Good morning, Jack. This is Mike. Yeah, good morning, Mike. Good to see you. Morning, Drew. It's Mike. Good morning, Mike. Do you know what we're waiting for? I think we have a full quorum. I think the recording secretary is probably just Roberta or Easter. You can go ahead and activate. Yes, I think he's missing the city of Santa Rosa for Jennifer. Sorry, we're getting some feedback. Hold on. I'm going to try. We're in a virtual format because council chambers are unavailable. One moment. Okay, let's see how that can people hear me now. Yes. Yes. Good to go then. Okay. Okay. In that case, we'll call the meeting to order. And I would remind WAC and TAC members to state their agency and full name for roll call, and we're making comments or asking questions. So with that, would the recording secretary please do the roll call? Yes, city of Katadi. Here, Susan Harvey, city of Katadi. City of Petaluma. Here, Mike Healy, Petaluma. City of Roonert Park. Here, Willie Linares, city of Roan Park. City of Santa Rosa. Natalie Rogers, city of Santa Rosa. City of Sonoma. Here, Jack Dean from the city of Sonoma. North Marin Water District. Jack Baker, North Marin. Town of Windsor. Sam Salmon, town of Windsor. Valley of the Moon Water District. Oh, Mr. Foreman, I think you're muted. John Foreman, Valley of the Moon. Marin Municipal Water District. Jack is here. I think you might have got muted. Thank you. And then for TAC, city of Katadi. Right, Scott, city of Katadi. Here. City of Petaluma. Mike Elmarini, city of Petaluma. Here. City of Roanert Park. Right, Grace Possum, city of Roanert Park. Here. City of Santa Rosa. Jennifer Burke, Santa Rosa Water. Here. City of Sonoma. Here, Matt Wargoola, city of Sonoma. North Marin Water District. Peru, MacIntyre. North Marin Water District. Town of Windsor. Valley of the Moon Water District. Matt Polner, Valley of the Moon. Marin Municipal Water District. Here. Jack Gibson. This is the TAC Jackman. Paul Sellier, Marin Municipal. Thank you. And for other attendees, we have Andrea, Armand Munivar, Brad Sherwood, Brenda Adelman, Christopher Boldt, Colin Close, David Keller, Jake Spaulding, Lauren Lum, Lynn Rosselli, Margaret DiGenova, Nicole Baxter, Paul Selsky, Peter Martin, and Tony Williams. Thank you. So next up is adopting a resolution, finding a proclaimed state of emergency, and the meeting in person would present imminent risks to health or safety of attendees and authorizing and continuing meetings by teleconference of legislative bodies. Drew, do you want to take this? Yes. Thank you, Chair Healy. This is pretty familiar with what everybody's seen previously by the WAC voting to approve this. It'll continue the virtual meetings for another 30 days. And then I believe Chair Healy will talk at the end of the agenda here a little bit as far as future planning on just, you know, discussion on when to return to in-person meetings. But for right now, approval of this resolution then will continue for authorizing this virtual meeting today and through the next 30 days. Thank you, Drew. So we're now taking public comments on this item. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in by phone, please dial star nine. And then I will ask the secretary if there's anyone who wants to make comments. You don't have any raised hands. Was that? We have one public comment. Ms. Edelman, I'll allow you to speak. Ms. Edelman, you can go ahead and unmute. Can you hear me now? We can. Okay. Thank you very much. As you know, I've been very concerned about all the growth going on in your cities and towns, especially the big cities. I have been around Santa Rosa and for the last two years, I've been seeing giant apartment buildings going up like crazy everywhere I look. And I'm just wondering what kind of analysis has been done on the new water that will be needed to address the new demands from these buildings? Excuse me. I'm very concerned that the people who are doing the developing aren't adequately addressing the water issue. I don't know how much communication there is between the water agency and plans for new development. I think there's been a lot of concern about this when even the press Democrat is running articles indicating concern because we're starting to see, excuse me, we're starting to see demand hardening. Well, just ignore it. Demand hardening on the part of the people who have been here a long time and already done all they can for in conservation. And I just really don't see enough happening that a lot of the more stringent policies around conserving water won't be happening for two months and that there's this waiting period for some reason that I don't understand is to things that the agency can be doing right now in terms of starting the conservation process. And I just think that the public is waiting to hear more information about how this is all going to work out. In the down river area and where I come from, we're already seeing probably the lowest levels of flow that we've ever seen at this time of year or certainly among the most the lowest and we're anticipating a very dire summer. So if you can answer respond to any of those comments, I'd appreciate it. Thank you, Brenda. I take that that was general public comment and not for this item. So Brenda's no longer on. I think we'll just treat it that way. So is there anyone else who wants to say anything about the resolution on the table? Hearing none, if there's a motion. This is Susan Harvey. I would move to approve. Thank you. Second. Second. North Marin, Jack Baker. North Marin. Okay. And I would ask Secretary Ather to take a roll call. Go to the WAC members. You have Katadi. Yes. City of Petaluma. Yes. City of Rona Park. Yes. City of Santa Rosa. Yes. City of Sonoma. Yes. North Marin Water District. Yes. Town of Windsor. Yes. Valley of the Moonwater District. Yes. Carries unanimous. Thank you. Now we're on to general public comment on non-agent items. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. And Madam Secretary, are there any, is there anyone in the public wishing to make a public comment? Yes. We have two hands raised. I'll allow Brenda Adelman to speak. Thank you. I just wanted to add that I obviously made a mistake. I met my comments to be for the general public comment. And everything I said a few minutes ago is what I would have said during this particular comment period. No worries. Okay. Thank you. And we also have David Keller. Hi. Good morning, folks. I would like to second what Brenda said. There needs to be a statement, a clear statement from the water agency as the major supplier for domestic use and residential industrial commercial use in the county on how to square the available supplies, the shortage of storage in Lake Sonoma and Lake Mendocino, the reduction of flows coming from the Eel River, how to square all of that in numbers, not just the allocations in actual what is expected and what is expected for the long term where this is not a one year drought and we're no longer in a series of droughts where we can consider it to be a drought that's going to be relieved next year. This is a long term strategy for the water agency and I'm sure you guys are thinking about it because you're smart, you're talented, but there's no public statement, no public analysis and this question about growth and supply has been raised in the paper and elsewhere in other conversations, but I've seen crickets from the water agency about how to square that in the long run. General plans are 20 year plans and yet they're all based on the fiction that we're just continuing the past history and historic flows when that is extremely unlikely to be the case. So somewhere, somehow, sometimes soon, I'd really like for the water agency as the main leader in this, sorry, Grant it's in your lap, to talk about how the agency and for those cities who aren't on the water agency supply or on wells or other or their own Russian river permits, how they're going to square growth and how much growth there can be versus a new predictable water supply and the five year urban water management plan numbers are not sufficient. They have not been updated to address climate change. They're all based on the fiction that we're continuing the same kind of flows and availability that we've had for the past 120 years that is no longer the case. So I'd really like to see that done publicly and done soon. Thank you very much. Thank you, David. Drew, did we receive any public comments via voice mail or email? We did not. Thank you. And I'll give Grant an opportunity to respond if he'd like to, but there's no obligation here. Well, I definitely appreciate the two public members, Brenda and David, for raising their concerns. I think there's some items on the agenda today that will go toward answering that somewhat, some relatively good news. All of the water contractors have been updating their water shortage contingency plans and we'll talk more about that as well later on the agenda. So we're watching this extremely closely. And yes, we're in the third year of a drought and there will be corrective actions taken by the state that will be all required to respond to. So taking under advisement. Thank you, Grant. Appreciate that. So next item for recap from the February 7 2022 WAC TAC meeting and approval of minutes. So the agenda or the minutes were included. Are there any questions from the group on that or comments? Seeing none, we're now taking public comment on this item. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're dialing in, please dial star nine. Madam Secretary, do we have any one wishing to comment on this? We have no hands raised. Thank you. And Drew, are there any written or emailed comments? There were not. Thank you. So with that, I will look for a motion and a second. Move to approve the minutes. This is Susan Harvey, City of Cotati. Thank you. Second. Thank you. Madam Secretary, can we have a roll call? City of Cotati? Yes. City of Petaluma? Yes. City of Rona Park? Yes. City of Santa Rosa? Yes. City of Sonoma? Yes. Northburn Water District? Jack, you're muted. Yes. Sorry. Town of Windsor? Yes. And Valley of the Moonwater District? Yes. That passes unanimously. Thank you. So now we're on to item five, the highlighted today's meeting, presentation on the draft fiscal year 2022-2023, water agency, water transmission system budget. Ms. Rosselli? Drew, is Kimberly going to give an introduction or should I just go ahead and get started? You can go ahead and just get started. Okay. Okay. And you can hear me and you can see my screen. Perfect. Thank you. Good morning, Water Advisory Committee members. Lynn Rosselli, Administrative Services Division Manager for Sonoma Water. Here to give you a high-level overview of the budget and rates for the water transmission system for next fiscal year. As you may know, the budget and rates are established for the three main aqueducts, Santa Rosa, Petaluma, and Sonoma aqueducts, and the water contractors on each one of those aqueducts pays the budget and rates associated with that aqueduct. We engage in a collaborative process with the water contractors. We begin in January. We take it to our board of directors in April when our board of directors would be scheduled to review and approve. I want to thank the members of the budget subcommittee for their participation and valued input into the process. Kimberly Zunino, City of Santa Rosa, Jennifer Burke, City of Santa Rosa, Craig Scott, City of Katadi, Julie Blune, North Marine Water District, Shannon Coutoula, Christina Goulart, Veronica Swie of Town of Windsor, and Oscar Magigal of Valley and Moon Water District. The budget, we're going to jump into the budget and the different categories of the budget they are shown here. These are the activities and the funds that we budget for. And we're going to jump right into our highest priority projects, 3.2 million budgeted for hazard mitigation to shore up our infrastructure against, in this case, flood and seismic events. The first three projects are going to construction this fiscal year. They are all offset by FEMA grant funding, and they are all high priority projects. We have 10.1 million budgeted for other capital projects. I want to highlight the Sebastopol Occidental Wells and the Todd Road Well. Those are production wells that are being rehabilitated and will be converted to aquifer storage and recovery, significant