Hello everyone, welcome to this special Cube conversation here in our studios in Palo Alto, California. I'm John Furrier, the co-founder of SiliconANGLE Media and co-host of the Cube, with a special preview of CyberConnect 2017, a global security conference presented by Centrified's an industry independent event. I'm here with the CEO and founder of Centrified, Tom Camp. Tom, thanks for joining me on this preview of CyberConnect 2017. It's great to be here again. So you guys obviously as a company no longer started clearly clearing the runway on growth. Congratulations on success. This event will be broadcasting live on the Cube as folks should know on the site. CyberConnect 2017 is a different kind of event. It's really the first of its kind where it's an industry gathering, not just a black hat. I mean, RSA's got a black hat and they try to weave a little business of, this is all about leadership in the industry. Is that right? Yeah, absolutely. No, there's really a dearth of business-focused discussions with C-level people discussing the issues around security. And so what we found was, was that most of the conversations were about the hackers, the methodology of going in and hacking in. And that doesn't really help the business people. They have to understand, what are the higher level strategies that should be deployed to make their organizations more secure? So we kind of wanted to up level the conversation regarding security. And help C-level people, board people, figure out what they should be doing. And we've obviously been reporting on SiliconANGLE, obviously the latest and greatest on hacks.  And we saw that in the hearings in the Senate where Facebook got really grilled by, is it a real threat? No, but there is a threat in the sense that they're putting opinion shaping. So there's a broad range of business issues. Some are highly nuanced, some are very specific business value. You're out of business or you get hacked. So how do you see that? Because is that the discussion point? Is it more policy, all the above? What is the overall conversations going to be like at CyberConnect 2017? Yeah, I think it's, I mean, look, the reality is, is that breaches before were about potentially stealing your data, but now it's an impact on your brand. Like, what if the Russians were doing that to Pepsi or Coca-Cola, et cetera? I mean, they could just completely set up a lot of negative sentiment about you. So there's a lot of different ways to impact organizations as well. And so what we're doing at CyberConnect is putting forth CIOs of Etna, US Bank, and having them describe what they do.  So we're talking to, and we're having the major CISOs of these large organizations tell their peers what they're doing to protect their company, their brands, et cetera. Well, I want to get back to the business and impact in a second, but some notable keynotes here. Securing a nation amid change, a roadmap to freedom from retired general Keith Alexander, former director of the NSA and chief of the US Cyber Command. Why is he there? What's the focus for his talk? Well, you can't ignore the government aspect. Well, first of all, government is a huge target. And we obviously saw that with the election. We saw that with the hack of the office of personnel management, et cetera.  So General Alexander can talk about what he did to protect us as citizens and our government, but he also has a great insight in terms of what hackers are doing to go after critical infrastructure. He's got some experience thinking about it. So he's going to bring that thinking in. Absolutely. And he's going to give us an update on the latest vectors of attacks that are happening and give us some insight on what he experienced trying to protect the United States, but also try to protect our businesses and infrastructure.  And you've got amazing guests here. I've got the CISO from Aetna, the chief security officer from Cisco, the global value chain. You've got US Bank. You've got Amazon Web Services here, talking about the best practice of running workloads on an Amazon service cloud. So you've got the gamut of industry, as well as some government people who have experienced dealing with this from a practitioner standpoint. What's the convoluteness of that? What's the trends that are coming out of those? What can people expect to hear and look forward to watching the videos for? You know, I think it's going to be some of the trends that you guys talk about. It's like, how can you leverage AI and machine learning to help better protect your organization as well? So that's going to be one huge trend. I think the other trend, and that's why we have the folks from Amazon, is in a world in which we're increasingly using mobile and cloud and leaving the perimeter, you know, in a world where there's no perimeter, how can you secure your users, your data, et cetera? So I think the focus of the conference is going to be very much on leveraging modern and new technologies, AI, machine learning, discussing concepts like zero trust, and then also figuring out and helping people really get some good ideas about, as they make the move to cloud, how can they secure themselves and make themselves more secure than when they had the traditional perimeter set up?   I mean, Google comes out with announcements, Microsoft, Oracle, et cetera, and security is a key issue, and they're trying to provide a more secure platform to get people comfortable moving with the cloud. At the same time, there's vendors such as Centrify, that there's value add that we can provide, and one area that we specifically provide is in the area of identity, right, and controlling who can access what as well. So, yeah, it completely reshapes how you do security, and the vendors are contributing, and then what's so important that the solutions that we had before are being completely disruptive, and they need to be completely adopted for the new cloud world. I know it's your first event, you guys are underwriting this, it's presented by Centrify, it's not sponsored by, it's not your show, although you're doing a lot of heavy lifting and supporting this, but your vision for this CyberConnect is really more of a gathering amongst industry folks, we're certainly glad to be part of it, thanks for inviting us, we're glad to be there, but this is not a Centrify-only thing. Explain the presented by Centrify, vis-a-vis this CyberConnect. And we've also put forth another organization that we've worked with, it's an organization called ICIT, the Institute for Critical Information Technology, and what they are is they're a think tank, and they are very much about how can we support and secure the infrastructure of the United States as well, and so we didn't want this to be a vendor fest, right, we wanted to be able to have all parties, no matter what technologies they use, to be able to come together and get value of this, and it benefits Centrify because it raises awareness and visibility for us, but even more important that we wanted to give back to the community and offer something unique and different that this is not just another vendor fest show, et cetera, this is something where it's a bringing together of really smart people that are on the front lines of securing their organizations, and we just felt that so much value could be driven from it because all the other shows are all about how you can hack an ATM and all that stuff, and that's great, that's great for a hacker, but that doesn't really help business people who- For vendors trying to sell something, right? Exactly. Another platform to measure something. Yeah, exactly. This is more of a laid-back approach. Well, I think that's great leadership, I want to give you some props for that. Thanks. You guys are very, as you said, community-centric, and you mentioned community, this is about giving back, and that's certainly going to be helpful, but security has always been kind of a community thing, but now you're starting to see the business and industry community coming together. What's your vision for the security community at the CXO level? What's needed, what's your vision? Yeah, I think what's needed is better sharing of best practices and really more collaboration because the same attacks that are going to happen for, say, one healthcare organization, the hackers are going to use the same means and methods as well, and so if you get the CISOs in the room together and hear what the others are experiencing, it's just going to make them more better. So the first thing is to open up the communication. The second thing is that could we figure out a way from a platform or technology perspective to share that information and share that knowledge, but the first step is to get the people in the room to hear from their peers of what's going on, and frankly, government at one point was supposed to be doing it, it's not really doing it, so I think an event like this can really help in that regard. Well, and also I would just point out the growth in GovCloud and following some of the stuff going on on Amazon as an example had been skyrocketing, so you started to see industry and government coming together, and now you've got a global landscape. This is interesting times and I want to get your reaction to some of the things that have been said here on theCUBE and also out in the marketplace where it used to be state actor game on state on state, and then they revealed their cards and they're out in the open, but now the states are sponsoring through open source and also in these public domains, whether it's WikiLeaks or whatever, you're starting to see actors being subsidized or sponsored, and so that opens up the democratization capability for people to organize and attack the United States and companies.  It's mere journalists for 10K. Exactly, it's like it's as a service, hacking as a service, they have help desk, et cetera, and the interesting thing is. It's a business model. It's a business model, you're absolutely right, that people, it's all pay to play, right? And just the number of resources being devoted and dedicated, and we're talking about thousands of people in Russia, thousands of people in North Korea, thousands of people in China, and what came out just recently is now that they're shifting their target to individuals, and so now you may have an individual that there may be a person just dedicated to them in China or Russia or North Korea trying to hack into them as well. So it's getting really scary, and that's why. It's almost too hard for one company to brute force. This is where the collective intelligence of the community really plays a big difference on the best practices, because when you thought you had one model nailed, not just tech, the business model, it might shift. So it seems like a moving train. Yeah, and I think there needs to be, and we're having NIST show up, and so we're getting the government, but I really think that there does need to be kind of a more of an open sourcing of knowledge and information to help better fine tune the machine learning that's needed and required to prevent these type of breaches. So what can we expect? Obviously there's a preview to the show.  What can people expect of the event content-wise? What are your favorites? Well, I mean, first of all, just the people that we have there. I mean, we're going to get the two CCOs from two of the biggest healthcare companies. We're going to get the former head of the NSA. We're going to get the CISO of US Bank. I mean, we're talking the biggest financial services organizations. We're going to have the biggest healthcare organizations.  Oh yeah, master card. We're going to get the, we have the German government there as well. I mean, so we've got government, both US as well as European. We've got all the big people in terms of that have to secure the largest banks, the largest healthcare, et cetera. So I think, and then we also have, as you talked about, obviously, Centrify is going to be there, but we're going to have AWS and we're going to have some other folks from some of the top vendors in the industry as well. So it's going to be a great mixture of government, business as well as vendors as well, participating, contributing and talking about these problems. So it's an inaugural event. Yes. You're looking for some success. We'll see how it goes. We'll be there. What can you expect? You're going to do this every year, twice a year. What's the thoughts on the event itself? It's been amazing, the response. So we just thought we were going to have 400 people. We sold out where we're getting close to 600 people. And now we're going to have over a thousand people that are going to be doing the live streaming. I mean, there's just a huge pent-up demand for this as well. So we actually had a kind of shutdown registration and sold out a week or two ago or so. And so far it looks really good. Let's see how it goes. But it looks like we can easily double this. And so we're already thinking about next year. We'll see how the event goes. But if you just look at the lineup, look at the interest or whatever, there's a pent-up demand to better secure government and enterprises. And leadership, like you guys are taking as initiation, plus others coming together, we're certainly super glad to be a part of the community. And we look forward to the coverage. This is really kind of what the industry needs. Absolutely. All right, Tom Kemp, the CEO and founder of Centrify, really fast-growing startup, doing an event for the community, very strong approach. I love the posture. I think that's the way to go out of these vendor shows. You know how I feel about that. It's all about the community. This is a community. It's a Bitcoin, it's a blockchain. Know your customer anti-money laundering. It's an identity game. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, by the way, Quick, is there going to be any blockchain action there? Or is it? I don't know about that. I don't think so. Next year. Next year, exactly. It's certainly coming. Blockchain security as well as a lot of great topics. Check out CyberConnect 2017. If you can't make it to New York, they're sold out. Thecube.net is where you can watch it live. And of course, we'll have all the video coverage on demand on thecube.net as well. So we'll have all the sessions on great stuff. Tom Kemp, CEO. I'm John Furrier from TheCube here in Palo Alto. Thanks for watching.


