Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's The Cube at HP Discover 2014, brought to you by HP. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're excited to be live in Las Vegas for HP Discover. This is SiliconANGLE and Wikibon's The Cube, our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the student from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. Join my co as Dave Alton, co-founder, chief research analyst at wikibon.org. Our next guest is Bethany Mayer, senior vice president of the NFV group at HP. Let me see if we can get this title right. SVP and GM of HP NFV. Yes. So, you were running a multi-billion dollar division before HP networking. Obviously, things are coming together. You're now on a new assignment. Share with the folks out there, what is the NFV group? What's your charter? What are you getting your arms around in? And what are you sticking your teeth into? Sure, so, over the top competitors.  And essentially, they have to move faster to bring services to market. And they have to do it in a more cost-effective way. And in order to do that, really what they need to do is they need to begin by virtualizing their infrastructure. Doesn't that sound familiar? So, basically, they have over the past 20 years built very proprietary solutions with vendors out there who essentially have proprietary products quite expensive and they really can't move very quickly and it's a very expensive proposition. So, you're being nice. They have old technology. They have old technology. So, what I'm looking at right now is, Google just bought a satellite company for half a billion dollars for drones. Okay, they're going to save for satellite pictures. I'm sure that's going to be for internet access. Netflix is super popular. They've got Comcast buying Time Warner. Huge stakes in the content business. But under the hood, it's archaic systems, something to say. Well, in the carrier space, it is very old systems, very disparate, very difficult to change, and service rollouts take a very long time. And so, what they needed to do was, they needed to move to a platform and infrastructure that's much more flexible, that can move services in and out very quickly and frankly can make them money instead of right now, they're losing money. So, the idea here is to virtualize their core and then create services on that virtualized platform to then go after some of these over the top folks that they are really in trouble with. And they're moving massive amounts of data, right? Yes, absolutely, absolutely. So, that's why, so it's like SDN for telcos, right? Is that a fair? SDN is part of it. It's virtualization of their infrastructure, whether it's compute, whether it's storage, or whether it's networking. So, SDDC, right? Yeah, it's basically the entire thing. And there's essentially, there's a consortium of service providers that got together carriers that created particular use cases and standards. The Etsy organization created use cases and standards to follow for folks like us saying, look, these are the use cases we need and we'd like to see capabilities from different vendors to solve for this. So, HP has created a program called OpenNFE that consists of an architecture. So, a complete architecture that- That's OpenNFE? That is, it's called OpenNFE. That's an architecture that provides infrastructure, orchestration for both cloud as well as the network itself, virtual network functions and integration into their OSS-BSS, which is how they build their customers. So, we've built that architecture. We're also partnering with several partners that include network equipment providers like Alcatel Lucent, like NEC, like Nokia Siemens. Is Brocade involved in that? Brocade's involved in it as well. So, we have several different partners, Intel's another very large technology partner. So, we're partnering with other companies to create these solutions, these use case solutions and then sell those solutions to the network service providers. We were talking to Brocade at the OpenStack Summit. They were really kind of talking about some of the stuff that we talked about going back four years ago. The network's a bottleneck. So, but now you're starting to see the acceleration of that pressure point. So, with virtualization, with NFV coming in, I got to ask you, this feels a lot like an engineered system from the ground up. So, you ran the division in networking. So, you were involved in SDN. I think you were the first ones to ship OpenFlow, which is essentially SDN before anyone else. So, you know it's in the kitchen, so to speak, for ingredients, right, it's out there. So, what do you pull it from the tool chest within HP? You've a war chest of R&D. Give us the Bethany view of the landscape.  What tools are you getting? And again, Tom Joyce is having great success with his group, with his conversion system. So, give us some data. What are you cobbling together? What meal are you going to cook? Well, so we have, I think we have a great offering in terms of the architecture. I mean, it includes the converged infrastructure as the baseline for the infrastructure itself. And in fact, converged systems is going to play a part here too. It includes our OpenStack capability. So, one of the real, strong, unique value propositions HP offers is our OpenStack cloud orchestration capability. It's something that no one else in the industry has right now and something that we can offer immediately along with our expertise, right? We have our SDN controller portfolio for virtualizing the network. And we offer virtual functions, virtual network functions in different kinds of applications like a virtual services router as a good example to be able to sell that as well. I think we have two really important selling points for HP. One is, as you mentioned, we're open. We are an open standards-based company. We're a heterogeneous. We're very up for choice for the customer. And then the other piece is we also have today a very, very large business with the telcos. So they trust us in many of the things that they're doing and they recognize that as an IT provider we can really change the paradigm for them and end with them. HP's been a supplier certainly on the mini computer side, high performance systems on that. And they certainly telcos are billing systems that are very complex. Now you got to get into the content business. You're talking about essentially the consumerization of IT or the new style of IT as Meg Whitman says. That's complex, right? So now they have an edge device to consumer. Are you guys involved in those discussions all over the edge? Are you guys talking just network? How far up the stack do you kind of have, do you reach with your initial? Well, you know, initially the carriers want to talk about infrastructure and how they change their infrastructure. Now what HP has to offer in addition to our infrastructure, our cloud offering, our orchestration capabilities, we have endpoint devices as you said. So we can provide an end-to-end solution for them that utilizes a new infrastructure that's fully virtualized, agile, cloud-oriented, and basically ready for them to compete with the Googles and AWSes. But we also have end user devices that we can bring to the customer for them to take advantage of to sell new services on. So we really have an end-to-end offering that I think is completely different from the network equipment providers they worked with in the past, as well as some of the folks that on the consumer side, that we see in the market today. Well, the telcos never get there in your mind. I mean, of course you can't say that because you've worked with them. But like, I mean, we've been seeing this for a decade. Over the top, I mean, cable is a threat, you know. Well, so some things have changed. First of all, they have new competitors, as you know, right, I mean, AWS and Google are pretty threatening competitors. But also, they recognize that these new services that they have to provide are the difference between them making money and them losing money.  And so that is changing how quickly they're doing this. And I have to say, just because I spend a lot of time with these customers on a daily basis, they are pulling us. It is not the other way around. We are not pushing them.  So that's why I want to ask why the separate business unit was that you were going around when you were running the networking group, talking to these customers and they said, talk about that a little bit. Well, so it is a new business unit and the reason for it is because it's a Pan-HP business unit. So it goes across all of our technologies, as I said, from the end user device all the way through to our infrastructure products, as well as our services. I mean, this is the other aspect of it, right? So we really needed a business unit that was a point focus for the telco environment. We needed to show commitment to the carriers that we're here to help them change the paradigm for them. And we also needed a set of experts that could design the products to fit into a telco environment to sell into their core networks. And so that's this group. So is it P&L? Yes, it's P&L-based. So you've got an engineering organization? We've just started, so we've just started the organization now. We've been building it over the past several months and we're doing something different with regard to R&D specifically. So there will be some assets held in the NFE BU specifically, but what we're also doing is we're funding all the BUs to build products in a way to go into the telco market very specifically using this paradigm. So it's a combination. And we want to take advantage of all of the great products we have in HP today. We want to modify them slightly to meet carrier requirements. And then we also want certain assets that are important to this new paradigm to be part of the NFE business. Organic, like management or telco specifically. Very interesting. Yeah, so we're trying to take full advantage of everything HP has to offer. That's very unique in the industry. Really, I think about another company that can do this end to end. I can't think of one actually. And one that's been in the telco space now for the past many, many years. We already sell billions of dollars into the telco environment. HP is a very safe company to do business with in this respect. How big is this market in relation to the say networking market, is it? Wow, well we've sized it in the tens of billions. I mean right now the sizing we've seen for our total available market is on the order of 24 billion over the next four years. It's a big, big opportunity. Yeah, that's big. And what was the networking, what is the networking business? Is it, it's got to be, what, 50 plus or is it that big or? For the network? Yeah, the networking side, yeah. Oh, well so for the overall network market, the networking market is probably in that range. And that includes the NFE piece? That would include it, sure. But the carrier market and carrier spend is huge. I mean carrier spend is in the hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars just overall. And then if you look at it just in terms of this TAM, it's about 24 billion over the next four years. So it's significant. Yeah, that's great. Large number. Large market. And the other really wonderful thing for HP, it is an incremental business for us. Meaning that we haven't been selling into the core of the carrier network to date, right? We've been selling in their IT data center, but we haven't been selling in the core. And they're looking for IT based solutions to go into their core in order to, as I said, generate revenue more quickly and also lower their costs dramatically. What's the channel strategy? I mean, is there a portion that's direct? Are you going to be using specialized channel partners, existing HP partners? Yep, so there is a channel strategy. It's a combination, there are some direct. But as well, we have partnerships with network equipment providers like Alcatel Lucent, like Samsung, like NEC, and NSN. We also have channel partners that are services oriented as well that we work with. And those are the Tecma hindras of the world and the Wipros and services companies, Tieto, that sell into the carrier space already. And we'd like them to promote our products into that market. And you're part of the enterprise group, right? No, actually, I'm not. My organization is part of the cloud group. And the reason for that is, So you've brought to Martin, you said? I've brought to Martin, yeah. Reason for that is one of the biggest end points of the journey for virtualization by carriers is the cloud, right? They all have to create cloud capabilities throughout their infrastructure in addition to services for enterprise, but also to create cloud capabilities to do things like virtualizing services in enterprise businesses, right? All of that has to be cloudified. And so the journey to the telco cloud is a big part of that. So they have to be an enabler for that. Exactly, it is an enabler. And what's the outcome for them that they can now compete more effectively with these over the top? Yeah, I mean they can basically change their, the trajectory of their businesses because right now, many of their businesses are actually decreasing in revenue and increasing in cost. So they can change the trajectory and they can compete with some of these folks who are now absolutely in their face, right? Google and AWS. If you look at Facebook as an example, they bought a company called WhatsApp, right? 