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WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL BEAST SESSION OF MAY THE 15TH, 2019. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER HALL HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SALANA. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER BROCK HOUSE COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ELIAS. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY HERE. 
          AND MAYOR NURENBERG HERE. 
          MAYOR, WE DO HAVE A QUORUM. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. 
          WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL B SESSION AGENDA. 
          THE TIME IS 2:08 PM UH, BEFORE WE BEGIN, I'D LIKE TO TURN THE FLOOR TO JUAN ANTONIO, WHO IS, HAS SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT OUR VENUE. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE. 
          WE'RE REALLY HAPPY TO HAVE SUCH A GREAT ROBUST ATTENDANCE. 
          WE DO HAVE OVERFLOW SPACE, UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU STANDING, UH, IN OUR, UH, MARKETING CONFERENCE ROOM, WHICH IS THE ROOM, JUST, UH, TO TO, TO OUR RIGHT, TO MY RIGHT, RATHER. 
          UH, AND THEN WE HAVE ADDITIONAL OVERFLOW, UH, SPACE, UM, IN THE LOUNGE, UH, BEHIND US. 
          UM, STAFF, ANYONE WEARING A PORT SAN ANTONIO BADGE CAN, CAN DIRECT YOU. 
          THERE ARE BATHROOMS, UH, DOWN THIS HALLWAY TO THE LEFT, UH, FOR YOUR USE. 
          AND, UM, THANK YOU, UH, FOR THIS, YOU KNOW, REALLY ROBUST, UH, TURNOUT. 
          WE DID OUR BEST TO, TO PROVIDE, UH, YOU KNOW, SEATING ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ALL OF THE CITIZENS. 
          AND, AND WE HOPE THAT WE CAN ACCOMMODATE EVERYBODY, UH, UH, SUFFICIENTLY. 
          UH, DON'T HESITATE TO ASK ME OR ANY OF THE REST OF THE PORT STAFF FOR ANY HELP THAT YOU, THAT YOU NEED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU JUAN. 
          ANTONIO, WE HAVE THREE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA TODAY. 
          WE'RE GONNA CHANGE THE ORDER JUST SLIGHTLY AND TAKE CANVASSING FIRST, FOLLOWED BY OUR PORT BRIEFING BECAUSE WE DO HAVE EXECUTIVES HERE WHO ACTUALLY HAVE WORK TO DO. 
          UH, SO I'LL TURN IT OVER NOW TO OUR CITY MANAGER. 
          JUST, UH, ONE ADDITIONAL DETAIL, UH, MAYOR. 
          AND FOR THE, UH, FOLKS THAT ARE HERE TODAY, WE DO HAVE INTERPRETATION SERVICES THAT ARE AVAILABLE RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR, UH, FOR ANYBODY THAT MAY NEED ASSISTANCE, UH, FOR THE MEETING TODAY. 
          THANKS. 
          ALL RIGHT, ERIC, IF YOU WANNA GO AHEAD AND KICK US OFF OR IS THAT, UH, LETICIA WITH ITEM NUMBER ONE, WHICH IS THE UH, CANVASSING? YES SIR. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          SO WE HAD AN ELECTION MAY 4TH AND THIS IS THE CANVASSING REPORT FOR THAT PARTICULAR ELECTION. 
          IT'S NOT WORKING, IS IT NOT? WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND START THE VOTER DATA THAT WE'VE PLACED BEFORE. 
          YOU INDICATES THE TOTAL VOTES CAST INCLUDING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS AND OVERSEAS BALLOTS THAT TOTALS TO 1 0 1 8 66 REGISTERED VOTERS FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          AS OF APRIL THE 12TH, 2019 WAS 780 2054 VOTERS. 
          THE TURNOUT THEREFORE IS 13.03%. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THE CANVASSING REPORT FOR PLACE 11, WHICH IS THE MAYOR'S PLACE, JOHN VELASQUEZ, 1,644 VOTES, RON NURENBERG, 40 49,579 VOTES, MATT FINA 762 VOTES, MICHAEL COMMANDER IGO 434 VOTES, GREG BROCK HOUSE 46,414 VOTES, TIM ATWOOD 1026 VOTES, CARLOS GUANELLA 330 VOTES, BERT CONE 573 VOTES. 
          AND ANTONIO TONY THEAS 1,104 VOTES FOR GRAND TOTAL OF 101,866 VOTES. 
          WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND GO ON TO PLACE ONE, WHICH IS DISTRICT ONE, ALAN DENNIS IN REGI 101 VOTES, RAYMOND SAVALA 475 VOTES OSCAR MAGANA 164 VOTES, BRAD KESSLER 567 VOTES, JUSTIN 
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HOLLY, 1,690 VOTES, COLTON UNIN 135 VOTES, LAO BUSANTE 396 VOTES, ROBERTO CINO, 5,754 VOTES, RICHARD GONZALEZ, 366 VOTES FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 9,648 VOTES PLACE TWO, WHICH IS DISTRICT TWO, JOSEPH POWELL, 259 VOTES, JADA L ANDREW SULLIVAN 1,160 VOTES, RICHARD ANTHONY RAMEY, 133 VOTES, KEITH A TONY 1,457 VOTES, SELENA SANAS GIBO 473 VOTES, DENISE GUTIERREZ HOMER 1100 VOTES. 
          AND I DID WANNA MENTION YESTERDAY WE HAD THE RECOUNT FOR DISTRICT TWO THAT MS. GUTIERREZ HOMER BROUGHT FORWARD AND THE COMPLETION, UH, AFTER ALL THE RECOUNT WAS SAID AND DONE, DID NOT CHANGE. 
          UH, THE NUMBERS. 
          WALTER E. PERRY, SENIOR 554 VOTES, RUBEN AGA 278 VOTES FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 5,414 VOTES. 
          MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACED THREE, WHICH IS DISTRICT THREE, REBECCA VRAN 4,255 VOTES, ELIZABETH LIZ CAMPOS, 3058 VOTES FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 7,313 VOTES. 
          MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACED FOUR, WHICH IS DISTRICT FOUR, JOHNNY ARRADONDO 1011 VOTES. 
          SAMANTHA SAMMY SANCHEZ WITH 779 VOTES. 
          GENEVIEVE ADE 324 VOTES, ADRIANA ROCHA GARCIA 2,248 VOTES, JOEL MENDOZA 384 VOTES FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 47 46 VOTES PLACE FIVE, WHICH IS DISTRICT FIVE, ANTHONY GRASS, 1,338 VOTES NAZARETH RUBEN FLO SPES 193 VOTES, SHIRLEY GONZALEZ, 3,295 VOTES JOMA DAVILA 192 VOTES FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 5,018 VOTES PLACE SIX, WHICH IS DISTRICT SIX, MARIO ADAME 540. 
          UH, 552 VOTES. 
          MELISSA VEO HDA 4,415 VOTES, ANDY GREEN, 3,299 VOTES, ROBERT RETA 1,129 VOTES FOR FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 9,395 VOTES. 
          DISTRICT SEVEN, WHICH IS MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACE. 
          SEVEN WILL MCLEOD 1053 VOTES. 
          TREVOR WHITNEY, 2,339 VOTES, ANNA SANDOVAL, 8,483 VOTES, KIMBERLY GRANT, 547 VOTES FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 12,422 VOTES. 
          MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACE EIGHT, WHICH IS DISTRICT EIGHT, MANNY ELIAS, 7,364 VOTES, TONY VALDIVIA 3,717 VOTES, FRANKIE GONZALEZ WOLFF 1,538 VOTES FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 12,619. 
          VOTES. 
          MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACED NINE, WHICH IS DISTRICT NINE, NICHOLAS RAS 862 VOTES, JOHN COURAGE, 9,503 VOTES, RICHARD ZA VERSACE 173 VOTES PATRICK VAN DOLAN, 7,220 VOTES FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 17,758. 
          VOTES. 
          NUMBER OF COUNCIL PLACED 10 CLAYTON PERRY 8,562 VOTES, ELISE KEEBLER, 986 VOTES NETTE KING, 2,323 VOTES, MARIA PEREZ, 856 VOTES, LINDA MONTANO 702 VOTES FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF 13,429 VOTES. 
          SO IT IS HEREBY DECLARED THAT IS A RESULT OF SET ELECTION. 
          THE FOLLOWING PERSONS ARE ELECTED TO A TWO YEAR TERM OF OFFICE COMMENCING JUNE 1ST, 2019. 
          REBECCA, SEAT VINNO, MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACE NUMBER ONE, REBECCA VRAN, MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACE NUMBER THREE, SHIRLEY GONZALEZ, MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACE NUMBER FIVE, ANA SANDOVAL, MEMBER OF 
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COUNCIL PLACE. 
          NUMBER SEVEN, MANNY ELIAS, MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACE NUMBER EIGHT, JOHN COURAGE, MEMBER OF COUNSEL, PLACE NUMBER NINE. 
          AND CLAYTON PERRY, MEMBER OF COUNCIL PLACE NUMBER 10, CONGRATULATIONS. 
          SO THE RUNOFF ELECTION WILL CONTINUE. 
          IT IS SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, JUNE THE EIGHTH, 2019 FROM 7:00 AM TO 7:00 PM THAT IS IF YOU VOTE ON ELECTION DAY FOR THE POSITIONS OF MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          DISTRICTS, TWO, FOUR, AND SIX CITY RESIDENTS REGISTERED BY MAY 8TH ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN THE RUNOFF ELECTION. 
          QUALIFIED VOTERS WHO DID NOT VOTE IN THE MAY 4TH ELECTION CAN VOTE IN THE RUNOFF ELECTION. 
          THERE ARE 25 EARLY VOTING SITES AND 218 ELECTION DAY POLLING SITES THAT WILL BE UTILIZED FOR THE RUNOFF ELECTION. 
          THE RUNOFF ELECTION IS ESTIMATED TO COST $840,000. 
          FUNDING IS ALLOCATED UNDER THE 2019 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS FUND. 
          AND RIGHT HERE YOU SEE THE EARLY VOTING SITES THAT WILL BE, UH, OPEN AS OF MAY 28TH THROUGH JUNE 4TH. 
          PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL POLLS WILL BE CLOSED ON SUNDAY, JUNE 2ND. 
          LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE NEXT STEPS ARE FOR MAY 29TH, WEDNESDAY AT 5:30 PM IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, THE CEREMONIAL PRESENTATIONS OF THE CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION ADMINISTRATION OF OATH OF OFFICE STATEMENT OF APPOINTED OR ELECTED OFFICER TO THE 20 19 20 21. 
          COUNSEL WILL BE ADMINISTERED ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19TH, 2019. 
          WE WILL HAVE AT 2:00 PM THE CANVAS FOR THE RUNOFF ELECTION AND THE PRESENTATION OF THOSE CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION, THE OATHS OF OFFICE, AND OF COURSE THE APPRECIATION PLAQUES FOR THE OUTGOING COUNCIL. 
          THE NEWLY ELECTED OFFICIALS IMMEDIATELY WILL TAKE OFFICE. 
          THE DRAWING FOR A MAYOR PROM TERMS WILL FOLLOW AS WELL AS THE OFFICIAL PHOTO. 
          THERE'LL BE AN INTERFAITH BLESSING HOSTED BY THE SAN FERNANDO CATHEDRAL AT 3:00 PM THAT DAY. 
          AND AT 5:30 PM WE'LL HAVE THE INAUGURATION CEREMONY. 
          IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, LETICIA, HOW SO? 'CAUSE SOME OF THESE EARLY VOTING PLACES ARE CHANGED. 
          THEY'RE NOT AS MANY. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, SO HOW ARE WE GETTING THE WORD OUT TO OUR RESIDENTS? OKAY. 
          UM, OR HOW CAN WE THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          AND THE REASON FOR THAT, LET ME EXPLAIN FIRST IS, UM, WHEN WE HAD THE MAIN ELECTION, MAY 4TH, WE HAD A JOINT ELECTION WITH MANY OTHER ENTITIES, CITIES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ET CETERA. 
          SO THEREFORE MANY MORE SITES WERE UTILIZED. 
          AND NOW, BECAUSE IT'S ONLY CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, THESE ARE ONLY CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PROPER ELECTION SITES. 
          AND SO WE WILL GET THE WORD OUT VIA PRESS RELEASES, POSTING IT ON OUR WEBSITE. 
          THE ELECTIONS OFFICE IS ALSO ASSISTING US WITH GETTING THE WORD OUT. 
          AND, UM, IF YOU WOULD LIKE, WE CAN SEND THAT INFORMATION TO YOUR OFFICES SO THAT YOU TWO CAN SHARE WITH YOUR DISTRICTS. 
          PERFECT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILMAN VRAN. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THIS IS IN THE FORM OF AN ORDINANCE, OUR ONLY ACTION FOR TODAY. 
          SO I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR, UH, ACCEPTANCE OF THE CANVASSING RESULTS AND MOVING FORWARD WITH THE RUNOFF DATE AND OTHERS ASSOCIATED. 
          SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER ONE. 
          UH, WE DON'T HAVE OUR ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM, SO WE'LL TAKE IT BY VOICE VOTE. 
          ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. 
          AYE. 
          ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. 
          OKAY. 
          CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR COLLEAGUES WHO, UH, MOVE FORWARD, UH, TO THE 1921 COUNCIL. 
          ALRIGHT, ITEM NUMBER TWO IS GOING TO BE OUR PORT ESSAY BRIEFING WITH JIM HIRSCHBACH. 
          WELL, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING DOWN HERE. 
          WELCOME TO PORT SAN ANTONIO, WHICH IS REALLY ONE OF THE JEWELS OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING A LOT ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE. 
          WE'RE GONNA TALKING A LOT ABOUT THE JOBS THAT WE'RE CREATING ON THIS PROPERTY. 
          AND THERE'S TWO GROUPS OF FOLKS THAT I'D LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE BEFORE WE START. 
          THE FIRST IS OUR CHAIR, CHRIS ALTE AND OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS, WHO ARE THE FOLKS THAT SET THIS POLICY. 
          THEY'RE THE VOLUNTEERS THAT YOU APPOINT, AND THEY'RE THE ONES WHO DRIVE WHAT WE DO HERE EVERY DAY. 
          I'D ALSO LIKE TO TAKE A MINUTE. 
          WE ARE REALLY PLEASED TO HAVE A NUMBER OF THE EMPLOYERS HERE, AND WE TALK ABOUT THE JOBS THAT WE CREATE ON THIS PROPERTY, OVER 13,000 AT LAST COUNT. 
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IT'S NOT JUST BECAUSE OF US, IT'S BECAUSE OF THE EMPLOYERS. 
          AND WE'RE JOINED TODAY BY SOME OF OUR GREAT EMPLOYERS WHO COLLECTIVELY EMPLOY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. 
          I WON'T TELL YOU THE EXACT NUMBER IN EVERY ONE OF YOUR DISTRICTS, WE HAVE CLINT RAF FROM SYSTEMIC, ONE OF OUR EDUCATION PARTNERS, DAN GONZALEZ FROM STANDARD ARROW, TYLER SCHRADER FROM THE BOEING COMPANY, DAVID MONROE FROM THE SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PAUL EVANS FROM THE SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE. 
          GABE GARZA FROM REC AND POINT, SEAN EDWARDS, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF PLUS ONE ROBOTICS. 
          PATRICIA GEER FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO. 
          BLAINE ADAMS FROM C A C I L G S LABORATORIES. 
          DAN GALVAN FROM IOM MAXIS, MICHAEL KNIGHT FROM KNIGHT AEROSPACE, ROXANNE RAMIREZ, ONE OF OUR NEWEST AND PROUDEST CUSTOMERS HERE ON THE PROPERTY AT C N F TECHNOLOGIES. 
          AND CHRIS GUNDERSON FROM IP SECURE. 
          THESE ARE THE FOLKS WHO IMPORT, YOU KNOW, WE SAY AT PORT SAN ANTONIO THAT WHAT WE ARE DOING IS PROVIDING CONNECTED SOLUTIONS FOR A CONNECTED WORLD. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT PORTS DO, IS CONNECT PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGIES. 
          AND WHEN WE TOOK OVER ABOUT A YEAR AGO WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION, WE SAID THERE WERE THREE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO DO. 
          CONNECT PEOPLE WITH OPPORTUNITIES. 
          AND YOU SEE WHAT THE LAWYERS AND MARKETING PEOPLE, RIGHT? IT'S TALENT AND EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY, BUT FUNDAMENTALLY IT'S PEOPLE. 
          WE ARE HERE TO PROVIDE EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, AND ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES. 
          WE'RE CONNECTING EDUCATION TO DEMAND, WHICH IS WHY WE HAVE UNIVERSITIES AND ACADEMIC PROVIDERS, AND WE'RE CONNECTING BUYERS TO SELLERS. 
          AND YOU ASK THE QUESTION, HOW ARE WE DOING SO FAR? WE HAVE OVER 80 EMPLOYERS ON THIS CAMPUS. 
          THERE ARE OVER 13,000 PEOPLE WORKING HERE. 
          AND BECAUSE OF THE WORK, SOME OF 'EM DO, I CAN'T TELL YOU THE EXACT NUMBER, BUT IT'S MORE THAN 13,000. 
          A FEW YEARS AGO, THE STATE OF TEXAS DID A STUDY AS TO WHAT THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF JUST THIS CAMPUS IS. 
          AND IT WAS 5 BILLION PLUS DOLLARS. 
          AND THAT WAS BEFORE WE HAD A BUNCH OF THE EMPLOYERS AND A BUNCH OF THE ACTIVITIES. 
          AND WHAT WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT, JUST THIS YEAR, OVER A THOUSAND JOBS. 
          AND THAT'S NOT JIM SAYING OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS, THAT IS JUST THIS YEAR. 
          AND YOU RUN THROUGH, A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE HEARD SOME OF THESE BEFORE, BUT WHEN YOU'RE DOING A CONCERT, YOU TALK ABOUT THE GREATS, THE BOEING COMPANY, ONE OF OUR ANCHOR CUSTOMERS OVER 20 YEARS ON THIS PROPERTY, IT IS THE LARGEST AIRCRAFT SUSTAINMENT SITE IN THE BOEING INVENTORY, WON THE LARGEST AIRCRAFT SUSTAINMENT SITES ON THE WORLD. 
          AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING AT THAT PROPERTY IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. 
          EVERYTHING FROM THE EXECUTIVE FLEET TO THE F A 18 CHANGE INCORPORATION, THE APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW COMMUNICATIONS SO THAT AIRPLANE CAN FLY FOR ANOTHER 30 YEARS. 
          AND DOWN THERE, THAT ONE BUILDING THEY HAVE, YOU CAN'T TELL FROM HERE, BUT YOU CAN PARK MORE AIRPLANES INSIDE THAT BUILDING AT ONE TIME AND CLOSE THE DOORS THAN MOST COMMERCIAL AIRPORTS CAN HAVE AT THEIR GATES AT ANY ONE POINT IN TIME. 
          LAST YEAR, NOT COUNTED IN OUR A THOUSAND JOBS THIS YEAR, THE BOEING COMPANY ANNOUNCED THAT THEY ARE DOUBLING THEIR WORKFORCE HERE AT PORT SAN ANTONIO. 
          RIGHT NEXT TO THEM, WE HAVE STANDARD ARROW, THE LARGEST THIRD PARTY ENGINE, M R O SHOP IN THE WORLD, DOING AMAZING THINGS. 
          ALMOST 700,000 SQUARE FEET OF ENGINE REPAIR SHOP, OVERHAULING EVERYTHING FROM BIG TURBO PROP ENGINES TO SOME OF THE BIGGEST FAN ENGINES ON THE PLANET. 
          AND THEY LIKE BOEING RAPIDLY GROWING. 
          BUT IT'S NOT JUST THE BIG COMPANIES WE HAVE ON THIS PROPERTY. 
          WE HAVE STARTUPS. 
          AND ONE WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IS PLUS ONE ROBOTICS. 
          AND I MENTIONED SEAN EDWARDS A COUPLE YEARS AGO. 
          SEAN AND A FEW OF HIS FRIENDS DECIDED WHAT THEY SAW WAS A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY. 
          INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS, WELL THAT'S YESTERDAY'S TECHNOLOGY, BUT THEY'RE BLIND AND THEY'RE STUPID. 
          IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU TAKE ARTIFICIAL SENSORS AND GIVE THOSE ROBOTS EYESIGHT AND TAKE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT ALLOW THOSE ROBOTS TO FIGURE THINGS OUT. 
          THEY HAVE OPENED A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF ROBOTICS. 
          IN FACT, THEY'RE ONE OF THE BEST FUNDED STARTUPS TO COME OUTTA SAN ANTONIO IN YEARS. 
          THEY HAD OPPORTUNITIES TO GO ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY. 
          THEIR VENTURE CAPITAL WANTED 'EM TO GO ELSEWHERE IN THE COUNTRY, AND THEY STAYED HERE. 
          AND YOU ASK 'EM WHY THEY STAY HERE ON THIS CAMPUS, WHY THEY'RE MOVING INTO A BRAND NEW FACILITY THAT WE'RE GONNA BUILD FOR 'EM. 
          IT'S BECAUSE OF THE ACCESS TO THE TALENT AND THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE HAVE, NOT JUST ON THIS CAMPUS, BUT HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND THIS IS BRAND NEW NEWS. 
          WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE NIGHT AEROSPACE. 
          IT'S NOT NEW TO SAN ANTONIO, BUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS AMAZING BUILDING MODULAR SYSTEMS THAT CAN BE INSTALLED IN AN AIRPLANE. 
          RIGHT DOWN THERE ON THE BOTTOM, YOU HAVE A LOCKHEED MARTIN C ONE 30 AIRCRAFT. 
          AND THAT HEALTHCARE MODULE THAT GOES INTO THAT AIRPLANE ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE A FLYING HOSPITAL, FLYING HEALTHCARE, WHICH IS NOT JUST GONNA PROVIDE LIFESAVING 
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SUPPORT TO OUR WARRIORS. 
          IT'S GONNA PROVIDE LIFESAVING SUPPORT TO REMOTE OPPORTUNITIES AROUND THE PLANET. 
          WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY TO EXISTING PLATFORMS, IT'S COMPANIES LIKE KNIGHT AEROSPACE, AND I WANT TO GIVE SOME REAL CREDIT TO OUR FRIENDS AT THE SAN ANTONIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION FOR THIS. 
          KNIGHT AEROSPACE HAS BEEN IN SAN ANTONIO FOR A LONG TIME. 
          THEY RECORDED TO GO A LOT OF OTHER PLACES IN THIS COUNTRY. 
          AND IT WAS THE SAN ANTONIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION THAT REALLY DID YEOMAN'S WORK IN KEEPING THEM HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE'RE GONNA GROW THEM HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED. 
          YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS ON THIS PROPERTY ALONE IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS, NOT THIS YEAR, PAST 12 MONTHS, FIVE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CYBERSECURITY LABS IN THE COUNTRY, PROBABLY IN THE PLANET HAVE OPENED ON THIS PROPERTY. 
          AND IT ALLOWS US TO SAY WITHOUT ANY EXAGGERATION WHATSOEVER, THAT WE REALLY ARE THE HOME OF CYBER CITY U S A. 
          WHAT'S NOT ON THIS LIST OF THE CYBER CAPABILITIES OR THE MILITARY CAPABILITIES, BECAUSE I COULDN'T GIVE YOU THIS SLIDE, BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT SOMEWHERE AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE YOU'RE SITTING RIGHT NOW IS HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE CYBER COMMAND HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE AND RECONNAISSANCE COMMAND, AND THE AIR FORCE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT GROUP THAT DESIGNS AND ACQUIRES THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE'RE USING FOR CYBERSECURITY. 
          AND YOU PUT THAT TOGETHER WITH THE AVIATION CAPABILITIES THAT WE HAVE ON THIS PROPERTY. 
          THOSE ARE THE BIGGEST NAMES ON THE PLANET IN AVIATION. 
          AND THEY'RE RIGHT HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, RIGHT HERE ON THIS CAMPUS DOING ABSOLUTELY AMAZING WORK WITH STARTUPS AND TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES AND MANUFACTURING COMPANIES. 
          THAT'S WHAT REPRESENTS OUR 13,000 PLUS EMPLOYERS ON THIS PROPERTY EDUCATION. 
          A FEW YEARS AGO, WE OPENED THE SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 
          I SHOULDN'T SAY WE OPENED IT. 
          WE GAVE IT A HOME BECAUSE IT'S DAVID MONROE PASSION PROJECT. 
          WE PUT THEM INTO AN OLD CHAPEL ON THIS PROPERTY, AND IT WAS A FLYER THAT OUR BOARD ALLOWED US TO TAKE. 
          SINCE THAT TIME, WE HAVE HAD STUDENTS COME FROM ALL OVER THE COMMUNITY. 
          THESE ARE SOME HEAT MAPS OF WHAT HAVE COME THROUGH. 
          AND WE'RE DOING THAT IN A REALLY, REALLY SMALL SPACE. 
          THERE WERE FOLKS WHO SAID, YOU PUT THAT MUSEUM DOWN THE AIRPORT, SAN ANTONIO, NOBODY'S GOING TO IT. 
          OUR PROBLEM RIGHT NOW, SCHOOL DISTRICTS ALL OVER, THERE'S A WAITING LIST TO GET IN. 
          WE CAN ONLY GET SO MANY PEOPLE IN AT ONE TIME. 
          BUT YOU LOOK AT THOSE LIVES CHANGED AND OPPORTUNITIES, AND IT'S NOT JUST KIDS WHO'VE COME BY ON A FIELD TRIP. 
          THERE ARE STUDENTS WHO'VE BEEN MATCHED UP WITH EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES AND KIDS WHO'VE BEEN MATCHED UP WITH INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AND EMPLOYMENT. 
          OUR ROBOTICS COMPANIES HAVE USED THE SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE THE SA TEXAS ROBOTICS MEETUP. 
          THERE ARE OVER 200 OF THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST MINDS AND ROBOTS WHO COME DOWN HERE AND MEET ROUTINELY. 
          AND IT ALLOWS COMPANIES LIKE RECKON AND POINT AND PLUS ONE ROBOTICS AND SWEARY TO GET TOGETHER AND DEVELOP NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT FRANKLY ARE GONNA BE GAME CHANGING. 
          AND THIS ONE WE'RE REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF. 
          THIS ONE, ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, A LITTLE OVER TWO YEARS AGO, OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS TOOK ON A CRAZY $20 MILLION BED. 
          AND THAT WAS LET'S GO AND BUILD A CLASS, A OFFICE BUILDING ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND EVERY CONSULTANT, REAL ESTATE PERSON, EVERY FINANCE PERSON ON EARTH THAT YOU GUYS ARE OUTTA YOUR MIND, NOBODY BUILDS A CLASS A BUILDING ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          BUT WE GOT HELP. 
          WE GOT HELP FROM YOU AS A COUNCIL. 
          AND $1.3 MILLION WENT INTO THAT BUILDING TO HELP WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE, TO HELP WITH THE UTILITIES, TO HELP US PUT THAT BUILDING TOGETHER. 
          THERE IS A DRAINAGE PROGRAM GOING ON THAT WAS FUNDED THROUGH THE BOND PROGRAM, $24 MILLION FOR DRAINAGE THAT ALLOWS US TO PUT THAT BUILDING TOGETHER. 
          BUT THE BET THAT THE BOARD TOOK TO BUILD A FULLY SPEC CLASS, A OFFICE BUILDING ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO IN LESS THAN 12 MONTHS, THAT BUILDING IS COMPLETELY OCCUPIED. 
          IN FACT, IT IS SO SUCCESSFUL. 
          AND YOU'RE THE FIRST ONES TO HEAR, WE'RE ABOUT TO BUILD A SECOND ONE. 
          THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO BECAUSE THE OPPORTUNITIES OUT THERE ARE HUGE. 
          BUT BEFORE I TALK ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES, WHEN I WAS BACK LEARNING HOW TO SPEAK, THEY SAID, THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO DO IF YOU WANT TO GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION IS SCARE 'EM. 
          SO I'M GONNA PUT THIS UP. 
          WELL, THIS ISN'T TO SCARE YOU. 
          THIS IS THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPORTING US ON WHAT YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ABOUT. 
          I'M GONNA PUT THIS UP, THREATEN COMMUNITIES. 
          LAST WEEK, THE CITY OF BALTIMORE WAS COMPLETELY SHUT DOWN. 
          DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS? EVERYTHING IN THE CITY OF BALTIMORE WAS TURNED OFF. 
          WHAT WASN'T TURNED OFF, THEY UNPLUGGED. 
          THEY TOLD PEOPLE, DON'T PAY YOUR BILLS. 
          WE CAN'T ACCEPT THEM. 
          NONE OF THEIR COUNCIL MEMBERS COULD GET ACCESS TO THEIR EMAILS. 
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THE SYSTEM WAS SHUT DOWN AND IT WAS SHUT DOWN. 
          BECAUSE AS WE MOVE INTO A CONNECTED WORLD, AS WE MOVE OUTTA COMPONENTS AND INTO SYSTEMS, ALL IT TAKES IS ONE OPPORTUNITY TO GO IN THERE AND SHUT THINGS DOWN. 
          AND WE TALK ABOUT, WE COME OUT OF THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, AND WE LIKE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT IF A NUCLEAR BOMB GOES OFF AND THE ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE SHUTS DOWN OUR POWER GRID? IT'S A BAD DAY, BUT IT'S A BAD DAY IF YOU HAVE A NUCLEAR BOMB GO OFF. 
          WHAT IF SOMEBODY IN SOME ROGUE COUNTRY DECIDES TO SHUT DOWN OUR POWER GRID? OR EVEN WORSE, WHAT IF NOBODY DOES ANYTHING MALICIOUSLY? MY WIFE HAS AN APP ON HER PHONE THAT SHE ABSOLUTELY LOVES. 
          AND BECAUSE OF THAT, SHE WILL NOT UPGRADE HER PHONE BECAUSE THE NEW IS WON'T ACCEPT THAT APP. 
          WE HAVE SYSTEMS ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY, LEGACY SYSTEMS THEY CALL 'EM THAT ARE INCOMPATIBLE. 
          AND AS WE START TO MOVE MORE AND MORE INTO A CONNECTED SYSTEM, THOSE LEGACY SYSTEMS START INTERRUPTING. 
          IT DOESN'T EVEN TAKE SOMEBODY DOING SOMETHING BAD. 
          BUT I'M GONNA TELL YOU, WE DON'T LOOK AT THIS AT THE PORT FROM THE BAD SIDE OF THIS. 
          WE LOOK AT THIS FROM THE MARKET OPPORTUNITY. 
          THERE IS A MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR ADDRESSABLE MARKET FOR NOT JUST SOLVING THESE PROBLEMS, FOR ADDRESSING HOW WE'RE GONNA DO THINGS BETTER IN THE FUTURE. 
          AND WHAT'S THE GREATEST INDUSTRY ON THIS PLANET? NO OFFENSE TO SOME OF OUR CUSTOMERS, BUT I CAN'T GET PAST THIS. 
          IT'S AVIATION. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM WITH AVIATION IS? JUST LIKE WITH CARS, WE HAVE SAID FOR YEARS, EVERY X NUMBER OF HOURS, EVERY X NUMBER OF FLIGHTS WE'RE GONNA TAKE OUR AIRPLANE IN. 
          WE'RE GONNA SERVICE IT WHETHER IT NEEDS IT OR NOT. 
          AND WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH THAT? IT COSTS A FORTUNE. 
          THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT HAS HISTORICALLY FUNDED 67% OF THE EXPECTED MAINTENANCE FOR ANY GIVEN YEAR. 
          AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THERE ARE A LOT OF AIRPLANES, A LOT OF SYSTEMS THAT JUST AREN'T GONNA WORK IN A GIVEN YEAR BECAUSE THEY'RE WAITING FOR MAINTENANCE. 
          ON THE AIRLINE SIDE, WHAT WE HAVE SEEN IS A TON OF BUSINESS GO OUT OF THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE THE BUSINESS HAS BEEN COMMODITIZED. 
          IT'S GONE TO THE LOWEST PRICE. 
          AND THERE ARE PLACES IN MEXICO AND PLACES IN INDONESIA WHERE THEY PAY SKILLED LABOR, ONE OR $2 AN HOUR WHERE THEY PAY ENGINEERS A THOUSAND DOLLARS A MONTH. 
          WE CAN'T COMPETE WITH THAT. 
          WE DON'T WANT TO COMPETE WITH IT. 
          BUT THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY. 
          AND THE OPPORTUNITY IS CALLED CONDITION-BASED MAINTENANCE OR PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE. 
          KNOW WHEN THAT AIRPLANE IS GONNA BREAK BEFORE IT BREAKS. 
          AND THIS IS THE POSITIVE SIDE OF WHAT'S GOING ON AT U T S A AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY COLLABORATION CENTER. 
          TO DO THAT, YOU NEED A COUPLE OF THINGS. 
          ONE, YOU NEED A SENSOR ON THE AIRPLANE. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY 20 SENSORS TO CAPTURE THAT INFORMATION. 
          AND YOU'RE GONNA CAPTURE TERABYTES OF DATA, WHICH MEANS SOMEBODY HAS TO CRUNCH THAT DATA, ANALYZE THAT DATA, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT. 
          THERE'S GONNA BE SECURITY ON THAT DATA BACK AND FORTH. 
          YOU BRING TOGETHER THE PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND THAT SIDE OF THE TECHNOLOGY WITH THE PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND THE AIRPLANE. 
          YOU SOLVE THAT PROBLEM. 
          NOT ONLY DO WE BRING THAT BUSINESS BACK, BUT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO SELL THAT TECHNOLOGY AND DO THAT WORK GOES THROUGH THE ROOF. 
          IT'S ABOUT COMPETING ON VALUE, NOT COMPETING ON PRICE. 
          AND SO WHAT'S THE PLAN? WELL, YOU'VE SEEN THIS PLAN, THE INNOVATION CENTER, WHICH IS STEP ONE. 
          AND I'VE HAD A LOT OF DIFFICULTY EXPLAINING THIS. 
          SO LET, LET ME ASK YOU THIS. 
          WHAT IS THE BEST AIRPLANE EVER MADE? ANYBODY HAVE AN IDEA? IT'S THE BOEING 7 57 2 32 THAT HAS A PAIR OF PRATT AND WHITNEY, 2037 ENGINES ON IT. 
          IT'S AN ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC AIRPLANE . 
          THE PROBLEM IS, I DON'T HAVE A MODEL OF THAT AIRPLANE. 
          I HAVE THIS, WHICH IS A BOEING 7 47 8 I INTERCONTINENTAL HAS THE GENERAL ELECTRIC GEN X ENGINES ON THE SIDE. 
          THEY'RE ULTRA HIGH BYPASS. 
          THEY CALL 'EM WIDE TURBO FANS, WIDE GEN XS. 
          AND MY WIFE BOUGHT ME THIS AND AND SHE BOUGHT ME THIS, AND I WAS SO EXCITED. 
          IT WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE LITTLE, JUST BECAUSE PRESENTS. 
          AND I SAID, MONICA, WHY'D YOU GET IT FOR ME? AND SHE SAID, JIM, BECAUSE YOU'RE A WIDE GEN X, I'VE TAUGHT HER TOO MUCH ABOUT AIRPLANES. 
          BUT LET ME TELL YOU, THIS IS HOW THE INNOVATION CENTER IS GOING TO WORK. 
          THIS RIGHT HERE IS ENGINE NUMBER ONE. 
          THAT'S PORT SAN ANTONIO. 
          THIS AIRPLANE IS SAN ANTONIO. 
          THERE ARE ENGINES HERE THAT ARE BROOKS, THAT ARE DOWNTOWN, THAT ARE U T S A. 
          YOU DON'T SEE IT AS BEFORE ENGINE AIRPLANE. 
          BUT WE HAVE 20 ENGINES IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE'VE GOT PEOPLE UP HERE DRIVING IT. 
          WE GOT PEOPLE INSIDE. 
          AND THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO YOU GET THIS THING OFF THE GROUND? WELL, YOU NEED THESE ENGINES TO WORK. 
          AND INSIDE THIS ENGINE, AND DAN GONZALEZ CAN TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT. 
          YOU HAVE THESE BIG FANS RIGHT UP FRONT. 
          THEY'RE MADE NOT TOO FAR OUTSIDE 
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THE TOWN. 
          AND THEN INSIDE THERE, YOU TAKE AIR AND YOU TAKE FUEL AND SOME BYPASSES IT, AND SOME SPINS AND SOME EXPLODES. 
          AND THERE'S COMPUTERS. 
          BUT THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH INSIDE THERE THAT HAS TO WORK. 
          AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY ONE OF THOSE PIECES, THAT ENGINE'S NOT GONNA TAKE OFF. 
          AND IF THAT ENGINE DOESN'T TAKE OFF, THIS AIRPLANE ISN'T GOING ANYWHERE. 
          BUT IF YOU GET EVERYTHING OPERATING IN CONCERT, THEN WE'RE ALL SITTING UP THERE WATCHING MINIONS THREE, EATING PEANUTS AND HAVING A GREAT TIME AT 40,000 FEET. 
          SO LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOW THIS INNOVATION CENTER TRULY WORKS. 
          INSIDE, WE HAVE THIS TECHNOLOGY ARENA, AND I PUT IT UP 'CAUSE IT LOOKS COOL. 
          A YEAR AGO, MY SON, 12 YEARS OLD, 11 AT THE TIME, STARTED PLAYING THIS GAME FORTNITE. 
          AND I WAS LIVID WITH HIM. 
          I TOLD HIM, YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE. 
          AND THEN HE BROUGHT ME SOME STUFF AND I REALIZED, NUMBER ONE, YOU CAN MAKE MONEY PLAYING THIS GAME. 
          NUMBER TWO, THERE ARE UNIVERSITIES THROUGHOUT THIS COUNTRY THAT ARE OFFERING FOUR YEAR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GAMING. 
          AND NUMBER THREE, WHEN I PULL THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT, 'CAUSE THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I DO FROM TIME TO TIME, IT'S WHY I HAVE FEW FRIENDS. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , THERE IS AN APPROPRIATION IN THAT ACT FOR MODELING AND SIMULATION USING GAMING ENGINES. 
          IN FACT, GAMING ENGINES AND THE TECHNOLOGY THAT GOES INTO THEM ARE A BASIS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING. 
          AND IF YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THOSE GAMES, YOU CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO AMAZING THINGS. 
          NOW, THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH IT AS WE MOVE INTO AUGMENTED REALITY. 
          YOU EVER WORN AUGMENTED REALITY GLASSES OR VIRTUAL REALITY GLASSES? HOW LONG DID IT TAKE YOU UNTIL YOU GET SICK? WELL, IF YOU PUT EVERYBODY IN YOUR, IN YOUR FACILITY UNDER THE HOOD AND THEY'RE ALL THROWING UP AFTER TWO HOURS, YOU'VE GOT A REAL PROBLEM. 
          BUT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO IS DOING SOME AMAZING THINGS, FIGURING OUT HOW WE CAN MINIMIZE OR ELIMINATE THAT SICKNESS. 
          COMPANIES LIKE BOOZE ALLEN, HAMILTON, BOEING, AND A HOST OF THE OTHERS ARE DEVELOPING THOSE APPLICATIONS. 
          SO NOW WE CAN ACTUALLY USE THAT TO NOT ONLY MAKE MONEY, BUT PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES GOING FORWARD. 
          SO WHY ON EARTH DO WE NEED THAT? WELL, FIRST, BECAUSE IT'S A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR OPPORTUNITY. 
          AND SECOND, BECAUSE WE WANT TO CONNECT PEOPLE WITH OPPORTUNITIES. 
          WE CAN DRAG 150,000 PEOPLE A YEAR THROUGH THIS FACILITY AND IMAGINE IF YOU ONLY CAPTURE 10% OF THOSE AND OFFER THEM OPPORTUNITIES. 
          WE TALK A LOT ABOUT A CHALLENGE IN SAN ANTONIO BEING THE UNDEREDUCATED POPULATION. 
          AND THAT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF OUR HUGE STRENGTHS. 
          THERE ARE COMMUNITIES OUT THERE THAT HAVE A TREMENDOUS TUG ON THEM BECAUSE EVERYBODY IS EDUCATED AND EVERYBODY'S EMPLOYED. 
          AND IT'S LIKE THE OLD MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS. 
          IF EVERYBODY'S UP HERE, YOU'VE REALLY GOT A SHORT STRING, YOU GOT A LOT OF TIGHTNESS IN THAT. 
          SO YOU GO UP TO THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION, WASHINGTON, DC AREA, SOMEBODY WITH A LOT OF SKILLS THEY HIRE HIRED ON, SOMEBODY ELSE IS OFFERING 'EM $10,000 TO JUMP SHIP. 
          IT'S A CONSTANT POACHING BACK AND FORTH IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE HAVE TREMENDOUS ELASTICITY IN OUR MARKET. 
          IMAGINE IF WE GO OUT THERE AND WE PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES TO THE THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE TREMENDOUSLY BRIGHT, TREMENDOUSLY SKILLED, AND CAN MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. 
          THAT'S HOW WE'RE GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD, AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE GONNA DO IT. 
          AND IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING WE'RE MAKING UP. 
          I MENTIONED ROXANNE RAMIREZ AND C N F TECHNOLOGY. 
          IT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO THAT ROXANNE RAMIREZ WAS TE TEACHING UP IN EDGEWOOD, AND HER HUSBAND WAS WORKING FOR THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE DOING SOMETHING WE DON'T TALK ABOUT. 
          AND NOT THAT LONG AGO, THEY SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE CAN DO THIS AS A BUSINESS. 
          AND THEY DID. 
          AND THEY STARTED A LITTLE BUSINESS MOM AND POP FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD LITERALLY. 
          AND THAT COMPANY, NOT TOO LONG AGO, I CAN, I THINK I CAN PUBLICLY SAY THIS, WON THE ACT TWO CONTRACT WITH AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB. 
          THE ACT TWO CONTRACT IS A $1 BILLION CONTRACT. 
          SOME OF THE BEST MINDS IN THE COUNTRY ARE WORKING ON THAT. 
          AND THAT'S RIGHT HERE AT PORT SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND THAT'S THE TYPE OF OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE TO THIS FACILITY. 
          BUT IT'S MORE THAN THAT. 
          IT'S GOTTA BE A COWORKING SPACE. 
          IT'S GOTTA BE A SPACE WHERE YOU CAN DEVELOP TECHNOLOGIES AND SHOW OFF TECHNOLOGIES. 
          I MENTIONED KNIGHT AEROSPACE. 
          IF YOU'RE GONNA PUT THAT MODULAR MEDICAL LAB INSIDE AN AIRPLANE, YOU'VE GOT A CONNECTED SYSTEM. 
          YOU'VE GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT THE RF FREQUENCIES, THE RADIO FREQUENCIES ARE SECURE. 
          THAT'S THE TYPE OF STUFF THAT WE NEED TO SHOW OFF. 
          AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO AND A HOST OTHERS TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS HAPPENS. 
          AND THIS THING, I DO WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE THREATS. 
          IT'S THE ALAMO REGIONAL SECURITY OPERATIONS CENTER. 
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WE IN SAN ANTONIO HAVE A TREMENDOUS BLESSING. 
          AND THAT BLESSING IS OUR MUNICIPAL ENTITIES ARE DOING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION. 
          WE HAVE SAWS, C P SS VIA THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, US AT LITTLE OLD PORT SAN ANTONIO. 
          IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU TAKE ALL THESE CAPABILITIES AND CO-LOCATE THEM. 
          SO NOW YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE WORKING ON SOLUTIONS THAT NOT ONLY WILL MAKE SAN ANTONIO SAFER, BUT WE'LL PROVIDE AN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR COMPANIES AROUND THE PLANET. 
          AND WE'VE GOT SOME PLANS. 
          WE'RE WORKING ON SOME FOLKS TO PUT THOSE FACILITIES TOGETHER RIGHT HERE ON THE CAMPUS, CO-LOCATED WITH THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD, CO-LOCATED WITH THE INNOVATION CENTER CO-LOCATED WITH ALL THOSE COMPANIES THAT ARE DOING THIS WORK. 
          AND LITTLE OLD ENTITIES LIKE BOEING AND STANDARD ARROW AND LOCKHEED NORTHROP THAT DO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION AS A BUSINESS. 
          IT IS A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY FOR SAN ANTONIO. 
          THERE'S ANOTHER MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY FOR SAN ANTONIO, AND THAT'S REACHING OUT TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
          AND THIS YEAR IN CONJUNCTION WITH OUR FRIENDS AT SOUTH SAN ANTONIO, I S D AND EDGEWOOD, I S D, WE AT THE PORT ARE GONNA BE BRINGING SOME HIGH SCHOOL INTERNS ON. 
          WE'RE GONNA PAY THEM. 
          THEY'RE GONNA SPEND SOME TIME NOT ONLY WORKING HERE, BUT MORE IMPORTANT, GETTING TO KNOW OUR CUSTOMERS. 
          AND WHEN WE STARTED IT, WE SAID, IT'S JUST GONNA BE A HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM. 
          I'M GONNA GIVE OUR BOARD SOME NEWS, BUT IT'S WITHIN MY DISCRETION. 
          WE'VE EXTENDED THAT AND WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO TO BRING ON SOME COLLEGE STUDENTS TO HELP US WITH SOME ISSUES RELATED TO INDUSTRIAL AIRPORTS AND INDUSTRIAL AIRPORT SECURITY. 
          AND IT'S GONNA BE A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY AND IT'S A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY. 
          I WANNA MAKE NO MISTAKE OWES A LOT, NOT NOT JUST TO YOUR BOARD MEMBERS, BUT TO COUNCIL AND YOUR COUNCIL STAFF. 
          RENEE DOMINGUEZ AND THE FOLKS AT THE CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT HAVE DONE YEOMAN'S WORK AS WE DO THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRADITIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DOWN HERE. 
          THE MODEL THAT WE WANT TO PURSUE IS NOT SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY TO TRY AND INCENTIVIZE COMPANIES TO MOVE TO THIS PROPERTY. 
          WE ARE ABOUT CREATING A VALUE PROPOSITION. 
          THE FOLKS IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN AREN'T INCENTIVIZING ANYBODY TO MOVE THERE, BECAUSE IF YOU'RE IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES BUSINESS, YOU'RE GONNA BE IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN. 
          OUR VISION IS IF YOU'RE IN THE NEW TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS, IF YOU'RE IN THE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE BUSINESS, YOU NEED TO BE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND LAST THING, EVER SINCE MY FIRST EVER JOB AS A BUSBOY AT RED LOBSTER, WHEN I GOT MOVED UP TO BEING A HOST, I HAVE BEEN THE FRONT PERSON BECAUSE AS YOU CAN TELL, I'M PRETTY . 
          BUT THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING DOWN HERE IS NOT BECAUSE OF ME. 
          A FEW YEARS AGO, THIS ORGANIZATION ON OUR OBJECTIVES, AND LET ME BE A C O OF C E O FOR A SECOND, WE WERE AT 88% OF OUR OBJECTIVES AND WE WERE TRACKING DOWN TO ABOUT 69% OF OUR OBJECTIVES. 
          ONCE WE TOOK ON THIS NEW STRATEGY, WE FINISHED LAST YEAR AT 130% OF OBJECTIVES. 
          WE'RE LOOKING RIGHT NOW TO FINISH PROBABLY AROUND 140% OF OBJECTIVES. 
          ALTHOUGH THAT'S GONNA, THAT'S GONNA FLIP. 
          AND THERE'S ONE THAT I AM EXTRAORDINARILY PROUD OF. 
          IT'S NOT THE JOB CREATION OR THE NET OPERATING INCOME OR THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT, IT'S THE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION. 
          WE GOT A 95% CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SCORE IF WE WERE BUILDING CARS. 
          THAT GETS YOU EVERY JD POWER AWARD ON THE PLANET. 
          AND IT'S BECAUSE OF THESE PEOPLE AND THESE PEOPLE, I CAN'T THANK ENOUGH. 
          WE HAVE FOLKS WHO ARE DOING WORK, GOING OVER THERE AND CHANGING FILTERS AND AIR FORCE FACILITIES AT 2:00 AM MAKING SURE THAT COMPLEX FACILITIES WITH JET ENGINE TEST CELLS OR BIG HANGERS CONTINUE TO OPERATE. 
          THERE ARE A HUNDRED PEOPLE HERE WORKING ON THIS PROPERTY, AND THEY ARE THE REASONS THAT WE'RE SO SUCCESSFUL WITH THAT. 
          I'VE SPOKEN MORE THAN I WAS TOLD, BUT YOU KNOW ME, I CAN'T STOP. 
          WE ARE SO PROUD TO BE THE ENGINE FOR SAN ANTONIO. 
          THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING. 
          WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION, JIM. 
          A LOT OF GREAT ACTION HERE HAPPENING AT THE PORT. 
          I DO WANT TO THANK YOUR BOARD, UH, AND YOUR STAFF FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL WORK THEY'RE DOING. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, A FEW YEARS AGO WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT, WHAT WOULD PORT SAN ANTONIO BE WHEN IT GROWS UP? AND, UH, AT THE TIME WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AS A LOGISTICS HUB, UH, BUT APPARENTLY, UH, YOU GUYS HAVE TURNED THE CORNER ON THE FUTURE VERY QUICKLY AND IT'S PRETTY REMARKABLE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN I DESCRIBE THE PORT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE WONDERING ABOUT IT, UH, FAR BEYOND BEING JUST A PLACE THAT USED TO BE, UH, ONE OF THE WELL-KNOWN AIR FORCE BASES OF OUR COMMUNITY. 
          WE TALK ABOUT IT NOW AS BEING THE PLACE WHERE, UH, THE CYBER INDUSTRY OF THE FUTURE 
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MEETS THE INDUSTRIES OF TODAY AS WELL AS THE WORKFORCE THAT, UH, FUELS ALL THAT. 
          AND SO IT'S, IT'S REMARKABLE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. 
          UH, CONGRATULATIONS FOR TAKING THE RISKS THAT YOU HAVE. 
          UH, IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING. 
          I KNOW YOU'VE HAD A LOT OF NEGATIVE CAPITAL LIABILITY TO WORK THROUGH, UH, BUT IT'S APPARENT THAT YOU GUYS ARE MAKING THE RIGHT MOVES AND I APPLAUD YOUR LEADERSHIP. 
          JIM. 
          GREAT JOB. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO'D LIKE TO SPEAK, BUT I'LL START WITH OUR, OUR HOME TEAM HERE. 
          COUNCILMAN SALANA. 
          THAT'S RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          AND, UH, WELCOME TO MY COLLEAGUES AND TO THE REST OF THE CITY STAFF WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, HANGING OUT IN DISTRICT FOUR, HANGING OUT AT PORT SAN ANTONIO. 
          I THINK A LOT OF FOLKS WHO WHO'VE KNOWN SAN ANTONIO FOR A LONG TIME, UH, HAVE KNOWN THE HISTORY AND THE D N A, THE TRACES BACK TO, UH, KELLY AIR FORCE BASE. 
          AND, AND WHEN FOLKS TELL THEMSELVES THE STORY OF THE SOUTHWEST SIDE, TYPICALLY IT TALKS A A LOT ABOUT THE, THE HISTORY, THE, THE CIVIL SERVICE, THE WORK, THE EMPLOYMENT, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, STEPPING STONE TO THE MIDDLE CLASS, UH, DOWN HERE. 
          AND WE JUST WANT TO TELL FOLKS THAT THAT'S NOT THE, THE, WE'RE TRYING NOT TO KEEP A SECRET DOWN HERE BECAUSE THAT IS CONTINUING TO HAPPEN. 
          AND NOT ONLY THAT, I THINK WHAT'S HAPPENING IS THAT WE ARE ADAPTING, UH, OLD LEGACY BUSINESSES, WHETHER THEY ARE M R O UH, YOU KNOW, JIM'S TOLD ME THIS AND, AND OTHER FOLKS WHO'VE BEEN AT THE PORT, WHETHER IT'S THEIR BOARD AND THEIR LEADERSHIP SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU ONLY BUILD A PLANE ONCE, BUT YOU HAVE TO FIX IT SEVERAL TIMES OVER. 
          UH, WHICH MEANS, YOU KNOW, FOR OUR FOLKS, SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF WORK CONTINUES TO COME TO SAN ANTONIO. 
          UH, BUT I WANNA FIRST RECOGNIZE, UH, THE PORT BOARD, UH, WHO'S, MOST OF WHICH ARE HERE. 
          AND I KNOW OUR CHAIR IS, UH, HERE AS WELL, BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN REALLY COMPLIMENTARY TO THE CITY STAFF AND TO, TO THE MAYOR AND YOUR LEADERSHIP AND MAKING SURE TO INCLUDE THE PORT. 
          UH, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, JIM, YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, ADDRESS THE BIG QUESTION ONE THAT THE MAYOR POSE, WHICH IS, WHAT DOES PORT SAN ANTONIO, WHAT IS PORT SAN ANTONIO GONNA BE WHEN IT GROWS UP? AND YOU'VE, YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT A MARKET HERE THAT IS SOMETHING WE'RE ALL AWARE OF, UH, WHO, WHO ARE HERE WITH OUR LAPTOPS AND OUR CELL PHONES AND UNDERSTANDING, IF YOU'RE GONNA SORT OF CORNER A MARKET, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IT WELL. 
          AND SO IF, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE ENTIRE MAP OF THE COUNTRY OF THE UNITED STATES, AND YOU ASK WHERE IS, YOU KNOW, CYBER CITY, UH, U S A, YOU KNOW, SOME FOLKS WOULD POINT TO, UM, YOU KNOW, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN, IN WASHINGTON AND, AND THEIR HEADQUARTERS WHERE THEY HEAD UP SOME OF THAT, BUT VERY CLOSE AND PROBABLY ON THE HEELS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE, RIGHT UNDER OUR FEET AT PORT SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND IN SOME OF THOSE ASPECTS, UH, WE CAN'T REALLY SPEAK, UH, WITH A LOT OF, OF OPENNESS, UM, BECAUSE OF THE, THE NATURE OF THE WORK. 
          BUT I WANT YOU TO TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, HOW, HOW WE GET OUR HEADS AROUND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR US AS A CITY WITH REGARD TO, UH, EMPLOYMENT, WHAT THAT MEANS FOR THIS CITY WITH REGARD TO BEING PREPARED FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE RISKS OF THE FUTURE, NAMELY ATTACKS, UH, IN THIS NEW SPACE THAT WE'RE ALL VULNERABLE TO, WHETHER WE WANT TO ADMIT IT OR NOT. 
          AND, AND HELP US THINK ABOUT THAT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FUTURE OF, OF PORT SAN ANTONIO. 
          SURE. 
          I I THINK IT'S A WONDERFUL QUESTION. 
          AND YOU GO BACK, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN I WAS NOT THAT OLD. 
          IT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO. 
          NOBODY THOUGHT EVERYBODY WOULD HAVE A COMPUTER IN THE HOUSE. 
          WE HAD ONE NEIGHBOR DOWN THE STREET WHO HAD A COMPUTER, AND IT WAS SHOCKING. 
          THERE ARE FOLKS POTENTIALLY IN THIS ROOM THAT REMEMBER WHEN NOT EVERYBODY HAD A TELEPHONE IN THE HOUSE. 
          AND THE THING WITH CYBERSECURITY IS IT'S NOT AN INDUSTRY. 
          WHAT CYBERSECURITY IS GOING TO BE IS AS EVERYTHING BECOMES CONNECTED, EVERYTHING NOW REQUIRES CYBERSECURITY. 
          WE MOVE INTO FIVE G, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE CONNECTED DEVICES ON YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW? THE EXPECTATIONS IN A COUPLE YEARS WILL BE 24 TO 34 CONNECTED DEVICES, INCLUDING MEDICAL SYSTEMS. SO TO SOLVE THAT PROBLEM, YOU CAN'T JUST BE AN EXPERT IN CYBERSECURITY. 
          YOU'VE GOTTA BE AN EXPERT IN THE UNDERLYING INDUSTRY AS WELL. 
          IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE TO DESIGN THE WORLD'S GREATEST CYBER SYSTEM, BUT IT DOESN'T FIT, YOU KNOW, THE SMART METERS IN A BUILDING. 
          THIS ISN'T ANYTHING CLASSIFIED OR ANYTHING. 
          PEOPLE DON'T KNOW. 
          IF YOU CAN HACK INTO THAT SMART METER, YOU'RE INTO THE SYSTEM. 
          THERE WAS A CASINO IN LAS VEGAS THAT PUT IN A SMART FISH TANK BECAUSE THEY WERE TIRED OF SPENDING THE TIME AND MONEY TO GO OVER AND FEED THOSE FISH. 
          AND EVERY BIT OF THEIR FINANCIAL DATA WAS STOLEN THROUGH THAT SMART FISH TANK. 
          WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS LEVERAGE WHAT WE HAVE IN SAN ANTONIO, REMEMBER THE FOUR ENGINES AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 
          SO LOOK WHAT WE HAVE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO IS A NO JOKING AROUND GLOBAL ASSET. 
          WHEN THEY GO AND TAKE THAT TECHNOLOGY AND LOOK TO IMPLEMENT IT, WHETHER IT'S AN AVIATION OR POWER GENERATION OR ROBOTICS, YOU NEED CERTAIN THINGS. 
          YOU NEED PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO WORK THAT INDUSTRY. 
          WE'VE GOT THEM HERE. 
          YOU NEED FACILITIES FOR IT. 
          INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS, SCADAS, THAT REQUIRES NOT BUILDING OUT A SYSTEM THAT REQUIRES AN INDUSTRIAL SPACE. 
          WE HAVE THAT HERE. 
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AND FRANKLY, YOU NEED TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO CAN WORK TOGETHER AND SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS. UH, YOU'VE, MANY PEOPLE HAVE HEARD THIS STORY. 
          I WAS SPEAKING IN AN AIRLINE ENGINE CONFERENCE A COUPLE YEARS AGO, AND AN AIRLINE HAD SPENT SEVEN FIGURES ON AN APP BECAUSE THEY WANTED THEIR MECHANICS TO ACTUALLY HAVE ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION. 
          AND IT WAS WASTED MONEY. 
          AND IT WAS WASTED MONEY BECAUSE A SILICON VALLEY COMPANY THAT DESIGNED THAT APP DESIGNED A BEAUTIFUL, ROBUST, NEVER CRASHES APP, BUT THEY HAD NO IDEA HOW ENGINES WORK AND NO IDEA HOW THE TECHNICIANS WORK. 
          SO BY BRINGING THAT TOGETHER, YOU SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS. TO ANSWER YOUR VERY SPECIFIC QUESTION, IF IT'S THE APPLICATION OF NOT JUST CYBERSECURITY, BUT MACHINE LEARNING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SENSORS TECHNOLOGY, RF TECHNOLOGY TO AVIATION, TO POWER TO GRID RESILIENCY TO MANUFACTURING, THIS IS WHERE THE PEOPLE EXIST. 
          THIS IS WHERE THE FACILITIES EXIST TO COME UP WITH THOSE SOLUTIONS. 
          SO, UH, JIM, LET ME FOLLOW UP WITH A, WITH A SEPARATE QUESTION HERE, BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THIS UNDERLYING TENSION THAT HAS BEEN CREATED, I THINK IN MY OWN MIND, AND MAYBE I'M NOT THE ONLY PERSON TO THINK ABOUT THIS, AROUND WHERE THESE KINDS OF, OF OPPORTUNITIES, THESE JOBS AND THIS WORK SHOULD HAPPEN. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , WE HAVE A VERY LARGE CITY. 
          AND SO IF I THINK BACK TO MAYBE JUST A YEAR AGO WHEN WE MADE BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS AROUND, UH, UTSA'S INVESTMENT IN THE DOWNTOWN, THAT WOULD INCLUDE, UH, EDUCATING FOLKS AROUND CYBERSECURITY. 
          UH, THERE IS THE SENSE THAT YOU MAY CLUSTER MOST OF THOSE THINGS IN THE DOWNTOWN. 
          MM-HMM. 
          BUT THE REASON, MAYBE I'M BIASED AND ALMOST BULLISH, THAT A LOT OF THAT WILL HAPPEN HERE, UH, IN PORT SAN ANTONIO IS BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME REQUIREMENTS AROUND WHERE THESE FACILITIES CAN AND SHOULD EXIST WITH REGARD TO THE PROTECTION OF THE FACILITY AND, AND WHAT HAPPENS AROUND THERE. 
          SO TALK TO ME ABOUT THE SORT OF RUNWAY, UH, FOR THAT SPACE AND HOW, HOW WE AS POLICY MAKERS, WHO WILL NO DOUBT LOOK AT PROJECTS AND DECIDE, DOES THAT FIT IN THE DOWNTOWN? DOES THAT FIT ON THE NORTH SIDE? DOES THAT FIT ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE, PORT SAN ANTONIO? HELP US THINK THROUGH THOSE THINGS. 
          THERE WAS A PROGRAM, AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB RAN NOT TOO LONG AGO CALLED RATE X. 
          AND PART OF RATE X INVOLVED USING A LAPTOP TO BLOW UP A TURBINE AND POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS OR TURBINES. 
          ONE TO SHOW YOU COULD DO IT, BUT TWO, TO START WORKING ON HOW YOU CAN REDIRECT THOSE PROBLEMS. NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND IS GONNA SAY, LET'S GO BUILD A FACILITY WHERE WE CAN POTENTIALLY BLOW UP TURBINES AND PUT THAT DOWNTOWN WITH CLASSIFIED OR SECURED FACILITIES. 
          YOU NEED TO HAVE THEM SEPARATE AND APART FROM WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF ACTIVITY. 
          THEY NEED TO BE BEHIND FENCES, BEHIND WIRES. 
          THEY NEED TO BE FORTIFIED. 
          IF YOU'RE GONNA BE INSTALLING CYBER ACTIVITIES INTO AIRPLANES OR INTO AIRPLANE SYSTEMS, YOU NEED A RUNWAY. 
          YOU NEED THE ABILITY TO BRING AIRCRAFT IN. 
          WE'RE GONNA BE ANNOUNCING A PROJECT A LITTLE LATER THIS SUMMER THAT INVOLVES THE INTEGRATION OF CYBER, OF LASERS, OF ROBOTS AND AIRPLANES. 
          AND IT'S GONNA BE ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING. 
          IT STARTED NOT HERE, IT STARTED ELSEWHERE IN TOWN, BUT WHEN IT COMES TIME TO ACTUALLY INTEGRATE THAT STUFF, IT NEEDS TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE. 
          BUT THE ONE POINT I REALLY WANNA MAKE, AND I KEEP GOING BACK TO THIS AIRPLANE, WE'RE NOT SAYING WE'RE THE ONLY ENGINE IN TOWN. 
          THERE ARE MULTIPLE ENGINES IN THIS CITY. 
          THE KEY IS LET'S MAKE SURE THAT EVERY ONE OF THESE ENGINES IS OPERATING EFFICIENTLY. 
          'CAUSE IF YOU'RE UP AT ALTITUDE AND THIS ENGINE'S OPERATING AT 20% AND THIS ENGINE'S OPERATING AT 80%, THIS ONE'S AT 40% AND THAT ONE'S AT 30%, THAT'S A BAD DAY FOR THE AIRPLANE. 
          YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE FAST AND YOU'RE BURNING ALL YOUR FUEL. 
          YOU GET EVERY ONE OF THOSE AIRPLANES OPERATING OPTIMALLY AND YOU GET SOME MORE QUICKLY. 
          ONE MORE QUESTION BEFORE I GIVE YOU A COMPLIMENT HERE, JIM, BUT I AM, UH, I'M REALLY, REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE PROSPECT. 
          I CAN'T GET MY LITTLE BROTHERS TO PAY ATTENTION TO ANY OF THE WORK THAT I DO, BUT I TOLD THEM ABOUT THIS, UH, E ARENA FOR E I I, I THINK IT'S CALLED ELECTRONIC GAMING MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY. 
          AND THEIR EYES JUST LIT UP WITH EXCITEMENT ABOUT WHAT, WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE AT AT PORT SAN ANTONIO. 
          I THINK IT SORT OF WILL HAVE THIS REGIONAL EFFECT IF YOU ARE ABLE TO SEE THROUGH THIS VISION, WHICH I THINK IS A GOOD BET AROUND, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CLUSTERING OF TALENT, THE CLUSTERING OF PEOPLE, THE, THE CLUSTERING OF FOLKS WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE NATURALS TO END UP AT SOME OF OUR, OUR, UH, EMPLOYMENT CENTERS AROUND HERE. 
          UH, I THINK YOU'RE GONNA GET A LOT OF, OF EYEBALLS, UH, AROUND PORT SAN ANTONIO THAT WOULDN'T NATURALLY LOOK TO, TO YOU ALL DOWN HERE, UH, AS A TECHNOLOGY HUB. 
          SO I'M GLAD THAT YOU'RE COMPLIMENTING THAT WITH THE SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 
          I KNOW DAVID MONROE HAS BEEN SUCH A BIG CHAMPION FOR THAT, AND ANYBODY WHO HE CAN GET HIS HANDS ON TO GET INTO THAT MUSEUM IS, IS A TRUE BELIEVER. 
          SO I I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO, TO KNOW THAT. 
          UM, AND LASTLY, THE COMPLIMENT I WANNA PAY YOU IS FOR UNDERSTANDING THIS NEW WORLD OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          BECAUSE WE, AS COUNCIL MEMBERS SEE A TON OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THAT COME THROUGH TO US WHERE THEY ASK, YOU KNOW, PUT YOUR BEST FOOT 
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FORWARD, WHICH USUALLY MEANS PUT SOME MONEY ON THE TABLE. 
          HOW ARE YOU GONNA COMPETE AGAINST THIS OTHER CITY? UH, ARE YOU GONNA GIMME MORE TAX BREAKS? ARE YOU GONNA GIMME MORE ABATEMENTS? ARE YOU GONNA GIMME FREE LAND? YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, A, A CORNER ON THE MARKET, UH, AN ASSET THAT ISN'T COMPETE, THAT CAN'T BE COMPETED WITH IN ANOTHER COMMUNITY. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE GETTING TO WITH RESPECT TO, UM, CYBERSECURITY, DEFENSE APPLICATIONS, SUPPLIERS AND SYSTEMS THAT AT ARE ATTRACTED TO THAT INDUSTRY. 
          AND WE HAVE THE AIR FORCE TO THANK FOR THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE OPERATING THE 24TH AIR FORCE. 
          THEY'RE, THEY'RE OPERATING CYBER COMMAND HERE AND, AND FOLKS WANT TO NEED TO BE AROUND, UH, THOSE FACILITIES TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. 
          BUT THAT IS THE SORT OF FUTURE OF SUCCESS AS A CITY IN TERMS OF ITS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          IT'S NOT JUST BEING THE, THE CITY WHO'S GIVING AWAY THE BAG OR GIVING AWAY THE STORE, UH, AND PAYING FOR THE HIGHEST TAX BREAKS. 
          IT'S MAKING SURE THAT YOU ARE COMPETING, WHETHER IT'S AROUND YOUR PEOPLE, YOUR TALENT AND, AND, AND YOUR ASSETS. 
          AND THIS IS A HUGE ASSET THAT CANNOT BE OVERLOOKED. 
          I'M SO GLAD THAT THIS IS OUR FIRST, UH, MEETING OUTSIDE OF CITY HALL BECAUSE IT'S AN IMPORTANT, UH, BOOKMARK FOR EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER WHO IS CONSIDERING WHAT THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, GENERATION OF SAN ANTONIO EMPLOYMENT AND, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LOOKS LIKE. 
          SO WITH THAT MAYOR, UH, I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE'RE HERE AND, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE CONVERSATION. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN SNIA, COUNCILMAN COURAGE, YOU MAYOR, AND THANK YOU, JIM, FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          IT'S EXCELLENT. 
          AND I REALLY COMMEND THE BOARD FOR, I KNOW THE, THE REAL DUE DILIGENCE YOU ALL HAVE BEEN DOING, UH, AT LEAST FOR MY TERM IN GETTING TO COME OUT AND, AND SEE WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON HERE. 
          I KNOW THAT THE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S TAKEN PLACE HERE HAS BEEN A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY AND PORT SAN ANTONIO. 
          HOW DO YOU AND A BOARD SEE THE CONTINUING PARTNERSHIP, UH, BETWEEN PORT SA AND THE CITY FOR THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT THAT YOU'VE BEEN SHOWING US TODAY? E EASIEST ANSWER TO THAT IS IT'S NOT JUST A PARTNERSHIP. 
          WE ARE THE CITY. 
          WE ARE A PUBLIC ENTITY. 
          OUR BOARD IS APPOINTED BY YOU. 
          IT IS OUR JOB TO GO OUT AND EXECUTE, ENFORCE THE POLICY THAT WE'RE DOING. 
          AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY WANT TO DO. 
          WE ALSO SEE OUR JOB AS BEING, CREATING SOMETHING THAT IS SUSTAINABLE. 
          SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE A CONSTANT INVESTMENT OF INCENTIVE DOLLARS, A CONSTANT INVESTMENT OF MONEY THAT FRANKLY COULD BE USED ELSEWHERE AND MORE IMPORTANT, SOMETHING THAT PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES. 
          I KEEP COMING BACK TO THAT, CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH OPPORTUNITIES. 
          AND THAT'S THE REASON I ENDED THE, THE SPEECH WITH OUR RUNNING THROUGH THE METRICS. 
          PART OF IT'S CEOS LOVE TO TALK ABOUT POSITIVE METRICS. 
          PART OF IT IS THIS MODEL IS SUSTAINABLE, BUT IT'S GONNA REQUIRE SOME SUPPORT. 
          I'M NOT ASKING NECESSARILY FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT AS MUCH AS MAKING SURE THAT IF WE'RE GONNA BE SENT OUT TO EXECUTE ON A TASK, THAT WE ARE FULLY RESOURCED FOR DOING THAT, THE OLD ORGANIZED TRAIN AND EQUIP. 
          AND LET'S MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS WHERE EVERYBODY IS AS WE GO OUT TO RUN THOSE PLAYS. 
