 Yeah, so, you know, people need to listen to the Pledge of Allegiance. Come on, listen to the Pledge of Allegiance. Come on. To the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic from which it stands, one nation, I'm alive in the visible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Dear God, for all that you've done and afforded us and the purposes you've allowed us to share with you, we humbly ask that as we gather in this chamber tonight that you might touch and sensitize us to your will and to your way. I understand that there's conversations to be had, there are awards to be presented. Please know that it's not us, but it's you. Touch our communities, touch the city of ours, and allow us to sense and feel your presence in it. We ask you. Good. I'm the City Manager of Luton, Dr. Nintendo, and we're working on it on the 45th. And we're going to show our rights to the town. Our community partners. Hi. City Davos. Yes. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Yes. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. Hi. City Davos. communities, you know, better. With the subversion of the climate level, it's not being public-recognized, participation in the creation of a number of planning commissions and other citizen plans to contribute their time and opportunities to improve the city of Columbia. We all know that there are different decisions we make every single day, but they're very deep that impact us across the area from 100 years to now where they're choosing to lay down and where they can interact with each other in the public space, right? As a matter of fact, professional partners and community partners every day. So it's a pleasure to be able to designate October 2018 as a community planning one and see if we'll all be able to recognize the potential of the United State community in the planning department. I said it would be a shame for you for you to appreciate the opportunities. And this year, we did this work here at the city council and the city of Columbia has committed to increasing awareness about the most common community in their board of staff and in the 12th annual year to walk against domestic politics based on the community and help citizens educate themselves over its awareness around this issue. The Bob's Policy Center which is a non-profit policy center who evaluates homicide data aimed at the just came out with the recent rankings in Sacramento, the 6th of the nation with the board of staff here in 2016. Historically we have always ranked in the top 10, a lot of times in the top 5 and that is why this issue is so very important. Walk with me this Saturday October 6th, I mentioned this before there's a free walk and it is an opportunity to raise awareness around domestic violence as well as have a railroad community to educate ourselves about the resources and support of the survivors and the domestic violence within our community. We will again at 8.30 a.m. with a purple wrapping and a purple wrapping will have information and vendors available and then after that we will start the walk along with Mr. Greenway at 2.00 a.m. It is a free walk and join us to take steps against domestic violence. We're also looking down sister care that serves nearly 2,000 best of all survivors and children and first women who use around the campus and so we invite you to bring free items that would be collected by the law on our partners that do all the work in this community and recognize everything that they do. In sister care we have public relations specialist Mimi Grant and from the South Dakota College they give us the message that we also have executive director Mark Armore and the administrative program assistant Natalie Soded and so have her with us. These ladies come forward and bring some remarks regarding your organizations and then after that if you guys would join the members of sister care over here for our operation. Thank you. Thank you so much for giving us so much support in sister care and also experience with these compromises to sister care and to get back to them. I'm not going to read all of them except for just saying that we know that October is domestic violence month and so the entire city of Columbia will plan in October 2018 as domestic violence month. I'll say thank you again to this finally obviously we have to all the partners I know we all are so excited that we're able to give folks who love and respect the flowers that are still with us and the ability to recognize Joy Holman. We have a revolution in your mind that until 120,000 and 200,000 blocks of food street, it's the heart and sweet high street, Joy Holman way. Those of us here, okay? We're a self and sort of a fixed yourself into the lives of our children. I'm not a double Dutch dancer but it's terrible. Her legacy represents my estimation and of course the community can continue. She's a double Dutcher. Come on. Go to the community and to all of them. Is that much? By the second discussion I will say I'm amazed every time I meet more and more people that she's touched on. She was building, she built the community to give back to the communities that they live at including this community. It's just amazing. I'm not sure how we're going to do this picture but we're going to give it a try. I'm going to show it to you. He wants to take a picture of all friends and family and double Dutchers. Let's come right here and take this picture and recognize it. Thank you. Pretty good, how are you? I'm good. I'm really glad you like it. I hope I didn't call you here. It's good. She and I have been in contact. She mentioned it when I was talking to her. Trying to line something up with her about doing the looking at music. It's good. I'm really glad. I think it's good. I think so. Let's see how we get this picture taken. I'm really glad. I think we have a good picture. I don't think so. It's really good. I don't think so. I'm really glad. I think I'm going to take a picture. I don't think so. I'm really glad. I'm really glad. I think it's good. I'm really glad. One, two. My sister, to thank you for all of this, because we are really honored by this. Catherine County, McGrath, and Willie George McGrath, and 80 siblings. All of the siblings are not here without all the sisters and brothers who we stand with right now. All the sisters and brothers. And we really appreciate this recognition