We would also like to acknowledge Brigadier General Carpenter's family for being part of this special occasion. In attendance today is his wife Dana, children Kylie, Courtney, Cammie, and Chloe, and also in attendance is General Carpenter's father Mr. Cecil Carpenter and his aunt Jean Courtney. Finally, we would like to give a special welcome to all commanders, chiefs, first sergeants, friends and members of the 182nd Airlift Wing, 126th Air Refueling Wing, 183rd Wing, and senior leaders from Illinois Joint Force Headquarters for being here to share in this event with General Carpenter. During the playing of the National Anthem, we asked that all military members in uniform stand at the position of attention and for civilians to stand, remove hats, and place their hand over their heart. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the arrival of our official party and remain standing for the posting of the colors and playing of our National Anthem by the 566th Air Force Band. Color Guard, present the colors. Ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the invocation by Chaplain Daniel Wilton. Heavenly Father, thank you for this gorgeous day. May you remind us of your glory and your goodness. We are privileged to be here. Thank you for your continued mercy and kindness to keep us in your safety. Know how blessed we are for your care and to be citizens of this great country. This morning I ask for your special blessing upon the entire Carpenter family. As General Carpenter continues his faithful military service in a higher rank, or please grant joy, continued perseverance to Mrs. Dana Carpenter. As she continues to sacrifice so much to see her husband succeed in each job or mission, that may take him away from family. May you also encourage their children, Kiley, Courtney, Cammy, Cameron, Chloe, and Kate, as they continue to navigate the unique challenges and complexities of being a military family. May no distance or difficulty diminish their love for one another. God, I also am thankful for General Carpenter's father Cecil and his aunt Jean, who represent other family members that have helped him get to where he is today. God, please be honored by our desire to see this promotion bring about a great good for our International Guard Airmen and their families. I pray this with hope from faith in your son. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. At this time, I'd like to welcome Lieutenant General Michael Lowe, Director of the International Guard to make a few comments. All right, folks. This is about Guard family. It's a Guard celebration. Is this a great day or what? Yeah, we are looking at a true American and a true American hero and a multi capable airman. I'm going to take you through the DK story as I see it. You all have lived it. Okay, and I definitely need to acknowledge that this doesn't happen by himself. Especially with DK. It took probably everyone in this hangar to get him to where he was today in some way, shape or form. Because when you look at how long he has served in the military, almost 40 years, it'll be 40 years this year. He has touched the lives of so many people. He also has not done it without the love and support of his family. To include producing Guard members who are with us, and probably there also nine grandkids that will get a little bit of taste of the military life from Grandpa DK. So let me go through a little bit of this. I already talked about multi capable. But what got him to today is he's also been a lifelong learner and a problem solver. Those two things, the lifelong of learning and the problem solving. His military career, and went through this with his dad, started back in 1983 when he enlisted in the United States Navy. As a jet engine mechanic, and he went to see the world. 1983, the Ronald Reagan years, the Cold War years, the build up of the military. Nimitz class carriers rolling off the shipyards and going to sea as a jet engine mechanic. Great life, but it didn't bring him back home. What brought him back home was this unit in the Air National Guard. And after eight years he comes to join this unit. First as an F-16 jet mechanic. Then is the loss of F-16s. He goes with a couple folks to school, like one behind me. And a few other chiefs in this room, right down there. And he goes off to be a flight engineer. First in the mighty E model, and then in the H model. And then he says, okay, hey, I'm going to continue to learn. I'm going to continue to challenge myself. Gets a degree, goes off to the academy. That is the academy of military science, McGee Tyson.  But before we can even send him to school, he comes back to where he started, and that's as a supply officer. So while he took a couple of courses in Intel, and he still can claim that he was hired as an intelligence officer, he really came back to supply. That was the first part of his career. And when you think about where the Guard and Nation was at that time, it was the end of the Cold War. We had the peace dividends. We were going through multiple, for the Guard in particular, multiple maturations of flowdown of equipment to finally get the H models that we have here today. 2001. 2001. We're talking now almost 19 years of military service, but barely three years as an officer. He becomes the 182nd maintenance squadron commander as a lieutenant. Pretty interesting. 9-11 hits. We all felt that moment. And for the next couple of years, he's on deployment. First to Ramstein in Germany, then to Oman, then to UAE. Going out there, delivering combat air power and setting up the Middle East for what would be our longest war in our nation's history. Right there at the forefront of that. Comes back to the wing as an executive officer, and then logistics readiness officer. Getting everybody ready to go off to combat. Then for three years, back on the flight line, aircraft system flight evaluator. And then because he must not have done it right the first time, he became the maintenance, what any second maintenance squadron commander. Now the commander. And when I look back at the Stanley Cup championships banners back there, and I go, okay, DK, you had it for seven years, by the way. But you also inherited an outstanding organization. Because in 2007 was the first year. You took over in 2008. And from 2008 to 2015, you never gave up the Stanley Cup championship. Now a seven-year squadron commander, something unheard of. And DK after three years, trust me, they got tired of your jokes. We've lived it. But those DK isms that we've all lived with the DK isms continued inheriting a great organization. And then developing and processing and doing lean six sigma events because he was getting qualified to do those things. And continuous process improvement kept you as a dynasty in this maintenance organization for seven years. And then I'm sure there is a mentor in this room. Somebody said, DK, you gotta leave Peoria. You gotta go do something different. You were going to, and the hook was, we're gonna promote you to Colonel. And we're gonna kick out the door to go down the I-55 corridor to a place called Springfield. And we're gonna make you a mission support group commander, a little bit outside your career field that you've developed. And for the next six years, it was two years each, mission support group commander, vice wing commander, and then wing commander. All while making a little bit over two hour back and forth drive each and every day. At that point, he had done just about everything you can do in the state. He had led multiple times. He had gone to combat multiple times, twice to bog them as a squadron commander. And that's when his path and my path crossed. Took one look at him and I go, you really need to come up to the guard bureau. I need some good people up there. I need somebody that knows the operation. I don't need a staff officer. I need a leader. I need a leader of a staff that can get some things done for me. So tell me what you can do and what your thoughts are. The accomplishments that he made in two short years are remarkable. And at a time when we're pulling out of Afghanistan and also coming out of COVID, when we're still doing operations both at home and abroad. There wasn't a piece of data that DK Carpenter couldn't get for me with the exacting amount of detail that I needed to actually move the ball through the National Guard as a whole. And when I say that, we're working for a secretary of the Air Force that on his door says, in God we trust, all else bring data. So I'd lean on DK and it didn't matter if it was data from the three, data from the five eighths. DK was the one that I could reliably get the data.  Every time there was a new TCTO out for a grounding of a fleet or the safety aspects of this. DK was working tirelessly on your behalf between the SPO, AFMC, the operational units, the safety center, our own National Guard Bureau, and a lead badge comm either at Air Combat Command, Air Mobility Command, or AFSOC. Working to make sure that we stayed the leading edge and delivered combat air power anytime and anywhere. Additionally, DK did some things inside of the A4. He normalized the process for installations, for mil-con priorities and kept down. SRM priorities. Able to take money out of depots and bring it back to the operational force. Every one of your unfunded last couple years has been funded because he's been able to lean out the processes and make those things happen for all of our wings. Additionally, he started up what they used to call a SPA, which was a wire brush of maintenance, to a PAT, where every wing commander knew DK's name and said, come on out and take a look at our organization and how can we drive an aircraft availability rate higher. With some remarkable results. We had units that were quite literally getting crushed to units that had excess capability. Just from a week long time spent with DK and his team. Unbelievable results of what that drove. And then it was about six months ago when DK gave me a call and he goes, hey sir, you mad at me? No DK, why? Well I hear that you're getting another A4 up here. Yep, DK, you got two years. Everybody up there gets two years. Well am I getting removed because of because I'm not doing a good job? No, DK, you're the best maintenance officer and also the best director in A4 that I've personally worked with. And I've worked with all of them since 2010. He goes, okay, well what's in the future?  