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WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL A SESSION AGENDA.
THE TIME IS 9:15 AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AS WE GET STARTED TODAY.
UH, MADAME CLERK, COULD YOU READ THE ROLE COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO? HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT.
AND GOOD MORNING AGAIN, EVERYONE.
UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL OUR A SESSION TO ORDER.
[1. 21-4227 Invocation]
WE GET STARTED TODAY, IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME OUR INDICATOR TODAY.UH, REVEREND SYLVIA VASQUEZ WAS BORN AND RAISED IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, WHERE 300 OF HER CLOSEST RELATIVES CURRENTLY LIVE.
SHE ATTENDED OBLATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND RECEIVED A MASTER'S IN THEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN 1991 AFTER BEING RECEIVED INTO THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN 1990.
SHE ATTENDED THE EPISCOPAL SEMINARY OF THE SOUTHWEST AND GRADUATED WITH A MASTER OF DIVINITY IN 1995 AFTER SEMINARY.
HER FIRST CALL WAS AS AN ASSOCIATE RECTOR AT ST.
PAUL'S EPISCOPAL ON GRAYSON STREET.
DURING HER 25 YEARS AS A PRIEST, SHE SERVED IN FOUR DIOCESE, SAN ANTONIO, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, NEW YORK CITY, AND FINALLY IN WALNUT CREEK, CALIFORNIA IN THE BAY AREA.
REVEREND SYLVIA RETIRED FROM PAID MINISTRY IN IN 2017 AND IS CURRENTLY SERVING AS A NON STEND AREA ASSISTANT CLER AT ST.
I AM HONORED TO OFFER A PRAYER AND BLESSING AS YOU BEGIN YOUR WORK TOGETHER TODAY.
I LOVE THIS CITY WHERE, AS YOU HEARD, I HAVE MANY RELATIVES SCATTERED AROUND THE SET, THE 10 DISTRICTS OF THE CITY.
I PERSONALLY LIVE IN SOUTHTOWN IN DISTRICT FIVE, AND, UM, BECAUSE WE HAVE SUCH A LARGE PRESENCE IN OUR CITY, THIS WHAT YOU DO HERE IS, UH, DEEPLY IMPORTANT TO MY FAMILY AND THE WHOLE CITY.
SO I'M GRATEFUL TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRAY WITH AND FOR YOU ALL.
ALMIGHTY GOD, SEND DOWN BLESSINGS UPON YOUR SERVANTS WHO NOW HOLD OFFICE IN THIS CITY.
GRANT THEM A SPIRIT OF WISDOM, CHARITY AND COMPASSION THAT WITH STEADFAST PURPOSE, THEY MAY FAITHFULLY SERVE THEIR DISTRICTS TO PROMOTE THE WELLBEING OF THE WHOLE CITY AND ALL PEOPLE FOR THROUGH THE ELECTORAL PROCESS.
YOU HAVE BOUND US TOGETHER IN A COMMON LIFE.
HELP OUR REPRESENTATIVES IN THE MIDST OF THE FORTHCOMING COUNCIL SESSION TO SEEK AND WORK CREATIVELY AND DILIGENTLY OPEN THEIR HEARTS AND MINDS TO NEW POSSIBILITIES AND INSPIRING WAYS TO RESOLVE THE CHALLENGES THAT FACE OUR CITY.
WHEN THERE IS DISAGREEMENT, LET THEM CONFRONT ONE ANOTHER WITHOUT HATRED OR BITTERNESS, AND WORK TOGETHER WITH MUTUAL FORBEARANCE AND RESPECT.
GRACIOUS GOD, YOU CREATED THEM IN YOUR OWN IMAGE.
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WE PRAY THAT THEY MAKE NO PEACE WITH INJUSTICE OR OPPRESSION.WE PRAY OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS REVERENTLY USE THE FREEDOM THAT LIVING IN THIS LAND AFFORDS US TO EMPLOY THAT FREEDOM IN THE MAINTENANCE AND PROMOTION OF JUSTICE IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
THEREFORE, GRANT THEM GRACE TO FEARLESSLY CONTEND AGAINST FAVORING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS.
GRANT, OH GOD, THAT YOUR HOLY AND LIFE-GIVING SPIRIT.
SO MOVE THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO TO HOLD OUR MAYOR AND COUNCIL AND THEIR STAFF IN OUR DAILY PRAYERS.
LET US PRAY THAT THEY RELY ON YOUR STRENGTH AND GRACE TO CARRY OUT THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TO THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS.
THAT HAVING BEEN ELECTED AS TRUSTWORTHY LEADERS, THEY CONSISTENTLY MAKE WISE DECISIONS FOR THE WELLBEING OF ALL MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY.
AND NOW I OFFER SOME WORDS OF WISDOM FROM CHAPLAIN WILLIAM SLOAN COFFIN.
MAY GOD GIVE YOU GRACE TO NOT SELL YOURSELVES SHORT GRACE TO RISKS, SOMETHING BIG FOR SOMETHING GOOD GRACE TO REMEMBER THAT THE WORLD IS NOW TOO DANGEROUS FOR ANYTHING BUT TRUTH AND TOO SMALL FOR ANYTHING BUT LOVE.
MAY GOD TAKE YOUR MINDS AND THINK THROUGH THEM.
MAY GOD TAKE YOUR LIPS AND SPEAK THROUGH THEM.
MAY GOD TAKE YOUR HANDS AND WORK THROUGH THEM.
MAY GOD TAKE YOUR HEARTS AND SET THEM ON FIRE
[2. 21-4228 Pledge of Allegiance]
OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.[3. 21-4249 Approval of Minutes for the City Council meetings of May 2, 2021 and May 12, 2021.]
THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS TODAY IS THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OF MAY 6TH AND MAY 12TH, 2021.I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THOSE MINUTES.
SECOND, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, MINUTES OF MAY 6TH AND MAY 12TH, 2021.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, PLEASE VOTE.
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OUR, UH, AGENDA TODAY, I DO HAVE, UH, A COUPLE OF POINTS OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE IN, IN, UH, WELCOMING, UM, SEVERAL OF OUR HONORED GUESTS TODAY.UH, THE FIRST I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE, UH, SOMEONE WHO'S CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY AND WHO IS A BELOVED MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY IN, IN MANY WAYS, MOST PARTICULARLY WITH THE ARTS COMMUNITY.
AND THAT IS MIKE CASEY, UH, ALSO KNOWN AS THE MAYOR OF KING WILLIAM, WHO'S JOINED US TODAY.
MIKE, YOU WANNA STAND UP, MIKE? I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, YOU WANT TO COME TO THE PODIUM AND, AND SAY A BIRTHDAY SPEECH, BUT, UH, IT'S OUR HONOR HERE AT THE CITY COUNCIL TO, UH, WELCOME YOU AND TO OFFER OFFICIAL CONGRATULATIONS ON BEHALF OF THE CITY TO MIKE CASEY IN HONOR OF YOUR 80TH BIRTHDAY ON THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 12TH, 2021, THE MAYOR AND THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PROUDLY JOIN YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND COMMUNITY IN CELEBRATING YOU ON THIS MOMENTOUS OCCASION.
AND WE FURTHER EXTEND OUR SINCERE BEST WISHES TO YOU FOR MANY MORE TREASURED AND ENJOYABLE YEARS.
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
MIKE, HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY PRESENTED THIS 10TH DAY OF JUNE SPEECHES.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR JOINING US GUYS.
AND, AND I'LL, I'LL COME DOWN THERE AND, AND GIVE YOU THE CERTIFICATE NOW, MR. CASEY, UM,
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I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.AND I WAS, UM, EXPECTING YOU, MR. CASEY TO RIDE YOUR BIKE HERE TO, UH, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE USE, I USUALLY SEE YOU, IS RIDING YOUR BIKE IN YOUR SEARS SUCKER SUIT ON THE STREET.
WE CELEBRATE YOU AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR ADVOCACY FOR THE COMMUNITY AND FOR THE ARTS AND FOR SAN ANTONIO.
AND AGAIN, THANK YOU GUYS FOR TAKING TIME TO COME OUT AND, UH, HOPE YOU ENJOY A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY, MIKE.
OUR, UM, AS MANY OF YOU HAVE NOTICED OR MAYBE HEARD TODAY, WE ALSO HAVE SOME OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS, UH, WHO ARE CLANGING THEIR WAY INTO THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS TODAY.
AND SO I WOULD, UH, VERY MUCH LIKE TO WELCOME OUR RE FAO, UH, FOR 2020 AND 2021 UP TO THE PODIUM.
UM, AND HE IS HERE WITH THIS COURT, UH, SO I CAN PRESENT A PROCLAMATION AND WE CAN KICK OFF, UM, SOME WELL-DESERVED CELEBRATIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, SO IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE AFTER A LONG, LONG YEAR TO PRESENT THIS PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS THE LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS, LULAC COUNCIL NUMBER TWO, ESTABLISHED THE EL REO COMPETITION IN SAN ANTONIO TO RAISE FUNDS AND PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR DESERVING UNDERPRIVILEGED AREA YOUTH.
AND WHEREAS THE LEGEND OF EL REO DATES BACK TO MEDIEVAL TIMES IN SPAIN WHEN THE COMMON FOLKS SELECTED ONE OF THEIR OWN TO REIGN AS THE UGLY KING OR THE PEOPLE'S KING.
AND WHEREAS THIS CELEBRATION ULTIMATELY TRAVELED TO THE NEW WORLD, AND THE MEMBERS OF LULAC COUNCIL NUMBER TWO SELECTED ITS OBSERVANCE AS A MEANS OF SUPPORTING THE ASPIRATIONAL OF ASPIRATION OF DESERVING HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS TO OBTAIN A COLLEGE EDUCATION REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR, OR RELIGION.
AND WHEREAS TO THOMAS AON HAS BEEN CHOSEN AS EL RAY FAO 72 AND WILL REPRESENT THE LULAC COUNCIL NUMBER TWO DURING THE 2021 FIESTA ACTIVITIES.
AND WHEREAS DURING HIS REIGN, EL RAY FAO AND HIS COURT WILL VISIT NURSING HOMES, HOSPITALS, ORPHANAGES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, AND SERVE AS A GOODWILL AMBASSADOR FOR THE CITY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
NOW, THEREFORE, I RON NURENBERG, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO RECOGNIZES THOMAS ION AS RE FAO AND EXTENDS SINCERE BEST WISHES FOR MOST SUCCESSFUL RAIN.
UH, FIRST OF ALL, UH, THANK MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR HAVING US TODAY.
AS MANY OF Y'ALL KNOW, FIESTA IS JUST AN HONORED TRADITION HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
UH, AND FOR ME PERSONALLY, UH, IN MY ENTIRE COURT, THAT'S WITH HERE, HERE WITH ME TODAY, INCLUDING ONE OF YOUR OWN, UH, IS, IS JUST HONORED TO BE HERE AND HONORED TO REPRESENT THE CITY, UH, ESPECIALLY COMING OUT OF THE, THE, THE, THE EXPERIENCE THAT WE'VE JUST HAD RECENTLY.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR GUIDANCE IN GETTING US HERE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY WE ARE TO BE OUT IN THE PUBLIC, UH, SHAKING HANDS, SMILING, HUGGING, GIVING MEDALS AGAIN.
UH, IT JUST FEELS REALLY GOOD.
AND, AND I'VE GOTTA SAY THANK Y'ALL.
UH, AND WE'RE SUPER APPRECIATIVE.
AND IF I MAY, 'CAUSE I'VE KNOWN A LOT OF Y'ALL FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
UH, I MET MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE HERE AT CITY HALL IN THE LATE NINETIES, SO THIS IS KIND OF LIKE A HOMECOMING FOR US A LITTLE BIT.
YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN 20 PLUS YEARS SINCE WE'VE ACTUALLY WORKED HERE TOGETHER.
UH, BUT, BUT THANK Y'ALL FOR HAVING US AND, UH, WE'RE SO EXCITED TO REPRESENT THE CITY TO VISIT THE, THE FOLKS AND, AND REPRESENT THE PEOPLE.
VIVA FIESTA, VIVA AND MAYOR, I DO HAVE AN HONOR FOR YOU WHEN YOU COME DOWN HERE AND, AND THE MANAGER, IF YOU WILL, THERE'S A, THERE'S A SPECIAL, UH, HONOR THAT WE GIVE OUT.
WE ONLY GIVE OUT A HUNDRED, UH, UM, UH, RITOS EVERY YEAR.
AND THAT'S JUST, UH, FOR THE FOLKS THAT HAVE, UH, DONE, UH, A GUN ABOVE AND BEYOND IN THE COMMUNITY, UH, TO REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY.
AND I'M, I'M HONORING YOU AND THE, AND THE MANAGER FOR ACTUALLY HELPING US GUIDE US THROUGH THIS, UH, THIS TIME AND, AND LEADING US OUT OF IT.
SO IF Y'ALL COME DOWN, I'LL GIVE YOU YOUR MEDAL.
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EO THERE ARE STILL SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO, UH, SAY A FEW WORDS ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR REIGN.UH, WE'LL START WITH, UH, COUNCILMAN PIAS.
UM, I, I WANT YOUR HIGHNESS THAT, UH, I AM I I'M SO HAPPY IT'S YOU.
UH, YOU, YOU AND I HAVE BEEN FRIENDS FOR A LONG, LONG TIME AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I MET YOU WHEN, UH, YOU WERE, WHEN YOU AND I WERE BOTH YOUNG MEN.
AND NOW THAT WE'RE A LITTLE OLDER, UH, I CAN'T IMAGINE SOMEBODY BETTER THAN YOU TO, TO CARRY ON THIS LONG TRADITION.
UM, YOU KNOW, I DO HOPE THAT WHEN YOU ABDICATE THE THRONE, THERE'LL BE A SMOOTH TRANSITION OF POWER.
UH, THERE WON'T BE ANY INSURRECTIONS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
BUT, UM, I DID WANNA TELL YOU, I'M PROUD OF THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS DO.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING IT.
I, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU, UH, AROUND DISTRICT EIGHT AT THE SCHOOLS AND, YOU KNOW, UH, WORKING WITH OUR KIDS AND RAISING AWARENESS FOR, FOR WHAT IT IS YOU GUYS DO.
AND, UM, I DO HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT I JUST GOT A TEXT FROM, UH, FROM LIBERACE.
OH, I DO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I GIVE OUT OUR, OUR POSTERS HERE TO EACH ONE OF Y'ALL.
UH, AND AS THE MAYOR MENTIONED, WE DO VISIT SCHOOLS AND NURSING HOMES, AND, UH, WE GOT TO DO A FEW BEFORE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF EVERYTHING GOT PUT ON HOLD, BUT THIS WAS OUR MESSAGE BELIEVED TO ACHIEVE.
AND I'M, I'M HOPING THAT IN, IN YOUR OFFICES, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN PUT THIS, UH, AS A MESSAGE TO EVERYONE BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE BELIEVE IN YOU.
UM, AND WE TOLD THE KIDS THIS, YOU KNOW, YOUR PARENTS BELIEVE IN YOU.
YOUR TEACHERS BELIEVE IN YOU, AND WE BELIEVE IN YOU.
AND SO THAT'S, THIS IS OUR MESSAGE, AND WE HOPE AND THANK Y'ALL, UH, FOR, YOU KNOW, WE CAN HANG IT IN YOUR OFFICES.
AND IT WAS PAINTED BY OUR VERY OWN CRUISE ORTIZ, RIGHT HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER P COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA.
I KNOW THIS IS AN EXTENDED REIGN FOR YOU, BUT I COULDN'T THINK OF A BETTER PERSON TO CARRY THIS OUT.
SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
I'M A RAY FA SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT, SO YOU ALL SEE YOU POWER AT WORK.
SO WHEN YOU DO SAY, UM, BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE, I BELIEVE IT, YES.
AND SO I'M, I'M ALL IN FOR RAFAEL, SO CONSIDER ME A PARTNER.
I WANNA SAY THANK YOU, UH, SPECIFICALLY TO BEN AND KARINA, UM, FOR BEING SO GOOD.
AND I THINK THEY, THEY'RE STILL RIGHT THERE.
I THINK IF YOU ALL WANT TO STAND.
AND SO THE KIDS DO SUCH A GREAT JOB OF ALSO BEING ADVOCATES IN THAT NEXT GENERATION.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT TO YOUR PARENTS AND TO KIDS LIKE ME.
AND THEN I JUST WANNA SAY, I'M SO EXCITED BECAUSE CRUISE, I HAVE LIKE A WHOLE WALL OF CRUISE, UH, STUFF.
SO NOW THIS IS GOING TO BE ADDED.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER KEO H KING THOMAS.
I'M SO GRATEFUL TO SEE YOU TODAY, UH, TODAY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR OUR, OUR COMMUNITY, OUR STUDENTS.
I REALLY BELIEVE IN YOUR MESSAGE AND BELIEVING TO ACHIEVE.
I THINK THAT THAT'S A, A LOT OF US IN THIS ROOM, THAT'S HOW WE GOT WHERE WE ARE, IS BY BELIEVING IT BEFORE WE, WE REALLY KNEW WE COULD DO IT.
SO, I, I REALLY, THAT MESSAGE REALLY SPEAKS TO ME.
I HAVE TO JUST GIVE A LITTLE SHOUT OUT TO BOTH MELISSA AND THOMAS.
'CAUSE WE DID WORK TOGETHER HERE AT COUNCIL A'S WAY BACK IN THE DAY WHEN THEY WERE STILL DATING.
AND IT'S REALLY BEAUTIFUL TO SEE, UM, HOW BEAUTIFUL YOUR MARRIAGE HAS ENDURED AND, UM, EVEN THROUGH ALL THIS CRAZINESS OF THE LAST TWO YEARS, AND HIM BEING A KING, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU NEEDED HIM TO BE A KING, RIGHT?
AND I'M REALLY, REALLY ARE GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE WORK YOU ALL DO.
AND I KNOW A LOT OF YOU, AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR ALL OF THE WORK YOU ALL DO IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
VARDA, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
I JUST, IT IS SO MEANINGFUL TO ME ON MY LAST MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, THAT I GET TO SEE, UM, EL REO AND THE COURT IN FRONT OF US.
WE DIDN'T THINK IT WAS GONNA HAPPEN
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GIVEN THE YEAR THAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH.UM, SO IT IS REALLY A VERY EXCITING AND, AND VERY FUN TO BE ABLE TO BE WITH YOU ALL HERE TODAY, ESPECIALLY TO HONOR MY COLLEAGUE AT COUNCILWOMAN VRAN.
UM, IN FACT, COUNCILWOMAN, WILL YOU DO ME A FAVOR AND JUST TAKE CENTER STAGE FOR JUST A MINUTE, SENATOR.
UM, AND, UH, IT'S JUST SO FITTING THAT YOU GET TO SERVE ON THE COURT THIS LAST YEAR, UH, AND THAT YOU GET TO EXTEND YOUR TIME OF SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY.
UM, I, I'VE SAID IT MANY TIMES, I'M NOT READY.
CAN WE HAVE A DO-OVER FOR THIS ONE? LAST YEAR, I HAD SO MANY FUN THINGS PLANNED, UH, FOR OUR COMMUNITY, AND I KNOW YOU DID TOO.
I HAD HOPED TO DO SENIOR EVENTS.
I HAD HOPED TO DO EVENTS IN THE PARK WITH OUR CHILDREN.
WE, OF COURSE, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE LAST BARGE RIDE, UH, AND THE LAST OSA AS COUNCIL MEMBERS BECAUSE WE GET FREE PARKING.
AND THAT REALLY MATTERS WHEN, UH, WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO GET TO NSA.
UM, BUT YOU GET TO DO IT FOR A WHOLE MONTHS LONGER, YOU GET TO EXTEND YOUR STAY.
SO I HOPE YOU REALLY ENJOY IT.
I HOPE YOU ENJOY REPRESENTING DISTRICT THREE.
I HOPE YOU ENJOY REPRESENTING THE COURT, UH, BECAUSE IT IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE, UM, THAT THE COURT DOES, UH, BRINGING SCHOLARSHIPS AND JUST BRINGING JOY.
UH, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I KNOW THAT YOU AND I HAVE BOTH, UM, APPRECIATED SO MUCH FOR THE YEARS ON THIS COUNCIL IS THAT WE MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY.
UH, WE, WE MAKE THEM HAPPY BY SUPPORTING THEIR CAUSES, BY SUPPORTING THEIR EVENTS, BY INVESTING IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
UH, WE BRING SO MUCH JOY TO OUR COMMUNITY, AND I'M HOPE THAT YOU CONTINUE TO DO THIS, UH, FOR AT LEAST AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THE COURT, YOU CAN BRING JOY TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND I KNOW THAT, UM, IT IS JUST, UH, UH, HAS BEEN SUCH A PRIVILEGE SERVING WITH YOU AND LEARNING WITH YOU AND GROWING WITH YOU, UH, OVER THIS LAST EIGHT YEARS.
AND IT IS NO SECRET THAT YOU ARE THE QUEEN TO YOUR COMMUNITY AND NOW TO THE COURT.
I THINK YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT TITLE HERE.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT IT'S CALLED.
I, I MAY, I HOPE IT'S NOT CALLED EL CABRI.
THE, I DON'T KNOW, THEY'LL CHITCHAT ON, OR I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY CALL THE, YOUR ROLE ON THE COURT.
DOES IT HAVE A NAME? COMMUNITY INVESTMENT MINISTER.
UH, LET, LET, LET'S, LET'S CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE.
BUT, UM, BUT OF COURSE, UM, I HOPE THAT YOU ENJOY IT.
I HOPE YOU HAVE SO MUCH FUN EXTENDING YOUR TIME FOR A LITTLE BIT LONGER, UH, AS YOU SERVE OUR COMMUNITY WITH SUCH PRIDE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILMAN, FOR ALL OF YOU.
WELL, GOOD MORNING, AND THANK Y'ALL FOR COMING IN HERE TODAY.
AND, UM, I, I AM SO THANKFUL ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT Y'ALL PROVIDE.
LIKE YOU, LIKE YOU SAID, ALL THE VISITS THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING, I KNOW Y'ALL ARE BUSY DOING THAT.
AND, UH, THOMAS, MELISSA, HAVING KNOWN Y'ALL THAT MANY YEARS, BUT I'M PROUD TO CALL Y'ALL FRIENDS AND WHAT MAGNIFICENT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS AND LEAD THIS EVENT, UH, THROUGH THE TRAGIC TIMES THAT WE HAD ON CANCELING THIS.
BUT NOW WE'RE GONNA GET OUT THERE AND DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
Y'ALL MIGHT HAVE HEARD RUMORS ABOUT ME AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS IT? UH, BEER BOOTH BABE, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO, UH, BUT ANYWAY, IT'S GREAT THE THINGS THAT Y'ALL DO, BUT LET'S NOT FORGET IT IS TIME TO LET OUR HAIR DOWN AND PARTY.
WE'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING THAT.
SO I'M EXCITED AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REST OF THIS.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND CONGRATULATIONS ON EVERYTHING THAT Y'ALL ARE ACCOMPLISHING FOR THIS, FOR THIS CITY.
COUNCIL MEMBER CUR, YOU KNOW, THE, THE TRADITION OF KING ANTONIO IS SO MUCH A PART OF FIESTA AND SO MUCH A PART OF THE, THE CULTURE OF SAN ANTONIO.
I COMMEND ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO SUPPORT THE RAISING OF MONEY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS TO HELP SO MANY GREAT CHILDREN, UH, YOUNG PEOPLE MOVE ON.
UH, AND I REALLY ENJOYED MANY, MANY TIMES THE ARRIVAL OF KING ANTONIO AT THE SCHOOLS I WORKED AT.
I WAS AT HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND THEN AT, UH, LITTLE FLOWER SCHOOL.
AND WHEN YOU ALL SHOWED UP, UH, THE KIDS WOULD LIGHT UP.
IT, IT WAS JUST SUCH A FUN AND FESTIVE OCCASION.
SO, UH, I WISH YOU ALL WELL IN CONTINUING TO DO THAT AND TO BRING JOY AND, AND FUN INTO THE LIVES OF ALL OF THE CHILDREN THAT YOU VISIT ALL DURING THE YEAR.
BUT KING ANTONIO'S A PRETTY COOL GUY, BUT YOU KNOW, THIS RAY FAO BUNCH IS A LITTLE BIT
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BETTER.NO ONE, NO ONE ELSE CORRECTED ME UP HERE.
THANKS FOR LEAVING ME OUT TO DRY.
YOU KNOW, I MEANT, YOU KNOW, I MEANT YOU.
OKAY, I GOTTA GO FIND A PLACE TO HIDE NOW.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.
UM, LET, LET ME, UH, PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE, UM, TO, UH, CRUZ ORTIZ FOR NOT RECOGNIZING HIM WHEN HE WALKED IN.
UM, I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU SHAVED
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAKING THIS A GREAT CELEBRATION.
I, I THINK WE'VE SAID A LOT ALREADY OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT THIS FIESTA IS.
I, I, I AGREE WITH COUNCIL MEMBER PIAS IN THE SENSE THAT THIS MAY BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT, IF NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THAT WE'VE HAD IN OUR LIFETIMES.
AND SO I COMMEND YOU FOR YOUR, YOUR PERSISTENCE, UM, YOUR, YOUR FAITH THAT THIS COULD HAPPEN.
UH, AND I ALSO, AGAIN, WANT TO TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO THANK EVERYBODY IN THIS COMMUNITY.
UH, OUR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, FRONTLINE WORKERS, THE NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING SO HARD, SOME OF THEM THROUGH THE MOST TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES, TO GET US TO A POINT WHERE WE CAN NOW BEGIN TO, TO CELEBRATE, UH, LIFE RETURNING AGAIN.
UH, AND THERE IS NOT A MORE WELCOME SITE IN MY MIND IN SAN ANTONIO THAN SEEING THE COURT OF VAL EO, ALONG WITH THE KIN ANTONIO'S COURT WALKING THROUGH OUR STREETS IN PREPARATION FOR A CELEBRATION.
UM, IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING AND TO EVERYONE OUT IN OUR COMMUNITY, VIVA FIESTA VIVA.
ALRIGHT, UM, WE'RE NOW GONNA GET INTO
[CONSENT AGENDA]
OUR AGENDA TODAY, AND WE'VE GOT, UM, WE'VE GOT A FEW NOTES FOR THE AGENDA TODAY.AND THAT IS THAT ITEMS 16 AND 17 HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN AND ARE NOT GOING TO BE CONSIDERED TODAY.
UH, THE REST OF OUR ITEMS ARE LISTED FOR CONSENT.
UH, WE HAVE NO INDIVIDUAL ITEMS TODAY, SO I'LL ASK MY COLLEAGUES FIRST IF THERE ARE ANY ITEMS TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA, UH, FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
UM, I HAVE ITEM 22, UM, MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO PULL ITEM NUMBER FOUR.
UH, ITEM NUMBER 21, MAYOR ITEM 21.
I I, ITEM NUMBER, UH, WHAT NUMBER IS THAT? I, 18.
I HAVE ITEMS 4, 18, 21, 22, AND 28 FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
ARE, IS THAT ALL? UM, IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER, LET ME KNOW NOW.
OTHERWISE I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THERE WAS A MOTION ONCE WE HAVE THE SECOND.
I DIDN'T HEAR A SECOND ON THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THAT'S ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR 4 18, 21, 22, AND 28.
ALRIGHT, WE WILL, UH, ENTERTAIN DISCUSSION NOW ON THESE ITEMS. NOT, WE'RE NOT VOTING YET.
UM, WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.
I JUST WANTED TO, UH, GO AHEAD AND ADD ON ITEM 13, WHICH IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING CITY COUNCIL PROJECT FUND GRANT, UH, IN HONOR OF CHOCO GONZALEZ MESA, UH, FOR A POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR SCHOLARSHIP AT ST.
UH, I THINK THIS IS A WONDERFUL ACTION TAKEN BY THE COUNCIL.
I WANT TO ADD THE SUPPORT OF MY OFFICE, DISTRICT NINE, UH, TO GO ALONG WITH DISTRICTS 5, 3, 4, 6, AND 10.
