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OFFICE.WELCOME TO OUR SEPTEMBER MEETING FOR THE EEC ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, UH, COMMITTEE.
UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE, UM, IN THIS, IN, UH, OUR CHAMBERS TODAY.
SO OUR FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA, ACTUALLY, I, IF WE CAN CALL, ROLL PLEASE.
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
THIS IS A DIFFERENT TIME THAN USUAL FOR THIS COMMITTEE, BUT WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE IT HERE.
[1. 19-6663 Approval of the minutes from the Economic and Workforce Development Committee meeting on August 6, 2019.]
OUR FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR THE ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING OF AUGUST 6TH, 2019.I RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE, UH, MEETING MINUTES FROM AUGUST 6TH, 2019.
[2. 19-6503 A briefing on economic development programs that address various dimensions in the Status of Women Report commissioned by the City of San Antonio [Carlos Contreras, Assistant City Manager; Alejandra Lopez, Interim Director, Economic Development]]
OUR FIRST ITEM IS BRIEFING ON, UH, BRIEFING AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS VARIOUS DIMENSIONS IN THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT COMMISSIONED BY THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.UM, I BELIEVE ALEX LOPEZ WILL COME UP AND GIVE A PRESENTATION, AND I'M EXCITED TO HAVE THIS BECAUSE AS WE LOOK AT THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HIGHLIGHTED THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, UM, AND MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ELEMENTS WERE PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE SO WE CAN GO MORE IN DEPTH.
THANK YOU, LILY, SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AS WELL.
UM, AND WE CAN FIND OUT WHERE WE ARE, WHAT THE STATUS IS, AND WHAT WE ARE DOING, AND HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER.
THERE'S A BRIEFING ON THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES THAT ADDRESS VARIOUS DIMENSIONS IN THE STATUS OF WOMEN'S REPORT THAT WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE CITY EARLIER THIS YEAR.
TO START WITH SOME BACKGROUND, IN NOVEMBER OF 2018, CITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED A RESOLUTION ON WOMEN'S EQUITY, REAFFIRMING THE COMMITMENT OF THE CITY TO IMPROVE THE STATUS OF WOMEN BY ELIMINATING ALL FORMS OF VIOLENCE AND PROMOTING HEALTH AND SAFETY, ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN LEADERSHIP OF WOMEN.
IN ADDITION, IN MAY OF 2019, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO FINALIZED A REPORT ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN, WHICH UTILIZED A VARIETY OF DATA SOURCES TO PROVIDE A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE STANDING OF WOMEN THROUGH 13 DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS.
LILI SURA, ONE OF OUR AUTHORS OF THIS REPORT IS HERE WITH US TODAY AS IS, IS DR.
ERICA REYES, CHAIR OF THE WOMEN'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS, OR THE MAYOR'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN.
I WANNA THANK THEM BOTH FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING.
THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT HAS IMPLEMENTED PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES THAT DIRECTLY ADDRESS FIVE OF THE 13 DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS IN THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT.
THESE FIVE DIMENSIONS INCLUDE EDUCATION, WORK, ECONOMICS, BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT THROUGH OUR DEPARTMENT'S, PROGRAMS AND INITIATIVES.
OUR GOAL IS TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE AND OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE FIVE DIMENSIONS IN THIS STUDY, BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THE CRITICAL INTERPLAY BETWEEN WOMEN'S ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND OTHER DIMENSIONS STUDIED IN THE REPORT.
BUT BEFORE I DESCRIBE OUR VARIOUS PROGRAMS, I'D LIKE TO REMIND THE COMMITTEE OF SOME OF THE SOBERING STATISTICS INCLUDED IN THE REPORT.
THE REPORT HIGHLIGHTED THAT WOMEN ARE ACTUALLY LESS LIKELY THAN MEN TO DROP OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL AND ARE MORE LIKELY TO COMPLETE BACHELOR'S DEGREES.
HOWEVER, THESE EDUCATIONAL GAINS HAVE NOT YET TRANSLATED INTO ECONOMIC GAINS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
WOMEN REPRESENT 47% OF THE SAN ANTONIO WORKFORCE, BUT EARN 81 CENTS FOR EVERY DOLLAR EARNED BY MEN.
WOMEN ARE LESS LIKELY THAN MEN TO BE EMPLOYED AND MORE LIKELY THAN MEN TO LIVE IN POVERTY.
AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT AMONG ALL OF THESE STATISTICS, THE DATA INDICATES SUBSTANTIAL DISPARITY BASED ON RACE AND ETHNICITY, IN MOST CASES, WITH LATINAS AND BLACK WOMEN FARING FAR WORSE.
THE REPORT ALSO COMPARED THESE STATISTICS WITH OTHER TEXAS CITIES, AND IN MOST CASES, SAN ANTONIO ALSO LAGGED BEHIND.
WE'RE GONNA START OFF BY TALKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT, UM, WORK THAT THE OUR DEPARTMENT OFFERS THROUGH DELEGATE AGENCIES, AND THAT'S SEVEN DELEGATE AGENCIES, UM, THAT FIRST FOCUS ON CAREER PREPAREDNESS.
THESE SEVEN DELEGATE AGENCIES ARE
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CHRYSALIS MINISTRIES, DRESS FOR SUCCESS, FAMILY SERVICES, GOODWILL, RESTORE, EDUCATION ESSAY, CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN, HOPE, RESOURCE CENTER, AND S ANTE.THESE DELEGATE AGENCIES FOCUS ON REMOVING THE BARRIERS THAT, THAT, UM, PARTICIPANTS CAN EXPERIENCE IN TRYING TO ATTAIN JOB TRAINING.
THEY PROVIDE LITERACY AND NUMERACY SERVICES, G E D ATTAINMENT, WORK EXPERIENCE, OCCUPATIONAL CERTIFICATION, AND JOB PLACEMENT.
IN ADDITION TO THE ACTUAL TRAINING THAT THEY PROVIDE, THEY ALSO OFFER SUPPORT SERVICES TO WOMEN.
THIS INCLUDES CASE MANAGEMENT, TRANSPORTATION AND CHILDCARE AND UTILITY ASSISTANCE.
OF THE TWO, 2,500 CLIENTS THAT HAVE RECEIVED ASSISTANCE, 1,650 OR 66% ARE WOMEN.
AND LIKE I MENTIONED, SEVEN OF OUR DELEGATE AGENCIES FOCUS ON THIS TYPE OF SUPPORT.
THE LAST DELEGATE AGENCY THAT ALSO, THAT ALSO PARTNERS WITH US IS PROJECT QUEST.
AND THEIR WORK SPECIFICALLY FOCUSES IN PREPARING INDIVIDUALS FOR IN DEMAND CAREER OCCUPATIONS.
IN FISCAL YEAR 19, PROJECT QUEST HELPED WOMEN INCREASE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT BY EARNING BACHELOR'S DEGREES AND ASSOCIATE'S DEGREES IN CERTIFICATIONS, AND MOST OF THEM WERE ACTUALLY IN STEM FIELDS.
SO FAR, 300 CLIENTS EARNED DEGREES IN CERTIFICATIONS OF WHICH 216 OR 72% WERE WOMEN.
168 OF THESE, UM, COM COMPLETIONS, OR WOMEN WERE ACTUALLY WOMEN OF COLOR.
AND 214 OR 99% WERE IN STEM FIELDS.
THE OUTCOMES THAT PROJECT QUEST CONTINUES TO ACHIEVE ARE SUBSTANTIAL.
UM, WITH THIS REPORT, WE SEE THAT 200 AND, UM, CLIENTS ARE EXPERIENCING A 250% INCREASE IN THE THEIR AVERAGE WAGES.
AND NOW I'M GONNA SHIFT BACK TO THE REPORT A LITTLE BIT TO GIVE YOU SOME OF THE STATISTICS ON WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
SO WHAT THE DATA, UM, SHARED WAS THAT 30% OF WOMEN OF BUSINESSES ARE OWNED BY WOMEN, AND THEY EMPLOY 22% OF OUR WORKFORCE, AND THEY ACCOUNT FOR 16% OF OUR COMMUNITY'S ANNUAL PAYROLL.
SO NOW I'M GONNA SHIFT INTO SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT OUR DEPARTMENT OFFERS IN PERTAINING TO BUSINESS
OUR S BETA PROGRAM HAS SEEN SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES SINCE IT WAS OVERHAULED IN 2011.
UM, THE DATA SHOWED IN 2012 THAT ONLY 3% OR $1.4 MILLION OF, OF 1.4 MILLION OF THE DOLLARS THAT WE WERE CONTRACTING WITH BUSINESSES AT THAT TIME WERE GOING TO WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES.
THE LAST FULL YEAR OF DATA IS FISCAL YEAR 18, AND WE'RE SEEING A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE WITH $76 MILLION NOW GOING TO WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES.
WE'RE WORKING WITH 170 ADDITIONAL WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES AS WELL.
SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY CONNECTING WITH MORE OF THESE WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
45 MILLION OR 60% OF THOSE DOLLARS WERE PAID TO WOMEN OF COLOR.
39 MILLION WERE TO HISPANIC WOMEN, WOMEN BUSINESSES, AND 5 MILLION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESSES, UM, WITH A LITTLE LESS THAN A MILLION GOING TO ASIAN WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS.
ANOTHER IMPORTANT STATISTIC IS THAT 75% OF THESE DOLLARS WERE PAID TO WOMEN PARTICIPATING IN CONTRACTS AT THE PRIME LEVEL.
SO IN 2016, COUNCIL APPROVED AN AMENDMENT TO THE CE BETA ORDINANCE THAT REALLY FACILITATED MORE PARTICIPATION BY WOMEN AT THE PRIME LEVEL, AND WE'RE STARTING TO SEE THAT IMPACT AS FAR AS ACCESSING CAPITAL.
WE KNOW THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE MAJOR CHALLENGES THAT WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS AND BUSINESS OWNERS EXPERIENCE.
SO WE'VE CREATED THE LOAN BUY DOWN PROGRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LIFT FUND.
WE PROVIDE ZERO INTEREST LOANS FOR WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES THROUGH LIFT FUND.
AND IN FISCAL YEAR 1813 OR 45% OF THE LOANS TO WOMEN BUS WERE WERE APPROVED FOR BUSINESS WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS, WHICH TOLD JUST WHICH TOTALED JUST SHY OF $300,000.
NINE OR 69% OF THESE, UM, LOANS WENT TO WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS, UM, THAT ARE ALSO MINORITY OWNED, AND THEY HELPED CREATE 11 JOBS.
THE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FEE WAIVER PROGRAM IS ALSO SOMETHING WE'RE PILOTING THIS YEAR.
SO FAR, WE'VE SERVED, UM, FOUR OR 44% OF THE FEE WAIVER PARTICIPANTS HAVE BEEN WOMEN, AND THIS HAS TOTAL TOTALED $36,000 THAT WE'VE WAIVED IN FEES.
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WERE MINORITY OWNED WOMEN BUSINESSES, AND THEY'VE HELPED CREATE 37 JOBS AND SECURED $4.3 MILLION IN INVESTMENT BACK INTO THEIR BUSINESSES.AS FAR AS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, THE MENTOR PROTEGE PROGRAM ACTUALLY STARTED BACK IN 2011 WHEN WE, WE DID THE MAJOR OVERHAUL TO THE C BETA ORDINANCE, BUT IT CONTINUES TO SHOW PROGRESS AND, AND SPECIFICALLY WHEN IT COMES TO WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS.
THIS YEAR, 48% OF THE PROGRAM PARTICI PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS ARE WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES, AND 83% OF THOSE ARE MINORITY WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES.
THE LATEST GRADUATE STATISTICS SHOW THAT 98% OF THE, OF OUR PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS, ONCE THEY GRADUATE, THEY DEMONSTRATE AN INCREASE IN, IN THEIR REVENUE, WHICH AGAIN, IS ABOUT HELPING BUILD THEIR CAPACITY.
AND THE OTHER CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE IS LAUNCH SA.
IN FISCAL YEAR 19, WE'VE SERVED OVER 3000, UM, RESIDENTS ALREADY WITH THROUGH LAUNCH SA 30, UM, 38% OF WHICH ARE WOMEN, AND 35% ARE MEN.
I JUST WANNA NOTE THAT THERE WAS A VERY LARGE PERCENTAGE THAT DID NOT DISCLOSE THEIR GENDER.
SO WE COULD HAVE ACTUALLY SERVED MORE THAN 35%.
WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE THAT DEMOGRAPHIC FOR ABOUT 25% OF, OF THE RESPONDENTS, 63% OF THOSE SERVED ARE MINORITY WOMEN.
UM, AND HERE AGAIN, WE'RE ALSO SEEING THAT CLIENTS ARE REPORTING A 60, 64% INCREASE IN REVENUE AS FAR AS OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
THAT'S REALLY, IT'S IN COMBINATION OF THE OTHER EFFORTS.
BUT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO NOTE THAT, UM, THE PARTS OF THE REPORT THAT TALKED ABOUT CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND SERVICE ON WOMEN, SERVICE ON BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
OUR, OUR DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY WORKS WITH A, WITH THREE DIFFERENT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
AS FAR AS THE SMALL BUSINESS ADVOCACY COMMITTEE, 37% OF THAT COMMITTEE IS, IS COMPRISED OF WOMEN.
THE DIVERSITY ACTION PLAN SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SMALL BUSINESS AS ADVOCACY COMMITTEE IS 67% WOMEN.
AND THE LAUNCH SA ADVISORY BOARD IS ACTUALLY THREE 33% WOMEN.
AND WE THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WOMEN ARE HELPING INFORM THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE DESIGNING.
AND AS WE MAKE REVISIONS, AS WE MAKE AMENDMENTS TO THOSE PROGRAMS AND RECOMMEND CHANGES TO THE COUNCIL, THEY HELP INFORM AND GUIDE US IN THAT PROCESS.
WHAT'S ALSO IMPORTANT IS A DIRECT OUTREACH THAT WE MAKE TO, IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE WORK WITH OVER 70 DIFFERENT CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, UM, TRADE ORGANIZATIONS, ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS, AND OTHER PARTNERS, INCLUDING THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN.
UM, WE ATTEND OR HOST OVER 60 ANNUAL EVENTS.
AND THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE CONTACT WITH THOSE WOMEN, BUSINESS BUSINESS OWNERS SO THAT THEY REGISTER IN OUR VENDOR REGISTRY AND SHOW US THAT THEY WANNA DO WORK WITH THE CITY.
BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADVOCACY PROGRAM, THE ABETA PROGRAM, IS ONE OF THE MAIN WAYS THAT WE CAN CONTRIBUTE AND HELP THESE WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES BUILD THEIR CAPACITY.
43% OF THE ABETA ELIGIBLE FIRMS IN THE VENDOR REGISTRY RIGHT NOW ARE WOMEN.
AND WE KNOW THAT'S NOT ENOUGH.
WE KNOW THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE.
UM, ALL OF THESE STATISTICS, WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE, BUT WE KNOW IT'S NOT ENOUGH, WHICH IS WHY WE CONTINUE TO REVINE REFINE OUR PROGRAMS AND, UM, DEVELOP NEW PROGRAMS AS WE IDENTIFY, UM, PARTICULAR ISSUES LIKE OUR LOAN BUY DOWN PROGRAM A FEW YEARS AGO, AND NOW OUR FEE WAIVER PROGRAM, WE KNOW THAT UNTIL WE HAVE A BETTER REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO SEE SOME OF THE OUTCOMES THAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW.
WE ALSO REALIZE THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, US AS A DEPARTMENT WHERE UNIQUELY POSITIONED TO ADDRESS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN IN OUR COMMUNITY AND UNDERSTAND THAT THE DYNAMIC AND THE UNIQUE ROLE WILL PLAY IN HELPING ACHIEVE A MORE EQUITABLE OUTCOMES IN A LOT OF THE OTHER DIMENSIONS THAT THE, THAT THE REPORT COVERED, INCLUDING HEALTH AND WELLBEING AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION.
SO WITH THAT, THAT'S MY PRESENTATION IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
VER THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ALEX, FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, I HAVE ONE, UH, JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR RIGHT NOW.
UM, MY FIRST ONE IS, UM, ON SLIDE NUMBER 13 WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UM, THE LAUNCH SA ADVISORY BOARD, THERE'S TWO OF SIX.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT THE ELEMENTS ARE FOR FOR THE LAUNCH SA ADVISORY BOARD?
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GOOD MORNING, COUNCILWOMAN.SO FOR THE LAUNCH SA ADVISORY BOARD, UM, WE'RE ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS RIGHT NOW OF HAVING, UH, A IDENTIFYING NEW MEMBERS TO ADD ONTO THERE.
AT A MINIMUM, THEY NEED TO HAVE FIVE AT ALL TIMES SERVING TO PROVIDE GUIDANCE ON THEIR PROGRAMMING AND SERVICES THEY OFFER TO THE COMMUNITY.
ONCE THEY IDENTIFY NEW MEMBERS, WE BRING THEM BACK TO THIS COMMUNITY, UH, UH, COMMUNITY COMMITTEE SO THAT YOU, YOU ALL CAN VET THEM AND, UM, APPROVE THEM MOVING FORWARD.
AND WE ANTICIPATE HAVING, UM, NEW ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS PRESENTED TO YOU ALL SOMETIME BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
AND MICHAEL, SINCE YOU'RE UP HERE, LET ME ASK YOU THIS QUESTION ON NUMBER 10.
FOR THE ACCESS TO CITY CONTRACTS.
IT TALKED ABOUT, UM, THE WBE AT PRIME LEVELS.
