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          I LIKE AUSTIN, BUT I LOVE SANTO DANCING AND I BACK DOWN THE ROAD. 
          SO I, BUT I LOVE SAN AND PLACE TO GO. 
          SO I, I, SAN ANTONIO. 
          IN SAN ANTONIO, PUNTO. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. 
          WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL B SESSION. 
          THE TIME IS 1:20 PM ON THIS 11TH DAY OF MAY, 2022. 
          WE'LL CALL OUR MEETING TO ORDER. 
          MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU READ THE ROLE? COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER MCKAY RODRIGUEZ. 
          PRESIDENT COUNCIL MEMBER HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. 
          HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CAB HDA HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PALAI HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY IS SUPPOSED TO BE VIRTUAL. 
          UH, MAYOR NIERENBERG HERE. 
          MAYOR, WE HAVE A QUORUM. 
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ALL RIGHT, AND GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE. 
          WE'VE GOT A BIG ITEM TODAY. 
          SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, LET ME TURN IT OVER TO CITY MANAGER, ERIC WALSH. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          SO, YES, THIS AFTERNOON'S PRESENTATION IS A, UH, AN IMPORTANT ONE TO US, UM, FOR OUR ANNUAL BUDGET PROCESS. 
          AND JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY, WE HAVE, UH, ADJUSTED OUR BUDGET CALENDAR THIS YEAR, UM, TO GIVE OURSELVES MORE TIME PRIMARILY FOR COUNCIL FEEDBACK, UH, AND COMMUNITY INPUT. 
          UH, WE HAD OUR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES SESSION IN APRIL, UM, AND TODAY YOU WILL SEE, BE, UM, PRESENTED TO YOU SOME ALTERNATIVES IN TERMS OF PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS AND RATES THAT, UH, WERE ONE OF THE MAIN TAKEAWAYS FROM THE WORK SESSION. 
          UH, WE HAVE BUILT INTO, UM, THE TRIAL BUDGET AND THE FORECAST, UM, OUR RECOMMENDATION, AND WE'LL WALK THROUGH THAT. 
          UM, TWO PRESENTATIONS. 
          TROY WILL START OFF ON THE PROPERTY TAX ELEMENTS OF IT, AND THEN, UH, WE'LL TRANSITION TO, UH, JUSTINA WHO WILL PRESENT THE TRIAL BUDGET AND OUR FORECAST. 
          UM, BASED ON OUR CALENDAR, WE HAVE ABOUT A MONTH AND A HALF OF COMMUNITY INPUT. 
          WE'LL BE WORKING WITH YOUR OFFICES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, UM, HIT EVERY, UH, DISTRICT, UM, AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE. 
          AND WE'LL BE FINALIZING OUR BUDGET SURVEY HERE WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO. 
          SO, PLENTY OF TIME FOR BUDGET, UH, FEEDBACK THAT WE'LL TAKE, UM, AS WE DEVELOP THE BUDGET IN JULY. 
          AND THEN PRESENT TO YOU, UH, IN TERMS OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET, UH, THE SECOND WEEK OF AUGUST. 
          UM, JUST A REMINDER, THE TRIAL BUDGET IS A RELATIVE NEW, RELATIVELY A NEW, UM, TOOL THAT WE USE. 
          WE USED IT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN, UH, UH, THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO. 
          UH, IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC. 
          IT WAS OUR GUIDE THAT WE NEEDED. 
          UM, WE, UM, WE, UM, MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS, UTILIZED IT LAST YEAR. 
          AND SO FRANKLY, I, I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF WORK WE'VE DONE IN TERMS OF BUDGET, UM, AND PREPARATION. 
          UM, AS WE LAY THIS OUT TO YOU, THE TRIAL BUDGET IS NOT THE EXACT BUDGET. 
          IT'S NOT THE PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE DETAILS WORKED OUT. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FRAMING THE HOUSE THAT THE COUNCIL AS A WHOLE IS LOOKING FOR. 
          AND SO FEEDBACK FROM YOU TODAY WILL BE, WILL BE CRITICAL, BUT, BUT, UM, WE THINK, UM, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PRESENT A TRIAL BUDGET THAT MEETS, UM, THE COUNCIL'S, UH, AS A WHOLES DIRECTION FROM THE APRIL WORK SESSION. 
          AND, UH, PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THE TEAM HAS DONE UP TO THIS POINT. 
          UM, SO AGAIN, WE'LL START OFF WITH, UM, TROY AND THEN TRANSITION TO JUSTINA. 
          TROY. 
          THANK YOU ERIC. 
          I THINK IT'S THE OTHER, WHILE THEY'RE BRINGING UP THE SLIDE, JUST, UM, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          MY NAME'S TROY ELLIOTT. 
          I'M THE DEPUTY CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER FOR THE CITY. 
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TODAY WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE OUR DISCUSSION ON PROPERTY TAX RELIEF FOR OUR HOMESTEADS AND OUR RESIDENCE OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, AS WE MET, THIS IS ACTUALLY THE THIRD MEETING ON PROPERTY TAX RELEASE WE'LL BE HAVING. 
          AND UM, THE LAST TIME WE MET WAS AT THE GOAL SETTING ON APRIL 13TH. 
          AT THAT MEETING, UM, WE RECOMMENDED A STAFF A MINIMUM OF A 5% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          COUNCIL CAME BACK AND ASKED US TO CONTINUE TO EXPLORE THOSE OPTIONS TO SEE IF THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RELEASE, TO INCREASE THAT ABOVE AND BEYOND THE 5%, UM, AS WELL AS EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INCREASING OUR SENIOR 65 OR OVER 65 AND OUR, UM, DISABLED PERSON'S EXEMPTION. 
          UH, PLEASE KEEP IN MIND, UM, AS I MENTIONED LAST TIME AS I WALKED THROUGH THE PRESENTATION, UM, VALUATIONS AND BCA IS CONTINUING TO GET PROTESTS AND APPEALS. 
          WE HAVE A LOT OF ASSUMPTIONS BUILT INTO OUR, UM, OUR PRESENTATION, OUR NUMBERS. 
          THE ONE THING I CAN GUARANTEE YOU IS THAT, UM, SOME OF THE THINGS I'M SHOWING YOU TODAY WILL CHANGE, UM, AS UM, IT CONTINUES TO MOVE TOWARDS CERTIFICATION ON JULY 25TH. 
          UM, YOU'VE SEEN THIS SLIDE BEFORE BASED ON REVISED INFORMATION THAT WE'VE RECEIVED FROM THE BEXAR COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT, UM, FOR OUR F Y 2023 TAXABLE VALUE GROWTH, THE TAXABLE VALUE INCREASE FOR CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AS A TOTAL, IT'S ABOUT 14.1%. 
          UM, OUR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL IS NOW AT 15% MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AT 20%, AND COMMERCIAL IS AT 11.1. 
          SO SIGNIFICANT VALUE GROWTH ABOVE AND BEYOND, SOMEWHAT UNPRECEDENTED FROM WHAT WE'VE SEEN HISTORICALLY. 
          I THOUGHT THERE WAS VALUE TO KIND OF GOING THROUGH KIND OF Y'ALL SEEN THESE SLIDES BEFORE, BUT I THOUGHT THERE WAS VALUE GOING THROUGH THE WHAT ARE THE STATUTORY TAX LIMITATIONS AND ALSO GOING THROUGH WHAT ARE OUR CURRENT EXEMPTIONS THAT WE HAVE, UM, MUNICIPAL EXEMPTIONS THAT WE HAVE TODAY FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, AS I MENTIONED LAST TIME, OUR STATUTORY TAX LIMITATIONS, UM, AND THIS IS ACTUALLY FAIRLY PERTINENT TO TODAY WITH THESE INCREASED, UM, APPRAISAL VALUES, BUT HOMESTEADS IN TEXAS ARE LIMITED TO A 10% APPRAISAL VALUE INCREASE PER YEAR. 
          THIS IS AN APPRAISAL CAP, WHICH BASICALLY ENSURES THAT HOMESTEADS ARE, UM, CAN ONLY GO UP 10% IN WHEN WE HAVE SIGNIFICANT VALUE IN PLACE LIKE WE'RE SEEING. 
          UM, THIS YEAR. 
          UM, THE STATE LEGISLATURE IN 2019 INTRODUCED SENATE BILL TWO, WHICH REDUCED OUR PROPERTY TAX ROLLBACK RATE OR THE VOTER APPROVAL RATE FROM 8% TO 3.5%. 
          UM, THIS IS ONLY APPLICABLE TO THE M AND O OR THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS PORTION OF THE TAX RATE. 
          THIS REVENUE CAP APPLIES TO BASE VALUE GROWTH ONLY AND NOT TO NEW VALUE. 
          UH, THE CITY CANNOT GO ABOVE THE 3.5% REVENUE CAP WITHOUT TRIGGERING AN AUTOMATIC ELECTION. 
          THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM THE PRIOR STATUTE AT 8% WHEN YOU HAD TO, UM, RESIDENTS COULD PETITION, UM, A PROPERTY TAX ROLLBACK, BUT NOW IT'S ACTUALLY AUTOMATIC TRIGGERS AN AUTOMATIC COLLECTION. 
          THERE IS HOWEVER, AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO ABOVE THE 3.5% CAP WHEN YOU HAVE HAD UNUSED INCREMENT IN THE PRIOR YEARS, THEN YOU CAN ESSENTIALLY ADD THAT ABOVE AND BEYOND THE 3.5% AND THAT INFLUENCES YOUR TAX RATE. 
          AND THIS NEXT SLIDE, AND Y'ALL HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE AS WELL, BUT THIS SLIDE KIND OF ILLUSTRATES THAT, AND I'LL WALK THROUGH IT VERY, VERY QUICKLY. 
          BUT THIS SLIDE TALKS ABOUT THE PROPERTY TAX VALUATION PERCENT CHANGE YEAR OVER YEAR FROM THE PRIOR YEAR. 
          SB TWO, AS I MENTIONED, WAS, UM, EFFECTIVE FOR FISCAL YEARS 21 AND, AND SUBSEQUENT FOR THE CITY PRIOR TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SB TWO, WE HAD AN 8% ROLLBACK IN PLACE. 
          THE 8% ROLLBACK WAS, UM, ACTUALLY WE ROLLED BACK THE TAX RATE IN 2016. 
          I'LL SHOW YOU THAT ON A KIND OF A LINE GRAPH SLIDE HERE IN A MINUTE. 
          UM, ONE OF THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCES PRIOR TO THE IMPACT OF SB TWO IN THE EVENT THAT SB TWO HAD BEEN IN PLACE AND THAT 3.5% REVENUE CAP HAD BEEN IN PLACE, THEN IT LIMITS THAT GROWTH AND WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ENJOY ALL THAT TAXABLE VALUE GROWTH AND WOULD, UM, AND THE TAXABLE VALUE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT FOCUSING AFTER THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SB TWO OR THE EFFECTIVE DATE. 
          UM, AS I MENTIONED IN 21 AND 22, YOU CAN LOOK AT OUR BASE VALUE GROWTH AT 3.2% IN 2021 AND 2.1% IN 2022. 
          YOU CAN SEE THAT IS BELOW THE CAP BASED ON SB TWO. 
          THAT GIVES US THE ABILITY TO ROLL THAT FORWARD. 
          AND IF COUNSEL WISHED THEY COULD USE THAT INCREMENT ABOVE THE CAP IN OUR 2023, THE 2023, THE TOTAL TAXABLE VALUE GROWTH IS 14.1%. 
          THAT ACTUALLY CORRESPONDS TO THE INITIAL SLIDE THAT I SHARED WITH YOU. 
          YOU CAN SEE BASED ON THAT 3.5% CAP, ALL THAT VALUE GROWTH, THAT SIGNIFICANT VALUE GROWTH ABOVE THE CAP. 
          AND SO I'D LIKE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, AND THIS WILL BE KIND OF WE'LL REFERRED TO THIS, UM, THROUGHOUT THE OTHER PARTS OF THE PRESENTATION, BUT I'D LIKE TO EXPLAIN KIND OF WHAT THAT 3.5% CAP MEANS. 
          SO THE 3.5% CAP IS EFFECTUATED THROUGH THE TAX RATE. 
          STATE LAW BASICALLY SAYS THAT AS PERIOD OF HIGH VALUE GROWTH, THAT THEY'RE 
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GOING TO CAP IT BY REDUCING THE ACTUAL TAX RATE. 
          SO BY REDUCING THE TAX RATE, IT'S GOING TO PRODUCE THE SAME AMOUNT OF REVENUE THAT YOU HAD IN THE PRIOR YEAR, BUT ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO GROW 3.5%. 
          SO AS THAT TAX VALUE INCREASES, THE TAX RATE'S GONNA COME DOWN TO LEVEL SET THAT AND ONLY LET YOU GROW 3.5%. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S GONNA BE IMPORTANT, AND I'LL SHOW YOU THIS ON A SLIDE IN A COUPLE MINUTES, IS WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS, THERE'S SO MUCH SIGNIFICANT VALUE ABOVE THE 3.5% CAP THAT AS WE INTRODUCE THOSE HOMESTEADS, IT'S GOING TO CAPTURE AND CONTINUE TO SOLVE FOR THAT 3.5% CAP. 
          SO AS I INTRODUCE HOMESTEADS, UM, FROM A 5% TO 10%, THE ACTUAL TAX RATE IS GONNA GROW SLIGHTLY TO CONTINUE TO SOLVE FOR THAT, UH, 3.5% CAP. 
          REAL QUICKLY REFRESHER OUR CURRENT PROPERTY TAX. 
          UM, OUR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION WAS INTRODUCED IN 2019 AT A CURRENT HOMESTEAD OF 0.01% OR A MINIMUM OF 5,000. 
          THIS APPLIES TO ALL HOMESTEADS REGARDLESS OF VALUE AND CAN ONLY BE IMPLEMENTED OR ADOPTED AS A PERCENTAGE UP TO 20% MAXIMUM UNDER STATE LAW. 
          UH, ANY CHANGES MUST BE APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL PRIOR TO JULY 1ST TO BE EFFECTIVE IN, UH, 2023. 
          THERE'S TWO ADDITIONAL, UM, EXEMPTIONS THAT UM, CITY COUNCIL HAS AT THEIR DISPOSAL AND THAT IS THE OVERSOLD PERSONS OF 12,500. 
          THE CITY INITIALLY OFFERED AN OVER 65 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, I THINK IN 1974 AT THE VALUE OF $3,000. 
          THAT $3,000 HAS BEEN ADJUSTED UP, I THINK APPROXIMATELY FIVE TIMES TO UH, 60 WHAT IS NOW $65,000 IN 2003. 
          AND OF COURSE, THIS EXEMPTION IS APPLICABLE TO, UM, HOMEOWNERS WHO, UM, HOMEOWNERS WHO TURN OVER AGE 65 AND THEIR TAXES ARE ACTUALLY FROZEN AT THAT TIME AS WELL. 
          FOR THE CITY PORTION OF THE BILL, THE DISABLED PERSON'S EXEMPTION IS 12,500. 
          CURRENTLY, UM, THIS EXEMPTION FOR DISABLED PERSONS OF 12,500 WAS ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTED IN 2005. 
          THE TAX FREEZE WAS ALSO, UM, APPROVED IN 2005 BY THE VOTERS, A DISABLED PERSON. 
          UH, TO BE A DISABLED PERSON AND QUALIFY FOR THE 12,500 EXEMPTION, YOU HAVE TO BE A HUNDRED PERCENT DISABLED AND RECEIVE BENEFITS UNDER THE FEDERALLY OLD AGE FEDERAL OLD AGE SURVIVORS IN DISABILITY INSURANCE. 
          BOTH OF THESE MUST BE ADOPTED AS A DOLLAR AMOUNT. 
          UM, YOU CANNOT RECEIVE BOTH EXEMPTIONS AT THE SAME TIME. 
          MEANING YOU COULDN'T RECEIVE AN EXEMPTION OF 170,000, YOU'RE LIMITED TO THE 85,000 OR THE 12,500 EXEMPTION. 
          UM, AND AGAIN, ANY CHANGES MUST BE APPROVED BY COUNSEL BY JULY 1ST TO BE EFFECTIVE IN 2023. 
          SO THOSE ARE OUR CURRENT PROPERTY TAX RELIEF. 
          AND THE NEXT SLIDE I'M GONNA SHARE WITH YOU IS WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING TO ACTUALLY MOVE TOWARDS, UM, IN TERMS OF INCREASES TO OUR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION AND OUR OTHER EXEMPTIONS AS WELL. 
          SO AS FAR AS OUR RECOMMENDATION, AS I MENTIONED, UM, OUR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION IS CURRENTLY AT 0.01 OR $5,000. 
          UM, WE LOOKED AT A MINIMUM DURING THE GOAL SETTING OF 5%. 
          WE'RE RECOMMENDING MOVING THAT TO A TOTAL HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION OF 10%. 
          UM, AND AS I SAID, WE CAN, UM, ONLY GO UP TO 20%. 
          SO THIS, UM, GOES TO 10%. 
          THAT WILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON APPROXIMATELY 240,000 HOMESTEADS, UM, ACROSS THE CITY BY MOVING FROM THE 5,000 TO A 10% EXEMPTION, THE OVER 65 EXEMPTION, WE ARE CURRENTLY AT 65,000. 
          WE'RE RECOMMENDING INCREASING THAT BY $20,000 TO A TOTAL OF 85,000. 
          AND YOU'LL LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF HOMESTEADS THAT WOULD CURRENTLY APPLY TO IS APPROXIMATELY 103 HOMESTEADS ACROSS THE CITY. 
          DISABLED PERSONS EXEMPTION, WE'RE LOOKING AT ALIGNING THAT WITH THE OVER 65. 
          WE'RE CURRENTLY AT 12,500. 
          WE WOULD LOOK TO INCREASE THAT BY 72,500 TO THE UM, 85,000 AS WELL. 
          IF YOU RECALL IN THE LAST PRESENTATION, UM, I SHOWED A SET OF COMPS THAT SHOWED OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AND WHERE THEY WERE. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS REAL EVIDENT WAS THAT WHEN YOU LOOKED AT US AT A 65,000 AND 12,500, ALL THE OTHER CITIES WERE ALIGNED IN THEIR EXEMPTIONS BETWEEN THE OVER 65 AND STABLE PERSONS. 
          THIS ALIGNS THAT AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS IN THE EVENT THAT YOU'RE UNDER THE AGE 65, YOU'RE DISABLED AND YOU'RE RECEIVING THAT EXEMPTION AT 85,000, THAT EXEMPTION WILL CONTINUE AT THE SAME RATE ONCE YOU TURN 65,000. 
          UH, ADDITIONALLY, A TAX FREEZE IS GONNA APPLY TO ALL THOSE OVER 65 AND DISABLED PERSONS. 
          THIS NEXT SLIDE I'D LIKE TO SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON. 
          UM, THIS SLIDE REALLY REPRESENTS THE CULMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF SB TWO 
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AND THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS AFTER THE GOAL SETTING. 
          UM, MY TEAM AND I WENT BACK AND WE LOOKED AT A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT SCENARIOS, ABOUT 15 SCENARIOS TO COME UP WITH OUR RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          UM, WE PROPOSE THE RECOMMEND THE 10% HOMESTEAD WITH THE 85,000 AND OVER 65 AND DISABLED PERSON EXEMPTION. 
          AS I MENTIONED, UM, ON THE PRIOR SLIDE, THAT AS YOU INCREASE VALUE SIGNIFICANTLY, THE TAX RATE'S GONNA GO DOWN. 
          BUT AS YOU START LAYERING IN THOSE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, IT'S GONNA START TO ACCRETE OR MOVE UP A LITTLE BIT TO CAPTURE THAT VALUE AND MOVE YOU BACK TO SOLVING FOR THAT 3.5% RATE. 
          SO SB TWO IMPACTS ONLY THE M AND O TAX RATE. 
          YOU WILL NOT SEE AN IMPACT TO THE DEBT SERVICE TAX RATE. 
          UM, SO I'M GONNA SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON THE M AND O TAX RATE ABOVE IN THIS TOP LINE. 
          SO OUR CURRENT TAX RATE FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR IS 0.34677. 
          WHEN YOU ACTUALLY MOVE TO A 5% HOMESTEAD, UM, WITH THE IMPACT OF THE HOMESTEAD AND SSB TWO, YOU'RE LOOKING ABOUT A 1.70 CENT REDUCTION IN THE TAX RATE TO 0.32982. 
          AS I MENTIONED, AS YOU START MOVING TO A GREATER HOMESTEAD, THAT TAX RATE IS GOING TO ADJUST AS VERY SLIGHTLY. 
          SO WITH THE RECOMMENDING MOVING TO THE 10% HOMESTEAD, THAT'S GONNA MOVE TO THE 0.3354. 
          THAT ACTUALLY IS A 1.30 CENT REDUCTION FROM THE CURRENT TAX RATE. 
          WE ALSO SHOWED JUST, AND THIS IS NOT OUR RECOMMENDATION, BUT IN THE EVENT THAT, UM, CITY COUNCIL WANTED TO USE SOME OF THE UNUSED INCREMENT THAT WOULD LAYER IN AN ADDITIONAL INCREASE TO THE TAX RATE AND WE'RE REP SOWING 0.34091, JUST USING HALF OF THAT INCREMENT. 
          WE HAD SEVERAL GOALS WHEN EVALUATING THESE SCENARIOS TO COME UP WITH THIS. 
          ONE OF IT WAS BASED ON OUR FINANCIAL POLICIES PROVIDING TAX RELIEF RE TO OUR RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEADS. 
          WE ALSO WANNA PROVIDE A BALANCE BETWEEN OUR RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEADS AND OUR COMMERCIAL AND MULTI-FAMILY. 
          COMMERCIAL AND MULTI-FAMILY OF COURSE, DO NOT GET THE BENEFIT OF THE EXEMPTIONS, SIMPLY GET THE BENEFIT OF ANY TYPE OF REDUCTION IN TAX RATE. 
          SO IN BY DOING THIS AND MOVING TO A RECOMMENDED 10% HOMESTEAD AT THE RATE, AND AGAIN, THESE RATES ARE GONNA BE PRELIMINARY, THEY WILL CHANGE BASED ON ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WE GET. 
          UM, THIS RECOMMENDATION WOULD LOWER THE TAX RATE FROM 0.34677 TO AN ESTIMATED 0.3354. 
          THAT BENEFITS EVERYBODY, NOT JUST YOUR RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEADS, BUT ALSO YOUR COMMERCIALS AND YOUR MULTIFAMILIES AND THOSE OTHER ACCOUNTS. 
          WE DID LOOK AT A 20% HOMESTEAD TO SEE WHAT THAT WOULD IMPACT. 
          AND WE MOVED TO A 20% HOME HOMESTEAD OR A 20%, UH, HOMESTEAD. 
          BASICALLY THAT INCREASES YOUR TAX RATE TO ALMOST THE CURRENT TAX RATE THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE TODAY OF 0.34677. 
          AND THERE WOULD BE NO BENEFIT TO ANY OF THE COMMERCIAL ACCOUNT HOLDERS OR MULTIFAMILY. 
          SO OUR GOAL WAS TO PROVIDE BALANCED, UM, PROPERTY TAX RELIEF ACROSS ALL PROPERTY HOLDERS OR ALL PROPERTY ACCOUNTS, BUT AT THE SAME TIME HAVE A FOCUS ON RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEADS, WHICH WE BELIEVE THIS ACCOMPLISHES AND WOULD BE OUR RECOMMENDATION USING THE, UM, THE RECOMMENDED, UH, 10% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION AND THE REDUCTION IN THE TAX RATE. 
          UM, YOU CAN SEE ON THE VERY FAR RIGHT THAT IS THE ESTIMATED TAX RATE AND THAT REPRESENTS THE 1.3 RE PERCENT REDUCTION TO 0.54504. 
          JUST TO KIND OF PUT THIS IN PERSPECTIVE, COMPARED TO THE LAST 29 YEARS, WE HAD REDUCED THE TAX RATE SEVEN TIMES TO A TUNE OF 3.77 CENTS. 
          IF THAT TAX RATE HOLDS BASED ON OUR ASSUMPTIONS, IT'D BE AN ADDITIONAL 1.30 CENT REDUCTION. 
          THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES, WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO OUR TAXPAYERS? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOUR COUNCIL DISTRICTS? SO AS FAR AS, UH, CITY PROPERTY TAX RELIEF TODAY FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, THERE'S ABOUT $72.4 MILLION THAT THE CURRENT EXEMPTIONS PROVIDE IN TAX RELIEF. 
          UM, OUR FOREGONE REVENUE, UM, TO THE CITY, UM, ABOUT $72.4 MILLION. 
          YOU BREAK THAT DOWN, THAT'S 6.2 MILLION IN OUR LOCAL HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, 35.2 MILLION IN THE OVER AGE 65 500,000 IN DISABLED PERSONS AND ABOUT $30.5 MILLION IN THE TAX FREEZE, APPROXIMATELY 45% OF ALL HOMESTEADS WITH THE, UM, INTRODUCTION OR INCREASE TO OUR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS AND THE OVER 65 AND DISABLED, THAT INCREASES FROM 72.4 TO 93.8, AN ADDITIONAL $21 MILLION IN TAX RELIEF. 
          AND BELOW, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WHAT THAT IMPACT IS ON A LINE BY LINE BASIS. 
          6.2 MILLION IN THE LOCAL HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION TO A 28.2 MILLION, UM, UNDER THE RECOMMENDATION IN A LOCAL HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
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THE OTHER SIGNIFICANT IMPACT IT HAS IS ON THE DISABLED PERSON'S EXEMPTION, MOVING FROM ABOUT 500,000 TO A TOTAL OF 2.7. 
          AND THE LAST ONE I'D LIKE TO SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON AS WELL IS THE TAX FREEZE. 
          'CAUSE IT'S REALLY NOT QUITE INTUITIVE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE ACTUALLY INCREASING EXEMPTIONS. 
          BUT UNDER THE CURRENT, UM, UNDER OUR CURRENT EXEMPTIONS, WE HAVE A TAX FREEZE ABOUT 30 POINT, UH, PROVIDES RELIEF ABOUT $30.5 MILLION WHEN WE IMPLEMENT THESE EXEMPTIONS ACTUALLY DECREASES TO 70 17.6 MILLION. 
          WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN YOU'RE ACTUALLY PUTTING THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS IN PLACE, A PERSON'S TAX BILL FOR A CITY IS FROZEN. 
          AS YOU PUT THE HOMESTEAD IN PLACE, IT'S GONNA REDUCE THAT TAX BILL DOWN FOR SOME HOMEOWNERS BELOW THAT TAX FREEZE. 
          NOW, OVER TIME, AS THEIR VALUES BEGIN TO INCREASE, THAT'S GOING TO MOVE BACK UP TO THEIR TAX CEILING AND REFREEZE AT THEIR TAX CEILING. 
          SO THEY'RE GETTING A BENEFIT FOR THE HOMESTEADS, BUT IT'S GONNA GO BACK UP OVER TIME AND IT'S GONNA FREEZE AT THEIR TAX, UM, CEILING. 
          SO THAT $17.6 MILLION THAT IS BEING FOREGONE AND TAX REVENUE TODAY WILL ACTUALLY INCREASE OVER TIME AS THOSE VALUES BEGIN TO INCREASE OR MOVE BACK UP. 
          AND I HAVE AN EXAMPLE LATER ON IN THE PRESENTATION THAT'S GONNA WALK THROUGH THAT. 
          THIS NEXT SLIDE LOOKS AT, UM, VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT Y'ALL SEEN IN THE PAST AS FAR AS YOUR CITY AVERAGE HOMESTEAD VALUES. 
          THIS IS SIMPLY GONNA BE A COMPARISON BETWEEN WHAT'S IN PLACE TODAY UNDER THE CURRENT EXEMPTIONS AND BASE, OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR, UM, MOVING TO THE INCREASED HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION TO 10% AND OUR OVER 65 AND DISABLED TO 85,000. 
          SO WHAT THIS SLIDE IS SHOWING COMPARISON BETWEEN 22 AND 23 BASED ON THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE IN JUST TAKING DISTRICT ONE FOR EXAMPLE, THE AVERAGE HOMESTEAD MARKET VALUE IS $260,290. 
          THAT MARKET VALUE BASE IS GROWING TO $270,292 ON AN AVERAGE BASIS. 
          BUT WE LOOK AT THE AVERAGE HOMESTEAD TAXABLE VALUE, IT'S 183,435,000, FOUR $35 IN FISCAL YEAR 22. 
          BASED ON THOSE EXEMPTIONS IN PLACE, IT WILL REDUCE THAT AVERAGE HOMESTEAD TAXABLE VALUE TO 155,000 OR ROUGHLY $28,000. 
          AND SO THAT MAKES SENSE BECAUSE YOU'RE PUTTING A 10% EXEMPTION IN PLACE AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA HAVE INCREASED EXEMPTIONS AS A RESULT OF THE AGE 65 AND THE DISABLED PERSONS. 
          AND THIS SHOWS YOU DISTRICT BY DISTRICT THAT ANALYSIS AND WHAT THAT IMPACT WOULD BE OF PUTTING THESE, THESE REVISED, UM, RECOMMENDED EXEMPTIONS IN PLACE. 
          UM, AND I GUESS AN ADDITIONAL VALUE BEFORE MOVING ON, NOT ONLY WOULD YOU HAVE AN AVERAGE HOMESTEAD TAXABLE VALUE THAT IS LESS BASED ON THE EXEMPTIONS, BUT IT'LL ALSO BE TAXED AT A LOWER VALUE OR A LOWER TAX RATE. 
          I APOLOGIZE. 
          THIS NEXT ONE BASICALLY SHOWS YOU THE ZERO PROPERTY TAX BILLS, SAME TYPE OF COMPARISON, F Y 22 BASED ON THE CURRENT EXEMPTIONS MOVING TO FISCAL YEAR 2023, PUTTING THOSE EXEMPTIONS IN PLACE, IT BASICALLY INCREASES OUR ZERO TAX BILLS IN TOTAL BY ABOUT 4,500 ACCOUNTS. 
          UH, TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, THAT'S ROUGHLY 15.9 OR 16% OF THE HOMESTEADS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON THE TAX ROLL. 
          THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES, I'D LIKE TO WALK Y'ALL THROUGH SOME EXAMPLES, UM, JUST KIND OF SHOWING ON A SAMPLE CITY TAX BILL WHAT THE IMPACT WOULD BE OF INCREASING THE GENERAL HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          AND THEN THE FOLLOWING SLIDE WE'LL TALK ABOUT NOT ONLY INCREASING THE GENERAL HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, WHAT HAPPENS TO A PERSON WHO IS TURNS AGE 65 AND, UM, GETS THAT ADDITIONAL EXEMPTION AS WELL. 
          SO ON THIS SLIDE WE'RE MAKING SEVERAL ASSUMPTIONS. 
          WE HAVE THE CURRENT YEAR, YOU HAVE A MARKET VALUE AND ASSESSED VALUE OF $200,000 THAT RESIDENT WOULD RECEIVE UNDER TODAY'S EXEMPTION OF $5,000, UM, EXEMPTION AT THE 0.01% THAT RESULTS IN A TAXABLE VALUE OF 195,000 AT OUR CURRENT TAX RATE RESULTS IN A, UM, CITY OF SAN ANTONIO TAX BILL OF $1,089. 
          YOU LOOK AT, AND AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE OUR VALUES, WERE INCREASING ABOUT 15% IN MARKET VALUE. 
          SO THIS GROWS AT $200,000 HOME TO 230,000. 
          THAT TRIGGERS A 10% APPRAISAL CAP AND KIND OF CAPS IT YOUR, UM, TO AN ASSESSED VALUE OF 220,000 AT THE INCREASED HOME EXEMPTION OF 10%. 
          YOU'RE RECEIVING, UM, AN ADDITIONAL BENEFIT UP FROM 5,000 TO 22,000 OR THE PRIOR YEAR. 
          THAT RESULT RESULTS IN A TAXABLE VALUE OF 198,000. 
          SO YOUR TAXABLE VALUE HAS ACTUALLY GONE UP STILL DUE TO THE INCREASE IN MARKET VALUE, BUT THAT TAXABLE VALUE, $198,000 BEING APPLIED TO A ROLLBACK OR A LOWER TAX RATE OF 0.54. 
          SO WHAT HAPPENS IS YOUR TAX BILL IS ACTUALLY REDUCED OR WILL STAY THE SAME, AND THERE'S A BENEFIT OF $10 DIFFERENCE. 
          SO IN A PERIOD OF RISING VALUE, 
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UM, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A REDUCTION IN THE TAX RATE BECAUSE OF THAT, AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THE COMBINATION OF INCREASED HOME HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS ACTUALLY DECREASES THE TAX BILL FOR, UM, A RESIDENT. 
          THIS NEXT EXAMPLE ASSUMES THE SAME SCENARIO, BUT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT A HOMEOWNER WHO'S TURNING 65. 
          UH, THE HOMEOWNER TURNS 65 IN FISCAL YEAR 2022. 
          IN THAT YEAR, WHEN THEY TURN 20, UH, 65, THEIR UM, TAX BILL WILL BE FROZEN. 
          SO IN THE CURRENT YEAR, SAME ASSUMPTIONS, A MARKET VALUE AND ASSESSED VALUE OF 200,000, THE RECEIVING THE $5,000 EXEMPTION, THE RECEIVING THE $65,000 EXEMPTION FOR THE AGE, UM, 65 AND OVER CREATES A TAXABLE VALUE OF $130,000. 
          AT OUR CURRENT TAX RATE, THEY, UM, THEIR TAX BILL IS $726. 
          SINCE THAT IS THE YEAR THAT THEY TURN 65, THAT NOW BECOMES FROZEN AND THAT IS THEIR TAX CEILING AT $726. 
          THEY WILL NOT GO ABOVE THAT. 
          MOVING FORWARD, SAME ASSUMPTIONS, ABOUT 15% INCREASE IN MARKET VALUE, APPRAISAL CAP KICKS IN AT 220,000. 
          THEY RECEIVE THE INCREASED HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION OF 22,000. 
          THEY'RE ALSO RECEIVING THE ADDITIONAL 20,000 IN THE OVER 65 FOR 85,000. 
          THEIR TAXABLE VALUE IS NOW 113,000 COMPARED TO 130,000 IN THE PRIOR YEAR. 
          THAT'S ALSO BEING APPLIED TO A LOWER TAX RATE. 
          AS A RESULT OF THE TAX CAP UNDER SB TWO, THEIR TAX BILL IS NOW $616. 
          THAT REPRESENTS A DECREASE IN THEIR TAX BILL OF $110. 
          AND THIS GOES BACK TO WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. 
          SO THEIR TAX CEILING IS $726 BECAUSE OF THE EXEMPTIONS THAT ARE NOW AT 616. 
          OVER TIME, AS THOSE VALUES TEND TO INCREASE, THEIR TAXES WILL CONTINUE TO GO UP, BUT THEY WILL STOP AGAIN AND FREEZE AT THE CEILING OF $726. 
          THIS NEXT SLIDE IS A, UM, A VARIANT OR, UM, OF WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN IN THE PAST. 
          THIS BASICALLY TAKES THE HOMESTEAD ASSESSED VALUE AT THE INCREMENTS OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND THROUGH 600,000. 
          WHEN WE APPLY THE 10% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, YOU CAN SEE WHAT THAT IMPACT IS. 
          A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS HOME OR ASSESSED VALUE HAS A 10% HOMESTEAD OR HOMESTEAD TAXABLE VALUE IS 90,000. 
          THE RESULTANT TAX BILL FOR C IS 491. 
          THEY WILL RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL $28 ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED HISTORICALLY. 
          SO THE TOTAL VALUE OF THAT 10% EXEMPTION NOW IS $55. 
          AND YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW THAT IMPACT RUNS ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE TABLE THROUGH A HOMESTEAD. 
          UM, A HOMESTEAD ASSESSED VALUE OR A HOMESTEAD TAXABLE VALUE OF A $600,000 HOME, THAT $600,000 ASSESSED VALUE NOW HAS A DECREASE OF ABOUT $60,000 DUE TO THE 10% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          A HOMESTEAD TAXABLE VALUE OF 540,000, SAME $2,943 COST OF TAX BILL. 
          THEY WILL HAVE AN ADDITIONAL EXEMPTION ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT THEY RECEIVED HISTORICALLY OF $300 FOR A TOTAL OF $327 IN SAVINGS AS A RESULT OF THE INCREASE IN THE EXEMPTION. 
          UH, COUPLE OF JUST REMINDERS ON IMPORTANT DATES, UM, WE'RE PRESENTING TODAY. 
          WE HAVE TO HAVE, UM, THIS APPROVED AND TO, UM, BEXAR COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT BY JUNE 30TH, WHICH IS THE DEADLINE TO ADOPT THE NEW PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION. 
          ON JULY 25TH, WE RECEIVED A CERTIFIED ROLE. 
          SEPTEMBER 15TH, WE'RE GOING TO BE ADOPTING THE ACTUAL TAX RATE. 
          AND THEN IF COUNSEL, UM, IS AMENABLE AND APPROVES THIS RECOMMENDATION, THEN THESE INCREASED HOMESTEADS WOULD GO OUT ON THE OCTOBER WOULD BE THE RESULTANT IN THE OCTOBER 1ST PROPERTY TAX BILLS THAT ARE MAILED ON OCTOBER 1ST. 
          SO A COUPLE OF SUMMARY SUMMARY SLIDES HERE WRAPPING UP. 
          SO I BELIEVE THAT, UM, A RECOMMENDATION PROVIDES SIGNIFICANT PROPERTY TAX RELIEF. 
          THIS IS PROVIDED BY A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT FACTORS OR NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MEASURES. 
          YOU HAVE SB TWO THAT IS ACTUALLY RESULTING IN THE REDUCED TAX RATE DUE TO THE, THE HIGH VALUES OR THE INCREASE IN VALUES. 
          LOOKING AT 10% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION MOVING TO 85,000 FOR BOTH THE OVER 65 AND THE DISABLED PERSON EXEMPTIONS. 
          AND THERE'S SEVERAL BENEFITS TO THIS, AS I MENTIONED. 
          THIS IS PROVIDING, OUR GOAL WAS TO PROVIDE BALANCE RELIEF NOT ONLY TO THE RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEAD, BUT TO THE COMMERCIAL, BUT ALSO SUPPORTS OUR FINANCIAL POLICIES AND FOCUSING ON PROVIDING THAT RELIEF AND A FOCUS ON THE RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEADS. 
          SO SB TWO PROVIDES RELIEF TO BOTH THE RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES THROUGH A REDUCED TAX RATE. 
          THE INCREASED HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS ALSO PROVIDE RELIEF TO OUR HOMESTEAD OWNERS. 
          AND THEN THIS PROVIDES US COUNCIL FLEXIBILITY TO PURSUE LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS FOR MORE EQUITABLE AND TARGETED 
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TAX RELIEF IN THE FUTURE. 
          AND WHEN I SAY THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PROVIDING A 10% HOMESTEAD, YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO GO INTO 20%, BUT THAT WOULD BASICALLY NOT PROVIDE ANY RELIEF TO YOUR COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS. 
          UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, IN ANY EVENT THAT WE'RE SUCCESSFUL IN PURSUING AND GETTING LEGISLATIVE OR TARGETED RELIEF, UM, PASSED, FOR EXAMPLE FOR, UM, LEGACY HOMEOWNERS, THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER TOOL IN THE TOOLKIT TO LOOK AT PROVIDING EITHER A HOME OWN, AN ADDITIONAL HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, ADDITIONAL AGE 65 OR WHATEVER OPTION COMES OUTTA LEGISLATURE. 
          SO PROVIDES US FLEXIBILITY IN THE FUTURE AS WELL. 
          SO, WRAPPING UP, OUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO INCREASE THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION TO 10%, INCREASE THE OVER 65 EXEMPTION TO 85,000 AS WELL AS YOUR DISABLED PERSON EXEMPTION TO 85,000. 
          YOU DO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE THE UNUSED INCREMENT FROM PRIOR YEARS. 
          WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING THAT, BUT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO EVALUATE THAT AS PART OF OUR FINANCIAL POLICIES, UM, AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE FUTURE YEARS AND THEN PURSUE ADDITIONAL LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS FOR HOMESTEAD TAX RELIEF. 
          AS FAR AS NEXT STEPS, UM, WE'RE PRESENTING OUR RECOMMENDATION TO YOU ALL TODAY AS A COUNCIL, LOOKING TO GET FEEDBACK FROM YOU ON STAFF RECOMMENDATION AND ANY QUESTIONS THAT Y'ALL MAY HAVE. 
          UM, WE ARE PROPOSING TO BRING THIS BACK TO COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION ACTION ON JUNE 16TH, UM, TO ACTUALLY APPROVE, UM, THE RECOMMENDATION OR ANY CHANGES THAT Y'ALL MAY HAVE TO THOSE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS. 
          WE WOULD SUBMIT THE APPROVAL ORDINANCE TO BEARER, UH, THE BEARER APPRAISAL DISTRICT BEFORE JULY 1ST, AND THEN THE NEW EXEMPTIONS AND THE TAX RATES WILL BE REFLECTED ON THE 22 TAX BILL ISSUED ON OCTOBER 1ST. 
          MAYOR AND COUNSEL, THAT CONCLUDES MY, MY PRESENTATION AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO JUSTINA TO FOLLOW UP WITH HER PRESENTATION. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          MY NAME IS JUSTINA TATE. 
          I'M THE, UH, BUDGET DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO AS THEY'RE PULLING UP THE SLIDES TODAY, WE'RE GONNA BE PROVIDING A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF OUR FISCAL YEAR 20 22 6 PLUS SIX BUDGET AND FINANCIAL REPORT. 
          AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR FIVE-YEAR FORECAST AND TRIAL BUDGET FOR THE GENERAL FUND. 
          AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO SOME OF OUR RESTRICTED FUNDS AND THEIR FORECAST. 
          AND THEN WE'LL CONCLUDE WITH NEXT STEPS IN THE BUDGET PROCESS. 
          SO THIS NEXT SLIDE HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF OF OUR SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL STATUSES. 
          OVERALL, FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR, WE ARE IN A POSITIVE FINANCIAL STATUS AND MOST OF OUR REVENUES ARE PERFORMING BETTER THAN BUDGET. 
          CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IS STILL HIGH, AND WE'RE SEEING THAT IN OUR SALES TAX COLLECTION FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR. 
          WE HAVE RECEIVED RECORD COLLECTION IN OUR SALES TAX AND WE'RE ABOUT 21% COMPARED TO WHAT WE RECEIVED LAST YEAR. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, FOR A HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX, WE ARE PERFORMING BETTER THAN BUDGET AND OUR OCCUPANCY RATE IS ABOUT 35% MORE THAN LAST YEAR. 
          HOWEVER, WE'RE STILL SLIGHTLY BELOW THE PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS IN TERMS OF OUR AIRPORT. 
          OUR AIRPORT PASSENGERS FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS HAVE DOUBLED COMPARED TO 2021, BUT FOR THE, OUR PROJECTIONS FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR, WE ARE STILL SLIGHTLY BELOW PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS. 
          AND FINALLY, FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, OUR BUILDING PERMANENT ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO BE STRONG. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE JUST PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF OUR CURRENT, UH, FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET. 
          THE TOTAL CITY BUDGET IS $3.1 BILLION AND IT'S COMPRISED OF THREE MAIN COMPONENTS. 
          THE FIRST BEING OUR RESTRICTED FUNDS AT $1.1 BILLION, OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM AT FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY $2 MILLION. 
          AND FINALLY, OUR GENERAL FUND, WHICH IS OUR LARGEST OPERATING DE OPERATING FUND AND PROVIDES MOST OF THE CITY'S CORE SERVICES AT $1.36 BILLION. 
          I'LL TAKE A MOMENT TO GO INTO SOME OF THE DETAILS ABOUT OUR GENERAL FUND BUDGET. 
          IT IS FUNDED THROUGH FIVE MAIN COMPONENTS, THE FIRST BEING OUR C P SS REVENUES AT $361 MILLION. 
          OUR PROPERTY TAX REVENUE, WHICH IS OUR LARGEST SOURCE AT $410 MILLION AND SALES TAX AT $337 MILLION. 
          NOW, THESE ARE OUR THREE LARGEST, UH, REVENUES IN THE GENERAL FUND. 
          WE DO HAVE SOME MONEY FROM ARPA AT $30 MILLION, AND THE REMAINING IS OUR OTHER RESOURCES AT ABOUT $219 MILLION. 
          AND THIS INCLUDES REVENUES SUCH AS OUR E M S TRANSPORTS, OUR FINES AND BUSINESS AND FRANCHISE TAXES. 
          NOW ALL THESE REVENUES COMBINED 
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FUND SOME OF OUR BASIC CITY SERVICES TO INCLUDE PUBLIC SAFETY STREETS AND PROPERTY TAX. 
          NOW THE NEXT SLIDE, UH, SHOWS OUR FIRST QUARTER FINANCIAL PER, I'M SORRY, OUR SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AS WELL AS OUR YEAR END PROJECTIONS. 
          SO FOR THE SECOND QUARTER FOR OUR REVENUES, WE ARE AHEAD OF BUDGET BY ABOUT $47 MILLION. 
          AND THIS IS DRIVEN BY OUR SALES TAX COLLECTION AS WELL AS OUR C P S REVENUE COLLECTIONS. 
          BY THE END OF THE YEAR, WE ARE PROJECTING TO BE AHEAD OF BUDGET BY $74 MILLION, AND THIS REPRESENTS JUST ABOUT 5% OF THE GENERAL FUND FOR EXPENSES FOR THE SECOND QUARTER, WE ARE SLIGHTLY, UH, UNDER BUDGET BY ABOUT $7.3 MILLION. 
          HOWEVER, WE ARE PROJECTING TO BE AHEAD OF BUDGET, UH, BY THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          AND THIS IS REALLY DRIVEN BY TWO THINGS. 
          THE FIRST BEING FUEL PRICES INCREASING AS WELL AS THE PROJECTED LUMP SUM PAYMENT OF $5.9 MILLION TO POLICE OFFICERS AS PART OF THE TENTATIVE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT THAT CITY COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER AT TOMORROW'S EIGHT SESSION. 
          NOW, TO GO INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAILS ABOUT OUR REVENUES, AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE ABOUT $47 MILLION AHEAD OF BUDGET FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS, AND BY THE END OF THE YEAR WE'RE PROJECTING TO BE ABOUT $74 MILLION. 
          THIS IS DUE TO SALES TAX AND C P S. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE WITH REGARDS TO SALES TAX. 
          WE HAVE SEEN RECORD COLLECTIONS FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS DUE TO ECONOMIC ACTIVITY FROM INDUSTRY SECTORS SUCH AS OUR RETAIL AND ENTERTAINMENT SECTORS. 
          IN TERMS OF C P SS, WE ARE AHEAD OF BUDGET, UH, AND WE ARE PROJECTING TO BE AHEAD OF BUDGET BY ABOUT $35 MILLION. 
          AND A MAJORITY OF THIS IS AS A RESULT OF FUEL PRICES BEING HIGHER THAN WHAT WE HAD ANTICIPATED. 
          IN TERMS OF OUR OTHER REVENUES, UH, THESE ARE DRIVEN BY THREE MAIN COMPONENTS, THE FIRST BEING OUR, OUR E M SS TRANSPORTS, OUR HEAD OF BUDGET, OUR RIVER BARGE COLLECTIONS, AS WELL AS OUR POLICE VEHICLE AUCTIONS ARE AHEAD OF WHAT WE HAD ANTICIPATED DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS. 
          NOW MOVING ON TO SOME OF OUR RESTRICTED FUNDS FOR OUR HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX. 
          THIS IS BUDGETED AT $71 MILLION AND FOR THE FIRST QUARTER, I'M SORRY, FOR THE SECOND QUARTER, WE'RE AHEAD OF BUDGET BY ABOUT $9.4 MILLION, AND WE'RE PROJECTING TO BE AHEAD OF BUDGET BY ALMOST $15 MILLION BY THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          THIS IS REALLY DRIVEN BY THE COST PER NIGHT FOR HOTEL ROOMS AS WELL AS OUR OCCUPANCY RATE. 
          NOW FOR OUR CONVENTION CENTER, UH, WE ARE PROJECTING TO BE SLIGHTLY BELOW BUDGET, AND THIS IS DUE TO LESS THAN ANTICIPATED ATTENDANCE AT OUR EVENTS AT THE CONVENTION CENTER. 
          SO THIS COINCIDES WITH WHAT WE HAD ANTICIPATED THAT LEISURE TRAVEL WOULD ACTUALLY RECOVER FASTER THAN OUR CONVENTION CENTER AND BUSINESS TRAVEL, UH, WOULD NOT RECOVER AS QUICKLY. 
          FINALLY, FOR THE ALAMO DOME, UH, WE ARE PROJECTING TO BE ABOUT $800,000 BY THE END OF THE YEAR AHEAD OF BUDGET, AND THIS IS DUE TO, UH, BETTER ATTENDANCE AT OUR U T SS A GAMES, THE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP, AS WELL AS TWO ADDITIONAL CONCERTS. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE ILLUSTRATES OUR HOT COLLECTIONS OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, AS WELL AS OUR 2022 ESTIMATE. 
          SO PRIOR TO 2021, OUR HOT TAX REVENUES GREW ON AVERAGE ABOUT 4% FROM 2015 TO 2019. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE GRAPH, OUR HOT TAX COLLECTIONS ARE RECOVERING. 
          HOWEVER, WE'RE STILL ABOUT $14 MILLION LESS THAN WHAT WE HAD COLLECTED IN 2019 IN TERMS OF EXPENDITURES. 
          THOSE DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE FUNDED BY THE HOT TAX ARE WITHIN BUDGET OR SLIGHTLY BELOW BUDGET. 
          SO OVERALL, THE THE HO HOTEL OCCUPANCY FUND IS ABOUT $16.7 MILLION BETTER FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022. 
          OUR NEXT FUND IS AIRPORT. 
          UM, THE AIRPORT PROVIDES SERVICES AT BOTH SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL AS WELL AS STINSON. 
          AND THIS SLIDE ILLUSTRATES THE IMPACT OF COVID ON AIR TRAVEL AND OUR MONTHLY PASSENGER COUNT. 
          SO THE, THE GRAPH AND I WANTED TO POINT OUT THE GREEN LINE IS OUR 2019 PASS MONTHLY PASSENGERS. 
          AND THE BLUISH PURPLE LINE IS OUR 2022 PERFORMANCE FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS. 
          AND WHAT WE'RE PROJECTING FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS, AS YOU CAN SEE, FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS, WE'RE STILL SLIGHT SLIGHTLY BELOW THAT PRE PANDEMIC LEVEL. 
          HOWEVER, IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR, WE ARE PROJECTING TO RECOVER AND MEET THOSE LEVELS THAT WE WERE AT IN 2022. 
          I'M SORRY, 2019. 
          OVERALL FOR THE AIRPORT, WE ARE PROJECTING TO BE ABOUT, UH, ALMOST 
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$14 MILLION AHEAD OF BUDGET. 
          UH, THIS IS REALLY DRIVEN BY OUR REVENUES, OUR NON-AIR AIRLINE REVENUES AS A, AS A RESULT OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY, AND ALSO OUR, I'M SORRY, OUR NON-AIR AIRLINE REVENUES, WHICH IS A RESULT OF OUR CAR RENTAL CONCESSIONS AS WELL AS PARKING REVENUES AND OUR AIRLINE REVENUES AS A RESULT OF BETTER THAN ANTICIPATED INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY. 
          NEXT IS OUR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ENTERPRISE FUND. 
          SO THIS IS ROUGHLY A $42 MILLION FUND THAT IS SUPPORTED BY THE FEES PAID FOR, PAID BY DEVELOPERS FOR PLAN REVIEWS AND INSPECTIONS. 
          OVERALL FOR THE YEAR, WE ARE PROJECTING TO BE ABOUT $4.5 MILLION AHEAD OF BUDGET, AND THIS IS REALLY DRIVEN BY BETTER THAN ANTICIPATED, UH, COMMERCIAL PERMITTING, WHICH I'LL GO INTO MORE DETAILS ABOUT ON THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS BOTH OUR RESIDENTIAL AS WELL AS OUR COMMERCIAL PERMITTING ACTIVITY. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE, THE THE ORANGE LINE IS OUR, OUR COMMERCIAL PERMITTING. 
          YOU CAN SEE THAT WE ARE PROJECTING ABOUT 4,000, UH, COMMERCIAL PERMITS, WHICH IS ABOUT 800 MORE PERMITS THAN, THAN, UH, WHAT WE RECEIVED IN 2021 FOR SOLID WASTE. 
          UM, THIS IS A OPERATING BUDGET OF ABOUT 130, ALMOST $135 MILLION. 
          AND THIS IS SUPPORTED BY OUR SOLID WASTE AND ENVIRONMENTAL FEES, AS WELL AS RECYCLING REVENUES FOR OUR SOLID WASTE FUND. 
          WE ARE, UH, PROJECTING TO BE ABOUT $3.6 MILLION AHEAD OF BUDGET OVERALL, AND THIS IS REALLY DRIVEN BY BETTER REVENUES FROM OUR RECYCLING, UH, REVENUES AS A RESULT OF HIGHER, UH, REVENUES THAT WE'RE RECEIVING ON THE PRICE PER TON OF OUR COMMODITIES. 
          NOW MOVING ON TO OUR FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL FORECAST AND THE TRIAL BUDGET FOR THE, FOR THE GENERAL FUND. 
          THE TRIAL BUDGET IS A PRELIMINARY ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES AND IT INCORPORATES CITY COUNCIL DIRECTION PROVIDED AT THE APRIL GOAL SETTING SESSION. 
          THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST IS AN EARLY FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR THE CITY. 
          AS THE BUDGET DEVELOPMENT PROCESS BEGINS FOR 2023, THE FORECAST PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CITY COUNCIL POLICY DISCUSSION FOR CONTINUED CITY COUNCIL POLICY DISCUSSION ON THE UPCOMING ANNUAL BUDGET. 
          AND AS A REMINDER, THE FORECAST IS NOT A BUDGET, IT'S JUST WHAT WE KNOW IN TERMS OF REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES BASED ON A SET OF ASSUMPTIONS. 
          AND THIS IS A MAJOR DELIVERABLE AS PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET WILL BE PRESENTED, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED ON AUGUST 11TH THIS YEAR. 
          WE HELD THE GOAL SETTING SESSION EARLY IN APRIL, AND WE DID THIS IN ORDER TO INCORPORATE CITY COUNCIL FEEDBACK AND INPUT INTO THE TRIAL BUDGET AND ULTIMATELY INTO OUR PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          DURING THIS MEETING, THE FOLLOWING BUDGET, THE BUDGET PRIORITIES WERE IDENTIFIED AND OUR ADDRESSED IN THE TRIAL BUDGET. 
          THIS INCLUDES PROPERTY TAX RELIEF, INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC SAFETY TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL POSITIONS AND SERVICES, THE CONTINUATION OF OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND ESSAY FORWARD. 
          AND FINALLY, A FOCUS ON CIVILIAN COMPENSATION AND MARKET ADJUSTMENTS. 
          NOW, THE F THE FORECAST WAS DEVELOPED WITH THE FOLLOWING CONSIDERATIONS IN MIND, WHILE THE OVERALL SENTIMENT ABOUT THE ECONOMY AS WELL AS THE SAN ANTONIO ECONOMY IS POSITIVE, THERE'S A DOWNWARD TREND AS REPORTED BY MACKENZIE GLOBAL SURVEY ON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. 
          IN THIS SURVEY, GEOPOLITICAL INSTABILITY WAS CITED AS THE TOP RISK TO BOTH THE GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY AS WELL AS ENERGY PRICES AND INFLATION. 
          OTHER FACTORS THAT WERE CONSIDERED WERE SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES AND FURTHER INTEREST RATE HIKES FROM THE FEDERAL RESERVE. 
          SO MOVING ON TO OUR REVENUE ASSUMPTIONS, THIS NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE PROPERTY TAX TAXABLE VALUATION PERCENT CHANGE FROM PRIOR YEARS. 
          SO BETWEEN 2012 AND 2022, OUR AVERAGE TAXABLE VALUATION INCREASED WAS ABOUT 5.7%. 
          NOW THIS IS COMPRISED OF THE TWO MAIN COMPONENTS BEING THE BASE VALUE AS WELL AS OUR, OUR NEW VALUES, OUR NEW CONSTRUCTION. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE IN 2023, WE ARE PROJECTING ABOUT A 14% INCREASE IN VALUATION. 
          HOWEVER, AS A RESULT OF SB TWO, THE CITY IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF REVENUES THAT WE CAN, THAT IS, THAT ARE GENERATED OFF OF PROPERTY TAX TO 3.5% IN 2024. 
          WE DO ANTICIPATE BASE VALUE'S GROWING ABOUT 3.5%, HOWEVER, FROM 2025 THROUGH 2026, THEY 
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RANGE FROM 3% TO 2%. 
          VAL, UH, GROWTH ON VALUE ON THE BASE, UM, ON OUR BASE PROPERTY TAX. 
          AS MENTIONED, ONE OF THE PRIORITIES THAT WAS DISCUSSED DURING THE GOAL SETTING SESSION WAS PROPERTY TAX RELIEF. 
          SO PROPERTY TAX RELIEF IS INCLUDED IN OUR FIVE-YEAR FORECAST AND OUR TRIAL BUDGET. 
          THIS INCLUDES A REDUCTION OF 1.30 CENTS IN OUR CITY'S PROPERTY TAX RATE, A 10% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, AND FINALLY INCREASING THE E EXEMPTION FOR OVER 65 AND DISABLED TO $85,000 IN TERMS OF SALES TAX. 
          THIS GRAPH ILLUSTRATES THE SALES TAX COLLE THE ACTUAL SALES TAX COLLECTION FROM 2010 TO 2021 AND THE PROJECTED GROWTH OVER THE FIVE YEAR FORECAST. 
          SINCE 2010, SALES TAX COLLECTIONS HAVE GROWN ON AVERAGE ABOUT 5%, AND THE FORECAST IS SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN THIS AT 4.7%. 
          OUR NEXT SLIDE IS OUR C P S AND THE CHANGE FROM PRIOR YEAR COLLECTIONS. 
          AS A REMINDER, THE CITY RECEIVES 14% OF GROSS REVENUES FROM C P S AS A RETURN ON INVESTMENT AND PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES. 
          THIS IS A RELATIVELY VOLATILE REVENUE SOURCE, UM, AS IT'S DEPENDENT UPON THE WEATHER AS WELL AS FUEL PRICES. 
