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GOOD MORNING, PLEASE BE SEATED. 
          WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING OF MAY 16TH, 2019. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER HALL HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SALANA. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER BROCK HOUSE PRESENT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SAND DEVAL HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER LIAS HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY HERE. 
          AND MAYOR BERG HERE. 
          MAYOR, WE DO HAVE A QUORUM. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          WELCOME EVERYONE TO OUR CITY COUNCIL, A SESSION AGENDA. 
          THE TIME IS NOW 9:15 AM WE'LL BEGIN WITH AN INVOCATION GUEST OF COUNCIL MEMBER BROCK HOUSE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR, PASTOR KRAFT, COME ON UP. 
          THIS IS, UH, PASTOR MIKE KRAFT AND I'M PROUD TO INTRODUCE HIM TODAY. 
          ONE OF OUR DISTRICT SIX OWN, UH, PASTORS. 
          UH, AND I JUST REALIZED, MIKE, YOU GREW UP IN MOLINE, ILLINOIS, SO MY FATHER'S FAMILY'S FROM THE SAME AREA. 
          I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEN WE'D BEEN WORKING TOGETHER FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. 
          SO, UH, LOOK, MIKE GREW UP IN MOLINE, ILLINOIS, UH, AND IS INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL FOR THE FAMILY THAT GOD BLESSED HIM WITH. 
          MIKE TRUSTED IN JESUS AT AN EARLY AGE AND IN HIGH SCHOOL, MADE THE DECISION TO BE A HOLY DEVO, UH, DEVOTED FOLLOWER OF JESUS. 
          MIKE HAS HIS BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN BIBLICAL STUDIES FROM TRINITY INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, AND HE COMPLETED HIS MASTER'S OF DIVINITY IN 2009 FROM TRINITY EVANGELICAL DIVINITY SCHOOL. 
          AS WELL, MIKE IS, HAS SERVED AS THE PASTOR OF YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS, UH, STUDIES AT CAVALRY CHAP, UH, CAVALRY CHURCH IN TRUMBULL, CONNECTICUT. 
          YOU HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY HERE, MY FRIEND. 
          UH, AND THEN GOD, UH, LED HIM AND HIS FAMILY TO PURSUE, UH, CHURCH PLANTING HIMSELF. 
          AND HE CAME TO DISTRICT SIX HERE IN, UH, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND STARTED MISSION COMMUNITY CHURCH, WHICH IS A PARTNERSHIP INVOLVED WITH THE Y M C A. 
          SO HIS CHURCH IS ACTUALLY PART, UH, CONDUCTS HIS, UH, THE SERVICES WITHIN THE Y M C A FACILITY, AND THAT'S A WONDERFUL PARTNERSHIP. 
          MIKE AND HIS WIFE ARIEL ARE BLESSED WITH THREE BEAUTIFUL AND PRECIOUS LITTLE GIRLS. 
          CARIS, SHANNON AND TIA. 
          AND THIS IS AN INTERESTING PART OF YOUR BIO, MIKE. 
          YOU ARE AN AVID SPORTS FAN AND STILL MARVEL AT THE FACT THAT THE CHICAGO CUBS WON A WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP. 
          AMEN. 
          ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT. 
          IN HIS FREE TIME, MIKE SPENDS, UH, MOST OF IT WITH HIS FAMILY PLAYING AND WATCHING SPORTS AND SURROUNDING HIMSELF WITH PEOPLE. 
          MIKE IS PASSIONATE ABOUT SEEING PEOPLE EXPERIENCE LIFE THAT IS FOUND THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, EQUIPPING FOLLOWERS OF JESUS TO LIVE ON MISSION TOGETHER AND ADVOCATING FOR THE MARGINALIZED, THE OPPRESSED, AND PARTICULARLY CHILDREN. 
          MIKE, I AM PROUD OF YOU AND THE WORK YOU DO IN DISTRICT SIX. 
          UH, HE HAS PARTNERED WITH US ON SEVERAL OF OUR HOMELESS INITIATIVES AND KIND OF ACTS AS, UH, ONE OF OUR TRI CHAIRS THAT WE GO OUT AND WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE COMMUNITY, UH, HELPING OUR HOMELESS FOLKS. 
          AND I'VE SEEN MIKE HIMSELF ON THE CORNER OF 1 51 16 0 4, UH, PETRANKO ROAD HIMSELF, MINISTERING INDIVIDUALLY BY HIMSELF TO HOMELESS MEN AND WOMEN. 
          AND IT IS AN AMAZING CALLING. 
          YOU HAVE, MIKE, AND I'M THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR CITY. 
          AND I'M HONORED TODAY TO INTRODUCE YOU, UH, TO MY COLLEAGUES ON THIS COUNCIL AND TO THOSE WATCHING AT HOME TODAY, PASTOR KRAFT, IT'S YOUR FLOOR. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. 
          IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE TODAY. 
          WOULD YOU ALL PLEASE JOIN ME IN PRAYER? GRACIOUS GOD, WE COME BEFORE YOU SO THANKFUL THAT YOU, THE GOD OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, ALLOW US TO APPROACH YOU AND THAT WE CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT YOU HEAR OUR PRAYERS. 
          WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY AND RECOGNIZE THAT IT'S A GIFT FROM YOU. 
          AND I PRAY THAT ALL OF US IN THIS ROOM, ALL OF US WATCHING, ALL OF US IN OUR GREAT CITY WOULD STEWARD IT WELL AND USE IT FOR YOUR GLORY. 
          LORD JESUS, YOUR WORD SAYS THAT YOU CAME AS A SERVANT AND THAT YOU WERE FOUND AS A, AN APPEARANCE AS A MAN AND YOU HUMBLED YOURSELF AND YOU PLACED THE NEEDS OF OTHERS IN FRONT OF YOURSELF. 
          AND JESUS, YOU ASKED THE SAME OF YOUR FOLLOWERS AND SAID, WHOEVER WANTS TO BE GREAT MUST FIRST BECOME A SERVANT. 
          AND GOD, I THANK YOU FOR THESE PUBLIC SERVANTS HERE THAT YOU'VE CHOSEN TO SERVE OUR CITY. 
          AND GOD, I THANK YOU THAT THEY HAVE CHOSEN TO PUT THE NEEDS OF OTHERS IN FRONT OF THEMSELVES. 
          LORD, THEY DO MANY THINGS BEHIND THE SCENES. 
          THEY WORK SO MANY LATE HOURS, THEY SACRIFICE SO GREATLY THAT MOST PEOPLE NEVER SEE. 
          BUT WE THANK YOU THAT YOU SEE THEM AND I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD STRENGTHEN THEM THROUGH YOUR SPIRIT. 
          GOD, I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD LEAD THEM, THAT YOU'D GUIDE THEM, THAT YOU'D STRENGTHEN THEM, THAT YOU'D ENCOURAGE THEM, THAT YOU'D PROTECT THEM. 
          WOULD YOU GUARD THEIR FAMILIES? WOULD YOU PROTECT THEIR MARRIAGES? 
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WOULD YOU BLESS THEIR CHILDREN? AND LORD, AS THIS IS A SEASON OF TRANSITION AND CHANGE WITH A NEW COUNCIL TEAM COMING ON IN A FEW WEEKS, WOULD YOU BLESS THOSE WHO SERVE FAITHFULLY AND ARE STEPPING OFF THE COUNCIL, BE WITH THOSE WHO ARE CONTINUING AND BE WITH THOSE WHO ARE STEPPING ON. 
          AND I PRAY THAT YOU'D GUIDE THEM AS THEY LEARN THEIR NEW ROLE AND GOD, THAT YOU'D GALVANIZE THIS NEW TEAM AS THEY WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR CITY. 
          AND FATHER, AS OUR COUNCIL MEETS TODAY, I ASK THAT YOU WOULD UNITE THEM. 
          LORD, PART OF THE BEAUTY OF THIS GROUP IS THAT THEY'RE PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS WITH DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND CONVICTIONS. 
          AND LORD, WE KNOW THAT UNITY DOESN'T MEAN UNIFORMITY. 
          AND I PRAY THAT EVEN IN THEIR DIVERSITY, THEY'D BE UNITED IN THEIR GREAT LOVE FOR OUR CITY, THAT YOU WOULD HELP THEM WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF OUR CITY AS THEY FULFILL THE DUTY OF LEADERSHIP THAT YOU'VE CALLED THEM TO AND CHOSEN THEM FOR. 
          AND GOD, WE TRULY THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF LIVING IN THE GREAT CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE ARE HUMBLE THAT WE GET TO CALL THIS OUR CITY. 
          WE PRAISE YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL CITY THAT'S SO FULL OF LIFE AND VIBRANCY AND HISTORY AND CULTURE. 
          AND GOD, WE ASK YOUR BLESSING UPON OUR PEOPLE THAT'S TRULY WHO MAKES THIS CITY GREAT, IS OUR PEOPLE. 
          WOULD YOU HEAL THOSE WHO ARE BROKEN AND HURTING? ALLOW THE HOMELESS TO FIND A REFUGE, COMFORT, THE PRECIOUS CHILDREN IN OUR CITY WHO NEED HOMES AND ARE IN OUR FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. 
          GOD, WOULD YOU ALLOW PEOPLE TO SURROUND THEM AND LOVE THEM WITH YOUR LOVE? BLESS THE MANY FAMILIES IN OUR CITY THAT SO SELFLESSLY SERVE AND ARE MILITARY AS THIS IS MILITARY CITY U S A, AND WE PRIDE OURSELVES IN THAT NAME. 
          WOULD YOU PROTECT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS IN THE MANY OTHER PUBLIC SERVANTS THAT HELP MAKE OUR CITY WHAT IT IS? CONTINUE TO REVEAL YOURSELF TO US, AND MAY WE REPRESENT YOU IN THE WAY THAT WE LOVE AND SERVE AND TREAT ONE ANOTHER. 
          GOD AGAIN, WE'RE THANKFUL AND GRATEFUL FOR THIS DAY. 
          WE COMMIT IT TO YOU AND MAY WE LIVE IT FOR YOU THROUGH THE POWER OF YOUR HOLY SPIRIT. 
          WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN THE MIGHTY AWESOME, POWERFUL NAME, MAJESTIC NAME THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME, THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. 
          IN HIS NAME WE PRAY. 
          AMEN. 
          FLAG THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE. 
          THANK YOU PASTOR KRAFT. 
          WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR TRANSLATION SERVICES. 
          OKAY, THE FIRST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA TODAY IS THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FROM APRIL 17TH AND 18TH. 
          SO MOVED. 
          THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM THREE, WHICH IS CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FROM APRIL 17TH AND 18TH. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ALRIGHT, I'M GONNA RECOGNIZE OUR COLLEAGUE COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL, WITH A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, ABOUT A MONTH AGO WE WERE HERE, OR A LITTLE OVER A MONTH AGO, WE WERE HERE TALKING ABOUT THE KNOW MY STATUS CAMPAIGN REGARDING H I V AND THE RISING NUMBERS THAT WE'VE HAD HERE IN BEXAR COUNTY AND THE EXEMPLARY WORK OF OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN MAKING THAT A THING OF THE PAST. 
          SO, UH, JENNIFER, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANNA COME UP AND SAY A COUPLE OF WORDS, UH, ABOUT IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN, AND THANK YOU ALL OF YOU FOR PARTICIPATING. 
          THIS IS ALWAYS AN EXCITING EVENT THIS YEAR. 
          WE DID, UM, INCREASE THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE TESTED AND WE REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO DO THAT IN, IN YEARS TO COME. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE, UM, THE COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT ASSISTED US WITH A KNOW YOUR STATUS CAMPAIGN. 
          UM, THAT WAS SAN ANTONIO AIDS FOUNDATION, THE BEAT AIDS COALITION. 
          UH, MY FAVORITE, NOT THAT I HAVE FAVORITES. 
           CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES AND HEALTH ANALYTICS. 
          UH, IN ALL, WE HAD 119 TESTING EVENTS. 
          WE HAD OVER 4,400 INDIVIDUALS TESTED FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES. 
          AND, UH, THE THIRD PLACE, WELL ACTUALLY LET'S, UM, THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAD THE MOST TESTS WERE IN THIRD PLACE CENTER FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES WITH 105 INDIVIDUALS. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UH, BEAT AIDS, UH, WITH 179 AND THE SAN ANTONIO AIDS FOUNDATION, UH, TESTED 510 INDIVIDUALS. 
          UM, AND THEN 
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THE RESULTS OF THE DISTRICT'S, UH, COMPETING. 
          UH, THIRD PLACE DISTRICT EIGHT WITH 462 INDIVIDUALS TESTED. 
          DISTRICT DISTRICT TWO CAME IN SECOND, UH, WITH 483 INDIVIDUALS TESTED. 
          AND NUMBER ONE DRUM ROLL PLEASE. 
          IS, UH, DISTRICT FIVE WITH 540 INDIVIDUALS TESTED TWO YEARS IN A ROW. 
          DISTRICT FIVE PREVAILS. 
          THANK YOU ALL THE CONSTITUENTS FROM DISTRICT FIVE FOR PARTICIPATING AND KNOWING YOUR STATUS. 
          THERE YOU GO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OH YEAH, ACTUALLY, GO AHEAD. 
          COULD WE INVITE THE, UM, FOLKS THAT PARTICIPATE IN HELPING, GETTING FOLKS TESTED UP? I KNOW B DAYS IS HERE. 
          COUNCILMAN, YOU WANNA SCHEDULE? SURE. 
          YOU WANT ME TO? YEAH. 
          CAN YOU SWITCH JEFF? YEAH. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THE, AND THE METRO HEALTH STAFF. 
          SECOND TIME? YES. 
          TWO ICE IN A ROW. 
          HI. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU ALL. 
          CONGRATULATIONS. 
          YOU GET TO HOLD THE, ALL RIGHT, I'LL HOLD THE PLAQUE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          DISTRICT FIVE, IT'S ALL YOU. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU EVERYONE. 
          NOW MY STATUS NEED TO KIND OF DOUBLE, DOUBLE STACK SO YOU CAN STAND IN THE BACK. 
          YEAH, WELL, THAT'S ALL RIGHT. 
          KIND OF SQUARE ON, LIKE STRAIGHTEN UP? NO, YOU HAVE THE OPPOSITE. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THAT WE CAN HAVE SPACE IN BETWEEN AND THEN, YEAH. 
          WHERE'S THE LADDER? SCOOT TOWARDS THE, JUST A LITTLE BIT SO WE DON'T LOSE YOUR, ALRIGHT, GOOD ON THREE. 
          1, 1, 2, 3. 
          1, 2, 3. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          NO, NO, NO. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU AGAIN. 
          THANKS EVERYONE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, THANKS. 
          THANK YOU ALL. 
          THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WORK. 
          CONGRATULATIONS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU TO OUR ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN KNOW YOUR STATUS. 
          I'LL RECOGNIZE COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL AGAIN FOR RECOGNITION OF NATIONAL BIKE MONTH. 
          CLEARLY I DREW THE SHORT STRAW HERE. 
          NO, JUST KIDDING. 
          THESE ARE ALL VERY EXCITING THINGS. 
          UH, MAY IS NATIONAL BIKE MONTH. 
          IT'S SPONSORED BY THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN CYCLIST BICYCLIST. 
          IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1956. 
          AND NATIONAL BIKE MONTH IS A CHANCE TO SHOWCASE THE MANY BENEFITS OF BICYCLING AND ENCOURAGE MORE FOLKS TO GIVE BIKING A TRY. 
          SO TOMORROW, FRIDAY, MAY 17TH IS, UH, OFFICIAL BIKE TO WORK DAY. 
          UH, SO WE ARE CALLING ALL NEW AND SEASONED BIKE COMMUTERS TO RIDE YOUR BIKE TO WORK TOMORROW AND STOP BY ANY OF THE ALAMO AREA, UH, PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS, 10 ENERGIZING STATIONS. 
          THERE'LL BE NINE OF THEM IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          ONE IN THE CITY OF NEW BRAUNFELS FROM SEVEN TO 9:00 AM SO YOU CAN'T GET IN TOO LATE TO WORK. 
          UH, IF YOU WANNA CATCH ONE OF THE ENERGIZING STATIONS, THERE'LL BE, THERE WILL BE FREE REFRESHMENTS AND, UH, ENCOURAGEMENT FROM LOCAL BUSINESSES, NONPROFITS, AND BIKE ADVOCACY GROUPS. 
          UH, WE DO HAVE A LIST OF THESE. 
          UH, WE'LL, I THINK WE'LL MAKE THESE AVAILABLE ON, UH, ON THE WEBSITE. 
          I WON'T READ THEM ALL RIGHT. 
          NOW IN TERMS OF WHERE THESE, UH, ENERGIZING STATIONS WILL BE, ENERGIZER STATIONS WILL BE, OH, YES, YOU CAN SEE IT@ALAMOAREAMPO.ORG SLASH BIKE MONTH. 
          UH, I ALSO WANNA THANK MY STAFF FOR PARTICIPATING IN BIKE TO WORKDAY, UH, TOMORROW, 
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WHICH IS OFFICIAL BIKE TO WORKDAY, I'LL BE WORKING OFF OF DELLA AND I 10, WHICH I DIDN'T REALLY WANNA BIKE TO OFF I 10. 
          I THINK IT'S, IT'S ILLEGAL FOR ME TO RIDE MY BIKE ON IH 10. 
          SO WE DECIDED TO OBSERVE BIKE TO WORK DAY TODAY. 
          UM, SO, UH, TWO OF US RODE IN. 
          THANK YOU MATEO FOR, UH, FOR SOLIDARITY WITH THE COUNCILWOMAN. 
          UH, IT WAS A NICE SIX MILE RIDE, NOT TOO BAD AROUND WOODLAND LAKE. 
          UM, BUT FOR THE REST OF YOU WHO DON'T WORK ON IH 10 OR ANOTHER DANGEROUS FREEWAY , GO AHEAD AND TRY RIDING TO WORK. 
          AND I WANNA THANK THE ALAMO AREA, M P O, UH, FOR ENCOURAGING OUR LOCAL RESIDENTS TO TRY COMMUTING, UH, TO WORK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL. 
          WHILE WE'LL RECOGNIZE COUNCILMAN TREVINO HAS SPECIAL GUESTS IN THE AUDIENCE, THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE COACH STRINGER'S AP FRESHMAN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY CLASS FROM ST. 
          ANTHONY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL IN DISTRICT ONE. 
          IF THEY CAN PLEASE STAND, WHERE ARE YOU? MAYBE THEY'RE HERE. 
          THERE THEY ARE. 
          THEY HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING OUR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS PROCESS AND ARE HERE TODAY TO SEE LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN ACTION, NOT IN ACTION. 
          JUST TO BE CLEAR, MR. STRINGER, ON BEHALF OF THE SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL, WE WELCOME YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANKS, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN VINNO. 
          OKAY, WE'LL MOVE ON NOW TO OUR ITEM, UH, OUR BUSINESS AGENDA FOR TODAY. 
          WE HAVE ONE ITEM, ACTUALLY TWO ITEMS ON INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. 
          THE REST ARE ON CONSENT. 
          I'LL ASK MY COLLEAGUES NOW IF THERE ARE ANY ITEMS FROM WHICH THEY WOULD LIKE TO PULL FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. 
          I BELIEVE NUMBER 18 IS PULLED FOR RECUSAL PURPOSES. 
          ANY OTHER ITEMS FROM WHICH WE'D LIKE TO PULL FROM CONSENT AGENDA? ALRIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          YEAH, HEARING NONE, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          OKAY. 
          THERE'S A MOTION, A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          THAT'S ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR FOUR, FIVE, AND 18. 
          I DO WANNA RECOGNIZE NOW OUR CITY CLERK, WHO ALSO HAS A SPECIAL GUEST, UH, WITH US TODAY. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I WANNA INTRODUCE TO YOU TODAY JEANETTE GOODALL. 
          SHE IS THE CITY CLERK FROM THE CITY OF AUSTIN, AND SHE IS HERE TO LOOK AT OUR VOTING SYSTEM AS THEY ARE LOOKING AT IMPLEMENTING A VOTING SYSTEM AS OURS. 
          CURRENTLY, THEY DON'T HAVE AN ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM, SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE VERY HELPFUL TO HER AND HER STAFF. 
          SHE DOES HAVE STAFF HERE TODAY AS WELL. 
          JEANETTE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THERE ARE TWO CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK FOR ITEMS REMAINING ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          I'LL CALL THEM NOW. 
          DAVID DEI. 
          MR. DEVAR HARSY, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY JACK FINGER. 
          SORRY, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT WAS GONNA HAPPEN SO QUICK. 
          UM, TWO YEARS AGO. 
          WELL, I'M HERE TO OPPOSE THE OPPOSITION TO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT'S GOING IN AT OVERLOOKED PARKWAY. 
          I UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          WE DO NOT, WE, WE LIVE, WE DO NOT LIVE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE WERE PART OF THE ANNEXATION AGREEMENT. 
          I'VE SAT DOWN WITH MR. COURAGE AND WE'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THIS, BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY. 
          THIS PROJECT HAS TO HAVE COMMUNITY INPUT. 
          COMMUNITY INPUT DOES NOT MEAN WHETHER YOU LIVE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          THE COMMUNITY THAT THIS IS GOING INTO IS NOT IN SAN ANTON OR THE COMMUNITIES SURROUNDING THIS AND, AND ARE AFFECTED BY THIS ARE NOT IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HOUSES ARE TWO MILES AWAY FROM THIS. 
          THIS IS PART OF THE FINGERLING AND ANNEXATION AGREEMENT THAT WAS, WAS ACCEPTED TWO YEARS AGO. 
          SO THIS PROJECT THAT THEY'RE PROPOSING TO DO IS, UH, IS NOT RIGHT. 
          WE, TWO YEARS AGO WANTED A HOUSING PROJECT, A LOW INCOME HOUSING PROJECT, AND WE VOTED, WE BOTH, BOTH, UH, UH, MOUNTAIN LODGE AND, UM, SUMMER GLEN APPROVED AND WROTE LETTERS TO COUNSEL, AND WE APPROVED A LOW INCOME HOUSING PROJECT IN THE SAME AREA. 
          THIS SAME ZONED PARTIAL. 
          WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO IS DO SOMETHING THAT'S RIGHT. 
          THIS IS NOT RIGHT WHERE WE, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE, ESPECIALLY MR. COURAGE, I'LL SAY TO YOU, WE, THE COMMUNITY HAS OVERWHELMINGLY GONE AGAINST 
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THIS PROPOSAL. 
          AND WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS HOW THE COMMUNITY WHERE WE ARE HAS OPPOSED TO THIS. 
          SO WHY, IF YOU WANT OUR INPUT, WE'RE 98% AGAINST THIS. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF MR. COURAGE EVEN HAS ANYBODY THAT IT, THAT KNOWS ABOUT THE PROJECT OR EVEN ACCEPTS THE PROJECT. 
          THAT'S A QUESTION FOR MR. COURAGE. 
          BUT WE, IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE AGAINST AFFORDABLE LOW-INCOME HOUSING, WE'RE AGAINST THIS PROJECT AT THIS TIME. 
          I KNOW YOUR, THIS CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, ACCORDING TO THE DEVELOPER, THEY ARE PARTNERING, PARTNERING WITH THE CITY. 
          SO HOW CAN YOU VOTE ON SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE ALREADY PARTNERING WITH? ISN'T THAT KIND OF, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. 
          IT DOESN'T PASS THE SMELL TEST. 
          SO I ASK YOU PLEASE, WE NEED TO KNOW MORE FROM THE DEVELOPER. 
          THE DEVELOPER HAS ONE MEETING WITH US. 
          WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT DRAINAGE. 
          WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR FLOOR PLANS. 
          WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING THAT BACKS UP TO, TO SUMMER GLEN NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          WE NEED TO FIND OUT MORE FROM THE DEVELOPER. 
          SO I'M ASKING THE COUNCIL NOT TO KILL THIS, BUT LET'S DELAY IT. 
          LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS. 
          LET'S MEET WITH THE DEVELOPER AGAIN, LET'S NOT VOTE ON THIS TODAY. 
          THANK YOU, MR. DOI. 
          JACK FINGER, MAYOR NURENBERG, AND OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL. 
          FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M. 
          FINGER. 
          YES. 
          THE, UH, PREVIOUS SPEAKER HAS DRAWN ATTENTION TO SOME THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN RAILING ABOUT FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. 
          IN FACT, UM, ON TODAY'S AGENDA, NOT JUST ONE ITEM, BUT, UH, AT LEAST TWO OR THREE OR FOUR DEALING WITH THESE VERY ISSUES. 
          ITEM NUMBER 20 AND 21 DEALS SPECIFICALLY WITH THAT. 
          UH, ITEM 21 IS ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AND TRUST FINANCE CORPORATION TO ISSUE MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING REVENUE BONDS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAJESTIC RANCH APARTMENTS IN THE AMOUNT OF AROUND $23 MILLION, OR YEAH. 
          WITH FINAL TERMS AND DOCUMENTS TO BE APPROVED, HEREAFTER, ET CETERA, ET CETERA. 
          YES. 
          THIS, UH, SANDOVAL THAT'S IN YOUR DISTRICT. 
          AND ABOUT A COUPLE YEARS AGO, QUITE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE GOT VERY UPSET ABOUT THAT IN THE WOODLAWN HILLS AREA WITH THE MAJESTIC RANCH APARTMENTS BEING PROPOSED HERE. 
          YEAH. 
          THEY, THEY SEE IT AS WELFARE HOUSING. 
          THEY DON'T LIKE THE FACT THAT, UM, UM, PEOPLE WHO ARE ON, UM, LOW INCOME AND BEING SUBSIDIZED BY OTHERS, LIKE TAXPAYERS LIKE OURSELVES, ARE GOING TO MOVE INTO SOME REAL FA FANCY APARTMENTS HERE. 
          THEY ALSO SEE YOUR DRAINAGE ISSUES OVER THERE. 
          IN FACT, THAT, THAT'S FACT, QUITE FRANKLY. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE I GREW UP AND I, I I CHIMED IN WITH THEM THERE. 
          UM, YES, BUT WE'RE FINDING OUT TODAY. 
          WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WELL, LET'S LOOK AT THE, UM, THE, UH, WHAT'S IT SAY HERE, MR. AUDIO VISION MAN, SHOW THAT IF YOU WOULD. 
          YEAH, YEAH. 
          BLOW THAT UP A LITTLE BIT. 
          MA MAJESTIC RANCH APARTMENTS AND THE UNDERLYING POINTS SAYS RIGHT AT THE CORNER OF MAJESTIC DRIVING CALLAHAN ROAD, RIGHT IN YOUR DISTRICT, MS. SANDOVAL, 100% OF THE UNITS WILL BE RESTRICTED TO YES. 
          60% OF AREA MEDIAN INCOME. 
          YEAH. 
          MEANING A FAMILY OF MAXIMUM INCOME OF $40,000. 
          THERE. 
          THE REST OF IT'S UNDERLINED CITY HAS APPROVED $1,250,000 A GRANT FOR THE PROJECT INSTRUCTED FOR THE CASH FLOW. 
          ADDITIONALLY, SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY IS CONTRIBUTING $2 MILLION TO THE OWNER PARTNERSHIP. 
          THANK YOU, MR. RIMAN. 
          RETURN THE CAMERA IF YOU WOULD. 
          YES, MS. SANDOVAL. 
          NOT JUST THAT, BUT, UM, ALSO THIS IS IN A ITEM JUST BEFORE THAT. 
          ITEM NUMBER 20, ALSBURY AR AREA. 
          MR. HALL IS NOT TOO FAR FROM YOUR AREA THERE. 
          YES. 
          IF YOU WOULD BELOW THAT UP, MR. VIS MAN. 
          YEAH, SAME THING. 
          DISTRICT TWO, A HUNDRED PERCENT, A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE UNITS BEING RESTRICTED TO 60% OF THE AREA INCOME. 
          THE CITY HAS APPROVED A MILLION AND A QUARTER THERE. 
          WE DON'T LIKE THESE THINGS. 
          THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. 
          GO TO THIS STUFF, FOLKS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. 
          THERE'S A, UH, MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          THAT'S ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR FOUR, FIVE, AND 18. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ALRIGHT, UH, ITEM 18 WAS PULLED FOR RECUSAL PURPOSES. 
          LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE THAT ONE UP. 
          FIRST, WAIT FOR OUR COLLEAGUE TO DEPART. 
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ITEM 18 IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A FIVE YEAR INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH L M O COLLEGE DISTRICT FOR EDUCATIONAL ACCESS CHANNEL OPERATION AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE EDUCATIONAL ACCESS CHANNEL STUDIO FACILITY IN AN AMOUNT UP TO $200,000 WITH AN OPTION TO EXTEND. 
          OKAY. 
          I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION, UH, FOR ITEM 18. 
          THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 18. 
          NO ONE HAS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES ITEM NUMBER FOUR. 
          ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET BASED ON ACTUAL REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF FISCAL YEAR 2019, OCTOBER, 2018 TO MARCH, 2019, AND PROJECTIONS FOR THE REMAINING SIX MONTHS OF FISCAL YEAR 2019, APRIL, 2019 TO SEPTEMBER, 2019 IN THE GENERAL FUND AND VARIOUS RESTRICTED FUNDS. 
          GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          MY NAME IS JUSTINA TATE. 
          I'M WITH THE BUDGET OFFICE, AND TODAY I WILL BE PRESENTING A BRIEF PRESENTATION ON THE FISCAL YEAR 20 19 6 PLUS SIX FINANCIAL REPORT AND MIDYEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENT. 
          DURING LAST WEEK'S CITY COUNCIL B SESSION, WE PROVIDED AN EXTENSIVE PRESENTATION ON THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 FINANCIAL REPORT, THE FIVE-YEAR FORECAST, AND THE MIDYEAR BUDGET REQUEST. 
          TODAY'S PRESENTATION WILL FOCUS ON THE MIDYEAR BUDGET REQUEST. 
          THE FISCAL YEAR 2019, TOTAL CITY BUDGET IS $2.8 BILLION. 
          THE FIRST COMPONENT OF THIS IS RESTRICTED FUNDS AT 889 MILLION. 
          RESTRICTED FUNDS ARE GOVERNED BY FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL LAWS, AND THE REVENUES OF THESE FUNDS MUST BE USED FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSE. 
          FOR EXAMPLE, OUR AIRPORT FUND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL LAWS, AND ALL REVENUES GENERATED AT THE AIRPORT MUST BE USED TO SUPPORT AVIATION RELATED ACTIVITIES. 
          THE NEXT COMPONENT IS OUR CAPITAL BUDGET AT $690 MILLION. 
          THIS PROVIDES FUNDS FOR SOME OF OUR MAJOR CAPITAL PROJECTS, SUCH AS THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM, AS WELL AS AIRPORT PROJECTS. 
          AND FINALLY, OUR GENERAL FUND IS OUR LARGEST OPERATING FUND AT $1.26 BILLION. 
          THE GENERAL FUNDS PROVIDES FOR THE CITY'S CORE SERVICES TO INCLUDE PUBLIC SAFETY, STREETS AND INFRASTRUCTURE, PARKS AND RECREATION, AS WELL AS ANIMAL CARE SERVICES. 
          THE GENERAL FUND IS FUNDED BY FOUR MAIN REVENUE SOURCES. 
          THE FIRST IS C P SS, WHICH GENERATES APPROXIMATELY $363 MILLION IN REVENUES. 
          AS A REMINDER, THE CITY RECEIVES UP TO 14% OF ALL C P SS GAS AND ELECTRIC GROSS REVENUES AS A RETURN ON INVESTMENT AND A PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES. 
          PROPERTY TAXES ARE SECOND LARGEST REVENUE SOURCE AT 362 MILLION, AND SALES TAX GENERATES APPROXIMATELY 295 MILLION. 
          THE FINAL COMPONENT OF REVENUES IS THE OTHER RESOURCES. 
          THIS IS, THIS INCLUDES REVENUES SUCH AS E M S, TRANSPORTS, TELECOMMUNICATION, AND OTHER USER FEES. 
          THESE REVENUES COMBINED FROM THE BASIC SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE CITY. 
          THESE INCLUDE PUBLIC SAFETY AT 63% OF THE GENERAL FUND, FOLLOWED BY STREETS AND INFRASTRUCTURE PARKS AND THE REMAINING FUND SERVICES SUCH AS LIBRARIES, ANIMAL CARE SERVICES, AND CODE ENFORCEMENT. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE ILLUSTRATES THE GENERAL FUND YEAR END PROJECTION AS COMPARED TO THE FISCAL YEAR 20 19, 3 PLUS NINE PROJECTION THAT WE PRESENTED TO YOU IN FEBRUARY. 
          WHEN WE PRESENTED THE THREE PLUS NINE, WE HAD PROJECTED TO HAVE A BETTER ENDING BALANCE OF SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF $17 MILLION. 
          SINCE THAT TIME, WE HAVE REVISED OUR REVENUES AS A RESULT OF LESS REVENUES FROM C P S AND ADDITIONAL REVENUES FROM SALES TAX. 
          WE ARE NOW PROJECTING A BETTER ENDING BALANCE OF $4.7 MILLION BASED ON OUR SECOND QUARTER FINANCIAL RESULTS. 
          THE GENERAL FUND IS PROJECTED TO BE ABOUT $600,000 IN LESS REVENUES AND $1.3 MILLION IN DEPART IN DEPARTMENT SAVINGS, WHICH IS ONE 10TH OF 1% OF THE GENERAL FUND. 
          NOW, I'D LIKE TO MOVE ON TO OUR MIDYEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS. 
          BEFORE WE GET INTO DETAILS OF THESE ADJUSTMENTS, I'D LIKE TO SUMMARIZE THESE, THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS IN THE GENERAL FUND. 
          THERE ARE FOUR ADJUSTMENTS TOTALING ABOUT $288,000, AND THESE ARE PROPOSED TO BE FUNDED FROM THE GENERAL FUND CONTINGENCY AND OUR RESTRICTED FUNDS. 
          WE HAVE THREE PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS TOTALING $1.3 MILLION, AND THESE WILL BE FUNDED FROM BETTER 
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THAN BUDGETED REVENUES IN OUR CAPITAL BUDGET. 
          WE HAVE TWO ADJUSTMENTS TOTALING $2.4 MILLION, AND THESE ARE RECOMMENDED TO BE FUNDED FROM OUR CAPITAL BUDGET CONTINGENCY. 
          THE FIRST BUDGET AMENDMENT ADDS FUNDING FOR TWO POSITIONS TO BROADCAST AND LIVESTREAM CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETINGS AND, AND BOARD AND COMMISSION MEETINGS. 
          AT THE ONE STOP, THESE TWO POSITIONS WILL BE FUNDED BY THE GENERAL FUND. 
          ADDITIONALLY, 300,000 IN CAPITAL EQUIPMENT TO EQUIP THE ONE STOP BOARDROOM FOR BROADCASTING CAPABILITIES. 
          THIS WILL BE PURCHASED THROUGH CURRENT APPROPRIATIONS IN THE PEG FUND. 
          NEXT WOULD ADD TWO POSITIONS TO COMPLETE 11 CITY INITIATED LARGE AREA REZONINGS DATING BACK TO 2014. 
          THESE TWO POSITIONS WOULD BE FUNDED THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND. 
          THE NEXT, UH, GENERAL FUND BUDGET ADJUSTMENT REQUEST WOULD REALLOCATE $45,000 FROM CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT TO POLICE SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT TO THE ELLA AUSTIN TO SERVE AN ADDITIONAL 65 YOUTH IN THEIR SUMMER PROGRAM. 
          AND OUR FINAL, UH, GENERAL FUND BUDGET AMENDMENT REQUEST IS $200,000 TO COMPLETE A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY HOMELESS SERVICES, IDENTIFYING GAPS AND DEVELOP IN CONSULTATION WITH WITH STAKEHOLDERS A STRATEGIC PLAN TO ADDRESS THOSE GAPS. 
          MOVING ON TO OUR RESTRICTED FUNDS. 
          FIRST IN OUR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, WE HAVE A REQUEST OF $256,000 FOR SIX POSITIONS TO MEET, REVIEW GOALS FOR COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL PLAN INTAKE AND REVIEWS, AND ADDRESS AN INCREASE IN OUR RESIDENTIAL BUILDING INSPECTIONS. 
          IN OUR HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FUND, WE HAVE TWO REQUESTS, THE FIRST BEING $523,000 TO COMPLETE THE DES DESIGN TO REPLACE THE ROOF AT THE CONVENTION CENTER DUE TO WEATHER DAMAGE. 
          THE SECOND IS $500,000 TO VISIT SAN ANTONIO TO DRIVE ADDITIONAL VISITATION DURING THE SUMMER IN 2019, AS WELL AS 2020. 
          AND FINALLY, ON OUR CAPITAL BUDGET, THERE ARE TWO REQUESTS, $2.4 MILLION FOR HAVEN FOR HOPE TO COMPLETE RENOVATIONS TO AN EXISTING BUILDING TO ADD 120 BEDS, SERVING 500 HOMELESS ANNUALLY. 
          AND FINALLY, A REQUEST TO REALLOCATE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM DISTRICT SEVEN PARK DEVELOPMENT TO JANE DOBELL PARK. 
          THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. 
          I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU, JUSTINA. 
          UM, ERIC, YOU HAD, UH, SENT A MEMO, UH, TO THIS COUNCIL YESTERDAY. 
          UH, CAN YOU PRESENT THAT NOW? YES, SIR. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, COUNSEL, UM, I, UM, SENT A MEMO TO THE COUNCIL YESTERDAY, UM, OUTLINING KIND OF THE CURRENT CONDITIONS THAT, UH, THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE CITY HAVE, UH, EXPERIENCED SINCE THE END OF MARCH. 
          UH, SINCE THE END OF MARCH, UH, THERE'S BEEN A CHANGE AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL ON HOW THEY PROCESS, UM, INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE COMING INTO THIS COUNTRY, UH, SEEKING ASYLUM. 
          UM, MANY OF YOU REMEMBER, UH, THAT THE, AT THE END OF MARCH, UH, CATHOLIC CHARITIES INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION, UH, THE FOOD BANK, UH, A NUMBER OF DOWNTOWN CHURCHES, TRAVIS PARK CHURCH AND THE CITY, SINCE THE END OF MARCH, HAVE BEEN, UM, UH, ENGAGED IN A PRETTY SPECIAL COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENT WHERE WE, UM, ARE, UM, PROVIDING, UH, SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE PASSING THROUGH SAN ANTONIO. 
          THEY ARE, UH, INDIVIDUALS, UH, WHO ARE HERE LEGALLY AND ARE ENGAGED IN THE ASYLUM SEEKING PROCESS, UH, OUTLINED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 
          UM, MOST OF THEM, UM, SPEND AT LEAST ONE NIGHT HERE AS THEY TRANSITION TO, UH, OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. 
          UM, SINCE THE END OF MARCH, UH, WE HAVE HAD, UH, 8,000 INDIVIDUALS COME THROUGH THE CITY. 
          UM, AND AS I MENTIONED, UM, THE DOWNTOWN CHURCHES HAVE BEEN PROVIDING SHELTER FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT, UH, NEED TO SPEND A NIGHT. 
          UM, HERE, UH, WHILE THEY'RE WAITING FOR BUS SERVICE. 
          UM, CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAS BEEN, UH, PROVIDING SERVICES TO THESE INDIVIDUALS, AND IN SOME CASES, UM, PAYING FOR TRAVEL. 
          UH, MOST OF THESE INDIVIDUALS, UM, ARE PRACTICALLY ALL OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE BEING BROUGHT HERE ARE FROM THE EAGLE PASS AND DEL RIO AREA OF THE STATE. 
          UM, EARLY ON, UH, THE POLICE CHIEF AND, UH, MARIA AND I VISITED, UH, THE BUS STATION WHEN THIS SURGE FIRST HAPPENED. 
          UM, THEY'RE, UH, INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE BEING BROUGHT HERE BY THE BORDER PATROL ARE BEING BROUGHT HERE AND DO NOT HAVE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS. 
          AND, UM, UM, THAT CAN BE PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE, UM, YOU CAN'T STAY IN THE BUS STATION OVERNIGHT IF YOU DON'T HAVE TRAVEL 
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ARRANGEMENTS. 
          UM, THAT WEEKEND WE CONTACTED THE BORDER, UH, PATROL AND THE SECTOR CHIEF IN THAT AREA. 
          AND SINCE THEN THEY HAVE BEEN, THE BORDER PATROL HAS BEEN VERY GOOD ABOUT GIVING, UH, THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND THE NONPROFITS, UH, ADVISORIES, UM, WHEN INDIVIDUALS ARE BEING TRANSPORTED HERE. 
          SO THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON, UH, SINCE, UH, THE END OF MARCH. 
          I'VE BEEN INCLUDING THIS IN MY END OF WEEK REPORT TO, TO YOU. 
          UM, EVERY WEEK, UH, ACTIVITY HAS, UM, INCREASED AND MANY AS WE, I HEARD IT THIS MORNING ON THE, ON THE, UH, NEWS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS CONTINUING TO BUILD, UH, ADDITIONAL CAMPS ALONG THE BORDER TO ACCOMMODATE, UH, THIS, UH, THIS ISSUE. 
          UH, SO AS I MENTIONED, WE'VE HAD 8,000 INDIVIDUALS COME THROUGH SAN ANTONIO. 
          WE'VE HAD A LITTLE OVER 3000 THAT HAVE HAD TO SPEND THE NIGHT HERE AT OUR DOWNTOWN CHURCHES. 
          UH, WE HAVE OPENED UP, THE CITY HAS OPENED UP A RESOURCE CENTER RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE, FROM THE, UH, GREYHOUND BUS STATION. 
          IT'S A CITY OWNED PARKING GARAGE AND A CITY OWNED, UH, STOREFRONT AREA, 2100 SQUARE FEET. 
          AND I WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS A, UM, KIND OF A FAMILY FRIENDLY PLACE TO WAIT FOR THE BUS. 
          UM, IT'S AN AREA WHERE, UH, INDIVIDUALS CAN BE FED. 
          UH, THE FOOD BANK HAS SERVED OVER 11,000 MEALS SINCE THE END OF MARCH. 
          UM, COMBINED CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND THE FOOD BANK HAVE SPENT, UH, CLOSE TO 170, $165,000, UM, SUPPORTING THIS EFFORT. 
          UM, WE'VE HAD ALMOST 340 CITY EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO, UH, WORK AT THE RESOURCE CENTER. 
          SO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO MAY SPEND THE DAY AT THE RESOURCE CENTER, UM, IF THEY, IF THEY DON'T DEPART THAT DAY, ARE, UH, TAKEN DOWN THE STREET TO TRAVIS PARK AND SPEND THE NIGHT AND THE NEXT MORNING, THEY ARE BROUGHT BACK TO THE RESOURCE CENTER. 
