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GOOD AFTERNOON.WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL BUDGET WORK SESSION OF SEPTEMBER 3RD, 2019.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
COUNCIL MEMBER CAVEO HDA HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL IS ON HER WAY.
COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT.
COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY AND MAYOR NURENBERG HERE.
WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL BUDGET SESSION TODAY.
TIME IS 2:12 PM WE HAVE TWO PRESENTATIONS TODAY FOR OUR WORK SESSION, SO I'LL GET OUR, UH, HAND IT OVER TO OUR CITY MANAGER TO GET US KICKED.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR COUNCIL.
SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE FOUR PRESENTATIONS THIS AFTERNOON.
UH, UH, THE, WE'LL START OFF WITH, UM, EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION BY LORI STEWART.
AND THEN, UH, THE CITY CLERK AND THE CITY AUDITOR WILL BE PRESENTING THEIR BUDGETS.
AND THEN MARIA VILLA GOMEZ WILL BE PRESENTING ON THE, UH, CITY ADMINISTRATION.
LET'S LET YOU GET UP AND RUNNING THERE.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I'M PLEASED TO BE HERE THIS AFTERNOON TO DISCUSS EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
BUT FIRST, I WILL SHARE A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET SUPPORTS THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT'S MISSION TO ATTRACT, DEVELOP, ENGAGE, AND RETAIN A DIVERSE AND SKILLED WORKFORCE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY SERVICES TO THE RESIDENTS OF SAN ANTONIO.
THE SLIDE LIST, JUST A SAMPLING OF THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES THAT SUPPORT THIS MISSION.
HUMAN RESOURCES WAS ONE OF SIX DEPARTMENT'S SELECTED TO PILOT AN EQUITY TOOL IN FISCAL YEAR 2017.
OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO DATE INCLUDE FULLY IMPLEMENTING FAIR CHANCE HIRING FOR OUR CIVILIAN POSITIONS.
WE DO NOT COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT PAST CRIMINAL HISTORY ON OUR JOB APPLICATIONS.
ADDITIONALLY, OUR EFFORTS USING THE EQUITY TOOL RESULTED IN A RECOMMENDATION TO ALLOW DEMON DEMONSTRATED JOB EXPERIENCE TO SUBSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.
FINALLY, ALL GENERAL QUESTIONS REFERENCING SALARY PREFERENCE AND SALARY HISTORY WERE REMOVED FROM CIVILIAN EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS.
THIS WAS A PROACTIVE MEASURE TO ENSURE THAT JOB OFFERS DO NOT PERPETUATE THE GENDER AND RACIAL WAGE GAPS KNOWN TO EXIST IN THE US LABOR FORCE.
LOOKING FORWARD TO FISCAL YEAR 2020, WE PLAN TO EVALUATE OUR JOB DESCRIPTIONS TO BE SURE ANY EXCLUSIONARY LANGUAGE IS ELIMINATED, AND WE WILL DEVELOP MEASURES TO COLLECT, TRACK, AND EVALUATE THE EQUITY IMPACT OF HR PROGRAMS AND TARGETED OUTREACH EFFORTS.
OF THE $173.4 MILLION HR BUDGET, THE VAST MAJORITY, 96%, IS IN THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FUND, WHICH CONTAINS THE BUDGET TO PAY THE CLAIMS FOR OUR SELF-FUNDED MEDICAL PLANS.
THE REMAINDER OF R'S BUDGET IS DIVIDED BETWEEN THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FUND AND THE GENERAL FUND.
THE $7 MILLION GENERAL FUND IS MOSTLY COMPRISED OF PERSONAL SERVICES, BUT IT ALSO FUNDS CITYWIDE PROGRAMS SUCH AS TUITION REIMBURSEMENT VIA BUS PASSES, AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.
THIS NEXT SLIDE CONTAINS A FEW FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT OUR CITY WORKFORCE.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET FUNDS 12,505, REGULAR FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME POSITIONS.
THE POSITION MAKEUP IS APPROXIMATELY ONE THIRD SWORN PUBLIC SAFETY AND TWO
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THIRD CIVILIAN.WHEN WE DISCUSS CIVILIAN EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION IN THIS PRESENTATION, WE DISTINGUISH BETWEEN EMPLOYEES IN THE STEP PAY PLAN AND THOSE ELIGIBLE FOR PERFORMANCE PAY.
THE STEP PAY PLAN ACCOUNTS FOR ROUGHLY TWO THIRDS OF ALL CIVILIAN POSITIONS.
THE OTHER THIRD OF OUR CIVILIAN STAFF PROFESSIONALS, MANAGERS, AND EXECUTIVES, ARE ELIGIBLE FOR PAY INCREASES BASED ON PERFORMANCE.
NOW, I WILL TURN MY ATTENTION TO CIVILIAN COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
UNIFORM COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS WILL BE ADMINISTERED AS OUTLINED IN THEIR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS.
CIVILIAN COMPENSATION INCLUDES A 3% ACROSS THE BOARD, INCREASE FOR STEP PAY PLAN EMPLOYEES, BOTH REGULAR AND PART-TIME, REGULAR FULL AND PART-TIME PERFORMANCE, PAY FOR PROFESSIONALS, MANAGERS, AND EXECUTIVES FUNDED BY A POOL EQUIVALENT TO 3% OF SALARIES.
ANY PERFORMANCE PAY EARNED BECOMES A BASE PAY INCREASE, JUST LIKE AN ACROSS THE BOARD ADJUSTMENT WOULD BE.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET ALSO INCLUDES A 4% ACROSS THE BOARD, PAY INCREASE FOR OUR SWORN PARKS AND AIRPORT POLICE OFFICERS, AND MAINTAINS THE CITY'S ENTRY WAGE AT $15 PER HOUR.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE A QUICK REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF OUR STEP PAY PLAN BECAUSE WE ARE RECOMMENDING MAKING 2020 A YEAR OF TRANSITION.
IT WAS ESTABLISHED AS A 10 STEP PLAN IN 2008, AND WAS IMPLEMENTED OVER A SIX YEAR PERIOD.
BY 2010, ANY EMPLOYEE WITH 10 YEARS OF SERVICE OR MORE HAD REACHED THE TOP STEP.
THE CITY'S ENTRY WAGE WAS INCREMENTALLY INCREASED FROM $11 AND 47 CENTS PER HOUR IN 2015 UNTIL ACHIEVING THE $15 PER HOUR ENTRY WAGE GOAL JUST THIS YEAR, FISCAL YEAR 2019, AS THE ENTRY WAGE INCREASED, IT CREATED SALARY COMPRESSION ISSUES IN OUR STEP PAY PLAN AT ONE TIME.
THE FIRST SIX RANGES IN THE STEP PAY PLAN ALL HIRED AT THE SAME ENTRY WAGE.
THAT STRUCTURE CREATED MORALE ISSUES AMONG OUR EMPLOYEES AND CAUSED CONFUSION FOR JOB APPLICANTS.
SO IN 2018, WE MODIFIED THE STEP PAY PLAN TO A MAXIMUM OF SEVEN STEPS, AND ENSURED THAT EACH PAY RANGE HAD A UNIQUE ENTRY RATE.
THE GRAPHIC ON THE SLIDE SHOWS A TYPICAL SEVEN STEP PAY RANGE.
THE VALUE OF STEP INCREASES START AT 4% AND TAPER DOWN TO 2%.
AFTER REACHING THE MAXIMUM STEP, THERE ARE NO FURTHER STEP PAY PLAN INCREASES.
SO WHY ARE WE PROPOSING THAT FISCAL YEAR 2020 BE A YEAR OF TRANSITION FOR THE STEP PAY PLAN? THE CHANGES WE'VE MADE SINCE 2015 HAVE BENEFITED NEW HIRES AND EMPLOYEES WITH LESS TENURE.
THE STRUCTURAL ISSUES HAVE BEEN CORRECTED AND NO LONGER CREATE COMPRESSION FOR EMPLOYEES WHEN FIRST HIRED OR WHEN MOVING THROUGH THEIR STEPS.
BUT WHAT WE HAVE BEEN HEARING LOUD AND CLEAR FROM OUR TENURED EMPLOYEES IS THAT ONCE THE TOP STEP HAS BEEN ACHIEVED, COLA INCREASES ALONE ARE NOT KEEPING UP WITH THE COST OF LIVING ON THIS SLIDE.
THE CHART ON THE LEFT REFLECTS STEP MOVEMENT IN 2020.
IF WE WERE TO CONTINUE THE STATUS QUO, YOU WILL NOTICE OUR LARGEST POPULATION OF STEP PAY PLAN EMPLOYEES IS THE GROUP THAT IS ALREADY MAXED OUT AT THE TOP STEP OF THEIR PAY RANGE.
THEY WOULD RECEIVE NO PAY INCREASE AT ALL FROM REGULAR STEP MOVEMENT.
THE AVERAGE TENURE IN THEIR POSITION, NOT TOTAL TIME WITH THE CITY, JUST THEIR CURRENT POSITION IS 13 AND A HALF YEARS.
THE NEXT HIGHEST GROUP HAS AVERAGE TENURE IN POSITION 10 YEARS LESS.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET PROVIDES A 3% ACROSS THE BOARD INCREASE FOR ALL EMPLOYEES IN THE STEP PAY PLAN, INCLUDING THOSE AT THE MAXIMUM OF THE PAY RANGE.
WE WILL WORK WITH OUR EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AND OUR EMPLOYEES TO MAKE MODIFICATIONS THAT DEVELOP A FAIR, AFFORDABLE, AND SUSTAINABLE PAY PLAN TO PROVIDE ADVANCEMENT TO OUR NEWER EMPLOYEES WHILE ADEQUATELY RECOGNIZING AND REWARDING OUR TENURED STAFF.
NOW THAT WE'VE REVIEWED COMPENSATION, LET'S TURN OUR ATTENTION TO HEALTHCARE.
OUR CIVILIANS ARE CURRENTLY OFFERED A CHOICE OF TWO HEALTH HEALTH PLANS, A CONSUMER DRIVEN HEALTH PLAN WITH HIGH DEDUCTIBLES AND CO-INSURANCE.
THAT INCLUDES A CITY CONTRIBUTION TO A HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNT, AND THE NEW VALUE PLAN, WHICH IS A TRADITIONAL P P O PLAN WITH DEDUCTIBLES AND COPAYS.
BOTH PLANS INCLUDE A BROAD NATIONAL NETWORK AND COVER SERVICES, BOTH IN AND OUT OF NETWORK.
THE MONTHLY EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS REQUIRED IN THE NEW VALUE P P O PLAN ARE SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER THAN THOSE IN THE C D H P PLAN.
FOR 2020, WE ARE PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO OFFER A THIRD PLAN OPTION CALLED THE BLUE ESSENTIALS H M O PLAN.
THIS PLAN OFFERS A LOWER COST OPTION TO OUR CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES WHO DESIRE A COPAY BASED PLAN LIKE THE NEW VALUE P P O INSTEAD OF A BROAD NATIONAL NETWORK.
THE BLUE ESSENTIALS H M O IS A TEXAS BASED PLAN WITH NO OUT-OF-NETWORK BENEFITS.
THE PLAN COVERS ALL THE SAME TEXAS HOSPITAL FACILITIES AS OUR OTHER TWO PLANS, BUT THE PHYSICIAN NETWORK IS SMALLER AND ALL SPECIALTY CARE MUST BE APPROVED AND REFERRED BY A PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN.
THE MONTHLY RATES FOR THIS PLAN FALL BETWEEN THE TRUE CURRENT PLANS ALONG WITH THE NEW THIRD PLAN OPTION.
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ARE PLEASED TO OFFER SEVERAL ENHANCEMENTS TO ALL THREE HEALTH PLANS.FIRST, WE PROPOSED TO ADD A TRAVEL AND LODGING REIMBURSEMENT BENEFIT FOR APPROVED CANCER TREATMENTS AND TRANSPLANTS THAT TAKE PLACE AWAY FROM HOME.
THIS NEW BENEFIT PROVIDES REIMBURSEMENT FOR GROUND TRANSPORTATION OR CO-CHAIR FARE, AND PROVIDES A PER DIEM LEVEL OF REIMBURSEMENT FOR OVERNIGHT LODGING.
NEXT, WE WILL CONTINUE AND PROMOTE A DIABETES MANAGEMENT PROGRAM OFFERED THROUGH C V S OUR PHARMACY BENEFIT MANAGER.
WE LAUNCHED THIS PROGRAM DURING THE CURRENT YEAR AS A TRIAL AND ARE PLEASED WITH THE FEEDBACK WE ARE RECEIVING FROM PARTICIPANTS THUS FAR.
WE ARE ALSO REALLY EXCITED ABOUT OFFERING CONSUMER MEDICAL AS A BENEFIT TO OUR EMPLOYEES.
THIS IS AN INDEPENDENT COMPANY THAT PROVIDES EXPERT MEDICAL MEDICAL OPINIONS TO MEMBERS IN NEED.
THEY HAVE THE LATEST MEDICAL RESEARCH AND CAN HELP RECOMMEND THE BEST TREATMENT OFFER OPTIONS AND MEDICAL PROVIDERS.
FINALLY, WE ARE RECOMMENDING ADDING COVERAGE TO OUR PLANS FOR APPLIED BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS THERAPY, COMMONLY CALLED A B A THERAPY.
IT IS A SYSTEM OF THERAPY PRIMARILY FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER.
SUPPORTING OUR HEALTH PLANS IS OUR AWARD-WINNING EMPLOYEE WELLNESS PROGRAM.
SEVERAL COMPONENTS ARE HIGHLIGHTED ON THIS SLIDE.
I WOULD LIKE YOU TO MEET BETHANY WHOSE BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOS ARE SHOWN UNDER THE HEALTH COACHING HEADING.
BETHANY HAS BEEN MEETING EVERY SIX WEEKS WITH ONE OF OUR HEALTH COACHES AND PARTICIPATES IN CIRCUIT TRAINING AND INTERVAL WEIGHTLIFTING.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE YOU TO MEET ALMA, WHO ENROLLED IN OUR NEW DIABETES MANAGEMENT PROGRAM IN ONLY A FEW SHORT MONTHS.
HAD DECREASED BY A FULL POINT.
WE APPRECIATE ALMA HELPING US PROMOTE THIS NEW PROGRAM.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MANAGING THE COST OF HEALTHCARE, THERE ARE SEVERAL LEVERS THAT WE CAN TURN TO DRIVE CHANGE.
WE HAVE REVIEWED OUR PLAN DESIGNS FOR 2020, AND WE HAVE HIGHLIGHTED OUR CONTINUED FOCUS ON EMPLOYEE WELLNESS.
WHAT DOES ALL OF THIS MEAN FOR EMPLOYEE COST SHARING IN 2020? WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO SAY FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW THAT THERE WILL BE NO INCREASES TO THE MONTHLY RATES.
OUR CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES PAY FOR THEIR HEALTHCARE.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET CONTINUES TO FUND PROGRAMS THAT KEEP THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND EMPLOYER OF CHOICE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
I WOULD LIKE YOU TO MEET ROBERT, WHO IS PICTURED IN THE PHOTO UNDER G E D PREP.
ROBERT WANTED TO BE ELIGIBLE TO PROMOTE, SO HE SIGNED UP FOR A C D G E D PREPARATION CLASS.
ROBERT PROUDLY OBTAINED HIS G E D AND HE ALSO EARNED THAT PROMOTION.
ACCORDING TO ROBERT, OBTAINING HIS G E D DIDN'T JUST HELP HIM FINANCIALLY, IT ALSO HELPED HIS CONFIDENCE AND SHOWED HIS NINE-YEAR-OLD SON THAT ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE IF YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO IT.
NEXT, I WOULD LIKE TO UPDATE YOU ON THE STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM THAT PROVIDES A DIRECT PAYMENT OF $50 PER MONTH TOWARDS THE PRINCIPAL PORTION OF OUTSTANDING STUDENT LOANS.
THE PROGRAM BEGAN ENROLLING IN APRIL AND NOW HAS 943 PARTICIPANTS WITH A COMBINED STUDENT LOAN DEBT OVER $37 MILLION.
THAT AVERAGES OVER $39,000 OF STUDENT LOAN DEBT PER PARTICIPANT.
FINALLY, I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT FOR YOU A NEW PROGRAM LAUNCHED THIS YEAR CALLED CAREER COACH UP.
THIS PROGRAM PROVIDES EMPLOYEES THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRUSH UP ON THEIR INTERVIEW SKILLS, LEARN HOW TO ENHANCE THEIR RESUME, AND RECEIVE ONE-ON-ONE CAREER COACHING.
OUR NEXT SESSION WILL TAKE PLACE THIS FALL AT THE ANIMAL CARE SERVICES FACILITY AND WILL BE OPEN TO FIELD EMPLOYEES FROM ANIMAL CARE SERVICES PARKS, T C I AND SOLID WASTE.
THIS BRINGS ME TO THE END OF MY PRESENTATION.
I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND ATTENDANCE THIS AFTERNOON.
OKAY, GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I'VE PRESENTED BEFORE YOU, BUT I'M GLAD TO BE HERE.
IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE IN FRONT OF YOU TO PRESENT.
SO OUR PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES $4.4 MILLION FOR OPERATING EXPENSES.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE 34 POSITIONS CURRENTLY, AND THE CHART SHOWS THE BREAKOUT OR THE BREAKDOWN OF THE TOTAL 4.4 MILLION.
I AM ADDING AT NO ADDITIONAL COST.
ONE, WE'RE RE UH, RENAMING FROM AN ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR TO A SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER, AND THEN WE'RE ADDING ONE SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT.
THE SENIOR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT WILL GO TO VITAL RECORDS, WHICH NEEDS A LOT OF HELP RIGHT NOW.
AND THEN THE SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER WILL OVERSEE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND WILL ALSO ASSIST WITH ALL THE BOARDS AND COMMISSION DUTIES.
WE HAVE EMBEDDED SOME EQUITY IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK.
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DENISE LUCKY ATTENDED THE 2019, UH, TRAINING FOR EQUITY.AND SO WE DO HAVE ONE TRAINER WITHIN OUR OFFICE WHO WILL GO OUT AND ALSO TRAIN OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
WE'VE ALSO ESTABLISHED EQUITY GOALS, UTILIZED SOME OF THE EQUITY, UH, IDEAS THAT WERE GIVEN TO US BY THE OFFICE OF INNOVATION AND EMBEDDED THOSE INTO OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSION APPLICATIONS.
THIS GRAPH SHOWS YOU THE PASSPORT RECEIVED FROM OUR PASSPORT DIVISION.
SO FROM MAY, 2010 TO CURRENT, WE ARE STILL AHEAD OF THE, UM, THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S GROWN QUITE A BIT.
WE BRING IN APPROXIMATELY $900,000 A YEAR FROM THE PASSPORT REVENUE ALONE.
AND YES, IT GOES INTO THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND IN VITAL RECORDS.
SO FROM 2012 TO PRESENT, WE ARE ALSO, UH, HA HAVE A, A HUGE INCREASE.
AND THIS IS ATTRIBUTED TO CERTAIN THINGS THAT I'LL TALK ABOUT IN MY NEXT SLIDE, BUT YOU CAN SEE HOW THE GROWTH THERE IS REALLY, UH, REALLY HIGH.
THIS IS THE NUMBER OF VITAL RECORDS CUSTOMERS WE HAVE SERVED FROM 2012 TO CURRENT.