and important during this drought. And so when we add up the capital budget for hazard mitigation in these projects, we get to 13.3 million for the capital budget. And then for operations and maintenance, we have 38.7 million budgeted to shore up our aging infrastructure. These are critically important projects and the highest priority that has been identified by our engineers and operations and maintenance staff. We also have a number of studies and they all focus on hazard mitigation, water supply resiliency, and maintaining system reliability. The studies help inform new project development and help us apply for grant funding. And under the sub-fund category, we have 13.9 million for the biological opinion. It will fund primarily the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement Mile 4 construction. The core is providing a 65% cost share, represents a major cost savings for the water contractors. And then we also have a very robust water conservation program coming up. We're collaborating with all of the water contractors and using offsetting federal and state grant revenue to help get the message out about the drought and conserving water and implementing water use efficiency projects. So the total budget is 71.83 million and it is offset by 15.31 million in grants, use of fund balance and bond proceeds. Operations and maintenance is going up to implement those aging infrastructure improvement projects, capital projects for the hazard mitigation projects that are under construction and the drought related projects, biological opinion for the Dry Creek Habitat Enhancement Program and water conservation and then debt service is increasing because we're issuing 15 million in water revenue bonds to help finance the entire capital program for next year and the years following. The allocation of the cost is shown in this slide. Operations and maintenance makes up the majority of costs. Operations and maintenance are not usually eligible for grant funding and the restructure agreement for water supply does not envision bonding or loans for O&M operations and maintenance projects. So that is funded primarily by the rates but the biological opinion and the other sub funds and capital projects are funded by grants, fund balance and bond proceeds as well. And so we take the budget and we develop the rate and the rate is prescribed by the restructure agreement for water supply. It takes the cost of operations and maintenance or the revenue requirement divides by the quantity of water sold and gets the cost of water per acre foot. The quantity of water sold has to be the lower of the three-year annual average of the last 12 months of water deliveries and the three-year annual average is what has been used for fiscal year 2223 and you get the cost of water per acre foot. The main purpose of this slide is to show that this is a fully volumetric rate. It's a uniform rate and when deliveries are lower, your rate is going to be higher and vice versa. Our deliveries over the past five years have averaged about 43,000 acre feet but the budgeted deliveries are 45,745 acre feet excuse me but we have stress tested the model to make sure that we have sufficient fund balance to cover us in the event that deliveries come in lower. And so we work very closely with the budget subcommittee, the members of the budget subcommittee to work on this budget and rates going forward. We began with a rating increase of 9.99%, brought it down to 6.84%. We spread operations and maintenance costs over a couple of years. We increased the use of fund balance. We're selling revenue bonds, 15 million in revenue bonds to cover all of the capital costs and we're using offsetting grant revenue of 5 million. And then on top of that, the water contractors elected to make the following change to further reduce the rate. They lowered their aqueduct capital charge which is a discretionary charge that is used to build fund balance for future aqueduct capital projects. It's also used as a rate stabilization tool and so the water contractors on each of the three aqueducts were able to bring down their rates rate increases to those shown on the screen here. And we end up with a total cost per gallon of $0.003. And so here are the rates by aqueduct. There are three aqueduct Santa Rosa Petaluma Sonoma deliveries are 45,748 per feet. And the total overall rating increase on each of the aqueducts is shown 6.06% for Santa Rosa, 6.16% for Petaluma, 6.52% for Sonoma. And that discretionary charge is shown there as $11 for Santa Rosa, 12 for Petaluma, and $38 for Sonoma. And here is our slide that compares our water rates per acre foot to other wholesale water contractors in the Bay Area. You can see that we are on the left hand side there. We are still the lowest of the others. They are all experiencing rate increases north of 7%. Our rate increase this fiscal year is 3.47%. And our rate increase over the past five years has been 4.4%. But our rate increase proposed for next fiscal year is what you were seeing on the previous slide in the range of the 6%. And so we had a unanimously recommended budget and rates from the technical advisory committee on March 7. Today, we are requesting a water advisory committee vote on the budget and rates. And then we will take it to our board on April 19th. And with that, I am happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you, Lynn. And just to confirm that it's the $1,062 or thereabouts per acre foot that works out to three-tenths of a cent per gallon. That's correct. That's great. Okay. Any questions from the Whackers attack? Seeing none, we are now taking public comments on this item. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you are dialing in by phone, please dial star 9. Madam Secretary, do we have any people who want to comment on this? There are no hands raised. And Drew, did anyone? One moment, Brenda Edelman just raised her hand. One moment. Let me allow her to speak. Is Edelman allowed to speak? Can you hear me now? Yes. I would just like to say that you do an amazing job of working with the contractors and getting costs down. You have a very talented fiscal staff who is able to make the kinds of judgments and fiscal management that makes it very affordable for the ratepayers. They are very lucky to have your talents. Now I wish that you would do the same for people who have the water agency running the county sanitation districts and have public involvement. I could follow hardly anything you said because I got the budget for the first time yesterday and it is enormously complex. And I just wanted to make the suggestion that the talent that is used for dealing with the contractor issues is also used to help the people in the sanitation districts that are privileged to have your staff running our systems. I see all kinds of really large amounts of money that are sought and successfully earned from the government to pay for all of these projects that you need to pay for and you have involvement by the contractors in the budget process. Not one question from a contractor on a highly complex budget tells me that there has been a lot of behind the scenes discussions about the ins and outs of lowering rates extensively as you have from what was originally anticipated. So I just want to throw this out there that there's another meeting tonight about Russian River County Sanitation District and I'd just like to hear more similar kinds of reports about fiscal matters that you're reporting today to the contractors. Thank you. Thank you, Brenda. Anyone else? Yes, we also have a phone caller. Last digits are 6131. I'll allow you to speak. Phone caller, you can go ahead and unmute. Hi. Hello. Thank you for taking my call. This is Jim Downey from Pengrove Water Company. I heard a couple of different numbers for the rate increase this year. Could you tell me what the bottom line, what is the rate increase for the Sonoma Aqueduct, please? So Pengrove Water Company, are you on the Sonoma Aqueduct? No, but that's where our rate gets charged against the Sonoma Aqueduct rate for other regular customers. We're on the Petaluma Aqueduct. Okay, so the Petaluma Aqueduct rate increase is 6.16 percent. The Sonoma Aqueduct rate increase is 6.52 percent and it represents that this is the total that would be charged to the prime water contractors. On the Petaluma Aqueduct, it's $1,062 and on the Sonoma Aqueduct, it's $1,220 per acre foot and then those charges are passed on to you. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Any other public comments, Madam Secretary? I see no other hands raised. Thank you. And Drew, was there anything in writing? There were not. Okay, with that, I believe we can just move on to the next item which follows item six to approve the FY22-23 water agency water transmission system budget. And Drew, that's you. Thank you, Chair Hilly. Well, you just heard a presentation from Lynn and as Brenda had commented, I mean, there is a lot of information in the budget. What's attached to this agenda item here is about 59 to 60 pages of finite detail on all the elements that roll into the numbers that Lynn Roselli summarized in her 15 pages or 15 PowerPoint slides. So I would, you know, Lynn had thanked the finance subcommittee that was chaired by Kimberly Zunino and I'd like to just also thank Sonoma County Water Agency staff with Lynn Roselli and Jake Spaulding especially and under the direction of Grant Davis. As Lynn summarized, you know, that the groups got together looking at a 10%, effectively a 10% rate increase initially and there was a lot of discussion that took place with multiple meetings in February that ended up with the rates that you now see that were summarized by Lynn. So rest assured, there was a lot of negotiation, a lot of good back and forth between the agency and the retail water contractors to come up with a number that's ultimately supported by all the TAC members. All the TAC members voted unanimously to approve this budget at the March 7th meeting and essentially when they voted unanimously, I was to recommend approval of the budget to the WAC. So that's what's here in front of the WAC today. I do want to mention that a year ago, right in the heat of the pandemic influences that there was a lot of discussion and effort made to try to keep the rate increases particularly low. Last year was around three and a half percent and the agency, you know, was deferred some projects a year ago and a lot of the discussion this go around was to try to get back with some funding that's needed to make sure that the agency can continue to provide water and are reliable in consistent fashion. So I think all the all the TAC members felt confident that the final budget, you know, accomplished that and again is recommending that the WAC members vote for approval. One last thing I'd like to do is just again thank Lynn Roselli for making herself available to all those retail water contractors they were interested in individual presentations on the budget for which she did so during the month of March and particularly thankful for that as well. So I'd be happy to answer any other questions that the WAC has on this slide. Thank you, Drew. Any questions from the group? Susan? Yes. Thank you, Chair. I would just like to echo some of what Drew said. I was trying to speak on the earlier item, but that's fine. I really appreciate all the really hard work done by the Finance Committee and then with Lynn's team, Lynn going out to speak to everyone. It's really a fine balance between keeping the rates where we would like to keep them and making sure that our infrastructure is where it needs to be so that we can deliver quality water. So there's always a fine line and fine balance there and the work that everyone does working together to kind of keep that in balance. I think we've again really come a long way and appreciate all the work that everyone really put their heads together and tried to make that happen. And as Drew pointed out, we do have to keep in mind that last year it was in the 3% range and you can only delay things for so long. So at least during our discussion at our Council, it was okay to go up a little bit over that 6% because we try to keep it between four and six. So thank you for all the hard work and Lynn, thank you and your team for coming to visit us all. Thank you. Thank you, Susan. And I would