* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [1. 21-2047 Briefing on the status of the 2017 - 2022 Bond Program and theplanning and development process for the 2022 - 2027 Bond Program. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager, Razi Hosseini, Director, Public Works]] [00:00:05] ON THIS THURSDAY, MARCH 18TH, 2021. OUR CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL SESSION IS NOW, UM, UNDERWAY. UH, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU RE A ROLL? COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER R GARCIA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. PRESENT. COUNCIL MEMBER CAB HARVA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER PIA. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY HERE. AND MAYOR NURNBERG. HERE. MAYOR, WE HAVE A QUORUM. ALRIGHT, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. UH, LEMME TURN IT RIGHT OVER TO ERIC, UH, TO INTRODUCE OUR ITEM. GOOD DAY. THANKS, MAYOR. UH, MAYOR COUNCIL. TODAY'S SPECIAL SESSION THIS AFTERNOON, UH, WILL BE A BRIEFING BY ZY, UH, ON THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS, AS ALL OF YOU KNOW, UH, CURRENTLY, UM, UH, IN THE PLANNING PHASES AS WE SPEAK. UM, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND. IN THE DECADE PRIOR TO 2005, THE CITY MADE BOND INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS TOTALING LESS THAN $350 MILLION. WITH THE 2007, THE 2012 AND THE 2017 FIVE-YEAR BOND PROGRAMS, THE CITY, UH, WILL HAVE INVESTED CLOSE TO $2 BILLION IN INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS OVER THOSE PERIODS. SO TODAY WE WILL DISCUSS THE STATUS OF THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM AND THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING SOME OF THE HISTORY, UH, POTENTIAL PROGRAM CATEGORIES, UH, PROPOSED GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND PROJECT EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR THE PROGRAM. AND A TIMELINE. UH, TODAY'S DISCUSSION REALLY IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ENTIRE COUNCIL TO HAVE THAT STRATEGIC DISCUSSION ABOUT THE BOND PROGRAM AND THE AREAS OF IMPORTANCE. UM, UM, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH A BOND PROGRAM BEFORE, IT IS A LONG, METHODICAL PROCESS THAT INVOLVES A LOT OF INPUT. AND RAZZI WILL TALK, UH, ABOUT THAT, UH, IN THE PRESENTATION. UH, I KNOW ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT EVERYONE IS INTERESTED IN IS WHAT WOULD BE THE SIZE OF THE PROPOSED 2022 BOND PROGRAM, THE SIZE OF THE RECOMMENDED PROGRAM? YOU, YOU ALL WILL RECALL THAT PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC, UM, WE WERE ESTIMATING $980 MILLION IN THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM BASED ON OUR FINANCIAL ANALYSIS. UH, LAST YEAR'S DEBT PLAN THAT WAS PRESENTED TO YOU BY, UH, OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, BEN GOEL, ESTIMATED 6 670 5 MILLION. UM, THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE UPDATED AS WE GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THROUGH THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT. SO THAT SIZE OF THAT RECOMMENDED PROGRAM WILL BE UPDATED WITH OUR DEBT PLAN. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ASSUMPTIONS WE MAKE AS PART OF THAT PART IS THE PROJECTED GROWTH OF TAXABLE ASSESSED VALUATION. AND, UM, BEN AND TROY AND OUR FINANCE TEAM, UM, CONTINUE TO STAY PLUGGED IN WITH THE BEAR APPRAISAL DISTRICT. UM, AND WE WILL HAVE MORE INFORMATION AS WE GO INTO THE SUMMER. UM, SO WE WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED, UM, AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF STAFF ON THE CALL, ON THE, ON THE MEETING THIS AFTERNOON. UM, IT'S NOT A VERY LONG PRESENTATION BECAUSE WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COUNCIL HAD PLENTY OF TIME FOR YOUR, UM, UH, DISCUSSION AS A GROUP ON THAT STRATEGIC APPROACH. SO, WITH THAT, I'LL HAND OVER THE PRESENTATION TO, UH, RAZZI RAZZI. THANK YOU, ERIC. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I AM RAZZI HUSSEINI, DIRECTOR, C T A ENGINEER, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. JOHN. TODAY I WILL BE PROVIDING YOU UPDATE ON 2027 BOND PROGRAM, 2022, BOND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, BOND HISTORY, POTENTIAL PROGRAM CATEGORIES, GUIDING PRINCIPLE PROJECT EVALUATION CRITERIA, AND OF COURSE, TIMELINE. NEXT SLIDE. PLEASE UPDATE ON 2017 BOND PROGRAM, JOHN. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 72% OF THE PROJECT IS COMPLETED OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION. 63 PROJECT IS COMPLETED. 66 PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, 47 UNDER DESIGN, AND WE HAVE FOUR PROJECT PRE-DESIGNED [00:05:01] AND THEN ALSO PROVIDE YOU COMPRESSION. HOW ARE WE DOING COMPARING THE 2012 BOUND PROGRAM, 2012 BOUND PROGRAM, 140 PROJECTS IN MAY OF 2017, 96% SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION, 2017 BOUND PROGRAM, 180 PROJECTS. AS YOU REALIZE, 40 PROJECT MORE THAN WHAT WE HAD PREVIOUS BOND. WE ARE ANTICIPATING IN MAY OF 2022 WHEN WE ARE GOING TO ASK PUBLIC TO VOTE ON 2022 BOND PROGRAM. 97% SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE REASON WE ARE AS SUCCESSFUL, WE ARE, WE HAVE DONE SO MANY BONDING LAST PAST MANY YEARS. WE HAVE A LOT, LEARNED A LOT. AND ALSO BECAUSE SOME NEW STAFF FEW YEARS AGO THAT HELPED BE ABLE TO DELIVER THIS PROJECT PROJECT AS CLOSE TO ON TIME AS POSSIBLE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 2022 BOND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. I WANNA PROVIDE YOU A LITTLE HISTORY OF, UH, OUR BOND PROGRAM AS THE CITY MANAGER MENTIONED. AS YOU CAN REALIZE, BEFORE 2007, MAJORITY OF OUR BOND PROGRAM WAS LESS THAN 150 MILLION, AND WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO TOO MANY PROJECTS. BUT SINCE 2007, 2012 AND 2017, OUR BOND CAPACITY HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE, AND WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ADDRESS GOOD NUMBER OF THE DRAINAGE ISSUE, ROADWAY ISSUE, PARK ISSUE THROUGHOUT THE CITY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THIS SLIDE PROVIDE YOU HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CITY BOND PROGRAM. AS YOU CAN SEE, 2007 BOND PROGRAM, 550,000,150 PROJECT STREETS, BRIDGES SIDEWALK 50 OVER 50%. DRAINAGE WAS OVER 27%. AND OF COURSE, PARKS LIBRARY PUBLIC, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY WAS NUMBER TWO AND NUMBER THREE AND NUMBER FOUR, 2012. BOMB PROGRAM WAS SLIGHTLY BIGGER THAN 2007 596,000,140 PROJECT. THE NUMBER OF THE PROJECT WAS SLIGHTLY LESS THAN 2007 BECAUSE WE HAD SOME LARGER PROJECT AS PART OF 2012 STREET BRIDGES AND SIDEWALK WAS STILL NUMBER ONE. DRAINAGE WAS NUMBER TWO, PARKS LIBRARY AND PUBLIC SAFETY WAS NUMBER TWO AND NUMBER THREE AND NUMBER FOUR, 2017 BOND BOND PROGRAM, WHICH THE LARGEST WE EVER HAD. 850,000,180 PROJECT. UNDER THIS BOND PROGRAM, WE ALSO HAD A NEW PROPOSITION, WHICH IS NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT UNDER THIS BOND, THE STRICT BRIDGES AND SIDEWALK WAS NUMBER ONE. PARKS AND RECREATION WAS NUMBER TWO, DRAINAGE WAS NUMBER THREE. WE SPENT MORE MONEY AS PART OF 2017 PARK PROGRAM WE EVER HAD TO SPEND ON THE PARK. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. WHAT'S OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF OUR BOND PROGRAM? ALIGNED WITH ADAPTIVE CITY PLANS PROJECT WITH ALIGNED WITH CITY SUPPORTED PLANS TO INCLUDE SA TOMORROW GROWTH PLAN, MICRO MOBILITY, SAN ANTONIO PARK SYSTEM, BEAR COUNTRY REGIONAL WATERSHED, AND SA CLIMATE READY PLAN. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND SAFETY PROJECT WILL PRO PROMOTE ENERGY AND WATER CONSERVATION AND IMPROVE STORM WATER AND AIR QUALITY. AS APPLICABLE. PROJECT WILL ALSO FOCUS ON ENHANCING SAFE CONNECTIVITY TO COMMUNITY DESTINATION, SUCH AS A SCHOOL HEALTH AND WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES, PARKS AND OPEN SPACE GREEN SPACES. EMBED EQUITY PROJECT WILL SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT WITHIN COMMUNITY OF COLOR AND LOW INCOME COMMUNITY USING EQUITY ATLAS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP LEVERAGE COMMITMENTS PROJECT WILL COORDINATE WITH OTHER AGENCY INCLUDING SAN ANTONIO WATER SYSTEM, SAN ANTONIO RIVER AUTHORITY C P S, ENERGY VIA TRANSIT AUTHORITY, BEAR COUNTY, AND TECHSTAR, AND LEVERAGE OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES DOLLAR AS POSSIBLE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. IS THE PROPOSED EVALUATION CRITERIA CATEGORY WE ARE PLANNING TO USE ON PROJECT SELECTION, ACCESS TO COMMUNITY IDENTIFY PROJECTS TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO JOB EDUCATION, [00:10:01] FACILITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES. AND EMPHASIZE THE COMMUNITY OF THE COLOR AND LOW INCOME HEALTH SAFETY, ENVIRONMENTAL IDENTIFY PROJECT THAT WILL PROMOTE ENERGY AND MOTHER CONSERVANCY AND IMPROVE STORMWATER AIR QUALITY AS APPLICABLE AND FOCUS ON EMPHASIZING SAFE CONNECTIVITY TO SCHOOLS, HEALTH, WELLNESS AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES, PARKS AND PUBLIC OPEN GREEN SPACES. FEASIBILITY IDENTIFY PROJECT ARE FEASIBLE TO IMPLEMENT EXISTING CONDITION. IDENTIFY A PROJECT THAT WILL ADDRESS KNOWING INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS PROJECT TO ADDRESS HIGH CRASH RATES PROJECT, IMPROVE STREET PAYMENT CONDITION PROJECT, ENHANCE TRAFFIC FLOW AND REDUCE CON CONGEST PROJECT THAT REQUIRE MAINTENANCE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. REDUCE THE MINIMUM OPERATIONAL AND MAINTENANCE COST PROJECT SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARE PATHS, OPEN PUBLIC SPACES, CO-LOCATION OF SERVICES AND LAND USE CONNECTIVITY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. THIS IS POTENTIAL 2022 POUND PROGRAM CATEGORY. STREETS, BRIDGES, SIDEWALK, DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL, PARK AND RECREATION, MUNICIPAL FACILITIES SUCH AS LIBRARIES, CULTURAL CENTER, PUBLIC SAFETIES, AND NEIGHBORHOODS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT OUR FACILITIES TODAY. WE OPERATE OUT OF 225 FACILITIES. SEVERAL OF THESE FACILITIES ARE IN NEED OF REPAIR OR ENHANCEMENT THEY HAVE BEEN MANY YEARS AGO. IT REALLY DOESN'T MEET TO TODAY'S REQUIREMENT. MAINTENANCE COST CONTINU TO INCREASE PROPOSED APPROACH FOCUSED ON THE CITY OWNED FACILITIES, FACILITIES PROVIDING PUBLIC FACING SERVICES, IMPLEMENT CITY CAMPUS APPROACH, CONSOLIDATE AND CO-LOCATE CITY SERVICES, IDENTIFY CENTRALIZED LOCATION TO MINIMIZE THE IMPACT AND DELIVERY OF THE, TO MAXIMIZE THE IMPACT AND DELIVERY OF THE SERVICES. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR AND JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. WE START ON THE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT. WE MET WITH EACH COUNCIL'S OFFICE AND NUMBER OF THE DEPARTMENT TO GET THEIR POTENTIAL PROJECT LIST. JANUARY, MARCH CONSULTING SELECTION. ACTUALLY THIS MORNING THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THREE RECOMMENDED CONSULTING TO ASSIST US ON SCOPING AND COST ESTIMATING MARCH AND JULY. WE ARE GOING TO WORK WITH THOSE THREE CONSULTING CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THIS MORNING ON SCOPING AND COST ESTIMATING PROJECT JULY, SEPTEMBER COUNCIL AND MAY WILL BE A APPOINTING COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT AUGUST, SEPTEMBER TIMEFRAME. THE STAFF WILL BE PROVIDED RECOMMENDED PROJECT LIST TO BE INCLUDED, PART OF 2022 BOND PROGRAM OCTOBER TO DECEMBER COMMITTEE, COMMITTEE MEETING. THEY USUALLY HAVE A MEETING AND GET INPUT FROM COMMUNITY. JANUARY FEBRUARY, COUNCIL CALLS FOR THE ELECTION AND FIRST SATURDAY IN MAY OF 2022 WILL BE THE ELECTION. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. GRANT PLANNING EFFORTS CONTINUE CONTINUED CONTINUATION WITH THE CONTINUED COORDINATION WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND CITY DEPARTMENT EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL PROJECTS ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BOND CAPACITY IN SUMMER OF 2021 AS C T MANAGE MANAGER MENTIONED. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. JOHN. COMMITTEE APPOINTMENT, AS I INDICATED, WILL BE IN THE SUMMER MAY. AND CITY COUNCIL WILL APPOINT COMMITTEE MEMBERS BASED ON THE APPROVED PROGRAM CATEGORIES TO SERVE IN ADVISORY ROLE, OBTAIN COMMUNITY INPUT, CONSIDER POTENTIAL PROJECTS, RECOMMEND PROJECTS TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR PROPOSED 2022 FUND PROGRAM. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, JOHN, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THIS IS INAM MY PRESENTATION. I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION YOU MAY HAVE. SO MAYOR, LET ME JUST, UH, ADD ONE THING AND, AND, UM, I, I HAD, UH, I ASKED JI TO INCLUDE THAT, UH, FACILITIES PORTION BECAUSE, UM, SOME OF YOU WILL RECALL PRIOR CONVERSATIONS, UH, LAST, UM, I GUESS LAST FALL, UH, ON AN UN ON A RELATED ITEM. I HAD, WE HAD [00:15:01] AS A GROUP, UH, A CONVERSATION ABOUT MUNICIPAL FACILITIES. AND SO, UM, WE HAVE DONE, UM, A, UH, WE'VE BEGUN DOING A LOT OF RE A REVIEW OF OUR EXISTING FACILITIES. UM, AND THEN I THINK I HAD SHARED WITH YOU AT THE TIME THAT, THAT THOSE WERE THINGS THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK AT. SO, UM, THAT'S WHY WE INCLUDED IT, THAT THERE, IT, IT'S NOT JUST LIBRARIES OR NEW LIBRARIES OR NEW FACILITIES, BUT ARE THERE THINGS WE NEED TO DO ELSEWHERE, UH, HERE IN THE COMMUNITY? AND, UM, WE'RE OPEN TO OBVIOUSLY HAVING MORE CONVERSATION DEPENDING ON THE CONVER THE THE DISCUSSION, UH, THAT YOU HAVE TODAY AND, AND OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF MEETINGS. THANKS, MAYOR. THANK YOU ERIC. UH, AND THANK YOU, UH, RAZZIE FOR THE PRESENTATION. UM, I'M GONNA STAY FAIRLY HIGH LEVEL AND JUST, UH, KICK OFF THE DISCUSSION OF, OF WHERE, UH, I HOPE THAT WE CAN GO, UH, AS A GROUP AS WE MOVE FORWARD INTO THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM PROCESS. UH, THE FIRST THING I'LL, I'LL SAY IS THAT I, I CAN TELL FROM THIS PRESENTATION, UH, RAZZIE THAT, UM, THERE IS AN ATTEMPTED METAMORPHOSIS HAPPENING IN OUR THINKING ABOUT THE BOND PROGRAM. AND, AND I FEEL LIKE THE, THE BUTTERFLY IS HALFWAY OUT OF THE COCOON. UM, I SEE, UH, THE LANGUAGE HERE ABOUT EVALUATION CRITERIA WITH HIGH LEVEL CONCEPTS, WHICH I'M GRATEFUL FOR. CONNECTIVITY, RESILIENCY, AND PUBLIC HEALTH ARE CHIEF AMONG THEM IN MY MIND. UM, BUT FOR US TO, IN MY MY VIEW, TO MAKE THIS 22 BOND PROGRAM TRANSFORMATIVE AS OPPOSED TO, UM, SIMPLY, UH, COMPLETED, UH, WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE IDEA THAT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS COMPLETE A SET OF PROJECTS. AND, AND SIMILAR TO THE WAY THAT WE HAVE KIND OF CHANGED THE WAY OUR THINKING IS ON DEPARTMENT EVALUATIONS FROM GOING STRICTLY FROM DATA INFORMED METRICS TO OUTCOMES THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE. I I WOULD LIKE TO TO SEE HOW WE CAN MOVE THE BALL A LITTLE BIT FURTHER DOWN THE FIELD WITH, WITH THIS CONVERSATION. UM, AGAIN, WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT OUR RESOURCES ARE GONNA BE, UH, YET, BUT WE HOPE TO GET MORE OF A BALLPARK AS WE GET CLOSER TO PUTTING THE COMMITTEES TOGETHER. BUT I THINK WE ARE MISSING A HUGE OPPORTUNITY IF WE DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE FACT THAT WE'VE HAD SOME REAL RECKONING IN OUR CITY AND IN OUR COUNTRY AS A RESULT OF THE PANDEMIC, AS A RESULT OF THE SYSTEMIC, UM, INJUSTICE ISSUES THAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING, AS WELL AS, UM, THE CHALLENGES THAT HAVE BEEN IN CLEAR DISPLAY ACROSS THE STATE WITH REGARD TO RESILIENCY. UM, SO FOR, FOR THAT REASON ALONE, I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS BOND PRO PROGRAM ON, ON THREE PILLARS, UH, MUCH LIKE WE DID WITH OUR RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY PROGRAM. ARE WE ADVANCING OUR GOALS FOR CONNECTING PEOPLE? UH, AND THAT IS PHYSICAL, UM, CONNECTION, BUT ALSO, UM, UH, WE'VE HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOW PEOPLE CONNECT TO WORK AND HOME THAT DOESN'T JUST INCLUDE MOVING THEM ON A ROAD. ARE WE ADVANCING OUR, OUR GOALS FOR IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH OUTCOMES? AND THEN THIRD, ARE WE MOVING FORWARD ON, UH, MAKING OUR SYSTEMS MORE RESILIENT? UM, I'D LIKE TO SEE HOW WE CAN USE THOSE PILLARS, UM, AND CONCEPTS IN ADVANCING EACH ONE OF THESE PROJECTS THAT EVENTUALLY GET ON OUR LIST. HOW ARE, HOW IS A PARTICULAR PARK PROJECT OR ROAD PROJECT OR WHATEVER IT IS, ADVANCING ON THOSE THREE MEASURES? UH, WE'VE HAD SOME COMMENTS TODAY FROM FOLKS WHO ARE, UH, MOVING, UH, ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS TO US, UH, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION ON OUR LINEAR CREEKWAY SYSTEMS. UH, WE'VE ALSO HAD A DISCUSSION STARTED ON, UH, PERHAPS INCLUDING DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN OUR BOND PROGRAM, UH, EITHER TO ADVANCE OUR CYBER RESILIENCE OR EVEN, UH, CONNECTIONS RELATED TO BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE. AND THEN OF COURSE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ISSUES RELATED TO OUR CAP, WHICH, YOU KNOW, FOR ME NEEDS TO BE ONE OF THE OVERRIDING, UM, UH, FRAMEWORKS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT EACH OF THESE PROJECTS. SO, UM, I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE HOW WE CHANNEL ALL THE PROJECTS INTO THOSE DISCUSSIONS, BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE US FLESH OUT THE FRAMEWORK AND THE PROPOSED EVALUATION CRITERIA A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, BEFORE WE START PUTTING TOGETHER A LIST OF PROJECTS TO GO DISTRICT BY DISTRICT. UM, THAT'S REALLY ALL I HAVE RIGHT NOW. UH, HOPEFULLY THAT WILL KICK OFF THE DISCUSSION. NOW WE CAN THINK ABOUT THIS BOND PROGRAM AS ONE BROADER COMPREHENSIVE EFFORT TO MOVE OUR CITY FORWARD ON STRATEGIC GOALS RATHER THAN SIMPLY [00:20:01] LISTS OF PROJECTS THAT WE'RE CHECKING OFF IN, IN EACH DISTRICT. SO LET'S GET INTO A DISCUSSION NOW. UM, ERIC, DID YOU WANNA ADD SOMETHING? I, I WAS JUST GONNA ADD ONE THING, MAYOR ALSO, AND, AND, AND RAZZI MENTIONED IN HIS PRESENTATION, BUT IT'S, YOU KNOW, JUST LISTENING TO YOU TALK ABOUT SOME OF THESE ISSUES THAT YOU BROUGHT UP. YOU KNOW, THE OTHER, THE OTHER IMPORTANT ELEMENT ARE THE REGIONAL CENTERS THAT, THAT ARE PRODUCTS OF THE SA TOMORROW PLAN. AND WE ARE INVESTING A, UH, A LOT OF, UM, TIME AND, UM, UH, MONEY INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THOSE REGIONAL PLANS, WHICH ARE, UM, THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THOSE, UH, EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING, UH, WORKFORCE HUBS. AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S ANOTHER IMPORTANT ELEMENT THAT I THINK IS, COULD POTENTIALLY BE PART OF THE, THE RECIPE. I JUST WANTED TO FILL OUT THAT SUGGESTION. YEAH. WELL, AND, AND ON AND ON THAT NOTE, WE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT, UH, COMPREHENSIVE PLANS, UH, INCLUDING SA TOMORROW, OUR CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION PLAN, THE HOUSING FRAMEWORK. AND I THINK ALL OF THE PROJECTS WOULD EVENTUALLY MAKE OUR WAY ONTO THE BALLOT NEED TO SOMEHOW CONTEMPLATE HOW THEY'RE ADVANCING THE, THE GOALS OF, OF THOSE PLANS. UM, I, AND I LEFT OUT THE FACT THAT WE HAVE NOW PUT ONTO THE BALLOT, UM, A CHANGE IN THE CITY CHARTER, A SMALL CHANGE THAT HOPEFULLY VOTERS WILL APPROVE THAT WILL ALLOW US TO MAKE A SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD ON A FUNDAMENTAL NEED IN THIS COMMUNITY, WHICH IS TO, UH, ENSURE A SUSTAINABLE, UH, AND AFFORDABLE SUPPLY OF HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO, UM, ANYWAY, LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DISCUSSION. UH, AND THIS IS THE FIRST OF WHAT I ASSUME WILL BE MANY. UH, SO WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER GRA UH, MAYOR, BEFORE WE START, UH, UH, UH, JUST A A A REMINDER AGAIN THAT YEAH, WE DO HAVE THAT PROPOSITION ON THE BALLOT, SO I WOULD ASK THE COUNCIL MEMBERS NOT TO, UH, TAKE A POSITION VERSUS SUPPORT OR NON-SUPPORT DURING THIS DISCUSSION. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UNDERSTOOD. YES. OKAY. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GRA THANK YOU, ANDY, FOR FULFILLING YOUR ROLE AS OUR CITY ATTORNEY AND MAKING SURE WE ALL, UH, ADHERE TO THAT. UM, YEAH, THANKS ROSIE FOR THE PRESENTATION. IT WASN'T REALLY THAT PAINFUL, I'M SURE, UM, MAYOR, TO YOUR, TO YOUR REMARKS, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT CAN BE, I THINK WE CAN TALK, IT CAN BE BOTH THE STRATEGIC GOALS, BUT ALSO THE DISTRICT SPECIFIC GOALS, UH, THE DISTRICT SPECIFIC PROJECTS THAT ARE EMBEDDED IN OUR STRATEGIC GOALS AS IT, AS IT AS IT SHOULD BE. AND ERIC, YOU, YOU DID TAKE MY IDEA, YOU DIDN'T TAKE IT, BUT YOU SHARED THE IDEA THAT I HAD AS USING THE SA TOMORROW PLAN, OUR REGIONAL CENTERS, OUR CORRIDOR CENTERS, THAT ECOSYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN INFORMED BY MANY OF THOSE PLANS THAT HAVE, THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED, UM, THE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND, AND OTHERS. SO I THINK THAT IS A GREAT FOUNDATION THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO PUT FORTH HERE. UM, I AM, I, I AGREE. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHOMEVER WHO CAN SHARE THIS WITH ME. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE EQUITY ATLAS. CAN YOU REMIND ALL OF US AGAIN, WHAT OUR EQUITY ATLAS IS, JUST SO WE HAVE A, A LEVEL, A BASELINE DISCUSSION? YOU KNOW, WHY DON'T, ROSIE, WHY DON'T WE LET TAMIKA HANDLE THAT? TAMIKA'S BEEN WORKING IN THAT AREA ALONG WITH THE OFFICE OF EQUITY OR, OR DAVID'S, DAVID'S ON THERE TOO. SO EITHER ONE. HOW ABOUT TAMIKA, IF YOU WANNA SHARE? THANK YOU. COUNCILWOMAN , THE EQUITY ATLAS IS A REALLY AWESOME TOOL. FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS A SPATIAL TOOL THAT HAS TAKEN ALL OF THE AVAILABLE DATA ASSOCIATED WITH RACE, INCOME, LANGUAGE EDUCATION. AND WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THE EQUITY ATLAS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO IS THAT IT ALSO INCLUDES THOSE AREAS WHERE HISTORIC REDLINING FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY IS DOCUMENTED. SO THIS ATLAS IS THE SPATIAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PERCENTAGE OF SAN ANTONIO WHO EARN A CERTAIN INCOME ARE OF A COMMUNITY OF COLOR, ARE ALSO THEIR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IN ADDITION TO THEIR ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY. SO WE ALREADY HAVE A TREASURE TROVE OF THE CENSUS BLOCK DATA [00:25:01] DOWN TO THE CENSUS TRACK, WHERE WE CAN TAKE THAT DATA AND APPLY IT TO WHAT RAZZIE SHARED AS THE CRITERIA THROUGH WHICH WE ARE EVALUATING THE BOND PROGRAM PROJECTS. SO I BELIEVE IT SPEAKS SPECIFICALLY TO MAYOR BERG'S CONCERNS WITH HOW WE ACTUALLY APPLY EQUITY IN DEVELOPING THE PROGRAM OF IM PROGRAMS OF IMPROVEMENT FOR THE CITY. SO THIS IS WHAT WE ENVISION WORKING WITH THE EQUITY OFFICE AND APPLYING THE REPRESENTATION THAT FOR, YOU KNOW, MANY DECADES, WHICH PRECEDE ALL OF US HAS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR. SO WITH THE EQUITY ATLAS TOOL, WE ALREADY HAVE THE DATA. WE WILL THEN ASK QUESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CATEGORIES THAT R DESCRIBED, AND THERE WILL BE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECTS. DOES THIS PROJECT INCREASE OR IMPROVE ACCESS AND MOBILITY TO CRITICAL CITY SERVICES? SO WE CAN TAKE THE ACTUAL LIMITS OF A PROJECT. FOR EXAMPLE, IF IT'S A SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENT ON COMMERCE, WE WILL TAKE THE SPATIAL DATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE CENSUS INFORMATION FOR ONE BLOCK OF COMMERCE, AND WE WILL KNOW WHAT THE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS, WHAT THE ETHNICITY RACE, WHAT THE INCOME IS, AND WE WILL BE ABLE TO PRESCRIBE A SCORE BASED ON THE METHODOLOGY THAT WE DEVELOP. SO THAT IS HOW THE EQUITY ATLAS WILL INFORM OUR ANALYSIS OF THE PROJECT, AND