UH, WE HAD TO WAIT UNTIL I WAS REELECTED AFTER SATURDAY TO BE ABLE TO ADD, UH, OUR OFFICE TO THIS, BUT I'M REALLY HONORED TO DO THAT.
I KNOW I KNEW CHOCO MESA FOR MANY YEARS.
SHE WAS A, A WONDERFUL CITIZEN OF SAN ANTONIO, AND I THINK THIS IS GREAT SCHOLARSHIP.
SO JUST WANTED TO ADD MY SUPPORT TO THAT.
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THANK YOU.UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT, EVA LEAST WHILE YOU'RE HERE, UH, I, I GOTTA TELL YOU, UM, I, I WASN'T PLANNING ON TALKING ABOUT IT, BUT I'LL, I'LL JUMP ON THAT, THAT TOPIC FIRST.
UH, YOU KNOW, I I, YOU CAME TO ME AND, UH, NO, YOU DIDN'T COME TO ME.
COUNCILWOMAN UH, GONZALEZ'S STAFF CAME TO ME AND SAID, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD LIKE, UH, SOME OF YOUR CITY COUNCIL MONEY TO BE ABLE TO THROW INTO THIS.
AND I SAID, NO, UM, YOU CAN'T HAVE ANY OF MY CITY COUNCIL MONEY FOR THIS.
YOU CAN HAVE MY FAMILY'S MONEY AND, UH, MY WIFE AND MY KIDS AND I, UH, WILL BE DONATING TO THIS.
UM, I, AND THAT'S BECAUSE YOUR MOM REALLY TOUCHED ME, UH, IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY.
UM, SHE ALWAYS TOLD ME THE HARD TRUTHS.
UM, AND, UM, SHE ALWAYS TAUGHT ME THAT IF IT'S HARD, THEN IT'S WORTH DOING.
SO, UH, I'M, UH, I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT YOU AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I ALWAYS, UH, EVERY TIME I SEE YOU, I SEE YOUR MOM IN YOU.
AND IT MAKES ME A LITTLE SAD, BUT IT ALSO MAKES ME VERY, VERY HAPPY, UH, TO SEE YOU FILL IN HER SHOES.
THE THING I DO WANNA HIGHLIGHT MAYOR ON THIS AGENDA IS, UM, THE BOB ROSS SENIOR CENTER'S NEW ROOF.
UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN TO BOB ROSS, IT IS AN OLD BUILDING.
IT'S, UH, BEING HELD TOGETHER BY TWINE AND SOME DUCT TAPE AND SOME BUBBLE GUM.
AND, UM, THEY, THEY GOT A NEW ROOF.
UH, AND, UH, I INVITE YOU ALL TO COME OUT THERE ON BINGO NIGHT OR ON BINGO DAY, ON ON WEDNESDAYS.
IT'S SOME OF THE FUNNEST, UH, BINGO YOU'LL EVER PLAY.
UH, MY SENIORS AT BOB ROSS ARE, ARE SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE PEOPLE I LOVE THE MOST.
AND, UH, I, I WANT TO TELL YOU ALL THAT I PULLED THIS, NOT JUST TO TALK ABOUT THE ROOF, BUT TO TELL YOU GUYS THAT, UM, WE GOT, THEY, THEY INVITED US ALL TO A PARTY.
UM, AND THEY'RE, THEY'VE GOT T-SHIRTS TO HAND OUT, AND ON THE FRONT IT SAYS BOB ROSS.
AND ON THE BACK IT SAYS, SENIORS GONE WILD.
UH, AND, UH, ANYWAY, THAT'S, THAT'S HOW WE ROLL IN.
UH, MY, MY BEST TO ALL THE STAFF AND THE TEAM OUT AT BOB ROSS, YOU GUYS GET A NEW ROOF, UH, WITH TODAY'S VOTE.
COUNCIL MEMBER PALAI, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
UM, VALISE, CONGRATULATIONS COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ.
I'M HOPING THAT YOUR NEW, NEW DISTRICT TWO REP, UM, WILL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO SIGN OFF ONTO THIS.
WE KNOW THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL CHANGE THE TRAJECTORY OF THE LIVES AND THE GENERATIONS TO COME.
AND SO WE ARE LOOKING SO FORWARD TO THOSE SCHOLARSHIPS BEING GIVEN OUT TO THOSE STUDENTS WHO ARE GONNA BE SITTING HERE ONE DAY MAKING DECISIONS FOR OUR CITY.
AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT IS TO COME.
I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT NUMBER 11.
NUMBER 11 IS AN ORDINANCE, UH, FOR SOME CONSTRUCTION WORK TO BE DONE AT THE CLOUD BLACK COMMUNITY CENTER BUILDING.
AND IT SPEAKS TO AN ISSUE THAT DISTRICT TWO IS TRULY TACKLING, AND THAT IS THE ISSUE OF DRAINAGE.
AND AS WE CONTINUE TO GO FORWARD, WE KNOW THAT THIS IS ONE PROJECT DURING OUR ELECTION TIME, WE ALMOST HAD SOME OF OUR CONSTITUENTS FALL IN THAT PARKING LOT BECAUSE THE WATER JUST KEPT BRINGING THE, THE, THE CONSTRUCTION UP IN THE, IT WAS JUST A, A DISASTER AREA, AND IT WAS DUE TO THE WATER.
AND SO NOW THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS, WE'RE TO GONNA TACKLE THE ISSUE OF DRAINAGE.
AND THIS IS JUST ONE OF MANY PROJECTS, BUT I REALLY WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT AND THANK MY DISTRICT TWO TEAM, UM, TI JC LIVINGSTON, UH, MR. MILLER, TK, JEANNIE ORLANDO.
THANK YOU GUYS FOR MAKING DISTRICT TWO BE THE BEST THAT IT CAN BE.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE YOUR LEADER.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, UH, ME JUST GIVING YOU GUYS SO MUCH TO WORK ON AND YOU TAKING THAT AND RUNNING WITH IT.
THANK YOU TO DISTRICT TWO, UH, FOR ALLOWING ME TO SIT HERE.
BEING ABLE TO REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY YOU WERE RAISED IN MAKES THE DIFFERENCE.
BEING ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL GOING THROUGH WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY GONE THROUGH MAKES THE DIFFERENCE.
BUT BEING ABLE TO SIT HERE AND DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO FOR YOUR COMMUNITY MAKES THE DIFFERENCE.
THIS IS WHAT WE CONTINUE TO DO.
I LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT EACH AND EVERY LAST ONE OF MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND OUR MAYOR WILL DO FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SERVE YOU DURING THIS HARDEST TIME THAT WE'VE EVER SEEN, EVER GONE THROUGH.
THANK YOU TO THE LIVES THAT CONTINUE TO SHINE EVEN IN THE DARKEST HOUR.
BUT TO EACH AND EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU STARS THAT ARE SITTING UP HERE, CONTINUE TO SHINE YOUR LIGHT ON THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN THE FUTURE WHO KNOW WHAT GOD HAS IN STORE FOR ME.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
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UH, THANK YOU MAYOR.AND, UM, THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE HIGHLIGHTED ITEM NUMBER 13, AND LET ME READ IT HERE SO THAT, UM, THE GENERAL COMMUNITY KNOWS WHAT WE'RE APPROVING TODAY.
ORDINANCE APPROVING CITY COUNCIL PROJECT FUNDS GRANT ALLOCATION IN THE AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $50,000 WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DISTRICT FIVE, DISTRICT THREE, DISTRICT FOUR, DISTRICT SIX, DISTRICT 10.
AND NOW, UH, AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM MY COUNCIL, MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.
JOHN, THEY ALWAYS SAID YOU WERE ONE OF THE GOOD ONES,
UM, AND, UH, I, I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT VERY MUCH.
UH, AND, UH, AND NOW COUNCIL MEMBER PELLY AS WELL, UH, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO SUPPORT THE CHOCO GONZALEZ MESA POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR SCHOLARSHIP AT ST.
AND THE REASON WHY THIS IS SO IMPORTANT, AND OH, LOOK, THE PICTURES, OH, I HADN'T SEEN 'EM.
I'M SURE THE FAMILY HASN'T SEEN THEM.
OH, THANKS SO MUCH FOR, UH, EMILY AND THE AV TEAM FOR BRINGING UP THESE PHOTOS SO WE CAN REMEMBER HER.
SO, UM, IN FACT, UH, MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE IN DISTRICT 10 SAID, I DIDN'T KNOW HER.
UM, AND SO WHO WAS SHE? AND SO I GOT TO TELL HIM A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT, AND HE AGREED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
UM, AND I, I AM SO GRATEFUL BECAUSE, UH, AS WE, IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP A COUPLE OF TIMES MORE RECENTLY WHEN WE HONORED, UH, DR.
CATRELL, UM, AND OF COURSE ROSIE CASTRO HAS BEEN SUCH, UH, AN, UH, INCREDIBLE FORCE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, AND AL KAUFMAN, WHOM WE HAVEN'T, WHO AS I KNOW, UH, ALWAYS AROUND, UM, IT WAS REALLY BETWEEN CHOAL AND ROSIE AND AL KAUFMAN WITH CHARLIE CATRELL AS THEIR PROFESSOR WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE, LIKE IN THEIR TWENTIES.
THEY CREATED THE 10 PLUS ONE COUNCIL, SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICT REPRESENTATION THAT WE SEE TODAY.
AND EVERY WOMAN ON THIS DA EVERY LATINO ON THIS DAAS, REALLY OWES AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF GRATITUDE TO CHUCKLE AND ST.
MARY'S UNIVERSITY FOR LEADING THE CHARGE.
UM, HER FAMILY IS WITH US TODAY.
UH, DANIELLE MESA WAS ALWAYS A VOLUNTEER ON MY TEAM, UH, WHEN CHUCKLE WAS, UH, MY CHIEF OF STAFF.
HE WAS ALWAYS VOLUNTEERING, UH, OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, AND THEY REALLY SPENT THEIR ENTIRE LIVES WORKING IN THE DISTRICT FIVE COMMUNITY.
UH, VAN MESA LIVED IN THE COLLINS GARDENS AREA ALL OF HIS LIFE, UM, AND WORKED WITH COPS METRO, HIS PARENTS WORKED IN COPS METRO WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED, UH, IN THE 1970S.
AND IT IS JUST AN INCREDIBLE FAMILY LEGACY.
UH, AND SO FITTING THAT WE PROVIDE THIS SCHOLARSHIP FUND, BECAUSE I, I FEEL LIKE IN ALL THESE YEARS, UM, THE STORY HASN'T REALLY BEEN TOLD ABOUT WHY SINGLE DISTRICTS ARE SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICTS ARE SO IMPORTANT.
AND WE USE THAT SYSTEM HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, BUT THEY ACTUALLY USE IT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT REPRESENTATION MATTERS.
AND EVERY TIME WE FIGHT FOR OUR DISTRICT, EVERY TIME WE GET A DRAINAGE PROJECTS OR A SENIOR CENTERS, UM, I'M SO EXCITED TO HEAR ABOUT SOME OF THE COMMUNITY CENTERS, UM, THAT WE HAVE APPROVED TODAY, UH, BECAUSE IT IS BECAUSE OF REPRESENTATION THAT WE HAVE THESE INCREDIBLE ASSETS IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND, UH, THAT WE GET TO SIT ON THIS DAIS, UH, AS LATINAS AND AS WOMEN.
IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF CHOAL AND THE TEAM AT ST.
MARY'S AND THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT THEY DID.
AND SO, I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR MY, ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED.
UM, I, I'LL BE BACK AGAIN NEXT YEAR, UM, AS, AS WE CONTINUE TO TRY TO RAISE MONEY FOR THIS IMPORTANT SCHOLARSHIP AND REALLY LEARNED THE HISTORY OF THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT THESE WOMEN DID, MOSTLY LED BY WOMEN, MOSTLY LED BY, OF COURSE, WOMEN OF COLOR AND, UH, AND THE INCREDIBLE TEAM AT ST.
SO THE FAMILY IS SITTING HERE, UH, DANIELLE NESA, MY INCREDIBLE STAFF MEMBER WHO'S BEEN WITH ME ALL THESE YEARS.
UH, I ACTUALLY, I SEE ALL MY STAFF HERE.
SO LET ME JUST TAKE A MOMENT, UM, JUST, AND, AND I KNOW I'LL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO DO THIS TODAY, BUT THEY'RE ALL HERE TODAY.
UM, DANIEL MASA, UH, THERESA MENENDEZ, MY INCREDIBLE STEVE CHIEF OF STAFF, UM, ROSA LINDA, WHO'S BEEN WORKING CONSTITUENT SERVICES, UH, FOR MANY YEARS NOW.
UH, VICTOR LAMBA, WHO IS MY COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, UH, ARE ALL HERE TODAY.
AND I DON'T SEE JEAN, UM, HE'S NOT HERE THIS MORNING.
I, I, I'M NOT SURE WHERE, WHERE JEAN IS, BUT THEY'LL BE HERE, UM, UH, ON TUESDAY.
UM, AND, UH, I DON'T SEE DORA EITHER, BUT ANYWAY, THEY'LL BE HERE LATER.
SO, UM, I JUST WANT TO REALLY THANK MY COLLEAGUES AND THE MAYOR FOR THEIR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
UM, I HOPE THAT, THAT THE HISTORY REMAINS AND THAT THE STORIES RE UH, THAT WE KEEP TELLING THEM, AND WE KEEP REMINDING ALL OF THE WOMEN AND ALL OF THE LATINOS THAT HAVE SERVED, UH, ON THIS DAIS,
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REALLY THE REASON THAT THEY GET TO SERVE.THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, MAYOR, FOR ALLOWING ME TO, TO, UH, GO ON AND, UM, ESPECIALLY THANKFUL TO THE FAMILY FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
JUST WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO SAY THAT I'M, I'M PROUD TO HAVE CONTRIBUTED, UM, SOME FUNDS FROM DISTRICT SIX.
I HAD THE HONOR OF MEETING, UH, CHOCO AND, UM, SHE WAS A FORCE AND I WAS JUST HAPPY TO BE AROUND HER.
SO, UM, I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY.
UM, MR. MESSA, YOU LOOK, YOU DON'T LOOK A DAY OLDER THAN ANY OF THESE PICTURES.
UM, BUT THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SERVICE, BOTH YOU, ELISE AND, AND MR. MESA, AND, UM, ALL OF THE STAFF, ALL OF THE DISTRICT FIVE STAFF, UM, FOR DISTRICT THREE STAFF FOR THAT MATTER.
I JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DID.
UM, AS A POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJOR, UH, GRADUATE OF ST.
MARY'S, I ALSO AM THANKFUL AS A PERSON SITTING ON THIS DA TODAY BECAUSE OF CHOKOM MESA.
I'M THANKFUL, SO I APPRECIATE, UH, EVERYTHING THAT, THAT Y'ALL HAVE DONE, THAT SHE HAS DONE.
AND THANK YOU, SHIRLEY, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO EVEN, UH, GIVE TO THIS, I'M SORRY, COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ
UM, BUT I HA I WANNA HIGHLIGHT ITEM 12.
UM, I HIGHLIGHT THIS ITEM TO THANK THE CITY, MY STAFF ON THE GREAT NORTHWEST HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION FOR WORKING TOGETHER CLOSELY ON FLOOD MITIGATION, WHICH WILL HELP CURRENT DISTRICT SIX HOMEOWNERS, AS WELL AS HELPING OUR HIKE AND BIKE TRAILS.
I'M GRATEFUL TO SEE EROSION OPPORTUNE CONTROL OPPORTUNITIES IN THIS, UH, ITEM AS WELL, BECAUSE THIS HAS BECOME AN INCREASINGLY MOUNTING ISSUE ALONG THE MANY CREEK BANKS ABUTTING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THIS AREA.
BRIANS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GREAT NORTHWEST, WHICH BY THE WAY, IS THE SECOND LARGEST H O A IN THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS, AND HAPPENS TO BE WHERE I GREW UP, HAD THIS TO SAY IN SUPPORT AS THE CHAIRMAN, I KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF STRONG INFRASTRUCTURE AND ITS ABILITY TO MAINTAIN, GROW, AND SAFEGUARD A COMMUNITY.
INVESTING IN THE COLLIBRA CREEK GREENWAY WILL NOT ONLY ENHANCE CONNECTIVITY AMONG OUR SEVEN SUBDIVISIONS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BUT IMPROVE DRAINAGE CONDITIONS THAT CURRENTLY IMPERIL THE RESIDENTS THAT ABUT THE CREEK.
I ASK FOR THE COMMITMENT OF YOU AND YOUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO INVEST IN THE FUTURE OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST BY ENSURING THAT OUR HOMES ARE ADEQUATELY PROTECTED FROM WATER CHANNELED THROUGH THE AREA.
I'M PROUD TO DELIVER THIS ITEM TO THE RESIDENTS OF DISTRICT SIX, AND I ASK FOR MY COLLEAGUE SUPPORT.
COUNCIL MEMBER COVEO HDA, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL.
UH, FIRST OF ALL, IT'S GREAT TO SEE, UH, MARY JANE HERE FROM THE, UH, FROM THE PARKS FOUNDATION.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US AND FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU DO, MARY JANE.
AND I'M ALSO GLAD TO SEE THE LIBERTY CREEK PROJECT MOVING ALONG.
UH, SO THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING THAT, COUNCILWOMAN.
I ALSO, UH, WANTED TO THANK COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ FOR, UH, TAKING THE LEAD ON THIS SCHOLARSHIP, UH, FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJORS, LATINA POLITICAL SCIENCE MAJORS IN ST.
MARY'S, WHICH IS, UH, OF COURSE, UH, A POINT OF PRIDE IN IN DISTRICT SEVEN.
SO I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR, FOR CHOOSING THAT.
UM, I OFTEN WONDER, UH, I WISH I HAD MAJORED IN SOMETHING LIKE POLITICAL SCIENCE EVER SINCE I'VE TAKEN THIS JOB
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, FOR DOING THAT.
AND WE WILL ALSO BE SUPPORTING YOUR, YOUR INITIATIVE.
A COUPLE OF ITEMS I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT TODAY.
AND ITEM NUMBER EIGHT MAY SOUND SIMPLE BECAUSE IT'S AN ORDINANCE RATIFYING THE PURCHASE OF BOTTLED WATER, BUT IT IS PURCHASING THE BOTTLED WATER FOR SAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND, UM, AND OTHER SMALL BUSINESSES AND OTHER BUSINESSES HERE IN SAN ANTONIO DURING THE FEBRUARY FREEZE.
THANK YOU, ERIC AND TEAM, BECAUSE WHEN WE KNEW WE ARE, WE WERE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH OUR WATER, YOU ALL STEPPED UP AUTOMATICALLY AND KNEW THAT OUR COMMUNITY NEEDED HELP.
AND THIS, AGAIN, IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW SAN ANTONIO LOOKS OUT FOR SAN ANTONIO, AND IT WAS, IT WAS A RELIEF THAT THESE COMPANIES, THESE BUSINESSES, THESE NON-PROFITS, COULD COME TO THE CITY WHEN THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHERE ELSE TO GO.
AND I WANNA JUST CONTINUE, I JUST WANNA ADVOCATE THAT WE CONTINUE THIS AND WE CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY.
I ALSO, OF COURSE, WANT TO HIGHLIGHT AND, UH, THERE ARE SOME MORE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE DOING WITH STINSON.
I'M GLAD TO CONTINUE TO INVEST IN A STINSON AIRPORT.
AND THEN, UM, ALSO OF COURSE, HIGHLIGHT OUR CHUCK MEA SCHOLARSHIP
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FUND.SHE IS A FOUR STILL TO BE RECKONED WITH.
UM, AND SHE HAS THE STORIES THAT, AS YOU MENTIONED, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, THAT NEED TO BE TOLD.
AND WHAT AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO DO THIS ON YOUR LAST COUNCIL DAY, BECAUSE SHE WAS WITH YOU, DAY ONE, HELPING YOU AND DRAGGING YOU EVERYWHERE ON THE CAMPAIGN, UH, TRAIL ON THAT FIRST, UM, IN 2013, DRAGGING YOU EVERYWHERE, MAKING SURE YOU CALLED EVERYONE, MAKING SURE YOU DID EVERYTHING YOU NEEDED TO DO, AND WHAT SHE DID, ABSOLUTELY INSTILLED WHERE YOU ARE AND WHERE YOUR DAUGHTER'S GOING TO BE, AND YOUR BOYS ARE GONNA BE IN THE FUTURE, AND ALL OF US UP HERE.
SO IT WAS MY HONOR TO, UM, CONTRIBUTE TO THIS OF YES, BEING A, A, YOU KNOW, AN ALUM OF ST.
AND, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, UH, YOU ALL THE FAMILY HERE AND ALL YOUR TEAM JUST, WE SEE IT IN VALISE EVERY SINGLE DAY.
UM, ALTHOUGH SHE DOESN'T PUSH ME LITERALLY AS HARD AS YOUR MOM DID, UM, STILL SHE IS HERE WORKING AND IS ANOTHER LEGACY HERE, AND THIS IS GOING TO BE CONTINUING LEGACY.
YOU KNOW, I MET A GREAT GUY ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL A RECENTLY, AND HE MOVED TO SAN ANTONIO FROM AUSTIN, AND HE LIVED IN AUSTIN FOR 40 YEARS.
AND BEFORE HE MOVED TO AUSTIN TO SAN ANTONIO, HE WATCHED OUR COUNCIL MEETINGS, UH, TO SEE HOW WE GOVERNED OUR CITY.
AND HE TOLD ME, HE, HE, WE WERE A WELL RUN ORGANIZATION AT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AND HE KNEW IT WAS THE RIGHT PLACE TO, TO MOVE BECAUSE HE NEEDED, HE WANTED TO GET OUT OF AUSTIN, AND HE WAS SO COMPLIMENTARY OF SO MANY CITY STAFF, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, HE SAID, WE NEED TO LEAVE IT TO A SAN ANTONIO WOMAN TO GET THE THINGS DONE, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT HE HAD SEEN, THINGS WERE GETTING DONE.
AND SO, THANK YOU, UH, FOR THIS, THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE.
I WILL SAY CHOTE, AND YES, AND, UH, THANK YOU AS WELL TO COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ANDREW SULLIVAN FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR DEDICATION, AND WE HONOR YOU AS WELL.
I JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF ITEMS, 26 AND 27.
UM, WHAT I WANTED TO SAY IS THIS, THIS SHOWS THE STRENGTHENING OF OUR COMMITMENT TO THE MILITARY HERE ON, UH, LICENSING THIS LAND FOR GROUTING GATE, UH, AND SETTING UP THIS CONTRACT FOR COMBINING, UH, TWO CONTRACTS INTO ONE SO THAT, UH, WE CAN WORK OUT, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL LAND, UM, PURCHASES, ACQUISITIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD HERE AT SAN ANTONIO, AT KELLY, OR NOW JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO.
SO, JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, HEY, WE'RE MILITARY CITY U S A, AND WE AIM TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.
AND I WANT TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER GRO FOR BRINGING UP THE OTHERWISE INCONSPICUOUS ITEM ABOUT THE WATER BOTTLES.
IT DOES, AGAIN, SHOW, UM, OR REMIND US, UH, WHAT WE WERE GOING THROUGH AND HOW QUICKLY OUR STAFF SNAP TO ACTION.
BUT THE PART THAT, THAT I WAS VERY PLEASED TO SEE ON THAT ITEM, UM, THAT I THINK IS WORTH HIGHLIGHTING IS THAT, UM, WE PROCURED THOSE WATER BOTTLES LOCALLY.
UH, KEEPING AS MANY OF OUR DOLLARS LOCAL AS POSSIBLE TO HELP ENCOURAGE GROWTH AND EN ENCOURAGE LOCAL EMPLOYMENT AND MAKE SURE THAT THOSE WAGES STAY WITHIN SAN ANTONIO IS SOMETHING THAT TAKES A GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT AND IN THE MIDST OF THE CRISIS WITH STILL BEING CONSIDERED.
SO I DO WANT TO THANK CITY STAFF, UH, FOR THAT AS WELL.
UM, AND, AND LEMME JUST SAY, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, UM, OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, I'VE GROWN, UH, MORE AND MORE INSPIRED BY YOU, UH, EVERY SINGLE DAY.
UM, WE'VE NOT ALWAYS AGREED ON EVERYTHING, UM, BUT THE LEVEL OF, OF THOUGHTFULNESS AND, AND CLARITY THAT YOU BRING TO THIS DAIS, UH, I'M GONNA MISS TREMENDOUSLY.
UM, AND, AND SO I WAS VERY PROUD TO SIGN ON TO YOUR, UM, YOUR C C R.
OBVIOUSLY, ANYBODY WHO'S EVER MET CHOKO MESA, UH, KNOWS THE MOMENT IN TIME WHERE THEY MET HER, UH, AND KNOWS THAT THAT, UH, HAS LEFT A PERMANENT IMPRINT ON THEM.
I'M GRATEFUL FOR, UM, HOW MUCH SHE DEVOTED TO THIS COMMUNITY, UM,
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AND, AND THE LEGACY THAT SHE'S LEFT, UH, AND THE FAMILY THAT CONTINUES THAT LEGACY BECAUSE, UM, YOU'RE RIGHT, THE CITY HAS CHANGED.UH, THE CITY HAS CHANGED THE COUNTRY, AND THERE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT ESTABLISHED THAT AND MOVED, UH, US IN THAT DIRECTION.
IN, IN CHOCO, IF THERE WAS A MOUNT RUSHMORE IN SAN ANTONIO WOULD CERTAINLY BE ON IT.
AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE ARE COMMEMORATING HER IN THAT MANNER TODAY.
UM, SO THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
ALRIGHT, UH, WE DO HAVE A, A CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM REMAINING ON CONSENT.
I, UM, MARY JANE VERT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME UP? GOOD MORNING AND THANK YOU.
THE SAN ANTONIO PARKS FOUNDATION IS CELEBRATING OUR 40TH YEAR OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN OUR COMMUNITY BY MAKING OUR PARKS EVEN BETTER.
WE STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE IN ALL PARKS AND WE HAVE A SPECIAL PASSION FOR THE JAPANESE TEA GARDEN.
WE COLLABORATE WITH ALL OF THE STAKEHOLDERS IN OUR AREA.
WE HAVE FULLY ENGAGED THE JINGU FAMILY DESCENDANTS INTO PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING IN THE FUTURE, SO THAT WE ALWAYS OFFER A VARIETY OF MULTICULTURAL EVENTS, BE THAT THROUGH MUSIC OR CULINARY EXPERIENCES, OR JUST SIMPLY BEING IN A PARK AND ENJOYING IT.
WE ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO THE LAUNCH OF THE MOST CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE ENGAGED TO DEVELOP THE AUGMENTED REALITY PROJECT.
TO TELL THE STORY OF THE JAPANESE TEA GARDEN.
IT WILL BE LAUNCHED THIS FALL IN OCTOBER, AND WE'RE SO EXCITED TO TELL THE STORY THAT LILA COCKRELL HAD PUT IN MOTION MANY YEARS AGO.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAITH IN OUR LEADERSHIP.
WE CONSIDER IT A GREAT HONOR TO BE STEWARDS OF THIS CITY TREASURE.
ALRIGHT, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE, THE CONSENT AGENDA.
THAT'S ALL ITEMS SAY FOR 4 18, 21, 22, AND 28.
I DON'T HAVE YOU IN MY QUEUE, JACK, PLEASE VOTE.
HE DIDN'T, HE DIDN'T PROPERLY SIGN.
[4. 21-3166 Ordinance approving a contract with SHI Government Solutions, Inc., to provide product licensing, implementation and development services for a digital referral and case management platform to provide SA: Ready to Work and the Department of Human Services with product licensing, implementation and development services for a digital referral and case management platform for a total contract value of $665,925.00 over a five year period. Funding for the initial implementation in the amount of $202,125.00 is available from the FY 2021 Information Technology Services Department Capital Budget. Funding for subsequent fiscal years is subject to City Council approval of the annual budget. [Ben Gorzell, Chief Financial Officer; Troy Elliott, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Finance]]
ITEM FOUR IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A CONTRACT WITH S H I, GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS INC.TO PROVIDE PRODUCT LICENSING, IMPLEMENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR A DIGITAL REFERRAL AND CASE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM TO PROVIDE ESSAY READY TO WORK AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES WITH PRODUCT LICENSING, IMPLEMENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR A DIGITAL REFERRAL AND CASE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR A TOTAL CONTRACT VALUE OF $665,925 OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD FUNDING FOR THE INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION.