19 billion. Yeah, WhatsApp do. It uses an over the top service to deliver instant messages for free. Nobody pays for those, right? People thought that was a crazy acquisition and a lot of it was stock based. And look at Facebook, stock has done since then. So it's actually turned out not to be so bad, at least for now. But so, help me clarify something. You said this is largely an incremental business for HP. But you've got existing relationships with the telco. We do. Because we sell into their IT based data centers today. Okay. And they know us for that and we do a lot of business with them there. We do business in other places within their, still within their core to some degree, but really much of this is, again, with such a big paradigm shift and virtualizing their infrastructure, this is such a new opportunity for us. And one other piece to note is, HP is the virtualization platform. In fact, the largest virtualization platform in IT. The most VMs land on our computing platforms, right? So if someone knows virtualization, it's HP. Who do you compete with in this space? Is it in-house development or? To some degree, we compete with certain apps. A good example of that, again, is Cisco. We compete with Cisco. We compete with Juniper, Huawei. They're there building proprietary stacks. They would like to keep things the way they were in the past, right? Which is buy our very expensive box and all of our boxes and tie them all together and there you have a service. And the issue, of course, is those are, again, expensive. And tying those all together ends up taking months, if not years, to create a service. And, I mean, their competitors can spin up a service in a matter of weeks, right? So it really is a significant change. So there's the cost factor and the agility that they're, they can't, you're saying they can't make money with the traditional model? They really can't. I mean, if you look at some of them, their debt positions are very large. And so they really have to make a change. And they went out and, you know, built the specs and the standards to ask the vendor community to help them make that change. Beth, they talk about what you're excited about. Obviously, you got a fresh clean sheet of paper. Got some charter from Meg Whitman. You're in that kind of like the group of folks where we're going to put together the future. Certainly the tail goes, a lot of stakes at risk for your customers. What is, what's the exciting elements of what you're doing? Share with the folks what's going on. Well, so first I'm excited. This is a totally new set of technologies. I mean, virtualizing the core of the carrier network has never been done. So I'm very excited about that. I'm excited that we're, we are going to be able to help them get to the cloud, which is a huge part of our strategy as a company. So I'm excited about that as well. I'm excited that I just hired a wonderful CTO, Pradip Sen, who's from Verizon, very well known in the industry. He came on board, awesome, awesome individual, was head of the Etsy committee. So really feel like we did something great there. And I'm excited about what we're bringing to the market, what we're bringing to these carriers in terms of a solution. I think we have a good solution. I think we can offer them real value and help them change and change quickly if they wish.  Some were speculated and then you were going to be on the beach clipping coupons, you know, chilling out a little bit with this new group. Sounds like you got a lot of action going on. Share with the folks your plans. What's exciting you there and the group there? And you got a lot of people you're hiring. What's the objective? What is the, what's your objective? I mean, you're not on the beach, you're not clipping coupons, you're running hard. Share with the folks the charter. So, I mean, really the charter is to, is to create a revenue stream for HP that's completely new in the billions of dollars over the next three or four years. Very quickly ramping up. I just want to mention that I'm very proud of the performance that I did with HP Networking. I grew the business 12 consecutive quarters, exiting last quarter, my final quarter in May, six and a half percent growth. So, I'm very thankful for the opportunity. I'm very proud of it, but this is a new opportunity and it's even more revenue potential. And it's in a very cutting edge, bleeding edge environment where nobody's done some of this stuff before. So, to me, I'm excited about that. It's a new job, you're more nimble, you have, again, small team growing from the ground up, the division's big. I mean, how many people were in Networking when you left? Well, thousands and thousands of people. I can't say how many, but thousands, multiple thousands of people, yes. It is a very large organization, yes. But, and we'll keep growing this, too. So, you're excited. I am, I am very excited. And I think it's something great for HP and I'm looking forward to what we have to achieve. Just for you, so that you know, we're in several POCs right now. I mean, we've been in, we're in multiple POCs across the world. We're in a field trial with BT. We'll go to deployment next year. So, I mean, this is real. This isn't creating an architecture and waiting for them to come. This is, we're out there. You know, I think Dave and I always talk about, again, Tom Joyce just was an example. He started to put up some numbers on the board for revenue very quickly. He went from zero to 60 miles per hour, like overnight. And you look at that. We'll be in the hundreds of millions next year. I mean, other successful modern infrastructures like combination of flash, not, not, it's a cobble together, but yet re-engineered solution. So, that seems to be the future. So, that's hundreds of millions from a standing start. Yes, that's right. Yes. Bethi, Mayor, great executive. We love having you on theCUBE. One, we've been watching your career since you've been doing the whole open flow, since we've been doing theCUBE here. We've been great success at the HP side, looking forward to what's happening in the telco. Always great to have you on. This is theCUBE, extracting the seeds from the noise. And FV, folks, remember that, the telco business model for HP in the billions soon to be, Bethi Mayor. We'll be right back after this short break.


OK everybody, I'd like to get your attention please. Thank you. I'd like to introduce Paul Astoz and Hayley Johns on the Oaken University, and this is the session on does anyone know what sustainability means? I'll actually take the session for quite excited too. So yeah, I will hand over to you. Thank you very much. Hello ready, welcome to our session as was introduced. Does anybody know what sustainability means? felly we're going to be talking about developing practical approaches to supporting non-tokenistic actions to promote sustainability in a distance learning curriculum. So, I'm Paul, a learning designer in the STEM faculty at the Open University. I'll be taking on a work plan, also the learning plan at the Open University, but I'm in the Welsh faculty. So, a different collection of subjects to work with. Just to, for more people, there is a bit of awkward participation, we're going to ask you to do a bit of work on the tablet and do an eyespray for it because hopefully that's not going to be too terrible. I hope you're quite enjoyable, but yeah, just so for me, if you've got smartphones with you, you can scan QR codes throughout as well to access the resources that we've designed and what to share with you. And just to nod to those online, if you're watching the live stream, you can engage with the QR codes as well, but we won't be able to kind of interact as such as well as we can with the people in the room. So, if you would like to have a copy of the slides, you're more than welcome to. You can scan the QR codes. We are going to just run quickly through what we're going to talk through. So we're going to very quickly explain why we're here today. We're going to look at where are you, as in you, the people that are in this talk. We're going to introduce the team that works on this strand of work, it's not just Haley and I. We've got a small group activity that follows some information about sustainability in module design and then we're hopefully going to share some key takeaways that you've taken from our workshop fingers crossed. Thank you. So, yeah, just a little bit run through why we're here today. Our purpose is to support you to reflect on better practice approaches for non-topic mystics. I really mean for actions of students in terms of inventing sustainability in their modules. And our aims are to show you how learning sign can connect sustainability to kind of form that shared understanding of what practice you can take and consider what that might look like in your own context. Obviously, that's going to look slightly different for everyone. For us, the OU, we work in it in a certain way. It's a different university, so have a look at what we've done and think back. What's really important is that context matters, right? So as we are going through this, it's really important that you think about how you can apply what we're doing at the OU into your context and through the different activities that we're running in this workshop today, you'll get the opportunity to do that as part of the session. So really think about how you can take what you're hearing and kind of considering in this session into your own context and also tell us about it as well. So at the end, we've got some information about how you can get in contact with us afterwards as well. So, we're going to start off with where are you at and where are you? And this is our first panel, so I'm going to, like, get on up and stand to our table. I'm going to give you two a look at what's happening, and you'll see the first few columns are fed up with our ice break activities. So if I take you over there now, you can see question number one. So have you thought about how you might, and that's the same ability in modern times, if you have, tell us what that looks like and what that might look like. And question number two, do you need, I think that should say do you need help articulating and how to embed the same ability in modern design and tell us, let us know your thoughts. Yes. Thank you. Has everyone been able to scan the QR code okay. I can come to you with a QR code on the page if needed. It is exciting. Yeah. I'll show you. Here you go. No worries. So we'll be using this padlet throughout different activities so you can kind of keep it open in the background. Here it's really interesting. So in terms of doing a development field, I think we've done that as well, but it's something that's, there's