THAT INFORMS ITS RANKINGS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND I, I WOULD SAY THAT STILL CONTINUES TO SPEAK TO OUR PLANNING THAT WE'VE DONE WITH THE SA TOMORROW PLAN IN ALL OF THE DIFFERENT CENTERS THAT WE'VE USED. UM, AND SO I'M GLAD TO ALSO HEAR LOOKING AT THE AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN FORMERLY REDLINED, BUT NOT JUST REDLINED, I THINK HISTORICALLY THAT HAVE BEEN UNDER INVESTED IN, THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE TIME, UH, IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, RIGHT. UM, THAT WE KNOW WE HAVE STILL CATCHING UP TO DO. AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING IMPORTANT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EQUITY, AND I KNOW THAT'S REDLINING, BUT THEN, UM, HOW HAVE WE INVESTED IN THESE AREAS IN THE PAST AS A CITY? UM, THEN WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, AND I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR RESOLUTION THAT RACE TREAT RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. SO MAKING SURE IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT, THAT'S PART OF OUR ENTIRE PLANNING AND SCOPE AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THE EVALUATIONS AND AS WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, JUST THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD BE EMBEDDED OR INCORPORATED IN THERE. UM, I DO HAVE SOME IDEAS THAT I'VE BEEN, UH, THINKING ABOUT. UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HEALTH AND SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTS ENVIRONMENT, YES. UH, HEALTH SAFETY, ENVIRONMENT ACCESSIBILITY. I WILL SAY, AND I MENTIONED THIS YESTERDAY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL ABILITIES TO BE VERY, UM, THOUGHTFUL AND REMINDER TO OURSELVES FOR SAN ANTONIANS WITH ALL ABILITIES, DISABILITIES, AND THAT PEOPLE FEEL WELCOME AND COMFORTABLE, ESPECIALLY IN THESE BOND PROJECTS THAT WE'RE INVESTING IN WHEN IT COMES TO OUR PARKS, WHEN IT COMES TO OUR FACILITIES, WHEN IT COMES TO, EVEN IF WE'RE INVESTING IN THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THAT WE CAN HAVE THAT EMBEDDED OR ONE OF OUR GUIDING NORTH STARS MOVING FORWARD. AND THEN WITH OUR ADAPTATION PLAN, UH, AND OUR, YEAH, OUR ADAPTATION PLAN AND LOOKING AT THE RESILIENCY WITH OUR ENVIRONMENT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WITH OUR RESILIENCY OR ADAPTATION PLAN IS OUR, UH, TREE CANOPY. AND IN SOME OF THE AREAS THAT WE DO OUR PARKS, UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK THAT IS DONE ALSO IN FLOODPLAINS. AND THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES THAT PLANTING TREES IN PARTICULAR FLOODPLAIN AREAS MAY BE HELPFUL FOR FLOODING AND FOR, UH, ALLEVIATING THAT RUNOFF. BUT ALSO ONE THING THAT I'M WORKING ON WITH THE SAN ANTONIO FOOD POLICY COUNCIL AS WELL, IS LOOKING AT FOOD FORESTS. SO IT WOULD ALSO [00:30:01] CONNECT WITH THE MAYBE FOOD INSECURITY THAT EXISTS WITHIN OUR, OUR CITY AND LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN INCORPORATE FOOD FORESTS INTO SOME OF THE PLANNING, SPECIFICALLY IN OUR PARKS OR MAYBE IN THE AREAS WITH FLOODPLAINS. SO IT IS A HIGH LEVEL, BUT IT IS, THERE ARE LITTLE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE OVERALL GUIDING PRINCIPLES HERE. AND I HAVE TO, UM, CONTINUE TO, UH, TALK ABOUT THE ITEMS THAT ARE DISTRICT, DISTRICT SPECIFIC, BUT WE'LL HELP WITH CITYWIDE ACCESSIBILITY AND REDUCING, UM, CONGESTION AND BRING THAT FLOW AND, AND ALLEVIATE CONGESTION. SO WE DON'T HAVE SO MUCH CAR CAR FUMES OUT THERE, SORRY, COUNSEL SANDOVAL. I DUNNO, ALL OF THE CORRECT STATEMENTS TO USE ARE THE WORDS TO USE. BUT I AM, UH, GONNA CONTINUE TO, UM, ADVOCATE FOR R KELLY PARKWAY TO RELEASE THAT, RELIEVE THAT CONGESTION FROM, UH, SOUTH OF TOYOTA OR NEAR TEXAS A AND M SAN ANTONIO. THROUGH ALL OF THAT THAT'S GOING ON THERE, WE HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY WITH THE MITCHELL LAKE AUDUBON CENTER. WE HAVE, UM, A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD THAT UP AND CONNECT THAT TO OUR, UM, OUR ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH AND HEALTH AND SAFETY. OF COURSE, OUR DISTRICT THREE SUBSTATION, Y'ALL ARE NEVER GONNA HEAR ME STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT. AND THEN, UM, CONTINUING TO ADVOCATE FOR THAT ALLEVIATION IN THOSE AREAS THAT ARE CONTINUING TO BE BUILT OUT, THAT ARE PART OF A REGIONAL CENTER OR ADJACENT TO ONE, UM, SUCH AS THE MICKEY ROAD, UM, BRIDGE THAT NEEDS TO BE BUILT OUT TO KEEP THE RESIDENTS SAFE SO THEY CAN GET IN AND OUT OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. BUT ALL OF THESE ARE CONNECTED. IT'S ABOUT CONNECTIVITY, IT'S ABOUT SAFETY OF OUR, UM, RESIDENTS, BUT IT IS ALSO ABOUT THE ECOSYSTEM TOGETHER. AND I THINK WE HAVE A GREAT PLAN WITH THE SA TOMORROW PLAN THAT WE JUST NEED TO CONTINUE TO ROLL OFF AND INVEST MORE IN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GRO COUNCILWOMAN, THIS IS DAVID MCCAREY. CAN I JUST HELP RESPOND BACK? HEY, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED YOU TO KEEP IN MIND IS THAT AS A PART OF THE EQUITY ATLAS, IT DOES NOT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WAS IN THE EARLIER BONDS. SO DEPENDING ON YOUR METHODOLOGY OF EXECUTION, YOU MAY WANT TO LET THAT BE PART OF THE STRATEGY AS YOU MOVE FORWARD. SO ALWAYS KNOW THAT YOU'VE GOT THAT METHODOLOGY TO ADD WITH IT. SO AS YOU USE IT AS A TOOL, YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE, WELL, WHAT WOULD THAT TOOL HAVE LOOKED LIKE IN THE PRIOR BOND? AND IT'LL HELP YOU WITH FUTURE DIRECTION. THANK YOU, DAVID. UM, THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GRO. COUNCIL MEMBER ROACH GARCIA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, AND I GUESS MY FIRST QUESTION IS, SO IF WE, IT, WHO PICKS THE THEME FOR, FOR THIS FUND AND WHO AND, AND WHEN IS THAT DONE? AND I KNOW THEY MENTIONED, MENTIONED, THE MAYOR MENTIONED THREE PILLARS, BUT I, I, I DON'T, LIKE, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING FOR, LIKE FOR INSTANCE FROM THE PRESENTATION, I SEE MAYBE RESILIENCY. 'CAUSE YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S RESILIENCY IN A NUMBER OF THESE, BUT IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE ARE GOING AFTER THAT WE'RE PACKAGING THIS BOND COUNCILWOMAN? THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY THE KIND OF THE, THE PURPOSE OF TODAY'S STRATEGIC CONVERSATION AMONGST THE COUNCIL. OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I DIDN'T MISS IT, SO, OKAY. JUST SO WE COULD STILL HAVE THE CONVERSATION. THAT'S GREAT. UM, I HAVE JUST SOME, SOME LEARNING QUESTIONS, IF YOU WILL. UH, HOW DO YOU FACTOR IN FUTURE COSTS? UH, SO I KNOW THAT WE'RE PLANNING AHEAD, BUT WE'RE PLANNING FOR YEARS AHEAD. WE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GONNA BE SOME CHANGES. AND SO IT COULD BE LA LABOR, IT COULD BE MATERIALS, RIGHT? SO THERE'S A NUMBER OF THESE THINGS, AND THE REASON THAT I'M ASKING, UH, ABOUT IT IS, YOU KNOW THAT IN THE 2017 BOND, THERE WAS A PROJECT IN D FOUR THAT CAME IN. I THINK ERIC, YOU SAID 52% UNDER BUDGET, I MEAN, UH, OVER BUDGET. AND SO, UM, NOW I HAD TO GO BACK AND TELL THE FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT CERTAIN THINGS COULDN'T BE DONE. AND SO WHAT DO WE DO TO MAKE SURE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN? UM, AND THEN ALSO HOW DO WE, WE KIND OF WORK WITH SOME OF THE OTHER ENTITIES TO GUIDE US AND MAYBE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE MISSED THAT, THAT RESULTED PARTIALLY ALSO FROM UNEXPECTED ENVIRONMENTAL FEES. UM, SO HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE. COUNCILWOMAN, KATIE. [00:35:01] SO I'LL LET, I'LL LET YOU GO SECOND, ROZI. UM, YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THE, THE, THE, ACTUALLY THE ITEM THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED EARLIER TODAY WILL, UH, ADDRESSES THAT. BUT, YOU KNOW, COUNCILMAN, I THINK THAT'S, THAT GOES BACK TO, AND, AND RA YOU KINDA WALKED THROUGH THE ESTIMATING. IT'S REALLY MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE DOING THE DUE DILIGENCE AS WE GO THROUGH PROJECT IDENTIFICATION. AND THE PROJECT YOU'RE MENTIONING THERE WAS UNFORESEEN GROUNDWATER ISSUES, RIGHT? SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE INFORMED AS WE GO THROUGH PROJECT SELECTION WITH THE COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY. AND, AND THE IDEA, UM, OF USING THE ESTIMATORS IS THAT WE'RE NOT, THAT WE'RE USING, WE'RE USING SOMETHING VALID TO HELP SET THAT EXPENSE. SO RAJA, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE, THE CONTRACTS THAT, THAT THEY'VE APPROVED TODAY? YEAH, COUNCILWOMAN, WHEN WE DO THE COST ESTIMATE, WE USE, UH, LAST TIME WE USED 5% INFLATION FOR FIVE YEARS. OKAY. WHY FIVE YEARS? BECAUSE MOST OF THE TIME WE START ONE YEAR IN ADVANCE. AND MOST OF THE PROJECT TAKES THREE TO FOUR YEARS TO GO UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THE PROJECT YOU MENTIONED AS THE CITY MANAGER INDICATED WE HAD SOME ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE, AND ESPECIALLY WE REALLY HAD SOME CLAY BARRIER UNDER THE GROUND, WHICH WE HAD NO IDEA AT THE TIME AS WE DID COST ESTIMATE. MOST OF OUR PROJECTS COME WITHIN THE BUDGET, BUT OF COURSE, YOU ALWAYS HAVE FEW PROJECT, MAYBE WE HAVE A LITTLE MORE MONEY LEFT OVER AND SOME PROJECT WE END UP HAVING SHORTAGE ON PROJECT. BUT OVERALL, GOOD NUMBER OF THE PROJECT END UP BEING WITHIN THE BUDGET. AND, AND RAZZI, WE, WE WILL BE BREAKING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COUNCIL AS WE GO THROUGH THE PROJECT SELECTION ON WHAT THOSE FACTORS SHOULD BE OVER THE FIVE YEAR PERIOD FROM 2022 TO 2027. THAT WAY WE'RE ACCOMMODATING THAT. AND THAT THE, THE COMPANIES THAT WE HIRED TODAY, THE, THE COUNCIL APPROVED TODAY WILL USE THEIR, THEIR GUIDANCE ON THAT. OKAY. GREAT. THANK YOU. I I APPRECIATE THAT. UM, I WAS, THE, THE REASON THAT I WAS ASKING IS BECAUSE THERE'S OTHER ENTITIES, LIKE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS KNOWN FOR YEARS THAT THERE'S THIS CLAY, UM, TYPE OF SOIL. AND SO THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING, I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT LIKE HOW DO WE COORDINATE WITH OTHER ENTITIES, WITH PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS WHO, BY THE WAY, WE ALSO WORK ON LEVERAGING FUNDS WITH, UM, AND SO THAT, THAT'S REALLY THE, THE REASON FOR THE QUESTION. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UM, WE ALSO ACCESS THEIR, UM, THEIR KNOWLEDGE, RIGHT? THEIR EXPERTISE. 'CAUSE THEY'VE, THEY'VE BEEN WORKING IN THESE AREAS FOR YEARS. UM, AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY THE REASON FOR MY QUESTION. AND THEN, UM, WHO DETERMINES ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY? UM, WHO, WHO SAYS, YES, THIS PROJECT WILL GIVE ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY. LIKE WHO DEFINES WELL, NOT WHO DEFINES IT. 'CAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE WE DO, BUT WHO INDEED SAYS YES. UM, THIS WILL GIVE LIKE THE RESIDENTS, UM, OPPORTUNITY ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY. LIKE DO WE ACTUALLY TALK TO RESIDENTS TO DEFINE THAT? OR HOW ARE YOU ENVISIONING THAT? WE USUALLY LOOK FOR THE HALF A MILE RADIUS OF THE PROJECT TO SEE IF THERE IS ANY ACCESS FOR THE JOB, EDUCATIONAL FACILITY, COMMUNITY CENTER, AND OTHER. THAT'S WHAT WE END UP LOOKING AT. AS YOU RECALL, THIS MORNING, YOU APPROVED 19 PROJECT FOR US TO SUBMIT FOR M P O FUNDING. MAJORITY OF THOSE PROJECT HAD THAT OPTION IN IT PROVIDING SOME ACCESS FOR COMMUNITY. OKAY. AND I, I GUESS THE REASON THAT I AM ASKING IS BECAUSE WHAT I DEFINE, UM, AS ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY MIGHT NOT BE THE SAME THING THAT SOMEBODY ELSE, SOMEBODY WHO ACTUALLY LIVES IN THAT AREA, DEFINES AS ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITY OR THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. I WAS JUST TRYING TO SAY LIKE HOW WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE INVOLVE THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE. I THINK THAT DURING THIS ENTIRE TIME WE HAVE KIND OF, UH, BEEN SHOWN THAT THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS WHO, WHO ARE NOT OBVIOUSLY ON THE SAME STARTING, UM, STARTING LEVEL. SO I JUST, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE MINDFUL TO THAT. AND THEN ALSO, UM, WITH, AND, AND ERIC, YOU MENTIONED THIS, YOU TALKED ABOUT, UM, FACILITIES AND SPECIFICALLY MAYBE PUBLIC FACILITIES. UM, I WAS WONDERING HOW WE INCORPORATE THE NEW NORMAL OR THE EVENTUAL NEW NORMAL. AND SO REMOTE WORK FROM HOME FLEX SCHEDULES, IS THAT AT ALL GONNA IMPACT OUR, UM, I GUESS OUR CITY FACILITIES SPECIFICALLY AND, AND WHAT WE WOULD BE USING OR, OR, OR REPAIRING OR NOT? WELL, UM, THE, I THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFYING OPPORTUNITY THERE. 