Hello and welcome to the session. This is Professor Farhad and the session we're going to look at the FIFO method when it comes to process costing. FIFO method compute unit cost using only the cost and output from the current period. Simply put, the FIFO method ignores anything that's coming from the prior period. And we'll see an example how do we do so. Now we're going to be using the same example that we use it with the weighted average method. And to kind of recap, the steps are the same between the two methods. We're still going to have to compute the equivalent units of production. We're going to have to compute the cost per equivalent unit and assign the cost to unit. So the steps are the same. But the way we compute the cost of equivalent unit are a little bit different and we only use the current cost. So let's start by computing the equivalent unit. So this is the data that we are giving from Smith company, which is the same data that we work for in the prior example. So let's read this very carefully. At the beginning of the month, we have June 1st, the beginning of the month, we have work in process 300 units, 40% completed as far as the material, 20% completed as far as to conversion cost. This period in June happens to be the month of June. We start at 6,000 unit. Unit completed and transferred out were 5,400. Excellent. And work in process at the end of June, we still have 900 unit, 60% as far as completion, as far as material and 30% as far as conversion cost. So let's first highlight the first main difference between FIFO and the weighted average. When it comes to the FIFO, we are only going to count the work that we're going to be putting this period. So simply put, anything completed in the prior period is not counted. And what's completed in the prior period? What's completed? Well, from the prior period, let me use a different pen, this way I highlight where I need to highlight. This is what's completed in the prior period, 300 units. And those 300 units, as far as material, they are completed as far as 40%, right? 40%. What if they are 40% completed? What remained to be completed? What remained to be completed is 60% as far as material. So if we take 300 unit times 60, what's remained to be completed? And this is remain to be completed. Be careful. What we look for, we don't include anything from the prior period. We want to know what remained to be completed. This is as far as material. We'll do the same thing for the conversion cost. We have 300 units, and the conversion cost is 20. Therefore, what remained to be completed is 80% times 80%. What remained to be completed is 240 units. Remained to be completed. The equivalent of 240 units. So the first thing we do, and this is, the reason I took my time a little bit more time on the step, just to remind you, this is the main difference between the two. Okay? So notice we'll take 300 unit times 60% how 100 minus 40 equal to 60%. What does 60% represent? That represent the remaining unit to be completed. 300 times 80%, 100 minus 20 is 240. Now, units started and completed during June is 5400. Hold on a second. How did I come up with this figure? 5,000, I'm sorry, 5,100. Well, let's go back to the original data. We are told unit completed and transferred out was 5,400. Okay, that's fine. So how did I know? Well, it's actually, it's given to me, not given 5,400 units and completed during June. So during June, we completed and transferred out 5,400. So we're saying here unit completed during June only 5,100. Why? Because remember, we have 300 coming from the prior month. So the assumption is we're going to complete those first. Remember, the method is first in, first out. So if the total that we completed is 5,400, if the total is 5,400, if the total is 5,400. Well, guess what? We have to subtract from it the 300 that came in, therefore completed, started and completed this month 5,100. So this is how I came, how I find out units started and completed during June. Now I transferred 5,400. Why? Because I added the 300. I added those 300 that I completed first. That's 5,000, first in, first out. Then what do I have an ending inventory? Obviously I have to find out my whip inventory, my whip ending inventory. Whip ending inventory, I will take the units which is 900 completed times 60%. Not remain to be completed, what's actually completed. Be careful. When you are computing the beginning inventory, beginning whip, you multiply it by 100% minus the percentage, whatever is left. Here you multiply it by the percentage itself. Okay, be careful. For conversion, 900 unit obviously and 30% completed as far as conversion cost. That's 270 and that's given me for material 540. So basically what I find out now is one of the most important computation in process costing and that's equivalent unit, an ending inventory, equivalent unit, an ending work in process, 5,820 as far as material and 5,610 as far as conversion. Let's take a look at this computation from a different perspective, from a different perspective. Here we have 600 units started this period of the 600 unit, 5,100 units started and completed. Okay, and 300 units, okay, 5,100 units started and completed. And remember what we did is this, the 300 unit, what happened is we needed to complete 60% as far as material. Why 60% because they were 40% completed, which is equivalent to 180. Then we added to them the 900 unit times 60% the ending inventory. And this is how we find out equivalent units of production, which is the same thing as this number right here, just a different computation. Now we're going to do the same thing for the conversion cost. For the conversion cost, for the conversion cost, we started with 6, we started this period, 6,000 unit transferred out 5,100. So this is 5,100. Then from beginning inventory, we needed to complete 80%. We needed to complete 80%. Why 80% because they already started 20. We needed to complete 80%, which is 240 unit. Then we add to them the 900 times the conversion rate for the conversion, the conversion rate for the conversion cost, which is 30%, will give us 5,610. Again, this is the same thing as doing this computation, just showing you the picture in a different format. Now let's kind of make some general statement. The FIFO method, the method that we are using now, removes the equivalent unit that were already in beginning inventory. So we don't account for those. And this is one of the main differences. We don't account in the units in beginning inventory as we do when we use the weighted average. But that's very important. So when we compute the equivalent unit, we don't account for any unit we completed. That's why we're more completed in the prior period. Does the FIFO method isolate the equivalent unit due to work performed during the current period? So we only account for the unit worked for this period. So let me show you in a sense the formula what we did. The equivalent unit of production, let me just look at this, the equivalent units of production for material under the weighted average was 5940. So if you go back to the prior lesson and you would see that the equivalent unit was 5940, minus the equivalent unit of material already completed in beginning inventory, already completed in beginning inventory 120. So by taking, so basically in a sense it's a shortcut, if you take the weighted average number for material 5940, which computed in another session, then you subtract from it the units already completed 120. How do I know 120? Look, I had 300 unit in beginning inventory 40% completed. So 300 times 40% equal to 120. So all what I did is I took the average method and I subtracted from it any units completed and I figured out my FIFO. So this is how this is my FIFO equivalent unit and this is my weighted average equivalent unit. So basically if you find weighted average and subtract anything that was completed in the prior period, let's do the same thing for the conversion. The equivalent unit of production for conversion under the weighted average was 5670. 5670 under the weighted average and all we have to do is subtract any units that was already completed. Well, what was completed was 300 times 20% completed in the prior unit, so that's 60. So subtract from it 60 units, you'll come up with 5610, which is the FIFO weighted average. So simply put, notice you just have to take out from the weighted average any units completed from the prior period. And that's basically the basic concept of the FIFO. You isolate what you completed in the prior period, you don't count it in this period. And the only dollar amount you would use is the dollar amount that you spent this period and we'll look at it. Now compute the cost per equivalent unit. So notice here, this is what we spent already in the prior period. This is the prior period and this is this period. Okay, so notice what's going to happen. Notice what's going to happen. We're going to take, so again here how we compute the equivalent unit. Here how we compute the equivalent unit of production, we already figured it out. Unit equivalent and ending inventory plus unit started and completed plus unit to complete and beginning inventory. So unit to complete and beginning inventory is unit beginning inventory times 100 times the percentage of completion. We already computed this. Or you could take unit transferred out, which was in us 5100 plus the equivalent unit in work and process minus the equivalent unit and beginning inventory. We already did this computation. So this is how we assigned the cost. Notice 18621 divide them, divide them by the equivalent unit as far as material. And what we come up with $20 and 38 cent, the unit cost as far as material will do the same thing for conversion costs. 81,000 130 divide them by 5,610. So this is here's what I want you to notice. We did not use the prior period numbers. We did not use the prior period numbers because they were spent in the prior period. So we isolate the cost. We only accounted for this cost. Therefore the total cost per unit equivalent is $20 for the material, $14.46 for the conversion, a total of $34.84. Now what we do is we're going to assign that cost after we find the cost. We assign the cost to ending inventory. We still have 540 equivalent unit in ending inventory as far as material and 270 as far as conversion, which is 900 times 60 and 900 times 30. Remember, this is ending inventory. Then we assign the appropriate cost that we computed in the prior slide, $20.38 for the material and $14.46 for the conversion. Therefore, our ending inventory in total is $14,911, which is $11,006 for material, 540 units times $20.38. And for the conversion cost, the total ending inventory is $3,905, which is 270 equivalent unit times $14.46 the cost per equivalent unit. Then we were going to compute everything else. So this was from the prior period. This is from the prior period. Remember, this is from the prior period. This number, the 10,039, which consists of 6,119 plus 3,920 is from the prior period. Then what we do is we add, here's what we add, cost to complete beginning work and process. How much did it cost us to complete those additional units? How many additional equivalent units? 