just add that and I agree with everything Susan said, but all the work that's gone into this by some of the water staff and our contractor staff serving on the TAC is why this item tends to go so smoothly at this meeting and that may be of a bit of a mystery to some members of the public, but there's an enormous amount of work that's gone to get us to today. So with that, Madam Secretary, are there any members of the public who wish to comment on this? Any hands raised at this time? No hands. No, I do not see any hands raised at this time. Thank you. I'm sorry. And Drew, were there any written comments? And we're not. Okay. I believe we're ready for a motion on the second. Chair Healy, this is Susan Harvey from City of Katari. I would move to approve the 2022-23 Snowman County Water Agency Water Transmission Budget as presented to us. Thank you. Go ahead, Jack. Looks like it's a tie. I was also gonna, our colleague could make a second on this. Thank you, Jack. So if we can have a roll call vote, please. City of Katari? Yes. City of Petaluma? Yes. City of Rohnert Park? Yes. City of Santa Rosa? Yes. City of Sonoma? Yes. Moonwater District? Yes. Town of Windsor? Yes. Valley of the Moonwater District? Yes. And that passes unanimously. Thank you. So we're on to item seven, the water supply conditions and temporary emergency change order. And I believe Don Seymour is going to take this one. Yes, I will. Good morning, Chair Healy and members of the WAC and CAC. So starting off with the water supply condition, Lake Mendocino is currently a little over 44,400 acre feet. And that's about 7,000 acre feet greater than the reservoir stored than the reservoir was last year. And it represents about 50% of the available water supply pool at Lake Mendocino for this time of year. Lake Sonoma is currently at about 144,500 acre feet. And unfortunately, that's about 8,000 acre feet less than last year. And it represents 59% of the available water supply pool. So a little bit of improvement at Lake Mendocino. And unfortunately, that's not reflected at Lake Sonoma. I think as everybody remembers Sonoma Water, the State Water Resources Control Board issued an order in December approving temporary to change petitions that the water agency filed in November. And that order temporarily approved using storage thresholds at Lake Mendocino rather than CUMLA's inflow at Lake Pillsbury, which is in Decision 1610 in Sonoma Water's Water Right Permits. Under those, based on those storage thresholds at Lake Mendocino, the Russian River watershed is currently in a critical water year type, which means the minimum stream flow requirement right now on the upper Russian River is 25 cubic feet per second. And on the lower Russian River is 35 cubic feet per second. Without that order in place right now, based on Decision 1610, we would be in a normal water year type, which is completely out of whack with where we are with the Russian River hydrology and the actual storage conditions. So that order we're managing the system under, it expires in June. So Sonoma Water is in the process of preparing its fifth consecutive temporary to change petitions to file with the state board, probably in late late April, early May in order to have something in place when that the current order expires. I'd also like to remind everybody that the Russian River is still under an emergency regulation that the state board adopted last June. That emergency regulation resulted in unprecedented curtailment of water right permits on the Russian River last year, last summer. Those curtailments were suspended in October following that large atmospheric river event. And they're still suspended now. State board is currently doing water availability assessments each month to determine whether some of those curtailments might have to be put back in place. That emergency regulation expires in July. And so the state board is also preparing to take their staff is preparing an emergency regulation to take to their board this May. Last Friday, they issued, they circulated a draft of that emergency regulation. It's out for public comment. They're going to be doing a workshop April 14. And they expect comment, the comments are due on April 18. And then they'll take it for their board for consideration of adoption on May 10. That will potentially bring implement curtailments again on the Russian River. Not so sweeping as they did last year. This will be, I think as everybody might remember, it was a blanket curtailment on the upper Russian River. They found there was no use of water other than the permitting stream flow requirements to health and safety that was available. This year it'll be done more like what was done on that lower Russian River. It'll be based on water rights priorities and water availability. So that's all I have, Chair. Thank you, Mr. Seymour. Any questions from the Whackers attack for Don? Seeing no hands raised, we are now taking public comments on this item. If there's any member of the public wishing to comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. If you're calling in, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Do we have any members of the public wishing to speak? I see no hand vote. One hand is raised, one moment. Brenda Edelman, you've been allowed to speak. Thank you. Can you hear me now? We can. Okay. Well, one question I have is it's always stated that we're critical dry years, 35 CFS, but somehow for some reason, for some amount of time, they actually go down to 25 CFS legally. And I just want to bring to your attention one more time about how dire water quality becomes in the lower river. There's a propensity for toxic algae to develop, especially when flows are low and the water is very warm. And there's lots of phosphorus in the water that contributes to algal blooms. And it's a pretty serious situation. And I would like to throw in also that there are many unregulated toxins in the water, and they become bio accumulated when the flows are super low. And when we're talking 25 to 35 CFS, we're talking about almost no water going through the river. It's a killer for recreation. People can't do much in the water and can't enjoy the beaches. And it just seems like by setting up this situation where Lake Mendocino is a determinant, you have in effect lowered Russian river flows permanently. This is a different way of getting at the issue that was so opposed by the public in terms of low flows. It gives you more latitude in determining when critical flows can take place. And I just want to say that I've been watching river issues for about 40 years. And I've never seen it go down to 35 CFS except in recent times. And I'm not going to say that isn't appropriate at certain times, but it needs to be regulated in a way where you don't set the flow for months on end and not have any ability to adjust it at times when it seems appropriate. And I'd like to suggest, for instance, that there be a way where you can manage higher flows on the weekends when people want to recreate and go back to the lower flows in the middle of the week to have some flexibility so that you're considerate of the needs of the lower Russian river. And there's more that I could say, but I'll leave it at that for right now. Thank you. Thank you, Brenda. Any other members of the public? I see no other hands raised at this time. Thank you. And Drew, did we receive any written comments? We did not. Okay, then we can move on to item eight on the agenda, state drought response update. And Supervisor Rabbit, are you on and going to take this? Yeah, I just thought I'd use this on. Thank you very much, Chair. Appreciate that. I thought I'd use this as an opportunity to say job well done to the contractors and to the agencies that are with us, Sonoma Water especially, really for meeting the conservation efforts through this last year and for implementing and really having in your pocket the water shortage contingency plans. DWR came out with some funding, which was I think reflective of the good job that has been done in the region. And I think we should acknowledge that. I think Petaluma, Mike, nearly 11 million dollars from DWR for a couple different projects. MMWD, I know got 2 million, Valley of the Moon nearly 3 million. And these are significant amounts of dollars going forward. There's some funding previously Sonoma Water had up to nearly 9 million for Santa Rosa Plain water supply resiliency projects and what not, as well as North Marin, nearly half a million previously as well. Among some other good recipients including up North, City of Hillsburg over 7 million, Cloverdale 3 million. And actually here in Petaluma based daily acts as a 4.6 million dollar grant to do some Petaluma River watershed work as well. So I think that reflects really making, getting together and really working through these issues seriously, come being prepared and working as a as a region on those things. I also want to say very proud to, and I know another hats off to Petaluma for some of the three different projects that are going forward on through the North Bay Water Reuse Authority, nearly 7 million dollars, expanding some capacity at Ellis Creek, some urban recycled water expansion, extending some pipelines and and again agricultural recycled water use, which which is which are all great and I do think that because we take it so seriously and and do the good work and get jump out in front and be prepared that we do get rewarded in these ways. So there's even though the end of the day we'd all like to be rewarded by rain falling from the sky, if a few dollars fall our way from Sacramento, that's also not a bad thing and it's also very much needed. So I just wanted to take that opportunity and put that out there and I appreciate you giving me the time chair. Thank you. Thanks David. Appreciate that. Any questions from the group for Supervisor Rabbit? Seeing none. We're now taking public comment on this item. If any member of the public wishes to make a comment via Zoom please raise your hand. If you're dialing in please dial star nine. Madam Secretary, do we have anyone? I do not see any hands raised. Thank you and Drew did we get any written comments? We did not. Thank you again Supervisor Rabbit so we can move on to item nine on the agenda. Water supply can oh I'm sorry Grant. I just uh Chair Healey if I can I wanted to also comment uh Director Rabbit and I heard directly from DWR um he went off and rattled pretty impressive list of projects but I think the point I'd like to emphasize that he mentioned was DWR in making now over 41 million dollars worth of grant money available to our contractors and partners in the region. That's that's outstanding number and the reason we did that uh I was told personally was because of the water conservation targets that we've met. So this is apropos to some of the earlier public comments made this morning. You all have followed your water shortest contingency plans and are implementing them. It's it's well beyond what others in the state have done. If you look at Hillsburg and Cloverdale last year's water conservation somewhat nearing 50 percent that was noticed by DWR. So you know I I think about a year ago in April we had the governor standing in Lake Mendocino and at that time we were not receiving large large expenditures of dollars coming from the state to match our own efforts. This is definitely more in keeping with what we were hoping for and I'm I'm really pleased to see it. So it was 11 million dollars in phase one. The lion's share of that was going toward ASR groundwater wells in the Santa Rosa Plains, the basketball road and Occidental as well as Todd Road making those orchestra storage and recharge facilities. That's very very important to make us more resilient and then these 41 million dollars for the projects those are leveraging additional rate payer dollars as well as federal sources. So Director Rabbit thanks for raising that up because that's that's really the point is what we're doing is of relevance it's seen statewide and we're doing all that we can to leverage those dollars so coming on the heels of a recommendation for a budget that now goes to Director Rabbit and our colleagues on the 19th. That said I want to thank staff and all those that were involved in this because you all said it this is work in progress. We we wanted to come in with higher rates I