'CAUSE WHEN I SAID FACILITIES, I THINK, I THINK WHAT I, I SHOULD HAVE CLARIFIED. I'M, I'M TALKING ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY CENTERS ARE PARTS, FACILITIES ARE, UM, ARE FACILITIES THAT ARE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. UM, AND, AND NOT NECESSARILY OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS. THAT'S NOT WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO. I'M SORRY. [00:40:01] OKAY. NO, NO, THANK YOU ERIC. OKAY. THAT, THAT'S HELPFUL. THEN, THEN SCRATCH THAT QUESTION. AND THEN ON PAGE SEVEN, UM, OR SLIDE SEVEN, WE HAVE, UM, PUBLIC HEALTH SLASH SAFETY FACILITIES. BUT ON PAGE 10, WE ONLY HAVE PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES. AND SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO DOUBLE CHECK. SO IS THAT STILL ALSO INCLUDING SOME, UM, PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES AS WELL? SURE. YEAH. I THINK IT'S GENERALLY UNDER THE MONIKER OF PUB HEALTH AND SAFETY IS, IS KIND OF ONE LARGE CATEGORY, AT LEAST HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN THAT, UM, IN, IN PAST PROPOSITIONS. OKAY. SOUNDS GOOD. THANK YOU. THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS, MAYOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER BROCHE GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, LIKE YOU, I APPRECIATE THE, THE METAMORPHOSIS AS YOU SAID, THAT'S, UH, HAPPENING WITH THE, WITH THE BOND PROGRAM. CLEARLY THIS IS A, A DIFFERENT APPROACH. I'VE NOT BEEN PART OF A BOND, UH, PROGRAM BEFORE ON, ON COUNCIL, BUT I DO SEE THIS AS TAKING A TURN IN AND I'M VERY GLAD, UH, I DO LIKE THE, THE DIRECTION THAT IT'S HEADED. UM, I, I WOULD CONCUR AND SUPPORT THE, THE MAJOR PILLARS THAT THE MAYOR HAS POINTED OUT IN TERMS OF CONNECTIVITY, PUBLIC HEALTH AND RESILIENCY AND, AND CLIMATE, UH, CHANGE IN ADAPTATION. I THINK, UH, I THINK ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT ARE ULTIMATELY PUT ON THAT BALLOT SHOULD, SHOULD SOMEHOW SUPPORT THESE THREE PILLARS. AND I, I BELIEVE THEY WILL. UM, I ALSO, UH, WANTED TO, TO CONCUR WITH COUNCILWOMAN VIA GRAND REGARDING, UH, DRAINAGE, FLOODING AND PARKS. I THINK THERE'S A TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY FOR CO-LOCATION, UH, AND CO-BENEFITS OF PROJECTS, UH, WITH THAT. AND EVEN WITH STREETS, UH, ERIC, I'VE SHOWN YOU THAT VIDEO OF THE, OF THE SWALES IN THE, IN, IN A DRAINAGE PROJECT IN A COMMUNITY WHERE IT'S, IT JUST COMPLETELY TRANSFORMATIVE PROJECT WHEN YOU INTEGRATE DRAINAGE AND, UH, THE LANDSCAPING, THE NATURAL HABITAT LANDSCAPING, AND IT'S A, IT'S A WIN-WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN, ALL, ALL ACROSS THE BOARD. SO, UH, I, I LOVE THAT YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT, UM, MEETING, MEETING REQUIREMENTS IN MULTIPLE CATEGORIES. WHAT, WHAT I'M WONDERING IS HOW THAT MIGHT PLAY OUT IN REAL LIFE. ONCE WE SET UP THESE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES AND YOU HAVE DIFFERENT TEAMS WORKING ON DIFFERENT THINGS, HOW WILL THAT CROSS POLLINATION, UH, OCCUR? WELL, UM, KIND OF A BLANK SLATE. COUNCILWOMAN, I MEAN, UH, UM, DEPENDING AS WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS, ULTIMATELY THE COUNCIL, UH, WILL NAIL DOWN SPECIFIC PROPOSITIONS THAT WILL BE ON THE BALLOT. AND AT LEAST HISTORICALLY, THE COMMITTEES HAVE BEEN BASED ON THAT, ON THAT PROPOSITION, DRAINAGE OR STREETS OR PARKS. THAT'S HOW WE'VE DONE IT IN THE PAST. UM, I THINK AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND MAYBE IDENTIFY, UH, UH, MAYBE, UH, MAYBE A DIFFERENT WAY TO, TO, TO, UM, PRIORITIZE, ULTIMATELY, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO BOIL IT DOWN TO PROPOSITIONS BEFORE THE VOTERS. SO WE'LL STILL, I, I, I, I THINK WE WOULD STILL PROBABLY USE THAT AS A GUIDE, BUT, BUT TO YOUR POINT, I THINK THERE, THERE COULD POTENTIALLY BE A LOT OF CROSSOVER. SO I'LL, I'LL POSE SOMETHING FOR, FOR YOU TO CONSIDER. UH, I KNOW YOU'LL BE WORKING WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS LIKE SARAH AND THE COUNTY, UH, PERHAPS, UM, ACROSS POLLINATION GROUP OR GROUP THAT MAY, THAT, UH, THE, THE PROJECTS CAN GO THROUGH. UM, AND THEY CAN JUST, YOU KNOW, EVALUATE THEM. THEY, THEY WON'T HAVE ANY, IT WOULD JUST BE AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, WOULDN'T HAVE ANY FINAL POWER, BUT SOMEONE WHO CAN, UH, OUR GROUP WHO WILL SIT DOWN AND BASICALLY APPLY THE DIFFERENT LENSES THAT WE WANT TO SEE AND TELL US AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU KNOW, THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, HAS THE POSSIBILITY TO MEET THE MOST, UH, TO BRING US THE MOST CO-BENEFITS. OR IF YOU TWEAK THIS PROJECT JUST THIS MUCH, YOU WOULD ACTUALLY GET, UH, AN ADDITIONAL, YOU KNOW, PEDESTRIAN ACCESS BENEFIT THAT, THAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE. UM, WE'D HAVE TO, TO, OR YOU'D HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT, WHAT THOSE FILTERS ARE GOING TO BE, BUT JUST, UH, JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT, UH, ON THAT. UH, ANOTHER, UH, POSSIBLE GROUP THAT COULD LOOK AT SOME OF THIS, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE VERY BUSY RIGHT NOW, ARE THE CAP ADVISORY GROUPS. YOU KNOW, HOW ARE THE DIFFERENT PROJECTS GOING TO HELP US MEET THOSE GOALS IN THE CAP AND, AND HELP US GET THERE. OR YOU COULD PULL A SUBCOMMITTEE, UH, FROM THERE. EXCUSE [00:45:01] ME. UM, I, I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE VERY CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT WITH THE PUBLIC, UH, IN TERMS OF THE, THE LANGUAGE THAT WE USE. UH, STREETS, BRIDGES AND SIDEWALKS ARE, UM, SELF-EXPLANATORY. ALTHOUGH SOMETIMES WE CONFUSE THE TERM BRIDGES, RIGHT? WHETHER IT'S AN UNDERPASS OR AN OVERPASS. AND THAT CREATE HAS CREATED PROBLEMS, UH, FOR ME TOO IN, IN MY DISTRICT. UH, BUT YOU PUT A CATEGORY ON SLIDE 10 AS NEIGHBORHOODS, AND I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT HOUSING, RIGHT? IT, IT COULD BE, IT COULD BE. IT'S KIND OF A BROAD TOPIC. OKAY. WELL, UM, I, I THINK WE PROBABLY WANNA BE A LITTLE MORE, IT, IT COULD BE MISLEADING. UH, IN THE, IN THE LAST BOND CYCLE, IT WAS A LITTLE CONFUSING FOR, FOR PEOPLE WHAT THEY WERE VOTING FOR. AND IT WAS CALLED NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENTS. EVERYTHING ON HERE IS A NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT, RIGHT? EVERYTHING ON HERE BENEFITS NEIGHBORHOODS. SO, UH, MAYBE WE JUST WANNA THINK ABOUT THE, THE LANGUAGE, UH, FOR THAT. AND I, I ALSO DO WANNA TALK ABOUT CLAY SOILS A COUNCILWOMAN. IT'S LIKE WE SHARED NOTES OR SOMETHING, WHICH WE, WE DIDN'T, IN FACT, WITH ALL OF YOU, THIS IS, UH, THIS IS GREAT THAT WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. UM, I DO THINK WE NEED TO GIVE SPECIAL CONSIDERATION TO AREAS THAT HAVE SHIFTING SOILS. THEY HAVE A WHOLE, A DIFFERENT CAPITAL NEED THAN AREAS THAT, THAT DON'T, THEY ARE GOING TO REQUIRE MORE MAINTENANCE, AND WE DON'T NECESSARILY, UH, ACCOUNT FOR THAT WHEN WE, WHEN WE BUILD THE PROJECT. SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE SOLUTION IS, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THAT PUTS, UH, THOSE AREAS AT A DISADVANTAGE WHEN IT COMES TO MAINTAINING THEIR ROADWAYS. SO, UM, SHIPPING SOILS AND POSSIBLE SPRINGS UNDERNEATH, WHICH WAS THE CASE IN THE SAW C 12 PROJECT, AFTER THAT PROJECT WAS COMPLETED. UH, YOU'LL KNOW THAT IN THAT PART OF, OF MY DISTRICT, THE MANHOLE COVERS WERE, BECAME A TOTALLY DIFFERENT ELEVATION THAN THE REST OF THE STREET. UM, THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, INCHES AWAY, UH, FROM, FROM THE REST OF THE STREET BECAUSE OF THE SHIFTING SOILS AND THE SPRINGS UNDERNEATH. SO JUST THINGS FOR US TO CONSIDER AS, AS WE GO FORWARD, COUNCIL MEMBER MAY ADDRESS THAT. OUR CONSULTING FIRM, YOU APPROVED THREE OF THEM THIS MORNING. THEY GO TO THE PROJECT SITE WHEN WE ASSIGNED THEM PROJECT TO DO CUSTOMS. THEY LOOK FOR ANY KNOWING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE, SOIL CONDITION, RIGHT OF WAY, RESTRICTION, TRAFFIC ISSUE, TRAFFIC SIGNAL, RECONSTRUCTION. WE CAPTURE MOST OF THE TIME, MOST OF THOSE ITEMS ON THE PROJECT COST ESTIMATE. THANK YOU. THIS MUST HAVE BEEN A SOLVED ISSUE THEN, BUT THANK YOU. UM, AND I'M GOING TO ASK FOR, FOR AN ASSESSMENT. I, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF THIS YOU'RE ABLE TO DO IN-HOUSE IF THIS HAS TO BE BID OUT OR IF IT ENDS UP BEING A, A CAPITAL PROJECT, BUT I KNOW WE HAVE A GOAL OF HAVING A PARK, UH, 10 MINUTES FROM EVERY RESIDENT IN SAN ANTONIO. AND THAT'S A WONDERFUL GOAL. UH, THOSE 10 MINUTES COULD BE A VERY TREACHEROUS WALK IF THERE IS NOT A SIDEWALK, IF THERE IS NOT A CROSSWALK, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AN ASSESSMENT OF PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIVITY TO ALL OF OUR PARKS. UM, WE COULD START IN DISTRICT SEVEN, IF YOU CAN'T DO THEM ALL AT ONCE, WOULD LOVE TO BE THE, THE PILOT FOR THAT. BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL PARKS THAT NO ONE CAN GET TO WITHOUT DRIVING IN A CAR. AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CONNECTIVITY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT BE ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES IS ENSURING PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO EVERY SINGLE PARK IN SAN ANTONIO. UM, AND LASTLY, UH, REGARDING THE, THE EQUITY TOOL. UM, IT, IT DOES HAVE MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS IF WE GO TO THAT WEBSITE. BUT, UH, THUS FAR, WHEN WE HAVE USED THE EQUITY ATLAS FOR SCORING, WE HAVE ONLY USED, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THE, THE COMBINED SCORE OF INCOME AND RACE. AND WHILE THOSE ARE VERY IMPORTANT, IT, IT DOESN'T CAPTURE SOME OTHER THINGS, RIGHT? LIKE THE HISTORICAL DISINVESTMENT THAT, UH, THAT SOMEONE SAID EARLIER. UH, SO I, I'D LIKE FOR US TO THINK ABOUT HOW THAT CAN BE A LITTLE BIT MORE ROBUST IN, IN DEVELOPING THIS BOND PROGRAM. AND ALSO, I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH MR. MCCAREY THAT WE DO HAVE TO LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS INVESTMENTS IN OUR, FROM OUR PREVIOUS BOND PROGRAMS. UM, THERE HAVE BEEN, UH, SOME, SOME PARTS OF THE CITY THAT HAVE CONSISTENTLY, UH, HAD WONDERFUL PROJECTS, AND THAT'S GREAT. UH, BUT I DO THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THOSE AREAS AS WELL THAT, THAT HAVEN'T, UH, GOTTEN [00:50:02] BEEN SO LUCKY. UM, I, I DO WANT TO, UH, JUST GIVE A THANK YOU TO ALL THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN SUBMITTING COMMENTS TO, TO MY OFFICE SO FAR ABOUT BOND PROJECTS. UH, SO FAR WE'VE GOTTEN ABOUT 700 RESPONSES. WE PUT AN EMAIL OUT AND WE ALSO PUT A MAILER OUT. AND WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO SEE ARE, UH, STREETS, SIDEWALKS, AND GREEN SPACE. SO WHY YOU HEAR ME ASKING THAT? SO HERE'S LIKE A STACK OF THE RESULTS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN SO FAR. THESE WILL NOT ALL BE BOND PROJECTS. SOME OF THEM WILL BE NAMP PROJECTS, SOME OF THEM WILL BE I M P PROJECTS. UH, WE'RE CREATING A HEAT MAP RIGHT NOW. SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, TO SHARING THAT, UH, WITH YOU. UH, BUT AGAIN, I JUST WANNA PUT A PLUGIN FOR HAVING PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO EVERY SINGLE PARK IN SAN ANTONIO AS PART OF THIS BOND CYCLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, AND SO THIS IS OF COURSE SO EXCITING, UM, TO TALK ABOUT OUR BOND BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S, IT'S THE TIME THAT WE GET TO SEE SORT OF THE LARGEST INVESTMENT, UH, IN OUR COMMUNITIES, UH, FINANCIAL INVESTMENT. UM, AND, AND I REALLY LIKE THE MAYOR'S SUGGESTION AND, AND PERHAPS, YOU KNOW, REVAMPING OF THIS SO THAT IT'S, UH, THAT WE'RE PRIORITIZING PROJECTS IN A DIFFERENT WAY, NOT JUST PROJECT BY PROJECT, BUT PERHAPS BASED ON RESILIENCY. AND, UM, AND THE OTHER THINGS THAT HE MENTIONED. I, I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S, UM, WAY MORE INSPIRING. WE JUST MAY HAVE TO TAKE SOME TIME TO INFORM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT HOW WE'RE MAKING IT DIFFERENT. AND SO, UM, UH, SUGGESTION I HAVE AS WE GO THROUGH WITH IT, AS WE SORT OF PROCEED, IS THAT ONCE THE, THE COMMUNITY, THE, THE COMMITTEES ARE ESTABLISHED, THAT WE DO SOME SORT OF TRAINING TO EXPLAIN WHY WE MAY BE DOING IT DIFFERENTLY THIS TIME. UM, AND ALSO, UH, WHAT, WHAT THEY EACH MEAN. UM, BECAUSE IT'S VERY POSSIBLE THAT UNLESS YOU'VE BEEN SITTING ON THE DIET ALL THIS TIME, OR REALLY BEEN PAYING A LOT OF ATTENTION, PERHAPS YOU DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT RESILIENCY MEANS OR, UM, WHAT, UH, WHAT IS IN THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVEN'T BEEN KEEPING SUCH A CLOSE EYE. SO, UM, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE TAKE SOME TIME TO DO THAT, UH, EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS, UM, ONCE WE GET THOSE COMMITTEES ESTABLISHED. UM, I KNOW THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE HEARD ME TALK, UH, NOW FOR A WHILE ABOUT THIS SMALL PLANNING, UM, THAT I DID WITHIN MY DISTRICT, UM, WORKING WITH OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND THEN, UM, FRANCISCO , WHO WAS A FACILITATOR TO DO SORT OF A NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN THE AREA. AND I IDENTIFIED FOUR, UM, OR FIVE NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, IN THE DISTRICT THAT IT'S EASY, A LITTLE BIT EASIER IF I EXPLAINED BY EXAMPLE. UM, SO, UH, AND IN FACT, I'LL BRING UP THE Y W C A SINCE THEY WERE ONE OF OUR PARTNERS THIS MORNING IN PAY EQUITY. UM, WE KNOW THAT ON THAT, THAT VERY SMALL BLOCK, UH, OFF OF, UH, CASTROVILLE, WE HAVE, UH, OUR SAN ANTONIO LIBRARY, THE LEFT BRANCH LIBRARY. WE JUST PUT $1.9 MILLION, MAYBE 2.2 NOW I'M FORGETTING, UM, UH, FOR THAT LIBRARY PROJECT. AND THEN WE HAVE THE YW, UH, WHICH IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR. THAT'S A CITY FACILITY. THE CITY OWNS THAT BUILDING. UM, AND IN THAT FACILITY THERE IS A SENIOR CENTER, AND OF COURSE THEY DO CHILDCARE FACILITIES AND ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT THE YW DOES. AND THEN RIGHT NEXT TO THAT IS WEST PALMS PARK. UH, AND IT'S A, IT'S A SMALL POCKET PARK, NEIGHBORHOOD PARK. IT'S NOT A DESTINATION PARK. IT'S REALLY FOR THE YOUTH OF THE COMMUNITY. AND IT'S PRIMARILY, UH, IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY, THERE'S AN M O U WITH YW TO MAINTAIN IT AND PROGRAM IT. UM, AND SO, UH, WE HAVE DONE SOME INVESTMENT IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT IT'S BEEN VERY SPORADIC. SO WE DID ONE YEAR, UH, AND IN 2012, WE DID A BIG STREET PROJECT ON CASTROVILLE, WHICH IS THE STREET THAT GOES IN FRONT OF IT. UM, BUT THERE WAS NO, UH, DISCUSSION OF A VISION ZERO PROJECT AND NO DISCUSSION OF, UM, MULTIMODAL AT THAT TIME, EVEN THOUGH IT'S ONE OF THE MAJOR BUS ROUTES, UM, THAT TAKES PEOPLE TO THE DESTINATION OF THE LAS PALMAS, UH, WHERE THE H E B IS AND, AND SOME OTHER SHOPPING. SO IT'S, IT'S A VERY OBVIOUS PLACE TO DO SOME PUBLIC INVESTMENT THAT WILL HOPEFULLY SPUR PRIVATE INVESTMENT. UM, AND, AND SO I HAD A, A GROUP, UM, UH, WORK THROUGH THOSE AREAS, MOSTLY INTERNAL TO IDENTIFY, UH, REALLY WHAT THE GREATEST NEEDS WERE SO THAT WHEN WE GO FORWARD WITH THE BOND, UM, WE CAN HAVE, UH, SOMETHING THAT LOOKS A LITTLE MORE COMPLETE, UM, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND, AND, UH, I THINK THAT THAT'S POTENTIALLY VERY EXCITING. SO THAT COMMUNITY SEES A BIG IMPACT, UH, IF WE SHIFT A LITTLE BIT AND START [00:55:01] DOING PROJECTS THAT ARE MORE, UM, UH, BASED ON SORT OF THESE, UH, RESILIENCY OR, UH, CONNECTIVITY, UM, YOU, I THINK THAT WILL ALSO, IT, IT STILL WORKS WITH, UM, THE, THE INVESTMENT THAT I'VE MADE, UH, SO FAR BECAUSE, UM, IT WILL MAKE THAT WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD MORE RESILIENT, UH, IF THERE'S A COMPLETE INVESTMENT THERE. AND I DID SOMETHING SIMILAR WITH THE AREA AROUND THE MADONNA CENTER, UH, SOMETHING SIMILAR AROUND, UM, UH, ANO AND, UM, OVER AT, AT, AT ALSAN, UH, AND THEN OVER, OFF, OFF OF SOUTH SAN IN THAT BIG COMMUNITY CENTER. SO THAT'S SORT OF THE IDEA AND THE CONCEPT THAT I HAD TRIED TO ESTABLISH IN MY DISTRICT. UH, AND, AND IT HAS BEEN, UM, YOU KNOW, A, A GREAT EXERCISE. UM, SO, UH, I, I WOULD, I WOULD EXPECT THAT AS WE KIND OF ARE, ARE, ARE LOOKING TOWARDS THIS ROUND OF BOND FUNDING THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT MODEL WILL, WILL BE, UM, UH, WOULD STILL HELP SUPPORT SOME OF THAT EARLY PLANNING THAT I'VE DONE TO DATE. UM, THE OTHER THING IS THAT JUST, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE EVEN STILL IN MY MIND, I HAD THIS IDEA THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD, WE WOULD DO IT THE PROJECT BASED THE WAY THAT WE'VE DONE IT IN THE PAST. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN NEGLECTED IN, IN MY PART OF TOWN, AND I SUSPECT OTHERS, LIKE IN DISTRICT THREE, UH, THAT HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THIS INVESTMENT OVER THE YEARS, IS THAT I'VE NEVER HAD A REAL SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN DRAINAGE BECAUSE THE PROJECTS WERE ALWAYS TOO BIG. UH, AND GIVEN THE NEED IN THE DISTRICT, UM, I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE, UM, WE COULD DO SUCH A LARGE, UH, BOND PROJECT, UM, FOR DRAINAGE. UH, BUT I HOPE THAT WE CAN, I THINK WE'RE RECOGNIZING THE NEED FOR, UM, FOR, UH, DRAINAGE ALL OVER THIS CITY. UM, AND I THINK THAT THESE PROJECTS CAN BE SAVED IN, AND I THINK ONCE WE DO A BIT OF A DIFFERENT, LIKE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, UH, FOR THE COMMUNITY, THAT WE'LL FIND THAT THAT'S A PRIORITY. AND SO MAYBE THAT, THAT LEADS ME TO A QUESTION THAT I CAN ASK. I DON'T KNOW, PERHAPS ROZY, UM, OR I THINK PROBABLY NEEDS TO GO TO ROZY JUST GIVEN THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT. UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE MORE FAMILIAR WITH STREETS BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WE'VE GONE THROUGH THAT EXERCISE, BUT DO WE HAVE A, A SORT OF A NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF DIFFERENT, UH, I MEAN, I KNOW WE HAVE THEM OF NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT DO WE HAVE THEM OF FACILITIES AND PARTS AND, AND THAT SORT OF, THAT, THAT IDEA, COUNCILMAN, WE HAVE THE INFORMATION REGARDING THE DRAINAGE NEED OF EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT? YES, WE DO. AND LARGER PROJECT WE HAVE BEEN DOING ON A CEILING CHANNEL IS GOOD EXAMPLE. WE HAVE BEEN DOING THAT FROM PHASE BY PHASE. NOW, PHASE THREE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, AND WE ARE ALSO WORKING ON PHASE FOUR LARGER CHANNEL. MOST OF THE TIME WE END UP DOING BASICALLY PHASES WITH A SMALL BITE, SMALL BITE THERE BEFORE, YOU KNOW, PROJECT IS DONE. WELL, I THINK, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD MODEL, UM, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE HAVE HAD FACED IN PROJECTS. BUT, UM, IF WE RECOGNIZE THAT THERE'S AN INCREDIBLE NEED FOR DRAINAGE IN, IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR OF THE CITY, OR PERHAPS, YOU KNOW, IN, IN THE SORT OF SOUTHWEST AREA, UM, THAT WE MAKE THOSE INVESTMENTS BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN DONE IN SO LONG, UM, YOU KNOW, THE NEED WAS ALWAYS THERE, BUT I JUST FELT LIKE THE PROJECT WAS TOO BIG. SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN START TO REDIRECT THOSE FUNDS. UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A, UH, OF COURSE ALWAYS VERY FUN AND EXCITING TO TALK ABOUT, UM, THESE BIG BROAD PROJECTS BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY DOES GET REALLY INVOLVED, UH, ALL THE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES AND OF COURSE, UH, TOURS OF THIS CITY THAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST. UM, BUT I THINK IF WE COULD, IF, IF WE DO DECIDE TO CHANGE THE FORMAT, MAYOR, UM, AS YOU SUGGESTED, UH, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. I JUST THINK WE NEED TO PROBABLY, UM, GIVE THE PUBLIC, UH, A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THOSE PROJECTS MIGHT LOOK LIKE. SO BE SURE, UH, IF, IF YOU DECIDE TO GO THAT ROUTE, UM, IF, IF WE DECIDE TO THAT WE, UM, TAKE SOME TIME, UM, AND, UH, UH, I, I THINK THAT WOULD BE, UM, REALLY TRANSFORMATIVE FOR OUR CITY. UM, AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT THERE'S GONNA BE A BIG STIMULUS. UM, DO WE KNOW WHERE, WHERE DO YOU KNOW, ERIC, PERHAPS, WHAT IS THE TIMELINE, UH, I SAW IN THE PAPER, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S BEEN CONFIRMED OR NOT, YOU KNOW, $326 MILLION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE TO OUR, OR, OR TO OUR CITY. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ALREADY BEEN DETERMINED, BUT DO WE KNOW WHEN THAT MIGHT COME TO FRUITION? UM, NO, COUNCILWOMAN, I MEAN, WE'VE SEEN THE SAME REPORTED NUMBERS, BUT, UH, NOTHING OFFICIAL. AND WE ARE, UM, CLOSELY MONITORING [01:00:01] THE, THE GUIDANCE THAT WE WOULD'VE ULTIMATELY GET FROM, FROM, UM, UH, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UH, PARTICULARLY THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. THE ONE THING THAT, UM, THAT IS DIFFERENT, UH, THAT WE DO KNOW, UH, AS WE TRACK IT, IS THAT THIS IS MONEY THAT WOULD NEED TO BE SPENT, UM, THROUGH THE END OF 2024. SO IT'S THREE AND A HALF YEARS IN TERMS OF TIMELINE. UM, AND THEN THERE ARE OTHER FACTORS SUCH AS IT IS ALLOWED FOR REVENUE REPLACEMENTS. SO, UM, AS WE GET MORE INFORMATION, I THINK WE'VE GOT A, A HOLD ON THE COUNCIL, UH, AGENDA ON OUR CALENDAR, UH, TO, TO PROVIDE YOU AN UPDATE. WELL, UM, I, I, YOU KNOW, THAT MAY HELP US INFORM US ABOUT DECISIONS, YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAN MAKE AS WELL, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE GONNA BE PERHAPS, UM, WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS LIKE FOR BRIDGES OR FOR DRAINAGE, OR PERHAPS FOR PARKS AND OPEN SPACES, SINCE WE ALSO LEARNED DURING THE, UM, PANDEMIC HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS, UH, TO HAVE ACCESS TO OPEN, UH, SPACES. SO, UM, IT'S VERY EXCITING. UH, THANK YOU MAYOR FOR PERHAPS THIS REDIRECTION OF THE INVESTMENT OF OUR BOND DOLLARS. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK WE ALL REALIZE THIS IS GONNA BE SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE VOTED ON BY THE PUBLIC. SO WHATEVER PROPOSITIONS WE, WE COME FORWARD WITH HAVE GOT TO BE SUCH THAT IT'S VERY CLEAR AND EASY FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND AND, AND BE SUPPORTIVE OF THOSE THINGS. ONE OF THE THINGS I MISS IN THE CATEGORIES THAT RAZZI TALKED ABOUT WAS, UH, I MISS THE CITYWIDE CATEGORY. AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE, UH, I'M SURE ALL OF US WILL HAVE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE PROJECTS WE THINK ARE IMPORTANT FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, FOR OUR COMMUNITIES, AND FOR OUR DISTRICTS. BUT I ALSO BELIEVE A LOT OF PEOPLE RECOGNIZE THE VALUE OF CITYWIDE PROJECTS THAT REALLY BENEFIT MULTIPLE DISTRICTS AND BENEFIT EVERYBODY TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. AND IF WE'RE FOCUSED ON, ON PROJECTS, BUT WE CAN'T IDENTIFY THE CITYWIDE BENEFIT, I WONDER IF WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET THE KIND OF SUPPORT FROM ANY OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT WE MIGHT NEED. UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK PEOPLE, UH, BY BENEFITS, YOU KNOW, I, I LEARNED THAT A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I WAS IN A REAL ESTATE BUSINESS. PEOPLE WILL SPEND MONEY ON SOMETHING THAT THEY BELIEVE BENEFITS THEM, OR IN THIS CASE, BENEFITS THE COMMUNITY. AND I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP THAT IN MIND AS, AS WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO PUT THESE, UH, PROPOSALS TOGETHER AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY ON THE VALUES OF THESE. IT'S GONNA BE REAL EASY FOR PEOPLE IN MY DISTRICT TO RECOGNIZE THE VALUE OF ANY PROJECTS THAT WE WANNA SUPPORT THAT WE THINK ARE IMPORTANT FOR OUR DISTRICT, BUT UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S IMPORTANT FOR DISTRICT SEVEN OR DISTRICT THREE OR DISTRICT 10, THAT'S GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE MORE CONVINCING. AND I KNOW WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY SAYING, OKAY, EVERY, EVERY DISTRICT'S GONNA GET X AMOUNT OF DOLLARS TO SPEND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S GONE BY THE WAYSIDE. BUT IF WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY BENEFITS, THEN I, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, ELIMINATING THAT CITYWIDE CATEGORY KIND OF MAKES IT A LITTLE HARDER TO SELL SOME OF THOSE KINDS OF PROJECTS. COUNCILMAN, MAY I ADDRESS YOUR CONCERN? CITYWIDE NOT A CATEGORY. CITYWIDE IS A PROJECT WITHIN THE CATEGORY. WHEN WE END UP HAVING STREET AND BRIDGES PROJECT WITHIN THAT CATEGORY, IF A PROJECT END UP GOING SERVING THE ENTIRE CITY OR BIG PART OF THE CITY, WE IDENTIFIED THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT CITYWIDE. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU ARE DOING PROJECT IN MEDICAL CENTER, YOU ARE, EVERYBODY GOES MEDICAL CENTER. YOU'RE NOT DISTRICT EIGHT, THAT PROJECT POSSIBLE TO BE CITYWIDE. WE HAD NUMBER OF THE PROJECT ON 2017 POUND PROGRAM IN DOWNTOWN. EVERYBODY. DOWNTOWN IS TO EVERYBODY, NOT JUST COUNCIL DISTRICT ONE WORLD HERITAGE HAD NUMBER OF THE CITYWIDE PROJECT. THERE ARE REALLY NOT A CATEGORY, THERE ARE PROJECT WITHIN THE CATEGORY. WELL, OKAY, I UNDERSTAND THAT NOW. AND I GUESS WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE PROMOTE THEM THAT WAY SO THAT WE CAN GET THAT KIND OF SUPPORT, UH, CITYWIDE FOR THOSE. UM, ANOTHER IMPORTANT THING I THINK IS THE EQUITY ATLAS. IF WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT CITYWIDE BENEFIT TO PROJECTS, I THINK EVERY COMMUNITY NEEDS TO GET A GOOD BRIEFING ON THE EQUITY ATLAS AND WHAT IT MEANS TO THE COMMUNITY. UM, BECAUSE I, I WOULD THINK IN MY [01:05:01] DISTRICT IT WOULD HAVE LESS SIGNIFICANCE THAN IN, IN OTHER DISTRICTS IN THE CITY. BUT I THINK IF THEY UNDERSTAND, AND I WOULD SAY THIS IS TRUE FOR EVERY DISTRICT AND EVERY COMMITTEE THAT'S GONNA BE WORKING ON THIS IN EVERY DISTRICT, IF THEY UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF EQUITY TO ALL OF US, I THINK THAT IT'LL BE AN IMPORTANT TOOL IN WORKING WITHIN OUR DISTRICTS TO, UH, YOU KNOW, GET SUPPORT FOR THE CITYWIDE PROJECTS. I HOPE THAT RAZZI, AS, AS YOU PRIORITIZE THOSE KINDS OF PROJECTS THAT PUBLIC WORKS OR OTHER DEPARTMENTS RECOGNIZE AS VERY VALUABLE, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL DO IT IN THE WAY OF DETERMINING WHAT ARE OUR NEEDS, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST NEEDS WE HAVE AND, UH, PRIORITIZE 'EM ACCORDING TO NEEDS. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND. AS A MATTER OF FACT, WITH MY INTENT, UH, TO SIT DOWN WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GONNA WORK WITH, WITH OUR COMMUNITY, AND ASK THEM FIRST AND FOREMOST, WHAT ARE THE NEEDS? NOT, NOT WHAT DO WE WANT OR WHAT WOULD WE LIKE, BUT WHAT ARE OUR NEEDS FIRST? AND I THINK IF, IF MY DISTRICT CAN DETERMINE WHAT OUR NEEDS ARE AND PRIORITIZE THOSE AND KIND OF GET AN IDEA OF, OF WHAT THE COST WOULD BE FOR THOSE, OR WHAT THE VALUE WOULD BE FOR THOSE, THEN IT'S TIME TO LOOK AT, WELL, OKAY, THESE ARE OUR NEEDS. NOW WE HAVE MAYBE A LITTLE MORE MONEY. WHAT ARE OUR WANTS? WHAT ARE THOSE OTHER THINGS WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, BUT WE DON'T NECESSARILY NECESSARILY NEED? AND THEN IF, IF WE GO THROUGH THOSE AND WE STILL THINK WE'VE GOT SOME RESOURCES AVAILABLE, YOU KNOW, THEN WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THOSE ASPIRATIONAL THINGS THAT YOU THINK, UH, YOU WOULD ALSO BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY? SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE WAY I, I'M GONNA GO ABOUT IT, UH, WITH MY TEAM, BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE THE, THE COUNTY, I MEAN, EXCUSE ME, THE CITY AND THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY DO IT THE SAME WAY. ABSOLUTELY. WHAT ARE THE NEEDS? NOT BASED ON ANY, ANYTHING LIKE, UH, WHAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO BE, UM, UH, FITTING WITHIN SOME OF THE FRAMEWORKS WE'VE SET UP, BUT LITERALLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE TO MEET AND LET'S ADDRESS THOSE FIRST. AND THEN WHAT ARE THE WANTS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT MEETS SOME OF THE OTHER FRAMEWORKS OR GUIDELINES OR, OR ASPIRATIONS WE HAVE FOR OUR COMMUNITY? SO THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO PUT INTO THIS DISCUSSION, AND THAT'S WHAT I'M GONNA BE LOOKING FOR, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE EXPLORING IN, IN, IN MY COMMUNITY. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO. UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I WANT TO KIND OF ECHO SOME OF WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE WAS SAYING. UM, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DATA, I, I, I THINK WE NEED TO, UH, ALSO LOOK BACK AT, AT HOW, HOW WE GATHER SOME OF THIS INFORMATION AND HOW IT'S INFORMATION AND HOW IT SERVES US. AND, UH, THE ESSAY TOMORROW PLAN WAS MENTIONED, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR DISTRICT ONE, THE, THE, THE WORK THAT WAS DONE, WHICH WAS TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK, UH, REALLY FOCUSED A LOT ON DATA. BUT WHAT THE EXPERIENCE WAS WITH, WITH THAT DATA, UH, WAS LEFT A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS FEELING VERY MUCH LEFT OUT. AND, UM, AND SO I THINK THAT WHILE WE WANT TO USE, UH, UTILIZE GOOD INFORMATION, ALL OF THAT MUST BE LED BY AND VERIFIED BY THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. IT'S OUR NEIGHBORHOODS THAT REALLY HAVE, HAVE, HAVE BROUGHT, UH, SO MUCH TOGETHER TO, TO HELP, UH, PLAN FOR, FOR THE FUTURE, BUT ALSO PRESERVING ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT, UH, ASPECTS OF, OF WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WE WANT TO DO OF OUR CHARACTER OF A CITY AS A CITY. AND SO, YOU KNOW, JUST WANNA, WANT US TO, TO REMIND US THAT AT LEAST, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR EXPERIENCE IN DISTRICT ONE, THE DISTRICT ONE NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, THERE, THERE IS, UH, A NEED TO, TO INVEST IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. THERE IS A NEED TO, TO INVEST IN, IN, UH, THESE CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT ARE MUCH NEEDED. GREEN SPACES, COMMUNITY CENTERS, SENIOR CENTERS, UM, BUT I WANT US TO, TO, UH, FOCUS ON THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND THE, AND THE ABILITY TO BRING IN NEIGHBORHOODS TO HELP LEAD THAT CONVERSATION. UH, BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, AS WE SAW DURING THE STORM, IT WAS NEIGHBORHOODS THAT REALLY CAME [01:10:01] TOGETHER TO, TO DO SO MUCH FOR PEOPLE WITHIN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY, THEY KNOW THEIR NEIGHBORS, THEY KNOW WHAT'S NEEDED. THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. AND, AND I WOULD, I WOULD HIGHLIGHT THAT I, A LOT OF WHAT WHAT WE DO, UM, IS, IS IN CONCERT WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WORKING ALONGSIDE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN THOSE PLACES DAY TO DAY, SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND MORE FULLY, UH, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT'S PAST THAT DATA OR WHAT'S PAST THOSE NUMBERS. UH, ALSO, WE HAD, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAD TO DO A CORRECTION ON, OR, UH, A COURSE CORRECTION ON THE EQUITY ATLAS. UH, AND, AND, AND IT'S BECAUSE WE, WE ALLOW THE, THE SMALL BUSINESS EXPERIENCE TO REALLY KIND OF COME OUT AND, AND HELP ENLIGHTEN, UH, WHAT, WHAT THAT COULD BE AND HOW IT, HOW IT COULD SERVE US BETTER. SO I THINK WE JUST, WE'VE GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S A BALANCE OF ALL THESE APPROACHES AS WE MOVE FORWARD. UM, BECAUSE, UH, THESE, THESE BOND PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL FOR OUR CITY. UH, IT'S, IT'S WONDERFUL TO, TO BE PLANNING AHEAD FOR THIS AND, AND HAVE, UH, THOSE FOLKS WHO, WHO MAY HAVE HAD SOME EXPERIENCE IN UNDERSTANDING HOW THEY WORK, HOW THEY HAVE WORKED IN, IN THE PAST IN 2012 AND 2017. UH, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND FULLY HOW THEY WORK AND HOW, HOW, WHAT THE PURPOSE IS, UH, AROUND THIS KIND OF INVESTMENT IN OUR CITY. SO IT, IT'S, IT'S, AGAIN, MY HOPE THAT, UH, THAT AS PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, UH, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, IS THAT WE, UH, FULLY ENGAGE, UH, THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND INVOLVE THEM, NOT JUST INFORM THEM. UM, THEY WILL TELL US EXACTLY WHAT'S NEEDED. THEY WILL TELL US WHAT WORKS, WHAT DOESN'T WORK. THEY WILL TELL US, UH, WHO NEEDS HELP AND WHO DOESN'T. UM, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT, UH, THE SPIRIT OF, OF THIS KIND OF INVESTMENT IS ALL ABOUT. THIS IS ABOUT PEOPLE, NOT ABOUT PROJECTS, UM, AND NEIGHBORHOODS ARE ABOUT PEOPLE. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE MY FOCUS WILL BE ON THIS BOND. THAT'S WHERE I'LL BE WORKING ALONGSIDE, UH, THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF DISTRICT ONE. AND, UH, AND I ALSO WANNA POINT OUT THAT, THAT, UH, ROSIE CAN SPEAK TO THIS, I THINK EVEN, UH, AS WELL AS ROD, UH, THERE ARE SOME GREAT ADVANCEMENTS IN, IN TECHNOLOGY TO, TO HELP US ADDRESS THE, THE, UM, ENGINEERING CHALLENGES THAT, THAT A CITY WITH, YOU KNOW, KNOWN AS THE RIVER CITY, UH, GIVES US IN TERMS OF HOW WE BUILD OUT OUR STREETS, OUR SIDEWALKS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT WE'VE GOTTA INVEST IN, IN THE DESIGN WORK, THAT, THAT WILL GET US THERE. UH, YOU KNOW, THOSE KINDS OF INVESTMENT, I THINK, UH, HAVE PROVEN TO, TO WORK AND ALLOW THE, THE, THE DOLLARS TO GO A LOT FURTHER. UH, BUT AGAIN, UH, I THINK THAT THIS IS GONNA BE, UH, ANOTHER GREAT BOND PROGRAM. I HOPE, UH, THAT AS WE GO AND START TO SELECT, UH, THE COMMITTEES AND, AND THE FOLKS THAT, THAT WILL GET INVOLVED, THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE FOCUS WILL CERTAINLY BE ON, ON THOSE NEEDS, UH, THAT, THAT WE KNOW ARE OUT THERE, ESPECIALLY AFTER THIS PANDEMIC, AFTER THE STORM. UH, IT'S ONLY PROVEN THAT WE ARE, UH, NOT AS RESILIENT AS WE WOULD'VE HOPED. UH, AND CERTAINLY THAT IS NOT EQUAL ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY. AND, UH, AND SO THIS, UH, PROGRAM, I THINK THE THEME AROUND THIS IS, IS TO REALLY HELP US BALANCE, UH, THOSE INEQUITIES THAT STILL EXIST. IT MIGHT, IT MIGHT BE GOOD ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET, BUT NOT THE OTHER. AND, UH, AND SO HAVING PEOPLE WHO, WHO LIVE IN THOSE AREAS, UH, CAN HELP INFORM US OF THE BEST WAY TO PLAN MOVING FORWARD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, I TOO WANNA ECU ECHO COUNCILMAN COURAGE AND COUNCILMAN TREVINO KIND OF TOOK THE WORDS OUTTA MY MOUTH. I, I'M, UH, I UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF THE EQUITY, UH, BUSINESS, BUT YEAH, I'M LOOKING AT THIS. EACH INDIVIDUAL DISTRICT HAS THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS AND THEIR PRIORITIES. AND IF WE'RE GONNA GO TO THIS LENGTH AND, AND, UH, DO THIS PRIORITIZATION, I GUESS, AND WORKING IN ALL THESE OTHER FACTORS INTO EACH ONE OF THE PROJECTS [01:15:01] AT THE, AT, AT THE COUNCIL LEVEL, OR AT THE CITY STAFF LEVEL, WHY EVEN GET THESE COMMUNITY COMMITTEES TOGETHER TO REVIEW THESE PROJECTS AND THEN COME UP WITH THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS AND, AND SENDING THEM FORWARD TO THE CITY COMMITTEES, AND THEN FINALLY UP TO US TO, TO APPROVE. I, I DON'T, I, I'M NOT SEEING THE VALUE IN TAKING UP EVERYBODY'S TIME, GOING THROUGH THEIR REQUIREMENTS OR RECOMMENDATIONS, AND THEN FINDING THAT ALL OF THAT WORK WAS FOR NAUGHT BECAUSE THE STAFF AND THE CITY COUNCIL IS ALREADY PRIORITIZED BASED ON THESE PILLARS OR, UM, METRICS OR MEASUREMENTS THAT WE'RE CREATING AT THIS LEVEL. SO, UH, WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE CLOSELY, ROD OR, UH, RAZZIE, DON'T WE HAVE TIME BUILT INTO THIS BOND FOR FIRST AT THE COUNCIL LEVEL, FOR THESE COMMITTEES TO BE FORMED IN EACH ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES TO DISCUSS THAT COUNCIL DISTRICT'S PRIORITIES, AND THEN THERE'S A CITY LEVEL COMMITTEE IN THOSE SAME CATEGORIES THAT WE, UH, SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO, TO DISCUSS AT THE CITY LEVEL FOR THOSE PRIORITIES. AND WHAT'S GONNA, UH, GO ON THE BOND IN THAT PROCESS BUILT IN HERE, COUNCILMAN? IT HAS, WE HAVE RECEIVED A GOOD AMOUNT LIST WITH GOOD NUMBER OF THE COUNCIL DISTRICT, AND WE RECEIVE ONE FROM YOU. WE WILL RUN THOSE PROJECT FOR THIS CRITERIA AND THEN KIND OF CLOSE THE LOOP WITH YOU TO SEE THEY HAVE THEIR RANKING BEFORE STEP, PROVIDE RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL AND CITY MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL. THE COMMITTEE WILL MEET SOMETIME FALL OF THIS YEAR TO REVIEW THOSE STEP RECOMMENDED PROJECT. AND, AND COUNCILMAN THIS IS, THIS IS REALLY JUST A, I MEAN, WE'RE NOT, I'M NOT TAKING ANYTHING FROM THIS AFTERNOON'S CONVERSATION, AND WE'RE GONNA GO SET IT IN A STONE TOMORROW. THIS IS JUST AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COUNCIL AS A GROUP, RIGHT? PUBLICLY, TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT THE BOND PROGRAM AND, AND, AND WHAT ARE THOSE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES. AND FRANKLY, I, I LIKE THE WAY COUNCILMAN TREVINO, UH, LAID IT OUT. IT, IT, HE SAID IT TOWARDS THE END OF WHAT HE SAID. IT'S A BALANCED APPROACH. THERE ARE GONNA BE, THERE'S, WE'VE GOT EQUITY ATLAS, WE'VE GOT DISTRICT PRIORITIES, WE'VE GOT THE, THE, THE EXPERIENCE OF NEIGHBORHOODS. WE'VE GOT SMALL MASTER PLAN PROJECTS THAT D FIVE HAS BEEN DOING. IT, THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF, THERE ARE A WHOLE LOT OF INGREDIENTS. BUT THE POINT OF TODAY IS TO GET, TO GET INPUT AS A GROUP, AND, AND WE'LL TAKE THIS INPUT TODAY AND THEN COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL AND TRY TO SHAPE IT. BUT I, I, YOU KNOW, IT DON'T, I DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK THAT WE'RE, WE'RE RUNNING OFF DOWN A DOWN A, A TRAIL JUST BASED ON TODAY. IT'S NOT, THERE'LL BE PLENTY OF CONVERSATION. IT, THIS IS GONNA BE, THERE'S GONNA BE A LONG, DIFFICULT PROCESS THAT HAS A LOT OF COMMUNITY BENEFIT. YEAH. I, I, I, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I'M GETTING IN MY 2 CENTS WORTH HERE SAYING, WE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO ON. WE NEED COMMUNITY INPUT ON THIS. YES, I HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT THAT'S NOT AN ALL INCLUSIVE LIST EITHER. AT THIS POINT. I'M, I'M, I'M STARTING A PROCESS WITHIN MY DISTRICT ALREADY TO START BRIEFING, UH, ON SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AND TAKING IN ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS THAT WE'RE GONNA PUT AN ALL ENCOMPASSING PACKAGE TOGETHER AND, UH, AND HAVE THAT AVAILABLE FOR FURTHER DISCUSSIONS. YOU KNOW, I COULD, I COULD SPEND THE WHOLE $650 MILLION HERE WITHIN DISTRICT 10, I'LL TELL YOU THAT RIGHT NOW. BUT IS THAT IS OKAY. I SEE JOHN SHAKING HIS FINGER AT ME AND, AND I, THAT I'M A REALIST. I, I'VE DONE THIS MY WHOLE LIFE ON PRIORITIZING. AND, AND BECAUSE YOU CAN'T FUND EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED AND WANT, AND I, I CAN JUST SAY THAT WE HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE HERE IN THIS CITY THAT WE, WE'VE GOT, AND THE STAFF PUT TOGETHER THE NUMBERS FOR ME, $3 BILLION WORTH OF REQUIREMENTS IN THIS CITY TODAY. AND WE'VE ONLY GOT, WHAT, WHAT WERE YOU SAYING? MAYBE 650 MILLION. OF COURSE, THAT'S JUST AN ESTIMATE AT THIS POINT. SO THE LIST IS ENDLESS HERE, AND WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL IN HOW WE, UH, APPORTION THAT ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY AND EACH ONE OF THE DISTRICTS. I UNDERSTAND THE EQUITY ATLAS, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE ARE DIRE NEEDS IN EACH DISTRICT THAT MIGHT NOT TOTALLY FIT THE EQUITY ATLAS. AND IT'S A BALANCE, JUST LIKE YOU SAID, ERIC, WE GOTTA TAKE ALL THIS INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN WE COME UP WITH A FINAL LIST AND WHEN FINALLY GOES OUT FOR A PUBLIC VOTE. AND, UH, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO [01:20:01] THOSE DISCUSSIONS ALSO ON HOW WE'RE GONNA PUT THIS IN, IN THE WORDS THAT GETS PUT ON THE BALLOT. I THINK THAT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. I WAS VERY DISHEARTENED AND DISAPPOINTED IN THE 2017 BALLOT ON HOW THINGS WERE IDENTIFIED AND LISTED ON THE BALLOT TO BE VOTED ON. UH, SO I, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THIS COUNCIL NEEDS TO WORK ON, ON HOW IT'S PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC ALSO IN, IN THE ACTUAL BALLOT AND HOW IT'S VOTED ON. SO, UM, I THINK THERE'S SOME OTHER OPPORTUNITIES WE CAN IMPROVE IN THAT ALSO. BUT I, I, I JUST WANTED TO COME ONLINE SAYING I TOTALLY AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN COURAGE AND TREVINO ON THIS. WE NEED THE CITIZENS' INPUT AND, UH, THE DISTRICT INPUTS ON EVERY ONE OF THESE, UH, CATEGORIES IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. OTHERWISE, WHY GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS IF WE'RE NOT, IF WE'RE NOT GONNA BE, UM, LISTENING IN, GETTING THAT INPUT FROM, FROM THE CITIZENS' IN EACH DISTRICT. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE AT THIS POINT. UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN PERRY. COUNCILMAN . I SENT YOU A NOTE THERE. SORRY. NO PROBLEM. THANK YOU. UH, COUNCILMAN BER JADA, ANDREW SULLIVAN. UH, THANK YOU MAYOR PROAM. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, SO RAZZI, I, I KNOW THAT I ASK A LOT OF THESE QUESTIONS WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT IS THE STRATEGIC PLAN OF COMMUNICATION TO CONNECT OUR HOMELESS POPULATION TO THE CONVERSATION OF THE BOND PROJECTS OR THE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION, UM, AS WE'RE GOING FORWARD, COUNCILWOMAN USUALLY DURING THE BOND, WHEN WE ARE WORKING TO DEVELOP BOND PROGRAM, EACH COUNCIL OFFICE END UP HAVING NUMBER OF THE COMMUNITY MEETING, AND WE END UP ATTENDING. I ATTENDED BOND WITH THE COUNCILMAN COURAGE TWO WEEKS AGO, AND MY STAFF HAS ATTENDED COUNCILMAN WITH DISTRICT EIGHT, WITH COUNCILMAN PPLS NUMBER OF THE TIME. WHENEVER YOU END UP WITH SCHEDULING, WE CAN ATTEND OVER THERE TO YOUR MEETING AND DISCUSS ABOUT THE BOND PROCESS AND GET INPUT FROM PUBLIC. WE WANT PUBLIC TO SUPPORT WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING TO BE PART OF THE BOND PROGRAM. OKAY. WELL, WE KNOW THAT WE, WE CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH THOSE COMMUNITY INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE, UM, ABLE TO, TO GET ON VIA ZOOM OR TO GET ON, UH, EITHER A A COME TO THE OFFICE. BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR HOMELESS, A LOT OF TIMES THEY ARE OVERLOOKED BECAUSE THEY DON'T GET THE, THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOND PROJECTS. AND A LOT OF TIMES THEY'RE LEFT OUT OF THIS CONVERSATION. SO WHAT ARE WE DOING TO INCLUDE THAT THOSE VOICES ARE HEARD? IF THEY'RE NOT AWARE OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE, EITHER HERE AT THE CITY LEVEL, AT THE OFFICE LEVEL, IS THERE SOME FORM OF OUTREACH THAT WILL BE DONE TO V H SS TO INCLUDE THOSE INTO THIS CONVERSATION? I THINK COUNCILWOMAN, WE NEED, LET ME DISCUSS THIS ONE WITH JEFF CO. SEE HOW WE CAN DEVELOP A PLAN TO OUTREACH HOMELESS. OKAY. THAT'LL BE GREAT. AND THEN AS WE'RE LOOKING AT CONNECTIVITY, AND WHEN IT COMES TO THE, THE COUNTY AND THE CITY, UM, COLLABORATION, CONNECTING HEALTHCARE FACILITIES TO THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE NO MEDICAL CARE FACILITIES IS AN, UH, AN OBJECTIVE OF WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US DO, AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE, UM, AND WHAT DOES THAT, THAT REQUIRE US TO DO TO FORM THAT COLLABORATION BETWEEN COUNTY AND CITY, UH, FOR A BOND WHEN IT COMES TO A HEALTHCARE FACILITY IN AREAS THAT DO NOT HAVE THOSE, UM, TYPE OF, OF CARE CONNECTIVITY FOR OUR INDIVIDUALS. AND THEN ALSO, WHEN IT COMES TO CONNECTIVITY OF TRANSPORTATION WITH THOSE SENIORS THAT ARE STILL, UM, MEDICALLY NOT CAPABLE OF GETTING TO A BUS STOP, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS VIA TRANS, A LOT OF THEM ARE STILL NOT CONNECTED TO VIA TRANS. UM, SO WHAT AREAS ARE WE GONNA BE CONNECTING, AND I DON'T KNOW IF, IF SHE'S STILL ON THE LINE, UM, ARE BOND CONNECTIVE, CIVIC CONNECTIVITY TO THOSE WHO ARE DISABLED YOUTH OR PARENTS OF DISABLED YOUTH ALONG WITH OUR SENIORS. UM, SO I WANNA SEE WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT INCORPORATE? IF IT'S AN EXPANSION OF VIA LINK, IS IT, UM, AN EXPANSION OF THE H O V LANE? IS IT AN EXPANSION OR, UH, OF OUR BUS SERVICE SYSTEM? AND, AND HOW DOES THAT LOOK? SO WE CAN TELL OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND OUR COMMITTEES THAT WE HAVE ON THE BOND, WHAT EXACTLY IS THE SCOPE OF TRANSPORTATION? UM, AND THEN WHEN IT COMES TO RESILIENCY, WHEN [01:25:01] WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT AND THE WEATHERIZATION COMPONENT WITHIN OUR BOND PROJECTS FOR OUR CITY, CITY BUILDINGS, UM, AND EVEN THOSE OLDER HOMES THAT WE HAVE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES, WHAT DOES THAT AREA OF THE BOND LOOK LIKE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WEATHERIZATION AND RESILIENCY? UM, SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE AS WE'RE GOING FORWARD, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THOSE ARE THE AREAS THAT WE, WE HAVE TENDENCY TO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO. AND I'M SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY RIGHT NOW FOR DISTRICT TWO. UM, AND THEN AS WE'RE LOOKING AT IT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THIS ACT ASPECT OF THE BOND, I KNOW THAT, UM, WE HAVE THE AMENDMENT THAT'S ON THE BALLOT, AND IF IT DOES, UM, SOMEHOW, UH, UP TO THE VOTERS' RIGHTS, AND IF THEY DECIDE THAT THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT, DO WE THEN COME BACK AND REVAMP THE, THE COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD PORTION? UM, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE AS WE'RE GOING FORWARD? IF THERE'S A, A PLAN IN PLACE FOR THAT. UM, SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS I LIKE TO SEE AS WE'RE GOING FORWARD. SO WHEN WE'RE SPEAKING TO OUR COMMUNITY BOND COMMITTEES, HOW WE ARE UPDATING THEM AS THINGS ARE CONTINUOUSLY CHANGING, AS WE KNOW THE MAY, UM, ELECTIONS WILL, WILL ACTUALLY HAVE AN IMPACT ON, ON THIS BOND. AND THEN HOW DO WE, UH, PROPERLY EDUCATE ONCE THE CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE. SO THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF THE THINGS I'D LIKE TO SEE AS WE'RE GOING FORWARD. BUT THAT'S ALL THAT I HAVE TODAY. THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TIM. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER COUNCILOR ELA. THANK YOU. UH, I AM LOOKING AT THIS AND I, I UNDERSTAND THE CATEGORIES THAT THE SAME CATEGORIES THAT WE'VE HAD, UM, OVER THE YEARS, AND, UM, EQUITY OR NO EQUITY COMPONENT TO IT. I MEAN, THE, THE CATEGORIES ARE THERE. AND, UM, WE'RE GONNA BE, UM, IN PANELING COMMITTEES WHO ARE GONNA BE DOING THE SAME WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE EVERY OTHER BOND, UH, THAT WE'VE SEEN IN THE PAST. MY, MY CONCERN, UH, IS THAT I THINK WE'RE MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY HERE. AND JUST LIKE, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT THE AIRPORT YESTERDAY, WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THE SAME THING WE'VE ALWAYS DONE. UH, BUT I DO THINK THAT THERE, THERE NEEDS TO BE A CONVERSATION ABOUT, UM, WHAT, WHAT HAPPENED THIS YEAR. THIS YEAR WE HAD A PANDEMIC, AND THIS YEAR WE HAD THAT BIG MEGA FREEZE, AND WE WERE UNPREPARED FOR BOTH. UM, AND WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS, YOU KNOW, 1.5 MILLION SAN ANTONIANS RELYING ON DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO GO TO WORK, SEE THEIR DOCTORS, GO TO SCHOOL, UM, AND I, I AM I, THIS JUMPS OUT AT ME AS BEING COMPLETELY SILENT ON, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT COMPONENT OR THAT KIND OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ALL OF OUR CONSTITUENTS SEEM TO WANT TO USE MORE AND MORE AND MORE. AND I THINK THAT THERE IS A ROLE IN, FOR BONDS TO PLAY IN HARDENING AND BEEFING UP OUR, UM, TECHNOLOGY OFFERINGS, UH, TO NEIGHBORHOODS AND TO, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS. UH, ALONG THOSE LINES, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO READ TODAY'S, UH, PIECE BY DAVID HEARD, UM, YOU KNOW, TECH BLOCK PUT OUT THE ARGUMENT, UH, TODAY AS TO WHY IT IS THAT WE'RE MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO INCLUDE TECHNOLOGY, UM, INVESTMENT IN THIS BOND. UM, THE OTHER THING I'LL TELL YOU IS IF THIS PANDEMIC HAS SHOWN US ANYTHING, IS THAT PEOPLE HAVE REDISCOVERED THEIR PARKS. YOU CAN'T EVEN BUY A BICYCLE THESE DAYS. UH, THEY'RE SOLD OUT. UM, YOU KNOW, COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, I, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU'VE MANAGED NOT BEING ABLE TO BUY A NEW BIKE RECENTLY, BUT, UH, IT'S, UH, UH, IT REALLY IS. EVERYBODY WENT OUT AND BOUGHT A BIKE, AND EVERYBODY WENT OUT AND REDISCOVERED EVERY SINGLE CITY PARK. AND THEY'RE ASKING THAT THOSE PARKS BE, UH, IMPROVED, THAT MORE ACCESS BE PROVIDED FOR ALL, UH, PEOPLE OF ALL ABILITIES AND DISABILITIES. UM, AND I THINK THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GONNA BE HEAVY ON ONE CATEGORY, I THINK WE OUGHT TO BE LISTENING TO THE PUBLIC BY WAY OF HOW THEY'RE VOTING, WHICH IS WITH THEIR FEET, AND THEY'RE VOTING TO, YOU KNOW, USE MORE PARKS THAN, AND, UH, I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S A SIGNAL TO US THAT WE OUGHT TO BE LEANING MORE IN THAT DIRECTION. UM, AND, AND THEN THE OTHER THING I'LL, I'LL TELL YOU IS THAT IT, IT WORRIES ME, UM, THAT IN THIS, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT, UH, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS. IT'S DISASTERS AREN'T JUST RAIN AND, YOU KNOW, DRAINAGE. UM, AS EVIDENCED BY THE DISASTER THAT WE ALL SUFFERED LAST WEEK, I, I THINK THAT THERE'S TWO KINDS OF DISASTERS THAT WE OUGHT TO ANTICIPATE, OR, OR AT LEAST A, A ADDRESS IN THIS BOND PACKAGE. ONE IS, YOU KNOW, A, A FUTURE POLAR VORTEX. WE NOW KNOW IT CAN HAPPEN, AND WE NOW KNOW THAT WE ARE WOEFULLY UNPREPARED FOR IT. UM, AND NUMBER TWO, I DO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HEARD FROM EVERY SINGLE AGENCY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CONTINUE TO GET [01:30:01] ATTACKED, UH, HERE IN CYBERSECURITY U S A, WE CAN, WE CONTINUE TO GET ATTACKED ON A DAILY BASIS BY NATION STATES. UM, AND IF EVER THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADD A CYBERSECURITY COMPONENT TO THIS TO DO CYBER HARDENING, ERIC, YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS CYBER HARDENING FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, CYBER HARDENING FOR, YOU KNOW, OUR, UH, OUR UTILITIES. UM, THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN ONE DAY. AND, YOU KNOW, IF IT HAPPENS, AND SOMEBODY REMEMBERS, WAIT A SECOND, DIDN'T PALAIS ONCE MENTIONED THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOME HI CYBER HARDENING, AND THEN WE ENDED UP NOT DOING IT. UM, YOU KNOW, WE'LL END UP IN THE SAME PLACE WE ENDED UP A FEW WEEKS AGO, RIGHT, WHERE WE'VE BEEN TALKING FOR FOUR YEARS ABOUT PREPARING FOR MEGA STORMS, AND WE WEREN'T PREPARED FOR THAT ONE TEST. UH, AND SO I, ANYWAY, I, ERIC, I, I THINK WE'RE MISSING SOME OPPORTUNITIES HERE. I'D LIKE TO GO BACK AND REVISIT, YOU KNOW, UM, TECHNOLOGY, PARTICULARLY WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CYBER HARDENING AND COMMUNITY ACCESS, PARTICULARLY, YOU KNOW, APPLYING THE EQUITY LENS TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO GO TO C V S PHARMACY, UH, TO DO HOMEWORK IN THE PARKING LOT. UM, AND I ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, UM, TALKING ABOUT PARKS. SO THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. THANKS, MAYOR. A HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE. THANK YOU. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER PLI, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GRO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I WANTED TO CIRCLE BACK, 'CAUSE MANY OF THE THINGS THAT I HEARD, UM, MANY OF THE THINGS THAT I HEARD FROM MY COLLEAGUES SAY, MAKE ME CONCERNED, MAYOR, ABOUT THE, UH, PILLARS IDEA AND BEING SO BROAD AND THEMATIC, UH, BECAUSE WHAT SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES THINK ARE, ASK, OR, OR WANTS OR ASPIRATIONAL ARE, WHAT'S ASPIRATIONAL FOR MY COMMUNITY ARE SIDEWALKS TO WALK SAFELY TO A PARK. WHAT'S ASPIRATIONAL FOR MY COMMUNITY ARE THE, UM, CURBS AND DRAINAGE, SO THEIR FLOODS DON'T, SO THEIR HOMES DO NOT FLOOD BECAUSE OF A BASIC RAIN THAT BACKS UP INTO THEIR HOUSE. UM, AND THAT'S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND US HERE, THAT ASPIRATION FOR SOME DISTRICTS ARE TAKEN FOR GRANTED AND ARE BASIC NECESSITIES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN INVESTED IN FOR YEARS. AND IT IS BECAUSE OF SYSTEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL RACISM. AND I THINK WHAT WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT HERE IS, WE'VE HEARD BOTH OF THE WORDS. AND I THINK A THEME THAT WE HAVE ALL AGREED TO HERE IS IT'S AN ADAPTATION THAT THIS, THIS BOND IS ALLOWING US TO DO ADAPTATION TO PREPARE FOR OUR RESILIENCY MOVING FORWARD. SO I THINK THAT THOSE ARE THOUGHTS THAT I AM MOVING TOWARDS MAYOR. AND I WILL SAY, UM, IT IS ABOUT PROJECTS AND IT IS ABOUT PEOPLE. IT'S ABOUT BOTH OF THEM, THE PROJECTS AND THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE CALLING FOR THESE PROJECTS IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE NOT BEEN THROUGH THIS BEFORE, THIS IS A GREAT PROCESS. THIS IS A FANTASTIC PROCESS THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH AS A COUNCIL MEMBER. 'CAUSE I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE SAT AS COMMITTEE MEMBERS, BUT THIS IS A FANTASTIC PROCESS. AND YOU, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE GOING TO BE THE ONES, THEY'RE YOUR APPOINTEES. THERE ARE NEIGHBORS WHO ARE GOING TO BE VETTING THESE PROCESSES, WHO ARE GOING TO BE HEARING THE NEIGHBORS AND THE COMMUNITIES RALLY AROUND THEIR PROJECTS. WE HAD OUR LITTLE LEAGUE GROUP COME AND FIGHT EVERY DAY FOR THOSE PARKS IN JUST FOR A BASIC PARKING LOT IN THE PARKS. THAT WAS ONE OF THEIR BOND PROJECTS THAT THEY WANTED. SO I THINK THERE, AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE, THE, AS I MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING, IT CAN BE BOTH THE DISTRICT SPECIFIC AS WELL AS STRATEGIC GOALS. SO I THINK THAT IS THE ADAPTATION AND THE RESILIENCY EMBEDDED AND BUILT INTO THERE BECAUSE, UM, MANY OF US HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR SCRAPS FOR A LONG TIME AND WE SHOULDN'T BE FIGHTING ANYMORE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER VIRON. UM, AND UH, TAMIKA, THIS IS VERY NICE TO MEET YOU, UM, IN OUR COUNCIL SESSION. I GUESS THIS IS MY, MIGHT BE YOUR FIRST COUNCIL SESSION. YES, SIR, IT IS. IT'S A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU AS WELL, , VIRTUALLY WE LOOK FORWARD. YEAH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, WORKING WITH YOU, UM, AND, UH, THE GREAT INSIGHTS THAT YOU'VE ALREADY BROUGHT TO THIS PROCESS. I THINK WE'LL, WE'LL CONTINUE [01:35:01] TO BUILD AS WE GET TOWARDS THE SPAWN PROGRAM IN PARTICULAR. UM, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT DISCUSSION, AND, AND WHILE IT MIGHT SEEM WE'RE COMING TO IT WITH A THOUSAND DIFFERENT ANGLES, I THINK IT'S BEEN VERY INSTRUCTIVE. UH, LET ME, LET ME KIND OF SUMMARIZE A FEW THINGS THAT I'VE HEARD. UM, NUMBER ONE, I THINK THAT THERE'S AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT, UM, WE WANT TO DO MORE THAN JUST BRING A LIST OF PROJECTS. AT THE END OF THE DAY, VOTERS WILL BE APPROVING LISTS OF PROJECTS. BUT HOW WE PUT TOGETHER THAT LIST, UH, I THINK THERE'S, THERE'S SOME CONSENSUS GROWING IN TERMS OF, LET'S THINK ABOUT THIS AND HOW WE MOVE OUR CITY OR OUR DISTRICTS FORWARD. UM, HOW, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE MEASURES THAT WE DETERMINE SUCCESS IN THOSE PROJECTS? AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I LOOK AT IT THROUGH WHAT I'M CALLING THESE THREE PILLARS, PUBLIC HEALTH, RESILIENCE AND CONNECTIVITY IN MY MIND, A, A SIDEWALK PROJECT, A LINEAR CREEKWAY PROJECT, A PARK, A CYBER HARDENING PROJECT, TOUCHES ON MULTIPLE, UH, MEASURES, UH, IN THOSE, IN THAT FRAMEWORK. AND, AND THAT'S JUST THE WAY I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT THIS BOND PROGRAM. AS WE BEGIN TO PRIORITIZE WHAT WILL START IS THOUSANDS OF PROJECTS AND HAVE ULTIMATELY HAVE TO BE NARROWED DOWN TO, TO DOZENS. UM, AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT IF WE'RE SIMPLY GOING TO CUT EVERYTHING UP DIVIDED BY 10, WE'RE THROWING OUR EQUITY PRINCIPLES OUT THE WINDOW. WHAT WE WANNA DO IS FIGURE OUT A WAY THAT WE CAN USE A FINITE AMOUNT OF PEANUT BUTTER AND NOT SPREAD IT SO THIN THAT WE LOSE THE IMPACT IN ANY ONE PARTICULAR AREA. IN MY VIEW, UH, TWO OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SOURCE, THREE OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN TERMS OF PROJECTS, UH, IF WE CAN MAKE A TRANSFORMATIVE INVESTMENT IN PARKS, IN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THEN IN HOUSING, THAT WOULD BE A HUGE DIFFERENCE, UM, FROM WHERE WE WERE, UH, EVEN FIVE YEARS AGO. SO, UH, AGAIN, A LOT OF CONCEPTS BEING THROWN OUT. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF DISCUSSION. AS ERIC SAID, NOTHING IS SET IN STONE, BUT I THINK THIS HAS BEEN A, A VERY INFORMATIVE CONVERSATION, OBVIOUSLY INDICATIVE OF THE, THE KIND OF BALANCE THAT WE'RE GONNA TRY TO FIND, UH, THROUGHOUT THIS, UH, THESE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS. AND, AND AGAIN, THIS WILL BE AN ENTIRELY PUBLIC PROCESS. WE WILL ALL APPOINT MEMBERS TO THE COMMITTEES. THE COMMITTEES WILL THEMSELVES PUT FORWARD THEIR PRIORITIES. BUT IF WE CAN VIEW THIS THROUGH A ONE CITY APPROACH AND MOVING OUR CITY FORWARD, UH, THROUGH THE PROJECTS THAT WE SELECT, I THINK WE'LL BE BETTER FOR IT. SO, UM, ANY FINAL THOUGHTS, ERIC? UM, ANYTHING FURTHER? NO, I, THIS HAS BEEN A, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT CONVERSATION. IT'S A GOOD, UH, UH, VERY, VERY INSTRUCTIVE FOR US. AND, AND WE WILL TAKE WHAT WE HEARD TODAY AND, AND, UH, AND DO SOME WORK AND, AND COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL. GREAT. WELL, THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR, UH, SOME OPEN BRAINSTORMING AND, AND CANDOR. UH, THAT'S THE END OF A LONG DAY. IT'S 3:02 PM IT'S THURSDAY, MARCH 18TH, UH, 2021. HAVE A WONDERFUL REST OF YOUR DAY. WE'RE ADJOURNED. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.