Okay, sure. So, hi all. My name is Tim Hendricks. I'm the PTL of the OpenStack Congress Project. I've been working in policy for a dozen years, and I was around at the beginning of the Congress project. So what I thought I'd do today is give you a brief overview of Congress to sort of set the stage. And then I'll go and talk a little bit about the progress we've made toward the overall Congress vision at the KELO release, and then I'll dive into some more of the updates that we're trying to do for Liberty. Okay, so great. So for those of you who don't know, because Congress is a relatively new OpenStack project, the goal of Congress is that we want administrators of a cloud, cloud operators to be able to explain to Congress how the data center is supposed to behave. And then Congress' job is to sort of work with the administrator to make that happen, to make the data center both behave the way it ought to. And so the way this works is that Congress is just another service that runs on a server, and you interact with it via a RESTful API. And so when you're interacting with Congress, you really start by giving it two inputs. The first input you give it, if you hit the next slide, is the collection of services other than Congress that are running in the data center. And these are all the standard OpenStack services you're familiar with, right? No one you try and send or switch. And the idea here is that these other services that you tell Congress about are describing to Congress the actual state of the data center. So this is what Congress is going to use to understand what's really happening in the data center. So the second input that you give to Congress, if you hit the next slide, is the policy. And the policy describes how that data center ought to behave. And so now you can see you've given to Congress two inputs, the policy that says what should happen, and the collection of services that Congress can use to understand what actually is happening. And now Congress can do a variety of things with those two inputs. But at the end of the day, what you give Congress as input is some description of the desired state of the data center, as well as a collection of services that allow it to understand what the actual state of the data center is. All right, so if we go to the next slide. So this is kind of a fairly standard story that you hear about policy systems. Tell me the desired state, tell me the actual state, and now we'll go off and make it happen. There are only two design goals that Congress sets forth that make it different, that make it fairly unique in this space. And the first is that Congress ought to let you hook up any service running in the data center. Why? Because those services reflect the actual state of the data center. So one of the things that you can set up that you can hook up to Congress is obviously all the OpenStack services. And we have a number of those that we support today. The list is always growing. But we're not talking about just the OpenStack services. We're talking about any service. Proprietary services in particular, ones that customers seem to want to care about. They seem to want a bright quality, not just about the OpenStack services like Nova, Neutron, Sender, Glance, but also about their proprietary services. And so you can see that this is an important feature of any system like Congress because if you can't hook up any service then you may not be able to give Congress the ability to understand what's actually happening in the data center. So what we do is we have a plug-in architecture for services. So the second design goal that we've put out there for Congress is that it ought to support any policy. And by this I mean that you ought to be able to write policy about compute. You ought to be able to write policy about storage, about networking. You also ought to be able to write policy about how all three of those interact. You also ought to be able to write policy about all those other services that you've hooked up. And I'm going to be talking about infrastructure policies here. I'm talking about application policies. I'm talking about business-level policies. Any sort of domain that you want to write policy over, you ought to be able to write that kind of policy in Congress. And really these are two sides of the same coin. If in fact you can support any service then you better be able to write policy over that service. And if you can write any policy, well then you need to be able to support any service in order to understand whether or not that policy is being obeyed. Okay, next slide. All right, so here's an example to sort of give a grounding to these relatively higher level ideas that I've been talking about. And here on this slide you see both the inputs. You see the policy and you see the cloud services. And so the cloud services in this example that we're going to talk about are NOVA, Neutron, and Keystone. And the policy that we want to describe is very simple. It says that every network that's attached to a VM either needs to be a public network meaning it's shared and anyone can use it. Or it needs to be the case that the owner of the VM and the owner of the network must belong to the same group where here a group is defined maybe via LDAP and given to the system via Keystone. And so what's important about this policy is that you'll see is that it's across the main policy. It talks about how Keystone, NOVA, Neutron must all interact in order to satisfy the cloud operator's desires. Now I'm not going to go into the details about how we write this policy or about how we set up cloud services. If you'd like information there's plenty on the web and there are pointers at the end of the talk for that. But if we go to the next slide, what we'll see is that once you've given Congress these two inputs, the policy that you care about in the collection of cloud services there are a number of things that Congress tries to do to help the administrator, the cloud operator, make the actual state of the data center satisfy that policy to obey the way he or she would like it to behave. And the first capability is monitoring. And this is a very simple idea. Congress takes the policy, compares that to what the services tell it the actual state of the data center is, and it flags mismatches, right? Mismatches between the desired state and the actual state. This is a pretty simple piece of functionality, but it also provides a great deal of visibility into what's actually happening in the data center all in one place, all with a single interface. So the second capability that Congress provides is enforcement. And here is at the end of the day probably what most people want from a policy system. They want the system to go off and actually force the desired state and the actual state to be one and the same. And here what we're talking about is really three different kinds of enforcement paradigm. So the first is what we call proactive enforcement. For proactive enforcement what Congress is trying to do is prevent violations before they occur. And here this is the same kind of paradigm that Keystone uses. And the idea here is that if there's some other service running in the data center such as Murano today, and that service wants to ensure that before it takes an action before it actually makes changes to the data center that it's going to do so in a way that's compliant with policy then it can send an API request to Congress and ask, well if I were to execute this change, if I were to change the data center in this way would that cause any new policy violations or would it not? And so Congress can kind of give a thumbs up or thumbs down for that. And keep in mind that again those policies can be written over any collection of information available in the data center. And so that's a key differentiator there with Keystone. The second kind of enforcement that we're talking about is reactive enforcement. Here what we're talking about is Congress going out and finding a policy violation a mismatch between desired and actual state. And then it's trying to correct that. It's trying to eliminate that violation after the fact. And now it may seem that reactive enforcement is really just a stopgap, something that you do if you fail to prevent a violation. But in actuality there are many policies that can only be reactively enforced. The standard example here is a policy that says all the operating systems have to have the latest security patches in place. Now at any point in time the only way for that policy to be violated, let's assume, is that Microsoft, Apple, or Red Hat release a new security patch. As soon as they release a new security patch the policy is violated. There's some operating system that has to be out of date. And so the whole point of writing this kind of policy is to have Congress go off, identify the violation, and correct it. So that's reactive enforcement. I'll have more to say about that in a little bit. The third kind of enforcement that we're talking about is delegation. And here this is a pretty simple idea. This is just based on the idea that there are a growing number of policy engines that are showing up both within OpenStack and outside of OpenStack. These policy engines are often domain specific meaning they are tailored for networking or they're tailored for compute or