have to make sure you're aware of that and if you look at that slide that Lynn produced about wholesale water rates most of our colleagues up around $2,000 acre foot very wide we're closer to a thousand we just crossed that threshold we had the lowest rates in the Bay Area. Those wholesale rates we work hard to keep them low but there's a point you compound COVID with all the additional regulatory requirements to deliver you safe reliable clean drinking water. We needed the rates to go a bit higher and your staff the water contractor staff rightfully from their point of view pushed as hard as they possibly could to keep them as low as possible but I'm pointing out like I've done year after year that these low rates are at some point going to make it difficult for us to catch up so what we committed to do this year was implement the projects that are budgeted and that's the challenge to our staff and our O and M votes that want to put these projects in place now things happen along the way the unforeseen things throughout the year but our pledge is to get those under contract to get those moving and to make sure that the rates that you're proposing get us these projects that we're going to deliver on and that's that's the that's how we will be measured but I have to point out that we were closer to 10% rate increases of what was necessary and we felt needed and that gap is going to have to be caught up at some point so I'm just being the the realist here 41 million estate dollars that's also well how you keep your rates down we're leveraging your rates for state and federal funding and I cannot be happier to see this whole region from basically the North Coast Resource Partnership all the way down into Marin benefiting by working together it's really remarkable and very much appreciated so thank you thank you Grant anyone else okay now I believe we can move on to agenda item nine water supply conditions public outreach messaging and we have very duke and then pop the outside believe yes thank you chair Healy I'm going to allow Paul to kick off the presentation then I'll follow him great good morning everybody wanted to just keep you informed of the water use efficiency outreach program related to the drought and just to remind you this has been a continuous outreach campaign that's been underway for over a year now starting you know in January of 2021 and you know on the coattails of what Grant was saying in the first couple of months of 2022 we are still tracking nearly 20% less water use as compared to 2020 in these first two months which is a difficult thing to achieve during the winter time when typically there is no irrigation happening and so all of that additional savings has to come from other other water uses so our constituents are continuing to heed the call and doing a great job next slide so we recently provided messaging to the public about the annual fix a leak week this happens in collaboration with the US EPA's water sense program to bring attention to the fact that homes on average are leaking more than 10% of their water use and that there's a constant need to be vigilant to be aware that things can start leaking at any time and so you have to do regular checks in addition to the outreach message the partnership's website included information about locations where people can pick up leak detection dye tablets one of the common ills in residents are toilets that are leaking in a manner that is not detectable through a standard leak check so these dye tablets help homeowners determine whether they have a failing flapper on the inside of their tank a great campaign in addition to being on the website these ads were running in the press democrat and a variety of other social media platforms next slide and then in addition for fix a leak week we relied on a lot of the standard bill inserts and other materials again just to get the message out to people that you have to be aware and paying attention to check your home and your fixtures do a leak check at the meter or contact your utility staff to help do that for you in order to make sure that you're not wasting water unnecessarily I'll turn it over to Barry thank you paul I wanted to just touch on the our bilingual drought messaging I know we mentioned this during during every meeting but it bears repeating that we we use a variety of platform social media bilingual media to to get this message across to all of our customers and then finally I want to just touch on our updated campaign for spring that we're working on right now these are just some early versions of our drought is here save water message but with a slight change to say the drought is still here as we all know and just to follow up on what paul said this this is the third year we've been working continuously on drought messaging to conserve water so those are two versions and then here is are some of the examples of how we've updated the campaign for spring using the similar images drought is still here save water showing lake sonoma on the left and then on the right are drip irrigation that is always encouraged for landscaping and again the the theme and the the the the method to all this is to keep repeating the message its repetition and continuity so again thanks to all the partners for participating in the ongoing campaign and we're happy to answer any questions either now or by email or other methods so thank you chair healy and members of the of the whack thank you paul and barry are there any questions from the group on that seeing no hands raised we're now taking public comment on this item if you wish wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand if you're dialing in please dial star nine madam secretary do we have any members of the public wishing to speak and there are no hands raised and drew did we get any written comments he did not thank you so moving on agenda item 10 items for the next agenda so normally this goes really quickly um bit of an angle to twist this time we may have the potential of meeting in person back at our usual meeting spot in san rosa on may 2nd if things don't get um worse between now and then and drew can you or someone else tell us about the logistics i know you mentioned that we will not have the if we do do that we will not be able to have a mixed virtual and live meeting uh because they're not set up for that at that location so it would have to be completely live is that correct uh yes that's correct unless and unless jennifer wants to um correct my understanding and that is that the facilities there at san rosa are not set up for hybrid meetings so if the decisions made to go back and meet again uh where we have historically met uh at san rosa they will be 100 in person there will not be any uh remote uh hybrid aspect to it so just want to make sure everybody's aware of that so do we need to make that decision now or can we wait until further on i guess at this point my question would be if there are any members of the whack attack who would not be comfortable meeting in person speak up okay not seeing anyone i guess that's tacit approval if we can make it work um and then um drew is do you have one more whack meeting or is this your your final rodeo i have one more uh whack attack meeting and that's the meeting in early may okay well we'll give us we'll save our thank yous for that okay and if i could just one other thing as far as the next agenda um you know there have been a couple comments made about you know what is the agency doing for water supply planning growth and the next meeting uh there's there will be uh jacob's um accelerated regional uh water supply resiliency study that has a focus on um drought management options and so i just want to encourage um the public uh to please stay tuned and and they'll hear more about some of the planning to address just water supply reliability there's been a lot of work in that jacob study and i think it'll be interesting for folks to to hear that so just want to mention that as well appreciate that um so is there any member of the public that wishes to comment on items for the next agenda this is your opportunity please raise your hand in zoom war dial star nine madam secretary anyone i see no oh we have one hand raised mr keller i will allow them to speak thank you keller you ever allowed to speak all right thank you um at the next meeting if there could be a little more in-depth update on what's happening with the pot of valley project by then the license will have expired which is april 14 and nymph says issued a letter saying very clearly that they believe the uh requirements for fish passage and other um base conditions for operation of the project expire uh on april 14 and need to be redone and reconsidered um so that and other updates on what's happening what's happening with trying to gather support in the russian river watershed for paying for uh whatever improvements need to be done at the pvp to get water transferred and how that would be paid uh it would be very useful for this group to continue to get up-to-date information as a body and to consider that and actually discuss it in in public um so i'd appreciate seeing that on the next agenda thank you david anyone else and drew did we get any written comments we did not okay with that i believe we are done for today and we will see everyone in may hopefully in person bye okay bye everybody hi thank you everyone


Hey Virgoes, welcome back to the channel. This is Kelly from House of Virgo. If you're new, welcome. Please smash that like button and subscribe if you enjoy the reading. Keep in mind this is a general reading. Some messages may or may not be for you. This is a channel for Virgo Sun, Moon, Rising, and Venus, but all signs are welcome. All right Virgo, let's get into your reading and see what the messages are for the remainder of March going into the month of April. I cannot even believe we're already in the fourth month of the year. All right Virgo, you've got seduction and you have photograph. Okay, somebody's looking at your photographs or you're seducing somebody with your pictures. Okay, you've got the phoenix. Oh, the phoenix is rising. Somebody's phoenix is rising looking at your photos, Virgo. Okay, that's the first message. All right Virgo, so there's definitely an attraction here. There is flirting, dating, hooking up, temptation. Okay, and photograph, looking at your, listen Virgo, somebody's looking at your photos, thinking of you being nostalgic, wants to make new memories with you. And yeah, the phoenix is rising here. There's a new face, a rekindling, renewal, transformation, growth, change of mind. I think you all know where I'm going with that. Okay, or this is you feeling this way, looking at somebody else's pictures. Okay, so there's definitely something happening here.  Okay, well if you don't, how are they looking at your pictures? Obviously the message isn't for you.  That's, it's just very, very, a physically intimate start to this reading. Okay, Virgo, definitely. Somebody's just looking at something and feeling pretty good, feeling like you're tempting them. Like Virgo, you're tempting somebody with your photos, they're feeling tempted. All right, let's see what the romance angles have to say, Virgo. My goodness. You guys in these readings express your love and passion. Wow. Okay, allow your heart and soul to sing with joy and go ahead and make the romantic gesture. All right, Virgo, there's definitely, this is, this reading I can tell you right now, the way it's going, the direction it is going is a very physical chemistry arousal kind of a reading happening here. And you know, hey, sometimes that happens. Someone feeling very passionate for you and wants to express how you make them go boom. All right, loving yourself first.  That's, I never get that message from that card, but today we are getting that message.  You're it, Virgo. They want to give it to you, Virgo. They want to give it to you. They want to have a little, a little boom, boom, a little time with you. Okay. Now, some of you might know this person at school or at work. Okay. First thing I'm going to say, let's take a look here and see what's going on. Oh my goodness. Okay. So, I feel like this person is heavily distracted when they see you.  You know, even if it's not pictures, they just kind of like have a photographic image of you in their head as well. If they see you in real life, who is this person? Okay. So, all right.  