NOW WHEN WE'RE TALK, WHEN WE'RE COUNTING THOSE, YOU HAVE 57 MILLION OR 75% WAS PAID OUT.
IS THAT JUST REPEAT WBE OR ARE THESE ALL SIGNIFICANT OR, UM, INDEPENDENT SEPARATE WBE, OR ARE WE COUNTING, UH, PRIMES TWICE? THAT'S MY QUESTION.
THEY COULD COUNT MULTIPLE TIMES.
AND I CAN GET YOU HOW MANY ARE UNIQUE IN TERMS OF PRIME LEVEL? THAT'S THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR.
OVERALL, WE HAVE 188 UNIQUE WOMEN HOME BUSINESSES PROCEEDING, UH, PARTICIPATING ON CITY CONTRACTS.
I JUST NEED TO GET THAT BROKEN DOWN BY PRIME AND SUB.
AND I'M GOING TO, UH, YIELD THE FLOW RIGHT NOW AND PASS IT OVER TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, UH, COUNCILMAN CABRA.
UM, MY FIRST QUESTION IS ABOUT THE, THE, UH, THE TOP FIVE PRIORITIES THAT YOU, I'M SORRY, THE DIMENSIONS THAT YOU IDENTIFIED ON THOSE DIMENSIONS.
DID YOU IDENTIFY BASELINE AVERAGES? LIKE DO WE KNOW WHERE WE'RE STARTING WITH THOSE? WE DO.
UM, THERE WAS DATA SPECIFIC TO, UM, EACH OF THOSE CRITERIA, AND I TRIED TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE KEY FACTORS.
UM, LIKE THE WORKFORCE, THE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT.
THE, THE REPORT WAS VERY ROBUST.
UM, SOME OF THE DATA THAT I DIDN'T INCLUDE IN THE PRESENTATION ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF STEM DEGREES.
UM, I'M TRYING TO THINK OF SOME OF THE OTHERS.
I THINK I COVERED THEM IN YEAH.
UM, AND THEN IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP, IT TALKED ABOUT THE, UM, SOME DATA THAT AMERICAN EXPRESS AND SOME SURVEYING THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING.
IT WAS A LITTLE MORE BROAD, BUT THEN THE SPECIFIC SAN ANTONIO DATA THAT THEY SHARED WAS ABOUT THE 30% OF WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES, THEIR, UM, THEIR WORKFORCE, THE, THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT THEY EMPLOY AND THEIR ANNUAL PAYROLL.
AND KEEPING WITH THAT KIND OF LINE OF THINKING, UM, DID THE, THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU LISTED, THE INITIATIVES ARE, UH, DO THEY INCLUDE DIAGNOSTICS TO IDENTIFY IMPROVEMENT? LIKE THEIR, THEIR GOALS? YES, THEY DO, FOR SURE.
THE DELEGATE AGENCY WORK THAT WE DO, IT INVOLVES A LOT OF CASE MANAGEMENT TO HELP PARTICIPANTS UNDERSTAND, HELP US UNDERSTAND THEIR NEEDS, UM, TO HELP PROMOTE THEM ACHIEVING THOSE EDUCATIONAL GOALS THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR IN ORDER TO, TO MOVE, UM, UP THE CAREER LADDER.
SO ARE WE, ARE WE TRACKING THE BUSINESSES AND THEIR SUCCESS AND, AND IF THEY'RE HAVING TROUBLE, IS, IS THAT HAPPENING FOR CERTAIN PROGRAMS? WE DO.
UM, FOR EXAMPLE, THE MENTOR PROTEGE PROGRAM, WE HAVE VERY CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THOSE PARTICIPANTS TO REALLY HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES THEY'RE EXPERIENCING TO GROW.
UM, IN PARTICULAR, OUR INTEREST THERE IS THAT THESE ARE COMPANIES THAT HAVE EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN DOING WORK WITH THE CITY.
SO SOMETIMES IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THOSE CONTRACTS WITH US, OR FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY COMPETE, WE NEED TO WORK WITH THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE.
ALAMO COLLEGES HELPS US WITH THAT AND THE TRAINING PROGRAM THAT THEY PROVIDE ALONG WITH THE MENTOR THAT HAS VOLUNTEERED TO WORK WITH THAT BUSINESS SPECIFICALLY.
ARE YOU WORKING WITH THE MAYOR'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN TO, TO IDENTIFY SOME OF THESE FACTORS? THEY'RE VERY ENGAGED GROUP.
UM, BUT THAT IS DEFINITELY PART OF THE DIRECTION IN WHICH WE'RE GOING, UM, REALLY FOCUSING SOME OF THIS WORK TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS AND WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS.
THANK YOU, UH, ALEX, FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, I, I FEEL REALLY DEVASTATED BY THESE RESULTS.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT JUST, UH, UH, I THINK COUNCILMAN HAER ASKED FOR, YOU KNOW, THE BASELINE.
AND SO I HAVE THE SAME CONCERN THAT THESE ARE REALLY
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LOW NUMBERS.UH, I KNOW THAT, I MEAN, I'VE BEEN ASKING ON BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS THAT WE HAVE AT LEAST 50% WOMEN.
WE'VE HAD 33% WOMEN FOR LIKE, MAYBE AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN ON THE COUNCIL, SO AT LEAST SIX YEARS.
UH, AND WE'VE BEEN, IT WAS ONE OF THE REQUESTS I MADE WHEN I CAME EARLY ON IS THAT WE WOULD HAVE MORE DIVERSITY IN OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU REPORTED 33%, WHICH IS WHERE IT'S BEEN AT A LONG TIME.
SO THAT'S NOT A A, A A, I'M NOT, I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT.
THE OTHER THINGS, EVEN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE PERCENTAGE OF MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES, UM, PAYMENT TO WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES ON CITY CONTRACTS, 76 MILLION PAID TO 188 UNIQUE WBS, WE HAD AN EIGHT, $850 MILLION BOND PROGRAM.
AND THAT LESS THAN 76% WOMEN TO WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES.
UM, I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S REALLY DISAPPOINTING.
UM, EVEN OUR REGULAR BUDGET OF 2.8 BILLION, LIKE, AND WE'RE SEEING THESE VERY LOW NUMBERS FOR WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES, 57 MILLION OR 75%.
I MEAN, SO I, I GUESS I'M, I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED IN SEEING SOME OF THIS.
IT JUST SHOWS ME LIKE THE INCREDIBLE WORK THAT WE HAVE TO DO TO HAVE MORE DIVERSITY.
I MEAN, IT'S 76 MILLION ON A SURFACE SOUNDS LIKE A BIG NUMBER, BUT WHEN YOU CONSIDER OUR BUDGET, IT'S NOT EVEN A DROP IN THE BUCKET.
UM, IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO.
IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WANNA WEIGH IN AND MAKE A COMMENT.
I THINK I WANT MICHAEL TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF THE STATISTICS, BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR TOTAL BUDGET, THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY ALL THE MONEY THAT WE CONTRACT OUT.
SO I THINK IT'S A BETTER COMPARISON TO REALLY LOOK AT THE MONEY THAT WE'RE CONTRACTING WITH, WITH BUSINESSES.
SO DO YOU HAVE THAT INFORMATION? WHAT WE'RE CONTRACTING OUT? BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S ALSO, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, AND VERSUS PRIMES AND SUBS, I MEAN, I DO RECOGNIZE IT'S, BUT SOMETHING, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, WHEN MIKE FRISBEE GAVE THE PRESENTATION ABOUT THE BOND MM-HMM.
UH, SO, OR 80 NOW, WELL NOW I CAN'T REMEMBER, BUT GO AHEAD.
SO JUST AS A POINT OF CLARITY, UH, THE BOND IS THE ENTIRE AWARD OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD.
WE BREAK DOWN THESE C BETA NUMBERS BY ACTUAL PAYMENTS OVER EVERY GIVEN YEAR.
SO, FOR INSTANCE, LAST YEAR, THE C BETA PROGRAM, UM, APPLIED TO CONTRACTS THAT RESULTED IN FOUR, ABOUT $420 MILLION WORTH OF PAYMENTS.
AND OF THAT, THAT'S WHERE YOU SEE THE 76 MILLION WENT TO WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES.
THE LARGER NUMBERS, LIKE THE 850 MILLION, AS I MENTIONED, ARE WHAT WILL RESULT OUT IN PAYMENTS OVER A FIVE YEAR WINDOW.
AND WE DO EXPECT, UM, AMPLE AMOUNT OF MINORITY AND WOMEN OWNED BUSINESS PARTICIPATION ON THOSE CONTRACTS AS THEY PLAY OUT THROUGH, I BELIEVE, 2022 ROUGHLY.
AND I MEAN, WHAT ABOUT LIKE, JUST SORT OF THE REGULAR CAPITAL OF OUR REGULAR MAINTENANCE, UH, REGULAR BUDGET ANNUALLY? MM-HMM.
I MEAN, MOST OF THE WORK THAT IT SEEMS LIKE THE PRESENTATIONS WE GET MM-HMM.
SO IT'S GONNA LUMP IN ALL THESE SERVICES TOGETHER THAT THE, THAT THE CITY PROCURES ALL THE CONTRACTS THAT COME TO YOU ALL ON A WEEKLY BASIS.
UM, ANYTIME THE ABETA PROGRAM APPLIES, THAT'S WHERE WE START SEEING PAYMENTS TRICKLE OUT TO THOSE SMALL MINORITY WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES.
IT JUST DOESN'T ALWAYS HAPPEN THAT THE AWARDED OR ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF THE CONTRACT, LET'S JUST SAY 500,000, MIGHT GET PAID OUT OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD INSTEAD OF ALL UPFRONT IN ONE YEAR.
SO EVEN THOUGH YOU AWARD SOMETHING FOR 500,000 TO A SMALL MINORITY WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESS IN FISCAL YEAR 20, YOU MIGHT JUST SEE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS THAT YEAR GOING TO THAT BUSINESS BECAUSE THE REMAINING FUNDS WILL PLAY OUT OVER THE NEXT GIVEN FISCAL YEARS.
SO I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PRESENTATION.
UM, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT OUR HUGE, I MEAN, 2.8 BILLION IS A HUGE BUDGET.
AND SO WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THOSE THEN GO TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR? I MEAN, ON ITS SURFACE, 76 MILLION SOUNDS LIKE A LOT.
UM, BUT WE KNOW THAT IT'S NOT RIGHT.
SO, UM, I, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL, UH, PHRASE MY QUESTIONS, UM, A BIT MORE DIRECTLY BECAUSE I'M, I'M, I DON'T HAVE IT ALL TOGETHER.
SO IN FAIRNESS, I'LL, I'LL PHRASE THE QUESTIONS PROPERLY AND GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO COME BACK TO THE COMMITTEE WHEN THE CHAIR FEELS LIKE IT, IT WOULD BE TIMELY.
UM, BUT BECAUSE I DO HAVE SOME OTHER QUESTIONS THAT I
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WANNA MOVE ALONG TO, UM, ALSO JUST WHERE IT GO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, UM, THE DELEGATE AGENCIES THAT DO WORKFORCE, UM, I'M VERY FAM I'M FAMILIAR WITH ALL OF THESE, BUT DOESN'T, SEEMS LIKE ANY OF THEM OFFER CHILDCARE.IS THAT PART OF ANY OF THESE WORKFORCE AGENCIES? THEY, I KNOW PROJECT QUEST FOR SURE DOES PROVIDE THAT KIND OF SUPPORT.
THEY PROVIDE FUNDING, UM, FOR CHILDCARE OR ASSISTANCE IN CONNECTING, UM, PARTICIPANTS TO THOSE RESOURCES IN THE COMMUNITY THAT PROVIDE IT.
SO, AND I KNOW THAT THE CITY HAS BIG PROCUREMENT FOR CHILDCARE AS WELL.
SO I MEAN, ARE THOSE TWO PART OF THE PACKAGE? SO BECAUSE IT'S, I MEAN, IT'S GREAT TO GET THE TRAINING AND THE SERVICES, UH, WHICH I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF, BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE CHILDCARE RIGHT, THEN YOU REALLY CAN'T PARTICIPATE IN THE WORKFORCE.
SO A LOT OF TIMES IT'S, THOSE DELEGATE AGENCIES ARE CONNECTING THEM TO THE RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE, WHICH COULD BE THE RESOURCES THAT OUR HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT PROVIDES AS FAR AS CHILDCARE, SINCE WE ADMINISTER SO MUCH OF THAT FUNDING.
SO THEY PROBABLY HAVE THAT DATA.
UM, HOW MANY ARE, ARE NEEDING ACCESS TO CHILDCARE AND ARE THEY GETTING IT? SO WE'D LIKE TO SEE THAT FOLLOW UP AS WELL.
UM, I KNOW THAT PROJECT QUEST PROVIDES LIKE A SUBSIDY, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY ACTUALLY CONNECT.
IS ANYBODY HERE FROM PROJECT QUEST? NO.
YEAH, I, I CAN SPEAK TO, COULD YOU INTRODUCE THE CONTRACT WITH INTRODUCE YOURSELF? YES.
ANNA ACEVEDO WITH, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
SO THE QUESTION YOU HAVE IS, IS PROJECT QUEST PROVIDING THE CHILDCARE ASSISTANCE, AS I KNOW THEY PROVIDE ASSISTANCE, RIGHT? UH, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, BUT DO THEY ACTUALLY FIND THEM A CHILDCARE CENTER? SO, NO.
THE, UM, IF THEY, THEY WILL LOOK AT ALL THE FUNDING STREAMS AVAILABLE IN THE COMMUNITY, WHICH DOES INCLUDE THE CITY CONTRACT.
IF THEY CANNOT GET, UM, THE CHILDCARE ASSISTANCE THAT WAY, THEY ALLOW THE PARTICIPANT TO CHOOSE THEIR, UM, DAYCARE CHILDCARE CENTER, AND THE PARTICIPANT, UH, SUBMITS, UH, THE, THE COSTS AND LETTERS FROM THE DAYCARE SAYING, THESE ARE THE DAYS THAT, UH, THE CHILD IS HERE AND THIS IS HOW MUCH IT COSTS.
AND THEN, UH, PROJECT QUEST PAYS THAT, AND WE REIMBURSE FOR THAT.
SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT, UH, INCLUDED IN YOUR DATA FOR A FOLLOW UP PRESENTATION.
UM, WHAT IS THE SERVICES, UH, AS IT RELATES TO CHILDCARE? UM, ANOTHER QUESTION, UH, THAT I HAVE, UM, YOU GIVE SOME STATISTICS HERE, WORKFORCE AND ECONOMICS FOR WOMEN.
UM, BUT YOU DON'T ADDRESS HERE HOW MANY OF THE WOMEN, HOW MANY WOMEN ARE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD.
UH, AND I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT DEMOGRAPHIC.
DOES ANYBODY KNOW THAT, UH, OFF THE TOP OF THEIR HEAD? UM, I KNOW IT IS INCLUDED IN THE REPORT IN THE, I YES, IT IS.
UH, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT IS RIGHT NOW, BUT I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT INFORMATION AS WELL, BECAUSE THEN I THINK IT SKEWS THE NUMBER ABOUT LESS WOMEN BEING EMPLOYED, UM, WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, 40% OF THE WORKFORCE IS WOMEN, YET THEY'RE LESS LIKELY TO BE EMPLOYED.
BUT WHAT'S WHAT'S MOST SIGNIFICANT IS HOW MANY OF THEM ARE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD.
SO, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT IN, I CAN PULL THAT IN A FURTHER PRESENTATION.
UM, AND, UH, I THINK, UH, I, I, THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE, BUT, UH, I, I'LL, I'LL FORMALIZE THE QUESTIONS AND SEND THEM TO YOU AND, AND HAVE THEM OKAY.
REPORTED BACK DIRECTLY, BECAUSE I THINK THAT, UH, AS WE TALK ABOUT OUR S BETA PROGRAM, IT STILL SEEMS LIKE WOMEN ARE SIGNIFICANTLY, UH, LESS REPRESENTED AND MINORITIES ARE AS WELL.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BIG PICTURE, WHAT IS THE, UM, ALL OF THE POTENTIAL FOR PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR BOND PROGRAM, ALSO IN OUR, UH, ANNUAL BUDGETS MM-HMM.
AND IN THOSE LARGE SCALE PROJECTS, HOW MANY OF THE LEAD ARE WOMEN? UH, SO, UH, SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL.
JUST IN RELATION TO THE, THE UTILIZATION OF WOMEN, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND THAT THE WAY THAT THE PRO THES BETA PROGRAM IS STRUCTURED, IT'S, UM, IT'S, IT IS A RACE CONSCIOUS PROGRAM.
THERE IS A LOT OF RIGOR ASSOCIATED WITH IT, AND WE HAVE TO,
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TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THESE WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES ARE AVAILABLE TO DO WORK WITH US.AND THE CHALLENGE WE'RE SEEING IS THAT WOMEN AREN'T FORMING COMPANIES AT THE SAME RATE THAT WE ARE PART OF THE GENERAL POPULATION.
SO THAT'S WHY WE FOCUS A LOT ON UTILIZATION, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO FOCUS ON PROMOTING ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH WOMEN TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE STARTING UP BUSINESSES, THAT THEY ARE TAKING THOSE OP TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO HAVE THEM REPRESENT A LARGER PERCENTAGE OF THE WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS AND WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, ALEX, AND I'LL, UH, UH, WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING ON THAT TOGETHER.
UH, I THINK MY QUESTION KIND OF DOVETAILS WITH WHAT YOU WERE JUST SAYING, UH, TO THE COUNCILWOMAN, HAVE WE AS A CITY DONE, UH, AN ANALYSIS OR DETERMINED, UH, THE NUMBER OF WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES IN SAN ANTONIO OR IN BEXAR COUNTY? SO THE, THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT SHOWED THAT NUMBER AT 30%.