they're tailored for storage. So the idea behind delegation is that it would be nice if an administrator could come to Congress and say, here is my policy. And this policy spans networking, compute, and storage. And then Congress goes off and it says, well here, I've identified the compute relevant portion of this policy and then I'll hand it off to the compute policy engine, let's say, in NOVA. Here's the networking specific portion of policy and I'll hand it off to the networking policy engine, let's say, in Neutron. And here's the storage relevant sub-policy and I'll hand it off to the storage relevant policy engine perhaps in Swift. And so the idea is just how do we, the idea behind delegation is very simple. The right way to do enforcement in this world of having many different policy engines is to give each policy engine the piece of policy that they're best suited to actually do enforcement for. So this is really an interesting and exciting kind of enforcement, one that I don't think anyone really knows exactly how it's going to work. So again, I'll talk more about that in a little bit. And then the last capability for Congress is audit. And here the idea is that we just want to give administrative ability to chronicle the history of policy violations, what the policies were at that point in time, if there was an exception, what the administrator did to actually try to remediate that and so on. Okay, so I think that gives a pretty good overview. I've talked at this point about the inputs that you give to Congress, remember a policy and a collection of services, and then I've also talked about what Congress does, what capabilities Congress provides once it's given those inputs. All right, next slide. So the current status as of the KELO release is, I've captured it pretty succinctly on this slide. It was just in KELO. KELO was the first time that Congress was officially part of OpenStack and so happy to say that we're now in level three in a big tent. Congress has all the usual features that you'd expect from an OpenStack service. It's got a RESTful API, CLI, Horizon Integration, Peace Integration, DevSec Integration, and Tempest Test. It does have a full-blown policy engine in it. It's a variation on Datalog. In terms of the services we've integrated, you'll see the list there, I won't bother reading through them. The list of services is really, there's no real rhyme or reason to it. Whenever we have someone new join the group, what we always recommend is to have someone write the data source driver, hook up a new service to Congress. And so doing, they learn a great deal about how Congress works, but also they extend Congress's reach in terms of the services that are integrated. And then finally, as I mentioned, of those capabilities that I talked about in KELO, we had monitoring in place, we had proactive enforcement in place, and we had a version of reactive enforcement in place. Okay, let's go to the next slide. What I'm going to do for the duration of the talk is just describe, go into a little bit more detail about the updates that we're hoping to get done by through Liberty. Okay, and the first update in Liberty that we're focusing on is reactive enforcement. This is a feature that we just barely got in terms of QO. And so the feature that we actually had in place, remember reactive enforcement is this version of enforcement where what we're doing is Congress is watching the state of the data center that identifies the violation and then goes off to try to correct it by executing some action. And so in QO, what we managed to get in place was a version of this reactive enforcement where the policy writer, the administrator who's providing the policy has the ability to codify right within policy statements that say, if some condition holds, then execute this action. And the intuition here is that those conditions represent a violation of policy that the administrator would like to be true. And then the action is the thing that will go ahead and correct that. So this is just a very basic, fairly straightforward kind of declarative statement. And we got it in place in QO. What we're hoping to do in Liberty is refine what we have there. In particular, what we're trying to do is add a number of administrative controls so that they can protect themselves against action execution that may be dangerous. We need to add some API level introspection to the law and administrator to understand what actions are actually available to them. And then the last thing that we're hoping to do is enlarge the number of services that are actually capable of executing these actions. At the end of QO, we only had NOVA hooked up to actually be able to execute actions. So you could do things like create servers and delete servers, pause servers, anything in the networking space or the storage space. And so in Liberty, we're hoping to improve on that. All right, next slide. Also in Liberty, we're hoping to extend or to actually implement technically for the first time the high availability architecture. And the idea here is that we have some customers who have asked us to ensure that Congress, that they can run multiple instances of Congress so that if one of them happens to crash or the machine goes down that they can immediately swap over to start using one of the other versions of Congress and then so doing ensure high availability of Congress. And so the architecture that we made to progress on in Kilo and with any luck at all we'll have in place in Liberty is a very simple version of a high availability architecture where you run in completely identical instances of Congress. They do exactly the same thing. The only thing that they share is the database. So any API call that comes in that actually creates a policy statement or that hooks up a new service to Congress will go ahead and write to that database. And then all the other instances of Congress will periodically synchronize their state with that shared database. So we're hoping to get this in place probably in the middle of the cycle for Liberty. All right, next slide. Another architectural improvement that we're hoping to make by Liberty is something that enables scale-out. And so on the last slide, the high availability architecture we just had in different instances of Congress all running on different machines. In this particular scale-out architecture, what we're hoping to do is take a single instance of Congress and split it across machines. And to sort of understand exactly how we're going to do that I have to spend a minute here describing the current architecture that's under the hood. So within this blue box on the slide, you'll see the internal working of Congress. Now that blue box, Congress, is still communicating with neutron, nova, cinder, and Swift on the bottom of the slide. But inside of Congress what we see is that there's a policy engine and then there are drivers or what we call adapters for each of the services that Congress has integrated with. And that policy engine and all those drivers interoperate via message bus. So what we're hoping to do for Kilo is make that message bus operate across different machines, across different boxes. So if you hit the next slide, what we might do in the future is say put the Swift driver on one machine and put the remaining drivers as well as the policy engine on a different machine. So that kind of functionality having that message bus that spams different boxes is what we're hoping to use to build our scale out architecture in the near future. All right, next slide. Probably the final big thing that we're hoping to make progress on is delegation celebrity. And delegation is one of these really difficult problems to work on. So what we've decided to do is every cycle to spend some amount of time trying to grapple with this particular problem. And so one idea that we picked around for the next cycle for Liberty is to look at delegation with Keystone. And here we haven't really worked out details, but it seems there's a lot of work going on about having each service they provide an API call that exposes the policy.json file effectively that is running and that is relevant to that service. So NOVO will have an API call, let's say, that returns the policy that it is implementing in likewise Newton, and Cinder, and Swift. And so you can imagine a world in which each of those policies.json is up into a single pane of glass so that the administrator can look at that policy and maybe reason about it and try to understand how that policy and the Congress policy interact in interesting ways. So this is all very speculative, and we haven't yet decided exactly what we'll do, but something along the lines of delegation I'm sure we'll make some progress on. All right, next slide. Okay, so that pretty much wraps it up. I went over a quick overview of Congress. Talked about our progress toward the overall Congress's vision for Kilo, and then gave you a few ideas about what we're hoping to get done for Liberty. You're always welcome to type up with questions. My email is on the very first slide, but you can also log on to IRC on Pound Congress or join our weekly IRC meeting, which is Tuesday the 10 a.m. Pacific. And then our Wiki is always there. There's a lot of good information there. So that just about does it for me. Thanks for tuning in.