          I'VE GOTTA TELL YOU, I HAVE BEEN EXTRAORDINARILY PLEASED WITH WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          IT'S NOT JUST OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY AND RENEE DOMINGUEZ AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, THE SAN ANTONIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, THE OTHER ENTITIES IN THIS COMMUNITY. 
          THERE WAS A TIME WHEN I KEPT GETTING ASKED THE QUESTION, WELL, AREN'T YOU COMPETING WITH DOWNTOWN? AREN'T YOU COMPETING WITH U T S A? AREN'T YOU COMPETING WITH SO-AND-SO? AND THE ANSWER'S NO. 
          TOGETHER, WE ARE STRONGER. 
          THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA THROUGH COMCAST IS BUILDING A $50 MILLION GAMING ARENA AS WE SPEAK. 
          THEY'RE NOT BLINKING AN EYE ABOUT IT. 
          I WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL IN PHILADELPHIA. 
          IT'S NO BETTER THAN SAN ANTONIO. 
          OUR GAMING ARENA IS GONNA DO SOMETHING SPECIAL. 
          IT'S NOT JUST GOING TO ATTRACT THE PEOPLE IN, IT'S NOT JUST GONNA CAPTURE THE DOLLARS. 
          IT'S GONNA PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES. 
          AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE UNDERSERVED, THE UNDEREDUCATED IN SAN ANTONIO, LET'S USE THIS AS ONE OF THE TOOLS, ONE OF THE ENGINES TO LIFT UP THE ENTIRE CITY. 
          WELL, YOU TALKED ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, NOT NECESSARILY HAVING TO DEPEND ON THE CITY, UH, FOR A LOT OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT, BUT, UH, HOW STRONG IS THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES THAT THE PORT'S BEEN ABLE TO GROW FOR THEMSELVES? MM-HMM. 
           OVER THIS PERIOD OF TIME? WE ARE, UH, OUR NET OPERATING INCOME GROWTH IS TRACKING ABOUT 10 POINTS ABOVE EXPECTATIONS. 
          OUR CAPITAL INVESTMENT IS HUGE, BUT IT'S ALL RELATIVE. 
          WE ARE A RELATIVELY SMALL ORGANIZATION. 
          SO WE, WE HAVE ONE INDIVIDUAL IN THIS ORGANIZATION. 
          SHE WENT TO AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE IN GEORGIA AND SHE WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT OUR $20 MILLION CYBER BUILDING. 
          AND SHE MADE THAT THE PS DEADLY RESISTANCE OF HER PRESENTATION. 
          AND, AND A GENTLEMAN IN THE, IN THE GROUP SHE TOLD ME, SAID, THAT'S CUTE. 
          SO YOU GUYS ARE SAN ANTONIO, YOU BUILT A $20 MILLION CYBER BUILDING THAT THAT'S, THAT'S NICE. 
          WE'RE AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, 
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HERE'S OUR $50 MILLION BUILDING. 
          AND ALL WE HAVE IS A GOLF COURSE AND AN ARMY FORT. 
          THE COMPETITION THAT WE'RE FACING IS GLOBAL LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABS. 
          THEY WANT TO BE A PIECE OF THIS. 
          THERE IS NOT A CITY, A COMMUNITY IN THIS COUNTRY THAT'S NOT INVESTING IN IT. 
          THE CHALLENGE IS NOT THAT WE NEED FINANCIAL SUPPORT BECAUSE WE CAN'T OPERATE WITHOUT FINANCIAL SUPPORT. 
          WE'LL MAKE OUR WAY THROUGH IT. 
          THE CHALLENGE IS WE'RE A SMALL BUSINESS AND WE'RE OUT THERE COMPETING ON THE GLOBAL STAGE. 
          THERE ARE GONNA BE TIMES WE NEED TO GO BACK TO OUR PARENT ORGANIZATION. 
          THERE ARE GONNA BE TIMES WE NEED TO GO TO OUR EMPLOYER ORGANIZATIONS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE RESOURCED UP FOR THE COMPETITION. 
          'CAUSE IT'S NOT GONNA WORK IF WE CAN'T GET IT TO THE SCALE WE NEED TO HAVE. 
          THAT'S THE TYPE OF SUPPORT THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED. 
          NOT ALL OF IT, FRANKLY, IS DIRECTLY FINANCIAL. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE MUNICIPAL ACTIVITIES THAT WE HAVE AND THE ABILITY TO CENTRALIZE THOSE ACTIVITIES, EVERY CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET'S GONNA NEED TO BE PROTECTING THEMSELVES. 
          IF THEY'RE ALL DOING IT INDEPENDENTLY, NOT ONLY DOES IT COST MORE, IT'S LESS EFFECTIVE CLUSTER. 
          THOSE TOGETHER WHERE YOU HAVE OTHER ASSETS, CORPORATE ASSETS, EDUCATIONAL ASSETS, THE FACILITIES, YOU'VE REDUCED THE COST AND YOU'VE IMPROVED THE EFFECTIVENESS. 
          AND THAT'S THE TYPE OF COORDINATED STRATEGY THAT WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT. 
          WE'RE SEEING THAT HAPPEN MORE AND MORE IN SAN ANTONIO, BUT WE'RE OPTIMISTIC THAT THIS COUNCIL IS GONNA HELP US GET THERE. 
          YOU KNOW, MY, UH, FELLOW COUNCILMAN BROUGHT TO, BROUGHT UP FOR DISCUSSION THAT THE ORIGINAL INTERPRETATION OF WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN WITH, UH, KELLY, WHEN IT CLOSED DOWN IT, IT MIGHT BECOME SOME KIND OF A MAJOR INTERSECTION FOR TRADE, UH, FREIGHT, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 
          UH, IS AIR TRANSPORTATION OR FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION INTO OR THROUGH SAN ANTONIO FOR SOUTH TEXAS STILL SOMETHING THAT WOULD FIT INTO THE MODEL THAT YOU'RE EXPLAINING ABOUT? THE AREAS THAT, UH, WE'RE EXPANDING INTO NOW, POSSIBLY, AND, AND, AND I SAY POSSIBLY GUARDED A CHALLENGE WITH BIG AIR FREIGHT IS YOU NEED TO HAVE A LOT OF SPACE FOR WAREHOUSES. 
          NOT ONLY ARE THOSE JOBS THAT DON'T PAY THAT MUCH MONEY RELATIVE TO WHAT ELSE WE'RE CREATING, BUT THEY TAKE A LOT OF SPACE AND THEY DON'T PUT A LOT OF JOBS IN ONE AREA. 
          THE CHALLENGE IS WE'VE GOT 1900 ACRES, GIVE OR TAKE ON THIS PROPERTY. 
          AND ON ONE HAND YOU CAN LOOK AT THAT AND SAY, JIM, THAT'S A TON OF SPACE. 
          I'M LOOKING AT THOSE HUNDREDS OF ACRES RIGHT ABOVE YOU. 
          WE ARE HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH THREE COMPANIES RIGHT NOW ABOUT PUTTING AVIATION, MANUFACTURING OR AVIATION SUSTAINMENT ACTIVITIES UP THERE. 
          IF WE FILL THAT UP WITH AIR CARGO ACTIVITIES, WE DON'T HAVE THE SPACE TO DO THIS. 
          AND WE ARE UNIQUELY POSITIONED. 
          SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS WELL POSITIONED TO BE A TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE HUB. 
          WE REALLY ARE POSITIONED TO BE THE PLACE WHERE YOU MANUFACTURE, DESIGN, INSTALL, AND TEST THOSE NEW ASSETS. 
          AND AT SOME POINT IN TIME, IT JUST BECOMES A CAPACITY ISSUE. 
          THAT'S NOT TO SAY WE WOULD ABSOLUTELY TURN DOWN ANY ACTIVITY, BUT ANY OF THOSE THREE COMPANIES THAT WE'RE TALKING TO TAKE THAT SPACE, WE NO LONGER HAVE ANY ROOM FOR THAT TYPE OF ACTIVITY. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          UH, NOT INITIALLY VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE IDEA OF LEAVING CITY HALL, UH, PARTLY OUT OF HABIT. 
          I'VE BEEN GOING THERE EVERY DAY FOR SIX YEARS. 
          UM, AND, UH, PARTLY BECAUSE, UM, I DIDN'T THINK ANYBODY WOULD COME. 
          UH, SO HERE WE ARE, UH, PROVEN WRONG. 
          SO THANK, UH, THANK YOU ALL ERIC AND THE TEAM FOR BRINGING ALL THE EQUIPMENT AND MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR CITIZENS TO HEAR ABOUT THE STUFF THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. 
          AND I HAVE, UH, RUDY LOPEZ, WHO'S THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT WHO'S HERE. 
          I DON'T KNOW RUDY, YOU'RE STILL HERE. 
          AND JOEY ALSO FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WHO REPRESENT THE AREA AROUND HERE, AROUND THE PORT PORT. 
          AND SO I'M GRATEFUL THAT THEY COULD COME AND PARTICIPATE AT TODAY IN TODAY'S MEETING. 
          UH, ALSO TO JUAN SOLIS, WHO IS MY BOARD APPOINTEE FOR HERE TO THE PORT. 
          AND, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JUAN AND I REALLY SHARE IN COMMON IS A DESIRE TO SEE OUR COMMUNITY PARTICIPATE IN THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE GROWTH OF PLACES HERE LIKE THE PORT. 
          AND SO YOU TOUCHED ON, UH, THE INTERNSHIPS, UM, AND THE COOPERATION WITH EDGEWOOD. 
          UM, AND YOU MENTIONED THE IDEA OF INTERNSHIPS. 
          AND I KNOW FROM A WORKFORCE PERSPECTIVE, WE'RE CHANGING SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE PREVIOUSLY FROM 
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SOME, FROM COOPERATION WITH THE COMPANIES WITH, FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, ST. 
          PHILIPS OR SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO MORE LIKE INTERNSHIPS. 
          UM, AND THAT MODEL, HAVE WE STARTED THAT ALREADY? DO WE ALREADY HAVE EXAMPLES OF WHETHER OR NOT IT'S A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM? YES. 
          UH, ONE PROGRAM THAT PROVES IT'S VERY SUCCESSFUL IS THE ALAMO ACADEMIES THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING FOR OVER 20 YEARS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          HERE'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE REALLY LIKE ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM. 
          IT'S OPENING PEOPLE'S EYES TO THE OPPORTUNITIES. 
          IT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO, I WAS AT A NEIGHBORHOOD BREAKFAST AND GAVE THE SAME BASIC PRESENTATION THAT I GAVE HERE AND TALKED ABOUT COMPANIES LIKE C N F AND IP SECURE, AND THE OTHERS WHO'VE STARTED UP AND DONE AMAZING THINGS. 
          A AND A, A VERY NICE WOMAN CAME UP TO ME, LITTLE OLD LADY. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S POLITICALLY CORRECTED MORE, BUT SHE'S WONDERFUL. 
          AND I'VE KNOWN HER FOR SOME TIME AND SHE SAID, JIM, YOU'RE MAKING A MISTAKE. 
          AND I SAID, WHY? WHY ARE WE MAKING A MISTAKE? AND SHE SAID, BECAUSE NONE OF THOSE JOBS ARE JOBS FOR THE NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          AND, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT UPSET ME A LOT AND IT UPSET ME BECAUSE WE HAVE A CHALLENGE ON THIS PROPERTY. 
          THERE ARE THINGS GOING ON THAT ARE GETTING GLOBAL RECOGNITION. 
          WE'VE BEEN IN AVIATION WEEK, WE'VE GOTTEN PRESS IN EUROPE. 
          IN ASIA. 
          THERE ARE GROUNDBREAKING WORK THAT IS GOING ON, AND IT'S NOT ALL BIG COMPANIES. 
          I MENTIONED, UH, C N F AND IP SECURE AND RECKON POINT AND PLUS ONE ROBOTICS. 
          THERE'S ANOTHER COMPANY IT'S NOW CALLED INTERTECH, CARNO EMISSIONS SYSTEMS. IT WAS STARTED BY A GENTLEMAN FROM THE SOUTH SIDE, NOT TOO FAR FROM HERE. 
          HE WENT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO, GOT HIMSELF EDUCATED, TOOK HIM A LITTLE BIT EXTRA TIME TO GET EDUCATED, GOT A JOB AT SWER, BEGAN DOING EMISSIONS TESTINGS ON ENGINES. 
          THEN HE DECIDED HE WANTED TO TRY IT ON HIS OWN. 
          SO HE GOT HIMSELF A SMALL BUSINESS LOAN. 
          WE GAVE HIM, AND THIS WAS BEFORE MY TIME, SO I'M NOT GONNA TAKE CREDIT FOR IT. 
          WE GAVE HIM A SMALL PART OF A SMALL BUILDING, NOT EVEN A VERY GOOD BUILDING OVER ON A CORNER OF THE PROPERTY. 
          THEY ARE NOW GROWING INTO A FACILITY THAT HAS 23 ENGINE TEST CELLS INSIDE IT. 
          HE IS DOING ENGINE WORK IN CHINA. 
          HE IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE TOP EMISSIONS COMPANIES ON THE PLANET. 
          IN FACT, HE GOT BOUGHT BY THE INTERTECH COMPANY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 
          STILL WORKS OVER THERE AS A GENERAL MANAGER THERE. 
          THE 7 47 8, WHEN BOEING SENT THE FIRST 7 47 8 DOWN HERE A COUPLE YEARS AGO, IT CAME DOWN WITH A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS A FIRST LINE MANAGER, AND HE WAS A GRADUATE OF ONE OF THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS, HAD GONE THROUGH THE ALAMO ACADEMIES PROGRAM AND HAD GONE OFF TO SEATTLE AND VOLUNTEERED TO COME BACK HERE FOR THIS PROGRAM. 
          THE REAL REASON THAT WE WANT TO DO THIS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IS WE DON'T EVER WANT PEOPLE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS OR ANYWHERE IN SAN ANTONIO SAYING, I CAN'T DO IT. 
          THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS GOING ON ON THIS PROPERTY THAT YOU CAN'T FIGURE OUT. 
          SO ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, AND I THINK RENEE, IS WE GET MORE DATA BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A NEW THING THAT WE'RE GOING TO INTERNSHIPS VERSUS TRAINING IN THE COLLEGES. 
          IS THAT RIGHT? HOW LONG DO YOU THINK IT WOULD TAKE US TO HAVE ENOUGH DATA TO SHOW WHETHER ONE MODEL WAS MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN THE OTHER? THANKS, COUNCIL. 
          GREAT QUESTIONS. 
          AND LEMME JUST BACK UP A LITTLE BIT AND, AND CONNECT SOME OF THE DOTS THAT JIM WAS MAKING IN TERMS OF COMPANIES THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH. 
          AND WE HAVE INCENTIVIZED THE REQUIREMENT THAT THOSE INTERNSHIPS ARE CREATED ARE ALL KIND OF LAYERED IN, ESPECIALLY WITH SOME OF THE COMPANIES THAT JIM MENTIONED. 
          SO WE'VE ALREADY BEGAN TO IMPLEMENT A LOT OF THE PROGRAMMING THAT THAT YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH. 
          IN TERMS OF INTERNSHIPS. 
          IT'S REALLY ACROSS THE BOARD. 
          UH, WE ARE STARTING TO DEVELOP INTERNSHIPS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL, AND AT THE FOUR YEAR UNIVERSITY LEVEL. 
          IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE SKILLS REQUIRED AND THE CERTIFICATIONS NEEDED. 
          SO IT'S REALLY HITTING ALL THREE BUCKETS AS AGGRESSIVELY IN EACH OF THEM. 
          SO IT JUST DEPENDS. 
          I I WOULD LIKE TO GET, YOU KNOW, I MEAN AT SOME POINT, IF WE HAVE ENOUGH DATA TO SHOW, LIKE PERHAPS WHAT'S A METHOD THAT WE SHOULD FOCUS ON, WHETHER OR NOT, YOU KNOW, UH, THERE'S ONE PARTICULAR WAY THAT SEEMS TO, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF, IF THE RIGHT MARKER WOULD BE HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT WENT THROUGH THE INTERNSHIP RIGHT, STAYED ON THAT JOB. 
          OR IF IT COULD BE JUST SIMPLY THE SALARY AFTER THAT, UM, PERSON WENT THROUGH THE INTERNSHIP. 
          AND I, I THINK WE COULD HAVE A NUMBER OF MARKERS, BUT THERE'S, THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT CAREER PATHWAY DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING INTERNSHIPS AND APPRENTICESHIPS GOING BACK TO AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, IS NOT ANY LONGER A TREND. 
          IT'S A NEW WAY OF, 
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UH, EDUCATING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. 
          SO IT'S ACTUALLY LIKE AN OLD, OLD WAY, RIGHT? AND THEN MAYBE WE'RE REVISING IT AGAIN. 
          WELL, YOU'VE SEEN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, YOU KNOW, THE LAST LEGISLATURE, NOT THIS ONE, HB FIVE, WHERE THEY BEGIN TO CREATE ALIGNMENT AND ENDORSEMENTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL WHERE KIDS ARE HAVING TO IDENTIFY THOSE PROFESSIONS AND INDUSTRIES THAT THEY WANNA WORK IN, LAYERED IN WITH, UH, INDUSTRY APPRENTICESHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS. 
          THAT, THAT IS A MODEL THAT'S BEING AGGRESSIVELY PURSUED. 
          AND IN FACT, IT'S THE MAJORITY OF THE H E B MONEY THAT YOU SEE INVESTED IN SA WORKS IS DIRECTLY, SPECIFICALLY TIED TO THIS ASPECT OF THE MODEL TEACHER EXTERNSHIPS AND STUDENT INTERNSHIPS. 
          SO WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS TRYING TO INTEGRATE ALL THAT IN TERMS OF THE DATA. 
          I ABSOLUTELY THINK THROUGH THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING WITH ESSAY WORKS, THAT WE'RE GONNA DEVELOP OUT THOSE PROOF POINTS IN TERMS OF RESEARCH AND DATA. 
          WE INTEND TO BRING THAT FORWARD WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. 
          OKAY, GOOD. 
          WELL, I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS KIND OF THE BEST SUCCESS. 
          SO I ALSO KNOW THAT THE PORT, YOU KNOW, IN MY MANY CONVERSATIONS WITH JUAN ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE, THAT JOB CREATION IS ONE OF THE TOP PRIORITIES OF THE ACTIVITY HERE AT THE PORT. 
          AND, UM, AND SO I WANNA JUST ASK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE GAMING, UH, BECAUSE I LEARNED ABOUT THE GAMING THING IN A VERY WEIRD WAY. 
          AND AT THE N L C CONFERENCE, MANY OF US WERE AT THE N L C CONFERENCE. 
          UH, I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF QUIET TIME AND, UH, WENT TO A RESTAURANT ALONE TO SIT QUIETLY AND ENJOY MY MEAL. 
          AND AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, THERE WAS ONE AVAILABLE SPOT AND IT WAS AT THE BAR. 
          SO I TOOK THE SEAT AT THE BAR SO I COULD TRY AND HAVE A QUIET MOMENT. 
          AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THE PERSON SITTING NEXT TO ME IS A PROMOTER OF THE GAMING INDUSTRY AND STARTS TELLING ME ABOUT THIS, THE, THIS GAMING MODEL AND HOW IT WORKS. 
          AND I HAD NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING. 
          AND SO IT WASN'T THAT LONG AGO, MY COLLEAGUES AND I, MAYBE EIGHT MONTHS OR SO, UH, ABOUT HOW THIS IS LIKE A REAL THING. 
          AND IT'S A HUGE IN, UM, ATTRACTION TO CITIES AND THE COMPETITION AND HOW IT WORKS. 
          AND I, I STILL, IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHY A CITY WOULD DO THAT. 
          BECAUSE OF COURSE, AS BEING A PROMOTER, HE WAS TRYING TO SELL HIS SERVICES TO OUR CITY TO BRING IN THIS GAMING THING. 
          SO HOW FAR ALONG ARE WE WITH THE GAMING? AND, AND I, I, I DON'T STILL UNDERSTAND HOW THAT BRINGS JOBS. 
          WELL, IT BRINGS JOBS SEVERAL WAYS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. 
          WE HAVE A VERY SMALL GAMING ARENA THAT OPERATES ON THIS PROPERTY THROUGH THE MUSEUM TO ANSWER WHY CITIES SHOULD CARE. 
          THEY JUST DIDN'T OVERWATCH CHAMPIONSHIP IN SEATTLE, 18,000 PEOPLE A DAY IN THEIR ARENA FOR THREE DAYS, A $250 AVERAGE TICKET PRICE. 
          COMPARE THAT TO THE FINAL FOUR, COMPARE THAT TO REALLY ANY SPORTING EVENT. 
          AND RIGHT THERE SHOWS YOU THAT THIS IS THE MONEY. 
          THIS IS WHAT HE WAS EXPLAINING TO ME, WHICH I STILL DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE WOULD COME, BECAUSE PEOPLE ENJOY IT. 
          I, FOR THE LIFE OF ME, DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE WATCH BASEBALL. 
          AND I PLAYED BASEBALL. 
          PEOPLE WATCH IT. 
          PEOPLE WILL WATCH PEOPLE PLAY GAMES THE WAY THAT IT CREATES JOBS THOUGH. 
          SO MY SON SAID HE WANTED A GAMING PC BECAUSE ALL THE BEST GAMERS PLAY ON PC. 
          THEY DON'T PLAY ON CONSOLES. 
          AND I SAID, THAT'S FINE, YOU CAN HAVE A PC, BUT YOU'RE GONNA BUILD IT. 
          SO WITH HELP FROM DAVID AND SOME OTHER FOLKS, AND IT WASN'T THAT HARD. 
          WE WENT OUT AND BOUGHT THE COMPONENT PARTS. 
          NOW THIS IS A BOY, I CAN'T GET TO STUDY, TO DO HOMEWORK, TO DO ANYTHING. 
          HE KNOWS PINGING RATES, HE KNOWS HOW TO MODIFY STUFF. 
          HE KNOWS HOW THE SOFTWARE WORKS. 
          HE KNOWS MORE ABOUT THAT COMPUTER THAN I DO. 
          AND THAT BECOMES THE CONNECTION. 
          THERE IS A PROGRAM ON THIS PROPERTY. 
          THERE'S ACTUALLY TWO THAT ARE AIR FORCE PROGRAMS MAINTENANCE NEXT AND PILOT NEXT. 
          AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF PILOTS AND THE NEXT GENERATION OF MAINTAINERS AND YOU KNOW, HOW THEY'RE DOING IT. 
          GAMES. 
          SO PILOTS NOW PLAY A GAME TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE A PILOT. 
          AND THIS DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT YOU SHOULD BE A FIGHTER PILOT OR A CARGO PILOT OR A TRANSPORT PILOT OR SOMETHING ELSE ON THE MAINTAINERS. 
          THEY'RE DEVELOPING SYSTEMS, SOME ON THIS PROPERTY WHERE IF YOU'RE WORKING ON AN ENGINE OR AN AIRCRAFT SYSTEM WITH YOUR GOGGLES, YOU PULL UP WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON, YOU PULL UP THE MAINTENANCE MANUAL, YOU THEN TORQUE THE BOLT TO THE RIGHT SETTING. 
          NOT ONLY DOES THE BOLT LIGHT UP GREEN TO SHOW YOU THAT YOU'VE TORQUED IT TO THE RIGHT SETTING IT AUTO UPDATES THE AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE MANUAL. 
          IF YOU DON'T HAVE THOSE SKILL SETS IN WHAT IS FRANKLY GAMING, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE EMPLOYABLE AT SOME POINT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. 
          SO, SO YOU, DO YOU HAVE THE CAPABILITY TODAY HERE AT THIS FACILITY TO HOLD THE GAMING? NO. 
          OKAY. 
          NO, THE, THE PLAN IS 
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WITH THE GAMING ARENA THAT YOU SEE HERE. 
          WE CAN PUT IN SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 2000 AND 3000 PEOPLE AT A TIME. 
          WE DON'T PLAN ON HOSTING THE BIG EVENTS THE WAY THAT THIS WORKS IN MOST COMMUNITIES. 
          YOU TAKE THE PHILADELPHIA ARENA, FOR EXAMPLE, IT'S NOT MUCH BIGGER THAN THIS. 
          THIS BECOMES THE HOME GROUND FOR THE LOCAL TEAMS. THIS BECOMES THE PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO. 
          THIS BECOMES A PLACE THAT YOU OPERATE 24 HOURS A DAY. 
          WE WON'T DO THAT, BUT SOME PEOPLE DO VEGAS, FOR EXAMPLE. 
          THEN WE ALLOW THE ALAMO DOME OR THE AT AND T CENTER, OR BOTH OF THEM TO BID ON THE BIG COMPETITIONS. 
          'CAUSE THE BIG COMPETITIONS, NOT ONLY CAN'T WE HOST HERE, FRANKLY, WE DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE HASSLE OF HOSTING 20, 30, 40,000 PEOPLE PER DAY. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EXPLAINING ALL THAT. 
          'CAUSE I, UM, STILL CAN'T QUITE GET IT, BUT MAYBE ONE OF THESE DAYS I WILL. 
          UM, AND SO I, I THINK THAT'S, UM, THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE, UH, FOR YOU. 
          UM, AND THANK YOU, UH, SO MUCH FOR BRINGING US HERE TO THE PORT FOR OUR FIRST EVER, UH, ON THE GO BE SESSION. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH, MA'AM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ. 
          COUNCILMAN GRO. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          I JUST WANTED TO OFFER MY THANKS TO, UH, YOU JIM, AND YOUR PRESENTATION AND ALL THE WORK THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING HERE. 
          UM, I THINK NOW WITH YOU AT THE HELM, WE REALLY ARE WORKING ON, UM, THE RIGHT FORGIVENESS, THE CYLINDERS THAT WE NEED TO ON THIS, UH, CAPACITY. 
          I DO WANT TO THANK DISTRICT THREE, UM, BOARD MEMBER MARIA LUIS ALVARDO. 
          THANK YOU FOR STEPPING UP AND WANTING TO SERVE. 
          I THINK YOU HAVE THE RIGHT SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES HERE ON THE PORT SAN ANTONIO BOARD, SO I'M VERY PROUD THAT YOU'RE HERE SERVING. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND TO THE ENTIRE BOARD, UM, FOR BEING RISK TAKERS, UM, BELIEVERS AS WELL AS VISIONARIES AND PERSISTENT. 
          SO I THANK YOU FOR ALL OF OF THE WORK AND HOW YOU CONTINUE TO MOVE THINGS FORWARD AND TO THE, UM, THE TENANTS, THE CLIENTS, EVERYONE WHO IS HERE, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN STAYING AND INVESTING AND CONTINUING TO INVEST. 
          SO WE APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE WE KNOW, AS YOU MENTIONED, UM, IT TAKES ALL THESE DIFFERENT TYPES OF ENGINES IN ORDER TO KEEP SAN ANTONIO, UM, UNIQUE IN SO MANY DIFFERENT, UM, CATEGORIES AND DIVERSE, UM, ECONOMIC GENERATION IN THIS CITY, BUT ALSO MAKING SURE THAT WE WORK TOGETHER. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          AND THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILMAN VIRON. 
          JIM, TO YOUR TEAM, TO THE BOARD, CHRIS, UH, ALL THE FOLKS THAT ARE IN THIS SUCCESS APP, AND CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING OUT. 
          ALRIGHT, OUR THIRD ITEM ON THE AGENDA TODAY IS THE DOCKLESS VEHICLE PILOT UPDATE. 
          JIM, THANKS FOR HAVING US OUT HERE, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          OUR LAST ITEM, UH, TODAY, UM, IS A, UM, B SESSION PRESENTATION ON, UM, OUR CURRENT DOCKLESS VEHICLE PILOT PROGRAM. 
          AS WELL AS, UH, SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO GO FORWARD. 
          I'M GONNA ASK, UH, LORI HOUSTON TO KIND OF KICK US OFF AND JOHN JACKSON WILL BE GOING THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU ERIC. 
          AND GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          ON OCTOBER 11TH, 2018, CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED OUR CURRENT DOCKLESS VEHICLE PILOT PROGRAM. 
          BY FEBRUARY OF 2019, LESS THAN FOUR MONTHS LATER, WE HAD SEVEN COMPANIES OPERATING UNDER OUR DOCKLESS VEHICLE PILOT PROGRAM WHO HAD 14,100 PERMITS FOR SCOOTERS AND 2000 PERMITS FOR BICYCLES. 
          THIS PROMPTED CITY STAFF TO RETURN TO CITY COUNCIL WITH SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MID PILOT AMENDMENTS THAT INCLUDED THINGS LIKE AN HOURS OF OPERATION. 
          SO WE IMPLEMENTED HOURS OF OPERATION BETWEEN 6:00 AM AND 11:00 PM WE ALSO MADE SOME CHANGES TO BETTER ALLEVIATE CONCERNS RELATED TO CLUTTER, SAFETY IMPACTS, AS WELL AS IMPACTS ON OUR STREET MAINTENANCE, UM, PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE OCCURRING IN THE EVENING. 
          THERE WAS ALSO SIGNIFICANT CONCERN BY SEVERAL OF THE STAKEHOLDERS AND COUNCIL THAT WE HAD TOO MANY SCOOTERS IN THE MARKET. 
          SO CITY STAFF RECOMMENDED A MORATORIUM ON ISSUING ANY MORE PERMITS UNDER THE DOCKLESS VEHICLE PROGRAM. 
          THE AMENDMENTS WERE ACCEPTED AT FEBRUARY 14TH, 2019 AT THAT COUNCIL MEETING. 
          AND NOW WE'RE HERE AT THE POINT WHERE THE SIX MONTH PILOT PROGRAM HAS ENDED. 
          AND WE HAVE LEARNED A LOT. 
          WE'VE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT THE 
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MARKET IN SAN ANTONIO FOR DOCKLESS VEHICLES. 
          WE'VE ALSO LEARNED WHAT AND WHO IS INTERESTED IN OPERATING IN SAN ANTONIO UNDER THIS PROGRAM. 
          WE'VE LEARNED WHAT WE DON'T WANT. 
          WE'VE LEARNED WHAT WE WANT, AND WE REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT WE NEED. 
          SO DOCKLESS VEHICLES CAN CONTINUE OPERATING IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE'VE LEARNED IN THE PILOT PROGRAM, CITY STAFF HAS ALSO COLLECTED DATA SURVEYED USERS WHO SURVEYED THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THEIR, UM, THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT THE DOCKLESS VEHICLE PROGRAM. 
          WE'VE INTERVIEWED NUMEROUS STAKEHOLDERS, WE'VE INTERVIEWED OTHER CITIES ABOUT HOW THEY'RE APPROACHING THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY, AND WE'VE ALSO PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL AND A SESSIONS, B SESSIONS AND COUNCIL COMMITTEES TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS AND INPUT ON HOW WE SHOULD CONTINUE. 
          AND THIS IS IN THE INFORMATION THAT WE USE TO HELP DEVELOP OUR NEXT STEPS AS WE PROCEED TO THE NEXT REITERATION OF OUR ORDINANCE FOR DOCKLESS VEHICLES AND STAFF WILL BE RECOMMENDING THAT WE INITIATE AN R F P PROCESS AND SELECT THREE DOCKLESS VEHICLE VENDORS TO OPERATE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          TODAY, JOHN JACKS IS GOING TO PRESENT THE RESULTS OF OUR PILOT PROGRAM, PROVIDE AN ANALYSIS OF THE DATA WE'VE COLLECTED. 
          HE'LL ALSO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PRESENT STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION FOR THE SELECTION OF THE THREE VENDORS TO OPERATE NO MORE THAN 5,000 DOCKLESS VEHICLES IN SAN ANTONIO THROUGH AN R F P PROCESS. 
          I'D LIKE TO THANK MANY OF THE STAKEHOLDERS, SOME WHO ARE IN THIS ROOM TODAY FOR ALL THEIR HELP. 
          AS WE'VE HELPED DEVELOP THIS PILOT AS WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS PILOT AND HELPED DEVELOP THIS RECOMMENDATION. 
          THESE INCLUDE TECH BLOCK, THE SAN ANTONIO RIVER AUTHORITY VIA CENTRO, THE SAN ANTONIO TOURISM COUNCIL VISIT, SAN ANTONIO HOTEL LODGING ASSOCIATION, AND MANY MORE. 
          AND I'D REALLY LIKE TO THANK THE SEVEN VENDORS THAT ARE CURRENTLY OPERATING IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE HAVE ALL COME TOGETHER TO WORK ON COLLECTING THIS DATA. 
          THEY'VE SHARED THIS DATA, AND WE ALL ARE MOVING FORWARD AS WE WORK ON HOW WE CAN WORK COLLABORATIVELY, COLLABORATIVELY AS WE CONTINUE THROUGH THIS PROCESS, WHICH INCLUDES THE R F P HERE. 
          TO PRESENT THIS INFORMATION IS JOHN JACKS, WHO IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS THE DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR ADMINISTERING THE PROGRAM. 
          UH, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. 
          MAYOR, UH, CITY COUNCIL. 
          THANK YOU ALL FOR, UH, BEING HERE TODAY. 
          UM, AS LORI MENTIONED, I'M GONNA GO THROUGH, UM, SOME DETAILS, UM, OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS, AS WELL AS WHAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING, UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          UH, AS LLOYD MENTIONED, THIS HAS NOT BEEN A, UM, AN ENDEAVOR THAT WE'VE DONE ALONE. 
          WE'VE HAD A LOT OF HELP, A LOT OF STAKEHOLDERS, UM, EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS AS SHE MENTIONED, BUT ALSO SOME, UM, INTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS. 
          IT'S NOT BEEN JUST, UH, OUR CITY C CENTER, CITY DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT, BUT WE'VE WORKED CLOSELY WITH OTHER, OTHER DEPARTMENTS. 
          UM, T C I, UH, OUR IT DEPARTMENT, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE INNOVATION, UH, PARTICULARLY SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT ON ENFORCEMENT. 
          SO IT'S DEFINITELY BEEN A TEAM EFFORT, UM, TO GET TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY. 
          UM, AS LORI MENTIONED, WE HAVE SEVEN COMPANIES THAT ARE CURRENTLY OPERATING HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, THERE'S A BREAKDOWN OF THE COMPANIES ALONG WITH THE, UH, NUMBER OF VEHICLES THAT THEY HAVE PERMITS FOR. 
          UM, I WON'T GO THROUGH EACH OF THEM, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE, UH, 16,100 PERMITS ISSUED. 
          UM, THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE HAVE 16,100 VEHICLES DEPLOYED ON A DAILY BASIS, BUT THAT'S THE NUMBER OF PERMITS THAT THEY, UM, HAVE BEEN ISSUED SO THEY COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE THAT MANY VEHICLES, UM, OUT THERE ON ANY GIVEN DAY. 
          UH, WE WENT THROUGH A SIX MONTH PILOT, UH, PROGRAM, UM, STARTING BACK IN OCTOBER. 
          AND JUST A QUICK RECAP OF THAT, UH, PROGRAM FOR YOU ALL. 
          UH, THE FEES WERE VERY, UH, LOW. 
          YOU ALL, YOU ALL DIRECTED US TO HAVE A LIGHT REGULATORY APPROACH TO THIS. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT WE DID. 
          UH, WE HAD A VERY LOW FEE OF ONLY $10 PER VEHICLE, WHICH AMOUNTED TO ABOUT 154,000 IN REVENUE THAT WE COLLECTED. 
          UM, WITH THAT REVENUE, WE DID SEVERAL THINGS THROUGH THE PILOT PROGRAM. 
          UM, A LOT OF IT EARLY ON WAS FOCUSED ON EDUCATION. 
          WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD, UM, HOW TO USE THE VEHICLES, UM, HOW TO RIDE SAFELY AND WHERE TO RIDE AND, AND HOW TO PARK THEM. 
          UM, WE ALSO USED SOME OVERTIME, UM, SS A P D OFFICERS, UM, TO START DOING ENFORCEMENT, UM, SPECIFICALLY FOR RIDING. 
          AND WE ALSO HIRED FOUR TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES IN THE, UH, C C D O DEPARTMENT IN OUR PARKING DIVISION, UH, TO BE OUT THERE CORRECTING VEHICLES, CORRECTING VEHICLES THAT WERE, UM, PARKED INCORRECTLY OR REPORTING, UM, LARGE NUMBER OF VEHICLES THAT MAYBE, UM, WAS TOO MUCH FOR THEM TO HANDLE. 
          UM, AND THEN ASKING THE COMPANIES TO RESPOND TO THOSE, TO THOSE VIOLATIONS. 
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WE ALSO CREATED, UM, WHAT I'LL CALL TEMPORARY PARKING ZONES. 
          IF YOU'VE, IF YOU'VE WALKED AROUND DOWNTOWN, YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THEM. 
          WE TOOK A LIGHTER, FASTER, UH, CHEAPER APPROACH TO THAT JUST TO SEE IF IT WOULD WORK. 
          UM, SO WE USED SOME TEMPORARY PAINT TO CREATE SOME PARKING ZONES ON SIDEWALKS, UM, TO SEE IF PEOPLE WOULD USE THEM. 
          AND, AND WE BELIEVE THEY ARE. 
          WE THINK THAT GIVING PEOPLE, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARK IN THE RIGHT PLACE, THEY WILL. 
          UM, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SEEING TODAY. 
          UH, WE ALSO SPENT A LOT OF TIME, UM, COLLECTING DATA, DATA FROM USERS, UH, DATA FROM THE COMMUNITY, UM, THROUGH SURVEYING, THROUGH PUBLIC STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS. 
          UM, AND I'LL GET INTO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL AS I, UH, PROGRESS THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. 
          UH, JUST TO RECAP, UM, YOU MAY RECALL BACK IN FEBRUARY, FEBRUARY, WE BROUGHT YOU SOME MIDPOINT OR MIDTERM AMENDMENTS, UH, THAT INCLUDED IMPOSING HOURS OF OPERATION, UM, THAT WOULD LIMIT WHEN SCOOTERS COULD BE RIDDEN. 
          UH, AND THAT WAS FROM 11:00 PM AT NIGHT TILL 6:00 AM IN THE MORNING. 
          UH, WE WERE SEEING A LOT OF ACCIDENTS OCCURRING, UM, IN, AT LATE NIGHT HOURS. 
          AND SO WE RECOMMENDED, UM, THAT WE HAVE THAT CURFEW IN PLACE. 
          UH, WE ALSO RECOMMENDED THAT WE, UM, COLLECT VEHICLES THAT ARE PARKED IN PROHIBITED AREAS, UM, LIKE THE RIVERWALK, UM, OR IF WE FOUND THEM IN THE RIVER, WE DIDN'T WANNA WAIT, UH, THE HOUR OR TWO HOURS THAT IT WOULD TAKE FOR A COMPANY TO COME, UM, MOVE THEM. 
          WE FELT THEY NEEDED TO BE CORRECTED IMMEDIATELY. 
          SO WE TOOK THAT ON, UM, AND DID THAT WITHOUT NOTIFICATION TO THEM. 
          UH, YOU ALSO RATIFIED THE MORATORIUM, SO WE STOPPED ISSUING PERMITS. 
          UM, THAT'S HOW WE HAVE SEVEN COMPANIES TODAY. 
          I WILL SAY THERE WERE OTHER COMPANIES THAT APPROACHED US AFTER, UH, THE MORATORIUM. 
          SO WE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY HAD EVEN MORE COMPANIES, UM, OPERATING HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          UH, YOU ALSO GAVE US THE AUTHORITY, AND I THINK THIS WAS THE BIGGEST IMPACT IN A LOT OF WAYS. 
          UM, THE AUTHORITY TO CREATE AREAS, UH, AND TIMES WHEN VEHICLES NEEDED TO BE REMOVED. 
          UH, THIS WAS BECOMING A PROBLEM FOR CENTRO SAN ANTONIO WHO MAINTAINS THE DOWNTOWN, UM, PARTICULARLY SIDEWALKS AND PRESSURE WASHING. 
          UH, THEY DO THAT MOSTLY AT NIGHT, UM, IN THE LATE HOURS. 
          AND THEY WERE HAVING PROBLEMS, PRESSURE WASHING WITH SO MANY VEHICLES PARKED ON THE SIDEWALK. 
          SO WE WORKED WITH CENTRO TO IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS THAT THEY WERE BEING IMPACTED THE MOST, AND ASKED OR REQUIRED, UH, THE COMPANIES TO REMOVE VEHICLES FROM THOSE AREAS. 
          UM, AND NOT LONG AFTER THAT WAS IMPLEMENTED, WE NOTICED WE SAW A MARKED DIFFERENCE, UM, WHEN WE GOT TO, UH, CAME BACK DOWNTOWN IN THE MORNING. 
          UM, WE ALSO USED THAT AND IMPLEMENTED THAT DURING FIESTA. 
          AND WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY, UM, WITH ALL THE COMPANIES, UM, TO DEVELOP A PLAN FOR FIESTA, PARTICULARLY AROUND THE PARADES AND THE PARADE ROUTES. 
          UM, THEY WERE VERY COOPERATIVE. 
          UM, WE HAD MULTIPLE MEETINGS AND MULTIPLE, UM, OPPORTUNITIES TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM, LEARN WHAT HAD WORKED OR NOT WORKED IN OTHER CITIES, AND IMPLEMENT THAT HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND I THINK WE HAD A SUCCESS. 
          I THINK, UM, IF YOU WERE DOWN HERE FOR THE PARADE, YOU MAY HAVE SEEN A FEW, UM, BUT WE DID NOT SEE THE PROBLEMS THAT OTHER CITIES HAD SEEN DURING EVENTS. 
          SO I THINK THAT WAS A BIG IMPACT. 
          UM, AND THEN FINALLY WE IMPLEMENTED, UM, AND ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO USE THOSE PARKING ZONES. 
          WE ALSO DID THAT DURING FIESTA, AND I THINK THAT MADE A BIG DIFFERENCE, UH, GETTING INTO SOME OF THE DATA. 
          UM, WE WERE, UH, BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT DATA, UM, SINCE NOVEMBER TO SEE WHERE PEOPLE ARE RIDING, UM, HOW VEHICLES ARE BEING DEPLOYED, WHEN THEY'RE BEING DEPLOYED, HOW THEY'RE BEING USED. 
          UH, THIS GRAPH GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT OF INSIGHT INTO WHAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING. 
          UM, SINCE THE SCOOTERS ARRIVED HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          UH, WE'VE HAD OVER 2.16 MILLION RIDES AND ABOUT A, UH, ONE, I'M SORRY, UH, 2.16 MILLION TOTAL RIDES AND 1.56 MILLION RIDES SINCE THE PILOT PROGRAM BEGAN. 
          AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE HERE IS ON THE TOP LINE, THAT'S THE NUMBER OF RIDES. 
          UH, IT PEAKED IN DECEMBER AT ABOUT 300,000, UM, CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE SEE IN DOWNTOWN AS FAR AS ACTIVITY AND, AND, AND VISITORSHIP. 
          THOSE NUMBERS DROPPED IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY AND THEN STARTED TO GO UP AGAIN, UM, IN MARCH AND APRIL. 
          THE BOTTOM LINE, THE ORANGE LINE, IS THE AVERAGE DAILY DEPLOYMENT ACROSS ALL OF THE COMPANIES. 
          UM, AND WHAT THAT SHOWS YOU IS THAT THE, UM, THAT IT'S A DEMAND DRIVEN MARKET. 
          THE COMPANIES ARE RESPONDING TO THE DE TO THE DEMAND. 
          SO THEY'VE STARTED TO DECREASE DEPLOYMENT, UM, BECAUSE THE DEMAND WAS NOT THERE. 
          AND TO THEM, THEY DON'T WANT VEHICLES SITTING OUT THERE THAT AREN'T GETTING USED. 
          UM, OPERATIONALLY THAT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO SUSTAIN. 
          SO THEY'VE STARTED TO ADJUST THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES THAT ARE DEPLOYED, UM, TO, TO RESPOND TO THAT DEMAND. 
          UH, SO WEEK, RIGHT NOW, WEEKDAY DEPLOYMENT CAN IN AVERAGES ANYWHERE BETWEEN 4,000 AND 6,000 VEHICLES. 
          THAT DEPENDS ON WHETHER, WHETHER THERE'S AN EVENT, WHETHER IT'S THE WEEKEND, UM, AND, AND EVEN THE COMPANIES THEMSELVES VARY IN DEPLOYMENT. 
          UM, BUT ON AVERAGE, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN FOUR AND 6,000 VEHICLES, UM, DEPLOYED DAILY. 
          SOME OF THE DATA, UH, THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO TO SEE IS VERY HELPFUL. 
          UM, 
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THE, THE CHART THERE ON THE LEFT, WHAT THAT'S SHOWING YOU IS THAT, UH, WHERE PEOPLE ARE LEAVING OR WHERE SCOOTERS ARE BEING LEFT OR WHERE THEY END A RIDE, AND THEN WHERE THEY BEGIN A RIDE. 
          AND WHAT WE DID IS WE LOOKED AT AREAS WHERE SCOOTERS ARE PROHIBITED, AREAS THAT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT BECAUSE OF EITHER HIGH PEDESTRIAN ACTIVITY OR EVENTS GOING ON, UM, OR THE SENSITIVITY OF THAT AREA. 
          SO WE LOOKED AT THE ALAMO HEMISPHERE AND LAVATA. 
          THAT MIDDLE COLUMN SHOWS YOU, UM, WHERE RIDES BEGIN IN A PROHIBITED AREA. 
          YOU'LL SEE THAT THOSE NUMBERS ARE VERY SMALL COMPARED TO THE COLUMN ON THE RIGHT, UM, WHERE IT SHOWS, UH, UH, WHERE THE NUMBER OF RIDES, UM, ENDED. 
          SO WHAT THAT'S TELLING US IS THAT PEOPLE ARE RIDING THEM TO THESE DESTINATIONS AND THEN THEY'RE BEING REMOVED. 
          SO WE THINK, UM, THIS SHOWS THAT THE COMPANIES ARE BEING RESPONSIVE WHEN VEHICLES ARE REPORTED IN PROHIBITED AREAS, THEY'RE BEING MOVED OUT OF THOSE AREAS. 
          OTHERWISE, THOSE, UH, COLUMNS WILL BE MUCH CLOSER, UM, IN NUMBER. 
          SO THE COMPANIES ARE DOING A GOOD JOB. 
          UM, AND THEN ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, WE'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT REAL TIME LIVE DATA, UM, TO TRACK WHERE SCOOTERS ARE AND AND BIKES, UH, ARE BEING RIDDEN. 
          AND WHAT THIS SHOWS IS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE USING EAST COMMERCE, UH, EAST HOUSTON STREET, SOUTH ALAMO STREET, UH, ALAMO PLAZA IS NOT ACTUALLY THROUGH THE PLAZA. 
          THAT'S THE STREET THAT RUNS PARALLEL TO ALAMO STREET, UM, ADJACENT TO THE PLAZA. 
          UM, SO BASICALLY, UH, THE EAST WEST CORRIDORS OF COMMERCE AND HOUSTON STREET AND NORTH AND SOUTH ON ALAMO. 
          UM, IT'S AN EXAMPLE OF, EXCUSE ME, FROM ONE COMPANY OF WHAT WE COULD USE THAT DATA FOR. 
          UM, SO ART AND T C I AND HIS TEAM FOR TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PURPOSES, UM, BEING ABLE TO USE THIS DATA TO MAKE DETERMINATIONS OF WHERE DO WE NEED TO ADD INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, WHERE DO WE NEED TO ADD BIKE CLAIMS? SO IT'S VERY USEFUL TO HAVE THIS DATA. 
          UH, OVER THE, UH, SIX MONTHS OR SINCE SEPTEMBER, WE'VE SEEN 155 ACCIDENTS REPORTED TO E M SS. 
          I WANNA EMPHASIZE THAT THESE ARE NUMBERS WHEN, UM, SOMEONE CALLS 9 1 1, UH, THESE ARE NOT SOMEONE WHO HAS AN ACCIDENT AND TAKES THEMSELVES OR, OR A FRIEND OR A, OR A FAMILY MEMBER, TAKES THEM TO A MEDICAL CLINIC OR A HOSPITAL. 
          THESE ARE JUST THOSE, UH, REPORTS TO E M SS. 
          UM, OF THE 155 ACCIDENTS, 92 PEOPLE WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL. 
          UM, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT SINCE FEBRUARY WHEN WE IMPLEMENTED THE CURFEW, UM, WE'VE SEEN A 36% DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS, UM, AND A 27% DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF TRIPS REQUIRING E M S. 
          AND SO THAT'S JUST WITH TWO MONTHS DATA. 
          UM, BUT WHAT THAT, UH, IS TELLING US IS THAT THE CURFEW THAT WE PUT IN PLACE, UM, IS RESULTING IN LESS ACCIDENTS, UH, PARTICULARLY IN, IN THE NIGHTTIME IN THOSE, UH, LATE HOURS. 
          UH, S A P D AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, AND PARKS POLICE ARE ALSO ENFORCING WRITING RIDERSHIP. 
          UH, THEY'VE ISSUED 72 CITATIONS AND 289 WARNINGS, UM, SINCE THE BEGINNING OF, UM, RIGHT AROUND JANUARY WHEN WE STARTED DOING, UM, STARTED REALLY FOCUSING ON ENFORCEMENT. 
          UH, SO THEY'RE REALLY OUT THERE EDUCATING THE COMMUNITY BY ISSUING A LOT OF WARNINGS. 
          UM, AND THEN WHEN, UM, THEY DO SEE A, A, UM, A EITHER CRITICAL OR POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SITUATION, UM, OR SOMEBODY WHO'S FREQUENTLY, UM, VIOLATING THESE, THEY WILL ISSUE A CITATION. 
          UH, I MENTIONED EARLIER WE DID A LOT OF OUTREACH, UM, AND THAT INCLUDED SURVEYS. 
          WE HAD TWO DIFFERENT SURVEYS. 
          WE HAD A USER SURVEY WHERE WE FOCUSED ON PEOPLE WHO, UM, HAD RIDDEN OR ARE RIDING SCOOTERS. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO HAD A COMMUNITY SURVEY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 
          I'M GONNA SHARE WITH YOU SOME OF THE RESULTS. 
          UM, FIRST OF THE USER SURVEY, WE HAD OVER 800 INDIVIDUALS TAKE THIS SURVEY. 
          UM, THINGS THAT WE, WE ASKED THEM WERE, HOW OFTEN DO YOU RIDE? UM, AND A LARGE PORTION OF THE, UH, INDIVIDUALS SAID, UM, OCCASIONALLY, BUT ONLY ONCE PER WEEK. 
          NOT MORE THAN ONCE PER WEEK, SOME MAYBE ONE TO THREE TIMES PER WEEK. 
          SO NOT A LOT OF FREQUENT, UM, USERS. 
          UM, AND THEN WE ALSO ASKED IF A DOCKLESS VEHICLE WAS NOT AVAILABLE, WHAT, WHAT ALTERNATIVE, UM, WOULD YOU HAVE USED OR WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE IF NOT FOR THAT DOCKLESS VEHICLE? UM, A LARGE MAJORITY OF INDIVIDUALS SAID THEY WOULD'VE JUST WALKED. 
          UM, AND THEN SOME SAID THEY WOULD'VE EITHER DRIVEN A PERSONAL CAR OR TAKEN UBER, LYFT. 
          UM, AND VERY FEW INDIVIDUALS SAID THEY WOULD'VE TAKEN A BUS, UM, OR USED, UH, SWELL CYCLE. 
          UM, WE ALSO ASKED HOW OFTEN ARE THEY USING DOCKLESS VEHICLES INSTEAD OF, UM, UM, OR ARE USING IT TO GET TO A BUS OR GET TO A BUS STOP. 
          UM, MOST PEOPLE SAID, NOT AT ALL, OR ONLY OCCASIONALLY. 
          SO, SO THE SURVEY TELLS US THAT NOT MANY PEOPLE, UM, ARE USING THESE, UM, TO GET TO A BUS STOP OR, OR TO GET TO ACCESS TO A BUS. 
          UM, WE ALSO ASKED THEM WHAT THEIR OPINION OF E SCOOTERS OR E-BIKES WAS IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          PROBABLY NOT SURPRISING THAT THERE WAS STRONGLY FAVORABLE. 
          'CAUSE AGAIN, THESE ARE INDIVIDUALS WHO, UM, SPECIFICALLY HAD RIDDEN OR RIDE, UM, SCOOTERS. 
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SO WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS, UH, PEOPLE THAT RIDE THEM LIKE THEM. 
          I ALSO MENTIONED WE HAD A COMMUNITY SURVEY WHERE WE OPENED IT UP TO ANYBODY, UM, ANYONE IN SAN ANTONIO OR ANYONE WHO HAD VISITED SAN ANTONIO. 
          IT WAS AVAILABLE, UM, ONLINE. 
          OUR, UH, G P A DID A GREAT JOB OF, OF PUSHING THIS OUT. 
          UM, A LOT OF YOU, WE ASKED YOU TO, TO, UM, SHARE IT AS WELL. 
          UM, WE WANTED TO REACH OUT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE COULD. 
          UM, WE HAD OVER 4,000 PEOPLE, UM, PARTICIPATE IN THIS SURVEY. 
          AND SO WE ASKED 'EM A A LOT OF DIFFERENT QUESTIONS. 
          UM, WE ASKED THEM, HOW OFTEN DO YOU USE DOCKLESS VEHICLES? A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO TOOK THE SURVEY SAID THEY'VE NEVER TRIED THEM OR NEVER USED THEM. 
          UM, SO WE DIDN'T GET, UM, A LOT OF RIDERSHIP, UM, THROUGH THIS SURVEY. 
          AND THAT'S WHY WE, UH, DID THE SURVEY THAT WAS DIRECTED SPECIFICALLY AT RIDERS. 
          BUT WE WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE COMMUNITY THINKS OF, OF THE DOCKLESS VEHICLES. 
          UM, WE ASKED THEM WOULD THEY LIKE TO SEE MORE OR LESS DOCKLESS VEHICLES IN SAN ANTONIO? UM, OVER ALMOST 60% SAID THEY WANTED TO SEE LESS. 
          SO OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, UM, SAID THEY WANNA SEE LESS VEHICLES IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, WE ALSO ASKED THEM IF IT IF IT MADE IT EASIER OR FASTER FOR PEOPLE TO GET WHERE THEY WERE, THEY NEEDED TO GO. 
          UM, SOME AGREED WITH THAT. 
          A LOT OF PEOPLE DID NOT, UM, OR THEY DID AGREE, SORRY. 
          UH, AND THEN FINALLY, WE ASKED WHAT THEIR OPINION OF DOCKLESS VEHICLE PILOT PROGRAM WAS, UM, IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND PEOPLE WERE EITHER NEUTRAL OR SLIGHTLY, UM, NOT, UM, IN FAVOR OF THAT. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, ONE VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION WE WANTED TO KNOW WAS, UM, WHAT'S YOUR OPINION OF ALLOWING, UH, SCOOTERS OR BIKES ON SIDEWALKS? UM, AND WE DID RECEIVE A, A NEGATIVE RESPONSE THAT PEOPLE WERE NOT IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING THEM ON SIDEWALKS. 
          UH, WE ALSO HAD A, UH, TELE TOWN, EXCUSE ME, A TELE TOWN, WHICH I THINK WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL. 
          UH, WE HAD ABOUT 740 PEOPLE PARTICIPATE IN THAT. 
          UM, IT INCLUDED MYSELF, LORI HOUSTON, UH, CAPTAIN, UH, BENAVIDEZ FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, AND ART REINHART WITH OUR T C I, UH, DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, WE HAD, UM, 25,000 CALLS THAT WENT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, WE MARKETED IT. 
          WE LET PEOPLE KNOW WE WERE DOING IT. 
          UM, WHAT WE FOUND WAS IT WAS FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ONLINE SURVEY. 
          UM, MOST PEOPLE WHO CALLED IN OR PARTICIPATED IN THE TELE-TOWN HAD NOT RIDDEN, UM, SCOOTERS. 
          UM, AND THEN TWO THIRDS OF THEM FELT THAT THERE WERE TOO MANY IN SAN ANTONIO, AND THEY HAD CONCERNS ABOUT CLUTTER BLOCKING SIDEWALKS, UM, AND PEDESTRIANS USING IN THE CONFLICT WITH PEDESTRIANS USING SIDEWALKS. 
          UM, SO BASED ON THE SURVEY, BASED ON INFORMATION, UM, THAT WE RE INPUT RECEIVED, RECEIVED FROM YOU ALL, UM, WE HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS GOING FORWARD. 
          THESE ARE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE WOULD, UM, RECOMMEND GO INTO EFFECT, UH, AT THE END OF THE R F P PROCESS. 
          WHEN THE R F P, WHEN THE THREE COMPANIES ARE AWARDED THE CONTRACT, UH, FIRST OF ALL, WE ARE RECOMMENDING THAT WE CONTINUE, UH, WITH THE HOURS OF OPERATION. 
          THE, THE CURFEW THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER, AGAIN, THAT WE DID SEE A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF INJURIES AND ACCIDENTS, UH, OCCUR AFTER WE PUT THIS CURFEW IN PLACE. 
          UM, SO WE BELIEVE THAT IT'S, WE SHOULD CONTINUE WITH THIS CURFEW. 
          UM, WE DO THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD LOOK AT MAYBE SIX MONTHS INTO THE, UM, INTO THE NEW RECOMMENDATION TO SEE, UM, HAS THE TECHNOLOGY CHANGED? HAVE THE SCOOTERS IMPROVED FROM A SAFETY PERSPECTIVE? UM, WE HAVE SEEN SOME, UM, VEHICLE, UM, UM, IMPROVEMENTS AND CHANGES, UH, IN JUST THE LAST YEAR. 
          UM, I THINK AS THE COMPANIES ARE RESPONDING TO THE USERS, EXCUSE ME, AND, UH, THE CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY, PARTICULARLY RIDING AT NIGHT WHEN IT'S MORE DIFFICULT TO SEE, UM, WE ARE RECOMMENDING THAT SIDEWALK RIDING NOT BE ALLOWED. 
          UM, THERE'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS IS THE PEDESTRIANS USING THE SIDEWALKS. 
          UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF THROUGH THE SURVEY OR THROUGH 3 1 1 CAUSING CONCERNS ABOUT NEAR MISSES, UM, OR PEOPLE WHO ARE HIT BY SOMEBODY RIDING A SCOOTER, UM, ON THE SIDEWALK. 
          IT'S OUR RECOMMENDATION THAT WE TREAT THESE, UM, AS MOTORIZED VEHICLES, JUST LIKE OTHER VEHICLES. 
          UM, IT'S MUCH SIMPLER AND EASIER, I THINK, FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND, UM, THE RULES WHEN WE'RE CONSISTENT WITH OTHER MODES OF TRANSPORTATION AND OTHER VEHICLES. 
          UH, SO WE ARE RECOMMENDING, UH, MOVING FORWARD THAT WE NOT ALLOW SCOOTERS TO BE RIDDEN ON SIDEWALKS. 
          UM, ANOTHER THING THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS THAT WE HAVE A 15 MILE PER HOUR SPEED LIMIT, UM, WHICH WOULD ACTUALLY BE, UH, THE, THE SCOOTERS THEMSELVES OR THE, WOULD OUR DEVICES WOULD BE GOVERNED, UM, SO THEY COULD NOT TRAVEL FASTER THAN 15 MILES PER HOUR. 
          UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THE C D C STUDY DONE IN AUSTIN, UM, WAS THAT SPEED WAS DEFINITELY A FACTOR IN A LOT OF THE ACCIDENTS. 
          UM, AGAIN, I, I, I THINK IT'S THAT THE VEHICLES HAVE NOT, UM, NECESSARILY CAUGHT UP, UH, SAFETY WISE TO THE, TO THE SPEED THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO GO. 
          SO WE ARE RECOMMENDING A 15 MILE PER HOUR 
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SPEED LIMIT. 
          UM, HELMETS WE ARE ENCOURAGING. 
          WE WILL ALWAYS ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO USE HELMETS AND RECOMMEND THEM. 
          UM, HOWEVER, WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING THAT WE REQUIRE THEM. 
          UM, SO WE ARE LOOKING AT, UM, OPPORTUNITIES, UH, FOR HELMET GIVEAWAYS AND, UH, ABILITY TO MAKE HELMETS MORE READILY AVAILABLE. 
          UM, I'LL GET INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL, UM, AS I GET INTO THE R F P PROCESS. 
          UH, AS FAR AS PARKING IS CONCERNED, WHEN WE STARTED THE PILOT PROGRAM IN OCTOBER, UM, WE, UM, WE HAD RULES ABOUT WHERE YOU CAN PARK, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE, UM, DESIGNATED PARKING AREAS. 
          SO DURING THE PILOT, UH, AFTER FEBRUARY, WE, WE CREATED THOSE DESIGNATED, UM, PARKING AREAS LIKE THAT I MENTIONED. 
          UM, AND WE DID SEE THAT PEOPLE WERE USING THOSE. 
          UH, SO GOING FORWARD, WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS, IS THAT WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THE OPERATORS, UM, THROUGH THE R F P PROCESS AND AFTER THE R F P PROCESS, UH, TO DEVELOP A, A, A GOOD REGULATORY FRAMEWORK OF WHERE SCOOTERS CAN BE PARKED AND WHERE THEY CANNOT BE PARKED. 
          UH, AND THAT COULD BE THROUGH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS. 
          IT WOULD BE THROUGH DEFINING AREAS SIMILAR TO WHAT WE'VE DONE TODAY, UM, MARKING THOSE AREAS, CREATING PARKING SPACES FOR THE VEHICLES, UM, BUT ALSO, UM, CLEARLY IDENTIFYING WHERE THEY'RE PERMITTED AND WHERE THEY ARE NOT. 
          UM, AND THAT WOULD BE THROUGH EDUCATION, WORKING WITH THE COMPANIES, UM, TO, TO, TO IDENTIFY THE BEST WAY, UH, TO EDUCATE EVERYBODY ON WHERE, UM, THE PROPER PLACES ARE TO PARK AND HOW TO PARK THEM CORRECTLY. 
          UM, I MENTIONED AT THE VERY BEGINNING THAT WE HAD A LIGHT REGULATORY APPROACH WHERE WE HAD FAIRLY LOW, UH, FAIRLY LOW FEE STRUCTURE. 
          UM, WE DID NOT MAKE CHANGES THAT IN FEBRUARY, GOING FORWARD THROUGH THE R F P PROCESS IN, IN OCTOBER, WE ARE RECOMMENDING A FEE INCREASE. 
          UM, THAT FEE INCREASE WOULD BE TO $100 PER VEHICLE. 
          UM, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT A ONE-TIME, FIRST YEAR, UM, ASSESSMENT TO HELP WITH INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS PARKING, UH, SCOOTER, CORRALS, OR, UH, OR DESIGNATED PARKING AREAS. 
          UM, AND THEN, UH, AS FAR AS NUMBER OF VENDORS ARE CONCERNED, UH, WHEN WE FIRST STARTED, UM, IT WAS AN OPEN APPLICATION PROCESS. 
          UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE A CAP ON THE NUMBER OF COMPANIES OR ON THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES. 
          UH, IN FEBRUARY, WE ISSUED A MORATORIUM. 
          UM, SO WE STOPPED ISSUING PERMITS. 
          UM, WE STOPPED INCREASING THE NUMBER OF PERMITS AND THE NUMBER OF COMPANIES. 
          UH, AND SO GOING FORWARD, WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS THAT WE LIMIT TO THREE VENDORS, UM, WITH A CAP OF 5,000 VEHICLES TOTAL, UM, BETWEEN ALL THREE VENDORS. 
          UH, SO TO EXPAND A LITTLE BIT ON THE BUDGET, UH, WHAT THAT WOULD DO FOR US, UH, HAVING A HUNDRED DOLLARS PER VEHICLE CHARGE, UM, WE CAN INCREASE THE S A P D OVERTIME SHIFTS THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE, SO WE CAN FOCUS, UH, MORE ON ENFORCEMENT. 
          UH, WE WOULD ALSO, UH, HIRE FULL-TIME PARKING, ENFORCE FOUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, UH, TO CONTINUE WITH VEHICLE CORRECTION AND ENFORCEMENT AND MONITORING OF THE CONTRACTS. 
          AND THEN, UM, THAT WOULD ALSO HELP WITH HELP US WITH PROGRAM OVERSIGHT, CONTRACT MANAGEMENT, THE PERMITTING PROCESS, UM, AND MONITORING OF THOSE CONTRACTS. 
          UH, AND THEN FINALLY, AND, AND VERY IMPORTANTLY IS, UH, IT WOULD GIVE, UH, CRAIG AND HIS TEAM THE ABILITY TO COLLECT THAT DATA, AGGREGATE THAT DATA, AND PROVIDE US AND T C I, UM, AND YOU ALL ULTIMATELY WITH AN ANALYSIS OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING, UM, TO HELP US WITH TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AS WELL AS, UM, ENFORCEMENT. 
          UH, SO TO KIND OF GET A LITTLE BIT OF DETAIL ABOUT, UM, WHY WE'RE MAKING THIS RECOMMENDATION, WHY WE'RE RECOMMENDING, UM, THAT WE HAVE A R F P PROCESS WITH THREE VENDORS AND, AND 5,000 DOCKLESS VEHICLES. 
          UM, THAT'D BE A TWO YEAR CONTRACT WITH THE OPTION FOR A ONE YEAR EXTENSION. 
          UM, BUT YOU MAY ASK WHY THREE VENDORS? HOW DID WE COME UP WITH THAT NUMBER? UM, WE FEEL WORKING WITH TECH BLOCK, WORKING WITH THE OPERATORS IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, WE FEEL THAT THREE OPERATORS IS A GOOD BALANCE. 
          IT, IT ALLOWS AND PROMOTES COMPETITION WITHIN THE MARKET. 
          UM, BUT IT ALSO HELPS US, UM, FROM A STAFF CAPACITY BE ABLE TO MANAGE, UM, THOSE COMPANIES AND THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES THAT, THAT WE'RE SEEING. 
          UM, IT'S DIFFICULT, UM, TO MONITOR. 
          IT'S DIFFICULT TO ENFORCE WHEN YOU HAVE SEVEN DIFFERENT COMPANIES ALL DEPLOYING IN THE SAME LOCATION. 
          IT BECOMES CONFUSING AS TO WHOSE VEHICLE, UM, IS IN VIOLATION. 
          UM, IT'S VERY UNWIELDY. 
          UM, SO WE THINK OPERATING WITH THREE VENDORS, WE CAN WORK MUCH CLOSELY WITH THEM AND GET A MUCH BETTER RESULT AND A MUCH BETTER, UM, PARTNERSHIP WITH THOSE COMPANIES TO HAVE BETTER RESULTS. 
          UH, HAVING THREE COMPANIES, UM, WOULD, WOULD HELP IN THE CLUTTER OF DOWNTOWN HELP DECLUTTER, IF YOU WILL. 
          UH, WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS, IS THAT WE HAVE SEVEN COMPANIES WHO ARE ALL COMPETING FOR THE SAME CORNER. 
          UM, AND SO THEY'RE EACH DEPLOYING IN THE SAME AREA IN VERY CLOSE PROXIMITY, UH, WHICH CREATES CONGESTION ON THAT, THAT CORNER. 
          UM, WHEN ONE VEHICLE FALLS, A LOT OF VEHICLE FALLS, 
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OR A LOT OF VEHICLES WILL FALL, KIND OF A DOMINO EFFECT. 
          UM, SO WE THINK BY HAVING ONLY THREE COMPANIES, WE'RE REDUCING THAT AMOUNT OF SPACE THAT THEY NEED. 
          UM, AND WE'LL SEE A MUCH NEATER, UM, CLEANER, UH, AND MORE ACCESSIBLE DOWNTOWN. 
          WE ARE RECOMMENDING THAT WE HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY, UM, IN THE R F P PROCESS TO EITHER ADD MORE PERMITS FOR MORE VEHICLES, UM, IF WE SEE THAT THE DEMAND, UM, IS THERE, UM, WE WOULD LIKE THE ABILITY TO ADD SOME MORE VEHICLES TO RESPOND TO THAT DEMAND, BUT ONLY IF WE SEE THINGS HAVE IMPROVED. 
          UM, OR IF WE SEE THAT THERE'S A, A, A, THE DEMAND IS BEING MET, MAYBE DOWNTOWN, BUT THERE'S A DEMAND ELSEWHERE. 
          AND BY ADDING SOME PERMITS AND VEHICLES, WE COULD MEET THAT DEMAND, UM, SOMEWHERE ELSE. 
          WE WOULD ALSO, UM, RECOMMEND SOME FLEXIBILITY TO ADD ANOTHER OPERATOR OR ANOTHER VENDOR. 
          IF WE SEE THAT, UM, THERE'S A NEW TECHNOLOGY OR A NEW MODEL THAT'S, THAT'S SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS THAT WOULD PROVIDE SOME BENEFIT, UM, WE WOULD'VE THE ABILITY TO ADD ANOTHER OPERATOR, UM, UM, THROUGH A PERMIT PROCESS. 
          UM, YOU MAY ASK WHY 5,000 VEHICLES? HOW DID WE GET TO THAT NUMBER? UM, WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'VE SEEN, AND WHAT I SHOWED YOU EARLIER IS THAT, UM, THE, THE DEMAND AND SUPPLY ARE STARTING TO BALANCE OUT. 
          WE'RE STARTING TO SEE, UM, A, A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES THAT ARE BEING DEPLOYED, UM, TO MEET THAT DEMAND. 
          UM, AND THAT'S BETWEEN THAT FOUR AND 6,000 RANGE THAT WE'RE SEEING DEPLOYED, UM, AND USED ON AVERAGE ON A DAILY BASIS. 
          UM, WE ALSO THINK THAT, UM, WITH THE COMMUNITY INPUT, WITH INPUT FROM YOU ALL, EVERYONE, UM, UM, IS ASKING, UM, FOR REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES. 
          I THINK WE SEE THE NUMBER THAT ARE DOWN, UH, IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. 
          UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE DEFINITELY NEED TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES, UM, THAT ARE ON OUR SIDEWALKS. 
          UM, HAVING IT 5,000 WITH THREE COMPANIES, UM, IT STILL ALLOWS THE COMPANIES TO OPERATE AT SCALE. 
          UM, THEY NEED TO HAVE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF VEHICLES OUT THERE, UM, TO BE ABLE TO OPERATE EFFICIENTLY, UM, AND PROFITABLY, UM, IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND REALLY THROUGHOUT SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, WE THINK HAVING THREE, UH, COMPANIES WITH 5,000 VEHICLES ALSO GIVES US SOME DIVERSITY OF THE TYPES OF VEHICLES, UM, THAT WE MAY SEE INSTEAD OF JUST LIMITING IT, SAY TO ONE. 
          UM, AND THEN FINALLY, AGAIN, IF WE HAVE, UM, THAT SOME NEW TECHNOLOGY, OR WE SEE SOME AREAS THAT ARE MAYBE BEING UNDERSERVED AND WE COULD INCREASE THOSE PERMITS, WE'RE LOOKING FOR THAT FLEXIBILITY IN THIS PROCESS. 
          WE LEARNED A LOT, I WOULD SAY, FROM THIS PILOT PROGRAM. 
          UM, THAT WAS REALLY THE PURPOSE OF THE PILOT PROGRAM. 
          IT WAS A NEW, UH, MODEL NEW TECHNOLOGY. 
          UM, IT WAS NEW TO THE ENTIRE COUNTRY, SO WE NEEDED THAT TIME TO ANALYZE IT, TO EXPERIENCE IT, AND TO UNDERSTAND IT. 
          UM, AND, AND REALLY THAT'S WHERE THE PILOT PROGRAM WAS VERY HELPFUL. 
          WE WERE ABLE TO WORK WITH THE COMPANIES, SEE HOW THEY OPERATE, SEE WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T WORK, UM, MEET WITH STAKEHOLDERS, TALK TO THE COMMUNITY, UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CONCERNS WERE, UM, SO WE COULD LEARN FROM THAT AND FOCUS ON ISSUES AND, AND COME UP WITH, UM, RESOLUTIONS TO SOLVE THOSE. 
          UH, IT GAVE US THE TIME TO COLLECT DATA AND HAVE THE SURVEYS AND GET THAT COMMUNITY INPUT AND THAT COMMUNITY FEEDBACK. 
          UM, WE'RE SEEING THAT THIS R F P PROCESS IS A MODEL, UM, THAT A LOT OF OTHER ENTITIES ARE ADOPTING, NOT JUST CITIES, BUT ALSO UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, UM, ARE GOING TOWARDS GOING TO THIS R F P MODEL. 
          SO WE THINK IT'S A GOOD SOLUTION, UM, TO HELP US WITH, WITH THE, UH, THE DOCKLESS VEHICLES THAT WE'RE SEEING CURRENTLY DEPLOYED. 
          UH, THE EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR THE R F P UH, WILL INCLUDE EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, AND FINANCIAL CAPACITY. 
          THAT WOULD BE 25 POINTS. 
          UH, THE QUALITY OF THE PROPOSAL WOULD BE 40 POINTS. 
          UH, ECONOMIC TERMS, 10 POINTS, UH, S BETA PRIME CONTRACT PROGRAM WOULD BE 10 POINTS. 
          UH, AND THEN 10 POINTS FOR THE LOCAL PREFERENCE PROGRAM. 
          AND WE'LL ALSO INCLUDE THE, UH, VETERAN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS PREFERENCE PROGRAM, UM, FOR FIVE POINTS. 
          SO JUST TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, INTO DETAIL ON HOW WE'LL, UM, HOW WE'LL SCORE THIS, UM, EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, AND FINANCIAL CAPACITY, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FOR THOSE COMPANIES THAT HAVE DEMONSTRATED, UH, THE EXPERIENCE AND THE ABILITY TO MANAGE THE FLEETS THAT THEY HAVE, UM, ABILITY TO WORK IN MULTIPLE MARKETS. 
          UM, SO NOT JUST A SINGLE MARKET VENDOR, UM, PROFESSIONALISM, UH, THEIR LOCAL STAFFING PLAN. 
          SO WHAT IS THEIR PLAN? UM, THEIR OPERATIONS PLAN AND THEIR OPERATIONS TEAM THAT'LL BE ON THE GROUND, UH, IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          UH, AND THEN FINALLY, THE FINANCIAL CAPACITY TO COMPLETE THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT. 
          UH, WE'LL ALSO BE SCORING ON QUALITY PROPOSAL. 
          UM, SO WE WANNA KNOW WHAT, UH, WHAT IS THEIR STAFFING PLAN? UM, HOW ARE THEY GOING TO STAFF, UH, SAN ANTONIO, HOW ARE THEY GOING TO, UM, HAVE STAFF THAT ARE ADDRESSING OUR CONCERNS AND RESPONDING TO OUR NEEDS? UH, WHAT IS THEIR SERVICE 
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AND OPERATIONAL PLAN? WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO TO PREVENT RIDES AND PROHIBITED AREAS? UM, HOW ARE THEY GONNA, HOW ARE THEY GONNA HAVE AN ORGANIZED DEPLOYMENT AND, AND PARKING? UM, WHAT INSURANCE COVERAGE WILL THEY HAVE, NOT ONLY FOR THE CITY, BUT FOR RIDERS, UM, AND THIRD PARTIES. 
          UM, WHAT, WHAT DOES THEIR USER AGREEMENT LOOK LIKE, UM, WHEN SOMEONE RENTS A VEHICLE, WHAT, WHAT IS IN THAT USER AGREEMENT? UM, THESE ARE NOT THINGS, THESE ARE NOT ALL THE THINGS THAT WOULD BE IN THE R F P, BUT THESE ARE REALLY THE HIGHLIGHTS. 
          UM, THERE MAY BE OTHERS THAT WE CAN ADD, UM, BASED ON INPUT FROM YOU ALL TODAY. 
          UM, AND THROUGHOUT THE, UH, THE REST OF THE PROCESS, UH, WE WANNA KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING FOR SAFETY. 
          UM, FOR RIDER SAFETY, UH, WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO TO PROMOTE, UM, SAFE RIDING? ARE THEY GONNA HAVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS, CAMPAIGNS? UH, WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF THEIR, OF THEIR VEHICLE? THE SAFETY FEATURES. 
          UM, WE WANNA KNOW, UH, WHAT, HOW SAFE IS THE VEHICLE? WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO IMPROVE IT? WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO TO IMPROVE THAT VEHICLE? UM, SO WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE ON A SAFE VEHICLE. 
          UM, RIDER EDUCATION, VERY IMPORTANT THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE RULES, UM, WHERE TO PARK, HOW TO RIDE. 
          UM, WE'VE SEEN THAT VERY EARLY ON, AND WE WANT TO CONTINUE THAT, UH, THROUGH THE COMPANIES AS WELL. 
          UH, WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW WHAT ARE THEIR MAINTENANCE PLANS? HOW OFTEN DO THEY MAINTAIN THE VEHICLES? DO THEY DO INSPECTIONS? UM, WHAT IS THEIR PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT THE VEHICLES THAT ARE OUT THERE ARE PROPERLY MAINTAINED, UM, AND ARE SAFE? AND THEN FINALLY, A, A QUALITY CONTROL PLAN AS WELL. 
          UH, ECONOMIC TERMS, WE'RE GONNA BE ASKING EACH VENDOR, UH, UH, TO MEET A REQUIREMENT, UM, TO HAVE A, A PROPOSED PERMIT FEE STRUCTURE THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER, BUT ALSO ASK FOR ADDITIONAL REVENUE SHARING, UM, OPPORTUNITIES. 
          SO WHERE ARE THEY WILLING TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL REVENUE, UM, TO HELP US WITH THEIR, UH, WITH THEIR PROGRAM. 
          SO REAL QUICKLY, THE EVAL, THE MAKEUP OF THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE. 
          UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT HAVING FOUR CITY REPRESENTATIVES, UH, THREE STAKEHOLDERS THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE TECH COMMUNITY, DOWNTOWN STAKEHOLDER, UH, AND SOMEONE FROM THE TOURISM INDUSTRY. 
          AND THEN FINALLY, THREE NEIGHBORHOOD REPRESENTATIVES. 
          THE SELECTION PROCESS WOULD, UH, FIRST START BY EVALUATE THE, THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE WOULD EVALUATE AND SCORE THE PROPOSALS, AND THEN SHORTLIST THOSE FOR INTERVIEWS. 
          UM, AND THEN WE WOULD BE ABLE TO SUBMIT ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS AND REQUEST THE BEST AND FINAL OFFER, UM, FROM, FROM A SHORT LIST OF CANDIDATES. 
          UM, AND THEN WE WOULD INTERVIEW AND SCORE AGAIN, UH, AND THEN BRING A, UH, THAT TO YOU AT A B SESSION FOR A BRIEFING. 
          UM, AND THEN FINALLY, CONSIDERATION OF THE THREE VENDORS AT A CITY COUNCIL A SESSION. 
          UH, SO NEXT STEPS, UH, WOULD BE A MAY 30TH, A SESSION THAT WOULD BE TO, UH, ADOPT THE PERMIT EXTENSIONS, UM, ENDORSE THE R F P APPROACH. 
          UH, THE R F P PROCESS. 
          THE R F P WOULD BE ISSUED IN EARLY JUNE, UH, CITY COUNCIL BRIEFING IN SEPTEMBER. 
          UH, AND THEN CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERATION IN OCTOBER. 
          UH, AND THAT WOULD BE WITH, UH, A RECOMMENDATION FOR THREE VENDORS. 
          UM, AND ALSO THE POLICY AMENDMENTS THAT I COVERED EARLIER, UH, SO THAT THE NEW VENDOR START DATE WOULD BE 30 DAYS AFTER CITY COUNCIL ACTION. 
          UH, YOU MAY BE WONDERING, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO IN THE INTERIM DURING THE R F P PROCESS? UH, WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS, IS THAT AS THE PERMITS EXPIRE, UH, BECAUSE THE COMPANIES RECEIVE PERMITS AT DIFFERENT TIMES, THEIR PERMITS ALL EXPIRE ON, ON VARIOUS DIFFERENT DATES. 
          WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS THAT WE, AS THOSE PERMITS EXPIRE, WE ISSUE THEM AN EXTENSION OR ANOTHER PERMIT. 
          UH, AND WE PRORATE THAT THROUGH THE END OF THE R F P PROCESS. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO THAT WE, UH, REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PERMITS THAT THEY RECEIVE BY 50% IF, UH, THEY CURRENTLY HAVE OVER A THOUSAND PERMITS. 
          UM, WHAT THAT DOES, IT, IT'S A MORE EQUITABLE APPROACH. 
          UH, FOR THOSE THAT DON'T HAVE VERY MANY PERMITS, THEY WILL STAY WHERE THEY ARE. 
          UH, FOR THOSE THAT HAVE A, A MUCH LARGER NUMBER OF PERMITS, IT'LL BRING THEM CLOSER IN LINE WITH EVERYBODY ELSE. 
          UM, AND THEN EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A PERMIT THAT EXPIRES AT THE END OF THE R F P PROCESS. 
          UH, COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ AT OUR TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETING, YOU ASKED US TO LOOK AT, UH, SOME OF THE, UH, PLANS, UM, THAT THE CITY IS EITHER ADOPTED OR IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON, TO SEE HOW DOES THIS PROGRAM FALL IN LINE, UM, WITH THOSE. 
          SO WE TOOK THOSE FOUR PLANS, REVIEWED THEM. 
          UM, AS FAR AS THE SA CLIMATE READY PLAN, UM, IT DOES RECOMMEND, AND WE THINK THAT THIS, THAT THESE SCOOTERS AND THIS DOCKLESS VEHICLE PROGRAM MEETS THIS GOAL. 
          UM, AND THAT WOULD BE TO INCREASE CARBON TREE VEHICLE USE, UM, AS WELL AS AFFORDABLE TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS. 
          UH, THE SA TOMORROW PLAN RECOMMENDS, UM, ONE OF ITS GOALS IS TO HAVE MULTIMODAL OPTIONS. 
          UM, WE THINK THE SCOOTERS ALSO FULFILL THAT GOAL. 
          UM, AND IT ALSO RECOMMENDS THAT WE USE, UM, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES, UM, TO MEET SOME OF THOSE, UM, TRANSPORTATION DEMANDS. 
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AND, UM, THE G P SS ABILITY, THE, THE EASE OF USE OF, OF RENTING A SCOOTER, I THINK, UM, WOULD FALL IN LINE WITH THAT. 
          UM, ALSO, THE HOUSING POLICY. 
          THE HOUSING POLICY RECOGNIZES THAT TRANSFER TRANSPORTATION IS A HURDLE, UH, TO AFFORDABLE, UM, HOUSING. 
          AND WE THINK THE AFFORDABILITY OF THE SCOOTERS FALLS IN LINE WITH THE HOUSING POLICY, UM, OF PROVIDING AFFORDABLE TRANSPORTATION OPPORTUNITIES, UH, PARTICULARLY THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET THAT FOR THAT LAST MILE BETWEEN MAYBE SOMEONE'S HOME IN THE NEAREST BUS STOP. 
          UH, AND THEN FINALLY, UH, THE GOALS OF THE, UH, CONNECT SA ARE TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY, UH, PROVIDE MORE CHOICES IN TRANSPORTATION. 
          WE THINK THAT DEFINITELY ADDING SCOOTERS ADDS ANOTHER CHOICE. 
          UM, IT ALSO RECOMMENDS THAT WE LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY. 
          UM, AGAIN, THE, THE G P S APP-BASED SYSTEM MAKES IT VERY EASY TO FIND AND USE THIS TRANSPORTATION. 
          UM, AND ALSO RECOMMENDS THAT, UM, UH, WE ENHANCE ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION AND, UM, HAVING, UH, A ROBUST, UM, SCOOTER PROGRAM, UM, HOWEVER WE NEED TO REGULATE IT, UM, DOES PROVIDE, UM, ENHANCED, UH, ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION. 
          UH, JUST A QUICK UPDATE, UM, ON SSB 5 49. 
          SENATE BILL 5 49 WAS INTRODUCED, UM, BY SENATOR WEST OUT OF DALLAS. 
          UM, IT, IT DOES SEVERAL THINGS THAT ARE IN LINE WITH WHAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING, UM, AS FAR AS, UH, NOT ALLOWING TO RIDE TWO RIDERS PER VEHICLE, UM, LIMITING RIDING ON 35 MILE PER HOUR OR LESS STREETS. 
          UM, ONE THING IT DOES DO THAT WE HAVE NOT BEEN DOING IS IT RECOMMENDS OR IT, UM, WOULD REQUIRE, UH, SIDEWALK RIDING TO, TO BE PROHIBITED OR NOT ALLOWED. 
          UM, IT ALSO INCLUDES A 15 MILE PER HOUR, UM, SPEED LIMIT EITHER, UM, FOR STANDING AND 20 MILES PER HOUR FOR SITTING. 
          THAT BILL WAS PASSED OUT OF THE SENATE, UM, A FEW WEEKS AGO. 
          AND IT IS CURRENTLY IN THE, UH, HOUSE TRANSPORTATION, UH, COMMITTEE. 
          UM, SO IT'S YET TO BE, UH, CONSIDERED, UH, BY THE HOUSE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, BUT WE'RE DEFINITELY MONITORING THAT TO SEE, UM, WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH THAT BILL. 
          AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. 
          I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION, JOHN. 
          UM, THIS, UH, THIS ITEM WAS FORWARDED TO THE FULL COUNCIL FROM THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE. 
          SO I'M GONNA ASK OUR CHAIR OF THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE TO SPEAK FIRST ON THE ITEM. 
          COUNCILMAN SALDANA. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          AND, AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE HAVE THE ENTIRE COUNCIL TO, TO REALLY, YOU KNOW, CHEW ON THIS AND GET TO AN ULTIMATE FINAL PRODUCT. 
          AND, AND REALLY THIS IS WHAT THIS ENTIRE PROCESS HAS BEEN LIKE IN OUR TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE. 
          UH, IT'S BEEN A CON, A CONTINUAL EDITING PROCESS, AND, AND IT HASN'T INCLUDED THE FULL COUNCIL. 
          SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO EDIT WITH EVERYBODY'S INPUT. 
          BUT LET ME FIRST SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE GAME OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION IS A TRICKY ONE BECAUSE YOU, YOU, YOU REGULATE TOO MUCH, YOU KNOW, YOU, UH, UPSET THE BUSINESS. 
          YOU DON'T REGULATE ENOUGH, YOU UPSET THE CONSUMER. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, JUST THINK OF EXAMPLES AROUND, YOU KNOW, THE, OUR FOOD INSPECTIONS FOR, FOR, FOR THE RESTAURANTS WITHIN OUR CITY. 
          MAYBE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE BEING REGULATED TOO MUCH, BUT IN THE CASE OF, OF REGULATING FOOD, THERE'S A SENSE OF SAFETY, PUBLIC SAFETY, THAT OUR COMMUNITY EXPECTS CERTAIN THINGS. 
          I THINK WE'VE PULLED AND TEASED AWAY AT THIS DOCKLESS SCOOTERS TO SAY THAT THERE ARE ASPECTS OF A LOT OF THOSE ELEMENTS, PUBLIC SAFETY, BEING RESPECTFUL TO BUSINESSES WHO WANT TO OPERATE. 
          UM, SO I THINK THAT THAT'S ULTIMATELY WHAT THIS HAS BEEN. 
          UH, WE, WE STARTED WITH VERY LITTLE IN TERMS OF A REGULATORY STANDPOINT, WHERE THE CITY WAS GOING INTO, BECAUSE MAYBE THE STAKES WEREN'T AS HIGH. 
          WE'VE BELIEVED AS, YOU KNOW, FOOD SAFETY AND, AND REGULATIONS FOR THE RESTAURANTS THAT PEOPLE EAT. 
          UH, BUT WE SOON FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS SOME ISSUES WITH PUBLIC SAFETY, MAYBE NOT TO THE EXTENT THAT, YOU KNOW, WOULD BE AN OUTBREAK OF, OF SALMONELLA OR SOMETHING TO THAT EXTENT, BUT EXTENT. 
          BUT STILL, WE HAD FOLKS WHO WOULD, UM, SORT OF GET BACK TO US THROUGH EMAIL, GET BACK THROUGH US, THROUGH, UH, COMMENTING US, OR THEY WOULD SEE AND SEE US AND TELL US THAT WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT, UH, TOO MANY SCOOTERS ON THE STREETS. 
          SO LET ME SAY THAT WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF FEEDBACK. 
          WE WANT TO GET TO THE POINT WITH THE FULL, UH, COUNCIL'S CONSENSUS, UH, TO AN AGREEMENT THAT HOPEFULLY MEETS SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE. 
          BUT LET ME TIP MY HAT TO THE, UH, THE INDUSTRY, UH, IN THIS RESPECT. 
          BECAUSE AS A, AS A BUSINESS, YOU COULD, YOU COULD SAY THAT ANY REGULATION IS TOO MUCH. 
          YOU, YOU COULD NOT BUDGE AND SAY, WE DON'T SUPPORT ANY OF THAT. 
          BUT I THINK I'VE SEEN QUITE THE CONTRARY FROM, UH, THOSE DOCKLESS, UH, SCOOTER COMPANIES WHO'VE BEEN WANTING TO OPERATE WITHIN THE CITY AND WITHIN RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
          AND THEY'VE OFFERED US FEEDBACK AND SAID, HEY, IF YOU THINK THAT, UM, THERE'S A CERTAIN SAFETY RATIONALE FOR A SPECIFIC MEASURE OR REGULATION, WE CAN CONSIDER THAT AND WE WILL FOLLOW SUIT. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE I THINK WE'RE HEADING TO, UH, WITH THE R F P PROCESS, WHICH I'M A FAN OF. 
          AND, AND I THINK IS IN, IN SPEAKING TO THE QUALITY CONTROL OF WHAT ULTIMATELY IS THE REGULATIONS, UH, BETTER TO WORK WITH THREE THAN, THAN SEVEN, AND BETTER TO WORK WITH A UNIVERSE OF 5,000 SCOOTERS, UH, RATHER 
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THAN 14. 
          AND SO, UM, HERE WE ARE, AND I WANNA ASK A FEW QUESTIONS. 
          I WANT TO CHECK PAGE 14 IF WE CAN. 
          JOHN, THIS IS THE QUESTION OF IS THIS PROGRAM GONNA PAY FOR ITSELF OR DO WE HAVE TO COME OUT OF OUR OWN BUDGET TO PAY FOR THIS? SO THAT'S THE QUESTION I POSED TO YOU. 
          UH, YEAH. 
          SO, UM, WE DID DEVELOP THIS FEE STRUCTURE BASED ON WHAT WE THINK, UM, OR WE ESTIMATE THAT OUR COST RECOVERY NEEDS WOULD BE. 
          UM, SO WE LOOKED AT, UH, WHAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED THROUGH THE SIX MONTHS OF THE PILOT PROGRAM, UM, USING OUR, UH, OUR TEMPORARY PARKING ENFORCEMENT FOR EXAMPLE, UH, OUR, OUR PART-TIME OR OUR OVERTIME POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, ALSO, WE, WE, UM, LEARNED A LOT ABOUT WHAT WE NEEDED TO, UH, TO CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION, UH, THOSE, THOSE DESIGNATED SCOOTER PARKING ZONES. 
          SO WE WERE ABLE TO LEARN REALLY, WHAT IS IT, WHAT DOES IT TAKE, UH, FOR US TO ADMINISTER THIS PROGRAM? SO THIS, THIS FEE IS BASED ON, UM, COST RECOVERY FOR THIS. 
          SO YOU'VE SEEN THE EXPENSES, YOU'VE SEEN WHAT WILL BE THE REVENUE OUTBREAK WITH THIS FEE ADJUSTMENT. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND YOU'RE CONFIDENT IN SAYING THAT THE PROGRAM IS GONNA PAY FOR ITSELF AND THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO HAVE TO SET ASIDE A LINE ITEM? YES, SIR. 
          WE'VE STUDIED THIS VERY, UH, CLOSELY. 
          UM, UH, THAT'S REALLY WHAT, WHERE THE SIX MONTHS WAS VERY HELPFUL FOR US TO SEE WHAT DOES IT REALLY TAKE, UH, TO ADMINISTER THIS ENFORCEMENT AND, AND, UM, AND, AND REALLY PRO THIS PROGRAM, THE, THE CAMPAIGNS, THE EDUCATION, ALL THAT WAS VERY HELPFUL TO, TO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, SO QUICK HEADLINE FOR, FOR FOLKS WHO MAY NOT WANNA DIG INTO ALL THE DETAILS, BUT WANT TO KNOW WHEN WE'RE GOING TO REDUCE THE NUMBER. 
          UH, IT'S NOT COMING OVER THE SUMMER, YOU'RE SAYING, BECAUSE OF THE PROCESS. 
          THE R F P, IT'S 30 DAYS AFTER THE, WELL, WELL, THERE, THERE WILL BE A, LEMME GET BACK TO THE, UH, THIS KIND OF INTERIM PROCESS. 
          SO AS EACH COMPANY'S PERMIT EXPIRES, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, RAZOR, I'LL PICK RAZOR ON, ON MAY 29TH, THEIR PERMIT WOULD EXPIRE. 
          THEY'RE AT A THOUSAND. 
          SO THEY'LL STAY AT A THOUSAND. 
          UH, LEMME USE A BIRD, FOR EXAMPLE. 
          BIRD PERMIT EXPIRES ON JUNE 20TH. 
          RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE A PERMIT FOR 4,500 VEHICLES. 
          WE WOULD ISSUE THEM A NEW PERMIT FOR 2,250. 
          UH, SO EFFECTIVELY WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE STARTING TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PERMITS THAT ARE OUT THERE. 
          UM, AND THEN THEY'LL, IT'LL COME DOWN TO ABOUT 8,850 FROM THE 16,000 THAT IT'S AT NOW. 
          SO THERE'LL BE A SLOWLY SLOW DECREASE AS EACH COMPANY'S PERMIT EXPIRES, UM, IF THEY HAVE OVER A THOUSAND VEHICLES. 
          SO SAY THAT LAST PART AGAIN, A DIFFERENT WAY. 
          SO 16,000 IS THE CURRENT PERMIT, AND THAT WE ARE GOING TO ULTIMATELY PHASE OUT TO HOW MANY, SO RIGHT NOW THERE'S, THERE'S 16,100 PERMITS THAT HAVE BEEN ISSUED. 
          WE'RE PHASING OR ARE REDUCING DOWN BY ABOUT 50% TO 8,850 PERMITS. 
          BUT THAT'S, YEAH, BUT THAT'S BEFORE THE R F P. 
          SO THAT'S NOT THE ULTIMATE. 
          IT, IT'D BE DURING THE R F P. 
          SO IT'D BE OVER THE COURSE OF THE SUMMER. 
          SO THERE WILL BE A REDUCTION. 
          UM, IT WILL NOT BE TOWARDS THE AIM, WHICH IS 5,000 UNTIL WE GET TO THE, TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE  UNTIL, UNTIL THE OCTOBER TIMEFRAME. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, I JUST HAVE TWO, TWO, UM, OPINIONS ON, ON SLIDE. 
          UH, THE LAST SLIDE THAT GIVES US THE, THE THREE COLUMN MATRIX, UH, THE BEFORE THE PRESENT, AND THEN THE FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          SORRY, I DIDN'T GET THE PAGE NUMBER 13. 
          GOTCHA. 
          YEAH, SO JUST TO TWO OPINIONS ON MY PART, AND I HOPE THAT THE REST OF THE COUNCIL WILL, WILL WEIGH IN, BUT I, I AM, I AM IN, I'M IN SUPPORT OF, OF, UH, REMOVING THE, THE ACCESS TO SIDEWALKS. 
          I THINK THAT THERE'S, THAT IF WE'RE TRULY LISTENING TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO'VE GIVEN US FEEDBACK, A LOT OF FOLKS ARE, ARE REALLY, UH, VOCAL ABOUT, ABOUT THAT POSITION AND THAT PIECE. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, WE, I THINK WHEN WE, WE INITIALLY STARTED THIS, THIS WAS THINKING ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE, THE SCOOTER RIDER, UH, NAMELY BECAUSE WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE DANGER OF PUTTING THEM ON THE STREETS MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND WE HAVE AN ENTIRE, YOU KNOW, POLICY DISCUSSION AROUND WHY, WHY STREETS ARE NOT SAFE, BUT FOR VEHICLES. 
          UM, AND SO WE HAVE WORK TO DO, BUT WE SHOULDN'T BE DOING IT NECESSARILY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE, THE WALKER OR THE PEDESTRIAN, UH, ON THE SIDEWALK. 
          SO I'M NOT WILLING TO TRADE ONE FOR THE OTHER AND SAY, WE SHOULD KEEP THE SCOOTERS ON THE SIDEWALKS FOR THE SAKE OF KEEPING FOLKS ON SCOOTERS SAFE. 
          I THINK WE SHOULD, I, I MEAN, I MEAN, I'M TAKING THE FEEDBACK AND GOING THROUGH THIS EDITING PROCESS AND REALIZING THAT THAT'S WHAT I'VE HEARD THAT FOLKS MM-HMM. 
           ARE NOT FANS OF, OF SCOOTERS ON SIDEWALKS. 
          SO I LIKE THAT WE LANDED THERE. 
          UM, LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING THE FEEDBACK FROM OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          THE OTHER PIECE THAT I'M SORT OF, I HAVE A PERSONAL OPPOSITION TO, BECAUSE OF A CONSISTENCY ARGUMENT IS THE QUESTION OF THE, THE HOURS OF OPERATION AND THE CURFEW. 
          AND IT'S, I WILL TAKE YOUR POINT THAT YOU CAN REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF SAFE, OF, OF ACCIDENTS IF YOU STOP THE SCOOTERS AFTER 11. 
          I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE, BUT YOU'RE TREATING SCOOTERS DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU WOULD VEHICLES, BECAUSE I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THIS DURING THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETING. 
          YOU SEE THE SAME SPIKE IN 
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ACCIDENTS FOR, FOR VEHICLES. 
          UM, BUT WE DON'T REDUCE VEHICLE TRAVEL AFTER 11:00 PM AND THE ARGUMENT THAT WAS BACK AND FORTH BEING MADE AT THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE IS, LOOK, YOU, YOU DO HAVE ACCIDENTS, UH, MORE ACCIDENTS AFTER 11 IN A SCOOTER, BUT SOME FOLKS ARE USING THEM TO, TO GET HOME AFTER, YOU KNOW, A SHIFT AT A, AT A, AT A LATE RESTAURANT OR A, OR, OR A BAR DOWN AT THE RIVERWALK. 
          SO THEY, THEY COULD STILL USE THOSE AS A COMPONENT. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, WE CERTAINLY ARE TREATING THESE SCOOTERS A TRANSPORTATION OPTION DIFFERENTLY THAN WE ARE VEHICLES, UM, THAT ARE JUST AS DANGEROUS AFTER 11:00 PM. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S WHY, IN TERMS OF MY POSITION, IT'S ONE ABOUT CONSISTENCY. 
          UM, I, THAT MAY NOT BE SHARED BY EVERYBODY ON THE COUNCIL, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE, UH, THAT POINT. 
          AND SO TALK TO ME AGAIN, WHY, WHY WE'VE LANDED ON 11:00 PM IF, UH, WE, WE SAW A, A KIND OF SPIKE, IF YOU WILL, IN ACCIDENTS AFTER THAT TIMEFRAME. 
          UM, WE BELIEVE THAT THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT WERE USING THE SCOOTERS AT THE TIME WERE, WERE NOT USING THEM, UM, TO GET FROM POINT A TO B. 
          UM, THEY WERE BASICALLY OUT JUST RIDING AROUND, UM, LATE IN THE EVENING. 
          UM, WE DO THINK THAT THIS IS A POINT THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT AGAIN, UM, IN, IN OUR RECOMMENDATION WE TO COME BACK AND LOOK AT IT WITHIN SIX MONTHS, WORK WITH THE THREE OPERATORS, UM, TO SEE WHERE IS THERE OPPORTUNITIES? IS THERE A DEMAND FOR AN ACTUAL, A REAL TRANSPORTATION CONNECTION FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S, UM, USING IT WHEN THEY GET OFF WORK, PERHAPS. 
          UM, I ALSO THINK, UH, AS THE VEHICLES, UM, ADAPT, UM, AND BECOME SAFER, UM, THAT RIDING AT NIGHT WOULD GET MUCH SAFER AS, AS WELL. 
          SO I THINK IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE LOOK AT AGAIN, AND, AND TRANSITION INTO, UM, IF, IF IT'S POSSIBLE. 
          AUSTIN, FOR EXAMPLE, DID WE LEARN ANYTHING? THEY HAVE A 24 HOUR PROCESS. 
          IS IT, IS IT SIMILAR IN THE, IN THEIR EXPERIENCE, ACCIDENTS? THEY DID NOT HAVE ACCIDENTS. 
          THEY DID NOT HAVE A CURFEW. 
          BUT THE, THE C D C STUDY DID SHOW THAT THERE WERE ACCIDENTS, UM, HAPPENING AT, HAPPENING AT NIGHT. 
          UM, AND, AND THERE WERE SEVERAL FACTORS THAT THEY, UM, THOUGHT MIGHT BE CONTRIBUTING TO THAT. 
          AND IT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN HERE AS WELL, UM, THAT AT NIGHT IT'S HARD TO SEE THE SURFACES OF THE ROAD. 
          UH, THERE MAY BE CRACKS, POTHOLES, INCONSISTENCIES WITH WHEN THE WHEELS ARE THAT SMALL, YOU JUST DON'T SEE IT. 
          AND IT'S, AND IT'S CAUSING, UM, THE ACCIDENTS. 
          UM, AND, AND SPEED WAS ANOTHER FACTOR, UM, THAT, THAT, THAT C D C STUDY FOUND. 
          UM, AND I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED THE SIDEWALKS. 
          I, I THINK WHAT WE SAW TOO IS THAT AS PEOPLE ARE TRANSITIONING TO AND FROM SIDEWALK TO STREET BACK AND FORTH, UM, THAT TRANSITION IS ALSO AN AREA WHERE ACCIDENTS OCCUR. 
          AND THAT'S AN AREA WHERE AT NIGHT IT MIGHT BE HARD TO SEE THAT THERE'S A GRADE SEPARATION, FOR EXAMPLE, BETWEEN A, A PARKING LOT, UM, CURB RAMP VERSUS THE, THE PAVEMENT. 
          ALRIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU, JOHN. 
          I KNOW YOU'VE GOTTEN, YOU KNOW, AS SMART AS POSSIBLE ON THIS ISSUE, AND I'M SURE IT'S, THANK YOU. 
          UH, SOMETHING YOU'RE PROUD OF THAT I'LL, YOU SHOULD, YOU SHOULD INCLUDE ON YOUR RESUME. 
          YOU ARE A DOCKLESS SCOOTER, UH, EXPERT AT THIS POINT. 
          BUT, UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT THE OUTCOME OF, UH, OF TODAY'S CONVERSATION IS. 
          AND I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO, UH, OCTOBER, BECAUSE I WON'T BE HERE, WHICH IS GOOD FOR ME, BECAUSE WHAT THIS COUNCIL WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IS SEVEN APPLICANTS AND ONLY THREE CHOSEN WINNERS. 
          UH, SO, UH, JACK OR JOHN, IF YOU COULD DO ME A FAVOR AND ENSURE THAT THIS PROCESS IS RUN AS TIGHTLY AS POSSIBLE SURE, ABSOLUTELY. 
          SO THAT THE FOLKS WHO DIDN'T GET SELECTED AREN'T COMING TO MY COLLEAGUES AND TELLING 'EM ABOUT HOW UNFAIR THE PROCESS WAS. 
          YES. 
          AND, AND I WOULD PREDICT WE HAVE MORE THAN SEVEN APPLY. 
          THERE'S, THERE'S MORE OUT THERE. 
          YEAH. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SURE. 
          THANK YOU, JOHN. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN SALDANA. 
          COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ. 
          UM, THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, SO, UH, I DON'T KNOW. 
          MOST OF MY COLLEAGUES KNOW THAT I WAS NOT IN SUPPORT OF AN R F P PROCESS. 
          I'M ALWAYS IN SUPPORT OF A B SESSION TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATION, BUT I DON'T SUPPORT AN R F P PROCESS. 
          I THINK THE ONLY PERSON, THE ONLY GROUP THAT THIS BENEFITS IS STAFF. 
          AND I THINK YOU SAID YOU DON'T WANNA DEAL WITH MORE THAN THREE COMPANIES, AND THAT'S THE ONLY REASON FOR THIS R F P PROCESS. 
          SO, UM, I FEEL THAT ALREADY IT'S THINGS ARE WORKING THEMSELVES OUT. 
          UM, I BELIEVE, AND I HAVE MENTIONED THIS ALREADY MANY TIMES, THAT I THINK, UM, THIS IS IN COMPLETE OPPOSITION FOR TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES. 
          WHAT I REALLY WANTED TO SEE IS NOT A REDUCTION AND NOT AN R F P, BUT HOW THE CITY INCORPORATES ALTERNATIVE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT MY QUESTIONS WERE REGARDING, UM, THE FOUR PLANS, UM, FOR CLIMATE READY AND SA TOMORROW CONNECT SA AND HOUSING, NOT WHETHER OR NOT SCOOTERS ARE GOOD. 
          WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE AN ALTERNATIVE FORM OF TRANSPORTATION. 
          UM, AND AN R F P PROCESS DOESN'T MAKE IT CONSISTENT. 
          AN R F P PROCESS IS SIMPLY FOR YOUR BENEFIT STAFF, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH SO MANY COMPANIES. 
          SO I, I MEAN, I, I, I DON'T THINK THAT THIS 
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IS NECESSARY. 
          I BELIEVE THAT WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING AS A CITY, AGAIN, IS NOT LIMITING OPTIONS AND NOT LIMITING COMPANIES THAT WANNA COME IN. 
          AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, WE WOULDN'T DO THIS WITH PRIVATE AUTOMOBILES. 
          WE WOULDN'T DO IT WITH PRIVATE BICYCLES. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ONLY DOING IT IN THIS PARTICULAR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE WE AS A CITY HAVE NOT CAUGHT UP WITH, UH, ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATIONS. 
          AND WE CONTINUE TO BE, UH, YOU KNOW, SECOND OR THIRD OR FOURTH PLACE CITIZENS WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A PRIVATE AUTOMOBILE. 
          AND SO I REALLY WISH THAT THIS PROPOSAL WOULD HAVE SHOWN MORE OF, WE ARE INVESTING IN MORE, UH, PARKING FOR ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATIONS. 
          WE ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, ADDING MORE BIKE LANES SO PEOPLE CAN MOVE SAFELY. 
          UM, WE ARE, UH, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES AND NOT COME FORWARD WITH AN ALTERNATIVE THAT JUST RESTRICTS COMPANIES. 
          SO I, I'M, I'M VERY OPPOSED TO THIS, UH, R F P, BUT I, I WANTED TO LET MY COLLEAGUES KNOW WHY, WHERE MY OPPOSITIONS LIE. 
          BUT I DO HAVE JUST, UM, JUST ONE OR TWO QUESTIONS REGARDING THE R F P PROCESS. 
          SO YOU MENTIONED ABOUT THE 5,000 VEHICLES. 
          UM, AND SO HOW WOULD THAT, WAS THAT THE R F P WILL DETERMINE HOW MANY PER COMPANY? OR ARE YOU TRYING TO DO SOME SORT OF EQUAL DISTRIBUTION OR, UM, WHAT MIGHT THAT, HOW, HOW WOULD THOSE BE SPLIT UP BETWEEN THE SURE. 
          THAT, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          SO WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING THAT WE EQUALLY DISTRIBUTE IT, UM, AMONGST THE THREE COMPANIES. 
          WE'RE, UH, LEAVING IT OPEN TO, TO SEE WHAT THE DEMAND OR THE, WHAT THE REQUEST IS FROM THE COMPANIES. 
          THERE MAY BE SOMEBODY, MAYBE A SMALLER COMPANY THAT MAYBE CAN'T, UH, DOESN'T NEED THAT, UH, THAT MANY PERMITS OR CAN'T MEET, UM, THAT CONTRACTUAL REQUIREMENT TO HAVE A, A CERTAIN NUMBER. 
          SO WE'RE LEAVING THAT OPEN TO, UH, TO, ONCE WE DETERMINE WHO THE THREE COMPANIES ARE, AND THEN, UM, WORK WITH TO DETERMINE WHAT'S AN APPROPRIATE NUMBER OF, UH, VEHICLES FOR THEM. 
          UM, BUT WITH A CAP OF 5,000 TOTAL. 
          SO IT MAY, IT MAY TURN OUT THAT IT IS AN EQUAL DISTRIBUTION IF ALL THREE COMPANIES, UM, WANT THE SAME AMOUNT. 
          UM, BUT THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DECREASE IT FOR ONE, OR INCREASE IT, UM, FOR ANOTHER BASED ON THEIR ABILITY TO OPERATE AT, AT A DIFFERENT SCALE. 
          SOME COMPANIES HAVE LESS VEHICLES, UM, SOME HAVE MORE SO THAT WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT A MORE FLEXIBLE, UM, CONTRACT CONTRACT WITH EACH ONE OF THEM. 
          AND SO I ALSO FEEL LIKE IN THE, THE R F P, OR NOT IN THE, BUT IN THIS PROCESS OF LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION, THERE WOULD'VE BEEN SOME FEE BUILT IN NOT JUST AS STAFF TO MAINTAIN, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THERE WAS THIS, THE STAFF IS, UH, THAT'S PART OF THE FUNDING IS TO GO TO PAY FOR THE STAFF, BUT THAT YOU COULD EVEN CHARGE ACCORDINGLY TO PAY FOR WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE A PARKING STATION OR A DOCKING STATION OR A PICKUP STATION, AND REQUIRE THE COMPANIES TO PAY FOR THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS VERSUS, UM, LIMITING AN R F P IN THAT REGARD. 
          SO IS THERE ANY ADDITIONAL, UM, I, I, YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE GOING DOWN THE ROAD ON THIS PROCESS THAT I DON'T SUPPORT, BUT, UM, WAS THERE ANY EVER DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW THOSE, UH, COMPANIES MIGHT PAY, NOT JUST FOR STAFF, BUT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE? UH, WE ARE. 
          SO WE'RE, WE'RE, UM, WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS THAT WE HAVE A HUNDRED DOLLARS PER VEHICLE, UM, FEE, AND THEN ALSO A FIRST YEAR ASSESSMENT FOR INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE, UM, SCOOTER, CORRALS, DESIGNATED PARKING AREAS. 
          UM, WE'RE STILL TRYING TO DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT THAT, UM, FEE WILL BE. 
          WE'RE ACTUALLY OUT THERE NOW ESTIMATING WHAT IT WOULD COST TO MANUFACTURE AND INSTALL, UM, SCOOTER RACKS. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD DETERMINE THROUGH THE R F P PROCESS. 
          WHY WOULD THAT BE? I MEAN, WHY NOT JUST HAVE IT BE THE SAME AS BICYCLE RACKS? DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO WELL, THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. 
          UM, SO THERE'S NOT A, UH, THERE'S NOT A OFF THE SHELF, IF YOU WILL, PRODUCT THAT WE CAN, UM, PURCHASE FOR SCOOTERS. 
          THE SCOOTER RACKS MAY, UM, BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. 
          SOME OF THEM MAY ACTUALLY HAVE THE, MAY HAVE THE ABILITY TO CHARGE, UM, THE VEHICLE. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS, AND THAT'S, THAT WILL BE PART OF THAT, UH, WORKING WITH THE THREE COMPANIES, DETERMINE WHAT'S THE BEST, UH, TYPE RACK AND, UH, TO BE ABLE TO USE FOR ALL THREE DIFFERENT VEHICLES. 
          UM, SO IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW THAT WE NEED THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, AND SO WE'RE BUILDING THAT INTO THE CONTRACT WITH EACH OF THE COMPANIES. 
          SO, THANK YOU. 
          AND SO MY LAST COMMENT IS, YOU KNOW, EVEN THIS MORNING WE WERE GOING THROUGH OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UH, FOR THE, UM, TWO PARTICULAR AR AREAS OF TOWN. 
          ONE OF THEM, UH, THE MED CENTER AND THE OTHER, THE U T S A AREA. 
          AND IN BOTH SCENARIOS, WHAT CAME UP WAS A DESIRE FOR SAFE ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATIONS. 
          AND WHILE THEY DIDN'T SPECIFICALLY SAY WE WANT MORE SCOOTERS, UH, WHAT EVERY, 
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WHAT THEY DID SAY, AND, AND, AND THERE WERE SOME QUITE SENIOR PEOPLE IN THAT GROUP SAYING, WE WANT AN ALTERNATIVE SAFE TRANSPORTATION OPTION. 
          AND I THINK AS THESE, UM, UH, TECHNOLOGIES EVOLVE, WE STILL KNOW THAT THE SCOOTERS ARE STILL PRIMARILY FOR ABLE-BODIED PEOPLE. 
          THAT'S WHY IN YOUR SURVEY, WHEN ASKED WHAT OTHER MODE OF TRANSPORTATION YOU USED, UH, A GREAT, A BIG LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THEM SAID WALKING MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UH, AND THAT'S BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO WALK ABOUT A MILE, OR YOU COULD USE A SCOOTER FOR ABOUT A MILE, UH, 7.7 0.7 9.79 TENTHS OF A MILE, OR RATHER, ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE WAS THE AVERAGE DISTANCE. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND SO, UH, MY, MY, MY CHALLENGE, UH, THAT I HAVE FOR THE COMPANIES, UH, AND FOR US AS A CITY IS DESIGN A NETWORK THAT NOT JUST IS SAFE FOR PEOPLE THAT CAN USE BICYCLES OR THESE FORMS, BUT FOR PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE, UH, THAT ARE NOT AS MOBILE. 
          AND SO THAT COULD MEAN PERHAPS MORE OF A SEATED, LIKE A WHEELCHAIR MODEL MM-HMM. 
           OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT I SUSPECT WILL EVOLVE. 
          I THINK RAZOR HAS ONE WHERE YOU CAN SIT RIGHT, AND, AND, AND DRIVE IN A BASKET FOR YOUR BAG, AND A COUPLE OF THOSE, UM, TECHNOLOGY OR THESE ADAPTATIONS THAT WOULD BE MORE FLEXIBLE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT AS AGILE AND AS MOBILE. 
          SO, UM, I, I, THAT'S, THOSE ARE, ARE REALLY, UH, MY COMMENTS. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, AS WE PROCEED, UM, I DO THINK, UH, ESPECIALLY WITHIN OUR REGIONAL CENTERS, THAT WE FOCUS ON ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION THERE AS WELL AS IT CAME UP. 
          UH, AND IT HAS COME UP EVERY TIME THAT PEOPLE WANT ALTERNATIVE FORUMS, UH, AND THAT WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE THAT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT AND NOT RESTRICT IT LIKE I BELIEVE THIS R F P DOES. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ. 
          COUNCILMAN VIN. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, IT'S JOHN  TO, UH, COUNCIL  AND, UH, YES. 
          EVEN CLOSER. 
          OKAY. 
          GOT IT. 
          UM, AND IN ALLOWING US TO, TO REALLY, UH, WORK THROUGH THIS BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, AT THE HEART OF THIS IS KNOWING THAT THERE'S, THERE'S GONNA BE THINGS THAT WE, WE, UH, ANTICIPATE AND SOME THINGS WE CAN'T ANTICIPATE. 
          SO, UH, WE DON'T WANT TO, WE DON'T WANNA CREATE A SITUATION WHERE WE DON'T WELCOME SOME NEW IDEAS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO HELP OUR CITIES, SPECIFICALLY OUR DOWNTOWN. 
          AND, UH, DISTRICT ONE, HISTORICALLY HAS BEEN FACED WITH THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, AT THE HEART OF THIS IS, IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN FACING TACKLING, UH, AS AN OFFICE, UH, HEARING FROM BUSINESSES, FROM RESIDENTS. 
          UH, THIS IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO DISTRICT ONE. 
          AND SO I, I REALLY CAN SAY THAT I APPRECIATE THE, THE FRAMEWORK THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED. 
          AND, UH, YOU KNOW, FIRST JUST WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, THAT FRAMEWORK. 
          AND CAN WE GO TO THE, THE, UM, I, I DON'T, I DON'T REMEMBER THE PAGE IT WAS, BUT IT WAS THE ACTUAL, THE THREE TABS OR 13. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT ONE. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I THINK THIS HELPS TO PROVIDE US SOME LEVEL OF FRAMEWORK. 
          AND I, AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT WHAT WE HEARD A LOT, UH, WAS, WAS SIMPLY THE, YOU KNOW, HELPING TO, TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT BOTH BUSINESSES AND, AND RESIDENTS HAD WHEN IT CAME TO THE DEPLOYMENT. 
          AND OF COURSE, THE USE OF, AND THEN, AND, AND WHERE SCOOTERS, UH, WERE LEFT. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, I PARTICULARLY WANNA POINT OUT THE, THE DEVELOPING A, A PARKING FRAMEWORK WITH VENDORS THAT CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE KNOCKING VEHICLES. 
          UM, THAT IS, THAT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO US. 
          WE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS, UH, THE RIGHT APPROACH. 
          AND SO, UH, IN TALKING TO SOME OF THE COMPANIES, I WANNA THANK THEM FOR, FOR BEING VERY, VERY OPEN TO THIS IDEA, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS, IS WORKING WITH THEM TO HELP, TO DEVELOP. 
          THE IDEA IS, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MAKING ROOM, UH, WITHIN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE TO, TO FACILITATE THE USE OF, OF THESE VEHICLES, UH, WHILE NOT SACRIFICING PEDESTRIAN ACCESSIBILITY AND MOBILITY IN OUR CITY. 
          UH, THIS IS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK CAN BE SORT OF, UH, DECONSTRUCTED BACKWARDS. 
          IF WE START OFF WITH THE PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY AND THEN, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTAND WHAT NEEDS TO BE, WHAT NEEDS TO BE OPEN AND FREE FOR ACCESS, THEN WE CAN UNDERSTAND THAT, THAT THERE'S PLENTY OF SPACE 
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FOR, FOR MANY THINGS, AND WE CAN, WE CAN MAKE ROOM FOR, FOR ALL THESE SYSTEMS TO COEXIST. 
          SO I, I PARTICULARLY WANT TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THAT. 
          UM, I WANNA ALSO MENTION THAT WE, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING, UH, ABOUT THE, UM, WHEN IT CAME TO THE, THE SELECTION OF, OF THE, THE, UM, THE, UH, R F P GROUPS. 
          WE DID SAY NEIGHBORHOOD ADVOCATES OR NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, FOLKS, BUT WE DIDN'T MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT SOMEONE WHO, UH, WAS, UH, DIFFERENTLY ABLED. 
          AND SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE DO INCLUDE SOMEONE IN THAT GROUP, UM, BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK BOTH, UH, CAN IDENTIFY WITH WHAT IT, WHAT MIGHT BE NEEDED OR PROTECTED SHOULD, SHOULD MAKE A, A, A BIG IMPACT WHEN IT COMES TO THAT REVIEW PROCESS. 
          UM, AND OF COURSE, I HAVE TO MENTION THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL, UH, I, I STILL HAVE TO ASK WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING OUR PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY OFFICER. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT THAT'S, YES. 
          YEAH, I'LL HAVE, I'LL QUICKLY ANSWER THAT FOR YOU. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          SURE. 
          COUNCILMAN, THANK YOU FOR ASKING. 
          UM, WE, AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE GONE THROUGH A PROCESS WORKING WITH OUTSIDE RECRUITER DOING A NATIONAL SEARCH. 
          SO, UH, WE ARE STILL GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS. 
          WE'VE MADE A, A COUPLE OFFERS THROUGHOUT THE WAY, STILL TRYING TO FIND THAT, THAT RIGHT PERSON THAT HAS THE BALANCE OF THE ENGINEERING COMPONENT AS WELL AS THE PLANNING COMPONENT. 
          SO, UH, WE ARE ACTIVELY LOOKING AT THAT AND, AND TRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT PERSON. 
          OKAY. 
          THANKS. 
          THANKS FOR THAT UPDATE ALL AGAIN, WE'LL JUST KEEP PUSHING ON THAT. 
          AND, AND I THINK WE CAN SEE THAT TIME AND TIME AGAIN, WE, WE TALK ABOUT DIFFERENT ISSUES, UM, IN OUR CITY WITH REGARDS TO INFRASTRUCTURE AND, AND HAVING SOMEBODY IN PLACE THAT CAN SPEAK TO, TO THESE OTHER CONCERNS, I THINK WOULD BE VERY BENEFICIAL. 
          SO I'LL KEEP ASKING UNTIL WE HIRE THAT PERSON. 
          UM, ALSO, UH, JOHN, WE, WE, UH, WE ALLUDED TO, BUT, UH, DIDN'T REALLY TALK ENOUGH ABOUT, UH, WEREN'T, WEREN'T EXPLICIT ABOUT THE GEOFENCING AND THE SPEED REDUCTION. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I, I GET, I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF EMAILS ABOUT THE NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, AROUND DOWNTOWN. 
          AND, UH, ONE EXAMPLE IS HOW WE'RE NOT VERY EXPLICIT ABOUT DEFINING OR SPELLING OUT GEOGRAPHICALLY THE RIVERWALK. 
          AND, UM, SO HELP ME UNDERSTAND HOW, HOW CAN WE BETTER, UH, DEFINE THESE AREAS AND BE MORE EXPLICIT ABOUT GEOFENCING. 
          SURE. 
          AND SO THAT, THAT, UH, COMES IN THAT, UM, QUALITY OF PROPOSAL SECTION OF THE R F P PROCESS IS, UM, ASKING THE COMPANIES TO BRING FORWARD THEIR BEST PLAN FOR HOW THEY'RE GOING TO PREVENT, UM, OR ENCOURAGE, UH, EITHER BAD BE, PREVENT BAD BEHAVIOR, OR ENCOURAGE, UM, GOOD BEHAVIOR. 
          UM, AND PART OF THAT COULD BE THROUGH GEOFENCING. 
          UM, AND, AND I THINK THERE'S A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT GEOFENCING COULD WORK. 
          UM, IT COULD, UM, PLAY INTO EITHER RIDING OR IT COULD PLAY INTO PARKING. 
          UM, AND THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS THAT, UM, THAT WOULD BE APPLIED. 
          UM, IT MIGHT EITHER BE THROUGH AN AUDIBLE WARNING, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT, THAT YOU'RE SOMEWHERE YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE. 
          AND IT MIGHT BE A WARNING THAT, UM, IF YOU STAY IN THAT, IF YOU CONTINUE TO STAY IN THAT AREA, YOU MIGHT POTENTIALLY BE PENALIZED, UM, OR IT MAY SLOW THE VEHICLE. 
          UM, WE'RE ASKING THE COMPANIES TO PROVIDE THEIR BEST PLAN, UM, TO HOW THEY WILL PREVENT, UM, THIS BAD BEHAVIOR. 
          BUT I THINK THE GEOFENCING COULD ALSO ENCOURAGE GOOD BEHAVIOR, UM, AS WELL. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR THOSE, THOSE COMPANIES THAT, UM, EXHIBIT THAT BEST PLAN, AND THAT MOST LIKELY WOULD INCLUDE SOME FORM OF GEO-FENCING. 
          AND WHAT ABOUT SIGNAGE? IS THE CITY GONNA, UH, UPDATE SOME OF THE SIGNAGE? I, I, I'M, I'M GETTING A LOT OF, UH, EMAILS REGARDING THE SIGNAGE AS WELL, MAYBE BEING A LITTLE BIT CONFUSING OR NOT AS, AS EXPLICIT ABOUT THE, THE USE. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE FACTORED INTO THE, UH, DETERMINATION OF THE FEES. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE DID SOME LIGHTER, FASTER, CHEAP KIND OF SIGNAGE DURING THE PILOT PROGRAM TO SEE WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE. 
          WOULD IT, WHEN WOULD IT HAVE AN IMPACT? HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO DO? UM, SO IT WAS, IT WAS DONE ON A, A FAIRLY TEMPORARY TYPE, UM, EITHER BASIS OR A TEMPORARY TYPE MATERIAL. 
          UM, AND SO WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO BE CONSISTENT WITH SIGNAGE. 
          WE NEED TO WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS. 
          UH, THE RIVER AUTHORITY, FOR EXAMPLE, OVERSEAS SAN PEDRO CREEK, THEY CREATED THEIR OWN SIGNAGE. 
          SO THE PARKS DEPARTMENT HAD SOME OF THEIR OWN SIGNAGE. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S WORKING WITH THOSE ORGANIZATIONS, UM, TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE CONSISTENT LANGUAGE, CONSISTENT SIGNAGE, AND ALSO MAYBE EVEN UPDATING IT, UM, UM, IN REGARDS TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAYBE BIKES VERSUS MOTORIZED VEHICLES. 
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SO WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT TILL OCTOBER TO DO THAT. 
          RIGHT. 
          I MEAN, CAN, CAN WE, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN GET STARTED ON? I MEAN SURE. 
          I THINK WE'RE RECOGNIZING THAT THERE'S, THERE'S A LACK OF SIGNAGE AND MAYBE, UH, IMPROVE THE CONSISTENCY. 
          UH, ISN'T THAT SOMETHING WE CAN START IT. 
          IT IS. 
          AND THAT, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE LEARNED WHAT'S MORE EFFECTIVE VERSUS WHAT MAYBE IS NOT, WHAT'S MORE VISIBLE, UM, WHERE WHAT SIGNAGE PLACEMENT, UM, SOME OF THE SIGNAGE THAT WE PLACED, OR THE DECALS THAT WE PLACED ON THE ACTUAL PAVEMENT AT ENTRANCES TO THE RIVERWALK SEEM TO HAVE A BETTER, UM, MESSAGING AND BETTER IMPACT THAN SAY, A, A, UH, A SIGN THAT'S STAKED INTO A, A LANDSCAPE AREA, I THINK. 
          BUT YEAH, WE CAN DEFINITELY GET STARTED ON THAT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, YOU ALSO MENTIONED THAT THE, THE DATA THAT WE'RE RECEIVING, UH, FROM, FROM THE SCOOTERS IS GONNA HELP US TO BETTER PLAN FOR, UH, THINGS LIKE BIKE LANES AND MORE COMPLETE STREETS. 
          UH, IS HOW SOON WILL WE SEE THAT IMPLEMENTATION? UH, THE, THE PLAN WOULD BE WHEN THE, WHEN THE THREE COMPANIES START OPERATING IN SAN ANTONIO, THAT THAT'S WHEN WE WOULD START, UH, COLLECTING THAT MORE ROBUST DATA OR THAT, OR THAT, UM, KIND OF LIVE DATA, AS I LIKE TO SAY. 
          UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COMPANIES WOULD BE REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE TO US THAT THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE THAT DATA BEFORE WE'D ALLOW THEM TO START OPERATING. 
          AND THEY'LL WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH CRAIG HOPKINS AND HIS TEAM MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UM, AND THEY ALREADY HAVE BEEN, UM, TO TRY TO DETERMINE HOW WOULD THAT BE DONE. 
          AND, BUT WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THERE'S AREAS WHERE WE, WHERE WE DEFINITELY, UH, NEED MORE BIKE LANES. 
          AND COULD THAT NOT BE INCORPORATED AS PART OF A, ALSO KIND OF A TESTING GROUND TO SHOW IF WE PUT INTO THE BIKE LANES THAT, THAT THEY COULD THEN, WE COULD THEN MEASURE HOW MUCH THEY'RE ALSO BEING USED BY SCOOTERS. 
          YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY AND THE, THE G P S TRACKING. 
          UM, AND, AND REALLY THAT ABILITY TO, UM, GET THAT WHAT, WHAT, UM, IT REFERS TO IS BREADCRUMB DATA TO SEE WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING, UM, HOW LONG ARE THEY RIDING, HOW LONG ARE THEY STAYING PERHAPS ON THAT PARTICULAR ROUTE. 
          UM, AND, AND IF WE ADD BIKE LANES, UM, TO YOUR POINT, DOES THAT ACTUALLY ATTRACT PEOPLE TO USE THAT AND ARE THEY NOW USING IT? SURE. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, THANK YOU JACK. 
          UH, I REALLY, UH, JOHN, SORRY. 
          UM, . 
          IT'S OKAY. 
          I THINK IT'S, UH, , I THINK, SORRY. 
          I DO MY BEST. 
          EDDIE MURPHY. 
          UM, SO I, I REALLY, I, I APPRECIATE THIS PLAN AND, UM, THINK THAT THIS IS A, A GREAT WAY TO, TO GET US MOVING FORWARD AND LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS THAT I THINK WILL REALLY HELP ALLEVIATE A LOT OF SORT OF THE, THE PRESSURES WE FELT AT, AT LEAST IN, IN DISTRICT ONE, WHEN, WHEN IT CAME TO THIS DEPLOYMENT. 
          I, I SEE THIS AS A KIND OF EXPOSING A LOT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, WANTS AND DESIRES OF, OF A GROWING CITY. 
          UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ART, UH, TO REALLY GET US AN UPDATE ON THE PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY OFFICER, WHICH I THINK WILL BE A GREAT ADDITION FOR OUR CITY. 
          I MEAN, SOME MAY EVEN WANTED TO CALL IT A MICRO MOBILITY OFFICER, WHICH IS FINE WITH ME. 
          I MEAN, I THINK THAT THE IDEA IS THAT WE GOTTA LOOK AT, UH, A, A MORE HOLISTIC APPROACH WHEN IT COMES TO MOVING PEOPLE IN OUR CITY. 
          THANKS, JOHN. 
          THANKS, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN TREVINO. 
          COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          I JUST WANNA POINT OUT THAT I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED TO REALLY PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS WHOLE, UM, CONDITION OF, OF, UH, THE SCOOTERS IN, IN THE CITY. 
          AND IT'S A MATTER OF PUBLIC SAFETY. 
          WE'VE HEARD, UH, WE'VE SEEN UP HERE THAT THERE WERE 155 ACCIDENTS THAT WERE REPORTED. 
          90 PEOPLE WERE TRANSPORTED BY E M S TO SOME KIND OF MEDICAL FACILITY. 
          I'LL TELL YOU, IF WE HEARD THAT, UH, A RIDE OR TWO AT FIESTA, TEXAS HAD 155 INJURIES IN SIX MONTHS, AND 90 PEOPLE WERE TAKEN TO E M S, WE'D BE THINKING ABOUT THOSE RIDES A LOT MORE SERIOUSLY. 
          AND NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MOVING ONE AND A HALF MILLION RIDES ALL ON THE STREET, WHERE PROBABLY TWO THIRDS OF 'EM HAVE BEEN ON SIDEWALKS. 
          WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL DANGERS FOR NOW OVER SIX MONTHS? A MILLION AND A HALF PEOPLE ON SCOOTERS ON OUR STREETS DOWNTOWN AND RIDING AT NIGHT, EVEN IF IT'S 8 30, 9, 10 WHEN IT'S DARK. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE TALKED ABOUT REACHING OUT TO STAKEHOLDERS, AND YOU NAMED QUITE A FEW. 
          HAVE WE REACHED OUT OR SURVEYED COMMUTERS WHO DRIVE ON THE STREET OR DELIVERY TRUCK DRIVERS WHO USE THOSE STREETS EVERY DAY. 
          AND OUR DOWNTOWN STREETS HAVE, HAVE WE ASKED THEM WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THESE SCOOTERS? UH, WE DIDN'T SPECIFICALLY TARGET THOSE GROUPS. 
          UM, THEY WOULD'VE BEEN INCLUDED IN THE COMMUNITY SURVEY THAT WAS OPEN TO ANYONE TO TAKE, WHICH WE HARDLY HAD ANY. 
          AND, AND A LOT OF 'EM WERE NEGATIVE. 
          WE HAD ABOUT A LITTLE OVER 4,000 PEOPLE RESPOND TO THAT SURVEY. 
          YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THAT'S A SERIOUS CONCERN WE NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO 
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THAN WE ARE ALSO, UH, I DIDN'T HEAR HOW WE ARE GONNA INDEMNIFY THE CITY. 
          AND I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT INSURANCE, AND WE TALKED ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY, BUT HOW DO WE, I INDEMNIFY THE CITY BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY HEARD THAT THE SCOOTERS ARE SAYING, YOU KNOW, USER BEWARE. 
          WELL, A USER MAY GET ON THAT BIKE AND THEY MAY BEWARE, BUT IF THEY GET HURT, THEY'RE GONNA BE COMING TO THE CITY. 
          'CAUSE NOW THEY'RE GONNA BE RIDING ON OUR CITY STREETS, A MILLION TRIPS IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS OR SOMETHING ON OUR CITY STREETS. 
          AND IF THEY'RE HIT BY A CAR OR IF THEY HIT A POTHOLE OR ANY OF THOSE THINGS, THEY'RE NOT GONNA SIMPLY RELY ON THE COMPANY THAT RENTED THEM TO SCOOTER. 
          THEY'RE COMING TO US. 
          SO HOW DO WE INDEMNIFY OURSELVES? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GIVING A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS OR, OR 500,000 TO PAY FOR OUR COSTS. 
          WHAT'S THE COST FOR ONE SUIT OR TWO? WE ALREADY KNOW? 'CAUSE WE GET THOSE. 
          WHEN PEOPLE WHO OPERATE CITY VEHICLES HIT SOMEBODY OR HIT ANOTHER CAR, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A VERY SMALL VEHICLE RIDING ON A STREET. 
          I SAW NOTHING IN THERE THAT TALKED ABOUT THE SAFETY OF THE VEHICLE, OTHER THAN SAYING, WELL, IT SHOULD HAVE A HEADLIGHT OR SOME KIND OF A LIGHT. 
          WHAT ABOUT WHEN THEY'RE BEING APPROACHED FROM BEHIND? IT DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ANY KIND OF REFLECTOR OR LIGHT. 
          SO THE CAR COMING UP BEHIND YOU SEES YOU CLEARLY, OR WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT PEOPLE FOLLOWING OUR TRAFFIC LOSS. 
          YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE, WHEN YOU'RE ON A BIKE, YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A TURN. 
          YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO PUT OUT YOUR RIGHT HAND OR YOUR LEFT HAND. 
          WHEN YOU MAKE THAT TURN, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO, PEOPLE START DOING THAT ON A SCOOTER, AND THEY'RE RIDING ON A SCOOTER WITH ONE HAND. 
          IT'S SO, UH, DANGEROUS. 
          AND, UM, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PROTECTED AS A CITY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AS WE CONTINUE, UH, WITH THIS. 
          IT'S NOT A MATTER OF OF REGULATING TRANSPORTATION. 
          IT'S A MATTER OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND SAFETY FOR THE CITY IN AUTHORIZING THESE TO TAKE PLACE ON OUR STREETS. 
          AND I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT, UM, WHAT ARE THE RECOMMENDED PENALTIES? AND I BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE ARE VIOLATING LAW, IF THE COMPANY'S NOT, UH, OPERATING AS IT SHOULD, WHAT ARE THE PENALTIES THAT ARE GOING TO BRING THEM IN LINE? WHAT ARE THE PENALTIES THAT INDIVIDUAL USERS WILL UNDERSTAND, CAN BE IN EFFECT IF THEY VIOLATE THE LAW, RIDE ON THE STREET, GO INTO AREAS THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE AN ILLEGAL TURN, UH, YOU KNOW, CROSS TRAFFIC ON A STREET, GO ON A THE ONE WAY. 
          UH, SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE HAPPENING NOW, AND WE'RE NOT DOING MUCH ABOUT IT. 
          72 CITATIONS OUT OF A MILLION AND A HALF RIDES. 
          I'VE SEEN THOSE RIDES AND I, AND I THINK WE ALL HAVE. 
          SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT MORE TO CONSIDER AS WE MOVE FORWARD ON THIS R F P AND A LOT MORE THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IS COVERED BY THAT AS, AS WE GO FORWARD. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, COUNCILMAN, WE DO HAVE, AS, AS THE ORIGINAL ADOPTION OF REGULATIONS, UM, THEY'RE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME REGULATIONS THAT YOU WOULD FOLLOW IF YOU'RE RIDING A BIKE. 
          SO YOU DO HAVE TO OBEY TRAFFIC LAWS, STOP AT STOP SIGNS, STOP AT, UM, STOP LIGHTS, SIGNAL TURNS, UM, AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS ISSUED CITATIONS FOR PEOPLE, FOR EXAMPLE, GOING THE WRONG WAY. 
          UM, OR, OR RUNNING RED LIGHTS OR STOP SIGNS. 
          UM, AND, AND WE THINK THAT THAT'S WHERE WE NEED THAT CONSISTENCY SO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS A MOTORIZED VEHICLE AND, AND YOU FOLLOW THE SAME RULES WHEN YOU'RE OPERATING IN THE ROAD LIKE ANY OTHER VEHICLE DOES. 
          SO WE DO HAVE SOME THOSE IN THERE ALREADY. 
          UM, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT THAT AGAIN. 
          AND, AND WE'RE LITERALLY LOOKING FOR THE COMPANIES TO SAY, WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF YOUR VEHICLE, UM, TO YOUR POINT, TO MAKE IT SAFE, UM, REQUIREMENT OF A HEADLIGHT, UM, HAVE A TAILLIGHT. 
          UH, THEY HAVE A, A BELL OR A, OR A HORN. 
          SO THOSE ARE DEFINITELY THE THINGS THAT SOME OF THOSE WE ALREADY REQUIRE. 
          UM, BUT WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT THE COMPANIES TO TELL US, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF YOUR VEHICLE THAT ENSURES US THAT IT'S, IT'S SAFE FOR PEOPLE TO RIDE? OH, YES. 
          AND, UH, WE, WE DO CURRENTLY, UH, REQUIRE LIABILITY, UH, GENERAL LIABILITY, UH, FOR THE CITY'S SAKE. 
          UM, UNDER THE, THE CURRENT PROCESS, UM, THROUGH THE R F P PROCESS, WE ARE GOING TO BE ASKING, UM, THE COMPANIES, UM, TO EXPLAIN TO US, UH, EITHER INSURANCE FOR THEIR RIDERS, INSURANCE FOR THIRD PARTIES, UM, WHAT ARE THEIR, UH, AGREE, THEIR USER AGREEMENTS. 
          UM, AND, AND REALLY KIND OF DIVING INTO THAT, WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND, AND RISK MANAGEMENT AS WELL. 
          AND I, I THINK ED HAS SOME ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, COUNCILMAN, COURAGE, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UM, REGARDING INDEMNIFICATION. 
          THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ANYTIME WE HAVE ONE OF THESE KINDS OF AGREEMENTS, THERE'S ALWAYS INDEMNIFICATION LANGUAGE IN THERE. 
          AND THE CITY ALWAYS HAS PROTECTION OF THE TEXAS TORT CLAIMS ACT, WHICH 
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YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THROUGH, THROUGH AUTO ACCIDENT CASES THAT, THAT ARE PRESENTED TO YOU. 
          SO, SO THERE IS PROTECTION FOR THE CITY. 
          UM, AND OBVIOUSLY THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE BAKED INTO EVERY SINGLE AGREEMENT THAT WE WOULD HAVE WITH ANY VENDOR THAT WOULD BE PROVIDING THESE, THESE SERVICES. 
          SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA BE VERY MINDFUL OF, AS WELL AS INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR, UH, ADDED PROTECTION POSSIBLY FOR THE RIDERS, BUT ALSO FOR THE CITY AS WELL. 
          THANK YOU, ED. 
          THANK, COUNCILMAN, COURAGE. 
          COUNCILMAN VRAN. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ON SLIDE NUMBER SIX. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, JOHN, BECAUSE THIS HELPED CLEAR UP A LOT OF THINGS, BUT NOW I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 
          SURE. 
          SO ON SLIDE NUMBER SIX, UM, YOU SAID THE NUMBER, THE AVERAGE DAILY DEPLOYMENT, SO THAT'S THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF VEHICLES THAT ARE OUT, CORRECT? UH, CORRECT. 
          SO THEY'RE, THEY HAVE A PERMIT FOR, FOR MORE, BUT THEY'RE NOT DEPLOYING THAT MANY. 
          SURE. 
          SO IT'S 4,615, THAT'S NOW THE AVERAGE. 
          WE'VE HIT, WE HIT THE HIGH OF 6,703. 
          BUT YOU'RE SAYING THE CURRENT PERMITS ARE 14,000? WE HAVE, WE'VE ISSUED 16,100 PERMITS. 
          SURE. 
          AND SO WE'RE GOING TO CUT THAT IN HALF TO POSSIBLY ABOUT 8800, 8800, UH, IN THE INTERIM PROCESS. 
          RIGHT. 
          IN THE INTERIM PROCESS ONLY. 
          BUT THAT 8,800 PERMITS IS STILL MORE THAN WHAT WE SEE ON A DAILY BASIS ON A, ON OUR SIDEWALKS OR IN OUR C COMMUNITY, CORRECT. 
          RIGHT. 
          SINCE NOVEMBER. 
          YES. 
          RIGHT. 
          SINCE NOVEMBER. 
          SO I, I'M GOING BACK TO WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, SALANA SAID, I, I KNOW THAT SOME OF OUR RESIDENTS, ESPECIALLY IN DISTRICT THREE, ARE HOPING TO SEE THAT CLUTTER COME OFF OF THE, THE, THE AREA MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UM, BUT THERE'S STILL GONNA BE MORE PERMITS OUT THAN ACTUAL, UM, SCOOTERS OR BIKES OUT ON IN THE CITY, UM, RIGHT NOW. 
          SO OF COURSE THERE WON'T BE MORE, BUT STILL, WE HAVEN'T EVEN HIT WITH THE 6,700. 
          WE STILL HAVEN'T HIT 8,000 VEHICLES OUT ON THE STREET YET IN SAN ANTONIO, UH, THE, THIS IS THE AVERAGE PER MONTH. 
          RIGHT. 
          BUT, BUT YOU COULD PROBABLY DEDUCE THAT. 
          YES, SURE. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SURE. 
          SO THAT'S JUST A, A CONCERN. 
          AND ALSO, I, I WILL SAY, UM, BACK TO NUMBER 13, SLIDE NUMBER 13, I AM GLAD, UH, I, I AM IN FAVOR OF HAVING THIS POLICY ORDINANCE RECOMMENDATION NOT BE ALLOWED TO WA UH, TO BE ON THE SIDEWALKS. 
          I DO BELIEVE OUR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY HAS TO BE, UM, HERE, AND WE'RE ALREADY TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IF CROSSING THE STREETS, ET CETERA, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT VISION ZERO. 
          SO I BELIEVE WE NEED TO HAVE THAT MOTOR VE MOTORIZED VEHICLES OFF OF SIDEWALKS. 
          UM, WHEN IT COMES TO OUR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR VISION ZERO, UM, POLICY AS WELL. 
          I AM, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED THE AGE LIMIT OF 16. 
          I DIDN'T HEAR YOU MENTION, MAYBE YOU DID, UM, BUT I DIDN'T HEAR IT ABOUT A DRIVER'S LICENSE. 
          WE ARE STILL RE REQUIRING, OR WE'RE ASKING IN THE R F P THAT THEY HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE, UH, EVEN IF IT'S A LEARNER'S PERMIT, WE ARE LOOKING AT THAT. 
          UM, I THINK THE CH THE CHALLENGE, AND THAT'S, THAT'S AGAIN, WORKING WITH THE COMPANIES AND MUCH MORE CLOSELY TO DETERMINE HOW WOULD THEY MAKE SURE THAT INDIVIDUALS, UM, HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE BEFORE THEY RENT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE STATE LAW. 
          SO IF THAT STATE LAW WERE TO, UH, PASS, UM, IT WOULD REQUIRE A DRIVER'S LICENSE. 
          YES. 
          SO I AM ALSO VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF, UH, INCREASING THAT, THAT PERMIT FEE, THAT PROGRAM FEE TO A HUNDRED DOLLARS PER VEHICLE. 
          I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED. 
          UH, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, I WILL TELL YOU, I TOLD YOU BEFORE, UM, JOHN, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M SOLD ON THIS SCOOTER RACKS AND CORRALS, UM, ONLY BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE EVEN HAVE THESE DESIGNATED AREAS PAINTED ON OUR SIDEWALKS, BUT PEOPLE STILL DO NOT ADHERE TO THAT. 
          THEY JUST PUT THEM ANYWHERE. 
          SO I AM, I'M ALSO A LITTLE, I GIVE PAUSE TO THE FACT THAT WILL PEOPLE UTILIZE THEM OR WILL IT STILL BE AGAIN, UM, BRINGING CONGESTION ONTO OUR SIDEWALKS AND MM-HMM. 
           ITEMS THAT ARE ON OUR SIDEWALKS. 
          THAT IS A CONCERN THAT I HAVE WITH THAT. 
          UM, LOOKING AT THESE RACKS AND CORRALS, I ALSO WANTED TO ASK ABOUT, UM, YOU MENTIONED UNIVERSITIES LOOKING THAT YOU SAW PLACES WITH UNIVERSITIES LOOKING AT RFPS WITH DIFFERENT SCOOTER COMPANIES. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO THERE'S, UH, SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES ACROSS, UH, THE COUNTRY AND, AND HERE IN, UM, SAN ANTONIO AS WELL, BECAUSE IT'S A, UM, WHETHER IT'S A PRIVATE OR PUBLIC UNIVERSITY, IT'S DIFFERENT THAN OUR RIGHT OF WAY. 
          SO THOSE UNIVERSITIES HAVE, UM, UM, CONTRACTS WITH OTHER VENDORS, 
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FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THAT MAY OPERATE ON CAMPUS. 
          UM, AND SO SOME UNIVERSITIES, UM, ARE LOOKING AT AN R F P PROCESS TO SELECT, UM, DOCKLESS VEHICLE VENDORS TO OPERATE ON THEIR CAMPUS. 
          SO HOW WILL WE COORDINATE THAT EFFORT WITH OURS? 'CAUSE SAY UNIVERSITIES HAVE SELECTED A COMPANY, BUT THEN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO DOESN'T SELECT THAT COMPANY. 
          RIGHT. 
          SOMEBODY DIFFERENT SURE. 
          AND THEN SAY, TRINITY, AND THEY RIDE IT TO THE, NEAR THE PEARL AREA, ET CETERA. 
          UM, AND THEN ON THAT NOTE TOO, WHAT ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE ARE, WE'RE HERE AT PORT AND I KNOW AT BROOKS THEY'VE ALSO HAD SOME SCOOTERS THERE, WHICH I THINK WOULD, IS A GREAT, UM, MODE OF TRANSPORTATION AT BROOKS TO GET FROM ONE AREA RIGHT. 
          AND THE NEW BROOKS TRANSIT TO DIFFERENT PLACE. 
          SURE. 
          SO, TWO QUESTIONS. 
          ONE, WILL, HOW WILL WE COORDINATE THIS WITH PRIVATE ENTITIES? AND TWO, WHAT ABOUT, UM, SO WOULD PORT BE ABLE TO GO ON THEIR OWN AND DO THIS? OR WOULD WHAT SAN ANTONIO IS DOING COVER THAT? UH, IT WOULD DEPEND ON THE STREETS, PROBABLY WITHIN THAT AREA. 
          SO IF THEY'RE PUBLIC STREETS, THEY WOULD OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO HAVE A PERMIT, UM, THROUGH THE CITY TO OPERATE, UM, IN THAT AREA. 
          IF YOU HAVE A, A CLOSED CAMPUS TYPE SETTING, UM, IT MIGHT BE FEASIBLE TO HAVE, SAY, A DIFFERENT VENDOR OPERATING IN THAT AREA. 
          I THINK THE CHALLENGE WOULD BE, AS YOU POINTED OUT, WOULD BE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THAT SCOOTER CROSSES OUTSIDE OF THAT BOUNDARY. 
          UM, AND THAT MAY POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE GEOFENCING. 
          UM, BUT WHAT WE'VE SEEN, AND, AND WE, AND WE'VE COMMUNICATED CLOSELY WITH OUR, UM, OUR LOCAL UNIVERSITIES, THEY'RE, THEY'RE WATCHING WHAT WE'RE DOING. 
          UM, SO WE'VE HAD GOOD DIALOGUE WITH THEM, UM, VIA, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, ISSUED AN R F P, UM, TO WORK WITH THE VENDOR. 
          THEY, UM, THEY'RE ONE OF OUR STAKEHOLDERS, AND THROUGH OUR PROCESS, THEY'VE, UM, PAUSED THEIR PROCESS TO WAIT TO SEE, UM, WHAT HAPPENS WITH OURS TO SEE WHO WE SELECT. 
          AND THEN I THINK THEY WOULD GO OUT TO THOSE TH ONE OF THOSE THREE VENDORS AND, AND WORK WITH THEM. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M, I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , UM, SECOND ON PAGE 14. 
          ON SLIDE 14, HOW MUCH IS IT FOR FOUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS? HOW MUCH WILL THAT COST? UH, CURRENTLY WE'RE USING, UM, TEMPORARY, UM, EMPLOYEES. 
          SO WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT HIRING, UM, FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES. 
          SO IF YOU'LL JUST BEAR WITH ME ONE SECOND. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , UH, LET'S SEE. 
          UH, SO FISCAL YEAR FY 2020 WOULD BE $128,000 FOR, UM, THOSE FOUR EMPLOYEES. 
          SO THEY'RE, THOSE ARE FOUR EMPLOYEES, BUT THEY, THEY'RE NOT ALL FOUR WORKING AT THE SAME TIME. 
          SO THEY'D COVER DIFFERENT SHIFTS. 
          SO THEY COULD WORK, UM, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, AND THERE'D BE SOME OVERLAP SOMETIMES DURING BUSY TIME PERIODS. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT'D BE FROM ONE YEAR. 
          SO ON SLIDE NUMBER NINE, UM, FIRST OF ALSO I WANNA JUST COMMEND YOU, THIS IS GREAT DATA THAT I THINK YOU GATHERED WITH THE SURVEY AND WITH THE TELE TOWN HALL. 
          I THINK THIS WAS GREAT DATA THAT YOU GATHERED, UM, REALLY GAVE SOME GOOD INSIGHTS. 
          UM, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE BOTTOM PART, IF A DOCKLESS VEHICLE WASN'T AVAILABLE, THEN WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE? DID THEY JUST COME UP WITH THESE OPTIONS OR WERE THESE OPTIONS PRESENTED TO THE, THE, THE PARTICIPANTS? THESE WERE, IT WAS A CHOICE. 
          THEY PICKED FROM ONE OF ONE OF THOSE. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND THEN WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT IN SLIDE NUMBER 11, WHEN YOU, YOU KEPT USING DOCKLESS VEHICLES. 
          DOCKLESS VEHICLES, THE, THE PARTICIPANTS UNDERSTOOD THAT DOCKLESS VEHICLES WERE SCOOTERS, CORRECT? UH, THE MAJORITY ARE, ARE DOCKLESS VEHICLES. 
          WE DO EXPLAIN THAT DOCKLESS VEHICLES COULD INCLUDE BICYCLES AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN, UM, ANOTHER ONE THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WITH THE R F P PROCESS IN 17, I KNOW YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT IT, I DON'T KNOW IF, I THINK IT WAS DISCUSSED AT THE, THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, AND THANK YOU CHAIRMAN FOR BRINGING THIS UP SO WE CAN HAVE A, A GOOD DIALOGUE. 
          BUT IT WAS ABOUT DATA GATHERING AND THAT THE, THE COMPANIES WOULD PROVIDE DATA TO US, TO THE CITY, UM, SO WE CAN KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          ARE, ARE THEY GOING TO, IS THAT PART OF THE EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS OR, UH, IT, IT, OR THE PROGRAM? IT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE A REQUIREMENT ACTUALLY, THAT THEY PROVIDE US, UM, DATA IN A, IN A FORM AND IN, IN, UM, THE AMOUNT OF DATA THAT WE, WE WANT AND WHAT WE THINK WE CAN USE. 
          AND, UM, CRAIG AND HIS TEAM HAVE BEEN WORKING, UM, ALONGSIDE US FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. 
          UM, THEY'VE BEEN, UM, HAD A LOT OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE COMPANIES TO SEE WHAT DATA DO THEY HAVE, UM, HOW WOULD WE RECEIVE THAT, HOW WOULD WE PROCESS THAT AND, AND MANAGE THAT. 
          UM, ALSO BEING MINDFUL OF, UM, YOU KNOW, PERSONAL INFORMATION. 
          WE, WE DON'T REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHERE AN INDIVIDUAL, A CERTAIN PERSON WROTE, WE WANNA KNOW THAT SOMEONE WROTE. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO AGGREGATING THAT DATA. 
          IT'S NOT NECESSARILY IMPORTANT FOR US TO KNOW WHICH COMPANY SOMEBODY USED. 
          WE JUST WANNA KNOW IF SOMEONE USED THAT ROUTE OR NOT. 
          UM, SO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT, UM, SHARING MAYBE PROPRIETARY INFORMATION, UM, THAT WOULD SOMEHOW GIVE SOMEONE AN ADVANTAGE OVER SOMEBODY ELSE OR DISCLOSING 
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SOME PERSONAL INFORMATION, UM, I WOULD BE, UM, ABSOLUTELY IN FAVOR OF GEOFENCING IN AREAS THAT ARE PROHIBITED. 
          MM-HMM. 
          SO I WOULD LOVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S PART OF THIS, UM, R F P PROCESS. 
          UM, ALSO THE MAINTENANCE PLANS AND POLICIES, THEY WILL HAVE TO THEN LET US KNOW HOW THEY ARE MAINTAINING THEIR, THEIR, UH, SCOOTERS AND THEIR VEHICLES. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH, SO GENERALLY WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS WHAT IS THEIR MAINTENANCE PLAN, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, IF, IF A VEHICLE'S REPORTED AS BROKEN, UM, HOW ARE THEY RESPONDING TO THAT? WHAT'S THEIR RESPONSIVENESS SO THAT VEHICLE'S NOT SITTING OUT THERE, UM, BROKEN OR POTENTIALLY A HAZARD IN SOME WAY. 
          AND WHEN IT COMES TO RIDER SAFETY, I KNOW, I THINK IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT MAYBE SEEING HOW THEY'RE BRINGING THEIR LATEST VERSION OF WHATEVER THEIR VEHICLE, THEIR MOTORIZED VEHICLE. 
          MM-HMM. 
           IS, UM, BECAUSE TO COUNCIL MEMBER K'S POINT, UM, HAVING BEEN ON A SCOOTER WITH MY HELMET, UM, IT IS NOT EASY TO TURN LEFT WHEN YOU'RE IN A LANE AND TO TAKE ONE HAND OFF OF THAT AREA, IT'S ON A OFF OF THE HANDLE. 
          IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT AND IT'S NOT SAFE FOR THE VEHICLES BEHIND YOU OR FOR THE RIDER ON THE SCOOTER. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO I'M JUST TELLING THE COMPANIES HERE, IF YOU COULD PUT LIKE A LITTLE LIGHT SO THEY CAN, WE CAN TELL WHICH WAY WE'RE GOING LEFT OR RIGHT. 
          THAT WOULD BE VERY LIKE A BLINKER. 
          IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL. 
          UM, AND THEN ON THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE, UM, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHO ARE THE FOUR CITY REPRESENTATIVES THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT AND TO, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ENOS POINT, SOMEONE, UH, HAVING SOMEONE DIFFERENTLY ABLED. 
          AND THEN DO WE HAVE YOU PUT A DOWNTOWN STAKEHOLDER? I HOPE THAT SOMEONE OTHER THAN CENTRO, I HOPE WE'RE LOOKING AT SOMEONE, UM, MAYBE WHO'S A BUSINESS OWNER MM-HMM. 
           OR, UM, LIKE THE COMMERCIAL, UM, PERSONS WHO ARE PUTTING, YOU KNOW, ON THE STREET, PUTTING, UH, HAVING, MAKE DELIVERIES, LOOKING AT THAT. 
          SO, UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT AS WELL. 
          SURE. 
          BUT WHO WOULD BE IN THE CITY REPRESENTATIVES? SURE. 
          WE HAVEN'T FINALIZED, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE, BUT THE DEPARTMENTS, RIGHT. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT MORE CATEGORIES RIGHT NOW. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, AND I SHOULD ALSO ADD, AND I THINK I FAILED TO MENTION IT, BUT WE'LL ALSO HAVE A TECHNICAL ADVISORY, UM, COMMITTEE THAT WILL HELP SUPPORT THIS EVALUAT EVALUATION COMMITTEE, UM, WITH INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EXPERTS, UM, OR VERY KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGEABLE, UM, IN THIS AREA OR THAT, OR THAT ARE IMPACTED IN SOME WAY. 
          OKAY. 
          AND AGAIN, I DO LOOK, UM, FORWARD TO THE, WHOEVER IS COMING OUT OF THIS, THIS R F P PROCESS TO HAVE A LOCAL CONNECTION IN A LOCAL OFFICE MM-HMM. 
          , BECAUSE WE NEED TO HAVE THAT LOCAL, UM, THE ABILITY TO CONNECT WITH SOMEBODY LOCALLY TOO. 
          SO, SURE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN GRO. 
          COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, THANK YOU, JOHN, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          IT'S TURNING OUT TO BE QUITE A ROBUST, UH, DISCUSSION AS ANTICIPATED. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, SO I, I WANNA GO BACK TO COUNCILMAN ALANA'S POINT ABOUT THE DILEMMA OF OVERREGULATION OR, OR UNDER REGULATION. 
          AND I THINK, UM, WHAT WE'RE FACING IS, NUMBER ONE, WHAT ARE THE RULES OF THE ROAD WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, SCOOTERS? I DON'T, AS FAR AS THE STATE GOES, THERE IS NO ESTABLISHED LOCATION FOR THEM, WHETHER IT'S ON THE SIDEWALKS OR ON THE STREETS, UH, CURRENTLY, NO, THERE'S NOT. 
          RIGHT? YEAH, THERE IS SOME VERY, UM, UM, IT'S SOME REGULATION THAT THE STATE, UM, GRANTED TO CITIES SOME YEARS AGO, BACK WHEN THERE WERE, IT WAS A DI REALLY A DIFFERENT RESPONSE TO A, A DIFFERENT TYPE OF VEHICLE. 
          UM, IT'S REALLY NOT APPLICABLE TO, TO WHAT WE'RE SEEING TODAY. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S ONE DECISION WE'RE MAKING AND OR ONE THING THAT WE HOPE TO ADDRESS AS WELL AS THE, THE CLUTTER AND THE, THE PARKING SITUATION. 
          RIGHT? IF IT WAS, IF IT WAS A CAR, WE WOULDN'T SAY IT'S OKAY TO PUT IT ON THE, ON THE SIDEWALK, SIDEWALK, RIGHT? MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO, UM, A QUESTION ABOUT THE RULES OF THE ROAD. 
          UM, RIGHT NOW, IF WE KEEP THEM ON THE STREET AND NOT ON THE SIDEWALKS, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT A SEPARATE ORDINANCE FROM THE R F P ONE THAT WOULD ALSO APPLY TO PRIVATELY OWNED SCOOTERS FOR PERSONAL USE? OR ARE WE ONLY TALKING ABOUT THE, UM, THE PRI THE ONES THAT ARE FOR PUBLIC RENT RENTAL? SURE. 
          WE ARE, WE ARE LOOKING AT, AT BASICALLY REGULATIONS FOR MOTORIZED SCOOTERS, WHETHER IT'S A DOCKLESS VEHICLE OR IT'S PRIVATELY OWNED, THE RULES WOULD BE THE SAME. 
          UM, REALLY ONCE, ONCE THEY'RE ON THE STREET RIDING, UM, THEY'RE THE SAME. 
          SO THEY NEED TO FOLLOW TRAFFIC REGULATIONS. 
          UM, REALLY LIKE ANY OTHER MOTORIZED VEHICLE. 
          UM, IT'S WHEN THERE'S A DOCKLESS VEHICLE THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY BEING, THE COMPANY IS REALLY USING THE CITY'S RIGHT OF WAY TO, TO STORE, UM, OR OPERATE THEIR BUSINESS. 
          UM, SO YOU KIND OF GOT, YOU KIND OF POINTED THAT OUT. 
          IT'S REALLY TWO ISSUES. 
          THERE'S RIDING AND THEN THERE'S PARKING OF VEHICLES ON SIDEWALKS. 
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SO THEN, UH, AT WHAT POINT WILL WE ADOPT THE, THE ORDINANCE THAT HAS TO DO WITH WHERE, WHERE THEY BELONG AT THE SAME TIME THAT WE APPROVE THE R F P? WE, WE'VE ALREADY ADOPTED THAT, BUT, UM, BUT THERE IS OPTIONS TO TWEAK THAT. 
          UM, FOR EXAMPLE, WE SPECIFICALLY SAID THEY WERE ALLOWED ON SIDEWALK, SO THAT WOULD BE A CHANGE. 
          SO WE CHANGED THAT AT THE, AT THE SAME TIME. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, AND IN TERMS OF, OF PARKING, SO I WOULD LIKEN THIS TO LIKE SWELL OR, OR BCYCLE, THE OLD B CYCLE. 
          UM, I DON'T THINK THEY PARK ON SIDEWALKS. 
          THEIR DOCKING STATIONS ARE ALL, UH, IN, IN SOME LIKE, PARKING LOT OR, OR THEY FIND A SPACE FOR THEM. 
          THEY DON'T JUST PUT THEM IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. 
          THERE'S THE, THE, THE WAY, UH, SWELL CYCLE HAS A, A CONTRACT WITH THE CITY BASICALLY TO USE OUR RIGHT OF WAY. 
          UM, SO SOME, UH, STATIONS ARE ON CITY RIGHT OF WAY ON THE SIDEWALK. 
          UM, THEY DO ALSO HAVE SEPARATE AGREEMENTS WITH, UM, PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS AS WELL TO, TO LOCATE THEIR STATION. 
          SO IT'S KIND OF A COMBINATION OF BOTH. 
          SO, AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD WANT TO PURSUE FOR THIS, JUST NOT ONLY STORING ON SIDEWALKS, BUT I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU HAD IN MIND FOR THESE CORRALS I DID YOU SPECIFICALLY SAY WHERE, WHAT KIND OF SPACE THEY WOULD BE ON? UH, IT, IT, THERE COULD BE, UH, THE, THE COMPANIES COULD, UH, WORK WITH A PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER TO INSTALL A RACK, OR A, A BUSINESS OWNER MAY INSTALL A RACK ON THEIR OWN. 
          UM, IF THEY, IF THEY HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE RIDING SCOOTERS TO THEIR ESTABLISHMENT, THEY MAY SEE A NEED, UM, TO DO THAT. 
          UM, WE AS A CITY COULD ALSO WORK POTENTIALLY WITH A PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER TO INSTALL A RACK, UM, IF NEED BE, UM, THROUGH, THROUGH AN AGREEMENT. 
          UM, I THINK WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS IDENTIFYING THOSE AREAS, UH, PARTICULARLY WITH, WITH BEING ABLE TO GET THE DATA TO SEE WHERE ARE PEOPLE RIDING TO, UM, WHERE ARE THE RIDES ENDING, UM, NOT JUST THROUGH THE DATA, BUT ALSO VISUALLY BEING ABLE TO SEE THAT AND KNOW THAT THAT'S AN AREA THAT WOULD BENEFIT FROM HAVING, UM, SCOOTER RACKS, UM, OR BIKE RACKS TOO. 
          UH, AND I THINK THE IDEA THERE IS THAT IT, IT LEADS TO A MORE ORGANIZED AND, AND ORDERLY PARKING ARRANGEMENT. 
          UM, WE DO SEE A LOT OF VEHICLES THAT FALL OVER, UM, AND WHEN ONE FALLS, IT'LL KNOCK ANOTHER ONE OVER. 
          SO A RACK COULD ALLEVIATE THAT. 
          UM, ALSO THROUGH THE R F P PROCESS, WORKING WITH THE, AND WORKING WITH THE THREE SELECTED VENDORS TO IDENTIFY, ARE THERE INCENTIVES PERHAPS THAT SOMEONE COULD RECEIVE IF THEY USE ONE OF THE RACKS? UM, COULD IT BE, UM, FOR LACK OF BETTER WORDS, LIKE A SMART RACK, UM, WHERE EITHER THE, THE SCOOTER KNOWS IT'S BEING PARKED IN THAT RACK, UM, AND THEN THERE WOULD BE SOME DISCOUNT MAYBE TO THE USER FOR MAYBE THE NEXT, NEXT RIDE. 
          UM, BUT IT'S REALLY, UM, PROVIDING GOOD ORDERLY OPTIONS FOR PEOPLE SO THEY, IT, IT'S EASY FOR THEM TO MAKE A DECISION, UM, WHEN THEY ARRIVE TO, TO, TO LET THEM KNOW WHERE THEY SHOULD PARK. 
          UM, JUST LIKE IF YOU ARRIVE AT A STORE IN A CAR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S MARKED PARKING SPACES. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THANKS. 
          I, IF WE COULD KEEP BIG CLUSTERS OF THEM OFF THE SIDEWALKS, I THINK THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE PREFERABLE. 
          UH, TO ME, I FEEL LIKE I, I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SIDEWALKS IN THIS CITY, RIGHT? MM-HMM. 
          , SO ALL OF US GET CALLS EVERY DAY, OR AT LEAST IN SOME OF OUR DISTRICTS, WE GET CALLS EVERY DAY ASKING US FOR, FOR SIDEWALKS. 
          AND THE, UH, LAST THING WE WANNA DO IS, YOU KNOW, TAKE UP THAT SCARCE SPACE WITH SOMETHING THAT COULD BE PUT ELSEWHERE. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, IT, A QUESTION ON, UM, COLLABORATION WITH OTHER CITIES OR COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          UH, IS THERE COLLABORATION WITH THEM? UH, THERE IS, WE'VE HAD, UM, MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS WITH MULTIPLE OTHER, UH, MUNICIPALITIES. 
          UM, OFTENTIMES IT'S PICKING UP THE PHONE TO CALL THEM TO SAY, HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? OR IS, IS WHAT YOU IMPLEMENTED WORKING? UM, ART AND HIS TEAM OFTEN ATTEND, UM, CONFERENCES. 
          AND, AND THIS IS A TOPIC THAT'S POPPING UP IN A LOT OF, UM, TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY TYPE, UM, CONFERENCES. 
          UH, THERE'S, THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL STUDIES THAT, UM, UM, THAT HAVE BEEN DONE, UM, WITH TRANSPORTATION ORGANIZATIONS WHERE THEY'RE ASKING FOR DATA. 
          UM, SO I THINK THE, I THINK THE, THE COMMUNITY OR THE, THE CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE ALL KIND OF LOOKING AT EACH OTHER FOR, UM, ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS. 
          SORRY, LET ME BACK UP. 
          SURE. 
          SO FOR INSTANCE, UH, DISTRICT SEVEN SURROUNDS LEON VALLEY. 
          SO DO YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH LEON VALLEY ABOUT, UH, PEOPLE RIDING A SCOOTER FROM SAN ANTONIO INTO LEON VALLEY? UH, I DON'T KNOW. 
          HAVE, I'LL ASK JOHN IF WE'VE NOT HEARD FROM LEON VALLEY. 
          NO, I DO KNOW THAT, UM, ALAMO HEIGHTS, UM, IS WORKING IN ORDINANCE AND, AND WE HAVE TALKED TO THEM AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT, UM, AT US REALLY TO SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING. 
          UM, THERE IS SOME CONCERN, I WOULD SAY, ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHEN YOU HAVE SMALL, UM, MUNICIPALITIES WITHIN OTHER ONES OR, OR, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE RULES AND, AND HOW DOES A RIDER KNOW WHAT, WHAT THEY SHOULD DO? RIGHT. 
          DO THEY GO BACK ON THE SIDEWALK? OFF THE SIDEWALK? YEAH. 
          I THINK THAT PART OF THAT MAY HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE, THE CO THE REASON FOR THAT STATE LEGISLATION WAS TRY TO MAKE IT CONSISTENT ACROSS THE, THE STATE. 
          UM, SO, SO ONE THING THAT DOES CONCERN ME ABOUT THE, THE R F P IS THAT IT'S, IT'S A TWO YEAR WITH A POSSIBLE ONE YEAR EXTENSION MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND IN THAT 
          [02:50:01]
TIME, I'M WONDERING IF WE'RE GONNA SEE A DEMA A DRAMATIC CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF, UH, IN THE DEMAND FOR, FOR VEHICLES. 
          SO, UH, ARE, IF SO, A, WILL WE SEE IT? AND B, IF SO, HOW DO WE, UH, INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF, OF SCOOTERS, UH, THAT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE SEE A HUGE CLUSTER DOWNTOWN. 
          RIGHT? UH, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT WON'T EXPAND TO OTHER, TO OTHER PLACES. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE, UM, AS PART OF THE R F P PROCESS AND PART OF THE, UM, ORDINANCE THAT WE'LL BE ASKING YOU ALL TO VOTE ON WOULD BE THE FLEXIBILITY FOR US TO ADMINISTRATIVELY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF PERMITS, SHOULD, UH, THAT DEMAND INCREASE. 
          AND ALSO, UM, AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT SEEING ISSUES OR PROBLEMS. WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE RESOLVING THE ISSUES BEFORE WE INCREASE, UM, THE NUMBER OF PERMITS. 
          AND IT MAY BE THAT, UM, THERE'S AN AREA OF TOWN THAT MAYBE IS UNDERSERVED. 
          UM, AND BY INCREASING THE PERMITS, WE COULD ISSUE THE PERMITS ON THE CONDITION THAT THOSE VEHICLES NEED TO BE DEPLOYED IN, IN THAT AREA OF TOWN. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UM, SO JUST, UH, ONE, ONE LAST THING. 
          UH, AND THIS HAS TO DO WITH, UH, HAVING THE, THE SCOOTERS ONLY BE ON SITE, ON THE STREETS, ARE OTHER CITIES FOLLOWING? ARE, ARE THERE ANY OTHER CITIES DOING THE SAME THING? THERE ARE, UM, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF BACK AND FORTH DEPENDING ON WHAT PART OF THE COUNTRY YOU'RE IN. 
          AND, AND EACH CITY IS KIND OF STRUGGLING WITH THIS. 
          SOME OF THEM HAVE, UM, LIKE US HAVE NOT ALLOWED, UM, BICYCLES ON SIDEWALKS, UM, FOR QUITE SOME TIME. 
          AND SOME CITIES HAVE GONE BACK TO LOOK AT THAT, UM, AND MAYBE ADJUST THAT, UM, TO CERTAIN AREAS OF TOWN WHERE IT'S OKAY TO RIDE. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S FAIRLY, UM, SPREAD OUT A LITTLE BIT. 
          THERE'S NOT A, A, I WOULDN'T SAY THAT EVERYONE'S GOING TO THAT OR AWAY FROM THAT. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , UM, BECAUSE IT'S SO NEW. 
          I THINK THAT A LOT OF, UH, CITIES ARE STILL REACTING LIKE WE ARE. 
          UM, BUT I, I HAVE SEEN MULTIPLE, LIKE THE C D C STUDY AND OTHERS THAT, UM, ARE STARTING TO SEE THIS CONFLICT WITH PEDESTRIANS. 
          SURE. 
          SO I THINK, UH, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, THERE'S REALLY TWO KEY THINGS, UH, THAT, THAT ARE, ARE MISSING HERE. 
          AND TO KIND OF UNDERSCORE SOMETHING THAT, THAT COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ SAID IS, YOU KNOW, SHE SAID, WE'RE BEHIND. 
          AND, AND SHE'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. 
          SO WE DON'T HAVE, WE KNOW IT'S, SOME PEOPLE FEEL UNSAFE RIDING IN THE STREET, WHETHER IT'S A BICYCLE OR WHETHER IT'S A SCOOTER. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE AREN'T ENOUGH SIDEWALKS TO GO AROUND, UH, TO SHARE THE, THE SCOOTERS WITH, WITH PEDESTRIANS. 
          SO WE'RE IN THIS CATCH 22, IT'S, IT'S NOT GONNA BE PERFECT, WHICH OTHER WAY, WHICHEVER WAY WE GO. 
          SO I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE A CONCERTED EFFORT. 
          AND, AND THE NEXT BUDGET PROCESS IS A PERFECT TIME TO START, IS TO, UH, BUILD THAT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE EITHER CYCLE TRACKS OR THE PROTECTED BICYCLE LANES. 
          UM, BUT UNTIL THAT INFRASTRUCTURE IS BUILT OUT, WE DO NEED TO HAVE A, A REALLY BIG, UH, DRIVER EDUCATION, UH, PROGRAM, AND WE COULD JOIN FORCES WITH THE BICYCLING, UH, SAFETY COMMUNITY TO DO THIS. 
          WE DON'T NEED TO WORK SEPARATELY ON IT, BUT, UM, I, I FEEL WHAT COUNCILMAN COURAGE SAID, BECAUSE, UM, WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE VERY DRI THAT THERE ARE DRIVERS THAT ARE UNFRIENDLY TO CYCLISTS. 
          AND THE TRUTH IS, WITHOUT A BICY LANE, UM, A CYCLIST CAN TAKE UP A WHOLE LANE. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , AS YOU KNOW, AND ON A STREET, THAT'S WHAT, 35 MILES OR LESS IN THE CASE OF SCOOTERS. 
          RIGHT. 
          THEY CAN TAKE UP A WHOLE LANE. 
          AND IF YOU'RE DRIVING 35 OR WANTING TO DRIVE 40 MILES AN HOUR OR 45 BECAUSE PEOPLE DO, UM, THAT COULD CREATE SOME ROAD RAGE. 
          WE DON'T HAVE, UH, PEOPLE RETAKING DRIVING TESTS EVERY FEW YEARS SO THAT THEY KEEP UP WITH CHANGES, UH, SO THAT WE FORCIBLY MAKE THEM KEEP UP WITH CHANGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED. 
          UM, SO IT'S GONNA BE INCUMBENT UPON US 'CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE CONTROL OVER THAT. 
          IT'S GOING TO BE INCUMBENT UPON US TO, TO EDUCATE THEM. 
          SO I, BEFORE, UH, WE ADOPT THE CONTRACT, AND WHILE WE'RE OUT DOING THE R F P, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO SEE A PROPOSAL FOR A, A BROAD EDUCATION PROPOSAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SOME OF THE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE WORKING ON BICYCLING SAFETY. 
          I THINK POOLING OUR RESOURCES, WE CAN GET A LOT FURTHER. 
          AND THEN AS OUR BUDGET, UH, COMES FORWARD, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A PROPOSAL FOR, UM, ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT IN THE, UH, IN THE CYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE OR MICRO MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          AND ERIC, I KNOW THIS IS LIKE MORE, MORE, MORE WITH LESS, LESS LESS  RESOURCES, BUT I THINK, UM, WE ARE AT A CRITICAL JUNCTURE WHERE WE DO NEED, UH, BOTH PIECES, THE EDUCATION AND THE, THAT'S URGENT, AND THEN THE, THE INFRASTRUCTURE AS WE'RE, UH, AS WE CAN GET TO IT. 