Ask Dana and the family how much runway you got left. Dana, thank you. The guard thanks you for having that conversation and saying yes. But he did come back with some caveats. It's got to be in the Midwest somewhere. I want to be a little bit closer. I can work with that. So working with that and looking at what I just talked about, his incredible experiences and everything that he's done for both himself but in order to build a big team, we in the United States Air Force gave him the toughest job that a maintenance officer could ever have. He's running global logistics for the F-35 program, the Department of Defense's most expensive fighter program in its history. And he's walking in at a time where we've had missteps with depots, late stand-up depots, missteps of parts, missteps with what it takes to sustain an F-35 across the globe. There are 16 international partnerships in this global enterprise. There are three services. There's over a thousand fielded with over a thousand more coming. He has a larger budget than he had, definitely at the National Guard Bureau, but a larger budget than most in the Department of Defense. And he all has to do that in a joint environment. I can think of no better general officer to lead the F-35 Sustainment Center than DK Carpenter. And neither could the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, the Chief of National Guard Bureau or the Secretary of the Air Force. So DK, with that responsibility comes a little bit more weight on your shoulders than another star. Are you ready to take that on? Great answer. If you didn't hear it in the back, he said Mrs. Carpenter and I are. All right, then DK, let's get on with the ceremony. Let's enjoy it. Let's have fun. Folks, this is a great American hero. Thank you. Now proceed with the promotion portion of today's ceremony and we ask all who are able to please stand. Attention to orders. The President of the United States, acting upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Air Force, has placed special trust and confidence in the patriotism, integrity and abilities of Brigadier General Donald Carpenter in view of these special qualities and his demonstrated potential to serve in the higher grade. Brigadier General Carpenter is promoted to the permanent grade of Major General United States Air Force, effective 1 May 2023 by order of the Secretary of the Air Force. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. We invite the family of General Carpenter to please come forward to conduct the pinning. I'm getting out of their seats. They've got to go back. Ladies and gentlemen, please stand if you are able. Take your name. Donald K. Carpenter. You solemnly swear. You solemnly swear. That I will support and defend. That I will support and defend. The Constitution of the United States. Against all enemies. Against all enemies. Born and domestic. Born and domestic. And I bear true faith. And I bear true faith. And allegiance to the Senate. And allegiance to the Senate. And I take this obligation that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully. And that I will well and faithfully. To start the duties. To start the duties. Of a Major General. Of a Major General. One time about Daner. So help me God. So help me God. Please be seated. Ladies and gentlemen, the newly pinned Major General Donald Carpenter. D, shorter than me. And I don't know. Must be a General O'Fan. I'm afraid to move the mic. Hey, so I'm going to keep this short and sweet. General O'Fan, I'm honored and humbled that you came to Peoria for my ceremony. You've been a leader and a mentor to me. And I know General Neely understands. I know General McDonough understands, but I can tell you the 90 wings in this nation and the 108,000 that you lead in the Air National Guard, not all of them understand what you do day to day for our Guard. Not all of them understand that you could be working for United right now, making three times the money and have more time at home. Okay. Not all of them get that. I didn't understand that until I got to the Guard Bureau. And as you kind of mentioned, I was 24-7. And I know you expected that of us. Maybe some days off a little bit, but always on the phone. And so, sir, you know, I just think before we move forward, special applause for you. The director of the Air National Guard is a thankless job, especially what Mrs. Lowe does. She volunteers her time. I know most of you met her yesterday. She's a volunteer. She comes out here with General Lowe. She does that because she's the mother of the Air National Guard. So General Lowe, sir, thank you so much for what you do. I thank General Neely, General McDonough, Colonel Ballard for having me today, the support of the Illinois team. And allow me to do this back where my roots started in Peoria, Illinois. Thank you so much. Chaplin, great prayer this morning. I hope God's listening to you. So I will have to say, though, the hardest working job besides General Lowe's in the Air National Guard is the exact Adam Mollies, other known as Dex, right? Guy's homeless right now on the road 24-7. Stand up and wave. Do the wave. But we are looking for good folks at the Guard Bureau that want to learn and want to grow. And it's a great opportunity to do an Adosh year or to come out and learn what's behind and what's really happening and bring that back to the wing. So just remember that as I leave today that we need great people out at the Guard Bureau. You don't have to stay for four years. You can come out for a year, come back to the wing, and bring what you've learned back to the wing. So, you know, I was talking to General McDonough last night. Of course, when he got promoted at one point in time, he forgot to mention his wife. So I'm going to start off with that right away. So Mrs. Garvinder, or the Dana, as I would say at home, thank you so much for your support and support of me on this next go. So children of mine, all you crazies, all the grandkids, I love y'all. It's been a rough ride, you know. I know I got maybe two to three years left. Short of 61 when I retire, I'm looking forward to, you know, there's three things. MacArthur said, God, country, and family. I think he should have said Guard family, because that's what we all are. He missed that. So I'll quote that. I've got country pretty good over the last 40 years. I've not got God so good and family so good, although I believe I just haven't given it 100%. So I'm hoping, as I draw closer to retirement, that, hey, I get family better and I get God better. So as we draw towards retirement. So Dana, thanks for all you do for me and our family. Special special hoot hoot to Chloe J. I've missed the last two years over school here at Notre Dame Catholic School. And so I've not been there to life, hoping to get better at it with me in the Midwest here over the next year or two. So Chloe, thank you for your sacrifice as well. I know the other kids have sacrificed over the years, but I just kind of wanted to tell you I love you and I appreciate you. Wife told me not to talk too long. So I'm going to try to keep this short and simple. General Lowe hit it pretty well, my career. You know, I was always trying to improve or better myself. And by bettering myself, always open to the next door.  It's passed away here with COVID a couple of years ago, old chief here. You know, I was a young enlisted flight attend here and we were getting off a bus in Louisiana and BuzzBeam was there, squad or commander at one time. And I said, you know, I'm going to be in BuzzBeam's job someday. And Chief Ashley said be careful what you ask for. Okay. And so but be careful what you ask for doesn't come without hard work and getting uncomfortable and doing things that others are not willing to do.  Or you can get outside the box and start growing a bigger and better future for you because there is a big world out there and there's a lot of opportunity if you choose to walk through the door. Unfortunately it comes with a sacrifice and that's what my family took over the years was the sacrifice. So be careful what you ask for. Springfield, thank you for coming. 126 is 126 here. I thought I saw an invite. We'll cross you off my will 126. You did ask about a minute here at the 182nd Bart Welker. He's a Saluki grad just to ask him he'll tell you. Destral engineer. He came in here as a group commander at one time talking all kinds of engineer, you know, they see shiny optics and I couldn't understand what he was talking about. So that's what really started my Lean Six Sigma path was trying to understand engineer talk because I was more like get off the toolbox, start working to make this happen. Right. So big, big part of growing me and helping me. I do want to share though, for those of you in the field out here in the chairs that don't know me or weren't around when I was around. Yes, I have a lot to do with those flags back there as well as bars as well as many others in here. Rico Gambas, the Bob Sherwoods, the Jody Lukers that are here and many more. The Lou Odoms in the back there, Brian Griswold, the old guys and gals under under under under Colonel Welker we we changed the look in the face of the 180 second maintenance and I'm very proud of these flags. You guys have a dynasty here. General Neely, you need to need in my opinion, sir, you need to take this dynasty, put it in a PA press and send it to the guard bureau for General Lowe to push to General Brown before he becomes the new boss. It's just great what Peoria has done here and what Peoria taught me and what we learned together I took to the National Guard Bureau and that's where the production assessment team's at and that's where the drive came with the A4 things that I learned here and or things that I saw other units weren't doing. So 180 second, you got a great thing going here. Keep up the dynasty. Father Reed, thank you for coming back. Bless me, son. Thank you. Anyway, to my family, thank you for coming. My old coach, Mike Manahan, wrestling coach there in a blue shirt. Raise your hand, Mike. He beat me when I was a kid. So thanks for coming, Mike. Neighbors, family, friends, Benny Ward went to war with him several times North Carolina here. So Sam Garmin, great American Marine woke me up this morning at 5.20. Hey, big day today, Mike. Thank you, Sam. So no, he didn't drop me. So Desert Storm veteran. Thank you, Sam, for your service. So anyway, I'm going to get off the podium. Did I miss anything, Dana? I did miss something, Dana. Kids, did I miss anything? Dad, thank you, Caroline, Gene, King Denise, family, thanks for coming. I wish you all the best in taking care of my wife while I'm in absence. So Lord knows she needs it. She does a great job at home. I don't think she needs me anymore, but I still come home. So Mrs. Carpenter, would you please come forward? This concludes today's ceremony. Immediately following, there will be a small reception in this facility to congratulate Major General Carpenter. Thank you for attending and please remain standing for the departure of the official party and the playing of the Air Force Song.


