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A HARD MOVEMENT TRICKLED TO WOMEN OF COLOR, BUT IT SHOULDN'T SILENCE ANY DAUGHTERS OR MOTHERS, WOMEN OF ANY NATIONALITY.
OUR IDENTITIES AND OUR RIGHTS SHOULD BE RESPECTED EQUALLY HARD.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL A SESSION AGENDA.
UH, THE TIME IS 9:08 AM THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE, UH, PARTICIPATING AND TUNING IN.
UH, AS YOU SEE, WE ARE A VIRTUAL MEETING TODAY DUE TO, UH, A NUMBER OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND MYSELF WHO MUST DO THIS VIRTUALLY.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
UM, WE DO HAVE A FULL AGENDA TODAY.
IN FACT, WE HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING AS WELL.
UH, AND A, UH, SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO CANVAS THE VOTE ON MONDAY.
ALL OF THOSE MEETINGS WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY, UH, FOR, UH, JUST FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION.
[1. 20-6595 Invocation]
UH, TO GET US STARTED TODAY, LET ME TURN IT OVER FIRST TO COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA TO WELCOME OUR INDICATOR.UM, AND, UH, WELCOME TO FATHER STEPHEN ANTHONY.
UM, ES AND FRANK, HE'S FROM ST.
ROSE OF LIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH IN DISTRICT FOUR.
I'LL READ A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HIM TODAY.
FATHER STEVEN ANTHONY GOMEZ WAS BORN AT THE KNICKS HOSPITAL IN DOWNTOWN SAN ANTONIO.
HIS FATHER, JOSE SEZ, WAS BORN IN KYLE, TEXAS AND HIS MOTHER, CRUZ EZ, WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SAN ANTONIO.
HE IS THE THIRD OF FOUR CHILDREN, INCLUDING HIS ELDEST SISTER MONICA, OLDER BROTHER JOSE, AND YOUNGER SISTER IKA.
HE GRADUATED FROM JOHN J HIGH SCHOOL IN SAN ANTONIO IN 1990 AND SOON JOINED THE UNITED STATES NAVY, UNITED NAVY.
HE SERVED ABOARD THE U S S PIONEER M MCM NINE AVENGER CLASS NINE COUNTERMEASURES SHIP.
AND AFTER THE NAVY USED HIS MILITARY BENEFITS A GI BILL TO ATTEND SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, AND EVENTUALLY COMPLETED AN ASSOCIATES OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING IN 1997.
CONCERNING HIS VOCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD, HE FIRST APPROACHED HIS PARISH PRIESTESS AT RESURRECTION OF THE LORD CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHO COUNSELED HIM AND PUT HIM IN CONTACT WITH THE VOCATION DIRECTOR OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO IN 1998.
FATHER STEPHEN EVENTUALLY BEGAN, BEGAN HIS OFFICIAL SEMINARY TRAINING IN AUGUST OF 2000 AT
HE THEN MOVED BACK TO SAN ANTONIO TO BEGIN HIS MASTER'S DEGREE STUDIES AT ASSUMPTION SEMINARY AND AL LATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, AND GRADUATED WITH A MASTER'S IN DIVINITY.
IN MAY OF 2008, HE WAS ORDAINED A PRIEST ON MAY 17TH, 2008 AT SAN FERNANDO CATHEDRAL BY THE MOST REVEREND JOSE GOMEZ AND NAMED PASTOR OF ST.
PHILIP OF JESUS CHURCH IN 2011.
IN 2014, AN ADMINISTRATOR OF ST.
BENEDICT CHURCH IN 2016, LEAVING THREE PARISHES.
ON JULY 1ST, 2016, HE BECAME PASTOR OF ST.
ROSA LIMA CHURCH, WHERE HE CONTINUES HIS MINISTRY TO THE FAITHFUL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO.
GARCIA, FOR THE INVITATION TO BE WITH YOU ALL THIS MORNING.
I PRAY THAT, UH, TRULY ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS WILL BE SERVANT LEADERS.
BLESSED ARE YOU, LORD GOD OF ALL CREATION, WHOSE GOODNESS FILLS OUR HEARTS WITH JOY.
BLESSED ARE YOU WHO HAVE BROUGHT US TOGETHER THIS DAY TO WORK IN HARMONY AND PEACE, AND YOU, LORD, OUR GOD, ALL THINGS HAVE THEIR BEGINNING, CONTINUATION AND END.
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GRACE US WITH YOUR SAVING PRESENCE AND WITH YOUR CONSTANT HELP.MAY EVERYTHING WE DO BEGIN WITH YOUR INSPIRATION AND CONTINUE WITH YOUR HELP SO THAT ALL OUR PRAYERS AND WORKS MAY BEGIN IN YOU AND BY YOU, BE HAPPILY ENDED.
MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU.
MAY HIS FACE SHINE UPON YOU AND BE GRACIOUS TO YOU.
MAY HE LOOK UPON YOU WITH KINDNESS AND GIVE YOU PEACE.
[1. 20-6596 Pledge of Allegiance ]
IF YOU COULD PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
ALRIGHT, UM, WE'LL GO ON TO OUR BUSINESS AGENDA TODAY.
[3. 20-6597 Approval of Minutes from the City Council Meetings of August 19 and August 26, 2020.]
ON OUR AGENDA IS THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OF AUGUST 19TH AND 26TH.AGAIN, FOR, UH, MY COLLEAGUES AND FOR THE PUBLIC, WE'RE GONNA USE OUR, OUR RAISE HAND BUTTON.
UH, IF YOU'D LIKE TO QUEUE FOR DISCUSSION.
UH, WE WILL TAKE VOICE VOTES IF YOU CAN SHOW YOUR HAND ON THE SCREEN AS WELL AS, UH, VOICE, UH, YOUR VOTE, UH, DURING THAT TIME.
SO I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 19TH AND 26TH.
THERE'S A MOTION, UH, BY PERRY, UH, SECOND I BELIEVE BY ROCHA GARCIA.
ANY DISCUSSION? ALRIGHT, HEARING NONE.
[CONSENT AGENDA]
ALL THE ITEMS ON OUR AGENDA TODAY LISTED FOR IT FOR CONSENT.UM, I DO NOTE THAT ITEM 16 HAS BEEN PULLED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION BY COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL.
UM, AND I DO HAVE, UH, ITEM 13, UH, FOR HIGHLIGHTING BY COUNCIL MEMBER GRO.
UH, SO BEFORE I MOVE TO CITIZEN COMMENT, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER ITEMS, UH, FOLKS WOULD LIKE TO PULL FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION? MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT ITEM SEVEN, PLEASE.
SO JUST, UH, IF YOU WANT TO PULL IT, UM, IF YOU COULD JUST QUEUE UP FOR THE DISCUSSION, MELISSA.
UM, ARE THERE, ARE THERE ANY ITEMS, UH, TO PULL FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION? COUNCIL MEMBER GRO? YEAH, I WANNA PULL 13.
ALRIGHT, SO T AND TINA WILL BE PULLED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
MAYOR, THIS IS COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
ALRIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
ANY OTHERS? I HAVE ITEM 12, 13, AND 16 FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
IF THERE ARE NO OTHERS TO, UH, PULL FOR INDIVIDUAL HEARING, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT MOVED.
SECOND MOTION BY SANDOVAL, SECOND BY KEO HDA.
UH, WE DO HAVE ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
IT'S ACTUALLY ON AN ITEM THAT'S BEEN PULLED NOW, SO, UM, THERE ARE NO OTHERS, UH, WISHING TO BE HEARD ON ITEMS REMAINING ON CONSENT.
UH, AT THIS TIME WE'LL HAVE COUNCIL DISCUSSION IF THERE IS ANY.
ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE COMMENTS ON THE ITEMS REMAINING ON CONSENT.
JUST, UH, JUST TO DOUBLE CHECK, DID DID ITEM 15 STAY ON CONSENT? IT DID, YES.
UH, THE ONLY THING I, I, I WANNA POINT OUT IS AND, UH, EXTEND MY THANKS IS TO, UH, MARIA VILLA GOMEZ AND, UH, JEFF COYLE.
THIS IS, UH, THIS ITEM 15 IS OUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA AS DISCUSSED IN OUR PREVIOUS MEETINGS.
UM, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT MARIA V. GOMEZ AND JEFF HAVE SAT DOWN WITH, UH, OUR, UH, OUR STAKEHOLDERS OVER AT THE POLICE UNION, AND THEY'VE HAD A HEALTHY DISCUSSION REGARDING, UH, THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA.
AND THERE'S SOME DISAGREEMENT, UH, ON THE PART OF THE POLICE UNION AND, UH, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THEIR PRIORITIES AND, AND THIS LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, ESPECIALLY AS
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IT COMES TO POLICE REFORM.BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE HAD A, A PRETTY GOOD, HONEST AND, UM, AND, UH, GOOD FAITH CONVERSATION ABOUT GOING FORWARD.
I'M CONFIDENT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, I THINK THERE'S AN UNDERSTANDING THAT THOSE ITEMS REGARDING POLICE REFORM ON THE AGENDA, UH, DON'T PREEMPT ANYBODY FROM COMING TO THE TABLE AND, AND NEGOTIATING.
AND IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE HEARING ALL THE RIGHT THINGS FROM BOTH SIDES.
UH, AND SO I'VE EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING A, UH, GOOD ROUNDED NEGOTIATIONS, UH, LEADING UP TO OUR NEXT, OUR NEXT CONTRACT.
AND TO THAT EXTENT, I WANT TO THANK, UH, EVERYBODY INVOLVED.
I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ITEM 11.
I EXTEND MY THANKS TO SIDNEY KNOWLES, RENA ALALA AND MICHAEL VALDEZ FOR SEEKING OUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE DISTRICT SIX AS APPOINTEES TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
UH, RENA IS A STUDENT AT YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AND A PART OF STUDENT DEMAND TO ACTION AND THE MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS CLUB.
MICHAEL IS A STUDENT AT EDGEWOOD FINE ARTS ACADEMY AND A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL JUNIOR HONOR SOCIETY STUDENT COUNCIL AND THE INTERNATIONAL THESPIAN SOCIETY.
AS A MOTHER OF THREE MYSELF, IT'S EXCITING TO SEE YOUNG PEOPLE MOTIVATED AND ENGAGED ABOUT SHAPING THE FUTURE OF OUR CITY.
I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT RENA AND MICHAEL DO AS PART OF THE SAN ANTONIO YOUTH COMMISSION AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO BE BOLD AND ADVOCATE FOR THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY COULD ONE DAY BE LEADING.
SIDNEY KNOWLES IS A LICENSED MASTER SOCIAL WORKER WITH A BACKGROUND IN CLINICAL AND GENERALIST PRACTICE IN CHILD WELFARE.
WE MET AT THE TAPING FOR DIG THAT JAZZ IN SEPTEMBER, AND I WAS IMMEDIATELY IMPRESSED BY HER TENACITY, PROFESSIONALISM, PASSION, AND EXCITEMENT FOR SERVING OTHERS.
I HAVE EVERY FAITH THAT MS. KNOWLES WILL BE A FORCE FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, CULTURAL COMPETENCE, AND INNOVATION THAT WILL ONLY BENEFIT THE MISSION OF THE LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
THEY'RE ALL PROUD DISTRICT SIX RESIDENTS, AND I'M EXCITED TO WORK WITH EACH OF YOU.
COUNCIL MEMBER VEO, HOWEVER, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ANDREW SULLIVAN.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS AND HIGHLIGHT ITEM NUMBER FOUR, UM, HIGHLIGHT ITEM NUMBER FOUR, UM, WHICH IS, UM, A PLUMBING SERVICE THAT WE WILL BE HAVING WITH THE ELLA AUSTIN COMMUNITY CENTER.
AND SO I WANNA JUST SAY, UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO OUR DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.
UM, I'M MULTITASKING THIS MORNING, BUT WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HIGHLIGHTED THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING WITH ELLA AUSTIN.
WANNA THANK OUR CITY MANAGER FOR THAT AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN ALSO WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT NUMBER EIGHT, UM, ON OUR AGENDA FOR THIS MORNING.
AND, UM, NUMBER EIGHT IS ALSO A CONTRACT THAT WILL BE PUT IN PLACE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING PARK UNDER THE 2017 BOND FUNDING.
UM, WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT OUR PARKS WILL LOOK LIKE AS WE GO FORWARD WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING PARK.
WE WERE ABLE TO HOST OUR HALLOWEEN, UH, V TWO BOOTH THROUGH, UH, DRIVE-THROUGH THROUGH THE PARK, AND IT WAS REALLY SOMETHING TO SEE.
UM, IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN OUT TO MARTIN LUTHER KING PARK TO JUST ENJOY THE NATURAL WATERS AND NATURAL SPRINGS, PLEASE GET OUT THERE AND DO SO.
WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A LOT MORE WORK TO DO WITH THE ELLA AUSTIN, BUT CITY MANAGER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ALLOCATION OF CONTINUING TO UPLIFT OUR CITY BUILDINGS.
UH, THANK YOU MAYOR FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
UM, AND THERE'S NO ONE OTHER, UH, AND NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ON THIS ITEM.
I DO WANT TO THANK OUR, UH, CITY STAFF AND I G R, UH, FOLKS THAT ARE, HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD ON OUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA.
IT'S GOING TO BE A, A VERY CHALLENGING SIX MONTHS OR SO IN AUSTIN, AND WE'RE ANTICIPATING THAT.
BUT I DO WANNA RECOGNIZE SOME, UH, GROUNDBREAKING WORK THAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE IN THIS RESPECT.
ONE OF THEM IS TO ALIGN OUR CITY AND COUNTY AGENDAS.
AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE CO-CHAIRS NOW IN THE I G R TEAM FOR THE FIRST TIME THE COUNTY PASSED.
I BELIEVE THEY PASSED THEIR, UH, RATIFIED THEIR AGENDA, UH, AND EVERYTHING IS, LOOKS GOOD FOR US AS WELL.
UH, NOTE THAT THE CITY FOR THE FIRST TIME HAS SUPPORTIVE MEDICAID EXPANSION IN OUR PUBLIC HEALTH PLANK AS WELL.
AND I THINK THAT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT IF WE'VE LEARNED OUR LESSONS THROUGH THIS PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS.
UH, SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT AND, AND NOTE THAT THE CITY AND THE COUNTY WILL BE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE OUR VOICES HEARD ON THAT SUBJECT.
UH, THERE'S NOTHING ELSE ON THIS, SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE UP THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR, UH, FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA.
AND LET ME MAKE SURE I GOT THIS RIGHT.
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ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR 12, 13, AND 16, IS THAT RIGHT? OKAY.ALRIGHT, WE'LL MOVE TO OUR INDIVIDUAL ITEMS
[12. 20-6122 Ordinance approving funding for SAWS impact fee waivers for a five-year period from fiscal year 2021 to fiscal year 2025. There is no impact to the General Fund. [Lori Houston, Assistant City Manager; John Jacks, Director, Center City Development & Operations]]
NOW.ITEM 12 IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING FUNDING FOR SOLID IMPACT FEE WAIVERS FOR A FIVE YEAR PERIOD FROM FISCAL YEAR 2021 TO FISCAL YEAR 2025.
THERE IS NO IMPACT TO THE GENERAL FUND COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
I HOPE THERE'S A PRESENTATION PREPARED.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S FROM BEN OR TROY.
YES, COUNCILMAN, THIS IS LORI HOUSTON.
VERONICA GARCIA, WHO'S ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITH THE CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT.
CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME OKAY? YES.
UM, SO THIS ITEM IS A, UH, ASKING CITY COUNCIL TO APPROVE FIVE-YEAR FUNDING COMMITMENT FOR THE SAS IMPACT FEE WAIVERS.
NOW THESE FEE WAIVERS ARE FROM THE SAS BUDGET, BUT SINCE SAS IS, UH, OWNED BY THE CITY, IT'S STILL REQUIRES CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZATION.
THIS ITEM IS AUTHORIZING THOSE SAWS IMPACT FEE WAIVERS FOR A FIVE YEAR PERIOD.
AND AS I MENTIONED, THIS WILL BE PAID THROUGH THE SAWS ANNUAL BUDGET.
THESE, UH, OH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.
THE SAWS FEE WAIVER GUIDELINES WERE ADOPTED ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO, AND THEY WERE PRIMARILY ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE INNER CITY REINVESTMENT INFO POLICY FOR, UH, KNOWN AS THE I CRYPT IN 2014.
UH, THE COUNCIL AUTHORIZED FUNDING FOR THESE FEE WAIVERS THROUGH 2020.
SO THIS IS THE LAST YEAR OF THE FEE WAIVERS THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY.
UH, BACK IN DECEMBER OF 2018, CITY COUNCIL REPLACED THE ICRP WITH THE CSA FEE WAIVER PROGRAM, AND THIS IS NOW OUR MECHANISM FOR AWARDING THE SAWS IMPACT FEE WAIVERS.
THESE FEE WAIVERS SUPPORT A VARIETY OF PROJECTS AS LONG AS THE PROJECT IS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.
AND AS LONG AS IT MEETS ONE OF THESE CRITERIA, IT WOULD BE ELIGIBLE ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS FOR THE SAWS IMPACT FEE WAIVERS.
THE FEE WAIVERS ARE AVAILABLE TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS TO SMALL BUSINESSES.
THEY CAN BE USED FOR HISTORIC REHAB PROJECTS, AND THEY CAN ALSO BE USED TO SUPPORT TARGETED INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
SO THESE WAIVERS CURRENTLY ARE $3 MILLION PER YEAR, AND EACH OF THESE CATEGORIES HAS THEIR OWN RESERVED BUCKET OF FUNDING SO THAT WE HAVE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT ALL OF THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS WITH THAT SAME $3 MILLION ANNUAL ALLOTMENT.
C C D O ADMINISTERS THE CITY FEE WAIVER PROGRAM AS A WHOLE, BUT WE DO GET SUPPORT FROM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES AS WE LOOK AT PROJECTS THAT CAN BENEFIT FROM THE WAIVERS.
AND E D D ALSO ADMINISTERS, UM, AND AWARDS THE WAIVERS IN THE SMALL BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY.
AND I WILL CLARIFY THAT THIS YEAR, UM, CITY FEE WAIVERS, SO THOSE ARE FUNDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TYPE FEES.
THEY WERE SWEPT THROUGH, UH, FOR THE COVID EFFORTS.
WE DO HAVE A SMALL POD AVAILABLE TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES AND HEALTHCARE RELATED INDUSTRIES, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, UM, CITY OF SAN ANTONIO FEE WAIVERS ARE NOT AVAILABLE.
SO ALL WE'LL HAVE THIS COMING YEAR IS SAS FEE WAIVERS TO AWARD TO PROJECTS.
SO THIS ITEM IS ACTING COUNSEL TO, UH, REAUTHORIZE THE BUDGET FOR THE SASS IMPACT FEE WAIVERS.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT AGREED UPON IS $15 MILLION PAID FOR THROUGH THE SAS ANNUAL BUDGET, AND THIS WILL BE ADMINISTERED AND AVAILABLE OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD.
THIS COMMITMENT WAS APPROVED BY THE SASS BOARD LAST WEEK, SO, UH, WE WILL HAVE THE FUNDS AVAILABLE JANUARY 1ST, UH, PENDING COUNCIL APPROVAL.
AND CITY STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $15 MILLION TO SUPPORT THE SAS IMPACT FEE WAIVERS.
AND THIS, UM, I DID, I WANTED TO POINT OUT, I THINK THE MEMO HAD THAT SAS WAS GOING TO APPROVE THESE WAIVERS BACK, UM, AT THEIR NEXT MEETING IN DECEMBER, BUT THAT APPROVAL ACTUALLY HAPPENED WITH THE ADOPTION OF THEIR BUDGET LAST WEEK.
SO I WANTED TO MAKE THAT CLARIFICATION FOR MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
SO I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
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GREAT.UM, TURN OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
SO I GUESS I JUST, I, I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THESE FEE WAIVERS BECAUSE AS WE ARE WORKING ON, UH, ESPECIALLY REHAB PROJECTS AND, UM, OTHER AFFORDABILITY, UH, PROGRAMS, UH, I JUST, I WONDER, DO YOU HAVE A RECAP OF HOW THEY'VE BEEN SPENT IN THE PAST, UM, CONSIDERING NOW THAT WE'RE NOT DOING CERTAIN TYPES OF, OF FEE WAIVERS, UM, WHAT, HOW DOES IT LOOK IN THE PAST? AND THEN PERHAPS I, I GUESS MY, MY POINT IS THAT I THINK THAT WE SHOULD HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TARGETED EFFORT, UM, ESPECIALLY THOSE, UH, REGARDING REHAB AND, UM, IN, BECAUSE ISN'T IT A CITYWIDE PROGRAM? SO EVERYONE'S ELIGIBLE? YES.
SO IT'S, SO AT WHAT, AT WHAT POINT MIGHT WE MAKE SOME OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT A MORE TARGETED EFFORT? SURE.
SO THIS ITEM IS SIMPLY APPROVING THE FUNDS FOR THE PROGRAM.
UM, IT IS NOT MAKING ANY CHANGES TODAY TOWARDS THE POLICY OR THE WAY THESE WAIVERS ARE AWARDED.
IT'S SIMPLY, UM, APPROVING THE FUNDING FOR THE PROGRAM.
UH, WE CAN, AND WE ARE WORKING WITH NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES RIGHT NOW.
THEY'RE UNDERGOING A STRATEGIC HOUSING IMPLEMENTATION PLAN THAT IS IN PROGRESS.
AND I THINK, UH, THE PLANNING AND LAND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE GOT AN UPDATE ON THAT PLAN EARLIER THIS WEEK.
SO IT IS IN PROGRESS, AND WE DO EXPECT THAT ALL OF THE STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK AND COMMUNITY FEEDBACK WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION AND NEW POLICIES AND PROGRAMS MAY BE DEVELOPED.
AND WE CAN LOOK AT, UH, WHETHER OR NOT THE SWAY CITY FEE WAIVER, SO THAT INCLUDES THE CITY AND THE SAS FA WAIVERS ARE AWARDED.
AND PERHAPS WOULD IT BE, UH, WOULD IT MAKE SENSE TO AWARD THEM IN A DIFFERENT WAY OTHER THAN, UM, FIRST CRU FIRST SERVE, WHICH IS RIGHT NOW AND HOW IT IS? AND TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT HOW THEY'VE BEEN AWARDED.
SO, UM, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO AWARD MONEY FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS, AND SINCE THE COUNCIL ADOPTED THE NEW PROGRAM GUIDELINES, THOSE SAWS AND CITY FEE WAIVERS HAVE ASSISTED WITH THE CREATION OF A LITTLE OVER 2,100 HOUSING UNITS.
AND OF THOSE, ABOUT 75% OF THEM WILL BE AFFORDABLE TO HOUSEHOLDS BELOW 30%, UP TO 80%.
AND FROM THAT NUMBER, UH, OF THE 2100 NEW HOUSING UNITS CREATED, OVER HALF OF THOSE ARE FOR FAMILIES BELOW THE 60% A M I, THE, UH, PROGRAM HAS ALSO ASSISTED 22 SMALL BUSINESSES WITH THE CITY AND HAWS FEE WAIVERS.
AND WE'VE ALSO BEEN ABLE TO ASSIST THREE TARGETED INDUSTRY PROJECTS.
SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF SOME HIGH LEVEL METRICS OF WHAT THE PROGRAM OVERALL HAS BEEN ABLE TO DO.
AND THEY HAVE BEEN AWARDED, UM, CITYWIDE.
SO ALMOST, ALMOST EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT HAS RECEIVED SOME LEVEL OF FUNDING.
I THINK THERE MAY BE ONE EXCEPTION.
WELL, I MEAN, I, I THINK THAT THIS IS A, YOU KNOW, A GREAT PROGRAM.
I JUST, THE THINGS ARE EVOLVING ALL THE TIME, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, AS A COUNCIL NEED TO HAVE THOSE FURTHER DISCUSSION SINCE WE DO HAVE A NEW POLICY OR WE'RE WORKING ON A NEW STRATEGIC POLICY FOR HOUSING, UM, PERHAPS WE SHOULD BE TARGETED THERE, ALTHOUGH THE SMALL BUSINESS PIECE IS REALLY IMPORTANT TOO.
BUT, UM, SO I GUESS ANOTHER JUST, UH, QUESTION I HAVE.
SO THE HAWS, UH, ARE WE STILL WITH HAWS, UM, GIVING US THE 4.2% OF THEIR BUDGET? ARE WE BACK DOWN TO THE 2.4%? OR WHERE DO WE 4%, WHERE DO WE STAND WITH THE AMOUNT THAT THE CITY THAT SAS CONTRIBUTES TO THE CITY COUNCILWOMAN RIGHT NOW? UM, THE, UM, UH, SAW REVENUE, UH, THE CITY GETS 4% OF GROSS REVENUE.
UM, A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WE CHANGED THAT, UH, IT, IT HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN 2.7%.
UM, AND THAT HADN'T CHANGED SINCE THE CREATION OF SAWS.
AND UNDER THE ORDINANCE THAT THE COUNCIL, UH, APPROVED CREATING SAWS, THAT RATE CAN GO UP TO 5%.
CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW, WE WERE AT 4% OF GROSS REVENUES.
SO IS THIS 15 MILLION INCLUDED IN THAT, OR IS THIS SEPARATE FROM, SO, UH, THIS, THESE ARE DOLLARS, AND VERONICA, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THESE ARE DOLLARS THAT ARE NOT BUDGETED AT THE CITY.
SO IT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THAT, IN THAT BOUND.
YOU ARE, YOU ARE CORRECT, SIR.
THESE ARE NOT, UH, GENERAL FUND DOLLARS.
THERE'S NO TRANSFER OF DOLLARS.
IT'S, UM, IT'S MORE OF A CREDIT FROM SAWS THAT DEVELOPERS GET.
SO THERE'S NO ACTUAL FUNDING THAT GOES FROM THE CITY TO SAWS OR FUNDING THAT GOES FROM DEVELOPERS TO SAWS.
IT'S JUST ALL A MATTER OF, UH, OF CREDITS THAT ARE ISSUED
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COUNCILWOMAN.IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A WAY FOR THE COUNCIL, UM, TO, UH, SET THE POLICY IN TERMS OF PRIORITY, UM, FOR ASPECTS OF THE, OF THE WAIVER PROGRAM, AND THEN SET THAT GUIDANCE FOR SAWS AS THEY, UM, UM, ISSUE THOSE DOLLARS IN ACCORDANCE WITH, UH, THE COUNCIL'S POLICY.
WELL, I KNOW THESE ARE, YOU KNOW, REALLY IMPORTANT, UM, DOLLARS AND I, I THINK THIS IDEA THAT PERHAPS WE DON'T GO TO FIRST COME FIRST SERVE, BUT START MOVING TOWARDS A MORE NEED BASE OR PERHAPS MORE, UM, PROJECT-BASED APPROACH, UM, WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE JUST GIVEN I THINK THE COUNCIL AS SUPPORT OF THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, AND WORKFORCE HOUSING.
WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 12.
I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS HERE.
DO WE HAVE ANYBODY FROM SAS ON THE LINE THAT COULD ANSWER A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS? ANYBODY ELSE FROM SAS? NOT.
WELL, MAYBE ERIC, IF YOU COULD, UH, UH, I'M SURE THEY CAN GET THIS INFORMATION TOGETHER, BUT, UM, DO WE KNOW WHAT THE, UH, SPEND WAS TOTAL SPEND OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS? WAS IT THE SAME AMOUNT AND DID WE SPEND ALL THE MONEY IN OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS? UH, COUNCILMAN PERRY, I CAN, THIS, VERONICA I CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
WE DO GET, UH, 3 MILLION A YEAR.
WE ARE ALLOWED, UH, THROUGH THIS ORDINANCE TO CARRY OVER NO MORE THAN $5 MILLION EACH YEAR.
SO IF A DEVELOPER DOES NOT USE THEIR WAIVER IN THE YEAR IT'S AWARDED, AND, AND THAT DOES HAPPEN DEPENDING ON TIMELINE FOR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, UM, THEY CAN KEEP THAT WAIVER FOR UP TO 18 MONTHS.
AND THEN THERE'S A RENEWAL PROCESS AND FEES APPLIED TO RENEW THE WAIVER.
AND THAT'S WHY WE'LL HAVE DEVELOPED FOR WAIVERS OUT THERE THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY USED IN THE YEAR THAT THEY'RE AWARDED.
SO WE ARE ABLE TO ROLL OVER UP TO $5 MILLION EACH YEAR.
UM, BUT AS FAR AS WHAT WE AWARD ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, WE ARE, UM, AWARDING THE $3 MILLION IN FULL TO DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
AND THEN, UM, SO THIS IS, UH, $15 MILLION OVER, OVER FIVE YEARS.
DO WE KNOW WHAT THE IMPACT IS TO WHAT THE AVERAGE IMPACT IS TO THE HOMEOWNERS, UM, OR BUSINESSES? DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH THEIR, THEIR, UM, WATER BILLS ACTUALLY GO UP BECAUSE OF THIS $15 MILLION OVER FIVE YEARS? DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT TO RATE PAYERS OUT THERE, COUNCILMAN? WE'LL, UM, THIS, THIS IS, THIS IS MONEY THAT IS IN THE SAS BUDGET RIGHT NOW.
AND, UH, WE'LL ASK, UH, SAS TO CALCULATE WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE AVERAGE BILL IT, THAT IT IT REPRESENTS AND GET THAT TO THE COUNCIL.
I MEAN, THIS ISN'T, THIS ISN'T FREE.
IT, IT'S SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY FOR THIS.
SO, UM, THE REMAINDER OF THE RATE PAYERS, AGAIN, ACROSS ALL OF SAS CUSTOMERS ARE HAVING TO PICK UP THAT BILL.
AND I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHAT'S THE AVERAGE, UH, INCREASE IN WATER BILLS FOR THESE, FOR THESE, UH, EXEMPTIONS? SO, AND THAT'S, THIS IS, THIS ITEM IS NOT INCREASING RATES.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NO, NO, NO.
I THINK YOUR QUESTION IS WHAT, FOR WHAT PORTION OF THE CURRENT BILL DOES THIS $3 MILLION REPRESENT? RIGHT? YEP.
LIKE I SAID, IT IS, SOMEBODY'S GOTTA PAY FOR THIS.
IT'S NOT FREE MONEY OUT THERE.
IF WE CAN GET THAT TO ME, WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL.
THANK YOU VERONICA FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU COUNCIL AND FOR, FOR PULLING THE ITEM.
UH, DO YOU KNOW IF FROM THE SA BUDGET, THIS BASICALLY GETS ACCOUNTED FOR WHEN THEY CALCULATE THE IMPACT FEES AND BASICALLY SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA SET ASIDE $15 MILLION FROM THE IMPACT FEES, WHICH WE JUST APPROVED A FEW MONTHS AGO, RIGHT? OR DOES IT COME FROM THERE IN THEIR BUDGETING, OR DOES IT COME JUST FROM THEIR, I GUESS FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE? AND DO YOU HAVE, UH, DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA? UH, GOOD MORNING.
UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UM, I UNDERSTOOD YOUR QUESTION, RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S
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WHAT'S THE SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR THE $3 MILLION? SO ESSENTIALLY, AS VERONICA MENTIONED, THIS IS A, A CREDIT.SO WHAT THEY DO IS THEY BUILD INTO THEIR BUDGET AN ASSUMPTION THAT THEY'RE NOT GONNA COLLECT $3 MILLION IN IMPACT FEES.
SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS THEY'RE, UM, WHAT'S THE RIGHT WORD? GENERAL OPERATING BUDGET PICKS UP, PICKS UP THAT DIFFERENCE.
SO IT'S NOT PICKED UP BY THE OTHER IMPACT FEES? THAT'S CORRECT.
THIS IS JUST A WAIVER OF AN EXISTING IMPACT FEE.
I'M SURE COUNCILMAN PERRY AND I CAN HAVE A GOOD CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT LATER.
BUT THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP THAT QUESTION, COUNCILMAN.
UH, I WASN'T QUITE SURE I UNDERSTOOD THAT.
UM, THERE IS NO CARRYOVER RIGHT NOW, THE BALANCE IS ZERO FROM THE PREVIOUS FEE WAIVERS.
IS THAT RIGHT, VERONICA? SO WE ARE ABLE TO CARRY OVER UP TO $5 MILLION A YEAR IN UNUSED FEE WAIVERS.
AND IF FOR SOME REASON WE AWARD A WAIVER, LET'S SAY THE PROJECT DOESN'T HAPPEN AND THEY DON'T NEED IT ANYMORE, WE'LL HAVE THOSE FUNDS AVAILABLE.
AND SO THEY ROLL OVER $5 MILLION UP TO 5 MILLION A YEAR.
AND I THINK, UM, THIS PAST YEAR, IT'S ON A CALENDAR YEAR NOW.
SO WE STOPPED TWO MONTHS TO USE, YOU KNOW, THIS YEAR'S OF WAIVERS.
UH, WE DO TEND TO ROLL OVER CLOSE TO THAT, ANYWHERE BETWEEN FOUR TO FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.
WE TEND TO ROLL OVER JUST BECAUSE WE'VE ISSUED WAIVERS AND THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY USED RIGHT AWAY.
THEY'RE STILL, UH, NEEDED FOR THOSE PROJECTS.
BUT THEY MAY BE, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR LOTS OF REASONS THEIR TIMELINE GOT DELAYED.
UH, BUT SO THEY'RE ABLE TO RENEW THE WAIVERS FOR A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME AND WE KEEP THEM RESERVED FOR THOSE PROJECTS BECAUSE THEY ARE DEPENDING ON THAT INCENTIVE.
VERONICA GARCIA, THIS IS LORI HOUSTON.
UM, BUT CAN YOU CONFIRM THAT WE SPEND, WE COMMIT THE $3 MILLION ANNUALLY.
SO WE, WE HAVE COMMITTED THE $3 MILLION THAT WAS ALLOCATED IN FISCAL YEAR 2020.
THERE'LL BE A ROLLOVER IN 21, BUT WE HAVE, WE DO NOT HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO AWARD UNTIL JANUARY 1ST, 2021, UM, WHICH IS WHAT YOU ALL ARE APPROVING TODAY.
SO IT'S QUITE POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE COULD HAVE BEEN AWARDED, UM, FEE WAIVERS IN 2019.
UM, THEY WERE THE FIRST ONES IN LINE FOR 2019 AND THEN, UH, NOT ACTUALLY USE THEM UNTIL 20 20, 20 21, 20 22, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
YEAH, AT SOME POINT I WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT BETTER WHAT WE MEAN BY FIRST COME FIRST SERVE.
UM, BECAUSE IT, IT'S, IT IS JUST NOT VERY CLEAR TO ME.
IF IT KEEPS GETTING CARRIED OVER, THEN, YOU KNOW, THEY GOT THERE FIRST, BUT THEY DIDN'T ACTUALLY USE THEM FIRST.
AND WE, WE CAN SIT DOWN AND WALK YOU THROUGH THAT.
BUT TYPICALLY, ONCE YOU HAVE YOUR FINANCING AND YOU'RE READY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR PROJECT, YOU COME FORWARD, WE'LL AUTHORIZE THE WAIVER.
BUT TYPICALLY, MULTI-FAMILY PROJECTS TAKE ANYWHERE FROM 18 TO 24 MONTHS TO CONSTRUCT.
AND THERE COULD BE RAIN DELAYS, THERE COULD BE COVID RELATED DELAYS.
AND SO THEY MAY NOT PULL THAT WAIVER UNTIL, YOU KNOW, HALFWAY OR, YOU KNOW, THREE QUARTERS WAY THROUGH THAT PROJECT, EVEN THOUGH THEY STARTED CONSTRUCTION EARLY ON.
AND SO THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE THAT DELAY.
IT WAS AWARDED SO THEY COULD FINISH THEIR FINANCING, BUT THEY DON'T PULL RIGHT UNTIL THEY'RE AT 50% OR 75% OF CONSTRUCTION.
BUT WE'LL WALK YOU THROUGH THAT.
IT'S TYPICALLY RELATED TO THOSE LARGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH A SINGLE FAMILY AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS, THEY PULL IT WITHIN THREE MONTHS.
SO I HAVE A FEW MORE QUESTIONS.
SO I, I JUST WANNA CLARIFY, WE'RE APPROVING THE BUDGET TODAY, BUT NOT THE GUIDELINES, IS THAT RIGHT? THAT IS CORRECT.
THE POLICY WAS APPROVED IN 2018, AND SO ALL YOU'RE APPROVING IS THE BUDGET.
AND THEN WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF DOING OUR STRATEGIC HOUSING IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, AND WE WILL COME BACK WITH SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON POTENTIALLY TWEAKING THE POLICY.
BUT WE HAVE HEARD FROM COUNCIL THAT SMALL BUSINESS IS IMPORTANT, INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IS IMPORTANT, AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS IMPORTANT, BUT WE MAY MAKE SOME TWEAKS BASED ON ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK THAT WE HEAR THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION POLICY.
UM, SO BEFORE YOU HAVE THE NEW POLICY, AND WE APPROVE THIS BUDGET TODAY, I, I DON'T ANTICIPATE WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE NEW POLICY BEFORE JANUARY 1ST, 2021, RIGHT? CORRECT.
SO ON JANUARY 1ST, 2021, DOES THAT MEAN, DOES TODAY'S APPROVAL MEAN THAT YOU ARE AUTHORIZED, THAT STAFF IS AUTHORIZED TO GO AHEAD AND BEGIN DISPERSING THE SA FEE WAIVERS ACCORDING TO THE CURRENTLY EXISTING GUIDELINES? OR ARE WE JUST GONNA HOLD IT UNTIL WE HAVE THE NEW GUIDELINES? NO, COME JANUARY ONE, WE WILL BE ABLE TO AFFORD THE, WE WILL BE ABLE TO DISPERSE OR,
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UH, COMMIT THOSE WAIVERS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE IN THOSE, THOSE APPROVED CATEGORIES.AFFORDABLE HOUSING, INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT, SMALL BUSINESS, UM, OR HISTORIC REHABILITATION.
THE, THE CURRENT GUIDELINES THAT WE ADOPTED IN, IN 2018 MM-HMM.
SO, UM, SO MY ONLY ONE OF THE CONCERNS I HAVE HERE IS IF WE'RE STILL DOING FIRST COME FIRST SERVE, WE MAY ACTUALLY GO THROUGH A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF THAT BUDGET BEFORE WE'RE ABLE TO REDO OUR GUIDELINES.
SO WHAT, WHEN DO YOU ANTICIPATE NEW, NEW GUIDE? SO THESE ARE MY QUESTIONS.
WHEN DO YOU ANTICIPATE US REVIEWING NEW GUIDELINES? AND B, HOW MUCH OF THE BUDGET DO YOU THINK WILL BE LEFT BY BY THAT TIME? WE ANTICIPATE BRINGING BACK GUIDELINES PROBABLY IN FEBRUARY, MARCH TIMEFRAME, BUT AS, UM, VERONICA GARCIA MENTIONED, EACH OF THOSE CATEGORIES ARE CAPPED.
AND SO, UM, IF WE GO BEYOND OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING CAP, THERE'S NO MORE FUNDING.
BUT AS COUNCIL HAS SEEN, WE HAVE BROUGHT SEVERAL PROJECTS FORWARD TO COUNCIL WHERE WE'VE TAKEN FUNDING OUT OF THE TOURS TO HELP SUPPORT THOSES FEE WAIVERS.
SO TYPICALLY WE FIND ANOTHER SOURCE TO HELP WITHOUT FEE WAIVER.
AND SO THIS IS NOT THE ONLY BUCKET IN THE EVENT WE RUN OUT OF FUNDING.
AND SO WHEN YOU SAY THEY'RE, UM, SORRY, WHEN YOU SAY THAT THEY'RE CAPPED, UM, IS THAT JUST FOR THE YEAR OR, I'M JUST WONDERING LIKE HOW, IF WE'RE GONNA RUN INTO OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, CAP MAYBE THIS FIRST YEAR, WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR YEARS 2, 3, 4, AND FIVE? LIKE, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE MIGHT HIT ALL OF THOSE IN 2021? VERONICA GARCIA, DO YOU WANNA ADDRESS THAT? SURE.
SO, UM, THIS YEAR, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT WE HAVE, UH, THAT THE POLICY SAYS AFFORDABLE HOUSING GETS, YOU KNOW, $700,000 OF THAT, WE WILL GO THROUGH ALL OF THE APPLICATIONS WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS.
AND WE DID OPEN UP THAT APPLICATION WINDOW, UM, LAST MONTH.
SO WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED MANY, MANY, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY TWO DOZEN APPLICATIONS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS.
AND SOME OF THEM GO, MANY OF THOSE GO ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 30% A M I.
AND SO WE ARE GOING THROUGH THOSE APPLICATIONS, DETERMINING WHAT'S ELIGIBLE AND SEE WHICH PROJECTS BASED ON WHEN THEY SUBMITTED THEIR APPLICATION COULD GET THE A, UH, WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE SAWS WAIVERS.
NOW THAT 700,000, YOU'RE CORRECT, IT MAY GO VERY QUICKLY BASED ON THE APPLICATIONS WE ALREADY HAVE FOR THOSE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HAS, UM, $300,000 AVAILABLE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.
SO THEY'LL HAVE THOSE TRICKLE IN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AND THEY'LL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO AWARD THOSE, UM, UNDER THE CURRENT POLICY.
UM, ALL THAT MEANS IS THAT NEXT YEAR, 2022, WHEN WE HAVE ANOTHER $3 MILLION AVAILABLE, WE'LL GO EITHER BY, UM, THE NEW POLICY THAT COUNCIL HAS ADOPTED.
SO IT MIGHT BE THAT 700,000 FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING COUNCIL MAY DECIDE MM-HMM.
MAYBE THE SMALL BUSINESS NUMBERS SHOULD BE GREATER.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT LORI MENTIONED.
WE'LL BE MOVING FORWARD LATER.
UM, BUT I WILL SAY THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PROJECTS THAT HAVE ALREADY APPLIED, UM, SMALL BUSINESSES, UH, AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS THAT ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO, UM, HOPEFULLY HAVING WAIVERS APPROVED AS SOON AS, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
THAT'S REALLY, REALLY, UH, HELPFUL TO, TO UNDERSTAND IN ENSURING THAT THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PIPELINE KEEPS, KEEPS MOVING, THE PRODUCTION PIPELINE KEEPS MOVING.
UM, I JUST WANT TO, UM, I GUESS UNDERSTAND FOR SURE AND GET YOUR COMMITMENT.
WE ARE NOT GONNA SPEND THE SECOND YEAR'S MONEY UNTIL WE HAVE THE NEW POLICY, RIGHT? OR WE'RE NOT GOING TO COMMIT IT.
WE'RE ONLY IF ONCE WE ACCEPT THAT THIS MONEY, YOU'RE BASICALLY ONLY AUTHORIZED TO DISTRIBUTE FUNDING FOR THE FIRST, UM, FISCAL YEAR, NOT ANY YEARS FOR 2021, CORRECT.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR CLARIFYING THAT, AND THANK YOU FOR, FOR ALL YOUR WORK.
UH, THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL.
UM, ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM? UH, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.
YOU KNOW, IN LIGHT OF THE DISCUSSION THAT I'VE JUST HEARD, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT, THAT WE DELAY ANY AWARDS UNTIL AFTER WE GET A FINAL RECOMMENDATION ON ANY, UH, NEW PROCESSES WE WANNA INCORPORATE IN THIS.
YOU WERE SAYING IT COULD BE FEBRUARY OR MARCH, SO IT MAY BE A 60 TO 90 DAY DELAY.
UH, BUT I THINK THAT IF WE HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW WE WANNA ALLOCATE THAT 3 MILLION GOING FORWARD, UH, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD DO THAT BEFORE WE START ALLOWING, UH, THOSE ALLOCATIONS
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TO TAKE PLACE.SO I'D LIKE TO PROPOSE, UH, IF THERE'S ANY WAY OF DOING THIS THAT, UH, WE HOLD OFF ISSUING ANY OF THOSE WAIVERS UNTIL AFTER WE'VE GOTTEN AN UPDATE ON AN APPROVAL OF NEW CHANGES IN THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THE CITY ATTORNEY WOULD SAY IT WOULD BE IN ORDER TO GO AHEAD AND MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO THIS MOTION, UH, OR THIS, UH, RECOMMENDED ORDINANCE.
UM, COUNCILMAN, I, I WOULD, UH, ASK ERIC TO SEE IF WE, I THINK THAT'S GONNA, FROM A PRACTICAL STANDPOINT, THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN ANYWAY.
UM, SO ERIC, IF IF THAT'S TRUE, THEN I MEAN, THERE'S NO NEED TO AMEND THE, UH, UH, TO AMEND THIS ITEM.
YEAH, THINK, YEAH, I WAS JUST RAISING MY HAND UP VIRTUALLY.
SO, YOU KNOW, REMEMBER THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS GOING ON AND, AND VERONICA AND LAURIE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE UPDATE TO THE HOUSING STRATEGIC PLAN.
WE, WE OBVIOUSLY KNOW THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING WILL CONTINUE TO BE A FOCUS.
WE ALSO HAVE, UH, THE REQUIRED UPDATE IN THE, IN OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE ORDINANCE THAT'S REQUIRED TO, THAT, THAT PROCESS IS KICKING OFF RIGHT NOW.
UM, I I WOULD SAY THAT, THAT THE APPROVAL OF THE BUDGET TODAY AND THE FACT THAT WE PROBABLY HAVE APPLICATIONS UNDER THE EXISTING ORDINANCE, UM, WE, WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD CONTINUE.
MY RECOMMENDATION IS YOU, WE CONTINUE TO LET THAT OCCUR.
UH, LET US COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL, UM, NEXT WEEK AND GIVE YOU YOU AN UPDATE BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF ASPECTS TO THIS.
THE SA FEE WAIVER FITS INTO THOSE FOUR MAIN AREAS, AND WHAT I'M HEARING THE COUNCIL TALK ABOUT IS JUST THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE ORDINANCE THAT YOU HAVE TO, UH, UPDATE EVERY TWO YEARS IS ALSO A CRITICAL PIECE.
AND I THINK, I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A GLOBAL DISCUSSION ABOUT ALL OF THAT.
AT LEAST THAT'S MY RECOMMENDATION TO YOU THIS MORNING.
I, I, I'M HEARING THAT THERE'S, THERE'S, UM, SOME COUNCIL CONCERN ABOUT THE, THE AMOUNTS THAT ARE SET ASIDE BY CATEGORY.
UM, AND I'M HEARING THAT THERE ARE, UH, MAYBE SOME CONCERN ABOUT FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE, UM, BUT I THINK IN THE CONTEXT OF SMALL BUSINESS INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT, AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION, WE SHOULD COME BACK AND KIND OF LAY ALL THOSE PIECES OUT TO YOU.
UM, I DON'T THINK THE WHEELS ARE GONNA FALL OFF, UM, IN THE FIRST, IN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS.
UM, BUT, BUT I DO THINK IT WARRANTS A, A MUCH BROADER CONVERSATION SO THAT YOU, YOU'RE SEEING, UH, ALL OF THOSE PIECES AND, UM,
I WOULD SAY AS LONG AS WE CAN GO AHEAD AND, AND HAVE A CONVERSATION AND GET, UH, A BETTER BRIEFING ON THE DIRECTION THAT THOSE CHANGES MAY BE GOING IN, THEN I, I CAN UNDERSTAND WAITING.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T END UP NOT HAVING THAT CONVERSATION UNTIL AFTER A BUNCH OF PEOPLE HAVE STARTED SUBMITTING AND SAYING, HEY, I'M IN LINE FIRST.
I WANT MY $300,000, UH, BEFORE WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THOSE.
SO, UH, I'M WILLING TO HEAR MORE ABOUT IT IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
LORI, DID YOU WANT TO ADD SOMETHING? I JUST WANTED TO ECHO THAT.
UM, WE DO HAVE SEVERAL APPLICATIONS AND, UM, THE SAUCE WEAVER IS A BIG COMPONENT FOR THESE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS TO GET THEIR FINANCING.
AND SO DELAYING WILL DELAY THEIR ABILITY TO GET FINANCING AS WELL.
SO IT COULD NEGATIVELY IMPACT THESE PROJECTS.
BUT I WANNA STRESS THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A PRIORITY OF C C D O AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
SO WHEN WE RUN OUT OF FEE WAIVERS, WE ARE VERY CREATIVE ON HOW WE MAKE SURE THAT THAT PROJECT CONTINUES TO GET A FEE WAIVER.
MAYBE IT'S NOT FUNDED THROUGH THE CREDIT, BUT IT CAN BE FUNDED THROUGH C D B G FUNDING.
IT CAN BE FUNDED THROUGHTS FUNDING.
AND SO WE FIND A WAY BECAUSE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS THE PRIORITY.
AND SO JUST BECAUSE THERE'S A $700,000 CREDIT DOESN'T MEAN THERE ISN'T OTHER FUNDING SOURCES.
AND MOST OF THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS THAT WE'RE SEEING COME THROUGH ARE WITHIN RS OR C D B G ELIGIBLE.
AND, AND I'LL JUST ADD TO THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GONE THROUGH SEVERAL ITERATIONS OF POLICY DIRECTION ON THE FEE WAIVERS PROGRAM IN GENERAL, AND THE LATEST ROUND 2018 WAS SPECIFICALLY TO HELP ENCOURAGE AND FACILITATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.
SO I WOULD BE VERY CONCERNED IF WE WERE TO STOP PRODUCTION AND THE FEE WAIVERS AND THE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING, IN PARTICULAR, IF WE'RE GONNA SEE POLICY, UM, UH, MODIFICATIONS FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM MOVING FORWARD, I WOULD EXPECT IT WOULD HELP AUGMENT, UH, SMALL BUSINESS, UM, PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC.
UH, BUT, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THE CHANGES ARE GONNA BE AS DRAMATIC ENOUGH TO CALL FOR AN ENTIRE, UM, MORATORIUM ON THIS.
SO, UM, ANY RATE, I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION NEXT, BUT, UM, THIS HAS BEEN A HEALTHY RESET ON, ON THE FEE WAIVER PROGRAM AND CERTAINLY GET OUR FISCAL YEAR UNDERWAY.
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AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM, UH, 12.UH, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE.
ANY OPPOSED? ALL MOTION CARRIES.
[13. 20-6574 Resolution in the spirit of equal justice for all honoring the life and legacy of United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [Andrew Segovia, City Attorney]]
WE'LL GO NOW TO ITEM NUMBER 13.ITEM 13 IS A RESOLUTION IN THE SPIRIT OF EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL, HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
UM, OKAY, THIS ONE IS COUNCIL MEMBER GRO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GRO.
WE DO HAVE TWO CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, SO LET ME GO AHEAD AND TAKE THEM AND I'LL TURN THE FLOOR TO YOU.
UM, WE'LL START WITH MARIA POSADA.
THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME AND ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK.
I WANT TO THANK COUNCILWOMAN VRAN FOR BRINGING THIS RESOLUTION FORWARD FOR CONSIDERATION ON BEHALF OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH TEXAS, OUR STAFF, VOLUNTEERS, AND OUR 17,000 PATIENTS IN SAN ANTONIO, I'M SEEKING IN FAVOR OF TODAY'S RESOLUTION IN HONOR OF THE LATE JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
HER RECENT DEATH IS A PAINFUL LOSS FOR OUR COUNTRY AND OUR HIGHEST COURT.
JUSTICE GINSBURG'S VOICE VALUES, COURAGE, AND LEADERSHIP WILL BE DEEPLY MISSED.
JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG STOOD UP FOR GENDER EQUALITY, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, LGBTQ PLUS FREEDOM, AND HEALTHCARE FOR ALL.
SHE ELEVATED THE CONCERNS OF THE UNHEARD AND OVERLOOKED JUSTICE GINSBURG WAS A REMARKABLE, RELENTLESS TRAILBLAZER WHO INSPIRED MILLIONS OF GIRLS AND WOMEN TO FIGHT THROUGH SEXISM AND DISCRIMINATION TO MAKE AMERICA A BETTER PLACE TO WORK, TO LIVE, AND TO LOVE.
PRIOR TO HER CONFIRMATION TO THE US SUPREME COURT, SHE SUCCESSFULLY ARGUED FIVE LANDMARK GENDER DISCRIMINATION CASES BEFORE THE HIGH COURT ON THE SUPREME COURT, EVEN IN DISSENT.
SHE SHOWED US HOW TO KEEP GOING AND TO NEVER GIVE UP FOR 27 YEARS ON THE COURT.
AND THROUGHOUT HER ENTIRE CAREER, SHE NEVER WAVERED IN HER DETERMINATION TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THIS COUNTRY IN HER HONOR.
WE WILL KEEP GOING AND WE KEEP FIGHTING TO ENSURE THE VOICES OF OUR PATIENTS ARE HEARD, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE EXPERT HIGH QUALITY HEALTHCARE AT OUR FIVE HEALTH CENTERS IN SAN ANTONIO.
WHEN OUR PATIENTS NEED US, WE'LL BE THERE NO MATTER WHAT.
THAT IS OUR PROMISE AND HOW WE HOPE TO HOW WE WILL HONOR JUSTICE GINSBURG'S LEGACY.
I HOPE THE COUNCIL VOTES IN FAVOR OF TODAY'S RESOLUTION TO HONOR HER LEGACY AS WELL.
JACK FINGER, I HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? HELLO? YES, WE HEAR YOU, JACK, GO AHEAD.
YES, MAYOR NURNBERG, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, THIS IS JACK M.
YOU, TODAY YOU ARE HONORING DECEASED SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE DOING? YES.
MS. JUSTICE GINSBURG WAS VERY MUCH PRO-ABORTION AND VERY MUCH PRO HOMOSEXUAL.
AND, AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE COMPLETELY OUTRAGED BY SUCH HONORS WHEN IT COMES TO THIS.
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE, AND I'M QUOTING FOR FROM MR. JOHN HENRY WINSTON, THE CO-FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF LIVE SITE NEWS, AND, AND ON ONLINE PUBLICATION, HE SAID, HE SAID, UPON HER DEATH, HE SAID, QUOTE, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON HER SOUL.
AND HE HOPES THAT SHE REPETITIVE OF HER PRO-ABORTION ACTIVISM.
AT THE END, HE ALSO GOES ON TO SAY, QUOTE, AMONG OTHER DECISIONS, GINSBURG HAD VOTED TO STRIKE DOWN LAW BANNING PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTIONS IN NEBRASKA.
QUOTE, HE SAYS, UH, UH, SHE SAYS, A STATE REGULATION THAT HAS A PURPOSE OR EFFECT OF PLACING A SUBSTANTIAL OBSTACLE AND PATH OF A WOMAN SEEKING AN ABORTION OF A NON-VIABLE FETUS VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION.
SHE ARGUED TO, TO MRS. VIA GRAHAM, THE, THE PERSON SPONSORING THIS RESOLUTION.
MADAM, DO YOU REALIZE WHAT PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION IS? IT IS THE MOST HYENAS FORM OF ABORTION.
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DELIVERED, AND THEN IT IS CHOPPED UP.AND I MUTILATED AND, AND THEN THROWN AWAY, NO, I'M SORRY.
THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE HONORING TODAY.
NO, I I'M JUST ALSO, I HAD A FEELING ALSO, I'M SORRY, I TEXT ALSO, MS. GINSBURG WAS ALSO IN FAVOR OF THE SO-CALLED HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE.
ONLY A FEW MONTHS AFTER THE SUPREME COURT STRUCK DOWN THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT IN 2013, GINSBURG BECAME THE FIRST SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO OFFICIATE A HOMOSEXUAL WEDDING CEREMONY.
WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? YOU NOT ONLY DO YOU NOT NEED TO NOT HONOR HER, YOU NEED TO SAY NO TO THIS.
AND IT'D BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THE LONE AND CONSERVATIVE CLAYTON PERRY SAYS NO TO THIS AS WELL.
HE, HE CERTAINLY DIDN'T, SEVERAL MONTHS AGO WHEN CAME TO DR.
GIGI JUN DE W'S APARTMENT TO APPOINTMENT TO THE LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY.
I KNOW THAT CHELSEA MICKLIN CHECK IS ON THE CALL OR ON, UH, ON HERE, AND SHE'S WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION? UH, CHELSEA? YES.
I'M WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, AND I WANNA THANK ALL OF YOU FOR ALLOWING ME THIS TIME TO PRESENT AND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO COUNCILWOMAN BRAN FOR PUTTING FORTH THE C C R.
JUST A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS.
FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR, UM, COUNCILWOMAN BRAN SUBMITTED A C C R FOR CONSIDERATION OF THIS RESOLUTION, HONORING THE LATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE GROUP, BAYER GINSBURG, ON OCTOBER 28TH OF THIS YEAR.
UM, THAT ITEM WENT TO GOVERNANCE ON NOVEMBER 4TH, AND IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT IT BE BROUGHT TO, BROUGHT BEFORE THE FULL CITY COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION TODAY, UH, NOVEMBER 12TH.
UM, I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU A VERY BRIEF BACKGROUND OF, UH, THE LIFE OF GROUPER GINSBURG WITH RESPECT TO HER EDUCATION AND HER WORK.
UM, SHE EARNED HER BACHELOR'S IN GOVERNMENT AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
UM, SHE SPENT HER FIRST YEAR AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL FOR LAW SCHOOL, AND THEN, UM, SHE FINALLY EARNED HER, UH, LAW DEGREE FROM COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL.
UM, SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF HER CAREER WERE HER TIME AS GENERAL COUNSEL AT THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION.
UM, SHE ALSO SPENT 13 YEARS AT THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, UH, WE ALL KNOW THAT SHE SPENT 27 YEARS AS AN ASSOCIATE JUSTICE AT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND.
UM, HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS ABOUT HER TIME AS AN ADVOCATE.
UM, AS I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, SHE WAS AN ATTORNEY FOR SOME TIME AT THE A C L U.
UH, SHE ARGUED AND ASSISTED WITH OVER 300, 300 GENDER DISCRIMINATION CASES, SIX OF WHICH WERE ARGUED BEFORE THE US SUPREME COURT.
UM, A COUPLE OF HER LANDMARK ADVOCACY CASES ARE, UH, LISTED HERE.
SO I WANNA TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT THOSE.
UM, READ THE REED, WHICH WAS DECIDED IN 1971 AT THE SUPREME COURT.
UM, THIS WAS A REALLY, UH, LANDMARK DECISION BECAUSE THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE US SUPREME COURT EVER APPLIED THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE WITH RESPECT TO DE UH, DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF GENDER.
UM, SO IN THAT CASE, WE WERE DEALING WITH A STATUTE THAT, UM, PREFERRED MEN OVER WOMEN WHEN IT CAME TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF A DECEASED INDIVIDUAL'S ESTATE.
UM, UH, MADAM GINSBURG ARGUED THAT THAT WAS IMPERMISSIBLE DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF GENDER.
UM, AND IN THAT CASE, THAT WAS A UNANIMOUS DECISION ON THE PART OF THE SUPREME COURT, UH, THAT THAT GENDER DISCRIMINATION WAS STRUCK DOWN IN THAT STATUTE.
UM, THE NEXT CASE FROM THERO V RICHARDSON DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT IN 1973.
ANOTHER REALLY IMPORTANT CASE, UM, IN THIS CASE, YOU'LL SEE THAT ONE OF THE PHOTOS HERE, UH, ON THE SLIDE.
SO THAT WAS A WOMAN WHO SERVED IN THE AIR FORCE, AND THAT WAS HER DEPENDENT HUSBAND.
THERE WAS A, A POINT IN TIME WHERE, UM, MEN COULD, UH, RECEIVE THEIR MILITARY BENEFITS WITHOUT HAVING TO DO ANY KIND OF PROOF,
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UH, FOR THEIR DEPENDENT WIVES.BUT IF THE WIFE WAS THE SERVICE MEMBER, SHE HAD TO PROVIDE PROOF THAT HER HUSBAND WAS TRULY A DEPENDENT.
AND AGAIN, UM, THIS WAS STRUCK DOWN AS GENDER DISCRIMINATION AS WELL.
SO, ANOTHER LANDMARK ARGUMENT ON BEHALF OF LU GINSBURG.
UH, THE FINAL LANDMARK PIECE OF ADVOCACY THAT SHE PARTICIPATED IN WAS CRAIG B BORN, DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT IN 1976.
UM, SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THIS AS THE BEER CASE.
THIS WAS THE CASE IN WHICH, UM, FEMALES WERE ALLOWED TO PURCHASE ALCOHOL.
UH, IT WAS 3.2% NON INTOXICATING ALCOHOL.
FEMALES WERE ALLOWED TO PURCHASE IT AT AGE 18, WHEREAS MALES WERE ONLY ALLOWED TO PURCHASE IT AT AGE 21.
IT'S KIND OF A DIFFERENT FORM OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION THAN YOU'D EXPECT.
UH, BUT AGAIN, UM, RUTH GINSBURG WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THIS DECISION, AND THIS WAS, AGAIN, FOUND TO BE GENDER DISCRIMINATION.
UH, AND THEN I WANTED TO ALSO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, RUTH BADER GINSBURG'S TIME AS A JUDGE AND JUSTICE ON THE SUPREME COURT.
AGAIN, SHE SERVED ON THE COURT FOR 27 YEARS UP UNTIL UNTIL, UH, THE DAY SHE PASSED AWAY.
SHE WAS IN SERVICE ON THE COURT.
SHE AUTHORED AND JOINED IN MULTIPLE HUNDREDS OF OPINIONS, MAJORITIES, CONCURRENCES, AND DESCENTS.
AND SHE'S VERY FAMOUS IN POP CULTURE TODAY FOR HER DESCENTS AND HER DISSENT COLLAR, WHICH YOU'LL SEE, UH, PHOTOGRAPHED HERE.
THIS WAS THE COLLAR SHE WOULD WEAR, UH, TO THE COURT WHEN SHE WAS GOING TO DELIVER ONE OF HER DISSENTING OPINIONS.
SO, A COUPLE OF LANDMARK OPINIONS THAT SHE EITHER AUTHORED OR ASSISTED IN AUTHORING.
UH, THE FIRST ONE IS US V VIRGINIA.
UM, SO HERE WE'RE, UH, WE'RE DEALING WITH THE VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE THAT WAS ONE OF THE FINAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES THAT WERE ADMITTED MALES ONLY.
UM, SO SHE AGAIN, USED THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE AS TO FIND THAT THAT WAS IN FACT, GENDER DISCRIMINATORY.
UM, AND DESPITE THERE BEING OTHER INSTITUTIONS THAT WERE FEMALE ONLY THE REASONS BEHIND THAT POLICY WERE, WERE VERY OBVIOUSLY DISCRIMINATORY ON THE BASIS OF GENDER.
AND SO, UM, THEIR ADMISSIONS POLICIES FOR MEN ONLY WAS STRUCK DOWN IN THAT CASE.
UM, THE NEXT CASE, BUSH V GORE, UH, NOW THIS WAS ONE OF, THIS HAS TO BE HER MOST FAMOUS DISSENTING OPINION.
I THINK WE ALL RECALL, UH, WHAT OCCURRED IN BUSH V GORE DURING THAT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WITH THE, UM, WITH THE RECOUNT THAT OCCURRED IN FLORIDA.
UH, SHE OFFERED, UM, A DISSENTING OPINION IN THAT CASE.
AND THIS IS THE CASE WHERE SHE'S FAMOUS FOR WRITING THE LINE.
AND THAT MATTERS BECAUSE, UM, IN ALL OPINIONS PREVIOUS TO THIS ONE, THE, THE LINE WAS TYPICALLY I RESPECTFULLY DISSENT.
UM, BUT IN THIS CASE, SHE MADE IT CLEAR THAT SHE WASN'T RESPECTFULLY DISSENTING.
SHE HAD STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT WHY THE DECISION CAME OUT THE WRONG WAY.
AND, UM, SHE MADE IT KNOWN THAT HER FEELINGS WERE STRONG BY OMITTING THE WORD, UH, RESPECTFULLY.
UH, AND FINALLY, I THINK ALL OF US RECALL IN VERY RECENT HISTORY, UM, THE DECISION IN OBERGEFELL, THE HODGES, WHICH WAS DECIDED IN 2015.
UM, WHILE JUSTICE GINSBURG DID NOT AUTHOR THIS OPINION, SHE DID JOIN IN THIS OPINION.
AND, UH, THIS WAS A CASE THAT PERMITTED, UM, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
I'M CONSISTENT WITH THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF THE LATE, UH, RUTH VADER GINSBURG.
THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, TOO, HAS BEEN A GREAT CHAMPION OF WOMEN AND THE WORK OF WOMEN.
SO I JUST WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THE CITY HAS DONE AND CELEBRATED, UM, WITH RESPECT TO THAT.
SO THIS YEAR, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WAS THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT.
UM, THIS AMENDMENT GAVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND OF COURSE, I, I'D BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T POINT OUT THAT, YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE THE AMENDMENT WAS PASSED, THAT DIDN'T MEAN THAT ALL WOMEN HAVE THE RIGHT, BUT THIS CERTAINLY OPENED THE DOOR, UM, UH, FOR ALL WOMEN IN THIS COUNTRY TO GAIN THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THIS COUNTRY.
UH, MANY SUBSEQUENT LEGAL ACTIONS HAD TO OCCUR FOR WOMEN OF COLOR TO EARN THAT RIGHT AS WELL.
BUT EVENTUALLY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING THERE.
UM, ANOTHER, ANOTHER CHAMPION CHAMPIONING OF WOMEN IS THE WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP MENTORING PROGRAM.
UM, THAT'S, UH, CHERYL SCHOLY, OUR FORMER CITY MANAGER, FOUNDED THAT PROGRAM, AND IT IS NOW OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT THAT RUNS THAT PROGRAM.
I'M A GRADUATE OF THAT PROGRAM, AND I CAN'T SPEAK HIGHLY ENOUGH ABOUT IT.
UM, MY CLASS WAS THE 2019 CLASS, AND AT, UH, INCIDENTALLY, COUNCIL WAS OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER LAST YEAR AT OUR, UH,
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FIRST EVER CONFERENCE FOR THE, FOR THE PROGRAM, UM, MARCH, UH, OF EVERY YEAR IS ALSO DESIGNATED BY CONGRESS AS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.SO EVERY, EVERY YEAR THE CITY DOES VARIOUS PROGRAMMING, UM, AND MULTIPLE COUNCIL DISTRICTS WITH RELATIONSHIP TO CELEBRATING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.
UM, AND I ALSO WANNA POINT OUT A PREVIOUS RESOLUTION THAT WAS PASSED BY CITY COUNCIL, UM, THAT A RESOLUTION IS BROADER IN SCOPE WITH RESPECT TO PROTECTING THE HEALTH, UM, AND EQUITABLE TREATMENT OF WOMEN IN THIS CITY.
UM, ANOTHER COUPLE, ANOTHER PROGRAM THAT THE CITY HAS SPONSORED IS THE GIRLS EMPOWERMENT SUMMIT.
UH, THAT WAS ACTUALLY SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE THE WEEKEND THAT THE PANDEMIC HIT THIS YEAR.
SO UNFORTUNATELY, THE PROGRAM DID HAVE TO BE CANCELED FOR THIS YEAR.
UM, BUT I DID HAVE A PRIVILEGE OF ASSISTING VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS ON PREPARING SOME AGREEMENTS TO PUT THAT PROGRAM TOGETHER.
UM, AND IT, IT'S, IT'S JUST REALLY OUTSTANDING WORK TO EMPOWER THE YOUNG WOMEN IN, IN THIS, UM, IN THIS COMMUNITY.
AND THEN FINALLY, UM, I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A MAJORITY FEMALE CITY COUNCIL.
SO AGAIN, I FEEL LIKE IT'S
SO, UM, AGAIN, THE CITY VERY MUCH CHAMPIONS WOMEN AND YOUNG WOMEN ACROSS THE CITY.
SO, UH, OUR STAFF RECOMMENDATION TODAY IS FOR COUNCIL TO APPROVE THE PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION, AND I'LL BE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS.
UH, THIS IS THE LAST SLIDE HERE, A FAMOUS QUOTE FROM RUTH BADER GINSBURG WHEN THERE ARE NINE, UM, I, I JUST WANNA NOTE THAT, UH, RUTH BADER GINSBURG IS O WAS OFTENTIMES ASKED, YOU KNOW, WHEN DO YOU THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE ENOUGH WOMEN ON THE SUPREME COURT? THE SUPREME COURT CURRENTLY HAS NINE JUSTICES.
HER RESPONSE WAS, WHEN THERE ARE NINE, WHEN THERE ARE NINE WOMEN ON THE SUPREME COURT, THAT'S WHEN THERE WILL BE ENOUGH.
UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHELSEA.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR, UM, THE PRESENTATION AND ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAVE DONE.
I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES WHO CAME FORWARD AND SIGNED THE C C R.
AND A SPECIAL THANKS TO MARADA, PAT HASSO, ILLA NER AND ENRIQUE TREVINO ON MY TEAM.
ONE THING I DID WANT TO READ, UH, FROM HER, HER BOOK OR MY OWN WORDS, BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG, AND THAT GIVES A LITTLE INSIGHT TO WHY WE ARE DOING THIS.
UM, MANY CONSIDER THE JUSTICE HERSELF TO BE AN EXEMPLARY WAY, PAPER AND PATH MARKER, BLAZING THE GENDER EQUALITY TRAIL, AND EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN AND MEN.
YET SHE'S ALSO KNOWN FOR GIVING CREDIT TO THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE HER, ILLUMINATING LITTLE KNOWN HISTORICAL FIGURES, AND SPOTLIGHTING THOSE WHO HELPED PAVE THE WAY FOR HER OWN OPPORTUNITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
EVEN WHILE IMMERSED IN HER OWN EDUCATION AND CAREER, SHE ALWAYS FOUND TIME TO LOOK BACK AND GIVE CREDIT.
AND THANKS TO THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE HER.
SO MAYOR, THIS IS A TIME THAT WE CAN LOOK BACK AND GIVE THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG FOR ALL OF HER WORK AND HER IMPACT THAT SHE HAS HAD ON ALL OF US.
WHETHER WE KNEW HER PERSONALLY OR NOT, I THINK ABOUT SAN ANTONIO WITH THE MAJORITY WOMEN OF COLOR ON THE COUNCIL.
THIS IS A LIVING TESTAMENT TO JUSTICE, GINSBURG'S LIFE'S WORK.
AND FOR THAT REASON, IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT THIS WAS A RESOLUTION AND NOT AN PROCLAMATION.
SO ALL OF OUR NAMES COULD BE ON THIS, AND WAS MENTIONED IN THE PRESENTATION THIS COMING NOVEMBER 15TH, MARKS TWO YEARS THAT COUNSEL UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF WOMEN'S SAFETY, HEALTH REPRESENTATION, AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY IN THE, IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
AND OF COURSE, WAS MENTIONED, THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT, AND OF COURSE, THE RECENT HISTORIC, HISTORIC ELECTION OF VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT KAMALA HARRIS.
I WANNA READ JUST A PORTION OF THE RESOLUTION IN THE SPIRIT OF EQUAL JUSTICE, ALL HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG, WHEREAS THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF ASSOCIATE JUSTICE JOAN RUTH BADER GINSBURG ON SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2020, DUE TO COMPLICATIONS FROM METASTATIC PANCREATIC CANCER SET SHOCK SENT
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SHOCKWAVES THROUGH OUR NATION.AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO RECOGNIZES HER TRAILBLAZING ROLE WITH RESPECT TO HER ADVOCACY OF GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS, HEALTH AND WELLNESS, AND WHEREAS SHE WAS NOMINATED TO SERVE IN THE SUPREME COURT ON JUNE 15TH, 1993, AND THE US SENATE CONFIRMED GINSBURG APPOINTMENT IN A 96 TO THREE VOTE ON AUGUST 3RD, 1993.
AND WHEREAS JUSTICE GINSBURG WAS THE FIRST JEWISH WOMAN AND THE SECOND WOMAN TO SERVE ON THE COURT AFTER JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR.
AND WHEREAS JUSTICE GINSBURG EMBRACED THE JEWISH VALUES OF REPAIRING THE WORLD IN HER LEGAL CAREER BY BEING A CHAMPION FOR GENDER EQUALITY, WOMEN'S HEALTH, VOTING RIGHTS, IMMIGRATION RIGHTS, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND LGBTQ PLUS RIGHTS.
AND WHEREAS DURING HER 27 YEAR TENURE ON THE SUPREME COURT, JUSTICE BURG IMPRESSIVELY AUTHORED 213 MAJORITY OPINIONS AND 147 SENTINE OPINIONS.
AND WHEREAS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, THE CONSISTENT AND WITH AND CONSISTENT WITH JUSTICE GINSBURG WORK AND LEGACY, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND ITS RESIDENTS CONTINUE TO CHAMPION INCREASED GENDER EQUITY THROUGH A HOST OF INITIATIVES.
AND WHEREAS OUR NATION AND CITY ARE FOREVER INDEBTED TO THE WORK IN LEGACY OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, SECTION ONE, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY AS A WHOLE, EXPRESS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND COLLEAGUES OF LATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JOAN BOOTH BADER GINSBURG HONORS HER LIFETIME OF NOBLE SERVICE TO THE UNITED STATES LEGAL SYSTEM AS A MAVERICK ATTORNEY, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR AND PRESTIGIOUS JURIST, RECOGNIZE AND CELEBRATE HER 27 YEAR TENURE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND UPHOLD JUSTICE GINSBURG'S AMERICAN LEGACY AS A PROFOUND GUARDIAN AND DEFENDER OF THE CONSTITUTION AND CHAMPION OF CIVIL RIGHTS MAYOR, SHE WAS AN AMERICAN ICON PATRIOT AND HERO WHO DEDICATED HER CAREER TO SECURING EQUAL PROTECTIONS AND TAUGHT US TO NEVER GIVE UP ON OUR BELIEFS OPPORTUNITIES.
AND WE LEAVE THE WAY OPEN FOR OTHERS TO FOLLOW AND TO SUCCESS TO MY COLLEAGUES.
AS WE APPROVE THIS, AND I HOPE YOU DO, I INVITE YOU TO NAME THOSE WHO HAVE HELPED YOU PAVE THE WAY FOR YOUR OWN OPPORTUNITIES, AND TO GET YOU TO THIS POINT WHO HAVE BEEN YOUR PATH MARKER, AND WHO REMEMBER AND WHO YOU REMEMBER IN THIS RESOLUTION.
NOW, I KNOW THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE THAT WE NEED TO REMEMBER WHO HAVE HELPED US GET TO THIS POINT, BUT LET US HONOR SOME HERE TODAY IN THIS VOTE, I WILL HONOR MY MOM, MY DAD, MY SISTER, JULIA, JILL, THE RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT THREE, SAN ANTONIO, AND SO MANY MORE.
I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO FULL CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL AS IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CARRY ON HER LEGACY BY STAYING DILIGENT TO OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND FIGHTING FOR EQUALITY FOR ALL.
AND WITH THAT MAYOR, I MOVE TO APPROVE ITEM 13.
UH, THERE'S A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER GRO, UH, SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
LEMME TURN THE FLOOR OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
I WAS SITTING HERE IN AWE OF THE COUNCILWOMAN IN HER PRESENTATION, AND I, I WAS, SO, I MOVED, I FORGOT TO DO MY SECOND.
SO, UM, THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD SO THAT WE, UH, CAN CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF, OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG AND ALL OF THE WORK THAT SHE'S DONE FOR WOMEN ALL OVER THE WORLD, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
UM, I ALSO WAS THINKING OF SO MANY MEMORIES OF THINGS THAT I'VE TAKEN FOR GRANTED IN MY LIFE, UH, BEING A WOMAN BORN, UH, IN THE 1970S.
AND I WAS REMEMBERING IN PARTICULAR, UH, BEING ABOUT 13 YEARS OLD.
AND, UM, MY FATHER WOULD TAKE ME ON ERRANDS ALL THE TIME, AND WE WOULD GO TO THE BANK THAT WAS ONE OF OUR REGULAR ERRANDS.
AND, UM, I SAID, YOU KNOW, DAD, I THINK I WANT MY OWN BANKING ACCOUNT.
I WANT MY OWN BANKING ACCOUNT AND MY OWN CHECKING ACCOUNT.
UH, AND HE SAID, ALL RIGHT, WELL, WE'LL SET ONE UP FOR YOU.
AND SO MY DAD SET ME UP WITH MY OWN BANKING ACCOUNT.
UM, OF COURSE, I WAS YOUNG, STILL A GIRL.
AND, UH, HE ALWAYS SAID THAT I SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MY OWN FINANCES, THAT AS A WOMAN I SHOULD TAKE, BE ABLE TO FINANCIALLY PROVIDE FOR MYSELF.
AND SO I SET UP WITH A BANK ACCOUNT, AND, UM, HE
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HELPED ME DO IT.AND I CAME HOME AND I SHOWED MY MOM.
I SAID, LOOK, MOM, I HAVE MY OWN BANK ACCOUNT.
AND MY MOM SAID, YOU HAVE YOUR OWN BANK ACCOUNT.
AND SHE SAYS, I DON'T HAVE MY OWN BANK ACCOUNT.
SINCE WHEN CAN, CAN WOMEN HAVE THEIR OWN BANK ACCOUNT? THIS IS IN 1984.
AND SO MY MOTHER THEN, OF COURSE, WAS TELLING MY FATHER, HOW COME, LIKE, I DON'T HAVE MY OWN BANK ACCOUNT, I SHOULD HAVE MY OWN TOO.
AND SO OF COURSE, SHE WENT IMMEDIATELY AND SENT HERSELF AND GOT HER OWN MONEY.
BUT THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN HER LIFE THAT SHE EVEN REALIZED THAT SHE COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER OWN FINANCES IN THE 1980S.
SO, SO MANY THINGS THAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED EVERY DAY.
UH, OUR ABILITY TO BUY OUR OWN CARS.
UH, I OFTEN THINK THAT AS A, AS A MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL, I'VE HAD THREE CHILDREN.
AND I OFTEN THINK THAT IF I HAD BEEN DONE AT A DIFFERENT, THAT HAD BEEN DONE AT A DIFFERENT TIME, UH, MAYBE I WOULD'VE BEEN ASKED TO RESIGN.
UH, A PREGNANT WOMAN HAS NO BUSINESS ON THE COUNCIL.
THEY MIGHT HAVE SAID TO ME IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR THE WORK OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG AND ALL THE WOMEN THAT HAVE COME, UM, BEFORE ME, AND SINCE YOU ASKED US IN PARTICULAR TO HONOR THE WOMEN, I THINK ESPECIALLY AT CHOKO MESA, MY DEAR FRIEND AND MENTOR WHO DID SO MUCH FOR ME AND TAUGHT ME SO MUCH ABOUT THE STRUGGLE OF LATINA WOMEN.
AND SO WE STILL HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO, BUT IT IS AN HONOR TO SIT WITH SIX, CANCEL WOMEN, UM, UH, THE FIRST TIME THAT WE'VE HAD AN ELECTIVE REPRESENTATION.
AND I DO LOOK FORWARD TO, TO THE TIME WHERE WE MAY HAVE 11, UH, WOMEN ON THE CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTING US.
I THINK THE GUYS ARE DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT, UM, ONE DAY, UM, PERHAPS WE'LL LOOK LIKE THAT TOO.
SO THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER FOR BRINGING THIS UP.
THIS IS SUCH AN HONOR, AND, UM, IT, IT JUST MAKES ME SO PROUD, UH, TO BE A WOMAN ON THE CITY COUNCIL.
THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN VRAN FOR BRINGING THE C C R AND RESOLUTION TO US.
I HEARD YOUR CALL, AND I'LL HONOR MY LATE MOTHER, LINDA CARRE, MY GRANDMOTHER, CIA, MY AUNT NORMA AND DIANA, MY STRONG ENTREPRENEURIAL COUSINS, YVETTE, MARISA, AND CINDY, AND EVERY SINGLE WOMAN, ATTORNEY AND JUDGE WHO PRACTICED BEFORE ME.
I ALSO HONOR MY COLLEAGUES, BUT ESPECIALLY THE WOMAN WHO, WHO SIT WITH ME VIRTUALLY ON THE DICE TODAY.
THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU FOR PAVING THE WAY AND FOR, AND FOR EVEN COMING INTO THIS NEW WITH ME, WE HAVE A SPECIAL SISTERHOOD, JU JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG, OR THE NOTORIOUS R B G, AS SHE WAS AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN, WAS A LEGAL, CULTURAL AND FEMINIST ICON.
SHE WAS A DIMINUTIVE WOMAN WITH AN INTELLECT AND TOUGHNESS THAT MADE HER LEGENDARY AS A WOMAN ATTORNEY, I OWE R B G A DEBT OF GRATITUDE FOR PAVING THE WAY AND INSPIRING ME TO LEAD WITH A RESPECT FOR PROCESS AND THE RULE OF LAW, BUT ALSO WITH COMPASSION.
THANK YOU COUNCILMAN GRO FOR BRINGING THIS, UM, FORWARD FOR US TO, TO HAVE A, A CONVERSATION.
YOU KNOW, AFTER, UH, JUSTICE GINSBURG PASSED AWAY, I STARTED READING ABOUT HER, UH, AND HER LIFE AND GOING BACK AND READING SOME OF THE DECISIONS THAT SHE CRAFTED.
UM, I HADN'T DONE THAT SINCE LAW SCHOOL.
AND, UH, I, I WAS SO AMAZED AT, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW IN THAT LITTLE TINY PACKAGE THAT IS RUTH BADER GINSBURG, THERE WAS LIVING AND THERE A GIANT LION THERE, A UH, OF A BRILLIANT MIND AND AN ADVOCATE.
AND YOU KNOW, A LOT OF FOLKS DON'T KNOW THIS.
AND, AND I REALLY AM VERY HAPPY THAT, THAT WE PRESENTED THIS TODAY.
UH, AND THAT PRESENTATION WAS EXCELLENT, UM, THAT SHE WAS THE, UM, THE ARCHITECT.
I JUST HEARD THAT MY VIDEO WAS OFF.
UM, THAT SHE WAS REALLY THE ARCHITECT, UH, UH, OF THE, UH, OF THE LEGAL STRATEGY TO ERADICATE GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN ALL FORMS IN THE UNITED STATES.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S FASCINATING BECAUSE, UM, SHE MODELED HER APPROACH TO THIS FIGHT, UM, AFTER THE MODEL CRAFTED BY, UH, THURGOOD MARSHALL.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AND THEY PLANNED A SERIES OF CASES AT THE SUPREME COURT, AND, YOU KNOW, THEY WANTED TO CREATE PRECEDENT, ONE PRECEDENT AFTER ANOTHER, BRICK BY BRICK TO PAVE THE WAY TOWARDS, UM, FURTHER EXPANDING PROTECTIONS AND CHIPPING AWAY, UH, CONSISTENTLY AT, AT, AT INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION.
AND SO, A LOT OF FOLKS DON'T KNOW THIS EITHER, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT HER MOST POWERFUL AND MOST INFLUENTIAL AND IMPACTFUL, UH, DECISIONS, HER CASES WERE INVOLVED MEN SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MEN.
UM, AND THAT WAS VERY, VERY PURPOSEFUL BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT THAT, UM,
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REPRESENTING MEN AND WINNING THOSE FIGHTS FOR MEN WHO WERE BEING DISCRIMINATED, UM, WOULD BROWSE SYMPATHY AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, INTEREST BY MALE JUSTICES AND SHOW THAT DISCRIMINATION DIDN'T JUST IMPACT WOMEN.AND SO, UH, I'LL, I'LL POINT OUT ALSO THAT, YOU KNOW, SHE FOUGHT, UM, ZEALOUSLY FOR SAME-SEX, COUPLE RIGHTS, AND, UM, SHE ALSO FOUGHT, UH, REALLY HARD FOR, UH, DISABILITY RIGHTS TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WERE INTEGRATED INTO THE COMMUNITIES.
AND SO, UH, I AGREE SHE IS A HERO FOR ALL WOMEN AND ALL GIRLS.
UM, AND SHE CER SHE CERTAINLY GIVES MY DAUGHTER, UM, SHE TAKES AWAY ALL EXCUSES FOR MY DAUGHTER TO ACCOMPLISH SMALL THINGS.
UM, AND SO IN REMEMBERING PEOPLE AND, UH, CALLING OUT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE HEROES, MY MOM, MARTA ELA IS MY WIFE DEANNA, AND MY DAUGHTER SOPHIA.
UM, KEEP YOUR EYE ON HER FOLKS.
SHE'S GONNA TAKE OVER THE WORLD.
UH, BUT I, I WILL STOP HERE AND SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, RUTH BADER GINSBURG SHOULD NOT BE HAILED AS JUST A HERO FOR WOMEN.
SHE SHOULD BE A HERO FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS, RIGHT? AND ESPECIALLY FOR, FOR BOYS AND MEN WHO ARE GROWING UP IN A WORLD, UH, WHERE WE ARE GONNA NEED THEIR COURAGE, UM, TO STAND UP TO INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION, TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS TREATED FAIRLY.
UM, AND SO I'M PROUD TO VOTE YES WITH YOUR NAME, COUNCILMAN VRAN.
THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN VRAN FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND FOR ALLOWING ME TO ALIGN ON YOUR C C R TO, TO SHARE MY SIGNATURE ON THAT.
UM, I WANT TO, UM, SAY THAT JUSTICE GINSBURG ACCOMPLISHED WHAT FEW OTHER SUPREME COURT JUSTICES EVER DO.
UH, SHE REALLY BECAME AN ICON NATIONALLY AND LIKELY INTERNATIONALLY FOR GENDER EQUALITY, BUT ALSO CIVIL RIGHTS, AS SOME OF YOU HAVE MENTIONED.
UH, CHELSEA, I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THAT GREAT PRESENTATION AND FOR SHARING MY FAVORITE QUOTE FROM, FROM JUSTICE.
AND, AND LIKE SHIRLEY SAID, WHEN THERE ARE 11, IS WHEN, UH, IS GONNA BE, I THINK, OUR LINE
UM, THAT SAID, I FEEL COMPELLED TO SHARE, UH, ONE OF, UH, MY FAVORITE LINES I SAW ON, ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
THIS IS PROBABLY, UH, EARLIER, EARLIER THIS YEAR, UH, BEFORE THE JUSTICE DIED, SOMEONE PUT ON, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS TWITTER OR TUMBLR OR SOMETHING, AND IT SAID, THE FIRST PERSON TO LIVE TO 200 YEARS OLD IS ALIVE TODAY.
AND THE BEST COMMENT WAS, GOD, PLEASE LET THAT PERSON BE RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
BUT, UM, I WANNA SHARE ONE THING ABOUT HER THAT I THINK WE NEED TO HEAR AT THIS TIME IS THAT SHE SET AN EXAMPLE OF UNITY AND CIVILITY THAT WE REALLY NEED TO HEAR ABOUT.
AND SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW THIS, THAT AT CHRISTMAS, SHE WOULD CELEBRATE WITH HER INTELLECTUAL COLLEAGUE AND HER POLITICAL OPPOSITE.
AND THAT WAS JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA.
AND DESPITE THEIR DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED VIEWS, GINSBURG AND SOLEA, AND SHE CALLED HIM, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, THEY WERE ABLE TO FIND RESPECT AND ADMIRATION FOR EACH OTHER AMIDST THEIR DIFFERENCES.
SO I HOPE, UH, WE CAN ALL DO THE SAME IN OUR COUNTRY TODAY.
COUNCIL MEMBER TINO, UH, THANK YOU MAYOR.
AND THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN
UH, JUSTICE GINSBURG SPENT HER ENTIRE PROFESSIONAL LIFETIME FIGHTING FOR WOMEN TO BE EQUALLY SEEN AND RESPECTED.
SHE USED EACH PLATFORM SHE HAD TO BE A VOICE FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND EMPOWERED WOMEN TO STAND UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IN, EVEN IF THEY FOUND THEMSELVES STANDING ALONE.
I'M HONORED TO WORK WITH A TEAM OF STRONG WOMEN.
THEY'RE ADVOCATES, MOTHERS, VOICES FOR OUR COMMUNITY, PROUD WOMEN FROM OUR, FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS, AND A MAJOR PART OF THE POWER THAT KEEPS DISTRICT ONE WORKING TO OFFER MEANINGFUL SUPPORT FOR EVERYONE IN OUR DISTRICT.
THESE WOMEN HAVE TAUGHT ME A LOT.
THEY HAVE SHARED THEIR UNIQUE EXPERIENCES OF DISCRIMINATION AND BIAS.
THEY'VE ENTRUSTED ME TO BE AN ALLY IN THEIR FIGHT FOR A BETTER, MORE EQUAL FU FUTURE.
FOR ME, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT I TAKE THIS MOMENT AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO INSIST THAT WE MOVE FORWARD TOWARDS SHUTTING DOWN THE NARRATIVE THAT DEVALUES WOMEN BASED ON THEIR GENDER, AND STOP PLACING THESE RIDICULOUS BARRIERS IN FRONT OF THEM THAT MAKES THEIR EXPERIENCES MORE TRYING AND ADDS TO THE LOAD THEY ALREADY CARRY IN, CONSTANTLY FEELING THEY HAVE TO PROVE THEIR
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WORTH BECAUSE OF THEIR GENDER.I HOPE MY TEAM KNOWS HOW MUCH I VALUE THEM.
THESE WOMEN CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU HOW HUMBLE I AM TO GET TO WORK WITH THEM, AND THAT, THAT THEY CHOOSE TO WORK WITH ME.
THEIR VOICES ALWAYS HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE AND HELP HOW WE DEVELOP OUR POLICIES AND TAKE ACTION IN OUR COMMUNITY.
WOMEN SHOULD NOT FEEL A SENSE OF ANXIETY FOR THEIR FUTURE AND THEIR RIGHTS RESULTING FROM THE DEATH OF JUSTICE.
R B G SHOULD NOT BE THE SOLE PERSON THAT WOMEN'S FUTURE DEPENDS ON.
AS EMEL IN MY ROLE, I FEEL IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO FIGHT BEHIND WHAT MATTERS MOST FOR MY TEAM.
THAT INCLUDES WOMEN'S EQUALITY AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, EQUALITY FOR WOMEN OF COLOR.
I'D LIKE TO DEDICATE MY COMMENTS TO THE WOMEN IN MY OFFICE, PRISTINE, TRACY, SINA, DENISE, JAMIE, AND LAWSON, YOU ARE ALL WHAT MAKES THIS OFFICE RUN AS SMOOTHLY AS IT DOES.
I COULDN'T DO THIS WITHOUT YOU ALL.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
UM, THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN VERON.
WE KNOW THAT YOU STAND FOR STRENGTH.
YOU STAND FOR DIGNITY, YOU STAND FOR PRIDE.
AND SO WE THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO DO JUST THAT AND HONOR MY MOTHER.
THE STORIES THAT SHE CONTINUES TO TELL WILL BE STORIES THAT MY CHILDREN, MY CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, MY GREAT NIECE, MY NIECES, MY BROTHER, AND I WILL BE EVER GRATEFUL TO TELL.
I WANT TO THANK MY STAFF MEMBERS.
UM, I WANNA SAY THANK MY ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, OMI.
I WANNA THANK MY DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY, UH, MS. LATIKA SIMS. UM, THEY STEPPED UP IN AN AREA THAT WAS NEW TO ALL OF US WHEN WE STARTED THIS RACE.
I WANNA THANK THE WOMEN OF DISTRICT TWO WHO SPOKE ENCOURAGEMENT, AND TO A YOUNG LADY THAT DIDN'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE ROAD WAS GONNA HOLD IN FRONT OF HER, ALL SHE KNEW WAS THAT SHE WANTED TO STEP UP AND REPRESENT A DISTRICT THAT NEEDED A VOICE.
AS A BLACK WOMAN STEPPING UP INTO AN AREA WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED OUT OF YOUR NAME, HAVE BEEN PUT TO THE SIDE, OR THOUGHT TO BE NOT WORTH BEING IN THE POSITION, THIS IS WHAT OUR WILL DO TODAY FOR OTHER YOUNG WOMEN THAT FEEL THAT THEY DON'T HAVE A VOICE.
IT SHOWS THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL GIVE YOU THE VOICE AND THE STRENGTH, AND ALSO THE ENCOURAGEMENT THAT YOU NEED TO GO FORTH AND BE WHAT YOU ARE MEANT TO BE.
WE ALL HAVE A DIVINE PLACEMENT.
WE ALL HAVE A DIVIDED ASSIGNMENT.
IT STARTS WITH US AS LEADERS, MAKING SURE THAT OTHER LEADERS KNOW THAT WE ARE HERE TO PROMOTE AND UPLIFT THEM.
ELEVATION IS WHAT WE, AS WOMEN ARE MEANT TO DO.
AND THIS RESOLUTION BRINGS LIFE TO GENERATIONS AND LEGACIES TO PUNCH FOR THE WORK YOU ARE DOING.
COUNCILWOMAN OF YOUR GRIND FOR MAKING SURE THAT WE BRING THIS RESOLUTION FORWARD.
IN HONOR OF MY GRANDMOTHERS, THE LATE LENORA FERGUSON, UM, IN HONOR OF MY GRANDMOTHER, JOSEPHINE BRYANT, AND MY GRANDMOTHER, ANNIE RUTH EDWARDS.
I STAND AND STRENGTH OF KNOWING THAT MY SKIN AND KNOWING THAT MY GENDER WILL NO LONGER BE WHAT KEEPS ME GOING FORWARD, BUT IT WILL BE THE DIGNITY, THE PRIDE, THE EDUCATION, AND THE LOYALTY THAT I HAVE TO THIS COUNTRY, TO THIS CITY, AND TO THIS CITY COUNCIL.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL OF MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, ALL OF MY COUNCIL SISTERS.
WE ARE STRENGTH, WE ARE A, A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH UPON THIS COUNCIL, WE THANK OUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND OUR MEN AND ALL OF THE WOMEN THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIVES.
TO OUR FIRST LADY, I KNOW THAT SHE IS OUT THERE SMILING FROM EAR TO EAR TO SEE THIS RESOLUTION COME FORWARD.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA.
UM, AND THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUE, COUNCILMAN
UM, IT'S DEFINITELY OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CONTINUE TO INSPIRE OTHER WOMEN AND, AND LET THEM KNOW THAT IT CAN BE DONE, WHATEVER IT MEANS FOR THEM.
AND SO I'D LIKE TO, UM, THANK MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, UH, ALL OF THEM, UH, THE MALES HAVE BEEN, UH, ENTIRELY SUPPORTIVE OF THIS, UH, MAJORITY FEMALE COUNCIL, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
AND, UM, I, I THINK THAT IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO SAY
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THAT I AM HAPPY TO BE PART OF A VERY INCLUSIVE TEAM.UM, I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES WE, WE TALK ABOUT GROW POWER, BUT YOU ALL ARE VERY SUPPORTIVE.
AND I WANNA TAKE, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY MALE COLLEAGUES FOR BEING SO SUPPORTIVE.
UM, TO MY FEMALE COLLEAGUES, THIS HAS, UM, BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST HONORS OF MY LIFE TO SERVE WITH YOU ALL AS A FIRST ELECTED, UH, FEMALE, UH, MAJORITY FEMALE COUNCIL.
BUT YES, LOOKING FORWARD TO MAYBE ONE DAY CELEBRATING 11 ON THE CITY COUNCIL.
I, UM, DO WANNA REMIND US THAT IT'S OUR, UH, OUR DUTY AND OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO EMPOWER GIRLS.
AND SO I WANNA THANK THE STAFF THAT HAD BEEN WORKING ON THE GIRLS SUMMIT THAT, UM, WE HAD TO CANCEL THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF COVID 19.
I KNOW THAT THEY'RE ALL WORKING DILIGENTLY ON BRINGING IT BIGGER AND BETTER FOR NEXT YEAR.
AND INSTEAD OF ONLY SERVING, I THINK IT WAS, UH, 300 GIRLS ORIGINALLY, WE'RE HOPEFULLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO HELP 5,000 GIRLS ACCESS A LOT OF RESOURCES THAT WILL HELP EMPOWER THEM.
SO I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE WORK, UM, THAT, THAT, UM, THAT THAT TEAM HAS BEEN DOING UNDER THE DIRECTION OF, UH, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER MARIA VILLA GOMEZ, WHO IS ONE OF MY SHEROES.
AND I HAVE GREATLY APPRECIATED ALL OF THE WORK THAT SHE HAS DONE, UM, WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH THE ENTIRE TEAM THERE.
I DO WANNA TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE MY STAFF, UM, MEMBERS WHO, UM, ARE, UH, VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO ME.
SO, UH, NIKKI KING AND ANA G AND, AND BIANCA ROSALES AND JOHANNI HERNANDEZ, UM, THAT THEY ARE THE REASON THAT WE CHAMPION, UH, THINGS LIKE THIS TODAY, BECAUSE THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT SOMEONE IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF THEIR RIGHTS AS WOMEN, AND WE'LL CONTINUE FIGHTING FOR THEM.
UM, EMILY AND FATIMA, I, UH, HAVE TO MENTION THAT WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO OUR JOB AS A COUNCIL WITHOUT THE TWO OF YOU ALL.
AND I, I FELT THAT I HAD TO, UM, INCLUDE YOU ALL.
AND I WANNA TALK ABOUT A VERY PARTICULAR GROUP OF FEMALES THAT I DON'T THINK GETS ENOUGH RECOGNITION JUST YET.
WE HAVE THREE CHIEFS OF STAFF THAT ARE FEMALES.
AND SO, UM, PAT WALLACE, UH, IN D EIGHT AND, UM, TERESA MENENDEZ MYERS AND M D FIVE, AND VALISE, UM, MESA, WHO JUST, I THINK ARE, UH, JUST AMAZING PEOPLE WHO, WHO DO GREAT WORK AND, AND A LOT OF TIME, AND THEY DON'T LOOK FOR THE SPOTLIGHT.
THEY DON'T LOOK TO GET THE CREDIT, BUT THEY DO A LOT OF THE WORK.
AND, UH, I WANNA TELL YOU ALL THAT I AM A FAN OF YOU, YOUR WORK.
I LOVE SEEING THAT THERE'S THREE FEMALE CHIEFS, UM, THAT REPRESENT THE CITY COUNCIL AS WELL.
AND, AND THANK YOU TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES WHO HIRED, UH, FEMALE CHIEFS OF STAFF.
I THINK THAT IT'S A GREAT TESTAMENT BECAUSE, UM, IT IT GOES FORTH AND, AND SHOWS THAT YOU ALL ARE A PART OF ONE TEAM.
SO THANK YOU, THANK YOU TO THAT.
AND THEN I COULDN'T, UM, HELP, BUT THANK ALSO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE, UH, THAT WE, UM,
UH, UM, AND SO ASHLEY HARRIS AND ANGENETTE GONZALEZ AND MARINA GTO, AND THERE'S SO MANY ON, UM, THE COMMITTEE TO MENTION, BUT YOU ALL GOT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US ENGAGED OF THE WOMEN ON THE COUNCIL, ENGAGED IN DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE WERE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT.
AND SO I WANNA THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU DID.
UH, ERICA PROSPER, UH, NUREMBERG, UH, HAS BEEN A GREAT CHAMPION AS WELL, OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEE FOR, UH, THE CELEBRATION OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT.
AND, UH, ANDREA VOCAB SANDERSON, WHO YOU, UM, HEAR EVERY TIME RIGHT NOW FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AS WE DO OUR CA COUNCIL INTROS, UM, OUR CURRENT POET, LAUREN, I AM SO PROUD OF THE WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING TO ADVANCE OUR COMMUNITIES, UM, OF COLOR.
SO, UM, WITH THAT, MAYOR, I'LL CLOSE MY REMARKS BY JUST SAYING THANK YOU AGAIN TO, UH, COUNCILWOMAN
I AM PROUD TO, UH, BE SUPPORTIVE OF THIS.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER GRO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.
UH, YOUR HAND WENT DOWN, BUT IF YOU WANT BACK WITH YOU, UH, GO AHEAD.
I DIDN'T REALIZE MY HAND WENT DOWN.
UH, I JUST WANTED TO, UH, ADD MY THOUGHTS ON RUTH RUTH BADDA GINSBURG AND, AND REALLY RECOGNIZE HER TRAILBLAZING ROLE WITH RESPECT HER ADVOCACY FOR GENDER EQUALITY, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, HEALTH AND WELLNESS, AND JUST THE WAY SHE REPRESENTS THE POTENTIAL OF ALL WOMEN.
AND I WANNA ALSO THANK THE WOMEN ON, ON MY TEAM WHO DO SUCH A GREAT JOB.
MILLIE RAY, MONIQUE LANE, ILEANA SANDOVAL, UH, AND TO ALL OF THE WOMEN WHO ASPIRE AS, UH, RUTH BADER GINSBURG DID.
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YOU, SIR.JUST WANTED TO, UM, ADD A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS ON THIS AS WELL.
AND I WANNA FOCUS A LITTLE BIT ON WHAT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL SAID.
YOU KNOW, UM, I'M KIND OF VIEWED AS THE ONLY CONSERVATIVE ON THIS COUNCIL, UM, ON A COUNCIL THAT'S BEEN PROCLAIMED TO BE THE MOST PROGRESSIVE AND LIBERAL COUNCIL EVER HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
BUT IT'S ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER AND RESPECTING EACH OTHER.
AND THIS IS, PEOPLE NEED TO REALIZE THIS IS JUST BUSINESS.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, RUTH BADER GINSBURG, I THINK, HAD THAT SAME TYPE OF ATTITUDE AS WAS MENTIONED ON HER WORKING WITH ANTONIO SCALIA.
I, I THINK THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT POLAR OPPOSITES, BUT THEY STILL GOT ALONG WELL WITH EACH OTHER AND WERE ABLE TO CONDUCT BUSINESS.
AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THAT ON THIS COUNCIL.
UM, I, I COME OUT SHORT ON THE, THE VOTES ON MANY ISSUES, BUT IT IS THE VOICE THAT NEEDS TO BE HEARD.
AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT, JUST THE WAY THE SUPREME COURT GOES, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT BE THE ONLY PERSON, ODD MAN OUT, IF YOU WILL.
UM, BUT AT LEAST THAT VOICE IS BEING HEARD, AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
YOU KNOW, A LOT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT HER AND HER TRAILBLAZING.
I DON'T AGREE WITH A LOT OF WHAT SHE, UH, CAME OUT WITH HER OPINIONS POLITICALLY, BUT AGAIN, SHE WAS IN THAT POSITION, APPOINTED, APPROVED, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, MADE SOME LANDMARK DECISIONS OUT THERE.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT I AGREE WITH PUTTING RESOLUTIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS OUT THERE, UM, YOU KNOW, I'LL, I'LL SUPPORT THIS.
BUT I ALSO WANNA POINT OUT THAT WE STILL HAVE ANOTHER, UM, SUPREME COURT, AND WE JUST HAD ANOTHER APPOINTMENT WITH AMY COMEY BARRETT.
AND I HOPE THAT, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, SHE WENT THROUGH A PRETTY TOUGH CONFIRMATION HEARING PROCESS, UH, VERY POLITICAL, UH, AND WHAT I THINK, NOT REALLY BASED ON HER MERITS AND HER CAPABILITIES AND HER BACKGROUND.
UM, WE'VE GOT KAGAN, WE'VE GOT SAN, UM, ON THE SUPREME COURT AS WELL.
SO I'M HOPING THAT, UM, THESE WOMEN ALONG WITH THE MEN, UM, WORK TOGETHER FOR THE BETTER BETTERMENT OF OUR NATION AND COME OUT WITH GREAT DECISIONS AND, UH, CONTINUING THAT PROCESS.
SO, YOU KNOW, BEST OF LUCK TO OUR NEW SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, AMY COMEY BARRETT, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO WORK WITH THIS COUNCIL AND, UH, MOVING THE NEEDLE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY, SIR.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
UM, I JUST WANT TO, TO TAKE A MOMENT, MAYOR, UH, I APOLOGIZE FOR JUMPING BACK IN, BUT, UM, THERE'S SO MANY WOMEN THAT WE CAN HONOR, UM, AS WE GO FORWARD.
AND I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO HONOR EVERY FEMALE, EVERY WOMAN EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AND ALSO HONOR THOSE THAT WE'VE LOST DURING THIS TIME OF THE PANDEMIC.
UM, AND ALSO TO OUR A C S FEMALE OFFICERS WHO DO THE JOB.
UM, WE KNOW THAT SOME OF OUR JOBS AREN'T THE MOST BEAUTIFUL.
UM, AND SO TO THOSE WOMEN THAT ARE STEPPING INTO, UH, SAWS AND STEPPING UP INTO C P S, CLIMBING THE POWER POLES, AND THOSE WHO ARE GOING DOWN INTO THE SEWER LINES, AND THOSE WHO ARE DOING THE WORK THAT MANY SAY MEN ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, WE AS WOMEN HAVE RISEN TO THAT CHALLENGE TO ALL OF OUR FEMALE VETERANS WHO HAVE SERVED IN OUR MILITARY ARMED FORCES.
UM, I HAD TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HONOR EVERY WOMAN THAT WE KNOW SERVES IN SOME CAPACITY.
UM, WHETHER IT'S A MOTHER, A DAUGHTER, A FRIEND, A PRAYER WARRIOR, OR JUST SOMEONE THAT WE TURN TO WHEN THE DAYS HAVE BEEN LONG HERE ON COUNCIL.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING THAT LISTENING EAR AND BEING THAT STRENGTH THAT WE, AS, AS CITY LEADERS NEED, UM, WHEN WE MAKE OUR DECISIONS.
AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCILWOMAN VERON FOR MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THIS MOMENT TO WHERE WE CAN HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE COME BEFORE US, AND WE REPRESENT THOSE WHO WILL COME AFTER US AS WELL.
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THANK YOU.COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, VERAN.
AND FINALLY, UH, MAYOR, I JUST WANTED TO ALSO RECOGNIZE, UM, THE WORDS OF ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES THAT THIS IS ABOUT, UM, UH, THAT JUSTICE GINSBURG WAS VERY STRATEGIC AND VERY SPECIFIC WHEN IT CAME TO EXPANDING, UH, GENDER ROLES AND EXPANDING, UM, THE GENDER EQUALITY.
AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE MEN OUT THERE WHO ARE ALLIES AND WHO WORK TOGETHER WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
I ALSO HAVE TO, UM, THANK OF COURSE, WE ALWAYS RECOGNIZE THOSE, UM, THANK CHERYL SCULLY, LETICIA VASIC, MARTA
AND I WANNA CLOSE OUT WITH A QUOTE, BECAUSE THIS IS ABOUT HONORING OUR, OUR, UH, THE LIFE OF RUTH BADER GINSBURG.
AND A QUOTE FROM FELLOW JUSTICE.
SHE SAID, RUTH BADER GINSBURG WAS AN AMERICAN HERO.
SHE SPENT HER LIFE FIGHTING FOR THE EQUALITY OF ALL PEOPLE, AND SHE WAS A PATH-BREAKING CHAMPION OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
SHE SERVED OUR COURT AND COUNTRY WITH CONSONANT, DEDICATION, POWERLESSNESS, AND PASSION FOR JUSTICE.
SHE HAS LEFT A LEGACY VIEW WOOD RIVAL.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER VERON.
UM, AND I THINK, UH, A LOT HAS BEEN SAID, AND I DON'T WANNA REPEAT ANYTHING.
UH, BUT I DO WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES, UH, PARTICULARLY COUNCIL MEMBER GRO AND THOSE WHO SIGNED THE C C R FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
UM, IT'S TIMELY, AND IF YOU'D ALLOW ME, I'D JUST LIKE TO MAKE A FEW OBSERVATIONS.
UM, YOU KNOW, AS WAS STATED, UH, I'M, I'M ONE OF A MINORITY OF MEN ON THIS COUNCIL, UH, BUT WE'RE HONORED DAILY TO BE PART OF, UH, WHAT HAS BEEN A HISTORIC CITY COUNCIL, AND, AND, AND A VERY FORWARD-LOOKING ONE.
UM, MANY MIGHT SAY, WELL, WHAT, WHAT DOES, UH, CITY COUNCIL IN SAN ANTONIO, WHAT, WHAT ARE THEY GONNA SAY WITH A RESOLUTION? WHY, WHY BRING FORWARD A RESOLUTION FROM THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO? I HAPPEN TO BELIEVE THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HAS BEEN BENEFITED, UM, DISPROPORTIONATELY BY THE SERVICE, SERVICE OF JUSTICE BERG.
JUST BECAUSE OUR COMMUNITY IS MADE UP OF SO MANY MARGINALIZED, UH, PEOPLE, UH, HISTORICALLY AND AS A CENTER, UH, HISTORIC FOUNDATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN OUR COUNTRY, IT MAKES SENSE FOR US TO HONOR, UH, THE LEGACY OF A, A TITAN OF THE LAW, LAW PROFESSION.
UM, JUSTICE GINSBURG, UM, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER TRAILBLAZER SAID THAT WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
UM, WORKERS' RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
UH, IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
AND THE FACT THAT JUSTICE GINSBURG, UH, MADE A CAREER OUT OF UPLIFTING THE MOST MARGINALIZED MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE A FAIR TREATMENT IN OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM, UH, IS ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT TO, UM, OUR CITY HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, HISTORICALLY.
SO, UH, THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD, FOR DOING SO, UM, ON, IN AN EXPEDITED MANNER.
UH, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO, TO LIFT OUR VOICES IN SUPPORT OF JUSTICE GINSBURG AND RECOGNIZING HER LEGACY.
UH, I WANNA RECOGNIZE A, A FEW OTHER FOLKS.
UM, YOU KNOW, ABOUT A DECADE AGO, WE STARTED A, A VERY STRONG TRAJECTORY IN CITY MANAGEMENT AND CITY LEADERSHIP ABOUT UPLIFTING AND MAKING SURE THAT WOMEN ARE ELEVATED IN OUR ORGANIZATION.
UH, NOT EVERYONE HAS BEEN MENTIONED, BUT I WANT TO PARTICULARLY POINT OUT THE FACT THAT ONE OF THE BEST, UH, MUNICIPAL, UH, LAW OFFICES IN THE COUNTRY IS HERE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AND IT'S MADE UP, UH, BESIDES ANDY AT THE TOP, UH, HE HAS AN INCREDIBLE ARMY OF WOMEN IN LAW, UH, AND, AND ALL COULD DO WELL ON THEIR OWN, BUT HAVE CHOSEN TO SERVE THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
UH, WE KNOW OUR FIRST ASSISTANT, LI LIZ PROVINCIO, BUT CHELSEA, UM, DEBBIE, SO MANY PEOPLE WE INTERACT WITH ON A DAILY BASIS.
OF COURSE, OUR CLERK CONTINUES TO CARRY A TRADITION OF, UH, OF STRONG WOMEN IN THAT ROLE.
WE EVEN HAVE STRONG WOMEN IN, UH, OUR PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENTS AND, AND OF COURSE, IN THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, WHICH, WHICH, UH, I THINK IS TO OUR ADVANTAGE.
UH, AND LORI HOUSTON, UH, MARIA VILLA GOMEZ, UH, MELODY WOOSLEY.
SO MANY PEOPLE, UH, WE CAN'T NAME THEM ALL THAT ARE RISING IN THE RANKS OF MUNICIPAL LEADERS, NOT JUST IN OUR CITY, BUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ALL BE PROUD OF, MALE OR FEMALE.
UM, FINALLY, UH, REBECCA, YOU ASKED US TO NAME PEOPLE.
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I'LL JUST NAME ONE, UM, THE, THE, THE PERSON I LOOK TO FOR STRENGTH, FOR GUIDANCE, UH, FOR, UM, CONSOLATION, UH, BUT ALSO WHO HAS, UH, RIGHTED MY SHIP ON MANY OCCASIONS AND GIVES ME A TRUE NORTH, UH, NO MATTER WHAT WE'RE DOING.UM, UH, THANK YOU, UH, TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR MENTIONING HER.
BUT SHE IS CHAMPIONING, UM, UH, CHEERING ON, UH, IN THE BACKGROUND.
UH, SHE'S AT WORK, BUT SHE WOULD BE, WHEN I TELL HER WHAT HAPPENED HERE TODAY, UH, AND IF NOTHING ELSE, UH, SHE AND I ARE TRYING TO RAISE ANOTHER YOUNG MAN IN THIS WORLD WHO WILL DO HIS LIKEWISE PART IN HONORING WOMEN IN AMERICA.
SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYONE.
PROUD TO BE A SAN ANTONIAN AS WE PASS THIS RESOLUTION.
UH, AND I SEE YOU THERE TOO, VOCAB, WE'RE STILL PROUD OF THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
UM, SO WITH THAT, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 13, WITHOUT FURTHER DISCUSSION.
[16. 20-6175 Ordinance approving an agreement with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for the delivery of professional services related to the Project YES online intervention for depression and anxiety in adolescents for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District in an amount up to $260,000.00 and a term ending September 30, 2021. [Colleen M. Bridger, MPH, PhD, Assistant City Manager; Sandra Guerra, MD, MPH, Interim Deputy Public Health Director, Health]]
ALRIGHT, WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM 16.ITEM 16 IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AN AGREEMENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO FOR THE DELIVERY OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES RELATED TO THE PROJECT.
YES, ONLINE INTERVENTION FOR DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN ADOLESCENTS FOR THE SAN ANTONIO METROPOLITAN HEALTH DISTRICT IN THE AMOUNT UP TO $260,000, AND A TERM ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2021.
I'D LIKE TO SEE THE STAFF PRESENTATION.
HI, LET ME KNOW IF YOU CAN'T HEAR ME.
I'M GONNA ASSUME THAT YOU CAN.
I'M JUNE DE WU MEDICAL DIRECTOR, AND I GUESS I'LL JUST SAY, THERE WE GO.
AND, UH, ONE OF OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR 2020 TO 20 20 23 IS PREVENTION OF DEPRESSION.
THERE ARE EVIDENCE-BASED, WELL, THERE'S ONE REALLY GOOD EVIDENCE-BASED PROGRAM FOR PREVENTING POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS PROJECT YES, WHICH I'LL BE TELLING YOU ABOUT, THAT PREVENTS DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN ADOLESCENTS.
UM, WE, I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY HAVE BEEN HEIGHTENED FOR EVERYBODY, BUT ESPECIALLY ADOLESCENTS DURING THE PANDEMIC.
THERE IS A LACK OF MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS, ESPECIALLY FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH LOW INCOMES OR NO HEALTH INSURANCE.
AND IN ANY CASE, WE ARE TALKING HERE ABOUT PREVENTION, WHICH MEANS A STEP BEFORE PEOPLE GET TO THOSE PROVIDERS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
STANDS FOR YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND SUPPORT COMES OUT OF STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK.
IT IS AN EVIDENCE-BASED SINGLE SESSION, 30 MINUTE ONLINE INTERVENTION TO PREVENT DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY.
UM, IT HAS BEEN SHOWN TO CUT DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS BY HALF AT NINE MONTHS BASED ON INTER, UH, BASED ON SURVEYS OF BOTH THE CH UH, THE YOUTH AND THEIR PARENTS.
THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT MODULES.
PEOPLE CAN DO MULTIPLE MODULES OR JUST DO ONE PROJECT PERSONALITY.
IT HELPS YOUNG PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT OUR PERSONALITIES CAN CHANGE OVER TIME.
UM, PROJECT CARE HAS TO DO WITH SELF-CARE.
AND THE A B C PROJECT HAS TO DO WITH MANAGING DIFFICULT EMOTIONS.
AND WITH ALL OF THESE, THERE'S A STANDARDIZED FORMAT THAT INVOLVES LEARNING ABOUT NEUROPLASTICITY IN ALL OF THEM, THAT OUR BRAINS CAN CHANGE THAT.
UM, GOING THROUGH SOME TIPS FOR HOW TO MANAGE DIFFICULT SITUATIONS, HEARING THEM THROUGH THE VOICES OF OTHER YOUNG PEOPLE.
UH, AND THEN FINALLY, AFTER ABSORBING THOSE LESSONS, WRITING OUT HOW YOU WOULD GIVE ADVICE TO ANOTHER YOUNG PERSON.
SO, WHAT UT TEEN HEALTH WILL BE DOING WITH US IS ACTUALLY ADAPTING THESE MODULES, WHICH ARE WEB-BASED, UM, CREATING A SPANISH LANGUAGE VERSION, RECORDING SOME BLACK AND INDIGENOUS TEEN VOICES FROM SAN ANTONIO TO INCLUDE IN THE ENGLISH VERSION.
THEN FOR IMPLEMENTATION, UT TEEN HEALTH IS VERY STRONG IN IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION.
SO THEY'RE GOING TO USE THEIR EXISTING PROCESSES TO GARNER SUPPORT FROM AT LEAST 2010 COMMUNITY YOUTH SERVING ORGANIZATIONS TO INTEGRATE PROJECT YES, INTO THEIR PROGRAMMING BY FEBRUARY, 2021.
AND THEN MOVING ON, GARNER SUPPORT OF 30 BEXAR COUNTY MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS FOR INTEGRATION OF THE PROJECT YES.
PROGRAM INTO THEIR CAMPUSES BY SEPTEMBER, 2021.
AND THEN DO EVALUATION TO SEE HOW WE NEED
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THROUGH SURVEYS AND FOCUS GROUPS TO FORMULATE AND EXECUTE AN EVALUATION PLAN.SO THIS WILL BE AN AMOUNT OF 260,000 UPON EXECUTION AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE VERY EXCITED, AND THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN WORKING ON THIS, EVEN THOUGH IT HASN'T BEEN EXECUTED YET.
SO I, I SURE HOPE WE CAN, UM, AND, AND FUNDING FOR THIS AGREEMENT IS THROUGH GENERAL FUND.
SO, STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS THAT CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZE EXECUTION OF THE AGREEMENT WITH UT HEALTH, SAN ANTONIO'S, UT TEEN HEALTH PROGRAM FOR A TERM ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2021, IN AN AMOUNT UP TO 260,000.
IT SAYS UP TO, BECAUSE IF THEY, UM, GET 6,000 STUDENTS PARTICIPATING, THEN IT WILL BE A SMALLER AMOUNT, BUT THEN THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL INCENTIVE IN THERE TO GO UP TO 8,000, WHICH WILL GET THEM THE $260,000.
AND THAT IS THE END OF MY PRESENTATION.
BRIDGER CALLED TO TELL ME ABOUT THIS PROGRAM, I WAS, UH, REALLY EXCITED TO SEE IT COME FORWARD.
UM, I THINK IT'S A, IT'S A GREAT, UM, A GREAT WAY TO INTERVENE.
I UNDERSTAND THERE'S OTHER PROGRAMS OUT THERE FOR YOUTH AS WELL, FOR TEENAGERS.
SO IS, UM, I GUESS I'M WONDERING, ARE WE, UM, TARGETING DIFFERENT AUDIENCES, OR IS THERE ANY INTERACTION BETWEEN THEM? THERE'S THE ONE THAT'S ON SITE AND AT A SCHOOL DISTRICT, UH, WITH THAT COALITION OF SIX NONPROFITS, AND I THINK COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS, I DON'T KNOW, KNOW IF THEY DO MENTAL HEALTH, BUT THEY DO SOME LEVEL OF OUTREACH.
CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO HOW THOSE ARE ALL INTERACTING? THEY, THESE ARE SYNERGISTIC.
SO THIS IS, AGAIN, UPSTREAM HOPING TO PREVENT COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS IS MORE OF AN INTERVENTION FOR WHEN, WHEN THERE IS DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY.
I THINK OVER TIME, WE'LL KNOW WHETHER THIS IS ALSO A TREATMENT OR NOT, BUT WHAT IT'S BEEN SHOWN TO DO IS PREVENT.
SO I, I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE IT, SO I'M TO PROVE SECOND.
THERE'S A MOTION, UH, BY SANDOVAL, SECOND BY TREVINO ON ITEM 16.
UH, IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM? ALL RIGHT, BECAUSE I SEE NO HANDS IN THE QUEUE.
UM, IF THERE ARE NONE, WE'LL GO TO THE MOTION.
BUT FIRST, LET ME JUST MAKE A, MAKE A STATEMENT THAT'S A LITTLE, A LITTLE BIT, UM, INDIRECT HERE.
WE JUST, UH, TALKED ABOUT ITEM 13, AND WE LEFT OUT, UH, ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT GROUP OF WOMEN LEADERS IN OUR CITY, AND THAT'S THE ENTIRETY OF THE METRO HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
UH, TOP TO BOTTOM, THIS ORGANIZATION IS, IS FILLED WITH, UM, INCREDIBLE WOMEN LEADERS.
KIAN, UM, ALL OF YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
YOU, WE, ARE YOU WITH OUR PREVIOUS VOTE AS WELL, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, FOR THIS PROGRAM, UH, WHICH I THINK, UH, WE WILL FIND STRONG SUPPORT FOR COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, I THINK I JUST SAW YOUR HAND GO UP.
UM, YEAH, SORRY, I, I SHOULD HAVE JUST CHIMED IN EARLIER, BUT, UM, I, I WANTED TO ASK, IS THERE AN APP AVAILABLE SO WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOUNG PEOPLE COMMUNICATE THROUGH APPS.
WAS THAT PART IS, THERE, WAS, WAS THERE, WAS THERE A MENTION OF THAT TYPE OF COMMUNICATION? RECRUITMENT IS DONE THROUGH APPS.
IT, THIS IS ENTIRELY WEB BASED, UM MM-HMM.
ONE THING THAT I KNOW OUR PROJECT WORTH PEOPLE HEARD WHEN THEY WERE DEVELOPING DRE, THE DREAM SA WEBSITE, IS THAT SOME YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE SAID THEY DIDN'T WANNA DOWNLOAD YET ANOTHER APP.
SO WE, WE, THEY, THEY DO PULL PEOPLE IN THROUGH INSTAGRAM AND, UM, I'M NOT GONNA, I'M NOT SURE WHAT ALL THE PLATFORMS ARE, BUT AT A MINIMUM, INSTAGRAM, BUT THEN THE, THE MODULES THEMSELVES ARE WEB-BASED.
AND IS THAT, UM, IS THAT BECAUSE YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T LIKE APPS?
I'D LIKE, I JUST STARTED USING APPS A FEW WEEKS AGO, UM, OR RECENTLY.
SO IS THAT WHY, I MEAN, IS IT, DO YOUNG PEOPLE NOT LIKE TO USE APPS? I, I, I AM NOT GONNA SPEAK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
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UM, I, I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S SOME APPS THAT CLEARLY ARE I HEAVILY DOWNLOADED.UM, I MEAN, TIKTOK IS ONE EXAMPLE, BUT, BUT MAYBE, MAYBE THERE'S A LI LIMIT.
YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T KNOW, THOUGH.
I AM NOT GOING TO, I I DEFER TO ANYBODY YOUNGER THAN ME, WHICH IS
UH, WELL, I JUST, UM, I, I THINK, I DO THINK THAT'S CURIOUS.
I MEAN, THAT'S JUST TO KNOW BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, SORT OF THE BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE.
ONE OF THE THINGS I, I REALIZE THIS IS UNRELATED TO THE G P A, UM, BUT I DO SEE LAURA THERE ON THE SCREEN, AND, AND PART OF IT IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME COMMUNICATING WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS, LIKE WHAT IS THE BEST WAY? UM, AND SO IF AN APP, UM, IS NOT THE BEST WAY, THEN THAT'S FINE.
I JUST WAS CURIOUS AS TO WHAT IS THE METHOD PREFERRED.
SO I, I LOOK FORWARD TO, UM, SUPPORTING IT AND, AND, AND ALSO GETTING THE DATA AND THE FEEDBACK AND, AND IN FACT, IT LEADS ME TO A FOLLOW UP QUESTION.
SO ONE OF THE CONCERNS I'VE AL I'VE HAD ABOUT EVEN MANY OF THE PROGRAMS I'VE DONE THAT ARE PREVENT PREVENTATIVE IS THAT THEY SEEMED HARDER TO QUANTIFY.
SO ARE YOU HAVING, UM, SUCCESS COLLECTING THE DATA THAT YOU NEED, UM, EVEN THOUGH IT'S A PREVENTION PROGRAM? YEAH, I, THE, THE GREAT PART ABOUT THIS IS THAT STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY'S, UM, CENTER FOR SCALABLE MENTAL HEALTH DOES HAVE WAYS TO QUANTIFY.
I MEAN, THAT THERE, THERE, THAT IS HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO TELL THAT PEOPLE WHO USED THE PROGRAM COMPARED TO PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T USE THE PROGRAM, EXPERIENCED LESS DEPRESSION RIGHT.
SO YES, THERE ARE ESTABLISHED WAYS TO MEASURE THAT, AND, AND THEY WILL BE DOING THAT.
THE, THE SCHOOL, THE STUDENTS WHO TOOK PART VERSUS THE STUDENTS WHO DIDN'T TAKE PART, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE SCHOOLS.
UM, AND THANKS FOR LETTING ME CHIME BACK IN, MAYOR.
UM, SO I'M REALLY GLAD TO HEAR THAT, DR.
RUTH, IT SOUNDS LIKE THE, IT'LL ACTUALLY BE LIKE A STUDY.
UH, THEY'LL DO THE WORK AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE A STUDY IN ORDER TO EVALUATE THE WORK WITH, WITH CONTROLS AND EVERYTHING, RIGHT? IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING? THERE ARE, THERE ARE TWO PARTS OF THIS.
LET ME, LET ME BE CLEAR THAT THE UT TEEN HEALTH PART IS NOT AS MUCH THE, IS GOING TO BE MORE LOOKING AT IMPLEMENTATION AND BARRIERS TO IMPLEMENTATION.
NOW, THERE IS ANOTHER MUCH SMALLER GRANT THAT IS GOING TO UT HEALTH'S FAMILY MEDICINE PROGRAM.
UM, AND THEY, IT IT'S A MUCH SMALLER GROUP.
IT'S JUST GOING TO BE 100, UM, YOUNG PEOPLE.
BUT THAT ONE IS EXACTLY A STUDY LIKE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
SO I JUST WANNA SAY IT'S A CRITICAL TO INVEST IN, IN THIS PROJECT, UM, AND IN OTHER FORMS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND, UH, FOR ADOLESCENTS, BUT ALSO FOR THE POPULATION AT LARGE.
AND I KNOW THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE PART OF OUR, ON ONGOING WORK WITH THE, WITH THE COUNTY AND JENNIFER FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES AND, UH, IN OUR REVIEW OF, OF POLICE REFORM AS WELL.
BUT, UM, UH, ADOLESCENTS ARE PARTICULARLY, UH, IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW, LIKE YOU SAID, UH, DR.
WU, THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE EXPERIENCING EVEN MORE ANXIETY AND, AND DEPRESSION.
AND SOME OF IT IS, UM, LIKE ALL OF US, THE LACK OF SOCIAL CONNECTION, UH, THE CHANGE IN EDUCATION THAT THEY'RE EXPERIENCING.
IT'S A, IT'S COMPLETE, UH, CHANGE FOR THEM.
BUT I THINK ALSO BECAUSE THEY'RE MISSING THOSE VERY IMPORTANT, UH, UH, PASSING, UH, COMING OF AGE RITUALS THAT MANY, UH, THAT MANY KIDS LOOK FORWARD TO.
SO I, I THINK THAT'S, UM, MY UNDERSTANDING FROM THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IS THAT THAT'S, UM, THAT'S ALSO CONTRIBUTING, UH, TO THAT.
SO I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SEE THE IMPRESSIVE RECORD OF, UH, 50% REDUCTION IN DEPRESSION, UM, SYMPTOMS IN NINE MONTHS.
SO LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, SEEING IT IMPLEMENTED AND, UH, AND SEEING THE RESULTS.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR.
ALRIGHT, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 16 I HEARING.
WE HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION, BUT BEFORE WE GO THERE, IS THERE A
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CITY MANAGER'S REPORT? UH, YES, SIR.MAYOR, UH, AND COUNCIL, JUST A COUPLE OF ITEMS. UM, UH, THE FIRST IS, UM, UM, THE, WE, WE ARE, UH, PREPARING TO RELEASE OUR COVID MEDIA
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CAMPAIGN.AND, AND AS WE ENTER THE HOLIDAY SEASON AND THE, UH, EIGHTH MONTH OF THE, OF THE PANDEMIC, UH, WE ALL KNOW HOW WE ALL, AND WE JUST GOT THROUGH TALKING ABOUT THE, THE C OVID 19 FATIGUE.
UH, OUR GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT AND METRO HEALTH HAVE COLLABORATED WITH LOCAL CONSULTANTS, UH, GIANT NOISE SAN ANTONIO MM, CREATIVE, AND C TWO G STRATEGIES TO CREATE AND LAUNCH A CAMPAIGN CALLED, UH, WHAT WILL IT TAKE? AND THE CAMPAIGN'S MESSAGE, UM, ASKED THAT THE PUB ASKED THE PUBLIC, UH, WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO RETURN TO THE SENSE OF NORMAL THAT I THINK, UH, WE ALL, UH, DESPERATELY, UM, UM, ARE LOOKING FOR.
UH, IT REINFORCES THE SIMPLE BEHAVIORS, UH, TO CONTINUE TO SLOW THE SPREAD OF C OVID 19, SUCH AS WEARING A MASK AND WASHING YOUR HANDS AND MAINTAINING PHYSICAL DISTANCE.
UH, THE CAMPAIGN FEATURES IMAGERY THAT DEPICT, UH, THE NEW NORMAL AND ASK RESIDENTS TO DO IT FOR THEMSELVES, THEIR FAMILY, THEIR FRIENDS, AND, AND FOR THE CITY.
AND SO YOU'LL START TO SEE AND HEAR THIS CAMPAIGN THROUGH, UH, EITHER ENGLISH OR SPANISH RADIO, UH, AND TELEVISION SPOTS.
UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE, UH, PRINTED THE GO BAGS AT, UH, LOCAL, UH, ILLA AND ILLA YARD SIGNS DOOR HANGERS.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, IT'LL BE INCORPORATED WITHIN OUR STREET TEAMS. IT'LL BE, UH, IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS, SOCIAL MEDIA, UH, BILLBOARDS AND AND SO FORTH.
SO THE CAMPAIGN FEATURES, UM, SIX LOCAL MUSICIANS, UH, TWO OF WHICH ARE WITH US TODAY.
UM, UH, WHO HAVE EACH WRITTEN A SONG TO URGE SAN ANTONIO'S TO DO WHAT IT TAKES.
I'M GONNA ASK THE, THE T B S A, THE CREW TO PLAY THREE SAMPLE VIDEOS FOR YOU.
AND, UM, AND LET'S DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
THEN I'LL INTRODUCE THE TWO OF THE, UH, UH, ARTISTS WHO ARE WITH US, UH, TODAY.
IT'S SAN ANTONIO POET LAUREATE 2020 THROUGH 2023.
CHECK IT SLOW THE SPREAD UNTIL WE FIND THE CURE.
IT TAKES IT CLEAR AND PURE FOCUS JUST TO BRING US THROUGH.
WE WILL COME TOGETHER, KEEP IT PRACTICAL AND KEEP IT WITH YOU.
LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER TRUTH.
THIS IS WHAT IT TAKES TO RESTORE A OF THE SOLUTION AND MAKE A SACRIFICE BEFORE YOU, YOUR MASK.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE? WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET BACK TO NORMAL? WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO KEEP US SAFE, TO LIVE OUR BEST LIVES AGAIN? DO, DO FOR ANTONIO, DO FOR FAMILY.
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THANKS JOHN.SO, UH, MARY COUNCIL, I'D LIKE TO REALLY RECOGNIZE THE, THE STAFF WHO'VE WORKED ON THE CAMPAIGN.
UH, JEFF, UH, AND LAURA JOHN ESS.
UM, SONYA GONZALEZ, TRACY VETA, AND MICHELLE VIGIL FROM OUR G P A OFFICES.
BUT I, BUT I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND THE, THE CREATIVE FORCES BEHIND THE CAMPAIGN.
UH, ROSE REYES OF GIANT NOISE, SAN ANTONIO, UH, MARTHA MARTINEZ FLORES OF MM, CREATIVE, UH, AND CLAUDIA GONZALEZ, UH, AND MICHELLE MARTINEZ OF C TWO G STRATEGIES.
WE'VE GOT A TOTAL OF SIX PERFORMERS THAT ARE, THAT ARE PART OF THE, THE, UH, THE, THE CAMPAIGN.
UH, WE ALSO HAVE, UM, ALISON ALONZO, UH, AZU BARIENTOS, UH, AND MICHAEL CILLO.
UM, AND DOES ALL THE SONGS, UH, ARE COMPOSED BY THE ARTISTS, UH, FEATURE THE C OVID 19 PREVENTION ME, UH, MESSAGING IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
AND, AND, UH, WE'RE EXCITED TO ROLL THAT OUT.
AND, AND WITH YOU, WITH US TODAY.
UH, THIS AFTERNOON, UH, IS, UH, VOCAB AT SHELLY LATIS, AND I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR, FOR THEIR HELP AND ASSISTANCE, UM, AND PARTICIPATION FOR THIS, UH, IMPORTANT PUBLIC MESSAGING, UM, PIECE.
UM, THE, UH, THE SECOND ITEM, MAYOR, UH, AND COUNCIL, IS THAT OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, WE WILL BE, UH, LIGHTING SECTIONS OF THE RIVER WALK IN PHASES.
UH, WE KNOW THAT THE HOLIDAY LIGHTING IS SOMETHING THAT'S LOOKING THAT, THAT EVERYONE LOOKS FORWARD TO EVERY DAY OR EVERY YEAR, UM, AND ENJOYED BY MANY FOLKS.
UH, WE'RE DOING A LITTLE BIT EARLIER, UH, THAN NORMAL.
AND OUR HOPE IS THAT, UH, IT'LL JUST BE ANOTHER BRIGHT SPOT FOR THE CITY.
UM, AND, UH, PART OF THE, UH, PREVIOUS CAMPAIGN WE JUST TALKED ABOUT AND URGE VISITORS TO ENJOY THE LIGHTS SAFELY.
THIRD, UH, IT IS HUNGER AND HOMELESS AWARENESS WEEK THIS WEEK.
UM, IT'S NATIONAL MOVEMENT TO BRING AWARENESS AND ADVOCACY AND ACTION TO ADDRESS HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE CITY, ALONG WITH, UM, THE SOUTH ALAMO REGIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS.
AND NUMEROUS OTHER COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE, UM, ARE, UH, WORKING ON A FULL WEEK OF ACTIVITIES.
AND, UH, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE.
UM, AND THEN, UH, FINALLY, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
UH, I DID WANT, UM, IT WAS, UH, SOME OF YOU MENTIONED IT EARLIER, I DID WANT TO, UH, RECOGNIZE ALL THE CITY EMPLOYEES THAT ARE, UH, VETERANS AND RECOGNITION OF VETERANS DAY YESTERDAY.
UM, IT'S NO SURPRISE THAT, UM, UH, AS A MILITARY CITY, U SS A, UH, OVER 2000 OF OUR CURRENT CITY EMPLOYEES HAVE EITHER SERVED IN THE MILITARY OR ARE CURRENTLY SERVING, OR ARE THE SPOUSE OF SOMEONE THAT IS SERVING.
SO, UH, IT'S A SPECIAL DAY FOR, UH, THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL OF US TO, UH, RECOGNIZE THE SACRIFICES.
AND, UH, WE HAVE A QUICK VIDEO ON THAT.
UH, I'LL ASK THEM TO ROLL THAT REAL QUICK.
FOR ME, BEING A VETERAN, IT MEANS THE SENSE OF PRIDE, KNOWING THAT I SERVED MY COUNTRY, THAT I DID ALL I COULD DO, EVEN IF IT WAS JUST A SHORT TERM TO ME, IT MADE A DIFFERENCE.
I MET A LOT OF PEOPLE, SO I LEARNED TO LIVE WITH DIFFERENT RACES, DIFFERENT PERSONALITIES, DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES.
I WAS ALLOWED TO RAISE MY CHILDREN WITHOUT HAVING TO STRUGGLE OR BE STRESSED OUT, AND EVENTUALLY FINISH MY EDUCATION AS WELL.
SO I KNEW EARLY ON THAT I WAS GONNA END UP JOINING THE MILITARY.
NOW I'M THE YOUNGEST OF EIGHT, AND I WOULD BE THE ONLY ONE THAT, UH, THAT ACTUALLY ENTERED INTO THE SERVICE.
PRIDE IN COUNTRY IS SOMETHING THAT WAS INSTILLED IN ME BY, UH, MY PARENTS AT A YOUNG AGE.
ALSO, NOW, YOU KNOW, HERE IT IS, OUR, OUR VOTING SEASON.
I REMEMBER MY, MY MOTHER ALWAYS DRESSING UP TO GO VOTE.
UH, 'CAUSE IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO HER.
IT WAS HER, THE RIGHT, BUT MORE HER DUTY AS AN AMERICAN.
IF I COULD SPEAK TO THE YOUTH TODAY, I WOULD STRONGLY ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO FIND SOMETHING YOU'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT AND FOLLOW IT TO CHASE YOUR DREAMS. THAT WE CAN UNIFY, THAT WE CAN LEARN TO LOVE EACH OTHER.
UH, LOVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S GONNA BE DIFFERENCES, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE ALL CAN'T GET ALONG.
BE INVOLVED IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
YOU, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU HIGHLY TO CONSIDER A SERVICE TO YOUR CITY OR TO YOUR NATION.
AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD JOIN OR, UM, YOU KNOW, SERVE, SERVE OUR COUNTRY AND SERVE THE COMMUNITY.
INSTEAD OF IT JUST BEING A NATIONAL HOLIDAY WHERE PEOPLE GET TO SKIP OUT ON WORK.
THINK ABOUT GUYS THAT ARE OVER THERE RIGHT NOW.
THEY'RE GONNA BE MISSING THANKSGIVING 'CAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE
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IN A WAR ZONE OR SOMEWHERE THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'RE AT.AWARE THAT THERE'S PEOPLE STILL IN DANGER.
THANK YOU TO ALL THE CITY EMPLOYEES AND, UH, FOR OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ALSO SERVE IN THE MILITARY AND RECOGNITION OF YOUR SERVICE.
AND, AND MAYOR, THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT THE METRO HEALTH LEADERSHIP TEAM BECAUSE THAT'S AN IMPORTANT CRITICAL, UH, FUNCTION.
AND, UH, THOSE, UH, THAT TEAM HAS DONE, UH, AN EXCELLENT JOB LED BY, UH, DR.
AND, UH, YEAH, ALSO, UH, THANK YOU.
OUR VETERANS, UH, AND SERVICE MEMBERS IN THE CITY, EMPLOYEE RANKS, AND ON THE COUNCIL DAIS.
UH, VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE AND YOUR, YOUR CONTINUED SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE, UH, DO IT FOR ESSAY, WHATEVER IT TAKES CAMPAIGN.
UM, WHILE SHELLY AND AND VOCAB ARE ON THE LINE HERE, UM, THAT'S TOP 40 STUFF.
UH, ENJOYED THAT, UH, IN ALL DIFFERENT GENRES.
UM, AND SIMILAR TO THE GREAT WORK THAT WAS DONE IN MARKETING, UH, FOR SOLID WASTE A COUPLE YEARS AGO, I REALLY HOPE THAT WE SUBMIT THAT, UH, AS A, AS A, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC ENTITY WITH AN, A REMARKABLE MARKETING CAMPAIGN ON, COULDN'T BE A MORE IMPORTANT TOPIC TOO.
SO, UH, LET ME TURN IT OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
THANK YOU, UH, ANDREA VOCAB SANDERS.
UH, YOU ARE JUST A SHINING LIGHT.
UM, I REMEMBER HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET YOU, UH, WHEN WE WERE, UH, DECLARING SAN ANTONIO AS A MUSIC FRIENDLY CITY.
AND YOUR VOICE CONTINUES TO SPEAK TO THE ANGELS AND WHICH GIVES US PEACE AND COMFORT HERE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO DURING THESE TIMES.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING, UM, TO THE OTHER ARTISTS WHO ARE ON, UM, THE LINE.
I, I MAY NOT SEE YOU, BUT WE HEAR YOUR VOICE AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR STEPPING UP INTO THIS OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE KEEPING OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
IT TAKES ALL OF US AND IT TAKES EVERY WAY THAT WE CAN GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO GET THAT MESSAGE OUT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CREATIVITY.
BUT CONTINUOUSLY WE THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR GIFT, NOT ONLY WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, BUT WITH THE WORLD AS A WHOLE.
SO, THANK YOU MAYOR, AND THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ROJA GARCIA.
AND I WANNA START OFF BY SAYING THANK YOU, UM, TO SHELLY LATIS AND TO FLACO JIMENEZ AND TO ANDREA VCAL ANDERSON, UM, BEAUTIFUL SONGS.
UH, THE, THE IMAGERY, EVERYTHING WAS JUST, UM, PERFECT.
SO THANK YOU FOR LENDING YOUR TALENTS TO THIS.
I DO THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE INFLUENCERS THAT ARE, UM, ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN THIS.
UM, AND THEN I HAVE, UH, I WANT TO JUST, UM, PUBLICLY, UM, I GUESS VOLUNTEER TO SEE IF WE CAN, UM, STILL MAKE SOME CHANGES IN SOME OF THE MESSAGING.
COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL AND I WERE ON A CALL WITH THE GONZO GENERAL OF MEXICO YESTERDAY, I BELIEVE IT WAS YESTERDAY, COUNCILWOMAN.
UM, AND I'VE BEEN TALKING TO HIM A FEW TIMES.
AND SO WE, UM, FROM A CULTURAL, UH, PERSPECTIVE, THINK THAT WE NEED TO, UM, MAKE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A DRASTIC MESSAGE PUSH.
AND SO, UM, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION, AND I'VE SAID IT BEFORE, BUT I'LL SAY IT NOW PUBLICLY AND I NEVER DO THIS.
UM, BUT I'M GONNA PULL MY PHD IN ADVERTISING CAP.
UH, I HAVE PHD IN ADVERTISING FROM THE NUMBER ONE SCHOOL OF ADVERTISING IN THE NATION.
UH, AND SO ACTUALLY, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY FELL IN THE RANKINGS YET, BUT I'M JUST GONNA CLAIM THAT ONE FOR NOW.
I ALSO TEACH A HISPANIC MARKETING CLASS, UM, AND I TEACH MY STUDENTS THAT YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE A DIRECT TRANSLATION.
YOU HAVE TO, UH, RESONATE WITH THE COMMUNITY AND, UH, AND, AND USE, UH, APPROPRIATE CONNECTIONS WITH THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY.
AND SO, UM, I DID NOTICE THAT SOME OF THEM WERE DIRECT TRANSLATIONS THAT I DON'T THINK WOULD RESONATE WITH SOME OF OUR FOLKS.
AND SO I'D LIKE TO, UM, INSIST THAT, THAT MAYBE I CAN, UM, GIVE, GIVE SOME ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK ON THERE.
I I DO IT ALL THE TIME FOR MY STUDENTS, SO, UM, IT'S OKAY.
I, I'LL, I'LL TAKE IT IF, IF I CAN.
UM, I DO WANT TO ASK THE MASKS THAT WERE SHOWN, AND THIS IS, AGAIN, PUT MY ADVERTISING CAP ON THE MASKS THAT WE SHOW ON THERE, THEY SEEM TO BE SILK, BUT IF I'M CORRECT, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO USE CLOTH MASKS, AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, HAS IT BEEN APPROVED TO USE SILK MASKS? AND, AND AGAIN, THIS IS ONE OF THESE THINGS IN ADVERTISING THAT YOU LEARN, UM, THAT YOU, YOU KNOW,
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PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD, YOU SHOW THE EXAMPLE.AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE SELLING SILK MASKS, AND I, TO MY UNDERSTANDING, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE USING CLOTH MASKS UNLESS SILK MASKS HAVE BEEN APPROVED.
SO, UM, THAT'S MAYBE A QUESTION FOR OUR, OUR METRO HEALTH TEAM.
AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE, AGAIN, REPRESENT WHAT WE ARE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTING TO OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, MAYOR, I KNOW WE HAD TALKED ABOUT, UM, FINDING SOME INFLUENCERS, AND I THINK THAT WE DID A GREAT JOB AT FINDING THESE INFLUENCERS FOR THE SONG.
SO I, I THINK WE HAVE GREAT CHAMPIONS.
UM, I JUST, UH, WAS WONDERING WHO COPY TESTED THIS MATERIAL AND WHAT AUDIENCES, UM, THEY WERE COPY TESTED TO.
AND SO, SO MAYBE THAT COULD BE AN OFFLINE CONVERSATION, BUT I'D LOVE TO HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL INPUT ON THAT.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER S UM, TO, UH, OUR FRIENDS, UH, AT G P A
UH, AND AS ALWAYS, YOU OVER DELIVER.
UM, AND I, I GOTTA TELL YOU, I AM SO EXCITED AND NERVOUS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE SHELLY LADOS IS ON THE CALL, AND I'M A HUGE FAN.
AND, UH, THE, UH, I GOT TO MEET SHELLY IN 1993 OR 94, SHELLY, WHEN YOU WERE JUST, YOU JUST HIT THE SCENE AND YOU WERE A KID, YOU KNOW, AND I WAS A KID, AND I, I, I WAS, UH, OPERATING CAMERAS, EDWIN, AND YOU CAME INTO THE STUDIO AND I WAS BEHIND THE CAMERA, AND I WAS LIKE, WOW, SHE'S A BIG DEAL.
AND THEN OUR SIDE, YOU KNOW, THE LIFE HAS BROUGHT US ALL BACK TOGETHER, AND I'M JUST, I'M JUST THRILLED TO BE ON TEAM SHELLY.
AND, UH, SO IF SHELLY LATTICE TELLS US TO WEAR MASKS, I'M WEARING, I'M WEARING ALL THE MASKS,
UM, AND G P A, SERIOUSLY, THIS IS A HUGE WIN.
UM, AND I, I CAN'T, I CAN'T IMAGINE YOU GUYS IMPROVING UPON THIS, BUT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, GARCIA ROCHA HAS SOME TIPS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, IF ANYBODY CAN SQUEEZE OUT IMPROVEMENT, UH, IT'S, UH, OUT, OUT OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS, IT'S DEFINITELY HER.
AND SO, UM, WHATEVER COUNCILWOMAN GARCIA ROCHA SAYS, I, I ECHO AND SHELLY, IT'S I'LL, I'LL TELL YOU IF YOU WANT SOME TIPS ON SINGING, UM,
SHE'S A, UH, A RECOVERING MARIACHI.
AND SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, Y'ALL.
I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER
FIRST OF ALL, I, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF Y'ALL THAT, UM, HAVE INVITED ME TO BE PART OF THIS PROJECT.
UM, I'VE ACTUALLY KNOWN ROSA REYES FOR A LONG TIME.
SHE AND I WORKED ON AN AMAZING PROJECT CALLED HANS BACK IN AROUND 98, 99.
SO TO HEAR FROM HER AND TO HEAR OF WANTING ME TO DO SOMETHING FOR MY BEAUTIFUL CITY, YOU KNOW, I REPRESENT THE WEST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO.
AND, UH, THANK YOU, MANNY, FOR, FOR, UH, SAYING THAT I WAS A YOUNG GIRL.
I WAS ACTUALLY ALREADY 22 YEARS OLD.
BUT, UM, I'VE BEEN ENTERTAINING MY BEAUTIFUL CITY FOR 39 YEARS.
AND, UM, JUST LIKE YOU SAID, UM, BEING ABLE TO USE THIS PLATFORM, UM, WHICH I'M HOPING NOT ONLY FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, BUT FOR MY FANS THAT I HAVE ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT ARE ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, THIS IS A SERIOUS THING.
UM, I PERSON, I SAID THEY PICKED THE, THE PERFECT PERSON.
UM, I'VE BEEN OFFERED TO DO SHOWS ALREADY, AND I, AND I'M DECLINING BECAUSE I JUST THINK THAT IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO, TO FOLLOW THESE, UH, SIMPLE, SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS.
THAT'S NOT REALLY DIFFICULT IN MY OPINION, BUT I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYONE INVOLVED, UM, THAT, THAT HAD ME BE PART OF THIS FOR MY BEAUTIFUL CITY.
'CAUSE I'M VERY PROUD TO BE FROM THE TWO 10, AND, AND I AND THE ANO FANS KNOW THAT, SO, AND I DID IT MUSICALLY.
I JUST WANT Y'ALL TO KNOW, I, I MADE IT HAPPY BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GRAB, WHEN IT COMES TO TEJANOS AND THE ANO FANS, YOU HAVE TO GRAB 'EM THROUGH MUSIC.
AND IF YOU, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GRAB 'EM THROUGH THAT MUSIC AND THROUGH THAT FIRST BEAT AND YOU HAVE THEIR ATTENTION, THEY'LL PAY ATTENTION.
UM, I DO SEE, UH, ANDREA VOCAB ANDERSON ON THE LINE AS WELL.
UM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A FEW COMMENTS, ANDREA? YES.
I, IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE.
UM, I, I'VE UNDERSTAND THAT I, THAT WE'VE BEEN PLAYING MY SONG, UH, HARD ONE FOR Y'ALL'S COUNCIL MEETINGS.
HOPEFULLY Y'ALL AREN'T SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING ME
BUT, UH, I WAS ASKED TO PREPARE A SPEECH, AND SO I HAVE JUST A, A SMALL SPEECH FOR YOU ALL.
AND SO, UM, IF I CAN DO THAT AT THIS TIME, I, I GOT YOU.
MAYOR NUREMBERG, CITY COUNCIL PERSONNEL CITY OF SAN ANTONIO,
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EDDIE, VERSATILE KEYS, GIANT NOISE, AND THE LOVELY STAFF MEMBERS THAT ARE OFTENTIMES THE UNSEEN SUPPORT SYSTEM TO KEEP US THRIVING.I'M HONORED TO BE AMONG THE MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS CHOSEN FOR THIS FANTASTIC CAMPAIGN.
SIDEBAR, HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY, SHELLY
UH, BUT THE VERY, THIS CAMPAIGN HAS A VERY DIRECT AND REFLECTIVE MESSAGE.
THE MATTERS OF PUBLIC SAFETY ARE LITERALLY IN OUR HANDS.
THIS IS A CHARGE, A CHALLENGE, A COMPASSIONATELY CONCERNED CALL TO ACTION FOR EVERYONE TO CREATE A SAFER ENVIRONMENT FOR EVERY SINGLE BEING IN OUR COMMUNITY.
THESE SACRIFICES ARE NECESSARY, AND ALBEIT UNCOMFORTABLE WILL PAY OFF WITH SOME DEFERRED GRATIFICATION AND A WHOLE LOT OF VI VIGILANCE.
MY MOM ALWAYS TELLS ME TO STAY THE COURSE AND BE CONSISTENT.
I FIND THAT ADVICE TO BE APTLY, UM, APPLICABLE IN THIS SITUATION.
UM, I WENT IN THE STUDIO TO RECORD THIS SONG AFTER PERFORMING TWO BACK-TO-BACK CONCERTS IN ONE NIGHT.
I WAS TIRED AND YET VERY INSPIRED BY MY LOVE FOR THIS CITY.
I LET THE MUSIC IN MY HEART GUIDE THE MELODY.
I FOCUSED ON WHAT HARDSHIPS AND TRIUMPHS WE'VE BEEN FACING SINCE MARCH.
I PUT THE INTENTION OF UNITY INTO MY SPIRIT AND PRAYED IT WOULD RESONATE WITH ANYONE THAT HEARD THE SONG.
I HOPE THAT IT MOVES YOU TO DO THE SAME, AND IT IT WILL TAKE US A LONG WAY, AND IT'S GONNA TAKE A LOT OF EFFORT TO BRING THIS CHANGE AND CREATE THE CHANGE AND SLOW THE SPREAD OF THIS VIRUS AND HEAL OUR CITY.
SO I'M, I'M HAPPY TO BE A PART OF THIS.
UM, AND YOU TRULY DO DO IT ALL.
UH, VOCAB, UM, LET ME TURN IT OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.
I JUST WANNA SAY, ERIC, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PULLING THAT VIDEO TOGETHER TO RECOGNIZE OUR VETERANS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND AS YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T HAVE OUR VETERANS DAY PARADE.
UH, THERE WERE SOME FUNCTIONS AROUND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES, THAT KIND OF THING, TO RECOGNIZE OUR VETERANS.
BUT I, I DO WANT TO PUT A SHOUT OUT FOR THOSE FOLKS ON THE DAAS, YOU KNOW, COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN, COUNCILMAN COURAGE, AND EVEN ANDY REPRESENTING THE, THE NAVY.
SO WE GOT THE ARMY, AIR FORCE AND NAVY REPRESENTATIVE, UH, REPRESENTATIVES HERE, BUT A SPECIAL THANKS TO OVER 250,000, 250,000 VETERANS THAT LIVE HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN COUNT OUR ACTIVE DUTY PERSONNEL, WHICH IS OVER 80,000 HERE IN TOWN.
SO YOU ADD THOSE NUMBERS UP, WE GOT A PRETTY HEALTHY, UH, REPRESENTATION OF OUR MILITARY SERVICES HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND I, I JUST WANNA RECOGNIZE THAT AGAIN AND SAY, THIS IS FANTASTIC FOR MILITARY CITY U S A.
COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALO.
AND, UM, I, UH, ALSO THANK YOU TO OUR, UH, VETERANS, UH, MY HUSBAND, RETIRED AIR FORCE CHIEF MASTER SERGEANT BURTON, UH, FOR HIS, UH, SERVICE AND, AND, UM, FOR THE ABILITY TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIM.
UH, BUT I, I WANTED TO JUST, I, I LOVED THE, UH, THE VIDEOS.
UH, WE MISSED THE CONJUNTO FESTIVAL.
UM, WHICH, UH, YOU KNOW, I JUST WAS SAD TO NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT THIS YEAR.
BUT I, I JUST, I, I THINK IT'S A REALLY FUN WAY TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT.
UM, I KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN STRUGGLING TO CONTINUE WITH THE MESSAGE AFTER SO MUCH FATIGUE OVER THESE YEAR, UH, THESE MONTHS, AND PEOPLE ARE JUST TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT IT.
SO HOPEFULLY IT KIND OF REINVIGORATES, UH, PEOPLE TO JUST STAY ON THE PATH OF, OF MASKS.
BUT I, IS THERE ANY WAY TO GET FEEDBACK? I MEAN, UM, UH, SO I DON'T KNOW, IS THERE A, IS THERE THAT CYCLE OR IS IT, UM, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE IN, IN REGULAR RETAIL, UH, YOU WOULD KNOW, UM, BASED ON, YOU KNOW, SALES INCREASES OR PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR, UM, IF YOUR ADS HAD WORKED, UM, DO WE HAVE A WAY TO TARGET, I'M JUST CURIOUS.
COUNCIL, NOT TO TARGET, BUT TO, TO GET FEEDBACK.
I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY WE WOULD HOPE THAT THE NUMBERS WOULD GO DOWN, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW, UH, I THINK SHELLY MENTIONED, UM, SONG THAT WE COMMUNICATE IN SONG, AND I KNOW MY CHILDREN, UM, RIGHT, THEY SING BACK ALL THEIR LITTLE SONGS ABOUT BRUSHING THEIR TEETH AND ALL THOSE THINGS.
SO, UM, IS THERE A FEEDBACK CYCLE FOR, FOR SEEING IF THE APPS ARE EFFECTIVE OR NOT? CHAIR,
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COUNCILMAN, THIS IS LAURA FROM G P A.AND I'LL TELL YOU AFTER WORKING ON THIS, THOSE ARE DEFINITELY EAR WORMS THAT HAVE BEEN IN MY HEAD FOR QUITE A FEW DAYS NOW.
SO I HOPE THAT THAT'S THE CASE FOR Y'ALL AS WELL.
UM, THE BEAUTY OF THIS CAMPAIGN IS THAT WHILE WE'RE DOING THESE SONGS IN A BROADCAST FEATURE, RADIO AND TV, WE'RE ALSO PAIRING THIS WITH AN INTERACTIVE, UM, DIGITAL CAMPAIGN.
AND THOSE ARE ADS THAT WE CAN REALLY TEST AND SEE WHICH MESSAGING RESONATES THE BEST AND ON WHICH PAGES.
UM, AND THAT WAY WE CAN ADJUST IT AS NECESSARY.
SO THERE IS STILL SOME TIME THROUGH THE CAMPAIGN, WE'LL BE MONITORING IT IN REAL TIME TO MAKE SURE WE'RE REACHING THE FOLKS WE NEED TO REACH AND ADJUSTING AS NECESSARY.
WELL, I REALLY, I REALLY, UH, ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH SO.
UM, AND I HOPE, WELL, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE ALL SO NERVOUS, SO I HOPE THAT, UH, I HOPE THAT IT'S EFFECTIVE AND THANK YOU ESPECIALLY, UM, TO THE ACTORS AND MUSICIANS FOR PARTICIPATING.
AND, UM, WE ALL LOVE OUR CITY, AND I THINK YOU CAN EVEN TELL IN YOUR PRESENTATIONS TODAY, BUT ALMOST IN THE VIDEOS YOU STATE, YOU CAN TELL THAT YOU LOVE OUR CITY AND THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DELIVER A METHOD.
SO, UH, I THINK THAT'S, UM, IT COMES THROUGH.
UM, I ALSO WANNA THANK THE TEAM FOR, FOR WORKING ON THIS.
UH, THE FIRST I HEARD OF IT WAS, UH, YESTERDAY AT A, UM, AT A MEETING OF THE, OF THE C R C STEERING COMMITTEE.
AND IT, UH, I HEARD THE NAMES, YOU KNOW, VOCAB SANDERSON, UH, SHELLY LATTICE AND BLACK JIMENEZ, AND I SAID, OH MY GOSH, THAT'S A FORMULA FOR, FOR SUCCESS.
SO I WANNA THANK ALL THE ARTISTS FOR DONATE, DONATING, MAYBE, OR GIVING OF THEIR TIME
UM, I, I DO THINK THIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO, LIKE YOU SAID, GET CAUGHT IN PEOPLE'S EARS AND CATCH ON.
I'M WONDERING, UH, YOU TALKED ABOUT, UH, RADIO, TV, UM, WHAT, WHAT KIND OF BUDGET DO WE HAVE, UH, FOR THIS IN TERMS OF PAID ADVERTISING? UM, COUNCILMAN, I'LL HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THE EXACT AMOUNT FOR ADVERTISING.
UM, BUT I WILL SAY IT IS GOING TO BE IN ALL OF THE MAJOR MARKETS FOR TV AND RADIO.
UM, AND, AND LIKEWISE, THIS IS PAIRED WITH A GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN THAT THE CITY MANAGER MENTIONED.
SO WHILE WE KNOW A LOT OF FOLKS, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVE SWITCHED OVER TO HULU, PANDORA, OR, YOU KNOW, ARE JUST BROWSING THINGS ON SOCIAL, UM, OR MAYBE DON'T HAVE DIGITAL ACCESS, THAT'S WHY OUR STREET TEAM'S APPROACH IS GONNA BE REALLY USEFUL IN THIS SENSE.
SO I WILL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU ON THE BUDGET, BUT WE'RE, IT'S OUR HOPE THAT ALL OF THESE MEASURES COMBINED REALLY ELEVATE THAT MESSAGE, UM, AND BRING SOME, UH, JUST A VIRALNESS TO IT, NOT VIRAL IN A COVID WAY, BUT VIRAL IN A GOOD WAY, UM, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THIS CAMPAIGN PICK UP SOME TRACTION.
AND I, I DO THINK IT'S REALLY CRITICAL TO DO THIS, UM, WITH THIS TIMING RIGHT BEFORE THE, THE HOLIDAYS, YOU KNOW, JUST LISTENING TO THE RADIO ABOUT HOW KIDS COMING HOME FROM COLLEGE SHOULD REALLY BE QUARANTINING THEMSELVES OR TESTING BEFORE THEY COME, UH, HOME AND, UH, YOU KNOW, EXPOSE, POTENTIALLY EXPOSE THEIR, THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS.
SO I APPRECIATE THE, THE TIMING.
IT ALSO LETS US GET IN BEFORE, BEFORE CHRISTMAS, BUT TO, TO SEE SORT OF THE, THE STRATEGY FOR ALL THE DIFFERENT CHANNELS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT AND, UM, OR COMMUNICATION CHANNELS THAT, THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT FOR, FOR ADVERTISING.
UM, I DON'T HAVE A PHD, BUT, UM, I'M A HACK WHEN IT, WHEN IT COMES TO THAT
SO, AND, AND I DO WANNA REITERATE WHAT THE COUNCILWOMAN SAID ABOUT OUR MEETING WITH, UH, CONSUL GENERAL, UM, UM, TI OR
AND, AND HE DID TELL US, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HAVE A REALLY SOFT TOUCH ON SOME OF THOSE MESSAGES THAT YOU HAVE IN ENGLISH AND YOU TRANSLATE INTO SPANISH.
HE SAID, FOR OUR POPULATION, UH, WE REALLY NEED SOMETHING MORE DRAMATIC TO GET PEOPLE'S, UH, ATTENTION INCLUDING, UH, POTENTIALLY, UM, CASE CASES, RIGHT? OF PEOPLE WHO, WHO HAVE BEEN OF, OF PATIENTS.
AND WE, WE TALKED ABOUT OTHER EXAMPLES.
ANYWAY, THAT'S AN ONGOING DISCUSSION THAT, THAT WE'RE HAVING.
UH, WE'D LOVE TO PULL HIM OR SOMEONE FROM HIS OFFICE INTO OUR EDUCATION, UH, WORK GROUP AND, AND THE COUNCILWOMAN.
AND I WILL, WE'LL BE THERE TOO.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK.
COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO, THANK YOU MAYOR.
AND THANK YOU TO ALL THE ARTISTS.
UH, CERTAINLY, UH, UH, REALLY APPRECIATE ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND, UH, WE'LL BE SUPPORTIVE OF THIS INCREDIBLE CAMPAIGN.
I ALSO WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK A COUPLE OF VETERANS FROM, FROM OUR D ONE TEAM AS WELL.
UH, JAMIE NICHOLSON AND JOVAN KIKEN, UH, HAVE BEEN WORKING OUTTA OUR FIELD OFFICE, UH, AND
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HELP SHAPE THE, THE CITYWIDE APPROACH TO OUR HOMELESS OUTREACH PROGRAM.UH, THEY HAVE USED THEIR EXPERIENCES AND THEIR SERVICE TO SHAPE, UH, THEIR APPROACH TO, TO THIS ISSUE AND HAVE DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB AND KNOWING THAT IT'S, UH, WE'RE APPROACHING OUR HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS WEEK.
UH, ONE ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT, UH, THAT THE SHOWER TRAILER IS HERE, SHOWER TRAILER IS HERE.
UH, I WANT TO THANK H E B FOR DONATING THE, THE, UH, RESOURCES TO, TO GET THAT WRAP DONE.
UH, WE CALL IT, UH, MOBILE UNIT ONE.
HOPEFULLY THERE'LL BE MANY MORE THAT WE CAN PURCHASE, UH, AND GET OUT, UH, HELP, HELP OUR COMMUNITY IN THIS TIME OF NEED.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO.
AND, AND LET ME, UM, ALSO TAKE, UH, THIS MOMENT A A POINT OF PRIVILEGE.
UH, WE DO WANNA RECOGNIZE SOME OF THE GREAT WORK THAT'S GOING ON, UM, IN OUR COMMUNITY WITH REGARD TO, UH, HEALING THE SICK, UH, THAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY, BUT ALSO CERTAINLY DURING THIS PANDEMIC.
AND THAT'S HAPPENING AT THE SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE CENTER.
AND IN THAT VEIN, NO PUN INTENDED, I DO HAVE A PROCLAMATION TO READ.
UH, WHEREAS SOUTH TEXAS BLOOD AND TISSUE CENTER, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BE THE MATCH OBSERVE NATIONAL MARROW AWARENESS MONTH IN NOVEMBER TO RAISE PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS FOR OVER 10,000 US PATIENTS WHO ARE WAITING FOR A LIFESAVING BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT, THANK THOSE WHO DONATED AND RALLIED TO RALLIED A COMMUNITY TO FIGHT CANCER THROUGH THE REGISTRATION OF COMMITTED DONORS TO THE NATIONAL MARROW REGISTRY.
AND WHEREAS EVERY THREE MINUTES, SOMEONE WHO'S SOMEONE IS DIAGNOSED WITH A BLOOD CANCER STEM CELL AND MARROW DONATIONS ARE USED TO HELP TREAT PA PATIENTS WITH BLOOD CANCERS SUCH AS LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA AND OTHER BLOOD RELATED CONDITIONS LIKE A, A, A PLASTIC, AN ANEMIA.
AND WHEREAS SIGNING UP ON THE REGISTRY INVOLVES BRIEF PAPERWORK, A CHEEK, CHEEK SWAB, AS WELL AS A COMMITMENT TO DONATE IF YOU'RE A MATCH FOR SOMEONE TAKES LESS THAN 10 MINUTES, AND YOU COULD BE SOMEONE'S CURE FOR CANCER.
AND WHEREAS ALL HEALTHY ELIGIBLE CITIZENS BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 44 ARE ENCOURAGED TO REGISTER TO HELP THE 70% OF ALL PATIENTS WHO NEED TO FIND A MATCHING DONOR OUTSIDE OF THEIR FAMILY.
AND NOW, THEREFORE, I RON NURENBERG, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND RECOGNITION THEREOF, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM NOVEMBER, 2020 TO BE NATIONAL MARROW AWARENESS MONTH IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, AND ENCOURAGE EVERYONE, UH, WHO IS LISTENING TO GET REGISTERED, IT'S VERY EASY AND IT COULD SAVE MANY LIVES.
UH, AND THANK YOU TO COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREWS SULLIVAN, UH, FOR BRINGING THIS PROCLAMATION FORWARD.
UH, FINALLY, BEFORE WE GO TO EXEC SESSION, LEMME TURN IT OVER BRIEFLY TO OUR CITY MANAGER.
JUST WANTED TO, UH, ANSWER ONE QUESTION THAT COUNCILWOMAN GARCIA HAD, THOSE MASKS ARE NOT SILK, JUST SO THAT IN CASE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING, UH, THE, THE COUNCIL MEETING THIS MORNING, THEY'RE NOT SILK.
AND, UH, WE'LL FOLLOW UP ON, ON SEVERAL OF THE OTHER, UH, POINTS THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBERS MADE.
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WITH THAT, THE TIME IS NOW, UH, 11:35 AM ON THIS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, 2020.THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL NOW MEET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071, AND DELIBERATE OR DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.087, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE LEASE OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.072 REAL PROPERTY IN CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LITIGATION INVOLVING THE CITY C OVID 19 PREPAREDNESS AND CITY FACILITIES.
UM, SO EVERYONE HAS THE LINK FOR THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.
WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CONVENE THERE, UH, IN JUST A MINUTE, JUAN.
THE TIME IS 12:03 PM ON THIS THURSDAY, UH, NOVEMBER 12TH, 2020.
THE CITY COUNCIL HAS RECONVENED FROM ITS EXECUTIVE SESSION THAT NO OFFICIAL ACTION WAS TAKEN.
OUR A SESSION IS NOW ADJOURNED.
UH, WE WILL RECONVENE, UH, FOR A SPECIAL SESSION AT ONE O'CLOCK.