a lot of momentum in fact with it. A lot of people can watch the same abilities, how it looks to be created from institutions. Yeah. So we can, we can probably spend another 30 seconds or so on this. I reckon we're just doing the ice breaker task. Just scan the QR code if you want to get involved as well. Cool. Perfect. Just whilst we're having some microphone help, obviously you can carry on with the task. Did you add some other thoughts to the both questions if you've added one already. That's totally encouraged. Yes. Thank you for your contributions there, everybody. So the, and as I said, we'll be going back to that padlet throughout. So just keep it open in the background and we can, we'll be using it again. So the, that's all right. So I get to introduce us as a team, and just to acknowledge really that it's not just myself and Hailey that have been part of this work stream. We've been working on various ways to support sustainability in module design at the EU and myself, Hailey, Kathleen, Katrina and James are all part of that group. So just just want to kind of acknowledge their work and input into everything that we're talking about here today as well. Sources from other institutions having looked at this step was to show you those. So we wanted to share that information all the way. Then we started to look out around the EU and find out what other people do and what sustainability looked like in their context around the university. And started to connect, start to make those working relationships with them and thinking about how we would spend the quality of what we would do and how that would translate across to the department to different factors. And then on to that, we gathered lots of feedback. So from learning and thinking about outside of the learning society, both from people around the EU, we've both worked directly with us. So we gathered feedback from them, but we also spoke at links with our own teams learning science in Canada, as well. They wanted from sustainable resources up there. So then we were able to define the end graphics that we made. Step number seven, we considered where we wanted to disseminate content. I'll work up to this problem so that, including looking at this conference and other conferences in our country, and also internally. So through our social media networks and through Yana, things like that, and within the energy. Leading up to planning for policies like this and bringing our work forward to the green gown rules. So those awards at the end of November. If we win in November, yeah. So these are the final four steps of our journey so far. So this year, I and James, my colleague delivered three talks at the Eden conference on our work with sustainability up to that point. And that was kind of built on in the stuff that we're presenting here. So we shared the infographic that we mentioned and we shared how we were starting to use them basically. We then were considering next steps in developing support for colleagues to champion sustainability in this design process. And this led to creating some crib sheets, which you can have by that qr code. They're also already on the padlet. So in the resources column in the padlet, you'll find them there as well. Okay. Those crib sheets are designed to prompt and support people to consider how to use the resources that we've created to have conversations with people and to talk about embedding them. The resources to help the design process. So how you might embed sustainability in different contexts using our resources. Okay. And that's the purpose of the crib sheets. So step 11 then was engaging with students as co creators. This is a real kind of core part of the work that we are doing and bringing student voice into the creation of some of the resources that you'll see on the crib sheet for which is the skills cards. And you'll see the skills cards in the task a bit later. And so these skills cards are were created through students telling us what they wanted to see as kind of skills within the context of sustainability from their point of view. So we gave them some information about the exists from UNESCO around kind of different skills that that are out there that that we are connecting with. And we wanted to get the idea of how the students felt about them and the language that was used in them and how we could make them more student centered basically. So the skills cards that you'll see in our resources are a direct collaboration with the curriculum design student panel at the Open University, which is a group of about 3000 ish student volunteers that kind of come together to provide feedback on various tasks and things that we that we can send to them. So student voice is a real key part of our, our mission, if you will, and it's a really important part of promoting sustainability within your institutions because students are the most important people in that institution in many ways because they are not only there to kind of, you know, bring their experience and their lived experience if you tap into that but they can also think in much broader ways than we can as staff so that there's there's a lot of opportunity there for engaging with students and that's another part of the task that will come up a bit later about how you can do that in your context. And so the final step was planning for this the old conference 2023 so this workshop specifically and then we're hoping that from the ashes of this workshop will we will create a workshop that we can use kind of within the EU and external like from the EU as well so we'll be able to kind of offer that as an external workshop hopefully for the various work that we do with non au people as well. So this I think is on to you. Yeah, so this is back over to me again so sustainability in module design. This is a chance to show you one of the infographics that we have mentioned already so you'll see it in the bottom right hand corner there. And the purpose of creating these infographics really was to, as the title of our talk suggests, promote that understanding of what sustainability actually is and what that looks like in a distance learning context. So that was our starting point for creating these infographics. And we structured them as a series and they are structured in an incremental way as well so each one builds on the previous one. And the idea is that we want to kind of approach module teams who are different levels of understanding so this one for example that you can see in the bottom right is the very first one in the series and it's aimed at module teams and academics who maybe they want to start thinking about sustainability and how that might be embedded into their modules but they're not really sure how to go about it they want to have those discussions and find out more first. So, yeah, as I say it's to spark that initial conversation that initial curiosity about sustainability and provide that starting point for who module teams can talk to so whether it's us as learning designers, whether it's a sustainability lead in the faculty so that might be another academic who has a particular interest. There's different pathways into, into those conversations and if you want to have a look at that infographic as a whole again you can scan the top right QR code just there and that will bring up the whole infographic you to see. And don't worry because the QR code is still there so if you haven't scanned it yet. So in terms of how we use it so the point of the resources here are about how you can embed the process of kind of sustainability in the module design experience for academics but then also have it meaningful for students at the end of the process right. So there's a bunch of questions that we came up with that relates to that basically kind of conversation starters that you can have with staff and the answers to them are linked to the crib sheets so if you want to know more about do you want certain sustainable skills and competencies woven into the student journey, you would see crib sheet three, for example right. A practical way that we've embedded this within module design with a maths module is an applied stats module at level two is we basically we use them to guide a conversation so they came to a design session with no ambition of embedding sustainability at all it wasn't on their radar. But there was a huge opportunity to do that from what they were talking about so that they were talking about the skills and the potential content that in my mind could absolutely connect with sustainability but they just haven't built that bridge themselves yet because they were thinking about maths. So, with the questions that were on here, and I'll just go skip through them slightly so we kind of zoned in on that they wanted to use. They wanted to know the answer to the bottom one sorry so the practical ways to make learning outcomes connect to sustainable skills development so they wanted to adapt a specific learning outcome and then use activities related to that learning outcome to embed sustainable skills which will. Which you'll see on the skills cards when we get there and so the. Each of the responses here can can provide you not an exhaustive way of embedding sustainability but just somewhere to start basically okay. Yeah, and this in perfect, thank you for this is one way of answering one of those questions, so this is another in perfect from that series that we've been talking about all the way through. And this is designed to answer the question, do you want to know more about the current resources on the oh use platform open learn so open learn is a selection of free resources anyone can access them. They are by definition open and the idea behind this is that we wanted to embed things that were already there and to sign post module teams to the wealth of resources that already exists around the university so that were part of our kind of fact finding mission when we started talking to colleagues from different departments in different faculties. This is one of the things that came out of that. And so, yeah the infographics as a series are kind of designed to answer those question prompts and lead multiple teams through that journey of discovering and understanding and then embedding sustainability. And again if you want to scan for this one, you can use that QR code just there.  