* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:04] YOU WANNA CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER? YEAH, LET'S, UH, WE'RE GONNA CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER, AND OUR CLERK WILL NOW TAKE ROLL TIME IS 10:07 AM UH, LET'S SEE. COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHE GARCIA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. HERE. COMMISSIONER BERNARD HERE. CHAIR . HERE. CHAIR RODRIGUEZ HERE. CHAIRS. WE HAVE A QUORUM. THANKS. SO, UH, I'M, I'M EXCITED. I KNOW, UH, MY, MY CO-CHAIR IS EXCITED TOO, THAT TODAY WE GET TO WELCOME A NEW MEMBER, UM, TO, TO THIS, UH, TO THIS COMMITTEE. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T, UH, THAT DON'T KNOW, UM, JUSTICE MERRILL AND BERNARD NOW, UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, BERNARD, UH, SHE AND I HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER SINCE I WAS A BABY LAWYER. UH, AND I LOOKED UP TO HER VERY, VERY MUCH. AND NOW I GET TO SERVE ON A COMMITTEE WHERE I GET TO LOOK UP TO HER AGAIN, UH, VERY, VERY MUCH. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WELCOME, YOU BRING A WEALTH OF, UH, OF, UH, OF EXPERIENCE AND WISDOM TO, TO THIS. AND I'M, I'M VERY EXCITED THAT, UH, JUDGE WOLF APPOINTED YOU TO THIS, UH, THIS COMMITTEE. AND, UH, WE'RE, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE WORKING COMMITTEES WHERE WE DO, UH, A LOT OF THINKING AND A LOT OF PROBLEM SOLVING. AND I CAN'T THINK OF ANYBODY BETTER THAN YOU TO, TO SERVE IN THIS, IN THIS SPOT. OH, I'M HONORED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YEAH. AND, UH, THE, UM, AND THAT MAKES NOW THREE LAWYERS ON THIS COMMITTEE. UH, AND THE WORLD'S GOING TO POT PERRY. YEAH. THE, I'M GETTING OUTTA HERE. . I'M ASKING FOR TRANSCRIPT . SO, SO, UM, UH, WE, WE DO [Approval of Minutes  ] HAVE MINUTES TO APPROVE FROM OUR NOVEMBER 10TH MEETING. AND USUALLY, UH, YOU'LL FIND, UM, COMMISSIONER THAT, UH, ADRIANA ROCHA GARCIA, ONE OF YOUR COLLEAGUES, UH, READS THESE AND SCRUBS THEM AND READS THE FOOTNOTES AND ALL THAT. AND SHE USUALLY MOVES TO APPROVE THESE THINGS AFTER HAVING READ ALL THEM. BUT, UH, LET'S SEE IF SHE DOES THAT AGAIN TODAY. YES, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR NOVEMBER THE 10TH. SECOND. WE'VE GOT A MOTION IN A SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE? UH, WE'RE GONNA VOTE ON THE MINUTES. PLEASE VOTE A ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. HEARING NO OPPOSITION. UH, THE MINUTES ARE APPROVED. UM, TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE [Briefing and Possible Action on  ] TALKING TO JEFF COYLE MOST OF THE TIME, AND HE'S GOT, UH, SOME UPDATES FOR US REGARDING, UM, BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND, UM, OUR ESSAY TO DC TRIP. AND, UH, JEFF, THE, THE FLOOR IS YOURS. ACTUALLY, SALLY'S GONNA DO THE BOOK, SALLY, OF THE HEAVY LIFTING, BUT LET ME JUST SET IT UP BY SAYING, UH, WE'VE BEEN VERY HARD AT WORK ON THE FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE LAW. UH, THIS IS NOT, UH, STATING THE OBVIOUS HERE. THIS IS NOT LIKE NORMAL FEDERAL GRANT OPPORTUNITIES. THIS IS A HUNDRED PLUS PROGRAMS, UH, STRETCHING ACROSS ALL SORTS OF INFRASTRUCTURE. AND SO AT THE CITY MANAGER'S DIRECTION, WE'VE BEEN DEVELOPING AN INTERNAL, UH, FRAMEWORK AND STRUCTURE TO BE ABLE TO TRACK AND MONITOR. AND WE'VE STARTED OUR OUTREACH WITH OUR EXTERNAL PARTNERS HERE IN THE COMMUNITY TO TRY TO BE COORDINATED AND, AND STRATEGIC. AND SALLY'S GONNA GIVE AN OVERVIEW, UH, OF THAT, UH, ALONG WITH SUPPORT FROM OUR FEDERAL CONSULTANT TEAM ON SOME OF THE SPEC SPECIFICS IN THE, IN THE LAW. VERY WELL, THANK YOU. THIS OFF. GOOD MORNING. LET'S GET THE POWERPOINT UP. THERE WE GO. CHAIRMAN PALIS, CHAIRMAN RODRIGUEZ. GOOD MORNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS. THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO PRESENT TO YOU, AS JEFF SAID, AN UPDATE, AN OVERVIEW ON OUR, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE ACTIVITY. UH, TO KICK OFF THE PRESENTATION OVERVIEW, WE WILL PROVIDE YOU AN UPDATE, UM, AND AN OVERVIEW, UM, TAG TEAMING TODAY WITH OUR FEDERAL CONSULTANTS. I'LL PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION ON WHO'S JOINING US TODAY. UH, WE'LL ALSO SHARE INFORMATION ON OUR, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY. UM, AS JEFF SAID, UH, VIA THE DIRECTION OF OUR CITY MANAGER. WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT, AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SHARING THOSE DETAILS WITH YOU TODAY. WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE SHARING WITH YOU THE ACTIONS TO DATE AND OUR VERY IMPORTANT ONGOING COORDINATION AND ADVOCACY, UM, AT THE LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND NATIONAL LEVELS. AND THEN LASTLY, BUT VERY IMPORTANTLY, AN UPDATE, UH, WILL BE PRESENTED TO YOU, UM, BY CASEY MADRID ON THE SA TO DC UM, ANNUAL FLYIN. JOINING ME TODAY, VIRTUALLY AND IN PERSON, UM, IS OUR CLARK HILL TEAM. YOU ALL REMEMBER LAUREN LIPPEN FROM CLARK HILL. ALSO JOINING US IS SHODDY JAMES AND ANDREW, ALL FROM WASHINGTON DC AND IN PERSON TODAY IS RON ANO WITH THE NORMANDY GROUP. UH, AND YOU ALL KNOW WALTER SERNA, UH, [00:05:01] HERE IN PERSON AS WELL. UH, AS A QUICK REMINDER, YOU WILL RECALL THAT DURING THE FALL OF 2021, CONGRESS WORKED, UM, VERY FEVERISHLY TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY PASSED THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AND JOBS ACT. UH, THEY FINALLY PASSED IT, THE PRESIDENT SIGNED IT AND ENACTED ON, ENACTED THE BILL ON NOVEMBER 15TH OF LAST YEAR. YOU'LL HEAR ME REFER TO I I J A AS A BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL OR LAW, SINCE ITS ENACTMENT. ALLOW ME TO SET THE STAGE HERE A LITTLE BIT FOR LAUREN AND RON. AFTER THE BILL WAS ENACTED, THE CITY MANAGER, JEFF AND I WENT TO WASHINGTON, DC TO MEET WITH OUR CONSULTANT TEAM. WHAT THEY DID WAS THAT THEY DISSECTED 2,700 PAGES OF LEGISLATIVE TEXT, PREPARED OVER 200 SLIDES IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO AVAIL US OF AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE FROM THAT 2,700, UM, BILL THAT CONGRESS HAD JUST PASSED AND RECENTLY ENACTED BY THE PRESIDENT. AND PART OF THAT INFORMATION, UM, YOU WILL SEE HERE TODAY. HOWEVER, IN A VERY CONDENSED VERSION, WE WILL NOT DARE PUT YOU THROUGH 200 SLIDES OF BILL TEXT. PART OF LAUREN'S OVERVIEW TODAY WILL BE THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW OVERVIEW. SHE WILL BE HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THE AREAS THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST TO THE CITY, THE EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT THE PRESIDENT IMPLEMENTED IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE, UH, THAT THOSE PRIORITIES OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE WHITE HOUSE AND AGENCIES ARE REPRESENTED ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF THESE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. THE WHITE HOUSE ALSO IMPLEMENTED AN INFRASTRUCTURE TASK FORCE, AND WE WILL GO INTO FURTHER DETAILS THERE AS WELL. SHE WILL ALSO COVER THE VARIOUS FUNDING CATEGORIES. SHE'S NOT GONNA GO OVER SINGLE EVERY SINGLE FUNDING CATEGORY, BUT WE WILL BE AVAILABLE IF SOMETHING CAPTURES YOUR EYE AND LAUREN DOES NOT HIGHLIGHT THAT PARTICULAR FUNDING, PLEASE LET US KNOW. WE ARE HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. AND POST MEETING, WE CAN ALSO PROVIDE YOU ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THOSE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. WE'RE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT 200 SLIDE DECK WITH YOU POST MEETING AS WELL. LET ME BACK UP AND I WILL PASS IT OVER TO LAUREN AND TEAM. WELL, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. I'M GOING TO SHARE MY SLIDE DECK NOW. ARE WE GOOD ON YOUR END? OKAY. SO AS SALLY SAID, WE PRESENTED A MUCH LONGER VERSION OF THIS PRESENTATION BACK IN THE BEGINNING OF DECEMBER. THAT PRE PRESENTATION TOOK US ABOUT EIGHT HOURS. SO WE'RE DOING A, A VERY CONDENSED VERSION HERE TODAY. SO YOU'LL SEE SOME PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL AND THEY'LL SAY IT'S, YOU KNOW, ALMOST A TRILLION DOLLARS WHILE OTHER PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT BEING JUST 550 BILLION. THIS DIFFERENCE IS BECAUSE THE 550 BILLION IS A NEW SPENDING. THE OTHER BULK OF THE FUNDING IS THE REAUTHORIZATION OF THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS, AND THEN WATER AND WASTEWATER PROGRAMS. BUT THE NEW FUNDING BREAKS OUT INTO ABOUT A DIFFERENT, A DOZEN DIFFERENT CATEGORIES HERE. AND YOU'LL SEE THE BIGGEST IS THIS $110 BILLION FOR ROADS AND BRIDGES. AND ON THE NEXT SLIDE, THIS IS WHERE YOU REALLY START TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE IN THE FUNDING BUCKETS. THE BOTTOM LEFT, THE FUNDING BY SECTOR, WHICH IS TO SEE D O T IS GETTING THE BULK OF THE FUNDING HERE AT 284 BILLION OF THIS NEW SPENDING. AND THEN OTHER AGENCIES ARE IMPLEMENTING THESE OTHER SMALLER CATEGORIES UNDER TRANSPORTATION, UH, E P A, INTERIOR COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. AND THEN ON THE RIGHT YOU SEE THE BREAKDOWN OF THE TRANSPORTATION DOLLARS. AS I SAID, ROADS AND BRIDGES IS THE, THE BIGGEST CATEGORY. THAT DARK BLUE AT 110 BILLION FOLLOWED BY RAIL, WHICH IS PASSENGER AND FREIGHT RAIL AT 66 BILLION. AND THEN THE OTHER CATEGORIES ARE, ARE MUCH SMALLER, EV CHARGING SAFETY TRANSIT AND AIRPORTS DOWN AT THE BOTTOM AT 25 BILLION. THIS IS THE EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT THE PRESIDENT RELEASED SHORTLY AFTER THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL WAS SIGNED INTO LAW. AND HE'S ASKING THAT ALL FUNDING FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL SORT OF HAVE THESE SIX OVERARCHING THEMES IN COMMON THAT WE INVEST PUBLIC DOLLARS EFFICIENTLY USED BY AMERICA PROVISIONS [00:10:01] IN ACQUIRING THE, THE MANUFACTURING MATERIALS AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN FOR THE PROJECTS, CREATE GOOD PAYING JOBS AND INVEST DOLLARS EQUITABLY, BUILD RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THEN EFFECTIVELY COORDINATE ACROSS ALL UNITS OF GOVERNMENT IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAW. AND FOR EFFECTIVELY COORDINATING. THIS GOES INTO THE TASK FORCE THAT WAS CREATED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXECUTIVE ORDER. THE CO-CHAIRS HERE ARE THE CURRENT NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL DIRECTOR BRIAN D C, AND THEN THE PRESIDENT TAPPED FORMER MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS, MITCH LANDRO TO COME IN AND BE THE OTHER CO-CHAIR OF THE TASK FORCE. AND MITCH LANDRO HAS REALLY BEEN THE PUBLIC FACE OF COORDINATION. HE'S BEEN MEETING WITH LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT HEADS AS THEY SORT OF START TO ROLL OUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL. AND THEN ON THE RIGHT, YOU SEE ALL THE OTHER TASK FORCE MEMBERS, WHICH ARE THE SECRETARIES OR HEADS OF THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE IMPACTED BY THE INFRASTRUCTURE LAW. AND WE'VE STARTED TO SEE SOME OF THE DEPARTMENTS START TO APPOINT VIA WHITE HOUSE DIRECTION, A STAFF INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATOR THAT IS TAKING THE LEAD IN TERMS OF THAT DEPARTMENT'S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAW. NOW I'M GONNA START GOING OVER SOME OF THE PROGRAMS. SPECIFICALLY, AS SALLY SAID, THERE'S EASILY OVER A HUNDRED, PROBABLY CLOSE TO 200 DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. SO I'VE JUST SELECTED A FEW PROGRAMS IN EACH SUBCATEGORY THAT I THINK WOULD BE OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO YOU ALL, EITHER BASED OFF OF THEIR SIZE OR THE INTEREST OF THE CITIES. SO STARTING AT THE TOP HERE, UH, BECAUSE OF THEIR SIZE, I WANTED TO POINT OUT THESE TWO BRIDGE PROGRAMS. THIS IS ABOUT CORRECTING THE FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY RELATED TO BRIDGES. SO THERE'S TWO PROGRAMS. ONE IS FORMULA, THE OTHER ONE IS A