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I'll be talking about marine life with focus in the Philippines. As you very well know, the Philippines is surrounded by marine waters. And we are at the center of the center of marine biodiversity. The ocean is home to a plethora of living organisms from the tiniest of the organism which can be seen only by the microscope or not seen by the naked eye. And of course to the largest creature known to man, like for example the whales that are bigger than the elephants that you have seen. The coral reef for example harbors as much life as a rainforest from the minutest organism to the biggest organisms. You might be familiar with finding them Mimo or Finding Dory and these were films taken in the coral reef ecosystem. The ocean in its vastness represent the greatest extremes of temperature, light and pressure. And these are encountered by the organisms and therefore adaptation to these harsh environments create marine biodiversity and therefore gives the potential for applications like environmental remediation, increasing seafood supply and safety and developing new resources for industrial processes. One giant worm for example which is 1.5 meters long was found in 1977. It was growing in the Pacific Ocean about 2,600 meters below the surface. Bacteria symbion was a good candidate for studies for medicine. The deep sea and organisms found in these deeper parts of the oceans can be potential sources of materials for the industry. For example microbes adapted to the extreme environments can yield powerful tools for medical and other applications like for example the ones that are being used for DNA polymerase have been taken from these deep inhabiting microbes. One fish you might be familiar with is a puffer fish and it is producing tetrodotoxin. And this tetrodotoxin has been used for medical purposes and it might be possible that it can be used for a specific mechanism of action that can be of medical significance. And therefore I'd like to introduce to you a phenomenon which is very well known to most people as a red tide but called technically as harmful algal blooms. And there are organisms that are causing these harmful algal blooms and I'll be giving more examples that are commonly found in the Philippines. The organisms that we will be showing you are the organisms that we have collected from the Philippines and we are culturing for the toxins that they produce and will be used for medical purposes in the long run. There are some invertebrates which are bentic they call this because they are present on the surfaces of other organisms like just corals and they could be reached sources for biotechnology products. One very famous material that has been reported from the Philippines is the konotoxin that was found from the konus shells and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently approved the use of this konotoxin as medical drug. Some soft coral contain a prostanglandine and they can be used as anti-wrinkle creams. Fluorescence in many corals may provide novel biotech light sources and some of them are now being used in the medical profession. Some materials coming from seaweeds are used as anti-inflammatory and anti-viral materials and they are found in the tropical areas. The seaweeds are cultured in the Philippines. For example, several species are now being cultured from the wild materials that have been collected in the Philippines. Some of the microalgae can produce kadeik, acid for example that can be again sources of medicine for some other purposes. Some nutritional requirements can be addressed by the algae also from the marine habitat because they produce the so-called PUFA or PUFA to the common man. The other uses of organisms coming from the marine habitat is the corals for example and they use as artificial moons already. Other industrial applications are those coming from jellyfish like for example the fluorescent compounds from the jellyfish novel glues from mussels. The mussels are not only edible but they produce glues that can be used for industrial purposes. Natural products that can be effective as anti-cancers are also collected and identified from assidians or seaweeds. Also aquaculture techniques have been enhanced to produce more materials from other organisms like invertebrates and seaweeds as I had pointed out earlier. Now let's talk about seaweed farming. Many of you are familiar with seaweed from the market and they are eaten asalad. Seaweed farming meaning those that are farmed already because of their high economic value is being done almost in the entire Philippines in many tropical areas in Southeast Asia in also in South American countries and even in Africa. Like for example the Kapaficus alvarecai I'll be showing you the organism later is being farmed worldwide and I think the most economically important seaweed of today. They are found in ice creams as mixtures binders for many materials even for some of the beers that you need to take regularly and some other pastries would need seaweed for example. In the Philippines many of these seaweeds are farmed in the Visayas and in Mindanao as well as in many areas in Luzon. Now the value has been increasing because of some problems relating to changes in climate that are affecting the seaweeds that are being farmed. And so therefore seaweed farming was based on an organism collected from the Philippines developed as a crop and for many decades now giving the industry and the fishermen and some families income which cannot be estimated at this point it could be billions of dollars in fact. Now let's proceed with the so-called harmful algal blooms which this time negatively affect the economy as pointed out earlier but also would affect also the health for example if not manage well. I mentioned a while ago that marine life would give food security and food safety. In fact the Filipinos would be not permanently are basically dependent on the sea for protein source meaning the fish. And so therefore this dependence on fish would be addressed more sustainably if we have fish from the marine environment as needed by the Filipinos. Now for many years now fish production in the Philippines as well as in other countries around the world are dependent in aquaculture not from the natural harvest. So therefore from capture of fish there is less production and from aquaculture there is more production. But along with this increase in aquaculture our problems that are facing our marine seafood sources and so therefore one of the major problems of this seafood industry is the so-called red tide or harmful algal blooms. Now maybe you have not seen this red tide meaning as red as this in the Philippines but I've seen them in many areas. This picture is from my friend an Australian scientist and you can see how red the ocean was during that phenomenon and actually this is caused by a microorganism, a microalgae that has increased in density and this increase in density could cause harm depending on the organisms that are in bloom. There are many causes of red tides or harmful algal blooms. I'd like to mention some anthropogenic factors like for example inputs from the land like fertilizers and even too much feeds being inputted into the water for the aquaculture of fish. There is that harmful algal bloom that is caused bottom from bottom up and those that are caused from top to bottom. So this would change the food chain and therefore would cause the increase in the density of your micro-organism that can cause your harmful algal blooms. Now there is a prediction that with the increase in climate change there will be changes in the micro-phytoplankton that is present in the ocean and so therefore the biodiversity would be changed and therefore would cause more problems in terms of harmful algal blooms. Even shapes can carry harmful microorganisms or harmful phytoplankton from one area to the other. That's the reason why National Maritime Organization has imposed a management scheme that would check this debalasting and balasting of shapes to avoid the transfer of these invasive organisms. I wouldn't want to give a complex picture of harmful algal blooms but to summarize inputs from the land and transfer from one side to the other can cause harmful algal blooms and therefore could impact the industry and as well as cause health problems like poisonings of human beings. Now these are the organisms that we have now cultured, isolated from the Philippines from as many as 10 or more areas in the Philippines and this is a primary cause of paralytic shelfies poisoning in the country and the main cause also for paralytic shelfies poisoning in the tropical world and we have cultured this and we have isolated the so-called pyrodiosacs which are now developing for some medical purposes together with some people from the College of Medicine of UP and probably with some collaborations from universities abroad. Now this is just to show you the extent of the damage not really the economic as well as the health impacts of these organisms throughout Southeast Asia. This would show you the occurrence of the organisms in the area. Now we at the UNESCO we came up with this particular poster to prevent panic of people when there is a bloom of a certain organism because it is only the shellfish which is affected but the other seafood are not affected and therefore this would prevent the so-called halo effect and so therefore would prevent people from buying the other seafood which is negative would have negative effect on the industry. Now actually the intoxication of the organism is through the shellfish. The organism is collected by the shellfish in the marine habitat and therefore they are concentrated on the shellfish and so therefore when the Bureau of Futurist and the aquatic resources puts up a ban, actually the organism has accumulated the shellfish has accumulated the organisms in their body and therefore you the human beings are prevented from taking this. Based on the studies that we have we already have predictions on when they would occur and mostly they occur or they happen during the southwest monsoon which is a period now and so therefore if you look into the newspaper there are a lot of bans in the country for shellfish collection and marketing. So many areas in the country are affected and preventive management has been in place. Now I'd like to show you a very nice picture of what we have found out in terms of the movement of some harmful organism from one country to the other using current systems. For example there was this fish kill in Palawan some years ago and the mayor of Palawan called us to see what was happening about the fish kill. This is another type of an organism that has proliferated