They want to be, they want to perform. They want to learn you.  Okay. Let me see. I'm trying to be PG here because I do have sponsors, you guys, but I don't want you to suffer and not get the message. All right. Let me see. What else is going on there? Right. This card is definitely trying to, all right. Yeah. Show yourself, reveal it.  Virgo, like, I can't with this reading. There's definitely for some of you, some kind of a reconciliation or an opening up. This is a card of revelation and I'm sorry, but that's just the interview that I'm getting. Like this person wants you to reveal everything to them. They want to see you. They want to see everything, not just the photo, not just the image in their mind. Oh wow. They just think you are so like attractive. Is this a secret that this person? Yes. They keep it a secret. But I feel like for some of you, this might come out. This person wants to, for some, okay. They want to share a baby with you or share a child with you. I know somebody like, hey, I'm not doing that. Okay. That's not for everybody, but all right. We've got the magician here.   This person's got it for you pretty bad. Virgo, who is this? Okay. So we can have a Taurus, Scorpio, Gemini. I'll say that as energies, but the first court card will probably be more specific as to who it is. Okay. All right. I will tell you, some of you are already friends with this person or you've dated or you are dating at this time, but they definitely want to connect and they're going to try to manifest some kind of connection with you here and a very creative way to get together. I see which, you know, it looks like it just meeting for some of you could be meeting for the first time or doing something together. I just started taking turns. I don't know what that means. Taking turns. Okay. Like I said, you may already know them. Some of you might work in like a, we have the caduceus here. So it could be like a hospital or a doctor's office. There might be a connection there. You meet this person. This kind of feels like, it's like the image on the front of an ambulance. So I don't know what the heck that means. All right. Let me see. And we've got strength. All right. All right. They just, all right. I don't know. Listen, just go with it. Go with it. I'm hearing pet the kitty. I'm Ted. I'm hearing pet the kitty. They want to pet the kitty. Are you, somebody has a cat or a dog as well. Um, bring your cat. They're saying, bring your kitty along. I'm in fourth grade. I know. I know it's crazy. I'm a fourth grader. Let me stop. Okay. Oh my goodness. Guys, like seriously with this reading, I'm not even going to say that because that just is raunchy, but I will tell you like, um, look at the way this person is sitting. It's like, yeah, go ahead. Virgo, this person, it is a very passionate, physically and tempting kind of thing. Like this person wants to just get it on. Like some sexual healing is what I feel is going on here, Virgo. And I know Virgo's down for that, but I mean it is like coming out of the blue. It could be a Leo. All right. Let me see what's going on. Oh yeah. You're going to be getting some communication very soon. Sometime around April 8th, you will be hearing from this person. Now it could be any of the signs that I said, or somebody that you already know, or that you may have gone on date with before, connected with before, um, but it's not like, it's not so direct. You know what I mean?  It's not going to be like that at all. There's going to be some whining and dining and romance and spending time together. And there's definitely, uh, like, I don't feel like this person is going to push themselves on you or anything like that.  And like, it's all that energy playing out. Like someone just crazy attracted to you. Okay. And very I was like, f off of me. Hold on now. I'm going to need to check your credentials. Wait a minute. Have you been with other people? You're going to have to give me an STD report.  Hold on. Slow it down. Slow your roll, Joe. Yeah. There, there is definitely a little bit of you just kind of being like maybe playing hard to get, being a little defensive. Um, but it's not a bad thing. Yeah. Here you showing up here in a queen of wands energy. So you're just kind of like, listen, you know, I know I'm attractive. I know, but you know, you can't just, you know, Virgo, you're going to milk it. That's kind of what I feel like is going on here. Just going to milk it a little bit. Like it's a feel good thing for you. And who wouldn't, who wouldn't want someone like, who doesn't want to feel good? Who doesn't want someone to feel attracted to them? You know, especially like, I don't know what you're doing, Virgo.  Maybe you're taking care of yourself. You're, you're doing something, some kind of physical activity. You are making yourself look better, possibly glowing for sure. You've got all this yellow around you. And there you are.   You're making yourself like in a much, I don't know, you're doing the physical thing. Okay. Listen, I don't, these are not predetermined for me. Okay. And it's funny how things work out. I have to just keep that to myself. But I listen with this temptation card and the Phoenix rise in and, you know, the whole passion and all this stuff going on.  And I'm here a lot. But when these messages come out, there, there's something going on here. Like there's Kismet or something in the stars where, you know, we had cupid's arrows here with the eight of wands. It might just be, all of a sudden, there you go. Look at that. There's definitely a new love start happening here. Like my cup run us over, maybe some drinks or someone just spills it a lot.  I think you're, this feels like a new, like a new start. And that's cupid's arrows.  It's like all of a sudden, right? That's what this is here. Out of the blue, just fast and furious. This, this attraction of this love thing starts and this physical thing starts and it's emotional too. I think you're going to just really be enjoying this. So, you know, at least in the first week of April, but I'm feeling like around April ace, you're going to get some kind of inclination or something from somebody who is just enamored with you. And yeah, they're watching you. Oh yeah, they could be standing behind the corner of the wall. They're peeking at you. They're looking at you somehow, some way. Okay. And you're, I feel like you're going to feel good. Right? You have an admirer. All right. Oh, seriously. Now for somebody who's a past person, could be. Like I said, but you've got someone here who's like coming in very sincere. You know, when I say past person, this, like who cares who it is, right? It's for somebody, someone from your childhood. For others, this is someone as friends of a sibling.  So, you may not have ever dated them as well. You may have just known them. So, a lot of sincerity and innocence in this person. I'm not seeing some, I'm not seeing like player vibes or anything like that. Or just like I said, somebody showing up here is just like they're awestruck. This is how I feel. This person is showing up like completely awestruck. Okay. Could be a Virgo through some of you. Could be connecting with another Virgo. I don't know Virgo. I feel like for you, you and this person, one thing you have in common is like you're pretty serious. Like this person is serious for sure. I don't feel like this, like they think, either they've been thinking about approaching you or communicating with you or sending a message or something.  Let me see. Tell us more. There you go. Remember, I was saying, the Caduceus, it just kind of reminded me of that, but that, for me, that's always like an ambulance. I don't know why, but for some, this person's a driver. They could be a driver or they, they're coming out of town or there's travel involved or they just got a new car or maybe you did, but there is something here with movement, action and change. So yeah, Virgo, this is like someone, this person already knows they've already got their sights set on you and they're coming towards you for sure. All right. So it looks exciting. I feel like you're going to feel pretty darn good about these feelings that someone has like a very crazy attraction for you. Maybe you're not doing anything.  It's just an aura or a vibe that this person sees with you and it is what it is. It just happens and it might be a little bit like, whoa, wait a minute. It might feel a little strange to you if you're not used to that, but it just, I don't know, Virgo. Okay. Time to decide about this relationship. So you're definitely going to be in decision mode here, but a decision, that's like the lovers, you know, and that's being transparent and open and being vulnerable. An opportunity is going to come here where you're going to have to decide if you want to like move things along with this person. They're definitely making the decision and choosing you, for sure.  You've already been chosen. I feel like for this person and they know it and they just want to, it's safe to trust in this situation. Very good. Very, very good. I love it. I don't see any mischievous or anything negative coming from this person. Okay, support. Lean on your inner circle during this time. Okay, Virgo. So your friends are going to play a huge role in what will be occurring with this person. So maybe it's like advice for you. I don't know why you would need advice or it could be excitement or it could be just like you talking to your friends and being like, guess what happened or guess what's going on or guess who I met and that kind of thing. And this person is like, I could just tell that they're, you know, either they tell you they're into you or some of your friends might even know about this and be telling you as well. Let me say the hidden truth. All right, I'm just going to pull a couple of these because I don't know. I don't know who this message is going to be for. All right, I know I messed up everything. So you get a past thing with someone. They realize they screwed something up here. They've been afraid to contact you and that's why that you haven't heard from them. All right, let's see. And hide behind material things. Okay, so this person's had some struggles. That's what's going on. But I feel like all of that's going to be changing Virgo with this person. Like they are 100%. They've definitely been hiding like with that hermit energy. They've been hiding. They've been kind of fearful, but they can't resist. Like, I just feel like they're so attracted to you and they want to be your first love or love you first. And they're very attracted to how you're loving yourself first as well. And I feel like there's going to be some kind of an expression of either passions or feelings, you know, to some degree, even something along the lines like I'm really feeling you. I keep feeling you. Okay, moving to a safe place you have and okay, no contact. Yeah. So you might have been no contact with this person. Things are changing. Definitely for them. Okay, moving to a safe place. They might be relocating or come in. There's a future moving in together for sure. Okay, let's see. You got head of household. Take charge of your divine masculine energy. Father figure guide you strive for respecting your power. Influential male supports you. So either you've got like a father figure in your life who's, you know, given you guidance on how to be a better man or are a mentor or something or for this person and or just for yourself. And that's causing someone or some people to be crazy attracted to you or you, this person is coming in as being more stand up and assertive and coming after you, right? Or at least coming towards you and not hiding anymore. Okay, one more card here. We got committed love relationship. Yeah, it's going that direction Virgo. Definitely going in that direction. So you ready? Virgo, are you ready? Freddie, are you ready for this? Something amazing, something passionate, something physical, something emotional, a great, great connection, a lot of fun, playful energy being really good together. Are you ready for this Virgo? All right, let me see a Chinese signs. Okay, starting off with the rabbit year of the rabbit. Now remember this could be you could be the other person. It may not be either of you or it could be both of