Hello and welcome to Capacity Middle East Extra, powered by JSA. That's us. I'm Dean Perine of JSA and we are coming at you live from Capacity Middle East at the luxurious, I would call this hotel pretty luxurious, the Grand Hyatt Dubai and I'm here with Mr. Doug Makishima. Doug is the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Summit Tech. Doug, welcome to JSA TV. How are you, how are you doing? I'm doing great, fighting the jet lag but glad to be here Dean. This is one of my favorite cities in the region and the world actually so happy to be here. The best part about the jet lag to me Doug is that I know that everyone else is kind of or at least 50% of the people that I'm interviewing on this is equally jet lag but for our viewers that don't already know why don't you tell them a little bit about Summit Tech? So Summit Tech is a leading vendor in the telecom space. We initially started as an e-commerce company but you know we've been in telecom for over 15 years now. We're supplying to some of the world's leading operators and OEMs are device manufacturers so we have software platforms that power some of the the world's biggest networks and today we focus on IP communications so voice video messaging but now we're moving into the kind of the new frontier everyone's talking about VR, AR, AI, Metaverse, 5G, Edge Computing. We got to talk about it all. We have the killer use case that all of the operators they really need this kind of a platform because they want to monetize their 5G networks they want to deploy what's called Edge Computing or the telco edge cloud and so we have a VR360 live streaming complete e-commerce enabled platform or application yes okay YouTube, Amazon shopping, Twitch, Instagram live that's that's streaming live streaming 1.0 live streaming shopping 1.0 or 2.0 or maybe even 3.0 at this point you heard it first today 2.0 maybe even 3.0 so that's Summit Tech very cool so speaking of very cool things I understand that you made a very significant announcement just a couple weeks ago a couple months ago that's right no no just last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which is the you know premier of the world's largest mobile operator mobile wireless show in the world and we made an announcement with Bridge Alliance they're the largest operator alliance in the Asia Pacific region but they also extend out now here to this region so STC actually is one of the members and so our Odian's platform that's our VR live stream 360 platform was used to do a live stream from our studio in Montreal with a music event a concert mini concert to AIS Thailand one of the member operators in Bangkok as well as Singtel in Singapore so we use their 5g networks we use their edge computing capabilities to bring this truly immersive 8k 360 experience to their subscribers and it was a first in that we had three countries two continents live stream with 8k 360 fully interactive in e-commerce enable video I love it absolutely love it so Doug why don't you tell our viewers a little bit about the event how is the event going for you you meet with new prospects new customers well you know so we've onboarded I think it's the numbers now 23 mobile operators around the world with our Odian's platform and of course two Bridge Alliance and AIS with the 22nd and 23rd at Mobile World Congress so we'd like to extend that reach here into the the region so we are already actually working with one of the operators in the UAE one of the two you'll have to guess which one congratulations thank you so we've done technical trials and now we're in the process of moving to pre-commercial trials so being here is great because you know you're connecting all of the the folks in the the operator mobile operator connectivity community in the region so it's a it's a great place to network it's great to see their perspective and hear the presentations from some of the top leaders here in terms of what are the priorities what they want to deploy what do they see as the the next new opportunities excellent Doug thanks for being here we appreciate it my pleasure thank you you bet and thank you viewers for watching we will see you soon


I'd like to call the April 13th meeting of the City Planning Commission to order Would the clerk please call the roll mayor van der steen here older person boring Ryan sasma Jerry Jones, I Think he's excused Marilyn Montemire David Hoffman Don's feet on we have a quorum. Thank you very much Next please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands Nation With liberty and justice for all first next. We'll introduce the Committee members and staff Jim. Would you start the plan Commission? various building inspection Mike van der steen mayor and chairman Chad Pellichick planning director Steve Sokolowski from the planning department Marilyn Montemay are a citizen member Department of Public Works Well welcome everyone Does anybody have any potential conflicts of interest with items on the agenda? Seeing none, then we'll go on to the minutes Asking for a motion to approve the Planning Commission minutes from March 23rd Thank you for that motion in support. Is there any discussion on those minutes? Seeing none all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye Opposed Motion passes Then we'll move on to items for discussion and possible action item 3.1 is an application for conditional use and sign permit with Exceptions by the Sheboygan area school district to install new signage at North High School located at 2926 North 10th Street Steve all right. Thanks, mayor We have Joe Volmer from the school district here as well as Dan Stengel the athletic director from North High So what we're taking a look at tonight is some signage proposed for North High School at 2926 North 10th Street you can see on the TV and the screens in terms of the the signage that's proposed One of the goals that North is trying to do is build to get a tie in a building together that opened in 1961 with a consistent branding carried through the Curricular and co-curricular areas of their campus There's been countless additions built on to the school throughout the years and different signage and branding and logos are found throughout their campus So one of the things that North is looking at doing is doing some rebranding throughout the school in addition to the sign To to have a similar golden raider Branding to it when visitors come to the school for major events North is looking to identify something that's easily recognizable as a landmark so that they can Direct them to the commons by the large raider mural on school Avenue So it'll be very recognizable to those both visitors as well as Potential new students and alumni to understand where they would like them to enter the school In summary we want their students and community to feel a sense of school spirit and pride when they come to the school We want younger students to choose north high school and look forward to becoming golden raiders We want their alumni to be proud of the school They've graduated from and a sense of ownership and pride is one of the most powerful tools They have at the school and with consistent branding throughout the campus. We can get closer to accomplishing these ideals That sign on the front displays a large raider logo that states home of the golden raiders There are a couple of variances involved in this matter to install 596 square foot window sign and to have more wall signage than what is permitted Again in addition to the signage on the exterior of the window There are other Attachments showing how the same brand is being utilized throughout the interior of the schools and staff was not was recommending approval of The sign subject to the conditions you have before you and the applicants are here Thank you very much Steve with the applicant. I can make any other comments You step up to the podium Dan single athletic director at North and just wanted to add last night We had a football game at North and again with Our high school opening in 1961 in various additions We have people coming to all different doors all different parts of the school last night even at the football game We got the visitors coming in the home gate and things so we're really just trying to Whether it's a high school event a youth event whatever we're hosting at North say come to the raider head This is you know where you drop off whether it be a football game a basketball game For graduation and things like that so we're really trying to tie together the building and have this distinctive spot to direct people To to come to our events. Thank you. Very good. Thank you commissioners any discussion or questions? See none. I'd entertain a motion Thank you for that motion and support that's before us one last call for