and it is the fish which is affected and not the shellfish. So the fish died when they consumed this particular organism. So the water was red. The blue waters of Palawan turned red and so we went there to collect the materials and this would show you the satellite images of how the red tide moved from the southern part of Palawan to the northern part of Palawan but actually the red tide originated from Malaysia which is the one of Palawan. So these are the images and it would show you that the red tide moved from Malaysia Sabah going up to Palawan and it involved several kilometers of water moving following the current of the West Philippine Sea or the South China Sea to some following the current system that time moving from to north and affecting the waters meaning causing fish kill from that area to the other. So it was from Palawan but actually coming from the northern side of Malaysia. The organism is Cochladinium and the bloom sebi-recorded also in other parts of Asia. So like for example in Korea and Japan and of course in Brunei Malaysia and the Philippines and this is the subject of a collaboration between all these countries to see the movement of the organism whether also if they are really diverse or they are of the same organisms and so therefore this would be helpful in the management of this particular organism. Harmful algal blooms do not only affect human beings through the food chain but also affect birds in marine mammals. There have been reports of some marine mammals like for example the manatees that died in Florida in 1996 and also lately in Chile there was a lot of death that was being caused by harmful algal blooms so therefore the marine habitat can be affected completely by these harmful algal blooms causing harm through the food chain and eventually reaching human beings so the effect could be economic or even public health affected by these harmful algal blooms. In closing I'd like to say that the marine habitat is very rich in life. Biodiversity is very rich especially in the Philippines which is the center of the center of marine biodiversity but there is a time for some problems for example when man would interfere with this biodiversity and cause negative impacts in the most commonly recorded events of late especially during the last decade is a so called harmful algal bloom meaning affecting the lowest of the food chain and going through the food chain going up and affecting human beings and other marine life as well. My message here is this, we should love our marine environment it is the heaven of our marine life and especially the Philippines which is the center of the center of marine biodiversity. It is our life especially because the Philippines is made up of 70% water meaning marine waters and only 30% land.


I've been nominated for the Early Career Researcher Award. I think I've been nominated due to my contributions overall to teaching and learning at the Open University. My work is specifically on international student experiences. We have a really vibrant international student population on campus. My work contributes to understanding their social experiences. I've also been really, I would say, active in my publication and grant submissions. I've been quite busy and successful this year in that sense. I think we have seen sort of a rising hostility towards immigrants and towards diversity in general around the world over the last few years and what my research is looking at is understanding the social impacts of immigration, the social impacts of international student experiences. I personally feel that universities have a really valuable and important role in encountering that rhetoric and celebrating the diversity that's present in our societies. The most obvious avenue of that is in supporting international student experiences. So I think we need to be asking really big questions around how do we make sure international students feel supported and valuable here at the Open University and more broadly in the UK and how do we make sure that we're developing sensitive spaces for intercultural communication both here on campus and in our wider communities. So that's what my research tries to impact. I think I feel really honored just to be nominated and I'm very proud of the hard work that I've put into this year. So I would imagine that winning would feel sort of a magnification of those sentiments.


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Alright, let's try to play that keep away game now What level of IQ does this man possess? How's he going everybody? Dato do it here back with some more online ranked matches for Dragon Ball fighters And this time we are going back to the main team of Krillin, Super Saiyan Goku and Yamcha By the way, any time I go up against a team like this where it's comprised of three characters that you don't really see too often on online I guess except for Goku Black, maybe. I'm always really scared like right there. That was oh That one I like that that was pretty sick. Oh Come on if I just wouldn't get him off of me. All right, so he was very clearly dedicated to not getting off of me there Wow, I just really feeling lost like 80 health Where's the dragon rush? Come on. Just show it to me Show it to me Let's not be child. We all know it's faked me out. I should have clicked the button. I should have met Oh, let's go Okay, I like it and you know Krillin's coming right out with the level three. We're wasting a lot of bar today We're wasting a lot of bar. We got to get this comeback. We kind of got messed up there overhead Okay, early spark Okay, keep them blocking.  Are you kidding? I dropped it That's fine. Let me go ahead and see 17 Is he gonna air level three though? Three times. Oh, come on Two times wasn't enough. I thought I had to give it a third All right Damn, we should have threat assist. Oh, imagine if I guard cancel punish that now instead. We're gonna take a huge I tried to super by the way. I just didn't get the input out In cases we were like, wow, what kind of strat is he working on that? He didn't kill 70. It wasn't a strat It's just being dumb. Oh God We're just getting hit layered right now Five and I really want to learn how to play hit just so I could Utilize some of those sick normals do we optimize it? I dropped the the light. I don't know where the light did.  I was like, damn If we could have just gotten out of there with like him having to use two meters I would have considered it a success That's bad. We're dead with prelin now Man, we went from being in a good lead to having to make a huge comeback Uh, because I dropped the super input on 17 Also, my play with yamcha wasn't the best Come on go could get me out of here Oh, that was so close Oh, we're getting owned. We're getting destroyed This is bad news. I'm a spark right here. Oh, give it to me. Let's go The six and pressure online Oh, we have to waste this meter. It's not a real waste, but at least we get a mix Dude, oh, it's gonna be so hard. At least he doesn't have spark. I guess Whoa. Oh, why I don't know why he reflected. Oh my goodness. That was confidence I was not a fan of it at all No, no beam assist, please. Oh, let's go. Tell the vanish because I knew it's connecting Definitely. I wasn't holding it anyway Okay, okay, we get a sliding does he down tech? I don't think so Oh, no, he's above the ground, which means we got a guard cancel because I'm too scared to play defense Hold it hold it Why do goku black players dive jake? Is it always works? Level three coming in hot No level three. That means we get to party Um, I'm taking the corner reflected, please You saw me go for the snap for that extra damage. I didn't know how long I'd be able to um I've never lab that so I didn't know how long I'd be able to continue the combo or what I'd be able to do That's why I kept it pretty basic, but Oh, it doesn't matter my heart stopped. Anyway, that was a comeback Oh, nice. No dragon rush though Let's submit no mix. Let's just kept it all natural Oh, dude, I got stuck in here by that. We got him. I hate the new after image I mean new I say new like it hasn't been a year. I just still hate it Medium after I just miss my medium after image, bro. Is that too bad to say why it's really got a back step with it now? Oh All right, vanish that keep him in the corner Okay, we can optimize this. I didn't do it last time. So Make up for lost time I'm just dropping that like crazy today keep him back Zoning okay zoning and fighters. Let's go.  Why am I having I'm like Way too much fun right now. Where's the dragon rush? No dragon rush still I'm trying to take a dragon rush I could have teched that was sick. That's what we call get that's like I willed that to happen I was like, I'm getting a cross up here. No matter what. Oh, don't try that Oh, you didn't have to do all that now. Uh, did I have to use two bars? I think I did one destructive disc coming up Wow, I'm glad I did that when I did that could have been very bad if I mistimed it again All right, let's try to play that keep away game now is the That What level of IQ does this man possess? I hate this man. He knew I wasn't blocking He did it He did a super. I mean, I don't even think that should have worked, but it did Okay, okay got him into the corner for the yamcha Now we can put on this Oh, no. Oh, he only has keep last though. Oh still too much health Not dude, you got to block after the techs No amount of health in the world will stop you from dying if you just keep getting caught on a tech Yamcha, what's the mix?  Hold on stick. I I like to see it One destructive this kills here. Don't even tell me I'm lying.  I I I big respect that actually Good stuff. I like dude. I like this guy. I like this guy a lot. I like the team. I like the I like the style Okay Get him up there Be sure every hit connects Perfect range. You like to see that And krillin's post vanish game is so good. Don't mind that. Don't mind that. Please don't I'm gonna need you to ignore that one Pack it up back it up. I don't want to play with this man Oh god, I got to stop clicking so many lights Where's zamasu? Come on. I know you oh Oh, I panicked Didn't go with me. Maybe the medium wouldn't connected their medium slicer for sliding They oh, I wanted to down heavy so bad All right, we're just kind of getting bounced around now. Maybe the hit assist is what stopped me I don't know that for a fact though. So Okay Krillin, where are you? That did not work. I tried to use the double rocks axis. It just didn't work out I'm just so glad I didn't die right there Nice use of the assist to cover it up. Oh, no Dude android 17 assisted guy might Hmm Dude, I might be an android 17 man. Oh, I should have down tech Oh, no speaking of dying for getting caught by uptacks Goodbye Goku and hello a huge deficit We are gonna be fighting up for the return now All right. Come on. Come on Here we go Oh, no, I was trying to bait a counter. Oh, no, we're not our defense sucks our defensive really For the clouds Is that gonna that might actually be worth? I don't know how else to put it Oh, it wasn't worth It especially wasn't worth holy bad game, dude A level three though gigantic This guy how did he fit a brain in in any human skull? I don't know what I'm I'm floored, dude I'm calling out goku Okay, I'm just playing it normal, dude I don't know what else to do I got no idea how else to make a comeback like this other than playing it normal Okay, keep it normal keep it normal for dragon balls. So we're not even gonna pay attention to that. That's Pretty it looking pretty impossible to get to there from here Hey, what I thought he's supposed to go behind.  