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           WE, ANTONIO IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. 
          WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL, UH, BUDGET SESSION. 
          THE TIME IS 10:13 AM ON THIS 25TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2021. 
          UH, MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU READ THE ROLE? COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. 
          PRESENT, COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. 
          HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. 
          HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER VARDA. 
          HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PIAS. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY HERE. 
          AND MAYOR MEMBER BERG. 
          HERE. 
          MAYOR, WE HAVE A CORN. 
          ALL RIGHT, WE START OUR TWO A DAYS TODAY, SO, UH, STAY FOCUSED AND WE'RE GONNA KEEP MOVING. 
          UH, SO LEMME TURN OVER. 
          CITY MANAGER ERIC WALSH. 
          GREAT ANALOGY, MAYOR. 
          UM, SO THIS MORNING WE'VE GOT, UH, WE'LL OPEN UP WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THEN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 
          UH, WE'LL BREAK AT THAT POINT. 
          UH, WE HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION SCHEDULED AT ONE, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AT TWO O'CLOCK WITH OUR, UH, HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX DEPARTMENT. 
          SO CHIEF 
          [1. Staff presentation on the FY 2022 Proposed Budget focusing on, but not limited to, the following City Departments or Initiatives: [Erik Walsh, City Manager, Scott Huizenga, Director, Management & Budget]
A. Fire
B. Emergency Operations
C. Convention Sports Facilities
D. Arts & Culture
E. Visit San Antonio
 ]
HOOD WILL KICK US OFF. 
          GOOD MORNING MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. 
          UM, IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE TODAY AND, UH, PRESENT THE SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA START THIS OFF WITH A QUICK VIDEO NOW TO GROWING CONCERNS ABOUT THE DEADLY CORONAVIRUS OFFICIALLY HITTING THE US. 
          HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW. 
          A WASHINGTON STATE RESIDENT FELL ILL AFTER RETURNING FROM WUHAN CHINA. 
          WE HAVE JUST LEARNED THAT THE ALAMO HAS NOW CLOSED ITS DOORS AS A RESPONSE TO NEW C OVID 19 GUIDELINES. 
          THE VACCINE CANNOT COME FAST ENOUGH AS THE US IS DEALING WITH THE WORST PANDEMIC. 
          AND ESSENTIALLY, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS GRAPHIC SHOWING THE SINGLE DEADLIEST DAYS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 
          THREE DAYS FROM THIS WEEK ALONE ARE NEAR THE TOP OF THIS LIST WITH THREE ADDITIONAL DAYS FROM LAST WEEK. 
          COVID HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE IN ONE DAY THAN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED ON D-DAY AND AT PEARL HARBOR, LET THAT SINK IN. 
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I HAD LIKE TO THANK OUR VIDEOGRAPHER, UH, ALBERT PEDROZA ALWAYS PUTS OUT SOME FANTASTIC VIDEOS. 
          SO, UH, WHAT WE HAVE DONE RIGHT NOW, WE'VE GIVEN YOU A, UM, KIND OF HIGHLIGHT REVIEW, UH, READER'S DIGEST VERSION AS FAR AS EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE DONE. 
          UM, THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF HIGHLIGHTS THAT WE REALLY CAN'T OR DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO REALLY TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE DONE THIS YEAR. 
          SO, UM, THERE'S A LITTLE MORE REFERENCE FOR YOU RIGHT THERE. 
          SO WE'LL GO TO THE FIRST SLIDE. 
          SO, OUR MISSION. 
          SO WE'RE DEDICATED DOING THE RIGHT THING, PROTECTING OUR COMMUNITY. 
          YOU'RE GOOD, CHIEF. 
          I THINK THAT WAS A LITTLE AV RE-ROLL ON THE VIDEO. 
          . 
          OKAY, THAT'S MY 13TH. 
          ONE OF THESE. 
          I'VE NEVER JUMPED. 
          SO, MISSION STATE. 
          GOT YOUR TOAST CHIEF. 
          OKAY. 
           MISSION STATEMENT. 
          SO, UM, PROTECTING OUR COMMUNITY FROM ALL HAZARDS WITH COMPASSION AND PROFESSIONALISM. 
          SO, UM, OUR CITIZENS AND OUR VISITORS, UM, WE MEET THEM SEVERAL TIMES A DAY, WHETHER IT'S AT THE GROCERY STORE, WHETHER IT'S, UH, LETTING A SMALL CHILD GET ON A FIRETRUCK OR WHETHER IT'S THEY'RE HAVING THEIR WORST DAY, THEIR LIVES. 
          AND SO, AGAIN, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT WE SEE HERE IS TO DO THE RIGHT THING EVERY SINGLE TIME THAT, THAT WE ENCOUNTER OUR PUBLIC. 
          SO THAT'S OUR MISSION STATEMENT. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          OUR COMMAND STAFF. 
          AND SO, UM, THEY'RE ALL HERE. 
          UH, DEPUTY CHIEF CHRIS MONAS, STEER, DEPUTY CHIEF VANCE MEAD, DEPUTY CHIEF ANDREW ESTRADA, ASSISTANT CHIEF BRIAN NORRIS, ASSISTANT CHIEF RAMON CASANOVA, ASSISTANT CHIEF. 
          VALERIE FROSTO, ASSISTANT CHIEF MIKE STRINGFELLOW, ASSISTANT CHIEF MATT JIMENEZ, ASSISTANT CHIEF NEIL EGU AND OUR CIVILIAN ADMINISTRATOR, UM, NOEL HARRAN. 
          FIVE OF THESE APPOINTMENTS ARE PROMOTIONS WERE DONE DURING COVID, SO THEY DIDN'T GET A HONEYMOON. 
          THEY WERE PROMOTED, UH, TO MY DEPUTIES, RIGHT INTO, UH, COVID RESPONSE AND THREE OF MY ASSISTANT CHIEFS. 
          AND SO, UM, I WANNA THANK THEM FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO. 
          I BELIEVE IN GIVING FLOWERS WHILE PEOPLE ARE LIVING, SO I WANNA THANK THEM FOR THEIR EFFORTS. 
          AND SO WE'LL GO INTO THE NEXT SLIDE, AND I'M GONNA FOCUS ON MY STAFF. 
          SO 122 CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES. 
          THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT PAY OUR BILLS. 
          THEY FIX OUR FIRE TRUCKS, THEY HANDLE HR ISSUES FOR US. 
          THEY, UM, ARE OUR LIFEBLOOD, AND I WANNA THANK THEM. 
          AND I HAVE SEVERAL OF THEM OUT HERE. 
          UM, IN PARTICULAR, UM, LETTI, LETTI AND MICHAEL, MY RIGHT HAND STAFF. 
          AND THEN, UH, CARLOS GUTIERREZ AND, UH, LISA, THANK YOU GUYS. 
          WHERE YOU AT? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO. 
          AND, UH, THEN WE HAVE DR. 
          WINKLER HERE ALSO, SO I WANNA THANK MY STAFF. 
          AND THEN, UH, WE PUT OUT A NOTICE FOR EVERYONE AT OUR FIRE STATION TODAY. 
          SO WE HAVE A LOT OF OUR MEMBERS, IF THEY'RE NOT RUNNING CALLS, THEY'RE WATCHING THIS PRESENTATION SO THEY GET THE INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE GETTING ALSO. 
          SO CURRENTLY WE HAVE 700, 1766 UNIFORM EMPLOYEES. 
          WE SERVE YOU FROM 54 STRATEGICALLY, LOCATION LOCATED FIRE STATIONS WITH 54 ENGINES, 43 AMBULANCES. 
          AND, UM, OUTTA THAT 43 AMBULANCES, 35 OF THOSE ARE FULL-TIME. 
          ONE IS A FULL-TIME PEAK AT STATION 40. 
          THE OTHER ARE STAFFED AS PEAK UNITS. 
          UH, WHEN WE HAVE THE AVAILABILITY OF STAFFING, WE HAVE 21 LADDER COMPANIES. 
          AND SO BETWEEN THE 54 ENGINES AND THE 21 LADDER COMPANIES, 91% OF THOSE UNITS HAVE A PARAMEDIC ON BOARD EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          UM, A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THOSE UNITS HAVE THE PARAMEDIC EQUIPMENT ON THEM EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          SO WE ARE A FIRE BASE SYSTEM, THE FINEST FIRE BASE E M S SYSTEM IN THE COUNTRY. 
          AND SO, UH, WE DELIVER SERVICE A L SS SERVICE ON OUR FIRE TRUCKS AIRPORT CRASH RESCUE TEAM. 
          WE HAVE TWO TECHNICAL RESCUE TEAMS. ONE IS LOCATED AT STATION 11, RIGHT OVER HERE ON REO. 
          THAT'S COMPRISED OF AN ENGINE, A PLATFORM, AND A HEAVY RESCUE. 
          WE HAVE A SISTER, UM, STATION, STATION 51 I 10, AND BECKWORTH BECKWITH THE SAME COMPLIMENT, AN ENGINE, A PLATFORM, AND A HEAVY RESCUE. 
          WE RUN TWO HAZMAT TEAMS. ONE IS STATION ONE, CHERRY AND NOLAN. 
          UH, AND THEY RUN AN ENGINE, UH, PLATFORM AND A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT HAZMAT RESPONSE VEHICLES. 
          WE HAVE ANOTHER TEAM THAT'S LOCATED OUT BY U T S A OF 1604, AND AGAIN, THE SAME COMPLIMENT. 
          AND THEN WE DO MANAGE AND, AND STAFF THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO, DEMOGRAPHICS, AND, AND I'M A TRUE BELIEVER THAT, UH, OUR FIRE TRUCKS, OUR AMBULANCES, THEY NEED TO REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY THAT THEY SERVE. 
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AND SO IT IS ALWAYS, UM, A CHALLENGE FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT WE INCREASE OUR DIVERSITY. 
          IT'S ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GET OUT INTO THE PUBLIC. 
          SO, UM, AFRICAN AMERICANS, UH, MAKE UP 4% HISPANIC, 41.8, OTHER 3.9, UH, ANGLO AT 50.3. 
          UH, OUR GENDER RIGHT NOW, FEMALE IS 5.1%, BUT AT THE NATIONAL AVERAGE IS FOUR. 
          UM, OUR FEMALE NUMBERS ARE HIGHER THAN HOUSTON, PHOENIX, AND FORT WORTH. 
          WE ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THOSE NUMBERS, SO WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HIRE THE MOST DIVERSE FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT WE POSSIBLY CAN. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO, UH, OUR EXPLORATION CAMP FOR YOUNG WOMEN, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO DO THIS, UH, LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF COVID. 
          AND SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT WE BEGAN IN 2019 AND WE WERE LOOKING AT ATTRACTING, UM, FEMALES INTO, INTO THE FIRE SERVICE. 
          SO THIS YEAR WE DID, UM, TWO DAY CAMPS, UH, WITH 262 PARTICIPANTS, AND THEN WE DID FOUR HALF DAY CAMPS WITH, UM, 327 PARTICIPANTS. 
          AND THOSE HALF DAY CAMPS WERE FROM AGES SIX TO 11. 
          THE, UM, OTHER TWO DAY CAMPS WERE AGES 12 THROUGH 17. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO IF WE LOOK AT FIRE MEDICAL INCIDENTS, CLOSE TO 80% OF OUR RUNS ARE EMERGENCY MEDICAL. 
          AND THINK ERIC AND I WERE TALKING THE OTHER DAY, AND SOME OF MY STAFF, EVEN THAT YEARS BEFORE, UM, OUR, OUR, OUR NUMBERS WERE 81 TO 84%. 
          SO AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW, CLOSE TO 80% OF THOSE RUNS ARE. 
          SO THE MEDICAL SIDE OF IT TO DATE IS 78% AT 155,285. 
          THE NON-MEDICAL IS 43,000 IS 22%. 
          SO I'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, MEET WITH ALL FOUR OF OUR NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND WE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT THE DIFFERENT CALL TYPES AND THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT GO ON. 
          AND SO A NON-MEDICAL CALL, AGAIN, WOULD BE A STRUCTURED FIRE, GRASS, FIRE BRUSH, FIRE, UM, ALARM SOUNDING, UH, A LIFT ASSIST, THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT DO NOT QUALIFY AS MEDICAL CALL. 
          SO THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF RUNS, UH, OR INCIDENCE IS 98,723. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO, UNIT RESPONSES. 
          AND, UH, COUNCILMAN RODRIGUEZ, WE PLAYED A GAME THE OTHER DAY AND, AND I ASKED HIM TO TELL ME WHAT THE TYPE, THE TOP TYPE CALL WAS IN HIS DISTRICT. 
          AND EACH OF YOU ARE GONNA HAVE A DIFFERENT CALL TYPE IN YOUR DISTRICT AS FAR AS WHAT'S BEING NUMBER ONE. 
          AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THIS LIST, THIS IS UNIT RESPONSES. 
          THIS IS WHAT WE ACTUALLY SEND, AND WE'LL GO FURTHER INTO STANDARD OF COVER IN A SECOND. 
          BUT, UH, OUR TOP RESPONSE IS MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS. 
          UM, I HEARD THREE COMING IN THIS MORNING. 
          AND SO FOR THOSE, WE'RE GONNA SEND MULTIPLE UNITS, AND ESPECIALLY IF IT'S ON THE FREEWAY, OUR TOP CALL TYPE THOUGH IS SICK PERSON. 
          AND SO, UH, AND AGAIN, THAT NUMBER YOU CAN IMAGINE WITH COVID GOING ON, UH, WE HAD A LOT, A LOT OF SICK PERSON CALLS AND THOSE SICK PEOPLE CALLS COULD BE A STROKE, THEY COULD BE A HEART ATTACK, THEY COULD BE ANYTHING ONCE WE GET THERE AND, UH, FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          BUT THE CALLS THAT ARE COMING IN, THE NUMBER ONE CALL TYPE WAS SICK PERSON FOLLOWED BY FALLS. 
          THERE ARE WAYS THAT WE CAN HELP PREVENT FALLS. 
          THERE, THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES THAT, THAT WE COULD, UM, LOOK AT AS FAR AS YOUR CONSTITUENTS AS FAR AS, UH, TEACHING THEM FALL PREVENTION, A A FALL CAN BE A, UH, A DEATH SENTENCE FOR ANYBODY THAT'S OVER 65. 
          AND SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE HOPEFULLY CAN PREVENT IN THE FUTURE. 
          BREATHING PROBLEMS IN CHEST PAIN. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO WE ARE A CLASS ONE I S O RATED DEPARTMENT. 
          SO THAT'S LESS THAN 1% OF DEPARTMENTS IN THE COUNTRY. 
          AND SO THE, UM, INSURANCE, UH, SERVICE OFFICES, THEY PROVIDE STATISTICAL DATA TO INSURANCES AND TO BUSINESSES. 
          THEY GO OUT AND RATE 40,000 FIRE DEPARTMENTS, UH, AROUND THE COUNTRY. 
          AND, UH, ONLY 393 OF THOSE HAVE A CLASS ONE. 
          AND THE MAJORITY OF THOSE ARE NOT, UH, METRO SIZED DEPARTMENTS. 
          WE'RE EXTREMELY PROUD OF THAT. 
          AND SO WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR, THEY'RE LOOKING AT OUR WATER SYSTEMS, OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, OUR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, OUR BUILDINGS, WHERE THEY'RE LOCATED, ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT. 
          10 YEARS AGO, WE WERE CLASS THREE, SO WE HAVE BROUGHT THAT UP TO CLASS ONE. 
          AND AGAIN, UH, THANKFUL TO THE CITY MANAGER WHO WAS THE DEPUTY AT THE TIME. 
          AND TO THOSE COUNCIL PEOPLE, THAT AGAIN, ALLOWED US TO, UM, MOVE IN THE DIRECTION TO WHERE WE ARE. 
          ONE. 
          SO WE'RE ALSO ACCREDITED BY THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC SAFETY EXCELLENCE. 
          AND SO AGAIN, 12% OF THE POPULATION IS SERVED BY AN ACCREDITED AGENCY. 
          AND THERE'S ONLY 290 OF THOSE. 
          MOST OF THOSE ARE SMALL, THEY'RE MILITARY INSTALLATIONS. 
          UM, THEY ARE NOT METROPOLITAN FIRE DEPARTMENTS. 
          SO 
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LESS THAN 7% IS COVERED BY BOTH DISTINCTIONS. 
          AND SO WE ARE SO PROUD TO BE THE SECOND LARGEST METRO IN THE NATION THAT IS ACCREDITED AND A CLASS ONE. 
          SO AGAIN, TO THE PEOPLE BEHIND ME, I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK AND YOUR EFFORTS. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT A ACCREDITATION, WE'RE LOOKING AT 94 CORE COMPETENCIES THAT WE HAVE TO DO EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          AND WE COULD NOT EVEN APPLY IF WE WEREN'T DOING THOSE. 
          AND THEN WE HAD TO VALIDATE ANOTHER 252 TOTAL COMPETENCIES. 
          AND IT TOOK US YEARS TO PREPARE FOR THIS, BUT WE WERE ABLE TO KNOCK IT OUTTA THE PARK ON OUR FIRST, UH, TRY FOR ACCREDITATION. 
          THERE ARE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, IT TAKES THEM MULTIPLE TIMES TO GO BACK. 
          WE WERE ABLE TO COMPLETE THIS ON OUR FIRST TIME. 
          SO AGAIN, UM, A LOT, A LOT OF THINGS GO TO MIKE MULLINS, CHRIS MONASTERY, AND BRIAN NORRIS, AND OUR PLANNING AND, AND, UH, METRICS TEAM THAT, THAT PUTS THESE NUMBERS TOGETHER. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT STANDARDS FOR COVER, THIS IS N F P A, NATIONAL FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATION, 1710. 
          IF WE WEREN'T ABLE TO DO THIS, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO HOLD EITHER ONE OF THOSE, UM, VALIDATIONS. 
          SO IF WE HAD, IF WE GET A HOUSE FIRED TODAY, YOU'RE GONNA GET THREE ENGINES, A LADDER TRUCK, ONE COMMAND VEHICLE, THAT'S 15 TO 18 PEOPLE. 
          SO AGAIN, UM, AS I'VE TOLD EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, WE DON'T POLITICIZE FIRE EQUIPMENT THAT EQUIPMENT'S COMING FROM MULTIPLE DISTRICTS. 
          YOU MAY HAVE OTHER DISTRICTS COMING IN, YOURS OR YOURS ARE GOING OTHER PLACES. 
          SO THERE ARE NO LINES OF DELINEATION WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RESPONSE. 
          SO YOU'RE GONNA GET THE CLOSEST THREE ENGINES, CLOSEST LADDER, THEY'RE GONNA BE PICKED UP ON A GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM SATELLITE. 
          THEY MAY BE AT H E B, THEY MAY BE COMING FROM TRAINING, THEY MAY BE, UM, GETTING RELEASED FROM ANOTHER CALL. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA GET. 
          AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE PERSONNEL SHOWING UP, THERE'S A MULTITUDE OF FUNCTIONS THAT HAVE TO BE ACCOMPLISHED ON THE FIRE GROUND SIMULTANEOUSLY. 
          AND SO SOMEBODY'S GOTTA LAY THE LINE, SOMEBODY'S GOTTA GET THE WATER, SOMEBODY'S GOTTA VENTILATE, SOMEONE'S GOT TO DO SEARCH AND RESCUE. 
          ALL OF THESE THINGS HAVE TO BE DONE IN, IN, IN A SHORT TIMEFRAME. 
          AND, UH, AGAIN, MULT MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS THAT MAY CHANGE ON A COMMERCIAL FIRE, YOU'RE GONNA GET FOUR ENGINES, TWO LADDERS. 
          SO YOU'RE GONNA GET A BUMP UP IN THE PERSONNEL. 
          IT'S HOT TODAY. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA BE AT A HEAT STRESS LEVEL TO WHERE ON A NORMAL HOUSE FIRE, CHANCES ARE, I'M GONNA SEND MORE RESOURCES BECAUSE OF THE WEAR AND TEAR OF OUR PERSONNEL. 
          ON A HIGH-RISE FIRE, YOU CAN IMAGINE YOU'RE GONNA GET 40 TO 44 PEOPLE. 
          UH, THERE AGAIN, YOU'RE GONNA GET A A L S ENGINE FOR SURE, A SAFETY OFFICER. 
          AND THOSE ARE IN ADDITIONS TO WHAT YOU SEE ON THE OTHER FIRES, BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA BE CLIMBING STAIRS, WE'RE GONNA BE GOING UP FLIGHTS, AND WE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR PEOPLE ARE SAFE, THAT THEY'RE PROTECTED, AND IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO THEM, WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE DEDICATED A L SS ON THE SCENE, CARDIAC ARREST CALL. 
          AND SOME OF YOU'RE GONNA GET A CALL FROM YOUR CONSTITUENT, HEY, I HAD A LADDER SHUT LADDER TRUCK SHOW UP, AND MY GRANDMOTHER WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK. 
          YOU CAN REMIND THEM THAT THAT LADDER TRUCK HAD A PARAMEDIC ON BOARD, AND THAT LADDER TRUCK IS PROBABLY GONNA BE THE ONE THAT'S GOING TO SAVE THAT BRAIN TISSUE BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA DEFIBRILLATE THEM OR INTUBATE THEM BEFORE A TRANSPORT UNIT CAN EVEN ARRIVE. 
          SO ON A CARDIAC ARREST, WE'RE SENDING TWO E M S UNITS IN A LADDER COMPANY. 
          AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS, THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS THING THAT WE DO EVERY SINGLE DAY, IS OPERATING ON THE STREETS, OPERATING ON THE FREEWAYS. 
          WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE OUR FOLKS ARE PROTECTED. 
          WE'RE GONNA BLOCK A LANE IF WE HAVE TO. 
          UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE THOSE OTHER ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO COME OUT IN CASE WE HAVE TO DO AN EXTRICATION. 
          SO, UH, COULD BE LABOR INTENSIVE, BUT AGAIN, VERY DANGEROUS SCENARIO. 
          STANDING OUT ON 16 0 4, 2 81 IN PARTICULAR, TWO OR THREE IN THE MORNING ON A FRIDAY NIGHT, VERY DANGEROUS FOR US. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO RESPONSE TIMES, UM, BENCHMARK IS EIGHT MINUTES. 
          WE TAKE CREDIT FOR THE TIME WHEN THE CALL IS DISPATCHED TILL WE ARRIVE AT YOUR FRONT DOOR OR THE ADDRESS. 
          UH, BASICALLY SOME OTHER DEPARTMENTS, THEY LOOK AT TRAVEL TIME. 
          TRAVEL TIME MAY BE FOUR MINUTES FOR A ENGINE COMPANY IN ANOTHER CITY TO GET THERE, BUT IT DOESN'T FACTOR IN HOW LONG IT TOOK FOR THAT CALL TO BE DISPATCHED. 
          HOW LONG THAT CALL SAT IN QUEUE WITH A 9 1 1 OPERATOR. 
          AND SO WE ARE LOOKING AT TRUE TIMES. 
          AND SO THE 8 35, THAT'S A LITTLE HIGHER THAN ANTICIPATED, BUT AGAIN, WE ARE DEALING WITH COVID AND EACH MEDIC UNIT. 
          AND I REPORT TO THE MAYOR AND THE JUDGE AND ERIC WAS EVERY DAY  FOR, SEEMED LIKE EVER. 
          AND WE'RE BACK TO TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS, AND WE HAVE HAD SOME, UM, REALLY HIGH TRANSPORTATION NUMBERS. 
          WE'VE HAD RECORD BREAKING TRANSPORTATION NUMBERS AND RESPONSES DURING THIS THIRD WAVE. 
          AND SO EACH OF OUR MEDIC UNITS, THEY HAVE 30 MINUTES TO DECON. 
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I CAN'T PUT THEM, UH, BACK IN SERVICE IF THEY NEED TO CHANGE UNIFORMS OR THEY NEED TO CLEAN THEMSELVES. 
          I CAN'T PUT ANOTHER CUSTOMER IN THE BACK OF AN AMBULANCE IF WE CAN'T DECON THAT UNIT FIRST. 
          WHEN COVID STARTED, WE HAD OPENED UP TWO DECONTAMINATION STATIONS. 
          ONE IS STATION 32, 0 32, AND ONE AT THE Y DOWNTOWN OFF OF ST. 
          MARY'S. 
          UH, WE HAVE PURCHASED ENOUGH EQUIPMENT TO WHERE WE CAN DECON OUR UNITS AT THE STATIONS. 
          SO BETWEEN THE DECON HAVING TO DRIVE FURTHER BECAUSE HOSPITALS ARE LIMITED ON I C U BEDS OR, UH, WE'RE DOING, UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE HAVE TO SEND, WE WE'RE SHUTTING DOWN A HOSPITAL. 
          SOME OF THOSE THINGS HAPPEN TO WHERE WE'RE DRIVING FURTHER. 
          UM, ALSO THESE NUMBERS, UM, NUMBERS, UM, BEAR INTO THE, UH, SNOWSTORM. 
          THAT SNOWSTORM THAT WE HAD. 
          WE WERE ONLY ALLOWING OUR VEHICLES TO DRIVE 25 MILES AN HOUR DURING THAT TREACHEROUS TIME. 
          SO THOSE NUMBERS ARE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER. 
          HOPEFULLY THEY'LL COME DOWN. 
          BUT, UM, I'M NOT LOOKING AT 9 35 OR 10 35. 
          SO ACTUALLY, WITH EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH, UH, I'M SATISFIED WITH THAT NUMBER, BUT WE'LL ALWAYS TRY TO DO BETTER. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          SO, COVID RESPONSE, AND I'VE GOT A LOT OF INFORMATION ON COVID RESPONSE, BUT, UM, I, I'D FIRST LIKE TO THANK METRO HEALTH. 
          WE PARTNERED WITH METRO HEALTH VERY EARLY. 
          WE ESTABLISHED A UNIFIED COMMAND WITH METRO HEALTH AND WITH STRAC, THERE WAS NO GAME PLAN FOR THIS. 
          THERE WAS NO TEMPLATE, THERE WAS NOTHING WRITTEN AS FAR AS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. 
          AND SO, UM, YOU'VE GOT SOME INFORMATION IN THOSE HANDOUTS THAT WE GAVE YOU. 
          BUT AGAIN, WE, WE, UM, WE'VE DONE A LOT. 
          AND SO I'M GONNA GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WHICH IS GONNA KIND OF EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE. 
          AND I'M GONNA START OFF WITH THE TESTING. 
          AND SO WE TRAINED OVER 1500 TEXAS MILITARY, UH, OR NATIONAL GUARD RESERVES TO GO OUT AND DO TESTING. 
          UM, WE TRAINED, UM, ADDITIONAL 225 OF OUR MEMBERS, UH, OVER A FIVE DAY PERIOD, UH, TO GO OUT AND DO TESTING. 
          SO WE BASICALLY, UH, INCREASED OUR M I H STAFF TO WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO GO OUT AND DO TESTING. 
          UM, WE TESTED 15, WE, UH, TRAINED 15 COUNTY E S D PERSONNEL. 
          AND THEN, SO WHEN WE GO BACK OVER TO THE NEXT SLIDE IN THE MIDDLE, NO, THE, THE, IT, NO, I'M SORRY. 
          I, I, YOU, I MESSED. 
          SO IF WE GO BACK TO THE MIDDLE TO LARGE CONGREGATE FACILITIES, AND MAYOR ERIC, YOU REMEMBER THE VERY BEGINNING, UM, CONGREGATE SETTINGS WERE A HUGE CHALLENGE IN NURSING HOMES. 
          WE VISITED ALL 78 NURSING HOMES IN THE CITY AND 65 LIVING, UH, ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES. 
          WE SHARED INFORMATION WITH THEM. 
          WE FIGURED OUT WHAT THE BEST INGRESS AND EGRESS WAS FOR OUR UNITS. 
          UM, WE EDUCATED THEM ON WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO TO KEEP THEMSELVES SAFE. 
          DURING THAT TIME, WE TESTED OVER 17,000, UH, STAFF AND RESIDENTS. 
          AND SO, AND THAT INCLUDED ALSO DEPLOYMENTS. 
          AND SO WE HAD DEPLOYMENTS TO COLLEGE STATION, RIO GRANDE CITY, BROWNSVILLE, KINGSVILLE, WESTLAKE, HONDO, LIVO, COTIS AND CORPUS, WHERE WE WENT OUT AND, UM, SUPPORTED THE STATE IN THIS EFFORT TO TEST PEOPLE. 
          BEXAR COUNTY ADULT PROBATION, WE DID OVER 250 AND WE DID SS A P D ACADEMY CADETS. 
          AS FAR AS VACCINATIONS WERE CONCERNED, WE VACCINATED CLOSE TO, UH, 250,000 PEOPLE WITH ALMOST 21 OF, WITH ALMOST TWO, 208,000, UM, 200, 200,800. 
          UM, AT THE ALAMO, WE ALSO WENT OUT AND LOOKED AT OUR MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION. 
          AND THESE ARE THE FOLKS THAT CALL US ON A REGULAR BASIS. 
          THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE HOME BOUND. 
          THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE, ARE IN WHEELCHAIRS THAT CAN'T GET OUT, HAVE NO ONE TO DRIVE THEM. 
          AND WE WENT TO YOUR MOST VULNERABLE V VULNERABLE CITIZENS, AND WE VACCINATED, UH, 18,600 OF THEM. 
          I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THAT VACCINE SAVED SOME OF THEIR LIVES. 
          WE ALSO DID POPUPS WITH 2,700 AS FAR AS MOBILE VACS. 
          AND OUR GULF COAST TEAM WENT OUT AND, UH, VACCINATED 3,800. 
          SO AGAIN, NO TEXTBOOK TO LOOK AT, NO POLICIES OR PROCEDURES. 
          WE WROTE THESE, WE ACTUALLY HELPED THE STATE, UM, AS FAR AS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY WERE DOING AS FAR AS WRITING AND HELPING THEM WITH GUIDELINES. 
          SO AGAIN, VERY BUSY, UH, COULDN'T BE MORE PROUD OF THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT THIS PRESENTED US. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          WINTER STORM URI. 
          SO, UM, WINTER STORM YEAR 
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WAS PROBABLY THE MOST CHALLENGING THING I'VE EVER FACED AS A FIRE CHIEF. 
          UM, I'VE NEVER SEEN A TIME WHERE THERE WERE, THERE WAS ONE NIGHT WHERE THERE WERE FIVE RESIDENTS, OR FIVE CALLS WE COULDN'T MAKE IT TO. 
          THE WEATHER WAS SO TREACHEROUS. 
          UM, AND SO FOR THAT, I WANT TO THANK THE TEAM AGAIN FOR THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING, UH, AT THE STATIONS, FOR THOSE THAT LEFT THEIR HOMES FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND COULDN'T GET HOME AND WORKED, UM, THAT PHASED FIRE AND ICE. 
          I, I THANK THEM. 
          AND SO, UM, IT BEGAN VALENTINE'S DAY, THE NUMBER OF INCIDENTS, UH, MORE THAN DOUBLED IN A SEVEN DAY PERIOD OF TIME TO OVER 10,261. 
          OUR STRUCTURE FIRE, UH, RESPONSES INCREASED 300%, 154, AND THEN OUR WORKING FIRES INCREASED AT 476% WITH 43. 
          IT'S A BIG CHALLENGE WHEN YOU CAN'T GET UP A HILL BECAUSE IT'S FROZEN. 
          IT'S A BIG CHALLENGE WHEN YOU CAN'T GET WATER BECAUSE THE, THE HYDRANTS ARE FROZEN OR THERE'S NO PRESSURE. 
          AND SO, UH, A LOT OF THOSE CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE, WE OVERCAME. 
          OUR E M S TRANSPORTS ROSE OVER 40%. 
          UH, CARDIAC ARREST INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          AND OUR DO D O A CALLS, UH, ROSE TO 400%. 
          WE HAD OVER A THOUSAND WATER EVACUATIONS BECAUSE OF BROKEN PIPES. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID, IF YOU CAN SEE THAT AMBULANCE RIGHT THERE, IT WAS LIKE DELIVERING GOLD, DELIVERING GOLD TO SOMEBODY THAT THEY DON'T HAVE POWER AND THEY CAN'T USE THEIR OXYGEN OR THEIR OXYGEN'S RUN OUT, AND THE OXYGEN COMPANIES CAN'T RESPOND TO CHANGE THAT OUT. 
          SO WHAT WE DID IS TOOK A COUPLE OF AMBULANCES THAT WERE OUTTA SERVICE, MAYBE MORE THAN A COUPLE, AND, UH, STARTED DELIVERING O TWO. 
          AND SO WE DELIVERED 304 CITIZENS OXYGEN AND, UH, TOOK THE PLACE OF THAT COMPANY THAT COULDN'T MAKE IT, TOOK THE PLACE OF THAT POWER THAT COULD NOT CONTROL THE MACHINES. 
          AND SO, AGAIN, THAT WAS ONE OF THE FEELGOOD THINGS FOR ANYBODY THAT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO DELIVER OXYGEN. 
          UH, WE DEFINITELY SAVE LIVES WITH THAT, UH, GRAVEL UNIT RESPONSES. 
          SO WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT IN SAN ANTONIO, I NEED TO SPREAD GRAVEL AND SALT BECAUSE I CAN'T GET UP THIS HILL. 
          I CAN'T GET DOWN THIS STREET. 
          AND SO FOR THOSE INSTANCES, WE HAD PICKUP TRUCKS AND WE LOADED THEM UP WITH SALT AND GRAVEL. 
          AND SO WE COULD CREATE OUR OWN TRACTION AND GET TO SOME OF THE CALLS THAT WE NEEDED TO. 
          WE HAD A APARTMENT FIRE IN THE MEDICAL CENTER AREA WHERE THE TRUCKS COULDN'T GET UP THE HILL FIRE THROUGH THE ROOF ON THE THIRD FLOOR. 
          WHEN WE GOT THERE, THE ROADS WERE FROZEN, WE COULDN'T GET UP THE HILL. 
          SO AGAIN, I CAN'T THANK THE TROOPS FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY DID DURING THAT TIME. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT OUR BUDGET, UM, 349.1 MILLION, UH, THAT'S AN INCREASE OF, UH, 18.6 MILLION OR 5%. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING INCREASES OF 5.8 INCREASE IN RETIREE, UH, HEALTH PREFUND CONTRIBUTION 2.1, CIVILIAN COMP, UH, COMPENSATION, UH, 500,000, THE NEW CLINICAL DISPATCHERS, WHICH WE ARE SO EXCITED TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION WITH YOU 1.1. 
          OUR M I H IS A HALF A MILLION. 
          AND, UH, EQUIPMENT AND ASSESSMENTS, AND WE'LL GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT AT 6.6 TO A PROPOSED BUDGET OF 339.7, AGAIN, WITH A INCREASE OF 5.1% HAZMAT FEE REDUCTION. 
          SO WE PROPOSED TO, UM, DECREASE THE HAZMAT FEE FROM $600 TO 300 FOR, UH, RETAIL STATIONS AT STORE 12,000 GALLONS OF FUEL OR LESS. 
          AND WHAT THIS CHANGE IS GONNA DO, IT'S GOING TO HELP OUT SOME OF OUR SMALLER MOM AND POP GAS STATIONS, MARKETS THAT HAVE GAS, UH, VERSUS SOME OF THE LARGER, UM, COMPANIES THAT, THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, STORES AND FAST FOOD AND SELLING GAS. 
          THIS SMALL CHANGE IS GOING TO HELP, AGAIN, FAMILY OWNED OPERATED BUSINESSES. 
          IT'S A, I WOULD SAY, A REDUCTION IN REVENUE OF $68,100. 
          SO INITIATIVES, FOCUS AREAS. 
          HOW DO I GET PEOPLE TO OUR CITIZENS AS QUICK AS WE CAN? AND SO MANAGING RESPONSE TIMES IS ALWAYS THE NUMBER ONE OBJECTIVE OF THIS DEPARTMENT. 
          AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT TO INCREASE FIRE AND E M S UNIT AVAILABILITY BY UTILIZING TELEMEDICINE TECHNOLOGY. 
          AND WE ARE SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS PROGRAM AND WE'LL DIVE FURTHER INTO IT AND ACTUALLY SHOW YOU A VIDEO. 
          SO, ENHANCED FIRST RESPONDER RESPONSE TO MENTAL HEALTH IN A PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS, MAINLY, UH, METRO HEALTH AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, I SPENT 
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A LOT OF TIME ON FIRE TRUCKS BACK IN PHOENIX, AND A LOT OF THE CALLS FOR SERVICE THAT WE HAD WERE PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ISSUES. 
          THEY TIE UP OUR SYSTEM, WHETHER IT'S TAKING THEM TO AN ER, THEY TIE UP OUR RESPONSE VEHICLES BECAUSE WE GO ON THESE PEOPLE, SOMETIMES THEY'RE HIGH VOLUME UTILIZERS. 
          SO ENHANCING THIS PLAN IS GOING TO HELP US KEEP OUR VEHICLES ON THE STREETS. 
          WE'RE DEALING WITH, UH, COVID STILL WITH THE DELTA. 
          AND IT IS A CHALLENGE, UH, IT'S A CHALLENGE TO KEEP OUR FOLKS HEALTHY. 
          IT'S A CHALLENGE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT NEW C D C GUIDELINES OR RULES ARE GOING TO TAKE PLACE, AND HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO PARTNER WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY AND OUR, OUR PARTNERS IN THE REGION. 
          SO THAT IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE AN INITIATIVE FOR US. 
          SO INCREASED, UH, FIRE AND UNIT AVAILABILITY BY UTILIZING TELEMEDICINE. 
          MAJORITY OF YOU, UM, THAT WERE ON COUNCIL LAST YEAR, YEAR BEFORE, WE TALKED ABOUT THE DELIVERY OF WHOLE BLOOD. 
          AND I WAS A PARAMEDIC FOR 17 YEARS. 
          AND SO WHEN WE PUT WHOLE BLOOD ON THE STREETS OF SAN ANTONIO, UM, IT WAS THE GREATEST THING I'D EVER SEEN BECAUSE, UH, PRIOR TO THAT, WE WERE GIVING LACTATED RINGERS NORMAL SALINE AND BASICALLY WATER. 
          WHAT WE STARTED A COUPLE YEARS AGO IS TO GIVE TITTER BLOOD TO TRAUMA VICTIMS. AND WE'VE DONE IT OVER 700 TIMES SINCE WE STARTED. 
          AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE GREATEST THING EVER. 
          AND WE WERE THE FIRST METRO DEPARTMENT TO DO THAT. 
          BUT WHAT THIS DOES, THIS ALLOWS ME TO PUT A PARAMEDIC IN YOUR LIVING ROOM IN 15 TO 30 SECONDS. 
          AND WE'RE GONNA FIGURE OUT A WAY TO TAKE RESPONSE TO TAKE CREDIT FOR HOW QUICK WE ARE DOING THAT DOWN THE ROAD WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR RESPONSE TIMES. 
          BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THIS, OUR PILOT PROGRAM BEGAN IN OCTOBER, AND OUR DISPATCHERS, AND I HOPE SOME OF THEM ARE WATCHING THIS, IF THEY'RE NOT TOO BUSY, THEY HANDLE OVER 6,000 CALLS THROUGH AUGUST. 
          AND THE RESULT OF THE PILOT SHOWS THAT 71% OF THOSE RUNS DID NOT NECESS A FIRE, DID NOT NECESSITATE A FIRETRUCK OR AN AMBULANCE. 
          SO WHAT THAT DOES, I JUST MENTIONED EARLIER THAT RESPONDING TO AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT STANDING ON THE STREET IS ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS THINGS WE DO. 
          DRIVING CODE THREE THROUGH THIS CITY IS, AGAIN, ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS THINGS THAT WE DO. 
          SO WE'RE MINIMIZING OUR RESPONSES, WE'RE MINIMIZING THE EXPOSURE TO OUR CITIZENS TO FIRE TRUCKS AND AMBULANCES UNNECESSARILY. 
          AND WE'RE ALSO LIMITING THE EXPOSURE TO OUR PERSONNEL TO POTENTIAL COVID. 
          SO, UH, AGAIN, I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS. 
          SO THIS BUDGET, UH, PROPOSES EIGHT NEW CLINICAL DISPATCHERS AT 1.1 MILLION. 
          SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND, UH, SHOW THAT VIDEO FIRST. 
          NEW AT 10, A LITTLE GIRL'S HEART FAILS AFTER RIDING A LOCAL ROLLER COASTER, BUT SHE'S BROUGHT BACK BY THE HEROIC ACTIONS OF BYSTANDERS AND FIRE DEPARTMENT PARAMEDICS. 
          AS NEWS FOUR TROUBLESHOOTER, JAY AVILA REPORTS, THEY USED A NEW CELL PHONE VIDEO APP TO HELP SAVE HER LIFE. 
          THIS IS A NEW PROGRAM WE TOLD YOU ABOUT EARLIER THIS YEAR. 
          FIRE DEPARTMENT DISPATCHERS CAN SEND A SPECIAL LINK TO A NINE ONE ONE CALLER THAT ENABLES THEIR PHONE TO SEND LIVE VIDEO OF THE SCENE BACK HERE. 
          THEY USED IT IN EARLY JULY WHEN A 10 YEAR OLD GIRL'S HEART STOPPED AFTER SHE RODE A ROLLERCOASTER AT SEAWORLD. 
          I NEARLY SLEPT. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          HARPER, COME HERE THIS WAY. 
          THE GARAGE FAMILY FROM AUSTIN WANTS TO LOCATE AND THANK ALL THE PEOPLE THAT PITCHED IN TO SAVE THE LIFE OF 10 YEAR OLD HARPER. 
          IT'S ABSOLUTELY A MIRACLE THAT WE'RE HERE TODAY. 
          DURING A BIRTHDAY TRIP TO SEAWORLD, THE FAMILY DECIDED TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S FIRST EVER ROLLERCOASTER RIDE. 
          THEY HAD NO IDEA HARPER SUFFERED FROM A HIDDEN HEART CONDITION. 
          AND DURING THE RIDE, SHE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS. 
          MY HUSBAND AND I JUST IMMEDIATELY STARTED YELLING FOR HELP. 
          WE KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. 
          OTHER PARK VISITORS, INCLUDING AN OFF-DUTY FIREFIGHTER AND NURSE, BEGAN C P R. 
          ANOTHER BYSTANDER CALLED 9 1 1. 
          THERE'S A CHILD. 
          THEY, I DON'T THINK SHE'S BREATHING. 
          SHE PASSED OUT. 
          SHE DID NOT HAVE A PULSE. 
          SHE DID NOT BREATHING. 
          DID NOT HAVE A PULSE. 
          DO YOU HAVE A HISTORY OF ANXIETY? CAN YOU EXPLAIN IT TO ME? THE CALL WAS TAKEN BY VETERAN PARAMEDIC C DEAN, WHO NOW WORKS AS A CLINICAL DISPATCHER. 
          DEAN SENT THE VIDEO LINK TO THE CALLER AND WAS ABLE TO SEE AND DIRECT THE EFFORTS TO SAVE HARPER. 
          WE'VE ALL BEEN IN THE FIELD. 
          WE ALL HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE. 
          AND SO, UM, I WAS ABLE TO CORRECT SOME OF THEIR TECHNIQUES ON C P R. 
          MA'AM, YOU'RE PUMPING TOO HARD FOR A LITTLE GIRL. 
          CORRECT? THERE WE GO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IT WAS SUCH 
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CHAOS ON THE GROUND THAT YOU NEEDED THAT VOICE THAT KIND OF KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. 
          SOMEONE WHO WAS CALM AFTER A SHOCK FROM A DEFIBRILLATOR, THEY WERE ABLE TO REVIVE HARPER. 
          ACTUALLY, WHEN THEY TRANSPORTED HER, WE DID ALSO FIND OUT THAT SHE WAS TALKING TO THEM IN THE AMBULANCE. 
          SO, I DON'T KNOW. 
          IT'S KIND OF, IT'S JUST A, IT'S A REALLY GOOD FEELING. 
          HARPER RECOVERED IN THE HOSPITAL WHERE DOCTORS IMPLANTED A DEFIBRILLATOR IN HER CHEST. 
          UM, I HAD HAD GET SURGERY AND IT'S REALLY CHANGED BECAUSE, 'CAUSE I CAN'T REALLY LIFT UP MY ARM TOO MUCH DESPITE THOSE PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS. 
          HARPER AND HER FAMILY WANT TO REUNITE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO SAVED HER. 
          THEY'VE ALREADY TALKED TO CHRISTINE ON THE PHONE AND HOPE TO MEET SOON WITH THE OTHER PARAMEDICS WHO RESPONDED. 
          THANK YOU FOR, UM, HELPING ME, UM, ON THAT VERY DAY. 
          'CAUSE THEY'RE THE REASON WHY I'M HERE TODAY. 
          SO THAT'S AMAZING. 
          SO YOU SAW CHRISTINE KIND OF TEAR UP AND CHANCES OF, UM, THAT CHILD HAVING A NORMAL LIFE WITHOUT ANY RESIDUAL EFFECTS FROM THAT EVENT, WITHOUT THE PROPER C P R WITHOUT DEFIBRILLATION, UM, WE CAN ALWAYS START A HEART. 
          IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR US TO SOMETIMES SAVE A BRAIN. 
          SO YOU START LOSING BRAIN, BRAIN TISSUE RIGHT AFTER FOUR MINUTES. 
          AND SO FOR US TO BE ABLE TO CORRECT THE C P R TO ASSIST THEM WITH THE DEFIBRILLATION, UM, I CAN'T BE HAPPIER ABOUT THIS. 
          THIS, UH, OTHER VIDEO THAT WE HAD SHOWED, UM, WE HAD OTHER VIDEOS THAT SHOWED A STRUCTURE FIRE. 
          SO WE'RE GETTING REAL TIME INFORMATION FROM SOMEONE HOLDING A CELL PHONE, AND THAT CAN SHOW WHERE THAT FIRE IS, CAN SHOW WHAT THAT AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT LOOKS LIKE. 
          UM, THE LADY THAT YOU SAW IN OUR VIDEO THAT PUT HER HAND UP AND WAVED, UM, HER DAUGHTER CALLS SAYING, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT? SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH MY MOM. 
          CAN YOU CHECK HER OUT? SURE, MA'AM. 
          DO YOU HAVE A SMARTPHONE HERE? PUT THIS PHONE ON YOUR MOM. 
          LET'S LET HER LOOK AT HER. 
          WE CAN SEE WHAT HER PULSE RATE WAS, HER RESPIRATORY RATE. 
          CAN SHE SMILE? SHE HAD A FACIAL DROOP. 
          CAN SHE LIFT HER HAND? SHE COULD ONLY LIFT ONE HAND. 
          SHE WAS APHASIC. 
          SHE'S HAVING A STROKE. 
          BUT WHAT THAT DOES FOR US, WHILE WE'RE SENDING RESOURCES, WE CAN ALSO NOTIFY THE, THE, THE CLOSEST APPROPRIATE FACILITY THAT HAS A STROKE PROGRAM AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'RE ON OUR WAY EVEN BEFORE WE GET THERE. 
          SO, UM, I CAN'T TELL YOU THE CHANGES THAT THIS IS GONNA DO FOR THIS DEPARTMENT. 
          AND AGAIN, I THINK AS COUNCIL, AS MAYOR, UM, EVERYONE SITTING BEHIND ME AND WHITE SHIRTS AND TIES, UH, BE VERY PROUD BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE IN THE NATION IS DOING THIS. 
          AND I REALLY WANNA THANK DR. 
          WINKLER FOR BRINGING THIS TECHNOLOGY TO US FROM ENGLAND. 