any discussion Seeing none with the clerk, please call the roll mayor van der steen. Hi elder person born Ryan sasma Marilyn Montemire David Hoffman Don's feet on all eyes motion passes. Good luck with your project. It looks great Item 3.2 is an application for a conditional use and sign permit with exceptions by American orthodontics to install new signage at 3524 Washington Avenue Steve. Do you have a report on this? Yeah? I'm not sure if there's anyone from American orthodontics on the telephone We are representing American orthodontics. This is Mike tarrell Okay, Steve you want to proceed with your Thanks for attending guys. Yes, mayor. Thank you. Um, what we're taking a look at is American orthodontics is in proposing to install new signage at their property located at 35 24 Washington Avenue American orthodontics which has operated in the city since its inception in 1968 is seeking permission to utilize Their existing assets to recruit employees through signage in their parking lot Their proposed signs will be printed on a vinyl substrate and will hang from their existing parking light poles There are currently 16 light poles in the parking lot and each one of the light posts will host two banners each being Approximately 12.5 square feet So it's about total of 400 square feet of signage with 32 signs located throughout the Parking lot and the style of the sign and color scheme will be consistent with their branding The banners initially would be used to encourage people to apply for employment at American orthodontics And will be replaced as the result of normal wear and tear or to change a message in the event as they achieve their hiring goals There's no set schedule to rotate the messaging out But our alternate banners will very likely be brand oriented and will be displayed throughout the year Going forward the light pole banners will be changed periodically to display their brand And I'm sure the applicants can speak to a little bit more about what they're trying to accomplish with the signage There are a couple of variances involved To install 16 sets of 12.5 square foot banners, so 32 temporary banners 32 temporary banners totally in 40 400 square feet and To install temporary banners for more than 30 days and staff did not was not objecting to the proposal And was recommending approval and I can answer any questions and the applicants are online Thank you very much Steve. How would the applicants from American orthodontics like to add anything to that presentation? No, Steve did a great job Great commissioners any discussion all the person born Thank You mayor. I would make a motion to approve subject to staff recommendations Okay under discussion Marilyn. Did you have anything? Yes? Thank you I was wondering if the Illustrations of the banners will will be used when you do the banners. That's the entertainment and joy of teeth. I love it Yeah, so the graphic here what looking at our representative of what will be put up on our light pole Very good. Thank you. Any other discussion? Okay. We have a motion on the floor Please call the roll mayor van der steen. Hi older person born Ryan sasma. Hi, Marilyn Montemire. Hi David Hoffman Don's feet on all eyes motion passes Good luck with your project. I hope you can get those Applicants you need. Thank you guys. Yep. Bye. Bye Thank you Okay, next we'll move on to item three point three which is an application for a conditional use With exception by Lewis Holbrook to construct New second floor apartment at 635 Riverfront Drive Steve Thanks, mayor Lewis Holbrook is here and he is the owner of the Riverfront shanty located at 635 Riverfront Drive and this and the first floor of this shanty We presently have a TLC casuals which has been located there for more than 25 years a women's clothing store The second floor space is vacant and has been occupied for some time and this space was previously used for storage The Holbrooks are looking to improve this space to provide occupancy as a one-bedroom loft style apartment and the improvements would not result in any Modification of the exterior of the building the most significant part of the improvements would be the installation of a kitchen and soundproofing of the Floor and the space as constructed would be about 2,400 square feet the improvement would provide a unique loft style residential unit in this attractive downtown Riverfront location It's staffs understanding that's that this space has been vacant for a little while and Staff and the plant commission have been encouraging downtown living and the proposed conversion provides additional housing opportunities in this downtown Riverfront location Mr. Holbrook will be taken advantage of a city program that helps fund under Ulysses second floor space into a new new housing opportunities in downtown Sheboygan and Abby Block is here from the planning department who helps work on that program So she's been working with Lewis as well The applicant will need to work with the building inspection department regarding the conversion of the second floor space into Apartments in occupancy would only be granted at such time the permits and codes have been met So I can answer any questions the applicants here and there is a neighbor here for this one as well Thank you very much. Mr. Holbrook. Would you like to add anything to that discussion? Just basically that we've owned this property for a while when it was first built our intention was to have a Second floor residential unit on it. It just never kind of made financial sense to us now the city of Sheboygan is offering a Grant program that caters Directly towards what we've got so at the end of the day it makes sense now and it's something That we've just used for storage and has been sitting there So why not have it where we can have a place where people can live and enjoy the riverfront downtown? I'll be happy to answer any questions you have and I'm looking for your approval today Could you describe the amount of money you're going to be investing in the second floor remodel total about 80,000 Okay, that's at the end of the day Very good Attorney Ross did you have some comments you wanted to make? Please come up to the podium Yes, thank you as the owner of unit C which is the upper floor of 641 Riverfront Drive so we are Actually, we're more a direct neighbor than the first first floor of our building in any case as Originally intended All the units down there there were no residences that were ever planned when these buildings were built and We're concerned that the Changing it to residential now even even the upper When the intent when the buildings were built was to be office or read office upstairs retail downstairs I'm fairly certain our building would never have been approved if we had intended it to use it as residential and we are concerned already that the That the neighborhood so to speak has changed its character from what the intent was and that is retail and offices and Basically as a neighbor You're always concerned about potential property values, and I don't I don't see that this is a kind of contribution to the neighborhood Thank you very much for those comments That's your whole book. Would you like to speak? Okay? Any other questions or discussion amongst the commissioners? entertain a motion I'll make a motion to approve subject to staff recommendations and I'll second it Okay, we have a motion on the floor Is there any other discussion? Chad could you talk a little bit about the different things that were brought up and as far as the city goals in this area? Well, I don't know what the I don't know that I know the goals prior But I can tell you that the the redevelopment authority and the city has long tried to get Residences on the second floor if there if residences need to be there So we have a lot of discussion about that on south pier We've got a couple examples on south pier where we've got people living on the second floor and have commercial on the first floor so You know I people are interested in wanting to live in the downtown I think what we have going for us in the value here is the fact that it's a one unit 2400 square foot a Rental unit that you know is probably gonna have you know one or maybe two people in it So I you know I don't know there's there's plenty of parking down there I you know I think having you know more live work play and those types of options down there make sense So I I don't know that city development staff is is against this I think you know We've been we've developed a program to help incentivize people to take these under Utilized spaces and build them out into additional housing opportunities, and we all know we'll find out in a little bit We all know that we need a lot of more housing in this community, and you know, this is one