THESE ARE THE DEATHS AND THE BIRTHS THAT WE RECORD FROM OCTOBER 12TH, 2012 TO PRESENT.
SO EACH RECORD, EVERY TIME A PERSON IS BORN OR A PERSON DIES, WE HAVE TO RECORD EACH RECORD AND ASSIGN IT A LOCAL NUMBER.
SO ONE OF THE NEW THINGS, UM, IS THE REAL ID ACT.
BECAUSE OF THIS NEW ACT THAT HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED, WE HAVE SEEN SEEN A SPIKE AT VITAL RECORDS.
FOLKS ARE NEEDING TO COME IN AND OBTAIN THEIR BIRTH CERTIFICATE IN ORDER TO GO RENEW THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSE.
AND IF YOU HAVE THE GOLD STAR ON YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE, YOU ARE IN COMPLIANCE.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE GOLD STAR, THEN YOU CAN STILL USE YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO USE IT FOR DOMESTIC FLIGHTS OR TO APPLY FOR A PASSPORT, YOU WILL NEED YOUR UPDATED LICENSE WITH THE GOLD STAR.
EVERYBODY'S GOING, WOO, THANK GOODNESS I CHECKED.
SO WE HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR LIBRARIES, AND IT'S FOUR LIBRARIES, GREAT NORTHWEST LAS PALMAS MISSION, THOUSAND OAKS, AND AT THOSE FOUR LIBRARIES, WE ALSO ISSUE BIRTH RECORDS.
YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS DOWN A LITTLE BIT, AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE NEW SYSTEM THAT WAS IMPLEMENTED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS, WHICH IS CALLED THE TEXAS EVER SYSTEM SYSTEM.
THAT SYSTEM NOW ALLOWS FOLKS TO APPLY FOR THEIR BIRTH RECORDS ONLINE.
THEY ARE HAVING SOME GLITCHES, SO WE STILL SEE SOME PEOPLE COMING TO THE LIBRARIES.
ALTHOUGH THE REVENUES DOWN AT THE FOUR LIBRARIES, WE WERE THE RECIPIENT OF AN AWARD AGAIN, UH, FOR 2018.
AND THIS IS THE EXEMPLARY FIVE STAR AWARD.
AND THIS IS FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND THAT'S FOR VITAL STATISTICS PRESERVATION INITIATIVE.
SO YOU APPROVED A FEW MONTHS BACK A CONTRACT, UH, TO ASSIST US FOR THE PRESERVATION OF OUR HISTORIC RECORDS.
THAT CONTRACT TOTAL AMOUNT IS $626,000.
THE FIRST YEAR IS A $93,000 PAYOUT, AND YOU CAN SEE THE DIFFERENCE BEFORE THE PRESERVATION HERE.
AND THEN AFTER THE PRESERVATION HAS TAKEN PLACE HERE, AND OF COURSE, WE'RE, UH, HONING IN ON THE OLDEST RECORDS.
UH, PART OF THIS CONTRACT WILL COVER THE TRUE HEART MAPS, WHICH WE ARE THE ONLY HOLDERS OF TRUE HEART MAPS.
A LOT OF ENGINEERING FIRMS AND SURVEYORS UTILIZE THESE MAPS, AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT OF TOPOGRAPHY ON THEM, AND WE'RE THE ONLY HOLDERS OF THESE MAPS.
SO WE'VE BUDGETED A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE NEXT ELECTION IN NOVEMBER, 2020, AND THAT'S THE REAUTHORIZATION OF THE LINEAR CREEKWAY SALES TAX IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONNECTS A.
SO THIS PAST YEAR, WE VERIFIED THREE CHARTER AMENDMENT PETITIONS, ONE PAID SICK LEAVE PETITION, ONE T P D PETITION, AND WE OVERSAW THE CONDUCT
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OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S GENERAL ELECTION AS WELL AS THE CHARTER AND THAT RUNOFF.SO ALL THAT'S BEEN COMPLETED, THANK GOODNESS.
SO BEXAR COUNTY IS IMPLEMENTING A NEW VOTING SYSTEM.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE AWARE, BUT THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
SO WHEN PEOPLE GO TO VOTE IN NOVEMBER, THEY'LL GO TO THE SCREEN THAT YOU SEE TO YOUR LEFT, AND THEY'LL RECORD THEIR VOTE UTILIZING THE TOUCH SCREEN.
ONCE THEY, THEY SELECT THEIR CHOICES, THEN THEY WILL RECEIVE A PRINTOUT, WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE CENTER, THAT PRINTOUT.
THEN YOU MUST ENTER AND OR INSERT INTO THE PRECINCT TABULATOR, WHICH IS ON THE FAR RIGHT.
THIS IS NEW EQUIPMENT THAT WILL BE UTILIZED FROM THIS ELECTION IN NOVEMBER ON, UH, REPLACING THE EXISTING SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN UTILIZED FOR THE PAST 17 YEARS.
THE COST OF THIS, UH, NEW VOTING SYSTEM IS $11.5 MILLION PLUS BECAUSE ADDITIONAL FEES WILL BE ALLOCATED TO PURCHASE MACHINE TABULATIONS OR TABLES, AND THEN TRANSPORT CARTS.
WE ALSO WILL HAVE NEW VOTE CENTERS COME NOVEMBER 5TH, AND A VOTE CENTER IS A PLACE WHERE ANYONE CAN GO VOTE.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, ON ELECTION DAY, WE ALWAYS TELL YOU, MAKE SURE YOU GO VOTE AT YOUR PRESCRIBED ELECTION SITE THIS YEAR.
YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GO TO ANY OF THE SITES THAT WE TYPICALLY USE FOR EARLY VOTING ON ELECTION DAY, AND THAT'S 286 POLLING SITES, BY THE WAY, VIA METRO TRANSIT DOES PROVIDE FREE TRANSPORTATION ON ELECTION DAY FOR THOSE THAT NEED THAT ASSISTANCE.
THIS IS JUST A LISTING OF ALL THE OUTREACH PRESENTATIONS, TRAININGS, AND EVENTS WE'VE ATTENDED THIS YEAR FOR BOARDS, PASSPORTS, VITAL RECORDS AND ARCHIVES.
THIS IS OUR CURRENT OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK PARTNERSHIP WITH I T S D.
WE HAVE AN ONGOING LONG FRIENDSHIP WITH OUR I T S D DEPARTMENT BECAUSE WE OVERSEE A LOT OF THESE SYSTEMS. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE BOTTOM PORTION SHOWS THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED, WHEREAS THE ONES ABOVE ARE ALL THE ONES THAT ARE WORK IN PROGRESS RIGHT NOW.
IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON THOSE, I'LL BE GLAD TO ANSWER 'EM AFTER THE PRESENTATION.
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU, LETICIA, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
UH, JUST A FEW SHORT SLIDES HERE ON, UH, THE OFFICE OF THE CITY AUDITOR AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO.
BUT, UH, THE FIRST, I JUST WANNA START WITH OUR MISSION AND REALLY THE, OUR MISSION, THE EMPHASIS HERE ON OUR MISSION IS REALLY, WE ARE INDEPENDENT AND OBJECTIVE.
I KNOW THAT I REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, AND SOMETHING THAT Y'ALL ALWAYS NEED IN ANY WORK THAT WE DO IS THAT INDEPENDENCE, THAT OBJECTIVITY OF ALL THAT MAY BE GOING OUT, MAY BE GOING AROUND OUT THERE.
UH, BUT WE DO HAVE A MISSION TO FACILITATE ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT WITH A FOCUS ON INDEPENDENCE AND OBJECTIVITY.
UH, MY STAFF, AGAIN, WE ARE A SERVICE ORGANIZATION.
UH, I HAVE A VERY WELL QUALIFIED STAFF, WHICH IS IMPORTANT FOR WHAT WE DO.
70% OF MY STAFF, UH, WE HAVE A STAFF SIZE, TOTAL STAFF SIZE OF 23 FTES.
70% OF THEM HOLD AT LEAST ONE AUDIT RELATED CERTIFICATION.
40% OF THEM ACTUALLY HAVE MULTIPLE CERTIFICATIONS.
45% HAVE ADVANCED DEGREES ABOVE A BACHELOR'S.
UM, SO AGAIN, VERY QUALIFIED FROM BOTH AN EDUCATION AND AN EXPERIENCE PERSPECTIVE.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A REALLY GREAT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM THAT WE'VE BEEN RUNNING FOR ABOUT SEVEN YEARS NOW.
AND, AND THE KEY TO THIS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM, OR THE MAIN REASON THAT WE DO IT, IT'S A GREAT RECRUITING TOOL, UH, FOR US.
AND WE HAVE SEVERAL PEOPLE IN OUR STAFF RIGHT NOW THAT CAME THROUGH THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE, UH, FOR A SUMMER, GOT TO LEARN ABOUT INTERNAL AUDITING, GRADUATED, AND THEN HAVE COME BACK TO US, UH, AS INTERNAL AUDITORS.
AND NEURO A WONDERFUL JOB THIS YEAR.
WE ALSO HAD A HIGH, A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, UH, AS AN INTERN, UH, THAT CAME BACK AND HOPEFULLY RIGHT NOW HE'S BACK AT BRECKENRIDGE HIGH TELLING EVERYBODY HOW GREAT IT IS TO BE AN INTERNAL AUDITOR.
SO WE'LL, WE'LL SEE HOW THAT, UH, WORKS.
OUR PERFORMANCE METRICS THAT WE LOOK AT, AND Y'ALL HAVE SEEN THESE BEFORE, BUT WE GOT FOUR PERFORMANCE METRICS FAIRLY BALANCED.
UH, THE FIRST ONE IS JUST, UH, A WORK PRODUCT MEASURE OF NUMBER OF REPORTS THAT WE ISSUE.
WE'LL HIT ABOUT 37, UH, IS WHAT I'M EXPECTING BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER.
ALSO, A GOAL OF, UH, MANAGEMENT REC OR RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE ACCEPTED BY MANAGEMENT.
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GOES TO MEASURE HOW MUCH, UH, THAT WE ARE WORKING WITH MANAGEMENT.WE'RE MAKING REALISTIC, ATTAINABLE RECOMMENDATIONS TO MANAGEMENT, AND THEN THAT THEY, UH, ACCEPT THEM AND THEN BEGIN IMPLEMENTING AND, AND, UH, IMPROVING THE CONTROL ENVIRONMENT OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE.
UH, PERCENTAGE OF, UH, DIRECT TIME THAT MY STAFF SPENDS THE GOAL OF 78%.
THIS IS AN EFFICIENCY MEASURE TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE'RE DOING, WE ARE PROVIDING WORK.
IT'S SIMILAR TO A BILLABLE HOURS IF YOU ARE IN A PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM OR IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, BUT WE MEASURE, UH, THE EFFICIENCY OF THE DEPARTMENT.
AND THEN AGAIN, UH, WE HAVE A METRIC OF 70%, UH, UH, STAFF WITH CERTIFICATIONS.
AGAIN, JUST POINTS TO OUR SUPPORT AND THE IMPORTANCE THAT WE PLACE ON HAVING QUALIFIED STAFF, UH, FOR THE WORK THAT WE DO.
ANOTHER, UH, SMALL BUT BUT MIGHTY PART OF OUR DEPARTMENT IS THAT OF OUR COMPLIANCE AUDITOR, WHICH REALLY FOCUSES ON THE ETHICS, UH, ISSUES.
UH, YOU KNOW, HER RESPONSIBILITIES THERE IS SUPPORTING THE ETHICS REVIEW BOARD, RESPONDING TO ETHICS RELATED QUESTIONS, ALSO REVIEWING HIGH PROFILE CONTRACTS AND COM TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH, UH, THE ETHICS CODE AS WELL AS THE MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN FINANCE CODE, AND THEN ALSO PROVIDE ETHICS TRAINING.
UM, SHE HAS IN THIS YEAR, WE AVERAGE ABOUT 40 HIGH PROFILE CONTRACTS THAT WE LOOK AT PER YEAR, AND WE'LL BE JUST A LITTLE BIT BELOW THAT THIS YEAR, BUT STILL THE AVERAGE IS AROUND 40.
AND THEN ALSO PROVIDING ETHICS TRAINING.
WE PROVIDE ETHICS TRAINING AND SPEAK TO EVERY NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION CLASS.
WE'VE DONE ABOUT 30 SESSIONS, UH, THIS YEAR SO FAR TO NEW EMPLOYEES, BUT ALSO TO THE, THE M L I INSTITUTE, UH, AND BY SPECIAL REQUESTS FROM SOME DEPARTMENTS, UH, THAT JUST WANT TO ANOTHER LOOK AT IT.
WE ATTEND THEIR ORIENTATION FOR A SHORT SESSION ON ETHICS CODE AND DEALING WITH, PRIMARILY WITH CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.
BUT ALL THAT TO SAY, OUR BUDGET AS A, A SMALL BUDGET, $3.1 MILLION, UH, IS OUR BUDGET.
UH, AGAIN, WE'RE A SERVICE ORGANIZATION, SO 2.6 OR 85% OF THAT BUDGET IS PERSONNEL COST.
UH, THE REST IS THE TYPICAL ALLOCATIONS THAT WE MAY RECEIVE SOME CONTRACT SERVICES, UH, BUT AGAIN, A VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD BUDGET FOR 23 STAFF, AND WE ANTICIPATE KEEPING OUR STAFF AT 23, UM, FOR THIS, THIS UPCOMING YEAR.
I'LL BE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS LATER, BUT NEXT WILL BE MARIA VILLA GOMEZ TO DISCUSS ADMINISTRATIVE.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
UH, THE PORTION OF THIS PRESENTATION WILL FOCUS ON FOUR TOPICS.
UH, ONE WE'LL BEGIN WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY.
UH, SECOND, WE'RE GONNA ADDRESS SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT COUNCIL HAD CONSTRAINING OUR PARKING ENTERPRISE FUND.
UH, THIRD, WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT AN UPDATE ON THE CITY TOWER, UH, PROJECT.
AND FINALLY, WE WANNA GIVE COUNCIL AN UPDATE ON THE STATE CHANGES RELATED TO, UH, THE COLLECTION OF BINGO TAX.
SO LET'S BEGIN WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY.
AS OF TODAY, WITH THE PRESENTATIONS THAT WE HAD SO FAR, WE HAVE COVERED 91.2% OF THE 2.9 BILLION FISCAL YEAR, 2020 PROPOSED CITY BUDGET.
THIS PRESENTATION WILL FOCUS ON $257 MILLION, WHICH IS THE BALANCE OF THE CITY BUDGET THAT IS COMPRISED OF 14, UH, DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND OFFICES AND THE GENERAL FUND NON-MENTAL ACCOUNT FOR THIS PRESENTATION, UH, WE DIVIDED THOSE 14 DEPARTMENTS IN THREE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.
THOSE DEPARTMENTS THAT PROVIDE CITY SUPPORT, THOSE INCLUDE, UH, THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, THE CITY MANAGER, MAYOR AND COUNCIL SUPPORT, GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
AND THE NON-MENTAL ACCOUNT OF THE GENERAL FUND.
INTERNAL SUPPORT DEPARTMENTS ARE THOSE DEPARTMENTS THAT PROVIDE SERVICES TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS SO THEY CAN DELIVER THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS AND SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
THOSE APARTMENTS INCLUDE OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT, THE BUDGET OFFICE, THE EQUITY OFFICE, THE OFFICE OF INNOVATION, OUR TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, RISK MANAGEMENT, AND BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT SERVICES.
AND FINALLY, WE HAVE THREE DEPARTMENTS UNDER THE COMMUNITY SERVICES CATEGORY, AND THAT INCLUDES THE WORLD HERITAGE OFFICE, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, AND OUR 3 1 1 CUSTOMER SERVICE OFFICE.
SO MOVING ON TO THE BUDGET OF OUR CITY SUPPORT DEPARTMENTS, THOSE FOUR DEPARTMENTS HAVE A PROPOSED CITY BUDGET OF $53.5 MILLION.
THERE IS NO CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF POSITIONS INCLUDED IN THIS FOUR DEPARTMENTS.
THE OVERALL BUDGET INCREASE IS 2.8 MILLION OR 5.6%.
THIS INCREASE IN THE BUDGET IS DUE TO NEW EQUIPMENT THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING IN OUR GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TO BE ABLE TO BROADCAST PUBLIC MEETINGS AT THE C P S ENERGY BOARD MEETINGS.
AND ALSO WHEN WE MOVED TO THE RENOVATED CITY HALL, THERE ARE ALSO INCREASES IN OUR NON DE DEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNT TO ACCOUNT FOR THE SALES TAX PAYMENT THAT WE PAY THE STATE AS WE HAVE TO PAY 2% OF THE TOTAL GROSS REVENUE AS A COLLECTION EXPENSE.
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INCLUDED ON THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL SUPPORT BUDGETS FOR COUNCIL, A SUPPORT PAY INCREASES, AND I R A MATCH HEALTH AND PARKING.IN TERMS OF OUR INTERNAL SUPPORT DEPARTMENTS, THERE ARE SEVEN DEPARTMENTS IN THIS CATEGORY.
THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS 196.7 MILLION, A TOTAL OF 753 POSITIONS.
THE POSITIONS WE ARE RECOMMENDING REPRESENTS A NET INCREASE OF NINE NEW POSITIONS, 11 IN THE BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT BUILDING EQUIPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO SUPPORT THE NEW CITY TOWER PROJECT.
TWO NEW POSITIONS IN RISK MANAGEMENT.
WE ARE ELIMINATING THREE POSITIONS, ONE IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT AND TWO IN THE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
AND WE'RE ALSO REORGANIZING OR MOVING ONE POSITION FROM FINANCE TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT TO, TO BETTER ALIGN THE FUNCTION FUNCTIONS OF THAT POSITION.
THE OVERALL INCREASE IS 2.6% OR EQUIVALENT TO $5.1 MILLION IN ALL THOSE APARTMENTS.
THE INCREASES, AGAIN, ARE RELATED TO THE JANITORIAL SERVICES, SECURITY, UTILITIES, AND BUILDING MAINTENANCE FOR THE NEW CITY TOWER BUILDING.
THAT IS ABOUT 2.2 $2.2 MILLION.
WE'RE ALSO RECOMMENDING A FACILITIES FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR CITY OWNED FACILITIES.
IN PREPARATION FOR THE 2022 BOND PROGRAM.
WE ARE ALSO REPLACING ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT IN OUR SOLID WASTE APARTMENT.
AND FINALLY, WE ARE RELOCATING OUR TECHNOLOGY AT DATA CENTER.
IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, UH, THREE OFFICES ARE IN THIS CATEGORY.
THERE ARE NO CHANGES IN POSITIONS.
THERE'S AN INCREASE OF 1.7% IN THE OVERALL BUDGET, OR $110,000.
AND THIS IS PRIMARILY DUE TO PERSONNEL COST.
THE NEXT SLIDE IS JUST TO PROVIDE THE CITY COUNCIL WITH A SUMMARY OF EFFICIENCIES AND REDUCTIONS IN WHAT WE CALL THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY.
ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, WE, UH, ARE PROPOSING A REDUCTION IN THE USE OF DATA AND CELL PHONES ACROSS ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS.
$354,000 ARE THE SAVINGS IN THAT CATEGORY.
THERE'S A TOTAL OF 252 DEVICES WHERE THE VOICE PLAN WILL BE DISCONNECTED.
THIS ARE CELL PHONES, SO THOSE, UM, CELL PHONES WILL BE RETURNED TO THE IT DEPARTMENT.
AND THERE ARE 631 DEVICES, INCLUDING LAPTOPS AND, UH, IPADS WHERE THERE'S NO NEED TO HAVE A DATA PLAN, MEANING THAT THOSE DEVICES CAN BE USED UTILIZING WIFI, SO THERE WILL BE SAVINGS TO THE CITY.
WE ALSO MENTIONED TO THE COUNCIL THAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING THE DELAY OF THE DELAY OF HIRING OF NON-CRITICAL POSITIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND.
THIS MEANS THAT THOSE POSITIONS, TYPICALLY IN ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS, WE ARE GOING TO DELAY HIRING THOSE POSITIONS, AND THAT WILL RESULT IN SAVINGS OF $2.9 MILLION TO THE GENERAL FUND.
WE ALSO HAVE A REDUCTION OF $250,000 IN BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT SERVICES.
AND THIS IS A DEPARTMENT THAT HELPS MAINTAINING OUR CITY FACILITIES AND ALSO OUR VEHICLES.
SO AS THEY RIGHTSIZE THEIR, UH, TOOLS AND SUPPLIES, WE'LL SEE A REDUCTION OF A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS.
IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, THERE'S A REORGANIZATION THAT WILL NET $122,000.
AND IN THE TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT, THERE'S ALSO A REORGANIZATION THAT WILL RESULT IN A REDUCTION OF TWO MANAGEMENT POSITIONS.
MOVING TO OUR NEXT TOPIC IN THIS PRESENTATION IS OUR PARKING FUND.
THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS FROM THE COUNCIL COUNCIL RELATED TO THIS FUND, AND TO PROVIDE SOME BACKGROUND, THIS FUND WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1980 AS A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND WITH THE INTENT THAT THE REVENUES COLLECTED WILL PAY FOR THE OPERATION OF THE FUND.
IT WAS RESTRUCTURED, RESTRUCTURED TO AN ENTERPRISE FUND IN 1985, CONSISTENT WITH GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS.
OUR 2020 BUDGET, UH, REFLECTS A 1.8 MILLION PROJECTED ENDING BALANCE.
WE ARE RECOMMENDING THAT WE MAINTAIN A THREE MONTH OPERATING RESERVE TO BE ABLE TO ACCOUNT TO, UH, FOR FLUCTUATIONS IN THE REVENUE STREAM.
WITHIN THIS FUND, WE ARE ALSO, UH, PROPOSING AN INVESTMENT OF $9.4 MILLION FOR GARAGE IMPROVEMENTS, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT VIA A NEW PARKING GARAGE, POTENTIALLY TO LEVERAGE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND TO IMPROVE VIA RIDERSHIP THROUGH A CONGESTION MITIGATION AND AIR QUALITY GRANT.
WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND TO THE CITY COUNCIL IS TO CONTINUE THE PARKING FUND AS AN ENTERPRISE FUND.
WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE SOME POLICY DIRECTION AND PERHAPS A DIFFERENT USE OF THIS FUND, AND ALSO INCREASE IN FEES SPECIFICALLY RELATED FOR TRANSPORTATION RELATED
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INITIATIVES.WE RECOMMEND THAT THAT THIS DISCUSSION BEGINS IN THE FALL OF 2019 IN PREPARATION FOR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.
THE NEXT TOPIC ON THE AGENDA TODAY IS OUR CD TOWER BUILDING.
SO LET ME BEGIN WITH A QUICK, UH, PROJECT BACKGROUND ON THIS PROJECT.
WE BEGAN WORKING IN A PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP WITH WESTERN URBAN AND FROST BANK.
IN 2014, CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE BUDGET IN 2015, AND AS PART OF THIS TRANSACTION, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO ACQUIRED THE FROST, UH, BUILDING, SOLD THE MAIN PLAZA BUILDING, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THIS COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND THE B ROOM.
AND THERE WERE OTHER PROPERTIES AS PART OF THE TRANSACTION, OTHER SUR SURPLUS PROPERTIES THAT THE CITY SOLD OR IS IN THE PROCESS OF SELLING.
THE PROJECT OUTCOME FOR THIS, UH, RENOVATION IS THAT ONCE THE, THE OLD FROST TOWER BUILDING IS RENOVATED, WE WILL ABLE TO MOVE 23 CITY DEPARTMENTS WITH APPROXIMATELY 1,500 EMPLOYEES INTO THIS NEW RENOVATED FACILITY.
THIS WILL ALLOW US TO CONSOLIDATE SOME OF OUR FUNCTIONS, AND WE ANTICIPATE TO ALSO, UM, BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME EFFICIENCIES.
AS A RESULT OF THIS CONSOLIDATION, WE TOOK OVER, WE TOOK OVER THE OLD FROST, UH, BUILDING ON AUGUST 1ST, 2019.
WE ANTICIPATE WITH THE TIMELINE THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN IN TERMS OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO MOVE THIS 23 CITY DEPARTMENTS THAT I MENTIONED BY SPRING OF 2021, AND THE PROJECT WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETED BY JULY OF 2021.
IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET AND THE COST OF THIS PROJECT, THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVED A TOTAL BUDGET OF $128.5 MILLION.
THIS WAS DIVIDED IN THREE CA CATEGORIES, ACQUISITION AT 52.9 MILLION, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION AT 59.5 MILLION.
AND OTHER COSTS SUCH AS SELF COST AT 60.1 MILLION OVER THE SUMMER.
THE CITY MANAGER MET, MET MANY TIMES WITH THE PROJECT TEAM TO REVIEW THE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE, THE CONSTRUCTION COST, AND ALSO THE EFFICIENCIES RELATED TO THIS.
UH, TO THIS PROJECT, WE HAVE REVISED OUR CONSTRUCTION COST AND ALSO OUR PRO FORMA.
I WILL TELL YOU THAT THE 30 YEAR FORMA REMAINS COST NEUTRAL TO THE CITY.
THE CONSTRUCTION COSTS, THERE'S AN INCREASE OF $2.7 MILLION, AND THIS IS PRIMARILY DUE TO MECHANICAL, PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL REPLACEMENTS THAT ARE NEEDED THAT WERE NOT IDENTIFIED DURING THE DUE DILIGENCE OF THIS PROJECT.
TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THESE REPLACEMENTS, UH, WE IDENTIFY THE NEED TO REPLACE RATHER, RATHER THAN REUSE SOME OF THE HVAC SYSTEMS WITHIN THE BUILDING TO ALSO REPLACE AND RELOCATE SOME OF THE ELECTRICAL PANELS, AND ALSO THE NEED TO REPLACE RATHER THAN REUSE SOME OF THE EXISTING CEILINGS.
WHAT YOU SEE ON THE TABLE AT THE BOTTOM IS A SUMMARY OF THE TOTAL ORIGINAL BUDGET DIVIDED IN THE THREE CATEGORIES THAT I MENTIONED, $128.5 MILLION.
IF YOU LOOK TOWARDS THE RIGHT HAND SIDE TO THE COLUMN THAT IS LABELED REVISED BUDGET, YOU'LL SEE THAT THE ACQUISITION COST REMAINS THE SAME.
THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, THERE IS AN INCREASE OF $9.5 MILLION.
AND THIS IS PRIMARILY SOME OF, TO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I JUST MENTIONED.
AND ALSO BECAUSE WE ARE MOVING THE SOLID WASTE, UM, DEPARTMENT INTO THIS BUILDING.
AS ONE OF THE TENANTS, AS YOU KNOW, THE SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT OPERATES AS AN ENTERPRISE FUND.
SO THE RELATED FINISH OUT, UH, WITH THEM MOVING TO THIS PARTICULAR LOCATION, ABOUT $2.3 MILLION WILL BE ADDED TO THE, UH, CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT.
SO WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE EXISTING CONTRACT.
NOW, SOLAR WASTE IS MOVING AS A TENANT, SO THIS COULD BE ANY OTHER ORGANIZATION THAT WOULD HAVE TO PAY THE ADDITIONAL FINISH OUT.
WE'RE JUST INCORPORATING THIS INTO THIS BUDGET.
YOU'LL SEE A REDUCTION IN THE CATEGORY CALLED OTHER ASSOCIATED COST DURING THE SUMMER.
WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR IT DEPARTMENT AND OUR, UH, T C I DEPARTMENT.
WE IDENTIFY SAVINGS AND AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT, AND ALSO REDUCE CAPITAL ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND SOME OF THE FEES TO PROFESSIONAL CONTRACTORS THAT WE HAD ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED IN THIS PROJECT.
AND THEN YOU SEE THE $2.4 MILLION, UH, PAYMENT FOR THE FINISH OUT FROM THE SOLAR WASTE, UH, DEPARTMENT.
SO ALL THAT COMBINED, THE NET INCREASE TO THE, UH, UH, PROJECT IS $2.7 MILLION.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT WE'RE STILL EVALUATING THE LEVEL OF SECURITY THAT WILL BE NEEDED FOR THIS BUILDING.
BECAUSE OF THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS THAT WE HAVE SEEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY,
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WE HAVE ADDED IN OUR CAPITAL BUDGET POTENTIAL SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS, NOT ONLY FOR THIS, UH, NEW, UH, CITY TOWER BUILDING, BUT ALSO FOR OTHER BUILDINGS ACROSS THE CITY.AS WE CONTINUE THAT EVALUATION, WE'LL COME BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL WITH A RECOMMENDATION FOR, UH, ENHANCED SECURITY.
IN THE 2020 BUDGET, WE CREATED A NEW FUND CALLED THE CITY TOWER FUND TO BE ABLE TO, UH, ACCOUNT FOR ALL THE REVENUES AND EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECT.
3.8 IS ASSOCIATED WITH OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE.
AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, YOU SAW AN INCREASE IN THE BUILDING MAINTENANCE FUND.
UM, WE'RE ALSO ADDING DOLLARS FOR SECURITY, UTILITIES AND MAINTENANCE, AND WE'RE ADDING FIVE POSITIONS, UH, TO BE ABLE TO OPERATE THE PARKING GARAGE.
THE 2.4 MILLION THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN, THAT IS TO MAKE THE DEBT SERVICE PAYMENT RELATED TO THE ACQUISITION OF THE BUILDING.
THE LAST TOPIC ON THIS PRESENTATION IS TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE BINGO TAX STATE LAW CHANGE.
JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND, UH, TODAY THE STATE ASSESSES 5% OF TAX ON ALL CASH PRICES AND GOODS THAT ARE VALUE OVER $5.
THIS TAX IS COLLECTED BY THE STATE, AND THE CITY RECEIVES ABOUT $1.1 MILLION ANNUALLY.
UH, FROM THIS REVENUE SOURCE ON JULY 30TH, WE WERE NOTIFIED BY THE TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION.
THAT HOUSE BILL 9 1 4 THAT WAS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE AMENDED THE REGULATION OF BINGO GAMES.
ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS IS FOR MUNICIPALITY TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO OBTAIN THIS REVENUE.
THE MUNICIPALITY WOULD HAVE TO COLLECT IT.
THE CITY COUNCIL WILL HAVE TO TAKE A VOTE BEFORE NOVEMBER 1ST, 2019 TO CONTINUE TO COLLECT THE BINGO TAX.
WE ARE RECOMMENDING TO THE COUNCIL TO TAKE THIS VOTE AS PART OF THE BUDGET ORDINANCE.
UH, NEXT WEEK, ON SEPTEMBER THE 12TH, OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT WILL BE IN CHARGE OF THE ACTUAL, UH, COLLECTION OF THIS BINGO TAX.
AT THIS POINT, WE DON'T HAVE AN ASSESSMENT IF THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL COST ASSOCIATED WITH THIS COLLECTION, AS THIS IS, THIS IS A RELATIVELY NEW DEVELOPMENT, UH, WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO IT WITH EXISTING RESOURCES.
SHOULD THAT CHANGE, WE WILL COME BACK AND BRIEF THE COUNCIL ACCORDINGLY.
SO WITH THAT, THAT CONCLUDES, UH, THE PORTION OF THIS PRESENTATION.
I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT THE DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE INCORPORATED IN THE CITY ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY ARE HERE, ARE HERE PRESENT, AND, UH, THEY WILL ASSIST TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS THAT COUNCIL MAY HAVE.
OKAY, WELL, THAT'S A, UM, A LOT IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, SO I THINK WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE TO DIG IN TO THIS A LITTLE BIT.
UH, I JUST HAVE A FEW SHORT QUESTIONS.
I'LL, I'LL START BY, UH, RECOGNIZING OUR WHOLE CITY STAFF.
AGAIN, OUR CITY MANAGEMENT TEAM, UH, THAT FOLKS MAY REMEMBER, WAS NAMED, UH, IN THE TOP 20 LIST OF BEST EMPLOYERS IN TEXAS.
AND I BELIEVE WE'RE THE ONLY MUNICIPALITY ON THAT LIST.
UH, SO CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU FOR RUNNING A, A GREAT OPERATION THAT PEOPLE, I THINK HAVE FOUND AS A, AS A, A PLACE, A DESIRABLE PLACE TO WORK.
WE WANT TO CONTINUE THAT EFFORT.
UM, I JUST HAVE A FEW, UH, QUESTIONS PARTICULARLY ABOUT, UH, THE LAST PRESENTATION.
MARIA, IF, IF YOU CAN COME UP, I APPRECIATE THE, THE PENDING COUNCIL DISCUSSION ABOUT PARKING POLICY.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME WE DID A MARKET ANALYSIS OF PARKING IN, IN THE AREA, PARTICULARLY DOWNTOWN, BUT JUST GENERALLY? YES.
AND I'M LOOKING AT LAURIE HOUSTON.
I WANNA SAY MAYBE IT WAS 2011.
MY RECOLLECTION, 'CAUSE I KNOW CENTRO HAS DONE ONE AND MAYBE HAVE HAS UPDATED IT RECENTLY, IS IS THAT THE ONE THAT WE'RE REFERRING TO? SO WE DID DO ONE IN 2015 AND, BUT WE NEED TO REVISIT THAT WITH SO MUCH CHANGE GOING ON IN THE, WITH DOWNTOWN.
AND SO WE WOULD LIKE TO BE REVISITING THAT THIS YEAR TO SEE ABOUT THE PARKING DEMAND AND THEN INCORPORATE SOME OF THE NEW INNOVATIONS THAT HAVE HAPPENED WITH REGARDS TO UBER AND LYFT.
YEAH, AND JUST FROM A PRICING PERSPECTIVE, BUT ALSO WE'RE, WE'RE ABOUT TO START A U D C DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW MANY PARKING SPACES, UH, ARE REQUIRED IN DEVELOPMENT.
I THINK ALL THAT HAS TO BE, UH, CONSIDERED IN THE MIX.
AND I THINK THERE'S A, A POLARIZATION OF OPINIONS ON, UM, WHETHER WE SHOULD BE, UH, SUBSIDIZING PARKING VERSUS, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW HIGH CAN WE GO WITHOUT BEING, UH, A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE JUST DON'T WANT TO COME DOWN AND, AND PARK.
SO, UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT AND, AND I THINK THAT IF WE CAN, AS SOON AS THAT CONVERSATION GETS MATURED TO THE POINT WHERE THE WHOLE COUNCIL
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NEEDS TO BE INVOLVED, I THINK IF WE CAN HAVE THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT TO, UH, THE COUNCIL AS IT MOVES ALONG, THAT WOULD BE GOOD.UM, I HAVE A QUESTION, I THINK FOR JORGE, IF I DON'T OFTEN SEE YOU IN THE CHAMBERS, JORGE, SO I'LL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOU BEING HERE AND ASK YOU A QUESTION.
SO WE, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF, UH, DISCUSSIONS GOING ON WITH REGARD TO, UM, RESILIENCE, SUSTAINABILITY, CLIMATE READINESS, AND SO FORTH.
YOU DO FLEET REPLACEMENT ON AN ONGOING BASIS.
HOW ARE YOU INCORPORATING SOME OF THOSE, UH, DIRECTIONS THAT WE'RE MOVING IN, INTO YOUR DAY-TO-DAY FLEET OPERATIONS? AND, AND DO YOU NEED DIRECTION FROM THE COUNCIL TO GET MOVING ON THINGS LIKE ACQUIRING, UH, MORE LOWER EMISSIONS OR NO EMISSIONS VEHICLES? WELL, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL ACTUALLY, WHAT WE DO EVERY SINGLE YEAR, WHEN WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING VEHICLES THAT ARE DUE FOR REPLACEMENT, WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE TYPE OF VEHICLES THAT HAVE BEEN PROPOSED TO BE REPLACED.
TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, THIS PAST YEAR, BUILDING AN EQUIPMENT SERVICES VEHICLES THAT ARE USED FOR MAINTENANCE, WE WERE USING F TWO FIFTYS, F ONE 50 PICKUP TRUCKS, UH, TO ALLOW OUR TRADES TO MOVE AROUND THE CITY ON, ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES.
WE REDUCE THOSE VEHICLES FROM HAVING A V 8 2 50 VEHICLE DOWN TO A V SIX CON LIGHT TYPE, A SMALL VAN, WHICH REDUCE IT HELPS WITH THE, OBVIOUSLY CONSUMPTION OF FUEL.
IT REDUCES EMISSIONS AS WELL AS IT REDUCES THE MAINTENANCE COST FOR THE CITY.
WE'RE DOING THE SAME THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY, TAKING A LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT EQUIPMENT THAT THE DEPARTMENTS IDENTIFY AS A NEED TO PROVIDE SERVICES.
WE LOOK AT THE MARKETPLACE A YEAR IN ADVANCE, TWO YEARS IN ADVANCE AS TO WHAT IS GONNA BECOME AVAILABLE WITHIN THE INDUSTRY AND THE MANUFACTURERS VEHICLES THAT ARE GONNA BE MORE EFF EFFICIENT, THEY'RE GONNA LESS CARBON UH, EMISSIONS AND ALSO REDUCE THE COST OF OPERATING ON, ON A YEARLY BASIS.
WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY FOLLOWING THE SA 2020 PLAN FOR THE REDUCTION OF, OF FUEL CONSUMPTION AND REDUCTION OF EMISSIONS.
AND WE PROGRAM, WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM VERY CLOSELY ON THE ELECTRIFICATION OF OUR UNITS AS WELL.
UH, WE'RE WORKING ON THE ASSESSMENT THAT IS BEING CONDUCTED PRESENTLY BY THE OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY.
WE'RE WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THEM TO LOOK AT THE PROJECTIONS OF THE TYPE OF VEHICLES THAT CAN ACTUALLY BE CONVERTED INTO ELECTRIC FLEET TYPE, MORE THAN LIKELY ADMINISTRATIVE TYPE SEDANS.
LOOKING AT THE LOCATION FOR THE RECHARGING STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY, WHAT IS GONNA BE MORE LOGISTICALLY FEASIBLE TO LOCATE THOSE RECHARGING STATIONS AND REDUCE THE, THE AMOUNT OF, UH, VEHICLES THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW, CONSUMING REGULAR FUEL, CONVERTING THOSE INTO ELECTRICAL VEHICLES, DOWNTOWN OPERATIONS.
WE HAVE ALSO LOOKED AT ELIMINATING ANYTHING THAT IS FUEL CONSUMPTION, CONVERTING THOSE UNITS INTO ELECTRIC UNITS TO BE DRIVEN AROUND DOWNTOWN, ESPECIALLY OPERATIONS FROM BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT SERVICES THAT WE MAINTAIN THE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS ACROSS THE CITY AND THE DOWNTOWN CORE.