because we have been in that community, grew up in that community for a long time. And thank you so much. Could you go to the county council and tell them what you're supposed to do? What we got to do? We're going to go back to brief updates. Well, from that score, this will be offered to the director of that school. And I know that almost every member of the McGrath family has served in public office. We will not take the fancy. We only have to take the rest of this week, okay? That's about it. We're good. We're good. I promise. I promise, okay? How do you think? I think a lot of the members of the McGrath family have come to see me. I think I might have, but there is two now. I don't know about the last four. I don't know if there's other years. I'm actually going to finish this year up with the same purpose we had last year, which I was in the lesson, didn't lose anything along the way. Over the next few years, I'm a substantial member of the Ohio State County Shelter. I started working with St. Lawrence Place, opened the place the family has theirs, which we expanded a little bit. This summer, this past summer, we actually developed three technology based camps for adventure based on the exhibits in the museum so that children can have an extra experience and come to the lab every day. We're looking to quickly expand that summer and adding a summer camp for the children at St. Lawrence Place, the family shelter. And program this December on the McGrath School at Family Shelter and St. Lawrence Place. We're going over there four nights a month to work with job skills and technology. They started out with a great deal of work. So we've kept our special needs programs going and managed to hold on to everything else. The next year is a big one, 1 to 20. I can't imagine it, but we're the only ones left to do so that we're going to get it. Even Mr. By came after us. I'm just saying it's kind of hard. But I do have that experience, everybody. I'm excited that we're still able to serve the residents of this area and continue doing so. And we thank you, our original partner and how we all have started with planning for the technology piece of the Empowerment Center. We've done that all these years later with the Empowerment Center. Thank you for your support. And I tell you what, we're going to pass out a couple of years. Passing them down. What would you like to be? What day of the year? What year of the year? I'm a... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... You better get a ton of technology. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. To come and give you an update on who's going to be talking for a session. So we'll make this brief. We'll continue with our work on wastewater collection and wastewater treatment. The young ones still over a few of these slides. One of the things we wanted to talk about is how we are using information and becoming more efficient in how we collect that. Now, how do we use that in making decisions? One example of vitality is on the recent Hurricane Florence event. We have technology deployed in our sewer collection system that we launch at 11s within our critical manholes. So if you want to know what's important is to make sure that you're concerned. It's really hard. It takes message on our phone. Our system operators to stay safe, stay inside your storm event. And only to avoid if there's something we want to physically be out there looking. We can use the data from that and feedback. Also, one of the things that we've made a mapping of. We have dashboard tools now that can integrate our sewer system. I would manage all the work that our crews are doing in the field. They're using iPads. They're actually out in the field working more forward. It's real time of landing our database. Moving that on the wastewater collection side. We're moving to the other areas of our operations such as water distribution. They've been very successful for us. But the fact that we've got good energy in the heat of that data allows us to manipulate that data and the management decisions and to look at key components of the systems and the latch points. We have a mission that will leverage some of these advancements that we've been able to make in the wastewater utility or in the drinking water utility side. We'll be excited about that. Because we think that's going to improve our response time and improve our customer service as it has to be. In terms of compliance with our consent decree or the target or the schedule, we make every deliverable either out of deadline or in advance of the deadline. We have a very key deliverable that is coming up very soon. I'd like you to give me the number of 2019. But we're working hard on that. It's called the Infrastructure Rehabilitation Report. And that's on major sewer assets, on major hydrology that we've evaluated. And we're going to commit to making improvements that are necessary to get them out of sanitary sewer overflows and the issues you might have. Those will become enforceable deadlines with our consent decree. So we're starting to see quite a few large construction projects coming out in the public in the four years council to approve in the coming months and years. We're going to show a map of just the areas that we're working in. And right now, we're working throughout the collection system with a few projects that we're working out. There's a major sewer group of projects that is going to be bid in relatively soon. We're going to lay in California over there. We're going to help us minimize sanitary sewer overflows in that area. Rocky Ranch is another key area that's over the town right now. We're going to be bidding them back to Mr. Future. We've got improvements in the cream base and the projects are going to work in Metro Waste World Plant. And also the sanitary sewer evaluation projects that we're having throughout our collection system that we're going to evaluate our system to determine what real locations have even in the smaller parts of the system. So a lot of work we're going to do throughout the collection system right now. And we're seeing fruits of that work and the investment that we're making that seems to be a significant reduction in our sanitary sewer overflows and the more we share it with you and show the public graph of what we're looking at You remember in 2015 everybody was looking at that. The flooding of Hurricane Joaquin that we had we also had a significant volume of sanitary sewer overflows in the encounter in 2015. Moving on to 16, there was a 57% reduction but still a very high volume. 