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UH, TIME IS 10:04 AM ON AUGUST 29TH, 2023.
AND WE'LL CALL OUR BUDGET MEETING TO ORDER.
MADAME CLERK, COULD YOU READ THE RULE COUNCIL MEMBER COR PRESENT, COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT.
COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE MAYOR NIERENBERG.
UH, TWO A DAYS TODAY, AND WE DO HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION AT NOON AS WELL.
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SO WE'LL MOVE ALONG, UM, TWO ITEMS, OR EXCUSE ME, TWO DEPARTMENTS TODAY, SO I'LL TURN IT RIGHT OVER TO YOU, ERIC.UM, SO WE'LL START OFF WITH SOLID WASTE AND THEN TRANSITION TO DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
GOOD MORNING, MAYOR CITY COUNCIL.
I WILL BE PRESENTING OUR F Y 24 PROPOSED BUDGET.
I'LL DESCRIBE OUR SERVICES, THE SOLID WASTE FEE, AS WELL AS SOME VERY IMPORTANT INITIATIVES FOR NEXT YEAR.
THE SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT HAS TWO MAJOR FUNDS.
THERE'S THE SOLID WASTE OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE FUND.
THIS IS WHAT PAYS FOR GARBAGE RECYCLING ORGANICS COLLECTION.
IT IS PROPOSED TO INCREASE BY ABOUT $5 MILLION, UH, TO ADDRESS INCREASING COST AND PERSONNEL DISPOSAL AND MAINTENANCE OF OUR GARBAGE TRUCKS.
THE OTHER MAJOR FUND IS OUR FLEET SERVICES FUND.
THIS IS AN INTERNAL SERVICES FUND.
WE MAINTAIN ABOUT 2000 LARGE TRUCK AND OFF-ROAD EQUIPMENT FOR THE ENTIRE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
IT IS PROPOSED TO INCREASE BY ABOUT $4 MILLION, AND THIS IS PRIMARILY DUE TO THE INCREASING COST OF PARTS AND JUST GENERAL MAINTENANCE OF TRUCKS.
THE TWO, THE, THE POSITION CHANGE AT THE BOTTOM, THOSE ARE ACTUALLY PROCUREMENT POSITIONS.
UH, SOLID WASTE RELIES ON THESE POSITIONS AND WILL CONTINUE TO FUND THESE POSITIONS.
WE ARE SIMPLY MOVING THEM INTO A SHARED SERVICES ROLE.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE OVER 371,000 CURBSIDE RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS.
WE PROVIDE TO THEM WEEKLY GARBAGE RECYCLING AND ORGANICS COLLECTION.
WE ALSO COLLECT TWICE A YEAR BRUSH AND TWICE A YEAR BULKY.
WE HAVE SOME ON DEMAND COLLECTION SERVICES, FOR EXAMPLE, BAGGED LEAF COLLECTION, WHICH IS FREE OF CHARGE.
A CUSTOMER WOULD SIMPLY CALL 3 1 1 AND REQUEST THAT SERVICE, OR OUT OF CYCLE COLLECTION FOR THINGS LIKE BRUSH BULKY, EVEN AN ADDITIONAL COLLECTION OF THE CART.
WE HAVE FOUR BULKY WASTE DROP-OFF SITES ACROSS TOWN.
WE ALSO HAVE THREE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION SITE.
SO IF, IF A CUSTOMER HAS, UH, CLEANING FLUID, UH, OIL BATTERIES, GENERALLY NASTY STUFF, PLEASE BRING IT TO US AND WE WILL SAFELY DISPOSE OF IT.
WE ALSO HAVE A LOCATION THAT IS JUST NORTH OF THE AIRPORT FOR RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS TO BRING BRUSH AND LANDSCAPE TRIMMINGS, AND WE WILL GRIND THAT UP INTO MULCH.
WE PICK UP A WHOLE LOT OF ILLEGAL DUMPS.
WE ALSO ABATE HOMELESS CAMPS, THE RECYCLING AND THE GARBAGE CANS THAT ARE LOCATED DOWNTOWN.
WE ALSO COLLECT ABOUT 29,000 DEAD ANIMALS ANNUALLY.
WE HAVE A DEDICATED CREW THAT DOES MAINTENANCE ON OUR OLD CITY LANDFILLS TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE IN COMPLIANCE.
WE HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT DIVISION THAT DOES FLEET MAINTENANCE OF OUR GARBAGE TRUCKS.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE HAVE AN OUTREACH GROUP THAT DOES SCHOOL EDUCATION ON RECYCLING AND OTHER SUSTAINABLE TYPES OF TOPICS.
THE GRAPH ON THE LEFT IS OUR CURBSIDE CUSTOMERS.
IT HAS BEEN INCREASING BY ABOUT 3000 CUSTOMERS EACH YEAR.
UH, THE GRAPH ON THE RIGHT SHOWS THE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL THAT WE PICK UP FROM THOSE CUSTOMERS.
IT PEAKED DURING THE PANDEMIC.
AND FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES, IT IS DOWN TO ABOUT PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS.
WE RECEIVE ABOUT 5,000 503 1 1 CALLS FOR, FOR ILLEGAL DUMPING EVERY YEAR.
WE SET OUT TO COLLECT 10,000, AND WE'RE GONNA HIT THAT MARK.
SO EFFECTIVELY, WE'RE CLEANING UP ABOUT TWICE AS MANY ILLEGAL DUMPS AS CALLS THAT COME IN.
WE'RE GONNA DO THAT AGAIN NEXT YEAR.
WITH RESPECT TO HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS, WE HAD PLANNED THIS YEAR TO ABATE 250.
UH, THAT HOTSHOT CREW IS REALLY WORKING HARD, AND WE'RE GONNA COME IN A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN 500 THIS YEAR
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WITH SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.WE PLAN TO ABATE 700 HOMELESS CAMPS NEXT YEAR.
OUR FLYER CREW, WHEN THEY COMPLETE THEIR WORK FOR THE DAY, THEY PICK UP LITTER, UH, AND, AND THEY'RE, UH, AT LEAST WHEN IT'S NOT 150 DEGREES OUT.
SO, UH, THEY'VE BEEN HARD AT WORK AND WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA MEET THAT GOAL AS WELL.
THE SOLID WASTE FUND, UH, WAS LAST STRUCTURALLY BALANCED IN 2019, AND SINCE THAT TIME, OUR EXPENSES, WHICH ARE SHOWN IN THE GREEN BAR, HAVE EXCEEDED OUR REVENUES.
THAT'S SHOWN IN THE BLACK BAR AT THE TOP, WHICH IS RELATIVELY FLAT.
WE HAVE PURPOSEFULLY USED FUND BALANCE TO OFFSET THESE EXPENSES, UH, BECAUSE WE DID NOT WANNA RAISE THE RATE DURING THE PANDEMIC.
HOWEVER, AT THIS TIME, THE FUND IS UNABLE TO SUPPORT THE CURRENT SERVICE LEVELS WITHOUT A RATE INCREASE.
THOSE EXPENSES THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN THE PAST ARE MORE THAN LIKELY GOING TO CONTINUE INTO THE FUTURE.
AND JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE FLAVOR OF, OF SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE MAY HAVE LIMITED CONTROL OVER, WE DON'T OWN OUR OWN LANDFILL, UH, FOR THAT MATTER.
WE DON'T OPERATE THE RECYCLING SITE.
WE DON'T OPERATE THE ORGANIC SITE.
UH, WE CONTRACT FOR THAT SERVICE, AND THESE ARE LONG-TERM CONTRACTS, AND THEY INCREASE BY THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX THAT'S PUBLISHED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
OUR WASTE DISPOSAL CONTRACTS EXPIRE IN 2025.
I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCUREMENT BLACKOUT PERIOD, SO I CAN'T SPEAK TO THOSE TODAY, BUT WE INTEND TO COME BACK VERY QUICKLY THIS FALL TO HAVE A POSTS SOLICITATION B SESSION.
OUR REVENUE THAT WE RECEIVE FROM RECYCLING FLUCTUATES.
OUR TRUCKS COST MORE TO PURCHASE, THEY COST MORE TO MAINTAIN, AND THEY COST MORE TO FUEL.
SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT WE NEED TO BE MINDFUL THAT WITH THESE INCREASING COSTS, WE MAY NEED ANOTHER RATE INCREASE AFTER 2024.
WE HAVE FOR OUR CURBSIDE CUSTOMERS A PAY AS YOU THROW BILLING STRUCTURE, WHICH IS FANTASTIC BECAUSE IT GIVES THEM AN OPTION.
THEY CAN SELECT WHICH SIZE CART THEY WANT.
IF THEY PICK THE SMALL CART, THEY WOULD PAY THE LOWEST FEE.
IF THEY PICK THE LARGE CART, THEY WOULD PAY THE HIGHEST FEE.
IF THEY PICKED THE MIDDLE CART, IT WOULD BE SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN.
FOR F Y 24, STARTING OCTOBER ONE, WE ARE PROPOSING A RATE INCREASE TO THE LARGE CART OF $3 AND 49 CENTS.
TO MAKE THAT MONTHLY RATE $30 AND 25 CENTS.
WE ARE PROPOSING A $1 INCREASE TO THE MIDDLE-SIZED CART TO MAKE THAT MONTHLY RATE $19 AND 76 CENTS.
WE ARE PROPOSING NO RATE INCREASE TO THE SMALL CART, SO THAT RATE WOULD REMAIN AT $14 AND 76 CENTS.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL FEE IS ASSESSED TO EVERYONE IN SAN ANTONIO.
IT, UH, PAYS FOR CITYWIDE SANITATION SERVICES LIKE ILLEGAL DUMPING COLLECTION, THE DEAD ANIMAL COLLECTION, ALL OF THE DROP-OFF SITES.
WE ARE PROPOSING A DOLLAR 26 INCREASE TO THAT FEE TO MAKE IT $3 PER MONTH.
BOTH OF THESE FEES ARE CHARGED ON THE C P S ENERGY ELECTRIC BILL.
MOST OF OUR CUSTOMERS, ABOUT 77% HAVE THE LARGE CART.
UH, WE KNOW BECAUSE WE DO DUMPSTER DIVING.
ACTUALLY, IT SOUNDS BETTER IF I SAY WASTE CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES, UH, THAT, THAT ABOUT 45% OF WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS PUT IN THE GARBAGE CART COULD ACTUALLY GO INTO THE RECYCLING OR THE ORGANIC.
SO IF A CUSTOMER USED ALL THREE CARTS OPTIMALLY, THEY COULD PUT MORE IN THE RECYCLING, MORE INTO THE ORGANICS, AND THEY COULD DOWNSIZE ON THE LARGE CART.
THAT'S GREAT FOR SUSTAINABILITY.
AND IT'S ALSO GREAT ECONOMICALLY BECAUSE THEY COULD SAVE $125 IF THEY DOWNSIZE FROM THE LARGE TO THE MEDIUM.
IF THEY DOWNSIZE FROM THE LARGE ALL THE WAY TO THE SMALL, THEY COULD SAVE $185.
SO HOW DO WE COMPARE AGAINST OTHER TEXAS CITIES? IF YOU TAKE OUR LARGE CART FEE AND ADD THE ENVIRONMENTAL FEE, THE TOTAL IS $33 AND 25 CENTS.
WE ARE LESS THAN DALLAS AT 37 POINT 54.
WE ARE LESS THAN AUSTIN AT $55 AND 14 CENTS.
THE SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED BY THESE CITIES ARE ALL A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
UM, FOR EXAMPLE, DALLAS DOES NOT HAVE PAY AS YOU THROW.
SO WHILE YOU COULD GET A SMALLER CART, YOU'RE GONNA PAY THE SAME FEE.
ALSO, DALLAS DOES NOT HAVE AN ORGANICS PROGRAM.
AUSTIN HAS EVERY OTHER WEEK RECYCLING.
EL PASO IS A DOLLAR 27 LESS THAN US.
HOWEVER, IF YOU WANT BRUSH OR BULKY COLLECTED, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO PAY EXTRA FOR THAT.
BOTH EL PASO AND FORT WORTH ARE LOWER THAN SAN ANTONIO, BUT I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THEY BOTH HAVE A CITY OWNED LANDFILL.
LANDFILLS ARE WELL KNOWN TO BE GOOD REVENUE GENERATORS THAT CAN HELP
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TO OFFSET A MONTHLY FEE.IN MY OPINION, SAN ANTONIO HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST SERVICE LEVELS, UH, BASED ON A RECENT SURVEY, WE HAVE VERY HIGH CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, AND WE HAVE A VERY COMPETITIVE RATE.
SO MOVING FORWARD INTO NEXT YEAR, THIS PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES 130, EXCUSE ME, $531,000 TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF ABATEMENTS OF HOMELESS CAMPS FROM 500 TO 700.
WE WILL BE BRINGING FORWARD TWO MARKETING CAMPAIGNS.
WE DEVELOPED THEM, UH, THIS YEAR, BUT DUE TO THE STATUS OF OUR FUND, WE DID NOT IMPLEMENT THEM.
ONE IS A RECYCLING AND ORGANICS CAMPAIGN, BASICALLY, HOW TO DO THAT CORRECTLY.
AND WHILE I'M ON THAT TOPIC, BOTH THE RECYCLING AND THE ORGANICS CAN HAVE ON THE LID WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO GO INTO THOSE CARTS.
SOMETIMES THAT, THAT, UH, STICKER BECOMES WORN OR IT FALLS OFF FOR SOME REASON.
WE ACTIVELY REPLACE THAT, AND WE WILL CONTINUE THAT THIS NEXT YEAR.
THE SECOND CAMPAIGN IS AN ILLEGAL DUMPING CAMPAIGN.
THIS WILL BE, UH, TRADITIONAL AS WELL AS DIGITAL MEDIA.
AND AS PART OF THAT, I WANNA POINT OUT, WE CURRENTLY HAVE TODAY FREE LANDFILL DAYS, FREE COMMUNITY CLEANUPS, FREE, BULKY DROP-OFF SITES.
BUT I'M AFRAID THAT A LOT OF OUR CUSTOMERS MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THEM OR MAY NOT KNOW HOW TO USE THEM.
SO WE'RE GONNA PROMOTE THOSE AS PART OF THAT CAMPAIGN.
WE ARE GOING TO PROMOTE THOSE THINGS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE FOR FOLKS TO THROW, UH, STUFF AWAY.
AND WE WILL ALSO LOOSEN UP THE RESTRICTIONS, SOME OF THE RESTRICTIONS AT THE BULKY SITES, JUST TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THEM, UH, TO USE THOSE BULKY SITES.
THE SECOND BIG INITIATIVE FOR US IS A TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENT.
TODAY, WE HAVE GARBAGE TRUCK DRIVERS USING A PAPER MAP TO PICK UP 1200 HOMES.
IF THEY HAVE AN ORGANICS ROUTE, THEY'RE, THAT'S, THAT'S 2200 HOMES.
UM, THIS TECHNOLOGY, I THINK, CAN BE TRANSFORMATIONAL, BOTH FOR OUR DRIVERS AS WELL AS OUR CUSTOMERS, FOR WE EXPECT IT TO DO THREE THINGS.
NUMBER ONE IS A SERVICE VERIFICATION.
IF ANYBODY REMEMBERS THE OLD VIDEO GAME PAC-MAN, WE WILL LOAD THE ROUTES ONTO AN IPAD THAT WILL BE IN THE CAB OF THE TRUCK OF THE DRIVER.
AS THE DRIVER GOES THROUGH THE ROUTE COLLECTING CARTS, THERE WILL BE DOTS ON A, ON, ON A MAP THAT WILL TURN FROM ONE COLOR TO THE NEXT.
SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE DRIVER IS GONNA KNOW WHEN HE'S DONE AND, AND FINISHED COLLECTING.
AND NOT ONLY THAT, THE SUPERVISOR WILL KNOW 3, 1, 1 WILL KNOW.
SO ONCE THIS IS IMPLEMENTED, I'M EXPECTING THAT WE WILL HAVE NO MISSED COLLECTIONS.
NUMBER TWO IS, UH, OPTIMIZATION OF OUR ROUTES.
UH, WE WANT TO PLUG THOSE ROUTES IN, OPTIMIZE THEM AND, AND GAIN EFFICIENCIES FROM THAT.
AND THE THIRD THING IS TURN BY TURN NAVIGATION, WHICH IS FANTASTIC IF YOU'RE A NEW DRIVER OR REALLY A SEASONED DRIVER JUST ON A NEW ROUTE.
AND FINALLY, IT'S BEEN A BRUTALLY HOT SUMMER.
UH, WE ARE WORKING ON SOME THINGS THAT WE CAN DO FOR OUR EMPLOYEES TO MAKE THEIR LIVES MORE COMFORTABLE AND REDUCE, UH, ANY RISK OF HEAT STRESS.
UH, AND A LOT OF THAT WE CAN DO INTERNALLY.
BUT THERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT PERHAPS HAVE A SERVICE DELIVERY IMPACT OR A COST IMPACT.
AND SO WE WANT TO EVALUATE THAT, UH, AND, AND PERHAPS COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL AT A LATER DATE, CERTAINLY BEFORE SUMMER.
SO JUST TO SUMMARIZE, THIS PROPOSED BUDGET HAS A RATE INCREASE TO ADDRESS THE FINANCIAL SHORTFALL WHILE MAINTAINING CURRENT SERVICE LEVELS.
IT ALSO INCLUDES FUNDING TO INCREASE THE CLEANUP OF HOMELESS CAMPS AS WELL AS TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE SERVICE DELIVERY.
AND AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE MICHAEL SHANNON.
GOOD MORNING, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, AS DAVID SAID.
I'M MIKE SHANNON, UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR.
AND I'LL GO THROUGH OUR BUDGET, UH, PRESENTATION HERE.
UH, AGAIN, UH, LIKE DAVID, WE'LL GO OVER A LITTLE BIT OF OUR DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW, TALK ABOUT OUR BUDGET.
I WILL WANNA SPEND SOME TIME TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR PERMIT ACTIVITY AND, AND CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY THAT YOU'RE SEEING AND WE'RE SEEING.
AND THEN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, SOME MAJOR INITIATIVES LIKE THE STREET LIGHTING, UH, PROGRAM THAT WE'RE, UH, INVOLVED WITH, UH, PROACTIVE APARTMENTS, UH, SOME CAPITAL PROJECTS AT OUR ONE STOP BUILDING.
AND THEN CERTAINLY OUR PERFORMANCE MEASURES.
SO TALKING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE HAVE ABOUT, UM, 500 EMPLOYEES, AND WE HAVE THREE MAIN, UH, DIVISIONS ALONG WITH THE SUPPORT SERVICES.
BUT THE THREE, UH, MAIN DIVISIONS ARE LISTED UP HERE.
UH, LAND DEVELOPMENT, UH, IS THE FIRST, AND THEY DEAL WITH ALL THOSE THINGS THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN THERE.
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LAND READY TO BUILD OR TO DEVELOP, UH, THOSE THINGS LIKE LAND ENTITLEMENT, UH, ZONING.YOU SEE ZONING EVERY OTHER WEEK AT COUNCIL WITH MELISSA RAMIREZ, OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR THERE.
UH, WE ALSO, THAT'S THE, THE TEAM THAT LOOKS AT OUR SHORT-TERM RENTAL, UH, PERMIT PROGRAM.
AND WE ESTABLISHED THAT, UH, ORDINANCE ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO.
UH, WE HAVE OVER 3000 SHORT-TERM RENTAL PERMITS THAT WE, UH, OVERSEE.
UH, OUR TREE PRESERVATION, THE CITY ARBORIST, RIGHT? ALL THE RULES AND DEVELOPMENT, UH, ON HOW WE NOT ONLY, UH, PRESERVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TREES, BUT THEY HAVE TO PLANT.
UH, THAT'S THE TEAM THAT'S HOUSED THERE.
WE DO TRAFFIC REVIEWS, AND REALLY A LOT OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE, UH, REVIEWS ARE HOUSED IN THERE.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE RECENTLY DID, UH, THIS PAST YEAR, THE U D C UPDATE, UH, AFTER A YEAR LONG PROCESS.
UH, THE SECOND, UH, DIVISION LISTED THERE IS OUR PLAN REVIEW.
THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE ARE GONNA BUILD SOMETHING, HOUSES, COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS.
THEY COME IN, WE ACTUALLY REVIEW THEM.
UH, CRYSTAL GONZALEZ IS HERE, OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.
AND WE DO ALL OF OUR RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL, UH, PERMIT REVIEWS THERE TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE IN COMPLIANCE WITH CODES BEFORE THEY START BUILDING, UH, TRADES AND MINOR STRUCTURES.
SO ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS, UH, MAYBE, UH, YOUR, UH, YOUR AC AT YOUR HOUSE NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.
UH, WE ISSUE PERMITS FOR THAT.
UH, ONE OF THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE JUST, UH, UH, ADDED, UH, THIS PAST COUPLE YEARS IS THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TEAM.
NOW, THAT'S A TEAM DEDICATED, UH, REALLY TO OVERSEE ANY TYPE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROCE, UH, PROJECT, UH, BIG OR SMALL.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE OUR SCHOOL TEAM THAT'S DEDICATED TO, UH, AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE WITH, UH, 11, UH, LOCAL ISDS.
AND, UH, A C C D ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT.
UH, OUR OUR LARGEST DIVISION IS OUR FIELD SERVICES.
THAT'S REALLY COMBINES, UH, BUILDING INSPECTIONS.
SO ANYTHING THAT'S BEING BUILT, WE HAVE OUR BUILDING INSPECTORS, ELECTRICAL INSPECTORS, UH, MECHANICAL SIGN INSPECTORS, ET CETERA.
UH, THAT'S LED BY, I MEAN, TAMAZ, MY DEPUTY DIRECTOR HERE WITH US.
UH, WE ALSO HAVE CODE ENFORCEMENT.
SO THOSE LARGE FIELD DIVISIONS ARE OUT, UH, VERIFYING CODE COMPLIANCE, UH, RESPONDING TO A LOT OF, UH, 3 0 1 CALLS.
WE ALSO HAVE A FEW OTHER TEAMS. OUR STRIKE TEAM, THAT'S THE TEAM OF, UH, INDIVIDUALS THAT WE'VE ADDED OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, UH, THAT REALLY LOOKS FOR AND RESPONDS TO WORK WITHOUT PERMITS.
AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE DOING WORK WITHOUT PERMITS, UH, WE FIND THINGS THAT, UH, ARE NOT DONE PER CODE THAT CAN BE UNSAFE, WHETHER IT'S STRUCTURALLY, ELECTRICALLY, UH, MAYBE GAS SYSTEMS, UH, FEEDING APPLIANCES.
SO THAT'S AN IMPORTANT TEAM FOR US.
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, LATER IN THIS, UH, PRESENTATION ABOUT OUR NEW PROACTIVE APARTMENT INSPECTION TEAMS, WHICH IS HOUSED IN FIELD SERVICES AND ALSO OUR GRAFFITI ABATEMENT, UH, WHERE WE, UH, HAVE A TEAM THAT'S DEDICATED TO JUST ABATE AND GRAFFITI THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR BUDGET, UH, FOR F Y, UH, 24, UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IS PROPOSED AT $69.3 MILLION.
A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN, UH, LAST YEAR.
WE HAVE A COUPLE DIFFERENT FUNDS.
SO OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT, UH, TEAM IS, UH, IS, UH, FUNDED THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND.
UH, THAT'S GONNA BE $17.4 MILLION.
UH, THE INCREASE THERE, UH, IS RELATED TO, UH, SOME INSPECTORS FOR THE APARTMENT INSPECTION TEAM, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE OUR RESTRICTED FUND.
SO THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FUND, UH, WHICH WAS CREATED IN 2007.
NOW THAT'S A FUND THAT'S DEDICATED, UH, FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ACTIVITIES.
SO THOSE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FEES STAY INSIDE THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FUND TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, LIKE THE PLAN REVIEW, LIKE THE ZONING CASE PLANNERS, UH, THE PLATT REVIEWS, THE INSPECTORS THAT I TALKED ABOUT.
SO, UH, THAT WAS CREATED IN, UH, 2007, AND THAT'S AT 50.4.
UH, AS WELL AS, UH, WE HAVE ABOUT 1.5 MILLION THIS YEAR.
AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT FOR OUR ONE STOP BUILDING, UH, DOWN THE STREET, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE ARE, UH, THAT THE POSITION IS ACTUALLY, UH, PROPOSED TO CHANGE FROM 4 9 9 TO 5 0 7.
UH, WHAT THAT REALLY IS DOING, SO THERE'S FIVE EXISTING TEMPORARY POSITIONS, UH, THAT, THAT ARE ALREADY FUNDED.
THEY HAVE BEEN FUNDED FOR SEVERAL YEARS AS TEMPORARY.
UH, THEY'RE PART OF OUR BUILD SA, UH, LAND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CODE INSPECTION SYSTEM THAT WE, UH, PURCHASED AND BUILT A FEW YEARS AGO.