          AND ONCE THAT COMPANY HAS SEEN WHAT WE'RE DOING, THEY'RE CHANGING THEIR BUSINESS PLAN TO LOOK AT SYSTEMS THAT, THAT PROTECT, UM, CITIZENS, UM, THROUGH E M S. 
          SO OUR NEXT SLIDE, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, GOOD SAM WAS USED 6,029 TIMES. 
          THE INCIDENTS, UH, SAVED FROM, FROM NEEDING FIRE E M S WERE 4,292. 
          SO, UM, THERE ARE CALLS WHERE WE'RE GONNA SEND FROM WHAT WE SEE WITH THE PULSE RATE, THE RESPIRATORY RATE, THE SKIN COLOR, THE QUESTIONS, OR SPEAKING IN TWO OR THREE WORD SENTENCES. 
          SOME OF THOSE WE'RE GONNA ESCALATE AND SEND. 
          AND THOSE WERE 1,742. 
          SO THE AVERAGE DAILY GOOD SAM USAGE RIGHT NOW IS AT 20. 
          SO THE AVERAGE INCIDENT SAVED IS 14 A DAY. 
          AND, UM, THE GOOD SAM CLINICAL DISPATCHER WAS UNAVAILABLE 1,185 TIMES. 
          SO OUR HOPE IS BY ADDING RESOURCES THAT WE WILL NOT HAVE TO MISS OUT ON AVAILABILITY, BECAUSE WE DO GET STORMS. WE DO GET MULTIPLE ALARM FIRES TO WHERE THOSE DISPATCHERS HAVE TO BE THE LIFELINE TO TALKING TO FIREFIGHTERS ON THE GROUND. 
          AND SO THE DEMAND IS ALWAYS GOING TO TAKE PRIORITY. 
          AND SO WITHOUT THE GOOD SAM APP, IF A PERSON DOESN'T HAVE A SMARTPHONE, THEY'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO GET THE CLOSEST AVAILABLE RESOURCE. 
          AND THAT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE A FIRE TRUCK OR AN ENGINE. 
          SO NOBODY'S GOING TO MISS OUT. 
          BUT FOR THOSE THAT HAVE A SMARTPHONE AND WE CAN, UM, GET TO THEIR VIDEO. 
          AND THE OTHER THING THAT YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD KNOW, THIS IS NO APPLICATION FOR A CITIZEN. 
          ONCE WE'RE DONE WITH THAT VIDEO, THAT CALL HANGS UP. 
          THERE'S NO FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          AND SO IF WE LOOK AT THE OUTCOME, SO THAT RESOURCE OR THAT'S NO RESOURCE ASSIGNED, THAT'S 3,616 TIMES, I DIDN'T HAVE TO PUT A FIRETRUCK OR AN AMBULANCE ON THE 
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STREET AND, UH, EXPOSE ALL OF US TO THAT EMERGENCY RESPONSE. 
          SO IT'S AMAZING. 
          THE OTHER THING THAT WE DO, AND WE'VE BEEN GIVING TAXI VOUCHERS OUT FOR QUITE A WHILE, BUT WE CAN GIVE YOU A VIRTUAL TAXI VOUCHER ONCE WE HAVE LOOKED INTO WHAT'S GOING ON WITH YOU. 
          AND SO THE AVERAGE ON SCENE TIME FOR US IS ABOUT 15 MINUTES AND 55 SECONDS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THE DECISION. 
          AND THEN WE'LL SEND YOU A TAXI CAB. 
          SAVES ME FROM DECONNING AN AMBULANCE. 
          UH, PEOPLE HAVE THE, UH, MISNOMER THAT BECAUSE THEY GO TO THE HOSPITAL IN AN AMBULANCE ON A STRETCHER, THEY'RE GONNA BE SEEN QUICKER. 
          THEY'RE NOT, IF THEY DON'T NEED TO BE SEEN RIGHT AWAY, THEY'RE GONNA BE PUT IN A WHEELCHAIR AND PUSHED INTO TRIAGE. 
          SO WE ARE SAVING OUR UNITS, SAVING OUR CITIZENS FOR THE ONES THAT REALLY TRULY NEED IT. 
          AND THEN IF YOU LOOK DOWN AT THE BOTTOM AND YOU SEE THAT HUGE SPIKE OF 98 OR THREE, I CAN'T TELL, UM, THAT WAS DURING THE STORM. 
          THAT WAS DURING THE STORM. 
          THOSE WERE SOME OF THOSE CALLS THAT WE TALKED TO PEOPLE. 
          AND YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE GONNA SEND YOU A TAXI VOUCHER. 
          WE'RE GONNA DO TELEMEDICINE FOR YOU. 
          YOU DON'T NEED THIS RESOURCE OUT THERE. 
          SO UNDOUBTEDLY, WE SAVED SOME ACCIDENTS AND, UH, IT WORKED REALLY HARD. 
          SO I THINK THE, THE 30 AND THE 33, SOME OF THOSE SPIKES ARE ALSO, IF YOU RIDE THE WAVE OF OUR, OUR COVID, THOSE ARE SOME OF OUR HEAVIER COVID TIMES. 
          BUT YOU CAN LOOK NOW, AGAIN, WE'RE UP TO 31 TIMES THAT, UM, THAT WE USE THIS. 
          SO IF YOU SEE THE EQUITY SCORE OVER HERE TO YOUR, UM, TO MY RIGHT, UH, 987 IS A 10. 
          SO WHAT WE FOUND OUT THAT, AGAIN, THE HIGHER THE SCORE, THE HIGHER CONCENTRATION OF BOTH PEOPLE OF COLOR AND LOW INCOME HOUSES THAT THIS IS AFFECTING. 
          SO AS FAR AS THE EQUITY SCORE, WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THIS EQUITY SCORE THAT THIS NEW ENHANCEMENT IS GOING TO BRING OUR COMMUNITY. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SORRY. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          OKAY, SO ENHANCED FIRST RESPONDER RESPONSES TO MENTAL HEALTH. 
          AS I JUST MENTIONED, SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THE STREETS, A LOT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ISSUES, A LOT OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. 
          HOW CAN WE HELP NAVIGATE THOSE PEOPLE TO WHERE THEY'RE NOT TYING UP EMERGENCY RESOURCES, THEY'RE NOT TYING UP EMERGENCY ROOMS, UH, ESPECIALLY IN THIS DAY AND AGE. 
          SO THIS BUDGET INCLUDES A PARAMEDIC AND OVERTIME TO ADD TO OUR M I H PROGRAM, BUT IT'S GONNA BE A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESPONSE TEAM THAT'S GOING TO LOOK AND SEE IF THAT PERSON DOES NEED TRANSPORTATION, WHAT'S THE MOST APPROPRIATE FACILITY FOR THEM TO GO TO. 
          MAYBE IT'S NOT AN ER, MAYBE WE JUST NEED TO PROVIDE MEDICAL CLEARANCE. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT, THERE'S NOTHING MEDICALLY WRONG WITH THIS PERSON BECAUSE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND LOW BLOOD SUGAR CAN MIMIC EACH OTHER. 
          SO HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THEY'RE NOT HAVING A TRUE MEDICAL EVENT? AND SOMETIMES BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PEOPLE, THEY HAVE MEDICAL EVENTS ON TOP OF IT. 
          SO HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CLEARING THEM? WHAT'S OUR FOLLOW UP AND OUR OUTREACH? THE SAME THING THAT WE DO WITH OUR HIGH VOLUME UTILIZERS. 
          HOW CAN WE HELP GET YOU OUTTA THIS POSITION TO WHERE YOU'RE NOT TYING UP 9 1 1 SERVICES? IT'S A CUSTOMER SERVICE ISSUE FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS. 
          AND, UH, IT IT PROVIDES BETTER SERVICE FOR ALL OF US. 
          SO HOW DO WE CONNECT THEM WITH, UM, WITH CHRONIC CARE VERSUS RELYING ON THE 9 1 1 SYSTEM? NEXT SLIDE. 
          TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT. 
          SO, UH, FITNESS EQUIPMENT. 
          UM, 80% OF FIREFIGHTERS DIE IN THE LINE OF DUTY BECAUSE OF HEART ATTACKS AND STROKES. 
          SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT OUR FOLKS ARE PHYSICALLY FIT TO HANDLE THE RIGORS OF A 24 HOUR SHIFT. 
          SO WE NEED TO REPLACE SOME FITNESS EQUIPMENT AT OUR STATIONS. 
          FOR THOSE OF YOU IN ON COUNCIL FOR A WHILE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A CANCER INITIATIVE. 
          WE HAVE LOST SEVERAL BELOVED MEMBERS OVER THE YEARS TO OCCUPATIONAL CANCER. 
          HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN DELIVER TWO SETS OF GEAR? AND WE HAVE A QUARTERMASTER PROGRAM THAT IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN THE NATION TO WHERE IF WE GET A STRUCTURE FIRE TODAY, WE'RE TAKING THE PROPER SIZE, UH, TURNOUTS TO THOSE FIREFIGHTERS THAT OPERATED IN A HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT. 
          WE'RE TRADING OUT BUNKER GEAR AND WE'RE TAKING THEIR DIRTY GEAR AND GETTING IT CLEANED. 
          SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, UH, REPLACE BUNKER GEAR, UH, STRATEGICALLY, AND WE DON'T WAIT TILL EVERYTHING IS BAD. 
          AND THEN WE COME BACK NEEDING TO REPLACE MORE VIDEO LARYNGOSCOPES. 
          I WISH I'D HAD ONE OF THESE WHEN I'M ON THE FLOOR TRYING TO INTUBATE SOMEBODY AND THERE'S BLOOD AND ALL KIND OF OTHER THINGS IN THEIR AIRWAY, AND I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE VOCAL CORDS ARE VERSUS THE TRACHE OR THE ESOPHAGUS. 
          AND WE HAD A LITTLE BITTY LIGHT. 
          SO NOW WHAT THIS IS ALLOWING US TO DO IS TO HAVE A VIDEO OF THAT AIRWAY AND HELP US TO 
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INSERT THAT TUBE. 
          UM, AND SO THIS IS A SKILL THAT, UM, YOU SEE DOWN AT HOSPITALS, YOU SEE ANESTHESIOLOGISTS THAT THEY COME IN AND INTUBATE YOU. 
          OUR FOLKS INTUBATE YOU IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR KITCHEN FLOOR. 
          IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FREEWAY, WE'RE GONNA INNOVATE YOU FURNITURE. 
          WE HAVE THE LARGEST FOOTPRINT OF SQUARE FOOTAGE OF, OF BUILDINGS IN THE CITY. 
          SO WE NEED FURNITURE TO MAKE SURE THAT IT, THE TABLES ARE STANDING UP AND THE CHAIRS ARE WORKING, UH, HYDRAULIC TOOLS OR JAWS OF LIFE. 
          AND, UM, AND COUNCILWOMAN, YOU MENTIONED THAT THE OTHER DAY WHEN, WHEN YOU WERE UP HERE. 
          AND SO WE'RE PUTTING THESE ON ALL OF OUR LADDER COMPANIES IN THE SYSTEM. 
          UM, WE HAVE CARS OUT THERE NOW THAT ARE MADE WITH MATERIALS THAT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR US TO CUT. 
          VERY, UH, CHALLENGING. 
          UM, ALSO THE ETOOLS, THEY RUN OFF OF BATTERIES VERSUS BACK IN THE OLD DAYS, YOU HAD A GENERATOR, YOU HAD CABLES, YOU HAD TO RUN IT DOWN. 
          NOW WE USE BATTERY EQUIPMENT. 
          SO AGAIN, WE'RE ADDING THOSE TO OUR, OUR LADDER COMPANIES. 
          ALSO NEW STRETCHERS. 
          UH, WE, WE REPLACE STRETCHERS PERIODICALLY. 
          THOSE STRETCHERS HAVE A CAPACITY OF 750 POUNDS. 
          I'M TRYING TO SAVE THE BACKS AND THE KNEES OF MY FIREFIGHTERS. 
          SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S STABLE, THAT'S ERGONOMIC, THAT IS GOING TO FIT OUR NEEDS. 
          SO WE DON'T HAVE, UM, BACK INJURIES OR KNEE INJURIES, AND OUR FOLKS CAN HOPEFULLY RETIRE HEALTHIER, UM, BY HAVING NEW STRETCHERS. 
          SO, UM, THESE ARE SOME OF THE PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS 1.9 MILLION. 
          ALL HAZARDS. 
          SO I'M REALLY GONNA FOCUS ON THIS. 
          WE'RE AN ALL HAZARD DEPARTMENT. 
          AND SO BASICALLY WE HAVE THE CAPABILITIES AND A TRAINING TO RESPOND TO A MULTITUDE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF INCIDENTS. 
          EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE ON TV, EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE AT THE MOVIES. 
          UM, WE WE'RE TRAINED TO IT. 
          WE RESPOND TO A FULL SPECTRUM OF INCIDENTS. 
          WE HAD A INHALATION INCIDENT AT A RAIL YARD DOWN SOUTH THIS MORNING, VERY EASILY. 
          COULD HAVE BEEN A, UM, DERAILMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY THAT WE HAVE TO RESPOND TO, THAT WE HAVE TO DO PLUME MODELING, THAT WE HAVE TO, UM, EVACUATE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE DISRUPT TRAFFIC, UM, THAT WE CAN'T GET TO FOR QUITE A PERIOD OF TIME BECAUSE OF THESE HAZARDS. 
          UM, YOU SEE THE, UM, PANDEMIC STUFF THERE WHO WOULD'VE KNOWN A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND WHO KNOWS WHAT'S GONNA COME. 
          WE RESPOND TO WILDLAND FIRES. 
          WE RESPOND ALL OVER THE NATION ON WILDLAND FIRES. 
          AND WE HAVE URBAN INTERFACE IN OUR CITY, RIGHT IN OUR CITY TO WHERE WE HAVE BUILT OUT TO WHERE WE'RE IN THE WOODS, BASICALLY. 
          SO HOW DO WE TRAIN TO FIGHT WILDLAND FIRES? AND THE THING THAT ALWAYS KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT STILL IS, UM, ACTIVE SHOOTERS. 
          AND YOU SEE US THERE AT A FIRE WITH BALLISTIC GEAR ON BECAUSE THAT INDIVIDUAL BARRICADED HIMSELF IN A HOUSE, SHOT IT UP, BURNED DOWN HIS HOUSE, AND EXPOSED A COUPLE OF OTHER HOUSES ALSO. 
          UM, SO BIG FEAR IS A COORDINATED COMPLEX ATTACK. 
          AND SO AT THIS TIME WE HAVE, UH, ALL OF OUR LADDER COMPANIES AND A MAJORITY OF OUR ENGINE COMPANIES HAVE BALLISTIC GEAR. 
          THEY HAVE RESCUE TASK FORCE BAGS, THEY HAVE TRAUMA BAGS, THEY HAVE SKIDS TO WEAR. 
          WE CAN PULL PEOPLE OUT. 
          WE ARE TRAINED WITH SS A P D, UH, WE HAVE SPECIALIZED VEHICLES THAT COULD RESPOND TO HELP US OUT. 
          AND SO THAT BEING SAID, UM, WE'RE IN ALL HAZARDS DEPARTMENT. 
          I'M SO PROUD OF EACH AND EVERY MEMBER 'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TODAY AND WE HAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR IT. 
          AND SO I'M VERY PROUD OF THEM. 
          SO I'M GONNA HAND THIS BATON OFF TO MARIA, BUT AGAIN, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT A CENTRAL COMMAND AND CONTROL LOCATION THAT, UM, FOCUSES ON THE PRINCIPLE OF PREPAREDNESS. 
          FIRST, THAT FOCUS ON PREPAREDNESS, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT. 
          WE MAY HAVE AN EMERGENCY TODAY, BUT IT IS NOT A DISASTER. 
          WE MAY NEED THEM TO SUPPORT US IN AN EMERGENCY, BUT WE'RE GOING TO NEED THEM, THE PARTNERSHIP, THE TRAINING, UM, TO MANAGE A DISASTER. 
          WE'RE, UH, DAY 468 OF OPERATION OF COVID. 
          THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW THAT ARE LOOKING AT LOGISTICS AND FINANCE AND ANYTHING THAT WE CONTINUE TO NEED IF THIS VIRUS GET, IF THIS, IF, IF THIS, IF, IF, IF COVID GETS WORSE. 
          SO AGAIN, I'M GONNA HAND THIS TO MARIA. 
          I WANNA THANK MY E O C 
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STAFF AND THEY'RE ALL BACK THERE SOMEPLACE, AND I REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO COMING BACK AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          MY PRESENTATION THIS MORNING IS GONNA FOCUS ON A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF OUR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER OR E O C AND ALSO THE FUNDS THAT ARE RECOMMENDED WITHIN THE FISCAL YEAR 2022 PROPOSED BUDGET TO ADDRESS, UH, RESILIENCY. 
          JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT IN ANY MAJOR DISASTER OR EMERGENCY EVENT, THE SAN ANTONIO BEAR COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER IS ACTIVATED TO CENTRALIZE DECISION MAKING, COORDINATION, AND COMMUNICATION OF ALL ASPECTS OF THE EMERGENCY. 
          THIS COORDINATION ALLOWS US TO EFFECTIVELY DEPLOY RESOURCES IN REAL TIME INTER-AGENCY COORDINATION ACROSS THE CITY AND PUBLIC MESSAGING AS WELL. 
          THE INTENT IS TO HAVE ALL THE AGENCIES INVOLVED IN THE RESPONSE PARTICIPATE AT THE E O C OPERATIONS. 
          SO WHAT YOU SEE ON THIS SLIDE, THIS IS A BASIC STRUCTURE OF OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW. 
          UH, THIS AUTHORITY IS WITHIN THE STATE CODE AND WITHIN THE STATE CODE. 
          UH, IT INDICATES THAT THE MAYOR IS THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR OF AN EMERGENCY OR A DISASTER. 
          THE CITY MANAGER IS HER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE AN OPERATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, WHICH IS THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          THE OFFICE OF EMER EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATES WITH ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS, UTILITIES, STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES, AS WELL AS NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, VOLUNTEERS, SCHOOLS, AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS WITHIN THE CITY. 
          NOW, THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE AUTHORIZED TO ACTIVATE THE E O C, AND THIS IS ALSO INC UH, ADOPTED BY CITY ORDINANCE, IS THE MAYOR, UH, THE CITY MANAGER OR DESIGNEE. 
          WE HAVE FOUR TYPES OF ACTIVATION FOR THE E O C LEVEL. 
          LEVEL FOUR IS NORMAL, AND LEVEL ONE IS A MAXIMUM LEVEL OF ACTIVATION. 
          SO THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS A DIVISION, UH, WITHIN OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT IS LED BY THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR OR DESIGNEE. 
          WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 15 POSITIONS ASSIGNED TO THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, UH, OFFICE. 
          THAT INCLUDES TWO UNIFORM POSITIONS, ONE FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, ONE FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND 13 CIVILIANS. 
          THE SUPPORT THE FUNCTIONS OF, OF THE, OF THE OFFICE. 
          THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER IS A ACTUAL BUILDING WHERE WE COORDINATE ALL THE ACTIVITIES DURING A DISASTER OR AN EMERGENCY. 
          THE E O C SERVES BOTH AS COMMAND AND CONTROL DURING AN EMERGENCY COMMAND IS DIRECTING THE CITY RESPONSE DURING AN EMERGENCY AND COORDINATING WITH OTHER AGENCIES, UH, COORDINATING ALL THE RESOURCES DURING THE EMERGENCY. 
          AND THIS INCLUDES FOR PROVIDING SUPPLIES AND TOOLS, UH, NOT ONLY WITHIN THE CITY ORGANIZATION, BUT OTHER ENTITIES ACROSS THE CITY. 
          NOW, WHAT YOU SEE ON THIS PARTICULAR SLIDE, THIS IS THE CYCLE OF, UH, EMERGENCY, UM, UH, PREPARATION AND RESPONSE. 
          SO YOU HAVE PREPAREDNESS RESPONSE, RECOVERY, PREVENTION, AND MITIGATION. 
          SO WE'RE CONSTANTLY WORKING ON THIS DIFFERENT STAGES BY TRADING OUR PERSONNEL WITHIN THE CITY ORGANIZATION, WORKING WITH OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS TO BE PREPARED, UH, TO RESPOND TO AN EMERGENCY. 
          NOW, THE CITY HAS EMERGENCY PLANS BY WHICH WE, UH, PREPARE, UH, TO RESPOND. 
          ONE IS AN ALL HAZARD EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN, OR WHAT WE CALL THE BASIC PLAN. 
          UH, THIS IS REQUIRED BY STATE LAW AND IS UPDATED EVERY FIVE YEARS ADMINISTRATIVELY. 
          WE ALSO HAVE A HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN THAT IS REQUIRED BY THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY OR FEMA. 
          UH, THIS IS UPDATED EVERY FIVE YEARS, AND IT'S REQUIRED, UH, TO HAVE CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL. 
          UH, THIS PARTICULAR PLAN, UH, IN, IN ADDITION TO OTHER, UH, GOALS AND PURPOSES, ALLOWS THE CITY TO APPLY FOR FEDERAL FUNDING. 
          NOW, JUST TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH INTO THE BASIC PLAN, THIS IS A ROADMAP FOR AN EMERGENCY. 
          THIS TELLS US HOW WE CAN COORDINATE THE WORK WITH OLDER CITY, UH, ORGANIZATIONS, CITY DEPARTMENTS, AND ALSO OUR UTILITIES. 
          IT FOLLOWS STANDARDS AND CRITERIA THAT ARE ESTABLISHED BY THE STATE DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. 
          SO THEY HAVE A, A TEMPLATE BY WHICH, UM, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FOLLOW. 
          AGAIN, THIS IS REQUIRED BY 
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STATE LAW AND IT HAS, UH, THE EFFECT OF, UH, PROVIDING CLEAR DIRECTION DURING A TIME OF A DISASTER. 
          UH, WE UPDATED THE PLAN RECENTLY IN 2021, AND AGAIN, THIS IS A STATE REQUIREMENT. 
          NOW, THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN IS REQUIRED BY, UH, THE FEDERAL DISASTER MITIGATION ACT OF 2000. 
          AND THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, AS I MENTIONED, THIS IS NEEDED TO QUALIFY FOR PRE-DISASTER AND POST-DISASTER FEDERAL FUNDING. 
          UH, FOR MITIGATION PURPOSES, THIS MUST BE UPDATED EVERY FIVE YEARS. 
          UH, AND THE CITY, UH, SUBMITTED THEIR FIRST HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN IN 2015. 
          WE UPDATED IT IN 2020 AND IT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE TEXAS DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS FEMA FOR APPROVAL. 
          AND THEY HAVE DEEMED THE DOCUMENT, UH, READY TO BE APPROVED BY OUR CITY COUNCIL. 
          WE MUST SUBMIT THE FINAL DOCUMENT TO FEMA BY NOVEMBER. 
          SO WE'LL BE BRINGING THAT TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR, UH, CONSIDERATION BEFORE THEN. 
          WE, UM, ARE IN THE PROCESS OF ACTUALLY PRINTING THE DOCUMENT, WHICH IS A PRETTY, UH, HEFTY DOCUMENT THAT WE'LL BE PROVIDING TO ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS BEFORE WE BRING IT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. 
          NOW, UH, ONE OF THE GOALS OF THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN IS, UH, TO IDENTIFY, ASSESS AND REDUCE THE LONG-TERM RISK, THE LONG-TERM RISK OF LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM HAZARD EVENTS. 
          SO OUR UPDATED PLAN INCLUDES, UH, 17 HAZARDS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED, AND THIS HAZARDS ARE IDENTIFIED BASED ON THE POTENTIAL LIKELIHOOD THAT IT WILL HAPPEN HERE IN SAN ANTONIO AND THE FREQUENCY AS WELL. 
          SO YOU'LL SEE THEY'RE CATEGORIZED IN THREE, UM, UH, CATEGORIES, NATURAL, UM, HAZARDS, HUMAN CAUSE, AND SOME THAT COULD BE EITHER NATURAL OR HUMAN CAUSE. 
          NOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU DON'T SEE HERE NECESSARILY BECAUSE THIS PLAN WAS COMPLETED IN, UM, 2020, IS A CASCADING EVENT SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAD IN FEBRUARY WHEN WE HAD THE URI STORM. 
          SO ONCE THE COUNCIL APPROVES THE PLAN, AND WE CAN TAKE IT TO, UH, FEMA FOR FINAL APPROVAL. 
          AGAIN, THIS IS BY NOVEMBER, WE WILL BE UPDATING IT AND BRINGING IT BACK TO COUNCIL FOR, FOR AMENDMENT TO BE ABLE TO INCLUDE A SIMILAR EVENT AS THE ONE THAT WE HAD, UH, EARLIER IN THE YEAR. 
          NOW, LATER IN MY PRESENTATION, I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT A RESILIENCY STRATEGY, A RESILIENCY PLAN. 
          THIS RESILIENCY PLAN, AS WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF PUTTING THAT TOGETHER, VERY LIKELY WOULD ALSO NECESSITATE THAT WE AMEND THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN. 
          SO WE'LL BE HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THE CITY COUNCIL AS WE GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS. 
          NOW I'M GONNA SWITCH TO WHAT WE HAVE INCLUDED IN THE 2022 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. 
          SO IT IS AN EIGHT AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS INVESTMENT IN RESILIENCY. 
          UH, JUST A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS INCLUDED AS A RESILIENCY STUDY AND, AND A STRATEGY, UH, UPGRADING SOME OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES, UH, TO INCLUDE, UM, THE PURCHASE OF NEW GENERATORS, IDENTIFYING RESILIENCY HUBS, UM, ALSO WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES AND IDENTIFYING VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. 
          NOW, IN TERMS OF RESILIENCY, UM, AND I'M GONNA USE A DEFINITION FROM THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION. 
          UH, CITY RESILIENCY REFLECTS THE OVERALL CAPACITY OF A CITY. 
          AND CITY MEANS ALL THE INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITY, INSTITUTION, BUSINESSES, SCHOOLS, AND SYSTEMS TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF CHRONIC STRESSES OR ACUTE SHOCKS THEY EXPERIENCE. 
          NOW, SOME EXAMPLES OF, UH, CHRONIC STRESS, UM, THAT INCLUDES, FOR INSTANCE, LACK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING, POOR AIR QUALITY, HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY, INEQUITY, AGING INFRASTRUCTURE, CRIME AND VIOLENCE. 
          UH, EXAMPLES OF ACUTE SHOCKS. 
          THOSE INCLUDE, UH, WILDFIRES, UH, FLOODING, UH, EXTREME CLO, UH, UH, EXTREME CLO, UH, COLD, UH, TERRORISM, UH, DISASTERS AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND IN BUILDING FAILURES. 
          SO THAT IS WHAT, UM, THE RECOMMENDATION IS FOR US TO DEVELOP A RESILIENCY STRATEGY WITHIN THIS UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR 2022, WHICH WILL SERVE AS A TECH TACTICAL ROADMAP TO BUILD RESILIENCY THAT WILL ARTICULATE THE PRIORITIES AND SPECIFIC INITIATIVES FOR SHORT-TERM, MEDIUM, AND LONG-TERM IMPLEMENTATION. 
          NOW, DEVELOPING SUCH A STRATEGY IS GONNA REQUIRE CITY COUNCIL POLICY DIRECTION SPECIFICALLY ON WHAT ARE THOSE, UM, CHRONIC STRESSES THAT, THAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN. 
          FOR US, WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY, IT REQUIRES A LOT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY INPUT TO BE ABLE TO DEVELOP THAT, THOSE RELATIONSHIPS 
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AND BECOME A MORE RESILIENT CITY. 
          NOW, THE NEXT ITEM THAT IS INCLUDED IN OUR PROPOSED BUDGET IS STRENGTHENING OUR CITY PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES FOR CITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE. 
          SO A COUPLE OF ITEMS THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS, UH, THE PURCHASE OF GENERATORS FOR SOME OF OUR FIRE STATIONS AND POLICE SUBSTATIONS. 
          UH, THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS OFFICE CREATED A PRIORITY OF FACILITIES, UH, THAT INCLUDES OUR PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES, LIBRARIES, AND COMMUNITY CENTERS AS WELL. 
          SO WE ARE ADDRESSING, UH, PRIORITY ONE IN THIS CASE ARE FIRE STATIONS AND POLICE SUBSTATIONS. 
          WE BELIEVE THAT WE CAN PROBABLY DO, UH, 15 TO 20 OF THIS PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES, UH, WITH THE FUNDING THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING. 
          WE'RE ALSO REPLACING IT CONTROL EQUIPMENT AND SOME OF THE, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES THAT ARE CRITICAL, INCLUDING OUR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTERS, OUR PUBLIC SAFETY HEADQUARTERS, AND ALSO THE PUBLIC SAFETY ANSWERING POINT. 
          NOW, RESILIENCY HUBS. 
          UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE, UM, HAVE LEARNED THROUGH COVID AND THROUGH, UH, THE RESPONSE TO THE STORM AND FLOOD EVENTS THAT WE HAVE, UM, HAD IN, IN, IN THE, IN THE RECENT COUPLE OF YEARS, IS THAT IT WOULD BE VERY BENEFICIAL FOR THE CITY TO HAVE RESILIENCY HUBS. 
          AND THIS RESILIENCY HUBS ARE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS THAT ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE SAFE, SAFE PLACE FOR TEMPORARY SHELTER DURING EVENTS, LIKE A STORM, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, OR A FLOOD EVENT. 
          NOW, THE IDEA IS THAT THE, THE IDENTIFICATION OF THIS HUFFS IS DONE IN CONJUNCTION WITH COMMUNITY INPUT 'CAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THE COMMUNITY IS FAMILIAR WITH THE LOCATIONS THAT THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE COMING TO THIS LOCATION. 
          SO WHEN THERE'S A DISASTER, PEOPLE KNOW IMMEDIATELY WHERE TO GO. 
          SO, UH, WE'RE PROPOSING TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THIS DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS. 
          THEY DON'T NEED TO BE NECESSARILY CITY FACILITIES. 
          THEY COULD BE SCHOOLS OR THEY COULD BE OLDER FACILITIES THAT THE COMMUNITY FEELS COMFORTABLE WITH. 
          SO, AGAIN, DURING A TIME OF A DISASTER THAT THEY CAN GO TO THOSE FACILITIES. 
          NOW IN TIMES WHERE THERE'S NOT A DISASTER, BEST PRACTICES RECOMMEND THAT THERE ARE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMMING AT THOSE FACILITIES. 
          SO PEOPLE GET TO KNOW THEIR NEIGHBORS, GET TO KNOW THE FACILITIES, AND KNOW HOW, HOW TO GET THERE, UH, IN THE EVENT OF A DISASTER. 
          ANOTHER AREA THAT WE ARE WORKING ON IS ALIGNING RESPONSIBILITY AND COORDINATION BETWEEN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE CITY OWN UTILITIES, SPECIFICALLY C P S AND SAUCE. 
          SO WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF, UH, PLANNING A TABLETOP EXERCISE WITH OUR UTILITIES THAT WILL FOCUS ON A CASCADING EVENT SIMILAR TO THE URI STORM. 
          AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER. 
          NOW, ANOTHER PRIORITY WITHIN THE BUDGET, UH, THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO THE COUNCIL IS FOCUSING ON OUR COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS. 
          UH, IT IS VERY WELL KNOWN THAT INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES CAN WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE OUR PREPARATION AND RESPONSE TO DISASTER AND EMERGENCIES. 
          THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO CANNOT DO THIS ALONE. 
          WE NEED OUR COMMUNITY. 
          WE NEED BUSINESSES. 
          WE NEED SCHOOLS TO BE ABLE TO BE PREPARED AND BE, UH, READY TO RESPOND TO, UH, TO EMERGENCY SO WE CAN BUILD CAPACITY. 
          UH, WE HAVE DONE, UH, COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS WORKSHOPS IN THE PAST. 
          UH, WE, UH, WE'RE VERY LIMITED TO WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF COVID. 
          SO SEPTEMBER IS A PREPAREDNESS MONTH. 
          UH, SO WE ARE GONNA BE LAUNCHING SEVERAL EVENTS AND WE'LL BE COORDINATING, COORDINATING THAT WITH YOUR OFFICES TO START THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO THE SAFEST EXTENT, UH, POSSIBLE THAT, THAT WE CAN BECAUSE OF OUR CURRENT CONDITIONS WITH COVID. 
          ANOTHER AREA THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IN THIS, UH, BUDGET PROCESS IS THE IDENTIFICATION OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. 
          I THINK ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS EXPERIENCED THIS, UM, DURING THE STORM THAT WE, UM, HAD A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF SOME OF OUR VULNERABLE POPULATION, BUT NOT ALL OF IT. 
          SO THOSE INDIVIDUALS LEAVING AT HOME, UH, WITH MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, UM, SENIOR RESIDENTS, UH, INDIVIDUALS WITH SOME TYPE OF DISABILITY, UH, WE DID NOT HAVE A GOOD INVENTORY OF WHERE THOSE INDIVIDUALS WERE AT IN, IN OUR CITY ORGANIZATION. 
          NOW, THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO START FROM SCRATCH. 
          UH, C P S HAS A LIST OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT REGISTER WITH C P S TO AVOID DISCONNECTIONS BECAUSE THEY HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT ALSO THE STATE OF TEXAS HAS A REGISTRY WHERE INDIVIDUALS CAN, UH, REGISTER WHEN THEY NEED ASSISTANCE DURING A DISASTER FOR THEIR LOVED ONES. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA BE USING THESE TWO, UM, UH, SOURCES THAT WE ALREADY HAVE IN THE COMMUNITY TO UPDATE IT. 
          ONE KEY FOR US IS GONNA BE THE MAINTENANCE OF THAT DATABASE AND HOW FREQUENTLY WE, WE ARE GONNA BE MAINTAINING IT TO MAKE 
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SURE THAT IT'S ACCURATE IN, IN AN EVENT OF A DISASTER. 
          NOW I HAVE ONE LAST SLIDE THAT I DID NOT INCLUDE ON THE PACKET THAT YOU GOT, UH, YESTERDAY. 
          AND THIS IS JUST A BREAKDOWN OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. 
          SO EARLIER I MENTIONED THAT IT'S AN $8.5 MILLION INVESTMENT THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING. 
          SO THREE AND A HALF MILLION IS IN OUR CAPITAL BUDGET, AND $5 MILLION IS IN THE GENERAL FUND, THE USES OF THOSE FUNDS. 
          THAT'S OUR ESTIMATES THAT WE HAVE AT THIS TIME BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS. 
          SO WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT $3 MILLION FOR GENERATORS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES. 
          WE ESTIMATE THAT'LL, UH, ALLOW US TO DO 15 TO 20 OF OUR, UH, POLICE SUBSTATIONS AND FIRE STATIONS, THE IDENTIFICATION AND, UM, UH, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESILIENCY HUBS. 
          WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS, OUR RESILIENCY STRATEGY, UM, HALF A MILLION COMMUNITY EDUCATION, HALF A MILLION, THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE VULNERABLE POPULATION, 300,000. 
          AND THEN THE LAST ITEM IS, UH, UPDATING IT CONTROL EQUIPMENT AT SOME OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES OUT OF OUR CAPITAL BUDGET AT 3.2 MILLION. 
          UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION AND CHIEF HOOD, AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU, MARIA. 
          UH, AND CHIEF FOR THE PRESENTATIONS. 
          I KNOW WE HAVE A COUPLE MEMBERS WHO ARE, UH, ON A TIME, UH, CERTAIN AGENDA, SO I'M GONNA GET RIGHT INTO THE DISCUSSION. 
          WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THANK YOU MARIA FOR THE PRESENTATION AND, UM, FIRE. 
          GREAT VIDEO. 
          SO EVERY TIME THAT YOU ALL SHOW A VIDEO, I LOVE THE MUSIC, AND IT'S JUST, UH, IT, IT DOES REMIND ME OF A MOVIE, BUT I KNOW THAT I'M SAFE BECAUSE SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPARTMENT IS GONNA BE THERE. 
          UM, SO THANK YOU. 
          I DO WANNA TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THANK ALL OF OUR FIREFIGHTERS WHO ARE WATCHING, UM, ACROSS THE CITY IN PARTICULAR. 
          UH, FIRE STATION 36 RESPONDED TO AN EVENT LAST NIGHT WHERE WE HAD AT MY FIELD OFFICE, UM, SOMEONE WHO WAS AT A COMMUNITY MEETING AND NEEDED HELP. 
          SO THANK YOU TO 30 SIXES FOR BEING OUT THERE AND RESPONDING. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO, UH, I DO WANNA SAY, UH, UH, HAVE TO THANK THE FOLKS THAT ARE WORKING REALLY HARD ON CAMP HERO LIKE HER. 
          I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK THAT THERE'S STILL ONLY 92 FEMALES IN THE DEPARTMENT, BUT I KNOW WE'RE WORKING REALLY HARD FOR THAT. 
          AND ALWAYS SHOUT OUT TO CHIEF RASCO WHO'S HERE, AND SHE'S THE ONLY WO WOMAN WHO IS ONE OF THE CHIEFS. 
          SO, SO THANK YOU CHIEF, FOR, FOR CONTINUING TO, TO ADVOCATE FOR WOMEN TO, UH, BE IN THESE POSITIONS. 
          UM, I'LL START OFF JUST REALLY FAST BY, UM, TALKING ABOUT, UH, THE SERVICES THAT I, UH, HAD NOT HEARD ABOUT. 
          AND I WOULD LIKE TO GET SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FALL PREVENTION THAT YOU MENTIONED, CHIEF, WHENEVER YOU GET A CHANCE, I'D LOVE TO, UH, MARKET THAT INFORMATION TO SOME OF OUR, UH, RESIDENTS. 
          I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT. 
          I DO ALSO, UM, WANNA TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY. 
          I HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO THANK THE CADETS FOR HELPING THROUGHOUT THE STORM, AND SO THEY WERE LITERALLY PUT TO WORK. 
          THEY WERE, UH, ONE OF OUR FRONTLINE RESPONSE RESPONDENTS. 
          SO I'M, I'M VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. 
          THE, UM, FIRST QUESTION THAT I HAVE FOR YOU, CHIEF, IS THE WAIT TIME. 
          SO I SAW SOMEBODY POST ON, UH, SOCIAL MEDIA THAT SOMEONE HAD PASSED AWAY WHILE WAITING FOR, FOR A COVID AMBULANCE. 
          UM, I DO NOT KNOW THAT THAT WAS ACCURATE. 
          SO HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY MEANT BY A COVID AMBULANCE OR IF THAT WAS JUST PERCEPTION, HELP ME CLEAR IT UP. 
          I, I DON'T, YEAH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS EITHER. 
          AS FAR AS A COVID AMBULANCE, UH, WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THIS, WHEN WE HAD THE, UH, FIRST COHORT WITH WUHAN, WE HAD SPECIALIZED AMBULANCES THAT WERE TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE. 
          BUT ONCE IT BECAME COMMUNITY SPREAD, ALL OF OUR E M S UNITS ARE AVAILABLE TO RESPOND. 
          SO I THINK THAT MIGHT'VE BEEN A PERCEPTION ISSUE. 
          OKAY. 
          JUST MAKING SURE. 
          SO I WENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CLEARED THAT UP. 
          YES, SIR. 
          UM, I LOVE THE GOOD SAM MAP, SO ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO HELP, UH, ADVOCATE FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THEIR COUNT ME IN. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          ALSO, BY THE WAY, BECAUSE YOUR, YOUR TEAM DURING THE, UH, COVID RESPONSE AND EVEN DURING YURI HELPED TRANSPORT SOME VACCINES THAT MIGHT HAVE GONE TO WASTE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          I REMEMBER THAT AT A VERY CRITICAL TIME. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR STEPPING UP ON THAT AS WELL. 
          UM, AND THEN I KNOW WE HAVE THE SAN ANTONIO PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION HERE, AND THEIR RED SHIRTS ARE ALWAYS EVEN ON THEIR OFF TIME, THEY HAVE, UH, FIREFIGHTERS THAT ARE VOLUNTEERING EVEN THIS WEEKEND WITH BACK TO SCHOOL. 
          SO I, I DO WANNA SAY THAT I APPRECIATE THAT YOU ALL ARE ALWAYS OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY. 
          YOU'RE ALWAYS WEARING YOUR BRAND, AND SO YOU CAN IDENTIFY A SAN ANTONIO FIREFIGHTER ALMOST EVERY DAY, IT SEEMS OF THE WEEK, EVEN WHEN THEY'RE OUT OF UNIFORM. 
          UM, HAVE WE REPLACED ALL OF THE UNITS THAT ARE, THAT WERE LOST DURING YURI? UH, AS FAR AS OUR FIRE UNITS, YES. 
          SORRY. 
          NO, MA'AM. 
          YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A, UM, VERY ROBUST RATIO OF, OF, OF FIRST LINE AND, UM, BACKUP UNITS. 
          SO IT TAKES OVER A YEAR TO BUILD A FIRETRUCK, BUT AGAIN, IF WE WRECK ONE, WE HAVE ANOTHER UNIT THAT WE CAN PUT OUR FOLKS IN. 
          SO, 
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UM, IT, IT'S GONNA BE A WHILE BEFORE WE GET THE ACTUAL UNITS, BUT WE HAVEN'T LOST ANY SERVICE DELIVERY BECAUSE OF THAT. 
          AND BETWEEN INSURANCE OR FEMA REIMBURSEMENT, UH, THAT'S BEEN COVERED. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU, ERIC. 
          I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          YOU MENTIONED A VERY SCARY NUMBER. 
          YOU SAID D O A CALLS ROSE BY 400%. 
          AND SO THAT WAS SPECIFIC TO URI. 
          UM, WHAT ABOUT, UH, FOR COVID, I D Y? YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE HARD, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT OUTTA THOSE 400? UH, WELL, YEAH, I GUESS BECAUSE YOU, WELL, NO, YOU SAID D O A WAS VERY SPECIFIC TO YURI, CORRECT? YEAH, YES, SPECIFIC TO YURI. 
          SO WHAT, WHAT YOU SEE IN SITUATIONS LIKE THAT IS, UM, PEOPLE WOKE UP AND THEIR LOVED ONE HAD EXPIRED OVERNIGHT. 
          AND SO THOSE WERE TYPES OF CALLS WHERE WE WOULD RESPOND. 
          AND UNFORTUNATELY, THEY, THEY'VE BEEN DEAD FOR SEVERAL HOURS, SO WHEN WE GET THE CALL, THERE'S NOTHING ABSOLUTELY WE CAN DO FOR THEM. 
          AND SO THOSE WERE THE TYPES OF RUNS THAT WE WERE SEEING. 
          SOME OF THOSE, AND YOU COULD IMAGINE THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT WERE HOME BOUND, THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT LIVED ALONE, AND FINALLY WHEN SOMEONE WENT TO CHECK ON THEM, WHEN THEY COULD GET OUT, THEY WERE DECEASED. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT THAT NUMBER IS. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO, AND, AND THE NUMBER, I KNOW YOU SAID 400%, WHICH IS ENTIRELY SCARY, BUT DO YOU REMEMBER? YEAH, YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T KNOW. 
          WE'D HAVE TO GET THAT FROM THE CORNER OR SOMEBODY LIKE THAT, BUT, OKAY. 
          AGAIN, THEY DID INCREASE THOSE TYPES OF CALLS. 
          AND SO WE HAVE A, A CALL THAT IF, IF YOU CALL AND SAY, I FOUND SOMEONE AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE PURPLE AND THEY'RE ED, THEY'RE LIVID, LIVIDITY, ALL OF THOSE QUESTIONS WE'RE GONNA ASK YOU TO WHERE IT'S AN OBVIOUS D O A SURE CHANCES ARE WE'RE JUST GONNA SEND A FIRETRUCK BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE INDICATIONS THAT THERE'S NO SIGNS OF LIFE. 
          SO, UM, THOSE CALLS INCREASED DURING THE TIME, UNFORTUNATELY. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU CHIEF. 
          AND, UM, THANK YOU ALSO FOR THE DELIVERY OF OXYGEN TANKS. 
          I KNOW WE HAD SOME FOLKS CALL, AND SO I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS 304 DELIVERIES. 
          UM, SO, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT OR, OR OF OXYGEN IN GENERAL. 
          UM, AND MY NEXT QUESTION IS SPECIFICALLY ON THE, UH, BILINGUAL ASPECT OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU MESSAGE. 
          AND SO, UM, FOR INSTANCE, WITH THE GOOD SAM APP, UH, HOW MANY BILINGUAL REPRESENTATIVES DO WE HAVE? HOW ARE THEY, UH, TRAINED SPECIFICALLY ON HEALTH LITERACY? AND SO WE KNOW THAT, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, POPULATIONS HAVE A CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC, AND EVEN WHEN YOU JUST TRANSLATE DIRECTLY, IT MIGHT NOT CONNECT WELL WITH THEM. 
          SO HELP ME UNDERSTAND HOW YOU'RE BRIDGING THAT GAP. 
          SO THAT GAP IS BRIDGED EVERY SINGLE DAY, BECAUSE IF YOU CAN IMAGINE IF WE, WE GO ON CALLS WHERE PEOPLE DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH, SOMETIMES THEY SPEAK A LANGUAGE WHERE NOBODY ON THAT FIRETRUCK SPEAKS. 
          AND SO WE HAVE TECHNOLOGY TO WHERE THERE'S LANGUAGE LINES, BECAUSE THEY MAY BE FROM ROMANIA, THEY MAY BE FROM RUSSIA. 
          IT'S VETERINARY MEDICINE FOR US IF WE CAN'T COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. 
          SO, UH, WE GO TO EVERY EXTENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATE ON A REGULAR BASIS ON A RUN. 
          AND SO OUR DISPATCHERS, THERE'S GONNA BE SOMEONE UP THERE THAT CAN BRIDGE THAT BILINGUAL GAP DURING THIS TIME AND MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. 
          AND IF IT IS A LANGUAGE THAT WE'RE COMPLETELY FOREIGN TO, WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT OUR LANGUAGE LINE RESOURCES TO MAKE SURE WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THEM. 
          THANK YOU, CHIEF. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO I'D LOVE TO JUST OFFLINE EXPLORE SOME OPPORTUNITIES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO SMARTPHONES. 
          HOW MAYBE WE CAN LEVERAGE SOME OTHER RESOURCES, NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE ACCESS TO, TO A PHONE THAT HAS, UM, UH, THE ABILITY TO PLUG INTO THE GOOD SAM APP. 
          AND I, AND I WANNA STOP YOU RIGHT THERE. 
          SURE. 
          'CAUSE IF SOMEBODY JUST CHIMED IN AND THEY THINK THEY'RE NOT GONNA GET SERVED BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A SMARTPHONE, WE'RE GONNA SEND THE NORMAL RESOURCES. 
          WE WOULD. 
          UM, IF THEY DON'T HAVE A SMARTPHONE, THIS IS JUST AN ADVANTAGE FOR US. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          AGAIN, WE WANT PEOPLE TO CALL NINE ONE ONE SMARTPHONE, WHATEVER, SEND UP SMOKE SIGNALS, WE WILL GET THERE. 
          UM, SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          THANK YOU, CHIEF. 
          AND I APPRECIATE THAT AND I HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. 
          UM, IS OUR REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE ON TRACK FOR, UH, EQUIPMENT OR DID ANY OF THE COVID SITUATION, UH, BACK THAT UP? NO, MA'AM. 
          OUR REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE IS, IS INTACT. 