2.3 million gallons of waste water is no longer running in the same extremes. Some of that was attributed to Hurricane Matthew during that season. But also in March of 2017 we completed several key projects in the type of our system and gave us additional capacity. So if you look at the counter in 2017 we dropped about 675,000 gallons of waste water to build. A great reduction is still about an acceptable number with a great reduction of 71% reduction on the counter in 2016. And then if we look at the counter here today we're at less than 95,000 gallons of waste water to build. If you look at that compared to where we were in 2014 to 2015 just a tremendous success and the investments that you have approved for us to make. We're seeing significant reductions. Now we haven't had as wet a season and that certainly contributes to it but a lot of infrastructure improvements are in place that are needed to minimize the sanitary sewer overflows. Why that's so important is the volume of waste water that we're not collecting and treating that potential public well hazard that's a potential environmental hazard so the more we can minimize that the better results will be serving our community and our customers. I'll move on and just talk quickly about the road ahead. We have a lot of success and we're proud of where we are there's much more to do moving forward but I don't think it's finished yet but I feel like we're on a good pace and we're on a good path to fulfill our requirements with the consent decree we've changed the way we operate what's ahead of us are heavy capital projects that are coming in. Many of those we need to design now some of the systems still need to be evaluated those prices will show up for that infrastructure rehabilitation. So we're kind of looking at juncture right now figuring out exactly what the finish line will look like in the next 18 years but we feel like we're in a really good position right now in a good place with the life of our consent decree and how we're operating and continuing all this work for our system. So I'll field any questions that you might have. And obviously there's a number of participation as much as we can do to continue to ensure that this is our local business participation and as incredible as possible to see the ideas and the planning and all of you here that have dramatic impacts improvements on the quality of the production and you guys are doing a great job. So as we do all of them. Seeing the presentation again and realizing how much we've put into the GIS and showed the backs of what we're doing as you drill out Chief Oberg sends us a weekly report on COVID for misdivision and he breaks it down about council district which doesn't mean it's easy to grab some more people or two people to show us that maybe you can even add small more on that by district so that they would have that information as they go to their individual That's an excellent idea we can give y'all a quick snapshot of helping to work out those projects I think y'all for the support appreciate that on council and I'm starting to tell these staff all the city department to support the great work and to meet them so thank you very much Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Bye I want you to medal a equals number This is a important issue that they've been wrestling for a very long time we thought was important to work some type of We know that city colombo and its processes� cause the storm it facilities on the easement remainility by contract of proper property rights. And so it's necessary just to have this civil action in order to just do the preparatory judgment of court in terms of which entity is responsible for the maintenance of storming lines on proper property. I do want to make sure that the people with any sound voice realize that we're willing to and looking forward to working with the county to meet the needs of our citizens in so many areas that are affected with these legacy issues, particularly when we're progressing to meet the needs of their community and as to be dialed on as we're progressing to work to try and address what the meeting needs of our citizens. This is a way in which we can get some pattern of statutory clarity to these issues. And once we do, we'll be able to move forward and hopefully we'll be able to move forward together with the county, which means financial participation from the city and the county. But we need this clarity. Move the previous question. Mr. Rippen. Hi. Mr. Niaz. Mr. Paul. Hi. Mr. Vahn. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mr. Gretchen. Is it right here in front of me the entire time? So that's the last of the day. It's an honor to take some time to recognize Mental Illness Awareness Week. Columbia, an entire nation that was all to proclaim October 7th to the 13th as Mental Illness Awareness Week. And, you know, it's really important to recognize this issue officially. We encourage advocacy for a compassionate community and our citizens. It's a program to help honor individuals with families who are impacted by mental illness and working to fulfill their strong community. We know that the Project 105 New York AIDS is 13 to 18 experiences to be a mental disorder at some point in their life. Whereas one of the five adults in the U.S., which equates to almost 24 million people, 18 point problems in our population, experiences of mental illness in the given year in 125 adults in the U.S., experiences of serious mental illness in the given year. The substantial interferes with limits whether they are a major life activity to recognize the importance of amplifying the awareness of mental illness so that residents locally and abroad may understand the importance of good mental health and be aware of resources available to them. So it's now on behalf of our city to recognize our role in continuing to care and recognize this as a mental illness awareness week of October 7th, October 16th. I'm Nami Mid-Caroline, I'm the people we serve in the Mid-South. Thank you for recognizing the Mental Illness Awareness Month and recognizing that by being one in five, being impacted by mental illness, it pretty much impacts us all.