THOSE TEMPORARY POSITIONS, UH, WERE CONVERTING TO PERMANENT, UH, BECAUSE THEY SERVE AS OUR TIER ZERO SUPPORT WHEN PEOPLE CALL, UH, FOR SOME ASSISTANCE WITH THAT PROGRAM, WHETHER IT'S SUBMITTING ONLINE OR DEALING WITH, UH, THE ONLINE SYSTEM, WE NEED TO HAVE SOME STAFF AVAILABLE, UM, UH, TO, TO WORK WITH THOSE CUSTOMERS, UH, BEFORE WE SELL, SEND IT TO EITHER I T S D OR, UH, THE VENDOR IF IT'S MORE OF A, A MAJOR ISSUE WITH THE PROGRAM.
BUT THAT'S FIVE OF THOSE EIGHT.
AND THEN THREE POSITIONS ARE PROPOSED, WHICH ARE THE APARTMENT INSPECTION TEAM MEMBERS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WHEN WE ADOPTED THE ORDINANCE EARLIER THIS YEAR, UH, IN MARCH, A LITTLE BIT MORE.
I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A FEW MINUTES.
SO I WANTED TO JUST, UH, SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT HERE.
THIS IS IN OUR BUDGET BOOK, BUT OUR, OUR DEVELOPMENT PERMIT ACTIVITY, UH, WHAT THIS SHOWS IS IT'S DECLINING REALLY.
UM, WHAT I, WHAT I'VE BEEN, UH, HEARING FROM THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING, IT'S COMING BACK
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TO NORMAL, OR WHAT I WOULD SAY PRE PANDEMIC NORMAL.UH, IF YOU GO A LITTLE BIT FURTHER BACK IN 20 18, 20 19, UH, THAT MID TO LOW 3000 RESIDENTIAL PERMITS WAS THE STRONG, WAS ACTIVITY AT THAT POINT WAS PRETTY STRONG.
BUT WE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED, UH, OVER, UH, THE PANDEMIC YEARS.
AND THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THE LOWER INTEREST RATES.
WE ALL THOUGHT, WE ALL SAW THE HOUSING BOOM, AND WE PEAKED AT JUST UNDER 6,000, UH, RESIDENTIAL, NEW RESIDENTIAL PERMITS IN 2021.
BUT AS YOU CAN SEE IN 2022, AND NOW IN 23, WE'RE COMING DOWN TO, UH, KIND OF THAT 20 18, 20 19 LEVEL.
SO, AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.
DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY, VERY, UH, UH, THESE PERMIT ACTIVITY VERY RELATED TO INTEREST RATES.
AND WE'VE ALL SEEN THAT, UH, CHANGE SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF TO TWO YEARS.
NOW, THE COMMERCIAL PERMITS ARE, ARE STAYING PRETTY STRONG.
UH, WE DID PEAK A LITTLE BIT IN 2022, UH, BUT WE ARE STILL SEEING, UH, QUITE A FEW LARGE COMMERCIAL PROJECTS COME THROUGH.
SAN ANTONIO IS STILL A GOOD PLACE FOR BUSINESSES TO BUILD.
UH, SO THOSE ARE NEW AND EXISTING.
SO RIGHT AROUND THAT, UH, 3,200, UH, COMMERCIAL PERMITS.
SO, UH, WHILE IT LOOKS LIKE, AND, AND PERMITS ARE COMING DOWN A LITTLE BIT, ESPECIALLY ON THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE, IT'S STILL, UH, FAIRLY STRONG, UH, TO THE PRE PANDEMIC LEVEL.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING NOW.
SO I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES OR THE DEVELOPMENT RELATED ACTIVITIES.
WE DO MEASURE OUR PERFORMANCE.
UH, THESE PERFORMANCE MEASURES ARE KIND OF THE HIGHLIGHTS WE WORK WITH OUR CUSTOMERS, AND WE'VE DEVELOPED THESE OVER THE YEARS, REALLY THE PAST 15 OR 20 YEARS.
UH, REALLY THE TIMELINESS, THE QUALITY OF, UH, PLAN REVIEW AND INSPECTIONS IS REALLY KEY.
'CAUSE AS WE ALL KNOW, UH, DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION TIME IS MONEY, LIKE A LOT OF BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRIES, BUT, UH, VERY SIGNIFICANT TO US.
UH, WE MEET WITH, UH, OUR STAKEHOLDERS ON A MONTHLY BASIS TO GO OVER THIS.
ARE WE HITTING, UH, THESE PERFORMANCE MEASURES OR NOT? I'M HAPPY TO SHOW THAT THIS YEAR IN F Y 23, WE'RE HITTING ALL THREE OF THESE.
UH, THE INITIAL RESIDENTIAL PLAN REVIEW IN, UH, LESS THAN THE THREE DAY TARGET, WE'RE ACTUALLY AT TWO DAYS.
UH, SOME OF THAT IS DUE TO THE, UH, A LITTLE BIT SLOWER DOWN OF THE RESIDENTIAL ACTIVITY, UH, COMPLEX COMMERCIAL PROJECTS.
WE, WE TRACK THOSE, UH, AT 18 DAYS.
WE'RE GONNA BE AT 17 UNDERNEATH.
AND, UH, I'M REALLY EXCITED TO SHOW THAT OUR INSPECTION TEAM IS BACK ABOVE OUR TARGET OF NINE, UH, MORE THAN 95% AS SCHEDULE.
BECAUSE WHEN THOSE CONTRACTORS ARE WAITING FOR INSPECTIONS, WHEN YOU'RE WAITING FOR A ROUGH IN PLUMBING INSPECTION, AND YOU CAN'T MOVE AND PUT SHEET ROCK ON THE WALLS TO MOVE TO THE NEXT STAGE, IF THEY'RE WAITING FOR US, UH, THAT REALLY SLOWS IT DOWN.
AND WE HAD A CHALLENGE THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, UH, WITH SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY AND A FEW VACANCIES.
BUT, UH, WE'VE CAUGHT UP NOW, UH, AND, UH, THROUGH THE WORK OF, UH, ALL OF OUR TEAMS THERE.
SO NOW LET'S LOOK AT CODE ENFORCEMENT.
UH, AND WHAT I WANT TO SHOW HERE IS THAT OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY, THE NUMBER OF CASES THAT WE'RE SEEING IS NOW ALSO GETTING KIND OF BACK TO NORMAL AND REALLY INCREASING.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT 2021, UH, WE MADE A LOT OF CHANGES THROUGH THE PANDEMIC.
UH, THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE HERE, UH, WE USED A LOT OF OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT RESOURCES TO DO THINGS LIKE ENFORCE MASK MANDATES AND BUSINESSES THAT SHOULDN'T BE OPEN, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO WE PULLED A GOOD THIRD OF OUR STAFF AWAY FROM NORMAL CODE ACTIVITY TO DO WHAT AT THE TIME WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
SO OUR NUMBER OF CODE CASES WENT DOWN, ESPECIALLY THE PROACTIVE, WHICH IS KIND OF THAT BOTTOM PART ON 2021.
WE ALSO CHANGED SOME PROCESSES TO, TO REALLY NOT GIVE EVEN NOTICES OF VIOLATIONS OF CITATIONS BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE, THEY WERE PRIORITIZING, YOU KNOW, THINGS DURING THE PANDEMIC, THEIR HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THEIR FAMILIES, JOB LOSS, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
NOW, ALL OF THAT IS WHY WE SHOW A, A, A MUCH LOWER NUMBER OF CODE ACTIVITY, UH, IN 21.
BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS, IT IS INCREASING.
AND, UH, WE'RE BACK UP TO, WE'RE GONNA HIT, UH, OVER 160,000 CASES.
UH, ABOUT A THIRD OF THOSE ARE, ARE CALLED REACTIVE CASES.
AND, AND TWO THIRDS OF 66% IS THE PROACTIVE.
I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE NEXT SLIDE ABOUT THAT.
AND, AND WE DO JUST LIST, UH, VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE USED TO SEE.
OVERGROWN YARD, GENERAL PROPERTY, MAINTENANCE, VEHICLE ISSUES, GRAFFITI AND PERMITT INVESTIGATIONS STILL ROUND OUT THE, THE TOP, UH, ISSUES, UH, THAT WE SEE.
NOW WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR CODE INFORMANCE, UH, THE CODE ENFORCEMENT PERFORMANCE MEASURES.
UM, YOU KNOW, THESE WERE SOME, UH, TARGETS THAT WE DEVELOPED GOOD 10 YEARS AGO.
UH, WE WERE GOING THROUGH A, A, A REVAMP OF CODE ENFORCEMENT BACK THEN.
AND REALLY WE HAD THREE ITEMS THAT WE WERE BEING ASKED TO DO THAT WE STILL ADHERE TO TODAY.
UH, THE COMMUNITY ASKED US TO BE QUICKER IN RESPONDING TO CALLS.
SO THE RESPONSE TIMES FOR, WE HAVE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES AND PRIORITIES OF CALLS, TIER ONE, TWO, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO FOUR.
UM, BUT THEY WANTED A VERY QUICK RESPONSE TO TIER ONE, THAT INITIAL INVESTIGATION WHEN WE GET A CALL ON THREE ONE ONE.
SO THE GOALS ARE, UH, TWO AND THREE DAYS.
THERE WE'RE ACTUALLY AT ONE DAY FOR BOTH, WHICH ACTUALLY SOUNDS A A LITTLE ODD BECAUSE
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WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING OUT QUICKER.THE BEST WAY TO TRAIN THEM IS TO GET THEM OUT ON NEW CALLS AS FAST AS POSSIBLE.
UH, SO WE'VE BEEN REALLY HITTING THOSE INITIAL TARGETS.
NOW, THE SECOND THING, UH, THAT THEY, THAT THE COMMUNITY REALLY WANTS US TO DO IS BE MORE PROACTIVE.
UH, WE USED TO BE 80% REACTIVE, ABOUT 20% PROACTIVE.
UH, WE REALLY SWITCHED THAT ON OUR, ON ITS HEAD.
UH, AND WHEN WE WERE ASKED TO DO MORE PROACTIVE CALLS, SO WE'RE AT, UH, WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA HIT 66%, WHICH OUR TARGET IS 65%.
SO I TALKED ABOUT THAT ON THE LAST SLIDE.
SO THAT'S A REALLY BIG, UH, ITEM FOR US.
AND THEN LASTLY, THE MOST OVER THE OVERALL THING WE GET, UH, FROM OUR COMMUNITY IS WHAT THEY WANT IS QUICKER COMPLIANCE.
SO WE TRACK COMPLIANCE RATE, NOT JUST HOW LONG IT TAKES US TO, UH, ISSUE EITHER A CITATION IN COURT.
WE ACTUALLY LOOK AT THOSE TOP, UH, CASES, AND WE TRY TO GET, UH, COMPLIANCE WITHIN 45 DAYS AT 90%.
WE ARE STILL, UH, NOT AT THE 90% COMPLIANCE RATE, ALTHOUGH WE'RE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN WE WERE LAST YEAR.
AND WE'RE BRINGING THAT BACK UP.
UH, SO WE'LL, WE'LL LOOK FOR THAT TARGET TO BE AT OR ABOVE 90% ON THOSE CASES, UH, NEXT YEAR.
AND THEN LASTLY, YOU SEE GRAFFITI SITES.
SO EVERY, EVERY TIME, UH, ONE OF MY GRAFFITI MEMBERS STOPS AND EITHER PAINTS OVER OR POWER WASHES, EITHER PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE OR A, UH, SO WE DO OFFER THOSE SERVICES AS WELL.
UH, WE TRACK THAT WE'RE, UH, GONNA EXCEED OUR 50,000, UH, TARGET THIS YEAR.
SO NOW I WANT TO TRANSITION JUST TO A COUPLE OF MAJOR, UH, INITIATIVES THAT WERE, THAT ARE STILL GOING ON.
SO, UH, YOU SHOULD BE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS, UH, THE STREET LIGHTING, UM, AND JUST REALLY ADDING STREETLIGHTS WHERE THE GAPS ARE IN OUR, WHERE THE GAPS ARE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO, A COUPLE YEARS AGO, UH, UH, COUNCILMAN MAKI RODRIGUEZ, UH, HELPED US, UH, IN THE BUDGET AT F Y 22, GET THIS PASSED WITH SOME FUNDING FOR INSTALLING IN A PROACTIVE MANNER, NOT JUST WAITING FOR CALLS FROM INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS THAT MAY WANT A STREETLIGHT IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE.
UH, BUT WE ACTUALLY, IN THE FIRST YEAR, WE ANALYZED, UH, OVER 3,200 MILES OF RESIDENTIAL STREETS.
AND WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY ALL THE EXISTING LIGHTS AND THE GAPS.
WHERE ARE THOSE GAPS? THAT IT'S JUST TOO LONG TO HAVE A STREET LIGHTS.
SO, UH, OUT OF THE 73,000 EXISTING LIGHTS, WE COULD USE ABOUT 4,300 MORE.
WE CALL THEM WARRANTED NEEDED.
UM, SO THIS PAST YEAR, WE REALLY GOT THE EASY ONES DONE.
THERE WERE ONLY A FEW EASY ONES, 187, WE'VE INSTALLED 187, UH, LIGHTS.
AND THOSE, THE, THE INFRASTRUCTURE WAS ALREADY THERE.
THE POWER WAS THERE, THE POLE WAS THERE.
WE WORKED WITH C P S TO DO THAT.
NOW, OF THE $5.8 MILLION THAT WAS APPROVED A COUPLE YEARS AGO, THAT'S STILL THERE, MINUS, UH, THE 187 LIGHTS.
SO WE'VE GOT ABOUT 5.6 MILLION REMAINING TO FUND APPROXIMATELY 1100 STREETLIGHTS.
NOW, THAT'S GONNA OVERALL BE THE COST.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN AVERAGE COST WORKING WITH C P S, BUT WE GOT FUNDING FOR WHAT WE THINK IS ABOUT 1100 MORE.
SO NOW WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF HOW QUICKLY CAN WE GET THOSE INSTALLED IN THE AREAS THAT NEED IT THE MOST.
UH, WE DO HAVE 377 ALREADY, UH, KIND OF ORDERED THROUGH C P SS 'CAUSE THERE'S EXISTING EASEMENTS.
WE ARE USING SOME PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS AS, AS SHOWN HERE.
WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, UH, YOU KNOW, CRIME AREAS, SCHOOLS, PARKS, VR ROUTES, VISION ZERO, UH, USING SOME OF THAT DATA TO PRIORITIZE.
NOW, HOW ARE WE GONNA INSTALL THOSE LIGHTS? AND REALLY THIS SLIDE IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
SO OUR GOAL IS WE CAN WORK WITH C P S TO GET INSTALLED ABOUT TWO TO 400 LIGHTS PER YEAR, GIVE OR TAKE.
AND IT'S A WIDE RANGE THERE, BUT DEPENDING ON SOME FACTORS, UH, WHAT WE'RE DOING IS, UH, WE, WE MEET WITH C P S ON THIS SUBJECT.
UH, MY TEAM AND I, UH, MEET EVERY OTHER WEEK JUST TO GO OVER WHERE WE'RE AT, WHAT ORDERS ARE IN, WHAT APPROVALS FOR EASEMENTS WE'VE ALREADY HAVE, AND, AND THOSE TYPE OF THINGS.
C P S HAS ACTUALLY STEPPED UP AND, AND, AND DONE A, UH, REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL THAT'S ALREADY BEEN OUT.
THEY'VE SOLICITED SOME PROPOSALS TO CREATE A DEDICATED C P S TEAM TO GAIN SOME EASEMENTS DESIGN INSTALLS.
'CAUSE RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE SOME TEAM MEMBERS THAT ARE DOING IT ALONG WITH SOME OTHER FUNCTIONS.
UH, WE THINK THIS WILL HELP STREAMLINE THE ISSUE ON THEIR END.
UH, WE'RE ALSO HAVING COMMUNITY MEETINGS.
UM, WE'LL HAVE ABOUT TWO PER MONTH THROUGH THIS YEAR.
UH, AND THE PURPOSE, WE HAD ONE A COUPLE, UH, WEEKS AGO.
WE HAD ONE IN DISTRICT ONE, I THINK IT WAS LAST WEEK.
UH, WE HAD ONE IN DISTRICT THREE SCHEDULED IN A WEEK OR TWO.
BUT THE GOAL THERE IS TO TALK ABOUT THIS PROGRAM, TALK ABOUT THE FUNDING AVAILABLE, BUT REALLY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO GET 'EM INSTALLED, WHO WANTS THEM, BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE REALLY, REALLY WANT THEM, BUT WE ARE HEARING THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT REALLY, REALLY DON'T WANT THEM.
SO IT'S AN INTERESTING CONVERSATION.
UH, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO GET SOME EASEMENTS IF WE'RE GONNA RUN POWER ALONG THE SIDE OF YOUR YARD, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE GAP IS.
C P S NEEDS AN EASEMENT, AND THERE'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT THAT IS.
UH, SO THAT'S A PROCESS WE'RE GOING THROUGH.
WE'RE HAVING SOME REALLY GOOD DISCUSSIONS, AND THAT'LL CONTINUE.
BUT THAT'S WHAT'S NEEDED TO, TO REALLY INSTALL, UH, THESE LIGHTS.
SO NEXT I JUST WANT TO TOUCH UPON ANOTHER INITIATIVE,
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UH, THAT WAS PASSED BY CITY COUNCIL, WHICH WAS OUR, UH, PROACTIVE APARTMENT INSPECTION ORDINANCE.SO BACK IN MARCH, AFTER A GOOD SIX MONTHS OF, UH, STAKEHOLDER, YOU KNOW, IN INVOLVEMENT, UH, WE CRAFTED AN ORDINANCE THAT REALLY, I THINK IS A BALANCED ORDINANCE.
UM, AND, UH, WE STARTED AN APRIL.
SO I WANT TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THAT.
UH, NOW REMEMBER THE GOALS OF THAT ORDINANCE, REALLY FACILITATING GOOD PROPERTY MANAGEMENT.
I WANT TO, I WANT PROPERTY MANAGERS AND PROPERTY OWNERS THAT OWN RENTAL APARTMENTS THAT NEED TO BE MORE ACCOUNTABLE.
WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT ONES, BUT THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE NOT SO GREAT.
AND WE NEED TO HOLD THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE ACCOUNTABLE, UH, TO THE STANDARDS, UH, TO PROVIDE SAFE AND HEALTHY, UH, LIVING, UH, FOR THEIR RESIDENTS.
UH, AND ENSURING, UH, COMPLIANCE WITH, FOR, FOR PROPERTIES, IF YOU'VE HAD A PAST RECORD, OR IF YOU BUILD UP A LOT OF THESE, UH, VIOLATIONS, UH, WE NEED TO FIND A, A MORE PROACTIVE WAY TO GAIN COMPLIANCE ON THOSE PROPERTIES.
SOME OF THE KEYS OF THE PROGRAM ARE LISTED UP THERE.
UM, IT'S, IT'S FOR FIVE OR MORE UNITS, FIVE OR MORE RENTAL UNITS.
IT'S NOT SINGLE FAMILY OR DUPLEXES, ET CETERA.
AND IT REALLY IS, UH, APARTMENTS THAT GET THREE CITATIONS WITHIN A RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, SIX MONTHS.
UH, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO REGISTER WITH THE CITY.
AND THE FOCUS IS WE WANT THOSE.
IF YOU HAVE A VIOLATION AND YOU'RE A PROPERTY MANAGER AND THERE'S A VIOLATION, THESE BUILDINGS GET VIOLATIONS.
UH, SYSTEMS GO OUT, WATER LEAKS, YOU KNOW, ET CETERA, WINDOWS BREAK, THOSE HAPPEN, BUT YOU HAVE TO FIX THEM FAIRLY QUICKLY, OKAY? IF YOU DON'T, UH, IT'S GONNA LEAD TO THIS PROGRAM.
AND SO THIS IS WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR.
SO SINCE APRIL, WE'VE ACTUALLY DONE 7,800 PLUS INSPECTIONS AT APARTMENTS, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
WE'RE PROBABLY, UH, OVER THE LAST COUPLE DAYS WE PROBABLY EXCEEDED 900.
BUT AS OF, UH, LAST WEEK, WE PREPARED THIS, UH, SLIDE.
UH, WE HAD 899 APARTMENT COMPLEXES THAT WE VISITED, OKAY? AND WE ISSUED, WE FOUND 2,800 VIOLATIONS.
NOW, UH, WE HAVE PRIORITIZED, UH, CERTAIN TYPES OF VIOLATIONS.
THE ORDINANCE PRIORITIZED SOME KEY HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES, AS OPPOSED TO MAYBE TALL GRASS AT A APARTMENT COMPLEX IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS A WATER OR SEWER LEAK, OR A STRUCTURAL ISSUE OR AN ELECTRICAL HAZARD.
SO THAT'S WHY WE CALL THEM PROGRAM ELIGIBLE.
AND THEN WE ISSUED SOME CITATIONS, 300 CITATIONS, AND 208 WERE PROGRAM ELIGIBLE.
NOW, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WELL, THAT MEANS THAT 86% OF THE VIOLATIONS ARE GETTING FIXED VERY QUICKLY.
AND WHAT THAT'S LEADING US TO IS, UH, WE HAVE 14 PROPERTIES IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW, OUT OF THAT 8 99 THAT WE VISITED.
SO JUST UNDER 2%, 1.6% OR SOMETHING.
UH, THE BUDGET OFFICE WILL DO THE CALCULATION FOR ME.
UM, SO ONE POINT PLUS PERCENT, UH, OF THE PROPERTIES THAT NEED TO BE REGISTERED.
THERE'S APARTMENTS, ALL WE ALL KNOW THIS, THEY'RE ALL OVER THE CITY.
THOSE RED DOTS ACTUALLY INDICATE, UM, THE 14 PROPERTIES.
UH, AND WE ACTUALLY LAUNCHED A DASHBOARD ON THIS, UH, ON OUR WEBSITE, UH, LAST WEEK.
SO YOU CAN GO SEE THESE PROPERTIES, YOU CAN FILTER BY COUNCIL DISTRICT, ET CETERA, BY THE DATES WE WERE THERE.
AND WE'LL BUILD THAT, THAT DASHBOARD OUT A LITTLE BIT.
BUT THAT'S JUST SO, UH, PEOPLE CAN SEE THE INFORMATION.
BUT, UH, THOSE 14 PROPERTIES NOW REQUIRE PROACTIVE MONTHLY INSPECTIONS TO NOT ONLY FIX THE VIOLATIONS THAT WE HAVE ON RECORD, BUT IF WE SEE ANY OTHERS, UH, THAT WILL KEEP THEM IN THE PROGRAM, IF THEY DON'T GET ANY MORE AFTER A SIX MONTH PERIOD, THEY CAN GRADUATE FROM THE PROGRAM.
LASTLY, I'LL TALK ABOUT JUST, UM, OUR ONE, ONE-STOP BUILDING.
SO I THINK ALL OF YOU, OR MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN DOWN TO OUR ONE-STOP BUILDING, UH, JUST DOWN THE STREET, UH, ON THE 1901 SOUTH ALAMO, WE CELEBRATED 20 YEARS.
SO 20 YEARS AGO WE OPENED THOSE.
THAT FACILITY, UH, IT'S A GREAT BUILDING.
UH, IT NEEDS SOME T L C, RIGHT? JUST GENERAL MAINTENANCE.
OUR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FUND PAYS FOR THAT GENERAL MAINTENANCE AND ANY RENOVATIONS.
SO, UH, WE HAVE A, A MILLION, UH, 1.5 MILLION IN THERE FOR BUILDING MAINTENANCE ITEMS, SOME RENOVATIONS.
UH, WE DID GO TO E-BUSINESS, UH, WITH PLAN SUBMITTAL, ELECTRONIC PLANS.
SO WE HAVE A LOT OF AREAS IN OUR BUILDING THAT USED TO HOUSE LARGE ROLES OF CONSTRUCTION PLANS.
SO WE'LL BE RE UH, RENOVATING SOME OF THOSE SPACES.
UH, WE HAVE SOME IT AND AV WORK TO DO IN OUR BOARD ROOMS AND TRAINING ROOMS. AND THEN REALLY THAT FIRST FLOOR REMODEL OF SOME OF THE, UH, WORKSPACE RECONFIGURATION IS NECESSARY DUE TO THE, THE DIFFERENT WORK ENVIRONMENT THAT WE HAVE, UH, WITH OUR WORKERS TODAY.
UH, SO THAT, UH, SPELLS OUT, UH, MY BUDGET SUMMARY AND, UH, CERTAINLY BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, MIKE, FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UH, I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT, UM, RESPONSIVE TO COUNCIL REQUESTS ON, IN TERMS OF THE CODE ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY, UH, THAT WE ARE, UH, SEEING FOLLOW THROUGH IN RESPONSE TO THE TIER ONE AND TIER TWO CALLS IN A SINGLE DAY.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S VERY ENCOURAGING.
I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR,
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UM, YOUR DEPARTMENT.UM, I REALIZE THAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH SOME OF THE PERMITTING FLUCTUATIONS IN OUR, OUR COMMUNITY, SO, UH, WE'LL KEEP APPRISED OF THAT.
I DO HAVE A, JUST A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU, DAVID.
UM, AND IF WE COULD GO TO SLIDE SEVEN REAL QUICK.
SO I'M TRYING TO, UH, JUST GET A SENSE OF, UM, WHERE WE ARE WITH SOME OF OUR LONG-TERM GOALS AS A COMMUNITY FOR RECYCLING.
AND, YOU KNOW, I GUESS, ERIC, THIS IS A CHALLENGE I'M HAVING WITH SOME OF OUR NEW METRICS.