          WE SEND FOLKS BACK TO LOOK AT OUR BILLS AS FAR AS MAKING INSPECTIONS, MAKING SURE THAT OUR FLEET IS IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE. 
          SO EVERYTHING IS, IS IN LINE AND ON TIME. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          THANK YOU CHIEF. 
          THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 
          AND THEN I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR MARIA, AND I'VE GOTTA TELL YOU THAT I CAN'T WAIT TO GET THAT BIG BOOK. 
          I THINK IT'S THE MOST ANTICIPATED READ OF THE YEAR FOR ME. 
          SO I KNOW I GOT THE BUDGET BOOK A FEW WEEKS AGO, BUT I'M SO EXCITED, MARIA. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          I KNOW YOU MENTIONED THAT THE PUBLIC UTILITIES ARE INCLUDED. 
          UM, I NOTICED THAT ACTUALLY, UM, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT SECTION OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES CODE RIGHT NOW IS, BUT I'VE REFERENCED IT BEFORE. 
          THEY HAVE A WATER DISTRIBUTION PLOT, SO WE SHOULD KNOW EXACTLY WHERE OUR WATER DISTRIBUTION LOCATIONS ARE, ET CETERA. 
          WHO'S GONNA MAKE SURE THAT WE CONNECT WITH THE PUBLIC UTILITIES CODE AND, AND, AND UPDATE THAT WHEN WE UPDATE OUR HAZARD MEDI MITIGATION PLAN? LIKE WHO'S THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE? I GUESS I'M ASKING WHO'S THE EMERGENCY 
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OPERATION CENTER PERSON THAT'S GONNA READ EVERY SINGLE PART OF THIS AND KNOW THAT IT CONNECTS? SURE. 
          SO, SO WE COORDINATE CLOSELY COUNCILWOMAN, I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION WHILE WE'LL GET, GET THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU. 
          UM, BUT WE WORK WITH THE UTILITIES ON, UH, UPDATES OF OUR PLANS AND, UM, AND AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE DOING THIS TABLETOP EXERCISE, SO WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS GOOD DONE AND WE'LL CIRCLE BACK WITH YOU. 
          GREAT. 
          AND FOR MY FELLOW COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, ESPECIALLY SOME OF THE NEW ORLEANS, THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT THAT YOU WILL HAVE. 
          SO PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE READ IT. 
          I'M WILLING TO START A BOOK CLUB ON THIS AND AS LONG AS ANDY APPROVES, UM, BUT REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO IT, THANK YOU FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES GENERATION, UH, GENERATOR AND EQUIPMENT. 
          UM, I TEND TO THINK THAT THAT MONEY IS NOT ENOUGH MONEY, BUT THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH MONEY. 
          SO I KNOW THAT WE'RE PRIORITIZING IN FACES. 
          SO THANK YOU TO YOU AND CHIEF FOR DOING THAT. 
          UM, AND THANK YOU ALSO, I'VE ASKED SPECIFICALLY BEFORE ABOUT THE STEER PROGRAM THAT THE STATE HAS, UM, CALLING 2 1 1 2 ADD YOUR RESIDENTS TO THAT VULNERABLE LIST IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO ME. 
          AND IT'S AN EASY NUMBER TO REMEMBER. 
          I DO WANT TO POINT, UM, ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT FOLKS ROLL OFF OF THAT CRITICAL LIST EVERY TWO YEARS. 
          AND SO YOU HAVE TO GET DOCTOR'S AUTHORIZATION EVERY TWO YEARS. 
          SOME PEOPLE MIGHT MAKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT THEY'RE ON THAT LIST FOREVER, AND I DON'T WANT THEM TO MISS OUT ON THAT. 
          AND IT SEEMED TO BE THAT WHEN I ASKED DURING ONE OF THE EMERGENCY, UH, MEETINGS THAT WE HAD, THAT SOME OF THE FOLKS EVEN AT C P S ENERGY WERE, UH, YOU KNOW, WERE, WERE UNCERTAIN OF HOW TO CONNECT WITH THOSE FOLKS THAT WERE ROLLING OFF. 
          THEY HAD A BETTER PLAN, I THINK, THAN SOME OF US DID, BUT STILL. 
          SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS NOT, UM, FALLING OFF, UH, BY THE WAYSIDE. 
          AND THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR IT. 
          BUT THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU, MARIA. 
          THANK YOU, CHIEF. 
          THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TEAM FOR BEING HERE. 
          GREAT JOB. 
          OKAY, COUNCILWOMAN, LET ME JUST ADD, UM, I DIDN'T WANNA JUMP IN 'CAUSE I COULD TELL YOU WERE UP AGAINST THE SHOT CLOCK, BUT LET ME ADD YOU AND, AND, AND I SOME CONTEXT, I THINK FOR THE ENTIRE COUNCIL. 
          'CAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER IN THE SPRING WAS THE LAST TIME THE COUNCIL, THE CITY APPROVED THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, THERE WAS A PROCESS TO REVIEW AND UPDATE THAT PLAN. 
          AND I THINK IT WAS IN 2014 OR 15 WHEN THE CITY APPROVED IT. 
          UH, REST ASSURED THAT THE PROCESS TO MANAGE THAT, WHETHER IT'S HERE AT THE CITY OR FRANKLY THE UTILITIES, UH, IT'S GONNA BE CLEARLY DELINEATED WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. 
          MARIA MENTIONED IN HER PRESENTATION, WE'RE ALREADY SIGNALING TO THE COUNCIL THAT WE WILL BE AMENDING THAT PLAN BASED ON THE RESILIENCY STUDY. 
          IT IS AN ACTIVE PLAN, AND I THINK YOU CAN EXPECT THE COUNCIL CAN EXPECT TO SEE MANY OF THE LARGE DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS THAT YOU'LL SEE, UH, CONTEMPLATED, YOU'LL SEE ON THE BOND LIST. 
          AND, AND WE'RE GONNA NEED TO PRIORITIZE THE MO OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A LOT OF SAUSAGE MAKING AS WE GO THROUGH THAT BOND PROCESS, BUT THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN GIVES US A GOOD STARTING POINT TO ADDRESS THOSE, THOSE VULNERABLE PIECES OR PARTS OF OUR COMMUNITY. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU CHIEF HOOD AND MARIA FOR THE PRESENTATIONS. 
          UM, I WANNA THANK YOUR UNITS FOR ALL THE WORK THAT Y'ALL DO IN THE VACCINE ROLLOUTS AND IN ADDITION TO THAT FOR ALL THE WORK DURING THE WINTER STORM. 
          UM, AND THANK YOU ESPECIALLY TO CHIEF HOOD, UM, UH, CHIEF ESTRADA RATHER, UM, FOR SHOWING UP TO ENSURE THAT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES WERE TAKING CARE OF AFTER EXPERIENCING A SMALL FIRE, UM, CHECKING IN TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE WAS GOOD AS WELL AS CHECKING ON THE NEIGHBORING BUSINESSES. 
          UM, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS REGARDING THE PROCESS OF RESPONDING TO FIREWORK CALLS. 
          I KNOW THAT THE UPCOMING BUDGET INCLUDES FUNDING TO RESPOND TO UP TO 3,500 FIREWORK CALLS. 
          IS THAT ENOUGH FUNDING, UH, TO SUPPORT Y'ALL IN RESPONDING TO THOSE CALLS? AND IF YOU COULD WALK ME THROUGH THE PROCESS OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, RESPONDING TO FIREWORK CALLS. 
          Y YOU KNOW WHAT IT WE'RE GONNA, THERE'S A BACKUP SLIDE IN THERE, THAT NEXT ONE. 
          NEXT ONE, NEXT ONE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, ROUTING FIREWORKS CALLS. 
          AND SO, UM, IT'S A CHALLENGE HERE FOR US TO DEAL WITH FIREWORKS, UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE SOLD RIGHT ON OUR CITY LIMITS AND THEY COME BACK INTO THE CITY. 
          SO, UM, OVER THE YEARS WE'VE TRIED HAVING, UM, OVER THE YEARS WE'VE HAD, UM, FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO FIREWORKS CALLS, UH, FIRE PREVENTION, RESPONDING TO FIREWORKS CALLS, POLICE OFFICERS RESPONDING TO FIREWORKS CALLS. 
          AND IT IS ALWAYS A CHALLENGE BECAUSE IF YOU SHOW UP IN A FIRETRUCK, WHOEVER SHOT THE FIREWORKS, THEY'VE SCATTERED OR WHOEVER SHOT THE FIREWORKS, THEY HAVE GUNS AND THEY'VE BEEN DRINKING. 
          AND SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING IS REROUTING THOSE FIREWORKS CALLS TO OUR ARSON BUREAU TO RESPOND ON THOSE CALLS. 
          AND SO THEY ARE, UM, CERTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND THEY'RE FIREFIGHTERS. 
          SO, UM, THERE'S MONEY, UM, THAT'S GONNA BE FUNDED TO REROUTE THOSE CALLS, UM, DURING JANUARY, WHICH, UM, 
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BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IT'S PROBABLY OUR BUSIEST TIME FOR FIRES IS JANUARY VERSE IS JANUARY VERSUS JULY BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS BROWN AND DRY. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO WE HAVE A LOT OF FIRES DURING THAT TIME. 
          SO WE WILL BE OUT THERE A COUPLE DAYS BEFORE AND A COUPLE DAYS AFTER THE NEW YEAR, AND THE SAME THING IN JULY WHERE WE'LL BE OUT THERE A COUPLE DAYS BEFORE. 
          AND THEN A LOT OF PEOPLE, DEPENDING ON THE WEATHER, DEPENDING, THEY HAVE SO MANY FIREWORKS, THEY'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO SHOOT A COUPLE DAYS LATER. 
          SO WE'LL BE RESPONDING ON THOSE CALLS. 
          OUR ARSON BUREAU WILL BE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND MY NEXT QUESTION IS FOR MARIA. 
          UM, BUT I ALSO WANTED TO GIVE, UH, COUNCILMAN  A SHOUT OUT FOR ENSURING THAT WE MINIMIZE THE HAZMAT REDUCTION FEE. 
          UM, I KNOW MANY OF THE DISTRICT FIVE SMALL BUSINESSES ARE HAPPY TO HAVE THAT RELIEF, THAT FINANCIAL RELIEF. 
          UM, SO DO WE KNOW, MARIA, HOW MUCH THE RESILIENT HUBS ARE GOING TO COST AND WHAT SERVICES THEY'RE GOING TO PROVIDE? I'M SORRY, COUNCILMAN, WOULD YOU MIND REPEATING THE QUESTION? YES. 
          UH, DO WE KNOW ROUGHLY HOW MUCH THE RESILIENCY HUBS ARE GOING TO COST? AND HAVE WE IDENTIFIED THE LOCATIONS IN WHICH THEY'RE GOING TO GO? RIGHT. 
          SO WHAT WE HAVE ALLOCATED IN, IN THE BUDGET RIGHT NOW, UM, IS A MILLION DOLLARS. 
          AND THIS IS OUR THOUGHT PRIMARILY IS THAT WE PROBABLY GONNA NEED TO PURCHASE GENERATORS IN THE EVENT THAT THERE'S, UH, ELECTRICAL OUTAGES THAT THOSE FACILITIES THAT ARE ABLE TO, UH, HAVE ELECTRICITY FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE COMING IN. 
          THERE MAY BE OTHER THINGS THAT WE MAY HAVE TO, UM, UM, ADD TO, TO ANY OF THE FACILITIES. 
          WE HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED THE FACILITIES. 
          WE PLAN TO DO A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          AND IT COULD BE, FOR EXAMPLE, A SENIOR CENTER, COULD BE A LIBRARY, COULD BE A, UH, GYM AT A, AT A SCHOOL. 
          UM, SO THAT IS A PROCESS THAT WE GONNA UNDERTAKE. 
          AND OF COURSE WE'LL BE BRINGING THOSE, UH, TO COMMITTEE TO UPDATE THE, THE, THE COUNCIL, EITHER OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE OR THE UTILITIES, UH, COMMITTEE, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COUNCIL IS ABREAST AND OF COURSE, THE FULL COUNCIL. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YES. 
          AND I WOULD STRONGLY SUGGEST, YOU KNOW, SENIOR CENTERS, YOUTH CENTERS, UM, AS WELL AS ENSURING THAT GENERATORS ARE PLACED AT THE SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITIES SENIOR CENTERS, UM, TO ENSURE THAT THOSE THAT WERE MOST IMPACTED DURING THE WINTER STORM, UM, BE PRIORITIZED FOR GENERATORS. 
          UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, UM, UH, I'M HAPPY TO SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE COMMUNITY CENTERED AND THERE'S GOING TO BE PUBLIC INPUT REGARDING WHERE THESE EMERGENCY SYSTEMS ARE PLACED. 
          UM, BUT THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS FOR NOW. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER KEO. 
          HDA. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          CHIEF, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO, YOU AND YOUR YOUR DEPARTMENT DO EVERY DAY. 
          THE OPENING VIDEO REALLY PUTS THINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE WHEN WE'RE GOING THROUGH SOMETHING VERY DIFFICULT. 
          UM, YOU JUST TAKE IT DAY BY DAY, BUT WATCHING A VIDEO LIKE THAT REALLY REMINDS US WHAT THIS COMMUNITY HAS ENDURED, UM, AND REALLY WHAT YOUR FIREFIGHTERS HAVE ENDURED AT MANY TIMES, PUTTING THEIR OWN HEALTH AT RISK TO, TO HELP US. 
          SO I I DO APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, NEED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO JUST EXPRESS THAT, THAT APPRECIATION, EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN YOUR DEPARTMENT, FIREFIGHTERS, UM, YOUR DISPATCHERS, YOU, UM, THE MEMBERS OF THE UNION THAT ARE HELPING TO HOLD EVERYTHING TOGETHER. 
          AND, UM, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          UH, I'VE REQUESTED SEVERAL EQUIPMENT, UM, SOME EQUIPMENT FOR DISTRICT SIX FIRE STATIONS, FIRE STATIONS, 35, 41, 44, AND 45 GENERATORS, RESCUE AIRBAGS, UM, SOME HVAC AND PLUMBING UPGRADES FOR THE FIRE STATIONS IN THESE DISTRICTS, AS WELL AS A NEW SQUAD STATION FOR 44. 
          UH, BUT I, I JUST, I WANNA SAY THAT I APPRECIATE, YOU KNOW, THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS FOR THOSE PARTICULAR RESOURCES. 
          THEY SEEM VERY BASIC, BUT THEY CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO NOT ONLY THE STATION, BUT THE SUPPORTING STATIONS, AND OF COURSE, THE COMMUNITY THAT, THAT THEY'RE HELPING. 
          BUT, UM, WITH THIS, THE CLINICAL DISPATCHERS, I, UM, IS EIGHT GONNA BE AN I'M HAVING SUCH A HARD, THAT'S WHY I'M SORRY, I'M HAVING SUCH A HARD TIME HEARING YOU. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          NO, IT'S OKAY. 
          NOBODY BREATHED WHILE I'M TALKING. 
          I'M JUST KIDDING. 
          UM, WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE CLINICAL DISPATCHER? SO WE, I KNOW WE, WE ARE, UM, LOOKING AT EIGHT, I THOUGHT AT ONE POINT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT 16, IS EIGHT GONNA BE ENOUGH OR IS THAT JUST WHERE WE'RE STARTING? WELL, 8, 8, 8 IS A LOT BETTER THAN WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE ARE DEALING WITH, WITH BASICALLY ONE IF THEY'RE AVAILABLE. 
          AND SO THIS EIGHT IS GOING TO, UH, INCREASE US, UM, TO A LEVEL OF WHERE HOPEFULLY WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE ANY OF THOSE RUNS THAT ARE MISSED. 
          AND, UM, AGAIN, SO WE'RE GOING TO BE USING SOME OVERTIME TO HELP SUPPLEMENT THAT UNTIL WE CAN GET THE, UH, THE FULL COMPLIMENT. 
          BUT IF YOU CALL RIGHT NOW AND WE'RE NOT BUSY, YOU'RE GONNA GET A CLINICAL DISPATCHER. 
          SO AGAIN, UH, WE WANT TO GET THAT FAST TRACKED AS QUICK AS WE CAN. 
          SO THERE ARE OVERTIME DOLLARS IN THERE TO SUPPLEMENT UNTIL WE GET THE STAFFING. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE A PLAN, I GUESS, GOING FORWARD 
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TO, SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO USE OVERTIME? ARE WE GONNA CONTINUE TO GROW THAT? YES, MA'AM. 
          SO THE PLAN IS, UM, WE, WE, WE HAVE TO HIRE THE FIREFIGHTERS. 
          WE HAVE TO PROMOTE THEM, TRAIN THEM TO BE PARAMEDICS AND, AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS. 
          AND SO UNTIL WE CAN GET OUR STAFFING LEVEL UP, THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA BE UTILIZING SOME OVERTIME. 
          BUT THE PLAN IS EVENTUALLY THAT WE WILL HAVE FULL-TIME STAFF AVAILABLE TO, TO MANAGE THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, I JUST CLOSE WITH THANK, THANKS AGAIN TO SA FD, UM, TO THE, TO THE UNION, UH, FOR YOUR WORK AND YOUR VOLUNTEERISM. 
          WHENEVER WE HAVE AN EVENT IN, UM, REALLY THROUGHOUT THE CITY, UH, OUR FIRST RESPONDERS POLICE AND FIRE ARE THE FIRST TO CALL ME AND SAY, HOW CAN WE HELP? WHAT CAN WE DO? AND IT DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED, UH, BY ME, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, IT DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED BY OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE APPRECIATE YOUR KIND WORDS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER KEO, HDA, COUNCIL MEMBER S THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, I A A FEW THINGS, UH, ONE, I I THINK, UH, THERE'S NOBODY WHO WILL DEBATE ME, UH, WHEN I SAY THAT MARIA JUST MIGHT BE THE SMARTEST HUMAN BEING ON THE PLANET. 
          MARIA, EVERY TIME YOU PRESENT, I LEARN SO MUCH AND, AND I'M SO IMPRESSED WITH, WITH WHAT YOU'VE PUT IN FRONT OF US. 
          UM, I, I'M PARTICULARLY EXCITED AND, YOU KNOW, I'M EXCITED THAT WE'RE FINALLY TACKLING RESILIENCE IN A, IN AN INTENTIONAL WAY. 
          UM, I, I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS GONNA BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT THIS COUNCIL'S EVER GOING TO DO. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WE CAN ADD SIDEWALKS AND PARK ENHANCEMENTS OR AIRPORT UPGRADES, ALL, ALL VERY, VERY IMPORTANT THINGS. 
          BUT IF WE'RE NOT PREPARED FOR CATASTROPHE, THEN, THEN EVERYTHING ELSE IS SECONDARY. 
          ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT NONE OF THESE MEGA STORMS CAN CONTINUE TO BE CALLED WHITE SWANS. 
          I THINK IT'S IRRESPONSIBLE OF US TO, TO USE THAT WORD AGAIN. 
          UM, AND, AND, AND I THINK WHITE SWAN IS A REAL DANGEROUS LABEL BECAUSE IT GIVES US, UH, WE GIVE OURSELVES PERMISSION TO, TO LET OUR GUARD DOWN AND, AND NOT THOROUGHLY PREPARE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE WHITE SWAN, UH, MEANS THAT THE EVENTS ARE VERY, VERY RARE. 
          AND, UH, THEY'RE NOT RARE. 
          THEY'RE THE NEW NORMAL. 
          AND SO I THINK THAT WHEN WE VOTE ON THIS BUDGET, WE'LL BE TELLING THE PUBLIC LOUD AND CLEAR THAT, THAT WE'RE GONNA BE MAKING A VERY MEANINGFUL COMMITMENT TO THEIR FAMILY SURVIVAL VIS-A-VIS A, A CATA CATASTROPHIC EVENT LIKE STORM URI. 
          I, I ALSO THINK THAT COUNCILWOMAN ROCHA IS RIGHT. 
          UM, WHAT COMES OF THIS IS AN UPGRADED HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN THAT THAT IS GONNA BE OUR GUIDING DOCUMENT. 
          UM, BUT, BUT ERIC AND, AND CHIEF AND, AND ALL THE OTHER FOLKS OUT THERE WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING SURE THAT THIS IS GONNA BE THE BEST HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I KNOW IT'S NOT LOST ON YOU, THAT, YOU KNOW, A PLAN IS ONLY AS GOOD AS AS OUR TRAINING AND, AND, UH, AND OUR CASH INVESTMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE IMPLEMENT THESE, UH, THESE LESSONS. 
          AND SO, UM, MARIA, ERIC, UM, I, I WANNA MAKE SURE ALSO THAT WE DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT ONE OF THOSE ACUTE SHOCKS THAT WE'VE SEEN, UM, HAPPEN TO OTHER CITIES IS, UM, YOU KNOW, HACKING AND RANSOM, UH, YOU KNOW, ATTACKS ON, ON THEIR SYSTEMS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, ERIC, YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN THE PAST, AND, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S APPROPRIATE TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR IT RESILIENCE AND MAKE AN INVESTMENT IN HARDENING, YOU KNOW, OUR CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          UM, OR IF, IF WE DON'T, DO WE HAVE ENOUGH, UH, YOU KNOW, INVESTMENT RIGHT NOW, OR DO WE HAVE ENOUGH IN THE GENERAL BUDGET AND, YOU KNOW, UH, AND IN WHATEVER PLANS YOU AND CRAIG HAVE, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE READY FOR, FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, COUNCILMAN? UM, I, I THINK WE'VE BEEN VERY DELIBERATE AND WE'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO BRIEF THE COUNCIL IN AN EXECUTIVE SESSION ON, UH, SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          AND, AND I'M NOT ASKING FOR SPECIFICS, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, AS WE'RE DESIGNING THIS BOND, YOU KNOW, ANDY SEGOVIA VERY ASTUTELY, UM, CONVINCED US AND, UH, HELPED US CONVINCE THE PUBLIC TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN NOW USE THE BOND, UM, FINANCING VEHICLE TO INVEST IN EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING THAT IS LEGAL UNDER THE SUN AS OPPOSED TO JUST, YOU KNOW, A SMALL CATEGORY OF THINGS. 
          AND SO IT OCCURS TO ME, ANDY, THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, AND SYSTEM HARDENING IS, IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SPEND ON. 
          AND, UM, I'D RATHER, YOU KNOW, UH, I SPEND EARLIER THAN LATER. 
          DO YOU, DO YOU DISAGREE, ANDY? NO, I, I, I AGREE A HUNDRED PERCENT COUNCILMAN THAT GIVEN THE, UH, NEW, UH, WORDING IN THE CHARTER, THAT'S CERTAINLY A CATEGORY THAT WE CAN INVEST BOND MONEY IN. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN, UM, FOUR YEARS AGO, UH, IN THE B ROOM, I MENTIONED, 
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YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT I THOUGHT THAT ONE OF OUR, UH, WE HAD TIED OUR HANDS BEHIND OUR BACK BY NOT MAINTAINING AN INVENTORY OF VULNERABLE HOME BOUND FOLKS AND SENIORS WHO ARE PROBABLY THE MOST HARD HIT DURING THESE CATASTROPHES. 
          AND I ALMOST JUMPED OUTTA MY CHAIR RIGHT NOW, MARIA, WHEN YOU WERE SHOWING US THE PLAN TO START, UM, START CREATING THAT INVENTORY OF, UH, OF PEOPLE OR THAT INDEX OF PEOPLE SO THAT WE CAN, UM, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T, THEY DON'T FALL BETWEEN THE CRACKS WHEN IT'S TIME TO, WHEN IT'S TIME TO MOBILIZE THEM AND GET THEM OUT OF THE WAY OF DISASTER. 
          HEY, CHIEF, UM, I, I, I'VE GOT SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT, ABOUT THE FIREFIGHTERS THEMSELVES. 
          UH, DO YOU HAVE YOUR ARMS AROUND HOW MANY OF THEM ARE VACCINATED? UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT NUMBERS OF ABOUT 60%, UH, THAT'S HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE, BUT AGAIN, WE ENCOURAGE EVERY SINGLE FIREFIGHTER, FIRST RESPONDER, ANYBODY TO GET VACCINATED. 
          YEAH, I MEAN, I, I'LL BE FRANK WITH YOU. 
          I MEAN, IF, IF IT'S HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL STANDARD, THAT'S GOOD, BUT I STILL, I STILL THINK THAT 60% SUCKS. 
          I MEAN, WE, WE, WE CAN DO A LOT BETTER THAN THAT. 
          AND IT'S NOT, I MEAN, IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT. 
          I MEAN, THERE'S PEOPLE OUT THERE MAKING THE CONSCIOUS DECISION TO, YOU KNOW, UH, BET THAT THEY WON'T BE ONE OF THE FOLKS THAT DIES. 
          I THINK THAT'S A REALLY, REALLY BAD DECISION. 
          AND I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT MORE OF OUR FIREFIGHTERS HAVEN'T, UM, TAKEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO AVAIL THEMSELVES OF A FREE VACCINE. 
          IT'S A FIRST WORLD COUNTRY LUXURY. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I I, I WANT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES TO BE AS ABSOLUTELY SAFE AS POSSIBLE. 
          AND, AND I THINK THEY'RE TAKING A, A HUGE RISK. 
          THE OTHER, THE OTHER THING IS CHIEF, UM, I, I'VE HEARD YOU IN THE PAST CALL OUR, OUR FIREFIGHTERS, UH, TACTICAL ATHLETES. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S RIGHT. 
          UM, DID WE HAVE WE, OR IS THERE A PLAN TO START IMPLEMENTING, UH, PHYSICAL FITNESS REQUIREMENTS? WELL, WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW IS, UM, AGAIN, THE PHYSICAL FITNESS REQUIREMENTS TO COME ON. 
          AND, UM, THE FIRST THING WE DID WHEN WE GOT HERE IS IMPLEMENT A WELLNESS SYSTEM. 
          AND SO, UH, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT OUR FOLKS HAVE THAT FIRST. 
          AND AS FAR AS MINIMUM, MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR FITNESS, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, WE'VE GOT SOMETHING IMPLEMENTED RIGHT NOW AS FAR AS OUR, OUR FOLKS COMING IN AND, UM, TAKING A FITNESS EVALUATION. 
          THE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT, OKAY. 
          UM, AND THEN I'M, I'M CURIOUS AND JUST OFFLINE, YOU CAN TELL ME LATER, YOU KNOW, WHAT ETOOLS IT IS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE INVESTING IN AND, AND HOW MANY, UM, I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S VERY INTERESTING THAT, UM, THAT WE'RE GONNA BE MAKING THAT INVESTMENT NOW. 
          I THINK, I THINK THAT'S, UH, THAT'S VERY SMART. 
          AND THEN ALSO AS WE CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT RESILIENCY, UH, ERIC AND, AND MARIA AND CHIEF AND CHIEF MCMANUS, I, YOU KNOW, I, I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR, FOR Y'ALL AT SOME POINT TO BRING BACK TO THIS COUNCIL, UM, WHAT LESSONS DID WE AS AN ORGANIZATION LEARN FROM, FROM HER, YOU KNOW, FROM STORM URI. 
          UM, AND THEN TO WHAT EXTENT WE'VE IMPLEMENTED THOSE LESSONS, UM, AS OF TODAY. 
          AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE PLAN TO IMPLEMENT OTHER LESSONS MOVING FORWARD, UM, SO THAT WE CAN ADD, YOU KNOW, INVEST IN, IN, IN MAKING SURE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE THE TOOLS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THEM. 
          AND SO I, I'M INTERESTED IN, IN HAVING THAT CONVERSATION. 
          LASTLY, AND I'LL END ON HAZMAT FEE, UH, COUNCILMAN CASTILLO IS 100% RIGHT. 
          UM, A LOT OF THESE SMALL BUSINESSES ARE, ARE SPREAD ALL OVER TOWN. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR A LONG TIME. 
          I, I HAVE ONE, UH, REQUEST AND THAT IS THAT SOMEBODY GIVE ME SOME CLARIFICATION. 
          I'M LOOKING AT SLIDE 17 OF THE CHIEF'S PRESENTATION. 
          IT SAYS, THE BUDGET PROPOSES CHANGE OF THE HAZMAT FEE FROM 600 TO 300 FOR RETAIL SERVICE STATIONS. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT, THAT'S GREAT. 
          I MEAN, ANY REDUCTION IS FANTASTIC. 
          AND HOWEVER IT SAYS A, A DEDUCTION FOR RETAIL SERVICE STATIONS THAT STORE 12,000 GALLONS OR LESS. 
          AND SO MY REQUEST IS THAT WE BE REALLY CAREFUL OR CLEAR WITH THAT LANGUAGE BECAUSE, UM, MOST GAS STATIONS, THESE MOM AND POP SHOPS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HAVE TWO TANKS AT, AT A MINIMUM. 
          AND EACH TANK AT A MINIMUM IS 8,000 GALLONS. 
          UM, IF IT'S NOT 8,000 GALLONS, THEN IT'S 10,000 GALLONS. 
          AND SO IF WE'VE GOT TWO OF THOSE 8,000 OR TWO OF THOSE 10,000 GALLON TANKS, THAT MEANS THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE EXCEEDING THE 12,000 GALLON THRESHOLD HERE. 
          AND THAT, UH, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE SAVING THOSE PEOPLE ANY MONEY. 
          AND SO I, I ASKED OUR FRIENDS OVER AT THE ASSOCIATION OF CONVENIENCE STORE RETAILERS, HOW MANY OF THEIR, UH, MEMBERS HAVE LESS THAN 12,000 GALLONS OF STORAGE CAPACITY. 
          AND THEY SAID THAT THAT'S A TOTAL OF FIVE, SIX, OR SEVEN GAS STATIONS IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IF WE'RE GONNA DO THIS, THAT WE ACTUALLY SPREAD 
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THE LOVE HERE. 
          AND SO WE CHANGE THAT LANGUAGE FROM, UH, A DISCOUNT FOR RETAIL SERVICE STATIONS THAT'S, UM, WHO HAVE TANKS SMALLER THAN 12,000 GALLONS, UM, AS OPPOSED TO JUST A AGGREGATE NUMBER OF GALLONS. 
          UM, AND SO I, I DUNNO IF THAT WAS THE INTENTION OF THIS SLIDE, BUT I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE WALK AWAY WITH AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT, OF WHAT I'M EXPECTING. 
          AND I'M, I'M EXPECTING US TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THESE MOM AND POP SHOPS ENJOY OR THE, THE BENEFIT OF THE DISCOUNT, UM, AS OPPOSED TO JUST, YOU KNOW, FIVE, SIX OR SEVEN OF THEM MAKES SENSE, ERIC. 
          YEAH, AND I THINK WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS, WE OUGHT TO JUST GET CLARIFICATION. 
          'CAUSE I THINK THE, THE, THAT WAS OUR INTENT. 
          AND IF I CAN HAVE ASSISTANT CHIEF MONIER COME UP AND ADDRESS THAT ISSUE, DEPUTY CHIEF, UH, CHRIS MONIER. 
          YES. 
          THAT WAS THE INTENT TO HAVE THAT, UH, LIMITATION. 
          I KNOW WE MET A COUPLE YEARS AGO WITH THAT ASSOCIATION, MARIA AND I, I REMEMBER THAT MEETING AT THE LIBRARY. 
          UM, WE COULD EXAMINE, REEXAMINE THAT, UH, THAT THRESHOLD. 
          THAT WAS THE DATA THAT WE HAD, BUT IF THE DATA'S NOT CORRECT, THEN WE COULD LOOK AT IT AGAIN AND MAYBE ADJUST THAT, THAT LIMITATION. 
          YEAH. 
          AND, AND, AND A C SS R THE, THE CONVENIENCE STORE RETAILERS, THEY'RE GREAT WITH 12,000 BECAUSE THAT WILL, UH, CAPTURE, I MEAN, 12,000 PER TANK BECAUSE THAT'LL CAPTURE, UM, THE MAJORITY OF THEIR MEMBERS. 
          UM, SO JUST HELP ME OUT ON THIS ONE SO THAT I CAN, I CAN TALK TO 'EM BREATHING DOWN MY NECK, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE I GET THEM AN ACCURATE ANSWER. 
          WELL, I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU GUYS HAVE DONE. 
          I, I'M SO IMPRESSED. 
          UM, AND, UM, ANYWAY, I, I, I'LL THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER, MAYOR. 
          THANKS GUYS. 
          COUNCILMAN, WE'LL FOLLOW UP WITH THEM, UH, 'CAUSE THAT OBVIOUSLY WAS THE INTENT, SO WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT'S CLEAR AND, UM, UM, IN THE, IN THE FINAL BUDGET ORDINANCE THAT, THAT COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER. 
          ALRIGHT, WE'LL GO NOW TO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SO THIS MORNING I, I'M TRYING SOMETHING NEW. 
          I ASKED MY CONSTITUENTS, UH, ON SOCIAL MEDIA IF THEY HAD ANY QUESTIONS THEY WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE DEPARTMENTS. 
          AND QUITE A FEW OF THEM WERE ANSWERED DURING THE PRESENTATION. 
          SO THAT'LL BE, UM, SOMETHING I GET TO COMMUNICATE. 
          UM, ONE OF, ONE QUESTION WAS ASKED BY, UH, MEGAN, AND SHE ASKED THAT FOR A FEW WEEKS AGO. 
          FOR 26 MINUTES, THERE WERE NO E M S UNITS AVAILABLE. 
          UM, WHAT RESOURCES, UM, COULD HAVE BEEN USED TO PREVENT THIS AND HOW DOES OUR BUDGET, THE PROPOSAL BUDGET, ADDRESS IT, HAND SANITIZER STRONG? UM, AND AGAIN, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          SO, AS WE MENTIONED, UM, 91% OF THOSE CALLS ARE RESPONDED TO BY A PARAMEDIC. 
          ALL 14 OF THOSE RUNS THAT WE HAD DURING THAT 26 MINUTES WERE RESPONDED BY PARAMEDICS. 
          AND SO, UM, ANYTHING THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE EMERGENT WAS DONE WHILE WE WERE WAITING FOR A TRANSPORT UNIT. 
          UM, I COULD HAVE HAD ANOTHER FIVE 10 UNITS ON, CHANCES ARE THAT PARTICULAR DAY WE MIGHT'VE RUN OUTTA RESOURCES. 
          AND AGAIN, IF WE'RE DRIVING FURTHER DISTANCES TO DROP PEOPLE OFF, IF WE'RE HAVING A DECON, THAT'S A CHALLENGE. 
          AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE DONE, UH, SINCE THEN IS WE'RE ALLOWING OUR E M S UNITS TO RESPOND TO DELIVER PATIENTS AT FREESTANDING EMERGENCY CLINICS. 
          SO THEY'RE NOT GOING ALL THE WAY ACROSS TOWN. 
          AND AS SOME OF YOU COUNCIL KNOW, UM, MOST OF THE MEDICAL HOSPITALS ARE UP ON THE NORTHERN PART OF TOWN. 
          SO AGAIN, BY ALLOWING US TO MAKE SOME OF THOSE TRANSPORTS TO FREESTANDING EMERGENCY CLINICS IS GOING TO ALLOW US TO GET BACK INTO SERVICE A LITTLE BIT QUICKER. 
          BUT AGAIN, UM, NONE OF THOSE CALLS WAS WITHOUT HAVING A PARAMEDIC ON THE SCENE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, I ALSO WANTED TO KNOW, WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE ARE THE BEST WAYS THAT WE COULD FREE UP RESOURCES, UM, BY REDUCING THE NUMBER OF, UM, INSTANCES THAT YOU NEED TO RESPOND TO? SO HOW DO WE PREVENT, UM, A NUMBER OF YOUR CALLS FROM COMING IN? HOW DO WE PREVENT, HOW DO WE PREVENT A NUMBER OF OUR CALLS FROM COMING IN? HOW DO WE PREVENT INSTANCES, THE WIDE ARRAY OF PROBLEMS THAT YOU NEED TO RESPOND TO? WELL, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THE BEST WAY TO PREVENT AN INCIDENT IS THROUGH FIRE PREVENTION OR THROUGH, UM, TEACHING OUR SENIORS HOW TO, UM, MANAGE THEIR, THEIR HOMES TO WHERE THEY'RE NOT USING SPACE HEATERS OR THEY'RE NOT, UM, TRIPPING OVER WIRES OR THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          AND I THINK THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT IN YOUR MEETING. 
          YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO EDUCATE OUR POPULATION ON THINGS THAT ARE GONNA HELP THEM PREVENT US FROM GOING ON THOSE RUNS. 
          UM, ONE OF THE BIG ADVANTAGES IS THIS GOOD SAM APPLICATION, BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF TIMES THAT 
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WE'RE SENDING RESOURCES OUT. 
          SO, UM, I, I, I WANNA SEE WHAT THE, THE, THE FRUITION OF THIS PROJECT IS GONNA BE LIKE. 
          BUT THE MAIN THING IS FOR US TO EDUCATE PEOPLE TO DO THINGS THAT ARE GONNA PREVENT THEM FROM HAVING THEIR HOUSE CATCH ON FIRE OR FALLING WHEN THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY'VE GOT A LIGHT OR THEY HAVE A RUG THAT'S A NON-SLIP RUG. 
          SO IT'S ALL ABOUT EDUCATION. 
          AND SO WE WANNA WORK WITH EACH OF YOUR DISTRICTS, UM, TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MAKE THEM AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE. 
          SO IT'S ABOUT EDUCATION AND PREVENTION. 
          THERE MAY BE QUITE A BIT OF OVERLAP, BUT I DON'T THINK I SAW THIS IN NUMBER. 
          UM, HOW MUCH FUNDING OF THE BUDGET IS GOING TOWARDS PRIVATE, UH, FIRE PREVENTION. 
          SO OUR FIRE PREVENTION BUDGET IS, OUR FIRE PREVENTION BUDGET IS ABOUT $6 MILLION. 
          AND SO PART OF THAT INCLUDES COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. 
          BUT THEN THE OTHER THING THAT WE DO, AND, UH, WE'VE BEEN KINDA LIMITED BECAUSE OF COVID, IS WE SEND FIRETRUCKS OUT TO DO COMMUNITY EVENTS. 
          WE SEND FIRETRUCK TO SCHOOLS. 
          AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO LEARN THOSE BEHAVIORS VERY EARLY. 
          COVID KIND OF, UH, DECREASED OUR ABILITY TO DO THAT, BUT WE, UM, WE PROVIDE FIRE PREVENTION EVERY SINGLE DAY FROM THOSE 54 FIRE STATIONS. 
          AND SO THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR EDUCATING THE PUBLIC. 
          ANY OPPORTUNITY WE GET IF WE'RE CALLED TO DO A, UH, A BLOCK PARTY OR ANY TYPE OF EVENT, WE SHOW UP. 
          AND SO FIRE PREVENTION, UH, ANY TYPE OF, UM, THING THAT WE CAN DO TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON BEING SAFE, THAT'S WHAT WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SORRY, I'M LOSING MY VOICE A LITTLE BIT. 
          UM, I ALSO HAVE A QUESTION FOR, UH, MS. VIE GOMEZ, AND I'LL COME, I'LL COME BACK TO YOU, CHIEF. 
          SO MY GOOD FRIEND CAMIA, SHE, UM, ASKED, IS THERE ANY PART OF THE BUDGET ALLOCATED SOLELY TO THE SERVICES THAT COULD BE NEED THAT COULD BE NEEDED FOR ANOTHER POTENTIAL POWER GRID FAILURE? AND THAT WAS VERY MUCH ADDRESSED ON SLIDE EIGHT OR SLIDE NINE. 
          UM, AND SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR IS, WHAT IS THE LONG-TERM GOALS OF THE RESILIENCY STUDY? OR, YOU KNOW, NO, THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION. 
          SO, UM, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO AS WE DEVELOP THIS STRATEGY, WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY, WORKING WITH THE COUNCIL, IS IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS THAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS US TO FOCUS ON. 
          SO WE HAVE, UM, AREAS, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO NATURAL DISASTERS OR HUMAN MADE DISASTERS, UH, BUT THERE'S ALSO OTHER AREAS THAT, WHAT I'VE SEEN, OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE DONE RESILIENCY STRATEGIES THAT FOCUS ON POVERTY AND EQUITY, UM, THEY FOCUS ON UNEMPLOYMENT, UH, E ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ISSUES. 
          SO WE WANNA HAVE THAT, UH, DISCUSSION WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AS A BODY TO GET THAT POLICY DIRECTION, AND THEN FOR US TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY. 
          NOW, THE GOAL OF HAVING THIS RESILIENCY STRATEGY IS TO MAKE US A STRONGER COMMUNITY. 
          SO WHEN WE, UM, UM, GO THROUGH NATURAL DISASTERS OR WE GO THROUGH A, A RECESSION, FOR EXAMPLE, AN ECONOMIC SHOCK, UH, FOR INSTANCE, THAT WE AS A COMMUNITY CAN, ARE RESILIENT TO BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND AND, AND COME THROUGH THAT PARTICULAR CHALLENGE, UH, STRONGER THAN, THAN WHAT WE WERE BEFORE. 
          SO, SO THIS IS TO BUILD THE RELATIONSHIPS, TO BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE, TO BE ABLE TO ALLOW US TO GO THROUGH, THROUGH EITHER A NATURAL DISASTER OR AN ECONOMIC RECESSION OR ANY OTHER CHALLENGE THAT WE MAY FACE AS A COMMUNITY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND I ALSO WANT TO, UH, I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN PALAIS, AND I WOULD LOVE TO GIVE YOU A POSITIVE AFFIRMATION AS WELL THAT, UM, SINCE I WAS ELECTED AND SINCE I'VE BEEN SWORN IN, I'VE BEEN SUPER IMPRESSED BY YOU, AND THERE HASN'T BEEN A DAY THAT I'M NOT, AND I JUST, I LOVE WORKING WITH YOU. 
          AND SO I WANTED THAT TO BE THANK YOU. 
          I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I SAID THAT OUT LOUD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, CHIEF, SO THIS IS THE PART I'VE BEEN, UM, NOT STRUGGLING WITH. 
          I WANNA SAY, FIRST OFF, WHEN WE HAD OUR, WHEN WE HAD OUR MEETING, I HAVE TO LET YOU KNOW, I FEEL SO MUCH ADMIRATION AND SO MUCH GRATITUDE FOR YOUR TEAM. 
          AND WHAT I SEE IS, UM, A GROUP THAT IS LOOKING TO IMPLEMENT THE SMARTEST RESPONSE, THE SMARTEST ALLOTMENT OF RESOURCES, AND THE MOST INNOVATIVE WAYS TO QUICKLY RESOLVE AN EMERGENCY AND TO PREVENT SUCH. 
          SO I HAVE TO SAY THAT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, ESPECIALLY PUBLIC SAFETY, HAS BEEN A REALLY BIG TOPIC FOR ME AND FOR MY COMMUNITY. 
          AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ARE SOME REAL DIFFICULT FISCAL DECISIONS THAT MAY RESULT IN LESS GENERAL FUNDS AVAILABLE. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE WERE TO IMPLEMENT A PROPERTY TAX REDUCTION OR A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          NOW, SAN ANTONIO, UH, S A 
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P D AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ARE TWO DEPARTMENTS THAT MAKE UP THE, THE BULK OF OUR BUDGET. 
          UM, AND THEY'RE GONNA GROW FISCALLY EVERY SINGLE YEAR AS, UM, A RESPONSIBILITY OF OUR CITY'S BUDGET. 
          AND ONE STATE LAW NOW, UM, STATES THAT IF OUR CITY WERE TO REDUCE SAP'S BUDGET, WE WOULD FACE DETRIMENTAL CONSEQUENCES. 
          AND SO, KNOWING THAT THE CITY TRIES TO MAINTAIN PUBLIC SAFETY AT 66%, AND KNOWING THAT I, I ASKED DURING OUR S A P D PRESENTATION, DO WE PLAN TO INCREASE SAP'S BUDGET OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS? AND THE ANSWER WAS, YES. 
          WE HAVE VERY FEW OPTIONS. 
          WE'RE GOING TO EITHER REDUCE THE BUDGET FOR A NUMBER OF OUR OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT DO PROVIDE RESOURCES, OR BECAUSE PUBLIC SAFETY IS THE AREA THAT THE CITY'S TRYING TO MAINTAIN, 66%, WE'RE GONNA SEE ANOTHER DEPARTMENT PO POTENTIALLY YOURS RECEIVE A, A DECREASE IN FUNDING. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO GET YOUR OPINION. 
          HOW DO WE MOVE FORWARD WITH ALL OF THESE FACTS? UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A REALLY, REALLY GOOD QUESTION. 
          AND, UM, I THINK YOU KIND OF ANSWERED IT YOURSELF AT THE BEGINNING WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT UTILIZING TECHNOLOGY OR BEING EFFICIENT OR SMART OR WHATEVER. 
          THAT'S WHAT THIS GOOD SAM APP IS DOING FOR US. 
          IF, IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS APPLICATION, OR CHANCES ARE I COULD HAVE BEEN COMING BACK SAYING, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT? I NEED ANOTHER AMBULANCE. 
          I NEED TWO AMBULANCES. 
          THAT'S 30 PEOPLE, THAT'S 30 POSITIONS I'M ELIMINATING RUNS WITH EIGHT. 
          AND SO, UM, WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO USE TECHNOLOGY. 
          WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO BE AS SMART AS WE POSSIBLY CAN. 
          AND THEN THE OTHER QUESTION THAT YOU ASKED ME, HOW DO WE PREVENT, IF WE CAN PREVENT RUNS, IF WE CAN PREVENT PEOPLE FROM DROWNING OR FALLING INTO POOLS OR NOT WATCHING THEIR KIDS, UM, THEN THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DO. 
          AND SO A LOT OF WHAT WE DO EVERY SINGLE DAY IS TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T GO ON CALLS. 
          'CAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO GO ON CALLS. 
          IF WE DON'T RUN A CALL TODAY, THEN THAT MEANS THE COMMUNITY IS SAFE. 
          BUT THE BEST ANSWER THAT I HAVE FOR YOU IS THROUGH PREVENTION AND THROUGH SMART TECHNOLOGY AND THROUGH OUR M I H PROGRAM, WHICH IS, UM, ELIMINATING HIGH VOLUME UTILIZERS THAT WE'RE CALLING OUR SYSTEM AND CAUSING US ANOTHER 4,000 RUNS OR TRANSPORTATIONS TO HOSPITALS. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF. 
          WE NEED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF TELEMEDICINE, WE NEED TO DO THOSE THINGS TO WHERE WE CAN HAVE OUTREACH AND I'M NOT SENDING A VEHICLE TO YOUR HOUSE. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO, TO TRY TO BE VERY SMART AND VERY EFFICIENT. 
          AND, UH, WE UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE COMPETING WITH LIBRARIES AND PARKS AND ALL OF THOSE OTHER SERVICES THAT WE ALL NEED. 
          AND SO, UH, IT, IT'S A CHALLENGE, BUT I FEEL VERY HAPPY ABOUT THIS BUDGET REQUEST. 
          I FEEL VERY HAPPY WHERE WE ARE BECAUSE WE ARE AWARE OF, OF WHERE WE STAND, UM, HOW EXPENSIVE WE ARE, BUT AGAIN, HOW NECESSARY, AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN RESPOND THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY WE CAN. 
          SO THAT'S WHY I'M REALLY, REALLY HAPPY ABOUT WHY I'M STANDING HERE TALKING ABOUT THIS GOOD SAM MAP. 
          SO HOPE THAT ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION. 
          THANK YOU, CHIEF. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER BEKE RODRIGUEZ, COUNCIL MEMBER GRO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, THANK YOU CHIEF. 