          UH, THE RESOURCE CENTER HAS ALSO BEEN KIND OF A FOCAL POINT, UH, TO, UM, FACILITATE DONATIONS OF COMMODITIES OR STUFF THAT, UM, THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE TRAVELING TO OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY MAY NEED. 
          UH, MANY OF THEM ARRIVE, UH, WITH, UH, VERY LITTLE, UM, MOST ARRIVE HERE, UM, NOT KNOWING WHERE THEY'RE AT, UM, AND, UH, BUT, BUT HAVE AN EYE ON, UH, ANOTHER PART OF THE COUNTRY THAT THEY ARE GOING TO EITHER BE, UH, CONNECTED WITH SPONSORS AS PART OF THE ASYLUM SEEKING PROCESS OR FAMILY MEMBERS. 
          UM, I MENTIONED THAT THE BORDER PATROL HAS BEEN, UM, PRETTY CONSISTENT ABOUT ADVISING US OF, UH, ACTIVITY. 
          UM, WE NOTICED, UH, OVER THE LAST WEEK, 10 DAYS AN UPTICK IN THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAD BEEN COMING TO SAN ANTONIO OR TRANS TRANSITING THROUGH SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, ON MONDAY WE RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM THE BORDER PATROL, UH, ADVISING US THAT ACTIVITY, UM, AND NUMBERS WERE, UH, GOING, GOING TO INCREASE. 
          UM, AND THAT WAS AFTER A NUMBER OF DAYS OF, UH, OUR RECORD BREAKING NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS AT THE SHELTER. 
          UM, THAT NUMBER HAS CONTINUED TO INCREASE EVERY NIGHT. 
          UH, AND LAST NIGHT WE HAD 232 PEOPLE AT TRAVIS PARK CHURCH. 
          UH, THE HIGHEST NUMBER, UH, THAT WE'VE HAD SINCE THE END OF MARCH. 
          UM, I FELT LIKE IT WAS, UH, IMPORTANT TO, UH, SEND A MEMO AND MAKE, AND THIS IS, I KNOW THIS IS UNUSUAL. 
          UM, I THINK I, I'VE, IF, IF WE WOULD'VE GOTTEN THAT ADVISORY LAST MONDAY, I WOULD'VE INCLUDED IT IN THE LAST WEDNESDAY'S PRESENTATION, UH, TO YOU AT THE PART OF THE MIDYEAR. 
          UM, TIMING IS NOT ON OUR SIDE, AND I KNOW IT'S UNUSUAL TO MAKE A SUPPLEMENTARY, UM, RECOMMEND STAFF RECOMMENDATION, BUT I FELT LIKE, UM, IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOU AND MAKE A RECOMMENDATION FOR AN ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATION, UH, TO YOU THIS MORNING. 
          UH, THROUGH THAT MEMO YESTERDAY, UH, THE RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO, UM, ALLOCATE, UH, $86,000, UH, PRIMARILY FOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND THE FOOD BANK TO CONTINUE, UH, THE WORK THEY'VE BEEN DOING. 
          UM, WE HAVE SEEN A NUMBER OF OTHER CITIES, UH, IN TEXAS, UH, THAT, UH, WHOSE COUNCILS HAVE ALLOCATED MONEY TO NONPROFITS WHO ARE DOING THE, THE, UH, MAJORITY OF THE HEAVY LIFTING. 
          UM, EL PASO BROWNSVILLE AND MACALLAN, UH, ARE CITIES. 
          WE'VE, WE'VE SEEN, UM, I THINK PRIMARILY MOST OF THE, UH, ISSUES THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH IS BE, IS BE, IS FOR THE SAME REASON WHY THE STATE RELIES UPON SAN ANTONIO TO BE A SHELTER HUB DURING AN EMERGENCY ALONG THE COAST. 
          EVERY MAJOR HIGHWAY, UH, SOUTH RUNS THROUGH SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND, UH, WE ARE, UM, FORTUNATE BECAUSE WE HAVE, UM, PRETTY, UH, ROBUST BUS SERVICE. 
          ALL OF THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE MOVING ON TO OTHER PARTS OF THE COUNTRY THAT $86,000, UH, WOULD, UM, IN OUR ESTIMATION, UH, PROVIDE THOSE CATHOLIC CHERRIES AND FOOD BANK THE ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOING. 
          I THINK IT'S CRITICAL, UH, THAT, UM, WE CONTINUE WITH THIS COOPERATIVE EFFORT AND, UH, RELY UPON THE NONPROFITS TO DO, 
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UM, MUCH OF THAT DIRECT SERVICE. 
          UH, THE SECOND RECOMMENDATION IS THAT, UM, THERE HAS BEEN A, A NUMBER OF COMMUNITY EFFORTS AND DONATIONS AND, AND, UM, I'VE NOT ASKED CATHOLIC CHARITIES OR, OR FOOD BANK WHERE THEY'RE GETTING THEIR MONEY. 
          UM, BUT THE SECOND RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE SET ASIDE $55,000 THAT THE CITY WOULD MATCH FOR EVERY $2 RAISED BY THOSE AGENCIES. 
          SO MAXIMUM OF $55,000. 
          UM, THERE HAS BEEN A, UH, TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF COMMUNITY, UM, SUPPORT, UM, AND I THINK THERE NEEDS TO CONTINUE. 
          I DON'T THINK THE, UM, UH, I, I DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA CHANGE ANYTIME SOON, AND I FELT LIKE IT WAS IMPORTANT TO, TO BRING THIS TO YOU, UM, IN THIS MANNER. 
          UM, I THINK THAT PROBABLY, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, THAT YOU AND THE PUBLIC KNOW IS THAT, UM, WE ARE, UM, THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE COMING HERE, UM, AND THEY HAVE AN, AN APPOINTMENT MADE WITH AN, UH, AN, UH, ICE OFFICE SOMEWHERE IN THIS COUNTRY. 
          AND SO CATHOLIC CHARITIES WHO IN SOME CASES IS ACTUALLY PAYING FOR THE, THE TRANSPORTATION COSTS OF THESE INDIVIDUALS, UM, THEY'VE GOT A, THEY'VE GOT A DATE THAT THEY'VE GOTTA REPORT TO THE CHICAGO OFFICE OR THE CHARLOTTE OFFICE. 
          AND, UM, SO I SEE, I THINK THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING HERE LOCALLY, THE COLLECTIVELY IS FACILITATING THAT FEDERAL PROCESS. 
          UM, I DO, UH, AND I DID MENTION IN THE MEMO, AND WE HAVE REACHED OUT OFFICIALLY TO OUR, UH, FEDERAL DELEGATION. 
          UM, AND I THINK A NUMBER OF CITIES ARE PROBABLY DOING THIS, NOT JUST IN TEXAS, BUT THEY'RE, UM, WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO REQUEST THAT WE BE REIMBURSED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UM, FOR THIS EFFORT. 
          UM, AND, UH, WE'VE SHARED THAT, UH, INFORMATION WITH OUR FEDERAL DELEGATION, AND I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE A CONTINUING EFFORT. 
          UH, WE HAVE ALSO, AS WE HAVE, UH, THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THE STATE, UH, THE STATE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, UH, DIVISION, THIS DOES NOT MEET THAT TYPE OF DEFINITION, BUT NEVERTHELESS, CITIES ARE HAVING TO DEAL WITH THIS. 
          AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE, UH, WE STAY IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH OUR STATE AND FEDERAL PARTNERS. 
          UM, I DO THINK THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO, UH, PUSH THE ISSUE WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND, UM, AND SEEK REIMBURSEMENT FOR ANY, UH, AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT, UM, THAT WE ARE SPENDING. 
          UM, LASTLY, MAYOR, I DO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT WE'VE HAD, UM, OUR DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, WHICH HAS BEEN CARRYING ON THE KIND OF THE COORDINATING ROLE. 
          UH, MELODY WOOSLEY AND, UH, EDWARD GONZALEZ AND JESSICA DOBALINA AND THE LEADERSHIP OF HUMAN SERVICES HAVE DONE A, UM, OUTSTANDING JOB, UH, REPRESENTING THIS ORGANIZATION AND THIS COMMUNITY. 
          UM, I KNOW THIS IS A, UH, EXTREMELY SENSITIVE ISSUE IN THIS COUNTRY RIGHT NOW, BUT, UH, I WOULDN'T BE DOING MY JOB IF I DIDN'T ADVISE YOU OF THESE THINGS AND MAKE THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ERIC. 
          ALRIGHT, WE DO HAVE SOME CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, AND THEN WE'LL GET TO, UM, OUR COUNSEL. 
          WE'LL START WITH LAURA MOLINA. 
          LAURA HU. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, MS. MOLINARO WILL BE FOLLOWED BY ISABELLA RAMOS. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          GOOD MORNING, NUREMBERG, AND GOOD MORNING. 
          UM, COUNCIL, UM, COUNCIL, MY CITY COUNCIL AND MY FELLOW SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY. 
          MY NAME IS LADA MOLINA AND I AM HERE ON BEHALF OF MY ORGANIZATION, RA, WHICH IS SPANISH FOR DREAMS WITHOUT BORDERS. 
          I AM HERE TO ASK THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO FOR THE CONTINUED ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TOWARDS THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER. 
          AS THE FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SONORA, WE LEAD EFFORTS IN PROVIDING DIRECT HUMANITARIAN RELIEF TO THE ASYLUM SEEKERS COMING FROM THE TEXAS MEXICO BORDER, AS WELL AS CREATING RESOURCE NETWORKS OF WRAPAROUND RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR THE ASYLUM SEEKERS IN THEIR DESTINATION CITIES. 
          SO FAR, WE HAVE ESTABLISHED NETWORKS IN LOS ANGELES, BOSTON, NEW YORK CITY, CHICAGO, AND PORTLAND, OREGON. 
          OUR WORK IS BUILT UPON THE BELIEF THAT HEALTH IS A HUMAN RIGHT AND THAT AN IMMIGRANT'S MENTAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNITY AND ACCESS TO RESOURCES PLAY AN INTEGRAL ROLE IN THE OVERALL HEALTH AND PROSPERITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND OUR NATION AS A WHOLE. 
          WE HAVE WORKED CLOSELY WITH CATHOLIC CHARITIES, THE INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO SSIS, THE FOOD BANK, AND OUR OWN COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN BEARING WITNESS IN OFFERING OUR OWN RESOURCES TO THE RESOURCE CENTER AND TO THE TRAVIS PARK SHELTER EFFORTS, THE MIGRANT POPULATION 
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PASSING THROUGH SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS IS A STRUCTURALLY VULNERABLE POPULATION FACING UNIQUE CHALLENGES THAT CHANGE EVERY DAY. 
          WE HAVE FREQUENTLY HEARD FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, KIDNAPPINGS BY MEXICAN CARTELS AND ABUSES AT THE HANDS OF CUSTOM AND BORDER PATROL. 
          FOR MANY ASYLUM SEEKING FAMILIES, THE SAN ANTONIO RESOURCE CENTER IS THE FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH HUMANITY AND COMPASSION AS A NATIVE SAN ANTONIAN, I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS GREAT POWER IN THE COLLECTIVE EFFORTS OF OUR PEOPLE. 
          IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO BE FROM A CITY THAT WAS BUILT FROM UNIQUE CROSS-CULTURAL EXCHANGES THAT WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY IMMIGRATION. 
          WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON BEING A WELCOMING, WELCOMING CITY TO ALL. 
          THIS IS THE THE HANO WAY, AND THIS IS THE SAN A**L WAY. 
          OUR COLLECTIVE HAS BEEN CLOSELY WORKING WITH THE CITIES OF ACTION COALITION, WHICH INCLUDES OVER 175 MAYORS AND EXECUTIVES ADVOCATING FOR PRO-IMMIGRANT POLICIES. 
          AS A MEMBER OF THE CITY'S FOR ACTION NETWORK, SAN ANTONIO HAS AN OBLIGATION TO ENGAGE WITH THIS NATIONWIDE COALITION IN ORDER TO LEAD A PRO-IMMIGRANT AGENDA AND HUMANE IMMIGRATION REFORM. 
          THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER AND OVERNIGHT SHELTER IS INTEGRAL TO ENSURING THAT THE CITY'S EFFORTS ARE COMPREHENSIVE, CULTURALLY COMPETENT AND SUSTAINABLE. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          C THANK YOU, MS. MOLINA. 
          ISABEL RAMOS, FOLLOWED BY JOHN GARLAND. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          I'VE SAID THIS GREETING TODAY OVER 200 TIMES AT THE START OF 4:00 AM GREETINGS ARE IMPORTANT IN MANY CULTURES, SOCIAL SPACES AND RITUALS AND CEREMONY. 
          IT SAYS, I SEE YOU, I ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR EXISTENCE AND I WISH GOOD UPON YOU. 
          LAST NIGHT, OVER 200 PEOPLE KNOWN TO SOME AS ASYLUM SEEKERS OR IMMIGRANTS WOKE UP IN DOWNTOWN SAN ANTONIO. 
          MANY OF THEM, FOR MANY OF THEM, THIS IS THE LAST SHELTER THEY WILL BE THROUGHOUT THEIR JOURNEY. 
          AND FOR MANY OF THEM, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEY'RE IN A SHELTER IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          MANY OF THEM WEAR CLOTHES THAT THEY'VE BEEN WEARING THEIR WHOLE JOURNEY, MUDDIED, TENNIS SHOES THAT WALK THROUGH JUNGLES, RAIN RIVERS, DESERTS, AND SOMETIMES EVEN WITH POWERFUL COLLABORATIONS LIKE THE ONE WE HAVE HERE, WE CAN'T OFFER THEM A NEW PAIR OF SHOES. 
          WE STILL CANNOT OFFER THEM SHOWERS. 
          AND THIS IS NOT TO SAY THAT THE EFFORTS HAVEN'T BEEN GREAT AND WONDERFUL AND POWERFUL, BUT THERE IS STILL SPACE FOR US TO GROW AS A CITY, AS A NATION, AND AS HUMAN BEINGS. 
          SAN ANTONIO HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE AN EXAMPLE IN THIS NATION, A NATION WHERE NOT ONLY WHERE A NATION WHERE IS NOT ONLY FOR LIBERTY FOR ALL, BUT ALSO DIGNITY, FOR ALL RESPECT, FOR ALL COMPASSION FOR ALL. 
          AND I HOPE WE CONTINUE THESE CONVERSATIONS. 
          I HOPE WE'RE YOU ARE ABLE TO ALLOCATE, CONTINUE ALLOCATING THESE FUNDS SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE GROWING OUR HUMANITY TOGETHER IN THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          MS. RAMOS. 
          JOHN GARLAND. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I'M HERE REPRESENTING THE INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION AS A MEMBER OF THEIR BOARD AND ALSO THE PASTOR OF THE MENNONITE CHURCH, UH, HERE IN SOUTHTOWN AND THE INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION. 
          UH, AND HERE ARE SOME OF OUR MEMBERS AND LEADERS HERE. 
          WE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS WORK FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS, WELCOMING REFUGEES FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND FROM CENTRAL AFRICA. 
          AND WE NEED TO REITERATE WHAT THE CITY MANAGER SAID. 
          THESE NUMBERS ARE UNPRECEDENTED. 
          WE'VE NOT SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN YEARS. 
          AND THE RESPONSE OF THE CITY, THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE OF THE CITY A FEW WEEKS AGO AS IT BEGAN, REVEALED THE FABRIC OF THIS CITY. 
          UH, AND IT WAS REALLY WONDERFUL TO HEAR DR. 
          BRIDGERS SAY IN A MEETING, WOW, OUR BUREAUCRACY MOVES SO WELL. 
          AND IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE THAT THE FABRIC OF THE CITY FROM THE VERY TOP IS GOOD FABRIC. 
          AND I ALSO, 
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AND WE ALSO WANNA AFFIRM THAT THE FABRIC OF THIS CITY DOWN TO THE BASE IS ALSO VERY GOOD. 
          MANNING THIS MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER, OUR LIBRARIANS AND TRANSPORTATION MANAGERS FOR THIS CITY, WE'VE WORKED LATE NIGHTS WITH, WITH HEADSTART EMPLOYEES AND THE GUYS WHO ARE DRILLING HOLES UNDER THE STREET AND PULLING WIRE, AND THEY ARE OFFERING WELCOME AND THEY'RE OFFERING THEIR HOURS AND THEY'RE OFFERING THEIR ENERGY. 
          AND IT IS GOOD TO SEE THAT THE FABRIC OF THIS CITY IS GOOD. 
          AND THE FRUIT OF THIS WORK, Y'ALL, IS CHILDREN GETTING RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL AND SAVING THEIR LIVES. 
          THE FRUIT OF THIS WORK IS KEEPING CHILDREN AND MOTHERS OUT OF THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE THEY'RE GIVEN ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE BEFORE IT'S AN EMERGENCY. 
          THE FRUIT OF THIS WORK, Y'ALL, IS KEEPING YOUNG WOMEN OUT OF THE HANDS OF PREDATORS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKERS. 
          THE FRUIT OF THIS WORK IS KEEPING FAMILIES TOGETHER AND TO TO TO THAT. 
          WE AS A FAITH GROUP SAY AMEN. 
          AND PLEASE, PLEASE LET OUR CITY CONTINUE TO LEAD THE NATION. 
          THERE ARE NOT OTHER CITIES DOING THIS LIKE THIS. 
          THERE IS SO MUCH MORE THAT WE CAN DO. 
          AND PLEASE LET THE CITY CONTINUE WITH THIS BEAUTIFUL LIGHT BEARING IN THE DARKNESS WORK. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          PASTOR GARLAND THERE OTHERS FROM THE GROUP, UH OH. 
          OKAY. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          SHARON ALTENDORF, FOLLOWED BY MARIELA HASSO. 
          UH, GOOD MORNING TO ALL OF YOU AND THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          WE SINCERELY THANK THIS CITY FOR SUPPORTING THE PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING TO OUR COUNTRY AND LOOKING FOR WELCOME. 
          WHAT ELSE DID WE EXPECT FROM A CITY THAT HAS A CHARTER OF COMPASSION THAT SAYS WE, WE LIVE BY THE GOLDEN RULE. 
          WHO ELSE COULD THAT BE? WE GIVE THANKS FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED US ALONG THE WAY, THE THINGS THAT ISABEL AND LAURA SAID AHEAD OF US. 
          AND I ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH JOHN GARLAND, OUR PASTOR WHO IS ACCOMPANYING US AND WHO HAS BEEN WITH US ALL ALONG THE WAY. 
          WE GIVE THANKS TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES. 
          WE GIVE THANKS TO THE TRAVIS PARK, THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE CONTINUED. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO YOU THAT WE GIVE THANKS ALSO FOR THE FIREMEN WHO TAKE TWO HOUR SHIFTS TO BE WITH US OVERNIGHT AT TRAVIS PARK. 
          I TOO WAS THERE LAST NIGHT. 
          I TOO SAW THE 230 PEOPLE AND I THANK THE MAYOR AND A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO CAME TO VISIT US AT THAT POINT IN TIME. 
          I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU HAD 230 WOMEN, MEN AND CHILDREN ON THE STREET IN THIS CITY LAST NIGHT. 
          I CED MY TIME TO, UH, SISTER DENISE LAROCK, WHO IS THE HEAD OF THE VOLUNTEER MINISTRY AT IWC. 
          UM, WE JUST WANNA THANK YOU ESPECIALLY, UH, THANK YOU MAYOR NUREMBERG FOR YOUR VISIT AND FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 
          UM, AS THE INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION, WE'D LIKE TO TAKE THIS TIME TO REALLY THANK THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CITY. 
          UM, WE WANNA ESPECIALLY THANK, UM, COLLEEN BRIDGER, THE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, UM, MELODY WOOSLEY, DIRECTOR OF HUMAN SERVICES, ALSO JESSICA DOLINA AND EDWARD GONZALEZ AND MARK WONDER ALSO FOR THEIR AMAZING LEADERSHIP DURING THIS HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. 
          WE ALSO WANNA THANK TINO GALLEGOS, THE IMMIGRATION LIAISON FOR HIS DEDICATION AND THE MANY HOURS HE HAS PUT IN FOR ANN HELMKE LIAISON OF THE FAITH, FAITH COMMUNITY, WHO HAS DONE A LOT TO MOBILIZE THE FAITH COMMUNITY DURING THIS TIME. 
          AND WE'D LIKE TO ALSO THANK THE MANY CITY VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF WHO HAVE DEDICATED THEIR TIME TO HELP THESE FAMILIES IN SUCH NEED. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SISTER. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SHARON MARIELA HASSO, FOLLOWED BY ALBERT MACIAS. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          MY NAME IS MARIELA HASSO AND I AM THE BUS STATION PROJECT MANAGER AT RAICES. 
          WELL, I ALWAYS SHARE THAT THE MAIN PURPOSE OF OUR PROJECT IS TO INFORM FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS ABOUT THE NEXT STEPS IN THEIR ASYLUM PROCESS. 
          WHAT WE HAVE FOUND OVER TIME IS THAT OUR TASKS OFTEN EXTEND WAY BEYOND THAT. 
          THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE WORK THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING, WE HAVE IDENTIFIED MANY CASES OF FAMILIES, SEPARATIONS, PEOPLE IN NEED OF SHELTER 
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AND VARIOUS OTHER INJUSTICES THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN DETENTION CENTERS THAT REQUIRE OUR ATTENTION AND REQUIRE THAT WE RESPOND IN A WAY THAT IS COMPASSIONATE AND RESTORES DIGNITY. 
          AND WHAT WE UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE WORK THAT WE DO COULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE COLLABORATION THAT WE HAVE FORMED WITH THE INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION AND THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER. 
          THE WAY THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER HAS BRIDGED GAPS IN MAKE, IN ENSURING THAT THE BASIC NEEDS AND THE MOST IMMEDIATE NEEDS OF THE FAMILIES WE SERVE ARE MET, HAS BEEN A CRUCIAL COMPONENT OF THE WORK WE DO, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE NEGLIGENCE THAT FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCE UPON THEIR ARRIVAL, APPREHENSION AND DETENTION HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. 
          THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE WORK THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING, WE HAVE HEARD TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT THE CONDITIONS OF THE CUSTOMS AND BORDER PATROL FACILITIES WHERE FAMILIES ARE HELD AFTER THEIR APPREHENSION AT THE BORDERS. 
          AND ONE DECLARATION FROM A MOTHER WHO FLED HONDURAS WITH HER TWO YEAR OLD DAUGHTER. 
          SHE SHARED WE WERE NOT GIVEN ANY WATER TO DRINK. 
          WE HAD TO DRINK WATER FROM A FAUCET IN THE HOLDING. 
          SO WHERE WE WERE DETAINED WITH 50 OTHER PEOPLE, THE FOOD WE WERE FED CONTAINED MEAT THAT WAS ROTTEN AND MY DAUGHTER BECAME SICK. 
          AS A RESULT, THE HOLDING CELL WAS EXTREMELY COLD, WHICH ONLY WORSENED MY DAUGHTER'S CONDITION. 
          I WAS LATER TOLD BY A MEDICAL PROVIDER WHEN I WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE DLI DETENTION CENTER THAT MY DAUGHTER HAD A LUNG INFECTION AND WAS INSTRUCTED TO GIVE HER WATER. 
          THE INFECTION WOULD SOON PASS. 
          HOWEVER, WHEN SHE ARRIVED TO SAN ANTONIO, SHE WAS MET BY AN I W C VOLUNTEER WHO NOTICED HOW SICK THE CHILD WAS. 
          THE CHILD WAS TAKEN TO THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER WHERE SHE COMPLETED A HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. 
          AND ACCOMPANIED BY RA'S STAFF THERE, SHE RECEIVED THE APPROPRIATE MEDICAL CARE AND ATTENTION THAT SHE NEEDED AND WAS ALSO PROVIDED SHELTER AFTER HER DISCHARGE. 
          THIS IS ONLY ONE STORY THAT REPRESENTS THE POWER OF THE COLLABORATION THAT HAS BEEN FORMED BETWEEN RAICES, THE INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION AND THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER. 
          AND AS A RESULT OF THE NEEDS THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED AND THE ABILITY THAT WE HAVE TO RESPOND TO THOSE NEEDS, I ASK THAT THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO CONTINUE THE OPERATIONS OF THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER CONTINUE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MS. HASSO. 
          ALBERT MACIAS. 
          GOOD MORNING MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. 
          MY NAME IS ALBERT MACIAS AND I LIVE IN DISTRICT FIVE. 
          I AM 20 YEARS OLD. 
          I'M CURRENTLY A STUDENT AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY. 
          I'M JUST HERE FOR THE SUMMER. 
          UH, I'M A FIRST GENERATION MEXICAN AMERICAN. 
          I AM A SON, SORRY, I'M A SON OF IMMIGRANTS. 
          I'M HERE TODAY TO READ A STATEMENT ON BE ON THE BEHALF OF A FRIEND, MRS. MARIA AL, WHO COULDN'T BE HERE TODAY. 
          UH, HE READS, AS SO DEAR MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I'M SORRY I CANNOT BE PRESENT TO SUPPORT THE REQUEST FOR MORE FUNDING FOR THE CITY'S IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER. 
          HOWEVER, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE COUNCIL AND CITY STAFF FOR THE SUPPORT IT HAS PROVIDED SO FAR TO THIS EFFORT. 
          IN ADDITION, I WANT TO EXPRESS DEEP APPRECIATION TO ALL VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE BEEN GIVING OF THEIR TIME TO HELP THESE FAMILIES. 
          I ASK THAT THE CITY COUNCIL VOTE YES ON THIS ITEM. 
          WHAT THE CITY HAS BEEN DOING WITH THE VARIOUS FAITH GROUPS AND COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IS LEVERAGING ITS RESOURCES WITH THE GOODWILL PRESENT IN THE CITY AND PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HELP THE IMMIGRANTS. 
          THIS TYPE OF COLLABORATION NEEDS TO BE ENCOURAGED. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 
          SINCERELY, MARIA ANTON SABA. 
          IF I MAY ADD, I'M NOT A POLITICIAN. 
          THIS ENVIRONMENT IS VERY, VERY DIFFERENT TO ME, IT'S VERY OVERWHELMING TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR. 
          UH, WITH THAT SAID, EVEN I CAN SAY CONFIDENTLY THAT PEOPLE DON'T STOP BEING PEOPLE, NOR DO THEY, DO, THEY STOP DESERVING HELP BECAUSE OF WHERE THEY COME FROM OR WHAT THEY'VE BEEN THROUGH. 
          SO LET'S CONTINUE MAKING HISTORY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU MR. MACIAS. 
          UH, GAVIN ROGERS MAYOR, COUNSEL, IT'S GONNA BE BACK WITH YOU. 
          UH, I'M THE PASTOR OR A PASTOR AT TRAVIS PARK CHURCH. 
          UH, WE'VE BEEN HOSTING THE MIGRANTS, UH, FOR ABOUT SEVEN WEEKS NOW, AND IT'S BEEN A JOY TO DO SO. 
          THEY ADD TO OUR COMMUNITY, OUR VIBRANCY WHILE THEY'RE TRAVELING THROUGH SAN ANTONIO. 
          IN NOVEMBER, I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO TRAVEL WITH THE ASYLUM SEEKERS THROUGH MEXICO AND JUST NORTH OF MEXICO CITY. 
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I CLIMBED ON TOP OF AN 18 WHEELER. 
          I'VE NEVER BEEN ON TOP OF AN 18 WHEELER BEFORE. 
          AND IT WAS REALLY KIND OF A SCARY SITUATION. 
          AND I WAS HANGING OFF THE EDGE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN WHEN I WAS THERE, THESE LEGS WRAPPED AROUND ME AND ALL I SAW WAS BROWN SHOES. 
          AND THAT'S A VERY AWKWARD WAY TO MEET SOMEBODY FOR THE FIRST TIME. 
          AND I LOOKED BACK AND HE SMILED AND HE SAID, I GOT YOU. 
          AND THE WHOLE TIME WE RODE TOGETHER LIKE A HUMAN PRETZEL, EVERYBODY WAS JUST CLINGING ONTO EACH OTHER 'CAUSE WE HAD EACH OTHER'S BACK. 
          AND THAT'S THE LOVE THEY SHOWED ME, WHO REALLY DIDN'T NEED TO BE THERE. 
          AND SO WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THIS CITY IS GETTING EACH OTHER'S BACK. 
          WE'RE WE'RE HELPING PEOPLE IN NEED WHO ARE COMING THROUGH, WHO ARE LEGAL, WHO HAVE RECEIVED ASYLUM FROM OUR GOVERNMENT AND ARE GOING TO THEIR HOST HOMES. 
          AND LIKE YOU, LIKE THE PEOPLE HAVE SAID IN THE PAST, UH, THE CITY HAS DONE A FABULOUS JOB. 
          UH, THE THE FIRE CHIEF IS HERE. 
          THANK YOU, UH, FOR SENDING YOUR MEN TO STAY OVERNIGHT ALL THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT TO KEEP WATCH AND KEEP US SAFE. 
          THE CITY STAFF HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB. 
          EDWARD GONZALEZ IS A ROCK AS HE HERE, WE'VE LIFTED STUFF OUT OF ROOMS ALL NIGHT LONG AND JUST MADE PEOPLE WELCOME. 
          UM, I'VE CRACKED EGGS ON MELANIE WOOSLEY DURING EASTER EGG HUNTS AND EVERYBODY'S EMBRACED EACH OTHER AND THIS CITY IS A WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE. 
          SO I ENCOURAGE US TO CONTINUE WHAT WE'RE DOING, SERVING THESE PEOPLE AND GETTING THEM, UH, TO THEIR HOST HOME SAFELY. 
          UH, IT'S A JOY AND AN HONOR TO, TO SEE THE FAMILIES AND CHILDREN WHO HAVE TRAVELED SO LONG, UH, TO SEEK A BETTER LIFE. 
          AND, UH, I'M GRATEFUL FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM WHO IS, UH, CARING, UH, ERIC WALSH, WHO HAVE JUST DONE AN AMAZING JOB, UH, JUST PROVIDING RESOURCES AND IT'S ALWAYS CHANGING, BUT WE'RE ALWAYS THERE. 
          SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU PASTOR ROGERS. 
          OUR CLERK, UH, HAS A, UH, WRITTEN TESTIMONY WE PUT PLACE IN THE RECORD. 
          YES, SIR. 
          IT IS FROM AARON BILL AND IT'S FROM THE INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION IN FAVOR OF THE FUNDS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU. 
          AND I'LL GO AHEAD AND START WITH A FEW COMMENTS. 
          UM, LONG TWO, IT'S BEEN A LONG TWO MONTHS, BUT I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD TO BE A RESIDENT OF THE CITY AND A PUBLIC SERVANT OF THE CITY THAN I HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE CITY SPRING TO ACTION OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS. 
          UM, IT'S BEEN SAID THAT, UH, THE CITY'S CHARTER FOR COMPASSION WAS MENTIONED, AND I GOTTA TELL YOU HOW MUCH THAT WARMS MY HEART BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE RECOGNIZE A CHARTER FOR COMPASSION AS A PROCLAMATION, AS A SYMBOL, UH, FOR WHICH WE JUST POST ON THE WALL. 
          AND GRANTED, IT IS PROUDLY POSTED ON MY WALL, BUT IT WAS ALSO A DECLARATION THAT THIS CITY WOULD BE LED BY COMPASSION. 
          THAT THE FOUNDATION OF POLICYMAKING, THAT THE INITIATIVES AND THE RESOURCE PLANNING OF THIS CITY WOULD BE LED FROM THE HEART. 
          AND THAT NOTHING WE DO, WHETHER IT'S PAVING STREETS OR PAYING POLICE OFFICERS, IS DONE JUST FOR THAT PURPOSE. 
          IT'S FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING PEOPLE AND FOR IMPROVING PEOPLE'S LIVES. 
          I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE PROUD OF MY CITY THAN WHEN I GOT A CALL FROM ERIC WALTZ INFORMING ME THAT THEY HAD STOOD UP THE IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER, NOT BECAUSE OF A COUNCIL C C R, NOT BECAUSE OF A MEETING WITH THE MAYOR, NOT BECAUSE OF A THREAT FROM A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION, BUT BECAUSE THAT ISN'T OUR D N A AS A COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITY. 
          IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. 
          AND I HOPE DESPITE THE FACT THAT IMMIGRATION HAS BECOME A POLITICAL ISSUE, THAT THAT MAKES ALL OF YOU VERY PROUD TO LIVE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS, WE'VE SEEN COMPASSIONATE ESSAY AND ACTION. 
          WE'VE HAD AN UNPRECEDENTED SITUATION WITH THE TRANSIT OF ASYLUM SEEKERS LEGALLY THROUGH SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND OUR COMMUNITY'S RESPONSE HAS BEEN NOTHING SHORT OF REMARKABLE. 
          THE RESIDENTS OF SAN ANTONIO FAITH AND NON-PROFIT LEADERS SUCH AS CATHOLIC CHARITIES, THE FOOD BANK, THE INTERFAITH WELCOMING COALITION, TRAVIS PARK CHURCH, AND THE CITY STAFF HAVE BEEN VOLUNTEERING AND GIVING THEIR HEARTS THEIR ENERGY, THEIR TIME, AND THEIR RESOURCES TO SUPPORT PEOPLE IN NEED. 
          THEY'RE DOING THIS WORK NOT ONLY BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO, BUT BECAUSE IT'S WHO WE ARE AS A CITY. 
          WE DECLARED THAT WE SUPPORT THE MOST VULNERABLE AMONG US BECAUSE IT'S IN OUR D N A AND IT'S WHO WE ARE. 
          AND THUS FAR WE'VE HAD MORE THAN 150 VOLUNTEERS, PROVIDED OVER 11,000 MEALS AND SHELTERED OVER 3000 CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS 
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BEFORE THEY CONTINUED ON THEIR TRAVELS. 
          8,000 PEOPLE IN TOTAL. 
          LAST NIGHT I WAS THERE AND SPOKE WITH A GROUP OF THE FIVE VOLUNTEERS THAT WAS MANNING THE SHELTER FOR OVER 230 PEOPLE. 
          AND I ASKED, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE? SHE SAID, A CHEESEBURGER AND A MILKSHAKE. 
          BUT THAT WHILE THE WORK IS DRAINING, IT WAS UPLIFTING AND GIVING OF ENERGY, UH, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT FUELS US HERE IN SAN ANTONIO IS BEING ABLE TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE. 
          I WANNA PERSONALLY THANK AND PUBLICLY THANK ALL OF THE VOLUNTEERS IN THE 339 CITY OF SAN ANTONIO EMPLOYEES WHO STEPPED UP AFTER HOURS AND ON THE WEEKEND TO PROVIDE CRITICAL SERVICES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR LEADING AN ORGANIZATION WHO SNAPS INTO ACTION. 
          NOT BECAUSE THEY'RE TOLD WHAT TO DO, BUT BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. 
          NOW THE CITY COUNCIL'S ROLE IS TO ENHANCE OUR EFFORTS WITH ADDITIONAL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESOURCES. 
          THIS WEEK WE WERE INFORMED BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY THAT THEY WOULD BE INCREASING THE NUMBER OF ASYLUM SEEKERS TRANSITING THROUGH SAN ANTONIO IN THE NEAR FUTURE WITH NO END IN SIGHT. 
          BUT THAT'S OKAY. 
          WE HAVE PEOPLE TO MEET THESE GROWING NEEDS AS CITIES PREPARED TO BOLSTER OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH FAITH AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING FUNDING TO OFFSET THEIR COST WHILE ALSO PURSUING FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT. 
          STAFF HAS ALSO RECOMMENDED LAUNCHING A MATCHING PROGRAM AS AN INNOVATIVE WAY TO INCREASE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE NONPROFIT PARTNERS. 
          AT THE END OF THE DAY, OUR TOP PRIORITY THOUGH IS PROVIDING CARE FOR PEOPLE IN NEED AND WILL DO SO IN A FINANCIALLY PRUDENT MANNER, BUT WILL DO SO REGARDLESS BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. 
          THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK ABOUT, UM, FAITH LATELY, AND I AM SO PROUD TO SEE THE FAITH COMMUNITY PRESENT TODAY. 
          AND FOR ALL OF US, REGARDLESS OF THE FAITH WE TAKE, WE TAKE LESSON IN SOME OF THE CHAPTERS IN VERSE IN ANY OF THE BOOKS. 
          AND I'D LIKE TO READ ONE NOW THAT YOU KNOW, PROBABLY BY HEART. 
          AND IT'S MATTHEW 25, VERSE 35 AND 36. 
          FOR I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME SOMETHING TO EAT. 
          I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE ME SOMETHING TO DRINK. 
          I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU INVITED ME IN. 
          I NEEDED CLOTHES AND YOU CLOTHED ME. 
          I WAS SICK, AND YOU LOOKED AFTER ME. 
          I WAS IN PRISON, AND YOU CAME TO VISIT ME. 
          THAT'S OUR NORTH STAR, THAT'S COMPASSIONATE SAN ANTONIO. 
          THESE FAMILIES SEEKING ASYLUM ARE VULNERABLE AND IN NEED OF FOOD AND SHELTER, CLOTHES, AND CARE. 
          WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED, WE PROVIDE THE CARE THEY DESERVE. 
          OUR CITY IS A COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITY. 
          IT'S WHO WE ARE. 
          AND I'M PROUD JUST AS YOU ARE OF SAN ANTONIO'S RESPONSE OF ALL THE FAITH AND NON-PROFIT VOLUNTEERS WHO HAVE GIVEN SO MUCH OF THEIR TIME AND THEIR EFFORT TO SERVE OTHERS. 
          THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING THE VERY BEST OF SAN ANTONIO, THE VERY BEST OF HUMANITY. 
          THANK YOU ALSO TO OUR CITY MANAGER, TO OUR STAFF FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND FOR THIS THOUGHTFUL RECOMMENDATION. 
          I'M IN FULL SUPPORT AND I ENCOURAGE MY COLLEAGUES TO ADVANCE THE PLAN. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILMAN TREVINO. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, MY EXPERIENCE IN MY HOMETOWN OF MACALLAN. 
          UH, LAST YEAR WE, WE WENT DOWN TO MACALLAN TO HELP OUT SISTER PIMENTEL. 
          AND OF COURSE, UH, I WAS JOINED BY LAURA MOLINA, WHO'S HERE TODAY, UH, WHO WAS INSPIRED TO, TO DO A LOT OF WORK AS SHE EXPRESSED TO YOU, IN, IN RECOGNIZING THAT WE ALL NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TOWARDS THIS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE. 
          AT THE HEART OF THIS IS TRULY ABOUT HUMAN COMPASSION. 
          AND COMPASSION IS JUST A CONCEPT UNTIL IT'S PUT INTO PRACTICE. 
          I, I THINK, I THINK THE QUESTION WE NEED TO ASK OURSELVES, DID WE, DID WE THINK THIS WAS NOT GONNA HAPPEN HERE IN SAN ANTONIO? DID WE REALLY THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, I LOOKED UP TO SAN ANTONIO WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN MACALLAN AND SAID, YOU KNOW HOW THAT'S A CITY I WANT TO LIVE IN. 
          THAT'S A CITY I WANNA MAKE MY LIFE IN. 
          LAST YEAR I SPOKE WITH ERIC WALSH ABOUT HOW CAN WE HELP THE 
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CITY OF MCALLEN? HOW CAN WE HELP SISTER PIMENTEL? UM, I WANNA THANK HIM FOR THAT 'CAUSE, 'CAUSE HE DID JUST THAT. 
          UM, HE RECOGNIZED THE ISSUE. 
          WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT OVER THESE LAST ALMOST YEAR ABOUT THIS ISSUE. 
          UM, HE GOT PAT EDA TO, TO HELP CREATE AN EMERGENCY MANUAL FOR, FOR SISTER PIMENTEL WHO IS NOT AN A SPECIALIST IN THIS ISSUE. 
          WE HAVE MANY MORE RESOURCES HERE IN SAN ANTONIO THAN THE CITY OF MACALLAN AND CERTAINLY MORE RESOURCES THAN SISTER PIMENTEL. 
          AND SISTER PIMENTEL IS JUST ONE PERSON OUT OF MANY ALONG THE BOARD THAT ARE DEALING WITH THIS VERY ISSUE. 
          I CALLED MARIA GOMEZ ON WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A SIMPLE REQUEST TO, DO WE NOT HAVE SHOWERS THAT WE CAN SEND? SISTER PIMENTEL. 
          MARIA, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, FOR RESPONDING SO, SO GRACEFULLY. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE SHOWERS HAVE MEANT A LOT TO THAT ORGANIZATION. 
          AND IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING WHERE I GOT THE NOTION FOR SHOWERS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          THERE IT IS. 
          AND I DIDN'T GIVE UP. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MELODY WOOLSEY. 
          THANK YOU DR. 
          BRIDGER, FOR MAKING THAT A REALITY HERE. 
          THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I WAS ASKING FOR THESE SHOWERS. 
          I MEAN, IT'S A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT, AND YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT COMPASSION, THEN BE FOR SHOWERS. 
          I SAW A LOT OF KIDS SUFFERING. 
          I SAW A LOT OF KIDS DEALING WITH A VERY TOUGH ISSUE TOO, AN AN ISSUE THAT I THINK A LOT OF US IN THIS ROOM COULD NOT DEAL WITH. 
          I HELD ONE KID WHO SAID, YO BROUGHT ME TO TEARS SO I CAN HANDLE IT. 
          ISN'T, ISN'T THAT OR ISN'T THOSE THE PEOPLE THAT WE WANT IN THIS COUNTRY? PEOPLE THAT CAN HANDLE IT. 
          YOU MAY WANT, I CAN REMEMBER, UH, SPENDING THE NIGHT AT THE MENNONITE CHURCH WITH JOHN GARLAND AND ALL THE GREAT WORK YOU DO. 
          I WANNA THANK THE INTERFAITH WELCOME COALITION BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY GOOD PEOPLE OUT THERE. 
          THEY'RE RIGHT HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND I'M PROUD TO BE NOT ONLY A MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY, BUT REPRESENTING THIS COMMUNITY IN THIS SEAT WHERE I KNOW THAT I GET TO SAY SOMETHING AND THEN IT'S HEARD PEOPLE DEPEND ON THAT. 
          YOU CAN COUNT ON MY OFFICE, MYSELF VOLUNTEERING AT THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER. 
          I'VE HAD A LOT OF FOLKS THAT I'VE SPOKEN TO AS WELL ABOUT THIS AND THEIR EXPERIENCES, AND I GOT TO SEE HOW IT'S WELL ORGANIZED. 
          UM, IT'S NOT THE SAME DOWN IN MACALLAN. 
          IT'S NOT THE SAME IN MANY OTHER AREAS. 
          UH, MY ONLY ASK IS THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS NOT JUST A SAN ANTONIO PROBLEM OR ISSUE. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING WHERE I ASK US TO LEAD AND LEAD REGIONALLY. 
          LET'S GO HELP EVERYONE. 
          'CAUSE EVERYBODY MATTERS, ESPECIALLY OUR KIDS. 
          OF COURSE, I'M GONNA SUPPORT THIS, OF COURSE, WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, AND I THINK WE NEED TO DO MORE. 
          I WANNA THANK THE FOOD BANK. 
          UH, THANK YOU MIGHTY FOR BEING HERE. 
          THANK YOU ERIC COOPER. 
          UM, ALL THOSE INVOLVED. 
          WE KNOW WE CAN HELP. 
          WE KNOW WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. 
          IT'S ABOUT BASIC HUMAN COMPASSION. 
          THEREFORE, I MOVE TO INCLUDE AN ALLOCATION OF $141,000 FROM THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 GENERAL FUND, CONTINGENT CONTINGENCY FUND TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE NECESSARY AGREEMENTS FOR THE PROVISION OF FOOD, SHELTER, AND JANITORIAL LAUNDRY AND OTHER SERVICES PROVIDED BY OUR NONPROFIT PARTNERS IN SUPPORT OF ASYLUM SEEKERS TRAVELING THROUGH OUR CITY. 
          OF THE $141,000, $86,000 SHALL BE ALLOCATED IMMEDIATELY IN THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS. 
          56,000 TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES, OUR DIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO, $30,000 TO THE SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK. 
          AND THE REMAINING $55,000 SHALL BE ALLOCATED TO THE SAME ENTITIES 
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PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2019, AS PART OF A COMMUNITY CHALLENGE TO RAISE UP TO TWO, $2 FOR EACH CITY DOLLAR INVESTED. 
          MAKE THE MAIN MOTION FIRST, MAKE THE MAIN MOTION TO ACCEPT. 
          OKAY, SO THE MAIN MOTION TO ACCEPT THE ORDINANCE, UH, THE 2019 ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET, AMENDED BY WHAT I STATED PREVIOUSLY. 
          LET'S DO THIS. 
          ALRIGHT, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM FOUR AND AMENDED AS STATED BY COUNCILMAN TRAVINO. 
          COUNCILMAN VIA GRANT. 
          THANK YOU, JUSTINA. 
          I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ON THE, UH, THE PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS HERE. 
          UM, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION ON THE LARGE AREA REZONING, UH, WHERE WILL THOSE TWO POSITIONS BE HOUSED AND WHAT DEPARTMENTS? UH, THEY WILL BE HOUSED UNDER DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT IT'LL BE FUNDED THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          AND THEN, UM, UNDER THE, THE, UH, I, I DID WANT TO HAVE SOME CLARIFICATION TOO ON, WE DID GET FEEDBACK OR THE, UM, LEGISLATURE RECENTLY PASSED, UM, ON THE CABLE FEES RIGHT OF WAY. 
          UM, AND THAT WE WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO, UH, COLLECT THOSE FEES. 
          SO CARLOS OR, UM, UH, ERIC, WHOMEVER WANTS TO SPEAK ON THAT. 
          UM, COULD YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AND HOW THAT'S IMPACTING OUR BUDGET OR IT'S NOT BECAUSE WE, IT'S $7 MILLION THAT'S NOW GOING TO BE GONE FROM NEXT YEAR'S FISCAL YEAR. 
          UH, YES MA'AM. 
          COUNCILWOMAN, UH, SENATE BILL, WHAT'S THE NUMBER? IT'S 1152 HAS BEEN PASSED BY BOTH THE SENATE AND, AND IS GONNA BE ABOUT TO BE PASSED BY THE HOUSE CHAMBER. 
          UH, THAT WILL HAVE THE EFFECT OF, UH, PRECLUDING THE CITY FROM BEING ABLE TO CHARGE CERTAIN FEES IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. 
          AND THE NET EFFECT IS ABOUT $7.3 MILLION TO THE CITY IMMEDIATELY. 
          UH, THAT STILL HAS TO BE PASSED, UH, BY THE CHAMBER, WHICH WE EXPECT IT TO BE DONE. 
          DID IT PASS THE HOUSE? IT DID PASS THE HOUSE, YEAH. 
          UM, AND SO IT HAS TO BE SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR, BUT WE EXPECT THAT IT WILL, AND WE'RE ANTICIPATING THAT IT WILL GO INTO EFFECT IN SEPTEMBER, THEN SEPTEMBER ONE IS THE EFFECT. 
          AND WE DID JUSTINA, WE DID BUDGET FOR THAT THIS YEAR. 
          600,000. 
          CORRECT. 
          SO IN OUR FISCAL YEAR 2019 PROJECTION, WE, WE REDUCED, UH, TELECOMMUNICATIONS BY $600,000. 
          THE FORECAST INCLUDES A REDUCTION OF THE $7 MILLION. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, AND AGAIN, THANK YOU JUSTINA, FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK AND YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          VERY, VERY GOOD. 
          VERY IMPRESSIVE. 
          UM, AND THEN I'M GOING TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF, UM, THESE AMENDMENTS AND OUR, UH, THE MOTION, THE MAIN MOTION AND THE AMENDMENTS MOVING FORWARD TO WHAT MANY HAVE ALREADY SHARED. 
          UH, I THANK YOU ERIC, VERY MUCH FOR, UH, BRINGING THIS FORWARD. 
          THANK YOU, MARIA, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THIS FOR A VERY LONG TIME AS WELL. 
          UM, AND I HAVE TO ALSO GIVE MY THANKS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, MELODY, WOOSLEY, AND EDWARD AND EVERYONE, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU ALL STEP UP AND STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND DO THIS. 
          YOU'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS. 
          YOU DID IT SIX YEARS AGO. 
          YOU'VE DONE IT BEFORE AND YOU CONTINUE TO DO THIS. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TEAM. 
          AND THAT'S JUST HOW YOU ALL ARE, UM, STEPPING UP AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE THAT IS IN YOUR HEART. 
          AND AS YOU ALL MOVE, UM, NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES. 
          SO I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THAT TO ALL OF OUR, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS HERE. 
          I THINK THIS IS A GREAT CONVERSATION AND A STEPPING OFF POINT. 
          I DO WANNA THANK MARY ROSE BROWN FOR SITTING DOWN WITH ME AND TALKING WITH ME, SHARING ABOUT, UM, HAVEN FOR HOPE AND THE PR PLANS NOW WITH THE FAMILIES. 
          WE'RE CONTINUING TO TALK ABOUT FAMILY. 
          SO THIS AMENDMENT THAT WAS MADE HERE ON THE DAAS IS ABOUT FAMILIES AND TAKING CARE OF PEOPLE JUST LIKE WE WANT TO DO WITH HAVEN AND THIS NEW BUILDING OFF OF WEST MARTIN AS WE CONTINUE TO COORDINATE TOGETHER AND WORK TOGETHER AS A, AS A CITY TO ADDRESS AND CREATE SOLUTIONS WHEN IT COMES TO COMPREHENSIVE AND HOMELESS, UM, ISSUES IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO, THANK YOU MARY ROSE. 
          THANK YOU KENNY, FOR ALL OF THE WORK THAT YOU ALL DO. 
          UM, I WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR FAITH COMMUNITIES THAT ARE HERE, WHO STEP UP TO THE PLATE EVERY SINGLE DAY, AND OUR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS WHO STEP UP TO THE PLATE EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          AND MANY PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING HERE, BUT TO ALL THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS HERE, WE NEED ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR THIS, FOR OUR ASYLUM SEEKERS, FOR OUR MIGRANTS, BUT ALSO FOR OUR HOMELESS PLANNING THAT WE NEED TO DO. 
          WE NEED EVERYONE ALL HANDS 
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ON DECK WHEN WE'RE CREATING SOLUTIONS FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          YOU KNOW, UM, THIS PAST, UH, I DON'T REMEMBER, UH, APRIL, I THINK IT WAS, I WAS IN, UM, THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES, AND ONE OF THE PANEL DISCUSSIONS THAT THEY HAD WAS ABOUT, UM, HOW DOES IMMIGRATION AND HOW DO WE DEAL WITH IMMIGRATION IN, UM, ASYLUM SEEKERS IN OUR CITY? I WAS SO PROUD TO TALK ABOUT ALL OF THE WORK THAT WE DO IN SAN ANTONIO, AND THAT WE ARE LEADING THE WAY AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD THE WAY IN THIS. 
          SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO'S COME FORWARD. 
          AND AGAIN, WE DO NEED ALL HANDS ON DECK HERE, AND THIS IS A HUMANITARIAN ISSUE, AND WE NEED TO BE WHO WE ARE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          THANK YOU, LAURA, FOR SHARING THE STORIES THAT YOU DID. 
          THANK YOU, ISABEL, FOR SHARING THE STORIES THAT YOU DID AND THAT YOU SEE EVERY DAY IN HOW YOU WORK EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          THAT THIS IS, THAT WE ARE THE HANS, THAT WE ARE SANTO, AND THIS IS OUR WAY OF HOW WE DO THINGS. 
          IF YOU'RE, WE'RE GONNA WELCOME YOU. 
          WE HAVE TO WELCOME YOU AND WAS MENTIONED BEFORE, WE DO HAVE YOUR BACK. 
          SO THANK YOU, UH, PASTOR GARLAND FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO AND THE COMPASSION AND THE LOVE THAT WE HAVE FOR OUR CITY, THAT WE HAVE TO SHARE THAT LOVE AND EXTEND THAT LOVE TO ALL PEOPLE THAT COME THROUGH OUR CITY TOO. 
          SO, UM, THANK YOU ALL VERY, VERY MUCH. 
          I LOOK FORWARD TO HOW WE ARE GONNA CONTINUE TO LEAD THE WAY, AND THAT WE ARE PROTECTING ALL OF THOSE MOTHERS AND CHILDREN THAT ARE HERE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE SAFE AND ALL OF OUR, UH, THE ASYLUM SEEKERS, EVERYONE COMING TO SAN ANTONIO, MAKING SURE THAT THEY ARE SAFE TO GET TO THE NEXT POINT THAT THEY NEED TO, TO, TO BE THAT WELCOMING FACE TO THE UNITED STATES. 
          SO I'M VERY PROUD, I'M SO PROUD TODAY OF WHO WE ARE AS SAN ANTONIO, AND WE HEAR A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, BUT TODAY, THIS MOMENT, I AM SO PROUD. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN VERUN. 
          COUNCILMAN POLITE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, I'M ACTUALLY REALLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TODAY AND I'M, I'M VERY PROUD OF THIS CITY COUNCIL. 
          I'M VERY PROUD OF OUR, UH, OF ALL OF OUR, UM, CITY EMPLOYEES AND, UM, THE FAITH COMMUNITY IN PARTICULAR. 
          UM, THANK YOU FOR STEPPING UP IN A WAY THAT YOU HAVE. 
          UH, IT'S, IT JUST MAKES ME, UH, SWELL WITH PRIDE TO BE A SAN ANTONIO AND, AND KNOW THAT I I LIVE IN THE SAME CITY AND BREATHE THE SAME OXYGEN AS ALL OF YOU. 
          UM, THANK YOU TO COUNCILMAN BROCK HOUSE FOR INVITING PASTOR MIKE. 
          THAT THAT INVOCATION WAS, WAS VERY POWERFUL. 
          UM, I LIKE PASTOR MIKE. 
          HE'S, UH, UM, SOMEBODY I ADMIRE VERY MUCH. 
          UM, AND I, AND I THINK THAT HIS INVOCATION WAS PARTICULARLY SERENDIPITOUS IN LIGHT OF WHAT IT IS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT AND WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW IN THIS REQUEST. 
          IN, IN FACT, I LIKED HIS, I LIKED HIS INVOCATION SO MUCH. 
          I TOOK NOTES, . 
          UM, AND, AND HERE'S SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HE SAID THAT REALLY RESONATED WITH, WITH ME QUOTING DIRECTLY, GOD, WE'RE CONFIDENT THAT YOU HEAR THE PRAYERS RAISED TO YOU. 
          HE, UH, PASTOR MIKE SAID THE WORDS DUTY OF LEADERSHIP THREE TIMES. 
          I WROTE THEM DOWN. 
          AND HE SAID, HE PRAYED THAT WE CITY COUNCIL SURROUND THE POOR, THE VULNERABLE, AND HE SAID, CHILDREN, AND THAT WE SURROUND THEM WITH LOVE. 
          NOW, ERIC, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT MOST IF NOT ALL OF THESE ARE, ARE REALLY VULNERABLE MOMS AND, AND KIDS, UH, WHO ARE SCARED AND, AND THEY'RE TIRED AND THEY'RE HUNGRY. 
          AND I'M SURE THAT, UH, THEY'RE RAISING THEIR PRAYERS, PRAYING THAT SOME LEADERS SOMEWHERE WILL STEP UP AND SURROUND THEM WITH, WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION. 
          SO THAT BRINGS ME BACK TO THE WORDS THAT PASTOR MIKE STARTED HIS INVOCATION, WHICH, WHICH WAS, GOD, WE'RE CONFIDENT THAT YOU HEAR THOSE PRAYERS RAISED UP TO YOU. 
          SO, UH, YOU KNOW, I TALK ABOUT MAX AND SOPHIA OFF AND MY TWO KIDS, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, I TEACH MY KIDS IS THAT LEADERSHIP REQUIRES THREE THINGS. 
          NUMBER ONE, IT'S THAT WHEN YOU SEE SOMEBODY IN NEED, YOU HELP THEM. 
          AND NUMBER TWO, WHEN YOU LEAD, YOU, YOU LEAD OUT FRONT AND YOU LEAD OUT LOUD. 
          AND NUMBER THREE, THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE IS THAT YOU NEVER LET ANYBODY TALK YOU OUT OF OR DISTRACT YOU FROM NUMBER ONE AND NUMBER TWO. 
          SO, UH, I WILL POINT OUT THAT THIS IS NOTHING EXOTIC OR OUT OF THE ORDINARY FOR US. 
          WE HAVE IN THE PAST DONE EXACTLY WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED TODAY, UM, IN THE EXACT SAME 
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WAY, UH, THAT WE'RE BEING ASKED TO, TO DO WHAT WE'RE BEING ASKED TO DO. 
          SO I'LL GIVE YOU, I'LL GIVE YOU ALL A, A HISTORY REMINDER. 
          AND THAT IS THAT WHEN KATRINA DESTROYED NEW ORLEANS, MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM STEPPED UP. 
          I KNOW HAVEN WAS THERE, AND I KNOW THAT, UH, OUR FRIENDS AT THE FOOD BANK WERE THERE, AND I KNOW THAT THE FAITH COMMUNITY WAS THERE AND THE CITY, UM, WITH VOLUNTEERS AND WITH CITY FUNDS, WE HOUSED, WE FED AND WE SERVED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. 
          NOT ONCE DID WE ASK ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE, WHERE ARE YOU FROM? YOU KNOW, AND DEPENDENT UPON THAT ANSWER, WE WILL HELP YOU OR WE WON'T, RIGHT? BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE WAY WE DO THINGS. 
          WHEN HURRICANE HARVEY HIT RECENTLY, WE SENT FOOD, WE SENT VOLUNTEERS, WE SENT SUPPLIES. 
          OUR PRAYERS ARE LOVE AND CITY RESOURCES. 
          UM, AND, AND I'M GONNA POINT OUT THAT WHILE, WHILE EVERYBODY'S BEEN UP HERE TALKING AND WHILE WE GOT OUR PRESENTATIONS, I I'LL ENCOURAGE MY CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO GO LOOK AT THEIR FACEBOOK PAGES. 
          THEY'RE BLOWING UP, UM, WITH WHAT WE USUALLY GET. 
          UM, A LOT OF FOLKS CRYING FOUL THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, OH MY GOSH, HERE YOU GUYS ARE, IT'S A SANCTUARY CITY. 
          YOU'RE HELPING THESE FOLKS. 
          AND, UM, AND THAT WE NEED TO BE SCREENING PEOPLE FOR THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS BEFORE WE DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE GONNA BE HELPFUL. 
          UM, ANOTHER CREATIVE OBJECTION THAT I'VE SEEN POP UP A FEW TIMES IN HERE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, RAAS HAS TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND THAT WE NEED TO DEMAND THAT THEY STEP UP AND SPEND THEIR MONEY INSTEAD OF ASKING US TO DO IT. 
          WELL, I GUESS WE COULD DO THAT. 
          WE COULD PASS THE BUCK, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. 
          AND BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE SAN ANTONIO WAY OF DOING THINGS, UM, WE'RE NOT THE SAN ANTONIO THAT TELLS VULNERABLE PEOPLE, SORRY FOR YOUR BAD LUCK, GO TALK TO SOMEBODY ELSE WHO'S GOT MONEY. 
          UM, IN FACT, WHEN YOU KNOW, WE ARE FACING THE HOMELESSNESS CRISIS, UH, WE DON'T SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, WHO'S GOT A LOT OF MONEY? BILL GREASY, GO TALK TO HIM. 
          RIGHT? WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF ROLLING UP OUR SLEEVES AND SAYING, NO, NO, NO, THIS IS PART OF OUR PROBLEM AS WELL, AND WE ARE GOING TO THROW CITY RESOURCES BEHIND THIS. 
          UH, WHEN IT'S TIME FOR AMBULANCES, WE DON'T SAY, UM, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE COULD PURCHASE MORE AMBULANCES. 
          BUT LAST I HEARD HARVEY NJA PURCHASED TWO OF THEM FOR, YOU KNOW, UH, FOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AND CHILDREN'S CHARITIES. 
          GO ASK HIM. 
          THAT GUY LIKES BUYING AMBULANCES. 
          WE DON'T DO THAT. 
          UM, WE THROW OUR WEIGHT BEHIND THAT. 
          THAT'S, AND IF WE DID DO THAT, UH, WELL, I'M NOT SURE THAT'S THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP THAT PASTOR MIKE PRAYED FOR TODAY. 
          UM, IT'S NOT THE KIND OF LEADERSHIP I I TEACH MY KIDS. 
          SO THE OTHER, THE'RE OTHER REASON I'M GONNA SUPPORT THIS, UM, IS BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA, I DON'T WANNA GO HOME TONIGHT AND LOOK MY KIDS IN THE EYE AND TELL 'EM THAT I SPENT HOURS YESTERDAY WORRYING AND AGONIZING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO TO TAKE CARE OF PEDESTRIANS FROM THE EVIL SCOURGE OF SCOOTERS. 
          BUT THAT WHEN IT CAME TIME AND WHEN I WAS PRESENTED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO HELP MOMS AND BABIES WHO WERE SCARED THAT I PASSED THE BUCK. 
          AND, UH, SO, UH, YOU GOT MY SUPPORT, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN PALAI, COUNCILWOMAN BROCK, EXCUSE ME. 
          COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ. 
          THANK YOU, UH, MAYOR. 
          AND I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BUDGET, UH, REGARDING THE POSITIONS THAT COUNCILWOMAN, UM, VERAN WAS ASKING ABOUT. 
          UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT THEY ARE FOR A LARGE SCALE REZONING. 
          UM, ARE THOSE TEMPORARY POSITIONS OR ARE THEY POSITIONS THAT WILL STAY? AND I HAVE THE SAME QUESTION FOR MIKE REGARDING THE SIX POSITIONS FOR DEPARTMENT, UM, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, IF THEY'RE TEMPORARY OR THESE ARE FULL-TIME POSITIONS FULL-TIME AND INTENDED TO STAY CORRECT. 
          NOT INTENDED TO JUST GO THROUGH THE TERM OF THE, OF THE, UH, REZONING. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO, MIKE, I HAD THE SAME QUESTION FOR YOU ALSO REGARDING THE D S D SIX POSITIONS. 
          UH, IF THOSE ARE PERMANENT POSITIONS OR IF THEY'RE TEMPORARY? NO, THEY'RE PERMANENT POSITIONS. 
          UH, SO THE ENTERPRISE FUND, AS IT GROWS AND THE PERMIT ACTIVITY HAS BEEN, UH, JUST STILL CONTINUING TO GROW, UH, WE'RE EXPERIENCING MORE PERMITS COMING IN, MEANING MORE REVENUE. 
          SO WE RAMP UP OUR, UH, SERVICES, WHETHER IT BE PLANNING REVIEWERS OR INSPECTORS LIKE THIS. 
          UH, SO WE CONTINUALLY MONITOR THAT. 
          SO THESE ARE PERMANENT POSITIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          GOOD. 
          WELL, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD SIGN FOR US, UH, THAT THE CITY IS SEEKING MORE PERMITS, THAT THAT IMPLIES THAT WE'RE GROWING AND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, GREATER PROSPERITY IN OUR CITY. 
          SO THANK YOU, UH, FOR THAT. 
          UM, AND, UH, UH, REGARDING, YOU KNOW, THE SORT OF THE, THE OTHER 2.4 MILLION FOR HAVEN, UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT AS WE ADDRESS THIS ISSUE OF HOMELESSNESS IN OUR CITY, UM, THAT HAVEN FOR HOPE WILL NOT, IS NOT A LONG-TERM SOLUTION. 
          WE ARE DEALING WITH EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, UH, 
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AND THAT THE IDEA IS THAT WE TRANSITION PEOPLE INTO PERMANENT HOUSING. 
          SO I DO, UH, AND I KNOW THAT HERE WE'RE SHOWING THAT WE EXPECT TO HELP ABOUT 500 PEOPLE ANNUALLY, AND HOPEFULLY THOSE PEOPLE WILL TRANSITION INTO MORE STABLE COMMUNITY. 
          WE KNOW THAT AT HAVEN IT'S REALLY THE BEST PLACE FOR, UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THIS SITUATION TO GET A FULL WRAPAROUND RESOURCES. 
          AND SO I'VE ASKED A COUPLE OF TIMES WHY WE CAN'T UTILIZE HAVEN GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES WHEN IT COMES TO IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS OF PEOPLE MOVING THROUGH TEMPORARY HOUSING. 
          AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE CANNOT DO THAT BECAUSE THERE IS A RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT AT HAVEN. 
          AND SO YOU DO HAVE TO HAVE SHOWN RESIDENCY FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS BEFORE YOU CAN GET SERVICES. 
          CAN SOMEBODY ADDRESS THAT? BECAUSE I, I FELT LIKE IT WOULD JUST MAKE SENSE IN A TEMPORARY SITUATION THAT WE COULD TAKE PEOPLE TO HAVEN, AND I KNOW THAT WE CANNOT, BUT MAYBE YOU COULD ADDRESS THAT. 
          UM, SO, SO FIRST TO THE QUESTION OF RESIDENCY. 
          REQUIREMENT HAVEN DOES HAVE A RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT, BUT THEY DON'T TURN PEOPLE BACK TO THE STREET. 
          UM, THEY GIVE THEM A PERIOD OF TIME, IS IT 60 OR 90 DAYS TO, TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF BEXAR COUNTY. 
          THE OTHER CONCERN, UM, WITH USING HAVEN FOR HOPE TO HELP WITH THE IMMIGRANT, UM, SURGE, IS THEY JUST DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY RIGHT NOW. 
          THEY'RE, THEY'RE AT CAPACITY. 
          IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE'RE RECOMMENDING THE 2.4 MILLION TO ADD ADDITIONAL BEDS IS TO INCREASE THEIR CAPACITY. 
          UH, BUT RIGHT NOW THEY, THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE FAMILIES THAT ARE COMING THROUGH THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER. 
          AND SO THERE WOULD NOT BE YES. 
          SITUATION WHERE WE COULD UTILIZE HAVEN IN THE EVENT OF, UM, I KNOW THAT, I KNOW THAT THEY ARE TO CAPACITY, THAT'S WHY THEY'RE REALLY URGENT NEED FOR THE 2.4 MILLION. 
          BUT WOULD THAT EVER BE AN OPTION IF THERE WERE, WE, I MEAN, WE DO ANTICIPATE THE ISSUE THAT WE'RE HAVING WITH THE IMMIGRANT POPULATION TO GROW. 
          WE KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE 500 BEDS HERE. 
          IS THAT AN OPTION AT ALL GIVEN THE NEED FOR RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT? AND I'LL ASK, UM, HAVEN FOR HOPE TO COMMENT ON THAT AS WELL. 
          BUT I KNOW THAT EVERY TIME WE HAVE A SITUATION LIKE THIS, HAVEN IS ONE OF THE FIRST AGENCIES THAT CALLS AND SAYS, HOW CAN WE HELP? SO IF THEY HAVE CAPACITY, IF, IF THERE IS A WAY FOR THEM TO HELP US, THEY OFFER TO DO THAT. 
          AND SO I WOULD ANTICIPATE, UM, IN THE FUTURE, THEM BEING A PART OF, OF ANY SOLUTION WHERE THEY CAN HELP. 
          UH, KENNY, CAN YOU ADDRESS THAT AT ALL, OR, UM, SORRY, UH, KENNY, CAN YOU, UH, CAN YOU ADDRESS THAT AT ALL? UM, I KNOW WE'RE, UH, HAVEN IS DOING SO MUCH FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR THE HOMELESS, BUT GIVEN THIS KIND OF URGENT NEED, WHAT SERVICES MIGHT YOU OFFER? IT SEEMS LIKE AN, LIKE, IT WOULD BE A NATURAL, UM, COOPERATION. 
          UH, CERTAINLY WE ARE CO COOPERATING AND WE'VE TALKED TO MELODY AND HER STAFF ALMOST DAILY ABOUT, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON, JUST FOR, TO BE INFORMED. 
          AND, UM, AND AS, AS ERIC AND OTHERS HAVE SAID, THE, THE INDIVIDUALS ARE COMING TO SAN ANTONIO, I BELIEVE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM ARE, HAVE A DESTINATION ELSEWHERE. 
          SO THERE THERE ARE, THERE'S NO ONE STAYING HERE AT THIS POINT. 
          WE WONDER COULD THAT CHANGE? AND WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE ARE A PLACE THAT HELPS THOSE WITHOUT A HOME, BUT AS YOU POINT OUT, WE ARE AT CAPACITY. 
          AND, AND THAT'S A, THAT'S A CHALLENGE FOR US. 
          THE RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT IS, UH, WAS ESTABLISHED MANY YEARS AGO AT THE BEGINNING OF HAVEN TO, UH, MAKE THIS FOR SAN ANTONIO AND TO AVOID ANYONE WITHOUT A HOME COMING TO SAN ANTONIO TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BEING AT HAVEN FOR HOPE, UH, THAT THAT IS TO, TO RESERVE HAVEN FOR THOSE SAN ANTONIO RESIDENTS THAT LOSE THEIR HOME. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S, UH, WORTHWHILE BECAUSE AS YOU SAID, WE ARE, WE ARE AT CAPACITY, AND THIS, UH, FUNDING WILL ENABLE MORE BEDS TO OPEN UP. 
          THANK YOU, KENNY. 
          I UNDERSTAND IT'S A DIFFERENT POPULATION THAT WE'RE SERVING. 
          UM, MY SENSE IS THAT THOUGH THERE IS A FACILITY AND THAT'S WHERE PERHAPS THE PARTNERSHIP COULD, COULD ARISE. 
          UM, SO I, I I IMAGINE THAT THERE'LL BE FURTHER DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THIS. 
          I KNOW THAT BOTH OF THESE SITUATIONS ARE URGENT. 
          YEAH. 
          SO THERE'S NOT TIME TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT TODAY, BUT I IMAGINE THAT OVER TIME WE'LL HAVE A MORE COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO HOW WE DEAL WITH THIS, BECAUSE WE DO ANTICIPATE MORE IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS PASSING, PASSING THROUGH MM-HMM. 
          , AND WE ANTICIPATE A LARGER HOMELESS POPULATION AS WELL. 
          SO, UH, I SUSPECT THAT WE WILL HAVE SOME SORT OF COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO 
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HOW WE DEAL WITH BOTH SITUATIONS. 
          I AGREE. 
          AND, AND MY SENSE IS THAT THEY SHOULDN'T BE INDEPENDENT JUST GIVEN THE FACT THAT THE FOOD BANK IS PROVIDING MEALS. 
          WE HAVE A PHYSICAL SHELTER. 
          RIGHT. 
          UH, I KNOW THAT, UM, IN MY EXPERIENCE, UH, WHEN I WAS WITH THE MENNONITE CHURCH, UH, WHEN WE HAD ONE SURGE SEVERAL YEARS AGO, UM, ONE OF THE URGENT REQUIREMENTS AND WHY WE THEY HAVE FIRE, UM, UH, OFFICERS, UM, AND FIRE THERE EVERY DAY IS BECAUSE IT'S HAZARD. 
          THE CONDITIONS ARE REALLY NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR, UH, HOUSING A LOT OF PEOPLE AT SOME OF THE SHELTERS. 
          AND SO THE URGENCY, UM, IS THAT THE AREA WAS NOT A SAFE ENVIRONMENT. 
          AND I WAS VERY CONCERNED AS I WAS THERE, ALONG WITH SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES AT NIGHT, UH, THAT THEY WERE GONNA ASK THE PEOPLE TO MOVE AGAIN BECAUSE IT WASN'T THE SHELTER. 
          THE MENNONITE CHURCH WAS REALLY NOT DESIGNED TO HOLD 300 PEOPLE, MOST OF THEM CHILDREN. 
          BUT HAVEN DOES HAVE THE CAPACITY TO HOLD A LOT OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS POTENTIAL, UM, SPACE THAT YOU'RE OPENING UP. 
          SO I, I, YOU KNOW, I I AM I HOPE THAT WE WILL HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. 
          WELL, WE HAVE IT. 
          UH, WE WILL, AND WE HAVE IT REGULARLY. 
          AND YOU MENTIONED, UH, THE FOOD BANK. 
          IT'S THE FOOD BANK FACILITY AT HAVEN FOR HOPE THAT IS PREPARING THE MEALS FOR THE RESOURCE CENTER. 
          UH, AS I SAID, WE ARE IN REGULAR CONVERSATION WITH MELODY AND ALL OF HER TEAM. 
          UH, WE HAVE, WE HAVE A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS AT HAVEN FOR HOPE, ABOUT A THOUSAND A MONTH. 
          AND WE HAVE SENT THE WORD OUT, UH, TO THOSE VOLUNTEERS THAT WE NEED HELP AT THE RESOURCE CENTER. 
          AND SOME HAVE COME. 
          WE ARE IN CONSTANT COMMUNICATION ABOUT ALL THESE EMERGENCY. 
          HER HURRICANE HARVEY WAS MENTIONED. 
          OUR HAVEN STAFF STAFFED THE ONE OF THE SHELTERS THAT WASN'T HEAVILY UTILIZED, BECAUSE AS YOU RECALL, I 10 WAS SHUT DOWN AND NOT MANY COULD GET TO SAN ANTONIO. 
          BUT WE ARE, WE ARE IN TOUCH REGULARLY. 
          WE ATTEND THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MEETINGS. 
          AND, UM, AS I SAID, THE FOOD BANK AT HAVEN IS PROVIDING THE MEALS FOR THE RESOURCE CENTER. 
          WE'RE IN REGULAR COMMUNICATION. 
          I, I, I WISH IT WERE NOT THE CASE, BUT WE ARE FULL. 
          AND, UH, WE, WE DO NOT TURN PEOPLE AWAY, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH CHILDREN. 
          AND, UH, WE ARE FULL AS YOU, AS YOU AND I HAVE DISCUSSED, WE'VE GOT, UH, THIS FUNDING WILL ENABLE US TO OPEN UP MORE BEDS TO GET MORE FAMILIES IN. 
          BUT NOW WE'VE GOT THEM IN REALLY TEMPORARY QUARTERS. 
          BUT WE, WE, AS A POLICY AND AS A KIND OF A MORAL BELIEF, WE WILL NOT SAY TO A FAMILY, YOU CAN'T COME IN BECAUSE WE'RE FULL. 
          THEY CAN SLEEP IN MY OFFICE IF THEY WANT TO. 
          I KNOW THAT. 
          AND, AND I'VE WITNESSED IT PERSONALLY, THAT YOUR GENEROSITY, YOUR PERSONAL GENEROSITY, BUT ALSO OF ALL THE PEOPLE AT HAVEN AND THE WORK WE DO. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCIL. 
          UM, AND SO I, I GUESS JUST EVEN GETTING BACK TO THE ISSUE, WHEN DID WE OPEN A RESOURCE CENTER? UM, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE I, I AM VERY AWARE OF WHAT THE NONPROFITS ARE DOING. 
          I'M VERY AWARE OF WHAT CATHOLIC CHARITIES IS DOING FOR OUR IMMIGRANT POPULATION. 
          UM, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HEAR THAT WE HAVE A RESOURCE CENTER, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UM, THAT HAPPENED, UM, UM, THE DAY OF THE C CHAVEZ MARCH, UM, WE HAD, WE'D PROBABLY BEEN, UH, WE'D HAD GONE THROUGH ABOUT TWO OR THREE DAYS OF, UM, INCREASED ACTIVITY AT THE GREYHOUND BUS STATION. 
          AND, UH, AFTER THE MARCH, UH, MARIA AND THE POLICE CHIEF AND I WENT TO THE BUS STATION AND SPOKE TO, UH, THE INTERFAITH COALITION, SAW THE CONDITIONS AND THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE THERE. 
          UM, AND I KNEW THAT WE HAD A VACANT STOREFRONT RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET AT THE SAME MARY'S, UH, GARAGE. 
          UM, I'VE PROVIDED, UH, AN EMAIL UPDATE TO THE, OR MEMO TO THE COUNCIL THAT FOLLOWING WEEK. 
          AND, UH, I ASKED STAFF TO GO AHEAD AND OPEN UP THAT STOREFRONT AREA AS, AND I, I SAID IT EARLIER, UM, IT'S, IT'S A PLACE WHERE AT THE BUS STATION I SAW DONATIONS PILED UP IN THE CORNER OF THE BUS STATION, JUST LITERALLY PILED UP, UM, AN AREA OF THE BUS STATION KIND OF CORDONED OFF, UM, INDIVIDUALS HUDDLED, UH, IN AN AREA. 
          AND, AND I THOUGHT IT, IT, THAT ACROSS THE STREET, NOT THAT FAR AWAY, WE HAD 2100 SQUARE FEET IN A CITY OWNED PROPERTY THAT WAS VACANT, AND WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY TENANTS. 
          UM, AND WE WOULD UTILIZE THAT AS, AS MAYBE MORE, A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A, A FRIENDLIER PLACE TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT, UM, UH, HAVE THE KIDS PLAY, UH, TRANSITION. 
          SO I MADE THAT DECISION, UH, THAT DAY. 
          UH, 
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AND, UH, AND I'VE, I'VE INFORMED THE COUNCIL A NUMBER OF TIMES ABOUT THAT ACTIVITY. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          I DIDN'T, I DON'T KNOW IF I REALIZED THAT THAT WAS A CITY RUN FACILITY. 
          I, IT WAS MY EXPER UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE NONPROFITS. 
          OH, ABSOLUTELY. 
          IT IS. 
          AND, AND, AND I THINK, I THINK ALL THE NONPROFITS UTILIZE IT. 
          UM, WE HAVE STAFF, UH, VOLUNTEERS, CITY EMPLOYEES THERE. 
          UM, OF COURSE WE'VE GOT, UH, FOLKS, UH, FROM THE JANITORIAL STAFF FROM OUR PARKING FACILITIES WHO ARE MAINTAINING THE BATHROOMS THERE. 
          BUT IT'S, IT'S KIND OF THE DAYTIME WAITING AREA. 
          UM, IF YOU'VE BEEN THERE, UH, THEY'RE ON THE WINDOW. 
          UM, THEY'LL PUT ON THERE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE DALLAS BUS IS LEAVING AT THREE O'CLOCK SO THAT PEOPLE THAT ARE WAITING FOR THE BUS OR NEED A PLACE TO STAY DURING THE DAY ARE DOING THAT IN THE RESOURCE CENTER AND WALKING ACROSS THE STREET TO GET ON THE BUS, OR THEY DON'T. 
          AND IS IT, UM, I'M SORRY, ERIC, TO INTERRUPT, BUT IS IT A, UM, UH, IS IT OPEN TO EVERYONE AND HOW CAN PEOPLE FIND OUT ABOUT GIVING DONATIONS, HOW TO VOLUNTEER MM-HMM. 
          , UM, WHAT, IS THERE MORE INFORMATION THAT, THAT THE CITY CAN DO? BECAUSE ONE THING THAT WE ABSOLUTELY KNOW IS THAT WE HAVE A VERY GENEROUS COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE THAT WANT TO DONATE. 
          AND IN FACT, WHEN WE HAD THAT SURGE OF IMMIGRANTS, UM, RIGHT. 
          I DUNNO IF JOHN GARLAND IS STILL HERE, UH, AND, UH, SOME OF THE TEAM FROM INTERFAITH, UH, ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WAS THAT THEY SAID, PLEASE, NO MORE, UH, VOL. 
          NO, NO MORE SUPPLIES. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , WE CANNOT HANDLE ANY MORE SUPPLIES IF YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE. 
          UH, I THINK THEY WERE ASKING PEOPLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO RAICES AND TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES. 
          UM, BUT I, I THINK THAT'S ALSO, UM, ONE THING THAT WE WOULD WANNA SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC IS WHERE CAN THEY GO VOLUNTEER? UM, AND, UH, IN FACT, AT THAT TIME, WE WERE ASKING FOR TEACHERS TO, UM, ENTERTAIN THE, TO TEACH THE KIDS WHILE THEY WERE THERE. 
          AND WE HAD LOTS OF PEOPLE, UM, TRANSLATION SERVICES, PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE. 
          SO WHAT IS THE ACTION THAT PEOPLE CAN TAKE, UM, THAT WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN SOME WAY, WHETHER IT'S VOLUNTEERING OR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS. 
          SO WE'RE REQUESTING FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS GO THROUGH CATHOLIC CHARITIES, AND THEY WILL MANAGE THOSE AND PROVIDE THE, UM, FUNDING THAT IS NEEDED FOR DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES TO THE OTHER NONPROFITS. 
          AND, AND, SORRY. 
          UM, BUT I, I WANNA KNOW HOW CAN THEY MAKE SURE THAT IT GOES TO THIS EFFORT? BECAUSE WE KNOW THE CATHOLIC CHARITIES DOES A LOT OF THINGS, RIGHT? RIGHT. 
          NO, THEY HAVE THE OP, THEY'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DESIGNATE THAT TO THIS EFFORT. 
          UM, WE'VE, WE'VE PUT THAT WORD OUT THROUGH A NUMBER OF SOURCES THROUGH THE FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY, THROUGH A TEXT ALERT SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE. 
          AND THEN ALL OF OUR NONPROFIT PARTNERS ARE ALSO USING THEIR SOURCES, SOCIAL MEDIA TO, UM, TO RECEIVE DONATIONS. 
          AND FOOD BANK IS ALSO COORDINATING DONATIONS OF CLOTHING, OF UNDERWEAR, WATER, UM, ALL OF THOSE HYGIENE PRODUCTS THAT THE, THE MIGRANTS MIGHT NEED. 
          AND IT CAN GO DIRECTLY TO THE FOOD BANK, BECAUSE THAT'S ONE THING THAT THEY HAVE IS A FACILITY. 
          BUT YOU CAN DONATE SUPPLIES AND FOOD. 
          UM, IS THAT RIGHT? UH, MARIO? YES. 
          SUPPLIES AND FOOD, AND THEY TAKE IT TO THE CENTER OVER OFF OF 90 AS WE NEED THAT. 
          YES. 
          AND THEN FINANCIAL DONATIONS THROUGH CATHOLIC CHARITIES. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, GOOD. 
          WELL, I THINK THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE PART OF THE STIPULATION, UM, IN THE AMENDMENT IS THAT THE CHARITIES NEED TO RAISE THE FUNDS, AND IT'S A, UH, AND SO WHAT IS THE TIMELINE FOR THE FUNDRAISING EFFORT? THAT'S GOOD QUESTION. 
          I, I WOULD EXPECT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN AND BASED ON THE AMENDMENT THAT COUNCILMAN TRAVINO TALKED ABOUT, UH, THAT WE, WE LAY THAT $55,000 OUT THERE BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR, AND, UH, GIVE THE AGENCIES TIME TO, UM, SOLICIT AND, UM, AND MAKE THAT APPROPRIATION, AT LEAST FOR TODAY'S DISCUSSION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. 
          AND, AND, AND THIS LIKELY WILL NOT BE THE LAST UPDATE THAT THE STAFF GIVES YOU, AND WE CAN AMEND, UH, AND ADJUST LATER. 
          OKAY, GOOD. 
          WELL, THAT'S A CHALLENGE TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WE NEED TO RAISE AT LEAST 55,000 A HUNDRED TEN, A HUNDRED TEN, A HUNDRED TEN. 
          OKAY. 
          110 TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES, UH, TO THE FOOD BANK, TO INTERFAITH COALITION. 
          UH, BUT I GUESS YOU'RE ASKING EVERYTHING GO TO THROUGH CATHOLIC CHARITIES. 
          THROUGH CATHOLIC CHARITIES. 
          SO GET THE WORD OUT EVERYONE. 
          UH, WE NEED THAT 110,000, UH, TO GET THE CITY MATCH, UH, IF WE APPROVE THIS AMENDMENT TODAY, WHICH I'M VERY PROUD TO SUPPORT. 
          UM, AND ALSO JUST REALLY PROUD OF THE CITY. 
          I'VE SEEN IT IN ACTION SO MANY TIMES. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME IT'S COME UP. 
          WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LOT OF YEARS WITHOUT, UM, A LOT OF PUBLICITY. 
          I THINK IT'S BEEN A QUIET EFFORT. 
          UH, AND I KNOW THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AT IT FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. 
          THE PEOPLE AT, TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND RAICES, AND OF COURSE THE CITY. 
          I KNOW THAT MARIA HAS PERSONALLY DEDICATED A 
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LOT OF HER TIME, AND I SUSPECT YOU HAVE AS WELL. 
          UM, AND, UH, TO THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, AND ESPECIALLY OUR CITY EMPLOYEES. 
          UM, REALLY, REALLY PROUD, UH, GREAT WORK, UH, FOR ALL OF YOU. 
          UM, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, CONTINUING THE FUNDRAISING EFFORT, UM, FOR THIS AREA. 
          AND THEN I, I THINK THAT WAS ALL THE, THE QUESTIONS I HAD ABOUT, UM, THIS EFFORT AND, UM, UH, LOOK FORWARD TO, UM, SUPPORTING IT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ, COUNCILMAN HALL, UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          AND, UH, I TOO SUPPORT THE, THE, ALL THE WORK THAT THE CITY STAFF HAS DONE ON THIS PARTICULAR SIX BY SIX BUDGET. 
          UM, THANK YOU, UH, CITY MANAGER FOR L AUSTIN, AND, AND FINDING FUNDING FOR THAT. 
          I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THE HAVEN FOR HOPE EFFORT, UH, AMONG OTHERS. 
          AND THEN JUST A SHORT STATEMENT FOR ME WITH REGARD TO THE, UH, IMMIGRATION ISSUE. 
          AND, AND THANK YOU, UM, I GUESS MAYOR AND ERIC FOR COMING UP WITH THE, THE IDEA AND WAYS TO, TO HELP SUPPORT THE ISSUE. 
          UH, I'LL TELL YOU THAT I SEE COUNCILMAN PETTI, UH, AS THE, IN THE AUDIENCE. 
          WE WERE HERE DURING THE KATRINA, UH, EVENT. 
          AND, AND, UH, MAYOR HARDBERGER AND OUR CITY COUNCIL AT THAT TIME, UH, HELPED LEAD THAT EFFORT ALONG WITH C ALONGSIDE CITY STAFF. 
          UH, BUT WHEN, WHEN I LOOK BACK ON THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE, IT WAS PURELY HUMANITARIAN. 
          I THINK THE ISSUE TODAY IS NOT JUST HUMANITARIAN WHERE I, I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH COUNCILWOMAN WOMAN VIA GRANT ON THAT. 
          UH, BUT THERE'S ALSO AN ELEMENT OF, OF POLITICS IN THERE. 
          AND, UH, I WILL JUST, JUST FLAT OUT SAY, SHAME ON, UH, THE ELEMENTS WITHIN THE STATE GOVERNMENT AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT ARE PUSHING THESE SORTS OF ISSUES, UH, OFF, UM, AND PLAYING POLITICS AS OPPOSED TO HUMANITY AND HUMANITARIAN, UM, POSITIONS. 
          UH, THAT FOR ME IS, IS SHAMEFUL. 
          UM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK IT'S, IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY, UH, THAT WE WILL STEP UP TO THE PLATE WHEN ELEMENTS OF THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DO NOT. 
          AND, UH, I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH, I THINK COUNCIL COUNCILMAN BELAY SAID IT EARLIER, UM, I DON'T NEED ANY SCREENING, UH, TO BE ABLE TO DO, DO WHAT IS RIGHT. 
          AND TAKING A, A QUOTE FROM ALBERT MACIAS WHO CAME IN AND SPOKE EARLIER, PEOPLE DON'T STOP BEING PEOPLE, AND I DON'T NEED A SCREENING PROCESS TO BE ABLE TO DETERMINE THAT. 
          UM, AND NOR DO THOSE PEOPLE STOP NEEDING AND DESERVING HELP. 
          AND SO WHENEVER PEOPLE NEED HELP AND DESERVE HELP, UH, I'M GONNA SET ASIDE ANY KIND OF POLITICS AND FOCUS ON THE HUMANITARIAN SIDE. 
          I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS, THE CITY AND THE CITY COUNCIL BE ABLE TO DO THAT TODAY. 
          UH, I'LL SUPPORT THE MOTION. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN HALL. 
          COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, I WANT TO CONFIRM SOMETHING I THINK THAT WE UNDERSTAND, UH, WITH, UM, UH, OUR SUPPORT FOR HAVEN FOR HOPE. 
          WE'RE PUTTING FORWARD, UH, $2.4 MILLION AS A GRANT FOR THEM TO RENOVATE, UH, OR COMPLETE THE RENOVATION OF A PIECE OF PROPERTY. 
          UH, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE ORIGINAL RENOVATION, UH, IS SOMEWHAT IN DISPUTE WITH THE CONTRACTOR, AND, UH, BECAUSE OF THAT DISPUTE, UH, THE JOB WASN'T COMPLETED PROPERLY. 
          AND, UH, HAVEN IS, UH, TRYING TO NEGOTIATE WITH THAT CONTRACTOR TO RECUPERATE SOME OF THE COSTS IT'S GOING TO TAKE TO, UH, REPAIR THE FACILITY AND MAKE IT READY FOR USE. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? UH, GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          YES. 
          COUNCILMAN, COURAGE. 
          YOU ARE CORRECT. 
          UH, HEAVEN FOR HOPE IS CURRENTLY, UH, SEEKING, UM, UH, THROUGH THE ALL ACTION TO GET REIMBURSED BY THIS ENTITY. 
          AND, UH, THEY HAVE COMMITTED TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO THAT IF THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING THAT, UH, FINANCIAL, UH, UH, DOLLARS, THEY WILL BE, UH, PROVIDING THOSE TO THE CITY TO THE EXTENT, UP TO THE EXTENT OF THE $2.4 MILLION TO REIMBURSE THE GRANT WE'RE GONNA GIVE THEM. 
          THAT IS CORRECT, COUNSEL. 
          OKAY. 
          I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT AND MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT, AND I THINK IT'S GOOD STEWARDSHIP ON THE PART OF HAVEN FOR HOPE, BUT IT'S ALSO, I THINK, RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP ON THE PART OF THE CITY TO WHERE WE CAN RECUPERATE THIS MONEY, UH, THAT WE'LL GET IT BACK. 
          BUT OBVIOUSLY, I, I'M GONNA SUPPORT IT, I KNOW EVERY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER IS TOO, BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT, UH, HAVEN IS THERE PROVIDING THE VALUABLE SERVICES THAT IT IS PROVIDING. 
          THE OTHER, UH, SUBJECT I WANT TO, UH, TO MENTION IS THE AMENDMENT THAT'S, THAT'S COMING UP. 
          UH, AND I UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON WITH, UH, THE, THE ARRIVAL OF SO MANY, UH, ASYLUM SEEKERS IN OUR CITY. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BROUGHT UPON OURSELVES. 
          THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S PRETTY MUCH BEEN IMPOSED UPON US, UH, BY, UH, THE BOARD OF PATROL 
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BY ICE, LITERALLY SENDING PEOPLE TO SAN ANTONIO, BUT ALSO, UH, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THOSE PEOPLE HAVE A DESTINATION AND THAT THEY HAVE A CHARGE TO ARRIVE AT THAT DESTINATION AND TO GO AHEAD AND CONTINUE THEIR ASYLUM PROCESS. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S QUITE DIFFERENT THAN, UH, WHAT SOME PEOPLE MAY, MAY THINK. 
          AND I HAVE TO SAY, I, I WAS HONESTLY VERY TOUCHED WITH, UH, WHAT PASTOR MIKE KRAB HAD TO SAY AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR MEETING TODAY, AS WELL AS, UH, THE MAYOR'S RECITATION OF MATTHEW 25. 
          UH, AND I THINK BOTH OF THOSE ARE VERY RELEVANT TO THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE AS A COUNCIL. 
          UH, MY MY CONTINUING CONCERN IS, YES, WE NEED TO SUPPORT THESE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE, ARE SUPPORTING THIS, THIS PROCESS FOR THE ASYLUM SEEKERS. 
          AND I THINK THERE'S A COUPLE OF REASONS. 
          FIRST, IT'S GOOD THAT WE'RE DOING THIS. 
          I THINK IT'S PART OF OUR COMPASSIONATE CITY. 
          ON THE OTHER HAND, WHEN THESE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS ARE TAKING MONEY THAT HAS BEEN ALLOCATED FOR PROVIDING SERVICES TO THE PEOPLE IN SAN ANTONIO, THEN THAT REDUCES THE FUNDING THEY HAVE TO HELP OUR OWN COMMUNITY. 
          AND I THINK IT'S INCUMBENT UPON THE CITY TO HELP MAKE THEM WHOLE AGAIN SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S GOOD STEWARDSHIP ON THE PART OF THE CITY TO KEEP THOSE ORGANIZATIONS, UH, ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR OUR OWN COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THE ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO ARE COMING THROUGH. 
          A BIGGER CONCERN ALSO THAT I HAVE THOUGH, IS WHAT IS THE END SITE FOR THIS PROCESS? RIGHT NOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMMITTING SOME FUNDS THAT ARE GOING TO COVER SOME OF THE COSTS FOR A LITTLE OVER A MONTH OR, OR SIX WEEKS OR SO OF TIME. 
          BUT WE'RE HEARING THAT THE NUMBER OF THESE ASYLUM SEEKERS IS GOING TO INCREASE, AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT'S GOING TO CON CONTINUE. 
          SO I THINK IT'S INCUMBENT UPON US TO, UH, DO BETTER COORDINATION WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, OF COURSE, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING MUCH MORE THAN THEY'RE DOING. 
          I THINK WE SHOULD BE REACHING OUT TO THE STATE, BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE STATE. 
          IT'S NOT JUST HAPPENING. 
          IT'S SAN ANTONIO, IT'S HAPPENING, UH, IN SOUTH TEXAS. 
          IT'S HAPPENING IN EL PASO. 
          IT'S HAPPENING HERE, AND I'M SURE IN OTHER AREAS. 
          AND I THINK THE STATE, UH, OUGHT TO CONSIDER ITS ROLE IN HELPING THESE ASYLUM SEEKERS GET THROUGH OUR STATE TO THEIR FINAL DESTINATION. 
          I THINK, AS SOMEBODY NOTED, WE HAD 230 PEOPLE LAST NIGHT AT TRAVIS PARK, UNITED METHODIST METHODIST CHURCH. 
          DO WE WANT 230 PEOPLE OUT ON OUR STREETS BECAUSE THERE AREN'T THE RESOURCES. 
          AND IF WE'RE GETTING AS INDICATED NOW, 200 OR MORE A NIGHT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SIX OR 7,000 PEOPLE IN THE COURSE OF A MONTH. 
          AND, UH, SO I THINK THAT WE NEED TO ALSO INVO INVOLVE THE COUNTY. 
          AND I HAVEN'T HEARD WHERE THEY HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO STEP IN AND SUPPORT THIS EFFORT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS ISN'T A CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PROBLEM. 
          THIS IS A COMMUNITY-WIDE SITUATION THAT ALL OF US NEED TO BE INVOLVED IN. 
          AND FINALLY, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M GONNA DO, AND I MENTIONED THIS TO THE CITY MANAGER WHEN HE FIRST BROUGHT THIS UP TO ME, I WILL BE CALLING ON THE PHILANTHROPIC AND FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY IN MY DISTRICT IN DISTRICT NINE TO STEP UP MORE AND SUPPORT THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE BY THESE CORE OF NONPROFIT AND FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN OPERATING FROM DOWNTOWN. 
          AND ASK MY FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY AND MY PHILANTHROPIC COMMUNITY TO STEP UP TO HELP US BE PREPARED FOR THE LONG-TERM IMPLICATIONS OF THIS UNTIL SUCH TIME AS IT COMES TO A CONCLUSION. 
          AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO REACH OUT TO YOUR FAITH-BASED COMMUNITIES AND ASK THEM TO STEP UP. 
          IT COULD BE WITH MONEY THAT THEY COULD SEND, UH, THROUGH CATHOLIC CHARITIES OR THE FOOD BANK. 
          IT COULD BE THROUGH RESOURCES OTHER THAN MONEY. 
          CERTAINLY IT CAN BE THROUGH VOLUNTEERS WHO CAN HELP MAN OUR, UM, OUR MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER AND OFFER SOLACE AND GUIDANCE, UH, TO THESE ASYLUM ASYLUM SEEKERS. 
          SO, I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS AMENDMENT AND THE OVERALL, UH, ADJUSTMENTS TO OUR BUDGET. 
          AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE, AS I SAID, OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS TO DO THE SAME AND REACH 
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OUT TO THEIR COMMUNITIES FOR THE GREATER SUPPORT WE'RE GOING TO NEED OVER THE LONGER TERM, UH, WITH THIS, UH, ASYLUM, UH, HUMANITARIAN, UH, CONDITION THAT'S GOING ON IN OUR CITY. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          COUNCILMAN PERRY. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WE GOT, UH, A LOT ON OUR PLATE TO TALK ABOUT HERE. 
          UM, LEMME START OFF WITH THE, UH, OVERALL, UH, BUDGET BRIEFING HERE. 
          THANK YOU, JUSTINE, FOR PUTTING ALL THAT TOGETHER. 
          AND, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT IS SOMETHING THAT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT, IT IS A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          AND, UH, I'M GONNA CONTINUE TO PRESS ON THAT, AND I HOPE THAT MY COLLEAGUES THAT HAVE SIGNED UP ON THAT C C R CONTINUES TO, UH, SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE IT'S NEEDED, IT'S NEEDED FOR THE CITY. 
          YOU KNOW, UM, I GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, WHOEVER WANTS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT, UH, OUR BUDGETS OVER THE PAST, LET'S SAY SINCE 2010. 
          WELL, I GOT, I GOT THE FIGURES, I GOT THE FIGURES. 
          I JUST WANTED TO, FOR YOU TO CONFIRM 'EM. 
          SINCE 2010, LET'S JUST TAKE SINCE 2010, THAT WAS AFTER THE RECESSION. 
          HOW MUCH CARRYOVER HAVE WE HAD YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR? TOTAL CARRYOVER SINCE 2010? UM, COUNCILMAN, I BELIEVE YOUR QUESTION HAS TO DO BETWEEN THE DIFFERENCE IN OUR GENERAL FUND ENDING BALANCE. 
          YES. 
          WHEN WE, UH, PRESENT THE, THE BUDGET TO THE COUNCIL IN SEPTEMBER, AND THE COUNCIL ADOPTS THAT BUDGET, WE HAVE SOME ESTIMATES FOR THE ENDING BALANCE IN THE GENERAL FUND. 
          AND THEN AS WE CLOSE THE FISCAL YEAR FOR, FOR THAT CURRENT YEAR IN DECEMBER, WE COME BACK TO THE COUNCIL AND GIVE THE COUNCIL AN UPDATE FROM SEPTEMBER TO WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, UH, DURING THOSE MONTHS. 
          UM, I BELIEVE THAT IS YOUR QUESTION. 
          YES. 
          AND SO IT, IT HAD, IT, IT VARIES. 
          UM, THE MOST RECENT FISCAL YEAR, WHICH IS FISCAL YEAR 2018 THAT WE PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL, THAT, UH, VARIANCE WAS, UH, ROUGHLY ABOUT $17 MILLION. 
          UH, PRIOR TO THAT IS BEING LESS THAN 10 MILLION. 
          THAT WAS, UM, UH, FISCAL YEAR THAT IT WAS AROUND $5 MILLION OR SO. 
          UH, PRIOR TO THAT, THERE'S BEEN OTHER YEARS THAT, UH, THAT NUMBER HAS, UH, GOTTEN CLOSER TO $18 MILLION. 
          SO IT HAS VARIED FOR, UM, UH, SEVERAL REASONS. 
          UH, TYPICALLY OUR C P SS REVENUES DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS, UH, TEND TO COME A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN ANTICIPATED, EITHER DUE TO THE WEATHER THAT IS, UH, WARMER, UH, OR, UH, SOME OF OUR OFF SYSTEM CELLS. 
          SO I'LL BE HAPPY TO GET TO YOU THE AVERAGE AMOUNT, AND I, I DON'T HAVE THAT, UH, WITH ME AVAILABLE, UH, BUT I'LL BE HAPPY TO GET THAT TO YOU. 
          WELL, THAT'S, THAT'S A GREAT EXPLANATION, MARIA. 
          AND, UM, I, I DO HAVE THOSE FIGURES HERE. 
          UM, SO IF YOU GO BACK TO 2010 TO THROUGH 2018, WE WEREN'T, WE DIDN'T GET THE 2018 NUMBERS TILL JUST A WHILE AGO, BUT, UH, THAT ADDS UP TO ABOUT $225 MILLION SINCE 2010 THAT WE'VE HAD CARRYOVERS FROM ONE FISCAL YEAR TO THE NEXT. 
          SO THAT'S ABOUT $25 MILLION A YEAR IF I DID, DID MY MATH CORRECT. 
          AND I, I JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT THOSE NUMBERS THAT, UM, WE CAN'T AFFORD A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION HERE, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO LOOK AT THE, THE, THE LEAST AMOUNT OF A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION OF A BASELINE OF $5,000 A YEAR. 
          I'M, I'M LOOKING AT, UH, A 5% EXEMPTION, WHICH WOULD COST US ROUGHLY ABOUT, UM, UH, $12 MILLION. 
          THAT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, TAKING THE AVERAGE OF $26 MILLION. 
          THAT'S NOT EVEN HALF OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN CARRYING OVER SINCE 2010. 
          SO I'M STILL PUSHING FOR THIS HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          THAT IS ONE OF THE HOTTEST TOPICS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND IT'S A COMPONENT, I KEEP SAYING IT'S A COMPONENT OF OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN MENTION OF A MEANINGFUL TAX REDUCTION. 
          WELL, LEMME TELL YOU, FOR THAT $5,000 BASELINE, THAT'S ABOUT $28 A YEAR FOR THE AVERAGE SIZE HOME OF $178,000. 
          THAT, THAT'S TAXPAYER MONIES. 
          AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE DISCUSSING AND OFFERING BACK TO OUR HOMEOWNERS HERE. 
          UH, AND AGAIN, I'M LOOKING AT THE 5%, WHICH IS ACTUALLY $50 A YEAR. 
          SO WHEN YOU START GETTING INTO THOSE AMOUNTS, IN FACT UP TO 20%, THAT'S $200 A YEAR. 
          AND WE'RE THE ONLY MAJOR TEXAS CITY THAT DOES NOT PROVIDE A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          NOW, I KNOW WE DO OTHER EXEMPTIONS OUT THERE FOR, UH, A FREEZE ON, UH, 65 AND OLDER AND SOME DIS DISABLED, UM, UM, EXEMPTIONS AS WELL. 
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BUT THIS IS FOR THE MAJORITY OR THE REST OF THE HOMEOWNERS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO THAT HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR THIS YEAR, AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR. 
          AND WE, IN SAN ANTONIO HAVE THAT AUTHORITY TO USE THAT 20% OF THAT TOTAL TAX BILL TO GIVE BACK TO THE HOMEOWNERS HERE AND HELP THEM WITH RISING RATES AND RISING TAXES, PROPERTY VALUES EVERY YEAR. 
          SO I'M HOPING THAT MY COLLEAGUES CONTINUE TO, UH, SUPPORT THIS AS WE GO THROUGH THE BUDGETING SEASON, UH, STARTING HERE SOON. 
          AND I, I JUST LOOK AT THAT GENERAL FUND FIGURE, 1.26 BILLION, THAT'S WITH A BEAT BILLION DOLLARS IN OUR GENERAL FUND. 
          AND FOR US, NOT TO SAY THAT WE CAN'T AFFORD LESS THAN 1% TO HELP HOME HOMEOWNERS MAKE IT MORE AFFORDABLE TO OWN A HOME, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE I HAVE A PROBLEM AT. 
          AND AGAIN, I'M, I'M HOPING TO GET THAT THROUGH THE SYSTEM THIS YEAR. 
          WE'LL SEE HOW THESE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS GO. 
          SO, UH, COUNCILMAN, I'M SORRY IF I MAY. 
          YES, MA'AM. 
          I DO HAVE THE NUMBERS IN MY, IN MY BOOK AND, UM, FOR, UH, 2018, IT WAS ACTUALLY $14 MILLION, SO ABOUT 1% OF THE GENERAL FUND PRIOR TO THAT, IT WAS 6 MILLION PRIOR TO THAT, SEVEN PRIOR TO THAT 3.7 MILLION. 
          SO, AND, AND GOING FURTHER BACK TO ABOUT 2004 WHEN WE DID AN ANALYSIS, UM, THE, THE AVERAGE IS ABOUT $14 MILLION FOR, FOR THAT TIME PERIOD. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, WE, UH, PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL SOME, UH, POLICY ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION AS PART OF THE GOAL SETTING SESSION. 
          UH, THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION WAS ONE OF THOSE AREAS AS, UH, REQUESTED BY SOME OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          SO WHEN THE COUNCIL HAS A DISCUSSION ON JU ON JUNE 21ST, AS WE PREPARE FOR THE 2020 BUDGET, UH, WE WILL CONTINUE THAT CONVERSATION AND I'M TOTALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR THOSE NUMBERS, MARIA. 
          UM, NOW LET'S GET ONTO THE, UM, THIS, UH, AMENDMENT ON THIS BUDGET ITEM. 
          FIRST OF ALL, I'M, I'M INDIGNANT ABOUT OUR CONGRESS NOT FIXING THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. 
          AND THERE ARE PROBLEMS. IT'S, IT'S BEEN HERE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. 
          HOW MANY? 30, 40 YEARS NOW THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS. 
          AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE A RESOLUTION. 
          I KIND OF LIKEN IT TO OUR OWN STATE GOVERNMENT HERE ON FIXING PROPERTY TAXES AND SCHOOL FINANCING. 
          IT JUST NEVER SEEMS TO GET DONE. 
          IT KEEPS GETTING PUSHED BACK FURTHER AND FURTHER. 
          SO THAT TO ME IS REALLY THE CRUX OF THE MATTER HERE TODAY, PUTTING HERE ON THE CITY, AND IT'S PUTTING A STRAIN ON OUR SERVICES. 
          AND FIRST OFF, I WANT TO THANK, UH, THE CITY DEPARTMENTS FOR STEPPING UP TO THIS AS WELL AS THE NONPROFITS ON STEPPING UP TO THE CHALLENGE AND HELPING OUT AS MUCH AS THEY CAN. 
          IT'S IMPORTANT. 
          IT'S IMPORTANT. 
          SO FIRST OFF, I'M VERY, VERY THANKFUL FOR THAT AS WELL AS EVERYBODY IS TO HELP PEOPLE GET ON THEIR WAY AND GO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO GET THAT ASYLUM, UM, THROUGH THE SYSTEM ASYLUM REQUEST. 
          BUT I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS FUNDING HERE, AND I'M, I'M NOT SURE WHO'S BEST TO, UM, ANSWER THESE. 
          BUT, UH, FIRST OFF, MELODY. 
          SURE. 
          ARE THESE ALL DELEGATE AGENCIES THAT, THAT, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT HELPING WITH ADDITIONAL FUNDING? SO, UM, FOOD BANK AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARE BOTH, UH, DELEGATE AGENCIES OF OURS, OF COURSE, TRAVIS PARK CHURCH, INTERFAITH WELCOME COMMITTEE. 
          UM, THEY ARE NOT. 
          AND UM, SO WE DO HAVE CONTRACTS WITH BOTH OF THE AGENCIES, BUT NOT FOR THIS TYPE OF SERVICE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE ALREADY FUNDING THESE NONPROFITS? SO, CATHOLIC CHARITIES, WE FUND LESS THAN A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR. 
          UM, FOOD BANK, WE HAVE THREE CONTRACTS WITH THEM. 
          UM, A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE HAVEN FOR HOPE MEALS. 
          WE FUND THEM, UM, $550,000 TO DO OUR SENIOR PROJECT HOPE PROGRAM. 
          AND THEN WE PROVIDE FUNDING, UH, TO KIDS CAFE OF I THINK 70,000. 
          OKAY. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO WHAT'S THAT TOTAL? I'M, I'M NOT THAT GOOD IN MATH. 
          UH, PROBABLY 1.6 MILLION. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SO TODAY, ARE THEY OUTTA MONEY? ARE THEY OUT OF BUDGET TODAY? THEY, BOTH OF THE AGENCIES ARE ON BUDGET, AND ACTUALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR WE START DOING ANALYSIS OF EX OF OUR DELEGATE AGENCIES EXPENDITURES TO PREPARE FOR THE NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET PROCESS. 
          AND BOTH FOOD BANK AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES 
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ARE, ARE RIGHT ON TARGET AS FAR AS SPENDING THEIR ALLOCATIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THEY'RE ON BUDGET. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO WHY ARE WE COMING TO COUNCIL TODAY TO ADD MONEY TO THESE NONPROFITS IF THEY'RE ON BUDGET TODAY? WELL, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE ON BUDGET FOR THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE FUNDING, WHICH DON'T EXTEND TO THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER. 
          SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE COVERING THE WORK AT THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER AND THE SHELTER AND THE TRAVEL ASSISTANCE THAT CATHOLIC CHARITIES IS PROVIDING OUT OF SEPARATE BUDGETS, NOT THE CITY BUDGET. 
          SO THEY NEED THE, THE REMAINDER OF THE CITY BUDGET TO COMPLETE THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY'RE CONTRACTED TO, UM, PROVIDE AND THE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES IN ORDER TO CONTINUE THE MIGRANT RESOURCE CENTER WORK, THAT THAT'S NOT PART OF THEIR RFPS OR THEIR PROPOSALS. 
          YES. 
          THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE JUST SAYING, HEY, WE NEED ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR THIS. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO THE, THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING ON THE MIGRANT EFFORT IS NOT PART OF THE SCOPE OF WORK OF THEIR CURRENT CONTRACTS. 
          SO THEY'VE COME TO THE CITY ASKING FOR THIS ADDITIONAL MONEY, OR ARE WE SAYING, HEY, OR DID THEY COME TO US OR, YES. 
          ARE WE GOING TO THEM? OKAY. 
          THEY'RE REQUESTING FUNDING OKAY. 
          TO CONTINUE THIS, BUT IT'S NOT FOR THE PROGRAMS THAT WE INITIALLY FUNDED FOR THOSE DELEGATIONS. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          THIS IS OUTTA SCOPE. 
          RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND IF THIS DIDN'T GET FUNDED TODAY, WILL THEY, WHEN WILL THEY GO BROKE? WELL, THAT'S A QUESTION I, I'LL HAVE TO ASK FOR THAT SPECIFIC DATE, BUT I KNOW THAT CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAS INDICATED THAT THE SIMPLY PROVIDING THE TRAVEL ASSISTANCE AND SOME HOTEL ROOMS, OTHER ASSISTANCE IS COSTING THEM $14,000 A WEEK, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE, UM, LIKELY TO RUN OUT OF MONEY, UH, VERY QUICKLY DOING THAT. 
          I CAN ASK FOR A SPECIFIC DATE AND GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT. 
          UM, BUT WE HAVE THIS INITIATIVE HAS STRETCHED THEIR RESOURCES AND, UM, IN ORDER TO CONTINUE DOING IT, IN FACT, TO INCREASE IT AS THE NUMBERS INCREASE, THEY, THEY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE. 
          ERIC HAS SOME INFORMATION THAT MIGHT BE USEFUL. 
          COUNCILMAN, COUNCILMAN, WE SAW, WE'VE SEEN THAT, UH, OTHER CITIES THAT ARE DEALING WITH THIS, THE, THE FRONT LINES ARE REALLY THE NONPROFITS. 
          AND SO PART OF THE THINKING, UH, THAT, THAT WE'VE HAD INTERNALLY THAT WE SHARED THIS MORNING IS THAT, UH, WE CONTINUE TO HAVE THOSE NONPROFITS PROVIDING THOSE DIRECT SERVICES, UH, ON THE FRONT END. 
          I MEAN, UH, I THINK REALISTICALLY, IF, IF NOTHING HAPPENED TODAY, UM, BECAUSE OF THE WORK THAT THE GROUP IS DOING AND THE COMMUNITY, I'M CONFIDENT THAT IT WOULD CONTINUE. 
          UM, BUT, BUT I THINK IT'S IN THE CITY'S BEST INTEREST TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS, THIS FOUR-LEGGED STOOL. 
          YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT, YOU'VE GOT A PORTION OF IT BEING THE CITY, UH, A PORTION OF IT BEING OR ONE LEG BEING CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND INTERFAITH COALITION. 
          YOU'VE GOT THE TRAVIS PARK AND THE DOWNTOWN CHURCHES, AND THE, THE FOURTH STOOL BEING THE FOOD BANK. 
          AND THERE'S, THERE'S A, THERE'S KIND OF A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY. 
          SO I THINK THE DIRECTOR, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I'M NOT SURE ANY, AND THEY COULD COME UP TO THE PODIUM IF THEY WANT, BUT I'M NOT SURE ANYBODY'S CUTTING ANYTHING OFF. 
          BUT, BUT I THINK IN IT'S, IT'S PART OF THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WE NOT GET TO THE POINT AS AN ORGANIZATION BECAUSE IF, IF, IF, IF WE DO GET TO THAT POINT, THEN UM, I THINK IT, I THINK IT CREATES MORE OF AN EMERGENCY FOR, UH, THE CURRENT SITUATION. 
          UM, AND THAT WAS THE KIND OF THINKING BEHIND, UM, THE, THE, THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          WELL, AGAIN, I, I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT THAT POINT IS. 
          I MEAN, IS IT TOMORROW, IS IT NEXT WEEK, NEXT MONTH? YEAH. 
          I THINK THEY HAVE ANSWERED THAT DIRECTION. 
          I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS. 
          AND I'M, I'M TRYING TO GET TO THE POINT AS WHY ARE WE PUSHING THIS THROUGH ON THIS AMENDMENT RIGHT NOW? BECAUSE YOU SAID A WHILE AGO, WE CAN BRING THIS UP LATER, IF WE NEED ADDITIONAL FUNDS. 
          WELL, WHY CAN'T WE BRING THIS UP LATER AS WELL? WHY DO WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS AS PART OF THIS BUDGET, UM, VOTE TODAY? RIGHT. 
          SO, SO TWO ISSUES. 
          ONE, UM, WE DON'T HAVE COUNCIL NEXT WEEK. 
          AND GIVEN THE ACTIVITY OVER THE LAST WEEK AND THE NOTICE FROM THE BORDER PATROL, I WANTED TO BRING THIS TO YOUR ATTENTION QUICKLY BECAUSE I DON'T WANT WHEELS FALLING OFF. 
          AND THEN, AND THEN US ASKING OURSELVES, WHY DIDN'T WE DO SOMETHING? SO I, I FELT LIKE IT NEEDED TO BE BROUGHT FORWARD. 
          NOW, SECONDLY, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE WILL HOLD, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GONNA CONTINUE TO ESCALATE OR AT SOME POINT STABILIZE DURING THE SUMMER. 
          AND I THINK, UH, THAT LIKELY THAT THIS WILL BE A CONTINUING DISCUSSION THAT WE HAVE AS AN ORGANIZATION, UM, UH, BUT ALSO WITH THE FEDERAL AND STATE PARTNERS. 
          OKAY, SO UL UL ULTIMATELY THE, THE COUNCIL CAN, CAN, HAS THE FLEXIBILITY OF MAKING THAT DECISION. 
          I DON'T THINK THIS WILL BE THE LAST CHANCE WE TALK ABOUT THIS. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT. 
          THIS ISN'T THE END OF IT. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , WHERE IS THE END? I DON'T, I AGREE WITH YOU. 
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I DON'T, I DON'T SEE AN END TO THIS, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT FINAL NUMBER WILL BE AT THE END OF THE DAY. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND THE QUESTION IS, ARE WE TAKING CITY TAXPAYER MONEY TO HELP SUBSIDIZE THIS FEDERAL ISSUE? AND, AND YOU BROUGHT IT UP ABOUT, UH, REQUESTING FEDERAL ASSISTANCE. 
          WHEN, WHEN DID WE SEND UP A REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE? UH, I ASKED THE, UH, CITY'S EMERGENCY MANAGER TO REACH OUT TO, UH, FEMA TWO DAYS AGO, AND WE SENT A, UH, LETTER TO OUR LOCAL DELEGATE DELEGATION, UH, YESTERDAY. 
          SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO CONTINUE, UH, WORKING THROUGH THAT. 
          WE'VE ALSO MADE CONTACT WITH THE STATE. 
          SO WHY DID IT TAKE THAT LONG TO GET THESE REQUESTS FOR FEDERAL AND STATE ASSISTANCE? I MEAN, THIS ISN'T A NEW PROGRAM. 
          WE, THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE WHEN, UH, END OF MARCH, END OF MARCH, APRIL NINE. 
          UH, I THINK WHAT I THINK WHAT JOLTED US WAS THE, THE, THE NOTIFICATION FROM THE BORDER PATROL ON MONDAY, WHICH, UM, YOU KNOW, UP UNTIL THIS POINT, THE CITY HAS, OTHER THAN, YOU KNOW, VACANT SPACE AND A, IN A STOREFRONT AND VOLUNTEERS AND, UM, EMPLOYEES THAT ARE WORKING, UH, WE'D BEEN VERY MINDFUL ABOUT THE MONEY, THE ACTUAL MONEY THAT WE SPEND. 
          UM, MOST OF THAT HEAVY LIFTING HAD BEEN DONE BY THE NONPROFITS, BUT THE INCREASED ACTIVITY OVER THE LAST WEEK AND THE INFORMATION FROM THE BORDER PATROL HAS, UH, JOLTED THE SYSTEM TO, TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. 
          UM, AND, AND I THOUGHT IT, I THOUGHT IT, UH, APPROPRIATE TO, TO BRING THAT FORWARD QUICKLY. 
          YEP. 
          AND I, I TOTALLY AGREE THAT IT'S JOLTING THE SYSTEM, BUT HOW HARD IS IT JOLTING? AND I WOULD RATHER SEE US WAIT FOR THAT TO GET AN ANSWER FROM THE FEDS IF THEY'RE GONNA HELP US OUT OR REIMBURSE US OR WHATEVER, OR PAY FOR IT UPFRONT. 
          I THINK THAT'S THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS. 
          BUT, UM, I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT THAT REQUEST JUST WENT OUT MM-HMM. 
          , AND WE'RE, I, CAN I CLARIFY SOME CLARIFICATION THERE? SURE. 
          UM, SO THE OFFICIAL LETTER WENT OUT YESTERDAY, BUT, UM, SALLY BATO AND I HAVE BEEN IN COMMUNICATIONS OVER THE LAST WEEK TO 10 DAYS WITH, UM, VARIOUS MEMBERS OF OUR DELEGATION ASKING FOR GUIDANCE ON THE BEST WAY TO PROCEED. 
          SO WE DIDN'T JUST SEND THE LETTER YESTERDAY. 
          WE'VE BEEN ENGAGING OUR DELEGATION IN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT'S ON THE HORIZON, WHAT SHOULD WE DO, WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GO OVER THE LAST WEEK TO 10 DAYS. 
          BUT THE LETTER JUST WENT OUT YESTERDAY. 
          YES, SIR. 
          YES, SIR. 
          BECAUSE WE JUST GOT THE, THE LETTER FROM BORDER PATROL ON MONDAY SAYING THAT THIS WAS GOING GOING GET WORSE WHEN WE EXPECT TO GET AN ANSWER BACK, OR, I, I THINK, COUNCILMAN THAT, THAT, UM, UM, THAT'S GONNA REQUIRE FULL COURT PRESS BY THE CITY AND, UH, THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL TO ENGAGE, UH, OUR FEDERAL DELEGATION AND, UH, AND OUR, AND THE FEDERAL AGENCIES, AND, AND NOT JUST US. 
          THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER CITIES IN THIS STATE THAT ARE, UM, DEALING WITH, UM, MUCH HIGHER NUMBERS AND COSTS. 
          AND, AND WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A, A TEXAS PLAN, UH, TO, TO HAVE A UNITED FRONT, UH, AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. 
          GREAT IDEA. 
          POSTHASTE. 
          GREAT IDEA. 
          YES, SIR. 
          UM, YES. 
          UH, THAT, THAT DOESN'T NEED A FULL COURT PRESS ON THAT. 
          UM, BUT AGAIN, WHY ARE WE DOING THIS RIGHT NOW? THAT WE CAN'T WAIT FOR A COUPLE WEEKS OR SO TO GET AN ANSWER, OR MAYBE THREE WEEKS, OR MAYBE FOUR WEEKS. 
          ARE THOSE AGENCIES GONNA GO BROKE BETWEEN NOW AND THEN UNTIL WE GET AN ANSWER FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? COUNSEL DOES NOT NEED TO TAKE ACTION TODAY. 
          UM, AND I'LL LET THE AGENCY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES ABOUT WHAT THEIR OWN ACCOUNTS WILL SAY, BUT, UH, YOU HAVE THE OPTION OF DELAYING THAT AND GETTING ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE OR SOME SORT OF REACTION FROM THE LOCAL DELEGATION UP IN, UP IN, UH, DC OKAY. 
          YES, SIR. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          GREAT. 
          WELL, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          UM, I, I JUST, YOU KNOW, WE DID HAVE ANOTHER CRISIS AT THE BORDER HERE THIS, UH, LAST SUMMER, IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, WHERE THEY WERE SEPARATING THE CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS, THAT KIND OF THING. 
          AND, AND I THINK THE CATHOLIC CHARITIES WENT OUT ON A NATIONAL BASIS. 
          MARIA, DO YOU REMEMBER HOW MUCH THEY ACTUALLY RAISED FOR THAT ISSUE? UH, COUNCILMAN, WHAT I RECALL IS, UM, THERE WAS A LARGE NUMBER OF, UH, SEUM SEEKERS COMING TO THE UNITED STATES. 
          AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES WAS TOLD THAT ON A GIVEN WEEKEND, UH, SAN ANTONIO THROUGH CATHOLIC CHARITIES, WAS GONNA RECEIVE ABOUT 400 OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS. 
          AND I DON'T KNOW, THERE'S A MEMBER HERE FROM CATHOLIC CHARITIES, BUT, UH, THEY RECEIVED, UH, NUMBERS OF MAYBE 30 TO 50 THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO, UH, SHELTER AND, 
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UH, AND GET TO THEIR FINAL DESTINATIONS. 
          WELL, I SEEM TO REMEMBER THAT THEY DID A FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN AND RAISED MILLIONS, TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. 
          I DON'T RECALL BEING THAT LARGE OF AN AMOUNT, BUT I, I DON'T KNOW THE, THE NUMBER THAT THEY FUNDRAISED. 
          I KNOW THROUGH, UM, OUR FAITH, UH, LIAISING, WE, UM, UH, PROMOTED DONATIONS TO GO TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES DURING THAT EVENT. 
          UH, BUT I COULDN'T SPEAK TO THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT THEY, THEY OBTAINED THROUGH THAT PROCESS. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, MY BOTTOM LINE IS I THINK WE SHOULD GET AN ANSWER FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR THE STATE AS TO WHAT THEY'RE WILLING TO DO OR NOT WILLING TO DO INSTEAD OF BURDENING OUR TAXPAYERS ON A FEDERAL ISSUE. 
          AND, UM, THAT'S WHAT I WOULD LEAN TOWARDS. 
          YOU KNOW, WE, AGAIN, WE'VE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB IN TAKING CARE OF THE ISSUE THAT'S BEEN LAID AT OUR DOORSTEP STEP, LITERALLY LAID AT OUR DOORSTEP TO HELP FOLKS TRANSITIONING THROUGH SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND I'M ALL FOR THAT. 
          I THINK THAT IS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S TAKEN PART OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY IN LAYING IT AGAIN ON OUR LOCAL, LOCAL TAXPAYERS. 
          AND IF THERE'S NOT A CRISIS RIGHT NOW, AND IF WE CAN WAIT FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS, WHY NOT DO THAT TO GET AN ANSWER FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? I, I DON'T SEE THIS AS A CRISIS POINT AT THIS POINT. 
          THEY'RE STILL ON BUDGET FOR THEIR PROGRAMS. YEAH, THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT SHORT, BUT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF AGENCIES HAVE TO SMOOTH OUT THAT, UH, BUDGETING PROCESS AND OPERATING DAY TO DAY, AND IT'S STRAIN ON OUR SYSTEM RIGHT NOW. 
          BUT I'M CONFIDENT THAT, UH, FOLKS COULD FIGURE THIS OUT AND MAKE IT WORK. 
          AND, UM, I'D REALLY LIKE TO, UH, SEE US MOVE IN THAT DIRECTION TO PUT THE PRESSURE ON OUR FEDERAL DELEGATION TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND GET US HELP WHERE WE NEED IT, NOT ONLY FOR SAN ANTONIO, BUT OTHER TEXAS CITIES ALSO, AS YOU MENTIONED, ERIC. 
          SO WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN, I THINK WE, YOU, YOU HIT IT ON THE HEAD. 
          WE NEED A PLAN FOR ALL TEXAS CITIES THAT ARE DEALING WITH THIS. 
          SO THAT'S, UM, THAT'S ALL MY COMMENTS. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN PERRY. 
          COUNCILMAN BROCK HOUSE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          I WANT TO JUSTINA THANK YOU TO THE, TO YOU AND THE BUDGET TEAM FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING. 
          WE APPRECIATE THE HARD WORK, UM, AND YOUR PRESENTATION AND YOUR RECAP TODAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          UM, I DO WANT TO REITERATE COUNCILMAN PERRY'S STAND ON THE CITYWIDE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. 
          IT'S BEEN A TWO YEAR ONGOING CHANT OF THE COUNCILMAN AND I , BUT, UH, WE'LL CONTINUE IT, UH, FOR, FOR AS LONG AS WE CAN. 
          BUT AGAIN, IN SUPPORT OF THAT, OBVIOUSLY, UH, AND I KNOW SOMETIMES THERE'S, UM, SOME SNICKERS OR YEARS WHEN YOU SAY, AH, IT'S 28 BUCKS A YEAR, AND PEOPLE ARE LIKE, THAT REALLY ISN'T ANYTHING, BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU GOTTA START SOMEWHERE, IS ALWAYS MY CONVERSATION. 
          AND THE ABILITY TO GIVE TAXPAYER DOLLARS BACK AT ANY LEVEL IS WHAT TAXPAYERS ARE ASKING FOR, UH, EVERY DAY WHEN I'M OUT IN THE COMMUNITY TALKING TO, UH, THE RESIDENTS AT DISTRICT SIX, THAT'S WHAT THEY, THEY WANT, IT'S A TOP TWO, THREE PRIORITY ITEM ISSUE. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'LL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR THAT, UM, AS LONG AS I CAN, AS LONG AS I'M ON THE COUNCIL. 
          SO, UH, VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE HARD WORK OF THE TEAM AND, AND, AND, AND WHAT YOU'VE DONE. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          UM, AND THEN I'LL JUST A COUPLE OF POINTS ON COUNCILMAN, UH, PIGGYBACKING ON COUNCILMAN PERRY WITH REGARDS TO MY COLLEAGUE FROM DISTRICT ONE'S AMENDMENT TO THE, UM, TO THE PENDING ITEM. 
          UM, I, I WANNA ASK A, A QUESTION IF SOMEBODY CAN DESCRIBE A PROCESS. 
          SO I, YOU KNOW, NOBODY UNDERSTANDS WHEN CATHOLIC CHARITIES, FIRST OF ALL, THE, THE FACT THAT THE MONEY IS GOING TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND THE SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK, TO ME IS A, IS A PROOF POINT. 
          I THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING. 
          UM, IT'S TWO STELLAR ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE, UH, WE KNOW THAT ARE GONNA DO WELL WITH THE MONEY. 
          AND MY CONCERN FOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES, UH, AS A WELL AS A CATHOLIC AND AS THEIR ORGANIZATION ITSELF AND FOR THE FOOD BANK, IS THAT THEY'RE EXPENDING THEIR RESOURCES INTO THIS CHALLENGE, RIGHT? SO THEY'RE COMPASSIONATE MINDED ORGANIZATIONS, SO THEY'RE GONNA ANSWER THIS CALL NO MATTER WHAT. 
          AND IN THERE, I JUST WANNA BE VERY CLEAR TO PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE SOME CONCERN ABOUT THIS. 
          AND AS THEY ENGAGE THE CONVERSATION, THEY DIG INTO IT, UM, THEY'RE GONNA SPEND THEIR MONEY IN DOLLARS. 
          SO MY CONCERN AS A LEADER OF THE COMMUNITY IS WHAT ARE MY, ARE THE, THE CITIZENS, THE PEOPLE WE SERVE HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, THE TAXPAYERS OF SAN ANTONIO, WHAT ARE THEY GONNA START TO LOSE IF CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND THE FOOD BANK FALTER BECAUSE OF THEIR GOODWILL? THAT, THAT'S A BIG CONCERN FOR ME, UH, BECAUSE I COULD TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, I MEAN, ERIC COOPER AND THE FOOD BANK ARE GONNA FEED ANYBODY THAT NEEDS A MEAL. 
          IT DOESN'T MEAN IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO THEY ARE, WHERE THEY COME FROM, WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE, ANYTHING, ERIC COOPER AND HIS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO FEED WHOEVER NEEDS A MEAL. 
          AND IN THAT, EVENTUALLY THEY'RE GOING TO RUN OUTTA 
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RESOURCES. 
          SO PART OF MY MORE POSITIVE LOOK TOWARDS THIS ITEM IS THAT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND THE FOOD BANK DO NOT FALTER, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE OF OUR CITIZENS RIGHT NOW WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE IN OUR COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW. 
          SO THEY'RE CARRYING THIS, THIS TWO-PRONGED WORKLOAD, WHICH IS THE MIGRANT ASYLUM ISSUE, AND THEN THEY'RE SERVING 16 COUNTIES LIKE THE FOOD BANK IS, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND FEEDING MILLIONS AND, AND THEIR HOUSING. 
          IT'S JUST A VERY DIFFICULT CONVERSATION. 
          SO, UM, IF THEY FALTERED, LET'S SAY, AND THEN WE LOST THE MONEY, WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE FOR THE MIGRANTS THAT ARE, CAN SOMEONE DESCRIBE WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE TO ME? I DON'T KNOW. 
          WHO COULD, IF THEY HAD TO STOP SERVING THEM, WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE? SO THE, THE, THE MIGRANT FOLKS COME INTO SAN ANTONIO, THEY'RE DROPPED OFF, AND IF WE'RE NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES OR OUR NON PARTNERS RUN OUTTA CASH IN THAT SCENARIO, I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE WITH ALL THESE PEOPLE CLUMPED DOWNTOWN. 
          DESCRIBE WHAT WOULD BE THE SCENARIO IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE FUNDING. 
          WELL, I THINK IF THERE WAS NO FUNDING AND THERE WERE NO MEALS BEING PROVIDED, UM, YOU WOULD HAVE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT EATEN VERY WELL TO BEGIN WITH FOR A NUMBER OF DAYS, OR, OR MAYBE EVEN WEEKS ON THE TRAIL, BECAUSE THESE, THESE ARE NOT PEOPLE WHO ARE SPENDING, UM, A LOT OF TIME IN DETENTION GETTING, YOU KNOW, THREE MEALS A DAY. 
          SO A LOT OF THEM HAVE NOT EATEN WELL, THEY HAVEN'T HAD SERVICES, SO, SO YOU ALREADY HAVE A, A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE VULNERABLE AND THEY WOULD JUST BECOME MORE VULNERABLE ON THE STREETS OF SAN ANTONIO AND RIGHT. 
          LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION THEN. 
          IF WE WEREN'T ASSISTING AT THAT POINT, THEY WOULD LITERALLY STAY ON THE STREETS OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          THEY WOULD GET OFF THE BUS AND WOULD BE ON THEIR OWN TO NAVIGATE THE CITY AND THE, AND PURCHASING TRAVEL TICKETS. 
          SOMETIMES I, YOU KNOW, I THINK ERIC'S MEMO YESTERDAY MENTIONED, SOMETIMES THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE THEY ARE. 
          THEY'RE ASKING US WHERE ARE WE AS THEY'RE CALLING THEIR FAMILIES, TRYING TO GET TICKETS OUT. 
          AND SO WE'RE PROVIDING THE PHONES FOR THEM TO DO THAT. 
          WE'RE ASSISTING THEM WITH THE TRAVEL. 
          WE'RE PROVIDING THEM MEALS, THEIR CHILDREN MEALS. 
          UM, AND YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU DON'T FEED PEOPLE, THEIR, THEIR MINDSET CHANGES AND UM, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY BEHAVE IN A DIFFERENT WAY. 
          THE BURDEN TO FEED THEM WOULD BE ON OUR CHARITABLE FEEDING ORGANIZATIONS HAVEN FOR HOPE. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE WOULD BE. 
          AND I'M NOT TRYING TO, IT'S A, IT'S A BIT OF A CRASS DISTINCTION. 
          I WANNA DRAW HERE. 
          'CAUSE I WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND, AND THE COUNCILMAN PALAIS MENTIONED, THE FOLKS THAT ARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND, YOU KNOW, GOING TO TOWN AND THE COMMENTARY ABOUT TAX DOLLARS. 
          BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THIS, IM IMPACT FROM BOTH SIDES. 
          'CAUSE IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR CITY, WHICH, AND YOUR TAX DOLLARS, WHICH I'M ASSUMING THE PEOPLE THAT ARE UPSET ABOUT THIS POTENTIAL ALLOCATION ARE THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT THEIR MONEY, UM, AND WHO IT'S BEING SPENT ON. 
          BUT THE PROBLEM IS, IF WE DON'T SPEND AN ALLOCATION LIKE THIS TO HELP THEM LEAVE THE CITY, THEN THEY STAY IN THE CITY. 
          SO THEN THEY'LL BE UPSET ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY'RE IN THE CITY. 
          SO YOU'RE BASICALLY LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE NO MATTER WHAT, YOU'RE TICKED OFF, YOU'RE TICKED OFF THAT WE'VE SPENT THE MONEY TO GET 'EM OUT, AND WE'RE TICKED OFF THAT THEY'RE STANDING HERE, SLEEPING IN HOTEL ROOM, LOBBY FLOORS, LAYING IN A PARK, STEALING WHATEVER THEY'RE WE'RE, WHATEVER THING THEY SAY. 
          RIGHT? WHATEVER THING THEY'RE UPSET AT. 
          I I, I DON'T, I DON'T SUBSCRIBE TO IT. 
          I DON'T BELIEVE IT. 
          BUT MY POINT IS, THEY'RE GONNA SAY SOMETHING. 
          AND THEN, SO BOTH SCENARIOS, SO FROM A PUBLIC SAFETY PERSPECTIVE AND HUMAN SAFETY AND A COMPASSION ISSUE, I THINK THE SMALLER ALLOCATION TO MAKE SURE THAT CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND THE FOOD BANK DON'T CRUMBLE, HELPS THEM LEAVE SAN ANTONIO FASTER. 
          I'M NOT TRYING TO BE LIKE, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHOEVER'S LISTENING AND, AND SEES THIS OR READS THIS, UNDERSTANDS THAT TWO GREAT ORGANIZATIONS ARE GETTING THE MONEY. 
          UM, I'M, I'M VERY HOPEFUL IT'S MINIMAL ONE-TIME ALLOCATION, BY THE WAY, I'M NOT TOO THRILLED TO THE COUNCILMAN'S POINT ABOUT THIS BEING AN ONGOING SITUATION. 
          BUT THEN AGAIN, THAT'S A FEDERAL BREAKDOWN AND WE'RE STRUGGLING WITH THAT. 
          IT'S A WHOLE OTHER STORY. 
          BUT IF WE DON'T INTERJECT AND SUPPORT THE CRISIS SITUATION COULD TURN INTO A BUNCH OF PEOPLE DOWNTOWN. 
          RIGHT? I MEAN, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT PICTURE IS VERY CLEAR. 
          YES. 
          THAT IF WE DON'T, THE OUTCOME IS THAT'S, IT TURNS INTO A HOMELESS SITUATION. 
          OKAY. 
          I JUST, AND THE OVERARCHING GOAL FROM, OF THE INITIATIVE AND THE WORK WE'RE DOING FROM THE BEGINNING HAS BEEN TO HELP PEOPLE MOVE THROUGH SAN ANTONIO TO THEIR DESTINATION AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. 
          AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT 24 TO 48 HOURS AND THEN THEY MOVE ON TO BE WITH FAMILY OR FRIENDS OR HOSTS WHO HAVE ACCEPTED THAT, THAT THEY'VE ALREADY GONE AND BEEN VETTED THROUGH TO GO, RIGHT? YES. 
          I MEAN, I JUST, YES, JUST AGAIN, ONE MORE THAT'S CORRECT. 
          CLARIFICATION POINT. 
          THIS ISN'T SOMEBODY THAT YOU GOTTA GOT ACROSS THE BORDER AND HAS NO GAME PLAN AND, RIGHT, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          NO, THIS IS SOMEBODY THAT'S BEEN VETTED, WORKED THROUGH THE IMMIGRATION SYSTEM, AND IS IN AND HAS A STATUS, RIGHT? AND 
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A LOCATION END UP THAT'S A COURT ORDERED AND IN FACT HAVE A NOTICE TO APPEAR IN IMMIGRATION COURT IN THAT CITY, WHATEVER CITY THEY END UP. 
          SO IT'S A, IT IS A DIFFERENT SCENARIO. 
          SO I JUST, AND I, I'M JUST GOING INTO IT TO AN EXTENT BECAUSE I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE DO GET THE PICTURE THAT THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES TO EITHER SIDE OF THIS DECISION, MY OPINION, THE, THE SMALLER CONSEQUENCES TO MAKE THE SMALLER INVESTMENT TO TWO FINE AND ESTABLISHED ORGANIZATIONS TO PROP THEM UP TO SURVIVE WHILE CONTINUING TO TAKE CARE OF SAN ANTONIO RESIDENTS. 
          WE DON'T WANT THE FOOD BANK RUNNING OUTTA MONEY. 
          NO. 
          SO THEY CAN'T PROVIDE FOOD TO CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO YOU HAVE TO JUMP IN IT TO PROP THAT, THOSE TWO ORGANIZATIONS UP. 
          AND I THINK THAT GETS CONFLATED INTO THIS MASSIVE IMMIGRATION ISSUE. 
          IN REALITY, WE DON'T WANT CATHOLIC CHARITIES ACROSS, LOOK, I KNOW I'M GONNA SIT AND MASS THIS SUNDAY AND I KNOW THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER APPEAL 'CAUSE I'VE ALREADY HEARD 'EM FROM THE ARCHBISHOP. 
          WE NEED THE MONEY. 
          SO PEOPLE ALSO HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND AS, AS A CATHOLIC, EVERY MASS ACROSS THE CITY, PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR MONEY TO SUPPORT CATHOLIC CHARITIES. 
          SO THERE IS A HEAVY ONGOING LEVEL OF SUPPORT THROUGH THE FAITH COMMUNITY TO KEEP CATHOLIC CHARITIES AFLOAT. 
          BUT IT'S OBVIOUSLY, IT'S NOT ENOUGH. 
          AND PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING ACROSS OUR CITY IN MULTIPLE MEANS, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S TOUGH. 
          SOMETIMES IT'S ONLY A BUCK GETS DROPPED IN THE OFFERTORY. 
          BUT I MEAN, YOU'RE DO, PEOPLE ARE DOING THE BEST THEY CAN WITH THAT. 
          SO I WOULD JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, WRAP UP WITH, WITH THIS PIECE THAT, UM, THE REIMBURSEMENT THING, I THINK ERIC IS AMISS. 
          I I'M JUST, I'M GONNA AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN PERRY ON THAT. 
          UM, THE LETTER WENT OUT DUE RESPECT AT 10 O'CLOCK LAST NIGHT ASKING FOR A REVIEW OF IT. 
          THAT REALLY MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. 
          THAT IS A, A, A FAILURE IN THE PROCESS TO NOT HAVE COORDINATED AND BEEN PREPARED FAR IN ADVANCE KNOWING THESE FOLKS HAVE BEEN COMING FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS. 
          YOU WERE THE TEAM AND THE STAFF HAVE BEEN 100% ALL OVER THIS. 
          SO, AND THAT, AND THAT PROBABLY IS A BIT OF A MARKER THAT WE SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS EARLIER. 
          'CAUSE YOU COULD'VE JUST ALL OF A SUDDEN STARTED THIS AND WE COULD'VE HAD A LOT OF PROBLEMS. BUT THE TRUTH IS, YOU'VE BEEN ON IT FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS AND IT'S FANTASTIC WORK BY THE STAFF. 
          DON'T, DON'T GET ME WRONG, BUT TO NOT GO AFTER THE REIMBURSEMENT. 
          UM, WHEN LEADERSHIP OF THIS CITY KNEW THAT THAT WAS COMING, WE KNEW HAD THIS ISSUE FOR WEEKS AND WE DIDN'T PLUG ON THE REIMBURSEMENT PIECE. 
          CONGRESSMAN CUE, I HAD SEVERAL ARTICLES I WAS READING WITH HIM. 
          UH, SOME THINGS HE'D DONE TO RECEIVE REIMBURSEMENTS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN 2018 FOR MACALLAN, LAREDO AND OTHER AREAS. 
          THE MONEY IS THERE. 
          WE CAN GET THE CASH TAXPAYERS NEED TO KNOW THAT. 
          I KNOW AT LEAST MYSELF WILL BE PUSHING FOR THE REIMBURSEMENT PIECE. 
          I KNOW YOU WILL AS WELL, BECAUSE THE MONEY MUST COME BACK TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO THERE'S REIMBURSEMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR THIS CASH. 
          THIS ISN'T A BLANK CHECK. 
          UM, BUT IN MY OPINION, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON REIMBURSEMENT, ERIC, AND IT NEEDS TO BE, UH, A TOP PRIORITY. 
          'CAUSE THIS IS TAXPAYER MONEY. 
          IT NEEDS TO COME BACK. 
          BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S, UH, LOOK, THIS IS COMPASSION DOLLARS THAT I'M AFTER TRYING TO PROTECT, UM, THE RESIDENTS OF SAN ANTONIO AS WELL, BY HELPING CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND, AND THE SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK. 
          SO THE MEASURE WILL HAVE MY SUPPORT, UH, IN SO MUCH AS WE ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT WE'VE GOTTA GET THE TAXPAYER MONEY BACK. 
          ERICA, PLEASE, PLEASE STICK AS FAST AS YOU CAN ON THE REIMBURSEMENT PIECE. 
          IT MATTERS TO THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE ASKED ME, UH, TO MAKE SURE THEIR TAX DOLLARS ARE PROTECTED. 
          UM, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE GOTTA BE FED AND WE HAVE TO HELP THESE FOLKS GET OUTTA SAN ANTONIO TO THEIR FINAL DESTINATION AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. 
          TRUST ME, CITIZENS THAT ARE UPSET ABOUT THIS, YOU DON'T WANT THEM STAYING IN SAN ANTONIO, THEN LET'S HELP 'EM GET TO WHERE THEY NEED TO BE. 
          CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND FOOD BANKS KNOCKING THAT OUT. 
          THANK YOU ERIC. 
          THANK YOU, ANTONIO AND THE, AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES. 
          WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING FOR THE CITY. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN BROCK, HOUSE COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL OF ALL. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, AND I ALSO WANNA TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET AMENDMENT. 
          UH, FIRST I'LL REVIEW SOME, UH, SIMPLE PART OF IT. 
          UH, I REALLY WANNA THANK, UH, G P A STAFF FOR, UH, AND BUDGET TEAM FOR WORKING ON, UH, ON A REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL BROADCASTING OF COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETINGS, AS WELL AS ZONING AND, UH, OTHER H D R C MEETINGS AT THE ONE STOP CENTER. 
          VERY EXCITED TO SEE THAT, UH, GETTING THE POSITIONS TO HELP US DO THAT AND THE PURCHASE OF THE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT, UH, TO HELP US. 
          UH, AS LONG AS WE CONTINUE HAVING PUBLIC MEETINGS, I THINK WE WANT TO, WHICH WE ALWAYS WILL WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE MAKE THEM ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC. 
          AND IT'S NOT ALWAYS REALISTIC TO EXPECT PEOPLE TO JUST DROP WHAT THEY'RE DOING, UH, COME PARTICIPATE IN A MEETING LIKE YOU GOOD PEOPLE ARE DOING HERE TODAY, BUT MAKING IT AVAILABLE TO THEM, UH, VIA TV OR THE INTERNET KEEPS IN THE SPIRIT OF PUBLIC ACCESS AND, UH, AND INFORMATION. 
          SO, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          VERY HAPPY TO SEE THAT ON THERE. 
          UM, I ALSO WANT TO THANK, UM, ERIC, UH, DR. 
          BRIDGER, MELODY, UH, MARIA, THE, THE WHOLE TEAM IN THE, UH, OVER 300 EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED DOWNTOWN AT THE, AT THE RESOURCE CENTER. 
          I REMEMBER ERIC TELLING US 
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WHEN THEY HAD FIRST, UH, PUT THAT TOGETHER AND HOW IMPRESSIVE IT WAS THAT THAT COALITION CAME TOGETHER SO NIMBLY. 
          UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN'T DO. 
          UH, AND THAT'S WHY I, I LOVE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU CAN REALLY SOLVE PROBLEMS AND SOLVE THEM QUICKLY AND SEE YOUR RESULTS, UH, RIGHT AWAY. 
          AND WE'RE NOT ALONE IN DOING THIS. 
          CLEARLY. 
          THERE ARE MANY OTHER PARTNERS. 
          UM, WE'RE, THIS IS JUST ONE ROLE THAT WE'RE PLAYING. 
          UH, SO I, I WANNA BE CLEAR. 
          SOME, SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT WE'RE, UM, MAYBE TAKING ON TOO MUCH AS A CITY, BUT WE ARE JUST ONE OF THE MANY, MANY PLAYERS INVOLVED IN THIS. 
          AND IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE DO OUR PART, UH, TO KEEP OUR, OUR CITY SAFE AND TO ASSIST THE PEOPLE THAT ARE, ARE TRAVELING THROUGH OUR CITY. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, I SPOKE WITH, UM, THE MAYOR OF, OF MACALLAN ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY. 
          THEY'RE RECEIVING, AND I'M SURE COUNCILMAN VINNO IS AWARE OF THIS, THEY'RE RECEIVING ABOUT 1100 ASYLUM SEEKERS A DAY. 
          THAT'S ABOUT FOUR TIMES WHAT WE'RE GETTING HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND LIKE THE COUNCILMAN SAID, THEY DON'T HAVE NEARLY THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THE ORGANIZATIONS, UH, THAT WE HAVE. 
          SO I WANNA THANK OUR LUCKY STARS THAT WE HAVE THE PARTNERS THAT WE HAVE HERE, UH, TO HELP US GET, GET THROUGH THIS. 
          UM, I ALSO SPOKE WITH, UH, SOME NEIGHBORHOODS THAT I WENT TO VISIT LAST NIGHT. 
          UH, ONE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION WAS INSIDE FOUR 10, VERY CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN. 
          THE OTHER ONE WAS OUT BY 1604. 
          AND WHEN I EXPLAINED THE SITUATION, THEY WERE SO FULL OF COMPASSION AND READY TO SUPPORT WHAT THE CITY WAS DOING. 
          IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE IN SAN ANTONIO, OR AT LEAST IN DISTRICT SEVEN . 
          UH, PEOPLE ARE KNOW WHEN IT'S, UH, OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP. 
          UM, SO THERE, THERE WAS COMPASSION AND UNDERSTANDING FROM ALL OF THEM. 
          AND I WANT TO, UM, HIGHLIGHT, UH, THE CONCERN ABOUT, UM, OR I WANNA COUNTERACT SOME OF THE THOUGHTS OUT THERE ABOUT US NOT NEEDING TO, TO TAKE ACTION. 
          WE ABSOLUTELY DO. 
          UM, THERE WERE 8,000 ASYLUM SEEKERS OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS. 
          I HAD MY STAFF, UH, PRINT UP OUR POINT IN TIME COUNT, UH, FOR HOMELESS POPULATION IN 2019. 
          WE LOOKED AT 2,872 HOMELESS PEOPLE. 
          AND, UH, COUNCILMAN PERRY'S NOT HERE TO HEAR IT, BUT MAYBE HE'S BACK THERE IN THE, WATCHING THE LIVE STREAM. 
          BUT ALL OF US IN EVERY SINGLE DISTRICT HEAR CONCERNS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HAVE A PLACE TO STAY. 
          AND WE HAVE A TOTAL OF LESS THAN 3000 OF THEM, AND EVERY OF THE ONE OF THOSE LIVES COUNTS. 
          AND WE HAVE TO HELP THEM FIND A WAY TO GET BACK, UH, TO THEIR LIVES AND, AND CONTINUE AND BE PRODUCTIVE. 
          BUT THAT IS FEWER THAN 3000 PEOPLE. 
          AND WE HAVE SO MANY RESOURCES DEDICATED, UH, TO IT. 
          AND, AND HERE'S, UH, HAVEN FOR HOPE HERE. 
          UH, YOU'RE ONE OF THE, THE GREAT ORGANIZATIONS HELPING US WITH THIS. 
          IN FACT, WHEN WE ADOPTED OUR BUDGET, UM, COUNCILMAN PERRY, UH, SAID, WE HAVE, UH, A BIG HOMELESS PROBLEM IN DISTRICT 10 AND REQUESTED AN ADDITIONAL HOMELESS COORDINATOR JUST FOR DISTRICT 10, WHICH ACCORDING TO THE, UH, HOMELESS POINT IN TIME COUNT HAS, UH, 14 PEOPLE, UH, UNSHELTERED, UH, ACCORDING, ACCORDING TO THIS. 
          SO, I, I, I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE THIS IN, IN CONTEXT AND UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE DOING A PREVENTION MEASURE FOR HOMELESSNESS. 
          AS COUNCILMAN BROCK HOUSE SAID, UM, THREE, SORRY, 8,000 PEOPLE. 
          WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE GONE IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE THESE, UH, THIS ASSISTANCE. 
          AND THIS IS ACTUALLY SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM HELPING JUST HOMELESS PEOPLE BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, IMMIGRATION SERVICES AND GETTING THEM IN THE, IN THE RIGHT LOCATION. 
          SO I'M COMPLETELY SUPPORTIVE OF THIS AMENDMENT TO, TO OUR MID-YEAR BUDGET REVIEW. 
          AND IN FACT, I SPOKE WITH ERIC AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE GOT THIS MESSAGE TOO LATE FROM BORDER PATROL. 
          UH, I WISH WE'D GOTTEN IT BEFORE THE MID-YEAR BUDGET, UH, DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD LAST WEEK. 
          AND I SAID, ERIC, IT IS NOT TOO LATE. 
          IN FACT, I WOULD, I I THINK YOU WOULD'VE BEEN REMISS IF YOU DIDN'T BRING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION EXACTLY AT THIS TIME, BECAUSE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE BUDGET. 
          WE MIGHT'VE TOLD YOU, WELL, WHY'D YOU LEAVE THAT OFF, ERIC? WE JUST HAD THAT DISCUSSION. 
          UM, ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT TO BRING IT ON IF, UM, AND IN FACT, UH, I THINK THE, YOU HAVE THE APPROVAL TO ACTUALLY ISSUE THOSE CONTRACTS. 
          THE ONLY REQUEST YOU'RE MAKING OF US IS TO TAKE THAT OUT OF THE CONTINGENCY FUND. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO APPROVE. 
          AND I FEEL THIS, THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHAT CONTINGENCY FUNDS ARE FOR WHEN WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE 
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THIS, OR WHEN WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE A, A HURRICANE COMING NEARBY. 
          UH, WE NEED TO BE READY. 
          UM, SO I'LL, I'LL BE SUPPORTIVE, UH, OF THAT AS WELL. 
          AND I, AND I KNOW YOU THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS GONNA SLOW, ERIC, THAT YOU THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS GONNA SLOW DOWN IN THE SUMMER, BUT IT DIDN'T. 
          AND WE HEARD JUST THE OPPOSITE, UM, ABOUT IT NOW IN TERMS OF THIS BEING A FEDERAL ISSUE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          RIGHT. 
          IT IS A FEDERAL ISSUE. 
          UM, AND I WANNA THANK, UH, OUR STAFF FOR REACHING OUT TO, TO OUR LEGISLATORS ABOUT THIS. 
          THANK YOU, UH, SALLY, FOR, FOR DOING YOUR WORK ON THAT. 
          UM, BUT THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT OUR STAFF CAN DO ALONE. 
          THAT DEPENDS ON US TOO, ELECTEDS TO ELECTED. 
          SO I DID CONTACT, UM, MY CONGRESSMAN AND HE, AND WE HAVE HIS SUPPORT ON THIS TYPE OF LEGISLATION. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, CONGRESS IS A, IS A HUGE BODY, SO IT RELIES ON MORE THAN JUST OUR DELEGATION. 
          AND IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. 
          BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, PEOPLE ARE ARRIVING HERE OVERNIGHT EVERY NIGHT. 
          UM, AND WE, WE CAN'T WAIT. 
          IN FACT, I'M CONCERNED THAT THIS, UH, ALLOCATION MAY NOT BE ENOUGH. 
          SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO KNOW IS HOW YOU CAME TO THIS NUMBER. 
          SO WE MET LAST WEEK WITH, UM, CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND FOOD BANK AND TRAVIS PARK, AND TALKED ABOUT WHAT WAS NEEDED TO, UM, STABILIZE THE OPERATION AND ENSURE THAT, UM, YOU, ALTHOUGH IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE A HEAVILY VOLUNTEER, UM, INITIATIVE THERE, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME PAID STAFF TO HELP WITH THE COORDINATION. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT CATHOLIC CHARITIES AND TRAVIS PARK WERE REQUESTING WAS THE FUNDING FOR TEMPORARY PAID STAFF. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHERE THE, THE BUDGET AMOUNT CAME FROM THERE. 
          WE ALSO LOOKED AT WHAT WOULD THE COST BE TO HIRE, UM, THE FIRE WATCH INSTEAD OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT CONTINUING TO DO IT. 
          AND THEN WE, WE HAVE A NEED FOR LAUNDRY SERVICE TO ENSURE THE BLANKETS ARE WASHED EVERY DAY. 
          SO THE COST CAME FROM, FROM THOSE ITEMS. AND SO WHERE IS THE FUNDING FOR EVERYTHING ELSE GOING TO BE COMING FROM FOR, WELL, THE SHELTER, IF THERE IS A, THERE'S A NEED FOR FOOD, THERE'S A NEED FOR, UM, UH, LODGING ACCOMMODATIONS, THE BUS TICKETS. 
          UM, SO THE, THE BUS TICKETS IS COMING FROM DONATIONS TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES. 
          THEY'RE FUNDRAISING FOR THAT. 
          FOOD IS THE CONTRACT TO THE FOOD BANK TO COVER THE COST OF MEALS. 
          UM, THE FOOD BANKS RECEIVING DONATIONS FOR THINGS LIKE WATER AND, AND HYGIENE, UM, CLOTHING. 
          SO IT'S A PART, UH, FUNDING, IT'S A PARTIAL FUNDING REQUEST. 
          IT'S NOT FUNDING THE ENTIRE INITIATIVE. 
          AND THEY ARE FUNDRAISING TO THAT END TO COVER THOSE SERVICES. 
          AND ONCE THIS IS APPROVED, HOW QUICKLY CAN THEY HIRE THOSE, UH, THE STAFF THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR? UM, THEY HAVE BEEN, THEY ARE LOOKING FOR STAFF NOW, SO IT SHOULD BE RATHER QUICKLY. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, UM, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          AND THEN ONE LAST POINT. 
          SO I'VE, UH, DIVIDED THE 141,000 BY OUR POPULATION HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS GOING TO COST US EACH 100TH OF ONE PENNY, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THESE PEOPLE WHERE THEY NEED TO GO. 
          THEY, THEY ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS, UM, AND THEY ARE HERE LEGALLY. 
          AND, UM, I DON'T THINK THAT'S TOO MUCH TO ASK. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL. 
          COUNCILMAN SALANA. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          AND I, I THINK I'M THE LAST ONE TO FINISH UP HERE. 
          AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE A QUICK COMMENT THAT I'M OFTEN ASKED THAT, YOU KNOW, I'VE ONLY GOT A FEW MORE COUNCIL MEETINGS LEFT, AND FOLKS ASK ME, UH, WELL, IT SHOULD BE PRETTY EASY ON THE WAY OUT. 
          UM, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE WORK AT THE CITY COUNCIL FROM ONE WEEK TO ANOTHER, UH, NEVER IS EASY AND IS IS NEVER EXPECTED AND NEVER PLANNED. 
          ACCORDINGLY, WE ALWAYS HAVE TO ACT, REACT OR BE PROACTIVE, UH, WHEN CALLED UPON. 
          AND, AND TODAY REALLY IS, IS NO DIFFERENT. 
          AND I, I LOOK OUT IN THE CROWD AND I SEE SOME GREAT FRIENDS, UH, AND EVERY, AT THE BEGINNING OF EVERY COUNCIL MEETING, WE HAVE AN INVOCATION, UH, IN WE, IN WHICH, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY GETS TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, GETS TO PREACH, UH, AND TELL US ABOUT OUR DUTY, OUR DUTY TO PEOPLE, OUR DUTY TO MANKIND. 
          AND I DON'T TALK A LOT ABOUT FAITH, BUT THERE'S THIS LINE THAT SAYS THAT YOU SHOULD PREACH THE GOSPEL AT ALL TIMES AND WHEN NECESSARY, USE WORDS. 
          SO I HAVE SEEN, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF FOLKS, FAITH LEADERS COME INTO THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. 
          IN FACT, A FEW WEEKS AGO, WE HAD SOME OF THE LARGEST, UH, CHURCHES AND THEIR PASTORS, UH, AT THE COUNCIL WITH US, UH, FROM FROM COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH TO CORNERSTONE, UH, LARGE CHURCHES. 
          AND TODAY WE HAVE MUCH SMALLER AND MIGHTIER CHURCHES, UH, WHO ARE TELLING US ABOUT OUR DUTY AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT? THEY'VE NEVER TALKED TO ME, UH, ABOUT RELIGION, BUT THEY'RE PREACHING THE GOSPEL IN THEIR WORK. 
          THE INTERFAITH COALITION HAS NEVER 
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TALKED TO ME ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY LOVE THEIR GOD, BUT THEY SHOW ME AND HOW THEY LOVE GOD'S CHILDREN. 
          AND THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES TO ME. 
          AND WE EVEN HAVE A, A, A DEPARTMENT WITHIN THE CITY, UH, THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, WHO PREACHES THE GOSPEL EVERY SINGLE DAY. 
          AND THEY NEVER TALK TO ME ABOUT RELIGION. 
          AND THEY NEVER TALK TO ME, UH, ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY LOVE THEIR GOD. 
          THEY PREACH THE GOSPEL WITHOUT WORDS. 
          AND SO I AM DELIGHTED THAT AS ONE OF MY LAST, YOU KNOW, ACTIONS ON THE, ON THE COUNCIL, I GET TO VOTE ON SOMETHING THAT, THAT PREACHES THE GOSPEL, UH, WITHOUT USING WORDS. 
          AND, AND IT, IT ALLOWS US TO HELP PEOPLE AND ALLOWS US TO SHOW HOW MUCH WE LOVE GOD'S CHILDREN AND OUR NEIGHBOR. 
          AND REALLY, WE DON'T NEED TO TALK ABOUT, UH, OUR FAITH. 
          UH, WE SHOW IT IN OUR COMPASSION. 
          AND I'M, I'M GRATEFUL THAT SOMETHING IS WHAT MIGHT SEEM, UH, SIGNIFICANT TO FOLKS IN, IN SORT OF THE, THE DOLLAR FIGURE REALLY CAN'T BE MEASURED IN TERMS OF ITS VALUE TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO WILL BE RECEIVING, UH, THE HELP FROM CATHOLIC CHARITIES OR FROM ANY ONE OF THE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HERE THAT HAVE REALLY BEEN DOING GOD'S WORK. 
          UH, I, I LOOK AT TWO FOLKS WHO ARE SITTING OUT IN THE FRONT, UH, MARIO BLEO AND, AND MARY ROSE BROWN WHO PREACHED THE GOSPEL AT THE FOOD BANK AND PREACHED THE GOSPEL AT HAVEN FOR HOPE WITHOUT EVER TALKING ABOUT GOD OR RELIGION, OR TELLING ME ABOUT THEIR FAITH. 
          AND, AND TODAY WE HAVE AN IMPORTANT, UH, UH, VOTE BEFORE US BECAUSE WE ARE TESTED IN FAITH IN WAYS, UH, IN WHICH WE MIGHT NOT EVER REALLY KNOW WE'RE TESTED IN FAITH, AND WE MIGHT NOT BE IN CHURCH WHEN WE'RE ASKED THAT QUESTION. 
          AND SO WHAT IS DIFFICULT IS, IS SOMETIMES SEEING OR FEELING LIKE WE'RE NOT DOING ENOUGH AND, AND WE CAN'T PLEAD IGNORANCE, NOT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ERIC HAS SENT US A MEMO, ALTHOUGH THAT IS TRUE, WE KNOW THAT THE PROBLEM IS GETTING WORSE. 
          YOU KNOW, WHILE THERE USED TO BE, YOU KNOW, 50 TO 60, UH, ASYLUM SEEKERS COMING THROUGH OUR GREYHOUND BUS SHELTER TO NOW GOING INTO TRAVIS PARK METHODIST OR OUR MENNONITE CHURCH, IT'S NOT GONNA BE 120 TO 150. 
          WE CAN'T PLEAD IGNORANCE AND PRETEND LIKE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE KNOW. 
          WE HAVE TO RESPOND IN SOME WAY, AND WE CAN'T WAIT UNTIL CATHOLIC CHARITIES TELLS US THEY'RE IN THE RED. 
          UH, PEOPLE NEED TO BE FED AND PEOPLE NEED TO MOVE THROUGH OUR CITY, AND WE'RE GONNA TREAT THEM JUST LIKE WE WOULD ANY NEIGHBOR, FRIEND, OR STRANGER IN FOREIGN LAND AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THEM. 
          SO I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE AT LEAST GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO VOTE ON THIS TODAY. 
          I'M SORRY THAT, UH, WE CAN'T DO MORE, BUT I THINK WHAT WE'RE DOING IS ACTUALLY PRETTY IMPORTANT. 
          UH, ERIC, IF I CAN ASK YOU THIS QUESTION, YOU DECIDED NOT JUST TO, TO, TO PUT FORWARD A BUDGET LINE ITEM HERE TO SUPPORT, UH, YOU AND THE STAFF DECIDED THAT YOU WOULD CHALLENGE THE COMMUNITY AS WELL. 
          TELL ME A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HOW SOMEBODY WOULD RESPOND IF THEY, IF THEY, IF THEY WANTED TO HELP. 
          AND WERE LISTENING TODAY. 
          SO I, YOU KNOW, AS WE DEVELOPED THE, THE, THE RECOMMENDATION, I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT A LOT OF THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE SINCE THE END OF MARCH, AND AND SOME OF YOU HAVE MENTIONED THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONGER TIME, AND A LOT OF THE NON-PROFITS HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH IT AT A MUCH LOWER SCALE IN TERMS OF VOLUME. 
          UM, UH, THE COMMUNITY HAS STEPPED UP AND THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS THAT, UM, HAVE ASSISTED IN A LOT OF AGENCIES. 
          AND I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT AS WE DEVELOPED THE RECOMMENDATION TO NOT ONLY GIVE AN ALLOCATION TO, UH, UPFRONT, BUT BUT ALSO CHALLENGE THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY AND, AND, AND MAYBE DOUBLE THOSE EFFORTS. 
          AND IN THIS CASE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE, WE TOOK IT A LITTLE STEP FURTHER. 
          IT'S NOT A DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR MATCH, IT'S A DOLLAR FOR EVERY $2 RAISED BECAUSE THE, THE FACT THAT THIS, THIS IS LIKELY GONNA BE A SUSTAINED EFFORT, UM, IT WILL GO ON. 
          AND, AND I THOUGHT IT SET A GOOD TEMPLATE FOR HOW MAYBE WE SHOULD AS AN ORGANIZATION, A CITY, UH, ADDRESS IN THE FUTURE. 
          IT'S, IT'S REALLY KIND OF LEVERAGING PUBLIC MONEY THAT HOPEFULLY WILL BE REIMBURSED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UM, AND, AND LEVERAGING THOSE, THOSE RESOURCES. 
          'CAUSE A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE BEEN GIVING A LOT OF DIFFERENT CHURCHES, A LOT OF DIFFERENT NONPROFITS. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          SO IF SOMEBODY IS, IS LISTENING AND WANTS TO GIVE TO A NONPROFIT THAT WOULD RECEIVE MATCHING DOLLARS, WHERE WOULD THEY GO? THEY WOULD GO DIRECTLY, EITHER THEY NEED TO DONATE DIRECTLY TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES, AND WE'LL BE MAKING SURE THAT WORD GETS OUT OR TO FOOD BANK. 
          AND, AND FOR THE, THE, THE 55, UH, THE $55,000 THAT'S BEING PROPOSED THAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING, UM, THEY, THOSE TWO AGENCIES COULD, UH, UH, RAISE UP THE $110,000 AND WE WOULD MATCH, UH, FOR, UH, TWO OF THOSE DOLLARS WITH, UH, $1 FROM THE CITY. 
          SO I KNOW A LOT OF OF GOOD HEARTED PEOPLE WHO, WHO SEE THE IMAGES ON TELEVISION, WHO READ ABOUT IT IN NEWSPAPERS AND WANT TO DO SOMETHING. 
          AND IF YOU LIVE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS SOMETHING WE CAN'T IGNORE. 
          WE CAN'T PLEAD IGNORANCE. 
          IT IS HAPPENING IN OUR OWN BACKYARD. 
          AND, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE THE CITY STEPPING UP AND SAYING, WE WILL NOT ONLY BE A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE ORGANIZATIONS AND THE NONPROFITS WHO ARE DOING THIS WORK, UH, WE'LL ALSO ISSUE THE CHALLENGE TO THAT PERSON, THAT GOOD HEARTED, YOU KNOW, CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM MENNONITE MEMBER, UH, METHODIST MEMBER WHO SAYS, HOW CAN I, AS ONE PERSON DO SOMETHING TO 
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MAKE A DIFFERENCE, RIGHT? UH, THEY CAN, THEY CAN DONATE AND, AND HELP THE CAUSE AND HELP THESE FOLKS WHO ARE ULTIMATELY ASYLUM SEEKERS, REFUGEES, TRYING TO GET TO THEIR FINAL DESTINATION. 
          THEY COULD DO THAT BY GIVING AND CONTRIBUTING. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, SO, UM, I, I, I, I WANNA THANK YOU SPECIFICALLY, ERIC, FOR, FOR SETTING UP WHAT WAS THE, THE RESOURCE CENTER, UH, REALLY AT THE, THE TURN OF A, OF A QUICK DECISION THAT YOU NEEDED TO MAKE TO RESPOND TO FOLKS. 
          I THINK THAT WAS AN INCREDIBLE, UH, UH, SHOWING AND PROOF OF WHAT'S BUILT IN, AS THE MAYOR HAS SAID, INTO THE D N A OF THIS CITY. 
          NOW, IT WASN'T SOMETHING YOU FELT LIKE YOU NEEDED TO, TO GET EVERYBODY'S, UH, CHECK-IN, BECAUSE THAT CAN SOMETIMES TAKE, YOU KNOW, WEEKS, MONTHS IN A BUREAUCRACY LIKE OURS. 
          AND SO I'M GLAD THAT YOU ACTED QUICKLY. 
          IN FACT, UH, IF IT EVER COMES TO THE POINT THAT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE AT THAT RESOURCE CENTER OR AT OUR SHELTERS, UH, I KNOW MY, MY FAMILY AND MYSELF, YOU KNOW, BE THE FIRST TO OPEN IT UP TO, TO ASYLUM SEEKERS, THERE'S A, THEY CAN SHARE, UH, AN EXTRA BEDROOM THAT, UH, THAT I AND MY WIFE AND ELI HAVE AT THE HOUSE. 
          I MEAN, THAT'S HOW FAR SOME PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO GO. 
          AND SO IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO THAT FAR OF AN EXTENT, THEY CAN ALSO CONTRIBUTE, AND I HOPE THAT THEY WILL. 
          UM, THAT'S THE LAST PIECE I HAVE ON, ON THE, THE AMENDMENT THAT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SUPPORTING. 
          SO LET ME SHIFT GEARS A LITTLE BIT. 
          UM, I'D LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION OF OUR I G R COMMITTEE, NOT, NOT SOMEBODY WHO CAN HANDLE A QUESTION ABOUT TELECOMMUNICATIONS. 
          SO, CARLOS, WHY DON'T YOU WALK UP TO THE PODIUM HERE. 
          I MEAN, THIS IS, THIS IS THE CITY SORT OF, I'M GONNA TELL A QUICK STORY ABOUT HOW BIG BUSINESS WON AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT SPECTRUM TELECOMMUNICATIONS, A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR ORGANIZATION, IS GONNA SHORTCHANGE THIS COMMUNITY AND ITS GENERAL FUND THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY PAY FOR POLICE OFFICERS TO DELEGATE AGENCIES TO PARKS, TO DRAINAGE $7.3 MILLION, UH, BECAUSE THEY LOBBIED UP IN AUSTIN. 
          AND ON THE GOVERNOR'S DESK IS A BILL THAT HE WILL SIGN BECAUSE SPECTRUM AND TELECOMMUNICATION AGENCIES, UH, JUST PAID MORE MONEY TO MORE LOBBYISTS TO AFFORD MORE LEGISLATORS TO PASS THIS BILL. 
          SO TELL ME ABOUT, UH, UH, WHAT EXACTLY IS THAT WE'RE LOSING, THAT WE'RE LOSING? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE, I'M SORRY. 
          SO I KNOW WHAT WE'RE LOSING, WE'RE LOSING $7.3 MILLION, CORRECT. 
          BUT WHY, WHY, WHY ARE WE LOSING $7.3 MILLION? WELL, COUNCILMAN, AS YOU, AS YOU CORRECTLY INDICATE, THERE WAS AN EFFORT BY, UH, SOME GROUPS TO, UH, LIMIT THE CHARGES THAT THE CITY CAN ASSESS IN ITS RIGHT OF WAY FOR, UH, CABLE, CABLE TELEVISION SERVICES. 
          UM, CURRENTLY, UH, CABLE COMPANIES PAY A FEE TO BE IN THE RIGHT OF WAY, AND THEN TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES WOULD ALSO PAY A FEE TO BE IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. 
          THERE ARE A NUMBER OF COMPANIES THAT PROVIDE BOTH SERVICES. 
          AND SO THEY WENT TO THE LEGISLATURE AND ASKED THAT THEY BE ALLOWED TO PAY ONLY ONE OF THOSE, UH, FEES FOR USE OF THE CITY'S RIGHT OF WAY, THAT RESULT, THAT WOULD RESULT IN A LOSS TO THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND OF $7.3 MILLION. 
          UM, THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION REQUIRES, UH, CITIES TO GET FAIR MARKET VALUE FOR THE USE OF ITS RIGHT OF WAY. 
          UH, CITIES ALL ACROSS THE STATE HAVE DONE THAT. 
          UH, WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RIGHT OF WAY FOR MAINTAINING IT, ET CETERA. 
          UH, AND SO THIS IS A FEE THAT NOW, UH, WILL NO LONGER BE RECOVERABLE BY THE CITY. 
          I JUST WANTED TO BRING UP THAT POINT BECAUSE IT'S A PRELUDE TO THE FUTURE IN MY, IN MY ESTIMATION, THERE'S AN AL THERE'S ALSO ANOTHER BILL, THE LEGISLATURE THAT WOULD MAKE IT, UH, UH, SO THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE OR ILLEGAL FOR THE CITY, UH, TO, TO PAY FOLKS TO GO UP AND FIGHT FOR OUR CAUSES. 
          THEY WANT US TO DISARM OURSELVES UP AT THE LEGISLATURE WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, LOBBYING ON THE BEHALF OF CITIES. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, THEY'RE NOT TELLING THE SAME THING TO BIG TELECOMMUNICATION AGENCIES LIKE SPECTRUM, WHO ARE MULTI, WHO WILL MAKE $11 BILLION IN PROFIT NEXT QUARTER. 
          CORRECT. 
          BUT THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR, FOR THEM NOT TO PAY PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY FEE THAT WILL ACCUMULATE TO $7.3 MILLION TO THE CITY THAT COULD PAY FOR A LOT OF POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS, STREET DRAINAGE, AND A LOT OF SUPPORT TO DO GOOD FOR, FOR THIS CITY, ALL BECAUSE WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE AS MUCH MONEY AS THEIR PAID LOBBYISTS. 
          I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S REALLY UNFORTUNATE, BUT I WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT BECAUSE AGAIN, BIG BUSINESS SEEMS TO HAVE WANT AT THE EXPENSE OF, OF THE COMMUNITY ON THIS PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY ISSUE. 
          AND SOME OF THESE THINGS HAPPEN, UH, AND THEY'RE MINUTE, AND NOBODY DIGS INTO THE DETAILS AND NO HEADLINES ARE WRITTEN ABOUT IT, BUT IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN IN SECRET, UH, THAT, THAT THE, THAT THESE BIG, YOU KNOW, COMPANIES ARE COMING IN AND TRYING TO CUT SOME OF THEIR BOTTOM LINE BY DOING IT AT THE EXPENSE OF SOME OF THE SERVICES THAT WE HAVE HERE. 
          SO I WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT. 
          CARLOS, THANK YOU. 
          YES, SIR. 
          MR. CHAIRMAN, UH, THE, THAT BILL YOU REFERRED TO THE NO TAXPAYER FUNDED LOBBYIST IS ON THE CALENDAR FOR FRIDAY. 
          THANK YOU, CARLOS. 
          LAST, AND I SAID WE, WE SOMETIMES HAVE TO ACT AND, AND REACT AND BE PROACTIVE, AND WE'RE BEING PROACTIVE IN ANOTHER EFFORT THAT I'M GLAD TO SEE WITH, UH, HAVEN FOR HOPE ON THE, UH, $2.4 MILLION, UH, AMENDMENT THAT WE'RE MAKING TO ENSURE THAT THERE ARE NOT HOMELESS FAMILIES IN SAN ANTONIO SLEEPING IN COTS 
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OR IN KENNY WILSON'S OFFICE. 
          UH, WHILE IT, I'M SURE IS A NICE OFFICE, KENNY, UH, IT IS CERTAINLY NOT SUITABLE FOR FOLKS AND FAMILIES WHO NEED TO STAY TOGETHER WHILE THEY ARE DEALING WITH A VERY DIFFICULT TIME GETTING PROPPED UP, PUTTING BACK ON THEIR FEET. 
          UH, AND SO WE CAN, WE PAY FOR THESE FOLKS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WE COULD PAY THREE OR FOUR TIMES MORE ON THE BACK END WHEN WE DON'T TREAT THESE FOLKS, UH, AND DON'T TREAT, UH, A VERY DIFFICULT TIME IN THEIR LIFE. 
          OR WE CAN PAY A VERY SIGNIFICANTLY LESS AMOUNT, UH, BY MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, WHEN THEY'RE REACHING OUT, LOOKING FOR HELP, THAT WE ARE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THEM WITH SPACE AND THE HELP THAT THEY NEED. 
          SO, THANK YOU AGAIN TO, TO YOUR TEAM, TO, UH, TO MR. BILL GRH WHO, WHO PREACHES THE GOSPEL, UH, WITHOUT WORDS VERY OFTEN, AND WE ALL GET TO BENEFIT FROM THAT. 
          SO, UH, WITH THAT, MAYOR, THAT'S ALL I HAD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN SALANA. 
          COUNCILMAN PERRY? YES, THANK YOU, SIR. 
          AND I, I JUST WANT TO CHIME BACK IN HERE. 
          UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT COUNCILMAN BROCK HOUSE, UH, MENTIONED WHILE AGO AND, AND WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO SHOW THAT IT'S A EITHER OR TYPE OF THING THAT, UH, WE DO NEED TO HELP OUT. 
          AND I APPRECIATE THOSE COMMENTS, BUT I, AGAIN, I WOULD'VE RATHER, AND I GUESS I'M DISAPPOINTED THAT WE DIDN'T REACH OUT TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FIRST BEFORE BRINGING IT TO CITY COUNCIL HERE. 
          THAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED FIRST TO GET AN ANSWER FROM THEM AND THEN BRING IT TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR US TO TAKE A LOOK AT. 
          AND LEMME TELL YOU, I'LL, I'LL SUPPORT THIS, BUT, UH, THIS IS A ONE TIME ONLY FOR ME BECAUSE THIS, AGAIN, THIS IS A FEDERAL ISSUE. 
          IT'S NOT A LOCAL ISSUE. 
          AND WE NEED THAT PLAN, ERIC, AND I'M GONNA LOOK FOR THAT PLAN AND TO SEE WHAT WE COME UP WITH, NOT ONLY FOR SAN ANTONIO, BUT THE OTHER CITIES AS WELL. 
          SO, UM, AGAIN, THIS IS A ONE TIME FOR ME, UM, AND HOPEFULLY THE PACKAGE THAT WE PUT TOGETHER FOR OUR FEDERAL DE DELEGATION IS, UH, SUCCESSFUL AND THAT WE GET REIMBURSED FOR THIS. 
          SO WITH THAT, YEP, I'LL GO AHEAD AND JUMP ON BOARD AND SUPPORT THIS THIS TIME. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN PERRY. 
          THERE IS A, A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM FOUR AS AMENDED. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          UM, ANDY, UH, I'M SORRY, LIZ, YOU HAD A COMMENT. 
          MAYOR I, THE MOTION, UM, AS PUT FORWARD BY COUNCILMAN VINNO WAS AN AMENDMENT. 
          SO TECHNICALLY WE TAKE THE AMENDMENT FIRST AND THEN THE MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED. 
          HE, HE RESTATED HIS MOTION, UH, AS A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM FOUR WITH THE AMENDMENT, AS HE STATED. 
          DO, DOES HE NEED TO DO THAT AGAIN? CAN HE, CAN YOU RESTATE THE MOTION? GO AHEAD AND RESTATE THE MOTION, PLEASE. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , I GOT IT. 
          OKAY. 
          I MOTION TO APPROVE, UH, ORDINANCE, UH, THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET WITH THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENTS TO INCLUDE AN ALLOCATION OF $141,000 FROM THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 GENERAL FUND CONTINGENCY FUND TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE NECESSARY AGREEMENTS FOR THE PROVISION OF FOOD, SHELTER, JANITORIAL, LAUNDRY, AND OTHER SERVICES PROVIDED BY OUR NON-PROFIT PARTNERS IN SUPPORT OF ASYLUM SEEKERS TRAVELING THROUGH OUR CITY OF THE 141,086,000 WILL BE ALLOCATED IMMEDIATELY IN THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS, 56,000 TO CATHOLIC CHARITIES, OUR DIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO, 30,000 TO SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK. 
          AND THE REMAINING 55,000 SHALL BE ALLOCATED TO THE SAME ENTITIES PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2019, AS PART OF A COMMUNITY CHALLENGE TO RAISE UP TO $2 FOR EACH CITY DOLLAR INVESTED. 
          OKAY. 
          AND THAT, UH, CONFIRMS THE MOTION, UH, IS THAT OKAY? AND, UM, COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ CONFIRMS HER SECOND, UH, DO WE NEED TO RETAKE THE VOTE? OKAY, LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          OKAY. 
          MOTION APPROVES OR MOTION, UH, CARRIES. 
          ALRIGHT, ITEM NUMBER FIVE. 
          ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AN AMENDMENT OF IMPACT FEES, INCLUDING UPDATES TO THE LAND USE ASSUMPTION PLAN, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLANS, AND THE MAXIMUM IMPACT FEES FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WATER SYSTEM SERVICE AREA MAYOR, COUNCIL MANAGER. 
          UM, THIS ITEM IS A PUBLIC HEARING IF FOR A POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION OF UPDATED SAWS IMPACT FEES. 
          IMPACT FEES ARE GOVERNED BY CHAPTER 3 95 OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE, AND REQUIRES THAT THE IMPACT FEES BE UPDATED EVERY FIVE YEARS. 
          THE LAST TIME IMPACT FEES WERE APPROVED BY COUNSEL WAS MAY 20, UH, MAY 29TH, 2014. 
          COUNSEL ALSO APPOINTS THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
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KNOWN AS THE C A C TO ADVISE SAWS AND CITY COUNCIL ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMPACT FEES. 
          THE CAC HAS MET OVER NINE MONTHS REVIEWING THE CALCULATIONS, THE IMPACT FEE CALCULATIONS WITH SAWS IN THE CONSULTANTS. 
          UH, CITY'S PUBLIC UTILITY STAFF HAS ATTENDED EVERY CAC C MEETING AND HAS CONDUCTED REVIEWS OF REVIEWS OF THE CALCULATION METHODOLOGIES UTILIZED AND FOUND THEM TO BE CONSISTENT WITH PRIOR CALCULATIONS ALIGNED WITH THE CITY'S GROWTH PROJECTIONS AND REASONABLE. 
          I KNOW, I APOLOGIZE, I FORGOT TO INTRODUCE MYSELF. 
          MY NAME'S RUSSELL HUFF. 
          I'M ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR OF REPUBLIC UTILITIES AND COMPLIANCE AND RESOLUTION. 
          ON FEBRUARY 13TH, THE CAC, UNANIMOUS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE RECOMMENDATION BEFORE YOU TODAY, ON APRIL 2ND, THE SAWS BOARD APPROVED THE CACS RECOMMENDATION AND RECOMMENDS THAT COUNCIL APPROVE. 
          SO THE C A C SAWS BOARD SAW STAFF AND CITY STAFF ALL ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH THE PROPOSED RECOMMENDATION. 
          TODAY'S MEETING IS A PUBLIC HEARING REQUIRED BY CHAPTER 3 95. 
          UH, COUNCIL HAS THE OPTION AT THE END OF THIS MEETING TO APPROVE THE UPDATED IMPACT FEES AND SUPPORTING CALCULATIONS. 
          CITY COUNCIL COULD ALSO IMPROVE APPROVE IMPACT FEES THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE PROPOSED FEES, BUT AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT EXCEED THE MAXIMUM CALCULATED IMPACT FEES, THEY COULD ALSO POSTPONE THE DECISION TO GATHER ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. 
          AND MAY 30TH IS AVAILABLE IF YOU WISH TO POSTPONE AND STILL MEET THE TARGETED APPROVAL TIMELINE OF BEFORE JUNE, UH, MR. ROBERT PUENTE FROM SAAS IS HERE TO PRESENT IMPACT FEES TO COUNCIL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. MAYOR. 
          COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, WHAT IS BEFORE YOU IS A REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF A CAPITAL FEE AND THE MAXIMUM FEE AND OTHER ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT HOW OUR CITY IS GROWING. 
          ON BEHALF OF OUR, UM, OUR BOARD AND ON, UM, BEHALF OF OUR STAFF, I BRING TO YOU THIS, UH, PRESENTATION. 
          UH, AS Y'ALL KNOW, 20, UH, IN 2018, SAN ANTONIO WAS NAMED ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING CITIES IN THE NATION, AND Y'ALL JUST PROVE THAT IT'S ONE OF THE MOST COMPASSIONATE CITIES IN THE NATION. 
          ALSO, AS THE CITY'S WATER UTILITY SOURCE MANAGES GROWTH BY FINANCING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS RELATED TO GROWTH THROUGH THE COLLECTION OF IMPACT FEES. 
          AN IMPACT FEE IS A ONE-TIME CHARGE, UH, TO COVER THE COST OF THE IMPACT OF NEW DEVELOPMENT ON OUR WATER AND WASTEWATER SYSTEM. 
          IMPACT FEES DO FOUR THINGS FOR US. 
          THEY COVER THE CAPITAL COST OF INFRA INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED FOR GROWTH. 
          IT ENSURES THAT GROWTH PAYS FOR ITSELF. 
          IT PREVENTS EXISTING RATE, RATE PAIRS FROM SUBSIDIZING NEW RATE PAIRS, AND IT KEEPS SAWS RATES AMONG THE LOWEST IN TEXAS. 
          YOU SEE HERE A PICTURE OF THE H TWO OAKS, UH, UH, CENTER. 
          IT IS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES THAT HAS THREE DIFFERENT WATER SOURCES IN ONE GEOGRAPHIC AREA. 
          THE AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY, UH, PROJECT, THE, THE BRACKISH DESAL PROJECT AND FRESH WATER CARO AQUIFER PROJECT. 
          ALL THREE OF THESE PROJECTS, UH, IN THE RESPECTIVE YEARS WERE PAID FOR BY IMPACT FEE, PARTIALLY PAID FOR BY IMPACT FEES. 
          UM, AND NOT JUST THESE HIGH PROFILE PROJECTS, BUT ALSO THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE WILL PROBABLY NEVER SEE AGAIN, UH, IS ALSO PAID FOR BY IMPACT FEES. 
          DEVELOPERS PAY THESE IMPACT FEES FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT AT THE TIME THAT THEY CONNECT INTO OUR SYSTEM. 
          YOU SEE HERE, UH, THAT MAP, UH, A MAP OF OF BEAR COUNTY, SAN ANTONIO WATER AND WASTEWATER, AS Y'ALL KNOW, SAN ANTONIO ESSENTIALLY WAS BUILT ON A HILL. 
          IF YOU DEVELOP IN THE NORTHERN, AS FAR AS WATER'S CONCERNED, IF YOU DEVELOP IN THE NORTHERN PART OF OUR COUNTY, IT COSTS MORE TO PUMP THAT WATER UPHILL TO GET THE SERVICE UP TO THE, TO THE, UH, CUSTOMERS. 
          ON THE WASTEWATER SIDE, UH, GRAVITY HELPS TO MOVE THAT WATER DOWN. 
          AND SO IF YOU BUILD IN THE LOWER PARTS OF, OF THE COUNTY, IT'S NOT AS COSTLY BECAUSE IT'S LESS USE OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND BECAUSE OF WHATEVER YOU'RE BUILDING IS CLOSER, UH, TO OUR TREATMENT PLANTS. 
          A REVIEW OF OF SAWS IMPACT FEES IS CONDUCTED EVERY FIVE YEARS, AND THIS IS BY STATUTORY REQUIREMENT. 
          UH, THE CX WAS APPOINTED BY COUNSEL, AND WE HAVE, UH, FIVE MEMBERS OF THAT, UH, APPOINTMENT HERE. 
          SUSAN WRIGHT, MICHAEL HOGAN, BRIAN HUGHES, MICHAEL MOORE, AND OUR BOARD MEMBER, AMY HARDBERGER, ARE ALL HERE. 
          UH, I BELIEVE THEY'RE STILL HERE. 
          I, THE CX PRINCIPLES, UH, ARE TO REVIEW SOME OF THE IMPACT FEES, AND, AND THAT IS, EXISTING CUSTOMERS DO NOT SUBSIDIZE NEW CUSTOMERS. 
          NEW CUSTOMERS DO NOT 
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SUBSIDIZE EXISTING CUSTOMERS. 
          SO THERE'S A, A, A, UH, A RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP THERE THAT FEES ARE APPLIED FAIRLY AND EQUITABLY TO ALL, AND THAT, AGAIN, THAT GROWTH FOR GROWTH, THE CAC HAS WORKED FOR THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS WITH STAFF. 
          IN PREPARATION OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS, WE HAVE SOMETHING CALLED THE LU APP, THE LAND USE ASSUMPTION PLAN. 
          AND THIS IS ESSENTIALLY INFORMATION THAT IS TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES, BUT SPECIFICALLY THE SAN ANTONIO TOMORROW PLAN AND OUR 2017 WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
          AND WE DO GET INFORMATION ABOUT GROWTH PATTERNS FROM OTHER PUBLIC ENTITIES. 
          AND PART OF THE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATION IS TO, UH, MAKE A CALCULATION AS TO WHAT THE MAXIMUM IMPACT FEE IS UNDER THE LAW. 
          THEY ARE REQUIRED TO, TO, UH, CALCULATE WHAT THAT MAXIMUM AMOUNT COULD BE. 
          IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT IS REQUIRED TO BE IMPLEMENTED, BUT WE ARE REQUIRED TO KNOW WHAT IT, WHAT IT IS. 
          AND THERE'S ALSO, UM, AN, AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE THAT GROWTH IS IN OUR SERVICE AREA AND WHAT AMOUNT OF GROWTH IT IS. 
          SO, AS FAR AS WATER'S CONCERNED, OVER A 141 EDS EEDS, AN E UH, UH, UH, A, UM, EQUIVALENT DWELLING UNIT, WHICH ESSENTIALLY IS, IS A HOME OF MAYBE ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE. 
          ON THE WASTEWATER SIDE, 131,000, UH, EDS YOU SEE HERE THAT WE HAVE, UH, QUITE A FEW DIFFERENT IMPACT FEES DIVIDED UP INTO FIVE DIFFERENT AREAS. 
          AND SPECIFICALLY WATER SUPPLY, UH, WATER DELIVERY, WASTEWATER TREATMENT, WASTEWATER COLLECTION, AND AGAINST, UH, SUBCATEGORIES, DEPENDING ON THE GEO GEOGRAPHIC AREA THAT YOU ARE BUILDING, THE CURRENT FEES, THE ONES THAT WERE ADOPTED BY THIS COUNCIL IN 2014 ARE SHOWN THERE. 
          AND YOU'LL, AND YOU CAN SEE THEY VARY, UH, QUITE DIFFERENTLY DEPENDING AGAIN, ON WHERE YOU'RE, YOU ARE BUILDING THE MAXIMUM FEES ARE ON THIS, UH, NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND THOSE ARE, AGAIN, STATUTORILY REQUIRED TO, TO BE DECIDED ON WHAT THEY COULD BE. 
          WHAT WE ARE, WHAT WE ARE ASKING THIS COUNCIL AND WHAT THE RECOMMENDATION IS BY THE CITIZENS' COMMITTEE AND BY OUR BOARD, IS TO CHARGE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT ON ALL THE FEES, EXCEPT FOR ONE, THE WATER SUPPLY FEE. 
          LET, LEMME STICK TO, UH, THIS SLIDE, UH, FOR A MINUTE. 
          UH, AND THIS WAS A UNANIMOUS DECISION BY THE, BY THE CITIZENS, UM, ADVISORY, UH, COMMITTEE. 
          AND THIS WAS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HAPPENED, UH, FIVE YEARS AGO WHERE THERE WAS A, A RECOMMENDATION DIFFERENT, UH, COMING TO CITY COUNCIL. 
          AND OF COURSE, CITY COUNCIL MADE THE ULTIMATE DECISION ON WHAT THAT WOULD BE. 
          BUT THE DIFFERENCE HERE IS THAT WE ARE ASKING FOR A, UH, HYBRID TYPE OF, UM, CALCULATION ON THE WATER SUPPLY FEE BECAUSE OF THE VISTA RIDGE PROJECT. 
          AS Y'ALL KNOW, VISTA RIDGE WAS PARTIALLY, UH, PAID FOR BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR, UH, WHICH ESSENTIALLY BUILT THE PROJECT NORTH OF BEAR COUNTY. 
          AND THAT PROJECT WILL GO ON, WILL BE ONLINE WITHIN 11 MONTHS. 
          AND SO THAT WATER SUPPLY FEE IS UNIQUE BECAUSE THIS, THIS IS THE ONLY WATER SUPPLY PROJECT THAT'S IN THESE CALCULATIONS. 
          AND, AND AS I, AS I MENTIONED, IT WILL BE ONLY FOR THAT ONE YEAR BEFORE IT TAKES EFFECT, UH, IN APRIL OF 2020. 
          UH, THE RECOMMENDED IMPACT FEES VARY BY SERVICE AREA. 
          AS I MENTIONED EARLIER. 
          UH, HERE YOU'LL SEE THAT, UH, WE HAVE THE MAXIMUM FEE, WHICH IS ON THE FOREIGN NORTH SIDE. 
          IF YOU BUILD A HOME IN THAT AREA, YOUR IMPACT FEE WILL INCREASE BY 4.7% AND IT'S ABOUT $8,500. 
          AND IT VARIES TO THE LOW END, THE MINIMUM FEE OF A 1.1% INCREASE AND IT'LL BE ALMOST $6,000 ON THE IMPACT FEE. 
          A PARTICULAR ALSO IS IF YOU ARE BUILDING A HOME, UH, IN DISTRICT FIVE, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, UH, A, UM, A VACANT LOT AND SOMEONE ALREADY HAD SERVICE THERE AND YOU'RE BUILDING A BRAND NEW HOME, THAT IMPACT FEE HAS ALREADY BEEN PAID, SO THERE ARE NO IMPACT FEES IN THOSE KINDS OF SITUATIONS. 
          COMPARISON OF THE IMPACT FEES THROUGHOUT THE STATE, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'RE SOMEWHAT IN THE MIDDLE, BUT LITTLE BIT ON THE HIGH END AS FAR AS IMPACT FEES. 
          ON THE LOW END IS HOUSTON, EL PASO AND FORT WORTH, AND THEY HAVE PARTICULAR SITUATIONS, HOUSTON AND FORT WORTH, UH, CHOOSE JUST NOT TO CHARGE THE MAXIMUM IMPACT FEE. 
          EL PASO HAS A DIFFERENT SITUATION IN THAT THEY ARE SUPPORTED, UH, BY THE SELLING OF A LOT OF REAL ESTATE THAT THEY OWN THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, AND THEY'RE ABLE TO KEEP THOSE RATES, UH, SOMEWHAT LOW. 
          WHAT'S UNIQUE ALSO ABOUT OUR IMPACT FEES IS THAT THEY HELP KEEP OUR RESIDENTIAL RATES, UH, SOME OF THE LOWEST IN THE STATE. 
          YOU'LL SEE HERE THAT ONLY EL PASO AND DALLAS HAVE LOWER RATES THAN SAN ANTONIO. 
          OUR CLOSEST NEIGHBORS WHO ARE GROWING PROBABLY ESPECIALLY AUSTIN, UM, AS FAST AS, UH, UH, SAN ANTONIO HAS THE HIGHEST RESIDENTIAL RATES, 
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UH, THE TIMELINE, UH, STARTED, UM, AS, AS WE MENTIONED, UM, ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS AGO LAST YEAR, UH, WE'VE GONE THROUGH OUR, OUR OWN STAFF TO PRESENT THIS, UH, UH, WITHIN OURSELVES. 
          WE, UH, TOOK IT TO THE BOARD. 
          THE BOARD APPROVED IT, AND NOW WE'RE IN FRONT OF COUNCIL. 
          WE'RE ASKING FOR APPROVAL OF, OF THIS ITEM SPECIFICALLY. 
          IT IS TO ACCEPT THE LAST, THE LAND USE ASSUMPTION PLAN. 
          WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT, UH, THE GROWTH AND THE AMOUNT OF GROWTH THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT IS, UH, TALKED ABOUT AND YOU'LL BE ASKED TO APPROVE THAT. 
          UM, THE, UH, IMPACT FEE CALCULATION, AS I MENTIONED, IS ALSO GONNA BE ASKED, UH, WE'RE ASKING YOU TO APPROVE AND THE GROWTH RELATED TO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN. 
          IN OTHER WORDS, OUR PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THE PLAN OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS ARE WHAT, WHAT IS DECIDED ON, UH, BY THE, UM, BY THE CITIZENS COMMITTEE AND BY OUR STAFF. 
          SO WE'RE ASKING, UH, THAT YOU APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATION THAT, UH, SAS AND THE C I A C ARE BRINGING, UH, BEFORE YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU, SENATOR. 
          THANK, UM, ANYTHING ELSE FROM CITY STAFF AT THIS POINT? CITIZENS. 
          OKAY. 
          NO, SIR. 
          ALRIGHT, SO BEFORE WE CONTINUE, WE WILL, WE WILL ASK, WE'VE GOT 12 CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, AND WE'LL START WITH JACK FINGER, AND HE'LL BE FOLLOWED BY NETTE KING. 
          WELL, MR. MAYOR PRO TEM, ANOTHER MEMBERS OF OURS ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M. 
          FINGER. 
          YES. 
          IN REGARDS TO THAT LAST ISSUE Y'ALL, Y'ALL ARE TALKING ABOUT, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING Y'ALL HAVE THE SAME COMPASSION ON THE POOR RATE PAYERS AND TAXPAYERS WHO ARE PAYING FOR THIS FREIGHT. 
          AND LIKE, LIKE, LIKE MARGARET THATCHER USED TO SAY, THE, THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH SOCIALISM IS THAT EVENTUALLY YOU RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY IMPACT FEES. 
          WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? WELL, GIVE A LITTLE BRIEF HISTORY. 
          ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO WHEN COPS METRO WAS GETTING STARTED, UM, YOU ADDED ITS LEADER, ITS THEN LEADER, MR. ANDRES RABIA, WHO PASSED AWAY RECENTLY. 
          YES. 
          HE, UM, HE LED THE ORGANIZATION. 
          THEY WERE FINDING OUT PEOPLE LIVING ON THE WEST SIDE, EAST SIDE, SOUTH SIDE THAT ALL THEIR, A LOT OF THEIR TEXTILES WERE GOING TO ALL THE RICH PEOPLE ON THE NORTH SIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE THERE. 
          AND THEY, THE POOR PEOPLE WEREN'T, WEREN'T GETTING ANYTHING BACK ON IT. 
          AND SO THEY FINALLY LOBBIED. 
          THEN CITY COUNCILS FINALLY, UH, ROSE UP AND REBELLED AND, AND THEY EVENTUALLY, UH, PEOPLE, UH, RE FINALLY GOT THE, UM, GOT, GOT THE, THE LIFE OF EVERYTHING AND DECIDED TO ESTABLISH COMMITTEES, ORGANIZATIONS AND IMPACT FEES THAT CHARGE DEVELOPERS FOR THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE INSTEAD OF PUTTING ON EVERYBODY ELSE. 
          SO OVER THE YEARS, THEY, THEY'VE COME UP WITH THINGS AND SO THE, IN THE CURRENT IMPACT FEES, WELL, WE WONDER, ARE THEY REAL? ARE THEY TRUE? DO THEY REALLY REFLECT THE, THE, UH, THE REALITIES AND, UH, COMPARED TO ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE THE ACTUAL RESIDENTIAL RATE PAYERS THERE? WELL, THE LEAGUE OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS DID SOME SURVEYS RECENTLY AND THEY FOUND SOMETHING LIKE THIS HERE. 
          MR. VIS MAY PUT THAT UP THERE IF YOU WOULD BLOW UP, UH, SOME OF THE CIRCLED AREA THERE, IF YOU WOULD THERE. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, IT'S ABOUT, LET'S SEE SOME OF THE WRITING ON THE TOP THERE, IF YOU WOULD. 
          UH, YEAH. 
          SAW IS ABOUT TO INCREASE BILLS UP TO 9.9% FOR EVERYBODY ELSE, BUT, BUT WHILE REDUCING IMPACT FEES, 3% AND YES. 
          UH, BLOW UP THAT AREA WITH THE CIRCLES THERE. 
          YES. 
          UH, THE THREE 3% RIGHT THERE, NEG NEGATIVE 3%. 
          THAT'S WHAT'S IS ACTUALLY BEING LOWERED. 
          LOWERED, YEAH. 
          SHIFT WITH THE LEFT MR. AUTO VISUAL MAN, INSTEAD OF, INSTEAD, OUR RESIDENTIAL RATES ARE GOING UP ABOUT 9% THERE. 
          YEAH. 
          SO YES, BASICALLY WHAT YOU, YOU HAVE HERE, THANK YOU. 
          RETURN THE CAMERA IF YOU WOULD SAWS, DECEIT, AND HAVE TRUTHS. 
          THAT'S WHAT WE ARE GETTING FROM YOU, FROM SAWS TODAY. 
          WILL YOU BUY IT? WE'LL FIND OUT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          JACK NETTE KING, FOLLOWED BY STANLEY MITCHELL. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON 
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COUNSEL. 
          THANK YOU FOR HEARING US. 
          FIRST SLIDE. 
          SEE, IN THE 2019 BUDGET SASS CLAIMS THEIR LONG RANGE PLAN IS 50% NON DEBT FINANCING. 
          THAT MEANS THEY RAISE RATES TO PAY FOR AT LEAST 50% OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN PROJECTS FROM CURRENT FUNDS. 
          SAS HAS SAID THE C I P IS THE PRIMARY DRIVER FOR RATE INCREASES. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          NOW THEY CHANGED TO 85% DEBT AND 15% NON DEBT FOR THE C I P FOR FUTURE. 
          THE IMPACT FEE STUDY SAYS 300. 
          IT SHOULD BE THE NEXT, YOU HONOR, YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT SLIDE. 
          YES. 
          THE IMPACT FEE STUDY SAYS $366 MILLION IN WATER SUPPLY PROJECTS IN 10 YEARS, FINANCED AT 85% DEBT. 
          THIS IS A CREDIT THAT REDUCES IMPACT FEES. 
          THEN SAWS, PRORATED, OR REDUCED THE IMPACT FEE SINCE VISTA RIDGE WILL BE DONE BY 2020. 
          SO THE 2019 BUDGET IS WRONG, AND WE'RE IN FOR A LOT MORE DEBT IN THE FUTURE. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          A FEW DAYS AGO, SA SAID THEY WERE GOING TO USE A DEBT DEFIANCE STRATEGY TO BUY BACK HIGH INTEREST DEBT TO REDUCE DEBT SERVICING COSTS. 
          THIS IS A $180 MILLION PROPOSAL TO THE COUNCIL TO BUY DOWN DEBT THROUGH 2028, THE SAME PERIOD OF THIS LAND USE PLAN WHEN THEY ALSO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO INCREASE DEBT, WHICH SOMEHOW REDUCES IMPACT FEES. 
          THIS IS CONFUSING. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          WHERE DOES THAT CASH FOR DEBT DEFE COME FROM? DIDN'T SAWS SAY RECENT RATE INCREASES WERE NECESSARY TO PAY FOR THE NEEDED INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR? DO THEY REALLY HAVE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SITTING AROUND SAWS HAS 562 DAYS CASH ON HAND. 
          DID THE 2015 RESTRUCTURE AND EXTRA INCREASES EVERY YEAR REALLY CREATE THAT MUCH CASH SURPLUS? SO NOW SAWS CAN SAVE MONEY BY PAYING DOWN THAT DEBT FROM A FAT BANK ACCOUNT. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          GOING BACK TO THE 2019 BUDGET, IT SAYS SAWS GOAL IS A 300 DAY CASH ON HAND RESERVE, BUT IT DOESN'T MENTION THEY ALREADY HAVE NEARLY DOUBLE THAT IT LOOKS LIKE SAS HAS STOCKPILED CASH FOR FIVE YEARS WHILE ALSO ACCRUING DEBT AND RAISING OUR RATES. 
          NOW, THEY WANT TO PAY DOWN SOME DEBT, BUT THEY ALSO SAY THEY'RE GOING TO INCREASE DEBT AND THAT INCREASES DEBT FINANCING. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          WHY SHOULD WE, THE PEOPLE PAY MORE AND DEVELOPERS PAY LESS? THAT'S WHAT SAS IS RECOMMENDING FOR WATER SUPPLY IMPACT FEES GOING FORWARD. 
          I RECOMMEND COUNSEL VOTE NO AND HAVE THE MAXIMUM IMPACT FEES, NOT THE PRORATED REDUCTIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MS. KING STANLEY MITCHELL, FOLLOWED BY JOE YAKU. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          I'M STAN MITCHELL, A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT NINE EXHIBIT D OF THE C I A C ANALYSIS SAYS THAT SAWS HAS SUCH A GREAT CONSERVATION ETHIC THAT IT REDUCED G P C D BY 50% OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS. 
          IS THIS ACCURATE? NEXT EXHIBIT A, THE DRAFT LAND USE ASSUMPTIONS PLAN TALKS ABOUT DATA IN THIS 2017 WATER USAGE WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
          IS IT ACCURATE FOR CALCULATING EDS? NEXT SLIDE. 
          PLEASE START WITH THE 2 0 0 9 WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN, WHICH IS WHERE SAWS GETS THAT 225 PEAK. 
          IT LIKES TO USE SAWS, USES 1982 AS A REFERENCE SIMPLY BECAUSE IT'S THE HIGHEST G P C D THEY CAN FIND EVERYTHING IS A REDUCTION FROM THAT PEAK. 
          1982 WAS A DROUGHT YEAR WITH ABOUT 20 INCHES OF RAIN, AND IT WAS MORE THAN 35 YEARS AGO. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THERE ARE A LOT OF WORDS HERE, BUT IT SAYS ESSENTIALLY, QUOTE, OUR OLD DATA WAS INACCURATE BECAUSE OF METERS AND CENSUS DATA, SO WE CHANGED IT, UNQUOTE. 
          IS THE 2009 G P C D DATA WERE OFF? MIGHT THE 1982 NUMBER ALSO BE OFF? IS IT ETHICAL TO KEEP TOUTING A SUSPECT NUMBER IN DATA COMPARISONS WITHOUT AT LEAST MAKING SOME ATTEMPT TO VALIDATE ITS ACCURACY? NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          IN 27, TEENS SAW KEEPS USING THAT 2225 
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G P C D FROM 1982, COMPARING TO 20 16, 19 82 WAS VERY DRY, BUT 2016 WAS SO WET THAT SAWS BLAMED THE 2016 INCREASE IN SEWER OVERFLOWS ON THE INCREASED RAINFALL. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS IS DATA FOR THE CURRENT IMPACT FEE PLAN. 
          THAT NARROW SLICE OF CONSUMPTION DATA IS THE BEST INDICATOR. 
          THAT'S SHARP DROP IN 2015 AND 16 IS VERY IMPRESSIVE, BUT 15 AND 16 WERE VERY WET AT 44 INCHES OF RAIN EACH. 
          THE 2017 W M P ALSO EMITTED FACTORING THE ONE-TIME INTEGRATION OF D S P CUSTOMERS INTO THE DATA SET. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          THIS IS NOT G P C D, BUT THE TREND IS THE SAME. 
          IT ALSO ATTRIBUTES COST CAUSES OTHER THAN SAWS CONVERSION ETHIC TO RECENT REDUCED USE SAWS DOESN'T HAVE THE LUXURY OF ADDING CUSTOMERS WHO USE SUBSTANTIALLY LESS EVERY YEAR, WHICH RESULTS IN SIGNIFICANT DROPS IN AVERAGE WATER USE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          STARTED. 
          SO I STARTED THE ANALYSIS FOR THE 2019 IMPACT FEE BY USING SPURIOUS COMPARISON OF A SUSPECT METRIC OVER AN INACCURATE TIME PERIOD. 
          IT BASED THE CALCULATION ON THE IMPACT FEES EDS ON THE 2017. 
          THANK YOU MR. MITCHELL. 
          NEXT WE'LL HAVE JOE YAKU AND, UH, HE'LL BE FOLLOWED BY MICHAEL D. MOORE. 
          OKAY, EXHIBIT D, READY EXHIBIT D. 
          THE C I A C ANALYSIS INCLUDES A COMMON SAW SLIDE WHERE IT ALLEGEDLY COMPARES AVERAGE AVERAGE BILLS IN MAJOR TEXAS CITIES, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY THE AVERAGE BILL. 
          IT'S A FICTIONAL SAW BILL THAT IS SUPERIMPOSED ONTO OTHER CITY'S FEE STRUCTURES. 
          IT'S NOT EVEN THE TOTAL SAWS BILL THAT RESIDENTS HAVE TO PAY SINCE IT LEAVES OUT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO STORMWATER FEE. 
          BUT IT FAILS TO SAY THAT IN THE FINE PRINT WHERE IT SAYS IT DOES INCLUDE OTHER FEES WITH SAWS, THE BOTTOM LINE IS ALMOST ALWAYS HIGHER THAN THEY TELL YOU. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          AN INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY WATER POLICY SITE PAINTS A DIFFERENT PICTURE THAN LOW BILLS. 
          SAN ANTONIANS ACTUALLY USE MORE WATER AND PAY HIGHER BILLS THAN OTHER MAJOR TEXAS CITIES. 
          MAYBE BECAUSE THE RATE STRUCTURE IS ORIENTED TOWARDS STABLE SAWS REVENUE AND NOT TOWARD WATER CONSERVATION OR LOW USE SAWS HAS THE HIGHEST FIXED FEES OF MAJOR CITIES IN TEXAS, WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THOSE HIGHEST AVERAGE BILLS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          AUSTIN JUST LOWERED TYPICAL BILLS BY $2 AND 40 CENTS BY RAISING IMPACT FEES SO THEY COULD LOWER RESIDENTIAL BILLS. 
          THEIR ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR SAID, QUOTE, THIS MAY DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH PAY MORE FOR ITSELF RATHER THAN HAVE ALL RATE PAYERS SUBSIDIZE THE GROWTH. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          THIS HEARING HERE TODAY INCLUDES A PROPOSED REDUCTION IN IMPACT FEES TO DEVELOPERS, BUT SAS NEVER SAYS THAT IT SAYS PRORATED OR HYBRID, BUT IT NEVER SAYS REDUCTION. 
          MEANWHILE, SAS IS PLANNING ALSO A SAS IS ALSO PLANNING ON A 50% RATE INCREASE THAT WILL RAISE AT THE AVERAGE BILL BY NEARLY 10%. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE SAW, IS DEVIATING FROM PAST PRACTICE AND NOT RECOMMENDING THE MAXIMUM FEES. 
          THEY'RE EVEN RECOMMENDING A REDUCTION FROM CURRENT RATES. 
          THE C I A C IS AWARE THAT THE DIFFERENTIAL MUST BE MADE UP ELSEWHERE AND THE MOST LIKELY SOURCE IS INCREASING RESIDENTS RATES, BUT THEY MAKE NO MENTION OF THOSE OTHER SOURCES IN THEIR STUDY. 
          NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          FINAL SLIDE PLEASE. 
          MR. GUERRA'S COMMENTS REFERRED TO AUSTIN'S COMMITTEE STRUCTURE, BUT THE OUTCOME OF THAT STRUCTURE WAS INCREASED IMPACT FEES AND REDUCED RATES, OR THE DIAMETRIC OPPOSITE OF WHAT SAS EXECUTIVES ARE CURRENTLY PROPOSING. 
          IF SAS WANTS TO REDUCE RESIDENTIAL RATES LIKE AUSTIN DID, THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO CONSIDER HOW AUSTIN GOT THERE. 
          VOTE FOR THE MAXIMUM RATES, PLEASE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MR. UBIC. 
          MICHAEL D. MOORE, FOLLOWED BY ELLEN BURKEY. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL PRO, TIM MAYOR, I GUESS, UH, MY NAME'S MICHAEL D. MOORE. 
          I RESIDED IN, UH, DISTRICT NINE. 
          I WAS A MEMBER OF THE C I A C ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
          AND, 
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UH, I DON'T WANT TO TALK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT NUMBERS, BUT JUST GO THROUGH THE PROCESS. 
          UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE CHARGED WITH, OBVIOUSLY, IS LOOKING AT EACH AREA, UH, AS MENTIONED BY PRESIDENT PUENTE, UH, TO DETERMINE WHAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE COST FOR EACH AREA, UH, WITHIN THE CITY FOR THEIR WATER AND SEWER BASED ON, UH, WHAT IT COSTS FOR THEM TO BE PROVIDED THROUGH, THROUGH CAPITAL PROJECTS. 
          OUR COMMITTEE, UM, WAS CHARGED WITH LOOKING AT EACH PARTICULAR ITEM, UH, EACH PARTICULAR AREA AND COMING UP WITH A FEE BASED ON THEIR REQUIREMENTS, WHICH IS WHAT WE DID. 
          WE LOOKED AT PAST, UH, IMPACT FEE REQUIREMENTS FOR EACH AREA. 
          WE LOOKED AT THE PROJECTS, ASKED THE STAFF, WHICH, WHICH I WOULD COMMEND THEM FOR THEIR WORK. 
          UH, THEY WERE VERY DILIGENT IN WHAT THEY DID, BUT WE WOULD ASK THE STAFF FOR THEM TO PROVIDE FOR US, UH, A LIST OF ALL PROJECTS. 
          AND WE WENT THROUGH EACH PROJECT, UH, ONE BY ONE TO VERIFY WHETHER IT NEEDED TO BE. 
          UH, IT HAD ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED, IT WAS IN COMPLETION. 
          IT WAS NEEDED TO BE REVISED BECAUSE OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND, AND, AND, UH, DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA. 
          UH, AND THEN ONCE ALL THAT WAS DONE, WE WENT THROUGH AND LOOKED AT THE COST, UH, PROJECTED, PROJECTED COSTS OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS. 
          UH, AS A COMMITTEE MEMBER, UH, I HAVE A, I'M NOT REQUIRED, BUT I, UH, WILL BE, UH, AT LEAST ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR MEETING WITH THE REST OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS AS PRESCRIBED BY CHAPTER 3 95. 
          UH, AND WHAT WE WILL BE DOING IS BE REVIEWING WHAT STATUS IS, UH, AS OF THAT DATE. 
          AND IF THERE WAS A MISTAKE OR A PROBLEM THAT, UH, WE DID NOT RECOGNIZE IN AN EARLIER SITUATION, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO, UH, BRING THAT UP FOR, UH, RECONSIDERATION AND FOR, UM, UH, OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE ANYTHING THAT'S INCORRECT. 
          AND, UH, I I I WOULD REITERATE THAT YOU KNOW, WE AS A COMMITTEE, UH, UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED OUR, OUR REPORT SAWS BOARD HAS UNANIMOUSLY RE UH, APPROVED THE REPORT. 
          AND I WOULD REST, I WOULD ASK YOUR, UH, APPROVAL OF THIS, UH, REPORT FOR THE MAXIMUM IMPACT FEES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU MR. MOORE. 
          UH, ELLEN BURKEY, FOLLOWED BY LINDA CURTIS. 
          LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT. 
          COUNSEL JUST DEVOTED NEARLY THREE HOURS DISCUSSING THE EXPENDITURE OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO EXTEND HOSPITALITY TO IMPOVERISHED REFUGEES. 
          YOU ARE NOW ABOUT TO CONSIDER HOW BEST TO COLLECT OR NOT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF FEES TO PAY FOR GROWTH. 
          AND YOU ARE NOT GOING TO CONSIDER HOW TO BILL THE RESIDENTS FOR UNCOLLECTED IMPACT FEES BECAUSE THAT DISCUSSION WILL TAKE PLACE AT ANOTHER TIME AFTER THE SASS CONVENES. 
          ANOTHER COMMITTEE, THE RATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
          WITH THAT THOUGHT IN MIND, I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A BRIEF TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE. 
          MY NAME IS ELLEN BURKEY AND I REPRESENT THE LEAGUE OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS OF TEXAS. 
          IN MID-MARCH, I HANDED OUT A DRAFT RESOLUTION TO COUNCIL CALLING FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF THE VISTA RIDGE PROJECT. 
          AT THE APRIL 11 COUNCIL MEETING, COUNCIL ALLOWED ITSELF TO BE USED AS A FOCUS GROUP TO IDENTIFY WAVERING COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO NEEDED TO BE LOBBIED TO GET ON BOARD WITH SAS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
          RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          C E O PUENTE NEEDS TO GET HIS STORY STRAIGHT. 
          AT THE APRIL MEETING, HE SAID, COUNCIL HAS TO MAKE A DECISION ON IMPACT FEES BY JUNE EIGHT, ELECTION DAY THEN SAW C F O FRISBEE SAID, COUNCIL MAY DO WHAT IT THINKS BEST. 
          C E O PUENTE RESPONDED TO COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ. 
          QUESTION, WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF COUNCIL DOESN'T ACT NOW BY SAYING SAS WILL HAVE TO GO TO AUSTIN AND EXPLAIN. 
          HERE'S AN IDEA. 
          SAWS EMPLOYEES FULL-TIME LOBBYISTS CURRENTLY IN AUSTIN, ENCOURAGING LEGISLATURES TO HAMMER RURAL COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE THE FORTUNE NOW, BUT THE MISFORTUNE LATER TO LIVE ON TOP, TOP OF GROUNDWATER CRAVED BY WATER CARPET BAGGERS WHO COME TO TEXAS TO MAKE MONEY. 
          IT WON'T BE DIFFICULT FOR SAW TO TRANSMIT APOLOGIES TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. 
          IF THIS CITY COUNCIL DECIDES TO EXERCISE DUE DILIGENCE AND DELIBERATE A COUPLE OF MORE MONTHS ON THE IMPACT FEE QUESTION, 
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HOW CAN GIVING UP $87 MILLION OF IMPACT FEES BE ANYTHING BUT A GIVEAWAY TO REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS AND THEIR CRONIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY? AND OF COURSE, THE WATER HUCKSTERS WHO ARE WATCHING SAN ANTONIO CLOSELY. 
          A CAREFUL DELIBERATION ABOUT THAT KIND OF PAY OFF IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT THE SECOND POOREST METRO AREA IN THE UNITED STATES CAN ACCOMPLISH. 
          A STATEMENT WAS RECENTLY MADE BY SAS VICE PRESIDENT GINA RAMOS AND REPORTED IN THE VAR REPORT. 
          RAMOS SLOTTED COUNCILMAN PEZ FOR THE LEADERSHIP HE SHOWED WHILE WORKING ON THE SAS RATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE IN 2014. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO HAND OUT THE MINUTES OF ONE RACK MEETING WHERE COUNCILMAN EZ EXERCISED HIS LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO RATE WATER AFFORDABILITY. 
          SECOND, FROM THE BOTTOM ON A LIST OF 10 PRIORITIES. 
          THIS WAS THE CRITERIA WHICH WAS GIVEN TO THE CONSULTANT WHO DEVELOPED THE RATE STRUCTURE, WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN ASKED EVERY YEAR SINCE 2014 TO AMPLIFY WITH RATE INCREASES. 
          THANK YOU, MS. BURKEY. 
          LINDA CURTIS, FOLLOWED BY JAMES LEE MURPHY. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBERS, I'M LINDA CURTIS. 
          I LIVE IN BASTROP AND I VOLUNTEER WITH THE LEAGUE OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS AND A BUNCH OF GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN TRYING TO PROTECT CENTRAL TEXAS AQUIFERS, INCLUDING THE EDWARDS AND THE AQUIFERS UNDERNEATH THE COUNTIES OUT WHERE I LIVE. 
          BASTROP LEE BURLESON AND MILAM COUNTIES. 
          NOW, UNLIKE THE EDWARDS, THE AQUIFERS WHERE I LIVE DO NOT RECHARGE IN HUMAN TERMS. SOMEHOW THAT THIS GOT LOST ON US, THESE AQUIFERS ARE ALREADY BEING MINED BEYOND THEIR RECHARGE. 
          AND AS YOU KNOW, VISTA RIDGE IS YET TO START PUMPING A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF WATER OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THOSE COUNTIES. 
          IN 2014, I JOINED A BUSLOAD OF FOLKS WHO CAME TO ASK YOU TO PLEASE THIS BODY. 
          SOME OF YOU ARE NOT ON IT AT THAT POINT, TO REJECT THE VISTA RIDGE PROJECT. 
          THEN COUNCILMAN NUREMBERG EVEN CAME TO BURLESON COUNTY FOLLOWING UP WITH US, AND WE APPRECIATED THAT. 
          WE ALSO APPRECIATED THE EFFORTS OF GREG BROCK HOUSE WHO HELPED LEAD A PETITION TO THE PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION TO REVIEW THE RATES FOR VISTA RIDGE. 
          WHAT WE DID NOT APPRECIATE IS THAT SAS WITHHELD INFORMATION IN ATTEMPT TO SCUTTLE THAT PETITION WHEN THEY SIMPLY COULD HAVE RECOMMENDED A RATE REVIEW AND ENDED THIS PETITION FAIRLY. 
          NOW RECENTLY, SAS CHAIRMAN GUERRA REFERRED TO THE AUSTIN WATER UTILITY FOR SAVING THE UTILITY FROM HUGE RATE INCREASES IN 2013. 
          I WAS ACTUALLY PART OF THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT TEAM IN AUSTIN THAT, UH, SUPPORTED THE LEAD, THE LEADERS OF THE AUSTIN IMPACT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 
          IN IMPOSING THE FULLEST IMPACT FEES ALLOWED UNDER STATE LAW, THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL WAS FACING WHAT APPEARS TO ME TO BE THE SAME DILEMMA THAT YOU ARE FACING WITH VISTA RIDGE. 
          DEVELOPERS HAD LOBBIED HARD FOR AN UNNECESSARY WATER TREATMENT PLANT AT THE COST OF A BILLION DOLLARS WITH INTEREST, AND THEN THEY DIDN'T WANNA HELP PAY FOR IT. 
          I HAVE A LETTER THAT YOU HAVE, YOU SHOULD HAVE IN YOUR HANDS RIGHT NOW FROM ATTORNEY ROGER BORG OF AUSTIN, WHO HAS PRACTICED WATER AND UTILITY LAW IN THE CITY FOR OVER 30 YEARS. 
          MR. BORGELT WAS ACTUALLY PART OF THE EFFORT TO PUSH FOR THAT UNNECESSARY WATER TREATMENT PLANT. 
          IN HIS LETTER, HE LAYS OUT WHY IT IS HIS OPINION THAT YOU DO NOT NEED TO RUSH THIS DECISION. 
          DO I NEED MORE TIME? OKAY. 
          I WOULD ALSO ADD THAT IN 2013, IT TOOK THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL SIX YEARS AND ONE MONTH TO FINALIZE THEIR IMPACT FEE DECISION. 
          I WILL REMIND YOU, MR. PUENTE SAID ON APRIL 11TH, YOU MUST PASS THIS ON JUNE 8TH. 
          I HAVE MORE TIME. 
          AND IS THAT RECOGNIZED? ALRIGHT, AND WHO'S THAT FROM? MAYOR PROTO WHITNEY MASTERS. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          WHITNEY MASTERSON IS, UH, DONATING HER HER TIME TO, UH, LINDA CURTIS. 
          THAT'S FINE. 
          AND, AND I DON'T HAVE A MUCH, MUCH MORE TO SAY TO YOU GUYS, SO BEAR WITH ME. 
          UH, I HOPE YOU WILL TAKE THE TIME 
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TO MAKE YOUR DECISION AND PASS THE FULL WATER IMPACT SUPPLY FEE AND THEN DECISIVELY MOVE TO PASS THE VISTA RIDGE RESOLUTION FOR AN INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF VISTA RIDGE AND FOR AN ORDINANCE TO REIGN IN SAWS. 
          THIS RESOLUTION IS SUPPORTED BY A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT NEVER WORK TOGETHER, LEFT CENTER AND RIGHT. 
          A GROWING COALITION THAT INCLUDES THE ALAMO SIERRA CLUB, THE HOMEOWNER TAXPAYER COALITION OF BEXAR COUNTY, LULAC, CONCILIO ATISA 43 83 SAMBA, UH, SAN ANTONIO. 
          I'M JUST BLANKING ON SAMBAS FULL NAME, UH, THE JOSHUA PROJECT. 
          AND THERE ARE MORE COMING. 
          I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU REALLY DO CARE ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO YOUR RATE PAYERS AND OUR RURAL NEIGHBORS. 
          IF ANYTHING, SAS HAS, UH, BEEN ALLOWED TO. 
          THEY, THEY ACTUALLY REALLY SHOULD BE APPLAUDED FOR HAVING BROUGHT CENTRAL TEXANS TOGETHER, WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND FOR LISTENING AND FOR YOUR SERVICE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MS. CURTIS. 
          JAMES LEE MURPHY, FOLLOWED BY NIKKI C***S, MAYOR PRO TEM. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO NIKKI IS GIVING HER TIME TO JAMES LEE CUR MURPHY. 
          ALRIGHT, SIX MINUTES. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. 
          MY NAME'S JAMES LEE MURPHY AND I'M SPEAKING IN OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE. 
          I'M ALSO SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE LEAGUE OF INDEPENDENT VOTERS. 
          I'M A BOARD MEMBER AND THEIR ATTORNEY. 
          FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS, I'VE SERVED THE PUBLIC AT THE EXECUTIVE LEVEL IN ONE STATE AGENCY AND TWO WATER RIVER AUTHORITIES. 
          AND I DARE SAY THAT I QUALIFY AS ONE OF OUR STATE'S LEADING AUTHORITIES ON WATER LAW POLICY AND PLANNING IN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. 
          YOU'VE HEARD A NUMBER OF COGENT OBJECTIONS AND CONCERNS REGARDING THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE, AND THESE PRESENTATIONS RAISE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE THAT THE ORDINANCE SHOULD BE REJECTED OR AT LEAST THAT THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE RATE BE ADOPTED. 
          YET THERE ARE OTHER MORE IMPORTANT REASONS TO REJECT THIS ORDINANCE. 
          WHAT STANDS BEHIND EACH OF THESE OBJECTIONS YOU'VE HEARD THIS MORNING IS A LACK OF TRUST IN THE LEADERSHIP AT SAWS. 
          THERE ARE FEW AMONG YOUR CONSTITUENTS THAT BELIEVES IT, SAWS INTENDS TO RECOUP THE COST OF PROJECTS LIKE VISTA RIDGE AS REQUIRED BY CHAPTER 3 95 OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE. 
          THEIR CONCERNS ARE NOT MISPLACED COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT YOUR CONSTITUENTS OF LONG SETS PASSED A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN CHAIRMAN BERTO GURA AND C E O ROBERT PUENTE. 
          THE SASS VISTA RIDGE PROJECT IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE SOURCE OF MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY IN OUR STATE. 
          THE PUBLIC IS CORRECT TO FEAR THAT SOPHISTICATED DEVELOPERS DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR THIS PROJECT AND WOULD USE THEIR INFLUENCE TO SHIFT THAT BURDEN TO THE AVERAGE RATE PAYER. 
          YOU CAN FIX IMPACT FEES. 
          YOU CANNOT FIX LACK OF TRUST IN THE MEN WHO ARE THE EXECUTIVE TEAM AT THE SAN ANTONIO WATER SYSTEM. 
          IT WASN'T ALWAYS THIS WAY. 
          GENTLEMEN, I'M OLD ENOUGH. 
          I'M AFRAID TO REMEMBER ALEXIA'S TENURE ON THE SAS BOARD AT THAT TIME. 
          HE FOCUSED ON THE NEEDS OF RESIDENTS OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          WITHOUT SUBSIDIZING OR UNDERMINING INTERESTS OF NON-RESIDENTS IN NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES REPRESENTING NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES, HE WAS CAREFUL TO REMIND US THAT WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN. 
          WE'LL WORK WITH YOU. 
          WE WON'T SUBSIDIZE YOU. 
          ALL THAT HAS CHANGED. 
          HE WAS CAREFUL TO SUBORDINATE ANY POLITICAL ROLE TO THE CITY COUNCIL IN DIRECTION. 
          MIKE THUS OF SAWS UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP, CAME UP WITH A PLAN THAT WOULD'VE PROVIDED A SIMILAR AMOUNT OF WATER TO SAN ANTONIO WHILE PROTECTING DOWNSTREAM WATER RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS. 
          SINCE THAT TIME,  PROJECTS, UH, VENTURES THAT SAWS IS UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE GARA PUENTE ADMINISTRATION HAVE BEEN ERRATIC, EXPENSIVE, AND FOR THE MOST PART, UNSUCCESSFUL. 
          YOUR CONSTITUENTS ARE RIGHT TO QUESTION WHOSE MIND IN THE STORE AND WHO ACTUALLY BENEFITS FROM SAWS PROJECTS. 
          MR. PUENTE AND GUERRA HAVE CREATED A HIGHLY POLITICIZED ROLE FOR SAS. 
          IT'S COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT OF YOU. 
          THEY'RE SETTING POLICY. 
          DONOVAN BURTON HOPE WILL STEVE CASSER AT THE AT THE CAPITOL CONSTANTLY WHERE I DO A LOT OF WORK. 
          WHAT ARE THEY DOING? WHO ARE THEY REPRESENTING? ON BEHALF OF L I V I FILED THREE PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUESTS TO DETERMINE WHAT IS THE STRATEGY BEHIND SAS'S MISSION AT THE 
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CAPITOL. 
          A YEAR AGO IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM, MR. PUENTE TOLD YOU, YOU ASKED HIM ABOUT EXCESS WATER. 
          15,000 ACRE FEET OF WATER WAS A PUZZLE. 
          WE WERE GONNA MARKET THAT. 
          SINCE THAT TIME, TWO PROJECTS HAVE GONE FORWARD, BORROWED IN ALMOST A BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD TO DEVELOP 15,000 ACRE FEET OF WATER EACH. 
          WE WERE PUZZLED AS TO WHAT SAWS WAS UP TO. 
          WHY WEREN'T THEY MARKETING THIS? MY PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST TOOK FOUR MONTHS TO GET THROUGH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, ONLY TO FIND OUT SAWS HAD DONE NOTHING TO MARKET THAT WATER TO THOSE PROJECTS ALONG THE VISTA RIDGE PIPELINE ROUTE. 
          FACT. 
          THEN WE FIND OUT IN THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION THAT SAWS IS ATTEMPTING TO GET THE LEGISLATURE TO AMEND THE EDWARDS AQUIFER ACT TO MOVE MORE WATER TO KENDALL COUNTY IN OPPOSITION TO THE FOLKS IN BERNIE AND THE OTHER COMMUNITIES UP THERE. 
          WHY IS THAT NOT GROUNDS FOR SUSPICION THAT THE IMPACT FEES FAIR THAT REFLECT THE COST OF THE PUBLIC ARE BEING ADDRESSED? LOOK, NO PROJECT IS PER IS PERFECT, AS I SAID, BUT PUENTE IN PARTICULAR HAS PURSUED COSTLY AND UNNECESSARY POLITICAL FORAYS AT THE STATE CAPITOL ENTERED INTO COSTLY AND UNNECESSARY LITIGATION WITH NEIGHBORING POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS LIKE L C R A AND G B R A AND FOR WHAT BENEFIT. 
          THESE ARE STRONG WORDS AND I HAVE EXPERIENCED TO BACK THEM UP BEFORE ACTING ON THIS ORDINANCE. 
          THE CITY COUNCIL SHOULD, BEFORE SHOULD ADDRESS MISMANAGEMENT AT SAWS, RESTORE CONFIDENCE IN WHAT IS IN EFFECT YOUR CITY UTILITY. 
          IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS, SAWS RATE PAYERS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING FOR THIS 15,000 ACRE FEET OF VISTA RIDGE WATER THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED BY BETTER PLANNING AND PUBLIC OUTREACH. 
          AND YOU NEED TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE THAT MAKES IT CLEAR THAT REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS WILL NO LONGER BE SUBSIDIZED BY RATE PAYERS, PERIOD. 
          YOU SHOULD REQUIRE THAT EVERY PENNY. 
          WE'RE THE SEVENTH LARGEST CITY IN THE NATION. 
          WE DON'T NEED TO SUBSIDIZE GROWTH. 
          THEY WANT TO BE HERE. 
          FINALLY AND ABOVE ALL, YOU NEED TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE IN THE CITY'S WATER UTILITY. 
          YOU CAN EITHER DELAY YOUR DECISION ON IMPACT FEES OR SIMPLY VOTE FOR MAXIMUM FEES AS A WAY TO HAVE A, A FRESH START AT SAWS. 
          YOU'VE GOT TO PASS THE VISTA RIDGE RESOLUTION, WHICH YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU, WHICH CALLS FOR A TRULY INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF VISTA RIDGE, AND THAT'LL TELL YOU WHO DIRECTS SAW HOW THEY MAKE THEIR DECISIONS, AND FOR AN ORDINANCE TO DELINEATE SO'S ROLE TO IMPLEMENT, NOT MAKE POLICY. 
          THANK YOU MR. MURPHY. 
          IT'S YOUR JOB. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          TERRY BURNS. 
          MR. BURNS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY CAROL FISHER, UH, MAYOR, UH, CITY COUNCIL. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. 
          UH, MY NAME IS, UH, DR. 
          TERRY BURNS, UH, CHAIR OF THE, UH, ALAMOS SIERRA CLUB. 
          UM, I HAD A LOT OF DETAILED THINGS TO SAY ABOUT THE IMPACT TO FEES. 
          I THINK MOST OF THEM HAVE BEEN MENTIONED. 
          I THINK IT'S CLEAR THAT, UH, THESE, THE CALCULATIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS THAT GO INTO THE FEES ARE TRICKY AND, UH, THERE ARE A LOT OF WAYS THAT THEY CAN BE MANIPULATED. 
          UH, THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, RECOMMENDED MAXIMUM FEES ON FOUR TO FIVE CATEGORIES, THE WATER DELIVERY AND WATER WASTEWATER CATEGORIES, BUT NOT ON THE WATER SUPPLY FEE. 
          AND WE STRONGLY SUPPORT MAXIMUM FEES ON ALL THIS. 
          RECOMMENDATION IS ACTUALLY A DECREASE FROM CURRENT WATER SUPPLY FEES, IMPACT FEES, WHILE RESIDENT RATES ARE SUPPOSED TO GO UP 10% AGAIN NEXT YEAR AFTER SEVERAL YEARS, UH, YOU KNOW, IMPACT FEES ARE SUPPOSED TO GO DOWN. 
          IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. 
          IT'S A 600 PLUS DOLLARS GIFT TO EACH DEVELOPMENT OF EACH E D U. 
          AND OF COURSE, EDS ARE UNDERESTIMATED THAT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, THEY'VE BEEN UNDERESTIMATED BY ANYWHERE FROM 40 TO 80%. 
          SO, UH, AGAIN, THAT FITS INTO THE CALCULATIONS. 
          IT LOWERS THE AMOUNTS. 
          UH, REAL MAXIMUM FEES MIGHT BE $7,000 BY SOME ESTIMATES. 
          WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS $3,300, 600 MORE DOLLARS THAT HAVE TO COME TO SAW SOMEHOW. 
          IF THEY DON'T COME FROM THE IMPACT FEES, THEY COME FROM US, THE RATE PAYERS, AND 
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YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT, AND I WOULD SUBMIT THE ABSOLUTE RESPONSIBILITY TO ASSERT MA MAXIMUM IMPACT FEES ON THE WATER SUPPLY AS WELL AS ALL OF THE OTHER CATEGORIES. 
          UH, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT ALSO FITS YOUR EQUITY LENS IN TERMS OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY, AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY, UH, UH, SOMETHING YOU SHOULD DO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU MR. BURNS. 
          CAROL FISHER, THANK YOU CITY COUNCIL. 
          UM, I COME TO YOU WITH A PERSPECTIVE OF THIS COALITION THAT'S ALIGNING ENVIRONMENTAL INTERESTS, EQUITY INTERESTS, BUSINESS INTERESTS, AND TAX RATE AND RATE PAYERS INTERESTS. 
          UM, WE WANT YOU TO PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO LOOK THIS OVER. 
          AUSTIN TOOK SIX YEARS TO REVIEW THEIR IMPACT FEES. 
          THERE IS NO REASON WHY YOU SHOULD BE DICTATED TO BY YOUR UTILITY, THE HEAD OF R AND YOUR UTILITY HEAD WHEN HE TELLS YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO DO THIS BY JUNE 8TH. 
          UM, WHY DID HE SAY THAT? IS IT BECAUSE IT'S A POLITICAL HOT POTATO? IS IT BECAUSE SOMEHOW HE WANTS TO MAKE YOU BEHOLDEN TO HIM? THIS SHOULD NOT BE POLITICAL. 
          THIS IS A MATTER OF POLICY. 
          AND WHEN YOU READ THE BORG, THE BORG LETTER THAT LINDA CURTIS DISTRIBUTED TO YOU, YOU'LL SEE THAT I URGE YOU TO PLEASE SUPPORT THE VISTA RIDGE RESOLUTION. 
          THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG IN EVERYTHING RIGHT ABOUT OUR REPRESENTATIVES ASKING FOR A MANAGERIAL AND FINANCIAL AUDIT OF A $3.4 BILLION PROJECT, WHICH WE DID NOT GET TO VOTE ON. 
          AS IT STANDS, THESE, THE IMPACT FEES GOES AGAINST MAYOR RON'S EQUITY LENS. 
          IT GOES AGAINST RATE PAYERS AND COUNCILMAN PERRYS AND GROUND COUNCILMAN BROCK HOUSE AND COUNCILMAN COURAGES CONSTITUENTS, THE WHO REALLY, REALLY WANT AN ACCOUNTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF RATES THAT THEY PAY, THAT THEY ARE TIRED OF. 
          I AM A HOMEOWNER IN DISTRICT ONE, AND I ALSO LIVE IN DISTRICT NINE, AND I SEE IT ACROSS THE CITY. 
          THE MIDDLE CLASS IS BEING PUT UPON, DEVELOPERS ARE WINNING ALL OF THE SUBSIDIES THAT THEY WANT BY PRESSURE ON OUR REPRESENTATIVES. 
          THAT C A C IS MADE OF SEVEN OUT OF 10 SEATS ON THAT CAC BOARD, OUR DEVELOPER INTERESTS. 
          SO OF COURSE, THEY'RE GOING TO VOTE UNANIMOUSLY ON THAT. 
          IF YOU LOOK BACK A FEW YEARS SAW ZONE STAFF RECOMMENDED THAT VISTA RIDGE NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO THROUGH AND SOMEHOW THEY WERE IGNORED. 
          THEIR OWN EXPERTS. 
          ANYTIME THEY HIRE SOMEONE TO REVIEW SOMETHING FOR THEM, THEY ARE EITHER DISMISSED OR CONTRADICTED BY LEADERSHIP. 
          SO I REALLY, REALLY HOPE THAT YOU TAKE YOUR TIME WITH THIS. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU, MS. FISHER. 
          OKAY, COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, I THINK AS WE CAN SEE, THIS IS A, UH, AN ISSUE THAT IS VERY CONCERNING TO MANY PEOPLE IN THE CITY. 
          UH, IT'S BEEN VERY CONCERNING TO ME. 
          I THINK SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW THAT I'VE ATTENDED MANY OF THE, UH, SASS BOARD MEETINGS SINCE I'VE, UH, BEEN A MEMBER OF THIS COUNCIL. 
          I HAVE MANY TIMES ASKED FOR A LOT OF THE PRESENTATIONS THAT THEY HAVE MADE TO BE FORWARDED TO ME, UH, SO THAT I COULD HAVE MORE TIME TO TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE. 
          I'VE GONE BACK AND LOOKED AT PRIOR CERS, UH, FINANCIAL REPORTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE BY SAWS OVER THE YEARS AND THEIR BUDGETS. 
          UH, AND I'M NOT A FINANCIAL EXPERT, BUT AS YOU HEARD FROM PEOPLE WHO JUST SPOKE WITH YOU, THERE SEEMS TO BE AN INCONSISTENCY IN THE APPLICATION OF DATA AND THE PRESENTATION OF DATA AND THE INTERPRETATION OF DATA THAT'S PRESENTED TO THIS COUNCIL. 
          UH, AND THAT'S BEEN MY EXPERIENCE IN, IN REVIEWING THESE. 
          I'M NOT TALKING AT THIS POINT. 
          UH, AND I DON'T MEAN TO IMPLY 
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THAT, UH, I'M GONNA SPEAK AGAINST VISTA RIDGE, THAT THAT PROJECT IS DONE. 
          IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 
          UH, I WOULD LIKE US TO REALLY CONSIDER AS A COUNCIL, AND WE'RE GONNA NEED TO DO THAT SOMETIME SOON. 
          THE REPERCUSSIONS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE FACING AND OUR WATER SYSTEM WILL BE FACING ONCE THAT IS FULLY IMPLEMENTED. 
          BUT LEADING UP TO THAT, THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS. 
          THERE HAVE BEEN DRAMATIC OVER THE LAST SEVEN OR EIGHT OR NINE YEARS RATE INCREASES TO THE, UH, GENERAL, UH, CONSUMER OF WATER SERVICES IN THIS CITY. 
          ONE OF THE THINGS I'LL POINT OUT IS, UH, WHAT YOU HEARD MENTIONED THAT, UH, SAWS HAS 562 DAYS OF OPERATING EXPENSES IN THE BANK TODAY, CASH ON HAND AND RESERVE FUNDS. 
          HOW COULD THEY ACCUMULATE THAT MUCH RESERVE, UH, AND, AND STILL TELL US THAT THEY NEEDED TO CHARGE THE RATES THEY WOULD CHARGING JUST TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES THAT WE NEEDED? I REMEMBER ASKING, UH, EITHER LAST YEAR OR PROBABLY LAST YEAR, WHY CAN'T WE ASK SAS TO MAKE A LITTLE BIT GREATER CONTRIBUTION, UH, TO THE CITY? UH, THEY PUT IN A PERCENTAGE OF THEIR GROSS REVENUE, UH, WHICH IS APPROVED BY COUNCIL AND IS PART OF THEIR BOND AGREEMENTS AND THEIR AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY. 
          AND THEY'RE PUTTING IN LESS THAN THE FULL AMOUNT. 
          THEY'RE PUTTING IN ABOUT 2%. 
          THEY COULD PUT IN, I BELIEVE, FOUR TO FIVE. 
          AND I, I ASKED, WHY CAN'T WE ASK THEM TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE? AND THE ANSWER I GOT WAS, WELL, IF WE DO THAT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO RAISE THE RATES, RAISE THE RATES WHEN YOU'VE GOT HUNDREDS OF DAYS OF LITERALLY RESERVE FUNDS. 
          NOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT RESERVE FUND IS NOW GOING TO BE USED. 
          PART OF IT IS, I UNDERSTAND IT GOING TO BE APPLIED TO, UM, PAY DOWN DEBT, AND PART OF IT IS GOING TO BE TO PAY FOR THE WATER THAT THERE WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA BE RECEIVING. 
          BUT EVEN TODAY, WHEN YOU ASK SAS LEADERSHIP, ARE WE GONNA USE 50,000 ACRE FEET OF WATER NEXT YEAR? DO WE NEED THAT WATER TO TAKE CARE OF THE NEEDS OF THE CITIZENS IN SAN ANTONIO? THE ANSWER IS, WELL, NO, WE DON'T REALLY NEED THAT MUCH. 
          WE WON'T NEED IT NEXT YEAR OR THREE YEARS, OR FIVE YEARS FROM NOW. 
          PROBABLY NOT 10 YEARS FROM NOW, BUT CERTAINLY 20 OR 30. 
          SO BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA HAVE THIS ADDITIONAL WATER, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? WELL, WE'RE GONNA LOWER WHAT WE'RE GONNA PUMP OUT OF THE AQUIFER. 
          WE'RE GONNA STOP PUMPING THE LESS EXPENSIVE WATER THAT WE'VE BEEN RELYING ON FOR YEARS, AND WE'RE GONNA BE REDISTRIBUTING THE MORE EXPENSIVE WATER THAT WE'RE GONNA BE GETTING IN FROM VISTA RIDGE. 
          LIKE I SAID, I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA DO VISTA RIDGE, BUT LET'S LOOK AT THE COST OF VISTA RIDGE. 
          WHEN WE LOOK AT THE, THE CREATION OF VISTA RIDGE, MANY PEOPLE CAME TO THIS CITY HALL AND I I SAW IT AND READ ABOUT IT SAYING, WE NEED TO HAVE THAT WATER. 
          WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAVE IT. 
          WHAT DO WE NEED IT FOR? WE NEED IT FOR THE GROWTH THAT THIS CITY IS GOING TO GO THROUGH OVER THE NEXT 20 TO 30 YEARS. 
          WE NEEDED IT FOR GROWTH, NOT FOR WHAT WE HAD, BUT FOR WHAT WE MAY HAVE. 
          AND SO THE CITY, THE COUNCIL AND ITS INTERNAL WISDOM SAID, OKAY, WE'LL, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND DO THAT. 
          WE'LL RELY ON GROWTH TO PAY FOR IT. 
          WELL, GROWTH DID NOT PAY FOR THIS PROJECT. 
          OVER $200 MILLION HAS BEEN ALLOCATED TO PROVIDE THE CONSTRUCTION AND THE, UH, THE CAPABILITY OF RECEIVING ALL THIS WATER CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. 
          BUT NONE OF IT WAS PAID BY GROWTH. 
          WE DID NOT RAISE THE DEVELOPER'S FEES TO PAY FOR THAT. 
          AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE FEES WERE SET BEFORE THE CONTRACT WAS LET. 
          AND THEY WERE NEVER ADJUSTED. 
          WE NEVER WENT BACK TO THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND SAID, OKAY, NOW WE'RE HAVING AN EXTRA $200 MILLION OVER THE NEXT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS. 
          WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LAY OUT FOR THIS. 
          THEY NEVER SAID, WELL, DEVELOPERS, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO RAISE YOUR FEES TO PAY FOR THIS 'CAUSE THIS IS GROWTH. 
          INSTEAD, THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 
          BUT NOW, FIVE YEARS LATER, WHEN IT'S ALMOST COMPLETED, THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY IS SAYING, BUT WELL, WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY FOR IT NOW 'CAUSE IT'S DONE. 
          SO WHY SHOULD WE BE PAYING FOR CONSTRUCTION THAT'S GONNA BE COMPLETED? SO WHO HAS PAID FOR IT? 
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IT'S BEEN OUR RATE PAYERS. 
          AND SO NOW WHAT ARE WE SAYING? WE'RE NOT SAYING, WELL, OKAY, UM, THERE'S STILL EXPENSES INVOLVED. 
          WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT WATER. 
          AND I'M SURE THE RATE PAYERS ARE GONNA BE PAYING FOR THAT WATER, BUT FOR THE COST OF DEVELOPMENT, THAT WATER SUPPLY FEE IS NOT GONNA GO UP. 
          IT IS GOING TO GO DOWN. 
          THAT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME. 
          THERE IS NO REASON WHY THIS COUNCIL CANNOT SUPPORT THE FULL ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION BY SAS STAFF FOR A RATE OF $3,322 FOR THE WATER SUPPLY. 
          AND IF WE FIND AFTER A YEAR OR TWO THAT IS TOO MUCH, THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE CAN'T GO BACK AND HAVE THE C I A C RECONSIDER AND COME BACK TO US WITH THE JUSTIFICATION OF WHY IT ISN'T ENOUGH. 
          BUT TO START SAYING, WE'RE NOT EVEN GONNA CHARGE WHAT WE HAVE BEEN CHARGING AND WE'RE GONNA LOWER THAT. 
          I DON'T CARE IF IT'S $50 OR $60. 
          WHEN WE SAY THE TOTAL AMOUNT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WE COULD CHARGE AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO CHARGE IS $600 PER UNIT. 
          AND THE BUILDERS I'VE SPOKEN WITH ARE ANTICIPATING BUILDING 16,500 HOMES OVER THE NEXT YEAR TIMES $616 IS OVER $10 MILLION IN REDUCTIONS THAT THE GROWTH WILL PAY FOR. 
          WHERE WILL THAT COME FROM IF WE HAVE TO PAY MORE FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS? IF SAWS HAS MADE A MISCALCULATION, IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT COMES ALONG THAT'S UNANTICIPATED LIKE A VISTA PROJECT WAS UNANTICIPATED AND NEVER PAID FOR, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO LOWER THAT FEE. 
          NOW, I KNOW I'VE HEARD FROM, UH, PEOPLE I KNOW IN THE DEVELOPMENT BUSINESSES, WELL, IF WE RAISE THAT FEE, IF WE'VE GOTTA PAY FOR IT AS DEVELOPERS, THEN THAT MEANS WE MAY NEED TO BORROW A LITTLE BIT MORE MONEY TO GO AHEAD AND BUILD OUR PROJECTS. 
          THAT MEANS WE MAY HAVE TO PAY A LITTLE MORE INTEREST ON THAT MONEY TO BUILD OUR PROJECTS. 
          THAT MEANS THAT THE BUILDERS WHO ACTUALLY BUILD THOSE HOMES MAY HAVE TO FINANCE A LITTLE BIT MORE TO GET 'EM BUILT. 
          THAT MAY MEAN THAT THE COST OF A HOME MAY BE SEVEN, $800 MORE THAN IT WOULD'VE BEEN WITHOUT THAT $616 ADDITIONAL CHARGE. 
          WELL, I AM MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE RATES THAT YOU AND I AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY ARE GOING TO BE PAYING BEFORE THAT GROWTH OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. 
          AND YOU KNOW WHAT, AN EXTRA 600 OR $800 ON A 300,000 OR 400,000 OR $500,000 HOME THAT MAY BE BUILT IN THIS COMMUNITY IS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY TO ENSURE THAT THE DEVELOPMENT DOESN'T GO DOWN 3%. 
          BUT THEN OUR RATES ARE SCHEDULED TO GO UP 9.9% NEXT YEAR IF THE RATES ARE GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER. 
          HOPEFULLY SAWS WILL SEE IN ITS INTERNAL WISDOM THAT MAYBE THE RATES WE PAY AS CONSUMERS FOR WATER CAN BE A LITTLE BIT LOWER. 
          I REALLY URGE THE COUNCIL TO MAKE THIS DECISION TO GO AHEAD AND AS COUNCILS HAVE DONE IN THE PAST, TO APPROVE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND REVISIT IT A YEAR OR TWO OR THREE YEARS DOWN THE LINE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. 
          COURAGE. 
          COUNCILMAN PIA. 
          UM, THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          I MOVE TO APPROVE THIS ITEM. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF A ITEM NUMBER FIVE. 
          COUNCILMAN YIELDING THE FLOOR. 
          OKAY. 
          COUNCILMAN HALL JUST STEPPED AWAY. 
          ARE THERE ANY OTHER FOLKS ON WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM? IF, IF YOU CAN JUST BEAR WITH ME, I DON'T KNOW, UM, IF COUNCILMAN HALL KNEW HE WAS GONNA BE UP. 
          JUST A MOMENT TO SEE IF HE WANTS TO SPEAK TO THE ITEM. 
          COUNCILMAN GRA THANK YOU. 
          I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. 
          UM, I GUESS ROBERT, SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE WATER SUPPLY AND THE 
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IMPACT FEE, UM, I KNOW IT'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT, UM, DEVELOPERS, BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE INDIVIDUAL, INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING, WHO HAVE LAND, WHO ARE BUILDING A HOUSE? WILL THIS ALSO IMPACT THEM? UH, YES AND NO. 
          IN OTHER WORDS, UM, ANYONE THAT'S BUILDING A, A PROJECT, A HOME, A SHOPPING CENTER, A STRIP MALL THAT HAS NOT HAD SERVICE BEFORE WILL HAVE TO PAY AN IMPACT FEE. 
          UH, HOWEVER, IF IT'S A, LET'S SAY A BURNED OUT BLOCK IN THE INNER CITY AND THERE'S ALREADY BEEN SERVICE THERE AND THEY'RE REDEVELOPING, REDEVELOPING IT, THEN THERE'S NO IMPACT FEES. 
          THESE ARE A ONE TIME FEE FOR THAT PROPERTY FOREVER. 
          SO IF IT'S THOUGH FOR SOMEBODY WHO IS, UM, WHO IN DIFFERENT PARTS IN THE SOUTHERN SECTOR WHO HAVE HADN'T HAD MUCH OR JUST HAD A SEWER OR JUST LIVING OFF OF WELLS AND SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT THAT WOULD ALSO IMPACT THEM IF, IF THEY'RE CONNECTING FOR THE FIRST TIME. 
          YES. 
          RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN GRO. 
          COUNCILMAN COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. 
          THANK YOU, UH, MAYOR. 
          UM, THANK YOU ROBERT, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. 
          I APOLOGIZE I HAD STEPPED UP FOR, FOR PART OF IT AND THANKS TO YOUR STAFF FOR PROVIDING FOLLOW UP, UH, FROM OUR LAST, UH, DISCUSSION. 
          SO, UH, I'M LOOKING AT OUR, OUR FINAL SLIDE FOR THIS ITEM. 
          AND IT SAYS, REQUESTED COUNCIL APPROVAL OF PROPOSED, UH, THERE'S THE LU APP, UH, THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN, THE IMPACT FEE CALCULATION, AND OF COURSE THE CALCULATION ITSELF AND THEN OF COURSE THE IMPACT FEE. 
          UM, COULD YOU, UH, WALK ME THROUGH THE LU APP AGAIN PLEASE? UH, LU APP IS ESSENTIALLY A, UH, WHERE IS THE GROWTH AND HOW MUCH IS, UH, IN OUR SERVICE AREA? WHERE IS IT HAPPENING IN, UH, THE AMOUNT OF GROWTH THAT IS GOING TO OCCUR OVER THE, OVER THE NEXT YEARS. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, AND SO DID YOU PRESENT THAT THAT WAS PART OF THE FINDINGS BY THE LU APP? UH, FOR WATER? THEY HAD A CERTAIN NUMBER. 
          I THINK IT WAS 141,000 AND WASTEWATER WAS A LITTLE BIT LESS. 
          AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THAT'S BASED ON, UH, THE CITY'S PLANS FOR GROWTH. 
          UH, YES, WE USE THE SA TOMORROW PLAN. 
          WE DO, WE DO USE, UH, AND LOOK AT OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION. 
          OKAY. 
          AND SO THAT DOCUMENT, IS THAT PART OF THE CARILLO STUDY OR WHERE, WHERE WOULD I FIND THE LU APP? UM, WE, WELL, THE, THE, THE LU APP PLAN IS WHAT WE HAVE, WHAT WE'VE DEVELOPED. 
          SO WE WOULD HAVE A, WE WOULD PROVIDE YOU WITH A COPY OF THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          AND IT'S NOT IN THE, HAVE YOU PROVIDED IT TO US? YEAH, WE'VE ALREADY SENT IT TO YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          IS, SO THAT'S PART OF THE, THE REPORT, THE CARILLO? UH, YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, GREAT. 
          I'M ASKING MY STAFF TO, TO GO GET IT. 
          UM, SO I, I DO HAVE A QUESTION SIMILAR TO COUNCILMAN, UH, COURAGES QUESTION. 
          SO I UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, I HEARD WHY THE MAXIMUM FEE ISN'T BEING RECOMMENDED, UH, RIGHT NOW. 
          COULD YOU EXPLAIN THAT AGAIN? WELL, UH, FIRST OF ALL, UH, OUT OF THE 13 FEES, 12 OF 'EM ARE BEING THE, UH, WE ARE ASKING THAT IT BE THE MAXIMUM FEE. 
          THE ONLY ONE THAT'S DIFFERENT IS THE WATER SUPPLY FEE. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          AND ONE REASON IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, WATER SUPPLY PROJECTS OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS, UH, EXCEPT FOR THE VISTA RIDGE PROJECT. 
          BUT IF I MAY ASK, UM, IS IT TRACY OR MARY BAILEY THAT WOULD WANNA, UH, THE SPECIFICS ABOUT HOW THAT IS CALCULATED AND WHY THAT KIND OF COMPROMISE WAS MADE? THANK YOU. 
          HELLO, TRACY LEHMAN WITH SAN ANTONIO WATER SYSTEM. 
          UM, WHENEVER WE LOOKED AT THAT, THERE WAS TWO COMPONENTS. 
          WHENEVER WE'RE LOOKING AT THE IMPACT FEE, THERE'S THE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, AND THE VALUE OF THAT, AND THERE'S CAPACITY IN THAT EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          AND THEN THERE'S THE NEW C I P, THE EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS NEEDED TO, UH, PROVIDE SERVICE FOR THAT ADDITIONAL 10 YEARS WORTH OF GROWTH. 
          SO WHENEVER WE WERE LOOKING AT THE HYBRID CALCULATION ON THE SUPPLY FEE, BY LAW, WE WOULD, VISTA RIDGE WOULD BE ENTIRELY IN THE NEW GROWTH COMPONENT. 
          SO ONLY A PORTION OF THAT WOULD BE APPLIED TO THAT FOR THE 10 YEARS WORTH OF GROWTH. 