AND THE AMOUNT OF $202,125 IS AVAILABLE FROM THE FISCAL YEAR 2021.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, CAPITAL BUDGET FUNDING FOR SUBSEQUENT FISCAL YEARS IS SUBJECT TO CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL OF THE ANNUAL BUDGET.
UH, CAN WE DO THE STAFF PRESENTATION FIRST? OH, OF COURSE, YES.
AND SO, UH, GOOD MORNING MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
SO I DO HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION.
UM, I'LL RUN THROUGH THAT AND THEN WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE ABOUT THE ITEM.
AND SO, AS BACKGROUND, THE HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN PARTNERING WITH THE UNITED WAY GRONKOWSKI FOUNDATION AND THE SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION FOR SEVERAL YEARS TO COORDINATE COMMUNITY FUNDING OF SOCIAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
UM, BY INCREASING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE, THE FUNDING GROUPS, IDENTIFYING DUPLICATIVE E EFFORTS, AND ALSO GAPS IN SERVICES AND IMPACTING PUBLIC POLICY FOR TRUE SYSTEMS CHANGE.
EARLY ON, WE IDENTIFIED THAT A MULTI-AGENCY DATA SHARING SYSTEM WAS A KEY COMPONENT TO THIS EFFORT BEING SUCCESSFUL.
AND SO DEVELOPMENT OF A DIGITAL REFERRAL AND CASE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM WAS ADOPTED IN THE C OVID 19 COMMUNITY RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY PLAN IN JUNE OF 2020 TO, TO HELP ADDRESS THE INCREASED DEMAND FOR CITY SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES, UM, AND WORKFORCE SERVICES BROUGHT
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ON BY THE PANDEMIC AND TO IMPROVE INTEGRATION OF RESOURCES AND SERVICES ACROSS CITY DEPARTMENTS.ALSO TO, UM, THIS END, I T S D AND D H SS, METRO HEALTH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING AND SERVICES COORDINATED TO IDENTIFY A SINGLE PLATFORM TO COORDINATE SERVICES AND AGGREGATE DATA ACROSS THE CITY AND OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
THE REFERRAL PLATFORM IS CURRENTLY IN USE BY GRONKOWSKI FOUNDATION, THE UNITED WAY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.
AND THIS INCLUDES 42 COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES AGENCIES THAT ALSO INCLUDE 23 OF OUR OWN DELEGATE AGENCIES CURRENTLY ARE CURRENTLY USING THIS PLATFORM.
THE ADDITION OF THE CASE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM WILL PROVIDE HUMAN SERVICES AND THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE WITH A SINGLE SERVICE DATA AND REPORTING PLATFORM.
THIS WILL ALLOW US TO AGGREGATE PARTICIPANT DATA, DISAGGREGATE DATA TO FACILITATE EQUITY, TRACK INDIVIDUAL OUTCOMES OVER TIME AND MONITOR PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS.
THE PLATFORM WILL ALLOW FOR REFERRALS TO BE SECURELY SENT AND TRACKED, UM, TO FACILITATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PARTICIPATING PROVIDERS AND THE SYSTEM WILL BE AVAILABLE TO CONTRACTUAL PARTNERS OF THE SA READY TO WORK PROGRAM.
FURTHER, IT HAS THE CAPACITY FOR EXPANSION TO MOST CITY SOCIAL HEALTH, HOUSING, EDUCATION, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, INCLUDING TO ALL OF OUR DELEGATE AGENCIES.
AS THE COUNCIL TODAY, WE ARE REQUESTING APPROVAL OF A CONTRACT WITH S H I GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS TO DEVELOP A CASE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FAMILY SERVICES PROGRAMS. AND THE SA READY TO WORK PROGRAM, THE ANTICIPATED TOTAL CONTRACT VALUE IS $665,925.
OVER THE FIVE YEAR PERIOD, FUNDING FOR AN INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION OF $202,000 IS AVAILABLE FROM THE I T S D CAPITAL BUDGET.
THIS INCLUDES APPROXIMATELY 30,000 IN CONTINGENCY FUNDING, WHICH CAN BE USED TO, UM, HELP US SUPPORT EXTERNAL PARTNER SYSTEM INTEGRATION.
CONTRACT COSTS WILL BE SHARED EVENLY BETWEEN READY TO WORK AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.
THE YEAR ONE COST IS $101,000, AND THEN AFTER THAT, YEAR'S TWO THROUGH FOUR, THE COST IS SEVEN, UH, 57,000 EACH.
THE READY TO WORK BUDGET APPROVED IN MAY INCLUDED 250,000 PER YEAR FOR THE CASE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM.
THE CITY, UH, ISSUED A REQUEST FOR OFFER ON APRIL THE 20TH OF THIS YEAR.
AN OFFER, UM, SUBMITTED BY S H I GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEXAS BUYBACK BY BOARD CONTRACT.
UM, S H I IS A SOFTWARE RESELLER.
SIGNIFY HEALTH IS THE, UM, SERVICE PLATFORM, SOFTWARE SERVICE PLATFORM BEING PROCURED THROUGH S H I GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS.
AND SO STAFF IS ARE RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF THE CONTRACT TO PROVIDE LICENSING, IMPLEMENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CASE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM.
AND, UH, THERE ARE SEVERAL OF US HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
UM, AND, AND THANK YOU, UH, TO MY COLLEAGUES.
UM, I KNOW THAT I, UH, HAVE SPOKEN WITH A FEW OF YOU BRIEFLY ABOUT THIS, BUT I WANTED THE FULL PRESENTATION SO THAT WE COULD UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT IS GOING ON.
AND SO LAST WEEK, UM, SOME OF THE PARTNERS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE, UM, CONTRACTING WITH THE READY TO WORK PROGRAM WERE BRIEFED ON THE, ON THE PLATFORM.
AND SO, UM, I WANTED TO KIND OF SET THE CONTEXT FOR YOU ALL.
SO ON APRIL THE 30TH, WE HAD A MEETING WITH READY TO WORK ADVISORY BOARD, AND, UM, WE ASKED FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECAUSE WE, UM, WEREN'T TOO COMFORTABLE JUST YET WITH THE DIRECTION OF THE PLATFORM.
AND SO I RECOMMENDED A SUBCOMMITTEE BE CREATED SPECIFICALLY TO LOOK AT THE TECHNOLOGY, UM, THAT MIGHT WORK FOR THIS OR MIGHT NOT.
UH, AND WE WERE IN THE PROCESS AND WE ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS.
AND, AND MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, REBECCA VRAN SITS ON THE COMMITTEE AS WELL OF CREATING A COMMITTEE.
IT INSTEAD WAS BROUGHT BACK TO THE READY TO WORK COMMITTEE ON MAY THE 27TH.
AND THERE WAS STILL A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE, THE FUNCTIONALITY ASPECT.
UM, AT THAT TIME, THE NONPROFIT PARTNERS HAD NOT BEEN INFORMED JUST YET.
I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND WHY, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHO OUR PARTNERS WILL BE IN THIS PROGRAM.
UM, WE HAVE STILL SOME UNKNOWNS REGARDING THE FUNCTIONALITY, THE INTEGRATION OF THE SYSTEM.
I'VE HAD EXPERIENCE FIRSTHAND, UH, IN A NONPROFIT, UH, KNOWING AND KNOWING HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR THE DATA TRANSFER, KNOWING THAT IT TAKES AT LEAST TWO STAFF MEMBERS WHEN NONPROFITS ARE ALREADY UNDERSTAFFED,
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KNOWING THAT THE READY TO WORK PROGRAM IS, UM, A ALREADY KIND OF A ALL HANDS ON DECK MOVEMENT, AND WE NEED TO CONTINUE THE FOCUS ON HELPING OUR STUDENTS AND GETTING THEM THROUGH THE READY TO WORK PROGRAM.I DIDN'T THINK THAT IT WAS FAIR TO IMPLEMENT A NEW, UH, DATA INTEGRATION OR DATA MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR WHOEVER IT IS THAT WE EVENTUALLY CONTRACTED WITH.
AND SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL WERE AWARE OF THIS BECAUSE READY TO WORK WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS PLACED, UH, IN THE TRUST OF US.
AND SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE AND OUR STEWARDS OF EVERYTHING.
SINCE THEN, UM, I HAVE ALSO CONTACTED SOME OF THE POTENTIAL PARTNERS, NOT TO SAY THAT THEY WOULD BE THE ONES THAT WOULD BE PARTNERING WITH US, UM, BUT I HAVE RECEIVED SOME ADDITIONAL CONCERNS AND MY THEORY, UM, PROVED TO BE TO BE TRUE.
AND SO, UM, THE NONPROFIT PARTNERS THAT I CONSULTED WITH ARE WORRIED ABOUT, UH, IT BEING A BARRIER FOR STUDENTS.
AND AGAIN, TAKING THE FOCUS AWAY.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY, AND I WANTED TO ASK TODAY, UM, IF WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO BACK AND, AND TALK TO THEM AND ANSWER ALL THEIR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DATA INTEGRATION, ABOUT THE STAFFING REQUIREMENTS, WHAT WOULD IT DO? DO WE HAVE TO MOVE ON THIS NOW? IS THERE A REASON? UM, AND THEN I ALSO WANTED TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT SS H I, UH, THERE'S 42 AGENCIES WHO USE IT.
AND, UM, IN THE PRESENTATION TODAY, THERE IS, UH, A POTENTIAL FOR EXPANSION.
I'M WONDERING IF OF THOSE 42 AGENCIES, ARE ANY OF THE ONES THAT WE MIGHT POTENTIALLY PARTNER WITH OR ALREADY, ARE THEY ALREADY USING THEM? OR IS EVERYBODY THAT'S GOING TO BE APPLYING, GOING TO HAVE TO START FROM SCRATCH? THOSE ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT THAT CAME ABOUT.
UM, SPECIFICALLY, UM, ALSO, I'M, UH, WORRIED SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
AND I KNOW THERE'S INTERVIEWS GOING ON THIS WEEK FOR THE NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UM, BUT THEY HAVEN'T MADE A DECISION YET, RIGHT? AND SO, SO THINGS HAVEN'T MOVED.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT PERSON, IF THERE'S TIME TO STILL CONSULT THAT PERSON, BUT REALLY IT'S, UM, IT'S THE IMPLEMENTATION.
SO WE KNOW, AND I, I KNOW AGAIN, FROM FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE, UM, IN ONE OF THE NONPROFITS, IT TOOK ABOUT SIX MONTHS TO DO A DATA TRANSFER AND A CORRECT DATA DUMP, IF YOU WILL, UH, FROM ONE PLATFORM TO ANOTHER.
UM, THERE WAS AN WHERE THE NONPROFIT HAD DONE THIS, UM, AND THEN ABOUT A YEAR LATER THERE WAS A PROGRAM REQUESTED BY THE CITY TO BE DONE AGAIN.
AND SO WE HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT SAME PROFIT PROCESS AGAIN.
AND THEN LESS THAN TWO YEARS LATER, IT SEEMS LIKE THE SYSTEM WASN'T USED ANYMORE.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE USE OUR TIME WISELY.
UM, THERE'S STILL CONCERNS ABOUT THE ROLLOUT PLAN.
IS THERE AVAILABILITY FOR TECH SUPPORT? A LOT OF THE NONPROFITS DON'T HAVE, UM, IT PEOPLE.
SO WE WERE REASSURED THAT YES, THERE'S GONNA BE STAFF SUPPORT, THAT THERE'S GONNA BE SOMEONE FROM IT THAT, UH, KIND OF WAS HANDHOLDING, IF YOU WILL, THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.
UM, BUT THERE'S STILL SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT WHEN DOES THIS GO LIVE? IS THERE GONNA BE A DEMO? DO WE HAVE TO HAVE A DEDICATED STAFF PERSON THAT KNOWS THE BACKENDS OF, UM, I T SS D ISSUES IN ORDER TO TO, TO MAKE THE SUCCESSFUL? OR IS IT JUST GONNA BE DATA ENTRY PERSONS? UM, HOW MANY DATA ENTRY PEOPLE WILL IT REQUIRE TO DO THIS? SO I WANT TO BRING UP THE, THE ISSUES THAT I'VE HEARD AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I, THAT I'VE, UH, I'M MOST CONCERNED WITH.
I SINCE LEARNED, AND I TALKED TO ERIC ON MONDAY, AND HE, UM, REMINDED ME THAT THIS IS THE ALAMO AREA COUNCIL OR COMMUNITY NETWORK THAT THIS IS TIED INTO, AND THAT EVENTUALLY ALL OF THE NONPROFITS ARE MOVING TO USE THIS.
SO IT'S KIND OF A JUMPSTART THE WAY THAT I SEE IT TO USE THIS.
HOWEVER, I DON'T KNOW IF THE AGENCIES THAT WOULD BE APPLYING FOR THE REST OF THE CONTRACT ARE UNITED WAY AGENCIES AND WILL EVENTUALLY HAVE TO USE THIS, OR IS THIS JUST TEMPORARY? SO, UM, I, I GUESS, UM, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS, OR I GUESS THE FIRST QUESTION IS, IF WE DELAYED THIS TODAY, WHAT WOULD THAT DO? HOW FAR WOULD IT SET US BACK? WELL, COUNCILMAN, LET ME, LET ME TRY TO UNPACK SOME OF THAT.
UH, WHAT YOU, UM, WHICH YOU KIND OF LAID OUT, NUMBER ONE.
UH, I, I THINK WE ALL NEED TO TAKE A STEP BACK.
THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT READY TO WORK.
UH, THIS WAS A RECOMMENDATION GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE POVERTY REPORT PRODUCED TO THE COUNCIL, UH, PRIOR TO THE COVID, UM, A REFERRAL SYSTEM, A CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WOULD'VE BEEN THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD THIS TIME LAST YEAR AS WE WERE DEALING WITH EMERGENCY HOUSING, UM, UH, DIRECT CASH ASSISTANCE, SMALL BUSINESSES, UM, UH, CHILDCARE, UH, ISSUES, AS WE WERE GOING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC, WE, WE WERE DOING MOST OF THAT MANUALLY.
AND, AND YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE CONTEXT.
WITH THE COUNCIL OF THE K GRONKOWSKI FOUNDATION APPROACH, THE CITY, UNITED WAY, AND OTHER MAJOR PROVIDERS ABOUT AN INVESTMENT THEY WERE GONNA MAKE INTO THE REFERRAL
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SYSTEM, THE INFRASTRUCTURE.UM, AND, AND WE AGREED TO BE PART OF THAT, AND IT CONNECTED US.
UM, VERY OFTEN WHAT HAPPENS, AND IT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY IT WAS IN THE POVERTY REPORT, VERY OFTEN WHAT HAPPENS IS SOMEBODY IT COMES, GOES SOMEWHERE FOR HELP, BUT NEEDS SOME, SOME OTHER TYPE OF HELP.
AND, UM, AND, AND, AND, AND WHETHER IT'S INTERNAL TO THE CITY OR EXTERNAL TO THE CITY, OR, UM, IS BETWEEN UNITED WAY AGENCIES, THE HANDOFF IS WHERE THE FUMBLES HAPPEN.
UM, AND THE REFERRAL SYSTEM MAKES SURE THAT THAT DELIVERY IS HAND IS, IS DONE AND TRACKED FROM A CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, EMERGENCY HOUSING, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, TRACKING THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH.
AS WE GO THROUGH THE BUDGET THIS SUMMER, WE WILL BE BRINGING FORWARD RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE DELEGATE AGENCY FUNDING FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
IT IS A, UM, A, UH, UH, AN ANNUAL, UH, DISCUSSION WITHIN THE COUNCIL ABOUT THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT AND THE SUCCESS MEASURES.
AND SO WE BELIEVE THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO UTILIZE A SYSTEM LIKE THIS TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE THINK WE'RE NOT ONLY ALIGNING OUR INTERNAL RESOURCES, BUT ALSO ALIGNING WITH EXTERNAL AGENCIES.
UM, NUMBER TWO, I THINK THAT, UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE, IT'S ABOUT PROVIDING THE ASSISTANCE TO WHOEVER'S LOOKING FOR IT, REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY GET INTO THE SYSTEM.
THE CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, UM, IS AGNOSTIC, UM, AS WE GO THROUGH THE SOLICITATIONS, UH, WHETHER IT BE DELEGATE AGENCIES OR WHETHER IT BE READY FOR WORK.
UM, THERE, THERE ARE OTHER SYSTEMS OUT THERE AND WE'VE SET ASIDE MONEY.
AND THAT'S, I THINK, UH, MEL SAID THAT IN THE PRESENTATION.
WE'VE SET ASIDE MONEY TO HELP THE AGENCIES INTEGRATE INTO IT.
IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE THE SYSTEM, BUT I THINK AGENCIES OVER TIME ARE GONNA HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT TYPE OF SYSTEMS THEY USE.
BUT IF THEY CHOOSE NOT TO, THEN WE WILL FUND THE INTEGRATION INTO THIS SYSTEM BECAUSE WE JUST WANT THE DATA.
IT'S NOT, WE, WE DON'T WANT TO CREATE DOUBLE WORK FOR ANYBODY.
WE DON'T WANNA CREATE DOUBLE WORK FOR OURSELVES, BUT, BUT, UH, WE THINK WE HAVE A GOOD PLAN TO INTEGRATE THAT.
UM, I, UM, IT REALLY DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE THAT THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ISN'T HERE.
ULTIMATELY, I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.
SO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WILL MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT ADMINISTERING THE PROGRAM.
UM, I'M TRYING TO GET AS MANY PIECES, UM, UM, ON THE ROAD, UH, AND READY SO THAT THE, THE CAR IS GASSED UP AND THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SITS IN THE FRONT SEAT AND DRIVES.
UM, THIS IS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT NOT JUST TO READY TO WORK, BUT TO HUMAN SERVICES.
IT WILL EXPAND TO OTHER SERVICES WITHIN THE CITY, UM, WITHIN THE CITY ORGANIZATION.
AND, AND WE THINK WE HAVE A GOOD PLAN FOR INTEGRATION.
I DO NOT ANTICIPATE HAVING ANY ISSUES.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY ISSUES WITH THE REFERRAL SYSTEM THAT WE STARTED WITH LAST YEAR, UM, AND ANY OF THE DEPARTMENTS.
UM, AND IT WAS, IT WORKED WELL.
AND, UM, I THINK OUR CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER AND CRAIG, CRAIG AND KEVIN HAVE A GOOD IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, AND WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH MONEY.
WE WE'RE ACTUALLY SPENDING LESS MONEY THAN WE ANTICIPATED.
UM, AND, UM, WE ARE RECOMMENDING APPROVAL OF IT TODAY.
AND SO DOES, SO THIS INTEGRATES WELL WITH THE NEW RESIDENT PLATFORM.
THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO? THE, THE ONE THAT OUR STAFF IS BEING TRAINED ON, FOR INSTANCE, THE, THE RESIDENT CONNECT, THE AGENDA SYSTEM, UHHUH AND THE CONSTITUENT MASS? NO, IT DOESN'T.
NO, THIS IS FOR, UM, SERVICES.
AND THEN, UM, SO THEN, BUT WHAT DOES A, WHAT WOULD A DELAY TODAY DO? WE WOULD DELAY IT.
BUT LIKE, DO WE HAVE, UM, ABILITY, FLEXIBILITY? LIKE IS THERE A REASON THAT WE WERE TRYING TO PUSH IT THROUGH LIKE TODAY? OR IS THERE THE, THE TIMELINE FOR, UM, FOR THESE TWO PORTIONS OF IT ARE TO GO LIVE IN THE FALL.
SO IF IT DOESN'T GO LIVE IN THE FALL, THIS ISN'T LIKE, IT'S, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT TURNING IT ON NEXT WEEK.
IN FACT, ACTUALLY THE FIRST, THE FIRST PART OF IT WILL BE THE D H S PROGRAM.
IT'S NOT THE READY THE WORK PROGRAM.
SO, UM, WE'VE GOTTA GET THAT LINED UP SO THAT WE CAN TURN IT ON IN THE FALL, PROBABLY IN THE OCTOBER, NOVEMBER TIMEFRAME.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHE GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER ELAS.
UM, I, I'LL START BY REMINDING EVERYBODY THAT WHAT WE'RE CRE YOU KNOW, ERIC, YOU SAID IT'S AGNOSTIC.
I THINK, I THINK WHAT IT IS, IS IT'S MORE ECUMENICAL.
EVERYBODY CAN COME AND JOIN THE PARTY AND, AND USE THIS TOOL, UH, WITHOUT REGARD TO WHICH ORGANIZATION YOU BELONG TO.
UM, AND THE IDEA HERE IS TO MAKE IT A UNIVERSAL TOOL FOR, UH, WHAT IT'LL EVENTUALLY BE A, A LARGE POPULATION OF AGENCIES AND PARTNERS TO BE ABLE TO COLLABORATE WITH US.
WHAT I REALLY LIKE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM IS THAT
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I UNDERSTAND IT'S, IT'S HIPAA COMPLIANT, RIGHT? WHICH, UH, I'LL REMEMBER.ONE OF THE PSS IN HIPAA IS, UH, PORTABILITY.
AND SO THIS IS ONE OF THOSE SYSTEMS WHERE THE ACTUAL, UH, CLIENT WILL HAVE THEIR INFORMATION PORTABLE, UH, FROM AGENCY TO AGENCY TO MAKE SURE ALSO THAT WE WON'T DOUBLE DIP ON SERVICES AND THAT WE'RE NOT, THAT WE'RE EVER, THAT WE'RE MAXIMIZING THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE WITHOUT, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, CROSSING STREAMS HERE.
SO WE ARE, UH, I, I LIKE THAT.
THE, THE SECOND THING THAT I LIKED IS THAT I, NO IT PROFESSIONALS REQUIRED AT ANY OF THESE OTHER AGENCIES.
UH, AND SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IT LIVES UP IN THE CLOUD.
IT'S ACTUALLY AMAZON HOSTED, UH, THE ONLY IT PERSON REALLY THAT'S GONNA HAVE TO SORT OF MANAGE THIS TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS IS, UH, WHAT'S THIS? YAHOO, WE GOT NAMED CRAIG YA, CRAIG HOPKINS, UH, OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR, UH, OUR, YOU KNOW, AND, AND HIS GEEK SQUAD, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE, UH, THAT IT'S WORKING ALL THE TIME.
I, I DID RECEIVE AN EMAIL FROM OUR FRIENDS AT COP METRO SAYING, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT.
YOU GUYS ARE TERRIBLE AT IMPLEMENTING, YOU KNOW, UH, SYSTEMS. AND, YOU KNOW, IE.
CRAIG, ARE YOU HERE? ANYBODY? NO.
UM, MAYBE ERIC, YOU CAN HELP ME OUT WITH THIS.
UH, THE CRITICISM WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, AS AN EXAMPLE, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S, SS A P D SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE UPGRADED ALL THE TIME BECAUSE OF THE BUGS.
CAN YOU, CAN YOU TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT? YES, SIR.
UM, AND I'M GONNA LEAN OVER AND KNOCK ON WOOD, BUT, UM, THE, UH, THE POLICE SYSTEM WENT LIVE.
UH, THE NEW RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND CASE REPORTING SYSTEM WENT LIVE.
UM, IT WENT LIVE, UM, LAST FALL AND, UH, A PROGRAM CALLED MARK 43.
UM, AND, UH, WE HAVE, UH, NOT HAD ANY ISSUES WITH THAT.
I MEAN, I THINK WE HAD A GOOD INTEGRATOR.
UM, WE HAD A GOOD PLAN, UH, AND WE TRAINED THE EMPLOYEES.
SO THOSE ARE ALL IMPORTANT ELEMENTS.
BUT, UH, THE IT DEPARTMENT AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DID A VERY GOOD JOB.
AND, UH, HAVING SPOKEN TO IT YESTERDAY, MY UNDERSTANDING, HAVING WALKED AWAY FROM, WALKED AWAY FROM THAT CONVERSATION, IS THAT YEAH, THERE'S UPGRADES EVERY MONTH.
THAT'S ACTUALLY THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO WORK.
YOU, UH, WHEN YOU USED TO HAVE THESE ENTERPRISE WIDE, UM, BIG PIECES OF SOFTWARE AND THESE BIG SYSTEMS, YOU USED TO HAVE TO WAIT A LONG TIME TO DO YOUR UPGRADES BECAUSE IT'S JUST INEFFICIENT TO DO YOUR UPGRADES.
YOU KNOW, ONE DAY HERE, ONE DAY THERE, YOU USED TO HAVE TO SCHEDULE THEM, YOU KNOW, A YEAR OUT BECAUSE IT WAS SO EXPENSIVE, BECAUSE YOU HAD TO ACTUALLY WORK ON HARD DRIVES AND PHYSICAL SYSTEMS. NOW IT'S CLOUD-BASED.
YOU WANT THEM DOING UPGRADES AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS ON THE FLY.
AND SO I, I ALSO WILL REMIND YOU GUYS THAT THERE WAS A GUY WHO USED TO SIT RIGHT OVER THERE, UH, NAMED RAY SALDANA, WHO USED TO TELL US ALL THE TIME, DON'T LET PERFECTION BE THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD HERE.
UH, AND IN THIS INSTANCE, I THINK WE GOT SOMETHING REALLY GOOD THAT'S, UH, THAT WE'RE PLANNING, THAT WE'RE GONNA BE, UM, EXECUTING ON.
NOTHING'S PERFECT, UH, BUT IN THIS INSTANCE, I THINK IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A VERY, VERY GOOD START.
UM, AND THEN LASTLY, I'LL REMIND YOU THAT THE WORDS READY TO WORK AREN'T JUST A CUTE SLOGAN.
UH, AND WE GOTTA BE READY FOR THIS PROGRAM, UH, FOR THE READY TO WORK PROGRAM.
AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PUT IN PLACE THE TOOLS THAT ARE NECESSARY, UM, AND NOT A SPECIALIZED TOOL, BUT FIT THEM WITHIN WHAT WE'VE ALREADY GOT.
SO WE'RE, UM, I, I, I, YOU GOT MY SUPPORT AND, UM, I MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE THIS ITEM.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM FOUR.
UH, I UNDERSTAND THAT WE ALSO STARTED ANOTHER NEW SYSTEM RECENTLY IN DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
AND, UH, HOW HAS THAT WORKED OUT? HAVE WE HAD ANY MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH THAT? COUNCILMAN MIKE SHANNON IS GONNA COME UP TO THE PODIUM.
I MEAN, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IMPLEMENTING A NEW SYSTEM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE HEARING FROM OUTSIDE GROUPS THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE HEARING THERE'S PROBLEMS WITH OUR IMPLEMENTATION.
WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE POLICE ONE, AND THAT SEEMS TO HAVE GONE WELL.
HOW ABOUT D S D A? SO, THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN.
SO, YES, WE, WE LAUNCHED THE LAST PHASE OF WHAT WE CALL OUR BUILD TO SAVE PROGRAM BACK IN NOVEMBER.
UH, WE HAD A SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH, UH, BUT LIKE WITH ANY NEW PROGRAM, UH, WE HAD SOME BUGS THAT WERE STILL FIXING.
WE'RE ISSUING PERMITS, DOING CODE CASES, UH, ALL OF OUR ZONING CASES AND SUCH.
AND THAT WAS A LONG PROGRAM LASTED ABOUT, UH, ABOUT FOUR YEARS TO, TO FULLY DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT.
UH, BUT WE'RE PLEASED WITH IT.
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THAT ALLOWED US, UH, MANY OF OUR TEAMS THAT WERE ALREADY ON IT, UH, ALLOWED US TO WORK FROM HOME, DO E-BUSINESS WITH OUR CUSTOMERS, AND THAT'S THE BIGGEST, UH, WIN FOR US.UH, BUT YOU KNOW, LIKE ANY PROGRAM, WE WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR IT AND OUR VENDOR, UH, TO WORK OUT, UH, THE BUGS.
UM, AND, UH, WE'RE STILL GONNA CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THAT.
BUT IT'S BEEN A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM.