          UH, I WANT TO ECHO MY COUNCIL CALLING MELISSA CAVEO VARDAS. 
          UH, THANKS. 
          ESPECIALLY ON THAT VIDEO. 
          IT WAS, IT JUST MOVED ME BECAUSE WE HAVE DONE SO MUCH. 
          SO THE FIRST THING I WANNA SAY IS IN TERMS OF RECRUITMENT AND RECRUITMENT FOR WOMEN, PLEASE COUNT ME AND MY DISTRICT OFFICE IN, AND, YOU KNOW, MY, MY SISTER WILL HELP. 
          UH, SO, AND ONCE YOU GET STARTED AGAIN, WE DEFINITELY WANNA SEE MORE WOMEN WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND YOU CAN COUNT US IN. 
          UM, THE THING THAT YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, AND THIS MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT ERIC NEEDS TO DO, IS HELP WITH OUR DEPARTMENTS THAT THE GOOD SAM APP, MAKING SURE WE HAVE VIDEOS OR DIGITAL LITERACY AT, ESPECIALLY AT OUR SENIOR CENTERS, TO LET PEOPLE KNOW HOW THIS IS USED. 
          SO I KNOW IF IT'S IN YOUR BUDGET AND Y'ALL CAN DO VIDEOS TO LIKE MY SENIORS, LIKE TV SHOWS. 
          SO IF YOU DO A LITTLE VIDEO SAYING THIS IS HOW IT WORKS, THIS IS WHAT THE SCENARIO WOULD BE, WE COULD GET THAT DONE. 
          IF, IF NOT, LET'S LOOK AT THE OFFICE OF INNOVATION. 
          WELL, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ENOUGH, UH, SMART PEOPLE AND CAPABILITIES BEHIND ME THAT WE COULD FIGURE OUT A SCHEDULE TO WHERE WE GO BACK OUT AND VISIT THE SENIOR CENTERS. 
          EACH AND EVERY ONE OF OF THEM, WE HAVE, UH, GONE OUT AND IT'S BEEN A WHILE, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE SEEING A LARGE INCREASE OF FIRES IN SENIOR CITIZENS' HOMES AND FIRE FATALITIES. 
          AND I WENT OUT PERSONALLY TO EVERY SENIOR CENTER. 
          AND SO, 
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UM, WE CAN DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN THE FUTURE AND COORDINATE THAT FOR ALL THE DISTRICTS BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE SEE ALSO, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT NOT UNDERSTANDING SMART, UM, SMARTPHONES, OUR SENIORS, THEY DIDN'T HAVE STOP, DROP AND ROLL. 
          THEY DIDN'T HAVE FIRE PREVENTION CLASSES LIKE MY KIDS' HAT. 
          AND SO THEY GREW UP PUTTING BUTTER ON BURNS AND PUTTING SALT OR BAKING SO ON FIRES. 
          UH, AND SO I THINK IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET IN THOSE SENIOR CENTERS AND SOME OF THEM EVEN LIKE SPARKY, SO, YOU KNOW, OUR MASCOT. 
          SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD PROBABLY LOOK AT AS FAR AS THE DEPARTMENT AND WORKING, UH, TO GET INTO ALL OF THOSE SENIOR CENTERS AND, AND DO THAT. 
          GREAT. 
          'CAUSE I, I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE THAT AND JUST LETTING THEM KNOW THAT IT'S NOT GONNA IMPACT THEIR RATES OR THEY DON'T HAVE TO DOWNLOAD ANOTHER, UH, THING OR HAVE ANOTHER PASSWORD THAT THIS IS WHAT WE OFFER. 
          UH, ALSO, UH, LIKE COUNCILMAN, UH, ADRIAN ROCHA GARCIA FALL PREVENTION, UH, AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT, I KNOW THAT'S GONNA BE KEY AND YOU CAN COUNT ON MY OFFICE TO HELP. 
          AND THEN ON SLIDE 20, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH, UH, NO, I'M SORRY, SLIDE 22, I THINK THAT IS, UM, WHEN WE, WHEN AND WHEN WE GET THE, UM, I WANNA MAKE SURE IS DO Y'ALL HAVE A DATABASE WHERE YOU'RE KEEPING TRACK OF IT OR DO YOU GIVE ANY INFORMATION TO, UH, METRO, OUR DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES ABOUT MAYBE SOME CLIENTS THAT YOU'RE SEEING THAT MAY NEED SPECIFIC CASEWORKERS TO GO OUT TO? UH, WE, WE, WE DON'T OPERATE IN A VACUUM WITH, WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS. 
          IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE THINK THAT WE CAN HELP THEM WITH THAT CHRONIC CARE CONNECTION. 
          AND SO WE, WE TRY TO DO THAT, UM, HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE A BETTER DATABASE ONCE WE START WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH METRO AND PD AGAIN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE CROSS-POLLINATING WITH OUR OTHER AGENCIES. 
          SO NOBODY'S FALLING THROUGH THE CRACK CRACKS. 
          SO I, AND I WOULD, AND ERIC, MAYBE WE NEED TO GET THAT ON THERE. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING TRACK AND SEEING WHAT REFERRALS ARE COMING FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE TASKED TO DO A LOT, UH, WHEN WE, WHEN WE START GETTING THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          AND THEN ON, UH, SLIDE 23, UH, WITH YOUR, UM, TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT. 
          WHILE I LIKE THE IDEA OF FITNESS EQUIPMENT, 'CAUSE I WANT ALL MY FIREFIGHTERS TO BE HEALTHY, UM, I, I DO SUGGEST YOGA ALSO. 
          I WOULD LOVE TO SEE FIREFIGHTERS, UH, TRY YOGA AND EVEN IF IT'S JUST THE BREATHING EXERCISES, BUT THAT, I'M JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE. 
          START WITH MY STATIONS. 
          THANK YOU THOUGH, CHIEF. 
          OKAY. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT, AND I KNOW IF THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE WATCHING THE THIS IN YOUR DISTRICT, THEY'RE THINKING, OKAY, , YOU KNOW, HOW'S THIS GONNA WORK? SO, BUT ONE THING I DO WANNA SAY ABOUT FITNESS, UM, WE HAVE AT LEAST 24 CROSSFIT INSTRUCTORS, AND SO WE DO CROSSFIT TRAINING. 
          UM, I DO LOVE YOGA, BUT I GOT THAT PICTURE OF YOGA AT THE STATIONS IN MY HEAD RIGHT NOW, SO, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL LOOK AT THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          LOOK, LOOK INTO IT GUYS. 
          THANK YOU MA'AM. 
          I THINK IT'LL HELP. 
          UH, MARIA, IF YOU CAN COME UP, I LOVE THE FOUR RESILIENCY HUBS, BUT WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS US LEVERAGE PARTNERSHIPS WITH OUR CHURCHES, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, AND OUR H O A. 
          SO MAYBE IF LIKE THE FOUR HUBS THE COMMUNITY IDENTIFIES COULD BE LIKE OUR TIER ONE OR OUR A TEAM. 
          BUT THEN IF WE COULD LOOK AT TRYING TO IDENTIFY MAYBE A BTE, BECAUSE THAT'S FOUR HUBS AND WE HAVE 10 DISTRICTS MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO MAYBE LIKE THAT B TEAM THAT COULD BE LIKE AT, UM, AT, I'M JUST GONNA THROW, I'M GONNA VOLUNTEER MY CHURCH ST. 
          LEO'S CHURCH OR A MISSION SAN, UM, A MISSION SAN JOSE, UM, AREA. 
          SO I, I JUST WANNA SEE THAT BECAUSE IF WE COULD MAYBE DO IT BY TIERS, UH, FOR THE RESILIENCY HUBS AND, UM, AND AS SOON AS WE GET THE, HOW WE'RE GOING TO MARKET THAT, IF THAT'S GONNA BE ONLINE, IF IT'S GONNA BE A SURVEY, IF YOU COULD JUST, UH, SEND THAT OUT TO US. 
          'CAUSE I STILL HAVE RESIDENTS THAT WANT TO PRINT OUT THE SURVEY AND TAKE IT TO THE NEIGHBORS IN, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          UM, THE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS ABOUT THE STEER. 
          UM, I THINK WHEN WE GO OUT, UH, AND THIS IS ALSO FOR WHEN OUR, OUR HOUSING NAVIGATORS OUT. 
          I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE GAUGE WHAT SORT OF TECHNOLOGY THEY HAVE. 
          IF IT'S A SMARTPHONE, IF IT'S A TABLET, IF IT'S A, A FLIP PHONE, JUST SO THAT OUR, WE CAN, WE CAN, THOSE CASEWORKERS, THE FIRE, UM, OUR PUBLIC RESOURCES CAN HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT THEY, WHAT TECHNOLOGY IS THERE AND IF THEY CAN USE THE GOOD SAM APP, IF THEY CAN ACCESS TELEMEDICINE, UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TOO. 
          BUT I'M, I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT'S PRESENTED. 
          I THINK THAT AS WE, AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE 
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HUB PROCESS, UH, THERE, THERE'S TONS OF POSSIBILITY TO PARTNER WITH, WITH COMMUNITIES THAT WOULD EVEN BE WILLING TO PURCHASE THE GENERATOR. 
          UM, AND, AND HOW, I THINK THE ONLY ISSUE WITH GENERATORS IS WHERE, WHERE DO YOU HOUSE IT THEN? RIGHT. 
          YOU KNOW, SO, UM, AND HELP WITH THAT. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER VIRON. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, CHIEF AL, I'D LIKE TO JUST TALK WITH YOU AND, AND REALLY I WANT TO JUST COMMEND YOU, UH, FOR THE WORK AND THE INNOVATION THAT, UH, I THINK YOU'VE BEEN BRINGING TO OUR, UH, FIRE DEPARTMENT OVER THE YEARS. 
          YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SAFETY IS ABSOLUTELY THE NUMBER ONE RESPONSIBILITY OF OUR CITY GOVERNMENT, AND IT'S, IT'S THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND IT'S THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND IT'S METRO HEALTH AND IT'S THE EMERGENCY CENTER. 
          ALL OF THESE ARE THE ORGANIZATIONS AND THE AGENCIES THAT PROTECT THE PUBLIC, UH, SAFETY AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH. 
          AND, AND I REALLY BELIEVE YOU, YOU'VE DONE A VERY GOOD JOB AND I APPRECIATE THE INNOVATIONS FROM, UH, DELIVERING THE WHOLE BLOOD TO THE M I H, UH, REDUCING ALL THE CALLS AND, AND SO MANY OTHER THINGS I'VE HEARD OF. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK A LOT OF US ARE CONCERNED ABOUT, UH, ARE STILL THE, UH, THE LACK OF, UH, WOMEN AND AFRICAN AMERICANS IN, IN THE FORCE IN THE SERVICE. 
          WHAT ARE THE BARRIERS THAT YOU SEE TO MORE, UH, BLACK AND FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS? UM, UM, WELL, YOU KNOW, BARRY'S, I CAN GO BACK TO MY DAD. 
          UM, I GOT OUTTA COLLEGE AND MY DAD THOUGHT FIREFIGHTER WAS A BLUE COLLAR JOB, AND HE DISSUADED ME FROM BECOMING A FIREFIGHTER. 
          UM, AND, AND SO IT GOES WAY BACK THEN. 
          IT'S, IT'S BLUE COLLAR, IT'S DANGEROUS, IT'S ALL OF THESE THINGS. 
          AND SO, UM, THERE'S A FEMALE SLIDE, THERE WE GO. 
          AND ONE MORE, ONE MORE. 
          AND SO YOU SEE RIGHT THERE, AND WE JUST PUT SOME DEMOGRAPHICS UP OF, OF FEMALES AND, UM, THERE'S SO MANY IMPEDIMENTS SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE HIGH MINORITIES OR FEMALES, AND WITH OUR PROFESSION, IT'S HARD TO GET ON THE VERY FIRST TIME. 
          AND SO WHAT HAPPENS WITH A, WITH A LOT OF US, WE GET FRUSTRATED. 
          WE DON'T HAVE THAT ADVOCATE. 
          I'M NOT SITTING ACROSS A, UH, TABLE EATING CHEERIOS FROM SOMEBODY THAT'S A FIREFIGHTER. 
          AND SO HOW DO WE MENTOR THEM? HOW DO WE BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM? AND, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. 
          AND IT TAKES TIME. 
          WE JUST GRADUATED A CLASS AND, AND I HOPE THIS YOUNG LADY'S OUT THERE WORKING TODAY AT A STATION, AND SHE CAN HEAR THIS, BUT WE, WE HAD A YOUNG LADY THAT SHE TESTED 11 TIMES, 11 YEARS IN A ROW, AND I MET HER, UH, SHE WORKED AT THE APPLE STORE LOCK AND TERRA, MY SON'S PHONE WAS JACKED UP A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND I TALKED TO HER THERE AND SHE WAS TESTING IT, TOOK HER 11 TIMES. 
          BUT WHAT WE DID FOR HER WAS BUILD A RELATIONSHIP AND, UM, ALLOWED HER TO COME IN AND USE OUR FACILITIES AT THE TRAINING ACADEMY TO GET STRONGER. 
          WE OFFER CAFE COLLEGE TO PEOPLE THAT THEY CAN COME AND STUDY AND WE BUILD RELATIONSHIPS TO THEM. 
          AND SO WE TRY TO ATTRACT PEOPLE AT A YOUNG AGE. 
          AND, UM, I WAS ABLE TO GO READ A DOUGLAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS EXCEPT I COULDN'T GO THIS YEAR 'CAUSE OF COVID. 
          SO WE TRY TO GET 'EM EARLY AND WE TRY TO ELIMINATE SOME OF THOSE BARRIERS THAT, THAT MINORITIES AND FEMALES MAY EXPERIENCE. 
          AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET 'EM ENGAGED VERY, VERY EARLY THROUGH CAMPS LIKE YOU SEE WITH HERO LIKE HER, WE'RE LOOKING AT DOING SOME OTHER TYPES OF OUTREACH TO WHERE WE, WE GET KIDS IN AT A VERY YOUNG AGE. 
          WE KEEP THEM ENGAGED AND THEN WE TRY TO STEER THEM AWAY FROM SOME OF THE PITFALLS AS FAR AS PEOPLE GETTING HIRED BECAUSE WE DO EXTENSIVE BACKGROUNDS. 
          AND SO IF YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO PROHIBIT YOU FROM GETTING HIRED, THAT'S VERY DISAPPOINTING WHEN YOU THINK, OKAY, I, I'M READY TO BE A FIREFIGHTER, AND MAYBE YOU ARE, BUT THAT ONE LITTLE SLIP UP HAS OCCURRED YOU NOT TO BE ABLE TO GET ON. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS AND WE'RE 5.1 FOR FEMALES, AND AUSTIN'S AT SEVEN POINT, YOU KNOW THAT THAT'S A HIGH NUMBER. 
          THE OTHER THING THAT, THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT IS A LOT OF OUR SENIOR FEMALES, I JUST LOST A BATTALION CHIEF. 
          I LOST A DEPUTY CHIEF. 
          IT'S HARD TO, TO MATRICULATE OR PERCOLATE UP IN THE SYSTEM. 
          WE HAD AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN THE LATE TO MID SEVENTIES. 
          WE'VE LOST SO MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS THAT HAVE RETIRED BECAUSE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION. 
          SO WE, IT'S HARD TO REPLACE THOSE NUMBERS AND BILL THEM, AND SOMETHING THAT WE'RE VERY CONSCIOUS OF AND SOMETHING THAT WE'RE TRYING EXTREMELY HARD. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF THE IMPEDIMENTS THAT WE SEE 
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EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          BUT WE ARE ACTIVELY RECRUITING, UM, AS WE SPEAK. 
          AND OUR NUMBERS ARE SHOWING BY THE, UH, IMPROVEMENT OF 104% INCREASE IN AFRICAN-AMERICANS TAKING THE TEST. 
          I CAN'T GET YOU ON A FIRETRUCK UNLESS YOU COME AND TAKE THE TEST. 
          98% INCREASE OF FEMALES TAKING THE TEST. 
          I CAN'T GET YOU TO BE A PARAMEDIC IF YOU DON'T TAKE THE TEST. 
          AND THEN WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS HAVE THE FORTITUDE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONNECT WITH THEM AS LONG AS IT TAKES. 
          AND SO WE LET A CLASS OUT THE OTHER DAY OF 37. 
          THERE WERE SEVERAL OF THEM THAT TESTED 8, 9, 10 YEARS IN A ROW TO GET ON. 
          SO IF YOU'RE TALKING TO SOMEONE OF SOME OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND THEY'RE HAVING CHALLENGES OR ISSUES, TELL 'EM DON'T GIVE UP BECAUSE IT'S HIGHLY COMPETITIVE. 
          WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE AT TEST AND A FINITE AMOUNT THAT WE END UP HIRING. 
          BUT I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION. 
          I APPRECIATE YOU GIVING ME AN OPPORTUNITY JUST TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE, THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE AS FAR AS, UM, HAVING A MORE DIVERSE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          AND THEN IF YOU COULD GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE THAT TALKS ABOUT RANK. 
          AND SO CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW WE GOT FOUR PROBATIONARY FIREFIGHTERS. 
          WE HAVE 40 FIREFIGHTERS, 35 ENGINEERS. 
          AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT ENGINEERS, LIEUTENANTS, CAPTAINS, DISTRICT CHIEF, OR ASSISTANT CHIEFS, THEY HAVE TO TAKE A TEST. 
          THEY HAVE TO PROMOTE. 
          AND SO WE NEED TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE THEM SUCCESSFUL. 
          BUT OUR ENGINEER RANKS CONTINUE TO GROW. 
          I'VE GOT FIVE LIEUTENANTS THAT ARE OUT THERE IN THE FIELD. 
          OKAY. 
          CHIEF, I THINK YOU'VE ANSWERED MY QUESTION. 
          I KNOW YOU CAN TALK ABOUT 15, 15 MINUTES ABOUT IT. 
          WHAT IT'S, IT'S PASSIONATE AND I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT IT, SO THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          NO, THANK YOU. 
          I THINK YOU'VE GIVEN US SOME IDEA ABOUT THE BARRIER OR THE CHALLENGE THAT, THAT PEOPLE ARE FACING, AND IT'S THAT TESTING, GETTING THROUGH THAT FIRST STEP. 
          YES, SIR. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, YOU, YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT THE NEW DECONTAMINATION STEPS THAT HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO EVERY STATION NOW. 
          YES. 
          SO THE PROCESS BECAUSE OF COVID, WELL, WHEN COVID STARTED, UH, AGAIN, NOT KNOWING OR UNDERSTANDING WHAT WE WERE DEALING WITH, WE WERE DECONTAMINATING E M S UNITS. 
          WE HAD, UM, PEOPLE THAT WERE ASSIGNED TO DECON. 
          AND SO, UM, THERE WAS NO EQUIPMENT OUT THERE FOR US TO GET. 
          SO NOW WE HAVE DECON EQUIPMENT AT EVERY FIRE STATION. 
          UH, CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW, IF WE HAVE FIREFIGHTERS THAT SAY WE HAVE A STATION AND, UM, SEVERAL MEMBERS HAVE COVID, OR THEY'RE QUARANTINE BECAUSE OF COVID, WE'RE REQUIRING HEAVY CLEANING EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          TO WHERE THAT SHIFT THAT COMES IN, WE'RE DECONNING THAT ENTIRE STATION. 
          SO WE CONTINUE TO LEARN, WE CONTINUE TO BUILD PROCESSES OR PROCEDURES TO DECON, AND WE CONTINUE TO HAVE EQUIPMENT THAT'S GONNA ALLOW US TO DO THAT AT THE STATIONS VERSUS IN THE DRIVEWAY OF THE ER OR THE DECONTAMINATION LOCATION. 
          AND HOW MUCH HAS THAT BEEN AN ADDITIONAL COST TO THE DEPARTMENT TO DO THAT? UH, I'LL HAVE TO GET YOUR NUMBERS AS FAR AS THE DECON EQUIPMENT, BUT THE DECON EQUIPMENT IS LESS EXPENSIVE THAN FOR ME TO HAVE FULL-TIME DECON PEOPLE AT A LOCATION. 
          SO IT, IT, IT'S FAR CHEAPER THAN WHAT WE WERE DOING WHEN WE FIRST STARTED WITH COVID. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU, CHIEF. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          MARIA, I WANTED TO ASK YOU, UH, ONE OR TWO THINGS. 
          WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE RESILIENCY HUBS. 
          I DIDN'T HEAR YOU SAY HOW MANY WE'RE CONSIDERING. 
          ARE WE LOOKING AT HAVING ONE OR MORE IN EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT, OR WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE THOUGHT ON THIS? RIGHT NOW? IT'S FOUR CITYWIDE, RIGHT? MM-HMM. 
          , BUT WE DON'T HAVE SPECIFIC LOCATIONS YET. 
          BUT THAT'S, THAT'S THE THOUGHT RIGHT NOW. 
          SO IT'S JUST GOING TO BE FOUR. 
          UH, YES. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS, COUNCILMAN, THAT WE HAVE EXPERIENCED IS AN EVENT SUCH AS THE WINTER STORM FLOOD EVENTS. 
          WHEN WE OPEN A SHELTER, WE HAVE VERY FEW PEOPLE COMING IN. 
          WE ARE THINKING THAT PROBABLY ONE OF THE REASONS COULD BE BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW UNTIL THE SAME DAY OR THE, THE DAY BEFORE WE OPEN THE FACILITY. 
          SO THE IDEA OF HAVING THIS RESILIENCY HUBS IS FOR THE COMMUNITY TO BE FAMILIAR WITH THOSE FACILITIES SO THEY'RE ABLE TO COME IN WHEN NEEDED. 
          THE SHORT ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS FOUR, THAT WHAT WE'RE PLANNING FOR, FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, CAN YOU TELL ME HOW MANY OF OUR POLICE OR FIRE FACILITIES WERE POWERLESS OR WATERLESS DURING, UH, THE WINTER STORM? I DON'T REMEMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY FROM THE TEAM, BUT WE, WE CAN GET YOU THAT. 
          WAS IT LIKE 90 OR A HUNDRED PERCENT? BECAUSE ELE OR I, I UNDERSTAND. 
          I GUESS WITH ELECTRICITY, THEY'RE ALL ON A CIRCUIT THAT SUPPOSEDLY KEEPS THEM FUNCTIONING. 
          IS THAT RIGHT? YEAH. 
          NO, COUNCILMAN, WE, WE HAD, WE HAD CHALLENGES. 
          WE HAD CHALLENGES. 
          WE'LL GET YOU AN UPDATED LIST. 
          THAT'S PART OF THE REVIEW WE DID IN THE SPRING. 
          SOME OF OUR FIRE STATIONS HAVE, UM, GENERATORS, 
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BUT THEY POWER PORTIONS OF THE STATION. 
          SO IT, UM, BUT WE'LL, WE CAN, UH, WE HAD CHALLENGES JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY. 
          YEAH. 
          'CAUSE I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GETTING GENERATORS TO, TO GO AHEAD AND TAKE CARE OF THIS. 
          ONE LAST THING I WANNA RECOMMEND IS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE NOTICES THAT GO OUT THROUGH SAWS AND THROUGH C P S FOR DIFFERENT, UH, FEES THAT THE CITY HAS AND THEY'RE PAID THROUGH THEIR PARTICULAR BILLS. 
          UM, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT WE INCLUDE NOTICES FOR PEOPLE TO REGISTER IF THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF PHYSICAL, UH, OR OTHER DISABILITY THAT'S GOING TO REQUIRE THAT ENERGY REMAIN ON OR WATER REMAIN ON, UH, AND THAT THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, CALL 2 1 1 TO REGISTER FOR THAT. 
          BUT IT BE AN ONGOING, REGULAR MESSAGE, AND NOT JUST ONCE IN A WHILE BECAUSE WE HAVE POPULATION CHANGE AND, AND HEALTH CONDITIONS CHANGE. 
          BUT IF WE, IF WE CAN TELL 'EM TO PAY A CERTAIN BILL ON A C P SS OR SAWS BILL, WE CAN REMIND THEM TO REGISTER THEIR HEALTH, UH, PROBLEMS, UH, WITH THE CITY ALSO. 
          SO, THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          COURAGE. 
          MAYOR, CAN I JUST, UM, LEMME JUST RESPOND TO ONE THING THAT COUNCILMAN WAS ASKING ABOUT THE FOUR RESILIENCY HUBS. 
          COUNCILMAN, WE'RE, WE'RE THINKING THAT WE'LL START WITH FOUR. 
          WE MAY END UP WITH MORE. 
          IT'S A NEW CONCEPT. 
          WE DO, UH, YOU KNOW, CONCEPTUALLY WANT HAVE FOUR GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED. 
          BUT, UM, AND, AND LIKE ONE OF THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS MENTIONED, LIKE COUNCILMAN GRO, THERE COULD BE SECONDARY SITES. 
          THIS COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE GROW YEAR TO YEAR, BUT, UH, FELT LIKE, UH, WE, AS WE JUMP INTO IT, AT LEAST START WITH FOUR AND GET 'EM DONE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          BRAVO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          CHIEF HOOD, A FRIEND OF MINE WHO GREW UP IN MEXICO ONCE WAS WATCHING, UH, SOME OF THE FOREST FIRES IN CALIFORNIA AND SAW ALL THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WERE BURNING. 
          AND SHE ASKED ME, WHY DO THEY BUILD HOUSES THAT BURN IN THE UNITED STATES? YOU KNOW, AND IN MEXICO, THEY BUILD HOUSES OUT OF CONCRETE, THEY BUILD 'EM OUT OF ADOBE. 
          AND SO THAT WAS JUST MIND BOGGLING TO HER. 
          NOW WE HAVE GOTTEN BETTER, HAVEN'T WE? WITH THE STRUCTURES THAT WE'RE BUILDING? IS, ARE WE REDUCING THE, THE AMOUNT OF, UH, HOUSE FIRES THAT FIRE DEPARTMENTS HAVE TO RUN? UH, WELL, YOU KNOW, IF MODERN DAY CONSTRUCTION IS A LOT DIFFERENT FROM OLDER CONSTRUCTION AS FAR AS THE WAY THINGS BURN. 
          AND SO MODERN DAY CONSTRUCTION, EVERYTHING IS OPEN. 
          THERE'S A LOT OF DRYWALL VERSUS WOOD VERSUS HEAVY TIMBER OR BRICK MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO THINGS BURN A LOT FASTER NOW THAN THEY USED TO. 
          BUT, BUT AGAIN, WHAT, WHAT YOU SEE WITH THE FIRES OF THE URBAN INTERFACE FIRES, WE CONTINUE TO BUILD OUR SUBDIVISIONS OUT IN HEAVILY WOODED AREAS AND PREDOMINANTLY IN CALIFORNIA. 
          BUT WE DO HAVE SOME URBAN INTERFACE AREAS HERE. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WIND, UH, BARK BEETLES, ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS CAUSE URBAN INTERFACE FIRES, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. 
          BUT CONSTRUCTION IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT, BUT NEWER CONSTRUCTION A LOT OF TIMES BURNS MORE RAPIDLY THAN OLDER CONSTRUCTION. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, UH, COUNCILMAN MCKEE RODRIGUEZ WAS ASKING, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE REDUCE THE NUMBER OF INCIDENTS THAT YOU HAVE TO RESPOND TO? AND SO IS, IS OUR BUILDING CODE SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO BE TAKING A HARDER LOOK AT? WELL, WE ARE VERY INVOLVED, UM, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE WITH BUILDING CODES. 
          UM, WE'RE ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT SPEED BUMPS AND GATES IN COMMUNITIES AND HOW NARROW THE STREETS ARE. 
          AND SO WE WORK ON BUILDING CODE. 
          THAT'S WHAT OUR FIRE MARSHAL DOES. 
          SO WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT THOSE THINGS. 
          BUT AGAIN, INDUSTRY INDUSTRY TRENDS TO WHERE I NEED A BIG OPEN LIVING ROOM, I NEED A VAULTED CEILING. 
          UM, BACK 50, 60 YEARS AGO WHEN HOUSES WERE BUILT, THERE WERE NO VAULTS. 
          UM, CONSTRUCTION WAS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. 
          SO CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE, THE CALLS THAT, THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO ARE, UH, VEHICLE ACCIDENTS? PERCENTAGE OF CALLS THAT ARE VEHICLE ACCIDENTS? RIGHT. 
          YEAH, I THINK WE COULD PROBABLY GET THAT FOR YOU, LIKE, UH, ROUGHLY. 
          COULD YOU, COULD YOU BALLPARK IT FOR ME? BALLPARK, WHAT'D YOU SAY? ABOUT 35%, BUT AGAIN, AS WE MENTIONED, IT'S A UNIT RESPONSES BECAUSE FOR THAT 35% I'M SENDING MULTIPLE UNITS TO AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. 
          SO IT IS RIGHT, OUR HIGHEST UNIT RESPONSE CALL. 
          SO, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT BAD DRIVERS. 
          DO WE, IS IS THAT SOMETHING WE SHOULD LOOK AT? SHOULD WE LOOK AT MAYBE, UM, TALKING TO STATE LEGISLATURE ABOUT BETTER REQUIREMENTS FOR, UH, DRIVER EDUCATION? YOU KNOW, YOU, I THINK YOU MENTIONED THAT, WAS IT, UH, PREVIOUS GENERATIONS, MAYBE THEY, THEY DIDN'T HAVE DROP, 
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DROP AND ROLL. 
          THEY THOUGHT, WELL, IF YOU HAVE A BURN, PUT SOME BUTTER ON IT. 
          I MEAN, COULD WE, GOING FORWARD, COULD WE POSSIBLY REDUCE VEHICULAR ACCIDENTS AND REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF CALLS THAT YOU, YOUR DEPARTMENT WOULD HAVE TO RUN BY MAKING SURE THAT DRIVERS ARE, ARE BETTER DRIVERS? ABSOLUTELY. 
          AND THAT, THAT'S JUST NOT A FIRE DEPARTMENT ISSUE. 
          THAT IS A CITY ISSUE. 
          IT'S A CELL PHONE ISSUE. 
          IT'S ALL OF THOSE THINGS. 
          AND THERE'S RECENT LEGISLATURE, UM, AS FAR AS VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES AS FAR AS PEOPLE MOVING OVER TO THE RIGHT. 
          AND SO, SO IT'S CONTINUING EDUCATION, BUT IT, IT'S A BIGGER ISSUE THAN JUST THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH WAY, WAY PEOPLE DRIVE. 
          HAVE YOU SEEN ANY IMPROVEMENTS IN RESPONSE TO, UH, EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS AROUND, UH, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO NOT TEXT AND DRIVE? I, I WOULDN'T HAVE A NUMBER, BUT AGAIN, I, I SEE THOSE ADVERTISEMENTS ALL THE TIME, SO I, I, I DON'T HAVE A STATISTIC FOR THAT, COUNCILMAN. 
          OKAY. 
          THANKS A LOT. 
          THANK, APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          WAIT, UM, I GOT SOME QUESTIONS FROM MARIA, THE SMARTEST PERSON IN TEXAS WHERE, UM, MARIA, ON, ON THAT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          UM, I SAW THAT, UM, LET'S SEE, IT WAS SLIDE 13, I BELIEVE. 
          I'M GONNA GO BACK TO THIS REAL QUICK. 
          UH, I SAID ALIGN RESPONSIBILITY AND COORDINATION BETWEEN CITY AND UTILITIES. 
          AND THEN, UH, THIS BUDGET ON PAGE NINE IS PROPOSING NINE $3 MILLION FOR GENERATORS. 
          AND, UH, WHILE I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO WORK ON RESILIENCY, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE COORDINATING WITH C P S ENERGY AND THAT, BECAUSE WHEN I THINK ABOUT, UH, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUTTING GENERATORS THERE, IN CASE OF, UM, SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS AND WE LOSE POWER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, I THINK OF $3 MILLION IN GENERATORS THAT ARE GONNA BE NOT USED, PROBABLY ON AVERAGE, NOT USED 364 OUTTA 365 DAYS. 
          AND SO THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S IT FOR THAT ONE DAY WHEN WE NEED IT. 
          IT'S GONNA BE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT, INCREDIBLY VALUABLE, BUT COULD WE BE USING THOSE ASSETS ON A REGULAR BASIS? AND I THINK THAT C P S ENERGY MAY BE LOOKING AT HOW DO WE HAVE MORE DISTRIBUTED GENERATION, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE INVEST IN MORE SMALL ASSETS, NOT INVEST IN LARGE ASSETS THAT WE'RE STUCK WITH WHEN TECHNOLOGY IS IMPROVING AND ADVANCING ON A REGULAR BASIS. 
          AND WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW CAN WE HAVE SMALLER INVESTMENTS THAT ARE MORE DISTRIBUTED. 
          AND SO I'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE COORDINATING WELL WITH THEM, THAT WE'RE NOT JUST GONNA GO AND DECIDE, ALL RIGHT, WELL, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN KEEP THIS CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ON, SO WE'RE GONNA GO BUY THESE $3 MILLION IN GENERATORS, BUT, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN, HOW CAN WE HAVE GENERATION THROUGHOUT THE CITY IN CRITICAL AREAS THAT SUP SUPPORT CCPS ENERGY'S GENERATION ON A REGULAR BASIS? UNDERSTOOD. 
          WE'LL WORK WITH C P S COUNCIL. 
          GREAT. 
          THANKS A LOT. 
          THAT'S IT. 
          LET ME JUST, I, I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THAT POINT UP, COUNCILMAN, BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE NOT DOING THIS IN A SILO, AND PART OF THIS IS MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT AR WHAT AREA OR FACILITY WE LOOK AT, IT'S GOTTA, IT'S GOTTA HAVE THAT COORDINATION WITH C P S AND, AND, AND PART OF THE COMMITTEE ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS REPORT BACK TO THE COUNCIL. 
          UM, GENERAL RICE TALKED ABOUT THE, THE RISK REWARD OF INVESTMENTS, AND, AND YOU'VE GOT, YOU'VE GOT SOME OCCASIONS WHERE, UH, VERY HIGH RISK, BUT LOW PROBABILITY AND, AND SO IT'S A, IT'S THE CALCULUS WE'VE GOTTA GO THROUGH, BUT UNDOUBTEDLY, UH, WE WILL BE WORKING WITH C P S IN THAT COORDINATION SO THAT, SO THAT THERE ISN'T ANY GAP BETWEEN US. 
          THANKS A LOT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          UH, CHIEF, I GOT SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU THERE. 
          YOU'RE REALLY, YEAH. 
          YOU KNOW, DON'T WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR, ? YEP. 
          BEEN A LONG TIME. 
          YES, SIR. 
          WELL, LET'S, LET'S GET STARTED HERE. 
          UM, SLIDE NUMBER SEVEN, AND I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS ALMOST EVERY YEAR. 
          ARE WE ADDING, I I DIDN'T SEE IN THE BUDGET ANYWHERE THAT WE'RE ADDING ANY E M S UNITS TO THE CITY? NO, SIR. 
          AND, UH, JUST AGAIN, LOOKING AT THE PERCENTAGES HERE, UH, IT'S FAR OUTWEIGHED ON THE MEDICAL VERSUS NON-MEDICAL RESPONSES. 
          AND I UNDERSTAND ABOUT HAVING THE PARAMEDICS ON ALL THE EQUIPMENT AND THAT KIND OF THING, BUT STILL, THE PREPONDERANCE OF THE REQUESTS FROM THE CITIZENS ARE MEDICAL. 
          AND, UM, UH, AND REFERENCING BACK THE, THERE WAS A QUESTION EARLIER ABOUT US RUNNING SHORT ON E M S UNITS. 
          UM, AND I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN PUSHING THIS EACH YEAR ABOUT TAKING A LOOK AT SHOULD WE BE INVESTING MORE IN 
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OUR E M S UNITS ACROSS THE CITY? AND, UM, I'D REALLY LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, YOU SHOW THIS PERCENTAGE OF 78% MEDICAL AND NON-MEDICAL 22%, BUT HOW MUCH BUDGET ARE WE ALLOCATING TO THE MEDICAL VERSUS NON-MEDICAL, THE OVERALL BUDGET ROUND NUMBERS? SO THERE'S A SLIDE, THERE'S A PIE CHART THAT SHOWS WHAT OUR ALLOCATION IS FOR E M S ON THE BUDGET SIDE. 
          WHILE, WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THAT, UH, I, BUT I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT SLIDE ANSWERS THE COUNCILMAN'S QUESTION BECAUSE A FAIR AMOUNT, AND THE CHIEF HAS THAT STAT, A FAIR AMOUNT OF THAT, OF OUR FIRE CALLS OR THE RESPONDENT BY FIRE, THE MAJORITY OF THEM ARE MEDICAL. 
          SO WE MIGHT HAVE TO SLICE THAT UP A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THAN THIS SLIDE. 
          YEAH, I, I'M JUST TRYING TO PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE, CHIEF, WE'VE GOT 78% MEDICAL, 22 OR WHATEVER THAT NUMBER WAS, 22% NON-MEDICAL. 
          YES, SIR. 
          HOW MUCH OF OUR BUDGET IS GOING TO MEDICAL VERSUS NON-MEDICAL? WELL, I, I COULD SAY A HUNDRED PERCENT OF OUR BUDGET AS FAR AS FIRE SUPPRESSION COMBINED WITH E M S IS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF OUR CITIZENS. 
          IF, IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBER ONE CALL RESPONSE FOR US IS, AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT IS ABOUT 35%. 
          I CAN'T JUST SEND AN AMBULANCE ON AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT. 
          THERE HAS TO BE OTHER UNITS GOING. 
          THAT'S OUR NUMBER ONE CALL. 
          SO ALL OF OUR BUDGET IS AVAILABLE FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL CALLS AS FAR AS FIRE SUPPRESSION SIDE, WHICH AGAIN, WE'RE SENDING A FIRST RESPONDER, WHICH IS GONNA BE THE QUICKEST WAY TO GET ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT THERE. 
          SO ALL OF OUR BUDGET ON THE SUPPRESSION SIDE IS TIED TO E M S ALSO. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND, AND I GUESS WE NEED TO SLICE THIS UP A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THEN, BECAUSE, UM, AGAIN, WHAT I SEE IN THE RAW DATA IS THAT WE'RE SHORT MEDICAL RESPONSES AND NOT FIRE. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RUNS, WELL, YOU DON'T HAVE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RUNS, UM, UM, BETWEEN E M SS AND FIRE RESPONSES, IT'S ALL SKEWED TOWARDS E M S. 
          AND I'M SAYING I THINK WE NEED TO PUT MORE EMPHASIS AND MORE RESOURCES INTO E M S COVERING THE CITY THAN ON THE FIRE SIDE AT THIS POINT. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT THE DATA DATA IS SHOWING ME. 
          UM, SO YEAH, I'D LIKE TO STILL TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY ROOM IN THE BUDGET FOR, UM, LET'S, LET'S ADD ANOTHER E M S UNIT. 
          AND I UNDERSTAND THE MANPOWER TAIL THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT, BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LOT OF RUNS FOR THOSE E M S UNITS. 
          AND I KNOW THERE'S PEAK TIMES AND NON-PEAK TIMES. 
          IT'S THE SAME THING WITH FIRES. 
          THERE'S PEAK TIMES AND NON-PEAK TIMES THAT WHEN FIRES ARE GOING OFF. 
          SO I THINK WE NEED TO STILL BUCKLE DOWN AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE E M S UNITS ACROSS THE BOARD, ERIC, ON, ON, UM, THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED MANY TIMES IN THE PAST, CHIEF YES, SIR. 
          UM, BUT TO ME, THE DATA IS SHOWING WE NEED MORE E M S UNITS OUT IN THE FIELD. 
          UH, SLIDE NUMBER 17. 
          UH, DON'T THESE BUSINESSES ALREADY PAY TAXES? AREN'T THEY PAYING TAXES, SALES TAX AND, AND, UH, COMMERCIAL TAXES OUT THERE ON THESE? YES, SIR. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          SO, AND, AND THE FEE, THE FEE IS GENERATED, I'LL ASK, UH, THE FEE IS DESIGNED BECAUSE WE, WE HAVE A REQUIREMENT TO INSPECT THOSE FACILITIES. 
          UM, AND SO THAT FEE IS, UM, ALLOWED UNDER STATE LAW, UM, AND HELPS COVER PART OF THE EXPENSE ASSOCIATED WITH THE INSPECTION. 
          YOU'LL RECALL A COUPLE YEARS AGO AFTER THE LARGE EXPLOSION THAT HAPPENED, UH, IN WEST TEXAS, UM, AND, AND MAKING SURE THAT FROM A FIRE PREVENTION STANDPOINT AND INSPECTION STANDPOINT, THAT, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE VERY DELIBERATE IN THOSE INSPECTIONS. 
          WELL, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT CHIEF, AND, AND I'M JUST MAKING A POINT THAT THERE ARE ALREADY POINT THAT THEY'RE ALREADY PAYING TAXES, A HIGHER RATE OF TAXES THAN SOMEBODY LIVING IN A HOME AS A COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY HERE IN THIS CITY. 
          AND MY EXPECTATION WOULD BE, HEY, I'M ALREADY PAYING TAXES. 
          WHY DO I HAVE TO PAY AN ADDITIONAL FEE HERE? ALSO, AND I KNOW IT'S ALLOWED UNDER STATE LAW, BUT DO WE REALLY HAVE TO CHARGE THEM THAT FEE TO GO OUT SINCE THEY'RE ALREADY PAYING HIGHER TAXES TO BEGIN WITH? THIS IS, UH, YOU'RE, YOU'RE SAYING WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA IMPACT THE BUDGET BY ONLY $68,000. 
          HOW ABOUT LET'S WAIVING THE FEE? TOTALLY. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S $120,000 
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OUT OF A $3.1 BILLION BUDGET TO HELP OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY OUT THERE. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S THE POINT THAT I'M MAKING. 
          SO I'D LIKE Y'ALL TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THAT, SEE IF THAT'S POSSIBLE TO WORK INTO THIS BUDGET. 
          UM, CHIEF ON THE, UM, E M S AVAILABILITY ON SLIDE NUMBER 19, UM, THIS PILOT PROJECT, AGAIN, YOU GOT 71%, BASICALLY, YOU CALL OUT WHAT THAT NUMBER IS, 4,200, UM, SAVED FROM THE E M S. 
          WHAT, WHAT WOULD BE THE GOAL? I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU SHOOTING FOR HERE IN THIS PILOT PROGRAM? AND ARE WE LOOKING AT WHAT'S OUR GOAL OUT HERE? WHAT WE'RE INVESTING AT THIS WITH DIFF ADDITIONAL PEOPLE, WHICH IS A, A COST TO THE CITY? YES, SIR. 
          WHAT'S THE GOAL OF THIS PROGRAM? SO THE GOAL IS TO, UH, ELIMINATE THE, THE NEED TO PUT MORE FIRE TRUCKS AND AMBULANCES IN THE SYSTEM. 
          AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE 71% OF THOSE CALLS, UM, IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS, I WOULD'VE BEEN SENDING RESOURCES TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THOSE RUNS. 
          AND, UM, WE LOOKED AT A STAT AND SOMEWHERE IN THE 50% RANGE, MOST OF THE TIME OUR E M S UNITS DO NOT TRANSPORT. 
          IT'S ABOUT 50, ABOUT 53% OF THE TIME THAT THEY TRANSPORT. 
          SO AGAIN, I'M SENDING UNITS OUT THAT COULD BE AVAILABLE FOR SOMEONE ELSE. 
          SO IF WE CAN, UM, WE'VE ALREADY LOOKED AT THIS AND VALIDATED IT, AND IF I'M SAVING 14, UM, RUNS A DAY, THAT'S EQUIVALENT TO A BUSY AMBULANCE. 
          AND SO OUR BUSIEST AMBULANCES ARE RUNNING, SAY, 18 CALLS A DAY. 
          SO WE'RE GIVING THE SYSTEM BACK AN E M SS UNIT BY SAVING THOSE RUNS. 
          SO THE END GOAL IS TO, UM, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY WHEN WE LOOK BACK AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE SAVING 80, 90% OF THESE CALLS FROM EVER HAVING TO BE A DISPATCH. 
          SO IT, IT'S A HUGE, IT'S A HUGE, UM, ENHANCEMENT FOR US NOT BE ABLE TO PUT, TO PUT AN AMBULANCE ON WHERE IT'S GONNA COST ME 15 INDIVIDUALS, ABOUT $1.8 MILLION, AND THEN IF I GET COVID OR PEOPLE ARE SICK, I CAN'T STAFF THEM. 
          SO THIS IS ALLOWING ME TO PUT A PARAMEDIC IN, IN A LIVING ROOM IN 15 SECONDS. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          WELL, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          AND, UH, UM, I THINK THAT WOULD MAKE A GREAT METRIC FOR THE FUTURE. 
          YOU KNOW, HERE'S THE INVESTMENT WE PUT IN HERE, AND HERE'S THE RETURN THAT WE'RE GETTING ON THAT YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. 
          WE, WE'LL, WE'LL, YEAH, I, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT METRIC FOR US. 
          SO, UH, THAT'S IT, CHIEF, I, I STILL WOULD LIKE TO SEE ABOUT, IS THERE ANY ROOM IN THE BUDGET FOR ADDITIONAL E M S UNITS AND, UH, TO COVER THAT HUGE NUMBER OF RESPONSES THAT WE'RE MAKING OUT THERE THAT REQUIRE E M SS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          UM, MARIA, COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR YOU HERE. 
          UM, SO THIS, UM, PAGE SEVEN, YOU KNOW, I WAS ON THE EMERGENCY PLAN, UH, PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE. 
          HOW MANY OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE Y'ALL GONNA IMPLEMENT FROM THAT COMMITTEE? SO THERE'S A TOTAL OF 24 COUNCILMEN. 
          OUR GOAL IS TO IMPLEMENT THEM ALL. 
          OKAY. 
          SO ALL OF 'EM. 
          IS THAT COST REFLECTED IN THIS BUDGET, THE TOTAL COST OR WHAT? UH, NOT THE TOTAL COST. 
          SO FOR INSTANCE, ON THE GENERATORS, FOR INSTANCE, WE HAVE MORE FACILITIES THAT WE NEED GENERATORS THAN WHAT WE HAVE TODAY. 
          UM, SO, SO NO, UH, AND WHAT WE CAN DO IS, AS WE START THE BOND PROGRAM, WE PLAN TO MAKE IT A PRIORITY TO GO AHEAD AND INCORPORATE SOME OF THOSE ADDITIONAL FACILITIES. 
          THEY'RE ALSO, UH, AS PART OF THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN, THEY ARE DRAINAGE PROJECTS THAT ARE BEING RECOMMENDED, UH, IN, IN THE HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN. 
          THAT WILL BE PRIORITY FOR THE BOND PROGRAM. 
          OKAY. 
          I'LL CHIME BACK IN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, I'LL JUST NOTE FOR THE RECORD THAT THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, HAS LOST A QUORUM, BUT SINCE WE'RE BRIEFING ONLY, UH, WE CAN CONTINUE WITH THE DISCUSSION. 
          AM AM I CORRECT ABOUT THAT, ANDY? THAT'S CORRECT, MAYOR. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT, WE'LL GO NOW TO COUNCIL MEMBER ANAS SANDOVAL. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          AND THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER FOR RESTORING THE QUORUM. 
          UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PRESENTATION TODAY. 
          UM, I'M GOING TO, UH, START WITH, WITH FIRE. 
          UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR ALL OF THEIR WORK THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC. 