WE'RE GONNA BE USING ELECTRIC VEHICLES RATHER THAN USING FUEL CONSUMPTION VEHICLES.
WELL, I'M, I'M GLAD TO HEAR ALL THAT.
IF, IF THAT COULD BE PRESENTED TO, I, MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING DOUG IS ALREADY GONNA BE DOING, BUT PRESENTING, UH, SORT OF THE, THE NET, UH, IMPACT FROM ALL THAT, UH, REPLACEMENT, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US TO HAVE.
YES, WE WE'RE WRAPPING UP THAT, THAT STUDY AND, UH, PROBABLY PRESENTED TO COMMUNITY HEALTH INEQUITY.
SHARING WITH THAT COMMITTEE, THE RESULTS OF THAT STUDY.
UM, LAURA, I HATE TO ASK YOU TO COME UP AGAIN.
UM, I NOTICED ON ONE OF THE SLIDES IT SAID THAT A, A NEW PARKING GARAGE WAS BEING CONTEMPLATED BY THE CITY.
UH, WHERE, WHERE IS THAT, UH, IN THE PROCESS? AND, AND, UM, BECAUSE THE, THE QUESTION I WANT TO ASK YOU IS, WHEN WE'RE CONSIDERING DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT, UH, ARE WE ALSO, UH, PLANNING FOR HOW, UM, SOME OF THE DEVELOPERS ARE DOING, I THINK, SMARTLY IN POTENTIAL RETROFITS OF THOSE GARAGES WHEN WE'RE BUILT? ARE WE GONNA BE PLANNING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? WE'LL LOOK AT THAT, BUT ONE OF THE GARAGES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS TO LOOK TO SEE HOW WE CAN USE MULTIPLE USERS IN ONE GARAGE.
SO WE KNOW THERE'S A GREAT PARTNERSHIP WITH HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT.
SO AS RESIDENTS LEAVE FOR WORK, THE GARAGE IS VACANT.
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HOTEL BUILDING, WHICH IS A BUILDING THAT WE'RE GONNA BE PUTTING ON THE MARKET IN THE NEXT MONTH, WE ARE LISTING A GARAGE OPPORTUNITY IN THAT R F P WHERE A DEVELOPER COULD PROPOSE AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT AND WE COULD PARTNER WITH THEM TO BUILD A PARKING GARAGE.SO THERE IS A PARTNERSHIP WITH THAT HOUSING USE AND THAT EMPLOYMENT USE, BUT WE ALSO LOOK TO SEE HOW WE CAN RETROFIT PARKING SPACES IN THE EVENT THAT DEMAND FOR PARKING GOES DOWN.
UM, LAST QUESTION, WHILE YOU'RE STILL UP HERE, UH, WITH THE CITY TOWER GARAGE, WHICH IS NOW CITY OWNED, IS THERE ANY RENOVATION GOING ON IN THAT FACILITY? THERE'LL BE SOME RENOVATIONS, I BELIEVE, WITH SOME OF THE M E P.
UM, AND THEN WITH THE GARAGE ITSELF, WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE DOING SOME RES STRIPING WITH THE GARAGE AND TRYING TO GET MORE SPACES, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT SOME OF THOSE SPACES ARE VERY WIDE.
UM, WE COULD ADD, UM, MORE EFFICIENCY WITHIN THAT GARAGE.
ARE WE ADDING, UM, CAR CHARGING STATIONS IN THAT GARAGE? YES, THERE WILL BE CHARGING STATIONS.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY? I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THAT DESIGNED YET.
WE NEED THAT FOR YOU WOULD, BUT THERE WILL BE CHARGING STATIONS WITHIN THE GARAGE.
LAST QUESTION I'LL ASK, UM, REALLY IS ABOUT THE FIRST PART OF THE PRESENTATION AND, UM, KEEPING OUR, UH, BEST IN CLASS EMPLOYER, UH, CONTINUING TO BE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, A, A GREAT WORKPLACE TO, UH, TO BE A PART OF.
AND RELATED TO, UH, COMMUTING.
ARE WE OFFERING ANY COMMUTING BENEFITS? CAN WE, UM, UH, WITH REGARD TO SOME OF OUR EMPLOYEES, I KNOW WE'RE PROVIDING PARKING BENEFITS, BUT ARE THERE OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO, UH, PROVIDE COMMUTER PROGRAMS FOR THEM? I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE AND THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY COMMITTEE HAD BEEN WORKING ON.
UM, MAYOR, WE DO CONTINUE TO, UM, LOOK INTO THAT ISSUE, BUT WE DO HAVE THE VIA BUS PASS PROGRAM NOW, SO ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES HAVE ACCESS TO A, A FREE BUS PASS.
SO THAT DEFINITELY HELPS WITH, UH, COMMUTING DOWNTOWN AND MAYOR.
UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET TO BE MORE PROACTIVE AND MORE AGGRESSIVE, UH, INCLUDED IN THE PARKING FUND, WE HAVE AN ALLOCATION OF $300,000 THAT ARE A PARKING TEAM.
AND OUR, UM, TRANSPORTATION TEAM ARE GONNA BE WORKING ON TO COME UP WITH SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW WE CAN REDUCE THE TRAFFIC COMING DOWNTOWN AND PERHAPS, UH, UTILIZE, UM, UM, TELECOMMUTE AND ALSO OTHER OPPORTUNITIES.
UH, WE SEE MOVING TO FROST TO THE CITY TOWER AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH SOME EFFICIENCIES, MAYBE DIFFERENT WORK SCHEDULES, UH, PERHAPS SO WE DON'T HAVE EVERYBODY DRIVING IN AT THE SAME TIME.
UH, PERHAPS SOME, UH, EMPLOYEES WORKING FROM HOME FOR THOSE THAT ARE, UH, ELIGIBLE TO DO SO.
SO WE ARE GETTING CREATIVE, UH, AS WE'RE PLANNING THE MOVE TO THE CITY TOWER BUILDING.
ERIC, YOU, I WAS JUST GONNA ADD TWO OTHER THINGS.
UH, MAYOR, MAYOR, UH, MARIA TOUCHED UPON ONE OF 'EM.
UM, WE ARE, WE SPENT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME, UH, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SUMMER, UM, REVISING OUR REMOTE WORK ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVE, UM, WHERE WE WISH WHERE WE SHOULD PROBABLY, WHERE WE NEED TO ALIGN OURSELVES INTO A POSITION THAT AS WE TRANSITION TO THAT BUILDING, THERE MAY BE SOME, UM, WORK THAT CAN BE DONE OUTSIDE THE OFFICE.
AND, AND IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE, THE OLD TERM IS TELECOMMUTING.
SO WE'LL BE PILOTING THAT, UH, PROBABLY WITH A COUPLE OF DEPARTMENTS DURING THE YEAR.
UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT POSITION IN T C I WHOSE JOB, UH, AND FOCUS IS TO, UM, UH, KIND OF CREATE THOSE VAN SHARE CAR SHARE TYPE OPTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES.
AND WE THINK THAT, UH, THAT THAT PARKING, UM, THAT THOSE FUNDS SET ASIDE OF THE PARKING FUND FOR AN INCENTIVE, UH, WILL GO NICELY WITH, UH, WITH WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THAT, UH, T D M POSITION.
UM, DOUG, UM, I'M SORRY, NOT DOUG.
KEVIN, ARE YOU STILL HERE? ONLY QUESTION I HAVE FOR YOU IS, UH, WHERE WE CAN SEE YOUR AUDIT SCHEDULE FOR THIS YEAR, THE AUDIT SCHEDULE.
THE PLAN WAS PRESENTED TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE THIS PAST FRIDAY.
IT'LL BE ON THE SEPTEMBER 19TH, UH, CITY COUNCIL AGENDA FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL.
MY QUESTION IS FOR LORI STEWART, CAN YOU TELL ME, HAS STAFF ASSESSED OR CONSIDERED THE FEASIBILITY OF TRANSITIONING CERTAIN CONTRACT WORK BACK TO CITY CREWS? I'M THINKING, YOU KNOW, LIKE PAVEMENT MARKINGS
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FOR CROSSWALKS, THINGS LIKE THAT.UM, THAT WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO BE DIRECTED TO EACH INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENT THAT IS CONTRACTING FOR THAT WORK.
YOU KNOW, I THINK IN THE PAST, OKAY, THOSE STUDIES HAVE BEEN DONE.
I'M NOT AWARE OF ANYTHING RECENTLY.
YEAH, I, I'LL JUMP IN ON THAT ONE.
SO, UM, WE, WE'VE HAD THOSE, WE, WE STARTED HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS THIS SUMMER.
UM, AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE SIDEWALK, WHAT IS IT, WHAT DO WE CALL IT? THE SIDEWALK SQUAD, UH, THAT PILOT THAT WAS DONE IN THE SPRING WAS DONE THROUGH CONTRACTORS.
AND, UH, WE FELT, AS WE TALKED ABOUT IT, THAT IT GAVE US A LITTLE BIT MORE FLEXIBILITY AND, UH, NIMBLENESS TO, UH, ADD POSITIONS TO DO THAT.
I'LL SAY THAT, UM, THAT THAT'S PROBABLY A CONSTANT ANALYSIS THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE WHERE, UH, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE EFFICIENT AND WE CAN WITHSTAND THOSE TIMES WHERE, UH, MAYBE WE ARE IN A DOWNTURN.
AND, UM, FROM A FINANCIAL STANDPOINT, UM, REDUCING A CONTRACT IS A LOT EASIER TO DO THAN, UH, REDUCING POSITIONS.
UM, AND WE'LL HAVE TO, I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE HAVE TO CONTINUOUSLY LOOK AT.