UH, OUR DEV, OUR DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, UH, LIKES IT.
UH, THEY'RE USING IT AND, UH, WE'RE ABLE TO DO THINGS QUICKER.
I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW ONE OF THESE PROGRAMS CAN BE IMPLEMENTED.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE ORGANIZATION THAT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH S H I IS IS SIMPLY A STATE APPROVED PROCUREMENT ORGANIZATION.
THEY DIDN'T WRITE THE PROGRAM, BUT THEY FOUND A PROGRAM THAT WE THINK MEETS OUR REQUIREMENTS.
UH, AND WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT PROGRAM AND HOW DOES IT MEET OUR REQUIREMENTS? THE NAME OF THE PLATFORM THAT WE'RE DEPLOYING IS A COMPANY CALLED SIGNIFY.
SO THEY'VE GOT A, A AUTOMATED REFERRAL AND CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
SO THEY'VE GOT A SYSTEM THAT THEY'VE HAD IN PLACE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW THAT WAS, UH, FOUNDED IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY FOR MANAGING EPISODES OF PATIENTS.
ONCE THEY ENTERED THE SYSTEM, THEY COULD DO THAT CROSS-REFERRAL AND CASE MANAGEMENT.
SO THEY'VE BEEN IN THE BUSINESS FOR QUITE A WHILE.
IT'S A VERY CONFIGURABLE SYSTEM.
IT'S ONE THAT LETS US CONFIGURE IT FOR DIFFERENT CASE TYPES AND MAINTAIN THE PRIVACY OF THE DATA AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE DATA IN THE CLOUD.
SO IT SEEMED TO CHECK ALL THE BOXES FOR THE CAPABILITIES THAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR, FOR THE CAPABILITIES THAT ERIC AND MELODY TALKED ABOUT.
I THINK A CONCERN THAT THAT'S BEEN EXPRESSED, AND, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER, IS HOW ABOUT PARTNERS THAT MIGHT BE ENTERING INTO THE SYSTEM? WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES THEY HAVE? UH, ANOTHER CONCERN THAT I HAD WAS WHEN WE FIRST TALKED ABOUT READY TO WORK, I REMEMBER THERE WAS A PRESENTATION BEFORE THIS COUNCIL THAT SAID, WELL, WE MIGHT BE HAVING TO HIRE 60 NEW PEOPLE TO MAKE THAT PROCESS WORK.
WHICH WAS KIND OF SHOCKING AT THE TIME.
AND I HEARD FROM A LOT, AND I HEARD FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T NEED TO HIRE 60 PLUS MORE BUREAUCRATS.
BUT FROM WHAT I'M HEARING AND UNDERSTANDING, THIS NEW SYSTEM REALLY, UH, KIND OF TAKES THE PLACE OF HIRING A LOT OF ADDITIONAL PEOPLE TO OPERATE, UH, OR INTEGRATE THE READY TO WORK SYSTEM.
SO FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE, I THINK IT REALLY TENDS TO SAVE US MONEY RATHER THAN TO, UM, YOU KNOW, BE AN EXPENSIVE NEW TOOL.
AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE NONPROFITS I'VE VISITED WITH MANY OF 'EM OVER THE FOUR YEARS I'VE BEEN, BEEN ON COUNCIL, THEY'RE ALWAYS CHALLENGED WITH PROVIDING THE INFORMATION THAT THE CITY REQUIRES AS A PARTNER, UH, AND KEEPING THOSE RECORDS AND HAVING PERSONNEL DEDICATED TO DOING THAT.
AND A LOT OF TIMES THEY HAD TO DO IT ON THEIR OWN SYSTEM, AND THEN THEY HAD TO MANUALLY CHANGE THAT OVER AND SEND IT TO US.
AND IF IT DIDN'T GIVE US ALL THE INFORMATION WE NEEDED, WE'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND FORTH TO CLARIFY THAT.
AND I BELIEVE THAT THE POTENTIAL OF THIS SYSTEM TO ALLOW THEM TO ANSWER ALL THE KINDS OF, UH, QUESTIONS WE NEED AND PROVIDE ALL THE DATA WE NEED, PROP PROBABLY IS GOING TO HELP THEM DO THEIR JOB.
BUT LIKE EVERYBODY, THERE'S THAT LEARNING CURVE THAT MAY TAKE A FEW MONTHS FOR EVERYBODY TO FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WITH IT.
UH, BUT I, I DO ALSO HONOR THE QUESTION THAT, UM, OUR COUNCILWOMAN ASKED, YOU KNOW, COULD WE WAIT A MONTH AND APPROVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS IF THERE ARE SOME OTHER SERIOUS QUESTIONS AMONG OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, OR A WEEK OR WHATEVER, OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE DONE TODAY IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE WE PROGRESS QUICKLY ENOUGH TO GET IT READY FOR SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER, WHATEVER.
SO I'LL JUST ASK THE CITY MANAGER ONE MORE TIME.
UH, IS IT SO TIME SENSITIVE THAT IT HAS TO BE DONE TODAY? WELL, ULTIMATELY IT'S UP TO THE COUNCIL COUNCILMAN.
UH, WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT WE DO IT TODAY.
THIS IS THE LAST FULL COUNCIL MEETING OF JUNE.
UM, IF, IF YOU'D LIKE TO DELAY IT A WEEK, I WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT WE HAVE THIS IN PLACE IMMEDIATELY IN ORDER TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT I KNOW I'M GONNA GET DURING THE ANNUAL BUDGET PROCESS, UH, AND THE KICKOFF OF READY TO WORK.
BUT WE ARE RECOMMENDING YOU APPROVE IT TODAY.
UH, BUT ULTIMATELY THAT'S UP TO UP TO THE COUNCIL.
UM, YEAH, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THIS, AND I REMEMBER THOSE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE ADDITIONAL PEOPLE THAT WE WERE GONNA HAVE JUST FOR THE READY TO WORK PROGRAM, UH, TO RUN THAT.
I, I, I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING THAT THIS IS GONNA, I, I UNDERSTAND TECHNOLOGY AND WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND WHERE WE WANT TO BE, BUT, UH, IS THIS
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ACTUALLY SAVING ANY MANPOWER, AUTHORIZATIONS? I I MEAN, WE'RE A, WE'VE GOT KIND OF A MIXED MASH RIGHT NOW OF, UM, PAPERWORK VERSUS, UH, SOME COMPUTER PROGRAMS, THAT KIND OF THING.IF YOU'RE MOVING TO THIS PLATFORM, ARE WE REALLY SAVING ANYTHING BY GOING TO THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY? AND I DON'T SEE THAT REFLECTED ANYWHERE OR EVEN MENTIONED THAT WE'RE SAVING MANPOWER, AUTHORIZATIONS OR WHATEVER.
WELL, I'LL LET, I'LL LET MAYBE MEL TALK ABOUT THE SAVING PART, BUT BECAUSE SHE'S, SHE'S GOT AN EXISTING PROGRAM, WE'RE STARTING WITH THE READY TO WORK PROGRAM HASN'T STARTED.
SO I, IT, IT KIND OF GOES BACK TO WHAT COUNCILMAN CURTIS SAID.
UM, PART OF, UH, THE DIRECTION WE'RE GOING WITH READY TO WORK IS TO CONTRACT OUT THE, UM, THE CASE MANAGEMENT AND THE TRAINING.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE, UM, UM, UH, INTENSE STAFF INTENTS ON THE CITY SIDE.
SO WITH THAT, UM, DIRECTION WE'RE TAKING, THERE WILL BE A REQUIREMENT TO TRACK INDIVIDUALS TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THE NECESSARY TRAINING, THAT THEY'VE GOT THE NECESSARY SUPPORT IN ORDER TO MEET THE STATED OBJECTIVES AND GOALS OF THE READY TO WORK PROGRAM IN ORDER TO PROVIDE REPORTS TO THE COUNCIL AND THE, AND THE PUBLIC.
SO, UM, I THINK IT'S A, I THINK IT'S A STAFF MULTIPLIER TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT, THAT CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND REFERRAL SYSTEM TO BE ABLE TO ENSURE THAT INDIVIDUALS ARE GETTING SERVED.
BUT THAT'S A NEW SYSTEM THAT HADN'T STARTED YET.
UM, MEL, IF YOU WANT TO GIVE YOUR PERSPECTIVE FOR OUR EXISTING PROGRAMS. SURE.
AND SO I THINK OVER TIME, YOU'LL SEE IN THE SYSTEM THAT YOU ARE SAVING BETWEEN THE CITY DEPARTMENTS, THE DELEGATE AGENCIES ESPECIALLY, WHO ARE, AS, UM, COUNCILMAN COURAGE SAID, DOING A LOT OF DOUBLE WORK MANUAL ENTRY.
UM, A GOOD EXAMPLE, I THINK IS OUR SENIOR STAT PROGRAM THAT WE PUT INTO PLACE SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
IT WAS A, UM, A A LOT OF WORK TO GET IT IMPLEMENTED.
WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH, UM, MORE THAN 50 OF OUR VENDORS THAT PROVIDE THE SERVICES AND PROVIDE OUR MEAL SERVICES EVERY DAY, UH, TO HELP THEM LEARN HOW TO USE THE SYSTEM.
UM, AND WE WERE ABLE TO EVENTUALLY AT OVER TIME, AFTER WE HAD EVERYONE ONBOARD AND ENTERING, UM, THROUGH THE SENIOR STATS SYSTEM, WE WERE ABLE TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF DATA ENTRY PEOPLE THAT, THAT WE, UM, EMPLOY BECAUSE WE DIDN'T NEED THEM TO BE MANUALLY ENTERING DATA.
WE WERE ACTUALLY ALMOST DOING A HASH MARK TYPE SYSTEM BEFORE THAT TO COUNT THE NUMBER OF MEALS THAT WERE BEING SERVED EVERY DAY.
AND SO IT HAS HELPED US ALSO UNDERSTAND FISCALLY, UM, OUR COSTS AND POINT TO PLACES IN THE BUDGET, OUR FOOD BUDGET, FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE WE CAN HAVE SAVINGS REDIRECT TO OTHER SERVICES.
SO, UM, THERE'S ABSOLUTELY EFFICIENCIES THAT COME WITH THAT NOW DOES, HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT TRANSLATES TO, WELL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD HAVE TO REALIZE OVER TIME.
WELL, AGAIN, I'M, I'M LOOKING AT THIS AS AN OVERALL PROGRAM, NOT ONLY FOR THE CITY, BUT THOSE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE GONNA USE IT.
WHEN, WHEN I HEAR THESE THINGS POPPING UP SAYING, WELL, WE DON'T HAVE THE STAFF TO DO THAT.
WE DON'T HAVE THE IT PERSON, WE DON'T, WHATEVER.
SO WE'RE, I, I DON'T WANT TO CREATE ADDITIONAL WORK OUT THERE FOR ANYONE, UM, OR ANYONE ON THE CITY STAFF THAT WE'RE GONNA FIND OURSELVES HAVING TO HIRE ADDITIONAL PEOPLE TO RUN THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT EFFICIENCIES, UM, AND REDUCING OUR, OUR STAFF COMMENSURATELY.
WE OUGHT, WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO SHOW SOME SA SAVINGS BY IMPLEMENTING THIS PROGRAM.
AND I DON'T, I DON'T SEE THOSE SAVINGS HERE.
WELL, WE'RE DEFINITELY NOT ADDING STAFF IN THE READY TO WORK PROGRAM TO, TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE RELYING UPON CONTRACTING THIS OUT AND TECHNOLOGY LIKE THIS TO BE ABLE TO DO IT.
UM, AND THAT'S PART OF THE, THAT'S PART OF THE BUDGET.
THE COUNCIL'S APPROVED FOR READY TO WORK.
WE, WE HAVE JUST, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE, UM, AND CONTRACTUAL OVERSIGHT INDIVIDUALS, UH, AND THE STAFF.
AND, UM, I THINK THAT'S BUILT INTO THE KIND OF THE PROCESS THAT WE'VE GOT SO FAR FOR READY TO WORK.
AND, AND WE'RE GONNA BE GOING TO, I MEAN, THE, WHETHER IT'S A DELEGATE AGENCY OR READY TO WORK OR A, OR A HOUSING AGENCY DOWN THE ROAD THAT MAYBE NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING SERVICES WORKS WITH, THE IDEA ISN'T NECESSARILY TO MAKE WORK FOR EVERYBODY ELSE.
THE IDEA IS TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE, UM, UH, A SYSTEM THAT SHOWS THAT WE'RE MAKING RESULTS REGARDLESS OF WHAT IT IS, WHETHER IT'S READY TO WORK OR SENIOR SERVICES OR A HOUSING OPPORTUNITY.
IT'S ABOUT, IT'S ABOUT BEING ABLE TO REPORT BACK TO THE PUBLIC WHAT IS IT THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE WITH THESE DOLLARS.
AND, AND THAT'S BEEN, AND COUNCILMAN YOU ASK THAT QUESTION EVERY YEAR WITH THE DELEGATE AGENCIES, AND YOU GET A QUARTERLY BINDER FROM A MEL THAT'S ABOUT THIS THICK ON REPORTS.
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YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S MANUAL RIGHT NOW.AND I THINK OVER TIME, IF WE CAN MAKE IT EASIER FOR FOLKS AND, AND FUND THE INTEGRATION, IF THEY'VE GOT A SYSTEM THAT THAT WORKS FOR THEM, THEN WE'LL FUND THE INTEGRATION INTO THIS SYSTEM.
UM, THEN, THEN WE'RE ABLE TO, TO PRODUCE BETTER REPORTING AND, AND ENSURE THAT WE'RE DOING WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING.
WELL, UM, I'M, I'M STILL A LITTLE UNEASY WITH, UH, ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED BY MY, UH, COLLEAGUE AND, AND, UM, UM, STILL A LITTLE BIT UNEASY WITH THAT MANY QUESTIONS STILL OUT THERE ON THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
SO, UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY, SIR.
UH, SO MELODY, YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE ARE 42 AGENCIES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE THAT, OR THE UNITED WAY HAS, OR THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE THAT USE THIS PLATFORM.
THERE ARE 42 AGENCIES THAT ARE USING THE PLATFORM ACROSS THE COMMUNITY.
UH, 23 OF THE AGENCIES THAT WE CONTRACT WITH OUR DELEGATE AGENCIES ARE USING IT.
AND SO OF THOSE 23 DELEGATE AGENCIES, WOULD ANY OF THEM BE ELIGIBLE TO BE A POTENTIAL PARTNER WITH READY TO WORK SAN ANTONIO? I THINK THAT'S ALWAYS POSSIBLE.
I MEAN, IT'S A, IT'S A VARIETY.
IF FROM ANY BABY CAN FAMILY SERVICES, UM, BEAT AIDS, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF AGENCIES FROM ALL OF ALL CATEGORIES THAT WE WORK WITH.
UM, BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE THOSE RFPS OUT FOR OUR READY TO WORK PROGRAM THAT WE ARE BEING VERY, UM, UH, SPECIFIC WHEN IT COMES TO THE CRITERIA TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE CAPACITY THEY CAN BUILD UP MM-HMM.
AND SO IF WE ARE, AND, AND I GUESS I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, UM, I KNOW WE, WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH, I MEAN, YOU, WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR THE D H SS SIDE.
BUT LIKE YOU MENTIONED, ERIC, THIS IS ALSO SEPARATELY READY TO WORK SIDE.
AND IN THE ADVISORY BOARD GROUP MEETING, THERE WERE QUESTIONS FROM SOME OF THE MEMBERS THAT THEY HAD ABOUT, WELL, WHAT DO OTHER POTENTIAL PARTNERS ACROSS THE CITY WHO ARE DOING THIS TYPE OF WORK, UM, HOW IS IT, AS WAS MENTIONED BY MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, HOW IS THIS GOING TO INTEGRATE IT? AND I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO GET MORE INFORMATION AT THE ADVISORY GROUP MEETING TO MORE, UM, DETAILS BACK OF HOW THEY, UM, 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, ERIC, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS AND THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, LET ALL OF THE POTENTIAL PEOPLE WHO WENT TO THE R F I OR WHO WENT FOR THE R F Q PROCESS, GO THROUGH A TEST RUN, KIND OF LIKE WHAT WE DID WITH THE RADIOS.
AND SO HOW WOULD IT WOULD INTEGRATE, BUT CAN YOU SHARE WITH ME, ALEX, HI.
UM, JUST SOME OF THE INFORMATION AND HOW THE, THE POTENTIAL PARTNERS, OR THE R F Q OR THE RESPONDENTS THAT WAY, HOW THEY, UM, I GUESS DID A TEST RUN OF THIS, UM, PLATFORM? SO, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, THE, AFTER THE ADVISORY BOARD MEETING, WE ACTUALLY MET WITH OUR CURRENT PARTNERS IN OUR TRAIN FOR JOBS PROGRAM BECAUSE WE'VE HAD A LOT OF EXPERIENCES WITH, UM, ACCESSING DATA, WHAT SYSTEMS WORK, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT'S MORE EFFICIENT.
THEIR BIGGEST CONCERNS WERE TIMELINE.
UM, AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ADEQUATELY, UM, GAVE OURSELVES ENOUGH TIME OURSELVES AND ANY POTENTIAL FUTURE PARTNERS AND, AND READY TO WORK, GAVE OURSELVES THE TIME TO PROPERLY IMPLEMENT THIS.
UM, AND WHILE WE HAVE, WE'RE, WE'RE SHOOTING FOR, FOR FALL IMPLEMENTATION, WE KNOW THAT THE, THE FINAL POINTS OF THIS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE FINAL COMPONENTS OF THIS SYSTEM REALLY CAN'T BE IMPLEMENTED OR, OR EVEN DESIGNED FULLY UNTIL WE'VE IDENTIFIED THOSE PARTNERS.
THE, THE HOPE RIGHT NOW IS THAT WE CAN PUT SOME BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE, UM, SO THAT ONCE WE IDENTIFY THOSE PARTNERS, WE CAN DO THE FINAL TOUCHES AND MAKE SURE THAT WE THEN FOCUS ON THE INTEGRATION COMPONENTS.
THE OTHER ITEM THAT THEY BROUGHT UP WAS INTEGRATION AND MAKING SURE THAT IT DIDN'T CREATE ANY ADDITIONAL BURDENS ON THEM, AND THAT IT DIDN'T PRECLUDE PERHAPS ANYBODY FROM, FROM COMPETING TO BE A PART OF READY TO WORK.
SO, UM, WE'RE ALSO BEING VERY TRANSPARENT IN, IN OUR SOLICITATION PROCESS TO IDENTIFY PARTNERS ABOUT, UM, THE NEED OR, OR THE FACT THAT WE'RE ESTABLISHING THIS KIND OF SYSTEM.
UM, AND THAT THEY CONSIDER THAT AS THEY'RE PUTTING TOGETHER THEIR PROPOSALS.
SO IF THERE IS A NEED FOR INTERNAL RESOURCES, PERHAPS BY ANY OF THESE PARTNERS, THEY CAN ADEQUATELY, UM, INCORPORATE THAT INTO THEIR PROPOSALS.
AND SO, AND I KNOW I ASKED THIS QUESTION BEFORE, AND YOU ANSWERED IT AT THE ADVISORY GROUP, BUT, UM, UH, A POTENTIAL PARTNER OR WHOEVER PUTS IN AN R F P REQUEST, THIS WOULD NOT HURT OR NECESSARILY HELP THEIR PROPOSAL PUTTING FORWARD.
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THEY HAD THIS SYSTEM CORRECT.AND SO, ERIC, WHY ARE WE, WHY ARE WE DOING BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER? LIKE, IS THERE A SPECIFIC REASON WHY WE'RE DOING THEM TOGETHER? IS IT LIKE SAVING, IS IT SAVING MONEY? IS IT JUST THE COORDINATION OR WHAT IS THAT? I WANTED ERIC TO ANSWER IT.
SO I, I JUST, I, I THINK I WANNA JUST SPEAK ON, BESIDES THE FACT THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES IS ALREADY VERY MUCH, HAS, HAS IDENTIFIED THE NEED FOR THIS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, UM, FROM THE READY TO WORK PERSPECTIVE, WITH WRAPAROUND SERVICES BEING SUCH A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF THE PROGRAM, IT MAKES SENSE TO INTEGRATE WITH A SYSTEM THAT OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS RESOURCE SOCIAL SERVICE PARTNERS, ARE ALREADY A PART OF.
UM, AND THANK YOU, ALEX, FOR, FOR ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS ON THE ATTACHMENT THAT YOU HAVE IN THE ORDINANCE.
UM, AND SO IT, IT TALKS ABOUT SPECIFICALLY R T W AND T F J SS.
THAT'S EV THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT IT LOOKS LIKE IS REFERENCE, BUT WE ARE GOING TO BE USING IT.
SO THIS LOOKS LIKE IT WAS SPECIFICALLY TAILORED TO READY TO WORK AND TRAINED FOR JOBS, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THE PITCH TODAY IS FOR, FOR D H S SERVICES, NOT JUST FOR THIS.
SO THE, UM, TRAINING FOR JOB SUCCESS.
SO IT'S A GRANT FUNDED COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT FUND THAT ACTUALLY REQUIRES US TO HAVE A SYSTEM IN PLACE.
AND THEN ALSO, DID WE, TODAY WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT I HEARD, AND IT WAS FROM MEL, THAT WE WOULD BE FUNDING THE DATA INTEGRATION PART OF IT, UM, IF OUR NONPROFITS NEEDED IT.
HAS THAT BEEN COMMUNICATED ALREADY TO THE NONPROFITS? AND HOW MUCH IS THAT GONNA COST US? IS THAT BUILT INTO THE BUDGET WE'RE APPROVING TODAY? WELL, IT'S, IT, I I, I, WE HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDING WITHIN THE READY TO WORK BUDGET.
UM, WE'LL HAVE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE DELEGATE AGENCIES AS WE GO THROUGH.
BUT MANY OF THEM MOVED OVER TO THAT REFERRAL SYSTEM.
A LOT OF THEM DID, UM, LAST YEAR WHEN THE GRONKOWSKI MADE THE INITIAL INVESTMENT.
AND THEN ON THE FLEXIBILITY OF THE TIMELINE THAT ALEX MENTIONED, HAS THAT, SO IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ALL HAVE CONNECTED WITH SOME OF THE POTENTIAL PARTNERS AND HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE FLEXIBILITY OF TIMELINE.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? LIKE, ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE EXTRA TIME TO DO, UH, TO, TO DO A DATA TRANSFER? UM, NOT JUST THAT MA'AM, BUT JUST ALTOGETHER MAKING SURE THAT, UM, WE, WE DESIGN THE FINAL COMPONENTS OF THE, THE, THE SYSTEM TOGETHER.
UM, AND THEN WE CAN FINALLY MOVE INTO HOW THE SYSTEMS WILL TALK TO EACH OTHER.
BUT I, I THINK ONCE WE'VE IDENTIFIED THOSE PARTNERS, WE CAN GET INTO THAT CONVERSATION.
THERE'S, THERE'S A, A BIG COMPONENT OF THE WORK THAT WE KNOW WE CAN DO WHILE WE'RE ALSO LOOKING TO IDENTIFY THOSE PARTNERS.
AND THAT'S ALL WE WANNA GET STARTED WITH RIGHT NOW.
O OPERATIONALLY, WHAT WHAT'S LIKELY GONNA HAPPEN IS THAT THE SYSTEM GETS UP, PROGRAM GETS STARTED, AND THERE'S GONNA HAVE TO BE A TRANSITION TIME WITH AGENCIES THAT WE'RE CONTRACTING WITH TO BE ABLE TO INTEGRATE.
UM, SO FROM AN OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT, IF WE START THE PROGRAM, UH, IN THE FALL, WE MAY, WE MAY GIVE THEM UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF 2022 TO TRANSITION.
WHICH, WHICH IS WHY THE, THE TIMELINE WE'RE ON RIGHT NOW IS IMPORTANT.
UM, AND ERIC WOULD, HOW I, I, I GUESS I WOULD JUST EVEN ASK FOR LIKE ONE WEEK TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR NONPROFITS OR OUR PARTNERS KNOW, UM, AND OUR, UH, OR KNOW THAT WE'RE SUPPORTIVE AND THAT WE'RE GONNA BE THERE FOR THEM.
I JUST DIDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE WHEN THERE WAS STILL SO MANY QUESTIONS.
ALTHOUGH WE DON'T KNOW WHO THE PARTNERS ARE GONNA BE.
BUT WOULD A ONE WEEK DELAY BE OKAY? I MEAN, JUST SO THAT WE COULD CIRCLE BACK AND THEY CAN ASK ANY REMAINING QUESTIONS.
I FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT IS BEING PRESENTED TODAY, BUT IT TOOK A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THEIR QUESTIONS GET ANSWERED.
SO WILL WE BE ABLE TO, TO MOVE IT TO ONE WEEK? UH, UH, THAT'S UP TO THE, THE COUNCIL.
UH, I MEAN, IT, IT'S REALLY UP TO YOU GUYS.
WELL THEN, UM, MAYOR, I WOULD LIKE TO MOTION FOR A DELAY OF ONE WEEK SO THAT WE COULD PARTNER, UM, OR TALK TO OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS SECOND.
THERE'S A, UM, SECONDARY MOTION, UH, WELL ACTUALLY WE'LL TAKE THAT ONE AS PRIMARY FIRST, RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT, MARY, BECAUSE IT'S A MOTION TO DELAY.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND, UH, FOR DELAYING ITEM FOUR, UH, TO JUNE 17TH, WHICH WOULD BE NEXT WEEK'S A SESSION AGENDA.
UH, ACTUALLY, MAYOR, UM, I WITHDRAW MY REQUEST TO SPEAK.
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OF OUR DISCUSSION TODAY.L LET LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION, ERIC.
UM, WITH REGARD TO, UM, OR MAYBE THIS IS FOR ALEX, THIS IS NOT A SINGLE SOURCE CONTRACT, RIGHT.
AS PART OF THE PROCESS, COULD YOU GIVE US A, A SENSE OF WHAT THE RESPONSES LOOK LIKE? I'M, I'M ACTUALLY GONNA ASK KEVIN TO MAYBE ANSWER SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS.
IS MR. MAYOR, CAN YOU ASK THE QUESTION AGAIN? YEAH, I MEAN, IF YOU COULD JUST GIVE US HIGH LEVEL WHAT WERE THE, I MEAN, GIMME A SENSE OF WHO RESPONDED AND WHAT THE DIFFERENCES IN THEIR RESPONSES WERE.
SO I, I MEAN, I, I THINK IT'S A REASONABLE REQUEST, UH, FOR ANOTHER WEEK TO DISCUSS THE ITEM, KNOWING THAT WE'RE GONNA BE BACK HERE IN THE SAME SEATS, UH, WITH THE SAME DISCUSSION, LARGELY WITH THE SAME APPLICANT TO APPROVE.
UH, BUT IF IT MAKES FOLKS FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING AND, AND BEING DELIBERATIVE ABOUT IT, UH, I'M FINE WITH THAT.
BUT, UM, AGAIN, I, I JUST WANNA REEMPHASIZE THAT THIS PARTICULAR, UM, SERVICE IS GOING TO BE MULTIDISCIPLINARY FOR US.
UH, IT WAS CALLED FOR, UM, IN THE POVERTY REPORT.
I THINK IT HAS MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS FOR D H SS THAT ARE ALL VERY NEEDED AND WE'RE HIGHLIGHTED IN PARTICULAR DURING THE PANDEMIC.
SO, UM, I, I DO SUPPORT ADDITIONAL DISCUSSIONS SO EVERYBODY CAN BE, FEEL COMFORTABLE ABOUT, UH, THE ROLE THAT IT'S PLAYING, AND WE CAN GET SOME ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION PERHAPS WITH, UH, COMMUNITY PARTNERS WHO WILL BE UTILIZING IT.
BUT, UH, AGAIN, VERY PLEASED WITH THE WORK THAT Y'ALL HAVE DONE, UH, IN BRINGING BACK A, A GOOD RESPONSE, IT SEEMS TO ADDRESS OUR NEEDS.
UH, AND THANK YOU COLLEAGUES FOR THE DISCUSSION AS WELL.