180 as far as to material and 240 as far as to conversion. Now we assign the dollar amount to them and we compute the total. So 180 equivalent unit that those are to be completed from beginning inventory times $20.38. Then for conversion cost, 240 units times $14.46 will give us $7,114. Now, unit started and completed is $5,100. How did I know this already? I did this computation multiplied by $20.38 and the $5,100 as far as conversion multiplied by $14.46. The material is 103,946 and for cost started and completed this unit and $73,755 for conversion together $177.701. So cost of unit transferred out altogether is $194,884. So this is what was transferred out and what's what's remaining an ending inventory is we're at the compute at $14,911. Now we need to kind of make sure that's the case. We need to prepare a reconciliation table. Let's make sure that's the case. The cost and beginning inventory, this is the cost of beginning work and process. This was from the prior period. Okay. Plus the cost added to production this period $199,751 equal to $209,790. Do we end up with $209,770? Yes. Cost of ending inventory, what we end up with is $14,911 and what we transferred out $194,880. Okay. So they do add up to $209,791. So basically we did reconcile, we did the proper reconciliation. Excellent. And in most situation, the weighted average and FIFO will produce very similar units, especially in lean production environment. And what is a lean production environment when there is no ending inventory? If there's no ending inventory, everything's going to be transferred out. So there's no ending inventory. If there's no ending inventory, guess what? There's no beginning inventory. Therefore, everything that you started, you moved out. So it doesn't matter which method you use, the weighted average or FIFO, you're going to yield similar results. If the ending and beginning is zero, you're going to yield exactly the same results. But if the beginning and ending are very small, they would yield the same results. Of course, because what makes the difference is the beginning and the ending inventory. Specifically the beginning, but the beginning of one period, I'm sorry, the beginning of one period was the ending of the prior. So it's the beginning and the ending. Now just keep in mind from a cost control standpoint, FIFO is superior. And as I told you from the beginning, why? Because FIFO only account does not mix the cost of two periods. Only account for the cost for this period. So if you want the cost of this period, FIFO is better. Now why is this important? This is important, especially when you have two periods and the cost of the two periods differs substantially. So for example, the cost was low here and suddenly we had a spike in the cost. Now if you add them together, you're going to have an average. But the average is not really representative of either period. If you are costing something, you want to properly cost something. Therefore, the FIFO is superior because it only gives you the cost that you spend during this period. And this is basically a summary of the FIFO method. Obviously, I will work a few examples just to show you how FIFO and the weighted average work. You're going to have to practice this. That's the only way to learn this. If you're studying for your CPA exam, obviously this is covered. It's also covered on the CMA and make sure you study for your courses. If you have any questions, any comments by all means, email me or see me in class. And good luck.


Welcome to your City Hall and to the District 8 Budget Town Hall, Councilwoman Kelly Allen Gray and I am delighted to see you all here and to those who are watching on Facebook Live and the City's Channel. Welcome to the budget overview. We're going to talk about our City's budget as well as the CCPD budget and so we're going to have, starting off, we're going to have our City Manager David Cook who'll present the budget and then our Chief, our Police Chief Ed Kraus who will come behind him will do questions in between. For those who are watching, there's a phone number on the screen so you can text in your questions or you can also call in and we will ask those questions during question and answer time so want to be respective of everybody's time so let's get started and I'll turn it over to our City Manager David Cook. Thank you Councilmember Kelly Allen Gray. What it's evening now, right? Good evening everybody. I'm David Cook, the City Manager and I'm going to give an overview of the City's budget at a pretty high level because I know we want to get to questions and also talk about the CCPD budget and back in February when we work with the City Council we set up a number of goals and again it's a very different period of time from February to now and I'll talk about some of those changes but some of our goals as we go through the budget process the first one is maintain or reduce the property tax rate as property values have been going up dramatically. The City Council has been reducing the property tax rate to but I'll say minimize the impact on property owners and I think we've needed to reduce the property tax rate to become more competitive from a business standpoint as well. The second goal is to maintain funding for capital investment and maintenance so one of the first things we have to decide in a budget is how much money should we set aside to maintain the stuff that we've already built like libraries and rec centers and roads and parks and so forth. How much money do we need to set aside for new infrastructure like roads and parks because we still are growing at 15 to 20,000 people a year so when you think about that every year we add nearly 100,000 people and I'd have you think about the infrastructure that's needed for a town or city of 100,000 and we've got to do that every five or six years. That's why we have bond programs. We're thankful that citizens have approved bond programs in 2014, 2018 and now we're planning for the bond program for right now plan for 2022. The third goal relates to as we go to the bond programs and we ask citizens to vote for whether it's a new fire station or library or park. When we build those things we have to operate them and maintain them so we have obligations that come with building those bond projects. We also have contracts with fire through the collective bargaining agreement and we have contract with the meet and confer for police officers. The fourth goal is implementing the recommendations from the task force on race and culture looking at equity and city services. In the current year that we're in we started the implementation of those recommendations. We carry those over to the second year and I can address some of those as well. Goal number five is about looking at how we fund police and the CCPD funding. I'll leave most of that for Chief Krause when he talks about the CCPD budget and then goal number six is really the reality of where we are now. I think we have to be thinking about preparing for fewer resources in the next couple years as we work through the economic impact of the pandemic. Real quick this is just to talk first about taxable values in Fort Worth. So if you look at the far left number that's the current year taxable value of all the property in the city forward. Now two things happen to grow that tax base or decrease that tax base. First is we look at all the existing values and whether they go up or down. So when you see that change in net taxable or net taxable going up by 378 million that's only a half a percent. That's the lowest increase in current values in at least the last six to eight years. So that's not growing very much. Thankfully we've got a lot of new development still under construction. That value is going up and that's 2.5 billion in new development put on the ground and that gives us a three and a quarter percent. So of the property tax base growing by less than four percent that's the smallest growth in the tax base in probably the last six to twelve. So this is a budget that's going to get tighter and there's not going to be the amount of property tax dollars we thought available. So the recommendation for the next year's budget is to keep the property tax rate the same and so this is how we break out the property tax rate. Overall it's seventy four and three quarter cents. And this is where we get into how much do we set aside for capital infrastructure. That's the debt. So we debt finance some of the infrastructure. And when you look at the O&M some of that money goes for programs and services and some of it goes to maintain some of the capital infrastructure that we have and some maintenance responsibilities and we use cash to pay for that. So we don't debt finance a lot of our maintenance. We debt finance building new infrastructure. I want to point out here we go. This is just a depiction of taxable value gross total assessed value and revenue over a longer period of time. And all I'll point out is the line is getting flatter and increase year over year before was greater. Now to the total budget. This is operating and this includes now all the different businesses that I talked about before. So this is water. This is storm water. It's our parking. It's solid waste and it's the general fund. So we spend every year one point eight billion dollars in the operating budget. This budget is less than a half a percent larger than the current year. So there's really not a lot of growth going on from one year to the next in the operating budget yet we're still going to grow in population 15 to 20,000 people. How about if I say next. There we go. Now let's just focus on the general fund which is going to be 1.5 percent higher than the current year budget. And this is the show the property tax makes up most of the revenue sales tax sales tax another 23% so when you think of property and sales tax that makes up roughly 79% of all the money in the general fund. Next the second goal that we talked about before was maintaining funding for capital investment maintenance and since we're keeping the tax rate the same and the tax base is growing a little bit we're maintaining our current level of investment for both those things and some of that that we fund also includes the neighborhood improvement strategy that we've been doing for the last four years. And then we are planning for the 2022 bond will open new facilities this year. Thank you very much. Golden triangle library actually opened I think on Tuesday. We're going to open the Riva carry library at the end of next fiscal year. The far north animal shelter new parks and we have their meet and confirm collective bargaining and all this again is intended to restate that if we're going to build these new facilities the new infrastructure new assets for the community we have to pay to maintain them once we open the goal for about the racing culture task force. We've had money in this year's budget and transportation public works but money in there to support more infrastructure and maintenance investments in parts of the city or we have more people of color. So when you look at street lights or maintenance of roads there was more money in this year's budget to do it in certain areas of the city and that's going to continue. One of the things we're looking at is is our level of investment our level of maintenance our levels of service equitably delivered in