way of getting there Thank you for those comments Steve. Yeah, I think I think miss mr. Roth Probably has some fair comments in terms of some of the original development I think that there has been some living units The shanning next to the harbor winds at one point in time had a number of residential units on the third floor I think those have been since converted into offices But I think the main goal as as mr. Roth was saying it is to have retail and that retails to be on the first floor So that it's open 24-7 and just like on the south pier We allow for offices and residential because they're more service-oriented And being five eight to five during the week and having more of that activity on the weekends of Retail restaurant and things like that on the first floor. So I think this is definitely something that Mr. Holbrook has indicated he spent in $80,000 as far as into a Reinvestment so from a property value standpoint, I would think this would only enhance things down there So staff is definitely recommending approval of this and would look for and would do the same if others are interested Thank You Steve Ryan Yeah, and I think I think Chad hit right in the head. This is one unit. We're talking about it's not it's not a bunch of units And like Steve mentioned you want this kind of activity down in this area So having having some residential this area makes sense Dave Hoffman You got to come to the podium Yes, we have and we have had a few businesses in there The unfortunate thing is is it's because it's on a second floor and there's no elevator to get up there Really most businesses aren't interested in being in that space So it's really not set up to have people coming in and out of it because it is on a second floor And that's really the been the issue as far as a residential unit. It's not an issue you know I Would like to add that I am just as concerned about the neighborhood as anyone else We happen to own the lower level of the building that Attorney Roth is in so we care just as much as we have just as much interest in keeping this nice as anybody Thank you. Thank you any other discussion See no discussion Please call the roll mayor van der steen. I hold a person board Ryan sasma Marilyn Montoya Dave Hoffman I dance feet on all eyes Motion passes Thank you for looking at this project Next we'll move on to item 3.4, which is resolution number 193 of 2021 by all the person born receiving The city of Sheboygan's affordable housing market study Prepared by MSA professional services incorporated and encouraging staff to take action to implement the findings strategies and recommendations of the study I'll turn it over to our planner Chad Pellecek for an introduction to this Program and study. Thank you Chad Just a minute. I'm trying to get a PowerPoint up. There we go. There we go So sorry elderman born you're gonna see this again, but for the planning Commission The this is we commissioned a study back in starting in October of last year with hiring of MSA Consultants to look at the affordable housing needs of this community We there was a presentation done with the consultant at the council meeting a week ago And there'll be a public presentation tomorrow at 5 p.m I'm go to a meeting that if any of you are interested in Logging into that. Let me know and I'll get you the contact or you can get it off the city's website But what we're doing is kind of running through these the findings of this study So we know that all of us have been involved with a number of housing developments from market rate to single-family To affordable, but we've heard over and over and over again out of community surveys the need for additional Affordable housing units, so we wanted to understand a little bit more about what is that market? What are those requirements and what you know? What do we need to do and how many units do we need to develop so these this presentation that I'm gonna run through quickly is Was put together by MSA, but looking at the background of the community What you'll see in the graph on the left is that our population is projected to decrease continually kind of up a little bit in 2020 and 2025 and then back down in 2020 2040 the other interesting thing with the graph on the right is that we're gonna see a substantial increase in 65 to 84 years old and 85 and older so our population is going to be growing older as we move into the 2040 time frame When we look at median and per capita income So shabuigan the city of shabuigan compared to the surrounding areas is relatively lower Our median household income is the lowest in the county at $48,313 as well as the per capita income is is low at 24,000 compared to surrounding communities And a couple comments many residents face income limitations lower wages and the study area Compared to other areas. However, we do they do protect an employment growth And we've seen that from a number of manufacturers across the county So they're still looking at a 4% increase in this region and then the weighted average salary for most in-demand Occupations is around 50,000 So when we look at the building permits that were Issued that's been issued for the last five years You can see that we have seen A rise in duplexes and that's primarily related to the way the number of units were developed Kingsbury Development that recently opened those were developed as duplexes. It was a way of getting around some Requirements in the building code, but you can see from this chart that the Single-family housing on the top has been relatively slow and we're hoping that's going to pick up with this new subdivision that we've all been Involved with on the south side But you can see, you know, we've aggressively on the bottom have built a number of multifamily apartments and In 2019 had a number of starts with multifamily condos, so we've slowly Are increasing that although 56% of our homes in Chabuigan are single family and detached And built prior to 1980 so we've got an older housing stock Which isn't all bad because it also provides some affordable housing opportunities But the development of new single-family homes has remained relatively low while the multifamily units have significantly increased So when we look at the rental market findings, I'm not going to get into a ton of detail But if you look at the rental unit mismatch chart on the top, what you'll see is that between 51 and 80 percent of the Areas meeting income. There's a deficit of units in the in the market as well as over 80% AMI there's another deficit in what it doesn't mean we need 3,000 units But it shows that we definitely have the need for additional units in the rental housing market when you look at 39% of the housing stock in the city is rental units and 50% of those rental units are considered affordable So we have a good mix already of affordable housing 33% of the renter households in Chabuigan are cost burden and that's based on Information pulled out of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and that shows that rental unit consumption chart on the right When you look at the amount of people that fall within the different Areas of the income and then higher income households have been renting down in the market So I think that's a key finding and that the people that can afford more Don't necessarily have housing available at the higher rates. So they're going into the more affordable units So what that means is if we develop some additional higher end Housing we could move people out of these and make them more make them available for lower income people When we look at the rental unit vacancy a typical average finding for Vacancy rates is about five percent and if you look at the city of Chabuigan's were at three point three percent So there's definitely You know, that's another indicator of the need for additional housing units and that the other interesting thing about this is that Subsidy will be needed to offset the construction costs So the consultant has come up with the fact that it's about $1,300 a unit to build new housing And if we're going to if our goal is to try to develop housing that has a rent more Affordable in the four to five to six hundred range that means that almost eight hundred dollars of that Development is going to have to be subsidized with some type of Incentive so whether it's tiff incentive or some kind of federal incentive There's you got to try to make up that Delta And that's I think the challenge before us is how does one do that? So the consultant looked at the multifamily development example and basically came up with this kind of chart to run through What the value and the cost would be and you can see on the bottom the break even annual rent is about 15,590 dollars and the breaky the monthly rent is about 1,300 so based on