          NOW THEN IN ONE YEAR, ONCE VISTA RIDGE IS ACCEPTED BY LAW, THAT CALCULATION WOULD CHANGE. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE WERE WORKING THROUGH WITH THE C I A C COMMITTEE. 
          UH, IF WE WERE TO REVISIT THESE IN ONE YEAR, THE CALCULATION WOULD HAVE ALL OF VISTA RIDGE IN THE EXISTING CALCULATION COMPONENT. 
          AND SO THERE WAS A DIFFERENCE. 
          THERE WAS A BASICALLY A $600 DIFFERENCE, UH, LOOKING AT THAT. 
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SO WE WOULD HAVE ONE YEAR'S WORTH OF THE MAXIMUM IMPACT FEE, 33 22. 
          AND THEN IF THEY CHANGED IT NEXT YEAR, WE WOULD HAVE AN ADDITIONAL, THE, THE, UH, NEXT YEAR'S WOULD BE AT THE 26 37 VALUE. 
          SO WORKING WITH C I A C, UH, ONE OF THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS WAS, LET'S LOOK AT A HYBRID FEE SO THAT WE'RE NOT PENALIZING, UH, ONE YEAR'S WORTH OF GROWTH IF WE DID HAVE TO LOOK AT THE FEE AND REDO IT, RECALCULATE IT. 
          SO IT, THE HYBRID FEE IS BASICALLY ONE YEAR OF THE MAXIMUM IMPACT FEE, AND THEN NINE YEARS OF THE, UH, FUTURE CALCULATED FEE, WHICH WOULD'VE 26 37. 
          AND THE COMPROMISE ENDED UP BEING 27 0 6, IT WOULD BE 10 YEARS, NOT THE FIVE, BECAUSE YOU'RE, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE COMING BACK TO UPDATE TO FIVE YEARS, YOU, WHY, WHY DID YOU CHOOSE 10? WELL, THE CALCULATIONS OVER 10 YEARS. 
          SO THAT'S THE KIND OF THE COMPROMISE THAT WE HAD MADE TO LOOK AT IT OVER THAT TIME PERIOD. 
          WHENEVER WE'RE LOOKING AT THE CALCULATION, UH, NOW, THEN AGAIN, WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO RECALCULATE IN FIVE YEARS BY THE, UH, CHAPTER 3 95 WILL BE REQUIRED TO DO THAT, AND THEN WE'D LOOK AT IT AGAIN AT THAT TIME. 
          SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS, ONE OTHER OPTION WAS, JUST TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND. 
          ONE OTHER OPTION WAS TO RECOMMEND THE MAXIMUM FEE FOR WATER SUPPLY 33 22, AND THE ONLY PROJECT IT WOULD BE COVERING WOULD'VE BEEN VISTA, VISTA RIDGE. 
          UM, BUT COME BACK IN A YEAR AFTER THAT AND IT WOULD COME BACK TO 2,600 SOMETHING. 
          SO PEOPLE MIGHT WAIT, OR DEVELOPERS MIGHT WAIT TILL THE END OF THE YEAR TO, TO REQUEST THEIR IMPACT FEES AND PAY FOR THEM IF THEY KNEW IT WAS GONNA DROP. 
          OKAY. 
          UNDERSTOOD. 
          AND THEN, UM, I DO HAVE, UH, THE QUESTION ABOUT WHEN THE DECISION WAS MADE TO BEGIN, AND I'M NOT SURE WHO, WHO THIS IS FOR TO BEGIN, UH, INVESTING IN VISTA RIDGE, I KNOW THAT THERE WAS A RATE INCREASE HERE, AND WHY DIDN'T WE RECONVENE THE C A C AND READJUST THE, THE IMPACT FEE AT THAT TIME? WELL, WE LAST DID IT IN 2014, AND THE DECISION FOR RIDGE WAS MADE IN, UH, IN THAT IN 2013 AND 2014. 
          SO THEN THE, THEN THE LAST TIME YOU CAME 2014, YOU CHARGED A FULL AMOUNT FOR VISTA RIDGE? NO, VISTA RIDGE WAS NOT PART OF THE CALCULATION AT ALL BECAUSE THE PROJECT ESSENTIALLY WASN'T OUR PROJECT TO BUILD IN THE SENSE THAT, UH, FROM NORTHERN BEXAR COUNTY TO BURLESON COUNTY, THE PRIVATE SECTOR WAS BUILDING THAT PROJECT. 
          UH, THEY WERE BUILDING THAT PROJECT ONLY, UH, WITHIN, UH, BEXAR COUNTY WHERE WE ARE GOING TO UPDATE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACCEPT THAT WATER. 
          AND THAT WORK DIDN'T START UNTIL ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO. 
          SO IT STARTED WITHIN THE FIVE YEAR TIMEFRAME AND CERTAINLY WITHIN THE 10 YEAR TIMEFRAME, THAT'S CONSIDERED FOR THE CALCULATION OF IMPACT FEES. 
          YES. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, BUT IT WAS NOT CALCULATED IN THERE. 
          SO I, I AM CONFUSED ABOUT WHY IT WASN'T TRACY, UM, DID YOU HEAR HER QUESTION? I'LL REPEAT IT. 
          SO THE LAST IMPACT FEES WERE IN 2014. 
          THEY WERE ADOPTED IN 2014. 
          YES. 
          AND THE DECISION TO MAKE, UH, TO INVEST IN VISTAGE AND GO IN THAT DIRECTION WAS AROUND THE SAME TIME. 
          MR. PUENTE TELLS ME THAT THERE WAS A DECISION MADE NOT TO INVEST, SORRY, NOT TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT IN THE IMPACT FEE. 
          CORRECT. 
          AT THAT TIME, YES. 
          IT WAS NOT A FINALIZED DEAL AT THE TIME THAT THE, UH, IMPACT FEES PROCESS WAS GOING THROUGH AND COMPLETED. 
          UM, BUT YOU, BUT WHEN IT BECAME A FINALIZED DEAL, UH, YOU HAD THE OPTION OR COUNSEL, I'M NOT SURE WHO MAKES THE CALL OF RECONVENING A CI A C AND ADJUSTING THE RATES BASED ON THAT INVESTMENT. 
          I AND, AND ADJUSTING THE IMPACT FEES. 
          IS, IS THAT SOMETHING WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THE SAWS BOARD? YES, THERE IS ALWAYS THAT OPTION. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, NONE OF US WERE HERE AT THE TIME, SO, OR I'M SORRY, SOME OF YOU WERE HERE AT THE TIME, BUT I WASN'T HERE, SO I'M CONFUSED AS TO THE THOUGHTS BEHIND NOT DOING THAT AT THE TIME. 
          WELL, ONE OF THE ISSUES, I'M SORRY. 
          UH, MY NAME IS ANDREA BEAMER. 
          I'M WITH SAAS. 
          YES. 
          UM, ONE OF THE ISSUES WAS WE CAME TO COUNCIL IN 2014, MAY OF 2014, FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE IMPACT FEES AT THAT TIME. 
          WE CAME TO COUNCIL ROUGHLY NOVEMBER OF 2014 TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE FINALIZED PRICES. 
          WE DIDN'T LOCK IN INTO FINALIZED PRICES UNTIL, I BELIEVE IT WAS 2016 TIMEFRAME. 
          SO AT THAT TIME, WE WERE VERY CLOSE TO THE END OF THAT FIVE YEAR STUDY. 
          SO WE MADE THE CONSCIOUS DECISION TO JUST WAIT AND DO THE RECOUPMENT DURING THAT FIVE YEAR STUDY INSTEAD OF DOING IT A YEAR EARLY. 
          IN 
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THAT SENSE, DURING THAT TO DO THE RECOUPMENT DURING THE FIVE YEARS STUDY, DID YOU AS, BECAUSE WE WERE, WE HADN'T EVEN STARTED THE INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION YET AT THAT POINT IN TIME. 
          WE HAD JUST LOCKED INTO THE PRICE. 
          SO WE MADE THE CONSCIOUS DECISION TO WAIT UNTIL WE STARTED THE C I A C PROCESS, THIS IMPACT FEE ANALYSIS TO INCLUDE IT AT THAT TIME. 
          SO THEN BASICALLY THERE ARE THREE YEARS OF INVESTMENT OF CAPITAL INVESTMENT THAT WENT INTO VISTA RIDGE THAT WILL, THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE OPTION OF RECOVERING THROUGH IMPACT FEES BECAUSE WE, NO, WE JUST STARTED INVESTMENT THIS YEAR IN 2018, AND THIS WAS THE FIRST INVESTMENT THAT WE'VE MADE TO DATE BEFORE IT WAS A CONTRACTUAL COMMITMENT. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? UM, IT WAS, BUT IT WASN'T PART OF THE CALCULATION FOR THE LAST ROUND OF IMPACT FEES. 
          CORRECT. 
          BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A PROJECT IDENTIFIED AT THAT POINT IN TIME. 
          WE HAD, WERE IN THE MIDST OF NEGOTIATIONS AND WE HADN'T COME TO COUNCIL FOR THE CONTRACT YET AT THAT POINT IN TIME. 
          ULTIMATELY, MY QUESTION BOILS DOWN TO, UM, WAS THERE A BURDEN THAT WAS PUT ON THE RATE PAYERS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN PUT IN AN IMPACT FEE INSTEAD IF WE HAD BEEN MORE CAREFUL OR, OR, UM, IF WE HAD DONE OUR TIMING DIFFERENTLY IN TERMS OF ASSESSING IMPACT FEE? UH, NO, I DON'T THINK SO BECAUSE WE MADE SOME DECISIONS AND THE RAW DECISIONS TO TRY TO KEEP RATES AS LOW AS POSSIBLE, UH, TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SAWS DID NOT RISK OUR, UM, THE MONEY THAT WE WOULD BE SPENDING ON A PROJECT THAT MAY NOT DEVELOP. 
          AND SO WE MADE A CONSCIOUS DECISION NOT TO START THE, UM, THE, UH, IMPROVEMENTS OF OUR, OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE UNTIL MUCH LATER, UH, IN THE PROCESS OF, UH, THE VISTA RIDGE CONSORTIUM, UH, GETTING READY FOR THEIR PROJECT. 
          IN OTHER WORDS, NOT UNTIL THEY, UH, HAD FINANCIAL CLOSE, NOT UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY REALLY STARTED THE PROJECT, AND WE KNEW THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BE ABLE NOW BE SPENDING MONEY ON THE PROJECT. 
          DID WE MAKE THE COMMITMENT TO THEN START, UH, OUR PROCESS OF THE IMPROVEMENTS TO ACCEPT THAT WATER? I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. 
          I I JUST DO RECALL A RATE INCREASE WHERE PART OF THAT RATE INCREASE WAS DEDICATED TO, UH, THE WATER SUPPLY FEE AND VISTA RIDGE. 
          SO THAT YES. 
          COULD NOT HAVE BEEN PART OF AN IMPACT FEE IS WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME. 
          UH, NO. 
          UH, WHEN WE, WHEN WE WERE BEFORE COUNSEL AND COUNSEL GAVE US A FIVE YEAR RATE INCREASE ON JUST THE WATER SUPPLY FEE, UH, TO PAY FOR THE VISTA RIDGE PROJECT. 
          SO A DECISION WAS MADE THAT THIS PROJECT WAS GONNA BE MORE ESSENTIALLY, UH, PAID FOR BY O AND M COST IN, IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT WAS STRUCTURED WITH THE, UH, PRIVATE SECTOR WHERE WE ARE ESSENTIALLY JUST BUYING WATER AND NOT REALLY BUILDING THE PROJECT. 
          UH, THEY'RE THE ONES GETTING THE FINANCING, GETTING THE RIGHTS OF WAY DOING EVERYTHING, UH, TO GET THAT WATER TO SAN ANTONIO. 
          BUT WE PAID FOR IN A SUPPLY FEE. 
          THE, THE RATE INCREASE WAS IN A SUPPLY FEE, NOT IN A DELIVERY, WHICH TO ME SOUNDS LIKE AN O AND M COST, BUT THE SUPPLY FEE COUNTS. 
          UH, IT, IT WAS THROUGH THE SUPPLY FEE, BUT YOU CAN PAY CAPITAL AND OR O O M OUT OF THE SUPPLY FEE. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UM, WELL, THANK YOU. 
          UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR CLARIFYING THAT. 
          UM, AND I DO WANNA THANK, UH, MY APPOINTEE TO THE CAC. 
          HE'S SITTING RIGHT HERE. 
          UH, HE'S SO ENGAGED. 
          I KNOW THERE WERE SOME COMMENTS MADE ABOUT WHO'S ON THE CEC, WHETHER IT'S DEVELOPERS OR, UH, THE REAL ESTATE AGENCY. 
          I WANNA BE CLEAR, MY APPOINTEE IS A ROCKET SCIENTIST. 
          HE IS NOT A DEVELOPER. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE, , BRIAN AND I DO WANT TO ADD THAT, UH, HE WAS THE ONE THAT, UH, REALLY, UH, BROKERED THIS AGREEMENT. 
          HE WAS THE ONE THAT REALLY THOUGHT OF THE, OF THE COMPROMISE THAT, UH, EVENTUALLY WAS PART OF THE, UH, SOLUTION. 
          THANK YOU, BRIAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL. 
          COUNCILMAN BROCK HOUSE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL ASKED MY QUESTIONS LIKE IN AN INFINITELY MORE WISE MANNER. 
          I COPIED HIM NOW, . 
          SO I'M, I'M NOW I'M TRYING TO DIGEST EVERYTHING I JUST HEARD FOR THE LAST 15 MINUTES. 
          UH, SO I, I I THINK THE LAST QUESTION SHE ASKS IS WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT TO ME, WHICH IS THE REDUCTION OF IMPACT FEES VERSUS COST INCREASES TO HOMEOWNERS. 
          I THINK I'VE BEEN PRETTY CONSISTENT IN MY POSITION ON THE COUNCIL THAT I DON'T WANT ANYBODY'S RATES INCREASE AND I VOTED AGAINST THE RATES PREVIOUSLY IN THE PAST, BUT WHAT, AND I, I, I THINK I GOT THE TIMING OF HOW VISTA RIDGE CAME IN AND WHY YOU, YOU BYPASSED THAT AND, AND THEN NOW THEY'RE COMING INTO THIS PIECE. 
          NOW I GOT THAT. 
          I THINK THE COUNCILMAN WAS PROBING PRETTY WELL ON THOSE QUESTIONS, SO I UNDERSTOOD THAT. 
          BUT JUST DIG IN AND ON. 
          COUNCILMAN KURT'S POINTS EARLIER, HELP ME UNDERSTAND AND AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM YOUR SIDE 
          [04:10:01]
ABOUT COUNCILMAN CURTIS'S COMMENTS TOO ABOUT THIS REDUCTION OF FEES ON ONE SIDE FOR ONE, BUT THE HOMEOWNER, THE RESIDENTS, NOT THE RATE PAYER ON THE OTHER SIDE. 
          WELL, THEY'RE TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT, UH, ITEMS. THAT'S WHERE I WANNA GO. 
          YEAH. 
          THEY'RE TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ITEMS. ONE, OBVIOUSLY IS RESIDENTIAL, IS, UH, WHAT A HOMEOWNER PAYS, UH, FOR WATER FOR, UH, INSIDE PURPOSES, OUTSIDE PURPOSES, COOKING, BATHING, SANITATION. 
          THE OTHER ONE IS A FEE TO DEVELOPERS AS FAR AS THEIR, UH, THEIR BUILDING. 
          UH, AND SO IF WHEN YOU TRY TO EQUATE THE TWO, YOU JUST REALLY CAN'T. 
          YES, OUR RESIDENTIAL RATES, INCLUDING COMMERCIAL RATES, GENERAL RATES, UH, HAVE BEEN GOING UP THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. 
          AND THIS COUNCIL HAS BEEN, UH, WISE ENOUGH AND, UM, TO, TO GIVE US THOSE RATES. 
          AND WE APPRECIATE THAT A LOT OF 'EM ARE NOT JUST FOR WATER, BUT THEY'RE ALSO FOR THE WASTEWATER SYSTEM. 
          UM, AND SO THEY HAVE BEEN GOING UP NOW, THE, THE OVERALL IMPACT FEE TO THE DEVELOPERS IS GOING UP, YOU KNOW, AS I MENTIONED, THERE'S 13 DIFFERENT FEES WHEN YOU ADD 'EM ALL UP TOGETHER, THE OVERALL, UH, RATES THAT THEY'RE PAYING ARE HIGHER. 
          IT'S ONE OUT OF 13 THAT IT IS NOT AS HIGH. 
          THAT IS NOT THE MAXIMUM. 
          UH, AND SO THAT'S WHAT I, UH, BELIEVE THE DIFFERENCE IS IN WHAT THE COMMENTS THAT, UH, COUNCILMAN COURAGE WAS MAKING AS FAR AS TRYING TO COMPARE ONE GOING UP AND ONE, UH, DOWN. 
          YOU'RE SAYING THEY'RE GOING DOWN, THEY'RE INCOMPARABLE, LIKE THEY CAN'T NO, THEY'RE NOT PUT THERE. 
          THEY'RE, AND OVERALL, OUT OF ALL 13, THEY'RE, THEY'RE GOING UP AS A WHOLE CORRECT. 
          FOR THIS ONE SLICE. 
          OKAY. 
          I THINK THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION. 
          AND THANK YOU COUNCIL SANDOVAL FOR, UH, YOUR LINE OF QUESTION. 
          I APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN BROCK, HOUSE. 
          COUNCILMAN PERRY. 
          THANK YOU SIR. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UM, I GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND SOME COMMENTS ALSO. 
          IT, IF YOU REMEMBER, RIGHT? I, I VOTED AGAINST THE RATE INCREASE LAST TIME, UM, BECAUSE I JUST DID NOT SEE THE REQUIREMENT TO ACTUALLY, Y'ALL ASKED FOR A RATE INCREASE AND IT WAS ACTUALLY INCREASED MORE THAN WHAT YOU WERE REQUESTING. 
          AND, AND I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS JUSTIFIED THEN. 
          I STILL DON'T THINK IT WAS, IT'S JUSTIFIED. 
          UM, I, AND GOING BACK TO COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL AND COUNCILMAN BROCK HOUSE AND COUNCILMAN COURAGE, THERE IS A DICHOTOMY HERE, AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT THE TIMING OF VISTA RIDGE AND ALL THAT STUFF, BUT WE'RE PAYING FOR THAT, THAT TRANSMISSION LINE AND THE PUMPING STATIONS, WE ARE PAYING FOR THAT. 
          THAT'S ALL INCLUDED IN THE OPERATIONAL COST, RIGHT? ON THE COST OF WATER. 
          CORRECT. 
          AND AREN'T WE GONNA OWN THAT SYSTEM AFTER 30 YEARS? YES, SIR. 
          SO HOW CAN WE DIVORCE THAT FROM THE IMPACT FEES EVEN TODAY? SHOULDN'T THAT, WE'RE GONNA OWN THE SYSTEM. 
          WE'RE PAYING FOR THAT SYSTEM. 
          SO I'M, I'M, I'M STRUGGLING WITH SAYING YOU CAN'T USE THAT BECAUSE IT'S A SEPARATE POT OF MONEY ON IMPACT FEES FOR DEVELOPMENT. 
          GO AHEAD, DOUG. 
          THE VISTA RIDGE PROJECT IS IN OUR IMPACT FEES. 
          IT'S GOING TO BE IN OUR IMPACT FEES. 
          IT IS NOT THERE TODAY, BUT IT WILL BE HOPEFULLY RIGHT AFTER WE APPROVE THIS PROJECT. 
          UM, THERE WAS SOME QUESTIONS AGAIN ABOUT THE TIMING OF THIS PROJECT. 
          I THINK IT WAS A RATIONAL DECISION, EVEN THOUGH THE PROJECT WAS APPROVED IN 2014. 
          FINANCIAL CLOSE DID NOT HAPPEN ON THAT PROJECT UNTIL MID 2016, ACTUALLY LATE 2016. 
          SO THE EARLIEST WE COULD HAVE, UH, PROBABLY, UH, ACCUMULATED OR PUT TOGETHER THE C I A C TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN, WAS PROBABLY EARLY 2017. 
          SO MAYBE YOU WOULD'VE HAD A YEAR DIFFERENCE IN THE PROCESS. 
          POSSIBLY WE COULD HAVE GOT THE, UH, THE VISTAGE IMPACT FEES INTO THE CALCULATION SLIGHTLY EARLIER, BUT THEY WILL BE IN THERE AND THEY WILL BE IN THERE FOR THE REST. 
          ONCE THEY GO INTO EQUITY. 
          THEY WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN THERE. 
          WE WILL CONTINUE TO COLLECT IMPACT FEES PROBABLY FOR THE NEXT 20 YEARS RELATED TO THE VISTA RIDGE PROJECT. 
          AND WHY, WHO MADE THE DECISION NOT TO DO THIS BACK IN 2017? THAT'S TWO YEARS AGO, ALREADY IN 2017 TO, TO RECONVENE ACTUALLY, THE, THE C I A C RECONVENED IN MID 2018. 
          SO POSSIBLY WE COULD HAVE RECONVENED THE C I A C OR, OR ALWAYS CONVENED, BUT THEY STARTED LOOKING AT THIS, THE UPDATE OF THE FIVE YEARS, UH, PROGRAM, THE IMPACT FEES IN MID 2018. 
          SO WE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY GOT IT DONE ONE YEAR EARLIER. 
          BUT AGAIN, WE DIDN'T START REALLY SPENDING MONEY, AS ANDREA POINTED OUT UNTIL 2018. 
          WE WERE HOLDING OFF TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS PROJECT WAS REALLY GONNA COME TO FRUITION BEFORE WE START INVESTING SIGNIFICANT DOLLARS INTO THE PROJECT. 
          YEAH, AND I, AND I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN COURAGE, VISTA RIDGE IS, IT'S BASICALLY DONE. 
          WE'RE GONNA EAT THAT. 
          [04:15:01]
I WAS TOTALLY AGAINST THAT TO BEGIN WITH. 
          I THOUGHT WE SHOULD BE DEVELOPING ON THE SOUTH SIDE TO MAKE UP THAT DIFFERENCE. 
          BUT THAT'S ALL, THAT'S ALL IN THE PAST. 
          BUT HOW CAN WE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS? YOU'VE HEARD THE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE UPSET OUT THERE, HOMEOWNERS. 
          HOW CAN WE SHIFT THAT DICHOTOMY A LITTLE BIT TO MAKE IT MORE EQUITABLE, IF YOU WILL, BETWEEN IMPACT FEES AND THE RAISING OF OUR RATES THAT OUR HOMEOWNERS AND BUSINESSES ARE HAVING TO PAY? HOW, HOW CAN WE MAKE THAT SHIFT WELL, OR CAN WE MAKE THAT SHIFT? WELL, THE, AND I'VE HEARD REFERENCE, I THINK WE CAN MAKE THAT SHIFT. 
          I, I'VE HEARD REFERENCE SEVERAL TIMES THAT THE 9.9% OR, YOU KNOW, WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE POSSIBLY CAN. 
          THAT'S THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT. 
          I DON'T THINK WE'RE GONNA COME IN WITH A FIGURE NEAR THAT FIGURE. 
          SO, UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT THAT. 
          UM, THE WATER SUPPLY IMPACT FEE, I THINK THIS WAS A COMPROMISE POSITION ON THE WATER SUPPLY. 
          YOU HEARD THE RATIONALE BEHIND IT. 
          TRACY WENT THROUGH IT, WHERE AGAIN, THE C I A C COULD'VE, UH, ASKED TO COME BACK AND LOOK AT IT A YEAR FROM NOW. 
          IF WE'D APPROVED THE 3,300. 
          NOW, I THINK THERE'S A LARGE LIKELIHOOD WE WOULD'VE BEEN BACK IN FRONT OF YOU NEXT YEAR TALKING ABOUT LOWERING IT DOWN TO 2,600. 
          UM, AND HAVING TO GO THROUGH THAT ENTIRE PROCESS AGAIN. 
          WE DECIDED TO HEAD THAT OFF AND MEET YEAH, MEET IN THE MIDDLE. 
          WELL, I, I, AS WITH MY COLLEAGUES HERE, I'M, I'M STRUGGLING WITH THAT SAYING WE'RE GOING DOWN ON THE PRICE. 
          HOW MUCH OR WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE GONNA BE ON GOING DOWN ON THE IMPACT FEE? WHAT, WHAT'S THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE IN TERMS OF TOTAL? SO AGAIN, IT'S 600. 
          IT DEPENDS ON HOW MANY EDS OBVIOUSLY PER THE CALCULATION. 
          UH, IT WAS ASSUMING ROUGHLY 14,000 EDUS EACH YEAR. 
          AND AS COUNCILMAN COURAGE POINTED OUT, I THINK THAT'S, IF YOU DO $600, $616 TIMES, 14,000 EDS, YOU GET SOMEWHERE IN THE RANGE OF $8.7 MILLION, I BELIEVE. 
          OKAY. 
          AND WHAT COULD A WHAT, LET'S SAY IF WE KEPT IT AT, IF WE KEPT IT AT THAT MAXIMUM, COULD WE TAKE THAT SAVINGS AND PUT IT AGAINST RESIDENTIAL RATES TO KEEP THEM LOWER? AND WHAT, WHAT WOULD THAT IMPACT BE? IT WOULD EIGHT $8.7 MILLION. 
          WHAT WOULD THAT EQUATE TO AN AVERAGE BILL? $8.7 MILLION IN CAPITAL TERMS, IN THESE DOLLARS, ANY OF THESE DOLLARS THAT ARE COLLECTED HAVE TO BE USED TO FUND CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          SO WHAT WE WOULD DO IS, IS CASH FUNDS SOME ADDITIONAL CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, ROUGHLY, AND THIS IS A ROUGH GUESS, UM, RULE OF THUMB, BUT IT'S ABOUT $50 MILLION OF C I P EQUATES TO A 1% SAWS RATE INCREASE. 
          SO $8.7 MILLION WOULD BE LESS THAN TWO TENTHS OF 1% OF A FUTURE. 
          AGAIN, WE WOULD TAKE THAT CASH AND DEPLOY IT TO CASH FUND. 
          C I P, THAT IF WE DON'T HAVE THAT CASH, WE WILL LIKELY HAVE TO DEBT FUND AN ADDITIONAL $8.7 MILLION. 
          SO, OKAY, BUT YOU SEE WHAT THE ANGST IS HERE, ONE GOES DOWN AND THE OTHER GOES UP. 
          I APPRECIATE, AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY AND THAT'S WHAT I'M HAVING A PROBLEM WITH. 
          I'M, I'M A PRO-BUSINESS PERSON. 
          I THINK THAT'S GREAT THAT THE IMPACT FEES WE'RE LOOKING AT REDUCING THOSE, BUT I'M LOOKING AT HOMEOWNERS OUT THERE AND BUSINESSES THAT PAY THAT MONTHLY WATER BILL THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET HIT WITH ANOTHER 10% INCREASE, UH, OR 9.9, WHATEVER THAT IS. 
          SO HELP US OUT HERE. 
          WHAT COULD WE DO TO, WELL, EVEN THAT OUT A LITTLE BIT, UH, FIRST OF ALL, AS DOUG MENTIONED, UM, 9.9% WAS THE MAXIMUM THAT THIS COUNCIL ALLOWED US TO RAISE THE RATE IF WE NEEDED TO. 
          UH, THINGS THAT DOUG IS DOING THAT WE ARE DOING AT SAWS CURRENTLY, WE'RE, UH, DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO LOWER THAT POTENTIAL INCREASE. 
          SO YOU'LL, YOU'LL SEE A LOWER INCREASE TO THE 9.9. 
          NOW IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, UH, MOVING SOME OF THE COST FROM THE BUSINESS, UH, COMMUNITY OR THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, UH, AND HELPING OUT THE RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY, I, I THINK THAT'S WHAT, UH, ESSENTIALLY, UH, THE IMPACT FEES DO IS, IS, UH, DO ALLOW US TO HAVE LOWER RATES BECAUSE WE'VE ALWAYS, UH, RAISED THE RATES AS, AS, AS MUCH AS, UH, AS THEY'RE ALLOWED ONLY THIS TIME, UH, ONLY ONE OUT OF THE 13 RATES IS NOT BEING RAISED TO THE MAXIMUM. 
          AND THERE'S A UNIQUE SITUATION BECAUSE OF THAT, THAT UNIQUE SITUATION IS VISTA. 
          IS VISTA RIDGE. 
          NOW, VISTA RIDGE AS, UM, I, I THINK COUNCILMAN COURAGE MENTIONED IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE WATER IN TEXAS. 
          [04:20:01]
AND THAT IS TRUE, BUT I WILL, UH, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY, UH, THIS COUNCIL, PREVIOUS COUNCIL VOTED UNANIMOUSLY, UH, FOR THAT PROJECT IS BECAUSE WE WERE ABLE TO SHOW THAT THAT PRICE WILL NEVER GO UP FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS. 
          IT'S A CONSTANT AMOUNT FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS. 
          AND SO THE LAST THING THAT YOU EVER WANT A UTILITY TO DO IS TO RUN IT, UH, TWO YEARS AT A TIME, ONE YEAR AT A TIME. 
          WE HAVE TO RUN UTILITIES, UH, WITH, UH, 10 YEAR, 20 YEAR, 30 YEAR TYPES OF TIMEFRAMES. 
          AND WE KNEW THAT THIS WAS A GREAT PROJECT, A GREAT OPPORTUNITY, AND YOU'LL HAVE FUTURE SAN ANTONIANS BE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THAT ALSO. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THA THAT'S ALL I HAVE, SIR. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          UM, AND THAT'S ALL THE COMMENTS FOR TODAY. 
          UH, THIS IS A DIFFICULT ISSUE, AND YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY MANY TIMES BEFORE, UH, AS I'VE HAD MY FAIR SHARE OF GRILLING OF, UH, UH, C E O PUENTE AND, AND OTHERS, THAT THERE'S NOT, UH, A PERSON IN THIS CITY, I BELIEVE THAT IS BETTER EQUIPPED FROM ALL PERSPECTIVES TO HANDLE THIS ISSUE. 
          AND THAT'S, UH, AMY HARDBERGER, WHO I WAS VERY HAPPY TO SEE BACK ON THE C A C. 
          UM, THIS WAS A DIFFICULT ISSUE. 
          UM, I DO WANT TO SAY THOUGH, THAT I DO AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN EXPRESSED, UH, BY COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL THAT AS WE EXPAND OUR WATER SUPPLIES, THAT WE ARE DOING SO IN A WAY THAT PROTECTS HOMEOWNERS, UH, AND THAT WE SHOW THAT, UH, IT IS NOT ON THE BACKS OF, OF CURRENT RESIDENTS THAT WE CONTINUE TO, UH, EXPERIENCE AND, AND WELCOME THE, THE GROWTH THAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          UM, I DO SUPPORT THE, THE, THE, THE NEW IMPACT FEES. 
          AND I, I DO APPLAUD THE, THE COMPROMISE AND THE WORK TOGETHER FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY TO THE RESIDENTS TO, UH, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY THAT HAVE, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY MEMORY, HAVE ACTUALLY COME TOGETHER UNANIMOUSLY ON THIS ISSUE. 
          UM, BUT I DO THINK IT'S A, UH, IT IS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE VERY COMPLEX ROLE THAT SAWS IS NOW BEING FORCED TO PLAY, TO DELIVER WATER AFFORDABLY IN A STATE THAT IS RAPIDLY URBANIZING, THAT WE'RE HAVING THESE COMMENTS FROM THE DIOCESE. 
          AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST, UH, IS THAT WE, WE HEEDED THE, THE COUNCILMAN'S ADVICE AND REALLY TAKE A LOOK OVER THE NEXT YEAR AND AT THE RATE DESIGN OF SAWS AND HOW WE ARE, UH, UH, BURDENING NEW GROWTH, UH, BUT ALSO HOW THAT'S IMPACTING CURRENT RESIDENTS AND DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO STRUCTURE THE GROWTH IN A WAY OR STRUCTURE THE RATES IN A WAY THAT INCENTIVIZES CONSERVATION, BUT ALSO PROTECTS EXISTING HOMEOWNERS, UH, AS THE GROWTH OCCURS AROUND THEM. 
          UH, THAT'S DOABLE. 
          IT'S ALSO VERY COMPLEX. 
          WE'VE HEARD IT A NUMBER OF TIMES NOW FROM MEMBERS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO, UH, DOWN TO THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS THAT WE OUGHT TO DO THAT. 
          WE SHOULD DO THAT. 
          UH, AND I THINK THAT THE IMPACT FEE DISCUSSION IS A GREAT PRELUDE, UH, TO THAT CONVERSATION. 
          SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE THE INPUT OF MY COLLEAGUES ON THAT, UH, GET REENGAGED IN THAT DISCUSSION, UM, AS WE MOVE THROUGH, UH, THIS NEXT PHASE. 
          UH, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO, TO SEEING THE RESPONSE FROM, UH, FROM SAWS AND FROM THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL. 
          SO, UH, WITH THAT, WE DO HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE NEW ROUND OF IMPACT FEES, AND WE'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE UP THAT NOW. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          OKAY. 
          WE DO HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION NOW, AND TIME IS 1:37 PM ON THIS THURSDAY, MAY 16TH, 2019. 
          THE CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, WILL NOW MEET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071, CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY AND TO DELIBERATE OR DISCUSS ITEMS POSTED FOR MAY 15TH, 2019 B SESSION, INCLUDING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.087, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE LEASE, OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.072 REAL PROPERTY AND LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071 CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          CITY COUNCIL HAS RECONVENED FROM ITS EXECUTIVE SESSION, NO ACTION WAS TAKEN. 
          UH, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR ZONING AGENDA SCHEDULED FOR 2:00 PM TODAY, WE DO HAVE, UH, BRIEFLY A CITY MANAGER'S REPORT. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          JUST ONE ITEM TODAY, UH, YOU KNOW, AS CITY MANAGER, WE HAVE, UM, UH, A LOT OF GREAT EMPLOYEES THAT DO A LOT OF DIFFERENT JOBS. 
          UH, WE GOT POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS AND DOCTORS AND NURSES AND INSPECTORS, 
          [04:25:01]
UH, BUT WE ALSO HAVE AN ARCHEOLOGIST. 
          AND, UH, I WANTED TO SHARE WITH THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL THAT, UM, UH, KAY HINES, THE CITY ARCHEOLOGIST, UH, WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE CITY NEXT WEEK. 
          UM, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, UM, SHE HAS BEEN THE CITY ARCHEOLOGIST SINCE 2003. 
          UH, AND KAY HAS CONSISTENTLY SERVED THE CITY WITH INTEGRITY AND PROFESSIONALISM. 
          UM, SHE HAS HAD A HUGE ROLE IN A NUMBER OF, UH, THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, UM, AND CONDUCTED CULTURAL RESOURCE INVESTIGATIONS FOR OVER 35 YEARS, UH, EVEN BEFORE SHE CAME TO WORK FOR THE CITY. 
          UM, HER, UH, HER BODY OF WORK WILL LEAVE AN INDELIBLE MARK ON, UH, THIS ORGANIZATION AND THE HISTORY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND, UM, SHE'S BEEN INVOLVED IN A LOT OF EXCITING PROJECTS AND, AND RENOVATIONS, INCLUDING THE ALAMO AND MAINE PLAZA. 
          UH, SHE'S PROVIDED, UH, OVERSIGHT MANAGEMENT OF OVER A THOUSAND PROJECTS, UH, THAT TOTALED OVER $1.2 BILLION. 
          AND IT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE WORK THAT WE DO. 
          WE DO. 
          SHE IS, UM, AN AWARD-WINNING PROFESSIONAL THAT HAS DEVELOPED A STRONG RELATIONSHIP, UH, WITH A NUMBER OF OUR PARTNERS AND AGENCIES AND STAKEHOLDERS, AND HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN, UH, UH, REALLY TAKING OUR ARCHEOLOGY, UH, PROGRAM, UM, UM, ABOVE THE WATERMARK, UH, AND, AND LOOKED AT FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 
          UM, SO, KAY, I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. 
          UH, WE WILL CERTAINLY MISS, MISS YOU. 
          AND, UH, I DID WANT TO HAVE A CHANCE TO RECOGNIZE HER AND THANK HER FOR THAT SERVICE. 
          WE OKAY. 
          I KNOW WE'RE REALLY RUNNING LATE, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY MANAGER, AND TO SHANNON. 
          I'VE HAD A GREAT RUN. 
          IT'S BEEN A GREAT TIME. 
          I AM SO PROUD TO HAVE SERVED THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE CITIZENS OF THE, OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          IT'S BEEN GREAT. 
          THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CLAY, UH, KAY, FOR YOUR, UH, FOR YOUR GREAT SERVICE TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND, AND YOUR MARK WILL BE LEFT FOR GENERATIONS BECAUSE OF THE PROJECTS THAT YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH. 
          AND I WANT TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY, UH, FOR PROVIDING SUCH CLARITY, UH, AND SOME VERY COMPLEX ISSUES AND PROJECTS THAT WE'VE TACKLED. 
          UH, YOUR VOICE AND YOUR GUIDANCE THROUGH SOME OF THESE VERY DIFFICULT MOMENTS IN, IN PARTICULAR WITH THE ALAMO PROJECT, UH, HAVE MADE IT BETTER, UH, HAVE MADE US, UH, REMAIN TRUE TO THE CAUSE OF PRESERVING AND, UM, REVERING THE HISTORY THAT IS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND FOR THAT, UH, WE AND GENERATIONS OF SAN ANTONIO AND ARE FOR GRATEFUL. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE. 
          OKAY, COUNCILMAN TAVEN. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU, UH, KAY FOR, UH, FOR OUR FRIENDSHIP. 
          I GOT TO KNOW YOU MANY YEARS AGO BEFORE I WAS EVER ON COUNCIL, AND LEARNED A LOT ABOUT WHAT THE CITY DOES FOR PROTECTING ITS HISTORY. 
          AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS I CAN THINK OF THAT, THAT AN ARCHEOLOGIST DOES IS HELPS US DISCOVER NEW HISTORY, UH, AND REALLY SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. 
          UH, YOU DID THAT AND WE WERE ABLE TO CELEBRATE OUR TRICENTENNIAL FROM THE PROPER LOCATION BECAUSE OF YOU. 
          UH, YOU FOUND THE ORIGINAL LOCATION OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO ERO. 
          MANY KNOW THAT MISSION AS THE ALAMO, BUT MANY PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THERE WAS DIFFERENT ITERATIONS OF THAT MISSION IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          AND WHEN WE CELEBRATED 300 YEARS LAST YEAR, IT WAS FROM THE SPOT YOU DISCOVERED, UH, OVER HERE ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF DOWNTOWN BY, BY THE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ITALIAN SOCIETY HALL. 
          AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I GOT TO, TO MEET YOU THEN AND SEE YOU AT WORK, SEE YOUR PASSION FOR, FOR A CITY, FOR A HISTORY, AND, UH, WATCH YOU JUST, UH, COLLECT ALL THESE AMAZING ARTIFACTS AND, AND GET, YOU GET TO SEE YOU THINKING ABOUT HOW THIS IS SO IMPORTANT TO, TO THE CITY AND, AND HOW IT, IT'S PART OF OUR HISTORY AND WHY YOU DO WHAT YOU DO. 
          SO, UH, MY ONLY REGRET IS THAT WE DIDN'T GET THE INDI INDIANA JONES THEME PLAYING FOR YOU RIGHT NOW, BUT , I JUST WANNA SAY, UH, I REALLY APPRECIATE, UH, HAVING KNOWN YOU AND I HOPE TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH YOU AS WE MOVE FORWARD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          KAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN VINNO. 
          COUNCILMAN PERRY. 
          THANK YOU SIR. 
          KAY. 
          WE'RE STILL WORKING ON IT. 
          THAT CAMINO REAL MONUMENT, STILL WORKING ON THAT, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE ON THAT. 
          UH, WE'LL GET IT DONE ONE OF THESE DAYS AND WE WILL GET YOU BACK OVER THERE ONCE WE FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH THAT THING. 
          ALL RIGHT? BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE. 
          APPRECIATE IT. 
          GREAT WORK, KAY. 
          TO A CAREER. 
          WELL DONE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          [04:30:09]
ALRIGHT, WE ARE NOW HERE FOR OUR ZONING PORTION OF THE, UH, OF THE MEETING. 
          AND SO ON CONSENT WE'VE GOT, UH, IVANS, P ONE Z, ONE, P TWO Z, TWO Z FOUR Z, FIVE P FOUR Z, SIX Z, SEVEN Z EIGHT Z NINE, Z 10, AND Z 12. 
          AND THEN FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSENT WE'VE GOT, UH, P THREE AND Z THREE AND THEN Z 11. 
          ANYTHING ELSE THAT NEEDS TO BE PULLED OFF, CONSENT. 
          ALRIGHT, AND, UH, WE HAVE ONE CITIZEN TO, TO SPEAK, BUT HE'S FOR INDIVIDUAL ZONING ITEMS, SO NO ONE ELSE IS SCHEDULED TO SPEAK. 
          AND SO IS THERE A MOTION FOR THE CONSENT ZONING ITEMS? ALL RIGHT, SO WE HAVE A MOTION. 
          WAIT, WAIT SECOND. 
          ALRIGHT, PLEASE VOTE. 
          ALRIGHT, SO WE'LL TAKE UP A P THREE AND Z THREE. 
          ITEM P THREE Z THREE IS AMENDING THE IH 10 EAST CORRIDOR PERIMETER PLAN FROM COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL TO REGIONAL COMMERCIAL REZONING FROM C TWO TO C THREE LOCATED AT 38 31 FOSTER ROAD STAFF AND PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMEND DENIAL ZONING. 
          COMMISSION RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF C THREE NA EIGHT NOTICES MAILED ZERO IN FAVOR AND ZERO OPPOSED. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          WE'RE GONNA HAVE, UM, JACK FINGER COME UP AND SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. 
          IS JACK HERE? JACK IS NOT HERE. 
          ALRIGHT, SO IS UH, IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION TO APPROVE WITH AN AYY? ALRIGHT, NO ONE SIGNED TO SPEAK AND SO PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ITEM Z 11 Z 11 IS FROM REZONING FROM R FOUR TO R FOUR CD WITH A CONDITIONAL USE FOR FOUR RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS LOCATED AT 3 34 GLENDALE AVENUE. 
          STAFF AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMEND DENIAL WITH AN ALTERNATE RECOMMENDATION FOR TWO DWELLING UNITS. 
          44 NOTICES MAILED ZERO IN FAVOR AND ZERO OPPOSED. 
          COMMUNITY WORKERS COUNCIL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS OPPOSED. 
          COUNCILMAN BROADCAST. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR I MOTION TO CONTINUE TO JUNE 6TH. 
          ALRIGHT, IT'S MOTION. 
          AND SECOND TO CONTINUE TO JUNE 6TH, PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          THAT'S IT. 
          COMPLETED. 
          THIS MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED.
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