I, I APPRECIATE, UM, MAYBE THE, THE, UH, SURPRISING LEVEL OF DEPTH WE GOT TODAY.
BUT I, I WOULD ALSO ENCOURAGE US TO REMAIN THAT VIGILANT ABOUT THE PROGRAM AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
JUST AS YOU SAID, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, UH, WE'VE BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH SOMETHING THAT I THINK WILL BE, UH, TRANSFORMATIVE FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND THAT A LOT OF EYES, UH, NOT JUST IN THIS COMMUNITY, BUT AROUND THE NATION, ARE LOOKING TO US, UH, TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
SO, UM, WITH THAT, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SUC, UH, A SECOND FOR, UH, DELAY OF ITEM FOUR TO THE JUNE 17TH AGENDA.
ALRIGHT, WE'LL MOVE NOW TO, I BELIEVE WE ARE MADAM
[18. 21-4236 Ordinance approving the renaming of portions of Mission Road, Napier Avenue, Padre Drive, Mission Parkway, Acequia, Ashley Road and Villamain Road, all located within the World Heritage Area. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Michael Shannon, Director, Development Services; Colleen Swain, Director, World Heritage Office]]
CLERK 18.ITEM 18 IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE RENAMING OF PORTIONS OF MISSION ROAD, NAPIER AVENUE, PADRE DRIVE, MISSION PARKWAY, ASAKIA, ASHLEY ROAD, AND VILAIN ROAD, ALL LOCATED WITHIN THE WORLD HERITAGE AREA.
AND I, I APOLOGIZE, I THINK I, MY NOTES ARE MISSING.
UH, AND WE DO HAVE TWO CITIZENS SIGN UP TO SPEAK ON THIS.
UM, I THINK IF WE CAN HAVE THE PRESENTATION FIRST AND THEN THE, THE CITIZENS MAYOR.
I AM THE DIRECTOR OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S WORLD HERITAGE OFFICE.
AND WITH ME TODAY, I ALSO HAVE THE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, MICHAEL SHANNON AND, UH, MELISSA RAMIREZ AND LOGAN SPARROW.
AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK VALERIE ERTA RODRIGUEZ, WHO WORKED WITH US ON THIS PROJECT, AND OF COURSE, ROGELIO MUNOZ.
SO I'M GONNA GO THROUGH THIS PRETTY QUICKLY.
THIS PROJECT ACTUALLY ORIGINATED SHORTLY AFTER THE WORLD HERITAGE DESIGNATION.
COUNCILMAN VIA GRANDE HELD A SERIES OF SYMPOSIA, UM, ON A NUMBER OF ASPECTS RELATED TO WORLD HERITAGE.
THIS ONE RESULTED FROM THE SECOND ONE, WHICH WAS FOCUSED ON THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE.
AND BY VISITOR WE MEAN NOT ONLY THE VISITOR, BUT ALSO THE RESIDENTS WHO USE THESE MISSIONS, UH, WEEKLY AND DAILY AS THEY ARE ACTIVE PARISHES.
AND SO THE RESULT OF THIS WAS THAT THERE WAS A STUDY COMPLETED BY THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER AUTHORITY, WHICH SAID THAT, UH, CURRENT DIRECTIONS TO THE MISSIONS WERE CONFUSING.
AS A RESULT IN THE 2017 BOND, THERE WAS $5 MILLION TO DO COMPREHENSIVE SIGNAGE AND WAY FINDING.
WE ALSO DEVELOPED A, UH, UNIFIED BRAND, UH, FOR WAY FINDING.
AND THEN WE HAD A PROPOSAL TO RENAME SOME STREETS, UM, TO CREATE A MORE CONTIGUOUS MISSION ROAD.
AS A RESULT OF THAT, IN 2016, WE DID A SURVEY WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE STREETS WERE APPROVED.
UM, THERE WAS SOME QUESTION ABOUT HISTORY.
NONE OF THOSE STREET NAMES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SPANISH
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COLONIAL, UH, HISTORY OF THE MISSION, HERITAGE OF THE MISSIONS.UM, AND THEN IN 2022, WE DID ANOTHER SURVEY WHERE, AGAIN, THE MAJORITY OF THE STREET NAME CHANGES WERE, UH, APPROVED.
AND THIS IS PART OF THAT $5 MILLION, UH, PACKAGE FOR SIGNAGE AND, UH, UH, SIGNAGE AND WAVE FINDING IN THE AREA.
AND BY THE WAY, THAT SIGNAGE AND WAYFINDING WILL COMMENCE, UH, IMPLEMENTATION THIS YEAR SO QUICKLY, THE STREET NAME CHANGES ARE AS FOLLOWS.
THE FIRST ONE IS MISSION ROAD TO ROOSEVELT PARK.
THIS IS ACTUALLY A REMNANT, A MISSION ROAD THAT'S LEFT OVER FROM THE, UH, THE MISSION REACH, THE RIVER IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT.
AND THEN YOU ACTUALLY, A LITTLE WAYS FURTHER, YOU HAVE TO TURN ON MISSION, THE ACTUAL MISSION ROAD TO GO ALONG THE WORLD HERITAGE TRAIL.
THE SECOND ONE IS, UH, TO CHANGE NAPIER, UH, TO MISSION ROAD.
THEN, UH, MISSION ROAD TO SAN JOSE.
THIS, AGAIN IS A REMAINING REMNANT, UH, PADRE TO MISSION ROAD, AND THEN MISSION PARKWAY TO RIVERFRONT PARKWAY, TO ESTA ASHLEY ROAD TO ESTA AND VIA MAINE TO MISSION ROAD.
JUST A HISTORY OF MISSION ROAD.
UM, IT'S, IT WAS THE CAMINO FROM ALL THE MISSIONS TO, UH, TO MEXICO O THE CURRENT, UH, MISSION ROAD SEGMENTS ARE AS FOLLOWS, THE FIRST REMNANT, THAT'S A PART OF LEFTOVER FROM THE MISSION REACH PROJECT.
THEN THE SECOND, UH, WHICH IS ACTUALLY MISSION ROAD BETWEEN, UH, ROOSEVELT ALL THE WAY TO THE SOUTHERN END OF ROOSEVELT.
AND THEN THERE'S A REMNANT SECTION NUMBER THREE, WHICH IS A REMNANT.
UM, AND THEN EIGHT, WHICH GOES ALL THE WAY TO MISSION SAN JUAN.
AND AGAIN, WE WORKED WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, UH, TO, UH, GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
AND ALL THE REQUIREMENTS WERE MET.
WE HELD IN 2020, A WORLD HERITAGE OPEN HOUSE, WHERE WE AGAIN BROUGHT UP THE CONVERSATION OF THE PROPOSED STREET NAME CHANGES.
WE HAD ANOTHER VIRTUAL MINI OPEN HOUSE IN DECEMBER OF 2020.
THEN WE PROCEEDED TO THE HISTORIC AND DESIGNED REVIEW COMMISSION DECEMBER 16TH, AND IT WAS APPROVED.
WE DID GO TO PLANNING COMMISSION IN MARCH.
AGAIN, THE STREET NAME CHANGES WERE APPROVED.
AND WE'RE HERE TODAY AT CITY COUNCIL TO REQUEST APPROVAL FOR ALL EIGHT STREET NAME CHANGES.
THERE WERE MULTIPLE OUTREACH MEETINGS, MEETINGS WITH OUR, WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS, AND THOSE IMPACTED BY THE STREET NAME CHANGES.
AND WE DID PARTNER WITH, UM, UH, DISTRICT THREE TO HOST A LOT OF THOSE MEETINGS.
AND THIS IS THE FISCAL IMPACT.
UM, THE TOTAL COST FOR THIS PROJECT IS $4,000, $364,362 AND 64 CENTS.
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
AND, UH, I AM AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS AS IS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
OKAY, LET ME GO AHEAD AND, UH, CALL UP THE CITIZENS WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM 18.
UH, AND THEN WE'LL GET INTO OUR DISCUSSION.
MS. IBANEZ, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY BRENDA PACHECO.
GOOD MORNING, HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
MY HUSBAND AND I AND OUR NEIGHBORS WHO LIVE ON NAPIER AVENUE ARE OPPOSING THE WORLD HERITAGE, STREET NAME CHANGES FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS.
I WANT TO SPECIFY WHICH ROADS OR OPPOSING, UM, MISSION ROAD OFF OF NAPIER AVENUE, WHICH I BELIEVE IS SECTION THREE, NAPIER AVENUE, SECTION TWO, AND PADRE DRIVE FROM NAPIER, UH, AVENUE TO MILITARY DRIVE.
THESE ARE THE REASONS WE'RE OPPOSING IT.
WE DON'T WANT THE IMPOSITION OF THE EXPENSE FOR CHANGING THE ADDRESS OF ALL OUR LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND HOME UTILITIES.
THERE ARE FIVE RESIDENTS WHO OWN PROPERTY WITH THREE OF THOSE RESIDENTS WITH HOMES ON THEIR PROPERTY, 1426 NAPIER AVENUE, 1438 NAPIER AVENUE, AND 1443.
THE GONZALEZ, WHO LIVE AT 1443 NAPIER AVENUE HAVE HEALTH CONSTRAINTS THAT MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO DEAL WITH HAVING TO CHANGE THE ADDRESS.
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IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WAY FINDING OF THE MISSIONS.TOURISTS IN SAN ANTONIO RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN FINDING THE MISSIONS JUST FINE WITH THE STREETS NAMED AS THEY ARE.
MOST TOURISTS AND RESIDENTS USE GOOGLE MAPS WHEN THEY WANNA FIND A PLACE.
THE AREA WHERE WE ARE OPPOSING THE STREET NAME CHANGES ALSO IS, GETS KIND OF CONFUSING BECAUSE OF THE ZIGZAG, UH, NATURE OF THE STREETS.
AS FOR MISSION ROAD OFF OF NAPIER AVENUE CHANGING TO SAN JOSE DRIVE, WE ARE OPPOSING THIS STREET NAME CHANGE BECAUSE OF THE PAST HISTORY OF THE MOVING OF HOMES OFF OF MISSION SAN JOSE PROPERTY IN 1971.
THAT SECTION HAS BEEN MISSION ROAD THEN AND SHOULD STAY AS MISSION ROAD.
NOW BY CHANGING IT, IT FURTHER ERASES THE HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF THE FIRST FAMILIES OF MISSION SAN JOSE
WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOU VOTE TO NOT CHANGE THE STREET NAMES.
BUT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADD SOMETHING SINCE THIS IS MY COUNCIL WOMAN'S ONE OF HER LAST MEETINGS.
MY COUNCILWOMAN HAS ALWAYS SUPPORTED HER CONSTITUENTS.
SHE'S LISTENED, SHE'S GROWN, AND I'VE GROWN AS A LEADER OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AS WELL.
AND I CONSIDER HER NOW MORE MY FRIEND THAN A POLITICIAN WHO REPRESENTS MY DISTRICT.
I ALSO WANT TO THANK ROBERT CONMAN TREVINO FOR HIS SERVICE THAT HE HAS DONE FOR DEFENDING THE RIGHTS OF THE DISENFRANCHISED AND FOR BEING ALWAYS THERE FOR THE TIER ONE NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION AND GIVING US ADVICE.
SO THANK YOU AND JADA AND SHIRLEY AND YOU MAYOR FOR THE WONDERFUL ROLE MODEL YOU WERE AS A LEADER THROUGH THIS TERRIBLE CRISIS IN OUR CITY.
SO, UM, I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON A SPECIFIC PORTION OF THE NAME CHANGE REQUEST, WHICH IS, UH, FROM NAPIER TO SOUTHEAST MILITARY DRIVE.
THE PROPOSAL IS TO CHANGE IT FROM, UH, MISSION ROAD TO SAN JOSE.
AND SO I'M HERE TO TELL YOU WHY I, I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT CHANGE.
SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE REMEMBERED THE STORY I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE, BUT I'M GONNA SHARE IT AGAIN JUST SO THAT WE WILL NOT FORGET.
OKAY? UH, WHENEVER, UM, THREE SEPARATE ENTITIES, NATIONAL PARKS, TEXAS PARKS, AND, UM, AND CITY OF SAN ANTONIO DECIDED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BUILD A VISITOR CENTER AND A PARKING LOT IN THE AREA AROUND THE BACK DOOR OF SAN JOSE, THE BACK GATE OF SAN JOSE.
UM, THOSE GOVERNMENT ENTITIES DISPLACED MANY DESCENDANT FAMILIES, ORIGINAL FAMILIES OF SAN JOSE MISSION.
WITHOUT A THOUGHT, THEY JUST SENT US A LETTER.
IT SAID, IN A DOMAIN, YOU'RE BEING REMOVED.
OF ALL OF THOSE FAMILIES, ONLY ONE OF THEM WAS ABLE TO, TO RENT PROPERTY WITHIN WHAT WE CALL THE SAN JOSE COMPOUND.
THE REST OF US, THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR US TO MOVE OUR HOUSE.
THERE WAS NOWHERE FOR US TO MOVE OUR HOME.
OKAY? SO, BUT WE LIVED ON SAN JOSE DRIVE, AND WE TOOK MUCH PRIDE IN THE FACT THAT WE LIVED ON SAN JOSE DRIVE.
MY ADDRESS WAS 67 11 SAN JOSE.
OKAY? FAST FORWARD, THE DESCENDANTS, THOSE LEGACY FAMILIES STILL CARE ABOUT THAT AREA, ALTHOUGH WE DON'T LIVE THERE ANYMORE.
AND EVERY DECISION THAT YOU ALL MAKE FOR THE CURRENT CONSTITUENTS, CURRENT RESIDENTS AFFECTS NOT ONLY THEM, BUT IT AFFECTS DESCENDANT FAMILIES.
I AM STILL AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE MISSION SAN JOSE NEIGHBORHOOD AS, UH, ORGANIZATION, ALTHOUGH I DON'T LIVE THERE, BUT BECAUSE THEY KIND OF GRANDFATHERED ME IN, BECAUSE WE'D STILL BE THERE IF IT WASN'T FOR BEING DISPLACED.
OKAY? ALL I ASK OF YOU IS THAT GOING FORWARD, YOU BE THOUGHTFUL AND YOU BE MINDFUL OF DECISIONS THAT YOU MAKE WITH REGARD TO, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS BY WORLD HERITAGE.
AND NOT JUST CONSIDER TOURISM OR THE VISITOR EXPERIENCE, BUT THAT YOU CONTINUE TO REMEMBER AND CONSIDER THE CONSTITUENTS IN THAT AREA AND THE FAMILIES, THE LEGACY FAMILIES WHO ARE STILL ALIVE.
OKAY? WE'RE, WE'RE STILL HERE.
AND THAT IS ALWAYS THAT I'M REQUESTING FROM YOU ALL TODAY THAT YOU BE CONSIDERATE OF THAT.
I HOPE THAT YOU CHOOSE TO, TO NOT CHANGE THE NAME BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF AN INSULT TO US.
IT'S KIND OF A SLAP IN THE FACE THAT YOU REMOVED US, YOU ERASED US, AND NOW YOU'RE
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GONNA RENAME A STREET WHERE THERE WILL BE DEVELOPMENT.I'M SURE BECAUSE DEVELOPERS ARE MAKING PLANS AS WE SPEAK TO DO APARTMENTS OR CONDOS OR, SO THERE'S STILL SOME PORTION OF THAT THAT'S OWNED BY NATIONAL PARKS.
WHO KNOWS, THEY MAY SELL IT TO THE CITY OR SOMEONE ELSE WHO KNOWS.
BUT I WANT YOU TO BE CONSIDERATE OF THAT, PLEASE, GOING FORWARD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PAST, UM, YOUR PAST, UH, UM, DECISIONS, UH, ON THE COUNCIL THAT WERE MINDFUL OF US.
I DIDN'T ALWAYS AGREE, BUT I APPRECIATE IT AND GOOD LUCK IN THE FUTURE.
UM, AND I THINK THIS IS, UH, THIS IS A, I'M GLAD WE ARE AT THIS MOMENT.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UM, COLLEEN AND THE TEAM AND FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK.
AND YES, THIS WAS, HAS BEEN A, A LONG TIME COMING AND A PART OF OUR WORLD HERITAGE SYMPOSIA, THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD, AND I HAVE TO ALSO THANK, UH, OUR WONDERFUL SPEAKERS, UM, MS. TERRY IBANEZ AND MS. BRENDA PACHECO, WHO ARE, UM, ADVOCATES AND PART OF OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH AND THROUGH, NOT JUST IN MISSION SAN JOSE, BUT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
UM, YOU ALL PROBABLY RECOGNIZE, UM, MS. PACHECO, SHE SERVED ON OUR TRICENTENNIAL COMMISSION AS WELL, UH, FOR, UH, DISTRICT THREE.
AND IT, IT WAS, AND I'M GLAD BECAUSE WE WERE GOING TO BRING THIS UP, WHAT, MAYBE A MONTH AGO NOW, BUT BECAUSE OF SOME CONCERNS THAT THEY HAD RAISED, WE PULLED IT OFF.
AND I THINK WHAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO, TO THE STORY THAT, UH, MS. PACHECO JUST MENTIONED, THAT BACKSIDE OF, OF, UM, SAN JOSE DRIVE THAT AREA TO, TO THEN RENAME IT'S ONE TO HAVE TAKEN OUT A COMPLETE, UH, HOUSING COMMUNITY AND THEN RENAME A WHOLE OTHER STREET THAT WASN'T ORIGINALLY SAN JOSE, SAN JOSE.
IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ERASURE OF A, OF A PEOPLE AND A STORY, BUT IT'S CHANGING A STORY.
IF YOU WERE TO HAVE RENAMED MISSION, THAT PORTION OF MISSION ROAD INTO SAN JOSE DRIVE, THAT IT, THERE, THE STORY OF CONSISTENCY WOULD NOT BE THERE.
AND SO I LOVE THAT SHE BROUGHT THIS TO MY ATTENTION AND CONTINUE TO, TO BRING THIS FORWARD.
UM, AND YES, THERE ARE THE RESIDENTS WHO LIVE ON NAPIER AND OTHER PORTIONS OF THOSE THREE AREAS AND THAT LITTLE ZIGZAG PORTION THAT ARE IN OPPOSITION TO THIS.
AND I DO, I DO WANNA HIGHLIGHT A PORTION OF THIS.
UM, ITEM NUMBER ONE IS IN DISTRICT FIVE AND THE ROOSEVELT PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, THEY'RE IN FAVOR OF THEIR, THE CHANGE IN THEIR AREA AND IN PORTIONS OF, OF THE SOUTHERN SECTOR.
AND SO ONE QUESTION I HAVE, UH, FOR, UM, YOU, UH, COLLEEN IS, THERE'S ONE ITEM, I THINK IT'S ON, UH, ASHLEY ROAD, NUMBER SEVEN.
WHAT IS THE LENGTH IN MILES FOR THIS SECTION OF ASHLEY ROAD THAT IS PROPOSED TO BE CHANGED TO A SPADA ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, UH, SEGMENT NUMBER SEVEN.
SO, UM, IT'S POINT, IT'S A 10TH OF A MILE, SO FIFTY FIVE, FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE LINEAR FEET.
SO IT'S A VERY SMALL SECTION OF ASHLEY.
AND SO THE ONE THAT'S GONNA BE REMAINING ASHLEY ROAD IS THE BACKSIDE OF STINSON WHERE THE TOWER IS AS WELL.
AND THAT'S REMAINING ASHLEY ROAD.
AND SO THIS IS THE PORTION OF ASHLEY ROAD THAT THEN IS CUT OFF BECAUSE OF THE, THE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE? CORRECT.
AND WE'RE, IT'S, IT'S BEING PROPOSED TO CHANGE TO ASPADA ROAD, WHICH DOES RUN THEN DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF MISSION ESPADA.
RIGHT? SO THERE IS THAT, UM, CONSISTENCY.
BUT ONE OF THE OTHER, UH, ROADS, THANK YOU, COLLEEN, ONE OF THE OTHER ROADS THAT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION, UH, THAT FOR ME PERSONALLY, BUT THEN ALSO FOR SOME, UH, RESIDENT THAT LIVES ON THE STREET IS A VIA MAIN, IT IS RIGHT ADJACENT TO MISSION SAN JUAN.
AND THAT IS, UM, A VERY STORIED ROAD.
AND IF YOU'VE EVER RIDDEN YOUR BIKE DOWN THERE, YOU'VE RIDDEN DOWN VIA MAIN AND IT'S RIGHT ADJACENT TO THE RAILROAD TRACKS AND IT GOES INTO THE, THE GHOST TRACKS TOO.
BUT ANYWAY, THAT'S ANOTHER STORY.
UM, SO YOU, YOU HAVE VIA MAIN THAT GOES INTO THE GHOST TRACKS AREA.
UM, SO IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT, IT'S BECAUSE OF THE, THE WORK AND THE STORIES AND THE HISTORY, AND WE ALWAYS, IT, IT IS ABOUT, UM, WHO TELLS YOUR STORIES AND IT'S ABOUT, UM, OUR ROOTS.
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AN AMENDMENT MAYOR TO STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION.SO, UM, MAYOR, I MOVE, I MOTION TO APPROVE THE STREET NAME CHANGE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SEGMENTS 2, 3, 4, AND EIGHT DEPICTED ON THE REALIGNMENT MAP AND THOSE BEING NAPIER AVENUE TO MISSION ROAD, MISSION ROAD TO SAN JOSE DRIVE, PADRE DRIVE TO MISSION ROAD, AND VIA MAIN ROAD TO MISSION ROAD SECOND.
UM, THERE'S A MOTION TO SECOND, BUT LET ME JUST, UM, CLARIFY, UM, WITH THE HELP OF ANDY.
UM, SO WE ARE APPROVING ITEM 18, BUT EXCLUDING THOSE ELEMENTS OF ITEM 18 IS THAT, UH, UH, MAYOR, THIS IS WHAT, UH, THE COUNCIL HAS NORMALLY CONSIDERED A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT, UH, IN THAT IT WAS COUNCILMAN VO ANA WAS MOTIONING FOR APPROVING, BUT AS AMENDED.
SO IT'S, IT FALLS INTO THAT CATEGORY.
BUT JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, SUBSTANTIVELY, WE ARE APPROVING THE ITEM, BUT REMOVING THOSE THAT'S CORRECT.
AND THERE WAS A MOTION AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
WE'LL CONTINUE DISCUSSION WITH COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.
WHAT PROMPTED THE NAME CHANGE AGAIN? UM, COLLEEN, IF YOU CAN.
SO, BACK IN, UH, 2015 WHEN WE HELD, UH, THIS SERIES OF SYMPOSIA, UH, ONE OF THE OUTCOMES OF THAT VISITOR EXPERIENCE, UH, SYMPOSIA WAS THAT IT'S CONFUSING TO DRIVE TO THE MISSIONS.
AND IT WAS CONFUSING IN A NUMBER OF WAYS.
FIRST, THERE'S NO CONSISTENT SIGNAGE.
UM, SECOND THE MISSION ROAD, THERE'S FOUR DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF MISSION ROAD.
AND WHEN YOU'RE PARTICULARLY AROUND THE SAN JOSE AREA, IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE STREET NAME CHANGES, IT'S NOT INTUITIVE.
UM, THERE WERE ALSO RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UPDATING GOOGLE AND THINGS OF THAT SORT, WHICH, WHICH HAVE ALL BEEN DONE.
SO IT WAS REALLY, UH, AS A RESULT OF THAT CONVERSATION.
AND THEN, UM, AND PART OF THAT STUDY THAT THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER AUTHORITY COMPLETED, OKAY, WE CAN, WE CAN FIX SIGNS, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY.
AND AS PART OF THE 2017 BOND, THERE IS FUNDING TO, UH, IMPLEMENT A SIGNAGE AND WAY FINDING PACKAGE.
UM, THAT PACKAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW AND WILL BE IMPLEMENTED, IMPLEMENTED LATER THIS YEAR.
WITH THE PROPOSED CHANGES, OR AS IT IS TODAY, IT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED AS IT IS TODAY.
AND RIGHT NOW, WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS STREET NAME CHANGING IT WAS ORIGINALLY TO CREATE A MORE CONTI, UH, CONTIGUOUS MISSION ROAD, BUT IT'S STILL VIABLE WITH THE AMENDMENTS THAT COUNCILMAN VIA GRANT HAS MADE.
SO WE'RE NOT GONNA GO BACK AND CHANGE STUFF THAT WE'VE ALREADY FUNDED THROUGH THE BOND PROGRAM? NO, WE, WE WILL NOT.
JUST, JUST FOR CLARITY, CAN YOU PUT THAT MAP UP AND SHOW WHAT THAT, WITH THOSE CHANGES OR AMENDMENT TO THE CHANGES? OH, WAIT, OH, I SHOULD JUST GO TO THE BACKUP
SO I'M NOT SURE IF YOU CAN SEE THIS, BUT YOU, THE WORLD HERITAGE TRAIL IS THE TRAIL FROM THE, FROM MISSION SAN ANTONIO DERO, THE ALAMO, TO ALL THE, THE MISSIONS.
AND SO YOU WOULD START ON ALAMO STREET, GO DOWN ST.
THERE'S A HISTORIC BRIDGE THERE.
SO RIGHT AFTER THAT HISTORIC BRIDGE, THERE IS A REMNANT OF MISSION ROAD THAT IS LEFT OVER FROM THE MISSION REACH.
SO IT WAS CLOSED MISSION ROAD ORIGINALLY WENT FROM THERE AND CONNECTED TO THE, THE FUCHSIA COLORED LINE THAT YOU SEE RIGHT THERE.
UM, SO RIGHT NOW WHAT HAPPENS IS YOU HAVE TWO MISSION ROADS OFF OF ROOSEVELT IN THIS SECTION.
SO WE'RE RECOMMENDING TO CHANGE THE NAME OF ITEM NUMBER ONE TO ELIMINATE CONFUSION SO THAT PEOPLE WOULD THEN MAKE A RIGHT HAND TURN IF THEY'RE TRAVELING SOUTH ON MISSION ROAD, FOLLOW THAT ROAD ALL THE WAY TO MISSION ION.
AND THEN THAT ROAD CONTINUES ON UNTIL ROOSEVELT AGAIN, JUST RIGHT, UH, NORTH OF MISSION SAN JOSE.
AT THAT POINT, YOU THEN TURN ON ROOSEVELT AGAIN, AND THEN YOU MAKE A LEFT ONTO NAPIER, AND NAPIER IS PROPOSED TO BE RENAMED MISSION ROAD THAT WAS PART, AND THEN YOU WOULD GO DOWN A PADRE TO HIT SOUTHEAST MILITARY WHERE MISSION ROAD STARTS UP AGAIN
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TO TAKE YOU TO STINSON AND MISSION SAN JUAN.AND THEN AT MISSION SAN JUAN, IT ENDS AND BECOMES VIA MAINE.
AND SO THAT'S WHY THAT WAS PROPOSED TO BE CALLED MISSION ROAD FROM VIA MAINE.
YOU WOULD TAKE CAMINO KAWA TECA TO MISSION ASA.
THAT IS A SPOT A ROAD UP UNTIL YOU HIT, UH, ASHLEY AND ASSIA.
AND THAT'S WHY THOSE PORTIONS ARE PROPOSED TO BE RENAMED, UH, A SPOTA ROAD.
SO WITH THE AMENDMENT THAT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN VERAN, UM, ASK WHICH PORTIONS ARE GONNA STAY THE SAME NOW.
SO THE ONES THAT WILL STAY THE SAME WILL BE NUMBER TWO, WHICH IS NAPIER ROAD.
UM, NUMBER THREE, WHICH IS MISSION ROAD.
AND THEN NUMBER FOUR, WHICH IS PADRE, AND THEN NUMBER EIGHT, WHICH IS V M A.
AND I APOLOGIZE IF I GOT IN THOSE NUMBERS INCORRECT.
I I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD WHICH ONES ARE STAYING THE SAME NOW, WHICH WE HAD SOME CONCERNS FROM FOLKS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
YEAH, THE, THE CONVERSATION I WANNA HAVE ABOUT, THIS IS JUST A, A BROADER IN SCOPE.
I, WHATEVER THE NAME IS, IT'S GONNA BE THE NAME AND I'LL SUPPORT IT.