All right. Come on. Come on I gotta grab a quick win here Stay back. Stay back. We don't want get him. Let's go Try to do it again. Nice check. I was he he keeps going for those sweeps, dude. He's trying Come on now Come on now. We don't got to do all I gotta just keep blocking stop mashing I came down like a ton of bricks on that man I don't know why that found me, but it definitely did Catch him catch him catch ah full damage.  Oh, but it doesn't matter. Is that instant transmission? Man, we beat out ex instant transmission with that. Nice I'll take it Let me talk to 17 real quick Okay, Berlin. Were you at back them up? All right, we're not gonna be able to kill. So let's just buy some time I try to I try to get fancy. I've never even practiced that chrome combo Oh, who are you spending bar on? Oh, no, you didn't Okay, who do we want out? Definitely goku I would like to rearrange it. I don't like you option on the left button for whatever reason That's not natural to me, but whatever. We'll rock out with it No more beams. Oh, we are playing so bad. We have run out of dragon ball fighters juice That was a waste of a bar. We could have just kept it Bad choice. Let's go. That's three one, right? Ah, big shame. Oh, dude, we got blown out that third game though. So I can't even really complain It's not like man. It was close. We just kind of got hit after hit after hit Thank you to my opponent for the games. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this one I did not expect another Thousand IQ hit player, but well, you know, I've just been running into them these days If you did enjoy the video though, make sure you go down below in the comments Let me know your thoughts on it as well as hitting the like button and subscribing to the channel All of that stuff supports the channel so much and lets me know you guys want to keep seeing these videos And I'm more than happy to keep them coming But if you want to watch more videos right away, there should be some up on your screen So give those a watch if you can catch your eye. I have been doctor do it Thank you so much for watching this video to the end and I will see you in the next one


Okay, we're gonna get started with the next session. Welcome to all the new people in the room. I'm Danielle, and I'm introducing the sessions in this awesome session about cities and datas. And next, we have Gabba Rodriguez, and she's an activist and a hacker who works at the Coral Project and does consulting around data. She loves the intersection between media and technology. She co-founded a nonprofit called DATA, which works with open data and transparency in South America. She grew up in Uruguay, and now she hangs out with me in Portland. So, Gabba. Thank you. Hello. Hi. Hi, everybody. See me? Okay. So, today I want to talk a little about a project that I was involved until last year. I'm a software engineer, but I also work with data with different nonprofits on different governments. So, I help Mexico City to implement a standard on open data. So, I want to talk a little about my experience there and also about what is the standard. Let me move it because I really need to... It's better this way. Yeah, it's still there. Okay. So, first, what are public contracts? So, something else, two disclaimers. One, English is my second language, so I'm sorry if there's any mistakes. And second, I'm sorry there are no cats. So, yeah. What are public contracts? So, an agreement to perform a particular task to benefit the community at large that is financed by government funds. Those could be from like building of bridges or airports like in Mexico City to contracts of cleaning services in the different organism. So, those are public contracts. Why is it important to open them? Why we need... This is very... It's quite related with the talk before me, seems to me because it's one of the reasons why we need to open data, no? In the case of public contracts, it's most of the corruption that we have in our governments is through public contracts. So, having open data makes them transparent for everybody to use them, to cross them with other data, to see where there could be problems, allow to track the tenders and awards, allow the government to monitor implementation on how the public contracts deliver services, deliver a better value for money for the government. And that is a very important reason on why to open data around public contracts. It's not just for the companies that are applying to these contracts to benefits from where the contracts are, but also for the government to be able to know what they are spending money on, no? That usually, as she was saying before, is usually different dependencies do not know what the other data and other dependencies are about, and so there's not much information inside the government. So, opening the data makes the civil society to work on that and help the government to deliver better value. And of course, prevent fraud and corruption as the first one to reason to open public contracts. So, in around 2013 to 2014, there was a lot of interest in pushing different governments to open in contracts. So there was a partnership that was born, that's called the Open Contracting Partnership. There were like policy expert, programmers, leaders, campaigners that tried to see how that could happen, how they can build a standard on open data. That is not only about the format and meaning of the data, but also about how to publish data, how a guide on from the beginning, because it's not as simple as saying, okay, open the data. Sometimes the government don't have data on the contracts or everything's in paper like in the case of Mexico. So these partnerships try to advocate around opening public contracts. They open public contract through disclosure, data and engagement, so that a huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly and effectively. So the contracting process. So this is in general, around the world for all the governments. We have different phases when contracting. We begin in the planning, so when the different organizations try to think, okay, this is what we need, this is the budget we have, these are the project plans, this is a market to study, so there's a lot of documents and information related where the government wants to spend the money. After they have a specific plan, they go and post a tender, so they have notices to call the companies to say, okay, these are the tenders that you can apply to. So in that case, there's documents around tender notices, specifications, inquiries, and then there's different processes, depending mostly on the governments, on how they award that contract, no? In that case, include the tales of award, the Peter information, Peter evaluation, and then when there's a decision made about who gets the contract, then you have to sign the contract. There's the sign contracts, amendments, if there's some changes, finally tales, and also sometimes information about contracts that do not expire, that renew automatically, there's many ways that the contract could continue. And then the implementation, that is the part that mostly the governments don't have so much, but it's quite important that it's about monitoring how that contract went through, all the milestones, the payments, and the termination info that's appropriate. So from there, from that process, we build what we call open contracting data standard, that data standards, as you may or may not know, are the rules by which data is described and recorded. It could be standardized the format, as well as the meaning. You're saying, okay, you have to publish, see the Shazons or an API or something like that, and this is the information you need for each phase. And the specific open contracted data standard is a global non-properitary standard structured to reflect the complete contracting cycle. So it tells you how to publish data in each phase. How periodically to publish the data. The approach that we had around the standard is to publish early and iterate. So for example, most of the government can publish documents. That would be the first part, no? Not published structure data, but just the documents and the contracts, that would be something, the first step to start publishing data around open contracting. Then the other approach is try to have them to publish in a Shazons structure and publish data for each step of the contracting process, create a summary record for an overall contracting process, re-use objects, so for Mexico, we try to get the list of organizations, standard information, line items, milestones, different kind of information around contractings in general, no? Then recommend data and document at basic, intermediate and advanced level. So when we try to approach about opening contracts, we say, okay, you don't need to just do the five stars of open data. I can talk later about that, but you just publish the basic information, whatever you have, and then from there, well, now try to add this, now until we have all the levels of what people may use or may need. And the other approach is guidance on improving data collection and data quality, no? And a growing community of users on range of open source tools. Something very interesting about the open contracted data standard, for me at least, it's quite interesting, is that it's a community effort, so it's working the open, so the standard is being developed in GitHub, and you, as whoever can go and see the different versions and see what are the possible extensions and possible features for the next version, and this is all filled from the specific implementations, implementations in Mexico, in Ukraine, in Paraguay, in different places, are feeding back to the standard on which things they need or don't need, or what things could be good or bad about how it's been implemented, no? So, first, I'm going to