          OVERALL, THOSE SINCE 2010 GROWTH HAVE A C P SS REVENUES GROWTH YEAR OVER YEAR HAS AVERAGED ABOUT 2.5% AND WE ARE MAINTAINING THAT LEVEL FOR THE FI FOR THE FORECAST. 
          NOW, IN TERMS OF OUR EXPENDITURE ASSUMPTIONS, THE EXPENDITURE ASSUMPTIONS INCORPORATES CITY COUNCIL BUDGET PRIORITIES FROM THE APRIL 13TH GOAL SETTING SESSION. 
          AND THE, IT INCLUDES THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF THOSE BUDGET PRIORITIES THROUGH THE LIFE OF THE FORECAST. 
          THE FORECAST ALSO REFLECTS, UH, INCREASES IN MEDICAL INFLATION AND INFLATIONARY INCREASES FOR COMMODITIES AND SERVICES. 
          IT INCLUDES FUNDING FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING CONTRACT INCREASES, IT ADDS OPERATING COST FOR BOND PROJECTS. 
          AND FINALLY, IT CONTINUES THE EDWARDS AQUIFER ACQUISITION PROGRAM AS WELL AS ESSAY FORWARD. 
          SO THIS SLIDE, UM, SHOWS WHAT WE'RE INCLUDING FOR CIVILIAN COMPENSATION IN THE TRIAL BUDGET. 
          THIS IS ONE OF THE MAIN FOCUS AREAS OF THE TRIAL BUDGET. 
          SO AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE INCLUDING ABOUT $23 MILLION FOR CIVILIAN COMPENSATION IN 2023. 
          AND THIS IS TO ADDRESS MARKET ADJUSTMENTS ACROSS THE BOARD AND PAY PLAN. 
          IT ALSO INCLUDES FUNDING FOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS FOR THE LIFE OF FOR 2023 AND 2024. 
          AS A REMINDER, THE FIRE CONTRACT IS EFFECTIVE THROUGH 2024 AND THE POLICE CONTRACT, THE TENTATIVE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT THAT WILL BE CONSIDERED TOMORROW WOULD BE EFFECTIVE THROUGH 2026. 
          THE NEXT TWO SLIDES PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE AMOUNTS INCLUDED IN THE TRIAL BUDGET FOR MANDATES. 
          OVERALL, WE'RE INCLUDING ABOUT $8.8 MILLION TO ADDRESS OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE FOR OUR 2017 BOND PROGRAM, AS WELL AS SOME PROJECTS THAT WILL COME ONLINE FOR THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM. 
          ADDITIONALLY, WE ARE INCLUDING OTHER MANDATES SUCH AS, UH, GRANT MATCHES AS WELL AS INCREASING CONTRACTUAL SERVICES. 
          I WANTED TO MOVE ON TO OUR IMPROVEMENTS. 
          THE TRIAL BUDGET INCLUDES ABOUT $29 MILLION FOR IMPROVEMENTS AND THESE IMPROVEMENTS ADDRESS THE COUNCIL PRIORITIES THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN APRIL. 
          THIS IS NEW MONEY THAT IS BEING ADDED AS PART OF THE TRIAL BUDGET AND IT INCLUDES FUNDING FOR MAINTAINING OUR, THE GENERAL FUND LEVEL OF THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM BUDGET. 
          IT INCLUDES POLICE AND FIRE, ADDITIONAL UNIFORM POSITIONS. 
          IT CONTINUES THE HOMELESS PROGRAMS THAT ARE CURRENTLY FUNDED BY CARES, E S G, AND IT ALSO INCLUDES FUNDING FOR OUR SENIORS FOR THE OLDER ADULTS TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AS WELL AS RESTORES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          AND FINALLY, UM, WE ALSO ARE INCLUDING FUNDING TO INCREASE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ACCESS MOBILITY PROGRAM FROM 219,000 TO $450,000. 
          SO OVERALL WE'RE ADDING ABOUT $29 MILLION IN NEW MONEY AS PART OF THE TRIAL BUDGET. 
          AND THAT REOCCURRING AMOUNT FOR THOSE IMPROVEMENTS 
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ADDED ABOUT $33 MILLION IN 2024. 
          NOW, AS YOU COMBINE ALL THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT I'VE MENTIONED, THE TABLE ON THE TOP ILLUSTRATES THE PROJECTED RESOURCES AS WELL AS OUR PROJECTED EXPENDITURES, ASSUMING OUR CURRENT SERVICES. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE FOR THE FIVE YEAR FORECAST, WE ARE BALANCED. 
          NOW WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS THE TABLE ON THE BOTTOM INCORPORATES THOSE MANDATES, BUDGET PRIORITIES AND POLICY ISSUES THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED, AND WE HAVE LAYERED THOSE INTO THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST TO SHOW THE IMPACT OF THOSE ITEMS ON THE FINANCIAL FORECAST. 
          SO FOR 2023 TO 2025, WE ARE BALANCED. 
          WE DO FACE SOME CHALLENGES IN 2026 AND 2027. 
          NOW, AS PART OF THE TRIAL BUDGET FOR 2023, WE HAVE ABOUT $20 MILLION THAT IS AVAILABLE TO BE REALLOCATED TO PRIORITY INFRASTRUCTURE AREAS IN RESPONSE TO THE GOAL SETTING SESSION. 
          THE TRIAL BUDGET INCLUDES AN ADDITIONAL $10 MILLION FOR A STREET MAINTENANCE PROGRAM. 
          IT INCLUDES $3.8 MILLION TO COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION OF OUR 28 MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS. 
          FOR VISION ZERO, WE'RE INCLUDING 2.9 FOR WARRANTED TRAFFIC SIGNALS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AND $1 MILLION FOR OUR NON-SERVICE ALLEY MAINTENANCE. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE ILLUSTRATES THE RECOMMENDED FUNDING ALLOCATION FOR A STREET MAINTENANCE PROGRAM. 
          THE TABLE ON YOUR LEFT SHOWS THE P C I SCORE IN 2017 AND THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE FROM 2017 TO 2022. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE IN 2022, ALL DISTRICTS ARE HAVE A P C I SCORE OF HIGHER THAN 70. 
          NOW, BASED ON COUNCIL DISCUSSION DURING THE GOAL SETTING SESSION, STAFF HAS PROJECTED THE LENGTH OF TIME NEEDED AND THE FUNDING NEEDED TO BRING ALL PC ALL CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS UP TO A P C I LEVEL OF 80 AND PROJECTED, UM, F STREETS NO MORE THAN 10% F STREETS. 
          SO THIS WOULD ASSUME $120 MILLION ANNUALLY AND A HUNDRED MILLION OF THAT WOULD BE BA ALLOCATION WOULD BE BASED A HUNDRED PERCENT ON THE CONDITION OF THE STREETS. 
          WITH THIS LEVEL OF FUNDING AND WITH THIS ALLOCATION, WE WOULD MEET THIS GOAL BY 2030. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE JUST SHOWS THE ALLOCATION FOR IF WE WERE, UM, TO ALLOCATE THE A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS BASED UPON THE CONDITION OF THE STREETS IN EACH DISTRICT. 
          SO IN SUMMARY, FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023 FOR THE STREET MAINTENANCE PROGRAM, WE HAVE $130 MILLION OF WHICH A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS WOULD BE BASED. 
          THE ALLOCATION OF THAT A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS WOULD BE BASED ON THE CONDITION OF THE STREETS. 
          20 MILLION IS FROM THE BOND, AND THAT WOULD BE ALLOCATED BASED 50% ON CONDITION AND 50% ON THE NETWORK SIZE. 
          AND FINALLY, THE $10 MILLION FROM ARPA WOULD BE ALLOCATED BASED ON THE MILES OF F STREETS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023. 
          WE ALSO ARE INCLUDING ABOUT $15 MILLION FOR SIDEWALKS IN THE TRIAL BUDGET. 
          UH, THIS INCLUDES 13 MILLION FROM OUR ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT AND $2 MILLION FROM THE BOND. 
          ONE THING THAT WAS MENTIONED DURING OUR GOAL SETTING SESSION WAS THE POTENTIAL IMPLEMENTATION OF A TRANSPORTATION AND SIDEWALK FEE. 
          PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE ARE REVIEWING OPTIONS FOR POTENTIAL TRANSPORTATION AND SIDEWALK MITIGATION FEE. 
          AND THIS RECOMMENDATION AND UPDATE WILL BE PRESENTED AS PART OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET IN AUGUST. 
          SO THAT WRAPS UP THE GENERAL FUND. 
          UM, WE WILL MOVE ON TO OUR RESTRICTED FUNDS AND FORECAST FOR SEVERAL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS. 
          SO OUR HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX RATE CURRENTLY IS 16.75% OF THIS AMOUNT. 
          7% GOES TO FUND ACTIVITIES IN THE CONVENTION FACILITIES VISIT SAN ANTONIO HISTORY AND PRESERVATION AND ARTS. 
          THE 2% IS A RESTRICTED SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION, DEBT, AND ANY FUTURE CONVENTION CENTER PROJECTS. 
          THIS NEXT CHART ILLUSTRATES THE PROJECTED HOT REVENUES AS WELL AS THE HISTORY OF OUR COLLECTIONS. 
          SO PRIOR TO 2020. 
          PRIOR TO 2020, THE HOT TAX GREW FROM FOUR AT 4.8% BETWEEN 2010 AND 2019. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE SLIDE, WE ARE INCREASING OUR PROJECTION FOR 2023 BY ABOUT 
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ALMOST 18%, AND THEN WE LEVEL OFF AT ABOUT 4% FOR THE REMAINING YEARS. 
          THIS NEXT SLIDE ILLUSTRATES THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FIVE YEAR FORECAST. 
          OVERALL, THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAXED IS BALANCED FOR 2023 AND 2024. 
          HOWEVER, WE DO HAVE SOME MANAGEABLE, MANAGEABLE CHALLENGES IN 2025 AND THROUGH 2027. 
          I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT THE OUTER YEARS OF THE ALLOCATION INCLUDED IN THE FORECAST MAY ADJUST AS WE BEGIN TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CAPITAL NEEDS AT BOTH THE ALAMO DOME AND THE CONVENTION CENTER AS WE STRUCTURE FINANCING TO ADDRESS THOSE NEEDS. 
          SO PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC, THE CITY HAD START HAD IDENTIFIED FACILITY NEEDS BOTH AT THE ALAMO DOME AND THE CONVENTION CENTER THROUGH A FACILITIES ASSESSMENT AND OTHER ASSESSMENTS. 
          OVER A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS WAS IDENTIFIED IN CAPITAL NEEDS FOR PREVENTATIVE NA PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE, CAPITAL REPLACEMENT, AND FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS. 
          IN THE 2022, WE BEGAN TO ADDRESS THE ADDRESS THESE IDENTIFIED NEEDS. 
          HOWEVER, WITH THE START OF C O V I D, THESE WERE PUT ON PAUSE. 
          AS WE WORK TO KEEP THE FUND FINANCIALLY BALANCED. 
          AS THIS FUND STARTS TO RECOVER, WE NEED TO AGAIN BEGIN TO ADDRESS THESE IDENTIFIED NEEDS. 
          MOVING ON TO OUR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FUND, UH, THIS FORECAST DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY RATE INCREASES OR ANY FEE INCREASES FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. 
          AND WE DO HAVE A PO POSITIVE FINANCIAL POSITION FOR ALL FIVE YEARS AND IT ALSO MAINTAINS A FINANCIAL RESERVE TO ASSIST IN SMOOTHING FLUCTUATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY. 
          NEXT IS OUR SOLID WASTE FUND. 
          AGAIN, WE ARE NOT INCLUDING A FEE INCREASE IN 2023, HOWEVER, WE MAY NEED A FEE INCREASE IN 2024 TO ADDRESS INCREASINGS IN PRICES SUCH AS THE COST OF FUEL, UH, DISPOSAL SERVICES AND SOME OF OUR COMMODITY PRICING. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS DISCUSSED DURING OUR GOAL SETTING SESSION IN APRIL WAS THE POSSIBILITY OF OF, UM, INCORPORATING A THIRD BRUSH COLLECTION. 
          SO WE WORKED WITH SOLID WASTE AND TO INCORPORATE A THIRD BRUSH COLLECTION, IT WOULD COST ABOUT $7 MILLION. 
          A MAJORITY OF THAT IS THE EQUIPMENT AT ABOUT $4.6 MILLION AND WE WOULD ADD ABOUT 33 POSITIONS. 
          SO AS A RESULT OF THIS, WE WOULD NEED TO INCREASE THE THE MONTHLY GARBAGE FEE BY ABOUT 75 CENTS. 
          SO IN SUMMARY, THE NEXT COUPLE SLIDES, UH, SUMMARIZE THE MID-YEAR ADJUSTMENTS. 
          SO FOR THE GENERAL FUND, WE ARE RIGHT SIZING REVENUES AND EXPENSES TO ACCOUNT FOR ADDITIONAL REVENUES THAT WE'RE RECEIVING. 
          AND A SLIGHTLY, UH, SLIGHTLY MORE EXPENSES FOR THE AIRPORT. 
          WE ARE, UH, RECOGNIZING AND INCREASING OUR REVENUES, BUT DECREASING OUR EXPENSES TO ACCOUNT FOR THOSE SAVINGS AS PROJECTED FOR SOLID WASTE. 
          UM, AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, WE ARE RIGHT SIZING THESE BUDGETS, UH, AS PART OF THE MID-YEAR THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED NEXT THURSDAY. 
          UM, SO WITH SOLID WASTE, WE ARE INCREASING THEIR REVENUE BUDGET AND INCREASING THEIR EXPENSES TO ACCOUNT FOR THE RISING COST OF FUEL. 
          FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. 
          WE ARE INCREASING, UH, THEIR REVENUES AS WELL TO, UH, ACCOUNT FOR BETTER THAN ANTICIPATED PERMITTING ACTIVITY. 
          AND FINALLY, FOR OUR HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX, WE WOULD BE ADJUSTING OUR HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX REVENUES AS WELL AS OUR CONVENTION CENTER, UH, FACILITIES BUDGET, REDUCING IT SLIGHTLY. 
          NOW, THE NEXT TWO SLIDES TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS. 
          UM, THE FIRST IS OUR BUDGET COMMUNITY INPUT. 
          SO OVER THE NEXT MONTH AND A HALF, WE WOULD BE HOLDING 10, UH, COUNCIL DISTRICT MEETINGS TO OBTAIN FEEDBACK ON THE TRIAL BUDGETS THAT THAT IS BEING PRESENTED TODAY. 
          ADDITIONALLY, WE WOULD, UH, WE ARE DEVELOPING A SURVEY THAT WILL BE, UM, AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC BY THE END OF THE WEEK. 
          AND THIS WOULD BE HOSTED ON SA SPEAK UP.COM AND PROMOTED THROUGH GRASSROOT EVENTS, PAID ADVERTISING, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND WE'D BE WORKING WITH NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT TO GET MORE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK. 
          SO FINALLY, UH, THE NEXT STEPS IN THE BUDGET PROCESS. 
          AS I MENTIONED, BETWEEN MAY AND JUNE, WE WILL BE GATHERING COMMUNITY INPUT FOR THE BUDGET. 
          AND THEN BETWEEN JUNE AND JULY WE'LL BE INCORPORATING CITY COUNCIL FEEDBACK AS WELL AS THAT COMMUNITY INPUT 
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INTO THE PROPOSED BUDGET THAT WOULD BE PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL ON AUGUST 11TH. 
          AFTER AUGUST 11TH, WE WOULD HOLD CITY COUNCIL BUDGET WORK SESSIONS AS WELL AS GATHER COMMUNITY INPUT AGAIN, UH, ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          AND FINALLY, COUNCIL ADOPTION, OR I'M SORRY, THE BUDGET ADOPTION WOULD BE SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 15TH. 
          THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION AND WE'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. 
          SO MAYOR, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR SOME FEEDBACK ON IS, UM, AND TROY TALKED ABOUT IT, WE DO NEED TO TAKE ACTION ON ANY EXEMPTIONS BEFORE JULY 1ST. 
          AND TENTATIVELY WE HAVE HELD JUNE 16TH AS A DATE, UH, FOR THE, A SESSION FOR ANY POTENTIAL COUNCIL ACTION. 
          SO WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR SOME FEEDBACK FROM YOU ALL TODAY SO THAT WE CAN PREPARE THAT ITEM. 
          UM, AND, AND WE SAY JUNE 16TH, 'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA WAIT TILL THE END OF THE MONTH IN CASE SOMETHING HAPPENS. 
          SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE ENOUGH ROOM. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'LL BE KEY IN TERMS OF THE FEEDBACK. 
          AND UH, WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANKS. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH ERIC, AND THANK YOU TROY AND JUSTINA FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UM, ENCOURAGING O OBVIOUSLY THAT THE, UH, LARGER ECONOMY SEEMS TO BE BOUNCING BACK. 
          UM, YET WHAT WE KNOW WITHIN SAN ANTONIO AND ELSEWHERE IS THAT OUR FAMILIES ARE STILL STRUGGLING. 
          SO I THINK IT WAS APPROPRIATE FOR US TO START WITH THE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF SLIDES. 
          AND JUST SO I CAN UNDERSTAND, UM, TROY CORRECTLY, WE'RE NOT LOOKING, YOUR RECOMMENDATION IS NOT TAX RATE OR HOMESTEAD OR DISABILITY OR, UM, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER, UM, SENIOR EXEMPTION. 
          UM, YOUR RECOMMENDATION INCLUDES A COMBINATION OF ALL OF THOSE FOUR ITEMS. YEAH. 
          THE, UM, THE TAX RATE YOU WILL ADOPT AS PART OF THE ADOPTED BUDGET AND ON THE COUNCIL ACTION IN JUNE WOULD Y'ALL WOULD BE APPROVING THE ACTUAL EXEMPTIONS. 
          GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I THINK IT'S ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE, AND I THINK YOU'VE DONE A GOOD JOB IN, UH, DOING WHAT THE COUNCIL HAD ASKED, WHICH IS KNOWING THAT WE ARE GONNA DO SOME FORM OF PROPERTY TAX RELIEF. 
          HOW DO WE MAKE SURE IT'S, IT'S AS BEST WE CAN TARGETED TO FOLKS WHO NEED IT THE MOST. 
          UH, AND AS WE SAW ON THE ONE OF THE OPENING SLIDES, UH, IN OUR PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS, WE, WE KNOW THAT COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES, ALL PROPERTIES ARE UP, UH, MULTIFAMILY HOME HOMESTEADS AS WELL AS COMMERCIAL. 
          BUT THIS WOULD ALLOW US AN OPPORTUNITY NOW TO FOCUS SOME OF THAT ON, YOU KNOW, THE RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY THAT, THAT ARE IN MOST NEED OF SOME RELIEF HERE. 
          SO, UH, I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THE, UM, MENU OF PROPERTY TAX, UM, RELIEF ITEMS THAT INCLUDES THOSE FOUR ITEMS. SO, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, FOR THE ANALYSIS. 
          I THINK IT'S, UM, IT'S GONNA BE ENCOURAGING NEWS AND PROBABLY VERY WELL RECEIVED FOLKS. 
          AND, AND THE RELIEF DOESN'T END THIS YEAR. 
          I MEAN, IT WILL ALSO CARRY FORWARD EVERY YEAR BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED EXEMPTIONS IN THE LOWER TAX RATES. 
          SO, UH, WE ARE, WHERE WE ARE IN, UH, I THINK THE MESSAGE TO BE THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO IN OUR PORTION OF THE TAX BILL IS GONNA BE DOING OUR PART TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO SAN ANTONIO RESIDENTS. 
          UM, I'M GLAD, UH, JUST, I'M GONNA BOUNCE AROUND HERE JUST BRIEFLY AND JUST POINT OUT SOME HIGHLIGHTS ON SLIDE 35 OF JUSTINA'S PRESENTATION. 
          I APPRECIATE THE, UM, OVERLOOK OF OUR STREET SCORES, P C I SCORES THAT GO BACK TO THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE STARTED WITH THE PROCESS OF AN EQUITY BUDGET. 
          AND AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, DISTRICTS THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE DRAMATICALLY POORER STREETS THAN OTHER AREAS HAVE BEEN LIFTED UP. 
          WE'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT WHERE WE WANT TO BE, BUT I, I THINK WITH THE CONTINUED EVOLUTION OF OUR FORMULA, YOUR PROJECTIONS FOR F Y 30 ARE, ARE ENCOURAGING TO KNOW THAT WE'RE, WE'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 
          SO I I APPRECIATE THAT, UM, THAT OVERLOOK. 
          UM, MY ASK FOR, UM, SO YOU MADE IT VERY CLEAR, JUSTINE, THE FORECAST IS NOT THE BUDGET. 
          I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP THAT IN MIND BECAUSE THE OUT YEARS FY 26, 27, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO WORK ON THOSE, BUT WE ARE BALANCED. 
          WE'RE, WE ARE IN SEPTEMBER GOING TO APPROVE A BALANCE BUDGET FOR FY 23 F Y 24, AND ALREADY 25 LOOKS LIKE IT'S IN VERY GOOD SHAPE, 26 AND 27. 
          WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO WORK ON THINGS AS WE GET FORWARD. 
          SO NOTHING IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE WOULD NORMALLY SEE DURING A FIVE YEAR BUDGET FORECAST. 
          UM, WITH RESPECT TO THE TRIAL BUDGET. 
          UM, AND THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU, MARIA AND ERIC, THAT I HAD MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, VOTERS APPROVED, UH, OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BOND. 
          THAT'S ONE ELEMENT OF A LARGER, UH, 
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SLATE OF THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO TO HELP RESTORE OUR ECONOMY AND MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE, ARE EXPERIENCING GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS OF THAT IS IN OUR, IS OUR HOUSING STRATEGY. 
          I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, WE ARE ALIGNING OUR RESOURCES IN THE F Y 23 BUDGET GENERAL FUND BUDGET WITH THE PRIORITIES OUTLINED IN THE STRATEGIC HOUSING IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ON, ON YOUR TRIAL BUDGET. 
          ERIC, ARE WE DOING THAT? YEAH, MAYOR, BUT IT, IT'S REALLY, UM, WE, WE, WE REALLY HAVE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ALL THE RESOURCES. 
          AND I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. 
          THIS WEEK, UH, WE WERE NOTIFIED THAT, UH, WE WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR $3 MILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDS THAT A WEEK AGO WE DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE GONNA HAVE. 
          THAT'S GONNA FRANKLY, GIVE US A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBILITY AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ALIGN OURSELVES TO THE SHIP PLAN. 
          AND THAT 10 YEAR ESTIMATE, THAT 10 YEAR ESTIMATE, UM, UM, RELIED UPON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT SOURCES. 
          UH, THAT WAS THE FIRST LINE ON, ON THE IMPROVEMENT SLIDE THAT, UM, JUSTINA TALKED ABOUT. 
          WE WANTED THE, THE, THE BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT WE HAVE IN THE TRIAL BUDGET RIGHT NOW IS MAINTAINING THOSE ONE-TIME IMPROVEMENTS AT FOUR, ALMOST FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, AND MAKING SURE THAT THAT MONEY'S THERE IN THAT HOUSING, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING EFFORTS. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S ONE OF MY MAIN AREAS OF CONCERN IS THAT WE STAY ON TRACK BECAUSE THE VOTERS HAVE, AGAIN, SUPPORTED IT THROUGH, UH, THE BOND EFFORT. 
          WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING WHAT WE NEED TO DO UP HERE ON THE DIOCESE WITH REGARD TO HOUSING. 
          UM, THE OTHER PART THAT WILL JUMP OUT IS THE IMPROVEMENTS IN PERSONNEL CONTINGENT ON POLICE AND FIRE. 
          UH, I NOTED, UH, YOU ARE BUDGETING FOR 50 OFFICERS IN F Y 23. 
          UM, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? YEAH, UH, THE, THE TRIAL BUDGET, UM, HAS, UM, AND WE'LL BE BRINGING TO COUNCIL TO TO COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION IN JUNE, A, UH, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GRANT, COPS GRANT, UH, WILL APPLY FOR 50 OFFICERS. 
          UM, THE, UH, GRANT MATCH, UH, BY THE CITIES ON THE CITY SIDE IS ABOUT $3.6 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR 23. 
          AND THEN WE, UH, BUILT IN THOSE EXPENSES GOING OUT. 
          WE ALSO HAVE, UH, FOR TRIAL BUDGET PURPOSES AND ADDITIONAL 25 OFFICERS IN THE TRIAL BUDGET IN 2024. 
          AND THAT'S JUST AS PLACEHOLDERS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, UH, ACTUALLY LAST WEEK, UH, THE COUNCIL TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE ADDRESSING, UM, PUBLIC SAFETY POSITIONS, UH, IN THE OUT YEARS. 
          WE DO NOT HAVE ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS BUILT INTO THE FORECAST IN, UH, THE THREE YEARS THAT ARE FURTHER OUT. 
          AND WE'LL TAKE, UM, WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THE, WE HAVE AN R F P ON THE STREETS RIGHT NOW FOR POLICE STAFFING. 
          UH, THAT'LL BE COMING BACK. 
          UH, WE'LL BE BRINGING IT TO COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION IN JUNE. 
          AND THEN IN THE LAST THING I'LL ADD IS THAT, UM, IN THE MANDATE, SO THE $8 MILLION WE HAVE BUILT INTO THE TRIAL BUDGET, WE DO HAVE ADDITIONAL SUPERVISORY, UM, POSITIONS FOR THE OPENING OF THE ST. 
          MARY STREET POLICE STATION. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN IN 24 IN THE TRIAL BUDGET, UM, ASSUMING THAT, UH, AN, AN ACCELERATED SCHEDULE, AN SUPERVISORY STAFFING FOR THE DISTRICT OR THE SOUTHEAST SIDE SUBSTATION APPROVED BY THE, BY THE PUBLIC, UH, THIS PAST WEEK. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO WITHOUT SEEING WHAT THAT STUDY, UH, SAYS WITH REGARD TO THE PERSONNEL REQUIREMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT, UH, I WOULD SAY THAT'S ANOTHER AREA IN F Y 26 27 THAT WE JUST START WORKING ON NOW IN TERMS OF GETTING READY TO BUDGET FOR THOSE POSITIONS, NOT, NOT SEEING WHAT THE STUDY WILL SHOW, BUT I'M GUESSING WE WANNA STAY ON TRACK IN TERMS OF THE TREND LINE WITH THE PERSONNEL. 
          UM, WITH THOSE PERSONNEL THAT ARE BUDGETED THOUGH, YOU'RE SAYING, UH, THE COPS GRANT, IF IT'S RECEIVED, WILL BE, UH, WILL BE FUNDING THOSE POSITIONS, BUT THOSE POSITIONS ARE BUILT IN THE, INTO THE BUDGET LONG-TERM, EVEN WHEN THE GRANT GOES AWAY? YES. 
          YES, ABSOLUTELY. 
          OKAY. 
          AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, UH, WE WON'T KNOW ABOUT THE GRANT, UH, AWARD UNTIL, UM, SEPTEMBER. 
          AND SO, UM, LIKELY WHAT WE'LL DO IS PROPOSE TO THE COUNCIL THAT WE SET ASIDE THE $3.6 MILLION FOR THOSE 50 OFFICERS. 
          IF WE DON'T GET THE GRANT OR WE GET HALF OF THE GRANT, THEN WE'LL NEED HALF OF THAT MONEY AND WE'LL CONVERT IT, UM, OVER TO ADDITIONAL POSITIONS. 
          SO IT GIVES US A LITTLE FLEXIBILITY TO BE ABLE TO WORK THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, UH, THE, THE LADDER, UH, THE LADDER UNIT, THOSE ARE BRINGING US IN LINE WITH THE REQUESTS THAT WERE MADE A COUPLE YEARS AGO. 
          WELL, MORE THAN JUST REQUESTS MAYOR, THEY, THEY WERE A PART OF OUR ACCREDITATION AND MAINTAINING COVERAGE TRUCK COVERAGE IN THE CITY. 
          AND WE WERE SUPPOSED TO ADD THAT IN FISCAL YEAR 21. 
          THAT WAS THE COVID YEAR. 
          WE DID NOT ADD THAT, OBVIOUSLY. 
          UM, WE DID NOT ADD IT LAST YEAR, SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET BACK ON TRACK THAT ADDS ADDITIONAL TRUCK COVERAGE TO THE CITY. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE A PLANNED, UM, E M SS UNIT AD BASED ON ACCREDITATION AND RESPONSE TIME STANDARDS. 
          WE HAD THAT, UH, SCHEDULED FOR 24. 
          WE'VE HAD THAT SCHEDULED FOR 2024 FOR SOME TIME. 
          GREAT. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, THIS IS VERY ENCOURAGING AND I WOULD SAY ALSO ACCREDIT 
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TO THE CITY STAFF, UH, AND THE CITY COUNCIL OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, EXECUTE, UH, EXERCISING, UH, SOME VERY DIFFICULT FISCAL DISCIPLINE THROUGH THE PANDEMIC, UM, AND MAKING CUTS WHERE WE NEEDED TO MAKE CUTS AND THEN ADDING SERVICES BACK IN AS THEY REQUIRED. 
          BUT BECAUSE OF THAT FISCAL DISCIPLINE NOW WE, WE LOOK LIKE WE HAVE A PRETTY GO ROBUST BUDGET AND ONE THAT WILL HELP US, UM, SEED THAT RECOVERY. 
