* 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. [00:00:08] I LIKE AUSTIN, BUT I LOVE SANTO. LOVE DANCING IN GROOVE. THEN HEAD BACK DOWN THE ROAD. SO I LIKE, BUT I LOVE SANTON AND IF WE'RE SO, I, BUT I LOVE SAN ANTONIO. IN SAN ANTONIO. PONTO. ESPAN. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. THE TIME IS 2:18 PM ON THIS 20TH DAY OF APRIL, 2022. WE'LL CALL OUR CITY COUNCIL B SESSION ORDER BEFORE WE GO TO ROLL. UH, I DO WANNA POINT OUT THAT THAT WAS AN APPROPRIATE SONG FOR TONIGHT BECAUSE SAN ANTONIO FC IS HOSTING THE AUSTIN FOOTBALL CLUB. AND WE HOPE THAT ALL OF YOU WHO ARE ABLE WILL BE ABLE TO A, BE OUT THERE ON THE FIELD TO CHEER ON OUR SAN ANTONIO FOOTBALL CLUB. ALSO, BEFORE WE START THE ROLL, UM, WE'RE GONNA SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR CITY CLERK. SO WE'RE NOT GONNA WAIT TILL THE END. WE'RE GONNA WISH DEBBIE ROCKET SITTER A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY. SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY. BIRTHDAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. BIRTHDAY, MADAM CLERK. COULD YOU READ THE ROLE? COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO IS HERE VIRTUALLY. COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER ILLA GRAND HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER CAB HALBERDA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER PALICE IS HERE. VIRTUALLY, VIRTUALLY. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY HERE. MAYOR NIERENBERG. HERE. MAYOR, WE HAVE A QUORUM. AND GOOD AFTERNOON [ ITEMS  ] EVERYONE. UM, WE HAVE ONE ITEM ON THE AGENDA TODAY, UH, ON OUR REDISTRICTING EFFORTS. SO LEMME TURN IT OVER TO CITY MANAGER ERIC WA TO GET US STARTED. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. TODAY THE REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, WILL BE PROVIDING AN UPDATE ON THEIR WORK TO REBALANCE THE CITY'S 10 COUNCIL DISTRICTS. UH, WE LAST BRIEFED YOU, UH, LAST OCTOBER, UM, AFTER RECEIVING OUR 2020, UH, CENSUS DATA, UH, THE COUNCIL AS A REMINDER, THE COUNCIL APPOINTED A 23 MEMBER CITIZENS REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, TO ENGAGE THE PUBLIC, UH, IN THE PROCESS AND TO CREATE A FINAL PROPOSED PLAN THAT THEY COULD BE BROUGHT BACK, UH, TO THE FULL COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION. SO YOU'LL RECEIVE AN UPDATE TODAY FROM CITY STAFF AS WELL AS THE CO-CHAIRS OF THE, OF THE COMMITTEE. SO WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK, UH, DIRECTLY FROM YOU TODAY, UH, BEFORE WE BRING THE FINAL PROPOSED PLAN BACK TO COUNCIL. UH, CURRENTLY SCHEDULED FOR JUNE. SO WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO ANDY. HE'LL KICK US OFF. THANK YOU, ERIC. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. UH, AS ERIC POINTED OUT, THE REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE BEGAN MEETING, UH, LAST FALL 2021. THEY'VE HAD NINE MEETINGS TO DATE, UH, INCLUDING FOUR MAP DRAWING SESSIONS. AND THEY'RE AT A POINT WHERE THEY HAVE NOW A COMMITTEE DRAFT PLAN NUMBER ONE, OR WHAT HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS DRAFT COMMITTEE DRAFT PLAN NUMBER ONE, WHICH MEETS AT LEAST THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE IN TERMS OF THE REDISTRICTING AND REBALANCING THE DISTRICTS. UH, WE'LL START OFF TODAY WITH ELIANA CASTIGO DAILY FROM OUR STAFF. WE'LL BEGIN A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS THAT THAT'S NEEDED TO BRING THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS BACK INTO BALANCE. NEXT, WE'LL HAVE THE CO-CHAIRS OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. BONNIE PROSSER ELDER, AND DR. ROGELIO SIGNS WILL PRESENT AN UPDATE ON BEHALF OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, MANY OF WHICH ARE IN, IN ATTENDANCE TODAY. AND WE ARE, WE'RE HAPPY THAT THEY'RE, WE'RE ABLE TO BE HERE. AND THEN, UH, PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEN PRESENT AN OUTLINE OF WHAT OUR PROCESS IS GOING INTO THE FUTURE IN TERMS OF MEETINGS AND CONTINUED PUBLIC OUTREACH. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE CITY COUNCIL HAS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM THE CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE IN TERMS OF CREATION OF A NEW MAP. UH, SO AGAIN, TODAY, IT GIVES THE COUNCIL THE [00:05:01] OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK DIRECTLY TO THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE SINCE WE DO HAVE TIME, UH, TO CALIBRATE IN TERMS OF PROCESS. UM, BEFORE WE HAVE THE COMMITTEE COME BACK TO COUNCIL WITH A FINAL PROPOSED PLAN. AND BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO ELIANA, I DO WANT TO THANK, UH, ELIANA AND OUR LEGAL TEAM, BOTH FROM BICKERS STAFF AND WALSH GALLEGOS, WHO HAVE PROVIDED, UH, REAL GOOD SUPPORT TO THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. UH, BUT I CAN'T OVEREMPHASIZE, UH, UH, MY GRATITUDE TO THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN VERY THOUGHTFUL, UH, IN TERMS OF THE, THE APPROACH. UH, THEY HAVE, THEY, THEY HAVE TAKEN, TACKLED A VERY CHALLENGING, UH, TASK, WHICH IS TRY TO REDRAW THE DISTRICTS AT BOTH MEETS LEGAL COMPLIANCE AND TRIES TO KEEP NEIGHBORHOODS AND GEOGRAPHIC AREAS INTACT. UH, SO I APPLAUD THEM IN TERMS OF HOW THEY'VE, UH, THEY'VE HANDLED THAT VERY DIFFICULT TASK. SO, WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO ANA. THANK YOU, ANDY. UH, AGAIN, I AM ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY ELIA CASTILLO DALY, AND AS THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE IS PROJECT LEADER AND REDISTRICTING, IT'S BEEN MY PLEASURE TO, UH, WORK WITH AND SERVE THE DISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE THROUGHOUT THEIR PROCESS. ONE OF THE MANY, MANY HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS, UH, WORK HAS BEEN ATTENDING, UH, A HEALTHY NUMBER OF HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE, AND, UH, DISTRICT SPONSORED REDISTRICTING EVENTS, UM, WHERE WE RELAY KIND OF THE GROUNDWORK OF REDISTRICTING AND LET OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS KNOW WHY WE ARE ENGAGING IN THIS PROCESS AND WHAT IT REQUIRES OF US. YOU'VE LIKELY SEEN MEMBERS OF THE REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE, MOST OF WHICH ARE HERE TODAY, INCLUDING THE CO-CHAIRS, UH, AND OUTSIDE COUNSEL, TONY RESENDEZ FROM WAL GALLEGOS AT THESE MEETINGS. UH, YOU'VE ALSO LIKELY SEEN THE FIRST FIVE SLIDES OF THIS PRESENTATION, BUT I'M GONNA GO THROUGH THEM ANYWAY, UH, AND CONVEY THEM BECAUSE, UH, EVERY OPPORTUNITY, UH, PRESENTS US WITH PEOPLE, WHETHER IN PERSON OR VIEWING ONLINE THAT ARE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE PROCESS. SO WE'RE GONNA USE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CATCH PEOPLE UP. UM, I WANNA START WITH THE BASICS, INCLUDING WHAT REDISTRICTING IS NOT. THE CITY'S REDISTRICTING PROCESS IS TO REDRAW THE COUNCIL BOUNDARIES, UH, FOR OUR CITY COUNCIL, UH, SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICTS. IT'S NOT RELATED TO CONGRESSIONAL STATE OR THE COUNTY'S REDISTRICTING PROCESS. IT DOES NOT IMPACT WHAT SCHOOL DISTRICT OR SCHOOL YOU ARE ZONED TO ATTEND. IT DOES NOT IMPACT YOUR ACCESS TO CITY SERVICES OR FACILITIES LIKE LIBRARIES OR SENIOR CENTERS. THESE ARE ALL COMMON QUESTIONS THAT HAVE COME UP THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY, WHICH IS WHY I ADDRESS THEM HERE. UH, AND FINALLY, REDISTRICTING DOES NOT IMPACT RESPONSE TIMES FROM EMERGENCY SERVICES SUCH AS FIRE OR POLICE OR E M SS. SO, WITH ALL THAT SAID, WHAT IS REDISTRICTING? THE US CONSTITUTION REQUIRES THAT COUNCIL DISTRICTS OR SINGLE MEMBER COUNCIL DISTRICTS THAT WE HAVE HERE IN SAN ANTONIO HAVE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL POPULATION, UH, ACROSS THEM. REDISTRICTING IS THE PROCESS WHERE WE TAKE, UH, WE BY WHICH WE MODIFY THE BOUNDARIES IN ORDER TO REDRAW THEM AND REGAIN POPULATION BALANCE ACROSS ALL COUNCIL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. THIS, THAT'S WHY THIS OCCURS EVERY 10 YEARS. 'CAUSE IT'S USUALLY FOLLOWING, UH, THE US CENSUS HERE, THE 2020 CENSUS. IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT EXACTLY EQUAL POPULATION IS NOT REQUIRED BY THIS PROCESS. GENERALLY, SINGLE MEMBER DISTRICTS WILL MEET THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT OF ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE IF THE POPULATION, UH, OF THE LARGEST DISTRICT IS NO LARGER THAN, UH, 10%, OR NO, NO MORE THAN 10% GREATER THAN THE POPULATION OF THE LEAST POPULATED DISTRICT. SO THE 2020 CENSUS DATA, WHICH WE BRIEFED YOU ON BACK IN OCTOBER AND PRESENTED YOU WITH THE INITIAL ASSESSMENT, CONFIRMED WHAT WE ALL KNEW AS PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND THRIVE IN SAN ANTONIO, WHICH IS OUR CITY HAS GROWN AND NOW HAS A POPULATION OF MORE THAN 1.43 MILLION PEOPLE. THAT GIVES US A NEW IDEAL DISTRICT SIZE OF 143,494 PER PER DISTRICT FOR COMPARISON. IN 20, UH, 2010, THE CENSUS IDEAL SIZE WAS 132,000, UH, 672. SO THE POPULATION NOW, UH, WITH THE CURRENT DISTRICT BOUNDARIES, UH, THE MOST POPULATED DISTRICT IS 34.61% GREATER THAN THE POPULATION OF THE DISTRICT WITH THE LEAST, UH, AMOUNT OF PEOPLE IN IT. THEREFORE, COUNCIL IS NOW REQUIRED TO REDRAW AND BRING THOSE COUNCIL BOUNDARIES BACK INTO BALANCE. IN OCTOBER, UH, WE GAVE YOU THE INITIAL ASSESSMENT, BUT TODAY, UH, EACH OF YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED A PACKET OF INFORMATION. ON THE TOP IS WHAT WE CALL THE BENCHMARK PLAN. THAT'S OUR CURRENT COUNCIL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. UH, UH, IMMEDIATELY BEHIND IT IS THE DATA TABLE FROM THE INITIAL ASSESSMENT, WHICH WILL OUTLINE, UH, USING THE 2020 CENSUS DATA AND THE CURRENT COUNCIL BOUNDARIES WHERE EVERYTHING STANDS AS OF TODAY. UH, THE NEXT, I THINK 15 PAGES ARE COMMITTEE, UH, DRAFT PLAN ONE AS ANDY DISCUSSED. SO THIS SLIDE IS THE INITIAL ASSESSMENT FROM THE 2020 CENSUS DATA. AND I WANNA SHOW YOU JUST A COUPLE OF HIGHLIGHTS FROM IT. I WON'T DIG [00:10:01] TOO DEEP. UM, WE LEARNED THAT AFTER THE 2020 CENSUS DATA, UH, CAME BACK THAT COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE IS ABOUT 16% UNDER THAT IDEAL POPULATION SIZE. AS I TOLD YOU, IT'S APPROXIMATELY 143,000 PEOPLE PER DISTRICT. DISTRICT ONE IS, UH, 14% BELOW WHAT THE IDEAL POPULATION SIZE SHOULD BE. DISTRICT EIGHT IS 18% ABOVE DISTRICT NINE IS 9% ABOVE, AND DISTRICT SIX IS 6% ABOVE THOSE LAST