go through different phases of how we go about implementing in Mexico, how it's been implemented in general around the world, no? First, we do an assessment, and we ask these questions, no? What data systems do we have that hold contracting data? That is the harder part about implementing this, because sometimes the information for different phases are like all over the place in different systems, so we need to find a way to extract all the data from different places and publish it. For the case of Mexico, the Mexico City, no? Because the federal level is more complicated, and there's also an effort about implementing it at the federal level. For Mexico City, we found a specific organism, the Secretaria de Finanza, that holds most of the information about contracts, so they have the technical capacity to implement the standard, so we work with them. And from there, we change their system to be able to publish data the way we were recommended, no? The second question would be, which data system hold data on each stage of a contracting process, no? That's, yeah. Like, for example, for the case of implementation, it could be harder, it could be in some other systems. Do you hold, something else, the other question is, do you hold consistent identifiers for each contracting process and for the parties to tender on contracts? So this is an effort that tries to bring public contracts around the world. So what we try to do is have a specific, unique identifier per contract that is global. So for Mexico, they have the identifiers, we give like a code, and with that code, they made the identifier, and that says all the contracts that start with that code are from Mexico. So people could, for example, like journalists or civil society could interact with contracts from different places, and they could understand also how that works, no? And then the last question is, what technical resources do you have available to help in implementation of open contracting that is quite important to, and in the case of Mexico City, yeah, we had a team that was quite willing to help with implementation. So here is like, continue with assessments. We write which systems they have for each of the stages, planning to end their work on their implementation. We ask, is it data as a structure? For the case of Mexico City, they had a law, a transparency law, that says, for whole Mexico, that says every three months, they need to publish a contract, but what they were doing is that somebody was going through all the papers and adding to a spreadsheet manually, every three months, all the contracts, and they were published that. So there was some information, but it was not coming automatically from their systems. So yeah, then we ask if the documents are published, that would be the first recommendation when it started implementing, because that's the validation of what we are seeing in the data, no? So that verifies that the data that they are publishing is correct. Then the revision history, we try to publish like photos of each part. You have the whole process, so we say, okay, first publish a photo of the planning, then when it goes to tender, a photo, so you have control of different history revisions of the process, and with that you can have a better idea how the contract move on. And then access restriction, because many governments, when they publish data, they require a login, for example, or an account. So one recommendation is that when they publish data, it should have no restrictions on access, no? So the Open Contracted Data Standard provides a structure data model for capturing information about each of the stages of the contracting process, and we have a JSON schema which describes all the field names, field definitions, and structures for the data, no? And then when we talk about compliance, we talk about assessing against that schema, no? So we talk about the JSON schema and also the guide on how to implement and publish the standard. So this would be, okay, so we had an assessment, now the next step will be a two map data. So for Mexico, we did that, we see, okay, this is the recommendation of the standard, no, we have this JSON file with all the different stages. So the first one, we fill planning and we send that with public information. The second release, we fill tender and we publish that information, and that's how you start filling it up, no? That's JSON file. And what we do to be able to implement this or to be changed systems or other new system that they have about publishing data is that we map, we say, okay, the planning is in this system, is this data, that's where it's coming from, that's how you call it in Mexico, no? And try to see rules about what's happening around planning or so there's a lot of things around mapping that that is the most hard part of this process. Then we publish data in machine readable releases and records, that would be the JSON files with a unique identifier. And then we publish using publication patterns. This is what I was talking about the five stars. So there's a kind of quality score, no, about how governments publish data. So first would be the first star, we give the first star, one star, I'm sorry, if they upload basic contracting data and documents to the web, just do that. So Mexico City already had one star because they were doing that. They were publishing the documents and they were publishing manually. Two stars, if they provide machine readable data, three stars if they use the standard, four stars if they provide an API access to the data so people can use that API to get data, and the five stars if they provide other kind of data sets that we can cross open the contracts with, no? Then the next step after the publishing and define all these stars is the check the validation of the data. We have, if you go to GitHub to the open contracting data standard organizations, we have a validator that does a technical check on the way the data is structured and format. Then we look at the conformance, so checking if what they are publishing and the concept of each terms is used correctly as the standard says, no? Then how complete is the information they are sending and then if the data fit for purpose or not, no? This is something that seems to me very interesting about this specific standard on the data that is like community built. This is, yes, is supported by the open contracting partnership but it's also built by all the different civil society organizations and government around the world that are trying to implement open contracts. So you go there and you can like in the standard repo look at all the issues and all the questions that comes from different implementations on which things we need to change and how we can extend this standard to make sense in the different places, no? And this is the extension. So the extension is, for example, I have this standard in the version one, no? Unlike Mexico says, okay, we need this, for example, this thing about contract. There are some contracts that never expire and they renew automatically. Okay, that was not in the standard in the version one, point zero. Okay, we need an extension. So they publish it the way they want, they propose the extension and then in the next release of the standard we see if that extension goes into the core or not. So that's how it works, the building. History of releasing data in Mexico City. So first, yeah, this would be the standard, no? Now we go back to Mexico. So they validated the standard in 2014 and was the first city to release is full contracting data from planning to implementation. So now they are releasing data already in the standard. There was a big thing about this is politics that was very hard. So there's a lot of politics about pushing it forward to implement the standard. Yeah, that happens in all the forms, I guess. Starting a small department with technical capacity and willing to change processes, that's something I already talked about. They have the technical capacity to implement the standard. Also they have the willing to change because it's not just to add a system and say, okay, publish data, but also the cultural process, on how they capture the data, which new things they need to come to. So there was a lot of internal training about how things need to change for the people that are capturing data that are sending it from paper to the system, no? And we try to involve and we recommend to involve the civil society from the beginning, so we started doing, because one important thing about open data is we need to see why we need that data. What are the cases? In the case of Mexico, people were really concerned about the metro change, concerned about airport, there were many things that people in Mexico were concerned about, so it was important to talk with them to see which kind of data they needed, no? And then the modified systems to capture needed data. This is the website that some people build from the data that the city publish, and this has an API and also has visualizations of how the different contracts happen, and different transactions. So up there in the URL, you can see the identifier, the unique global identifier from Oathman Contracting for that specific contract, no? Challenge, contracting process identifiers is sometimes, this is something that I already, I think I talk a little about already. The identifiers sometimes are not so easy because sometimes the systems have information here and there, so it's hard to match and create a unique identifier. Useful data, you start with this organization that has the technical capacity and willing to change, but sometimes it's data only about not very useful. So that was one challenge. When it's starting involving the civil society all the way, it's hard because mostly in Mexico and I guess in other places, it's hard for the civil society to talk with the government. Pushing to open critical organization process and culture and capturing data, something I already talk about. Other places implementing OCDS, very interesting if you really want to read about open contracting, is the case of Ukraine. There was a civil society group that started pushing to open contracts and they build this system called Prosoro that is free software and the government implement Prosoro in their own organism. So now they have this website that publish contracts. And other interesting places, Paraguay too, that this is a visualization that they did. For example, there, they see what are the providers? Yes, they are the providers that get more contracts from the government. So it's interesting by time. So if you go to their website, you can see all the interesting visualizations. That's it. I will start the links if you're interested about this. Thank you.