the city forward not equally delivered equitably delivered and that's a focus of the city and what the race and culture task force also pointed out. The current year budget we started the police monitor function out of the city manager's office and we're enhancing the upcoming budget and we're continuing to do the neighborhood improvements and that are one of the recommendations from the race and culture task force was to create this our new department we have in the city it's called diversity and inclusion that department will be working with all of the other businesses departments in the city to create equity plans to make sure we're doing what I just said that we're investing in provided services equitably throughout the city. Going back to the other businesses in the city these we call them enterprise funds they operate more like a business they charge rates so there's no public there's no general fund or property tax sales tax in these operations but you probably see these on your water bill if you get a water bill that's the biggest we have a storm water fee that'll be on your water bill we have solid waste that'll be on your water bill we also run airports and parking all these businesses make up 600 so million growing up by less than 1% one of the issues that the council will be wrestling with is on the solid waste fund we need to make it sustainable over a long period of time we have actually have a work session with the city council tomorrow and this will be one of the topic items and it's how do we make that fund sustainable over a long period of time one of the challenges is is that the residential fee is paying for almost the entirety of the fund but it's a fund that provides services not just for residents of the city. Jumping to special revenue funds the two largest I'll just talk about a little bit CCPD I won't spend a lot of time that's predominantly a half cent sales tax but the culture and tourism fund is our next largest and I want you to think about so this is what funds will Rogers but funds the convention center and most of that revenue stream comes from hotel tax revenue what has happened to hotel tax revenue since March plummeted so that fund is another topic for tomorrow so that we all understand how much that fund has tanked and what do we need to do to react to the drop-in we think about ticket tax hotel tax and so forth I'm gonna skip this one because you're gonna get a whole presentation on it but then the final goal and just to think about it and that's about preparing for a few resources the city has had a hiring freeze in place since March as soon as we asked people to stay home we knew revenues were gonna impacted and we've had a revenue excuse me hiring freeze in place we are reducing positions in the city of Fort Worth to bring our workforce cost in line with the new revenue picture and you to review service levels and positions throughout the next year I think next year when we're doing a budget will be harder than this year I have you think about it this way we know what the property tax values are for the upcoming budget year I've shown you that they they're still grow by less than 4% but if you're an owner of a hotel you're an owner of an office space that now has more vacancies you're an owner of retail space that is now not occupied you're an owner of a restaurant that is no longer operated or a bar I believe that those owners of those spaces are gonna be able to describe that the value of those properties should go down as much worry about residential values that I think there's a chance that act that commercial values actually go down next year when we're trying so back in February we showed the council that blue line that looks good I think we'll be dealing more with what the red line might look like so that we have to react a little bit differently as we talk about this year's budget and next year's budget going forward sales tax took a dive in March it's actually been starting to come back and so actually our June sales tax numbers were higher than even the previous year I think the sales tax was a drop-off for a while but I think it's coming back next we did reduce 50 net positions in the city one year to the next some departments are on both sides so they're adding positions and subtracting positions but overall it's a net reduction of 50 positions this is just again covering those six goals that we had in the budget and I think I have some slides on the capital real quick each year we talk about capital and that's infrastructure so think about roads parks libraries fire stations and we plan it out over multiple years because you can't think about capital in one-year increments you have to think about it over a longer period of time so every year we do a five-year capital plan we updated each year mostly it's funded either from cash like stuff you want to pay for infrastructure with both debt and cash and this just gives you an idea of how we pay for those things tax rate if you remember for the debt and the pays you go which is cash stayed the same so we're keeping our level of investment constant year over year and one of the things we also show the council every February is here's what our debt capacity looks like over time so when we think about the next bond program how big or small can that be based on a set of assumptions so we now updated the debt capacity with our current realities that's coming in February we told the city council based on the former assumptions that we could do probably 750 million in debt without raising taxes right but just those assumptions that we've changed based on that red line versus the blue line lost 250 million in debt capacity so it has a huge impact because it's a compounding effect over time when you change so when we show the capital improvement plan again it's for all our businesses and the general CIP they compete for the same dollars that waters got its own infrastructure needs and a way to finance it stormwater has its own way to pay for its infrastructure and finance it but the point I just want to share is the next slide we spend nearly three to four hundred million every year structure for all these different businesses the general plan and that number is about a hundred million a year that's mostly roads road maintenance think about water which is the largest capital plan that's for all the water and sewer lines that are being extended or replaced it's the new wastewater treatment plants or water plants that have to be built and the point simply being that infrastructure is a big component of our budget each and every year the city of Fort Worth is over nine hundred thousand in population and I have you think about and adding a hundred thousand every five to six years infrastructure needs that also drive the thing to talk about in the budget the budget meetings coming up some of these we've already checked off we have a budget meeting on CCPD with the city council next Tuesday we have public hearings on the budget the first one to be on September 1st second one on September 15th and if all goes well the city council will adopt the budget on the 22nd of September that concludes my part and be glad to answer any questions we have a few people who signed up to ask questions and if you could wait till you get the microphone so that we can we can hear it the first person the first person is mr. Lopez hello my name is Aramita Lopez I'm at 1704 Oakland Boulevard and I was just talking about the parks as a point for both mental and physical wellness during this COVID time and I live to where I can see the park from my house but the bridge has been closed on Oakland Park for about over six months and it's my wife doesn't feel safe there so we go come to Trinity Park and take up my daughter there but I just like to see more resources put into the local parks that we already have and we love it it's close but like I said with we just don't feel safe and comfortable there I do think the council believes the parks are important they're a big component of each bond program the council is also approved moving forward with what we're gonna call an open space plan how do we protect more open spaces so people can also enjoy those and we had our first purchase in that open space program broadcast Hill it had to come to me but so I do believe there's a agreement with your thought there that we ought to be doing more parks and open space next is mr. Hostler well I didn't think you'd get to me this quickly but my comment is good directed at Kelly and this goes back to about a year ago and I know all things considered when you talk about budgets and the impact that pandemics have on those kinds of things regardless I think we still need to be concerned about the quality of life that we have here in Fort Worth and if we want tax revenue then I think we need to continue to look towards the future in making Fort Worth a place that people want to come back to and live and not leave and to think we don't have that problem is would be inaccurate so what I'm gonna ask you about is not the thing that I would expect to go to the top of the list of priorities when we have big serious problems that are very important to solve but it's in regards to Medebrook golf course I live in north central Medebrook down the street and have been involved with that golf course since I was 10 years old and I still play I'm 65 years old and I played a one-handy cap I am an advocate and a supporter of municipal golf and of Fort Worth municipal golf because if you go back in our history the reason Fort Worth was a great place to live was very family friendly very kid friendly and civic leaders back decades ago said they wanted to bring golf to the masses they didn't want it to be an elitist activity they wanted regardless of where you were on the socioeconomic ladder you could have access to this great game and what we've got at Medebrook is it's landmarks that particular part of the city and top of that it's it's historic and you wouldn't know that unless you were sort of involved in the game but it was from a golf perspective it's a it's a a diamond in the rough to coin a phrase and I think it's been ignored for far too long in terms of its value to Fort Worth and what it could mean not only to our neighborhood in the community but to Fort Worth as a place that would make people want to come to live or visit Kelly you said about a little over a year ago I happened to catch a work session on video because I was interested in the gaming issue but also on the agenda was you were talking about Sycamore golf course and what was going to be done with that were you going to close the course turns out that that's what's happened it was probably a good decision because I think David Creek was the fellow's name pointed out that that golf course had lost four million dollars over its history and it was time to do something else my question is is there anything in the future for for Meadowbrook because to quote you you said you know if I'm gonna agree to close Sycamore then we're gonna need to see some improvement over here at Meadowbrook because we can't have the Taj Mahal Rockwood across town and have what we have over here it needs to be equitable so long-winded up to my question is there anything in the future for for Meadowbrook