30%, THOUGH THAT'S A PERCENTAGE.
I MEAN, DO WE ACTUALLY OH, THE WRONG NUMBER.
WHAT, HOW MANY WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES ARE THERE? WE, WE DO, WE WE'VE DONE THAT.
AND, UH, SO WHEN YOU SAY 30%, UH, WHAT NUMBER DOES THAT MEAN? I DON'T HAVE, YOU DON'T KNOW.
I HAVE IT IN HERE, BUT I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBER READILY AVAILABLE.
YOU, UH, IS, IS IT BROKEN DOWN ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL LABOR, UH, STATISTICS, IT SHOWED THIS BUSINESS CATEGORY AND THAT BUSINESS CATEGORY, ET CETERA, ET CETERA? I BELIEVE THE CATEGORIES, UM, WELL, IT WAS JUST USED BY, BY THE OWNERSHIP STATUS.
I GUESS IT'S THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, ISN'T IT? THAT BREAKS DOWN ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT, UM, EMPLOYMENT TYPES INTO CATEGORIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, DO WE REALLY KNOW HOW MANY BUSINESSES, WOMEN OWN BUSINESSES THERE ARE IN THE CITY AND IN THE COUNTY, AND ARE WE ACTUALLY REACHING OUT TO ALL OF THEM TO INVITE THEM TO PARTICIPATE WHERE THEIR BUSINESS IS QUALIFIED FOR? I KNOW WE TALK ABOUT, WELL, WE'VE GOT A LIST OF 30 WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES THAT WE INVITE FOR THIS AND THAT, BUT YOU KNOW, I, I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT THINK THERE AREN'T MORE OUT THERE THAT MAYBE WE ARE NOT REACHING AND DON'T KNOW ABOUT.
UH, THE OPPORTUNITIES AND, UH, BUT YOU'RE SAYING 30% OF THE WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES IN SAN ANTONIO EXIST AND WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
SO THE, THE DATA SOURCE FOR THAT NUMBER IS ACTUALLY THE CENSUS BUREAU, THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE KNOW THE, THE, BASICALLY THE PERCENTAGE OF WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES.
WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE THEIR NUM THEIR NAMES OR THEIR, THEIR CONTACT INFORMATION, WHICH IS WHY WE DO SO MUCH OUTREACH TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONNECT WITH THESE BUSINESS OWNERS AND WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE AND HOW THEY WANNA GROW.
IF THEY'RE A LEGITIMATE BUSINESS, THEY NEED TO GO AHEAD AND REGISTER WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE OR THE COMPTROLLER.
THEY ABSOLUTELY, SO CAN'T WE, CAN'T WE DELVE INTO THAT DATA TO GET REAL NAMES OF REAL BUSINESSES THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THEY GET A DIRECT INVITATION IF THEIR TYPE OF BUSINESS QUALIFIES INSTEAD OF JUST PUTTING OUT A, A GENERAL NOTICE THAT SOME OF THESE SMALL BUSINESSES MAY NOT EVEN SEE, THEY MAY NOT EVEN KNOW THAT THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THE CITY.
SO I'M JUST SAYING, CAN'T WE EXPAND EVEN FURTHER AND GET MORE DIRECT CONTACTS THAT WE CAN INVITE TO PARTICIPATE? SO WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK INTO THE, THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE OR THIS, UH, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR REGISTRATIONS AS WELL.
UM, YEAH, I THINK WE NEEDED TO HAVE, UH, THE FULL DOCUMENT OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT HERE WITH US IN ORDER TO GET THAT RAW NUMBER TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES.
ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I DID HAVE, UM, THAT WAS, UH, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WAS THE ACCESS TO CAPITAL ON SLIDE NUMBER 11.
AND I'M GLAD TO SEE THE LOAN INTEREST BUY DOWN PROGRAM.
I THINK EVERY SMALL BIT HELPS, AND I THINK CONNECTING OUR ENTREPRENEURS OR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS TO THOSE BUSINESSES THAT WE NEED, UM, TO GET THAT ACCESS TO CAPITAL IS CRITICAL.
I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE, UM, THE NUMBER, AND MAYBE LILY, YOU'RE HERE TOO.
MAYBE YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THIS AS WELL.
THE EDUCATIONAL GAINS HAVEN'T TRANSLATED INTO ECONOMIC, UH, GAINS OR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, SO WHY NOT? THAT'S WHAT I, I WANNA KNOW.
WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASE IN WOMEN.
THIS MICROPHONE IS GOING IN AND OUT WAY TOO BAD FOR ME.
SO, UM, THIS, THIS IS CONTINUING TO, IT'S DISTRACTING ME.
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THAT TRANSLATE INTO EDUCATION.DO WE KNOW WHY? HAVE WE SEEN SOME OF THOSE ELEMENTS OF WHY NOT? I THINK, DO YOU NEED ANYBODY I I CAN SHARE JUST SOME OF THE ANECDOTAL, UM, REFERENCES THAT WE'VE SEEN.
I'M LOOKING FOR ANECDOTAL TOO.
I THINK IN GENERAL, WE'VE SEEN JUST, UM, DIFFERENT PRACTICES BOTH IN THE WORKFORCE WHEN IT COMES TO EMPLOYMENT, UM, THAT SOMETIMES CAN HINDER AND CAN CREATE THAT, THAT DISPARITY IN, IN WAGE AND EARNINGS BETWEEN WOMEN AND THAT WOMEN AREN'T QUITE ACHIEVING THAT YET WHEN IT COMES TO WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERSHIP.
WE SEE THOSE, THOSE CHALLENGES THAT WOMEN FACE MORE THAN MEN, REGARDLESS OF THE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT.
UM, SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS THOSE FACTORS LIKE ACCESSING CAPITAL, CREATING MENTORING FOR WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS, UM, MITIGATING THOSE BARRIERS IN THAT WAY.
THERE MIGHT BE MORE, I DON'T KNOW IF LILY WANTS TO, TO PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO BASICALLY CONNECT THEM.
ANYTHING TO ADD, LILY, THAT YOU'VE SEEN? UM, SHOULD I GO UP THERE? YES.
SO THIS IS STRAIGHT UP OPINION THOUGH,
UM, I, I THINK YOU WOULD POINT BACK TO STRUCTURAL RACISM.
I'M SORRY, CAN YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF? TITLE? OH, SORRY.
LILY KASRA, A CO-AUTHOR OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT.
UM, I THINK STRUCTURAL RACISM IS AN ISSUE AND IS SOMETHING TO UNPACK.
UM, I KNOW FOR THERE WAS AN L B J INITIATIVE THAT 50 YEARS LATER, THEY DID A REPORT ON A FEW MONTHS AGO CALLED THE CURSORY REPORT OR SOMETHING.
AND THEY FOUND THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, BLACKS HAD NOT BEEN COLLEGE EDUCATED TO A LARGE DEGREE, AND THAT HAD REALLY CHANGED OVER 50 YEARS, BUT THEY HADN'T SEEN ECONOMIC GAINS.
SO I THINK WE MAY BE DEALING WITH A VERSION OF THAT.
EVERYONE HAS BEEN TOLD, HEY, GO TO COLLEGE.
AND THEN YOU GO AND YOU FIND THAT YOUR INCOME MAYBE HASN'T INCREASED AS MUCH AS IT NEEDS TO.
AND THEN THE WHOLE THING TOO WITH WEALTH DISPARITY, SO THE DIFFERENCE IN ASSET ACCUMULATION ACROSS RACE AND ETHNICITY, I THINK ALL THESE FACTORS CONTINUE TO IMPACT PEOPLE OVER TIME AND IT PROBABLY TAKES MORE WORK AND MORE KIND OF CROSS SECTOR UNPACKING OF THIS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN TRYING TO IDENTIFY THESE AREAS AND TO UNPACK IT SO WE CAN HELP MOVE THE NEEDLE ON THESE AREAS, WHAT, UM, I KNOW WE ARE GOING TO GET AN UPDATE.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE WITH THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT IS WE WANTED TO GET AN UPDATE EVERY YEAR ON WHERE WE ARE NOW IN THE CITY, ET CETERA.
I'D LOVE TO SEE THOSE ELEMENTS, IF THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE UPDATE OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT, IF THOSE ELEMENTS ARE ADDRESSED, OR IF WE GET SOME MORE HARD EVIDENCE AND HARD DATA THAT SAYS THAT'S IT TOO.
AND I'D LOVE TO SEE WHAT WE COULD CONTINUE TO, TO WORK ON THAT.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, AND MAYBE STEP OUTSIDE OF SAN ANTONIO TOO, TO SEE WHERE WOMEN ARE MORE SUCCESSFUL AT THIS AND IF THERE ARE ANY LESSONS THAT WE CAN DRAW FROM THAT.
AND THEN FINALLY, I THINK FOR MYSELF, I JUST WANTED TO, UM, UH, WANTED TO TOUCH BASE WITH YOU, ALEX TO, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, CAB HDA MENTIONED IS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVEN'T DONE ENOUGH WITH CONNECTING AS WE KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND WE TRY TO FIND THE ANSWERS OF MOVING THE NEEDLE, WE NEED TO ENGAGE THE COMMISSION OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND ALL OF THOSE MEMBERS THERE BECAUSE THEY ARE SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, ENTREPRENEURS, CIVICALLY ENGAGED, OBVIOUSLY LOOKING AT MAYBE SOME POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN THE FUTURE.
AND THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN EXPERTISE THAT THEY'RE IN.
AND I THINK WE HAVE A WEALTH OF, OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE AND INFLUENCE AND ACCESS THERE THAT WE NEED TO START HARNESSING.
AND SO I REALLY WANNA ENCOURAGE YOU TO START GETTING INVOLVED IN ALL THESE ELEMENTS WITH THE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FEE WAIVER PROGRAM, WHICH I'M GLAD TO SEE THOSE NUMBERS.
I THINK THAT'S A POSITIVE NUMBER THAT WE HAVE TO REALLY GET THEM INVOLVED AND ENGAGED OF WHAT IS WORKING, WHAT IS NOT WORKING, AND, UM, EVEN GETTING THEM CONNECTED TO OUR PROGRAMS TOO.
I JUST WANTED TO ADD TO YOUR PREVIOUS QUESTION ABOUT WE'RE STILL SEEING THAT DISPARITY EVEN THOUGH WE'RE SEEING THESE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT LEVELS THAT ARE HIGHER.
UM, ANOTHER PIECE OF DATA THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE REPORT WAS, UM, I MENTIONED STEM FIELDS AND HOW WOMEN ARE STILL NOT ENTERING THOSE FIELDS.
THERE WAS ALSO DATA IN THERE THAT SHOWED THE, THE OCCUPATIONS THAT WOMEN ARE ENTERING.
EVEN WHEN WE HAVE THOSE, THOSE DEGREES, THEY DON'T PAY AS MUCH.
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UM, SO THAT WAS, THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT CONTINUES TO, TO, TO REFLECT THE DECREASED WAGES THAT WOMEN EXPERIENCE.UM, AGAIN, THERE WAS A LOT OF REALLY GOOD DATA IN THAT REPORT, UM, SPECIFICALLY TO EARNINGS AND THE DIFFERENT, UM, DIFFERENT ELEMENTS THAT IMPACT THAT FOR WOMEN OVER OUR LIFETIME.
AND WE DO HAVE THE NUMBER ON THE TOTAL BUSINESSES.
IT WAS, IT WAS, UM, FROM CENSUS BUREAU DATA, THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY, THERE WAS A TOTAL OF 61,000 BUSINESSES.
SO 30% OF THAT, THE WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES ARE 18,300.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU FOR THIS BRIEFING.
I LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING MORE DATA AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS AT A LATER TIME.
[3. 19-6528 Update and briefing on the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation (SAEDF) 2019 Business Plan and the process and preliminary findings of the 2020 regional economic development strategic plan. [Jenna Saucedo-Herrera, SAEDF President and CEO]]
AS WE MOVE ON, THIS IS REALLY BOTHERING ME.UM, THE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE AN UPDATE AND BRIEFING ON THE SAN ANTONIO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, S A E D F 2019 BUSINESS PLAN AND THE PROCESS AND PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF THE 2020 REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC PLAN.
GOOD MORNING, CHAIRWOMAN VIE GRAND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.
HOW ARE YOU? COUNCILMAN FLIES.
IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME AND BRIEF YOU ALL.
AND, AND CAN I JUST SAY THAT THE TIMING OF THIS PRESENTATION, THANK YOU FOR COUPLING US WITH THE STATUS OF WOMEN UPDATE BECAUSE, UM, HAVING A CHANCE TO SEE MY COLLEAGUE ALEX LOPEZ PRESENT TO A MAJORITY, UH, FEMALE COMMITTEE, I THINK THAT SHOWS INCREMENTAL PROGRESS.
SO IN MY OPINION, AS YOU FOLLOW THESE REPORTS AND AS YOU'RE TRACKING THE GROWTH, WHICH BY THE WAY, FROM, I BELIEVE IT WAS 2002 TO 2012, OUR WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES DOUBLED THAT SIGNIFICANT GROWTH.
SO IT'S REALLY, IT'S NOT ALL DOOM AND GLOOM.
WE ARE MAKING INCREMENTAL PROGRESS, BUT I THINK WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO STATE IS EVERYTHING THAT ALEX TALKED ABOUT IN HER PRESENTATION ABOUT MENTORING AND ABOUT BRINGING BUSINESSES, WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES ALONG, THAT'S HOW YOU MOVE THE NEEDLE.
UM, BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT, UM, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMS LIKE SA WORKS AND OUR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAMS AND, AND YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING THAT, THAT, UH, THE CITY'S DOING WITH LAUNCH SA, ET CETERA, THAT'S WHERE COMPANIES LIKE TOYOTA AND HOLT CAT CAN PRIORITIZE ON, ON INTERNSHIPS, THEY CAN PRIORITIZE FEMALE INTERNSHIPS.
THIS LAST YEAR, TOYOTA HAD A HUNDRED PERCENT FEMALES IN THEIR INTERNSHIP COHORT.
AND SO I COMMEND WHAT THE CITY'S DOING TO PRIORITIZE WOMEN.
UM, BUT I ALSO THINK THAT WHAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS DOING TO PRIORITIZE WOMEN, UH, NOT ONLY ON BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, BUT ALL THE WAY DOWN INTO K THROUGH 12 K 16 PLUS PROGRAMS, THAT'S WHAT'S ALSO, UM, GOING TO SUPPLEMENT AND COMPLIMENT YOUR EFFORT.
SO, UM, THANK YOU AND, AND GREAT JOB, UM, THIS MORNING.
OKAY, SO WHAT I WAS ACTUALLY INVITED HERE TO DO WAS TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON, UM, S A E D F WHERE WE'VE EVOLVED AS AN ORGANIZATION OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS.
UM, SOME KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS THAT HOPEFULLY AREN'T NEW TO ANY OF YOU.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, TO HIGHLIGHT OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS THAT WE EXPECT TO FINALIZE IN Q ONE OF 2020.
PLEASE FEEL FREE, UH, TO INTERRUPT ME THROUGHOUT.
HOPEFULLY THIS IS A TWO-WAY DIALOGUE AND WE CAN GET TO A, A GOOD END GAME AT THE END OF MY SLIDES.
AT A HIGH LEVEL, IF I CAN OPERATE THE CLICKER HERE THIS MORNING, AT A HIGH LEVEL, UH, EACH OF YOU KNOW WHY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION EXISTS.
WE ARE HERE WITH THE SOLE MISSION OF PRODUCING JOBS IN THE SAN ANTONIO REGION.
NOW WE'RE OFTEN ASKED THE QUESTION, HOW DO WE WORK WITH CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE? HOW DO WE WORK WITH THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND THE COUNTY? AND SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO CONTINUE TO DIFFERENTIATE OUR ORGANIZATIONS AND HIGHLIGHT OUR PARTNERSHIPS ACROSS TEAM SAN ANTONIO.
SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE E D F EXISTS TO BE THE MARKETING ORGANIZATION FOR BUSINESS INVESTMENT.
CAN YOU STILL HEAR ME THERE? FOR BUSINESS INVESTMENT IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND SO WE ARE IN ESSENCE OUT SELLING THE SAN ANTONIO BUSINESS CLIMATE TO THE WORLD.
WE'RE AN OPERATIONS ENTITY WHERE WE ARE ROUTINELY WORKING DEAL FLOW OF ABOUT A HUNDRED PROJECTS HERE AND THERE AT ANY GIVEN TIME.
NOW THAT BUSINESS CLIMATE THAT WE'RE SELLING, WE RELY ON OUR CHAMBER PARTNERS TO ADVOCATE FOR.
SO THEY ARE OUR BOOTS ON THE GROUND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, AT THE STATE LEVEL, AND AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, UM, TO MAINTAIN THAT BUSINESS CLIMATE.
AND THEN OF COURSE, DOWNSTREAM AS WE'RE WORKING DEAL FLOW, ABOUT 35% OF OUR DEALS REQUIRE INCENTIVES.
AND WE'RE ACTUALLY SEEING, I'M SURE YOU READ ABOUT, UM, OAK, YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH HULU.
WE'RE SEEING A TREND THAT THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE MOVING AWAY FROM INCENTIVES.
AND SO INCENTIVES, WHILE THEY MIGHT BE HELPFUL IN GETTING A DEAL ACROSS THE FINISH LINE, THEY'RE CERTAINLY NOT THE END ALL BE ALL FOR THE DEALS THAT WE'RE WORKING.
AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT HERE SHORTLY.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE E D F I BELIEVE IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
WE WERE FOUNDED ABOUT 44 YEARS AGO HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, ACTUALLY INCUBATED BY THE SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
AND THE REALLY WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT FOR YOU HERE TODAY IS THE ORANGE SECTION OF THIS TIMELINE, NEW S A E D F AND MEMBERS IN THE AUDIENCE PROBABLY CAN'T ACTUALLY READ THIS
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SLIDE, BUT LET ME HIGHLIGHT A FEW KEY POINTS FOR YOU.IN 2008, AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF AT T, FORMER MAYOR HARDBERGER COMMISSIONED A STUDY TO LOOK AT OUR DELIVERY SYSTEM IN SAN ANTONIO.
THAT WAS A PIVOTAL POINT FOR US AT THAT TIME.
THE COMMISSION CAME BACK WITH A FEW KEY FINDINGS, BUT BASICALLY WE NEEDED TO DIVERSIFY OUR PORTFOLIO OF SERVICES.
YOU SEE THERE, WHEN WE WERE FOUNDED IN 1975, WE WERE A HUNDRED PERCENT FOCUSED ON RECRUITMENT.
AND AT THAT TIME WE KNEW WE NEEDED TO FOCUS ON OUR EXISTING BUSINESSES.
AND SO BUSINESS RETENTION AND EXPANSION BECAME IMPORTANT AND WE ALSO NEEDED TO HIGHLIGHT INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ET CETERA.
SO MOVING FORWARD, AGAIN TO ANOTHER PIVOTAL POINT, UH, POINT IN TIME, 2015, WHICH WAS IN FOREFRONT, SAN ANTONIO WAS DEVELOPED AT THIS TIME.
WE KNEW WE NEEDED A REFINED FOCUS ON TARGET INDUSTRIES, THOSE INDUSTRIES THAT WE BELIEVED WE COULD COMPETE FOR AND WIN FOR IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE TRULY NEEDED TO EXPEDITE OUR WORK HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS, UH, TO MAXIMIZE RESOURCES ACROSS MULTIPLE ENTITIES IN THE SAN ANTONIO REGION.
AND FAST FORWARD TO 2016, OUR LEADERSHIP TRANSITION AND YOU SEE THE INTEGRATION OF SA WORKS IN 2017, THE INTEGRATION OF THE FREE TRADE ALLIANCE IN 2018.
AND IN 2019 WE ARE SOLELY FOCUSED ON EXECUTING AND THEN LOOKING FORWARD, RECALIBRATING ON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN QUESTIONS THERE ON TIMING AND THE EVOLUTION, IT'S AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT SLIDE.
SO THIS IS THE CURRENT STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK THAT WAS OUTLINED IN FOREFRONT SAN ANTONIO.
AGAIN, DIVERSIFIED PORTFOLIO OF SERVICES YOU SEE HIGHLIGHTING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACROSS EVERYTHING THAT WE DO.
AND THEN YOU SEE OUR TARGET INDUSTRIES, RIGHT? OUR TARGET INDUSTRY IS A FOCUS.
WHAT WE'VE CONTINUED TO TALK ABOUT THOUGH IN THIS COMMITTEE, AND EVERY TIME I HAVE A CHANCE, IS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE THAT MANY TARGET INDUSTRIES, YOU'RE REALLY NOT FOCUSED ON ANYTHING.
AND SO IN OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS THAT'S CURRENTLY UNDERWAY, WE'RE HOPING TO TAKE THAT LIST OF TARGET INDUSTRIES AND REFINE THEM EVEN FURTHER.
AT A HIGH LEVEL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, THINK IT'S IMPORTANT HERE.
SO YOU SEE THE BREAKDOWN OF OUR FUNDING DIVERSIFICATION, OUR TOTAL BUDGET OF ABOUT 4.3 MILLION.
A MILLION OF THAT IS RESTRICTED FOR WORKFORCE ACTIVITIES.
BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WE REPORT UP THROUGH A SEPARATE BOARD.
WE OFTEN GET THE QUESTION, ARE YOU A PART OF THE STATE? ARE YOU A PART OF THE CITY? ARE YOU A PART OF THE COUNTY? WE REPORT UP TO A GROUP OF REALLY MAJORITY PRIVATE SECTOR INDIVIDUALS.
WE HAVE A RESERVE SEAT FOR THE CITY MANAGER BECAUSE OF YOUR SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A RESERVE SEAT FOR THE COUNTY ON OUR BOARD.
AND THEN WE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT COMMITTEES THAT ARE AT EXTREMELY HIGH LEVELS AS WELL.
YOU SEE OUR WORKFORCE COUNCIL, OUR INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL, THAT CHAIRMAN VERON ACTUALLY CHAIRS, UH, KATE ROGERS CHAIRS OUR WORKFORCE COUNCIL, AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON THERE.
BUT WE HAVE A VERY ROBUST STRUCTURE OF NOT NECESSARILY HIERARCHY THE FLOW OF INFORMATION, THE FLOW OF, UM, REALLY STRATEGY IS KIND OF MULTI-DIRECTIONAL THERE.
THE COMMITTEES LIKE THE MARKETING COMMITTEE, THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, THOSE ARE INWARD LOOKING COMMITTEES.
THOSE ARE COMMITTEES THAT ARE LOOKING AT THE SUSTAINABILITY OF S A E D F AS AN ORGANIZATION, WORKFORCE INTERNATIONAL, ET CETERA.
THOSE ARE FORWARD THINKING STRATEGIC COUNCILS THAT ARE FOCUSED ON TEAM SAN ANTONIO AGENDA BEYOND JUST E D F PROPER.
I'M EXTREMELY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE AT THE E D F TO RETOOL OUR TEAM AND TO RECRUIT THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST TO HELP LEAD OUR ORGANIZATION.
I'M ALSO PROUD THAT THE MAJORITY OF MY LEADERSHIP TEAM IS FEMALE.
I DIDN'T DO THAT INTENTIONALLY, BUT BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE STATUS OF WOMEN, I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT 75% OF MY LEADERSHIP TEAM, IF YOU DIG A BIT DEEPER, UH, INTO MY NEXT LEVEL OF LEADERSHIP, WE ALSO HAVE SARAH SANCHEZ WHO LEADS OUR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM AND MICHELLE BOGGS, WHO LEADS OUR INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT TEAM.
BUT WHAT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT HERE ON THIS SLIDE IS THAT WITH OUR REFINED FOCUS ON TARGET INDUSTRIES AND TRULY DEPLOYING FOREFRONT SAN ANTONIO, WE HAVE TWO LINES OF BUSINESS AT THE E D F.
ONE LINE OF BUSINESS IS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT.
THE SECOND LINE IS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
AND THEN OF COURSE, CARMEN AND ERICA LEAD MY SHARED SERVICES OPERATION THERE.
BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO SHOW WHAT WE DO AT THE E D F AND HOW WE'RE FOCUSED ON JOBS REALLY MANIFEST ITSELF IN THOSE TWO OUTREACH MECHANISMS. OUR GOAL AT THE E D F IS SIMPLE.
AS WE SAID, WE ARE HERE TO PRODUCE JOBS AND OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS WE'VE REALIZED THAT AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, REAL ESTATE IS NO LONGER THE TOP CRITERIA FOR SITE SELECTION.
INCENTIVES CERTAINLY, UH, AREN'T THE LEADING INDICATORS FOR DECISION-MAKING.
IT BOILS DOWN TO WORKFORCE AND QUALITY OF PLACE BECAUSE OFTENTIMES THESE COMPANIES THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO COURT ARE CHASING TALENT WHILE WE'RE CHASING THEM.
AND WE ARE NOT ON THE RADAR BECAUSE AGAIN, WHEN WE DUMP, WHEN WE DIG INTO THE DATA A BIT FURTHER HERE, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, OUR POVERTY LEVELS, ET CETERA, CONTINUE TO PULL US OFF THE RADAR MULTIPLE
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TIMES.AND I'LL TALK IN MORE DETAIL ABOUT THAT HERE SHORTLY.
WE TALKED ABOUT CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, UH, WHEN I CAME TO THIS COMMITTEE THREE YEARS AGO, AND WE ARE CONTINUOUSLY FOCUSED ON CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT.
UH, THAT'S AN ORGANIZATIONAL KIND OF AN INTRO INTROSPECTIVE GOAL FOR US.
UM, AND WE CONTINUE TO ITERATE ON OUR KPIS, CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE OURSELVES TO BE BETTER AND NOT COMPLACENT OR CONTENT WITH THE PROGRESS THAT WE'RE MAKING.
WE'RE ALSO FOCUSED ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO BE THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO AS WE'VE EVOLVED, IF YOU GO BACK TO THAT TIMELINE, UM, THAT BASICALLY SHOWCASED OVER THE LAST 44 YEARS WHO WE'VE BEEN AS AN ORGANIZATION AND YOU FAST FORWARD TO THE NEW S A E D F, WE'VE INTEGRATED THE RIGHT ORGANIZATIONS, WE'VE GOT THE RIGHT TEAM, WE HAVE THE RIGHT FOCUS, BUT NOW WE NEED TO TAKE OUR EFFORTS REGIONAL.
AND MIGHT I ADD THAT IT'S NOT REALLY A NOVEL IDEA.
IF YOU LOOK AT TOP PERFORMING METROS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, MOST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ENTITIES, MOST EDS ARE FUNCTIONING LIKE REGIONAL EDSS.
LOOK AT DALLAS, LOOK AT AUSTIN, LOOK AT HOUSTON, EVEN WITHIN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
LOOK AT GEG, NASHVILLE, ET CETERA.
THEY'RE ALL FUNCTIONING LIKE REGIONAL EDS.
WE JUST WERE LOOKING INTROSPECTIVELY TRYING TO GET OUR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER.
AND WE HAVE DONE THAT OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS.
AND SO THIS WILL BE THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN GOING FORWARD.
ACTUALLY, THIS IS JUST A BRAG SNAPSHOT FOR SAN ANTONIO, SO FEEL FREE TO USE THIS AS YOU DEEM APPROPRIATE.
A FEW THINGS I'M PROUD OF HERE.
OBVIOUSLY YOU SEE OUR, OUR INDUSTRY ECONOMIC IMPACT.
WE'RE OFTEN ASKED THE QUESTION ABOUT HOW OUR INDUSTRY STACK UP.
AND SO HERE YOU SEE IT FOR YOURSELF.
WE HAVE 160,000 STUDENTS FROM 15 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
AND SO WE'RE OFTEN COMPARED TO UT AND AUSTIN AND THEY'VE GOT A GREAT AMOUNT OF STUDENTS THAT ARE BASICALLY, UM, CAPTIVE IN DOWNTOWN AUSTIN.
BUT I BELIEVE THAT THE DIVERSITY ACROSS MULTIPLE UNIVERSITIES AND BY WAY OF SIZE AND SCALE, THE SHEER NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WE HAVE IN THE SAN ANTONIO REGION IS EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE.
AND THEN OF COURSE YOU SEE OUR MEDIAN RESIDENT AGE AND THE FACT THAT 23% OF OUR POPULATION IS MADE UP OF MILLENNIALS HIGH LEVEL, ALSO A FEW BRAGGING POINTS, BUT WILL BE GOOD BACK POCKET INFORMATION FOR YOU.
SO OF ALL THE DIFFERENT TARGET INDUSTRIES THAT WERE LISTED, UM, WE ONLY HAVE ENOUGH TIME AND MONEY TO FOCUS ON A FEW.
AND SO HERE ARE THE FOUR THAT I HAVE PRIORITIZED AS A LEADER OF, OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION.
AND YOU'LL SEE BY WAY OF DEFINING OUR SLIDES GOING FORWARD, THAT THESE INDUSTRIES MAKE UP TARGET INDUSTRY.
THAT BASICALLY MEANS 50 PROJECTS THAT E D F HAS HANDLED.
WE'RE NOT TRACKING NET JOB GROWTH YEAR, WE'RE TRACKING THE JOB GROWTH THAT BASICALLY E D F TOUCHED OR HANDHOLD THROUGH THE PROCESS.
THAT BASICALLY MEANS OF ALL THE COMPANIES THAT WE'RE OUTREACHING TO, THEY REQUIRED ANYTHING FROM A POTHOLE BEING FILLED IN THEIR, UM, IN THEIR PARKING LOT TO SOMETHING AS STRATEGIC AS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT.
UH, 14,000 117 WORK-BASED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.
AND OF COURSE OVER 15,000 TOTAL JOBS, 1.2 BILLION CAPITAL INVESTMENT.
UM, AND ALL OF THIS IS POINTING TOWARDS OUR 2020 GOALS OF ONCE WE ACHIEVE THOSE GOALS OR EXCEED THOSE GOALS, UH, INJECTING 45 BILLION INTO THE LOCAL ECONOMY.
TODAY WE'RE SITTING AT ABOUT 22 BILLION.
THAT'S ACTUALLY A STAT THAT COUNCILMAN PERRY HAD REQUESTED LAST TIME WE WERE HERE.
AND SO WE FIGURED WE WOULD BE INCLUDING THAT GOING FORWARD.
THIS IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT SLIDE BECAUSE WHILE WE'RE FOCUSED ON GROWING TARGET INDUSTRIES, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE HERE THAT WHILE WE GROW TARGET INDUSTRIES, WE ARE STILL HAVING AN IMPACT ON ALL INDUSTRIES ACROSS THE SAN ANTONIO ECONOMY BECAUSE AS WE'RE GROWING THE PIE IN SAN ANTONIO, OPPORTUNITIES PRESENT THEMSELVES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY, FOR THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
BUT I THINK THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
SO BEYOND JUST 54 LOCATIONS, BEYOND JUST 15,000 JOBS, WE ARE PRODUCING INCREMENTAL IMPACT AND SUPPLEMENTAL IMPACT, A RIPPLE EFFECT ACROSS MULTIPLE INDUSTRIES, UH, AROUND SAN ANTONIO.
THIS IS THE HIGH LEVEL TIER ONE SCORECARD HERE, AGAIN, JUST SHOWING HOW WE TRACK OUR RETURN ON INVESTMENT, HOW WE TRACK OUR PERFORMANCE AS AN ORGANIZATION, THE CHECK MARKS DENOTE WHERE WE ARE, WHERE WE'VE ACHIEVED GOAL OR WE'RE ON TRACK TO ACHIEVE GOALS NOT ONLY FOR 2019, BUT 2020.
WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS THAT, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION IN LOOKING AT A PROFORMA, WE'RE SET TO EXCEED OUR 2020 GOALS BY MIDDLE OF YEAR NEXT YEAR.
AND SO WE EXPEDITED OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS AS AN ORGANIZATION BECAUSE WE WOULD LIKE TO RECALIBRATE ON OUR GOALS FOR 2021 AND BEYOND.
WE'RE LOOKING RIGHT NOW AT PROBABLY A 20, 23 TIME HORIZON, BUT WE MIGHT ACTUALLY EXTEND THAT TO 2025
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IF WE CAN HAVE A, A MIDPOINT CHECKPOINT, SO TO SPEAK THROUGHOUT.BUT WITH THE WORLD CHANGING AROUND US AND WITH SAN ANTONIO CHANGING SIGNIFICANTLY AND RAPIDLY, WE'RE THINKING THAT A THREE YEAR TIME HORIZON MIGHT MAKE THE MOST SENSE FOR US, BUT MORE TO COME THERE, OUR PROJECT PIPELINE.
SO EVERYTHING THIS FAR HAS BEEN LOOKING IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR AT PERFORMANCE, BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY, OH, I, I'M MISSING THIS SLIDE.
THIS IS ACTUALLY A GREAT SLIDE.
THANK YOU CARMEN LATA FOR ADDING THIS.
SO THIS IS A YEAR OVER YEAR COMPARISON, 2017 TO 19.
THAT SHOWS, AGAIN, LOOKING IN THE REAR MIRROR, I'M CORRECTING MYSELF HERE, THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE BEEN MAKING YEAR OVER YEAR OF NOTE, SEE THAT THE OTHER SECTION IN THAT TOP THAT JOBS BY INDUSTRY, THE OTHER SECTION HAS DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY, RIGHT? SO SHOWING THAT OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS WE'VE REFINED OUR FOCUS ON TARGET INDUSTRIES.
YOU'VE ALSO SEEN AT THE VERY BOTTOM INTERNATIONAL DOME TO DOMESTIC, YOU'VE SEEN THE INTERNATIONAL PORTION OF THAT PIE GROWS SIGNIFICANTLY.
SO AS WE FOCUSED ON INTERNATIONAL, UH, PROSPECT DEVELOPMENT, AS WE CONTINUE TO POUND THE PAVEMENT INTERNATIONALLY, THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL SEE GOING FORWARD.
NOW INSTEAD OF LOOKING IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD.
SO THE PROJECT PIPELINE IS IMPORTANT FOR US BECAUSE THIS SHOWS THE OPPORTUNITY, UH, NOT ONLY FOR THIS YEAR BUT IN NEXT YEAR AND YEARS FOLLOWING, BECAUSE OFTENTIMES THESE PROJECTS CAN TAKE TWO TO THREE YEARS, ESPECIALLY ON THE INTERNATIONAL SIDE.
SO YOU SEE HERE, PROJECT PIPELINE BY SOURCE, THIS IS IMPORTANT.
OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS WE'VE SEEN THAT THE NUMBER OF LEADS COMING FROM THE STATE HAS DECREASED SIGNIFICANTLY.