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Good evening. We're calling to order the meeting on the Arlington Select Board from Monday, March 15, 2021. As a preliminary matter, this is John Hurd, Select Board Chair, permit me to confirm that all members and persons anticipated on the agenda are present and can hear me. Members, when I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Diane Mahan? Yes, thank you. Steve DeCorsi? Yes. Len Diggins? Yes. Dan Dunn? Yes. When I call your name, please respond in the affirmative. Adam Chapelling? Yes. Doug Heim? Yes. And Board Administrator Ashley Maher is participating remotely. Good evening. This open meeting of the Arlington Select Board is being conducted remotely consistent with Governor Baker's executive order of March 12, 2020, due to the current state of emergency in the Commonwealth, given the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. 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Please remember to use each speaker on the agenda. After they conclude their remarks the chair will go down the line of members inviting each by name to provide any comment question or motions. Please hold into your name is called. Further please remember to mute your phone or computer when you're not speaking. Please remember to speak clearly in a way that helps generate accurate minutes. In response please wait until the chair yields the floor to you and state your name for speaking. If members wish to engage in colloquy with other members please do so through the chair taking care to identify yourself. This meeting will feature opportunities. This will feed will not feature opportunities for public comments. Each vote tonight will be taken by roll call votes. And that takes us to the one item that we have on the agenda tonight. So we added this meeting and this agenda item in response to a letter from Stephanie Kiefer that was sent just after our last meeting when we discussed. We had a presentation on the mute our project that Mr. Of course he gave us with just in regards to the substantial change to the project since the original project approval. Right after that we got a that there was a letter that was issued which triggered a timeframe for us to respond, which we have now a letter from that attorney Heim drafted that now been hosted on the novice agenda if you've had a chance to look at it. So I'll turn to attorney Heim just for any additional comments regarding the timeframe and what we need to do to respond to mass housing at this point. Thank you, Mr. Chair. The sum of what is before the board is it's opportunity to comment on the revised proposal submitted by the applicant in the Thorndike place project with respect to project eligibility only. As folks may or may not recall the first step in most 40 bees is for the eventual applicant to secure funding from an agency like mass housing. Mass housing engages in a process by which they assess project eligibility and site approval. This board provided substantial feedback more substantial feedback than is ordinarily the case in the form of two comprehensive letters outlining the many many concerns that this board members of the community and other boards and commissions and on had had about putting a project on that specific site. Mass housing rented project approval anyway. However, their project approval or their site approval slash project eligibility noted a great many features of the project that they found, essentially to be responsive to community concerns as well as their way of examining what their site is appropriate. The revised proposal now before the ZBA substantively changes a lot of aspects of the project. For the public's education, let me know that a lot of those changes are made. Not extensively because they're responding to different pieces of feedback in the 40 be hearing process before the ZBA. However, as this board previously discussed, especially with Mr. Decorsi presentation. All of those changes have whether they're intended or unintended impacts on specific pieces that were germane to project eligibility. I've tried to capture those comments from a number of conversations this board has had the board's original concerns as articulated all the way back in 2015 2016. I'm going to piece them together into a fairly tight letter and 11 page letters are never really that tight, but I focused on two main aspects of the board's feedback to mass housing that are affected by the revised proposal before the ZBA. With that, I think the letter speaks for itself I hope that it accurately encapsulates what you folks have been saying at your meetings. I did get a little bit of additional feedback I made a few corrections to the letter that was posted on Novus some things like, you know, a few typos here and there, as well as one or two, just, you know words with pieces that I got a little feedback from members of the board on but so they don't have to all be discussed to me. But with that I'll take any questions and of course any feedback. Mass housing is 15 days to respond to a notice of project revision, which is why it's so important for us to have this meeting now the applicant sent their letter in on March 8. I mean, this is not all of you got it right away, or at least a full version of it right away. So we want to try to get this letter in I had previously transmitted a letter on behalf of the chair of the board, saying please don't make a decision on this. Before you get substantive feedback from the slight board the opening law requires them to convene a meeting with at least 48 hours. All right, and we'll turn to the board we do have the letter here just for any comments motions in any revisions that the board might have. This is my hand. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you attorney Heim and Mr. to horsey for getting us to this point. My question is predicated on that. My colleagues. We just love the project in terms of the initial. Diane we lost you there. If you want to just repeat the question. Okay, it says I'm unstable. Am I still unstable. We can hear you now. Okay, sorry. Say quickly. Thank you attorney Heim and Mr. to coursey for engaging us in this process. From what I'm getting from what we received is that the board is petitioning hard that this is a change in the scope of the project. Therefore, Oak tree. New gar needs to stop from the beginning and go from that process with HUD. I understand we have a slim chance versus no chance that will prevail on that. But if two questions if we don't prevail. Is it a done deal and they get to move to the next step or do we have something else that we on behalf of the town can engage in.  So, what we're asking for what you're asking is for them to make two determinations one that the changes are substantial that these aren't minor changes that are within the scope of what they approve for project eligibility inside approval purposes. And number two, that after finding those changes are substantial that they either say that the project as proposed is so far out of scope of project eligibility. That we're revoking eligibility, or alternatively that the project needs to be redesigned in a way that is within eligibility so there's a lot of branches that could go off of that ladder option. So if they decide that it's not within the scope of eligibility. Yes, essentially they applicant would have to consider their options for are we going to start over, are we going to propose to the ZBA the original project and just let the chips fall where they may with respect to conditions. So, so the most likely outcomes, if we're granted the relief that we're asking for are that the applicant would either have to re dramatically revise their current proposal before the ZBA, or they would have to start from scratch. So with respect to your, what are the other steps the board can take at this point, there's nothing else for the board to do the board will have done everything that it possibly could have within the scope of its jurisdiction. However, I just want to remind mostly folks that who might be watching, like they know all the board members know this, the ZBA essentially has three options, they can approve a project on the same terms as the applicants proposing the revised proposal, they can approve with additional conditions, or they can deny a project. If they deny a project. That matter would almost certainly get appeal to the HAC. One of the problems with denial is that it, it divests the butters of their right to appeal. But there would be some litigation of the basis of denial. And there could be an appeal from the HAC, and this board would be in a position to obviously support the ZBAs continued litigation of the matter, or not support the litigation matter. It also may be in a place with a denial or an approval with conditions that the developer does not agree to, where it might have a more direct and central role in terms of negotiating some different outcomes. But if approval with conditions and the applicant doesn't agree to those conditions, it will be essential for this board, as this board has talked about for years to support that ZBA decision, and be willing to back it up with both resources and political commitment to continue the litigation of that matter. The concom is, and is definitely an eventual step, Mrs. Mahan, but it is, it is potentially many years away if there is a litigation of the underlying decision. I hope that answers your question. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, I'd like to move to authorize the chair to send this letter as proposed with edits, final edits between the chair and attorney Heim tomorrow. And just a couple of comments. First of all, I want to thank attorney Heim. This really had to be done quickly because, as he said at the beginning, this letter was sent to mass housing on March 8th by email. That's when the 15 day clock started. We were copied by regular mail. So had we gotten a letter by email on March 8th, we may have been able to at least address it or get going on it on the eighth. We were able to get all these things behind and disappointed, frankly, that we weren't included by email. Because when the letter goes out to the agency by email, all the CC should be emailed to, in my opinion. So we, we were at a disadvantage attorney Heim really worked hard. I can attest to it because I've talked to him several times over the past few days, getting this draft in really good form. Thank you, Mr. Chairman for your leadership and calling the meeting tonight, the emergency meeting and allowing us to talk this over again and to get these comments out. And again, this follows from our discussion on March 1, we're basically at the end of the presentation that I made. I said that the revised proposal conflicts with both the original project eligibility letter in the contents of the comprehensive permit application that the developer submitted to the ZBA and so because it's back to a project eligibility phase. We do have a role in this where we're addressing the issues on the removal of the transit with we're calling the transition zone, which is the removal of the townhouses and bringing that 172 unit apartment building right up on to Dorothy Road, which is completely inconsistent with all the concerns that mass housing had. I went through it before I'm just happy that we're able to get this done in short order and hopefully get it out tomorrow. And again, thank you for everybody for for coming back here tonight to talk about this. Thank you, Mr. Dickens. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I support this being anything I say would be repetitive to what has been said either tonight or in previous meetings so I'm not going to belabor it and just say I appreciate everything that's been done here and I will be voting for it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. I'll second it, but there wasn't a formal second that I missed. And I thank everyone for everyone. Mr. Corsi for his eloquent speech last week. Mr. Heim for all of his work. Thank you Mr. Herd for putting it on the agenda. I think the letter is very clear that the removal of the town homes imposes a proposed building that is entirely inappropriate for the neighborhood, and the travel is really the egress is just totally insufficient for the number of units that they're talking about so full approval and I hope that the letter is heated well. Thank you. And yep, I agree with all these sentiments of the board and everything is contained in the letter. I want to thank Mr. Corsi for all his comments and in his effort on this and especially thank attorney Heim because it's been mentioned but he turned this out very quickly because of our schedules we weren't able to connect until mid to later in the week and we received the first draft of this I think at 9pm on Friday night. So that was, you know, a really incredible effort to get this together for us in a quick turnaround so thank you for that. So without any further comments we have a motion for approval seconded by Mr. Dunn, attorney Heim. This is Mohan. Yes, thank you. Mr. Corsi. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Dunn. Yes. Mr. Heard. Yes. It's unanimous vote. And thank you all for taking the time to look at this on the weekend and give me any individual feedback that you had. I very much appreciate it. Given that there has been no substantial changes we'll clean up based on the comments that attorney Heim's received from individual members and get this signed and out tomorrow morning by email. Right. With that. Mr. Chairman. Yes. Yeah. Just one other thing under the MuGuard discussion. I don't know if you were going to move on to new business or move on to that other issue. Okay. Thank you very much. And again this is under the MuGuard discussion. When we back in January we authorized you and the town manager to send a letter to the MuGuard family to request a meeting to talk about the trash issues and develop a plan at the property. And that letter went out on February 8th. The town manager followed up on that letter by contacting MuGuard enterprises and he never received a response, never received an acknowledgement from them. I also want to point out that at the ZBA meeting last week there was a Mr. McKinnon from Little John Street and I think he's on the meeting tonight asked the developer's attorney what the property owner had done over the years as to contribute to upkeep of the property or to maintain the property. And the attorney couldn't answer the response as well. We're proposing something going forward if the town takes the property off our hands. Given that and given what I view was a major disappointment that the town manager of our town sends a letter and he can't even get a call back. I think it's time to start talking about next steps vis-a-vis the immediate trash issue and the plan there. And I would ask the manager to, and I know he already is doing this, but to start implementing plans, whether it's done administratively or needs to come back to the board. So I want to raise that issue because it's, it has come to light again. And over the past several days there has been a number of emails that the manager and I have received from neighbors who are concerned about the, continue to be concerned about the issues there and I think it's time to take next steps. Thank you. I appreciate you bringing that up. I did speak over the weekend with the director. Some of the homeless coalition who has periodically been cleaning up the property, but the trash is still there. So it's something that we do need to take care of. Mr. Chaplin, do you have anything to add to what Mr. Corsi had mentioned? Only that me and Mr. DeCorsi have been talking over the past several days. We'll be following up both with Mr. DeCorsi internally in terms of our next steps as well as with the neighborhood about both acting either with or without them you are to attempt to provide a better cleanup for the property. Any members of the board have any additional comments on the trash issue? I fully supported so thanks. All right. That will turn to new business. I know how that got snuck on there. Sharni Han. One very small piece of new business. I want the board to look forward to a discussion of where we are with respect to what we talked about in the executive session a number of weeks ago with respect to pending litigation matter. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So Deputy Town Council Mike Cunningham is working very, very diligently on behalf of the town to address something that is common concern in the town that we affirmatively prosecute our rights relative to contractual matters. So I want to let the board know that we'll come back to the next meeting with a substantive update in executive session. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Chaplin. I'm sure folks watching at home have started to see in the news that the federal stimulus bill has passed. And it appears as though Arlington will be the recipient of approximately $36 million in federal aid coming from that federal stimulus bill. We're only aware of the broad categories under which those amounts can be spent and we're waiting for the regulations from the Department of the Treasury at the federal level to help us better understand how we can utilize those funds. I think it's in, it's very good news. I think it will provide, it will provide as an opportunity to hopefully provide a long lasting benefit to people across Arlington, given that a large amount of money and we'll have to be very careful to not spend it more quickly than will be appropriate so there'll be many more discussions on that stimulus bill to come as we learn more about the regulations but I did think it was important to share with the board and the public tonight of that news. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chaplin. Mrs. Mahan. Thank you, Mr. Chair, sort of carrying piggybacking on what the town manager said. Yes, it's good news for Arlington and apparent $36 million influx. We do need a little bit more money, but we can spend those monies on in the short term. COVID-19 relief towards citizens, small businesses. And some have said schools, although it's my understanding that also under COVID-19 relief funds, the schools also will be receiving some of this numbers, number to be determined, but perhaps similar. That I just want to make sure that this $36 million allocation from the federal government doesn't mean we necessarily have to spend $36 million next year and I agree with the town manager and have had conversations with the town manager, the chairman of long range planning, Mr. Decorsi and Charlie Foskett, as recently as today to make sure that we address the short term COVID-19 townside relief implications and make sure we use the money for that, but that we also have a long range plan, oh my gosh, long range plan for the remaining monies to see Arlington through into the future and hopefully remediating or mitigating any future overrides whether they start in 2023, 2024 or beyond that. So thank you to long range chairman, Mr. Decorsi and the town manager and that's all I have to say. Mr. Dunn. No new business. Thank you. Mr. Jenkins. No new business, but I'm getting a feeling we're going to be meeting in the 24th. Thank you. Mr. Corsi. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, I just want to thank all of the workers from the town who are at the COVID vaccination clinic last week I took my mother. For her second shot and I was truly proud to be an Arlington resident and just very thankful for all the work. And all the care that went into that programming from Christine Bonjono, Health and Human Services, Arlington Police Department. Mr. Chunglow, the veteran services director was checking people in our own Ashley Meyer was there. Helping out Mr. Francisco was there. Chief Kelly was handing out masks to people who are waiting their 15 minutes and it was just a fantastic atmosphere. Very, very calm, very well organized and I really particularly for that age group we've talked about it over and over again that the local sites are the best sites for the vaccinations be because of the way things can be set up and the comfort level that people have, you know, being in their own community or nearby community and I also want to recognize Bob Bartholomew, who, as people were leaving, if they were from Arlington, he'd ask them what year they graduated and then would proceed to write a lot of five or six names, no matter what the year was. So, you know, like a high historian, Bob Bartholomew was that just kept it off for me. And so I want to recognize everybody there and them and just really an outstanding program that they're running there. Thank you. And I did also just want to mention the vaccination program and specifically I did receive a letter from the chair of the Arlington Housing Authority, Nick Petropoulos, that was sent to me to thank all of our town departments for really really successful vaccination program, particularly the Board of Health and the fire department and all involved. So, thank you for a very well run project program and we're almost there. All right, with that, we'll take a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Second. Mrs. Mohan. Yes, thank you. Mr. DeCorsi. Yes. Mr. Diggins. Yes. Mr. Dime. Yes. Mr. Hurd. Yes. Mr. Adams folk. Thank you. Any folks. Thank you. So long guys. Take care. Thanks. Bye-bye.