TWO ARE VERY EASY NUMBERS TO REMEMBER. SO WE HAD OUR MARCHING ORDERS BASED OFF OF THIS, AND IN A NUTSHELL, IT WAS THE FACT THAT DISTRICTS ONE AND FIVE HAD TO GROW, AND AT A MINIMUM, EIGHT AND NINE HAD TO REDUCE THEIR POPULATION SIZE IN ORDER TO BRING THIS MAP BACK INTO BALANCE. THERE'S MUCH MORE TO CONSIDER WHEN WITHDRAWING THE COUNCIL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES MUCH MORE THAN NUMBERS. THEY'RE BOTH LEGAL REQUIREMENTS AND WHAT THE REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, DEFINED AS THEIR, UH, PRIORITY CONSIDERATIONS. THIS SLIDE WILL GIVE YOU ON ONE SIDE THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, AND THEN THE NEXT ARE THE PRIORITY CONSIDERATIONS AS DEFINED BY THE REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE. UH, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT MANY OF THEM YOU'VE HEARD BEFORE, AND THEY'RE IN FACT, UH, UH, BASED IN CASE LAW AND, UH, TRADITIONAL PRE REDISTRICTING PRINCIPLES. UM, I'LL HIGHLIGHT THE ONES THAT THEY REALLY FOUND, UM, AS, UH, ONES THAT THEY WANNA TAKE. UH, THEIR TOP PRIORITIES, I WOULD SAY AND TAKE TO HEART. SO THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS ARE THAT THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS BE OF RELATIVELY EQUAL POPULATION SIZE. WE TALKED ABOUT 10% DEVIATION. ONE, ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE PRINCIPLE. NEXT, THEY SHOULD BE COMPACT AND CONTIGUOUS. UH, USE WHOLE VOTING PRECINCTS TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, UM, AND THAT ANY CONSIDERATION OF RACE IS TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LAW, SUCH AS THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. SECTION TWO, SPECIFICALLY OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. UM, IF YOU'VE WATCHED, OR IF ANYONE VIEWING US ONLINE TODAY HAS WATCHED ANY OF THE REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETINGS, UH, WE HAVE OUR NORMAL PUBLIC MEETINGS WITH PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THEN WE HAVE WHERE WE RECEIVE PUBLIC, OR THEY RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENT AND DO MAP DRAWING, AND THEY USE VERY SOPHISTICATED SOFTWARE THAT'S, UH, CHANGES POPULATION IN REAL TIME. IT SHOWS ITS IMPACT TO THE MAP. UM, SO THERE YOU'LL SEE THE DEVIATION ON THE TOP CORNER WHEN WE DO THOSE MAP DRAWING SESSIONS. BUT THE OTHER THING THEY'LL DIG INTO IS, UM, AND ACTUALLY I'LL REFER BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, THE INITIAL ASSESSMENT. UM, SO JUST USING, UH, DISTRICT ONE AS AN EXAMPLE ON THIS SLIDE, UH, THERE'S A COLUMN THAT SAYS HISPANIC PERCENT OF TOTAL POPULATION. SO THE NEXT, THE NEXT LAYER THAT THEY'LL LOOK AT IS NOT SIMPLY THE DEVIATION ACROSS THE WHOLE CITY, BUT ALSO WHAT THOSE CHANGES DO TO, IN THIS EXAMPLE, THE HISPANIC POPULATION TOTALS OF DISTRICT ONE, ET CETERA, ET CETERA. SO THAT'S, THAT'S THAT, UH, PART WHERE OF THE LEGAL REQUIREMENT OF ANY CONSIDER RACE, CONSIDERATION OF RACE IS TO COMPLY WITH APPLICABLE LAW. AS I MENTIONED EARLY ON IN THE REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEES MEETINGS, THEY CAME UP WITH PRIORITY CONSIDERATIONS, UH, AND MADE IT CLEAR THAT NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITY COMMUNITIES OF INTERESTS WERE A TOP PRIORITY. OTHER PRIORITY CONSIDERATIONS INCLUDED THAT COUNCIL DISTRICTS BE BASED UPON EXISTING DISTRICTS THAT THEY USE EASILY IDENTIFIABLE GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES. THAT CONSIDERATION OF THAT THEY TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION OF THE DISTRICTS, THE NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THEN THE CITY'S COMMUNITY ASSETS. AND FINALLY, RECOGNITION OF THE RESIDENTS OF THESE INCUMBENTS THAT ARE ON THE D TODAY, UH, MAY BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION AS THEY, UH, DRAW. SO THERE'S A LAW REQUIREMENTS AND CONSIDERATIONS. THERE WILL ALSO LIKELY BE NATURAL TENSION AMONGST, UH, SOME OF THEM, IF NOT ALL OF THEM. AND THAT'S WHY ALL OF THEM ARE TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE. SO WE THINK OF IT NOT AS A CHECKLIST, BUT AS A BALANCING ACT OF ALL OF THESE, KNOWING THAT THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS ARE, UH, DISTINCT FOR THOSE THAT ARE PRIORITY CONSIDERATIONS. SO THE PROCESS BEGAN BACK IN OCTOBER WHEN WE BRIEFED YOU AND PRESENTED YOU THE INITIAL ASSESSMENT VERY QUICKLY AFTER THAT. BLESS YOU. VERY QUICKLY AFTER THAT, UH, THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE WAS FORMED. UH, TWO MEMBERS WERE APPOINTED BY EACH COUNCIL MEMBER. UH, WE HAVE TWO CO-CHAIRS AND A MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. SINCE THEN, THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE HAS HAD NINE, UH, PUBLIC MEETINGS, FOUR OF WHICH WERE MAP DRAWING SESSIONS, AND THAT, UH, THAT HELPED THEM ACHIEVE ON APRIL 4TH COMMITTEE DRAFT PLAN ONE. WE'RE NOW FOCUSED ON COMMUNITY FEEDBACK ON THE PLAN AND FOR CONTINUED TWEAKING, UH, 'CAUSE IT'S DRAFT PLAN ONE NOT PROPOSED FINAL. THOSE ARE VERY SEPARATE TERMS. UH, FINAL PROPOSED PLAN IS WHAT WE HOPE TO BRING TO YOU ON JUNE 9TH. UH, SO AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE FOCUSING ON, UH, GETTING COMMUNITY FEEDBACK ON COMMUNITY DRAFT PLAN ONE AND CONTINUING PUBLIC OUTREACH. 'CAUSE WE WILL ALWAYS FIND SOMEBODY WHO REDISTRICTING IS A NEW CONCEPT TO THEM. AND THEN WE GOTTA MAKE SURE THEY'RE INFORMED AND NOW ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS. SO THAT WILL IN THE PROCESS. SO THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A FOCUS. THE REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE HAS FOUR MORE MEETINGS CURRENTLY SCHEDULED. ALL OF THOSE WILL HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT, AND WE EXPECT, UH, [00:15:01] A FAIR NUMBER OF, UH, MAP DRAWING SESSIONS EMBEDDED IN THERE TOO. UH, WE ANTICIPATE BRINGING THE PROPOSED, UH, FINAL PROPOSED PLAN, UH, JUNE 9TH. SO, WITH THAT SAID, THAT IS STAFF'S KIND OF SETTING THE TABLE FOR NOW, THE CO-CHAIRS, UH, BONNIE PRESSER, ELDER, AND DR. LIO SCIENCE. GOOD AFTERNOON, SHORT. SO I AM BONNIE PROSSER ELDER AND I, ALONG WITH DR. ROGELIO SCIENCE, WOULD LIKE TO FIRST THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AS THE CO-CHAIRS OF THE SAN ANTONIO REDISTRICTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE. IT HAS BEEN A LOT OF WORK. IT HAS BEEN A PLEASURE, UH, TO WORK WITH THE 21 OTHER APPOINTEES THAT YOU ALL, UH, PLACED ON THIS COMMITTEE TO JOIN US AND DO THE WORK OF DEVELOPING A MAP FOR THIS COMMUNITY THAT IS BALANCED AND THAT MEETS THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, UH, MOVING FORWARD. SO THOSE 21 OTHER MEMBERS STARTED OUT DAY ONE WITH THE DRAFT MAPS THAT WERE DEVELOPED BY THE EXTERNAL CONSULTANTS. UH, WE UTILIZED THOSE MAPS TO KIND OF GET US STARTED AND INTRODUCED TO THE PROCESS OF HOW, UH, THIS MAP DRAWING PROCESS WORKED. IT WAS GOOD FOR US TO SEE A MAP TO UNDERSTAND THE, THE DISTRICTS THAT NEEDED TO BE ADJUSTED. AND THOSE DRAFT MAPS WERE, UM, THE BEGINNING TO LOOK AT AND TO SEE HOW IT WAS GOING TO WORK. THE FIRST ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE WAS TO DEVELOP THE, UM, AND APPROVE THE CRITERIA FOR REVISING THOSE MAPS AND TO DEVELOP THE PROCESS, UM, FOR COMMUNITY INPUT TO COME TO US. THE SECOND ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE WAS TO, UH, DEVELOP AND APPROVE THE PROTOCOLS FOR THE MEETING FOR THE COMMITTEE TO WORK WITH OURSELVES. WE WERE PROACTIVELY LAYING THE GROUNDWORK AND THE GROUND RULES, UM, TO ALLOW THE COMM, THE COMMITTEE TO WORK TOGETHER, UH, TO WORK THROUGH WHAT WE KNEW WOULD BE SOME MEETINGS THAT WOULD REQUIRE SOME DISCUSSION, SOME DEBATE, SOME COMPROMISE, UH, TO GET US THROUGH THIS PROCESS. SO WE UNDERSTOOD, AND WE WERE, UH, EDUCATED ON THE FACT THAT THE CITY IS GROWING. THE 2020 CENSUS DATA, AS YOU'VE HEARD, UH, WAS VERY CLEAR THAT THE CITY HAS GROWN AND THAT GROWTH DID NOT NECESSARILY, UH, AT ALL, WAS NOT EVENLY DISTRIBUTED AMONGST THE DISTRICTS. AND SO OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS, THERE'S BEEN GROWTH AS, AS YOU'VE HEARD, ON THE NORTH SIDE, UH, WHERE THOSE DISTRICTS WERE OVERPOPULATED. AND THERE WERE SOME OTHER DISTRICTS THAT WERE, UM, UNDERPOPULATED. SO, THE ONE ABSOLUTE THAT WE KNEW WOULD OCCUR WAS THAT THERE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO BE CHANGE. UH, WE KNEW WE COULD NOT COME THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND NOT HAVE SOME RESIDENTS SHIFT FROM ONE DISTRICT TO ANOTHER, BECAUSE THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT OUR CHARGE WAS. AND THAT'S WHAT WE WERE REQUIRED TO DO. SO THAT WAS AN ABSOLUTE THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE SOME REDISTRIBUTION OF, OF RESIDENTS. AND THE GOAL, OF COURSE, WAS TO CREATE DISTRICTS OF RELATIVELY EQUAL POPULATION SIZE. UM, WE WERE ALSO TAKING CARE TO, AND PAYING ATTENTION TO THE PROCESS TO ASSURE THAT MINORITY VOTING INTERESTS WERE NOT NEGATIVELY IMPACTED. WE WERE PAYING ATTENTION TO THE PRIORITIES SUCH AS MAINTAINING, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST. UH, AS, AS WAS POINTED OUT EARLIER BY, UH, MR. SEGOVIA, WE WERE WORKING TOWARDS THE IDEAL, THE IDEAL NUMBER OF 1 43, 4 94, KNOWING THAT THAT NUMBER WAS NOT GONNA BE HIT ON THE NOSE IN ALL OF THE DISTRICTS, BUT TRYING TO MOVE TOWARDS THE NUMBERS IN THAT FASHION TO CREATE, AGAIN, A BALANCED MAP WITHIN THESE DISTRICTS. AND WITHIN THE 10% DEVIATION, UM, THAT WAS REQUIRED WHILE THE COMMITTEE WAS WORKING WITH NUMERICAL COMPONENTS, [00:20:02] THE 10% DEVIATION, THE 1 43, 4 94 NUMBERS. WE ALSO WERE KEENLY AWARE THAT WE WERE DEALING WITH PEOPLE, WITH NEIGHBORHOODS, WITH NEIGHBORS, UM, WITH PEOPLE WHO WERE REPRESENTED BY YOU. AND, AND WE DID HEAR THAT. AND WE DID HAVE MEETINGS WHERE WE HAD, UH, RESIDENTS COME, HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS, UH, COME TO SPEAK, AND WE WELCOME THOSE COMMENTS AND WANTED TO HEAR, TO HEAR THOSE COMMENTS WE'RE NOT DONE. I MEAN, AS YOU'VE HEARD, WE HAVE FOUR MEETINGS LEFT TO GO. BUT WE, WE WERE OPEN TO THAT. WE ALSO UNDERSTOOD THAT THE PROCESS, WHILE IT ALLOWED FOR EVERY CITIZEN TO BE HEARD, IT PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY CITIZEN TO COME BEFORE US AND VOICE THEIR CONCERNS. WE ALSO REALIZED THAT EVERY CITIZEN'S CONCERN THAT WAS BROUGHT TO US, WE WERE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE, UM, TO MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY IN THAT PROCESS. I MEAN, IF YOU WERE COMING TO THE MEETING TO SAY, WHAT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPIEST IS THAT NOTHING CHANGED AND I GET TO STAY IN THE DISTRICT THAT I'M IN. AND THERE ARE NO MODIFICATIONS. IF, IF, IF THAT WAS THE DESIRE IT WAS, THAT WAS GOING TO BE A DESIRE IN SOME AREAS WHERE WE WEREN'T GOING TO BE ABLE, UM, TO ACHIEVE THAT FOR A PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL OR, OR NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT THAT, THAT'S WHAT THIS PROCESS REQUIRES. THAT IS, THAT IS GOING TO OCCUR IN SOME INSTANCES. SO THE COMMITTEE LISTENED TO INDIVIDUALS TO HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS, UH, TO EACH OTHER AS WE WORKED THROUGH THIS PROCESS. AS I SAID, THERE WAS DISCUSSION, DEBATE, DEBATE, REBUTTALS, UH, MEETINGS OVER TO THE SIDE, WORKING WITH THE CONSULTANTS WITH THIS SOPHISTICATED SNAZZY, UM, MAP DRAWING TECHNO WIZARDRY THAT WE HAD ACCESS TO, TO HELP US, UM, DEVELOP THESE MAPS, HELP HIT THE RIGHT BUTTON THE WRONG WAY. SO, GOING BACK TO TALK ABOUT THAT PUBLIC OUTREACH, WE DID HAVE NINE MEETINGS, UH, FROM NOVEMBER TO APRIL 4TH AND APRIL 4TH BEING THAT MEETING WHERE WE VOTED FOR THE MAP THAT YOU'RE GOING TO, UM, SEE TODAY AND, AND HEAR MORE DETAIL ABOUT IN A MOMENT. UM, AT SEVEN LOCATIONS WITHIN FOUR COUNCIL DISTRICTS. IN ADDITION TO THAT, IT WAS STREAMED ON YOUTUBE. IT'S STILL AVAILABLE TO VIEW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE SPARE TIME IN YOUR EVENING, AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE ALL OF THE WORK THAT WAS, UM, ACCOMPLISHED UP TO DATE. YOU CAN GO ONTO THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND LOOK AT ALL OF OUR, OUR MEETINGS. IT'S RECORDED AND POSTED ALSO ON ESSAY SPEAK UP. UM, THERE WERE 106 REGISTERED ATTENDEES, 44, UH, PIECES OF PUBLIC COMMENT AND 40 WRITTEN COMMENTS THAT WERE READ ALLOWED TO US SO THAT WE COULD OBTAIN THAT INFORMATION. AND THAT WAS INCLUDED. COMMENTS THAT CAME IN THROUGH AS THEY SPEAK UP, UH, 3 1 1, UH, AND OR EMAILS THAT CAME IN, UH, TO THE CITY. THEY WERE, IN ADDITION TO THOSE NINE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, THERE WERE 23 COMMUNITY MEETINGS SPRINKLED THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT. I THINK WE HIT, UH, EVERY DISTRICT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TWO. AND THOSE ARE PENDING. AND, UH, WE WILL, THOSE MEETINGS WILL OCCUR. SO AT THE END OF THIS PROCESS, EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT WILL HAVE HAD, UH, AT LEAST ONE MEETING, MULTIPLE, AND SOME, 'CAUSE OBVIOUSLY, 23 MEETINGS. UM, THERE WERE SOME DISTRICTS THAT WERE HIT MORE THAN, MORE THAN ONE, MORE THAN ONE TIME THERE IS ONGOING PUBLIC OUTREACH. 'CAUSE WE ARE, WE ARE NOT DONE. UH, WE HAVE FOUR ADDITIONAL MEETINGS. ONE IS SOON AS THIS SATURDAY. UM, THE FAQS WERE DEVELOPED AS WE WERE GOING THROUGH THESE MEETINGS AND QUESTIONS THAT WERE FREQUENTLY BEING RAISED. UH, WE WOULD TRY TO PROACTIVELY PUT THOSE OUT SO THE PUBLIC COULD ACCESS THEM. THERE WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME LEVEL OF CONCERN ABOUT PEOPLE, UH, WITH E M S SERVICES AND, AND POLICE RESPONSE TIME. AND, AND THAT WAS A REPETITIVE QUESTION THAT KEPT COMING UP IN THE MEETINGS. AND, AND WE WANTED TO BE SURE THAT PEOPLE WERE CLEAR THAT WE'RE GONNA MOVE, UM, IN SOME AREAS, DISTRICT LINES. BUT THE, WHEN YOU CALL THE POLICE, THE POLICE ARE STILL GONNA COME. WHEN YOU CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THEY'RE STILL GONNA COME. THEY'RE NOT GONNA STOP AT A DISTRICT LINE AND SAY, OH NO, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER DISTRICT. YOUR, YOUR RESPONSE AND YOUR RESPONSE TIME WILL NOT, UH, BE IMPACTED BY THAT. BECAUSE WE ALSO UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY'RE IN SOME AREAS, AND FOR SOME RESIDENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY, A DIGITAL DIVIDE. IT'S GREAT TO BE ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, UM, YOUTUBE [00:25:01] TO WATCH THE MEETINGS. BUT WE DID WANT ALSO FOR MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WHO MAY NOT BE AS SKILLED IN THAT AREA, TO, TO HAVE THE INFORMATION AND TO KNOW THAT THIS WAS HAPPENING. AND SO WE, UM, WE, THROUGH YOUR STAFF, CITY STAFF, UH, CREATED AND SENT OUT FLYERS WITH THE, UH, MEALS ON WHEELS PROGRAM TO THE SENIORS IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND THERE WAS ALSO A DOOR HANGER CAMPAIGN, UH, PARTICULARLY IN THOSE DISTRICTS THAT WERE GOING TO BE OR THOUGHT TO BE, UM, IMPACTED EARLY ON THAT WE PROPOSED AND NEW MIGHT BE IMPACTED BY THIS PROCESS. AND SO THERE WAS A DOOR HANGER CAMPAIGN IN THOSE AREAS SO THAT THEY COULD KNOW AND BE AWARE OF WHAT WAS, UH, COMING. AND ALSO, UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT MONTHLY NEWSLETTER WAS ALSO PLACED. UH, THE INFORMATION REGARDING THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS WAS ALSO PLACED IN, IN THAT FORUM. UH, ADDITIONALLY, THERE WERE, UH, THE MAPS AS THEY, THE DRAFT MAPS. AND, UH, THIS FINAL MAP, I SAY FINAL MAP. IT'S NOT A FINAL MAP. THE CURRENT COMMITTEE DRAFT, UH, HAS BEEN PLACED AT, UH, RESOURCE LIBRARIES SO THAT MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, IF THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO ACCESS IT DIGITALLY, CAN ALSO GO, UH, SEE THE HARD COPIES AT THESE LOCATIONS AND, AND GET THEIR HANDS ON AND TOUCH AND FEEL WHAT'S GOING ON AT DURING THIS PROCESS. SO, AND, AND WE ALSO, YOU KNOW, SOCIAL MEDIA IS ALWAYS THERE. IT'S AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO CAN ACCESS IT. AND THEN WE KNOW THAT YOUR COUNCIL OFFICES HAVE, UH, THE INFORMATION THERE AS WELL, SO THAT YOU CAN GET IT TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS, UH, WHO MAY BE CURIOUS ABOUT THIS PROCESS AND NEED, NEED THE INFORMATION. SO ALL OF THAT OCCURRED, AND WE WERE WORKING TO GET TO THIS MASTERPIECE, UH, WHICH IS THE DRAFT COMMITTEE PLAN ONE. UH, GETTING TO THIS REQUIRED A LOT OF SLEEVES BEING ROLLED UP. UH, LIKE I SAID, A LOT OF HARD WORK BY THE, BY THE RESIDENTS OF YOUR DISTRICTS THAT YOU, UH, APPOINTED, MANY OF WHICH ARE SEATED BEHIND US, UM, WHO DID A LOT OF THE HARD WORK. THEY WERE CREATIVE. UH, THEY WORKED TIRELESSLY TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS DRAFT COMMITTEE MAP. THERE. THEY WERE ATTENDING THE NINE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, THE, THE PUBLIC, UH, COM COMMUNITY MEETINGS THAT OCCURRED. AND THERE WERE ALSO SENT HOME TO DO HOMEWORK. I MEAN, THERE, THERE ARE MEETINGS THAT YOU DON'T SEE ON THIS LIST THAT HAPPENED DISTRICT TO DISTRICT TO IRON OUT SOME OF THE TOUGH, UH, SPOTS, TOM, TO MOVE SOME OF THE RESIDENTS WITHIN THE AREA. SO THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK IN ADDITION TO WHAT YOU SEE ON THIS, UM, IN THIS PRESENTATION THAT OCCURRED WITH COMMITTEE MEMBERS ON THE SIDE, AND THEN BROUGHT TO THE COMMITTEE MEETING SO WE COULD HAVE IT PRESENTED. UH, BECAUSE THE GOAL ALSO WAS TO HAVE THIS IN A PUBLIC, IN A PUBLIC MEETING TO CREATE THE LEVEL OF TRANSPARENCY, UH, AND PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY INPUT THAT WAS ENVISIONED WHEN YOU APPOINTED THIS COMMITTEE TO DO THIS WORK. SO, IN ADDITION TO THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE, I, I'D ALSO, AND ANDY DID MENTION THIS, UM, MR. SEGOVIA, BUT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY FROM, UH, THE CO-CHAIRS IN THE COMMITTEE THAT THE THANKS TO THE STAFF, YOUR STAFF HAS WORKED REALLY HARD TO SUPPORT US. UH, UH, ANDY SEGOVIA AND HIS STAFF, ELIANA HAS BEEN A REAL TROOPER THROUGHOUT THIS, UH, HELPING US. AND ALONG WITH THE, UH, THE OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS, UM, FROM BICKER STAFF AND WAL GALLEGOS, SID FALK AND TONY RESENDEZ FROM WAL GALLEGOS. SO, IT HAS BEEN A REAL TEAM EFFORT TO GET TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY WITH THIS DRAFT, UH, COMMITTEE MAP. AND WE DO HOPE THAT YOU ARE, UM, INTERESTED AND APPRECIATIVE OF ALL THE HARD WORK THAT YOUR APPOINTEES HAVE DONE TO GET US TO THIS POINT. WE ARE NOT DONE. THERE IS A LOT OF WORK YET TO BE DONE. UH, WE'RE GONNA BE AT THESE COMMITTEE MEETINGS LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY AS THEY NOW HAVE THE DRAFT MAP THAT THEY CAN LOOK AT AND RESPOND TO. AND WITH THAT, I'M GONNA STEP ASIDE AND ALLOW I, DR. SZ TO TAKE YOU THROUGH COMPONENTS OF THE MAP. GOOD AFTERNOON. AND IT'S BEEN A REAL PLEASURE. IT'S BEEN A LEARNING PROCESS. UH, UH, IT'S, UH, BEEN A GREAT EXPERIENCE. UM, BONNIE PUT UP, UH, THE COMMITTEE DRAFT PLAN ONE. UH, AND AS, UH, WAS NOTED EARLIER, WE HAVE THE BENCHMARK, WHICH ARE THE RED LINES THAT YOU'LL SEE. AND THOSE ARE THE EXISTING, UH, COUNCIL, COUNCIL, UH, BOUNDARIES. AND THEN YOU HAVE [00:30:01] THE DIFFERENT SHADES OF, OF, UH, COLORS THERE THAT ENCOMPASS THE, UH, THE CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN, UH, THAT HAVE BEEN MADE. KEEP IN MIND, UH, THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UH, ORIGINALLY WITH THE SIGNIFICANT, UM, UH, MOVEMENT OF POPULATIONS THAT HAD TO BE DONE, AS WAS POINTED OUT, THE DEVIATION JUST FROM THE EXISTING NUMBERS CONSISTED OF, UM, 34.63%. AND WE WERE TO BRING THAT DOWN TO 10%. SO THAT ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT WAS ADDING POPULATIONS TO, UH, DISTRICTS ONE AND DISTRICT FIVE, AND ALSO AT MINIMUM, UM, DRAWING POPULATIONS FROM EIGHT AND NINE, BUT SIX AS WELL, UH, WAS, UH, WAS ONE THAT, UH, THAT TENDED TO BE AMONG THE, UH, THE, THE LARGEST. SO THESE ARE, ARE THE, UH, THE CHANGES THAT, UH, THAT WE HAVE COME UP WITH. AND IF WE GO TO THE, THE NEXT SLIDE, WE'LL, I'LL WALK YOU THROUGH A BIT OF, UH, THE DYNAMICS BEHIND THESE PARTICULAR CHANGES. UH, SO THAT, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM, UH, FROM THIS PARTICULAR CHART, WE BROUGHT DOWN THE DEVIATION BELOW 10%, WHICH IS 9.5% OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IS TAKING THE, THE DISTRICT WITH THE LARGEST, UM, THE LARGEST DEVIATION IN A POSITIVE SENSE THAT THEY'RE, UH, THEY HAVE MORE POPULATION THAN THE 143,494. UH, AND THAT IS DISTRICT NUMBER EIGHT, AS YOU CAN SEE THERE, 3.94. AND THEN, UH, DISTRICT ONE IS THE ONE THAT IS THE SMALLEST, AND THE DEVIATION IS, UH, NEGATIVE 5.56. WE TAKE THE ABSOLUTE NUMBERS THERE. AND IF YOU ADD THOSE, THAT IS THE 9.5%, WHICH PLACES US WITHIN, UH, BELOW THAT, UH, THAT 10%, UH, DEVIATION. A COUPLE OF HIGHLIGHTS, UH, THAT, THAT WE SEE, UH, WE SEE, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, DISTRICT NUMBER FIVE GAINED, UH, ABOUT, UH, 20,000, JUST A LITTLE TADD OVER 20,000, 20,024. AND THEN DISTRICT ONE ALSO GAINED 12,331 INDIVIDUALS. AND THEN, UM, LET'S SEE, THE, UM, DISTRICT EIGHT, UM, EXPERIENCE, UM, A REDUCTION OF ABOUT 20,288, UH, DISTRICT SIX, 10,145 REDUCTION. AND THEN DISTRICT NINE WAS 8,340, UH, REDUCTION. SO YOU CAN SEE THE, THOSE WERE THE, THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER, EARLIER, UH, THE ONES THAT NEEDED TO GAIN POPULATION ONE IN FIVE, AND THE ONES THAT NEEDED TO, UH, TO, UH, REDUCE THEIR POPULATIONS. UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL ALSO SEE IN THIS PARTICULAR, IN THIS PARTICULAR, UH, TABLE, UH, IS THE PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION THAT IS, UH, LATINO FOR EX, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, AFRICAN AMERICAN, AS WELL AS NON-HISPANIC, WHITE AND ASIAN AS WELL. UH, AND THEN THE OTHER TOTAL POPULATION. AND YOU CAN SEE THEN FOR, UM, DISTRICT NUMBER ONE, UH, THERE WITH A LARGE, UH, LATINO POPULATION AT 68 POINT 88%. UH, AND THAT REPRESENTED A SLIGHT DECLINE, ABOUT 3% REDUCTION. UH, AND THEN THE OTHER ONE WAS IN NUMBER SEVEN, UH, WHICH WAS, UM, UH, THERE IN DISTRICT NUMBER SEVEN, THE HISPANIC POPULATION IS 64 POINT 57%, AND THAT REPRESENTED A REDUCTION OF ABOUT TWO POINT, UH, FIVE NINE, UH, OR SO. AND ONE OF THE CHALLENGES, OF COURSE, IS THAT WITH THESE, UH, DISTRICTS AS WELL AS OTHERS, THAT THERE IS A, UH, LARGE, UH, LATINO OR A, A SIGNIFICANT, UH, AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION. AND THEN, SO THAT IS, WE MOVE, UH, INDIVIDUALS FROM OTHER DISTRICTS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE, UH, UH, THE EIGHT AND NINE IN, IN, IN PARTICULAR, THAT WE NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT THE, UH, REPRESENTATION OF THE LATINO POPULATION, AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PARTICULAR, DID NOT FALL SIGNIFICANTLY, UH, UNDER. SO THAT WAS, UH, UH, UH, ONE OF THE, UM, FACTORS THAT WE HAD IN, UH, IN MIND. UH, AND NOW IF WE GO TO THE, TO THE NEXT SLIDE HERE, THIS PROVIDES YOU A LITTLE BIT OF, UH, WHERE THIS POPULATION SHIFTS TOOK, TOOK PLACE. SO THAT, HERE WE HAVE, UH, A COUPLE OF PIE CHARTS. DISTRICT ONE AND DISTRICT FIVE, THESE ARE THE ONES THAT GAINED THE MOST, UH, UH, IN POPULATION. AND YOU CAN SEE HERE, DISTRICT ONE, UH, IT GAINED, UH, UH, FROM, UH, DISTRICT NINE, FROM DISTRICT EIGHT, DISTRICT SEVEN AND DISTRICT TWO. AND THAT PROVIDES YOU KIND OF THE, UH, PERCENTAGE, UH, DISTRIBUTION FROM EACH OF THESE, UH, UH, DISTRICTS. AND THEN DISTRICT FIVE, UH, DREW, UH, POPULATIONS FROM DISTRICT ONE, UH, DISTRICT SIX AND, UH, DISTRICT SEVEN. AND THEN THE, THE OTHER MOVEMENTS THAT, THAT WE HAD WERE, UH, DISTRICT FOUR, WHICH GAINED COMPLETELY FROM, UH, DISTRICT SIX. UH, DISTRICT SEVEN, WHICH GAINED [00:35:01] POPULATION FROM, UH, DISTRICT EIGHT, AND THEN DISTRICT NINE, WHICH GAINED POPULATION FROM, UH, FROM DISTRICT, UH, 10. SO THAT PROVIDES YOU A LITTLE BIT OF KIND OF THE OVERVIEW OF, UH, OF THE, THE CHANGES, UH, UH, THAT, UH, THAT TOOK PLACE, THE, THE, UH, THE LEVEL OF CHANGE AND, AND WHERE THE MOVEMENTS, UH, TOOK PLACE. UH, AND AS BONNIE MENTIONED, UH, THEN WE HAVE THE FUTURE MEETINGS. THESE ARE THE FOUR FUTURE MEETINGS THAT WE HAVE ON APRIL THE 23RD, UH, THIS COMING, UH, SATURDAY, THEN MAY 2ND, MAY 10, AND THEN MAY 31ST. AND THEN WE'RE TRYING TO ALSO SCHEDULE IN THOSE TWO, UH, DISTRICTS WHERE WE HAVE NOT MET, UH, TO, TO SEE IF WE CAN ALSO SCHEDULE THOSE. UH, AND HERE WE'RE, UH, CONTINUING, UH, THE OUTREACH AND, UM, ENCOURAGING, UH, PEOPLE TO ATTEND MEETINGS, TO VOICE ANY, UH, ANY, UH, IDEAS THAT THEY HAVE, ANY, ANY CONCERNS THAT THEY HAVE. UH, AND, UM, UH, WE'RE WORKING WITH THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, MEMBERS, THE COUNCIL OFFICES, THE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS, UH, AND AND SO FORTH TO DRIVE TRAFFIC THROUGH, UM, SA UH, SPEAK UP AND THE RESOURCE LIBRARIES TO VIEW, UM, THE COMMITTEE DRAFT, UH, REPORT MAP. OKAY. AND THEN, I THINK THAT'S IT. YEAH. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, FOR THE PRESENTATION. UH, ILEANA, UM, BONNIE, DR. SES, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, UH, YOUR WORK. LET ME JUST START HERE BEFORE WE GET INTO COUNCIL CONVERSATION. AND, UM, NUMBER ONE, JUST THANK THE STAFF AS WELL AS OUR VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE MEMBERS, UH, DR. SZ AND, AND BONNIE, YOUR, YOUR WORK TO STEWARD THIS PROCESS IS, IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. WE KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS. I ALSO WANNA RECOGNIZE AND THANK, UH, MY COLLEAGUES ON THE CITY COUNCIL FOR CHOOSING TO GO THIS ROUTE. UH, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE TRIED TO MAKE THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS INDEPENDENT FROM THE POLITICS OF THE OFFICES THAT THEY REPRESENT, UH, TO THE EXTENT THAT LAW ALLOWS. UH, AND THIS IS A VERY LEGALLY GUIDED PROCESS. UH, WE ARE DOING THAT. UH, OBVIOUSLY IT'S A WORK IN PROGRESS. THERE'S GONNA BE MORE TWEAKS DOWN THE ROAD AND THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE THE PROCESS EVEN BETTER. BUT I, I THINK THIS IS A, A GREAT FIRST START, UH, IN THE EFFORT TO DO REDISTRICTING IN THE CITY ON PRINCIPLE AS OPPOSED TO POLITICS. SO, UM, WITH THAT, I THINK WE'RE MAKING SOME GOOD PROGRESS. THIS IS ONE CHECK-IN, THERE'S GONNA BE OTHERS. AND AT THE END OF THE PROCESS, UH, NOT TOO LONG FROM NOW, WE'RE GOING TO APPROVE NEW MAPS THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED BY THE COMMITTEE. UH, AND THE PROCESS OF APPROVING THOSE MAPS REQUIRES A VOTE OF THE CITY COUNCIL, WHICH WILL BE IN EFFECT, A RATIFICATION VOTE ONLY. UM, NO CHANGES ON THE DAIS, REALLY, THE WORK THAT'S, THAT, UH, GOES INTO CREATING THESE NEW MAPS ON THOSE PRINCIPLES THAT YOU OUTLINED IS GOING TO BE DONE AT THE TABLE OF THOSE COMMITTEES. SO, UH, VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE UPDATE. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE COUNCIL CONVERSATION. AND, UH, AGAIN, THANK YOU TO ALL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO HAVE DEVOTED THEIR TIME AND WORK INTO, UH, MAKING THIS HAPPEN. SO, AND, UH, THANK YOU. ALSO, I SEE SHELLEY POTTER OUT THERE AS WELL. THANK YOU, SHELLEY, FOR YOUR WORK. UM, LEMME TURN IT NOW TO OUR COLLEAGUES. WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND, AND I WANT TO ADD MY CONGRATULATIONS ON THE WORK SO FAR, THAT'S BEEN DONE. UH, YOU KNOW, I FOLLOW IT FROM AFAR, ALTHOUGH I DO WANNA, UH, ACKNOWLEDGE THE APPEARANCE OF THE TWO PEOPLE I'VE APPOINTED, UH, TO SERVE, REPRESENT DISTRICT NINE. HOLLIS GRARD, UH, IS HERE. I APPRECIATE THAT. AND LARRY LAMBOURNE, UH, THEY'VE TRIED TO KEEP ME, UH, UH, ABREAST OF WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT I TRY TO DO IT AS MUCH AS I CAN FROM A DISTANCE, BECAUSE I REALLY BELIEVE IN THE POLICY THAT WE'VE UNDERTAKEN THAT THIS SHOULD BE A, A COMMUNITY MEMBER DRIVEN PROCESS. I'VE ALWAYS OBJECTED TO THE CONCEPT THAT POLITICIANS ARE CHOOSING THEIR OWN VOTERS. I THINK THE VOTERS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHO'S GONNA REPRESENT THEM, UH, THROUGH REDISTRICTING. UH, AND I, I'VE HEARD WHAT YOU'VE SAID TODAY, AND I'VE READ THIS OVER, I, I THINK IT'S VERY THOROUGH AND IT GIVES US ALL A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE'RE HEADING ON THIS. BUT I WANT TO PROPOSE SOMETHING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF OUR, OUR, UM, OUR COUNCIL, AND THAT IS MARRYING OUR REDISTRICTING OPERATION, UH, AND INTEGRATING IT WITH OUR CITY BUDGET SO THAT IT BECOMES AN EFFECTIVE WAY OF IMPLEMENTATION ON OCTOBER 1ST. AND THE REASON WHY I SUGGEST THAT, NUMBER ONE IS SO RESIDENTS ARE CLEAR WHICH DISTRICT THEY RESIDE IN RIGHT NOW, I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING LIKE 50,000 RESIDENTS, MAYBE MORE, THAT [00:40:01] ARE AFFECTED BY THESE CHANGES. AND IF WE LOOK AT HOW MANY OF OUR REGULAR REGISTERED, UH, OUR VOTERS ARE REGISTERED OUT OF OUR POPULATION, WE GOT LIKE 900,000 REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. SO YOU'RE SAYING TWO OUTTA THREE. SO MAYBE TWO OUTTA THREE OF THESE, UH, PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING MOVED ARE REGISTERED VOTERS THAT COULD BE OUTTA 50,000 PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, 30,000 OR MORE. THEY NEED TO KNOW WHERE THEY, WHO THEY SHOULD VOTE FOR, WHICH COUNCIL OFFICE THEY SHOULD REACH OUT TO FOR ASSISTANCE OR INFORMATION, OR TO COMMENT ON. UH, RESIDENTS NEED TO KNOW WHICH COUNCIL OFFICE STAFF TO WORK WITH REGARDING REDISTRICTED NEIGHBORHOODS AND WHAT THEIR WANTS AND NEEDS ARE. I WOULD, I THINK WE SHOULD CLEARLY TIE THE BUDGET ALLOCATIONS AND PRIORITIES THAT THE COUNCIL IS GONNA BE MAKING THIS SUMMER TO THE DISTRICTS. AND SO THE RESIDENTS KNOW, UH, WHO THEIR COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE AND WHAT THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE PROPOSING TO REPRESENT THOSE 50,000 OR MORE RESIDENTS WHO ARE BEING CHANGED. I THINK ALL RESIDENTS UNDER THIS MECHANISM WOULD HAVE TIME TO RECOGNIZE WHICH CANDIDATES TO GO TO GET TO KNOW ABOUT BEFORE VOTING TAKES PLACE, AND TO MAKE SURE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO RUN KNOWS WHICH DISTRICT THEY LIVE IN BEFORE, YOU KNOW, THEY GET INTO A CAMPAIGN. AND I THINK ALSO IT WOULD PROVIDE ADEQUATE TIME FOR THE COUNTY ELECTIONS OFFICE TO PREPARE FOR VOTERS AND PRECINCTS TO MOVE FROM ONE DISTRICT TO A NEW ONE SO THAT THEY CAN UPDATE THEIR SOFTWARE, THEIR VOTING MACHINES, AND PUT OUT PUBLIC INFORMATION THAT THE VOTERS AND POTENTIAL CANDIDATES NEED TO KNOW ABOUT. SO I THINK IT MAKES SENSE IF WE'RE GONNA BE DOING A BUDGET AND WE APPROVE A, A NEW SET OF BOUNDARIES THAT WE MARRY THEM TOGETHER, UH, WHEN WE GO INTO OUR, UH, FINAL DECISION ON OUR BUDGET OCTOBER 1ST. BUT OTHER THAN THAT RECOMMENDATION, I THINK EVERYTHING ELSE IS GOING VERY SMOOTHLY. I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN. IF I, IF I MAY, IF I MAY, MAYOR, JUST TO THE, GET A CLARIFYING QUESTION. ARE YOU, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, ARE YOU SUGGESTING, COUNCILMAN, THAT WE, THE COUNCIL VOTE ON IT IN JUNE, BUT THE NEW DISTRICT LINE NOT BE EFFECTIVE UNTIL OCTOBER? IS THAT CORRECT? YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. COUNCIL MEMBER KIWATO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I, I SHOULD SAY THAT MY DISTRICT IS IN THE UNFORTUNATE POSITION OF HAVING TO SHED POPULATION. AND I SAY IT'S UNFORTUNATE BECAUSE I LOVE EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, FEEL VERY, UM, CLOSE TO A LOT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND OUR CONSTITUENTS. AND SO IT'S TERRIBLY DIFFICULT TO LOSE ANY OF THEM. BUT HAVING SAID THAT, THIS PROCESS ISN'T ABOUT ANY ONE OF US ON THE DIOCESE, IT'S ABOUT REPRESENTATION. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK THE TWO OF YOU'RE DOING. AND DRS, YOU MENTIONED THAT IT WAS A, UM, UH, A GOOD EXPERIENCE AND I APPRECIATE YOUR OPTIMISM AND YOUR POSITIVITY. BOTH OF YOU. , THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. UM, KEEPING NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST TOGETHER TRANSCENDS ANY OTHER CRITERIA. THAT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT I HOPE AND AND I HEAR IS HAPPENING, UH, IN THESE COMMITTEE MEETINGS. I WANNA ALSO THANK OUR DISTRICT SIX APPOINTEES, MR. JOHNNY BANEZ AND MR. LOUIS GOMEZ FOR THEIR THOUGHTFULNESS HARD WORK, THEIR DEDICATION TO DISTRICT SIX AND THE REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE. THIS IS NOT EASY WORK. I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S TAXING AND, UM, STRESSFUL. AND SO I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE, UH, WORKING ON, ON THIS, UM, REDISTRICTING PROCESS. I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS NOW THAT THIS FIRST MAP HAS BEEN DRAWN, AND MAYBE THIS IS A QUESTION FOR ANDY. WHAT'S EXPECTED OF THE COMMITTEE? WHAT, WHAT IS THE PROCESS? WHAT IS THE REMAINDER OF THE PROCESS LOOK LIKE? THE, UH, REMAINDER OF THE PROCESS COUNCILWOMAN IS NOW THAT WE HAVE A, UH, DRAFT MAP THAT THE COMMITTEE CAN NOW SHIFT AND, AND, AND FOCUS THE, UH, FOLLOWING UP MEETINGS ON GETTING INPUT ON A MAP NOW, RIGHT? UH, THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE. AND, UH, THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THEY'LL COME BACK WITH A DIFFERENT MAP BASED ON THAT INPUT THEY GET FROM THIS INITIAL MAP. BUT IT'S ALSO A POSSIBILITY THAT, UH, AFTER IT IS SOCIALIZED WITH THE COMMUNITY AND WE GET, THEY GET ADDITIONAL INPUT THAT IT, THE DRAFT MAP ONE BECOMES THE FINAL. WE JUST DON'T KNOW, UH, THAT'LL ALL BE BASED ON WHAT INPUT WE GET, NOT ONLY FROM THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, BUT FROM THE PUBLIC, UH, IN THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, MONTH OR SO. IN TERMS OF THE CONTINUED MEETINGS, WHAT DOES THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PROCESS LOOK LIKE FROM HERE ON, OUT, OUT, OUTSIDE OF THE REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE? I MEAN, I KNOW WE'VE HAD, I THINK EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT HAS HAD REDISTRICTING INFORMATIVE MEETINGS, RIGHT? UM, IS IS THERE MORE THAN THAT OR, YEAH, YEAH. YES. WE, UM, AND, AND WE VERY MUCH, UH, WORK WITH YOUR STAFF IN TERMS OF IF THERE'S ADDITIONAL MEETINGS THAT WE, YOU NEED TO HAVE, WE WANT TO HAVE, WE O OBVIOUSLY ARE OPEN TO THAT. UH, THERE'S THE PUBLIC OUTREACH THAT THEY OUTLINE IN TERMS OF SOCIAL MEDIA DOOR, UH, DOOR HANGER CAMPAIGNS. [00:45:01] OKAY. ALL THAT WILL CONTINUE, UH, AS WE APPROACH THE POINT WHERE WE, THEY'RE READY TO, UH, HAVE A FINAL MAP PROPOSED TO YOU. BUT ALL THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WILL CONTINUE, UH, GOING FORWARD. OKAY. OKAY. YOU KNOW, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN. I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF REDISTRICTING IS KEEPING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER, POPULATION HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY, LISTENING TO THEIR CONCERNS, UM, AND YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT THEY WANT. I KNOW THAT WE, LIKE I MENTIONED, I MEAN, SOME OF US HAVE TO SHED, BUT WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LISTENING AND, AND, AND ACTING ON THE COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS. AS THE COMMUNITY COMMITTEE CONTINUES THEIR REDISTRICTING PROCESS AND WORKS, UH, TO FIND THE FINAL MAP, WE'LL VOTE ON OUR HOPE. WE CONTINUE TO ENSURE THAT THE COMMUNITIES ARE ARE HEARD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND IF I MAY, COUNCILMAN LAURA WILL GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO WITH A, WITH A SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF PUBLIC OUTREACH. UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCILMAN. THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. UM, WE ARE PLANNING TO LAUNCH AN ADDITIONAL CAMPAIGN TO GATHER COMMUNITY INPUT WITH SOME TARGETED SPANISH ADVERTISING, UM, THROUGH UNIVISION AND ALSO THROUGH OUR IHEART MEDIA. THAT'LL INCLUDE SOME DIGITAL ADVERTISING, AND THEN WE'RE DOING SOME ON THE GROUND EFFORTS, INCLUDING YARD SIGNS, ANOTHER ROUND OF DOOR HANGERS, ESPECIALLY TARGETING THOSE AREAS THAT WE'LL SEE ADJUSTMENTS ON THE PROPOSED MAP. THANK YOU. AND I, I ALWAYS OFFER WHEN ANYBODY'S BLOCK BLOCKING IN MY DISTRICT, I ALWAYS OFFER TO GO WITH HIM, BUT I FEEL LIKE I CAN'T DO THAT THIS TIME, RIGHT? , I'VE GOTTA STAY AWAY. UH, BUT I, I DO APPRECIATE THE, THE DOOR KNOCKING, ESPECIALLY IN, IN, UM, THE EDGEWOOD AREA OF MY DISTRICT. THAT'S HOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE REALLY GONNA HEAR ABOUT THE PROCESS, SO I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER KEEO, HDA, COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO TO YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, AND I WANNA THANK, UH, LILIANA CASTILLO FOR THE WORK, UH, THAT SHE'S PUT INTO THE, PUT INTO THIS PROCESS AND FACILITATING OUR DISTRICT FIVE COMMUNITY MEETING. UM, THAT WAS A GREAT CONVERSATION. WE HAD, UH, PARTICIPANTS FROM SEVERAL DISTRICTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY SHOW UP AND ASK, UH, IMPORTANT QUESTIONS, AND WE HAD GREAT DIALOGUE. UM, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT THIS PROCESS IS ABOUT, RIGHT? WELL, UH, LEGALLY REQUIRED. ULTIMATELY, THIS PROCESS IS ABOUT COMMUNITIES AND KEEPING, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS TOGETHER. UM, WITH THIS PROPOSED PLAN. UH, I, I, I AM SUPPORTIVE OF WHAT IT, IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, AND THE WORK THAT OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS HAVE PUT IN, UM, WITH THAT, UH, I, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE PROCESS AND STEPS THAT WE'VE TAKEN, UH, TO INCLUDE THE PUBLIC IN THIS PROCESS, SIMILAR TO OUR BOND, UM, UH, OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES THAT WE'VE HAD, RIGHT? I, I THINK THAT'S WHEN WE HAVE, UH, THE BEST PRODUCT, WHETHER IT'S A POLICY OR A PLAN, WHEN WE PUT IT IN THE HANDS OF COMMUNITY, I THINK THAT'S WHEN WE GET THE BEST PRODUCT. UM, SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THESE CONTINUED, UH, COMMUNITY INPUT PROCESSES. I REALLY VALUE THAT, UH, FOLKS CAN CALL 3 1 1 TO GIVE INPUT ON THIS PROCESS TO HAVE IT, UM, DIRECTED TOWARDS THE, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO REVIEW. UM, BUT WITH THAT, RIGHT, I, I'M GRATEFUL FOR AMY VELMA AND CLIFF, OUR APPOINTEES AND OUR SUBSTITUTE APPOINTEE FOR, UM, RIGHT, DONATING THEIR TIME TO DISTRICT FIVE AND TO REPRESENT, UM, SAN ANTONIO RESIDENTS AS A WHOLE ON THIS PROCESS. SO, REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THEM, UH, AND THEIR TIME, AS WELL AS, UH, THE, THE STAFF AT OUR LADY OF THE LAKE WHO, UM, FACILITATED OUR COMMUNITY CONVERSATION AND MEETING, AND OF COURSE, THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE PUT IN AND PUT INTO THIS PROCESS, CONTINUE TO ASK QUESTIONS, UH, AND CALL 3 1 1 TO GIVE THAT, THAT INPUT ON, UM, WHAT THEIR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS ON EXPANDING. UM, I, I, I LOVE SAN ANTONIO, SO I'M IN THE GREAT POSITION TO WHERE WE'RE GOING TO GROW AND EXPAND. UM, AND I'M EXTREMELY, UM, PLEASED WITH THE PROCESS AND I'M, I'M READY TO THROW IT DOWN FOR, UM, MY NEW CONSTITUENTS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I WANT TO START OFF BY THANKING THE DISTRICT TWO, UH, REDISTRICTING COM, UH, COMMITTEE MEMBERS, UH, IF YOU WOULD RAISE YOUR HAND, UH, DWAYNE ROBINSON AND DEVORA FROST WHO ARE HERE WITH US IN THE AUDIENCE. IF YOU CHECK UNDER YOUR SEATS, THERE ARE MAPS, UM, WAY BACK IN MARCH, UH, WITH, IN WHAT FEELS LIKE THREE YEARS AGO, UM, WE HELD A REDISTRICTING COMMUNITY MEETING, UM, TO GET RESIDENTS ENGAGED EARLY ON. AND SO I WANT TO THANK, UM, BOTH OF OUR COMMITTEE MEMBERS AS WELL AS BONNIE PROSSER ELDER FOR, UM, SHOWING UP AND BEING THERE AND MAKING SURE OUR CONSTITUENTS, UH, FELT HEARD. UM, WHEN I THINK OF REDISTRICTING, I THINK OF MY FIRST YEAR OF TEACHING, AND I HAD A GOAL THAT WITHIN THE FIRST FOUR DAYS, I WOULD LEARN ALL OF MY STUDENTS' NAMES. AND, UH, I WOULD'VE GOTTEN THERE TOO. BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS, THOSE FIRST FEW DAYS OF SCHOOL, MORE STUDENTS WILL ENROLL LATE, UM, TEACHERS WILL SWAP SPECIFIC COURSES, UM, MORE TEACHERS WILL BE HIRED DEPENDING ON WHAT SCHOOL YOU DISTRICT YOU'RE IN. UM, AND THINGS BECOME A LITTLE IMBALANCED. AND SO WE START TO MOVE STUDENTS AROUND AND THERE'S [00:50:01] THAT FEELING OF, OH, BUT I WAS REALLY LIKING MY TEACHER. I WANT TO STAY WITH THEM. BUT, UM, WE WANNA CREATE A BALANCE AND FAIR ACCESS TO RESOURCES. AND SO THAT WOULD HAPPEN. AND SO I THINK OF THIS VERY MUCH LIKE THAT. UM, THAT BEING SAID, I HAVE EITHER THREE OR FOUR REQUESTS ASK QUESTIONS. NUMBER ONE IS GONNA BE, UM, ABOUT THE QUALITY OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOW THAT PLAYS A ROLE. UM, AND I THINK THIS FALLS SOMEWHAT IN LINE WITH, UH, COUNCILMAN COURAGES, UH, QUESTION. UM, DURING OUR TOWN, DURING OUR REDISTRICTING MEETING, I WAS TELLING ONE OF MY CONSTITUENTS ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE THAT IF THEY WERE TO BE MOVED OUTTA THE DISTRICT, UH, INTO SAY, NINE OR 10, WHAT HAPPENS IS DISTRICT TWO'S INFRASTRUCTURE IS GONNA STAY ABOUT THE SAME. WE'VE, WE'RE IN A PLACE NOW POST EQUITY LENS WHERE WE'RE GONNA GET MORE FUNDING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE. AND SO IF THEY GET MOVED OUT INTO DISTRICT NINE OR 10, THEY'RE GONNA BE A DISTRICT TWO NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS NOW IN DISTRICT NINE OR 10. AND SO THEY'RE NOT GONNA HAVE, IF, IF THINGS STAY THE SAME, THEY'RE NOT GONNA HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF FUNDING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE. AND SO WHAT I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING IS, IS THERE A WAY TO LOOK AT THE MAP AS IT'S DRAWN NOW, OR AS THIS, THIS PLAN IS DRAWN, AND SEE WHAT THE AVERAGE, UH, P C I SCORE WOULD BE, UM, FOR EACH OF THE NEW DISTRICTS AND SEE IF MAYBE THAT'LL PLAY. I, I JUST WANNA SEE THAT. AND I THINK THAT SHOULD PLAY A ROLE IN, UH, THE COMMITTEE'S DECISION MAKING. THE SECOND THING IS GOING TO BE ABOUT, UM, I'LL BE VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT THIS PRECINCT. SO 41 12 IS A DISTRICT 10 PRECINCT. AND WHAT I SAW AS A LEGAL REQUIREMENT, UM, WAS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF, UH, I WAS A MATH TEACHER, Y'ALL CONTIGUITY, UH, THIS ESTABLISHING CONTINUITY CONTIGUITY. UM, AND THAT IS JUST A RANDOM DISTRICT 10 PRECINCT IN DISTRICT TWO. AND SO I'M WONDERING WHY THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS TO BE MOVED. GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNSEL. AGAIN, I'M TONY RESENDEZ, OUTSIDE COUNSEL HERE TO ASSIST WITH THE PROCESS. AND I DO REAL QUICK, WANNA APPLAUD YOU ALL FOR THIS PROCESS. IT'S BEEN AN HONOR TO, TO WORK WITH THE COMMITTEE AND THE PROCESS IS, IS HUGELY IMPORTANT. AND, AND IT'S BEEN A LOT OF WORK, BUT IT'S BEEN REALLY GOOD. SO, UM, YES, SIR, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, 41 12 IS NOT, UM, CONTIGUOUS WITH 10, BUT HISTORICALLY THAT WAS DONE. AND ARE THE, THE, THE GUIDELINES THAT WE'RE ALLOWED TO USE ARE TO USE THE, THE, THE DISTRICTS AS THEY'RE CURRENTLY SHAPED, AND THEN ALSO KEEP THEM CONTIGUOUS AND COMPACT ALONG WITH THE OTHER GUIDELINES, POPULATION AND, AND COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST AS BEST AS WE CAN. UH, THIS PARTICULAR, UM, AREA WOULD CHANGE THE, THE DEMOGRAPHIC NUMBERS TO A POINT WHERE WE WANTED TO BE CAREFUL WITH. UM, IT'S A PART OF TOWN THAT IS, IS, UM, THE DEMOGRAPHIC MAKEUP IS DIFFERENT, SO WE WANT TO BE VERY SENSITIVE TO THAT. UM, PART OF THE GOAL IS TO MAINTAIN THE, THE, THE BLACK STRENGTH INTO, UH, BECAUSE IT HAS PERFORMED. AND LEGALLY WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE DISTRICTS, UH, WITH MINORITY POPULATIONS CONTINUE TO PERFORM. AND WHILE IT'S SMALL, UM, IT, IT, IT, IT CAN BE, UH, SIGNIFICANT. SO, UM, BUT WE WILL LOOK AT THAT AGAIN, JUST TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT. WHEN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT, THE WHOLE COMPACTNESS AND CONTIGUOUS, WAIT A MINUTE, THIS IS AN ISLAND OUT THERE. UM, SO ARGUABLY THOUGH, IT'S, IT'S CONTIGUOUS BECAUSE THE TERRELL HILLS, UM, IT'S NOT PART OF SAN SAN ANTONIO. SO WHEN YOU CAN CONNECT THE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE THE MAP AND YOU CONNECT THE BLUE, ARGUABLY WE COULD, WE COULD ARGUE WITH THE STRAIGHT FACE AND, AND O OBVIOUSLY THAT HAS BEEN DONE HISTORICALLY, AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT. SO THAT'S KIND OF THE IDEA WITH THE COMMITTEE WAS AWARE OF IT, BUT THEY FELT, LET'S KEEP THAT FOR NOW. SO, BUT VERY GOOD QUESTION. THANK YOU. AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK INTO IT AGAIN. UM, IT'S FINE. UH, I JUST WANTED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY SO THAT IF WE'RE, IF WE'RE, IF I'M EXPLAINING TO MY CONSTITUENTS WHAT SOME OF THE, UH, THE GUIDELINES ARE, WHY WOULD THAT BE THE WAY IT IS? AND SO ON THE SURFACE, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S NOT CON UH, COMPACT AND CONTIGUOUS, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK A LITTLE DEEPER, WE CAN ARGUE THAT IT'S, DON'T WORRY, PERRY, I'M NOT TRYING TO, I'M NOT TRYING TO, FOR THE CONSTITUENTS OF DISTRICT 10, I WANT Y'ALL TO CONTINUE TO PARTY WITH PERRY. I DON'T, I'M NOT TRYING TO TAKE Y'ALL'S TEACHER AWAY. I'M NOT TRYING TO TAKE Y'ALL'S TEACHER AWAY. UM, BUT, BUT, BUT GOOD QUESTION, AND I'M GLAD YOU ASKED IT BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT, IT'S GOOD FOR YOU AS COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE MAYOR TO BE AWARE OF THAT. WE'RE AWARE OF IT, IT'S BEEN ANALYZED, IT'S BEEN LOOKED AT, AND THERE'S A HISTORY BEHIND IT, AND THERE'S LEGAL SIGNIFICANCE WITH REGARD TO WHERE IT'S AT. THANK YOU. YES. UM, I APPRECIATE THAT. I WANTED TO, UM, I WAS LOOKING AT SOME OF THE GUIDELINES AS WELL, AND WE, UH, ONE OF THE [00:55:01] THINGS WAS, UM, UH, FOR ME, SOMETHING THAT'S OF CONCERN IS BRACKEN RIDGE PARK. UM, BRACKEN RIDGE PARK I THINK IS GOING TO BE AN ISSUE. RIGHT NOW. IT'S SPLIT BETWEEN TWO DISTRICTS, DISTRICT ONE AND DISTRICT TWO. UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I DON'T THINK WOULD, UM, IS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT A GOAL WOULD BE IF WE WERE TO ESTABLISH NEW, UH, LINES WE WOULDN'T NORMALLY WANT TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS TO REPRESENT. UM, THIS IS ONE AREA WHERE I THINK IT'S, UH, VERY DISTINCT. UM, WE HAVE TWO, WE HAVE SEVERAL NEIGHBORHOODS THAT, UM, FALL AROUND THE AREA THAT HAVE DISTINCT INTEREST IN THE HERITAGE TREES, THE WILDLIFE. THERE'S BEEN A LOT GOING ON AT BRACKENRIDGE PARK, Y'ALL. UM, THE CULTURAL AND HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PARK AND WALL STRUCTURE, UM, AND THEN ALSO JUST DEVELOPMENT WITH RESPECT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN DISTRICT ONE AND DISTRICT TWO. AND SO, WHILE I THINK ORIGINALLY WHEN A LOT OF THESE BATTLES STARTED TAKING PLACE, I MIGHT'VE SAID, YOU KNOW, PUT IN DISTRICT ONE OR PUT IN DISTRICT TWO. UM, I THINK THAT I, I MEAN, I WOULD PREFER, I'M TALKING ABOUT 32 0 7 AND 31 78 BECAUSE OF THOSE FACTORS. AND THE, EVEN THOUGH IT'S A PARK, IT'S AN ASSET. I THINK IT IS ONE THAT IS VERY DISTINCT AND SEPARATE FROM OTHER TYPES OF PARKS WHERE THERE IS AN INTEREST IN BOTH DISTRICT ONE RESIDENTS AND DISTRICT TWO RESIDENTS. I DO NOT THINK IT SHOULD BE SPLIT. SO I JUST WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT FOR EVERYONE. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR. MAYOR, IF I MAY, I WANT TO ADDRESS THE COUNCILMAN'S FIRST POINT, WHICH I THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP, COUNCILMAN, BECAUSE, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, AND I'M WEARING MY EQUITY HAT NOW, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO LOOKING AT, AT OUR BUDGET THROUGH THE EQUITY LENS, OUR FIRST CUT IS THROUGH DISTRICTS. SO YOU'RE RIGHT IN TERMS OF, UH, TRYING TO BALANCE THAT. BUT, UH, WE ALSO ARE GONNA USE, UH, GO A DEEPER DIVE AND USE OUR EQUITY ATLAS. 'CAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE DO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT AS WE LOOK AT IT FROM A BUDGETARY STANDPOINT, WE'RE WE'RE ADDRESSING THOSE WITH THE MOST NEED. AND SO, TO YOUR POINT, THAT SHOULDN'T MEAN WHETHER IT'S IN DISTRICT TWO OR IN DISTRICT 10, AND WE DRIVE DOWN AND LOOK AT IT MORE FROM AN EQUITY ATLAS STANDPOINT. THE DISTRICT LINES AT LEAST THEORETICALLY SHOULDN'T MATTER, BUT THAT'LL BE WORK WE NEED TO DO DURING THE BUDGETING PROCESS. SO THANKS FOR BRINGING UP THAT POINT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ, COUNCIL MEMBER RJA GARCIA. THANK YOU MAYOR. AND, UH, THANK YOU ILANA FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU BOTH FOR, FOR SERVING. UM, I DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF QUESTIONS BECAUSE I THINK THAT YOU ALL DID A, A GREAT JOB. AND, UH, I DO WANNA THANK MY TWO APPOINTEES. I KNOW ONE OF THEM IS HERE, ELO , AND MIGUEL SEPULVEDA. UM, THE, THE ONE QUESTION THAT I HAVE, AND IT'S MORE GENERAL, AND, UM, I KNOW THAT THE PUBLIC WAS ENCOURAGED TO SHARE INPUT AND COMMENTS, AND WE HAVEN'T HAD ONE JUST YET IN DISTRICT THREE OR FOUR, AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE WORKING ON THAT. DID WE HAVE A BALANCED NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO GAVE COMMENTS? LIKE, DO YOU HAVE A BREAKDOWN OF WHERE THE COMMENTS CAME FROM EACH DISTRICT, BY ANY CHANCE? THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION. UH, ALL THAT TO SAY, I DO NOT HAVE THAT RIGHT NOW, BUT CAN VERY EASILY GET THAT FOR YOU. OKAY, NO PROBLEM. AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION IS, UNDER THE PROPOSED NEW MAPS, WHAT'S THE TOTAL POPULATION DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LEAST POPULATED DISTRICT AND THE MOST POPULATED DISTRICT, AND HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO WHAT IT WAS PREVIOUSLY? OKAY, LET'S SEE. UH, WE DON'T HAVE IT RIGHT OFF HAND. I DON'T THINK IT'S IN THERE. AND YOU, YOU CAN GET ME THAT LATER. THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM. AND I KNOW I SAID THAT WAS THE LAST QUESTION, BUT THIS ONE'S AN EASY ONE. HOW MANY TOTAL, UH, PRECINCTS, UM, OR, OR NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE BEEN DIVIDED INTO TWO COUNCIL DISTRICTS? IS THE QUESTION, HOW MANY HAVE BEEN DIVIDED BY THIS PROCESS? YES, SORRY. BY THIS PROCESS. BY THIS PROCESS. NONE. OKAY. UM, I, I WILL BE OVERSTATING THAT. UM, BUT, UH, I WILL SAY THAT PART OF THE PROCESS WAS, UM, TAKING ONES THAT PERHAPS WERE DIVIDED OKAY. AND INTENTIONALLY BRINGING THEM BACK TOGETHER. GOT IT. SO WE BROUGHT EVERYONE THAT WAS ALREADY DIVIDED AND, AND KEPT THEM IN ONE DISTRICT. I DON'T BELIEVE, I DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE REUNITED ALL OF THEM. GOT IT. OKAY. BUT I CAN DEFINITELY LOOK INTO THAT. OKAY. PLEASE, JUST, JUST TO FOLLOW UP. THANK YOU. THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, JUST ON HOW THIS PRESENTATION IS LAID OUT, JUST AN OVERALL, AND THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH FOR COMING OUT TODAY TO TALK ABOUT THAT. AND I WANT TO THANK MY REPRESENTATIVES, COUNCILMAN SOLES AND COUNCILMAN CLAMP, WHO'S ACTUALLY HERE TODAY, UH, THAT THEY'VE BEEN PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROCESS AS WELL. UM, ON THESE [01:00:01] MAPS, TO ME, IT'S NOT CLEAR IN EACH DISTRICT WHAT'S GOING OUT OR WHAT'S COMING IN. IS THERE ANY WAY TO LAY THESE MAPS OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE CLEARLY? AND I'M TALKING FOR THE PUBLIC. 'CAUSE PUBLIC DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW WHAT PRECINCT THEY'RE IN. UH, BUT WHEN THEY LOOK AT A MAP, THEY CAN SAY, YES, WE'RE MOVING TO DISTRICT SEVEN OR NINE, OR WHATEVER, OR WE'RE GOING INTO THIS DIFFERENT DISTRICT. SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE THESE MAPS RELAYED OUT TO MAKE IT MORE CLEAR WHAT'S, WHAT THE PROPOSED AREAS THAT ARE GOING AWAY AND THE PROPOSED AREAS THAT ARE COMING INTO EACH DISTRICT. SO IF YOU COULD DO THAT, THAT WOULD BE A BIG HELP TO ME, UH, TO SHOW TO MY FOLKS IN DISTRICT 10. WE CAN DO THAT, COUNCILMAN. IN FACT, IF YOU WANT, WE CAN. WE, THE, THE GOOD NEWS IS WHEN WE HAVE THE MAP DRAWING SESSIONS, THE SOFTWARE ALLOWS US TO DRILL DEEP DOWN INTO IT, AND YOU CAN, AND, AND THE COMMITTEE AND THE PUBLIC CAN, CAN SEE WITH A LOT OF DETAIL DOWN TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED IN TERMS OF MOVING IT'S DIFFICULT GIVEN OUR TECHNOLOGY HERE THAT WE CAN'T DO THAT, YOU KNOW, IN THIS FORUM. BUT CERTAINLY WE CAN PROVIDE MORE DETAIL AND, AND MAYBE EVEN RUN THAT SOFTWARE. SO YOU CAN SEE IN, IN, IN, AS I SAID, BY, BY NEIGHBORHOOD DETAIL WHAT IS MOVING AND WHAT IS STAYING. YEAH, I, I MEAN, UH, YES, I'M, I CERTAINLY WANNA SEE THAT, BUT I'M TELLING YOU, PEOPLE AROUND THE CITY WANNA SEE THAT ALSO, AND NOT JUST TRYING TO COMPARE THE ORIGINAL MAP TO THIS MAP THAT YOU REALLY CAN'T SEE THAT DIFFERENTIATION ON, ON THESE MAPS. SO IF WE CAN GET THAT OUT THERE, THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC. UM, GREAT. UM, YOU KNOW, I, I, I'M NOT GONNA GET INTO THAT LITTLE BITTY AREA DOWN THERE, BUT, UH, UH, I, I WILL LEAN ON WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THE PAST AND KEEPING THE DISTRICTS AS THEY HAVE BEEN, UM, HISTORICALLY, AND I WILL, I WILL STAND BY THAT AND HOPEFULLY THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE CASE IN, IN THIS PARTICULAR MAP. UH, THERE'S RATIONALE FOR IT AND WE NEED TO USE THAT RATIONALE. FOLKS WANT TO STAY IN DISTRICT 10, I CAN TELL YOU THAT. UM, SO I, I DON'T WANT TO GET OUTSIDE OF THAT AND TRY TO MAKE CHANGES STRICTLY BASED BECAUSE IT LOOKS DIFFERENT. OKAY. WE SHOULDN'T BE GETTING INTO THAT. SO I, I FULLY SUPPORT ON, UM, UM, WHAT, WHAT Y'ALL ARE SHOWING RIGHT NOW, AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT Y'ALL PUT INTO THIS. THANK Y'ALL. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO MAYOR. UM, SO I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN PERRY. IT'D BE GREAT TO HAVE SOME MAPS THAT, TO SHOW THE PUBLIC THAT, UH, PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARITY. I WENT TO THE CITY'S WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY LOOK AT WHERE, UM, WHERE YOU CAN LOOK AT THE UPDATED DRAFT PLAN, AND IT'S FAIRLY CLEAR WHAT AREAS ARE BEING MOVED, UH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CITYWIDE MAP. BUT THEN WHEN YOU TRY AND DRILL DOWN AND YOU LOOK AT THE, THE INDIVIDUAL MAPS FOR EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT, IT'S, IT'S DIFFICULT TO TELL WHICH ONES HAVE BEEN PROPOSED TO BE MOVED OR NOT. AND SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. THE OTHER THING IS, I'M JUST WONDERING IF, IF WE, ANYONE IS CONSIDERED, UM, MAYBE MAILING, UH, RESIDENTS OF ANY OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS OR PRECINCTS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED TO BE MOVED INTO A, A DIFFERENT DISTRICT AND LETTING THEM KNOW ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE INPUT. THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU. AND COUNCILMAN, CERTAINLY WE CAN, WE'LL TAKE THAT AND, AND SEE IF WE CAN MAKE THAT. I, I'M, I, I DON'T SEE ANY REASON WHY WE CAN'T MAKE THAT PART OF OUR OUTREACH EFFORTS AGAIN, PARTICULARLY NOW THAT WE PASSED A MILESTONE WHERE WE DO HAVE A DRAFT MAP, WE CAN FOCUS ON THOSE AREAS THAT WE ARE PROPOSING TO MOVE. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO. COUNCIL MEMBER VIRON. THANK YOU. I WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK. UH, THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME WE DID THIS. I KNOW IT WASN'T EASY. I WANNA THANK MY REPRESENTATIVES, FRANK AND REBECCA FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND, UH, YOU KNOW, BEING THERE AND LISTENING. I THINK THIS HAS BEEN A GOOD PROCESS BECAUSE YOU DID GET TO THE, TO THE POINT IN DRAFT ONE, MEETING THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS, UNDERSTANDING. I FEEL LIKE Y'ALL HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRICTS AND THE, AND THE COMMUNITY. SO I, WE NEED A BALANCED POPULATION THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT, AND YOU'RE, YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB WORKING, UH, TOWARDS THAT. UM, MY ONE THING, AND I, I WILL CONTINUE TO SAY THIS, IS THERE WAS AN UNDER COUNT FROM 2022. AS I LOOK AT MY DISTRICT AND I LOOK AT SOME OF THE POPULATIONS, I CAN TELL [01:05:01] YOU WITH THE ASIAN, UH, POPULATION THAT JUST LOOKS WRONG. UM, IT WITH, I THINK IT WAS VOTING, JUST SOME OF THOSE NUMBERS JUST LOOK WRONG, AND I WANNA ATTEST IT. 'CAUSE THE CLIMATE, THE PANDEMIC, UM, THEY LOOK WRONG FOR MY DISTRICT. AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO TAKE A LOOK. UH, ONE THING I'D LIKE TO SEE IS MAKE SURE THAT C AND E WHEN THEY'RE DOING THE OUTREACH, IT'S IN SPANISH AND THEY HAVE THAT OPTION FOR, UM, OUR RESIDENTS AND MAYBE OTHER LANGUAGES THAT WE MIGHT NEED. UM, I WILL BE HOSTING A DISTRICT MEETING ON, UM, FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ON MAY 24TH FROM SIX 30 TO SEVEN 30 FOR PRE-K FOR SA AT THE SOUTH SIDE CENTER. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING THAT, UH, HAVING EVERYONE OUT THERE FOR THAT. AND I GUESS THE ONLY QUESTION THAT I REALLY HAVE, UH, ANDY, IS MOVING THE DATES. SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS, UM, THIS WAS GONNA GO IN EFFECT JANUARY 1ST, 2023, BUT, UH, COUNCILMAN COURAGE HAS ASKED THAT IT MOVE TO OCTOBER, 2022, UH, LEGALLY. IS THERE ANY, JUST TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT. LEGALLY, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, WE HAVE THE, UH, THE FLEXIBILITY TO START IT IN OCTOBER. UM, ONCE THE COUNCIL VOTES IN IT ON JUNE, WE CAN HAVE, UH, THE ACTUAL LINES NOT TAKEN TO EFFECT UNTIL OCTOBER. AND THAT WOULD PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, AGAIN, TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE AS MUCH PUBLIC OUTREACH AS WE CAN, UH, TO THOSE, UH, INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE GONNA BE CHANGING FROM ONE DISTRICT TO ANOTHER. AND WE ALSO WASN'T A FACTOR IN ENOUGH TIME IN TERMS OF THE JANUARY TIME. WE ALSO HAVE TO CONSIDER THE FACT THAT BECAUSE THERE WILL BE NEW BOUNDARIES, PEOPLE WHO, FOR EXAMPLE, MAY WANT TO RUN FOR A DISTRICT OFFICE, THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE, THEY'RE IN THE DISTRICT THAT THEY WANNA RUN IT. SO WE HAVE TO FACTOR THAT IN AS WELL. BUT SO FAR, UH, FROM WHAT WE UNDERSTAND THE OCTOBER ONE TIMEFRAME, IN TERMS OF MAKING IT COME INTO EFFECT, THAT, THAT'S VERY WORKABLE. OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THAT IT, IT WAS, IT WAS, UH, WORKABLE. THE OTHER THING I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE IS MAKE SURE WE GET THIS INFORMATION ON OUR INFO BOARDS AT THE LIBRARIES, BECAUSE THAT'S, AND MY MCCREE LIST LIBRARY IS NOW OPEN, SO PEOPLE WILL BE VISITING THERE. AND, UM, I THINK THIS, THAT PUTTING IT OUT THERE WILL GET MORE FEEDBACK ALSO FROM THE RESIDENTS. UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, UM, I KNOW THIS ISN'T AN EASY PROCESS, AND IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT BECAUSE SOME, UM, THIS IS IMPACTING OTHERS, BUT I THINK THIS IS PART OF THE CHANGE AND THE GROWTH AND IN CONSIDERATION FOR DISTRICT THREE. I HAVE A LOT OF, I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU HOW MUCH DEVELOPMENT I HAVE COMING. AND SO IN 10 YEARS, I MAY BE AT THE POINT WHERE MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, UH, ARE RIGHT NOW, DISTRICT EIGHT, COUNCILMAN PALIS AND, AND DISTRICT NINE COUNCILMAN COURAGE WHERE WE'RE HAVING TO LOOK AT THIS. SO, BUT I THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, AND I, I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU GUYS AGAIN. THANK YOU. IF I MAY, MAYOR, REAL QUICKLY, CAN I ADDRESS COUNCILMAN'S, UH, UH, FIRST POINT, WHICH IS ON THE UNDER COUNT POTENTIAL UNDER COUNT, I WOULD BE THE FIRST TO SAY THAT PROBABLY THERE WERE POPULATIONS THAT WERE UNDER COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. UH, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S, THERE'S REAL ISSUES IN TERMS OF MAKING SURE EVERYBODY'S COUNTED. UH, HOWEVER, WE HAVE THE NUMBERS THAT ARE GIVEN TO US BY THE CENSUS, AND WE HAVE TO OPERATE WITH THOSE NUMBERS. AND, AND, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE FACED WITH. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER VIRON. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND FOR YOUR WORK OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS. I'M SURE IT WASN'T EASY. UM, I ALSO WANNA THANK MY TWO OUTSTANDING COMMITTEE MEMBERS, MS. LISA MARIE GOMEZ, AND, UH, MS. FRANCIS GONZALEZ FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION AND FOR THEIR, UM, THEIR COMMITMENT TO HOW THEY THOUGHT THIS PROCESS SHOULD BE AND WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS IMPORTANT IN THE PROCESS AND THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SPEAK UP FOR THAT. LAST WEEK, WE HELD, UH, A DISTRICT SEVEN TOWN HALL MEETING ON THIS. UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH DR. S FOR BEING THERE, UM, AT RUDDER MIDDLE SCHOOL. AND, UH, I THINK IT WAS A GREAT CONVERSATION. UH, WE HAD SOME BIG MAPS PRINTED RESIDENTS WERE ABLE TO GO UP AND SEE CLOSELY AND TALK TO YOU, UH, TALK TO OUR APPOINTEE ABOUT HOW THIS HAPPENED OR HOW THAT HAPPENED. SO I THINK THAT, UH, ONE, THAT CONVERSATION, UH, WAS EXTREMELY HELPFUL FOR THEM. NOT EVERYBODY WALKED AWAY HAPPY, OF COURSE, BUT THEY CERTAINLY WALKED AWAY WITH A MUCH BETTER UNDERSTANDING [01:10:02] OF WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AND WHY. UM, SO I DO LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING, UH, MORE FEEDBACK FROM, FROM THE COMMUNITY. AND I WANNA THANK ILEANA FOR ADDING THAT ADDITIONAL LIBRARY IN DISTRICT SEVEN, UH, WITH OUR MAPS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, I DO HAVE, UH, A COUPLE OF, UH, SOME FEEDBACK TO THE PROPOSAL THAT, UH, COUNCILMAN COURAGE, UH, MADE. AND IT, IT ALSO, UH, GAVE ME SOME OTHER THOUGHTS. SO I THINK REDISTRICTING IS, IT'S A WHOLE PROCESS IN ITSELF. UH, BUT ONCE THAT IS SET, THERE'S A WHOLE OTHER PROCESS THAT WE WILL HAVE TO TAKE ON AS COUNCIL MEMBERS. UH, SO COUNCILMAN BRAVO MENTIONED, UH, MAILING, UH, FLYERS OR, OR MAILING SOMETHING TO PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE AFFECTED TO GET THEIR INPUT. I WOULD ABSOLUTELY BE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT. UH, BUT I WOULD ALSO BE SUPPORTIVE OF SENDING OUT A REMINDER, UM, TO OUR, TO DURING THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE THAT WILL BE SUBJECT TO THE NEW BOUNDARIES TO ANYBODY WHO HAS BEEN AFFECTED. UH, YOU SAID IT WAS MAYBE, UH, I THINK SOMEBODY GAVE AN ESTIMATE OF APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY PEOPLE MIGHT BE AFFECTED, UH, BY THAT 50 60,000. UH, I THINK WE SHOULD, UH, MAKE THAT A BUDGET CONSIDERATION. IN FACT, UH, ALL OF YOU PROBABLY RECEIVED IN THE PAST WEEK SOMETHING FROM THE STATE, UH, DEPARTMENT OF, WHAT WAS IT? THE, WAS IT THE SECRETARY OF STATE WHO SENDS THOSE OUT? THAT TELLS YOU THERE'S GOING TO BE TWO AMENDMENTS ON THE BALLOT? UM, I DON'T THINK IT'S, AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, I DON'T THINK IT'S BEYOND OUR CAPABILITIES AS A CITY TO BE ABLE TO DO A MASS MAILING TO INFORM THE PUBLIC THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE, UH, AN ELECTION, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE BOUNDARIES HAVE CHANGED. UH, SO I'D LIKE TO POSE THAT FOR, UM, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO CONSIDER. UM, THE OTHER THING I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE IN MIND, UH, REGARDLESS OF WHAT DATE WE DO THE WHAT DATE, THE, UM, THE NEW BOUNDARIES TAKE EFFECT IS WE NEED TO SIT DOWN AND HAVE A, A TRANSFER OF CONSTITUENT CASES FOR AREAS THAT ARE BEING SWITCHED FROM ONE DISTRICT TO ANOTHER, AS WELL AS A TRANSFER OF OTHER PROBLEM POINTS OR POSITIVE POINTS BETWEEN, UH, BETWEEN THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT, THAT, THAT'S EFFECTIVE. UM, I WORRY ABOUT DOING IT ON OCTOBER 1ST FOR THE NEXT BUDGET YEAR, COUNCILMAN, BECAUSE UP UNTIL RIGHT NOW, WE ARE RECEIVING BUDGETARY INPUT FROM OUR CURRENT CONSTITUENTS. AND, UH, YOU WOULD PUT US, OR THIS PROPOSAL WOULD PUT US IN A POSITION FOR ME TO, UH, BASICALLY TAKE THAT BUDGETARY INPUT. AND I, I'M, YOU KNOW, IT DEPENDS IF HOW THE, HOW, WHAT THE FINAL MAPS LOOK LIKE. BUT WHO IS GOING TO CARRY THAT REQUEST FORWARD? UH, I WOULD, UM, I WOULD PREFER NOT TO TRANSFER, UH, AT THE BUDGETARY DATE BECAUSE IT, IT, UH, WE BASICALLY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO, TO, TO FIND A HOME FOR THOSE BUDGET REQUESTS, UH, UNLESS SOMEBODY CAN, UH, CAN FIND A WAY TO, TO DO THAT. BUT I THINK, UH, WE RUN THE RISK OF DISENFRANCHISING, UH, THE, THE VOTERS THAT ARE BEING MOVED IN THE BUDGETARY ADVOCACY PROCESS. AND I WOULD NOT BE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT. IF SOMEONE CAN FIND A, AN ALTERNATIVE OR A SOLUTION, I'D CERTAINLY BE, BE OPEN TO THAT. UM, SO AGAIN, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, THANK YOU TO MY, UH, APPOINTEES, UH, THAT, THAT WORKED HARD ON THIS. AND, UH, I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT WE WILL HAVE ABOUT THREE NEIGHBORHOODS REUNITED IN, UH, IN DISTRICT SEVEN. UH, THEY CAME FROM OTHER PLACES, SO I, I WILL CALL IT THE GREAT REUNIFICATION IN DISTRICT SEVEN, EVEN THOUGH I USED TO, WHEN THIS PROCESS STARTED, I, I WOULD POINT OUT THAT WE DO, WE ARE 0.1% OFF THE IDEAL POPULATION. SO I LIKE TO SAY WE ARE THE MOST PERFECT DISTRICT. UM, BUT WE'RE WILLING TO PLAY BALL WITH YOU GUYS FINE. IF YOU NEED TO ADJUST. UH, WE'RE, WE'RE FLEXIBLE. UM, SO AGAIN, UH, I'D SUPPORT, UH, A MAILING TO MAILING TO, UH, POTENTIALLY IMPACTED NEIGHBORS, UH, A MAILING DURING IN ADVANCE OF OUR NEXT, UH, ELECTION CYCLE FOR NEIGHBORS THAT WERE MOVED. AND I WOULD WANT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT, UH, THE HOW CONSTITUENT CASES OR HOW WE TRANSFER WORK BETWEEN, UH, DISTRICTS FOR, FOR MOVED POPULATIONS AND, UH, THE EFFECTIVE DATE, HOW WE ENSURE THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE MOVED CAN STILL BE PART OF THE BUDGETARY PROCESS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. THAT WAS FAST. UM, I WANT TO, I THINK DURING MY FIRST COMMENTS, I WAS NOT AS ARTICULATE AS I WOULD LIKE TO BE. I WANT TO, NUMBER ONE, [01:15:01] BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT AREA, UH, OF DISTRICT 10 THAT RESIDES HUGGED BY DISTRICT TWO, NOT TRYING TO TAKE IT, I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A POINT. UM, THE SECOND BIT, UM, UH, WAS ABOUT BRACKENRIDGE PARK. I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT I THINK, UM, THERE'S ONE, MAYBE ONE OR TWO REGISTERED VOTERS IN BOTH OF THE PRECINCTS THAT ARE MOVING. SO IT'S NOT ABOUT A POPULATION THING, IT'S ABOUT AN ASSET. UM, AND AS IT RELATES TO THE TOURS THAT WAS, UM, RECENTLY REWORKED, THE SURROUNDING THE, UM, SURROUNDING DE DEVELOPMENT AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE IMPACTED BY DECISIONS AT BRACKENRIDGE PARK. FOR THAT REASON, I WOULD LIKE TO MAINTAIN THE TWO, UH, THE TWO PRECINCTS AND I, UM, WOULD IMPLORE THE COMMITTEE TO, UM, RECONSIDER THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. ANYONE ELSE, UH, ON THIS DISCUSSION? COUNCIL MEMBER. BRAVO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND I WAS LOOKING AGAIN AT, UM, AT THESE MAPS THAT, UM, SHOWED THE PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE DRAFT PLAN. AND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MAPS THERE ARE SOME SPREADSHEETS AND SPREADSHEETS SHOW, UM, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHICS IN EACH ONE, CURRENT DEMOGRAPHICS, AND THEN NEW DEMOGRAPHICS, UH, WITH THE PROPOSED PLAN. AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK WOULD BE HELPFUL IS IF, IF STAFF COULD ALSO ADD SPREADSHEETS THAT SHOW, UM, EACH OF THE PRECINCTS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED TO MOVE, UH, BY AND SHOW WHICH DISTRICT THEY, THEY CURRENTLY ARE IN, WHICH DISTRICT ARE PROPOSED TO BE MOVED INTO, UM, AND, UH, AND ANY ASSOCIATED NEIGHBORHOOD FOR THOSE PRE PRECINCTS. SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL AS WELL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER. BRAVO, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? YEAH, I THINK THIS HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL. CHECK IN WITH THE, WITH THE COMMITTEE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO OUR CHAIRS, UH, AND TO ALL THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS. AND THANK YOU AGAIN TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO'VE BEEN DILIGENT IN WATCHING THIS UNFOLD. SO, UH, WITH THAT, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? YOU HAVE AN ANSWER? YES, MR. MAYOR, IF IT'S OKAY, UH, THERE WAS A QUESTION, UH, ABOUT WHAT'S THE CURRENTLY LEAST POPULATED DISTRICT AND CURRENTLY THAT'S DISTRICT FIVE WITH APPROXIMATELY 119,000. THE MOST CURRENTLY IS DISTRICT EIGHT WITH 169,000 ROUGHLY WITH THE COMMITTEE DRAFT PLAN. THE NEW, UH, DISTRICT WITH THE LOWEST POPULATION IS DISTRICT ONE WITH APPROXIMATELY 135,000. AND THE LARGEST DISTRICT REMAINS DISTRICT EIGHT, BUT IT DROPS SIGNIFICANTLY. NOW IT'S AT 149,000 AND WE HAVE, UH, THE EXACT POPULATION NUMBERS WE'RE GONNA GET TO YOUR STAFF TO GIVE TO YOU GUYS. SO THAT WAY YOU COULD JUST SEE IT, UH, WITHOUT HAVING TO DO THE MATH YOURSELF WITH ALL THOSE CHARTS. SO THAT WAY YOU HAVE IT CAN BE. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO POINT OUT. GREAT. APPRECIATE THAT. AND, AND, AND MARY, IF I MAY, UH, I APPRECIATE ALL THE COUNCIL'S INPUT. I MEAN, THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE CERTAINLY NEED TO FOLLOW UP ON. ONE OF 'EM IS MAKING SURE THAT WE PROVIDE AS MUCH DETAIL AS WE CAN, UH, PARTICULARLY TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS AFFECTED AND, AND HAVE, UH, AS WE SAID IN THE LIBRARIES AND OTHER AREAS, MAPS THAT ACTUALLY PEOPLE CAN GO TOUCH AND FEEL. AS BONNIE SAID, UH, WE NEED TO WORK ON, UH, COMING BACK WITH A RECOMMENDATION AS TO WHEN THE DISTRICT LINES WILL BE EFFECTIVE. UH, I, I HEARD SOME REALLY GOOD COMMENTS AS TO WHAT THINGS WE NEED TO CONSIDER. UH, FOR EXAMPLE, THE COUNCILWOMAN SAYING ABOUT TRANSFERRING CITIZEN FILES, I MEAN, THAT'S OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING IMPORTANT THAT, THAT NEEDS TO BE FACTORED IN. AND, UH, THE COMMITTEE, THE COM THE COMMITTEE WILL CONTINUE ITS WORK IN TERMS OF, UH, PUBLIC OUTREACH AND, AND, AND MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN PARTICULARLY ADVISE THOSE THAT ARE MOVING DISTRICTS THAT THERE'S NOBODY LEFT THAT DOESN'T KNOW THAT THEY ARE NOW GONNA BE IN A NEW DISTRICT AND WHAT DATE THAT'S GONNA BE EFFECTIVE. UM, SO THANK YOU MAYOR. GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ANDY. ALRIGHT. UH, WE WILL SEE YOU VERY SHORTLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DR. SES, BONNIE SHELLY, UH, FOR ALL THE WORK IN COORDINATING THESE EFFORTS. LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING MORE. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. OKAY, [EXECUTIVE SESSION At any time during the meeting, the City Council may recess into executive session in the Presidio Conference Room or 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:  ] THE TIME IS 3:36 PM ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20TH, 2022. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL NOW MEET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 5 5, 1 IN THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE AND DELIBERATE OR DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS. SECOND NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.087, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE LEASE OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.072 TO DISCUSS THE 2022 EVALUATION TIMELINE AND PROCESS FOR THE CITY MANAGER, CITY AUDITOR, CITY CLERK, AND PRESIDING MUNICIPAL JUDGE, AND ANY RELATED LEGAL ISSUES PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.074 AND SECTION 5 5 1 0.071 IN CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ISSUES OR ADVICE RELATED [01:20:01] TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LITIGATION INVOLVING CITY AND C OVID 19 PREPAREDNESS UNDER SECTION 5 5 1 0.071. GOOD AFTERNOON. TIME IS 4:28 PM ON THIS 20TH DAY OF APRIL, 2022. CITY COUNCIL HAS RECONVENED FROM ITS EXECUTIVE SESSION. NO OFFICIAL ACTION WAS TAKEN. OUR B SESSION IS NOW 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.