COMPETITIVE PROGRAM. THE FORMULA FUNDING IS GOING TO GO TO THE STATES DIRECTLY TO REPLACE FAILING BRIDGES. NOW, THIS IS ABOUT A 27 AND A HALF BILLION DOLLAR PROGRAM OVER THE FIVE YEARS, AND TEXAS IS SLATED TO RECEIVE 537 MILLION OF THIS FUNDING. THE, THE FORMULA THEY USED HERE WAS ABOUT THE NUMBER OF BRIDGES YOU HAVE IN A STATE. AND THEN THE OTHER PROGRAM IS A DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM THAT ALL UNITS OF GOVERNMENT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR. SO IT'S ABOUT REPLACING BRIDGES THAT ARE FAILING, THAT ARE LISTED ON THE NATIONAL BRIDGE INVENTORY, BUT ALSO ABOUT, UM, IMPROVING CULVERTS RELATED TO FLOOD CONTROL MANAGEMENT. AND THEY DO WANT TO FOCUS ON LARGER SCALE PROJECTS. HERE. THEY'VE SET ASIDE 50% OF 12 AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS FOR LARGE PROJECTS, AND THOSE ARE ONES THAT ARE ESTIMATED TO COST OVER $50 MILLION. I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE INCREASE TO THE RAISE GRANT PROGRAM THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE BILL. OBVIOUSLY, THE RAISE GRANT HAS BEEN OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO THE CITY IN THE PAST. THE FUNDING OVER FIVE YEARS FOR THE PROGRAM IS AT SEVEN AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS. THIS PROGRAM NORMALLY RUNS ABOUT A BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. SO THIS IS A TWO AND A HALF BILLION DOLLARS INCREASE OVER THE BASELINE. WE'RE NOT SURE QUITE HOW THEY'RE GOING TO DIVVY IT UP BY YEAR OR IF THEY'LL DO AN EXTRA ROUND. WE'LL, WE'LL LET YOU KNOW AS WE FIND OUT MORE DATA THERE. AND THEN THREE NEW PROGRAMS I WANTED TO POINT OUT BRIEFLY HERE. THERE'S A NEW FORMULA PROGRAM, THE CARBON REDUCTION PROGRAM, WHICH IS ABOUT REDUCING TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS. THIS IS GOING TO FLOW THROUGH THE STATES, AND WE'LL HAVE TO CREATE A PLAN ABOUT HOW TO REDUCE, UM, TRANSPORTATION EMISSIONS AT PORTS AND OTHER SORT OF PUBLIC DEPLOYMENT OF EMISSION REDUCING INFRASTRUCTURE. IT'S, UH, SIX, ABOUT A SIX AND A HALF BILLION DOLLAR PROGRAM. AND THEN TWO SMALLER PROGRAMS THAT ARE DISCRETIONARY PROGRAMS THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LIKE THE CITY COULD APPLY FOR THE HEALTHY STREETS GRANT PROGRAM, WHICH IS ABOUT COMBATING THE URBAN HEAT ISLANDS THAT WE SEE IN LARGE CITIES BY DEPLOYING POOL PAVEMENTS, EXPANDING TREE COVER, IMPROVING AIR QUALITY, THAT'S A $500 MILLION PROGRAM. SO A HUNDRED MILLION A YEAR OVER THE FIVE YEARS. AND THEN THE OTHER NEW DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT IS THIS ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT PROGRAM THERE TOWARDS THE BOTTOM. THIS IS ABOUT CREATING BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN TRAIL NETWORKS, [00:15:01] ESSENTIALLY TO CREATE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES AND THEN CONNECT THEM TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS. THIS IS, AGAIN, A $500 MILLION PROGRAM. AND I DO WANNA POINT OUT A LOT OF THESE PROGRAMS DO HAVE COST SHARES. THEY DO VARY BY PROGRAMS. SO THIS ONE SPECIFICALLY IS AN 80 20 COST SHARE, BUT THAT'S NOT ALWAYS THE CASE. THEY, THEY DO DIFFER. SO MOVING ON HERE TO PUBLIC TRANSIT, A LOT OF THESE PROGRAMS WERE EXISTING PROGRAMS THAT WERE JUST REAUTHORIZED. THE F T A UNDER D O T HAS BEEN PRETTY GOOD IN MOVING OUT ON THEIR PROGRAMS DUE TO THE FACT THAT A LOT OF THEM WERE JUST REAUTHORIZING THE BILL. SO WE'RE GONNA START SEEING, UM, NOTICES OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES COMING LATER THIS MONTH. THE FIRST ONE BEING THAT, UM, BUS AND THEN LOW NO EMISSION PROGRAM YOU SEE TOWARDS THE BOTTOM. BUT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT TWO PROGRAMS HERE, SPECIFICALLY THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS PROGRAM. THIS IS A PROGRAM TO BUILD NEW PUBLIC TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE VIA, HAD BEEN INTERESTED IN THIS PROGRAM IN THE PAST TO CREATE EXPRESS BUS LANES. NOW WHAT'S IMPORTANT HERE IS THAT IN THIS $8 BILLION PROGRAM IN THE FIRST YEAR, THEY'RE LOOKING TO CLEAR THE BACKLOG OF THE EXISTING C I G PROGRAMS THAT ARE LISTED FOR DEVELOPMENT. SO THERE WILL BE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY IN THE SUBSEQUENT YEARS BECAUSE THERE WILL NOT BE THIS LONG WAITING LIST THAT CURRENTLY EXISTS UNDER THE C I G PROGRAM. I THINK JUST A NEW PILOT PROGRAM AT THE VERY BOTTOM HERE, THIS TRANSPORTATION ACCESS PILOT PROGRAM. IT'S A SMALL ONE, BUT I THINK IT COULD BE OF INTEREST TO CITIES BECAUSE IT'S LOOKING AT HOW YOU IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION ACCESS TO CRITICAL SERVICES, WHICH I THINK IS JUST REALLY IMPORTANT FOR LARGE MUNICIPALITIES. A LOT OF TRANSIT DOLLARS ARE FORMULA FUNDS AS YOU SEE HERE. SO THE FORMULA IS 3.4 BILLION THAT ARE PUSHED TO TEXAS. WE HAVE NOT SEEN A PLAN FOR HOW THIS FUNDING WILL BE USED AT THIS POINT. UP NEXT, WE HAVE ENERGY, POWER, AND GRID. GIVEN WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR, WE KNOW THIS IS OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE FOR YOU ALL. SO THREE PROGRAMS I WANNA HIGHLIGHT HERE. THIS FIRST ONE, ENHANCED GRID SECURITY, THIS NEW DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM. THIS IS ABOUT THE CYBERSECURITY RESILIENCE AND ENHANCING THE GRID. SO THIS IS NEW DISCRETIONARY DOLLARS, BUT THESE ARE LARGELY GOING TO STAY AT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL, UM, ON SECURING THE GRID. BUT OF MORE INTEREST TO YOU ALL IS THESE TWO NEW PROGRAMS PREVENTING OUTAGES AND ENHANCING THE RESILIENCE OF THE ELECTRIC GRID. THIS IS A NEW DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM THAT, SORRY, UM, WHERE STATES ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR THIS TO REDUCE THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPACTS OF EXTREME WEATHER AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS ON THE GRID. AND THEN THE SECOND ONE IS THIS NEW FORMULA FUNDING THAT IS A LOAN PROGRAM RELATED TO THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF BUILDINGS. SO HOW DO WE SORT OF UPDATE COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS TO BE MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT? THAT'S AN, A REVOLVING LOAN PROGRAM SIMILAR TO WHAT WE SEE IN SOME OF THE WATER PROGRAMS WHERE IT'S HELD AT THE STATE LEVEL. AND THEN ENTITIES WITHIN THE STATE CAN APPLY FOR LOANS AND GRANTS. UM, MOVING NEXT TO RESILIENCY, A COUPLE PROGRAMS HERE THAT WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO YOU ALL. THIS FIRST FEMA BRICK PROGRAM. THIS IS A DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM THAT ALREADY EXISTS BUT ISN'T THAT OLD, UM, ABOUT HAZARD MITIGATION, REDUCING THE IMPACTS FROM DISASTERS AND OTHER NATURAL HAZARDS WHERE, UM, ALL ENTITIES OF GOVERNMENT CAN APPLY. THIS IS A $1 BILLION PROGRAM, UH, WANTED TO POINT OUT, THERE'S A SMALL RECYCLING PROGRAM, THE SAVE OUR SEAS ACT, WHERE THIS IS ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS TO MUNICIPAL RECYCLING PROGRAMS, SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO IMPROVING THE ACTUAL RECYCLING CAPACITY. THIS IS JUST A $275 MILLION PROGRAM RUN THROUGH E P A, BUT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY. THEN THIS LAST PROGRAM, I THINK IS OBVIOUSLY OF IMPORTANCE TO FUEL. AGAIN, THIS IS UPGRADING OUR ELECTRIC GRID RELIABILITY AND RESILIENCY. THIS IS ANOTHER DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM FOCUSED ON THE TRANSMISSION STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE ELECTRIC GRID. IT'LL BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGH THE STATES, BUT THEN THE [00:20:01] UTILITY ENTITIES WILL BE ABLE TO GET FUNDING THROUGH THROUGH THE STATES. IT'S ABOUT A $5 BILLION PROGRAM WITH A BILLION SET ASIDE FOR RURAL AND REMOTE AREAS. MOVING ON TO SAFETY, SORRY. THERE'S THREE NEW DISCRETIONARY PROGRAMS THAT I WANTED TO POINT OUT SINCE THEY ARE ALL APPLICABLE TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. THE SAFE STREETS PROGRAM IS ABOUT PREVENTING, UM, FATALITIES ON THE ROADS. IT'S THAT VISION ZERO INITIATIVE. UH, IT'S ANOTHER 5 BILLION, SO 1 BILLION A YEAR THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CAN APPLY FOR, AND REALLY JUST TO REDUCE AND ELIMINATE FATALITIES AND OTHER SERIOUS TO, UM, BOTH PEDESTRIANS AND MOTORISTS. THE SECOND ONE IS THE SMART GRANT PROGRAM, STRENGTHENING MOBILITY AND REVOLUTIONIZING TRANSPORTATION, WHICH IS A DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM FOCUSED ON USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY. SO, YOU KNOW, SMART SENSORS, CONNECTED VEHICLES, SMART GRIDS, UM, GRANT FUNDING FOR THOSE TYPE OF PROJECTS. THIS IS A $500 MILLION DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM. THEN THE LAST ONE, THIS IS A VERY SMALL ONE, BUT, UM, STOPPING THREATS ON PEDESTRIANS. IT'S A $5 MILLION PROGRAM. THIS IS FUNDING FOR ALL ENTITIES AND GOVERNMENTS TO INSTALL BOLLARDS, UM, WHICH ARE, YOU KNOW, THOSE LARGE OBJECTS THAT YOU HAVE AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD TO STOP VEHICLES FROM, UM, BEING ABLE TO HIT PEDESTRIANS. SO WE'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, THAT BEING AN, AN ISSUE IN SOME, UM, TERRORISM ACTIVITIES. MOVING ON TO WATER, WATER WAS A BIG SECTION BECAUSE THIS INCLUDED SOME NEW PROGRAMS AS WELL AS THE REAUTHORIZATION OF DRINKING WATER AND WASTEWATER PROGRAMS IN THE BILL. SO A LOT OF THESE ARE EXISTING, SO I'M NOT GONNA GO OVER THEM. I DO WANNA POINT OUT THAT A LOT OF THIS FUNDING IS FORMULA FUNDING. SO TEXAS IS EXPECTED TO RECEIVE ALMOST 3 BILLION OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS THROUGH, UM, THESE PROGRAMS. AND THEN SPECIFICALLY I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE NEW LEAD SERVICE LINE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM, WHICH IS FORMULA FUNDING TO THE STATES TO REPLACE PIPES THAT HAVE BLOOD IN THEM. BUT SPECIFICALLY TEXAS IS RECEIVING, SORRY, LET ME GET IT HERE. UH, $221 MILLION THROUGH THIS PROGRAM. AND THE OTHER PROGRAM I WANNA HIGHLIGHT IS THE RURAL AND LOW INCOME WATER ASSISTANCE PILOT PROGRAM. THIS WATER EQUIVALENT OF LIHEAP, WHICH YOU ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH, UM, STARTING OUT AS A PILOT PROGRAM TO SEE HOW THEY CAN DO HOUSEHOLD ASSISTANCE FOR DRINKING WATER AND WASTEWATER BILLS. AGAIN, JUST STARTING AS A PILOT PROGRAM, BUT THE INTENTION IS TO CREATE A PERMANENT, UH, FEDERAL PROGRAM TO HELP LOW INCOME, UM, PEOPLE PAY FOR THEIR WATER NOW UNDERWATER. THERE WAS AN ENTIRE WESTERN WATER SECTION. UH, TEXAS IS CONSIDERED PART OF THIS, UH, VIA THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION UNDER INTERIOR. AND I JUST WANNA POINT OUT THIS MIDDLE PROJECT, A LARGE SCALE WATER RECYCLING AND REUSE PROJECT. THIS IS A GRANT PROJECT FOR, UM, APPLICANTS TO BUILD WASTEWATER AND RECYCLING PROJECTS THAT PROJECTS THAT ARE AT A COST OF OVER $500 MILLION, BUT THE FEDERAL COST SHARE IS NOT GOING TO BE GREATER THAN 25%. SO IT'S JUST A $450 MILLION PROGRAM DUE TO THAT LARGE, THAT SMALLER FEDERAL COST SHARE. MOVING ON TO BROADBAND AND CYBER. THERE ARE MULTIPLE PROGRAMS HERE THAT WE FLAGGED FOR YOU ALL, BUT SOME OF THE, UH, A GOOD PORTION OF THESE FUNDS ARE FORMULA VIA THE STATE. AGAIN, THIS FIRST ONE, THE BROADBAND EQUITY ACCESS AND DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM. THE BEAD PROGRAM IS ONE OF THESE FORMULA DOLLARS. UM, AND TEXAS IS EXPECTED TO GET A HUNDRED MILLION TO PROVIDE BROADBAND COVERAGE ACROSS THE STATE, LARGELY THROUGH THIS, THIS FIRST FORMULA PROGRAM HERE, THIS IS ABOUT SUPPORTING BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT. UM, IT'S A 75 25 COST SHARE FOR THE STATES, AND THEN STATES CAN AWARD SUB CON SUBGRANTS WITH THIS FUNDING, BUT THEY'RE NOT REQUIRED TO. NOW, THIS NEXT ONE, THE MIDDLE MILE PROGRAM, IT'S A DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM. LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LIKE YOURSELVES WOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY. THIS IS ABOUT [00:25:01] HOW YOU CONNECT TO UNDERSERVED AREAS. YOU KNOW, HOW YOU TAKE FROM THE LARGE, THE MAIN BROADBAND LINE AND THEN DO THAT MIDDLE MILE OF SERVICE, WHICH CAN ALSO OFTEN BE THE MOST EXPENSIVE. THAT IS 1 BILLION OVER FIVE YEARS FOR THAT MIDDLE MILE PROGRAM. AND THEN TWO OTHERS I WANNA HIGHLIGHT BRIEFLY. UH, THE DIGITAL EQUITY GRANT PROGRAM, THIS IS 2.75 BILLION OVER FIVE YEARS, SORT OF TARGETING THE DIGITAL EQUITY ISSUE FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS AS DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM. I SAID LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY. AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY. THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE C OVID 19 EMERGENCY BROADBAND BENEFIT, WHICH HELPS HOUSEHOLDS PAY FOR THEIR BROADBAND BILLS. THE F C C ACTUALLY JUST RELAUNCHED THIS PROGRAM LAST WEEK. THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL INCLUDED A LITTLE OVER $14 BILLION FOR THIS PROGRAM. SO THEY WILL SORT OF HAVE THE PROGRAM EXIST AS LONG AS THERE IS STILL FUNDING LEFT FOR IT. MOVING ON TO POLLUTION, BRIEFLY WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, UH, EXISTING FUNDS FOR THE BROWNFIELDS PROGRAM. JUST ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS STATES RECEIVE THESE FUNDING. YOU ALL DON'T HAVE ANY SUPERFUND SITES NEAR YOU, SO I DIDN'T WANNA HIGHLIGHT THAT. AND THEN THE LAST ONE, THE RECYCLE ACT IS A NEW DISCRETIONARY PROGRAM, A SMALL ONE $75 MILLION. UM, IT'S REALLY SEEN AS AN, AS AN EDUCATION OR MARKETING PROGRAM TO HELP HOUSEHOLDS AND CONSUMERS BETTER UNDERSTAND THE RECYCLING NEEDS, UM, IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OR ELIGIBLE ENTITIES, PORTS AND WATERWAYS. ONE THING I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT QUICKLY FOR YOU IS THE ARMY CORPS. THEY ARE RECEIVING ABOUT $17 BILLION WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO WORK ON FUNDING A LOT OF THE BACKLOGGED PROJECTS THEY HAVE. AND THEY'LL RELEASE THEIR WORK PLAN LATER THIS MONTH, WE BELIEVE, TO LIST WHAT PROJECTS THEY'RE GOING TO GET FUNDING. NOW THIS IS MORE OF INTEREST BECAUSE YOU ALL DO HAVE A SMALL ARMY CORPS PROJECT, SO THIS IS NICE BECAUSE IT'S SORT OF FORWARD FUNDS, A LOT OF PROJECTS LEAVING MORE CAPACITY IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS FOR OTHER ARMY CORPS NEEDS AIRPORTS. I BELIEVE RON IS THERE TO TAKE OVER THIS SLIDE. HEY, LAUREN. THANK YOU, LAURA. UM, AND I COULD BE PRETTY QUICK ON, ON AIRPORTS. JUST REAL QUICKLY, I'M RON ANO, AGAIN FROM THE NORMANDY GROUP IN DC HENRY AND BENI AND I, UM, WORK ON BEHALF OF THE AIRPORT IN DC AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH CLARK HILL AND, AND YOUR WHOLE TEAM HERE. THE AIRPORT'S OVERVIEW IS, IS PRETTY SUCCINCT. THERE'S $25 BILLION. UH, AS LAUREN SAID AT THE BEGINNING OF HER, UH, COMMENTS SET ASIDE SPECIFICALLY FOR AIRPORTS, AND THEY'RE PRETTY MUCH SPLIT INTO THREE PROGRAMS. THE FIRST IS $15 BILLION FOR, UM, THE A I P PROGRAM, WHICH IS THE AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. NOW, THE, UH, THAT, THAT IS SUPPLEMENTAL A I P FUNDS, THE A I P FUNDS COME ONCE A YEAR TO AIRPORTS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. THEY'RE DONE IN A FORMULAIC BASIS BASED ON A NUMBER OF FACTORS LIKE THE NUMBER OF IN EMPLOYMENTS AND WHATNOT. UM, THEY'VE ALREADY MOVED FORWARD WITH THEIR FIRST, UH, TRANCHE THAT'S SPREAD OUT OVER FIVE YEARS. THEIR FIRST TRANCHE OF A I P ALLOCATIONS HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE. UM, UH, SAN ANTONIO S A T RECEIVED ROUGHLY 11.7, UH, MILLION DOLLARS THROUGH THAT FIRST TRANCHE. SO SPREAD OUT OVER FIVE YEARS. THAT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT 59, UH, MILLION DOLLARS, WHICH IS, AGAIN, SUPPLEMENTAL MONEY INTO THE, UH, A I P FUNDS. AND THEY'LL GET ADDITIONAL A I P FUNDS THROUGHOUT THE COURSE, UH, OF THE NORMAL PROCESS. UM, STINSON ACTUALLY ALSO RECEIVED ROUGHLY $295,000 THROUGH THAT PROCESS AS WELL. SO IT'S NOT JUST THE BIG AIRPORTS THAT GET MONEY THROUGH THAT PROGRAM. SO THAT'S 15 OUT OF THE 25 MILLION, UH, BILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS, THAT WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, PUT FORTH IN THE I I J A. THE OTHER TWO TRANCHES. THERE'S FIVE, UH, BILLION DOLLARS THAT WAS SET ASIDE FOR AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS. IT'S THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE MADE AN INVESTMENT LIKE THIS INTO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM. IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, 50 YEARS SINCE THEY, THEY'VE DONE THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM. AND THAT'S SPLIT UP. UM, IT'S 1 MILLION OVER FIVE YEARS, JUST LIKE, JUST LIKE THE A I P PROGRAM. AND THAT IS A DECISION THAT'S GONNA BE MADE BY THE F A A U S D O T AND THE, UM, A T O, WHICH IS THE AIR TRAFFIC ORGANIZATION. SO THEY'RE GONNA DETERMINE WHICH EQUIPMENT'S MOST OUTDATED AND THEN, AND MAKE THEIR DETERMINATIONS BY FEBRUARY 15TH, AT LEAST FOR THE FIRST YEAR. SO WE WILL KNOW PRETTY SOON, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT TYPE OF EQUIPMENT, UM, AND, AND UPGRADES TO THE AIR TRAFFIC SYSTEM AT, AT THE AIRPORT, S A T RECEIVES. AND THEN THE LAST TRACHE IS, UM, FIVE, UH, ANOTHER $5 BILLION. AND THIS IS A NEW GRANT PROGRAM THAT WAS CREATED. IT'S A TERMINAL GRANT PROGRAM TO FOCUS ON TERMINAL TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS. AND THAT'S SPREAD OUT AGAIN OVER FIVE YEARS. SO ONE, $1 BILLION PER YEAR FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. AND IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY BROKEN DOWN BY PERCENTAGES. MEDIUM, [00:30:01] UH, LARGE HUB AIRPORTS, MEDIUM HUB AIRPORTS, AND SMALL AIRPORTS. UH, MEDIUM HUB AIRPORTS GET 15% OF THE FUNDING. SO, AND THEN THEY'LL COMPETE FOR THAT, THAT GRANT PROGRAM FUNDING THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS. SO, SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS, UM, SO YOU HAVE A BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR, RIGHT? SO THAT'S $150 MILLION THAT'S GONNA BE SET ASIDE FOR MEDIUM, UM, HUB AIRPORTS LIKE SAN ANTONIO, LIKE SS A T, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY THEN TO COMPETE FOR THOSE FUNDS WITH THE OTHER MEDIUM HUB AIRPORTS, WHICH WAS ROUGHLY LIKE 35 OR 36 AROUND THE COUNTRY. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE OBVIOUSLY, WE'D LIKE THAT NUMBER TO PERCENTAGE TO BE HIGHER FOR MEDIUM HUB AIRPORTS, BUT IT'S STILL GONNA BE A, A UNIQUE ONE-TIME OPPORTUNITY TO, TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE TERMINAL NEEDS AT THE AIRPORT. AND IT REALLY, YOU KNOW, LINES UP WELL WITH THE, THE 10 YEAR MASTER PLAN THAT WAS JUST APPROVED AND, AND ROLLED OUT HERE. SO, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR THAT. AND THEN THERE'S JUST ONE SMALL PIECE HERE RIGHT AT THE END THERE, UM, EXPANDED TIA ELIGIBILITY. LAUREN HAD TALKED ABOUT TIA IN THE CONTEXT OF LARGER TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS. YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THAT. THIS WILL GIVE A LITTLE BIT EXPANDED, UM, TIFFY ELIGIBILITY FOR, YOU KNOW, ROAD PROGRAMS IN AND AROUND AND ON AIRPORT PROPERTY, WHICH THEY DIDN'T OTHERWISE HAVE BEFORE. SO, UM, SO THAT, THAT'S THE AIRPORT. THANK YOU, RON. SO MOVING ON, UH, WE'RE NEAR THE HOME STRETCH HERE, RECONNECTING COMMUNITIES. THIS IS ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT REALLY FOCUS FOCUSES ON EQUITY THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL. IT'S A PILOT PROGRAM AND IT HAS TWO PARTS, PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION. THE FOCUS OF THIS PILOT IS ABOUT REMOVING INFRASTRUCTURE, ACTUALLY THAT WAS BUILT IN THE PAST THAT DIVIDES LARGELY MINORITY COMMUNITIES. SO, YOU KNOW, IF A HIGHWAY WAS BUILT THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD AND SPLIT IT IN HALF OR A BRIDGE, THIS PROGRAM IS ABOUT REMOVING THAT INFRASTRUCTURE TO RECONNECT COMMUNITIES WITH THE FOCUS ON THE MINORITY COMMUNITIES OR, OR THOSE WITH VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. IT'S TWO PARTS. IT'S A PLANNING GRANT, AND THEN THE CONSTRUCTION PART OF IT. YOU SEE THE CONSTRUCTION HERE IS 750 MILLION VARYING AMOUNTS OVER THE FIVE YEARS THAT CAN'T EXCEED AN 80 20 COST SHARE. SO IT'S ONE PROGRAM THAT'S REALLY FOCUSED ON EQUITY. AND THEN LAST SET IS THE EV CHARGING. THERE'S TWO PROGRAMS. THEY WORK IN TANDEM. UM, THE FIRST PROGRAM CHARGING AND FUELING INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM IS ABOUT REALLY LAYING THE GROUNDWORK TO DO THE SECOND PART, THE FORMULA FUNDING THAT GOES TO STATES TO CREATE THE NETWORK OF EV CHARGING. SO THE SECOND ONE, THE FORMULA ONE IS A TOTAL OF, UM, $5 BILLION TO ACQUIRE AND CONSTRUCT THE EV CHARGING NETWORK. AND TEXAS IS SLATED TO GET JUST OVER 400 MILLION OVER FIVE YEARS. AND THEY WILL FOCUS HERE ON CORRIDORS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN ESTABLISHED FOR EV CHARGING. SO BILLING OUT THAT NETWORK. AND WITH THAT, THAT ENDS MY PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU LAUREN AND RON FOR THE PRESENTATION. WE CAN BRING UP SLIDE FIVE. THAT'S PERFECT. SO, MR. CHAIRMAN, MOVING ON NOW TO THE CITY'S IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY. AS WE SHARED EARLIER AT THE DIRECTION OF THE CITY MANAGER, UH, THE G P A TEAM FORMULATED, UM, A INFRASTRUCTURE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY, UM, WHICH IS A MULTI-PRONG APPROACH TO COORDINATION, OUTREACH, AND VERY IMPORTANTLY ADVOCACY. AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THE STRATEGY WILL INCLUDE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EXTERNAL COORDINATION OF OUR LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND FEDERAL PARTNERS. STRATEGIC OUTREACH TO THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS. A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THAT AND THE SLIDES TO COME. UH, VERY IMPORTANT, UH, PART OF THIS WILL BE PROJECT IDENTIFICATION, UH, FEDERAL AND STATE, UM, OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE ARE COORDINATING, UM, OUR EFFORTS AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL. AND THEN ONGOING COMMUNICATION, UM, WITH THIS COMMITTEE A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE INTERNAL COORDINATION. PART OF OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TEAM, UM, IS A RESOURCE TO OUR INTERNAL, UM, PARTNERS, WHICH ARE OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS AND OUR DEPARTMENT HEADS. WE HAVE PREPARED, UM, A VERY LARGE COMPREHENSIVE FUNDING SOURCE TRACKER THAT WE WILL BE POPULATING AS INFORMATION FROM THE AGENCIES IS BEING RELEASED, SUCH AS FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, TIMELINE FOR THOSE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, ANY GUIDELINES, AND ANY ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE THROUGH WEBINARS. [00:35:01] THE DEPARTMENT PROJECT IDENTIFICATION WILL ALSO BE A COORDINATED EFFORT. THE G P A WILL BE PART OF THIS WILL BE AN IMPORTANT PROCESS WHERE THE DEPARTMENT HEADS WILL LEAD, UM, THEIR OWN, UH, SUBGROUPS WITHIN THEIR DEPARTMENTS, THEIR INTERNAL COORDINATION WITH OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS, AS WELL AS EXTERNAL COORDINATION WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS. SO THAT WILL BE ONGOING AS WELL ON THE COMMUNITY COORDINATION FRONT. ON A PARALLEL TRACK. UM, AS YOU WILL RECALL, THE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS TEAM HAS, UM, ORGANIZED AND HOSTED THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS ROUND TABLE WITH OUR GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS COUNTERPARTS WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS ACROSS THE CITY ON A PARALLEL TRACK, THE EXECUTIVE ROUND TABLE WILL BE LED AND HOSTED BY THE CITY MANAGER, AND THAT WILL BE, UM, AN ONGOING EFFORT AS WELL. THIS IS A QUICK LOOK AT THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS, G P A, UH, STARTED COORDINATING AND DOING OUTREACH WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS REPRESENTED HERE. UH, THIS IS NOT AN ALL INCLUSIVE LIST. I IMAGINE THAT OVER THE COURSE, AS THIS UNFOLDS FURTHER IN OUR COORDINATION EXPANDS AND AMPLIFIES. WE WILL ADD ADDITIONAL PARTNERS HERE. YOU CAN SEE THE MAJORITY OF OUR LOCAL PARTNERS THAT WILL HAVE AN IMPORTANT INFRASTRUCTURE ROLE, UM, REPRESENTED HERE AS WELL AS, UM, OUR STATE PARTNERS. PART OF THE STRATEGY ALSO INCLUDES, LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER, FEDERAL OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY THAT HAS BEEN ONGOING, UH, ON THE PART OF THE, UH, GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS TEAM AND OUR FEDERAL CONSULTANTS. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD IN THAT TRAJECTORY AND IDENTIFY ANY OPPORTUNITIES TO BE ABLE TO KEEP SAN ANTONIO'S PRIORITIES RELEVANT AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. AND THEN MORE IMPORTANT, UTILIZE THE RESOURCES AND THE SUPPORT OF OUR FEDERAL TEAMS, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ADVOCATING, UM, AT THAT LEVEL WITH THE WHITE HOUSE, WITH AGENCIES AND THE ADMINISTRATION ON THE STATE FRONT. UH, PART OF THE STRATEGY INCLUDES, UM, ENGAGING OUR STATE CONSULTANT TEAM. AS YOU KNOW, WE ENGAGE THEM DURING THE STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THIS IS A NON-GI LEGISLATIVE SESSION. HOWEVER, UM, AS YOU KNOW, AND AS WE HAVE SHARED, THERE WILL BE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT WILL BE PASSED THROUGH THE STATE FOR HIGHWAYS, ROADS, BRIDGES, BROADBAND, AND ALSO FOR EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS. SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ENGAGING CLOSELY WITH THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND HIS TEAM AS WELL AS STATE AGENCIES, AS THEY WILL BE MANAGING BOTH FORMULA AND COMPETITIVE DOLLARS. COMING TO THE STATE. PART OF OUR FEDERAL OUTREACH HAS INCLUDED, UM, OUR COORDINATION WITH, UH, WE CALL HIM MAYOR LAND ANDREW. WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE THAT, UM, HE WAS MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS, I BELIEVE FROM 2000, UM, EIGHT, UH, AND MAYBE EIGHT YEARS AFTER THAT. UM, AS LAUREN SHARED, HE HAS BEEN TAPPED BY THE PRESIDENT TO BE THE INFRASTRUCTURE COORDINATOR OR CZAR, AND HE IS ALSO THE OUTGOING US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS PRESIDENT. SO WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE TO OUR BENEFIT. HE HAS A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH MAYOR NUREMBERG AND OTHER MAYORS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. UM, THE MAYOR HAS HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH, UH, MAYOR LANDRY, UH, IN A COUPLE OF OCCASIONS. THERE WAS A MEETING THAT WE COORDINATED, UH, THROUGH G P A, UH, LAST MONTH. AND IT WAS A VERY PRODUCTIVE, FRUITFUL DISCUSSION THAT WE BELIEVE, UH, REALLY PUT SAN ANTONIO, UM, ON THE, UH, PLATFORM OF FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH THE WHITE HOUSE TEAM. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, ON A PARALLEL TRACK, THE EXECUTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE ROUNDTABLE IS A GROUP THAT THE CITY MANAGER WILL BE HEADING. UH, THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE ESSENTIALLY THE REPRESENTATIVES, THE HEADS OF STATES OF THE SAME ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDE THAT I SHARE, UH, FOR THE OUTREACH, UH, ON THE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS SIDE THAT WE HAVE BEEN EXECUTING. THE FIRST MEETING WAS HOSTED BY THE CITY MANAGER LAST NIGHT, AND IT WAS A VERY OPEN, UH, FRUITFUL, PRODUCTIVE FIRST KICKOFF DISCUSSION. WE RECEIVED SOME REALLY VALUABLE FEEDBACK FROM THE PARTNERS. THIS ROUND TABLE WILL ALSO BE MEETING, UH, MONTHLY, AT LEAST ONCE, IF NOT TWICE A MONTH. AND THE EFFORT HERE WILL BE TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE COORDINATING WITH OUR PARTNERS TO IDENTIFY THOSE PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL THAT THEY ARE INTERESTED IN. IN ADDITION TO MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE, UM, SUPPORTING EACH OTHER THROUGH THESE FINAL, UM, SUBMISSIONS FOR GRANT FUNDING AT THE FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS. WE HAVE BEEN HEARING CONSTANTLY FROM THE WHITE [00:40:01] HOUSE AND THE AGENCIES, THAT LOCAL COORDINATION IS VERY CRITICAL TO THE SUCCESS OF COMMUNITIES. WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT COORDINATION AND THE OPTICS, UM, ARE BEING CONVEYED CLEARLY. AS A UNIFIED COMMUNITY IN WASHINGTON D C WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE OPPORTUNITY THAT PRESENTS ITSELF, UM, TO US FOR OUTREACH AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, THAT WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT NEXT WEEK, THE MAYOR WILL BE AT THE US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS. AND SO WE HOPE TO TAKE OPPORTUNITY, UM, OF THE PARTICIPATION IN THE PRESENCE OF CABINET MEMBERS AND WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS. THIS IS A QUICK LOOK AT THE MEETINGS THAT WE HAVE REQUESTED, UH, THAT THE MAYOR WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LAY OUT SAN ANTONIO'S PRIORITIES, AND ALSO IMPORTANTLY TO FIND OUT FROM THE AGENCIES AND THE OFFICIALS, UM, FROM THE VARIOUS, UH, DEPARTMENTS REPRESENTED HERE, WHAT THEY KNOW NOW REGARDING THE ROLLOUT OF THEIR RESPECTIVE FUNDING STREAMS. UM, THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME, UH, OPPORTUNITY THAT INCLUDES A BIG PRICE TAG, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF FUNDING. UH, WE DON'T SEE THIS, UH, HAPPENING ANYTIME SOON. SO WE BELIEVE THAT A COORDINATED EFFORT WITH OUR LOCAL, REGIONAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL PARTNERS IS GOING TO BE KEY. SO WE WILL BE BRINGING YOU, UM, INFORMATION AND UPDATES AS THIS UNFOLDS, UH, FURTHER. AND WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK TODAY, AND WE'LL BE AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS. UH, CHAIRMAN PALIS, I BELIEVE THAT'S MY LAST, UH, SLIDE ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE. I CAN PAUSE FOR QUESTIONS IF YOU'D LIKE. YEAH, LET, LET, LET'S DO THAT. UM, AND I'M GONNA, LET'S JUST GO AROUND THE HORN AND, UH, COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ HAS BEEN TAKING NOTES HERE, UH, AND I'M JUST CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT HE IS WRITTEN DOWN. LIKE, LIKE JUDGE WOLF. YEAH. DOODLING CHICKEN SCRATCHES. , WHAT DO YOU GOT? NO, UH, THANK YOU. CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME OKAY THERE? THANK YOU. UM, THAT WAS A VERY THOROUGH OVERVIEW. I THINK LAUREN DID A GREAT JOB. THE THE AUDIO WAS A LITTLE BIT HARD AT SOME POINT, SO I WANTED TO JUST ASK A CLARIFICATION ON, UM, I THINK IT WAS HER SLIDE 18 WITH RESPECT TO THE WATER PROJECTS. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN UNDER THAT BACK UP, BACK UP. OH, THAT'S, HOLD ON. I HAVE TO SHARE THAT ON MY END. HOLD ON. WE'LL BRING THAT, WE'LL BRING THAT, YEAH. SO, SO, YEAH. SO THE QUESTION REALLY IS ABOUT JUST A CLARIFICATION ON, THERE WAS A SPECIFIC, UH, RURAL AND LOW INCOME GRANT FOR WATER. IT, IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS HIGHLIGHTED AS A NEW PROGRAM, AND I JUST WANTED TO GET A CLARIFICATION ON THAT BECAUSE IN THE, IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS, WE'VE GOT SOME ISSUES WITH, WITH, UH, WATER AND SEWER. AND I GUESS MORE DIRECTLY THE QUESTION IS IF, IF IT'S OBVIOUSLY A COMPETITIVE GRANT, BUT IF IT, UM, TAKES INTO ACCOUNT ANY LEVERAGE FUNDS FROM, UH, EITHER THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD OR, UM, ANY OTHER LOCAL SOURCE. SO, UM, LAUREN, LAUREN, LET ME JUST PREFACE REAL QUICK YOUR COMMENTS. I INTERRUPTION A LOT OF THESE PROGRAMS, PROGRAMS, UH, MR. CHAIRMAN ARE GONNA TAKE, ARE GONNA TAKE A WHILE TO DEVELOP, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE MONITORING THESE NEW, UH, PROGRAMS VERY CLOSELY. UM, THERE IS A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION THAT MAYBE LAUREN, UM, OR HER TEAM CAN SHARE REGARDING, UH, JUST, UM, THE BUILDUP OF THAT PROGRAM. SO, LAUREN, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ADDITIONAL TO SHARE, ERIC? NOT REALLY. AS MUCH AS, SO IT'LL BE TARGETED AT THE HOUSEHOLDS DIRECTLY. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WASN'T CLEAR SORT OF THE WAY THAT OTHER PROGRAMS TO HELP WITH PAYING BILLS HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED. I'M SORRY. I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T, DID YOU ASK A QUESTION? I HAD A HARD TIME. YOU HAD A HARD TIME. AM I THE ONLY ONE? THE ONLY ONE YOU CAN'T HEAR VERY WELL. WELL, IT'S NOT VERY GOOD. RIGHT? OKAY. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. I'LL, I'LL FOLLOW UP, UM, LATER WITH, WITH THAT, SALLY, I KNOW SOME OF THESE THINGS ARE STILL COMING TOGETHER AND WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS YET, BUT I KNOW IN PARTICULAR, UM, AS IT RELATES TO THE COUNTY, THERE'S SOME INTEREST IN, UH, SOME OF THOSE DOLLARS. BUT, UM, THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT FOR NOW, CHAIRMAN. I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN MCGEE RODRIGUEZ. THANK YOU CHAIR, AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. SO I WALKED IN A BIT LATE. UM, I GUESS, UH, MY PRIMARY QUESTION IS, UM, GONNA BE ABOUT EQUITY AND EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION. SO AS THE, WHEN THE TIME COMES, UH, FOR DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS, WHAT WILL BE THE, WHAT WILL BE THE PROCESS FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS TO BE A PART OF SETTING THE PRIORITIES? UM, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT, UM, [00:45:01] INFRASTRUCTURE NEED RELATING TO DRAINAGE, TRADE SIDEWALKS, AND ALL OF THAT. THAT'S A GREAT, UH, QUESTION COUNCILMEN. AND, UM, I'LL LET JEFF COME UP AND PROVIDE SOME INFORMATION. WHAT I WILL TELL YOU THAT PART OF THE STRATEGY IS, UM, COORDINATING WITH OUR DEPARTMENTS, UM, WHICH I'M SURE THAT THEY WILL BE COORDINATING, UM, WITH, UH, THE VARIOUS, UH, CITY COMMITTEES SUCH AS I G R. SO WE'LL BE COMING TO I G R TO PRESENT, UH, RE VARIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS AS WE'RE MOVING THE STRATEGY FORWARD. AND I IMAGINE THAT THE DEPARTMENTS WILL DO SO, DO THAT AS WELL. THAT'S RIGHT. AND AS PART OF THE PLAN THAT WE PUT TOGETHER WITH THE CITY MANAGER, HE IDENTIFIED ABOUT A DOZEN DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT, UM, THAT ARE RELEVANT TO THESE VARIOUS FUNDING STREAMS AND HAS ASSIGNED ESSENTIALLY THOSE DIRECTORS FOR TRACKING CERTAIN, CERTAIN, UH, OPPORTUNITIES. ONE OF THE THINGS WE, WE DID WITH THAT WAS CREATE A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, DIRECTION TO THE DEPARTMENTS ABOUT IDENTIFYING PROJECTS. AND ONE OF, UH, THOSE KEY PRIORITIES IS TO, IS PROJECTS THAT ALIGN WITH EXISTING INITIATIVES OF THE CITY SA TOMORROW, THE CLIMATE READY PLAN, THE, UM, STRATEGIC HOUSING IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. AND NUMBER TWO, UH, NOT NEW PROJECTS UNLESS IT'S A NEW PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE TO, UH, COME UP WITH A CREATIVE IDEA TO BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR. THE IDEA IS TO TAKE ALL THE EXISTING NEEDS, ALL THE EXISTING PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN ON THE BOOKS IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, BUT NOT YET FUNDED OR ONLY PARTIALLY FUNDED, AND SEEK OPPORTUNITIES TO GO GET FEDERAL SUPPORT. SO THE MAIN MESSAGE I'M TRYING TO CONVEY IS THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA CREATE A NEW PROCESS TO GO OUT AND SOLICIT A WHOLE SERIES OF NEW THINGS. WE'RE GONNA TRY TO CHIP INTO THAT, UH, UH, NEED THAT WE HAVE HERE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS THE COMMUNITY. DOES THAT ANSWER THE QUESTION? YES. UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THEN, UM, WHILE I'M HERE, I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, EMPHASIZE THE GREAT NEED THAT EXISTS, UH, NOT JUST IN DISTRICT TWO, BUT THROUGHOUT THE, THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HEARD AT THE BOND COMMITTEE MEETINGS WAS THE NEED FOR F STREETS TO BE ADDRESSED. PEOPLE WERE VERY CONCERNED, UM, ABOUT THE LEVEL OF FUNDING THAT F STREETS GET AND THE GENERAL BUDGET, AND THEN HOW IT HAS TO BE PRETTY MUCH TAKEN CARE OF THROUGH THE BOND. AND SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS A VERY CONCERTED EFFORT, UM, FROM BOTH THE CITY AND THE COUNTY TO ADDRESS THE FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE HAVE. THANK YOU. YOU COUNCILWOMAN. THANK YOU, CHAIR. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. IT WAS VERY THOROUGH. MY FIRST QUESTION IS A REALLY SIMPLE ONE. YOU ALL HIGHLIGHTED SOME, UM, IN YELLOW. AND I'M WONDERING WAS, IS THAT BECAUSE OF WHAT WE ASKED TO KIND OF LOOK OUT FOR AND DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE CAN'T ASK ABOUT ANY OF THE WORDS THAT WEREN'T HIGHLIGHTED? OKAY, GOOD. SO THEN I HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS. I'D LOVE TO SEE THAT LONGER PRESENTATION BECAUSE I'D PROBABLY HAVE EVEN MORE QUESTIONS THERE. HOWEVER, I WANNA START IT WITH THE, UM, I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN THE HEALTHY STREETS GRANT PROGRAM AND KIND OF TO WHAT, UH, COUNCILMAN MAKI RODRIGUEZ SAID. UM, I HAVE A WHOLE, UH, STRETCH OF ROAD, UM, WATSON ROAD, UM, FROM SOMERSET TO POTI JORDAN, UM, THAT IS IN DIRE NEED. AND I THINK THAT RAZZI ESTIMATED 15 MILLION, AND HE SPECIFICALLY SAID THAT HE WOULD BE LOOKING AT FEDERAL MONEY. SO NOW THIS IS SAYING ROZY, IT'S AVAILABLE, GO TRACK IT. THAT'S WHAT YOU ALL ARE SAYING, RIGHT? THAT DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS. SO ROY'S FULLY AWARE THAT IF I ASK HIM ABOUT THE HEALTHY STREETS GRANT PROGRAM, HE'LL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. I CAN'T SPEAK FOR ROZY. I WOULD ASSUME THE ANSWER IS YES. WHAT I WILL SAY ON THE ROAD, UH, UH, WORK IS THAT A, A LOT OF THE MONEY FOR, FOR STREET INFRASTRUCTURE FOR, UH, IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO FLOW THROUGH EXISTING PROGRAMS. OKAY. SO THERE'S PLUS UPS IN THE AMOUNTS THAT WILL FLOW FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO THE STATE AND THEN DOWN THROUGH THE M P O. AND THEN THIS IS, I GUESS PARTIALLY AN ANSWER TO YOUR PRIOR QUESTION, COUNCILMAN ALSO IS THAT THE PREVIOUS, UH, THE EXISTING STRUCTURE IN PLACE FOR THE M P O TO DO CALLS FOR PROJECTS AND ULTIMATELY VOTE FROM A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE TO DECIDE WHAT TO FUND IN THE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PLAN WILL REMAIN. AND IT WILL JUST BE, UH, SUPPORTED BY GREATER AMOUNTS OF FUNDING, WHICH MEANS HOPEFULLY MORE PROJECTS. GOT IT. OKAY. SOUNDS GOOD. AND THEN, UM, IS THERE MONEY DEDICATED SPECIFICALLY FOR MICROGRIDS? I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, THE ELECTRICAL GRID AND STRENGTHENING, BUT IS THERE ANY, IN ANY OF THOSE GRANTS, IS THERE SPECIFIC ATTENTION, UM, TO MICROGRIDS? LAUREN ENERGY PROGRAMS ARE FROM MICROGRIDS, AND THE REASON THAT I, AND THE REASON THAT, SORRY, THE REASON THAT I ASK IS BECAUSE, UM, FOR THE LAST, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE [00:50:01] FIVE MONTHS, I'VE BEEN ASKING C P S ENERGY IN PARTICULAR ABOUT MICROGRIDS AND THE NEED FOR THOSE, AND I'VE VOLUNTEERED DISTRICT FOUR TO BE A PILOT. AND SO I'D LOVE TO SEE IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE'S MONEY NOW, UM, AND JUMP ALL OVER IT. WE'LL DO A SEARCH TO SEE IF MICROGRIDS WOULD BE ANY ELIGIBLE PROJECTS FOR THE NEW GRID OPPORTUNITIES UNDER THE ENERGY BUCKET. OKAY. OKAY. WONDERFUL. I'LL ECHO THAT. COUNCILWOMAN, WHAT WE'LL DO TODAY IS BASED ON YOUR QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES, WE'LL TAKE THOSE NOTES, WORK WITH OUR CONSULTANTS TO DO SOME ADDITIONAL DIGGING AND RESEARCH AND THEN REPORT BACK. GOT IT. THANK YOU. SO I CONSIDER IT AN EXTENSION OF A RESILIENCY HUB, RIGHT? IF YOU THINK OF IT IN TERMS OF, OF A MICROGRID. SO THAT'S WHY I AM, I'M SO CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. AND THEN, UM, LIKE, AND, UH, COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ MENTIONED A LITTLE BIT, UM, THE QUESTION, UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF AREAS, UH, THAT HAVE, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE. I KNOW THAT IN THE PAST I HAVE HEARD, AND, AND SOME, I I WANNA SAY THERE WAS AN IN DISTRICT THREE, AND I OBVIOUSLY DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR MY, MY COLLEAGUE WHO'S NOT HERE, BUT THERE'S A MENTION TO ORPHAN WELL SITES. AND SO I JUST, UM, WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE SHARING THIS INFORMATION. ARE WE PRESENTING THIS INFORMATION LATER AT A B SESSION TO THE REST OF OUR COLLEAGUES? OR HOW WILL WE, HOW WILL THE REST OF OUR COLLEAGUES GET THIS INFORMATION? AT THIS POINT, WE'VE DONE IT BY, BY MEMO, AT LEAST IN TERMS OF WHAT THE OVERALL STRUCTURE IS. IT, IT ISN'T THE DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF EACH PROGRAM. UM, OUR COMMITMENT TO THIS COMMITTEE WAS TO FROM HERE FORWARD TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS AND PROVIDE UPDATES EVERY TIME THIS COMMITTEE MEETS. UH, IF THERE'S, UM, A, A, A NEED FOR US TO DO A BROADER PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL, WE CAN, WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO SO. I HAVEN'T, UM, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANYTHING SCHEDULED AT THIS POINT THOUGH. OKAY. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU, JED? UH, UH, SORRY, WHY DID I SAY JED? SORRY, I'M THINKING OF JED, BUT IT'S JEFF. UM, AND THEN, UM, KELLY FIELD IS MY LAST QUESTION, AND IT WAS IN, IN PARTICULAR, UM, THERE WAS, UH, A MEMO THAT WAS SENT OUT, UM, ON SOME FEDERAL FUNDING THAT WENT OUT. AND SO, UM, WONDERING IF MAYBE GENERAL ALA HAS, UM, SOME, SOME MORE INSIGHT ON, ON ANY OF THAT FUNDING THAT CAME SPECIFICALLY FOR KELLY FIELD. I OKAY. WAS THAT FOR THE IZATION OR IS THAT FOR THE, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, IT CAME, I SAW A MEMO YESTERDAY. I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IT WAS, BUT I THOUGHT THAT THERE WAS MONEY ALLOCATED TO KELLY FIELD. OKAY. I'LL GO, I'LL, I'LL TAKE A, I'LL GET BACK WITH YOU ON THAT. I THINK WHAT IT IS, IS, UH, THEY'RE SCHEDULED FOR REPAIR, UH, IN FISCAL YEAR 24. GOT IT. OKAY. AND SO, BUT WE'LL GET BACK WITH YOU. OKAY. SO THE CONTROL TOWER WAS ONE OF THE ONES THAT, UM, THAT WAS A D A GRANT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. OKAY. AND I THINK THAT, UH, THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT HAS BEEN COMPLETED. OKAY. PERFECT. SOUNDS GOOD. THANK YOU. YES. AND THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS, CHAIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, GOOD OVERALL BRIEFING, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, A COMMERCIAL CAME TO MIND SEVERAL YEARS AGO WHERE THIS LADY SAYS, WHERE'S THE BEEF? UM, GOOD SYNOPSIS ON, OKAY, HERE'S EVERYTHING THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE BILLS ARE GONNA BE FUNDING AND WHAT HAVE YOU, BUT WHERE'S THE BEEF? HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT EVERY ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES? AND I THINK SAN ANTONIO NEEDS TO LINE UP OUR PRIORITIES UNDER EACH ONE OF THOSE CRI UH, CRITERIA TO SEE, OKAY, WHAT'S, WHAT'S OUR GOAL? WHAT'S OUR, WHAT ARE WE EXPECTING TO GET OUT OF THIS FEDERAL FUNDING? UH, I DON'T SEE ANY OF THAT. AND I, I THINK WE NEED TO, TO LOOK AT EACH ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES AND LINE UP, JEFF, AS YOU WERE MENTIONING, OUR CURRENT REQUIREMENTS. INSTEAD OF COMING UP WITH NEW REQUIREMENTS, WHAT ARE OUR CURRENT REQUIREMENTS? AND LINE UP EACH ONE OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS UNDERNEATH EACH ONE OF THOSE, UH, AREAS SO THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ALREADY. I MEAN, WE'VE GOT $6.6 BILLION WORTH OF INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS HERE IN THE CITY ALREADY TODAY. AND HOW CAN WE LINE UP THOSE IN EACH ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES TO TRY TO TAKE CARE OF A LOT OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AS, AS WAS MENTIONED BY MY COLLEAGUE F STREETS. YOU KNOW, THAT'S A BIG CRITERIA. DRAINAGE IS A BIG CRITERIA. AND I THINK THOSE ARE SOME OF THE AREAS THAT WERE COVERED UNDER THIS. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE OUR, UM, LOBBYISTS OR WHOEVER, UH, WORK WITH OUR CITY STAFF IN EACH ONE OF THESE CATEGORIES AND BUILD UP THOSE REQUIREMENT LISTS. SO, SO THAT WE ON COUNCIL CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. AND NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT THAT, BUT WE'VE GOT COMMITTEES ACROSS THE CITY COUNCIL THAT SHOULD BE LOOKING AT EACH ONE OF THOSE AND THEN MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO THE FULL COUNCIL ON, OKAY, YEAH, HERE'S OUR LIST. I, AND I, I, I DON'T [00:55:01] SEE THAT PROCESS KIND OF LINED OUT HERE, NOT ONLY WITH THE CITY, BUT HOW'S THAT GONNA INTERPLAY WITH THE COUNTY IN, IN REGARDS TO ROADS AND DRAINAGE AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS. SO I SEE THAT WE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO TO KIND OF LINE THIS UP. AND, AND, AND THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME THAT I'VE SAID IT IS, WE'RE ALWAYS SEEMING TO TRY TO CATCH UP. WE NEED TO GET IN FRONT OF THE, IN FRONT OF THE LIGHTS HERE, LET, LET'S GET ALL THIS STUFF ESTABLISHED AND LAID OUT SO THAT WE ALL AGREE WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE GOING AFTER AND WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE. AND, AND, UM, AS WELL AS THE M P O, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'VE BEEN BRINGING UP TO THE M P O. LET'S GET A LOT OF PROJECTS SITTING ON THE SHELF. LET'S GO OUT WITH THE CITY, LET'S START DESIGNING THESE PROJECTS UP FRONT INSTEAD OF WAITING AND SHOWING 'EM, YEP, WE GOT THIS TO DO. BUT THEN WE DON'T GET ANYTHING STARTED UNTIL WAY AFTER, UH, THINGS START POPPING AS FAR AS FUNDING BEING RELEASED, THAT KIND OF THING. WE, WE NEED TO GET OUT IN FRONT OF THESE REQUIREMENTS AND GET OUT IN FRONT OF THIS FUNDING. SO THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M REALLY, REALLY HOPING THAT WE CAN GET TO AT SOME POINT WITH THIS COMMITTEE AND ALL THE OTHER COMMITTEES THAT WE HAVE ON, ON, ON THE CITY. SO TO WORK WITH BOTH THE COUNTY, YOU KNOW, UP AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, ALL UP AND DOWN THE SYSTEM TO GET IN FRONT OF THE, THIS FUNDING. SO THAT'S ALL MY COMMENTS, SIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, COMMISSIONER. YES, THANK YOU. THAT WAS AN EXCELLENT PRESENTATION FOR THE NEW KID ON THE BLOCK, SO I APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH. I WOULD LIKE, UH, FOR ME, UH, TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE BRIEFING ON THIS AT SOME POINT, UH, SINCE I AM NEW TO THIS OBVIOUSLY. UH, AND THEN I HAD ANOTHER, A QUESTION, AND THAT IS SPECIFICALLY, WHAT IS THE TIMING OF THIS? WHAT IS THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, OF GOVERNMENT AND THEN THE ISSUE, ONE MORE THING, AND THAT IS THE MILITARY. HOW IS THE MILITARY FUNDING THE MILITARY ON ANY OF THIS INCLUDED OR SURE. ABSOLUTELY. WE'LL, WELCOME COMMISSIONER TO THE I G R COMMITTEE. UH, WE WILL DEFINITELY FIND SOME TIME ON YOUR CALENDAR THAT WORKS FOR YOU WHERE WE CAN PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, INFORMATION, CATCH YOU UP AND ANSWER ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. BUT THE ONES THAT YOU POST TODAY, UM, ARE VERY GOOD. THE TIMELINE ONE, WHAT WE KNOW NOW IS THAT THE FUNDING IS OVER THE COURSE OF AT LEAST FIVE YEARS. UM, SOME OF THIS FUNDING WILL, UH, SPILL BEYOND THE FIVE YEARS, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THIS FUNDING, UM, WE ARE WITHIN THAT FIVE YEAR WINDOW. THE AGENCIES WILL ULTIMATELY DETERMINE, A GOOD EXAMPLE IS THE RAISE GRANT IT IN, UH, ENCOMPASSES A 7.5 BILLION POT OF FUNDING. UH, RIGHT NOW WE ARE SPECULATING THAT THEY'RE GONNA SPREAD THAT OUT OVER FIVE YEARS. BUT, UH, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CAN ULTI ULTIMATELY COME BACK AND SAY, WE'RE GONNA DO THIS IN THREE ROUNDS. SO MANY OF THESE PROGRAMS, ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT ARE NEW, WE WILL BE LOOKING OUT FOR THAT, UM, INFORMATION THAT'S GONNA BE RELEASED BY THE AGENCIES. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE TRYING TO PROACTIVELY DO IS TO INFLUENCE, UM, THOSE, UH, DECISIONS AND THAT GUIDANCE FROM THE AGENCY, UH, THE AGENCIES BY GOING IN AND MEETING WITH THEM EARLY. SO, UM, IF WE'RE READY TO GO AND, UH, WE HAVE PROJECTS IDENTIFIED THAT ALIGN WITH SOME OF THE ASSETS AND THAT OUR COMMUNITY ALREADY HAS IDENTIFIED AND IN PLACE, AS JEFF SAID, THEN, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE WANT THAT MONEY TO BECOME AVAILABLE SOONER THAN LATER SO THAT WE'RE ABLE TO COMPETE NATIONALLY FOR IT. UM, AND SO WHAT WE WILL DO IS PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AS THIS UNFOLDS FURTHER, UH, VIA THAT TRACKER. WE CAN SHARE THE TRACKER WITH THIS GROUP AS WELL, SO THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO HAVE, UM, THAT INFORMATION. THANK YOU. AND AS TO THE MILITARY FUNDING POSSIBILITY? YES. AND I'LL LET GENERAL AYALA SPEAK. UM, JOINT BASED SAN ANTONIO IS PART OF THE EXECUTIVE RUNT, UH, ROUNDTABLE THAT OUR CITY MANAGER WILL BE SPEARHEADING. SO THERE'S REPRESENTATION THERE. AND THEN THROUGH, UH, THE LEADERSHIP OF GENERAL AYALA, HE CAN PROVIDE SOME INPUT THERE AS WELL. THANK YOU. YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. YES. THERE'S NOT A LOT OF SPECIFIC PROJECTS THAT THE MILITARY, UH, IS INCLUDED IN. HOWEVER, THEY DO HAVE, UH, MILITARY CONSTRUCTION NOMINATIONS THAT GO THROUGH. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WILL DO HERE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND WITH THE COUNTY IS PARTNER, UH, ON SOME OF THE, UH, PRIORITIES THAT THE COMMANDER HAS. JUST LIKE WE, WE WE DO EVERY YEAR, OR WE DO IT ON A, ON A DAILY BASIS, REALLY. AND WE PARTNER ON INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. SO WE'LL LOOK AT THAT AND THE REPRESENTATION, THEY'RE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE FACT THAT THEY'RE, UH, ON THE COMMITTEE WITH, UH, ERIC WALSH. AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO, UH, GAIN INFORMATION ON THEM FROM THAT. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES, SIR. THANK YOU. UM, [01:00:01] VERY THOROUGH. THERE'S, UM, STILL A LOT OF QUESTIONS. I'M SURE MY COLLEAGUES HAVE THAT, THAT AREN'T GONNA GET ANSWERED TODAY BECAUSE, UH, WELL, TIME DOESN'T PERMIT UNTIL THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION YOU THREW AT US. UH, AND I GUESS THAT'S WHERE I'LL START. THERE'S A, AS WE WERE GOING THROUGH THOSE LISTS ON, ON THESE SLIDES, UM, I WAS LOOKING AT EVERY ONE OF THOSE ITEMS AND I WAS THINKING, OH, WE CAN GET THAT. WE CAN GET THAT. WE CAN GET THAT. AND SO I IT, I IMAGINE THAT YOU, JEFF, 'CAUSE YOU'RE NODDING, HAD HAD PROBABLY THE SAME REACTION, RIGHT? AND THE, THE DIFFICULTY HERE IS PICKING WHICH ONE, WHICH TARGET YOU'RE GONNA GO AFTER. 'CAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM WAS A GOOD FIT FOR US. UM, HOW, HOW DID YOU GUYS ARRIVE AT THAT? I, UM, COUNCILMAN, YOU'RE RIGHT. THE, THIS IS A REALLY BROAD PROGRAM, UH, AND, AND IT ISN'T AS SIMPLE AS JUST LINING UP A HANDFUL OF THINGS AND WE GO, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS. UM, A BIG CHALLENGE REALLY IS MAKING SURE WE MAXIMIZE ALL THEM, WE ALL KNOW ABOUT RAISE AND, AND THE BIG OPPORTUNITY THAT THAT IS, AND IT'S, UH, AS A RESULT, VERY COMPETITIVE AND VERY HARD TO GET. THERE IS A LOT OF OTHER SMALLER OPPORTUNITIES. THERE'S A LOT, A LOT OF OTHER PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE'RE TRYING TO LINE UP. I I, WE SHARE THE SAME, UH, GOAL. WE, WE WISH WE WERE READY TO JUST FIRE OFF A NUMBER OF PROJECTS, BUT THE AGENCIES ARE STILL DEVELOPING CRITERIA FOR PROGRAMS. WE'RE HAVING ALL THE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS AND THEN WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS. UH, WE HAD A REALLY GOOD CONVERSATION LAST NIGHT BETWEEN THE, UH, SORT OF CEOS OF ALL THOSE AGENCIES THAT SALLY HAD UP ON THE SLIDE. SO THE VIA AND THE PORT AND THE BROOKS AND COUNTY AND CITY AND SO FORTH. AND, AND I THINK THERE'S A HEALTHY CONVERSATION GOING ON THERE NOW ABOUT PARTNERING AND IDENTIFYING PROJECTS. UM, BUT YOU'RE RIGHT THERE, THERE'S A LOT. UH, FORTUNATELY THEY'RE NOT ALL GONNA COME AT ONCE. THEY'RE GONNA COME SPREAD OUT OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. AND SO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS GET ALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE, FORGIVE THE PUN, IN PLACE INTERNALLY AND IN OUR COMMUNITY SO THAT WE'RE READY TO MAXIMIZE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AS THEY POST. I DON'T KNOW IF I ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION. IT WAS VERY GENERAL, BUT THAT'S THE REALITY OF WHAT WE'RE FACING HERE. AND THEN GENERAL MIKE, COULD YOU JUST TALK TO US BRIEFLY ABOUT DAG UM, ANY OTHER MILITARY GRANTS YOU'VE GOT YOUR EYE ON? SURE. WE HAD A GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT YESTERDAY. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN, FOR LETTING ME COMMENT ON DAG. BUT WE HAD A, A GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT YESTERDAY FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS THAT, UH, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO RECEIVED, UH, A $5 MILLION GRANT FOR AN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT THAT WAS A PRIORITY OF GENERAL MILLER AND JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO. AND, UM, VERY COMPETITIVE. THERE WERE, UH, 14 CITIES IN THE STATE OF TEXAS THAT APPLIED FOR THIS GRANT. UM, AND OUR, THERE WAS ABOUT 30 SOME PROJECTS. THE, OUR PROJECT WAS RANKED NUMBER ONE BY THE TEXAS MILITARY PREPAREDNESS COMMISSION. SO WE DID GET THE FULL $5 MILLION. UM, THIS IS A, A, A PROGRAM THAT'S A BIANNUAL PROGRAM, AND SPECIFICALLY THIS ONE, WHAT WE ASKED FOR, WE WROTE THIS, THIS, UH, REQUEST. UH, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE CITY ITSELF HAS DONE IT IN THE PAST. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HAVE DONE IT FOR US, BUT IT'S A THREE-PRONGED, UH, APPROACH, A THREE-PRONGED PROJECT. AND WHAT IT'S GONNA DO, IT'S, IT'S GOING, UH, THE FUNDING IS GOING TO PAY FOR BACKUP ELECTRICAL POWER FOR POTABLE WATER. UH, WE LEARNED DURING STORM URI THAT, UH, THIS WAS A, A CRITICAL ISSUE THAT WE NEEDED TO ADDRESS. AND I THINK THAT WILL ADDRESS IT. THE SECOND PART OF IT IS, UH, J B S A, UH, NEEDS US TO HELP THEM REPAIR THEIR, UH, LINES, THEIR, UH, NOT THEIR LINES, I'M SORRY, THEIR, UH, FENCE LINE, UH, FOR FORCE PROTECTION ISSUES. UH, BECAUSE IT, IT, IT, IT WORKS BOTH WAYS. AND THEN THE THIRD PART OF IT IS THAT AT J B S A, UH, RANDOLPH, WE ARE GOING TO, THE PROJECT IS GOING TO BURY SOME OVERHEAD ELECTRICAL POWER LINES, UH, UNDERGROUND. UH, AND THAT WILL HELP WITH, UH, BASH, WHICH IS BIRD STRIKES. AND IT WOULD ALSO HELP, UH, WITH AVIATION SAFETY. SO IN A NUTSHELL, UH, THAT'S WHAT THE PROJECT INVOLVES. AND, UH, UH, WE WERE VERY HAPPY TO, TO HEAR THE ANNOUNCEMENT YESTERDAY. THANK YOU. GENERAL. UM, TAMIKA IS BACK THERE, AND, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT TAMIKA HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT ALSO GENERAL, UM, AND TAMIKA, YOU, YOU LISTEN TO THE WHOLE PRESENTATION AND I, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE GET YOUR INPUT BECAUSE, WELL, THIS IS, THIS IS ALL IN YOUR WHEELHOUSE, AND YOU'RE GONNA BE TASKED WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, BEING THE POINTY END OF THE STICK, RIGHT? AND IN, IN DC AND MAKING SURE THAT WE FASHION THESE PROGRAMS SO THAT THEY HAVE THE HIGHEST LIKELIHOOD OF, OF GETTING THROUGH. SO, FIRST QUESTION, ARE WE GOING TO MAKE A SECOND RUN AT THE TRAILS, UH, RAISES GRANT? UM, IF [01:05:01] NOT, WHY NOT? UM, AND THEN SECOND, BASED ON THAT EXPERIENCE, UH, ARE YOU, UH, ADJUSTING THE APPROACH, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH LESSONS LEARNED? AND THEN THIRD, UM, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO SAY TO US TO MANAGE OUR EXPECTATIONS GOING FORWARD? YES, SIR. AND, AND THANK YOU. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE. THIS IS A GREAT COMMITTEE, AND I THINK THIS IS A GREAT TIME FOR US. WITH REGARD TO THE RAISE GRANT, WE WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL, BUT WE WERE TRULY SUCCESSFUL IN COALESCING ALL OF THE RESOURCES OF THE REGION, ALIGNING OURSELVES BEHIND ONE PROJECT. AND TO JEFF'S POINT, WE DID THAT LAST NIGHT, AND WE RECOGNIZED THERE ARE SYNERGIES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR US, AND WE WERE SUCCESSFUL. AND REALLY IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, GETTING THAT APPLICATION TOGETHER AND AGREEING TO SUPPORT ONE PROJECT. THE RAISE GRANT WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL IN THAT, IN OUR CURSORY REVIEW, WE HAVE NOT HAD OUR DEBRIEF WITH D O T YET, BUT WE RECOGNIZED THAT THERE WERE OTHER BIKE PROJECTS IN THE STATE AND AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT HAD A BETTER COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS THAN WE DID. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT IT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CRITERIA, THERE'S A BENEFIT COST ASSESSMENT YOU HAVE TO DO, AND WE WEREN'T AS SUCCESSFUL. BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN WE WILL NOT TRY AGAIN FOR A BIKE PROJECT. BUT WE BELIEVE AT THIS TIME, IT'S BETTER FOR US TO LOOK AT OTHER PROJECTS FOR RAISE OPPORTUNITIES, BECAUSE WE WILL BE GOING TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE PROBABLY NEXT MONTH FOR THE BIKE NETWORK PLAN UPDATE. AND THAT'S GONNA COVER A LOT OF WHAT WE WANNA DO WITH ENHANCING OUR BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THIS CITY. WE RECOGNIZE, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO TEMPER OUR EXPECTATIONS, BECAUSE AS THE TEAM PRESENTED, A LOT OF THESE ARE INCREASES IN OUR REGULAR FORMULA FUNDING. SO THESE ARE PROGRAMS THAT ALREADY EXIST TODAY. WHAT IT DOES GIVE US IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO MOVE A LOT OF THE PROJECTS THAT PERHAPS WERE NOT IN THE BOND, WERE NOT A PART OF OUR GENERAL FUND AND OUR REGULAR BUDGET PROCESS, THAT WE CAN PRESENT THOSE FOR DISCRETIONARY OPPORTUNITIES. BUT ONE THING WE HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND WITH MOST OF THESE PROGRAMS, THE CRITERIA DOESN'T CHANGE FROM HAVING THE REGIONAL M P O BEING A PART OF THE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. SO THAT'S ONE OF THE CRITERIA THAT TYPICALLY DOES NOT CHANGE, EVEN IF IT IS A DISCRETIONARY GRANT PROGRAM. ONE OF THE FIRST CRITERIA IS THAT THAT PROJECT OR PROGRAM IS ALREADY A PART OF THE REGIONAL TIP. SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I WOULD ENCOURAGE THIS BODY AND OUR, OUR CITY AND REGION TO REMEMBER, IS THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S ALREADY BEEN A PART OF THAT REGIONAL PROCESS. SO MANY OF THE PROJECTS IN EACH OF YOUR RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS, DISTRICTS AND IN THE COUNTY, THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT ARE ALREADY IN OUR TIP. SO WHAT THIS INFUSION OF CASH GIVES US IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET MORE FUNDING AS IT RELATES TO THOSE EXISTING PROJECTS. BUT TO COUNCILMAN PERRY'S POINT WITH THE NM P O, WHICH WE WORK CLOSELY WITH, MANY OF THESE PROJECTS HAVE ALREADY HAD SOME PORTION OF DESIGN THAT'S BEEN FUNDED BY THE COUNTY THAT'S BEEN FUNDED BY THE CITY. WHAT IT DOES IS IT JUST GIVES US MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FUNDING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE PROJECTS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE IN THE PIPELINE. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF IT'S A BOND PROJECT, IF IT'S AN F STREET PROJECT, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE ALREADY PROBABLY THROUGH ROSIE'S DEPARTMENT IDENTIFIED, THERE'S A, A BOND PROJECT OR A C I P PROJECT IN THERE ALREADY. THAT MIGHT BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY ADD ADDITIONAL FUNDING THROUGH SOME OF THE PROGRAMS ON THE DISCRETIONARY SIDE, OR MORE FUNDING MAY BE AVAILABLE THROUGH T DOT THROUGH THE N P O THAN ORIGINALLY BUDGETED IN PAST FISCAL YEARS. OKAY. THANK YOU TAMIKA FOR THAT. YOU'RE WELCOME. UM, JUST TWO MORE QUESTIONS, I PROMISE I'LL LET YOU, UH, MOVE ON TO THE NEXT TOPIC. JEFF, WE HAVE, UM, SO MUCH OF THIS IS GONNA BE FLOWING TO THE STATE AND THEN TO US, WHICH MEANS THAT, UM, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO BE WORKING THE FEDERAL OFFICES AND THE STATE OFFICES. DO YOU HAVE THE COVERAGE YOU NEED IN DC AS FAR AS GOVERNMENT RELATIONS ADVOCATES? UH, ABSOLUTELY. OUR DC TEAM HAS BEEN, HAS REALLY STEPPED UP AND BEEN GREAT IN THIS PROCESS. YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE LOBBYING CONGRESS AS WE NORMALLY WOULD AROUND A BUDGET OR SOMETHING. THIS IS GONNA BE FEDERAL AGENCY OUTREACH, WHICH IS WHY, YOU KNOW, THE, THE US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS NEXT WEEK IS THE FIRST OF MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO GET IN FRONT OF CABINET MEMBERS AND, AND DECISION MAKERS AT THOSE AGENCIES. UM, YOU STARTED OFF COMMENTING ABOUT THE STATE, AND THAT'S COVERAGE IN THE STATE TEAM. YEAH, THAT'S THE SECOND [01:10:01] PIECE THAT'S CRUCIAL. WE, UH, AS SALLY MENTIONED, WE TYPICALLY DON'T HAVE OUR STATE LOBBY TEAM ENGAGED DURING THE INTERIM. WE DO RESERVE A SMALL BUDGET TO BE ABLE TO ENGAGE THEM IN A SORT OF ONE-OFF FASHION WHEN WE NEED IT. AND SO ERIC HAS, UH, UH, AUTHORIZED ME TO GO FORTH AND DO THAT. NOW. UM, WE'VE IDENTIFIED AMONG OUR STATE LOBBY TEAMS, UH, TWO, UH, TWO OF OUR MEMBERS ARE KEY POSITIONS HERE. ONE IS MARK RODRIGUEZ, AND HIS VERY CLOSE WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE IS GONNA BE ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL FROM THE STATE LEVEL. AND SECONDLY, UH, JESSE AND SIERRA AND HIS, UH, TIES TO THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, WHICH IS WHERE THE TEXAS BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE IS, IS NOW HOUSED. AND SO I'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH BOTH. WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF, OF SIGNING THEM UP FOR SHORT TERM, MONTH TO MONTH CONTRACTS TO GET US THROUGH THIS PERIOD, UH, AND IMMEDIATELY START BIRD DOGGING THE, THE OPPORTUNITIES AT THE STATE LEVEL. AND BEFORE LONG WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT STARTING UP THEIR REGULAR, UH, CONTRACTS THAT, THAT HANDLE ALL THAT PREPARATORY WORK FOR THE LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS. SO WE'LL HAVE THE FULL COMPLIMENT, UH, SOMETIME LATER IN THE YEAR. BUT, BUT FOR NOW, WE FEEL LIKE THOSE TWO MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM ARE SORT OF THE KEY STRATEGIC POINTS FOR US TO GET IN FRONT OF ALL THE STATE, UH, DECISION MAKERS. WE NEED TO. ALL RIGHT. AND THEN LASTLY, I PROMISE 'CAUSE 'CAUSE COUNCILMAN PERRY HAS YET ANOTHER QUESTION. UM, I SAW THE LIST OF PARTNERS, RIGHT, BROOKS VIA RIGHT. AND THOSE ARE THE USUAL SUSPECTS, AND IT'S EXCELLENT THAT WE'RE TALKING TO THEM. BUT, AND I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF WHY I, I'M GONNA URGE YOU TO TALK TO OTHER PARTNERS THAT WE DON'T USUALLY TALK ABOUT IN, IN, IN CONTEXT OF THE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS. I KNOW THAT, UM, U T S A, FOR EXAMPLE, HAS BEEN WORKING THE HALLS OF CONGRESS AND TO ALSO TALKING TO AGENCIES UP THERE TO PULL DOWN, UM, NOT JUST GRANTS, BUT ALSO TO GET, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO HELP THEM WITH, UH, SOME INNOVATION PROJECTS OUTSIDE THE CAMPUS. RIGHT. UM, AND I ASKED THEM, I WAS LIKE, WELL, GREAT, I MEAN, I IMAGINE YOUR, YOUR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS OFFICE IN DC IS WORKING ON THIS. AND THEY TOLD US THAT, YOU KNOW, IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM, ONE OF THE CHANCELLORS DISSOLVED UT SYSTEMS, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS OFFICE, AND THEY SAID, WE HAVE NOBODY KNOCKING ON THE DOORS UP THERE. IT'S JUST EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WE HAVE A PROFESSOR CALLING, YOU KNOW, A CONGRESS PERSON. AND THAT'S REALLY NOT THAT EFFECTIVE. AND THEY'VE LEFT IT TO EACH INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL TO DO THAT. AND SO MY QUESTION IS, IS, YOU KNOW, DO WE HAVE THE BANDWIDTH RIGHT NOW TO BE ABLE TO ADD THEM TO, YOU KNOW, OUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA AND MA YOU KNOW, MARRY UP OUR AGENDA TO THEIRS SO THAT WE CAN DO SOME OF THAT LIFTING FOR THEM? UM, AND TWO, UH, I, I IMAGINE YOU'RE GONNA BE TAKING THIS LIST TO U T S A AND TEXAS A AND M AS WELL, AND, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER PARTNERS THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN ON THIS LIST OF PARTNERS. UM, AND SO CAN, CAN WE DO THAT SOONER THAN LATER? OR AT LEAST CAN YOU, CAN YOU GIVE US THE, THE COMMITTEE A LIST OF THOSE ADDITIONAL PARTNERS THAT YOU PLAN ON TOUCHING? SURE. LET ME, UH, TOUCH A FEW THINGS ABOUT THAT. FIRST OF ALL, SALLY'S BEEN HAVING THOSE KINDS OF ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS WITH, WITH OUR LOCAL PARTNERS. OKAY. WITH THE ONES YOU SAW ON THE SLIDES, RIGHT. THAT GOING THROUGH THE LIST, ARE YOU ALL AWARE OF EACH OF THESE WATER PROGRAMS, EACH OF THESE TRANSIT AND, AND, AND OFFERING OUR ASSISTANCE AND HELP? UH, THERE ARE PROGRAMS SPECIFICALLY FOR, UH, UH, K THROUGH 12, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS. I THINK THERE'S SOME HIGHER ED WORKING THERE. UM, I BELIEVE BOTH OF THOSE, BECAUSE UT IS PART U T S A IS PART OF THE UT STATE SYSTEM, AND OUR LOCAL ISDS ARE PART OF OBVIOUSLY THE STATE OF TEXAS EDUCATION SYSTEM. I THINK BOTH OF THOSE WILL BE FUNDING SOURCES THAT FLOW TO STATE GOVERNMENT AND THEN GET DISTRIBUTED LOCALLY. SO I'M NOT SURE THERE'S A DIRECT APPLICATION OR ADVOCACY NECESSARY, BUT, BUT SUFFICE IT TO SAY THERE'S MORE THAN, TO YOUR POINT, THAN THE GROUP THAT WE'VE, I INITIALLY CONVENED THAT NEED TO BE PART OF THIS CONVERSATION. THERE'S A LOT OF MORE SPECIFIC ONE-OFF THINGS. UM, UH, COMMISSIONER BARNARD JUST ASKED ABOUT THE MILITARY. THERE'S NOT A GRANT PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY THAT THE MILITARY CAN APPLY FOR, BUT THERE ARE CYBERSECURITY FUNDING STREAMS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GO FORM A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MILITARY AND PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERS AND PUT TOGETHER A GOOD APPLICATION. SO THAT SORT OF DEEPER LAYER OF COORDINATION IS COMING. UM, FOR NOW WE'RE AT LEAST TRYING TO GET THE MAJOR SORT OF GOVERNMENTAL PARTNERS AT THE TABLE, SO WE'RE ALL THINKING BIG AND, AND WORKING TOGETHER VERY WELL. THANK YOU. AND, UM, COUNCILMAN PERRY HAS A QUESTION. YEAH. JUST REAL QUICKLY, TAMIKA, I HAD A COUPLE OF FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS. UH, THANKS FOR CALLING HER UP TO TALK ABOUT THAT GRANT PROGRAM. TAMIKA, IF YOU RECALL, I WAS NOT A FAN OF THE, THE PROJECT THAT WE SUBMITTED. YES, SIR. UM, I, I THOUGHT THAT WE SHOULD, UH, IDENTIFY SOMETHING MORE SUBSTANTIAL AS FAR AS A ROAD OR THING, SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO BE MORE COMPETITIVE. AND, UH, I HATE TO SAY IT, BUT I WAS RIGHT. UM, I, I AM, I'M VERY HOPEFUL THAT WE'LL KIND OF REORIENT OUR [01:15:01] THINKING ABOUT GOING AFTER THESE TYPES OF GRANTS AND, UH, GETTING MORE ON THE MAINSTREAM OF, UH, YOU KNOW, RELIEVING CONGESTION, THAT KIND OF THING OUT ON OUR CURRENT ROAD STRUCTURE. SO, UM, LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, FOLLOW UP DISCUSSIONS ON WHICH GRANTS WE ARE GONNA GO, GO AFTER, AND WHICH PROJECTS WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA BE PUTTING AGAINST THOSE, THOSE OPPORTUNITIES. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT BACKGROUND INFORMATION. YOU'RE WELCOME. AND I, I, I, I DO WANT THE DETAILED DEBRIEF ON WHY WE WEREN'T SUCCESSFUL ON THIS PARTICULAR GRANT AS WELL. YES, SIR. AND JUST TO FOLLOW UP WITH THE DEBRIEF, THE D O T HAS ASKED THAT REQUESTS FOR DEBRIEFS TAKE PLACE LATER. SO THEY WILL NOT BE TAKING THOSE APPOINTMENTS UNTIL EARLY FEBRUARY, BECAUSE AS SALLY AND JEFF MENTIONED, THEY'RE WORKING ON THE GUIDANCE. SO SHE HAS ALREADY REACHED OUT. AND WE'LL BE SCHEDULING THAT DEBRIEF TO SPECIFICALLY GET WHERE WE CAN IMPROVE IN OUR APPLICATION. AND YOU AND I HAVE DISCUSSED ACH, THIS IS A REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THE PLANNING SIDE, BECAUSE WHAT TENDS TO HAPPEN IS WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT PROJECTS THAT WE WANT TO BUILD, BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE REQUISITE CONCEPTUAL PLANNING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. AND SO, UH, OUR TEAM IS ALREADY WORKING ON WHAT YOU AND I HAVE DISCUSSED ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO REFRAME AND RESHAPE THE GRAND ENTRANCE TO OUR NATION'S MILITARY AND THOSE WHO'VE SERVED. AND SO AS WE LOOK AT IT, WE, IT CAN'T JUST BE A TYPICAL ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT. THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO REFRAME HOW WE LOOK AT OUR CORRIDORS AND CREATE A SENSE OF PLACE AND A DESTINATION, WHICH I KNOW IS VERY IMPORTANT TO YOU FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO'VE SERVED US. AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US. SO WE, WE HAVE YOU IN MIND, MARGARITA HERNANDEZ, MY DEPUTY HAS ALREADY, THAT WAS THE FIRST TEXT SHE SENT ME ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU, SIR, ON THAT. GREAT. LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. THANKS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, TAMIKA. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. UH, SO JUST TO, TO DRIVE THE POINT HOME, JEFF, IT, I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT, UM, THIS IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST THING YOU AND YOUR TEAM AND MELISSA'S TEAM OVER AT THE COUNTY, UM, ARE GONNA BE WORKING ON FOR THE NEXT YEAR AND A HALF PLUS, RIGHT? UH, AND SO I THINK YOU HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THIS ENTIRE COMMITTEE. MY REQUEST IS THAT IF WE'RE GONNA BE CHASING MONEY, FEDERAL MONEY FOR SPECIFIC PROJECTS IN A, YOU KNOW, IN WHATEVER CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT IT IS THAT THAT CITY COUNCIL PERSON BE BRIEFED AND THAT THEY BE READ INTO IT, RIGHT? SO THAT IF IT IS, YOU KNOW, IN DISTRICT SEVEN OR DISTRICT FIVE OR DISTRICT THREE, YOU KNOW, THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS AREN'T UP HERE TO HAVE THE BENEFIT OF ASKING THE QUESTIONS WE DID TODAY. AND SO THEY NEED TO BE, THEY NEED TO BE BAKED INTO THE PROCESS. UM, BECAUSE THIS IS SO IMPORTANT, I'M JUST GONNA LOOK TO MY OTHER MEMBERS, SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, IF YOU WANNA, NO, NO. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION. UH, VERY THOROUGH, VERY GOOD JOB. THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON. THANK YOU FOR COMING IN, UH, AND TALKING TO US. AND NOW WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT SA TO DC JEFF, I'LL JUST BE VERY BRIEF. UM, WE, WHEN THE TRIP WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 31ST THROUGH FEBRUARY 3RD, THIS WAS GONNA BE THE MEETING WHERE WE TALK ABOUT THE GAME PLAN AND WHAT WE'RE PLANNING TO DO. AS YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD, IT'S BEEN POSTPONED. HOWEVER, UM, CASEY MADRID FROM THE CHAMBER'S GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THE PLAN IS AT THIS POINT, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY A PROPOSED, UH, STRUCTURE THAT THEY HAVE COME UP WITH AT THE CHAMBER TO BE ABLE TO FULLY MAXIMIZE THE PARTICIPATION OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND COMMISSIONERS WHO ARE ON THE TRIP TO GET EVERYBODY PLUGGED IN AND ENGAGED IN THE EFFORT. UH, SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO CASEY. THANKS. GOOD MORNING, CHAIRMAN AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. UH, MY NAME IS CASEY MADRID, VICE PRESIDENT OF PUBLIC POLICY WITH THE SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. AND I HAVE A VERY BRIEF PRESENTATION TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL. UM, AS JEFF MENTIONED, WE DID MAKE THE DECISION TO POSTPONE THE TRIP THAT IS THE SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER IN OUR PARTNER CHAMBERS IN SAMCO. THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS THAT CAUSED US TO POSTPONE THE TRIP, AND I'LL, I'LL REREAD THOSE WITH YOU BRIEFLY. ARE THE SLIDES OKAY? THERE WE GO. SORRY ABOUT THAT. SO, AS, AS MENTIONED, WE HAVE PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE WORK WITH. AND I KNOW THAT MY COLLEAGUE MARTIN GUTIERREZ, WITH THE SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS HERE, BUT WE WORK WITH THE NORTH SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER, THE SOUTH AND WEST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND SAMCO. AND I'VE PROVIDED A VERY BRIEF SLIDE WITH HISTORY BECAUSE I KNOW THAT SEVERAL OF YOU ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE TRIP, BUT I KNOW THAT SOME OF YOU ARE NEWLY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND HAVE NOT BEEN ON THIS TRIP WITH US SINCE WE LAST MADE THIS TRIP IN 2020. SO FOR MORE THAN 40 DECADES, THE SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER AND OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS HAVE TRAVELED TO DC TO ADVOCATE FOR THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, AND OUR ELECTED LEADERS HERE JOIN US TO ADVANCE SAN ANTONIO AND PROJECTS THAT WOULD SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY. SO, AS I MENTIONED, WE MADE THE DECISION TO POSTPONE THE TRIP. IT WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FROM JANUARY 31 TO FEBRUARY 3RD. [01:20:01] AND, UM, SOME OF THE DECISIONS THAT LED TO US MAKING THAT DECISION TO POSTPONE THE TRIP ARE JANUARY, OR EXCUSE ME, DECEMBER 20TH OF LAST YEAR. DC MAYOR ISSUED AN ORDER THAT TAKES EFFECT THIS SATURDAY THAT REQUIRES CITYWIDE VACCINATION PROOF, PROOF OF CITYWIDE VACCINATION FOR ENTRY INTO PUBLIC VENUES. AND ADDITIONALLY, THE OFFICE OF THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY THE CONGRESSIONAL DOCTOR, HAS ADVISED THAT LEGISLATORS HAVE THEIR STAFF WORK REMOTELY AND NOT ACCEPT IN-PERSON MEETINGS. AND THE PENTAGON RESERVATION WILL BE CLOSED TO UNOFFICIAL VISITORS THROUGH THE END OF JANUARY 22. SO THE CHAMBER AND OUR PARTNER CHAMBERS WORK VERY HARD TO PROVIDE A VERY VALUABLE AND MEANINGFUL AND IMPACTFUL TRIP TO OUR REGISTRANTS AND OUR COMMUNITY LEADERS. AND HAVING THE NEWS THAT WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SECURE IN-PERSON MEETINGS LED US TO MAKE THE DECISION TO POSTPONE THE TRIP. I WILL SAY THAT WHILE WE DO NOT HAVE NEW DATES FINALIZED, WE ARE LOOKING TO HOLD THIS TRIP IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE YEAR. IT MAKES THE MOST SENSE WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL CALENDAR. I DO WANNA SHARE THAT OUR S A D D C CHAIR IS JONATHAN HURWITZ, VICE PRESIDENT OF K G B TEXAS COMMUNICATIONS. AND THIS NEXT SLIDE, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO READ, SO I'LL BE SURE TO READ IT OUT FOR Y'ALL. IT'S THE ISSUE AREAS THAT THE S A D D C TRIP FOCUSES ON. SO WE HAVE THE AEROSPACE COMMITTEE, CYBERSECURITY COMMITTEE, EDUCATIONAL WORKFORCE COMMITTEE, ENERGY AND SUSTAINABILITY, HEALTHCARE AND BIOSCIENCES, HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM HOUSING, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, MILITARY AFFAIRS, TRANSPORTATION, SMALL BUSINESS AND WATER. AS JEFF MENTIONED, IN AN EFFORT TO HAVE MORE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TRIP MEMBERS, CHAMBER MEMBERS, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS AND COMMISSIONERS, WE HAVE FORMED A PLAN TO HAVE EACH COUNCIL MEMBER SIT ON A COMMITTEE THAT WE THINK IS RELEVANT TO THEIR INTEREST IN THEIR WORK. AND BEFORE WE BROKE FOR THE NEW YEAR, I DID SEND INVITATIONS AND REQUESTS TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND SOME OF THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ACCEPTED THOSE INVITATIONS, AND THEY HAVE MET WITH ME AND WE HAVE DISCUSSED HOW WE WANT THEM TO HAVE MORE OF A ROLE IN THE PLANNING THAT LEADS UP TO THE MEETINGS AND A MORE OF A ROLE IN THE MEETINGS ON THE HILL. SO IF ANY OF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THAT INVITATION AND HAVE QUESTIONS OR WANNA HAVE A BRIEFING WITH ME, I WELCOME THAT I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE MORE ENGAGEMENT LEADING UP TO THE TRIP RATHER THAN THE TRIP ITSELF. AND I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SHARE OUR FEDERAL AGENDA WITH Y'ALL AGAIN. UM, WE JUST THINK THAT THIS IS A WAY FOR Y'ALL TO BE MORE ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS AND THE TRIP, AND WE WELCOME ANY FEEDBACK Y'ALL HAVE. AND I, I INCLUDED MY EMAIL IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, BUT I'M HAPPY TO TAKE A FEW IF Y'ALL DO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. QUESTIONS COMMISSIONER? QUESTIONS COUNCILMAN? THANKS. THANKS FOR THAT QUICK OVERVIEW. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AND, UM, UH, HOPEFULLY THIS WILL WORK, HAS IN THE PAST WHERE EACH ONE OF THESE TEAMS AS THEY GO OUT, UH, THEY DOCUMENT WHO THEY VISITED, WHAT WERE THE TOPICS DISCUSSED, AND WHAT WERE THE ACTION ITEMS THAT ARE OPENED BECAUSE OF THOSE DISCUSSION OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS SO THAT EVERYBODY ACROSS THE BOARD, INCLUDING, UH, CITY COUNCIL FOLKS, UH, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT THE, WHAT THIS TRIP WAS ABOUT AND WHO THEY VISITED AND WHAT ACTION ITEMS NEED TO BE FOLLOWED UP ON MM-HMM. , UH, IN EACH ONE. SO I'M HOPING THAT THAT WORKS OUT A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN IT HAS IN THE PAST. UH, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT? YEAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT FEEDBACK. IT IS OUR INTENTION TO PROVIDE A POST-MORTEM REPORT OF WHAT TOOK PLACE AND WHAT WE NEED TO FOLLOW UP ON. ESPECIALLY IF WE DO MAKE THIS TRIP TRIP HAPPEN IN THE FIRST QUARTER, THERE'S A LOT OF MOMENTUM THAT WE CAN BUILD ON THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. AND A LOT OF OUR PRIORITIES ALIGNED WITH THE BRIEFING THAT JEFF AND HIS TEAM PROVIDED THIS MORNING. WE HAVE A LOT OF INFRASTRUCTURE CONCERNS IN OUR AGENDA, AND I THINK MAKING SURE THAT WE KEEP THAT MOMENTUM AND HOLDING EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED THE TRIP ACCOUNTABLE IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US. GREAT. THANK YOU. QUESTIONS? YES. THANK YOU, CHAIR. UM, I, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU INCLUDING THE LIST OF, UH, THE CHAMBERS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE PLANNING AND THE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS. YES. ONE OF THE REQUESTS THAT I WOULD HAVE IS THAT, UM, ENTITIES AND CHAMBERS THAT AREN'T NORMALLY INCLUDED IN THESE KINDS OF DISCUSSIONS, SUCH AS THE BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER, THE WOMEN'S CHAMBER, THE L G B T CHAMBER, THAT THEY'RE ENGAGED ALONG THE WAY. AND MAYBE, MAYBE IF IT'S NOT A PART OF THIS YEAR'S TRIP FOR FUTURE TRIPS, THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ASK CAN BE MADE MULTIPLE TIMES. AND I HOPE THAT, AND I HOPE THAT IT IS, UM, I DID SEE SAHA REPRESENTED ON THE LEADERSHIP TEAM. UM, AND IT KIND OF LENDS ME TO THIS QUESTION OF OTHER ADVOCACY GROUPS AND, UH, AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN THE SA TO DC TRIP. SO FOR EXAMPLE, FOR WATER ISSUES, IS THE EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE INCLUDED FOR EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE? WOULD A FFL C I O BE INCLUDED AND IN, YOU KNOW, SHAPING THAT AGENDA AND OR IS THAT A SEPARATE TRIP? SO THE AGENDA HAS BEEN SET BECAUSE WE'VE MADE THE CALL FOR LEGISLATIVE [01:25:01] PRIORITIES ALREADY. OKAY. BUT WE DO MAKE THAT CALL TO OUR MEMBERS AND ASK THEM TO SUBMIT THEIR PRIORITIES AND WE SHAPE OUR FEDERAL AGENDA BASED ON WHAT THE MEMBERS SUBMIT TO US. BUT THERE IS ROOM FOR CONVERSATION MM-HMM. FOR INCLUSION FOR EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY. YES. OKAY. I APPRECIATE THAT. UM, IT WORKS A LITTLE BIT BETTER FOR ME THAT THE TRIP'S BEING PUSHED BACK OR DELAYED A LITTLE BIT. SO IT'S BETTER FOR EVERYONE . SO, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR CONVERSATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. THAT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY REASONABLE REQUEST, UM, THAT WE, UM, YOU KNOW, AS A CONDITION OF CITY COUNCIL'S PARTICIPATION, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD APPLY SOME PRESSURE ON YOU GUYS TO, YOU KNOW, UH, MAKE THE TENT A LITTLE BIT BIGGER SO THAT WE CAN INCLUDE GROUPS THAT HAVE TRADITIONALLY NOT BEEN INVITED. I, I LOVE THE IDEA OF INVITING OTHER CHAMBERS, UH, AND, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, AND OTHER ADVOCACY GROUPS AND GIVING THEM A VOICE. RIGHT? I MEAN, AFTER ALL, WE REPRESENT THOSE FOLKS, UM, IN MANY WAYS. AND, UM, THAT'S MY CHALLENGE TO YOU, RIGHT? AS, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, AND NOT JUST WITH THIS TRIP, BUT ALL FUTURE TRIPS, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE COMM UH, CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT EXERCISES CAN BE ADDING, UM, VOICES THAT HAVE TRADITIONALLY NOT BEEN INVITED, RIGHT? BECAUSE THOSE, THOSE PERSPECTIVES AND THOSE VOICES REALLY CAN BE EFFECTIVE IN, UM, IN ADVOCATING FOR SAN ANTONIO, BUT ALSO GIVING US DIVERSITY OF PERSPECTIVES AND, UH, AND INFORMING THE AGENDA ITSELF. AND SO, UM, YEAH, I LIKE THAT. UH, THE, THE SECOND THING I'M GONNA ASK YOU IS, UH, PLEASE BE FLEXIBLE. UH, I, I KNOW THAT Y'ALL HAD SENT YOUR WISHLIST FOR, YOU KNOW, WHICH COUNCIL PERSONS TO, TO SERVE ON, ON THE, UH, ON THESE COMMITTEES, BUT THERE MAY BE SOME COUNCIL PEOPLE WHO MAY WANNA SERVE ON TOO, RIGHT? UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AND SO IS THERE THAT FLEXIBILITY? CERTAINLY WHEN, WHEN I SENT THE MESSAGE, I, I WANTED IT TO COME OFF AS A REQUEST AND INVITATION, NOT AN ASSIGNMENT. OKAY. AND I ENCOURAGED FEEDBACK AND RESPONSE ON, THIS ISN'T SOMETHING I'M INTERESTED, I WANNA BE ELSEWHERE, OR, YES, I WANNA DO BOTH. SO, YES. YES. OKAY. VERY WELL. AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS I THINK THAT, UM, WE NEED TO INCLUDE, UH, MY CO-CHAIR, COUNCILMAN R COMMISSIONER RODRIGUEZ AND COMMISSIONER BERNARD. I THINK THAT THEY NEED TO, UH, ALSO BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE ON ONE OF THESE COMMITTEES, UH, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL FASHIONING THIS AGENDA TOGETHER, AND THEIR PRIORITIES ARE THE SAME PRIORITIES AS OURS IN MANY WAYS. AND SO, AND I THINK THAT THEY CAN BE FORCE MULTIPLIERS. AND SO, UM, COMMISSIONER BERNARD, YOU WANNA GO TO DC WITH US? I PLAN ON DOING THAT. OKAY. I WAS ALREADY PLANNING ON DOING THAT. UM, BUT I'M A LIAISON TO THE MILITARY AS WELL, AND I'VE BEEN ON THE DCS A D C TRIP MANY TIMES BEFORE I WAS A JUDGE. . THANK YOU. I, I BELIEVE THAT BRINGS US, UH, TO THE END OF YOUR PRESENTATION, RIGHT? YES. IT'S, DID YOU GET THE, DID YOU GET GOOD FEEDBACK FROM US? I DID. WELL, I'M GLAD YOU CAME. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING OUT. THANK YOU. AND, UH, JEFF AND, UH, SALLY, UNLESS, UNLESS THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE I, I BELIEVE THAT BRINGS US. AND SO FOR THE MINUTES, UH, REMEMBER ONE OF THE QUESTIONS ASKED, WHERE IS THE BEEF? UM, AND BEFORE HE LEFT, JUSTIN RODRIGUEZ WHISPERED IN MY EAR THAT HE IS THE BEEF. AND SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE NOTES. OKAY. THANKS EVERYBODY. WE'RE ADJOURNED. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.