golf course in terms of renovating that course and and bringing it up to a standard that the city can be proud of let me start jump right in so I'll tell you that just remind that in the 2014 bond program was the redo of Rockwood 2018 bond program was the clubhouse for Rockwood we are now preparing the 2022 bond program and I know Meadowbrook is one of those projects that is being prioritized within the Parks and Recreation program if it shows up on the next bond program now what will happen is we will go to the community after we get that list of projects and get community input to see what gets on the final list of projects for the 2022 bond yes there's a conversation about it we're a year or so away from finalizing it but I would say I'd encourage you to stay involved and there will be public meetings to vet those projects we're good not unless you have something else you want me to say thank you okay we've had some questions come in through I'm text and on Facebook the first one I'm will the city be funding transit at 100% I'm a restaurant owner and my employees need reliable transit service let me start with tomorrow we'll talk about transit the training Metro made a request from the city for an additional $10 million over the current fiscal year we currently provide some funding to training Metro and the amount of money that's in the recommended budget for next year is the same amount that's in this year so it's not funded at the level requested by Trinity Metro okay we have two questions from the Glen Park Neighborhood Association will more money be put into funding bus stops in the neighborhoods that need benches and shelters some of the funding that is in our budget for Trinity Metro relates to sidewalks bus stops and bus stops sidewalks ADA improvements so some of that money is in the budget to improve that bus stops inside and these this next question has to do with the police monitor program first thank you for the live feed on Facebook when is the enhanced police monitor program going to roll out and what is the budget for that let me do this way so in the current year's budget we started with two positions monitor whose Kim Neil has been with us since March we had such a great applicant pool that we talked another person from that pool to join us so we actually found a way to add three into the current year so Cam and Denise who are the two people doing the police monitor function right now are doing a number of things when they're working with the police department and setting up procedures and also evaluating policies setting up a consistent we'll call it a complaint system so it doesn't matter where a complaint goes they're all being reviewed by the police monitor function it's also done a survey of the community and a survey within the police department filing those now and we'll share those I think sometime by the end of September if not before in the next year's budget are two additional positions to help out that office so that office will go from three to five and again it's an office that will still evolve and identify staffing needs along the way because of what workload requirements or demands put on that office then we'll look at additional staffing over time I would like to add to that on the city's website we have our gov delivery newsletter and one of the subjects that people can now sign up for is the police monitor office and if they want to get regular updates from that staff so I would encourage them to do that as well this is a really a comment to increase funding for after-school programs they're more they're needed more now to respond to the COVID-19 challenges how do people find out more about neighborhood improvement programs and when will the funding be announced for next year I would encourage if you're interested in the neighborhood improvement program to contact our neighborhood services department they're the ones that administer that program and we usually make that assessment and announcement I want to say in November December timeframe let me address the after-school program there's more money in the CCPD program for after-school program the chief might cover that we also we also talk today about using CARES Act funding to help with after-school programs at rec centers and neighborhood centers there are a few more and Trinity Metro comments but with the update tomorrow I think a lot of those questions will be answered and then I think someone from Parks and in a comment the Meadowbrook Golf Course irrigation pump house was replaced this year with at a total cost of three hundred and ninety thousand dollars those are all the questions I have right now I'm sorry y'all we are going to welcome our police chief at CARES to come and talk about the CCPD budget and then if you can give me your email information will you please allow me to send you the information on FOSTIK Dam and everything that's going on around Oakland Park we'd like to do that so I'm gonna turn it over to Chief Kraus and thank you David and oh before I do this while they're still getting ready let me say thank you to all of the city staff who is here thank you all for being with us this evening and to the marshals and to Chief Aldridge who was here I just appreciate you all taking time out of your evening and coming to spend this evening with us so that we can make sure that the citizens of Fort Worth actually know what's going on so thank you thank you as the CCPD came up for election this year we got a lot of questions with the national narrative going on local narrative going on about defunding police and what that means we had a lot of inquiries about why can't you fund this instead of what you're funding what we realized a lot of people didn't realize what we were funding with the CCPD so as we looked at proposing a budget for the next fiscal year what we wanted to do was highlight exactly what programs are in there and to make a clear delineation between what or traditional policing programs and what are the enhancements offered through the CCPD so we put a 40 of our community-based services into CCPD and out of the general fund and more of our traditional police services into the general fund we reduce budgets for equipment and enhanced enforcement because we were able to and increase budgets for crime prevention of recruitment training community partnerships take this opportunity to expand some successful programs and create some new so the CCPD is made up of five funding categories or initiatives enhanced enforcement we'll go through all these in more detail in just a minute neighborhood crime prevention partners with the shared mission recruitment and training equipment technology and infrastructure on the slide here last year's adjusted budget and those budget for fiscal year reduction in overall funding because of the reduction in sales some of the new or expanded programs is our crisis intervention team this is a program we started a couple years ago it's a dual response model or co-responder model where one of our officers who's trained as a mental health peace officer and has expanded training in that field teams up with a mental health provider and they go out and answer calls for people in mental distress and they also do follow-ups follow-up visits with people who have been in mental distress make sure those individuals are taking their medications have access to their medications have access to their doctors and that they are getting the help that they need one of the other issues or one of the other programs we want to start is a community service professionals program a crime response unit if you will made up of members from the community that go out and answer nonviolent calls in the community or by freeing up a police officer to be on available for more emergency calls one of the things that was brought up just a moment ago in at David's presentation with the question was expansion for hours or after-school programs that into that initiative falls under the partners with a shared mission and we are opponents within that are going to get a contract increased by 15% and then more funding to be available through competitive solicitation price and centervention team I talked about just a moment ago we currently have one team of six officers a corporal and a sergeant the to do that work they were housed in the general fund that allowed only for day shift coverage Monday through Friday what we are proposing is to expand that to two teams of ten each eight officers a corporal and a sergeant again paired with the mental health professional that allow us to coverage seven days a week throughout two shifts the capacity to build out the third shift third of our three shifts is the overnight shift and you know that's where the program will be able to expand it some of the other things we're doing with mental health is to partner with a local foundation that's agree fund all of our officers getting trained up as mental health peace officers and certified as such give them training so if they have to respond to somebody mental crisis that we better suit all getting a mental health advisory board with some nonprofits and some service providers to help guide us in our policy and how we respond to those calls our goal is actually to get guidance on which calls we can divert from ever coming to the police department divert to those service providers that we want to get the professionals that the opportunity crisis and not the police office you know the business because they're gonna be called where people have crisis and they needed police fonts and then when we encounter somebody with mental health crisis that requires police action right now we have a one option and that is if we can't get a health service provider we have to take them with partnering with Taren County and some of the area agencies as a third alternative which is to health crisis diversion center where they're at that location of staff with professionals and doctors that can give them the help they can or somebody who's involved in a low-level offense non-violent offense will be here instead of taking them okay I'm happy to the community response unit that I talked about is that the pilot program of ten ten non-sworn employees that are gonna answer calls in the community there's several similar programs in several different cities but kind of calls they would respond to a report calls where the suspects not on scene anymore loose livestock welfare checks stranded motorists abandoned property that kind of thing we have a large number of those priority three and four calls that come in they tend to sit in the queue for a long time because more urgent calls come requiring it the response of a police officer so these calls can hold for some of some for several hours while officers deal with emergency calls this program here would allow us to deal with these calls in a quicker fashion and also keep the police officers available for emergency calls and to work their beats as the beat officers we want them to be though to accomplish some of the stuff we're talking about moving the the software programs the enhanced programs into the ccpd and the other more traditional programs into the general fund these the numbers in parentheses are the number of full-time employees that are actually