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TIME IS 2:11 PM ON AUGUST 17TH, 2022.
WE'LL CALL OUR CITY COUNCIL BUDGET SESSION TO ORDER.
MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU READ THE ROLE? COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT.
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ALRIGHT, UH, WE HAVE ONE LONG PRESENTATION TODAY ON, ON THREE DIFFERENT AREAS, BUT TO KEEP THE CONVERSATION AND THE TIME EFFICIENT, WE'RE GONNA DO ONE PRESENTATION.UM, AND NORMALLY WE HAVE TWO ROUNDS OF CONVERSATION, BUT I REALIZE IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, SO IF WE NEED TO TAKE A THIRD ROUND TODAY, GIVEN ALL THE TOPICS, WE CAN DO THAT.
BUT LET'S HEAR ONE PRESENTATION SO WE CAN GET THAT THROUGH AND BEGIN OUR DISCUSSION EFFICIENTLY.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR COUNCIL.
TODAY'S OUR SECOND BUDGET WORK SESSION.
UH, AND ON THE AGENDA TODAY WILL BE OUR PUBLIC WORKS AND CAPITAL BUDGET, UM, PARKS AND RECREATION AND OUR DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN.
UM, AS UH, I SPOKE TO EACH OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY, WE'VE, WE TRY TO CHANGE THESE PRESENTATIONS AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE FOCUSED ON WHAT THE COUNCIL'S LOOKING FOR.
SO THREE MAIN CHANGES IN THE PRESENTATIONS.
YOU'LL SEE, UH, MORE FOCUSED ON THE, IN THE ACTUAL PROPOSED BUDGET, UH, LESS ON THE DEPARTMENT OVERVIEWS AND, UM, UM, UH, THE SHORTER PRESENTATIONS TO ALLOW FOR, UH, MORE COUNCIL, UH, CONVERSATION ON THE END.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE TRIED TO MAKE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS AND YOU'LL SEE THAT TODAY AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO TAKE FEEDBACK FROM YOU.
SO WE'LL START OFF WITH RAZZI.
WE'LL TRANSITION TO HOMER AND THEN TROY.
UM, AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO RAZZI TO KICK US OFF.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
I'M RAZZI HUI, DIRECTOR OF CITY ENGINEER FOR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.
WE ARE COMMITTED TO OUR MISSION TO ENSURE THROUGH INNOVATION AND DEDICATION WE BUILD AND MAINTAIN SOME ANTONIO INFRASTRUCTURE.
DURING THIS PRESENTATION, I WILL PRESENT ON FY 2023 PROPOSED BUDGET DEPARTMENT IMPROVEMENTS FY 2023, CAPITAL BUDGET AND 2022 GEO BOND PROGRAM.
THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE 2022 BUDGET COMPARED TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET.
OVERALL, WE ARE INCREASING OUR ANNUAL BUDGET BY 26 MILLION.
THIS IS THE RESULT OF PAY INCREASES AND IMPROVEMENTS I WILL BE PRESENTING IN OTHER SLIDES.
THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE TOTAL BUDGET FOR PUBLIC WORKS FROM 2019 TO THE PROPOSED BUDGET IN 2023.
THE FUNDING CONSISTS OF GENERAL FUND RESTRICTED FUNDS, CAPITAL AND GRANTS.
THE CAPITAL FUND DECREASE YEAR OVER YEAR AS THE RESULT OF 2017 BOND PROJECT ARE COMPLETED.
THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE INVESTMENT ON INFRASTRUCTURE IN FI 2023.
THERE IS A 13 MILLION MORE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IN 2023 THAN 2020 2, 150 4 MILLION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AS COMPARED TO FFY 20 22, 140 1 MILLION.
WE TRAFFIC SIGNAL WE ARE GOING TO BUILD SIX OF THEM.
BRAND NEW AND FOUR WILL BE DESIGNED PAYMENT MARKING, THREE YEAR CYCLE FOR BUSINESS DISTRICT AND PRIMARY ARTERIAL FIVE YEAR CYCLE FOR SECONDARY ARTERIAL AND COLLECTOR ELEMENT MAINTENANCE, 1.14 SERVICE ALLEY AND 1.15 FOR NON-SERVICE ALLEY AND FOR FIRST TIME IN 2023, WE ARE PROPOSING HAVE A CITY GUARDRAIL PROGRAM FOR $1 MILLION TO TAKE CARE OF OUR GUARDRAIL THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
THIS IS RIGHT SHOWS THE ANNUAL BUDGET FOR SS M P IN LAST FEW YEARS.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THE CITY HAS INVESTED SIGNIFICANTLY IN SS M P TO IMPROVE OVERALL OUR PAYMENT CONDITION THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
FOR FY 2023, THE SS M P WILL HAVE 100 MILLION FROM ANNUAL BUDGET, 6 MILLION FROM 2022 BOND PROGRAM, AND 10 MILLION
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FROM ONE TIME ARPA.OUR AVERAGE P C I TODAY IS 75.73 HAS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY FROM FEW YEARS AGO.
SIDEWALK IS MAJOR CONCERN FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
WE HAVE A 5,251 SIDEWALK AND WE HAVE 1,590 MILE UP GAP OR NORTH SIDEWALK THERE.
THIS SLIDE SHOWS ANNUAL BUDGET FOR SIDEWALK IN LAST FEW YEARS.
SINCE LAST FEW YEARS, SIDEWALK FUNDING HAS BEEN INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY.
THEREFORE, SIDEWALK IS IN TWO YEAR PROGRAM.
IF Y 22, IF Y 23 WILL INVEST 21 MILLION IN SIDEWALK, WHICH WILL RESULT UP 58 MILE OF USABLE SIDEWALK NEIGHBORHOOD ACCESS AND MOBILITY.
DESCRIBE THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ACCESS MOBILITY PROGRAM OR COMMONLY KNOWING NEP, EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT GETTING $450,000 INCREASED FROM 230 FROM YEAR AGO.
THE NUMBER OF THE ESTIMATED CONSTRUCTION PROJECT WILL INCREASE FROM SIX TO EIGHT PER ROUND, OR 12 FROM 16 PER YEAR AS REQUESTED BY SOME OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
WE ALSO HAVE RELAXED THE CRITERIA ON SELECTING USING THE N FUNDING.
THE CRITERIA IS GOING TO BE INCLUDE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT REQUESTED BY COMMUNITY TO ADDRESS SAFETY, MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION CONNECTIVITY AND ROADWAY FUNCTIONALITY WITHIN THIS PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY OR ON CITY PROPERTY.
PROPOSE IMPROVEMENT FOR NAPP FUNDING IS ANTICIPATED TO CREATE 160 PROJECT THROUGHOUT THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS.
AN INCREASE IN STREET AND SIDEWALK FUNDING REQUIRE ADDITIONAL STAFFING.
THEREFORE WE ARE PROPOSING TO ADD SIX POSITION TO STREET AND SIDEWALK TEAMS. THESE ADDITIONAL POSITION WILL IMPROVE COMMUNICATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND WILL RESULT IN TIMELY COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT.
WE HAVE OVER 700 CITYWIDE BRIDGES, THEREFORE WE WILL BE INCLUDING 1 MILLION IN BUDGET FOR GUARDRAIL REPAIR.
CURRENTLY WE ADDRESS THE GUARDRAIL REPAIR THROUGH THREE ONE ONE CALL THE ADDITIONAL 1 MILLION TO ALLOW PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TO PROACTIVE IN ADDRESSING GUARDRAIL REPAIRS.
NON-SERVICE ALLEY, THEY ARE 4,099 NON-SERVICE ALLEY CITYWIDE.
THESE ALLEY HISTORICALLY PLATE FOR UTILITY COMPANY AND PRIVATE PROPERTY USE.
IN 2023 WE HAVE 1.15 MILLION BUDGETED FOR ADDRESS 17 NON-SERVICE ALLEY.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE IN COUNCIL DISTRICT ONE, FOUR OF THEM.
DISTRICT THREE TWO, DISTRICT FIVE, ONE DISTRICT SEVEN FOUR AND DISTRICT TEN SIX OF THEM CITYWIDE NON-SERVICE INVENTORY ASSESSMENT APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IN JUNE OF THIS.
THIS YEAR WE WILL VERIFY OWNERSHIP, UTILITY USE AND CONDITION.
DEVELOPED A MAINTENANCE PLAN TO PARTICIPATE WITH UTILITY COMPANY AND PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER.
ASSESSMENT WILL BE DONE IN APRIL OF NEXT YEAR VIA METROPOLITAN TALENT DISTRICT.
SINCE 2018, CITY HAS CONTRIBUTED 41.3 MILLION TO VIA FOR BUS FREQUENCY IMPROVEMENT.
10 MILLION WILL BE PROVIDED TO VR TO ASSIST WITH FEDERAL FUNDING, MATCH WITH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ADVANCED RAPID TRANSIT EAST AND WEST CORRIDOR AND 10 MILLION WILL BE USED TO SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENT ALONG VIA NORTH AND SOUTH ADVANCED RAPID TRANSIT INDEPENDENT FROM THEIR PROJECT TRAFFIC SIGNAL.
WE HAVE OVER 1,400 SIGNALED INTERSECTION, 260 PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS AND 1,240 SCHOOL FLASHING THROUGHOUT OUR CITY.
WE ARE PROPOSING TO ADD THREE ELECTRONIC SIGNAL TECHNICIAN TO ENHANCE PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE TO TRAFFIC SIGNAL, PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS AND FLASHING BEACONS DRAINAGE PROJECT ALMOST 5 MILLION.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET HAS SEVEN DRAINAGE.
PROJECT LISTED ON THIS SLIDE ARE FUNDED FROM STORM, STORM WEATHER OPERATING AND REGIONAL FUND.
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WE CURRENTLY ESTIMATED EIGHT 800 MILE OF UNDERGROUND PIPE SYSTEM, WHICH INCLUDE 48 MILE OF CORRUGATED PIPES.WITH F Y 2023 FUNDING, WE WILL BE ABLE TO ATE 4,000 LINEAR FOOT OF G M P 2023 CAPITAL BUDGET AND PROGRAM.
TOTAL PLAN C I P FOR 2023 IS 641 MILLION, WHICH INCLUDE 503 PROJECT UNDER 10 PROGRAMS LISTED, WHICH IS THREE BEING THE LARGEST ONE.
PUBLIC WORKS WILL MANAGE 336 OF TOTAL OF 503 PROJECT OF 336 PROJECT.
PUBLIC WORK WILL BE MANAGING 280 WILL BE IN DESIGN OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
THIS SLIDE SHOWS CAPITAL SPENDING FOR ALL PROGRAM, WHICH INCLUDE THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM, AVIATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT AND OTHERS.
SPENDING PLAN FOR SOME PROGRAM IN 2023 COMPARING IN 2022 WILL CHANGE THE TOTAL.
IF FFY 2023 SPENDING PLAN WILL INCREASE 48 40 9 MILLION OR 8% WILL INCREASE.
LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR 2022 BOND PROGRAM.
A $1.2 BILLION LARGEST BOND WE EVER HAD SIX PROPOSITION 183 PROJECT AND WE ARE SPENDING 67% OF THE BOND ON INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT.
YEAH, AS YOU KNOW, OUR BOND WAS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN WHAT WE HAD DONE.
WE HAD TO PLAN TO MAKE SURE WE CAN DELIVER THIS PROJECT TO OUR COMMUNITY ON TIME.
WE HAVE NUMBER OF THE PLAN ONGOING.
WE HAD TWO PROJECT CONSTRUCTION READY.
UH, FIRST ONE IS ADVERTISED BINNA AVENUES ADVERTISED FOR CONSTRUCTION COUNCIL WOMEN.
THEN WE HAVE A 14 PROJECT UNDER DESIGN 135 MILLION.
WE ARE MOVING FORWARD ON THOSE ON 19 PROJECT 134 MILLION.
WE ARE USING OUR EXISTING ON-CALL CONSULTING TO DESIGN THOSE PROJECTS TO GET US AHEAD OF THE GAME AND WE HAVE A NUMBER OF THE FUNDING AGREEMENT WE ARE ANTICIPATING.
NINE OF THEM WILL BE COME TO COUNCIL'S APPROVAL IN SOMETIME IN NEXT YEAR.
WE HAD 127 PROJECT WE START SUMMER OF THIS YEAR.
WE HAD A BIG MASS SELECTION PRE-SUBMIT MEETING.
ALL OF THEM WE HAVE RECEIVED AND WE ARE PLANNING ON REVIEWING THOSE AND GRADING THEM AND SELECTING THEM.
I WILL BE BRINGING THOSE TO B SESSION IN OCTOBER AND COUNCIL A SESSION IN NOVEMBER ON ARCHITECTURAL 14 PROJECT.
WE GOT 34 SUBMITTAL AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT 55 PROJECT.
WE GOT 27 SUBMITTAL ON CIVIL ENGINEERING 58 PROJECT.
WE WILL BE REVIEWING THIS IN NEXT FEW MONTHS AND BRING INTO B SESSION AND A SESSION IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER.
THIS IS THE GRAPH SHOWS HOW WE ARE GOING TO DESIGN AND BUILD THIS PROJECT.
THIS IS OUR SCHEDULE WE HAVE DEVELOPED.
DESIGN PICK WILL BE IN AUGUST OF 2023, SO EXACTLY YEAR FROM NOW.
AND CONSTRUCTION WILL BE PICKED IN SEPTEMBER, UH, 2025.
SINCE WE DEVELOPED OUR SCHEDULE, WE ALSO DEVELOPED OUR SPENDING PLAN.
HOW WE ARE GOING TO SPEND THIS $1.2 BILLION.
AS YOU CAN SEE ON THIS S SKETCH, THE BIGGEST SPENDING IS START 2025 AND 2026 AND 27 2022 BOND CAPITAL PROGRAM DELIVERY.
WE ARE ASKING PROPOSING ADDITIONAL 18 NEW POSITION TO ASSIST US ON DELIVERING THIS PROJECT ON TIME.
GOOD QUALITY, GOOD COMMUNICATION WITH PUBLIC.
41% LARGER THAN PREVIOUS BOND, 150 MILLION AFFORDABLE HOUSE FOR FIRST TIME, A LITTLE OVER 1 MILLION FOR F STREET FOR FIRST TIME.
WE NEVER HAD F STREET PART OF THE BOND.
103 MILLION FOR LINEAR GREENWAY.
NEW POSITION IN NINE DEPARTMENT TO ENSURE PROJECT MILESTONES ARE MET.
AVERAGE PROJECT DESIGN TIME WILL REDUCE FROM 26 TODAY TO 18 MONTHS.
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TIMELY COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH.THAT'S THE BIGGEST THING WE NEED.
WE ARE GOING TO IMPROVE TIMELY PROCUREMENT AND A SMALL BUSINESS REVIEW.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE AND FINANCIAL REPORTING.
LEGAL AND HUMAN RESOURCE SUPPORT AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE TABLE, RIGHT, HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD, NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING SERVICE WILL GET TO 12.
TWO CITY AT TURNER, OFFICE TWO, PARK AND RECREATION TWO AND OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION.
THIS IS IN THE MY PRESENTATION.
WE WILL BE AVAILABLE AFTER ALL OF THE PRESENTATION IS DONE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION YOU MAY HAVE HOMER.
GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
MY NAME IS HOMER GARCIA PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR AND I'M GLAD TO BE HERE TODAY TO PRESENT THE PROPOSED PARK PARKS DEPARTMENT BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023.
UH, BEFORE WE BEGIN, I WANT TO QUICK ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND THANKS TO JUSTINA TATE AND THE TOWER BUDGET TEAM FOR THE COLLABORATION SUPPORT AND PUTTING TOGETHER THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET.
UH, ADDITIONALLY, I HAVE A FEW, UM, SEVERAL PARKS TEAM MEMBERS TO THANK.
I'M GONNA KEEP THE LIST SHORT, BUT UH, I WANT THANK NIKKI RAMOS, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OVER RECREATION SERVICES, MELINDA SERTA, OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, UH, OVER PARK OPERATIONS AND LYNN KENTON, WHO'S OUR PARKS ADMINISTRATOR, LEADING OUR ACCREDITATION AND RACIAL EQUITY ACCESSIBILITY, DIVERSITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION EFFORTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
AND OF COURSE SEVERAL OF OUR, UH, MANAGERS THAT PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT IN SERVICE DELIVERY TO THE COMMUNITY.
UH, TODAY, UM, THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION, I WILL PROVIDE, UH, PERSPECTIVE AND BUDGET HISTORY FOR THE PARKS DEPARTMENT.
UH, HIGHLIGHT VARIOUS DEPARTMENT IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF RESTRICTED FUNDS HERE, OR EXCUSE ME, THE TREE CANOPY PRES PRESERVATION MITIGATION FUND, OUR EDWARDS AQUIFER PROTECTION PROGRAM, AND THEN OUR, UH, GREENWAY TRAILS PROGRAM, THOSE LAST TWO OF COURSE BEING VERY SIGNATURE PROGRAMS IN OUR PORTFOLIO.
SO IN THE, UH, PROPOSED BUDGET ACROSS ALL FUNDS, UH, THE PARKS BUDGET IS JUST SHY OF $103 MILLION COMING IN AT 102.7.
AND THE BULK OF THAT IS SUPPORTED, UH, BY THE GENERAL FUND AT JUST UNDER $62 MILLION.
AND THIS IS ATTRIBUTED PRIMARILY TO AN INCREASE IN PERSONNEL SERVICES AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO FACILITATE MANAGEMENT OF A GROWING PARK SYSTEM.
UH, RESTRICTED FUNDS, UH, THOSE ARE PRIMARILY HIGHLIGHTED BY OUR ENVIRONMENTAL FUND, WHICH FOR A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT THERE, UH, THAT IS WHAT SUPPORTS OVERALL PARK SANITATION.
SO WHEN WE THINK OF TREE TRIMMING, MOWING PORTLET SERVICES, UH, THAT IS WHAT THAT FUND IS DEDICATED TOWARDS.
AND THEN OF COURSE, UH, THE OTHER, UH, RESTRICTED FUND BEING OUR TREE MITIGATION FUND, WHICH I WILL BE HIGHLIGHTING THAT LATER IN THE PRESENTATION.
ALSO, WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO, UM, TALK THROUGH, UH, OUR GRANTS.
SO WE HAVE, UH, GRANT FUNDING IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
THAT IS THROUGH C D B G IN SUPPORT OF EXTENDED COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS AND OUR SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM.
NOW WE SEE A DECREASE IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET FROM THE CURRENT YEAR OF A FOOD GRANT THAT, UH, WE HAD PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED.
HOWEVER, THE SERVICE PROVIDER APPROACHED THE CITY SAID THEY WERE NO LONGER ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT SERVICE.
SO A NATURAL PARTNERS OF THE FOOD BANK, WE HAVE A HISTORY WITH THEM.
THEY PROVIDED MEALS TO PARKS DEPARTMENT PROGRAMS BEFORE, SO THEY WERE ABLE TO STEP IN SEAMLESSLY PROVIDE THOSE MEALS.
THEY ARE ALSO A GRANT RECIPIENT, SO THEY WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THAT COMPONENT OF OUR SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM.
SO AGAIN, SEAMLESS SERVICE DELIVERY, NO ADVERSE IMPACT TO, UH, OUR PROGRAMMING.
SO THIS SLIDE PROVIDES A FOUR YEAR PERSPECTIVE OF OUR, UH, BUDGET AND, UH, WANT TO KIND OF HIGHLIGHT HERE.
MOST NOTABLE TO ME I SEE IS A DECREASE IN OUR CAPITAL FUNDING, AND THAT'S PRIMARILY DUE TO THE 2015 SALES TAX FUNDING BEING SPENT DOWN AND THEN THE FUNDING MECHANISM FOR OUR GREENWAY TRAILS AND AQUIFER PROTECTION PROGRAM.
SHIFTING TO NEW FUNDING MODELS, UH, A MOMENT AGO I TALKED ABOUT INCREMENTAL GROWTH AND OUR GENERAL FUND NEEDED TO SUPPORT OUR GROWING PARK SYSTEM.
AND SO WE SEE THE PROGRESSION OF THAT IN OUR GENERAL FUND.
IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, THERE IS $1.9 MILLION IN IMPROVEMENTS OF $400,000 IS IN TEMPORARY SALARIES TO SUPPORT AN ENHANCED,
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UH, STAFF TO PARTICIPANT RATIO FOR OUR SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM.CURRENTLY AT, WE'RE AT ONE TO 25, BUT BEING ABLE TO AUGMENT THAT WITH ADDITIONAL STAFFING, WE'LL BRING THAT RATIO DOWN AND THAT IS, UH, CONSISTENT WITH FEEDBACK WE'VE RECEIVED FROM THE COMMUNITY AND ASKING US TO TAKE A LOOK AND BEING ABLE TO FUND THAT.
ADDITIONALLY, 1.5 MILLION WILL SUPPORT EIGHT, EXCUSE ME, A DOZEN POSITIONS.
SO, UH, FOUR ON THE RECREATION SIDE OF THE HOUSE, UH, THAT IS GONNA HELP SUPPORT TWO MULTI-GENERATIONAL CENTERS, ONE AT WOODLAWN LAKE PARK, WHICH WILL OPEN THIS FALL.
AND THEN HERITAGE PARK, UH, IN DISTRICT FOUR, WHICH IS SCHEDULED, UH, TO OPEN THIS SPRING THAT WILL BE FOCUSED, UH, AND ALLOW US TO PROVIDE YOUTH AND SENIOR YOUTH AND SENIOR RECREATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAMMING.
SEPARATE FROM THAT, AGAIN, BACK TO THE GROWING NEED TO SUPPORT, UH, THE GENERAL FUND AND PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR MAINTENANCE OF OUR PARK SYSTEM.
WE HAVE EIGHT POSITIONS FOR THAT.
UM, THIS IS TO ACCOMMODATE MORE THAN 200 ADDITIONAL PARK ACRES COMING ONLINE.
UM, 500 NEW AMENITIES OVER 28 PARK LOCATIONS.
ADDITIONALLY, UM, WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE A GROWING AND AGING PARK SYSTEM, SO THERE'S A PROPOSED $9.4 MILLION IN INVESTMENTS TO ADDRESS THAT.
SO, UH, THIS WOULD BE FOR 25 PROJECTS ACROSS 21 PARKS.
5 MILLION IS DEDICATED TO 17 PROJECTS INCLUDING HVAC REPLACEMENTS, PLAYGROUND RESTROOM RENOVATIONS AND MORE.
2.7 MILLION IS SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED TO INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, ONE BEING AT THE TEA GARDEN AND THEN THE OTHER TO, UH, ADDRESS, UM, SIDEWALK ISSUES ALONG THE RIVERWALK AND, UH, STAIRCASE IN NEED OF REHABILITATION, THIS PARTICULAR LOCATION BEING, UH, BY BEHIND THE FORMER MEXICAN MANHATTAN.
AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, WITHIN THE PARK'S ANNUAL BUDGET, WE HAVE CAPACITY OF $1.7 MILLION TO AGAIN, FURTHER DRIVE FORWARD OUR, UH, MAINTENANCE AND RENOVATION OF PARKS.
UM, THIS IS GONNA BE AT SIX PROJECTS ACROSS SIX PARK LOCATIONS IN NEED OF FUNDING AND REPAIR.
THIS NEXT SLIDE JUST REALLY PROVIDES AN ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY.
CLEARLY IT'S NOT AN ALL INCLUSIVE LIST, UH, BUT I DO WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO HIGHLIGHT THE, THE DIVERSE PORTFOLIO OF WHAT THESE FUNDS WILL GO TO.
SUPPORT RANGING FROM BATHROOMS TO HVAC REPLACEMENTS.
WE SEE FAIRCHILD TENNIS CENTER THERE VERY POPULAR, UH, HAS A LOT OF NEW LIFE WITH AN EMERGING PICKLEBALL COMMUNITY THERE, OF COURSE.
UH, AND THEN CONTINUING TO LOOK AT THE SAFETY OF OUR PLAYGROUNDS, RENOVATING THOSE POOL UPGRADES.
FLORIDA PARK LOCATED IN COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE, ANOTHER BATHROOM RENOVATION PROJECT.
AND I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT OUR DOWNTOWN SPACES.
SO VETERANS MEMORIAL PLAZA LITTLE, AND I HAVE TO KIND OF REMIND MYSELF TO GO BACK AND LOOK, BUT THAT WAS ACTUALLY, UH, A DONATION BY THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL OF SAN ANTONIO, WHICH IS A LOCAL NONPROFIT, AND THAT WAS DEDICATED TO THE CITY ON NOVEMBER 9TH, 1986.
SO WE'VE ALWAYS MAINTAINED IT, BUT THERE'S A NEED TO HAVE SOME FOCUSED, UM, EFFORTS THERE AND, AND BRING IT UP TO CURRENT DAY MAINTENANCE STANDARDS.
OUR TREE CANOPY PRESERVATION AND MITIGATION.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE RESTRICTED FUNDS.
UH, THERE IS A PROPOSED $470,000 IN IMPROVEMENTS, UH, SUPPORTING THREE POSITION FOR ENHANCED CITYWIDE TREE PLANTING PROGRAMS TO GROW OUR CAPACITY.
AND SINCE 2006, MORE THAN 127,000 TREES HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED INTO THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THIS FUND.
THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR BUDGET.
YOU KNOW, IT WAS NECESSARY, I THINK WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE BOND TO TAKE AND HAVE A LONGER TERM LOOK AT OUR PROGRAM FOCUS AREAS.
AND SO, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO DO IS WORKING WITH ZY AND HIS TEAM TO COLLABORATE AND LOOK AT WHERE WE CAN INCORPORATE TREE PLANTINGS, UH, AND RIGHT OF WAY PROJECTS WHERE IT MAKES SENSE.
SO AS WE THINK ABOUT HOW WE BRING TRAFFIC THROUGH OUR TRANSIT CORRIDORS, IT PRESENTS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO NOT ONLY LEVERAGE THE PUBLIC INVESTMENT, BUT PUT THE TREES TO WORK WHERE NEEDED TO CAPTURE AND REALIZE THOSE ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS.
UH, SEPARATE FROM THAT, UH, WE ALSO ARE PROPOSING TO CONTINUE INVESTMENT IN STAPLE PROGRAMS SUCH AS TREE ADOPTIONS.
THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, WE'VE HELD MORE THAN 50 THAT WE HAVE PARTICIPATED IN, EITHER THAT WE HAVE DIRECTLY DELIVERED OR WE HAVE COLLABORATED WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS A STAPLE PROGRAM THAT WE WILL CONTINUE.
BUT SO IS OUR EQUITY TREE PROGRAM.
THAT'S A TURNKEY SERVICE WHERE RESIDENTS IN QUALIFIED
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AREAS, THOSE IN THE HIGHEST NEED CAN RECEIVE TREES AND WHERE APPROPRIATE, IF TWO TREES FIT, THEN THEY GET TWO TREES.SO, UM, SOMETHING THAT IS CONTINUING TO GROW AND WE KNOW THERE'S NOT A SHORTAGE OF OPPORTUNITY, UH, IN THAT REGARD.
AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS, AGAIN, GETTING BACK TO THE ADDITIONAL POSITIONS AND BUILDING CAPACITY.
WE KNOW WE HAVE EXISTING PARTNERSHIPS, BUT WE CAN BUILD NEW ONES, EXPAND OUR NETWORK AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ADDITIONAL TREE PLANTINGS.
AND SO A COUPLE OF, UH, KEY AREAS WOULD BE LOOKING AT A MICRO-GRANT PROGRAM, SOMETHING THAT IS OPEN-ENDED WHERE NONPROFITS OR FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS OR ANY LOCAL CIVIC GROUP COULD APPLY FOR FUNDING.
AND THEN SEPARATE FROM THAT, LOOKING AT, UH, OR SCHOOL PARKS, WE HAVE MORE THAN 40 SCHOOL PARKS AND IT PRESENTS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY, AGAIN TO PROVIDE TREE INVESTMENTS IN PLACES WHERE NEEDED, WHERE CHILDREN ARE, UH, PROVIDE RESPITE FROM THE HEAT, BUT ALSO POSSIBLY LOOK AT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THOSE SCHOOLS.
ONE OF OUR, UH, SIGNATURE PROGRAMS MOVING ON TO, UH, IS THE EDWARDS AQUIFER PROTECTION PROGRAM.
SINCE PROGRAM INCEPTION IN 2000, MORE THAN 174,000 ACRES, UH, HAVE BEEN PROTECTED.
AND, UM, WE ARE PROPOSING AND WILL DRAW DOWN AND SPEND THE REMAINING SALES TAX DOLLARS IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, THE TWO YEAR SPENDING PLAN INCLUDES CONTINUED INVESTMENTS AND AQUIFER PROTECTION, MOVING THE PROGRAM TO DEBT SUPPORT BEGINNING IN FISCAL YEAR 2025.
AND THE OTHER POPULAR SIGNATURE PROGRAM IS OUR HOWARD WP GREENWAY TRAIL SYSTEM.
92 MILES HAVE BEEN COMPLETED TO DATE AND THERE'S ANOTHER 18 IN DESIGN OR CONSTRUCTION.
AND THANK YOU TO THE VOTERS WHO CAME OUT AND SUPPORTED THE BOND.
WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO BUILD ON THAT WITH 21 MILES, UH, SUPPORTED THROUGH THE BOND, UH, AT JUST UNDER $104 MILLION.