There was. So one example that I gave you just before was a maths module. And this example is a geology module so they explicitly are called geology and sustainability so they were already thinking about sustainability but what they weren't thinking about with this, how to connect the learning outcomes and the skills together, essentially. So that was part of the design input that I had but I wanted to highlight how they're embedding sustainability alongside some of the skills that they're embedding. So they explicitly state in text within their material how their material connects with the sustainable development goals from the UN. So at the start of each topic as a couple of hundred words or something so that students are explicitly aware of how the material connects with sustainable development goals. And they are also embedding UNESCO skills within what they're calling geo problems. So there's a series of geo problems which are based on real life examples of geology issues that students might need to overcome but that are explicitly related to that. They're related to sustainability so the idea being that they're able to then embed a whole range of the UNESCO sustainability skills which you'll see on the skills cards in a minute, such as participatory problem solving collaboration, things like that where you can encourage students to look at a problem overcome it. And that in a sustainability context is a really powerful way that module teams can embed UNESCO sustainable competencies in a practical way, and that could be done in pretty much any subject, essentially. Another thing that they have is reflection. So alongside it being an authentic assessment experience because it's a real life kind of work based geology problem that they're overcoming. They also are encouraged to reflect on how they did that. And that's another key part of the UNESCO skills is about kind of reflecting on and, you know, taking a position on certain things and that kind of stuff. So it's really neatly embedded into and quite explicitly embedded into various parts of their assessment strategy as well as their activities and skills. OK, so the fun bit, the small group activities. So we're going to go back to the Padlet, but I'll hand over over to Hailey now. Lovely. Thank you. Yes. So as Paul says, we're going to go back to the Padlet. There will be an opportunity to scan the QR code on the next side. So I'll come to that in just a second. But we have three tasks for you. And each one of these is designed to take around 20 minutes, give or take, if it's slightly shorter, that's fine if it's longer. That's probably fine as well. But each one of these is designed to take a length of time. So we suggest prioritising one is what I'm trying to say, rather than trying to do them all in a short window. But you can see here you have a choice between reviewing the skills cards and the UNESCO competency tree graphics. So those resources that we've made, considering how they connect with learning outcomes and all activities. So that could be starting to apply that to your own context. Reflecting on including student voice in design of content. And then the third task is considering authentic assessment in the context of sustainability. So those are the three options. Here's that QR code back again. And yeah, I think everything else up there I've said. So yeah, prioritise kind of giving a decent chunk of time to one of those tasks we'd suggest. Details will be on the Padlet. There's time included in that activity time to read through the information that is in the columns on the Padlet. And then you'll see the task text there as well. And in a minute we'll bring up the Padlet slide as well. The Padlet page even. Has everyone had a chance to scan the code? Is that all okay? Super, lovely. So I'm going to close this one and bring the Padlet back up. Here we are. Yeah, so if you just scroll across to the right, you can see the three tasks. And if you have any questions as you're working through, just shout out. We can do our best to support you. And if you're watching online, we'll probably mute our mics at some point now, just remember, so that you aren't just hearing kind of discussions about the task, but do feel free to engage in the activity. If you'd like. If you'd like to, yeah, absolutely. I'm just going to mute it now. Oh, thank you. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. So everything that you've shared is freely available to you also. But the key is that we want to know how you use them. So that's the most important thing. Just what it is. Yeah. So it's 225 now. Like 14. Yeah. At the latest. It's so bizarre. I keep on forgetting that they're there and then like remembering last second. And that's OK. I think it's gone well so far. And that hasn't been going, which is nice. You are a bit. Yes. It's really nice to hear that. It's when we've been talking through it. In reality. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh, I was going to say, do you think we should? Like at the end of the slide about it just says the open university or we could go back to our tasks. That's like doing. We should ask the chairperson to take a picture of us so that we can put it on. Yes. It will be interesting. Yeah. That's the thing. Yeah. It's like the room could have been packed. Yeah. So it's a good, good, good amount of people. Yes. Yes. So Marina. Have you met Marina? Sorry. I shouldn't introduce you properly. So she used to be an elderly in our team. So she worked in. The one that now is the senior in FPL. Yeah. So at the time that wasn't a senior. She was the learning designer in that team with Marina. She let to go to our. So she went to do. I think the similar role or maybe maybe like. I can't remember if it was a senior or like a slightly different context of the role. But yeah, that's so she, but I only ever met her online. So she was so she was like, it was like right near the start of when I first joined. So it would have been like the first three months or something. So yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. All right. I almost didn't recognise her at first. And then I was like, God, it's you. Yeah. I'm going to go and do a little walk around. People are able to access things and stuff. Are we all okay with the task and you've accessed it? Okay. And any questions? Okay. That's okay. No, that's fine. No problem. Yeah. Yeah. Just as long as you can access it, that's the main thing. So yeah. Indeed. Indeed. Have you guys been able to access the task? Okay. And you're happy with what you're doing. Yeah. Good. Okay. Perfect. Well, if you have any questions, just shout. Okay. And you guys have been able to access the task. Okay. No, no, that's okay. Let's talk about it. So which task have you chosen? Perfect. Okay. And. Perfect. Okay. And so your question is. So the aim is to look at the cards or the, the information that's in that column. So. Yeah. And then the, the, I think the skills cards are underneath it as well in the column. Yeah. So everything that you need is in that one column. And then, so the aim is to review those and then think about the answer to question to number two, which would be kind of think about how you could use them, use the cards in a design session. Basically. So yeah, that's the. Yeah, that's absolutely fine. No, no, that's fine. Take some time to kind of absorb it. And then, and then if you have, once you've taken that time to absorb it, I'll come back to you in. So these are, so these are for staff involved in the creation of content. Yeah. So we've got plenty of time left of the task just so we all know. So we've got about just under 15 minutes of time to, to go through. I'm just trying. I don't know how much we've got left after the task. It's just the takeaway and stuff, isn't it?  No, that's okay. And then the time questions, I guess. So yeah, I think we're doing fine for time. It's like, if we get to 42. And then the rest will take about 15 minutes. So yeah, it's okay. Yeah. It is the digital information literacy. Yeah. Yeah. And your explanation was perfect, by the way. We should have acknowledged that. Yeah, that it was a deliberate choice. I think you've just had an official photograph. Or there's just a random one. Take pictures of everybody. Got about six minutes left of the task. So if you haven't yet, please take this opportunity to add some stuff to the column of the task that you're, that you have selected. So try and answer the question. For the prompts number two in that column. I can see people typing. That's good. Yes. Yeah. Yes. No, it just. No. Yeah. It means people are adding content. Yeah. That is good. Yeah.  I think like acknowledging that. People. Like the benefits. It's one of the information to take on. And so I like that when we come back. It's been like a kind of reassurance that's okay. That's normal. So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Exactly. Yes, yes, exactly. So, yeah, we can kind of, I guess, people, then, yeah, acknowledge that that's okay and normal. It's you, isn't it, that's bringing people back. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you do that and then like you can kind of like this. We've got time to kind of briefly acknowledge that we're about to get people to reflect on things. So, you know, that kind of stuff and then you can come over to me and that's fine. Yeah, a couple of minutes, I reckon. Yeah, yes. So, three more minutes to add your thoughts to the task board. Oh, sorry, yeah. And just to say, obviously this padlet will be open for the rest of time. So, if you wanted to kind of go back to it and reflect and add stuff afterwards, that's totally fine as well. So, you're more than welcome to reuse and come back to this at any point. Just that I've flagged that. Okay, thanks everyone. We're going to stop you there if that's okay. So, that's been our 20 minutes on these tasks. And yeah, just to acknowledge thank you so much for the thoughtful conversations that you guys were having. It was really nice to come around and listen to what you were saying. And it is a lot of information to the process, so thank you for your patience with that as well. And yeah, we sort of acknowledge that there's a lot going on there. So, yeah, thank you for bearing with us on that. So, let's go round and just ask for some reflection. So, who had to go at task A? I think you guys were on task A over here. Do we have any other task A's? Yeah, cool. Who would like to go first just to kind of share a few reflections in a nutshell? Super, thank you. I was thinking about sort of a bigger picture as well. Thinking about how these shoots would be used to go to sort of budget columns and procurement teams to say, we've got to take the sustainability which is almost a step before the design output. And the idea of educating colleagues as well on the sort of drilling down into more specifics about sustainability. I think we talked about lobbying and having those sort of workshops in the way of the next step workshops that we take place. And we talked about individual sort of learning experiences, which is why I love learning children and thinking about how to want a person sustainability with money. It's been absolutely fun. You can go then, suggest specifically. Also, I was thinking about where I work and it's dotted around the country and the world. So, sustainability is very different in the enemies that they're in. And the idea of sort of reflecting as well, thinking about what we do do, taking a moment to look at what we do. So, sustainability is, and that's quite what we can and just sort of how to be there nearer by and where. Yeah. That's brilliant. Thank you very much. That's fantastic. Thank you. Should we go to you guys over here? Who'd like to share a few thoughts about what you discussed? Very probably about the resources that you yourself used there while something was going on in those times to make structure in the conversations, start it up, then considering what you mean by sustainability a bit more specific on me. Like, does anyone know what sustainability means? Like, it's left sometimes for people to interpret that however they do. It's like it needs to be more specific. And the way it's going around skills as well is nice because it's something that people would be doing anyway. For all of us, I would be using this. So, I think getting, I don't find that the backstory exists because the way it's going down is actually very easy to see what you're doing. So, they don't feel like it's something that you can do. Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, I've got to do accessibility requirements. I've got to stay with the information, you know, all these things. And it's quite overwhelming when we get to design phase where you're having to design a lot of these partners. But actually going, well, what does it really exist when you're doing, makes it a little bit more of a conversation starting. And then you're going to do this. Yeah. Yeah. What else can you do? Yeah, brilliant. Thank you. Just for the online people, I've just turned my microphone back on. So hello and welcome back. We're just reflecting on the task. There we go. Sorry. There you go. Thank you. We should pass the microphone round. We have a more portable one. We would have passed it round. Sorry. Did we have any task fees? Yeah. Do you guys like to share anything? It was a little bit challenging at home. I'm sure you have. So tasking is all about something of this kind of panel. I was committed to the student input. So looking at the input to say something that could be really good. And so one could, the university has the student staff committee that already exists. And so it could be quite nice to incorporate and develop that further. And to try and include volunteers who would want to be in that panel and to ensure that there's a diverse range of students at the moment. And to be involved in everything fresh. And by including the student voices, it keeps everything relatable and up to date. And that also ensures sustainability and longevity of those for that material. We would also make sure that things are always accessible and stand to again make things sustainable. I think it's a focus right a bit on this co-creation and co-design like initially before the activities were made. But I also think, you know, taking into consideration feedback afterwards is also going to have that continuous group of improvements. And then also spoke about some specific actions to take. And I suppose it's always going to be difficult to involve students and things and to kind of motivate them. And so I think maybe some sort of incentive around that possibly. Thank you. That's pretty fantastic. Thank you very much. Did we have any people who worked on task C at all? No one? I see if that's OK. No worries. Brilliant. Thank you. So I can hand back to Paul then for our. Yeah, so the. There was a slide that just says reflection, but I'm just going to ask you to scroll across to the reflection column in adlet. And this is where I'm going to ask you to reflect. So the question is, if I grab my notes. Oh, thank you. Is what might you take forward into your context and when attempting to embed sustainability within the design of course material. So what might you take forward? And I can give you a couple of minutes just to reflect on that. That's OK. I think we've got about seven minutes. Yeah, it's OK. But thank you for this. And obviously the question is in the pilot. So what might you take forward into your context? Well, I'm writing that just to acknowledge that what I'm about to talk through is the key takeaways or possibly Hailey. I can't remember which way around it is. Are also in the paddlet so you can review those later too. Yeah, and just whilst you're typing, just to connect with some of the stuff that was said before, I think embedding sustainability definitely shouldn't be this bolt on. It should just be kind of part of the process. So trying to think about existing frameworks that this information can connect with. For us at the Open University. Sorry, I just switched the microphone for the online people. So for us at the Open University, it's connecting with frameworks like the employability framework and the digital information literacy framework, which are existing ones that connect really well with the skills that are part of the sustainability skills cards that we've shared. So it's not just about thinking about how to bolt it on. It's about how to literally embed it into what you do currently. And that's part of taking it into your context. Yeah, yeah, sure. That's fine. The EDI framework is now compulsory in order to use it. Yes. So how far are you getting these resources? Pretty far along. Yeah, so there's something at the EU called the inclusive curriculum tool, and we have embedded sustainability prompts into the newest version of that. So it's becoming part of the kind of business as usual to review alongside existing inclusive frameworks and equality and diversity kind of checks and things. So it's becoming less of a bolt on and more of a kind of something that's integral as part of other existing stuff. So yeah, it's getting there and we're much closer than we were, you know, even last month. So yeah, it's good. So I'm going to unfortunately end the time here of this reflective task in the column. But if you're still typing, do for free to finish what you're writing. I'm just aware that we have five minutes left and I want to finish the session on time like a good learning designer. So I'm going to hand back to Hailey. I'm going to go back to Slides if that's OK. So apologies that I don't have time to read through some of your reflections, but I will look at them later and thank you for your time in putting them down. Really appreciate it. Super, thank you. I'm just going to check that I'm not muted. Lovely. One of the last things we wanted to say was just this is how you can stay in touch with us if you'd like to and if you'd like to share, you know, what you end up doing or what you're already doing on your sustainability journey at your institutions. And we'd really love to hear about that so you can get in touch with us via Twitter. We're still on the bird. We're not using the X. Sorry. Sorry. And you can also email us as well. So, yeah, a couple of different ways to get in touch with us there. And we are really keen to put together a kind of reflective piece on our Open University Learning Design blog about how different institutions are embedding sustainability. So well worth reading. We have loads of excellent colleagues who write for the blog. So if you haven't already seen it, go and check it out. And if you'd like to be involved potentially in a post on there and do reach out and get in touch with us, we'd really like to hear from you. And I think that brings us to our key takeaways. So those are on the Padlet. If you want to have a recap of them at any stage after you leave. But yeah, just a few key points. We wanted to focus on identifying those non-tokenistic really meaningful actions that can support change knowledge building and skills development. So hopefully you've seen that in what we've produced and create opportunities for student input into resource design because their ideas, their comments and their critiques are invaluable. So that's part of our CDSP curriculum design student panel work. Hopefully you've seen that throughout our session today as well. And then finally, recognising that everyone's journey towards taking that meaningful non-tokenistic action to embed sustainability will be different. And I think everyone's kind of explored that through those tasks today as well. So hopefully you've seen how it might be applied in your own context. I think that's everything. So just to acknowledge before the applause, which you obviously richly deserve, there's resources and links at the end of slides, which are also available on the Padlet resources slide columns, which is the last column in the Padlet. And that's it. Thank you. Yeah, so any questions, I guess you've got two minutes. We won't look at you. It's okay. We've not got any resistance that is already too important. Yeah, it's a really good question and it's actually a really important question because that is one of the first barriers that we addressed actually as part of the work that we were doing with some of the module teams that we have worked with these resources. So kind of like the answer that was given around there around existing things that are happening. It's about not making it seem like it's additional work because it's not. It's about how these skills fit into what's already there and if it is overloaded, we would also be having a combination about reducing the work as well. But to answer your question specifically, it's about how what we've shared with you connects with what's there and how to make that meaningful for the student experience. So it could just be something really small, like one of the skills, for example, but that has a really big impact on the learning experience. It could be, you know, like a collaborative task, for example, that exists in the material, but they hadn't really thought about explicitly connecting it with skills from the UNESCO competency framework, for instance. So that kind of thing is how we would indeed have gone about it. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much. Cool.


Right that will indicate how much time is remaining when you have 30 seconds left a bell will sound when your time is up The bell will sound again before you begin your comments. Please state your name Good evening and welcome to your Forest City Council public comment meeting. I'll call us to order Tonight's invocation will be given by Bishop Donald Hayes from gift ministries Please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the pledges of allegiance This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it I'll but thank you for the invitation to come get this Immocation for the board we pray to bless our mayor of the city Pretending God they keep her under the wings and make her strong as she continue to lead this city Prefer every district representing it here. Do you bless them God? Do they keep their job moving forward to bless the city that they work in pray God you bless or God our DPS department police fire and EMS that they keep us safe I pray God you watch over them continue blessed. It's beating tonight. Have your divine regard and get them peace Look whenever said every problem God it comes out where you are a problem solver and we thank you for it We have these precious blessing your name. We pray Amen Maron Council our first action item will be the approval of the minutes from the February 13th 20th and 27th council meetings move to approve motion a second council any discussion Please vote you got to click it again. We can't advance it. Thank you motion clears Passes sorry Maron Council, that's all of the action items the rest is Speakers, thank you our next our first speaker is Bob Willoughby followed by Don Brewer I didn't see any rejection. There you go. We turn it up. Is it playing turn it up? Is it up? It's not up. There's no sound They took the sound off From the beginning to sound off. You need to sound on from the very beginning Bob just a second. They're humans. They're trying to start over for me and play from the beginning Happy Tuesday Bob just a second Thank you. I'm gonna call Don Brewer and then come back to Bob sir having technical difficulties We'll start that over is mr. Brewer here. Hi Don. Come on down. Please. Thank you If you don't mind hand them here and we'll take them. Thank you. Yes, sir. Ronald hand them out. Thank you You can go ahead. Please. Thank you Yes, first off, I'd like to thank the city council for especially you for Supporting us in the past on this landfill operation I am here again to plead for y'all support and to encourage y'all to again contact TCEQ To inform them that this is a poor idea The bill is that the landfill is on top of an aquifer. It's on a flooded zone It's on the city proper or next to city property. It's on the lake. It might as well be in the middle of the lake All water feeding from Silver Creek feeds directly into the lake as well as everything off this property So anything done on its property would automatically contaminate the lake This aquifer as well as the city so I had excuse me Okay, I got echo here. Okay. Okay. Thank you But I wanted to like that have everybody look at it as it stands right now a poor according to their platting This is at water level. It's at 600 is according to The forgive me here the groundwater conservation district is where the water is at the highest point on this is 620 Most of it's at 600 and below so it's right there in the water table and as such like said anything done on this It's operating on a 50-year-old Landfill permit that was never exercised and how then they're trying to put something on there This will contaminate everything and there's no way you can stop it and I would submit that y'all resmit stuff to Tcq I also went back which y'all will probably want to check and see is that the city is responsible for Lake Worth as such since it is a water source now then under Water Development Board section 260136 water quality management the city of Fort Worth is Responsibility is to manage the functions including enforcement and under local government section 261 75 y'all are responsible to please stop and monitor Tceq has no control nor will they monitor or nor will they do anything? So I implore y'all to please please help us help y'all so that we can stop this from turning it into a superfund site Thank You mr. Brewer and I have you gotten to personally speak with anybody from our legal department or dr. Wittenberg. No, I have not and I would we'll have someone follow up with you and we have protested as you know You're not we've got your information here. Thank you for submitting that and I'll make sure someone gets to talk with you