          UH, I THINK WE'D BE IN A VERY DIFFERENT PLACE WITHOUT THE, THE SKILL AND THE DEDICATION OF YOUR TEAM. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR SITTING ON THOSE CALLS WITH US ON MONDAYS, . 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SO I'M GONNA GO BACK TO A QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED EARLIER BY, UH, COUNCILWOMAN CASTILLO, BUT I'M NOT SURE WE GOT QUITE, UH, AN ANSWER. 
          IT'S 
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ABOUT THE FIREWORKS IMPLEMENTATION. 
          SO I THINK MOST COMMUNITIES WILL BE VERY GLAD, MOST NEIGHBORHOODS ARE GOING TO BE VERY GLAD TO SEE FIREWORKS, UH, ENFORCEMENT, UH, BUDGETED THIS YEAR. 
          AND THAT THERE WILL BE DEDICATED INDIVIDUALS, UH, TO, TO ENFORCE THAT. 
          WHAT CAN THE PUBLIC EXPECT, UM, THIS, YOU KNOW, THIS NEW YEAR'S EVE? LIKE, WHAT, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT AS BASICALLY A, YOU KNOW, RESPONSE TIME, UH, ENFORCEMENT, IF YOU, IF YOU COULD TELL ME IN, YOU KNOW, TWO MINUTES OR LESS , YOU KNOW WHAT, I, I, I DON'T WANT TO, UH, INCREASE YOUR EXPECTATIONS AS FAR AS RESPONSE TIME, BECAUSE IT IS GONNA BE VERY DIFFICULT TO GET TO SOME OF THOSE TYPES OF RUNS. 
          WE'LL BE ABLE TO HAVE A BETTER IDEA AS FAR AS METRICS ONCE WE GET TO NEW YEAR'S EVE AND KIND OF SEE WHAT THAT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE. 
          BUT AGAIN, THE GOAL IS TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND, TO BE RESPONSIVE, TO HAVE SOMEONE SHOW UP. 
          AND, UH, BUT A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE GET THESE CALLS, BY THE TIME WE GET THERE, WHOEVER SHOT THE FIREWORKS, THEY'RE GONE. 
          AND SO SOME OF THAT ENFORCEMENT PIECE MAY BE DIFFICULT, BUT, UM, WE'LL HAVE BETTER NUMBERS FOR YOU. 
          BUT THE PLAN IS FOR OUR FOLKS TO GO OUT, TRY TO ANSWER AS MANY CALLS AS POSSIBLE. 
          SAN ANTONIO LOOKS LIKE BEIRUT, NEW YEAR'S EVE, 4TH OF JULY, SO WE'RE NEVER GOING TO STOP THEM. 
          BUT I THINK BY HAVING SOME ENFORCEMENT, BY PEOPLE ACTUALLY SHOWING UP WRITING CITATIONS, THAT MAY BE A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR OTHER PEOPLE. 
          ALRIGHT, WONDERFUL. 
          MAYBE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHIEF. 
          UH, MAYBE IF A LITTLE BIT BEFORE NEW YEAR'S EVE, WE COULD GET AN UPDATE ON, ON PLANS FOR ENFORCEMENT. 
          SURE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, YOU, YOU MENTIONED, UH, THAT THERE ARE SOME WOMEN WHO HAVE TESTED MULTIPLE TIMES TO GET INTO THE DEPARTMENT AND THAT YOU RAN INTO ONE OF THEM BY CHANCE. 
          AND I, I WONDERED IF IT'D BE POSSIBLE TO SET UP SOME KIND OF OUTREACH MECHANISM TO ALL WOMEN WHO DO TEST FOR THE DEPARTMENT, WHETHER OR NOT THEY, THEY MAKE IT IN SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO JUST, YOU KNOW, BE LUCKY AND RUN INTO YOU BY CHANCE? WELL, THAT THERE IS AN OUTREACH, AND SO WHEN I SAY LUCKY AND I RAN HER BY CHANCE, SHE REMINDED ME THAT I RAN INTO HER. 
          AND SO WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION, UM, THE DAY BEFORE SHE GRADUATED. 
          BUT, UM, WE GO OUT AND MAKE A, TRY TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH EVERY FEMALE THAT IS TAKING THIS TEST AND OFFER THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO THE ACADEMY AND BUILD THAT STRENGTH. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE DID FOR HER. 
          AND SO, UM, THERE IS OUTREACH AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO COME BACK AND TEST AGAIN. 
          SO ABOUT HOW MANY WOMEN TEST, UH, FOR A GIVEN TEST, UM, I COULD GET THAT. 
          WE'LL GET THAT NUMBER TO YOU. 
          UM, THAT'S AN EASY NUMBER FOR US TO GET, BUT AS I MENTIONED, THE INCREASE HAS BEEN 98% AS FAR AS FEMALES SHOWING UP AND TAKING THE TEST. 
          GREAT. 
          AND I, I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, LANGUAGE ACCESS. 
          THE COUNCILMAN ROCHA GARCIA BROUGHT THIS UP AND, AND YOU DID TALK ABOUT THAT TECHNOLOGY, UH, BEING AVAILABLE, WHICH I, I THINK IS GREAT BECAUSE YOU CAN'T PREDICT ALL THE LANGUAGES THAT, THAT ARE GOING TO BE OUT THERE. 
          BUT I DO BELIEVE WE CAN PREDICT SOME, AND I THINK WE KNOW THAT, UH, SPANISH LANGUAGE IS, IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 
          I HAD MENTIONED THIS TO, TO MARIA DURING THE PANDEMIC, WHEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WENT OUT TO THE SAHA PROPERTIES TO, UM, FOR, FOR VACCINATING, UH, WE, WE SENT ONE OF MY BILINGUAL STAFF MEMBERS TO THE PROPERTIES IN DISTRICT SEVEN BECAUSE ON THOSE PARTICULAR OCCASIONS, UH, WE WEREN'T ABLE TO PLACE A SPANISH SPEAKING, UM, E M S OR, OR MEDIC OR, OR FIREFIGHTER THERE. 
          SO I, I'M GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO HELP. 
          UM, BUT IT SEEMED LIKE THERE WAS VERY LITTLE FLEXIBILITY IN TERMS OF THE, AT LEAST THE SPANISH SPEAKING FIREFIGHTERS. 
          SO WHAT I WOULD, UM, LIKE TO RECOMMEND, OR MAYBE YOU'RE ALREADY DOING THIS, WE HAVE A TUITION REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM. 
          IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN INCENTIVIZE THAT FURTHER FOR A SPANISH LANGUAGE, UH, TO, TO ENCOURAGE FIREFIGHTERS TO, TO TAKE THAT PARTICULAR LANGUAGE? AND I, WE DO HAVE A PAY PREMIUM, IS THAT RIGHT? AND WHAT IS THE PAY PREMIUM AND, AND HOW MANY, HOW MANY FIREFIGHTERS TAKE THAT PAY PREMIUM? SO $50 A MONTH IS A STIPEND FOR THOSE THAT SPEAK SPANISH. 
          AND DO WE KNOW THE NUMBER? WE'LL GET THAT NUMBER FOR YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN. 
          I, I KNOW SOMEONE WHO WAS ADVOCATING FOR MORE MONEY FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR A HIGHER PREMIUM THAN 50, $50 A MONTH. 
          I THINK THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT SKILL SET TO HAVE. 
          IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN IN AN EMERGENCY OR HAD YOUR, YOU FELT LIKE YOUR LIFE WAS ON THE LINE AND YOU CAN'T COMMUNICATE WITH THE PERSON AROUND YOU, YOU'RE ALREADY SO, UM, SO BEWILDERED, UH, HAVING A VOICE THAT CAN SPEAK IN YOUR LANGUAGE CAN REALLY MAKE 
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A HUGE DIFFERENCE. 
          SO I, I WOULD STRONGLY OR, OR JUST TO LOOK FOR ADDITIONAL, UH, WAYS TO ENCOURAGE THAT. 
          SO, UM, I KNOW THAT THAT'S THE SITUATION MY PARENTS WOULD BE IN. 
          THAT'S A SITUATION THE COUNCILMAN'S PARENTS WOULD BE IN TOO. 
          SO. 
          AND MY MOM TOO. 
          SO, YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO JUST TALKING TO DEPUTY CHIEF MEAD. 
          SO THE, THE EVENT WITH A VACCINATION, WE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PUT SOMEONE THAT COULD SPEAK THE LANGUAGE, BUT AT OUR DISPATCH CENTER, THERE'S ALWAYS THAT CAPABILITY OF SOMEONE TO SPEAK SPANISH WHEN YOU CALL 9 1 1. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          JUST SO YOU KNOW THAT. 
          NO, THANK YOU. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S GREAT. 
          UM, AND IN TERMS OF THE NEW POSITIONS THAT WE'RE HIRING FOR THE CLINICAL DISPATCHERS, WILL THAT BE THE CASE AS WELL? YES, MA'AM. 
          SO WE'RE HIRING EIGHT. 
          AND WILL, I GUESS, HOW WILL YOU ENSURE THAT SOME OF THEM SPEAK THE, SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE? WELL, THE FIRST THING WE'RE GONNA DO IS THE SAME PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING THE CLINICAL DISPATCHERS ARE HAND IN HAND WITH THE OTHER DISPATCHERS. 
          UM, SO WHEN WE BRING ON THOSE EIGHT, THOSE EIGHT ARE GONNA BE HIRED, THOSE EIGHT WILL BE TRAINED AS PARAMEDICS. 
          AND SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS USE THAT, UTILIZE THE OVERTIME UNTIL WE CAN BUILD THE CADRE UP OF THOSE EIGHT. 
          BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE TRANSLATION SERVICES AT DISPATCH THAT WILL BE HAND IN HAND WITH THE CLINICAL DISPATCHERS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, SORRY, I DON'T UNDERSTAND. 
          WILL THE CLINICAL DISPATCHERS SPEAK SPANISH? THEY WILL HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO SPEAK SPANISH IF SOMEONE CALLS THE CAPABILITY TO SPEAK SPANISH. 
          WHY ARE YOU SAYING CAPABILITY? LIKE THEY WILL SPEAK SPANISH? YES, MA'AM. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          SORRY, I THOUGHT YOU WERE PERHAPS REFERRING TO THE INTERPRETATION TECHNOLOGY. 
          NO, THE CAPABILITY TO CONVERSE. 
          OKAY. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHIEF. 
          UM, MARIA, I DO HAVE SOME COMMENTS ON THE, UH, RESILIENCY, UH, TOPIC. 
          UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK, UM, THE MAYOR FOR PUTTING THE COMMITTEE ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS TOGETHER, UH, CHAIR WILLIAMS FOR LEADING THAT EFFORT. 
          AND, UM, COUNCILMAN COURAGE FOR LEADING THE, THE COMMITTEE ON, UH, MUNICIPAL UTILITIES. 
          UM, YOU GAVE US A, UM, WELL, A COUPLE THINGS WHEN WE GO INTO THE RESILIENCY STUDY THAT THAT IS BEING PROPOSED, WHICH WE'RE ALL VERY GLAD TO SEE, THAT WAS, UM, SOMETHING THAT WE WERE RECOMMENDING. 
          UH, YOU TALKED ABOUT GETTING OUR INPUT IN TERMS OF WHAT DIRECTION THAT MIGHT TAKE. 
          AND I, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          UM, I THINK AS WE MAKE THAT DECISION, SOMETHING THAT WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW IS WHERE ARE OUR BIGGEST VULNERABILITIES AS A, AS A COMMUNITY? AND THAT'S, UH, INFORMATION I WOULD WANT TO WEIGH INTO MAKING THAT DECISION. 
          UM, I HAVE A, A SOFT SPOT FOR FLOOD RISK . 
          WE HAVE A LOT OF THAT IN, IN D SEVEN AND A COUPLE YEARS AGO I HAD REQUESTED THAT WE DO A PILOT PROGRAM FOR HOMEOWNERS TO REDUCE, UH, FLOOD DAMAGE ON THEIR PROPERTIES BY TEACHING THEM AND HELPING THEM PURCHASE GUTTERS, RAIN BARRELS, ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. 
          AND I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT WE RE-LOOK AT THAT. 
          UM, AGAIN, UM, UH, LASTLY, YOU, YOU GAVE US THE DEFINITION OF RESILIENCE AND THERE IS A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. 
          AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALL CONSCIOUS OF THAT BECAUSE SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAVE, UH, THAT YOU GAVE US IN THE LAST SLIDE, I THINK THEY'RE ALL, UM, NECESSARY AND THEY SHOULD ALL BE LOOKED AT. 
          BUT I WOULD SAY SOME OF THEM FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. 
          SO FOR INSTANCE, UM, WE HAD, UH, WE DIDN'T HAVE POWER, RIGHT? AT SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE STATIONS. 
          IT WASN'T ONLY BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A GENERATOR, BUT I THINK IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE VULNERABILITY OF THE GRID. 
          SO WHAT WE REALLY WANNA DO TO INVEST IN RESILIENCE IS TO INVEST IN THE RESILIENCE OF THE GRID. 
          AND HAVING, UM, HAVING THE GENERATOR ALONE MIGHT NOT DO THAT, BUT HAVING MORE DISTRIBUTED, UH, ENERGY SOURCES WILL HELP US DO THAT. 
          SO THAT'S WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO COLLABORATE WITH, WITH C P S ON THAT. 
          SO I GUESS I, I JUST WANNA BE CAREFUL, WHEN WE LOOK BACK 10 YEARS FROM NOW AND SAY WE INVESTED $5 MILLION IN RESILIENCE, IT WAS MOSTLY AN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. 
          UM, I, I DO THINK WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE SURE WE CONTINUE INVESTING IN CLIMATE, UH, CLIMATE ACTION AND ADAPTATION. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , UH, I HAD A, A PARTICIPANT IN ONE OF OUR WORKSHOPS, UM, BASICALLY IDENTIFY THAT WE DON'T HAVE A PROJECT RIGHT NOW THAT'S DIRECTLY IN THE BUDGET, SORRY, ALMOST DONE. 
          THAT'S DIRECTLY GOING TO REDUCE EMISSIONS. 
          AND I KNOW THAT'S NOT YOUR AREA AND WHY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE. 
          SO, UM, MAYBE WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN WE DISCUSS SUSTAINABILITY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, UH, WE'LL GO NOW TO COUNCILMEMBER CASTILLO. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          AND I'LL TRY AND PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF 'CAUSE THOSE WERE MY, SOME OF MY CONCERNS. 
          UM, I'M GLAD TO SEE, UH, THE WORK ON THE RESILIENCY PLAN. 
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HOWEVER, WE KNOW THAT THE WORK STARTS BEFORE THE DISASTER HITS. 
          AND I HAVE SOME GENERAL QUESTIONS THAT WE CAN ADDRESS OFFLINE. 
          UM, AND IT'S PRIMARILY, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO FOR PREVENTION? ARE WE GOING TO SHIFT TO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION? ARE WE GOING TO POTENTIALLY INCENTIVIZE RAINWATER CATCHMENT SYSTEMS? ARE WE GOING TO PRIORITIZE AND CHAMPION, UH, THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE AMENDMENTS THAT PRIORITIZE OR ARE MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY CON UH, CONSCIOUS? UM, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS AROUND THE RESILIENCY PLAN. 
          UM, I HAVE A COUPLE REGARDING THE MENTAL HEALTH OUTREACH TEAM. 
          UM, I KNOW WHAT I LEARNED IN MY BRIEFING WITH THE CHIEF HOOD IS THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE CALLS WERE MENTAL HEALTH CALLS. 
          UM, SO I'D LIKE TO MAKE THE STRONG RECOMMENDATION, UM, FOR THE HEALTH OUTREACH TEAM THAT IT'S A PSYCHIATRIST, UM, BECAUSE WHEN SPEAKING TO MANY OF THE UNHOUSED FOLKS IN, IN DISTRICT FIVE, MANY OF THE BARRIERS THAT THEY FACE IS ACCESS TO GETTING A PRESCRIPTION FOR THEIR MEDICATION. 
          AND A PSYCHIATRIST CAN PROVIDE THAT SUPPORT. 
          UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR, UM, FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH. 
          AND THEN, UM, GIVEN MARIO'S COMMENTS, UM, WITH THE UPCOMING PLANNING COMMITTEE, UM, IN REGARDS TO THE U D C, CAN WE HAVE A CONVERSATION AROUND, UH, THE EARTH IN CONSTRUCTION CODE, UH, ERIC OR CHIEF HOOD? YES, MA'AM. 
          AND I THINK WE HAVE A BRIEFING COMING UP WITH ON U D C BECAUSE THAT PROCESS WILL BE PICKING UP. 
          UH, WE CAN ALSO TALK ABOUT THAT WHEN WE COULD DO THE D S D BUDGET, THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES BUDGET. 
          BUT CERTAINLY AS WE GO INTO THE U D C PROCESS, UM, WE WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COUNCIL TO HAVE A POLICY CONVERSATION. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          NO FURTHER COMMENTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY? YES, SIR. 
          UM, MARIA, I JUST HAD A COUPLE OF OTHER FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS HERE AT THE E O C. 
          WHO'S IN CHARGE AT THE E O C TODAY? SO WE, THE E O C, UH, I'M SORRY. 
          THE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT IS UNDER THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          SO CHIEF HOOD IS THE, THE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBLE, UH, PARTY. 
          WE HAVE A, UM, UH, BATTALION CHIEF, UM, MARK TREVINO, WHO IS OUR, UH, PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE, OF THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO IS, IS HE A PERMANENT HIRE FOR THAT POSITION OR ARE WE LOOKING AT HE'S HE'S IN INTERIM RIGHT NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING SOMEONE. 
          WE WILL BE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING SO. 
          SO WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY PUT IN THE REC FOR THAT YET TO HIRE A NEW PERSON. 
          I MEAN, HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN VACANT NOW? IT'S BEEN VACANT FOR THREE MONTHS, PROBABLY SINCE FOUR MONTHS. 
          MARCH OR APRIL. 
          YEAH. 
          SO CHIEF TREVINO IS ASSIGNED THERE, UM, ALONG WITH, UM, UH, CAPTAIN BE CHRIS BENAVIDEZ FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          BOTH OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS ARE ASSIGNED AT THE E O C ALONG WITH THE STAFF. 
          UM, AND WE'VE NOT MADE A PERMANENT SELECTION AT THAT POINT RIGHT NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING. 
          WELL, WE DON'T, THERE'S A, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BECAUSE, UM, IF THAT INDIVIDUAL IS A, A BATTALION CHIEF OR A POLICE CAPTAIN, THAT INDIVIDUAL ALREADY WORKS HERE. 
          SO WHEN YOU SAY HIRE, I'M THINKING ASSIGNED. 
          THAT'S WHY, THAT'S WHY I'M LOOKING AT THAT. 
          NO, I I, WE HAD SOMEBODY THAT STEPPED DOWN YES. 
          FOUR MONTHS AGO. 
          ARE WE HIRING, WHERE ARE WE IN THAT HIRING PROCESS TO REPLACE IT? WE ARE, WE ARE MOVING THROUGH THAT PROCESS RIGHT NOW. 
          AND IN THE MEANTIME WE'VE GOT BATTALION CHIEF MARK TREVINO IS THE INTERIM ASSIGNED OVER THERE. 
          OKAY. 
          WHEN DO YOU THINK WE'LL HAVE THAT? HIGHER SHORTLY. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SHORTLY. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UM, THE, UM, SLIDE NUMBER, SLIDE NUMBER EIGHT. 
          UH, AND I KNOW IT'S, UH, COULD BE A COMBINATION OF THE ONES THAT ARE UNDER NATURAL, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE HURRICANES UNDER THERE. 
          DON'T WE GET, WHY DON'T WE HAVE HURRICANES LISTED UNDER THAT? SO THE, THE PLANNING TEAM AND THE CONSULTANT THAT WAS RETAINED, UH, PICKED TORNADO AS MORE OF A POSSIBILITY OF A CHANCE HAPPENING HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO THE WAY THAT THEY SELECT THE, THE HAZARDS ARE BASED ON HISTORICAL TRENDS. 
          AND WHEN YOU SEE THE DOCUMENT THAT WE ARE GONNA SHARE WITH YOU, IT'LL TELL YOU THE FREQUENCY OF THOSE EVENTS, UH, HERE IN SAN ANTONIO AND, AND THE PROCESS FOR SELECTING THOSE. 
          OKAY. 
          I I JUST THOUGHT THAT WAS, 'CAUSE WE, WE WENT ALL OUT FOR HURRICANE HARVEY AND DID A GREAT JOB TOO. 
          SURE. 
          SO, UM, JUST NOTICE THAT, THAT, UH, GOSH, WHY DON'T WE LIST HURRICANES ON THERE? 'CAUSE WE DO GET AFFECTED HERE BY HURRICANES. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND OUR PREPARATION COUNCILMEN WILL ALLOW US TO BE ABLE TO PIVOT TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UH, IN THIS CASE, THE, THE HAZARD THAT WAS SELECTED WAS A TORNADO. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN THE, THE LAST ONE, UM, I THINK IT'S THE LAST ONE, SLIDE 11, IT SAYS PURCHASE OF GENERATORS. 
          AND WE'VE ALREADY HAD DISCUSSION ON THAT FOR SOME FIRE AND POLICE STATIONS. 
          WHAT DOES THAT REALLY MEAN? 
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I MEAN, SHOULDN'T EVERY FIRE AND POLICE STATION HAVE A GENERATOR FOR BACKUP? YES, IT SHOULD. 
          UH, WE CANNOT AFFORD TO DO ALL OF THEM AT ONCE. 
          SO THE INVESTMENT RIGHT NOW WE THINK IS GONNA US DO SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 15 TO 20 FACILITIES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE ARE GONNA GO THROUGH THE PROCESS, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, IDENTIFYING THOSE TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE CITY. 
          UH, NUMBER TWO, UH, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, UH, PURCHASE THE RIGHT TYPE OF GENERATOR. 
          UM, THERE MAY BE OTHER TECHNOLOGY I HEAR MAYBE FOR FIRE STATIONS THAT MAY BE LESS EXPENSIVE THAN A GENERATOR, BUT PROVIDES THE SAME EFFECT. 
          SO THAT IS THE WORK THAT WE'LL BE DOING IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO 15 TO 20, WHAT'S THE ENTIRE SCOPE? SO WE HAVE 53 FIRE STATIONS AND SIX POLICE SUBSTATIONS. 
          SO CLOSE TO 60 FACILITIES. 
          SO WE ARE ALSO GONNA BE RECOMMENDING TO THE COUNCIL TO INCORPORATE SOME OF THOSE FACILITIES AS PART OF THE BOND PROGRAM. 
          OKAY. 
          SO 60 TOTAL OR 60 THAT NEED BACKUP GENERATION 60 TOTAL. 
          I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY NEED THE BACKUP GENERATOR. 
          THERE ARE SOME OF OUR NEWER FACILITIES THAT HAVE, UM, GENERATORS THAT MAY BE ABLE TO SERVE FOR THE PURPOSE THAT, UM, THAT WE WANT, WHICH IS IF THERE'S NO ELECTRICITY THAT, THAT THIS, UM, GENERATOR IS ABLE TO POWER THE ENTIRE FACILITY FACILITY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAVE AT THE E O C. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH, I'D LIKE TO GET THAT NUMBER. 
          SURE. 
          WHAT, WHAT IS THE TOTAL REQUIREMENT? SURE. 
          IF YOU, YOU SAY YOU GOT 15 TO 20 IN THIS BUDGET, WHAT'S THE TOTAL SCOPE OF THAT? SURE. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAD. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. 
          UM, AND I'LL CLOSE THE DISCUSSION. 
          I HAS A FEW QUESTIONS, UH, AND A FEW COMMENTS. 
          FIRST, UH, JUST WANTED TO REMARK CHIEF, UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM. 
          I THINK AMIDST ALL OF THE CHAOS AND INFORMATION DURING COVID, WE FORGET THAT YOU GUYS WERE FIRST IN LAST OUT AND CONTINUE TO FACE A, A CRISIS EVERY DAY. 
          I WAS LOOKING AT THE, UM, E M S RUNS YESTERDAY, AND WHILE OUR NUMBERS WERE DOWN, WE HAD THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF E M SS CALLS FOR, UH, COVID, UH, RELATED ISSUES YESTERDAY. 
          SO WE HOPE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE STARTING TO SEE SOME PLATEAUING IN THE HOSPITALIZATIONS AND, AND THINGS ARE MAYBE STARTING TO IMPROVE, BUT, UM, THE WORK CONTINUES FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          WE THANK YOU GREATLY FOR THE WORK YOU GUYS ARE DOING, UH, IN ADDITION TO ALL THE OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS. 
          GREAT WORK. 
          UM, AND I DO ALSO WANNA NOTE THAT IT IS RECOGNIZED AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE RESPONSE TO C O I D HAS BEEN A NATIONAL MODEL IN, UH, INNOVATIONS LIKE OUR HOME BOUND SENIOR PROGRAM THAT WE WERE EARLY IMPLEMENTERS OF WITH REGARD TO GETTING VACCINES TO OUR MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS. 
          SO KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK. 
          UM, I WANTED TO, UH, PICK UP ON WHAT COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL AND CASTILLO WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH SLIDE NINE, UH, ON THE RESILIENCE. 
          UM, SLIDE NINE, I THINK IN EMERGENCY OPS, AND I AGREE, UH, A HUNDRED PERCENT WITH WHAT COUN COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL WAS SAYING. 
          WHEN I LOOK AT THE EIGHT AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, UH, ALLOCATED FOR THESE PARTICULAR PROJECTS, THEY'RE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT PROJECTS RELATED ALMOST DIRECTLY TO, UH, THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE. 
          AND THEY'RE NEEDED, THEY'RE PROBABLY HIGHEST OF THE LIST OF OUR, UH, RESILIENCE, UM, AND EMERGENCY, UM, BOLSTERING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          UM, BUT WHAT I WANT TO MAKE NOTE OF IS THAT I WANT TO BE CAUTIOUS NOT TO PUT FENCE LINES AROUND THIS TERM RESILIENCE AND CONSIDER THAT THE WORK AND RESILIENCE IS PARTICULARLY AS WE GO INTO AN INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM AND OUR BOND PROGRAM, AND WE'RE USING RESILIENCY AS AN EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR ALL OF OUR PROJECTS. 
          UM, WHEN I THINK ABOUT HOW ARE WE GOING TO MITIGATE RISK, IMPROVE OUR HARDENING OF INFRASTRUCTURE, ENSURE THAT COMMUNITIES NOT JUST INFRASTRUCTURE CAN SURVIVE AND THEN THRIVE THROUGH ANY FORM OF DISASTER, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE CONSIDERING RESILIENCE TO BE A, A MEASURE OF ALL THINGS THAT WE DO AS A CITY AS OPPOSED TO A PARTICULAR PART OF THE BUDGET. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST AGAIN, WANT TO WANT TO NOTE THAT THOSE PROJECTS AND THAT EIGHT AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS ARE DIRECT SPENDS RELATED TO OUR RESPONSE TO THE IMMEDIATE, UH, AFTERMATH OF, OF YURI AND THE THINGS THAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED THIS YEAR. 
          BUT THE WORK AND RESILIENCE IS GONNA BE $1.2 BILLION OF PRIORITIES IN THE 22 BOND, FOR INSTANCE. 
          UM, SO NOT REALLY A QUESTION, JUST AGAIN, AN ORIENTATION OF HOW WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE DOLLARS. 
          AND I ALSO DO WANT TO AGREE AND UNDERSCORE WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, AYA HAS TALKED ABOUT WITH REGARD TO CYBER, UH, RESILIENCE, CYBERSECURITY. 
          ERIC, YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT, UH, BEFORE ABOUT BRINGING 
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SOMEONE IN WHO CAN EVALUATE ALL OF OUR SYSTEMS, UH, FROM A CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE STANDPOINT AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, UH, UH, IMPROVING OUR, OUR RISK TOLERANCE, UH, WITH REGARD TO DIGITAL AND, AND, UM, INFORMATION SECURITY. 
          UH, LAST THING I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT, AND I, I HAVE DIRECTLY EXPERIENCED THE BENEFIT OF THE WELLNESS CENTER, UH, FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE IMPORTANCE OF, UH, HAVING AN ATHLETIC TRAINER, AN ATHLETIC, UH, TRAINING PHILOSOPHY OF HOW WE, UH, PREVENT AND RECOVER FROM INJURIES, WHICH I KNOW PROBABLY EVERYBODY IN THE UNIFORM HAS EXPERIENCED IN ONE WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. 
          HAVE WE DONE ANY SORT OF ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS, COST AVOIDANCE ANALYSIS OF THAT PARTICULAR ENTERPRISE? UM, AND IF SO, COULD WE GET SOME INSIGHT INTO THAT? BECAUSE I BELIEVE, AND I DON'T HAVE ANY DATA TO BACK IT UP, BUT I BELIEVE THAT INVESTMENTS IN THAT ARE SAVING MAN HOURS, UH, THEY'RE SAVING, UM, COSTS FROM A HEALTH INSURANCE STANDPOINT. 
          AND THE MORE THAT WE CAN, UH, INCORPORATE WHAT YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, PERHAPS IN OTHER FRONTLINE EMPLOYEES, WHETHER IT'S SOLID WASTE OR POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE MORE THAT WE CAN SCALE IN THOSE AREAS OF WELLNESS, THE MORE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE BETTER OFF OUR PERSONNEL WILL BE, BUT ALSO THE BETTER OFF OUR FINANCES WILL BE. 
          MAYOR, WE'LL GET YOU THAT INFORMATION. 
          I KNOW WE HAVE IT. 
          UM, DINA'S ONE OF OUR, YOU KNOW, SHE'S A GODSEND AS FAR AS GETTING OUR MEN AND WOMEN BACK ON THE TRUCKS WHEN THEY HAVE THOSE LITTLE NAGGING INJURIES. 
          SO WE KNOW THAT IT'S HELPING IN OUR STAFFING, IT'S KEEPING MEDICAL COSTS DOWN. 
          UM, IT'S HELPING US WITH THE MORALE AS FAR AS, UH, WHEN, WHEN YOU'RE HURT, YOU DON'T FEEL GOOD. 
          SO SHE TAKES CARE OF THAT FOR US. 
          SO WE HAVE THAT DATA, WE'LL GET IT FOR YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I, AND I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US AS WE, AS WE THINK ABOUT HOW WE'RE HANDLING HEALTH COSTS FOR, FOR THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION. 
          THE OTHER THING I'D SAY IS THAT I'M ALSO A BELIEVER IN THE FRONT END OF THIS AS WELL WITH THE STRENGTH TRAINING, UH, THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS DOING. 
          I KNOW A LOT OF FOLKS THAT ACTUALLY DO THAT KIND OF TRAINING WITH, UH, THE, THE, THE CADETS AND OTHERS. 
          AND SO, UH, THE MORE WE CAN CONTINUE TO DEMONSTRATE THE VALUE OF THAT, I THINK, AND I I DON'T THINK I'M MISTAKEN, IS THAT, UH, SAN ANTONIO IS, IS A LEADER IN THESE FIELDS, UH, NOT JUST HERE IN TEXAS BUT ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 
          SO IF WE CAN CONTINUE TO LEAN INTO THAT AND BE AN INNOVATOR WITHIN, WITHIN THE COUNTRY, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD BRAND FOR US. 
          SO, UM, I'M ALL FOR IT. 
          THANK YOU SIR. 
          HEALTH AND WELLNESS IS CRITICAL TO US, SO THANK YOU. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU CHIEF. 
          UM, THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT. 
          AGAIN, THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY, UH, WHO HAS PRESENTED TODAY. 
          OBVIOUSLY THE WORK THAT YOU DO, UM, GOES WITHOUT A LOT OF FANFARE, BUT HAS BEEN SO CRITICAL, UH, ESPECIALLY DURING THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. 
          SO GREAT JOB. 
          UM, 
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At any time during the meeting, the City Council may recess into executive session in the B Room to consult with the City Attorney's Office (Texas Government Code Section 551.071) and deliberate or discuss any of the following:
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IT IS, UH, ACTUALLY ONE O'CLOCK RIGHT ON THE DOT AND WE HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO GET TO, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA COME BACK IN HERE FOR THE SECOND PART OF OUR, UH, BUDGET PRESENTATION. 
          SO LET ME CALL IT NOW. 
          THE TIME IS 1:00 PM ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25TH, 2021. 
          THE CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL NOW MEET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT COACH SECTION 5 5 1 0.071 AND DELIBERATE DISCUSS THE FOLLOW ITEMS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 8 7, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE LEASE OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 2. 
          DISCUSS PERSONNEL MATTERS RELATED TO APPOINTED OFFICIALS, INCLUDING THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 4 IN TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 IN CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ISSUES RELATED ADVICE TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LITIGATION INVOLVING THE CITY C OVID 19 PREPAREDNESS AND OPEN MEETING PROCEDURES UNDER 5 5 1 0 7. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. 
          TIME IS 2:43 PM ON THIS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25TH, 2021 IN THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE'LL NOW MEET, RECONVENE, AN OPEN SESSION, NO OFFICIAL ACTION WAS TAKEN IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          I DO WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR PATIENCE, UH, AS WE WERE WRAPPING UP AN EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          THE CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN GOING STRONG SINCE 10:00 AM THIS MORNING, UH, WITH NO BREAKS. 
          UH, SO WE'LL CONTINUE AND AGAIN, APOLOGIZE TO KEEP GOING, EVERYBODY WAITING IN THE CHAMBERS. 
          UH, SO WITH, UM, WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO, WE DO HAVE A FEW PRESENTATIONS FOR OUR AFTERNOON SESSION. 
          UM, WE CAN GO AHEAD AND KICK OFF HERE AS SOON AS OUR CITY MANAGER RETURNS. 
          JUST DO IT FROM HERE, MAYOR. 
          UM, SO, UH, WE, WE PART TWO OF OUR BUDGET WORK SESSION THIS AFTERNOON. 
          WE'LL START OFF WITH, UH, PATRICIA AND OUR CONVENTION OF SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT FACILITY BUDGET. 
          WE'LL TRANSITION TO DEBBIE AND OUR ARTS AND CULTURAL, UM, BUDGET 
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AND THEN WRAP IT UP WITH, UH, MARK ANDERSON, THE C E O OF V S A. 
          SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO PATRICIA AND SHE'S GONNA BE HELPING ME. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          MY NAME IS PATRICIA MUS. 
          AS, UH, MR. WALSH MENTIONED, I AM THE DIRECTOR OF THE CONVENTION SPORTS FACILITIES DEPARTMENT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT OUR DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 22. 
          AS A DIRECTOR OF THE CONVENTION SPORTS FACILITIES DEPARTMENT, I, ALONG WITH A GREAT TEAM MANAGE THE OPERATIONS OF THE CONVENTION CENTER, THE HENRY B. GONZALEZ CONVENTION CENTER, THE ALAMO DOME, AND THE CARVER COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER. 
          I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW OF OUR FACILITIES FOR THOSE MEMBERS THAT ARE NEW. 
          THE HENRY B. GONZALEZ CONVENTION CENTER IS A 1.6 MILLION SQUARE FOOT FACILITY WITH OVER 500,000 SQUARE FEET OF EXHIBIT SPACE. 
          PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC, THE CONVENTION CENTER HELD AN AVERAGE OF 300 EVENTS A YEAR WITH OVER 800,000 DELEGATES FROM AROUND THE WORLD. 
          THE A, UH, THE ALAMO DOME IS A MULTI-PURPOSE FACILITY WITH 65,000 SEATS. 
          THE ALAMO DOME HAS AN AVERAGE OF 115 EVENT DAYS PER YEAR AND HAS ATTENDANCE OF ABOUT CLOSE TO A MILLION PEOPLE. 
          THE CARVER COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER IS COMPRISED OF THE JOLONG THEATER AND THE LITTLE CARVER, AND, UM, IT IS A THRIVING HUB ON THE EAST SIDE FOR, UH, COMMUNITY, UH, EVENTS, EDUCATIONAL EVENTS, AS WELL AS CULTURAL PERFORMANCES. 
          PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC, UH, THE BOTH THEATERS HELD ABOUT 300 EVENTS A YEAR AND HAD ATTENDANCE OF OVER 40,000. 
          THE DEPARTMENT IS ALSO, UH, RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING SEVERAL LEASES, INCLUDING ELISE FOR NELSON WOLF STADIUM. 
          THE BASEBALL STADIUM IS OWNED BY THE CITY AND IT IS OPERATED BY THE SAN ANTONIO MISSIONS BASEBALL TEAM. 
          THE DEPARTMENT IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING A LEASE FOR THE TOYOTA FIELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH A COUNTY, UH, UNDER A PUBLIC FACILITIES CORPORATION, BOTH THE CITY AND THE COUNTY OWN TOYOTA FIELD AND THE MINOR LEAGUE SOCCER STADIUM IS OPERATED BY THE SPUR SPORTS ORGANIZATION. 
          NEXT, OUR MISSION STATEMENT SPEAKS TO WHAT WE AS A DEPARTMENT ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT. 
          IT IS INGRAINED IN EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE, AND ESPECIALLY NOW DURING THE, UH, PANDEMIC, AND IT IS TO ENRICH SAN ANTONIO'S ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY THROUGH EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE, EVENTS, AND FACILITIES. 
          IN SPITE OF THE EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC ON OUR INDUSTRY, I AM PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR TEAM HAD SOME GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 
          IN FISCAL YEAR 22, OUR FACILITIES, ALONG WITH SAN ANTONIO SPORTS AND THE UNIVERSITY HOSTING INSTITUTIONS WERE ABLE TO TURN A THREE DAY CHAMPIONSHIP BID WIN INTO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SAN ANTONIO TO HOST THE ENTIRE NCAA WOMEN'S DIVISION ONE A BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT. 
          THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN NCAA HISTORY THAT THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED. 
          IN ONE AREA, 238 EVENTS WERE, UH, HELD AT THE CONVENTION CENTER. 
          UH, OR PRACTICES WERE HELD AT THE CONVENTION CENTER. 
          108 PRACTICES WERE HELD AT THE ALAMO DOM AS WELL AS 35 NATIONALLY TELEVISED GAMES. 
          THE NCAA TOURNAMENT HAD AN ESTIMATED 27 MILLION IN ECONOMIC IMPACT TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND FILLED APPROXIMATELY 37,000 ROOM NIGHTS. 
          I AM ALSO VERY PROUD OF MY TEAM. 
          UM, SIMILAR TO FISCAL YEAR 2020, THE CONVENTION CENTER AND THE ALAMO DOME CONTINUE TO SERVICE THE RESIDENTS OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          THE CONVENTION CENTER SERVED AS A WARMING CENTER DURING THE WINTER STORM IN FEBRUARY, ALSO AS A WATER DISTRIBUTION SITE DURING THE SAME TIME, AND ALSO A COOLING CENTER, UM, DURING A POWER OUTAGE IN THE MONTH OF MAY. 
          THE CONVENTION CENTER ALSO CONTINUES TO SERVE AS A VACCINATION MEGA SITE AND ALSO CONTINUES TO HOUSE METRO HEALTH'S EMPLOYEES, UM, THAT ARE PART OF THE CONTACT TRACING TEAM. 
          AS YOU MAY BE AWARE, UH, THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY, UH, THE CITY'S HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX OF 16.75 IS LEVIED ON EVERY ROOM NIGHT CHARGE AND CONTRIBUTES 6% TO THE STATE, 1.75% TO BEAR COUNTY, 7% TO THE CITY. 
          THIS AMOUNT IS USED TO FUND THE OPERATIONS OF THE CITY'S TOURISM, THE CONVENTION AND SPORTS FACILITIES, AS WELL AS HISTORY 
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AND ARTS AND CULTURE PROGRAMS WITH A REMAINING 2% DEDICATED TO PAY THE DEBT SERVICE AND FUND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER. 
          THE ALLOCATION OF THE 7% IS AS FOLLOWS, 35 IS USED TO SUPPORT VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          35% GOES TO THE COMMUNITY AND VISITORS FUND, WHICH THE ALAMO DOME AND THE CONVENTION CENTER ARE A PART OF. 
          15% GOES TO HISTORY AND PRESERVATION AND 15% GOES TOWARDS ARTS AND CULTURE PROGRAMS. IN ADDITION TO THIS 7% ALLOCATION, 51 MILLION IN ARPA FUNDS ARE BEING UTILIZED OVER TWO YEARS TO RESTORE FUNDING FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER AND THE ALAMO DO AS WELL AS ARTS PROGRAMS. 12.7 WILL BE UTILIZED IN FISCAL YEAR 22 AND 38.3 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 22. 
          THIS NEXT SLIDE, UH, SHOWS THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY, UH, RELATED REVENUE. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS CHART, THE C OVID 19 PANDEMIC HAD A DEVASTATING IMPACT ON THE REVENUE STARTING IN FISCAL YEAR 20, AND CONTINUES TO IMPACT THIS REVENUE IN FISCAL YEAR 21 WITH HOT COLLECTIONS ESTIMATED 39% LOWER IN FISCAL YEAR 21 THAN IN FISCAL YEAR 19. 
          AND THE CONVENTION CENTER AND ALAMO DOME REVENUES ESTIMATED AT 76 AND 40% LOWER THAN IN FISCAL YEAR 19. 
          INDUSTRY EXPERTS, UM, PROJECT THAT LEISURE BUSINESS WILL RECOVER SOONER WITH CONVENTION GROUP BUSINESS NOT SEEING FULL RECOVERY UNTIL 2024 OR 2025 NEXT YEAR. 
          THE CITY PROJECTS THAT THE 9% TOTAL HOT COLLECTIONS WILL TOTAL $71.1 MILLION. 
          THIS IS A PROJECTED GROWTH OF ABOUT 23% OVER THE 21 ESTIMATE. 
          NEVERTHELESS, IT IS STILL 24% LOWER COMPARED TO 2019 FIGURES. 
          BOOKINGS, AS YOU CAN SEE AT THE CONVENTION CENTER AND THE ALAMO DOME ARE HOLDING VERY STRONG FOR FISCAL YEAR 22. 
          HOWEVER, SIMILAR TO HOT COLLECTIONS FACILITY REVENUES ARE STILL BELOW PRE PANDEMIC REVENUES. 
          WHILE DECISIONS BY GROUPS ARE REALLY OUT OF OUR CONTROL. 
          WE ARE WORKING VERY, VERY CLOSELY WITH VISIT SAN ANTONIO AND OUR HOTEL PARTNERS TO ENSURE THAT WE MAINTAIN THE BUSINESS THAT WE HAVE ON OUR BOOKS AND WE ALSO ADD SHORT-TERM BUSINESS IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO REDUCE ANY IMPACT OF ANY POSSIBLE FUTURE CANCELLATIONS. 
          NEXT, THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR ALL CONVENTION AND SPORTS FACILITIES FUNDS NEXT YEAR TOTALS $88.7 MILLION. 
          THE LARGEST PORTION OF THE BUDGET IS DEDICATED TO FUND THE OPERATIONS OF THE CONVENTION CENTER AND THE ALAMO DOME AS WELL AS THE CARVER CENTER. 
          I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THESE OPERATING FUNDS IN THE NEXT SLIDE NEXT YEAR. 
          THE CEF STATE REBATE FUND ALSO ACCOUNTS FOR 400,000 RELATED TO LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SEVEN EVENTS WHICH MAY BE REIMBURSABLE THROUGH THE STATE'S EVENTS TRUST FUND. 
          THIS PROGRAM DEDICATES APPLICABLE TAXES FROM HIGH IMPACT EVENTS WHICH COULD OTHERWISE HAVE TAKEN PLACE OUTSIDE THE STATE OF TEXAS. 
          THE CONVENTION CENTER LEASE, UH, PAYMENT FUND ACCOUNTS FOR THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST PAYMENT RELATED TO THE DEBT ISSUED FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION PROJECT AS WELL AS CITY'S REVENUES, UM, UH, AS WELL AS CITIES, UH, REQUIRED PAYMENT AND RESERVES FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL. 
          THE NET DECREASE IN FISCAL YEAR 22 IS ASSOCIATED WITH A $2 MILLION INCREASE IN THE CONVENTION, UH, CENTER DEBT SERVICE PAYMENT, UM, WHICH IS PRO, WHICH IS A PROGRAMMED INCREASE ASSOCIATED, UM, WITH A SENDING DEBT SERVICE AND A DECREASE OF ABOUT 7 MILLION RELATED TO THE CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL. 
          THE PROPOSED CAPITAL BUDGET, UM, INCLUDES FUNDING IN FISCAL YEAR 21 AND 22 TO FUND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AT THE ALAMO DOME IN PREPARATION FOR THE 2025 MEN'S FINAL FOUR, AS WELL AS FUNDING IN FISCAL YEAR 22 TO, UM, INSTALL OR TO FOR A CAPITAL, UH, REPAIR PROJECT. 
          I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT ALL OF THESE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS LATER ON THE PRESENTATION NEXT. 
          THIS NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE PROPOSED BUDGET, UH, NEXT YEAR, UH, FOR SPECIFICALLY THE COMMUNITY AND VISITORS FACILITIES FUND, AND THAT IS 53.9 MILLION NEXT YEAR. 
          THIS FUND INCLUDES THE OPERATIONS OF THE CONVENTION CENTER AND ALAMO DOME, AS WELL AS NON-DEPARTMENTAL EXPENSES RELATED TO CONVENTION HOSTING OBLIGATIONS. 
          THE COMMUNITY AND VISITORS FACILITIES FUND IS, UH, FUNDED BY REVENUES GENERATED BY THE CONVENTION CENTER 
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AND THE ALAMO DOME, AND IS SUPPLEMENTED BY THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX TOTAL CONVENTION CENTER AND ALAMO DO REVENUE NEXT YEAR IS ESTIMATED AT $25.9 MILLION OR 47% OF THE TOTAL WITH THE REMAINING 53% OF THE OPERATION BEING SUPPLEMENTED BY THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX. 
          THE PROPOSED BUDGET NEXT YEAR REFLECTS AN INCREASE OF $19.3 MILLION OVER THE 21 ADOPTED BUDGET. 
          THE MAJORITY IS RELATED TO, UH, FUNDING, UH, FOR, TO COVER THE PERSONNEL COSTS FOR PERSONNEL THAT HAVE BEEN RECALLED BACK TO THE DEPARTMENT, FOLLOWED BY COST ASSOCIATED WITH THE ALAMO DOME DEBT PAYMENT, WHICH LAST YEAR WAS COVERED BY THE GENERAL FUND, AS WELL AS AN INCREASE IN HOSTING OBLIGATION EXPENSES. 
          THE TOTAL, UH, POSITIONS FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER IN ALAMO, UM, IT'S, UM, WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 344 FULL-TIME POSITIONS. 
          WHILE THE NUMBER OF THESE POSITIONS HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE 2019, MANY OF THE POSITIONS WERE REDEPLOYED TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN FISCAL YEAR 20 IN ORDER TO MANAGE OR EXPENSES AT THE PRESENT TIME. 
          UH, BOTH FACILITIES HAVE A TOTAL OF HUNDRED AND 98 ACTIVE EMPLOYEES. 
          WE HAVE 124 VACANT POSITIONS AND 22 POSITIONS CONTINUE TO BE REDEPLOYED IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BUT ARE SCHEDULED TO RETURN BACK, UH, IN TO THE DEPARTMENT IN FISCAL YEAR 22. 
          HOWEVER, THE DEPARTMENT, UH, NEXT YEAR WE'LL CONTINUE TO MANAGE EXPENSES AND WE'LL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS IN FILLING THE VACAN VACANCIES AND RECALLING OF EMPLOYEES BASED ON THE LEVEL OF ACTIVITY AND BUSINESS THAT WE HAVE. 