AND SO WHILE WE'RE OUT MARKETING THROUGH OUR TARGET INDUSTRIES, WE'VE IDENTIFIED KEY GEOGRAPHIES OF FOCUS.
AND SO AN UPTICK IN NOT ONLY LEADS FROM SITE SELECTORS, BUT ALSO COMPANIES DIRECTLY BECAUSE WE ARE OUTREACHING DIRECTLY TO THE COMPANIES, NOT JUST WAITING OR REACTING TO LEADS SPECIFICALLY FROM THE STATE.
YOU SEE PROJECTS BY TYPE A SIGNIFICANT UPTICK ON RECRUITMENT THERE YEAR OVER YEAR.
IF I WAS TRENDING TO SHOW YOU PIPELINE REPORTS IN THE PAST.
AND THEN YOU SEE THE INTERNATIONAL VERSUS DOMESTIC BREAKDOWN OF NOTE TOTAL JOBS BY TARGET INDUSTRY, YOU SEE A SIGNIFICANT COMPONENT THERE FOR ADVANCED MANUFACTURING.
UM, WE ACTUALLY HAVE SEVERAL LARGE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE HOPING TO CLOSE BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE YEAR, UM, WHICH WILL LIKELY SKEW THAT, UM, PIPELINE DRASTICALLY HOPEFULLY STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS.
I MENTIONED THAT 2019 IS ABOUT EXECUTING AND LOOKING FORWARD.
AND SO WE HAVE HIRED IN THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SPACE TO HELP LEAD THIS EFFORT FOR US.
AND LET ME JUST STATE HERE, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT OUR PARTNERS FROM MARKET STREET AREN'T GOING TO COME BACK TO US AND SAY, YOU NEED TO DO 10 MORE RECRUITMENT TRIPS OR YOU NEED TO TOUCH BASE WITH SIX MORE SITE SELECTORS.
THEY'RE GOING TO COME BACK AND THEY'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
IF YOU THINK ABOUT COMPANIES LIKE APPLE AND GOOGLE, THEY DON'T SPEND THEIR TIME AND MONEY INVESTING IN THE TRANSACTIONAL SIDE OF THEIR BUSINESS.
THEY SPEND THEIR MONEY ON R AND D AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
WE CAN ONLY DO SO WELL TRANSACTING AND WORKING PROJECTS IF WE'RE NOT FOCUSED ON THE PRODUCT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SELL.
AND SO WE AS AN ORGANIZATION, AND I BELIEVE WE AS TEAM SAN ANTONIO COME TO THE REALIZATION THAT WE'VE GOT TO FOCUS ON OUR PRODUCT.
WE'VE GOT TO FOCUS ON THE SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY AND IMPROVING THE PRODUCT THAT WE'RE SELLING.
SO EVERYTHING THAT YOU ALL WERE JUST DISCUSSING ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN PLAYS DIRECTLY INTO THAT EFFORT.
MARKET STREET IS HELPING US RIGHT NOW DIG IN AND IDENTIFY THOSE CHALLENGE AREAS FOR US.
AND LET ME SAY THAT A LOT OF THESE, LIKE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT WILL NOT BE A SURPRISE TO YOU ALL AROUND THIS TABLE OR TO FOLKS LIKE ME OR ALEX OR THE PRACTITIONERS WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THIS WORLD.
BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO RALLY AROUND A FEW THINGS THAT WE BELIEVE CAN HELP MOVE THE NEEDLE ON PRODUCT ADVANCEMENT.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOR THE SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY.
MARKET STREET HAS SERVICED GROUPS LIKE AUSTIN, NASHVILLE, AND SO MANY OTHER TOP TIER CITIES THAT WE ASPIRE TO COMPETE WITH.
YOU ALL KNOW THAT TODAY OUR COMP SET INCLUDES COMMUNITIES LIKE TAMPA, INCLUDES COMMUNITIES LIKE PHOENIX, KANSAS CITY, BUT WE WANT TO COMPETE WITH THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS.
AND THOSE COMMUNITIES HAVE ALL BEEN SERVED BY MARKET STREET.
SO WE BROUGHT THEM IN TO HELP US LEAD THIS EXPEDITED PROCESS.
IT'S BROKEN DOWN INTO FIVE KEY PHASES, BUT I'VE LUMPED THEM TOGETHER IN THREE BOXES BECAUSE THERE'S A RESEARCH PHASE, WHICH IS REALLY PHASE ONE HERE.
THERE'S AN ASSESSMENT PHASE THAT INCLUDES A REGIONAL ASSESSMENT BASED OFF OF KEY ECONOMIC INDICATORS.
AND THEN THERE'S A TARGET SECTOR ASSESSMENT.
SO IN THE PAST WE'VE GROWN OUR TARGET SECTOR INDUSTRIES, AND WE'VE INCLUDED ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES BECAUSE WE WERE AFRAID OF BOTHERING FOLKS OR OFFENDING FOLKS WITHIN OUR LOCAL ECONOMY.
BUT AS I MENTIONED, WE NEED TO PRIORITIZE THOSE TARGET INDUSTRIES DOWN TO ABOUT TWO OR THREE THAT WE BELIEVE WE CAN COMPETE FOR, AND WE CAN WIN.
WE CAN'T JUST KEEP SAYING TECH.
WE KNOW THAT WE CAN BEAT OTHERS IN CYBERSECURITY.
AND SO HOW DO WE INVEST OUR TIME AND ENERGY, ALL OF OUR RESOURCES AND DOING SO? AND AS WE GROW THOSE TARGET SECTOR INDUSTRIES, AGAIN,
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IMPACT ALL THE OTHER SUPPORT INDUSTRIES ACROSS THE SAN ANTONIO REGION.THAT'S IMPORTANT, AND WE'RE HOPING TO WRAP UP THAT WORK BY THE END OF THE YEAR.
AND THEN THE LAST BIG BOX IS REALLY THE PLANNING PHASE.
SO WE ARE NOT DEEP DIVING INTO STRATEGIC PLANNING.
WE WANTED TO START WITH THE RESEARCH, CONTINUE ON WITH THE ASSESSMENT PHASE, AND THEN FOUR TO FIVE WILL TRULY BE PLANNING.
WE HOPE TO HAVE, UM, BY Q ONE OF NEXT YEAR, WE HOPE TO HAVE THAT STRATEGIC PLAN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN DOWN TO THE TACTICS PREPARED, UM, TO REALLY LAUNCH MIDDLE OF NEXT YEAR.
FROM A GOVERNANCE PERSPECTIVE, WE HAVE A STEERING COMMITTEE MADE UP OF A HUNDRED PERCENT PRIVATE SECTOR REPRESENTATIVES.
UH, WE ALSO HAVE AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
THIS INCLUDES THE PRACTITIONERS ACROSS THE REGION.
AGAIN, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW.
NOTE THE REGION HERE IS, IS REALLY OUR, UM, IS REALLY OUR PRODUCT.
AND SO WE'LL HAVE FOLKS FROM THE NEW BRAUNFELS CHAMBER FROM SHIRTS, E D C, AND OTHERS SITTING AROUND THE TABLE.
AND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE MADE UP OF REGIONAL BUSINESSES AS WELL.
WE'VE ACTUALLY FACILITATED A LOT MORE THAN 12 STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS, BUT WE WERE INITIALLY TARGETING 12, AND THEN FOLKS GOT, UH, INTERESTED IN THE PROCESS AND WANTED TO ENGAGE.
AND SO WE'VE EXTENDED THAT BEYOND ABOUT 20 INTERVIEWS.
WE HAD FOCUS GROUPS BY INDUSTRY.
WE HAD A YOUNG PROFESSIONALS FOCUS GROUPS.
WE'VE HAD SEVERAL TO HELP, AGAIN, NOT JUST INFORM THE TRANSACTIONAL SIDE OF OUR BUSINESS, BUT TO TRULY INFORM THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SIDE OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SIDE.
AND THEN WE HAD A REGIONAL SURVEY THAT WE PUSHED OUT FAR AND WIDE.
WE PARTNERED WITH THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO HELP DISTRIBUTE THAT.
UM, CITY MANAGER ERIC WALSH AND I SENT OUT CO-SIGN NOTES TO MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE COMMUNITY.
AND WE HAD, UH, ALMOST ABOUT 4,000 RESPONSES, WHICH IS ACTUALLY PRETTY IMPRESSIVE WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR TWO WEEK TIME HORIZON.
AND THAT TWO WEEK TIME HORIZON IS BY DESIGN.
I MENTIONED THE PRO PROJECT DELIVERABLES, AND I ALSO HIGHLIGHTED TIMING, SO I WON'T BE REDUNDANT THERE, BUT SOME EARLY CONVERSATIONS BACK FROM THE RESEARCH THAT WE'VE RECEIVED AND FROM CONVERSATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ONGOING AROUND THE TABLE AT BOTH THE STEERING COMMITTEE LEVEL AND THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE LEVEL.
UH, WE'RE EXTREMELY PROUD THAT WE'RE UNIQUELY HISPANIC AND GROWING.
OUR CULTURE IS RICH AND DEFINED, BUT OUR IDENTITY ISN'T NECESSARILY AS A COMMUNITY.
OUR POOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS AT THE ROOT OF OUR INCOME EQUALITY AND WORKFORCE CHALLENGES.
YOU ALL WERE JUST HIGHLIGHTING SOME OF THOSE CHALLENGES IN THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION.
AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING IS STILL SOMEWHAT FRAGMENTED AND CAN LEAD TO BUSINESS COMMUNITY FATIGUE.
I WOULD ARGUE THAT ALL OF THESE ARE BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE.
UM, ACTUALLY THE FIRST ONE IS JUST A BLESSING, STRAIGHT OUT BLESSING.
UM, BUT THE LAST BULLET POINT I THINK IS KEY BECAUSE AS MUCH AS WE CAN TALK ABOUT OUR INCREMENTAL PROGRESS AS A COMMUNITY, AND I'M EXTREMELY PROUD OF, OF THE DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP TRANSITION AND ALL THE DIFFERENT UNIVERSITY HEADS WORKING TOGETHER, UM, THE ALIGNMENT DOWNSTREAM WITH PROJECT QUEST AND ALL OF THE CITY'S DELEGATE AGENCIES WE'RE ALL AROUND THE TABLE AND WE ARE PREPARING TO MEET THE DEMAND THAT OUR INDUSTRY LEADERS ARE SUPPLYING.
THERE'S STILL A LITTLE BIT OF CONFUSION AND THAT FRAGMENTATION LEADS TO A FATIGUED BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
AND YOU SEE THAT OFTEN TIME BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO THE SAME BUSINESS COMMUNITY LEADERS FOR INVESTMENT OF TIME AND MONEY.
UM, AND THIS WORD, UH, FATIGUE WAS ACTUALLY MENTIONED DURING THE GROUP.
I'VE ALSO HEARD, UH, LETHARGY AND A COUPLE OF OTHERS.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING FOR ALL OF US TO NOTE AND KEEP IN THE BACK OF OUR MINDS BECAUSE THE MORE AND MORE WE CAN WORK TO STREAMLINE OUR EFFORTS AND TO ELIMINATE CONFUSION, THE MORE ENGAGED OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY, I BELIEVE WILL FEEL GOING FORWARD.
BEFORE I PAUSE FOR QUESTIONS, UM, OF COURSE WE'LL CONTINUE OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING EFFORTS.
UM, WE WILL INITIATE OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS OF THE YEAR OUR BUSINESS PLANNING EFFORTS, RIGHT? SO WE STILL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE BETWEEN NOW AND Q ONE OF 2020 WHEN WE HAVE THE FINDINGS OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO BUILD OUT OUR ANNUAL BUSINESS PLAN THAT WILL RESULT IN A BUDGET TO BE APPROVED BY MY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
UM, BUT WE'RE HAPPY TO PRESENT THAT TO YOU ALL AND OR CONTINUE TO COMMUNICATE IT THROUGH ALEX AS YOU ALL DEEM APPROPRIATE.
AND THEN QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORTING THROUGH THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM, UM, AND THEN ROUTINE REPORTS UP THROUGH YOU ALL.
AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY, AND I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE OF ME,
I'M GOING TO PASS IT OFF TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES FIRST BEFORE I GET INTO MY QUESTIONS OR MY COMMENTS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, JENNIFER, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
I I WANNA JUST MAKE A QUICK NOTE.
I REALLY APPRECIATE THE ENTHUSIASM YOU HAVE FOR THE WORK YOU DO.
I DRANK TOO MUCH COFFEE THIS MORNING.
I'M CURIOUS, WHICH OF OUR TARGETED INDUSTRIES ARE DRAWING THE MAJORITY OF OUR PROSPECTS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO OR THE REGION? YEAH, SO IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
SO THESE NUMBERS, UM, AREN'T ACTUALLY JUST SAN
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ANTONIO PROPER, SO IT'S A GOOD QUESTION.I'M GONNA, I'M GOING TO DIVE A BIT DEEPER INTO THIS PROJECT PIPELINE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THE BOTTOM RIGHT, UM, QUADRANT THERE.
SO IN THE PAST WE HAVE TRACKED OUR PROJECT PIPELINE SOLELY BY SAN ANTONIO PROPER, BUT WE HAVE BEEN, UH, PASSIVELY BEHIND THE SCENES.
WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR REGIONAL PARTNERS, ALTHOUGH NOT FORMALLY, RIGHT? THEY AREN'T, UH, THEY AREN'T UNDER ANY SORT OF, UM, MOUS WITH THE E D F.
THEY AREN'T INVESTING IN THE E D F, BUT WE'VE BEEN PARTNERING WITH THEM SPECIFICALLY ON MANUFACTURING OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE OF THE SIZE AND SCALE OF WHAT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES PRESENT.
SO IF YOU LOOK THERE AT ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, UM, BEING A LARGE, THAT BLUE, UH, PORTION OF THE PIE CHART, THERE BEING A LARGE PIECE OF IT BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE YEAR, WE WILL LIKELY ANNOUNCE MORE THAN A THOUSAND MANUFACTURING JOBS AND ABOUT A BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF CAPITAL INVESTMENT.
AND THAT'S NOT JUST FOR SAN ANTONIO PROPER, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE WITH THOSE LARGE MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS, THEY COME WITH SUPPLY CHAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.
AND OFTENTIMES THERE'S A CERTAIN DISTANCE REQUIREMENT FROM A WORKFORCE PERSPECTIVE, BUT ALSO LOGISTICS PERSPECTIVE, WHERE THEY LOOK AT DIFFERENT SURROUNDING AREAS.
AND SO WE HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF SHOPPING FOR THOSE DEALS THAT WE'RE COMPETING WITH.
WE'RE SHOPPING COMMUNITIES LIKE SLO SHIRT, SEIN, ET CETERA.
AND IT'S REALLY BECAUSE OF THAT LARGE MANUFACTURING PIECE OF THE PIE, IT'S REALLY ALLOWED US TO GROW OUR REGIONAL PRESENCE EVEN MORE AND MORE QUICKLY THAN WE THOUGHT WE WOULD.
SO IT'S REALLY GOING TO BE IN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING.
UH, JENNA, ONE OF MY QUESTIONS, UM, IS WHY, AS I KIND OF GO THROUGH YOUR SLIDES HERE, AND JUST AS I TRY TO UNDERSTAND THEM, WE KNOW THAT HOSPITALITY IS IN FACT THE THIRD LARGEST SECTOR OF OUR ECONOMY.
UH, SO WHY NOT A TARGETED INDUSTRY? SO IT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION.
UM, SO YOU JUST MENTIONED THAT THEY'RE ALREADY THE THIRD LARGEST AND THEY'RE THE THIRD LARGEST IMPACT.
SO BASED OFF OF THE TARGET INDUSTRIES THAT WE'RE GROWING AS AN ORGANIZATION, THEY ARE RECEIVING ONE OF THE BIGGEST BENEFITS.
AND SO I'D SAY THAT BY DEFAULT, THEY ARE A TARGET INDUSTRY, BUT NOT A TARGET INDUSTRY FOR RECRUITMENT EFFORTS.
SO I WOULD LIKEN THE E D F AS A SISTER ORGANIZATION TO VISIT SAN ANTONIO, VISIT SAN ANTONIO.
AND I HAPPEN TO SERVE ON THEIR BOARD WITH COUNCILMAN GRO.
SO JUST LIKE WE ARE A MARKETING AND SALES ORGANIZATION FOR BUSINESS INVESTMENT, THEY ARE MARKETING AND SELLING THE REGION FOR TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY.
SO THEY ARE ACTIVELY GROWING THE TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY.
AND IF WE DO OUR JOB TO INCREASE BUSINESS TRAVELERS, AND IF WE GROW THE CORPORATE BASE TO ASSUME THAT WE WOULD, UM, IMPACT FOLKS STAYING IN HOTELS, FOLKS TRAVELING IN FOR DIRECT FLIGHTS THROUGH THE AIRPORT, WE ARE INDIRECTLY AND DIRECTLY THROUGH VISIT SAN ANTONIO ADDRESSING THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY GROWTH.
SO HERE, LET ME JUST, UH, EXPAND ON, I MEAN, UNDERSTAND THIS SLIDE A LITTLE BIT, UM, THROUGH TARGETED INDUSTRY FOCUS, OUR LOCATION EXPANSION EFFORTS PROVIDE JOBS PRODUCING INVESTMENT THAT ULTIMATELY IMPACT ALL INDUSTRIES.
SO BECAUSE YOU ALSO HAVE HEALTHCARE, WHICH YOU DETERMINE IS NOT A TARGETED INDUSTRY.
SO IN ESSENCE, THERE'S A, AND EDUCATION.
SO, AND, AND THEN THE THIRD ONE IS INFORMATION SERVICES DIFFERENT FROM CYBER.
SO I, YOU KNOW, I GUESS WE HAVE THESE THREE THAT ARE CURRENTLY THE, UM, HAVE THE LARGEST ECONOMIC IMPACT IN OUR ECONOMY.
SO LET ME ACTUALLY, UH, CLARIFY THAT POINT.
SO THIS IS AN ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS PERFORMED BY THE E D F ON THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE WORKED.
SO IF WE GROW OUR TARGET INDUSTRIES AS DEFINED BY CYBERSECURITY, BIOMANUFACTURING, ET CETERA, IF WE GROW THOSE INDUSTRIES BY X AMOUNT, SO X NUMBER OF JOBS, IF YOU GO BACK TO OUR, I DON'T REMEMBER ALL MY SLIDES HERE, BUT IF YOU GO TO OUR 2020 TARGETS HERE, IF WE ACHIEVE ALL OF THOSE GOALS IN THAT 2020 COLUMN, THEN WE WILL HAVE, AS AN ORGANIZATION ALONE, WE WOULD HAVE IMP INJECTED ABOUT $45 BILLION OF CAPITAL INTO THE LOCAL ECONOMY, RIGHT? SO THAT IS IN DIRECT JOBS AND INDIRECT JOBS.
SO IF WE DO OUR JOB THERE, AND THEN YOU RUN THIS ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS FROM THE JOBS WE'RE BRINGING,
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THEN WE WILL HAVE IMPACTED THESE SUPPLEMENTAL INDUSTRIES EVEN FURTHER.SO THIS IS AN INDIRECT SNAPSHOT TO OUR DIRECT SNAPSHOT.
THE DIRECT SNAPSHOT IS THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE WORKED.
I'M NOT SURE I UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT YOU MEAN.
UH, UM, KIND OF WITH THAT INFORMATION, I GUESS HERE, LET, LET ME ARTICULATE WHY I AM, I'M OKAY.
UH, WHAT, WHAT I WOULD, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MM-HMM.
AND WE KNOW THAT THAT IS GONNA BE RELATED TO THE TYPE OF JOB AVAILABLE IN EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, RIGHT? SO, UM, WHETHER OR NOT THESE JOBS COME FROM ATTRACTING THEM FROM OUTSIDE OF OUR REGION, OR WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE HOMEGROWN, UM, IS, YOU KNOW, MY PRIORITY OF COURSE WOULD BE THAT THEY'RE COMPANIES AND THAT OUR EFFORTS WOULD BE ON WORKING WITH THOSE EXISTING COMPANIES TO RAGE, WAGE WAGES AND ECONOMIC AND, AND, UH, ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT MM-HMM.
SO THAT'S WHY I'VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY AND THE POTENTIAL FOR THE HOSPITALITY TO REALLY WEIGH, RAISE THE PROFILE OF OUR CITY BY HAVING PEOPLE, UH, ADVANCE IN THAT CAREER.
BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THERE IS GREAT POTENTIAL IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY.
UM, AND SO I GUESS THAT'S WHY I GO THEN BACK TO YOUR FINAL SLIDE OR ONE OF THE FINAL SLIDES ABOUT THE EARLY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT BEING HISPANIC AND GROWING AND NOT HAVING AN IDENTITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST FEEL LIKE WE'RE REALLY MISSING THE CONNECTION.
I MEAN, I BELIEVE WE, WE DO HAVE A RICH CULTURE, AND I DO THINK WE DO HAVE A STRONG IDENTITY.
UM, IT'S THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY THAT'S MISSING THE, THE INTERDEPENDENCE.
SO HOW CAN WE ADVANCE THOSE INITIATIVES SIMULTANEOUSLY? SO I I, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S NOT EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE PRESENTING HERE, BUT NO, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION THOUGH.
UM, SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, MY SENSE IS THAT THEY SHOULD BE TIED TO THINGS WE ALREADY DO WELL, UH, AND NOT TRYING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE NOT BY ATTRACTING A PARTICULAR INDUSTRY THAT ULTIMATELY DOESN'T RECOGNIZE THE BENEFITS OF OUR EXISTING IDENTITY.
SO THAT I, I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM, AND THAT WAS A MULTIFACETED QUESTION.
I'M GOING TO TRY TO ANSWER A FEW OF THEM.
SO I BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE GETTING TO THE POINT OF TRANSITIONAL JOB OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE YOU AND I ARE BOTH IN THE SAME BUSINESS OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY, RIGHT? IF WE'RE DOING OUR JOB AT THE E D F, WE SHOULD BE PROVIDING YOUR RESIDENTS, YOUR CONSTITUENTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR JOBS, BUT NOT JUST JOBS, JOBS TO PROGRESS, RIGHT? AND SO WE TRACK COMMUNITY INDICATORS AT THE E D F, IN FACT, I'D BE HAPPY TO PRESENT THEM GOING FORWARD, BUT MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME IS ONE OF THOSE INDICATORS, AND WE'VE SEEN IT ACTUALLY CLIMB IN RECENT YEARS.
BUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS WE CAN SHOW YOU THAT IN A BREAKDOWN BY COUNCIL DISTRICT IF THAT'S HELPFUL, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HELPS US PRIORITIZE DIFFERENT JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN THOSE AREAS.
AND WHEN I SAY JOB OPPORTUNITIES, FOR US, THAT MEANS PROJECTS.
SO YOU'LL RECALL WHEN WE WERE WORKING T J X FOR DISTRICT THREE, AND THERE WAS A, A CHALLENGE ABOUT T J X AND THE DISTRIBUTION FACILITY NOT BEING A TARGET INDUSTRY.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT OUR KPIS AND HOW WE PRIORITIZE PROJECTS, T J X WAS OFFERING SALARIES THAT WERE ABOUT 25% HIGHER THAN THE AVERAGE IN THAT SPECIFIC DISTRICT.
THEY'RE ALSO A FORTUNE 83 COMPANY THAT PROVIDES EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE BENEFITS AND PROMOTES WITHIN.
SO COUNCILMAN GRO AND I HAD THE CHANCE TO TOUR THE FACILITY THE OTHER DAY, AND WE SPOKE TO ABOUT THREE OR FOUR FOLKS THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY WORKING IN OTHER INDUSTRIES THAT HAD A CHANCE TO WORK AT T J X THAT HAD BEEN PROMOTED WITHIN.
AND SO THAT IS THE CONVERSATION ABOUT ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND THE ABILITY TO ACTUALLY MOVE FORWARD IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, BUT SPECIFIC TO, UM, TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY, I WOULD ARGUE THAT IT IS AN INDUSTRY FOR GROWTH FOR TEAM SAN ANTONIO, NOT E D F PROPER.
SO THROUGH OUR WORK WITH VISIT SAN ANTONIO, WE'RE CONTINUING, CONTINUING
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TO GROW THAT INDUSTRY.IN FACT, THROUGH YOUR APPROVAL, UH, AND WORK ON T P I D, WE NOW HAVE ADDITIONAL MARKETING DOLLARS TO DO THAT.
BUT IT ALL GOES BACK TO, AGAIN, YOUR POINT ABOUT ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND THAT THAT'S OUR JOB AT THE E D F, I BELIEVE THAT'S ALL OF OUR JOBS SITTING UP HERE AROUND THE DIOCESE AS WELL.
WELL, THANK YOU, UM, FOR ANSWERING THE QUESTION.
AND, AND SO I GUESS, YOU KNOW, EVEN JUST THE FINAL STATEMENT ABOUT, UM, THAT BUSINESS COMMUNITY FATIGUE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY HAS PROFITED VERY HANDSOMELY FOR MANY GENERATIONS.
SO BECAUSE OF OUR UNIQUE HISPANIC, UH, AND GROWING CULTURALLY RICH IDENTITY MM-HMM.
SO, SO, UM, LEMME MAKE A KEY, LITERALLY A KEY CLARIFICATION HERE.
SO THESE, THESE FINDINGS, THESE RESULTS ARE NOT JUST FROM THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
THIS WAS FROM A SURVEY THAT, THAT WAS DISTRIBUTED FAR AND WIDE.
SO FROM COMMUNITY FOLKS ACROSS SAN ANTONIO, ACTUALLY ACROSS THE REGION.
UM, BUT TO THE POINT OF BUSINESS COMMUNITY FATIGUE, UM, THAT'S NOT FOLKS FATIGUED ABOUT OUR GROWING POPULATION.
I THINK THAT THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN SAN ANTONIO, I SPEAK FOR ALL OF THEM, ALTHOUGH I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE THAT ONLY VO VOICE.
I THINK THEY'RE EXTREMELY PROUD OF OUR POPULATION GROWTH AND THE FACT THAT WE'RE, THAT WE'RE PREDOMINANTLY HISPANIC AND GROWING THAT FATIGUE.
COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ IS ABOUT MULTIPLE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY, LIKE THE E D F AND LIKE SO MANY OTHERS THAT HAVE ALL OF THESE KEY INITIATIVES THAT ARE WELL-INTENTIONED INITIATIVES THAT ARE MOVING THE NEEDLE.
BUT FROM MY TIME ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE WHERE I WAS INVESTING IN ALL THESE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, WHAT YOU SAW WAS REDUNDANCY.
AND YOU SAW FROM THE NONPROFIT ARENA, YOU SAW MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WERE DOING THE SAME THING.
THAT'S WHERE THE FATIGUE COMES FROM.
WELL, AND, AND, UH, I MEAN, I, I DON'T WANNA READ TOO MUCH INTO THIS ONE SLIDE, BUT I GUESS MY POINT IS THAT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IDENTITY.
I BELIEVE THAT OUR CULTURAL IDENTITY IS VERY RICH AND VERY CLEAR.
SO WE, UM, UH, WE, WE WILL, UH, CONTINUE TO WORK TO, UH, ADVANCE OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
OF COURSE, I'LL ALSO, UM, BE HAPPY TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL A, IT'LL, IT'S A DRAFT, SO IT'S NOT FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION, BUT A DRAFT OF THE FINDINGS FROM THE COMPETITIVE SCORECARD THAT WE'RE ALL WORKING TO ADDRESS.
I THINK IT'LL BE EYE-OPENING FOR A LOT OF FOLKS.
I, I WANNA FOCUS IN ON THAT FIRST ONE.
WE'RE UNIQUELY HISPANIC AND GROWING, AND THAT IT'S A BLESSING AND ALL THAT THAT YOU COVERED FROM A PER, FROM A PUR FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF BUSINESS RECRUITMENT.
UM, WHY DOES THAT MATTER TO OUTSIDE BUSINESSES COMING INTO SAN ANTONIO? THAT WE'RE UNIQUELY HISPANIC.
SO IT MATTERS THAT WE ARE AWARE OF IT FIRST AND FOREMOST, BECAUSE AS WE TALK ABOUT OUR UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION AND OUR, UM, OUR PITCH OUTSIDE OF MARKET, WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT OUR IDENTITY IS.
AND SO WE OFTEN LEAD WITH OUR CULTURE.
WE LEAD WITH WHO WE ARE AS, AS A COMMUNITY.
WE LEAD WITH THE, UM, HIGHER THAN THAN AVERAGE RATE, NATIONAL AVERAGE RATE OF, UM, BILINGUAL SPANISH SPEAKING FOLKS HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO WE LEAD WITH THAT AS SOMETHING THAT MAKES US UNIQUE.
AND, AND I AGREE WITH YOU THEN.
UM, SO IF THAT'S THE CASE THEN, AND I'M LOOKING AT, AND I'M GONNA FOCUS IN ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
SO THERE IS A SCIENCE BEHIND, AND I, I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE COMING BACK TO THIS COMMITTEE TO TALK ABOUT THE BROOKINGS STUDY, BUT THERE'S A COMPLETE SCIENCE AND A HUGE MODEL THAT ALEX CAN PROBABLY ROLL A PAMPHLET DOWN TO EXPLAIN, UM, THAT FOCUSED ON NOT ONLY, UM, US BEING HISPANIC, US BEING ABLE TO SPEAK SPANISH, BUT ALSO PROXIMITY, UM, IT GOES THROUGH, UM, ALL SORTS OF, OF POLITICAL, UM, DYNAMICS, I GUESS IS THE ONLY PC WAY TO SAY THAT.
POLITICAL DYNAMICS THAT WILL LEAD TO BILATERAL TRADE AND, AND OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE FURTHER.
SO WE CAN TALK THROUGH THAT MODEL IN MORE DETAIL.
AND I DON'T THINK WE'RE ELIMINATING LATIN AMERICA.
I THINK WE'VE GOT A LARGE LAUNDRY LIST OF THESE METRO TO METRO RELATIONSHIPS BASED OFF OF THE TARGET INDUSTRIES, AND THEN ALSO OUR EXISTING RELATIONSHIPS.
AND THERE ARE A FEW, AND ALEX MIGHT WANNA SPEAK TO IT, BUT THERE ARE A FEW METROS, INTERNATIONAL METROS THAT WE DON'T HAVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH TODAY THAT WE BELIEVE WE NEED TO START NOW THROUGH THE I R O TEAM TO START TO DEVELOP SO THAT, YOU KNOW, THREE TO FIVE YEARS FROM NOW WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONVERSATIONS, RIGHT? AND SO I, I THINK YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB, JENNA.
I'M JUST, MY JOB IS TO PUSH BACK, RIGHT? I LOVE IT.
AND SORT OF, AND, AND POKE THROUGH ASSUMPTIONS.
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KNOWN THAT THERE'S THOSE METROS WITH WHOM WE HAVE TO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS, RIGHT? AND YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR, I FORGET HOW LONG, A LONG TIME, THREE YEARS.AND YOUR PREDECESSOR, MARIO HERNANDEZ ALSO KNEW THIS.
EVERY OTHER CITY IN THE UNITED STATES KNOWS, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE ARE BUSINESSES COMING FROM AND INVESTMENT COMING FROM LATIN AMERICA, AND WE STILL HAVEN'T DONE IT.
SO WHAT WOULD NEED TO CHANGE TODAY FOR Y'ALL TO START? SO THE SIMPLE ANSWER TO THAT IS INVESTMENT.
SO
AND SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO PRIORITIZE, WE ARE LITERALLY PRIORITIZING OUR INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH AROUND PROSPECTS WE HAVE IN THE HOPPER.
SO I WILL BE, I'M NOT SURE IF THERE'S MEDIA HERE, I WILL BE IN JAPAN IN A FEW WEEKS, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE MULTIPLE PROSPECTS RIGHT NOW OUT THE JAPANESE MARKET.
AND SO BECAUSE OUR, UM, BECAUSE OUR DOLLARS ARE LIMITED THERE, WE HAVE NOW TAKEN OUR PRIORITIES AND SAID, OKAY, WHERE ARE OUR PROSPECTS AT RIGHT NOW? AND WHO DO WE HAVE TO TALK TO? SO THE WHOLE IDEA OF BUILDING UP RELATIONSHIPS FOR LONG-TERM INVESTMENT HASN'T EVEN BEEN ON THE RADAR.
IT'S JUST STARTING TO BECOME A PART OF OUR CONVERSATION.
THE ONLY CURE, IF I HAD A MAGIC WAND TODAY, AND I COULD WAVE IT, WOULD BE ADDITIONAL DOLLARS FOR INTERNATIONAL.
PART OF THE FREE TRADE ALLIANCE ACQUISITION, AS YOU KNOW, WAS TO TRY AND ADDRESS THAT, UH, UNTAPPED POTENTIAL BY WAY OF DOLLAR OF INVESTMENT.
AND THAT, UM, DIDN'T END UP BEING LUCRATIVE IN THE SLIGHTEST BIT BECAUSE WE INHERITED AN OPERATION THAT WAS BASICALLY OPERATING IN A DEFICIT OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND, AND WE PICKED UP SIX FTES.
AND SO THAT MOVE MADE SENSE TO STREAMLINE AND TO MAXIMIZE RESOURCES, BUT THE RESOURCES STILL ARE NOT THERE.
AND SO YOU GO BACK TO THE CONVERSATION ABOUT THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY INVESTING, AND WE HAVE SEEN A SIGNIFICANT UPTICK IN INVESTMENT, UM, FROM OUR BUS, FROM OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, BUT THEY'RE STILL LOOKING FOR WHAT'S GOING TO MOVE THE NEEDLE, WHAT ARE THOSE THREE TO FIVE THINGS THAT WILL MOVE THE NEEDLE AND MAKE US ALL MORE SUCCESSFUL? WHICH IS YOUR EXACT QUESTION.
AND SO, A, A AGAIN, I WANT US TO BE MORE THAN JUST THE PEOPLE THAT PAY LIP SERVICE TO US AS, YOU KNOW, A COMMUNITY THAT SPEAKS A LOT OF SPANISH.
UM, AND ACTUALLY MAYBE PROVE OUT THAT THAT MATTERS, RIGHT? BECAUSE IF IT DOESN'T MATTER, WELL THEN IT'S NICE FOR A BROCHURE, UH, AND INVITE PEOPLE DOWN TO FIESTA AND, YOU KNOW, HAVE FOOD THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, IS DELICIOUS.
BUT ASIDE FROM THAT, LET'S BE HONEST WITH EACH OTHER.
UM, YEAH, ALEX, OH, I'M SO SORRY.
I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH THE COMMITTEE AND WITH, UM, COUNCILMAN BELI THAT I BELIEVE IN NOVEMBER WE'RE GONNA COME BACK AND HAVE A SPECIFIC BRIEFING FOR THE COMMITTEE ON THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY AND THE FINDINGS AND ALL THE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HOW WE PRIORITIZED AS WELL.