AND THEN THIS PAST FEBRUARY, WE BROUGHT FORWARD AND COUNCIL APPROVED A TRI-PARTY INTERLOCAL, UH, COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY, THE COUNTY, AND THE RIVER AUTHORITY.
AND THAT'S THE COUNTY'S COMMITMENT OVER A 10 YEAR PERIOD TO INVEST IN THE TRAIL SYSTEM, UH, JUST SHY OF $84 MILLION IN 24 MILES.
AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS, UM, WE STILL HAVE ROOM TO GO.
SO, UM, WE KNOW THAT THESE INVESTMENTS COLLECTIVELY HAVE HELPED MOVE FORWARD OUR 10 MINUTE WALK AND ACCESS TO A PARK THIS YEAR.
52% OF RESIDENTS LIVE IN A 10 MINUTE WALK TO A PARK.
HOWEVER, SEEING THAT WE STILL HAVE 25 TRAIL MILES THAT STILL NEED TO BE BUILT, THAT PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE THAT GROWTH AS WE SEEK, UH, TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO OUR PARK SYSTEM.
AND AS WE WORK TO THAT END AND FIGURE OUT THE FUTURE FUNDING FOR THIS FINISH THE SYSTEM, WE WILL BE CELEBRATING 100 TRAIL MILES COMPLETED THIS UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR.
WE DON'T HAVE A DATE YET, BUT WE'RE GONNA PLAN A CELEBRATION AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S INVITED TO HELP US COMMEMORATE THAT 100TH MILE OF GREENWAY TRAIL BUILT.
SO THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND ASK TROY ELLIOT TO STEP UP FOR THE DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN.
UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
ELLIOT, I'M THE DEPUTY CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND I'M GONNA WRAP UP OUR PRESENTATIONS FOR TODAY WITH THE DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN.
SO START WITH, I'D LIKE TO START WITH THE TYPE OF DEBTS THAT, UM, WE ISSUE THAT ARE INCLUDED IN OUR DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN.
UH, THEY'RE INCLUDE, UH, GENERALLY FOUR TYPES, STARTING WITH OUR GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS BACKED BY PROPERTY TAXES AND VOTER APPROVED.
WE ALSO HAVE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION, ALSO BACKED BY PROPERTY TAXES.
THEY ARE NOT VOTER APPROVED, AND THERE IS A STATUTORY, UH, 45 DAY NOTICE THAT WE HAVE TO PROVIDE IN ADVANCE OF ISSUING ANY TYPE OF COS TAX NOTES, UH, PROPERTY, UM, PROPERTY TAX BACKED, NOT VOTER APPROVED AS WELL.
THEY'RE RELATIVELY SHORT IN MATURITY AND DURATION.
WE USE THOSE TO FINANCE, UM, KIND OF THOSE SHORTER PROJECTS, TYPICALLY LESS THAN SEVEN YEARS.
THEN WE ALSO ISSUE REVENUE DEBT.
UM, IT'S GONNA BE BACKED BY SPECIFIC REVENUES LIKE THE AIRPORT OR THE PARKING SYSTEM.
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A VIEW OF WHAT IS OUR CURRENT DEBT OUTSTANDING.
OUR TOTAL DEBT'S ABOUT $3.4 BILLION OF THAT.
THE MAJORITY OF THAT'S GONNA BE OUR PROPERTY TAX SUPPORTED DEBT, WHICH IS GONNA CONSIST OF A COUPLE OF THOSE BUCKETS I JUST MENTIONED ON THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS, CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATIONS AND TAX NOTES.
AS FAR AS OUR PROPERTY TAX DEBT, UM, WHAT'S OUTSTANDING IS ROUGHLY $2.4 BILLION.
WE HAVE A REL WE ENJOY A RELATIVELY INEXPENSIVE, UM, AVERAGE INTEREST RATE OF 2.2 AND A SHORT AVERAGE LIFE OF NINE.
WE ALSO HAVE DEBT THROUGH A VARIETY OF OTHER FACILITIES, UM, AND OUR FUNDS THROUGH THE P P F C LEASE
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REVENUE BONDS FOR OUR CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION, 535 MILLION, AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL THAT ABOUT THAT LATER IN MY PRESENTATION.UM, WE HAVE, UM, DEBT ISSUANCES FOR OUR AIRPORTS REVENUE BONDS, OUR PASSENGER FACILITY, AND OUR CFCS, STORMWATER, AND OUR MUNICIPAL FACILITIES FOR A TOTAL OF $3.5 BILLION.
TYPICALLY, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DEBT, AND I'VE HEARD US TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT, WE, UM, WE WORK WITH OUR RATING AGENCIES AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR TO, UM, BASICALLY GO THROUGH A RATINGS PROCESS AND THROUGH THAT RATINGS PROCESS, THEY USE A VARIETY OF RATINGS TO GRADE OUR DEBT.
THERE'S FOUR CATEGORIES IN THE BOMB, LEBRON RATINGS.
THERE'S PRIME, WHICH IS THE, WHICH IS THE BEST, IT'S HIGH.
UM, YOU HAVE HIGH GRADE, YOU HAVE YOUR UPPER MEDIUM GRADE, AND YOUR LOW MEDIUM GRADE.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PRIME, UH, FITCH, MOODY'S AND STANDARD AND PORES TYPICALLY INDICATE THAT BY A TRIPLE A HIGH GRADE BY DOUBLE A, UPPER MEDIUM IS A SINGLE A, AND THEN YOU GET TO YOUR TRIPLE B.
AND ANYTHING BELOW THAT IS, IS, UM, REALLY TYPICALLY REFERRED TO AS JUNK.
USING THOSE, USING THOSE RATINGS.
UM, HOW ARE THOSE ASSIGNED TO OUR CURRENT BOND? UH, OUR CURRENT PROPERTY DEBT WITH FITCH, WE ARE ONE NOTCH BELOW, TYPICALLY, UM, IN THE HIGH GRADE CATEGORY AT AA PLUS FOR MOODY'S, WE ENJOY AAA AND STANDARDS AND POORS AS AAA AS WELL.
AND YOU CAN SEE I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THEM, BUT YOU CAN SEE THROUGH ALL THE OTHER ISSUANCES THAT WE HAVE, OUR AUTHORIZATIONS, THE RATINGS THAT THERE'S NOTHING LOWER THAN THE TRIPLE B ON THE AIRPORT C F C REVENUE BONDS, TALKING ABOUT OUR PROPERTY TAX OUTSTANDING.
UH, IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL, WE WERE RECENTLY IN THE MARKET, UH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9TH, SENT THE MEMO OUT TO THE FULL COUNCIL.
UM, IT WAS OUR FIRST ISSUANCE OF THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM, THE $160 MILLION THAT RAZZI REFERRED TO IN HIS, HIS SPENDING PLAN.
UM, WE HAD A, WHAT WE CALL A TOTAL INTEREST COST OF 3.62.
AND IN THAT MARKET, THAT WAS A PRETTY GOOD INTEREST RATE TO GET BASED ON THE VOLATILITY IN THE CURRENT MARKET.
UM, WE HAVE $2.4 BILLION, AS I MENTIONED, OUTSTANDING.
YOU CAN SEE THE BREAKDOWN TO THE RIGHT AS FAR AS OUR GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS 1.6 BILLION, BILLION, OUR CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATIONS, 593 MILLION, OUR TAX NOTES, 150 MILLION, AND THEN WHAT WE CALL PUBLIC PROPERTY FINANCE CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS, A VERY LIMITED AMOUNT, $6.9 MILLION.
UM, AS I MENTIONED, WE ENJOY A, A RELATIVELY LOW INTEREST RATE, UM, IN THE CURRENT MARKET AS WE TEND TO ISSUE DEBT IN THE FUTURE.
THAT WILL MAY CREEP UP A LITTLE BIT BASED ON WHAT WE'RE SEEING HAPPENING IN RATES TODAY.
AND OUR BOND RATINGS, AS I MENTIONED, A DOUBLE A PLUS FOR FROM FITCH AND A DOUBLE AAA FROM MOODY'S AND AAA FROM S AND P, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS DURING THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
UM, OUR M AND O TAX RATE IS GONNA BE AT A RATE OF 33 CENTS.
THAT'S GONNA BE REDUCED BY 1.70 CENTS FROM THE CURRENT TAX RATE.
THE NEXT RATE AS FAR AS OUR DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN, THE DEBT SERVICE TAX RATE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF OUR, UH, 2.11 CENTS THAT ACTUALLY RESULTS IN A TAX LEVY ABOUT $278 MILLION AND THAT TAX LEVY'S USED TO SATISFY THE DEBT SERVICE.
ON THIS, IN OUR DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN, WE HAVE A COUPLE OF, UM, LIMITS THAT WE HAVE TO WORK WITHIN AS FAR AS OUR ACTUAL DEBT VERSUS OUR LEGAL CAPACITY.
THERE'S REALLY TWO AREAS THAT, UM, THAT WE HAVE CEILINGS ON.
FIRST IS STATE LAW AND THE CITY CHARTER PROVIDE LEGAL LIMITS FOR AD VALOR AND DEBT.
UM, THE AD VALOR AND DEBT SHOULD NOT EXCEED AND CANNOT EXCEED 10% OF OUR TOTAL ASSESSED VALUATION.
THAT CREATES A CEILING OF $15.6 BILLION AND THAT $15.6 BILLION IS REFLECTED IN THE CHART TO THE RIGHT IN THE BAR GRAPH.
I THINK IT'S, UM, BLACK, AND THEN COMPARES THAT TO OUR OUTSTANDING DEBT OF 2.4 BILLION.
SO IN THEORY, WE COULD ISSUE ANOTHER 13 POINT BILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT IN THE EVENT WE NEEDED TO.
UM, BUT WE CERTAINLY WOULDN'T EVER TAKE THAT UP TO THE MAX.
WE ALSO HAVE PROPERTY TAXES, UM, BASED ON OUR CITY CHARTER.
UM, LEVY FOR DEBT MUST NOT EXCEED A DOLLAR 50 PER A HUNDRED DOLLARS OF ASSESSED VALUATION.
THE CURRENT DEBT PER PORTION OF THE PROPERTY TAX RATE IS 21 CENTS, LEAVING ANOTHER DOLLAR AND 29 CENTS OF CAPACITY IF WE WERE TO EVER NEED IT.
THIS IS THE, UH, CHART THAT WE SHOW EVERY YEAR ON AN AVALOR DEBT PER CAPITA IN TEXAS.
UM, THIS BASICALLY SHOWS A COMPARISON TO THE TEXAS CITIES, THE OTHER NINE CITIES.
UM, EL PASO BEING THE LARGEST AT $2,338 PER CAPITA FORT WORTH BEING THE LOWEST 843.
AND WE COME IN THIRD, UM, LOWEST AT 1,203.
WE ADDED THIS, UM, SCHEDULE LAST YEAR TO GIVE EVERYBODY AN IDEA OF NOT JUST THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, BUT HOW DOES THE DIRECT AND
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OVERLAPPING DECK COMPARED AS A RE REGION WITH ALL OF OUR TASKING ENTITIES.THIS IS AS OF SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2021.
UM, THERE'S A TOTAL OF $4.6 BILLION OUTSTANDING BETWEEN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AND THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE, UM, THE ISSUANCE I JUST SPOKE OF FOR THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM AND THE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATIONS AND OTHER ITEMS. BEXAR COUNTY AT 1.3 BILLION, THE BEXAR COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT OF 8 630 8 MILLION, THE ALAMO COLLEGES OF 399 BILLION IN THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER AUTHORITY FOR A TOTAL OF $4.6 BILLION.
WE DID SEPARATE OUT THE OTHER $4.6 BILLION FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, UM, BECAUSE FROM AN OVERLAPPING STANDPOINT, THEY DON'T ALL OVERLAP SAN ANTONIO.
THEY MAY HAVE DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS, BUT WANTED TO KIND OF SHOW YOU THAT SEPARATELY, THE TOTAL OVERLAPPING DEBT FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS 4.6 BILLION.
UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THE CHARTS DOWN TO THE RIGHT, STARTING WITH ALMA HEIGHTS AT 97 MILLION ALL THE WAY THROUGH SOUTHWEST I S D 166.
THERE ARE PART OF OUR DEBT PLAN.
WE HAVE, UM, SOME OF THE FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS THAT HELP US IN GUIDANCE IN DEVELOPING OUR DEBT PLAN, A SHORT AVERAGE LIFE, UM, THAT SHORT AVERAGE LIFE KEEPS OUR INTEREST RATES LOW, BUT ALSO PROVIDES US WITH THE FLEXIBILITY THAT IN THE EVENT WE NEEDED TO PULL A LEVER, UM, WE COULD ACTUALLY INCREASE THAT AVERAGE LIFE.
NOW IT WOULD INCREASE THE DEBT SERVICE, BUT IT PROVIDES SOME FLEXIBILITY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THAT DEBT PLAN.
WE EMPLOY MODERATELY CONSERVATIVE PROJECTIONS IN OUR MODELING.
THE MAINTENANCE OF A DEBT SERVICE RESERVE AT A MINIMUM AMOUNT, ROUGHLY BETWEEN 20 TO $30 MILLION.
AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, IT ASSUMES NO CHANGE IN OUR DEBT SERVICE TAX RATE, AND WE PROVIDE CAPACITY AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TO MAKE SURE THAT ANY EVENT, FOR EXAMPLE, THE RECESSION WORK TO HIT US, THAT WE HAVE AMPLE FLEXIBILITY IN MANAGING OUR DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN AS PART OF THAT DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN.
AND USING THOSE, UM, ASSUMPTIONS I MENTIONED BEFORE.
THIS IS THE COMPONENTS OF OUR DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN.
YOU KNOW, STARTING IN 1994 THROUGH 2003, OUR, UH, ISSUANCES WERE FAIRLY LOW IN 2007.
UM, STARTED, UM, INCREASING THE ISSUANCE SIZES BASED ON THE MODELING AND BASED ON THE ASSUMPTIONS I MENTIONED.
AND THEN TODAY MOVING OVER TO THE RIGHT AT OUR CURRENT BOND PROGRAM OF $1.2 BILLION AND WITH ALSO OUR CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATIONS, TAX NOTES, AND SELF-SUPPORTING.
YOU CAN SEE THAT BAR ON THE RIGHT.
THE ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO AS PART OF THE MODELING IN OUR DEBT PLAN, AND BASED ON THESE ASSUMPTIONS AND KEEPING OUR TAX RATE CURRENT, ALSO LOOKING AT AN ADVER ALARM TAX RATE FOR 2027.
THIS WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT BASED ON MODELING OF ADDITIONAL, KEEPING A SUSTAINED INVESTMENT IN OUR BOND PROGRAM AT $1.2 BILLION.
SO FOR 2022, WE'D BE MATCHING IN 2027 AT A 1.2 CONTINUING THAT INVESTMENT IN OUR BOND PROGRAM BASED ON THE CURRENT ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE.
AND EVERY YEAR WE'LL CONTINUE TO, UM, EVALUATE THAT AND MANAGE THAT DEBT MANAGEMENT PLAN.
AS FAR AS THE HOT FUND, UM, WE HAVE 535.6 MILLION OUTSTANDING, AS I MENTIONED.
UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT THE MARKET RIGHT NOW.
THE MARKET HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT VOLATILE.
WE DO HAVE A NEW MONEY ISSUE AND A POSSIBLE REFUNDING, UM, THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
HOPEFULLY THE MARKET WILL COOPERATE WITH US, BUT WE PLAN ON BEING IN THE MARKET ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 30TH TO SEE IF WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, OF SOME OF THOSE SAVINGS, UM, AND THAT REFINANCING FOR INTEREST COST SAVINGS.
SO HOPEFULLY AFTER TUESDAY THE 30TH, WE'LL HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS REPORT ABOUT THE, THE AMOUNT THAT WE CAN REFINANCE AND, UM, HOPEFULLY THE MARKET IS GOING TO BE COOPERATING WITH US AS PER, AS THE AIRPORT FUND.
WE HAVE 351.4 MILLION OUTSTANDING THAT COMES IN THREE DIFFERENT AREAS.
OUR GENERAL AIRPORT REVENUE BONDS OF 139 MILLION PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGE BONDS AT 92.7 MILLION.
AND OUR CUSTOMER FACILITY CHARGE BONDS $119.7 MILLION.
IN LOOKING AT THESE AND WE'LL, WE'LL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS AND AS WE CURRENTLY, UM, WORK WITH, UM, THE AIRPORT TEAM TO DEVELOP A PLAN OF FINANCE, WE'LL BE VISITING WITH THE RATING AGENCIES IN THE FUTURE.
BUT CURRENTLY, STANDARD PORTS HAS ASSIGNED A POSITIVE OUTLOOK AND FITCH AND MOODY'S HAVE BOTH ASSIGNED A STABLE OUTLOOK TO THE AIRPORT BOND RATINGS.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE EFFECTIVE INTEREST RATES ON THE LOWER RIGHT AS FAR AS WHAT'S COMING NEXT.
YOU KNOW, I MENTIONED THE P F C REFUNDING, AS I MENTIONED, WE'LL BE IN THE MARKET HERE FAIRLY SOON.
UM, ON AUGUST 30TH, WE'RE GONNA HOPEFULLY ANTICIPATE SAVINGS AND THE MARKET COOPERATES WITH US.
WE WILL BE FUNDING 30 MILLION IN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER AS PART OF THAT FINANCING.
AND THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING AT AN AIRPORT INTERIM FINANCING OF ABOUT A HUNDRED MILLION.
THIS A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IS GOING TO FUND CAPITAL EXPENDITURES
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THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN PLACE, UM, FOR THE TERMINAL AND FOR THE TERMINAL EXPANSION PROGRAM UNTIL WE CAN ACTUALLY GET THE PERMIT FINANCING PLAN IN PLACE AND BRING THAT TO THE FULL COUNCIL.SO WE WILL HAVE THOSE TWO FINANCINGS UPCOMING.
MAYOR, THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATIONS FOR TODAY.
WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, TROY AND, UM, HOMER AND RAZZIE FOR THE PRESENTATIONS.
UM, AGAIN, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA GO THROUGH, UH, ALL OF THIS MATERIAL, SO IN ANY ORDER, UH, FEEL FREE TO, TO BRING UP STAFF AND HAVE A DISCUSSION OF WHAT YOU HEARD THAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU.
SO LET'S KICK OFF THE CONVERSATION, UH, FIRST WITH COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL.
UM, THANKS TO, UH, THE PRESENTERS AND TO, UH, STAFF FOR TRYING TO KEEP IT, UH, CONCISE.
UM, AT SOME POINT IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HEAR FROM THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AS WELL, IF POSSIBLE.
UM, I THINK IT WOULD COMPLIMENT, UM, TODAY'S PRESENTATION.
UH, WELL, I'LL START WITH, UM, WITH PARKS.
UH, THANK YOU HOMER FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR MEETING, UH, WITH MY TEAM REGULARLY.
I WAS REALLY GLAD TO HEAR ABOUT, UM, THE EQUITY PROGRAM THAT YOU DESCRIBED, AND I WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH, UM, MONEY IS BEING SET ASIDE FOR THAT.
THAT IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT IS WITHIN MY BASE BUDGET.
SO THERE'S NOT A DEDICATED FUND CENTER OR COST CENTER.
THAT INITIATIVE IS SOMETHING THAT WE JUST GOT GOING THIS YEAR.
SO IT IS, UM, GONNA BECOME, IT'S ITS OWN.
WE JUST DON'T HAVE ENOUGH UNDER OUR BELTS YET FOR ME TO TELL YOU, WELL, THIS IS WHAT THE COST OF THAT IS.
SO YOU'RE PILOTING IT STILL, WOULD YOU SAY BEFORE IT BECOMES A, WELL, A REGULAR PART OF YOUR BUDGET? DON'T WANT TO MM-HMM.
WE THINK ABOUT OUR INCLUSIVE SPACES, THE BOND, EVERYTHING THAT ROLLED UP AND WHAT THAT MEANS.
SO I WOULDN'T REALLY REFER TO, AS A PILOT, IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE DOING AND IS GONNA BECOME PART OF OUR PORTFOLIO, BUT AGAIN, IT DOESN'T SIT WITHIN, UM, ITS OWN DIVISION OR BUDGET.
LYNN CONTIN IS OUR ADMINISTRATOR.
SHE AND I WORK DIRECTLY TOGETHER ON THAT.
COUNCILWOMAN, I THINK WHAT, WHAT HOMER'S TRYING TO EXPLAIN ALSO IS THAT, UM, IT'S A, IT'S AN OPERATIONAL SHIFT WITHIN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT ON HOW WE ALLOCATE AND PROGRAM WITHIN THAT BASE BUDGET IS WHAT HE MEANS.
AND SO IT IS A SHIFTING OF HOW WE MANAGE THOSE RESOURCES.
AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, IN A PERFECT WORLD AS WE DO THAT, IT WILL DRIVE THE MAJORITY OF THE DECISIONS AND HOW WE MANAGE ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.
THERE'S ALWAYS THINGS THAT POP UP FROM A MAINTENANCE STANDPOINT THAT HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED.
BUT, BUT, SO IT'S A SHIFT WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION.
UH, I ALSO WANNA GIVE YOU, AND MR. BALDWIN A BIG THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THE PARKLETS.
WE TALKED ABOUT THAT IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET AND INSTEAD OF, UM, MAKING AN AMENDMENT, YOU INTEGRATED THAT AS WELL INTO THE REGULAR WORK THAT YOU DO.
UH, VERY EXCITED TO SEE, UM, I THINK BY ST.
MARY'S WILL BE OUR FIRST ONE, RIGHT? CORRECT.
SO WE'RE EXCITED TO FOLD THAT INTO WHAT WE DO.
UM, I'D LIKE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE TREE MITIGATION, TREE CANOPY AND MITIGATION FUND.
SO, UH, SORRY, OMAR? YES MA'AM.
UM, SO, UH, SOME OF US HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT URBAN HEAT ISLANDS AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO MITIGATE THOSE.
WE'VE GOT THIS TOOL, UH, AVAILABLE, WHICH ERIC REMINDED OF US OF YESTERDAY.
UM, WE HAVE THIS TOOL AVAILABLE THAT CAN HELP WITH THAT.
AND UM, SO I WAS IN CONVERSATIONS WITH, UM, THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND OFFICE OF INNOVATION, AND THEY'VE BEEN SEEKING GRANTS TO DO SOME URBAN HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION WORK.
UM, BUT I'D, I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO USE SOME OF THAT, UM, BALANCE THAT WE HAVE IN, IN THE MITIGATION FUND FOR THAT TYPE OF WORK.
UM, SO IT LOOKS LIKE AT LEAST WHAT'S PRESENTED HERE MM-HMM.
SO THE, THE PROGRAM FOCUS OVER THE FIVE YEARS, BASED ON THOSE THEMES AND, AND STAPLE PROJECTS, ACTUALLY FUND BALANCE WOULD BE CLOSER TO A LITTLE OVER A MILLION DOLLARS OVER THAT FIVE YEAR PROJECTION.
SO LET ME ALSO ADDRESS THE FIRST PART I THINK OF WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IS THE ELIGIBILITY AND WHAT THE FUND IS ALLOWED FOR USE FOR.
SO SPECIFICALLY TO WHATEVER SUSTAINABILITY OR INNOVATION ARE, I WOULD ACTUALLY NEED THE SCOPE.
THE FUND IS VERY, UH, RESTRICTED IN
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USE IN TERMS OF IT CAN GO TOWARDS TREE, RIGHT? INSTALLATION OF TREES AND ALL THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH IT.CONSTRUCTION, UH, DESIGN, AND THEN THE ESTABLISHMENT PERIOD, WHICH IS SET AT THREE YEARS.
SO ALL OF THAT IS WHAT'S ELIGIBLE UNDER THE TREE FUND.
SO AGAIN, BACK TO THEIR PROJECTS AND THEIR WORK, AS LONG AS IT FITS WITHIN THOSE GUIDELINES, THEN THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES.
SO IF IT'S PLANTING A TREE, IF IT'S PLANTING A TREE AND KEEPING IT ALIVE FOR A LITTLE BIT, THAT'S FOR THREE YEARS, RIGHT? FOR THREE YEARS INS INSTALLATION MM-HMM.
UM, SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT FIVE MIL, THE 4 MILLION OF THAT 5 MILLION IS ACCOUNTED FOR IN THE COMING YEARS? YES.
SO, UM, YOU, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE CURRENT YEAR AND WHAT WE WOULD INVEST, UH, THROUGH 23? I'M, I'M LOSING YOU A LITTLE BIT ON THE, THE FUND BALANCE.
I MEAN, SO IN, IN THE SECTION THAT TALKS ABOUT FUND BALANCES IN THE BUDGET, IN THE BUDGET PAGE MM-HMM.
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TOP PART IT SAYS, UM, DO YOU HAVE THAT? YEAH.
I'M THE BUDGET DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
SO THE CURRENT FUND BALANCE HAS INCLUDED IN THE, UM, 2023 BUDGET IS ABOUT 5 MILLION.
HOWEVER, OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, HOMER IS LOOKING TO INVEST IN CAPITAL PROJECTS TO WORK WITH PUBLIC WORKS TO BUILD TREES AND INCORPORATING THOSE TREES INTO THE CAPITAL, UH, INTO THE CAPITAL PROJECT.
SO AS HE DOES THAT, THAT FUND BALANCE IS GOING TO BE DRAWN DOWN TO ABOUT $1.2 MILLION BY THE END OF THE FIVE YEARS.
AND WE ANTICIPATE IT WILL BE REPLENISHED TO SOME EXTENT AS LONG AS OUR, WE CONTINUE COLLECTING A TREE MITIGATION FUND, RIGHT? THAT THAT'S CORRECT.
THERE BY VIRTUE THERE BEING A BALANCE.
UM, GLAD TO SEE THE INCORPORATION WITH THE, UH, BOND PROJECTS AS WELL, HOMER.
UM, I'LL JUMP TO, UM, THE, THE PUBLIC WORKS PROPOSED BUDGET JUST FOR A MINUTE.
UM, I SUPPORT THE CONTINUED FUNDING FOR VIA, UH, THANK YOU, UH, FOR PUTTING THAT IN THERE AND UM, I, I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THE A HUNDRED MILLION, UH, LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED BY CONDITION IN THE, IN THE I M P.
COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE? WHAT THAT, HOW DO YOU DO THAT? HOW DO YOU DISTRIBUTE THAT? IF YOU REMEMBER COUNCILWOMAN LAST YEAR, WE USED THE BASED ON CONDITION AND SIZE AND WHEN WE HAD THE WORK BUDGET WORK SESSION, THE IDEA WAS REALLY, WE LITERALLY CONCENTRATE MORE ON CONDITION THAN REALLY THE SIZE TO THOSE KINDS OF DISTRICT HAS A PAYMENT CONDITION LOWER THAN OTHER, THEY GET MORE FUNDING TO BRING THEM UP FASTER THAN USING CONDITION AND SIZE.
THEREFORE, 10 MILLION FROM ANNUAL BUDGET IS DONE BASED ON CONDITION ANY COUNCIL DISTRICT HAD LOWER P C I THEY'RE GETTING MORE MONEY.
6 MILLION FROM 2022 BOND SINCE THIS CAME FROM THE BOND COMMITTEE WAS DONE BASED ON 50% ON THE SIZE AND 50% BASED ON CONDITION, BASICALLY WITH THE OLD METHODOLOGY.
AND 10 MILLION FROM ARPA WAS REALLY AT THE TIME THEIR RECOMMENDATION.
WE DIDN'T HAVE REALLY ARPA AT THE TIME.
THEY RECOMMEND FOR US 10 MILLION WHEN IS AVAILABLE TO PUT ON F STREET AND TO BE DONE BASED ON CENTER NUMBER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SIZE OR CONDITION ANY COUNCIL DISTRICT HAS MORE F STREET THEY'RE GETTING MONEY.
IN OTHER WORDS, WE ARE NOT DIVIDING 10 BY 10.
I, I CAN SEE WHAT YOU JUST EXPLAINED FROM THE SLIDE.
I, MAYBE YOU CAN JUST SEND ME YOUR SPREADSHEET ON HOW YOU DISTRIBUTE BY CONDITION.
I'M, I'M, I'M LOOKING AT HOW, HOW YOU SCALE THAT OUT, ACTUALLY WE CAN DO THAT.
AND IN TERMS OF THE A HUNDRED MILLION, SO PRESUMABLY NONE OF THAT WOULD BE SPENT ON F STREETS, IT WOULD ALL BE SPENT ON THE OTHER STREETS.
A HUNDRED MILLION WILL BE MOSTLY ON OTHER STREET? CORRECT.
UM, AND THEN JUST, UH, LAST QUESTION FOR, FOR NOW IS WE'RE REVIEWING OUR IPS, UM, IN ADVANCE OF, OF THE BUDGET AND WE, WE, I GUESS ADOPT IT FOR NEXT YEAR, BUT ALSO FOR THE SUBSEQUENT FOUR YEARS, RIGHT? THERE'S SOME GUIDANCE PROVIDED FOR THAT.
UM, AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF A, UH, WE'RE MID NEW
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DISTRICT REDISTRICTING, RIGHT? SO THE NEW DISTRICTS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED, UM, BUT BEGINNING NEXT, UH, I GUESS, UH, ELECTION, WE'LL WE'LL HAVE A REDESIGN DISTRICT.SO HOW IS THAT GOING TO PLAY INTO THE I M P? LIKE FOR INSTANCE, I JUST GOT A CONCURRENCE MEMO THAT ASKED ME, UM, TO ADD SOME THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN DISTRICT ONE IN THE FUTURE AND I'M, I'M JUST NOT REALLY SURE HOW TO, HOW TO ADDRESS THAT.
IN ORDER FOR US TO BE HEAD OF THE GAME, WE START PREPARING FOR OUR I M P AND SS P 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, THEY'RE FIVE YEAR PROJECT AND WE ALWAYS HAVE OVER 1000 PROJECT.
WE DID OUR ORIGINAL LIST BASED ON THE OLD COUNCIL DISTRICT.
WHEN THE COUNCIL DISTRICT CHANGE, WE REALIZE IF WE DON'T REDO OUR LIST, SOME OF THE COUNCIL IS LOSING SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF FUNDING EVEN.
IT WAS A LOT WORK FOR US, BUT WE THOUGHT IT WAS RIGHT THING TO DO.
WE WENT BACK TO DRAWING BOARD AND WE CALCULATE ALL THE NEW PROJECT WITH THE NEW COUNCIL DISTRICT.
EVERYTHING FROM 2023 IS GOING TO BE DONE FOR NEW, NEW COUNCIL DISTRICT COUNCILWOMAN.
I THINK THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS THE MONEY MOVES TO THE DISTRICT.
IF THE STREET, IF THE STREET WAS ON THE FIVE YEAR I M P PLAN AND IT'S MOVING FROM ONE DISTRICT TO THE OTHER, THE MONEY GOES WITH IT, WHICH I THINK, WHICH IS, WHICH IS THE POINT OF YOUR ORIGINAL QUESTION, I THINK.
COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHE GARCIA.
AND, UM, HOMER AND, AND TROY FOR THE PRESENTATIONS.
I'LL START OFF WITH YOU ROSIE, AND, AND THANK YOU FOR, UM, FOR THE NU ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
ON SLIDE SIX, THERE'S A BREAKDOWN OF $116 MILLION INVESTMENT ON STREET MAINTENANCE.
THAT INCLUDES A HUNDRED MILLION FROM THE ANNUAL BUDGET AND IN THE ANNUAL FUNDING BAR GRAPH, DO THOSE PREVIOUS YEARS OF INVESTMENT ALREADY INCLUDE BOND FUNDING OR IS THAT JUST FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S ANNUAL BUDGET? NO, 6 MILLION FROM BOND FUNDING.
THE QUESTION IS WHY WE ARE NOT DOING 10 MILLION.
IF STREET REALLY REQUIRES TWO YEARS FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, THEREFORE IN 2023 WE ARE GOING TO SPEND LESS.
BUT COMES 2024 UNTIL 27, WE WILL SPEND MOST OF THE F STREET MONEY, WHICH WILL, AT THE END OF FIVE YEARS, WE WILL SPEND 101 100 0.5 MILLION ON F STREET.
THIS, THIS IS, THIS IS MEANT TO SHOW AN APPLES TO APPLES COMPARISON, THE TYPE OF WORK.
UM, THE 23 COLUMN IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS BOND FUNDS.
BUT, BUT IN PREVIOUS YEARS WE DID ALL THEIR FRES.
SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S AN APPLES AND APPLES COMPARISON FROM THE TYPE OF WORK.
THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION.
THEN ON SLIDE SEVEN ROSSI, IT SHOWS THAT WE ARE BUDGETING $6 MILLION FROM THE GENERAL FUND FOR SIDEWALKS.
AND I THINK ERIC TALKED ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY.
I'M ASSUMING THAT'S FROM THE C P SS REVENUE DOLLARS THAT YOU'RE PROPOSING? THAT'S CORRECT.
AND THEN WOULD FISCAL YEAR 2023 BE THE FIRST YEAR THEN? IT SOUNDS LIKE IT IS THAT WE WOULD BE FUNDING DOLLARS FOR SIDEWALKS.
WE HAVE 13 MILLION FROM GENERAL FUND.
WE HAVE 13 MILLION FROM THE GENERAL FUND AND WE HAVE 2 MILLION FROM BOND.
AND WE ARE ANTICIPATING EVERY YEAR WE WILL HAVE 2 MILLION BECAUSE WE HAVE PART OF 2022 BOND PROGRAM.
WE HAVE 1 MILLION FOR EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT.
WE ARE ANTICIPATING TO NEXT YEAR WE'LL BE PROBABLY 13% TWO.
AND THEN I, SO I HEARD A YES, SO THANK YOU ERIC.
IN THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM, WE HAD A LOT OF PAD MOBILITY.
D FOUR ONLY HAD TWO PROJECT LEFT, PROJECTS LEFT TO CONSTRUCT FROM OUR SHARE.
AND I FIGURED THAT I WOULD REMIND US THAT EVERY DISTRICT DID NOT GET THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY.
AND IN THIS BUDGET AND FUTURE BUDGETS, I THINK THAT WE NEED TO LOOK, UM, AT, UH, THE PACE OF CONSTRUCTION, RIGHT? SO THAT WE CAN, WE CAN KEEP PACE.
I SUPPORT THE INCREASED AMOUNT OF THE NAMP.
UM, THAT PROGRAM ALLOWS OUR OFFICES TO SPEED, UH, OR, OR KIND OF TO FUND SIDEWALK GAPS AND SPEED HUMPS AND A LOT OF THE TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES THAT WE HEAR A LOT FROM IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE REVIEWED OUR NAM PROJECTS IN D FOUR FROM THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEARS AND MOST PROJECTS WERE ACTUALLY SIDEWALKS.
AND SO THAT'S WHY I KEEP, UM, HARPING ON THE WHOLE SIDEWALK THING.
ON YOUR SLIDE NINE, YOU TALK, AND ERIC TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK, IT WAS GUARDRAILS AND I WAS SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR HOW MANY GUARDRAIL LOCATIONS DO YOU THINK CAN BE ADDRESSED WITH THAT MILLION DOLLARS COUNCILWOMAN DEPEND ON REALLY HOW BADLY THE EXISTING COUNTRY RAIL IS DAMAGED.
TONY'S TELLING ME 54 LOCATION, 27 TO 54 LOCATIONS.
AND I, I REMEMBER ERIC SAYING THIS AND IT WAS SHOCKING TO ME THAT WE HAD, WE DIDN'T FUND GUARD RAIL
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LOCATION, SO THAT WAS EYEOPENING.AND I, UM, I FULLY SUPPORT THE INVESTIGATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS TO THE NON-SERVICE ALLEYS.
IT'S A PERSISTENT ISSUE IN, IN MY DISTRICT I THINK WE HAVE 5% AND THEY'RE OVERGROWN AND DARK AND A LOT OF MY NEIGHBORS ALWAYS REPORT THAT THESE ALLEYS, UM, CAN LEAD TO BURGLARIES AND SOME ADDITIONAL CRIME.
I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE RESULTS OF THAT PROGRAM.
THEN UM, MY NEXT QUESTIONS WILL FOCUS ON VIA OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS, WE PLAN TO INVEST $20 MILLION WITH VIA, IT LOOKS LIKE $10 MILLION TOWARDS SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THE NORTH SOUTH A R T ROUTE AND $10 MILLION FOR LOCAL MATCH.
SO WE'VE BUDGETED $10 MILLION ALREADY ANNUALLY TO VM.
SO WE'RE INCREASING THAT AMOUNT TO $20 MILLION.
IS THAT $20 MILLION EACH FISCAL YEAR? COUNCILMAN, LET ME, LET ME, UM, AND JEFF ARENT IS HERE AS WELL.
UM, FOR THE LAST, 'CAUSE MY NEXT QUESTION'S GONNA BE WHERE DID WE GET THAT $10 MILLION? WELL, WE DID, IT'S NOT AN EXTRA 10 MILLION.
IT'S THE 10 MILLION WE ALWAYS HAD BEFORE.
SO IT'S REPURPOSING THE $10 MILLION.
WE'VE HAD IN OUR ANNUAL BUDGET FOR THE LAST SIX OR SEVEN YEARS, UM, REPURPOSING IT, UM, TO ONE, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, UH, POTENTIAL GRANT OPPORTUNITIES TO ACCELERATE EAST WEST.
UM, JEFF AND VIA WERE ASKED, THEY NEED A $26 MILLION LOCAL COMMITMENT IN ORDER TO APPLY FOR A, UH, FEDERAL GRANT.
UM, $10 MILLION WOULD COME FROM THE, FROM THE CITY, OVER 5 MILLION FROM THE 23 BUDGET AND 5 MILLION FROM OUR 24 BUDGET.
AND C AND UH, VIA NOT C P S AND V AND VIA WILL WILL, UH, ALLOCATE $16 MILLION.
UM, THE OTHER $5 MILLION IN THE 23 BUDGET AND THE OTHER 25, THE OTHER $5 MILLION IN THE 24 BUDGET WE'RE GONNA HOLD ONTO BECAUSE THERE LIKELY WILL BE SOME SIDEWALK GAP ISSUES ALONG THE NORTH SOUTH.
AND SO WE'VE KIND OF REFORMULATED THE PLAN WITH THE SIM, SAME DOLLAR AMOUNTS WE'VE HAD, UH, PREVIOUSLY.
SO TO THAT POINT, HAVE WE ALREADY WERE IDENTIFIED THE WORK AROUND THAT ROUTE? OR IS SOMEBODY LOOKING AT THOSE GAPS AND WIDER SIDEWALKS, ANYTHING LIKE THAT? ON THE NORTH, SOUTH UHHUH,
UM, MOST OF THE WORK, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH THE STOPS, UH, ON THE, ON THE, ON THE VIA LINE WILL BE, WILL BE FUNDED BY VIA AND THEIR FUNDING SOURCES.
WE ARE, WE'RE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THAT PLANNING DOC, A PLANNING EFFORT, UM, WE'LL NEED A, A PLACE TO GO TO, UM, BUILD UP THAT INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO WE'LL KNOW MORE, UM, AS, AS THEY GET A LITTLE FURTHER ALONG IN THE, IN THE PLANNING.
SO IS PUBLIC WORKS GONNA BE HOLDING THAT MONEY FOR CONTRACTORS OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT V IS GONNA BE RESPONSIBLE FOR? THE CITY'S GONNA HOLD ONTO THAT $5 MILLION.
AND THEN ON SLIDE 13, UM, WE'RE ALLOTTING $4.93 MILLION FOR DRAINAGE PROJECTS.
BUT ON SLIDE 14, THE TOTAL DRAINAGE PROGRAM IS $42 MILLION.
CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHERE THE DIFFERENCE GOES? I THINK ALSO WE ARE FUNDING NUMBER OF OUR, UH, BOND DRAINAGE PROJECT THROUGH THE STORMWATER REGIONAL FUND.
I WAS ABOUT TO ASK IF THE STORMWATER IS WITHIN THAT DRAINAGE PROGRAM.
HOW MUCH ARE WE, OR YOU WERE GONNA SAY SOMETHING JUSTINA, THE $4.9 MILLION THAT YOU SEE ON THE SLIDE, THAT'S NEW FUNDING FROM STORMWATER REGIONAL FACILITIES AS WELL AS OUR STORMWATER OPERATING THE, UM, TOTAL, THE 42 MILLION, THAT'S THE TOTAL CAPITAL.
SO THAT INCLUDES PROJECTS, A MULTI-YEAR PROJECTS AND NOT NEW FUNDING NECESSARILY.
JUSTINA, HOW MUCH ARE WE BUDGETING FOR RIGHT AWAY OF ABATEMENTS? RIGHT OF WAY ABATEMENTS.
WE HAVE $200,000 INCLUDED AS A MATCH FOR THE, UM, M P O.
FOR RIGHT OF WAY, BUT THAT'S WITH RIGHT OF WAY.
I'LL GO ON TO HOMER NOW AND I'M EXCITED ABOUT A FEW THINGS.
SO THE HERITAGE MULTI-GENERATIONAL CENTER, UM, RAMIREZ COMMUNITY CENTER, RAINBOW HILLS, AND, AND MY RESIDENT'S GONNA BE VERY JAZZED ABOUT THAT.
ON SLIDE FIVE, THERE'S 400,000 ALLOCATED TO SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMMING.
WHAT'S THE TOTAL INVESTMENT IN THE PROGRAM? ONE 1 MILLION ANNUALLY ON THE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM.
CAN YOU ELABORATE MORE A LITTLE BIT? AND I THINK COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL IS ASKING ABOUT THIS ON THE FIVE YEAR PROGRAM TO FOCUS ON THE TREE CANOPY PRESERVATION.
HOW MANY TREES DO WE TYPICALLY PLANT OR WOULD WE GIVE AWAY WITHIN THE FIVE YEARS? AND HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THE AREAS? 'CAUSE COUNCILWOMAN, VRAN AND I WERE TALKING OVER HERE AND, UM, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU DECIDE WHAT GEOGRAPHIC AREAS TO CONCENTRATE ON.
SO, UH, ON AVERAGE WE GET OUT 11,000 TREES INTO THE COMMUNITY AND ANYWHERE NORTH OF THAT NOW, UH, AND THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION.
I, I DIDN'T HEAR EQU TREE EARLIER, UH,
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UH, PLAN, WE WOULD, RIGHT NOW WE'RE FOCUSED IN THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR CANVASSING ALL HOMES WITH A, A COMBINED SCORE OF 10 IN CENSUS TRACKS.SO WHEREVER THAT IS NOW, BECAUSE IT'S A LARGE NUMBER, WE'RE FOLLOWING UP PHASE TWO AND WOULD COMPLETE THAT CANVASSING IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
SO WE HAVE DEDICATED $850,000 TO THAT IN F Y, UM, 23 THAT WOULD COMPLETE THE PROGRAM FOCUSING ON CENSUS CHECKS FOR A SCORE OF 10.
WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT A FIVE YEAR LOOK AHEAD.
WE WOULD CONTINUE THAT SAME MODEL FOCUSING ON, UH, CENSUS TRACKS WITH A COMBINED SCORE OF NINE IN THE 24 25 AND THEN LOOKING AT EIGHTS IN 26 AND 27.
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THE LANDSCAPE LOOKS LIKE AT THIS MOMENT.
UM, WE'VE HAD ISSUES ACROSS OUR PARKS WITH COPPER BEING STOLEN.
I, I MET ONE OF MY RESIDENTS AT LIKE 5:00 AM THERE'S 11 LIGHTS OUT AND PART OF IT THEY HAD TOLD ME WAS THAT ARE WE TAKING STEPS TO BETTER SECURE THAT COPPER WIRING? YES.
BUT WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVES TO USING COPPER WIRING.
UH, AND THOSE ARE MUCH MORE COST EFFECTIVE.
AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS, OF THE 25 TRAIL MILES THAT ARE STILL NEEDED TO BE FUNDED, WHAT SECTION, UM, ARE THEY STILL MISSING AND WHAT, UM, HOW ARE THEY SPREAD OUT ACROSS THE CITY? SLIDE 10.
SO THE, UM, I, I WILL NEED TO FOLLOW UP AND GET YOU A MAP FOR THAT.
BUT TO BE, TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS ABOUT FOCUSING ON FINISHING THE BUILD OUT OF THE RING.
SO AN EXAMPLE IN THE CURRENT BOND, UM, WE ARE DESIGNING THAT PORTION COMING THROUGH A PORT ESSAY THAT'S DESIGN ONLY, NOT CONSTRUCTION GOT.
SO THAT WOULD BE ONE EXAMPLE OF, WELL, WHERE DO WE STILL NEED TO CONSTRUCT? BUT I CAN GET YOU A MAP.
BUT THE PORT ESSAY IS A CRITICAL CONNECTION.
COUNCIL MEMBER RHI GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
I HAVE A LOT OF NOTES, SO I'LL START OFF BY SAYING THAT, UM, FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
MANY MEMBERS OF, UH, OR I'LL SAY RECENTLY, UM, AND THE TIME THAT I'VE BEEN IN OFFICE, I GET A LOT OF FOLK WHO SAY, UM, THAT THEY HAVEN'T RECEIVED INVESTMENT IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD IN A SUBSTANTIAL WAY.
AND I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED THAT OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, DISTRICT TWO IS GONNA RECEIVE RECORD FUNDING.
AND THAT LOOKS LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, COMBINING OUR, OUR MA, OUR I M P, OUR SS AND P, UM, THE BOND ARPA TOURS, ALL OF THAT DISTRICT TWO OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS IS GOING TO BE RECEIVING MORE FUNDING THAN WE HAVE SEEN IN THE PAST 10 YEARS.
AND I WOULD VENTURE TO STAY A BIT BEYOND THAT.
UM, BUT THAT'S THE ONLY MATH I'VE DONE IS THE PAST 10 YEARS.
UM, I'M SUPER, SUPER HAPPY TO SEE THAT THE FUNDING FORMULAS FOR THE, UH, $100 MILLION ANNUAL BUDGET FOR STREETS AND SIDEWALKS AND F STREETS CHANGED TO ACCOUNT SOLELY FOR CONDITION AS OPPOSED TO WHAT IT WAS PREVI PREVIOUSLY, WHICH WAS BASED ON 50% CONDITION AND 50% SIZE OF NETWORK.
AND SO THIS NOW MEANS DISTRICT TWO WILL BE RECEIVING MORE MONEY AND HIGHER INVESTMENTS INTO INFRASTRUCTURE THAN EVER BEFORE.
AND AT THE GOAL SETTING SESSION, IT WAS INDICATED THAT BY USING THIS NEW FORMULA, EACH DISTRICT WILL BE WITHIN FIVE, UH, P C I POINTS ON AVERAGE OF EACH OTHER BY 2030.
UM, AND I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH HOW MUCH OF A GAME CHANGER THAT IS.
AND THAT'S TAKING OUR EQUITY LENS, UM, TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL.
THIS IS, THIS IS GAME CHANGING.
I'M JUST SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
UM, AND DURING THE BOND MEETINGS, UM, MY STREETS AND SIDEWALKS APPOINTEES STRONGLY ADVOCATED FOR THIS FORMULA CHANGE TO ENSURE THAT DISTRICT TWO WOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE MEANINGFUL STRIDES, UM, TOWARDS CLOSING THE INFRASTRUCTURE GAPS THAT EXIST IN OUR CITY.
AND IT STARTED BECAUSE WE WERE DOING THE MATH ON THE F STREETS, AND IT WAS SHOWING THAT IF WE CONTINUED USING THAT LENS OF 50% SIZE AND 50% CONDITION, THAT DISTRICT TWO WOULD GET IT WOULD, BY THE END OF THE BOND, HAVE A GREATER SHARE OF F STREETS THAN WE DO CURRENTLY.
AND SO I THINK USING THIS NEW LENS IS GONNA BE, UM, SUPER HELPFUL AND SUPER BENEFICIAL.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY APPOINTEES, JOE BRAVO, EDDIE MARTINEZ, AND ANITA FRANKLIN FOR HELPING US GET WHERE WE ARE TODAY.
I'M ALSO HAPPY TO SEE AN INCREASE OF THE NAMP ALLOCATION THAT WILL ALLOW US TO BETTER ADDRESS PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY ISSUES IN OUR DISTRICT.
UM, I'M ALSO SATISFIED WITH THE INCREASED ALLOCATIONS OF ANNUAL PROJECTS FROM 12 TO 16.
UM, I WILL FLAG ON MAY 11TH, WE HAD A B SESSION.
AND ON SLIDE 36 OF THAT PRESENTATION, IT WENT OVER THE PERCENTAGES OF WHAT EVERY DISTRICT SHOULD BE GETTING UNDER THIS NEW, UM, THIS NEW FORMULA.
SO DISTRICT TWO WILL BE GETTING 13.23%, DISTRICT ONE, 12.55, D 10, 12.49, D THREE 11.72 D SEVEN, 10.73, D FIVE, 10.39, D FOUR, 10.2.
AND THEN THE REST, UM, LESS THAN 10%.
UM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THOSE NUMBERS IN CASE ANYBODY WAS ASKING.
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SO THIS IS ALL IN ADDITION TO THE INVESTMENTS COMING FROM THE BOND TURS ARPA, UM, TO INCLUDE F STREET RECONSTRUCTION, THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, OUR PARKS LIKE M L K AND LOCKWOOD INDIGNITY, UM, THE DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS.UM, SO WHAT IS THE FUNDING BREAKDOWN FOR SIDEWALK, SIDEWALK REPAIR VERSUS SIDEWALK GAPS ON THE $21 MILLION, UM, ALLOCATED TO BE FINISHED BY SEPTEMBER OF 2024? SO REPAIR VERSUS GAPS.
COUNCILMAN FOR REPAIR, WE HAVE ONLY HALF A MILLION DOLLAR FOR THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, BUT THE FOR GAP IS 21 MILLION AND THAT HALF A MILLION COMES OUT FROM THE 21 MILLION ALSO.
UM, AND WHEN WILL WE GENERALLY KNOW THE SCHEDULE OF PROJECTS TO ROLL OUT FOR THE BOND? UM, WHEN CAN WE EXPECT EACH PROJECT TO COME TO FRUITION? OR HOW WILL WE GO ABOUT GETTING THAT INFORMATION? WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HEAR US TALKING ABOUT HOW EXCITED WE ARE FOR THE BOND, AND THEY UNDERSTAND THAT FOR MANY PROJECTS THE FIRST YEAR IS GONNA BE DESIGNED.
BUT WHEN WILL WE RECEIVE THAT INFORMATION, COUNCILMAN? WE ALREADY HAVE PREPARED A SCHEDULE PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE, AND USING THAT ONE, WE CREATE A SPENDING PLAN.
WE ARE GOING TO BRING OUR RECOMMENDED CONSULTING SELECTION TO CONSULT B SESSION ON OCTOBER, A SESSION IN NOVEMBER AFTER WE HAVE THE CONSULTING SELECTED SCOPED AND FEE PROPOSAL FROM THEM.
WE WILL REFINE OUR SCHEDULE BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAVE TODAY, BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES GOING TO DESIGN FOR US.
AND WE WILL SHARE THOSE SCHEDULE WITH YOU.
THE WAY WE HAVE DEVELOPED OUR SCHEDULE, THOSE LARGER PROJECT, DIFFICULT PROJECT, WE ARE STARTING THERE EARLY BECAUSE WE DON'T WANNA, WE WANNA FINISH ALL OF OUR PROJECT IN FIVE YEARS.
LARGER PROJECT, DIFFICULT PROJECT REQUIRES RIGHT OF ACQUISITION, ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING FROM FEDERAL AGENCY.
AND I WANNA MAKE SURE WHEN I BRING THOSE YOU SCHEDULE FOR YOU, YOU MAY SAY WHY YOU CANNOT FINISH THIS $7 MILLION PARK PROJECT EARLY, BECAUSE WE ARE CONCENTRATING ON LARGER PROJECT FIRST TO GET THOSE MOVING.
WE WILL WORK ON EVERY PROJECT AT SAME TIME, BUT WE ARE GOING TO PUSH THOSE LARGER PROJECT TO GO FORWARD.
UM, THE NEXT BIT IS GONNA BE FOR PARKS.
UM, THIS IS MY, I HAVE MESSIER NOTES FOR THIS ONE.
UM, SO I, I, I, AT PITMAN SULLIVAN PARK KABOOM AN ORGANIZATION WHICH I ONLY THOUGHT EXISTED IN PARKS AND A WRECK.
UM, THEY BUILT A PLAYGROUND AT THE, AT PITTMAN SULLIVAN.
AND THE QUESTION THAT I HAVE ON MY NOTES IS, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE ADD A STRANGE, A SHADE STRUCTURE OVER IT? BUT I THINK THE DEEPER QUESTION THAT I WANT TO ASK IS, INSTEAD KNOWING THAT THIS HAS BEEN THE HOTTEST SUMMER WE'VE EXPERIENCED, AND I IMAGINE THAT FUTURE SUMMERS ARE GONNA BE EQUALLY AS HOT.
MANY FOLK COME TO ME AND ARE EXPRESSING FRUSTRATION THAT A LOT OF OUR PARKS DON'T HAVE SHADE STRUCTURES OVER SOME OF THE AMENITIES, AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE LARGE TREE CANOPY EITHER.
AND SO WONDERING, ARE WE GOING BACK AND LOOKING AT EACH OF THE PARK MASTER PLAN PARK PLANS AND ACCOUNTING FOR THAT, AND FINDING WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN START INCORPORATING SHADE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THAT PRE-PLANNED IN ALL OF THE FUTURE DESIGNS? YES.
AND, AND I'LL TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER, UH, COUNCILMAN, WHETHER WE HAVE A PARK DEVELOPMENT PLAN OR MASTER PLAN OR NOT, SHOULD IT MATTER? WE BELIEVE THAT WE WANT TO REALLY SHADE WHERE IT MAKES SENSE AND WHERE WE CAN, THAT DOES REQUIRE CAPITAL DOLLARS.
BUT THE REASON THAT'S SO CRITICAL IS HAVING THOSE PLAYGROUNDS, FOR EXAMPLE, SHADED ALLOWS THE COMMUNITY TO CONNECT WITH THE AMENITY WHEN THEY WANT, NOT WHEN YOU KNOW THE SUN GOES DOWN.
SO I DON'T WANT TO JUST RELEGATE THAT PERSPECTIVE TO WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE A DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
UM, AND THEN IN THE BOND CERTAINLY PRESENTS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A, A SPRINGBOARD IN THAT REGARD.
BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO LOOK AT BOND OR NOT.
UH, AND IT IS A PRIORITY FOR PARKS TO HAVE SHADE OVER OUR AMENITIES AND EXERCISE STATIONS INCLUDED.
UM, THERE'S ALSO, THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND DOES A, UM, A RANKING.
AND SAN ANTONIO RANKS 59 OUT OF A HUNDRED OUT OF THE 100 MOST POPULOUS CITIES, UM, IN THE PARK SCORE.
UM, SO WHAT THEY'VE, WHAT THEY DETERMINED WAS THAT RESIDENTS AND NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE MOST PEOPLE IDENTIFY AS A PERSON OF COLOR HAVE ACCESS TO 14% LESS PARK SPACE PER PERSON IN THOSE, IN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS AND LARGE AREAS IN THE NORTHEAST SIDE ARE IN NEED OF A PARK WITHIN THAT 10 MINUTE WALK.
WHERE ARE WE IN TERMS OF ADDRESSING THAT? 'CAUSE I, YOU'VE COME TO CHECK BEFORE, AND YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT THE GOAL TO GET EVERYBODY WITHIN 10 MINUTES OF
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A PARK, BUT YES.WHAT'S NEXT OR WHAT'S MORE? UH, IT IS REALLY A MULTI-PRONG, UH, STRATEGY AND THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND, THEY PUT OUT TWO MEASURES.
ONE IS PERCENT OF RESIDENTS THAT LIVE WITHIN A 10 MINUTE WALK TO A PARK THAT'S SEPARATE FROM PARK SCORE.
BUT YOU KNOW, THEY, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE PARK AT THE END OF THE DAY.
SO, UM, THE EXPANSION OF OUR HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL SYSTEM HAS BEEN A BIG DRIVER IN THAT REGARD.
WE KNOW THAT IN THE BOND WE, YOU KNOW, MOMENT AGO TALKING ABOUT SHADE, UH, IN THE BOND, WE'RE IMPROVING 30% OF OUR PARK SYSTEMS AND WE'RE ADDING NINE NEW PARK PROPERTIES.
NOW, THOSE AREN'T ALL IN DISTRICT TWO, BUT POINT BEING, WE ARE CAREFULLY AND STRATEGICALLY PLANNING THOSE INVESTMENTS SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO CONNECT THOSE, UH, PEOPLE TO GREEN SPACES.
UH, I HIGHLIGHTED EARLIER WE HAVE, UH, MORE THAN I BELIEVE IT'S 45 SCHOOL PARKS, UH, IN OUR SYSTEM, NEW IN THE CURRENT YEAR, AND WE'RE STILL EXPLORING AND, AND TRYING TO GET NEW, UH, OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO COME TO THE TABLE.
IS THE SCHOOL PARK FUNDING MODEL, OR EXCUSE ME, IT REQUIRES FUNDING.
WE'VE APPROACHED SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND HAVE ENTERED INTO AN M O U, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, WITH LOOKING AT RECREATIONAL SCHOOL YARDS.
AND N E I S D IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT.
THEY HAVE OPENED UP, I BELIEVE IT'S MORE THAN 40 CAMPUSES UNDER THIS RECREATIONAL, UM, MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT SO THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS ACCESS TO GREEN SPACE WHEN THE SCHOOL'S, UM, NOT IN SESSION.
SO THAT'S KIND OF A VARIANT OF THE SCHOOL PARK MODEL, WHICH REQUIRES FUNDING.
SO WE ARE LOOKING AT CREATIVE APPROACHES TO HOW TO, HOW TO DO THAT AND WHETHER IT'S EVEN, CAN WE, CAN WE PAUSE RIGHT THERE? I ONLY HAVE ABOUT A MINUTE LEFT, AND I WANNA TRY TO GET THE LAST BIT.
UM, SO WE HAVE HAD A COUPLE MEETINGS, UM, TO DISCUSS THE TREE MITIGATION FUND, AND WE'VE EXPRESSED OUR INTENT TO ACCELERATE THE PLANTING OF TREES MM-HMM.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO, AND I KNOW YOU HAD MENTIONED SOME EXTERNAL GROUPS EARLIER, UM, I WOULD LIKE IF WE INVITED EXTERNAL GROUPS LIKE, UH, BEAR BRANCHES, MASTER GARDENERS AND MASTER NATURALISTS, UM, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PLANTING OF TREES, AND SOME OF WHICH COULD BE ON PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, OTHERS THAT COULD BE IN PARTNERSHIP, UM, WITH ORGANIZATIONS AND PROPERTY OWNERS.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE IF WE COULD SET ASIDE SOME FUNDING FOR EXTERNAL GROUPS TO PROVIDE COORDINATION FOR THOSE PLANTINGS.
UM, AND I AM INTERESTED IN, ARE WE DOING FOLLOW-UP SURVEYS TO DETERMINE IF THE TREES THAT ARE DOING THAT ARE GIVEN AWAY AT THE TREE ADOPTIONS? IF THOSE ARE SURVIVING LONG TERM.
UM, SOME PEOPLE, I IMAGINE THEY PLANT EVERY TREE THAT THEY'RE GIVEN AND THEY, THEY GIVE FRUIT AT SOME POINT, BUT IS THAT THE CASE FOR MOST? WE DON'T HAVE THAT DATA.
WE CAN WORK TO START TO CAPTURE IT.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ HOMER, YOU, UH, YOU SHOWED A SLIDE, UH, PROBABLY SIX MONTHS AGO ABOUT THAT PARK SCORE.
I REMEMBER I ASKED YOU ABOUT IT BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN REPORTED ON SEVERAL TIMES.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE SNAPSHOT, IT'S NOT A VERY FLATTERING PICTURE HERE, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THAT PICTURE IN MOTION, WHERE WE STARTED AND WHERE WE ARE, SAN ANTONIO PARK SCORE IS ONE OF THE FASTEST RISING IN THE COUNTRY.
SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IF WE'RE TRYING TO STAY ON TRACK WITH PROGRESS, THAT WOULD BE INDICATIVE OF PROGRESS.
BUT I THINK YOU NEED TO BRING THAT BACK AND MAYBE AS A FOLLOW UP TO THIS MEETING, SEND, SEND THAT INFORMATION OUT ALONG WITH THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE BEING ASKED FOR FOLLOW UP.
UM, I WANNA PICK UP WHERE, UH, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL LEFT OFFICE AS, UM, AS WE CHANGE COUNCIL DISTRICTS AND THE MONEY YOU SAID GOES WITH THE PROJECT.
IS THERE A, UM, A WAY TO EQUALIZE OR REIMBURSE THE LOSS OF MONEY FROM THE FORMER COUNCIL DISTRICT? WELL, THAT, THAT THAT'D BE THE POLICY CONVERSATION FOR, FOR THE COUNCIL TO DECIDE THAT.
THE RATIONALE BEHIND THAT WAS, UM, IF YOU GO TO THE CITY'S WEBSITE, YOU CAN SEE FIVE YEARS OUT THE, THE, THE RELATIVE I M P PLAN.
BUT PRESUMABLY, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, THE NEIGHBORHOOD KNOWS THAT ELM STREET IS ON THE 25, THE F Y 25 I M P, AND, AND SO IF ELM STREET CHANGED FROM ONE DISTRICT TO THE OTHER, WE, WE STILL HAVE A SCORE ISSUE.
SO, UM, BUT I MEAN, IF THE COUNCIL'S GOT OTHER IDEAS, WE, WE THOUGHT THAT WAS PROBABLY THE FAIREST WAY.
I KNOW IT, IT POTENTIALLY HAS IMPACTS ON THE COUNCIL ALLOCATION, BUT THE COUNCIL ALLOCATION UNDER THE NEW SCORE OF THE WAY WE'RE DOING IT IS BASED ON THE STREET THAT WE'RE ANTICIPATED TO BE WORKED ON IT.
BUT, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT OF FLEX ROOM BECAUSE THAT, THAT PLAN GETS AMENDED ANNUALLY BASED ON NEED.
I, AND I DON'T, UM, 'CAUSE I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TALKED IN THE PAST, IT MIGHT DISINCENTIVIZE THE FORMER, UH, COUNCIL,
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UM, OFFICE TO, TO NOT PUT THAT ON THE LIST.I WANNA SAY PUBLICLY THAT THE, THE STREETS THAT I'M LOSING TO FIVE ARE IN, UM, A LOT OF NEED.
AND SO I WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T WANNA KEEP THAT FUNDING OR GET REIMBURSED FOR IT.
I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THOSE AREAS, UM, THAT THAT SIX IS LOSING TO FIVE ANYWAY, WOULD STILL BE FUNDED.
UM, I WAS JUST CURIOUS IF WE COULD RECOUP THAT AT SOME POINT, BUT THAT'S OKAY IF WE DON'T
UM, I WANNA JUST MENTION QUICKLY, I, I DO SUPPORT THE VIA FUNDING ALSO.
I THINK WE NEED TO SUPPORT OUR MASS TRANSIT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
AND I DO APPRECIATE THE GUARDRAIL REPAIR PROGRAM THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, UH, IN A FEW TIMES IN MY DISTRICT WHERE PEOPLE WERE ASKING FOR IT TO BE REPAIRED.
AND WE FIGURED OUT THAT THE CITY DOESN'T ACTUALLY DO THAT.
UM, I AM CURIOUS, UH, ABOUT HOW OFTEN STREET RATINGS ARE ADJUSTED? HOW OFTEN THEY'RE ASSESSED.
CAN YOU TELL ME THAT? IS IT ONCE A YEAR OR COUNCILWOMAN? WE DO ONE EVERY THREE YEAR.
WHY NOT EVERY YEAR? BECAUSE NOT MUCH REALLY CHANGE EVERY YEAR, AND IT'S VERY COSTLY.
IT COST US MILLION DOLLAR TO SURVEY THE, ALL OF OUR CITY.
WE HAVE 4,200 MILE OFF THE ROADWAY.
I WAS GONNA SUGGEST, SO WE DO IT MORE OFTEN, UM, TO ENSURE WE'RE OUT ALLOCATING THE FUNDS AS THE ROADS ARE DETERIORATING.
BUT IN THREE YEARS, THERE'S NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE.
WE COULD, WHEN WE ARE CALCULATING, WE KNOW THE DETERIORATION.
WE HAVE A FORMULA WE INCLUDE, BUT REALLY, IF WE SPEND MILLION DOLLAR, WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET MUCH FROM THAT SURVEY THAN WE DID LAST YEAR.
WE KNOW HOW MUCH, USUALLY AVERAGE ROADWAY DETERIORATION, WE CAN INCLUDE THAT ONE ON OUR CALCULATION WITHOUT SURVEYING.
UM, WELL, I MEAN, I, I DIG A LITTLE DEEPER IN THAT WITH, IN WITH YOU.
UM, IT SEEMS THREE YEARS, A LOT CAN HAPPEN TO A ROAD IN, IN THREE YEARS WITH RAIN AND HEAT AND ALL THIS, UM, WEATHER WE'RE HAVING, BUT, UM, WE CAN, WE CAN TAKE IT OFFLINE.
UM, A WHILE BACK, MY TEAM AND I WERE BLOCK WALKING IN, UM, AN AREA TO SEE IF THEY WANTED SIDEWALKS.
I THOUGHT THEY WOULD DEFINITELY WANT SIDEWALKS, BUT I, I THOUGHT BETTER OF IT AND DECIDED TO GO TALK WITH THEM IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS.
WE KNOCKED ON DOORS AND TO MY SURPRISE, IT DIDN'T WANT A SIDEWALK.
BUT A LOT OF THE REASON WAS BECAUSE THEY HAD THESE MONUMENT, UM, UH, MAILBOX MAILBOXES.
AND THEY SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON THEM, SO THEY WANTED TO KEEP THEIR, THEIR MONUMENT MAILBOXES.
SO I'M CURIOUS, IS THE CITY DOING ANY KIND OF OUTREACH WHEN WE'RE INSTALLING SIDEWALKS ON THEIR OWN? OR DO YOU GO THROUGH, UH, WITH OUR OFFICES OR, UM, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE GONNA INSTALL A SITE? I THINK WE WORK WITH THE EACH COUNCIL'S OFFICE WHEN WE HAVE A PROPOSED ROADWAY, WE ARE BUILDING SIDEWALK.
IT IS REALLY INTERESTING AS MUCH AS PEOPLE WANT SIDEWALK AND THERE IS SOME NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T WANT A SIDEWALK, ESPECIALLY, THEY WANT US HAVE A BRICK MAILBOX.
WHEN THERE'S A BRICK MAILBOX, WE REMOVE THOSE BECAUSE IT REALLY DOESN'T MEET THE D REQUIREMENT.
BUT WE BUILT A NICER MAILBOX, BUT NOT THE BRICK MAILBOX.
AND I MEAN, I'VE HAD SIDEWALKS IN MY DISTRICT, I'M SORRY, STREETS IN MY DISTRICT WHERE ONE SIDE WANTED THEM AND THE OTHER ONE DIDN'T.
UM, SO I MEAN, WE, I JUST, I WOULD, I KNOW WE DO COMMUNITY MEETINGS, BUT NOT EVERYBODY CAN MAKE IT OUT TO THOSE.
SO AS MUCH AS WE CAN JUST KNOCK ON DOORS, IT'S, IT'S, I FIND IT TO BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO TALK WITH PEOPLE.
UM, I, I'VE ALSO, WELL, Y'ALL LAST NIGHT VISITED US, VISITED, VISITED US IN DISTRICT SIX, AND THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT THERE.
WE HAD ALL THE CITY WALK STARS OUT THERE, ERIC, MARIA, OZZY HOMER, AND MR. DE LEON ASKED ABOUT OLDER STREETS.
HE MENTIONED, UH, ALONG OLD HIGHWAY 90, BUT IT'S ALL OVER THE CITY.
UM, AS MENTIONED BY ERIC, UH, UH, UTILITY POLES, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
SO IS DOES THAT, IF, IF WE'RE REDOING A SIDEWALK TO MAKE IT MORE AADA A COMPLIANT BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO MOVE A WHEELCHAIR OR, UM, UH, AROUND A POLE AND THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH SPACE, UM, IS, DOES THAT FALL UNDER SIDEWALK REPAIR? IS THAT THE HALF A MILLION? OR ARE, DO WE HAVE AN ALLOCATED, UH, FUND FOR SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT ISSUE? FIRST OF ALL, AS A CITY MANAGER, MEN MENTIONED LAST NIGHT, GOOD NUMBER OF OUR OLDER SIDEWALK, IT'S POSSIBLE TO NOT MEET THE A D A REQUIREMENT TODAY.
THEY'RE MORE LIKELY NARROW OR STEEPER SLOPE, MAYBE A BOAT.
AND OF COURSE, THERE IS PROBABLY POWER POLE IN THE MIDDLE.
ANYTIME WE BUILD A SIDEWALK, WE DO NOT, WE MAKE SURE ABSOLUTE MINIMUM MISS THE, THE A AADA A REQUIREMENT, WHICH IS 36 INCH.
MOST OF OUR POLICY IS FOUR FOOT SIDEWALK, BUT CERTAIN AREA, BECAUSE IT'S SO NARROW, WE MAKE SURE IT MEETS THE A D A REQUIREMENT.
SO THE OLDER SIDEWALKS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH A POLE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE, THOSE ARE YOU, YOU'RE SAYING THOSE ARE A D A COMPLIANT? NO, SOME OF THEM IS NOT.
SOME OF THE, SO WHAT ARE WE DOING? IS THERE AN A
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PARTICULAR ALLOCATION FOR THAT PROBLEM? OR IS THAT, DOES THAT FALL UNDER SIDEWALK REPAIR? IT COULD, IT COULD FALL UNDER SIDEWALK REPAIR, ESPECIALLY IF IT MEETS THE SIDEWALK REQUIREMENT.YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE CRITERIA FOR SIDEWALK PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS THE CONCERN IS SCHOOLS TRANSIT ROUTE, ARTERIAL ROADWAY IS ZERO CAR, HOLD HOUSE AND HILL FACILITY.
IF IT MISS ANY OF THOSE, WE WORK WITH THE COUNCIL'S OFFICE TO REDUCE SOME OF THOSE SIDEWALK.
BUT OUR FUNDING 21 MILLION, MOST OF THE TIME GOES FOR THE AREA DOESN'T HAVE SIDEWALK.
THE OTHER AREA THAT, THAT THERE'S POTENTIAL FUNDING IF, IF IT'S A STREET THAT'S IN THE BOND PROGRAM MM-HMM.
SO THERE'S ANOTHER PART OF THAT.
BUT AS MR. DELEON POINTED OUT, AND THAT'S THE SECOND TIME HE'S POINTED IT OUT TO US AT, AT, IN YOUR DISTRICT, UM, THOSE, THOSE PLACES WHERE THE, THERE'S A POLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK AND YOU KNOW THAT THAT'S HAPPENED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DECADES.
AND, AND MAKING SURE THAT, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE GONNA TOUCH THAT STREET, WE GOTTA, WE GOTTA FIX THAT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DARN SENSE.
SO, UM, IS THERE AN ASSESSMENT OF SIDEWALKS THE WAY WE DO STREETS? I'M SORRY? IS THERE AN ASSESSMENT LIKE A THREE YEAR OR ANNUAL ASSESSMENT OF SIDEWALKS, THE WAY Y'ALL DO IT FOR STREETS? WE HAVE A, ALSO, AS MUCH AS WE HAVE A PAYMENT CONDITION INDEX FOR ROADWAY, WE ALSO HAVE A PAYMENT CONDITION FOR THE SIDEWALK.
AS CITY MANAGER MENSER, WHENEVER WE DO THE ROADWAY, IF THERE IS NO SIDEWALK OR THE EXISTING SIDEWALK DOESN'T MEET THE REQUIREMENT, WE DO THE SIDEWALK.
ALSO PART OF PAID BY THE ROADWAY PAID BY SS M P, NOT THE 21 MILLION FROM SIDEWALK.
UM, UH, I'M GONNA SHIFT OVER TO PARKS AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, HOMER.
YOU KNOW, UH, DISTRICT SIX, OUR CITY REALLY LOVES OUR PARKS, OUR GREEN SPACES.
I LOOK FORWARD TO THE UPDATES SPECIFICALLY.
UM, FOR US AT THE DONNER FACILITY, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR, OUR, UH, OUR REGIONAL PARK
UM, THE INVESTMENT IN THE TRAIL SYSTEM OBVIOUSLY HAS A REALLY LONG TERM IMPACT FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSES, UM, BUT ALSO FOR UTILITY FOR TRANSPORTATION.
I'M EXCITED TO SEE THE INVESTMENT AND I LOOK FORWARD TO MORE INVESTMENT IN THAT SYSTEM.
DID I HEAR YOU SAY THAT WE HAVE ABOUT 25 MILES THAT ARE NOT CURRENTLY? UM, IS THAT LIKE THE UNFUNDED PART OF IT? CORRECT.
SO WHEN YOU TAKE WHAT WE'VE GOT ALREADY UNDER OUR BELT, WHAT THE COUNTY'S BRINGING TO THE TABLE, WHAT THE BONDS BRINGING TO THE TABLE, ONCE ALL THAT'S SAID AND DONE, WE HAVE 25 MILES TO COMPLETE THE BUILD OUT OF THE, OF THE SYSTEM.
THAT'S ALL THAT'S HOLDING US BACK FROM ALL THE TRAILS BEING CONNECTED.
WELL, THEN THE FUNDING FOR IT.
BUT YES, THAT'S THE BIGGER THING.
THAT'S, THAT'S PRETTY SIGNIFICANT.
I MEAN, AND THAT INCLUDES INFO TWO, SO YEAH.
BASED ON OUR RIGHT, IT'S NOT OUR RING IS THE FOCUS.
WHERE WE'RE AT NOW IS WE'VE STARTED CONNECTING THOSE COMMUNITIES TO THAT RIGHT.
BUT I, I'M, I, I DON'T MEAN TO SAY THAT IT 25 MILES IS A LONG WAY, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY, UM, REALLY EXCITING TO BE KIND OF THAT CLOSE, UM, TO IT IN A WAY.
UM, AND, UM, WITH THE, WITH, UH, THE TRAIL FUNDING THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THOUGH TO TODAY, THAT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE 25.
SO YOU STILL NEED TO FIND THE FUNDING FOR THE 25 MILES, CORRECT? RIGHT.
I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT THE SCHOOL PARKS.
I KNOW WE HAVE A, IN DISTRICT SIX, WE HAVE NORTHSIDE, AND WE HAVE EDGEWOOD.
I, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO TALK WITH THEM, BUT, UM, NORMALLY WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, UH, THE, THE GROUNDS ARE FENCED OFF MM-HMM.
UM, SO IS THAT WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS KIND OF OPENING THOSE UP TO THE COMMUNITY? YES.
EXPLORING THAT, AND, YOU KNOW, WE ARE CONSTANTLY, UH, IN, IN DIALOGUE MAKING THAT EFFORT, BUT SCHOOLS HAVE BEEN FOCUSED ON GETTING AND BRIDGING THE GAP, RIGHT.
WITH COVID AND STILL OPERATING THAT ENVIRONMENT.
UH, AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE THAT EFFORT.
I, I'M SURE THE SCHOOLS, UH, THEY, THEY ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITH, UM, I MEAN, THEY ALWAYS HAVE, BUT ESPECIALLY NOW, THEY'RE VERY, UH, WORRIED ABOUT SCHOOL SAFETY.
UM, SO MAYBE MOVING THE FENCES AROUND, BUT, UM, HAVE YOU TALKED TO NORTHSIDE OR EDGEWOOD? DO YOU KNOW? WE, WE HAVE, UH, REACHED OUT AND WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO MOVE THE NEEDLE.
UH, WE DO HAVE A DEDICATED TEAM, BACK TO YOUR POINT, IF WE HAVE AN EXISTING SCHOOL PARK, UH, MAKING SURE THAT IT'S ACCESSIBLE AND OPEN IS DESIGNED.
AND THERE ARE REMINDERS THAT WE NEED TO PROVIDE EVERY NOW AND THEN, AND WE DO.
BUT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE OUR EFFORTS WITH BOTH NORTHSIDE, EDGEWOOD, AND REALLY EVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT WANTS TO PARTICIPATE.
UM, RAZZIE, TROY, AND HOMER FOR THE PRESENTATIONS AND THE CONTINUED WORK.
I'M REALLY PLEASED TO SEE THAT WE'RE USING 13 MILLION OF THE GENERAL FUND TO SUPPORT, UH, SIDEWALK
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CONSTRUCTION.UM, THIS MONDAY, MY TEAM AND I WERE OUT IN DISTRICT FIVE, UH, ON THE FAR WEST SIDE AND WESTWOOD SQUARE.
AND THERE WERE SOME STREETS, BARNEY IN PARTICULAR, WHERE IT'S A FAILED STREET.
AND I WAS THERE WITH MY 3 1 1 APP TAKING NOTE AND UPLOADING EVERYTHING.
UM, AND THEN THERE ALSO WEREN'T SIDEWALKS, RIGHT? SO, AS MY COLLEAGUES ALL KNOW, THAT, UH, ENSURING THAT WE CONTINUE TO, UM, FUND OUR SIDEWALKS AND INCREASE THAT WITH THE GENERAL FUND IS KEY TO ENSURING THAT FOLKS CAN SAFELY COMMUTE TO PARKS, TO SCHOOL SWO AND SO FORTH.
UM, BUT I, I, I QUICKLY WANNA COMMEND THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND THE DRAINAGE PROJECT.
I'M EXCITED TO SEE THAT MENCHACA REIT DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING FUNDED IN THE FISCAL 2023 YEAR, UM, TO ALLEVIATE THAT, THAT FLOODING THAT HAPPENS AND IMPACTS SEVERAL HOMES ALONG THAT CORRIDOR.
UM, PLEASE THAT IT'LL HOPEFULLY PROVIDE SOME TYPE OF SAFETY SUPPORT FOR, UH, THE KIDS WHO LIVE IN THE LINCOLN COURTS WHEN WALKING TO SCHOOL, TO THE BUS STOP OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
SO THANK Y'ALL FOR PRIORITIZING THIS DRAINAGE PROJECT IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO ON DRAINAGE.
AND AGAIN, JUST REALLY PLEASED TO SEE THAT WE'RE CHIPPING AWAY AT THOSE, THOSE NEEDS IN DISTRICT FIVE IN PARTICULAR, AS WELL AS, UH, THE ALLEYWAY MAINTENANCE.
UM, I, I SEE ON THE LIST THAT DISTRICT FIVE DOESN'T HAVE THE MAJORITY OF THOSE NON, UH, SERVICE ALLEYWAYS.
HOWEVER, I KNOW DISTRICT FIVE CONSTITUENTS ARE GOING TO BE, UM, REALLY PLEASED TO KNOW THAT WE'RE PRIORITIZING THOSE NON-SERVICE ALLEYWAYS.
MY QUESTION IS FOR THOSE NON-SERVICE ALLEYWAYS, UM, WHERE A CONSTITUENT MAY BE GETTING A VIOLATION FOR THEIR BEING TRASHED IN THE ALLEYWAY, CAN THIS FUND BE USED TO POTENTIALLY ABATE THAT TRASH, OR WOULD THAT BE A QUESTION FOR SOLID WASTE? I THINK
AND, AND ARE WE GOING TO DEVELOP A PLAN ON HOW WE'RE GOING TO TACKLE THE NON-SERVICE ALLEYWAYS? AND WILL THAT, IF WE DO, WILL IT BE DISTRICT SPECIFIC OR WILL THAT BE COUNCIL CREATING THAT PLAN? AS I MENTIONED, COUNCIL LUMAN MY PRESENTATION MM-HMM.
COUNCILS APPROVED THE, OUR RECOMMENDED CONSULTING SELECTION TO DO INVENTORY OF NON-SERVICE SALARY.
WE HAVE OVER 4,000, FIRST OF ALL, TO IDENTIFY WHO'S THE OWNER OF THESE ALLEY PRIVATE OR UTILITY USE, AND ALSO CONDITION OF THOSE THAT'S GOING TO GIVE US INFORMATION WORKING WITH THE OTHER UTILITY COMPANY TO PREPARE REALLY A GOOD COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND WORK THROUGH THE COUNCIL AND MAYORS TO GET FUNDING LAST FEW YEARS.
WE JUST PIECEMEALING DOING 10 OR 15 EACH YEARS.
WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE GOOD PLAN TO COME TO YOU TO RECOMMENDING WHAT WE SHOULD DO.
AND I'M ALSO GRATEFUL FOR MARI ON YOUR TEAM WHO'S BEEN HELPING US WITH AN ALLEY ON PATTON STREET.
UM, IT'S DEFINITELY BEEN A HUGE, UH, CONCERN FOR COMMUNITY, BUT GLAD TO SEE THAT CITY STAFF'S HELPING US WITH THAT.
UM, I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE INCREASE IN N FUNDING AND SHOUT OUT COUNCILMAN PERRY FOR ADVOCATING FOR THAT INCREASE.
UM, WE KNOW THAT SCHOOLS BACK IN SESSION, AND WE'RE GOING TO RECEIVE MORE CALLS FROM SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND COUNSELORS WHO HAVE IDENTIFIED SOME OF THOSE, UH, AREAS OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY CONCERN.
UM, SO PLEASED TO SEE THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE MORE FUNDING TO SUPPORT ADDITIONAL PROJECTS.
UM, SAME THING WITH THE, THE C I P, IT'S BACK UP TO A MILLION, BUT I WOULD HOPE THAT WE CAN GET THAT UP TO 1.5, UM, TO MEET SOME OF THOSE NOT BON SIDE PROJECT, UH, CONCERNS, BUT HAVE MORE OF AN IMPACT, ESPECIALLY NEAR OUR SCHOOLS AND TOWARDS, UM, SOME OF OUR BUS STOPS.
UM, I, I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR YOU, ROSIE.
UM, BUT I, I WANTED TO BE SURE THAT I, UM, ALSO EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR VIA, AND I WOULD HOPE TO FIND OURSELVES AS A CITY WITH THE NEXT BUDGET TO WHERE WE'RE INCREASING THE VIA SUPPORT FROM 10 MILLION TO ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO HELP, UH, WHETHER IT'S FOR BUS SHELTERS OR ROUTES AND FREQUENCY THAT WE CAN FURTHER SUPPORT OUR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
UM, I KNOW WE HAD A CONVERSATION, EVERYONE'S BEEN HITTING ON THE TREE MITIGATION FUND, BUT DID I HEAR CORRECTLY, HOMER, THAT THE FUNDS ARE COMMITTED TO, OR THE MAJORITY FUNDS ARE COMMITTED TO CAPITAL PROJECTS? AND IF SO, IS THERE A LIST OF THOSE CAPITAL PROJECTS ALREADY? OR HOW WILL WE IDENTIFY THOSE PROJECTS? YEAH, SO IN THE PROPOSED, YOU KNOW, LOOK AHEAD, RIGHT, THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN, UM, WE HAVE THAT TIED TO RIGHT OF WAY PROJECT.
SO WE DO HAVE A PRELIMINARY LIST.
OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF THAT'S NOT DESIGNED YET, BUT BASED ON, UM, THOSE PLANNED ROUTES, WE, WE HAVE AN IDEA.
UM, SO THAT'S WHAT THE, WITH THE BOND, DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? SO THE, OKAY, SO THE, THE CURRENT TREE FUND, THOSE DOLLARS,
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THE 5 MILLION, RIGHT? I BELIEVE FOUR ALREADY COMMITTED TO THOSE BOND CAPITAL PROJECTS.SO, SO, UH, AND I'VE GOT A LIST, BUT YOU KNOW, REALLY QUICKLY, IT'S, UH, COMMERCE FROM SANTA ROSA TO FREO, SAN SABA FROM WEST NEVA TO WEST MARTIN, SANTA ROSA FROM, UM, SUSA CHAVEZ TO WEST MARTIN AND ALAMO STREET FROM SUSA CHAVEZ TO MARKET STREET.
AND I ASK, BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN HAVING A CONVERSATION AS A COUNCIL AROUND MITIGATING THE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT, AND I WANTED TO ASK IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITY WITH THAT REMAINING 1 MILLION, RIGHT? OR MY HOPE WOULD BE THAT WE CAN INCREASE IT, UM, BUT TO BE STRATEGIC ON HOW WE'RE PLANTING THESE TREES, RIGHT? FOR EXAMPLE, AGAIN, THE NEW YORK TIMES WROTE ABOUT THE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT, UM, HIGHLIGHTING STORIES ALONG, UH, BUS ROUTES, RIGHT? SO IF WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE STRATEGIC TO PLANT TREES, UH, ALONGSIDE SOME OF THESE BUS STOPS THAT DO NOT HAVE SHELTERS, UM, RIGHT.
WHAT WOULD THAT COST? AND, AND WOULD $1 MILLION ALLOW US TO TACKLE BUS STOPS? AND HOW MANY WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE? YOU KNOW, HOW MANY BUS STOPS? CAN WE PLANT TREES NEARBY? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT PARKS HAS EXPLORED OR HAD A CONVERSATION WITH VIA ABOUT? UM, IT'S BEEN, IT'S BEEN A WHILE, NOT ANYTHING RECENT.
SO THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES, WE CAN REVISIT THAT TOPIC.
THERE IS OPPORTUNITY, UH, AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE FUND CAN SUPPORT.
SO IT'S JUST A MATTER OF EVALUATING AND IDENTIFYING THOSE LOCATIONS AND WITH THE $1 MILLION.
UM, AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE THIS ANSWER NOW, IT'S FINE, BUT, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, WITH $1 MILLION, HOW MANY TREES IS THAT, AND HOW MUCH, UH, LABOR WOULD IT COST? RIGHT? SO FOR THE FOLKS THAT WE'RE PLANNING TO PLANT THE TREES, UM, HOW, HOW MUCH IMPACT CAN WE HAVE WITH $1 MILLION? UM, IF WE HAVE A, A VISION AND INTENTION TO, TO PRIORITIZE MITIGATING THE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT
SO, UM, WE CAN GET FOLLOW UP AGAIN, UH, AND, AND GET YOU AN ANSWER, BUT RIGHT NOW WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LIKE OUR EQUITY TREE PROGRAM, THAT TREE, EVERYTHING, THE, THE INSTALLATION, THE LABOR, THE TREE ITSELF, UH, WE'RE RIGHT AT ABOUT 600, $650 A TREE.
SO WE COULD DO THE MATH BASED ON THAT SCALE.
AND PREFERABLY IF WE CAN GET THAT BY MONDAY, THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL, UM, TO HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW IMPACTFUL 1 MILLION CAN BE.
THAT, THAT'S EASY INFORMATION AGAIN.
WE HAVE A LOT OF DATA FOR, FOR WHAT OUR TREES INVESTMENTS HAVE BEEN.
UM, FOR SENIOR ACTIVITIES, WOULD THAT FUNDING BE THROUGH, THROUGH PARKS FOR PARK SENIOR ACTIVITIES? SO THESE, OR WOULD IT BE THROUGH D H S, UH, POLY PARTNERSHIP? SO WE DO HAVE ADULT AND SENIOR CENTERS.
UH, WE DO COLLABORATE WITH MELODY WOOSLEY AND HER TEAM, UM, SPECIFIC IN THIS, UH, BUDGET WE ALREADY HAVE BUILT IN WHERE WE HAVE OUR ADULT AND SENIOR CENTER.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, AT NORMAL OIL, WE, WE SHARE IN THAT SOME OF IT SITS IN HER BUDGET.
UM, AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, I SAID THANK YOU, TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
THANK Y'ALL TOO, BUT I MEANT VIAS, UH, DEPARTMENT.
UM, ONE, ONE I WANTED TO ADD, UM, YOUR QUESTION REGARDING ABOUT THE, THE NON-SERVICE ALLEYS AND, AND HOW THE WORK COULD BE DISTRIBUTED, AND RAZZI TALKED ABOUT THE INVENTORY THAT'S UNDERWAY.
THE OTHER TWO AREAS THAT I THINK WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION IS THAT THERE ARE SOME ALLEYS, AND YOU PROBABLY KNOW WHERE THEY'RE AT, WHERE WE HAVE SIGNIFICANT, UM, MAINTENANCE OR, UM, CODE ISSUES.
THOSE LIKELY WILL BE PRIORITIZED.
AND THEN IN THE, THE THIRD AREA, UH, AS THE COUNCIL SEES THE, UM, REPORT FROM U T S A IN THE, IN THE FALL THAT, UH, WE'VE ASKED THEM TO DO REGARDING VIOLENT CRIME, IT'S REALLY, I I, I SUSPECT THAT WE WILL, WE, 'CAUSE WE'VE ASKED THEM TO LOOK AT THE OTHER QUALITY OF LIFE MEASURES.
WE COULD SEE STREET LIGHTING ISSUES OR NEEDS.
UM, THE ALLEYS COULD BE, UM, AND I DON'T, I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING BUT, UM, ADDITIONAL ALLEY WORK IN ORDER TO SECURE AND CLEAN MAY HELP IN THAT, THAT ASPECT.
UM, AND THEN, UH, LASTLY, UM, AND I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THIS, UM, EARLIER IN THE PRESENTATION, BUT REGARDING YOUR FOLLOW-UP, UM, WE'LL DO, WHAT WE'LL DO IS, UM, WE WILL SUBMIT BACK TO THE COUNCIL ALL THE FOLLOW-UP THAT WE'RE NOT ABLE TO ANSWER HERE IN ONE MEMO.
THAT WAY YOU'VE GOT IT ALL IN ONE PLACE.
AND, AND TRY TO GET THAT TO YOU GUYS QUICKLY.
AND CAN I PLEASE HAVE STAFF, UH, PULL UP THE VISUAL OF THE, UH, HEAT ISLAND MAP OF SAN ANTONIO THAT I PROVIDED THEM WITH? SO, UH, I WANNA TALK ABOUT TREE MITIGATION AS WELL, HOMER.
UM, I THINK YOU WOULD BUDGET, WHAT I SAW WAS THAT YOU BUDGETED FOR FIVE YEARS.
AND THE THING ABOUT THE TREE MITIGATION FUND IS WE'RE SUPPOSED TO REPLACE TREES THAT WERE CUT DOWN.
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FIRST ENVISIONED AND WHEN THE TREE MITIGATION FUND WAS CREATED, I'M HOPING THAT THE PEOPLE WHO DID THAT WEREN'T THINKING, HEY, IF WE CUT DOWN A TREE THIS YEAR, WE'LL REPLACE IT IN FIVE YEARS.YOU KNOW, AND I, SO I, IT'S MY STRONG BELIEF THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN MONEY GOES INTO A TREE MITIGATION FUND, IT BE, SHOULD BE SPENT DOWN THAT YEAR.
AND I KNOW WE HAD AN AWKWARD CONVERSATION THE LAST TIME I BROUGHT UP THE TEA TREE MITIGATION FUND, UM, FROM THE DIOCESE.
BUT, UH, IT, IT JUST, IF WE'RE ONLY USING THEM FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS, THEN IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE ONLY USING THE TREE MITIGATION FUND TO SAVE THE CITY MONEY, BUT NOT TO ACTUALLY REPLACE CANOPY.
SO I, I'VE LOOKED UP A LITTLE BIT ON THIS, AND I FOUND A STUDY THAT SHOWED THAT BETWEEN 2009, 2018, IN THAT DECADE, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO LOST 10,000 TREES.
I MEAN 10,000 ACRES OF CANOPY PER YEAR.
AND WHEN YOU LOSE THAT CANOPY, I MEAN, THIS IS WHAT YOU START TO SEE ON THIS MAP, RIGHT? I MEAN, IT'S A, THAT MAP IS A REPRESENT REPRESENTATION OF A COMBINATION OF A HISTORY OF REDLINING, DISINVESTMENT IN CERTAIN AREAS, CUTTING DOWN TREES AND REPLACING THEM WITH ASPHALT AND, AND CONCRETE.
AND I DON'T THINK THAT, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, IF WE'RE GONNA SPEND A MILLION DOLLARS ON TREES, HOW MANY, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW MANY ACRES OF TREES CAN YOU, CAN YOU PLANT WITH A MILLION DOLLARS? I JUST GOOGLED IT AND I CAME UP WITH 31 ACRES.
SO IF WE'RE LOSING 10,000 ACRES OF, OF CANOPY A YEAR, BUT WE'RE REPLACING IT WITH 31 ACRES, BUT WE'RE TAKING UP TO FIVE YEARS TO DO THAT, WE'RE LOSING GROUND IN A BAD WAY.
AND SO WE REALLY NEED TO FIND A WAY TO INVEST MORE AND TO GO BEYOND TREE MITIGATION.
UM, I, I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO, FOR THE COUNCIL TO BE BRIEFED ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT ALL THE GUIDELINES ARE, UM, ON THE TREE MITIGATION FUND SO WE CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, HOW FLEXIBLE IT IS AND WHAT MORE WE CAN DO WITH IT.
UM, HONESTLY, I, I'D LIKE TO SEE IN THE BUDGET, ERIC, UH, THAT WE WERE, ARE HIRING STAFF TO PLANT TREES AND BUYING EQUIPMENT TO BE ABLE TO PLANT THEM LIKE A SKID STEER WITH AN AUGER AND A BUCKET SO WE CAN, SO WE CAN DRILL A LOT OF HOLES AND PLANT THEM QUICKLY SO THAT WE CAN, UH, YOU KNOW, GET THE MULCH OVER TO THEM.
UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, 10, LOSING 10,000 ACRES A YEAR AND REPLACING 31 ACRES, BUT MAYBE TAKING FIVE YEARS TO DO THAT, OR I GUESS IT WOULD BE 31 A YEAR.
UM, THEN SHADE STRUCTURE WAS BROUGHT UP AS WELL.
I KEEP ASKING ABOUT THIS SOLAR R F P I DON'T KNOW, UH, IF, UH, DAVID MCC CAREY'S HERE, I THINK, UH, I CALLED SOMEBODY IN THE SOLAR INDUSTRY AND I REMEMBER THAT, UH, I, I ASKED THEM WHEN THEIR BIRTHDAY WAS BECAUSE I REMEMBER PROMISING THEM THAT WE WOULD GET THAT SOLAR R F P OUT BY THEIR BIRTHDAY.
THEIR BIRTHDAY WAS THREE MONTHS AGO, AND WE WERE, WE AS A COUNCIL AGREED TO EXPEDITE THAT R F P I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS FOUR MONTHS AGO, FIVE MONTHS AGO.
UM, BUT WITH THAT SOLAR R F P, WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO PROVIDE A LOT OF SHADE STRUCTURE IN DIFFERENT AREAS WHERE WE NEED, UM, BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO BUILD OUT A LOT OF SOLAR.
AND SO THERE'S GONNA BE OPPORTUNITIES TO, UH, YOU KNOW, PUT SHADE STRUCTURE ON OVER, LET'S SAY BASKETBALL COURTS AT PARKS.
WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO, UM, IN DIFFERENT AREAS, MAYBE ALONGSIDE SWIMMING POOL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE, WHERE PEOPLE HAVE ASKED.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN GIMME AN UPDATE ON THAT.
UM, WE, WE HAVE A, A DRAFT DONE.
WE HAVE A MEETING NEXT WEEK, UH, DAVID MCCARRY AND I WITH TROY AND BEN TO JUST, UM, ONE FINAL REVIEW.
SO HOPEFULLY THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO PULL THE TRIGGER AND GET IT OUT.
I'D LIKE TO TALK MORE ABOUT THAT, BUT I DON'T WANNA GET OFF AGENDA.
UM, THEN ON, UM, CITY LIGHTING, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I, I BELIEVE THAT THE STREET LIGHTING INDEX STUDY IS COMPLETE NOW, AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE ADEQUATE FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO START IMPLEMENTING, UH, LIGHTING WHERE WE HAVE GAPS.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY CAN SPEAK TO THAT COUNCILMAN.
THAT'LL BE, UH, INCLUDED IN THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES PRESENTATION.
I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT BE UNDER PUBLIC WORKS.
UM, AND THEN, UH, I SAW IN THAT PRESENTATION THAT THERE'S GONNA BE FUNDING, UM, AS NECESSARY TO SUPPORT VIA FOR THE EAST WEST CORRIDOR.
AND I KNOW I TOLD MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO THE EAST AND WEST OF ME THAT, UH, I WOULD FULLY SUPPORT THAT AND I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT IN THERE.
AND I STAND BY THAT STATEMENT.
I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THAT.
AND, UH, OH, AND THEN THE FINAL ONE IS, UH, SWIMMING POOLS.
I, I WILL, YOU KNOW, I I THINK, UH, HOMER, YOU'VE HEARD FROM ME ABOUT THIS, AND I KNOW ERIC, YOUR TEAM IS WORKING ON IT, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE IT PUBLIC THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO EXTEND OUR SWIMMING POOL SEASONS AND TO EXTEND
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THE HOURS EACH DAY.UH, AGAIN, POINTING TO THAT, UH, THAT URBAN HEAT ISLAND MAP, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S A CHALLENGE.
OUR, WE IN JULY, UH, OUR USUAL JULYS ARE TWO DAYS OF, UH, DEGREES THAT ARE A HUNDRED DEGREES ARE OVER, AND WE HAD 17 THIS LAST JULY.
I THINK WE'RE GONNA SEE MORE WEATHER LIKE THAT.
AND WE NEED TO OPEN OUR POOLS FOR LONGER HOURS EACH DAY, MORE DAYS OF THE WEEK, AND OPEN THEM EARLIER IN THE YEAR.
KEEP THEM LATER OPEN LATER IN THE YEAR.
THANK YOU, DISTRICT COUNCILMAN VRAN.
UM, AND I WAS TOLD WE COULD CHIME IN THREE TIMES, SO I'M GONNA TAKE MY SWEET TIME WITH RAZZIE.
IF YOU COULD COME UP, IF WE START ON SLIDE NUMBER SIX, UH, STREET MAINTENANCE AND I'LL JUST, UM, I'LL REMIND YOU, BUT, YOU KNOW, UM, AND THANK YOU TO MY COUNCIL MEMBER FOR REMINDING ME THAT I SIT NOW AT NUMBER FOUR FOR F STREETS, BUT NUMBER ONE FOR SIDEWALK GAPS.
AND NOW IT LOOKS LIKE I'M NUMBER TWO IN NON-USE ALLEYWAYS.
SO I THINK WE JUST NEED TO KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE AND STREETS IS THAT DISTRICT THREE IS IS UP THERE AND SOME OF MY OTHER DISTRICTS ARE TOO, UH, AND, AND LACKING IN, IN ALL THESE AREAS.
AND, UM, WELL, I APPRECIATE THE MONIES FOR, UH, THE F STREETS.
I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE FOR SIDEWALK GAPS AND, AND REPAIRS.
UH, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, UH, ON SLIDE SEVEN, UH, WITH THE SIDEWALK PROGRAM, I THINK IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT THE FUNDING THAT WE HAVE PUT FROM OUR OVERAGES THAT 6 MILLION REMAINS IN THIS BUDGET.
AND I KNOW THAT CONVERSATION WAS HAD YESTERDAY ABOUT MOVING THINGS AROUND, BUT I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT'S IMPORTANT.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER, UH, QUESTION, WHEN WE GET TO NUMBER NINE, I KNOW THAT WE, WE HAVE I M P STAFFING.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT THESE SIX NEW POSITIONS, KIND OF, WHAT THEIR ROLES ARE GOING TO BE? THEY ARE GOING TO BASICALLY WORK WITH THE COUNCIL'S OFFICE TO DEVELOP THESE PROJECT LISTS FOR I M P STREETS AND THIS SIDEWALK AND CREATE A PROJECT DOCUMENT TO ADVERTISE COMMUNICATION WITH THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO EFFECTIVE WITH THIS PROJECT DURING THE CONSTRUCTION, MANAGE THE PROJECT, CLOSE OUT THE PROJECT, DO THE PUNCH LIST, AND, AND ANYTHING REALLY RELATED FOR PROJECT DELIVERY.
AND I THINK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE I KNOW IN MY DISTRICT WE HAVE SEEN DELAYS ON GOAD GOING OVER THE TIMEFRAME.
WE'VE HAD ISSUES ON, ON SIMPLE SIDEWALK REPAIRS BECAUSE WE ARE, WE ARE IN AREAS THAT WE ARE YOU THE CONTRACTORS AND THE CITY IS NOT SURE WHAT THEY'RE GETTING.
SO I'M, I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE GONNA MOVE FORWARD IN THESE NEW POSITIONS BECAUSE I THINK AS SOON AS WE SEE A PROBLEM, WE NEED TO ADJUST THAT TIMEFRAME FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
UM, ON SLIDE 10, UH, THE NON-SERVICE ALLEYWAYS, IF I COULD JUST GET A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT THOSE, UM, THOSE 17 ALLEYWAYS, HOW MANY ARE IN DISTRICT THREE AND, AND YOU CAN DO THIS OFFLINE.
AND, UM, WHEN WE'RE PLANNING TO GO INTO THE NEIGHBORS TO WORK ON, ON THOSE ALLEYWAYS, I'D GREATLY APPRECIATE THAT.
UM, THOSE NON-SERVICE ALLEYWAYS, AND THIS IS A WIDER CONVERSATION TO HAVE, IS I HAVE GOT RESIDENTS BECAUSE THEY'RE NON-SERVICE ALLEYWAYS THAT ARE KIND OF USING THEM FOR BACKYARD FUN OR STORAGE OR THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO I THINK AS WE, WE LOOK AT THOSE NON-SERVICE ALLEYWAYS, UM, THAT WE, WE KIND OF MANAGE HOW RESIDENTS ARE USING THEM CURRENTLY.
I KNOW WE HAD A ZONING ISSUE WHERE SOMEONE HAD PUT UP A FENCE AND THEN WE HAD TO GO IN, UH, AND MAKE SURE THAT FENCE WAS TAKEN DOWN.
'CAUSE IT WASN'T THEIR PROPERTY.
IT WAS, IT WAS AN ALLEYWAY AND IT DIDN'T BELONG TO THEM.
SO COUNCILWOMAN, LET ME JUST ADD ON THAT ONE.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE ARE HOPING TO DO, IF WE IDENTIFY, EXCUSE ME, ANY ALLEY IS NOT REALLY USED BY ANY UTILITY OR US, OUR PLAN IS TO TALK WITH THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER.
MAYBE EITHER HAVE THEM TO MOVE
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THE FENCE IN THE CENTER OF THE ALLEY, OR MAYBE EVEN US TO MOVE ON THEIR BEHALF TO ELIMINATE THAT NON-SERVICE ALLEY.AS LONG AS THERE IS GOING TO CAUSE PROBLEM AND GOING TO CAUSE US COST TO REPAIR IT.
I THINK THE BEST THING TO DO TO REALLY, IF THERE'S NOBODY USING, GIVE THAT PROPERTY TO ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER AND ELIMINATE ONE TIME FOR ALL.
AND I, AND I REALLY, I CAN REALLY GET BEHIND THAT IDEA BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY, AND, UH, I THINK THE RESIDENTS IN MY COMMUNITY WOULD, WOULD BE AMENABLE TO THAT TOO ON THE, VIA METROPOLITAN DISTRICT ON SLIDE 11, I THINK THE ONE THING IS, AS MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES WERE TALKING ABOUT, I, I LOVE WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE EAST WEST CORRIDOR AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT AS MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES WERE TALKING ABOUT THE, UM, HEAT ISLANDS AND THE SHADE, IS THERE ANY WAY, AND ERIC, THIS MIGHT BE FOR MORE FOR YOU OR TRANSPORTATION THAT WE COULD GET VIA TO IDENTIFY THE BUS STOPS THAT DO NOT HAVE ANY SORT OF SHADE OR DO NOT HAVE SEATING AREA.
CAN WE GET THAT? JEFF, DO YOU, UH, JEFF'S ARNS IN THE AUDIENCE? MAYBE THEY MAY ACTUALLY HAVE THAT, I'M SURE.
WE HAVE A LIST OF ALL OUR STOPS AND WE OBVIOUSLY KNOW WHERE OUR SHELTERS ARE.
WE HAVE, UH, JUST F Y I, WE HAVE SHELTERS AT ABOUT 25 TO 30% OF OUR STOPS.
THIS COMPARES TO HOUSTON OR LOS ANGELES AT ABOUT 10%.
SO WE HAVE STOPS, WE HAVE SHELTERS AT STOPS WITH AT LEAST I THINK FIVE BOARDINGS A DAY UNLESS WE PHYSICALLY CAN'T DO IT.
AND THAT'S WHERE THE BIGGEST, UM, CHALLENGE WE FACE IS THERE ARE PLACES WHERE WE PHYSICALLY DON'T HAVE ROOM TO PUT A SHELTER.
AND I THINK, UH, IF WE COULD GET THAT LIST, BECAUSE I KNOW I HAVE NEIGHBORS AND, UH, COMMUNITY PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES THAT WOULD BE WILLING TO HELP MM-HMM.
TRAFFIC SIGNALS MY FAVORITE YO, THOUGH, Y'ALL KEEP ON TELLING ME I I CAN'T HAVE THE ONES THAT I WANT.
SO WE ARE GETTING A MILLION DOLLARS IN GRANTS FOR THE INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC SYSTEM.
UH, DO WE KNOW WHERE THOSE DEVICES WILL BE PLACED AND HOW WE DETERMINE THE PLACEMENT AND WHY DISTRICT THREE DOESN'T GET ANYMORE
I, I JUST, UM, I THINK, I THINK TRAFFIC SIGNALS ARE A GREAT USE OF SLOWING DOWN TRAFFIC AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S, THERE'S STREETS AND I KNOW MY, MY ISSUE IS I HAVE A LOT OF TEX HIGHWAYS ON, ON MY, UM, IN MY DISTRICT, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD THAT AND ON, UM, UH, THE NAP, I, I'M VERY PLEASED WITH HOW THAT'S WORKING AND, UH, JUST APPRECIATE ALL THE GOOD WORK THAT YOU HAVE.
THE ONLY THING THAT I WANTED TO KIND OF BRING UP IS THAT, UM, THAT DRAINAGE ISSUE ALMOST, UH, ALMOST, DAMN, I LOVE THAT WE'RE HAVING IMPROVEMENTS, BUT EVERYTHING FROM THERE, UM, KIND OF GOES DOWN TO THE MISSION REACH AREA.
SO DO WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER AUTHORITY ABOUT HOW WE ARE GOING TO, UM, MAINTAIN THAT IF, IF DEBRIS OR, UH, IF BASED ON THE IMPROVEMENTS WE, WE SEE SOME PROBLEMS OR SOME FLOODING? WE DO HAVE AGREEMENT AND THEY MAINTAIN FOR US THE ANYTHING SOUTH OF THE OUTLET.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE KEPT IN THE LOOP ABOUT THE, THE, THE WHAT COULD BE COMING DOWN FROM ANY IMPROVEMENT THAT, THAT WE'RE DOING UP NORTH.
UH, I'VE GOT TWO MINUTES LEFT AND I THINK I WILL, I'LL, I WILL SKIP TO, IS TROY STILL HERE? AND THEN I'LL COME BACK.
I'LL, I'LL CHIME BACK IN FOR PARKS.
TROY, YOU MENTIONED, UH, THE INTERIM FOR THE AIRPORT.
UM, HOW LONG IS THAT FOR? AND, UH, WILL WE BE IN GOOD SHAPE MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR, OUR AIRPORT BUDGET? AS FAR AS THE AIRPORT BUDGET OR THE CAPITAL BUDGET? I MEAN THE, THE CAPITAL BUDGET.
WE, I MEAN WE'RE WORKING ON THAT RIGHT NOW AS FAR WITH THE AIRPORT, AS FAR AS THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT TEST.
AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THEM, WE WILL DEVELOP A PLAN OF FINANCE AND BRING THAT BACK TO THE COUNCIL TO MAKE SURE THAT Y'ALL ARE COMFORTABLE WITH IT, AND SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY, UM, TAKE OUT THE INTERIM FINANCE WITH PERMANENT FINANCING AND FUND THE AIRPORT.
I I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEPT TO UP TO DATE ON THAT BECAUSE THE, IM THE AIRPORT IS SO IMPORTANT TO, UM, OUR TRAVEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY, OUR HOSPITALITY
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INDUSTRY, HOW WE GET PEOPLE HERE, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEIR FINANCING IS READY TO GO.UH, LET ME START OFF WITH RAZZIE.
UM, WELL, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING SOME INFRASTRUCTURE WORK ON, UM, ON STREETS AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING F STREETS.
UH, WOULD A PAPER STREET BE CONSIDERED AN F STREET IF, FOR EXAMPLE, AN APARTMENT COMPLEX DEVELOPED PART OF THE STREET AND A HOUSING OWNER DEVELOPED ANOTHER PART OF THE STREET, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IN BETWEEN IS NOT DEVELOPED? COULD THAT BE CONSIDERED AN F STREET AND BECOME A, A PROJECT FOR F STREET FUNDING? UNFORTUNATELY NOT.
THE, IF STREET IS REALLY IS STREET WAS BUILT MANY YEARS AGO AND IS COMPLETELY DETERIORATED.
PAPER STREET BASICALLY IS REALLY NOT STREET, JUST PAPER STREET.
'CAUSE I HAVE A COUPLE OF THOSE IN MY DISTRICT AND I WAS JUST, WELL, HOW CAN WE GET THOSE DONE? AND I WAS THINKING THEY ARE FAILING STREETS.
'CAUSE YOU CAN ONLY DRIVE ON PART OF THEM, BUT THEY'RE NOT REGISTERED BY THE CITY AS AN F STREET.
BUT WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING AS A STREET RIGHT? THERE IS, YEAH, THERE IS SOME STREET AND IT'S GOT BOLLARDS THAT BLOCK PART OF IT AND YOU KNOW, AND, UH, A HOMEOWNER HAD TO ACTUALLY PUT IN PART OF THE STREET THEMSELVES THEY WERE REQUIRED TO, AND A APARTMENT COMPLEX NEARBY HAD TO PUT IN PART OF A STREET.
BUT THE WHOLE STREET ISN'T COMPLETE PART OF STREET AND IT'S NOT A CITY OFF.
IT'S LISTED AS CITY STREET, SO.
WE CAN, WE CAN WORK WITH YOU ON THOSE.
UM, LAST YEAR'S BUDGET INCLUDED, UH, CITY CREW TO FOCUS ON REPAIRING EXISTING SIDEWALKS.
UH, ARE WE ADDING ANY OTHER TEAMS TO DO THAT OR ARE WE JUST GONNA LET ONE SIDEWALK TEAM SERVE THE WHOLE CITY? WE HAVE TODAY ONLY ONE SIDEWALK TEAM TO DO THE REPAIR.
AND SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL SIDEWALK TEAMS IN THIS BUDGET.
NOT TO REPAIR, NOT TO REPAIR BECAUSE I, I THINK WE WERE TRYING TO SAY WE WANTED TO GET OUT THERE AND DO REPAIR ON STREETS, UH, I MEAN ON SIDEWALKS MM-HMM.
BUT ONE TEAM TO SERVE THE WHOLE CITY IS UNREALISTIC.
AND I THOUGHT I HEARD A DISCUSSION ABOUT ADDING ANOTHER TEAM.
WE ARE ADDING A STAFF TO ASSIST ON THE MANAGING THE SIDEWALK PROGRAM AND SS M P PROGRAM, NOT REALLY BUILDING IT WELL, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GONNA ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO SAY, I'D LIKE TO HAVE PART OF MY SIDEWALK FIXED AND IT NEEDS TO BE DONE, I'D LIKE TO SEE THE RECORD OF THE TEAM THAT'S BEEN IN PLACE, HOW MUCH THEY'VE ACCOMPLISHED AND MAYBE HOW MANY ASKS THAT THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO GET TO BEFORE WE SAY WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER TEAM IN THAT AREA.
SO I'D JUST LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT.
UM, UH, A LOT OF TIMES RIGHT NOW THE INTENT OF NAMP NAMP IS TO GO AHEAD AND BE NIMBLE AND RESPONSIVE TO RESIDENTS FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, MOVING AROUND THE DISTRICT, WHETHER IT'S, UH, IMPROVING A STREET OR A SIDEWALK OR WHATEVER.
BUT CURRENTLY THE PROCESS SEEMS TO TAKE SO LONG WITH SO MUCH RED TAPE TO DO A NAMP PROJECT.
I'VE GOT A COUPLE THAT HAVE TAKEN A REALLY LONG TIME.
SO HOW CAN IT BE NIMBLE OR RESPONSIBLE, UH, YOU KNOW, AS, AS A SPECIAL PROJECT FOR THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS WHEN IT TAKES SO LONG? UH, HOW ARE NAMP TREATED IN COMPARISON TO ANY OTHER PROJECT THAT'S ON YOUR LIST OF, OF STREETS OR SIDEWALK PROJECTS THAT HAVE, THAT HAVE COME UP? COUNCILMAN WHEN YOU IDENTIFY A PROJECT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND FUNDED BY NAPP, WE HAVE THE CONGRESS MEMO SIGNED BY YOU OR ANY OTHER CONSULT DISTRICT AND DEPEND OF THE NATURE OF THE WORK WE HAVE ON-CALL CONTRACTORS GOING TO BE CONCRETE WORKER S WELL WORK, WE START SHORTLY AFTER THAT REALLY PROCESSING THAT WORK.
I NEED TO KNOW WHICH ONE IT TOOK LONG TIME FROM YOUR DISTRICT.
WE CAN MAKE SURE WE PUSH IT FORWARD.
GOT A COUPLE OF OTHER NOTES HERE I WANTED TO GO OVER WITH YOU.
UH, NOW YOU SAID THAT I M P HAS BEEN REBALANCED, IS THAT RIGHT? SO THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT, UH, WHAT WAS IN ONE DISTRICT AND NOW MAYBE IN ANOTHER DISTRICT AND
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YOU'VE REORGANIZED THAT FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEAR PLAN, IS THAT RIGHT? COR CORRECT.BECAUSE OF THE REDISTRICTING CHANGED.
HAS THAT BEEN DISSEMINATED TO ALL THE OFFICES YET? I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE THIS, ALL OF THE OFFICES.
SO I'D JUST LIKE TO MAKE SURE WE GET A, TO KIND OF TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.
UM, NOW ONE OF THE THINGS YOU TALKED ABOUT IS ALL WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS SERVICE ALLEYS.
UH, AND YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT ACTUAL STREETS IN, IN MY DISTRICT THAT WERE CONSIDERED PRIVATE.
AND SO THE CITY HAS SAID WE'RE NOT GONNA REDO THOSE STREETS.
AND I THINK THEY HAVE A, A HIGHER, UH, VALUE THAN AN ALLEYWAY.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW WHAT MORE WE CAN DO TO ENSURE THAT STREETS THAT HAVE BEEN PART OF THE CITY FOR 25 YEARS, BUT THEY WERE PRIVATE FOR THE FIRST 10 OR 15 YEARS ARE REALLY GIVEN CONSIDERATION TO HAVE THOSE STREETS REDONE BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PAYING CITY TAXES ALL THIS TIME, BUT THEY'RE TOLD, WELL, YOUR STREET ISN'T UP TO PAR.
I KNOW THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT USES IT ALL THE TIME, BUT WE CAN'T GO AHEAD AND TAKE OVER REDOING THAT STREET.
SO THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME CONCERN OF MINE AND WHEN WE START SAYING WE'LL HAVE MILLIONS FOR ALLEYS THAT AREN'T REALLY PUBLIC STREETS, UH, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT NOT TAKING THE SAME TIME TO PAY ATTENTION TO ACTUAL STREETS THAT OUR CITIZENS DRIVE ON EVERY DAY AND LIVE ON, UH, THAT THEY'VE BEEN PAYING TAXES FOR THAT CAN'T GET RESURFACED.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A WAY TO, UH, INVESTIGATE THAT SOME MORE AND LOOK AT SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO HANDLE SOME OF THAT, BUT, UH, THAT'S BEEN A LONG TERM CONCERN OF MINE.
COUNCILMAN, IF YOU CAN SHARE THOSE LOCATIONS, I CAN'T IMAGINE THERE ARE TOO MANY OF THOSE RIGHT AROUND, BUT IF YOU CAN SHARE THOSE LOCATIONS, THAT'D BE HELPFUL.
UH, I THINK, UM, THAT'S PROBABLY IT WITH RAZZIE RIGHT NOW.
LET ME GO AHEAD AND, UH, ASK HOMER TO COME UP.
HEY HOMER, HOW YOU DOING? GOOD AFTERNOON.
UM, ON PAGE 207 OF THE LARGER DOCUMENT, UH, THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVEN ON THE BUDGET, I NOTICED THAT THE ESTIMATION FOR MITIGATION FEES ARE LIKE TWO OR 3 MILLION BELOW WHAT THEY'VE BEEN THE LAST FEW YEARS.
AND I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY DECLINE IN DEVELOPMENT.
SO WHY ARE WE GOING FROM, UH, MITIGATION FEE OF 7,400,000 IN 2022 TO LESS THAN HALF OF THAT 3 MILLION, 300,000 IN 2023? SO, UH, COUNCIL, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT AND MAKING THOSE REVENUE PROJECTIONS, WE DO TAKE A HISTORICAL LOOK AT IT CLEARLY, AND I THINK THIS CURRENT YEAR IS AN EXAMPLE WHERE WE HAVE AN OUTLIER.
WE HAD AN ITEM COME TO COUNCIL WHERE THERE WAS A QUICK INFUSION OF THOSE DOLLARS.
SO BARRING THAT AS BEING NOT THE NORM, WE KIND OF TAKE THE OUTLIERS OUT AND CONSISTENT WITH HOW WE PROJECT OTHER REVENUES, WE DO TAKE A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH BECAUSE WE DON'T WANNA APPROPRIATE MORE THAN WE THINK IS GONNA COME INTO THE FUND.
NOW THAT BEING SAID, WE ALSO UPDATE THOSE PROJECTIONS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AND WE WORK WITH JUSTINA AND HER TEAM.
SO WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS REALLY BASED ON, UH, THAT METHODOLOGY.
UH, BUT FOR OUR PLAN FOCUS THAT IS SCALABLE.
I MEAN, THE NEED IS ALWAYS GREATER THAN, UM, THE RESOURCE, BUT JUSTINA MAY WANT TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
UH, THE YEAR BEFORE IN 2021, IT WAS OVER 5 MILLION AND THIS IS PREDICTED TO BE 3.3.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE BASE DECISIONS ON THE PREDICTIONS THAT YOU'RE LAYING OUT IN FRONT OF US.
AND THAT'S A PRETTY OFF PREDICTION, I THOUGHT.
SO, COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, FOR 2022, INCLUDED IN THE RE-ESTIMATE, WE HAVE ABOUT ALMOST TWO, $3 MILLION FROM TWO PROJECTS.
AND THAT ONE PROJECT, UM, GENERATED ABOUT $1.4 MILLION IN MITIGATION FEE.
SO THOSE ARE THE HIGHEST, UH, MITIGATION PAYMENTS THAT WE HAVE SEEN OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
AND IF 2021 WAS NOT AN OUTLIER, IT WAS FIVE.
SO I, YOU KNOW, I JUST HATE TO SEE US UNDERESTIMATE, UH, REVENUE BECAUSE THAT MEANS THAT WE'RE KIND OF LIMITED IN, IN EXPENDITURES WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA EXPEND THAT MONEY.
SO I JUST WANTED TO FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE JUSTIFICATION WAS WITH THAT.
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UH, I KNOW THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING MORE WITH THE MITIGATION FUNDS AND TREES, AND I THINK THAT'S WHY I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE, UH, A, A BETTER ESTIMATE, UH, SO THAT WE CAN MAKE MORE PLANS TO GET MORE TREES OUT.UH, I'M ALL FOR THE IDEA OF TRYING TO COOL OFF THOSE HEAT ISLANDS AROUND THE COMMUNITY.
YOU SAID A WHILE AGO THAT, UH, WHAT WE'RE PLANNING ON DOING IS IF I PRESUME A RESIDENT SAYS WE DON'T HAVE ANY TREES, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE TREES, UH, THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT SAYING WE CAN PUT TWO TREES IN YOUR PROPERTY.
IS THAT HOW THAT'S GONNA WORK? CORRECT.
SO WE CANVAS ALL OF THOSE QUALIFIED HOMES WITHIN THOSE CENSUS TRACKS.
IT, IT IS, AT THE END OF THE DAY, VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION.
WE GO OUT AND IF THEY WANT TWO TREES, WE, WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
UM, ONE THING I WAS MY TIME THAT'S, DID THAT MY TIME RUN OUT THAT FAST? IS THAT RIGHT? OKAY, THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.
IT DIDN'T SEEM LIKE IT, BUT I'LL BE BACK.
I WAS GONNA WAIT TILL THE SECOND OR THIRD ROUND BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING, BUT NO, I'LL TAKE MY TIME NOW,
UH, PUBLIC WORKS, RAZZI, I GOT A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU HERE ON, UH, SLIDE 20.
AND I THINK YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT, BUT, UH, THOSE 20 EXTRA POSITIONS THERE, UM, DIDN'T WE TAKE ON T UH, I DON'T REMEMBER THE NUMBER.
DIDN'T WE TAKE ON ADDITIONAL POSITION? HAVEN'T WE TAKEN ON ADDITIONAL POSITIONS OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS SINCE THE LAST BOND WE DID? FEW POSITION YEAR AFTER 2017.
HOW MANY WAS THAT? I BELIEVE IT WAS 11 OR 12 POSITION.
BUT SINCE THIS BOND IS 41% LARGER THAN PREVIOUS BOND, 110 MILLION FOR HOUSING, WE NEVER HAD, WE HAD 20 MILLION, 100 MILLION FOR F STREET.
WE NEVER HAD PART OF THE BOND.
103 MILLION FOR LINEAR GREEN BAY.
IN ADDITION, THIS IS JUST BOND.
YOU REMEMBER, WE ARE GETTING ADDITIONAL 38 MILLION FROM STORMWATER REGIONAL FUND.
'CAUSE OUR BOND IS 1.2, THEN WE ARE GETTING SOME RS FUNDING.
OUR CAPITAL PROJECT IS GOING TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN 1.2 BILLION FROM BOND.
UM, IT JUST SEEMS A LITTLE BIT HIGH COMPARED TO WHAT WE ADDED LAST TIME AFTER THE BOND.
UM, I, I'LL I, I'VE GOT SOME ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, BUT I'M NOT GONNA TAKE THE TIME HERE.
THIS WILL IMPROVE COUNCILMAN FOR OUR PROJECT DELIVERY.
SIGNIFICANTLY GOOD COMMUNICATION WITH COMMUNITY CLOSEOUT PROJECT ON TIME.
WE'LL, WE'LL GET TO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT.
UM, AND I UNDERSTAND SLIDE FOUR WHERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE DECREASE IN THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS, UM, UH, ON SLIDE FIVE, UH, PAVEMENT MARKINGS.
AND I'M, I'M GETTING, UM, COMMENTS FROM MY RESIDENTS ABOUT PAVEMENT MARKINGS.
IN FACT, I THINK YOU HAD A QUESTION ABOUT PAVEMENT MARKINGS THE OTHER NIGHT, DIDN'T YOU? UM, I THOUGHT WE, I THOUGHT WE HAD A THREE YEAR CYCLE, NOT A FIVE YEAR CYCLE.
WE HAVE THREE YEAR CYCLE FOR BUSINESS DISTRICT, WHICH IS DOWNTOWN AND PRIMARY ARTERIAL.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS FIVE YEARS.
IF WE WANNA DO THREE YEARS FOR EVERY PLACE, WE NEED MORE FUNDING.
WELL, UM, I, YEAH, E EVEN IN THAT, MAYBE WE NEED TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE THE THREE YEAR CYCLE, EVEN FOR THOSE HEAVIER MAIN ARTERIES THAT, UM, ARE WELL TRAVELED AROUND THE CITY, I MEAN, WE CAN SEE THE LAST THREE YEARS THAT, UM, IT JUST DOESN'T LAST.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S NEW PRODUCTS OUT THERE THAT WE CAN, UH, INVESTIGATE OR DIFFERENT METHOD OR WHATEVER, BUT THE PAVEMENT MARKINGS DON'T LAST LONG HERE AT ALL.
WHENEVER WE DO SS M P OR BOND PROJECT, THOSE PROJECT DOES ALSO PAVEMENT MARKING.
THIS IS ADDITION FOR ANY ROADWAY.
THIS WILL BE DONE ON THOSE ROADWAY.
WELL, THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT HELD HOLDING UP EITHER.
SO IF WE COULD TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THAT.
AND, UM, MR. WALSH, I'M GONNA TALK TO YOU ON THIS ONE.
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BEEN ASKING THIS QUESTION, UM, ABOUT OUR STREETS PROGRAM, 2000 AND WAS IT 20 OR 21? WE WHACKED OUT $50 MILLION OUT OF OUR STREETS PROGRAM AND WE'VE NEVER MADE UP THAT $50 MILLION, UM, SINCE THEN, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT JUST WENT AWAY AND WE JUST PUSHED THOSE PROGRAMS OUT, UM, YOU KNOW, OVER TIME AND HOW ARE WE EVER GONNA MAKE UP THAT $50 MILLION? ARE WE EVER, OTHER THAN THERE IS AN INCREMENTAL INCREASE FROM 110 TO 116, BUT THAT $50 MILLION REALLY HURT BACK IN 2020 IN OUR OVERALL STREET PROGRAM.SO, UM, FOR THE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WERE NOT ON THE COUNCIL AT THAT TIME, UM, DURING, UH, THE SPRING OF THE PANDEMIC WHEN REVENUES WERE DECREASING, WE DELAYED A LITTLE OVER $50 MILLION IN STREET WORK TO THE FISCAL YEAR, TO THE FOLLOWING FISCAL YEAR.
THAT'S WHAT COUNCILMAN PERRY IS, UM, UM, REFERRING TO.
AND YOU SEE THAT IN THE DROP THERE FROM, UH, IN 2020 ON THE GRAPH.
WE DELAYED THOSE PROJECTS AND WE MOVED THEM TO THE FOLLOWING FISCAL YEAR.
UM, COUNCILMAN THE, UH, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN THE PAST, UM, WHEN, UH, THE COUNCIL TALKED ABOUT REALLOCATING OR THE ALLOCATION OF ARPA, UM, THAT WAS A QUALIFIABLE EXPENSE, UM, AND, UH, WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE FINAL ARPA FRAMEWORK, $10 MILLION WAS, UM, UH, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH, WITH, UH, FRETS.
THE, THE SHORT ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS THAT DELAY WE HAD TO MAKE UP IN TERMS OF TIME.
BUT, BUT, UM, WE CAN GET THOSE PROJECTS DONE, BUT WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVER THE FACT THAT WE HAD TO DELAY THOSE PROJECTS FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT AND IT PUSHED US BACK.
AND, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY THROUGH THE BOND PROGRAM, WHICH IS THE LARGEST IT'S EVER BEEN, WE WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS, BUT, BUT IT WAS A, A NECESSARY ADJUSTMENT WE NEEDED TO MAKE AND, UM, WE'LL, UH, TRY TO, TRY TO MAKE IT UP WITH, UM, WITH FUTURE BUDGETS.
WELL THAT'S MY HOPE ALSO IS THAT WE CONTINUE TO PUSH TO TRY TO MAKE UP FOR THAT SHORTFALL BACK IN 2020.
IT, IT, THAT, THAT DEVASTATED OUR STREETS PROGRAM.
AND, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THE PLUS UP BACK IN 2021 AND 22 AND 23 NOW, UH, BUT THAT DOESN'T TOTAL UP TO THE $50 MILLION THAT WE JUST KIND OF PUSHED OUT INTO THE FUTURE OUT THERE.
SO I, AGAIN, I'M, I'M MAKING A PLEA TO, UH, YOU KNOW, EVEN IN THIS, THIS BUDGET, IF WE FIND ADDITIONAL SAVINGS SOMEWHERE OR IF WE CAN SQUEEZE IN ADDITIONAL, UM, STREET MAINTENANCE MONEY, I MEAN, THAT STILL SEEMS TO BE THE NUMBER ONE COMPLAINT IN MY DISTRICT.
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER DISTRICTS, BUT STREETS, THEY WANT BETTER STREETS AND, UH, THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GONNA GET THERE IS PUT MORE MONEY TOWARDS IT, EVEN WITH THIS NEXT BOND.
UM, AND THE BOND IS REALLY CONCENTRATING ON, YOU KNOW, UH, WIDENING AND DOING THOSE OTHER TYPES OF, BUT THE DAY-TO-DAY MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF, OF THE, OUR EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THAT ADDED TO THAT $6.6 BILLION BILL THAT WE HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT, THAT REALLY TOOK THE WIND OUTTA THE SAILS THAT, THAT YEAR.
IF, AGAIN, AND I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO, UH, BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THAT ALSO IN THE FUTURE HERE, EVEN IN THIS BUDGET YEAR, THAT WE CAN PUSH MORE IN THAT AREA, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
UM, THIS, THE, ON THE NEXT SLIDE SEVEN, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVEN'T COME TO A DECISION YET ON THAT.
UH, AND I KNOW THIS IS JUST FOR TALKING PURPOSES AND WHERE WE'RE AT, BUT THE, THE SIDEWALKS ABOUT THE C P S C P S MONEY, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M NOT FOR, UH, USING THAT MONEY IN THIS MANNER.
I'M, I'M STILL PUSHING TO REIMBURSE OUR, OUR CUSTOMERS OUT THERE, C P S, UM, THANK YOU.
ON SLIDE NUMBER EIGHT, THE NAMP PROGRAM, MUCH, MUCH NEEDED, AND I THINK I CAN SPEAK FOR ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES HERE.
WE NEED THAT ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR THOSE SMALLER TYPE PROJECTS ACROSS OUR DISTRICTS THAT ARE EASY AND QUICKLY DONE, UH, THAT WE CAN MANAGE BETWEEN OURSELVES AND YOUR STAFF TO GET A LOT OF REALLY GOOD WORK DONE.
I M P STAFFING, THERE'S ANOTHER ONE, SIX NEW POSITIONS AND I THINK, UM, A COLLEAGUE ASKED YOU ABOUT THAT ALSO, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU SAY, UH, WE'LL ENSURE QUAL I MEAN, THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING THAT NOW.
WHY ARE WE GETTING SIX ADDITIONAL POSITIONS IN THE I M P COUNCILMAN? I'M GONNA JUMP
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IN ON THAT ONE FOR, AND I'LL ANSWER FOR RAZZI.UM, WE, OUR, OUR RECOMMEND AND MANY MUCH LIKE COUNCILMAN COURAGES QUESTION ABOUT THE SIDEWALK INTERNAL.
WE NEEDED THE, WE, WE WANTED TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL STREET PROJECT TEAM.
WE, WE ARE DOING, IN SPITE OF OUR, THE 2020 YEAR, WE ARE DOING MORE STREET PROJECTS.
AND, UM, AND, AND, AND FRANKLY THE FOCUS IS TO GET 'EM DONE QUICKER AND SOONER AND MORE EFFICIENTLY.
IT'S BEEN A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME SINCE WE'VE ADDED A PROJECT TEAM PUBLIC WORKS NOT BOND JUST FOR MANAGING OUR MAINTENANCE PROJECTS AND FELT LIKE, UH, WE NEEDED TO MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I ASKED ZY TO LOOK AT IN ADVANCE OF THE BUDGET TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COULD TURN THOSE PROJECTS AROUND SOONER.
AND IT, AND IT'S UH, IT'S UH, STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
WE'RE ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS SPREAD THE WORK RATHER THAN OVER FIVE TEAMS, BUT OVER SIX TEAMS IF THE, IF THE PROPOSAL'S APPROVED BY COUNCIL.
AND REAL QUICKLY, UH, THE GUARDRAIL REPAIR, WEREN'T WE DOING THAT BEFORE? I MEAN, I'VE CALLED IN GUARDRAIL REPAIRS AND WE'VE GOTTEN OUT THERE AND DID THAT.
WHY ARE WE BREAKING THIS OUT SEPARATELY HERE? WE HAVE DONE ENOUGH FOR ACTIVE, WE BASICALLY GET CALL FROM THREE ONE ONE OR CONSOLE'S OFFICE AND WE GO REPAIR THOSE.
WE WANNA REALLY DO PROACTIVELY BEFORE WE GET THE CALL TO REPAIR THOSE DAMAGE GUARDRAIL.
UH, MAN, IS THIS CLOCK ON HALFTIME OR WHAT
THEY GOING TWICE AS FAST AS IT SHOULD BE, SO, ALRIGHT.
DOESN'T GO AS FAST FOR ME THERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
UM, I MISSED OUT ON SOME VERY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
UM, SO NUMBER, NUMBER ONE, THIS ONE WOULD BE FOR PUBLIC WORKS.
UM, THIS FIRST FEW, UM, WHAT KIND OF QUALITY CONTROL MEASURES ARE IN PLACE? AND SO I'LL GIVE AN EXAMPLE.
WE HAD A PROJECT WHERE, UM, SOMEONE'S CAR WAS LEFT ON THE LEFT ON THE STREET AND THE CONTRACTORS CAME AND REPAVED AROUND THE CAR.
YOU REMEMBER GETTING THAT EMAIL AND THEY CAME OUT AND THEY FIXED IT THAT DAY, WHICH TELLS ME THEY KNEW THAT THEY MESSED THEY, THAT WHEN WE SENT IT TO YOU GUYS, THEY CAME OUT AND THEY FIXED IT THE SAME DAY.
CONTRACTORS SHOULD KNOW NOT TO DO THAT.
AND THERE'S ALREADY, THERE'S CLAUSES IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT FOLK KNOW THEY WILL BE TOWED.
SO I'M UN I JUST WANT TO ENSURE THAT THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT EXCLUSIVELY HAPPENS ON ONE SIDE OF TOWN AND IT'S OKAY BECAUSE IT'S THE EAST SIDE OR IT'S OKAY 'CAUSE IT'S THE WEST SIDE.
I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERY CONTRACTOR WHO COMES TO ANY CITY PROJECT KNOWS THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE HELD TO A CERTAIN STANDARD.
SO CAN YOU TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT THAT? 'CAUSE I REALIZE I'M ALSO ON A SHORTER TIME WHENEVER WE ARE GOING TO DO THE PROJECT IN ADVANCE, A FEW DAYS IN ADVANCE AND SOMETIME THEY BE IN ADVANCE DEPEND ON THE NATURE OF THE PROJECT.
WE MAKE SURE WE TELL THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO NOT PARK THEIR, PARK THEIR VEHICLE ON THE ROADWAY BECAUSE WE KNOW WE ARE GOING TO MILL AN OVERLAY OR SILK OR, OR WHATEVER APPLICATION.
AND MOST OF THE TIME THEY DON'T.
UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIME FEW PEOPLE END UP LIVING THERE AND IGNORING OUR NOTICE, WE END UP REMOVING THEM TO DO OUR JOB.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS BECAUSE THAT WAS AN INSTANCE IN WHICH THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
AND I CANNOT IMAGINE ME SHOWING UP.
SO ME DOING THAT JOB AND LEAVING THE CAR AND THEN PAVING AROUND, IT WAS JUST SO RIDICULOUS, SO CRAZY.
UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE IF THERE'S SOME SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN, LIKE IF YOU NEED TO SEND SOMEBODY OUT TO EACH PROJECT AFTERWARDS JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, YOU KNOW, QUALITY CONTROL.
UM, I TOO HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE ABSOLUTELY P****D THAT THEY HAVE LOST THEIR MAILBOX.
MS. JOHNSON WOULD LIKE HER MAILBOX PLEASE.
IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN DO?
UM, BUT I ALSO WANT TO HAVE, UH, DEEPER CONVERSATION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS GONNA BE A LOT OF INVESTMENT.
UM, NORTH NEW BRAUNFELS RIGHT NOW IS THEY'RE, THEY'RE GETTING WORK DONE FROM THE PREVIOUS BOND, BUT THEY'RE ALSO SCHEDULED THE OTHER SIDE OF NORTH NEW BRAUNFELS IS GETTING WORK FOR THE NEXT BOND.
AND THE BUSINESSES HAVE SUFFERED TREMENDOUSLY.
AND I'M WONDERING DO WE HAVE ANY MECHANISM IN PLACE OR IS THERE INTEREST ON THE COUNCIL TO, UM, MAYBE CREATE SOME SORT OF FUND FOR BUSINESSES THAT ARE IMPACTED BY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS? 'CAUSE THERE'S GONNA BE A PLETHORA OF THEM, UM, AT, AT A GREATER VOLUME THAN I THINK WE WOULD NORMALLY SEE.
UM, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO OR SOME FUND THAT WE CAN MAYBE TODAY, COUNCIL BA WE DON'T HAVE ANY FUNDING THE BOND, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS BOND PROGRAM.
PROJECT BOND PAYS FOR ONLY INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT HAS TO HAVE 20 YEARS LIFE.
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MAKE SURE WE NEVER CUT THEIR ACCESS IF THEY HAVE WATER OR SEWER LAND.WE NEVER CUT THEM WITHOUT THEM KNOWING.
MOST OF THE TIME WE DISCONNECT AT NIGHT.
IF IT IS THEY TELL US OR ON THE WEEKEND INCONVENIENCE, YES, BUT WE NEVER CUT THEIR ACCESS.
I'LL JUST, I'LL EXPRESS 'CAUSE I'VE BEEN GOING TO LUNCH ON NORTH NEW BRAUNFELS TO TRY TO SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES.
UM, AND IT IS INCREDIBLY CHALLENGED TO GET TO MOST OF THEM.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON CONVENIENCE.
AND SO IF I KNOW THERE'S A MAJOR CONSTRUCTION ON NORTH NEW, UH, NORTH NEW BRAUNFELS, I MIGHT AVOID THAT ENTIRELY AND I MIGHT GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
AND SO THAT IS A TREMENDOUS LOSS TO THE BUSINESSES.
AND SO JUST LETTING COUNCIL KNOW I WILL BE LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT BUSINESSES AND I HOPE THAT WE'RE, THAT, THAT, UM, CONVERSATION IS OPEN.
UM, I ALSO, BECAUSE THE POOL WAS BROUGHT UP, THIS NEXT ONE'S FOR PARKS, UM, SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF THE WAY THAT THINGS LOOK, UM, PARTICULARLY IN AREAS THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN, UH, DISADVANTAGED AND UNDERINVESTED IN.
SO WHEN A POOL LIKE LINCOLN, UH, THE LINCOLN PARK POOL ISN'T OPEN, BUT THERE'S OTHER PARKS, UH, POOLS THAT ARE OPEN, IT LOOKS AS THOUGH, OH, THEY'RE JUST PRIORITIZING OTHER SIDES OF TOWN.
AND I, AND WE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH A LOT OF CONSTITUENTS AND EXPLAINED TO THE LIFEGUARD, YOU KNOW, THE NEED FOR MORE LIFEGUARDS.
WE TRIED TO DO SOME RECRUITMENT EFFORTS, BUT MY HOPE IS THAT THIS UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR PRIOR TO THE POOLS OPENING, THAT THERE IS, UM, HEAVY RECRUITMENT FOR LIFEGUARDS, MAYBE TRAININGS THAT ARE DONE.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE ACCOUNTING FOR, FOR THIS NEXT FISCAL YEAR? YEAH.
AND IT IS PART OF WHAT WE DO EVERY YEAR.
RECRUITMENT BEGINS, UH, IN THE WINTER.
COVID C O I HAS REALLY IMPACTED OUR ABILITY TO EVEN GET INTO THE SCHOOLS, BUT WE'RE BRINGING THAT BACK.
WE'RE LOOKING TO ENHANCE OUR OUTREACH AND I KNOW, UH, WITH RECOMMENDATIONS TO INCREASE THAT PAY SCALE.
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING TO NEXT POLL SEASON AND AND I WOULD ANTICIPATE THAT'S GONNA HELP IN THE RECRUITMENT EFFORTS AS WELL.
I'LL CHIME IN AGAIN IN THE THIRD ROUND.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
UM, THE NEXT, UH, SERIES OF QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ARE GONNA BE FOR HOMER AND PARKS.
THIS WAS NUMBER THREE IN, UH, NO, I'M SORRY, THIS WAS NUMBER FIVE.
THIS IS MY TOP FIVE PRIORITIES FOR MY RESIDENTS.
SO WHEN I LOOK AT THE BUDGET, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, FOR, FOR WHATEVER REASONS GRANT FUNDING CAPITAL PROJECTS, IT HAS TO GO DOWN.
IT IS VERY DISAPPOINTING TO KNOW THAT WE CAME WITH A MID-YEAR BUDGET KNOWING WE WERE GOING TO GET AN INCREASE FROM C P S.
WE USED FROM SOME FOR STREETS.
I WOULD'VE LIKED TO SEE THAT GO TO PARKS ALSO.
AND I WOULD'VE LIKED US TO HAVE A WIDER CONVERSATION ABOUT THE 50 MILLION GOING TO PARKS ALSO BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS IN MY RESIDENCE TOP FIVE.
SO I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
BUT THERE ARE A FEW DEPARTMENTS AND SO YOU'LL HEAR THIS NUMEROUS TIME COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND OTHERS, UM, THAT THEY'RE DOING SO MUCH WITH SO LITTLE AND WHAT COULD THEY DO IF THEY HAD MORE? AND I THINK AS MY, AS MY COLLEAGUES HAD MENTIONED WITH THE, THE TREE TREE MITIGATION FUND AND THINGS SEE MORE DONE.
SO WITH WHAT WE HAVE, THE 1.1 HUNDRED, 2.7, UM, THE ONE THING I WOULD LIKE US TO ALSO, UH, CONSIDER IS THAT, UM, THE PORTA-POTTIES.
UM, AND IF WE'RE DOING PORT LOOS AND HOW WE DO THAT, I, I LOOKED AT THE MAP WITH, UM, DISTRICT THREE AND I, I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THE PARKS.
'CAUSE I KNOW HARLANDALE HVAC GROUNDS JUST NEEDS HELP PLAYGROUNDS.
I WANNA ECHO SOME OF MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES WHO SAID THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UH, EXTENDED POOL HOURS.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE MORE PARTNERSHIPS WITH, UM, THOSE TEACHING SWIM LESSONS OR, UM, TRYING TO FOCUS ON SENIORS AND MOBILITY TO MAYBE GET THEM IN THE POOL WITH THOSE, WITH THOSE EXTENDED HOURS AND NOT NECESSARILY RELY, UH, SOLELY ON CITY STAFF.
'CAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE'S AGENCIES THAT ARE JUST LOOKING FOR THE POOLS.
UM, THE CANOPY PRESERVATION AND MITIGATION, WE FOUND IN DISTRICT THREE, WE HAD SOME, UM, SUCCESS WITH OUR FOOD, OUR, OUR, UH, FOOD FOREST.
AND WE HAD RESIDENTS ACTUALLY COME OUT AND PLANT THE TREES.
AND I REALLY ENJOYED THAT BECAUSE IF THEY, IF THEY LIVED IN APARTMENTS AND THEY COULDN'T TAKE A TREE HOME OR, UM, IF THEY, UM,
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THEY, THEY, THEY JUST DIDN'T HAVE ANY ROOM AT THERE AT WHERE THEY WERE LIVING OR IT WAS A RENTAL.THEY WERE ABLE TO PLANT, UH, THE TREES.
SO I'D LIKE TO SEE US, UH, DO MORE OF THAT, UM, AND FIND THE AREAS, ESPECIALLY IN THOSE FLOODPLAINS THAT WE KNOW BUILDERS CAN'T COME AND BUILD ON.
AND ALSO LOOKING AT THOSE WHO HAVE PURCHASED OR BEEN GRANTED LANDS IN FLOODPLAINS, MAYBE DONATE BACK TO THE, TO THE CITY OR TO AN AGENCY THAT'LL WILL PLANT THOSE FOOD FOREST.
UM, SO THE OTHER THING I WANNA TALK ABOUT HOMER, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THIS, THE SPORTS LICENSEE LICENSE AGREEMENTS WITH THE LEAGUE, UM, WHETHER IT'S POP WARNER, UH, PONY LITTLE LEAGUE, HOW ARE WE WORKING TO CLARIFY THAT AND MAKING SURE THAT WE GET THE INFRASTRUCTURE THEY NEED NEEDS THEY GET, LIKE LIGHTING? IS THAT IN THIS BUDGET OR ARE WE WORKING WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS? WELL, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY REALLY WOULD BE, UH, OUTSIDE OF THE BOND OR OUTSIDE OF A FUNDED CAPITAL PROJECT, IS LOOKING AT POSSIBLY GRANT FUNDING OR WORKING WITH THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY.
I KNOW IN TIMES WE HAVE COME IN AND DONE SOME RETROFITS TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THOSE SYSTEMS, BUT ABSENT THAT, UH, NO.
SO RIGHT NOW THERE AREN'T ANY PLANNED, UH, LIGHT INSTALLATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, SPORTS LICENSE GROUPS.
A A AND AGAIN, THINGS THAT NEEDS THAT WE HAD THAT I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE DISCUSSED IN, IN MORE IN DEPTH BEFORE WE, WE, WE WENT STRAIGHT WITH OUR, OUR PROGRAM FOR THAT.
THE OTHER THING I'D LIKE YOU TO CONSIDER IS I HAVE GROUPS VERY SIMILAR TO CASA.
UM, VERY SIMILAR TO CLINICS THAT HAVE PLAYGROUNDS OR PROVIDING PLAYGROUNDS.
AND MAYBE WE COULD, AND, AND I HAVE CHARTER SCHOOLS TOO THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE PART OF THAT 10 MINUTE, UH, WALK.
AND WE COULD POSSIBLY FUN AND GET A WALKING TRAIL THERE WITH A PLAYGROUND.
SO I'D LIKE US TO THINK A LITTLE MORE OTHER THAN THE SCHOOLS, OTHER ENTITIES THAT HAVE THAT PLAYGROUND AND THE, THE LAND TO WALK ON AND GET A MILE IN.
ALL RIGHT, I'D LOVE TO DO THAT.
UM, COUNT, UH, MAYOR, JUST ONE SECOND.
UM, LET ME, UM, MAKE A SUGGESTION.
'CAUSE, UM, COUNCILWOMAN TO YOUR, TO YOUR POINT ABOUT THE LIGHTING, UM, REMEMBER THAT WE DID IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET HAVE, UM, IN EACH OF THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS A MILLION DOLLARS IN CAPITAL AND WE'LL NEED TO WORK WITH EACH OF YOUR DISTRICTS SO THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY THOSE PROJECTS AND INCLUDE THEM IN THE SEPTEMBER 15TH BUDGET ADOPTION.
SO IF THERE IS SOME SMALLER PROJECTS REGARDING LIGHTING, FOR EXAMPLE, THEN, THEN THAT'S A PERFECT USE FOR, FOR THOSE FUNDS THAT, THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED, BUT AREN'T ASSIGNED TO ANY SORT OF ALLOCATED PROJECT RIGHT NOW.
AND WE CAN WORK WITH YOU TO YOU AND ALL THE OTHER DISTRICTS.
'CAUSE WE DO NEED TO GET THOSE PROJECTS IDENTIFIED, UH, OVER THE NEXT MONTH.
UM, AND I'M REALLY GLAD TO HEAR WE MIGHT HAVE A, A THIRD ROUND.
I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE COMMENTS FOR THAT YET, BUT IT, IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT WE'LL HAVE, UH, HOPEFULLY THE TIME NEEDED FOR ADEQUATE DISCUSSION.
UM, JUST A COUPLE OF, UH, FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS.
IF WE COULD GO TO, UM, THE SIDEWALKS AGAIN.
UM, I'VE HAD, I'VE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH ANTHONY, WITH ERIC, WITH DIFFERENT FOLKS ABOUT OUR SIDEWALK POLICY WHEN IT COMES TO THE I M P.
UM, IT'S, YOU KNOW, MOSTLY YOU'VE GOT A RECOMMENDATION, A RECOMMENDED SET OF SIDEWALKS FOR, AND THEN, UH, THE I M P, THE STREETS THAT ARE BEING UPDATED SOMETIMES HAVE SIDEWALKS, UM, IMPLEMENTED WITH THEM AND SOMETIMES DON'T.
I, I'D LIKE TO REQUEST THAT YOU SEND US WRITTEN, UH, YOUR POLICY ON WHEN YOU RECOMMEND SIDEWALKS ON THE I M P AND WHEN THEY'RE INCLUDED, JUST SO WE CAN REFER TO IT.
LIKE I SAID, I'VE HEARD VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.
UM, SO I, I PREFER THINGS WRITTEN.
SO THANK YOU ZI COUNCIL, BUMMER.
UM, SO A, AGAIN, FOR THE SIDEWALK PROGRAM AND THEN FOR THE I M P.
UM, I, I THINK I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS, BUT ERIC, DURING OUR RETREAT I HAD SUGGESTED REVISITING THE SIDEWALK MITIGATION PROPOSAL, FUND PROPOSAL.
IT, I BELIEVE IT'S ANALOGOUS TO THE TREE MITIGATION FUND, UH, PROPOSAL WHEN A DEVELOPER CAN'T, YOU KNOW, MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE U D C, THERE IS SOME, UM, MONEY PUT INTO THIS FUND.
UM, WOULD IT, ARE WE STILL AT A POINT IN TIME WHEN WE CAN REVISIT THAT? YES, MA'AM.
AND, AND WE, YOU, YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU DID BRING THAT UP AT THE APRIL COUNCIL WORK SESSION.
UM, WE DID NOT INCLUDE ANYTHING IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, BUT CONTEMPLATE THAT, THAT'S A CONVERSATION, UH, THAT SHOULD START AT THE TRANSPORTATION SUBCOMMITTEE OR COUNCIL COMMITTEE.
UM, THERE ARE SOME LEGAL IS ISSUES,
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UH, SURROUNDING THAT.AND, UM, WE THOUGHT THAT THEY'D PROBABLY NEEDED A LITTLE BIT MORE WORK AND WE WERE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DO THAT, UM, OVER THE SUMMER.
SO, UM, WE CAN, WE CAN MAKE THAT PART OF OUR WORK PLAN IN 23 TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AND, AND WORK THROUGH THOSE ISSUES.
SO THIS WAS THE, THE PROPOSAL THAT ART BROUGHT FORWARD BACK IN, I DON'T KNOW, 2017 OR 2018.
NOT SEPARATE FROM THE TRANSPORTATION IMPACT FEE PROPOSAL AND THAT I'D ASKED YOU AND THAT ONE'S IN IS IN THE SAME BASKET AS AS SIDEWALKS, BUT, BUT NO, I'M, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE SIDEWALK ONE.
UM, UH, REGARDING THIS IS, THIS IS JUST TO RESPOND TO, TO JOHN.
UM, I'M JUST GONNA SHARE THE DISTRICT SEVEN EXPERIENCE.
THE COMPLAINTS THAT WE HEAR ABOUT ARE CARS ARE DRIVING TOO FAST.
I NEED A SIDEWALK TO MOVE SAFELY.
UM, I GET COMPLAINTS ABOUT F STREETS, BUT NOT TOO MANY OTHERS.
BUT USUALLY WHEN IT'S AN F STREET, THAT'S, I HEAR ABOUT IT A LOT.
ALLEYS, WE GET TONS OF CONSTITUENT CALLS ABOUT THEM.
LIKE, WHO'S GONNA CLEAN IT? I'M GETTING CITED FOR IT, BUT MY NEIGHBOR DOESN'T DO IT.
AND, UH, IT WOULD JUST, UH, ALLEVIATE A LOT OF HEADACHES FOR, FOR OUR CONSTITUENTS.
SO, UM, SO YOU CAN MOVE YOUR MONEY FROM NON-SERVICE ALLEYS, BUT DON'T MOVE MINE PLEASE.
AND NOW, UM, UH, I'D LIKE TO BRING UP TREE MITIGATION AGAIN.
UM, UH, HOMER, YOU MENTIONED THAT, UH, THE CAPITAL MONEY IS PROGRAMMED FOR SOME BOND PROJECTS.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST, AND I'M NOT SURE WHERE THE APPROPRIATE FORUM IS FOR THIS, THAT GOING FORWARD WE ALSO APPROPRIATE SOME OF THAT TREE MITIGATION FUND MONEY FOR THE RA ROAD, UH, BOND PROJECT.
IT IS, UM, IT IS RIPE FOR, UH, FOR A BEAUTIFUL REDO.
UM, IT'S OVERSIZED, UH, ALL THE, ALL THE LANES DON'T NEED TO BE USED.
UM, IT IS VERY DANGEROUS RIGHT NOW.
WE DO KNOW THAT TREES, UM, UH, CAN SLOW DOWN CARS.
AND WE ALSO KNOW THAT, UM, TREES WILL MAKE IT COOLER FOR PEOPLE TO WALK, UH, ALONG THERE.
SO IF WE DO THE 13 MILES, UM, AND WE SPACE THE TREES 55 FEET APART, UM, WE'D NEED 1200 TREES OR SO.
AND DID YOU SAY $700 MILLION? I'M SORRY, $700 PER TREE, ROUGHLY? IT RANGES.
SO AGAIN, IT'S GONNA BE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IF YOU'RE PLANNING IN THE RIGHT OF WAY FOR SOME RESIDENTIAL LOTS AND THE LOOK AHEAD AND WORKING WITH OZZIE'S TEAM, THAT CORRIDOR FROM, UH, I 10 TO CALLAHAN ROAD, THAT IS ON THE LIST OF WHEN I TALKED ABOUT LOOKING AT THE CAPITAL RIGHT OF WAY PROJECTS AND PLANNING THESE TREE INVESTMENTS THERE.
UM, SO IT LOOKS, MIKE, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBERS YOU GAVE US, IT'S LESS THAN A MILLION DOLLARS TO DO ONE SIDE.
SO IF WE DID BOTH SIDES, THAT'S $2 MILLION.
AND I JUST THINK THAT'D BE A BEAUTIFUL TRANSFORMATION, UH, PROJECT, AT LEAST IN, IN THE PARTS IN, IN OUR DISTRICT THAT WHERE WE BORDER, UH, FIVE, FIVE AND SEVEN.
OH, MY TIME IS RUNNING OUT 'CAUSE HOMER WAS TALKING.
UM, I'M GOING TO
UM, I, I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE MERIT SUGGESTED AN OPT OUT OF THE REBATE, UH, FROM C P S, IT'S BEING SUGGESTED.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO, TO SUGGEST THAT POSSIBLY PEOPLE CAN OPT OUT OF IT AND, UH, IN ADDITION, OR INSTEAD OF GIVING IT TO REAP THAT THEY GIVE IT TO SOME, UM, SORT OF TREE MITIGATION FUND THAT WE CAN USE.
LIKE COUNCILMAN BRAVO SAID, WE ARE STILL LOSING TREE CANOPY.
WE'RE NOT LOSING IT AS BADLY AS WE WOULD IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS ORDINANCE.
UH, BUT IF WE WANT TO ADDRESS URBAN HEAT ISLAND AND UH, MAINTAIN OUR TREE CANOPY, WE MUST FIND AN ADDITIONAL WAY TO DO THAT.
UM, IS JEFF STILL HERE? SOMEBODY FROM VIA CAN COME COME TALK THIS.
SO THE CITY HAS CONTRIBUTED ACCORDING TO THIS SORT OF OVER $40 MILLION TO VIA, UH, FREQUENCY IMPROVEMENTS.
AND THEN, UM, UM, SOME FLEXIBILITY ON THE 21 AND 22 PROGRAM.
AND THEN WE'RE SAYING IN ADDITIONAL $20 MILLION OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS, IN 23 AND 24 PROGRAM, I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE A FUNDING PROFILE OF WHAT THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF REVENUE YOU HAVE RECEIVED OVER THE LAST, UH, LET'S SAY SINCE SINCE 2018 MM-HMM.
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HAS IT GROWN? HAS IT GONE DOWN? WHAT HAS IT DONE SINCE 2018? AND WHAT I'M GETTING AT IS, YOU KNOW, I SUSPECT THAT THE REVENUE HAS GROWN WITH ALL THE FEDERAL GRANTS AND ALL THAT OTHER KIND OF STUFF.DO YOU REALLY STILL NEED THIS 10 THOU $10 MILLION FROM THE CITY? AND THAT THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THE REASON FOR THE QUESTION.
I JUST, I JUST WANNA SEE YOUR FUNDING PROFILE, UH, SINCE 2018.
SO FOR CERTAINLY WE CAN PROVIDE THAT.
UM, WITH RESPECT TO THAT 10 MILLION, IF WE DON'T RECEIVE ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDING, THAT LINE WILL NOT SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY UNTIL 2055.
SO WE ARE TRYING TO ADVANCE IT DURING A TIME IN WHICH THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL.
WE CAN SHOW YOU THE OTHER MONEY, BUT I WILL TELL YOU OUR FUNDING IS ADVANCED, BUT WE ARE STILL PITIFULLY UNDERFUNDED COMPARED TO OUR PEERS.
I AND I, WE'RE STILL 25% OF WHAT HOUSTON BRINGS IN.
AND I'VE ALWAYS PRAISED Y'ALL FOR THE AMOUNT OF SERVICE THAT Y'ALL PROVIDE WITH THE MONEY THAT YOU RECEIVE HERE.
AND YOU HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT.
SO, UM, BUT YEAH, IF I COULD GET THAT, I SURE WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
AND, UH, WE'LL, I'M SURE WE'LL HAVE SOME FURTHER DISCUSSIONS, UH, ON FUTURE, UH, MEETINGS HERE THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT.
BUT ANYWAY, YEAH, I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT.
UM, THE, UH, UH, RAZZY AGAIN, YOU GOT THREE ADDITIONAL ELECTRONIC SIGNAL TECHNICIANS.
I MEAN, AREN'T WE MAINTAINING THESE SYSTEMS TODAY OR WHY THE THREE ADDITIONAL PEOPLE, I MEAN, HAVE WE ADDED THAT MANY MORE TO THE SYSTEM OR WHAT I, WE HA WE ARE NOT MAINTAINING THEM PROACTIVELY.
AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE 1400 SIGNAL AS INTERSECTION.
WE HAVE A 216 PEDESTRIAN SIGNALS, 1,245 SCHOOL FLASHING, WHICH WE WANTED THOSE CHILDREN TO BE SAFE.
AND TWO, WE JUST FOR 3 1 1 CALL.
AND THAT'S NOT REALLY THE WAY TO MAINTAIN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY STAFF FOR OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING FOR LAST MANY YEARS.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE ANYBODY DOING THIS WORK RIGHT NOW? WE DO.
WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BODY TO DO.
HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE NOW? YEAH.
GO AHEAD AND ANSWER THAT ONE ROSS.
WE HAVE 29 POSITION, BUT, BUT LOOK AT OVER 1400 TRAFFIC INTERSECTION.
YEAH, I, IF YOU COULD JUST SEND ME THAT INFORMATION, I'D APPRECIATE IT.
BECAUSE YOU KNOW, AGAIN MM-HMM.
WE NEED TO KEEP OUR SYSTEM FUNCTIONING THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO FUNCTION.
I'D LIKE TO I DO THAT, COUNCILMAN.
IT'S, IT'S MUCH LIKE THE CONVERSATION WE HAVE IN THE GROWING COMMUNITY REGARDING POLICE OFFICERS.
WE'VE NOT ADDED IN THAT AREA IN A VERY LONG TIME.
WE NEEDED TO KEEP UP WITH THE 1400 SIGNALS WE'VE GOT IN THE SYSTEM.
UM, IN THE NEXT SLIDE 13, UM, THIS DRAINAGE SYSTEM ONLY $5 MILLION IN OUR 23 PROGRAM.
THAT, THAT SOUNDS AWFULLY LIGHT.
AND LOOKING AT THE DRAINAGE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE ACROSS THE CITY ON MAINTAINING, UM, THAT, THAT JUST SEEMS LIKE A VERY LIGHT NUMBER TO ME FOR AN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S SO IMPORTANT TO THIS CITY.
WHAT IS THE REQUIREMENT FOR DRAINAGE ON OUR, WHAT IS THE TOTAL REQUIREMENT? A HUNDRED MILLION.
OUR REQUIREMENT COUNCILMAN IS IN BILLION, BUT UNFORTUNATELY WE CANNOT FUND THIS YEAR THROUGH THE BOND.
WE FUND A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT DRAINAGE PROJECT.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE 22 FOR ENTIRE CITY.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S FOR THE BOND I'M TALKING ABOUT? CORRECT.
AND THE I M P, WHICH I WOULD EXPECT THEY'RE LIKE THESE SMALLER TYPE PROJECTS MM-HMM.
WHAT, WHAT IS OUR MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENT FOR THE CITY? UH, I CAN GET YOU THAT NUMBER.
THIS, THIS JUST LOOKS WOEFULLY, WOEFULLY SMALL.
AND I KNOW IN DISTRICT 10 WE'VE HAD ISSUES WITH DRAINAGE PIPES THAT ARE CLOGGED.
THEY, THEY HADN'T BEEN MAINTAINED IN YEARS.
AND THAT'S THE KIND OF THING THAT WE REALLY NEED TO HELP OUR SYSTEM WITH JUST MAINTAINING IT.
SO THIS, THIS JUST LOOKS REALLY, REALLY LIGHT.
UM, UH, ON SLIDE 19, THIS IS A 22 BOND, THE WAY YOU HAVE IT LAID OUT.
I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT WE, YOU KNOW, 2027,
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THAT'S THE LAST YEAR OF THE BOND THAT WE'RE EXECUTING 279 MILLION.AND, AND I'M LOOKING BACK ON THE 20 THOU 2017 BOND, WE STILL HAVE OVER A HUNDRED AND, WHAT WAS IT? 174 MILLION TO EXECUTE AND IT'S PAST THE FIVE YEARS.
SO I'M LOOKING AT THAT SAYING THAT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE LOADING THE BACKEND WAY TOO MUCH ON THIS.
CAN'T WE ACCELERATE SOME OF THOSE PROGRAMS? YES, WE CAN.
COUNCILMAN WE ARE LOOKING TO EXPEDITE THIS PROJECT, AS I MENTIONED, USING THE EXISTING SHOVEL READY, USING THE EXISTING ON-CALL CONSULTING TO ASSIST US.
AND SOME OF THE PROJECT UNDER DESIGN, WE ARE PUSHING THOSE, BUT BIGGEST SPENDING IS COMES WHEN PROJECT UNDER CONSTRUCTION, AS YOU MENTIONED, 2017.
STILL WE HAVE MONEY, BUT MAJORITY OF THOSE PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, WE HAVE COMMITTED MONEY, BUT WE JUST HAVEN'T SPENT THE MONEY YET.
UH, LAST WHILE YOU'RE THERE, I WAS LOOKING AT THE, I'M NOT ON MY GOODNESS.
UH, I WAS LOOKING AT, UH, THE HANDOUT ON PAGE 16 AND IT TALKED ABOUT CAPITAL BUDGET.
AND, UH, I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE THAT, UH, SO MANY IMPORTANT, UH, PROGRAMS LIKE FIRE AND POLICE LIBRARIES, LINEAR, CREEKWAY EDWARDS, AQUIFER PROTECTION AND PARKS ARE ALL SEEING LESS CAPITAL BUDGET PROJECTS.
UH, ARE WE REDUCING THIS, UH, AND THESE EXPENDITURES, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO THE PROJECTS THAT ARE OUT THERE, COUNCIL MEMBER FOR LINEAR CREEK WAYS AS WELL AS EDWARDS AQUIFER, WHAT YOU SEE THERE IS THE FUNDING FROM THE SALES TAX VENUE.
SO WE'RE RUNNING THAT, UM, THAT MONEY, UM, WAS REALLOCATED TO THE ESSAY READY TO WORK.
SO THAT FUNDING IS, IS DECREASING.
HOWEVER, THE 2017, OR I'M SORRY, THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM, WE HAVE MONEY FOR THE LINEAR CREEK WAYS, AND THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE $160 MILLION.
ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE THE FUNDING FOR THE EDWARDS AQUIFER OF ABOUT $10 MILLION.
SO THE REASON THOSE ARE DECLINING IS BECAUSE THAT REVENUE SOURCES DECLINING.
HOWEVER, IT'S BEING PICKED UP THROUGH THE 2022 BOND AS WELL AS THE EDWARDS AQUIFER PROGRAM THAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND.
AND I, I GUESS THOUGH, RAZZI, AS FAR AS YOU'RE CONCERNED, WE HAVE THE MANPOWER, THE BUSINESS POWER, THE WORKERS, THE COMPANIES TO DO ALL THE WORK WE NEED.
AND THAT'S THE REASON WE ARE ASKING ADDITIONAL MANPOWER TO DELIVER THIS PROJECT IN FIVE YEARS.
OTHER THAN THAT, IT'S POSSIBLE TO GO SIX YEARS OR SEVEN YEARS BECAUSE WE NEED TO HAVE A MANPOWER TO COMMUNICATE WITH COMMUNITY, WORK WITH THE CONSULTING, WORK WITH THE CONTRACTOR TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T PAVE THE ROADWAY AND AROUND THE EXISTING VEHICLE
WELL, I I KNOW THAT'S A DISCUSSION WE'VE HAD.
CAN WE DO ALL OF THIS? OR, OR IS IT GONNA TAKE US LONGER BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE ACTIVE CAPACITY TO DO ALL THE WORK AS QUICKLY AS WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IT.
THAT THAT'S WHY WE'RE, WE'RE RECOMMENDING THE ADDITION OF THOSE POSITIONS FOR ADDITIONAL STAFFING IN ALL THOSE BUSINESS AREAS.
AND, AND FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, WE MADE SURE THAT WE ENCOMPASS THINGS LIKE PROCUREMENT, UM, AND THE SOLICITATIONS, UM, AND THE SMALL BUSINESS OUTREACH, NOT JUST THE PUBLIC WORKS ASPECT OF IT.
AND, AND WE BELIEVE BASED ON THE REVIEW THAT RAZZI AND HIS TEAM DID EARLIER IN THE YEAR AND THE WORK WE DID IN THE SUMMER WITH THOSE ADDITIONAL POSITIONS, WE CAN CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN THAT FIVE YEAR PLAN.
I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION.
UM, YOU MENTIONED IN YOUR PRESENTATION THAT THERE WAS $1.7 MILLION FOR UNALLOCATED PARK PROJECTS.
THAT, IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH, IT, YES.
UM, MCALLISTER PARK, LITTLE LEAGUE HAS, UH, REALLY BEEN COMING TO US AND SAYING THEY'RE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH DRAINAGE AND SEWAGE.
UH, CAN THESE KIND OF FUNDS ADDRESS THE CONCERNS THAT THEY HAVE? YES.
UH, AND THE, THE ANSWER THERE IS I WILL HAVE MY TEAM REACH OUT TO THEM.
UM, AND WE HEARD THIS A LITTLE BIT EARLIER WHEN, UH, DISTRICT THREE WAS TALKING ABOUT OUR SPORTS LICENSE AGREEMENTS.
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THE SAME TENANTS HAVE RESPONSIBILITY IN LIEU OF PAYING FEES, BUT WE DO STEP IN AND HELP OUT BECAUSE WE KNOW A LOT OF IT'S VOLUNTEER DRIVEN.AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO REACH OUT TO THEM AND I'LL LOOK INTO THAT FOR YOU.
UM, ONE THING I NOTICED WAS ON OUR BUDGETS, UH, A LOT OF OUR BUDGETS INDICATE SELF-INSURANCE AND OTHER EXPENSES.
AND I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING MAYBE THE CITY MANAGER CAN ANSWER OR ONE OF HIS STAFF.
UH, I NOTICED FOR EXAMPLE, IN IN ONE BUDGET ITEM ON PAGE, UH, 3 3 84, IT SAID IT WAS $26 MILLION FOR SELF-INSURANCE AND OTHERS.
AND THEY HAD, THEY LISTED 331 EMPLOYEES.
AND THEN ON ANOTHER PAGE 3 85, IT SAID $1.25 MILLION FOR SELF-INSURANCE AND OTHERS, AND THEY ONLY HAVE 177 EMPLOYEES.
WHAT IS ALWAYS THE OTHERS THAT WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IN THE BUDGET? AND COULD THIS BE LINE ITEMS SO WE UNDERSTOOD, UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE OTHERS ARE COUNCILMAN WE CAN PROVIDE TO THE, TO THE COUNCIL, THE, THE LINE ITEMS IN EACH OF THOSE BUDGETS? IT'S, IT'S PRIMARILY MADE UP OF OUR INTERNAL CHARGES FOR GENERAL LIABILITY.
UM, THAT IS DISTRIBUTED BASED ON THROUGH ALL OF OUR BUSINESS UNITS.
IT'S WORKERS' COMP, WHICH IS DRIVEN BY THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES.
UM, AND, AND SO WE CAN BREAK THAT OUT.
SO ESSENTIALLY IF, IF A, IF A DEPARTMENT HAS MORE SQUARE FOOTAGE IN TERMS OF BUILDING, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE A HIGHER ASSESSMENT THAN THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE.
UM, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS GONNA GET CHARGED MORE THAN THAT INTERNAL ASSESSMENT.
BUT, BUT THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.
AND WE CAN, WE CAN PROVIDE THAT BREAKOUT IN THE THANK YOU.
AND, AND MARIA'S REMINDING ME THAT IF YOU WANNA SEE THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL, UM, IT'S ON OPEN GOV ONLINE.
THE LINE ITEMS. AND MAYOR, I'LL BE BACK.
UM, I, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING, UM, THE, HOW THE $1 MILLION WILL IMPACT THE TREE MITIGATION FUND WHEN WE, UH, START OR BEGIN PLANTING TREES.
BUT MY HOPE IS THAT WE CAN INCREASE FUNDING FOR THAT BECAUSE RECENTLY SASS REPORTED THAT IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, THERE WERE OVER 400 WATER MAIN BREAKS IN THE MONTH OF JULY, 700 WATER MAIN BREAKS IN AUGUST 800 WATER MAIN BREAKS.
AND WE KNOW IF WE HAD URBAN CANOPIES, WE COULD POTENTIALLY MITIGATE MANY OF THESE BREAKS.
AND MY CONCERN IS, IS THAT YES, SAWS WILL ADDRESS, UM, THE WATER MAIN BREAK AND THEN REPAVE, BUT HOW IT'S GOING TO IMPACT THE OVERALL INFRASTRUCTURE ON WHERE THESE WATER MAIN BREAKS ARE OCCURRING.
AND IF WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MITIGATE THIS BY PLANTING TREES, I THINK IT'S WORTH, UH, PRIORITIZING.
UM, WE KNOW AS MENTIONED, RIGHT? I KNOW THE MAJORITY OF THE, THE CAUSE THAT OUR OFFICE RECEIVES, OR WHEN I'M TALKING TO CONSTITUENTS, THEY WANT SPEED HUMPS, RIGHT? AND WE KNOW SPEED HUMPS COSTS WELL OVER $700.
AND TO THE POINT THAT COUNCILMAN, UH, SANDOVAL BROUGHT UP IS THAT IT IS A FORM OF TRAFFIC CALMING.
SO I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE AND INTENTIONAL WITH OUR SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS, AS WELL AS MEETING THOSE NEEDS OF CONSTITUENTS WHO DO HAVE PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY CONCERNS.
UM, AND, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, $1 MILLION, I'M CONCERNED THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO GET US TOO FAR AT CHIPPING AWAY AT THESE NEEDS THAT ARE VERY ALARMING.
UH, AT THE SAME TIME IN DISTRICT FIVE IN PARTICULAR, WE HAVE MANY FOOD DESERTS.
AND I WANNA ENSURE THAT THERE'S, UH, FUNDING ALLOCATED TO WHERE WE COULD PLANT FOOD FOREST AS Y'ALL HAVE IN DISTRICT THREE.
'CAUSE THAT'S VERY IMPACTFUL TO COMMUNITIES.
IN 20 22, 1 OF OUR ASK, UH, OF OUR OFFICE WAS PLANTING TREES NEAR OUR PORTAL POTTIES BECAUSE DISTRICT FIVE, IN MANY OF OUR PARKS, WE HAVE PORTAL POTTIES AND NOT, YOU KNOW, ESTABLISH RESTROOMS. AND THOSE PORTA-POTTIES ARE JUST SITTING OUT THERE IN THE SUN, UM, WITH NO SHADE.
RIGHT? AND THAT'S KIND OF, YOU KNOW, KIND OF GROSS WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT OVER A HUNDRED DEGREE WEATHER.
UM, AND I KNOW PARKS DOES A GREAT JOB AT MAINTAINING THEM, BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST THE FACT THAT IT'S JUST SITTING OUT THERE AND A HUNDRED DEGREE WEATHER AND KNOWING THAT, UM, POTENTIAL SHADE CAN MITIGATE, UM, THE HEAT AND THE TEMPERATURE IN THERE.
UM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO BE SURE THAT I EMPHASIZE THE ASK OF, I THINK WE SHOULD BE INCREASING THE AMOUNT IN THAT FUND AND ALSO EXPRESSING SUPPORT OF, UM, EXTENDING THE POOL HOURS, UM, FOR MANY OF OUR PARKS.
AND I, I UNDERSTAND THE, THE, THE DIFFICULTY OF HIRING FOLKS.
I'M EXCITED TO SEE THAT WE'RE INCREASING, UH, THE WAGE TO $17.
BUT I THINK A PIECE OF IT TOO, RIGHT, UH, IN ADDITION TO NOT BEING ALLOWED TO GO INTO THE SCHOOLS, IS THAT 'CAUSE OF COVID WE DIDN'T HAVE, OUR KIDS WEREN'T, UH, PARTICIPATING IN SWIMMING MEETS, RIGHT? SO MANY OF THOSE KIDS WHO OFTEN GET THE C P R TRAINING AND SO ON AND SO FORTH, WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT, THAT POOL OF, OF SKILLED WORKERS BECAUSE OF SCHOOL, UH, IS, IS WHAT I'M ASSUMING, BUT WHAT THERE, THERE IS SOME, UH, ACCURACY AND VALIDITY TO THAT.
AND WHEN WE THINK ABOUT BUILDING THE PIPELINE, THE ABILITY TO DO SWIM LESSONS MM-HMM.
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THE ONES THAT WE, YOU KNOW, MAY BE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL TODAY, COULD PROBABLY END UP BEING A LIFEGUARD.SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE RIGHT.
AND WE'VE EXPERIENCED THAT LOCALLY AS WELL AS OBVIOUSLY NATIONALLY.
AND I'M ALWAYS SURE, AS FOLKS HAVE MENTIONED, I I, I HIGHLIGHT THE GREAT WORK OF CITY STAFF AND PROVIDING THAT INCENTIVE, RIGHT? TO GET FOLKS TO APPLY.
UM, AND NOW I'M EXCITED TO SHARE WITH COMMUNITY THAT WITH THE NEXT ROUND, UH, THERE'LL BE HIGHER WAGES AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN ATTRACT MORE TNT.
THANK YOU COUNCILS MEMBER CASTILLO.
UM, GOING NOW ON THE THIRD ROUND, FOLKS, UH, KEEP IN MIND WE DO HAVE FOLKS WAITING FOR 5:00 PM UH, PUBLIC COMMENT.
WE'LL START, UH, WITH COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
I MOSTLY WANTED TO CHIME IN AGAIN TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE GOT A CHANCE TO SEE MY NEW GLASSES.
UM, MY QUESTION IS ABOUT THE AQUIFER.
UM, CAN SOMEONE CLARIFY THE AQUIFER PROTECTION FUNDING? SO HOW ARE WE GONNA PROVIDE ONGOING FUNDING FOR AQUIFER PROTECTION? WE WERE HAVING CONVERSATIONS IN MY TEAM AND I DON'T THINK WE WERE ENTIRELY CLEAR.
SO TO CONTINUE THE AQUA AQUIFER PROGRAM, WE DO HAVE $10 MILLION IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR 2023 AND 2024.
AND THEN, YEAH, GENERALLY SPEAKING, I THINK, I THINK YOUR QUESTION IS HOW ARE WE GONNA DO IT, LIKE GOING FORWARD? YES.
UM, WHEN THE COUNCIL PLACED, UH, THE SALES TAX PROPOSITION BEFORE THE VOTERS WERE READY TO WORK, UM, ONE OF THE PRIORITIES OF THE COUNCIL WAS TO DEVELOP, THEY ASKED STAFF TO DEVELOP ALTERNATIVES TO CONTINUE THE EDWARDS A FOR PROTECTION PROGRAM.
UM, WHAT WE BROUGHT BACK AND WHAT WAS APPROVED BY COUNCIL WAS THE CREATION OF A MUNICIPAL FACILITIES CORPORATION.
UM, THAT SAID THAT WE WERE GOING TO CONTINUE THAT PROGRAM WITH AN INCREMENT OF OUR SAS REVENUE IN OUR OPERATING BUDGET, AND WE WERE GONNA ISSUE DEBT.
THAT POLICY THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED, UM, LAID THAT OUT, UM, BUT ALSO IDENTIFIED THAT IF WE HAD ONE TIME REVENUE SOURCES, THAT THAT WOULD BE A, UM, UH, UH, ANOTHER SOURCE.
SO THAT'S BEEN IN PLACE FOR ABOUT 18 MONTHS, MAYBE, MAYBE TWO YEARS.
WE HAVE BEEN RUNNING DOWN THE SALES TAX BALANCE AND AS HOMER MENTIONED EARLIER, NEXT YEAR, UH, WE WILL DEPLETE, UM, ALL THE REMAINING SALES TAX DOLLARS.
IN FACT, YOU'VE GOT TWO ITEMS ON YOUR AGENDA COMING UP HERE, UH, TOMORROW ON PURCHASING PROPERTY.
UM, AND, AND SO NEXT YEAR WILL BE THE FIRST YEAR WHERE WE HAVE TO ADD ADDITIONAL FUNDING.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET SUGGESTS, RECOMMENDS $10 MILLION IN CASH AND NOT ISSUING DEBT, PUSHING THAT OFF ANOTHER YEAR.
UM, BUT, BUT IT'S ESSENTIALLY WE'RE FUNDING IT THROUGH OUR GENERAL FUND.
UM, I DID WANT TO CONCUR ON SOME, UM, ONE OF THE COMMENTS ABOUT SHADE STRUCTURES AT VIA BUS STOPS.
UH, ESPECIALLY IT'S INCRE, IT'S INCREDIBLY HOT.
UM, ARE THERE, YEAH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER THIS ACTUALLY, BUT I WANT YOU TO THINK, ARE THERE INNOVATIVE WAYS TO CR TO ESTABLISH SHADE STRUCTURES, UM, WHERE THE KIND THAT WE HAVE NOW WOULD NOT BE, UM, WOULD NOT FIT OR WOULD NOT BE APPROPRIATE? UM, AND I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS NO WAY THAT WE CAN'T GET SHADE AT EVERY, AT EVERY STOP.
UM, I WAS ALSO WONDERING, AND THIS ONE'S MORE SO FOR PUBLIC WORKS, IS THERE ANY DATA ON CHANGES IN DRIVER BEHAVIOR? BECAUSE IT FEELS LIKE EVERY CONSTITUENT THAT I SPEAK TO DOESN'T MATTER WHAT OTHER CONCERN THEY WERE ORIGINALLY BRINGING TO ME.
THEY WANT SOME SPEED BUMP ON THEIR STREET.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO, WE NEED 143,000 SPEED BUMPS IN MY DISTRICT, IF POSSIBLE.
I KID ON, I KID ON THAT SPECIFIC NUMBER.
BUT I AM WONDERING HAS THERE BEEN ANY DATA, UM, ARE THERE OTHER THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO, UM, SPECIFICALLY WHAT I WANNA KNOW IS CAN WE, UM, BETTER THE PROCESS SO THAT EVERY PERSON WHO COMES TO US WANTING A SPEED BUMP DOESN'T HAVE TO GO OUT AND BLOCK, WALK AND COLLECT SIGNATURES FROM THEIR STREET? BECAUSE WE'VE, WE'VE, IT HAS, IT WAS NOT A MISTAKE TO DO IT.
IT WAS NOT A MISTAKE FOR MY TEAM TO GO OUT AND BLOCK WALK FOR, FOR SOME OF THE NEIGHBORS.
BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT NOW WE'RE BEING ASKED TO DO FAIRLY CONSISTENTLY, WHICH IS ROUGH AND WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE CAPACITY FOR, BUT IT SHOWS HOW MUCH EFFORT THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE PUTTING IN.
AND I'M WONDERING, IS THERE A WAY THAT WE CAN MAKE IT EASIER? YEAH, COUNCILMAN, ONE OF THE CHALLENGE WE HAVE, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE SPEED BUMP WE ARE GOING TO PLACE ON THAT BLOCK IS MAJORITY PEOPLE IS AGREE.
WE HAVE PLACED AND PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE IT, SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE IT, SOME PEOPLE LOVED IT.
AND WE END UP REMOVING AND ALSO QUESTION COMES FRONT OF WHICH PROPERTY TO PLACE.
MANY TIME WE REALLY TRY TO DIG INTO IT TO SEE WHAT'S THE ISSUE IS REALLY SPEED HUMP IS THE ISSUE, OR STEPSON OR SOMETHING ELSE.
WE WANNA HELP THEM TO REDUCE THE TRAFFIC OR DO TRAFFIC CALMING SPEED HUMP NOT THE ONLY ISSUE.
MANY TIME THEY'RE JUST ASKING 'CAUSE THAT'S ALL THEY KNOW TO ASK.
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MM-HMM.UM, AND I'M WONDERING WHAT ARE THE SHORT TERM AND LONG THE, I MEAN, OF COURSE LONG-TERM SOLUTION IS INFRASTRUCTURE SHORT.
WHAT'S THE SHORT TERM SOLUTION FOR EVERY CONSTITUENT WHO'S CALLING AND IS ASKING FOR A SPEED BUMP? AND IS IT THAT WE GO OUT AND PURCHASE THOSE AT SPEED MONITORS THAT, UH,
AND I KNOW PUBLIC WORKS DOESN'T NECESSARILY LIKE COUNCIL OFFICES TO DO THAT, BUT IF WE NEED TO, I WOULD RATHER KNOW THAT SOONER.
JUST KNOW THAT I HOPE WE CAN HAVE ANOTHER CONVERSATION WITH PUBLIC WORKS.
I APPRECIATE EVERY, I APPRECIATE ALL OF THIS AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE INFORMATION.
THIS HAS BEEN MY, ONE OF MY FAVORITE PRESENTATIONS OF ALL TIME.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
UM, YEAH, I THINK WE NEED MORE TIME ON, ON THESE THINGS.
UM, THIS ONE WAS REALLY TOO, TOO SHORT OF TIME.
I KNOW Y'ALL LIKE IT ON THE SHORT TIME, BUT, UH, I'VE GOT A LOT OF QUESTIONS ON SLIDE NUMBER 20.
UM, I I GUESS THIS IS RAZA, YOUR SLIDE, UH, 38 NEW POSITIONS.
HOW MUCH MONEY IS THAT? HOW, HOW MUCH OF OUR BUDGET IS THAT COUNCILMAN? THAT'S SLIGHTLY OVER 3 MILLION AND QUARTER PERCENTAGE OF OUR BOND.
QUARTER 0.25 PERCENTAGE OF $1.2 BILLION BOND.
UM, I, I JUST QUESTIONED SOME OF THESE CATEGORIES.
UH, ON SLIDE 16, THE, THERE'S A DECREASE IN GRANTS.
WHY ARE WE NOT GONNA BE CHASING AS MANY GRANTS? OR IS GRANTS DRYING UP OR WHAT, WHAT'S GOING ON AND WHY CAN'T WE BE LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL GRANTS OUT THERE? IT SEEMS AWFULLY SMALL.
WE DO CHASE A GRANT, BUT WE DON'T KNOW IT IS GOING TO BE APPROVED.
WE ARE REALLY PLANNING TO APPLY FOR FEDERAL FUNDING FOR RECON COMMUNITY ELIMINATION OF RAILROAD CROSSING, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WE WILL GET THOSE GRANT OR NOT.
HOW MANY DOLLARS ARE YOU LOOKING TO PURSUE THIS ON THE RAILROAD CROSSING? WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE TEXT OUT RAILROAD DIVISION IN AUSTIN IS $35 MILLION PROJECT.
THEY ARE ASSISTING US DEVELOPING THE APPLICATION.
THEY WILL PROVIDE US DRAFT APPLICATION END OF THIS MONTH.
WE WILL SUBMIT LATE SEPTEMBER, EARLY OCTOBER.
UH, HOMER, I GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
UM, JUST LOOKING AT SLIDE NUMBER SIX, UH, 9.4 MILLION IN INVESTMENTS, UM, 17 PARKS, IF I'M LOOKING AT THIS MAP CORRECTLY, I REALLY DON'T SEE ANYTHING ON THE, UH, IN THE NORTH, NORTHEAST, NORTHWEST SIDE OF THE, UH, OF THE CITY FOR PARKS.
UM, ANY IMPROVEMENTS? YES, YOU'RE SEEING CORRECTLY? UH, AND LET ME EXPLAIN A LITTLE REASON WHY.
SO PART OF OUR MAINTENANCE PROGRAM, WE WERE ABLE TO ACCELERATE AND PULL OFF THE LIST.
MOST RECENT EXAMPLE OF, AND THIS IS REALLY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SPURS GIVE AND OUR PLAY S A INITIATIVE, THEY BRING DOLLARS AT THE TABLE, WE MATCH IT.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, UH, IN COUNCIL DISTRICT EIGHT, ABOUT A MONTH AGO, THERE WAS A RE, UM, RENOVATION OF THE SKATE PLAZA THAT'S THERE IN AT L B J PARK IN APRIL.
WE RENOVATED THE BASKETBALL COURT THAT WAS THERE, SO WE WERE ABLE TO ACCELERATE SOME THINGS, BUT YOU ARE CORRECT IN THE CURRENT PLAN, YOU'RE NOT SEEING THOSE OTHER THAN WHAT YOU SEE ON THE MAP.
CAN COUNCILMAN, LET ME, LET ME JUST BE A LITTLE BIT MORE DIRECT.
UM, MOST OF OUR OLDER FACILITIES ARE, ARE NOT, UM, IN DISTRICT 10.
UM, AND, UM, THESE PROJECTS AND THESE FACILITIES WERE IDENTIFIED AS WE DID FACILITY WORK.
IN ADDITION, IN PREPARATION FOR THE BOND PROGRAM, UM, THEY DID MAKE THE BOND PROGRAM AND, AND THESE ARE OUR OLDER FACILITIES THAT NEED THAT, THAT ARE IN DIRE NEED OF WORK.
AND SO WE'RE PRIORITIZING THE WORK, UH, IN THOSE AREAS.
UM, ON SLIDE NINE, UM, THE EDWARDS AQUIFER PROTECTION PROGRAM, I THOUGHT I HEARD YOU SAY THAT, UH, 10 MILLION WAS YOUR RECOMMENDATION WAS TO MOVE THAT 10 MILLION OUT OF THAT 75 MILLION TO, UH, THE AQUIFER PROTECTION FROM C
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P SS.WELL, UH, AGAIN, MY, MY, MY THOUGHTS ON THAT IS NO, THAT SHOULDN'T GO TO AQUIFER PROTECTION.
THAT SHOULD GO BACK TO THE CUSTOMERS JUST IN LINE WITH WHAT I SAID THE, UH, OTHER DAY ON THE C P SS, UM, 75 MILLION TOTAL, JUST TO COMMENT ON THAT.
UM, AND THEN TROY, THANK YOU, HOMER.
UH, TROY ON, UH, ON YOUR DIRECT AND OVERLAPPING DEBT HERE, I REALLY LIKE THAT SLIDE.
Y'ALL CAME UP WITH THAT SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BUT YOU MADE A COMMENT THAT THIS IS NOT INCLUDE THE 1.2 BILLION THAT THE CITY JUST PASSED.
IT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE FIRST ISSUANCE OF 160,000.
IT'S AS OF THE SEPTEMBER, UM, SEPTEMBER 30TH, AND WE DID NOT, AND FOR APPLE TO APPLE COMPARISON, EVERYBODY'S ON THE SAME, SAME PLAYING FIELD.
SO DID NOT INCLUDE, AND, AND THERE'S BEEN SOME BIG BONDS PASSED BY LIKE THE NORTH, NORTH SIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND I THINK SAN ANTONIO'S, UH, ARE ALL OF THOSE INCLUDED IN THIS AS WELL? ANYTHING THAT WOULD'VE BEEN ISSUED BY ANY OF THOSE ENTITIES AFTER SEPTEMBER 30TH WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN INCLUDED.
THIS NUMBER IS SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN WHAT WE HAVE TO TODAY.
UM, I, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I DO, UH, SUPPORT THE ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR PUBLIC WORKS, THE ADDITIONAL TEAM THAT'S BEING PUT ON.
UM, I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS, UH, ARE, HAVE A LOT OF WORK WHEN IT COMES TO THE I M P AND, UM, NO OFFENSE, BUT SOMETIMES IT TAKES A WHILE, RIGHT?
SO ANY HELP THAT YOU CAN GET, UH, MUCH, MUCH OF, UM, I, I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT THAT.
UM, 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, THERE'S CONFUSION WITH THE CONSTITUENTS WHEN THINGS, UH, HAPPEN ON THE STREET SOMETIMES.
SO WE CAN, WE CAN AVOID THAT IF WE HAVE BETTER COMMUNICATION UP FRONT.
AND, AND THAT TAKES TIME AND THAT TAKES PEOPLE.
UM, IF I COULD PLEASE GET, UM, A PRACTICE ALSO, UH, IN, BY EMAIL FROM, UH, HOMER REGARDING HOW THE TREE, UH, MITIGATION FUND IS DISTRIBUTED AND WHAT YOUR POLICY, WHETHER YOU HAVE A POLICY ON THAT OR NOT.
SO FOR INSTANCE, HOW, HOW WERE THOSE BOND PROJECTS SELECTED? UM, HOW DO WE GET IN LINE? I, I DON'T REMEMBER EVER SEEING AN ITEM ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, APPROPRIATE X AMOUNT FROM THE TREE MITIGATION FUND FOR THIS OR THAT.
SO, I, I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS.
YES, WE CAN GET YOU KIND OF THE GUIDELINES FOR HOW WE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TREE INVESTMENTS.
YOU MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT THEN WHO APPROVES THEM? WELL, THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND WHAT COUNCIL ADOPTS.
SO IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET, I DON'T SEE WHAT PROJECTS ARE GONNA BE DONE.
IT'S THE LIST OF PROJECTS I THINK IS GONNA BE PART OF THE FOLLOW UP ITEM.
SO IF IF SHE DIDN'T ASK, WE WOULDN'T KNOW THAT AND WE WOULDN'T BE APPROVING THAT.
WELL, THE, IT'S GONNA BE PART OF THE OKAY.
UM, AND THEN, UH, LASTLY I DO, WE HAVE TRAFFIC CALMING.
SPEAKING OF SPEED HUMPS, DO WE HAVE TRAFFIC CALMING IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET? AGAIN, I KNOW RAZZI YOU WERE SAYING THAT, THAT THERE ARE OPTIONS TO SPEED HUMPS, BUT THE TRUTH IS, IN THE PAST WE'VE HAD LIKE THREE TRAFFIC CALMING PROJECTS A YEAR AND THEY TAKE, THEY TAKE A WHOLE LOT LONGER THAN SPEED HUMPS NOT ACCOUNTING FOR THE TIME.
YOU NEED TO GET THE SIGNATURES RIGHT.
AND THEN TO DO THE STUDY AND EVALUATION, COUNCILMAN? YES, WE DO.
AND WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO ARE, AM I GONNA HAVE ANY IN DISTRICT SEVEN? WE HAVEN'T DECIDED YET, BUT WE HAVE THE FUNDING.
I'LL RECOMMEND SOME IN DISTRICT SEVEN.
I HOPE YOU TAKE MY RECOMMENDATION.
THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR NOW.
COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.
UM, MY COMPATRIOT AND I WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT HOW THIS ISN'T ENOUGH TIME TO ADDRESS THESE.
I THINK OUR TIME LIMITATIONS AND PROBLEMS WITH THE CLOCK, UH, DOESN'T HELP ME SERVE MY CONSTITUENTS AS WELL AS I WOULD LIKE TO.
BUT I WILL TRY TO GO AHEAD AND GO THROUGH THE OTHER FIVE QUESTIONS I HAVE PRETTY QUICKLY.
UH, AND, AND I'M GONNA START WITH THE ONE THAT'S MOST CRITICAL IN MY WAY OF THINKING RIGHT NOW, WHICH KIND OF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST AND ON PAGE 49 OF THE BUDGET BOOK.
UH, AND, AND PROBABLY, UH, ERIC WOULD ANSWER THIS, UH, IT SHOWS OUR BUDGET FOR 2023 AND PROJECTED FOR 2024.
AND WE DO DO A TWO YEAR BUDGET AND IT SHOWS 10% RETURN RESERVES IN BOTH YEARS.
AND I THOUGHT WE HAD A POLICY OF 15% RESERVES OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
I BELIEVE WE SAW 10% ONE YEAR AND FIVE THE NEXT.
BUT THIS YEAR I NOTICE IT'S 10% BOTH YEARS.
IS THERE AN EXPLANATION ABOUT WHY WE'RE RESERVING
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MORE? COUNCILMAN, DO YOU WANT TO ASK ALL FIVE OF YOUR QUESTIONS AND THEN WE'LL ANSWER 'EM THAT WAY? WE'RE NOT BURNING YOUR TIME.THE OTHER ONE WAS ON, UH, CFOS.
I WANTED TO KNOW HOW MANY WE'VE PUT OUT THE LAST FEW YEARS AND HOW MANY OF THEM HAVE BEEN PAID OFF AND WHAT HAPPENS TO ANY UNUSED FUNDS FROM THOSE CFOS.
ON PAGE 43, THERE'S A, A NOTE REGARDING ABOUT 130 SOMETHING MILLION DOLLARS.
AND I, I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT STOOD FOR.
AND SO I'D LIKE AN EXPLANATION OF WHERE THAT $133 MILLION COMES FROM.
THE OTHER TWO QUESTIONS WERE ABOUT PARKS.
ONE WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, WE COLLECT A PARK FEE, UH, ON OUR C P S BILL OF A DOLLAR 50 PER MONTH, WHICH WAS IMPOSED IN 2014 BECAUSE THERE WAS A, A FINANCIAL SITUATION THAT WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT, BUT WE'VE NEVER GOTTEN RID OF THAT, THAT ENVIRONMENTAL FEE.
NOW IT'S $11 MILLION A YEAR IF IT WAS STARTED BECAUSE WE THOUGHT WE WERE IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION.
WHY HAS IT BEEN KEPT WHEN WE'VE GONE BEYOND THAT DIFFICULT SITUATION? AND FINALLY, UH, IT WAS MENTIONED THAT THE PARKS WILL PAY FOR THE AQUIFER PROTECTION, UH, $10 MILLION.
AND YOU SAID, UH, IT WAS GONNA COME FROM OUR, UH, GENERAL FUND, BUT I THOUGHT I UNDERSTOOD THAT ACTUALLY IS COMING FROM C P S REVENUE THAT'S BEING PUT INTO THE GENERAL FUND.
SO THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS I HAD.
I'LL START WITH THE, WITH THE LAST ONE.
IT'S, IT'S SAS REVENUE, NOT C P SS REVENUE.
THE POLICY THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED, UM, TWO YEARS AGO TO CONTINUE THE EDWARDS AQUIFER PROGRAM WAS TO TAKE AN INCREMENT OF THE SAS REVENUE.
UM, THE $10 MILLION TO COUNCILMAN PERRY'S QUESTION THAT I'M RECOMMENDING, THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS FROM THE $75 MILLION WE RECEIVED FROM C P S.
SO, BUT IN, IN, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF POLICY, IT'S THE SA UH, INCREMENTAL REVENUE.
UM, BUT IN REALITY IT'S C P S MONEY IN REALITY, IT'S CITY MONEY.
BUT, BUT THE IDEA AT THE TIME WITH THE COUNCIL WAS TO, WAS TO, WAS TO, I REMEMBER WAS, WAS TO DEDICATE OUR INCREMENT OF THE SAS REVENUE BECAUSE, UM, BECAUSE IT'S TIED TO THE AQUIFER PROTECTION.
AND WE WERE TRYING TO MAKE THAT LINKAGE THERE FOR THE COUNCIL TO CONSIDER.
AND THAT WAS A LOT OF THE CONVERSATION THAT HAPPENED AT THE TIME.
I THINK MARIA'S GONNA JUMP BACK UP TO YOUR FIRST QUESTION ON THE, ON THE RESERVES.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT PAGE 49 OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET DOCUMENT, IT SHOWS THE TWO YEAR PLAN FOR THE GENERAL FUND.
AND IT SHOWS THE FINANCIAL RESERVES, AS YOU MENTIONED, A 10%.
AND IT ALSO SHOWS A RESERVE FOR A TWO YEAR BALANCE BUDGET, UH, IN 2023 IS 10%, AND THEN 2024 GOES DOWN TO FIVE TO COMPLY WITH OUR FINANCIAL POLICY.
I SEE 10% RIGHT ABOVE IT BUDGETED.
IT SAYS PERCENT FUNDING OPERATING REVENUE, 10% FOR 2023, 10% FOR 2024, UH, SAYS BUDGETED FOR RESERVES.
BUT THEN BELOW IT'S, IT HAS TWO DIFFERENT NUMBERS.
WHY WOULD THEY BOTH BE IN THERE? SO THE, OUR FINANCIAL POLICY IS A 10% OF BUDGETED FINANCIAL RESERVES AND THEN OUR TWO YEAR RESERVE FOR A TWO YEAR BALANCE BUDGET IS 5%.
SO IN 2023, OUR TOTAL ENDING BALANCE IN THE GENERAL FUND IS 20%.
AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO THE 2024 PLAN IS A 15% CONSISTENT WITH OUR POLICIES, MEANING THAT WE'RE USING A PORTION OF THE ENDING BALANCE IN 23 TO BALANCE 24.
AND, AND WE CAN, WE, WE WILL RECAP THAT IN THE FOLLOW-UP COUNSEL MEMO.
UM, TROY, I THINK WE'LL PROBABLY NEED TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER IN THE FOLLOW-UP MEMO ON COUNCILMAN KURT'S CFOS.
'CAUSE I THINK IT WAS A GENERAL QUESTION ABOUT WHERE WE ARE AT IN TERMS OF THE ISSUANCE AND THE SPENDING.
UM, THE, UM, THE PARKS ENVIRONMENTAL FEE WAS THE OTHER QUESTION THAT WAS ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL IN FISCAL YEAR 2014.
AT THE TIME, WE WERE PROPOSING REDUCTIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND AND THAT WAS AN ALTERNATIVE NOT TO REDUCE THOSE RECURRING EXPENSES.
SO THAT'S WHY IT HASN'T BEEN ELIMINATED BECAUSE IT'S SUPPORTING RECURRING EXPENSES THAT USED TO BE IN THE GENERAL FUND NOW SUPPORTED BY THE PARKS ENVIRONMENTAL FEE.
I GUESS THAT ONE I WAS TALKING ABOUT ON 4 31, IT'S $133 MILLION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023 AND IT SAYS OTHER.
AND I JUST WANTED TO SEE WHAT IS A BREAKDOWN OF OTHER FOR $133 MILLION.
AND WE'LL GIVE YOU THAT IN THE FOLLOW UP MEMO.
COUNCIL MEMBER K, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA.
THIS IS JUST MY SECOND GO AROUND ON THE BUDGET BOOK THAT SAYS A NUMBER OF SIDEWALKS, MILES OF SIDEWALKS CONSTRUCTED.
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YEAR WE HAD A TARGET OF 56.77 AND WE ARE EXPECTED TO COMPLETE 43.63, BUT NEXT YEAR'S TARGET IS 39 AND THAT SEEMS REALLY LOW COMPARED TO THE 22.UM, IS THERE A REASON FOR THAT COUNCILWOMAN? OUR SIDEWALK PROGRAM IS TWO YEARS SINCE THE, OUR FUNDING HAS BEEN INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY.
WE HAVE TODAY ENOUGH RESOURCES TO BE ABLE TO DO 9 MILLION.
ANYTHING OVER 9 MILLION IT GOES FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
AND SO, AND, AND I GUESS THAT HELPS ME UNDERSTAND WHAT THE STAFFING, MAYBE WHY WE WOULD NEED SOME ADDITIONAL STAFFING, BUT WOULDN'T THAT BE CONTRACTED OUT ANYWAY? IT IS CONTRACTED OUT, UM, RAZZI, BUT THE COUNCILWOMAN IS ASKING WHY THE PROJECTION FOR NEXT YEAR IN TERMS OF MILES MM-HMM.
LET ME CHECK ON THAT WHEN AND WE GET BACK TO YOU.
BECAUSE THAT, THAT'S A SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE AND SO I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY.
UM, BUT THEN, UH, SINCE, SINCE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT POSITIONS AND I THINK IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE WE KEEP SAYING MANPOWER AND I KEEP CRINGING OVER HERE AND THINKING IT'S STAFFING.
AND EARLIER I HAD A U D C AMENDMENT MEETING AND THEY HAD ON THEIR TOTAL MAN HOURS AND I WAS THINKING KNOW IT'S STAFF HOURS, BUT UM, SORRY, SORRY, I JUST HAD TO MENTION THAT REALLY FAST.
UM, THERE'S LITTLE, LITTLE SPEED HUMPS THAT I'VE SEEN AT PRIVATE DEVELOPMENTS.
SO FOR INSTANCE, UH, DOWN ON, ON, UH, GRAYSON, THEY HAVE, I CALL THEM MINIATURE SPEED HUMPS.
IS THERE, IS THERE A REASON THAT WE DON'T LOOK INTO THOSE FOR SOME OF OUR SMALLER STREETS? OR ARE THEY, AM I WAY OFF THERE? DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? AND I THINK THEY'RE LOOKING FOR MY ANSWER.
LET ME GO TO MY NEXT QUESTION ON THE POSITIONS THAT WE HAVE.
SO IF, IF WE DON'T, LET'S SAY THAT VOTERS DON'T APPROVE A 2027 BOND, LIKE WHAT HAPPENS TO THESE POSITIONS THAT WE CREATED? WELL, UM, THOSE POSITIONS THAT GET CREATED ARE FUNDED THROUGH THE BOND PROGRAM.
SO, UM, AT THAT POINT, UM, IF THAT HAPPENS AND WE HAVE NO MORE BOND WORK AND THOSE POSITIONS WOULD NEED TO CONTRACT BACK DOWN AND, AND WE NEED TO REMOVE THEM.
AND I DON'T KNOW RAZZI DID, WERE YOU GONNA HAVE AN ANSWER? SAME THING AS MANAGER MENTIONED.
BUT WHAT ABOUT FOR THE SMALLER SPEED HUBS? LIKE IS THERE, I DON'T THINK HE HEARD THE QUESTION BECAUSE I'M WAS TALKING TO ANTHONY OVER HERE.
SO, UM, THERE'S, I CALL THEM MINIATURE SPEED HUMPS.
I DON'T, I'M SURE THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT ANSWER, BUT LIKE ON I'M DOWN ON GRAYSON, THEY HAVE SMALLER SPEED HUMPS.
AND I WAS WONDERING, LIKE, DO, IS THERE A REASON WE DON'T DO THOSE FOR SOME OF OUR SMALLER STREETS? IS IS IT A SAFETY THING? WHAT IS IT? NO, WE DO THE SPEED HUMP DOESN'T MATTER.
WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE MAJORITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WE ARE GOING TO PLACE THAT SPEED HOME.
AND ALSO COUNCIL HAS TO FUND THOSE SPEED.
SO WE DO HAVE DIFFERENT SIZE SPEED HUMPS WE USED TO HAVE, NOT ANYMORE.
WE ARE, WE USED TO HAVE THOSE RUBBER SPEED HUMP AND THE ASPHALT.
NOW WEGO ASPHALT IS LESS EXPENSIVE AND ALSO IT IS EASY TO BUILD.
THIS HAS BEEN A, A VERY GOOD DISCUSSION.
UM, AS IS TYPICAL, WE WILL HAVE A MEMO ON FOLLOW UPS, UH, DISTRIBUTED TO THE COUNCIL.
OF COURSE, AT ANY POINT, UH, IF THERE ARE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, WE, WE CAN HAVE INDIVIDUAL BRIEFINGS AND IF THERE ARE ENOUGH FOLKS WITH ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, UH, ON THE SAME ISSUE, WE CAN ALSO BRING SOME OF THIS BACK, UH, FOR ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION AT THE BUDGET HEARING.
SO, UH, WITH THAT WE DO HAVE A, UM, FIVE O'CLOCK, IT'S NOW FIVE 20, UH, BUT WE HAVE PUBLIC A COMMENT ACROSS THE STREET, SO IF YOU CAN BE THERE AS, UH, QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, THE TIME IS 5:20 PM ON, ON AUGUST 17TH, 2022.
THANKS EVERYBODY FOR YOUR ATTENTION.