the current construction costs and adding everything into it You know $1,300 is what it's costing to build these units So you know if you want rents less than that then you're gonna have to figure out how to fill that gap in the performer And I think that's the challenge before us When we look at the ownership market Property ownership primarily in single-family homes if you look at the mismatch chart again You can see that there's a roughly 6,000 difference in units So there's definitely an impact a need for additional single-family. We're all aware of that and In Sheboygan the median household house value is about a hundred and nine thousand seven hundred Which is substantially less than a lot of other areas most current owners can comfortably afford their housing is what they found in Surveys and and stakeholder interviews and that there is a supply of affordable to lower income households though most of those are Owned by multi moderate to higher income households. So again in the ownership market is the same thing We're seen in the rental market is that people are living in lower priced homes because frankly That's what's available to them So if there was an opportunity for some additional higher priced homes The the hope would be that those people would be willing to pay more and opening up opportunities in the more affordable units So this is just some data from the single-family home sales pulled by the MLS and Basically, what you can see is that there has Sale prices are very aggressive in this market and we all hear that every day How properties are on the market for a few days people are paying more than their worth more than they're listing them for so Single-family homes is definitely Good across the market So just looking at some of the demand Docket numbers that the consultant has put together so the consultant believes that based on their Vacancy rate and the occupancy rate and the other factors that the market can support another 400 and one to one thousand twenty three Apartment units or 40 to 102 per year by 2030 and you can see that They've kind of broken it further down into a hundred and eighty four to four hundred and seventy one and nine hundred and eighteen dollars a month 112 to 287 at that roughly thousand to fourteen hundred a month and then a hundred and four to two sixty six At the greater than twelve hundred and eighty four a month When we look at the owner occupied units 325 to 715 total by 2030 with about 33 to 72 per year So that's going to be very aggressive for us the new subdivision going in on the south side is a hundred and thirty four lots I think so It'll take care of some of that need but not a lot and as we all know We don't have a ton of land available for subdivision development So we're gonna have to look at annexing additional lands, you know from the towns to try to meet that need and Then under the the peace that's really missing. I think is we don't the the is the 55 and older Housing so we've got a lot of older people living in Affordable or market rate housing and I've run into those people where they've sold their house And they've just decided to move into these apartments because they don't want to have to shovel in those types of things If we could develop if we had some developers that would develop some 55 and older homes that would be Housing that would be dedicated to that population that would help alleviate some of the usage in the other units And you can see from this they're projecting around a thousand five subsidized and 284 market rate and independent living and then senior assisted living Roughly 200 units by 2030 So really what we're focusing in on is what's the missing middle housing? So you have the detached single family housing you have the mid-rise and the higher end, but it's really this kind of workforce Affordable housing that falls within the middle so condo ownership senior housing and three plus bedroom rentals are Really what's the units that are needed and that the infill development? Is probably the way that a lot of this is going to happen because frankly we don't have a lot of expansion opportunities So the recommendations that came out of the study Are kind of laid out here, but I think you know a few of them They're recommending the establishment of a housing committee to kind of oversee these efforts Continuing to grow our neighborhood associations marketing city-owned properties Developing master plans creating a tenant resource center Looking at some of our regulations reducing setbacks and different things to continue Building on the current housing continuing the code enforcement program and then looking at some partnerships with Partners to kind of move some of these home ownership opportunities forward Funding so you know that's always a big thing, you know We we get criticized when we put tiff into projects But you know frankly the cost of the project and the rents just don't match in this market So you have to look at tiff, but there is some opportunity for other funds We established a new neighborhood revitalization funds so expanding the use of that For affordable housing and then looking at development of a workforce housing fund similar to a Dane County does where employers actually fund Stuff so it goes into a fund and and employers provide some of the money and then promoting the use of low-income tax credit programs and other Programs so in a nutshell, that's it On average we need roughly 2,500 to 3,000 more units from what we are at today and We have work ahead of us to find locations to do that and to make the numbers work But there's there's definitely a need for affordable housing But I think there's opportunities to do so and you know and frankly when you look at the 900 to 1,300 a lot of the units that have been built Kind of fall within those affordable housing units That was you know one of the things that was surprising to me is that the consultant feel you know felt that based on 30 Standards are a 30% of your income should go to housing You know when you look at what people can afford in this market with higher paying Jobs and things that there is the opportunity for all different Size housing, you know rents and and home ownership from you know lower income all the way up to high income, so I don't think you know, it's just going to be an affordable product. I think we have opportunity for all the products Thank you for that presentation Chad. Does anybody have any questions? Dave Obviously the study was completed before the explosion in Construction costs do you feel that that's really going to have a big impact on funding this going into the future? Yes, definitely. I think you know We're already hearing it from developers that we're working with over the fact that The the cost is through the roof so they're you know, they're now even talking how steel construction is cheaper than wood Construction, so I think they're going to have to look at all aspects of it. But yes, I think it's going to drive additional Basically cost burden between the project to raising the prices So rental rates are going to have to go up, right? I would believe some of that Yes, some of it will and if it's if it's intended to be a lower, you know income They're gonna have to figure out ways to you know kind of fund that we had a meeting with our Legislators yesterday, and I brought up that you know, they're all talking about affordable housing But here's some real numbers even at $1,300 a unit if your goal is to try to you know Give it for seven six seven hundred dollars a unit. You've got a gap of six hundred dollars So we're per unit. Where is that coming from the city can't afford to do that all ourselves? So we're gonna need some federal subsidies or state subsidies to help with that Can't do it with a breath right Yes, Jim go ahead We do action we need to recommend to the council to adopt the study and allow staff to start implementing it I'll make that motion second. Thank you for that motion Chad Could you contrast the occupancy with the previous study that was done what three years ago? sure There you go Can I contrast it to the study that the EDC did yes? The EDC study that they did back in 2014 said that we could support 300 units a year for the next five years so we The numbers are very comparable to where you know, they're looking at 400 units on the low end for the next what 10 years so Or nine years, so it's very comparable You know, we've built about 800 so 800 plus units with Oscar So I think you know, it's it's realistic to say that we could probably get another 400 to a thousand units given that we've got about a thousand units from 2015 to 2021 So it's very comparable to what the original projections were and I think back in that study There was a 1% vacancy rate. That is correct. So at least we've we've gone we've gone up to percent What about some of the communities that you see allowing a second home on a larger lot and Allowing additional development. Do we see that at all in the community? We talked about that. They they proposed this Accessory dwelling unit where you'd have a second home on a lot. The problem is our lot sizes are so constricted now You know, we don't have the luxuries of large lots are things Jim our lots are you know, 60 by 150 on average in the central city So putting another property on the lot is you know, is very difficult. So I Don't know that that's the solution Okay, thank you very much any other discussion you want to call the roll Sure, mayor van mayor van der steen. Hi Maryland Montemayor Ryan sasma Don's feet on Dave Huffman. Hi all eyes Motion passes. Thanks for that presentation and we'll look forward to your implementation plan Our next meeting is planned for April 27th, and I just want to say it's been a pleasure to work with all of you It's been a great time seeing so many things and development happening in our community over the last eight years And you play an important role in making that happen in the approval process So I wanted to say thank you to everyone Steve you had something. Yeah, I wanted to say something as well obviously, it's the mayor's last meeting and you know chat just went through the housing study and As part of the mayor's tenure and and the board a lot of the plan commission members We've seen a tremendous amount of the multifamily housing that's been done There was discussion on the subdivisions and single-family neighborhoods One of the things that also got done was the annexation with Kohler That's leak going to lead and us to other opportunities for lands and farm fields that could provide for some of that single-family housing We are likely to get a championship Kohler golf course in the city The Memorial Mall has been you know redeveloped into a thriving mire and the corridors really improving We've done things in terms of the South Point Enterprise campus and of Guaranteed industrial development for 10 to 20 years with that The mayor has also been involved in a number of things in terms of the bike Pedestrian movements as far as the Taylor Drive improvements the shoreline 400 possibly extending that further south City green is happening where we see you know Hopefully we'll be out and get some more music and things like that downtown So we've had some things happen downtown the mayor participated in the Sheboygan River cleanup and was leading the By national Great Lakes and St. Lord's cities initiative protecting the Great Lakes and cities along both Canada and the United States so There's been just a number of things that happened during your time And I think I speak on behalf of the plan Commission when we say thank you for your service to our community With that I'd entertain a motion to adjourn so move Thank you for that motion in support all those in favor of adjournment signify by saying aye. Aye. We stand adjourned. Thank you for your


I think it's safe to say that Kanye West has officially burned his career to the ground, not that there was much room for growth left. Last week I said that he passed the Rubicon, now this is it. He's so far gone there's no coming back from this, and rightfully so. I get that people don't like cancel culture, but if ever there was a case for somebody to be canceled, I think that Kanye West meets that criteria, and I'm not afraid to say that. Kanye West should be canceled, because what he said in an appearance on Alex Jones' program, Info Wars, was so bad that Alex Jones had to distance himself from Kanye West. Alex Jones was seemingly uncomfortable with what Kanye West was saying. So he says essentially that he likes Hitler. He just straight up says it. He says that he loves Nazis, but he also loves Jewish people, and he talks about how every human being has something of value, especially Hitler. He says that Nazis did good things too. So we're going to stop dissing Nazis. He also ridiculously credits Hitler for inventing highways and the microphone.   This is not a get out of jail free card.  So there's no excuse. There's no coming back from this. Kanye West absolutely should be shunned from society, and there's no longer any plausible deniability. And even people who were defending Kanye up until this point are saying you probably shouldn't have said the Hitler stuff. Because in their view, even if they may still agree with Kanye West, they don't like that he's just straight up praising Hitler because this takes away their plausible deniability, which is how they push anti-Semitism in the first place. You kind of do these dog whistles as loud as they may be. You never actually say the quiet part loud. You just try to normalize anti-Semitism in a roundabout way, not by actually praising Hitler. So now you kind of see them vocalizing disappointment with Kanye West saying, man, I was with you until you said this Hitler stuff. That's them kind of giving away the game. And this is Kanye West taking away their plausible deniability. That's it. So now any radio host going forward who gives this man a platform, they're responsible for this too. Anyone who is a fan, a former fan of Kanye West, who sees him in the streets, don't get a picture with him. I get that growing up, you may have enjoyed his music at one time. I did too.  There are better role models for you to look up to than an actual Nazi, an out and proud Nazi at this point. I don't think people understand how recent the Holocaust was. There are people alive today who survived the Holocaust. And to praise Nazis, I think that that's so beyond the pale that anywhere Kanye West goes, people should shame him. People should shun him. People should not want to be associated with him. Take a look at this photograph. This is a photograph from Auschwitz. This is the inside of a gas chamber. Now, if you look closely at it, you see scratch marks. These scratch marks were from Jewish people who were clawing at the walls as they gasped for air as they were killed. Jewish people who were so weak in these death camps, some of them couldn't walk and they had to be carried to the gas chambers. This is not a laughing matter.  I don't care that he has untreated mental illness. There's no coming back from that. There are some things that are just so egregious that as a society, we have to loudly denounce them. Otherwise, we're also culpable here. And this is one of those moments. So it's so bad that the GOP had to delete this tweet where they say Kanye Elon Trump and you have Nick Fuentes controlling Kanye West's Twitter account and this is what Elon Musk is enabling.  So are you going to allow him on this platform to continue to spew violent anti-Semitism? It's up to Elon Musk. But don't be surprised when advertisers don't want to come back to this platform. So there's there's so much to talk about with regard to this story because it's so disturbing. And even if this was the trajectory, the inevitable trajectory that Kanye West was on, it's still genuinely jarring to see someone in the year 2022 say this, it's shocking to see. And the whole get up with him covering his face. It's just it's disturbing. It's really weird. It's disturbing. It's creepy. Watching that just made me feel sick to my stomach. Because to know the impact that he has on society, on culture still, and to know how many more Nazis are going to be emboldened because of these statements. I mean, look, he already emboldened them. But now they can be even louder because once you hear somebody say something like that, praise Hitler publicly. I mean, it kind of takes away that shock value. So the next person who hears a Nazi say that, then it's like, I already heard Kanye say it. So that's probably more shocking than this random Joe Schmo saying it. That's why this is so dangerous, because we can't allow this thing to be normalized and little by little with each platform that was given to Kanye West, where these hosts knew he was going to spew anti-Semitism. They just continue to normalize it. And it's just it's sickening. I just feel really sad. I feel disturbed. But this is where we're at. You know, anti-Semitism has been on the rise around the world.  But for it to be Kanye West, somebody with so much cultural influence, that's where things get really dangerous. So I don't really know what else to say. Kanye West is done. His career is over at this point. And that's good. Shea Mon, anyone who still wants to associate with him, Shea Mon, anyone who wants to give him a platform, he needs to be shunned from society because as a people, we need to make it very clear that Nazism is not tolerated. If we can't do that, then I think that we failed as a country.