          I WOULD, I WOULD CERTAINLY ECHO THE, THE FISCAL DISCIPLINE PART, BUT WE ARE SEEING A STATEWIDE TREND IN TERMS OF SALES TAX. 
          UM, EVERY CITY IS SEEING, UH, THE NUMBERS WE'RE SEEING, UM, AND THE, UM, DICHOTOMY OF, OF HIGHER PRICES AND INFLATION AND HIGHER WAGES IS GENERATING, UM, 20 PLUS PERCENT GROWTH IN, IN MANY CITIES, MANY MAJOR CITIES IN THIS, IN THIS STATE. 
          YEAH. 
          ALRIGHT, WELL, UH, WE WILL DO WITH IT AS WE WILL, UH, WITH, UM, GOOD STRATEGY AND, AND PROPER DELIBERATION. 
          SO I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS FROM MY COUNCIL MEMBER, MY COLLEAGUES. 
          LET ME GO FIRST TO COUNCIL MEMBER ROJA GARCIA. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, AND I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I WALKED IN. 
          I WALKED STRAIGHT OVER TO THE BUDGET, UM, TEAM AND I SAID, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          WHOEVER WORKED ON THIS. 
          UM, SPECIFICALLY, I HAD ASKED FOR THE $12,500 EXEMPTION FOR DISABLED FOLKS TO BE INCREASED. 
          AND ERIC ALWAYS TELLS ME, COUNCIL MATRE NOT TO BE PRESCRIPTIVE. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND I'M SO GLAD I WAS NOT SAY THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, SOMETIMES I'LL SAY, BUT, SO I'M SO GLAD I WAS NOT PRESCRIPTIVE BECAUSE I THOUGHT, OH, MAYBE THEY'LL DOUBLE IT OR TRIPLE IT AND Y'ALL, IT'S $85,000, THAT'S FIVE TIMES OVER. 
          SO TO SAY THAT I AM OVEREXCITED IS NOT AN OVEREXAGGERATION. 
          SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO I SAID WHOEVER IT WAS. 
          AND THEN THEY TOLD ME, YOU REALLY GOTTA THANK TROY. 
          SO TROY, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 
          I'M, I'M SO EXCITED. 
          UM, SAN ANTONIO ONLY HAD 12,500. 
          UM, EL PASO HAD 40,000 FORT WORTH, 40,000. 
          DALLAS IS 107 CORPUS 50,000, AUSTIN 113, AND HOUSTON 160. 
          SO, UM, I USED THESE WORDS AT THE BUDGET SESSION. 
          I SAID, THIS IS SAD THAT SAN ANTONIO ONLY HAS 12,500, BUT TODAY YOU MADE ME VERY HAPPY. 
          SO, UM, AND THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR, FOR SUPPORTING THAT. 
          WHEN I MENTIONED IT AT THE BUDGET SESSION, UM, UH, I ASKED TROY AND HE SAID THAT THIS WOULD IMPACT APPROXIMATELY 70,000 HOUSEHOLDS. 
          UM, SO THANK YOU. 
          UH, AND I'M ALSO, UM, SAD TO LEARN THAT THIS, UH, LAST TIME THAT THIS WAS LOOKED AT WAS IN 2005, SO 17 YEARS AGO. 
          AND I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, THIS IS, UH, AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN AND SEE HOW WE SHOULD BE REVISING POLICY FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS MORE OFTEN. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO LET'S NOT WAIT UNTIL 17 YEARS ANOTHER COUNCIL COMES AND ASK FOR THIS DISCUSSION. 
          UM, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. 
          THAT WAS THE, THE MOST EXCITING PART OF THAT. 
          I DO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, THE ITEM ON THE LENGTH OF TIME IN HOMES. 
          WE ASKED IF THERE WAS ANY, IF I, I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S BEEN ANY DISCUSSION AS FAR AS, SO THINK OF LEGACY, RIGHT? UM, LEGACY HOMEOWNERS, AND WAS THERE ANY DISCUSSION YET, OR IS THERE ANY INSIGHT? HAVE YOU ALL LOOKED A LITTLE BIT MORE, I KNOW IT'S, IT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE TOO EARLY TO THINK ABOUT THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION, BUT I'M JUST WONDERING IF YOU ALL DISCUSSED THAT AT ALL. 
          WE HAVE NOT DISCUSSED IT YET. 
          OKAY. 
          IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE LOOKING AT. 
          OKAY. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALSO, UM, I ASKED ABOUT THE THIRD BRUSH COLLECTION, AND I UNDERSTAND IT'S 75 CENTS EXTRA. 
          I DON'T KNOW THAT OUR RESIDENTS WOULD BE, UM, UH, ABLE TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW, BUT I, I DO THANK YOU FOR PUTTING FORTH THE EFFORT. 
          I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT IT WOULD TAKE 33 EXTRA PEOPLE TO DO A THIRD BRUSH COLLECTION. 
          SO, SO THAT WAS EYE-OPENING TO ME. 
          I DO ALSO WANNA SAY THAT IN THE, UM, AREA OF STREETS I WAS RECENTLY, UM, I GOT A SCHOLARSHIP FROM, UH, NAL O TO ATTEND AN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CONFERENCE. 
          AND IT WAS SAD TO LEARN THAT ACROSS OUR NATIONS, OUR ROADS HAVE A, UH, A GRADE OF A D. 
          AND SO, UM, I, WHEN I SEE OUR GRADES, UH, AT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, THEY'RE A LITTLE BETTER RATHER THAN ACROSS THE NATION, THE ACROSS THE NATION. 
          BUT WE DO NEED TO CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON THAT. 
          SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE, UM, ABILITY TO, TO WORK WITHIN THE SIX PLUSS AND, AND BE ABLE TO, TO RE RESHIFT SOME PRIORITIES. 
          BY THE WAY, IN THAT PRESENTATION, THEY TOLD US THAT, UM, BRIDGES HAD A C GRADE, AND THAT WAS REALLY CONCERNING TO ME. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT, THAT WE HAVE SOME, SOME AGING BRIDGES. 
          UM, BUT THOSE ARE MY ONLY COMMENTS FOR NOW. 
          REALLY, Y'ALL JUST, UH, I WAS JUST TOO EXCITED THAT TOOK, TOOK ALL OF THE, ALL OF MY EFFORT NOT TO BE JUMPING UP AND DOWN WHILE TROY WAS MAKING HIS PRESENTATION. 
          SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THOSE ARE MY ONLY COMMENTS. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR TIM. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN. 
          UH, WE'LL MOVE ON TO COUNCILMAN JOHN. 
          COURAGE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT, UH, FROM TROY ABOUT THE, UM, SENIOR CITIZEN, 
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UH, INCREASE IN HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          UH, YOU GAVE AN EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE WHO MIGHT TURN 65 THIS YEAR AND THEY WOULD BENEFIT FROM THE, THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          UH, WILL IT HAVE ANY BENEFIT FROM SOMEONE WHO WAS 65 A YEAR AGO OR TWO YEARS AGO? WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE POSSIBLY TO THEM IN ANY KIND OF A REDUCTION? IT, IT WILL INITIALLY MAKE A, A BENEFIT THEM BECAUSE OF THE TAX. 
          IF IT DEPENDS ON THE, ON SEVERAL FACTORS, DEPENDS ON THEIR TAXABLE VALUE AND OTHERS. 
          BUT, UM, THEY WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTION. 
          AND TO THE EXTENT THAT EXEMPTION LOWERS THEIR TAXABLE VALUE BELOW THEIR TAX FREEZE, THEY WILL GET AN INITIAL BENEFIT. 
          BUT AS I MENTIONED, IT WILL, AS THEIR VALUE INCREASES SURE. 
          IT'LL GROW BACK UP TO THAT TAX CEILING. 
          RIGHT. 
          I UNDERSTAND THE BENEFIT WILL BE FOR, UM, ANYBODY TURNING 65 IN THE FUTURE WILL GET THE FREEZE AT THE 85,000 EXEMPTION RIGHT NOW. 
          UH, I UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT THEY CAN, YOU CAN TAKE THAT WITH YOU IF YOU MOVE FROM ONE HOME TO ANOTHER IN THE COUNTY, FOR EXAMPLE. 
          I BELIEVE THAT'S CORRECT. 
          YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          AND SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY VALUABLE TOO. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I HAD BEEN AN ADVOCATE FOR A GREATER INCREASE IN HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, BUT I, I ALSO AM REALLY GLAD TO HEAR THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT A REDUCTION IN THE OVERALL TAX RATE FOR ALL OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE CITY THROUGH, I GUESS WHAT WE'D SAY IS A COMPROMISE ON, ON THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FOR PROPERTY OWNERS. 
          AND SO I'M, I'M RELATIVELY PLEASED WITH HOW THIS IS LOOKING, UH, BUT I KNOW IT'S STILL DEPENDENT ON WHAT HAPPENS, UH, THROUGH ALL OF THE, UH, APPRAISAL, UH, CHALLENGES THEY HAVE. 
          IS THERE A CHANCE THAT THE TAX DEDUCTION THAT WE'RE, OR THE RATE CHANGE WE'RE LOOKING AT COULD BE MORE OR LESS DEPENDING ON HOW THOSE TURN OUT? I THINK THERE'S ALWAYS A CHANCE, BUT, UM, I WOULD NOT, NOT SOMETHING I WOULD COMMIT TO. 
          UM, THIS, THESE ASSUMPTIONS ARE BASED ON OUR BEST ESTIMATES AND BASED ON HISTORICAL GROWTH AND WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT. 
          UM, I CAN GUARANTEE THAT THERE WILL BE TWEAKS TO IT AND IT WILL CHANGE WHEN WE ACTUALLY COME BACK TO YOU IN JUNE. 
          BUT THE EXEMPTION, THE EXEMPTION, UM, WE'RE RECOMMENDING THE 10% EXEMPTION AND THE INCREASE IN THE OVER 65 AND DISABLED. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO BASICALLY ALMOST EVERYBODY WILL GET SOME KIND OF TAX IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR SITUATION, A CITY TAX, BUT WE HAVE NO NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT ANY OTHER TAXES AROUND. 
          SO WE CAN ONLY DO WHAT WE CAN DO. 
          I, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I HAVE, UH, A COUPLE OF OTHER QUESTIONS BASED ON THE BUDGET. 
          SO JUSTINA, ON, I THINK IT'S PAGE SEVEN, YOU SHOW GENERAL FUND REVENUES IN MILLIONS AND YOU'RE FORECASTING A SIX MONTH VARIANCE OF 47 MILLION AND A 12 MONTH VARIANCE OF 74. 
          AND I KNOW THESE ARE ESTIMATES MAYBE SIX MONTHS, WE KNOW, BUT 12 MONTHS WE'RE, WE'RE TAKING AN EDUCATED GUESS HOW MUCH OF THAT ADDITIONAL 74 MILLION IN REVENUE, UH, IS ATTRIBUTED TO ENTERPRISE FUNDS? SO THIS SLIDE IS JUST THE GENERAL FUND. 
          SO THIS IS COMPRISED OF SALES TAX, UH, PROPERTY TAX, THE C P S, AND THEN OUR OTHER REVENUES THAT GO INTO THE GENERAL FUND. 
          SO OUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS ARE ON SEPARATE, ARE ARE SEPARATE CALCULATIONS THAT WE DO THAT ARE NOT PART OF THE GENERAL FUND. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, I'D LIKE TO GO TO, UH, SLIDE 27. 
          AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I, I HEARD THE MAYOR AND THE CITY MANAGER BOTH ALLUDING TO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMPENSATION. 
          UH, AND, AND THEN ALSO AS I LOOKED AT ALL OF THE OTHER TRIAL BUDGETS, ONE THING I THOUGHT WAS MISSING WAS A COMPARISON TO WHAT WE ARE PAYING NOW FOR EACH OF THESE. 
          WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A PROJECTION FOR 2023 AT 2024, BUT HOW DOES THAT CHANGE FROM WHAT WE HAVE IN 2022? AND I THINK THAT WOULD'VE BEEN USEFUL TO SEE, SO WE UNDERSTAND THE GROWTH. 
          SO FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UH, CIVILIAN CON, UH, COMPENSATION NEXT YEAR AND THE BARGAINING AGREEMENT WITH POLICE AND FIRE, ARE THESE ADDITIONAL COSTS OVER AND ABOVE WHAT OUR CURRENT BUDGET IS? CORRECT. 
          SO THIS IS NEW SPENDING. 
          OKAY. 
          THIS IS NEW MONEY THAT WE WOULD BE, THAT WE ARE INCORPORATING INTO THE TRIAL BUDGET. 
          AND THAT'S THE SAME WITH EVERY ONE OF THESE TRIAL BUDGET ITEMS. THESE ARE ADDITIONAL OVER AND ABOVE WHAT'S BUDGETED THIS CURRENT YEAR. 
          I WILL SAY MOST OF THEM ARE, UH, FOR THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          UM, AND FOR THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WE HAD INCLUDED $4.4 MILLION IN 2022 AS ONE-TIME FUNDING FOR JUST 
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2022. 
          HOWEVER, UM, WE ARE CONTINUING THAT PROGRAM AND CONTINUING THAT FUNDING IN 2023. 
          AND THE OTHER ONE WAS THE, WE HAD HALF A MILLION DOLLARS IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET FOR OATS WITH ONE-TIME DOLLARS. 
          WE'RE BUILDING THAT INTO OUR RECURRING BUDGET, UH, GOING FORWARD IN 23 AND 24. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THEN ALL OF THESE ARE ACTUALLY PROJECTED INCREASES OVER AND ABOVE THE CURRENT BUDGET, CORRECT? YES, SIR. 
          OKAY. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          ALRIGHT. 
          I THINK THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAD. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          OH, I, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THOUGH, IF WE COULD SEE THE COMPARISON IN MAYBE, UH, ANOTHER SET OF SLIDES WHERE YOU CAN SHOW US WHAT THAT GROWTH IS FROM THE CURRENT BUDGET. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER KEO. 
          HDI. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATIONS. 
          I'LL BEGIN WITH PROPERTY TAX. 
          UM, OF COURSE MY OFFICE HAS RECEIVED MULTIPLE EMAILS, CALLS, UM, DOZENS, REALLY REQUESTING PROPERTY RELIEF. 
          THERE'S ALMOST A, A DESPERATION IN THE VOICES OF THE CONSTITUENTS THAT ARE CALLING US AT OUR, UH, BUDGET PLANNING SESSION. 
          I BROUGHT UP CONCERNS ABOUT DISTRICT SIX RESIDENTS, SPECIFICALLY THAT DISTRICT SIX HAS THE MOST SINGLE FAMILY HOMESTEADS, BUT WE WERE IN THE BOTTOM FOUR FOR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS. 
          UM, AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S A NUMBER OF REASONS FOR THAT, BUT, UM, WE'RE ALSO NUMBER EIGHT IN SENIORS SIGNED UP FOR EXEMPTIONS. 
          SO I ASKED FOR FUNDS TO BE ALLOCATED, UH, TO, FOR OUTREACH TO INFORM, UH, HOMEOWNERS, UH, HOMESTEAD OWNERS, SENIORS, THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO APPLY FOR THESE EXEMPTIONS. 
          HAVE Y'ALL LOOKED INTO THIS? DO YOU KNOW WHAT STEPS, UM, WE NEED TO TAKE TO ENSURE THAT COMMUNICATION IS, UM, IS HAPPENING? YES, COUNCIL MEMBER, WE WOULD BE DOING THAT AS PART OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT'S, THERE'S MONEY ALLOCATED SPECIFICALLY FOR, UM, OUTREACH? YES. 
          NO, NOT, THERE'S NOT MONEY, BUT WE WOULD BE DOING IT AS PART OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET OUTREACH. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          I'D LIKE TO GET MAYBE A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ON THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          UM, SO I STRONGLY SUPPORT THE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF. 
          I SUPPORT THE 10% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          I, I'M CURIOUS THOUGH, TROY, I THINK YOU MENTIONED THERE WERE 240,000 HOMES THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED. 
          CAN YOU TELL ME WHO THOSE WHO, WHO, WHO IS THAT TYPICALLY THOSE 240,000 HOMESTEADS? I'M SORRY, CAN YOU REPEAT THAT? YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE WERE 240,000 HOMES THAT WOULD BE, OR HOUSEHOLDS THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED VIA A 10% MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UM, UM, YEAH, THERE'S MOSTLY OUT OF THE RESIDENCES IN SAN ANTONIO, THERE'S 240,000 THAT ACTUALLY HAVE A HOMESTEAD ON THEM. 
          SO IT'S 240,000 THAT ACTUALLY HAVE REGISTERED HOMESTEADS WOULD ACTUALLY BE THE BENEFICIARY OF THE 10% IN, UM, I SEE HOMESTEAD. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT'S CURRENTLY WHO IS, UM, HAS APPLIED AND RECEIVED THE EXEMPTIONS THAT WOULD BE THE INCREASE, UH, OR THE AMOUNT FOR THEM. 
          SO AGAIN, IT GETS BACK TO MY ORIGINAL QUESTION. 
          WE WOULD NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO INCREASE THE 240,000 HOMES THAT CURRENTLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE EXEMPTION, CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. 
          IN THE EVENT THAT THEY, UM, ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION AND THEY USE THAT AS THEIR PRIMARY RESIDENCE AND THEY DO NOT CURRENTLY HAVE A HOMESTEAD, UM, ON IT, THEN THAT OUTREACH WOULD BENEFIT THEM. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I'M JUST CURIOUS WHY NOT GO FOR, UH, 20% IF THAT'S OUR MAX? UM, WE, WE, WE LOOKED AT THAT AS PART OF OUR MODELING THE 20%. 
          UM, AS I MENTIONED, OUR GOALS WERE KIND OF FOCUSED ON HOMESTEAD RELIEF, BUT ALSO BALANCED RELIEF AMONGST ALL PROPERTY HOLDERS. 
          SO WHEN WE WENT TO 20%, THE WAY IT IMPACTS THE TAX RATE IS IT MOVES THE TAX RATE UP, UM, ALMOST EQUIVALENT TO WHAT THE TAX RATE IS TODAY. 
          AND SO THAT WOULD NOT BE PROVIDING ANY RELIEF TO, UM, COMMERCIAL ACCOUNT HOLDERS ARE MULTIFAMILY, AND SO WE THOUGHT THIS WAS A BALANCE AND A COMPROMISE PROVIDE TAX RELIEF ACROSS ALL PROPERTY WHILE FOCUSING ON HOMESTEADS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, YOU PREVENT PRESENTED AN OPTIMISTIC BUDGET FOR 2023. 
          I THINK FOR GOOD REASON. 
          THERE'S SOLID INDICATORS. 
          WERE ON A STRONG ROAD TO RECOVERY, SO THAT'S ENCOURAGING. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WE'RE, WE'RE ALWAYS ADVOCATING TO FOR NOT JUST LISTENING TO OUR COMMUNITY, BUT TAKING THAT ACTION. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S A RESPONSE REALLY TO, UM, THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION IS A RESPONSE TO OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS. 
          UM, THAT SAID, LAST WEEK WE HAD A MEETING WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE WORKING ON HOUSELESSNESS. 
          I LEARNED THAT WE'RE 28,000 UNITS SHORT OF WHAT, WHAT WE NEED FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE SAFE ABOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE CITY. 
          AND THE HOUSING BOND, OF COURSE THAT WAS APPROVED BY VOTERS THIS PAST WEEKEND AND WILL HELP IN, IN A LOT OF IMPORTANT WAYS. 
          BUT I DON'T WANT TO, UH, USE THAT TO JUST CHECK THE BOX AND SAY WE'RE WORKING ON IT AND KIND OF LEAD IT AT THAT. 
          SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT MORE TO BE DONE. 
          28,000, UM, IS A BIG NUMBER, BUT I THINK IT'S A, UM, A WORKABLE NUMBER. 
          I MEAN, MAYBE YOU GUYS HAVE AN OPINION ON THAT, BUT, UM, OUR COMMUNITY HAS A LOT OF IDEAS AND SOLUTIONS AND THE BUDGET OUTLOOK, I THINK IS, IS PRIME FOR, FOR US DOING BETTER. 
          WE CAN ALSO DO BETTER FOR OUR SMALL BUSINESSES. 
          I'D LIKE TO SEE FUNDING GO TOWARDS A SNAPSHOT OF SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          I DON'T THINK THAT WE CAN DO ADEQUATE 
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OUTREACH, UM, IF WE DON'T KNOW WHO WE'RE TRYING TO HELP, WHERE THEY ARE, WHAT THEY NEED. 
          AND SO I'D LIKE TO DO, UM, A LITTLE BIT BETTER SNAPSHOT OF OUR SMALL BUSINESSES. 
          I I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT, UM, WELL, ONE, JUSTINA, I THINK IT WAS SLIDE, UH, SLIDE 30, 30 OR 31, YOU WENT OVER THE NEW, UM, FUNDING. 
          THE, THE FUNDING, UM, THAT'S USED TOWARDS KIND OF NEW POSITIONS OR, OR NEWER ADDITIONS TO THE, THE BUDGET SINCE OUR GOAL SETTING SESSION, IS THAT CORRECT? ON SLIDE 31, I THINK IT WAS 30, 31, 32. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO THERE WERE TWO, THREE SLIDES. 
          RIGHT. 
          WE DID THREE SLIDES AND THESE ARE THE IMPROVEMENTS. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT WE, WE ARE INCORPORATED IMPROVEMENTS OKAY. 
          INTO THE, UH, TRIAL BUDGET. 
          SOME OF THESE DO HAVE POSITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. 
          NOT ALL OF THEM THOUGH, BUT THESE WOULD BE NEW POSITIONS. 
          SO I I I DIDN'T SEE, UM, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, UH, THE, THE TRAIN, THE TWO TRAINERS AND THE PHYSICAL THERAPISTS. 
          IS, IS THAT STILL BEING CONSIDERED OR GOOD AFTERNOON COUNCILWOMAN AND I'LL ASK CHIEF HOOD TO COME UP IF I, UM, IF HE WANTS TO INCORPORATE ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK. 
          BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS, UM, WE'RE GONNA BRING, BE WE ARE GONNA BRING THIS TO COUNCIL IN THE NEXT, UH, 30, 45 DAYS, IS TO DO A CONTRACT TO CONTRACT THOSE POSITIONS TO GIVE US THOSE MORE FLEXIBILITY AT THE WELLNESS CENTER. 
          NOT ONLY TO HAVE THE, THE TRAINER AND THE THERAPIST PROVIDE, UM, SERVICES TO, TO OUR EMPLOYEES, BUT WHEN THEY ARE CITY EMPLOYEES AND THEY HAVE TO TAKE TIME OFF, THEN THERE'S A GAP OF THOSE SERVICES BY HAVING THEM, UH, CONTRACTED OUT. 
          THEN THAT GIVES US FLEXIBILITY TO HAVE THE SERVICE PROVIDED ALL YEAR ROUND, UH, AS THE CONTRACT WILL PROVIDE FOR BACKUP IF THE EMPLOYEE, UH, TAKES TIME OFF. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH EXISTING FUNDING IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR. 
          OKAY. 
          IT IT'S EXISTING FUNDING THEN? YES, MA'AM. 
          AND IT'LL BE FOR, UH, UH, ONE PHYSICAL THERAPIST AND THEN TWO TRAINERS, IS THAT CORRECT? I'M GONNA ASK CHIEF JUST TO CLARIFY THE YES, MA'AM. 
          THE TITLE. 
          HI, CHIEF. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR COUNCIL. 
          I LOVE THE PURPLE . 
          THANK, UM, AND WHAT, UM, MARIE EXPLAINED, BASICALLY WE'RE LOOKING AT A PLAN TO CONTRACT OUT TO WHERE WE'RE GONNA GET THE RESOURCES THAT WE NEED, 24 7 3 6 5. 
          SO THAT'S THE PLAN RIGHT NOW, UM, TO PROVIDE TWO PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AND ALSO LOOK AT SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES THAT WE CAN PROVIDE. 
          OH, GREAT. 
          WONDERFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE, UH, AS YOU KNOW, WE WENT TO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, WENT AND TOURED THE WELLNESS, UH, FACILITY, AND WE SAW A LOT OF FIREFIGHTERS THERE IN THE BEING TRAINED AND, AND, AND UNDERGOING PHYSICAL THERAPY. 
          SO IT'S NICE FOR THEM TO HAVE A PLACE TO GO AS OPPOSED TO SOMETIMES A PRIVATE PROVIDER. 
          SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE CONTRACT BECAUSE THAT MEANS IT'S CONTINUOUS CARE, NO GAP. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          BECAUSE THERE WAS ALWAYS A GAP IF SOMEONE'S OFF ON MATERNITY LEAVE, INJURED VACATION, THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, WE FREE THIS WILL BE MORE EFFICIENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND CATHERINE, WE NEED TO, PART OF THIS IS ALSO MAKING SURE, 'CAUSE THERE'S A PROVEN, THERE'S A PROVEN PROGRAM AT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, BUT HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE MAKE IT CONVENIENT AND, AND, UM, USABLE BY, UM, THE EMPLOYEES OF SOLID WASTE OR PUBLIC WORKS OR, YOU KNOW, VARIETY OF OTHER. 
          SO WE, THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL WORK WE NEED TO DO THROUGH THE SUMMER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SIMILAR TO, UM, THIS MIGHT BE FOR MARIA, BUT IS THERE A SIMILAR STUDY FOR OUR FIRE FIRE DEPARTMENT, LIKE WE'VE DONE FOR CITYWIDE POLICE OFFICER NEEDS? UM, COUNCILWOMAN, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WAS REQUESTED BY PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND WE ARE WORKING ON THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFERS WELLNESS PROGRAMS FOR THE POLICE OFFICERS. 
          THEY'RE NOT THE SAME AS WE HAVE IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE OPTIONS TO, UH, BRING SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AS PART OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, I JUST WANNA GO OVER A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS. 
          THE, THE PRE-K, UM, AND HEALTH IUR INSURANCE, OF COURSE ARE VITAL. 
          I'M IMPRESSED BY PRE-K'S NEW NEW MODEL TO INCREASE TRAINING FOR SMALL BUSINESSES FOCUSED ON CHILDCARE. 
          I WANNA MAKE SURE, SURE. 
          THAT WE'RE, UM, HELPING THEM OUT AND, AND FUNDING THEM AS MUCH AS WE CAN. 
          AND, UM, AND OF COURSE, UH, YOU KNOW, CONTINUING TO PROTECT OUR YOUTH. 
          WE CAN'T FORGET OUR FOSTER YOUTH. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT HOUSING, PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. 
          AND THAT'S, UH, ONE OF MY PRIORITIES AS WELL FOR SPECIFICALLY FOR, UH, FOSTER YOUTH AGING OUTTA THE SYSTEM. 
          AND THEN FOSTER YOUTH AT, UH, CHILDREN WITHOUT PLACEMENT, UM, THAT ARE RIGHT NOW LIVING IN, IN HOTELS AND VERY, UM, THE SYSTEM IS VERY TAXED RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, SO I THINK THAT'S, THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER KIO, HDA, COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          I'M, I'M GONNA START WITH THE SIX PLUS SIX REPORT AND THE FINANCIAL FORECAST. 
          SO IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING, JUSTINA, THIS IS BASED ON, UH, THE 2020, THE FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL FORECAST IS BASED ON US PROVIDING THAT 10% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          CORRECT? CORRECT. 
          SO THAT'S INCORPORATED INTO THE FIVE YEAR FORECAST. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO SEE, 'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA MISS THIS BEFORE 
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I GO INTO THE PROPERTY TAX, UH, CONVERSATION, IS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, A GRANT PROGRAM, AND I HAVE AN IDEA FOR OUR SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE BEING IMPACTED BY CONSTRUCTION. 
          I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE UNDERSTAND, AND, AND I I HAVE IT ALREADY FOR DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF HERITAGE, CS SAN ANTONIO, UH, LEGACY, THINGS LIKE THAT, BECAUSE I THINK WE ARE MISSING THE FACT THAT THERE IS A SLOWDOWN IN CONSTRUCTION AND THESE BUSINESSES THAT WE ARE ASKING TO PAY A BETTER MINIMUM WAGE. 
          WE ARE ASKING TO STAY OPEN AND BUILD THESE COSTS NEED HELP. 
          SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US WORK ON A PROGRAM, AN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR OUR SMALL BUSINESSES, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE RESTAURANT. 
          I, I CAN THINK SPECIFICALLY OF MY, UM, GOLIAD AREA HAS BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND THROUGH A PANDEMIC, AND NOW WITH THEIR, THEY CAN REOPEN, BUT THEY REALLY CAN'T BECAUSE OF THE CONSTRUCTION. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO SEE US FOCUS ON THAT PROGRAM. 
          I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE IF WE CAN FOCUS ON, UH, HELPING OUR SENIORS WITH THOSE SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS THAT THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR, UM, AND SEEING WHAT WE CAN DO WITH ANY SURPLUS FUNDS TO HELP THEM. 
          IF IT NEEDS TO BE A PILOT PROGRAM, I'M, I'M READY TO HELP WITH THAT. 
          SO I THINK THAT THOSE ARE SOME PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE. 
          I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE, IN INCRE INCREASE IN PUBLIC SAFETY IN THOSE, UH, TWO YEARS. 
          AND I COULDN'T FIND WHAT SLIDE THAT WAS ON BECAUSE, UM, I REALLY BELIEVE THAT IS CONNECTED TO THE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING TODAY. 
          UM, SO I REALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS NOW, BUT I ASKED FOR HOW THIS WOULD IMPACT OUR BUDGET BECAUSE I KNOW IF WE GIVE A 10% HOME EXEMPTION, UM, THAT THAT MEANS LESS POLICE OFFICERS, LESS STREETS FIXED, UM, THAT MEANS LESS FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          BUT I DO WANNA PROVIDE RELIEF, BUT I WANT IT TO BE SINCERE AND TRUE RELIEF. 
          SO IT'S NOT REAL RELIEF IF I, IF MY VOTERS SAY, YES, I WANT 10%, IF THEN IN TWO YEARS I'M HERE VOTING FOR A C P SS RATE INCREASE OR A SAWS RATE INCREASE. 
          SO I THINK THE MESSAGE WE NEED TO SEND, OR THAT I'D LIKE TO SEND IS, I'M ALL FOR GIVING TAX EXEMPTIONS, BUT NOT FOR TRYING TO GET THE MONEY TWO YEARS DOWN THE ROAD THROUGH A C P SS OR SAW RATE INCREASE. 
          SO WE NEED TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH, WITH THO WITH THOSE UTILITIES, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT, UH, AS, AS WE MOVE DOWN AND WE DO OUR FINANCIAL FORECAST, BECAUSE WE SAT HERE MONTHS AGO WITH C P S AND THEY TOLD ME THEY WERE GONNA COME BACK, THEY'D PROBABLY HAVE TO COME BACK IN A FEW YEARS AND ASK FOR ANOTHER RATE INCREASE. 
          SO I, I'M JUST, I, I WANT TO BE, IF WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS AND WE'RE GONNA OFFER THE, THESE EXEMPTIONS, I WANT IT TO BE SINCERE AND REALLY MAKE AN IMPACT. 
          AND IT'S NOT MAKING AN IMPACT IF WE'RE JUST GETTING THE MONEY THROUGH ANOTHER FEE OR 75 CENTS SO WE CAN DO ANOTHER BULKY ITEM PICKUP. 
          UM, THE OTHER KIND OF ISSUE I HAVE, OR QUESTION I HAVE IS I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO THIS LEGISLATIVE SE SESSION AND FAIL IN GETTING A LEGACY EXEMPTION. 
          IF WE ARE GOING TO PAY TO GET LOBBYISTS UP THERE, IF WE ARE GONNA MAKE IT A PRIORITY TO GET A LEGACY EXEMPTION, WHICH I THINK WE SHOULD, I WANT US TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN DOING THAT. 
          I HAVE HOMES THAT HAVE BEEN IN FAMILIES FOR GENERATIONS, AND THE, THE PARENTS, THE GRANDPARENTS THAT ARE LIVING IN THOSE HOMES EXPECTING TO PASS ON TO THEIR CHILDREN DON'T UNDERSTAND, UH, TAXES LIKE INHERITANCE TAX. 
          THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IT TAKES TO REBUILD A HOME WITH 1960S WIRING AND PLUMBING. 
          AND WE NEED TO BE, MAKE SURE THAT WE HELP THEM. 
          SO I AM, I JUST, I WANT US TO BE SUCCESSFUL IF WE SAY WE'RE GONNA GO OUT. 
          AND I KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT, BUT I WANT TO PROVIDE RELIEF. 
          I APPLAUD MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES WHO WENT OUT THERE AND ARE DOING PROPERTY TAX WORKSHOPS AND HAVE TRIED TO, UM, BRING SOME SORT OF HELP TO OUR RESIDENTS. 
          IT HAS BEEN HEARTBREAKING. 
          UH, DISTRICT THREE HAD THEIRS ON MONDAY, BUT YET WE HAD 
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PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE DISTRICT COME TO THIS. 
          AND THE FRUSTRATION LEVEL WAS, IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT. 
          AND I, AND I APPLAUD, UM, ALBERTA FOR BEING THERE WITH ME, BUT THE ENTITY THAT IS, WE ARE GOING TO PROVIDE THIS RELIEF, BUT THEY'RE STILL GOING TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE PROPERTY VALUE. 
          AND UNLESS WE CAN MAKE SOME SIGNIFICANT CHANGES, IS IT REALLY GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? AND UNLESS WE CAN LOOK AT THIS AS A WHOLE AND NOT IN A SILO, I, I'M JUST SURE, I'M NOT SURE THE RELIEF IS GONNA COME LIKE WE INTENDED. 
          AND THEN WE AS A CITY ARE HITTING A 66% FOR OUR PUBLIC SAFETY BECAUSE WE REDUCED OUR BUDGET. 
          AND THAT, THAT'S MY CONCERN AND THAT'S WHAT I WANNA SEE. 
          SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF IN THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST, IF WE DIDN'T HAVE IT AT 10%, BUT MAYBE SEVEN OR 5%, WOULD THAT LOWER OUR, OUR PUBLIC SAFETY BUDGET IN, IN, IN THE LONG TERM. 
          UM, ON THE OTHER ASK, AND, AND THIS IS JUST PERSONAL AND THIS IS PUBLIC WORK. 
          SO ROD, IN TERMS OF THAT, CAN YOU DEFINE WHAT WARRANTED TRAFFIC SIGNALS ARE? AND, UM, I WANNA KNOW IF WE'RE GONNA DO A COMPREHENSIVE, UH, ON THE STREETS. 
          AND THE OTHER THING, UM, IS THAT THE STREETS AND THE F STREETS, AND I KNOW Y'ALL HAVE A FORMULA OUT THERE, BUT DISTRICT THREE IS REALLY, WE'VE GOT, UM, AND I KNOW SOME OF MY OTHER COUNCIL COLLEAGUES HAVE IT, OUR STREETS ARE COMPOUNDED WITH, WITH DIFFERENT ISSUES. 
          SO IF, IF WE CAN'T GET A FORMULA THAT KIND OF GIVES A TRUE GRADE OF, OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, BECAUSE I KNOW I HAVE F STREETS, BUT WHERE DO I RANK IN D STREETS AND, AND SIDEWALK GAPS AND HOW MANY SIDEWALK GAPS ARE MY RESPONSIBILITY? AND THEN HOW MANY ARE SIDEWALK FIXES THAT WE NEED TO DO THAT? SO THAT, THAT'S THE OTHER THING BECAUSE, UH, IN ALL THIS CONVERSATION, PRO PROPERTY TAX RELIEF, AND TROY AND JUSTINA, I KNOW YOU DID AN AWESOME JOB, AND I KNOW Y'ALL ARE GONNA HAVE A GREAT EXPLANATION FOR ME, BUT IT'S JUST REALLY FRUSTRATING AFTER COMING OUTTA THAT PROPERTY TAX WORKSHOP TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IS THIS THE RIGHT MOVE OR ARE WE JUST GIVING THE STATE A PASS? UH, AND THAT'S WHAT I DON'T WANT US TO SEE. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          AND I, I HOPE YOU CAN ALL ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. 
          AND RAZZI I'LL SEND THEM OVER AND EMAIL TOO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER GRO. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          ERIC, DID YOU WANNA, UM, LET ME, LET ME, LET ME JUST ADDRESS THE PROPERTY TAX PIECE, COUNCILWOMAN, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE CRUX OF THE ISSUE. 
          WE, UH, AND TROY USED THE WORD FOUR OR FIVE TIMES IN HIS PRESENTATION. 
          IT'S, IT'S A BALANCE. 
          UM, WE RAN 15 DIFFERENT SCENARIOS, UM, AND WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROVIDED RECOGNIZING WHAT SB TWO PROVIDES UNDER STATE LAW, UM, AND RECOGNIZING THE VALUES THAT, UM, THAT ARE, THAT HAVE APPRECIATED AND THE PROCESSES THAT EVERYBODY'S GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW, INCLUDING COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL AND MULTIFAMILY, UM, THAT EVERYBODY, UM, SAW SOME LEVEL OF RELIEF. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, IF, IF, IF THIS MAY OR MAY NOT GIVE YOU COMFORT. 
          BUT AS WE DID THE TRIAL BUDGET AND LOOKED AT ALL THESE SCENARIOS AND THE FORECAST, UM, I THINK HAD WE SEEN THAT THE 10% PROPERTY EXEMPTION CREATED A PINCH, UM, INAPPROPRIATELY THAT IS NOT MANAGEABLE. 
          WE WOULD'VE NOT PUT THE 10% NOW. 
          BUT, UM, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT VALUES WILL DO NEXT YEAR OR TWO YEARS FROM NOW, OR THREE YEARS FROM NOW. 
          WE'RE GENERALLY PRETTY CONSERVATIVE, UH, FAIRLY CONSERVATIVE IN THOSE ESTIMATES, AND WE GO THAT FAR OUT. 
          BUT WE DO FEEL LIKE THE PROPOSAL THAT WE, THAT WE GAVE THE COUNCIL TODAY, WE CAN MANAGE. 
          I MEAN, ULTIMATELY IT BECOMES A, A, A MATTER OF PRIORITIES OF THIS BODY AND BEING ABLE TO MANAGE THE RESOURCES AND THERE'S NEVER GONNA BE ENOUGH. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT WHAT WE'VE GIVEN TO YOU PROPOSE TO YOU, UM, THAT, THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO MANAGE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE CAN MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK AT, UM, EVERY DAY GOING FORWARD. 
          BUT, BUT TO YOUR POINT, UH, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE ATTENDING THOSE SESSIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE SIGNED UP FOR PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS. 
          'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF RELIEF THAT'S, THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. 
          AND WE THINK THAT GOING FROM A $5,000 MINIMUM, AND WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE IN PREVIOUS YEARS, WHERE WE HAVE RECOMMENDED THAT WE NOT ADJUST THAT EXEMPTION. 
          BUT GIVEN WHERE VALUES ARE AT RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, FROM THE STAFF PERSPECTIVE AND BASED ON THE COUNCIL FEEDBACK IN APRIL, WE NEED TO SHOW YOU THE MOST WE CAN AFFORD. 
          IF, IF I DIDN'T THINK WE COULD AFFORD IT, OR IF I WAS WORRIED ABOUT NEXT YEAR OR THE FOLLOWING YEAR, THEN I WOULDN'T BE PUTTING IT ON THE TABLE. 
          SO, BUT IT IS, IT IS AN EVALUATION THAT WE'RE ASKING YOU TO, TO, TO GIVE US SOME FEEDBACK ON. 
          THANK YOU, ERIC. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. 
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THANK YOU, SIR. 
          UH, APPRECIATE THAT. 
          FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK THE STAFF FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER. 
          I FEEL THIS IS KNOCKING A HOME RUN, UH, TO SEE BOTH PROPERTY TAX RELIEF, UH, ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS OUT THERE AND, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE INCREASES. 
          AND THOSE ARE THE THREE TOP THINGS THAT I KEEP HEARING ALL THE TIME FROM MY NEIGHBORS IN DISTRICT 10. 
          AND I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE, WE'RE ON TOP OF THIS AND THE, THE STAFF HAS MADE THESE PROPOSALS. 
          SO, UH, I'M ALL FOR THESE. 
          UM, I, DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION ON, UM, UH, THE 74 MILLION THAT WAS, THAT WAS MENTIONED AS BEING, UM, UH, KIND OF LEFTOVER, OR THE REMAINDER THAT'S STILL AVAILABLE OUT THERE IS, DOES THAT 74 MILLION REFLECT ALL OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS? AND WE STILL HAVE 74 MILLION AT THE END OF THE DAY. 
          SO COUNCIL MEMBER, THIS IS JUSTINA TATE, UM, THE 74 MILLION IS THE PROJECTED REVENUE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022. 
          SO THAT, SO THAT, SO THAT'S JUST FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022. 
          THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY TYPE OF, UH, IMPROVEMENTS OR ADJUSTMENTS. 
          THOSE ARE ALL IN THE 2023 AND PROJECTED FOR THE LIFE OF THE FORECAST. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT I, I DIDN'T, DIDN'T CATCH THAT FOR 22. 
          SO YES, I AM TOTALLY IN FAVOR OF ALL OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          UM, DID HAVE ONE CONCERN WITH, UH, THE WAY OUR, OUR BUDGET IS GOING AND THE WAY THE REVENUE IS COMING IN, THAT WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS STREET AND SIDEWALK MITIGATION FEE. 
          I, I SEE THAT AS A TAX AND I DON'T, I DON'T SEE ANY WAY THAT WE COULD JUSTIFY ADDING TO OUR REVENUE WITH, UM, ADDITIONAL REVENUE BASED ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE ON THIS, UH, THIS FORECAST HERE. 
          SO I'M, I'M GONNA HAVE A REALLY TOUGH TIME SUPPORTING SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          UH, I UNDERSTAND Y'ALL ARE GONNA PUT THAT TOGETHER, UH, YOU KNOW, TO, UH, LOOK AT THAT AND STUDY THAT, BUT, UH, YEAH, I'M, I'M CONCERNED THAT WE WE'RE, WE'RE HAVING THIS TYPE OF, UH, THESE TYPES OF INCREASES AND YET WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AN ADDITIONAL TAX ON, UH, FOLKS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO I'M, I'M, I'M JUST PUTTING THAT OUT THERE THAT I'M GONNA HAR HAVE A HARD TIME WITH THAT. 
          BUT THE REST OF IT, UH, AGAIN, PROPERTY TAX RELIEF, ALL FOR IT. 
          UH, ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS ALL FOR IT. 
          AND, UH, THE INFRASTRUCTURE INCREASES, UM, ALL FOR THAT AS WELL. 
          SO, UH, I'M, I'M HAPPY WITH THIS ERIC AND THE TEAM. 
          THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH. 
          I THINK Y'ALL HAVE HEARD A LOT OF INPUT FROM ACROSS THE CITY. 
          THESE ARE THE PRIORITIES THAT PEOPLE WANNA SEE, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY EXPECT TO GET IN RETURN FOR THEIR TAXES THAT THEY'RE PAYING TO THE CITY. 
          SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAVE AT THIS POINT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          I LOVE HEARING, UH, ERIC SAY THAT HE RAN 15 SCENARIOS. 
          'CAUSE IT REMINDS ME OF DR. 
          STRANGE. 
          HE RAN 17,368,000 SCENARIOS AND THIS WAS THE ONLY WAY  . 
          UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GUYS WERE ABLE TO KEEP SO CONCISE, 'CAUSE THIS WAS EVERYTHING AT ONE TIME. 
          UM, I'LL START OFF WITH THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          UM, I KNOW YOU'RE LOOKING FOR COUNCIL FEEDBACK AND DIRECTION ON THAT. 
          I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THE 10%. 
          UM, AS WELL, SUPER EXCITED THAT WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME SORT OF PROPERTY TAX RELIEF, UH, THROUGH HOMESTEAD AND THROUGH THE PROP, THE RATE REDUCTION. 
          UM, I'M REALLY, IT'S BEEN HEARTBREAKING, BUT I'M GLAD THAT WE'VE ALL GOTTEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS AND SEE HOW OUTRAGEOUS THESE APPRAISALS HAVE BEEN. 
          AND I REALLY WOULD LIKE US TO THINK SYSTEMICALLY AND STRUCTURALLY, UM, WHAT IS IT THAT WE CAN PUSH FOR? BECAUSE I THINK THIS, ASKING OUR RESIDENTS TO PROTEST EVERY SINGLE YEAR IS NOT SUSTAINABLE AND IT'S EXHAUSTING AND, UM, A LOT OF EMOTIONAL LABOR FOR THEM. 
          UM, SO I WOULD LIKE US TO LOOK AT HOW CAN WE ADVOCATE FOR A CHANGE IN THE SYSTEM OR A CHANGE IN THE STRUCTURES THAT EXIST RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, GOING TO STREETS, I'M SUPER EXCITED THAT WE'RE MOVING TO, UM, IMPROVEMENTS BASED ON CONDITION PRIMARILY RATHER THAN SIZE. 
          THAT WAS ONE OF THE MA UH, ONE OF THE MAJOR THINGS THAT I HAD ASKED FOR. 
          AND I THINK IT'S WONDERFUL THAT WE'VE HAD A SHIFT IN CONVERSATION REGARDING OUR FOCUS AND MAKING FOCUS, MAKING A FOCUS. 
          BE F STREETS. 
          I KNOW A LOT OF US HAVE A LOT OF F STREETS AND THERE'S PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THEM. 
          AND JUST IMAGINE, YOU KNOW, AS EXHAUSTING AS IT MAY BE TO HEAR F STREETS REPEATED HUNDREDS OF TIMES, IMAGINE DRIVING OVER IT 
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A HUNDRED TIMES. 
          I'M ALSO EXCITED TO SEE THAT BY 2030 WE HAVE THE GOAL TO HAVE EVERYBODY BE AT 80%. 
          AND I REMEMBER COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL, UM, AT THE BUDGET SESSION, AT THE GOAL SETTING SESSION, SAYING THAT SHE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WASN'T, SOME PEOPLE ARE 80 AND SOME PEOPLE ARE AT A HUNDRED, AND THIS SEEMS THIS IS WHAT EQUITY LOOKS LIKE, IS MOVING FROM WHERE WE ARE TO WHERE WE'RE ALL GONNA BE AT A PLACE THAT'S COMPARABLE. 
          UM, I'M ALSO, I WANT TO RESTATE FOR THE BUDGET. 
          I WANT US TO THINK ABOUT STREET LIGHTING. 
          AND I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH, UM, MICHAEL SHANNON, ONE OF THE SHANNONS, AND THEY SHARED AN UPDATE ON THE, UH, STREET LIGHTING INDEX, AND I THINK THEY'RE DONE WITH DISTRICTS ONE THROUGH NINE. 
          THEY'RE WORKING ON DISTRICT 10. 
          SO I AM EXCITED FOR A PRESENTATION IN THE FUTURE ON THAT. 
          BUT JUST DOING THE MATH, IT LOOKS LIKE WE COULD FILL ALL OF THOSE LIGHTING GAPS ACCORDING TO U D C CODE, THE U D C WITH, YOU KNOW, ABOUT UNDER $20 MILLION. 
          THAT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO WITHIN A FEW YEARS. 
          AND SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE US TO DEVELOP SOME SORT OF LIGHTING FUNDING STRATEGY AS WELL AS THINK ABOUT HOW CAN WE, UM, MAKE THAT PROCESS A BIT MORE EFFICIENT. 
          I KNOW IT TAKES LONG, A LONG, LONG TIME, SEVERAL MONTHS TO A YEAR TO INSTALL A LIGHT, AND THERE'S PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON STREETS AND THEY'RE EXPERIENCING CRIME, AND THEY BELIEVE THAT A STREETLIGHT WOULD HELP THEM EVEN INCREMENTALLY. 
          AND SO IF WE CAN MAKE THAT PROCESS FASTER, I WOULD REALLY LOVE FOR US TO LOOK INTO THAT AS WELL. 
          I'M GONNA SAY THIS EVERY TIME UNTIL IT'S A REALITY. 
          UM, I WOULD REALLY LIKE FOR OUR CITY TO CHANGE THE WAY THAT WE VIEW OUR RESPONSE OR OUR, UH, OBLIGATIONS RELATING TO CRIME. 
          SO SS A P D, THEY ARE, UM, BY NATURE MEANT TO RESPOND TO CRIME. 
          AND THERE'S A LOT OF IT, THERE IS A LOT OF CRIME, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT WE'RE DOING ENOUGH TO LIGHTEN THAT BURDEN. 
          WE'RE NOT ADDRESSING, UH, CRIME AT ITS ROOT. 
          IN SOME WAYS WE ARE, BUT NOT HOLISTICALLY. 
          AND SO I'LL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR AN OFFICE OF CRIME AND RECIDIVISM PREVENTION. 
          UM, AND I GOT SOME ADVICE THAT I SHOULD CLEARLY STATE WHAT MY, WHAT THE GOAL IS WITH THAT. 
          AND IT'S OBVIOUSLY, IT'S GONNA BE THE REDUCTION OF CRIME, BUT I THINK THIS OFFICE NEEDS TO BE, UH, MAINTAIN OR NEEDS TO BE STAFFED BY CRIMINOLOGISTS DATA ANALYSTS. 
          UM, THEY SHOULD BE SEPARATE FROM SS A P D AND THEY SHOULD BE A STAFF, A CITY, STAFF DEPARTMENT. 
          THAT WAY WE CAN CONTINUE TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THESE, UH, MEMBERS AND THESE PEOPLE FOLK DOING RESEARCH YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR, RATHER THAN CHANGING, UM, EVERY TIME WE HAVE A CONTRACT. 
          UM, THAT WOULD ALSO, YEAH, I'LL, I'LL END ON THAT ONE, BUT I HOPE TO CONTINUE TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATION WITH MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET SUPPORT FOR THAT. 
          UM, BY THE TIME WE VOTE ON A BUDGET AS WELL. 
          I HAVE TO SAY AGAIN, I REALLY WANNA SEE INCREASED SUPPORT FOR A C S. 
          UM, WE HAVE OFFICE HOURS AT, UH, DAKOTA, WE JUST, SEVERAL TIMES IT'S BEEN AT DAKOTA EAST SIDE ICE HOUSE AND THAT'S IN DENVER HEIGHTS. 
          AND IF WE HAVE OFFICE HOURS THERE, NO MATTER WHAT CONCERN SOMEONE COMES TO ME WITH OR WHAT CONCERN THEY WANNA SHARE WHAT IDEA THEY HAVE, THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO MAKE REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT A C S NEEDS MORE SUPPORT. 
          OUR RESCUE ORGANIZATIONS NEED MORE SUPPORT. 
          AND SO, UM, LAST WEEK DURING PUBLIC COMMENT, WE HAD A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE COME AND, YOU KNOW, THEY ASKED FOR AN INCREASED, UM, SUPPORT FOR, UM, SPAN NEUTER. 
          THEY WANNA SEE THAT INCREASE CITYWIDE WITH ALL OF OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE A FEW REQUESTS OF THEIR OWN. 
          AND SO I REMEMBER THEY GAVE US A PAPER, I'LL SHARE IT WITH CITY STAFF IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT SUPPORTS WE CAN PROVIDE FOR THOSE RESCUE ORGANIZATIONS CONSIDERING THEY PROVIDE A VERY VALUABLE SERVICE. 
          I'D ALSO, UH, NO, I WON'T DO THAT. 
          UM, I'LL END WITH, I WANT US TO BE BEING MINDFUL OF THE TIMELINESS OF THIS, RIGHT? TOMORROW WE'RE GONNA BE VOTING ON A POLICE CONTRACT. 
          UM, WE HAVE TO BE VERY RESPONSIBLE WITH OUR DOLLARS, AND WE HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE WITH HOW MANY OFFICERS WE ADD AT ANY GIVEN TIME, CONSIDERING WE'VE BARGAINED INTO THE DEAL, THESE INCREASES, THESE ANNUAL INCREASES. 
          AND RIGHT NOW IT'S LOOKING LIKE WE MIGHT, OVER THE COURSE OF FIVE YEARS SEE AN INCREASE IN 90 MILLION. 
          IF WE CONTINUE TO ADD OFFICERS, THAT'S GONNA CHANGE, THAT'S GONNA CONTINUE TO INCREASE AND IT'S GOING TO PUSH US BEYOND THE 66%. 
          I'M ALSO WONDERING, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A LEGAL QUESTION OR IF IT'S A MARIA QUESTION, BUT KNOWING THAT WE CAN'T, ONE, ARE GRANTS CONSIDERED A PART OF OUR GENERAL BUDGET ARE, ARE GRANTS GRANTS, SO SAY S A P D GETS GRANTS, ARE THEY CONSIDERED A PART OF THE GENERAL BUDGET? NO, NO, NO, SIR. 
          THEY'RE, THEY'RE, WE'VE GOT A SEPARATE CATEGORY OF GRANTS, 
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BUT OUR MATCH IS A PART OF THAT GRANT. 
          GENERALLY OUR MATCH IS PART OF THAT. 
          SO SAY, BECAUSE WE CAN'T REDUCE SAP D'S BUDGET, SAY FIVE, 10 YEARS FROM NOW, THEY NO LONGER GET THAT GRANT. 
          WE'RE STILL OBLIGATED TO MATCH. 
          WELL, ONCE, GENERALLY THE MATCH IS REQUIRED AS PART OF THE GRANT. 
          SO WHEN THE GRANT ENDS, AND THAT WAS BACK TO THE QUESTION THE MAYOR ASKED EARLIER, UM, UM, WE BUILD IN THE COST OF ABSORBING THOSE POSITIONS INTO OUR GENERAL FUND, AND WE DO IT IN THE, FOR THE COPS GRANT EXAMPLE, THAT'S MONEY OVER THREE YEARS. 
          SO OVER THREE YEARS, WE BUILD UP MONEY SO THAT BY THE TIME WE MOVE THEM INTO THE GENERAL FUND, WE, WE'VE GOT THE MONEY SET ASIDE AND BUILT INTO OUR BUDGET. 
          SO EVEN IF WE'RE NOT RECEIVING THE GRANT, WE BILL, WE BILL. 
          AND IF WE'RE NOT RECEIVING THE GRANT, THEN THERE'S NO RE THERE'S NO REASON FOR A GRANT MATCH. 
          OKAY. 
          WE GET THE GRANT THIS YEAR, WE MATCH IT, YES. 
          NEXT YEAR WE DO NOT HAVE THE GRANT. 
          HYPOTHETICALLY WE DO NOT HAVE THE GRANT. 
          WE STILL ARE OBLIGATED TO MATCH. 
          NO. 
          SO, OR WE'RE STILL OBLIGATED TO KEEP THAT WITH R LET ME, LET ME ANSWER THE QUESTION. 
          WITH USING TWO DIFFERENT GRANT. 
          WE GET, WE GET MONEY FROM THE STATE FOR, UM, OVERTIME FOR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT. 
          WE'RE NOT ADDING POSITIONS. 
          IT'S SUPPLEMENTING WHAT WE HAVE. 
          AND WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A GRANT MATCH FROM THE GENERAL FUND THAT MATCHES THAT MONEY. 
          IF THE STATE SAYS NEXT YEAR, UH, YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET THE GRANT, THEN, THEN, UM, THEN WE'RE NOT PUTTING MONEY TOWARDS THE MATCH. 
          WE SAVE THAT MONEY. 
          THE COPS GRANT, WHICH IS UH, GEARED TOWARDS ACTUALLY HIRING, TRAINING, HIRING AND STAFFING POSITIONS IS A THREE YEAR GRANT. 
          AND ROUGHLY THE FIRST YEAR THEY PAY ABOUT 60%. 
          THEN IT GOES DOWN TO ABOUT 40% THE SECOND YEAR, AND THEN 20% THE THIRD YEAR. 
          AS THAT FUNDING RAMPS DOWN, OUR FUNDING RAMPS UP SO THAT IN THE FOURTH YEAR, THEY'RE COMPLETELY FUNDED BY THE CITY. 
          A HUNDRED PERCENT. 
          THANK YOU, ERIC. 
          I THINK WHAT YOUR QUESTION IS, IS HOW DO WE SHA CAN WE SHAVE OFF GRANT GENERAL FUND, UH, MATCH REQUIREMENTS TOWARDS GRANTS? AND THE ANSWER IS, IT DEPENDS ON THE GRANT. 
          I'M NOT QUITE SURE THAT WAS MY QUESTION, BUT WE'LL HAVE, WE'LL HAVE MORE TIME TO DISCUSS IT. 
          SURE. 
          UM, I'LL JUST STRESS THAT THAT IS A CONCERN OF MINE. 
          IT IS A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF POSITIONS THAT WE ARE ADDING. 
          CAN SOMEONE DESCRIBE, UM, WHERE ARE THEY GOING IF THEY'RE GOING TO PATROL SAFE, SOMETHING ELSE? I DON'T, I SURE COUNCILMAN ANNOUNCED START ANSWERING THE QUESTION AS CHIEF MCMANUS TO, TO ADD IF, IF, IF, IF HE NEEDS TO. 
          SO WHAT WE ARE, UM, GONNA DO WITH THAT COPS GRANT IS FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE GONNA BRING IT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IN JUNE. 
          'CAUSE WE NEED YOUR APPROVAL BEFORE WE SUBMIT THE APPLICATION BECAUSE OF THE CASH MATCH, THE PLAN, AT THIS POINT, WE NEED TO SPECIFY IN THE APPLICATION HOW WE GOING TO USE THIS POSITIONS. 
          AND CHIEF MENTIONED HE'S WORKING WITH U T S A, UH, TO DEVELOP A CRIME PREVENTION PLAN. 
          UM, THE APPLICATION WILL INDICATE THAT THESE POSITIONS WILL BE USED TO ADDRESS STRATEGIES DEVELOPED WITHIN THAT PLAN. 
          CHIEF, DO YOU WANNA ADD ANYTHING? NO, THAT, THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. 
          IT'S, AND WITH THESE GRANTS LATELY, AT LEAST THEY'VE BEEN VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT HOW THEY'RE TO BE USED. 
          SO WAITING TO SEE WHAT THE, UH, CRIME PLAN IS FROM, UH, THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH U T S A ON, THAT'LL BE DETER THE DETERMINANT OF HOW THEY'LL BE USED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          I WANNA START OFF BY EXPRESSING MY SUPPORT FOR THE, UM, FOR THE TAX RELIEF. 
          UM, IN PARTICULAR INCREASING THE HOMESTEAD SENIOR AND DISABILITY EXEMPTIONS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT'S, UH, THAT'S PECULIAR IS THAT AT LEAST A WHILE BACK WHEN, WHEN I WORKED AT VIA, WE HAD THE, THE HIGHEST PER CAPITA USAGE OF VIA TRANCE, UM, OR, YOU KNOW, SERVICES FOR MOBILITY IMPAIRED PEOPLE COMPARED TO THE OTHER MAJOR CITIES IN TEXAS. 
          IT WAS SORT OF A MYSTERY WHY, WHY THAT WAS. 
          UM, BUT IT MAKES SENSE THAT OUR DISABILITY EXEMPTION WOULD BE, WOULD BE HIGHER GIVEN THAT THAT TYPE OF USAGE. 
          UM, I DO SUPPORT INCREASING THE N BUDGET PER DISTRICT FROM, UH, TWO 19 TO 450,000, UH, SORRY TO A MILLION JUST KIDDING. 
          AND FUNDING, UH, DISABILITY STATUS REPORT AT, AT THAT LEVEL. 
          UM, I WOULD LIKE TO ADVOCATE FOR, FOR A FEW MORE THINGS AND, AND FINE TUNE SOME OF THESE POINTS. 
          SO REGARDING THE, THE TAX RELIEF, UM, TROY, I THINK YOU'RE, YOU'RE CORRECT WHEN WE'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT CHANGING THE RATE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HELPING EVERYBODY AS OPPOSED TO JUST THE HOMESTEAD. 
          AND, AND BY EVERYBODY I THINK YOU MEAN, UM, BUSINESS OWNERS OR AS COMMERCIAL OWNERS 
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AS WELL AS HOPEFULLY RENTERS. 
          UM, THERE'S JUST NO GUARANTEE THAT WE CAN PASS ON THAT, THAT THE LANDLORDS WILL PASS ON THAT SAVINGS. 
          SO I KNOW THIS DOES NOT FALL INTO YOUR  INTO YOUR AREA, SO, SO DON'T GET UP. 
          BUT I WILL SAY THAT, UM, AS A REMINDER, ONE OF THE SENTIMENTS WE EXPRESSED AT OUR GOAL SETTING SESSION WAS THAT WE FIND WAYS TO KEEP CURRENTLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING AFFORDABLE. 
          SO WHEN WE COME BACK WITH THE DRAFT BUDGET, I WOULD REALLY WELCOME, UH, SOME OF, TO SEE THE, THE IDEAS AND SOME OF THE STRATEGIES THAT, THAT THE TEAM COMES UP WITH FOR HOW WE CAN, UH, DO THAT. 
          AND I'M NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT LARGE, UH, FACILITIES, BUT UM, YOU KNOW, SMALL LANDLORDS, UH, DUPLEX TRIPLEX OWNERS WHO, UM, WHO TRY TO KEEP IT AFFORDABLE, UH, BUT ARE, ARE PRESSED, RIGHT? BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, THEY'RE GONNA SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A RATE REDUCTION, BUT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO SEE THE KINDS OF SAVINGS THAT THOSE OF US WHO WHO OWN OUR HOMES ARE. 
          AND THEY'LL HAVE TO PASS THAT THROUGH. 
          UM, UH, IN TERMS OF THE, UM, GOAL SETTING SESSION, UH, ANOTHER REQUEST THAT I HAD, UM, AND I THINK ONE MORE PERSON HAD IT TOO, IS THAT WE DO WANNA SEE THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY GARNER SOME ADDITIONAL SUPPORT. 
          UM, I KNOW IT'S NOT OVER, UH, JUSTINA GO AHEAD . 
          I JUST, UM, WANTED TO MENTION THAT WE REALLY, TODAY'S FOCUS OF THE TRIAL BUDGET WAS ON THE GENERAL FUND SUSTAINABILITY IS, UH, FUNDED OUT OF THE SOLID WASTE FUND, WHICH, UM, WHICH WE INCLUDED JUST THE FORECAST. 
          SO THE TRIAL BUDGET WAS REALLY FOCUSED ON THAT GENERAL FUND. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND THEN, UH, THERE WAS, UH, ONE OF YOUR IMPROVEMENTS WAS LISTED WAS THE R AND D LEAGUE AT 300,000. 
          THEY'RE BEING FUNDED RIGHT NOW AT 2 75. 
          SO IS THE 300 IN ADDITION OR UM, ARE WE ONLY ADDING 25,000? ACTUALLY THIS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT WE HAVE 275,000 INCLUDED IN THE 2022 BUDGET AS A ONE TIME. 
          THIS JUST CONTINUES THAT 275,000 IN 2023. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          SO IT CONTINUES AT 2 75, CORRECT. 
          OH, I MUST HAVE MISREAD IT. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU, UH, REGARDING THAT PARTICULAR, UM, INITIATIVE. 
          I THINK THEY DO SOME REALLY COOL THINGS THAT HELP US, UM, RUN OUR CITY BETTER ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND OPERATIONAL SIDE. 
          UH, I WOULD LOVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO ALSO BE ABLE TO ASK THEM TO, MAYBE THEY ALREADY DO, DO SOME THINGS OUTSIDE IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, I THINK EVERY PERSON HERE HAS TO COME UP WITH IDEAS TO MEET SOME OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS REQUESTS AND, AND NEEDS. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE US TRYING TO INVENT PROGRAMS ALL THE TIME. 
          SO I'M WONDERING IF, IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY, UM, AS NEXT YEAR PROGRESSES TO HAVE THE COUNCIL WEIGH IN ON, ON SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS. 
          UM, AND I KNOW THAT'S NOT UNDER YOUR AREA JUSTINA, BUT , UH, YES MA'AM. 
          SO WE ARE EXPLORING THAT RIGHT NOW. 
          UH, THE FIRST KIND OF SWING AT THIS IS FIRST KIND OF YEAR OFFICIALLY BEING FUNDED. 
          IT WAS REALLY ABOUT DEPARTMENTS IN OUR R AND D LEAGUE, U S A U T S A AND WEARY. 
          BUT YES, THE CONVERSATIONS ARE HAPPENING ABOUT THE PROCESS. 
          HOW DO WE INTERACT WITH THE COUNCIL WHEN THEY HAVE THINGS THAT THEY WANNA PULL OUTTA THE M R A OR WORK WITH THE R D LEAGUE AS WELL. 
          SO YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S THE RIGHT ANSWER, BRIAN. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          AND NOW I WOULD LIKE TO GET SOME CLARIFICATION ON THE STREETS PROPOSALS. 
          UM, A SLIDE 34 HAS IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          SO, UM, I THINK IT'S THE $10 MILLION FOR F STREET, THE $3.8 MILLION TO COMPLETE THE MID STREET, UH, CROSSINGS. 
          AND, UH, A COUPLE MORE. 
          UM, BUT IT'S NOT LISTED. 
          OH, GO AHEAD. 
          SO THAT WAS SLIDE, UH, 34. 
          SO ARE THESE, ARE THESE ONE-TIME IMPROVEMENTS OR ARE THEY ALSO GOING TO BE IN THE, UM, IN THE FORECAST FOR THE SUBSEQUENT YEAR? SO THIS IS THE 2023 TRIAL BUDGET AND AS WE CONTINUE TO DEVELOP, UM, THE DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS, UM, THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT HOW FUNDING ADD THESE ADDITIONALLY OUT IN 2024. 
          OKAY. 
          SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS JUST WHY, WHY ARE THEY, THEY ON THIS SLIDE BUT NOT ON THE PREVIOUS TABLE THAT'S GOT THE 23 AND THE 24 TRIAL BUDGET IMPROVEMENTS? SO THIS, THIS $20 MILLION, UM, AS YOU MAY RECALL, IN FISCAL YEAR 2022, OUR TOTAL STREET MAINTENANCE BUDGET IS $110 MILLION. 
          BUT WITH THE BOND PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE, 
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UM, 20 MILLION OF THAT OF THE BOND PROGRAM WILL BE GOING TOWARDS F STREETS. 
          SO THIS IS THE 20 MILLION AS PART OF THE CAPITAL BUDGET FOR 2023. 
          AND, AND COUNCILWOMAN, LET ME, IF, IF SOMEBODY PULL THAT SLIDE BACK UP, WOULD YOU PLEASE? SO, SO REMEMBER THE, WHEN WE WERE AT THE WORK SESSION, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE $20 MILLION AND WE WERE LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK FROM THE COUNCIL, AND THAT'S THE 20 MILLION THAT, UH, PROBABLY, THIS IS PROBABLY THE WRONG TERM, THAT'S BEING OH, YES, YES, YES. 
          IT'S, IT'S BEING, IT'S BEING, UM, UM, DISPLACED BECAUSE OF THE BOND PROGRAM. 
          SO 10 OF THAT IS GOING INTO THE STREETS, WHICH YOU SEE IN THE, IN THE SUBSEQUENT SLIDE. 
          AND THAT'S NOT THE ARPA 10, THAT'S A DIFFERENT 10. 
          NO, THAT'S NO UHUH. 
          AND THEN, AND THEN BASED ON THE FEEDBACK, UM, WE, WE HAVE $3.8 MILLION FOR VISION ZERO. 
          NOW YOU SEE THE NOTE DOWN THERE AT THE BOTTOM, WE STARTED THE MIDBLOCK CROSSINGS, RIGHT? UM, WE, WE HAVE, WE'LL HAVE $3.2 MILLION IN CONSTRUCTION THIS YEAR. 
          SO WE NEED AN ADDITIONAL 3.8 TO FINISH ALL THOSE PROJECTS. 
          UM, WARRANTED TRAFFIC SIGNALS. 
          AND THIS IS, UM, UH, COVERING FIVE TRAFFIC INTERSECTIONS AND MAKING SURE WE HAVE THE CONSTRUCTION AND COUNCILWOMAN CASTILLO. 
          THAT DOES INCLUDE THE, THE INTERSECTION WE TALKED ABOUT LAST WEEK. 
          NON-SERVICE ALLEY WAS SOMETHING THAT WE HEARD FROM THE COUNCIL LOUD AND CLEAR IN BOTH OUR INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS AND AT THE WORK SESSION. 
          SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE, UM, AS PUBLIC WORKS, UH, FINISHES THEIR STUDY NEXT YEAR, THAT WE HAVE FUNDS, UH, SET ASIDE TO DO THAT. 
          YOU KNOW, WE'RE THE, THIS IS PROPERTY THAT WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR, BUT IT IS A, IT IS A, UH, POINT OF CONCERN FOR A LOT OF NEIGHBORS. 
          AND SO MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN GO IN THERE AND DO SOME ONE-TIME IMPROVEMENTS. 
          YEAH, I THINK WE'RE GONNA NEED MORE MONEY IN THAT ONE TOO. 
          . 
          YEAH, WE PROBABLY DO. 
          YEAH, YOU PROB WE PROBABLY DON'T NEED TO EVEN FINISH THIS STUDY. 
          WE PROBABLY KNOW WE NEED, BUT, BUT, SO THIS IS JUST WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE PROPOSED IN THE TRIAL BUDGET FOR 23. 
          UM, AND, BUT LIKELY THIS $20 MILLION IS STILL THERE AND WE'LL NEED TO BE ABLE TO PROGRAM IT OVER THE, OVER THE FILM YEARS FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          NO, I APPRECIATE THAT REMINDER. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, ERIC, THAT REALLY CLARIFIES IT. 
          UM, I'M GONNA JUMP TO SLIDE. 
          I BELIEVE IT'S 35 OR 6 35. 
          UM, THE, THE SLIDE THAT TELLS US THE FUTURE OF OUR, OF OUR STREET CONDITIONS. 
          I AM, UH, AS COUNCILMAN MCKEE RODRIGUEZ SAID, VERY GLAD TO SEE THAT THE IDEA IS FOR ALL THE DISTRICTS TO HAVE, UH, A SCORE OVER 80. 
          SO, UH, THANK YOU, UH, VERY MUCH FOR, FOR MAKING SURE THAT THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE CASE. 
          UH, I AM STILL, UH, CONCERNED THAT WHEN WE DO GET TO 2030, UM, THE, THE F STREET, UH, ISSUE IS STILL, UH, FAIRLY DISPARATE, UH, WHERE YOU'VE GOT HALF THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS, UH, COMING IN AT NINE OR 10%, AND YOU'VE GOT SOME COMING IN AT ZERO OR, OR 2%. 
          AND NO, NO OFFENSE TO COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DISTRICT. 
          IT'S FAIRLY NEW. 
          LOTS OF THINGS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED THERE. 
          UM, BUT IT IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S WHAT WE TRADITIONALLY CALL OUR, OUR NORTH SIDE, RIGHT? SO I, I THINK THE OPTICS OF THAT, UM, THEY DON'T SIT WELL, UH, WITH ME. 
          SO I, I JUST FELT LIKE I NEEDED TO, TO SAY THAT. 
          UM, AND THEN I'D LIKE TO JUMP TO SLIDE 37. 
          AND, UM, I THOUGHT THE WAY THAT THE FIRST TWO BUBBLES WERE GOING TO BE DISTRIBUTED, THE A HUNDRED, UH, MILLION AND THE 20 MILLION, WERE GOING TO BE OVER THE SAME FORMULA, BUT THE DESCRIPTION IS NOT THE SAME. 
          SO, COULD YOU CLARIFY, IS THERE A DIFFERENT FORMULA FOR, FOR THE FIRST, UH, BUBBLE, THE A HUNDRED MILLION, THE FIRST BUBBLE MM-HMM. 
          , THE A HUNDRED MILLION, UH, BASED ON OUR RECOMMENDATION TODAY IS BASED ON P C I CONDITION, THE SECOND BUBBLE, THE 20 MILLION THAT THE VOTERS APPROVED OVER THE WEEKEND, THAT IS BASED ON, ON THE 50 50 FORM, 50%, 50% FORMULA THAT WE PREVIOUSLY HAD. 
          AND THAT WAS THE BASIS OF, OF THE PROPOSAL BEFORE THE VOTERS. 
          AND THEN THE $10 MILLION IN ARPA IS BASED A HUNDRED PERCENT ON FT STREET CATEGORY. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          NUMBERS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          UH, THANK YOU JUSTINA, TROY AND STAFF, UH, FOR THE PRESENTATION AND THE CONTINUED WORK. 
          UH, I WOULD LIKE TO START BY EXPRESSING MY SUPPORT FOR THE PROPERTY TAX RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE PUT FORWARD EVERY TOOL ON THE TABLE FOR OUR SENIORS AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS TO, UH, SELECT FROM, TO PROVIDE THAT MUCH NEEDED PROPERTY TAX RELIEF. 
          UH, WITH THE MID-YEAR, UM, BUDGET ADJUSTMENT, UM, BASED OFF OF, UH, MUNICIPAL COURT DATA. 
          DISTRICT FIVE HAS ONE OF THE ZIP CODES WITH THE HIGHEST, UH, PERCENTAGE OF RESIDENTS GOING TO MUNICIPAL COURT FOR CODE COMPLIANCE VIOLATIONS. 
          UM, AND BASED OFF OF OUR CONSTITUENT SERVICES DATA, THAT'S PRIMARILY WITH THE 7 8 0 7 ZIP CODE. 
          AND THOSE CALLS THAT WE RECEIVE, UM, ARE PRIMARILY FOR OVERGROWN YARDS AND OUTSIDE PLACEMENT. 
          AND OUTSIDE PLACEMENT CAN MEAN NON-TRADITIONAL 
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PATIO FURNITURE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, MANY OF OUR LOTS IN THE INNER CITY DON'T HAVE PARKING GARAGES, SO THAT CAN MEAN HAVING STACKED TIRES NEXT TO YOUR DRIVEWAY. 
          UM, SO EVERY MONTH WHEN OUR OFFICE FACILITATES OUR COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUPS, UH, UM, D S D SHARES WITH US CODE COMPLIANCE DATA, AND THAT'S HOW WE DECIDE WHICH NEIGHBORHOOD AND NEIGHBORS WE'RE GOING TO, UM, HELP ADDRESS THEIR CODE COMPLIANCE ISSUES. 
          AND AGAIN, PRIMARILY THOSE ISSUES ARE FOR OVERGROWN YARDS THAT OFTEN TURN INTO ADDITIONAL CODE COMPLIANCE VIOLATIONS. 
          UH, AND I WANNA, UH, EMPHASIZE THAT, RIGHT? THOSE, THE, WHEN THE VIOLATION LEADS TO A CITATION, IT'S ROUGHLY $200, UH, WHICH IS A LOT OF MONEY. 
          UM, RIGHT, THAT'S GROCERIES, UH, A C P S BILL IN SUMMER. 
          UM, SO I KNOW WE HAVE A CURRENT CONTRACT WITH GOODWILL, WHERE IT'S ROUGHLY 300 TO $400,000. 
          UM, MY ASK IS THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY EXPLORE, UH, AMENDING THAT CONTRACT TO ADD, UH, $50,000, UH, TO CREATE A TARGETED PILOT PROGRAM TO HELP OUR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, WHETHER IT'S VETERANS, SENIORS, OR DISABLED INDIVIDUALS, UH, ABATE THEIR PROPERTY. 
          UM, AND IT WILL GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE, UM, BEING PROACTIVE AND HELPING OUR NEIGHBORS ADDRESS THE CODE COMPLIANCE VIOLATION RATHER THAN, UH, PENALIZING THEM WITH THE $300 FEE. 
          UM, SO THAT'S MY HOPE WITH THE MID-YEAR BUDGET. 
          UM, I'VE HEARD SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES MENTION THE PASSAGE OF THE HOUSING BOND, WHICH IS REALLY EXCITING. 
          AND, UH, THE NEED FOR PRESERVATION AND CONSTRUCTION. 
          UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND, UH, LOOK AT SUPPORTING THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND THEIR PRESERVATION, UH, EFFORTS. 
          RIGHT? WE'VE HAD THIS CONTINUED CONVERSATION ABOUT DECONSTRUCTION, UM, AND PRESERVATION IS HUGE IN THE STRATEGIC HOUSING IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. 
          UM, SO WHILE I KNOW WE'RE PLANNING FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2023, UH, I BELIEVE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE HOUSING BOND AND, UH, JUST AGAIN, RIGHT TO BE PREPARED TO CHIP AWAY AT THOSE HOUSING NEEDS, UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE LOOK AT, UH, THIS MID-YEAR ADJUSTMENT AS AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO GET AHEAD OF, UM, THE PROJECTS TO COME. 
          UH, ALSO, I KNOW, UH, FOR MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES, UM, THE C I P IS VERY IMPORTANT, RIGHT? THERE'S PROJECTS AND IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY BOND SIZE PROJECTS, WHETHER IT'S IMPROVING, UM, A PARKING LOT IN OUR LIBRARY OR IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR PARKS. 
          UM, THAT, UH, 1 MILLION C I P IS VERY IMPACTFUL, UH, AND I WOULD HOPE TO SEE, UH, WITH THE, UH, THE MIDYEAR CONVERSATION THAT WE CAN ADD ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO HELP US CHIP AWAY AT SOME OF THOSE NEEDS, AGAIN, THAT AREN'T LARGE, BUT JUST NEED A COUPLE OF DOLLARS TO BE ADDRESSED. 
          UM, AND AGAIN, UM, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IS ROUGHLY $250,000 TO FIX PARKING LOTS IN OUR LIBRARIES AND PARKS. 
          UM, AND, AND I KNOW WITH THE 2023 BUDGET WHERE THE, THE CONVERSATION OR THE PRESENTATION RATHER, HAS A REDUCTION FOR THE C I P. 
          SO WITH THE 2022 BUDGET SETTING GOALS, UH, MY HOPE IS THAT WE INCREASE THAT RATHER THAN REDUCE, UH, THE C I P AND NOW SHIFTING TO THE FIVE YEAR TRIAL BUDGET, UM, I'M EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE AND GRATEFUL TO SEE THAT ANIMAL CARE SERVICE IS RECEIVING THE MUCH NEEDED SUPPORT. 
          YESTERDAY, I ADOPTED, BAM, BAM, THE US MEMBER OF THE CASTILLO FAMILY FROM ANIMAL CARE SERVICE. 
          UH, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, UH, GREAT, RIGHT? YOU WALK IN, YOU GO IN REAL QUICK, UH, THERE'S SOMEONE IN THERE TO HELP, UH, PEBBLES MEET BAM, BAM TO FACILITATE THAT MEET AND GREET. 
          UM, BUT WHEN WE GOT TO THE CHECKOUT, RIGHT, UM, THERE WAS, UH, ONE PERSON THERE, AND I'M PLEASED TO SEE THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE THAT SUPPORT AND, YOU KNOW, ENSURE THAT FOLKS CAN QUICKLY ADOPT THEIR PETS AND, UH, GET THOSE ADOPTION RATES UP. 
          SO, EXTREMELY GRATEFUL FOR A C S, UH, SHANNON AND KAREN AS WELL. 
          UM, I ALSO WANT TO, UH, I, I'M PLEASED TO HEAR THAT, UM, THE SAN ANTONIO FIRE DEPARTMENT'S ALSO GOING TO BE RECEIVING THE SUPPORT. 
          I KNOW IN DISTRICT FIVE, WE'VE SEEN, UH, NEARLY, UH, DOUBLE THE INCREASE IN FIRES WITHIN OUR DISTRICT. 
          SO I WANNA ENSURE THAT OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT'S RECEIVING THE SUPPORT NECESSARY, UM, TO, TO ADDRESS THOSE, THOSE ARSON CONCERNS AND FIRES THAT ARE, ARE, UM, HITTING DISTRICT FIVE DRASTICALLY. 
          UM, ON THE TOPIC OF HOUSING, UM, AGAIN, I WANNA EMPHASIZE WITH THE FISCAL YEAR 2023 BUDGET, THAT WE AREN'T REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING FOR ANY BUCKET OF HOUSING IN ANTICIPATION OF THE HOUSING BOND, RIGHT? SO WHAT, WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS I DON'T, I WOULD NOT WANT TO SEE A REDUCTION IN HOMEOWNER REHAB UNDER ONE ROOF AND THEN SEEING US, UM, MEETING THAT GAP WITH HOW HOUSING BOND DOLLARS, RIGHT? I THINK WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE OUR GENERAL FUND INVESTMENT AND GRANTS ON TOP OF, UH, THE BOND DOLLARS TO RUN PARALLEL RATHER THAN, UH, REDUCING ONE. 
          AND THEN BEING IN THE SAME POSITION THAT WE WERE IN LAST YEAR, UM, I, I REALLY BELIEVE 
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THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD IN THE NATION BY CONTINUING TO INVEST IN PROGRAMS LIKE OPERATION REBUILD, UM, OR KNOWN AS A DEMOLITION MITIGATION PILOT PROGRAM, RIGHT? BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE SCALE THAT UP, UH, BY ONE, REPLENISHING THAT FUND, AND TWO, ENSURING THAT WE'RE NOT TRYING TO BE, UH, ARSONISTS AND FIREFIGHTERS AT THE SAME TIME, RIGHT? SO WHEN I LOOK AT THE FISCAL YEAR 2023 AND SEE THAT THERE'S A, UM, A PROPOSAL FOR FIVE ADDITIONAL CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICERS, UH, I'M CONCERNED, RIGHT, THAT WE'RE TRYING TO GO MOVE TOWARDS PRESERVATION. 
          UM, BUT WE'RE ADDING CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICERS WHO THEIR ROLE IS TO ENFORCE CITY CODE, UM, THAT ARE LEADING TO DEMOLITIONS AND NOTICES TO VACATE. 
          SO SEEING THAT WE'RE HAVING AN INCREASE FOR FIVE CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICERS GIVES ME PAUSE AND CONCERN WHEN I'VE ASKED IF WE CAN HAVE A CODE COMPLIANCE CASE MANAGER, WHICH WOULD CONNECT OUR RESIDENTS TO SERVICES TO HELP THEM COME INTO COMPLIANCE AND, UH, REDUCE, UH, THE RISK THAT THEY'RE AT OF BECOMING DISPLACED THROUGH THE PROCESS. 
          UM, ON THE, UH, AGAIN, WITH HOUSING, UM, UH, IN ONE OF OUR PRESENTATIONS AT OUR COMMITTEE, WE LEARNED, RIGHT, THAT WE HAVE OVER 8,000 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING HOUSELESSNESS ANNUALLY. 
          AND WE ONLY HAVE, I BELIEVE, 37 OUTREACH WORKERS, AND THAT'S OVER 130 SOMETHING CASES PER CASE WORKER. 
          SO MY HOPE WOULD BE THAT WE CAN, UH, INCREASE THOSE OUTREACH WORKERS TO ALLEVIATE THAT WORKLOAD THAT MANY OF OUR, UH, HOMELESS OUTREACH WORKERS ARE EXPERIENCING. 
          UM, MANY OF WHICH ARE, I ALSO WANT TO, UM, UH, EMPHASIZE SUPPORT FOR COUNCILMAN H'S RECOMMENDATION OF EXPLORING, UH, A PILOT PROGRAM OR SUPPORTING, UH, OUTREACH FOR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS WITH OUR SENIORS. 
          I THINK THAT'S VERY MUCH NEEDED, RIGHT? WE COULD PUT THE TOOLS, BUT WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT OUR SENIORS ARE, ARE LEARNING ABOUT WHAT'S AVAILABLE AND THEN HELPING THEM, UH, APPLY FOR IT, OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE. 
          I THINK THAT WILL, UH, HAVE A HUGE IMPACT, UM, AND WILL DEFINITELY INCREASE THOSE NUMBERS. 
          UM, A AGAIN, UM, THE CIP P IS VERY IMPORTANT, I BELIEVE, UH, TO TACKLE THOSE LARGE PROJECTS. 
          AND THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO, COUNCIL MEMBER ELA. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, THANK YOU, JUSTINA. 
          THANK YOU, MARIA. 
          THANK YOU, TROY, FOR EVERYTHING YOU GUYS DO, UM, TO, TO HELP US THROUGH THIS PROCESS. 
          I WAS, UH, I WAS READING ABOUT GAS PRICES TODAY. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL SAW, BUT SAN ANTONIO'S GAS PRICES ARE NOW, UH, $4 AND ONE PENNY, WHICH BREAKS THE HISTORIC RECORD OF ALL TIME FOR GAS, UH, IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, TO MATCH THAT TROUBLING NEWS, YOU KNOW, THE COST OF LABOR, ALL LABOR IS HIGHER TODAY THAN IT WAS LAST WEEK. 
          UM, THE COST OF CEMENT IS HIGHER THIS WEEK THAN LAST. 
          THE COST OF ASPHALT IS HIGHER THAN LAST. 
          LUMBER IS UP TO, I THINK, A THOUSAND, $25 PER THOUSAND BOARD, UH, FEET. 
          UH, PRE COVID, IT WAS AT AROUND $400 PER THOUSAND BOARD FEET. 
          UH, WE'RE BEING TOLD THAT, THAT THOSE PRICES SHOULDN'T EXPECT THEM TO DROP ANYTIME SOON. 
          UM, WE'RE SEEING THAT STEEL IS AT $5,000, UH, PER THOUSAND POUNDS. 
          PRE COVID, IT WAS AT $800 PER THOUSAND POUNDS. 
          NEW HOUSES ARE SELLING AT A PREMIUM OF 29%, 30% HIGHER THAN WHAT ECONOMISTS SAYS THEY SHOULD BE, UH, PRICED AT OUR, UM, CITY IS, UM, RANKED AS ONE OF THE HOTTEST REAL ESTATE, REAL ESTATE MARKETS IN THE NATION. 
          AND YET, AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE ALSO RANKED AS ONE OF THE TOP, UH, I THINK 10 TOP 15 MOST OVERPRICED MARKETS IN THE NATION. 
          RENTS ARE HIGHER AND NETFLIX, DAMMIT, IT'S EVEN HIGHER TOO NOW THAN IT EVER WAS BEFORE. 
          UH, AND, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I KNOW THAT'S, THAT'S FUNNY, BUT RIGHT. 
          BUT THESE ARE REAL COSTS FOR, FOR FAMILIES AND, UM, AND FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, UM, I I, I WISH THERE WAS A, UM, I WISH THERE WAS A THIRD WAY TO VOTE, ASIDE FROM YES OR NO. 
          I MEAN, I, I WISH THERE WAS A, A HELL YES, UH, BUTTON, UH, BECAUSE HELL, YES. 
          'CAUSE WE NEED, WE NEED THIS HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, AND I'LL BE VOTING IN FAVOR OF THAT. 
          UM, AT, AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE TALK ABOUT THE COST TO MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IS FACING, BECAUSE ALL THOSE COSTS THAT I JUST LISTED OFF EXCEPT NETFLIX, UH, IS, ARE COSTS THAT WE ABSORB HERE, RIGHT, ERIC? UM, AND, YOU KNOW, STEEL LABOR, CEMENT, ASPHALT, UH, THOSE ARE A GASOLINE. 
          THOSE ARE THINGS THAT, UH, ARE CONTAINED IN THIS BUDGET. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE, IS THIS ROADMAP FOR THE NEXT YEAR OF HOW WE'RE GOING TO ABSORB COSTS AND WHERE WE'RE GONNA ALLOCATE FUNDS. 
          UH, I'M NOT SURE PEOPLE REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT, WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE DAIS TODAY, RIGHT? I MEAN, UM, RARELY DO YOU EVER SEE GOVERNMENT CO, YOU KNOW, RARELY DO YOU EVER SEE IN GOVERNMENT THE COEXISTENCE BETWEEN, UM, YOU KNOW, INCREASED NEED TO ABSORB INCREASED COSTS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, 
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ON THE OTHER HAND, YOU'VE GOT A DESIRE TO GRANT HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS AND TAX RELIEF, RIGHT? AND SO WE FIND OURSELVES IN A VERY, VERY RARE SITUATION WHERE WE CAN DO BOTH, UH, TODAY, AND I'M, THAT'S WORTH CELEBRATING, THANKFULLY. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT BECAUSE WE'VE GOT TAX REVENUE FORECASTS AND SALES AND AVALOR, UH, FORECASTS THAT, YOU KNOW, ARE IN OUR FAVOR TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          BUT I DON'T THINK PEOPLE SHOULD MAKE A MISTAKE ABOUT THAT BEING THE ONLY REASON, RIGHT? I THINK THAT'S ONE REASON. 
          BUT THE MAIN REASON I THINK, IS BECAUSE WE'RE, THIS GOVERNMENT IS OVERSEEING BY EXCELLENT MANAGEMENT. 
          I THINK ERIC, YOU, YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB AT STRETCHING EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR AND LEVERAGING OPPORTUNITIES, UM, YOU KNOW, AND, AND REALLY MAKING RESILIENCE AND INNOVATION PART OF THE CONVERSATION AS IT RELATES TO SAVING MONEY, RIGHT? UM, THE SECOND THING IS, WE'VE GOT SOUND FISCAL POLICY. 
          WE'RE ABLE TO DELIVER A BALANCED BUDGET EVERY SINGLE YEAR AND STILL PAY FOR ALL THE THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE PAID FOR. 
          AND, AND THE THIRD THING IS, UH, WE HAVE A, A CREDIT RATING THAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT AS OFTEN, I THINK AS, UH, AS WE NEED TO, THAT ALLOW US TO, TO DO A LOT OF THESE, THESE VERY IMPORTANT PROJECTS. 
          UH, AND YOU'VE GOT THE DESIRE OF EVERY SINGLE COUNCIL PERSON ON THIS DAIS, UH, TO MAKE THEIR CITY BETTER, UH, AND, AND RUN MORE EFFICIENTLY, AND TO LEAVE THE FEWEST PEOPLE BEHIND. 
          SO, UH, I'M, I'M ENTHUSED ABOUT THIS, THIS, UH, THIS PLAN AND, AND SAN ANTONIO. 
          I, I THINK IT'S, I THINK I'M RIGHT WHEN I SAY THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US HEARS YOU, UH, WHEN YOU SAY, YOU KNOW, AIN'T NOTHING GOING ON, BUT THE RENT RIGHT NOW, UH, WE HEAR YOU. 
          WE KNOW, UH, A LOT OF US PAY RENT, AND WE PAY COSTS TOO, AND IT HURTS RIGHT NOW. 
          AND THESE EXEMPTIONS THAT WE'RE CONTEMPLATING, THEY'RE NOT GONNA SAVE, UM, EVERY SAN ANTONIAN, UH, FROM THE FINANCIAL CRISIS THEY'RE FEELING. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, EVEN AFTER WE VOTE YES ON THIS, YOU'RE STILL THE NEXT DAY GONNA BE FEELING PRETTY BAD ABOUT THE, THE, THE COST OF, OF, OF EVERYTHING YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR. 
          BUT HOPEFULLY FOR MANY OF YOU, IT'S GOING TO REALLY, UM, RELIEVE SOME PRESSURE WHEN NEXT TIME YOU GO TO THE PHARMACY AND HAVE TO PAY A COPAY FOR YOUR MEDS, RIGHT? UM, NEXT TIME YOU HAVE TO BUY MILK FOR YOUR KIDS OR PAY THAT EXTRA, YOU KNOW, DOLLAR OR TWO AT THE, AT THE GAS PUMP. 
          AND SO WE'RE, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE, I THINK, HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION NOW, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE SLIDES THAT WE SAW. 
          UM, I, I'LL MENTION ONE THING, ERIC, THAT I DIDN'T SEE IN THERE. 
          AND WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS LAST TIME. 
          WE, UH, I THINK WE REDUCED THAT HAZMAT FEE FOR THE, UH, GAS STATIONS. 
          I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT IT. 
          UH, ERIC, I'M GONNA NEED YOU AND MARIA AND I TO MEET WITH, UH, WITH THE GROUP OF GAS STATION OWNERS. 
          'CAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING IS IT HELPED NONE OF THEM. 
          UH, AND IT DEFRAYED NO COSTS. 
          UH, AND SO I, I DON'T WANNA, UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT WE ALL HAD THE BEST OF INTENTIONS HERE, BUT IT ENDED UP NOT HITTING THE MARK, OR EVEN GETTING CLOSE TO HITTING THE MARK. 
          AND SO, I, I, I'D LIKE TO SIT DOWN WITH YOU ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, I DO REMEMBER THREE OR FOUR OF US ON THE DIOCESE THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE, TALK ABOUT, UH, SENIORS IN PLAY, UM, UH, INITIATIVE. 
          I KNOW THAT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN RO GARCIA, UH, COUNCILMAN, UH, BI, YOU, YOU HAD ALSO MENTIONED IT. 
          UM, THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I DON'T SEE ON THE SLIDES. 
          UH, AND I DIDN'T HEAR ANYBODY OBJECT TO IT THE LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT IT. 
          THE MAYOR HAD MENTIONED ALSO, UM, FILM INDUSTRY INCENTIVES. 
          UM, I DON'T SEE THAT ANYWHERE IN THE SLIDES. 
          ALL I SEE IS THE WORD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. 
          AND MAYBE IT, MAYBE IT WAS YOUR INTENTION TO, TO BAKE IT IN THERE, ERIC? UH, NO, ACTUALLY, IT, IT WAS AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WAS NOT. 
          UM, TYPICALLY WE FUND THAT THROUGH OUR HOTEL MOTEL. 
          UM, OUR FILM INCENTIVES, EVEN PRE PANDEMIC, WERE NOT LARGE. 
          AND IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME OPTIONS ON, THEN, THEN I'D LIKE TO HEAR THAT NOW, BECAUSE THAT'LL, THAT, THAT LIKELY WILL BE A SIZABLE SHIFT IN OUR HOTEL MOTEL PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          SURE. 
          YEAH. 
          I THINK YOU TOLD ME EARLIER THAT, UH, AT SOME PRIOR MEETINGS, OR SOMEBODY ELSE DID THAT, IT WAS, IT USED TO HAVE $250,000 IN THAT ACCOUNT, AND WE ZEROED IT OUT, YOU KNOW, AS PART OF OUR AUSTERITY MEASURES IN RESPONSE TO COVID. 
          AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE WHAT SORT OF OUR HISTORICAL USE, UH, IS OF THAT FUND. 
          WHAT, WHAT HAVE WE USED FOR, YOU KNOW, IT IN THE PAST, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT FUNDING HOLLYWOOD MOVIES HERE, BUT THERE IS A, THERE IS A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, UM, WHO ARE, UH, IN THIS INDUSTRY AND WHO, UH, ARE SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE SMALL INVESTMENT THAT WE MAKE IN, IN THEIR ABILITY TO LEARN THESE SKILLS AND, UM, AND, AND CREATE THIS KIND OF ART. 
          THE OTHER THING ALSO, UM, I SLIDE 32, ITEM 15, I, I NEED TO KNOW TO WHAT EXTENT ANDY'S TEAM WAS INVOLVED IN THESE, UH, IN THESE CLAIMS FOR WHICH WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PAY $3.8 MILLION IN, UH, IN, UM, DEDUCTIBLES, UH, FOR, YOU KNOW, STORM DAMAGE. 
          I, ANDY, I DO, YOU, CAN YOU TELL ME, UH, COUNCILMAN, WE WORK, UH, USUALLY CLOSELY WITH BEN AND THE RISK MANAGEMENT TEAM, BUT WE'LL, PROB WE'LL, WE CAN BRIEF YOU INDIVIDUALLY ON WHAT YEAH. 
          'CAUSE I NEED TO 
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KNOW, I MEAN, THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY TO PAY FOR DEDUCTIBLES, RIGHT? SO I THINK IT'S FAIR TO ASK, WERE ANY OF THESE CLAIMS DENIED? UM, AND WERE ANY OF THE CLAIMS PARTIALLY PAID? RIGHT? UM, AND I'M ASKING, 'CAUSE I MEAN, YOU KNOW WHY I'M ASKING? 'CAUSE I KNOW RIGHT? UH, HOW THESE THINGS WORK, RIGHT? AND SO I ALWAYS WORRY ABOUT GOVERNMENT, UM, NOT PRESSING, UM, THE, THE ENVELOPE OR PUSHING THE ENVELOPE WHEN IT COMES TO MAKING THEIR CLAIMS AND, YOU KNOW, AND LITIGATING THEIR RIGHTS, RIGHT? UM, SO I THINK BEN AND I CAN COMMIT TO YOU THAT WE'LL, WE'LL STOP BY AND, AND RIFF YOU ON IT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN LASTLY, UH, SLIDE 45 TALKS ABOUT THE ALIMO DOME REPAIRS. 
          SAME QUESTION. 
          I KNOW THAT THE LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT MAJOR ROOF REPAIR OVER AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, UM, I, I'D ASKED THAT YOU GUYS GO LOOK AGAIN AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, AND WE DISCOVERED MORE HAIL DAMAGE, AND WE ACTUALLY GOT MORE MONEY FROM THE INSURANCE COMPANY AND REDUCED THE AMOUNT OF, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF MONEY THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO PAY OUT A GENERAL FUND, UH, TO IMPROVE THAT ASSET AND REPAIR IT. 
          AND SO MY QUESTION IS, IS DID WE DO THE SAME THING FOR THE ALAMO? UM, HAVE WE SCRUBBED THIS DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT WE INTEND TO SPEND ON THE ALAMO TO ELIMINATE THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THE INSURANCE COMPANY OUGHT TO BE PAYING FOR THE ALAMO DOME? OR MAYBE WE'RE SELF-INSURED, I DON'T KNOW. 
          BUT I, I NEED THOSE ANSWERS IF I'M GONNA SUPPORT THIS. 
          UM, AND, AND SO I'LL END IT ON A, ON A HIGH NOTE, UH, THANK YOU FOR THE, UH, FOR LISTENING TO US ON THE INVESTMENT REGARDING ANIMAL CARE SERVICES. 
          THAT IS A REALLY BIG DEAL. 
          THE CITY STILL EUTHANIZES WAY TOO MANY DOGS, AND THESE ARE, THESE ARE DOGS THAT WE CAN FIND, YOU KNOW, LOTS OF INNOVATIVE WAYS TO PULL FROM, UM, UH, AND, AND FIND NEW HOMES FOREVER HOMES. 
          AND, UM, COUNCIL MC CASTILLO, I'M PROUD OF YOU, UH, AND I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET YOUR DOG. 
          THANKS, EVERYBODY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PIAS. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          BRAVO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AS I LOOK AT THIS TAX PRESENTATION, I THINK ABOUT HOW I CAME HERE TO HELP TRY AND SOLVE CHALLENGES THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS. 
          AND, UH, RIGHT NOW, I JUST FEEL LIKE WE'RE IN A LOUSY POSITION. 
          AND THE REASON I THINK WE'RE IN A LOUSY POSITION IS BECAUSE I LOOK AT THE AMOUNT THAT PROPERTY VALUE INCREASES. 
          THE PROPERTY VALUE INCREASES FOR THE, FOR SAN ANTONIO, IN TOTALITY, TOTALITY OF 14.1%, AND THEN FOR SINGLE, SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE IS 15%, BUT THEN FOR MULTIFAMILY, 20%. 
          AND SO, WHEN I THINK ABOUT SOME OF THE OPTIONS, THE TOOLS THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US, A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, THAT'S NOT GONNA HELP THEM. 
          UM, AND THEN I LOOK AT, UH, THE, AN EXAMPLE THERE THAT YOU GAVE OF A HOME THAT WAS VALUED AT 200, IT'S GONE UP TO 230,000. 
          AND I SEE UNDER THE CURRENT PROPOSAL, WE COULD SAVE THEM $10. 
          AND I DON'T THINK OUR COMMUNITY, WHEN WE HEAR FROM THEM AND THEY'RE UPSET ABOUT PROPERTY TAXES, I DON'T THINK THEY'RE UPSET BECAUSE THEIR PROPERTY TAXES HAVE GONE UP BY $10. 
          UM, WHEN I LOOK AT, FOR SENIOR CITIZENS 65 AND OVER, THEN WE'RE SAVING $110. 
          THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE MEANINGFUL. 
          BUT THEN I THINK ABOUT LIFE EXPECTANCY. 
          AND I LOOK AT GOVERNMENT HILL AND THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF SOMEBODY WHO GREW UP IN GOVERNMENT HILL IS 68 YEARS OLD, AND SO THEY CAN BUY A HOME AND PAY MARKET RATE PROPERTY TAXES UNTIL THEY'RE 65, AND THEN THEY GET THIS BENEFIT OF A HO OF A, OF THEIR PROPERTY TAXES BEING FROZEN FOR ONLY THREE YEARS, RIGHT? WHEREAS IF WE COMPARE THAT TO GOVERNMENT CANYON, UH, THE HIGHEST LIFE EXPECTANCY WE HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY, THEY'LL LIVED AT 89. 
          SO THEY'LL GET THAT BENEFIT FOR 24 YEARS. 
          AND SO I WONDER ABOUT THE EQUITY IN THAT, AND I DON'T WANT TO BE IN A POSITION WHERE WE'RE REGRESSIVELY TAXING OUR MOST VULNERABLE. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE'RE STUCK. 
          THAT'S NOT WHERE WE CHOSE TO BE. 
          UM, BUT WE'RE REALLY STUCK THERE. 
          AND SO, WHEN I SAY WE'RE IN A LOUSY POSITION, I MEAN, I'M NOT SURE THAT EVEN FULLY DESCRIBES THE, THE POSITION WE'RE IN. 
          UM, AND SO I KNOW JEFF COYLE, I PULLED YOU ASIDE THE OTHER DAY AND I SAID, HEY, I WANNA BE INVOLVED IN, UH, WHAT WE'RE DOING AS FAR AS ANY KIND OF PROPOSED STATE REFORMS FOR OUR PROPERTY TAXES, TO GIVE US MORE TOOLS SO WE CAN, SO WE CAN ADDRESS THIS ON A MORE GRANULAR LEVEL AND MAKE SURE MAKING, MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE HELPING THE PEOPLE WHO NEED HELP THE MOST. 
          UM, AND, UH, BUT I WANT EVERYBODY ELSE TO KNOW THAT, AND THAT, UH, WE NEED TO GET AHEAD OF THIS QUICKLY. 
          I WANNA ENCOURAGE MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO WORK ON THIS TOGETHER SO THAT WE CAN, UH, COME TO, SO WE CAN GET JEFF COYLE TO COME TO US WITH, UH, A LEGISLATIVE AGENDA EARLIER. 
          I WANT US TO GET TO THE LEGISLATURE FIRST. 
          I DON'T WANT SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROPERTY TAX REFORM PROPOSAL TO GAIN MOMENTUM BEFORE WE CAN SHOP OURS AROUND. 
          UM, AND I'VE ALREADY HAD MY STAFF REACH OUT TO, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, THINK TANKS THAT WORK ON PROPERTY TAXES. 
          I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO BE REINVENTING THE WHEEL, BUT WE CAN GET SOME ADVICE ON PEOPLE WHO SPEND THEIR TIME EVERY DAY 
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THINKING ABOUT THIS. 
          AND, UH, SO I, I'M, I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE CAN DO SOMETHING. 
          I'M, I GUESS MAYBE I'M CAUTIOUSLY OPT OPTIMISTIC, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO OUR BUDGET, UM, COUNCILMAN MCKEE RODRIGUEZ, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT YOUR REQUEST FOR MORE STREET LIGHTING. 
          UH, YESTERDAY I MET WITH C P S ENERGY AND THEY WANTED TO SHARE IT WITH ME, SOME OF THEIR, UH, INNOVATIVE PROJECTS THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON. 
          AND ONE OF 'EM IS SMART STREET LIGHTS. 
          AND THEY TOLD ME, WELL, YOU KNOW, THESE STREET LIGHTS CAN, UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE WIFI ENABLED, AND THEY CAN DETECT THE WEATHER AND REPORT BACK. 
          THEY CAN DETECT AIR POLLUTION AND REPORT BACK. 
          THEY SAID THEY CAN DETECT SOUND. 
          AND I SAID, WAIT A SECOND. 
          CAN THEY DETECT GUNSHOTS? BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I HEAR FROM MY COMMUNITY ABOUT A LOT, AND THEY WANT US TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF US, ME INCLUDED, WE WAKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NIGHT, WE HEAR GUNSHOTS. 
          AND, UH, THEY SAID, YES, THEY CAN. 
          SO I GOT PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. 
          BUT THEN I CALLED BRIAN DILLARD, UM, AND HE SAID, WELL, WAIT A MINUTE, COUNCILMAN. 
          YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT THAT IT'S NOT AS EASY AS IT WOULD SEEM, UH, BUT I DO WANT TO MEET, UH, WITH YOUR, WITH SS A P D AND THE OFFICE OF INNOVATION AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO IF THERE'S ANY OPPORTUNITY THERE TO BE ABLE TO LOCATE, UH, GUNSHOTS IN REAL TIME AND BE ABLE TO RESPOND FASTER. 
          UM, I ALSO WANT TO EXPRESS MY WHOLEHEARTED AND COMPLETE SUPPORT FOR AN OFFICE OF CRIME AND RECIDIVISM. 
          RECIDIVISM. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, YET TOMORROW WE'RE VOTING ON THE POLICE UNION CONTRACT. 
          AND, UH, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO REDUCING CRIME. 
          OUR COUNTRY HAS, YOU KNOW, FOCUSED A LOT ON HANDCUFFS AND JAILS, AND WE HAVEN'T SEEN SUCCESS FROM THAT. 
          WE, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL LIKE EVERY DAY, UH, RECENTLY WHEN I OPENED MY EMAIL ACCOUNT, I GET SOME BREAKING NEWS ABOUT NEW CRIME STATS, THAT HOW MUCH, HOW VIOLENT CRIME IS UP ALL ACROSS THE NATION. 
          AND, UM, SO I THINK WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT THIS IN A MORE HOLISTIC WAY. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, JUST TODAY, THIS MORNING, I VISITED A WOMAN HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          SHE HAD A BULLET GO THROUGH HER HOUSE OVER THE WEEKEND, AND SHE SAID, WE HEAR GUNSHOTS ALL THE TIME. 
          WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. 
          AND, UM, SHE SAID, WELL, CAN WE, CAN WE HAVE SOME STREET CLOSURES SO THAT PEOPLE AREN'T COMING RIGHT OFF THE HIGHWAY, COMING IN HERE, FIRING THEIR GUNS, AND THEN GETTING RIGHT BACK ON THE HIGHWAY AND GETTING OUTTA HERE? AND I SAID, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, WOULD THAT REDUCE CRIME? I'M NOT SURE. 
          BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, IF WE HAD SOME PROFESSIONALS WITH AN OFFICE OF CRIME AND RECIDIVISM, THEY COULD PROBABLY STUDY THIS ISSUE AND GUIDE US IN THIS. 
          UH, SO THAT'S SOMETHING I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN ALSO ON ANIMAL CONTROL. 
          SHANNON, CAN I HAVE YOU RUN UP, COME UP HERE REAL QUICK. 
          UM, I ASKED YOU RECENTLY ABOUT, UM, HIRING MORE VETS. 
          YOU SAID, I THINK WE'RE, THERE'S A SHORTAGE OF 1,800 VETS NATIONALLY. 
          7,000, SIR. 
          OH, 7,000. 
          OKAY. 
          I WAS WAY OFF 7,000. 
          AND, UH, I, I SAID, YOU KNOW, CAN WE, I'D LIKE FOR US TO PAY MORE, OFFER MORE SO THAT WE CAN GET MORE PEOPLE HERE TO BE ABLE TO DO SPAY, SPAY AND NEUTER. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND WHERE ARE WE AT ON THAT? UH, ACTUALLY, COUNCILMAN, AS OF YESTERDAY, UH, CLASS AND COMP GOT BACK WITH ME. 
          THEY'VE JUST INCREASED OUR VETERINARIAN PAY STRUCTURE. 
          UH, SO, UH, RIGHT NOW WE'RE PENDING A, HIRING, A BRAND NEW HIRING WITH THE NEW, THE NEW RATE TO GO OUT. 
          UH, I BELIEVE IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S MARKETABLE. 
          UH, THEY'VE, THEY'VE REALLY DONE A LOT OF GOOD WORK WITH US TRYING TO, TRYING TO GET US IN WHERE THAT MARKET IS. 
          UH, I RECENTLY RETURNED FROM AN H SS U S CONFERENCE WHERE THAT WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE MAJOR, UH, TALKING POINTS WAS, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS INTENSE VETERINARY SHORTAGE. 
          UH, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THEY TALKED ABOUT WAS THE FACT THAT MUNICIPALITIES ARE THE MOST IMPACTED BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE'RE SLOW TO ADJUST TO THE MARKET. 
          UH, I THINK THAT OUR, OUR CLASS AND COMP FOLKS HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB OF, UH, GETTING US THERE WHERE WE NEED TO BE IN THE MARKET NOW. 
          AND, AND, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M VERY OPTIMISTIC, SIR. 
          AND, AND, AND COUNCILMAN, I WOULD, I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO CUT YOU OFF, BUT I WAS JUST GONNA ADD, PART OF THAT ALSO IS MAKING SURE, AND IT'S INCLUDED IN THE TRIAL BUDGET, WE'RE GONNA NEED ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO OFFSET THE CONTRACT VETS THAT WE USE FOR THE SPAY NEUTER, BECAUSE, SO THERE'S A, IT'S AN EMPLOYEE ISSUE, BUT IT'S ALSO A CONTRACT ISSUE, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO HIT IT FROM BOTH SIDES. 
          LET'S, YEAH, I'M, I'M, WHATEVER THAT DOLLAR VALUE IS, YOU KNOW, I'M THERE. 
          MY SUPPORT IS THERE. 
          I WILL SAY, I MEAN, LET'S, LET'S NOT ADJUST TO THE MARKET. 
          LET'S WIN THAT BIDDING WAR, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT'S GONNA BE A GOOD INVESTMENT OF TAXPAYER RESOURCES, BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA BE A LOT LESS STRAYS THAT WE HAVE IN THE FUTURE. 
          YES, SIR. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, I JUST WANTED TO, UH, CONTINUE WITH A, A FEW MORE COMMENTS THAT I HAD, UM, AND 
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SOME REACTIONS TO THE, UH, ADVOCACY OF, OF SOME OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, REGARDING THE ADDITIONAL CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICERS. 
          I, YOU KNOW, I WENT BACK AND I LOOKED AT THE REPORT THAT, THANK YOU, THAT YOU GUYS PUT TOGETHER FROM THE GOAL SETTING SESSION. 
          AND, UH, AND I DID SEE THAT REQUEST FOR, UM, FOR CASE MANAGEMENT IN CODE COMPLIANCE. 
          SO I ACTUALLY THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT THOSE, UH, CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICERS WERE GONNA DO. 
          IS, IS THAT THE CASE OR IS IT MORE ENFORCEMENT? WHAT'S THE THOUGHT? RIGHT NOW, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, IT'S MIKE SHANNON, UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR. 
          THE PROPOSAL IS TO ADD CODE OFFICERS TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT TEAM, WHICH IS OUR PROACTIVE TEAM IN CODE ENFORCEMENT. 
          UH, THEY'RE NOT YOUR NORMAL CODE OFFICERS. 
          THEY'RE NOT DANGEROUS PREMISE OFFICERS THAT DEAL WITH, UH, LET'S SAY DANGEROUS STRUCTURES AND DEMOLITIONS AND SUCH, BUT THEY ACTUALLY DO NEIGHBORHOOD SWEEPS, UH, WHERE WE WOULD GO OUT AT THE REQUEST OF A NEIGHBORHOOD AND OR YOUR COUNCIL OFFICE, AND WE WOULD DO NEIGHBORHOOD SWEEPS EITHER IN EITHER IN NEIGHBORHOOD OR COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS. 
          UH, THOSE SWEEPS ACTUALLY START WITH AN EDUCATION COMPONENT, AND THEN WE GO OUT AND DO NOTICES. 
          AND THEN IF THEY DON'T CORRECT THEM, THERE WOULD BE, UH, VIOLATION CITATIONS IF WHATEVER WE WOULD NEED TO. 
          OKAY. 
          SO IN, IN THE, CONSIDERING THE, THE REQUEST THAT WAS MADE ABOUT CASE MANAGERS, WHERE IS, IS THAT IN THE PROPOSED TRIAL BUDGET? THAT IS NOT, THAT THESE ARE CODE OFFICERS THAT WOULD WORK WITH OUR SWEEPS TEAM MM-HMM. 
          , AND THEY WOULD GO OUT AND DO THOSE PROACTIVE, UM, UH, PROACTIVE SWEEPS AND THOSE AREAS. 
          I, WE GET A LOT OF THOSE REQUESTS FOR, FOR PROACTIVE SWEEPS. 
          AND I THINK MM-HMM. 
          , UH, MANY TIMES IT, IT, IT'S HELPFUL, UH, BUT I WOULD ABSOLUTELY ADVOCATE FOR WHETHER IT'S IN D S D OR ANOTHER DEPARTMENT, SOME TYPE OF OF CASE MANAGEMENT. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, IF YOU, IF YOU DON'T NORMALLY TAKE THE STREETS ON THE WAY HOME, IF, IF YOU USUALLY TAKE THE FREEWAY, I'D ENCOURAGE YOU EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, TAKE THE STREETS. 
          UH, WHEN YOU LEAVE CITY HALL, YOU WILL DRIVE THROUGH DISTRICT FIVE. 
          UM, I'LL TAKE MARTIN, SOMETIMES I'LL TAKE RO TO GENERAL MCMULLEN, AND YOU'LL SEE, UM, THE CODE COMPLIANCE CASES. 
          AND IT'S, IT'S OVERWHELMING, RIGHT? UM, YOU, YOU WOULD BE LIKE, OH MY GOD, WE NEED A WHOLE OTHER CODE COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENT TO COME SOLVE THIS. 
          BUT WHAT WE FIND, AT LEAST IN OUR DISTRICT, AND I'M SURE COUNCILWOMAN YOU, YOU SEE THIS TOO, OF COURSE, THAT'S WHY YOU'RE ADVOCATING FOR THIS, IS IT IS NOT, IN MANY, MANY CASES, IT'S NOT SIMPLY SOMEONE WHO JUST DOESN'T KNOW THEIR LAWN IS SUPPOSED TO BE LESS THAN 12 INCHES. 
          IT'S NOT SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO STORE OUTSIDE. 
          THERE ARE DEEP AND MANY ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS GOING ON IN THAT HOME AND MOWING THE LAWN IS THE LEAST OF THEIR WORRIES. 
          UM, SO I, I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT THAT REQUEST. 
          UM, I WOULD, I WOULD ACTUALLY NOT SUPPORT  MORE PROACTIVE REQUESTS UNTIL WE CAN DO, UH, SOMETHING, UH, ABOUT THAT SO THAT PEOPLE CAN STAY, UH, CAN STAY IN THEIR HOMES. 
          UM, UH, I ALSO SUPPORT THE OUTREACH FOR EXEMPTIONS FOR PROTESTS, UH, IN FACT, D FIVE AND D SIX AND I AND THE COUNTY ARE GONNA DO A PILOT, UH, CLINIC TO BRING PEOPLE IN AND ACTUALLY HELP WALK THEM THROUGH THAT PROTEST PROCESS. 
          IF YOU ARE NOT SAVVY ON THE INTERNET, FORGET ABOUT DOING A SUCCESSFUL PROTEST. 
          IT'S GONNA BE VERY DIFFICULT. 
          SO WE'LL TRY THAT OUT. 
          UM, UH, THANK YOU COUNCILMAN BELI FOR BRINGING UP MEDICAL, UH, SORRY, INCENTIVES, ECONOMIC INCENTIVES. 
          I BELIEVE WE MENTIONED, UH, INCENTIVES, AND IF WE DIDN'T, I'M MENTIONING IT NOW FOR MEDICAL FACILITIES AND GROCERY STORES IN PLACES WHERE WE NEED THEM. 
          SO I, I HOPE THAT WE CAN SEE THAT IN THE DRAFT BUDGET. 
          AND I, I ALSO DO SUPPORT THE IDEA OF, OF REDUCING CRIME AND, UH, RE RECIDIVISM. 
          I, I DO THINK, UH, WE PUT A LOT ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          WE DEPEND ON YOU FOR EVERYTHING. 
          UH, I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE STARTING TO PARTNER WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, BUT CHIEF, LIKE YOU SAID, THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY THINGS THAT CAN'T BE ARRESTED AWAY. 
          UM, SO I, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE, UM, A PILOTING OR A CREATION OF THAT OFFICE. 
          AND, AND ALSO THE LAST THING WE NEED IS, IS PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY LOSING THEIR, THEIR POSSESSIONS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I OFTEN HEAR ABOUT, WELL, OUR LAWNMOWER WAS STOLEN FOR THE THIRD TIME, , YOU KNOW, AND LAWNMOWER MAY NOT BE A BIG DEAL TO SOME OF US, BUT, UM, FOR SOME HOUSEHOLDS, IT HELPS 'EM KEEP THEIR GRASS UNDER 12 INCHES. 
          , UH, NO, FOR, FOR SOME HOUSEHOLDS, THAT'S A BIG, THAT'S A BIG, UM, COST THAT THEY CAN'T STAND TO LOSE THREE TIMES OVER. 
          SO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, I WANTED TO, UH, MENTION AS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT STREETS, 
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UH, THAT I HAVE IN, IN DISTRICT NINE, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, COUNCILWOMAN SOME OLD STREETS. 
          AND, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THE CITY HAS EXPANDED OVER TIME, AND THEY'VE TAKEN INTO THE CITY. 
          WE'VE TAKEN INTO THE CITY, DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WERE BUILT 50 YEARS AGO, 40 YEARS AGO. 
          UH, AND, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE LESS RESTRICTIVE REQUIREMENTS ON DEVELOPMENT AT THAT TIME, BUT THE CITY'S TAKEN A LOT OF THESE NEIGHBORHOODS IN FROM ALL OVER THE CITY. 
          YOU PROBABLY KNOW OF A FEW YOURSELF, WHERE THE CITY HAS SAID, WELL, YEAH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD NOW IS PART OF THE CITY, BUT WE WON'T REDO THEIR STREETS, BECAUSE THEY WERE BUILT PRIVATELY. 
          AND THE AGREEMENT WITH THE BUILDER AT THE TIME WAS THEY WOULD MAINTAIN THE STREETS. 
          AND OF COURSE, IT WAS ALWAYS, AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION LATER ON WOULD CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THE STREETS 'CAUSE THEY GET MONEY FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THESE PRIVATE NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          NOW, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT GATED COMMUNITIES, I'M TALKING ABOUT STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE JUST AS COMMON AS ANYBODY ELSE IN ANY OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY. 
          AND I WOULD IMAGINE MANY OF YOU HAVE SOME OF THOSE. 
          AND I JUST WANT TO, UM, KNOW WHAT IT TAKES FOR THE CITY TO GO AHEAD AND START MAINTAINING THOSE STREETS THAT ARE 30 OR 40 YEARS OLD, THAT THE RESIDENTS WHO LIVE THERE NOW, WHO ARE MAYBE 60 OR 70 YEARS OLD, CAN'T AFFORD TO FIX THEMSELVES BEFORE THE CITY IS WILLING TO TAKE THEM ON. 
          AND I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO SEE CONSIDERED IN OUR FUTURE BUDGET. 
          THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY F STREETS, BUT THEY MAY BE CLOSE TO BEING AN F STREET OR MAYBE THEY'RE A D STREET. 
          UH, AND YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN TOLD, WELL, IF THEY CAN BRING THEIR STREET UP TO X, THEN THE CITY WILL TAKE 'EM ON. 
          BUT SOME OF THESE COMMUNITIES CAN'T BRING THEIR STREETS UP TO X BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR FUNDING WITHIN THEIR RESIDENCE. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING I HOPE CAN BE ADDRESSED IN THIS NEXT BUDGET. 
          SO I, I HOPE IF ANY OF YOU HAVE SIMILAR, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS, YOU'LL ALSO, YOU KNOW, BRING THAT UP AS A RECOMMENDATION. 
          THAT'S ALL. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE IS THERE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER GRO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, I JUST WANTED TO CHIME IN ON THE MANDATE MANDATES, BECAUSE YOU ASK FOR INPUT. 
          UM, SO THE, THE TWO THINGS I DON'T SEE, AND MAYBE THEY'RE UNDER A DIFFERENT CATEGORY OR ITEM, IS ARTS AND MAKING SURE THAT THE CULTURAL GROUPS THAT ARE GETTING FUNDED ARE FULLY FUNDED. 
          IF WE COULD GET AN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTIONS, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, SENIORS IN PLAY FIND A PLACE MAYBE IN THE ARTS AND IN THE THEATERS. 
          AND I DO WANT TO CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC WORKFORCE AND DEVELOPMENT TO LOOK AT ARTS AS AN INDUSTRY AND ALSO LOOK AT POSSIBLE STAFFING WITHIN THE ARTS DEPARTMENT. 
          I THINK ONE IS WE NEED TO GET THE DEPARTMENT SET, UH, AND ELIMINATE INTERIM TITLES. 
          AND WE ALSO MAY NEED MORE PEOPLE AS WE HAVE THEM GO FORWARD WITH THE GRANTS. 
          THE OTHER THING I HAD, I DIDN'T SEE IN THE MANDATES WAS THE CONVENTION CENTER. 
          UH, AND I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT WHY THE CONVENTION CENTER WASN'T FILLED, IF THAT WAS PART OF, UH, PEOPLE NOT COMING BECAUSE THE EVENTS WEREN'T PUBLICIZED. 
          OR IF WE NEED TO DO MORE RECRUITING TO, UH, FILL THAT CONVENTION CENTER. 
          BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE LOOKING FOR USE OF THE CONVENTION CENTER AND HAVEN'T GOTTEN CONFIRMATION ON THAT. 
          UM, ON THE MANDATES LISTED ON NUMBER 12, A C S CONTRACTS, SPAY AND NEUTER VET AND VETS SHANNON, I THINK, YOU KNOW, MY PRIORITY IS TO KEEP THAT BROOKS, UH, OPEN AND OPEN FULLY. 
          SO WE'VE HAD THAT CONVERSATION, SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT HAPPENING. 
          UM, ON THE CONTINUED HOMELESS PROGRAM FUNDED FOR CARESS GRANTS, MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, UH, COUNCILMAN CASTILLO BROUGHT THIS UP. 
          I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT EITHER GIVING TO DELEGATE AGENCIES THAT THAT CAN GET MORE CASE WORKERS OR, UH, ADDING TO OUR TEAM. 
          AND I JUST WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO DANIEL GROVE WHO'S DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB IN DISTRICT THREE, WHICH IS THE LARGEST GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT IN THE AREA. 
          SO IF WE COULD GET HIM MORE MONEY FOR GAS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT TOO. 
          UH, THE CODE ENFORMENT CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, THANK YOU FOR THAT EXPLANATION. 
          I KNOW IN A LOT OF WHAT THE CODE DOES ALSO IS KIND OF LOOKING AT PEOPLE THAT ARE PARKING ON STREETS ARE NOT PARKING CORRECTLY, UH, MAYBE PARKING IN THEIR YARD. 
          AND, UM, I, THAT'S WHY I AM FOUR MORE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. 
          'CAUSE I DO WANNA SEE US ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES 
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BECAUSE IT IS DANGEROUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND I MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, UM, THE GRANTS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE BEING IMPACTED BY THE CONSTRUCTION, THE CONSTRUCTION DELAYS IS, IS IMPORTANT FOR ME. 
          UM, THE OTHER THAT I THINK WE NEED TO ADDRESS IS THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT AND HOW IT IMPACTS, UH, MANY OF US ECONOMICALLY. 
          UH, C AND, AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IS ALSO CONNECTED TO CITY FACILITY AND MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENTS. 
          AND THAT'S WHY I WANNA KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO GET MORE TRAFFIC LIGHTS IF WE'RE GOING TO USE THE WIFI, UM, TO DO THAT. 
          AND, UH, THE OTHER THING IS THE LIBRARY. 
          IF I COULD GET MORE SPECIFICS ON THE LIBRARY BOOKS AND DIGITAL MATERIALS, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A PROGRAM TO KIND OF HELP WITH, UM, DIGITAL AND, AND WIFI, UM, FOR THOSE IMPACTED BY THE DIGITAL DIVIDE. 
          AND ON NUMBER 21, THE INNOVATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE PROJECTS. 
          IF I COULD JUST GET MORE DETAIL ON WHAT THAT IS. 
          'CAUSE IT SEEMS VERY VAGUE, SO IF WE COULD GET A SPECIFIC ON THAT, I'D APPRECIATE THAT. 
          BUT I, I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF THE MANDATES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN OUR INITIAL MEETING FOR GOAL SETTING WERE ADDRESSED. 
          BUT THOSE WERE JUST TOPICS I WANTED TO ELABORATE ON. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER VIRON. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MAYOR. 
          I MAY HAVE MISSED IT, BUT CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE 6 MILLION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, CALLS FOR? SO THE TRIAL BUDGET INCLUDES 3 MILLION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THAT RESTORES OUR FUNDING TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE FUND, OUR INNER CITY INCENTIVE FUND, AS WELL AS OUR CITY FEE WAIVERS. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          FOR THE, THE POSITIONS FOR STREETS AND SIDEWALKS, CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THOSE POSITIONS, UM, ENTAIL? SO WHILE ROSIE'S COMING UP, UM, THOSE ARE POSITIONS TO HELP WITH THE STREET MAINTENANCE PROGRAM AS WELL AS THE SIDEWALK PROGRAM? YES. 
          COUNCILWOMAN, SINCE WE ARE GETTING 10,000, 10 MILLION MORE THIS TIME, OUR ORIGINAL BUDGET LAST YEAR WAS 110 MILLION. 
          WE ARE GOING TO GET 120 MILLION. 
          AND ALSO WE HAVE 20 MILLION SCRUM FROM THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM FOR IF STREET. 
          WE ARE ASKING THIS ADDITIONAL SIX POSITION TO ASSIST US DE DELIVERING THOSE 20 100 MILLION FOR IF STREET IN FIVE YEARS. 
          UNDERSTOOD. 
          PLEASED TO SEE THAT YOU'RE RECEIVING THAT SUPPORT IN ANTICIPATION OF, UH, BOND PROJECTS. 
          UM, WITH THE INCREASED NMM FUNDING. 
          DOES THAT MEAN INCREASED, UM, AMOUNT OF PROJECTS OR WOULD THE AMOUNT OF PROJECTS STAY THE SAME? SO WOULD THAT MEAN WE GO FROM SIX TO 12 PROJECTS? DE DEPEND ON THE SIZE OF THE PROJECT YOU CHOOSE. 
          IT COULD BE POSSIBLE TO DO, BE ABLE TO DO MORE PROJECT. 
          OKAY. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU OZZY. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ELAS. 
          JEFF COYLE, CAN YOU COME ON UP HERE PLEASE? UM, WE, WE, UH, WE HEARD TWO COMMENTS TODAY, UH, REGARDING, UM, GETTING TO THE CAPITAL EARLIER THAN ANYBODY ELSE, UM, TO MAKE OUR PITCH FOR, UH, OUR PRIORITIES. 
          UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE OUR LOBBYISTS ARE TRYING AS HARD AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN TO ADVOCATE FOR THIS TAX RELIEF THAT'S PART OF OUR AGENDA. 
          UNPACK THAT FOR ME 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU WERE SURE YOU WERE WANTING TO ADD SOME THINGS. 
          UH, WELL, LET ME START BY SAYING WE'VE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR FROM THE COUNCIL THAT PURSUING LEGISLATION TO HELP WITH THE PROPERTY TAX ISSUE IS, IS A PRIORITY. 
          SO THAT'S AT THE TOP OF OUR SHORT LIST OF THINGS THAT WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, OUR NORMAL PROCESS IS WE WILL, WE WILL WORK WITH DEPARTMENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS AND THEN COME TO THE I G R COMMITTEE, UH, THIS SUMMER WITH A PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE AGENDA. 
          WE HAVE WORK SESSIONS WITH THE I G R COMMITTEE TO REFINE THAT. 
          WE LATER HAVE A B SESSION WITH THE FULL COUNCIL AND THEN ULTIMATELY BRING, UH, A PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE AGENDA TO THE FULL COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL. 
          SO ALL OF THAT TO SAY, UM, YOU KNOW, WE ARE TASKED AT, AT THE STAFF LEVEL WITH EXECUTING THE AGENDA OF THE FULL COUNCIL. 
          AND SO WE NEED TO WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS. 
          UM, SALLY AND HER TEAM ARE WORKING WITH MARK CARMONA AND HIS TEAM. 
          UH, WE'VE GOT SOME PENDING CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT. 
          WE'VE ALREADY ENGAGED, UH, SOME OF OUR MEMBERS OF THE STATE DELEGATION WHO HAVE FILED BILLS IN THE PAST FOR SOME BACK AND FORTH WITH THEM. 
          WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA TRY TO RIGHTSIZE, UH, SOME, SOME LEGISLATIVE POLICY TO BRING FORWARD TO 
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YOU RECOGNIZING THAT THE LEGISLATURE ISN'T LIKELY TO GO PASS SOMETHING JUST BECAUSE THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WANTS IT. 
          UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO FIND SOMETHING THAT ALIGNS WITH THE AGENDAS OF THE FULL BODY AND FRANKLY GETS SUPPORT FROM A LOT OF OTHER ENTITIES. 
          SO COUNCILMAN BRAVO'S COMMENT ABOUT GETTING OUR IDEA IN FRONT OF OTHER GROUPS IS, IS CORRECT, BUT WE'VE GOT SOME STEPS TO GET THROUGH FIRST. 
          AND, AND HE AND I HAVE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS ON IT AND WE INTEND TO KEEP HIM INVOLVED AND ALL OF YOU INVOLVED IN WHAT, WHAT WE ULTIMATELY RECOMMEND. 
          VERY APPRECIATE IT. 
          UM, WE HAD HEARD, UH, ALSO ABOUT, UM, COUNCILMAN BRAVO MENTION AND I THOUGHT, I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT TO MENTION IT 'CAUSE IT'S WORTH, IT'S WORTH. 
          UH, LOOKING INTO BRIAN DILLARD, UH, YOU'D HELPED US FIVE YEARS AGO, I THINK, ON KICKING OFF THE, UH, SMART STREETLIGHT INITIATIVE, UH, IN OUR INNOVATION ZONES. 
          THE ONES THAT, YOU KNOW, ARE LIGHT SENSITIVE, THEY ARE A MESH NETWORK, THEY'RE AIR, UH, QUALITY SENSORS AND ET CETERA, ET CETERA. 
          UM, AND I, I UNDERSTAND THAT SMART LIGHTS ARE NOW PART OF, UH, THE SOLUTION HERE IN SAN ANTONIO AND THAT C P SS IS EVEN LEANING INTO SMART LIGHTS. 
          UM, YOU GUYS AREN'T GONNA STOP DOING THAT ANYTIME SOON, RIGHT? UH, YES SIR. 
          SO WE DID CONDUCT A PILOT, UH, FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS THERE WITH C P SS AS A JOINT PROCUREMENT. 
          WE HAD TWO COMPANIES COME, TWO, TWO VENDORS COME THROUGH. 
          WE TESTED OUT WITHIN ALL THE INNOVATION ZONES, FIVE USE CASES, AIR QUALITY, ACOUSTIC NOISE DETECTION, ET CETERA. 
          UH, RIGHT NOW WE'RE WAITING ON C P S TO DO THEIR COST BENEFITS ANALYSIS. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND YES, THE INTENT IS TO DEPLOY THE, UH, SMART, UH, CELL A ACROSS THOSE AS FAR AS USE CASES, SOME STILL SOME DECISIONS TO BE MADE ABOUT THOSE. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          UM, LASTLY, MARIA, IS SHE AROUND? DID SHE LEAVE? UH, OH, GOSH. 
          I'LL TRY TO FILL IN COUNCILMAN. 
          NO, NO, IT'S OKAY. 
          UM, DOES THIS BUDGET INCLUDE CONTINUED FUNDING FOR U T S A TO SERVE AS OUR, AS OUR RESEARCH ARM? YES, BUT WITH THE PROVISO THAT WE ARE ALSO TRYING TO EXPAND THAT TO OTHER SCHOOLS. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THEN, UM, ALONG THOSE LINES, JUST TO MAKE SURE, HOW IS IT THAT WE TASK U T S A WITH THESE STUDIES? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT CAN COME FROM INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS SO THAT WE SAY LIKE, LOOK, COUNCILMAN PALAIS WANTS YOU TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF INFLATION ON OUR DELEGATE AGENCIES, AND WHETHER OR NOT, YOU KNOW, THE DOLLARS WE'RE GONNA BE SPENDING ON THEM ARE GONNA BE STRETCHED OUT, UH, UH, FURTHER, OR, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I MEAN, WHAT, HOW ARE THEY BEING PRESSED? CAN I DO THAT FROM THE DAIS? YOU CAN, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU COORDINATE THAT WITH ME, BECAUSE WHAT WE DO IS WE ARE USING DEPARTMENTAL BUDGETS AS THEY, UH, TASK, UH, REMEMBER THAT WAS THE CONVERSATION THAT THE COUNCIL HAD, UH, WHEN YOU CONSIDERED THE ITEM. 
          SO WE'RE UTIL WE'RE UTILIZING EXISTING DOLLARS IF THERE'S AN IDEA, UM, FRANKLY, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MANAGING AND WE'RE NOT HAVING U T S A DO THINGS THAT WE'RE NOT AWARE OF. 
          SO I JUST ASK THAT YOU COORDINATE WITH ME. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S FAIR. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PALAI. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, I'LL BE SOMEWHAT BRIEF. 
          UM, I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT SAP'S UH, CRIME PREVENTION EFFORTS. 
          I KNOW THAT IF YOU'RE EITHER MARIA OR MARIA OR CHIEF, UM, I KNOW YOU HAD MENTIONED HOTSPOTS AND HOW THEY ADVISE CRIME PREVENTION. 
          CAN YOU DESCRIBE MAYBE SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS THAT YOU COME AWAY WITH, SOME OF THE STRATEGIES THAT YOU MIGHT USE? UH, I, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE, I DIDN'T HEAR THE FIRST PART OF YOUR QUESTION. 
          I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT WHAT, SO WITH THE HOTSPOTS THAT YOU HAVE, SO YOUR CRIME PREVENTION EFFORTS, RIGHT. 
          SO, SO WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW IS ACTUALLY, WE'VE BEEN DOING IT SINCE, UH, EARLIER IN THE YEAR. 
          UH, WE BROKE THE CITY DOWN INTO A SEVEN TO SEVEN SQUARE BLOCK AREAS. 
          AND THERE WERE, I, I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT NUMBER, 1500 OF 'EM I'M GONNA SAY. 
          AND WE TOOK, UM, THOSE SEVEN SQUARE BLOCK AREAS AND MEASURED THE AMOUNT OF VIOLENT CRIME IN EACH OF THOSE SEVEN SQUARE BLOCK AREAS. 
          AND THE ONES WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER WERE THE ONES THAT WE FOCUSED ON. 
          AND WE, WE MET WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT, WHAT THEIR, UH, UH, UH, OPINIONS WERE ON, ON WHY THESE CRIMES WERE HAPPENING. 
          UH, WE IDENTIFIED CERTAIN PROPERTIES. 
          UH, WE WORKED WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, WE WORKED WITH, UH, THE DA'S OFFICE, UH, AND WE PUT TOGETHER THIS, THESE PLANS, SPECIFIC PLANS FOR EACH ONE OF THESE SEVEN SQUARE BLOCK AREAS. 
          AND WE SAW, I THINK I PRESENTED THIS TO CITY, UH, TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE. 
          WE SAW A FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN A NUMBER OF THOSE, UH, AREAS THAT WE IDENTIFIED. 
          AND AS WE, UH, SAW THOSE REDUCTIONS, THEY DROPPED OFF THE LIST AND WE ADDED NEW ONES. 
          SO THAT'S, THAT'S, UH, UH, UH, 
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A BROAD OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THOSE, UH, HOTSPOTS, MICRO HOTSPOTS WE CALL 'EM. 
          AND, AND THAT WAS PART ONE, COUNCILMAN, BUT PART TWO IS WHAT U T SS A IS STILL WORKING ON, WHICH IS LOOKING AT THE FACTORS BEHIND THOSE GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS. 
          WE'VE ASKED THEM TO PULL IN AND LOOK AT NOT ONLY POLICE DATA, BUT ALSO 3 1 1 DATA, WHETHER IT'S CODE OR STREET LIGHTING OR WHAT HAVE YOU. 
          UM, THE CHIEF HAS ALSO TASKED THEM AND ASKED THEM TO LOOK AT OTHER ASPECTS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, UM, BEYOND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, WE HAVE DONE A FAIR AMOUNT OF ANALYSIS, UM, WITH OUR IT GROUP ON, ON WHO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS, IS ARRESTING. 
          AND, AND OVER THE LAST YEAR, THE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, LOOKING BACK TO SEE OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN, HAVE THEY BEEN ARRESTED BEFORE, AND WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN ARRESTED FOR IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS? AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE, THEIR, THEIR, THEIR JOURNEY THROUGH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. 
          UM, BECAUSE THEY REPRESENT 30 TO 40% OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING ARRESTED NOW. 
          SO WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THAT DATA LOOKING LIKE? SO THE GEOGRAPHICAL PART, THE IDENTIFICATION OF HOTSPOTS, YOU KNOW, WE CAN DO THAT ONLINE. 
          IT'S THE ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS OF LOOKING BACK AT, AT WHO WE'RE ENGAGING WITH AND WHAT ARE THOSE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS BEYOND JUST 9 1 1 CALLS. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, AND I'M, SOMETHING THAT STANDS OUT THIS TIME IS THAT I'VE HEARD THAT THE EMPHASIS RIGHT NOW IS ON VIOLENT CRIME. 
          UM, I THINK THAT THAT WORK IS GREAT. 
          I THINK YOU SHOULD CONTINUE TO DO IT. 
          I HOPE IT BECOMES PERMANENT. 
          UM, WANT TO CLARIFY? 'CAUSE NOW I'VE HEARD PLUS, SO THE FIVE FOLK WHO SIGNED MY C C R NOW HEARING SUPPORT FROM COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL, UH, FOR THE OFFICE OF CRIME PREVENTION, I HEAR SIX. 
          UM, I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT I WANT THIS ENTITY TO BE SEPARATE FROM SS A P D. 
          I WANT THEM TO BE PERMANENT. 
          I WANT THEM TO DO, UM, EVALUATE ALL LEVELS OF CRIME, ALL LEVELS OF RECIDIVISM TO COME UP WITH STRUCTURAL AND SYSTEMIC SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS POVERTY AND ALL THE OTHER ADDITIONAL ROOT CAUSES OF CRIME THAT, THAT WE'VE ACKNOWLEDGED THUS FAR, FAR THINK IT'S GREAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING. 
          I WANT YOU TO CONTINUE TO DO IT. 
          LOVE IT. 
          UM, THAT WAS ALL FOR IT. 
          THAT WAS ALL FOR YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, I DO ALSO WANT TO ECHO SUPPORT FOR, UH, I KNOW COUNCILMAN CASTILLO HAD MENTIONED THE C I P FUND. 
          UM, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE, UM, $500,000 OR A MILLION DOLLARS C I P FUND FOR, UH, EACH DISTRICT. 
          UM, OUR OFFICE WAS ABLE TO USE IT THIS YEAR, UM, TO HELP SOME COMMUNITY-BASED, UH, ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAD HIGHER THAN NORMAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS. 
          AND I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT AGAIN NEXT YEAR AS WELL. 
          UM, I SHARE THE SAME CONCERNS REGARDING THE CODE, UH, OFFICERS. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A SHIFT TO, UM, THE CASEWORKERS, UH, THE CASEWORKER MODEL THAT A C S IS USING AS WELL. 
          I AM SUPPORTIVE OF INCREASING NAMP FUNDS, UM, THAT MEANS MORE SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          AND I'D REALLY LIKE TO EXPLORE USING NAMP FUNDS TO FUND ADDITIONAL PROJECTS, BUT ALSO ADDITIONAL TYPES OF PROJECTS. 
          SO POTENTIALLY STREETLIGHTS IF THAT'S NOT ALREADY SUPPORTED. 
          BUT THAT'LL BE ALL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ. 
          ANDY, YOU WANNA JUMP IN? YES, MAYOR, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT, UH, AGAIN, THE, UH, ERIC AND THE STAFF ARE GETTING INPUT FROM COUNCIL ON THE VARIOUS ITEMS THAT WERE PRESENTED. 
          WERE NOT VOTING OR COUNTING SUPPORT ON ANYONE ITEM. 
          YES, MY BAD. 
          I WAS JOKING. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. 
          I KNEW YOU WERE . 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, AND I APPRECIATE COUNCILMAN PAL BRINGING UP THE THINK TANK. 
          I HAD BROUGHT UP THE THINK TANK, UM, AT THE BUDGET SESSION AND, AND IN MY ENTHUSIASM EARLIER, I FORGOT TO ASK ABOUT THAT. 
          AND SO THANK YOU ERIC, FOR, FOR CLARIFYING THAT. 
          UM, ALSO COUNCILMAN VO AND HIS VERY FIRST BUDGET SESSION WITH US REQUESTED, UM, SOMETHING SIMILAR TO WHAT'S BEING ASKED FOR TODAY, AND IT'S FOR A BUDGET FOR INFORMATION TO GO OUT TO RESIDENTS TO BE ABLE TO KNOW HOW TO PROTEST THEIR, THEIR PROPERTY TAXES. 
          AND SO IT'S BEEN AT LEAST A YEAR THAT WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR IT. 
          THERE'S ADDITIONAL COUNCIL MEMBERS PUSHING FOR IT NOW, UM, INCLUDING MY COLLEAGUES IN 6, 5, 4, AND SEVEN. 
          AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THAT, THAT WE TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION THAT IT'S A BUDGET REQUEST AND, UM, THAT, THAT HAS BEEN ASKED SINCE LAST YEAR'S BUDGET. 
          I ALSO WANTED TO ADD, UM, UH, COUNCILMAN PE HAS ALSO REMINDED ME ABOUT THE SENIORS IN PLAY PROGRAM AND THE SENIORS IN DISTRICT FOUR ARE REALLY EXCITED, UH, ABOUT TONY PLANA BEING ABLE TO WORK WITH THEM. 
          AND, UM, IN, IN ANYTHING THAT I CAN DO TO GIVE YOU ALL SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, FEEDBACK FROM DIRECTLY FROM THE SENIORS, I'D BE HAPPY TO HELP WITH, UM, THE FILM INCENTIVES CONVERSATION THAT PALAS MENTIONED AS WELL. 
          I'D LOVE TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT. 
          I HAVE, UM, A VERY INTERESTED PERSON IN MY DISTRICT THAT WANTS TO DO SOMETHING IN DISTRICT FOUR, UM, THAT HAS A GREAT PLAN AND THERE'S ANOTHER PLAN OUT THERE AS WELL. 
          AND SO WE, THERE'S INTEREST IS WHAT I'M SAYING, RIGHT, FROM MULTIPLE PARTIES 
          [02:55:01]
ABOUT THE FILM INDUSTRY IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I ALSO MENTIONED IS A DIGITAL DIVIDE. 
          UM, AND SO I, I, I KNOW THAT WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO JUST REALLY, REALLY KEY IN ON WHAT WE MEAN ABOUT BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, BUT I THINK THAT COUNCILWOMAN VRAN HAS A GOOD, UH, PLAN IN PLACE TO TRY TO WORK WITH SMALL BUSINESSES THAT, UM, HER AND I ARE GONNA MEET ABOUT LATER. 
          AND THEN, UH, THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, COUNCILMAN BRAVO BROUGHT THIS UP AND IT REMINDED ME, UM, THERE IS RECENTLY, UM, OFFICER JOSEPH CISNEROS WAS 43 YEARS OLD, S A P D, 20 YEARS, AND HE DIED OF C O V I D. 
          AND UM, I AM ON THE POLICE AND AND FIRE PENSIONERS ASSOCIATION BOARD. 
          AND I WENT HOME CRYING. 
          THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT POSITIONS, VOTES THAT I HAD TO TAKE, UM, EVER. 
          AND IT'S BECAUSE HIS COVID DEATH WAS NOT CONSIDERED LINE OF DUTY, UH, DEATH. 
          AND THAT WAS, UM, BECAUSE OF STATE LAW. 
          AND, UM, I COMMITTED TO, UH, TO, TO WORK ON THAT AND TO SEE WHAT IT IS THAT WE CAN DO TO FIGURE OUT HOW COVID RELATED DEATHS WOULD BE CONSIDERED LINE OF DUTY DEATHS. 
          SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'D LIKE TO, UM, HAVE CONSIDERATION FOR IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION IN, IN ADDITION TO, OF COURSE, THE PROPERTY TAX DISCUSSION. 
          UM, AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT I SAW NOW THAT WAS MISSING WAS THE COMMUNITY GARDEN DISCUSSION. 
          AND SO SEVERAL OF US BROUGHT UP THE COMMUNITY GARDENS. 
          SO ANY SUPPORT THAT, UM, THAT I CAN HELP WITH ON THAT WOULD, WOULD, UM, PLEASE COUNT ME IN. 
          BUT THAT'S IT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. 
          ALRIGHT, THAT IS, UM, ALL OF OUR DISCUSSION TODAY I THINK HAS BEEN VERY GOOD INPUT AND, UH, GOOD START ON THE BUDGET. 
          ERIC? YES SIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO BASED ON WHAT I HEARD TODAY, WE WILL PREPARE FOR JUNE 16TH TO BRING THOSE ITEMS ON THE TAX EXEMPTIONS, UH, IN THE FORM OF AN ORDINANCE TO THE COUNCIL. 
          THAT WAY WE CAN GET IT DONE BEFORE JULY 1ST. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, THERE WILL BE NO EXECUTIVE SESSION TODAY. 
          UH, EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEMS THAT WERE POSTED FOR TODAY WILL BE CARRIED OVER TO TOMORROW, THURSDAY, MAY 12TH, 2022 AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, AND MAY BE CONSIDERED AT ANY TIME DURING TOMORROW'S MEETING. 
          THE TIME IS NOW 4:15 PM ON THIS 11TH DAY OF MAY, 2022. 
          AND WE ARE ADJOURNED RIGHT RECESSED. 
          WE HAVE A 5:00 PM PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. 
          UH, AND THAT WILL CONCLUDE AT THAT TIME.
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