you. Okay, we've got year of the rat year of the rooster. The Phoenix is rising. Somebody's Phoenix is rising and beginning really April 8th. That's what I'm feeling. Okay, let's have a card. Oh, is that it? Seriously? Usually I pull the cards, but I wanted them, I wanted spirit too. All right. Okay, and a snake, snake rooster rat and a rabbit. All right, let me see. Just nope, we're going to leave it. All right, no, they're saying no, just they're saying be patient. Snake again, that's a double confirmation dog, year of the dog. Okay, let me see. They're saying just pull it. Okay, monkey, tiger, rail and a horse. Okay, you guys, so if you're any of those signs, this is a confirmation that this is for you or if your person is any of these signs, if you don't know who this is, you don't know their sign and your son's not here, don't worry about it. There's other confirmation to come in. All right, let's get into, gosh, this reading is going so fast because I feel like it's like right to the point. It is right to the point. This person, listen, we don't need to go deep with this. I mean, this person is feeling you. They are digging you. They are like really, really, really into you and they want to explore and they want you to reveal yourself whether strip them or just open your heart no matter what it is. It's just straight end to the point and I just feel like the energy, spring is a time of, the bunny rabbits go out in the spring. You know what I'm saying? Spring is a time of like, I forget the word, I forget the term that we always use, but you know, it's mating season. It's not cuffing season, it's mating season, right? Or it's birth. It's birth. New things are beginning in the spring. There's new birth, there's new growth, new beginning. It's not necessarily mating season, but it will be for you. So let me see if you can get some names and randoms, random messages. Okay, so we've got the letter H. So someone's name has initial H. We have J-E, Jennifer, Jen, Jerry, Jerry, look at the baby. Okay, let me say J, a J letter. Oh, we got H again. Okay. Okay, there's someone here who, so something to do with a wheelchair. I have to say that, okay, because it's pretty obvious. Something here, they're connected to a wheelchair. Either they're in one or they're around them somewhere. Okay. I'm also here seeing like pansies, the flower, and some dolphins. Something to do with a dolphin. It's very significant. Maybe they live somewhere or somebody lives somewhere where there's dolphins like all around. Like where I live, there's no dolphins unless you go to the aquarium in the city. There's no dolphins where I live, but so somebody lives near where there's dolphins. Okay, what else? I'm also picking up Pisces. There's some. Oh, okay. Wow, crazy. Hold on a minute. Hold on a minute. Mina. Mina or Mena or M-E-N or Mandy. It's something or Mendy or Wendy, something along those lines. And July 4th, they're telling me Independence Day. Whenever you celebrate, it doesn't have to be Independence Day. It's a celebration with fireworks. So wherever there's fireworks, that's significant to somebody. Okay, wherever there's fireworks, that's significant to somebody. Okay. And then we have the letter C. Somebody's initial with the letter C. Maybe Charlie or Cindy. Okay. Or Chu. Chu or Chu. I can always get that. Okay. Let's see what else do we have here. This video, this reading is going to be so short tonight, but it's all right. It is what it is.  You're going to be fending people off this spring for sure. Okay. Somebody's a Gen Xer. Definitely. Someone is a Gen Xer. So if you know what year that, you know, 1987 is significant also. But somebody's a Gen Xer, either you or the other person. I don't know when the dates for Gen X are, but well, you know, we do the 80s over here. So something to do with being a Gen Xer or someone calls themselves that or they, they, they see that somewhere written. Okay. What else? Okay. And they're just giving me someone lives. Oh, somewhere there's farm, enrolling hills and farmland, maybe in the Midwest. I don't know. Isn't that flat? Is there hills in the Midwest? I've never been in the Midwest. Somewhere there's like farmland patches, squares. It could be anywhere in the world actually. I don't know if there's like colored growing or there's lines of vegetables. It's not, it could be a horse farm too, or it could be a wine vineyard or something. But I'm just seeing like where people, there's farming connected to farming or someone works on a farm. Oh, I would love to have a farm with chickens and ducks and pigs. That would make me so happy. I would love to work on a farm all day. I would just love that grow plants and flowers and cabbage. Okay. All right. Somebody definitely does something with a roulette wheel or lives there where there are roulette wheels or gambling of some sort. And again with the Gen Xer, but we do have the letter G here. So that's very significant. Gina, I don't want to single too many people out, but somebody's name starts with the letter G. Gino or maybe a Genaro. Okay, first initials, last. I'm also picking up the letter L. I'm seeing that. Okay. All right. Huge Aries vibes. They're giving me right now. Very strong Aries vibes. I'm not sure why. Again, I'm picking up April 8th, you guys. April 8th to the 13th. Like up at least until the 13th. There's something going on there. Okay. And rugby. They're telling me rugby. Something to do with rugby. Okay. So I don't know. Do you play rugby or someone you know plays rugby? Okay. Let's get your dice. Okay. So cancer, Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Taurus. Okay. We'll put those aside. And August's birthdays, August 30th and the 31st. I'm not seeing any other August birthdays yet, but I'll roll the dice again and we'll see. We have September 15th and the 10th. Also the 8th and the 6th. And somebody's 58. Somebody was born in 85. Somebody's 35. They're also giving me the number 610 as per usual. And 858. And last four digits of number 3500. Okay. More signs. Capricorn, Sagittarius, Taurus. Capricorn twice there. And one more. Okay. Aries, Gemini, Leo, and Virgo. Okay. So leave that there. And let's see what other dates you guys have. Okay. Lucky 7s. 777. Or someone's born in 1977 or has a lucky number. 777. 6059. Okay. And 708. Right. Could be an error code. Could be first three digits of a number or somewhere in your phone. Also, international calls 6-0 and 5-9. Two separate numbers. Hope you can keep up with that, Steve. But thank you. And 10708. Okay. Significant. And someone's born in 1970. And we also have August 27th and 28th. It looks like we're hitting almost all the August birthdays. 25th, 29th.  And, okay, 7054. Or 45. And, okay, sorry, you cuspers. Nothing there for you. All right. And September 18th, they just told me. Okay. Now let's get your charms. See what else you need to know here, Virgo. Here are your charms. Okay. What is this? Oh. Okay. Somebody eats clams. Oh my God. So r-rated. Somebody enjoys the clam. And they try to get the pearl. Oh. Clench my pearls. Yeah. Somebody. Okay. I know. Don't ask me. It's something to do with the pearl and clams. Or somebody's shucking some clams or mussels. Somebody likes mussels. You like mussels? Sorry. You're getting some mussels and some clams. All right. Let me see what else. These readings. I can't anymore with these readings. Oh, okay. So you have a gold feather. Okay. Significant for someone, a gold feather represents an angel wing. If you see a feather anywhere, like a lone feather, if it's gold, yo, pick it up. It could be a gold leaf. It could be a necklace, a charm on a necklace. But if you see a gold feather or just a feather anywhere, um, your angel is asking you to pick it up and hold on to it because this is a blessing coming in here for you. And also, um, let me have a look. Hold on. All right. We've got a bottle, a bottle of perfume that says number five on it. I don't know if you can see it. So I only know of perfumes. Is that a five or three? I can't tell you guys. Maybe you can see it. Number five. So obviously, I mean, that's Chanel number five. That's the only perfume. So maybe you wear that or you have Chanel number five. You might wear it. You might receive a gift of that as well. Or you'll connect with someone who wears Chanel number five. So there is definitely marriage in your future here with this person. That's Tara's energy, but there is definitely a long-term commitment as well, coming with this person. And I just felt like I needed to give you the outcome here. Um, and I see also like some kind of spiritual or religious organized type of wedding or, um, marriage or something along those lines. And I know, uh, it doesn't mean it will happen. It could just be something on the table going forward, but the long-term, the commitment, the conformity, all of that is definitely there. It could just also mean, um, tying the knot in a federal or a legal building or state building or something along those lines for some of you, long in the future, long in the future. Um, definitely not in April. It could be though. It could be small, small chance. Some of you might actually get a proposal in April if that's what you're wanting. Okay. And like I said, it doesn't have to be marriage, but it can be like, I'm so into you. I don't like, let's do this. Let's just, it could be like exclusive kind of a relationship, but it's, it definitely has an element of committedness to it and loyalty and, and truth and honor. Okay, Virgo, enjoy. Looks like that'll be a lot of fun for you. Um, I'm going to leave that there though. So don't forget, join me on Sunday. If you want to get, um, if you become a member of my channel, then you will get free readings on Sunday.  Join the channel, 999 a month comes right out of your bank account. You just pay it. You don't have to do anything. It's automatically deducted and you can just pop in and get many readings with me. I'm not doing personal readings for new people. Um, that's closed off. So if you're a former, um, person who's reached out to me, former client or what have you, and you want to get a personal reading again, you may continue to do so. Um, I'll be sending out an email to everybody to let you know that, um, I'm still taking readings for people who have already booked with me in the past. Um, so yeah, that's what's going on for now. Keep mindful also of the spammers. The comments are closed until YouTube does something with them. Cause I know a lot of you are losing money and you know, um, I feel bad that that's happening to you, but I can't help you. I feel worse that I can't help you with that. I really do. It just breaks my heart when you guys, but it doesn't break my heart when someone says, Hey, I'm going to report you. I'm just kind of like, well, you're, you're really not because I'm going to win because I never got your money. So I just feel like chill.  And I know we all get scammed sometimes, but I mean, just be diligent and discerning and somebody's trying to ask you like, if you know me, you know my channel, you know what I say in my readings, you know the description box below, you know my website. There's no other way to book with me unless you go to my booking site. You can't just send me money because I'll tell you, you keep it. I don't want it. You got to book with me first. That's, that's how it works. All right, you guys. So I'm going to leave that there. I will see you all back here hopefully tomorrow. Um, yeah. Have a great night. Thanks for being here. Thanks everybody in the chat and I'll see you especially on Sunday. Take care. Bye.