          NEXT, THE CAPITAL BUDGET FOR FISCAL FISCAL YEAR 22 INCLUDE 675,000 TO INSTALL A NEW HOT WATER PIPING SYSTEM ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE ALAMO DOME. 
          THE AGE OF THE CURRENT, UH, WATER PIPING SYSTEM HAS CONTRIBUTED TO A MAJOR LEAKS, SIMILAR TO A RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECT, SIMILAR PROJECT ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING. 
          THIS HOT WATER PIPING SYSTEM, UH, BASICALLY, UH, SERVICES ALL OF THE WEST PORTION OF THE ALAMO DOME FROM THE SOUTH PLAZA TO THE NORTH, UH, PLAZA. 
          WITHOUT THESE REPAIRS, ALL AREAS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE BUILDING, INCLUSIVE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES AS WELL AS THE ALAMO BOWL OFFICES WILL BE WITHOUT WARM AIR IN THE WINTER. 
          NEXT, I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU SOME OF THE MAJOR CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE COMPLETED THIS YEAR. 
          WE COMPLETED A RETRACTABLE SEATING PROJECT AT THE ALAMO, AS WELL AS THE REPLACEMENT OF ABOUT 450,000 SQUARE FEET OF ROOF AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, WHICH WAS COMPROMISED IN 2018 BY WEATHER ACTIVITY. 
          ALSO IN PREPARATION OF THE 2025 MEN'S FINAL FOUR THIS SUMMER, WE BEGAN THE DESIGN WORK FOR THE ADDITION OF 18 SUITES TO THE ALAMO DOM, AS WELL AS THE RENOVATION OF THE FIFTH FLOOR. 
          THE REPLACEMENT OF THE ELEVATORS AND ESCALATORS WILL, UH, START LATER THIS YEAR. 
          THESE PROJECTS INCLUDE COMMITMENTS THE CITY MADE TO THE NCAA, UH, FOR HOSTING THE 2025 MEN'S FINAL FOUR. 
          NEXT, THROUGH THIS BUDGET, WE ARE ALSO, UH, RECOMMENDING THE EXTENSION OF THE VISIT SAN ANTONIO AGREEMENT. 
          AS YOU MAY BE AWARE, VISIT SAN ANTONIO IS TASKED WITH THE SALES PROMOTION AND MARKETING OF SAN ANTONIO TO CONVENTION GROUP AND LEISURE VISITORS. 
          THE DESTINATION AND MARKETING, UH, SERVICES AGREEMENT, UM, COMMENCED ON OCTOBER 1ST, 2016, AND IS SET TO EXPIRE NEXT MONTH ON SEPTEMBER 30TH. 
          AS A DEPARTMENT THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING THE CONTRACT BETWEEN VISIT SAN ANTONIO AND THE CITY, WE ENGAGED A CONSULTING GROUP TO REVIEW THE VISIT SAN ANTONIO AGREEMENT IN COMPARISON WITH OTHER SIMILAR, UH, D M O, UH, AGREEMENTS IN SIMILAR MARKETS. 
          BASED ON THE FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY, THE DEPARTMENT IS RECOMMENDING THE FOLLOWING CHANGES TO THE AGREEMENT. 
          FIRST, WE ARE REQUESTING THAT VISIT SAN ANTONIO SUBMIT A YEARLY BUSINESS PLAN IN AUGUST OF EACH YEAR VERSUS NOVEMBER TO BE IN LINE WITH THE CITY'S BUDGET PROCESS. 
          NEXT, WE'RE ADDING A PERFORMANCE, UH, OUTCOMES REPORT IN WHICH VISITS SAN ANTONIO REPORTS ACTUALIZED ACTIVITY FROM THE PRIOR YEAR'S BUSINESS PLAN, AND WE'RE ALSO ASKING THEM TO ADD SEVERAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES TO BE IN LINE WITH OTHER D M O AGREEMENTS FROM OTHER COMPETITIVE MARKETS. 
          IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT ALL OF THESE METRICS ARE ALREADY BEING TRACKED BY VISIT SAN 
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ANTONIO. 
          IN ADDITION TO THESE CHANGES, THE DEPARTMENT ALSO RECOMMENDS, UH, THAT VISITS, UH, VISITS SAN ANTONIO RECEIVE ONE TIME FUNDING OF $2.3 MILLION. 
          IN FISCAL YEAR 22, 1 0.3 MILLION WOULD BE ALLOCATED FOR HOSTING OBLIGATIONS TO INCREASE BUSINESS AT THE HENRY B. GONZALEZ IN FISCAL YEAR 22 AND 23. 
          HISTORICALLY, FOR EVERY DOLLAR HOSTING OBLIGATION DOLLAR THAT WE SPENT, IT GENERATES ABOUT $4 IN FACILITY RENTAL, UH, OR FACILITY REVENUES. 
          THE REMAINING 1 MILLION, UH, WOULD BE A HOSTING OBLIGATION TOWARDS THE I P W EVENT THAT WE WILL BE HOSTING IN FISCAL YEAR 2023. 
          THIS EVENT IS EXPECTED TO BRING, UH, TOUR OPERATORS, TRAVEL AGENTS, AND MEDIA FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO SAN ANTONIO THREE YEARS FOLLOWING THE EVENT. 
          THIS EVENT IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE VISITATION BY 395,000 VISITORS AND GENERATE APPROXIMATELY 290 MILLION IN DIRECT ECONOMIC SPEND. 
          LASTLY, AS WE LOOK TO FISCAL YEAR 22, A PRIORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT IS TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF EVENTS AND ATTENDANCE AT OUR FACILITIES BY 5% ABOVE PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS. 
          BY FISCAL YEAR 2024, OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH VISIT SAN ANTONIO AND THE EXTENSION OF THE AGREEMENT IS MORE VITAL TODAY THAN EVER BEFORE. 
          IF WE ARE GOING TO RECOVER QUICKLY AND WE'RE GONNA GROW OUR VISITATION ABOVE 2019 LEVELS, ANOTHER PRIORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT IS TO COMPLETE OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS ON TIME AND ON BUDGET. 
          SAN ANTONIO HAS EMERGED IN THIS PANDEMIC THROUGH THIS PANDEMIC AS ONE OF THE BEST AND SAFEST DESTINATIONS BECAUSE OF OUR FOCUS ON THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF NOT ONLY OUR GUESTS, BUT ALSO OUR STAFF AND OUR RESIDENTS. 
          IN FISCAL YEAR 22, THE DEPARTMENT WILL CONTINUE TO PRACTICE ALL OF THE SAFETY PROTOCOLS THAT WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED INTO OUR OPERATIONS AS A RESULT OF THE C OVID 19 PANDEMIC IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE SAFEST ENVIRONMENT DURING OUR EVENTS. 
          I AM PROUD TO ANNOUNCE ALSO THAT EXHIBITOR MAGAZINE HAS RECOGNIZED THE HENRY B. GONZALEZ CONVENTION CENTER AS ONE OF THE TOP 30 CONVENTION CENTERS IN THE COUNTRY, AND WE ARE IN THE RUNNING AGAIN FOR THAT SAME AWARD FOR A SECOND YEAR IN A ROW. 
          WE'RE ALSO ONE OF THREE FINALISTS FOR THE BEST HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTOCOLS CATEGORY. 
          ALSO, AS A SAFE AND CLEAN CITY, WE WILL ALSO WORK TO INCREASE THE CONVENTION CENTER'S CURRENT DIVERSION RATE OF 25% BY 10%. 
          AND LASTLY, AS AN INNOVATIVE GOVERNMENT, WE WILL STRIVE TO FILL OUR VACANCIES WITH A DIVERSE GROUP OF EMPLOYEES THAT REFLECT THE MAKEUP OF OUR CITY AND PORTRAY THE CITY ORGANIZATION'S CORE VALUES, OF COURSE, ALL WHILE MANAGING OUR EXPENSES. 
          IN ADDITION, WE WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE RESIDENTS OF SAN ANTONIO THROUGH COMMUNITY EVENTS, AND WE WILL ALSO IMPLEMENT PROFESSIONAL AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR OUR EMPLOYEES IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE BEST QUALIFIED STAFF AND WE ALSO HAVE THE SUCCESSION LEADERSHIP NEEDED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS TO COME. 
          THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          NOW I'M GONNA HAND IT OVER TO RE, DEBBIE ROCK SITTER, THE DIRECTOR OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IS IT UP? GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. 
          AGAIN, MY NAME IS DEBBIE ROCKUS SITTER AND I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE CITY'S DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE. 
          FIRST, I WANNA THANK, UH, THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND THEIR TEAM, AS WELL AS THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET FOR ALL THE WORK ON THE BUDGET AND FOR SUPPORTING US. 
          AND I WANNA THANK OUR DEPARTMENT FISCAL ADMINISTRATOR, ERIN DELAROSA HERE WITH US TODAY, WHO DOES MANY LONG HOURS OF MANAGING OUR FINANCES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND HELPED WITH THIS BUDGET PROCESS REALLY SPEARHEADING THAT FOR US. 
          SO I WANNA THANK ERIN FOR HER WORK, AN OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT WITH WHOSE MISSION IS TO ENRICH QUALITY OF LIFE BY LEADING AND INVESTING IN SAN ANTONIO'S ARTS AND CULTURE. 
          WE HAVE FOUR, UH, MAIN FUNCTIONAL AREAS, THE PUBLIC ART DIVISION, LED BY VERONICA RIPPLE, THE GRANTS MANAGEMENT DIVISION, LED BY DIANA ALGO, 
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WHO IS ALSO MY CHIEF OF STAFF. 
          AND CURRENTLY CRYSTAL JONES IS OVERSEEING THE CULTURAL EVENTS AND EXHIBITS DIVISION, AS WELL AS THE FILM, MUSIC AND MARKETING DIVISION. 
          THE CULT TO ART PLAN IS A COORDINATED PLANNING DOCUMENT THAT GUIDES THE DEPARTMENT IN ALL OF ITS WORK. 
          EVERY PART OF THIS PLAN WAS DEVELOPED THROUGH AN EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS THAT INCLUDES PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SURVEYS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, FOCUS GROUPS, WORK SESSIONS, AND MANY, MANY HOURS. 
          THE SAN ANTONIO ARTS COMMISSION SERVES AS A STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE CULTURAL ART CULTURAL PLAN, AND EACH COMPONENT IS ASSIGNED TO A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SAN ANTONIO ARTS COMMISSION TO OVERSEE ITS IMPLEMENTATION. 
          SO THERE ARE EIGHT INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS TO THIS PLAN THAT INCLUDE GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND INDIVIDUAL STRATEGIES, ALL WITH AN EQUITY LENS. 
          THE FILM STRATEGIC PLAN WAS FIRST ADOPTED IN OCTOBER OF 2016, FOLLOWED BY THE SENSOR, THE ARTES, UH, PLAN FOR THE GALLERY. 
          WHEN WE TOOK OVER OPERATIONS IN 2017, OUR GRANTS PROGRAM HAD A MAJOR OVERHAUL IN 2018, AND THIS WAS EXPRESSLY FOR EQUITY. 
          AND THE CORE GRANTS, AGAIN, WAS UPDATED BY YOU ALL IN DECEMBER, AND IT WAS VOTED ON IN DECEMBER TO ADD MORE EQUITY MEASURES. 
          IN 2018, THE PUBLIC ART PLAN FOR THE 2017 BOND WAS ADOPTED. 
          WE HAD A MUSIC PLAN ADOPTED IN 2018. 
          THEN IN SEPTEMBER OF 2019, WE LOOKED AT CULTURAL DISTRICTS, AND THIS WAS A PLAN TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF STATE DESIGNATED CULTURAL DISTRICTS, WHICH OPENS UP DOORS FOR ANY AGENCY WITHIN THAT AREA TO GET STATE FUNDING. 
          SO THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE CURRENTLY HAVE THREE CULTURAL DISTRICTS, KING WILLIAM, THE Z CORDAL DOWNTOWN, AS WELL AS THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL THAT IS ALONG FREDERICKSBURG ROAD. 
          AND THEN IN MARCH OF 2020, THE PERFORMING ARTS STRATEGIC PLAN WAS ADOPTED ALONG WITH THE PLAN FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS, AND THEN COVID HIT, AND WE WENT INTO A DIFFERENT MODE, BUT WE'RE STILL FOLLOWING ALL THESE PLANS. 
          THIS DOCUMENT IS THE BASIS FOR OUR ANNUAL WORK PLAN, WHICH I WILL REVIEW A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THE PRESENTATION. 
          SO OVERALL, LOOKING AT THE BUDGET, WE'RE LOOKING AT $11.2 MILLION FOR THE TOTAL DEPARTMENT. 
          I'D LIKE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE PIE CHART. 
          REVENUES ARE COMPRISED OF FOUR FUNDING SOURCES. 
          THE OUTSIDE CIRCLE ON THE PIE CHART IS THE REVENUES HOT HOTEL. 
          OCCUPANCY TAX IS THE LARGEST FUNDING SOURCE, AND THIS FUNDS OUR ARTISTS AND AGENCY GRANTS AS WELL AS THE OVERSIGHT OF THOSE GRANTS, GRANTS, EVENTS AND EXHIBITS. 
          AND THIS YEAR, $2.6 MILLION IS BEING ADDED AS REVENUE RECOVERY FOR THE HOT AND WE'LL SUPPLEMENT THOSE HOT REVENUES TO HELP WITH THE AGENCY AND ARTIST GRANTS. 
          THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX BUDGET ALSO INCLUDES ONE POSITION IN THE FILM OFFICE THAT CURRENTLY IS DEPLOYED TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO HELP WITH COVID. 
          AND SO WE'RE EXCITED FOR THAT STAFF PERSON TO BE RETURNING TO US IN OCTOBER TO INCREASE FILMMAKING IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          THIS BUDGET DOES NOT RESTORE THE FILM INCENTIVE, WHICH HAD BEEN, UH, ANNUALLY ALLOCATED AT $250,000, UH, AND WAS LOST DUE TO COVID, BUT WE WILL STILL BE DOING FILM PERMITS AND PROMOTING SAN ANTONIO AS A FILM DESTINATION. 
          THE PUBLIC ART SLICE OF THE PIE SUPPORTS SIX POSITIONS, AS WELL AS OPERATING COSTS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PUBLIC ART PROGRAM. 
          FUNDING FOR THIS DIVISION IS A COST RECOVERY THAT COMES FROM THE CAPITAL PROJECTS AND THE CAPITAL PROGRAM. 
          IT'S WHAT WE CALL CAP ADMIN. 
          YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE ORANGE PART OF THE, THE PIE, AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE PERCENT FOR ART THAT ACTUALLY PAYS FOR THE ARTWORK IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS BUDGET. 
          IT'S INCLUDED IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET. 
          AND THIS BUDGET, UH, ALSO, UH, ADDS ONE POSITION TO BUILD MANAGEMENT CAPACITY AND OVERSEE, UH, MANY NEW PROGRAMS AND GRANTS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING FOR THIS YEAR. 
          AND BECAUSE OUR AGENCY FUNDING AND OUR GRANTS PROGRAM IS THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THE DEPARTMENT MANAGES IN AN OPERATIONAL CAPACITY, I WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO REVIEW THE FOUR GRANT PROGRAMS INCLUDED IN THIS BUDGET. 
          THE FIRST THREE, UH, FROM THE LEFT ARE AGENCY PROGRAMS, AND THEY'RE ON A THREE YEAR FUNDING CYCLE, UH, BEGINNING WITH THE ONE IN ORANGE, AGENCY BASED OPERATIONAL. 
          IT'S FOR SAN ANTONIO BASED NON-PROFITS WHOSE MISSION IS ARTS AND CULTURE, AND THESE AGENCIES HAVE TO HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY PRODUCING ARTS AND CULTURAL PROGRAMMING FOR THREE YEARS IN ORDER TO QUALIFY. 
          THEY'RE NON-COMPETITIVE. 
          SO THEY, IT'S A PASS FAIL IF YOU QUALIFY. 
          YOU'RE ELIGIBLE BASED ON A FUNDING SCALE, AND THE SCALE IS A GRADUATED SCALE, UH, TO LOOK AT EQUITY. 
          SO SMALLER 
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AGENCIES RECEIVE A LARGER PERCENTAGE OF THEIR BUDGET, AND A LARGER AGENCY RECEIVES A SMALLER PERCENTAGE OF THEIR BUDGET. 
          AND THERE'S 28 AGENCIES THAT ARE BEING RECOMMENDED FOR THESE GRANTS IN THIS BUDGET. 
          IN THE PURPLE COLUMN, UH, CULTURALLY SPECIFIC AGENCIES MUST FIRST QUALIFY UNDER THE BASE OPERATIONAL, AND THEN THEY HAVE TO BE MISSION SPECIFIC. 
          SO THEIR MISSION HAS TO BE SPECIFIC TO PRESERVE, PROMOTE, PROTECT, AND ENHANCE THE CULTURES OF, UH, AFRICAN AMERICAN, ASIAN AMERICAN NATIVE AMERICAN LATINO WOMEN. 
          L G B T Q AND THE L G B T Q UH, CATEGORY WAS ADOPTED BY COUNCIL IN DECEMBER OF 2020. 
          AND THERE ARE NINE AGENCIES PROPOSED TO RECEIVE THESE GRANTS. 
          AND THIS IS A GRANT ON TOP OF THE BASE OPERATIONAL. 
          AND THEN OUR CULTURAL EVENTS. 
          THESE GRANTS ARE IN GREEN. 
          WE HAVE FOUR AGENCIES THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING FOR RENEWAL THAT WE'VE TRADITIONALLY FUNDED. 
          WE CAN FUND UP TO 20% OF THE COST OF THE FESTIVAL OR $20,000 MAX, BUT WE PLAN TO ISSUE A COMPETITIVE GRANT. 
          IF YOU PROPOSE, IF YOU APPROVE 2200 $50,000 IN THIS BUDGET, WE WOULD HAVE, AND WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE CULTURAL EVENTS ALL OVER OUR CITY AND NOT JUST DOWNTOWN. 
          SO THAT'S THE PLAN. 
          AND WE HAVE A ROBUST OUTREACH PROGRAM THAT WE WANT TO IMPLEMENT TO GET MORE, UH, ACTIVITIES GOING ON THROUGHOUT OUR CITY, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE A DIRECT MAIL OUT TO EVERY NONPROFIT REGISTERED WITHIN SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ARTS ORGANIZATION, THEY JUST HAVE TO HAVE AN ARTS EVENT OR A CULTURAL EVENT IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR THESE FUNDS. 
          SO LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR FOR THAT. 
          AND AS A PART OF THE INDIVIDUAL ARTIST STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH WAS ADOPTED IN MARCH OF 2020, WE ARE FOR THE FIRST TIME OFFERING DIRECT GRANTS TO ARTISTS TO CREATE NEW WORKS. 
          SO THESE ARE PROJECT GRANTS AND WE'VE DONE THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ALREADY. 
          WE HAVE 83 APPLICANTS AND ENOUGH FUNDING IN THIS BUDGET TO DO 30 GRANTS. 
          THESE HAVE NOT BEEN AWARDED. 
          THEY WOULD BE WAITING UNTIL CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS THIS BUDGET, AND THEN THE ARTS COMMISSION WOULD TAKE ACTION ON THOSE. 
          SO AS FAR AS THE PROCESS GOES, WE STARTED THIS, UH, GRANT PROCESS BACK IN OCTOBER WITH UPDATING THE FUNDING GUIDELINES AND IN DECEMBER CITY COUNCIL, AFTER MUCH DELIBERATION AND APPROVALS BY DIFFERENT GROUPS SUCH AS THE SAN ANTONIO ARTS COMMISSION, CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED THE POLICY, WE OPENED THE AGENCY APPLICATIONS FOR BASE OPERATIONAL AND CULTURALLY SPECIFIC GRANTS IN MARCH. 
          AFTER THAT PASS FAIL EVALUATION, THE MATHEMATICAL CALCULATIONS WERE VALIDATED BY THE CITY AUDITOR, AND THEN THE ARTS COMMISSION VOTED TO RECOMMEND WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU THAT, THAT EMILY'S PASSING OUT, WHICH IS ALSO IN THE BUDGET BOOK. 
          ONCE THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPTS THE BUDGET, WE WOULD BEGIN THE CONTRACTING PROCESS FOR THE THREE YEAR GRANT CYCLE WITH AMOUNTS BEING UPDATED EACH YEAR DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS BASED ON AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS, BUT STILL USING THE SAME SCALE AS FOR ARTISTS GRANTS. 
          THOSE APPLICATIONS OPENED IN MAY. 
          THEY'VE BEEN COMPETITIVELY SCORED, AND THEY WOULD BE APPROVED BY THE ARTS COMMISSION IN SEPTEMBER. 
          AND IF CINDY CITY COUNCIL APPROVES THE BUDGET FOR EVENTS GRANTS, WE WOULD ISSUE A REQUEST FOR APPLICATION IN OCTOBER, AND WE WOULD EVALUATE THEM AND BEGIN THOSE CONTRACTS IN JANUARY FOR FISCAL YEAR 22. 
          I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF THE ENHANCEMENTS. 
          THE CORE GRANTS ARE BEING RESTORED TO THE FISCAL YEAR 19 FUNDING LEVELS. 
          THIS IS HUGE BECAUSE ALL AGENCIES WHO'VE BEEN FUNDED CURRENTLY ARE EITHER GETTING MORE MONEY THAN THEY HAVE RIGHT NOW FROM OUR GRANT, OR THEY'RE GETTING THE SAME AMOUNT. 
          ALL AGENCIES ARE ALSO GETTING THE MAX THAT THEY CAN GET IN THE GUIDELINES PER THE SCALE. 
          WE HAVE $75,000 WE'RE RECOMMENDING FOR CAPACITY BUILDING, AND THAT WOULD BE USED BY THE AGENCIES FOR MARKETING EFFORTS OR STRATEGIC PLANNING, UH, OR TRAINING, BUT THEY CAN ALSO USE IT FOR COVID EXPENSES AS WELL. 
          MANY OF OUR AGENCIES HAVE HAD TO PIVOT TO DIFFERENT FORMATS, AND THIS WILL BE HELPFUL TO THEM. 
          WE HAVE TWO NEW AGENCIES. 
          I'M EXCITED THAT SAN ANTONIO, AFRICAN AMERICAN ARCHIVES, COMMUNITY ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM, AS WELL AS ALMO CITY PERFORMING ARTS, WILL BE COMING ON AS, UH, BASE OPERATIONAL AGENCIES FOR US. 
          AND SE CAMM IS ALSO A CULTURALLY SPECIFIC AGENCY. 
          AND THEN THERE'S FUNDING IN THE ARTS BUDGET OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET OF ONE 50. 
          SO THAT'S A TOTAL OF TWO 50 FOR THE MEXICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE TO CONTINUE THEIR WORK, THEY HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED A STRATEGIC PLAN, HIRED AN INTERIM DIRECTOR, 
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AND THEY'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH, UH, GETTING ALL OF THEIR ARCHIVES TOGETHER. 
          AND THEN WE'RE ADDING A POSITION TO OVERSEE GRANTS MANAGEMENT AND ADD CAPACITY WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE WORK PLAN. 
          WE WILL BE MANAGING 41 GRANTS TO AGENCIES. 
          WE'LL MANAGE 30 INDIVIDUAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANTS, AND HOPEFULLY MORE BECAUSE WE'VE APPLIED FOR AN N E A GRANT, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT TO DO MORE ARTIST GRANTS. 
          AND IF WE GET IT, WE WILL BE EXCITED TO, TO BRING THAT BACK TO YOU, WE WILL ISSUE THE OPEN CALL FOR EVENTS, GRANTS, AND ISSUE AN OPEN CALL FOR PERFORMING ARTS GRANTS. 
          THE PERFORMING ARTS GRANTS, WERE A PART OF THAT PERFORMING ARTS STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WAS ADOPTED IN MARCH OF 2020 AND SET ASIDE FUNDS FROM THE TICKETMASTER CONTRACTS WITH CONVENTION SPORTS FACILITIES TO BE USED FOR PERFORMING ARTS IN PUBLIC ART. 
          WE'RE GONNA BE ISSUING OUR ANNUAL OPEN CALL FOR PUBLIC ARTISTS AND SUPPORT SERVICES. 
          WE WILL BE COMPLETING PUBLIC ART PROJECTS IN SEVEN COUNCIL DISTRICTS. 
          WE'VE ALREADY COMPLETED, UH, THE REST OF THE DISTRICT'S PROJECTS. 
          SO WE'LL BE COMPLETING MORE AND THEN WE'LL BEGIN PLANNING FOR THE 2022 BOND. 
          AND I'M VERY EXCITED THAT WE, UH, PLAN TO REOPEN THE CENTER. 
          THERE'S GALLERY IN JANUARY OF 2022 AND THE CULTURE COMMONS GALLERY IN PLAZA DE ARMAS WITH IN MARCH OF 2022, WHICH IS A WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WITH A STATUS OF WOMEN EXHIBIT . 
          AND OUR PERFORMANCE MEASURES WE'RE, WE WILL BE MANAGING 93 GRANTS IN TOTAL, UH, MAYBE EVEN MORE IF WE GET THOSE. 
          THE N E A MONEY, THAT'S A 65% INCREASE IN THE AMOUNT OF GRANTS TO MANAGE. 
          BUT WITH YOUR INVESTMENT OF $7.2 MILLION IN GRANT FUNDING TO OUR AGENCIES, WE WILL BE LEVERAGING $42 MILLION OF OTHER FUNDS THAT COME INTO OUR CITY, ONE AND A HALF MILLION, UH, ATTENDEES AT CULTURAL EVENTS. 
          SO WE WANT TO, TO TRY TO BRING PEOPLE BACK TO EVENTS, AND THEN WE WILL BE COMPLETING THOSE SEVEN PUBLIC ART PROJECTS. 
          SO THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. 
          I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO VISIT SAN ANTONIO, UH, WITH MARK ANDERSON. 
          BUT I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE TO PEOPLE THAT THEY HAVE, UH, FROM THE BOARD, UH, ROBERT RAKI AND HOPE ANDRADE, WHO WILL BOTH, UH, BE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THEIR WORK WITH VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR BERG, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS CITY MANAGER. 
          WALSH, IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE WITH YOU TODAY. 
          MY NAME IS ROBERT THRERE HILL. 
          I AM VICE PRESIDENT WITH ZACH HOSPITALITY AND THE NEW CHAIRMAN OF VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          THE LADY TOMA RIGHT, REALLY NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION TO THIS COUNCIL. 
          SHE DOES SO MUCH FOR OUR COMMUNITY, BUT SECRETARY ANDRATI IS A VERY, UH, IMPORTANT MEMBER OF OUR BOARD, AND SHE'S HERE WITH ME TODAY TO HELP INTRODUCE, VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          VISIT SAN ANTONIO, UH, IS THE THIRD REPRESENTS THE THIRD LARGEST INDUSTRY IN OUR COMMUNITY, THE HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM SEGMENT. 
          WITHOUT VISIT SAN ANTONIO AND THE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE FOR IT, OUR INDUSTRY CANNOT SURVIVE AND GROW FROM DEVASTATING IMPACT OF COVID. 
          WE NEED A VIBRANT AND STRONG MARKETING ORGANIZATION LIKE VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO THANK YOU TODAY FOR GIVING US OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE WITH YOU. 
          THANK YOU, ROBERT MAYOR OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          UH, AT THIS TIME I WILL PROVIDE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE ORGANIZATION AND ITS LEADERSHIP VISIT SAN ANTONIO BECAME A PRIVATE NONPROFIT 5 0 1 C SIX IN 2017. 
          OUR ORGANIZATION IS OVERSEEN BY A BOARD OF 24 DIRECTORS, WHICH REPRESENT THE VARIOUS INDUSTRIES AND INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND A GOVERNING SET OF BYLAWS. 
          OUR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE INCLUDES ROBERT REIL, JENNA ALDO HERRERA OF GREATER S A T X, AND OF COURSE, JEFF ARNT AVIA. 
          IN ADDITION, THE SAN ANTONIO TOURISM PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT WAS CREATED IN 2019 TO HELP SUPPLEMENT AND SUPPORT THE SALES AND MARKETING EFFORTS OF VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          THE S A T P IS OVERSEEN BY THEIR OWN BOARD OF DIRECTORS, WHICH IS COMPRISED OF 11 DIRECTORS FROM ZONE ONE AND ZONE TWO HOTEL PROPERTIES, AND ITS BYLAWS. 
          ITS BOARD IS CURRENTLY CHAIRED BY HENRY FELDMAN WITH VINH BACHTA, SERVING AS THEIR VICE CHAIR. 
          AND MARIA MARTINEZ AS SECRETARY. 
          THANK YOU. 
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NOW PLEASE DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION TO A SHORT VIDEO ON THE SCREEN THAT DISPLAYS THE POWER OF HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY AND THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HAS SEEN OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS FROM VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          AFTER THE VIDEO, YOU WILL HEAR FROM THE NEW PRESIDENT AND C E O OF VISIT SAN ANTONIO, MARK ANDERSON, WHO JUST JOINED US LESS THAN A HUNDRED DAYS AGO TO LEAD OUR RECOVERY EFFORTS AND THE TEAM AT VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR TIME. 
          AND ANTONIO IS A BEAUTIFUL AND INCREDIBLY DIVERSE CITY THAT DRAWS TRAVELERS, FOOD ENTHUSIASTS, AND BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. 
          VISIT SAN ANTONIO STARTED IN 2017, AND SINCE THEN, SAN ANTONIO HAS SEEN AN INCREDIBLE R O I. 
          IN 2019 VISIT, SAN ANTONIO'S EFFORTS RESULTED IN 945,000 ROOM NIGHTS BOOKED SAN ANTONIO MISSION'S DESIGNATION. 
          AS A UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE DRAWS MILLIONS OF VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO DISCOVER EXPERIENCE AND LEARN ABOUT OUR FIVE BELOVED MISSIONS. 
          WHEN VISITORS COME TO SAN AN ANTONIO ZOO, THEY'RE HELPING TO SECURE A FUTURE FOR WILDLIFE WHILE HAVING FUN, CREATING LIFELONG MEMORIES, AND LEARNING ABOUT THE AMAZING ANIMALS IN OUR CARE. 
          RIVERWALK AREA HOTELS CONTINUE TO GROW, TAXES COLLECTED BY TOURISM DOLLARS, SUPPORT CITY SERVICES AND AMENITIES SUCH AS PARKS, ARTS AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, STREET SANITATION, AND MANY OF OUR FIRST RESPONDER ORGANIZATIONS. 
          AT VISIT SAN ANTONIO, WE'VE WORKED VERY HARD TO ENGAGE VISITORS WITH A DIVERSE CITY WEBSITE THAT ALLOWS VIEWERS TO EXPERIENCE EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          OUR CITY IS BECOMING A HUB FOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES AND INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURS, VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD COME HERE. 
          THEY CAN FEEL THE ENERGY OF OUR VIBRANT ECONOMY AS TRAVELERS TO SAN ANTONIO INCREASE EACH YEAR, BOTH CURRENT AIRLINE CARRIERS AND NEW CARRIERS ARE TAKING NOTICE, ADDING SS A T AS A PREMIER DESTINATION FOR THEIR ROUTE MAPS. 
          VISIT SAN ANTONIO STAYS CURRENT WITH SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING TRENDS, GARNERING MEDIA PLACEMENTS, AND HOSTING TRAVEL INFLUENCERS TO THE CITY. 
          IN FACT, THROUGH THEIR STRATEGIC SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS, VISIT SAN ANTONIO HAD 6.5 MILLION ONLINE ENGAGEMENTS IN JUNE OF 2021 ALONE. 
          TOURISM IS THE LIFEBLOOD FOR RESTAURANTS DOWNTOWN. 
          WE DEPEND HEAVILY ON VISITORS AND VISIT SAN ANTONIO HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN DRIVING TRAVELERS TO OUR CITY. 
          SEAWORLD SAN ANTONIO WELCOMES VISITORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, AND WE RELY ON THE MARKETING EFFORTS OF OUR TOURISM PARTNERS TO PROMOTE THE UNIQUE ATTRACTIONS OUR CITY HAS TO OFFER. 
          THE CULTURE OF SAN ANTONIO IS UNIQUE AND VISITORS WANT TO EXPERIENCE WHAT LIFE IN OUR CITY IS LIKE. 
          WE HAVE DIVERSE SITES, EXPERIENCES, AND FLAVORS THAT CAPTURE THE SOUL OF THE TRAVELER AND LEAVE A LASTING IMPRESSION. 
          THE TRAVEL MEDIA PUBLICATIONS CONTINUE TO TAKE NOTICE. 
          OUR CITY CONSTANTLY RANKS HIGH ON SOME OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS TRAVEL LIST PUBLISHED EACH YEAR. 
          THERE IS SO MUCH TO SEE AND DO IN SAN ANTONIO AND VISITORS COME BACK BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO MUCH FUN HERE. 
          SINCE THE CREATION OF VISIT SAN ANTONIO IN 2017, MORE THAN 2000 EVENTS WERE BOOKED, BRINGING IN $3.5 BILLION IN REVENUE TO THE CITY. 
          AND ALTHOUGH THE PANDEMIC DRASTICALLY IMPACTED TOURISM, WE ARE POISED TO NOT ONLY GET BACK ON TRACK, BUT TO SURPASS EXPECTATIONS IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE. 
          THE CULINARY SCENE IN SAN ANTONIO IS EXPLODING AND VISITORS CAN FIND TREASURES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          OUR CITY HAS SO MANY AMAZING RESTAURANTS OFFERING OUR DIVERSITY OF CUISINES, BUT OUR TEXAS HOSPITALITY CAN BE SEEN WHEREVER YOU CHOOSE TO D AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING NEW VISITORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD AS WELL AS WELCOMING BACK THOSE WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH OUR CITY AND WANT TO SAY SEE TO SAN ANTONIO ONCE AGAIN. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE. 
          THANK YOU, ROBERT. 
          SECRETARY, UM, ANDRE, UH, HENRY FELDMAN FOR BEING HERE AS WELL AS MY MANY TEAM MEMBERS WITH VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          TODAY, MARK'S DAY 92 ON THE JOB FOR ME IS THE NEW LEADER OF VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          I AM HUMBLED, EXCITED, AND THRILLED FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CITY, OUR 10 DISTRICTS, OUR RESIDENTS, AND OUR WORKERS. 
          AS THE OPENING VIDEO EXPRESSED AND TOLD TO YOU BY THE RESIDENTS OF WORK AND WORKERS IN EACH OF OUR 10 DISTRICTS, VISIT, SAN ANTONIO HAS CONTINUALLY EXCEEDED YOUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT, A 12% GROWTH IN VISITORSHIP BETWEEN 2016 AND 2019. 
          THE GROUP SALES TEAM, ON AVERAGE, HAS CONFIRMED MORE THAN 500 EVENTS, REPRESENTING 800,000 ATTENDEES IN OUR CITY, AND E EXCEEDING $1 BILLION 
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IN AN ECONOMIC IMPACT FOR OUR CITY AND OUR STATE. 
          AND THIS ECONOMIC IMPACT THAT VISIT SAN SAN ANTONIO HAS HELPED TO GENERATE FOR OUR CITY HAS BROUGHT IN MORE THAN $1 BILLION IN TAX REVENUE THAT IS EXPRESSED TO THE TOTALITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND OUR SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC SCHOOLS VIA AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, OUR PARKS, OUR VIBRANT ARTS AND CULTURE, SAN ANTONIO POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS, STREETS AND SANITATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND MORE. 
          AND THEN IN 2020 IN WHAT SEEMED LIKE THE BLINK OF AN EYE, IT ALL STOPPED DUE TO OUR GLOBAL PANDEMIC THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY STILL LIVING IN. 
          THE ALAMO SHUT DOWN ITS DOORS. 
          FOR THE LONGEST PERIOD OF TIME SINCE WORLD WAR II, FEW TOURISTS VISITED THE RIVERWALK OR SAN ANTONIO, AND TOURISM IN ESSENCE STOPPED COMPLETELY SAN ANTONIO ESTABLISHMENTS CLOSED SHUTTERED JOBS, LOST HOTEL OCCUPANCIES HAD HISTORIC LOWS, BUT COVID IS NOT BEHIND US. 
          AND AS THIS SLIDE SHOWS, IT IS, WE MUST DO EVERYTHING AS AN ORGANIZATION AND AS A CITY TO KEEP THE 23 REMAINING CONVENTIONS THAT WE HAVE ON THE CITYWIDE CALENDAR THAT REPRESENT MORE THAN 64,000 ATTENDEES AND NEARLY 80 MILLION IN ECONOMIC IMPACT FOR OUR CITY AND OUR STATE. 
          AND YOU COULD BE REST ASSURED THAT OUR SALES AND SERVICES TEAM ARE TAKING THE STRATEGIC PROACTIVE MEASURES TO TALK TO OUR CUSTOMERS THAT IT IS SAFE AND SECURE TO HAVE THEIR MEETING IN SAN ANTONIO AT OUR CONVENTION CENTER AND IN OUR HOTELS. 
          AND THE RECENT STRATEGIES THAT VINCENT SAN ANTONIO HAS DEPLOYED IN 2021 HAVE CONTINUED TO MAKE A RETURN ON INVESTMENT FOR OUR PARTNERS AND OUR COMMUNITY. 
          JULY'S HOTEL OCCUPANCY ALONE WAS NEARLY 74% IN SAN ANTONIO, HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER MAJOR CITY IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, HIGHER THAN MOST MAJOR US CITIES AND HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE. 
          SO THE WORK THAT VISITS SAN ANTONIO AND ALL OF YOU IS DOING TO LIFT THIS CITY AND OUR RESIDENTS OUT OF C OVID 19 IS INDEED WORKING. 
          IN FACT, SOME OF OUR PARTNERS THIS SUMMER SAW HISTORIC REVENUES, HISTORIC REVENUES IN THE HISTORY OF THEIR COMPANIES DUE TO OUR WORK. 
          AND I'M PLEASED TO REPORT, AS IT MENTIONS ON THIS SLIDE THAT VISIT SAN ANTONIO IS MEETING OR EXCEEDING MOST OF OUR 2021 PERFORMANCE METRICS. 
          AS YOU KNOW, OUR ORGANIZATION HAS ACHIEVED RESULTS FOR YEARS. 
          IN FACT, OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, WE HAVE INVESTED $12 MILLION IN DIGITAL MEDIA ALONE THAT HAS GENERATED $531 MILLION IN VISITOR SPENDING AFFECTED NEARLY 1.75 MILLION VISITORS WITH A RETURN ON AN INVESTMENT OF 43 TO ONE. 
          IN ADDITION, THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT HAS ALSO BEEN SEEN IN OUR GROUP SALES EFFORTS. 
          IN THE PAST FEW YEARS ALONE, OUR VISIT SAN ANTONIO TEAM HAS BOOKED NEARLY A THOUSAND EVENTS, TOTALING $1.5 BILLION IN ECONOMIC IMPACT FOR OUR CITY AND STATE. 
          AND THROUGH OUR SAN ANTONIO TOURISM PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT HOSTING OBLIGATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL HOTEL INCENTIVE PROGRAMS, OUR TEAM WAS ABLE TO SECURE NEARLY 200,000 NEW HOTEL ROOM NIGHTS, $49 MILLION IN TOTAL GROUP RE REVENUE WITH AN R O I OF 22 TO ONE. 
          AND OUR PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET IS CURRENTLY BEING CRAFTED TO DEDICATE NEARLY 85% OF OUR BUDGET TO ENHANCE AND INCREASE SALES CLIENT SERVICES, MARKETING, AND STORYTELLING TO DRIVE DEMAND WITHIN THE SHORT TERM FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          BUT A LARGE PART OF WHY I AM HERE TODAY, AS PATRICIA MENTIONED, IS FOR THE RENEWAL OF THE VISIT SAN ANTONIO CITY AGREEMENT, AND TO EXPLAIN HOW VISIT SAN ANTONIO IS GOING TO ASSIST IN TAKING THIS CITY TO THE NEXT NEXT LEVEL OF SUCCESS. 
          AND BRING US BACK WITH THIS, I INTRODUCE YOU TO OUR 2022 STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN, WHICH INCLUDES 
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A NEW SHORT TERM MISSION TO LEAD SAN ANTONIO THROUGH RECOVERY AND THE LOFTY GOALS TO REACH PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS OF OCCUPANCY ROOM NIGHTS AND VISITORSHIP BY THE END OF 2024. 
          IN ADDITION, WE HAVE REPOSITIONED OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES TO INCLUDE FIVE KEY AREAS THAT WILL DRIVE OUR SUCCESS FOR THE FUTURE. 
          FIRST, IN PREVIOUS STRATEGIC PLANS, SALES AND MARKETING WERE COMBINED QUITE SIMPLY, WE ARE TOO LARGE OF A CITY TO NOT HAVE EACH CATEGORY STAND ALONE. 
          THEREFORE, STRATEGIC SALES STANDS ALONE AS A PRIORITY. 
          AND OUR NEW STORYTELLING PRIORITY TAKES THE PLACE OF WHAT WAS REFERRED TO AS TRADITIONAL MARKETING BEFORE. 
          AND OF COURSE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR OUR CITY, OUR STAKEHOLDERS, OUR CITY, OUR COUNTRY, AND OUR PARTNERS. 
          WE WILL GROW AND, AND MEMBERS, AND WE WILL CELEBRATE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DIVERSITY NEEDS TO BE PART OF THE FABRIC OF WHO WE ARE AS AN ORGANIZATION, A OUR TEAM, OUR BOARD, OUR CITY, AND OUR COMMUNITY. 
          TO GIVE YOU A QUICK OVERVIEW OF OUR STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN, WE START WITH STORYTELLING AND TRADITIONAL PAID MARKETING WITH OUR VISION TO CONTINUE TO POSITION SAN ANTONIO, ANTONIO AS THE PREMIER LEISURE DESTINATION THROUGH STORYTELLING. 
          WE ARE GOING TO ACHIEVE THIS BY EVALUATING AND SERVING TARGET AUDIENCES, CONTINUING TO DRIVE AND INCREASE DEMAND TO LOCAL BUSINESSES AND OUR COMMUNITY, AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, HOST A SUCCESSFUL UNITED STATES TRAVEL ASSOCIATION I P W CONVENTION IN 2023. 
          OUR GOALS REMAIN CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT STORYTELLING AND MARKETING TO INCREASE DEMAND BY 2024 TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS, TO REACH NO AUDIENCES ACROSS MANY INITIATIVES. 
          BUT ALLOW ME TO ALSO HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE UNITED STATES TRAVEL ASSOCIATION I P W 2023 CONVENTION. 
          A COMMITMENT TO HOST I P W IN 20 2023 WAS A DECISION MADE BY THE CITY AND THE PREVIOUS SAN ANTONIO C V B BACK IN 2015. 
          US TRAVEL IS PROJECTING ATTENDANCE TO BE 6,000 PEOPLE BY 2023, AND THIS WILL BE THE FIRST TIME SAN ANTONIO GETS TO SHOWCASE OUR CULTURE, OUR AUTHENTICITY AND OFFERINGS TO THIS GLOBAL MARKETPLACE OF TRAVEL COUNSELORS, AGENTS, AND GLOBAL MEDIA. 
          AND WE TALK TO OUR PEERS. 
          AND THE R O I STANDS FOR ITSELF ON THIS SLIDE. 
          ORLANDO HOSTED THE CONVENTION IN 2015 AND SAW AN INCREASE IN 400,000 INTERNATIONAL VISITORS WITHIN A FOUR YEAR PERIOD. 
          DENVER HOSTED THEM IN 2018 AND BY HOSTING THE CONVENTION ADDED 13 INTERNATIONAL NON-STOP FLIGHTS TO AND FROM DENVER AND INCREASED INTERNATIONAL SPENDING BY $18 MILLION IN ONE YEAR, ROCKPORT ANALYTICS, A THIRD PARTY, DID A STUDY FOR VISIT SAN ANTONIO, AND REPORTED THAT SAN ANTONIO IN THREE YEARS WILL INCREASE VISITATION BY 400,000, INCREASE SPENDING FROM THOSE VISITORS BY $614 MILLION, GENERATE MORE THAN 27 LOCAL JOBS WITH AN ADDITIONAL 143 MILLION IN TAX AND STATE, LOCAL, AND STATE TAXES. 
          A VERY SOLID R O I IF YOU ASK ME. 
          CONTINUING WITH STORYTELLING. 
          SAN ANTONIO HAS AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE OUR STORYTELLING THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA BY EVOLVING KEY STORY PLATFORMS SUCH AS CULINARY ICONS SUCH AS THE ALAMO, THE RIVERWALK, AND THE SPURS, AND DIVERSITY IN, IN CULTURE, TO TRULY OWN OUR OWN STORY, EXPANDING COVERAGE INTERNATIONALLY, AND HIGHLIGHTING THE AUTHENTICITY AND DIVERSITY OF ALL OF OUR BUSINESSES IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND YEAR AFTER YEAR, BETWEEN NOW AND 2024, WE WILL INCREASE OUR GOALS TO REACH PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS AND HOSTING HOSTED MEDIA 
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ARTICLE PLACEMENTS AND EARNED MEDIA VALUE, AND CONTINUE CULTIVATING AND CRAFTING NEW STORIES TO HIGHLIGHT OUR DESTINATION TO NEW AUDIENCES AND RETAIN OUR LOYAL CUSTOMERS AS WELL. 
          STORYTELLING CONTINUES THROUGH TOURISM DEVELOPMENT BY DEVELOPING NEW PRODUCTS AND DESTINATION ASSETS, AMPLIFYING OUR HISTORY, OUR ARTS, OUR CULTURE, OUR CULINARY AND MORE, AND BROADENING OUR REACH, NOT ONLY DOMESTICALLY, BUT ALSO TAKING OUR STORY INTERNATIONALLY AND GLOBALLY WHILE AGAIN CONTINUALLY INCREASING VISITATION YEAR OVER YEAR AND MEETING AND TRAINING OUR CLIENTS DOMESTICALLY AND GLOBALLY, GLOBALLY, SO THAT THEY CAN TELL THEIR CLIENTS ABOUT THE WONDER OF SAN ANTONIO OBVI. 
          OBVIOUSLY, ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT DRIVERS IS STRAT IN SAN ANTONIO IS STRATEGIC SALES, WHERE WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE, INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING IN AND DRAMATICALLY INCREASE SHORT TERM CORPORATE BUSINESS WITHIN THE NEXT 36 TO 48 MONTHS FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER AND OUR HOTEL COMMUNITY. 
          IN FACT, WE HAVE ALREADY ADDED ABOUT 40 DAYS AGO, A NEW DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE BUSINESS STRATEGY THAT WILL DO JUST THAT. 
          WE MUST CONTINUE TO INCREASE OUR LEAD VOLUME TO INCREASE DEMAND, AND WE ALSO MUST HAVE A LASER FOCUS TO FILL THE MAJORITY OF THE 50 OPEN KNEE DATES ON THE CONVENTION CENTER CALENDAR BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF 24, WHILE CONTINUING TO PUSH OUR SALES TEAM WITH AGGRESSIVE GOALS TO MAKE OUR DIFFERENCE FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND TO REACH PRE-TERM, PRE PANDEMIC GROUP LEVELS. 
          BY THE END OF 24, ADVOCAT ADVOCACY WILL BE KEY TO OUR MISSION, ONCE AGAIN, HAVING A MULTI-TIERED APPROACH AND A SEAT AT THE TABLE WITH THE CITY, THE STATE AND FEDERALLY TO PROMOTE OUR INDUSTRY, OUR WORKERS, OUR COMMUNITY, AND OUR STAKEHOLDERS. 
          PROMOTING THE POWER OF TOUR OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY AS AN ECONOMIC DRIVER, A TAX REVENUE GENERATOR, AND A JOB PRODUCER WITH THE ADVOCACY GOALS HIGHLIGHTING AS HAVING A SUCCESSFUL ONGOING PARTNERSHIP WITH ALL OF YOU WITH THE CONVENTION CENTER AND ALL OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS WITH CLEARLY ARTICULATED GOALS AND METRICS FOR VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          PARTNERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIP WILL BE RELAUNCHED IN 2022 TO FURTHER ENGAGE OUR MEMBERS, COMMUNITY VISITORS AND CLIENTS. 
          WE ALSO HAVE AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE REVENUES AND ENHANCE THE MISSION OF OUR 5 0 1 C THREE TO PROMOTE SCHOLARSHIPS TO LOCAL STUDENTS IN UNDERSERVED PARTS OF OUR COMMUNITY, WHILE WE ALSO CONTINUE TO PARTNER WITH THE AIRPORT TO BRING IN MORE NON-STOP FLIGHTS TO AND FROM SAN ANTONIO, WHICH IS JUST SO IMPORTANT FOR OUR FUTURE. 
          OUR PARTNERSHIP GOALS INCLUDE INCREASING MEMBERS, INCREASING THE DIVERSITY OF OUR MEMBERSHIP THROUGH A THOUGHTFUL STRATEGIC OUTREACH TO THEM, AND INCREASING THE PROMOTIONAL DOLLARS FOR NEW AIR SERVICE, OUR BEAUTIFUL RIVER WALK, AND THE RECENT MERGER WITH THE RIVER WALK ASSOCIATION IN APRIL OF 2021. 
          OUR VISION IS TO SUPPORT BUT ALSO CREATE EVENTS THAT HIGHLIGHT THE BEST OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE RIVER WALK WHILE ADDING VALUE TO OUR PARTNERS AND VISITORS BY ENHANCING AND ELEVATING THESE EVENTS, ENSURING THIS DIVISION OF VISTA SAN ANTONIO IS FINANCIALLY SOLVENT AND INTEGRATING NEW MEMBERS INTO OUR COMMUNITY. 
          OUR GOALS FOR THE RIVER WALK ARE TO ADD MEMBERS, ADD SPONSORS, AND INCREASE THE VALUE OF ALL EVENTS. 
          FINALLY, DIVERSITY, WHERE WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE, NURTURE, AND SUSTAIN AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE BY ATTRACTING AND CELEBRATING OUR DIVERSITY ACROSS MANY SEGMENTS, OUR TEAM, OUR BOARD, AND OUR COMMUNITY. 
          BY COORDINATING A THOUGHTFUL D E I STRATEGY AND LEVERAGING VISIT SAN ANTONIO VENDOR RELATIONSHIPS TO ESTABLISH 
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INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS TO AFFECT THE LIVELIHOOD OF SAN ANTONIO'S FUTURE LEADERS. 
          IN FACT, IN THE PAST 30 DAYS, WE HAVE ALREADY ENGAGED WITH A D E I CONSULTANT WHO WILL ASSIST US IN CONDUCTING AN ORGANIZATIONAL REVIEW WHILE OFFERING COMPREHENSIVE RESULTS TO ADDRESS FINDINGS AND ENHANCE D E I, SO WE CAN SIMPLY BE BETTER AND DO BETTER AS AN ORGANIZATION AND AS A CITY. 
          IN ADDITION, WE WILL ALSO TARGET NEW MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS SUCH AS THE OUT AND EQUAL CONVENTION, THE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY MAJOR CONVENTION, THE NA NATIONAL COALITION OF BLACK MEETING PROFESSIONALS AND THE HISPANIC BAR ASSOCIATION. 
          AND THROUGH THIS, ALL OUR CORE VALUES WILL REMAIN THE SAME. 
          TO SERVE, TO SHARE, TO OWN, TO TRUST, AND TO WELCOME AND NOT ONLY CELEBRATE OUR SUCCESS AS A COMMUNITY AND AS A TEAM, BUT CELEBRATE THE POWER OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY AND AS, AS AN INDUSTRY THAT MAKES THIS CITY AND COUNTRY WORK. 
          MAYOR NUREMBERG, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITY MANAGER WALSH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY. 
          NOW, I BELIEVE MY COLLEAGUES AND I WILL ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS. 
          MAYOR, CAN I SAY A COUPLE WORDS REAL QUICK? UM, I WANNA, I WANNA RECOGNIZE, UM, AND I DIDN'T DO THIS AT THE BEGINNING BECAUSE I WANTED TO GET THROUGH THE PRESENTATIONS. 
          UM, THIS AREA OF OUR BUSINESS HAS BEEN PROBABLY THE MOST IMPACTED. 
          UM, IT'S THE ONE AREA OF OUR BUSINESS THAT WE MONITOR VERY FREQUENTLY, SOMETIMES ON A WEEKLY BASIS. 
          UM, I KNOW I SAID THIS THIS TIME LAST YEAR, BUT, UH, PATRICIA AND HER TEAM AT THE DOME AND THE CONVENTION CENTER, AND DEBBIE AND HER STAFF, UM, UM, HAVE DONE AN ADMIRABLE JOB. 
          THEY'VE HAD, UM, THEY'VE HAD THE HARDEST JOB IN ANY OTHER EXECUTIVE, UM, BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY'VE HAD TO DEAL WITH. 
          AND, AND I WANNA THANK THEM FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE. 
          I MEAN, A LOT OF WHAT THE PLANNING THAT GOES INTO THE F Y 22 BUDGET IS CRITICAL TO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE PREPARED AND, AND THE CLOSE WORKING RELATIONSHIP THAT, THAT WE'VE ALWAYS HAD WITH V S A, I THINK HAS PROBABLY STRENGTHENED OVER THE LAST 18 MONTHS. 
          AND WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE MARK, UH, ON BOARD. 
          UM, BUT MANY OF THE FOLKS THAT ARE AT V S A, WE HAVE LONG WELL STANDING, UM, WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH. 
          AND I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE COUNCIL TO KNOW THAT WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS A TEAM APPROACH. 
          UH, WE KNOW WE'RE ALL LINKED, UM, AND IT'S CRITICAL TO, UH, OUR, UH, LOCAL ECONOMY. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU ERIC. 
          AND, UH, THANK YOU, MARK, UH, V S A TEAM, UH, PATRICIA, UH, YOUR TEAM AS WELL AS DEBBIE AND THE ARTS AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT FOR YOUR PRESENTATIONS TODAY. 
          I KNOW, UH, THERE'S PROBABLY PLENTY OF CONVERSATION AND SUCH A DIVERSE, UM, TOPIC, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, UM, I THINK ONE THAT, UH, WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF INNOVATION AND I, I JUST HAVE TO SAY, STARTING WITH V S A, UH, MARK, I, I TRULY DO APPRECIATE YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND, AND BIG IDEAS THAT YOU'RE BRINGING TO SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE'VE LOOKED FOR INNOVATION WITHIN THE VISITOR COMMUNITY FOR A LONG TIME, AND I THINK YOU'RE BRINGING THAT PERSPECTIVE. 
          SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT YOUR TENURE AND, AND, AND THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT YOU'VE LAID OUT. 
          I KNOW YOU HAVE A BIG TASK AHEAD OF US. 
          AND, AND ONE OF THE THING THAT'S, UM, ALLUDED US, UH, OR AT LEAST IN MY PERSPECTIVE OVER THE YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN OBSERVING THE, THE C V B OPERATIONS, IS THIS IDEA OF HOW DO WE BRAND SAN ANTONIO? HOW DO WE MARKET OURSELVES TO THE WORLD? AND, AND FOR MANY PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF SAN ANTONIO, WE'RE A VERY STATIC BRAND ASSOCIATED A LOT WITH, WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ALAMO AND OUR WORLD HERITAGE. 
          BUT AS WE'VE SEEN OVER THE LAST FIVE, 10 YEARS, THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO SAN ANTONIO THAN THAT, UM, FROM, UH, THE VERY RICH ARTS AND CULTURAL COMMUNITY THAT WE'VE HEARD ABOUT, UM, TO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE NOW A CITY OF GASTRONOMY DESIGNATION AND AN EXPLODING CULINARY SCENE. 
          WE'RE ALSO A CITY OF SCIENCE, A C A CITY OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, A CITY OF AEROSPACE AND MILITARY. 
          SO THERE'S SO MANY WAYS WE CAN BRAND THE CITY, AND I THINK WE'VE, I THINK WE'VE FALLEN INTO SOME TRAPS AND THINKING THAT WE HAVE TO DO IT ALL, UH, RATHER THAN FOCUS ON OUR STRENGTHS AND, AND REALLY WORK WITH EXPERTS AND, AND, AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AS WELL, TO IDENTIFY WHERE WE NEED TO CONCENTRATE OUR EFFORTS. 
          SO I DO APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE BRINGING. 
          I KNOW THERE'S SOME EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE'RE WORKING ON AS WELL. 
          BUT, UH, TO ECHO ERIC'S, UH, SENTIMENTS, I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN THROUGH HELL THIS YEAR, AND, UH, I APPRECIATE YOUR PERSISTENCE AND RESILIENCE, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO MANY BRIGHTER DAYS TO COME. 
          AND I FULLY SUPPORT, UH, 
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THE, THE, I GUESS YOU COULD CALL IT ASPIRATIONAL GOAL OF GETTING BACK TO PRE PANDEMIC NUMBERS AHEAD OF TIME. 
          UH, AND I'M FULLY CONFIDENT YOU'LL DO THAT. 
          UM, THE TEAM AT CONVENTION AND SPORTS FACILITIES, THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS, IN MY OPINION, ALWAYS EXECUTING BEST IN CLASS EVENTS WHEN WE SAY WE'RE GONNA HOST SOMETHING, UH, AND A, A MAJOR OPPORTUNITY COMES TO SAN ANTONIO, LIKE IT HAS, UH, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, WE ALWAYS KNOCK IT OUT OF THE PARK. 
          UH, WHETHER IT'S A PANDEMIC WOMEN'S FINAL FOUR IN WHICH WE HAD TO HOST 64 TEAMS, OR IT'S A PRE PANDEMIC MEN'S FINAL FOUR, WE ALWAYS DO IT THE BEST. 
          AND PEOPLE LOOK TO US TO SET THAT STANDARD. 
          I'M VERY IMPRESSED BY WHAT YOU DO. 
          I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 
          I DO WANNA RECOGNIZE THOUGH, THAT YOU'VE ALSO BEEN AT THE CENTER OF OUR PANDEMIC OPERATIONS, OPERATING VACCINE, UH, AND, AND TESTING, UH, DRIVE-THROUGHS SO MUCH OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE DURING THE YEARS TO COPE WITH THE IMME IMMEDIATE URGENT CRISIS THAT WE'RE IN, MEANWHILE, ALSO OPERATING SOME BEST IN CLASS EVENTS. 
          SO CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL CONTINUE THE GREAT WORK. 
          UM, MY COMMENTS, UM, AND I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, ARE REALLY CENTERED AROUND THE ARTS AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT. 
          I'M, I'M HAPPY THAT WE ARE GETTING BACK TO RESTORING FUNDS OPERATIONALLY, BUT ERIC, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT AND, AND COUNSEL HAS TALKED ABOUT, UH, AND I'VE TALKED ABOUT WITH THE JUDGE, AS WE GET INTO RECOVERY AND WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE INVESTMENT, I'M LOOKING FOR, UM, AN OPPORTUNITY OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS WITH, UH, OUR RECOVERY DOLLARS, WITH OUR BOND PRIORITIES, WITH THE WAY THAT WE'RE INVESTING, HOW WE WILL LOOK TO OURSELVES, BUT TO ALSO THE WORLD, A TRANSFORMATIONAL INVESTMENT IN THE ARTS AND CULTURAL COMMUNITY FROM OUR FACILITIES TO OUR OPERATIONS, TO HOW WE WORK WITH INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS, TO HOW WE VALUE HOW THE, THE DISPLAY OF OUR LOCAL PUBLIC ART TO OURSELVES AND TO THE BROADER COMMUNITY. 
          SO, JUST KEEPING IN MIND AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THE OPERATIONAL REP, THE OPERATIONAL, UH, BUDGET THIS YEAR, 2022, SOME FOLKS MAY SEE THAT AS, OKAY, WE'RE JUST GETTING BACK TO PAR. 
          WE'RE ONLY JUST BEGINNING IN MY PERSPECTIVE AS WE LAY OUT A RECOVERY STRATEGY AND A PATH FORWARD ON ALL THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS FROM FILM TO PUBLIC ART TO PERFORMANCE ART, WE NEED TO BE LOOKING TOWARDS HOW WE TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND USE THE OPPORTUNITY THAT IS PROBABLY ONCE IN A GENERATION TO TAKE SAN ANTONIO'S STRATEGIC STRENGTH, WHICH IS OUR ARTS AND CULTURAL COMMUNITY AND OUR HERITAGE TO ANOTHER LEVEL. 
          SO, UM, IN MY VIEW, AN INVESTMENT IN ARTS AND CULTURE IS AN INVESTMENT IN OUR ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS. 
          AND IF THERE IS A BROADER THEME TO WHY ALL OF YOU ARE PRESENTING ON THE SAME DAY, IT'S THAT. 
          SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO PUT THOSE THOUGHTS OUT AS WE THINK ABOUT, UH, HOW WE'RE PUTTING THE, TOGETHER THE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS WITH A BROADER VIEW FOR THE FUTURE. 
          LET ME GO NOW INTO, UH, OUR COUNCIL CONVERSATION. 
          WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANKS, MARK. 
          DEBBIE AND THE VISIT S A TEAM FOR THE PRESENTATIONS. 
          UM, I WANNA THANK, UH, THE FOLKS FROM STACEY, THE ESPANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER, AND FROM THE GUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER WHO ATTENDED OUR BUDGET TOWN HALL YESTERDAY AT HARRIS MIDDLE SCHOOL. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THE CONCERNS THAT THEY BROUGHT UP WERE VERY STARK. 
          LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE LOOK AT HOT TRANSFERS TO THE VISIT ESSAY, UM, IF WE LOOK AT THE HOT, SORRY, IF WE LOOK AT THE HOT TRANSFERS TO, TO VISIT SA, UH, THEY OUTNUMBER THE TRANSFERS TO THE ARTS AND CULTURE, UH, COMMUNITY BY TWO TO ONE. 
          UM, SO EVEN THOUGH VISIT SA HAS ACCESS TO OVER 7 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL FUNDING, UM, I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT WE NEED TO PULL MONEY AWAY FROM VISIT SA, UM, BUT I WANT US TO BE CONSCIOUS THAT OVER 23% OF THE FUNDING FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURES FROM ARPA AND THAT ARPA FUNDING WON'T BE THERE NEXT YEAR. 
          UM, SO I'M GRATEFUL, UM, THAT WE ARE RECEIVING ADDITIONAL FEDERAL FUNDING FOR THE ARTS. 
          UM, HOWEVER, IN A YEAR FROM NOW, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE 2.6 MILLION LESS, UM, FOR DOZENS OF ARTS AND CULTURE ORGANIZATIONS. 
          UM, SO I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A TWO YEAR BUDGET AHEAD OF US. 
          UM, SO HOW DO WE INTEND TO GET AHEAD OF THE FISCAL YEAR 20, UH, 23 SHORTFALL? UM, AND I ALSO NOTICED THAT IN THE GENERAL FUND FROM FISCAL YEAR 2021, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS OVER A MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE GENERAL FUND THAT WENT TO THE ARTS AND CULTURE IN FISCAL YEAR 2021. 
          AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS PROPOSED BUDGET, IT'S DOWN MORE THAN 90%, UM, AT 50,000. 
          UM, SO I JUST WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE SEE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE SUPPORT FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO SUPPORT THE ARTS AND CULTURE. 
          UM, BUT AT THE VERY MINIMUM THAT WE RETURN TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 SUPPORT FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE, UM, DEPARTMENT GOING FORWARD. 
          UM, I WANNA THANK 
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ALL OF SAN ANTONIO'S VARIOUS ARTISTS, PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE. 
          UM, THOSE WHO ARE STORYTELLERS, WRITE POETRY, WRITE BOOKS, UM, TO, YOU KNOW, TO THEATER, THE CULINARY ARTS AND SO MUCH MORE. 
          UM, WITHOUT THE ARTS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS, TOURISM WOULD NOT BE AS LIVELY AND DIVERSE, AND SAN ANTONIO WOULDN'T BE REPRESENTATIVE ALL AROUND IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THE ARTS. 
          I BELIEVE THAT THE BUDGET FOR THE VISIT SA IN 20 AND FOR VISIT SA IN 2017 WAS ABOUT 23.3 MILLION. 
          AND THIS YEAR, UH, VISIT SA IS PROPOSED AT ALMOST 4 MILLION MORE, UH, WHILE THE ARTS AND CULTURE WENT UP ONLY 300,000. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? UM, COUNCIL ONE. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , THE, THE BUDGET FOR, I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE BUDGET WAS IN 2017. 
          OKAY. 
          WHAT WAS THE NUMBER AGAIN FOR 2017? I BELIEVE, LET'S SEE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE THE, THE, UH, THE V S A, THE TRANSFER TO V S A, UM, NEXT YEAR AT $17.7 MILLION IS LESS THAN IT WAS IN 2020. 
          SO, UH, I, I DON'T THINK WE, I DON'T THINK WE'VE OUTPACED 2017 AT THIS POINT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I'M ENCOURAGED TO SEE THAT, UH, STAFF IS PURSUING 42 MILLION IN NON-CITY FUNDS FOR THE ARTS, BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT SET IN STONE. 
          AND WE MUST SUPPLEMENT, UH, THE GRANT FUNDING WITH MORE GENERAL FUNDING IN CASE THAT GRANT FUNDING'S NOT SECURE. 
          UM, AND AS MR. ANDERSON PUT IT, WELL, UM, IT IS NOT LOST ON ME HOW A BENEFICIAL, UM, YOU KNOW, VISIT ESSAY IS. 
          UM, BUT I FEEL THAT THE ARTS AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS SIGNIFICANTLY, SIGNIFICANTLY HELP WITH THAT RETURN BY ENSURING THAT OUR CITY IS CULTURALLY ADVERTISED WHEN OUR TOURISTS ARRIVE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW, UH, MR. ANDERSON, UH, MENTIONED A STUDY AND THE LATEST SAN ANTONIO CREATIVE INDUSTRY ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDY SHOWED THAT 21.4% INCREASE IN THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE CREATIVE ECONOMY, UM, UH, FROM THE STUDIES THAT IT WAS RELEASED IN 17, THAT THE IMPACT IS 4.8 BILLION. 
          SO I HEAR YOU WITH THE, THE IMPACT OF VISIT ESSAY. 
          UM, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE INCLUDE THE ARTS AND CULTURE AND ALL THOSE ORGANIZATIONS. 
          UM, IN ADDITION TO THAT, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, AS THE MAYOR TOUCHED ON, RIGHT, THIS IS A ECONOMIC FORCE. 
          AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UH, ARTS AND CULTURE, RIGHT, THESE ARE JOBS. 
          UM, SO WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO SUPPORT OUR ORGANIZATIONS, UM, EVEN MORE SO NOW 'CAUSE OF COVID, UM, OUR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND ARTS COMMUNITIES ARE HURTING, UM, AND SOME OF THEM ARE CONCERNED ABOUT POTENTIALLY NOT MAKING IT THROUGH THE PANDEMIC. 
          UM, SO GIVEN THE OVERLAP BETWEEN VISIT SA AND THE ARTS AND CULTURE, UM, I THINK IT, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY WITH ANY FUTURE, UH, FUNDING FOR VISIT SA THAT WE, UH, ENSURE THAT WE'RE PARTNERING WITH THE ARTS AND CULTURE ORGANIZATIONS TO ENSURE THAT, UH, IF WE ARE HAVING ANY EVENTS FOR VISIT SA OR THE FINAL FOUR, THE FINAL FOUR RATHER, UM, OR FIESTA, THAT WE ARE GOING TO THE LOCAL, UM, ORGANIZATIONS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, BUT I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR DEBBIE. 
          UM, SO THERE WAS A PUSH TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING FOR ART RELATED CAPITAL PROJECTS, LIKE THE 2022 BOND FROM 1% OF THE PROJECT COST TO 2%. 
          WHERE DOES THAT ISSUE CURRENTLY STAND? RIGHT. 
          SO, YES, UM, THERE WAS A C C R THAT COUNCILMAN TREVINO, UH, GA DID IN JULY OF 2020, UH, REQUESTING THAT FUNDING BE INCREASED, UH, FOR PUBLIC ART FROM 1% TO 2%. 
          THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE HEARD THAT AND SENT IT TO A COMMITTEE OF CITY COUNCIL, THE CULTURE AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES COMMITTEE. 
          AND, UH, THAT HAS NOT BEEN DECIDED OTHER THAN THE COMMITTEE HAD VOTED TO MOVE IT TO B SESSION. 
          SO THERE'S THAT CONVERSATION, UH, IS STILL UP IN THE AIR. 
          IT'S NOT INCLUDED IN THIS BUDGET. 
          CURRENTLY, WE HAVE 1% POLICY FOR PUBLIC ART THAT IS ADOPTED BY CITY COUNCIL IN 2011 AND IS INCLUDED IN ALL OF THE CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE AND NOT JUST THE BOND AND COUNCILWOMAN, AS RAZZIE MENTIONED YESTERDAY, WE HAVE A B SESSION SCHEDULED ON SEPTEMBER 29TH ON THE BOND PROGRAM. 
          THAT WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE TIME FOR THE COUNCIL TO HAVE THE POLICY CONVERSATION, BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY AN ORDINANCE THAT APPLIES TO THAT BOND FUNDING AND HOW, HOW THAT THOSE FUNDS ARE SPLIT UP. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          YES. 
          I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT I'D ARGUE THAT DISTRICT FIVE IS THE HOME TO ARTS AND CULTURE. 
          NOT ONLY ARE WE RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO THE MISSIONS, WE HAVE THE LONE STAR ARTS CULTURAL DISTRICT, BLUE STAR, UM, AVENIDA DE GUADALUPE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SO MANY, UH, ARTS CORRIDORS AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HOME TO URBAN 15, STACY SANTO CULTURAL ARTS, THE GUADALUPE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER, AND THE ESPERANZA PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER. 
          UM, SO I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT COME FORWARD WITH VISIT SA. 
          UM, AND THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS FOR NOW. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          COUNCIL 
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MEMBER GRO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, PATRICIA, IT'S GONNA BE YOU AND MARK FIRST. 
          AND I JUST WANNA SAY, I DID WORK FOR VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          I REMEMBER WALKING INTO THE STARS OF NIGHT BALLROOM AND THINKING, THIS IS WHAT I WANNA DO. 
          I WANNA SELL SAN ANTONIO BECAUSE THE BALLROOM TOOK MY BREATH AWAY. 
          AND I STILL WALK INTO THAT CONVENTION CENTER FROM WHERE, WHAT IT USED TO BE, AND AM JUST AMAZED. 
          AND SO I, IT IS, IT IS A PRIORITY. 
          I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT I CANNOT WAIT. 
          AND WHATEVER MY OFFICE CAN DO TO HELP FILL THOSE VACANCY POSITIONS, LET'S GET THEM FILLED. 
          BUT I KNOW THAT THAT IS CONNECTED TO WHAT VISIT SAN ANTONIO IS DOING, AND, UM, THEIR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES, AND I'M STARTING WITH THEM BECAUSE IF THEY CAN BRING MORE BUSINESS IN, THAT MEANS WE GET MORE MONEY FOR ARTS AND CULTURE, AND I'M ALL FOR LOOKING FOR MORE , UH, WAYS TO FUND ARTS AND CULTURES. 
          BUT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE VISIT SAN ANTONIO, WE HAVE THE HOT TAX, AND WE CAN, WE CAN GET THIS DONE. 
          SO, UH, MY FIRST QUESTION FOR, UM, FOR KI KIND OF A VISIT SAN ANTONIO IS, UH, IN TERMS OF THE STRATEGIC PRIORITIES, UM, WHEN WE, WHEN YOU LOOK AT MARKETING AND TELLING THE STORIES OF, OF, UH, ETHNIC WOMEN, SO YOU HAVE A PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT SOME OF THOSE AGENCIES, THOSE MARKETING AGENCIES ARE LED BY WOMEN, LED BY PEOPLE OF COLOR TO HELP TELL THOSE STORIES. 
          ARE WE, ARE WE GONNA LOOK AT TRYING TO OUTSOURCE THAT TO MARKETING GROUPS? UH, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT OUR D E I CONSULTANT, UM, THAT I GUESS OFFICIALLY STARTED ABOUT SEVEN DAYS AGO WILL START AUDITING FOR US. 
          OKAY. 
          TO MAKE RECOMMENDATION AND, AND SO THAT WE ARE DOING EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE, YOU ARE REQUESTING. 
          UM, I DO KNOW THAT ONE OF OUR MARKETING AGENCIES, ONE OF THE SUB CONTRACTS IS A, A, A MINORITY AND FEMALE OWNED BUSINESS. 
          UM, SO, BUT OUR DE CONSULTANT WILL DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE ASKING. 
          AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF COUNCILMAN CASTILLOS IS MAYBE IF WE HAVE AN ARTS, UH, PROGRAM OR ORGANIZATION OUT THERE THAT HAS A STORY TO TELL THAT THEY KIND OF REACH OUT TO THAT MARKETING AGENCY TO MAKE SURE THAT STORY TELLS OR REACH OUT TO DEBBIE AND HAVE HER GET THEM TO IT, UH, JUST SO THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TELLING THOSE DRAMATIC STORIES. 
          AND THEN ON THE STRATEGIC SALES PORTION OF THIS, UM, I'M GOING TO NEED NUMBERS TO, TO WHAT DRAMATICALLY INCREASE WHAT SORT OF NUMBERS DRAMATICALLY INCREASE. 
          YOU GAVE US NUMBERS IN TARGET TWO, UM, AND TARGET FOR 75% OF 50 AND ALSO IN TARGET THREE. 
          BUT I NEED A NUMBER FOR THAT DRAMATICALLY INCREASE BUSINESS. 
          SURE. 
          WE ARE, UM, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          WE'RE ACTUALLY, UM, I'VE ONLY BEEN ON THE JOB FOR 92 DAYS, SO I'M, WE'RE STILL, UM, SCOURING THE BOOKS AND OUR NEW DIRECTOR OF, UM, UM, STRATEGIC CORPORATE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IS ACTUALLY COORDINATING A HUNDRED DAY PLAN, WHICH WILL INCLUDE A HIT LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE WILL BE GOING AFTER THAT WE CAN BOOK IN THE NEXT 36 TO 48 MONTHS. 
          SO WE CAN GIVE YOU THOSE NUMBERS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING ON THE BOARD AND GETTING MORE INFORMATION, UH, THAN THAT. 
          AND THEN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PRIORITIES, AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF VISIT SAN ANTONIO STAFF, THERE IS, I THINK IF YOU HAVE EMPLOYEES THAT LIVE IN THE CITY, I WOULD CHALLENGE YOU GUYS TO STEP UP AND TRY AND SERVE ON COMMITTEES, TRY AND SERVE IN ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THIS CITY IN YOUR DISTRICT, BECAUSE I THINK THAT WOULD HELP YOU GUYS BE GREAT ADVOCATES FOR THAT. 
          UM, I'M EXCITED ABOUT YOUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE AIRPORT AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO GET MORE, UH, DETAILS ON THAT, UH, BECAUSE I THINK OUR AIRPORT NEEDS HELP IN TERMS OF MARKETING. 
          AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION IS, OR IT'S MORE OF JUST LIKE A MANDATE FOR VISIT SAN ANTONIO IS, UM, YOU'RE THE WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING WITH THE DIVERSITY. 
          UH, THE D E I CONSULTANT, I THINK CAN BE AN EXAMPLE TO ALL OF ALL THE OTHER AGENCIES AND GROUPS THAT WE, WE MOVE FORWARD WITH WHAT YOU ARE, WHAT YOU'RE DOING IN BEING STRATEGIC AND UNDERSTANDING AND ADMITTING THAT MAYBE THERE'S SOME, THERE'S ROOM TO GROW AND THAT YOU DON'T KNOW. 
          IT ALL IS, I THINK, HUGE. 
          AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE GET, UH, WE, IT, IT LIVES SOMEPLACE FOR THE REST OF MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO SEE THAT THEY'RE NOT JUST SAYING THIS, THEY'RE NOT CHECKING A BOX, BUT THEY'RE ACT. 
          'CAUSE I HAVE TRUST IN MARK THAT HE'S ACTUALLY GONNA DO WHAT HE SAYS AND BRING THAT. 
          SO IF THERE IS A PLACE THAT IT CAN LIVE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF PATRICIA COULD GIVE THAT TO US OR IF ERIC COULD GIVE US TO US AS THIS PROGRESS CONTINUES THAT WE SEE IT. 
          SO MY NEXT QUESTIONS ARE FOR PATRICIA 
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AND SPECIFICALLY ON THE, THE CONTRACT. 
          THANK YOU, MARK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO AS WE DO THIS CONTRACT EXTENSION, THE ONE THING I WANNA BE MINDFUL IS I LOVE THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING, UH, STRATEGIC PRI PRIORITIES, BUT I, I'D LIKE TO SEE TIMELINES FOR KIND OF THOSE METRICS THAT WE'RE GOING, YOU'RE GOING TO PUT INTO THE, THE, UM, THE CONTRACT AND IF THEY'RE RELATED TO SALES, SPECIFICALLY TO THE, UH, CONVENTION CENTER, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU HAVE THAT INCENTIVE. 
          I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO THIS IN THE CONTRACT, IS MAYBE LOOK IT A WAY THAT RIGHT NOW WE'RE GIVING THAT 1.2 0.4 MILLION. 
          IS IT 2.4 MILLION? 2.3 2.3 MILLION FOR CONVENTION CENTER? IF MAYBE AS VISIT SAN ANTONIO GROWS THEIR BUDGET? 'CAUSE THEY BRING MORE CONVENTIONS THAT THERE'S A DEDICATED $2.2 MILLION FOR INCENTIVES TO GET PEOPLE TO THE CONVENTION CENTER, THE DOME CARVER TOYOTA, THE FIELD, UM, THE MISSIONS, IF WE HAVE GROUPS COMING IN AND USING ONE OF THOSE, UM, FIVE PLACES TO KIND OF GIVE THEM INCENTIVES. 
          'CAUSE THAT'S KEY TO THE CITY. 
          UM, AND I THAT THE REST OF MY QUESTIONS, I THINK ARE FOR ARTS AND CULTURE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO DEBBIE, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU TRY AND BE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ENTIRE DIS ALL THE DISTRICTS, UH, AND TRY AND PUT PIECES OF BEAUTY IN ALL OF THOSE DISTRICTS. 
          AND I LOVED EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR THE FILM. 
          I THINK WE NEED TO INCREASE, UM, FUNDING FOR THEM. 
          I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN DO THAT. 
          UH, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD GET MORE ARPA DOLLARS, ERIC, TO HELP WITH THE FILM, BUT I THINK THAT THAT IS, THAT'S WHERE THE FUTURE IS. 
          ONLINE FILM TELEVISION. 
          AND I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT. 
          UM, WHEN WE, WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT THE, UM, THE ADDITIONAL MONIES THAT WE HAD, THE, UM, ADDITIONAL ARTS FUNDING, IS IT POSSIBLE TO ALLOCATE THAT FOR VACANT BUILDINGS AND, UM, MURALS IN CERTAIN CORRIDORS? SO YOU'RE ASKING IF THE SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING? YES. 
          UH, THAT'S WITHIN THE OPERATIONAL PART OF THE BUDGET OR THE CULTURAL PLAN? AND THE CULTURAL PLAN? YES. 
          WE COULD, UH, WE COULD WORK ON A PILOT PROJECT TO WORK ON MURALS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          I THINK THROUGH OUR CULTURAL PLANNING IT WOULD BE, OF COURSE, WE ALWAYS DO A MAJOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS WHEN WE DO THAT. 
          SO WE COULD, WE COULD LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT ALONG THE ROOSEVELT CORRIDOR WITH SOME OF OUR VACANT BUILDINGS AND, AND WE COULD, WE'D POSSIBLY HAVE BUILDING OWNERS THAT WOULD DONATE THAT, UM, FOR, FOR THAT PROGRAM. 
          UM, THE NEW POSITION, IS THAT AN, IS THAT AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR POSITION OR, YES, THE NEW POSITION. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN I, ERIC, I WANNA LOOK AT THAT IN TERMS OF ASSISTANT, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR POSITIONS AS WE'RE CREATING NEW POSITIONS. 
          AND, AND YOU GIVE ME THE, UM, JOB DESCRIPTIONS THAT I ASKED FOR ON THE OTHER ONES. 
          'CAUSE I, I DON'T WANT US TO, UM, I WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE EMPLOYING PE WE'RE NOT UNDER EMPLOYING PEOPLE OR OVER EMPLOYING PEOPLE, AND WE'RE GETTING PEOPLE IN THE RIGHT POSITIONS. 
          AND THIS REMINDS ME OF WHAT I WAS TALKING, UH, WITH VISIT SAN ANTONIO AND OUR, UM, CONVENTION FACILITIES IS, I KNOW WE HAVE VISIT SAN ANTONIO, WHICH IS ANOTHER ENTITY, BUT THEY HAVE SALES DIRECTORS AND ASSISTANTS, AND THEY GET PAID SOMETHING. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE PEOPLE WITH THE SAME TITLE WORKING AT HENRY GONZALEZ CONVENTION CENTER WHO HAVEN'T GOTTEN RAISES. 
          I MAY NOT EVEN BE BACK TO THEIR, THEIR POSITIONS ON WHAT SORT OF SALARIES THEY'RE GETTING. 
          SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE, WE'RE BEING EQUITABLE ON THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          I, I'LL WAIT. 
          I'LL WAIT TILL YOUR, YOUR MINUTE EXPIRES AND THAT WAY I'M NOT GIVING ANY TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN, UM, I'LL, IF I COULD JUST GET THE DATA ON HOW MANY OF THESE AGENCIES, UH, HAVE BEEN WITH US O OVER FIVE, OVER 10 OVER IN, IN THE DELEGATE AGENCIES. 
          AND WE CAN HAVE AN OFFLINE CONVERSATION LIKE THAT BECAUSE MOCKERY IS SOMETHING THAT I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT. 
          AND THEY ONLY GOT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AND IF THEY HAD MORE. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE SOME OTHER AGENCIES THAT I KNOW HAVE BEEN HERE, HAVE BEEN GETTING MONEY FOR DECADES. 
          AND THAT I THINK SOMETIMES WE NEED ROOM FOR, FOR MORE GROUPS TO COME IN AND, RIGHT. 
          SO ERY ACTUALLY DIDN'T QUALIFY UNDER OUR CORE GRANTS POLICY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UH, BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN FUNDED FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WITH STARTUP FUNDS, THEY HAVE TO HAVE BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR THREE YEARS TO QUALIFY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO COME INTO THE REGULAR FUNDING THE NEXT YEAR. 
          BUT 
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OUR RECOMMENDATION WAS A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ARTS FUND BECAUSE AS A NEW AGENCY, THAT'S WHAT WE THINK THEY WOULD'VE QUALIFIED FOR. 
          LUCKILY THERE'S $150,000 MORE IN THE GENERAL FUND OUTSIDE OF MY DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET FOR ERY BECAUSE THERE'S JUST THE DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN SOME OF THESE AGENCIES AND WHY THEY GET SO MUCH AND OTHERS GET SO LITTLE IS, IS CONCERNING FOR ME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAVE. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO COUNCILWOMAN, UH, REGARDING THE POSITION THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT. 
          SO, I MEAN, FRANKLY, WE'RE, I THINK WE'RE PRETTY JUDICIOUS ABOUT THAT, BUT IT IS, UH, NOT LOST UPON ME THAT THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE COUNCIL GOING FORWARD IN THE ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT IN THE ARTS COMMUNITY IS GONNA REQUIRE US TO BUILD A LITTLE BIT OF CAPACITY. 
          AND WHILE DEBBIE AND HER STAFF ON THE FRONT ROW THERE CARRY A LOT OF WEIGHT, UM, WHAT I'M HEARING IS THAT THERE'S MORE THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. 
          I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT THE CAPACITY TO DO THAT. 
          AND THE LEADERSHIP, FRANKLY, IT GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY FROM A PROMOTIONAL STANDPOINT. 
          AND I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND YOUR, YOUR EXAMPLE ABOUT EQUITY. 
          I MEAN, THAT'S, WE, WE TRY TO DO AS WE GO THROUGH THOSE HIRINGS. 
          AND, BUT I APPRECIATE YOU POINTING THAT OUT. 
          I THINK IT, I THINK IT FITS IN NICELY WITH SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT YOU HAVE THAT THE COUNCIL'S TALKED ABOUT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SUMMER. 
          THE CONVERSATIONS THAT, THAT I HAD WITH DEBBIE DURING THE SUMMER AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING WE CAN DO. 
          IF THE COUNCIL'S GONNA TALK ABOUT A 2%, UH, ART IN THE BOND PROGRAM, THEN THAT MEANS WE'RE GONNA BE DOING DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF PROJECTS WE DO NOW, WHICH IS EXCITING, BUT IT NEEDS TO GET DONE. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND, AND, UH, THE, YOUR QUESTION ABOUT THE, UM, THE FUNDING WITH THE AGENCIES. 
          ONE, YOU HAD A SIMILAR REQUEST ABOUT DELEGATE AGENCIES AND YEARS OF FUNDING. 
          SO WE'LL MIRROR THAT REQUEST AND GET THAT TO YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER GRA, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE OUT IN THE AUDIENCE AND WHO HAS WORKED SO HARD TO BRING THESE PRESENTATIONS TO US. 
          VERY, VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT. 
          UM, PATRICIA, I'LL START WITH YOU AND, AND REALLY CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND THE TEAM FOR BEING ONE OF THE, THE LAST THREE FINALISTS. 
          UH, AND SO I FEEL COMPLETELY SAFE EVERY TIME THAT I ATTEND AN ALAMO DME EVENT. 
          I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO U T S A FOOTBALL TO START ON SEPTEMBER THE 11TH, I THINK IS THE FIRST HOME GAME. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS WITH COVID RESPONSE. 
          AND I, UH, REALLY APPRECIATE THAT YOU ALL ARE READY TO CONVERT A SPACE THAT HAS NOT TRADITIONALLY BEEN USED FOR, UM, MEDICAL PURPOSES INTO, INTO THAT. 
          SO, SO THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH. 
          I, UM, WANTED TO ALSO ASK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT, UM, THE LEASES. 
          AND SO WE'RE, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT WOLF STADIUM AND TOYOTA FIELD, CAN YOU JUST, UM, REMIND ME HOW OFTEN DO WE REVIEW THOSE CONTRACTS? OR HOW OFTEN DO THEY THEY COME TO COUNCIL? SO THE NELSON WOLF STADIUM LEASE IS A 25 YEAR LEASE. 
          WE ARE ACTUALLY BRINGING AN ITEM NEXT WEEK, UH, FOR THE EXTENSION, UH, FIVE YEAR EXTENSION OF THAT AGREEMENT. 
          GOT IT. 
          OKAY. 
          SOUNDS GOOD. 
          AND I, I KNOW I'VE SEEN A FEW OF MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES SING, TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLPARK AT THE, THE GAME, SO I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND WHY NOW. 
          UH, UH, SO, UM, THE, BY THE WAY, I, I ALSO WANT TO SAY, UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR, UH, HEALTH PROTOCOLS AT THE CONVENTION CENTER. 
          SO THAT WAS ANOTHER PLACE, UH, FOLKS ASKED US TO, UH, WEAR MASKS AND AT ONE POINT OR ANOTHER, WE WERE CHECKING TEMPERATURES. 
          WE HAD THE COOL LITTLE STICKERS THAT SAID THAT WE WERE CLEARED TO GO IN. 
          AND SO I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR WORK ON THAT. 
          I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY ALL FOR YOU ALL. 
          I DIDN'T HAVE TOO MANY QUESTIONS 'CAUSE WE, WE MET BEFOREHAND. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING ALL MY QUESTIONS, PATRICIA. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO, SO I'LL GO ON TO ARTS AND CULTURE. 
          AND SO WHILE DEBBIE COMES UP HERE, I'M, I'M PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THAT YESTERDAY I WAS ABLE TO, UH, PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY ON THE FOLKLORE FESTIVAL WHERE, UH, ONE OF MY RESIDENTS, EVA RAI IBARRA, UM, WA, WHO'S CONSIDERED THE RENA DE LA CORDON, RECEIVED THE 2022 TEXAS STATE MUSICIAN ASSOCIATION AWARD. 
          SO IT WAS CONFERRED BY THE TEXAS LEGISLATOR AT LEGISLATURE AND THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON THE ARTS. 
          SO SHE'S A PREVIOUS PALO ALTO INSTRUCTOR IN COURT, IN, IN ACCORDION. 
          AND SO I WAS JUST VERY PROUD OF, UM, THE RECOGNITION BECAUSE IT, IT MEANS A LOT TO OUR RESIDENTS. 
          SO THANK YOU ALWAYS FOR, FOR YOUR SUPPORT, DEBBIE IN THE ARTS AND DISTRICT FOUR. 
          UM, I ALSO WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO CRYSTAL JONES WHO'S IN THE, IN THE AUDIENCE BECAUSE SHE WAS AT THE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL, UH, LIKE PROBABLY ALL WEEKEND, ABOUT A MONTH AND A HALF AGO OR SOMETHING. 
          AND SO SHE WAS VERY, UM, PATIENT WITH A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 
          AND I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU, CRYSTAL, BECAUSE I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE THAT THAT'S FILM RELATED, AND SO IT DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED. 
          SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I PUBLICLY RECOGNIZE THAT. 
          SO, UM, ANYTHING THAT I CAN DO, AND I KNOW DEBBIE, UH, YOU AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON, ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS TO SEE HOW WE COULD BRING FILM TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO JUST CONTINUED WORK WILL BE IMPORTANT FOR THAT. 
          I'M STILL REALLY INTERESTED IN THE TU TU ART CULTURAL PLAN. 
          AND SO, UM, I'D LOVE TO JUST SEE, UH, I, I KNOW YOU ALL GAVE SOME, UH, UPDATES ON THAT. 
          UM, BUT IN PARTICULAR, I'D LIKE TO 
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SEE, UH, ANY PROJECTIONS THAT YOU ALL HAVE ON HOW TO INCORPORATE, UM, LIVE E MUSIC EVENTS ALSO INTO THE DIFFERENT AREAS. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS A PART OF IT. 
          I CAN'T REMEMBER IT JUST NOW, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE SOMETHING REALLY COOL TO DO. 
          I HAD ASKED MAYBE DURING THE PANDEMIC IF WE COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE IN CARS, UM, FOR INSTANCE AT PALO ALTO. 
          'CAUSE I WAS THINKING, OKAY, THAT WOULD BE A COOL VENUE SPACE. 
          BUT JUST ANYTHING THAT I CAN DO TO KIND OF HELP, UM, THINK ABOUT THAT, THAT TYPE OF AVENUE WHERE IT JUST, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A POPUP. 
          I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE SOME MORE CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU ALL ON THAT END. 
          THAT'S ALL FOR YOU, DEBBIE. 
          BUT THEN VISIT SAN ANTONIO AND MARK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILWOMAN BRAN AND I SIT ON THE VISIT SA BOARD, UM, AS APPOINTEES OF, OF COUNCIL. 
          SO THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR ALLOWING US TO, UH, BE ON THAT. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR FOR APPOINTING ME TO THAT. 
          UH, ONE ITEM THAT WAS LEFT OUT WAS SPECIFICALLY MILITARY CITY U SS A AND THE MAYOR MENTIONED WE ARE A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS. 
          AND I THINK THAT, UH, COUNCILMAN ALIA'S PITCH WAS FOR LIKE BIRD CITY U S A. 
          RIGHT? AND SO, UM, I KNOW WE CAN'T BE EVERYTHING TO EVERYONE, BUT I DO THINK, AND I I MENTIONED THIS, UM, AT MY MEETING WITH YOU ALL, UH, THAT WE HAVE THIS WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY AND THAT 50 OUTTA 52 WEEKS, UH, WEEKENDS OF THE YEAR, WE HAVE FOLKS THAT ARE COMING IN. 
          SO THAT'S A BUILT-IN AUDIENCE, THE, THE WAY THAT I SEE IT. 
          AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, ONE OTHER THING THAT, THAT I MENTIONED TO YOU ALL WAS THE A LOS MUERTOS. 
          AND SO, UM, I KNOW WITH THE PANDEMIC NUMBERS, THERE'S PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, SOME, SOME DIFFICULTY. 
          I KNOW THAT THERE WAS ALREADY, I THINK IT WAS A TEXAS HALL OF FAME CANCELED THEIR EVENT IN SEPTEMBER. 
          SO I, I THINK WE'RE STILL, UM, LOOKING TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE COULD DO THAT, BUT THAT WAS AN OUTDOOR EVENT. 
          UM, AND I JUST WANNA WANNA REMIND AN END MARK, YOU, YOU, YOU WILL LOVE IT WHEN YOU ATTEND. 
          I'M SURE YOU, UM, WILL LOVE IT. 
          BUT I JUST, ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT I NOTICED MAYBE WAS, UM, MISSING, UM, THANK YOU FOR THE R O I, I THINK COUNCILMAN PERRY ALWAYS APPRECIATES R O I, THAT 43 TO ONE WAS, UM, I THINK BY MY STANDARDS IS IT'S VERY, WELL, I'M JUST, CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL. 
          UM, ON THE VISITOR EXPENDITURES, THE 53, 530 $1 MILLION, HOW MUCH OF THAT GOES TO HOTELS? AND CAN YOU, DO YOU ALL HAVE A BREAKDOWN SPECIFICALLY AS TO WHAT'S SPENT OUTSIDE OF DOWNTOWN SAN ANTONIO DIRECTLY? JUST WONDERING. 
          I'M, I MEAN, I WOULDN'T EXPECT IT TO BE A WHOLE LOT, BUT I'M JUST WONDERING IF YOU HAVE THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL. 
          YEAH, WITH THAT, I'M GONNA, OH, SORRY. 
          I'M GONNA ASK STEVE TO COME UP. 
          I BELIEVE THE BREAKDOWN DOES INCLUDE, UM, UH, STEVE, DO WE HAVE THAT BREAKDOWN? EXCUSE ME. 
          AFTERNOON EVERYONE. 
          I'M STEVE DELIA WITH VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, SO JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, UM, OF THE $3.5 BILLION, UH, ECONOMIC IMPACT, AND THAT IS DIRECT SPENDING. 
          WE, WE S ANONYMIZE IT WITH ECONOMIC IMPACT, BUT IT'S TRULY DIRECT SPENDING. 
          THAT ALSO EQUATED TO ABOUT $123 MILLION IN SALES TAX. 
          THAT IS COLLECTIVELY THE EIGHT AND A QUARTER. 
          SO IT INCLUDES THE STATE AND ABOUT 109 MILLION FOR HOT TAX. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S, UH, I HAVEN'T DONE THE MATH, BUT IT'S A PRETTY HEFTY CHANGE. 
          AND WE CAN, WE CAN ALSO KIND OF PERSONALIZE, PERSONALIZE THAT A LITTLE BIT AND SAY LIKE, FOR EVERY GROUP THAT WE BRING IN, IT BRINGS IN X AMOUNT SO WE CAN PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO YOU IN MORE DETAIL. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH, STEVE. 