tomorrow Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yes. I would be glad to give them I have a lot more documentation and I would be more than happy to submit and meet with anybody, but We appreciate it very much. Yes, sir. It's fine the city hall sometimes. No, no We're not fine. We're on the same side of the protest. Yes, sir The right person to talk to we can we can arrange that. Yes, sir. Thank you, ma'am. You're welcome. Thank y'all Thank you. Do we have that video ready for mr. Willoughby? Getting there. Okay, we'll go to Rita Ramon and we'll come back when it's ready We just want to make sure it's gonna play Bob. Just second is miss Ramon here Rita Ramon Okay, David Martinez is mr. Martinez here. There he is sorry, I had something prepared but Facebook went down today Technology. Yeah, and so I apologize. Usually I come up here and I thought Speaking from the heart usually I just go ahead and say stuff, but what I found out is that When I speak sometimes I offend certain people certain groups not intentionally But today usually When I speak I speak for others either it's Children issues things like that with my community And neighborhood Southside Carter Park, but today I'm going to bring up stuff that involves me Okay, so bear with me Okay, so usually I come in here speak, but I wanted to bring up like when I was growing up Um, I come from mixed family. I was adopted By my grandmother and we had other I had other siblings and stuff that that were adopted So I was around a mixed family. It's like that. So growing up. I didn't know Like we didn't we didn't speak about color or ethnicity things like that because we're all mixed, you know And so I was gonna bring pictures to show y'all, but I couldn't get off facebook. So anyways, but The thing I want to talk about is as I got older and I started learning Well, this is who you are. That's that's that's your color. That's your race. That's your ethnicity And as I got older, I also learned that You know, because there was a tv show There was Michael J. Fox and he loved Ron Reagan and I loved that show and I was like, oh Ron Reagan I like Ron Reagan. Um, we went from uh living in and like really Ran down house and apartments and as we got I got older My mother invested in a business and you know, we ended up living off Elizabeth Boulevard in a nice house And we ended up getting a maid and all that stuff. So um We went through a change but what I also want to bring up now is that a lot of people talk about gentrification and so Growing up, I didn't know about all that stuff and I didn't know about republican democrat I didn't know all that stuff. I'm just me david martinis Uh, but I notice now it's campaign and electric time and all that stuff and everybody's doing this Never did I ever think that a Kennedy would not be on a democrat ticket And we're living in a time where things are changing now So I wanted to bring up that I know Some of y'all like nobody on this city council is hates each other Everybody works together, but the community doesn't see that They think it's ours and these and I'm trying to tell everybody to know We're all trying to win. We're all trying to help the community A lot of some of us come from what we we know We have something that happened to us in our live and we want to do for others Thank you, mr. Martinez. We appreciate it Next speaker is the video. Good. Okay. Okay. We're gonna try that. Mr. Willoughby. Let's try that again Two weeks ago. It was brought to your attention that the director of communications and public engagement Michelle is not doing the job. She is hired to do I have received no response from you or your office Since my inauguration, I promised to attack problems and not people And I have continued to live by that in office I believe this philosophy is more important now than ever We live in a divisive time To solve real problems. We need honest debate In facts mayor maddie parker We ask you how can there be an honest debate when you will not respond Mayor maddie parker the pictures I place to be seen were not shown on tv like the way they were shown at the meeting And like the other speaker at the city comment meeting february 20th 20 24 To solve real problems. We need honest debate in facts Not attacks that have not a single shred of evidence to back them Mayor maddie parker your words say one thing but your actions show another Means the only reason our two callers are by phone is they decided to be appropriate to curse out A 12 year old little league team while they were here celebrating their win So we just kind of put a stop to that for a few months Hopefully they can come back in the spring and be a little better behaved especially around children Mayor maddie parker Where are your facts?  Willoughby cuss at children when it is not true that is low down and dirty The city council may not discuss or deliberate about topic not specifically listed on the agenda Including those presented during the public comment section of the agenda Mayor maddie parker do the rules not apply to you Mr. Johnson may ask a question really quickly if you don't mind. Thank you I know that you've worked really closely with tanisha my office in the past and she's been an excellent help I really enjoyed coming out to highland hills. I just want you to keep an open communication with my office And there are councilor nevels as well. You're right.  Okay, good. She shouldn't be answering the phone right now. I hope she was initially I figured that's how she is. Yeah, but um, we're still here for you And i'm happy to come back out again and visit with you and your neighbors and thank you for being here tonight Thank you Oh Our next speaker is diana madrano Followed by johi and giri Good evening. Um, I want to start off by thanking you guys for this platform for allowing the public to come and provide You know their concerns. Um, so thank you for your time and attention tonight My name is diana madrano and my family and I live in district five I'm here tonight to speak about a park in our neighborhood that has been waiting for a decade to be completed mojo valley park The park site has a historic marker to commemorate the mojo valley park that once stood there The city of fort worth purchased the park property in 2014 And within the past 10 years has not made substantial progress to fully complete the park Just last month on february 17th There was a community meeting which we greatly appreciate but yet we heard two concerning items One it was mentioned by mistake and completely understand that it was said by mistake that there are no public arts for the public art funds for the park But that led that statement to be um, published in the fort worth report on february 24th Um post the meeting i've received confirmation that the public art funds are there But I want the public to know that that was a mistake spoken there but it also gave us the impression that When someone stops looking funds get reallocated or moved I traced back the annual work plans year after year after those funds were approved and they appeared on those annual work plans up until last year in 2023 Second it was mentioned a timeline of one year to design the park and another year to construct If 10 years wasn't long enough another two more years So i'm here to plead that the city stopped kicking the can down the road And start constructing and finish what it should have done years ago My children are should not have to be here tonight. Instead. They should be enjoying a completed park So i'll leave you with this question is now finally the time for mojo valley. Thank you Thank you Miss fadrano. I'm gonna make sure that mr. Zavala Connects with you tonight. Thank you Mr. Geary Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen expected major member of the city councils Thank you for giving me a time to speak few words here for too long our community Has awaited for the construction of this park that might never just mentioned There's been a lot of bureaucratic huddles Fund has been allocated to the other side of the City construction or improvement works from the fund that was meant to be spent for this park I'm not here to point out any particular council members or team for the delay or anything, but This is 10 years for just simple open field park is unacceptable and are hard of There's not really any structural Or mechanical or anything that needs to be considered. So looking at just playing ground with basic trail for the kids to walk around and play ground And funding of nine hundred thousand dollars to do Such construction and 10 years I don't know what explains for 10 years delay on that The delay in this park is not Only is inconvenient, but it's also a disservice to the resident who have long awaited For the space to gather to play and connect. It is denial of fundamental right Right to access greener space community facilities to foster the sense of belonging and well being The ramification of this delay extends far behind the confined space of the paperwork and procedure obstacles It is felt in the face of the children who have now No way to play no way to run The frustration in the face of the parents Seeking the safe environment for their families and this illusion meant for the neighbors who have felt forgotten and neglected I can understand ideally by promise that were made and remain unfulfilled Deadline are missed and voices are silenced by the force of these bureaucratic corridors Thank you, mr. Geary Allocating funding All right that you concluded my apologies keep going sorry a location of this funding to carry out any improvement and construction work of other part of the city or in first group Is any tickle Funding of the park supposed to be going to the fund to the construction of the park Again, there should not be any delay on the construction And and I see this timing babes, but I had some more. Thank you, mr. Geary Appreciate you coming. Sorry. Your time has concluded again. Make sure you get with mr. Zavala. Thank you Our next speaker is Danielle Tucker Mayor she hasn't answered the phone yet. Okay No one Danielle Tucker is not here. Okay Sue Freiburg Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak tonight I would really appreciate it if you paid attention to what I have to say since your political futures could be affected By the decisions you are about to make regarding the city of Fort Worth As a citizen of Fort Worth I'm concerned that you're about to lead us down a path of higher taxes For a little to no gain We are aware that there is a decision to be made regarding the future of ems service Understandably things change over time However change for change's sake or for the hubris of the department head is no reason to dismantle A worldwide known and respected organization The same organization has been providing high quality clinical care For over 30 years to this and surrounding communities at no cost It is now asking for assistance in overcoming some of the same challenges that all ems services are facing That cost in comparison to dismantling the system and utilizing a fire-based system and Is tens of millions of dollars different? Now you may have been influenced by backdoor politics and smear campaigns But you need to look at the true value of the service provided to this community And the innovations in ems that have come as a result of this service Ems has changed over the years and med star has been in the forefront of these changes Additionally many members of this council accept campaign donations From the very same organizations that stand to benefit from any change to the current model This reeks of corruption and those members should recuse themselves from any and all decisions to be made by this council In regards to any changes to be made This comes to you anonymously in fear of retaliation From department that I have devoted several years to Many members of the fire department came to work as firefighters And it was with full knowledge that the ems was run by a different organization That works in a partnership with each other The current administration has created a divisive and toxic culture that threatens to destroy these relationships that have been built over time No organization is perfect and both have their negative qualities But the overwhelming qualities of both are positive and patient care centered In conclusion, please think carefully about the decision you're going to make and how it impacts each of the tax paying citizens And this community as well as your ability to look to citizens in the eye And tell them that you're doing this for the betterment of the community and not just for political and single minded gain Thank you Sue just a quick question. I can't I want to respect the anonymity of the remarks there If it's you personally or if whoever wants to be anonymous I can have val washington reach out to you and you can have a conversation with her Who's helping to supervise the ad hoc emergency management committee That's up to you I guess she could reach out to me. Okay. Thank you. We'll do that. Thank you very much Our next speaker is jim dalong Good evening. My name is jim dalong It's an honor to stand before you tonight In 1859 Charles Dickens wrote a book called a tale of two cities And his opening lines are immortal are immortal in literary circles It was the best of times. It was the worst of times It was the age of wisdom It was the age of foolishness It was the epoch of belief It was the epoch of and crudility It was the season of light It was the season of darkness It was the spring of hope It was the winter of despair Sound familiar It could be written about the times that we're in There's such a divide of people's ideology For a few times I've had a red ball and I spoke about a red ball And some people think it's called green And when it's really red people will go to the mat for their ideology And if you look at this list It's interesting the title of the book is a tale of two cities But it's talking about one city It was the tale of two ideologies And that's what we face today And so, you know, why am I bringing this up? Because if we can open our eyes and to see that Different people can have totally they can look at the same thing They can experience the same thing and they can have opposite feelings about it It could be the best of times to some The worst of times to others It can be an age of wisdom It can be an age of foolishness It could be a season of light Or it can be a season of darkness And that's what uh, we're presented with today So it's a challenge to all of us here in this room It's a challenge to all that will hear my voice speak this on youtube What are you going to look at? How are you going to look at it? You know, you have the glass half full A pessimist sees that it's half empty An optimist sees that it's half full I can look at an empty glass without there being a vapor of water in it. I see it overflowing Because I believe in the human condition I believe through the centuries man has proven That we can excel That we can come together And as we come together There's unity there's strength in unity Sorry, thank you. Thank you, mr. Dong Our next speaker is Muhammad Farouq followed by Walid Abulhamad Mr. Muhammad Council I greet you with the best of the greetings. Peace be upon all of us present here Mayor we did have the open house. We invited we had invited all of you I understand everybody's has a busy schedule. It would have been nice to have you there We had we had a good community show And we discussed a lot of issues and also educated a lot of people Our invitation to all of you is always open You're always welcome to get in touch with us and stop by And talk about the issues that I talked about last time Regarding obviously the community our community is facing Erasism Islamophobia phobia anti-semitism and obviously the need for ceasefire With that with that what I'd like to say is that I wonder why it has to be that elected officials and politicians can only react At the fear of Getting booted out Michiganders spoke and they spoke loudly last week And after that number two in the administration Kamala Harris on sunday did call out for a ceasefire And in fact invited Benny Gantz By passing the thing out who won monday, but why am I saying all this? I'm saying all this because We are a global world What we do here, especially with our tax dollars Impacts a lot of us abroad And one of the reasons is That I'm going to show you this picture at a city council Sorry the Very outside now we can spend those tax dollars and if you all have ever driven a Lancaster You know what I'm talking about the homeless situation. I don't have to preach that over here That's our tax dollars council members We this is happening In in Gaza on our watch with our tax dollars and I've said that before And we have a lot to do with it. So I'd be happy if some of you could call One of the defense contractors and tell them, you know what you can ship a lot of missiles and and and military coup in the broad But for everything ship give us one dollar and I bet you we can solve these issues Other than that if Moses and Abraham were on your right Jesus and Lot and Joseph and Jonah peace be on upon all of them where you left What would they advise you to do As as far as the humanity calls and then contemporary history if Mandela and Gandhi wasn't your right mayor And Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were on your left. What would they advise you to do for people suffering in the world? Thank you very much Our next speaker is wallad. I have delma helmet I agree with the greetings of Islam. Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings You guys are all familiar with this ceasefire resolution that we've been begging for Everywhere all over the this the country I want to speak to everyone in this room not just the city council members not just the mayor But I've already said this last time I want to say it again This country has been built on racism towards all minorities It has enabled systematic oppression and violence time and time again It was built upon taking people out of its land The same way is real has been taken the land from its people And has been very has been made very very clear in the last few months This isn't only about the innocence of most of Palestinians or Muslims or Arabs or whatever minority you think of But this is also about American citizens just like My my brother Muhammad just mentioned There are people who are affected here in this country There is a brother whose name is Zachariah that we mentioned a few weeks ago. He was stabbed in Arlington He's from Arlington. He was stabbed in Austin. He wasn't doing anything. He just had a flag on his car There's also Aaron Bushnell who we're all familiar with what we all know what just happened to him We have Dalat Khan a Muslim physician who was stabbed in Houston due to Islamophobia During the last four months Wadiah al-Fayyum stabbed 26 times a kid 26 times an American citizen because of a lie that president Biden said That he that his administration administration later on came by came back and said that that was a lie that wasn't That was fabricated We're all very frustrated. We're all hurt by this and we're asking for a ceasefire for our For all of humanity's sake America has been Tearing the Middle East apart tearing it apart time and time again We're just here to make our voices hurt for them and for anyone who might Could be affected by this It could be me. It could be my sister. It could be my brother I don't want to see anyone get hurt We've been saying it time and time again that we want peace. We want a ceasefire Over the last couple of weeks Kamala Harris came out or I think it was last week or two She wants to he they want a six-week ceasefire And if you look into the between the lines, you know why they're asking for it And the biden administration Inside the white house they sent out an anonymous call for a ceasefire So like my brother Muhammad said, Texas was the last of Bosch slavery.  So now I'm on it Our next speaker is Asayu Jafri followed by nor Hasan Hello esteemed council members I stand before you today with a question that goes beyond the boundaries of our media community When you leave your neighborhood, what do you see? Bustling streets of familiar faces signs of everyday life But do you ever consider what the people in Gaza see when they step out of their homes? They see a landscape desecrated by bombs and destruction Now Oh, you may wonder what this has to do with you. Well, I'm a resident of district two Let's make this clear when I come out of my neighborhood. I don't just eat people like neighbors and bustling streets. I see Is it? I see the suppliers of weapons that contribute to mass destruction in Gaza of the systems Council members, I understand that you may feel a little tired and perhaps annoyed by our persistent calls for change After all you said that you don't see it happening or it was beyond your control But let me share what truly tires and annoys me Having to repeatedly ask those who are meant to represent me to fulfill their responsibilities and to exhibit basic human compassion Do you want to know what I find truly exhausting? Witnessing the refusal to acknowledge and act against atrocities occurring And I'm not the only one who feels this way recently a young air force member from texas set himself on fire Or because he was so tired of his ongoing genocide Before he died he said I will no longer be complicit in genocide I implore you to consider the way of your decisions The only outcome of turning a blind eye to the ongoing genocide is the stain of innocent blood on your hands How can and you as Presentatives remain unmoved when faced is with If the constituents who have not lost one who have not lost two but 20 members of their family How can you justify inaction when confronted with the human tolls of your indecision? We come to you not out of a desire for inconvenience, but out of desperation hoping that you will recognize the great Gravity of the situation and take a stand for justice and humanity Counts members the time for change is now the responsibility lies on your shoulders And the choice you make will shape the legacy of our city and its stance on morality In compassion let us not be remembered as the community that turned its back on those in need But that one that stood up against injustice and worked here at the world where people can Live without the fear of bombs and destruction. Thank you Here is nor Hasan followed by arsalan jaffrey Council members. Thank you so much for letting me speak today. My name is nor Hasan. I am a citizen of footwork. I have been born raised gone to school married Open and closed businesses here And I am here to talk to you about the same thing that the last few speakers have spoken about But I'm going to paint you a different picture Several years ago a movie came out. It was called the hunger games And I know that whether you watched it you have no doubt that you've heard about it And I remember specifically when I watched this movie I couldn't imagine how someone could even imagine this world How they could imagine the cruelties they showed and how they're able to depict Let's forget the fact that three movies came out and then recently the the Prequel to it And now looking at it. I wonder wow If we try to make a movie today about today's things We wouldn't even be able to rate it. We wouldn't be able to show these things You all saw cnn is finally covering them the covering the media footage After four months the atrocities that are happening Everybody knows what happened recently the flower massacre the fact that just over basic Flower and water they're being shot up and killed in the streets No one is stopping them. No one is giving aid. No one is allowing They're hurting the humanitarians. They're hurting the people helping. They're hurting the ones trying to get the food All they're doing is trying to get flower and water. That's it. They're not committing any crimes. They're not doing anything They're not saying anything. They're just trying to get basic food We can't even show documentaries of what's going on because they're so horrific We can't even even imagine as privileged