Good afternoon everyone and welcome to what the F is going on in Latin America. This is code pinks weekly webinar Wednesdays noon time eastern and which we bring you 20 minutes of hot news from Latin America and the Caribbean. So this week we are really pleased to have Latin American independent journalist Alina Duarte join us live from Mexico City. Alina is is Mexicana and so we're so pleased to have you speaking with us. Some of you may recognize her name in her work from tele store here in Washington DC. And she has recently returned home to Mexico and is able to give us 20 minutes of hot news from Mexico City. Good afternoon. So, Alina, you and I have talked. Oh, the past year or so and specifically the last month about Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez of a break door or break door, excuse me, I'm low as most of us refer to him about his first year in office he was inaugurated in December of 2018. So December of 2019 completed his first year. And we've had a number of conversations about expectations performance for his foreign policy economic policy etc. And one of the things that came out of that for our conversations was comments on the party that widely elected him to office the more in a party, and we've discussed more in a as an electoral platform versus a political movement throughout Mexico. And maybe that's a good place for us to start with the looking back over the first year, and what what Morena looks like and what other social movements look like in Mexico. Thank you very well. Hey, once again, thanks for having me. This is not the first time last time we were talking from chili. So now Mexico City. Yeah, well basically, I want to start because it's really hard to explain what's going on here in Mexico because a lot of things are going on. We have a democratically elected government that now has 70% of approval. I mean, it's something really unbelievable that after a year of his administration, he has 70% of approval between the Mexicans. Yeah, but also it's like confusing at this point because as you said morena.  We need to remember that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, he's not part of this economical political elites in Mexico. He comes from the social movements, those social movements could put him in the presidency basically. And this last year has been really confusing for a lot of people, even when he has a lot of support to see that the same people that he used to call the mafia in power. Now it's part of his government. There are a lot of members of the only the Mexican League are actually if you go now to Twitter last night, he was having dinner with the most powerful people here in Mexico City and actually in the world, he's from Amazon Walmart had dinner last night in the presidential palace here in Mexico City. So we are still thinking that he's trying to have a police in conversation with these people who during the last 12 years made him his life like impossible. He tried to, they opposed several times for him to be the president of this country and after 14 years of being in the streets with the social movements but also, and not only as a presidential candidate you remember he was the major of Mexico City. It was an amazing work, talking about social programs about education about healthcare. Now he's trying to do the same in a national scale, but now it's, it's confusing because, as I said, part of the oligarchy that he was calling all the time the mafia in power. Now it's part of his government. And even when he has addressed a lot of issues for the working class, like increasing the minimum wage during the last two months, I mean he has implemented several several social programs. People are still thinking that we cannot see the real progress. And that's basically because of his alliances. In order to win the presidency in 2018 in July, he had to do these alliances. And now it's pretty complicated even for him to keep continuing with his agenda. And it's not a socialist, a communist or a revolutionary leftist agenda. It's a welfare state. And it's more, it's pretty similar to the agenda of Bernie Sanders. I know that for people in the U.S. Bernie Sanders sounds really radical. But in our tradition of the leftist tradition, he's not that and they're not coming if they're not anti-capitalist. They are trying just to navigate the situation. But at the same time, and now, at the same time now, people are still going back to the streets protesting for several issues. And it's the first time, I think, during the last year that now we are seeing, once again, people in the streets. And so there's a couple of things I wonder if you can comment on in your first statement mentioning that the president had dinner last night with the mafia quote unquote you mentioned to Amazon. And of course, in this morning's news is mention of this new North American trade deal with, I believe it was Amazon, some of the companies mentioned in the news this morning, Chevron, Amazon, SEMPRA. And this was organized through the America Society Council on the Americas.  And now people obviously are not happy with that. Are they protesting principally in Mexico City or is this movement throughout the country? Well, there are several issues. First of all, I told you it's pretty confusing for people to see now these kind of alliances in the government when he used to call them the mafia in power. And now they are going back and forth from the presidential palace. But also, I think that one of the things that really like pissed people in Mexico is his policy towards the projects, for example, the Maya train, that it's the same, extractivist, the same projects that he used to criticize with another government. This project, this mega project in the island of Yucatan, it has a lot of opposition from indigenous people. And now instead of Andrés Manuel listening to these movements, he is saying that it's about progress. The same rhetoric that we heard during the last governments, neoliberal governments, now he is still repeating the idea of progress in the indigenous communities. And also, and that's really important to see, I'm really impressed how the feminist movement that we in Latin America, I think we started seeing it in Argentina, it comes to abortion. In Mexico City during the last two or three years, we have seen the increase of this movement that now I think it's a rare, it's a weird combination of how is it going. But I think that now we are aware of the Mexicans of the levels of violence that the media tried just to black out during the last decade after the government of Felipe Calderón started war against the drugs that it was just a civil war that let us around 200,000 people disappear, 200,000 people killed in Mexico and it was massacred during the last 12 years. And that is another that those of us in North America never hear or rarely hear 200,000. And that's another US supported. Exactly, and that's not a coincidence that the media tried to black out all of this information because the US government precisely was one of the supporters of this strategy that we saw during the 90s in Colombia. And the effect is that the people are getting murdered in our countries and the drugs are still flowing to the US. So it's not a coincidence that the mass media, the corporate media are trying to do this blackout. So that's why now there are a lot of corporate media there. It's obviously that it's obvious that there are again some laws of administration that now are showing this violence. So there is this perception of a lot of people who are confused because they didn't see a lot of this violence during the last 12 or 13 years. And now they think that it's something that the reason is almost administration and not a structural violence during the last almost two decades in Mexico. So people are getting aware of this violence. And also the feminist movement is increasing every single day and now that they are in the streets because feminicides were something really common. I mean, I've been journalist for the last nine years of my life and I've been covering a lot of like really horrible episodes of violence in this country. And I remember covering feminist sites and sometimes we were just one to journalists covering the story. And now of course that the media has interest in covering now this kind of issues. I mean, if we are real leftist, I think that we don't have to be naive. The media has interest, clear interest in what they cover. And now they are trying to attack the government showing this violence, but also the feminist movement are what are they saying in the streets that we need to stop it. And I think it's the time the time is now under administration that consider itself so leftist one to stop them to find the strategy to stop this kind of violence. Seven women a day in Mexico are being killed by several reasons. So seven feminicides are occurring in this country. And so it's, it's, this is like the whole picture is not about only a handle of administration is a long story about violence in Mexico. But I think that now this is allowing to talk about violence in this country. So there are so many indigenous movements who are against these policies of the government but also the feminist movements I think those two are the principal and the only, I think the real opposition to this administration. Let me ask you about the violence there were the end of January, there were two environmentalists killed at the at the monarch butterfly reserve. And my understanding is that that was principally not over. Not unfortunately over preserving butterflies but it was about illegal logging in the reserve. And so we see. And so can we talk a little bit about what's causing some of this illegal behavior that it's being we see a lot of this illegal illegal mining, logging, grabbing a, you know, diverting of water sources, particularly in Honduras right now. We see transnational corporations grabbing these natural resources is this part of what's going on in Mexico as well. And actually now that you're saying this I'm just remembering this conversations that we usually have in Latin America about Greta Thunberg about how easy has been for her just to appear in several spaces as this white girl who is talking about climate change when our human rights defenders our environmental defenders are just being killed in our countries defending the water defending and their spaces like their communities. And this is not something new unfortunately in Mexico, Mexico for example the levels of violence this is most dangerous country and to be a journalist in Latin America I mean in the whole in the whole continent. So it was like in the personal level than Columbia actually. Yeah, more dangerous in Columbia. And I mean, and I mean it's not also a coincidence that coincidence in Mexico and in Colombia when this this is practice of the US fighting against the narcotropic and things like that are going on. This is a strategy. It's a civil war against the communities in order to get the corporations get all the benefits. That's the point and in Mexico it's something really, really sad. I mean, what's going on is the level of paramilitaries here in Mexico City in Mexico in general, that it's also another thing that it's not on the corporate media. And they are the, the, the forest arm, like they are the ones who are really operating for it in benefit of the corporations. And they are the ones who are killing these people. It's not drug or tolls fight and struggle for territory. It's about money, it's about resources, it's about defending the 1% of the population is defending the strategies of the US, the United States here in in Colombia in Honduras. That's the war in our countries we are always talking about for example migration in our borders but we don't say that it's because of a US clue in our countries like in Honduras in 2009, because they are taking our resources like in Mexico, Canada is taking our resources all the time, our minerals, gold, silver, everything. So, yeah, it's, it's like a cycle all the time this violence is not only about the narco traffic it's not about the paramilitaries. It's not about a fight between drug or tolls. It's a violence perpetrator over and over again by the US imperialism by the corporations in our countries. And that's how we can explain that the people who opposed to these projects of terror, these projects of spoiling our resources and they are being killed. So, defending the water, defending our environment and defending our territory it's good enough reason to get killed in our countries. There's a couple of violence involving environmentalists, journalists, women, drug cartels, transnational corporations, I mean it's, I mean it's, it's infiltrated all of society. And so can we take a few minutes I know you were really, you have a 1230 appointment and so I'm so pleased you were able to join us today and so I want to make sure we stick to our 20 minutes of hot news before I let you go. Let's talk about how all of this is really this violence and and the causes of it the purpose is leading to it are root causes of migration, which many of us in the United States do not really understand in the, in the detail that we should why people flee.  