I'M TRYING TO SQUARE THAT WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE PREVIOUS FIVE YEARS AND WHERE WE WOULD SAY WHERE, WHERE WE WANTED TO SEE THE TREND LINES OVER THE PAST 10.
UH, CAN YOU INTERPRET WHAT THAT RIGHT, THE RIGHT SIDE OF THIS SLIDE MEANS? THAT'S JUST REPRESENTS THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF MATERIAL THAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE, UM, DISPOSING OF.
SO IT, IT INCLUDES EVERYTHING, GARBAGE, BULKY ORGANICS, RECYCLING.
SO CAN YOU BREAK THAT DOWN IN TERMS OF BLUE CART, BROWN CART, GREEN CART? I, I CAN, I, I, WE MAY HAVE A BACKUP SLIDE THAT SHOWS SOME OF THOSE METRICS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, BUT TO GET TO THE POINT ON RECYCLING, UH, IT TOOK A BIT OF A HIT THIS YEAR, UH, FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS.
ONE, WE, UH, MADE THE CHANGE AT THE BIDS BRUSH SITE SO THAT IT ONLY, WE ONLY ALLOW RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS.
AND WE HAD A, A NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS THERE.
SO THAT IMPACTED THE DIVERSION RATE.
UH, I THINK WE'RE AT 36 OR 7%, BUT THE DROUGHT, UH, TOOK A HIT AS WELL ON ORGANICS AND JUST CURBSIDE BRUSH THAT WE COLLECT.
I THINK WE'RE GONNA BUMP THAT BACK UP.
UH, WE ALSO HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL METRICS, UH, LIKE CAPTURE RATE AND A FEW OTHER THINGS THAT, UH, WE COULD, WE COULD TALK ABOUT.
BUT THE CHALLENGE WITH MEASURING IT ON A PER TON BASIS, UM, UH, THAT IS DIVERTED IS THAT THE THINGS WE RECYCLE HAVE JUST GOTTEN LIGHTER OVER TIME.
AND, UH, AND, AND THE WAY WE COUNT THE BRUSH AND THE ORGANICS THAT REALLY FLUCTUATES BASED ON, UH, DROUGHT OR NO DROUGHT.
I GUESS ONE WAY WE COULD COUNT IT, UH, IS TO SEE, MAYBE, MAYBE THIS IS NOT ACCURATE, BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ADOPTING SMALLER CARTS FOR THE BROWN, UM, BROWN CART PICKUP? DO WE HAVE THAT NUMBER? WE, UH, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I BELIEVE WE'RE AT 10% ON THE MEDIUM AND 13% ON THE, UH, SMALL.
IS THAT CORRECT, RALPH? YES, SIR.
AND ARE WE SEEING THAT NUMBER TICK UP? LIKE ARE PEOPLE NOW OPTING FOR THE SMALLER CART? IT IS.
I THINK YOU'LL BE HAPPY TO KNOW THAT WHEN WE DELIVER, UH, CARTS TO NEW HOMES, WE'RE DELIVERING THE MEDIUM SIZED CART.
SO THAT ONE'S ACTUALLY STARTING TO GROW.
YEAH, I WAS LOOKING, I WAS TRYING TO, AGAIN, KIND OF SEE HOW WE'VE BEEN.
SO I, I FOUND A, A, UM, ANNUAL REPORT FROM ABOUT, UM, I GUESS 2015.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE TRYING TO ACHIEVE, ACHIEVE PROSPECTIVELY WAS ALSO A PRICE DIFFERENTIAL BETWEEN THE SMALL CART AND THE LARGE CART.
SO THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT COST SAVINGS FOR A RESIDENT, UM, WHO CHOOSES THE OP SMALLER CART.
AND THE HOPE WAS, AGAIN, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THE SAVINGS OF THAT AS A COMMUNITY FROM LAND LANDFILL COSTS, UH, DIVERTED.
AND SO, UM, I WOULD SAY THAT'S A GOOD JOB.
AND ACTUALLY OVERALL, THE COST PER CART IS LOWER THAN WHAT WE ANTICIPATE.
EVEN THE LARGE CARS LOWER THAN WE ANTICIPATED IT WOULD BE AT THIS POINT 10 YEARS AGO.
YOU ALL HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB, DAVID, IN, IN MANAGING COSTS, BUT ALSO GETTING FOLKS TO, YOU KNOW, SPARE, UH, THE EXPENSE OF, OF LANDFILLS.
I WOULD JUST ASK FOR FUTURE PRESENTATIONS.
IF WE CAN TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT METRICS THAT WOULD KIND OF SHOW A LONGER TERM TREND LINE THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
UH, I'D ALSO SAY I'M VERY PLEASED TO SEE, UH, ADDITIONAL DOLLARS OR RESOURCES GO INTO, UM, THE COMMUNICATION, PARTICULARLY ON THE LITTERING.
UM, WE CAN DO BETTER AS A COMMUNITY FOR SURE.
I LIKE THE, THE TAGLINE, RESPECT SA, I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
UM, AND YOU ALL HAVE HAD SOME OF THE BEST MARKETING, UM, OF OUR COMMUNITY.
SO, AND I UNDERSTAND FROM, FROM MCCAREY THAT WHOEVER DOES YOUR CREATIVE IS IN-HOUSE.
HE'S TAKE A BOW THERE, MARCUS.
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SO, UH, WHAT I WOULD ASK IS MARCUS, UH, YOU SHARE MARCUS WITH, UH, THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE NEEDING TO DO SOME COMMUNICATION JUST A, A LITTLE BIT, UM, PARTICULARLY ON ANIMAL CARE.'CAUSE WE NEED TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT EFFORT TO, UH, DO SOME CREATIVE WORK ON, UH, RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERSHIP.
SO MARCUS HEY, WE'RE ON THE SAME TEAM.
ACTUALLY, I DID HAVE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH DAVID.
I DID HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR YOU, UM, MIKE, AND THAT IS, LET'S GO TO THE SLIDE ON THE PROACTIVE APARTMENT INSPECTIONS.
SO THESE ARE ALL NUMBERS BASED ON THE POLICY WE JUST ADOPTED.
CAN WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE? I THINK THAT HAD THE NUMBERS ON IT.
THAT'S THE ONE WE JUST ADOPTED.
YEAH, THAT'S TRACKING SINCE APRIL 2ND WHEN IT WENT LIVE.
AND SO THAT'S JUST, WELL, THAT'S ALL APARTMENT INSPECTIONS 'CAUSE WE TRACK ALL OF THEM.
AND THEN IF YOU GET TOO MANY CITATIONS, YOU BECOME ONE OF THE REGISTERED PROPERTIES, WHICH ON THE NEXT SLIDE IT WAS 14.
I MEAN, I, WOULD YOU, I MEAN, IS THAT WORKING THE WAY YOU THINK IT SHOULD? YES.
WE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE, WE KNOW, UH, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE ORDINANCE BACK IN MARCH, WE SAID WE WOULD GET STARTED.
WE HIRED SOME TEMPORARY POSITIONS.
AND NOW IN THE BUDGET, THREE OF THE EIGHT POSITIONS THAT I TALKED ABOUT ARE GONNA FILL OUT THE APARTMENT TEAM.
SO I'LL HAVE A TEAM OF FIVE CODE OFFICERS DEDICATED, UH, JUST TO THOSE 14 AND OVERSEEING THIS PROGRAM.
UH, THE INITIAL RESPONSE COMES FROM OUR CODE OFFICERS IN THE FIELD, BUT AS SOON AS SOMETHING IS IDENTIFIED, WE TRANSITION.
THERE'S PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WE ANTICIPATED, BUT WE KNEW IT WAS A BIG LIFT AND, BUT WE KNEW IT WAS NEEDED.
UH, AND I WOULD ASSUME THAT WE'RE TAKING ALL THAT AND COMMUNICATING TO THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION THE DIFFERENT, UH, PROJECT.
SO WE'VE, WE'VE MET WITH MANAGERS, UH, A NUMBER OF STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION SINCE REALLY IT WENT LIVE, HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS ANSWERING QUESTIONS.
WE'VE EVEN IMPROVED SOME OF OUR COMMUNICATION TO APARTMENT OWNERS BASED ON THEIR FEEDBACK.
SO THEY'RE HELPING US MAKE IT A VERY GOOD PROGRAM.
AND, AND, AND HIGHLIGHTING THOSE PROPERTIES THAT ARE, THAT ARE GOOD PROPERTY MANAGERS AND REALLY THE ONES THAT AREN'T, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE REALLY BEING HIGHLIGHTED.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING.
UH, IT'S VERY ENCOURAGING AND, AND, UH, QUICK WORK AS WELL.
SO LET ME GO STRAIGHT OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER GRO.
UM, DAVID, I'M GONNA START WITH YOU.
UH, HERE'S JUST SOME THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE.
UH, THE PLASTIC BAGS, UM, IF WE COULD GET AN UPDATE PROBABLY IN CHECK REGARDING WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THAT AND HOW PEOPLE ARE RECYCLING, UH, UH, THE, THE WHITE PLASTIC BAGS.
I'M VERY INTERESTED IN THE FLEET CITYWIDE.
SO IF I COULD GET THE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW, HOW LONG THE TRUCKS ARE IN THE SHOP FOR AND IF WE CAN IDENTIFY, ARE THESE THE OLDER TRUCKS OR ARE THESE THE NEWER TRUCKS? 'CAUSE AS WE, AS WE LOOK AT, UM, BUYING NEW TRUCKS IN THE FUTURE, UM, AND I DID GO TO RODEO AND UM, I'M REALLY AMAZED AT WHAT THEY DO.
SO, UH, IF, IF WE COULD FIND A TRUCK, AND I KNOW IT'S HARD TO FIND A GARBAGE TRUCK THAT'S A LITTLE MORE NIMBLE, BUT TO DO THAT.
AND THE OTHER THING IS WITH THE NEW TECHNOLOGY, IF THE DRIVERS COULD START IDENTIFYING WHERE MAYBE NEIGHBORS LEAVE CARS ON THE STREET AND THEY MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO COMPLETE THE ROUTE, MAYBE WE AT CITY COUNCIL NEED TO LOOK AT PUTTING OUT A NOTICE THAT WHEN IT'S, WHEN IT'S YOUR DAY FOR, UH, PICKUP, UM, THAT YOU NEED TO MOVE YOUR VEHICLE OFF THE STREET.
'CAUSE I, UH, AND IF YOU GUYS HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE RODEO THAT THEY DO ONCE A MONTH, THEY TRY AND MANEUVER AROUND CONES.
THEY TRY AND BACK UP AND, AND THEY GIVE 'EM SCENARIOS THAT THEY MIGHT RUN INTO.
AND I KEEP ON THINKING IT WOULD BE A LOT HELPFUL, A LOT MORE HELPFUL IF WE HAD THEM MOVE THEIR CARS.
THAT SOUNDS YOU HEAR IS ALL MY DRIVERS CLAPPING RIGHT NOW,
WELL IT JUST, IT JUST OPENED MY EYES AND, AND I KNOW THAT SOMETIMES I HAVE IN, ON THE SOUTH SIDE PEOPLE PARKING ON BOTH SIDES AND, AND YOU HAVE LIKE THIS MUCH SPACE TO, TO PICK UP THAT, THAT CART.
AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE HAVE THOSE CALLS, UM, FOR MISSED DAYS OR MISSED CARTS BECAUSE THERE, THERE MIGHT BE, UH, TROUBLE GETTING TO IT.
UM, IN TERMS OF THE RATE INCREASE, IF SOMEONE
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WANTS TO GET THE SMALLER CART, WE, I, I KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY ONLINE, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE THAT WE COULD DO SOMETHING IN PERSON WHERE MAYBE YOU GO TO A SENIOR CENTER, YOU COME TO A LIBRARY AND YOU LET THEM KNOW THE PROCESS OF WE'RE GONNA MOVE YOU FROM THE BIG CART TO THE 48 GALLON.AND THE OTHER IS, I THINK I HAVE A 64, BUT I'M LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, SHOULD I TAKE A PICTURE OF MY CART AND IS THERE SOMEWHERE THAT I COULD SEND IT AND GO, YOU HAVE THIS GALLON, OR YOU CAN, CAN YOU TELL US TO HELP US GO IDENTIFY WHICH CART WE HAVE? UH, THERE'S A SERIAL NUMBER ON IT.
AND THE FIRST TWO NUMBERS ARE EITHER GONNA SAY 96 FOR THE LARGE CART OR 64 FOR THE MEDIUM, OR 48 FOR THE SMALL.
ALRIGHT, SO THE FIRST TWO NUMBER.
SO WE CAN HAVE THEM, UH, IDENTIFY THAT.
'CAUSE I DON'T THINK, UH, UH, BUT AGAIN, I'M LIKE, I DON'T KNOW.
I COULD HAVE THE LARGEST CART OUT THERE.
UH, BUT I WANNA DO A BIG PUSH IN TERMS OF, ESPECIALLY FOR OUR SENIORS.
UM, THE OTHER THING, THE OTHER QUESTION I THINK WE SHOULD ASK PEOPLE IF, IF THEIR CART ISN'T FULL ON THE DAY THEY PICK IT UP, THEY PROBABLY NEED TO GO DOWN, UH, SIZE.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO, UH, KIND OF ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO THAT.
IN TERMS OF THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS FROM THE 500 TO THE 700, UH, IF YOU COULD JUST KEEP US POSTED ON HOW THAT'S MOVING ALONG.
'CAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE OUTREACH TEAMS FOR THAT.
UM, I'D LIKE A THREE MONTH, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT SHOULD BE COUNCIL OR COMMITTEE, BUT A THREE DAY, UH, UH, THREE MONTH UPDATE ON HOW THAT'S, THAT'S GOING AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING.
AND THEN THE ILLEGAL DUMPING IN THE COMMUNITY.
I KNOW WHAT HELPED IN DISTRICT THREE IS WE DID DO A NUMBER OF COMMUNITY ROUNDUPS WHERE WE HAD PEOPLE COME AND, AND UM, UH, TO A SENIOR CENTER OR A CHURCH PARKING LOT AND DUMP OFF THE CHURCH.
AND THAT WAS EXTREMELY HELPFUL.
AND I THINK IF, IF WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT AND IF WE, IF YOU CAN HELP US IDENTIFY NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE YOU'RE LIKE, WE ARE COMING FOR ILLEGAL DUMPING.
I KNOW YOU'RE, YOU'RE GOING TO HELP US OUT ON, ON MALMAN, BUT THAT'S AN AREA THAT NOBODY LIVES.
BUT IF YOU KNOW SOMEWHERE WHERE THERE'S A NEW SUBDIVISION GOING UP AND YOU'RE, WE'RE SEEING ILLEGAL DUMPING, UH, MAYBE WE CAN AT LEAST GET THE NEIGHBORS TO, TO BRING THEIR, THEIR TRUST THERE.
WE USED TO CALL THAT DIAL A TRAILER, BUT THEY TELL ME THAT NO ONE KNOWS WHAT DIAL MEANS ANYMORE.
I I KNOW THEY TRIED OUT A NEW WORD COMMUNITY CLEANUP AND I DON'T THINK THAT WORKED.
WE CALLED IT DIAL A TRAILER ALL, UH, ALL YEAR.
BUT YEAH, I THINK WE NEED TO, I THINK WE NEED TO GIVE SOME MORE MARKETING 'CAUSE NO, NOBODY KNOWS.
I THINK, AND MY NEXT SET OF QUESTIONS ARE FOR, UH, MIKE, UM, IN, IN TERMS OF THE NEW STAFF, UH, HOW IS RETENTION GOING? ARE, ARE WE, I KNOW WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF NEW STAFF AND I APPRECIATE THAT, BUT ARE WE ABLE TO KEEP THE NEW STAFF OR IS THERE SOME INCENTIVE WE NEED TO DO? WELL, WE, WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A GOOD, GOOD TRACK OF RETAINING, UH, NEW CODE OFFICERS ET YOU THROUGHOUT.
I MEAN, WE'RE, WE'RE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE THAT WE DO LOSE SOME PEOPLE EARLY ON.
UM, I THINK THE MARKET, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S A DEMANDING MARKET OR AT LEAST IT'S, IT'S DEMANDING TO KEEP PEOPLE AT ANY TENURE.
BUT, UH, WE WE'RE HAVING A GOOD TRACK RECORD.
WE'VE, WE'VE, UM, HIRED I THINK OVER 30, UH, NEW CODE OFFICERS IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
UH, WE DID HAVE A LOT OF RETIREMENTS.
WE HAD SOME, WE HAD SOME CODE OFFICERS THAT RETIRED WITH 39, 40 YEARS, 33 YEARS.
BUT THAT'S THE NATURE OF THE BUSINESS.
WE DO OFFER SOME INCENTIVE PROGRAMS FOR OUR CODE OFFICERS IN TERMS OF EXTRA CERTIFICATION PAY IN ADDITION TO IT, AS WELL AS SOME OVERTIME WHEN AVAILABLE.
SO, UH, THAT HELPS THEM AS WELL.
SO, BUT, UH, WE'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO RETAIN PEOPLE WHEN WE BRING 'EM ON.
AND, UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, BECAUSE THIS IS SO VITAL TO DISTRICT THREE, BUT I THINK CITYWIDE AND, UM, ON SLIDE NUMBER SEVEN, WHERE IT'S, IT TALKS ABOUT THE TOP FIVE INVESTIGATION CASES, AND THEN I HAVE THE STATS FOR MY NUMBERS IN DISTRICT THREE THROUGH FEBRUARY AND JULY, AND SURE ENOUGH IT WAS, UM, THE OVERGROWN YARD.
UM, ALLEY MAINTENANCE WAS NUMBER TWO FOR US.
AND THEN I THINK THE OTHER WAS ILLEGAL PARKING.
AND THAT'S ONE THING THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, FORMER COUNTY COMMISSIONER TOMMY ATKINSON IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THE ILLEGAL PARKING.
AND WE KNOW THAT THAT'S HAPPENING AFTER HOURS MM-HMM.
SO I APPRECIATE THAT TEAM THAT KIND OF GOES AFTER HOURS AND LOOKS FOR THE THAT, UM, BUT IT, UM, THOSE VIOLATIONS.
BUT IF WE COULD DO MORE IN TERMS OF GETTING THE WORD OUT ON THE TOP FIVE AND MAKING SURE PEOPLE ARE CONTINUING TO CALL IN AND TAKE CARE OF THAT, UM, WE ARE DOING A TOWN HALL
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IN DISTRICT THREE WITH CODE AND OUR, OUR MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGES SO PEOPLE KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T END WITH THE CODE OFFICERS.UM, BUT I WANNA TALK ABOUT, UM, THE ALLEYWAYS.
AND I KNOW WE'RE LOOKING AT CREATIVE WAYS TO KIND OF, UM, ADDRESS THAT.
ARE WE IDENTIFYING, IS IT BECAUSE THE ALLEYWAYS ARE HARD TO, TO GET TO FOR THE RESIDENTS? OR IS THERE FLOODING OR ARE THESE HOMES RENTALS VERSUS HOMEOWNER? DO WE HAVE ANY PATTERN? WELL, IT, IT'S, IT'S ALL OF THAT MM-HMM.
AND I THINK THAT WAS PRESENTED ALREADY.
UM, AND WE'LL COORDINATE WITH ALL THAT.
BUT THERE ARE STILL, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF ALLEYS AND RIGHT NOW THE RULES ARE, UM, IF IT'S AN ALLEY BEHIND YOUR HOME, UH, IF YOU'RE THE PROPERTY OWNER OR YOU KNOW, OR THE, OR THE RENTER, UM, YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE CHARGED WITH, UH, MAINTAINING THAT.
UM, AND CERTAINLY WE, WE WORK WITH OWNERS, UM, AND WE, YOU KNOW, WE MAY GET A CALL THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE OR TWO OF THOSE PEOPLE CALL IT IN AND IT'S REALLY AFFECTS 10 OR 12 PEOPLE.
SO THAT'S WHY IT'S A CHALLENGING ISSUE.
WE DO A LOT OF NOTICES, HAVE A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS AND WORK WITH THEM.
BUT, UM, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT ONE TREND.
I WOULD, I WOULD SAY IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF WHAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED, UH, BUT IT IS ONE OF OUR TOP ISSUES THAT WE CITYWIDE.
BUT I, I THINK FOR DISTRICT THREE, I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE WHETHER IT'S AIRBNB, IF IT'S RENTERS VERSUS HOMEOWNERS, IF IT'S SENIORS VERSUS FAMILIES, UM, THAT WAY WE KNOW HOW TO GO ABOUT IT.
GONZABA STARTED A PROGRAM, I, I THINK THEY'VE SUSPENDED IT RIGHT NOW OF GOING IN AND HELPING SENIORS WITH THEIR MEMBERS WITH THEIR YARDS.
UM, WHICH, YOU KNOW, HAS A LOT OF DRAWBACKS.
UH, BUT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT I THOUGHT WAS A GOOD IDEA, BUT I REALLY WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE HELPING, HELPING THOSE THAT, UM, KIND OF NEED IT AND CAN'T DO THAT.
BUT IF IT'S LANDLORDS THAT ARE RENTING THAT ARE NOT ENFORCING THAT WITH THEIR RENTERS TO MAINTAIN THE, THE YARDS AND THE ALLEYWAYS, I THINK WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO ADDRESS THAT.
WE'LL PULL, WE'LL PULL THE DATA AND THEN WE'LL, WE'LL DIVIDE IT, UH, UH, PROPERTY OWNER OR OWNER OCCUPIED OR RENTAL AND SEE WHAT, SEE WHAT WE CAN BRING THAT TO YOU AND SEE IF IT TELL US ANYTHING THAT, THAT, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE I THINK, I THINK IT WOULD, UH, DO THAT.
AND THEN THE OTHER ASPECT, AND I KNOW Y'ALL CONTROL THAT IS THE TOOL SHED.
AND JUST WANNA GET MORE, UM, INFORMATION ON WHAT WE KIND OF NEED TO HAVE THAT FULLY STOCKED AND READILY AVAILABLE TO, TO THOSE WHO USE IT.
WE, WE CAN GET TO THE INVENTORY AND ITS USAGE, UH, THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW THAT WE CAN GET THAT TO YOU.
COUNCIL MEMBER VIA GR, COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
UM, AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATIONS.
UM, I GUESS TO START, HOW MUCH DO WE EXPECT TO GENERATE AS A RESULT OF THE SOLID, OH, THIS IS FOR SOLID WASTE.
UM, HOW MUCH DO WE EXPECT TO GENERATE AS A RESULT OF THE FEE INCREASE? 22 MILLION.
AND SO I'M WONDERING, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE, UM, WE INCREASED FOR LARGER BINS AND NOT THE SMALLEST, AND DO WE KNOW HOW MANY CUSTOMERS DOWNSIZED AS A RESULT? AND I ASK THAT BECAUSE I WANT TO GAUGE THE LIKELIHOOD THAT, UM, FOLK WILL REDUCE THEIR BIN SIZE VERSUS SWALLOWING THE FEE.
UM, AND I KNOW THIS IS LARGELY FOR REVENUE, UM, BUT I'M MOST SUPPORTIVE OF THE GOAL OF REDUCING, UH, WASTE.
SO I'D RATHER SEE FOLK DOWNSIZE.
THE LAST TIME THE, THE LARGE CART WAS RAISED WAS 2019.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY, UH, DOWNSIZED.
I WOULD LOVE THAT IN A, IN A MEMO.
UM, I SAW THAT THERE WAS 28.3 MILLION OF THE OPERATING OF THE SOLID WASTE OPERATING AND MAINTENANCE FUND THAT'S GOING TO GO FOR MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF 2000 HEAVY EQUIPMENT TRUCKS, UM, AND OFF WOOD ROAD EQUIPMENT BELONGING TO SEVERAL OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS AS WELL.
UM, ONE OF THE DEPARTMENT'S EQUIPMENT REPAIRS FUNDED THROUGH THIS, IT'S, UH, WE'VE MAINTAINED PUBLIC WORKS, UH, HEAVY TRUCKS.
SO PASSENGER VEHICLES, POLICE UNITS, THOSE ARE MANAGED, UH, BY B E S D.
SO, UH, TRACTOR TRAILERS, UH, STREET SWEEPERS, POTHOLE PATCHES FOR PUBLIC WORKS, ALSO PARKS AND REC, UH, AND A NUMBER OF OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
AND I KNOW THAT THE ADDITION FOR THE HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT, ABATEMENTS IS, UH, SCHEDULED.
I KNOW WE'VE HAD THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT, UH, SERVICES FOR OUR HOUSELESS COMMUNITY AND I'VE MADE CLEAR, YOU KNOW, ABATEMENTS ARE NOT THE SOLUTION.
UM, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE DISCUSSION ON IS IF IT'S POSSIBLE THAT, UM, WE IMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVES TO ABATEMENTS IN SOME SITUATIONS WHERE WE KNOW THERE'S A RECUR, THERE'S AN ENCAMPMENT THAT KEEPS COMING BACK AND IT'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
IT'S GOING TO BE A SPOT AND HOW WE, HOW MIGHT WE MAKE IT SO THAT WE HAVE
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RECURRING CLEANUPS AND WASTE PICKUP RATHER THAN THE FULL ON ABATEMENTS? 'CAUSE I IMAGINE THAT THAT'S, UH, COSTLY AND NOT EFFECTIVE.UM, WE HAD A FEW SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS THAT OUR D TWO BUDGET PRE TOWN HALL, UM, AND WE HAD BREAKOUT ROOMS WITH DIFFERENT CITY DEPARTMENTS.