citizens of the united states What they actually are going through because we haven't seen that kind of cruelty in our country And now one way or another America will always be remembered for its complicity And let's be honest as american citizens We are all complicit because we all pay taxes and hundreds of thousands of dollars Go from Fort Worth alone and as long as we are members of this city We are all complicit and so Together we should all think about the fact that we want this to be ended and stopped and that we need to figure out a way I have been told countless times here that you guys don't have jurisdiction and you have no power But you have far more power than we do and that's why I have no doubt that you want to Make sure that in our history Fort Worth doesn't look like what it's done in the past that America will look better It's up to you to decide how your story will be written and how you will be remembered It should not be elicited by fear or being kicked out You should want to hope that this is what I would want for myself and for my family or my community And that's why I'm begging. Please. We need to stop the funding to israel We need the money locally. We need it in our city for so many things I've been listed tonight and more so and we need to request for a ceasefire resolution. Thank you very much Our next speaker is arsalanjafri followed by rachel thompson Okay, before we get started With the main speech. I just wanted to put it out there at that rather than providing a subsidy to bell textron for expansion Might be more useful for parks But as a recap of our last sessions We have normalized and tolerated the following mass murder of civilians execution of children execution of people waving white flags murdering of the first responders collective punishment through blockade of humanitarian aid forced starvation destruction of homes hospitals and schools It's now day 153 of the live streaming of the genocide and the new list of things that we are willing to normalize and tolerate now include death of at least 10 children through starvation execution of starving people that are attempting to get aid the flower massacre is the largest of those events It is not the only one of those events execution of prisoners after they're used for whatever purpose that the military deemed necessary like telling a hospital to evacuate before they destroy it and then executing that individual the beating of family members of captives who are protesting for a peaceful release of their family members through tear gas and water cannons 2% of the gazon population has now been exterminated in six months Compared to the 3% that of the japanese that were killed over a six-year conventional war Okay, an american servicemen is set himself on fire his last words My name is erin bushnell I am an active duty member of the united states air force I will no longer be complicit in the genocide I am about to engage in extreme active protest But compared to what the people of palisthenics have been experiencing at the hands of their oppressor This is not extreme at all. This is what the ruling class has decided to be normal Not my words his words. I warned you guys last time You know, we will have the society we are willing to tolerate So We will keep coming and asking the city To pass a ceasefire resolution because what is normal and what should be tolerable is peace And a logical path forward Not the bliss of the ignorance That we are trying to stay in or even worse The complicity and silence Thank you Our next speaker is rachel thompson. Good evening council My name is rachel thompson And I came before you today to request that you speak up for injustice and demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire for gaza Our community looks towards its leaders for guidance and it's up to you the council before me today to use your voice Um to use your voice to take a stand against this genocide and no longer be complicit I'm able to stand before you today because my grandparents were able to escape ukraine from russian aggression many years ago And now my grandfather is watching it happen yet again in his homeland Thankfully with the support of the us ukraine has been able to fight against the gradient oppression Something that gaza has not been afforded instead our government continues to send bombs and weapons to israel aiding in the genocide of the palestinian people It's easy to take the stance that this is bigger than a citywide issue That speaking out and making a statement won't do anything of scale when decisions of war are made at higher levels If the loss of innocent lives is not enough to take action Then how about the loss of tax dollars that could be going into investing in our cities and working to solve the plethora of problems we have here Instead we are forced to fund the bombs killing innocent lives who have just as much right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness with our tax dollars Though we may live under the false sense of security that within the us border that we could never fathom something of this nature happening here I ask that you just take a moment to imagine your children under the rubble Imagine it's your children crying and unable to move due to hunger and there's not a single thing you can do about it And because the world chooses to sit by instead of intervene The actions of the iof and gaza directly impact our local community people settling People are setting themselves on fire in the streets because they cannot stand to see the atrocities unfold and hear the cowardice in the silence of our elected officials Changes in our country begin at a local level and I believe you became you came into this position Because you have a great love and commitment to your community and want to make a difference Do not underestimate the difference your voice can make This is nothing to do with blue or red left or right. It's right and wrong All I ask is that you use your voice to speak up for what is right And imagine the message that it would send if on a city-wide level Throughout the nation that city's called for a ceasefire I believe that we have the ability to make change, but we must speak up for humanity depends on it free palestine. Thank you Our next speaker is akifah khan Followed by adrian smith by phone Hi, my name is akifah khan and I am in district six. I grew up in fort worth I went to jt stevens. I'm south african indian my parents My dad he He was in a place called Riverside in durban south africa and Under the south african government at that time they had a they They kicked my dad and grandparents out of the house For to replace it and rezone it as a white only area um the um And that was just as a south african indian as a south african black person. It was even worse They had to live in something called a They had to live in basically a Bantu stone that's what it was called the parallels between South africa and israel right now South africa would call them foreign natives israel calls them present absentees so My grand-uncle he came here to america to fort worth in the 70s. He came here because He wanted to have a right to education He came here to study aeronautical engineering He couldn't do that in south africa because of his ethnicity because of his skin talent so Well, he He served in the military in the air force Um, he studied at uta. I studied at uta. I have a degree in history in african american studies I want to say that You need to be we all need to be on the right side of history. We need to say no To what is to what our federal government is doing right now? We need to call for a permanent ceasefire And that's all I have to say Thank you, miss con Our last speaker is adrian smith by phone Mr smith Oh, yes Go ahead. Yes. Adrian smith. I am Adrian smith. I am one with the people When the deer is caught in headlights What What happens to it When the dirt is caught in headlights What usually happens to it? I'll say that to say this To the chairperson and to the Representatives of the various districts of this city please stop patronizing individuals When they come before you to speak and call out the Things that you are not doing that you should be doing to the representative of district 8 Sir, I am watching the current the most recent um, I just discussed and that was had with the historic south park community um 23 years of this investment by this city, although You weren't were not a part of the 420 you do not represent In a position you in for the last 23 years You are now a determined representative sir You have a obligation to ensure that this This necessary development gets off the ground It seems as if uh Again, like I say the last week that county island has taken more importance than the historic south side So i'm gonna leave that there. I have more to say on it But i'm gonna leave that to the individuals of mojo valley who came out speaking regards to the 10 years of empty promises as relates to your park again. It's your representative This falls on your representative but You all have an obligation. We all have obligations as people we put these individuals in we can take them out And we don't have to wait to an election year There is the power of recall. So I want people to be mindful of that we have a power of recall always at our side And although the representatives of district five is stated that she's no longer going to run Be assured that she's going to uh I advocate for someone else. So I say go with the opposite As as it relates to the uh dismantling of our ems paramedic system. I hope this isn't true But if it is shame on you council and to the individuals who collect the voices then on behalf of the palestinian people uh again We had a power to vote these individuals out. They've already made their Stands with the proclamation that they that they've decided up on. So then she was the power to vote and let's get them out The people of palestine have a right to exist Again, Adrian do you have one more speaker miss ramon did walk in I wanted to honor her time to speak Rita if you want to come down, please I had to speak about the homeless problem we have in here I wrote some statement down It's kind of like a poem kind of um, but and I wrote this Homeless a person without a home still wants to feel safe and without a home To feel safe that person feels lost Hopefully not lost forever, but will help come in time or not most likely at all That person without a home feels even more lost and hopeless That help will never come That person without a home will continue to do her best with what she has and be Grateful that she wakes up another day. Hello. My name is reader moan. I've been homeless too many times to count and every time Homeless it's even harder to get the help I need which makes me more depressed I refuse to take down any more numbers as I already know that numbers that say they will help You only need to um dead ends and more depression I went to the other meeting about the homeless and I couldn't send through the home meeting Because I wanted to comment and I was thinking no one is going to get help they need Because no one is being accountable for their actions Um one other point I heard is that you were trying to follow houston homeless problem But I can tell you that I was homeless in houston too. I never got the help I need There to find a home for me and my daughter So I came back to fort worth in 2012. I managed to move into A garage apartment in the north side of fort worth stayed there for four years with my daughter And still wanted a safer place for me and my daughter to Call home. So the first chance I got I moved the me and my daughter To the west side of fort worth and stayed there for seven years recently illegally evicted another point that At that meeting that I heard is that someone said that That people want homeless people to disappear But that will won't happen At all if you still ignore the problem and not keep these organizations accountable for not keeping a high standard For customer service for people in need That's all. Thank you council. That's the conclusion of our meeting. Thank you