          SO, UM, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL. 
          COUNCILMAN PELA. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, DO, FIRST OF ALL, FIVE THOUSAND'S A NUMBER. 
          I HEARD WHY YOU PICKED 5,000 AND ALL THAT. 
          MY QUESTION IS, IS UNDER YOUR PROPOSAL, UM, I SAW THAT THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADJUST IT UPWARD IF WE FOUND THAT THERE WAS A NEED TO GO 
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UP. 
          IS THERE EQUALLY, I MEAN, IS IS THERE A THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, UH, IN THE, IN THIS CONCEPT THAT YOU WOULD ALSO ADD DOWN, YOU KNOW, DO DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENTS IF NECESSARY? UH, THERE'S NOT, BUT I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT KIND OF SHORT DURATION OF THAT CONTRACT. 
          UM, OKAY. 
          ALTHOUGH TWO YEARS MAY NOT SOUND SHORT. 
          UM, BUT YES, I UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT A, AT A, AT LOWER POTENTIAL FOR LOWERING IT. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UM, SO IS IT FAIR TO SAY, FROM LOOKING AT THAT LIST OF STREETS ON WHATEVER SLIDE YOU SHOWED US, UM, THAT THESE ARE OUR CONSTITUENTS WHO ARE WRITING THESE THINGS? OR ARE THESE 2 MILLION RIDES A PERCENTAGE OF THE 38 MILLION TOURISTS WHO VISIT US DOWNTOWN? RIGHT HERE? UH, WE, WE DID ASK, UH, WHERE PEOPLE ARE RESIDENTS. 
          I DON'T HAVE THAT IN THE PRESENTATION, BUT I DO HAVE THAT IN THE, UM, SURVEY. 
          AND IF YOU GIMME A A MINUTE HERE, I'LL, JOHN'S GONNA LOOK IT UP FOR US AND I'LL LET YOU KNOW. 
          OKAY. 
          BECAUSE WHAT I SAW ON YOUR SURVEY WAS THAT YOU ASKED 756 RESIDENTS IF, RIGHT. 
          THAT WAS, THAT WAS YOUR SURVEY. 
          WE, UH, ON THE SURVEY WE ASKED PEOPLE, WE, WE HAD TWO SURVEYS. 
          ONE WAS JUST OPEN TO ANYBODY TO, TO TAKE ONLINE. 
          THE OTHER ONE WE DIRECTED TO PEOPLE WHO WE KNEW HAVE USED A VEHICLE. 
          UM, BUT AS PART OF THAT, WE ASKED, ARE YOU A RESIDENT OF BEXAR COUNTY? UM, OR SOMEWHERE ELSE. 
          OKAY. 
          I, I MEAN, I, I DON'T THINK THAT I'LL BE ACCUSED OF BEING UNREASONABLE IF I'M, I'M GOING TO ASSUME THAT 2 MILLION OF THOSE RIDES WERE ALMOST ALL TOURISTS . 
          UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FACT THAT THESE ARE DOWNTOWN STREETS. 
          UM, SO I, I CAN TELL YOU THAT ALMOST A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE COMPLAINTS I'VE BEEN GETTING ARE FROM SAN ANTONIANS. 
          HOWEVER, UM, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE MY CONSTITUENTS. 
          I'M OKAY WITH THIS PROPOSED PLAN. 
          UM, AND, AND I'M OKAY WITH THE CURFEW. 
          UM, I, I LIKE THE, UH, I LIKE THE IDEA OF A CONCESSION AGREEMENT BECAUSE WHAT IT DOES IS IT GIVES US ENFORCEMENT, UH, UH, THE POWER OF ENFORCEMENT BY WAY OF CONTRACT. 
          RIGHT. 
          RIGHT. 
          UH, SO WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT THESE COMPANIES WOULD ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH US BY THEIR OWN FREE WILL. 
          UM, AND THEY GET TO SEE WALKING INTO THIS EYES WIDE OPEN EXACTLY WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES ARE OF DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY AND DOING IT THE WRONG WAY. 
          AND THEN IT GIVES US CONTRACTUAL REMEDIES IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE FOLLOWING THE RULES. 
          UM, AND I LIKE IT ALSO 'CAUSE IT GIVES US THE FLEXIBILITY, AND I'M SURE IT'LL BE INCLUDED IN THAT CONTRACT FOR US TO BE ABLE TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AS THE FACTS, YOU KNOW, DEVELOP AND AS WE LEARN MORE AND AS THE MARKET EVOLVES. 
          RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, AS FAR AS THE ARGUMENT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE CREATING SOME THIS KIND OF CONCESSION RELATIONSHIP, UM, WITH THIS INDUSTRY DOESN'T REALLY ALIGN WITH THE FACT THAT, UM, THERE'S AN ABSENCE OF REGULATIONS FOR PRIVATE BICYCLES, UM, OR THAT WE'RE TREATING SCOOTERS DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER MODALITIES. 
          UM, I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, FIRST WE AREN'T GETTING A GROUNDSWELL OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT PRIVATE BICYCLES AND OTHER MODALITIES. 
          WE'RE HEARING, I MEAN, I'M HEARING FROM HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE IN A VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, TELL ME HOW UPSET THEY ARE THESE THINGS. 
          UM, SECOND, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE 29,000, UM, ILLEGAL RIDES, UH, YOU KNOW, OR ENDING UP IN PROHIBITED AREAS LIKE THE RIVERWALK AND THE ALAMO AND ALL THAT FROM PRIVATE BIKES. 
          WE ARE GETTING THOSE AND WE'RE EXPERIENCING THAT PROBLEM FROM THESE SCOOTERS, RIGHT? MM-HMM. 
           AND, AND THIRD, UM, YOU KNOW, THE PRIVATE BIKES AREN'T CREATING A SITUATION OR A PROBLEM FOR US. 
          WE'RE CENTRO AND OUR WORK CREWS AND ALL THAT ARE HAVING TO DO TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CORRECTIONS. 
          RIGHT? RIGHT. 
          I MEAN, YOU'RE AND CORRECTIONS, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU AND I ARE ON THE SAME PAGE, ARE WHEN THEY GOTTA GO OUT AND MOVE THE BIKES OUT OF THE WAY TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR, OUR SIDEWALKS ARE CONTINUE TO BE A D A COMPLIANT OR SO THAT WE CAN CLEAN THE SIDEWALKS. 
          RIGHT. 
          A A CORRECTION IS BASICALLY A, IT, IT, UM, IS JUST MOVING A VEHICLE EITHER TO THE SIDE 'CAUSE IT'S MAYBE BLOCKING A SIDEWALK. 
          IT WOULDN'T BE RELOCATING IT TO A WHOLE NOTHER BLOCK OR A DIFFERENT PART OF DOWNTOWN. 
          AND, AND I, I ASSURE YOU, UM, IT'S NOT PRIVATE BIKES THAT ARE DOING THAT. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, AND, UM, SO I'M, I'M OKAY WITH TREATING THEM DIFFERENTLY 'CAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE DIFFERENT. 
          UM, AND WE DO TREAT THE DIFFERENT WAYS OF MOVING AROUND SAN ANTONIO DIFFERENTLY. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE ISSUE JAYWALKING TICKETS, UH, YOU KNOW, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE ISSUE, UH, DIFFERENT KINDS OF RULES AND ENFORCE DIFFERENTLY FOR UBERS AND TAXIS, AND WE TREAT THEM DIFFERENTLY THAN WE DO 
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LIMOS AND, YOU KNOW, SHUTTLE BUSES. 
          AND, UM, I HAVE A FEELING THAT WE ALSO PROHIBIT HORSES ON SIDEWALKS TOO. 
          I MEAN, EVERY MODALITY HAS, YOU KNOW, UH, A DIFFERENT WAY OF BEING TREATED. 
          UM, IN FACT, IF, I THINK, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, I THINK THE CITY PROHIBITS SKATEBOARDING IN CERTAIN AREAS AND NOT IN OTHERS. 
          UM, AND I, I THINK THE PUBLIC EXPECTS US TO EXERT SOME LEVEL OF CONTROL, EVEN IF IT'S DIFFERENT FROM MODALITY TO MODALITY, JUST TO ALLOW US TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T LIVE IN CHAOS. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE. 
          UM, 'CAUSE ULTIMATELY THAT'S OUR JOB. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN ASKING MY CONSTITUENTS WHY THEY DISLIKE THESE THINGS SO MUCH, AND THEY KEEP TELLING ME, WELL, THEY'RE UNSAFE. 
          UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THEY BLOCK THE SIDEWALK AND THEN YOU'LL ASK THEM, WELL, HAVE YOU RIDDEN ONE? WELL, NO, NOT REALLY. 
          UM, AND SO IT'S NOT THAT YOU'VE BEEN UNSAFE BE, AND BECAUSE HAVE YOU WALKED DOWN THE SIDEWALK? WELL, NO, I NEVER WALK. 
          I'M ALWAYS IN MY CAR. 
          AND I WAS LIKE, SO WHAT IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? ? UM, AND WHAT I, I THINK I'VE, YOU KNOW, WHAT I'VE TOUCHED UPON, UH, WITH THEM, AND YOU, YOU KEEP SCRATCHING AT THAT, THOSE ARGUMENTS. 
          AND WHAT YOU REALIZE IS THAT THEY'RE JUST REALLY FRUSTRATED WITH, NUMBER ONE, THE EYESORE. 
          RIGHT? I MEAN, AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THINK THEY, THEY, PEOPLE JUST DON'T LIKE THE WAY THAT THIS SUDDENLY POPPED UP AND HOW UGLY IT LOOKS TO THEM. 
          THE POPPING UP THING IS REALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE UPSET, I THINK, BECAUSE I THINK THEY PERCEIVE THESE COMPANIES THAT JUST HAVE SHOWN UP AND DROPPED, YOU KNOW, UM, 5,000, 6,000 OF THESE THINGS, YOU KNOW, IN SAN ANTONIO OVERNIGHT, AND THAT THEY'RE USING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, RIGHT? OUR SIDEWALKS AND OUR STREETS, LIKE PETRI DISHES TO DEVELOP OUT THIS NEW, UH, INDUSTRY RIGHT AT THE COST OF ANNOYING OUR CONSTITUENTS. 
          UM, AND, UM, AND MAKING A LOT OF MONEY. 
          UH, AND THEN NOT EVEN COMING TO US FIRST AND SAYING, HEY, WE'RE GONNA TRY THIS OUT. 
          WE WANNA WORK WITH YOU IN PARTNERSHIP. 
          I MEAN, THE, THE ATTITUDE HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF WE'LL ASK YOU FOR FORGIVENESS. 
          YOU KNOW, ONCE, ONCE WE KNOW YOU'RE GONNA GET ANNOYED. 
          IT'S NOT LIKE LIFT AND, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, LIME AND BIRD AND ALL THESE OTHER COMPANIES DIDN'T KNOW THAT WE WOULD REACT THE WAY THAT WE'RE REACTING. 
          'CAUSE THIS HAPPENS TO BE THE EXACT SAME WAY THAT EVERY OTHER CITY IN THE UNITED STATES IS REACTING. 
          UM, SO I THINK THAT THIS IS JUST BACKLASH ON WHAT, WHAT THE PUBLIC PERCEIVES TO BE ABUSE. 
          BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I WORK FOR THEM AND I DON'T WORK FOR THE SCOOTER COMPANIES. 
          AND IF EVERY ONE OF MY CONSTITUENTS, 'CAUSE I HAVE YET TO MEET A SINGLE CONSTITUENT WHO TELLS ME WE WANT MORE SCOOTERS, RIGHT? OR LEAVE THE SCOOTER INDUSTRY ALONE. 
          IF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM TELLS ME, THIS BUGS ME, THEN I GOTTA TAKE THAT SERIOUSLY. 
          I'M NOT DOING MY JOB AS A CITY COUNCILMAN, BUT IF I'M NOT BRINGING THAT UP HERE, SO, UH, THAT'S WHY I SUPPORT THIS. 
          IN FACT, I WOULD SUPPORT A MUCH, MUCH SMALLER QUOTE, UH, YOU KNOW, SORT OF THRESHOLD NUMBER. 
          BUT IF THIS IS THE CONSENSUS NUMBER, I'M OKAY WITH IT. 
          THANKS. 
          UM, THE QUESTION YOU HAD EARLIER, I THINK MAYBE WAS ON WHERE PEOPLE ARE WRITING ON THIS SLIDE, OR WAS IT, OKAY, SO THIS IS, UM, THIS IS DATA THAT WE RECEIVED FROM ONE OF THE COMPANIES. 
          UM, SO IT DOESN'T BREAK IT DOWN BY, UM, ANY DEMOGRAPHICS OF WHO'S WRITING. 
          WE JUST KNOW THAT PEOPLE USE THESE ROUTES, AND I APOLOGIZE, I THOUGHT YOU WERE REFERRING TO THE SURVEY THAT WE DID, WHERE WE DID ASK PEOPLE IF YOU'RE A RESIDENT OR, OR NOT. 
          BUT I'M, I, I'M, I'M WILLING TO BET A LOT OF MONEY MR. PERRY'S MONEY. 
          I'LL BET HIS MONEY, UH, THAT, THAT THESE ARE TOURISTS AND NOT PEOPLE COMMUTING TO AND FROM, YOU KNOW, UH, DISTRICT 10 OR DISTRICT SEVEN, OR FOR THAT MATTER FROM AROUND DISTRICT ONE. 
          THESE ARE, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO, YOU KNOW, ARE ALMOST ALWAYS WEARING SHORTS AND FLIP FLOPS. 
          WE ALL KNOW THEM. 
          UH, WE SEE THEM, RIGHT? UH, AND THAT'S GOOD. 
          I MEAN, AND THEY'RE HAVING FUN DOWNTOWN. 
          BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THIS DOWNTOWN BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO, AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHY I LIKE THIS, THIS PROGRAM THAT YOU'RE PROPOSING. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SURE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN PLA. 
          COUNCILMAN PERRY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU SIR. 
          JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK QUESTIONS HERE, JOHN. 
          SURE. 
          AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS. 
          UM, I, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE R F P AND HOW THAT'S REALLY GONNA BE STRUCTURED THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA LIMIT THIS TO 5,000. 
          WHY, WHY CAN'T WE JUST SAY, IF WE'RE GONNA LIMIT IT TO THREE, UM, THREE COMPANIES, WHY NOT JUST SAY THEY CAN EACH HAVE UP TO 2000 SCOOTERS OR DOCKLESS VEHICLES AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO DEPLOY ALL 2000? BECAUSE I CAN SEE IN THIS R F P PROCESS, WHAT IF ONE OF 'EM COMES IN, IN THEIR PROPOSAL, THEY WANT ALL 5,000 FROM ONE VENDOR? MM-HMM. 
          , I, I, I, I STILL THINK WE NEED TO LIMIT IT, UM, TO UP TO 2000 PER VENDOR. 
          AND AGAIN, THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO UP TO THAT NUMBER, BUT IT GIVES THEM THAT FLEXIBILITY. 
          TAKE IT UP, BECAUSE I'M, I'M LOOKING AT THAT SLIDE ON SLIDE SIX. 
          YOU KNOW, THE HISTORY SHOWS THAT IT'S BEEN ABOVE 5,000 EXCEPT FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS. 
          AND I, I, I DON'T WANNA LIMIT THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, DOWN BELOW WHAT COULD CLIMB UP AGAIN DURING THE SUMMER, SUMMER MONTHS COMING UP HERE, THE BIG TOURIST SEASON. 
          SO THAT'S MY RECOMMENDATION THAT WE, 
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IF WE'RE GONNA LIMIT IT TO THREE, LET'S GIVE 'EM EACH UP TO 2000 FOR A TOTAL OF UP TO 6,000 AND GO WITH THAT AND SEE HOW, SEE HOW IT WORKS OUT. 
          AGAIN, NOT ALL OF THEM MAY WANT TO DEPLOY 2000. 
          SO, UH, THAT'S MY COMMENT ON THAT. 
          UM, I, I AGREE WITH YOUR, UH, WHAT WAS IT, SLIDE 13 ON, ON THE, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          LOOKS GOOD TO ME. 
          UH, I HAVE A LITTLE CONCERN ABOUT THE 11 O'CLOCK DEAL. 
          I UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE DOING THAT AND MAY, YOU KNOW, WE CAN WATCH THAT AND SEE WHAT, UH, IF THAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED IN THE FUTURE. 
          YOU KNOW, ALL OF THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE, RIGHT? BASED ON THE REQUIREMENTS AND WHAT'S HAPPENING OUT IN THE MARKET. 
          UH, I'VE ALWAYS SAID, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A, ANOTHER DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY, JUST LIKE THE CELL PHONE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE LEARNED TO LIVE WITH OUR CELL PHONES. 
          I THINK THERE'S A BALANCE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE, CAN LEARN TO LIVE THE DOCKLESS VEHICLES DOWNTOWN OR AROUND SAN ANTONIO. 
          BUT ON OUR, ON OUR LAST BOND, AREN'T WE DOING A LOT OF, UH, STREET WORK ON SOME OF OUR MAJOR THOROUGHFARES DOWNTOWN? WE ARE. 
          AND, UM, WE ACTUALLY JUST HAD A MEETING RECENTLY WITH T C I, UM, TO DISCUSS, UM, IS IS THERE SOMETHING WE CAN DO, UM, WHILE WE'RE STILL IN THE KIND OF THE DESIGN PHASE TO INCORPORATE, UM, POTENTIAL BIKE LANES, UM, TO ACCOMMODATE EITHER BIKES AND SCOOTERS? YEAH, I, AND, UM, I, I THINK, UH, ONCE WE GET INTO THAT DESIGN PROCESS, I, I WOULD CERTAINLY LIKE TO SEE THAT AS A PRESENTATION TO THE COUNCIL. 
          IF NOT, IF NOT ANYBODY'S INTERESTED IN IT, I'M INTERESTED IN IT. 
          I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT THAT, UH, PROPOSAL IS GONNA BE AND HOW ACCOMMODATING WE ARE GONNA BE TOWARDS DOCKLESS VEHICLES IN THIS MM-HMM. 
           ALONG WITH WALKING AND, AND VEHICLES AND BUSES AND ALL THAT STUFF. 
          I, I, I KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF MONEY PUT DOWNTOWN UNDER THIS 2017 BOND, AND I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY KIND OF, UH, LAYOUTS OR PROPOSALS ON ALL OF THIS WORK. 
          SO I, I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR THE REST OF THE COUNCIL TO SEE WHAT WE'RE PLANNING ON DOING ON OUR MAJOR THOROUGHFARES DOWNTOWN. 
          UM, AND MY LAST QUESTION, IS THIS GONNA GO THROUGH THE AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY MEETING? UH, WE WERE, WE WERE NOT PLANNING TO, BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN TO B SESSION AND, AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE, UM, ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION THROUGH THIS PROCESS. 
          UM, SO WE THINK, UH, B SESSION WOULD, WOULD ACCOMMODATE THAT. 
          BUT ERIC, IF YOU WANNA ADD TO THAT, UM, SO COUNCILMAN, UH, ACTUALLY NEXT WEEK AT, UH, AUDIT AND CONTRACT COMMITTEE, WE'RE COMING BACK WITH RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW WE DEAL WITH, UM, HIGH PROFILE CONTRACTS. 
          UM, IN THIS CASE, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY HIGH PROFILE IN TERMS OF REVENUE, IT IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT HAS A LOT OF INTEREST FROM THE COMMUNITY STANDPOINT. 
          AND EACH OF YOU, UM, I ELECTED TO ASK, UH, THE COMMITTEE OR THE, UH, THE STAFF TO BRING THIS PRES SOLICITATION DISCUSSION TO THE FULL COUNCIL. 
          AND AS YOU SAW IN THE PRESENTATION, WE WOULD COME BACK POSTS SOLICITATION TO THE FULL COUNCIL ON B SESSION. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S CURRENTLY THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          THEN IT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT OR AT LEAST PROPOSE TO THE AUDIT AND CONTRACT COMMITTEE NEXT WEEK. 
          OKAY. 
          'CAUSE THERE'S SOME, THERE'S OTHER ISSUES THAT ARE, THAT ARE ACTUALLY BRIEFED AT THE AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE THAT, THAT'S NOT PART OF THIS, UH, PRESENTATION HERE. 
          SO WE CAN, WE CAN CERTAINLY PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO YOU. 
          UM, AND OR FOLLOW UP WITH YOU AT THE AUDIT AND CONTRACT COMMITTEE MEETING NEXT WEEK. 
          I THINK THE, UM, THE THOUGHT WAS THAT, UM, GIVEN, UH, SOME OF THE RECENT DISCUSSION ABOUT CONTRACTS, UM, SOME OF THESE HIGH PROFILE CONTRACTS DESERVE THE, UH, THE, UH, THE ATTENTION AND THE ABILITY OF THE COUNCIL. 
          SO I, WE CAN KIND OF WALK THROUGH THAT WITH THE COMMITTEE NEXT WEEK. 
          YES, SIR. 
          I TOTALLY AGREE. 
          AND I, I WOULD, I WOULD SAY THIS IS A HIGH PROFILE CONTRACT ALSO. 
          I, I WOULD ASK THAT MAYBE, UH, AND, AND WE CAN TALK AFTERWARDS IF THERE'S SPECIFIC THINGS THAT YOU DIDN'T GET TODAY THAT WE CAN ADD ON NEXT WEEK'S AGENDA SO WE CAN GET THOSE IN FRONT OF YOU GUYS. 
          I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, FOLLOW THE SAME FORMAT THAT WE HAVE ON OTHER HIGH PROFILE CONTRACTS, BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME COMMENTS AT THE LAST COMMITTEE MEETING ON THINGS THAT WE NEED TO SEE ON HIGH PROFILE. 
          YES, SIR. 
          FOR, UH, PRES SOLICITATION AND POSTS SOLICITATION ALSO. 
          AND I'M ASSUMING WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS THAT ALL AT OUR NEXT MEETING? YES, SIR. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAD. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN PERRY, COUNCILMAN HALL. 
          SO, AS AN OUTGOING MEMBER OF COUNCIL, THAT HAS A LOT LESS EXPERIENCE THAN OTHER MEMBERS OF COUNCIL ON THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE. 
          I JUST ONLY HAVE TWO COMMENTS. 
          NUMBER ONE, I THINK WE HAVE TOO MANY, UH, GOING FROM THE, I THINK THE 12,000 OR 14,000 THAT ARE CURRENTLY OUT THERE TO 5,000, I THINK IS A GOOD MOVE. 
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UM, AND THEN THE SECOND COMMENT IS, UH, TAPPING ONTO THE EYESORE COMMENT THAT, UH, UM, COUNCILMAN BLAS MENTIONED. 
          I, I THINK THE OTHER PART OF THE EYESORE IS THAT WE'VE GOT A HODGEPODGE OF COMPANIES WITH A HODGEPODGE OF COLORS, WHICH CREATES JUST A LACK OF UNIFORMITY, WHICH JUST MAKES IT LOOK MESSY. 
          UH, I SEE YOU'RE RECOMMENDING THREE VENDORS. 
          I WOULD ACTUALLY GO DOWN, AS OPPOSED TO, I SEE. 
          YOU WANTED TO CREATE FLEXIBILITY BY ADDING, UM, I WOULD GO TO EITHER ONE VENDOR OR TWO, AND PROBABLY NOT MORE THAN THAT. 
          UH, I SEE YOUR INTEREST IS COMPETITION. 
          I THINK THE TWO YEAR CHURN CREATES THAT COMPETITION BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY HAVE, THEY'VE GOTTA PERFORM FOR THOSE TWO YEARS IN ORDER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE, FOR THE NEXT, UH, FOR AN EXTENSION OR, UH, A SECOND CONTRACT. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ARE STICKING AROUND FOR THIS, UM, UM, THESE AMENDMENTS. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN HALL. 
          I'LL JUST WRAP UP WITH, UH, SOME OBSERVATIONS. 
          I THINK, UM, I'M HEARING THAT THE COUNCIL GENERALLY SUPPORTS, UH, THE, UH, MOVE FORWARD AT THE R F P AND THE DETAILS THERE. 
          AND SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THIS BACK AT FULL COUNCIL. 
          UM, I, I, MY HEART AGREES WITH COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ IN THINKING THAT THIS IS A NEW MARKET INNOVATION, UH, THAT SHOULD EVENTUALLY TAKE CARE OF ITSELF IN TERMS OF THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF, OF SCOOTERS ON THE STREET. 
          AND, UH, I MADE STATEMENTS AS WELL THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, TO THE EFFECT OF THAT, BY PUTTING OURSELVES IN A POSITION OF, OF CREATING THE MARKET NOW WITH THIS R F P AND WHAT WE WANNA SEE FROM IT, IT ALMOST BELIES THE POINT OF THE MARKET PRODUCING INNOVATIONS LIKE THIS. 
          AND IT PUTS US IN A, IN A BIT OF A POSITION OF HAVING TO GUESS WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE WHILE WE'RE IN, IN THE LEAST ABLE POSITION TO DO THAT. 
          UM, I SINCE HAVE HAD A CONVERSATION, OR A FEW ACTUALLY WITH, UM, FOLKS LIKE TECH BLOCK WHO ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF DISRUPTION AND WHO HAVE GUIDED US THROUGH, UH, SOME JUST RECENTLY AND HAVE KIND OF CHANGED MY THINKING ON THIS. 
          AND, AND, AND I DO BELIEVE THAT THE, THE LIGHT TOUCH APPROACH OF THE COUNCIL, UH, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE WAS A GOOD ONE BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THESE INNOVATIONS CAN TAKE ROOT IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          THEY, THEY CAN THRIVE, THAT THEY'RE BENEFICIAL TO THE CONSUMER, WHICH IS REALLY WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. 
          UM, THERE IS TOO MUCH CLUTTER ON OUR SIDEWALKS. 
          WE NOTICE THAT DURING THE PILOT, WE'VE DONE SOMETHING ABOUT IT WITH THE TWEAKS. 
          WE ALSO KNOW THAT THEY'RE TOO DANGEROUS. 
          SO WE'VE MADE SOME TWEAKS IN THE REGULATIONS AS WELL. 
          I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL OF IS THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE R F P, THAT WE ALLOW US SOME FLEXIBILITY TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS ON THE FLY BECAUSE THIS IS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING. 
          EVEN THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF, UH, IS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING. 
          AND WE'VE SEEN NEW PRODUCTS HIT THE, HIT THE STREETS HERE IN THE LAST, YOU KNOW, LAST WEEK, UM, CERTAINLY WITHIN THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS. 
          UH, AND, AND THE, IN THE INDUSTRY, THE, THE COMPANIES ARE ACTUALLY GETTING SMARTER AND ADDRESSING SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE WITH REGARD TO CLUTTER, BUT ALSO SAFETY OF THE VEHICLES. 
          THE WHEELS ARE BIGGER, THEY'RE STURDIER, UM, THEY'VE GOT LIGHTS AND, AND ALL THAT SORT OF THING. 
          AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, THAT WE, THAT WE ENCOURAGE THAT. 
          UM, ONE OF THE CONCEPTS THAT I DIDN'T SEE UP HERE THAT WAS DISCUSSED, AT LEAST BRIEFLY, I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH THE STAFF DISCUSSED. 
          IT, WAS THIS CONCEPT OF HAVING A PLUS ONE VENDOR MM-HMM. 
           WITH A SMALL NUMBER OF HERMITS THAT WOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO REALLY DISRUPT THE TECHNOLOGY ITSELF. 
          AND BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY ARE PERMITTED TO DO BUSINESS ON THE STREETS, THE OTHER VENDORS WOULD BE FORCED TO COMPETE, IMPROVE THEIR OWN PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AND SO FORTH. 
          HOW, HOW DID STAFF RESPOND TO THAT IDEA? IS THAT PART OF THIS CONCEPT, OR ARE WE JUST KIND OF PARKING THAT ONE FOR NOW? NO, IT, IT IS. 
          AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT A, UH, R F P PROCESS TO IDENTIFY THREE, UM, VENDORS, BUT ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADD A FOURTH IF SOMEBODY COMES FORWARD WITH SOMETHING THAT IS, UM, TRULY DIFFERENT, MORE INNOVATIVE, A DIFFERENT MODEL. 
          UM, SO WE'RE NOT JUST LIMITING IT TO THREE. 
          UM, THAT POSSIBILITY IS THERE, IF SOMEBODY COMES FORWARD WITH SOMETHING THAT, UM, WOULD'VE CHANGED THE MARKET OR, UM, IS MORE INNOVATIVE IN ANOTHER WAY, MAY WO GONZALEZ POINTED OUT TO SOMEONE, HAVE AN ACCESSIBLE VEHICLE. 
          MAYBE THERE'S A COMPANY OUT THERE, THEY COULD BE SOMEONE WHO MIGHT PERHAPS QUALIFY AS THAT FOURTH UM, PERSON. 
          OR MAYBE THE DE THE VEHICLE IS SO DIFFERENT, UM, THAT IT, THAT IT, IT SERVES EITHER A DIFFERENT PURPOSE OR, OR IT'S JUST SOMETHING MORE INNOVATIVE, UM, THAN WHAT WE'VE SEEN TODAY. 
          UM, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT FLEXIBILITY TO, TO BE ABLE TO ADD SOMETHING, UM, IF THAT COMES AROUND, BUT ALSO, UM, UNDER THE CIRCUM, UNDER THE CONDITION THAT, UM, THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER, UM, THAT WE SEE THAT IT'S LESS CLUTTER THAT'S MORE ORGANIZED, UM, BEFORE WE WOULD ADD, UM, MORE VEHICLES TO THE MARKET. 
          YEAH. 
          AND, AND YOU KNOW, I HEARD THE COMMENTS FROM COUNCILMAN SALDANA TOO ABOUT THE HOURS OF OPERATION BEING LIMITED. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I HAVE THE SAME CONCERN. 
          I MEAN, IF, IF THIS IS TRULY A, A, A PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION 
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SERVICE THAT WE'RE REGULATING FOR SAFETY AND THE VEHICLES ARE GETTING SAFER, PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE 'EM WHEN, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THEY DEEM IT'S SAFE. 
          BUT, BUT I GET IT. 
          WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD WATCH THAT VERY CLOSELY THOUGH, AND SEE IF WE NEED TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS. 
          UM, SO I'M, I'M IN SUPPORT OF THE RECOMMENDATION TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE R F P. 
          I LOOK FORWARD TO THE, THE, UH, THE RESULTS OF IT. 
          I DO HOPE THAT WE HAVE THROUGH THE, THE CITY REPRESENTATIVES ON THE PANEL ENOUGH OF A, UH, INNOVATION LOOK. 
          SO I HOPE SOMEBODY FROM THE INNOVATION OFFICE WILL BE ON THE PANEL IN ADDITION TO SOMEBODY FROM THE STAKEHOLDER COMMITTEE THAT REPRESENTS THE TECH COMMUNITY. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UM, AND I, AND I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH THE COMMENTS FROM COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. 
          MY TAKEAWAY FROM THIS ENTIRE, UH, ORDEAL, IF WE CAN CALL IT THAT WITH SCOOTERS, UH, IS THAT ALEX BIA WAS RIGHT, 25 PLUS YEARS AGO, THAT WE SHOULD HAVE BUILT OUR SIDEWALKS WIDER, AND WE SHOULD TAKE, UH, A LESSON FROM THAT AND HOW WE BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE GOING FORWARD. 
          UM, WE HAVE TO MAKE THIS A SAFE BICYCLE COMMUNITY. 
          WE'VE SAID THAT WE'RE COMMITTED TO IT. 
          UH, WE NEED TO SEE THAT AND THE DOLLARS THAT WE ALLOCATE IN THE CITY BUDGET, UH, IN F Y 20 AND MOVING FORWARD. 
          AND ALSO THE, THE PRIORITIES OF CONNECT SA AND THE OVERALL TRANSPORTATION STRATEGY. 
          AND, BUT WHEN WE SAY SAFE BICYCLE ROUTES, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BICYCLE LANES, NOT JUST STRIPES ON THE ROAD, BUT BICYCLE LANES THAT ARE SET ASIDE THAT HAVE BARRIERS, HARDENED BARRIERS ARE SOMETHING ELSE. 
          AND CERTAINLY DIFFERENT COLORS THAT PEOPLE WILL DENOTE THAT THIS IS JUST FOR BICYCLES. 
          UM, BUT ALSO NOW FOR MICRO MOBILITY TECHNOLOGY, UH, IN A, IN A, AND WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT OUR POLICIES AND OUR ORDINANCES AS WELL TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT LEAVING LOOPHOLES, UH, SUCH AS THE ONE THAT CURRENTLY ALLOWS CARS TO PARK IN BICYCLE LANES. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THAT. 
          I THINK WE'RE, WE'VE GOTTEN GREAT LESSONS FROM THIS. 
          UH, I WANT TO SEE US CONTINUE TO, TO MOVE DOWN THE ROAD OF INNOVATION AND MARKET PRODUCING INNOVATION. 
          BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I THINK THE STAFF AND, AND THE COUNCIL HAS DONE A GREAT JOB IN, IN, UM, DEALING WITH, UH, A VERY, UM, COMPLEX SITUATION IN THE BEST WAY FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. 
          I THINK THAT'S IT FOR, UM, TODAY'S OPEN SESSION FOR, FOR B I THINK WE HAVE A COUPLE OF ITEMS ON EXEC. 
          IS THAT RIGHT, ERIC? NOT TODAY. 
          UH, MAYOR, WE'RE GONNA DO THOSE TOMORROW. 
          TOMORROW. 
          ONE POTENTIAL ITEM. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, SO I'LL, I'LL READ THE CAPTION FOR THE EXECS THAT WILL, THAT, THAT WE'LL TAKE UP TOMORROW. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THE TIME IS NOW 5:24 PM ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 15TH, 2019. 
          THIS EXECUTIVE SESSION SCHEDULED FOR TODAY WILL BE CARRIED OVER UNTIL TOMORROW, THURSDAY, MAY 16TH, 2019, AND WILL BE HELD DURING THE CITY COUNCIL A SESSION THAT BEGINS NO EARLIER THAN 9:00 AM IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER IN THE MUNICIPAL PLAZA BUILDING. 
          CITY COUNCIL WILL NOW RECESS TODAY'S MEETING UNTIL CITIZENS WILL BE HEARD AT 6:00 PM WHICH WILL BE IN THIS ROOM. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? I THINK WE HAVE, YES. 
          A FEW FOLKS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. 
          YES. 
          A COUPLE COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, ARE NOT GOING TO BE PRESENT FOR THAT BECAUSE OF OTHER OBLIGATIONS. 
          BUT MAYOR, I JUST WANTED TO THANK THE, UH, GOVERNMENT PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND THE AV STAFF FOR FACILITATING AND GETTING OUT HERE AND GETTING EVERYTHING SET UP AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR PROVIDING, UH, DIFFERENT TYPE OF SECURITY AND IN A DIFFERENT SETTING. 
          UH, THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE WORK SETTING UP.
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