take loans. Similarly, there are farmers clubs. Again the richer farmers are coming and dominating. Again there are SHGs to which, self-help groups to which form credit can be given. That has comparatively reduced. Banks have been giving more loans to microfinance institutions instead of giving direct loans. Even in the Mudra loans where agriculture also can be given. Non-banking financial companies are charging 14 percent, 15 percent interest rate. So the real farmer, who is a small or marginal farmer, has not been given adequate credit. And if there are adequate data available with RBI to show that the small credit as a whole has drastically gone down. And the large credit, corporate credit has drastically gone up. So unless the government comes up with a policy of changing the norms, that these are the directives. In a country which is a developing country, where still there is absolute poverty, there has to be directed credit. Unfortunately, organizations like RBI, Nithya Yoke, they have started talking about why should there should be directed credit. Banking is a profitable venture, so you have to give credit only looking at your profitability. These things, that mindset has to change. Unless you help the majority of the farmers and make agriculture lucrative, the future of the country will be in danger. It is not that we start looking at some statistics. America, only 2 percent of the GDP comes from agriculture. So we should go, we are not that type of a country. But the western model of development is a failed model. So this country, even today, majority of the people are dependent on farming. Farming may not be contributing so much to the GDP because of various other reasons. Because you have increased the services sector, you have increased some of the industries. Because of that there is a change. Farming has to be brought into focus and this farmer's agitation is going to create a history is my feeling. For the first time, all farmers are coming together, non-farm workers, middle class, civil society organizations, they are coming in support of them. And there is going to be a huge agitation. Delhi is going to, I am told that the Delhi government has agreed to provide adequate support of infrastructure, providing toilets, providing food and water and all. So this is going to be a real historic moment which is going to take place in the country and that should pay way for bringing in the 92 percent together.