BUT WHAT, WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS, UM, AS A, AS JUST A, HOW WE HANDLE THIS GOING FORWARD, IT OCCURS TO ME AS I'M SITTING HERE AND LISTENING TO THOSE FOLKS TALK THAT WE COST THEM MONEY WHEN WE DO THIS RIGHT IN THE FORM OF HAVING TO GO AND CHANGE YOUR DOCUMENTS, HAVING TO GO AND TELL THE BANK SOCIAL SECURITY, YOUR PASSPORT.
RIGHT? UH, IT'S, UH, YOU MAY EVEN HAVE TO REPORT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY, RIGHT.
THAT YOUR ADDRESS HAS CHANGED.
AND SO, UM, IT OCCURS TO ME THAT WHEN WE DO THIS, UM, FEELS GOOD.
UH, I MEAN, I, I CELEBRATE THIS, THIS IS COOL.
BUT I THINK WE DO OWE IT TO FOLKS, UM, THAT WE UNDERSTAND HOW WE IMPACT THEM.
AND, UH, I, I WONDER MIKE OR ERIC OR COLLEEN, WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S ROOM HERE, UM, TO COMPENSATE PEOPLE FOR THE TROUBLE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE PUTTING THEM THROUGH SO THAT WE CAN CHANGE THEIR NAMES, UH, OF THEIR STREETS.
DO WE DO THAT? WE DON'T CURRENTLY, BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THERE WILL BE, IF WITH THE PROPOSAL THAT COUNCILWOMAN VEA GRANDE HAS PUT FORWARD, THERE WILL BE NO RESIDENCE OR COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES IMPACTED PERFECT.
WHICH IS WHY CHANGE, WHICH IS WHY I SUPPORT IT.
AND I THINK THAT THE AMENDMENTS ARE PERFECT.
UH, BUT, BUT GOING FORWARD, I MEAN, WE DID IMPACT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE WHEN WE CHANGED THE NAME TO CESAR CHAVEZ OR WHEN WE DID THE K**E WHATEVER HIS NAME IS.
UH, AND SO, AND PEOPLE WERE MAD ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? AND WE KIND OF BULLDOZED OVER THEM, UH, AND THOSE CONCERNS.
AND SO I'M WONDERING IF GOING FORWARD, UH, STAFF WOULD OBJECT TO US BAKING INTO THESE SUGGESTIONS, SETTING ASIDE FUNDS TO HELP THESE FOLKS, YOU KNOW, MAKE THOSE CHANGES.
UM, IT SOUNDED LIKE A QUESTION COUNCILMAN, SO I'LL TRY TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER.
UM, CERTAINLY AND MIKE SHANNON SPECIALLY CERTAINLY THAT'S, UH, THAT'S ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS IN ALL THE STREET NAME CHANGES WE DO, NO MATTER WHO PROPOSES IT, UH, THERE'S A CONVERSATION ABOUT, UH, THE COST ASSOCIATED, WHETHER, WHETHER THE HARDSHIP ASSOCIATED, WHETHER IT'S A HOMEOWNER OR BUSINESS OWNER.
AND AS COLLEEN MENTIONED RIGHT NOW, THERE IS NO REAL MECHANISM FOR THAT.
UH, WE DO TRY TO MINIMIZE THAT IMPACT.
UH, THAT'S WHY WE'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE ALL THESE OPEN PUBLIC MEETINGS.
BUT I'D BE HAPPY TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU AND ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO TALK ABOUT WHAT OUR CODE PROCESS IS AND OR HOW TO BUDGET INTO THAT.
UM, ANY AFFECTED BUSINESSES OR HOMEOWNERS IN THE FUTURE.
YEAH, I MEAN IT JUST OUT OF A SENSE OF EQUITY HERE, ANDY, I MEAN, IS THAT SOMETHING WE COULD DO? I MEAN, DO YOU SEE ANY REASON WHY OR ANY LEGAL IMPEDIMENT TO US IN THE FUTURE BAKING INTO ONE OF THESE PROPOSALS THAT THERE HAS TO BE A SET ASIDE FOR COMPENSATING FOLKS FOR THE, FOR THE HEADACHE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE PUTTING THEM THROUGH? UH, THAT'S ONE QUESTION.
UH, OBVIOUSLY WE HAVEN'T ANALYZED IN FULL COUNSELING, BUT I CAN TELL YOU MY INITIAL IMPRESSION IS I DON'T SEE A LEGAL IMPEDIMENT, BUT OKAY.
WE'LL LOOK INTO THAT QUESTION FURTHER FOR YOU.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT.
'CAUSE THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'VE, WE'VE DONE THIS AND I'M HAPPY THAT WE'RE NOT DOING IT TO PEOPLE IN THIS INSTANCE, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT FUTURE COUNSELS, YOU KNOW, AT THE VERY LEAST, HAVE TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION RIGHT ABOUT THE COSTS TO THE THIRD PARTIES.
ANYWAY, YOU GET MY SUPPORT, COUNCILWOMAN.
AND THANK YOU TO THE CONVERSATION FROM MY COLLEAGUES.
UH, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I KNOW WE WERE TALKING ABOUT AS WELL.
UH, THAT WAS ONE OF THE ITEMS AND THAT HAS BEEN AN MEANING, COSTS AND WHAT KIND OF A FINANCIAL BURDEN THAT COULD, COULD DO, UH, BEYOND FAMILIES.
AND I THINK THAT'S AN ITEM THAT EVERYBODY HAS WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT PROPOSED STREET NAME CHANGES, I'M THINKING OF ENRIQUE BARRERA PARKWAY
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AND HOW, UM, I KNOW AT THE TIME, COUNCIL MEMBER RAY LOPEZ PRIVATELY RAISED DOLLARS IN ORDER TO, UH, FUND AND HELP ALL OF THE, UM, THE RESIDENTS OR THE COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES OUT IN THAT AREA.SO THAT IS SOMETHING TO DEFINITELY TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, AND I THINK IT'S A GREAT CONVERSATION FOR YOU ALL ON COUNCIL TO HAVE MOVING FORWARD.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 18 AS AMENDED.
NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, PLEASE VOTE.
[21. 21-4033 Ordinance approving a Professional Services Agreement in an amount not to exceed $313,200.00 with Neighborhood Housing Services of San Antonio for the Shotgun House Pilot Program. Funding in the amount of $230,000.00 is available from the District 5 City Council Budget in the General Fund, and in the amount of $83,200.00 is available from the FY 2021 Neighborhood Housing Services Department Budget in the General Fund. [Lori Houston, Assistant City Manager; Verónica R. Soto, FAICP, Director, Neighborhood and Housing Services]]
ITEM 21 IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $313,200 WITH NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF SAN ANTONIO FOR A SHOTGUN HOUSE PILOT PROGRAM.FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $230,000 IS AVAILABLE FROM THE DISTRICT FIVE CITY COUNCIL BUDGET IN THE GENERAL FUND, AND IN THE AMOUNT OF $83,200 IS AVAILABLE FROM THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT BUDGET, AND THE GENERAL FUND COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
VERO, DO YOU HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION? OKAY.
WE HAVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION ON THIS ITEM.
UM, SO GOOD MORNING, VERONICA SOTO WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT, UH, TO PROVIDE BACKGROUND FOR THIS ITEM, WHICH IS A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING SERVICES, INC.
A NON-PROFIT, NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH OUR DEPARTMENT.
THIS IS A PILOT PROJECT FOR SHOTGUN HOUSE REHABILITATION THAT WAS STARTED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, AND THIS IS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
BUT WE ALSO HAVE ADDITIONAL PARTNERS WHO ARE HELPING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DOCUMENT WHAT WE ARE DOING, THAT WE HAVE CONTRACTORS WHO ARE TRAINED TO DO THIS KIND OF REHAB.
WE ARE DEALING WITH SHOTGUN HOUSES, WHICH ARE OLDER, HISTORIC HOMES, AND THAT DO REQUIRE, UH, TRADITIONAL METHODS, UM, TO RETAIN SOME OF THE, UH, CULTURE INTEGRITY OF THE HOUSES THAT WERE BUILT ABOUT A HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN OUR CITY.
AND ALSO WE HAVE, UH, THE NONPROFIT NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING SERVICES THAT IS ACTIVELY HELPING TO REHAB ONE OF THE HOMES, SO THEIR CONTRACTED PARTNERS.
BUT, UM, DO YOU WANNA GIVE A, A BIT OF A PROGRESS UPDATE? UM, JUST THIS MONDAY WE HAD, UH, THE DISTINCT HONOR OF HANDING THE KEYS OVER TO A LOVELY FAMILY.
GOT A LOT OF NICE PRESS COUNCILWOMAN, UH, GONZALEZ WAS THERE WITH, UH, MARTINEZ FAMILIES FOR THE HOME AT 2, 2, 2 FURNISH NOT TOO FAR FROM HERE.
AND IT'S A HOME THAT THEIR FAMILY HAS OWNED SINCE THE, AFTER THE GREAT DEPRESSION THAT THEY'RE VERY HAPPY TO GO AND LIVE IN.
ONCE AGAIN, UH, WE SAW PICTURES, UH, OF THE GRANDFATHER THAT HAD BOUGHT THE HOUSE, UM, IN A NEIGHBORHOOD HERE.
SO THAT WAS AN OWNER-OCCUPIED HOUSE.
BUT WE'RE ALSO DOING SOME HOUSES THAT ARE GONNA BE RENTED, AND WE'RE TACKLING AN ADDITIONAL VACANT HOUSE THAT IS ALSO GONNA BE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE ANOTHER HOUSE AT 1107 GUADALUPE UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW.
AND THE ADDITIONAL HOME IS THE ONE THAT REQUIRES THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING SO THAT WE COMPLETE THAT REHAB.
UM, AND HERE'S SOME DETAILS OF THAT PARTICULAR HOUSE THAT IS GONNA BE REHABBED FOR THIS, UH, PILOT PROGRAM AS WELL.
THIS IS ALSO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
SO THE HOUSE IS GONNA BE RENTED, UM, TO AN INDIVIDUAL WITH AN INCOME AT OR BELOW 80% OF HER AREA, MEDIAN INCOME.
WE DO NEED AROUND $83,000 TO COMPLETE THE REHAB.
YOU CAN SEE THE, THE STATE OF THE, THE HOME CURRENTLY, AND THE, THE MANAGEMENT OF THAT REHAB, IT'S NOT GONNA BE OUR DEPARTMENT.
IT'S ACTUALLY GONNA BE THIS NONPROFIT BECAUSE WE DO KNOW THAT WE NEED TO HAVE OUR PARTNERS IN THE NONPROFIT SECTOR ALSO HELP US WITH THIS.
SO THE RECOMMENDATION IS TO HAVE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH THE NONPROFIT FOR THIS PARTICULAR HOUSE, AND TO ADD ADDITIONAL MONEY SO THAT INSTEAD OF JUST THREE HOUSES, WE CAN DO POTENTIALLY UP TO SIX.
AND THE FUNDING, UM, THAT IS GONNA BE THE DISTRICT FIVE CARRY FORWARD, WOULD BE DIVIDED AMONGST THE PARTNERS.
IT IS A PILOT THAT WAS CHAMPIONED BY THE DISTRICT FIVE OFFICE, AND WE'RE SEEING, UM, THE, THE HOUSES BE COMPLETED AND HOMES BEING TURNED OVER.
UM, THIS STARTING THIS WEEK, THAT IS THE END OF THE PRESENTATION.
I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU VETO, UH, FOR THE PRESENTATION.
AND SO I JUST, I WANTED TO, UH, HIGHLIGHT THIS ITEM,
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OF COURSE, BRING IT TO THE ATTENTION OF MY COLLEAGUES, UH, BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A GREAT PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION, WITH THE, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, UH, ASSOCIATION.IS IT, UM, AND DID I GET IT RIGHT? NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, UH, AND, UM, U T S A SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.
UH, AND, UH, OF COURSE, UM, THE REASON WHY THIS WAS SUCH A WONDERFUL, UH, PILOT, UH, IS BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, WE HAD A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT CAME TOGETHER TO REALLY SAVE SOME OF THESE HOUSES.
SO, UM, WE ALSO HAD A MICRO ESSAY, WHICH TRAINED SOME OF THE SMALL SCALE CONTRACTORS, UH, TO BE ABLE TO REHABILITATE THESE HOMES.
SO THESE WERE BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION BY THE OS OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
UM, WELL, MANY YEARS AGO, UH, WE IDENTIFIED SOME HOUSES.
UH, WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE 800 SHOTGUN HOUSES JUST IN DISTRICT FIVE, AND I KNOW THERE'S A COUPLE OF OTHER AROUND THE CITY, BUT WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO RESTORE THEM.
UH, AND SO FINALLY, UH, WITH A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT PARTNERS, UM, OUR GENERAL FUND DOLLARS THAT I DESIGNATED, UH, IN 2021, UH, AND THEN THE REASON IT'S ON HERE TODAY IS BECAUSE WE ARE, UM, ASKING FOR AN ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO DO A COUPLE OF MORE, UH, AND ALSO TO EXPAND THE PROGRAM BECAUSE IT DID AT LEAST INITIALLY END UP BEING MORE EXPENSIVE THAN WE ANTICIPATED.
UH, PARTLY BECAUSE OF COST OF MATERIALS, UH, PARTLY BECAUSE, UH, IT'S, IT'S A LEARNING PROCESS.
AND SO WE HAD TO TRAIN SOME, UM, PEOPLE TO DO WORK BY HAND.
UH, IT WAS MUCH, UH, SLOWER ALSO THAN ONE MIGHT ANTICIPATE, BECAUSE, UH, WE HAD TO TRAIN PEOPLE TO JUST USE A HAMMER AND A NAIL.
AND MAYBE THAT SOUNDS SIMPLE, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY A SKILL THAT IS LOST BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE ARE USED TO USING HYDRAULIC MACHINES.
UH, ALSO WE WERE TRYING TO RESTORE THE WINDOWS AND THE DESIGNS.
SO, UM, THOSE HISTORIC WINDOWS, UH, PARTICULARLY IN THE FURNISH HOUSE, UM, ENDED UP BEING QUITE EXPENSIVE.
UM, AND THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL AND THEY'RE CONSISTENT WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, BUT THEY JUST END UP COSTING MORE THAN WE INITIALLY THOUGHT.
SO I, I AM REALLY PROUD OF THIS, THIS PROJECT BECAUSE IT DOES TOUCHES ON SO MANY THINGS THAT WE KNOW ARE IMPORTANT IN THIS CITY.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION, UM, HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ALSO EQUITY AS WE CONTINUE TO INVEST IN OUR EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, AND IT WAS, IT GAVE ME SUCH AN INCREDIBLE SENSE OF PRIDE AND JOY TO BE ABLE TO TURN THAT HOUSE OVER TO THE MARTINEZ FAMILY.
UM, THERE WERE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES IN THE PAPER, UM, THAT, UH, UH, JERRY LATA TOOK, UM, AND, UH, JERRY LATA ISS SUCH A GREAT PHOTOGRAPHER, AND HE, HE'S HAS A LONG HISTORY AND AS I KNOW, HAS WON MANY AWARDS.
BUT, UM, HE DID A WONDERFUL JOB OF CAPTURING, UH, THOSE MOMENTS.
AND I JUST, I WANT TO, UM, ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO CONTINUE PROJECTS LIKE THIS.
I, UM, WHEN WE APPROVE THE HOUSING BOND IN, UH, THE LAST ELECTIONS, UM, I DON'T, LORI, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN USE THAT THOSE DOLLARS FOR? UM, IF WE, UH, I DON'T VETO IF YOU CAN ANSWER, I WASN'T SURE IF IT WAS LORI THAT DID MOST OF THOSE PRESENTATIONS, BUT CAN WE USE OUR HOUSING BOND FOR PROJECTS LIKE THIS? UM, SO WITH THE CHARTER AMENDMENT, WE HAVE THE OPTION OF DOING A LOT MORE.
LET ME CORRECT MYSELF BECAUSE I, I THINK I SAID IT WAS A CHARTER AMENDMENT THAT WE CHANGED.
WE HAVE NOT APPROVED ANY DOLLARS FOR THE HOUSING BOND.
SO, UH, I NEEDED TO INTERRUPT MYSELF, AND I GOT WAY AHEAD OF MYSELF.
SO NO BOND DOLLARS HAVE BEEN, UM, ADMINISTERED AT THIS POINT, SIMPLY THAT THE CHARTER WAS AMENDED SO THAT WE CAN INCLUDE IT.
SO THE POSSIBILITY OF DOING MORE IN PROJECTS LIKE THIS AND PRESERVING OUR HOUSING STOCK ARE, ARE DEFINITELY PART OF, UH, WHAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT.
SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO DEVELOPING THAT PROGRAM.
UH, BUT YES, THE CHARTER AMENDMENT DOES ALLOW US MORE FLEXIBILITY, AND WE HAVE HEARD PRESERVATION IS ONE OF THE KEY AREAS.
UM, AND SO WE ARE LOOKING AT THOSE KIND OF THINGS.
AND I SEE SOME OF THE PICTURES FROM, UH, MONDAY'S EVENT WITH THE MARTINEZ FAMILY AS WELL, SO OH, GOOD.
SO THAT WAS, UH, I THINK THAT WAS ALSO BY JERRY LATA THAT TOOK SOME OF THOSE.
SO YOU, UM, COULD YOU HOLD THAT PICTURE BACK, JUST ONE ME? UH, CAN YOU SHOW, I, I WANTED TO SHOW THAT THOSE WINDOWS, UM, BECAUSE THOSE ARE, ARE SOMETHING THAT, UH, ALSO ENDED UP, UM, BEING ABLE TO, TO MAINTAIN THE HISTORIC CHARACTER OF THE FACADE MEANS THAT WE REALLY NEEDED TO INVEST IN THOSE WINDOWS, WHICH ENDED UP BEING MORE EXPENSIVE, BUT I'M SURE THEY'RE ENERGY EFFICIENT AND OTHER THINGS, UH, BECAUSE OF COURSE, THE HOUSE DID NOT HAVE CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING.
AND SO WE, UM, THE, THE TEAM, UM, ENDED UP PUTTING JUST, I THINK, A REGULAR CENTRAL AIR
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SYSTEM, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY.BUT THE WINDOWS ARE MUCH MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT, AND YOU ALSO GET A LITTLE PICTURE OF THE DOOR, WHICH THEY WERE ALSO ABLE TO MAINTAIN AND RESTORE.
THE DOOR ITSELF WAS REALLY BEAUTIFUL, UH, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO RESTORE THAT AND PUT IT BACK IN THERE BECAUSE FOR ANYBODY THAT'S HAD TO RESTORE IT AT A HISTORIC HOME, KNOWS THAT YOU CAN'T BUY THE DOORS AND WINDOWS LIKE THIS AT HOME DEPOT.
THEY END UP HAVING TO BE A SPECIAL ORDER.
THEY HAVE TO BE RECONSTRUCTED, AND THEY HAVE TO REALLY BE INSTALLED WITH, UH, CARE AND BY HAND.
UM, AND SO I, I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT.
SO GO AHEAD AND SHOW THE OTHER PHOTOS THAT LITTLE GIRL.
UM, WHO IS THE GRANDDAUGHTER, I THINK, OR THE, OKAY.
AND, UM, UH, I HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE, UH, ON THE PROJECT.
WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE, UH, 800 HOMES, UH, SHOTGUN HOUSES IN DISTRICT FIVE.
UH, I KNOW THERE'S SOME IN DISTRICT THREE, LOTS IN DISTRICT TWO AS WELL.
UM, AND IT WAS A, UH, IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATION, UH, AND I THINK WE'RE LEARNING A LOT FROM IT.
UM, BUT IT WAS, UH, IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE TEAM EFFORT.
UM, ALSO MY STAFF WHO WORKED ON THE PROJECT, JEAN RODRIGUEZ, WHO I, I THINK HASN'T COME THIS MORNING, REALLY THE ONE WHO WORKED, UH, ON MY BEHALF WITH THE STAFF.
I, THEY HAD LIKE WEEKLY MEETINGS BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME URGENCY TO GET THIS DONE BEFORE I LEFT.
UH, AND WE LIKE GOT IT RIGHT IN THE NICK OF TIME.
UH, THIS, UM, WAS, I THINK YESTERDAY OR THE DAY BEFORE.
UH, SO THANK YOU TO THE TEAM FOR, UM, TEAM FOR, UM, THIS, UH, INCREDIBLE, UH, EFFORT.
AND I LOOK FORWARD TO BEING ABLE TO DO MORE PROJECTS, UH, LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 21.
I JUST WANTED TO CONGRATULATE COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ ONE AND YOUR TEAM FOR TAKING THE INITIATIVE.
AND WE ALWAYS KNOW THAT THIS IS EXACTLY, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS COSTING A LITTLE BIT MORE DOLLARS, WE STILL KNOW THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE MORE AFFORDABLE BECAUSE OF THE RENOVATION, UM, AND THE PRESERVATION OF THESE HOUSES, AND ITS RENOVATION AND PRESERVATION.
AND THIS CAN NOW STAY IN THE FAMILY FOR EVEN MORE AND MORE LEGACIES.
SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S INCREDIBLE HERE.
AND I HAVE TO ALSO, AGAIN, GIVE A, UH, BIG THANKS TO THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND ALL OF THE CREW THAT GOES.
AND YES, FOR THE CRAFT THAT HAS, AND THE CRAFT AND THE SKILL THAT HAS TO COME IN TO FIXING THESE HOUSES, THE WINDOWS, THE DOORS, EVERYTHING.
THAT IS A SKILL THAT I KNOW THAT THEY ARE WORKING ON WITH RESTORE EDUCATION AND OUR TRAIN FOR JOBS ESSAY PROGRAM.
SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR.
AND CONGRATULATIONS, COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ AND THE RESIDENTS OF D FIVE AND SAN ANTONIO.
I, I, I JUST GOT A FEW QUESTIONS ON THIS, UH, VIRO, IF YOU COULD COME ON UP.
SO, WHEN DID WE START THIS PROGRAM? SO THIS IS A PILOT PROGRAM THAT STARTED THIS FISCAL YEAR.
UM, AND WE LOOKED AT A VARIETY OF FUNDING SOURCES IN INCLUDING OUR OWNER OCCUPIED REHAB FUNDING.
SO WE, UH, USED AN OWNER OCCUPIED FUNDING RESOURCE FOR THE HOUSE THAT WE FINISHED THIS WEEK.
BUT IT WAS A PILOT FOR THIS TYPE OF HOUSE, STARTED THIS FISCAL YEAR.
AND HOW MUCH DID WE PUT TOWARDS THIS PILOT? OH, IT, IT STARTED WITH ONLY $250,000 WITH THE GOAL OF TRYING TO DO THREE HOUSES AND HAVE OUR THREE PARTNERS HELP US DOCUMENT THE PROCESS, UM, AND HELPING US TRAIN THE CRAFT, UM, CRAFTSMEN AND SMALL SUBCONTRACTORS AS WELL WITH, UH, ONE NONPROFIT TAKING ON THE MANAGEMENT AND REHAB OF ONE HOUSE.
SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THREE HOUSES HERE? THREE HOUSES, YES, SIR.
AND THE INITIAL AMOUNT WAS HOW MUCH? 250.
AND DID THAT COMPLETE THOSE THREE HOUSES? UH, WE NEEDED THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE THIRD HOUSE, WHICH IS THE $83,000 PLUS BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT WE NEEDED TO COME TO COUNCIL SINCE IT EXCEEDED THE THRESHOLD.
SO THAT'S ALSO WHY WE'RE HERE, BECAUSE THE AMOUNT EXCEEDS THE, THE THRESHOLD, UM, THAT CAN BE SIGNED ADMINISTRATIVELY.
SO WE NEEDED THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THE THIRD HOUSE AS WELL.
SO THE THREE HOUSES, HOW MUCH MONEY ALTOGETHER? THE THREE HOUSES TOGETHER WILL BE JUST OVER $300,000.
SO ABOUT, ON AVERAGE OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER HOUSE.
UM, WHAT WERE THE RESOURCES THAT WERE PUT TO THAT 300,000? WAS IT, WAS IT ALL GENERAL FUNDS COMING OUT OF OUR GENERAL FUND? YES.
IT HAS ALL BEEN GENERAL FUNDS.
YOU KNOW WHERE I'M GOING WITH ON THIS, RIGHT? THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY FOR, UM, WHAT'S THE SQUARE FOOTAGE? WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE AVERAGE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THOSE HOUSES? WELL, THE ONE ON FURNISH WAS AROUND
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1100 SQUARE FEET.UM, IT DID HAVE ADDITIONS ADDED, UH, ORIGINALLY IT WAS THREE ROOMS, NOW IT HAD TWO ADDITIONAL ROOMS, BUT THE OTHER ONES ARE SMALLER THAN THAT, JUST AROUND, UM, ABOUT A THOUSAND SQUARE FEET.
SO HOW MUCH IS THAT PER SQUARE FOOT? HAVEN'T DONE THE MATH.
I'M NOT GOOD AT MATH, BUT I NEED SOMEBODY THREE HOUSES, WHAT, 1100 SQUARE FEET? A THOUSAND SQUARE FEET PER HOUSE AVERAGE.
SO WHAT'S THE COST PER SQUARE FOOT AND HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO, UM, THANK YOU.
WHAT WAS IT? IT'S ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND 111.
SO A LITTLE OVER A HUNDRED DOLLARS A SQUARE FOOT.
LORI, COUNCILMAN, I WANTED TO CORRECT SOMETHING.
YES, THERE, WE SPENT OVER $300,000 ON THE INITIAL PILOT PROGRAM, BUT ABOUT A HUNDRED OF THAT WAS USED FOR STUDIES WITH MICRO SAN ANTONIO AND WITH, UM, U T SS A TO HELP US CREATE MANUALS AND DESIGN MANUALS SO WE COULD REPLICATE THIS PROJECT IN OTHER AREAS.
SO WE ONLY SPENT A LITTLE BIT OVER $200,000 FOR THESE THREE HOMES, SO I WANTED TO CORRECT THAT.
SO IT'S NOT A HUNDRED THOUSAND PER HOME, YOU'RE LOOKING AT ANYWHERE FROM 50 TO $83,000 OR $85,000 PER REHAB OF THE HOME.
AND THAT'S WHAT, AROUND 80 BUCKS A SQUARE FOOT? YES.
AND HOW MUCH DOES A NEW HOUSE GO FORWARD NOWADAYS? PER SQUARE FOOT? ANY IDEA? IT'S NORTH OF A HUNDRED.
UM, JUST SO HAVE WE GOTTEN ALL THOSE MATERIALS NOW FROM, YOU SAID, STUDIES AND BOOKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT? SO THIS CONTRACT TODAY WE'RE DOING IS IN ADDITION TO THE THREE HOUSES THAT WE'VE, THAT WE'VE ALREADY CONTRACTED TO DO, WE'RE DOING HOPEFULLY ANOTHER TWO TO THREE HOMES WITH THE ADDITION OF COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ'S C C F FUNDING.
SO SHE'S ADDING $230,000 FOR US TO DO MORE HOMES.
AND WE ARE GOING TO BE USING SOME OF THAT MONEY TO GET SOME MORE MATERIALS AND, UM, CONTRACTING LIKE MANUALS FROM UT, FROM U T S A AND MICRO SAN ANTONIO.
SO THAT WORK'S NOT DONE YET, BUT IT'LL ALL BE DONE WITH A CONCLUSION OF THE PILOT PROGRAM.
SO INSTEAD OF DOING THREE HOMES, WE'RE GONNA DO SIX HOMES, AND THE OTHER DELIVERABLE WILL BE THE ADDITIONAL, UM, GUIDELINES AND MANUALS WE'VE REQUESTED FROM THOSE TWO OKAY.
WELL, MY CONCERNS ARE THAT, AGAIN, THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT HERE AND HOW MUCH WE'RE SPENDING PER SQUARE FOOT, UM, COMPARED TO OTHER, UM, AVAILABLE MM-HMM.
AND THE RETURN IS WE'RE KEEPING PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES AND WE'RE NOT DISRUPTING A NEIGHBORHOOD AND DISTURBING A NEIGHBORHOOD'S HISTORIC INTEGRITY.