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We just made this retail DIY farmhouse display wall and we'll show you how we made it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do it to do a builder to make it. So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week, we're going to do something with this giant white wall behind us. It hasn't always been quite this empty. We did clear out a couple of things but we haven't done much with it since we built our workshop space. We intended for this to be kind of a phase two project but we weren't sure exactly what we were going to do with it. Until we started to get a lot of visitors. We love visitors. We love when people come in and hang out with us but they have nothing to buy or do unless they're scheduled for a workshop. All right. Well, what we found is that folks are coming in looking to purchase signs maybe for a gift. They've seen us at a local craft show or even a craft show two hours away and they wanted to come in and get another sign or they've seen us at a farmer's market and it's a weekday and they want to grab a sign but I didn't really have any retail space to display finished signs. This is strictly a workshop.  We got you. And you might not always have time for that. So we did build our rope shells if you remember when we did our initial build of our workshop space. We have our rope shells but they're displaying current projects that we're using in the workshop. So that, hey, oh look, I love those. Can I come back and make those? But now I need a place that'll display signs that you might give as gifts. Signs that are all year round signs or even just easel the signs. Like you said, you might want to come get a sign and not have to paint it yourself. And I think I've got a pretty good idea of what we want to do. Go ahead. I think we should just use wire racks with some hangers on them just as we do it at our craft. That's what he said. He goes, all you have to do is use those same wire shelves that we use for our craft show. We'll put those graduated racks on them like you would see at a retail clothing store and we'll hang them on that. Instead of shirts, we're selling signs. And I was like, no, no, that is way too corporate. We want something that's a little more rustic, a little more sticking with our farmhouse DIY theme. A little handmade looking. Yes, yes.  So, yeah, exactly. Yeah, so that's what I think I've got. I have a vision in my head. We have the supplies and we're ready to build this wall and make it look like a fun, kind of rustic retail space. Fun, rustic retail space. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. I thought we had a pretty precise shopping list. We did, we did. I was like, here, come with me to Lowe's. It'll be real quick, 30 minutes, we're in, we're out. We knew we needed 32 one by sixes, six one by four furring strips, some nails and that's it. Now, hour and a half later, we've added one by sixes to the cart, added one by fours to the cart, changed those out, found the furring strips, decided that the one by sixes are too heavy. I was like, let's use this quarter inch ply and we'll rip it down. Then I decided the quarter inch ply was too light. We loaded five of those into the cart. Yeah, loaded those in. Unloaded five of those out of the cart. Found the three eighths and felt like that was better. So we loaded those into the cart. Hour and a half later, we're in one aisle and we finally make it to the registers. Yeah, it was a very long aisle. It's a lot of, I will, you know, sometimes. A lot of project changes in that 90 minutes. Well, you know what I was, I was enhancing the project. I was tweaking the design. Just, yeah, on the fly, tweaking the design. Improving, improving the design. That's really what I was doing. I just decided that the one by sixes were gonna be overkill. Yeah, they were heavy and they were thick and they were just gonna be a bit much for this wall. Too much, quarter inch, too little, too flimsy. I was Goldilocks. Yeah, she was Goldilocks in the wood aisle. I was, but I finally settled on three eighths inch because I think that's what we're going with. Well, I know that's what we're going with because that's what we purchased. So we got five sheets of three eighths inch pine plywood. Then we got 11 one by four furring strips. We got some two inch self-tapping screws, some one inch self-tapping screws. Then we'll need some stain and paint. See, it was easy. Yeah, it was easy. Step two, we're gonna make all of our cuts. We don't need to touch the one by four furring strips at all, we're just gonna put those up at eight foot. But we do need to rip a whole bunch of five and a half inch wide plywood strips. So I'm gonna stack all of the plywood together. I'm gonna try to get them all lined up nice and neat using a picket and a hammer, just tapping around getting all of the little boards lined up. Then I'm gonna pin them all together using those two inch screws that we got before, those two inch self-tapping screws. I'm gonna put one in each corner and then one in the middle on each side. That should hold it while I try to cut them all at the same time. We wanted all of these boards to be five and a half inches wide and the guard on my circular saw is an inch and a half. So we measured seven inches from the edge. We marked the line. We put one of the one by four furring strips on there. Line that up with our marks that we just made. And then I'm gonna screw that in so it shouldn't move. I can't clamp all of these so I screwed that top piece in. Now I'm just gonna run down with the circular saw. It took me like two or three passes to get through each of them. I couldn't set the blade depth all the way and get through all sheets at one time. So it did take me a couple of passes to get through all of them each time. But that worked a lot better than I thought it would. I mean, it was much more efficient by stacking them all. We were able to get through all of those cuts in... I don't know, 30 minutes took me 30 minutes to make all of the cuts. That's with lining up all the boards and everything. So not too bad. Once I had them all ripped down to five and a half inches, I then took 16 and we cut 16 of those down to 88 inches. And then 16 of those we cut down to 85 inches. That way they'll fit on one side of the wall and they'll fit on the other side of the wall. Step three, it's time to stain. There is a ton of staining to do. Now that we have it all cut and laid out, I am a little stain intimidated. Well, you know, like Garrett really doesn't do the painting and the staining. But I have to watch and that's agony. Well, he helped this time. There was a lot to do here. So we jumped in, we used our stain sponge, along with our Varathans briar smoke stain. We use this a lot. I just think it's a great color. We put that on everything. Oh, we do. It is our Frank's Red Hot. So we use our sponge and the sponge works great.  But we ultimately determined that a sponge roller in the stain was pretty much faster. I thought at first it was putting too much stain down. But I think it coated faster. And then as you wiped it off, it kind of filled in the cracks and you got nooks and crannies. So we had to stain each. We had to roll the stain on all of these, either stain it, roll it and sponge it. I think we were using both methods.   Yes, get each of the sides. It was a lot of work here. I'm right-handed and my arm was burning, burning. I could try to do it left-handed but it's not quite that coordinated. So I just had to keep chuffing it out with that right arm. And then we had a process going. So you couldn't stop halfway through and mixing it up.  Take a break champ, take a break. Thanks, thanks. Step four, time to paint. But not with a paint brush, with a tape knife. So this is a technique we've shown before but it is a great way to keep that distressed look and quickly paint. Quickly paint. All of these boards. We did all 32 boards in about an hour. Maybe it was just over an hour. But really this method of just applying the paint to the board and using the scraping knife or this tape knife and pulling the paint down across the boards worked great. Yeah, I mean it's great. It just leaves the paint in those little dips, nooks and crannies. And then done, time to go dry. Yeah. We did have a process.  Yeah, it was a great way to give it that distressed look without having to do all of that sanding. Time to attach the furring strips to the wall. We're gonna use some two inch self tapping screws and my drill. But first we need to find the studs. So Kim's gonna find the studs cause every time I touch that tool, the thing just goes crazy. Yeah, he doesn't. I can't tell. He's not friends with the studs right there. It goes off every time I touch it. And these are, this is a commercial building so these are metal studs. These self tapping screws work for metal and wood. Step six, time to attach the slats. We're gonna attach these slats to the furring strips that are on the board with some one inch self tapping screws. And we're gonna use a piece of picket as a spacer in between each. We're gonna start from the bottom and work our way up using a spacer. Seven, now we have the accents. We're gonna hang all of our signs on the board using these little hooks that we found on Amazon. So the big side will go over the board but Kim's gotta fluff all the bows and do all the fluffing and stuff. And organize them. Organize them. Came out pretty good, right? Yeah, I think so. I think it came out excellent and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be. So that's also a bonus. Well, and I love that it's completely configurable. So I have all the signs up here right now but I don't necessarily have to hang the signs up here. I could do any other farmhouse signs. Any configuration. And I can move them around because they won't be permanently attached to the wall. Yeah, we could add baskets. We could even have shelves. All using those little hooks. So yeah, I think that is great. Yeah, I'm really excited about it. I also think our patrons are great. Think thanks to all of our patrons. We know we love you guys and we're having a patron Zoom call this week. Yeah, Wednesday, this is coming Wednesday. Yeah, Wednesday of the month. Let's see how many people we can get on that one. I love talking to you guys. We are about out of time. So if you're not gonna join us for the patron after show, we will see you next week or we'll do it building and make it again. Oh, and don't forget about Test Cut Tuesdays where we usually test out a new design, try to paint it, put it together, see how it looks, see if it works. All right, seriously, I gotta go. I'm gonna be describing.