UM, THE SECOND THING I'LL, I'LL TELL YOU, JENNA, AND, YOU KNOW, COUNCILWOMAN
UM, SO I'LL GIVE YOU SOME ANECDOTAL.
UM, THERE WAS A CLIENT THAT I WORKED WITH 2005, I BELIEVE.
UM, WE WERE DOING, UM, WORK ON RECRUITING A LOT OF EMPLOYER EMPLOYMENT, UM, HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
UM, AND THERE WAS A TEST, SORT OF JUST A BASIC SKILLS TEST, READING COMPREHENSION, AND JUST VERY, VERY SIMPLE MATH, RIGHT? ADDITION AND IT'S TRICKY FRIEND SUBTRACTION.
UM, AND WE WERE, THAT TEST IS ADMINISTERED IN THE MIDWEST, THE EAST COAST, THE WEST COAST, CANADA.
AND EVEN IN THE POOREST OF THE POOR REGIONS OF MEXICO.
AND IN SAN ANTONIO, OUR PASSAGE RATE WAS ABYSMAL.
I MEAN, WE COULDN'T COMPETE WITH PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WHO DIDN'T EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH, WHO LIVED UNDER DIRT FLOORS IN MEXICO.
UM, AND SO THE SOLUTION TO THAT WAS TO DUMP THE TEST AND NOT TELL ANYBODY THAT WE DID IT, BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF OUR, I MEAN, IT WAS REALLY EMBARRASSING, RIGHT? AND THEN WE HAD, WE WERE POP COMMITTED HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, UM, AND WE DUMPED IT, RIGHT? I HAVE A FEELING, WELL, I HAVE YET TO SEE ANYTHING TO SUGGEST THAT THAT WOULDN'T REPEAT ITSELF IF WE TRIED TO AGAIN.
SO ALONG THOSE LINES, HIS, DO WE HAVE HISTORICAL DATA ABOUT HOW WE'RE IMPROVING OR WHAT IT IS THAT, YOU KNOW, OR HOW WE PERFORM, YOU KNOW, FROM OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS WITH REGARDS TO LITERACY RATES AND, UH, YOU KNOW, SIMPLE ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION.
AND BY THE WAY, THAT STORY JUST BREAKS MY HEART EVERY TIME I HEAR IT.
UM, BUT WE DO HAVE THOSE STATISTICS.
IN FACT, KATE ROGERS, WHO LEADS THE CHARLES BUTT FOUNDATION, SHE HAPPENS TO BE THE CHAIR OF OUR WORKFORCE COUNCIL, AND SHE HAS BASICALLY WORKED WITH US TO HELP MAP OUT THE ENTIRE TALENT PIPELINE STRUCTURE HERE, RIGHT? SO WE'VE BEEN SO FOCUSED ON THE HERE AND NOW, WE'VE GOTTA FILL ROLES HERE AND NOW PROGRAMS LIKE A M T, TEXAS FAME, ET CETERA, UM, THAT WE'VE KIND OF LOST SIGHT ON THE EARLY ACTIVITIES,
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RIGHT? AND SO SHE HAS, UH, BEEN WORKING TO REALLY DIVE DEEPER INTO THE EARLY ELEMENTS.OF COURSE, READING, UH, ALL OF EVERYTHING THAT YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT WOULD BE IN THE, THE EARLY SEGMENT OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT OR, UH, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.
AND SO SHE IS WORKING TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM, I BELIEVE SHE'S CALLING IT EARLY MATTERS, AND SHE'S PULLING TOGETHER FOLKS AROUND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO TALK ABOUT THOSE PROGRAMS THAT HELP LIKE PRE-K FOR S A AND SO MANY OTHERS.
SO WHEN WE GO DOWN TO WHAT ARE THOSE PRIORITIES, UM, SHE'S ACTUALLY DEEP DIVING INTO THAT AREA.
AND SO I'D BE HAPPY TO VISIT WITH HER AND GET YOU THOSE STATISTICS.
WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS, BUT IT'S STILL A PROBLEM.
AND THEN I SPOKE TO JIM PERCH LAST NIGHT.
I SPOKE TO JIM PBA, AND HE SEES RED EVERY TIME SOMEBODY SAYS THAT WE'RE, WE'VE GOT THE CHEAPEST ENERGY AND THE CHEAPEST WATER.
UM, BECAUSE HE SAYS THAT THAT'S NOT WHAT ATTRACTS PEOPLE.
THE, THE, UH, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY THE SI CYBERSECURITY CROWD THAT THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE PRICE OF, UH, PER KILOWATT HOUR THAT THEY'RE PAYING FOR AT, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER.
AND I TOLD HIM, YOU KNOW, THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, RIGHT? SINCE THEY'RE OPERATING SO MANY SERVERS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THOSE RUN ON LAST I CHECKED, THEY RUN ON ELECTRICITY AND NOT STEAM
UM, IS HE RIGHT? I MEAN, WHAT DO YOU, WHERE, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THAT? HE, HE IS RIGHT, UH, FOR CERTAIN INDUSTRIES.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT MANUFACTURING, AFFORDABLE AND RELIABLE POWER AND WATER IS NUMBER ONE, ACTUALLY, WORKFORCE IS NUMBER ONE, IS NUMBER TWO.
UM, BUT FOR CYBERSECURITY, UM, THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE HAVE HERE LOCALLY OR THAT WE'RE WORKING TO RECRUIT ARE HIGHER IN JOB COUNTS, BUT NOT AS, UH, EXPANSIVE IN FACILITY AND ENERGY AND POWER USAGE.
OKAY? AND SO HE'S RIGHT FOR CYBERSECURITY AND TECH, YOU KNOW, COMPANIES LIKE THE HUTT GROUP, THEY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT ENERGY BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST GOING INTO A SMALL SPACE AND, YOU KNOW, EMPLOYING 200 A COMPANY LIKE, UH, T J X OR LIKE CUISINE SOLUTIONS, THEY CARE A LOT ABOUT ENERGY AND POWER.
UM, JENNA, HOW MANY ARE ON YOUR STAFF NOW? SO I HAVE 19, INCLUDING ME.
YOU MENTIONED, UH, TARGET INDUSTRIES ON, ON SLIDE 12, BUT ALSO YOU SAID PART OF THE RESPONSIBILITY IS, UM, BUSINESS RETENTION.
ABOUT WHAT PERCENTAGE OF YOUR TIME AND RESOURCES GO INTO BUSINESS RETENTION? THAT'S A BIG, BIG CHUNK.
UM, AND THAT'S BY WAY OF SALARIES, BUT ALSO TIME.
IF YOU KIND OF STEP BACK AND LOOK AT TIME, WE'VE GOT, I CAN, I CAN BREAK DOWN THE NUMBERS FOR YOU.
I MEAN, JUST THROUGH OUR, OUR BUDGET AND DOLLARS INVESTED, IT'S, IT'S ABOUT 60%.
I'M, I'M VERY AWARE, AND ALL OF US ARE, WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AT AND T LEFT MM-HMM.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU WERE INDICATING THAT WAS THE PREDICATE FOR PUTTING MORE EMPHASIS ON BUSINESS RETENTION.
BUT I'M SORRY, I CAN'T HELP BUT UNDERSTANDING WHY THAT ISN'T THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE'S ROLE.
I MEAN, WE'VE GOT EIGHT MAYBE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE IN THIS CITY.
AND, AND WE HAVE TOO MANY, THEY, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE MEMBERS PAY FEES TO THOSE CHAMBERS TO SUPPORT THEM.
I WOULD THINK THAT SHOULD BE THE ROLE OF THOSE CHAMBERS ON BUSINESS RETENTION AND NOT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
SO I'LL GET OFF MY, MY HORSE OFF OF THAT, ACTUALLY, ACTUALLY, CAN I COMMENT ON THAT? SURE.
IF I, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT HAVING A MAGIC WAND EARLIER.
SO IN THE SPIRIT OF ME CONTINUING ON WITH THAT MAGIC WAND IN TOP PERFORMING METROS, WHAT YOU'LL SEE, COUNCILMAN COURAGE, IS THAT EVERYTHING THAT WE DO, AND, AND WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY A DEPARTMENT, WE'RE OUR OWN ENTITY IS DRIVEN BY A POWERHOUSE CHAMBER, RIGHT? SO IF YOU LOOK AT AUSTIN, HOUSTON, DALLAS, THEY HAVE ONE POWERHOUSE CHAMBER.
NOW THEY HAVE A FEW OTHER CHAMBERS IN THEIR MARKETS, BUT THEY HAVE ONE POWERHOUSE CHAMBER.
AND THE E D O, MY ENTITY IS A DEPARTMENT OF THAT CHAMBER.
AND SO THEY GO OUT AND A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THEIR DOLLARS ARE INVESTED INTO PROGRAMMING, INTO RECRUITMENT, INTO B R E, ET CETERA.
AND SO THEY'RE NOT PAYING OVERHEAD, THEY'RE NOT PAYING A MULTIPLE CCE, MULTIPLE CEOS.
THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT PAYING MULTIPLE FACILITIES.
THE PROBLEM THOUGH, IS TO YOUR POINT, YOU ANSWERED THE QUESTION THAT WE HAVE SO MANY, IT'S ACTUALLY NOT EIGHT.
WE HAVE 24 CHAMBERS IN THE REGION.
AND SO WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE LUXURY OF BEING A PART OF ANY ONE CHAMBER.
WE HAVE TO BE CHAMBER AGNOSTIC.
AND THEY ALL SERVE GREAT VAL, LIKE GREAT NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY.
THEY EACH HAVE KIND OF THEIR OWN NICHE POSITION, AND THEY CARVE THEM OUT.
AND THEY DO REALLY WELL FOR CERTAIN GEOGRAPHIES, CERTAIN ETHNICITIES, CERTAIN PROGRAMMING, BUT WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY THAT WE HAVE TO KIND OF BE THAT STANDALONE EFFORT.
BUT IT WOULD BE MUCH MORE EFFICIENT TO BE A PART OF A CHAMBER.
AND, YOU KNOW, OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORIGINALLY IN THE CITY CAME OUTTA THE CHAMBER.
THAT'S HOW WE GOT AN INDEPENDENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE.
BUT ALSO, I THINK THE HISTORIC TENDENCY OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN SAN ANTONIO WAS NOT INCLUSIVE.
IT WAS EXCLUSIVE, WHICH HAS LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL OF THE OTHER CHAMBERS TO TRY
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AND PROMOTE THEIR OWN INTERESTS.AND THAT'S A SHAME, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS TO BE AWARE OF AND WE NEED TO WORK TOWARD, UH, RESOLVING.
BUT GETTING BACK TO A FEW THINGS, I THINK RELATED TO THIS, OKAY, SO 60% OF A LOT OF YOUR RESOURCES ARE USED FOR BUSINESS RETENTION.
SO THAT MEANS YOU'VE GOT 40% USED TOWARD TARGETED INDUSTRIES AND, UH, AND, AND OTHER RELATED THINGS, INTERNATIONAL, FOR EXAMPLE.
SO YOU'VE INDICATED THERE ARE FOUR TARGETED INDUSTRIES, CYBERSECURITY, TECH, BIOSCIENCE, MANUFACTURING.
UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY PEOPLE DEDICATED TO EACH OF THOSE FOUR STAFF MEMBERS DEDICATED TO THAT? WE DO.
I'M GLAD YOU ASKED THAT QUESTION.
SO OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, AS WE TALKED ABOUT REFINING OUR APPROACH, UM, THAT MEANT ACTUALLY REDEPLOYING OUR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TEAM.
SO WHEN I, UH, JOINED THE ORGANIZATION THREE YEARS AGO, OUR TEAM WAS SOLELY FOCUSED ON RECRUITMENT.
SO WE HAD THIS FOREFRONT SAN ANTONIO PLAN, BUT LET'S BE HONEST, IT WAS SITTING ON A SHELF.
AND SO THE TEAM WAS OUT MARKETING, THEY WERE RECRUITING, BUT WE REALLY, WE HAD ONE HEADCOUNT FOCUSED ON BUSINESS RETENTION AND EXPANSION, WHICH MEANS IT'S REALLY NOT A PART OF WHAT YOU DO.
THE SAME THING CAN BE SAID FOR INTERNATIONAL.
AND SO WHAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS IS WE'VE REDEPLOYED THE TEAM TO FOCUS ON THOSE KEY INDUSTRIES.
AND SO I HAVE AN EXECUTIVE THAT'S FOCUSED ON CYBER.
I HAVE AN EXECUTIVE THAT'S FOCUSED ON BIO.
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON BASED OFF OF THOSE FOUR INDUSTRIES.
I WILL SAY THOUGH, THAT IT'S NOT AS BLACK AND WHITE AS SAYING IT'S THIS ONE INDUSTRY OR THAT ONE INDUSTRY.
AND IT'S ALSO NOT AS BLACK AND WHITE TO SAY, THIS IS RECRUITMENT AND THIS IS B R E, AND THIS IS WORKFORCE.
WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS THAT THERE'S REALLY JUST BEEN THIS, UH, WE'RE MORPHING INTO INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT.
AND SO I'M PILOTING A ROLE RIGHT NOW WHERE I PROMOTED, WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROMOTE WITHIN, UM, I PROMOTED ONE OF OUR WORKFORCE EXECUTIVES, IT'S A FORMER RACKSPACE EXECUTIVE.
I PROMOTED HIM TO BE THE TECH INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE.
AND SO HE'S FOCUSED ON CRADLE TO GRAVE RECRUITMENT, RETENTION AND EXPANSION, BUT ALSO HE CAN SPEAK THE LINGO AND HE KNOWS ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT WORKFORCE PROGRAMS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO SO THAT HE CAN BE THAT LEAD FOR TECH.
AND THE IDEA IS THAT WE CAN DO THE SAME ACROSS INDUSTRIES.
TODAY, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A MORPH, BECAUSE AS, AS YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU SERVE ON THE BOARD OF BIOMED SAN ANTONIO.
WE'VE GOT A BIOMED SAN ANTONIO GROUP, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A CYBER SAN ANTONIO GROUP.
SO FOR TECH, SEAN ATWOOD IS HIS NAME.
SEAN HAS BEEN ABLE TO BE THAT, UH, TARGET INDUSTRY DEVELOPER, AND HE'S KIND OF THAT ENTRY POINT.
AND HE'S, HE'S WORKING ALL THE DIFFERENT CHANNELS FOR CYBERSECURITY.
TOM ON MY TEAM SERVES THAT ROLE, BUT HE WORKS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AMANDA FROM CYBERSECURITY, SAN ANTONIO AND MICHELLE BOGG SERVES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BIOMED SAN ANTONIO.
THE REASON WE DO THAT, IT ALL COMES DOWN TO DOLLARS AND CENTS.
THE REASON WE DO THAT IS BECAUSE I'M CURRENTLY INVESTING SIGNIFICANT DOLLARS IN ABOUT HALF A HEADCOUNT INTO BIOMED SAN ANTONIO.
SO I WANT THAT TYPE OF PARTNERSHIP.
THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR THE CITY'S INVESTMENT IN CYBERSECURITY SAN ANTONIO.
BUT I THINK WE NEED TO MORPH TO THAT MORE OF A HYBRID ROLE SO THAT I NO LONGER HAVE TWO LINES OF BUSINESS, BD AND WORKFORCE.
WE NEED TO GET TO A POINT WHERE WE HAVE LINES OF BUSINESS FOCUSED ON INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT AT, AT THE END OF THE DAY.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? I'M GETTING INTO MY SHOP A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT'S IMPORTANT.
I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE GOING ON THAT AND, AND, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, BUT YOU ALSO TALKED ABOUT EDUCATION.
AND, UH, THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, YOU ARE LIMITED IN YOUR ABILITY TO DEVELOP THE KIND OF WORKFORCE THAT IS GOING TO ATTRACT PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, TO SAN ANTONIO.
SO WHAT'S THE, UH, WHAT'S SAD F'S ROLE IN EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT? IT'S ABOUT TO BE OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY.
SO I, I HATE TO KIND OF LEAD THE WITNESSES WITH OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE COMPETITIVE SCORECARDS THAT WE'LL SHARE WITH YOU, UM, BASED OFF OF OUR TOP, IT'S BASICALLY A, A COMP SET OF ABOUT 10 COMMUNITIES.
THOSE THAT WE CURRENTLY COMPETE WITH, AND THOSE THAT WE ASPIRE TO COMPETE WITH, WE'RE AT THE BOTTOM.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE WORKFORCE AND EDUCATION, UM, COMPARISON SHEET, WE'RE AT THE BOTTOM AND WE'RE RED.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE I WAS GETTING AT WHEN I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE TRANSACTIONAL PIECE, RIGHT? WE'VE BEEN SO HYPER-FOCUSED, OUR INVESTORS, EVERYBODY, OUR KPIS, WE'VE BEEN SO HYPER-FOCUSED ON JOBS AND GOING OUT TO RECRUIT THAT WE HAVEN'T REALLY FOCUSED ON PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
AND I BELIEVE THAT FOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS GOING TO BE NUMBER ONE.
AND SO I'D HATE TO AGAIN, LEAD YOU ALL, BUT I HAVE A FEELING THAT WHEN WE COME BACK IN Q ONE OF 2020, THAT EDUCATION IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT I AM SCREAMING OFF OF THE ROOFTOPS AND NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT, I THINK IT'S GONNA BE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE INVESTING BIG DOLLARS IN.
AND I, I AGREE, AND I, I HOPE MY FELLOW COUNCIL PEOPLE WILL BE THINKING ABOUT THIS TOO, THAT, UH, THE CITY HAS TO BE A PARTNER IN EDUCATION.
AND WE, WE REALLY HAVEN'T BEEN, I MEAN, WE'VE, WE'VE GOT A GREAT PRE-K FOR SA PROGRAM, AND THAT HELPS 2000 STUDENTS A YEAR AND OVER FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, THAT'S 10,000 STUDENTS.
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WE'RE ATTRACTING 10, 15, 20, 30, 50,000 JOBS.WE NEED TO HAVE A MUCH BETTER EDUCATED, UH, WORKFORCE.
AND THE CITY HAS TO BE A PARTNER.
WE JUST CAN'T WAIT FOR THE SCHOOLS TO BE ABLE TO DO IT.
UH, WE HELP PEOPLE COMING OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL TO GO TO COLLEGE.
WE'RE GONNA BE PART OF THE, UH, ALAMO PROMISE PROGRAM, AND THAT'S GREAT TOO.
BUT WE'VE GOT JUST HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS IN SCHOOL TODAY BETWEEN FIRST GRADE OR KINDER AND 12TH GRADE THAT AREN'T REALLY GETTING ANY SUPPORT FROM THE CITY, SO TO SPEAK, IN PROMOTING THEIR ACHIEVEMENT.
SO, UH, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO CONSIDER.
AND I HOPE THAT WHAT YOU BRING FORWARD WILL HELP ENCOURAGE THE CITY TO TAKE A GREATER ROLE IN RAISING THE ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL IN OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THIS CITY.
UH, NOW, UH, I HAVE A COUPLE OF OTHER QUESTIONS.
AND IT'S RELATED, BIOMED SA, I WAS LOOKING AT THE CHART, UH, SLIDE 16, UH, AND SLIDE 16 SAID THAT OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, WE'VE, WE'VE DONE NOTHING IN, UH, BIO BIOSCIENCE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, ATTRACTION OF ANY BUSINESS.
WE ATTRACTED 5% IN 2017 AND ZERO IN 20 18, 0 THIS YEAR.
IT'S NICE TO HAVE A PERSON SIT ON THE BOARD, AND I SIT ON THAT BOARD TOO.
BUT THE ACTIVE NATURE OF THAT BOARD IS ONE PERSON.
WE KNOW THAT SHE DOES A GREAT JOB, BUT ONE PERSON ISN'T ENOUGH.
AND I'VE ENCOURAGED THE CITY MANAGER TO TRY AND ADD SOME MORE ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO BIOMED SA TO HELP THEM STRENGTHEN THEIR ENERGY BECAUSE THEY ARE A CLOSE NUMBER TWO IN THE INDUSTRIES IN SAN ANTONIO BY JUST A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AWAY FROM BEING NUMBER ONE IN, IN WHAT THEY PRODUCE, UH, IN THIS CITY.
YET WE'RE SHOWING NO GROWTH OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
AND THEN WE LOOK AT, UH, THE NEXT SLIDE.
17 DOESN'T SHOW ANY GROWTH IN POSITIONS, NO JOBS IN THAT AREA.
NOW, MAYBE THEY'RE MIXED INTO OTHER 21%, MAYBE THAT'S PART OF, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT ADVANCED MANUFACTURING AND TECHNOLOGY AND FINANCE AND AEROSPACE.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO JOBS AND BIOMED, IT DOESN'T STAND OUT.
GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE MAJOR INDUSTRY THAT IT IS.
UH, AND I, I DON'T HOLD ANYBODY ACCOUNTABLE O OTHER THAN US AS A CITY.
AND BY THE WAY, YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
I'VE, I'VE BEEN STARTING TO GET FRUSTRATED THERE TOO.
SO A COUPLE OF CLARIFYING POINTS HERE.
UM, THIS PERCENTAGE, UH, LOOKS SMALL, BUT THIS IS BY JOB COUNT, NOT PROJECTS.
AND WHEN WE WORK BIO COMPANIES, THEY'RE USUALLY, YOU KNOW, 25, 50 JOBS MAX.
AND, AND THAT'S KIND OF NOT FAIR WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT MANUFACTURING, THAT MIGHT BE 500 TO A THOUSAND JOBS PER PROJECT.
UM, BUT I WILL AGREE WITH YOU THAT OUR FOCUS ON, ON BIO AND, AND OUR PIPELINE.
SO THE NEXT SLIDE, WHICH IS A PIPELINE, UH, YES.
SO THE, THE BREAKDOWN BY TARGET SECTOR, THAT PIECE OF THE, THE PIE FOR BIO SHOULD BE MUCH LARGER.
WHAT I'VE TRIED TO DO IS NOT JUST LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, INVESTING DOLLARS INTO CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS AS THE ANSWER.
I'M TRYING TO LOOK HOLISTICALLY AT TEAM SAN ANTONIO AND HOW WE'RE EFFECTIVE.
AND SO I, FULL DISCLOSURE, I WAS INVESTING $50,000 LAST YEAR IN, IN BIOMED SAN ANTONIO.
I REDUCED TO 25, BUT I TOOK THOSE DOLLARS WITHIN, AND I'VE BEEN ABLE TO DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF B R E VISITS THAT WE'RE DOING, DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF OUTREACH, BECAUSE THERE ARE JUST SOME ECONOMIES OF SCALE THAT YOU SEE THERE.
UM, FOR THE 25 THAT I'M CURRENTLY INVESTING, UM, WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON NOW IS COUPLE OF B R E VISITS AND THEN CO-SPONSORING, CO-CHAIRING OUR, UM, BASICALLY OUR BIO WORKING GROUP.
BUT I THINK THERE'S STILL FRAGMENTATION THERE.
AND WE'VE GOT, WE'VE GOTTA KIND OF STEP BACK AS TEAM SAN ANTONIO, NOT JUST THE CITY, BUT THE BIO INDUSTRY TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT NECESSARILY MEANS THAT E D F NEEDS TO BE INVESTING 10 TIMES WHAT IT IS IN BIO UNDER OUR HOUSE, IF IT MEANS INVESTING IN EXTERNAL CONTRACTORS LIKE BIOMED SAN ANTONIO TO DO THAT.
BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT BOTH BIOMED SAN ANTONIO AND CYBERSECURITY, SAN ANTONIO, UH, FOR EFFECTIVENESS AS CONTRACTUAL PARTNERS TO OUR ENTITY.
BECAUSE AS WE'RE GETTING MORE AGGRESSIVE AND ELEVATING THE LEVEL OF SOPHISTICATION ACROSS THE BOARD, I THINK WE ALSO HAVE TO BE VERY, VERY REAL WITH OURSELVES ABOUT WHERE WE'RE PERFORMING AND WHERE WE'RE NOT.
AND THAT'S THE REVIEW THAT'S CURRENTLY ONGOING RIGHT NOW.
YOU KNOW, I, I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO DO.
THAT CAN COOPERATE AND COLLABORATE AND IT BUILDS THE WHOLE INDUSTRY.
AND TRYING TO SAVE ONE OR TWO, OR KEEP ONE OR TWO HERE WHEN THEY'RE NOT SEEING ANY OF THE GROWTH IN THE INDUSTRY, IS NOT VERY ENCOURAGING FOR THEM.
THEY CAN GO SOMEWHERE ELSE WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF COLLABORATION
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'CAUSE THERE'S MORE BUSINESSES GOING THERE.SO AGAIN, BUSINESS RETENTION SHOULDN'T REALLY BE YOUR JOB, BUT I UNDERSTAND SOMEBODY'S GOTTA DO IT, THE DYNAMIC
UH, BUT WE NEED TO WORK ON THAT SOME MORE.
UH, ON SLIDE 20, UH, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE MARKETING PLAN YOU WERE PUTTING TOGETHER, UM, LET'S SEE.
YOU SAID YOU'RE CAN HAVE A PLAN IMPLEMENTATION, UH, COMING LATER ON DOWN THE LINE.
UM, AND I KNOW THAT YOU TALKED, I THINK IN THE SLIDE JUST BEFORE THAT ABOUT DOING SOME OF THE RESEARCH ON IT, BUT WAS, UH, WAS MARKET STREET INVOLVED IN ALL OF THIS SO FAR? AND ARE THEY GONNA BE, UH, DOING THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN? YES.
SO MARKET STREET IS THE CONSULTANT.
THEY'RE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANTS, AND THEY, THEY DABBLE IN WORKFORCE AS WELL.
SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A MARKETING PLAN, IT'S OUR UPDATED REGIONAL STRATEGIC PLAN AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
AND THEY'RE THE CONSULTANTS THAT STARTED WITH US THAT KICKED OFF THE RESEARCH, AND THAT WILL HELP US GET TO IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
AND THEN OF COURSE, THAT'S OUR PLAN TO HELP ACTUALIZE.
AND REGIONAL WAS SOMETHING ELSE YOU MENTIONED, AND, AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT, WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AS A LARGE METROPOLITAN AREA, EVERYBODY BENEFITS WITH GROWTH THAT GOES ON EVERY AREA, EVERYWHERE.
BUT I'M WONDERING ABOUT THE CITY'S EFFECTIVE SPENDING AND, UH, YOU KNOW, GETTING A RETURN TO THE CITY.
IT, IT'LL BE GREAT TO SEE ALL OF THESE OTHER CITIES AROUND US GROW AND ATTRACT BUSINESSES, BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO THE TAX BASE IN THE CITY? MM-HMM.
YES, THOSE PEOPLE ARE GONNA WORK, THEY'RE GONNA MAKE MONEY, AND THEY MAY COME TO SAN ANTONIO TO SPEND IT, BUT IT ISN'T THE SAME KIND OF DIRECT ECONOMIC IMPACT TO IT.
THERE'S, UM, THERE'S SIGNIFICANT JOBS ELEMENT TO THAT.
AND THEN THERE'S OF COURSE A REVENUE, UH, IMPACT TO THAT FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
UH, AND WHAT'S INTERESTING HERE IS THAT AS WE'VE PRIORITIZED OUR REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPS, ONE THING TO NOTE IS THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO STANDS TO MAKE MORE MONEY OFF OF THEIR GENERAL FUND TRANSFER FROM C P SS ENERGY ON THEIR WHOLESALE BOOK OF BUSINESS.
SO YOU ALL KNOW THAT C P SS ENERGY DOESN'T MAKE MONEY OFF THEIR RESIDENTIAL LOAD, IT'S ACTUALLY THE WHOLESALE BOOK OF BUSINESS WHERE THEY MAKE HIGHER MARGINS.
AND SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF A PROJECT GOES TO SINE, A MANUFACTURING OUTFIT GOES TO SINE, THEY OF COURSE BENEFIT FROM LOW POWER, RELIABLE POWER, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE FLOW BACK STREAM IS HIGHER REVENUE DOLLARS FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, OBVIOUSLY THE REVENUE SIDE OF IT, AND WE KNOW THAT THAT MAKES SENSE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH.
AND CARLOS CAN PROBABLY SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THAT.
BUT ON THE JOB FLOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT AS OUR CONNECTIVITY CHANGES FROM A MASS TRANSPORTATION PERSPECTIVE, I THINK WE'LL CONTINUE TO SEE GREATER VALUE.
WE REALLY DON'T HAVE OUR HANDS AROUND THAT PIECE OF IT YET, BUT I CAN TELL YOU FROM A REVENUE PERSPECTIVE, WE'RE IN CLOSE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY IN SAN ANTONIO, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, SO THAT WE CAN SEE, UM, THE DOLLAR IMPACT TO THE BOTTOM LINE.
I APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENTATION.
UM, THANK YOU JENNA, VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENT PRESENTATION.
JUST A COUPLE OF COMMENTS, UM, FROM ME ON THE STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS, UH, I'M GLAD TO SEE ALL OF THE GOVERN GOVERNANCE AND THE STAKEHOLDER INPUT THAT YOU HAVE DONE.
UM, QUICK QUESTION ON THE FOCUS GROUPS, YOU HAD SEVEN OF THEM.
DID ANY OF THESE FOCUS GROUPS INCLUDE, UH, MAYBE COMPANIES MEMBERS, PEOPLE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN LIVING IN SAN ANTONIO AND NOW ARE NO LONGER IN SAN ANTONIO AND COULD GIVE A, A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN LIKESO LIKE MARIO SOYA, LIKE OTHERS? DID WE GET ANY OF THAT? THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION.
SO I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE FOCUS GROUP PARTICIPANTS.
I KNOW THAT RAMIRO, UM, AND ROLANDO PABLOS ACTUALLY WERE BOTH INTERVIEWED, SO THEY HAD ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEWS.
UM, BUT LET ME GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE NUMBERS BECAUSE I THINK THAT WOULD BE INSIGHTFUL.
I WOULD STAND TO BELIEVE THAT THE SURVEY WOULD PROBABLY IMPACT MORE OF THOSE FOLKS.
IN FACT, I HAD A FEW FRIENDS THAT SAW IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND THEY NOW LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, AND THEY TOOK THE SURVEY.
AND SO I PROB THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE WE'LL SEE MORE, MORE FOLKS FROM OUTSIDE IN, TAKE IT.
UM, BUT I WOULD COUPLE THIS WORK WITH THE WORK THAT WE PREVIOUSLY DID, UM, WITH ADAM PRAGER, AND HE ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND HE, HE SURVEYED THE SITE SELECTORS, AS YOU REMEMBER.
AND THE CEOS THAT SELECTED US AND DIDN'T SELECT US.
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OF THAT WORK.OKAY? THEY HAVE THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE WITH BIOMED SAN ANTONIO AND STRATEGIC PLANS, WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH CYBER ARROW, ET CETERA.
BUT I NEED TO KNOW THAT ANSWER AND I'LL, I'LL GET THAT FOR YOU.
AND THEN, UM, ONE OF YOUR SLIDES I THINK WAS VERY, VERY TELLING.
IT SAID WE NEED TO, UH, TO WELL THINKING DIFFERENTLY AND ACT URGENTLY.
I THINK THAT WAS EX EXTREMELY, UM, TELLING OF WHAT WE AS A COMMUNITY NEED TO DO AND COMING BACK WITH A PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
I'M GLAD THAT WE ALL ARE WILLING AND READY TO WORK TOGETHER TO MOVE THE NEEDLE.
I THINK, UM, I THINK WHAT I'M ALSO LOOKING FORWARD TO IS, YOU KNOW, GOING BACK TO THE EARLY CONVERSATIONS, AND I'M JUST GONNA EDIT ON THIS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE POOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IS AT THE ROOT OF OUR INCOME, UH, EQUALITY OR NON INEQUALITY AND WORKFORCE CHALLENGES.
BUT IN THESE TIMES OF HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS AND BECAUSE BUSINESS COMMUNITY FATIGUE, I REALLY HOPE THAT THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN SAN ANTONIO, ESPECIALLY THE, WELL, THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN SAN ANTONIO, REALLY IN THIS MOMENT ALSO TAKES A MOMENT AND LOOKS AT THEMSELVES IN THE MIRROR TO SEE WHERE THEY MAY HAVE PLAYED A ROLE IN GETTING US TO THIS PLACE WHERE WE ARE WITH THIS POOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT AND ROOT OF INCOME EQUALITY OR, AND WORKFORCE CHALLENGES.
AND MAYBE LOOK AT THEMSELVES AS WELL TO SEE WHAT ARE THEY EVEN LOOKING AT WAYS THAT THEY CAN CHANGE WITHIN THEIR OWN COMPANIES TO HELP LIFT THIS AND CHANGE THESE PATTERNS.
BECAUSE I THINK WE ALL NEED TO BE READY TO LOOK AT OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR TO SAY, THIS IS WHAT THE CITY NEEDS TO DO TO MAKE CHANGES, AND THIS IS WHAT OUR BUSINESS AND OUR PRIVATE SECTOR NEEDS TO DO IN ORDER TO MAKE CHANGES TO BUILD THAT ECONOMIC MOBILITY OPPORTUNITY AND INCREASE THESE EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT.
UM, SO THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING TO, UH, LEAVE MY COMMENTS.
BUT AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.
THANK YOU, UM, TO YOUR ENTIRE TEAM AND FOR WORKING SO WELL TOGETHER WITH ALL OF US.
APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND QUESTIONS.
WELL MY COLLEAGUES, THIS IS, UM, THE END OF THIS AGENDA.
ALEX, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING? I JUST WANTED TO FOLLOW UP VERY QUICKLY.
I BELIEVE Y'ALL RECEIVED COPIES OF THE ACTUAL FULL REPORT.
UM, I, I MENTIONED, I SHARED A COUPLE STATISTICS IN THE PRESENTATION, BUT BASED ON SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS, I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF PAGES AND SPECIFIC AREAS.
ON PAGE 22, YOU SEE SOME OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN, AND THAT'S WHERE SOME OF THE STEM RELATED, UM, INFORMATION IS INCLUDED.
ON PAGE 27, YOU'LL SEE THE WAGE EARNINGS FOR WOMEN WITH CHILDREN AND THOSE WITHOUT CHILDREN, WHICH ALSO KIND OF ACCOUNTS FOR SOME OF THAT DISPARITY THAT WE SEE MOVING FORWARD.
UM, ON PAGE 28, YOU HAVE THE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD DATA THAT I THINK COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ WAS ASKING ABOUT.
AND LASTLY, UM, STARTING ON PAGE 25, COUNCILMAN COURAGE.
YOU HAVE THE DATA ABOUT SMALL BI, ABOUT, UH, WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERSHIP.
SO YOU HAVE THE GENERAL DATA THAT WE HAD FROM THE AMERICAN EXPRESS SURVEY, BUT THEN THE SAN ANTONIO SPECIFIC DATA AS WELL.
THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR BEING HERE AND WE STAND ADJOURNED.