AND IT WAS A REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
AND I REALLY ENJOYED THE CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD, UM, IN THE ROOM WITH BOTH CODE AND, UH, SOLID WASTE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE STRATEGIZE WITH OUR COMMUNITY SPECIFICALLY HOW TO ADDRESS ILLEGAL DUMPING.
AND CONSTITUENTS HAVE ASKED FOR, UH, A FEW THINGS THAT IT'S, THAT I WOULD LIKE FOR THERE TO BE PUBLIC ANSWERS REGARDING, YOU KNOW, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY'VE ASKED FOR INCREASED COLLECTIONS FOR BRUSH AND BULKY PICKUP TO MAYBE QUARTERLY, UM, RATHER THAN THE ANNUAL.
AND SO I'M WONDERING HOW MUCH THAT WOULD COST AND IF IT WOULD BE, IF IT WOULD PROVE EFFECTIVE.
WE CURRENTLY COLLECT BRUSH TWICE A YEAR AND BULKY TWICE A YEAR.
UH, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IT, IT, MY BAD INCREASE THAT FREQUENCY.
DO YOU WANT US TO, DO YOU WANT US TO GIVE YOU THE COST OF, OF INCREASING THAT SERVICE TO QUARTERLY MM-HMM.
AND HOW EFFECTIVE WE THINK IT MIGHT BE.
UM, THE SECOND BIT IS THAT FOR BULKY DROP OFF SITES, WE KNOW THAT YOU NEED TO PROVIDE A C P S BILL AND ID.
AND SO I'M WONDERING WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO INCLUDE USING THE ADVANCED LIBRARY CARD OR THE ENHANCED LIBRARY CARD? WE, WE WILL DEFINITELY LOOK INTO THAT.
IT IS OUR INTENTION TO LOOSEN UP THOSE RESTRICTIONS AND MAKE IT EASIER FOR FOLKS TO COME IN.
WE STILL NEED SOME, UH, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO HAVE SOMETHING IN PLACE, UH, OR ELSE IT WOULD BE A FREE FOR ALL.
BUT WE WILL LOOSEN IT UP AND WE'LL LOOK INTO THE, THE, THAT ID.
AND THERE WAS SOME, WITHIN THE, WITHIN THE GROUP DISCUSSION, THERE WAS SOME SPECULATION THAT FOLK WHO CAN ACCESS THE FREE, UM, UM, THE FREE BULKY DROP OFF SITES ON THOSE DAYS, UM, ARE SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ILLEGALLY DUMPING.
AND SO MIGHT IT BE MORE EFFECTIVE TO JUST SAY, MAYBE YOU DON'T NEED AN ID.
MAYBE ANYBODY CAN DO IT ON THIS SINGULAR DAY.
AND I KNOW THAT THERE WAS SOME HESITANCY FOR GOOD REASON.
UH, DEFINITELY AT OUR BULKY DROPOFF SITES, UH, THERE IS A MAXIMUM CAPACITY.
AND, AND IF WE, UH, AND IF WE WERE TO INCREASE IT TO THE LEVEL THAT I THINK IT WOULD BECOME, IF IT WAS LIKE THAT, I THINK WE WOULD BE OVERRUN PRETTY QUICKLY.
HOWEVER, WE HAVE FREE LANDFILL DAYS BUILT INTO OUR CONTRACTS, AND I THINK THAT WE CAN LOOSEN UP THAT, UH, REQUIREMENT TO SHOW THAT ID, ET CETERA.
UH, WE'RE GONNA NEED SOMETHING IN PLACE, BUT I THINK THAT AT THE LANDFILLS, THAT'S THE PLACE TO DO WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE A FAIR, UH, COMPROMISE.
UM, IN ADDITION, A LOT OF FOLKS, YOU MENTIONED IT, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE AREN'T AWARE OF THE DIAL A TRAILER PROGRAM.
I THINK IT'S A FINE NAME, BUT IF WE NEED TO REBRAND, I'M COOL WITH THAT TOO.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA STRESS THAT I THINK WE SHOULD BE ADVERTISING THE DIALER, DIAL A TRAILER EVENTS A LITTLE BIT BETTER FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
AND OFTENTIMES SMALLER ORGANIZATIONS ARE LIMITED IN THEIR MARKETING EFFORTS FOR THESE EVENTS.
SO MAYBE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO LEVERAGE OUR RESOURCES TO ASSIST IN GETTING THE WORD OUT.
UM, WHILE NOT OVERWHELMING, YOU KNOW, THE SMALLER ORGANIZATION.
UM, SPEAKING OF ORGANIZATIONS, THIS IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF MY, UH, COLLEAGUES.
THERE'S A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION WHO'S LOOKING TO, UH, UH, ACQUIRE WAREHOUSE SPACE SO THAT THEY CAN BEGIN RECYCLING MATTRESSES.
UM, THEY'RE ASKING FOR ABOUT $150,000 TO BEGIN OPERATION, UH, AND SOME OPERATIONAL OVERHEAD.
UM, AND I THINK THAT THAT IS, THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE, THAT WOULD BE A HELPFUL AMENDMENT.
I THINK THAT'S A SERVICE THAT'S NEEDED THAT I DON'T THINK WE'RE EQUIPPED TO PROVIDE.
AND IF THERE'S AN ORGANIZATION THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT AND MAKE A LARGE, UH, DENT IN THE AMOUNT OF MATTRESSES WE SEE IN OUR COMMUNITY, I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
UM, SO THE RESPONSE AND COMPLIANCE RATES THAT YOU SHOWED ON SLIDE EIGHT.
I LOVED THE, I LOVED THAT FORMAT, AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT FROM EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT.
UM, AND IT HELPS THAT THE NUMBERS ARE GOOD.
UM, REGARDING STREET LIGHTING ON SLIDE NINE, MY BABY
Y'ALL SLOWLY GROWING, BUT IT'S GONNA BE A BADDY WHEN IT'S DONE IN 2021.
UM, I PRIORITIZE STREET LIGHTING AS AN EVIDENCE-BASED PROVEN STRATEGY TO REDUCE CRIME AND TO ACCOMPLISH A, A NUMBER OF OUR OTHER GOALS.
UM, AND THE INDEX IS COMPLETED.
UM, FUNDING HAS BEEN ALLOCATED AND THE IMPLEMENTATION'S BEEN PRIORITIZED.
UM, BUT NOW I THINK WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS THE STRUGGLE TO IMPLEMENT, LARGELY BECAUSE WE NEED PERMISSION FROM PROPERTY OWNERS TO ACQUIRE EASEMENTS.
YOU MENTIONED THAT, UM, SOME OF MY CONSTITUENTS HAVE MENTIONED THAT THEY'VE SENT IN THEIR PAPERWORK TO AFFIRM CONSENT, BUT THEY HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING BACK IN MONTHS.
AND SO I'M WONDERING HOW WE'RE COMMUNICATING WITH RESIDENTS A TIMELINE.
UM, WELL, WE COULD FIND OUT, BUT TYPICALLY WHEN WE, UH, WE SEND OUT SOME
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COMMUNICATION, AND IF YOU ARE, IF YOU'RE WILLING, YOU SAY, YES, I, I DEFINITELY WANT ONE.I WANNA HAVE THAT CONVERSATION, THEN WE WILL COORDINATE WITH C P S WITHIN A PERIOD OF TIME.
'CAUSE THERE'LL HAVE TO BE A SITE ASSESSMENT, PHYSICALLY LOOK AT WHERE THE POWER IS.
IS IT COMING FROM THE BACK? IS IT OVERHEAD, UNDERGROUND? IS THIS GONNA WORK? UH, AND THEN THEY'LL, THEY'LL REALLY ENGAGE TO GET THAT PERMISSION AND EASEMENT STARTED.
SO IF IT'S BEEN A MONTH OR TWO, THAT'S PROBABLY NOT OUTSIDE OF IT, IF IT'S BEEN LONGER THAN THAT.
BUT IF YOU HAVE SOME SPECIFIC EITHER RESIDENTS OR A NEIGHBORHOOD, WE WOULD JUST AT, UH, YOUR FIELD OFFICE, WE, WE MET WITH 30 OR 40 RESIDENTS.
UH, WE EVEN GOT A, I THINK WE, WE GOT A FEW YAYS, UH, QUITE A FEW YAYS AT THAT POINT.
UM, BUT, UH, BUT WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE THOSE AND SEE WHERE THEY'RE AT.
UM, AND IF I'M, IF I WOULD READ IT RIGHT, C PS THERE'S GONNA BE A SOLICITATION FOR C P S TO ESTABLISH A TEAM THAT WILL GO OUT AND DO THE CORRECT.
SO WHAT THEY HAVE IS THAT THEY HAVE SOME TEAM MEMBERS THAT WE WORK WITH RIGHT NOW.
AND THIS IS ONE PART OF THEIR JOB.
WHAT THEY QUICKLY REALIZED AND THE NUMBERS THAT WE HAD A DEMAND FOR AND THE TIMELINE THAT WE WANTED TO SPEND THIS MONEY, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL HUNDRED INSTALLS, YOU KNOW, IT TAKES THE DESIGN INSTALL PLUS THE PERMISSIONS.
UH, THEY HAVE ALREADY POSTED THAT.
THEY BELIEVE THEY'LL HAVE SOME, UH, THAT TEAM ENGAGED, UH, JANUARY, SO RIGHT AROUND THE FIRST OF THE YEAR AND WHAT THAT, THAT JUST REALLY OUTSOURCES SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO SPEED UP THE PERMISSION ON EASEMENTS, THE DESIGN, AND THEN THE INSTALLS.
UM, ONE OF THE STRUGGLES THAT WE HAD BLOCK WALKING, AND I'LL LIST SUMMARIZE AS AN EXAMPLE.
THERE ARE A LOT OF RENTERS AND THE PROPERTY OWNERS LIVE OUT OF STATE MM-HMM.
AND SO THERE WAS A CHALLENGE GETTING FOR OUR OFFICE BLOCK WALKING, TRYING TO GET IN CONTACT.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE A STRUGGLE WITH EVERYONE.
AND I THINK THAT'S BEEN, I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE SOMETHING THAT WE'LL HAVE TO NAVIGATE.
UM, MOVING ON TO VACANT STRUCTURES.
ERIC MENTIONED SOMETHING THAT I FEEL WOULD RESONATE WITH MY, UH, CONSTITUENTS.
HE MENTIONED, UH, POTENTIALLY A GOOD NEIGHBOR PROGRAM FOR VACANT STRUCTURES.
AND I'D BE INTERESTED IN, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING WHAT THAT SOUNDS LIKE.
SO MAYBE ERIC, YOU CAN, UH, DESCRIBE A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT YOU MEANT WHEN YOU SAID IT A FEW DAYS AGO.
BUT AFTER I'M DONE WITH MY LAST 50 SECONDS, UM, THE APARTMENT INSPECTIONS, UM, SHOUT OUT TO THE TENANTS OF SEVEN OAKS.
I THINK THAT THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT THEM.
AND, UH, COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL, I HAVE TO NAME HER AS, YOU KNOW, A SPEARHEAD OF THIS, OF THIS MOMENT.
THIS IS THE NUMBERS THAT, UH, THE MAYOR HIGHLIGHTED WERE REALLY EXCITING.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW BY DISTRICT HOW MANY COMPLEXES ARE ON THE NAUGHTY LIST AND MAYBE WHICH, UH, WHICH APARTMENTS THEY ARE.
I DON'T THINK I'VE SEEN WHICH APARTMENTS THEY ARE, BUT I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THAT.
WE, AND, AND COUNCIL COUNCILMAN, WE CAN GET YOU THAT, THAT IS ALSO SOMETHING YOU CAN ACCESS ONLINE.
SO THAT 14 LIST, NOT ONLY CAN YOU SEE THE GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION, YOU CAN ALSO CLICK, WE FIND A LIST OF THE 14.
IT HAS THE ADDRESS, THE NAME, UH, THE COUNCIL DISTRICT, HOW MANY UNITS ARE IN THAT APARTMENT COMPLEX.
SO THAT DATA IS THERE AND WE CAN GET YOU THAT.
UM, I JUST STOLE YOU LAST 10 SECONDS.
UM, I'LL, I WOULD LIKE THAT I HAD SOME TROUBLE FINDING IT ON THE WEBSITE.
I'LL JUST SAY THAT I WOULD LIKE TO, I'D BE INTERESTED IN EXPANSION AND INCREASED ACCESSIBILITY OF THE CODE TEAM THAT WORKS WITH FAMILIES AND MORE CASEWORKER KIND OF WAY.
AND SO MAYBE THAT IS JUST, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DISCUSS AS COUNCIL.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
ERIC, DID YOU HAVE A RESPONSE TO ANYTHING THERE? YEAH, NO, I, UM, I, I, OTHER THAN WHAT I SAID THE OTHER DAY, REMEMBER WHEN, WHEN WE MET LAST WEEK, IT WAS THE AFTERNOON OF THE FIRE WAS THE DAY AFTER THE FIRE IN D FIVE.
AND TWO OF THOSE THREE BUILD, OR TWO OF THOSE FIVE BUILDINGS HAD BEEN VACANT AND HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN, UH, CITED.
UM, BUT I THINK IT'S WORTH US DOING SOME WORK BETWEEN FIRE AND D S D SIMILAR TO THE GOOD NEIGHBOR PROGRAM.
WHERE DO WE HAVE THESE FREQUENT ADDRESSES? A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT, UM, SCOPE, BUT ESSENTIALLY THE SAME THING WHERE WE HAVE, UM, REPEAT FIRE CALLS OR CODE CALLS OR 3 1 1 CALLS, OR IN SOME CASES MAYBE, UM, UH, HOMELESS CALLS AND WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH THOSE PROPERTIES.
SO I THINK THAT'S KIND OF A WORK IN PROGRESS, AND I'LL BE LOOKING TO, UM, TO THOSE DEPARTMENTS TO HELP.
AND WE'LL COME BACK AND MAYBE GIVE THE COUNCIL AN UPDATE HERE IN THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO ON, ON THE CONCEPT.
I THINK THERE ARE, AND THERE, AND THERE ARE ALL OVER THE CITY, VACANT HOMES OR VACANT STRUCTURES THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF A WHOLE BUNCH OF CALLS.
AND WHAT ARE WE DOING TO TRY TO GET AHEAD OF IT.
'CAUSE IF WE DON'T DO ANYTHING, THEN ON A HOT, WINDY DAY, THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONNA CATCH ON FIRE AND SOMEBODY'S GONNA GET HURT.
UM, I'LL START WITH, WELL, THANKS TO BOTH DAVID AND MICHAEL.
UM, AND WHILE YOU'RE WALKING UP, THANKS TO ALL OUR, UM, SOLID WASTE AND D D S D EMPLOYEES, THEY REALLY ARE, THEY, THEY WORK HARD, NUMBER ONE, BUT THEY REALLY ARE THE FACE OF THE CITY TO A LOT OF, A LOT OF FOLKS.
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OUR, UM, SOLID WASTE WORKERS SPECIFICALLY OUT IN FRONT OF OUR HOMES, UH, A COUPLE TIMES A WEEK.SO I'M REAL QUICK, I HAVE TO, I'VE NEVER BEEN TO THE RODEO, BUT I'VE SEEN IT IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE.
UM, I, I'M CURIOUS IF WE HAVE A DEDICATED TEAM FOCUSED SPECIFICALLY ON ILLEGAL DUMPING.
I REFER TO IT AS THE HOT SHOT CREW, AND, UH, IT WAS CREATED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.
WE ADDED A SECOND CREW LAST YEAR OR THIS YEAR.
YOU, YOU ALSO MENTIONED, UM, TECHNOLOGY FOR OUR DRIVERS, AND, UM, YOU HAD ME AT PAC-MAN, ALTHOUGH I PREFERRED MISS PAC-MAN, BUT I'M CURIOUS IF THERE'S ANY, UH, TECHNOLOGIES THAT COULD BE ADDED TO SOLID WASTE PICKUPS, UM, THAT MAYBE OTHER CITIES ARE DOING, UM, TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THEM.
UM, BUT ALSO SOME WAY TO, YOU KNOW, I THINK A LOT OF US ARE TALKING ABOUT IT HERE TODAY IS HOW DO WE MAKE IT EASIER FOR OUR RESIDENTS TO, UM, DUMP AT THE CITY SITES? THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE QUESTIONS.
I'LL, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL LEAVE WITH THE TECHNOLOGY IF THERE'S ANY OTHER, LIKE, IF, ARE WE GOING OUT TO DIFFERENT CITIES TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND HOW WE CAN INNOVATE? YES, DEFINITELY.
AND IN FACT, THOSE RODEOS THAT WE TALK ABOUT, WE COMPETE WITH THE OTHER TEXAS CITIES.
UH, WE'RE A MEMBER OF THE SOLID WASTE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA.
IN FACT, I AM NOW THE VICE PRESIDENT OF OUR LOCAL CHAPTER.
AND SO WE ALL GET TOGETHER AND MEET AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH.
AND WE TALK ABOUT THOSE THINGS.
WE ALSO TALK ABOUT TECHNOLOGY.
UM, I, I DO WANNA MENTION ONE THING THAT CAME TO MIND.
UH, IT, I DON'T THINK IT'S QUITE WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING, BUT WE ARE WORKING WITH, UH, UH, LOCAL COMPANY RUBICON TO DO CONTAMINATION DETECTION.
IT'S PRETTY NEAT BECAUSE, UM, WHEN THE, WE HAVE CAMERAS IN THE HOP, WE HAVE A BUNCH OF CAMERAS ON THESE TRUCKS, AND, UH, TYPICALLY THE DRIVER IS LOOKING IN THE CAM, UH, THE LOOKING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, THE CART IS EMPTY.
UH, BUT USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT CAN DETECT IF THERE'S CONTAMINATION, UH, COMING IN, IN THE RECYCLING OR THE ORGANICS.
AND THEN IT JUST KIND OF AUTOMATICALLY SENDS OUT A REMINDER TO THE CUSTOMER AT, 'CAUSE IT GEOLOCATES IT AND SAYS, HEY, YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, JUST A REMINDER, THIS IS RECYCLING NOT TRASH.
UM, I, I WAS AT A, UH, NOT THAT TOO LONG AGO, A GROUP OF PASTORS IN MY DISTRICT.
AND, UM, WE, THEY WERE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH ILLEGAL DUMPING ON IN THEIR PARKING LOTS MM-HMM.
UM, AND WE'RE KIND OF COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT IT IS FOR, FOR FOLKS TO, TO DUMP AT THE CITY SITES.
UM, OVER THE SUMMER, I DID A LOT OF WORK ON MY HOUSE, AND I WAS THERE EVERY WEEK.
EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE, BY THE WAY, WAS AMAZINGLY HELPFUL.
UM, AND, BUT EVERY SINGLE TIME I GO WITH MY C P S BILL RIGHT.
AND THAT, THAT'S WHAT IT WAS, UM, THAT GOT ME IN.
SO, I THINK SIMILAR TO COUNCILMAN MCKEE RODRIGUEZ'S QUESTION, I'M CURIOUS HOW WE CAN MAKE IT EASIER FOR THEM.
ONE OF THE PASTORS HAD AN IDEA.
UM, THERE ARE SITES ALL OVER THE CITY WHERE IT ILLEGAL DUMPING IS VERY COMMON.
IT'S SORT OF THE PLACE THAT THEY GO TO, TO DUMP.
IS THERE, I MEAN, IS IT POSSIBLE TO PUT A DUMPSTER THERE? SO IT'S MAYBE, YOU KNOW, NOT TO, NOT TO ENCOURAGE THEM, BUT TO, TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE COMMUNITY AND, AND US TO GO PICK UP THAT TRASH.
I MEAN, IS THERE SOME WAY TO MONITOR IT? IS THERE SOME WAY TO, TO ESPECIALLY THOSE VERY HEAVILY USED ILLEGAL DUMPING SITES.
I, I CAN TELL YOU FROM MY 26 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, THAT WOULD BE A MAGNET FOR MORE ILLEGAL DUMPING.
AND THEY PROBABLY WON'T EVEN USE THE DUMPSTER.
UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE DOING AT THE BULKY SITES IS WE'RE WORKING ON A, UH, TO USE THE, THE DRIVER'S LICENSE SO THAT WE CAN SCAN THE BARCODE ON IT AND IT'S DONE.
AND WE JUST LET THE FOLKS IN THAT WAY, WE SHOULD BE PRETTY CLOSE TO DOING THAT.
IT KIND OF GOES A LITTLE BIT OVER MY HEAD.
I'VE GOT SOMEONE HERE THOUGH, IF YOU'RE MORE INTERESTED IN THAT.
SO, SO, SO RIGHT NOW THAT WOULD BE, UH, EITHER A DRIVER'S LICENSE OR STATE ISSUED ID? YES.
UM, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD START.
BUT, BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE DO INTEND TO LOOSEN THOSE RESTRICTIONS.
'CAUSE WE DO TURN AWAY CONTRACTORS OR IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT THING, AND I KNOW IT GETS CONFUSING, AND A LOT OF TIMES THAT'S JUST GOING DOWN THE STREET AND WE'RE PICKING IT UP LATER.
SO WE'VE GOTTA FIND A HAPPY MEDIUM TO HAVE SOME CONTROL.
WHAT, I'M NOT SUGGESTING WE DO THIS, BUT I'M CURIOUS WHAT HAPPENS WITHOUT CONTROL AND WHAT ARE PEOPLE DOING? ARE THEY BRINGING, LIKE IT'S, UM, IT'S GOING TO BE REMODELING MATERIAL.
IT'S A, IT'S A NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION RELATED WASTE, AND THAT'S MOSTLY CONTRACTORS THAT ARE RIGHT.
OR IT'S FOLKS FROM OUT OF THE CITY, AND THEY'RE NOT PAYING THE SOLID WASTE RATE.
UM, I THINK A LOT OF THIS HAS BEEN SAID WITH, YOU KNOW, TALKING ABOUT PUBLIC INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS, MAKING SURE WE GET OUT THERE.
I, I LOVE THE IDEA ABOUT GOING TO, UH, SENIOR CENTERS
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AND TALKING ABOUT THE, THE SMALLER BINS.THEY DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW THAT WE HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY, AND A LOT OF THEM WOULD PROBABLY BE, UM, AMENABLE TO THE SMALLER BINS AND, AND OF COURSE THE, THE LESSER PRICE.
I'LL ASK MIKE, I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THE COMMUNITY TOOL SHED, DO WE STILL HAVE THAT? WE DO.
AND WHERE IS IT? UH, IT'S NOT TOO FAR DOWNTOWN HERE.
BUT, UH, WE HAVE, UH, A NUMBER OF EQUIPMENT, BOTH GAS POWERED AND, UH, YOU KNOW, HAND BRAKES MM-HMM.
UM, WE'VE HAD ABOUT, UH, JUST UNDER A HUNDRED PEOPLE USE IT THIS YEAR SO FAR.
UM, AND YOU CAN COME DOWN ON, UH, I THINK IT'S FRIDAY MORNING, RIGHT? FRIDAY MORNING, CHECK IT OUT, BRING IT BACK MONDAY.
UH, GENERALLY THE CODE OFFICER, IF THEY SEE THAT SOMEONE NEEDS SOME ASSISTANCE, IT'S REALLY NOT ABOUT MAYBE SOMEONE DOING IT FOR YOU, BUT THEIR, THEIR LAWNMOWER'S BROKE OR THEY JUST, YOU KNOW, OUTTA SOME TOOLS.
SO WE'D LIKE TO SEE MORE PEOPLE USE IT.
UM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT'S THERE.
AND YEAH, WE DEFINITELY, AND I THINK THAT JUST A COUPLE YEARS AGO WE ADDED A LITTLE BIT OF FUNDING TO GET A FEW PIECES OF EQUIPMENT IN THERE.
BECAUSE WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN THEM AND, AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO I THINK WE, WE CAN DO A BETTER JOB OF GETTING THE WORD OUT THERE.
UM, BUT ALSO, I WONDER IF DOWN THE LINE WE CAN MAYBE ADD A SITE, IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT FOR FOLKS TO GET DOWNTOWN, UM, LIKE MULTIPLE TWO SET LIKE SITES.
AND NOT NECESSARILY EVEN DIFFERENT EQUIPMENT, JUST, UH MM-HMM.
WE CAN LOOK AT THAT AND JUST IDEAS.
UM, AND, UM, WHEN WE MOVE OVER TO, TO LIGHTING, UM, DO WE HAVE AN ESTIMATE? DID YOU SAY HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE FOR THE ENTIRE, UH, LIGHTING SYSTEM TO BE UPDATED? WELL, WE, WE THINK IT'S GONNA TAKE US ANOTHER THREE OR FOUR YEARS.
IF WE CAN DO TWO TO 400 LIGHTS PER YEAR, GET THE PERMISSIONS, GET THE DESIGN, C P S IS STILL HAS TO ORDER EQUIPMENT AS AS THEY GO.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, IT TAKES A GOOD, YOU KNOW, FROM START TO FINISH COULD TAKE ANYWHERE FROM NINE TO 12 MONTHS TO GET THAT INSTALLED.
BUT ONCE WE GET, UH, YOU KNOW, DOZENS AND DOZENS A MONTH GOING, IT'S STILL GONNA TAKE US THREE TO FOUR YEARS TO, TO FINISH OUT MM-HMM.
UH, THAT'S JUST PART OF THE PROCESS.
BUT, UH, WE THINK IT'LL BE A FEW MORE YEARS.
I, I WOULD IMAGINE THOUGH, AT THE END OF THOSE THREE OR FOUR YEARS, YOU PROBABLY HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN.
AND THEN SOME OF THE, WELL, REMEMBER THE NEWER AREAS WILL HAVE LIGHTING.
THE, THE, THE AREAS WITH A LOT OF THE GAPS ARE AREAS THAT ARE OLDER SUBDIVISIONS.
TODAY'S, THAT MAKES, MAKES SENSE.
WE'RE, WE'RE USING TODAY'S CODE TO IDENTIFY THE GAPS, RIGHT.
THE THREE TO 600 FEET BETWEEN STREETLIGHTS.
SO WHEN WE REVIEW A NEW SUBDIVISION, UH, OR A NEW STRUCTURE, UH, NEW STREETS, THOSE ARE GETTING INSTALLED NOW.
SO REALLY NEW SUBDIVISIONS DON'T, AND, UH, SOME OF THESE ARE OLDER ONES THAT WE ABSORBED THROUGH ANNEXATION, UH, THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE REALLY THE STREETLIGHT STANDARDS BACK IN, YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY IN THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES, UH, THAT WE HAVE NOW.
SO I'M NOT TOO WORRIED ABOUT THE NEWER SUBDIVISIONS, BUT, UH, CERTAINLY THERE'S GONNA BE SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME MORE TO, MORE TO DO.
I, I, I GUESS I WAS THINKING MORE TECHNOLOGY MM-HMM.
NO, WE DON'T HAVE C C T V HERE, YOU KNOW, BUT, UH, JUST, JUST IDEAS AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
THE, THE, THE MEETINGS, UH, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, THE MEETING WE HAD LAST WEEK, UM, ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT A COMMUNITY MEMBER BROUGHT UP WAS THE SAME THING.
C P SS IS LOOKING AT EITHER SOLAR POWER LIGHTS OR ADDITIONAL, UH, UH, UH, TECHNOLOGY ON THE LIGHTS MM-HMM.
UH, ON THEIR STREETS, ET CETERA.
AND, BUT THOSE CONVERSATIONS WE'RE HAVING NOW WITH C P SS.
I, I JUST WANNA MAKE A QUICK STATEMENT.
UM, A REMINDER TO OUR COMMUNITIES AFTER TODAY'S PRESENTATIONS AT LOCAL GOVERNMENT IS WHERE WE CAN REALLY GET THINGS DONE.
WE LOOK AT THE APARTMENT, THE PROACTIVE APARTMENT INSPECTION PROGRAM, UM, AND OUR LIGHTING INDEX.
UH, THAT'S, UH, THOSE ARE IDEAS THAT WERE IMPLEMENTED BY THIS COUNCIL AND SPEARHEADED BY, UH, COUNCILMAN RODRIGUEZ AND COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL AND, AND COUNCILMAN, UH, DR.
AND THOSE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN, AS A MAYOR MENTIONED IN SUCH A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME, RELATIVELY SPEAKING.
UM, AS LONG AS WE ARE, YOU KNOW, UNENCUMBERED BY OTHER THINGS, WE CAN REALLY GET THINGS DONE.
AND, UM, UH, I REALLY CAN'T SAY HOW ENOUGH, HOW, HOW EXCITING IT IS TO SEE IT HAPPENING, UM, WHILE WE'RE STILL HERE, WHILE WE'RE ABLE TO GO BACK TO OUR COMMUNITIES AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO.
AND, AND WHEN I SAY WE, I DON'T JUST MEAN THIS COUNCIL, OF COURSE, I MEAN ALL CITY STAFF, BECAUSE Y'ALL ARE AT THE END OF THE DAY DOING ALL THE WORK.
SO I, I REALLY THANK YOU FOR THAT.
UM, AND I THINK I'LL JUST END WITH THAT.
I'M GONNA START WITH SOLID WASTE REALLY QUICK.
UM, BUT I DO WANNA THANK YOU, DAVID, AND YOUR TEAM FOR ALL THAT Y'ALL, Y'ALL DO FOR US ON
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A CONSISTENT BASIS.UM, ON SLIDE SIX, UH, IN RELATION TO ILLEGAL DUMPING, DOES SOLID WASTE ASSIST WITH ALLEY CLEANUPS? WE DO.
UH, WE ARE WORKING WITH PUBLIC WORKS.
WE DO THE, UM, TRIMMING OF THE BRUSH AND THE TREES, AND THEY DO THE GRADING OF THE, UH, OF THE, THE ALLEY.
SOME OF THE FEEDBACK WE'VE RECEIVED FROM RESIDENTS IS THAT DUMPING HAPPENS IN THEIR ALLEY MM-HMM.
AND SO I JUST WANNA CONFIRM WITH YOU THAT THAT'S NOT THE CASE.
UH, WELL, THAT IT, IT IS TRUE.
UH, IT'S, IT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HOMEOWNER.
HOWEVER, UH, WE DO GO IN THERE AND CLEAN THOSE UP AND REMOVE THAT DEBRIS, IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT BECAUSE WE HAVE TRUCKS LIKE THAT TRUCK RIGHT THERE THAT ONCE WE PULL IN, WE CAN'T PULL THE STUFF BACK OUT.
SO WE HAVE TO WALK IT OUT OF THE ALLEY IN ORDER TO PICK IT UP.
COUNCILWOMAN, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ILLEGAL DUMPING? MM-HMM.
AND THE CLEANING UP YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS I, WELL, I'M NOW, I'VE NOW SWITCHED TO THE ILLEGAL DUMPING TOO.
BUT YEAH, BECAUSE I, SOME, SOME FEEDBACK THAT WE'VE RECEIVED FROM RESIDENTS IS THAT ILLEGAL DUMPING IS HAPPENING IN THEIR ALLEYWAYS, IT'S NOT THEIRS.
UM, AND THEY'RE KIND OF BEING TOLD, YOU KNOW, IT'S YOUR PROBLEM THAT IT IS A CHALLENGE, UH, AND THE CODE IS, IS CURRENTLY WRITTEN THAT WAY MM-HMM.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S, UM, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR US.
I KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT FOR THEM TOO.
UH, BUT WE DO GET INVOLVED AND WE WILL CLEAN, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ILLEGAL DUMPING THAT'S PLACED BACK THERE.
UM, GOING FORWARD, I MEAN, SHOULD WE JUST KIND OF ESCALATE THOSE CONCERNS TO YOU? YES.
THAT WAS MY ONLY QUESTION FOR SOLID WASTE FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
THANKS AGAIN, MIKE, TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR ALL THAT Y'ALL ALSO DO FOR US AS WELL.
UM, GOING TO SLIDE SEVEN, I WAS CURIOUS HOW MUCH REVENUE IS GENERATED FROM CODE ENFORCEMENT ON THESE TOP FIVE UM, CASES? I, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW.
THE REVENUE WOULD BE, UM, THAT WE WOULD GET WOULD BE IF WE WERE TO ABATE IT, AND THEN BILL THE HOMEOWNER BACK, UH, THE PROPERTY OWNER BACK FOR THAT.
SO WE COULD PULL THAT, UH, FOR THOSE TYPE OF INVESTIGATIONS.
ARE YOU ALSO ASKING FOR FINES? YEAH, I WAS REALLY ASKING FOR THE FINES.
YOU WERE ASKING FOR FINES? MM-HMM.
WE WOULD HAVE TO, WE WOULD'VE TO GET THAT, UH, OKAY.
UM, ALSO TOO, FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS OVERGROWN AN OVERGROWN YARD, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE THEM TO GET ISSUED A CITATION OVERGROWN YARD? YOU'LL, YOU'LL GENERALLY BE GIVEN A, A 10 DAY NOTICE OF VIOLATION.
UH, WE'LL COME BACK AFTER THAT 10 DAY IS UP.
SO ON DAY 11 OR 12TH, UM, OR IF YOU NEED, UH, AND, AND IF YOU HAVEN'T, YOU COULD GET A CITATION, HOWEVER, UH, IF YOU NEEDED MORE TIME, UH, BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T GET TO IT THIS WEEKEND OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UH, IT'S COMMON TO GIVE THEM AN EXTENSION, A REASONABLE EXTENSION.
UH, BUT IT COULD BE AS LITTLE AS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS, AND THEN YOU WOULD GET A CITATION TO GO TO COURT.
DO, DO WE KIND OF HAVE A GAUGE OF HOW MANY SENIORS ARE BEING IMPACTED BY THE CITATIONS FOR OVERGROWN YARDS? I, I, I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER, BUT THAT'S CERTAINLY ONE OF THE ONES THAT WE, WHEN WE SEE A HARDSHIP CASE, SENIORS A LOT OF TIMES, UH, ARE, ARE IN THAT CATEGORY WHERE THEY PHYSICALLY CAN'T GET TO IT AS MM-HMM.
UH, A LITTLE BIT MORE ABLE BODIED OR SO.
UH, SO THAT'S ONE OF THOSE CASES WHERE WE ROUTINELY WILL GIVE AN EXTENSION IF, IF WARRANTED, AND THAT'S WOULD BE UP TO THE DISCRETION OF THE CODE OFFICER.
BUT THAT'S WHAT WE, THAT'S WHAT WE TRAIN OUR OFFICERS TO DO, IS TO ASSESS THE SITUATION.
UH, BUT ELDERLY IS, IS, IS CERTAINLY PART OF THAT POPULATION.
UM, I KNOW THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS A COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE FUND.
UM, IS THIS FUND EXHAUSTED EVERY YEAR? UH, JUST ABOUT, IT'S $15,000, YES.
UM, IT COULD BE A PLUMBING REPAIR, ROOF REPAIR.
THOSE CAN BE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.
SO, UH, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO EACH YEAR, UM, YOU KNOW, HELP THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE.
UH, WE, WE HAVE HAD SOME SMALLER CLEANUPS THOUGH THAT WE CAN USE IT.
I THINK THIS YEAR WE HAD, UH, THIS YEAR OR LAST YEAR, WE HAD A COUPLE OF THE SMALLER ONES, WHICH IS JUST REALLY CUTTING THE GRASS OR CLEANING UP THE PROPERTY.
WHAT, UH, WHAT DOES THE PROCESS LOOK LIKE TO APPLY FOR THOSE FUNDS? YEAH.
SO, UH, WHEN, WHEN THAT CODE WAS WRITTEN, UH, GEEZ, 20 13, 20 14.
SO WE HAVE TO ISSUE A NOTICE OF VIOLATION.
AND THEN IF, IF YOU HAVE A CHALLENGE OR YOU'RE DEEMED THAT YOU CAN'T DO IT, WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY TAKE YOU IN FRONT OF A JUDGE AND THE JUDGE MAKES THE CALL OR CONFIRMS IT'S THE ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING OFFICER THAT CONFIRMS THIS PERSON IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE COMPLIANCE FUND.
SO IT'S, IT, IT'S A LITTLE BIT CUMBERSOME, UM, TO GET THERE,
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BUT, UH, BUT THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT IT, THAT'S THE STEPS RIGHT NOW.I KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR TEAM IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A C C R TO CHANGE THE WAY WE HELP MODIFY THAT.
AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA BE MEETING WITH YOU AFTERWARDS, SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT Y'ALL'S PARTNERSHIP WITH THIS.
UM, WE, WE JUST DON'T WANT OUR OLDER ADULTS OR DISABLED RESIDENTS TO, YOU KNOW, GET HIT WITH A FINE AND, YOU KNOW, BUT WE'LL WORK WITH Y'ALL ON THIS.
MOVING ON TO SLIDE EIGHT, I NOTICED THAT THEIR GRAFFITI TARGET IS LOWER FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024.
I WAS CURIOUS AS THE REASONS TO WHY, I MEAN, YES, WE'RE ABOVE TARGET RIGHT NOW IN 2023.
UH, THE ESTIMATE, WELL, I THINK THE TAR, THE TARGET HAS REMAINED THE SAME.
WE'RE EXCEEDING THIS YEAR A LITTLE BIT.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE WERE UNDER IT LAST YEAR, SO WE, WE'VE BEEN MANAGING, I, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO HIT THAT 50,000 TARGET.
WE'RE SUCCESSFUL THIS YEAR, UH, EXCEEDING IT, AT LEAST OUR, OUR TARGET.
I THINK WE'RE ALREADY AT, UH, 50,000 WITH A FEW MORE WEEKS TO GO.
SO, UH, BUT THAT'S OUR PROPOSED TARGET AND BE, YOU KNOW, HAPPY TO GET FEEDBACK.
I GUESS, UH, LET ME REPHRASE THAT QUESTION.
I MEAN, I, I, IT'S INTERESTING THAT WE'VE ALREADY EXCEEDED THE TARGET, BUT NEXT YEAR WE'RE GOING BACK TO A LOWER YEAR.
WELL, THE 55,000 IS OUR ESTIMATE FOR THE END OF THE YEAR.
SO, BUT IT, BUT IT WILL BE, UH, WE WILL EXCEED THE TARGET OF 50,000 GRAFFITI SITES THIS YEAR.
SO, UM, AND THEN FINALLY ON SLIDE NINE, UH, THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM AND THANK YOU COUNCILMAN MAKI RODRIGUEZ, FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS.
I WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW IF THERE'S CHALLENGES IN INSTALLING THE STREETLIGHTS, BECAUSE SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT I'M HEARING IS THAT THE PROCESS TO INSTALL THE STREETLIGHTS IS TEDIOUS.
'CAUSE IT REQUIRES FOUR NEIGHBORS TO AGREE TO THE PLACEMENT OF ONE LIGHT.
AND ONE, I WANTED TO CHECK IF THAT'S CORRECT OR NOT.
WELL, WE SEND NOTICE TO FOUR NEIGHBORS, TWO SIDE BY SIDE AND ACROSS THE STREET, AND WE REALLY NEED EITHER ONE OR TWO PERMISSIONS, DEPENDING UPON THE TYPE OF LIGHT.
IF IT'S AN UNDERGROUND INSTALLATION OF THE POWER FROM MAYBE THE REAR, IF THE POWER IS FED FROM THE BACK, UM, IT CAN MAYBE BE AN UNDERGROUND LINE.
YOU ONLY NEED A FIVE FOOT EASEMENT.
YOU CAN DO THAT WITH ONE, ONE PERMISSION.
IF IT'S OVERHEAD, WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF OVERHEAD POWER BEHIND HOUSES OR ALLEYS, UH, THE C P SS WILL REQUIRE 10 FEET.
SO YOU KIND OF NEED FIVE AND FIVE.
UH, SO YOU DON'T NEED ALL FOUR TO AGREE.
VERY RARELY DO WE HAVE ALL FOUR.
SOMETIMES YOU ACTUALLY HAVE, I WANT IT, AND MY NEIGHBOR ACROSS THE STREET DOESN'T.
BUT WHEN WE GET, WHEN WE GET SOMEONE THAT, THAT, THAT CAN GIVE US THE APPROPRIATE OR GIVE C P S THE APPROPRIATE EASEMENT, THAT'S WHERE WE PLAN TO INSTALL IT.
SO THEN THEY'LL GO DESIGN IT, ORDER THE PARTS, ORDER THE INSTALLATION, AND GO DOWN THAT.
BUT IT IS, IT'S A, IT'S A CUMBERSOME PROCESS.
YOU HEARING COUNCILWOMAN? NO, I, WE, WE WERE UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT ALL FOUR RESIDENTS HAD TO AGREE, WHICH, YOU KNOW, WE DO NOT.
IT'S, IT IS KIND OF NEAR IMPOSSIBLE.
SO I WAS, UH, CURIOUS IF THAT WAS CORRECT.
AND THEN THE SECOND THING IS IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE COULD DO, UM, TO WORK WITH OUR RESIDENTS TO NOT MAKE THE PROCESS SO CUMBERSOME YEAH.
IS REALLY WHAT I WAS TRYING TO GET ON.
I THINK WHAT WE'RE DOING, THE, THE PROCESS THAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS, UH, REALLY TRYING TO ENGAGE SOME OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL AS THE COUNCIL OFFICES.
WE WANT TO HAVE THESE COMMUNITY OUTREACH MEETINGS BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND A LOT OF PEOPLE, EITHER THEY WANT IT OR DON'T WANT IT MM-HMM.
SO THE MORE THAT WE CAN HAVE OF THOSE, I THINK THE MORE PERMISSIONS WE'LL GET AND THE MORE DESIGNS AND INSTALLS WE'LL GET.
SO THAT'S THE PROCESS WE'RE DOING.
SO WE'LL BE COORDINATING WITH YOUR OFFICE AS WELL AS YOUR COLLEAGUES, UM, TO GET THAT DONE.
WERE YOU GONNA SAY SOMETHING? WAIT TILL I'M DONE.
NO, I WAS GONNA SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, PART, PART OF OUR CONVERSATION DURING THE SUMMER WAS, YOU KNOW, IF THE, IF IF ONE OF THE 4,300, UH, LIGHTS IS, UM, UM, SHOULD BE RIGHT HERE IN BETWEEN THE COUNCILWOMAN AND I AND WE CAN'T AGREE, THEN MAYBE THE CITY AS TERMS OF THE FACILITATOR AND WORKING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE STREET, MAYBE WE JUST NEED TO MOVE IT TO THE CORNER.
BUT IF WE'RE TWO HOMES DOWN AT THE CORNER, MAY MAYBE THAT, MAYBE THAT'LL SOLVE IT.
SO WE NEED TO BE, AND, AND HAVING THE, THE CONTRACTOR ASSISTANCE AT C P S WILL BE HELPFUL BECAUSE WE WANT TO GET THROUGH THE 4,300 MM-HMM.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO THINK THROUGH AND BE A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBLE, I THINK.
AND THANK YOU DAVID AND MIKE FOR THE PRESENTATIONS.
I'D LIKE TO GET STARTED WITH SOLID WASTE.
I, I WANTED TO COMMEND YOU ALL AND CITY STAFF FOR, UM, EXPLORING A HEAT PLAN FOR CITY EMPLOYEES WHO ARE OUT THERE IN THE FIELD.
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GRATEFUL TO SEE THAT YOU ALL ARE TAKING ON, UH, EXPLORING POTENTIAL EARLIER COLLECTION TIMES, AS WELL AS OTHER ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS.UH, WITH THE TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS, I, I KNOW, UH, COUNCILMAN BRAN, UH, HAD A COUPLE OF SUGGESTIONS, AND I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY LOOKS LIKE, BUT WOULD THERE BE OPPORTUNITY TO INCLUDE, UM, LIKE A CITATION IF THERE'S NO TRASH CAN PLACEMENT, OR IF THERE'S A BARRIER TO ACCESS THAT, THAT TRASH CAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK INTO THAT.
AND, AND I'M ASKING THAT BECAUSE, UH, OFTENTIMES WE HAVE CONSTITUENTS CALL OUR FIELD OFFICE, UM, SHARING THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE WAS A BARRIER TO GET TO THE TRASHCAN MM-HMM.
AND I THINK IT'D BE HELPFUL TO DOCUMENT WHETHER THERE WERE SKIPPED OR MAYBE SOME FOLKS FORGOT TO PUT IT OUT.
UH, AND WE CAN UNDERSTAND HOW TO NAVIGATE THAT CONSTITUENT SERVICES CALL, UM, WITH THE, THE SOLID WASTE TAKING ON, UM, THE ILLEGAL DUMPING SITES.
THAT'S ONE THING THAT I'M REALLY, UH, GRATEFUL FOR YOU ALL.
I HAVE THE 3 1 1 APP AND ALL OF MY 3 1 1, UH, REPORTS ARE ILLEGAL DUMPING, AND I'D SAY ONE TO TWO DAYS AND IT'S GONE.
AND I LIKE TO USE THE APP BECAUSE I LIKE TO KNOW THE USER EXPERIENCE.
AND NOT FROM THE, THE CITY COUNCIL SIDE.
SO THANK Y'ALL FOR TACKLING THOSE ISSUES.
UH, ONE CONCERN THAT I DID HAVE, BUT IT WAS ADDRESSED DURING, UM, THE D H SS PRESENTATION WAS, YOU ALL ARE SO EFFICIENT AND PRESENT AND TAKE CARE OF THOSE CONSTITUENT CONCERNS, UH, VERY EFFICIENTLY.
AND WITH ADDITIONAL WORK, I WANTED TO BE SURE THAT WE WOULDN'T SEE A BACKLOG OR LONGER WAITING TIMES TO TACKLE THESE ISSUES.
BUT, UH, MY UNDERSTANDING IS YOU ALL WILL BE RECEIVING, UH, SOME FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO HELP ALLEVIATE THAT.
IS THAT CORRECT? UH, FOR THE ADDITIONAL HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT.
NO, THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY HELPFUL.
UM, WITH THE ILLEGAL DUMPING SITES, DO YOU ALL HAVE AN IDEA OF WHERE THERE'S FREQUENT SITES THAT CONTINUALLY HAVE THE SAME REOCCURRING ISSUE OVER AND OVER AGAIN? I AM SO GLAD YOU ASKED THAT.
COULD YOU PULL UP SLIDE 22? MM-HMM.
SO AFTER LAST YEAR, AND WE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSION ON ILLEGAL DUMPS, I WAS ASKED, WHERE IS IT? WHAT IS IT? WHO'S DOING IT? WE CREATED THIS APP.
WE HAVE ABOUT EIGHT OF OUR 37 CREW LEADERS THAT HAVE IT.
UH, SO WE CAN GEO-LOCATE WHERE IT IS.
IF YOU GO INTO THE, THE PROGRAM, YOU'LL SEE A BEFORE PICTURE AND AFTER PICTURE IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
UH, AND THEN WE ALSO IDENTIFY WHAT'S IN THE PILE.
UM, I THINK WE PROBABLY HAVE ABOUT FOUR OR 500 ENTRIES INTO IT.
UH, BUT WE CAN MAKE THAT AVAILABLE TO, TO EVERYBODY.
SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE COLLECTING.
AND THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL DATA, AND I'M CURIOUS IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH PD ON HOTSPOTS.
'CAUSE THIS IS A LOT OF RESOURCES, A LOT OF EMISSIONS AND GAS, UM, TACKLING THE SAME AREAS.
SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WORTH EXPLORING.
AND, AND WE, WE ARE DOING THAT TODAY WITH S A P D.
'CAUSE ON MY 3 1 1 APP, IT'S LIKE SOME OF THE SAME SPOTS.
IT'S, AND THAT I'M REPORTING OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
UM, SO, UM, THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS FOR NOW FOR YOU, DAVID.
UM, MIKE, UM, REALLY PLEASED TO SEE THAT YOU ALL HAVE CODE CASE MANAGERS IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET.
CAN YOU SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT THAT WORK LOOKS LIKE AND, AND THE GOAL WITH IT? YEAH.
SO THIS PAST YEAR, UM, WE ACTUALLY ADDED, UH, A CODE CASE MANAGER, UH, TO REALLY FACILITATE, UH, KIND OF FROM THE CODE, UH, CASES THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, I'M DEALING WITH, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER WITH SOMEONE, ELDERLY INDIVIDUAL.
INDIVIDUAL OR SOMEONE THAT'S STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP THEIR PROPERTY TO MAINTAIN CODES.
UM, RATHER THAN HAVING THE CODE OFFICER DEAL WITH THAT AS WELL AS THE CODE ISSUE AND POSSIBLY A NOTICE OF VIOLATION.
WE HAVE ONE TEAM MEMBER THAT WE HAVE NOW THAT FACILITATES THAT DISCUSSION BETWEEN OTHER PARTNERS, OTHER PARTNERS.
UH, BUT THEY FACILITATE THAT REFERRAL AND THEN THEY HOLD ONTO THAT PERSON OR THAT HOUSEHOLD TO SEE IF THEY GET SOME ASSISTANCE.
UM, I THINK WE ACTUALLY, UH, WE INTRODUCED INGRID TO YOU.
AND, UH, SHE'S DOING A GREAT JOB.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE THAT CASE MANAGER ON THOSE THAT NEED A LITTLE EXTRA HANDHOLDING.
'CAUSE THEY'RE REALLY NOT TRYING TO VIOLATE THE CODE.
UH, THEY JUST NEED TO FIND, UH, EITHER SOME OWNER OCCUPIED REHAB OR SOME, UH, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, RESOURCES THAT MAYBE AREN'T CITY, BUT SOME, UH, SOME NONPROFITS TO HELP OUT.
AND THAT, THAT, THAT CONNECTION IS WHAT THAT PERSON'S RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL DAY, EVERY DAY.
UH, SO OUR CODE OFFICERS LOVE IT.
AND INGRID'S BEEN DOING A FANTASTIC JOB.
SO THANK YOU'ALL, UM, WITH THE STREET LIGHTING INDEX.
AGAIN, UH, THANK YOU COUNCILMAN FOR TAKING THIS ON.
AND THIS IS A HUGE PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERN THAT MY CONSTITUENTS HAVE,
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UH, REGARDING AREAS THAT NEED LIGHTING.UM, BUT I'M LOOKING AT THE DASHBOARD AND IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN UPDATED, BUT I'M SEEING THAT DISTRICT FOUR AND FIVE HAVE HAD ZERO INSTALLED.
I'M NOT TOO SURE IF IT JUST HASN'T BEEN UPDATED, BUT IF NOT, I, I'D LIKE TO WORK ON ENSURING THAT DISTRICTS ARE, THAT HAVE ZERO WORK TOWARDS HAVING SOME LIGHTS INSTALLED.
WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL SIT DOWN WITH YOU ON THOSE TWO AND, AND GO THROUGH THAT.
AND THEN, UM, I I, I AM SUPPORTIVE OF THE INITIATIVE OF COUNCILWOMAN GARAVITO.
I, I WANNA ENSURE THAT WE'RE DOING ALL WE CAN TO AVOID HAVING, UH, INDIVIDUALS IN FRONT OF A JUDGE.
AND GIVEN THAT CITATION, UM, IT, IT COULD BE QUITE FRIGHTENING, RIGHT? YES.
BUT I UNDERSTAND IT'S THE CODE AND CODE ENFORCEMENT'S ROLE IS TO ENFORCE THE CODE AS IS, SO I UNDERSTAND.
BUT, UM, I LIKE, I THINK WE HELP OUT A LITTLE BIT TOO.
SO, UH, AGAIN, AS MENTIONED, REALLY IMPRESSED WITH THE PROACTIVE APARTMENT INSPECTION, UH, METRICS.
IT'S, IT'S, UH, REALLY IMPRESSIVE TO SEE, UH, THE WORK THAT Y'ALL BEEN DOING.
THOSE ARE, WELL, LASTLY, UH, I, I DID HAVE AN ADDITIONAL COMMENT IN REGARDS TO, IT'S IN GENERAL WITH THE, THE, THE VACANT STRUCTURES AND THE FIRES.
UM, WITH THE, THE INITIATIVE FOR ENCAMPMENT CLEARANCES, MY CONCERN IS THAT IF FOLKS AREN'T GOING TO HAVE A PLACE TO GO, THEY'RE LIKELY NOT GOING TO HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO, BUT VACANT STRUCTURES.
AND MY CONCERN IS HOW THAT MAY IMPACT ADDITIONAL FIRES WITH VACANT STRUCTURES.
AND THAT'S A LARGER CONVERSATION, NOT TIED TO A BUDGET BUDGET ASK, BUT I THINK SOMETHING WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF REALLY GOOD POINTS THAT HAVE BROUGHT UP BY ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
SO I THINK THAT ALL OF US HAVE SIMILAR PROBLEMS IN OUR DISTRICTS.
SO I APPRECIATE HEARING A LOT OF WHAT'S BEEN MENTIONED.
UM, I'M GONNA START OFF WITH SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND, AND I WANT A LITTLE BIT OF AN UNDERSTANDING.
I SEE, UH, TWO DIFFERENT, UH, SLIDES THAT TALK ABOUT BUDGET.
AND SLIDE THREE SAYS THE PROJECTED BUDGET IS $177 MILLION, BUT SLIDE NINE SHOWS $151.6 MILLION.
UH, AND I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT TO ME? THE TWO DIFFERENT FUNDS ARE THE SOLID WASTE FUND, AND THAT'S THE 148 MILLION AND THE, UH, FLEET SERVICES FUND AT 28 MILLION.
WELL, WHEN I LOOK AT THREE, IT, IT, IT DOESN'T SHOW THAT NUMBER.
148, LET'S SEE IF I CAN SEE IT AGAIN HERE.
SO THE 28.4, WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? HOW DO, HOW DO WE GENERATE THAT REVENUE? SO THE 28.4 IS THE FLEET SERVICES FUND.
SO THAT'S AN INTERNAL SERVICE FUND.
SO THEY, UM, MAINTAIN ALL OF OUR LARGE EQUIPMENT.
AND THEY, UM, THEY'RE GETTING REVENUES FROM THEIR BILLING FROM, FROM LABOR RATES.
SO IT'S THE SAME BILLING S CYCLE.
RIGHT? IT'S THE SAME SERVICES.
WE, IT'S, IT'S NOT GENERAL FUND DOLLARS.
PART, PART OF IT MIGHT, SO, SO I'LL TAKE A CRACK AT IT.
SO THE $28.4 MILLION FLEET SERVICES FUND CHARGES BOTH THE SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS AND PARKS.
SO A PART OF THAT 28.4 IS COMING FROM PUBLIC WORKS GENERAL FUND AND, AND PARKS AND REC VEHICLES.
UH, THAT'S MORE UNDERSTANDABLE.
UM, BACK ON, UH, SLIDE NINE, I NOTICED THAT WE HAVE A PROJECTION OF 148 MILLION, 148.8.
UH, AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S ABOUT A $6 MILLION INCREASE FROM THE LAST BUDGET.
BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY, UH, BECAUSE THE REVENUE WAS LOWER THAN EXPECTED AT 1 31, WE'RE RAISING IT BY $20 MILLION.
AND, UH, FROM 1 31 TO 1 51, UH, AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ASKING FOR ABOUT 2.8 MILLION MORE THAN WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING TO SPEND AT 148.8 MILLION.
WHY ARE WE ASKING FOR 2.8 MILLION MORE FOR REVENUE WHEN WE'RE PROJECTING SPENDING 1.1 48.8? SO COUNCIL MEMBER, WE ARE ENDING 20, OR WE'RE ESTIMATING TO END FISCAL YEAR 2023 IN A NEGATIVE FUND BALANCE.
SO WE ABOUT, I HAVE ABOUT A MILLION DOLLAR IN A NEGATIVE FUND BALANCE IN 2023 THAT WE'RE ESTIMATING.
SO THAT REVENUE IS, IS ACCOUNTING FOR THAT DEFICIT, AND THEN LEAVING A SMALL FUND BALANCE, UH, IN 2024.
SO WE'RE ANTICIPATING A DEFICIT IN THE DEPARTMENT.
UH, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS PROMOTING PEOPLE TO GO TO A SMALLER SIZE CART IF THEY HAVE A BIG ONE TO MAYBE A MEDIUM OR SMALL, BUT WON'T THAT REDUCE OUR REVENUE EVEN MORE? AND, AND HOW DOES THAT BALANCE OUT? IT WILL, UH, AND WE'LL JUST HAVE TO MANAGE IT.
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LET ERIC TAKE A CRACK AT THAT ONE TOO.I JUST DID A LITTLE CALCULATION AND IF 10,000 PEOPLE DECIDED THEY WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE DOWN, UH, THAT WOULD BE 12 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS LESS IN REVENUE.
SO THERE, THERE'S OBVIOUSLY AN OPERATIONAL IMPACT BETWEEN THE BIGGER CART AND THE MEDIUM CART OR THE SMALLER CART.
UM, IF WE'RE NOT SPENDING AS MUCH FOR DISPOSAL, OR WE'RE NOT HAVING, OR, OR WE'RE SAVING TIME ON THE OPERATING SIDE, YOU KNOW, WE MAY BE IN A POSITION THAT DAVE MENTIONED EARLIER, THAT 10% OF OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE THAT MEDIUM CART AND 13% HAVE THE SMALL CART.
IF THAT, IF THAT DRASTICALLY CHANGES, THEN IT'S GONNA CHANGE OUR FEE STRUCTURE.
AND THIS TIME NEXT YEAR, WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK AT HOW WE REBALANCE THAT.
BUT, UM, GIVEN THE CURRENT SITUATION, UM, BASED ON THE RATES, UM, THIS IS, WE'RE PROJECTING WE ARE, AND WE'VE, WE'VE DONE IT ALL THE TOWN HALLS AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO DO IT.
PEOPLE CAN SAVE MONEY IF THEY RIGHTSIZE THAT CART.
AND, AND I'VE BEEN SAYING THE SAME THING THAT COUNCILWOMAN GROS BEEN SAYING, IF YOUR BROWN CART IS NOT FULL DOWNSIZE.
SO WE'LL HAVE TO ADJUST NEXT YEAR.
I WAS JUST LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, A LOSS OF REVENUE.
COUNCILMAN, CAN I, UH, I KNOW WE'RE LOOKING AT RAISING THE, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL FEE, A DOLLAR 26.
HAS ANYTHING BEEN LOOKED AT MAYBE NOT RAISING THE FEE FOR CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO HAVE FINANCIAL OBSTACLES, WHICH WE DO WITH MANY OTHER INSTANCES.
UH, WE HAVE MAYBE A, A SLIDER IN FEE INCREASE FOR PEOPLE AT CERTAIN ECONOMIC LEVELS.
HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT AT ALL? THE SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE, THAT I'VE BEEN DESCRIBING AT THE VARIOUS TOWN HALLS IS THIS PAY AS YOU THROW.
SO IT, IT'S BACK TO A SMALLER CART WITH RESPECT TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL FEE.
UH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF SERVICES THAT WE'RE OUT THERE PROVIDING THAT ARE CITYWIDE.
AND SO, UH, WE HAVE NOT LOOKED AT A SLIDING SCALE ON THAT.
UH, UH, BUT, BUT THESE SERVICES ARE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO DO.
BUT, YOU KNOW, A DOLLAR IS A DOLLAR SOMETIMES FOR SOME PEOPLE.
THAT'S ALL I HAD FOR SOLID WASTE.
MIKE, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
I'D LIKE AN EXPLANATION OF YOUR STAFF THAT IS WORKING ON OVERSEEING AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
IT'S THE FIRST TIME I'D HEARD THAT, PUT THAT WAY.
SO WHAT WE PROPOSED AND WE'RE, UH, WE ADDED SOME STAFF, UM, A BUDGET OR SO AGO, TWO BUDGETS AGO, I THINK IT WAS TWO BUDGETS AGO.
AND THE IDEA IS WE KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, PROJECTS THAT, UM, WHETHER THEY'RE NEW APARTMENT COMPLEXES THAT GO THROUGH THE TAX CREDIT, UH, PROCESS, UH, PUTTING AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS ONLINE OR MAYBE JUST SOME SMALL PROJECTS THAT HOMEOWNERS NEED TO DO TO UPGRADE THEIR HOME, TO STAY IN THEIR HOUSE.
UH, WE ADDED SOME RESOURCES THAT ALL THEY DO IS WORK ON PROJECTS, AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECTS, UM, BIG OR SMALL.
AND THEY HELP WITH A LITTLE EXTRA HANDHOLDING, STREAMLINE THAT PROCESS BECAUSE IT'S REPETITIVE, UH, YOU KNOW, HOUSING OR APARTMENTS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
IT, IT ALLOWS THEM TO BECOME EXPERTS AS WELL AS PROVIDE SOME UPFRONT PRELIMINARY CONSULTATIONS AND HELPING THEM THROUGH OUR PROCESS.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE STREAMLINE THE PERMITTING AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF RULES AND REGS, UH, TO GET THROUGH.
SO WE, WE ADDED THAT TEAM THERE, SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID WITH THE SCHOOL TEAM, UH, ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO.
A TEAM DEDICATED TO THAT, UH, CONSTRUCTION TYPE.
UH, SOME OF THE SAME CODE RULES APPLY.
SO IT'S, IT'S SOMEWHAT REPETITIVE FOR OUR TEAM MEMBERS.
AND IT JUST GIVES THEM AN ADVANTAGE OF GETTING THROUGH THE PROCESS QUICKER.
UH, WHICH OF COURSE I SAID BEFORE, TIME IS MONEY AND IT MAKES IT, UH, STAY AFFORDABLE.
WERE YOU, ARE YOU WORKING WITH NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING AND SERVICES DEVELOPMENT? ABSOLUTELY, YES.
ESPECIALLY WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING MINOR REPAIR OR MAJOR REPAIR.
DO YOU COORDINATE WITH THEM? YES.
SO, UM, OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING TEAM IS ON, UH, THE MEETING WITH MARK CARMONA, NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES AND ALL THE OTHER HOUSING PARTNERS.
UH, WE ACTUALLY MEET EVERY OTHER WEEK.
WE CALL IT THE HOUSING HUDDLE, UH, TO GO OVER IT.
BUT THEY ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THAT.
AND THAT PARTNERSHIP IS, UH, NOT ONLY GOOD FOR US AS CITY STAFF, BUT REALLY THE CUSTOMERS, WHETHER IT BE AN INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNER OR A APARTMENT COMPLEX COMING ONLINE.
UM, YOU KNOW, AN ISSUE THAT I'VE HAD, AND I, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE HAD IT, BUT I'M SURE THEY HAVE, HAS BEEN, UH, PROBLEMS WITH SOUND, UH, NOISE AT NIGHT, DISTURBING NEIGHBORHOODS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
UH, AND IT'S A CODE COMPLIANCE ISSUE.
AND I'M WONDERING HOW MANY 3 1 1 CALLS ABOUT NOISE AT NIGHT HAVE COME THROUGH YOUR OFFICE IN THE LAST YEAR OR SO? IN THE LAST YEAR? ZERO.
SO, NO, THEY DON'T COME THROUGH MY OFFICE.
THEY COME THROUGH S A P D NON-EMERGENCY.
IF YOU REMEMBER, A COUPLE YEARS AGO WE DID THE NOISE ENFORCEMENT PILOT PROGRAM.
UH, WE WERE TRYING TO LOOK AT UPDATING THE CODE, CHANGING THE CODE TO SEE IF WE COULD ADDRESS MOSTLY THOSE WERE CALLS FROM BUSINESSES ADJACENT TO NEIGHBORHOOD,
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MAYBE BARS OR THOSE TYPE OF THINGS.UH, WE DID A, UH, PILOT PROGRAM FOR SIX MONTHS.
IT WAS APPROVED IN THE BUDGET WHERE WE HAD CODE OFFICERS DEDICATED AT NIGHT.
SO WE TOOK SOME CODE OFFICERS, UH, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY NIGHT.
UH, WE ACTUALLY HANDLED, I REMEMBER THIS NUMBER 'CAUSE WE, I WISH WE COULD GET THE 3000, BUT WE HANDLED 2,999 CALLS IN A SIX MONTH PERIOD.
UH, WE'RE ABLE TO GET OUT THERE WITH NOISE METERS.
UH, WHEN THERE WAS A VIOLATION, UH, WE HANDED IT OFF TO PD TO COME WRITE THE TICKET.
UH, AND WE GRABBED THAT DATA, PRESENTED IT TO A TASK FORCE.
I THINK WE MIGHT'VE TALKED ABOUT IT TO INDIVIDUALLY OR THIS GROUP.
UH, BUT IT WASN'T REALLY EFFECTIVE.
IT WASN'T TOO EFFECTIVE FOR CODE OFFICERS TO BE OUT AT NIGHT, UM, UH, IN THE MANNER THAT WE HAD IT.
SO, UH, THAT'S WHERE IT LANDED.
BUT SINCE THEN, AND I THINK IT WAS ABOUT A YEAR AGO, A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, UH, THAT'S TRANSITIONED BACK TO S A P D.
SO WE COULD CERTAINLY WORK WITH S A P D TO GET YOU THAT DATA ON HOW MANY 3 1 1 CALLS COME IN, BUT IT'S PROBABLY SS A P D NON-EMERGENCY, I THINK IS WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO.
BUT IT'S, IT'S STILL A CODE COMPLIANCE ISSUE.
IS THAT RIGHT? AND NOISE VIOLATIONS? WELL, UH, IT'S A, THERE'S A CODE THAT HAS RULES FOR NOISE AND BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS NEED TO BE IN COMPLIANCE.
BUT, BUT CODE COMPLIANCE OFFICERS CAN'T WRITE A TICKET.
IS THAT CORRECT? I, I DIDN'T HAVE THAT QUESTION.
THEY COULDN'T WRITE A CITATION CODE.
COMPLIANCE OFFICERS RIGHT NOW, THEY DO NOT WRITE THE CITATIONS.
BUT CAN WE COULD HAVE THE LEGAL, YES, WE COULD WRITE THE CITATION.
SO THE, THE ISSUE COUNCILMAN WAS THE, THE CODE OFFICER GOING TO THE BAR AT 1230 AT NIGHT.
THEY'RE AUTHOR, THEY'RE AUTHORIZED.
WELL, THAT I GET, THAT'S THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE.
WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH POLICE OFFICERS OUT THERE DOING THIS.
UH, AND I'VE SAID THAT I'D LIKE THE POLICE TO GO AHEAD AND BUY SOME OF THESE, UH, DECIBEL METERS SO THAT THEY CAN GO AHEAD AND WRITE TICKETS.
BUT I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE CODE COMPLIANCE OUT THERE AGAIN, 'CAUSE THE POLICE OFFICERS AREN'T DOING IT ENOUGH.
SO I'LL COME BACK ABOUT MY OTHER ISSUE AFTER.
UM, AARON, THANK YOU, UH, TO, UH, THE PRESENTERS.
UM, I WANNA START OFF BY SAYING THAT, UH, DUMPING IS BECOMING MORE BOLD AND YOU ALL ARE AT MY BUDGET TOWN HALL THIS WEEKEND, AND YOU ALL COULD NOT MISS THE MOBILE HOME THAT WAS DUMPED ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
AND SO, UM, THAT'S ON TECH DOT RIGHT AWAY.
SO, UM, WE WERE TRYING TO DEFINE LIKE, WHO'S WHOSE IS IT? RIGHT? UM, BUT SO THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH US AND I JUST WANTED TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR A FEW DAYS NOW.
UM, SO, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
I GUESS A $25,000 BILL TO MOVE IT OUTTA THE WAY IS, IS IN QUESTION, RIGHT? LIKE, WHO'S GONNA PUT THAT, UH, COST.
AND SO I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO SAY THAT BECAUSE, UH, DUMPING IS COSTING US A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY.
AND SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE, ARE AWARE THAT, UM, THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO LOOK AT.
UM, BUT BACK TO THE, THE D S D PRESENTATION, I'M PLEASED TO SEE THE PROACTIVE VERSUS THE REACTIVE IS UP.
SO I ALWAYS, UM, LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THAT WE SHOULD BE BEING MORE PROACTIVE THAN, THAN REACTIVE.
ALSO, MIKE, I LOVE THE DASHBOARD.
AND SO, UM, MIKE, SHANNON, FOR THOSE OF YOU ALL, WHO UH, WHO WHO WHO DIDN'T KNOW HAD BEEN WORKING ON THIS DASHBOARD, HE WAS SO PROUD TO SEND IT TO ME AS A, A BIRTHDAY GIFT.
UH, AND SO HE SAID, HERE'S FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, A DASHBOARD, YOUR DASHBOARD.
AND SO THANK YOU MIKE SHANNON.
UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY STAFF YOU MENTIONED, I THINK TO THE MAYOR, YOU SAID MAYBE FIVE ARE WORKING ON THIS.
UH, AND SO I'M PLEASED TO SEE THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL ONES AND THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO COMPLETING SOME ADDITIONAL VISITS.
UM, I DO KNOW, AND I'VE HEARD, UM, COUNCILMAN, UH, CAVEO HDA MENTION, UM, ONE OF THE APARTMENTS THAT SHE VISITED ONE TIME, LIKE THAT'S WHERE THEY LITERALLY FOUND A BODY, RIGHT? AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S THE, THE SAME COMPLEX, UM, WHERE WE SAW LAST WEEK'S, UH, INCIDENT WITH THE POLICE OFFICERS.
AND SO, UM, THERE'S, UH, A COUPLE OF APARTMENT COMPLEXES ON THAT LIST THAT I WOULD ASSUME HAVE THE SAME OWNER, RIGHT? THAT, THAT ARE ON THAT PROACTIVE INSPECTION, UM, LIST.
SO I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE GOING AFTER THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY ARE, UH, AN A, A DANGER TO OUR COMMUNITY.
'CAUSE AT THIS POINT, IT'S JUST DANGEROUS.
UM, ON THE, UH, I RECENTLY SUBMITTED A STRATEGIC PLAN, UH, FOR CODE COMPLIANCE REQUEST.
UM, AND SO ON SLIDE SEVEN, I AM, UH, THAT'S THE REASON THAT I, I WANTED TO SUBMIT SOMETHING AND TAKE THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO, UH, SUPPORTED ME ON THAT, THE PROACTIVE, UH, CASES FOR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, UM, KEEP IT UP FOR COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES AND VACANT LOTS AND, AND THE FOCUS ON THE QUALITY WORK OF THOSE CALLED, AND I THINK IS, SHOULD BE A, A PRIMARY FOCUS.
AND I'M HOPEFUL THAT IF WE DO THIS STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE WORK, UM, WITH THE GOOD NEIGHBOR PROGRAM AND JUST TO BUILD A BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE RESIDENTS.
I ALSO, WHEN I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE HAVE A VACANT BUILDING PROGRAM EXPANSION,
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C C R I WAS WORKING ON IT WITH COUNCILMAN COURAGE.UH, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE IDENTIFY THOSE VACANT LOTS AND TRY TO PREVENT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN.
UM, ALSO THERE'S 4,300 LIGHTS THAT WERE WARRANTED.
ONLY 187 HAVE, UH, BEEN INSTALLED SO FAR.
UM, IS THERE ANY WAY THAT WE CAN MAYBE GET AN UPDATE AT P C D C SO THAT WE COULD LOOK AT THOSE EXISTING PARAMETERS? AND KINDA LIKE ERIC SAID, IF MY NEIGHBOR IS, IS HAVING AN ISSUE.
SO I'D LOVE TO SEE THAT MAYBE, UM, TO COME THROUGH P C D C JUST AS AN UPDATE.
AND I KNOW THAT EVENTUALLY THE WHOLE COUNCIL WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT IT.
AND THEN, UM, WE ALSO, I THINK, HAVE, UH, BEEN, UH, ABLE TO, UM, TO THINK ABOUT THE STAFFING REQUIRED RIGHT.
FOR SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS. SO, UM, SO I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU, MIKE.
'CAUSE I KNOW AT FIRST, LIKE WHEN YOU RECEIVED SOME CCRS, UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST ARE THINKING, OH MY GOSH, THERE'S MORE PEOPLE, MORE PEOPLE AND MORE PEOPLE.
BUT I THINK THAT WE ARE DOING SOME GOOD.
AND I HAVE NO OTHER, UM, THINGS FOR YOU.
SO, SO THANK YOU MIKE FOR SOLID WASTE.
UM, WE ASKED, OR I SPECIFICALLY ASKED FOR A THIRD BRUSH COLLECTION LAST YEAR DURING BUDGET, AND WE WERE TOLD NO.
AND I'M DESPERATELY TRYING TO FIND THE MEMO BUDGET WHERE YOU SAID NO, WHY IT WASN'T COSTE EFFECTIVE.
UM, AND SO, BUT I, I HEARD MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILMAN MAKI RODRIGUEZ EARLIER SAY THE SAME THING AT THAT LAST YEAR'S BUDGET SESSION.
THERE WAS LIKE AT LEAST FIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO ECHOED MY REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL BRUSH COLLECTION.
AND SO I JUST KIND OF WANNA, WANNA, WANNA KIND OF, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR OUR RESIDENTS, AND I KNOW THAT WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE UP FOR MONEY RIGHT NOW.
UM, BUT IT JUST KEEPS COMING UP, RIGHT? IT SEEMS LIKE YEAR AFTER YEAR AND OUR RESIDENTS WANT TO SEE THIS OR, UM, OR BULKY.
UH, SO JUST, JUST A PLUG FOR THAT.
I'M SURE YOU ALL HAD ALREADY DONE THE RESEARCH, SO JUST LOOK IT UP IN THE BUDGET WORK SESSION.
'CAUSE YOU ALL ARE ALWAYS THERE AND Y'ALL ARE VERY, VERY SUPPORTIVE.
I, I WANNA GIVE ANDREW GUTIERREZ A SHOUT OUT IN D FOUR.
UM, WE HAVE THIS, UH, CHRONIC ILLEGAL DUMPING AND HE'S JUST INCREDIBLE.
THE HOTSHOT TEAM HAS JUST BEEN SO AWESOME AS WELL.
UM, UM, THE NUMBER ONE CALL TO THREE ONE ONE IS MISS COLLECTION.
AND SO IS THAT, DO YOU THINK ALSO JUST BECAUSE OF THE SHEER NUMBER OF PICKUPS OR, ABSOLUTELY.
AND THEN ONE OF THAT, THE RESULT THAT COMES FROM SOME OF THOSE CALLS IS IT'S A LOT OF RESIDENTS THAT ARE, UM, MAYBE, UH, THAT ARE DISABLED OR THAT MISS BECAUSE THEY MOVE A LITTLE BIT SLOWER.
I SEE IT LIKE WITH, WITH MY DAD FOR INSTANCE.
AND SO, UM, I HEARD THAT RESIDENTS HAVE TO RE-ENROLL IN THE PROGRAM, UM, TO HELP THEM EVERY YEAR.
IS THERE A WAY THAT WE CAN JUST AUTOMATICALLY ENROLL THEM? I MEAN, I DON'T THINK THAT THEY'RE GOING TO, UM, IT'S GONNA CHANGE.
SO IS THERE A WAY TO DO THAT? SURE.
WE JUST REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE STILL THERE AND THAT THEY NEED THE SERVICE.
SO MAYBE IT'S LIKE EVERY THREE YEARS.
I I JUST, IT SEEMS LIKE ONE YEAR IS SO MUCH WORK ON US AS WELL.
UM, AND MAYBE WE COULD CROSS-REFERENCE IT WITH STEER.
UM, AND SO I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD WAY OF, OF, OF FIGURING OUT THE, YOU KNOW, THE STEER THE CHRONIC, UH, HEALTH ACCESS.
I DON'T KNOW IF, IF THAT MIGHT BE ANOTHER WAY TO DO IT, BUT I WAS JUST THINKING THAT, UM, IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE LOOK AT.
AND THEN FINALLY, UM, I GET A LOT OF, UH, PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT COVEL ROAD AND THAT'S RIGHT WHERE, UH, KIND OF LIKE NELSON GARDENS IS LIKE, IT'S, IT'S THIS NEXT STREET OVER.
UM, I GET A LOT OF PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT, UM, RAY ELLISON AND THEY ALWAYS BLAME THE DUMP TRUCKS, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, HELP ME JUST ANSWER FOR THE POTHOLES.
AND SO THEY SAY, WELL, IT'S ALL OF THE, THE GARBAGE TRUCKS AND WE COMPLAIN ABOUT IT TOO.
SO HELP ME ADDRESS, LIKE HOW DO I, IS THERE A PLAN? DO Y'ALL LOOK AT THIS? HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
UH, IF ROZY WAS HERE, I WOULD ASK HIM IF IT'S ON THE BOND, BECAUSE I THINK IT IS, IT IS.
BUT I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT LIKE, DO YOU ALL, DO YOU ALL ALSO GET THAT? LIKE, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THAT INFORMATION? DO YOU SHARE IT WITH ROZY? HOW DO YOU PRIORITIZE THOSE TRAIT? I JUST FEEL HORRIBLE FOR, FOR Y'ALL BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE Y'ALL GET BLAMED FOR THAT.
AND I MEAN, YOU KIND OF HAVE TO MOVE THE TRASH OUT.
SO ANYWAY, SO SORRY, I KNOW ERIC WAS SLAPPING AT ME, BUT, SO, UM, ANY RESPONSE, JUST GENERAL RESPONSE, LIKE AS HOW OFTEN AND YEAH, I JUST REALIZED THAT IT PROBABLY WAS A ROSY QUESTION, BUT ANYWAY, SO I KNOW IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER CORE.
OKAY, SO LET'S START WITH SOLID WASTE.
SO, QUICK QUESTION ON THE ENCAMPMENT CLEANUP.
SO I KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING FROM 500 TO 700 AND THAT BUDGET IS A LITTLE BIT OVER 500 K, WHAT WAS IT LAST YEAR? I COULDN'T FIND THAT AMOUNT.
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IT ALREADY? SO THE TOTAL BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024 IS ABOUT 2.2 MILLION.SO IT'S ABOUT 1.7 MILLION IN 2023.
SO THAT'S HOW MUCH IT'S INCREASING BY THE 500,000 IS YES.
AND SO THAT WILL COVER THE 200 ADDITIONAL CLEANUPS THAT WE NEED.
SO THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO DO THE 700 ENCAMPMENTS.
UM, AND THEN IN TYPES OF, FOR BULK PICKUP SPECIFICALLY, I KNOW THERE WAS ON THAT SLIDE MENTIONED THAT YOU ALSO DO ADDITIONAL BULKY OR, UH, BRUSH PICKUP BASED ON REQUEST.
HOW OFTEN DOES THAT HAPPEN? HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHICH ONES YOU'RE GOING TO AND WHICH ONES YOU WON'T? WELL, IT'S A, THAT'S A, UM, A PROGRAM WHERE A CUSTOMER WOULD CALL IN AND REQUEST IT.
WE GIVE THEM A ESTIMATE AND THEY EITHER ELECT TO PAY FOR THE ESTIMATE AND THEN WE COME OUT AND PICK IT UP.
SO IT'S JUST A, A, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT WE WORK OUT WITH THE CUSTOMER.
UM, SO THE CUS THE RESIDENT ENDS UP PAYING FOR IT IF THEY WANT HELP FOR THE OUTER CYCLE.
UM, AND THEN, UM, FOR THE 2024 INITIATIVES AROUND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, I THINK THOSE ARE REALLY STRONG INITIATIVES.
IS THERE ANY WAY THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN GET INVOLVED TO LIKE, DO ADDITIONAL CLEANUP DAYS OR THINGS LIKE THAT? ABSOLUTELY.
AND WITH RESPECT TO THOSE COMMUNITY CLEANUPS, THE A TRAILER OR TEXT A TRAILER, I LIKE THAT, THAT COMMENT.
UM, WE WANT TO WORK WITH YOUR OFFICES IF THERE'S ANYBODY THAT'S DOING A CLEANUP, AND WE'LL BE THERE ON A SATURDAY AND WE'LL, WE'LL ASSIST WITH THE CLEANUP.
AND THEN FROM A SUSTAINABILITY PERSPECTIVE, WHAT'S TAKING PLACE AT LANDFILL FOR LANDFILL MAINTENANCE? UM, WITH ALL THIS TRASH? SO THE, WHAT WE DO IS MAINTAIN THE OLD CLOSED CITY LANDFILLS.
THE LAST ONE THAT WAS OPEN, CLOSED IN 1993.
UH, AND WHAT WE DO IS WE MAKE SURE THAT THE, THE SURFACE IS, IS GOOD THAT THERE'S, ITS IT GRASS GROWING, WE CUT IT, ET CETERA.
BUT THERE'S A LOT OF MONITORING OF GAS, OF, UH, GROUNDWATER, ET CETERA TO MAKE SURE IT'S IN COMPLIANCE.
SO THAT'S WHAT THE GROUP IS THAT DOES THE, UH, WORKS FOR ME.
DID YOU MIGHT WANT TO, JUST IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABILITY, YOU MIGHT WANNA TALK ABOUT THE NEW RECYCLING CONTRACTOR.
WHO'S COMING ONLINE AND THE, AND THE PROCESSING PLANT.
THEY'RE BUILDING THAT, THAT WAS APPROVED BY COUNCIL, UH, EARLIER IN THE YEAR.
SO WE HAVE A NEW CONTRACT THAT WILL START IN AUGUST OF NEXT YEAR.
AND IT IS WITH BALCONES, UH, RECYCLING.
THEY'VE, UH, THEY ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW IN DISTRICT FOUR ON THIS NEW SITE, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO RECYCLE A LOT MORE.
THE ONLY THING THAT THEY DO IS RECYCLING.
AND, UH, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT BECAUSE, UH, I I THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO EXPAND OUR PROGRAM AND, AND MAKE IT BETTER.
AND THEN AS FAR AS THE COMPOST BINS, DO WE ALSO SELL THE COMPOST AS A, SO AS A SOURCE OF REVENUE STREAM? WE DO NOT.
IT'S, SO WE CONTRACT WITH A COMPANY CALLED ATLAS, AND THEY SELL IT.
SO, UH, WE, WE PAY THEM A PROCESSING FEE AND, AND, AND, AND SO FROM THAT PROCESSING FEE PLUS THE REVENUE THAT THEY GENERATE FROM SELLING IT, THAT'S THE CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENT.
SO WE PAY THEM TO SELL OUR COMPOST.
YES, COMPOST HAPPENS, BUT THEY DO, UH, PROCESS IT AND THEY'RE THE ONES THAT TURN IT INTO COMPASS.
AND THEN THERE'S THE MARKETING OF IT.
SAWS USED TO DO THIS A LONG TIME AGO THEMSELVES, AND THEY GOT OUT OF THE BUSINESS BECAUSE THEY, THEY REALIZED THEY'RE NOT MARKETERS AND THEN THEY DON'T HAVE THIS OUTLET FOR SALES.
AND SO WE LEARNED A LESSON FROM THEM AND WE LET THIS COMPANY DO ALL THAT.
PART OF THE THINKING WAS THAT, UM, IF WE TAKE IT TO THE LANDFILL, WE'RE PAYING FOR THE DISPOSAL.
SO OUR FINANCIAL POSITION RIGHT NOW IS THAT IT'S BETTER TO NOT PAY FOR THAT.
UH, UNDER THE NEW LANDFILL AGREEMENTS THAT DAVID MENTIONED, UM, THAT WE'LL BE FINALIZING OVER THE NEXT YEAR, THAT MAY, THAT MAY TURN, 'CAUSE THOSE LANDFILL RATES HAVEN'T CHANGED IN 30 YEARS.
THOSE LONG-TERM CONTRACTS ARE REALLY GONNA SET THE, SET, THE KIND OF THE MARKER, THE FINANCIAL MARKER FOR OUR DISPOSAL RATES.
SO IT COULD EASILY FLIP AND WE MAY FIND OURSELVES IN A DIFFERENT POSITION ON COMPOSTING QUICKLY.
UH, YEAH, I'D JUST LIKE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THAT TO SEE IF THAT EVENTUALLY BECOMES A REVENUE STREAM.
UM, AND THEN MIKE, FOR D SS D SO LET'S STARTING WITH THE PROACTIVE ISSUE, UM, MONITORING.
SO I KNOW WE'RE AT 66% OF MONITORING THOSE ISSUES, AND THOSE ARE BROKEN UP INTO TIER ONE AND TIER TWO.
AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS LIKE, YOU KNOW, OVERGROWN GRASS REALLY DOESN'T NEED, LIKE, IS NOT AS MUCH OF A PRIORITY AS SOME OF THE, YOU KNOW, TIER TWO EFFORTS.
CAN WE, IS THERE A WAY TO SHIFT SOME OF THOSE FOCUS ON TIER TWO VERSUS THE PROACTIVE PART OF IT INSTEAD OF JUST TIER ONE AS WELL? YEAH, WE, WE CAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT OUR TIER LEVELS, UM, OVERGROWN GRASS, YOU'RE RIGHT, THAT MAY NOT BE, UH, AS HAZARDOUS, UH, TO SOME PEOPLE AS OTHERS, BUT IT IS
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ONE OF THE MORE COMMON COMPLAINTS THAT WE GET WHEN WE GO TO NEIGHBORHOODS.UH, BE AND, AND THEN OF COURSE IF IT GETS OUT OF HAND, IT CAN GET, YOU KNOW, WITH RODENT INFESTATION AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO, BUT WE CAN HAVE ANY TYPE OF CONVERSATION.
UM, I KNOW, UH, THE COUNCILWOMAN, UM, ROCHA GARCIA HAD MENTIONED THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
I THINK PART OF THAT, IF WE, UH, I KNOW WE'LL PROBABLY GO TO GOVERNANCE, UH, BUT WHEN WE START THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT THOSE, BUT WE CAN SHIFT THE PRIORITIES AND WE CAN JUST PUT 'EM DOWN.
UH, BUT I'D LIKE TO HAVE SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY DOABLE.
YEAH, I GUESS MY REQUEST WOULD BE LIKE, LET'S SPLIT THAT RATE UP INTO TIER ONE AND TIER TWO LIKE YOU DO FOR RESPONSE TIMES AND MAYBE LOOK AT THE TARGETS FOR EACH.
YES, WE CAN, WE CAN LOOK AT THAT.
AND THEN AS FAR AS GRAFFITI SITES, LIKE, AGAIN, WANTED TO ECHO THE SUPPORT AROUND THAT BEING ABATED, AND I'VE HAD SCHOOLS ACTUALLY REACH OUT SAYING LIKE, HOW CAN THEY HELP AND GET ENGAGED WITH THAT EFFORT? SO JUST WANTED TO PING THAT AS A OKAY, GREAT.
UM, AND THEN, SO IN TERMS OF PERMITTING PROCESSES, WE HAVE A LOT OF, UH, HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS AND ALSO JUST A COUPLE OF NCDS IN DISTRICT ONE.
AND I KNOW I, WHEN I WAS ON THE TRAIL, SOME RESIDENTS COMPLAINED ABOUT LIKE, PERMITS BEING APPROVED BY CITY STAFF AND THEN NEIGHBORHOODS COMING BACK AND SAYING, WELL, THAT ACTUALLY DOESN'T MEET OUR REQUIREMENTS.
WHAT ARE WE DOING TO TRAIN UP OUR EMPLOYEES SO THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT RULES THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FOLLOWING? YEAH.
SO, UH, HISTORIC PRESERVATION STAFF, UH, ARE PART OF THE REVIEW PROCESS FOR CERTAINLY ANY HISTORIC GUIDELINES.
CERTAINLY WORKING WITH THE H D R C, UM, AS WELL.
BUT WE HAVE SOME STAFF THAT REVIEW FOR THOSE NCDS, WE HAVE 10 NCDS IN THE, OKAY.
YEAH, WE, WE REVIEW FOR THOSE, WE TRAIN ON 'EM.
UH, I, I WOULD LOVE TO SAY WE'VE NEVER MADE AN ERROR AND WENT OUT AND HAD TO CORRECT IT AND WORK WITH, UH, SOMEONE TO REDO IT OR TO, YOU KNOW, WORK TO FIND AN AMENABLE SOLUTION THAT MAYBE MEETS THE INTENT OF THAT GUIDELINE.
UH, BUT THAT'S OUR CONTINUOUS EDUCATION, WHETHER IT'S NEW STAFF OR EXISTING STAFF, UH, WORKING WITH, UH, THOSE GUIDELINES.
BUT WE'RE WITH THOSE 10 NEIGHBORHOODS, THOSE 10 NCDS.
UM, WE, WE WORK WITH THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS AS WELL BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE INTERPRETING THEIR GUIDELINES, UH, JUST LIKE THEY ARE.
AND SOME OF THOSE ARE 10 OR 12 YEARS OLD, AND, UH, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING IT RIGHT, BUT, BUT WE'RE CONTINUOUSLY TRAINING OUR STAFF ON THAT.
SO PUSH TO DOUBLE DOWN ON THAT.
THAT, THAT TRAINING DOUBLE DOWN.
UM, AND THEN THE STREETLIGHT MAPS, JUST THE, UH, REQUEST TO UPDATE THOSE MAPS MM-HMM.
SO THE ONE I JUST PULLED UP FROM THE WEBSITE THAT THEY, THEY AREN'T UPDATED.
UM, AND THEN I, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU GUYS ARE OVERLAYING THAT WITH CRIME DATA, SO I APPRECIATE THAT.
AND IT'D BE REALLY INTERESTING TO SEE, BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF MY NEIGHBOR, OF, OF MY DISTRICT THAT ARE REALLY HEAVILY READ
UM, BUT BASED ON THAT, SO WE ARE, IT SAYS THAT WE HAVE 5.6 MILLION REMAINING TO FUND, WHAT ARE WE PUTTING IN THIS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024? WELL, THAT, THAT'S STILL THERE.
WE ALLOCATED THAT MONEY IN THE FFY 22 BUDGET.
AND BECAUSE IT HASN'T BEEN SPENT, I'M GONNA USE THE TERM, IT JUST GETS CARRIED FORWARD A LITTLE BIT.
DOES THAT SOUND ABOUT RIGHT? NO.
SO CAN WE COMMIT MARIA, GIMME THE NO
SO
I THINK IT'S GONNA TAKE US THREE OR SO YEARS TO SPEND, BEND THAT OUT.
SO WE'LL HAVE TO JUST KEEP DRAWING DOWN THAT FUND.
AND THEN WHEN IT RUNS OUT, PROBABLY IN A FEW YEARS, UH, THE ISSUE IS NOT THAT THEY NOT WARRANTED, BUT IT'S GETTING THOSE PERMISSIONS AND THEN GETTING THE DESIGN WITH C P S AND THE, AND THE, THE, UH, THE EQUIPMENT AND THEN THE INSTALLS.
BUT I, SO IF WE WERE TO PUT SOME OF THOSE FUNDS TO ADDITIONAL STAFF FOCUSED JUST ON THIS, WOULD THAT HELP ANY OF THE ISSUE? NO, NO, NO, IT WON'T.
WE, WE NEED THE C P S CONTRACTOR PIECE.
AND THAT'S WHY THEY'VE, THAT'S WHY THEY'VE GONE OUT TO SOLICITATION BECAUSE THEY CAN'T DO IT WITH THEIR STAFFING.
AND SO THEY'RE LOOKING TO OUTSOURCE A LOT OF THEIR, MOST OF THEIR STREET LIGHT MAINTENANCE.
AND IN INSTALL, THAT'LL HELP US WIDEN THE PIPE.
THE, THE LAST THING IS, IS THAT $5.6 MILLION THAT'S REMAINING WILL FUND 1100 STREETLIGHTS, AND WE'VE GOT 4,300 THAT ARE WARRANTED MM-HMM.
SO AS WE START TO SPEND THAT $5.6 MILLION, WE'RE GONNA NEED TO SET ASIDE ADDITIONAL MONEY TO, FOR THE BALANCE.
I'M GUESSING MY, MY CONCERN IS LIKE, HOW DO WE REMOVE SOME OF THE BARRIERS, RIGHT? WE HAVE SUCH A HIGH NEED.
SO I WAS JUST TRYING TO THINK OF LIKE, WHAT ARE THE WAYS THAT WE CAN ADDITIONALLY FUND SUPPORTS TO REMOVE THE BARRIERS FROM INSTALLING MORE? WE, WE, WE, WE NEED TO BE A LITTLE BIT FLEXIBLE ON MY, ON MY LOCATION.
I MEAN THAT, THAT, THAT IS GONNA HOLD US UP.
UM, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE, I MEAN, OUT OF THE, UH, SINCE WE GOT THE, THE ANALYSIS DONE, 187 LIGHTS HAVE BEEN PUT IN.
AND WE'VE GOT $5.6 MILLION WE'VE BEEN SITTING ON.
SO WE'VE GOTTA MOVE THAT QUICKER WITH C P S.
AND IF THAT MEANS MOVING IT DOWN THE STREET, AS LONG AS WE GET A LITTLE BIT OF LIGHT THERE, IT'S GONNA HELP BECAUSE WE'RE OVERLAYING THE, FRANKLY, THE, THE, THE CRIME, UM, UH, PREVENTION INFORMATION WE'VE GOT.
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UM, WE, WE, WHEN I SAY WE, THE CITY AND C P S GOTTA MOVE FASTER.UM, JUST LAST QUICK THING, MAYOR, 50% OF THE APARTMENT UNITS ON THAT LIST RIGHT NOW ARE IN DISTRICT ONE, WHICH IS INTENSE.
COUNCIL MEMBER CORE COUNCIL MEMBER WHITE, UM, FOR SOLID WASTE.
SO IN, IN TERMS OF RECYCLING, OBVIOUSLY WE DO THAT EVERY WEEK HERE, AUSTIN AND EL PASO, IF I'M RIGHT.
WHY, WHY DO WE DO EVERY, EVERY WEEK HERE? I, I THINK THAT, UH, WELL, WE STARTED IT OFF THAT WAY AND WE'RE BUILT TO DO IT EVERY WEEK HERE.
UH, BUT WE STARTED, UH, SEVERAL YEARS AGO ON THIS PATH TO DIVERT MORE WASTE AWAY FROM THE LANDFILL.
AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE, THE METHODS WAS RECYCLING AND TRYING TO INCREASE THAT.
AND SO IF WE, IF WE WERE TO, FOR INSTANCE, DO IT, DO IT EVERY OTHER WEEK, HOW, HOW MUCH IN IN DOLLARS WOULD THAT, WOULD THAT SAVE US? UH, I, I DON'T KNOW.
AND, AND, AND I APOLOGIZE IF I, 'CAUSE I CAME IN LATE, IF, IF I DIDN'T HEAR EXACTLY WHAT THAT WAS DESIGNED TO DO, THE, UH, IT'S GONNA DO THREE THINGS.
AND THE MAIN THING IS A SERVICE VERIFICATION SO THAT WE CAN, WE WILL KNOW THAT WE'VE COLLECTED OUR CUSTOMER'S CART, UH, AND, AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT THE SUPERVISOR KNOWS 3 1 1 KNOWS, AND THE, AND THE CUSTOMER WILL KNOW.
AND THE INTENT IS TO ELIMINATE MISSED COLLECTIONS.
AND, AND, AND SO THIS MISSED COLLECTION'S PROBLEM.
HOW, HOW WIDESPREAD IS IT? IT'S, UH, UNFORTUNATELY IT'S NUMBER ONE ON THREE, ONE ONE'S CALL, BUT IT'S ABOUT, UM, BETWEEN 60,000 AND 80,000 CALLS A YEAR.
AND SO THIS $638,000, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THESE MISSED PICKUPS DO WE THINK WE CAN COVER WITH THAT? UH, I, I THINK IT'LL END UP PAYING FOR ITSELF.
AND, AND LET ME ALSO MENTION ONE MORE THING ABOUT IT.
UH, IT WILL OPTIMIZE OUR ROUTES, UH, OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE DONE IT.
UM, UH, DENTON IS ONE THAT COMES TO MIND.
THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO SHAVE, UH, TIME OFF OF THEIR ROUTES, WHICH MEANS THAT THEY CAN DO MORE WORK AND SAVE MONEY, UH, BY OPTIMIZING THE ROUTES AND, AND HOW TO TURN, TURN RIGHT, TURN LEFT, ET CETERA.
WELL, I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT.
UM, CAN I ADD ONE MORE THING TO THAT TOO? YEAH.
BECAUSE PLEASE, I'LL MENTION THE, THE THIRD ITEM ON THAT IS A TURN BY TURN NAVIGATION, WHICH FOR A SEASONED DRIVER, THEY DON'T NEED THAT.
BUT WE HIRE A LOT OF NEW DRIVERS, AND THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT GETS THEM IS NOT DRIVING ON THE, THE SEAT THAT'S NEXT TO THE CURB.
AND IT'S NOT OPERATING THE ARM, IT'S NOT KNOWING WHERE TO GO.
AND SO WE ARE JUST CONSTANTLY TURNING THROUGH FOLKS THAT CAN'T, UH, READ A PAPER MAP.
AND SO IF WE'RE ABLE TO USE SOMETHING THAT HELPS US GET THROUGH THE ROUTE, NOT ONLY, UH, UH, JUST WITH AN AUDITORY QUEUE EASILY, BUT MORE EFFICIENTLY, I, THAT'S WHERE OUR SAVINGS IS GONNA COME FROM.
UM, I, I SEE THAT THE, UM, WELL, LET ME ASK THE $22 MILLION QUESTION FIRST.
THAT, THAT THAT $22 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL REVENUE THAT WE'RE GONNA BRING IN FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL FEE AND THE MONTHLY, YOU KNOW, THE GARBAGE INCREASE, WHERE, WHERE'S THAT MONEY GONNA GONNA GO? SO WE ARE CURRENTLY, UM, UH, ABOUT $12 MILLION LESS ON OUR, UH, EX OUR EXPENDITURES ARE GOING OVER OUR REVENUES BY ABOUT $12 MILLION.
WE'RE GONNA END THE YEAR A NEGATIVE 900,000, ALMOST A MILLION.
UH, AND WE ARE GOING TO ADD, UM, UH, ABOUT $5.8 MILLION IN IMPROVEMENTS LIKE THE ONES WE JUST DISCUSSED, AND, AND ALSO ANOTHER 1.9 MILLION INTO THE RESERVES.
SO THAT'S, THAT ADDS UP TO THE $22 MILLION.
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WE'RE SPENDING MORE MONEY THAN, THAN WE'RE BRINGING IN OH, YES.SO WE STARTED WITH A BEGINNING BALANCE.
AND SO WE, WE HAVE ABOUT $11 MILLION IN BEGINNING BALANCE, BUT WE'RE UN STRUCTURALLY BALANCED.
WE ARE, UM, OUR EXPENSES ARE GREATER THAN OUR REVENUES BY ABOUT 12 MILLION.
SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE ENDING A DEFICIT.
EXPENSES ARE GREATER THAN REVENUES BY 12 MILLION BY $12 MILLION.
SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE ENDING IN A, ABOUT A NEGATIVE, UH, $1 MILLION DEFICIT.
UM, IN, IN HERE, I SEE, I SEE THAT, THAT FROM THIS DEPARTMENT, WE ARE, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE I HAVE THIS RIGHT, WE WE'RE, WE'RE TRANSFERRING 1.49 MILLION FROM THIS DEPARTMENT INTO OUR STREET AND ALLEY MAINTENANCE.
AND LAST YEAR WE TRANSFERRED, I THINK 576,000.
SO THE INCREASE IS DUE TO WHAT? SO WE HAVE HISTORICALLY FUNDED, UH, HELP FUND OUR STREET MAINTENANCE, ABOUT 800,000.
THE REMAINING IS THE ALLEY MAINTENANCE, BUT BECAUSE OF THE FUND WAS, WAS STRUGGLING IN 2023, WE FOREGO THAT TRANSFER OF 800,000 FOR THE STREET MAINTENANCE.
AND THAT'S JUST RE THE 1.4 MILLION OR 1.5 MILLION IS JUST REESTABLISHING THAT FUNDING FOR STREET MAINTENANCE AS WELL AS THE ALLEY MAINTENANCE.
AND, AND ARE THESE BACK TO THE SAME LEVEL? THESE ARE, ARE THESE SERVICE ALLEYS? YES.
THEY'RE SERVICE ALLEYS AND THEN THE STREETS.
UM, WITH RESPECT TO CODE, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT, I WANT TO ECHO, UH, COUNCILMAN COURAGE IS COMMENTS REGARDING NOISE.
YOU AND I HAVE HAD A BUNCH OF FUN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THAT.
AND, UM, THE POLICE ARE STRETCHED THIN AS IT IS.
AND SO TO THE EXTENT THAT WE CAN DO MORE WITH OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, UH, TO GET A HANDLE ON THESE NOISE ISSUES, THAT THAT WOULD REALLY BE GREAT BECAUSE, UM, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT FAIR TO THESE FAMILIES LIVING IN NEIGHBORHOODS, ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT, THAT, UH, HAVE KIDS WHO GOTTA GO TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY, UH, TO BE KEPT UP TO, TO ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT, UM, BECAUSE OF LOUD NOISE COMING FROM, UM, PLACES THAT ARE, THAT ARE VIOLATING THE, THE NOISE ORDINANCES.
SO, SO I'M, I'M WITH COUNCILMAN COURAGE ON THAT.
WE FINALLY FOUND SOMETHING THAT WE CAN, WE COULD, UH, WE COULD AGREE ON, UM, UH, THE, UH, SHORT TERM RENTALS.
UM, WHAT'S OUR CURRENT COMPLIANCE RATE WITH, WITH RESPECT TO THE SHORT-TERM RENTALS? WELL, WE DON'T HAVE AN EXACT NUMBER.
UM, WE HAVE SOME ESTIMATES BASED ON, UH, WE KNOW WE HAVE 3,100 PLUS PERMITS RIGHT NOW, JUST UNDER 3,200.
UH, THERE ARE ESTIMATES OF, UH, FOUR TO 5,000 OPERATING AT ANY GIVEN TIME, ALTHOUGH THAT NUMBER SEEMS TO BE GOING DOWN.
UH, BUT THE ESTIMATES THAT WE'RE GETTING ARE FOR THE SAN ANTONIO AREA, AND THEY'RE NOT PARSING OUT SOME OF THE OTHER CITIES IN AND AROUND US.
SO, UH, IT'S NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT CERTAINLY.
UM, OUR, OUR BEST GUESS IS MAYBE AROUND 50 TO 60% COMPLIANCE.
UM, AND WE'RE CONTINUE TO FIND SOME, UH, WE, SOME ARE BEING CALLED INTO US THAT WE'RE SHUTTING DOWN OR, OR BRINGING INTO COMPLIANCE.
BUT, UH, UH, BUT WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE AN EXACT NUMBER.
WE, WE ARE HIRING A NEW, UH, THIRD PARTY CONSULTANT.
WE'RE WORKING WITH THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT NOW TO GET THEM ON BOARD.
UM, THAT'S THAT PHASE TWO, RIGHT? UM, THAT'S ANOTHER THING.
YOU, SO THE THIRD PARTY, THE THIRD PARTY WILL HELP US TRACK THAT, UM, A LITTLE BIT.
WELL, THEY, THEY'LL SCOUR KIND OF THE PLATFORMS, THE SHORT-TERM RENTAL PLATFORMS, UM, TO HELP US IDENTIFY THE ILLEGAL ONES.
AND I KID ABOUT COUNCILMAN COURAGE.
THERE'S, THERE'S ACTUALLY MORE THAN I THOUGHT THAT WE COULD AGREE ON.
WE, WE ARE RIGHT ACROSS THE HALL FROM EACH OTHER.
UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS GONNA ASK ABOUT THIS INCREASE IN, IN FIVE PERSONNEL THAT I, THAT I SEE HERE FROM, FROM DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
BUT, BUT MAYBE WE CAN, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT OFFLINE.
UM, I, I JUST WANT TO END ON SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE DID THE, THE PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION AND WE GOT IT UP TO 20%.
AND SO WE'RE SAVING, WE'RE SAVING FOLKS MONEY THERE, BUT THEN WHEN WE, WHEN WE PILE BACK ON
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WITH, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL FEES, THE GARBAGE CAN FEE.WE KNOW THAT C P S IS COMING AND TO ASK FOR A RATE INCREASE.
WHEN WE PILE ALL THAT BACK ON, WHAT ARE WE, WHAT ARE WE REALLY DOING, UM, TO SAVE OUR FOLKS OUT THERE THESE DOLLARS.
AND SO I HOPE WE ALL CONSIDER THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
COUNCIL MEMBER, WHITE, COUNCIL MEMBER PAL.
SO, UM, ERIC, I NEED A STREETLIGHT ON THE CORNER OF GREEN GLEN AND RED ROBIN.
UH, I HAVE A SIKH TEMPLE THERE, UM, THAT WAS RECENTLY ROBBED SOMEBODY.
MY, MY SIKH COMMUNITY, I HAVE A TEMPLE THERE.
UM, THEY, UM, THEY WERE RECENTLY ROBBED.
SOMEBODY WALKED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY AND, UM, STOLE $5,000 FROM THEIR, FROM THEIR, UH, DONATION BOX.
BUT, UM, IT'S IN, THEY'RE GETTING AN INCREASING NUMBER OF, OF, UH, UNWANTED ACTIVITIES, UH, HAPPENING RIGHT THERE ON THAT CORNER.
AND THAT COMMUNITY FEELS THREATENED.
SO IF YOU CAN JUST TAKE A LOOK AT IT, I'D, I'D APPRECIATE IT.
THE SECOND THING IS, I, UM, MIKE AND AND YOUR TEAM HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY HELPFUL WITH, UH, TWO OR THREE OF THESE COLLEGE BAR, WELL, ACTUALLY, THEY'RE NOT EVEN COLLEGE BARS, THEY'RE JUST BARS NEXT TO, UH, U T S A WHERE WE'VE SEEN MURDERS AND HUNDREDS OF 9 1 1 CALLS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF VIOLENCE AND DWIS AND TRASH.
AND, UM, YOU GUYS NEVER CEASED TO, TO AMAZE ME WITH YOUR, YOUR WILLINGNESS TO LEAN INTO THE PROBLEM.
AND SO, UM, ON, ON BEHALF OF MY NEIGHBORS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHOWING UP EVERY SINGLE TIME WE CALL ON YOU GUYS, UH, PARTICULARLY, UH, YOUR, UM, YOUR COLLEAGUE AMIN.
I RECENTLY, MY FAMILY AND I GOT TO VISIT THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
UH, WE WENT UP TO PORTLAND AND SEATTLE, AND WE SPENT SOME TIME IN EUGENE.
UM, AND PRO, POSSIBLY ONE OF THE WORST TRIPS I'VE EVER TAKEN.
UH, WE, UH, THOSE THREE CITIES ARE, ARE PRETTY MUCH WAR ZONES AT THIS POINT.
UH, WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU DRIVE AROUND, UM, AND YOU'RE UNFORTUNATE TO FIND YOURSELF IN, UH, IN THOSE DOWNTOWN AREAS, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'VE BEEN, THEY'RE JUST ONE LARGE OR THREE LARGE IN, IN, UH, HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS.
UM, THE CITIES HAVE HAVE PRETTY MUCH LOST CONTROL OF THEIR DOWNTOWNS.
IT'S BOARDED UP SHOPS EVERYWHERE, ENCAMPMENTS THAT NOW POUR OUT INTO THE STREETS.
UM, THE, UM, IT, IT'S A CONSTANT SMELL OF, OF FECES AND URINE ALL OVER THE CITY, GOD FORBID THAT YOU'RE STANDING DOWNWIND, UM, OF, OF DOWNTOWN.
BUT YOU HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, EUGENE IS FREQUENTLY HELD UP AS THE SHINING EXAMPLE OF A CITY THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK TO SOLVING HOMELESSNESS.
AND RECENTLY, IF YOU JUST, YOU KNOW, LOOK UP THE ARTICLES, EUGENE HAS COME TO TERMS WITH THE FACT THAT SERVICES ONLY WITH NO ABATEMENTS, UM, IS A STRATEGY THAT FAILED.
UH, SO THOSE THREE CITIES RECENTLY, UH, HAVING I THINK, EMBRACED THIS, UM, THE REALIZATION THAT THEY FAILED, UM, THEY LOST CONTROL OF THEIR CITY, UM, AND UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE FROM THEIR RESIDENTS WHO WERE FEELING LIKE THEIR SAFETY AND THEIR HEALTH WAS BEING THREATENED.
UM, ALL OF THEM HAVE IMPLEMENTED AN URBAN CAMPING IMPACT REDUCTION PROGRAMS IS WHAT THEY CALL 'EM.
THE, UM, THE PROGRAMS HAVE, UM, I THINK FOUR OR FIVE REALLY IMPORTANT ELEMENTS TO THEM.
ONE, OF COURSE, IS CLEANUP AND ABATEMENT OF THE CAMP CAMPSITES, UH, THE WAY THAT WE DO HERE.
UM, ALSO, BUT NUMBER TWO IS THAT THEY DO, PRIOR TO THE CLEANUP AND ABATEMENT, THEY DO, UM, HARM AND SAFETY IMPACT ANALYSIS, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE CAMPERS.
AND, UM, THEY USE THAT ANALYSIS TO INFORM HOW THEY GO ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, CLEANING IT UP AND THEN WHICH SERVICES TO, WHICH SERVICES TO DELIVER WHEN THEY VISIT.
THE, THE THIRD PART ABOUT IT IS THAT, UM, WITH THE SAME, UH, YOU KNOW, AMOUNT OF EFFORT IN CLEANING UP, THEY, THEY DO DO THAT IN THE PRESENCE OF, AND PARTNERED WITH, UH, HOMELESSNESS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, UM, WHO PRIOR TO DURING THE CLEANUP AND AFTER THE CLEANUP ARE THERE, UM, REALLY AGGRESSIVELY SERVING AND MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE GET THESE IMPORTANT SERVICES.
THE, THE THIRD, I'M SORRY, THE FOURTH THING THEY DO IS, UM, AND IT'S REALLY INTERESTING, I, I, I ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS TO GO LOOK AT PORTLAND'S.
THEY PUBLISH WEEKLY UPDATES ABOUT THE ABATEMENT ABATEMENTS, AND THEY MAINTAIN A DASHBOARD, UH, FOR THE PUBLIC, UH, BUT ALSO IT'S OPEN DATA, UH, WHERE THEY LEARN FROM THAT DATA, RIGHT? UM, UH, AND THAT DATA HELPS INFORM ALL OF THEIR EFFORTS AROUND SOLVING FOR THE HOMELESSNESS CRISIS THAT THEY'RE EXPERIENCING.
THE, UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THEIR DASHBOARDS
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AND THEIR DATA, AND INCLUDES NUMBER NATURE OF THE CONTACTS THAT THEY HAVE, UM, THE, UH, WITH THE INDIVIDUALS AT THESE CAMPS, UM, THEY WILL, UH, BREAK IT OUT, UH, AND, AND, AND REPORT ON, YOU KNOW, WHO EXPRESSED OR NOT WHO, BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN, UM, A SHELTER REFERRAL? HOW MANY PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE ACCEPTED THE RIDES TO THE SHELTER OF THOSE PEOPLE? HOW MANY OF THEM SPENT ONE NIGHT, UH, OF THOSE PEOPLE, HOW MANY OF THEM SPENT MORE THAN ONE NIGHT? UM, THE ADDITIONAL SERVICES THAT WERE PROVIDED, UH, THE DATA WILL ALSO INCLUDE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE PLACE AND TIME AND NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS, UH, THAT THEY GET FROM RESIDENTS.UM, AND THEN THE PLACE AND TIME, UH, OF ENCAMPMENTS THAT WERE NON-RESIDENT REFERRED, RIGHT? SO IN OTHER WORDS, OBSERVED BY CODE ENFORCEMENT OR POLICE, OR, UM, YOU KNOW, ANY OTHER AGENCY THEY LOOK AT, UM, THE, UH, THEY DO A PRETTY DETAILED REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT THEY IDENTIFY HAPPENING IN THE ENCAMPMENTS.
UH, THEY DO A SEVERITY OF HEALTH AND SAFETY RISK ANALYSIS.
UM, AND THEN THEY, UH, ACTUALLY GO DEEP DIVE INTO THE AMOUNT OF LIKE BIOHAZARD, HAZMAT, UH, EFFORTS THAT GO INTO CLEANING UP, UM, EACH EN ENCAMPMENT.
UM, AND THEN THEY ALSO REPORT ON THE EFFORTS MADE TO PRESERVE THE CAMPER'S PERSONAL PROPERTY.
UH, AND IT'S BRILLIANT WHAT THESE, WHAT THESE CITIES ARE DOING.
UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT IS THAT IF YOU GO TO THEIR DASHBOARDS, THEY'RE, THEY'RE VERY CAREFUL TO REMIND PEOPLE IN BOLD LETTERS, UNDERLINE, RIGHT? THAT THESE PROGRAMS ARE NOT THE SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS, RIGHT? BUT INSTEAD ARE ONE PART OF A MUCH LARGER STRATEGY TO, UM, TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS.
AND SO THE, UM, AND THAT IT'S AN EFFORT TO NOT JUST HELP THE CAMPERS AND, AND, AND BE COMPASSIONATE AND HUMANE, BUT ALSO TO BALANCE THE VERY REAL AND IMPORTANT INTERESTS OF RESIDENCES, OF RESIDENTS TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT AND EVEN ENHANCE THEIR OWN, UM, SAFETY AND, AND HEALTH, RIGHT? SO, LIKE IN MY DISTRICT, FOR EXAMPLE, WE GOT BONFIRES THAT, YOU KNOW, EVIDENCE OF BONFIRES NEXT TO NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, WITH VERY, VERY DRY WOODEN FENCES.
I MEAN, LITERALLY UP AGAINST THESE WOODEN FENCES, RIGHT? I MEAN, IN THAT SITUATION, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO ABATE, RIGHT? NOT ABATING, I THINK, UH, PUTS THE LIVES OF PEOPLE, UM, AT RISK, RIGHT? I'VE GOT, UM, JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM CLARK HIGH SCHOOL, JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RIGHT NEXT TO CLARK, I FORGET THE NAME RIGHT NOW.
UH, THERE'S A HUGE ENCAMPMENT ON, UH, IT'S NOT HUGE ENCAMPMENT.
IT'S A, IT'S A ENCAMPMENT THAT WE, THAT Y'ALL CLEAN UP FREQUENTLY AND THEN COMES BACK WITHIN 24 HOURS, UH, RIGHT THERE ON THE CORNER OF DELA AND I 10, RIGHT? BY THE HOME DEPOT, UH, BECAUSE IT'S A VERY, VERY PROFITABLE CORNER ON WHICH TO, TO PANHANDLE.
UM, AND WHEN YOU GO OUT THERE EVERY TIME YOU GUYS, AND, AND WE, AND YOU KNOW, ALL THE, YOU KNOW, IN HAVEN AND YOU KNOW, OUR, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR MENTAL HEALTH TEAM, WE ALL GO OUT THERE TO, TO CLEAN UP THE ENCAMPMENT.
IT'S JUST CARPETED IN HYPODERMIC NEEDLES AND, AND BROKEN GLASS PIPES, RIGHT? AND MY NEIGHBORS ARE AFRAID TO SEND THEIR KIDS TO, UM, TO SCHOOL JUST BY WALKING A COUPLE BLOCKS, UM, LIKE THEY WERE ACCUSTOMED TO DOING WHEN THEY WERE KIDS, RIGHT? AND, YOU KNOW, THEIR DEMAND OF ME IS CLEAN THAT CRAP UP.
I DON'T WANT THAT NEAR MY KIDS WHEN THEY'RE WALKING BY SCHOOL AND OR I REFUSE TO SEND MY KIDS TO SCHOOL WALKING.
I HAVE TO DRIVE THEM UP AND DOWN DE JUST TO GET THEM THERE SO THAT THEY DON'T STUMBLE ACROSS HYPODERMIC NEEDLES, AND THEY'RE NOT WRONG.
UM, THEY, THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO FEEL THAT WAY.
AND, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DEMAND A SOLUTION AND EXPECT ONE.
AND SO I'M, I KNOW YOU GUYS WORK AROUND THE CLOCK AT CLEARING THESE THINGS UP, UM, AND I APPRECIATE IT.
AND MY QUESTION FOR YOU IS, IS, ERIC, TO WHAT EXTENT DOES OUR CAMP ABATEMENT CAMP CLEANUP EFFORTS MATCH THE PROGRAM I JUST DESCRIBED? UM, ARE, ARE WE, ARE WE WALKING AND CHEWING GUM, RIGHT? ARE WE DOING THE TRASH PICKUP, BUT ALSO CONTEMPORANEOUSLY? ARE WE, UM, MONITORING AND DOING THE ANALYSIS AND, AND MAKING THE EFFORT TO, UM, KEEP THE PUBLIC INFORMED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST THE CLEANUPS, WHERE THEY HAPPEN WHEN THEY HAPPEN, BUT ALSO ALL THE EFFORTS THAT WE MAKE TO HELP THE REAL HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE AT THESE CAMPS? AND I'LL STOP THERE.
THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO DIFFERENTLY THIS YEAR.
UM, AND, AND MAYBE, MAYBE WE'VE GOTTEN TO A, A SIMILAR SPOT AS EUGENE WITHOUT HAVING TO GO DOWN THAT PATH.
UM, BUT THE, THE, THE DIFFERENCE IS, IS THAT YOU'RE RIGHT, THIS IS, UH, ABATING A AN AN ENCAMPMENT IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO HOMELESSNESS.
THIS IS JUST THE INITIAL PIECE
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AND, AND ACTIONS THAT THE CITY'S TAKEN, THAT THE COUNCIL'S TAKEN HAS GIVEN US THE ABILITY TO TAKE THAT FIRST STEP FOR THE UNSHELTERED, UM, DOING A BETTER JOB COMMUNICATING.AND THIS CAME ACROSS CLEARLY IN THE BUDGET SURVEY, DOING A BETTER JOB, COMMUNICATING TO RESIDENTS ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HOW WE'RE RESPONDING NEEDS TO BE A BIG PART OF NEXT YEAR.
UM, THE, THE, THE, THE PLEDGE AND THE GOAL TO ADDRESS THOSE WITHIN TWO WEEKS.
I MEAN, SOMEONE COULD, SOMEBODY COULD ASK, WELL, WHY DON'T YOU DO IT IN 24 HOURS? WELL, TECHNICALLY, I GUESS WE PROBABLY COULD, BUT WE'VE GOTTA GIVE OURSELVES THE ABILITY TO ASSESS, DO THE OUTREACH, DO THE SERVICES, AND BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT IT.
UM, SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO DO THAT.
AND I, YOU KNOW, I ENVISION US, UM, KIND OF GROWING, UH, A BIT IN THAT SERVICE LEVEL AND, AND DOING A BETTER JOB OF GETTING FOLKS INTO THE, THE, THE LOW BARRIER OR FACILITIES WE'VE GOT, BUT REALLY ENHANCING OUR COMMUNICATION.
I MEAN, THE, THE, IT WAS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE IN NINE OF THE 10 DISTRICTS.
AND THEY, THEY WEREN'T PRIORITIZING HOMELESS OUTREACH.
THEY WERE PRIOR PRIORITIZING HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT CLEAN UP, IF YOU LOOK AT, IF YOU READ THE COMMENTS.
IT CAN'T BE ALL ONE OR THE OTHER.
SO, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL LOOK AT THAT EUGENE STUFF, BUT WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING IS KIND OF WHAT WE'RE ENVISIONING FOR NEXT YEAR.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
AND, UM, LAST WEEK YOU'LL RECALL, I SAID THAT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A FULL CONVERSATION, UH, WITH THE COUNCIL ABOUT ABATEMENTS AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
AND, UM, IT WAS IN RESPONSE TO THE NOTIFICATION POLICY THAT IS BEING ADOPTED AS A PART OF THIS BUDGET.
UM, AND I THINK A LOT OF THE INFORMATION THAT I ASKED FOR, YOU KNOW, I HOPE IS INCLUDED, BUT I THINK COUNCILMAN IMPLY HAS, UH, LISTED A GOOD NU A HOST OF THINGS THAT I THINK SHOULD ALSO BE INCLUDED THAT I HADN'T YET CONSIDERED.
SO I WOULD LIKE HOPEFULLY TO SEE THAT ADOPTED AS A PART OF THIS BUDGET AND AS A PART OF THAT POLICY.
BUT I, IT DOES SEEM LIKE THERE'S INTEREST IN, IN DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW IT ABATEMENTS ARE DONE AND WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE AND ALL THE STEPS TO GET THERE.
NOW, UH, LET ME JUST SAY THAT, UM, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO, WE'RE GONNA MOVE QUICKLY TO IMPLEMENT ONCE WE HAVE THE RESOURCES.
AND I THINK IT'S, I THINK THIS IS GONNA BE A PROCESS WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GROW INTO.
WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT WHEN WE START.
US AND OUR HOMELESS, UH, UH, PARTNERS DO A REALLY GOOD JOB OF OUTREACH.
UH, I THINK SOLID WASTE IS WELL CONNECTED WITH D H SS AND RESPONDING.
WE DO NOT DO A GOOD JOB OF KE KEEPING EVERYBODY APPRISED OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, WHETHER IT IS THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE CALLING OR THE 3 0 1 PERSON, OR THE BUSINESSES IN THE AREA, OR THE COUNCIL.
UM, SO I I, IT'S NOT GONNA BE ALL FIGURED OUT RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING.
IT, IT, IT IS, IT IS SOMETHING WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GROW INTO.
COUNCIL MEMBER MCKEE RODRIGUEZ.
ERIC, I'M, I'M GONNA SUGGEST THAT AFTER THE BUDGET IS, IS PUT TO BED THIS YEAR, UH, WE LOOK ON THE CALENDAR AND FIND A GOOD, LIKE HALF DAY B SESSION AND BRING ALL OF OUR PARTNERS THAT ARE PART OF THE HOUSING ECOSYSTEM TOGETHER, UH, FROM, UH, THE WORK THAT WE DO WITH THE HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEM, ALL THE WAY TO OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAMMING, AND JUST BRING EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM TOGETHER WITH THE COUNCIL, UM, AND HAVE A PUBLIC MEETING, UH, WHERE WE CAN TALK ABOUT ALL THEIR VARYING ASPECTS OF MAKING SURE THAT WE, NUMBER ONE, HAVE A HEALTHY HOUSING MARKET ALL THE WAY TO WHAT WE'RE DOING TO ADDRESS IN A COMPASSIONATE WAY THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE ISSUE OF ABATEMENTS AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A, A GOAL TO BE RESPONSIVE TO PEOPLE'S CALLS ABOUT ABATEMENTS, UM, UNDERNEATH ALL THAT IS THE FACT THAT WE ARE WITH THE, YOU KNOW, SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT, UH, AND VOTES OF THE PUBLIC ARE NOW RESOURCING AN ECOSYSTEM OF SERVICES THAT MAKES ALL THAT POSSIBLE.
AND I THINK THERE'S JUST A WHOLE HOST OF RESOURCES AND ISSUES AND SERVICES THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THIS SPACE.
I THINK IF WE HAVE ONE COMPREHENSIVE BIG CONVERSATION ABOUT IT, SO EVERYBODY KNOWS ALL THE PIECES THAT ARE WORKING, UM, IT MIGHT HELP CLARIFY THINGS.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER VILLA GROUND.
UH, MIKE, YOU JUST MENTIONED SOMETHING EARLY IN, IN RESPONSE TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE STREET LIGHTING.
IS IT POSSIBLE IF YOU GO INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE DO SEE RESISTANCE FROM THE NEIGHBORS JUST TO KEEP THE COUNCIL OFFICE, AND I'M TRYING TO GET WHEN MY STREET LIGHTING, UH, MEETING IS SCHEDULED, UH, TO, TO MAKE SURE I'M THERE.
BECAUSE IF THEY'RE NOT GONNA WANT THAT BIG STREET
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LIGHT, THEN TALKING TO THEM ABOUT PORCH LIGHTS OR MOTION SENSOR LIGHTS, UM, IN TERMS OF THAT SAFETY.SO IF WE DO RUN INTO THAT, PLEASE, UH, ARIS OUR OFFICE OF OF THAT, SO WE CAN CERTAINLY ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES.
COUNCIL MEMBER VRAN, I THINK THAT'S IT.
UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO OUR SOLID WASTE AND D S D DEPARTMENTS.
[EXECUTIVE SESSION At any time during the meeting, the City Council may recess into executive session in the Presidio Conference Room to consult with the City Attorney's Office (Texas Government Code Section 551.071) and deliberate or discuss any of the following: ]
WILL NOW GO INTO AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.SO THE TIME IS 12:29 PM ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 29TH, 2023.
THE CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
WE'LL NOW MEET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 5 5, 1 OF THE TEXAS CODE UNDER DELIBERATE OR DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5, 1 0.087, PURCHASE EXCHANGE, LEASE, OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.072.
CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY UNDER SECTION 5 5 1 0.071 FOR LEGAL ISSUES OR ADVICE RELATED TO LITIGATION INVOLVING THE CITY AND LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS UNDER SECTION 5 5 1 0.071.
ALL GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE FEELS LIKE WE'RE JUST HERE.
UH, TIME IS 2:04 PM ON THE 29TH DAY OF AUGUST, 2023.
OUR MORNING SESSION IS NOW ADJOURNED.