IS THERE A COST SHARING AT ALL, OR IS THIS TOTALLY PAID BY THE CITY? THIS IS PAID FOR BY THE CITY, BUT THEY MUST QUALIFY FOR IT.
AND IT MUST BE AN AFFORDABLE PROJECT.
BUT NO, NO INVESTMENT BY THE OWNERS.
WELL, THE OWNER WILL HAVE TO MAINTAIN THE HOME, AND THAT'S A, THAT'S A HUGE INVESTMENT AS WELL FOR THEM.
SO JUST MAINTAINING IT FROM HERE ON OUT, NOT NOT INTO THE ACTUAL COST OF THE RENOVATIONS.
WELL, WE WILL, UH, WE'LL CROSS THOSE BRIDGES WHEN WE GET TO IT, UH, FOR ANY ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS LIKE THIS IN THE FUTURE.
UM, I, I WAS SURPRISED THAT WE PULLED THIS ITEM HIM, 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT WE'RE ALL SUPPORTIVE, UH, OF IT, BUT I, I JUST WANTED TO EXPRESS MY, MY SUPPORT FORWARD AS WELL.
I THINK REHABBING, UH, THESE TYPES OF HOME EXEMPLIFIES SO MANY VALUES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THIS COUNCIL, UH, INCLUDING, UH, MAINTAINING THE INTEGRITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS, THE HISTORIC NATURE OF, OF OUR CITY THAT, UH, THAT WE DEFINITELY PRIDE OURSELVES IN.
AND I, I THINK A COUPLE OF THE THINGS THAT LORI MENTIONED, UM, I DON'T THINK YOU CAN QUANTIFY IN TERMS OF RETURN ON INVESTMENT, UH, TO QUOTE AN, AN OFTEN QUOTED CREDIT CARD COMMERCIAL.
IT'S REALLY PRICELESS, RIGHT? UH, SO IT, IT, IT'S A VALUE CHOICE.
BUT I, I DO THINK IF WE WENT INTO THE EXERCISE OF COST AND EXPENSES, YOU'D HAVE TO THROW IN DEMOLISHING THE HOME OR FINDING A NEW LOT SOMEWHERE.
OR HOW DO YOU GET THE RESOURCES AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OR THE UTILITIES TO THE NEW LOT AND THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
UH, I ALSO THINK THIS IS REALLY ABOUT, UM, REDUCING, REUSING AND RECYCLING, UH, WHICH IS ONE OF, UH, ONE OF THE VALUES THAT WE HAD, WE ADOPTED INHERENTLY IN OUR CLIMATE ACTION
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ADAPTATION PLAN.AND, UH, OBVIOUSLY THE FIRST FEW TIMES YOU DO SOMETHING, IT'S GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT MORE WORK, A LITTLE BIT MORE MONEY, UH, BUT BUILDING THIS MODEL FOR THE OTHER 800 HOMES IN, IN THE DISTRICT AND, UH, MAYBE OTHER TYPES OF HOME IN OUR URBAN CORE IS, IS DEFINITELY WORTH IT.
SO I WANNA THANK THE COUNCILWOMAN FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN ON YOUR, ON YOUR LAST YEAR OUT, THE LAST BUDGET YEAR OUT, AND IT'S ENTIRELY WORTHWHILE.
SO I, I'M VERY GLAD TO SUPPORT IT.
AND I JUST, I, I ALSO, I THINK, UM, WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE THE COUNCIL WITH, UM, ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION.
UM, IT CAME UP ALSO SORT OF IN THE SAME TIMELINE.
UM, THE WET BUILDING, THAT'S JUST A FEW BLOCKS FROM HERE.
UM, IT, IT CAME UP WITH BASIL FROCK, THAT THE TOURS BOARD JUST SUPPORTED A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THAT BUILDING.
BUT THERE'S MANY, MANY MORE BUILDINGS, UH, IN MY DISTRICT, AND I KNOW IN OTHERS, UM, THAT ARE GOING TO REQUIRE A LOT OF FUNDING IF WE WANT TO SUPPORT THEM.
AND WE WANT TO, UH, HAVE THEM LIVE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
WE AS A CITY KNOW THAT ONE OF OUR GREATEST ASSETS IS, UH, OUR HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
UH, WE KNOW THAT WHEN PEOPLE COME TO VISIT OUR CITY, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY SAY IS THAT THEY THINK SAN ANTONIO IS SO BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE THEY'VE RESTORED SO MANY OF THEIR HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
AND SO WE KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE, THAT, UM, OUR ASSETS ARE IN OUR CULTURE, IN OUR HISTORY, UH, IN OUR, UM, NATURAL RESOURCES, UH, IN OUR RESILIENT COMMUNITY.
BUT IF THAT'S THE CASE, WE NEED TO FUND IT AND WE NEED TO FUND IT PROPERLY.
UM, MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION IS THEY REALLY HAVE NO MONEY.
UM, THEY HAVE STAFF, UH, WHO ARE VERY DILIGENT AND ARE GREAT AT RECORD KEEPING, UM, UH, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE MONEY TO ACTUALLY RESTORE THE BUILDINGS, UH, OR RESTORE ANYTHING.
AND, AND, AND EVEN BEYOND, UM, THEIR SMALL DEPARTMENT, WHICH I THINK IS MAYBE FIVE PEOPLE.
UM, UH, SHANNON, ARE YOU IN THE BUILDING? UM, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE IS OR NOT.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION? I BELIEVE IT'S 19.
UM, UH, BUT, UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE, UM, THAT IT'S AN INCREDIBLE FINANCIAL, UH, BURDEN FOR A, A PROPERTY OWNER, UH, TO MAINTAIN THESE STRUCTURES.
UM, AND THEY'RE DOING IT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY BECAUSE WE, AS A CITY SAY WE VALUE HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
UH, WE SAY THAT WE VALUE, UH, OUR ARTS AND CULTURE AND OUR, AND THE HISTORY OF OUR CITY.
SO AS WE, YOU KNOW, UM, EVOLVE, AND AS MY COLLEAGUES GO THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS, UM, WE NEED TO DEDICATE A FUND TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION, UH, AND THAT WE ACTUALLY GIVE MONEY TO HOMEOWNER, WELL, OR RESOURCES, OR GAP FINANCING, UM, OR BEYOND, UH, A DEMAND OF DESIGNATING A BUILDING HISTORIC, WE FIND A WAY TO, UH, SUPPORT THEM FINANCIALLY AS WELL, BECAUSE AS WE SAW FROM THIS PILOT, AND WE'LL SEE, UM, IN, I THINK, I THINK IT'S GONNA COME UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
UM, WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO FUND THEM AND TO SUPPORT THEM.
SO, UM, I THINK THIS WAS A GREAT MODEL.
IT WAS REALLY, UM, IT'S JUST A, UH, SO MUCH FUN SEEING THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT COME TO FRUITION THAT I'LL JUST, UM, ASK THAT MY COLLEAGUES CONSIDER THAT FOR THE NEXT BUDGET, IS THAT WE DEDICATE FUNDING FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL COUNCILWOMAN YOU REMINDED ME OF, OF SOMETHING ABOUT O H P.
AND IF, IF YOU HA IF ANYONE ON THE, ON THE COUNCIL HASN'T HAD A CHANCE YET TO READ THE REPORT THEY PRODUCED ON OPPORTUNITY AT RISK IN TERMS OF, UH, HISTOR OR PRE 1960, UH, HOUSING STOCK IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO, TO PRESERVE IT AND HOW IT IS, UH, WE ARE RELYING ON IT FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING RIGHT NOW.
WE JUST, WE'RE NOT SUBSIDIZING IT, BUT WE NEED TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO PRESERVE IT.
UM, I, I WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT THAT READ AND WHETHER IT'S, UH, FINANCING OR, OR DIRECT FUNDING OR, OR CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS WITH LENDERS IN THE, IN THE COMMUNITY.
I, I, I AGREE THAT WE SHOULD LOOK FOR THAT.
COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, AND, AND ALSO THANK YOU TO THE STAFF AND, AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ'S, UH, OFFICE AND, AND LEADERSHIP FOR THIS PILOT.
UM, I WOULD REMIND US ALL THAT IN THE HOUSING FRAMEWORK THAT WE RATIFIED IN, I THINK 2018.
THE THIRD, UH, PRIORITY WAS THE REHABILITATION, PRESERVATION
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OF EXISTING HOUSING STOCK, LYING AT THE INTERSECTION OF EQUITY, SUSTAINABILITY, UM, HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, OUR FIGHTING, ITS HOMELESSNESS.UM, AND OF COURSE, UH, THE NEED FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IS REHABILITATION OF EXISTING HOUSING STOCK.
AND I WOULD CHALLENGE US TO THINK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK, WHEN WE, WHEN WE MENTION RETURN ON INVESTMENT, UM, THINKING BEYOND JUST COUNTING WIDGETS OR COUNTING DOLLARS, UM, THE VALUE OF KEEPING A FAMILY, UH, IN THEIR HOME AS OPPOSED TO HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOSING THAT HOME, BEING TAXED OUT OF IT, UH, NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD THE REHABILITATION OF IT, UH, ET CETERA, IS INCREDIBLE.
I MEAN, THE, THE PHRASE HOUSING IS HEALTHCARE HAS BECOME, UH, SORT OF A, A, A, A MANTRA, UH, FOR HOUSING ADVOCATES.
AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE THERE ARE IN, UH, INNUMERABLE CONSEQUENCES, UH, FOR FOLKS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR HOMES ON THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THAT FAMILY.
SO, UM, I APPLAUD THE PROGRAM.
UH, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF IT.
UH, AND I, I THANK THE VOTERS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO FOR RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF PROGRAMS LIKE THIS WHEN THEY, UM, WHEN THEY PASSED, UH, PROPOSITION A, THE, THE CHANGING OF THE CHARTER WOULD ALLOW US TO DO MORE OF THESE PROJECTS, UH, IF THEY, UH, DO APPROVE THEM ON THE BOND PROGRAMS MOVING FORWARD.
I THINK THE, UH, IMPACT TO THESE FAMILIES IS GONNA BE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN BE VERY PROUD OF, EVEN IF IT WAS JUST THOSE THREE FAMILIES.
BUT THE CONSEQUENCES, POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES THAT GO BEYOND THOSE FAMILIES ARE TOO MANY TO COUNT.
THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 21.
NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, PLEASE VOTE.
[22. 21-4162 Ordinance approving a Development Agreement between the Midtown TIRZ Board of Directors, Broadway SA Investors, GP, LLC, and the City of San Antonio to reimburse for eligible public improvements and associated fees for streets, sidewalks, utilities, lighting, and landscaping for an amount not to exceed $500,000 for the Elmira Street Apartments Project located at 1126 E. Elmira Street. [Lori Houston, Assistant City Manager; Verónica R. Soto, FAICP, Director, Neighborhood and Housing Services]]
ITEM 22.ITEM 22 IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN MIDTOWN TURS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, BROADWAY, SA INVESTORS, GP, L L C, AND THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, TO REIMBURSE FOR ELIGIBLE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSOCIATED FEES FOR STREETS, SIDEWALKS, UTILITIES, LIGHTING, AND LANDSCAPING FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $500,000 FOR THE ELMIRA STREET APARTMENT PROJECT, LOCATED AT 1 1 2 6 EAST ELMIRA STREET.
UH, AND, AND I DON'T NECESSARILY NEED A, A, A PRESENTATION ON THIS.
I, I JUST DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE PROJECT, UH, WILL CONTRIBUTE ABOUT APPROXIMATELY A MILLION, UH, $45,000 TO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FUND, UH, WHICH WILL INCENTIVIZE FUTURE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS.
AND IN AN EFFORT TO PRESERVE THE, THE FEE WAIVER CAPACITY FOR OTHER HOUSING PROJECTS, CITY STAFF RECOMMENDED THAT THE MIDTOWN TIER PROVIDE FUNDS EQUAL TO THE VALUE OF THE FEE WAIVER AMOUNT THAT THEY'RE ELIGIBLE PER THE SEED SHIP.
UH, THE ESTIMATED COST OF THESE IMPROVEMENTS IS, IS ABOUT $2.2 MILLION, AND, UH, HAVE BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THIS.
I THINK THIS IS, UH, A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A PROGRAM THAT DOES WORK IN MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 22.
OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 22.
NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, PLEASE VOTE.
[28. 21-3969 Approving the following items pertaining to changes to the governance structure and operations of the San Antonio Housing Trust, San Antonio Housing Trust Public Facilities Corporation and the San Antonio Housing Trust Finance Corporation: [Lori Houston, Assistant City Manager; Veronica Soto, Director, Housing and Neighborhood Services]]
ITEM 28 A IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AMENDED DECLARATION OF TRUST AND FINAL RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST.ITEM 28 B IS A RESOLUTION APPROVING, AMENDING, AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION AND BYLAWS OF THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST FINANCE CORPORATION.
AND ITEM 28 C IS A RESOLUTION APPROVING, AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND BYLAWS OF THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST PUBLIC FACILITY CORPORATION.
THANK YOU, UH, PETE AND VETO AND TEAM, IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU IN PERSON.
I THINK IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME.
UM, UH, I WAS ASKED TO PULL THIS ITEM FROM THE AGENDA.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
AS PRESIDENT OF THE, THE TRUST OF THIS, UH, FINANCE CORP ASKED TO, UM, PULL THIS ITEM.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU MAYOR AND ALL OF US HAVE, UM, MOVED FORWARD WITH BECAUSE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM NCA.
UM, MANY OF US REMEMBER, UM, YEARS AGO, A COUPLE YEARS AGO NOW, UM, NOEL BOYO CAME AND GAVE US THE RECOMMENDATIONS
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OF THE CHANGES, NECESSARY CHANGES THAT WE NEEDED TO DO WITH OUR GOVERNANCE REALIGNMENT AND OUR GOVERNANCE RESTRUCTURE.AND I'M VERY PROUD THAT WE'RE AT THIS POINT.
I WANT TO THANK, UM, OUR TASK FORCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, INCLUDING COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, UH, SELENA PENA, PAUL DEMOS, AND JOHN WHITIT ALL A PART OF IT, AND LOOKING FORWARD TO HOW WE ARE MOVING FORWARD.
SO AT THIS TIME, IF YOU COULD DO A PRESENTATION, PLEASE.
SO, UM, I WAS JUST GOING TO PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND, BUT THAT WAS A GREAT BACKGROUND HERE.
UM, I DON'T THINK THIS IS THE RIGHT, UM, PRESENTATION ITEM.
UM, AND THE BACKGROUND IS THAT THE MAYOR'S HOUSING POLICY TASK FORCE REPORT DID HAVE A RECOMMENDATION TO HAVE THE, UH, AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST IN ITS RELATED BODIES.
NCA, UH, LED BY NOEL POEO, UM, DID DO THAT REPORT AND, AND GAVE BRIEFINGS TO THE FULL COUNCIL ON THAT ITEM.
AND SO A LOT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND THE BOARDS OF THE BODIES, BUT ONE OF THEM HAD TO DO WITH GOVERNANCE.
AND SO THE ITEM IN FRONT OF YOU IS ADDRESSING THE GOVERNANCE, UH, ITEMS THAT HAD, UH, BEEN RECOMMENDED BY THAT REPORT BACK IN 2019.
AND ONE OF THE MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE GOV GOVERNANCE WAS TO HAVE REALIGNMENT OF THE FOUR BOARDS THAT ARE PART OF THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST.
UM, THERE WAS A SLIGHT DISCONNECT BETWEEN TWO BODIES BEING LED BY 11 MEMBERS APPOINTED BY, BY YOU, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND THE OTHER TWO ENTITIES BEING LED BY FIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
AND SO THIS IS A WAY THAT THE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE CAN BE BETTER ALIGNED TO BE MORE STRATEGIC, HAS A BODY, TO HAVE THE POLICY COLLECTIVELY, UH, BE ALIGNED, AND TO HAVE THE BOARD ACTIONS BE GUIDED BY ADDED, UH, EXPERTISE AND PERSPECTIVE.
SO THAT'S JUST THE BACKGROUND.
UH, AND I'LL TURN OVER THE BULK OF THE PRESENTATION IF WE CAN FIND IT.
UM, SO IF WE CAN BE UP, THAT'S WHAT I WENT THROUGH.
I'LL TURN OVER THE REST OF THE PRESENTATION TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST.
UM, JUST FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS PETE ALANISE.
I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST.
UM, I'VE BEEN IN THAT POSITION FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW.
UM, IT'S BEEN A LOT OF FUN WORKING WITH OUR, UH, OUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUES WHO DO SIT ON THE BOARD AND WORKING WITH Y'ALL IN CREATING AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
UM, JUST LIKE, UH, UH, VEDO SAID, JUST TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION, WE WENT THROUGH A VERY EXTENSIVE PROCESS, WHICH WAS CALLED, UH, A, A JOINT TRANSITION COMMITTEE, WHICH STARTED IN SEPTEMBER OF 2020.
AND THAT COMMITTEE CONSISTED OF THREE MEMBERS OF OUR P F C AND FINANCE CORPORATION BOARD, AS WELL AS THREE MEMBERS FROM OUR FOUNDATION AND TRUST BOARD.
DURING THOSE MEETINGS, WE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSION.
WHEN YOU'RE REALIGNING AN ORGANIZATION, THERE IS A LOT OF WORK THAT HAS TO GO INTO THAT.
IT'S NOT JUST AS SIMPLE OF MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL.
WE HAD TO LOOK AT HOW WE WERE GONNA UNIFY THE BOARD.
WE HAD TO LOOK AT HOW WE WERE GONNA STAGGER TERMS, HOW WE WERE GONNA, UH, MANAGE, UH, TERM LIMITS IN THE STRUCTURES, WHAT SUBCOMMITTEES WOULD BE REPRESENTATIVE OR NEED TO BE HARDWIRED INTO THE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE.
UH, WE HAD TO LOOK AT, AT PRIOR ENTITIES THAT HAD BEEN ACCUMULATED OVER TIME WITH THE TRUST, INCLUDING A, A A, AN INVESTMENT COMMITTEE, WHICH IS NO LONGER FUNCTIONING.
WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE ENSURED SOME CORE VALUES, UH, ALONG ALL FOUR ENTITIES OF THE TRUST.
AND WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS A GOOD PROCESS FOR FILLING VACANT BOARD SEATS.
UM, WE ALSO WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD A, A GREAT STATEMENT OF PURPOSE TO REALLY REALIGN THE VALUES THAT WE HAVE TODAY.
AND I'M GONNA GO OVER THAT PURPOSE AND HOW THAT'S CHANGED.
UM, WE ASKED STAFF TO FORMALIZE ALL OF THOSE LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND FORMATION DOCUMENTS THAT WERE NECESSARY.
WE LOOKED AT THE OPTION OF PROVIDING VOTING RIGHTS FOR COMMUNITY ADVISORS IF THEY WERE ELECTED AS AN OFFICER IN THE P F C AND FINANCE CORPORATION.
UH, AND THEN FINALLY, THE JOINT TRANSITION COMMITTEE AGREED TO THE STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
UH, THEY AGREED WITH THE COMMUNITY BOARD MEMBER SELECTION PROCESS, AND THEY FINALLY RECOMMENDED MOVING THIS FORWARD.
SO, HERE'S THE REVISED STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST WILL BE COMMITTED TO CREATING AND PRESERVING HOUSING THAT IS PRIMARILY AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE, ATTAINABLE, AND OR SUSTAINABLE TO RESIDENTS WITHIN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
AND TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS THAT SUSTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS AND POWER
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RESIDENTS AND PROVIDE FOR POSITIVE, EQUITABLE OUTCOMES.THE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE CHANGE, UH, YOU'LL SEE TWO TABLES.
THE TOP IS WHAT WE CURRENTLY LOOK LIKE.
WE HAVE THE TRUST AND FOUNDATION BOARD, WHICH ARE 11 APPOINTED TRUSTEES OR DIRECTORS, WHICH ARE APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR AND BY CITY COUNCIL.
UM, WE HAVE ON THE PUBLIC FACILITY CORPORATION SIDE AND FINANCE CORPORATION SIDE FIVE COUNCIL DIRECTORS.
THE PROPOSED GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE IS GOING TO MAKE A CHANGE TO WHERE WE HAVE FIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS ACROSS ALL FOUR ENTITIES, AND WE ALSO HAVE SIX COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES ACROSS ALL FOUR ENTITIES.
THIS IS PART OF THE PROCESS OF UNIFYING THE HOUSING TRUST TO MAKE SURE WE CAN REALLY OPTIMIZE THE VARIOUS TOOLS THAT WE HAVE ACROSS THE BOARD.
AND WE ALSO WILL INCORPORATE A CITY STAFF OR CITY DIRECTOR, UM, THAT'LL BE ADVISORY IN NATURE TO ENSURE THAT WHAT WE ARE DOING IS IN LINE WITH ALSO THE, THE CITY'S GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WHEN NOW CLA COMPLETED ITS ASSESSMENT A COUPLE YEARS BACK, UM, THEY STATED THAT IT WAS APPROPRIATE FOR THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO, WHICH IS A SUBSET OF COUNCIL TO BE THE INDIVIDUALS IN CHARGE WITH UTILIZING THESE RESOURCES AND AUTHORITIES.
AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PUBLIC FACILITY CORPORATION AND THE FINANCE CORPORATION WHOSE PRIMARY TOOLS ARE A TAX EXEMPTING TOOL AND A BOND ISSUANCE TOOL, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE NCA ASSESSMENT, THAT THAT RECOMMENDATION FROM NCA STAYED TRUE.
SO THAT'S WHY WE HAVE FIVE COUNCIL DIRECTORS.
WE HAVE SIX COMMUNITY ADVISORS WHO WILL SERVE IN COMMITTEES, WHO WILL INFLUENCE POLICY, WHO WILL SIT IN EXEC SESSION.
UM, THEY WILL BE, UH, UH, UH, ALLOWED THE OPPORTUNITY IF THEY'RE ELECTED BY THOSE COUNCIL DIRECTORS TO SERVE AND OFFICER POSITIONS TO BE ABLE TO VOTE ALONG WITH COUNCIL DIRECTORS IN THE P F C AND FINANCE CORPORATION.
AND THAT WAS DONE TO NOT ONLY ENSURE THAT THE COUNCIL FOLKS WHO ARE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO HAD THE, THE PRIMARY DUTY TO DEPLOY THESE VALUABLE RESOURCES, BUT YOU ALSO HAD THE ABILITY FOR COMMUNITY REPRESENTATION ON THOSE TWO BOARDS.
SO THE BOARD APPOINTMENTS AND TERMS, UH, WE'LL HAVE, OF COURSE, THE FIVE, UH, COUNCIL BOARD MEMBERS WHO ARE NOMINATED BY THE MAYOR.
WE WILL HAVE SIX COMMUNITY BOARD MEMBERS, UM, WHO WILL INITIALLY BE NOMINATED BY THE JOINT TRANSITION COMMITTEE, UH, WHICH WILL JUST BE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S NORMAL BOARDS AND COMMISSION, UH, SELECTION PROCESS.
UM, THE CITY COUNCIL WILL APPROVE ALL BOARD MEMBERS THROUGH THAT NORMAL PROCESS.
UH, WE WILL HAVE FOUR YEAR TERMS FOR THOSE BOARD MEMBERS, UM, INCLUDING, UH, UM, AN INITIAL STAGGERING OF TWO YEAR TERMS SO WE CAN GET A STAGGER IN THERE.
SO WE DON'T HAVE A, A CLIFF AT THE END OF THE FOUR OR EIGHT YEARS.
AND WE'LL HAVE FOR OFFICER POSITIONS, AS I STATED EARLIER, THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY, AND TREASURER.
FOR EACH ONE OF THE FOUR BOARDS, WE'LL HAVE TWO STANDING COMMITTEES, UH, ACROSS ALL FOUR ENTITIES, WHICH WILL BE IDENTICAL.
UM, THEY WILL BE THE GOVERNANCE AND POLICY COMMITTEE, WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EVALUATION OF VACANT BOARD SEATS, OVERALL POLICY DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS GONNA BE A VERY IMPORTANT TASK, UH, ONCE THE NEW BOARD IS, IS RECONSTITUTED.
AND, OF COURSE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EVALUATIONS.
WE HAVE A FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEWING THE ANNUAL BUDGET AND OVERSEEING OUR AUDIT PROCESS.
THE STANDING COMMITTEES MUST HAVE AT LEAST ONE COUNCIL MEMBER AND ONE COMMUNITY DIRECTOR, UM, ACROSS THE BOARD.
AND THE BOARD PRESIDENT CAN CREATE ANY AD HOC COMMITTEES AS NECESSARY TO CONTINUE OUR WORK.
THE COMMUNITY BOARD QUALIFICATIONS, WHICH ARE THE SIX COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES ACROSS, UH, THE FOUR ENTITIES, UM, COMMUNITY REPS WILL, THREE OF THEM WILL BE COMMUNITY BOARD MEMBERS THAT HAVE PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN HOUSING ADVOCACY, NONPROFIT FUNDRAISING, POLICYMAKING, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, OR SOMEONE WHO RESIDES IN ONE OF OUR AFFORDABLE UNITS OR ANY AFFORDABLE UNIT IN SAN ANTONIO.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THE APPROPRIATE PERSPECTIVE WHEN WE'RE MAKING DECISIONS ON OUR BOARD.
SECONDLY, WE REALLY WANNA SEE SOME VERY HIGH QUALITY HOUSING INDUSTRY EXPERTS, UH, TO GUIDE US IN REAL ESTATE, FINANCIAL UNDERWRITING, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, CONSTRUCTION, CAPITAL MARKETS, LENDING.
WE HAVE TO HAVE THE EXPERTISE ON OUR BOARD, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE OPTIMIZING, UH, OUR ACTIONS AND REALLY LEADING TO THE OUTCOMES WE WANT TO SEE THE COMMUNITY BOARD SELECTION PROCESS.
THE CITY CLERK ARE GONNA BE PREPARING THOSE APPLICATIONS, UM, SHORTLY, HOPEFULLY AFTER THIS IS
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APPROVED, UM, THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST WILL COMMENCE ON A CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE AND INVITE QUALIFIED PERSONS TO APPLY DURING THE MONTH OF JULY.THE CITY CLERK WILL ACCEPT THOSE APPLICATIONS AFTER THE CITY ATTORNEY HAS DONE THEIR APPROPRIATE VETTING.
AND THE, UH, THE HOUSING, UH, UH, THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING COMMITTEE, THE JOINT TRANSITION COMMITTEE WILL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION OF THOSE SIX INITIAL PERSONS FROM THOSE VETTED APPLICATIONS.
THOSE WILL SIMPLY BE A RECOMMENDATION TO WHATEVER GOVERNANCE, UM, ENTITY THAT, UH, THAT THE CITY DECIDES TO GO AHEAD AND TAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION.
BUT THEY CAN CONSIDER ALL APPLICATIONS.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY, CITY COUNCIL WILL APPROVE THOSE BOARD MEMBERS.
THE HOUSING COMMISSION DID HEAR THIS, AND I AM A MEMBER OF THE HOUSING COMMISSION.
UH, FOUR YEARS IS A LONG TIME, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE COMMENTS FOR BOARD MEMBERS TO SERVE.
UM, I THINK THE, THE IDEA FROM THE JOINT TRANSITION COMMITTEE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE THAT WAS RETAINED, WHICH IS WHY YOU HAVE A FOUR YEAR TERM RATHER THAN A TYPICAL TWO YEAR TERM WE SEE ON A LOT OF THESE COMMISSIONS.
UM, SEVERAL WANTED TO SEE THE COMMUNITY ADVISORS VOTE EQUALLY ACROSS ALL FOUR ENTITIES.
BUT THE NOW CAP RECOMMENDATIONS CLEARLY STATED THAT THE PRIMARY, UH, UH, THE PRIMARY AUTHORITY OF THOSE POWERS SHOULD RESIDE WITH THE ELECTED OFFICIALS.
UM, THERE IS A GENERAL AGREEMENT ON THE STATEMENT OF PURPOSE, UH, AND THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE APPROPRIATING, OR WE ARE, WE ARE, UH, FOCUSING ON EQUITABLE PRACTICES AND OUTCOMES, UH, UH, WITH RESPECT TO NOT ONLY OUR BOARD MEMBERS, BUT OUR POLICIES.