moving between the two funds so the SWAT the criminal tracking unit and the special response teams on the left are moving into the general fund and the ccpd additions are the crisis intervention team some of our administrators of community programs our bike units and the cadet program which we started this past year is a recommendation from the racing culture task force and that is hiring young people in a part-time position as a pipeline to get them into the police department also get them familiar with the police department and the the top program there is the hope or the homeless team that homeless outreach team has been established for about a year and a half now and it is shown great promise in the homeless corridor especially in dealing with people who are in camping out in the open people who are experiencing homelessness and they're able to direct them to services we started a partnership with our fire department where they put a paramedic with our officer and a mental health service provider to deal with those individuals and it's been very successful and very well received in the homeless community. The different five funding initiatives we'll go through those quickly here the enhanced enforcement is what we just talked about moving the personnel from SWAT criminal tracking unit SRT out of the CCPD and into the general fund those are the first three blue highlighted categories and then at the bottom the bike units are moving into the CCPD since they are a softer unit and also the cops hiring grant match as Mr. Cook pointed out we are not able to do a lot of hiring right now the matrix staffing study that was completed in January 2019 indicated that we had a long way to go to hire up to the number of officers needed for the size of our city and to provide the service levels our residents are accustomed to they said we need 157 officers immediately within additional 181 in the next decade because of COVID we are simply unable to fund that what we had started last year which was a hiring of 35 officers we're not able to accommodate that this year but we were able to leverage a United States Department justice cops hiring grant to hire 13 that has been approved by the council and so we will be hiring 13 officers and it's not 35 but it's a lot better than nothing a neighborhood crime prevention is the next funding initiative we moved a lot of the programs the crisis intervention team the homeless team and then that new group of civilian response unit office or civilian sands or the non-emergency calls all moving into CCPD partners with a shared mission so this is the one dealing with the after-school program and some of the other programs like that that we fund each of the funding categories up here got a 15% bump they hadn't had an increase in many years so we decided to increase each of those standing partnerships the after-school program alliance for children coming up gang intervention crime prevention agency family justice center all within a 15% increase the line item second to bottom that says program expansion and enhancement is a program we started last year mr. Cook allowed us to put a quarter million dollars into the budget last year designated specifically for a new program to fight violent crime it was actually recommended by councilmember gray that program has been developed as VIP Fort Worth violence intervention program Fort Worth and they deal specifically with intervening with individuals who are likely to be involved in shootings either as a victim or as a suspect that project is up and running and we're increasing it based on the performance this year by 15% also so they're getting an increase in their program as well the highlighted program is community-based programs that is an initiative where we solicit programs through an RFP process those programs can request funding through the CCC PD to get their programs up and running and off the ground it has been funding for that has been stuck at $250,000 for many many years what we realize is there are a lot of programs that can't apply for that because they can't get the funding stream they need to either make their program sustainable over a couple years or that they need more than the $50,000 we generally give each program each year so we're increasing that from 250,000 to two million dollars recruitment training is one of the funding programs that we are actually decreasing and that's not because we're not needing to recruit more officers it we simply are only having one recruit class planned for this fiscal year the current fiscal year we ran four classes through three of those are still in session now but most of the funding for those it's already been paid for so we're having to run one recruitment class and in fiscal year 2021 there may be an opportunity or a need to run a second class to keep up with attrition but since we're not expanding the number of officers on the department we do not have to find a full recruit officer training program equipment tech and infrastructure is where we put most of the equipment for the police officers including vehicles there's some significant funding decreases in this category which allow us to increase the programs in the prior prior funding initiatives are the first highlighted line is technology infrastructure program we are decreasing that by two million dollars one of that is a one million dollar one time it decrease that we do not need for capital projects the other million dollars is simply taking the money out of there and putting it into the city-wide camera program creating in its own initiative because of that that is a program that is proven to be very successful we want to take that out make it its own line item so we can better report on on the success we were having with that and needs to increase or decrease the number of cameras in the city facility requirement program is two point four million dollars that we've been paying for each of the last five years to help fund the building of the Bob Boland public safety complex on the south side of town we took a loan out from the solid waste department for ten million dollars and have paid that back each of the five last five years that loan is now satisfied so going into this year in future years we do not have to pay that back our high mileage vehicle program is decreasing that is mainly due the fact that our fleet is in such good shape right now it's in the best shape I've ever seen it my 28 years and we're able to not need to replace the high mileage vehicles quite as often this is just the proposed budget by category salaries and benefits make up the most the big bulk of the money that comes in through the CCPD services equipment and utilities repairs make up a big chunk of that as well so there you go got some questions all right okay what is the benefit purpose of switching funds from CCPD budget to the general fund just just putting more traditional services into the general fund just because we had so many questions about what CCPD funded and a lack of knowledge of some of the enhanced services that are provided by CCPD by switching them and we're not even put all traditional services into general fund it ideally we I think we would put vehicles in there too because they're essential police essential to police services but I think it better delineates what is a traditional police service and what is an enhancement provided by CCPD I believe you already spoke to this but will the VIP program that Pastor McIntosh proposed last Friday be funded yes it's gonna continue be funded this fiscal year and it is increased by 15% in the CCPD budget what falls under neighborhood crime prevention neighborhood crime prevention the the funding initiative I don't know that was the question and it might have come in before you covered that part okay so this has all our volunteer programs are highlighted under the code blue program that is our citizens on on patrol volunteers that is our ministers against crime volunteers our clergy and police alliance our community emergency response teams they are all citizen volunteers that devote their time and efforts to the police department to help prepare for emergencies to help fight crime and to help improve relationships between the department and the community crime prevention unit is just exactly what it says we have crime prevention specialists that interact with the community they go to neighborhood association meetings homeowner association meetings they're the ones who are out there doing the kid ID and the crime prevention tips the crime prevention through environmental design surveys to see if there's ways to improve security around businesses or residential areas the NPO program is the neighborhood policing officer program every beat in the city with very few exceptions has their own neighborhood police officer that individual is not subject to calls for service but instead is more of a beat organizer beat coordinator and is there to solve some of the routine problems that occur on a beat whether it's neighbor neighbors disputing with each other street lights out you know broken windows theory addressing those issues on the beat that may invite crime patrol support program is basically it is maintenance for the patrol facilities and some overtime police storefront program is just that we have several storefronts throughout the city where officers can go spend some time they're not the police sectors but they're actually out in the community typically we don't pay for these except for a little bit of utilities it's usually the locations where these are staffed those locations open up the area to us and pay for the the don't charge us rent to be there and then the community programs CIT hope and community service professionals are just the those individuals that we are moving into the CCPD those programs we talked about and are the officers who respond to mental health calls to greed in social work or are they police officers first with a little extra training yes they are police officers that's why we staff them with somebody service provider that is trained and can take the lead on those calls what specifically falls under the category community based programs the community based programs are the ones that are open for solicitation that we put out a solicitation and say if you want CCPD funding you can apply for it and so I don't have the list of this year's funded programs but there are five of them that were funded a different dollar amounts there were four additional ones that were not funded however with this increase we're going to be able to provide at least partial funding for them and then we will have another solicitation probably in January of this year where other programs can apply for CCPD funding and that's the category that went from 250,000 to just over two million dollars how can people find out information about the grant RFP and what determines the amount that's funded so we will put out a solicitation for that we will put out the RFP believe we are scheduled for an October release with evaluations occurring in November December and the program starting in January the funding amount is based on the need of the program the people responding to the RFP they make the ask we do believe there are going to be caps on it because we want to be able to be fair and not give all the funding to one particular program and we will not always be able to fund and we have not always been able to fund to the degree that people or organizations have asked for but we are able to provide that supplementary money for those organizations to start up and sometimes we can fund exactly what they're asking that's all the questions I've gotten well we have no more questions and unless somebody here has something they want a question they'd like to ask if not I want to say thank you all for spending your evening with us and we we're hosting meetings through the 22nd and so it does not have to be your district meeting all of the meetings are open to the public they are coming to you in lots of different ways but we want you to stay engaged and send us your questions and you can always email our offices or call our offices because while many of us are working remotely we are still working so thank you all and we'll see you soon stay safe stay healthy and wear your mask


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا ونبينا وحبيب غلوبنا أب القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطهيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المنتجبين أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وأاتذ القربى حقه والمسكين وابنى السبيل ولا تبذر تبذيرا إن المبذرين كانوا إخوان الشياطين وكان الشيطان لربه كفورة صدق الله العلي العظيم Today's subject is about being an environmentalist Muslim A Muslim who cares about his or her environment An environmentally friendly person I mentioned last night in the first part that climate change and global warming is something really serious It's a serious threat to our existence here on earth, to our future, to our families, to our health We have to think about it seriously. We should be responsible here This is an individual responsibility as well as collective responsibility of the community, the people Especially the people who believe in God, the people of conscience, the people who have good hearts To act responsible To think how I can contribute into saving this planet earth Maybe I cannot save the entire earth I cannot lead a major reform But believe me sometimes small steps, humble steps End up having major impact and deep impact on our life And you know this climate change is a serious threat with severe impacts And we are feeling it right now here in our state, state of California If you follow the news, I don't know whether you, when you drive on the freeway You see what you read on these humble alerts That they tell you we have severe drought And this is not exaggeration, we do have severe drought It is affecting our pockets, our finance, our economy and our psyche too Yes, it leaves unfortunately an adverse effect on our psychology On our thinking because when there is a drought It means that everything has been affected and touched in a bad way by this drought So we have to respect the nature, we have to respect the ecosystem Ecological system, we have to respect the environment Allah wants us to be builders not destroyers People who come to this earth to fix it, to put it together, put it back together Not some people who live here for some years and then they leave this earth in disarray Allah wants us to be good inhabitants And I mentioned last night the verse in the Holy Quran وستعماركم فيها وستعماركم فيها استعماركم comes from building He wants you to be builders Builders, fixers of this earth So when you leave it, you leave a good legacy to those who come after you Those who come after you, they say wow May God have mercy on those who were before us Our predecessors, our forefathers See what they left for us Clean place, clean environment This is what we should do And we should always encourage our children Encourage our children to take care of this environment And to tell them that this earth is a trust Allah left this earth, this house The earth that belongs to him A trust in our hands And he is testing us To see whether we deliver this mission appropriately Or we are going to misappropriate this Or this trust I mentioned last night When you speak about Islam People think that Islam is only prayers and fasting And Hajj and Zakat and that's it And Hijab But Islam is much bigger than that Islam Is involved In all aspects of your life Islam wants you to be healthy Islam wants you to be happy Prosperous Advanced And one of the most important things That we must take care of Is the environment To take care of the environment To save it Not to exploit it and destroy it I mentioned yesterday The first area I mentioned Was about water And also today I want to mention about Conserving energy Conserving energy Has a big impact on our life My friends I'll give you an example Now how many of you know Especially the young ones Those who go to school How this energy electricity is generated Any Any person How is it produced Locally How is it produced How do we get it Call Mostly Most of the energy In the world is produced by call And Because they burn the call Because this team that gets out of that It will power these generators It's electricity So mostly Mostly in America In Europe elsewhere They depend on call And when call is burned What happened What do you think when call is burning What is happening Before the destruction Of the ozone layer What happens when the call is burning CO2 What does that mean It means It's bad Is it It's bad This is very harmful pollution And you can see it People who live in Los Angeles You can see there's always a thick layer of smoke Lingering over the city Always This is bad This is bad for the trees This is bad for your heart This is bad for your mind This is bad for everything So imagine What should we do here We should conserve Allah says إخوان الشياطين تبذير when you squander تبذير when you use something above your need You don't need it but you still use it Let's say in your house Or even here in this mosque If we need only 10 of these lights Then 15 are not good 20 are not good We have to use only 10 I always tell the children that When you are in your room And the lights are on Once you leave your room What should you do first Turn it off Even if you are leaving your room For 2 minutes Even if you are going to the bathroom And coming back Don't put it off Because it counts These are small things At the end They are going to count Not only going to pay higher electricity bill Not only that Not only is going to affect your pocket In a bad way But it's going to affect your health too When you have these carbon Emissions increasing It's going to destroy your health So you have to take care of that One time I said to One of my friends Christian priest I said to him Christians during Christmas They do an insult to Jesus They don't celebrate him They do an insult to him If he was alive And he would come He would not agree with all these decorations and lights Extra spending He would say rather than putting All these decorations and lights And you know Give that money to the needy To the orphans To the poor To those who don't have clean drinking water 2 billion people today 2 billion people today on earth Are hungry 2 billion people 40% of the population of earth They live below poverty level Jesus will say Use that money Don't need decorations The best decoration for me The best birthday gift for me Is to be good Christian Is to think about others And the same thing Prophet Muhammad The best gift to me Is to be a good Muslim A thoughtful Muslim A Muslim with conscious A Muslim who thinks of others Not just himself So try to save electricity Please If you have unnecessary lights Stay away from them Sometimes lights outside Outside your house You don't need them You don't need that Save You have to save You have to feel the pain That we are suffering You have to be responsible This is number one When it comes to electricity So saving energy When it comes to earth Insha'Allah The second is Saving Conserving on water Especially here in our area Now if you go to other areas They have a flood And do you know that Even with areas That they have a plenty of water Still they declare drought In their areas State of drought Do you know that They have rain Not enough water So we have to conserve The Hadith says Even if you are standing On a river On a bank of a river And water is Running Gushing forth Streaming When you do Conserve the water Conserve Even if the water looks You know in abundance Plenty of water Your responsibility is To conserve Because Allah does not like Squandering Wasting إن المبذرين كانوا إخوان الشياطين The squanderer Are the siblings Of the shaitans Satan Siblings of the Satan So you don't want to be the sibling A sibling to a shaitan You don't want to do that So stay away from Wasting Energy Or wasting water I said Last night that 50% Of the drinking water Supplied to our homes And fortunately goes Down the drain in the toilet 40% 40% While Many million At least one billion People today on earth They don't have access To clean drinking water They don't have access A survey says I was reading Something very astonishing That when you turn off the tap While you are brushing your teeth You know how much water you You conserve When you brush your teeth Some people they keep the water running Running 5 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes He goes and answers the phone And the water is running This is not good You know how much water You save When you turn off the tap When you are Brushing It's 5 gallons Per time When you wash Yes And I said yesterday Last night Cutting 10 minutes On your shower 2 minutes Sorry 2 minutes Very good Alhamdulillah Because the entire shower Is 10 minutes So when you cut back Only 2 minutes You save How many gallons 10 gallons 10 gallons of water When you When you cut back Only 2 minutes And I know some of the young generation They stand You know In the shower For hours Hours and hours That's not good my friends My sons My daughters That's not good You have to Review your life You have to look back At what you are doing Change The month of Ramadan Is the month of change The month of transformation And these areas We have Not just to change The way we do Quran and dua Also the way You take a shower You have to change it You have to conserve the water Especially when The governor comes And he says We are in a serious condition We are facing Serious threats We have to take him serious Yes, he's a politician But not always He lies And in this area He does not lie He's right We can see it Where is the rain Have you seen When was the last time you saw rain I don't remember I forgot So we have to take these things Serious And then it says It says So when you When you turn on that Turn off the tap When you are brushing your teeth You save five gallons And the survey says As much water as the average person In Africa Uses A whole day of A drinking A cooking A bathing And a cleaning Five gallons They use five gallons And here We waste Hundreds of gallons So we have to take care Of that Our Imam Our leader You know what he says He says You know when you drink water In a cup Sometimes This much remains So some people What would they do with it They toss it away He says This is a sloth Don't do that This is forbidden Don't toss it away Either drink it Or Put it in the In the pot Put it in the I go myself You know what I do When there is some Some action Some action You know what I do When there is some Some extra water I go to the grass And I put it there Yeah Water the The trees with it Do not waste it Don't waste Even if you drops Do not waste Imam says This is a sloth This is a sloth You are damaging the environment You are being Any grateful To Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Be grateful Try to be Grateful And then He says Those people who waste You know They are used to To wasting You know Food Water Energy Ultimately they are going to go bankrupt They are going to go bankrupt And you don't want to do that You have to be thankful To what Allah has given you I know some families Who had money They had They were well off But unfortunately They did not know the value of money They were squanderers They spend excessively On things that are not worth it At the end they lost Their properties They lost their businesses And they lost their life So try to be To appreciate What Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Has given us If it is extra for you It does not mean that It is extra for others I said last night Unfortunately We are a spoiled nation here in America We take everything for a grant But if you take a trip to India To Africa To some other places in Asia And you see how people live In severe poverty Then you are going to review your life And you are going to change yourself We have to change ourselves We have to share this earth with others Even though they are not close to us They are thousands of miles away We have to be thoughtful of them Leave some resources for them I mentioned last night We are only 5% of the population of earth The Americans they make only 5% 300 million 5% We consume 25% Of the resources of earth Here in America 25% One fourth of the resources We consume them Not because we need them Believe me we do not need them The other day I was in San Diego Down here And when you pass by Some restaurants And some supermarkets You know the fruits after two days They get outside And you see some people going there At the back of the supermarket And you know searching In these dumpsters in the trash And they get and they show you They tell you look at this fruit Has nothing it's nothing wrong with it It's not rotten it's not bad But they dispose it It's not good This is not good When you go to a restaurant You have extra food Take it with your home The following day Don't let that food goes to the trash Don't Don't allow your children Your neighbors Teach them To value the food This is a grace This is a grace This is bounties These are bounties of Allah Today we have them Maybe tomorrow we might not have them Don't take things for granted I have seen some people who were Spoiled They had an extravagant life And then after that they lost everything They became beggars And the best Insurance to keep the blessing Of God continuing Is to be thankful to Allah How to be thankful just to say Thank you that's not enough Thank you with your behavior With your deeds When you help others with what you have Share My friends in Ramadan we have to learn To share The food we eat We share it The drink we share it The clothing we share it The money we have in our pockets We share it Everything you have you have to share Imam Zayn Al-Aabideen عليه الصلاة والسلام عليه يبن الحسين Allahumma صلى الله عليه وسلم Every year He used to share it twice Twice Every six months Once every six months Twice a year Everything he had He would share it With the poor and the need And Allah will give you back Because Allah has all these bounties The reserve for you He wants you to see spending them Giving them So he will bring them He bring them So try to think of others And then we go to the Saving of papers Something that we don't We don't even think about I've seen some Scholars Great scholars When I go to their office I sit next to them I see they have a piece Of paper like this And they use Every single Space in it To the extent that sometimes You get confused You can't read the paper So I tell him Why is this He says because I want to save paper And then come here And look at our kids Look how they Spoil really Spoil Papers Unlimited Unlimited They just put one line Sometimes one letter on a paper And then they dispose it This is not good Do you know my friends Every single American family Every single American family They waste One and a half Three per year One and a half One and a half Three per year On junk mail They mail that comes Today I brought the mail Believe me All of it was junk All of it went Alhamdulillah no bill Alhamdulillah we're so happy This much You know Papers went into the recycling This is not good This is not good I know some families They go to the post office And they tell them No junk mail Don't bring me junk mail This is not good One and a half Three And these threes They protect us What does a tree do Can someone tell me Absorb what Carbon And And give us what And do we need oxygen or not Can you survive Without oxygen So you have to appreciate the tree In Islam It's haram قطع الأججاري حرام كان دانا دراحتها Haram us that Islam Do not cut trees One of the things that we do not do during Hajj When we go to Hajj In the state of Haram Even outside the state of Haram You are not allowed in Makkah And it's vicinity The haram One of the things that are forbidden Illegal is to cut trees You cannot cut the tree The tree has to be respected The tree is serving us Serving us with the most Vital most important thing That we need in this life Oxygen Why do we cut it You know in America in one year In one year look at the wastage Of papers in America Every single year in America Two million books Listen, two million books 350 million magazines And 24 billion newspapers Are thrown away in the recycle In America alone How much does that cost us It cost a lot We have to We are happy that we live sometimes In a modern country Industrialized country Affluent country Affluent society But it has a heavy price We have to be conscious of that Therefore Try not to waste And even this Sometimes I disagree with this Believe me Let me read about it It says in America 1.5 million tons Of a plastic is used Every year To produce these things 1.5 million tons Tons of plastic You can have a filter at home On your faucet And you can use the The water from your faucet Or at least If you can't survive You think you cannot survive without these bottles At least recycle them Try to recycle them To save Our Earth And then of course Let me tell you something Another figure And this is Our mothers and our daughters And sisters Should pay attention to it And that is the amount Of oil That goes down The drainage into the ocean And it creates A lot of hazard For Creatures in the water For us And for others 2.9 million gallons Of oil Go into the north America's oceans Every year 2.9 million gallons Of oil Each year It says 5 million gallons And by tanker spills Like what happened In Santa Barbara 5 million 5 million But 24 million gallons Caused by human activities Such as Number one Cooking oil Pouring cooking oil Into the sink Where does it go Goes into the drainage And then ultimately It ends up where Into the ocean Or even sometimes We don't pay attention To these small things We think they are small But look at this Topping Topping off your gas tank Have you seen some people They keep pressing That oil That gas Goes into the drainage And goes into the Into the ocean And also Hosing down the grease From our cars Into the storm Storm drainage Also It goes into the ocean And it is very very Harmful To the creatures In the ocean To us To the environment These are small things But when people Do not care about them The whole society It leads into What we have today As what? Drought Climate change Global warming Allah wants us To build this earth To maintain it To take care of it When it comes to food You know that survey says That one fourth of all food Produced in the United States Of America is wasted One fourth One fourth of the food And this is very true Very true In this country One fourth of the food How many of you How many of us We teach children When you eat Finish your food I've seen even in some Islamic circles Islamic communities When they go and get the food They fill the plate Because man is agreed Nature is agreed Especially when he's hungry Fasting He thinks that he's going to eat The whole food And then he eats Half of it Sometimes less than half And the rest goes where? You know where it goes Wasted That's how Take what is necessary The Christian doctor Said To the Abbasid Kalef in Baghdad To the Ma'amoon He said to him يا مأمون لقد جمع علم الطب في كتابكم All the science of medicine Have been gathered In your book The Holy Quran Ma'amoon said really The Quran does not speak About medicine He said yes It does Allah says كلوا وشربوا ولا تسرفوا كلوا وشربوا ولا تسرفوا That's the secret of well-being Good health Eat Drink Moderately Without excessive Do you want to be healthy? Take care of your health You have to take care of your diet Don't overeat In Ramadan Ramadan One of that One of the objectives Not all the objectives One Ramadan has many goals Many objectives One of them is to maintain your health But unfortunately Some people they overeat in Ramadan Every single food Which is missing throughout the year They bring it on the table On Ramadan Food Sweet You know Appetizers Before food After food In the middle This Between Iftar and Suhoor And these open buffets They tell you The most dangerous place on earth Is all you can eat Believe me Avoid them Believe me They charge you 7 box But they take away your health From you Don't go there All you can eat Is not something good Is not doing your service Is doing your disservice So in the month of Ramadan We have to learn moderation In eating And drinking And that will Impact our psyche Our أخلاق Someone with a full stomach Is not going to change his أخلاق Believe me We have to follow these rules Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says وآتي ذا القربة حقه والمسكينة وابنى السبيل ولا تبذر تبدير Stay away from تبدير Everything that above the need Is تبدير Accessiveness Squander Waste Stay away from it Even when it comes to clothing If you need certain amount of clothing Shoes Get them Don't get above that It will be a liability against you It will be a burden on you Leave it for others Give it for others Our Imam used to share their Address with people He would wear it one or two days And then he give it to others Share it Try to share it Share it Try to share The recipe for happiness سعادة in this life Is when you share When you think of others ولا تبذر تبدير الله مغفر المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الأحياء منهم والأموات تابع لهم بيننا وبينهم بالخيرات إنك مجيب الدعوات إنك غافر الخطيئات تقبل صلاتنا وصيامنا ودعاءنا في هذا الشهر العظيم فرج الله أمه أو الله تقبل رليف إلى الناس of يمن إلى الناس of سيريا إلى الناس of إراك to all all the مؤمنين all the مسلمين all the humans worldwide wherever there is suffering الله bring them رليف and bring them happiness and bring unity to the heart of the Muslims and let us follow your path إن شاء الله وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وأهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين