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GOOD AFTERNOON.WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL B SESSION OF MAY 8TH, 2019.
COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ PRESENT.
COUNCIL MEMBER BROCK HOUSE PRESENT.
COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT.
WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL B SESSION AGENDA.
THE TIME IS 2:11 PM WE HAVE ONE ITEM ON OUR AGENDA, THE SIX PLUS SIX FINANCIAL REPORT.
I'LL TURN IT OVER TO OUR CITY MANAGER, ERIC WALSH.
UH, SO THIS AFTERNOON'S PRESENTATION IS GONNA CO COVER A COUPLE OF AREAS, UM, WITH THE, UH, FEDERAL AND STATE BUDGET UPDATE, UH, WHERE WE'RE AT, UH, WITH OUR MIDYEAR BUDGET, UH, AND OUR REPORT, UH, ON INITIATIVES IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET.
AND THIS YEAR'S A FISCAL YEAR.
UM, WE HAVE OUR, UH, ANNUAL FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL FORECAST THAT'S INCORPORATED WITHIN THE PRESENTATION.
AND WE HAVE A, SOME ADDITIONAL FOLLOW UP, UH, FROM A C C R THAT WAS, UH, ORIGINATED BY COUNCILMAN PERRY AND COUNCILMAN COURAGE ON PROPERTY TAX.
SO THAT'S INCORPORATED IN TODAY'S CONVERSATION.
AND THEN WE'LL WRAP UP, UH, WITH SOME, UH, STAFF RECOMMENDED, UH, MID-YEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS.
UH, ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO NOTE, AND I, JUSTINE, IS GONNA GO THROUGH THE PRESENTATION.
UM, TYPICALLY IN THE PAST, UM, THESE MID-YEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS, UH, WOULD BE SCHEDULED, UH, FOR THE A SESSION THE DAY AFTER, UH, TODAY'S PRESENTATION, A B SESSION PRESENTATION.
UH, WE'VE TAKEN THE ADDITIONAL STEP TO SEPARATE AND PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT ON NEXT WEEK OR THEY'RE NOT ON TOMORROW'S AGENDA, THEY'RE ON, UH, NEXT WEEK'S AGENDA SO THAT WE CAN GO THROUGH THE CONVERSATION WITH YOU GUYS HERE AND, UH, BE ABLE TO, UH, ADJUST ACCORDINGLY OR FOLLOW UP ON ANY QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE.
SO, WITH THAT, JUSTINA FLOOR IS YOURS.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
MY NAME IS JUSTINA TATE, AND AS, AS THE CITY MANAGER MENTIONED TODAY, WE'LL BE REVIEWING THE FISCAL YEAR 20 19 6 PLUS SIX FINANCIAL REPORT, AS WELL AS OUR FIVE-YEAR FORECAST.
INCLUDED IS AN UPDATE ON THE FEDERAL AND STATE BUDGET, THE SIX PLUS SIX FINANCIAL, UM, REPORT, AN OVERVIEW OF PROPERTY TAX RELIEF, AND THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST AND MAJOR, YOUR BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS.
NOW, I'D LIKE TO START WITH AN UPDATE ON OUR FEDERAL BUDGET.
AS PART OF THE FEDERAL BUDGET PROCESS ON MARCH 11TH, THE PRESIDENT SUBMITTED HIS BUDGET, HIS 2020 PROPOSED BUDGET TO CONGRESS.
BY WAY OF BACKGROUND, THE CITY RECEIVES APPROXIMATELY 128 MILLION ANNUALLY FROM FEDERAL, FROM IN FEDERAL GRANTS.
THE PRESIDENT'S FISCAL YEAR 2020 PROPOSED BUDGET COULD POTENTIALLY REDUCE THE CITY'S FEDERAL GRANTS BY 21 MILLION.
THIS BUDGET PROPOSES TO ELIMINATE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT HOME AND COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT.
IN TOTAL, THE CITY RECEIVES $20 MILLION FROM THESE PROGRAMS. SIX GRANTS ARE ALSO PRODU, UH, PROPOSED FOR PARTIAL REDUCTION IN THE AMOUNT OF $1 MILLION.
THESE INCLUDES WIC, JAG, AND HOMELAND SECURITY GRANTS.
THE 2020 PROPOSED BUDGET WOULD IMPACT THE CITY'S FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET.
AS IT RELATES TO THE STATE, THE STATE HAS INTRODUCED LEGISLATIONS TO LOWER THE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE CAP FROM 8%, FROM AN 8% ROLLBACK TO 3.5% ROLLBACK.
AT THIS TIME, BOTH CHAMBERS HAVE PASSED THEIR VERSIONS OF SSB TWO, WHICH INCLUDES A THREE AND A HALF PERCENT ROLLBACK.
THE NEXT STEP WILL BE FOR, FOR A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE TO WORK OUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO BILLS.
BOTH CHAMBERS WOULD HAVE TO PASS THE BILLS AGAIN, AND THEN THEY WOULD BE SENT TO THE GOVERNOR FOR FINAL SIGNATURE.
IF APPROVED, IT WOULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE CITY'S BUDGET FOR 2021, REDUCING THE CITY'S ABILITY TO PROVIDE CRITICAL SERVICES.
FOR CONTEXT, IF A THREE AND A HALF PERCENT CAP HAD BEEN IN PLACE DURING THE PAST DECADE, IT WOULD'VE COST THE CITY ABOUT $137 MILLION AND LESS REVENUES, AND WOULD REDUCE THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE GENERAL FUND BY 51 MILLION.
ADDITIONALLY, AN AVERAGE CITY HOMEOWNER WOULD REALIZE APPROXIMATELY $20 IN SAVINGS ANNUALLY.
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THE TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURES ALSO CONSIDERING A BILL THAT WOULD REDUCE THE REVENUE PAID BY COMPANIES THAT PROVIDE BOTH TELECOM, BOTH TABLE CABLE, AND TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES TO THE CITY.CURRENTLY, THESE COMPANIES PAY A CABLE FRANCHISE FEE AS WELL AS A RIGHT OF WAY ACCESS LINE.
IF THIS BILL IS PASSED, THE COMPANIES WOULD PAY EITHER THE CABLE FRANCHISE FEE OR THE RIGHT OF WAY ACCESS LINE, WHICHEVER IS GREATER, BUT THEY WOULD NO LONGER PAY BOTH IF PASSED.
THIS WOULD BE EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2019 AND WOULD REDUCE THE CITY'S REVENUE FOR 2020 BY $7 MILLION IN THE GENERAL FUND.
NOW, ON THE SIX PLUS SIX BUDGET AND FINANCE REPORT, THE TOTAL BUDGET FOR 2019 IS $2.8 BILLION.
THE FIRST COMPONENT IS OUR RESTRICTED FUNDS AT $889 MILLION.
RESTRICTED FUNDS ARE GOVERNED BY FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL LAWS, AND THE REVENUES OF THESE FUNDS MUST BE USED FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE AIRPORT FUND.
THE AIRPORT FUND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL LAWS, AND ALL REVENUES GENERATED BY THE AIRPORT MUST BE USED TO SUPPORT AVIATION RELATED ACTIVITIES.
THE NEXT COMPONENT IS OUR CAPITAL BUDGET AT $690 MILLION.
THIS PROVIDES FUNDING FOR SOME OF OUR MAJOR CAPITAL INVESTMENT TO INCLUDE OUR 27 BOND PROGRAM, AS WELL AS AIRPORT PROJECTS.
FINALLY, THE GENERAL FUND IS OUR LARGEST OPERATING FUND AT $1.26 BILLION.
THE GENERAL FUND PROVIDES FOR CITIES FOR THE CITY'S CORE SERVICES TO INCLUDE PUBLIC SAFETY, PARKS AND RECREATION AND STREETS AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE GENERAL FUND IS FUNDED BY FOUR MAIN COMPONENTS.
THE FIRST BEING C P S, WHICH GENERATES APPROXIMATELY 363 MILLION, DO MILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUES.
AS A REMINDER, THE CITY RECEIVES UP TO 14% OF ALL C P S GAS AND ELECTRIC GROSS REVENUES AS A RETURN ON INVESTMENT AND A PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES.
PROPERTY TAX IS OUR SECOND LARGEST REVENUE SOURCE AT APPROXIMATELY 362 MILLION, AND SALES TAX GENERATES APPROXIMATELY 295 MILLION.
THE FINAL COMPONENT OF REVENUES IS OUR OTHER RESOURCES.
THESE REVENUES INCLUDE, UH, THESE REVENUE INCLUDE FEES SUCH AS TELECOMMUNICATION AND USER FEES.
THESE REVENUES COMBINED FROM THE BASIC SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE CITY.
THESE INCLUDE PUBLIC SAFETY AT JUST BELOW 63% OF THE GENERAL FUND STREETS AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND PARKS.
THE REMAINING FUND, THE REMAINING FUND SERVICES SUCH AS LIBRARIES, ANIMAL CARE SERVICES, AND CODE ENFORCEMENT THROUGH THE SECOND QUARTER.
THE GENERAL FUND IS ABOUT 600 THOU $600,000 BELOW BUDGET.
THIS IS DUE TO $1.6 MILLION IN LESS REVENUES, PRIMARILY FROM C P SS AS A RESULT OF THE MILD WINTER IN SAN ANTONIO AND LOWER FUEL PRICES.
ADDITIONALLY, WE ARE SEEING ABOUT $1 MILLION IN LESS EXPENSE IN DEPARTMENT SPENDING.
THIS REPRESENTS LESS THAN ONE 10TH OF 1% OF GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS.
BASED ON OUR SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORTS, THE GENERAL FUND IS PROJECTED TO BE APPROXIMATELY $600,000 IN LESS REVENUES, MAINLY DUE TO THE REDUCTION IN C P S AND THE NEXT SEVERAL SIDES.
I'LL DETAIL PROJECTIONS FOR OUR C P S AND SALES TAX REVENUES.
WITHIN THE OTHER CATEGORY, WE ARE PROJECTING TO BE ABOUT $2.7 MILLION IN ADDITIONAL REVENUE AS A RESULT OF OF INTEREST EARNINGS IN THE SECOND QUARTER, SALES TAXES ABOVE BUDGET BY $4.2 MILLION, AND WE'RE PROJECTING TO BE AHEAD OF BUDGET BY THE END OF THE YEAR OF 4.4 MILLION.
THE GRAPH ON THE RIGHT ILLUSTRATES THE BUDGET AS WELL AS ACTUAL COLLECTIONS EACH MONTH THROUGH MARCH.
WHEN YOU COMPARE THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2019 COMPARED TO 2018, WE ARE AHEAD OF, WE ARE AHEAD BY 5.9% FOR THE YEAR END PROJECTION.
WE ARE PROJECTING TO BE 3.8% HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR AND 1.5% ABOVE BUDGET.
WITH C P S, WE ARE BELOW BUDGET THROUGH THE SECOND QUARTER BY APPROXIMATELY $7.7 MILLION.
DUE TO, AS I MENTIONED, A MILD WINTER AND LOWER FUEL PRICES.
THE TABLE ON THE RIGHT ILLUSTRATES THE BUDGET AND ACTUAL COLLECTIONS FOR C P SS BY MONTH THROUGH MARCH.
AS YOU MAY RECALL, DURING THE THREE PLUS NINE BUDGET PRESENTATION, WE WERE PROJECTING TO BE AT BUDGET FOR C P S.
HOWEVER, WE HAD JUST RECEIVED OUR JANUARY ACTUALS, WHICH WERE $4 MILLION BELOW BUDGET.
AT THAT TIME, WE DID NOT CHANGE OUR PROJECTIONS, BUT STATED WE WOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR, MONITOR THIS REVENUE SOURCE.
AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE GRAPH, WE'VE MISSED FIVE OF SIX MONTHS FOR C P S.
THEREFORE, WE HAVE REVISED THE PROJECTION TO ACCOUNT FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR.
WE'RE CONTINUING TO MONITOR THIS REVENUE SOURCE AND WE'LL PROVIDE AN UPDATE DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 2020 GOAL SETTING SESSION.
THE NEXT SLIDE ILLUSTRATES THE GENERAL FUND YEAR END PROJECTION AS
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COMPARED TO OUR FISCAL YEAR 20 19 3 PLUS NINE PROJECTION THAT WE HAD PRESENTED IN FEBRUARY.WHEN WE PRESENTED THE FISCAL YEAR 20 19 3 PLUS NINE, WE ARE PROJECTED TO HAVE A BETTER ENDING BALANCE OF ABOUT $17 MILLION.
SINCE THAT TIME, WE HAVE REVISED OUR ESTIMATES FOR REVENUES AS A RESULT OF LESS OF LESS REVENUES FROM C P S AND ADDITIONAL REVENUES FROM SALES TAX, AND WE ARE NOW PROJECTING A BETTER ENDING BALANCE OF $14.7 MILLION.
SO, IN YOUR BINDER INCLUDES ALL OF OUR BUDGET INITIATIVES AND A STATUS UPDATE ON THOSE.
HOWEVER, YOU WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF OF THE BUDGET INITIATIVES THAT WERE INCLUDED IN 2019.
THE 2019 BUDGET INCREASED OUR STREET MAINTENANCE PROGRAM BY $11 MILLION FOR TOTAL OF $110 MILLION, WHICH PROVIDES FUNDS TO COMPLETE 1,214 PROJECTS CITYWIDE THROUGH APRIL.
WE HAVE COMPLETED 424 PROJECTS, AND WE ANTICIPATE COMPLETING 1076 BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
138 PROJECTS, OR 10% OF THE PROJECTS WILL BE COMPLETED BY APRIL, 2020.
DUE TO THE SIZE AND COMPLEXITY OF THESE PROJECTS, THE 2019 BUDGET INCLUDES 19 MILLION FOR SIDEWALKS.
WITH THIS FUNDING, WE ARE PROJECTING TO COMPLETE 40 MILES OF SIDEWALKS IN 2019.
FOR THE SECOND QUARTER, WE ARE ON SCHEDULE WITH 14.5 MILES OF SIDEWALK COMPLETED WITH MOST OF THE PROJECTS COMPLETED IN THE THIRD AND FOURTH QUARTER OF THE YEAR.
THE 2019 ADOPTED BUDGET INCLUDED 25 MILLION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAMS. ADDITIONALLY, IN NOVEMBER OF 2018, A LOCAL PHILANTHROPIST DONATED $1 MILLION TO THE UNDER ONE ROOF PROGRAM.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT IS ON TRACK WITH ITS BUSINESS PLAN THAT THEY HAVE DEVELOPED A REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING BUSINESS.
PLAN IS PROVIDED TO CITY COUNCIL ON A MONTHLY BASIS, AND THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMMITTEE RECEIVES UPDATES REGULARLY.
OVERALL PROGRAMS ARE, ARE ON SCHEDULE EXCEPT FOR OUR HOME BUYER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND CONSTRUCTION ON NEW, ON NEW UNITS AND PRESERVATION OF EXISTING UNITS IS UNDERWAY.
FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON OUR POLICE UNIFORM VACANCIES.
ONE OF THE CITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES FOR 2019 WAS TO FILL VACANCIES WITHIN, WITHIN POLICE UNIFORM AS OF MAY 3RD.
THERE ARE 45 VACANT POSITIONS.
WE HAVE 2,246 FILLED SWORN POSITIONS, 156 CADETS AND 45 VACANT POSITIONS.
AS A REMINDER, WE HAVE TWO ADDITIONAL CADET CLASSES SCHEDULED IN 2019, WHICH WILL BEGIN IN JULY AND SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR.
AND FINALLY, OUR ESSAY SPEAK UP CAMPAIGN.
THE SURVEY FOR US, I SPEAK UP CAMPAIGN OPENED IN MID-MARCH AND WE'LL CLOSE ON MAY 19TH.
THE RESULTS OF THESE SURVEYS WILL BE PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL AT THE JUNE 21ST GOAL SETTING SESSION THROUGH MAY.
WE HAVE HELD AND ATTENDED 30 EVENTS.
THERE HAVE BEEN A APPRO ALMOST 6,500 SURVEYS COMPLETED, AND OVER 8,500 RESIDENTS HAVE PARTICIPATED THROUGH MAY THROUGH MAY 6TH.
MARION COUNCIL, WE'D LIKE TO PROVIDE YOU ADDITIONAL CONTEXT ON THE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF.
AS I MENTIONED, THE PROPOSED STATE LEGISLATION REDUCES THE CITY'S ROLLBACK RATE FROM 8% TO 3.5%.
ON THE SLIDE IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU CAN SEE THAT OVER A 10 YEAR PERIOD, THIS WOULD HAVE, UM, COST THE CITY ABOUT 136 7 MILLION IN LESS REVENUE AND RE REDUCE THE SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE GENERAL FUND TODAY BY 51 MILLION ANNUALLY.
ADDITIONALLY, AN AVERAGE CITY HOMEOWNER WOULD REALIZE SAVINGS OF APPROXIMATELY $20,000,020 PER YEAR.
TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CONTEXT COUNCIL, A COUNCIL CONSIDERATION REQUEST WAS SUBMITTED FROM COUNCILMAN ELIAS TO COMPLETE A STUDY OF THE BEAR COUNTY OF THE BEARER CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT PRACTICES AS THEY COMPARE TO OTHER TEXAS CITIES.
WE ARE ON TRACK TO PROVIDE THIS STUDY BY SEPTEMBER, 2019.
CURRENTLY, THE CITY OFFERS TWO EXEMPTIONS.
ONE IS A $65,000 EXEMPTION FOR HOMEOWNERS OVER THE AGE OF 65, AND THE SECOND IS $12,000, $512,500 DISABLED HOME HOMEOWNERS TAX EXEMPTION.
IN ADDITION TO THESE EXEMPTION, THE CITY ALSO FREEZES THE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY TAXES IMPOSED ON RESIDENTS BY PERSON, 65 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER OR DISABLED PERSONS.
WHEN THESE EXEMPTIONS AND FROZEN CITY TAX PAYMENTS ARE CONSIDERED, THE CITY WILL FOREGO NEARLY $52 MILLION IN PROPERTY TAX REVENUE.
NEXT, I WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE YOU SOME, SOME STATISTICS ON THE CITY'S
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PROPERTY TAX ROLLS.THE TOTAL NUMBER OF APPRAISED PRO PARCELS ON THE CITY'S PROPERTY TAX ROLLS IS ALMOST 473,000 OF THAT AMOUNT, 50% ARE COMMERCIAL AND 50% ARE RESIDENTIAL.
NOW, I'D LIKE TO FOCUS ON THOSE ACCOUNTS THAT ARE RESIDENTIAL OF THE ALMOST 237,000 RESIDENTIAL PARCELS.
44% HAVE OVER AGE 65 AND DISABLED EXEMPTIONS IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE, THE THAT OVER 96,000 HAVE AN OVERAGE 65 EXEMPTION, AND THEIR TAXES ARE FROZEN.
ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE NEARLY 8,800 DISABLED HOMEOWNER EXEMPTIONS WITH A TAX FREEZE.
FINALLY, THERE ARE ALMOST 24,000 DISABLED STATUTORY EXEMPTION AS MENTION STATUTORY EXEMPTIONS.
THE NEXT SLIDE PROVIDES A DETAILED SNAPSHOT OF SAN ANTONIO HOMEOWNERS BASED UPON THE NUMBER OF YEARS THEY HAVE OWNED THEIR HOME, AS WELL AS HOW MANY OF THOSE HOMEOWNERS HAVE THE AFOREMENTIONED CITY PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION.
AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE CHART, THE MAJORITY OF HOMEOWNERS THAT HAVE A TAX EXEMPTION AND A TAX FREEZE HAVE BEEN IN THEIR HOMES FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS.
FOR EXAMPLE, 94% OF HOMEOWNERS LIVING IN THEIR HOMES FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS RECEIVE THE EXEMPTIONS AND THEIR TAXES ARE FROZEN.
IN FEBRUARY OF 2019, COUNCILMAN COURAGE AND COUNCILMAN PERRY SUBMITTED A COUNCIL CONSIDERATION REQUEST TO STUDY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A GENERAL HOMESTEAD TAX EXEMPTION AND INCREASING THE OVER AGE 65 AND DISABLED TAX EXEMPTION.
THE NEXT TABLE PROVIDES AN IMPACT OF THE DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OVERAGE 65 EXEMPTION, AS WELL AS THE DISABLED EXEMPTION.
THE TABLE IN GREEN ILLUSTRATES THE CURRENT OVERAGE 65 EXEMPTION AND THE IMPACT OF THESE ALTERNATIVES.
CURRENTLY, OUR EXEMPTION IS 65,000, AND WITH THIS EXEMPTION, THE CITY FORGO FORGOES 32 MILLION IN REVENUE.
IF WE WERE IN TO INCREASE THIS EXEMPTION TO 75,000 OR A HUNDRED THOUSAND, IT WOULD HAVE AN IMPACT ON REVENUES OF $4 MILLION OR $12.7 MILLION.
THE TABLE IN BLUE ILLUSTRATES THE CITY'S CURRENT DISABLED EXEMPTION AND THE IMPACT OF THE ALTERNATIVES.
CURRENTLY, OUR EXEMPTION IS 12,500.
WITH THIS EXEMPTION, THE CITY FOREGOES $550,000 IN REVENUE.
THE TABLE INCLUDES EXEMPTIONS RANGING, RANGING FROM 50,000 TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND, WHICH WOULD IMPACT OUR REVENUES BETWEEN 1.6 MILLION AND $3 MILLION.
WE WANTED TO PROVIDE YOU A COMPARISON OF THE EXEMPTIONS THAT ARE PROVIDED BY JURISDICTIONS IN THE SAN ANTONIO AREA.
AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE TABLE, SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND SARAH ARE THE ONLY ENTITIES TO PROVIDE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS.
HOWEVER, ALL, ALL JURISDICTIONS PROVIDE AN OVER 65 EXEMPTION.
ADDITIONALLY, JURISDICTIONS, ALL JURISDICTIONS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF U H S, PROVIDE A DISABLED EXEMPTION, AND THE SENIOR TAX FREEZE IS PROVIDED BY ALL JURISDICTIONS EXCEPT U H SS AND, AND SARAH.
THE NEXT SLIDE PROVIDES AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPENS TO A PROPERTY TAX BILL.
ONCE A PERSON REACHES H 65, THE PROPERTY TAX BILL DECREASES BY 14%, AND ALL TAXING, ALL TAX ENTITIES ARE FROZEN, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SARAH AND U H S.
SO FOR AS LONG AS AN INDIVIDUAL CONTINUES TO BE A HOMEOWNER, THEIR TAXES ARE FROZEN.
THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A HOMESTEAD EXEMPT EXEMPTION AND WANTED TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE LAST BULLET.
A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION MUST BE APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL PRIOR TO JULY 1, 9, 20 19 TO BE EFFECTIVE IN FISCAL YEAR 2020.
THE NEXT TABLE PROVIDES SCENARIOS IF THE CITY WOULD IMPLEMENT A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION OF VARYING DEGREES AND THE IMPACT ON HOMEOWNERS AS WELL AS THE REVENUE LOSS TO THE CITY.
I WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MIDDLE OF THE SLIDE.
BASED ON THE AVERAGE HOMESTEAD VALUE OF 178,922 $29, THE AVERAGE CITY TAX BILL IS $999, AND BASED ON A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, THE SAVINGS TO HOMEOWNERS WOULD RANGE BETWEEN $28 AND 200.
NOW, THE TOTAL REVENUES LOST TO THE CITY WOULD RANGE BETWEEN 5.9 MILLION AND $48 MILLION ANNUALLY.
SO OUR NEXT STEPS TODAY, WE PROVIDED INFORMATION TO GIVE CONTEXT ON THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION DISCUSSION, WHICH SETS THE FRAMEWORK FOR DISCUSSION AT THE JUNE 21ST GOAL SETTING SESSION, ALONG WITH OTHER POLICY ISSUES.
NEXT, I'D LIKE TO MOVE ON TO OUR FIVE-YEAR FORECAST.
THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST IS AN EARLY FINANCIAL OUTLOOK FOR THE CITY.
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OUR 2019 BUDGET, THE FORECAST INITIATES CO COUNCIL POLICY DISCUSSIONS FOR THE UPCOMING BUDGET, AS WELL AS OTHER BUDGET PRIORITIES.AS A REMINDER, THE FINANCIAL FORECAST IS NOT A BUDGET, IT IS JUST WHAT WE KNOW IN TERMS OF REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES BASED ON A SET OF ASSUMPTIONS.
THIS IS THE START OF THE 2020 BUDGET PROCESS, AND THE PROPOSED BUDGET WILL BE PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL ON AUGUST 8TH.
THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST FOR THE GENERAL FUND IS BASED ON A SET OF ASSUMPTIONS TO FORM AN EARLY FINANCIAL OUTLOOK.
AS PART OF THE 2020 DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, THE FORECAST ASSUMES LEGISLATIVE CHANGES BEING CONSIDERED BY THE STATE, INCLUDING A 3.5% PROPERTY TAX CAP, AND A CHANGE IN THE CALCULATION FOR TELECOMMUNICATION AND CABLE FEES.
THESE CHANGES HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE CITY'S REVENUE FORECAST, WHICH LIMITS THE CAPACITY OF THE CITY.
TO ADD ANY ADDITIONAL SPENDING BEYOND CURRENT SERVICE LEVELS, THE FORECAST WILL ACHIEVE STRUCTURAL BALANCE BY 2022 AND MAINTAINS A MINIMUM 15% GENERAL FUND ENDING BALANCE IN KEEPING WITH CITY COUNCIL POLICY.
AS I MENTIONED, THE PROPERTY TAX IS THE CITY'S SECOND LARGEST REVENUE SOURCE IN THE GENERAL FUND.
HOWEVER, THE CITY REPRESENTS APPROXIMATELY 20% OF THE TOTAL PROPERTY TAX BILL.
AS SHOWN ON THIS SLIDE, THE MAJORITY OF THE PROPERTY TAX GOES TO FUND OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS WELL AS OTHER ENTITIES TO INCLUDE THE COUNTY SARAH AND UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM.
THE NEXT SLIDE ILLUSTRATES THE CITY'S HISTORICAL TAXABLE VALUATION.
PERCENT CHANGE YEAR OVER YEAR.
BETWEEN 2009 AND 2019, THE CITY AVERAGED A GROWTH RATE IN TAXABLE VALUE OF 5.27%.
THE FIRST IS BASE VALUE, WHICH REPRESENTS EXISTING PROPERTIES, AND THE SECOND ARE NEW PROPERTIES ADDED TO THE CITY'S TAX RULE.
AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE CHART, THE GROWTH DOES NOT HAPPEN EVENLY YEAR OVER YEAR.
THERE ARE SOME YEARS WHERE THE CITY SAW NEGATIVE GROWTH IN THE BASE IN 2020 THROUGH 2013, AND AN OVERALL DECREASE IN 2011 AND 2012.
SO IN THESE YEARS, THE CITY RECEIVED LESS REVENUE.
AS THE ECONOMY RECOVERED, WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE UP FOR THOSE YEARS WITH NEGATIVE GROWTH.
HOWEVER, DURING THOSE YEARS OF NEGATIVE GROWTH, THE CITY COUNCIL MADE THE DECISION NOT TO RAISE PROPERTY TAXES, AND STAFF MADE RECOMMENDATIONS TO MANAGE TO THE BUDGET.
FOR THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST, THE GROWTH FOR 2020 IS 6% WITH THE REMAINING PROJECTED TO INCREASE BY 5%, THREE AND A HALF ON OUR BASE GROWTH, WHICH REFLECTS, WHICH MATCHES THE THREE AND A 5% ROLLBACK BEING CONSIDERED BY THE STATE AND A ONE AND A HALF PERCENT INCREASE IN NEW GROWTH.
THE TOTAL AVERAGE GROWTH FOR THE FIVE YEAR FORECAST IS 5.2% IN TERMS OF SALES TAX.
THIS GRAPH ILLUSTRATES THE 10 YEAR HISTORY.
SALES TAX DURING THIS TIME GREW ON AVERAGE 4%.
MORE RECENTLY, SALES TAX GROWTH HAS RANGED FROM 3% TO JUST UNDER 6%, AND THE FORECAST ASSUMES A GROWTH IN SALES TAX OF 3.5% EACH YEAR.
AND FINALLY, ON OUR C P S REVENUES, THIS AGAIN IS OUR LARGEST REVENUE SOURCE, BUT THEY'RE ALSO ONE OF THE MOST VOLATILE REVENUE SOURCES AND ARE DIFFICULT TO FORECAST AS THEY CAN VARY WIDELY DEPENDING ON FACTORS SUCH AS WEATHER, FUEL PRICES, AND OFF SYSTEM SALES.
AS ILLUSTRATED IN IN THE SLIDE IN 2009, WE SAW A DECREASE OVER 2008 REVENUES OF 9.6%, AND THEN IN 2010 REVENUES INCREASED BY 6.8%.
HOWEVER, OVERALL, THE GROWTH HAVE HAS AVERAGED 2.5% FOR THE CURRENT YEAR, THE COMBINATION OF WARMER WINTER, ALONG WITH LOWER FUEL PRICES, IT IS ANTICIPATED FOR REVENUES TO DECLINE 4.3% FROM PRIOR ACTUALS OVER THE FORECAST.
OUR REVENUES ARE PROJECTED TO GROW ON AVERAGE ABOUT 2.3%.
MOVING ON TO SOME OF OUR EXPENDITURE ASSUMPTIONS.
THE FORECAST INCLUDES THE COST TO PROVIDE THE CURRENT LEVEL OF CITY SERVICES.
THIS INCLUDES $110 MILLION FOR STREET MAINTENANCE PROGRAM, CONTINUING TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN A TOTAL AMOUNT OF 23 MILLION FUNDED THROUGH A COMBINATION OF GENERAL FUND AND FEDERAL GRANTS, AND MAINTAINING A 15, A MINIMUM 15% GENERAL FUND BALANCE.
THE FORECAST ALSO, UH, INCLUDES ASSUMPTIONS FOR EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION.
THESE ASSUMPTIONS INCLUDE MAINTAINING THE $15 PER HOUR CIVILIAN ENTRY WAGE COSTS FOR THE APPROVED COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR POLICE, AND EVERGREEN FOR FIRE SALARY INCREASES FOR CIVILIANS ON THE PAY
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PLAN RANGE FROM TWO TO 4%, AND FOR NON-PAY PLAN MANAGERIAL AND SUPERVISORY EMPLOYEES, A PERFORMANCE PAY ALLOCATION IS INCLUDED, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO 3% OF SALARIES.AND FINALLY, A 1% COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT IS INCLUDED AS THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM PROJECTS ARE COMPLETED.
THE FORECAST INCLUDES PERSONNEL, OPERATIONAL AND MAINTENANCE COSTS FOR THESE FACILITIES AS THEY COME ONLINE.
SOME OF THESE FACILITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE SLIDE AS YOU COMBINE ALL THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT I'VE MENTIONED.
THE TABLE ON THE TOP ILLUSTRATES OUR PROJECTED RESOURCES AS WELL AS OUR PROJECTED EXPENDITURES, ASSUMING CURRENT SERVICES.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE FACE CHALLENGES IN 2020 AND 2021.
HOWEVER, WE BECOME STRUCTURALLY BALANCED BY 2022.
THE FOLLOWING POLICY ISSUES ARE INCLUDED AS DISCUSSION TOPICS AS WE MOVE TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 2020 BUDGET.
THE FIRST IS OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
CONSISTENT WITH THE HOUSING TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATION, WE WOULD NEED TO ADD $15 MILLION TO THE GENERAL FUND IN 2020, INCREASING $5 MILLION THROUGH 2022.
AT THAT TIME, THERE WOULD BE $48 MILLION IN THE CITY'S BUDGET FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
ANOTHER POLICY ISSUE IS ADDITIONAL UNIFORMED OFFICERS POLICE UNIFORM OFFICERS.
DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 2018 GOAL SETTING SESSION CHIEF MCMAN, CHIEF MCMANUS RECOMMENDED ADDING 25 POLICE OFFICERS EACH YEAR TO KEEP UP WITH GROWTH OF THE CITY, AND SHE PUT ALSO RECOMMENDED ADDING TWO LADDER COMPANIES AND AN E M S UNIT.
FINALLY, AS A RESULT OF THE COUNCIL CONSIDERATION REQUEST THAT WAS SUBMITTED EARLIER THIS YEAR, A $5,000 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION IS INCLUDED IN THESE POLICY ISSUES.
THESE ADDITIONAL COSTS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE FORECAST TODAY, BUT WILL BE DISCUSSED DURING A POLICY DISCUSSION ON JUNE 21ST.
AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE CHART, WE CANNOT ADD ALL THE POLICY ISSUES MOVING TO THE RESTRICTED FUNDS.
I'LL START WITH THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
THIS IS A $37 MILLION FUND THAT IS SUPPORTED BY FEES PAID FOR BY DEVELOPERS FOR PLAN REVIEWS AND INSPECTIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019.
WE ARE ANTICIPATING DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT FEE REVENUES COLLECTED WILL BE $2.6 MILLION AHEAD OF BUDGET, AND THE DEPARTMENT IS MANAGING THEIR SPENDING SLIGHTLY BELOW BUDGET.
THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FORECAST DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY FEE INCREASES OVER THE FIVE YEARS AND IS STRUCTURALLY BALANCED.
IT ALSO MAINTAINS A FINANCIAL RESERVE AND PROVIDES A RESERVE FOR FUTURE CAPITAL PROJECTS.
WITH REGARD TO THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX, THE CURRENT HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX RATE OF 16.7 PER 16.75% IS LEVIED ON EVERY HOTEL ROOM NIGHT.
THE CITY RECEIVED 9% OF THE TOTAL RATE WAS 7% GOING TO FUND OUR CONVENTION VISITORS.
OUR CONVENTION FACILITIES VISIT SAN ANTONIO ARTS AND HISTORY AND PRESERVATION.
THE REMAINING 2% IS RESTRICTED SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER EXPANSION, DEBT, AND FUTURE CONVENTION PROJECTS.
THE ANNUAL REVENUES GENERATED BY THE HOT TAX IS BUDGETED AT $70.8 MILLION AND ESTIMATED TO BE $72.8 MILLION OR $2 MILLION ABOVE BUDGET.
FOR THE SECOND QUARTER, WE AHEAD A BUDGET BY $1.3 MILLION.
THIS STRONG POSITIVE VARIANCE IS DRIVEN BY A 2% INCREASE IN THE AVERAGE DAILY RATE FOR HOTEL ROOMS, AND A 7% INCREASE IN THE DEMAND FOR OUR HOTEL OCCUPANCY DEPART FOR OUR DEPARTMENT SUPPORTED BY THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX.
THE NEXT CHART ILLUSTRATES THE PROJECTED HOT REVENUES AND EXPENSES FOR THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST.
THE FORECAST ASSUMES AN AVERAGE GROWTH RATE OF 3.3% OVER THE FIVE YEARS.
THESE GROWTH ASSUMPTIONS FOR THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX REVENUES ARE BASED ON LONG-TERM TRENDS AND HOTEL ROOMS, SUPPLY DEMAND, PRICES, AND OCCUPANCY LEVELS.
THE FORECAST PROJECTS THAT THE CURRENT SERVICE LEVELS ARE MAINTAINED WITHIN PROJECTED REVENUES OVER THE FIVE YEARS.
AND FINALLY, OUR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FUND.
THIS FUND HAS AN OPERATING BUDGET OF $126.5 MILLION.
THE FUND IS SUPPORTED BY SOLID WASTE ENVIRONMENTAL FEES, AS WELL AS RECYCLING REVENUES.
AS YOU MAY RECALL, THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 ADOPTED BUDGET INCLUDED A FEE INCREASE FOR THE LARGE CART AND A DECREASE FOR THE SMALL CART, WHICH CREATED A PRICE DIFFERENCE OF $10 PER MONTH.
THE GOAL WAS TO INCENTIVIZE OUR CUSTOMERS TO RECYCLE MORE AND THROW AWAY LESS MIGRATING TO A SMALLER CART.
WITH THESE CHANGES, WE HAVE PROJECTED THAT ALMOST 40% OF CUSTOMERS WOULD BE IN A SMALLER CART.
HOWEVER, WE ARE NOW PROJECTING ONLY 20%.
WE'LL BE IN A SMALLER CART BY THE
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END OF THE YEAR.WITH THESE REVISED CART DISTRIBUTIONS, WE ARE ANTICIPATING ADDITIONAL 7.5 MILLION IN REVENUES.
THE DEPARTMENT IS SLIGHTLY BELOW BUDGET AND WE'RE PROJECTED TO HAVE $700,000 IN LESS EXPENSE BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
THE NEXT CHART SHOWS A SOLID WASTE MONTHLY RATE AND THE PROJECTED RATES OVER THE FIVE YEAR FORECAST.
THIS FORECAST INITIATES THE POLICY DISCUSSION WITH CITY COUNCIL AS WE MOVE INTO THE 2020 BUDGET.
TODAY, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LARGE CARD AND THE SMALL CARD IS $10.
AND WITH THIS FEE, WE ARE, UM, INCLUDING A, A DECREASE IN THE SMALL CART FOR 2020.
THIS WOULD CREATE A DIFFERENCE OF $12 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021.
WE ARE INCLUDING AN AN ADDITIONAL DOLLAR IN A DOLLAR DECREASE TO THE SMALL CART.
THESE RATE CHANGES COUPLED WITH A ROBUST EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, ARE DESIGNED TO INCENTIVIZE RESIDENTS TO MOVE TO A SMALLER CART AND MAKE MORE USE OF THEIR BLUE RECYCLING AND GREEN ORGANICS CART.
WITH THESE FEE CHANGES, WE BUILT THE FIVE YEAR FORECAST, SO YOU CAN SEE OUR ESTIMATED RESOURCES AS WELL AS OUR PROJECTED EXPENDITURE AND THE ENDING BALANCE OVER THE FIVE YEARS.
AGAIN, THESE FEE CHANGES WILL BE A POLICY DISCUSSION WITH CITY COUNCIL DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 2020 BUDGET.
AND FINALLY, I'D LIKE TO REVIEW THE MID-YEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS.
AS THE CITY MANAGER MENTIONED, THESE ARE SCHEDULED FOR, FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION NEXT THURSDAY, MAY 16TH AT A SESSION.
TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAJOR BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS, THE GENERAL FUND INCLUDES FOUR REC OR FOUR ADJUSTMENTS FOR $288,000 FUNDED FROM GENERAL FUND CONTINGENCY.
THE RESTRICTED FUNDS INCLUDE THREE ADJUSTMENTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1.3 MILLION, AND THE CAPITAL BUDGET INCLUDES TWO ADJUSTMENTS FOR $2.4 MILLION FUNDED FROM THE CAPITAL BUDGET CONTINGENCY.
THE FIRST BUDGET BUDGET, UM, ADJUSTMENT WOULD ADD FUNDING FOR TWO POSITIONS TO BROADCAST AND LIVESTREAM CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND BOARD COMMISSION MEETINGS AT THE ONE STOP.
ADDITIONALLY, $300,000 IN CAPITAL EQUIPMENT WILL BE PURCHASED TO EQUIP THE ONE STOP BOARDROOM FOR BROADCAST BROADCASTING CAPABILITIES.
THIS WILL BE PURCHASED FROM CURRENT APPROPRIATIONS IN THE PEG FUND.
NEXT IS FOR OUR LARGE AREA REZONINGS.
THIS WOULD ADD TWO POSITIONS TO COMPLETE.
11 CITY INITIATED LARGE AREA REZONINGS DATING BACK TO 2014.
BY FEBRUARY OF 2020, THE TWO POSITIONS WILL BE FUNDED THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND.
AND FINALLY, FOR THE GENERAL FUND, THIS BUDGET ADJUSTMENT WOULD REALLOCATE $45,000 FROM COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO POLICE SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT TO THE ELLA AUSTIN TO SERVE AN ADDITIONAL 65 YOUTH IN THE SUMMER PROGRAM.
IN DECEMBER OF 2018, CITY COUNCIL REQUESTED A LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY OPTIONS FOR HAVEN FOR HOPE AS PART OF A BROADER STRATEGY TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS.
BETWEEN JANUARY AND APRIL, INPUT FROM STAKEHOLDER GROUPS FROM OVER 25 ORGANIZATIONS WAS GATHERED THROUGH THIS PROCESS, POTENTIAL FUNDING ALTERNATIVES WERE IDENTIFIED TO INCLUDE AN INCREASE IN RIVER BARGE TICKET FEES, NEW FEE ON SCOOTERS, INCREASE IN DOWNTOWN PARKING FEES, AND IN ADDITIONALLY CITY AND STAKEHOLDERS WILL CONTINUE TO WORK ON FUNDING ALTERNATIVES OVER THE SUMMER, STAKEHOLDERS AGREE TO MORE DISCUSSION ON THESE OPTIONS AND SUPPORT A COMMUNITY STRATEGIC PLAN TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS.
AS A RESULT, THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 MIDYEAR BUDGET REQUEST INCLUDES $200,000 TO COMPLETE A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY HOMELESS SERVICES, IDENTIFYING GAPS AND DEVELOP IN CONSULTATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS, A STRE A STRATEGIC PLAN TO ADDRESS THOSE GAPS.
MOVING TO DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, THIS BUDGET ADJUSTMENT WOULD ADD SIX POSITIONS IN THE AMOUNT OF $256,000.
FOUR POSITIONS WOULD BE ADDED TO ADDRESS THE INCREASE IN COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL PLAN REVIEW, AS WELL AS INTAKE.
AND THE TWO REMAINING POSITIONS WOULD ADDRESS AN INCREASE IN OUR BUILDING INSPECTIONS.
FOR OUR HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FUND, WE HAVE TWO MAJOR BUDGET ADJUSTMENT REQUESTS, ONE FOR $523,000 TO COMPLETE THE DESIGN TO REPLACE THE ROOF AT THE CONVENTION CENTER.
THAT WAS DAMAGED AS A RESULT OF WEATHER OVER LABOR DAY WEEKEND LAST YEAR.
THE SECOND IS $500,000 FOR VISIT SAN ANTONIO TO DRIVE ADDITIONAL VISITATION FOR SUMMER 2019 AND 2020.
AND FINALLY, OUR CAPITAL BUDGET.
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$2.4 MILLION FOR FUNDING TO HAVEN FOR HOPE TO COMPLETE RENOVATIONS TO EXISTING BUILDING, ADDING 120 BEDS, SERVING 500 HOMELESS ANNUALLY.AND THEN THE SECOND IS A REALLOCATION OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM DISTRICT SEVEN PARK DEVELOPMENT TO JANE DOBELL PARK.
SO THE NEXT STEPS IN OUR 2020 BUDGET PROCESS.
WE ARE CURRENTLY GATHERING FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY ON THEIR PRIORITIES AS WE MOVE INTO THE 2020 BUDGET AT THE CITY COUNCIL GOAL SETTING SESSION.
THESE RESULTS WILL BE PRESENTED AS WELL AS POLICY DISCUSSIONS WILL BE DISCUSSED ON JUNE 21ST.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS SCHEDULED TO BE PRESENTED TO COUNCIL ON AUGUST 8TH, AND WE'LL FOLLOW WITH WORK CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION, AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL INPUT ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND BUDGET.
ADOPTION IS SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 12TH IN CLOSING, THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 BUDGET IS BALANCED AND SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF BUDGET.
THE FINANCIAL FORECAST REFLECTS PROPOSED STATE LEGISLATIVE CHANGES.
HOWEVER, IT HAS LIMITED CAPACITY TO ADD ADDITIONAL SPENDING BEYOND CURRENT SERVICE LEVELS.
THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS ARE SCHEDULED FOR CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL ON MAY 16TH, AND WE'LL BE PROVIDING A BRIEFING ON FINANCIAL POLICY ISSUES ON JUNE 21ST.
FINALLY, OUR GOAL SETTING SESSION IS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE, I'M SORRY, BRIEFING ON FINANCIAL POLICIES ON JUNE 12TH.
GOAL SETTING SESSION IS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 21ST FOR COUNCIL TO DISCUSS POLICY ISSUES AND FINANCIAL POLICIES FOR THE 2020 BUDGET.
THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
UH, JUSTINA, UH, GREAT PRESENTATION.
UM, DO WE HAVE ANYTHING ON SPEAK OUT, UH, ON THE BUDGET OR IS THAT GONNA BE FOR A LATER DATE? I SAY SPEAK OUT, SO GO AHEAD.
UM, WE HAVE, WE HAVE BEEN ATTENDING EVENTS.
WE'VE ATTENDED 30 EVENTS TO DATE.
WE ARE COLLECTING, UM, THE SURVEYS AND WE'LL BE PREPARING A, A REPORT TO BE PROVIDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL ON JUNE 21ST.
UM, SO WHAT WE, WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A LOT TO BE DECIDED YET IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION, BUT AT THIS POINT ARE PROJECTIONS ON C P S REVENUES, IS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE SLIGHTLY UNDER FORECAST AND ON SALES TAX SLIGHTLY OVER FORECAST.
SO, UM, I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THE, THE BUDGET DOESN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF ADJUSTMENTS AT THE MID-YEAR EITHER.
UM, OF COURSE, I, UH, SUPPORT THE, THE RECOMMENDED, UM, ADJUSTMENTS THAT YOU PRESENTED JUST NOW.
I JUST HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
UM, I KNOW WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE HOMESTEAD TAX EXEMPTION ANALYSIS TO PREPARE US FOR THE POLICY FORECAST.
UM, HAVE WE ALSO LOOKED AT ROLLBACK AS, AS OPPOSED TO AN EXEMPTION, ACTUAL RATE REDUCTION? UH, GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR.
WE HAVE NOT SPECIFICALLY LOOKED AT THAT, BUT WE CERTAINLY COULD LOOK AT THAT.
UM, IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO COMPARE THE IMPACT, UH, TO THE HOMEOWNER.
UM, IF WE HAVE CHOICES TO MAKE WITH REGARD TO EXEMPTION, UH, OR ROLLBACK, WHAT THAT WOULD, WHAT WOULD THAT MEAN FOR THE CITY BUDGET, BUT ALSO FOR THE INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNER? YES, WE CAN CERTAINLY PUT THAT TOGETHER.
THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS GONNA BE THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.
WHATEVER WE FOREGO IN REVENUE WILL GO DIRECTLY TO, TO JUST THOSE HOMEOWNERS.
A TAX RATE REDUCTION WOULD GO ACROSS THE ENTIRE TAX BASE, UH, COMMERCIAL, RESIDENTIAL, MULTI-FAMILY.
EVERYBODY WOULD SEE THAT REDUCTION.
FOR COMPARISON, UH, WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
UM, NEXT QUESTION IS, I KNOW THERE WAS A, THIS IS MORE FOR, UM, THE FORECAST, UM, BUT THERE WAS A DISCUSSION LAST YEAR DURING THE BUDGET, UM, ABOUT THE CIVILIAN COLA AND KNOW WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF NEGOTIATION WITH THE PUBLIC SAFETY CONTRACT.
UH, BUT I DO SUPPORT, UH, AN INCREASED COLA.
WE'RE FORECASTING TO BE BUDGET IN FY 20.
YEAH, SURE, MAYOR, WE CAN, WE CAN PROVIDE SOME OPTIONS.
UM, BUT, BUT, UM, THERE'S TWO COMPONENTS TO THE CIVILIAN PAY.
ONE IS, UM, AND IT'S INCLUDED WITHIN THE, THE CALCULATIONS.
IT'S A CIVILIAN PAY PLAN ADJUSTMENT OF BETWEEN TWO AND 4%, PLUS A COLA OF 1%.
BUT, UH, WE CAN PREPARE ADDITIONAL OPTIONS, UH, FOR THE COUNCIL TO LOOK AT, UH, IN, FOR THE, FOR THE JUNE 21ST, UM, SESSION.
AND THEN FINALLY, UM, WHEN IS OUR
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NEXT MEETING WITH THE RATING AGENCIES? UM, TYPICALLY WE, UH, GO BACK TO MARKET IN JULY.SO, UH, WE WILL BE MEETING WITH THE RATING AGENCIES DURING THE MONTH OF JULY.
UM, AND THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THE KEY THINGS THAT THAT, UM, UH, JUSTINA TALKED ABOUT THERE AT THE END, WHERE GIVEN THE CHANGING CONDITIONS UP IN AUSTIN, UH, AND HOW IT'S IMPACTING NOT JUST US, BUT A LOT OF OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AND PUBLIC AGENCIES IN THE STATE, UH, WE WILL WANT TO, WE ARE RECOMMENDING WE REVISIT OUR FINANCIAL POLICIES IN MID-JUNE AND HAVE SOME CERTAINTY BECAUSE THAT'LL, THAT I'M SURE THERE'LL BE QUESTIONS THAT THE RAIDING AGENCIES WILL HAVE FOR A LOT OF TEXAS CITIES.
WELL, I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA TO SPLIT THE TWO CONVERSATIONS THAT WE HAVE, THE, UM, THE FINANCIAL POLICY DISCUSSION IN MID-JUNE, AND THEN WE GO INTO OUR, OUR FORECAST, OUR OUR, UH, GOAL SETTING SESSION.
BUT IT MIGHT BE, IT, IT WOULD BE GOOD INFORMATION FOR US TO HAVE IF, IF THERE'S ANY GUIDANCE IN THE INTERIM FROM THE RATING AGENCIES AS WE, WE DEVELOP AND REFINE THOSE POLICIES.
SO, UM, THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT AND, UM, WE'LL MOVE ON TO COUNCIL QUESTION.
UM, START WITH COUNCILMAN SALDANA.
GREAT JOB, GREAT PRESENTATION.
I KNOW THIS IS, UM, UH, SOMETHING WE GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE YEAR, AND IT, UM, IT REALLY ALWAYS HIGHLIGHTS A NUMBER OF, OF, UM, REALLY FOR US, HIGHLIGHTS HOW LARGE THIS ORGANIZATION IS, HOW MUCH WE DO, UH, BUT YOU REALLY ALLOW US TO DIVE DEEP.
SO LET ME ASK YOU, YOU A FEW SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
UM, ONE OF THEM IS, IS ON A VARIANCE EXPLANATION THAT YOU'VE LAID OUT IN THE SIX PLUS SIX, IT'S THE BACKUP MATERIAL.
AND YOU SAID THAT THERE IS, SO TYPICALLY YOU WOULD THINK IT'S A BAD, IT'S A BAD NEWS ITEM IF IT'S, IF WE HAVE A, A FAVORABLE VARIANCE.
AND I'M, I'M LOOKING AT THE PUBLIC SAFETY 7.7 DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF E M S TRANSPORTS FOR THE YEAR.
AND I ACTUALLY THINK THAT'S A GOOD STORY TO TELL BECAUSE THE EXPLANATION THAT I SEE HERE MIGHT NEED A LITTLE BIT OF ELABORATION, UM, SO THAT WE CAN REALLY GRASP, UH, WHY THAT'S A GOOD THING.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE MAY NOT SEE AS MUCH REVENUE FROM E M S TRANSPORTS, BUT WHAT YOU HIGHLIGHT HERE IS, UM, THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF MOBILE INTEGRATED HEALTH UNIT, UH, CONTACTS HAPPENING ON SITE.
AND THEN THERE'S A SUPPLEMENT TO THAT, WHICH IS THAT, UH, IN ADDITION, THE DECLINE IN TRANSPORT IS ALSO DUE TO AN EMERGENCY DETENTION PROGRAM.
AND THAT'S THE PIECE I DON'T UNDERSTAND AS WELL.
I UNDERSTAND THE MOBILE INTEGRATED HEALTH PRETTY WELL, AND PLEASE ELABORATE MORE ON THAT FOR WHOEVER MIGHT COME UP AND SPEAK ON IT.
BUT TELL ME ABOUT HOW THAT, IF SOMEBODY COULD COME UP AND TELL ME ABOUT HOW THAT SECOND PIECE IS REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF, UH, TRANSPORT FEES.
VANCE, CAN YOU COME UP AND, UH, TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT EMERGENCY DETENTION PROGRAM? IT, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY KIND OF A TARGETED EFFORT, UH, WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
SO, I MEAN, AL ALSO BIG POINT, UH, VANCE BEFORE YOU JUMP UP IS MM-HMM.
SO IF YOU COULD JUST SPEAK TO HOW WE'RE SEEING THAT EXACTLY.
I MEAN, OUR GOAL IS AS FEW TRANSPORTS AS POSSIBLE, OBVIOUSLY WITH, UH, KEEPING, UH, CITIZENS SAFE AND APPROPRIATE MEDICAL CARE.
UM, AND WHAT'S HAPPENED IS, IS WE'VE GOT THE M I H, WHICH IS IN THE E M SS SIDE OF THE HOUSE, UH, THAT'S, UH, STOPPING A LOT OF CONSTANT TRANSPORTS THAT GO ON FOR CERTAIN PATIENTS.
AND THEN ON THE PD SIDE OF THE HOUSE, THE M H U, WHERE THE, THE, SOME OF THESE MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS, INSTEAD OF THEM GOING WITH US, THEY'RE ACTUALLY BEING TRANSPORTED BY THE, BY THE OFFICERS THEMSELVES.
AND THAT CUTS DOWN ON THE NUMBER THERE.
WE'VE ALSO HAD SOMEWHAT OF AN INCREASE IN SOME OF OUR OTHER AREAS AS FAR AS, UH, UM, CABS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO THOSE TWO THINGS, UH, HAVE CAUSED THAT.
I BELIEVE IT'S ABOUT A 6% REDUCTION.
UH, AT THE SAME TIME THOUGH, WE HAVE HAD, UH, THERE IS, UH, THE INCREASE AS FAR AS OUR FEES THAT ARE MAKING UP PART OF THAT.
SO THE OVERALL REVENUE IS LOWER, BUT SOME OF THAT IS BEING MADE UP BY THE, BY THE INCREASE IN FEES WE PUT IN LAST YEAR.
SO CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE EMERGENCY DETENTIONS AND HOW THAT IS, UM, SAVING US, UH, ACTUALLY I WOULD SAY REDUCING ON THE AMOUNT OF FEES THAT WE TAKE IN, WHICH I'M OKAY WITH, BUT HOW IT'S MAYBE HELP HELPING THE CUSTOMER IF WE'RE REMOVING A STEP OR THE LIFESPAN OF, OF A CONTACT THAT YOU ALL HAVE WITH SOMEBODY WHO HAS A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE.
PREVIOUSLY WHEN WE HAD AN ED, WE WOULD, IT WOULD, UH, TAKE THE AMBULANCE OUTTA SERVICE TO, TO TRANSPORT THAT PATIENT OVER TO THE, UH, EMERGENCY ROOM AT THE SAME TIME THAT THE POLICE OFFICER WOULD FOLLOW US ALONG IN HIS CAR.
AND SO NOW AS LONG AS WE'VE GOT, UH, UM, THE, THE DOCTORS INVOLVED AND ALL MEDICALLY, EVERYTHING'S OKAY, THEY'RE GOING DIRECTLY WITH PD AND CUTTING US OUTTA THAT PART.
SO WE'RE THERE AT THE SCENE AND WE'RE ASSESSING, MAKING SURE THAT MEDICALLY THEY'RE STABLE AND INSTEAD, UH, THE TRANSPORTATION PART OF IT IS GIVEN OVER TO THE PD PART, WHICH MEANS THAT WE WOULDN'T BE CHARGING FOR THAT.
AND DO WE RELY ON NONPROFITS WHEN WE DO EMERGENCY DETENTION OR IS IT JUST A HOSPITAL SYSTEMS, IS IT LIKE A CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES? ARE WE, ARE WE TRANSPORTING TO, UM, OTHER AGENCIES OUTSIDE OF JUST THE HOSPITALS? JUST THE HOSPITALS.
SO WHEN I, WHEN I THINK EMER EMERGENCY DETENTION, I, I SHOULD THINK HOSPITALS.
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MENTAL HEALTH.WHO'S TRANSPORTING TO, UH, A HAVEN FOR, HAVEN FOR HOPE OR CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES? NO, SIR.
AND THEY GET, NOW, THEY MAY BE TRANSFERRED LATER TO THAT, BUT THEY'RE INITIALLY TAKEN OVER TO BE, UM, UM, EVALUATED THERE.
UH, SO, UH, ON YOUR PRESENTATION, MY SECOND QUESTION HERE, UH, JUSTINA IS ON THE, UH, HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION REQUIREMENTS, IT'S ONE BULLET POINT THAT I WANT TO JUST FIND OUT WHERE THE RULE COMES FROM.
'CAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S A, IT'S COMING FROM SOMEWHERE THAT SAYS THAT YOU CAN ONLY APPLY HOMESTEAD.
IT SAYS APPLIES TO ALL HOMESTEADS REGARDLESS OF VALUE.
SO I, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, IN ORDER TO, TO SAY, HEY, MAYBE A MILLION DOLLAR HOME, UH, WOULDN'T CLASSIFY UNDER HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.
CAN WE GET THAT SPECIFIC? IF WE WERE TO TALK ABOUT A POLICY THAT I THINK THIS COUNCIL WOULD TAKE ON AND SAY, LOOK, IF YOU'RE A HOME OVER A MILLION DOLLARS, MAYBE YOU DON'T QUALIFY IN THE CITY'S HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, BUT OBVIOUSLY ANYONE BELOW THAT, UH, 'CAUSE THIS DOES TWO THINGS.
ONE, IT'S A SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER PORTION OF REVENUE THAT'S NOT GOING TO THE CITY.
AND PERHAPS IT'S NOT NECESSARILY TARGETING THOSE FOLKS THAT ARE MOST VULNERABLE FOR, UH, IF, IF, IF OUR INTENTION WAS KEEPING FOLKS IN THEIR HOMES.
SO, UH, COUNCILMAN THAT REQUIREMENT COMES OUT OF STATE LAW.
WE DON'T HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO, UM, PROVIDE A HOMESTEAD BASED ON THE VALUE OF THE HOME.
IT'S A PERCENTAGE THAT WE WOULD ADOPT AND ALL HOMES WOULD GET THAT PERCENTAGE, UH, EXEMPTION.
NO FLEXIBILITY ON THAT PIECE IF YOU WANTED TO HAVE IT.
WE DID TALK, UH, WITH THE LEGISLATURE.
I DON'T BELIEVE IT MADE IT INTO THE VERSION OF SSB TWO TO TRY TO GET A FIXED RATE, UH, FIXED DOLLAR AMOUNT EXEMPTION.
SO YOU COULD GRANT A LARGER DOLLAR EXEMPTION.
SO TO YOUR POINT, A FLAT DOLLAR AMOUNT WOULD HAVE A BIGGER IMPACT TO LOWER VALUE HOMES VERSUS HIGHER VALUE HOMES.
BUT I THAT DID NOT MAKE IT IN.
SO WHEN WE GO PERCENTAGE, UM, IT'S, IT'S THE QUESTION OF A, YOU KNOW, OF A HOME, UH, ON THE SOUTH SIDE WORTH A HUNDRED THOUSAND AND WHAT MAYBE 10%, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT KIND OF PERCENTAGES WOULD WE BE LOOKING AT? HAVE WE TALKED ABOUT THAT? IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOMESTEAD, YOU CAN GO UP TO 20%.
UH, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MINIMUM $5,000 EXEMPTION.
SO WHAT JUSTINA JUST SHOWED YOU THE IMPACT ON WAS A MINIMUM, THE MINIMUM AMOUNT UNDER STATE LAW.
AND THE WAY YOU WOULD DO THAT IS YOU, YOU HAVE TO ADOPT IT AS A PERCENTAGE, BUT YOU WOULD ADOPT SOMETHING LIKE A 10TH OF A PERCENT EXEMPTION AND IT WOULD TRIGGER THE MINIMUM $5,000 EXEMPTION.
ANYTHING ABOVE THAT IS PERCENTAGE BASED.
SO YOU, YOU CANNOT, UM, UH, EXTRACT OUT VALUE.
AND YOU CANNOT USE DOLLAR VALUES, YOU HAVE TO USE A PERCENTAGE.
SO I THINK THAT THE QUESTION FOR POLICYMAKERS IS, YOU KNOW, IF, IF WE'RE TARGETING, YOU KNOW, THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS HOME AND YOU DO 20%, IT'S A MUCH DIFFERENT, UH, NUMBER WITH RESPECT TO THE REVENUE LOSS OF THE CITY COMPARED TO A MILLION DOLLAR HOME.
AND YOU JUST DON'T HAVE THE TOOLS TODAY TO DO THAT, UNFORTUNATELY, AT THE CITY, IF WE WANTED TO GO DOWN THAT, THAT DISCUSSION FOR A POLICY THAT IS CORRECT.
AND THE OTHER POINT I'LL ADD IN IS WHEN YOU DO A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, JUST, JUST, UM, FOR CONSIDERATION AS YOU THINK ABOUT THAT OR, OR, OR CONSIDER THAT IS, REMEMBER ABOUT 44% OF OUR HOMESTEADS ARE FROZEN, MEANING THEY'VE REACHED AGE 65 AND THE TAX BILL ITSELF, UH, IS ACTUALLY FROZEN THE DOLLAR AMOUNT.
AND THE ONLY TWO ENTITIES THAT IT DOESN'T FREEZE IS, UH, THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER AUTHORITY, WHICH IS PRETTY SMALL ON THE TAX BILL AND THE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM.
BUT EVERY EVERYBODY ELSE, SCHOOL, DISTRICT, CITY, COUNTY, UH, ALL BECOME FROZEN AT THAT POINT.
WHEN YOU GRANT A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, IT GOES TO THEM AS WELL.
SO IT WILL LOWER THE TAX BILL INITIALLY, BUT AS THEIR VALUE IN THEIR HOME GOES UP, IT WILL CREEP BACK TOWARDS THAT ORIGINAL CEILING THAT THEY HAD IN PLACE WHEN THEY GOT THE ORIGINAL EXEMPTION, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
SO WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T, I GUESS ANOTHER WAY TO SAY, WE CAN'T TARGET IT TO THE 56% THAT DON'T HAVE THE 8 65 EXEMPTION, IT GOES ACROSS THE BOARD.
AND, AND THE LAST IS JUST A, UM, JUST SAYING THANK YOU.
AND, AND ERIC, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN WORKING PRETTY CLOSELY ON THIS ISSUE THAT, UH, HAVEN FOR HOPE HAS BEEN DEALING WITH, THEY'VE FUNDRAISED FOR ABOUT, YOU KNOW, $7 MILLION FOR A FACILITY THAT THEY'VE RUN INTO SOME SNAGS WITH ON THE CONSTRUCTION SIDE.
AND IT WOULD OTHERWISE HELP FAMILIES, YOU KNOW, STAY TOGETHER, WHO DO GO IN ENROLL, ARE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS.
UH, BECAUSE FROM THE REPORTS FROM HAVEN AND THEIR LEADERSHIP TODAY IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT, AND I REMEMBER TAKING A TOUR OF IT PROBABLY ABOUT FOUR, THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO, I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY.
UH, WE LOOKED AT THE, THE SHELL OF THE FACILITY AND, AND THE OBJECTIVE TO ACHIEVE THERE WAS AS IMPORTANT AS IT IS TODAY, EXCEPT THAT WE WOULD'VE LIKED TO HAVE HAD THAT PROJECT.
I'M SURE HAVEN WOULD'VE LIKED TO HAVE HAD THAT PROJECT ONLINE TWO YEARS AGO.
SO IT SEEMS LIKE IN ORDER FOR THEM TO COMPLETE THAT PROJECT, THEY REQUESTED THE CITY THE 2.4 MILLION, UH, WHICH I'M, I'M REALLY GRATEFUL THAT WE ARE STEPPING UP TO HELP AND SUPPORT THEM IN, IN DOING SO, BECAUSE THE, THE BYPRODUCT OF, OF THE, OR THE ABSENCE OF THIS, UM, WOULD MEAN THAT THEY DO WHAT THEY'RE DOING TODAY, WHICH IS PUTTING FAMILIES IN COTS IN PLACES WHERE IT ISN'T EXACTLY SUITED FOR, FOR FAMILIES TO, TO STAY OVERNIGHT.
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GRATEFUL THAT WE'RE STEPPING UP TO DO THAT, UM, FOR THE POPULATION THAT IS, YOU KNOW, HOMELESS IN EFFECT, AND, AND, AND ON THEIR WAY TO TRANSITIONING BACK TO, UH, TO FULL RECOVERY, UH, WHICH I KNOW HAVEN DOES REALLY WELL.SO I'M, I'M APPRECIATIVE OF THE, I'M THE FACT THAT WE'VE, WE'VE STEPPED UP AND, AND HOPEFULLY AS A COUNCIL WILL SUPPORT THAT NEXT WEEK.
COUNCILMAN SALDANA, COUNCILMAN VIA GRANT.
THANK YOU JUSTINA, FOR THE PRESENTATION.
AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU AND UM, ERIC, FOR NOT HAVING THIS AND MARIA, FOR NOT HAVING THIS ON THE AGENDA TOMORROW, THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US TIME TO TAKE IT IN AND DIGEST IT.
UM, I DO HAVE A, A LOT OF QUESTIONS, UH, BUT, AND I'M GONNA GO SLIDE BY SLIDE.
NOT EVERY SLIDE, BUT, UM, I DID WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT SLIDE.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, I KNOW YOU GAVE US THE, THE PERCENTAGE OF THE PERCENTAGES WITH THE, UM, THE TAX INCREASE.
UM, SO I WANNA KNOW WHAT IS THE PROJECTION OR THE FIVE-YEAR PROJECTION WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE APPRAISALS? 'CAUSE WE KNOW THE APPRAISALS THIS YEAR ARE SIGNIFICANT, ARE, ARE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR, THE PROPERTY APPRAISALS.
SO HOW DID WE FACTOR THAT IN AND WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS, THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS THAT WE'RE PROJECTING? WAS IT ON HERE? CAN YOU CLARIFY THAT, WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE? UH, COUNSEL, LEMME MAKE SURE I'M, UH, ANSWERING THE RIGHT QUESTION HERE.
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE PROJECTION ON THE PROPERTY TAX GROWTH? YES.
CAN WE, CAN YOU, UH, SO IT'S ON SLIDE 40 AND THIS IS OUR HISTORICAL PROPERTY TAX GROWTH.
BOTH BASE, UH, VALUE PLUS NEW IMPROVEMENT.
NEW IMPROVEMENTS ARE BASICALLY EVERYTHING THAT GETS ADDED TO THE TAX ROLL, NEW BUILDINGS, NEW COMMERCIAL PROPERTY, NEW HOMES, UH, GOING FORWARD.
AND FOR 2020 WE'RE PROJECTING 6%, UH, THAT'S COMPARABLE TO CLOSE TO WHAT WE GOT LAST YEAR OR THIS, I'M SORRY, LAST YEAR, THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR.
SO WE'RE PROJECTING 4% ON THE BASE, 2% ON NEW IMPROVEMENTS.
WE'VE GOT VERY PRELIMINARY INFORMATION FROM THEIR APPRAISAL DISTRICT.
WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THEM, BUT AS YOU KNOW, THE APPEALS PROCESS STARTS AND SO WE HAVE TO FACTOR IN LOSSES.
AND WHEN IS THE DEADLINE FOR, UH, APPEALS? THE FIFTH MAY 15TH, IS THAT CORRECT? NEXT WEEK, MAY 15TH.
BUT, UH, UH, WORKING CLOSELY WITH THEM, LOOKING AT HISTORICAL INFORMATION, WE THINK WILL BE ABOUT 6% GOING FORWARD.
WE THEN PROJECTED A TOTAL OF 5% AND THAT INCLUDES THE 3.5% ON BASE PLUS A ONE POINT A HALF PERCENT ON NEW IMPROVEMENTS.
SO I GUESS I WANT, I WANT MORE.
SO WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS REALLY BASIC.
IF YOU HAVE THAT, UM, SEE WHERE IT SAYS PROPERTY TAX 361.9 MILLION FOR 2019.
WHAT IS THAT GONNA LOOK LIKE IN 2020? IT'D BE APPROXIMATELY 6% HIGHER.
SO THE, FOR 2020, THE DO DOLLAR VALUE FOR IS $383.6 MILLION.
BUT THAT'S BEFORE ANY PROTEST OR WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE COMING IN.
UH, THAT'S OUR, THAT'S OUR PROJECTION.
AFTER WE'RE ASSUMING ONCE ALL THAT'S SETTLED, THAT THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GONNA LAND.
UM, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.
AND THEN ON SLIDE NUMBER SIX, UM, NOW I'M REALIZING WHAT I, I WANTED TO ASK, UM, HERE, AND YOU'VE PUT THIS ON OUR PER UH, PRESENTATION TWICE, HAD A 3.5 REVENUE CAP BEEN IN PLACE IN THE PAST DECADE.
THIS IS THE IMPACT, BUT TELL ME WHAT IT IS THE 3.5 WILL HAVE, UM, I GUESS IN OUR FUTURE, IN OUR NEXT FIVE YEARS OR OUR PROJECTIONS.
AND IF YOU HAVE IT UP ON A SLIDE, GREAT.
JUST HIGHLIGHT IT FOR ME AGAIN PLEASE.
SO I'M GONNA SHOW YOU, UH, A COUPLE OF THINGS.
THIS IS OF COURSE, AS YOU SAID, LOOKING BACK 10 YEARS, UHHUH, THIS IS WHAT THE IMPACT WOULD'VE BEEN.
UH, IF YOU CAN GO BACK TO SLIDE, WAS IT 40 ON THE FORECAST AGAIN? SO THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE IN WHERE YOU SEE THE IMPACT OF THE BILL GOING FORWARD IS YOU CAN SEE IN YEARS, UH, EARLY ON 2009, 2010, WE'RE GOING THROUGH A RECESSION.
UHHUH
RIGHT? SO WE WENT THROUGH A FOUR OR FIVE YEAR PERIOD WHERE EVEN WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS, WE COLLECTED LESS REVENUE.
MATTER OF FACT, I THINK IN THAT FIRST FIVE YEAR PERIOD, OUR AVERAGE ANNUAL INCREASE, INCLUDING NEW IMPROVEMENTS WAS EIGHT TENTHS OF A PERCENT.
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AND FROM A STAFF PERSPECTIVE, WE RECOMMENDED WE'RE IN A RECESSION, WE'RE GONNA HOLD THAT TAX RATE AND WE'RE GONNA ADJUST THE BUDGET.THE ASSUMPTION IS THEN WHEN YOU RECOVER PAST THE RECESSION, WE CAN COLLECT THE GROWTH AS THE ECONOMY RECOVERS.
WHAT THE, THE BILL DOES IS THAT BLUE BAR WE'RE CAPPED AT THREE POINT A 5%.
SO THE FORECAST SHOWS YOU THE THREE POINT A HALF PERCENT STARTING IN 2021.
IN THE PAST WE WOULD'VE GIVEN YOU A MODERATELY CONSERVATIVE PROJECTION LIKE THIS.
AT SOME POINT IN TIME YOU WOULD'VE EXCEEDED THREE POINT A HALF PERCENT AND THAT'S WHERE YOU WOULD'VE HAD SOME ABILITY TO ADD, UH, NEW IMPROVEMENTS, ADDRESS SOME POLICY ISSUES.
THE FORECAST, WE WON'T DO BETTER THAN 3.5% ANYMORE.
SO THAT'S, I DON'T HAVE A DOLLAR IMPACT 'CAUSE IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE VALUES ARE GONNA LOOK LIKE.
BUT IF YOU TOOK THIS JUST CUT ACROSS 3.5%, YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT'S GONNA IMPACT US GOING FORWARD.
SO WE DON'T HAVE A DOLLAR AMOUNT YET, BUT WE KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY.
YOU TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, STATE LEGISLATIVE SESSION, TELECOM COM, UH, COMPANY'S COMPANIES, ET CETERA.
THOSE PROPOSED FEES OF $7 MILLION, YOU SAID IT WOULD BE STARTING SEPTEMBER ONE? CORRECT.
SO THEN YOU ALL WILL HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS TO US OF WHAT WE NEED TO CUT OR WHAT THINGS ARE NOT AVAILABLE OR WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO EXECUTE.
SO OUR FISCAL YEAR 2019 BUDGET DOES INCLUDE A $600,000 REDUCTION FOR THE TELECOMMUNICATION.
IT DOES, WE DID PLAN FOR THAT.
SO WE'VE ACCOUNTED FOR IT AND WE'VE, UM, THE 2020 INCLUDES A $7 MILLION REDUCTION AS WE FORECAST OUT.
SO FOR THE, THE LAST MONTH, IF YOU WILL CORRECT THIS, THE LAST MONTH.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UM, FOR THAT, UH, REMINDER.
AND THEN ALSO ON SLIDE A NUMBER 14, UM, CAN YOU, I WANNA KNOW DURING THIS TIME LAST YEAR AT OUR SIX PLUS SIX MIDYEAR, THE C P S ENERGY REVENUE, WHERE WERE WE? WERE WE ALSO BEHIND, UM, PAYMENT FROM OR NOT HITTING OUR ACTUALS OR OUR BUDGETS? AGAIN, THIS TIME LAST YEAR, I BELIEVE WE WEREN'T, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE EVER AT THIS TIME BEEN ON PAR FOR WHAT WE'VE BUDGETED FOR C P S ENERGY, REVENUE.
I THINK WE'RE, I THINK THEY'RE TRYING TO PULL THAT, BUT THIS IS A MORE SIGNIFICANT, UH, VARIANCE THAN WE TYPICALLY HAVE THIS TIME OF YEAR.
UM, I KNOW THAT IN PRIOR YEARS, MAYBE NOT LAST YEAR, BUT I KNOW SOMETIMES WE'VE BEEN IN THE THREE, FOUR, $5 MILLION RANGE COMING OUT OF THE WINTER WHEN YOU GET A MILE WINTER.
BUT THIS ONE IS MORE SIGNIFICANT AND, UM, UH, YOU SEE THAT IMPACT IN THE FORECAST GOING FORWARD BECAUSE A LOT OF WHAT'S DRIVING THIS IS LOWER FUEL PRICES, IN PARTICULAR NATURAL GAS PRICES.
IT'S A, A DISTRIBUTION TERMINAL IN, IN, UH, WEST TEXAS.
THERE'S A LOT OF PRODUCTION HAPPENING IN THE PERMIAN BASIN IS LOOKING FOR OIL.
A BYPRODUCT OF THAT IS NATURAL GAS.
SO THERE IS A LOT OF NATURAL GAS COMING OUT AND BEING PRODUCED AND IT'S REALLY DRIVING PRICES DOWN TO LOW HISTORIC LOWS.
WE'VE NEVER SEEN 'EM THIS LOW AND THAT'S DRIVING A LOT OF THE FUEL CHANGE.
AND SO, UH, ALSO THEN REMIND ME WHAT WAS THE PAYMENT THAT WE RECEIVED FROM C P S ENERGY AT THE END OF LAST BUDGET SESSION THAT ALLOWED US TO GET OUR AMENDMENTS THAT WE, WE WERE ABLE TO PUT IN? SO LAST SUMMER WE SAW A BUMP IN C P SS REVENUES.
I'LL HAVE TO PULL THE EXACT DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR YOU, COUNCILWOMAN, BUT THE BIG CHANGE CAME OUT OF OFF SYSTEM SALES.
UH, WITH IT BEING A VERY HOT SUMMER, YOU'VE HEARD C P SS TALK ABOUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TEXAS MARKET, THERE ISN'T AS MUCH GENERATION AVAILABLE AS THERE HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST.
SO THEY CALL IT A RESERVE MARGIN ACROSS THE STATE IS TIGHTER.
AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS WHEN IT GETS REALLY HOT, IT TENDS TO DRIVE PRICES UP ACROSS THE, THE OPEN MARKET, IF YOU WILL.
C P S HAS HAD THE ABILITY TO SELL EXCESS POWER INTO THE MARKET AND THEY WERE ABLE TO DO THAT LAST SUMMER AND GENERATE QUITE A BIT OF ADDITIONAL INCOME FOR US.
I WANNA SAY IT'S LIKE $21 MILLION IN OFF SYSTEM SALES LAST YEAR.
SO WE PICKED UP $21 MILLION IN OFF SYSTEM SALES LAST YEAR, UM, GOING INTO THIS SUMMER.
'CAUSE AGAIN, THAT FLUCTUATES A LOT.
THE MARGINS CONTINUE TO BE TIED, IT'LL DEPEND ON HOW HOT IT IS.
THE OTHER BIG VARIABLE IN CHANGE IS THAT T P S DID DECOMMISSION THE, UM, D THE D E UNITS, THAT'S 740 MEGAWATTS OF POWER.
UM, SO THEY'LL HAVE SOME EXCESS POWER TO, TO SELL IF THE MARKET'S THERE, BUT IT WON'T BE AS MUCH AS THEY HAD THIS PAST SUMMER.
AND SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE PROJECTIONS, AGAIN, MOVING OUT WITH THE C P S ENERGY REVENUE, DID WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION EVEN POTENTIAL POLICIES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT WITH THE CAP, THE CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION PLAN, OR, OR TO FIGURING ANYTHING THERE? UM, I WOULDN'T SAY WE SPECIFICALLY, UH, BUILT ANYTHING IN FOR CAP.
UH, WE WORK OFF OF THE C P S MODEL AND THEIR
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FORECAST.UH, WE MAKE SOME SLIGHT ADJUSTMENTS TO THAT, BUT IT'S REALLY BASED ON, ON THEIR FORECAST.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH AS A STARTING POINT.
UM, THEN YES, JUST TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.
LAST YEAR AT THE SIX PLUS SIX, WE WERE AHEAD BY SLIGHTLY BY $200,000.
UM, QUESTION ABOUT, UM, SO THE, I DON'T KNOW IF, IF CARLOS CAN ANSWER THIS OR SOMEONE, 'CAUSE I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE ARE WE WITH THE, UM, APPRAISALS AT THE STATE.
'CAUSE ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH IS, YOU KNOW, THE METHODOLOGY OF APPRAISING PROPERTIES, ET CETERA.
AND THAT'S ALSO FIXED AT THE STATE.
SO I KNOW THAT, UM, THERE WERE SOME BILLS THAT WERE PUT FORWARD.
DID WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM? THEY DID NOT, UM, GET ANY, UH, TRACTION.
UH, THE PROPERTY RELIEF IS COMING IN THE FORM OF SSB TWO AND HOUSE BILL TWO, AND NOW SB TWO, WHICH IS THE BILL THAT HAS PASSED BOTH OUR SENATE AND THE HOUSE.
BUT, UM, BECAUSE APPRAISALS WENT UP AGAIN THIS YEAR, BUT IT'S THE, IT'S LOOKING AT THE STATE AND HOW THE STATE CAN HELP CHANGE METHODOLOGY OF THE APPRAISALS IN AROUND THE NEIGHBOS.
THE STATE, THE LEGISLATURE HAS CONTROL OVER THE APPRAISALS FOR THAT, BUT WE DON'T, BUT WE, WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GOING TO CHANGE IT OR LOOK AT MAKING ANY ADJUSTMENTS THERE.
THEY LIKELY ARE NOT GONNA MAKE ANY CHANGES TO IT.
IT'S A VERY COMPLICATED FORMULA.
THEY'RE NOT MAKING ANY CHANGES THIS SESSION.
UM, THAT WAS THAT OTHER QUESTION.
OH, AND I, I DO WANT TO JUST, UH, I WANNA AG UH, YOU KNOW, CONCUR WITH THE MAYOR TALKING ABOUT THE, UM, EMPLOYEES AND COLA AND, UM, UH, LOOKING AT OUR CITY EMPLOYEES, AND ESPECIALLY LOOKING AT COMPRESSION BECAUSE WHAT WE'VE ALSO SEEN A LOT IS MANY OF OUR LONG TIME, UH, CITY EMPLOYEES WHO ARE ALREADY MAXED OUT ON THEIR STEP PLAN CANNOT GO UP.
AND THEY'VE BEEN THERE FOR 22, 23 YEARS, THEY CAN'T MOVE UP ANYMORE.
BUT PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST MAYBE TWO YEARS BEHIND THEM ARE MAKING, UH, JUST, UH, UNDER WHAT THEY'RE MAKING.
AND SO THERE NEEDS SOME RELIEF BECAUSE THEIR PROPERTY TAXES ARE GOING UP AND THEY CAN'T EVEN PAY FOR THAT.
SO I WANT TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THAT IN OUR BUDGET MOVING FORWARD, UM, AS WE PREPARE TO MOVE FORWARD, UH, IN THAT CAPACITY.
SO I SENT THAT AND WITH THE, UM, SLIDE, I GUESS IT'S SLIDE NUMBER, SLIDE NUMBER 66.
UM, I, I DO AGREE WITH YOUR ADJUSTMENTS RIGHT NOW, UM, MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR, UM, YOUR ADJUSTMENTS FOR MID-YEAR, UH, ADJUSTMENTS FOR THIS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT COMMUNITY HOMELESS SYSTEM.
I THINK THAT'S ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO THIS COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AND THIS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY.
BECAUSE THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO IS PUT, UH, THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE, IF YOU WILL, ON TRYING TO PUT CERTAIN THINGS, BAND-AIDS HERE AND THERE.
BUT LET'S LOOK AT IT HOLISTICALLY.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'VE HEARD FROM A LOT OF PEOPLE.
YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT THE STAKEHOLDERS, 25 ORGANIZATIONS.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHO THE 25 ORGANIZATIONS WERE? WERE THEY LIKE ENGINEERING FIRMS? WERE THEY, UM, DEVELOPERS WHO, WHO WERE PART OF, WERE THEY OIL COMPANIES? WHO, WHO WERE PART OF THE, THE, THE, THE GROUPS.
SO THE STAKEHOLDERS WERE, UM, PART OF GROUPS INCLUDING THE TOURISM INDUSTRY, UM, THE PRO ACTUAL HOMELESS PROVIDERS THAT WE WORK WITH, UM, HOSPITAL AND GOVERNMENT INDUSTRY.
UM, WE ALSO HAD FAITH-BASED, UH, INPUT AS WELL AS THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE.
WE DID NOT HAVE INPUT FROM OIL AND GAS OR THAT TYPE OR ENERGY INDUSTRY.
THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE REALLY REPRESENTED THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
UM, AND WHO FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
SO WE HAD THE, UM, RICHARD PETTIS WAS AT THE MEETING.
WE HAD REPRESENTATION FROM THE HISPANIC CHAMBER, THE NORTH SIDE CHAMBER, THE L G B T CHAMBER AND THE ASIAN CHAMBER.
SO IF YOU CAN JUST GIVE ME A LIST OF I'LL ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS ABSOLUTELY.
WERE THERE AND THE INDUSTRIES THAT THEY REPRESENT.
AND I THINK, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD START.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M ALSO LOOKING AT IS, UM, LOOKING AT ABANDONED CART FEES AND ABANDONED CART PREVENTION OR PLANS IN OTHER CITIES SUCH AS DALLAS
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OR SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, FOR THE SHOPPING CARTS THAT ARE ABANDONED OR LEFT IN CERTAIN AREAS.I KNOW WHEN WE'VE PARTICIPATED IN BAA BASH IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF, OF THE DISTRICT, WE HAVE SHOPPING CARTS THAT ARE LEFT IN CREEKS AND RIVERS.
YOU SEE THEM OUTSIDE OF PARKING, UM, LOTS MM-HMM.
UM, LOOKING AT THAT AND IF THERE'S SOME KIND OF A STRUCTURE OR FEE OR WORKING WITH OUR INDUSTRY THAT WE CAN PUT TOGETHER THAT COULD ALSO HELP WITH THIS COMMUNITY HOMELESS SYSTEM, THAT ALSO BRINGS EVERYONE A PART OF THE SOLUTION AND THE CONVERSATION TO ADDRESS THIS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT.
SO I WOULD, UM, SUGGEST AN OFFER THAT YOU PUT THAT IN THAT CONVERSATION AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO BRING EVEN MORE MEMBERS OF THE INDUSTRY TO SEE LOOKING AT A SOLUTION.
BECAUSE THOSE HAVE BECOME, I KNOW IN DALLAS, IN THEIR ORDINANCE, IT LOOKS AS A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND THEY CONFISCATE AND THEY GET RID OF THEM.
BUT IN SAN JOSE, THEY DO A PREVENTION PLAN.
SO LET'S SEE HOW WE CAN PUT THIS IN PART OF IT.
AND MAYBE THERE IS A PERMIT OR A FEE STRUCTURE THAT WE CAN ALSO INCLUDE TO HELP FUND THIS MOVING FORWARD.
AND ALSO, UM, MOVING FORWARD WITH THE, UM, IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS, WE PLAN TO BRING STAKEHOLDERS BACK TO THE TABLE, A WIDER ARRAY OF STAKEHOLDERS TO PROVIDE INPUT ON THAT SCOPE OF WORK.
AND AGAIN, UM, I WILL SAY THAT I AM, UH, IN SUPPORT OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE FOR THE ADJUSTMENTS.
AND JUST ON TOP OF THAT, UM, 'CAUSE I KNOW WE'D HAD CONVERSATION IN THE PAST, UH, OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
I, I AM, UM, LOOKING AT THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES BECAUSE WE NEED THESE POSITIONS MOVING FORWARD.
AND NOT HAPPY TO SEE ABOUT THE LARGE AREA REZONING, BUT IN PARTICULAR WITH THE, UM, HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX BECAUSE IT'S A RESTRICTED FUND TO STAY THERE AND TO WORK FOR US.
THE REASON WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO DO WORK WITH OUR ALAMO DOME AND OUR CONVENTION CENTER, ESPECIALLY DOWN THE LINE FOR THE, THE NEXT FINAL FOUR.
AND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE 500,000, BECAUSE OF GOING UP TO OUR MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT WITH VISIT SAN ANTONIO THAT WE WORK WITH, UH, THEM.
AND I KNOW ON THE VISIT SAN ANTONIO BOARD, WE'RE ALREADY LOOKING AT SPECIFIC AREAS IN ORDER TO USE THEM TO BRING PEOPLE BACK.
AND THIS FOR MY COLLEAGUES SO THEY KNOW, SO TO BRING PEOPLE BACK TO SAN ANTONIO, BECAUSE IF WE DO NOT, THEN THE MONEY WOULD JUST GO INTO STATIC THINGS, BUT LET THE DOLLARS WORK FOR US.
SO IF WE CAN BRING PEOPLE BACK TO SAN ANTONIO TO VISIT, THAT MEANS THAT WE WILL GET MORE SALES TAX INTO OUR COMMUNITY.
SO LET THE DOLLARS WORK FOR US.
SO THAT'S WHY I'M COMFORTABLE WITH THIS AS WELL.
UM, AND WITH THAT, MAYOR, UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
UM, I, LET ME GO TO SLIDE NUMBER NINE.
AND ON SLIDE NINE IT TALKS ABOUT, UH, SOME OF THE EXPENDITURES.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS I NOTED WAS THAT WE HAVE, UH, SOME EXPENDITURES FOR THE AIRPORT THAT ARE ACTUALLY LISTED UNDER CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
IT SAYS CAPITAL PROGRAM, UH, AIRPORT PROJECTS.
WHY AREN'T THOSE FUNDED UNDER THE AIRPORT FUNDS? SO THEY, THEY ARE FUNDED THROUGH AIRPORT RELATED FUNDS THROUGH F FA, THROUGH THE FEDERAL AVIATION, UM, ASSOCIATION ADMINISTRATION, SORRY.
UM, SO THROUGH THOSE GRANTS, THEY'RE ALSO HAVE AIRPORT CONT, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS.
AND THEY'RE ADDITIONALLY INTERIM FINANCING THAT WAS, UM, APPROVED.
IS, IS PART OF THIS THE FACT THAT THE CITY HAS TO MATCH SOME OF THAT F A A MONEY OR SOMETHING? IS THAT WHY IT COMES OUT OF OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM? BECAUSE I SEE WE HAVE AIRPORT FUND RESTRICTED FUNDS, I ASSUME EVERYTHING RELATED.
THE AIRPORT GOES THROUGH THAT YET.
WE HAVE AIRPORT PROJECTS UNDER OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM, WHICH COMES OUTTA GENERAL FUND.
I GUESS OTHERWISE IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE DUPLICATING EXPRESSING THOSE EXPENSES.
UH, WHAT, WHAT JUSTINE IS DOING HERE, UH, COUNCILMAN HAS GIVEN YOU A TOTAL PICTURE OF OUR ENTIRE BUDGET OPERATING IN CAPITAL.
SO CAPITAL CAN BE FUNDED FROM MANY DIFFERENT SOURCES.
IT CAN BE FUNDED FROM PROPERTY TAXES, FOR EXAMPLE, DEBT WE ISSUE THERE.
REMEMBER THE AIRPORT'S AN ENTERPRISE FUND, RIGHT.
SO ALL THE CAPITAL PROJECTS WE'RE DOING OUT AT THE AIRPORT OR FUNDED OUT OF THAT ENTERPRISE FUND, THAT CAN BE COMING IN FROM GRANTS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
IT CAN BE COMING IN FROM AIRLINE REVENUES, PARKING REVENUES.
EVERYTHING THAT'S AVAILABLE IN THAT FRONT FUND CAN EITHER BE USED TO CASH FUND OR DEBT FUND CAPITAL.
BUT IT'S ALL COMING FROM THE AIRPORT.
THE SAME WOULD BE TRUE OF, FOR EXAMPLE, SOMETIMES WE ISSUE BONDS TO SUPPORT THE ALAMO DOM AND CONVENTION HITTER.
THEY PAY FOR THAT, BUT IT'S PART OF OUR CAPITAL BUDGET.
SO CAPITAL BUDGET'S MORE THAN JUST GENERAL FUND.
IT STILL DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME, BUT I HAD SOME OTHER ISSUES I WANTED TO BRING UP.
I'LL BE HAPPY TO FOLLOW UP WITH YOU, COUNCILMAN.
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SLIDE 44.UH, IT TALKS ABOUT, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND, UH, HOW MANY OFFICERS THAT WE HAVE.
AND I NOTICED THAT IT INDICATES THAT WE'VE GOT APPROXIMATELY, OR LET'S SEE, UH, SLIDE 47, EXCUSE ME.
WE'VE GOT APPROXIMATELY, UM, WAIT A MINUTE, POLICE OFFICERS.
OH NO, IT WAS A DIFFERENT ONE.
IT WAS ONE THAT NAMED, IT'S UNDER, UM, THE BUDGET INITIATIVES IN SLIDE 2020.
YOU KNOW, WE GOT PAGE NUMBERS AND SLIDE NUMBERS, SO I'M, I'M EASILY CONFUSED.
UM, ON SLIDE 20, IT INDICATES THAT, UH, OUR AUTHORIZED COUNT IS 2,447.
NOW WE SAY WE'VE GOT 156 CADETS, BUT, UH, MY RECOLLECTION IS WE ONLY GRADUATE ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THOSE, BASICALLY BECAUSE SO MANY DROP OUT.
AND SO THAT WOULD GET US DOWN TO ABOUT A HUNDRED CADETS.
IT DOESN'T ANTICIPATE ANY RETIREES.
AND WE USUALLY GET 60 OR 80 RETIREES A YEAR.
I DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN EVER MEET OUR TOTAL AUTHORIZED COUNT.
AND THE REASON WHY I BRING THIS UP, AND I I APPRECIATE CHIEF YOU BEING UP THERE, IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH POLICE OFFICERS OUT IN THE STREETS.
WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PATROL OFFICERS PATROLLING FOR TRAFFIC PROBLEMS. AND I CAN'T SEE HOW WE'RE GETTING THERE WHEN, EVEN IF WE HAVE 156 STUDENTS AND ONLY A HUNDRED, 110 GRADUATE, AND WE'VE GOT 45 VACANCIES AND WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE'VE GOT TWO MORE CLASSES COMING UP, BUT THEY WON'T ALL GRADUATE.
AND SO WE'RE, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE ALWAYS A HUNDRED OR MORE FEWER ON ACTIVE DUTY UNIFORM PATROL OFFICERS OUT IN THE STREET WORKING FOR US THAN WE NEED TO HAVE.
HOW CAN WE, UM, FIX THAT PROBLEM? WE, 'CAUSE IT'S SOMETHING I HEAR FROM PEOPLE IN MY DISTRICT ALL THE TIME.
WE'VE BEEN, UH, DECREASING THAT NUMBER OF VACANCIES, UH, OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
CURRENTLY, UH, WE ARE ABOVE OUR PROJECTED, UH, WASHOUT RATE, UH, WHICH IS ABOUT 20% EACH CLASS.
UH, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 154 CADETS IN THERE.
WE WERE PROJECTED TO HAVE 147.
SO WE'RE, SO WE'RE ABOVE THE RATE, THE WASHOUT RATE RIGHT NOW, UM, WITH 43 VACANCIES.
UH, OUR, OUR GRADUATION DATES, UH, ARE, UM, FOR 2019 B OUR GRADUATION DATE IS 1123 NOVEMBER THIS YEAR.
UM, OUR GRADUATION DATE FOR OUR JULY CLASS WOULD BE IN FEBRUARY.
AND OUR GRADUATION DATE FOR OUR SEPTEMBER CLASS WILL BE IN MAY, APPROXIMATELY SEVEN MONTHS FOR EACH CLASS.
UM, WE'RE PROJECTING TO PUT 70 IN THAT CLASS, 65 OR 70 IN THAT CLASS.
UM, WE WILL ACTUALLY BE OVERHIRED AT THAT POINT WITH 47 VACANCIES.
AND HOW MANY RETIREES ARE WE GONNA GET EVERY MONTH FOR THE NEXT 12 MONTHS? UH, I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER, BUT, BUT RETIREES ARE VERY SLOW.
WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A, FOR A BUBBLE IN RETIREES PROBABLY FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, I THINK.
WELL, WHAT'S, WHAT'S GONNA BE THE AVERAGE THEN? WHAT DO YOU PROJECT THIS YEAR FOR RETIREES? UM, THE, UH, CHIEF, I'LL JUMP IN 'CAUSE I THINK I REMEMBER IT.
UM, UH, I THINK THE PROJECTED RETIREES FOR THIS YEAR WAS JUST UNDER A HUNDRED FOR THE FISCAL YEAR.
AND RIGHT NOW, OR I'M SORRY, EIGHT, IT WAS 80 AND WE'VE HAD, UH, 56 SO FAR THIS YEAR.
SO THAT, THAT'S WHERE WE, WHERE WE ARE AT RIGHT NOW.
AND, AND YOU KNOW, I I THINK PART OF THE ISSUE, COUNCILMAN, AND WE'VE, WE'VE TALKED, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS AT THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE TOO AS WELL, IS, UM, MAKING SURE THAT THAT, UM, ACADEMY CLASS SCHEDULE WE GET IN, WE GET THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS IN, IN THERE.
UM, THE LAST THREE CLASSES, UH, WE HAVE UPPED THE NUMBER OF CADETS THAT STARTED IT.
WE'VE GOT A GRADUATION THIS MONTH, WHICH WILL ROLL OUT INDIVIDUALS, REMEMBER WHEN THEY GRADUATE FROM THE ACADEMY, THEY'RE ASSIGNED TO, UH, OTHER PATROL OFFICERS.
THEY'RE DOING RIDE ALONG FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME BEFORE THEY'RE OUT ON THEIR OWN.
IT'S, IT'S MAKING SURE THAT THAT PIPELINE IS FILLED AND THAT THAT, OR THAT PRODUCTION LINE IS FILLED AT EVERY SINGLE, AT EVERY SINGLE STEP.
AND I, I APPRECIATE THE CHIEF'S EAGERNESS TO SAY HE'S GONNA BE OVERHIRED, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, WE'VE GOT TWO MORE CLASSES AND AS WE'VE DEVELOPED A BUDGET THIS YEAR, WE'RE GONNA LAY OUT A, UH, A PRETTY AGGRESSIVE ACADEMY SCHEDULE FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR AS WELL.
WELL, I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT SOME MORE.
I JUST WANTED TO, TO GET AN ESTIMATE ON A NUMBER OF RETIREES AND, AND WHAT WE MIGHT
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BE LOOKING AT AT VACANCIES.LEMME SEE IF I HAVE MY PAGE RIGHT FOR A FEW OTHERS.
ON, ON PAGE 40, WE TALKED ABOUT THE GROWTH IN THE BUDGET, AND TAXES ARE ON SLIDE 40.
AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PROJECTIONS THAT YOU HAVE, BEN, THAT SHOW THAT WE'RE ONLY GONNA HAVE ONE AND A HALF PERCENT GROWTH.
YOU KNOW, I LOOK BACK AT THE 10 YEARS PRIOR AND EVEN DURING THE WORST YEARS OF, UH, THE RECESSION, WE HAD 2.7, 1.7, WE HAD A 1.1 AND A 1.3 AND A 1.5.
BUT THE LAST SIX YEARS, ALL THE GROWTH HAS BEEN 2% ARE HIGHER, YET YOU'RE PREDICTING FOUR YEARS IN THE FUTURE.
ONE AND A 5% WE'RE SAYING A MILLION MORE PEOPLE ARE COMING HERE INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY.
WHY ARE WE BEING SO CAUTIOUS IN THAT ESTIMATE OVER THOSE, UH, FIVE, THAT FIVE YEAR PERIOD, ONE, ONE AND HALF PERCENT REAL GROWTH? SO WHEN I GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT, HISTORICALLY, WE'RE RANGING ANYWHERE, INCLUDING DURING THE RECESSION FROM 1.2% TO A LITTLE OVER 2% OF THIS CURRENT YEAR, 1.8%.
AND I'M TALKING ABOUT GROWTH OFF OF THE ACTUAL ASSESSED VALUATION.
SO THAT'S WHAT THIS NUMBER IS.
UM, SO WE DON'T THINK ONE OF THE CHALLENGES, THIS IS A MODEL, A CONSERVATIVE PROJECTION.
THE THREE POINT A HALF PERCENT BASE IS PROBABLY A LITTLE MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, BUT AGAIN, THAT'S CAP.
SO WE CAN'T EXPECT ANYTHING ADDITIONAL THERE.
THE NEW IMPROVEMENT PIECE AT ONE AND A HALF IS ABOUT THE AVERAGE OF WHAT WE SEE, UH, DURING DIFFERENT PERIODS OF TIME.
WELL, CERTAINLY DURING THE RECESSION.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THE LAST SIX YEARS, UH, YOU KNOW, 2.2, 3.0, 2.0, 2.9, UH, OR AT LEAST THE LAST FOUR YEARS, UH, AND 1.7, ALL OF THEM, YOU KNOW, HIGHER THAN 1.5, IT JUST SEEMS WE'RE BEING, UH, A LITTLE TOO PESSIMISTIC CONSIDERING WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW THIS CITY'S GROWING AND BOOMING AND ADDING MORE JOBS.
THAT SEEMS TO ME TO INDICATE WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING A LOT MORE GROWTH AND THAT MEANS NEW TAXATION BASED ON THAT GROWTH.
SO, SO ONE OF THE CHALLENGES, SO THE FIVE YEAR AVERAGE IS A LITTLE OVER 2%.
THE 10 YEAR AVERAGE IS UNDER 2%.
THE 15 YEAR AVERAGE IS ABOUT TWO POINT A HALF PERCENT.
THE ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE WANNA MAKE SURE WITH THE FORECAST, WE TALK ABOUT BEING MODERATELY CONSERVATIVE AND MAINTAINING THAT 15% A MINIMUM FUND BALANCE IS WE DON'T WANNA BE TOO AGGRESSIVE BECAUSE IT COMPOUNDS.
SO IF I WERE TO TAKE THIS SAME SCENARIO AND JUST DROP THAT RECESSION BACK IN THERE, IT COMPLETELY CHANGES THE REVENUE PICTURE, OF COURSE, BECAUSE OF THE COMPOUNDING.
SO ARE YOU PROJECTING A RECESSION? NO, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO BE IN A POSITION WHERE WE'RE SITTING ON A MINIMUM FUND BALANCE OF 15%.
UH, WE'VE COMPOUNDED, ADDED A LOT OF RECURRING EXPENDITURES, AND NOW WE'RE IN A POSITION WHERE WE WE'RE HAVING DIFFICULTY ADJUSTING WITHOUT MAKING MAJOR CUTS.
SO WHEN WE GET MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH THE CREDIT PROFILE HAS TO KIND OF FIT TOGETHER.
THE MODERATELY CONSERVATIVE REVENUE PROJECTIONS FIT IN WITH OUR RESERVE POLICIES, OUR FUND BALANCE, AVAILABILITY POLICIES, ALL OF THOSE ARE CONNECTED SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE THAT WE CAN SMOOTH OUT SOME OF THE FLUCTUATIONS AND VOLATILITY WE SEE WITH OUR REVENUE C P S PROPERTY TAXES, SALES TAXES, UM, NOT SAYING YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO CUT DURING A RECESSION, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO MANAGE THAT SO THAT IT SMOOTHS SOME OF THOSE OUT.
UH, WE MANAGING THIS JUST TO MEET AAA BOND RATING.
IS THAT WHY THESE PROJECTIONS? I MEAN, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I'M HEARING.
NO, YOU WANNA MAKE SURE THE BOND RATING AGENCY CONCERN? WELL, CERTAINLY FROM CONCERN, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE, ONE OF THE GOALS IS TO MAINTAIN THE AAA BOND RATING.
BUT I, I THINK I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE IN THE PAST MANY TIMES, IS THAT FROM MY STANDPOINT, PRUDENT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, WHETHER WE WERE DOUBLE A PLUS OR AA OR AAA, THAT WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE POLICIES FIT TOGETHER.
I MEAN, THE GOAL IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT RECESSION THAT WE WENT THROUGH, WHICH WAS OBVIOUSLY VERY DEEP AND PAINFUL, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT WE HAD TO DO COMPARED TO OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE NATION, VERY DIFFERENT PICTURE.
IT GOES BACK TO THE WAY WE MANAGE THE BUDGET, THE WAY OUR FINANCIAL POLICIES TIE IT TOGETHER, THE WAY OUR POLICIES WORK, SO WE'RE NOT IN A STRONG ECONOMY ADDING A WHOLE BUNCH IN.
SO THEN WHEN A RECESSION HAPPENS, YOU'RE THEN HAVING TO CUT.
IT'S, IT'S A MORE MEASURED APPROACH AND THEY ALL, IT ALL FITS TOGETHER.
OKAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXPLANATION.
I HAD A QUESTION ON, UH, SLIDE 64, I BELIEVE IT WAS, AND HAD SOMETHING ABOUT WITH THE TERM, UM, AREA REZONING 11 CITY INITIATED LARGE AREA REZONING.
AND FOR THAT WE'RE ADDING $63,000.
WHAT IS LARGE AREA REZONING? WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE? SO MIKE SHANNON IS HERE.
AND, UH, SO THE LARGER LARGE AREA REZONINGS ARE WHEN THE CITY, UH, THROUGH COUNCIL ACTION, MAYBE A COUNCIL CONSIDERATION
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REQUEST, UH, AND THEN BY RESOLUTION, UH, WHERE YOU'RE ASKING CITY STAFF TO GO OUT AND ACTUALLY REZONE LARGE AREAS OF PROPERTY.SO ONE OF THE MORE RECENT ONES, WHICH WAS FAIRLY LARGE, WAS THE WORLD HERITAGE, UH, PROJECT THAT HAPPENED ABOUT A YEAR AGO.
UH, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE ZONING WAS APPROPRIATE TO HELP PRESERVE THE WORLD HERITAGE SITES ALONG SOUTH ROOSEVELT.
SO WE WORKED CLOSELY WITH COUNCILMAN
AND REZONE, WE HAVE SEVERAL OTHERS IN QUEUE AS MENTIONED SINCE 2014.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE 11, UH, THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN COMPLETED OVER THE PAST, UH, COUPLE YEARS.
SOME OF THE MILITARY LIGHTING OVERLAY DISTRICT STUFF, UM, AROUND THE MILITARY BASES.
WE'RE ACTUALLY WORKING ON MILITARY PROTECTION AR AREAS RIGHT NOW.
UH, WE HAVE SOME, UH, IN DISTRICT ONE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON, SOME OF THE OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, THAT HAVE SOME, UH, INCOMPATIBLE, UH, ZONING THAT'S BEING MATERIALIZED OR, OR HEIGHTENED BASED ON A LOT OF THAT FAST GROWTH IN SOME OF THOSE AREAS.
SO, UH, EACH ONE OF THOSE CAN BE, UH, DOZENS OR HUNDREDS OF PROPERTIES.
UH, SO IT TAKES STAFF TIME TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO, UH, REZONE THOSE.
UH, THE LAST ONE I WANTED TO ASK, UH, OR WANTED TO COMMENT ON REALLY, IT'S, UH, THE CAPITAL BUDGET PAGE, UH, OR SLIDE 70.
AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FUNDING FOR HAVEN FOR HOPE, AND I'M A VERY BIG SUPPORTER OF HAVEN FOR HOPE, AND I'VE HAD A DISCUSSION WITH SOME OF THE, UH, PEOPLE WHO'VE BEEN, UH, WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY FOR HAVEN FOR HOPE.
AND, UH, I WANTED TO KNOW IF THIS 2.4 MILLION IS, UH, COVERING SOME REHABILITATION FOR A BUILDING THAT'S BEING FLOODED, AND, UH, THE COST FOR THAT, IS THIS ALL A PART OF WHAT'S IN THERE, COUNCILMAN? THE UM, BUILDING THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS, UH, LOCATED ON WEST MARTIN STREET, UH, HEAVEN FOR HOPE, UH, FUND RAISED ABOUT $7 MILLION FOR THIS PARTICULAR BUILDING.
THEY RUN INTO SOME ISSUES WITH THE CONTRACTOR WHO DESIGNED, UH, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BUILDING AND THEY HAVE SOME SERIOUS, UH, PENDING ISSUES AT THE BASEMENT OF THIS PARTICULAR FACILITY.
THEY CAME TO THE CITY AND, UH, REQUESTED ASSISTANCE.
UH, THAT REQUEST IS WHAT YOU SEE RECOMMENDED IN THIS MID-YEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENT OF 2.4 MILLION.
NOW TO THAT EFFECT, UM, HEAVEN FOR HOPE HAS COMMITTED THAT IF THEY ARE IN CONVERSATIONS WITH THIS CONTRACTOR TO RECOUP, UM, FUNDING FOR, FOR THE BAD DESIGN THAT WAS DONE.
SO THEY HAVE COMMITTED, IF THEY RECOUP THOSE FUNDINGS, THEY WILL GIVE THAT BACK TO THE CITY MINUS ANY ATTORNEY FEES.
I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
UH, COULD WE GO TO SLIDE 47? SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I'M READING THIS CORRECTLY.
SO WE TOOK IN ALL THE INFORMATION THAT YOU HAD IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDES WITH ALL THE ADDITIONAL REVENUE AND, AND, UH, REDUCTION IN EXPENSES.
WE GOT ALL THE LEGISLATIVE IMPACT AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF, ALL IN THESE TOP TWO LINES.
AND SO WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020, WE'LL BE FINE, BUT IN 21 WE'RE GONNA TAKE A BIG HIT, BUT THEN BY 22 WE'LL START TO BEGIN TO, TO RECOVER AGAIN.
IS, IS THAT WHAT I'M READING? CORRECT.
SO BY 2022, WE WOULD BE STRUCTURALLY BALANCED.
MEANING OUR REVENUES WOULD MEET OUR EXPENDITURES, AND THAT'S BASICALLY KIND OF MAINTAINING STATUS QUO.
UM, BUT, BUT WE WON'T BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING ON THE BOTTOM FOUR OR FIVE LINES.
SO IN ORDER TO DO ANY OF THE BO BOTTOM FOUR OR FIVE LINES, WE'VE GOTTA EITHER INCREASE REVENUES OR DECREASE EXPENSES OR SOMETHING IN THE LEGISLATURE NOT HAPPEN, OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
UM, ANY IDEAS AT THIS POINT? AND MAYBE IT'S, IT'S TOO EARLY TO TO, TO DO SO, BUT ANY IDEAS AS TO WHERE WE CAN COME UP WITH THOSE BOTTOM FOUR OR FIVE LINES? AT THIS POINT? IT'S TOO EARLY, UM, TO IDENTIFY ANYTHING BUT THOSE WE'LL BE WORKING ON OVER THE SUMMER.
UH, ERIC, ON, WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT CIVILIAN PAY AND COLA PAY, UH, COLA PAY, UM, AND THE DIFF, SO WHAT'S THAT DIFFERENCE? CIVILIAN PAY PLAN IS TWO 2% TO 4% INCREASE, AND THE COLA IS 1%.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO? SO THE COLA YEAH.
UM, THAT WE INCLUDED IN THE GENERAL FUND IS ABOUT $2.1 MILLION.
AND YOU ASKED THE PAY PLAN WELL, AND, AND WE WERE LOOKING AT THE PERCENTAGES, UH, ERIC WAS ANSWERING THE QUESTION ABOUT, UH, AN INCREASE IN THE COLA, OH, I'M SORRY.
UM, THE EXAMPLE HE GAVE WAS THE CIVILIAN PAY PLAN WAS THE 2% TO 4%.
I'M ASSUMING THAT'S AN INCREASE CORRECT.
WITH A COLA ON TOP OF THAT AT 1%.
SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO?
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SO THE, THE PAY PLAN, UH, COUNCILMAN IS, UH, KIND OF WHAT COUNCILMAN, UH, GRO WAS TALKING ABOUT A SECOND AGO.WE'VE GOT A STEP PLAN FOR COMPRESSION DEALING WITH.
AND, AND SO THAT'S A, THAT'S KIND OF A PROGRESSION SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE FOR, UH, NON-PROFESSIONAL CIVILIANS.
AND, AND, UH, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU'RE AT IN THAT SCALE, IT'S TWO TO TWO TO 4% OF AN ADJUSTMENT.
SO, SO THERE WOULDN'T BE ANYTHING WRONG WITH, WITH DOING AN ADDITIONAL, YOU KNOW, PERCENTAGE OR TWO ON COST, UH, ON COLA, BECAUSE REALLY THE CIVILIAN PAY PAY PLAN, THAT'S, THOSE ARE, UM, I GUESS PROMOTIONS ALMOST.
WELL, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, UM, THE, THE STEP PLAY PAY PLAN FOR CIVILIANS IS BUILT IN THERE SO THAT AS EMPLOYEES ARE, ARE HIRED AND MOVED THROUGH PROGRESSION WITH THE TIME WITH THE CITY, THEY GET ADJUSTMENTS IN SALARY.
AND, AND, AND, AND WHAT COUNCILWOMAN
UM, AND, UH, WE, WE NEED TO REVISIT HOW THAT STRUCTURE IS BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT YOU, UH, AN EMPLOYEE GETS HIT AT THAT, HITS THAT 10 YEAR MARK.
AND THEN, AND THEN THEY'RE FLAT.
NOW, PART OF THAT IS MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE INCENTIVES OR TRAINING OR OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO PROMOTE WITHIN CLASSES OF EMPLOYEES.
AND, AND THAT'S HOW SALARY CAN CONTINUE.
BUT IN SOME CASES, WE HAVE EMPLOYEES THAT CAP OUT IN THAT 10 YEAR STEP.
SO WHAT IS IT WE DOING? WHAT IS IT WE'RE DOING LONG TERM, UH, FOR THAT, THOSE PORTIONS OF THE WORKFORCE? OKAY.
AND I WON'T BE AROUND, UH, ALONG WITH A COUPLE OTHER, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, BUT I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR, UH, SOMETHING HIGHER THAN A 1% FOR OUR EMPLOYEES.
I THINK THEY, THEY DESERVE IT.
I THINK THEY'VE DONE A, UH, DONE A GREAT JOB.
SO, UH, I'LL JUST PLANT THAT SEED FOR THOSE WHO, UH, WILL REMAIN FOR THE NEXT BUDGET.
THE ONLY OTHER COUPLE OF COMMENTS THAT I WOULD MAKE IS, IS I, I DO APPLAUD CITY STAFF FOR THE CONSERVATIVE APPROACH.
UH, I THINK MEASURED IS, IS THE RIGHT APPROACH.
UM, CERTAINLY WE COULD, WE COULD PROBABLY BUILD IN A LITTLE BIT MORE RISK INTO, INTO THE BUDGET, BUT, UH, I WOULD RATHER, UH, OVER OR UNDER PROJECT THAN, AND, AND THEN OVERPERFORM.
AND I THINK THAT'S HISTORICALLY WHAT WE'VE DONE.
AND I, I THINK OUR BUDGET, OUR, OUR OUR, UH, OUR OUR STATUS RIGHT NOW SHOWS THAT, THAT, THAT WHEN ANYTIME YOU HAVE, UH, ANYTIME AN OVERAGE IN REVENUES AND REDUC AND REDUCED EXPENSIVE LESS EXPENSES, I THINK THAT'S A HUGE, UM, UH, BENEFIT.
AND I, I THINK IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT OUR MANAGEMENT, UH, AS A, AS A CITY STAFF.
UH, I THINK ALSO THE, UM, BOND RATINGS ARE A MEASURE OF, OF HOW THE, THE, THE PUBLIC THINKS WE'RE DOING WITH OUR, UM, WITH OUR MANAGEMENT.
AND SO HISTORICALLY, UM, THAT'S BEEN GOOD FOR, FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
SO I THINK THAT THE, THAT THEY DO GIVE US AN INDICATOR OF, OF HOW WELL WE'VE BEEN DOING.
THE ONLY OTHER COUPLE THINGS I MIGHT MENTION IS, UM, UH, I WOULD PUSH FOR, I LIKE THE, THE TWO YEAR BUDGET.
I'M GLAD WE KEPT THAT, UH, OVER TIME.
I THINK THAT'S, UH, THAT IS A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH AND IT, AND IT, AND IT FORCES US TO, TO LIVE WITHIN OUR MEANS, UH, SEVERAL YEARS OUT, OR AT LEAST A COUPLE YEARS OUT.
AND SO I THINK, UH, UH, I'M, I'M GLAD THAT'S BEEN MAINTAINED.
UH, I ALSO LIKE TO SEE THE 15% THAT WE'VE DONE WITH, WITH RESERVES.
IF, IF I WERE HERE, UM, PARTICULARLY IF WE HAD OVERAGES, I WOULD PUSH FOR SOMETHING HIGHER THAN THAN 15% I'D, I'D CONSTANTLY KIND OF INCREASE THAT PERCENTAGE TO, TO SOMETHING HIGHER.
UM, AND I THINK YOU CAN DO THAT MAYBE NOT NEXT YEAR OR YEAR AFTER, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, 2023, 2024, I THINK THE OPTIONS, UH, OPPORTUNITIES ARE THERE.
AND THEN MY FINAL COMMENT WOULD BE FOR, FOR HAVEN FOR HOPE TOO.
I, I, I WOULD SUPPORT THE, UM, UM, THE 2.4 THAT WE'VE DESIGNATED IN THIS PARTICULAR, UH, REVISION.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR JUSTINA, YOU'RE DOING A FABULOUS JOB, UH, OF BEING UP THERE AND TAKING ALL THESE QUESTIONS.
I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE LENGTHIEST, UM, PRESENTATIONS WE'VE, WE'VE HAD THIS YEAR.
UM, AND I DO APPRECIATE THE ADDITIONAL TIME TO STUDY THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
UH, I DO FEEL LIKE IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION FOR US TO, TO SYNTHESIZE.
I THINK WE'LL BE BETTER INFORMED, UH, WITH THE ADDITIONAL WEEK.
UM, I'M SUPPORTIVE OF MOVING FORWARD WITH, UH, A LOT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT, THAT YOU'VE PROPOSED.
UM, IN PARTICULAR, I, I DID NOT KNOW THAT WE HAD BACKLOGS IN, UH, MASS REZONING THAT WENT BACK AS FAR AS 2014.
I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED TO, TO SEE THAT.
SO I'M GLAD WE'RE CLEARING THAT, UH, BACKLOG.
UM, I SEE, UH, HAVEN FOR HOPE, PEOPLE LOOKING AT ME.
AND OF COURSE I WILL BE SUPPORTIVE OF THE
UM, VERY HAPPY TO SEE, UH, THE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING, UM, LIVE STREAMING AND BROADCASTING OF OUR ZONING
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MEETINGS OVER AT THE, UH, ONE STOP CENTER.I THINK IT'S, UH, HIGH TIME THAT'S AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC TO, TO BE ABLE TO SEE IT.
SO I WANNA THANK, UM, ALL THOSE OF YOU WHO SIGNED ON TO THAT C C R ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND, AND THE MAYOR FOR THE MEMO THAT WE AUTHORED ON, ON GETTING THAT MOVING.
SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR FITTING THAT IN THERE.
UM, AND ERIC, DID YOU WANNA SAY ANYTHING ABOUT PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN OUR NEXT B SESSION, OR DO YOU WANT ME TO, UM, I'LL LET YOU DO THAT.
UH, SO, UH, I'M EXCITED TO REPORT THAT NOT ONLY ARE THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE BUDGET IN THE MID-YEAR ADJUSTMENT, AND I HOPE TO HAVE THE COUNCIL MEMBERS SUPPORT ON THAT.
UM, BUT WE ARE ALSO GOING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, FOR OUR B SESSION NEXT WEEK.
THAT'LL BE AT PORT SAN ANTONIO.
AND I REMEMBER BEFORE I, UH, PUT THAT C C R IN, I TALKED TO COUNCILMAN ELIAS AND I, I THINK IT WAS COUNCILMAN BROCK HOUSE, AND THEY SAID WE SHOULD TAKE, UH, CITIZENS TO BE HEARD OUT ON THE ROAD.
ARE YOU KIDDING? AND HERE WE ARE.
WE'LL BE AT PORT SAN ANTONIO, SO YOU WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PAYING FOR PARKING.
UM, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE SURE TO, TO PROMOTE IT, SO, OH, DID YOU SAY THEY JUST HAVE TO FIND US.
YEAH, I ALWAYS GET LOST THERE TOO.
UM, SO SUPPORTIVE OF THE 2.4 MILLION FOR HAVEN FOR HOPE AND THE CAPITAL BUDGET, AND OF COURSE, OF THIS COMPREHENSIVE, COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT FOR A HOMELESS SYSTEM THAT MARIA, YOU, YOU BRIEFED US ON, UH, BRIEFLY.
UM, I SAW SOME OF THE FUNDING ALTERNATIVES IN THAT SLIDE.
AND JUSTINA, THIS MUST BE ODD BECAUSE YOU PUT THIS WHOLE THING TOGETHER, BUT THERE'S LIKE A MILLION PEOPLE INVOLVED WITH EVERY DIFFERENT SLIDE, RIGHT? IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT ALL YOU.
WHAT NUMBER IS THAT? SO IT'S LIKE 66.
UM, SO I AM, I'M GLAD TO SEE THOSE MEETINGS HAVE BEEN HAPPENING, UM, AS WE ALL REMEMBER THIS.
UH, I, I THINK THIS REALLY TOOK OFF AFTER OUR DISCUSSION ON THE T I D AND, UM, YOU KNOW, NOT BEING ABLE TO USE THAT AFTER, WE DIDN'T VOTE TO USE THAT FOR, UM, ANYWAY, WE ALL REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED WHEN WE VOTED ON THE, ON THE TPI.
AND, UH, I'M GLAD TO SEE, IS CASSANDRA STILL HERE? NO.
OH, OH, THERE YOU'RE, UM, YOU HERE FOR, UH, FOR US TO DISCUSS THIS PARTICULAR ITEM.
SO, UM, THESE ARE THE FUNDING ALTERNATIVES THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED.
WHERE'S MARIA RIGHT NOW? UM, BUT I, UM, I GUESS THAT'S NOT WHAT I THOUGHT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.
UH, WHEN WE, WHEN WE HAD DISCUSSED IT AFTER T P I I, I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF REVENUE STREAM.
WELL, WE HAD, UM, INITIALLY WHEN WE STARTED THE CONVERSATION AROUND HEAVEN FOR HOPE, UH, WE HAD PROVIDED THE ING COUNCIL WITH A, UH, MEMORANDUM WITH SOME PROPOSALS ON FUNDING.
AND THAT INCLUDED, UM, UTILIZING OUR GENERAL FUND MONEY FROM OUR ALLOCATION OF DELEGATE AGENCIES.
WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT USING, UH, SOME OF THE REVENUES FROM THE RIVER OF ARCH FEE, UH, UTILIZING SOME ALLOCATION, UM, THAT CURRENTLY GOES TO H PARK THAT EXPIRES IN 2021 THAT COULD BE REALLOCATED TO HIM FOR HOPE.
AND WE HAD ALSO PROPOSED THE IDEA OF PERHAPS, UH, INCREASING THE, UH, DOWNTOWN PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, RIGHT.
AS PART OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, THE COUNCIL GAVE US DIRECTION TO, UH, WORK WITH A CERTAIN NUMBER OF STAKEHOLDERS, UH, A CERTAIN GROUP OF STAKEHOLDERS.
AND WE DID THAT, UH, FROM JANUARY THROUGH MARCH.
AND THROUGH THOSE MEETINGS AND THAT CONVERSATION THAT, THAT HAPPENED WITH THOSE GROUPS, WHAT YOU SEE REFLECTED ON THE SCREEN ARE FUNDING ALTERNATIVES THAT WE HEARD, UM, WHERE, UH, PROPOSALS THAT WE COULD USE FOR HEAVEN FOR HOPE.
UM, AND ALSO WE VETTED THOSE THROUGH OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WAS SOMETHING THE CITY COULD ACTUALLY, UM, BE WORKING ON.
SO WHAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN IS, UM, UH, A SUMMARY OF, OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE STAKEHOLDER GROUPS.
WELL, I HOPE THERE'S STILL AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND THAT.
UM, I'M NOT ENTIRELY SOLD ON, ON THESE PARTICULAR ONES, BUT YEAH, COUNCILMAN, THAT'S WHY THE FOURTH BULLET SAYS THAT THE SITTING, THE STAKEHOLDERS, UH, NEED TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON THOSE TYPES OF ALTERNATIVES AS WE GO THROUGH THE SUMMER.
AND IN TERMS OF THE, THE STUDY THAT, UM, SO WE'RE, WE'LL BE APPROVING AN ALLOCATION OF $200,000, AND THEN I IMAGINE THERE'LL BE AN R F P ISSUE.
WE WOULD HAVE A COMPETITIVE PROCESS TO SELECT A, UH, PROFESSIONAL TO ASSIST IN THAT PROCESS.
AND SO WILL IT JUST BE, UH, OUR STAFF THAT IS, UM, FACILITATING THAT STUDY OR, UM, IS VISIT SAN ANTONIO GOING TO HELP US WITH THAT? THE WAY THEY, YOU KNOW, I, I, I UNDERSTOOD THERE WAS A STRONG COMMITMENT FROM VISIT
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SAN ANTONIO WHEN WE APPROVED THE T P I TO HELP US WITH THIS ISSUE.SO ARE THEY, ARE THEY WORKING WITH US ON THIS? THERE IS UHHUH
AND THEY HAVE, UH, UH, COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH US, UH, IN THE SUMMER.
AND THROUGH THIS PROCESS OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN, UM, CENTRAL SAN ANTONIO HAS ALSO HAVE BEEN VERY COMMITTED THERE.
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE MET WITH THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT WORK WITH US AT HEAVEN FOR HOPE, THE, THE SARAH, WHICH IS A REGIONAL ALLIANCE FOR HOMELESSNESS.
SO ALL THOSE ORGANIZATIONS ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROCESS AND, UH, IDENTIFYING THOSE THINGS THAT WE DO, UH, UH, UH, THAT WE DO CORRECTLY HERE IN SAN ANTONIO AND THOSE AREAS THAT MAYBE WE HAVE SOME GAPS AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO, TO, TO, UH, BRIDGE THOSE GAPS.
THAT'S GREAT TO, THAT'S GREAT TO HEAR.
UM, I'M GOING TO, UH, CHIME ON WITH THE COMMENTS, UH, MADE PREVIOUSLY ABOUT THE 1% COLA AND COUNCILWOMAN
I THINK YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR APPRAISALS GOING UP, UH, BEYOND THE HOMESTEAD CAP EXEMPTION.
AND THAT IS A COST OF LIVING EXPENSE, YET WE ARE BUDGETING A 1% COST OF LIVING, UH, ALLOWANCE.
SO IT JUST DOESN'T REALLY, UH, JIVE.
SO I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF, UH, LOOKING AT THAT, I GUESS PROBABLY FOR NEXT BUDGET YEAR.
UM, AND, UH, I DID HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING THE, I THINK YOU CALL IT PERFORMANCE PAY, THE TWO TO 4%.
UH, I AM CURIOUS HOW THAT IS BUDGETED.
LIKE HOW DO YOU PREDICT HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL GET A TWO OR A 4% AND UH, OR DO YOU BUDGET FOR EVERYONE GETTING A 4% COUNCILWOMAN? UM, SO FOR PERFORMANCE PAY, UH, THOSE EMPLOYEES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR PERFORMANCE PAY, OUR SUPERVISORS AND MANAGERS THAT ARE NOT COVERED ON THE PAY PLAN.
SO WE, UM, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, UH, CLOSE TO 13,000 EMPLOYEES.
UH, OF THOSE ABOUT 4,000 ARE UNIFORM IN THE BALANCE ARE CIVILIANS.
SO WITHIN OUR CIVILIAN POPULATION, WE HAVE ROUGHLY ABOUT 6,000 EMPLOYEES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE, ELIGIBLE FOR PAY PLAN.
SO IN THE PAY PLAN, UM, DEPENDING ON THE STEP THAT THEY'RE IN, THEY GET A TWO TO 4% PLUS THE COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT.
SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT A THREE TO 5% ON THOSE EMPLOYEES THAT ARE NOT COVERING THE PAY PLAN.
WHAT WE DO, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, UH, SPECIFICALLY WE BUDGET AT 3% OF THE TOTAL SALARIES.
WE ARE NOT ANTICIPATING A NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES THAT WILL RECEIVE PERFORMANCE PAY.
'CAUSE WE GO THROUGH A PROCESS WITH OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AND WE DO ANNUAL EVALUATIONS FOR THOSE EMPLOYEES.
AND DEPENDING ON THE RATING OF THAT, UH, PERFORMANCE EVALUATION, THAT IS HOW PERFORMANCE PAY IS AWARDED.
SO IT'S A 3% ALLOCATION OF THE WAGES OF THOSE EMPLOYEES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR PERFORMANCE PAY.
AND SO, SORRY, FOR CIVILIAN PAY PLAN, DO YOU DO THE SAME THING, JUST AVERAGE? NO AVERAGE FOR CIVILIAN FOR PAY PLAN, WE ACTUALLY KNOW THE STEP THAT EACH EMPLOYEE IS IN.
OH, IT'S A STEP, RIGHT? RIGHT, MM-HMM.
AND TO THE POINT THAT COUNCILWOMAN VIA GRANT MADE FOR THOSE EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE MAXED THEIR STEP, WE ALSO KNOW HOW MANY MAY NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR A STEP, UH, BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE AT THE MAX STEP OF THEIR PAY PLAN RANGE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, MARIA.
AND THEN, UM, I DID HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR MIKE SHANNON.
THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN BUDGETING FOR BUILDING EX UH, BUILDING INSPECTIONS.
TELL ME,
WELL, UM, AS WAS MENTIONED, THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FUND, THE MORE PERMITS THAT COME IN, THE MORE MONEY WE TAKE IN.
AND THEREFORE THE MORE INSPECTORS OR PLAN REVIEWERS WE, WE HAVE.
SO WE'VE BEEN PROJECTING, UH, SOME GROWTH OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS.
UM, HOWEVER, WE'RE EXPERIENCING ANOTHER HIGH LEVEL OF PERMIT ACTIVITY.
SO WE WILL ACTUALLY NEED MORE, UH, PLAN REVIEWERS, INTAKE STAFF AND INSPECTORS TO KEEP UP SO THAT WE CAN, UH, PRODUCE QUALITY AND TIMELY SERVICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS.
WE WANNA REVIEW PERMITS AND ISSUE THEM QUICKLY, AND THEN ALSO RESPOND TO THOSE INSPECTIONS THAT ARE HAPPENING.
WE'RE ACTUALLY IN THE RESIDENTIAL, WE'RE ALMOST 25% HIGHER THAN WE ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR.
SO, UH, WE THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT OF GROWTH, BUT THEY JUST KEEP COMING IN.
AND SO WE NEED TO KEEP UP WITH THAT DEMAND.
AND THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE ENTERPRISE D S D FUND IS, IS TO GROW QUICKLY WHEN THE DEMAND NEEDS IT.
SO THIS IS AN INDICATION THAT THERE'S A LOT OF NEW HOUSING STOCK GOING UP, NEW STARTS IN THAT'S SAN ANTONIO'S? CORRECT.
UM, AND UH, I JUST, UH, THE, THE LAST THING I, OR ONE OF THE LAST THINGS I WANTED TO MENTION WAS, UM, I KNOW WE WILL BE EVALUATING THE HOMESTEAD, UH, EXEMPTION.
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I ALSO SUPPORT, UH, EVALUATING THE, UH, A ROLLBACK OR AN EFFECTIVE, UH, TAX RATE.UM, MY, MY CONCERN IS THAT THE, THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, IT DOES PROVIDE OUR PROPERTY OWNERS RELIEF, BUT WE DO KNOW THAT WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF RENTERS IN, IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND THAT DOESN'T PROVIDE THEM ANY RELIEF FROM WHAT, WHAT THEY'RE PAYING RIGHT NOW.
SO I'D JUST, UH, LIKE TO SEE US EVALUATE BOTH OF THOSE, UH, OPTIONS.
UM, AND UH, I THINK JUST, UH, BEN, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW YOU BALANCE IT ALL BECAUSE YOU HAVE SOME VOLATILITY IN TERMS OF OUR REVENUE SOURCES, AND I THINK A LONG TERM IT MIGHT BE WORTHWHILE EXPLORING.
IS THERE ANY WAY TO, OF COURSE, C P S WOULD HAVE TO BE OKAY WITH THIS TO STABILIZE OUR REVENUES FROM C P SS.
THERE ARE SOME UTILITIES WHO USE A DIFFERENT RATE STRUCTURE, RIGHT? SO THAT, UH, IT DOESN'T, UH, THE REVENUES DON'T REQUIRE A LOT OF DEMAND AND WE'RE NOT INCENTIVIZING PEOPLE TO JUST, YOU KNOW, USE, USE, USE, UH, GAS OR, OR ELECTRICITY.
BUT THAT SOMEHOW THERE'S, THERE'S A DIFFERENT RATE STRUCTURE.
UM, HAVE YOU, DO YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH THAT? WE HAVE NOT RECENTLY LOOKED AT THAT.
I MEAN, WHEN I LOOKED AT IT YEARS AGO, UM, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY WHAT'S DRIVING THE VOLATILITY HERE IS GONNA BE WEATHER OR FUEL.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT THAT HAPPENS WITH CONSERVATION THAT GOES IN THERE, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IF FUEL PRICES DOUBLE OR TRIPLE, THAT PASSES THROUGH THE BILL AND YOU SEE THE IMPACT THERE.
WHEN WE'VE LOOKED AT ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURES, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE IS THAT BOND IN INTEREST SAYS YOU CAN'T EXCEED 14%.
SO WHEN YOU GO TO AN ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURE, GENERALLY YOU'RE GONNA GIVE UP SOME LEVEL OF REVENUE TO MAKE SURE YOU STAY UNDER THE CAP, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
SO WE CAN'T EVER EXCEED THAT CAP.
SO IF YOU COME UP WITH A DIFFERENT FORMULA, IT'S GOTTA BE SET TO MAKE SURE YOU NEVER EXCEED THE CAP.
'CAUSE WE, WE WOULD BE IN DEFAULT OF THE BOND IN DENTURE AT THAT POINT.
I SEE, I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
SO AGAIN, RIGHT NOW THE INCENTIVE IS TO, UH, IS FOR IT TO BE A VERY HOT SUMMER
WELL ONE OF THE THINGS THOUGH THAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT, UM, C P S STRUCTURE THAT I'LL TELL YOU THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM OTHER UTILITIES THAT I LOOKED AT IS THAT C P S HAS THAT FUEL ADJUSTMENT THAT HAPPENS MONTHLY.
SO IT'S AN, AN IMMEDIATE PASS THROUGH.
UH, A LOT OF UTILITIES WILL SET A RATE STRUCTURE WHERE THE FUEL IS KIND OF SET IN THE BASE AND THEY DON'T ADJUST AND THEY TRY TO MANAGE OFF OF THAT WHICH, WHICH CAUSES, UH, LOTS OF ISSUES FOR THE UTILITY.
IN TERMS OF TRYING TO GUESS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THOSE IN C P S'S CASE BECAUSE IT PASSES THROUGH IMMEDIATELY IN, IN AN EXAMPLE WHERE, UH, FUEL PRICES ARE, ARE GOING UP SIGNIFICANTLY VERY QUICKLY, CONSUMERS WILL START TO FEEL THAT IMMEDIATELY.
SO IT'S KIND OF A SIGNAL TO THE CONSUMER YOU NEED TO CONSERVE AS OPPOSED TO DELAYING THAT IMPACT DOWN THE ROAD.
SO THERE IS SOME BUILT-IN CONSERVATION THERE.
'CAUSE YOU WILL SEE MUCH LIKE IF YOU WENT TO THE GAS PUMP AND SAID, YOU KNOW, ALL OF A SUDDEN GASOLINE PRICES ARE GOING UP SIGNIFICANTLY, YOU MIGHT WANT TO DRIVE A LITTLE LESS OR FIGURE OUT ALTERNATIVE MODES.
THEY'LL GET THAT PRICE SIGNAL IMMEDIATELY 'CAUSE IT'S AN IMMEDIATE PASS THROUGH LIKE DAY-TO-DAY IMMEDIATELY OR AT THE END OF THE MONTH, MONTH TO MONTH, RIGHT.
MONTH TO MONTH TO MONTH TO MONTH.
SO THE WEATHER MAY CHANGE, UH, MONTH, MONTH TO MONTH.
SO I JUST, UH, I THINK SOMETHING'S WORTH EXPLORING, UM, AND FOR OUR SAKE, BUT FOR THE SAKE OF THE CONSUMER AS WELL.
TO BE ABLE TO, TO PLAN FOR THAT.
UM, IF, IF FUEL IS IN FACT, UH, DRIVING THE VOLATILITY, THEN I THINK, UM, HAVING ALTERNATIVE, UH, FUELS THAT WE USE LIKE, LIKE SOLAR BE MORE AVAILABLE, UM, PROVIDED WE CAN BRING IT UP IN A COST EFFICIENT MANNER.
SO YEAH, THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT CERTAIN TYPES OF FUEL HAVE LESS VOLATILITY THAN OTHERS.
UM, UM, NATURAL GAS BEING ONE OF THE ONES THAT FLUCTUATES THE MOST.
IF YOU LOOK, IF I WERE TO POP A FUEL SLIDE UP, GOING BACK THE PAST 20, 25 YEARS, IT LITERALLY RANGES FROM LIKE $2 PER M M B T U UP TO PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE WERE PEAKING AT 10 OR $12 PER M M B T U AT DIFFERENT AT PERIODS OF TIME.
AND THEN YOU WOULD SEE IT SWING FOR A WHILE THERE.
WE WOULD EVEN SEE THOSE SWINGS HAPPENING WITHIN SIX MONTH PERIODS.
UM, IT HAS REALLY BEEN PRETTY FLAT THE LAST YEAR OR TWO AND ACTUALLY BEEN DECLINING BASED ON, UH, THE AMOUNT OF PRODUCTION THAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
WELL THANK YOU BEN, UH, FOR ENTERTAINING THAT, THAT IDEA.
I JUST WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON, UH, DISCUSSION THAT THE CHIEF WAS HAVING WITH, UH, COUNCILMAN COURAGE.
'CAUSE I THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT ONE FOR US TO, I I I, I TRULY JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M UNDERSTANDING THIS CORRECTLY BECAUSE I WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION.
IF, IF THE QUESTION THAT I'M, I'M GETTING ASKED FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS IS I WANNA SEE MORE POLICE
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PRESENCE, UH, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE RIGHT ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION TO SOLVE THAT FOR THAT PROBLEM IS DEPLETE YOUR VACANCIES, GET THEM TO ZERO.AND AND HERE'S JUST MY OWN ASSUMPTION ON THAT.
YOU PUSH BACK IF IT'S, IF IT'S INCORRECT, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE 2,246, UH, SWORN POSITIONS AND, AND WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, AT ANY ONE TIME WE DON'T HAVE 2200 OFFICERS ON THE BEAT OR ON PATROL.
YOU HAVE, I I ASSUME WITH, WITH EACH ONE OF YOUR PATROL STATIONS, WEST, SOUTH, EAST, SUB A SET NUMBER WHERE YOUR CAPTAINS DECIDE HOW MANY OFFICERS GO OUT ON THE BEAT.
SO IF I'M TRYING TO SOLVE FOR THAT PROBLEM, THE COMMUNITY MEMBER SAYS I WANNA SEE MORE POLICE PRESENCE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE FILL EACH ONE OF THOSE SPOTS.
IT'S NOT LIKE A SOUTH SUBSTATION IS SAYING, HEY LOOK, WE, WE DON'T HAVE THE VACANCY.
SO I'M, I I'VE GOT AN EMPTY CHAIR SITTING WITH ME AT ROLL CALL WHERE I SHOULD HAVE AN OFFICER THERE.
WE, WE FILL THEM EITHER WITH, WITH OVERTIME OR OTHER THINGS, AND WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT OVERTIME FATIGUE, BUT WE HAVE POLICE, UH, PRESENCE.
SO IF I WANNA SOLVE FOR THIS PROBLEM OF, OF HAVING A HIGHER POLICE PRESENCE VISIBLY IN THE COMMUNITY, DON'T I NEED TO SORT OF CHANGE THE NUMBER THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH TO SAY THAT WE'VE GOT A PER, UM, PER POPULATION OFFICER COMMITMENT.
IF, IF WE WANTED TO CHANGE THE, THE, THE VISIBILITY LEVEL, THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO ADD MORE POLICE TO THE BASE OF WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING TO THE BASE TO THE 24 47 THAT WERE AUTHORIZED.
UM, OUR AUTHORIZED BUDGETED STRENGTH IS 24 47.
AND AGAIN, I MEAN THAT, THAT LEADS TO A, A MUCH BIGGER DISCUSSION ON IF, IF COUNSEL WERE TO DECIDE THAT THEY, YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO INCREASE THAT NUMBER, WHAT IS THE RIGHT NUMBER? AND, AND WE'RE, WE'RE OFTEN COMPARED TO BECAUSE OF SIZE, WE'RE OFTEN COMPARED TO DALLAS.
UM, DALLAS HAS A THOUSAND, WELL, NOT ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY, THEY CUT OVER 500 OF THEIR, OF THEIR VACANCIES.
SO THEY DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER OVER US ANYMORE, BUT THEY USED TO HAVE OVER, OVER A THOUSAND MORE POLICE OFFICERS THAN THAN SAN ANTONIO.
UM, BUT IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE HAVE ON THE STREET IN, IN TERMS OF OUR PATROL, THE, THE, THE, THE OFFICERS WHO ANSWER CALLS, WE HAVE OUR, OUR, UH, SPECIAL CRIMES UNIT, WHICH INCLUDES ALL OF OUR COVERT UNITS.
WE HAVE STREET CRIMES, WE HAVE SAFE, NONE OF THOSE ENTITIES HANDLE CALLS FOR SERVICE.
IT'S JUST THE, THE OFFICERS IN THE PATROL CARS THAT HANDLE CALLS ALL THE OTHER OFFICERS.
AND THE OTHER UNITS ARE PROACTIVE TYPE UNITS, DIRECTED PATROL, UH, TARGETED, UH, TARGETED PATROL.
UM, SO I THINK WHAT NUMBER WE MIGHT WANT TO GET TO, TO PROVIDE MORE VISIBILITY IS A, IS A MUCH LARGER DISCUSSION AND IT'S A WORTHY, WORTHY DISCUSSION TO HAVE DURING THIS PERIOD BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET AND, AND IF WE WANTED TO ADD, UH, I THINK WE KNOW THESE NUMBERS, 25 OFFICERS TO THE BASE, UH, WE KNOW THAT NUMBER DON'T WE ERIC? OR, OR JUSTINA? YES, WE DO.
SO IN THE FIRST YEAR, ADDING 25 OFFICERS IS ABOUT $900,000.
AND JUST TO, UM, ADD TO WHAT JUSTINA SAID.
SO AN AVERAGE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER, UH, POLICE OFFICERS.
SO 25 IS TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR.
UM, THE ASSUMPTION THAT WE HAVE IN THE FINANCIAL FORECAST, IF WE WOULD START THOSE, UM, OFFICERS IN THE SEPTEMBER CLASS, THEN YOU HAVE A LOWER COST FOR YEAR ONE.
BUT THAT'LL BUILD UP ONCE THEY GRADUATE AND, AND START DOING THE WORK.
AND, AND I'M NOT SAYING I HAVE A, A MONOPOLY OF UNDERSTANDING ON THIS ONE.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE, WE'RE ALWAYS STILL TRYING TO GET TO, BUT IT REALLY SORT OF COMES DOWN TO HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE WANNA PUT INTO AN INITIATIVE TO INCREASE, UH, YOUR FORCE.
UM, BECAUSE THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF A LAG TIME.
LET'S SAY I WANTED TO, LET'S SAY WE ALL AGREED TO COMMIT TO, AND WE WOULD CUT THE BUDGET WHERE WE NEEDED TO CUT 50 OR A HUNDRED NEW OFFICERS, UM, FOR NEXT YEAR.
I MEAN, THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, THE 25 OR THE, THE, THE WHAT.
SO I'M, I'M ASSUMING WE, WE, WE ALLOCATE THE MONEY INTO THE BUDGET, BUT STILL THERE PROBABLY WOULD BE A LAG TIME FOR US TO FIND, RECRUIT, TRAIN, DEPLOY SOME OF THESE, THESE OFFICERS.
SO ARE YOU, ARE YOU TELLING ME IS THE NARRATIVE THAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING TO COUNCIL ENCOURAGE THAT WE'VE TRIED TO MAKE UP FOR THESE VACANCIES AND, AND YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL ADMIT WHERE WE, WE ARE WRONG IN HAVING VACANCIES, BUT WE HAD A LARGER VACANCY TWO YEARS AGO NOW, AND WE'RE SAYING AT 47 IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN WE HAD A FEW YEARS AGO BECAUSE WE'VE HAD THIS LAG TIME, WE'VE MADE A COMMITMENT TO ADD MORE OFFICERS, BUT IT ISN'T AN AUTOMATIC LIGHT SWITCH WHERE WE AUTOMATICALLY HAVE THEM ON THE BEAT QUICKLY QUICKER.
THAT THAT'S RIGHT, COUNCILMAN.
I MEAN, IT'S A, IT'S A SEVEN MONTH LAG TIME.
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UH, ONCE THEY GET IN THE ACADEMY, RECRUITING THEM IS, I DUNNO, MAYBE, MAYBE TWO MONTHS-ISH, MAYBE MORE BEFORE THEY, FROM, FROM THE APPLICATION UNTIL THEY'RE ACTUALLY, UH, UH, ASSIGNED TO AN ACADEMY CLASS.AND WHAT'S STOPPING US FROM INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF OFFICERS THAT ARE ON DEPLOY IN VEHICLES TODAY? SO YOU HAVE SOME PROACTIVE UNITS, UH, YOU HAVE SOME SOME TASK TASK FORCE AGENCIES, BUT, UH, HOW MUCH WOULD YOU SAY, LIKE IS, IS DEPLOYED, UM, IN ANY ONE OF OUR SHIFTS TODAY? LIKE ON, ON THE BEAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE 114, I THINK IT IS PATROL DISTRICTS, SOME OF THEM, I'M NOT SURE HOW MANY, BUT SOME OF THEM ARE, YOU HAVE TWO CARS THAT ARE ASSIGNED TO THEM.
BUT, SO AT ANY GIVEN TIME, THERE'S 114 OFFICERS OUT THERE ANSWERING CALLS FOR SERVICE.
IF WE WANTED TO CHANGE THAT NUMBER, WHAT WOULD WE, WHAT WOULD WE HAVE TO GIVE YOU AS, AS, AS THE CHIEF OF THE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE THAT, TO MAKE THAT DECISION?
BUT YOU HAVE A FORMULA THAT YOU USE TO SAY ONE 14 IS, IS AN APPROPRIATE FORCE, UH, DEPLOYMENT AT, AT ANY GIVEN TIME? WELL, COUNCILMAN WHAT I, WHAT I'VE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE THAT THE, THE, THE, THE QUESTIONS I'M ASKED AND THE, AND THE COMMENTS THAT I HEAR IS, WE WANNA SEE MORE POLICE, WE WANNA SEE MORE POLICE OFFICERS, UM, YOU KNOW, I I OR I CALL FOR THE POLICE AND THEN THEY NEVER COME, WHICH IS NOT TRUE IN 99% OF THE CASES BECAUSE WE ALWAYS GO BACK AND INVESTIGATE THAT.
BUT WHAT I'VE, AND, AND, AND MATTER OF FACT, COUNCILMAN, UH, UM, TREVINO WAS, WAS AT A, A MEETING, UH, I THINK IT WAS UP ON THE STRIP THERE, RIGHT? IS THAT THE ONE, UH, YEAH.
UM, WHERE PEOPLE WERE BE BECAUSE OF THE, THE ST.
MARY'S STRIP AND THE, AND THE CROWDS THAT IT BRINGS IN ON PRIMARILY WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY NIGHT, UM,
THERE, THERE IS AN INFLUX OF TRAFFIC INTO THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS, WHICH IS DRIVING THE RESIDENTS UP THERE CRAZY.
UH, BECAUSE WHEN THE BARS LET OUT, IT CAUSES PROBLEMS. SO THEY WANT MORE COVERAGE AND, AND TO SAY THAT, OKAY, WE'LL BRING SAFE UP THERE, UM, AND WE'LL ISSUE MORE TICKETS, WE'LL TOW CARS, WE'LL DO ALL THOSE THINGS IS NOT A PERMANENT SOLUTION.
THE, THE, THE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MY STAFF AND I HAVE DISCUSSED IS, IS LABELING, UM, NORTH ST.
MARY'S, UH, THE STRIP ON MAIN STREET, SOUTH TOWN, AND THE, UH, AND THE PEARL AS ENTERTAINMENT ZONES, BECAUSE THEY BRING IN MANY, MANY, MANY MORE PEOPLE.
BUT THERE'S NO ADDITIONAL COVERAGE.
THERE'S NO ADDITIONAL VISIBILITY.
ALL YOU HAVE IS YOUR, IS YOUR OFFICERS WHO ANSWER CALLS.
AND OCCASIONALLY WE WILL, IF THERE'S SOMETHING GOING WRONG, WE'LL GOING ON, WE'LL PUT SAFE OFFICERS THERE TO SUPPLEMENT.
BUT IN ORDER TO PROVIDE COVERAGE TO THOSE AREAS, THOSE ENTERTAINMENT ZONES, AS I, AS I'VE BEEN CALLING THEM, WE NEED A DEDICATED RESOURCE TO COVER THOSE, THOSE AREAS EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.
UH, WHICH IS WHAT FROM, FROM MY EXPERIENCE AT THESE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, YOU KNOW, IS WHAT THE RESIDENTS WANNA SEE.
WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T JUST DO IT PERIODICALLY OR, OR OFF AND ON AND, AND, AND HAVE A SATISFIED RESIDENCE, YOU KNOW, IN, IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND CHIEF, I, I WANTED TO MAKE THIS LARGER POINT THAT I THINK YOU UNDERSTAND PRETTY CLEARLY AS WELL TOO, WHICH IS THAT THERE'S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN THE CAT HERE IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT OFFICERS ARE, UM, AT OUR HIGHER PRESENCE, MEANING THAT THEY'RE NOT ALSO, YOU KNOW, BACKED UP AT MAGISTRATION, UM, WHICH IS AN ISSUE THAT YOU'VE DISCUSSED, WHICH IS MEANS THAT THE PATROL OFFICER WHO IS ON THE DAY-TO-DAY CALL LOG, UH, IS ALSO NOT HAVING TO HANDLE EVERY, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, EMERGENCY DETENTION FOR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A MENTAL HEALTH UNIT THAT CAN SUPPLEMENT, UH, THE BEAT OFFICER TO GET THEM BACK ON PATROL.
AND, AND I THINK PART OF IT IS, IS MONEY, PART OF IT IS BUDGET.
UH, AND THE OTHER PART IS I THINK SOME PIECES THAT YOU'VE TRIED TO MAKE US AWARE OF AND, AND WE'RE MAKING INVESTMENTS IN PLACES THAT, YOU KNOW, MAKE SENSE FOR US TO MAKE SURE THAT THE OFFICER GETS BACK ON THE PATROL, GETS BACK ON CALLS, UH, AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
BUT, UH, THERE IS THIS SORT OF TENSION IN MY OWN MIND ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ZEROING OUT THE VACANCY AND WHETHER THAT WOULD TRULY GET US, UM, HIGHER POLICE PRESENCE OR SOMEHOW, YOU KNOW, MAGICALLY SOLVE THIS PROBLEM FOR US.
SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KIND OF WALK THROUGH THAT.
WELL, IT, IT GETS US TO OUR AUTHORIZED STRENGTH.
BUT AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW THAT, THAT THAT'S ENOUGH TO SATISFY RESIDENTS WHO SAY, WE DON'T SEE ENOUGH POLICE, WE WANNA SEE MORE POLICE, OR, YOU
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KNOW, WE HAVE THESE ISSUES, THESE ONGOING ISSUES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND WE NEED IT SOLVED ON A, ON A PERMANENT BASIS, NOT JUST THROWING, THROWING SOME BODIES AT IT, YOU KNOW, EVERY OTHER MONTH OR SO.ONE THING, UH, JUST I, I WANTED TO REMIND THE COUNCIL, UH, LAST YEAR, THE INNOVATION, UH, DEPARTMENT, UH, ASSISTED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN KIND OF PIECEMEALING AND GOING THROUGH MILLIONS OF RECORDS IN ORDER TO COME UP WITH A RECOMMENDATION ON, UM, AND THIS IS PRIMARILY JUST FOR PATROL.
IT DOESN'T AFFECT THE OTHER AREAS THAT THE CHIEF TALKED ABOUT, WHICH NEED TO BE ADDRESSED, BUT SETTING THAT, THAT PROACTIVE VERSUS ON, I'M SORRY.
YEAH, A PROACTIVE TIME AND ON-CALL TIME FOR OFFICERS AND MAKING SURE THAT THAT'S CONTINUOUSLY BALANCED.
BECAUSE IF WE DON'T, THEN OVER TIME, THAT STARTS TO SHIFT.
AND, AND IDEALLY, WHAT, AS PART OF THE RESULTS LAST SUMMER'S, UH, LOOK, AND, AND THAT'S AN ANALYSIS THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS GONNA HAVE TO REDO IN, IN PREPARATION FOR THE BUDGET, IS WE WANT SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A 60, 65% OF AN OFFICER TIME, UM, ON CALLS.
BUT WE WANT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PROACTIVE TIME AVAILABLE FOR VISIBILITY.
UM, AND, AND THINGS CAN CHANGE OVER TIME.
THE TYPES OF CALLS CAN TAKE A, A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME.
UH, THE TYPE OF CALL CAN INVOLVE MULTIPLE OFFICERS.
UM, THAT'S KIND OF A GAUGE THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CAN USE.
AND, AND I'LL SHARE WITH THE COUNCIL THAT IT WAS A CONCEPT THAT CAME OUT OF THE INNOVATION GROUP, BUT, UH, WE'VE SEEN THE CITY OF DALLAS AND THE CITY OF AUSTIN HIRE CONSULTANTS TO DO THE SAME TYPE OF ANALYSIS.
THAT'S ONE GUIDE STICK, BUT IT'S JUST FOR PATROL.
UM, I THINK INTUITIVELY WE ALL KNOW THAT IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY POLICING, SAFE OFFICERS, THE OTHER UNITS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT INVESTIGATE CRIMES, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME SORT OF MEASURING STICK ON THOSE AS WELL.
UM, BUT I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, TO GET TO THE, THE ISSUE OF VISIBILITY, IT, IT KIND OF REQUIRES US TO LOOK AT IT FROM THREE DIFFERENT ANGLES.
AND I THINK EVERY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL HAS BEEN ON A DOZEN RIDE-ALONGS, UH, AND, AND RECOGNIZES THAT THE COMMUNITY, THE RESIDENTS MEMBERS, THEY'RE NOT WRONG.
UH, WHEN THEY SAY THAT RESIDENTS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
IT'S DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, HAVING A, A FIRETRUCK IN A NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOT GONNA STOP A FIRE FROM OCCURRING, BUT A POLICE VEHICLE MIGHT ACTUALLY PREVENT SOMEBODY FROM, FROM DOING SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HAPPEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD OR THAT COMMUNITY.
UM, SO I THINK THE FACT THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS, AND WHEN I SAY WE'VE ALL BEEN ON RIDE ALONGS, IS BECAUSE WE'RE USUALLY FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTION OF THE CALLS THAT ARE COMING IN.
AND THAT'S ONE AFTER THE OTHER, AFTER THE OTHER.
SO I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT WE'LL SAVE SOME PORTION OF THE TIME, UH, TO ALLOW OFFICERS THE ABILITY TO HAVE, UH, SOME SORT OF PROACTIVE, NOT JUST PATROLLING NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT WHAT WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE GOLD STANDARD IN POLICE DEPARTMENTS, WHICH IS THIS COMMUNITY POLICING.
I'D LOVE NOTHING MORE THAN TO SEE, YOU KNOW, VIDEOS OF POLICE OFFICERS WHO ARE INTERACTING WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO, WHO KNOW THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND KNOW THE COMMUNITIES.
AND I THINK THAT'S THAT PIECE OF THE 40% THAT, UH, TRULY MAKES OUR DEPARTMENT, UH, UH, GOLD STANDARD WORLD CLASS.
LAST QUESTION FOR YOU, JUSTINE.
AND I'M, I'M SORRY THAT I CHIMED IN AGAIN, BUT, UH, I WANT TO CHECK IN ON, UH, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL BROUGHT SOMETHING THAT I FORGOT TO DISCUSS ON PAGE 66 WITH REGARD TO THIS OPEN, OPEN DISCUSSION THAT WE'RE NOW HAVING ABOUT HOMELESSNESS AND OUR ASSESSMENT TO TRY TO REALLY SUPPORT OUR AGENCIES.
UM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SUPPORTING HAVEN FOR HOPE IN ONE OPPORTUNITY ON CAPITAL.
AND I THINK IN THIS DISCUSSION, UH, THERE'S A LARGER, UH, UH, DEBATE TO BE HAD AROUND SUPPORTING SOME OF OUR NONPROFITS WITH OUR OPERATIONAL, UH, FUNCTIONS.
NAMELY, THEIR ABILITY TO HIRE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HAVING THE FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTIONS ARE, ARE INTAKING, ARE WORKING WITH THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
SO IT REALLY IS ABOUT FINDING FLEXIBLE DOLLARS AND CAPITAL WHILE GOOD IN NATURE, I THINK ARE SOMETIMES ONE TIME COST, BUT SORT OF ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES.
AND YOU'VE, YOU'VE MENTIONED A FEW OF THEM IN THE BULLET POINTS, BUT WAS THERE ANY DISCUSSION AND MEMBERS OF THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP WHO MIGHT BE HERE CAN SPEAK TO THIS DISCUSSION OF THE DOWNTOWN PIT THAT CAME UP LAST TIME? IT CAME UP WHILE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE TPI.
UH, I SEE THAT THAT'S NOT ON THERE AS A, AS A BULLET POINT.
UH, COUNCILMAN, THEY'RE ONE OF THE STAKEHOLDERS THAT HAVE COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH US.
THEY, THEY, UH, THEY HAVE BEEN PART OF THOSE MEETINGS, UM, AND, UH, HAVE COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH US, UH, THROUGH THE SUMMER ON THOSE DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVES.
THEY, THEY ARE CERTAINLY ONE OF THE MAJOR STAKEHOLDERS.
YEAH, BECAUSE I HOPE THAT ONE OF THE, YOU KNOW, IF, IF YOU'RE COMING TOGETHER AS A STAKEHOLDER GROUP, AND I, I THINK THEY'VE ALREADY HAD MEETINGS.
IF I'M, IF I'M WRITING ON THE CHALKBOARD, OUR GOAL, IT'S, IT'S TO FIND A SUSTAINABLE REVENUE SOURCE, UH, FOR THIS ISSUE.
AND IT WILL LOOK AT SUP SUPPLEMENTING WHAT ALREADY EXISTS WITH REGARD TO THE PEOPLE AND THE INDIVIDUALS WHO HELP US SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.
UM, AND THAT THERE'S A REASON WHEN, WHEN, WHEN FOLKS ATTACK BIG CITIES, URBAN CITIES PLAGUED WITH HOMELESSNESS, THAT SAN ANTONIO DOESN'T COME UP ON THAT LIST.
UH, AND, AND CITIES THAT WE DO HEAR ABOUT, WHETHER IT'S LOS ANGELES OR SAN FRANCISCO OR EVEN AUSTIN THAT HAS SOME PROBLEMS WITH IT, HAVEN'T MADE THE KIND OF COMMITMENT THAT WE'VE MADE.
BUT I THINK IT CAN BACKTRACK VERY QUICKLY, UM, IF WE DON'T FIND, YOU KNOW, SUSTAINABLE
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SOURCES TO, TO CONTINUE THE INVESTMENTS WE KNOW ARE WORKING.AND SO THE CITY AT FOUR AND A HALF MILLION IS, IS GETTING THAT, YOU KNOW, LEVERAGE FI FIVE TIMES BY, BY THE STATE PHILANTHROPY, BY THE FEDS.
UM, BUT THEN THERE'S THIS PIECE THAT I THINK IS, IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO SORT OF HIRE THE BODIES, HIRE THE, THE SOCIAL WORKERS, THE MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, UH, WHO ARE HELPING US DO THIS WORK.
AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS ON THE TABLE, UM, TO INCLUDE THE DOWNTOWN TPI AND, AND ANY OTHER RESOURCES THAT I KNOW THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY HAS SAID THAT THEY'RE WILLING TO COME TO THE TABLE.
AND, AND I, I THINK I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE CASH IN ON THAT COMMITMENT.
UM, I DO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS HERE.
YOU KNOW, AND JUST OVERALL, UM, YOU KNOW, THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS I'VE BEEN CONTINUED TO BE TALKED TO BY MY NEIGHBORS IN DISTRICT 10 ABOUT THE THREE MAJOR AREAS THAT THEY'RE CONCERNED ABOUT.
AND I WOULD DARE SAY THAT IT'S THE SAME THREE AREAS IN EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT HERE.
NUMBER ONE, SAFETY AND SECURITY, NUMBER TWO, INFRASTRUCTURE AND NUMBER THREE, PROPERTY TAXES.
THOSE, THOSE KEEP COMING UP EVERY TIME ON EVERY H O A MEETING THAT I HAVE.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO BE CONCENTRATING ON.
SO I'M GONNA CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.
YOU KNOW, THERE WE HAVE, UM, IT'S GREAT THAT WE HAVE THE OVER 65 FREEZE ON PROPERTY TAXES FOR OUR PORTION, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE BELOW 65 THAT ARE HURTING.
AND IN THESE RISING PROPERTY VALUES, NOT ONLY PROPERTY VALUES, BUT RISING RATES AND FEES ACROSS ALL OF THE TAXING ENTITIES, NOT JUST THE CITY, BUT THESE OTHER TAXING ENTITIES AS WELL.
SO I'M GONNA KEEP PUSHING FOR THAT ABOUT THE, UH, HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, UM, SAFETY AND SECURITY AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND, UM, I THINK WE'RE REALLY DOING A GOOD JOB ON THE, UM, SLIDE 44 WHERE WE SHOW THE STREET MAINTENANCE.
WE'RE GONNA KEEP THAT UP AT OVER A HUNDRED, A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS.
THAT'S WHERE OUR EMPHASIS SHOULD BE.
BUT I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
AND CHIEF, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA HAVE TO HAVE TO CALL YOU BACK UP THERE AGAIN, UM, ON, UM, SLIDE 20 ON YOUR VACANCIES.
SO THE CADETS, THAT'S NOT WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE, IS IT? THAT'S WHAT'S ACTUALLY OUT IN THE FIELD RIGHT NOW.
HOW MANY CADETS DO WE HAVE IN THE FIELD TODAY? NONE.
THEY'RE ALL PAST THEIR, THEY'RE SIX MONTH TRAINING? YES.
UH, SO WHEN THESE 156 COME IN, THERE'S A SIX MONTH TRAINING WINDOW THAT THEY STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH? CORRECT.
ONCE THEY'VE GRADUATED, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GET TO THAT POINT, I, AND I, NO, WAIT, LET ME, I'M SORRY.
YOU SAID THERE'S A SIX MONTH TRAINING PERIOD YES.
THAT THEY'RE RIDING ALONG WITH SOMEONE ELSE? NO, NO, IT'S NOT SIX MONTHS.
I, I, I WANNA SAY IT'S 14 WEEKS.
BUT THEY'RE STILL, IT'S STILL A TRAINING PERIOD THAT THEY'RE YEAH.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE WITH THEIR AFTER FIELD, THEY'RE WITH THEIR FTOS.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE AGAIN, THEY ARE, THEY'RE AGAINST AUTHORIZED POSITIONS, BUT THEY'RE NOT REALLY OUT THERE, UH, PATROLLING ON THEIR OWN.
THEY'RE STILL IN THAT TRAINING PROCESS.
AND ERIC, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT BEFORE ON HOW WE CAN TRACK THAT.
AND I THINK WE STILL NEED TO SHOW THAT, BECAUSE TO ME, THEY'RE NOT A FULL-TIME OFFICER OUT THERE ON THE, ON THE BEAT BY THEMSELVES.
THEY'RE STILL DURING THAT 14 WEEK TRAINING PROCESS THAT THEY'RE STILL NOT OUT THERE ON THEIR OWN LIKE THAT.
WELL, WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS, UH, COUNCILMAN, INSTEAD OF, IF, IF THERE'S A TWO CAR CALL FOR, SAY, A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OR A BURGLARY, THEN IF THERE'S A, AN F T O RIDING WITH A, A PROBATIONARY OFFICER, THEN ONLY ONE, THEN ONLY ONE CAR HAS TO GO.
SO THEY, THEY CAN HANDLE TWO PERSON CALLS WITHOUT TWO CARS HAVING TO GO.
SO THAT'S THE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
THEY, ALTHOUGH THEY CAN'T PATROL BY THEMSELVES, RIGHT.
THEY CAN STILL HANDLE A TWO PERSON CALL WITH THEIR TRAINING OFFICER.
BUT I REMEMBER THIS QUESTION LAST YEAR, UM, AND I'M GONNA ASK IT AGAIN NOW.
WHEN ARE WE GONNA HAVE ZERO VACANCIES?
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NEXT CLASS? NEXT CLASS, WHICH, YES.ZERO VACANCIES, WHICH WHICH WILL START IN JULY.
SO EVEN WITH THE RETIREES COMING IN AND, UH, YOU KNOW, YES, SIR.
WE WILL, WE WILL HAVE THIS DOWN TO ZERO.
AND WHAT DATE IS THAT GONNA GRADUATE? JULY 23RD, I BELIEVE.
I'M SORRY, JULY EIGHT, CLA EIGHT, AND THEY'LL GRADUATE IN, UM, FEBRUARY.
SO THE DATE THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE ZERO UP THERE IS FEBRUARY OR JULY? JULY.
JUMP, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THAT JUMP IN ZERO NUMBER UP THERE IN JULY.
I, I, I'LL BE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT TOO.
SO IF, IF WE HAVE 45 VACANCIES AND THE LAST, UM, THREE CLASSES, WE'VE, UM, HAD ANYWHERE BETWEEN 50 AND 65 CADETS COME IN, UM, THERE'S A PRO, THERE'S A SEVEN MONTH WINDOW AT THE, AT THE, AT THE ACADEMY, AND THEN 14 WEEKS WITH A RIDE ALONG.
UM, WE KNOW THAT THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE RETIREMENTS AND, AND, AND SO WE NEED TO PUT AS MANY PEOPLE, OFFICERS CANDIDATES INTO THAT PIPELINE.
OUT OF THE 156 THAT ARE IN THE ACADEMY RIGHT NOW, THERE'S THREE CLASSES.
UH, CLASS ONE, UM, UH, WE'LL GRADUATE, UH, HERE IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS.
SO THE 1 56 IS GONNA GO DOWN, THAT 39 IS GONNA GO OUT TO THE FIELD FOR THEIR 14 WEEK RIDE ALONG.
UM, WE HAVE A CLASS OF 53 AND WE HAVE A CLASS OF 64 BEHIND IT.
SO, YOU KNOW, ROUGH MATH, IF YOU DO ROUGH MATH, IF WE'VE GOT 45 VACANCIES AND WE DO, AND WE HAVE ANOTHER, UM, UH, TWO CLASSES OF 50 THAT GIVES US NET AHEAD, WE, WE ARE LIKELY TO HAVE SOME RETIREMENTS.
I MEAN, IF WE HAVE ANOTHER 30, UH, RETIREMENTS BACKED UP TO WHERE WE WERE PROJECTING, WE'RE GONNA BE CLOSE TO THAT BUBBLE.
I THINK THE KEY IS, AND AND COUNCILMAN SALDANA MENTIONED IT EARLIER, THE KEY IS, AND, AND WE CAN SHARE THIS CHART AND A FOLLOW UP.
IF YOU LOOK AT THIS POINT IN TIME WHERE WE WERE AT OVER THE LAST FOUR YEARS, WE'VE CONTINUED TO SQUEEZE DOWN THAT BUBBLE.
LAST YEAR WE HAD FIVE CADET CLASSES.
UM, I, I HOPE THE CHIEF'S RIGHT.
UM, AND, AND AS LONG AS WE STAY ON TRACK, WE'LL BE THERE.
UM, AND I THINK WE'LL JUST CONTINUE TO INCLUDE THIS IN THE, MY END OF WEEK REPORT TO YOU, THAT THAT GOES OUT TO THE CITY COUNCIL AT THE END OF THE WEEK.
AND WE'LL ADVISE YOU, UM, AS THOSE BIG PIECES HAPPEN IN OUR SCHEDULE, SO THAT YOU CAN WATCH IT CLOSELY.
SO THIS VACANT 45, IF THIS BUDGET GOES THROUGH WITH YOUR RECOMMENDATION FOR ANOTHER 25, THAT'S ANOTHER 25 ADDED TO THAT 45 THAT WILL BE VACANT.
IT'S A, IT'S, UH, ANOTHER 25 ADDED ON TO 24 47, WHICH IS OUR BOTTOM, OUR AUTHORIZED STRENGTH.
WHICH WILL BE VACANT UNTIL YOU FILL YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES.
IF THE BUDGET GOES THROUGH, WE GET THE 25, WHEN WILL WE BE AT ZERO? WHEN YOU ADD THAT 25 TO THE 45? WELL, THAT, THAT 25 DOESN'T BECOME EFFECTIVE UNTIL AFTER OCTOBER.
SO WHEN WE HIRE THE JULY CLASS, AND, AND, AND AGAIN, I, I'LL, I'LL STEP, STEP IT BACK A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A FLUID NUMBER, BUT WE SHOULD STILL, YOU KNOW, THE VACANCY RATE IS FLUID BECAUSE YOU HAVE PEOPLE RETIRING ALL THE TIME, SEPARATING ALL THE TIME.
WHEN WE HIRE FOR THAT JULY CLASS, AND WE'RE, WE'RE SHOOTING FOR EITHER 65 OR 70, AND I, I AM VERY CONFIDENT THAT WE'LL GET THERE.
WE'LL HAVE, WE WILL HAVE ELIMINATED OUR VACANCIES EVEN WITH THE 25 ADDITIONAL.
WELL, THE 20 WITH THE 25 ADDITIONAL WON'T BECOME EFFECTIVE UNTIL OCTOBER ONE.
ON JULY 25, ON JULY 3RD, WHEN WE START THE NEW CLASS, WE'LL HAVE, WE'LL BE ADDING 65 OR 70 OKAY.
I JUST SO WANNA KNOW THE APPROXIMATE DATE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE AT ZERO JULY 3RD.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THESE OTHER RESOURCES ARE? WHAT, WHAT ARE SOME OF THOSE CATEGORIES? SO SOME OF THE OTHER CATEGORIES INCLUDE OUR TELECOMMUNICATIONS FEES AND FRANCHISE FEES, OUR FINES, UM, OUR REVENUES THAT WE RECEIVE FROM SAS, UM, INTEREST EARNINGS, UM, THE RIVER BARGE FEE, UH, E M SS TRANSPORTS FEES.
SO ALL THE OTHER CATS AND DOGS OUT THERE, BUT DID YOU FIGURE IN THE FRANCHISE FEES AND TABLE FEES INTO THIS? WE DID.
SO OUR, SO THAT COULD BE A, A REDUCTION THERE
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OR IF, IF THE LEGISLATURE DOES NOT PASS IT, RIGHT? YES.WE WOULD, UM, ADD, WE WOULD ADD IT BACK.
AGAIN, I'M, I'M GONNA BE PUSHING THIS, BUT, UM, THIS SLIDE SHOWS, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED EARLIER THAT IT'S NOT A DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR THE EXEMPTION, IT'S A PERCENTAGE, BUT WE'RE SHOWING THAT $5,000 EXEMPTION THERE VERSUS THE PERCENTAGE.
WHY, WHY ARE WE SHOWING ON SLIDE 47 THE DOLLAR AMOUNT AND NOT THE PERCENTAGE OF 5%? YOU'RE SHOWING THE 5,000, BUT WHY, WHY SHOW THE 5,000 ON THERE? WHY WASN'T IT THE 5%? IT, IT COUNSELMAN THAT'S NOT A 5%, UH, HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.
THIS IS THE DOLLAR IMPACT TO THE GENERAL FUND OF A $5,000 HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.
RIGHT? SO UNDER 5,000, NOT 5%.
SO GO BACK TO THAT OTHER SLIDE IF YOU WOULD PLEASE.
BUT WHY AREN'T WE SHOWING THE 5% ON THIS SLIDE, THE 5% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION? WE, WE JUST ASSUME FOR PURPOSES OF THE FORECAST, WE ASSUME THAT WE WOULD BE POTENTIALLY DOING THE MINIMUM AMOUNT, THE $5,000 AMOUNT UNDER STATE LAW.
YEAH, WE, WE JUST, WE TOOK ONE OF THE EXAMPLES THEN THAT, UH, THIS SLIDE RIGHT HERE AND INCLUDED IT TO HAVE THAT POLICY LEVEL DISCUSSION WITH THE COUNCIL.
SO YOU COULD TAKE EITHER ONE OF THESE OPTIONS AND PUT IT INTO THAT POLICY.
I, IT'S JUST THE OPTIC, IT MAKES IT LOOK LIKE, OKAY, WE SELECTED THE $5,000, WE HAVE NOT SELECTED THE $5,000.
NO, IT COULD BE THE 5% 10 ON A, YOU, YOU, YOU GUYS SELECT THE OPTIONS.
RIGHT? WE'RE JUST, WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE INTRODUCING THE POLICY ISSUES RIGHT ON, ON HERE.
BUT YOU COULD, WE COULD MIX AND MATCH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVES.
I WAS JUST WONDERING WHO, WHO PICKED THE 5,000 VERSUS THE 5% OR 10, RIGHT.
AND, UH, LISTENING TO THAT, BEN, WHEN, UH, YOU WERE EXPLAINING THAT WITH COUNCILMAN COURAGE, I, I, I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN COURAGE.
WE'RE, UH, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE CONSTRAINING OURSELVES A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH, BEING TOO CONSERVATIVE.
I, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, BUT I THINK THAT'S WORTH TAKING ANOTHER LOOK AT INSTEAD OF THE ONE, ONE AND A HALF PERCENT.
UH, LET'S, LET'S TAKE, LET'S, I DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH BUMPING THAT UP A LITTLE.
IF YOU TAKE THE AVERAGE OVER THE LAST, SINCE 2016, IT'S BEEN WELL OVER 1.5%, UH, EVEN 15 1 1 0.7%.
IT'S BACK TO 2014 THAT WE HAD ONE POINT HALF PERCENT.
SO LET ME CLARIFY, UM, ON THIS SLIDE, AND I APOLOGIZE, COUNCILMAN CUR WHEN I WAS ANSWERING THE QUESTION.
UM, WHEN WE HAVE NEW ON HERE, THIS DOES INCLUDE ANNEXATIONS AS WELL.
SO FOR AN EXAMPLE, IN 18 AND 19, THERE WERE SOME SMALL ANNEXATIONS DONE, JUST NEW IMPROVEMENTS COMING ON.
THE TAX ROLL FOR 2018 IS 2.1%, INSTEAD OF 3% FOR 2019, THE CURRENT YEAR, IT'S 1.8% VERSUS THE 2.2%.
AND THEN GOING FORWARD IN THE FORECAST, WE'RE NOT ASSUMING ANY ANNEXATIONS.
SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE, THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WE'RE MORE THAN 1.8 TO 2% RANGE.
UM, SO THAT'S WHY WE LEFT AT 1.5%.
AND THEN AGAIN, BECAUSE WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE FORECAST AS WE HAVE POLICY CONVERSATION WITH YOU ALL, WE'RE TYPICALLY TALKING ABOUT ADDING IN RECURRING EXPENSES VERSUS ONE TIME LIKE C P S WHEN IT COMES IN OVER, SOMETIMES THAT GOES INTO ONE TIME.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MANAGE THE BASE HERE TO ENSURE WE DON'T ADD TOO MUCH FROM A RECURRING STANDPOINT AND NOT BE ABLE TO ADJUST WHEN ECONOMIC CONDITIONS CHANGE.
UM, SLIDE 44, AND I TALKED ABOUT THIS ALREADY, ABOUT 110 MILLION FOR STREET MAINTENANCE, WHICH IS GREAT.
AGAIN, I'M NOT, I'M NOT SUPPORTIVE OF THE TAKING, UH, NINE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS OUT OF OUR GENERAL FUND FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
I JUST WANNA PUT THAT OUT THERE AGAIN AND DIDN'T, DIDN'T VOTE FOR IT LAST TIME AND STILL NOT SUPPORTING THAT PORTION.
UM, BUT FOR THE STREET MAINTENANCE, ABSOLUTELY.
AND WE'RE, WE'RE NOT, ARE WE ADDING ANYTHING TO
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THE GENERAL FUND BALANCE THAT 15%? OR IS THAT STAYING, WE'RE NOT ADDING ANYTHING TO IT.THIS, THIS YEAR WE'RE STAYING AT 15%, SO IT'S MAYBE, WEREN'T WE A LITTLE BIT OVER 15%? 15.2%? WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE AND HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? WHAT'S THE DELTA BETWEEN 15%? IT'S 15, WE'RE AT 15.2%.
AND WHAT IS THAT 0.2%? UH, IT'S ABOUT TWO, ROUGHLY.
UM, FLY SLIDE, UH, 46 COUNCIL.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE ON THAT ASSUMPTION, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MAINTAINING THAT MINIMUM BALANCE AT 15%, SO WHILE, LIKE THIS YEAR WE'RE COMING IN, WE'RE I SUBMITTED 15.2, ANYTHING ABOVE THE 15 WE ROLL BACK INTO THE FORECAST.
SO WE'RE USING THAT AND THEN WE'RE HOLDING 15% FOR THE REST OF THE FORECAST.
SO THAT, I'LL MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S CLEAR THAT WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO BUILD THE RESERVE ABOVE 15%.
IT MAY COME IN OVER 15% BECAUSE OF THE MODEL A CONSERVATIVE REVENUE PROJECTION.
BUT ONCE IT DOES, WE PUT IT RIGHT BACK INTO PRODUCTION.
BUT IF WE DO, AGAIN, IT, UH, EITHER THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS OR MID-YEAR, WE'RE PUTTING THAT MONEY BACK INTO PRODUCTION.
OUR GOAL IS TO MAINTAIN A MINIMUM OF 15%.
AND WHAT IS THAT? WHAT DID YOU SAY OUR CARRYOVER IS FROM PROJECTED CARRYOVER FROM THIS YEAR TO NEXT YEAR? UH, IT'S THE 0.2%.
NO, NO, NO, NOT FROM THE OH, THE $14 MILLION.
UM, SO SLIDE 46, AND THAT JUST CAUGHT MY EYE AND I ASKED COUNCILMAN COURAGE WE'RE WHY ARE WE SHOWING, UH, OPERATING COSTS FOR THE D NINE CEN SENIOR CENTER WHEN IT DOESN'T COME ON UNTIL 2021? SO THE FORECAST, UM, ASSUMES COST OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, COST, AND PERSONNEL WHEN THE PROJECT COMES ONLINE.
SO FOR THE D NINE, UH, SENIOR CENTER, WE ARE ASSUMING, UM, FUNDING STARTING IN 2021.
BUT THIS IS F Y 20 BUDGET, IT'S FIVE.
JUST TO CLARIFY, AND WE SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT AT THE BEGINNING.
THIS, UH, PROGRAM ASSUMPTIONS IS OVER THE FIVE YEAR FORECAST.
THAT THREW ME THERE AS TO WHY, WHY ARE WE STARTING THE CUT OUT MY SENIOR CENTER? NO, NO, NO, NO.
I FULLY SUPPORT YOUR SENIOR CENTER.
UH, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THIS ALREADY, AND I, I, I, UH, CAN APPRECIATE THE POTENTIAL FUNDING ALTERNATIVES THERE AND LOOKING HOW WE CAN SUSTAIN HAVEN FOR HOPE.
UH, BUT MELODY, IS MELODY STILL HERE? YES.
MELODY, I ASKED YOU A QUESTION AT A B SESSION ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO, OR MAYBE NOT THAT LONG, ABOUT OUR HOMELESS FUNDING HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND HOW MUCH WAS THAT FIGURE? UM, CLOSE TO $50 MILLION.
NO, I THINK I REMEMBER 88, BUT OKAY.
RIGHT? UM, DO WE HAVE AN ACCOUNTING FOR EVERY DOLLAR WHERE IT'S GOING, WHO IT'S GOING TO, WHAT, WHAT THEY'RE DOING WITH THAT MONEY AND, YOU KNOW, CAN WE MOVE THAT MONEY AROUND TO MAYBE HELP SUPPORT HAVEN MORE THAN OUTTA THIS $50 MILLION? AND I COULD HAVE SWORN YOU SAID $88 MILLION.
SO THIS IS THE FACT I WROTE THAT DOWN SOMEWHERE.
SO THE $50 MILLION THAT'S COMING INTO THE COMMUNITY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE STATE GOVERNMENT, THAT DOESN'T ALL COME TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
OKAY? SO YOU HAVE, UM, VETERANS AFFAIRS DOLLARS THAT GO STRAIGHT TO PROVIDERS, OTHER, YOU KNOW, FEDERAL HUD FUNDS THAT GO STRAIGHT TO PROVIDERS DIRECTLY.
WE CAN TELL YOU WHERE THE MONEY'S GOING, WHO'S GETTING, WHO'S BEING AWARDED, BUT NOT NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, THE DETAILS OF HOW THEY'RE SPENDING THE MONEY.
AND YOU KNOW, WHAT THE, WHAT COULD BE MOVED AROUND.
I MEAN, IT'S, WE WORK WITH THOSE AGENCIES THROUGH OUR CONTINUUM OF CARE AND CAN CERTAINLY WORK AND, AND HAVE INPUT INTO, UM, WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND HOW THEY'RE SPENDING IT.
BUT THE DOLLARS DON'T COME DIRECTLY TO US.
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AND THAT'S FINE.IT IS GOING TO ALL THESE OTHER AGENCIES.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT BREAKDOWN.
WHO'S GETTING WHAT MONEY SURE.
AND SOME OF THOSE FEDERAL DOLLARS DO GO TO HAVEN FOR HOPE AS DO THE STATE DOLLARS.
VERY SMALL PORTION, VERY SMALL PORTION, RIGHT.
UM, AND PROBABLY LESS THAN A MILLION FEDERAL.
SO WHERE'S THAT OTHER 50 OR $45 MILLION GOING? RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO, AND I THINK EVERYBODY ON THIS COUNCIL NEEDS TO BE AWARE OF WHAT'S BEING FUNDED FOR THE HOMELESS POPULATION HERE IN TOWN TODAY.
WE CAN DEFINITELY BREAK THAT DOWN AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, LET'S SIT DOWN AND DISCUSS IT.
MAYBE DISCUSS IT WITH THESE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.
HEY, YOU NEED TO CONTRIBUTE TO HAVEN ALSO BECAUSE WE'RE, IT'S SUPPORTING THEM AS WELL.
SO, UH, YEAH, I'D LIKE TO ADD THAT ONTO THIS LIST ALSO.
AS POSSIBLE FUNDING ALTERNATIVES.
WE CAN BREAK THAT DOWN AND SHOW YOU WHAT'S BEING SPENT ON SHELTER TYPE ACTIVITIES.
UM, TREATMENT ACTIVITIES, PERMANENT HOUSING, A LOT OF THOSE DOLLARS GOING TO PERMANENT HOUSING.
ALRIGHT, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT IT.
UM, AND I, AND I, I WAS GONNA ASK A QUESTION ON THE, THE, THE, UH, YOUR, THE PROPERTY TAX.
I'LL, I'LL JUST MEET WITH YOU AFTERWARDS ON THIS.
UH, WE, WE, ON PAGE 18, WE SHOWED JUST 'CAUSE I, I I HAVE TO CONTINUE TO HARP ON THIS, UH, SLIDE 18.
I MEAN, UM, WE HAVE $19 MILLION FOR SIDEWALKS, 40 MILES DO THE MATH, UH, DEPENDING ON THE WIDTH OF SIDEWALK.
AND THAT'S EITHER $30 A SQUARE FOOT OR $22 50 CENTS A SQUARE FOOT.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I WANT, I WANNA JUST STATE HOW, HOW WE CAN DO SO MUCH MORE.
I KNOW WE'RE, WE'RE ALWAYS STARTING OUR SIDEWALK REPAIR PROGRAM AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I WANT US TO, TO REALLY TAKE A CLOSER LOOK, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE PUTTING OUT THESE NUMBERS.
I MEAN, YOU, THE MATH IS THERE, UH, THANK YOU.
ON THE LARGE AREA REZONING, UH, THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE FOR DISTRICT ONE AND LOOK FORWARD TO THAT GETTING DONE.
THE, UH, THE NEW ROOF AT THE, AT THE CONVENTION CENTER.
I KNOW WE'RE, WE'RE SPENDING HALF A MILLION DOLLARS TO DO SOME DESIGN WORK.
UH, I HAVE A SMALL REQUEST AND IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP A COUPLE TIMES.
I MEAN, IT'S A LARGE AREA AND, UH, I KNOW WE TALK A LOT ABOUT WHITE ROOFS, BUT THERE'S ALSO GREEN ROOFS.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE IN THAT PHOTO, IT'S, IT'S JUST, IT'S QUITE A LARGE AREA.
YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO, AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE DE THE DESIGN, UH, MAYBE WE CAN INCLUDE, UH, THE FOLKS OVER AT HEMISPHERE ANDRESS AND AND SO FORTH TO, TO SEE WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THAT AREA THAT, THAT IS NOT JUST A, A, A BIG FLAT WHITE AREA.
MAYBE IT'S A, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT THEY CAN COMPLIMENT, UH, CIVIC PARK AND OTHER AREAS, UH, AS WELL AS NOT BE SUCH A, JUST A BIG WHITE SPOT WHERE, UH, FOLKS THAT ARE EITHER AT THE TOWER OF THE AMERICAS OR, YOU KNOW, ANYONE WHO'S ELEVATED ABOVE THREE STORIES, THAT'S, THAT'S ALL THEY'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT.
AND I MEAN, OUR CITY LOOKS QUITE AMAZING WITH THE SKYLINE AND THE RIVERWALK AND THE DIFFERENT PARKS THAT ARE BEING PUT UP.
I THINK THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY WITHIN THAT BUDGET TO JUST ASK WHOEVER IS LOOKING AT THIS, TO, TO GIVE US SOME OPTIONS ABOUT WHAT CAN WE DO IN THE FUTURE TO COMPLIMENT WHAT WE KNOW IS COMING AT HEMISPHERE PARK.
UM, AND, AND THEN JUST LASTLY, JUST WANT TO DOUBLE DOWN ON, ON THE, THE GREAT WORK.
I KNOW MARY ROSE BROWN HERE IS HERE, AND, AND KENNY WILSON.
I WANNA THANK THEM FOR THE HARD WORK AT HAVEN FOR HOPE CERTAIN SUPPORT, THE $2.4 MILLION AND HAS BEEN AS, AS HAS BEEN, UH, STATED.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT, AT SOMETHING MORE THOROUGHLY.
AND I JUST WANT TO ALSO JUST PUBLICLY THANK CASSANDRA.
SHE'S, YEAH, SHE, WE HAD LUNCH AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I I THINK IT'S, IT'S, UH, SOMETHING THAT, UH, WE ARE DISCUSSING AND THEY ARE LOOKING FOR, FOR WAYS TO, TO HELP WITH THIS SITUATION.
SO I WANNA THANK HER FOR, FOR THAT CONVERSATION AND LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, FINDING A, A, YOU KNOW, A LONG-TERM SOLUTION FOR, FOR HAVEN FOR HOPE, WHERE WE'RE ALL WORKING TOGETHER TO, TO HELP RESOLVE THAT.
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THAT'S ESSENTIAL.I'VE GOT, LIKE I SAID, I GOT OTHER QUESTIONS, BUT I, THEY'RE A LITTLE MORE DETAILED AND I'LL, I'LL DO THOSE IN, IN MY OFFICE.
SO, UM, REALLY MY ONLY QUESTION WAS REGARDING THE 500,000 FOR, UM, THE, UH, VISIT SAN ANTONIO.
'CAUSE I, I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION WE WERE NOT GONNA BE DOING THAT ANYMORE.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF, I DON'T KNOW IF CASSANDRA, YOU CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION OR THAT SHOULD, UM, THAT'S REALLY BEEN MY, UH, UH, WHAT, UM, IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WERE NOT GONNA BE FUNDING FROM THE GENERAL FUND ANYMORE, OR RATHER NOT FROM THE GENERAL FUND, BUT THE, UH, COUNSEL, I'LL START IT, AND MAYBE CASSANDRA CAN JUMP IN, BUT AS PART OF THE AGREEMENT, THE MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE WOULD VISIT SAN ANTONIO.
THEY STILL GET FUNDING FROM THE HOT FUND.
SO THE $500,000 IS NOT, UM, GENERAL FUND DOLLARS.
IT'S COMING OUTTA THE HOT FUND.
SO WHEN WE SET THE BUDGET, WE HAVE A PROJECTION OF WHAT WE THINK HOT REVENUES ARE GOING TO BE.
UH, WE'RE GIVING THEM, UH, ESSENTIALLY 35% OF THAT, UH, ALLOCATION AFTER WE BACK OUT DEBT SERVICE.
YOU THEN GO THROUGH THE YEAR AND UNDER THE CONTRACT, THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO REQUEST THE DIFFERENCE.
SO IF WE COME IN BETTER THAN THE BUDGET WAS, THEY CAN ASK FOR THE 35% OF THAT EXCESS.
THE FULL, UM, REQUEST WOULD'VE BEEN AROUND $830,000.
WE MET, WE TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT THERE'S SOME OTHER NEEDS THAT WE NEED TO FUND RELATED TO THE CONVENTION CENTER, THE ALAMO DOME, THEY REVISED THEIR REQUEST TO BE $500,000 AND THEY'VE GOT A TARGETED APPROACH IN TERMS OF HOW THEY WANNA SPEND THE MONEY.
AND, UH, SINCE I'M NOT THE MARKETING GUY, I'M NOT GONNA TRY TO EXPLAIN THAT.
I'M GONNA LET CASSANDRA DO THAT PART.
YOU CAN BE, IT'S NOT NECESSARY.
CASSANDRA, I JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THAT COMPONENT OF, UH, I SAID GENERAL FUND, I DIDN'T MEAN GENERAL FUND, I MEANT HOT TAX.
THAT'S ALL THE EXPLANATION I NEEDED FOR THAT.
UM, AND I GUESS I JUST, YOU KNOW, REGARDING HAVEN AND THE WORK THAT THEY DO, UM, I KNOW THAT, THAT, UH, I'M GLAD TO FUND THAT PORTION.
I JUST DO, UM, WANT TO REMIND MY COLLEAGUES THAT THE WHOLE CITY BENEFITS FROM HAVING HAVEN IN DISTRICT FIVE, BUT WE STILL BEAR THE BRUNT OF THE NEGATIVE SIDE AND THE DOWNSIDE THAT COMES WITH HAVING A VERY LARGE HOMELESS SHELTER, UH, IN THE MIDDLE OF A DOWNTOWN, UM, IN WHAT WAS, YOU KNOW, A PRETTY THRIVING COMMUNITY.
SO AS WE DO TALK ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY EXPENSES AND WE TALK ABOUT JUST GENERAL CLEANLINESS OF OUR COMMUNITY, IT'S REALLY DISTRICT FIVE THAT SUFFERS AS A RESULT OF THAT.
SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR PLANS, UM, TO CONSIDER, UM, EXCESS POLICE SUPPORT AND ALSO CLEANLINESS SUPPORT FOR THE AREA AROUND THERE, UM, ACTUALLY I THINK WE'VE GOTTEN QUITE A BIT OF POLICE FUNDING FOR THE AREA.
IN FACT, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, WE GOT ABOUT FOUR BICYCLE PATROLS IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.
UH, AND I THINK THEY'VE ALSO HIRED ADDITIONAL SECURITY FOR THEIR CAMPUS.
UM, BUT STILL REMAINS A PROBLEM IF YOU JUST DO A, YOU KNOW, A, A QUARTER MILE OF THE, UM, CRIME STATS AROUND THE CAMPUS, UH, IT IS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN THE REST OF THE CITY.
SO, UM, AND IT'S SORT OF AN OUTLIER.
I THINK CRIME AROUND THE CITY IS DOWN.
UH, BUT IN THAT AREA, WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE DECLINE THAT THE REST OF THE CITY HAS SEEN.
SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAVE.
COUNCILMAN P THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
UM, JUSTINA, THIS IS EXCELLENT.
UH, AND I KNOW THAT IT'S A LOT OF HARD WORK THAT YOU DID TO PREPARE THIS, UM, AND I'M, I'M REALLY IMPRESSED.
UM, AND I KNOW THAT YOU JUST SORT OF PUT THIS TOGETHER ON THE FLY AND, UH, YOU KNOW, DIDN'T PRACTICE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
UM, SO A A COUPLE OF THINGS, ERIC, I SENT YOU AN EMAIL, UM, WHILE I WAS SITTING HERE WITH JUST SOME SORT OF THOUGHTS ON DISTRICT EIGHT, UH, SIX PLUS SIX, UH, CONVERSATIONS THAT I'D LIKE TO HAVE WITH YOU AND YOUR TEAM.
SO, AND, AND I WON'T WASTE ANYBODY'S TIME HERE.
UM, WITH THAT, HOWEVER, I, I WILL, UM, ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO THINK ABOUT, UH, THE NEED FOR WHEN IT COMES TO CHIEF MCMANUS TEAM, UH, WHO I THINK IS AWESOME, CHIEF.
UH, THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IDEA OF COMMUNITY POLICING IS SO MUCH MORE THAN, YOU KNOW, HAVING POLICE OFFICERS, YOU KNOW, PHYSICALLY PRESENT IN THESE COMMUNITIES AND KNOWING, YOU KNOW, THE, OUR CONSTITUENTS, BUT IT'S ALSO THEIR ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE VIA, YOU KNOW, UH,
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EMAIL, RIGHT? AND COMMUNICATE THEIR PROGRAMS OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND ALL THAT.AND SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, JEFF, TO WHAT, I'M SORRY, ERIC, TO WHAT EXTENT, UM, YOU KNOW, JEFF QUAYLE'S GROUP, UH, YOU KNOW, AND YOU KNOW, AND AND VETO'S GROUP CAN HELP OUR SAFE OFFICERS, FOR EXAMPLE, BE ABLE TO DO VERY QUICK OUTREACH TO, UH, OUR COMMUNITY TO LET THEM KNOW ABOUT INITIATIVES, RIGHT? SO, I'LL, I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
WE, UH, OUR SAFE OFFICERS PUT TOGETHER JUST OUT OF IT WAS THEIR IDEA, PUT TOGETHER A, UM, YOU KNOW, A RETROFIT FOR PICKUP TRUCK TAILGATES, UH, FOR THESE LITTLE 30 CENT DEVICES THAT KEEP PEOPLE FROM STEALING TAILGATES.
WE HAD HUNDREDS OF SAN ANTONIO SHOW, SAN ANTONIO SHOW UP FOR THIS.
AND IT WAS A REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO MEET THEIR SAFE OFFICERS AND TO GET A LITTLE 30 CENT PIECE OF ALUMINUM INSTALLED ON THEIR, UH, ON THEIR TAILGATE.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, OUR SAFE OFFICERS DID IT BY TAKING THEIR TIME TO SORT OF PUMP IT OUT ON THEIR OWN EMAIL ADDRESSES.
AND THEN THEY RELIED ON US, ALSO MY TEAM, TO PUMP IT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
BUT IT SEEMED TO ME THAT THIS WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO INVEST IN, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR THE FUTURE IN, YOU KNOW, VEHICLES, UH, TO ACTUALLY GET THESE COMMUNICATIONS OUT MORE, MORE EFFECTIVELY, RIGHT? SO THAT SAFE CAN DO MORE, RIGHT? AND SOMETIMES COMMUNITY POLICING IS JUST COMMUNICATING, RIGHT? UH, AND SO I'D I'D LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, KICK OFF A CONVERSATION, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS PROCESS OR, YOU KNOW, FOR A FUTURE PROCESS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THAT WOULD, UH, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE AND WHAT KIND OF FUNDING WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR THAT.
UM, THE OTHER THING IS, AND, AND I KNOW THAT, UM, POOR CASSANDRA AND LISA BARCHA OVER THERE, YOU KNOW, ARE GETTING, UH, YOU KNOW, THE HEAT ON THIS, UH, HOMELESS THING.
AND, AND Y'ALL HAVE BEEN VERY GRACEFUL AND, UH, YOU KNOW, KIND TO, TO THOSE OF US WHO'VE ASKED YOU A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, BUT, UM, I, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT FOLKS REMEMBER THAT, UH, WELL, I, I WANNA POINT OUT THAT A LOT OF FOLKS DON'T REMEMBER.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEFORE WE HAD HAVEN FOR HOPE.
UM, AND I DO, AND IT WAS ONE OF THE REASONS I QUITE HONESTLY DIDN'T LIKE COMING DOWNTOWN WHEN I WAS IN LAW SCHOOL AND IN COLLEGE.
UM, YOU KNOW, REMEMBER HOW BAD IT WAS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SLEEPING IN A LOT OF DOORWAYS DOWNTOWN, IN FRONT OF PEOPLE SLEEPING IN FRONT OF HOTELS, PEOPLE SLEEPING, YOU KNOW, RIGHT AT THE DOORSTEP OF OUR CONVENTION CENTER, UM, YOU KNOW, PANHANDLER AGGRESSIVELY CHASING TOURISTS ALL OVER OUR STREETS.
UM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SLEEPING IN, UH, PARKING GARAGES AND PARKS, AND THEN WALKING THROUGH PARKING GARAGES AND DOWNTOWN PARKS AND HAVING TO SMELL URINE.
I MEAN, THEY JUST ALL SMELLED THAT WAY, RIGHT? UM, WE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS GUARANTEED THAT WHENEVER YOU WALK DOWNTOWN, YOU WOULD SEE S A P D HAVING AN INTERACTION WITH A HOMELESS PERSON, UM, BE IT, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST A FACE-TO-FACE CONTACT OR, YOU KNOW, SEEING A HOMELESS MAN OR WOMAN GETTING ARRESTED.
UH, YOU KNOW, PARTICULARLY ON HOUSTON STREET, UH, YOU, UM, AND YOU KNOW, THOSE ARRESTS HAPPENING IN THE VIEWS OF, YOU KNOW, IN, IN THE VIEW OF MILLIONS OF, OF, UH, TOURISTS WHO WALK THROUGH OUR DOWNTOWN AND ON OUR RIVER WALK.
AND, YOU KNOW, AND ON OUR WORST DAYS, I MEAN, REALLY OUR WORST DAYS, WE WOULD HAVE CADAVERS DOWNTOWN, UM, YOU KNOW, HOMELESS MEN AND WOMEN WHO WOULD DIE IN OUR PARKS AND UNDER OUR BRIDGES AND IN THE DOORWAYS OF BUSINESSES, IN FRONT OF HOTELS, IN FRONT OF OUR, UH, BECAUSE THERE WAS NOWHERE FOR THEM TO GO AND DIE.
LIKE ALL OF US WILL HAVE THE, EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY SOME KIND OF PALLIATIVE CARE OR SOME KIND OF HOSPICE CARE.
BUT BACK THEN, BEFORE HOME, BEFORE HAVEN, THERE WAS NOTHING, RIGHT? AND SO, I, I WILL TELL YOU THAT HAVEN FOR HOPE HAS TWO CUSTOMERS, IN MY OPINION.
ONE OF THEM OBVIOUSLY IS THE HOMELESS MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO, UH, DEPEND ON THOSE SERVICES.
UM, AND TWO, I I THINK THAT IT IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE THAT DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES ARE THE SECOND CUSTOMER.
UM, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO, TO ENJOY OUR DOWNTOWN, UM, AND PARTICULARLY THE, THE HOTEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY.
SO I'LL, I'LL, I'LL POINT THAT OUT, UM, BECAUSE, UH, THIS CONVERSATION JUST CAN'T STOP HERE, RIGHT? AND CASSANDRA, YOU'RE RIGHT.
I MEAN, IT CAN'T JUST BE THE TOURIST INDUSTRY THAT'S RELIED UPON TO, YOU KNOW, THROW THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND THIS.
BUT I WILL TELL YOU, YOU KNOW, SO FAR IT HASN'T BEEN THE TOURIST INDUSTRY THAT'S THROWING THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND THIS.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT AN ENERGY COMPANY ON MY DISTRICT WHO'S, YOU KNOW, FOOTED ALMOST THE ENTIRE BILL FOR THIS THING, RIGHT? AND, UH, BILL GREEHEY MAY OUTLIVE ALL OF US, BUT HE'S NOT GONNA LIVE FOREVER.
AND ONE DAY, UM, YOU KNOW, WE MAY HEAR THAT THE NEXT NEUSTAR, C E O AND CHAIRMAN MIGHT THINK THAT OTHER INITIATIVES
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ARE MORE INTERESTING THAN, UH, CONTINUING TO SPONSOR HAVEN FOR HOPE.AND WE DON'T HAVE A LONG-TERM SOLUTION FOR ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK IT'S A LOT TO ASK, UH, CASSANDRA AND LISA, UH, YOUR CONSTITUENTS, UH, TO REALLY BE THOUGHTFUL ABOUT HOW IN 2019 THEIR LIVES ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THEY WERE BEFORE HAVEN FOR HOPE WAS HERE.
AND SO, UM, NOT, I MEAN, I KNOW I'M, I'M TRYING, I'M, I'M BEING OVERLY DRAMATIC HERE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CA MENTION OF CADAVERS AND ALL THAT, BUT THAT'S REALLY SOMETHING THAT WE USED TO HAVE TO EXPERIENCE.
SO I'M GONNA END IT BY TELLING YOU THAT I, I BELIEVE YOU, UH, WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS ARE TAKING VERY SERIOUS, I BELIEVE THAT, UM, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU GUYS.
UM, AND AGAIN, I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE BATTERED WOMEN AND CHILDREN SHELTER IS ALSO BY DEFINITION A, A HOMELESS, UH, FACILITY AS WELL, UH, ALONG WITH, YOU KNOW, THE CHILDREN'S SHELTERS THAT WE'VE GOT AROUND TOWN.
AND SO, UM, I, I THINK THERE'S LOTS OF DIFFERENT CREATIVE WAYS THAT WE CAN ALL WORK TOGETHER ON, ON FIGURING OUT A WAY TO GET, YOU KNOW, THE TOURISM INDUSTRY, UM, YOU KNOW, BEHIND THIS AND EVERYBODY ELSE WHO IS ALSO A CUSTOMER AND BENEFICIARY OF, OF THE HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS, UH, THAT HAVEN FOR HOPE AND THE OTHER SHELTERS OFFER.
UM, AND PARTICULARLY, YOU KNOW, OUR FRIENDS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AT CENTRO, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY NEED TO BE, UH, HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH US ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THROWING THEIR WEIGHT AND THEIR RESOURCES BEHIND, UH, THESE SOLUTIONS.
SO, UH, WITH THAT, UH, JUSTINE, I CAN'T, I CAN'T TELL YOU ENOUGH HOW IMPRESSED I AM.
UH, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UH, QUICK QUESTION, WHAT, WHAT, UH, WHAT'S THE OVERTIME DOLLARS, UH, IT'S BEING SPENT OUT OF SS A P D? SO THE BUDGET IS JUST OVER $19 MILLION, $19 MILLION OF OVERTIME IS WHAT'S SPENT.
SO WHEN I, WHEN I LOOK AT THAT NUMBER, UM, I THINK ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER POLICE OFFICER.
THAT WAS WHAT THE, YOU MENTIONED A LITTLE EARLIER, UM, THAT INDICATES TO ME THAT WE'RE, WE HAVE STAFFING ISSUES.
IF WE HAVE THAT LEVEL OF OVERTIME, THAT MEANS WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OFFICERS TO COVER ISSUES IN OUR COMMUNITY.
IF YOU TAKE THAT A HUNDRED THOUSAND, YOU DIVIDE IT INTO THE 19 MILLION, YOU GET 190 POLICE OFFICERS.
SO THE QUESTION HAS TO GO A LITTLE DEEPER THAN JUST THE BOARD SAYS IT'S 45, ERIC.
THE TRUTH IS, WE'RE SPENDING $19 MILLION IN OVERTIME EVERY YEAR, OR AVERAGE THEREABOUT.
SO THAT'S INDICATIVE OF A SEVERE SHORTAGE IF IT'S REQUIRING US TO SPEND THAT TYPE OF OVERTIME DOLLARS.
SO A FACT ON THE BOARD THAT CAN SAY WE'RE UNDERSTAFFED, I GET IT.
AND, AND YOU GOT A PLAN TO GET IT DONE, AND I APPRECIATE IT.
AND, AND, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO EXAMINE, YOU KNOW, THE MORALITY OFFICER AND WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON WITH THAT.
AND THAT TYPE OF DOLLAR IS BEING SPENT IN ANY ORGANIZATION, ANY BUSINESS, ANYWHERE.
IF YOU HAVE THAT TYPE OF OVERTIME AND IT'S THAT CONSISTENT, 'CAUSE IT HAS BEEN CONSISTENTLY, I THINK NORTH OF 15 MILLION FOR THREE TO FIVE YEARS, THAT MEANS THERE IS A CONSISTENT, SERIOUS UNDERSTAFFING OF THE DEPARTMENT THAT'S NOT REFLECTED IN THE PRESENTATION.
WHAT'S YOUR THOUGHT ON THAT, ERIC? WELL, I THINK, UH, THE 19 MILLION IS TOTAL BUDGET, RIGHT? SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF BREAKOUTS AND COMPONENTS OF OVERTIME.
WHY DON'T WE PROVIDE THAT? BECAUSE OVERTIME CAN BE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
AND I THINK WHAT YOU'RE, UM, WHAT YOU MAY BE TARGETING IS THE, UM, THINGS LIKE DISTRICT BACKFILL OVER TIME.
UM, 19 IS THE TOTAL DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET, WHICH WOULD ENCOMPASS ALL KINDS OF OTHER AREAS.
SO, WELL, WE JUST GOTTA GET, I MEAN, YEAH, WE CAN PROVIDE THAT BREAKOUT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, WE'RE 45 OFFICERS SHORT, I WOULD ASSUME IT WOULD BE SOMEWHERE IN THE $4.5 MILLION RANGE THEN FOR POLICE OFFICERS, WHETHER IT'S BACKFILL OR SOMEBODY TRYING TO GET A VACATION OR WHAT, WHATEVER THE SITUATION IS, THAT'S A CONCERN FOR ME.
'CAUSE THE REALITY IS TOO, WE'RE ARGUING, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S MY BELIEF, AS I SAID, THE LAST TWO BUDGET CYCLES THAT WE ARE ARGUING OVER A, AN ALLOTTED AMOUNT OF OFFICERS THAT FRANKLY IS NOT ENOUGH OFFICERS.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE CONTINUING TO TALK ABOUT 24 47, AND I'M WILLING TO BET WE PROBABLY NEED FAR MORE THAN 24, 47 AUTHORIZED POSITIONS, BUT WE HAVEN'T REALLY, YOU KNOW, EXAMINED THAT TOO FAR.
I THINK WE DID SOME SORT OF OFFICE OF INNOVATION STUDY LAST LAST YEAR.
THAT'S THE ONE I WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER.
SO WE'VE, WE'VE KIND OF GOTTEN AROUND THAT DISCUSSION A LITTLE BIT AND TALKED ABOUT IT ALREADY, BUT IT'S A WORTHY CONVERSATION, UM, GOING FORWARD TO HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE REAL STAFFING NUMBERS TO CONTINUE TO PUSH AROUND THAT ISSUE.
I, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT, AND, AND WE CAN DO THIS IN BETWEEN NOW AND THE 21ST, UH, JUNE 21ST, WE'RE PREPARE FOR THE 21ST, BUT THAT WE BREAK DOWN BECAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S SOME TYPE OF OVERTIME THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN ANY ANYWAY, WE'LL NEVER ELIMINATE OVERTIME.
AND, AND FRANKLY, TO A CERTAIN DEGREE IN CERTAIN OPERATIONAL CASES, AND THIS ISN'T JUST TRUE OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, IT'S PROBABLY IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT AREAS, IT'S MORE EFFICIENT TO USE OVERTIME.
WHAT YOU HIT UPON THERE IS THE BALANCE BETWEEN,
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UM, OVERTAXING ANY TYPE OF EMPLOYEE.UM, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE COULD LOOK AT IS PROVIDING THAT BREAKOUT AND PREPARING THAT FOR THE CONVERSATION WITH THE COUNCIL.
I MEAN, TAKING OVERTIME FLEXIBILITY AND ROLLING IT INTO PERMANENT EXPENSES IS ALWAYS AN OPTION.
UM, WELL IF IT BECOMES THAT HAS CERTAIN OPERATIONAL IMPACTS, IF IT BECOMES A CONSISTENTLY STEADY OVERTIME VALUE, THEN IT WOULD BE INDICATIVE IT WAS A, IF IT WAS A SPIKE BECAUSE OF CERTAIN ISSUES OR YEAH.
UH, SOME EVENT THAT MAY HAVE OCCURRED IN THE CITY THAT REQUIRED ADDITIONAL OVERTIME HOURS.
BUT IT'S NOT LIKE OVERTIME HOURS.
IF YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE WORKING AT U P S AND IT'S A, IT'S A BIG SEASON.
YOU BRING A LOT OF OVERTIME HOURS AND THESE ARE POLICE OFFICERS AND THAT MORALE ISSUES, THAT CONSISTENT OVERTAXING OF THE OFFICER, UM, IS A POTENTIAL ISSUE.
I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE THERE, BUT THAT BALANCE, RIGHT? YOU RUN SOME OVERTIME 'CAUSE IT MAKES SENSE.
BUT AT WHAT POINT IS THE OVERTIME MORALE ISSUE IN THE MOST CRITICAL ROLE, RIGHT? WHICH IS THE POLICE OFFICER ON THE STREET.
AND FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS WE'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE BUDGET OFFICE, UH, AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAVE BEEN KIND OF REBALANCING JUST TO CHECK AND SEE ON AVERAGE HOW THE, THE AVERAGE PATROL OFFICER, NOT TO SAY OFFICERS OR ANYBODY ELSE, THE AVERAGE PATROL OFFICER, UM, DO YOU HAVE, WHAT TYPE OF BACKFILL OVERTIME HAVE THEY HAD ACCESS TO, UM, OR THAT THEY VOLUNTEERED.
SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, UH, THAT WE'VE BEEN CHECKING ANNUALLY, AT LEAST FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT THE, THAT THE POSITION WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW THAT, THAT WE HAVE FOUND OURSELVES IN, THAT WE'RE, UH, EVERY YEAR MAKING PROGRESS.
THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO WE HELD VACANCIES, WE HELD ACADEMY CLASSES AND WE DID THAT FOR A REASON AT THE TIME THE COUNCIL BOUGHT OFF ON IT, IT WAS PART OF A BIGGER ISSUE THAT WAS GOING ON AT THE TIME.
UM, AND, AND WE ARE STILL CLAWING OUR WAY OUT OF IT.
WE ARE A LOT BETTER OFF TODAY THAN WE WERE, UH, THIS TIME LAST YEAR IN THE FORECAST.
COUNCILMAN, UH, PERRY, I THINK GRILLED THE CHIEF AND I AT LAST YEAR'S WORK SESSION AND THE PRIORITY THAT WE CAME OUT OF THE BUDGET AND THIS YEAR WAS FORGET ABOUT, UH, ORDERING ANOTHER PLATE OF FOOD, FINISH WHAT YOU GOT ON YOUR PLATE AND FILL YOUR VACANCIES.
AND SO THAT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN PRETTY AGGRESSIVE.
BUT YOUR POINT I THINK IS WORTH A DEEPER DIVE AND PROBABLY LOOKING AT, AT THE TOTAL OVER THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF OVERTIME.
'CAUSE SOME OF IT IS ALWAYS GONNA BE THERE.
WE'LL, WE'LL WANT IT THERE, WE'LL WANT THAT OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY, JUST LIKE WE'LL WANT IT IN DAVID MCC CAREY'S OFFICE OR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
UM, THERE'S THAT DISTRICT OVERTIME OR DISTRICT BACKFILL OVERTIME.
I THINK MAYBE WE OUGHT TO LOOK AT THAT ENGAGE AND WE CAN SHOW THE COUNCIL KIND OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN FOR THE LAST TWO, THE LAST THREE YEARS BECAUSE THAT, THAT'S WHEN WE REALLY STARTED PAYING ATTENTION.
THAT ELEMENT MAKES, THAT MAKES SENSE.
I APPRECIATE THE, THE DEEPER INFORMATION INTO IT.
UH, SUPPORTIVE OF HAVEN FOR HOPE.
I, I'M ALWAYS SUPPORTIVE OF THE, THE HOMELESS, UH, SITUATION.
UM, SO I, I, I WANT TO CONTINUE TO LOOK INTO THAT AND SEE WHERE THOSE DOLLARS CAN BE SPENT THAT TO THE 2.4 MILLION I'M GONNA BE LOOKING TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT'S SPENT THE RIGHT TIME, OBVIOUSLY.
AND, AND THE COLA, THE COST OF LIVING ALLOWANCE, UH, SUPER SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.
I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE MORE THAN 1% LAST BUDGET CYCLE, COUNCILWOMAN GRO AND I BROUGHT UP THE COLA AND WE SAID THAT THE 1% WAS, WAS A PROBLEM.
UM, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A, WHO ARE CAPPED OUT, WHO HAVE 18, 19, 20 PLUS YEARS ON THE JOB AND THE BEST THEY'RE LIVING ON IS 1%.
UM, AND THE COUNCILMAN, YOU KNOW, WAS WAS WAS PUSHING THAT LAST YEAR AS WELL.
WE CAME UP A LITTLE BIT SHORT ON GETTING IT IN AT THE END, BUT I'M GLAD THE DECISION THIS YEAR IS AT THE BEGINNING.
'CAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WAS BROUGHT UP TOWARDS THE END OF THE PROCESS.
SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT UP UPFRONT.
I THINK THAT THE COLA IS A WORTHY ANSWER AND IT HAS BEEN, UH, YOU KNOW, A SERIOUS ISSUE.
I THINK FOR SOME, AT LEAST FOR SOME FOLKS, ESPECIALLY THOSE CAPPED.
UM, AND THEN WE NEED TO KIND OF JUST LOOK AT THAT.
SO I THINK ONE PERCENT'S NOT ENOUGH.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THOSE CORE ISSUES IS TAKING CARE OF THE EXISTING CITY STAFF AND I THINK THEY DESERVE THE MONEY.
SO I'D LIKE TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN TOO.
BUT I APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENTATION AS ALWAYS.
UH, ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO, UH, ASK ABOUT, AND YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE UH, PUT 110 MILLION INTO STREETS IN 20 17, 18 AND 110 MILLION INTO STREETS AGAIN FOR 2018.
WE'RE LOOKING AT 110 MILLION AGAIN INTO STREETS FOR 20 19, 20 20.
I'M WONDERING HOW MUCH HAS ACTUALLY BEEN SPENT.
I MEAN, ARE WE, ARE WE PUTTING SO MUCH OUT THERE THAT WE'RE NOT ABLE TO KEEP UP? ARE SOME OF THESE PROJECTS THAT WE FORECASTED IN 27 18, ARE THEY CARRYING OVER INTO 19 AND 20, UH, ADDING ANOTHER 110? DO WE PUT OURSELVES FURTHER BEHIND AND SAY IT'S GOING TO TAKE THREE YEARS TO SPEND THAT MONEY BECAUSE OF SO MUCH WE'RE DOING? SO I, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT BETTER BECAUSE MAYBE WHAT WE NEED TO SAY IS THIS YEAR WE NEED TO CUT THAT DOWN, UH, TO A HUNDRED OR OR 90 BECAUSE WE CAN'T SIMPLY SPEND THAT MUCH.
WE CAN'T PRODUCE THAT MUCH STREET
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WORK IN A YEAR OR TWO OR THREE.I COULD BE WRONG, MAYBE WE CAN, BUT I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO SEE THAT AND UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE BEING EFFECTIVE WITH THIS MONEY AND NOT PUSHING THINGS OFF BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON.
WE'RE NOT JUST DOING STREETS, WE'RE DOING SIDEWALKS AND WE'RE DOING MAJOR PROJECTS THAT COME UP AND THERE AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S DRAINAGE AND THERE'S ALL, ALL KINDS OF OTHER ISSUES THAT T C I HAS TO HANDLE.
AND, UH, AND I, I'M AFRAID THE QUALITY OF SOME OF THAT WORK THAT I'VE BEEN HEARING SOME FROM SOME PEOPLE, UH, IS, IS NOT AS GOOD SOMETIMES.
AND MAYBE THAT'S BECAUSE WE'RE HIRING MORE AND MORE TEAMS TO GET THE JOB DONE AND SOMETIMES THOSE TEAMS LET US DOWN BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT MORE AND MORE WORK TO BE DONE.
SO I'D REALLY LIKE TO SEE US LOOK AT, UH, WHAT WE'VE GOTTEN DONE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS WITH STREETS WITH 110 MILLION EACH.
WHAT WE THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO IF WE PUT ANOTHER 110 MILLION OUT, CAN WE DO IT IN 2020 OR IS GONNA, A LOT OF IT GONNA BE IN 2021 OR 2022.
AND THE SAME THING WITH THE SIDEWALKS.
UH, LET'S, LET'S NOT JUST PUT MONEY OUT THERE IF IT'S GONNA TAKE US YEARS TO ACTUALLY GET THE WORK DONE, UH, WHEN THAT MONEY MIGHT BE BETTER PLACED IN THE NEXT BUDGET FOR THAT PERIOD OF TIME.
UH, AND I'M, I'M NOT TRYING TO DENY THAT WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF STREET WORK WE'VE GOTTA DO, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE BEING EFFICIENT IN THAT.
THE OTHER THING IS, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT, UH, SOMETHING THAT CAME OUT IN THE, UM, THE HOUSING, UH, TASK FORCE, WHICH WAS AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADMINISTRATOR.
THIS WAS SOMETHING THEY ASKED FOR.
AND HERE WE ARE A YEAR LATER AND WE'RE NOT SEEING ANY ACTION ON TRYING TO FIND SOMEBODY WHO CAN BRING TOGETHER ALL OF THE DIFFERENT PIECES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
THEY'RE NOT ALL IN, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING.
THEY'RE IN A LOT OF OTHER AREAS, JUST LIKE UNDER ONE ROOFER OR OTHERS.
UH, AND I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO, UH, ADD THAT ADMINISTRATOR TO BRING ALL THOSE TOGETHER AND TO MAKE SURE ALL THOSE PIECES ARE GETTING DONE.
SO, UH, ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THOSE.
GREAT, THANK YOU COUNCILMAN COURAGE.
UM, ALRIGHT, THAT'S ALL WE HAVE ON OUR MAIN AGENDA TODAY FOR THE B SESSION.
WE DO HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION, HOWEVER, THE TIME IS NOW 4:57 PM ON THIS EIGHTH DAY OF MAY, 2019 PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY GRANTED BY CHAPTER 5 5, 1 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE V T C S, THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT CITY COUNCIL WILL NOW RECESS INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 8 7, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PURCHASE EXCHANGE, LEASE, OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.072 REAL PROPERTY LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071.
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