          UM, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE UNITED STATES TRAVEL ASSOCIATION. 
          I KNOW THAT WE COMMITTED BACK IN 2015. 
          AND SO, UM, I'M SURE YOU'LL BE TALKING TO A LITTLE BIT, UH, A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT AS THAT APPROACHES. 
          UM, THANK YOU ALSO FOR THE STORYTELLING COMPONENT AND ANDRES, UM, OZ AND THE TEAM, I THINK DO A GREAT JOB OF, OF STORYTELLING. 
          UM, I DO ALSO WANNA MENTION THAT LAST TIME, LAST WEEK WHEN I WAS WITH YOU ALL, I THINK IT WAS LAST WEEK, UM, I MENTIONED ALSO THE SISTER CITY RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE HAVE ACROSS, UM, UH, THE WORLD THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD START LEVERAGING THOSE. 
          WE TALK ABOUT INTERNATIONAL FEEDER MARKETS, BUT WE ALSO HAVE THESE BUILT IN RELATIONSHIPS, RIGHT? SO I'M THINKING CANARY ISLANDS, I'M THINKING, YOU KNOW, EVERY, EVERY, UH, SISTER CITY OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW OFTEN WE ENGAGE WITH OUR OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. 
          UM, BUT ON FRIDAY I GOT TO ATTEND A, UM, UKRAINIAN VINTAGE FASHION SHOW. 
          AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS MOST EXCITED ABOUT WAS A PHOTO EXHIBIT THAT HAD BEEN DONE IN THE UKRAINE LAST YEAR. 
          AND I FELT SO BAD BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO ACTUALLY PRESENT IT, LIKE TO THE CITY. 
          SO I REACHED OUT TO SHERRY IMMEDIATELY AND I SAID, HEY, MAYBE WE CAN WORK WITH, UM, THE, UH, UH, OFFICE OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, OR MAYBE WE CAN SHOWCASE AND SOMEHOW, BUT THERE'S ALSO, I THINK, THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE, UM, DEMOGRAPHICS AND, AND FIGURE OUT WHERE WE CAN BUILD IN SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, INTERNATIONAL FEEDER MARKETS OTHER THAN THOSE THAT WE ALREADY HAVE. 
          UM, THE, UH, THE, I I THINK THAT THE LAST THING THAT I JUST WANNA SAY IS THAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE 5 0 1 3 COMPONENT BECAUSE WE, UH, OUR VISIT SAN ANTONIO IS A 5 0 1 C SIX, AND I'M 
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GLAD THAT YOU ALL HAD, OR WHOEVER IT WAS THAT HAD THE VISION OF INCORPORATING INTERNSHIPS AND INCORPORATING SCHOLARSHIPS. 
          UM, I THINK THAT OUR STUDENTS SHOWCASE, UH, THEIR, THEIR CULTURE EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          AND SO I APPRECIATE THAT FACT. 
          ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS THAT I WOULD SAY THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HAS IS THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM. 
          UH, AND SO I, I WOULD LOVE TO, TO SEE HOW YOU CAN ALSO INCORPORATE POSSIBLY SOME OF THE AMBASSADORS INTO THIS AS WELL. 
          THOSE ARE ALL MY, MY QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS TODAY. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MARK. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ROSO GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, LEMME GO AHEAD OUT AND, AND TALK WITH PAT. 
          UH, PATRICIA, I HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT, UM, WELL, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU SAID THAT THERE'S A 19.3 MILLION INCREASE IN THE BUDGET. 
          UM, AND HOW MUCH IS THAT FOR WHAT PARTICULAR KIND OF PROJECTS OR IMPROVEMENTS THAT IS FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE PERSONNEL THAT WE ARE RECALLING BACK TO THE DEPARTMENT? A LITTLE BIT OVER $10 MILLION IS ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE PERSONNEL COSTS. 
          THEN ABOUT ANOTHER 5 MILLION IS, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH THE ALAMO DOME DEBT SERVICE PAYMENT. 
          UM, THAT LAST YEAR WAS, UM, FUNDED BY THE GENERAL FUND AND THEN ALSO INCREASES TO THE HOSTING OBLIGATION. 
          UM, LAST YEAR THERE WERE SOME CANCELLATIONS, SO THAT BUDGET WAS ONLY ABOUT 1.7 MILLION IN THE COMING YEAR. 
          UH, WE ARE PROPOSING A, RECOMMENDING ABOUT A $4 MILLION HOSTING OBLIGATION BUDGET. 
          UM, JUST, YOU KNOW, HISTORICALLY WE HAVE ABOUT TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, BUT IT INCORPORATES SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT I TALKED ABOUT, THE ADDITIONAL 1.3 MILLION, UH, IN HOSTING OBLIGATIONS, UH, SPECIFICALLY INTO INCENTIVIZED BUSINESS AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, FOR EXAMPLE. 
          OKAY. 
          YOU KNOW, BY THE WAY, I SHOULD HAVE STARTED OFF BY JUST SAYING WHAT A GREAT EFFORT YOU ALL PUT IN FOR THE WOMEN'S FINAL FOUR. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS A REAL CREDIT TO THE CITY, AND IT WAS A REAL CREDIT TO YOUR DEPARTMENT THROWING SO MANY THINGS TOGETHER OVER SUCH A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. 
          AND, UH, I THINK THEY HAD A, A GREAT TOURNAMENT AND I HOPEFULLY IT WILL ALWAYS ENCOURAGE 'EM TO KEEP COMING BACK. 
          AND I KNOW WE'RE LOOKING AT A MEN'S FINAL FOUR AGAIN IN 2025. 
          IS IT? THAT IS CORRECT. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING THAT CONCERNED ME WAS THAT, UM, WE HAD TO REPLACE THE ROOF OF THE CONVENTION CENTER, AND CAN YOU TELL ME, WERE WE ABLE TO RECOUP COSTS FROM THE, UH, CONTRACTOR, UH, OVER THAT? 'CAUSE I BELIEVE PART OF IT WAS 'CAUSE OF POOR CONTRACTING. 
          AND ACTUALLY, I DON'T HAVE THE, THE NUMBERS OFF OF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. 
          WE CAN CERTAINLY GET YOU ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS, BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT WE DID HAVE FUNDING THAT WAS COVERED BY THE INSURANCE. 
          SO PART OF THAT WAS COVERED. 
          AND I DO KNOW THAT THAT PROJECT CAME IN BELOW, UH, BUDGET. 
          BUT I ALSO HAVE MY SPECIAL PROJECTS, UH, MANAGER HERE OVERSEEING THAT PROJECT. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF HE HAS ANYTHING TO ADD. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, IF YOU COULD SEND ME THAT, I'D JUST BE INTERESTED IN SEEING THAT. 
          YES, SIR. 
          UM, YOU ALSO HAVE, UH, 1.3 MILLION AND THEN 1 MILLION. 
          ARE THEY BOTH RELATED TO THE POWWOW? NO, THE 1.3 MILLION, AGAIN, COUNCILMAN IS, UH, FOR HOSTING OBLIGATIONS SPECIFICALLY AGAIN TO INCENTIVIZE BUSINESS OKAY. 
          AT THE HENRY B. GONZALEZ. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THE, UH, THE REMAINING, UH, 1 MILLION IS FOR A HOSTING OBLIGATION IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE I P W EVENT THAT WE WILL BE HOSTING IN FISCAL YEAR 23. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH, I NOTICED WE'VE GOT A MILLION THAT WE ARE PUTTING INTO THAT, BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, UH, VISIT SA IS ALSO PUTTING IN ADDITIONAL MONEY INTO THAT. 
          I'LL, I'LL ASK THEM THAT IN A MINUTE. 
          IT JUST SEEMS A LOT OF MONEY COMING INTO A PARTICULAR CONVENTION. 
          UH, I RECOGNIZE WHAT, UH, HAS BEEN SAID AS THE VALUE OF THAT CONVENTION, BUT STILL THAT'S PROBABLY AN EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF MONEY WHEN WE DON'T EXPECT IMMEDIATE RETURN, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE WHEN WE SPEND MILLIONS ON THE FINAL FOUR, WE GET MANY MULTIPLE MILLIONS BACK RIGHT AWAY ON THOSE KINDS OF, UH, THOSE KINDS OF SUPPORTS. 
          BUT ANYWAY, UH, I DO WANT TO COMMEND YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE. 
          IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT AND, UH, LIKE ONE OF MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS SAYING, SAID, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING U T S A BACK OUT THERE REAL SOON. 
          SO THANK YOU, PATRICIA. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          UM, ARTS DEBBIE, YOU TWO, I THINK YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE. 
          UH, YOU'VE GOT A BUDGET OF 11.2 MILLION THAT YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT. 
          I HAD, UH, A BIT OF 
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A QUESTION ON SLIDE NUMBER SEVEN. 
          UH, YOU SAID THAT THAT 7.2 MILLION IS LEVERAGING 42 MILLION? YES. 
          COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS? I DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          SO THE WAY THAT WE CALCULATE THE AGENCY FUNDING IS BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF THEIR OVERALL BUDGET. 
          OKAY. 
          AND OUR GOAL IN THAT, IN SUPPORTING OUR ARTS AGENCIES IS TO DO SEVERAL THINGS. 
          AND ONE OF THOSE IS FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE REST OF THEIR BUDGET AND LEVERAGE OTHER FUNDING COMING IN. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, IS THE REST OF THE FUNDS THAT THOSE AGENCIES GET FROM OTHER SOURCES BY BEING ABLE TO LEVERAGE THE INVESTMENT THAT CITY COUNCIL MAKES AND THE CITY MAKES IN THEIR, THEIR ACTIVITIES. 
          BUT WE ALSO MEASURE HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY EMPLOY, HOW MANY ARTISTS THEY EMPLOY, HOW MANY ACTIVITIES THEY HAVE, ATTENDEES, AND THOSE OTHER THINGS AS WELL. 
          SO WE CALCULATE THAT OUR 7.2 MILLION WORKING WITH THESE NONPROFITS, THESE OTHER AGENCIES GENERATE REALLY 42 MILLION WORTH OF ARTS, SO TO SPEAK. 
          YES. 
          SO YOU ADD THE TWO NUMBERS TOGETHER. 
          YEAH. 
          AND YOU GET, YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT, THAT KIND OF CLEARS THAT UP FOR ME. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH FESTIVALS, BUT NOT AS MANY ARE THE SAME. 
          WHAT WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE FOR US AS FAR AS GOING INTO THE NEXT YEAR OR SO? YES, GREAT QUESTION. 
          SO, IN THE, THE OLD FUNDING GUIDELINES, BEFORE DECEMBER, 2020 CHANGE, WE ONLY FUNDED FESTIVALS AND FESTIVALS HAD TO BE OPERATED BY AN ARTS ORGANIZATION, NONPROFIT. 
          WE'VE UPDATED THOSE GUIDELINES TO MAKE IT MORE AVAILABLE TO ALL KINDS OF NONPROFITS TO DO EVENTS. 
          AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A FESTIVAL PER SE, IT CAN BE ANY KIND OF EVENT. 
          IT COULD BE A MUSICAL EVENT, IT COULD BE A, UH, DANCE EVENT, IT COULD BE A FESTIVAL, A CULTURAL EVENT. 
          SO WE WANTED TO OPEN THAT UP BECAUSE WE FOUND THAT THERE WERE SOME ORGANIZATIONS WHO REALLY WANTED TO HAVE COOL EVENTS AND HOST THEM IN OUR CITY. 
          UM, JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION IS A GOOD EXAMPLE THAT WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FUND IT BECAUSE OF THE RESTRICTIONS THAT IT HAS TO BE AN ARTS ORGANIZATION PUTTING IT ON. 
          SO IN THIS CASE, A NONPROFIT PUTS IT ON. 
          IF THEY APPLY FOR FUNDING AND THEY ARE ABLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO BE FUNDED BY THE CITY TO SUPPORT THAT GREAT FESTIVAL. 
          OKAY. 
          OH, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO MENTION I REALLY APPRECIATE THE ART GARDEN THAT WE'VE GOT ALONG AS MARKET STREET NOW. 
          UH, I THINK THAT WAS A GREAT ADDITION. 
          AND SO, UH, CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT. 
          THAT'S IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO MARK, UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS, I WAS LISTENING TO YOUR PRESENTATION, OBVIOUSLY, BUT I WAS THINKING AT ABOUT SOME OTHERS, AND I'M TRYING TO PUT ALL THIS TOGETHER IN MY HEAD. 
          UM, I KNOW YOU'VE PUT TOGETHER YOUR BUDGET FOR VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          YOU ALSO HAVE AS PART OF, UH, THE CITY'S CONTRIBUTION, A SEPARATE PIT THAT WAS SET UP BY HOTELS TO PRETTY MUCH PROMOTE HOTELS. 
          BUT IN GENERAL, IT PROMOTES EVERYTHING. 
          BUT I KNOW THAT CENTRO SAN ANTONIO ALSO HAS, UH, AN OBLIGATION TO PROMOTE DOWNTOWN, TO PROMOTE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE HOTELS, THE ATTRACTIONS, OF COURSE, THEY HAVE, UH, THEIR AMBASSADORS OUT IN THE STREETS. 
          THEY CLEAN THEM UP, THEY PUT OUT FLOWERS, YOU KNOW, SO THERE'S ANOTHER CONTRIBUTION, SO TO SPEAK, TO PROMOTING SAN ANTONIO. 
          THE CONVENTION SPORTS FACILITIES IS GIVING MORE MONEY, UH, FROM THEIR BUDGET TO PROMOTE SAN ANTONIO. 
          UH, WE'VE GOT THE AIRPORT ITSELF THAT IS MARKETING THE AIRPORT AND SAN ANTONIO. 
          I'M WONDERING HOW MUCH IS ALL OF THE MONEY FROM ALL OF THESE RESOURCES OUT THERE, UH, BEING SPENT ON PROMOTING SAN ANTONIO? 'CAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT IT IN SILOS. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT, I THINK WE'RE LOOKING AT IT SEPARATELY, AND I'D LIKE TO KNOW COLLECTIVELY, WHAT ARE ALL OF THE RESOURCES THAT WE'RE PUTTING INTO OUR BUDGET TO PROMOTE SAN ANTONIO? SO YOU, I'M NOT TRYING TO LAY THAT ON YOU, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE INTERESTING IF, IF YOUR OFFICE, BECAUSE YOU'RE TOUCHED BY A LOT OF THIS, COULD MAYBE ASSEMBLE THIS FOR US AND HELP US UNDERSTAND THE OVERALL BIG PICTURE. 
          UH, EVEN, UM, EVEN CENTRO HAS ITS OWN PIT, WHICH HAS MORE MONEY GOING INTO THEIR PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. 
          SO IF, IF YOU COULD WORK ON THAT AND MAYBE YES. 
          AGAIN, THANK YOU. 
          HELP US UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          YES, SIR. 
          WE CAN GET THAT FOR YOU. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          UM, I DO WANNA SAY, UH, AND IT'S JUST A REMINDER, YOU AND I HAD A, A CONVERSATION ABOUT MILITARY CITY U S A, SO TO SPEAK, AND PROMOTING, UH, THE OPPORTUNITIES TO VISIT WITH THE MILITARY FAMILIES THAT COME FOR AIR FORCE GRADUATION. 
          EVERY, EVERY WEEK, YOU KNOW, 50 
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WEEKS A YEAR, THERE ARE LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO COME TO SAN ANTONIO, UH, AND THEY VISIT THE, UH, GRADUATES AT, AT THE AIR FORCE BASE. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO SEE AN EFFORT BY VISIT SAN ANTONIO OR THE CHAMBER OR THE CITY TO TRY AND DO MORE TO WELCOME THEM AND MAYBE REDIRECT THEM, UH, DOWNTOWN, UH, AND, AND TO ALL THE DIFFERENT FACILITIES THAT WE HAVE. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, A LOT OF 'EM GO TO HOTELS ALL AROUND THE CITY JUST TO FIND A HOTEL, BUT THEY ALL GO TO LACKLAND AND AFTERWARDS THEY ALL GO BACK TO THE HOTEL AND, YOU KNOW, THERE, BUT THERE'S NO WAY OF REALLY GETTING THEM DOWNTOWN, ATTRACTING THEM THERE, HAVING SOME KIND OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO COME AND CELEBRATE, LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CITY, ENJOY IT SO THAT WHEN THEY LEAVE, THEY CAN GO AHEAD AND PROMOTE IT MORE, UH, BACK HOME. 
          SO I HOPE WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PAL. 
          THANKS, MAYOR. 
          UM, THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO'S PRESENTED. 
          I'VE, I'VE GOT A LOT OF GROUND TO COVER, AND SO I'M GONNA TRY TO DO AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, UM, JUST LISTENING TO THIS PRESENTATION, I, I, I KEEP THINKING TO MYSELF THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE THE SEVENTH LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES, AND WE'RE THE THIRD LARGEST CITY IN THE NINTH LARGEST ECONOMY ON THE PLANET. 
          AND I ALWAYS ASK MYSELF, UM, IF WE'RE ACTING LIKE IT, UH, IF WE'RE, IF WE'RE, YOU KNOW, UH, FUNDING THINGS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THAT RANKING. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AS I'M LISTENING TO, TO MARK AND DEBBIE, I WONDER, YOU KNOW, IS OUR INVESTMENT IN V S A LARGE ENOUGH, RIGHT? IS OUR, UM, IS OUR INVESTMENT IN, IN MARKETING THE CITY, UH, ON PAR WITH, UH, WITH HOW BIG WE ARE AS COMPARED TO OTHER CITIES? AND I, YOU KNOW, AND, AND I CAN'T HELP BUT BUT MENTION AND THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE ARE RIGHT TO BE PROUD OF, OF THE LITTLE AIRPORT WE'VE GOT. 
          BUT WHEN, YOU KNOW, WE COMPARE OUR AIRPORT TO OTHER AIRPORTS AROUND THE COUNTRY OF CITIES THAT ARE SIMILARLY SITUATED TO SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO SAY THIS, BUT I GET, I GET AIRPORT ENVY, , UH, AND YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE MOVING AGGRESSIVELY ENOUGH TO BRING OUR AIRPORT UP TO THE LEVEL THAT THE SEVENTH LARGEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES DESERVES. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, I, UH, I, I WAS READING ABOUT SOMETHING CALLED THE DUNNING KRUGER EFFECT, UH, THAT BASICALLY SAYS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE WITH OR ORGANIZATIONS WITH LOW ABILITIES OFTENTIMES MISCALCULATE THOSE ABILITIES AND THINK THAT THEY'RE BETTER AT SOMETHING THAN THEY REALLY ARE. 
          AND THEN THE DUNNING EFFECT ALSO APPLIES TO ORGANIZATIONS AND PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT THEY'RE LESS BETTER THAN THEY REALLY ARE AT, UM, YOU KNOW, AT ACCOMPLISHING THINGS. 
          AND I, I'D LIKE TO SEE US BET ON OURSELVES MORE OFTEN THAN NOT IN A WAY THAT REFLECTS THAT WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE ARE ONE OF THE GREAT CITIES OF THE PLANET. 
          UH, ALONG THOSE LINES, I, I, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE US TO, TO NOT JUST TALK ABOUT THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA DO, BUT ALSO TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE DOING THINGS IN COMPARISON TO OTHER CITIES AND BENCHMARKING. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, I WAS, I WAS LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS IN LAS VEGAS AND I NOTICED THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE WHAT PRE PANDEMIC, 39 MILLION VISITORS THAT CAME TO SAN ANTONIO, LAS VEGAS HAD 42 MILLION, RIGHT? I MEAN, NOT, NOT TOO FAR OFF. 
          THEY GOT CONVENTION ATTENDEES HIGHER THAN OURS, UH, BUT THEY'VE GOT HOTEL OCCUPANCY OF 89%. 
          THEIR ECONOMY IS JUST AS DEPENDENT AS TOURISM IN OUR, AS US. 
          AND I'M WONDERING, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE DOING ANYTHING SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT THAN WE ARE. 
          UM, AND ARE THERE ANY LESSONS TO BE LEARNED THERE, BUT BENCHMARKING THEM? PHOENIX HAS 19 MILLION VISITORS A YEAR AND, YOU KNOW, SO ON AND SO FORTH. 
          OTHER CITIES I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, ARE SOLVING PROBLEMS IN A WAY THAT WE'RE NOT. 
          AND I'D LIKE TO SEE TO WHAT EXTENT WE'RE BENCHMARKING THEM AND, AND LEARNING FROM THEM. 
          UM, SO I, I DID HEAR THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PUTTING IN $1.3 MILLION TO INCENTIVIZE, UM, YOU KNOW, CONVENTION CENTER ACTIVITY. 
          I THINK THAT'S GREAT. 
          UM, CAN WE AMEND THAT TO BE CONVENTION CENTER, UM, EVENTS AND EVENTS AT THE ALAMO? DO PATRICIA OR ANYBODY ELSE? I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T HEAR THE QUESTION. 
          CAN YOU REPEAT COUNCILMAN PALIS? SURE. 
          YOU, YOU MENTIONED, UH, OR SOMEBODY MENTIONED THAT WE'RE GONNA BE INVESTING $1.3 MILLION AS INCENTIVE FUNDS TO HELP INCENTIVIZE CONVENTION CENTER, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, EVENTS. 
          AND I'M WONDERING IF WE CAN AMEND THAT TO, UM, YOU KNOW, TO INCLUDE ALAMO DOME EVENTS. 
          DEFINITELY. 
          WE CAN TAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION, SIR. 
          YEAH. 
          AND SO MY, I GUESS I'M WONDERING WHY WE WOULDN'T HAVE WRAPPED THAT IN THERE TO BEGIN WITH. 
          I MEAN, 'CAUSE A LOT OF THESE EVENTS THAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST FIT BETTER AT THE ALAMO, SO, WELL, I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE REASON THAT WE'RE DOING IT IS BECAUSE THE CONVENTION CENTER REVENUE AND, UM, THE EVENTS, UM, HAVE BEEN IMPACTED AT A GREATER LEVEL THAN THE CONVENTION, THAN THE ALAMO DOME. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, IN FISCAL YEAR 21, WE ADOPTED, UM, A PERFORMANCE MEASURE THAT WE WERE GONNA, 
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UM, DO ABOUT 108 EVENTS, AND WE'RE FINISHING THE YEAR AT 150. 
          AND SO THE, FOR THE ALAMO DOME, WE'RE GETTING SO MANY MORE LEADS, IT'S SHORT-TERM BUSINESS, WHEREAS THE CONVENTIONS, IT'S NOT, UM, WE'RE NOT GETTING AS MANY, MANY LEADS. 
          AND THAT'S THE REASON FOR INCENTIVIZING AND FOCUSING ON THE CONVENTION CENTER. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT EXPERIENCE. 
          AND AGAIN, THOSE ALSO, SIR, BASICALLY GENERATE, UM, THOSE HOTEL ROOM NIGHTS AND HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX GENERATION. 
          PERFECT. 
          THAT'S NOW I UNDERSTAND BETTER. 
          PERFECT. 
          I THINK IT'S A GOOD PLAN. 
          UM, THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD, AND I DON'T KNOW WHO CAN ANSWER THIS, IS TO WHAT EXTENT ARE WE LOOKING AT THE MAJOR EVENTS REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM, UM, THAT'S RUN BY THE, UH, GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          I KNOW THAT WE'D USED THEM FOR, UM, AND, AND GOTTEN REIMBURSEMENTS FROM THEM FOR NCAA, BUT UM, I JUST READ THAT THEY'RE, UH, THAT'S BEING RESTARTED NEXT MONTH. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S LOTS AND LOTS OF EVENTS THAT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO BE BROUGHT TO TEXAS BECAUSE OF THAT. 
          ARE, IS THERE A PLAN TO INCLUDE THAT? YES. 
          UM, AS I MENTIONED DURING THE PRESENTATION, WE DO HAVE ABOUT $400,000, UM, AND OUR, UM, BUDGET FOR, IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE OR SUBMIT LOCAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SEVEN EVENTS THAT, UH, MAY BE REIMBURSABLE BY THAT, UH, PROGRAM BY THAT FUND. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANKS. 
          UM, THE, THE OTHER THING I WANNA MENTION IS, IS, YOU KNOW, I, WE, WE TALKED ABOUT DI LOS MUTOS, I THINK THAT WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL EVENT, BUT OUR DIWALI EVENT, OUR DIWALI FESTIVAL WAS ENORMOUS, AND IT WAS ON THE SAME NIGHT, UM, AND JUST ACROSS THE STREET MM-HMM. 
          , UM, AND, AND Y'ALL HAVE HEARD ME TALK ABOUT THIS OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS. 
          WE'VE GOT A HUGE ASIAN COMMUNITY IN TOWN WHO, WHO YEARNS TO BE MEANINGFUL, MEANINGFUL, INCLUDED IN OUR ART STRATEGY AND IN OUR CULTURE STRATEGY. 
          AND SO, UH, DEBBIE, I THINK YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB AND INCLUDING THEM. 
          AND, AND I KNOW THAT MY APPOINTEE, YOU KNOW, SPENDS A LOT OF TIME, UM, YOU KNOW, ON THIS ISSUE. 
          BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I, I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THE MAYOR AND I HAD SPOKEN ABOUT IT, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WACH FROM, I TEND TO BABCOCK, NO, I'M SORRY, I TEND TO FREDERICKSBURG, THAT'S FULL OF INDIAN AND PAKISTANI AND AFRICAN RESTAURANTS AND MEDITERRANEAN RESTAURANTS. 
          AND I'M WONDERING IF, YOU KNOW, IF DEBBIE, YOU ARE THE PERSON I NEED TO TALK TO OR WHO IN THE ORGANIZATION I NEED TO TALK TO, TO START A CONVERSATION ABOUT DESIGNATING THAT AS A, AS AN ASIAN DISTRICT OR A SILK ROAD DISTRICT, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM. 
          SO WE CAN HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT, UH, LOOKING AT THAT AREA. 
          UM, ONE THING THAT YOU NEED FOR A CULTURAL DISTRICT, AND IT'S THE STATE THAT DOES A DESIGNATION. 
          OKAY, THANKS. 
          YOU NEED, UH, YOU NEED A LEAD AGENCY, A NONPROFIT, SO WE CAN WORK WITH YOUR, UH, OFFICE AND, AND, UH, THE ASIAN COMMUNITY AND THE BUSINESSES ALONG THERE AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO IDENTIFY THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          ALSO, THANK YOU, DEBBIE. 
          ALSO, YOU KNOW, ALONG WITH WHAT THE MAYOR WAS TALKING ABOUT AS FAR AS TELLING OUR STORIES OUTSIDE OF SAN ANTONIO, UM, I LOVE THAT WE'RE THE CITY OF THE MISSIONS AND THE ALAMO AND THE RIVER WALK, BUT WE ARE SO MUCH MORE, AND WE GOTTA BE ABLE TO TELL THE STORY THAT WE'RE THE CITY OF PARKS THAT WE'RE MILITARY CITY, THE CITY, THE CITY OF BIOMED, SCIENCES, CYBERSECURITY, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, UH, I THINK THAT WE CAN BE A CITY OF BOXING AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AND MEXICAN SOCCER THAT, THAT SEEMS TO FILL THE ALAMO DOM EVERY SINGLE TIME. 
          AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I'LL BE COMING AND TALKING TO, UH, MY DIFFERENT COUNCIL MEMBERS ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, INCLUDING THAT AS ONE OF OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES, THE, THE BOXING AND THE MEXICAN SOCCER COMPONENT OF IT, BECAUSE, UM, IT, IT'S, UM, I I THINK PATRICIA, YOU'LL UNDER, YOU'LL AGREE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT FILLS THE ALIMO DO TO THE RAFTERS, RIGHT? YES. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'RE ALL, WE'RE ALL NODDING HERE, COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          OKAY. 
          LASTLY, AND THIS REALLY IS LAST, REALLY IS LAST, UM, YOU KNOW, COUNCILMAN COURAGE MENTIONED THE CONVENTION CENTER ROOF. 
          AND, AND, AND PATRICIA, YOU MENTIONED THAT WE HAD GOTTEN SOME, SOME INSURANCE COMPANY MONEY TO, TO, UH, TO HELP US WITH THAT. 
          UM, I, I'LL REMIND EVERYBODY THAT WE WERE ORIGINALLY GONNA GET A LOT LESS, AND STILL I THREW A HISSY FIT UP HERE ON THIS DAIS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, US MAYBE NOT GETTING WHAT WE WERE OWED. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WE WENT BACK AND CHECKED IT OUT AND I THINK WE ENDED UP GETTING MORE FROM THE INSURANCE COMPANY JUST SIMPLY BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE INSISTED THAT WE WERE OWED MORE. 
          I'LL TELL YOU THAT MY LAW PARTNER AND I OVER HERE, WE REPRESENT A LOT OF HOTELS DOWNTOWN, AND NONE OF THEM GOT PARTIAL ROOF REPLACEMENT. 
          THEY ALL GOT COMPLETE ROOF REPLACEMENTS. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, I'M STILL SAD THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T PUSH HARDER. 
          I THINK, I THINK WE GOT HOSED ON THAT DEAL. 
          WE SHOULDN'T HAVE DIPPED INTO OUR GENERAL FUND TO PAY FOR WHAT THE INSURANCE COMPANY SHOULD HAVE PAID FOR. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I, I EVEN SENT ONE OF MY OWN EXPERTS FOR FREE, UM, TO GO WALK THE ROOF WITH Y'ALL. 
          AND TO THIS DAY, HE SITS IN MY OFFICE ALMOST IN TEARS, TELLING US THAT HE'S HEARTBROKEN THAT THE CITY HAD TO PLAY TAX DOLLARS FOR SOMETHING THAT OUR INSURANCE COMPANY SHOULD HAVE PAID FOR. 
          AND, AND I THINK THIS IS A SEPARATE CONVERSATION, BUT, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ONE AT, AT, AT ONE POINT, ERIC, 
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ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT RISK MANAGEMENT NEEDS TO BE CO-OWNED BY OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT. 
          'CAUSE IT'S, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER STORM AGAIN. 
          AND I, I JUST FEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA SPEND TAX DOLLARS ON THINGS THAT WE OUGHT TO BE SPENDING INSURANCE COMPANY MONEY ON. 
          BUT I'LL END THERE. 
          GUYS, I GOT, I GOT A LOT MORE, BUT MY TIME'S GONNA BE UP SOON. 
          SO MAYOR, THANK THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER AP UH, COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          BRAVO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, MY COMMENTS ARE GONNA BE BRIEF. 
          UH, AT FIRST I JUST WANTED TO, UH, EXPRESS MY AGREEMENT AND SUPPORT FOR THE MAYOR'S COMMENTS THAT WE, UM, THAT, THAT INVESTING MORE IN OUR LOCAL ARTS IS GONNA BE GOOD FOR OUR ECONOMY AND THAT WE NEED TO TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL. 
          AND, UH, THEN I JUST WANTED MARK TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS ON THE NEW JOB. 
          UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ON REDUCING HOMELESSNESS. 
          I WORK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ON INCREASING TOURISM, AND, UH, PLEASE KEEP ME INFORMED OF AS YOU DEVELOP YOUR STORYTELLING ABOUT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          I'D LIKE TO BE KEPT APPRISED OF THAT. 
          THANKS A LOT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          UH, LET'S SEE, WHO DO WE START WITH? PATRICIA? UH, JUST GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS HERE FOR YOU. 
          UM, I, I SAW THE NUMBERS AND I, WHAT'S BEEN IN THE PAST AND WHERE WE'RE HEADING TO HERE IN THE FUTURE WITH A HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX. 
          I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT STATE ARE WE AT RIGHT NOW WITH, UH, WITH A HOT FUND? I MEAN, ARE WE REALLY IN BAD SHAPE? ARE WE KIND OF COMING OUT OF IT? ARE WE IN GOOD SHAPE? ARE WE IN BETTER SHAPE THAN WE THOUGHT WOULD BE? I MEAN, WHERE ARE WE AT REALLY? WELL, AGAIN, LIKE I MENTIONED DURING THE PRESENTATION, WE'RE NOT AT 2019, UH, LEVELS. 
          UM, SO THERE'S STILL A LOT OF ROOM FOR, UM, GROWTH. 
          UM, AND REALLY, UM, DURING THIS PANDEMIC, THERE'S A LOT OF UNKNOWNS, A LOT OF UNKNOWNS OF WHETHER WE'RE GONNA MAINTAIN, UM, THE LEISURE BUSINESS. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S ALL DEPENDENT ON THE VIRUS, ON THE C OVID 19 VIRUS AND WHAT HAPPENS AND HOW, UH, VISITORS, UH, FEEL ABOUT IT OR CONVENTION GROUPS, UH, FEEL ABOUT IT. 
          UM, JUST, UH, IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS WE DID, UM, HAVE TWO CANCELLATIONS, TWO HEALTHCARE, UM, UH, GROUPS THAT, UH, DID CANCEL BECAUSE OF THE PEAKS THAT WE ARE SEEING. 
          SO A LOT OF UNKNOWNS, UM, COUNCILMEN. 
          BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT, UH, WE HAD A TREMENDOUS JULY. 
          WE HAD, UM, SEVERAL MAJOR CONVENTIONS. 
          OUR FACILITY WAS S FULL WITH, UM, THOUSANDS OF GUESTS. 
          AND THAT BASICALLY, UM, RESULTED AND THAT WAS SEEN IN OUR OCCUPANCY NUMBERS AT THE HOTELS FOR THE MONTH OF JULY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THERE'S HOPE, BUT WE'RE STILL UNEASY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR, UM, HOT FOR THE CITY. 
          YES, SIR. 
          BASICALLY. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          BECAUSE I SEE ON YOUR CHART WHERE YES, WE ARE GOING UP IN YOUR PROPOSED 22 BUDGET, IT, IT, IT IS ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT JUMP, UH, FROM 21, UH, THE ESTIMATE FOR 21. 
          SO, UH, IT'S GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 
          BUT SPEAKING OF WHICH, ON UH, SLIDE NUMBER SIX, YOU HAVE, UH, USE OF RECOVERY FUNDS. 
          TALK TO ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. 
          WHAT IS, WHAT DOES THAT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN THAT IS BEING USED IN ORDER TO, UM, RESTORE THE FUNDING, UM, FOR OUR OPERATIONS? LIKE I MENTIONED, 12.7 MILLION BEING UTILIZED IN 27 IN 2021 AND ANOTHER 38 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 22. 
          BUT WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH, I MEAN, WHAT'S THE MONEY GOING TO THAT'S, THAT'S MY QUESTION. 
          UM, THE, TO FUND, YOU KNOW, TO FUND THE, THE OPERATIONS, RIGHT NOW WE'RE BRINGING IN ABOUT 25 MILLION, UM, IN REVENUE. 
          IT'S BASICALLY SUPPLEMENTING THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX, THESE REVENUES. 
          UM, AND THEN WE'RE UTILIZING THE AR RPA FUNDS TO AGAIN, RESTORE, UM, THE, UM, THE FUNDING TO COVER THE PERSONAL COST TO COVER. 
          OKAY. 
          THE ALAMO DOME DEBT PAYMENT, ALL OF THOSE THINGS. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT, THAT'S WHAT I WAS GETTING AT. 
          SO WE'RE, WE'RE BRINGING BACK PEOPLE TO OPERATE THE FACILITIES AND CONDUCT OPERATIONS AWAY WAS IN 19. 
          SO THAT'S WHERE THE, THAT MONEY IS GOING TO CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO WATCH IT TO YOUR, TO YOUR POINT, I THINK COUNCILMAN AS, AS WE SEE IT, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, AS WE SEE POTENTIAL CHANGES IN THE BUSINESS, THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DIAL DOWN OUR EXPENSES, UM, AND REALLY, REALLY WATCH THAT CLOSELY, RIGHT? BECAUSE THAT'S TO THE POINT OF USING ARPA DOLLARS FOR AN OPERATIONAL EXPENSE THAT WE MIGHT NOT HAVE, WELL, 
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WE WON'T HAVE THAT MONEY AVAILABLE AT A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME. 
          YEAH. 
          AND, AND, AND THIS GOES BACK TO THE COUNCIL CONVERSATION IN THE, IN MAY DURING THE TRIAL BUDGET, IS MAKING SURE WE'RE SMOOTHING OUT THE PEAKS AND VALLEYS AND ALLOWING FOR RECOVERY TO OCCUR. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO WATCH, WATCH THE EXPENSES VERY CLOSELY. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN, UH, LAST IS THE 1.3 MILLION IT'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT ALREADY, AND THEN, UH, ONE, ANOTHER $1 MILLION. 
          AND I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THAT, UH, WHEN Y'ALL CAME TO VISIT, BUT, UM, WHAT, UH, HOW MUCH OF THESE OTHER CITIES PUT INTO THIS I P W AND BOTH OF THESE, THE 2.3 ADDED UP IS REALLY TARGETING TOWARDS THIS I P W CONFERENCE, RIGHT? NO, UH, THE 1.3 MILLION IS, UH, SPECIFICALLY TO INCENTIVIZE BUSINESS AT THE CONVENTION CENTER. 
          AND IT, IT'S GONNA BE USED FOR, UM, SEVERAL, UM, CONVENTION GROUPS TO INCENTIVIZE SEVERAL CONVENTION GROUPS. 
          THE 1 MILLION IS, UM, TOWARDS A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS, UM, THAT I P W EVENT IN 23. 
          WOULD YOU BE USING THAT MONEY OR WOULD YOU USE THIS TYPE OF MONEY VERSUS HOT MONEY? IF WE HAD THE HOT AVAILABLE, WE WOULD LOOK AT OTHER FUNDING SOURCES. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, THANK YOU SIR. 
          DEBBIE, REAL QUICK, THE, UH, UM, ON SLIDE FOUR, THE 1.6 FROM THE GENERAL FUND, TELL ME AGAIN WHY, WHY WE'RE DOING THAT? 'CAUSE WE, WE, THIS PROGRAM IS FUNDED WITH THE, UH, SEVERAL DIFFERENT AREAS. 
          UH, WE'RE EVEN DIPPING INTO THE ARPA, UM, BUT WE'RE FUNDING WITH GENERAL FUND ALSO. 
          AND WHY, WHY ARE WE DOING THAT? SO THE $1.6 MILLION IN GENERAL FUND MADE UP FOR, UH, SOME OF THE LOST, UH, REVENUES THIS FISCAL YEAR, FISCAL YEAR 21. 
          SO COUNCIL VOTED IN FISCAL YEAR 21 BUDGET LAST FALL TO, UH, APPROVE A FULL BUDGET FOR THE DEPARTMENT AT, UH, $9 MILLION. 
          THAT INCLUDED GENERAL FUND AS WELL AS HOT FUND. 
          WE DIDN'T HAVE ARPA MONEY AT THAT TIME. 
          SO IN FISCAL YEAR 22, THERE'S, UH, THAT GENERAL FUND TRANSFER IS NOT PROPOSED. 
          UH, THE PROPOSAL IS 2.6 MILLION IN ARPA TO MAKE UP FOR THE LOST REVENUE IN HOT. 
          BUT, BUT WHY WOULDN'T WE ADD THAT 1.6 TO THE 2.6 AND MAKE IT ALL ARPA FUNDING INSTEAD OF PULLING IT OUTTA THE GENERAL FUND? WELL, THAT'S NOT FUTURE, UH, IN THE FUTURE BUDGET. 
          THE 1.6 IS NOT FOR FISCAL YEAR 22. 
          AH, IT'S CURRENT. 
          I GET IT. 
          IT'S FISCAL YEAR 21. 
          OKAY. 
          AND WE DIDN'T HAVE ARPA FUNDS. 
          CORRECT. 
          AND CAN WE REIMBURSE OURSELVES WITH THAT? THAT WOULD BE, UH, NO, SIR. 
          WE CAN'T. 
          SO IT, IT'S NOT A LOST REVENUE. 
          NO, IT'S NOT. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M STILL CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT'S COUNTED AS LOST REVENUE AND WHAT'S NOT LOST REVENUE. 
          I YOU KEEP CHANGING THE, CHANGING THE RULES ON ME HERE, ERIC. 
          NO, SIR, I DO NOT. 
          NO, SIR, I DO NOT. 
          UH, WE'RE BEING VERY CLEAR. 
          I'M, WE'RE BEING VERY CONSISTENT WITH THE US DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, ALL RIGHT. 
          I NEED SOME MORE SCHOOLING ON THAT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          YES, SIR. 
          ALL, UM, OKAY, MARK. 
          THANK YOU, DEBBIE. 
          AND AGAIN, WELCOME, MARK, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU, UH, AT THE REIGNS ON THIS ORGANIZATION, AND, UH, IT'S BEEN GREAT MEETING YOU AND TALKING WITH YOU ABOUT YOUR PROGRAMS. JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK QUESTIONS HERE. 
          DIDN'T, UH, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THIS COMBINATION OF VISIT SA AND THE, WHAT WAS IT, THE RIVERWALK ASSOCIATION OR RIVERWALK, UH, ORGANIZATION? WHAT, WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT AND WHAT, WHERE ARE WE WITH THAT? SURE. 
          THE, UM, THE MERGER WAS OFFICIAL IN APRIL OF 2021, SO A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN PROBABLY 120 DAYS AGO. 
          UH, AND THE VISIT, UH, RIVERWALK ASSOCIATION IS NOW A DEPARTMENT AND OR A DIVISION OF VISIT SAN ANTONIO, OVERSEEN BY AMANDA GARCIA, WHO'S OUR VP OF PARTNERSHIP AND, AND ADVOCACY. 
          AND AS I MENTIONED IN MY PRESENTATION, OUR JOB IS REALLY TO ELEVATE THE RIVERWALK EVENTS, UM, TO ADD VALUE TO NOT ONLY THE VENDORS AND OUR PARTNERS, BUT ALSO TO CONSUMERS. 
          AND I THINK WE DID THAT DURING OUR FIRST EVENT, WHICH WAS THE ARMED FORCES PARADE ON JULY 3RD OF THIS YEAR. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          UM, SO IT'S A DEPARTMENT OF THE OVERALL DEPARTMENT. 
          OKAY. 
          YES. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, THE, UH, EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THE DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF THE COVID YEAR AND LOCKDOWN AND EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED, UH, TO OUR CITY, AS WELL AS OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE US. 
          AND, AND, UH, I REALLY LIKE THE, THE PERFORMANCE MEASURES THAT YOU'RE PUTTING IN PLACE. 
          I, I'D 
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LIKE TO SEE MORE. 
          I THINK THAT'S PART OF, UH, THIS CONTRACT EXTENSION ALSO FOR ADDITIONAL METRICS TO BE LOOKING AT WHAT Y'ALL ARE DOING AND WHAT THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT IS. 
          BUT HAVING SAID THAT, I SEE YOU GOT A GREAT SLIDE THAT TALKS ABOUT THE, UH, DIGITAL MEDIA INVESTMENT, R O I, AND THEN YOU HAVE, UH, OTHER R O I SLIDES HERE THAT'S REALLY CLEAR THAT WE'RE, WE'RE HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION WITH THIS ORGANIZATION, SO I'M REALLY HAPPY WITH THAT. 
          UM, WHENEVER WE DO LIKE THE TOTAL PROJECTED VALUE, UH, OR REVENUE, AND I DON'T SEE A NUMBER ON THIS SLIDE. 
          IT'S A CIRCLE WITH 2022 TOTAL REVENUE RESOURCES, 27 POINT 21 MILLION. 
          UH, IS THAT, UH, WHERE IS THAT IN THE SCALE OF COMPARING IT TO LIKE 2019? UM, THAT IS OUR BUDGET IN 2019, INCLUDING THE VISIT SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND, AND THE TPI WAS 33.7 MILLION. 
          SO WE'RE SIGNIFICANTLY DOWN FROM 2019. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SPEAKING OF THE T I D, HOW DO WE KNOW ALL OF OUR, OR YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE HAPPY OUT THERE? HOW, HOW DO YOU KNOW? UH, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS ON OUR ONE-ON-ONE. 
          I MEAN, WE, I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA THAT YOU HAD TO MAKE, GO OUT WITH THE CONSUMER SURVEY TO MAKE SURE THEY ARE HAPPY. 
          BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I DISCUSSED IN MY PRESENTATION, OUT OF THE HOSTING OBLIGATIONS AND INCENTIVE HOTEL INCENTIVE PROGRAMS FUNDED FROM THE T I D, THERE WAS A 22 TO ONE R O I ON WHAT WE INVESTED TO DRIVE NEW BUSINESS TO SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO A 22 TO ONE INVESTMENT IS, IN MY OPINION, A VERY STRONG INVESTMENT. 
          GREAT. 
          AND I JUST HAVE ONE OTHER COMMENT. 
          SEVERAL OF MY COLLEAGUES, FOUR, I THINK, UH, MENTIONED THE MILITARY AND WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE MILITARY ABOUT THAT, THAT GROUP THAT COMES IN ONCE A WEEK, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A TARGET AUDIENCE THAT WE REALLY NEED TO BE WORKING WITH AND, AND GETTING ON BOARD TO COME BACK TO SAN ANTONIO AND VISIT US MORE OFTEN. 
          I, I AGREE, COMPLETELY AGREE WITH THAT. 
          S FOR, FOR WE DO NOW, JUST SO EVERYONE'S, FOR EVERYONE'S EDIFICATION, WE NOW HAVE A SALES PROFESSIONAL THAT IS DEDICATED JUST TO WORK ON THESE, UH, GRADUATION. 
          AND THEN ANDRESS MUNOZ ON MY TEAM, WHO'S OUR VP OF MARKETING, WE ARE GONNA BE BUILDING A DIGITAL CATALOG FOR THESE PARENTS AND THESE FAMILIES COMING IN FOR THE GRADUATIONS TO HELP HIGHLIGHT THEM ON, ON HOW DO THEY ENJOY SAN ANTONIO WHILE THEY'RE HERE DURING THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER'S GRADUATIONS. 
          GREAT. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAVE, SIR. 
          THANK YOU AGAIN, MARK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          THANKS MAYOR. 
          UM, JUST A FEW, COUPLE OF COMMENTS. 
          UM, I'D LIKE TO SET UP A MEETING WITH MARK SO WE CAN DISCUSS HOW VISIT SA EFFORTS CAN SUPPORT, UH, LOCAL ARTISTS AND VICE VERSA. 
          AND I'D LIKE TO SECOND COUNCILMAN ELIAS'S SUGGESTION OF, UM, BRINGING IN BOXING AS SOMETHING POTENTIALLY SAN ANTONIO CAN EXPLORE. 
          I KNOW DISTRICT FIVE HAS A WEALTH OF BOXING GYMS AND THE BOXING STATION JUST OPEN ON ELPASO. 
          SO IF ANYONE'S LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEAR CITY HALL, I A WORKOUT IN, UM, THE BOXING STATIONS THERE. 
          BUT THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO, AND, UM, HERE, HERE ON ALL THAT. 
          UH, I THINK THAT'S EVERY, EVERYTHING, UM, EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, UH, ON THIS DISCUSSION. 
          SO AGAIN, THANK YOU TO ALL THE TEAMS THAT CAME IN TO PRESENT TODAY. 
          KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK, UH, THROUGH SOME DIFFICULT TIMES, BUT, UH, BRIGHTER SHORES AHEAD. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL, EVERYBODY. 
          THE TIME IS NOW 4:47 PM UH, ON THIS 25TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2021. 
          OUR CITY COUNCIL BUDGET SESSION IS NOW ADJOURNED. 
          HAVE A GREAT AFTERNOON EVERYONE.
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