AND THEN FINALLY, THEY REALLY LIKED THE FOCUS OF, OF NOT ONLY HAVING THE HOUSING TRUST FOCUS ON THE INNER CITY AND DOWNTOWN, BUT THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE A POSITIVE FORCE THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY ALL THROUGHOUT SAN ANTONIO.
UH, WE'VE GONE THROUGH OUR JOINT TRANSITION COMMITTEE PROCESS.
WE WENT TO HOUSING COMMISSION, WE WENT TO THE PLANNING AND LAND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE.
UH, WE WENT THROUGH OUR FOUR, UH, ENTITIES FOR APPROVAL.
AND NOW WE ARE HERE AT A SESSION FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
I HOPE I SPED THROUGH THAT FAST ENOUGH.
I THINK YOU WERE AT THE, THE, JUST THE RIGHT SPEED.
UH, PETE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AND AGAIN, UH, THIS HAS BEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING, AND I WANNA THANK ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE BEEN ON THE FINANCE CORP AND THE PUBLIC FACILITY CORPORATION FOR ALL THESE YEARS.
AND I WOULD SAY WE HAVE HAD OUR, UM, EVOLUTION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS AREA, BUT NOT JUST AN EVOLUTION IN THE FFC AND THE P F C AND EVOLUTION HERE ON THE COUNCIL.
AND AS WE ARE, UM, USING THIS AS A TOOL FOR ALL OF SAN ANTONIO, UH, TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
UM, SO WITH THAT, UH, AND, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE SEND A LITTLE NOTE TO MR. BOYO NOW THAT HE'S IN, IN WASHINGTON D C.
UM, WITH THAT, I MOVE TO APPROVE ITEM 28, A, B, AND C.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 28.
COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
AND, UH, THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN FOR AGREEING TO UP PULL THIS ITEM FOR DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION.
I, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE DOING TODAY, I KNOW I WAS NOT A PART OF IT, UH, BUT FROM AFAR, I HAVE, I HAVE WATCHED, YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN, IN THE ISSUE SURROUNDING HOUSING.
AND, UH, I, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE DOING TODAY IS VERY MOMENTOUS, AND IT'S A BIG CHANGE, AND IT, I THINK IT IS GOING TO MAKE US SO MUCH MORE, UH, EFFECTIVE AS, AS A CITY IN ACHIEVING THESE GOALS.
SO I WANNA THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK, UH, VERO AND, UH, PETE, RIGHT? AND, UM, AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE P F C FOR THEIR WORK.
I CANNOT IMAGINE THAT THIS WAS, UH, EASY.
ANY BYLAWS, CHANGES ARE DIFFICULT, MUCH MORE, UH, STRUCTURAL CHANGES.
UM, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE TREMENDOUS.
SO, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK.
UH, LIKE YOU SAID, THIS WAS YEARS IN THE MAKING SINCE IT WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE HOUSING POLICY TASK FORCE.
SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS DIDN'T GO BY, UH, WITHOUT A RECOGNITION OF, OF HOW IMPORTANT THAT WAS.
AND, UH, I THINK YOU CAN PUT THIS AS ONE OF THE MANY THINGS YOU ACCOMPLISHED ON YOUR, ON YOUR WAY OUT.
SO THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN FOR, FOR LEADING, UH, THAT DISCUSSION IN THAT PROCESS AT THE P F C.
UM, AND, UH, ONE MINOR, UH, QUESTION.
I, I AM OF COURSE SUPPORTIVE OF THE ITEM.
UH, ONE MINOR QUESTION IS, UM, THE EXISTING HOUSING COMMISSION.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THAT WILL INTERACT OR IF IT INTERACTS, DO THEY DEAL WITH DIFFERENT ISSUES OR, OR HOW WILL THAT WORK TOGETHER? SO THE, THE HOUSING COMMISSION HAS OVERSIGHT OVER, UH, HOUSING POLICY
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FRAMEWORK, WHICH IS THE DOCUMENT COMPLETED BY THE TASK FORCE.SO WE WENT AND BRIEFED THEM BECAUSE THIS WAS ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WAS PART OF THAT REPORT.
BUT WITH THE OPERATIONS OF, OF THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST, THEY CAN CONDUCT THEIR BUSINESS AND CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD.
UM, I THINK THE HOUSING COMMISSION WILL BE INTERESTED IN THE PIPELINE OF PROJECTS, UM, AND IN THE WORK THAT THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING TRUST, AS THE BODY CONTRIBUTES TO THE COMMUNITY WHEN IT COMES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
SO THEY'LL PROBABLY GET REPORTS WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, WHAT OUR HOUSING PRODUCTION IS, HOW MUCH OF IT CAME FROM, UH, THE DIFFERENT PARTNERS.
SO THEY'LL SEE IT IN THAT FORUM.
UM, AND, AND THEY'LL JUST SEE THE PRODUCT OF THE WORK OF THE TRUST ITSELF.
AND, AND LASTLY, I WILL SAY I WAS VERY GLAD TO SEE THE NEW, UH, MISSION STATEMENT THAT WAS CREATED.
I, UM, I LIKE THAT, UH, PRESERVATION, CREATION AND PRESERVATION.
WE'RE REALLY FRONT AND CENTER IN SOME OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT YOU SEE.
SO, UM, I JUST CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR, FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK, AND I, I'M VERY GLAD TO SEE THIS MOVE FORWARD.
COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
AND THANKS TO MY COUNCIL, UH, MEMBER GERRAN FOR PULLING THIS ITEM BECAUSE IT, IT IS A RECOGNITION OF MANY, MANY YEARS OF WORK.
IT'S A LOT OF, UM, REALLY LIKE THE GRIND OF THE WORK.
COUNCIL MEMBER
UH, BUT MOSTLY, UH, IT WAS LED BY, UH, SELENA PENA AND A COUPLE OF OTHER BOARD MEMBERS, UH, ALSO, UM, DOING THE INCREDIBLE WORK.
AND, AND, UH, I'M, WE HOPE, UH, MOVING FORWARD, AND OF COURSE WE'VE HAD MANY INTERNAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS.
BUT SINCE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION
SO WE DID, UM, THE, UM, FISHBOWL FISH POND, UM, FISH POND, UH, OKAY, THAT WAS IN DISTRICT FIVE.
IT WAS A, UH, COMPLETELY, UM, UH, SECTION EIGHT VOUCHER PROGRAM, UM, THAT HAD BEEN IN TERRIBLE DECLINE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
AND WE DID THE, HIS, UH, BILLY MITCHELL, UM, APARTMENTS THAT WERE A, UM, UH, LOOKING FOR HISTORIC TAX CREDITS AND ALSO A VACANT BLIGHTED PROPERTY FOR MANY YEARS.
AND SO I THINK WE'RE SEEING TODAY LOTS OF, OR, UM, OF SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND THE NEED FOR HOUSING AND HOW OF COURSE, UM, THEY INTERSECT.
BUT, UM, I JUST, I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL GOT TO WORK ON THAT PROJECT.
COUNCILMAN BIRAN AND ME AND TINO, UH, ALL GOT TO WORK ON, UM, THOSE PARTICULAR, UH, PROJECTS THAT WERE REHAB.
UH, AND I HOPE THAT IT'S A MODEL TO COME.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT WE STRUGGLED A LITTLE BIT ON BOTH OF THOSE PROJECTS, UH, BECAUSE OF THE CHALLENGE AND THE DIFFICULTY OF, UH, WORKING WITH EXISTING HOUSING STOCK.
IT, IT, IT, IT IS THE MOST REWARDING.
UM, AND, UH, BUT IT'S ALSO MORE EXPENSIVE, UH, AT TIMES BECAUSE OF, UH, TRYING TO MAINTAIN SOME OF THE HISTORIC FEATURES CAN MAKE IT MORE EXPENSIVE.
UM, BUT IT'S SO WORTH IT, UH, I THINK, AND IN THE END, UH, EVERYBODY REALLY LOVED, UM, THE FINAL PRODUCT, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS HARD IN, IN, UH, TO GET IT DONE.
UM, AND, UH, FOR THE INCREDIBLE WORK AT THE HOUSING TRUST, WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UM, UH, SEEING THE FUTURE OF, UH, OF THE WORK.
AND, UH, PETE, UH, WE HAVEN'T SEEN EACH OTHER LIVE IN A YEAR AND A HALF.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN YOU.
UH, SO, UM, THANKS, UH, FOR ALL THE WORK AND, UH, TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR, UH, MAKING IT HAPPEN.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.
UM, AND I'D ALSO JUST LIKE TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO'S FOR THE LAST, SEEMS LIKE THREE YEARS OR SO HAS BEEN WORKING HARD ON THE, ON THE CHANGES TO THIS.
UM, THIS CITY, LIKE EVERY OTHER ORGANIZATION MADE UP OF DIVERSE PEOPLE, UM, IS VERY GOOD AT MAKING PLANS, UM, NOT SO GOOD SOMETIMES OF IMPLEMENTING THEM.
AND LIKE ANYTHING ELSE, UM, OUR ABILITY TO ACHIEVE OUR GOALS WITH REGARD TO, UH, AFFORDABLE, UH, DIGNIFIED HOUSING FOR EVERY PERSON IN SAN ANTONIO OFTEN WILL, UM, COME TO A GRINDING HALT IN BOARDS WHERE, UH, THOSE PLANS ARE IMPLEMENTED.
AND I APPLAUD MY COLLEAGUES WHO HAVE WORKED ON DIAGNOSING WHAT OUR ISSUES HAVE BEEN OVER THE YEARS, UM, AND NOW HAVE MOVING, ARE MOVING FORWARD ON, ON PLANS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WE'RE CALLED FOR, FOR SOME TIME.
SO, UM, WITH RESPECT TO THAT, I THINK THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A WELCOME CHANGE, UM, IN SERVICE OF ALIGNMENT AND, UH, ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THIS VERY IMPORTANT PART OF OUR HOUSING AFFORDABILITY PROCESS.
SO, UH, CONGRATULATIONS, UM, GLAD THAT YOU GOT TO DO IT, UM, BEFORE YOU LEFT, AND, UM, I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT IT.
SO, UH, WITH THAT WE HAVE A MOTION, AND SECOND FOR ITEM 28,
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PLEASE VOTE.ALL RIGHT, THAT'S ALL THE ITEMS ON OUR BUSINESS AGENDA.
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SESSION, BUT FIRST, DO WE HAVE A CITY MANAGER'S REPORT? UH, MAYOR, WE DON'T HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TODAY.IS THERE A BUT WE DO HAVE A CITY MANAGER'S REPORT.
SO, THANKS, MAYOR COUNCIL TO, UH, TWO ITEMS, UM, THAT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU THIS AFTERNOON.
UH, FIRST IS TO HIGHLIGHT THE, UM, THE OFFICIAL CITY OF SAN ANTONIO 2021 FIESTA METAL.
I'M SURE MOST OF YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN IT, UH, BUT THE METAL FEATURES PUBLIC ART FROM THE BLOOM, UH, SCULPTURE SERIES, UH, BY LOCAL ARTIST, UH, LETICIA HUERTA.
UM, AND, UH, THERE ARE TWO VERSIONS, ONE FEATURING A COLUMBINE BLOOM AND ONE FEATURING A LA ANA BLOOM, UH, DEBBIE ROCK SITTER.
AND THE, UH, HER TEAM, UH, DID A GREAT JOB OF SELECTING, UH, THESE METALS AND, AND, UM, WE WILL BE, UM, UH, THEY'LL BE AVAILABLE FREE AT EVENTS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY, INCLUDING, UH, AT YOUR, UH, DISTRICT, UH, EVENTS FROM NOW THROUGH, UH, JUNE 20TH.
SO THEY ARE CERTAINLY COLLECTORS' ITEMS. AND IF ANYBODY HAS NOT HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THE ACTUAL, UH, BLOOM SCULPTURES, UM, UH, EXHIBIT THAT WE HAVE, UH, HAVE INSTALLED AT THE RIVERWALK PUBLIC ART GARDEN, I'D ENCOURAGE YOU.
IT'S, UH, IT IS, UH, IMPRESSIVE AND CERTAINLY IS UNIQUE TO, TO SAN ANTONIO.
UH, SECONDLY, UH, MAYOR, UH, AND COUNCIL, INSTEAD OF, UM, A TYPICAL EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT VIDEO, UH, TODAY, I, I, I, UH, I CHOSE THE HIGHLIGHT TWO SPECIAL CITY PROJECTS, AND YOU'LL HEAR, UH, FROM, UH, THE EMPLOYEES, UH, UH, IN THE VIDEO, THE PRIDE THEY'VE TAKEN IN THESE PROJECTS.
UH, THE FIRST IS THE HEALTHY CORNER STORE PROJECT, AND THE SECOND IS A, UH, BEAUTIFICATION PUBLIC ART PROJECT, UM, UH, FOR THE GATEWAY TO THE WEST SIDE.
SO LET'S RUN THE VIDEO, THE HEALTHY CORNER STORE INITIATIVE.
WE GREW IT FROM ONE STORE TO FIVE TO EIGHT, AND NOW WE'RE CONTINUING TO GROW THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND IT'S JUST BECOME A GREAT SERVICE FOR ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY.
I'VE SEEN THE PROGRESS THAT THEY'VE MADE, AND THEY HAVE FRUIT HERE.
THIS IS THE CLOSEST STORE THAT, THAT ACCEPTS FOOD STAMPS.
SO I COME HERE FOR ALL MY NEIGHBORS WHEN MY NEIGHBORS SEND ME TO THE STORE, 'CAUSE SOME OF THEM CAN'T WALK, SOME OF THEM DON'T HAVE CARS.
SO I GET ON MY BIKE AND I RIDE OVER HERE.
I'LL HAVE A SOUP MIX RIGHT NOW, AND I'M GONNA BE MAKING A SOUP FOR MY MOM 'CAUSE SHE'S SICK.
SO I'M GONNA USE IT TO MAKE A SOUP AT, AT A AFFORDABLE RATE VERSUS GETTING, YOU KNOW, ALL THE LINES AND STUFF.
AND THEY COULD JUST COME IN HERE, PICK IT UP AND GO.
IT'S BEEN LIKE THE FAMILY STORE PRETTY MUCH SINCE WHOLE TIME I'VE BEEN ALIVE, WE'VE HAD A LOT MORE CUSTOMERS COMING IN AND JUST GETTING THE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, BECAUSE THEY'RE A LOT CHEAPER FROM WHAT WE WOULD GET THEM FROM LIKE A BIGGER RETAILER AND TRY TO SELL THEM.
SO THIS HAS BROUGHT IN A LOT OF CUSTOMERS AND MADE THE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES EASILY ACCESSIBLE FOR THE PEOPLE AROUND.
IT IS ACCEPTABLE ON THE EVEN KEY CARDS.
SO IT'S, IT'S LITERALLY EASILY ACCESSIBLE.
MY VISION FOR THE PROGRAM IS THAT WE CAN CONTINUE EXPANDING THE HEALTHY CORNER STORE PROJECT ACROSS THE CITY AND REACH EVEN MORE PEOPLE.
THE HISTORIC WEST SIDE IS REALLY THE CULTURAL CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO.
IT'S WHERE THE LATINO COMMUNITY, UH, WAS BORN AND RAISED.
AND SO THIS IS A BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT.
IT ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO COME EXPLORE WHAT'S HERE ON THE WEST SIDE, UH, OUR ARTS COMMUNITY, OUR RESTAURANTS, UH, AND OF COURSE, THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT HAVE LIVED HERE ON THE WEST SIDE FOR GENERATIONS.
SO THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF A BIG BOND PROJECT.
IT'S THE GATEWAY PROJECT TO THE WEST SIDE.
UH, IT STARTS AT COMMERCE AND INCLUDES BUENA VISTA AND THE GUADALUPE STREET BRIDGES.
SO MAJOR CORRIDORS IN AND OUT OF DOWNTOWN.
AND THIS FUNDING CAME FROM A BUDGET AMENDMENT IN
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2019.THEY'RE STARTING ON THE GUADALUPE BRIDGE DOING THE COLOR PALETTE WITH RUBIO'S COLOR PALETTE.
AND HE'S CHOSEN THE COLOR PALETTE FOR THE GUADALUPE BRIDGE THAT MATCHES THE COLORS FROM THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE.
THE OTHER BRIDGES WOULD BE THE BUENA VISTA BRIDGE, WHICH WILL HAVE A COOL COLOR PALETTE AND THE COMMERCE BRIDGE, WHICH WILL HAVE A WARM COLOR PALETTE.
SO YOU'LL SEE THE ORANGES AND THE REDS IN THAT ONE EVERYWHERE IN OUR CITY.
AND PUBLIC ART MAKES US FEEL GOOD ABOUT OURSELVES AND ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY, AND IT ALSO BRINGS US TO LIFE.
SO THOSE PROJECTS, OBVIOUSLY, UH, HAVE HAD, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE A, A, UH, A VERY LARGE GREAT IMPACT ON OUR COMMUNITY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, ERIC, FOR HIGHLIGHTING THAT.
IT HAS BEEN SUCH A JOY TO BE ABLE TO PUSH THAT VEEVA SAN ANTONIO HEALTHY CORNER STORE INITIATIVE, UH, BECAUSE AS ALL OF YOU KNOW, 50% OF OUR, UH, CENSUS TRACKS IN DISTRICT THREE ARE STILL FOOD INSECURE.
BUT I HAVE TO THANK, THANK THE SAN ANTONIO FOOD POLICY COUNCIL, MITCH AND LESLIE, FOR COMING OUT AND REACHING OUT AND SITTING DOWN AND GIVING THIS IDEA.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE OUR FOOD FORESTS ARE GONNA BE MOVING FORWARD.
THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR PARTNERS.
SAN ANTONIO RIVER CITY PRODUCE, U I W S O M.
UM, AND OF COURSE, I HAVE TO ALSO THANK MY CHIEF OF STAFF, REUBEN ALDE.
I THINK I TOLD Y'ALL BEFORE, HE LITERALLY WAS DRIVING, GETTING CONTRACT SIGNS AND LITERALLY, UM, UH, PHYSICALLY MOVING REFRIGERATORS INTO THESE CORNER STORES TO HELP THE OWNERS BECAUSE THEY NEEDED HELP.
AND SO THANK YOU TO REUBEN, WHO ALSO WAS JUST VERY IMPORTANT IN GETTING THIS PROJECT UP OFF THE GROUND.
AND MAYOR AND, AND ERIC BEFORE, UH, I STEPPED DOWN, I HAVE TO ALSO HIGHLIGHT AND THANK, AND I DIDN'T GET TO DO IT WHILE THEY WERE UP HERE, UH, THE WORLD HERITAGE OFFICE AND WHAT THEY HAVE DONE FOR THIS AREA THAT WE, UM, IT WAS ESTABLISHED ON APRIL 1ST, 2016 AS A RESULT AND AS, UM, AS A, AS A RESULT OF OUR WORLD HERITAGE DESIGNATION.
AND COLLEEN STEPPED IN AS THE DIRECTOR, AND SHE HAS BEEN PHENOMENAL.
AND NOW WE HAVE OUR DESIGNATION OF A CREATIVE CITY OF GASTRONOMY AND WHAT WE'VE DONE AT THE MISSION, OLD MISSION DRIVE-IN THE MISSION MARQUE PLAZA.
AND I HAVE TO ALSO GIVE SHOUT OUTS TO, UM, JAVIER FLORES, UH, ROGELIO MUNOZ AND BLANCHE MENDOZA, WHO IS ABSOLUTELY A FORCE WHEN COORDINATING THINGS THERE.
THEY ARE THERE EARLY IN THE MORNING, LATE AT NIGHT ON THOSE SATURDAYS, UM, REALLY MAKING THIS HAPPEN.
BUT THEY ARE REALLY EMBEDDED AND KNITTED IN THE COMMUNITY.
UH, I KNOW IT'S, IT'S A NEW, BUT IT IS VERY ESSENTIAL, AND IT IS A STRONG CITY DEPARTMENT, ERIC, SO PLEASE DON'T MESS WITH IT.
UM, WHEN IT, AND COLLEAGUES, PLEASE DON'T MESS WITH IT.
UM, AND, AND IT'S JUST BEEN SUCH A PLEASURE WORKING WITH THEM AND SEEING HOW IT GROWS AND FLOURISHES.
THANK YOU MAYOR, FOR GIVING ME THIS TIME.
UH, THANK YOU, UM, UH, FOR ALSO GIVING ME A MOMENT.
UM, BUT I, I, I'M, AND THE PUBLIC ART IS, UM, IT'S REALLY WHAT MAKES THE CITY SO GREAT AND, AND I WAS TALKING ABOUT IT YESTERDAY WITH OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, IS THAT I FEEL LIKE WE DON'T DO, UH, ENOUGH TO HIGHLIGHT TO THE COUNTRY, UM, WHAT GREAT ASSETS WE HAVE HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, AND THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE, OF COURSE, OUR CULINARY EXPERIENCE, OUR PUBLIC ART EXPERIENCE, AND OUR CULTURE TO ATTRACT, UH, MORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND MORE JOBS.
SO WE KNOW THAT MOST PEOPLE THAT MOVE TO SAN ANTONIO DO IT BECAUSE THEY LOVE THE CITY.
AND SO, UM, I THINK WE SAW SOME WONDERFUL EXAMPLES HERE OF HOW, UH, WE CAN CONTINUE TO ENHANCE THOSE AND ALSO THEN FUND THEM APPROPRIATELY.
UM, BUT WHAT I REALLY WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, AND I I I, I FEEL LIKE HE'S ALREADY LEFT THE BUILDING, UM, BUT RAZZIE AND NEPHI, UH, IN PUBLIC WORKS, OR T C I, UH, AND I WANNA SHARE A STORY SO, UH, THAT ERIC AND SOME OF THE OTHERS CAN HEAR ABOUT, UH, WHAT A COMMITTED TEAM YOU HAVE HERE AT THE CITY.
UH, ONE OF MY VERY FIRST MEETINGS AT CITY HALL, UH, I GOT A, UM, CONSTITUENT COME TO MY OFFICE AND SHOWN ME SOME PICTURES.
AND SHE TALKED ABOUT THE DAMAGE THAT HAD BEEN DONE ON HER STREETS BECAUSE WE ADDED SIDEWALKS.
AND SHE SAID, MY CITY, MY BLACK NEVER HAD SIDEWALKS.
BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL CAME AND YOU PUT THESE SIDEWALKS IN AND IT'S CAUSED THIS INCREDIBLE DRAINAGE
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PROBLEM.AND NOW WHEN IT RAINS, THE, THE RAIN BACKS UP INTO MY YARD AND IT'S, UH, CREATES ACTUALLY MORE PROBLEMS THAN IT HAS SOLVED.
SO FOR EIGHT YEARS, UH, NOW, UM, WE HAVE BEEN SEEING MISS, UH, MORALES IN HER HOME, UH, MISS, UH, AT HER HOME ON, UH, IT'S ACTUALLY MORALES STREET.
I, I, IT'S MISS, IT'S ON MORALES STREET.
UM, AND, UH, SHE LIVED WITH HER ELDERLY MOTHER, WHO WAS NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS OLD, AND HER MOTHER HAD BEEN A FIESTA QUEEN AT ONE TIME.
AND SO I WOULD GO TO THE HOUSE AND SHE WOULD SHOW ME THE PHOTOS OF, OF WHEN SHE WAS A FIESTA QUEEN.
AND ONE, UH, TIME I WENT TO HER HOME, AND MS. MARTINEZ WAS QUITE SENIOR AS NEARLY A HUNDRED.
AND IT WAS HOT THAT DAY, AND SHE WANTED TO SHOW ME AROUND EVERYWHERE.
UH, AND I STARTED TO FEEL LIKE I MIGHT FAINT.
UM, AND SO I HAD TO ASK THIS 80 YEAR OLD WOMAN IF SHE COULD PLEASE BRING ME A CHAIR, NOT, I'M SORRY, A HUNDRED YEAR OLD WOMAN.
IF SHE COULD PLEASE BRING ME A CHAIR, UH, THAT I NEEDED TO SIT DOWN BECAUSE I MIGHT FAINT.
WELL, THE WHOLE TIME, FOR ALL THESE YEARS, UM, NEPHI AND ALL HIS TEAM, UH, IN PUBLIC WORKS IN THE, UH, STORM DRAINAGE, UH, HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH HER TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM IN HER STREET.
UM, THE SENIOR MS. MARTINEZ PASSED AWAY, UH, EARLY LAST YEAR, SO SHE DIDN'T GET TO SEE IT DONE.
UM, BUT NEPHI WAS HERE, UH, EARLIER, UM, TELLING ME THAT THEY FINALLY FIXED, UM, THE PROBLEMS FOR HER STREET.
UH, AND I'M, I'M, I'M GLAD THAT AT LEAST, UH, I GOT TO, UM, SEE THAT HAPPEN, UH, FOR ALL THESE YEARS.
UM, SO, UH, I THINK THAT NEFFY AND HIS TEAM AND RAZZIE HAVE BEEN, UM, JUST SO DILIGENT AND, UH, MAKES ME SO PROUD TO HAVE SERVED WITH THEM AND WORK WITH THEM TO CORRECT.
UM, JUST THE BASICS, WHAT WE DO HERE.
IT'S NOT ART, IT'S NOT FOOD, IT'S JUST DRAINAGE.
UH, BUT, UM, IT'S REALLY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE COMMUNITY SAYS THAT THEY REALLY NEED AND WANT THE MOST.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO RAZZIE, UH, AND TO NFI FOR THEIR INCREDIBLE WORK.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA TAKE THIS TIME TO, TO THANK MY STAFF THAT'S IN THE BACK ROOM.
UM, I'M REMINDED OF A SAYING THAT GOES, THE ONLY THING THAT IS NOT WORTHLESS IS TO LIVE A LIFE THAT'S TRUTHFUL AND RIGHTFUL AND TO MY ENTIRE STAFF.
YOU GUYS HAVE SHOWN THAT EXAMPLE TO BE TRUE.
AND I JUST WANNA, UM, ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS IS THE LAST TIME THAT WE WILL HAVE A MAJORITY FEMALE CITY COUNCIL IN A WHILE.
THAT I WANTED TO, UH, THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR SERVING.
IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR TO WORK WITH YOU ALL AND CHAMPION A LOT OF GENDER EQUITY ISSUES.
UM, AND I'M JUST REALLY PROUD TO HAVE BEEN ON THE FIRST ELECTED MAJORITY CITY COUNCIL.
I, UH, I REALIZED JUST YESTERDAY, I THINK GARRETT POINTED THIS OUT, THAT I'M GONNA BE THE ONLY ONE SITTING ON THIS SIDE OF THE DESK FOR A WHILE.
AND SO, UM, I'M GONNA INCREDIBLY MISS YOU ALL, BUT KNOW THAT I WILL PROBABLY STILL CALL YOU ALL AND, UH, AND PICK YOUR BRAINS ABOUT STUFF BECAUSE I THINK THAT THE, UM, INFORMATION, THE FEEDBACK THAT YOU ALL GIVE IS INVALUABLE.
SO, UM, I DIDN'T WANT TO GO WITHOUT POINTING THAT OUT, UH, TODAY.
UM, AND NOT TO BREAK THE MOOD OR ANYTHING, BUT UM, WE STILL NEED Y'ALL TO COME BACK NEXT TUESDAY,
UM, SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND.
OH, THAT'S WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO DO IS HONOR THE OUTGOING COLLEAGUES.
SAVE THE GOOD STUFF FOR TUESDAY.
I WITHDREW MY REQUEST TO SPEAK BECAUSE
AND THAT IS, UM, THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME WE CAN, UH, HONOR COUNCIL MEMBER VIE GRAND FOR HER BIRTHDAY.
SO, UH, THERE IS A CAKE IN THE BACK, BUT, UH, WE DON'T WANNA LEAVE WITHOUT WISHING HER, UH, IN SONG A HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
'CAUSE WE'LL NEED A QUORUM FOR NEXT TUESDAY.
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SO THE TIME IS NOW 1220 4:23 PM ON THIS, UH, THURSDAY, JUNE 10TH, 2021.THE CITY COUNCIL'S MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED.