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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
THE TIME IS 2:11 PM ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2022.
WE'LL CALL OUR BUDGET SESSION TO ORDER.
MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU READ THE ROLE? COUNCIL MEMBER BRAVO HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
PRESENT, COUNCIL MEMBER ILLA RON HERE.
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WE'VE GOT TWO DEPARTMENT BRIEFINGS TODAY.UH, SO LET, LET'S GET STARTED.
I'LL TURN IT OVER TO CITY MANAGER ERIC WALSH.
GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
WE'VE GOT TWO ITEMS, UH, TWO DEPARTMENTS.
SO WE'LL START OFF WITH DAVID NEWMAN AND SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT, AND THEN HE'LL TURN IT OVER TO JESUS TO GO OVER THE, UM, THE AIRPORT SYSTEM BUDGET.
UM, JESUS ALSO HAS, AND WE INCLUDED IN LAST WEEK'S REPORT TO YOU.
UM, WE'LL DO TWO POST SOLICITATIONS.
UM, AS YOU RECALL, WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ON A STEADY, UM, CONSISTENT TRACK FOR THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
JESUS WILL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THAT PROGRAM TODAY AND, UH, AND THEN WE'LL WRAP UP THE, UH, CONVERSATION.
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT.
IT'S GREAT TO BE WITH YOU THIS AFTERNOON.
I WILL OUTLINE OUR PROPOSED BUDGET AND FUND SCHEDULE.
I'LL GO OVER OUR BUDGET, HISTORY AND FEES, AS WELL AS SOME IMPORTANT METRICS FOR OUR DEPARTMENT AND SOME IMPORTANT BUDGET IMPROVEMENTS FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
THE SOLID WASTE MA UH, OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE FUND IS PROPOSED TO INCREASE BY 10 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS BETWEEN F Y 22 AND F Y 23.
THERE'S SEVERAL CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THIS.
UH, ONE OF THOSE ARE OUR PERSONNEL EXPENSES AND SALARIES GOING UP IS A GOOD THING.
UH, A FEW THINGS THAT ARE NOT SO GOOD.
OUR DISPOSAL RATES ARE INCREASING.
THEY INCREASED BY ABOUT 6% THIS YEAR.
UH, WE ARE PROJECTING THAT THEY WILL GO UP BY 10% NEXT YEAR.
THE COST OF OUR TRUCKS, UH, HAS ALSO GONE UP SIGNIFICANTLY.
THE COST TO PURCHASE THE TRUCKS, THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR ON THE TRUCKS, AS WELL AS FUEL.
ON THIS SLIDE, WE ALSO SHOW THE FLEET SERVICES FUND.
THIS IS AN IN INTERNAL SERVICES FUND.
UH, IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT DIVISION FOR US.
UH, THEY MAINTAIN ABOUT 2000 HEAVY TRUCK AND OFF-ROAD EQUIPMENT FOR SOLID WASTE AS WELL AS PUBLIC WORKS, PARKS AND REC AND OTHERS.
IT IS ALSO PROPOSED TO INCREASE BY ABOUT $2 MILLION MOVING INTO NEXT YEAR FOR THE SAME INFLATIONARY FACTORS.
YOU CAN SEE THAT OUR APPROPRIATIONS HAVE, UH, GONE UP SOMEWHAT STEADY WITH A MORE AGGRESSIVE BUMP LEADING INTO NEXT YEAR.
THE SOLID WASTE OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE FUND IS A RESTRICTED FUND.
UH, THERE ARE TWO MAIN FEES THAT SUPPORT THE FUND, THE SOLID WASTE FEE.
THIS IS A FEE THAT'S APPLIED TO OUR CUSTOMERS THAT RECEIVE CURBSIDE COLLECTION SERVICES SUCH AS GARBAGE COLLECTION, ORGANICS, RECYCLING, AS WELL AS BRUSH AND BULKY, UH, THAT'S REPRESENTED IN BLUE ON THE GRAPH.
AND THE GREEN IS THE ENVIRONMENTAL FEE.
THIS IS A FEE THAT IS APPLIED TO ALL CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO AND IT HELPS TO PAY FOR CITYWIDE SANITATION SERVICES, SUCH AS BULKY WASTE COLLECTION, DEAD ANIMAL COLLECTION, AS WELL AS OUR, OUR BULKY WASTE DROP-OFF SITES.
C P S ENERGY IS OUR BILLING AGENT FOR THESE TWO FEES.
AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THE BLUE STRIPE REPRESENTS THE RECYCLING REVENUE.
UH, IT HAS BEEN PRETTY GOOD FOR US THIS YEAR AND WE ARE PROJECTING THAT IT WILL CARRY OVER INTO NEXT YEAR.
FEW IMPORTANT PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR US.
OUR RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS CONTINUE TO INCREASE BY ABOUT THREE TO 4,000 EVERY YEAR, UH, AND NEXT YEAR WE'RE PROJECTING ABOUT 371,000 CUSTOMERS.
OUR TONNAGE THAT WE COLLECT, AS YOU CAN SEE OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS, HAS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY.
UH, AND NEXT YEAR WE HAVE A PROJECTION TO COLLECT 676,000 TONS.
THE CUSTOMERS THAT VISIT OUR FOUR FOUR BULKY WASTE DROP-OFF SITES AS WELL AS THE BRUSH SITE, UH, HAS ALSO INCREASED AND WE'RE PROJECTING, UH, SIMILAR INCREASES THERE.
OUR DIVERSION RATE, THIS IS WASTE DIVERTED AWAY FROM THE LANDFILL.
RECYCLE RATE IS HOLDING STEADY AT 40%, WHICH IS GOOD, BUT SOMETHING THAT IS NOT SO GOOD IS THE PERCENT OF ROUTES, UH, GARBAGE COLLECTION ROUTES THAT ARE COMPLETED ON TIME.
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CAN SEE, UH, THAT WE'RE EVEN HAVING A DIP FROM 21 INTO THIS YEAR.NOW, LET ME STRESS THAT WE DO FINISH OUR ROUTES.
IT MAY BE SIX O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, IT MAY BE NINE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, BUT WE DO FINISH THOSE ROUTES, UH, AND I DO HAVE AN IMPROVEMENT TO ADDRESS THIS SITUATION.
OUR BILLING STRUCTURE, WE REFER TO IT AS A PAY AS YOU THROW BILLING STRUCTURE.
AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS, UH, THREE DIFFERENT SIZE CARTS WITH THREE DIFFERENT FEES THAT THEY PAY ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
IF YOU ELECT TO GO WITH THE SMALLER CART, YOU WOULD PAY THE SMALLER FEE, UH, THE MIDDLE CART OR THE LARGER CART, YOU WOULD PAY A LARGER FEE.
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE PROPOSED RATE FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
WE HAVE NOT RAISED THE FEE, UH, SINCE 2019.
WE ARE NOT PROPOSING TO RAISE THE FEE FOR NEXT YEAR.
HOWEVER, IN F Y 24, WE DO NEED TO CONSIDER A RATE INCREASE.
YOU CAN SEE OUR LANDFILL DIVERSION RATE HAS RISEN OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS.
SO WHERE DOES ALL THAT MATERIAL GO? UH, 642,000 TONS.
MOST OF IT GOES TO THE LANDFILL AT 386,000 TONS PROJECTED FOR THIS YEAR.
AND THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT, UH, UH, AMOUNT THAT WE PAY.
UH, 10 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS FOR LANDFILL.
UH, LEMME STOP RIGHT THERE AND SAY THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO DOES NOT HAVE AN ACTIVE LANDFILL.
WE CONTRACT WITH THREE DISPOSAL COMPANIES.
THOSE CONTRACTS WILL EXPIRE IN THREE YEARS.
WE HAVE STARTED THE PROCESS TO, UH, GET NEW CONTRACTS AND WE ARE PLANNING TO RETURN TO A CITY COUNCIL B SESSION FOR A PRES SOLICITATION, UH, BRIEFING IN DECEMBER.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT RECYCLING, I MENTIONED IT EARLIER, IS DOING WELL.
UH, AND THAT $7 MILLION IS A POSITIVE PAYMENT, UH, TO BACK TO THE CITY, AND THAT HELPS TO KEEP OUR RATES LOW.
LAST YEAR, THE CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZED US A DEDICATED ILLEGAL DUMPING COLLECTION CREW.
UH, WE HAVE ALWAYS COLLECTED ILLEGAL DUMPING.
UH, HOWEVER, WE DIDN'T HAVE A DEDICATED CREW.
WHAT WE DID IS WHEN OUR COLLECTION CREWS WERE DONE WITH THEIR ROUTE, WE WOULD SEND THEM TO GO ADDRESS 3 1 1 CALLS.
UH, THIS YEAR WE HIT THE GROUND RUNNING IN OCTOBER.
UH, OUR COLLECTION CREWS, BY THE END OF THIS MONTH, WE EXPECT THAT THEY WILL COLLECT ABOUT 1500 CLEANUPS.
THEY WILL COLLECT TRASH FROM OVER 235 HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS, AND THEY WILL ALSO COLLECT ABOUT 150 MILES OF WIND BLOWN DEBRIS LIKE PAPER OR PLASTIC ALONG ROADWAYS.
SO WHEN YOU TAKE WHAT THIS CREW HAS DONE AS WELL AS OUR OTHER CREWS, WE WILL HAVE COLLECTED ABOUT 9,000 TON FOR THIS YEAR.
AND WHILE THAT'S PRETTY GOOD, THERE'S A WHOLE LOT MORE OUT THERE.
AND MAYOR, YOU PREDICTED LAST YEAR THAT I WOULD BE BACK ASKING FOR MORE RESOURCES AND WELL, HERE I AM ASKING FOR ANOTHER CREW OF FIVE EMPLOYEES TO ADDRESS, UH, MORE OF THIS ILLEGAL DUMPING.
UH, WE PROJECT THAT WE CAN GET A THOUSAND MORE CLEANUPS DONE WITH THIS CREW.
UM, I THINK THE REAL BEAUTY OF THIS CREW THOUGH IS THEIR RESPONSIVENESS AND THEIR ABILITY TO GET TO PLACES THAT WE COULDN'T GET TO BEFORE THE, THE PICTURE BEFORE IN THAT DRAINAGE DITCH.
AND THE PICTURE ON THIS HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL KIND OF DEMONSTRATES WHERE WE ARE GOING AND COLLECTING, UH, A LOT OF TRASH.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A BIG PROBLEM AND WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN.
WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO HAPPEN IS WE NEED FOR PEOPLE TO SIMPLY STOP ILLEGALLY DUMPING.
WE STARTED IT THIS YEAR, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE IT INTO NEXT YEAR.
THAT SIMPLY PUT, IT SAYS THAT, UH, IF YOU ILLEGALLY DUMP AND GET CAUGHT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A BAD DAY.
AND WHY BOTHER TO DO THAT? BECAUSE WE HAVE FREE, CONVENIENT DROP OFF LOCATIONS ACROSS THE CITY.
A VERY IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT FOR US IS WHAT WE ARE REFERRING TO AS OUR ROUTE REBALANCING.
I WANT TO STRESS THAT WE ARE NOT CHANGING ANY SERVICE.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE ALL OF THE SERVICES THAT WE HAD, THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING.
BUT WHAT WE DO NEED TO DO IS REDRAW OUR ROUTES BECAUSE THE CITY HAS GROWN AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THAT TONNAGE HAS GROWN SO MUCH THAT IT IS TAKING AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF OVERTIME FOR OUR DRIVERS TO FINISH.
UH, AND I'LL, I'LL TRY TO BE A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC ON THIS.
OUR ROUTES SHOULD BE TWO LOADS.
UH, TODAY WHAT WE ARE FINDING IS THAT OUR COLLECTION WORKERS ARE PICKING UP TWO LOADS PLUS A PARTIAL THIRD EACH TIME THEY LEAVE THE THE
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NEIGHBORHOOD TO GO DUMP OUT.IT CAN TAKE TWO HOURS OR LONGER DEPENDING ON TRAFFIC THAT IS THROWING OUR ROUTES WAY OUT OF WHACK.
AND SO WHAT WE NEED TO DO, UH, IS ADD 15 POSITIONS.
WE NEED TO MAKE OUR ROUTES A LITTLE BIT SMALLER AND WE NEED TO DO THIS BY NOVEMBER 7TH.
UH, BY, BY DOING THIS, OUR EMPLOYEES WILL APPRECIATE BEING ABLE TO GO HOME ON TIME.
I BELIEVE OUR CUSTOMERS ARE GOING TO SEE A MORE CONSISTENT SERVICE, SO THEY WILL APPRECIATE IT.
OUR FLEET'S GONNA LOVE IT BECAUSE THEY'LL HAVE MORE TIME TO WORK ON TRUCKS.
AND WITH RESPECT TO OUR DEPARTMENT, WE SHOULD SEE A REDUCTION IN OVERTIME THAT HELPS TO OFFSET THIS IMPROVEMENT ONCE IT'S FULLY IMPLEMENTED.
MANY PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR WITH OUR BIDDERS BRUSH SITE.
WE HAVE BEEN AT THIS LOCATION ADJACENT TO THE AIRPORT FOR ABOUT 50 YEARS.
CITY CREWS TAKE BRUSH, THEIR, UH, RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE BRUSH OR LEAVES OR GRASS CLIPPINGS, AND WE GRIND IT UP INTO MULCH AND EITHER GIVE THAT AWAY OR SELL IT.
HOWEVER, TODAY WE NEED TO REDIRECT THAT FOCUS BACK TO CITY CREWS AND RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS ONLY BECAUSE WE NEED TO IMPROVE THE CAPACITY AND PRESERVE THIS SPACE AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT CREATING DUST OR AN IMPACT TO OUR NEIGHBORS.
AND OF COURSE, WE NEED TO REDUCE THE FIRE RISK.
THEREFORE, WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO PHASE OUT COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS BY APRIL 30TH OF NEXT YEAR.
A COUPLE MORE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE NEED IN SOME OTHER AREAS OF OUR OPERATION.
I MENTIONED THOSE BULKY WASTE DROP-OFF SITES.
THESE ARE LOCATIONS WHERE CUSTOMERS CAN TAKE THINGS THAT DON'T FIT INTO THEIR CART, LIKE MAYBE A MATTRESS OR A BARBECUE PIT, AND THEY DROP 'EM INTO OUR TRUCKS.
AND WE TAKE THAT MATERIAL MATERIAL EITHER TO THE RECYCLE PLANT OR THE LANDFILL.
UH, WE NEED A COUPLE MORE TRACTOR TRAILERS TO MEET THOSE ADDITIONAL CUSTOMERS THAT I DESCRIBED EARLIER.
WE ALSO NEED TWO ADDITIONAL GARBAGE TRUCKS.
LITTLE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT CONFIGURATION OF GARBAGE TRUCK TO MEET, UH, SOME NEW HIGH DENSITY DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE COMING ONLINE, UH, AND PROPOSED FOR THE FUTURE.
WE ALSO NEED AN ADDITIONAL MECHANIC FOR OUR FLEET SHOP MAYOR CITY COUNCIL.
OUR DEPARTMENT'S DOING PRETTY GOOD.
OUR EMPLOYEES ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT ROUTE.
REBALANCING OUR VACANCIES ARE AT AN ALL TIME LOW.
UH, AND BY THE WAY, WE HAVE SOME VERY, VERY GOOD, UH, TALENTED AND COMMITTED EMPLOYEES.
AND, UH, I FOUND THESE PICTURES THAT MAYBE SHOW THAT, UH, THE PICTURE ON THE LEFT THERE IS FROM A STATE COMPETITION FOR GARBAGE TRUCK DRIVERS AND MECHANICS AND JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY THERE GOT FIRST OR SECOND PLACE EXCEPT FOR MAYBE THE GRAY-HAIRED GUY IN FRONT AND THE TALL GUY IN THE BACK.
AND, UH, THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT, THAT'S TRINIDAD TORRES.
HE HAS BEEN WITH OUR DEPARTMENT FOR 31 YEARS.
UH, HE IS A FANTASTIC PERSON, A WONDERFUL EMPLOYEE.
WE CAME ACROSS THAT BRONCO IN THE PARKING LOT.
AND, UH, IF THAT WASN'T COOL ENOUGH, WE SAW THE LICENSE PLATE THAT SAYS SS W M D ON IT.
AND THAT JUST GOES TO SHOW WHAT A DEDICATED PERSON HE IS.
AND, UH, AND BY THE WAY, HIS SON ALSO WORKS FOR US TOO.
THEY'RE BOTH FANTASTIC EMPLOYEES.
SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PROVIDING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT TO YOU THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FULL FISCAL YEAR 2023.
I'LL START BY SAYING F UH, MUCH GRATITUDE TO THE ENTIRE TEAM.
AS I THINK BACK TO, UM, WHEN I FIRST ARRIVED IN 2020 AND WHAT WE'VE HAD TO ENDURE, UH, FROM AN INDUSTRY STANDPOINT IN THE AVIATION INDUSTRY SPECIFICALLY, AND THEN FROM THE ENTIRE CITY OF WHAT WE'VE HAD TO DO DURING COVID PANDEMIC.
UM, THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT AN INCREDIBLE, UH, GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE EXTREMELY TALENTED.
YOU KNOW, WE JOKE, UH, EVERY NOW AND THEN ON THE WITHIN AMONGST OURSELVES.
HOW MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE DO WE HAVE? UM, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ACQUIRE 260 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE NOW IN THE AVIATION, UH, LEADERSHIP TEAM, WHICH IS INCREDIBLE TO THE WORK THAT WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US, AND WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
BUT I'D BE REMISS TO TELL YOU THAT, UH, FROM OUR STANDPOINT, UM, IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE, OUR TERMINAL SERVICES GROUP THAT EVERY DAY, DAY IN AND DAY OUT KEEPS OUR FACILITIES CLEAN.
UM, AS WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE OVER 9 MILLION PEOPLE THAT WILL BE MOVING, MOVING THROUGH OUR TERMINAL COMPLEX, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THEY GET A, A LARGE AMOUNT OF CREDIT, WHETHER IT WAS, YOU KNOW, DIFFICULT STORMS OR TOUGH
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TIMES.THE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE TEAMS, UH, LED BY RYAN ROCHA AND THAT TERMINAL SERVICES GROUP CONTINUE TO PERFORM, UH, WELL ABOVE.
UM, AS WE LOOK AT AIR SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND NOW HAVE A SLIDE IN THERE AS WELL, I GIVE A LOT OF CREDIT TO BRIAN PRATT AND HIS LEADERSHIP UNDER THE AIR SERVICE PIECE.
AND THEN, UH, JENNIFER MILLS PICHER, WHO LEADS OUR CHIEF COMMERCIAL, UH, EFFORTS AS WELL, DOES AN INCREDIBLE JOB.
AND I'LL GIVE YOU A FULL, FULL UPDATE ON WHERE WE STAND WITH THOSE REVENUES AND HOW THOSE ARE PERFORMING.
UM, KAREN ELLIS, WHO LEADS THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE TEAM, UM, SPECIFIC, I BELIEVE ON PAGE TWO 18, YOU'LL SEE OUR GOALS AND WHAT WE HAVE.
UM, WE'RE SITTING AT 4.42 EVEN UNDER SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES.
AND THEN, UM, MICHAEL GARNET, WHO, YOU KNOW, HEADS OUR FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION WHO'S WORKED CLOSELY WITH JUSTINA, FREDDY, SINA, CRAIG, THE ENTIRE TEAM, THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE TO HELP US PUT ALL THIS TOGETHER.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF WORK AS WE LOOK AT NOT ONLY THE BUDGET, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY THE LARGE, UH, EMBARKMENT THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE WITH REGARDS TO THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
SO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONTINUED WORK AND, AND EFFORTS.
AND THEN, UM, OUR, YOU KNOW, AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION, OUR A S D C, YOU KNOW, BOTH OF THOSE TEAMS CONTINUE TO WORK WITH US, WORK WITH US IN ALL THAT WE'RE DOING, AND WE COULDN'T BE MORE GRATEFUL, UH, FOR ALL OF THEIR EFFORTS.
AND THEN LASTLY, UM, I'LL GO TO THE, UH, TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION AND TO THE CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION.
WE'RE MOVING PEOPLE EVERY DAY TO THE TUNE OF, YOU KNOW, IN BETWEEN 20 TO 30,000 PEOPLE ARE MOVING THROUGH THE AIRPORT EVERY SINGLE DAY.
SO IT'S IMPORTANT, UH, THAT WE THANK THEM, THE AIRLINES AS WELL.
AND THEN, UM, THE TWO INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE SIDE BY SIDE WITH ME AND EVERYTHING THAT I LAUNCH, AS WELL AS THE OTHER TEAM, YOU KNOW, MR. TIM CROLEY AND MR. TOM BARTLETT, THE TWO DEPUTIES THAT ARE WITH ME AT ALL TIMES.
SO, UM, I, I JUST STAND BEFORE YOU AND LET YOU KNOW THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT THEM.
I'LL GIVE YOU THE, ON THE NEXT SLIDE, THE PRESENTATION OVERVIEW.
UM, WE'RE GONNA COVER IT AND TODAY INCLUDES THE PROPOSED BUDGET, THE BUDGET IMPROVEMENTS, UH, WHAT THE CAPITAL BUDGET ENCOMPASSES, UM, AND THEN LASTLY, THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM MENTIONED BY MR. ERIC WALSCH WITH REGARDS TO WHERE WE STAND WITH THOSE.
NEXT SLIDE BEFORE YOU USE THE PROPO PROPOSED BUDGET, UH, DIRECTLY FROM PAGE TWO TWELVE, A HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO 0.2 MILLION IS OUR 88 POINT ENCOMPASSES OUR 88.5 OPERATING BUDGET, PLUS OUR 48.5 MILLION IN TRANSFERS.
THAT'S THE, THE FEES THAT WE HAVE, THE GENERAL FUND TRANSFER REVENUE BOND DEBT SERVICE TAX, UH, C I F AND OTHER TRANSFERS, UH, THAT WE HAVE INSIDE THAT 122.2 UH, MILLION PROPOSED FOR 2023.
THE 19.9 FROM THE PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGE IS THE PAYMENT FOR OUR P F C DEBT, UH, PLUS THE TRANSFER TO THE P F C RECEIPT, UH, RESERVE.
AND THEN THE 13.7 THAT YOU SEE FOR THE CFCS IS THE DEBT PLUS TRANSFER TO SURPLUS ACCOUNTS AS WELL.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, 700,000 IN THE AIRPORT TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FUND AS WE BEGIN TO ESTABLISH AND SET THE FOUNDATION FOR THE WORK THAT'S GOING TO ENCOMPASS FOR THE LARGE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
AND I HAVE A SLIDE THAT I'LL COVER IN DETAIL WITH, UH, THE 700,000 DETAILS WITH THE, WITH THE NEW NINE, UH, T D P EMPLOYEES FOR THE AIRPORT.
AND THEN 83.3 IS OUR FISCAL YEAR, 23 C I P.
WELL, A BREAKDOWN OF, UH, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IN 2023 FOR THE 83 MILLION.
AND THEN LASTLY, THE GRANTS THAT WE CONTINUE TO RECEIVE.
THE FOUR POINT, THE FOUR CLOSE TO 15 MILLION IN OPERATING CARES GRANTS AND 4.7 IN CAPITAL CARESS GRANTS AS WELL.
THE AIRPORT DEPARTMENT IS AT, UH, 501 POSITIONS, MOVING TO 510 WITH THE PROPOSED, UH, NINE REQUESTED POSITIONS.
THIS IS JUST A GRAPH CHART OF THE PREVIOUS SLIDE THAT DEPICTS, UH, OFF OF THE BUDGET BOOK ON PAGE 2 78.
THE GRAY BAR ENCOMPASSES THE 83.3 IS OUR C I P, THE YELLOW BAR.
19.6 IS OUR CARES OPERATING AND CAPITAL GRANTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023.
AND THEN THE BLUE BAR IS 156 MILLION, WHICH IS, AGAIN, THE 88.5 IN OPERATING EXPENSES PLUS THE 48.5 MILLION IN TRANSFERS.
HOW DOES THAT ALIGN WITH OUR REVENUE, UM, PERFORMING EXTREMELY WELL, AS I, YOU KNOW, PREFACED IN MY OPENING STATEMENTS, IT'S A CREDIT TO THE ENTIRE TEAM AND THE WORK THAT THEY DO.
UM, 51.4 MILLION IN AIRLINE REVENUES.
SO THE FI FISCAL YEAR 2022 ADOPTED INCLUDED, UH, 5.7 MILLION
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TRANSFER TO THE AIRLINES.UM, AND THERE WILL BE ZERO IN 2023, WHICH IS THE VAST DIFFERENCE THAT YOU SEE THERE IN THE 44, UH, THE 64 TO THE 72 IN THE NON-LINE, 72.9 MILLION, 3.5 MILLION IN CONCESSIONS, INCREASE 4 MILLION IN PARKING, UH, INCREASE A 6% PASSENGER GROWTH, PLUS NEW CONCESSIONS COMING ONLINE.
AND I'LL REVIEW AND DETAIL THE CONCESSIONS AND THE PARKING AND WHERE WE STAND TODAY WITH BOTH OF THOSE EFFORTS.
14.9 MILLION AGAIN ON THE GRANTS IS REMAINING OF THE OPERATIONAL CARES AS WE LOOK AT ALL THE FUNDING THAT WE'VE RECEIVED.
THIS WILL BE THE LAST DISBURSEMENT REIMBURSEMENT THAT WE WILL SUBMIT FOR IN OUR CARES, ARPA AND KRISA ALTOGETHER, INCLUDING, UH, THE 5 MILLION THAT WE'VE BEEN UTILIZING TO HELP ALL OF, HELP ALL OF OUR CONCESSIONAIRES AS WELL.
I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF GROWTH IN THE AIRLINE REVENUE AND IN NON-AIR AIRLINE REVENUE SERVICE.
THESE INCREASED AMOUNTS IN NON-AIR AIRLINE, UH, AIR, UH, AIR NON AIRLINE REVENUE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 AS 8.2% IN COMPARISON TO 2019.
AND IN THE AIRLINE IT'S 22, UH, IT'S 7.5% FROM 20, UH, 19 AS WELL, MOVING AND TRENDING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
I REMIND YOU THAT IN 2019 WAS OUR BEST YEAR EVER, UH, SERVICING MORE THAN 10.4 MILLION PASSENGERS.
AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE THROUGH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT EFFORTS TO IMPROVE OUR OVERALL REVENUE, BOTH AERONAUTICAL AND NON AERONAUTICAL IN COMPARISON TO 23.
IN 2023, WHICH IS THE PROPOSED, WE ESTIMATE THAT THE NON-AIR AIRLINE REVENUE WILL GO UP 21.9% AND THE AIRLINE REVENUE WILL GO UP 24.1%, UH, BASED ON OUR CONTINUED PASSENGER GROWTH.
AND SOME OF THE EFFORTS THAT I'LL REFERENCE IN SOME OF THE SUBSEQUENT SLIDES REGARDING OUR AIR SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND THE DIRECTION THAT WE'RE HEADING.
22 VERSUS 23, A GROWTH OF 12.7 IN NON AERONAUTICAL AND 15.5% GROWTH IN THE AERONAUTICAL REVENUES.
AS ALWAYS, UM, WE'RE GONNA BE VERY AGGRESSIVE IN OUR EFFORTS IN WHAT WE DO WITH REGARDS TO THE B I O ACTIVITIES, THE, UH, BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW IN FISCAL YEAR 2022, WE DID RECEIVE UNDER THE F A A GRANT, UH, OF AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT GRANTS 11.9 MILLION AWARDED TO SAN ANTONIO SINCE THE BUDGET PROPOSAL.
UH, 9.4 MILLION OF THAT IS FOR TAXIWAY HOTEL.
AND THEN, UH, ANOTHER 2.5 MILLION FOR RUNWAY 13, RIGHT, 13, UH, 13 LEFT.
BOTH OF THOSE ARE IN THE EXPANSION IN AN ALIGNMENT WITH THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TO BEGIN TO TAKE OUR 8,500 FOOT RUNWAY TO 10,000 FEET.
SO THIS IS THE EARLY ENABLING WORK THAT WE'RE MOVING TOWARDS THE EXTENSION OF 13, RIGHT? UH, UH, 31 LEFT.
UM, AS IT RELATES TO THE BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LAW BILL FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023, WE ARE ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THE, WHAT WE CALL THE NOFO, THE NOTICE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITY TO BE RELEASED AND WHAT SPECIFIC CRITERIA THAT WILL LAUNCH.
WE WILL, UH, COMMIT TO CONTINUE TO, TO WORK WITH OUR, UH, FEDERAL PARTNERS IN THE F A A TO ENSURE THAT, UH, WE CAN TRY AND ATTRACT AND GET AS MUCH AND COMPETE FOR.
I REMIND EVERYONE THAT'S 150 MILLION FOR ONLY MEDIUM SIZED AIRPORTS THAT WE'RE COMPETING AGAINST.
SO WHILE OTHER AIRPORTS MAY HAVE RECEIVED, THEY MAY SIT IN DIFFERENT SIZE CATEGORIES.
OUR ONLY COMPETITION FOR THE ONE THAT WE RECEIVED WAS AGAINST AUSTIN.
SO, UM, WE, WE WILL CONTINUE TO COMPETE FOR THAT AS WE GO FORWARD.
AND THEN WE WILL BE SUBMITTING, UM, EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED FOR THE WORK THAT WE'LL BE DOING IN THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR TERMINAL SEA AND THE ENABLING PROJECTS.
AND THEN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, I WILL HIGHLIGHT THE BUDGET IMPROVEMENTS BEGINNING WITH AIR SERVICE PROGRAM, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, LED BY MR. BRIAN PRATT.
UM, AS WE LOOK AT THE COMPARISON, I OFTEN RECEIVE THE QUESTION, JESUS, WHERE ARE WE IN COMPARISON TO 2019? THAT'S WHY I REFERENCED THAT.
TODAY, WE SIT AT 40, THE INCREASE IS INTERNATIONAL, ONE MORE FLIGHT THAT WE HAVE.
SO THE RESUMPTION OF SERVICE IS THERE.
UH, THE FREQUENCIES ARE STILL IMPROVING.
AS YOU KNOW, THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY IS STILL VOLATILE.
THERE'S STILL A LOT OF UNCERTAINTIES, WHETHER IT BE HUMAN CAPITAL OR JUST EQUIPMENT.
STILL SOME UNDETERMINED EFFORTS AND EVERYONE IS TRANSFORMING.
WE AS A HEAVY O AND D MARKET CONTINUE TO REBOUND WELL, AND, AND IT'S BEEN VERY FAVORABLE FOR US AS WE LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF PROGRAMS AND AIRLINES THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ATTRACT.
FRONTIER STARTED SERVICE FROM SAN ANTONIO TO ATLANTA AND PHILADELPHIA.
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SOUTHWEST IS NOW FLYING TO OKLAHOMA CITY IN COLORADO SPRINGS.EVERYONE IS AWARE OF JETBLUE WITH SERVICE TO J F K IN BOSTON.
AND OF COURSE, WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE IN NOVEMBER.
WE WILL SEND AN INVITE TO EVERYONE, UH, HERE IN, IN COUNCIL AND MAYOR AS WELL, TO COME AND CELEBRATE THE ADDITION OF SPIRIT AIRLINES WITH THEIR SERVICE GOING TO LAS VEGAS AND ORLANDO ON NOVEMBER 17TH.
SO WE CONTINUE TO WORK HARD ON THE SLIDE, ON THE RIGHT, YOU SEE WHERE EVERYTHING WAS IN 2019 COMPARED TO WHERE WE'RE HEADING IN 2023 WITH THE PROPOSED OF 9.8 2019 BEING OUR BEST YEAR OF 10, 10.4, WE CONTINUE TO ADD NEW MARKETS AND AIRLINES AND THE STRENGTH OF INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL IS DOING EXTREMELY WELL.
ON THE BUDGET BOOK ON PAGE 2 78, UM, YOU WILL SEE THE MEASURES THAT I ME REFERENCED EARLIER WITH REGARDS TO THE SPECIFIC GOALS.
UM, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IS ALWAYS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO US ON THE WAY WE DELIVER THE LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT WE HAVE AT OUR AIRPORT COMPLEXES FOR A TOTAL OF, UH, 4.42.
AND THAT WAS LED AGAIN BY, BY KAREN ELLIS.
SOME OF THOSE EFFORTS, UM, ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AS WE LOOK AT THE NECESSARY CAPACITY THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED FOR THE OVERALL GATE EXPANSION.
UH, I'M PROUD TO TELL YOU THAT THE BUD, THE, THE PROJECT THAT WE HAVE ONGOING IN THE TERMINAL A AND B GATE EXPANSION SCHEDULED TO BE COMPLETED IN 1231.
WE ANTICIPATE TWO OF THOSE GATES OPENING IN THE LATTER PART ONE BEFORE NOVEMBER ONE, RIGHT AFTER THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS.
AND THE LAST ONE BEFORE THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS, WE WILL HAVE THREE NEW GATES THAT WILL GIVE US AN ADDITIONAL 1.3 MILLION IN EMPLOYMENT CAPACITY FOR THE SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
UM, BEFORE THOSE GATES ARE OPEN, THEY'RE ALREADY TAKEN.
SO WE WILL, UH, TRANSITION, UH, AMERICAN AIRLINES FROM TERMINAL A TO TERMINAL B, AND THAT WILL ADD ADDITIONAL CAPACITY INTO THE TERMINAL A GATES, UM, WITH THE STARTUP OF SPIRIT AIRLINES, WHICH WILL TAKE SOME OF THOSE GATES AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN IN, IN ADDITION TO THAT EFFORT, UM, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE ADDING AN ADDITIONAL SECURITY LANE.
AS WE LOOK AT THE OVERALL THROUGHPUT OF THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS THAT WILL BE GOING IN FROM TERMINAL A TO TERMINAL B, THEY'LL BE TRANSFERRING WITH AMERICAN AIRLINES.
WE KNEW THAT WE WERE GONNA NEED AN ADDITIONAL SECURITY LANE, SO IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT WE ADDED THAT THAT IS PART OF THAT PROJECT AS WELL.
AND WE ARE ON TIME AND ON BUDGET WITH THAT PROJECT.
UH, THIS, THE PASSENGER CANINE UNITS CONTINUES TO ENHANCE THE OVERALL SECURITY OF OUR AIRPORT.
JUST YESTERDAY, WE WELCOMED THE DELEGATION FROM SENEGAL, FROM WEST AFRICA AS WE WORK WITH OUR FEDERAL AGENCIES THAT WERE HERE TO HELP, UH, WORK WITH US IN REGARDS TO THE, THE T S A AND THE WORK THAT WE DO THERE.
SO WE CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE OVERALL, UH, SECURITY POSTURE WHILE ALSO IMPROVING THE THROUGHPUT OF OUR PASSENGERS.
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, ANYWHERE FROM THREE TO SEVEN MINUTES IS THE AVERAGE WAIT TIME.
AND OUR SECURITY WAIT LINES AS IT RELATES TO THE PARKING, UH, PROGRAM, UH, PROPOSED REVENUE FOR 2023 IS 2 28 0.45 MILLION THAT, UH, WE ANTICIPATE THAT GOING TO, I MUST TELL YOU, IT'S BEEN GOOD.
IT'S NOT JUST SAN ANTONIO, IT'S A REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE AS PEOPLE ARE NOW WANTING TO FLY OUT OF SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, NOT ONLY FROM THE SAN ANTONIO, UM, COUNTY IN IN, IN THE BAYER COUNTY, BUT ALSO FROM THE REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE.
HOW DO WE KNOW THIS? UM, WE HAD TO CLOSE THE GARAGE OVER PRETTY CLOSE TO 50 TIMES HERE OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS AS THE SUMMER WAS PEAK PERIOD FOR US, MORE PEOPLE ARE TRAVELING AND COMING TO THE AIRPORT.
SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WE'RE GONNA NEED ADDITIONAL CAPACITY IN THE PARKING GARAGES AS WELL.
SO THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE FIRST ENABLING PROJECTS AS WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THE NEW ADVANCED TERMINAL PLANNING DESIGN GROUP WITH REGARDS TO THE PARKING NEEDS THAT WE HAVE.
WE ALREADY HAVE A CONOPS THAT WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER FOR REDUNDANCY FOR THIS FALL BECAUSE WE KNOW IT'S GONNA BE A CRITICAL ISSUE AND WE WANNA MAKE CERTAIN THAT OUR LEVEL OF SERVICE CONTINUES.
ADDITIONALLY, WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE FOR JUST A FEW BUCKS MORE A DAY, YOU CAN FEEL WELCOME TO UTILIZE THE VALET SERVICE THAT PROVIDES YOU CURB TO CURB SERVICE.
YOU DRIVE STRAIGHT UP TO THE CURB, WALK OUT, WALK STRAIGHT IN, TAKE THREE TO FIVE MINUTES TO GO THROUGH THE CHECKPOINT AND YOU'RE GETTING TO YOUR GATE.
WE STILL ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO ARRIVE AN HOUR AND A HALF EARLY TO THE AIRPORT, BUT IT CERTAIN CERTAINLY IS A PREMIUM SERVICE THAT WE OFFER.
AS WE CONTINUE TO GROW, WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARKING SPACES AVAILABLE FOR ALL OF OUR PASSENGERS.
ON THE NEXT SLIDE, AS WE, UH, COVER THE CONCESSIONS PROGRAM, A TOTAL OF 30.6 MILLION, UH, ESTIMATED
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FOR THE 2023, UH, REVENUES, 10.2 MILLION IN CONCESSIONS, 16 MILLION IN CAR RENTALS, AND THE REMAINDER OF THAT WILL BE IN THE GROUND TRANSPORTATION.THE COMMERCIAL VEHICULAR EFFORTS THAT WE HAVE TOTALING APPROXIMATELY 4 MILLION.
AS WE LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED AND WHERE WE'RE HEADING AND WHY WE ANTICIPATE THIS TO CONTINUE TO GROW, BASED ON THE NUMBERS THAT I PROVIDED TO YOU EARLIER, LESS PASSENGERS, MORE REVENUE.
IT'S BASED ON THE DELIVERY OF SERVICE.
AND I GIVE THE CREDIT TO THE TEAM LED BY, UH, JENNIFER MILLS PICHER AND THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING.
FOR ALL THE WORK THAT WE CONTINUE TO DO.
WE OPEN ADINAS MARKET IN AUGUST.
UM, WE ASK THAT ALL OF YOU ALL PLEASE ATTEND THE OPENING OF WHATABURGER.
WHATABURGER WILL OPEN A SOFT OPENING TOMORROW AT THE AIRPORT, AND WE WILL HAVE A BIG OPENING ON SEPTEMBER 23RD.
WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT OUR HOMETOWN, UH, WHATABURGER OPENING HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
ADDITIONALLY TO THAT BEER CODE, WHICH IS A FOOD, BEVERAGE AND, AND, AND RESTAURANT SETTING, UM, FOR TERMINAL A, WHICH, UH, 60% OF OUR PASSENGER TRAFFIC GOES OUT OF TERMINAL A WILL BE OPENING IN SEPTEMBER, LADDER, LATTER PART OF SEPTEMBER, EARLY PART OF OCTOBER, WORKING ON GETTING THAT OPEN AS WELL.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, WE NEVER LE LEAVE OUT OUR GREAT S S F STINSON.
WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR OPENING A BRAND NEW CONCESSION, UH, BACK INTO THE TERMINAL COMPLEX THERE AT STINSON, UH, FOR RESUMPTION OF SERVICE WITH CONCESSIONS.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, IN WORKING ON THE NEW SOLICITATIONS, UM, AND THE NEW CONCEPTS FOR BOTH TERMINALS TO BE RELEASED, THE LATTER PART OF 2023, IT'S PART OF THE PRES SOLICITATION IN BOTH, UH, POSTS, SOLICITATIONS THAT WE PROVIDE TO YOU IN, UH, THE B SESSIONS THAT WILL BE FORTHCOMING AS WE TRANSITION, UM, FROM THE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CAPITAL, A TOTAL OF 83 POINT, UH, 3 MILLION ON THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, UH, TOTALING 16.1 MILLION WILL ENCOMPASS THE EXECUTIVE PROGRAM MANAGER, THE MASTER ARCHITECT WORK, AND THEN THE P M C M TO BEGIN THE ENVIRONMENTAL WORK THAT WE WILL BE DOING FOR EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH TERMINAL C AND THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AND TERMINAL.
AND OTHER 18.8 IS UPGRADES TO TERMINAL A AS IT RELATES TO THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM AND EXPANSION THEREOF, IMPROVEMENTS TO OUR OVERALL BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEM, AND THEN THE ADDITION OF THE GROUND LOADING FACILITY FOR TERMINAL A TO ADD ADDITIONAL GATE CAPACITY, NOT ONLY DOMESTICALLY, BUT FOR INTERNATIONAL AS WELL ON THE AIRFIELD, UH, TOTALING, UM, A TOTAL OF 27.3.
UM, IT'S FOR THE PACKAGE SEVEN, IT'S MILL AND OVERLAY OF 13, UH, LEFT 31.
SO, AND IT ALSO INCLUDES AIRPORT LIGHTING AND CONTROL AND MONITORING SYSTEM 13 LEFT IS OUR SHORT 5,500 FOOT RUNWAY THAT WE'RE GONNA DO A COMPLETE MILL AND OVERLAY ON SO THAT WE CAN UTILIZE THE GA TRAFFIC AND OTHERS AND UTILIZE 13 RIGHT FOR ALL COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC ACTIVITIES.
IMPROVE THE OVERALL EFFICIENCY OF THE AIRFIELD RUNWAYS ON THE TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY ENCOMPASSING 9.4.
IT'S FOR PASSENGER FLOW SYSTEMS. AS WE LOOK AT THE OVERALL MANAGEMENT THAT WE HAVE IN TERMINAL A, MANAGING T S A CHECKPOINT WAIT TIMES, WE WILL ADD THAT TO TERMINAL B, THE SYSTEMS INTEGRATION PROJECT, AND THEN A NEW CLOSE, UH, CIRCUIT, TV AND ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM AT STINSON AT 7.6 MILLION.
UH, WE'LL BE, UH, INSTALLING A BRAND NEW AIRFIELD GENERATOR BUILDING AND RECONSTRUCTION THAT WE WILL HAVE THERE.
BRAND NEW DRAINAGE PLAN, AND THEN THE ROOF REPLACEMENT FOR THE TERMINAL AND THEN IN THE ROADWAY.
LASTLY, UM, WE HAVE SOME RECONSTRUCTION ON THE ROADWAY ON THE NORTHERN PORTION GOING INTO DIFFERENT OF OUR HANGERS, DIFFERENT AREAS OF OUR HANGERS ON THE NORTH SIDE THAT NEEDS RECONSTRUCTION.
AND THEN THE OVERALL REHABILITATION OF SOME OF OUR, UH, WHAT WE CALL OUR STERILE, UH, GATES ON THE AIRFIELD SIDE.
UH, SPECIFICALLY VEHICLE GATE 20.
ALL THAT TOTALS UP TO THE 83.3 MILLION OF WHAT WE WILL DO FOR THE PROPOSED BUDGET IN THE UPCOMING YEAR AS WE TRANSITION TO THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
IT'S FOUNDATIONAL EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING HERE THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING AS WE COMPLETED THE S D P IN NOVEMBER.
UM, WE'VE BROUGHT TO YOU SOME SOLICITATIONS, UM, EARLIER IN MAY ON PRE AND POST THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
UM, IS GOING TO IS WE'RE, WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF WORKING WITH OUR ADVANCED TERMINAL PLANNING GROUP.
CORRIGAN COST WILL BE DETERMINED HERE AT THE LATTER PART OF THIS YEAR.
WE PLAN ON BRINGING CORRIGAN AND THE ENTIRE TEAM TO MAYOR AND COUNCIL
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TO ADDRESS THE COST THAT WILL BE ASSOCIATED, UH, BASED ON THE WORK THAT WAS DONE BY THE S D P TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE REALLY, REALLY GOOD COST AS WE GO FORWARD AND WE FINALIZE THE PROGRAMMING EFFORTS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO DETERMINE EXACTLY THE CENTRAL PROCESSOR, THE NEW TERMINAL SEA, AND A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT EFFORTS.WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR, FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH TERM, WITH TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM? IT IS THE LARGEST CAPITAL PROJECT THAT WE WILL EMBARK ON AS AN AIRPORT, AND AS MANY HAVE SAID FOR THE HISTORY OF THE CITY AS WELL, IT'S A GREAT MAJOR ECONOMIC GENERATOR FOR THE REGION.
AND THEN THE RESOURCES THAT WE NEED IS FOUND FOUNDA FOUNDATIONAL AS WELL AS WE EMBARK ON GOING FORWARD WITH ALL THE WORK THAT'S GONNA BE DONE.
WE COLLECTIVELY HAVE WORKED TOGETHER WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
UM, I THANK TROY AND ALL OF HIS TEAM FOR PROCUREMENT AND FINANCE FOR ALL THE WORK THAT THEY HAVE DONE, CRAIG, FOR I T S D AND THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.
MIKE SHANNON, FOR EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING WITH D S D, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO WITH THE FINANCE GROUP AS WELL, THE O M B AS WELL AS WE ALL WORK TOGETHER AND ESTABLISH EVEN ENCOMPASSING HR AS WE HIRE NEW POSITIONS.
THESE ARE THE NEW POSITIONS FOR THE AIRPORT AND OTHER SUPPORTING DEPARTMENTS THAT WE ARE ALL WORKING TOGETHER ON TO PREPARE FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
FOR THE UPCOMING B SESSIONS, AS, UH, AS I MENTIONED, WE, WE, WE BROUGHT THE PRE AND POST ELICITATION, UH, TO YOU IN MAY.
UM, WE HAVE SOME SUBSEQUENT ONES THAT WE WILL BE BRINGING FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR.
WE WANTED TO TAKE THE TIME AS WE MET IN MAY, AND WE'RE MEETING TODAY IN SEPTEMBER TO BRING TO YOU SOME ADDITIONAL SOLICITATIONS.
I'LL COVER, UH, TWO OF THOSE HERE SHORTLY.
BUT I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, WE WILL AS WELL, UH, BE PROVIDING BRIEFINGS ON AVIATION DEPARTMENT HIGH PROFILE SOLICITATIONS IN SEPTEMBER.
UM, WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU IN NOVEMBER AS WELL AND GIVE A STATUS UPDATE ON THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WITH MORE BRIEFINGS ON AVIATION DEPARTMENT, HIGH PROFILE SOLICITATIONS.
AND THEN IN JANUARY, UM, WE WILL COME TO YOU WITH CORGAN TO GIVE YOU THE ADVANCED TERMINAL PLANNING SERVICES CONSULTANT RENDERINGS AND CONCEPTS OF WHAT THE NEW TERMINAL FACILITY WILL LOOK LIKE AND ENSURE THAT WE HAVE THE COST, EVERYTHING THAT WE WILL BE DOING, UH, GOING FORWARD WITH MORE BRIEFINGS ON AVIATION DEPARTMENT, HIGH PROFILE SOLICITATIONS, AS I MENTIONED, UH, AS A POST SOLICITATION, WE'VE MADE A SELECTION, UM, FOR THE EXECUTIVE PROGRAM MANAGER, A TOTAL OF, UH, FOUR RESPONDENTS ON THE R F Q TOTALING, UH, 6,000,003 YEARS WITH TWO ONE YEAR OPTIONS.
UH, ANSWER ADVISORY WAS A SELECTED, UH, CANDIDATE BASED ON THEIR EXPERIENCE AND THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORK TO BE DONE.
UM, THEY WILL DEVELOP THE ADVANCED PLANNING DOCUMENTS FOR PROJECTS COMING OUT OF THE S D P AND THE, UH, ADVANCED TERMINAL PLANNING EFFORTS, INCLUDING FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, PHASING, AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DELIVERY METHODS AS WE BEGIN TO MOVE FORWARD FOR THE ON-CALL ENGINEERING.
UH, AS WE'VE COME TO YOU BEFORE IN THE PAST, THIS IS A CONTINUANCE.
UM, WE HAD A TOTAL OF 11, UH, TOTAL RESPONDENTS THAT WAS, UM, BROUGHT DOWN TO A TOTAL OF SEVEN BASED ON THEIR EXPERIENCE AND THEIR PROJECT APPROACH FOR THE WORK TO BE DONE.
UM, ONCE, ONCE THAT WAS COMPLETED, UM, THEY WERE ALL, UM, SCORED IN, BUT PRIOR TO THE INTERVIEW PROCESS, ON THE NEXT SLIDE, WE TAKE THAT DOWN AND GIVE YOU, UM, THE TOTAL THAT WERE BROUGHT TO THAT.
AND WE'VE SELECTED ON THE NEXT SLIDE, I'M SORRY, THERE'S A TOTAL OF THREE THAT WE HAVE SELECTED, UH, ATKINS, JACOBS, AND GARVER WITH A SELECTED CANDIDATES BASED ON THEIR EXPERIENCE AS WELL AS THEIR PROJECT APPROACH.
UH, AND, UM, WE'RE READY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT WITH YOU ALL'S APPROVAL AS WE GO FORWARD.
I KNOW THAT THAT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, BUT THAT COMPLETES OUR, OUR, OUR TOTAL, UH, BUDGETARY, UH, PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION.
JESUS, AS WELL AS, UH, DAVID THINKS A LITTLE UNFAIR, DAVID, THAT YOU HAD TO GO FIRST ON THIS ONE.
UH, JESUS, LEMME JUST START WITH YOU REAL QUICK.
UM, I DON'T REALLY HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF QUESTIONS, BUT PROCEDURALLY, UH, WE HAVE THE, THE TWO SCORECARDS AT THE END THERE.
YOU'RE SHOWING THAT TO US TODAY IN CONTEXT OF YOUR BUDGET PRESENTATION BECAUSE THESE ARE BAKED INTO THE F Y 23 BUDGET.
UM, JUST TO GET A SENSE, I MEAN, THERE'S THERE LOT OF WORK GOING ON AT THE AIRPORT NOW.
UM, DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR BACKUP SLIDES, THE, THE VIEW OF THE CALENDAR FOR THE S D P AND ALL THE OVERLAYING ELEMENTS IN TERMS OF DEVELOPMENT, CONSTRUCTION, ALL THAT STUFF, UH, GRANTS, ET CETERA? DO YOU HAVE THAT?
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WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE THE EXACT SLIDE.WITH REGARDS TO THE TOTAL AMOUNT, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE USEFUL FOR FOLKS TO SEE IT BECAUSE IT'S EXTREMELY COMPLICATED.
ERIC'S REFERRED TO IT AS A SEPARATE BOND PROGRAM.
UM, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF ELEMENTS TO IT.
A LOT OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS, A LOT OF CONTRACTS ARE GONNA BE LET, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF SOURCES OF REVENUE, OBVIOUSLY.
UH, AND, AND SO THE EXPECTATION FOR US TO STAY ON TRACK WITH REGARD TO FUNDING IS THERE, RIGHT? AND A BULK OF THIS PROJECT IS, IN FACT, ALL THE PROJECT IS, IS NOT GOING TO BE, UH, PAID FOR.
LIKE WE DO OTHER CAPITAL PROJECTS WHERE IT'S LOCAL PROPERTY TAX BASED.
IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF AIRLINE FEES, IT'S A LOT OF REVENUE BONDED OFF OF THOSE FEES.
IT'S FEDERAL GRANTS, ET CETERA.
BIG QUESTION FOR ME IS, ARE WE ON TRACK IN THE, THE, THE ANSWER TO THAT? THE REAL SIMPLE ANSWER TO THAT IS, YES, SIR.
WE ARE, UM, IN THE MAY PRESENTATION, WE HAVE A SPECIFIC SLIDE THAT BREAKS DOWN EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE REFERENCING WITH REGARDS TO THE FUNDING SOURCES THAT WILL BE APPLIED TO HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS.
UM, AS WE COMPLETED THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, WE KNEW EXACTLY THAT WE NEEDED TO LOOK OUTWARDLY ALL THE WAY THROUGH 2028 AND EVEN TO 2030.
AS WE'VE ADVANCED SOME OF THESE EFFORTS NOW TO 2028, FEBRUARY OF 2028 IS WHEN WE WANT TO ATTEMPT TO COMPLETE, UH, THE ENTIRE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ASSOCIATED WITH PHASE ONE OF ITS EFFORTS.
IT WAS ESTIMATED SOMEWHERE AROUND $1.2 BILLION IS WHAT THAT WOULD ENCOMPASS.
SO AS WE LOOK AT THAT, THE SAYING IS, UNLESS YOU USE THE AIRPORT, YOU DON'T PAY FOR THE AIRPORT, NO DISRESPECT TO ANYONE, BUT IT'S NOT PART OF THE GENERAL FUND.
AND EVERYTHING THAT'S DONE THERE IS COMPETED.
WE HAVE A SLIDE SPECIFIC TO YOUR QUESTION WITH REGARDS TO THE GRANTS THAT BREAKS DOWN THE A I P, THE A I G AND THE A T P, AND I KNOW I'M USING ACRONYMS, BUT YEAH, THERE'S THREE SPECIFIC ASSOCIATED WITH THE B I L PROGRAM.
YEAH, THE, ERIC, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE ANXIOUS TO SAY SOMETHING.
WE'LL PULL UP THAT BACKUP SLIDE.
I THINK THAT'LL PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT ON THE GRANTS.
AND, AND WHILE YOU DO WE HAVE THAT BACKUP SLIDE? YEAH, THERE, THERE'S, WE'LL FIND THE BACKUP SLIDE.
BUT WHAT I WAS GONNA ADD IS, AND, AND I'M JUST GONNA REITERATE, WE WE ARE DOING THIS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY AND, AND, UM, I THINK I TOLD HIM AT THE BEGINNING OF SUMMER, UM, HE MAY HAVE THOUGHT I WAS KIDDING, BUT WE'VE INSTITUTED, UM, THE, WHAT WE'RE CALLING THE PERRY RULE, UM, BECAUSE WE HAD AN ESTIMATE FROM THE SS T P OF 1.2 BILLION.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S THE WORK THAT CORRIGAN'S GOING THROUGH THAT'S GONNA VALIDATE, AND THAT'S THE NUMBER WE'LL BRING BACK TO COUNCIL.
SO THAT 1.2 BILLION IS NOT IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET AS LAID OUT BEFORE YOU IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
UM, WE, WE WANT THAT TO BE VALIDATED SO THAT WHEN WE COME TO COUNCIL WITH THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT, THAT BECOMES OUR NUMBER THAT WE SHOOT FOR, THAT WE LOOK TO FINANCE AND BUILD ON.
THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING ALL THIS IS THAT, I DUNNO, AN ORGANIZATION, ORGANIZATION OR A CITY IN THE COUNTRY THAT BATS A THOUSAND ON EVERY APPLICATION, AND I KNOW I GOT A FEW PHONE CALLS, AND I'M SURE YOU DID TOO, ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.
ARE WE OFF TRACK OR IS THIS AIRPORT PROJECT GONNA HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF US NOT BEING IN THAT FIRST ROUND OF THE B I L? UM, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A LOT BAKED INTO DECISIONS LIKE THAT, BUT MY BIG QUESTION IS, ARE WE STILL ON TRACK? AND THE ANSWER IS YES, SIR.
AND AND TO YOUR POINT, THERE WAS OVER 800 SUBMISSIONS, ONLY A LITTLE OVER 60 TOTAL, UM, AIRPORTS THAT RECEIVED THE FUNDING IN THE FIRST EFFORT OF 20 22, 20 23, 20 24, 20 25, AND 2026 WILL ALL BE ASSOCIATED TOWARDS THE WORK THAT WE WILL BE DOING TOWARDS THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY FOR TERMINAL C.
AND I, AND I THINK THAT WAS THE MESSAGE I TOOK AWAY FROM THE MEETINGS WITH FAS, THAT THIS IS A COOPERATIVE EFFORT AND THERE'S A LOT OF ROUNDS.
WE'RE EXPECTING ANOTHER NOFO HERE PRETTY SOON.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA BE IN A LOT OF ROUNDS, BUT WE'VE GOTTA STAY BIG PICTURE ON TRACK.
AND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS, AGAIN, I, WHEN AM I WALKING IN TERMINAL C FEBRUARY OF 2028, SIR.
AND THAT'S, THAT DATE HASN'T MOVED, SIR, SIR.
AND YOU EXPECT SHOVELS IN THE GROUND IN 24.
SO THOSE BIG MILESTONES, AS LONG AS WE'RE STAYING ON TRACK WITH THE FUNDING, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO KEEP OUR EYE ON.
AND THERE'S GONNA BE SOME, UH, THERE'S GONNA BE SOME HITS.
I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE MORE HITS THAN MRS FRANKLY AS WE PURSUE FUNDING BECAUSE WE'RE PREPARED AND THIS REGION IS NEEDED, THIS DEVELOPMENT FOR SUCH A LONG TIME, AND WE'VE GOT THE SUPPORT AROUND, AROUND THE COMMUNITY TO GET IT DONE.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S THE PART I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALL CLEAR ON.
SO THIS, THAT WE'RE PRESENTING TO YOU SHOWS YOU THAT THIS IS, I BELIEVE THIS IS THE ONE WE DID IN AUGUST THAT DEPICTS THAT'S IT.
ALL OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING, UH, TO YOUR POINT EXACTLY OF WHERE WE'RE AT IN 2022, TAKING US THROUGH 2028, THE TERMINAL OPENING
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IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2028.WE ARE, YOU KNOW, IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2022, MOVING TOWARDS, UH, THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2024 WHEN ALL OF THE WORK WILL START, AS WE JUST REFERENCED, THE EXECUTIVE PROGRAM MANAGER, THE P M C M, UM, A LOT OF WORK THAT WILL BE DONE IN 2023 AND 2024 AS IT RELATES TO ENVIRONMENTAL, UM, WORK WITH THE F A A AND AS IT RELATES TO ENABLING PROJECTS THAT WE NEED TO DO AS WE CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN CAPACITY TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE A PREMIUM LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT WE PROVIDE HERE AT SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL.
WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS, BUT I, I WILL BE FRANK, I'M A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT THE PARKING SITUATION IN THE MEANTIME, AS WE GET UNDER HEAVY CONSTRUCTION, COULD YOU GIVE US A SUMMARY OF HOW YOU'RE DEALING WITH THAT ISSUE? YES, SIR.
SO WE DO FORECAST FOR OUR PARKING.
WE HAVE A LITTLE OVER 9,000 SPACES THAT WE HAVE TODAY.
UH, RYAN ROCHA LEADS UP THAT EFFORT FOR US ON UNDER THE CHIEF OF OPERATIONS WORK.
AND WE'RE FORECASTING THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED APPROXIMATELY ANYWHERE FROM ANOTHER 500 TO A THOUSAND SPACES.
SO WE HAVE ADDITIONAL SURFACE LOTS WHERE WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
AND WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING PREPARED FOR THAT IN CURRENT TIME.
WE NEED TO START LOOKING AT ENABLING PROJECTS THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED IF WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO GROW TO ADD MORE PARKING GARAGE CAPACITY.
IT IS A MAJOR ISSUE FOR US, AND WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT WE PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, THE BEST LEVEL OF SERVICE, HENCE THE REASONING, THE VALET SERVICE.
THERE'S A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT EFFORTS OF WHERE, HOW WE CAN DO THIS.
WE'VE GOT A PARKING OPTIMIZATION PROGRAM THAT WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW AS WE GO INTO 2023 AND 2024 THAT WE'LL BE BRINGING TO COUNCIL TO PRESENT TO YOU AS WELL ON DIFFERENT IDEAS OF HOW THIS CAN BE DELIVERED WITH A BETTER LUCK, YOU KNOW, AS HOW, HOW WE CAN IMPROVE IT AND ENSURE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING MORE CAP, MORE PARKING CAPACITY TO OUR PASSENGERS.
WELL, AND AND LAST THING, UH, AND THIS IS A STATEMENT, NOT A QUESTION, BUT I, I THINK WE OUGHT TO CONSIDER AS WE BRING PEOPLE INTO THE AIRPORT, THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION GOING ON, A LOT OF THINGS BOARDED UP.
WE OUGHT TO PUT THE VISION OUT THERE, UM, IN PICTURE AND LET PEOPLE KNOW WHAT, WHAT'S COMING IN SAN ANTONIO.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE WE'RE WRAPPED IN A COCOON RIGHT NOW.
I TOLD V S A, I THINK THEY NEED TO CHANGE THEIR, THEIR MARKETING SLOGAN, UH, FROM, FROM REAL TO PARDON OUR DUST.
BUT LIKE WE'VE, WE'VE GOTTA GET OUT THE VISION OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO.
SO WHEN PEOPLE COME HERE, THEY DON'T GET THE WRONG IMPRESSION THAT THEY KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING BUILDING HERE.
AND, AND AS MUCH AS WE CAN DO TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR THAT, UM, UNCOMFORTABLE PERIOD OF TIME WHILE WE'RE UNDER CONSTRUCTION NOW, I THINK IT'LL BE BETTER FOR US.
SO I THINK, I THINK YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, MAYOR.
IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ERIC IS ALWAYS ON ME ABOUT, ABOUT JESUS MAKE CERTAIN WE'RE COMMUNICATING WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, THE EVERYTHING THAT WE DO WITH THE AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMISSION AND WITH THE A S D C AS THEY CAN HELP US, UH, ADVOCATE FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING AS WELL.
AND THEN LASTLY, I WILL TELL YOU WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER A FULL COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNICATIONS PLAN AS WE COMPLETE THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE ADVANCED TERMINAL PLANNING THAT'S GONNA COME OUT AND SHOWCASE EVERYTHING THAT WE'LL BE DOING GOING FORWARD WITH CONCEPTS AND RENDERINGS OF WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
MAYOR, ONE, ONE THING I WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT, UH, ONE OF THOSE ENABLING PROJECTS THAT, UH, JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT IS THE GROUND TRANSPORTATION CENTER, WHICH IS ALSO CRITICAL TO THE FLOW OF, UH, OF, UH, CUSTOMERS THROUGH THE FACILITY.
AND, UH, THAT B SESSION AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER THAT, UH, JESUS SHARED IN THE SLIDE PRESENTATION, THAT'S WHEN WE'RE COMING BACK TO TALK ABOUT PARKING AND SOME OF THOSE OPTIMIZATION ALTERNATIVES.
DAVID, I JUST HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
JUST BIGGER PICTURE YOU SHOWED, I THINK WE HAVE AN INCREASE IN OUR DIVERSION RATE OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, A MODEST INCREASE, WHICH IS GREAT.
WHAT'S OUR STRATEGY TO IMPROVE UPON THAT? OR ARE WE SORT OF PLATEAUING AT THIS POINT? 'CAUSE I KNOW WE, WE HAD A, AT LEAST WHEN ALL THIS FIRST STARTED A DECADE AGO, WE HAD VERY HIGH EXPECTATIONS.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF POTENTIAL THERE.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO MOVE THAT NUMBER UP IN THAT PLAN THAT YOU'RE PROBABLY REFERRING TO? WE HAD A NUMBER OF STRATEGIES AND WE'VE IMPLEMENTED ALL OF THEM.
UH, THE, THE, THE, THE BILLING STRUCTURE THAT I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER IS A BIG ONE.
UH, BUT, UM, WE'VE IMPLEMENTED ALL OF THOSE.
UH, WE ARE AT A RATE THAT'S, UH, PRETTY HIGH, ESPECIALLY FOR TEXAS.
UH, I THINK AUSTIN MIGHT BE AT 42% AT THIS POINT.
UH, IT, WE HAVE DONE STUDIES OF OUR GARBAGE AND TO BE PERFECT, TO BE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, WE COULD GET 60%.
UH, AND THAT WOULD BE VERY TOUGH TO GET.
NOW, UH, WE HAVE A NEW CONTRACT WITH A RECYCLER THAT CITY COUNCIL HAS ALREADY AUTHORIZED.
UH, THEY HAVE A LOCATION AND, UH, ARE ARE BUILDING THAT FACILITY.
I'M OPTIMISTIC THAT WITH THEM WILL GET A LITTLE BIT MORE.
UH, BUT, BUT MAYOR, THINGS HAVE CHANGED IN
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THE 10 YEARS OR HOWEVER LONG IT'S BEEN SINCE WE CREATED THAT PLAN.THE WEIGHTS OF MATERIAL ARE DIFFERENT.
UH, THE WAY WE ASSESS AND MEASURE THIS, I THINK IS CHANGING IN ALL CITIES.
AND I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT MAYBE WE NEED TO COME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL AND TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH.
AND YOU KNOW, THE BIG PIECES THAT ARE ALSO BEFORE US, UM, THE LANDFILL CONTRACTS, THE COST OF THOSE CONTRACTS GOING FORWARD, UM, OUR OWN LABOR AND EQUIPMENT COSTS AND WHAT THAT DOES TO THAT PAY AS YOU THROW MODEL, UM, AND THE NEW RECYCLING CONTRACTOR, UM, WITH THEIR NEW FACILITY WILL MAY GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF REBALANCE SOME OF THAT AND ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO RECYCLE EVEN MORE.
UM, I KNOW COUNCILMAN, UH, BRAVO SENT AN EMAIL ABOUT A WEEK AND A HALF AGO ABOUT, UM, UM, APPLICATIONS WE COULD DO ON THE, ON THE CANS THEMSELVES TO KEEP IN FRONT OF INDIVIDUALS AND HOMEOWNERS AND PEOPLE LIVE IN AN APARTMENT.
WHAT IS RECYCLABLE? ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO CONTINUE TO SHAVE OFF THOSE EDGES.
BUT, BUT THE BIG COMPONENTS THAT ARE THE BIG COST DRIVERS, UM, WE'LL BE DEALING WITH HERE OVER THE NEXT, UM, TWO YEARS.
AND SO SETTING THAT FRAMEWORK AND THEN FIGURING OUT HOW TO PROVIDE ALTERNATIVES FOR PEOPLE TO USE THE SERVICE AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE RATE, BUT TO, BUT TO HAVE THE LARGEST IMPACT ON THAT DIVERSION WILL BE, WILL BE THE, THE PATH WE NEED TO SHOOT FOR.
WANT TO GET TO THAT? I THINK WE NEED TO HEAR ABOUT IT.
'CAUSE I, I CERTAINLY WOULD BE IN SUPPORT OF, OF DRIVING UP OUR DIVERSION RATE.
AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THE SLIDE THAT YOU SHOWED US THAT THERE'S STILL A, A BIG NET GAIN THAT'S GROWING ACTUALLY AS WE INCREASE OUR RECYCLE RATES.
DO YOU THINK IT'S, IS IT A FALSE EXPECTATION THAT IF WE CAN GET OUR RECYCLING RATES UP HIGH ENOUGH, WE WILL CREATE SUCH A, UM, NET POSITIVE ON OUR SOLID WASTE OPERATIONS THAT WE COULD ACTUALLY MAYBE STOP INCREASING FEES OR MAYBE EVEN SEE SOME, UM, SOME WAYS TO REDUCE THOSE FEES? I, I UNDERSTAND NET PRESENT COSTS, BUT IS IT, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S GONNA BE THE CASE.
UH, THE NEW CONTRACT THAT COMES ON BOARD IN TWO YEARS DOES COST THE CITY, UH, MY RECOLLECTION IS IT WAS ABOUT $3 PER TON.
UH, TODAY WITH OUR CONTRACT, IT'S SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER.
UH, WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING A, A POSITIVE PAYMENT TO THE CITY, BUT UNDER THE, THE FUTURE CONTRACT, IT WILL BE A, A PAYMENT TO THE RECYCLER OF ABOUT $3 A TON.
AND LET ME JUST PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE.
WE PAY ON AVERAGE TO OUR DISPOSAL COMPANIES TODAY, $33 A A TON.
SO $3 TO $33, THAT'S A A, A VERY GOOD SPREAD.
BUT, UM, UH, WE, WE ARE, UM, WE COMMUNICATE WITH ALL THE OTHER CITIES IN TEXAS AND, AND ACROSS THE NATION.
AND, UH, AND WE HAVE LOOKED AT THAT AND I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE WOULD BE IN A PLACE WHERE IT'S GOING TO PAY FOR ITSELF.
WELL, IT'S REASONABLE TO ASSUME THAT WE WOULD BE SAVING OURSELVES ON THE ADDITIONAL COST BURDEN OF HAVING ABSOLUTELY MORE WASTE, UH, IN ADDITION TO ALL THE BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH JUST NOT CREATING THAT MUCH IN OUR WASTE STREAM.
SO, BUT THAT'S, AT ANY RATE, IT'S MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
DAVID, THE LAST THING I'LL ASK IS WITH REGARD TO THE STRIKE TEAMS, THE, WHAT ARE THEY CALLED AGAIN? I REFER TO 'EM AS HOTSHOT HOTSHOT TEAMS. DO THEY ALSO RESPOND TO SAY, UH, TRASH, UM, IN CERTAIN URBAN AREAS? LIKE IF I'VE CALLED ERIC BEFORE AND WE'RE SEEING TRASH ACCUMULATE ON COMMERCE AVENUE IN THE, IN THE BINS, DO WE HAVE A TEAM THAT GOES IN RESPONSE TO THAT STUFF? ABSOLUTELY.
WHERE WE ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE.
UH, AND, AND ACTUALLY LYNN HAS PULLED UP A FEW PICTURES TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE FLAVOR OF BEFORE AND AFTER.
UH, THIS IS, UH, WELL THAT LAST ONE WAS I THINK AROUND NACODOCHES.
LYNN, UH, SHOWS YOU, GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE DO.
UH, IT'S QUITE DRAMATIC, MARY.
THE ONLY PLACE WE DON'T GO, UM, IS ON THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
AND WHO SUPPOSED TO DO THAT? SORRY, WHO IS SUPPOSED TO DO THAT? TEXT STOP IS A RHETORICAL QUESTION.
BUT, UM, BUT EVEN THE, UH, THE UNDER, UM, UM, WE WERE AT A NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OR THE, THE NOD MEETING A COUPLE OF MONTHS, BEGINNING OF THE SUMMER WITH COUNCILMAN PLYS AND A LOT OF THE ISSUES ABOUT DUMPING UNDERNEATH THE, UH, TURNAROUNDS, UH, UNDERNEATH
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THE HIGHWAY, THERE'S ONE, THEY'LL, THEY'LL GO THERE AS WELL.WELL, LET, LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION THEN.
IF A, IF A RESIDENT SEES ONE OF THESE AREAS THAT'S OVERFLOWING AND IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PICK IT UP, IS IT, IS IT A 3 1 1 CALL? YES, SIR.
AND I THINK I FAILED TO MENTION TOO, THAT WE GET ABOUT 6,000 CALLS THROUGH 3 1 1 TO COLLECT.
AND, AND AS I WAS SHOWING HERE THIS YEAR, WE'VE PICKED UP ABOUT 9,000.
SO WE'RE FAR MORE PROACTIVE THAN THE CALLS COMING IN.
I DID ASK ABOUT MORE RESOURCES IN THIS AREA, BUT I, I THINK WE'RE GONNA NEED EVEN MORE.
BUT I ALSO THINK WE HAVE AN ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE YOUR OFFICE.
YOUR DEPARTMENT HAS DONE THE BEST PSSAS I THINK THE CITY HAS EVER DONE, UH, AND HAS BEEN AWARDED FOR IT.
AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE A COMMUNICATION MESSAGE AROUND, DON'T MESS WITH SAN ANTONIO.
I MEAN, WE HAVE, DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS.
PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT THESE STREETS, COMMERCE INCLUDED, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, A COMBINATION OF VISITORS WHO ARE JUST IN A RUSH, WHATEVER, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF TRASH IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND IF WE COULD HAVE YOUR CRACK TEAM, UH, WHO IS SO WELL WITH THE PSAS, COME UP WITH A MESSAGING STRATEGY AROUND CLEANING UP OUR STREETS, YOU KNOW, PICK UP AFTER YOURSELF, DON'T LITTER SOMETHING, I THINK THAT WILL HELP US ALL FEEL A LOT BETTER, UH, MORE PRIDEFUL ABOUT PLACES, NOT JUST ON THE STREETS TOO, I MEAN IN PARKS, ET CETERA, BUT ABSOLUTELY.
BUT WE COULD ALWAYS ALL RALLY AROUND THAT.
IT MAKES US ALL FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE COMMUNITY.
UH, THE SLIDE HERE SHOWS A ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN THAT HAS COME UP FROM OUR OUTREACH MARKETING, UH, GURU MARCUS LEE, BY THE WAY.
UH, AND THE INTENT HERE IS TO TELL FOLKS IF, IF YOU GET CAUGHT, UH, SOMETHING BAD'S GONNA HAPPEN TO YOU.
AND WE'RE TRYING TO REDIRECT THEM TO USE OUR BULKY WASTE DROP OFF SITES.
UH, I I HOPE THAT THIS MESSAGE CAN RESONATE.
WE CAN WORK ON SOME OTHER ONES TOO.
I, I, I DON'T, I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE OPEN TO, TO THIS 'CAUSE UH, JUST LIKE OUR CITY MANAGER, THIS GETS UNDER MY SKIN AS WELL.
UH, IT'S DISRESPECTFUL AND, AND WE WANT TO GET OUT THERE AND CLEAN IT UP AND WE WANT FOLKS TO STOP.
SO I KNOW IT'S NOT A P S A OR THE VIDEO AND I'M, I'M THINKING ABOUT THE VIDEO THAT HAD THE THINGS FLYING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE BINS.
BUT WE DO NEED SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T ROLL OFF THE TONGUE.
BUT I, LET'S JUST CHALLENGE OURSELVES TO COME UP WITH A GOOD MESSAGE THAT YOU GET WHAT I'M SAYING? YES, SIR.
AND I KNOW YOUR TEAM IS THE ONE TO DO IT.
AND ENLIST ADRIANA 'CAUSE SHE'S OUR MARKETING.
WE'LL TRADEMARK IT ONCE WE COME UP WITH IT.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
UM, I GUESS SINCE YOU'RE ALREADY HERE, I'LL START WITH YOU.
AND I WANT TO, UM, CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT, UM, I WANT, I DO WANT TO CONTINUE TALKING ABOUT ILLEGAL DUMPING.
UM, DO YOU KNOW, OR DO YOU KEEP TRACK OF OR HAVE ANY DATA FOR WHO IS ILLEGAL? LIKE WHO'S DUMPING AND WHERE THEY FREQUENT? LIKE HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE KNOW? WELL, WE KNOW WHERE, AND IT IS ALL OVER THE CITY.
I I ACTUALLY HAVE A SLIDE ON JUST THE HOTSHOT CREW WHERE THEY'VE COLLECTED IN THE CITY.
WE CAN CAN THROW THAT UP THERE.
UH, THE, WHO IS A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT QUESTION AND, AND WE CAN SEE THROUGH THE PILES THAT SOME OF IT IS CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS.
UH, SOME OF IT IS JUST REGULAR GARBAGE.
AND, UH, I, I, I JUST DON'T KNOW THAT ANSWER.
I DO WANT TO, I HEARD THIS, UH, SAID BY THE MAYOR A SECOND AGO, BUT I DO THINK WE NEED TO, UM, REALLY BOLSTER OUR EFFORTS HERE.
THIS IS, UH, AN ISSUE THAT I THINK WE GET SOME OF THE MOST CALLS ABOUT IS ILLEGAL DUMPING, UM, AS OPPOSED TO SOME OTHER ISSUES.
UM, AND SO I'M WONDERING WHAT CAN WE DO TO REINFORCE OUR EFFORTS? AND I KNOW THAT THE LAST BIT OF THIS CONVERSATION BECAME ABOUT LIKE, MARKETING AND CAMPAIGNS AND WHATNOT, AND I HEARD YOU JUST SAY LIKE, DON'T, UH, DON'T ILLEGAL DUMP OR SOMETHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU.
IS THAT THE MESSAGE? 'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW THAT IT, WELL, THE VISUAL IS SOMEONE IN HANDCUFFS AND MAYBE THE MESSAGE ITSELF, WE COULD CHANGE.
WE, I'M OPEN TO ANYTHING THAT THAT WORKS.
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I JUST WONDER IF PEOPLE ARE AS RECEPTIVE TO MESSAGES LIKE THAT AS THEY MIGHT BE TO, YOU KNOW, HERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU TO MM-HMM.UM, AND SO I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A SHIFT IN THAT.
I WOULD LOVE TO, UH, BE A PART OF ANY CONVERSATIONS AND, UH, UH, DR.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF THINGS.
I'VE, I'VE BEEN HERE 25 YEARS, WE'VE TRIED A FEW THINGS, AND I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT, UH, WE PUT A, A SERIES OF SIGNS OUT WHEN WE BUILT THE BULKY SITES THAT SAID, DON'T DUMP AT THIS LOCATION, TAKE IT DOWN THE STREET TO OUR BULKY SITE.
AND WE JUST GOT IT FILLED UP WITH ILLEGAL DUMPING RIGHT ON TOP OF THAT SIGN.
IT'S, IT, IT'S, YOU HAVE TO LAUGH OR YOU'LL CRY, SO, YEAH.
UM, SO WE SAW A LITTLE BIT OF HOW EFFECTIVE THE HOTSHOT CREW WAS THIS PAST YEAR, AND AM I CORRECT IN UNDERSTANDING WE'RE ADDING MORE TO THAT EFFORT? YES, SIR.
UM, DO WE HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT WE PROJECT FOR THEIR IMPACT TO BE FOR THIS UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR? WE ARE PROJECTING WITH AN ADDITIONAL CREW THAT THEY'LL DO TWICE AS MUCH, WHICH, UH, WE'VE, WE'VE PROJECTED AN ADDITIONAL 1000 CLEANUPS BY THIS CREW ALONE.
WE DO A LOT OF, UH, COMMUNITY CLEANUPS IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND AROUND, UM, AROUND AREAS WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF ILLEGAL DUMPING.
AND MY STRUGGLE WITH THAT IS THAT WE, WE CAN JOIN A NEIGHBORHOOD AND CLEAN UP AND, YOU KNOW, LOOKS GREAT.
WE FEEL GREAT, WE DID SOMETHING GOOD, BUT THEN IT'S GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN NEXT WEEK AND WE CAN'T COME OUT AND DO ANOTHER CLEANUP EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
AND SO, UM, JUST LIKE WITH OTHER ISSUES, I WONDER HOW DO WE GET TO THE ROOT OF ILLEGAL DUMPING? AND IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE HEADING IN THAT DIRECTION.
IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE GIVING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE TO DUMP IN DIFFERENT PLACES, BUT IF THEY'RE NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES, UM, AND THEY'RE NOT FEARFUL OF CONSEQUENCES, THEN WHAT DO WE DO? AND I THINK THAT'S GONNA TAKE SOME MORE CREATIVE, UH, BRAINSTORMING AND MAYBE NEXT BUDGET WILL HAVE THE SOLUTION TO THAT.
BUT I THINK OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT YEAR, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE EFFORTS IN, UM, MAYBE DATA COLLECTION.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE US TO UNDERSTAND THE WHO, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW HOW THEY'RE GONNA RESPOND TO A MESSAGE IF WE DON'T KNOW WHO THE AUDIENCE IS, WHO ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ILLEGAL DUMPING.
ONE THING THAT I KNOW THAT WE CAN DO, AND I'LL TAKE OUR CUE FROM YOU, IS WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT OUR CUSTOMERS AT THE CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO KNOW ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES, UH, SO THAT THEY USE THEM.
UM, AND THEN WHAT I WOULD ASK FOR IS A MAP OF AREAS OF HIGHEST ILLEGAL DUMPING.
AND I KNOW THAT IT'S PROBABLY EASIER TO GET IT JUST FROM 3 1 1 DATA, BUT I KNOW THAT THERE'S, YOU KNOW, AS YOU MENTIONED, ABOUT 50 PER ABOUT A THIRD OF WHAT YOU GUYS DID WAS NOT FROM A 3 1 1 CALL.
SO I WOULD LIKE, UH, A HEAT MAP OR SOMETHING THAT SHOWS, UH, WHERE IT'S HAPPENING THE MOST.
AND I THINK THAT MIGHT BE, I THINK THAT MIGHT BE IT.
IS THAT GONNA BE POSSIBLE? AND DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG THAT WOULD TAKE? UH, IT IS POSSIBLE.
IT'S, IT CAN, IT MAY LOOK, UM, THESE LOCATIONS ARE ALL OVER THE CITY, SO I, I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO, UH, FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE IT PRESENTABLE SO THAT IT'S UN UNDERSTANDABLE.
UH, BUT WE'LL CERTAINLY GET IT TO YOU AND WE'LL GET IT TO YOU QUICKLY FOR SURE.
AND I'LL TAKE FOR NEXT YEAR, YOU KNOW, LET'S, IF AND WHEN I'M, IF AND WHEN I'M HERE AGAIN, UM, I THINK THAT SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO NEGLECT AN ISSUE THAT ISN'T PERCEIVED AS SEXY IN SOLID WASTE, YOU KNOW, LOVE.
BUT THERE'S OTHER ISSUES THAT SOMETIMES TAKE PRECEDENCE.
AND SO I MIGHT BE, I'M SOMETIMES MORE INCLINED TO SAY, OH, WE NEED TO, UM, ADD MORE RESOURCES FOR A C S, OR WE NEED TO DO THIS.
UM, BUT I WOULD ENCOURAGE US NEXT YEAR TO START THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN REALLY, REALLY MAKE A DENT IN THE ILLEGAL DUMPING ISSUE.
AND THAT'S GONNA BE THROUGH SOLID WASTE.
SO I AM JUST EXPRESSING THAT SO THAT IT DOESN'T STAY IN MY HEAD.
UM, NEXT UP WOULD BE THE AIRPORT.
SO I APPRECIATED THE MAYOR'S QUESTIONS, AND I FEEL LIKE YOU ANSWERED A LOT OF MY QUESTIONS AS IT RELATES TO THE GRANT, AND, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE ON TIME, AND I FEEL REALLY, YOU KNOW, I FEEL FINE AND DANDY, AND I'M SURE YOU DO AS WELL AND EXCITED, UM, FOR WHAT IS STILL TO COME AND ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT STILL EXIST BECAUSE THEY DO STILL EXIST.
UM, ON SLIDE SEVEN, I KNOW IT WAS VERY SMALL TECH, IT WAS A VERY SMALL PIECE, BUT THE STRENGTH OF INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL, IT HASN'T BEEN A THOUGHT OF MINE THAT AS SAN ANTONIO CONTINUES TO GROW, THAT, YOU KNOW, I DO FEAR MAYBE THE NEEDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ARE BEING LEFT BEHIND.
AND IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY THAT WE MIGHT BE MISSING.
AND A PART OF ME WONDERS IF, YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT WE HAVE SUCH PROXIMITY, WE HAVE THE CLOSE PROXIMITY TO AUSTIN,
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ARE WE FOREVER GOING TO BE INHIBITED BY, UM, IN INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES? UH, UM, I GUESS MY QUESTION WOULD BE, WHAT IS THE PLAN TO ATTRACT INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS AT OUR AIRPORT, UM, TO SERVE OUR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY? AND HOW BIG OF A FACTOR DOES THE DO THE OTHER AIRPORTS AROUND US HAVE IN INHIBITING THAT? YEAH.THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION, COUNCIL.
IT'S A, IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE.
AND AS WE LOOK AT OUR 24 GATE FACILITY, IT'S THE REASONING WHY WE WANT TO INCREASE TO POSSIBLY 17 GATES IN THE ADDITION OF TERMINAL C COUPLED WITH THE A, A BRAND NEW, WHAT WE CALL AN F I S A FEDERAL INSPECTION SERVICES FACILITY THAT WILL BE ABLE TO HANDLE, UH, WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY.
WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO LAUNCH AN A THREE 50 FROM HERE TO LONDON.
IS IT CAPABLE OF HAPPENING? YES.
UM, BUT THE INTERNATIONAL, UH, AS WE TALK ABOUT THE STRENGTH OF IT, AS WE LOOK AT, UH, PRETTY CLOSE TO A 60% IMPROVEMENT IN OUR INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC DIRECTLY TO MEXICO FROM SAN ANTONIO TO MEXICO, AS WE COMPARE OURSELVES, THE IMPROVEMENT OF 2021 TO 2019, UH, WE DID SEE AN INCREASE AS WELL IN 2022 WITH OUR INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC.
THERE IS A SMALL DELAY, UH, WORKING WITH THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION AND WHAT WE CALL CAT ONE, CAT TWO.
MEXICO IS CURRENTLY UNDER CAT TWO, SO THAT IS BEING MOVED TO CAT ONE, NOT SPECIFICALLY TO SAN ANTONIO, BUT MORE MEXICO, THE COUNTRY.
SO, UM, WE LOOK FORWARD TO THAT RESUMPTION OF SERVICE.
UM, WE HAVE, AND I HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WITH MY COMMENTS BECAUSE I GET EXCITED TOO WITH EVERYTHING I WANT TO TELL YOU, BUT I'M UNDER NDAS ON A LOT OF THESE EFFORTS.
UM, I COULD BRING BRIAN PRATT UP HERE AND HE'LL GIVE YOU ALL THE NUMBERS.
AND THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR INTERNATIONAL GROWTH BECAUSE, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING GLOBALLY AS WELL.
WELL, I THINK THAT WAS ALL MY, WAS ALL MY QUESTIONS FOR BOTH DEPARTMENTS.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THE PRE BOTH OF YOU.
THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATIONS, UM, THAT YOU GAVE.
UH, I, I WILL START WITH, UH, SOLID WASTE.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THE BRIEFING THE OTHER DAY.
AND, UM, I WAS THINKING MAYBE A NEW NAME FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
SOLID WASTE DOES SOUND LIKE NOT SEXY, LIKE YOU SAID.
HOW ABOUT SANITATION? I'VE
OH, RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT.
UM, SO, UM, IN TERMS OF THE BRUSH CENTER, CLOSING IT FOR COMMERCIAL, UM, USE, SO THERE'LL BE SOME LOSS OF, OF REVENUE FOR THAT, BUT YOU ANTICIPATE YOU'LL MAKE UP, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO HANDLE THAT LOSS THERE? WE WILL BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT.
THERE WILL BE SOME LOSS, BUT THERE'S ALSO GOING TO BE A REDUCTION IN SOME OF OUR EXPENSE.
AND, UH, IN TERMS OF, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE DUST, UH, BEING CREATED FOR THE NEIGHBORS.
WHERE WILL THOSE, UH, COMMERCIAL CLIENTS GO? AND ARE WE MOVING THE PROBLEM ELSEWHERE OR ARE THERE PLACES WHERE THEY CAN GO WHERE THAT'S NOT AN ISSUE? I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
WE TOUCHED BASE WITH SEVERAL, UH, COMPANIES THAT CAN TAKE BRUSH AND, UH, AND THERE ARE LOCATIONS ACROSS THE CITY.
UM, NEAR NEIGHBORS THAT MIGHT GET DUST.
NO, I DON'T, I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
I, IT REMAINS OPEN FOR THE RESIDENTS.
UH, BUT I KNOW, BUT YOU'RE CLOSING IT BECAUSE IT'S, I THOUGHT PART OF THE REASON WAS THAT IT WAS, UH, CREATING A NUISANCE IN THE, IN THE AREA.
WE HAVE A, A SMALL SITE AND IT TAKE, WE HAVE TO USE WATER TO SUPPRESS DUST.
AND, UH, WHILE WE COULD BRING THAT AMOUNT OF MATERIAL IN THERE, WE'RE JUST BRINGING MORE AND MORE IN.
I THINK THAT A PRIVATE COMPANY IS ABLE TO DO THAT JUST A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN US.
I WON'T, I GUESS THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE.
MY CONCERN IS JUST THAT IT ISN'T, IS A PRIVATE COMPANY GOING TO BE AS RESPONSIBLE AS, AS YOUR DEPARTMENT IS ABOUT MAKING SURE THE NEIGHBORS DON'T HAVE THAT NUISANCE? WE CAN FOLLOW UP ON THAT COUNCILWOMAN.
UM, THE, THE, THE, THE TWO PRIMARY, THE TWO PRIMARY ISSUES THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH IS THAT IT'S A RELATIVELY SMALL SITE.
AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT'S AVAILABLE FOR CUSTOMERS, RESIDENTS FIRST.
WE HAVE COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES
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THAT ARE GETTING PAID TO DO THE WORK AND THEN, AND, AND PRESUMABLY LIKELY CHARGING FOR DISPOSAL AND USING THE CITY'S FREE LOCATION.BUT THAT'S A FURTHER CONVERSATION WE COULD HAVE TO MM-HMM.
AND, AND I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT YOU KEEP IT FOR COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS, I'M JUST THINKING DOWN THE LINE ABOUT MOVING THE PROBLEM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
THERE'S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
MAYBE WE NEED TO WORK WITH THOSE.
UM, COULD YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SMALLER TRUCKS? AND YOU SAID THEY'RE FOR HIGH DENSITY AREAS.
UM, COULD YOU GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THOSE AREAS? ONE OF THE AREAS THAT'S, UH, COMING ONLINE SOON IS OFF OF PETRANKO.
UH, AND IT'S A NEW URBANISM TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT THAT, UH, WILL HAVE ABOUT, UH, 3000 UNITS ONCE IT'S FULL, 3,500 UNITS.
ONCE IT'S FULLY DEVELOPED, WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO COLLECT WITH AUTOMATED SIDE LOAD TRUCKS.
AND SO INSTEAD OF ONE THAT'S 28 CUBIC YARDS, IT'LL BE 18.
SO I, I UNDERSTAND THAT THE, UM, AND YOU MIGHT KNOW THAT I HAVE AN, AN ISSUE WITH ALLEY PICKUP
SO IS THIS LIKE A THIRD TYPE OF TRUCK OR IS IT ALSO IT'S OKAY.
UH, WELL, WE, WE'D CERTAINLY WOULD WANT TO HAVE THE OPTION TO USE EITHER, AND BY THE WAY, TODAY WE USE A COMBINATION OF LARGER TRUCKS.
WE HAVE SOME SIDE LOAD TRUCKS AND ALLEYS TODAY AS WELL.
BUT WE HAVE DIFFERENT SIZES OF TRUCKS.
WE WOULD PREFER THE LARGER, THE BETTER, BUT WE'LL FIT IN WHAT WE CAN.
UM, AND THEN, UH, FOR, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WEREN'T HERE LAST TERM, I'LL EXPLAIN MY ISSUE WITH ALLEY
WITH ALLEY PICKUP IS, UM, IT IS, IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE, RIGHT? IF YOU YES, IT IS, BUT EVERYBODY PAYS THE SAME FEE.
AND SOME STREETS CAN HAVE STREET PICKUP, BUT THEY HAVE CHOSEN ALLEY PICKUP.
IS THAT HOW IT WORKS? UH, WHEN WE CONVERTED TO AUTOMATED, WHICH, UH, IT WAS A, I GUESS A LONG TIME AGO NOW, UH, THOSE CUSTOMERS THAT HAD ALLEY SERVICE STAYED ON ALLEY SERVICE, AND THAT WAS THE, I THINK THAT WAS 2010 I MM-HMM.
AND SO THAT WAS THE KIND OF, WHEN WE DREW THE LINE THERE, UH, I'M NOT SURE IF I'M ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION.
UM, YEAH, I THINK THAT THAT'S HOW I KNOW THERE ARE SOME STREETS THAT ARE SIMPLY TOO SMALL FOR SOME OF THE, FOR REGULAR PICKUP AND ALLEY PICKUPS IS REALLY THEIR ONLY OPTION.
AND, UH, UH, ONE WAY STREETS ARE AN ISSUE MM-HMM.
UH, AND I THINK THE, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM IS, IS A IS NOT INSIGNIFICANT.
IT'S LIKE 25%, 30%, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO IT HAS BEEN SEVERAL YEARS SINCE WE LOOKED AT THAT COST, BUT I THINK IT WAS ABOUT DOUBLE WHEN WE LOOKED AT IT LAST.
AND THEN, UH, JUST LASTLY, THERE'S A, THERE'S A REVENUE LINE ITEM FOR PERMIT FEES.
COULD YOU TELL ME, UM, WHO ARE THOSE, UH, PERMIT HOLDERS? THOSE ARE THE WASTE HAULERS THAT, UH, TAKE, UH, GARBAGE TO LANDFILLS, NOT RECYCLERS, BUT THOSE, UH, WASTE HAULERS.
AND IT'S A PERMIT ON THE TRUCK.
UM, AND THAT'S WITHIN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO? YES.
AND I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR YOUR MARKETING CAMPAIGN, BUT I'M SURE YOU GUYS WILL COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT, THANK YOU.
I, I DO THINK HOT SHOTS IS GREAT, SO JUST, YOU KNOW, KEEP GOING.
JESUS, YOU DO A TREMENDOUS JOB.
YOU, YOU'VE GOT LOTS OF BALLS IN THE AIR OVER AT THE, AT THE AIRPORT AND, UH, AND WE'RE, WE'RE STILL REALLY GLAD YOU'RE HERE WITH US, SO THANK YOU.
UM, I JUST HAD, UH, ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE NEW FUND, UH, THE NEW, UH, ENTERPRISE FUND THAT'S BEING CREATED.
HOW IS THAT GOING TO BE DIFFERENT FROM, UM, YOU ALREADY HAVE A CAPITAL FUND, RIGHT? FOR DEBT SERVICE? I GUESS, COULD YOU JUST EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THOSE ARE GONNA BE DIFFERENTIATED? IS THAT FOR THE, YOU YOU'RE REFERENCING? THE, YOU WANT COVER THAT THE NEW FUND IS THE TERMINAL AIRPORT TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT FUND.
AND THAT WILL BE FUNDED THROUGH, UM, IT, IT'S TO PAY FOR THE POSITIONS THAT ARE SUPPORTING THE CAPITAL PROJECT FOR THE TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT CAPITAL PROJECT, AND SUPPORTED BY THAT CAPITAL PROJECT.
AND THEN, UM, UM, SORRY IF I COULD GO BACK TO SOLID WASTE.
UM, UH, COULD YOU PLEASE SHOW THE, UM,
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THE CLEANUPS, UH, SLIDE AGAIN? AND, UH, I HAVE TO TELL YOU, I WAS TAKEN ABACK AND I, I DON'T LIKE BEING, UH, SURPRISED ABOUT, I'M SORRY.UM, THE, I THINK IT'S 19, THIS ONE.
WHEN IT COMES TO THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS, I'M, I AM SURPRISED, SHOCKED, AND I, UM, EMBARRASSED THAT I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW BIG THE NUMBER IS FOR DISTRICT SEVEN.
LIKE, IT'S AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE BIGGER THAN IN HALF OF THE OTHER DISTRICTS.
UM, CAN YOU TELL ME, IS THAT SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE CALLS THERE, OR IS THAT WHERE YOU GUYS STARTED OUT FIRST AND YOU, YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED WITH THE OTHER DISTRICTS YET? WE, WE TAKE THE, WE TAKE OUR LEAD FROM D H SS.
WE DON'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT D H SS GOING IN THERE ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE, AND THEY REALLY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE TELLING US WHERE TO GO.
UM, I'M NOT REAL SURE WHERE TO ADD, WAS THERE SOME BIG ONES? ANDREW, IN DISTRICT SEVEN, THE ONE THERE WE SAW WAS OFF OF FREDERICKSBURG ROAD.
SO THE ONE, THE PICTURE THAT YOU SEE THERE WAS A DETENTION POND OFF OF FREDERICKSBURG ROAD.
UH, BUT, UM, I, I CAN FOLLOW, I'LL TRY TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
WHY DON'T WE TALK AFTERWARDS? YEAH.
I'LL, I'LL, UH, START WITH YOU IF THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SIT BACK DOWN.
UM, MY OFFICE, OF COURSE, HAS RECEIVED SEVERAL CALLS ABOUT, UH, ILLEGAL DUMPING.
AND I WANNA, UH, PERSONALLY THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT, THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT IS DOING.
WE HAD A LADY AT OUR BUDGET MEETING, UM, DIDN'T WANNA TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET, WANTED TO TALK ABOUT ILLEGAL DUMPING NEAR HER
AND WE HAD, Y'ALL HAD ALREADY GONE OUT.
AND IT WAS WITHIN A MATTER OF, OF, UM, DAYS.
IF NOT, WE PICKED, WE PICKED UP THAT BOAT.
I THINK IT WAS THE VERY NEXT DAY.
UM, UH, DID YOU SAY THAT WE HAVE ONE CREW THAT'S HANDLING ILLEGAL DUMPING? DID THEY HEAR THAT CORRECTLY? WE HAVE ONE HOTSHOT CREW.
UH, BUT WE ALSO UTILIZE OUR OTHER CREWS WHEN THEY FINISH A ROUTE IF WE'RE WORKING LATE TO FINISH A ROUTE.
HOWEVER, WE'RE NOT PICKING UP ILLEGAL DUMPING, OR AT LEAST THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS.
NOW, THIS IS A DEDICATED CREW AND THEY'RE WORKING FIVE DAYS A WEEK ON DOING NOTHING BUT THE ILLEGAL DUMPING.
ARE THEY ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THE DEMAND? WE'RE DOING, I'M GONNA SAY TWO THINGS TO THAT.
WE'RE CERTAINLY, UH, UH, MEETING ALL OF THE 3 1 1 REQUESTS AND WE'RE GOING OVER THAT.
HOWEVER, AND I THINK I KNOW WHAT ERIC'S GONNA SAY.
THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OUT THERE.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE ASKING FOR ANOTHER CREW.
AND I JUST, JUST AN IDEA, YOU KNOW, THERE'S CERTAIN AREAS OF MY DISTRICT IN, IN OUR CITY WHERE PEOPLE VERY FREQUENTLY DUMP ILLEGALLY, AND THEY'RE PROBABLY THE SAME BAD ACTORS.
THEY'RE NOT USUALLY JUST RANDOM PEOPLE FINDING THAT SPOT.
SO I WONDER IF IT WOULD BE EFFECTIVE TO PUT UP A SIGN SAYING, UM, SHOULDN'T DUMP HERE, BUT YOU CAN DUMP OVER HERE.
LIKE KIND OF DIRECTING THEM TO WHERE THE ILLEGAL, I MEAN, THE LEGAL DUMPING SITES ARE, WE USED TO DO THAT.
UH, BUT IT TURNED INTO A MAGNET FOR MORE ILLEGAL DUMPING.
AND SO I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND THAT WE PUT SIGNS.
OH, REALLY? I, I, MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE CLEAN THE AREA AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE MM-HMM.
DO SOME SURVEILLANCE OR SOMETHING AND CATCH THEM, THAT WE WOULD DO THAT TOO.
SO EVEN WITH SIGNS SAYING THAT THE, THE LEGAL DUMPING SITE IS OVER THERE, THEY WOULD STILL, THEY DUMP RIGHT THERE, SO THEY DON'T CARE.
UM, IN, IN MY DISTRICT, WE FOUND, UH, PUTTING UP, UH, BALLARDS HAS STOPPED AND LIKE, KIND OF VERY EFFECTIVE TO STOP.
UM, NOW IT, SOMETIMES THEY JUST PUT IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BALLARD
THERE'S A NUMBER OF AREAS WHERE I THINK WE CAN DO THAT.
UH, JESUS, I, I OFFER MY CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS TO THE AIRPORT STAFF FOR THE INCREDIBLE WORK Y'ALL HAVE DONE, UH, DURING PANDEMIC RECOVERY.
SEEING THE NUMBERS BOUNCING BACK FROM WHERE THEY WERE, IS, IS, UH, UM, THERE'S RELIEF THERE.
UM, I KNOW, I DON'T THINK THAT ANYBODY KNEW FOR SURE WHAT, UH, WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN AND HOW WE WERE GONNA RECOVER, HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE.
BUT, UH, THE ONLY THING THAT WE COULD DO IS BE READY FOR THE UNKNOWN.
I THINK THAT YOUR TEAM HAS DONE AN EXCEPTIONAL JOB IN, UM, IN BEING READY FOR THAT UNKNOWN AND, AND, AND EXECUTING.
UH, AND, AND HERE WE ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH A STRONG RECOVERY, A STRONG FORECAST, AND I'M EXCITED TO BE, TO SEE PROJECTS, UM, PROJECTED INCREASES IN PASSENGERS FOR F Y 23 AND THE ADDITIONAL FLIGHTS THAT ARE NEEDED.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT AREAS OF THE COUNTRY AND INTERNATIONAL DESTINATIONS ARE BEING TARGETED TO INCREASE OUR FLIGHT, OUR FLIGHT, UH, OFFERINGS? OR ARE WE TARGETING CERTAIN AREAS? WE ARE, UM, THERE'S A NUMBER OF, UM, DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, DESTINATIONS THAT WE FIND EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE.
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UM, I'LL LET BRIAN COME UP HERE AND TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PDOS.AS, AS WE, AS, AS WE HAVE A FULL STRATEGY.
AND THAT STRATEGY IS NOT JUST OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
UM, WE JUST FINALIZED A 36 MONTH STRATEGY AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT WE'RE GONNA NEED, NOT ONLY DOMESTICALLY, BUT INTERNATIONALLY.
AND, UH, BRIAN CAN GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL SPECIFIC TO THOSE AREAS THAT WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING.
SO, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, BRIAN PRATT, CHIEF AIR SERVICE AND MARKETING OFFICER.
UM, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YES.
UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT A NUMBER OF THINGS.
UH, WE'RE BEING VERY TARGETED WITH IT, BUT EVEN IN THAT TARGETED LIST, THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY.
SO NOT ONLY ARE WE LOOKING DOMESTICALLY, UH, WE ARE LOOKING INTERNATIONALLY.
UH, WE'RE LOOKING NORTH, SOUTH ACROSS, UM, GETTING TO JESUS'S POINT, I WISH I COULD TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE.
UM, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE TARGET TARGETING THE BAY AREA.
WE'RE TARGETING THE, YOU KNOW, THE MIDWEST, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NORTHEAST.
YOU KNOW, DOWN, YOU KNOW, GET FURTHER INTO MEXICO, LATIN AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, YOU KNOW, UH, EUROPE.
YOU CAN'T BE TOO SPECIFIC, SO I'LL TAKE, I'LL TAKE IT.
UM, BUT IT'S BIG BECAUSE IT SOUNDS VERY, UM, UH, VARIED, RIGHT? IT'S, YEAH, IT'S KIND OF ALL OVER THE PLACE.
IT'S, THE NEXT FEW YEARS ARE GOING TO BE VERY OPPOR OPPORTUNISTIC FOR US.
UM, AND THE, THE, UH, STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE PUT FORTH COULD PUT US IN DEFINITELY INTO DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH.
AND, AND JESUS, CAN YOU TELL ME HOW INVOLVED THE AIRPORT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE IS IN THE ACTUAL PLANNING OF THE AIRPORT'S FUTURE? I KNOW THAT WE'VE COMPLETED THE MASTER PLAN, BUT WHAT, WHAT THEY'RE DOING, UM, GOING FORWARD? CERTAINLY.
SO, AS YOU REFERENCED WITH REGARDS TO THE COMPLETION IN NOVEMBER FOR THE STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN, UM, UH, THE TEAM SAT DOWN WITH, UH, THE ENTIRE, UH, WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF THE A S D C TO LOOK AT, UM, OKAY.
WE FINISHED, WE ACCOMPLISHED WHAT WE WANTED TO DO FOR THE S D P AS WE TRANSITION TO THE T D P.
UM, THEY ARE STILL VERY INVOLVED.
WE JUST DID A PRESENTATION TO THEM HERE RECENTLY.
UM, WE WILL BE UPDATING WITH THEM QUARTERLY.
UH, WE REDRAFTED, UH, THE ENTIRE, UM, UH, EFFORT BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE A S D C TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS, UH, WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
AND, YOU KNOW, THEY CONTINUE TO BE SUPPORTIVE.
UH, WE NEED THEM TO HELP EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING FROM AN ADVOCACY STANDPOINT, FROM A COMMUNICATION STANDPOINT, AND, YOU KNOW, TO BOUNCE INFORMATION AND DATA OFF OF AS WELL, TO AS BRIAN REFERENCES, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING FROM AN INTERNATIONAL AND A DOMESTIC STANDPOINT, WHERE ARE THE KEEN AREAS OF INTEREST AS WE MOVE FORWARD FOR ALL OF OUR EFFORTS, WHETHER IT'S TERMINAL DEVELOPMENT OR WHETHER IT'S AIR SERVICE DEVELOPMENT.
I, I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT THEY'VE DONE TO ELEVATE OUR AIRPORT, AND I LIKE TO ASK THEM TO COME WITH YOU TO UPDATE THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE PERIODICALLY TO LET US KNOW HOW WE'RE KEEPING UP WITH THE MASTER PLAN.
SO, JUST TO KEEP US ALL IN THE, IN THE SAME, ON THE SAME PAGE.
I THINK WE'VE COME A REALLY LONG WAY REGARDING OUR AIRPORT FOR FAR TOO LONG.
IT WAS ON THE BACK BURNER WITH MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPANSION.
BUT I SENSE WE'RE TURNING A PAGE.
I THINK WE HAVE THE RIGHT TEAM.
UM, I THINK THAT THE, THE A S D C COMMITTEE IS, IS, UM, IS A STRONG PARTNER, AND WE'RE FOCUSED ON MAKING UP FOR THAT.
THAT LOST TIME, ESPECIALLY WITH, WITH THE ADDITION OF, OF YOU HERE.
JESUS, THE CHALLENGE AS I SEE IT, IS THAT WE'RE PLAYING CATCH UP.
THE AIRPORT SYSTEM, STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN IS A, A BIG STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
AND I THINK THE MAYOR FOR CREATING THE COMMITTEE THAT'S BEEN WORKING ON, ON THE PLAN, BUT THE COMMITTEE AND THE WORK THAT IT'S DOING NEEDS THIS FULL COUNCIL SUPPORT.
I'M SURE YOU WOULDN'T, UM, YOU WOULD, YOU WOULD AGREE.
AND SO THAT'S, I WANNA BRING YOU GUYS TO TRANSPORTATION.
KEEP US IN THE LOOP AND WE CAN KEEP, UM, THE REST OF THE COUNCIL INFORMED.
I'M COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE THAT WE DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, TO TAKE OUR AIRPORT TO THE NEXT LEVEL, THE LEVEL IT NEEDS TO BE AND THE LEVEL THAT THE CITY REALLY NEEDS.
IT'S, UM, OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
BUT IT'S OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
SO I'M, UM, I'M WITH YOU ON THAT, AND I THINK WE'RE GONNA BE GOOD PARTNERS IN THAT.
I HAD A GREAT MEETING WITH YOU AND JEFF, UH, AND I PLAN TO WORK CLOSELY WITH YOU GUYS AND AIRPORT STAFF AND WITH THE AIRPORT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE.
UM, AND, AND WITH ALL THE AIRPORT STAKEHOLDERS, REALLY, AND, UH, WHO, LIKE ME, BELIEVE THAT WE NEED A FIRST CLASS AIRPORT TO SUPPORT OUR CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
I, I MENTIONED TO YOU, WHENEVER ANYBODY BRINGS UP THE AIRPORT, UM, KIND OF IN A NEGATIVE WAY, I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO DEFEND IT.
I, I FEEL IT'S LIKE I'M DEFENDING THE SPURS.
WE'RE REBUILDING, RIGHT? UH, WE HAVE TO KEEP, KEEP THE FAITH.
AND, UM, SO I, I LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY WHEN, UM, I'M, I'M GONNA TELL EVERYBODY THAT I TOLD THEM.
SO, UH, YOU MENTIONED TODAY THAT OUR AIRPORT HAS THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE TO SUPPORT FLIGHTS TO EUROPE.
WE DON'T RIGHT NOW HAVE, UM, THE ECONOMIC BASE.
'CAUSE I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT WE ALREADY HAVE THAT, THAT, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, WE, WE NEED, WE NEED THEM TO
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COME, AS IT WERE, RIGHT?AND, AND SO IT'S EXCITING, UM, THAT WE HAVE THAT IN PLACE ALREADY.
UH, AND AIR AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GO HAND IN HAND.
I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE, UH, KEEP THOSE IN MIND AS WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR AIRPORT.
MY FOCUS IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN DOESN'T END UP ON A SHELF.
COMING TO TRANSPORTATION, TALKING TO US, MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE, UH, WE'RE GROWING IT TOGETHER, UM, ALONG WITH ALL OUR STAKEHOLDERS IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME.
INVESTING IN OUR, IS OUR, IN OUR AIRPORT IS INVESTING, LIKE I MENTIONED IN OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY, AND BOTH SMALL AND LARGE, BY THE WAY.
AND IT'S ALSO INVESTING IN OUR ACTUAL COMMUNITY.
SO I, I VERY MUCH LOOK FORWARD TO LOOK TO WORKING ON THIS WITH YOU.
COULD NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE.
THE AIRPORT IS A BIG ECONOMIC IMPACT TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
WE FULLY COMPREHEND AND UNDERSTAND THAT, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU, COUNCILWOMAN.
HOWEVER, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHE GARCIA.
AND THANK YOU, UM, TO EVERYBODY FOR TODAY'S PRESENTATION.
I'LL START WITH SOLID WASTE, AND THANK YOU, MR. NEWMAN.
I, I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF GOOD SUCCESSES, HAVE HAD A LOT OF GOOD SUCCESSES LATELY.
AND ANDREW, I THINK, UH, I, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET RECOGNIZED.
WE HAVE 167 EMPLOYEES THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TREATING TO LUNCH NEXT FRIDAY, BECAUSE THEY'VE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB IN, IN DISTRICT FOUR.
AND I KIND OF FEEL LIKE THEY'RE OUR OWN, OUR VERY OWN HOTSHOT TEAM.
SO, UM, SOMETIMES I TELL THEM WHAT THEY ALREADY CLEANED UP, ARE THEY WORKING THE OTHER DISTRICTS? I FEEL NERVOUS.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALWAYS BEING THERE.
UM, WE, UM, I THINK HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT INCREASED LIGHTING AS A PREVENTIVE MEASURE.
AND I DIDN'T BRING THIS UP YESTERDAY AT D S D MAINLY BECAUSE I, I, I THINK I HAD ALREADY USED ALL OF MY TIME, BUT I THINK THAT IT MIGHT BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A PILOT PROGRAM WITH SAL, SOLID WASTE AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
WE HAVE SOME LOCATIONS, OF COURSE, YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH QUINTANA ROAD AND, UH, THE TRAGEDY THAT HAPPENED, BUT, UM, SHAVANO LAS GALAPAGOS AND HOME ARE CHRONIC DUMPING, DUMPING SITES IN DISTRICT FOUR.
AND I THINK THAT IT'S BECAUSE OF LIGHTING AND PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH IT.
AND I WILL ADMIT THAT I STAKED OUT SOMEONE WHO WAS GETTING READY TO ILLEGALLY DUMP.
AND, UH, I, I TOLD MY KID, HEY, IT'S GONNA BE A WHILE BECAUSE I'M WATCHING THIS GUY WHO'S GETTING READY TO DUMP.
AND SO, UM, BUT, UH, IT, I, I STAYED AND THEY LEFT.
AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF THEY SAW MY LITTLE PLACARD THAT CHIEF MANUS GIVES THIS, OR, AND THEY JUST PANICKED AND LEFT.
I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT BECAUSE IT WAS AN ALLEY OFF OF QUINTANA ROAD, BY THE WAY.
UM, AND, AND IT WAS ALMOST DARK.
SO, BUT I, I DRIVE ALONG MY DISTRICT, RIGHT? AND SO I SEE THIS, AND SO IT REALLY IRRITATED ME, AND I WAS READY TO CALL 9 1 1 AS SOON AS THEY STARTED DUMPING.
SO DON'T WORRY, I STAYED THAT, YEAH, I WAS SAFE.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT THAT LIGHTING WOULD BE IMPORTANT, RIGHT? AND ESPECIALLY THOSE HOMES THAT ARE RIGHT THERE.
UM, AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT BETWEEN THE RAILROAD AND THERE'S THIS LITTLE ROADWAY AND I GOT ON THE ROADWAY BEHIND THE HOUSES.
AND SO, UM, SO ANYWAY, SO I, I THINK THAT MAY, AND THAT IS THE DIFFICULT ONE, RIGHT? BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T ADD LIGHTING BACK THERE, BUT IN THAT ENTIRE AREA, IT, IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT.
OR MAYBE IT'S WORKING WITH UNION PACIFIC AND CLOSING OFF THAT AREA.
HOWEVER, I KNOW THAT THE RESIDENTS USE IT TO GET IN THROUGH THEIR, THEIR BACK AREA.
BUT I THINK THAT, UM, YOU ALL ARE DOING A GREAT JOB OF, OF BEING PROACTIVE.
COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL ANSWERED ONE OF MY QUESTIONS, AND IT WAS, WHERE WILL THE COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS GO WHEN THE CLO WHEN THEY CLOSE THE BIDDERS LOCATION, RIGHT? BECAUSE I WOULD JUST BE AFRAID THAT THERE WOULD BE SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, LO OR, OR, OR I GUESS, ADDITIONAL DUMPING IN THAT AREA.
UM, THE OTHER QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS, ARE YOU ALL ACTIVELY GIVING OUT THOSE BOOKS? I THINK I TOLD YOU THAT EVERY TIME I GO TO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, I READ THE, UM, RECYCLE BOOK AND THE, UM, THE, THE GREEN BIN BOOK.
AND SO, UM, THOSE ARE REALLY GOOD, I FEEL.
AND SO I THINK THAT EDUCATION SHOULD START WITH CHILDREN, AND THEY'RE SO EXCITED WHEN I READ THEM THAT BOOK.
AND SO THEY LEARN A WHOLE LOT.
COUNCIL, WE HAVE DROPPED DOWN A LITTLE BIT FROM A HIGH OF ABOUT 900 EVENTS TO ABOUT 500, ABOUT 500 EVENTS.
SO WE'RE OUT THERE ABOUT 500 TIMES TRYING TO GIVE OUT THOSE BOOKS.
WELL, I THINK MAYBE YOU CAN GIVE ALL OF OUR COLLEAGUES SOME, RIGHT? LIKE I, YES, COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL'S BABY GIRL LOVES TO BE READ TO ALREADY.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF SHE HAS THOSE BOOKS, OR SHE SHOULD PROBABLY GET SOME SO SHE COULD START READING AND THANK YOU TO YOU FOR PASSING THEM OUT AS WELL.
UM, SO, BUT I, THOSE ARE MY ONLY QUESTIONS, UM, FOR YOU ALL.
AND THEN FOR JESUS, UM, I'LL, AS YOU WALK UP, AND THIS MIGHT BE A JEFF COYLE QUESTION, DO WE TIE IN OUR LOBBYING EFFORTS TO THE GRANTS RECEIVED? HOW DO WE KIND OF, I GUESS I'LL USE TODAY, I'LL USE PERRY'S WORD RETURN ON INVESTMENT ON
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THAT COUNCILWOMAN.IN FACT, AS YOU MAY KNOW, WE HAVE, UM, TWO DIFFERENT FIRMS AS PART OF OUR FEDERAL CONSULTANT TEAM.
THE NORMANDY GROUP IS, IS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY ON AIRPORT RELATED ISSUES.
SO THEY'RE VERY MUCH TASKED WITH THAT WORK.
AND WE'LL HELP ARRANGE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE, THE TRIP THAT THE MAYOR AND ERIC AND JESUS JUST TOOK TO MEET WITH F A A LEADERSHIP, UH, RECENTLY, UH, WE'RE IN CONSTANT DIALOGUE WITH THEM.
THEY'RE WORKING WITH US, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE SUBMIT THE APPLICATIONS TO THE AGENCY AND JESUS MANAGES OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE F A A.
AND, UH, WE'RE VERY CONFIDENT THAT BETWEEN THE TWO, WE'RE, WE'RE VERY PLUGGED IN, THEY'RE WELL AWARE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE.
AND SO, AND MAYBE IT'S LIKE AN AN I G R QUESTION.
MAYBE WE CAN, I, I DON'T KNOW.
WHEN WE GET OUR NEXT UPDATE FOR I G R ON AIRPORT RELATED STUFF, I DEFINITELY THINK THAT IT'S SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.
UM, I WAS ON, UM, SOUTHWEST AIRLINE FLIGHT NUMBER 4 0 3 ON AUGUST THE 22ND.
AND I WAS VERY UPSET BECAUSE WE GOT DEPLANED, THERE WAS A DELAY, AND I CALLED ERIC WALSH RIGHT AWAY.
WE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE TRAVELING.
IN FACT, RANDY HERIG WAS ON THAT PLANE.
HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO A MEETING WITH THE MAYOR.
HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE IT BACK BY SIX O'CLOCK.
BUT WHAT UPSET ME WAS THAT THE PILOT GOT ON THE INTERCOM AND SAID, OH, WHERE THERE, THERE'S BAD WEATHER IN TEXAS AND THEY'RE DIVERTING PEOPLE FROM AUSTIN PLAINS FROM AUSTIN TO SAN ANTONIO, AND THEY JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING OVER THERE.
AND SO I CALLED ERIC, UH, IF HE CALLED YOU, BUT I GAVE HIM MY, YEAH.
SO, UM, BUT IT, IT WAS A SHAME FOR HIM TO SAY.
THEN THERE WAS OTHER SAN ANTONIO PEOPLE THERE.
'CAUSE THERE WAS SEVERAL PEOPLE.
AND, AND, AND, AND EVEN ONE OF THEM CAME UP WHEN WE DEPLANED AND SAID, COUNCILMAN, DID YOU HEAR IT? AND WAS LIKE, I HEARD THE SAME THING YOU DID.
AND I WAS LIKE, I ALREADY CALLED ERIC WALSH.
AND SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT THAT, BUT I DID NOT THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE BLAMED FOR AUSTIN'S PROBLEMS. AND THIS MORNING THEY HAD A WHOLE HOST OF OTHER PROBLEMS, AND WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT KEEP GOING TO AUSTIN TO TAKE THE AIRPORT.
AND I TELL 'EM, YOU BETTER NOT TELL ERIC WALSH YOU'RE FLYING OUT OF AUSTIN BECAUSE HE'S NEVER GONNA SUPPORT ANY OF YOUR INITIATIVES AGAIN.
AND SO, AND BY THE WAY, A LOT OF THEM HAPPEN TO BE, UM, OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY THAT DOES THAT.
AND I GET IT, THERE'S DIRECT FLIGHT, SO THEY'RE TRYING TO FLY OUT AND GET IT, UM, GET THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, COME BACK.
BUT I THINK THAT IT'S DISAPPOINTING, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, I KNOW JOHN D. DIXON IS HERE.
AND SO, UM, I I, I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS WORK, UM, AND, AND JUST THANK HIM BECAUSE I THINK THAT HE DOES REPRESENT THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT, UH, I LOOK FOR AS I SPEAK TO DIFFERENT, UH, FOLKS ACROSS THE CITY IS ALSO, HOW OFTEN DO YOU USE THE AIRPORT? A LOT OF THE RESIDENTS IN, IN MY DISTRICT MIGHT ONLY USE IT ONCE A YEAR FOR, UM, VACATION, RIGHT? BUT THE PEOPLE THAT I DEAL WITH AT CITY HALL IN AND OUT, THEY, THEY'RE ALWAYS FLYING, RIGHT? SO I HAVE TO ALSO BE A GOOD REPRESENTATIVE OF THEM.
AND WITH THAT SAID, UM, WHAT'S OUR GOAL FOR PASSENGERS FOR 2022 AND 2023? I DIDN'T SEE IT IN THE BUDGET BOOK.
THE SLIDE, IF YOU GO FORWARD, IT'LL SHOW YOU THE 2023.
SO AS YOU LOOK AT WHERE WE WERE IN 20 18, 20, UH, 19, TEXAS, TEXAS TO 10.4, WHICH WAS OUR PEAK YEAR, OBVIOUSLY 20 AND 21 WERE COVID YEARS.
UH, THIS PAST YEAR, UH, WE'RE GONNA COME IN AT AROUND 9.2 MILLION PASSENGERS, AND WE ANTICIPATE 2023, UM, WITH OUR FOUR PROJECTED FORECAST TO COME IN AROUND 9.8 MILLION PASSENGERS.
I, I, I THINK I MIGHT HAVE MISSED THAT.
DO WE HAVE DIRECT LIGHTS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY SERVICING, LIKE THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND, UM, MAYBE CORPUS AND, AND ANY OF THE, IT, IT, I GUESS ANY OF THE OTHER TEXAS, UM, CITIES THAT WE MIGHT HAVE PEOPLE REGULARLY TRAVELING TO? WE DO NOT.
UH, THERE'S NOT A DIRECT CONNECTION TO US IN THE VALLEY GOING TO LAREDO, UH, MACALLAN BROWNSVILLE.
UM, IT, IT'S IN SUCH IN CLOSE, UH, PROXIMITY.
UM, MOST PEOPLE DRIVE, MOST PEOPLE WILL DRIVE.
UM, AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THEY'RE NOT GONNA TAKE SOME TYPE OF COMMERCIAL, UH, OPERATOR TO COME TO THE AIRPORT.
SO THEY'RE PARKING THEIR VEHICLES.
UM, AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT IS THE EXCELLENT WORK THAT WE CONTINUE TO DO TO LET EVERYONE IN THE SOUTH, UH, TEXAS REGION THAT WE'RE HERE FOR THEM AND PROVIDING THE LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT WE CAN PROVIDE WITH REGARDS, UH, I I JUST WANNA MAKE A A A QUICK NOTE TO YOUR COMMENT.
WITH REGARDS TO YOUR REGULAR OPERATIONS, IT HAPPENS, RIGHT? THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT WE HAVE NO CONTROL OF MM-HMM.
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OR WHETHER IT'S DIVERSIONS THAT WE'RE ISSUING FOR MECHANICAL OR WEATHER OR THINGS UNCONTROLLABLE BY US AND HUMAN NATURE, WE ARE IN CLOSE COORDINATION.I'LL TELL YOU JUST THIS MORNING WITH WHAT HAPPENED.
I WAS ON THE PHONE WITH AUSTIN THIS MORNING AT 6:30 AM TELLING THEM, HOW CAN WE HELP YOU? RIGHT? UM, AND, AND THAT'S COORDINATED EFFORTS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN AMONGST US BECAUSE WE CARE ABOUT THE PASSENGER.
SO THAT'S WHO WE ARE AS A TEAM HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
I APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT HAPPENED.
ERIC MADE THAT REFERENCE TO ME, AND I PICKED UP THE PHONE AND I CALLED THE AIRLINE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT TO SAY, HEY, UM, YOU GUYS KNOW THESE THINGS HAPPEN.
IT'S WEATHER OR IT'S A MECHANICAL ISSUE.
AND, AND, AND LET'S MAKE CERTAIN WE GIVE THE RIGHT INFORMATION TO OUR PASSENGERS.
I HAD NO DOUBT IN OUR TEAM, LIKE I, I BELIEVE IN THE AIRPORT TEAM.
I'VE, AND BY THE WAY, I LOVE YOUR MARKETING FOR THE AIRPORT.
AND, AND SO ALWAYS Y DO A REALLY GOOD JOB TOO.
UM, BUT I, I JUST, THAT WAS FRUSTRATING FOR ME TO HEAR THAT FROM YES.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHE GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER CASTILLO.
AND DAVID, FOR THE PRESENTATIONS.
I WANTED TO START WITH, UH, JESUS.
UM, I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION, RIGHT? WE KNOW THAT THE AVIATION INDUSTRY OFTEN CATCHES A LOT OF HEAT FOR, UH, THEIR CARBON EMISSION FOOTPRINT.
AND AS WE HAVE CONVERSATIONS AROUND DESIGN AND, UM, THE ARCHITECTURE TEAM, ARE WE GOING TO LOOP IN THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY? UM, I, I'M SURE, HAVE WE DONE THAT IN THE PAST? AND ESPECIALLY AROUND THE CONVERSATION AROUND THE PARKING LOT, UM, I WOULD HOPE THAT WE CAN LOOK TO DENVER ALSO, OR BOSTON ON CREATING A GREENER AIRPORT.
TWO THINGS THAT I WOULD, I WOULD PRESENT TO YOU, COUNCILWOMAN.
ONE, UM, INSIDE THE 2023 BUDGET THAT ENCOMPASSES THE 83.3, I MADE REFERENCE TO DESIGN STANDARDS.
SO WHAT WE ARE BEGINNING TO ESTABLISH FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY, CARBON NEUTRALITY IN, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, HOW DO WE MOVE CLOSER TO THAT IS BY ESTABLISHING GOOD DESIGN STANDARDS THAT MOVE US IN THAT DIRECTION.
SO, UM, WE ARE IN THE SECOND PHASE OF COMPLETING OUR DESIGN STANDARDS, SO WE'RE STILL WORKING THROUGH THAT.
I DON'T KNOW IF TIM, YOU WANNA OFFER ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE WITH REGARDS TO THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE BY THE CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
AS WE WORK WITH CORRIGAN AND ALL THE WORK THAT WE CONTINUE TO DO, THEY'RE ASSEMBLING ALL OF THE DESIGN STANDARDS AS IT RELATES TO AESTHETICS, MATERIALS, LIGHTING, UH, ELECTRICITY, MECHANICAL, PLUMBING.
HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT ALL OF THAT IS BEING TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION BEFORE WE EMBARK ON A LARGE, UH, CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM? I DUNNO IF I MISSED ANYTHING.
NO, JUST, I'LL, I'LL JUST ADD, HI, TIM MCCLELLEN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE WORKING WITH CORRIGAN IS SUSTAINABILITY AND DESIGN.
AND IT'S GONNA GIVE US A NEW OPPORTUNITY WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND JUST WHERE THE INDUSTRY'S GOING.
YOU DON'T GET TO BUILD A TERMINAL VERY OFTEN.
AND SO WE'RE GONNA TRY TO CAPTURE THAT.
WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS WITH CORGAN.
THEY ARE A LEADER IN THAT INDUSTRY, AND NEW TECHNOLOGY SUSTAINABILITY AS WELL.
THEY, YOU KNOW, OFTEN SAY THAT A LOT OF THE LEAD ITEMS, YOU KNOW, FOR LEAD CERTIFIED BUILDINGS HAVE BECOME NOW JUST NORMAL PRACTICES IN BUILDING.
SO YOU NOT ONLY HAVE THAT THAT YOU'LL CAPTURE, BUT YOU LOOK AT THINGS LIKE SMART WINDOWS, SMART GLASS, NEW DESIGNS, NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE'LL DEFINITELY WANNA LOOK IN.
AND WE SAY THAT WE DON'T WANT TO BUILD, UH, A 2024 BUILDING TO OPEN IN 2028.
SO WE WANNA LOOK AHEAD OF THAT AND GET AHEAD OF THAT, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF SUSTAINABILITY AND, AND CARBON FOOTPRINT.
UM, WHEN WE GET BRIEFED DURING THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, I'D LIKE AN UPDATE ON THOSE DESIGN STANDARDS THAT ARE, UM, BEING DISCUSSED.
UM, DAVID, I THINK I ALWAYS EXPRESS TO YOU HOW MUCH OUR ENTIRE DISTRICT FIVE TEAM VALUES YOU, ANDREW, AND Y'ALL'S ENTIRE TEAM.
UH, OUR OFFICE HOSTS MONTHLY NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUPS, AND, UM, YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN SUCH GREAT ASSISTANCE AND HELP, WHETHER IT'S, UH, LOANING US GLOVES OR THE DIAL A TRAILER, UM, WE TRULY ARE MAKING AN IMPACT IN MAKING SURE THAT WE KEEP DISTRICT FIVE.
AND, UH, DURING OUR BUDGET CONVERSATION TOO, ONE OF THE FIRST COMMENTS THROUGH THE FACEBOOK LIVE WAS ABOUT DUMPING, RIGHT? THE FIRST COMMENT WAS, THERE'S SO MUCH TRASH EVERYWHERE.
UM, BUT I WANTED TO BE SURE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT YOU ALL ARE QUICK TO HELP US CLEAN UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND AROUND MARKETING.
UM, WE HAVE THE ROOSEVELT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WHO HAS A MONTHLY NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP, AND IT'S CALLED KEEP ROOSEVELT BEAUTIFUL.
AND THEY ALL GET TOGETHER AND WE ALL PICK UP, WE TARGET A SPECIFIC AREA AND KEEP IT CLEAN.
UM, BUT I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF A PILOT PROGRAM WITH LIGHTING AROUND COMMON, UH, DUMPING SITES.
UM, BECAUSE WE SEE THE SAME PATTERN WITHIN DISTRICT FIVE, PRIMARILY NEAR UNION PACIFIC, UM, WHERE IT'S ACCESSIBLE TO THE HIGHWAY, THE INTERSTATE.
SO FOLKS JUMP AND THEN JUMP ON.
'CAUSE I'VE ALSO TOLD SOME PEOPLE, SO, SO THEY, THEY DUMP AND THEN JUMP ON THE HIGHWAY.
UM, AND I THINK, UM, EXPLORING MEASURES TO MITIGATE THOSE FREQUENT DUMPED AREAS WOULD BE, UM, A, A GREAT IDEA.
I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THAT, UH, WITH THE, THE, THE, THE CHANGE IN SERVICE, THE
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DAYS.CAN YOU DESCRIBE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, THE OUTREACH, UH, TO NOTIFY RESIDENTS, SOME OF THOSE CHANGES? I HAVE A, A SLIDE IF LYNN CAN FIND THAT REAL QUICK.
BUT WE, UH, WE WILL BE PUTTING OUT TWO POSTCARDS, UH, THAT WILL TELL OUR CUSTOMERS WHAT THEIR DAY OF COLLECTION IS.
WE'RE ALSO GOING TO SEND A TEXT MESSAGE OUT TO OUR CUSTOMERS THAT ALSO SAYS, UH, AND IT WILL GIVE THEM A QR CODE TO, TO CHECK WHAT THEIR NEW DAY OF COLLECTION IS.
WE HAVE SOME SOCIAL DIGITAL MEDIA 3 1 1 IS OBVIOUSLY A PARTNER FOR US.
UH, WE ALSO HAVE SOME OPEN HOUSES.
NOW THESE ARE REALLY DESIGNED WITH THE INTENT OF MEETING YOUR DRIVER.
I WANTED A LITTLE MORE PERSONAL TOUCH.
UH, AND, AND, AND THEN WE THOUGHT, WELL, WE CAN DOUBLE THIS AND ALSO TELL 'EM ABOUT THE COLLECTION DAY CHANGES.
UH, COUNCILMAN BRAVO HAD MENTIONED PUTTING STICKERS ON CARTS, AND WE ARE GONNA GO OUT AND WE'VE ALREADY GONE OUT AND PURCHASED AS MANY AS WE CAN.
UH, AND WE WILL BE PUTTING THOSE ON, ON CARTS.
UH, AND, UH, UM, COUNCILMAN ILLA GRAND HAD RECOMMENDED THAT WE PASS OUT OUR, OUR INFORMATION AT DIALER TRAILER EVENTS.
AND, AND SO WE ARE DOING THAT AND IN ANY OTHER LOCATION THAT WE HAVE AS WELL.
AND IT'S ALWAYS EXTENSIVE OUTREACH THAT Y'ALL DO DO.
AND OFTENTIMES WHEN WE HAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD EVENTS, I'M ALWAYS ASKING HOW THEY LEARNED ABOUT THE DISTRICT FIVE OF EVENT.
AND OFTENTIMES IT'S TEXT MESSAGE.
SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT Y'ALL USING THE TEXT PUSH TO LET RESIDENTS KNOW ABOUT THE CHANGES.
UM, ON THE SLIDE WHERE YOU MENTIONED THAT, UH, 2019 WAS THE LAST RATE INCREASE.
HOW MUCH WAS THAT RATE INCREASE IN 2019? DO WE KNOW? I HAVE ANOTHER SLIDE THAT I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO READ VERY WELL, IF LYNN CAN FIND IT.
SO IN 2019, UH, WE ONLY RAISED THE LARGE CART, LIKE YOU CAN SEE $4, AND WE DECREASED THE MEDIUM CART AND THE SMALL CART.
AND, UH, AND YOU CAN SEE THE ENVIRONMENTAL FEE WAS REDUCED BY 50 CENTS.
NOW THAT WAS SIMPLY MOVING IT OVER TO PARKS BECAUSE THEY HAVE SANITATION SERVICES AND, AND PARKS MM-HMM.
AND FOR THE PROPOSED 2014 FEE, I KNOW WE'LL GET THERE WHEN WE GET THERE, BUT ARE WE LOOKING AT THE SOLID WASTE FEE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL FEE, OR BOTH AT POTENTIALLY INCREASING? I THINK THAT'S, UH, TO BE DETERMINED.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT BOTH.
AND THEN FOR THE HOTSHOT CREWS, UM, IT WAS MENTIONED THAT 80% OF THE CLEANUPS ARE DRIVEN BY 3 1 1 AND THE OTHER 20% ARE PROACTIVE.
UM, CAN YOU DESCRIBE TO ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT PROACTIVE CLEANUPS ARE? IS IT FROM THE CONSTITUENT SERVICES OFFICE, OR HOW, HOW ARE WE, A LITTLE BIT OF THAT.
UH, UH, I, I REALLY WISH I WAS GONNA SAY SOMETHING ELSE, BUT IT'S RECURRING SITES.
WE KNOW WHERE THE ILLEGAL DUMPS ARE AND WE JUST RETURN TO THEM AND WE GO SOMETIMES DAY AFTER DAY.
BUT, BUT, UH, TYPICALLY IT'S WEEKLY, A WEEKLY RETURN OR, OR EARLIER.
AND THEN IN THE BUDGET BOOK, I DIDN'T SEE THE DIAL A TRAILER LISTED.
UM, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE TO COMMUNITY IN 20 20 20? ABSOLUTELY.
YEAH, AND I DEFINITELY THINK MARKETING AROUND THE DIALA TRAILER WOULD BE LIKE, IT WOULD NEED TO BE LOOPED IN WITH THAT.
'CAUSE MY CONSTITUENTS ARE ALWAYS ASKING FOR A DIALA TRAILER.
UM, BUT ULTIMATELY, RIGHT, I THINK IT COMES DOWN TO THE EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT BECAUSE MANY OF MY CONSTITUENTS DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S A LANDFILL THAT THEY COULD GO DUMP FOR FREE MM-HMM.
UM, AND I THINK JUST LETTING FOLKS KNOW WHILE WE'RE DOING THE OUTREACH ABOUT THE CHANGES, UM, INCLUDING THOSE LOCATIONS WHERE THEY CAN, UH, DROP OFF THEIR WASTE WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
BUT THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS.
AND AGAIN, UM, DISTRICT FIVE TEAM ABSOLUTELY LOVES THE WORK THAT Y'ALL DO.
UM, SO I, I READ THAT NEWSPAPER ARTICLE WITH, UM, SHAKING MY HEAD, UH, BECAUSE I, I DON'T KNOW WHO WROTE IT.
UM, I, I HAVEN'T GONE BACK AND LOOKED AT IT, BUT I, I THINK IT'S, IT WAS, IT WAS, UH, DISHONEST BY OMISSION, UM, AT, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU READ THAT ARTICLE AND IT, IT LITERALLY SAYS, YOU KNOW, WE GOT SNUBBED, WE GOT THE BRUSH OFF.
BUT JESUS, DURING YOUR TIME AS DIRECTOR OF THE AIRPORT AND JEFF COYLE, YOU KNOW, DURING YOUR TIME THAT ALL OF US HAVE BEEN ON COUNCIL, UM, HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE WE RECEIVED FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN TOTO FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, WELL JUST FOR YOUR BUDGET SO THAT WE CAN BUILD THINGS AND FIX THINGS AND EXPAND THINGS OUT THERE? WELL, I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE DEFINITELY IN A U UNIQUE SITUATION.
I CAN TELL YOU, AS I PROVIDED TO YOU THE FUNDING ON, I BELIEVE IT'S SLIDE FIVE THAT REFLECTS, UH, WHAT WE RECEIVED.
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AND THE, UM, SLIDE SIX.UM, AS YOU LOOK AT 11.9 MILLION FOR 2022, UM, THESE ARE REIMBURSABLE, UH, GRANTS THAT WE RECEIVED.
ON TOP OF THAT 11.9, WE RECEIVED ANOTHER 11.7, UH, BASED ON OUR NUMBER OF EMPLOYMENTS THAT CAME OUT OF THE B I L AS WELL, FOR A TOTAL SUM OF PRETTY CLOSE TO 24 MILLION, UH, YOU COUPLE THE 89 MILLION THAT CAME FROM CARES ARPA AND KRISA, UM, WELL OVER, YOU KNOW, AS WE'VE, UM, UH, OVER A HUNDRED MILLION THAT WE'VE RECEIVED.
UH, ON TOP OF THAT, UM, AND I DON'T HAVE ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS ON THE TOP OF MY HEAD BECAUSE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF 'EM, BUT WE COULD GET, GET, GET THEM TO YOU.
UH, FOR ALL THE AIRFIELD WORK THAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
THERE'S A I P FUNDING THAT WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE A I P AS WELL.
DID YOU, DID YOU GET A CHANCE TO INFORM WHOEVER WROTE THIS GARBAGE ARTICLE THAT WE RECEIVED MORE THAN A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS? WELL, WE, WE WERE SPECIFIC TO THE B I L, SO THE CARES ARPA AND KRISA IS A SEPARATE ACCOUNT, BUT WE DID REFERENCE, UH, THE 11.9 PLUS 11.7 THAT WE RECEIVED FOR B I L FUNDING AS WELL, UH, BASED ON OUR NUMBER OF EMPLOYMENTS.
AND SO, I MEAN, I I, I'LL REPEAT IT AGAIN.
I DON'T KNOW WHO WROTE IT, BUT I MEAN, IT IS REALLY A VERY DISHONEST ARTICLE WHEN YOU LEAVE OUT THAT VERY IMPORTANT CONTEXT.
UM, AND SO WITH THAT SAID, I WILL TELL YOU, I I LOOK AT THE AIRPORT AND I, I, I'M, I'M, I'VE BEEN AT SIX AIRPORTS, UH, IN THE PAST TWO MONTHS, UM, AND SOME IN EUROPE.
AND I, I'VE HATED EVERY ONE OF MY EXPERIENCES BECAUSE THIS IS DURING, YOU KNOW, THE POST COVID TRAVEL CRISIS.
AND, UM, I REMEMBER BEING IN, YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT THIS, I, I REMEMBER BEING IN HEATHROW THE DAY THAT THE, UH, THE RUNWAY MELTED, UH, AND THEY HAD TO STOP ALL FLIGHTS UNTIL NIGHTTIME, AND THEN WE TOOK OFF, UM, AT NIGHT ONCE EVERYTHING COOLED OFF.
BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T LAND HEAVY AIRPLANES
BUT, UM, I, YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST IN EL PASO.
I'VE BEEN THROUGH YOUR AIRPORT MULTIPLE TIMES THE PAST FEW MONTHS, THE SMOOTHEST OF ALL MY EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN IN SAN ANTONIO.
UM, AND SO, YEAH, YOU KNOW, OTHER AIRPORTS, UH, HAVE DIFFERENT NUMBERS AND DIFFERENT METRICS, AND SOME HAVE REALLY FUN PUBLIC ART, YOU KNOW, AND, UH, NEAT CHANDELIERS AND ALL THAT STUFF, AND MORE LOUNGES.
BUT I EMPIRICALLY I'LL TELL YOU THAT THERE'S NO COMPARISON TO HOW SMOOTH AN EXPERIENCE I HAD, UM, FROM BEGINNING TO END, RIGHT.
AND THEN ALSO DISEMBARKATION TO MY CAR.
AND SO KUDOS ON THAT BECAUSE I, I, I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS COMPETE, UM, AND IT'S A BLOODY KNUCKLE FIGHT TO GET GOOD SCORES FOR THE JD POWERS, UH, RECOGNITION THAT YOU GUYS GET EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
UM, I WILL TELL YOU THAT THE ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T SEEM TO BE HAVING A SMOOTH TIME AT THE AIRPORT, AND THIS IS NO FAULT OF YOUR OWN, ARE THE, THE MIGRANTS WHO, UH, COME FROM OUR MIGRANT CENTER AND GO THROUGH, UM, THE, UM, AND, AND ARE WAITING FOR THEIR SOUTHWEST AIRLINES OR THEIR AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT.
UM, I'VE SEEN WAY TOO MANY TIMES GATE AGENTS BE INCREDIBLY CRUEL TO THESE PEOPLE YELLING AND SCREAMING AT THEM BECAUSE THEY ASK QUESTIONS AND THE GATE AGENT DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH, AND I MEAN, REALLY SCOLDING THEM IN A VERY UNDIGNIFIED, DISRESPECTFUL WAY.
UM, AND I'VE HAD TO STEP UP AND TALK TO SOME OF THESE MIGRANTS AND SAY, STICK WITH ME.
UM, AT PARTICULARLY DURING THIS CRISIS, MY REQUEST IS, UM, THAT MAYBE WE FIGURE OUT WHERE TO PUT ONE OF THOSE AMBASSADORS THAT WE HAVE THERE.
UH, YOU KNOW, THE FOLKS WITH THE FUNNY HATS, UH, AND THE CUTE VESTS, MAYBE WE PUT THEM PAST SECURITY, RIGHT? SOMEBODY WHO CAN SPEAK SPANISH, AND WE INFORM THESE MIGRANTS THAT THOSE PEOPLE ARE THERE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT CLEARLY OUR GATE AGENTS ARE TOO BUSY TO ANSWER.
YOU SHOULD SEE THE, THE, THE CLEAR NIGHT AND DAY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TREATMENT SOME OF THESE MIGRANTS GET VERSUS THE A-LISTERS ON SOUTHWEST AIRLINES.
UM, AND SO, AND IT'S, IT'S JUST SO UNACCEPTABLE AND INHUMANE THAT, UM, THAT, THAT HAPPENS PAST SECURITY, I KNOW WE'RE DOING A GREAT JOB UP TO T S A, BUT PAST SECURITY, I, I, IT'S JUST HARD TO STOMACH.
AND SO I THINK WE CAN DO BETTER.
AND, AND I'D LIKE TO HEAR OPTIONS FROM YOU GUYS AT SOME POINT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WE COULD DO TO MAKE THAT, THAT DIFFICULT PROCESS FOR 'EM.
UM, TO, TO NOT KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THROUGH THE AIRPORT.
AND YEAH, I'LL YOU, YOU'RE WELCOME TO UNPACK THAT.
WE DID RECEIVE, UH, THAT INFORMATION AND WE TOOK IMMEDIATE STEPS NOT ONLY TO COMMUNICATE AND COORDINATE WITH OUR AIRLINES TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS, BUT UH, EQUALLY TO THAT AS WE LOOK AT, UM, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
UM, THE WORD THAT I BEST DESCRIBE THEM IS THEY'RE INVALUABLE FOR THE WORK THAT THEY DO AND THE ASSISTANCE THAT THEY PROVIDE TO OUR AIRPORT.
UM, SO THEY ARE ASSISTING US IN THE NON-SECURITY SIDE.
UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING NOW, UM, THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS WITH THE D H S TEAM LED BY MELODY AND ALL THE INCREDIBLE
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WORK THAT THEY ARE DOING.SO WE'RE CONSTANT WORKING ON THAT.
WE ARE BADGING ADDITIONAL STAFF MEMBERS TO WORK BEHIND THE SECURITY CHECKPOINT TO YOUR EXACT COMMENTS TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE ASSISTING THEM IF THEY NEED ASSISTANCE.
UM, THEY COME FROM MANY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
UM, AND WE HAVE, UH, PHONE LINES NOW THAT WE CAN COMMUNICATE AND TRANSLATE IMMEDIATELY WITH THEM TO HELP THEM AS THEY'RE GOING THROUGH OUR AIRPORT PROCESS.
THANK YOU FOR MOVING QUICKLY ON THAT.
I KNOW THAT WE HAD MENTIONED YES, SIR.
TO YOU GUYS AND YOU GUYS DELIVERED ON THE PROMISE TO LOOK INTO IT.
UM, LASTLY, I, I, I WILL TELL YOU, FOR OUR FRIENDS IN SOLID WASTE, UM, I, I GET IT.
UH, PRIOR TO, PRIOR TO, YOU KNOW, A FEW WEEKS AGO, I, I ALSO THOUGHT RIGHT, THAT LITTER WAS MATIC, RIGHT? LIKE, UH, NO CENTRAL LOCUST, NO POINT OF ORIGIN, NO MARGINS, NO PATTERN, NO SPECIFIC PATH.
IT JUST SORT OF IS HAPPENING LIKE A, LIKE A WEB, RIGHT? UM, AND, UM, BUT THERE'S A GROUP OUT THERE THAT DISAGREES WITH THAT.
UM, AND TO COUNCILMAN MCGEE RODRIGUEZ'S POINT, THEY'RE ACTUALLY PRODUCING SOME PRETTY SOLID DATA AND PROVING OUT THAT IT'S NOT RHIZOMATIC.
THERE'S SOME PREDICTABILITY TO LITTER, AND IT'S CALLED LITERATI.
LITERATI, RIGHT? UM, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE COVERED IT WITH US OR NOT, UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, I REALLY DO THINK THAT THERE'S SOME SOLID, UM, SOME SOLID CASE STUDIES OUT THERE THAT SHOWS THAT THEY'RE ONTO SOMETHING, RIGHT? AND IT'S NOT JUST ME WHO THINKS THAT, I MEAN, I WROTE IT DOWN PITTSBURGH, MINNEAPOLIS, MEMPHIS, PHILADELPHIA, FORT COLLINS, BOULDER, COLORADO, THEY'VE ALL PARTNERED UP WITH LITERATI TO DO THIS DEEP DIVE INTO, YOU KNOW, THE LITTER, TRASH DATA LAKE, RIGHT? TO COME UP WITH ANALYTICS THAT THEY CAN THEN USE FOR ACTIONABLE RIGHT STEPS, UH, FOR PREDICTING WHERE IT'S GONNA HAPPEN, RIGHT? WHO'S ACTUALLY DOING THE LITTER? AND THEN ALSO, UM, YOU KNOW, HELPING US IN NOT JUST LITTER PICKUP EFFORTS, BUT ALSO LITTER PREVENTION EFFORTS, RIGHT? UM, IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE IT'S AN OFF-THE-SHELF SOLUTION.
SO MY QUESTION FOR YOU IS WHAT YOU, YOU CLEARLY KNOW ABOUT LITTERATI, WHY DO WE NOT HAVE IT YET? THERE IS AN EXPENSE TO IT, AND WE'VE KEPT OUR HEAD DOWN JUST TRYING TO PICK UP THE TRASH.
AND SO WE'RE PUTTING OUR RESOURCES INTO THAT.
BUT, UH, WE CAN REASSESS THAT AND SEE IF THAT, THAT CAN HELP, BECAUSE WE DO NEED TO, UH, FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION SO THAT IT STOPS.
I MEAN, IF EVERYONE STOPPED TODAY, WE'D HAVE THE WHOLE CITY CLEANED UP, YOU KNOW, REALLY QUICKLY.
SO I, I, I'M NOT, I'M NOT SO POLLYANNA TO THINK THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE WHOLE CITY CLEANED UP, RIGHT? I MEAN, THE DAY YOU AND I SOLVE FOR ALL LITTER, WE'LL WIN A NOBEL PRIZE, RIGHT? BUT, UM, AND WE'LL HAVE TO SPLIT MONEY, OKAY.
BUT, WE'LL, UM, BUT I THINK THAT WE CAN WORK TOWARDS THE GOAL OF HAVING A LITTER FREE SAN ANTONIO, RIGHT? AND WE GOTTA PULL FROM EVERY LEVER.
AND IT SEEMS LIKE THIS LITERATI OPTION, UM, IS WORKING FOR OTHER CITIES.
SO I, I'D JUST LIKE TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT SURE.
WHAT KIND OF SUCCESS, UM, THEY'RE EXPERIENCING IN THESE OTHER CITIES, AND WHETHER OR NOT SOME OF THAT CAN BE REPLICATED HERE.
SO WE'LL REENGAGE IN THAT AND COME BACK AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT.
COUNCIL MEMBER PLYS, I, I WANT TO PIGGYBACK ON SOMETHING.
I'M, I DON'T MEAN TO EMBARRASS YOU, JESUS, BUT, UM, YOUR, YOUR COMMENTS COUNCILMAN ABOUT THE KIND OF CITY WE ARE AND WHAT WE EXPECT FROM PEOPLE, UM, AND THE TREATMENT OF MIGRANTS IN OUR, IN OUR, UM, AIRPORT, BRINGS TO MIND A FLIGHT THAT ERIC AND I WERE ON TO DC YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAND THERE, JESUS, BECAUSE I WANT EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM TO UNDERSTAND THE KIND OF PERSON THAT WE HAVE DIRECTING OUR AIRPORT.
ERIC AND I WERE ON THAT FLIGHT WITH JESUS, AND THERE WAS A, A GENTLEMAN THERE WHO COMPL CLEARLY DID NOT KNOW WHERE HE WAS GOING, UH, DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH.
AND I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY JESUS IS TALKING TO HIM LIKE A FRIEND OF HIS.
HE WAS IN A DIFFERENT ROW AND FOLLOWED THIS GUY ALL THE WAY TO DC, HAD NO IDEA THAT HE HAD TO MAKE A CONNECTION.
OBVIOUSLY, HE WAS GOING TO A SPONSOR FAMILY.
AND JESUS STOOD THERE AND TALKED TO THIS INDIVIDUAL AND GOT HIM TO UNDERSTAND THAT HE NEEDED TO MAKE A CONNECTION, WHICH HE HAD NO IDEA ABOUT FOR, FOR ANOTHER 15 MINUTES WHEN WE DEPLANED IN DC.
SO, I KNOW THAT YOUR COMMENTS COUNCILMAN, UH, WERE DIRECTED AT, AT SOME ACTION.
I THINK EVERYBODY NEEDS TO RECOGNIZE THAT, THAT, UH, JESUS SIGNS WHO IS DIRECTING OUR AIRPORT, UH, I BELIEVE, UH, FEELS THAT PERSONALLY AS WELL.
UH, AND I'M, I'M, I'M, I'M VERY GLAD, UH, CONSIDERING THIS CONVERSATION THAT YOU ARE LEADING OUR AIR SERVICE, JESUS, IN, IN A NUMBER OF WAYS.
YOU'RE, YOU'RE A SAINT IN MY BOOK.
UH, AND I DON'T ENVY YOUR JOB.
COUNCIL MEMBER GRA THANK YOU, MAYOR.
UM, I'LL START WITH THE AIRPORT, UM, AND ADDRESS THE ADDITIONAL GRANT OPPORTUNITIES.
WELL, I UNDERSTAND WE'RE NOT GONNA HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK THE ENTIRE TIME.
I THINK, JESUS, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT
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YOU'RE HONEST WITH US, UM, AND THE STAFF, IF WE NEED TO DO BETTER FOR YOU IN DC IN THESE SITUATIONS, OR WE NEED TO DO BETTER AS A COUNCIL, AS LEADERSHIP, UH, IF ANY, OR, AND YOUR TEAM, IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU CAN DO, LET US KNOW SO THAT WE CAN DO THIS.BECAUSE WHEN WE MS. GRANT OPPORTUNITIES, UH, AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, I ALWAYS WANNA KNOW WHY.
AND IF THERE WAS SOMETHING WE COULD DO, DO WE HAVE THE RIGHT TEAM UP THERE, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB, AND I'M CONFIDENT IN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
BUT THAT IS JUST SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO KNOW AND I'LL ASK.
AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU WANNA SHARE NOW WHERE YOU THINK, THINK WE COULD DO MORE, PLEASE DO.
I, I, I THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UM, I'M GATHERING MYSELF 'CAUSE THE MAYOR JUST MADE ME FEEL REALLY HUMBLED ABOUT WHAT WE DO.
'CAUSE IT'S NOT JUST ME, IT'S THE ENTIRE TEAM THAT DOES IT EVERY DAY, RIGHT.
BUT AS IT RELATES TO, YOU KNOW, THE GRANTS, IT'S AN ALIGNMENT.
IT'S US WORKING IN PARALLEL FOR WHAT WE HAVE.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE A S D C TEAM, YOU KNOW, UPON MY ARRIVAL, WELCOMED ME.
WE STARTED TO GET AFTER IT TO PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER TO ENSURE THAT WE WERE PREPARING OURSELVES.
NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED COVID.
UM, AS WE FINALIZE THE AIRPORT, UH, TERMINAL ADVANCED PLANNING WORK THAT WE'RE DOING, UM, WE'LL BEGIN TO GET SHOVEL READY FOR THE FIRST SOLICITATION THAT WENT OUT.
UM, THERE WAS SPECIFIC CRITERIA OF WHAT THEY WANTED.
UM, DID IT FIT PERFECTLY TO US? IT DID NOT.
DID IT MEAN WE WEREN'T GONNA PUT ANYTHING? NO, WE STILL WANT TO TRY, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE WOULD'VE BEEN, IT WOULD'VE BEEN, UH, VERY BAD ON US IF WE HADN'T AT LEAST ATTEMPTED TO PUT SOMETHING OUT.
SO WE TRIED FOR IT, KNOWING IT WAS GONNA BE DIFFICULT FOR US, BUT WE MADE THAT EFFORT.
I HAVE NO DOUBT IN THE WORK THAT WE HAVE FORTHCOMING IN 20 23, 20 24, 20 25, AND 2026, THAT WE ARE IN GOOD ALIGNMENT FOR THE WORK THAT WE HAVE FORTHCOMING AND THE WORK THAT WE DO WITH THE F A A AND EVERYONE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH.
AND, UH, THE SUPPORT OF, UH, OUR CITY MANAGER, THE MAYOR, AND ALL OF YOU ALL FOR ALL THE WORK THAT WE CONTINUE TO DO.
SO, UH, WE WILL CLOSELY MONITOR THEIR CRITERIA LIST AS IT COMES OUT, AND THEN SUBMIT IN ACCORDANCE TO WHAT THAT CRITERIA AND HOW IT BEST FITS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING WHAT WE CAN HERE AT, AT THE, UH, THE COUNCIL LEVEL.
UH, I'M GLAD TO SEE THE, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR STINSON.
I WAS REALLY, UM, GOOD, HAPPY THAT YOU GUYS WERE LOOKING AT US AS A REGIONAL CENTER, AND I, WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY FOR INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS, WHY I'D LIKE TO SEE MORE HERE.
I, I DON'T MIND THE SAN ANTONIO TO HOUSTON JUMP FOR MY INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT.
AND, AND I, I THINK THAT THAT WORKS.
AND I THINK THAT THERE'S PEOPLE IN SOUTH TEXAS, FLORESVILLE DEL RIO THAT DON'T, DON'T MIND COMING TO SAN ANTONIO AND DOING THAT, THAT HOUSTON JUMP FOR THE, UM, FOR THEIR INTERNATIONAL.
UH, THE ONE THING I DID LIKE THAT I HEARD IS THAT, UM, BUT I WANT Y'ALL TO TAKE IN TO CONSIDERATION IS, UH, HAVING, YOU DON'T WANNA OPEN A 2024 BUILDING IN 2028 OR 2024, AND JUST UNDERSTANDING THE LITTLE AMENITIES.
'CAUSE I, AS I WAS IN THE AIRPORT LAST WEEK, I WAS LIKE, CHARGING STATIONS, CHAIRS, THE, ARE THE CHAIRS COMFORTABLE, UM, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO AS, AS WE LOOK AND TO THE FUTURE WHERE MOST PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE USING THEIR PHONES TO PAY OR CREDIT CARDS THAT WE, WE TAKE THOSE AMENITIES IN.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, COUNCILWOMAN.
UH, DAVID, UM, I JUST WANNA, I WANNA START WITH RODEO
UM, MY DAD WORKED, IT WAS, IT WAS TRAFFIC BACK THEN, AND HE ACTUALLY DID THE TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT WITH THEIR, THEIR BUCKET TRUCKS ACTUALLY DID A RODEO COMPETITION, UH, WITH SOLID WASTE.
SO IT WAS THAT THIS WAS A, THIS WAS GREAT.
AND I KNOW THEY WORK VERY HARD, AND I JUST APPLAUD WHAT YOU GUYS DID DURING THE PANDEMIC AND HOW YOU KEPT IT GOING.
UM, I THINK THAT, UM, THAT I, I MEAN, THERE JUST ISN'T ENOUGH TO SAY, AND YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT WITH THE ASKS THAT YOU HAVE HERE, BECAUSE I THINK WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH DIAL A TRAILER OUT OF CYCLE COLLECTIONS, UH, THE FREE LANDFILL DAY ARE SO IMPORTANT TO MY RESIDENTS.
UM, WHEN THEY LOOKED AT THE HOTSHOT CREW PICKUP, AND, AND MY DISTRICT HAD 35, THAT'S BECAUSE WE, MY TEAM IS, I KNOW INITIATING THOSE TWO AS WELL AS MY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND THE PRESIDENTS.
AND IT'S JUST SO MUCH WORK OUT THERE.
UM, THE ONE THING I DID WANT TO, TO BRING UP IS ON SLIDE, LET'S GO BACK.
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I, I REALLY DON'T LIKE FEE INCREASESBUT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE IF WE CANNOT, IF WE CAN DO A CAMPAIGN SO THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT, WHAT'S THE TRASH CAN THAT THEY NEED.
AND, UM, IF THEY CAN MOVE DOWN, IF THEY DO NEED THE LARGE, THAT'S UNDERSTANDABLE.
BUT IF THEY CAN MOVE TO THE SMALLER MEDIUM, UH, ESPECIALLY FOR OUR SENIORS, BECAUSE I THINK A SMALL WOULD WORK BETTER FOR THEM ANYWAY, IS MAYBE WE MAY PUSH THAT CAMPAIGN WHERE THEY'RE LIKE, HEY, LET'S MOVE TO A SMALL AND LET'S, LET'S HAVE YOU RECYCLE A LITTLE MORE.
BECAUSE I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT'S GONNA HELP THEM IF, 'CAUSE I'M HOPING WE DO REALLY WELL IN OTHER PARTS WHERE WE DON'T NEED FEE INCREASES, WHERE WE DON'T NEED TO DO A FEE INCREASE IN THERE.
BUT, AND IF WE DID, THEY WERE ALREADY ON A SMALL, JUST MOVING TO A, TO A DOLLAR OR SO, OTHER THAN THEY'RE AT THAT LARGE, OR THEY'RE AT THAT MEDIUM WITH THAT INCREASE.
SO I JUST THINK IF WE COULD DO A CAMPAIGN, ESPECIALLY FOR OUR SENIORS, MAYBE WORK WITH THE, THE TEAM AT THE SENIOR CENTERS TO, TO LET THEM KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TRASH CAN.
AND, UM, AND ALSO JUST WORKING WITH THE, UM, WITH THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE PICKUPS AND WHY WE SHOULD REPORT THIS ILLEGAL DUMPING OR WHY YOU SHOULDN'T DUMP ILLEGALLY, UM, IS BECAUSE IT IMPACTS OUR, OUR, OUR CLIMATE ACTION PLANS AND US TRYING TO MEET OUR GOALS.
BECAUSE THAT'S JUST ONE EXTRA DAY.
YOUR TRUCKS ARE OUT THERE HAVING TO HAUL THAT OUT, UH, WHEN THEY COULD HAVE GONE TO THE LANDFILL AND DUMPED THIS OUT, WHICH CAUSES, YOU KNOW, MAYBE BAD AIR DAYS AND ASTHMA PROBLEMS. AND WE, HOW WE JUST NEED TO RELATE THAT SO THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE NOT JUST DUMPING, THAT THEY'RE HARMING THEIR NEIGHBORS WHEN THEY DUMP.
AND THE OTHER, I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
JUST, UM, JUST, I, I REALLY WANT US TO SEE US DO, ARE WE STILL COLLECTING PLASTIC BAGS? WE ARE.
I REALLY WANT, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD DO A CONTEST, BUT THIS YEAR I REALLY WANNA WORK WITH YOUR TEAM ABOUT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WAYS TO USE THOSE PLASTIC BAGS.
'CAUSE I KNOW THEY CAN'T NECESSARILY GO INTO THE RECYCLE.
AND, AND, AND SINCE YOU BROUGHT IT UP, I DO WANT TO JUST SAY THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT IS TO PUT ALL OF THE BAGS INTO A BAG THAT'S A SOCCER BALL SHAPE AND PUT THAT INTO YOUR BLUE BIN.
AND I, I THINK WE NEED, AGAIN, LOOSE BAGS ARE TERRIBLE.
I THINK, AGAIN, WE NEED TO, TO DO THE, THE, THE EDUCATION PORTION YES.
I, I, I DIDN'T MIND THE SENTENCE BECAUSE I WAS A TEACHER, SO I LIKE A LONG SENTENCE.
NOT LIKE, DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS
BUT IF WE THINK SOMETHING, UM, SHORTER NEEDS TO HAPPEN, I'M, I'M LOOKING AT ADRIANA TO COUNCILMAN MORCHA GARCIA TO GET THAT DONE.
SO, BUT JUST THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK.
I, I MEAN, I APPROVE THE ASKS THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THEY'RE NEEDED AND THEY'RE NECESSARY FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE.
DAVID, UH, YEAH, IF WE CAN GO AHEAD AND JUST YES, SIR.
RUN THROUGH MY QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
UM, HOW MUCH THIS IS A RESTRICTED OR, UH, REFUND, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
HOW MUCH DO WE HAVE IN THE BANK TODAY? UH, WE ARE STARTING THE YEAR WITH A LITTLE OVER 11 MILLION.
AND WHAT IS YOUR TOTAL COST FOR F Y 23? UH, UH, YOUR PROJECTED COST FOR 2023, WE'RE PROJECTING ABOUT $144 MILLION.
AND WHAT IS THE TOTAL REVENUE? THE TOTAL REVENUE, THE TOTAL REVENUE FOR SOLID WASTE IS ABOUT $134 MILLION.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT A DEFICIT OF ABOUT 10 MILLION.
SO IS THAT GONNA RUN THROUGH OUR WHOLE BANK ACCOUNT? MM-HMM.
SO WE'RE PROJECTING BY THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR, BY 2023 TO HAVE A FUND BALANCE OF JUST OVER $400,000.
UM, YEAH, I, I WOULD LIKE Y'ALL TO COME IN AND TALK TO ME SOME MORE ABOUT THIS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YES, WE HAVE A PIGGY BANK WITH MONEY IN IT, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE NOT DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO SAVE SOME OF THAT MONEY INSTEAD OF SPENDING IT, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THESE, IN THESE PROGRAMS THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO SET UP.
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YOU TRY TO KEEP A SAVINGS ACCOUNT AND YOU DON'T SPEND IT ON DOWN TO ZERO, WHICH I THINK WE'RE DOING HERE.SO, AND I, I DON'T WANNA SEE THIS AS FORCING A RATE INCREASE FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
SO WE'RE JUST SETTING THIS UP FOR A RATE INCREASE FOR THE CUSTOMERS THIS, THIS FOLLOWING YEAR.
SO WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING, I'D LIKE TO HAVE SOME MORE DIALOGUE ABOUT THAT, ABOUT WHERE, WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THIS ACCOUNT AND, UM, OUR WHOLE SOLID WASTE PROGRAM, UH, ABOUT THE COMMENTS IN THE SLIDE ABOUT, HEY, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO TAKE A LOOK AT AN INCREASE THIS, UH, FOR F Y 24.
AND ON SLIDE SLIDE NUMBER SEVEN, I'M SAYING, NO, WE SHOULDN'T BE LOOKING AT AN INCREASE.
WE GOTTA BE, WHAT CAN WE DO DIFFERENTLY TO KEEP FROM HAVING AN INCREASE? UM, I, I GO TO A COUPLE OF THINGS HERE WHERE, UM, WELL, YOU TALK LIKE IN SLIDE NUMBER 12, YOU SAY REDUCES OR FEWER TRUCKS REQUIRED, BUT THEN ON SLIDE NUMBER 14, YOU'RE ADDING TRUCKS AND, YOU KNOW, ONE SLIDE SAYS SOMETHING, ANOTHER SLIDE SAYS SOMETHING ELSE, UH, FOR THE SOLID WASTE, UM, DEPARTMENT THERE.
SO I'VE GOT QUESTIONS WITH THAT AS WELL.
AND IN YOUR SLIDE 11, IT SAYS, THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR TRASHING SAN ANTONIO.
WHAT ARE THOSE CONSEQUENCES? HAVE WE EVER PROSECUTED ANYBODY FOR ILLEGALLY DUMPING HERE IN THIS CITY? I, THAT'S, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT BEYOND MY AREA OF EXPERTISE.
WE, WE GOT, WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES? WE'RE SAYING THERE'S CONSEQUENCES, BUT WHAT ARE THEY? RIGHT.
I THINK WE NEED TO EXPOUND ON THAT.
I THINK ANDY WANTS TO JUMP IN.
YEAH, I THINK COUNCILMAN YEAH, SURE.
I THINK THE MAXIMUM PENALTIES, A IT'S A FELONY OFFENSE IN MANY CASES, AND THAT WOULD BE A DA PROSECUTION AT A CITY PROSECUTION.
BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT THOSE CONSEQUENCES ARE.
AND THEN FOLLOWING UP, HAVE WE EVER PROSECUTED OR HAVE WE EVER ARRESTED ANYBODY AND TAKEN HIM DOWN THERE FOR PROSECUTION? AND WE CAN GET YOU, I'M SURE WE HAVE ARRESTED HIM.
LIKE TO, LIKE TO HEAR THAT OR SEE THAT.
SO I'M, I'M JUST CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THIS, HOW THIS IS SETTING UP FOR A POSSIBLE RATE INCREASE FOR 24 AND WOULD LIKE TO, UH, TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WHAT WE'RE PLANNING FOR THIS IN 23, BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT, UH, PAGE 3, 92 OF THE BIG BOOK HERE.
AND, AND, UH, YOU GOT 10 ADDITIONAL POSITIONS FROM 21 TO 22, AND NOW YOU'RE GETTING 20 ADDITIONAL POSITIONS FROM 22 TO 23, UM, AND ADDITIONAL $9 MILLION, UM, YOU KNOW, ACROSS THAT TIMEFRAME ALSO.
SO I'M, I'M STRUGGLING WITH THAT.
YOU KNOW, HERE WE ARE GETTING MORE REVENUE IN THERE, BUT WE'RE DEPLETING OUR BANK ACCOUNT ALSO IN SAYING, HEY, WE MIGHT NEED TO HAVE A RATE INCREASE FOR OUR CUSTOMERS IN 24.
SO I NEED, I NEED MORE HELP IN UNDERSTANDING THAT.
SO IF YOU COULD COME ON BY, WOULD APPRECIATE THAT.
UM, ERIC, DID YOU, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU WANTED TO SAY ANYTHING OR? I WAS GONNA WAIT TILL YOU'RE FINISHED.
UM, WELL, LET'S, LET'S, UH, THAT'S ALL DAVID.
UM, JESUS ON THE AIRPORT, AND I'M GONNA SAY THIS RIGHT OFF THE BAT, I'VE ASKED THIS FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW ABOUT THIS STRATEGIC PLAN, AND I THINK IT'S GREAT.
AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT, WE'VE APPROVED IT AT COUNCIL LEVEL, BUT I KEEP ASKING, HOW ARE WE GONNA PAY FOR THIS WHOLE THING? AND YOU HAVE A FANTASTIC GANTT CHART THAT SHOWS THE PROJECT SCHEDULE ON PLANNING, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.
I'D LIKE TO SEE IT LAID IN THERE.
WHERE'S THE MONEY COMING? WHAT'S THE REQUIREMENT FOR MONEY? AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT? WHETHER IT'S INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL WITH BONDS, YOU KNOW, HOWEVER, UH, BUT THAT NEEDS TO BE LAID IN ON THAT GANTT CHART ALSO, I, I FORGET WHICH PA THERE IT IS.
BEAUTIFUL CHART, BUT IT DOESN'T TELL ME WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING FROM AND HOW WE'RE PLANNING ON FUNDING THIS ENTIRE PROJECT.
SO AGAIN, UH, WOULD LIKE FOR Y'ALL TO COME BACK AND HAVE THAT PLANNED OUT SHOW, SHOW ME WHERE, HOW IT'S GONNA GET PAID FOR.
SO IF YOU COULD DO THAT, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
UM, UM, AND LOOKING AT THE TOTAL, TOTAL PROGRAM FOR F Y 23, WHAT IS YOUR TOTAL REVENUE? WHAT'S THE TOTAL COMING IN TO THIS ENTERPRISE FUND? MM-HMM.
AND WHAT IS THE TOTAL GOING OUT OF THIS ENTERPRISE FUND FOR F Y 23? OKAY.
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COUNCIL MEMBER FOR THE AIRPORT OPERATING A MAINTENANCE FUND, THE PROJECTED REVENUE IS ABOUT $139 MILLION.AND WE'RE ANTICIPATING, WE'RE APPROPRIATING ABOUT 137 MILLION.
SO ABOUT A $2 MILLION DEFICIT.
UH, NO, WE'RE, UH, GENERATING ABOUT 139 MILLION, APPROPRIATING ABOUT 137 MILLION.
SO YOU GOT A LITTLE BIT OF A CUSHION THERE.
UM, ALONG WITH THAT, ON THE CUSTOMER CHARGES AND THINGS THAT GET ADDED INTO THE TICKETS, UH, CAN WE, CAN WE SEE SOME DATA BENCHMARKING WITH OTHER COMPARABLE AIRPORTS OR EVEN COMPARING US TO AUSTIN ON WHAT THEY'RE CHARGING VERSUS WHAT WE'RE CHARGING HERE TO KIND OF SEE WHERE WE'RE AT IN THE LOCAL MARKET HERE FOR, UH, AIR TRAVEL? I, YOU KNOW, WE SEE THESE CHARGES ON HERE, BUT I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO RELATE THAT TO.
AND WE CAN GIVE YOU A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN YEAH.
AS IT RELATES TO PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGES, OR IF YOU'RE REFERENCING TO THE CAR RENTAL, THE C F C, THE, THE CAR RENTAL FACILITY CHARGES, WE CAN GIVE YOU THE BREAKDOWNS ON BOTH OF THOSE.
I CAN TELL YOU FROM THE PASSENGER FACILITY CHARGERS, IT'S GONNA BE, UH, PRETTY MUCH THE SAME ACROSS ALL AIRPORTS AT $4 AND 50 CENTS IS WHERE THAT SITS TODAY.
BUT WE'LL GIVE YOU A COMPLETE BREAKDOWN SO YOU CAN HAVE A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD THIS DISCUSSION MANY TIMES.
THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WANTING MORE DIRECT FLIGHTS AND THAT KIND OF THING.
RIGHT? WELL, WE DO IN, IN THE, IN, IN THE STANCE OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAPACITY DO WE HAVE? OKAY.
AND, AND, AND HOW ARE WE GROWING FROM AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STANDPOINT? HOW ARE WE ATTRACTING AIRLINES TO WANT TO DO, CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS WITH US? UM, AS MR. PRATT AND, AND AND I, UH, REFERENCED EARLIER, IT'S A STRATEGY THAT WE PUT TOGETHER.
THE PASSENGER DECIDES ULTIMATELY, RIGHT.
AND AIRLINES ARE GOING TO, UH, TAKE UPON, UH, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BRING YOU A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF AIRCRAFT IN HERE UNLESS THEY KNOW THAT THEY HAVE THIS SEAT REQUIREMENTS.
AND WE KNOW, UH, WE'RE IN A VERY VOLATILE STILL, UH, MARKET WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE, UH, THE POST PANDEMIC ERA.
BUT, UM, WE CAN HELP OURSELVES IN THE WAY THAT WE COMMUNICATE AND WORK CLOSELY WITH THE AIRLINES TO, WE DO FORECASTING, WE DO STRATEGY, WE DO, UH, STATISTICS AND DATA THAT TO SAY WHERE ARE THE PASSENGERS COMING FROM AND HOW CAN WE, UH, BRING MORE FLIGHTS TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY.
AND, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S REALLY UP TO THE AIRLINES, WHETHER THEY'RE GONNA ADD FLIGHTS OR, YOU KNOW, UH, YES SIR.
AND I WOULD LOOK AT MY COLLEAGUE HERE FOR THE I G R ALSO ONE FLIGHT.
THAT'S ALL WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR, FOR HOW MANY YEARS NOW TO REAGAN.
YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT IS IN THE PECKING ORDER HERE AGAIN, BUT, UH, I, I THINK IT'S TIME THAT WE START DOING THE TRIPS AROUND TO GO VISIT FOLKS TO AB GET THAT ABSOLUTELY KNOW JEFF.
WE'LL COME UP AND COMMENT ON THAT AS WELL.
UM, WE HAVE THE FY 2023 REAUTHORIZATION ACT.
'CAUSE WE TOO WANT A DIRECT FLIGHT.
IT'S PROBABLY THE MOST UNDERSERVED, UH, MARKET IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES, AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THE ESTABLISHED PERIMETER RULE THAT WE HAVE.
WHAT, JUST OUTTA CURIOSITY, JEFF, IS THAT A HIGH ON OUR RADAR LIST? UH, UH, FOR OUR TEAMS UP THERE IN PC IT IS.
WE'RE, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING OUR NEXT FEDERAL PROGRAM THAT'LL, UH, COME TO I G R THIS FALL FOR THE CONGRESS.
WE ANTICIPATE THAT'LL BE ONE OF THE ISSUES WE BRING UP FOR DISCUSSION.
AND I WAS GONNA SAY WHAT JESUS SAID, THAT THE F A A REAUTHORIZATION DISCUSSION IS HAPPENING NEXT YEAR.
IT ONLY HAPPENS EVERY FOUR OR SIX YEARS.
SO OUR NEXT ATTEMPT AT, AT SECURING THAT, UH, THAT NONSTOP WILL BE NEXT YEAR.
COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, ERIC? YEAH, JUST REAL QUICK, UH, COUNCILMAN PERRY AND YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SOLID WASTE FUND.
I MEAN, WE, WE HAVE, UM, WE'VE BEEN VERY, UM, CONSCIOUS OF THE FEES.
UM, AND IN FACT, THE LAST TIME WE MADE THE ADJUSTMENT IN 2019, WE DID KIND OF WHAT COUNCILWOMAN GRO WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS WE, WE TRIED TO INCENTIVIZE THOSE TO, UM, SAVE MONEY, UM, BY USING, UM, ONE OF THE SMALLER CARTS.
UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE, UM, ARE KEEPING OUR EYE ON IS THAT IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN THE SERVICE, UM, AND, UM, AVOID A LOT OF THE ISSUES THAT DAVID, UH, DESCRIBED WERE, UM, HITTING OPERATIONALLY, UM, AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TOUCHING ALL 372,000 HOMES TWICE A WEEK, UM, IN A TIMELY MANNER.
THREE, I'M SORRY, WHAT DID I SAY? 2, 2 3, 370 2000 IN A TIMELY MANNER.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE ARE ALSO DEALING WITH, UM, UM, MARKET WAGES AND ADJUSTMENTS
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FOR THE EMPLOYEES, WHICH IS A LARGE COST DRIVER IN ENSURING THAT WE'VE GOT A GOOD, STEADY WORKFORCE THAT, UM, THAT'S THERE WE'VE CERTAINLY AWARE OF, OF BEING VERY CONSCIOUS OF THAT.AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE, WE SHARED, I SHARED, UM, WHEN WE DID THE TRIAL BUDGET THAT, UM, AND THE FORECAST THAT WE WERE GONNA NEED TO START LOOKING AT RATE INCREASES, WE, WE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT THAT THIS SUMMER, UM, BECAUSE I WASN'T SURE, UM, WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD NECESSARILY WAIT TILL 2024 GIVEN THE DEMAND THAT WE HAD ON, ON, UM, UH, THE LABOR AND THE EMPLOYEES.
UM, BUT CHOSE TO PUSH THAT OFF ANOTHER YEAR AND SPEND SOME TIME MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN TIGHTEN DOWN IN AS MANY PLACES AS WE CAN AND TRY TO INCENTIVIZE, INCENTIVIZE FOLKS TO, UM, USE THE RECYCLING MORE, UM, AND LOWER THEIR COSTS.
AND WE, WE WILL CERTAINLY BE AWARE OF THAT, BUT I DON'T, I DON'T WANT, UM, THE COUNCIL TO NOT BE AWARE OF THE FACT THAT AT SOME POINT, GIVEN, UM, THE, THE VAST AMOUNT OF WORK THAT WE DO OVER THERE, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT ON THE FEES, AND WE WILL TRY TO BE AS SMART AS POSSIBLE.
I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND THE COUNCIL'S, UM, PROBABLY DESIRE, UM, ON THAT ISSUE.
YOU WANNA MINIMIZE THAT AS MUCH AS I DO, AND WE'LL BE, WE'LL BE SENSITIVE TO THAT, BUT I THINK THERE'S SOME REALITIES TO, TO OPERATING THAT BUSINESS.
LET'S MOVE NOW TO COUNCILMAN COURAGE.
UH, LET ME GO AHEAD AND START OFF WITH JESUS.
UH, AND ALSO LET ME SAY, UH, JESUS AND DAVID, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATIONS YOU BOTH HAVE MADE, AND I THINK, UH, MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ASKED SOME REALLY GOOD QUESTIONS, A LOT OF WHICH I HAD ON MY LIST.
SO, UH, I'M, I'M DOWN TO JUST A FEW, UH, BUT ONE I HAVE, UH, FOR YOU, JESUS, IS SLIDE 10, PROJECTED CONCESSION REVENUE AT $30.6 MILLION.
WHAT HAS BEEN THE TYPICAL AVERAGE PER YEAR? AND ARE WE PROJECTING HIGHER THAN AVERAGE WITH THE NEW CONCESSIONS? I'LL HAVE MICHAEL GARNEY COME UP, OR FREDDIE, IF YOU WANT TO TACKLE THAT.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
FREDDIE MARTINEZ, ASSISTANT BUDGET DIRECTOR.
UM, IN TERMS OF CONCESSIONS, UH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE, THE 30.6 MILLION IS ACTUALLY, UM, PRETTY HIGH AMOUNT.
WE'VE FULLY RECOVERED FROM FY 19 PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS.
UM, THE THREE THINGS THAT MAKE UP THE CONCESSION PROGRAM ARE GONNA BE YOUR S WHICH ARE, WHICH ARE A LARGE PORTION OF IT, YOUR CONCESSIONAIRES, UM, YOU KNOW, FOOD RETAIL, AND ALSO THERE'S SOME OTHER CONCESSIONS THAT ARE PART OF THAT NUMBER.
BUT IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS IN F Y 19, WE HAD 24.7 MILLION.
AND NOW AS, AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE OVER 30 MILLION.
UH, WE RECEIVE FLYERS TODAY, JESUS, FROM, UH, VIA ABOUT THEIR STONE OAK PARK AND RIDE AND HOW THEY'RE PARTNERING, UH, TO GO AHEAD AND ADVERTISE THEIR PARKING SPACES AND MARKETING PEOPLE CAN DRIVE FROM THEIR PARK AND RIDE TO THE AIRPORT.
UH, HOW DO YOU THINK THIS WILL FIT IN WITH, UH, THE QUESTION ABOUT PARKING CAPACITY AND, UH, THINGS OF THAT NATURE? DO YOU THINK IT'S GONNA BE AN ENHANCEMENT OR IS IT SOME KIND OF, UH, UH, UH, AN AN SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA INTERFERE AT ALL WITH WHAT YOU'RE DOING? YEAH, I THINK IT'S A, IT'S DEFINITELY, UM, AN ADDITIONAL SERVICE OFFERING THAT WE CAN PROVIDE TO ALL OF OUR PASSENGERS THAT ARE UTILIZING THE AIRPORT ON ONE.
WE PROVIDE THE INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE OF, OF HOW YOU CAN PARK WHETHER YOU WANT TO TAKE A COMMERCIAL, UH, VEHI VEHICLE TO THE AIRPORT, OR IF, UH, YOUR PREFERENCE IS TO UTILIZE THAT 'CAUSE IT'S CONVENIENT FOR YOU.
WE HAVE, UH, STARTED THAT SERVICE OF, OF PROVIDING THAT TO THE AIRPORT, UM, AT X INTERVALS PER HOUR.
SO I THINK IT'S, UH, ROUTE NUMBER SEVEN OR FIVE, FORGIVE ME IF I GIVE THE WRONG ROUTES, BUT WE HAVE NUMBER FIVE THAT COMES FROM NORTH STAR MALL AND NUMBER SEVEN, THAT'S COMING FROM THAT, THAT STONE OAK AREA.
SO YOU THINK IT'D BE AN ENHANCEMENT OVERALL? I, I THINK IT'S ONE MORE LEVEL OF SERVICE OFFERING THAT WE CAN PROVIDE TO EVERYONE THAT UTILIZES THE AIRPORT.
AND THEN I, I WOULD ADD AS WELL, WE'RE WORKING CLOSELY WITH VIA, CLOSELY WITH VIA, UM, AS WE LOOK AT A LONG-TERM GROUND TRANSPORTATION CENTER, AS WE LOOK AT TRANSIT CENTERS AND WHAT'S GONNA BE NECESSARY, AND I'LL EVEN TAKE THAT, WE'RE TAKING EVERYTHING AS FAR AS EV TALLS, ELECTRIC VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDINGS.
HOW IS THAT GOING TO IMPACT WHAT WE'RE DOING, UH, GOING INTO THE FUTURE? IT'S NOT JUST TODAY, BUT IT'S LONG-TERM, UH, PLANNING.
UH, I DIDN'T NOTICE ANYTHING ABOUT SOME OF THE MAJOR WORK YOU'RE GONNA DO AT THE AIRPORT AND THE BUDGET, AND I WANTED TO COMMENT ON LUGGAGE PICKUP AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S, IT'S
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WORSE THAN SAN ANTONIO THAT I'VE SEEN IN A LOT OF OTHER AIRPORTS.UH, WHEN ARE WE GONNA BE ABLE TO ADDRESS IMPROVING THAT? YEAH, SO WE HAVE, UH, IN THE 83.3 MILLION THAT WE'RE OFFERING FOR 2023, WE'VE JUST COMPLETED SOME WORK THAT WE'VE DONE ON THE LOWER CONTROLS.
UH, WE'RE TRANSFERRING FROM, UH, ONE SYSTEM TO A NEW SYSTEM THAT WE'RE INSTALLING ON THE CONTROL MECHANISMS AND THE P LOGIC THAT WE UTILIZE FOR ALL OF THE BAGGAGE HANDLING SYSTEMS. WE'RE WORKING TO IMPROVE THAT.
IT IS A CAPACITY ISSUE AS WELL.
SO THERE ARE SOME SHORT-TERM FIXES THAT WE'RE INITIATING THAT WE WILL CONTINUE INTO 23, BUT LONG-TERM COUNCIL MEMBER, WE ALSO HAVE A LONG-TERM, UH, BAGGAGE HANDLING, UH, PLANNING UPGRADE TO THE ENTIRE AIRPORT COMPLEX TO ENSURE THAT THE PASSENGERS ARRIVE AND DEPART WITH THEIR, WITH THEIR, WITH THE PASSENGERS.
BUT YOU DO HAVE SOME MORE SHORT-TERM FIXES YOU'RE WORKING ON IN THE BUDGET? YES, SIR, WE ARE.
UH, I WAS, UH, INTERESTED WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, GENERAL ENGINEERING CONSULTING SERVICES, UH, YOUR SCORING MATRIX, UH, SHOWED, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE WERE FIVE BUSINESSES THAT YOU LOOKED AT AND, UH, YOU SAID THERE WERE THREE THAT YOU WERE RECOMMENDING, UH, BUT THE THIRD ONE YOU'RE RECOMMENDING WAS ACTUALLY THE FOURTH HIGHEST BIDDER OR THE FOURTH LOWEST BIDDER.
UH, I'D LIKE AN UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THAT.
YOU KNOW, WE LOOK AT POINTS AND ONE COMPANY HAD 83.2 POINTS, BUT THE OTHER ONE THAT YOU CHOSE AND THE THIRD POSITION HAD 80.2.
SO, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE RECONCILE THAT? I THINK IT'S SLIDE 16 OR 1716.
SO WE HAVE, UM, THE FIRST SELECTED A RESPONDENT IS AT 94.20 FOR A TOTAL SCORE.
I'LL JUST SAY THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM WHAT I SEE IN THE ATTACHED HANDOUT, SO APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.
WE'LL, WE'LL GET THAT CORRECTED, BUT OKAY.
THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE, SO I'LL, I'LL TAKE A GUESS THEN THAT THIS WAS BASED ON FINAL NUMBERS AFTER AN INTERVIEW.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE ISSUE IS.
THE SLIDE 15 WAS JUST THE SCORE OF THE PROPOSAL.
COUNCILMAN OKAY, THEN I UNDERSTAND THAT.
AND I UNDERSTAND IN AN INTERVIEW YOU LEARN A LOT MORE ABOUT IT.
SO WE STARTED WITH 11, BROUGHT THAT DOWN TO SEVEN, AND THEN THE THREE SUCCESSFUL ARE THE ONES THAT WE PROVIDE YOU HERE.
UH, SO DAVID, I'VE GOT, I'VE GOT A SUGGESTION FOR YOU FOR A TITLE FOR YOUR CLEANUP PROGRAM.
SINCE EVERYBODY ELSE HAS BEEN MENTIONING
EVERYBODY WILL SAY DON'T MESS WITH THE ALAMO, BUT IN SMALLER LETTERS, CITY.
SO THAT'S MY SUGGESTION ANYWAY.
UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, WE, WE HAVE THE ILLEGAL DUMPING PROBLEM AND IT CONTINUES TO BE A LONG-TERM PROBLEM.
HAVE, HAVE WE AS A CITY, UH, TRIED TO PUT UP CAMERAS AND ADD ADDITIONAL LIGHTING TO THOSE CONSISTENT PLACES.
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE LIGHTING.
UH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I HAVE NOT BEEN INVOLVED WITH.
WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE TO WORK WITH OUR, OUR OTHER DEPARTMENTS ON THAT WITH RESPECT TO, UH, SURVEILLANCE.
THAT'S ALSO THROUGH D S D AND THEIR CODE ENFORCEMENT.
I, I WOULD THINK THAT THOSE WOULD HELP US UNDERSTAND THE CONSISTENT PEOPLE WHO ARE DUMPING IN THOSE AREAS AND IF THEY KNOW THEY'RE LIT, UH, AND IF THEY KNOW THERE MAY BE CAMERAS IN THE AREA, IT MAY CERTAINLY DISCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE FROM DOING THAT.
IN THOSE AREAS THAT TIME IN AND TIME OUT ARE THE ONES THAT GET DUMPED ON.
SO I GUESS THAT'S JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
UM, HOW ARE WE GOING TO BE PROMOTING INCREASING RECYCLING? BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IF WE RECYCLED MORE, WE'D BE SENDING LESS TO THE DUMPS.
SO IS THERE ANY KIND OF MAJOR NEW PROGRAM FOR ENHANCING RECYCLING? WE, WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING RECENTLY, AND WHEN I SAY RECENTLY, IT'S PROBABLY BEEN THE PAST, UH, TWO, THREE YEARS, IS FOCUSING ON RECYCLING CORRECTLY.
UH, WHEN THERE WAS A BIG SHIFT IN THE RECYCLING INDUSTRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CLEANED UP OUR ACT, I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT THE CITY, UH, ACTUALLY HAD, DOES A VERY GOOD JOB COMPARED TO THE OTHER CITIES AROUND US.
UH, SO MAYBE IT IS TIME TO START PUSHING THE OTHER MESSAGE OF INCREASING THE RECYCLING.
AND, AND I THINK TOO THAT WITH THE PAY AS YOU THROW BILLING SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE, I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY THERE, UH, AS ERIC MENTIONED TO DOWNSIZE YOUR CART, BUT, BUT KEEP A BIG BLUE CART SO THAT YOU CAN RECYCLE MORE.
I UNDERSTAND THAT THE RECYCLING INDUSTRY HAS REALLY PICKED UP
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IN THE LAST YEAR OR SO.IT HAS MORE DOMESTIC RECYCLERS ARE PICKING UP THE SLACK THAT WE LOST FROM CHINA A FEW YEARS AGO.
IS THAT RIGHT? THAT'S, THAT'S CORRECT.
OH, YOU KNOW, I, I KNOW IT'S NOT NECESSARILY, UH, YOUR DEPARTMENT'S JOB, BUT, UH, WHAT ABOUT THE COMPLAINTS YOU PROBABLY GET? AND I GET ALL TIME ABOUT THE STREETS BEING DIRTY AND MESSY.
NOW I UNDERSTAND AND I TELL PEOPLE A LOT, THEY'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT WHAT'S ON THE HIGHWAY AND THAT'S TXDOT, BUT STILL, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF OUR MAJOR INTERSECTIONS ARE LIKE THAT TOO.
WHAT IS THE PROCESS FOR CLEANING THE STREETS IN THE CITY TO KEEPING THEM CLEAN? AND I BELIEVE IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH STORM WATER OR SOMETHING.
WHY ISN'T THAT PART OF A SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FUNCTION? COUNCILMAN? THAT IS, UH, THAT, THAT IS A FUNCTION THAT IS, UM, WITHIN OUR STORM WATER BUDGET AND COVERED WITHIN OUR STORMWATER FEE THAT BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTIAL, UH, CUSTOMERS, UH, PAY ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
UM, AND SEGREGATED IN THAT WAY, I THINK DO BECAUSE OF THE, THE FEDERAL ALLOWANCE TO CHARGE THAT.
I'LL GET YOU A BETTER ANSWER, UH, TO THAT AND WE'LL INCLUDE THAT IN THE FOLLOW UP ON THE SCHEDULE OF, OF CLEANING.
UM, BOTH IN OUR RESIDENTIAL STREETS AND ARTERIALS.
AND LISTEN, MY LAST COMMENT IS YOU SAID THAT YOU WERE GOING TO BE HIRING A ANOTHER MECHANIC AND YOU SAID 51,000 IS THE AMOUNT YOU HAD LISTED FOR THAT MONTHS.
SO THEN IN A FULL YEAR IT'LL BE MORE.
I WAS GONNA SAY, I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN GET A GOOD MECHANIC.
AND WE'D LIKE TO ADD THAT WE HAVE A JOB PROGRESSION PROGRAM IN OUR FLEET DIVISION.
SO AFTER THEY WORK A PERIOD OF TIME AND THEY, UM, UH, PASS SOME, SOME SKILLS ASSESSMENTS, THEY MOVE UP.
SO IT'S A, A GOOD POSITION, UM, IF ANYONE'S LISTENING.
THAT HOTSHOT CREW IS A GREAT ASSET TO OUR CITY.
I KNOW THE DISTRICT ONE CONSTITUENTS REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT THEY DO, AND I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT EXPANDING.
UM, ON THE RATES, YOU MENTIONED THAT RATES WILL GO UP IN 2024, OR YOU'LL BE PROPOSING THAT FOR 2024, IS THAT CORRECT? THERE'S A LOT THAT CAN HAPPEN BETWEEN NOW AND THEN, BUT, UH, SO, OH, UM, I GUESS MY QUESTION WAS WERE YOU, HAVE YOU, ARE YOU CONSIDERING CHANGING THE RATIO OF THE RATES AT ALL OVER THE, OVER THE BINS OR ARE YOU COMFORTABLE WITH WHERE THEY'RE AT RIGHT NOW FOR THE DIFFERENT BIN SIZES? I, THE, SO THERE IS A, A LARGE INVESTMENT IN THE, THE, UH, CARTS THAT WE HAVE.
I WOULD NOT WANT TO CHANGE THE CART SIZES AND WE HAVE THREE SIZES.
SO I WASN'T, THAT'S, I GUESS MAYBE I DIDN'T, UH, EXPLAIN IT MY QUESTION.
WELL, BUT, UH, I GUESS THE, THE COST PER CART SIZE, ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE, THE RATE STRUCTURE AND THE RATIOS OF THE COSTS OR IS THAT SOMETHING YOU'RE LOOKING TO, TO REVISIT THAT, THAT, THAT, IT'S A GOOD QUESTION BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN, UH, WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT RAISING FEES, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS A SPREAD BETWEEN THE SMALL AND THE LARGE AND TRYING TO MAKE SINCE THE, THE LARGE IS TWICE AS LARGE, THAT THERE WAS A SPREAD THAT WAS REPRESENTATIVE OF THAT.
UM, AND THEN ARE PUBLIC TRASH CANS IN YOUR PURVIEW? NO.
THE DOWNTOWN ONES ARE OH, THAT'S CORRECT.
SO, UM, IN CASE PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR MORE, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S SOMETIMES IF, IF PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY'RE TOO FAR APART, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, THAT MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO LITTER.
AND THEN, UH, YOU KNOW, COUNCILMAN ELIAS MENTIONED THE LITERATI APP.
I'M A BIG FAN OF THAT APP AS WELL.
I'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEVELOPERS AND, UH, I'VE USED THAT APP QUITE A BIT.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DO USE THE APP TO PICK UP LITTER, IT WILL SLOW YOU DOWN.
BUT THE DATA THAT YOU COLLECT, I THINK IS INVALUABLE.
IF YOU WANT TO GET TO THE SOURCE OF WHERE IS THIS POLLUTION COMING FROM OR WHERE IS THIS LITTER COMING FROM AND HOW CAN WE PUT A STOP TO IT? I ACTUALLY WROTE AN ARTICLE THAT WAS IN SAN ANTONIO REPORT A FEW YEARS AGO ABOUT USE OF THAT APP.
AND THERE WAS A COMMUNITY THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE A LOT OF OF, UH, THE INDIVIDUALS USE THE APP TO COLLECT DATA ON, ON THE LITTER IN THEIR COMMUNITY.
AND THEY FOUND THE NUMBER ONE SOURCE OF LITTER IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD WAS, UH, SALSA PACKETS FROM TACO BELL.
AND THAT THEY FOUND THAT MOST OF THE SALSA PACKETS ACTUALLY HADN'T EVEN BEEN OPENED.
AND SO WHAT THEY DID WAS THEY ACTUALLY, THEY CONTACTED THE MANAGER OF THAT TACO BELL AND THEY SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS ARE JUST WASTING SALSA RIGHT NOW.
AND SO YOU COULD ACTUALLY SAVE MONEY BY PUTTING LESS SALSA PACKS IN EACH, IN EACH BAG.
AND THEY WERE ABLE TO REDUCE LITTER IN THEIR COMMUNITY WITHOUT ANY REGULATIONS, WITHOUT ANY TAXES OR ANYTHING TO THAT EFFECT.
AND SO I'D BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN ANY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO USE THAT.
AND, UH, I THINK THOSE ARE ALL MY
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COMMENTS BECAUSE MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES HAVE ALREADY, UH, PEPPERED JESUS WITH PLENTY OF QUESTIONS.AND ALSO THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY FOR FOREGOING ANOTHER QUESTION.
UM, ERIC, ONE, ONE THING, UH, IN RESPONSE TO THE POINT THAT COUNCILMAN COURAGE MADE, AND I THINK SOMEBODY ELSE MADE IT.
UM, WE, WE ARE, UM, I DON'T THINK WE'VE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT OR AT LEAST, UM, AT LEAST I HAVEN'T.
BUT IN TERMS OF OVERLAYING THE, THE STREETLIGHT, UM, MAP THAT MIKE WAS TALKING ABOUT YESTERDAY WITH THE, UM, LOCATION OF ILLEGAL DUMPING TO SEE THAT MAY BE ANOTHER PRIORITIZATION FACTOR THAT WE COULD LOOK AT.
SO, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL CERTAINLY FOLLOW UP ON THAT AS WELL.
UH, WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TONIGHT, UH, SCHEDULED FOR FIVE O'CLOCK, BUT WE
[EXECUTIVE SESSION At any time during the meeting, the City Council may recess into executive session to consult with the City Attorney's Office (Texas Government Code Section 551.071) and deliberate or discuss any of the following: ]
ALSO HAVE AN EXEC SESSION THAT WE NEED TO GET TO.SO, UH, IF EVERYBODY COULD MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION EXPEDITIOUSLY, THAT WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
TIME IS 4:42 PM ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH.
THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR THE, FOR THE PRESENTATIONS.
TIME IS 4:42 PM ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2022.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL NOW MEET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 5 5, 1 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE AND DELIBERATE TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.087, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE LEASE OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.072, CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ISSUES OR ADVICE RELATED TO LITIGATION INVOLVING CITY C OVID 19 PREPAREDNESS UNDER SECTION 5 5 1 0.071.
AND TO DELIBERATE THE DEVALUATION PROCESS FOR THE CITY MANAGER, CITY AUDITOR, CITY CLERK AND PRESIDING MUNICIPAL JUDGE, AND ANY RELATED LEGAL ISSUES PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 4 PERSONNEL MATTERS AND TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 7 1.
I ALSO FAILED TO RECOGNIZE SOME GUESTS IN THE ROOM.
JOHN DIXON, MARK FESSLER FOR BEING HERE AS PART OF OUR A S D C.
THE TIME IS 5:54 PM ON THIS SEVENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2022.
CITY COUNCIL HAS RECONVENED FROM ITS EXECUTIVE SESSION.