Actually now talking about journalism it was really hard for me to feel safer in the US, even when there's a lot of discrimination harassment even if I'm a Latina on my rock and it's all really privileged. Instead of being in Mexico reporting on the ground where where it's really dangerous to do our job every single day, more as a woman as a leftist reporter I consider myself who are showing all the time this kind of stories. It's really sad and I want to start by saying this because now that I experienced of this discrimination harassment for whatever in the US. Now it's really sad for me to see that the Mexican government is doing exactly the same again Central Americans in my country. It's not something new. It's a policy that I understand that it's because of the pressures of the US, but there's not like a big solidarity movement with the people in Central America why are they fleeing their fleeing because of the coup and the destabilization of Honduras in 2009 against President Manuel Manuel Celaya and now and it's proved that the that the broader of the president when Orlando Hernandez was attained a year ago in Miami and he's accused of being part of drug cartels and our traffic. I mean it's a big mafia now in Honduras who are in power deciding what to do with the people and instead of really looking further like this for social justice. It's a drug. There are members of drug cartels in government and no one's saying that because they are allies of the US and the media, the corporate media once again is trying to to to have a blackout, a total blackout, especially in Honduras because the interest of the US is like to be there like physically or just to have an alliance in Central America. Also in El Salvador now it's really sad to see that the corporate media once again and the international community whatever that means because when it comes about something in the US everyone lose their mind but when it's something about the rest of the world, the international community never appears. So they're not talking about what's going on in El Salvador, in El Salvador after the war, the Civil War in the 1980s. And they tried to start a new democratic life that now are being destroyed.  So two weeks ago militaries in the National Assembly that it's something really hard for the people in us, especially in El Salvador, who had just a war, a Civil War in the 80s. And he did exactly the same as a government in Honduras when it comes about Palestine, moving their embassy to Jerusalem, and they are caught in relationships with Venezuela. And they are just another colonial state of the US in Central America. And of course, there are a lot of people looking for a better life. And also there's still this idea that they're going to find this new life or a better conditions for living in the US because once again of the corporate media that is spreading this idea of American dream. Yeah, that's why I need to, that's why I insist in being a journalist sometimes I'm really tired but it's like we need to do that. Yeah, for people like me to come see you in Mexico and bring your stories back to the north and it's important for you to come north and bring your story back to Mexico you know I will mention to our listeners. Last week you mentioned El Salvador, and the military move at the National Assembly with the president we did have a great conversation last Wednesday on our webinar with Yacinia Portillo from CISPIS who I'm sure you know Elina and she did a great talk on what actually happened in El Salvador. And I think you know if there's one thing that you can briefly talk about before I need to let you go is your, you know, all this economic and political destabilization in Guatemala, Honduras El Salvador south of the Mexico border. What is the Mexican government's role at the southern Mexico border that I would actually say has extended to be, you know the de facto US southern border. What is the is Mexico's vision and role now under President Amlo for the, I guess, Mexico Guatemala border, Hondurans and El Salvador El Salvadorans as well. And actually that's a promise that President Donald Trump really he was, he was, he's true when he said that Mexico was going to pay for the wall wasn't true at all but Mexico now is the wall. And I must say it's so sad that, yeah, we are the wall and that's absolutely true and I understand I must insist that these kind of policies that Amlos administrations took during the last month, especially during the last three months. It was because of the threats of President Trump that we know how Trump rules everything like threatening the rest of the world, and Mexico wasn't the exception. And he tried us with possible tariffs that obviously would affect our economy so that's why Amlos administration started this new in migrant migration policy that we are seeing, but it's so sad because we are seeing exactly the same as as I saw with my eyes. You know, when I was in the border and in the US south border Tijuana and I was there and I was seeing how desperate are thousands of families that are once again just looking for American dream this false idea of American dream. And we're seeing how Mexican government are doing exactly the same there are the new CBP in in in Mexico, they are detaining migrants in centers that now human rights center cannot get into those centers of the tension. And there are a lot of violations of human rights and their rhetoric is just making people in Mexico to be xenophobic now the same things that I listened to it for last three years of my life in the US. And when it comes about migrants that they are dangerous that they're the invasion, and now people are repeating these things here in Mexico, and in order to support Mexican president so that's why it's really important to speak from the left. And I know that the right wing opposition here in Mexico are have a really specific interest in attacking and most administration, but that's true. It's true that there are a lot of violations of human rights and I think this is only going to stop. If the government get conscious of changing these narratives that I must insist it's the same narratives that the Republicans are using for getting votes with these white supremacist population. So what I can see is that there are just few senators congressmen who are really speaking out and saying that it's wrong strategy, and it's hard. I understand that there are a lot of pressures from the US, but they are not trying to to create this movement of solidarity in the borders to prioritize.  People are, and the government is just saying like, yeah, please wait, you need to wait and it's like, no, it's not about weight. It's not about waiting it's about they're, they're seeking for a better life they don't have food they don't have anything. So yeah, it's it's really hard to see that they are repeating exactly the same strategies that the US administration and are doing in is doing in in the border with Mexico. Well, I will just like to add in closing because I it's 1229 and I know I have to let you go. It's ironic and sad to hear you saying this because I remember in Omelos one speech that I believe that was January of 2019 or December of 18. One of the things he said was that neoliberalism had completely failed in Mexico, and also, and, and that is like that, that failure of neoliberalism neoliberal capitalism is one of the root causes of migration and not just from Mexico but from much of the hemisphere, but he also mentioned creating an environment where migration was by choice, rather than need and it looks like that we've got a long way to go before that's actually created if ever. It's really interesting for example that there is one of the congressman actually in morena and he's from morena that he's saying that the strategy is really wrong and it's it's where because he was part of the another he's not precisely the most leftist congressman in morena, but he went to these attention camps to come from a dad. The strategy is going back that people who are seeking asylum in Mexico and or in the United States are and their human rights are getting violated and it's it's it's it's really sad so. And yeah, I have to say also that I do really believe that Mexico is one of his like. And it's part of these progressive governments that we saw during the 2000s with the memorial is Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. So, what I'm trying to say is that we are late, we, we arrived late to these progressive governments, but we already saw the mistakes of these governments. I don't think Amlo is aware that he needs to change a lot of the policies like extractivism and like migration policies. And so I think something something's going on during the last weeks here in Mexico, that I've seen for a long time, a lot of people who now are in the government saying, this is not okay, we need to change. And because it took 14 years to put Amlos in the presidential palace. We're not going to let the right wing opposition to concentrate this indignation. So something is going on and I really hope that it changed for good for the benefit of migrants of people here in Mexico, and for the feminist movement in the streets. So, I do really hope so. Mexico could be the game changer for the entire hemisphere, given its geographical size, its size and population. And, and I think it's a really good point you brought up that Mexico is late to the more progressive leftist governments but perhaps the vanguard for it. And we, you know, it could be a potential game changer. It's really important to understand that the US can do whatever they want in any moment. They're not going to let Mexican government to do whatever they want them to start another progressive government in the region to do as as you go Chavez did it started in your organizations regional organizations to change the idea that another world's possible. So that's why we need to be aware of all of the intentions of the US in Mexico. And there are still there are now operating that there are a lot of possibilities of a coup. In any moment, they have in their favor. The paramilitaries, the drug cartels. I mean, they don't need to arm the opposition, they don't need to put people in the streets as they have did in a Livia in Venezuela. In Nicaragua, they just can arm they can pay all the drug cartels who are operating in the whole country to start this revelation movement in this region. So yeah, let's see, let's see what happens. I understand that the Mexican government has a lot of pressure from the US. It's not easy being neighbor for of the empire. Definitely it is not. We have a very famous phrase here in Mexico that we that we are really far from God but really near to the US. It's something like it really explains that it's not that easy for Andrés Manuel just to go to became anti imperialist and anti capitalist with all of the dependence that has a structurally from the US. So let's see what happens. I must insist I'm really hopeful that something can can happen for next month, especially when a lot of people inside the government now are speaking out and saying we to do this better or the right wing opposition can take advantage of it. Well that is actually encouraging news and so with that I'm going to let you go. It's like, I know I promise you I'd have you offer it. I'm so happy to share this half hour with you Alina just so our viewers know she Alina has been a neighbor and good friend of mine. Since moving here to DC and I so value your knowledge your experience and your friendship. And I look forward to you coming back on our program. Perfect. Yeah, let's do that. And well yeah in three weeks I'm gonna be speaking actually about migration in Maryland and the International Day of Women. So I'm gonna I'm gonna post it on my social networks Alina Duarte you can find me everywhere in Twitter Facebook or Instagram. And so yeah, I would love to see all of you. Perfect Terry. Thank you so much. Bye bye. Thank you. You can join us next week Wednesday at 12pm Eastern for what the F is going on in Latin America and don't forget tomorrow morning 11am Eastern, you can join us on code pink radio WPFW Washington DC WBAI New York City. Okay everyone will see you next week. Thanks so much. Bye bye.