COUNCIL MEMBER KEO, HARVARD, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL.
UM, I'LL START WITH, UM, THE HR QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU, LORI, FOR, UH, THE PRESENTATION.
UM, LORI, WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO SEND ME AS A FOLLOW UP HOW MANY TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES WE'VE HAD DURING THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR OR, UM, SURE.
UH, IT WON'T BE FOR THE WHOLE FISCAL YEAR.
I GUESS YOU'LL, YOU'LL BE MISSING SEPTEMBER AND ABOUT HOW MANY HOURS THEY WORK AND, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, IF ANY OF THE DEPARTMENTS HAVE RATIONALE FOR THE, FOR THE TEMPS THAT THEY BRING ON AS OPPOSED TO A PERMANENT POSITION.
I KNOW LIKE IN THE LIBRARY WE JUST CONVERT, WE WILL BE CONVERTING SOME FROM TEMPORARY TO PERMANENT.
AND THEN, UH, I'D LIKE TO KNOW, DO OUR TEMPS CURRENTLY, UM, HAVE PAID SICK LEAVE? UM, THEY DO NOT, BUT WE ARE WORKING ON IMPLEMENTING THAT.
AND SO FOR NEXT, UH, FISCAL YEAR, WE'LL HAVE PAID SICK LEAVE.
IS THAT GOING TO BE BUDGETED FOR THEM ALREADY? YES, WE'RE PLANNING TO ADD PAID LEAVE.
AND WHERE IS THAT IN THE, IN THE NUMBERS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN ABOUT INCREASES IN BUDGETS, IS THAT QUANTIFIED ANYWHERE? UM, I DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE ADDED ANY MONEY IN THE BUDGET THAT'LL JUST BE MANAGED WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGETS.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S IT FOR HR.
UM, MS. SEK, UM, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
IT'S GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU, UH, DIRECTLY.
COULD YOU TELL A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT, UM, YOUR CONVERTED ONE POSITION INTO TWO? AND, UM, THERE ARE A LOT OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
YOU AND I HAVE GONE THROUGH THEM
I THINK WE HAVE SOME VERY HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF WHERE WE WANT THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, UH, PROCESS TO GO.
SO CAN YOU, CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT A LITTLE BIT TO ME? YES.
SO YOU'RE CORRECT IN EXACTLY WHAT YOU STATED.
WE DO HAVE ONE POSITION EARMARKED JUST FOR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
UM, AND TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, NO, THAT'S PROBABLY NOT ENOUGH, BUT WE'RE GONNA START WITH ONE AND SEE HOW FAR WE CAN GET.
THE MAIN, UH, FOCUS ON BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS IS THE APPLICATION PROCESS, AS YOU KNOW, AND WE ARE WORKING CURRENTLY WITH I T S D AND INNOVATION TO MAKE THAT PROCESS MORE USER-FRIENDLY.
BUT THAT IS GONNA TAKE MORE MONIES TO BE FUND FUNDED THROUGH THE IT DEPARTMENT FOR A COMPLETE, UH, NEW SYSTEM OR TO REDO AND REPROGRAM THE EXISTING SYSTEM.
ERIC, IS THAT ACCOUNTED FOR? I'M LOOKING OVER THERE AT CRAIG HOPKINS.
IS HE SHAKING HIS HEAD? NO, IT DIDN'T MAKE THE, UM, IT GOVERNANCE RECOMMENDATIONS THIS YEAR, BUT WHAT I WILL SUGGEST AND CAN SUGGEST IS THAT WE START WITH A SCOPE NOW AND A DESIGN FOR A FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW SYSTEM TO REPLACE THE CURRENT SYSTEM.
AND ONE OF THE REASONS WE'RE HAVING SOME ISSUES WITH THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS THAT IT WAS BUILT BACK IN 2008.
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THAT IT WAS BUILT ON DOES NOT ACCOMMODATE TODAY'S USE BY FOLKS THAT UTILIZE THEIR IPHONES OR THEIR IPADS TO GO ONLINE AND APPLY.SO THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT DOESN'T DO TODAY.
SO LETICIA, I THINK THE CLERK'S OFFICE DOES A TREMENDOUS JOB WITH CEREMONIALS AND PREPARING US FOR OUR MEETINGS.
AND, UH, I JUST, I THINK YOU'RE REALLY UNDER-RESOURCED IN THIS ONE PARTICULAR AREA AND WE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS HOW WE EVALUATE YOU MM-HMM.
SO I THINK, UM, YOU'RE KIND OF IN A CONUNDRUM HERE, UM,
SO, UM, HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS WORK OUT? WE GOT THE RECOMMENDATIONS A FEW MONTHS AGO MM-HMM.
SO, UM, I, I GUESS I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR WHAT WE CAN EXPECT FROM THE CLERK'S OFFICE IN TERMS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS BEFORE WE START THE, THE BUDGET YEAR.
SO IF YOU CAN CLEARLY TELL ME WHAT'S GONNA, WHAT WE'RE GONNA GET WITH THAT ADDITIONAL PERSON, AND THEN IF THERE'S GOING TO BE ANY IT RECOMMENDATION, UM, ANY IT SUPPORT, AND IF NOT, THEN I GUESS WE'LL JUST WORK WITH ERIC AND CRAIG ON THAT.
SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA GET WITH THE NEW POSITION IS, UM, MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU NEED INFORMATION ON BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, YOU CALL OUR OFFICE.
THERE'S ONLY ONE PERSON RIGHT NOW THAT DEALS DIRECTLY WITH THE SYSTEM.
AND SO THIS NEW POSITION WILL ALSO OVERSEE THAT SYSTEM AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO RE, UH, RETURN YOUR CALLS QUICKER, PROVIDE YOU THE INFORMATION FASTER THAN WE CURRENTLY DO NOW, AND WE'LL ALSO BE ABLE TO GET YOU THE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE TO BE DOWNLOADED BY YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO YOU QUICKER SO THAT YOU CAN REVIEW THOSE AND THAT YOU CAN MAKE THOSE APPOINTMENTS.
AND, UM, IN TERMS OF THE OUTREACH, UH, A LOT OF WHAT WE DISCUSSED IS THAT WE WEREN'T GETTING ENOUGH APPLICATIONS FROM, UH, THE MORE DIVERSE CANDIDATES, UM MM-HMM.
SO WILL YOUR OFFICE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT, OR IS THAT GOING TO BE IN COORDINATION WITH OFFICE OF EQUITY AND THE LIAISON DEPARTMENT? YES.
HOW'S THAT GOING TO WORK? IT'S A PARTNERSHIP WITH, UH, G P A MM-HMM.
BUT YES, THE OUTREACH IS ALWAYS, UM, A PARTNERSHIP WITH ANOTHER DEPARTMENT OR THE DEPARTMENT THAT'S SEEKING APPLICANTS.
AND THEN JUST A ANOTHER QUESTION FOR ERIC.
SO WE, OR FOR ERIC OR CRAIG, SO AT THIS POINT, WE, WE DO NOT ANTICIPATE HAVING ANY IT IMPROVEMENTS TO THAT, TO THAT APPLICATION PROCESS, TO THE BOARD COMMISSION APPLICATION PROCESS? WELL, I, I GUESS WHAT I'M HEARING IS THAT IT'S, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT.
SO THE ANSWER IS GONNA BE THAT, UH, WE WILL, WE'LL WORK WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE TO, UH, COME UP WITH A PLAN THAT ADDRESSES THE NEEDS OF THE ISSUE THAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING COUNCILWOMAN.
UM, AND I GUESS, UH, MAYBE I'VE FALLEN SHORT IN NOT GIVING THAT FULL, UH, PRESENTATION TO THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HEARD AT OUR, AT OUR SUBCOMMITTEE.
UM, SO, UH, I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT MAKING THAT, UH, CLEAR TO THE WHOLE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE THAT THAT WAS A, A FINDING AND A, AND A PRIORITY FROM THAT.
SO I THINK, I THINK THE, THE QUICK ANSWER IS THAT CRAIG, AND I'LL PUT OUR HEADS TOGETHER AND COME UP WITH SOMETHING.
UM, AND THEN IF YOU COULD, UH, LETICIA THE ESTIMATE FOR THE ELECTIONS, IT'S LIKE A A MILLION DOLLARS MM-HMM.
AND IT DEPENDS ON THE NUMBER OF ENTITIES THAT JOIN IN ON THE NOVEMBER ELECTION.
SO AT THIS POINT IN TIME, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT ENTITIES ARE GOING TO BE HOLDING AN ELECTION IN NOVEMBER, BUT THE CLOSER WE GET TO THAT DATE, WE WILL HAVE A BETTER ANSWER FOR YOU.
AND IS THAT, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S COORDINATED, UH, BY MS. CALLANAN OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE SOMEONE WHO REACHES OUT TO OTHER ENTITIES TO COORDINATE? YES.
THAT IS COORDINATED BY BEXAR COUNTY? THAT'S CORRECT.
UM, AND THEN, UH, QUESTION FOR LORI HOUSTON, YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE GONNA GET CALLED UP SO MUCH, DID YOU?
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AND IT COULD BE USED BY EMPLOYERS.IT COULD BE USED BY CITY EMPLOYEES.
AND IT'LL ALSO BE USED TO HELP US LEVERAGE AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
AND IT WOULD BE WHERE, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A PROJECT AT THE, UM, METRO HEALTH, THE FORMER METRO HEALTH BUILDING CONTINENTAL HOTEL.
IT'S BEHIND PLAZA, DEIS UHHUH ON COMMERCE STREET.
AND SO AS WE ISSUE THAT R F P FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THAT BUILDING, WE'D LIKE TO PRESENT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO EX EXPAND, UM, THEIR PARKING GARAGE AND TO INCORPORATE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYERS IN THE AREA TO INCLUDE CITY EMPLOYEES OR COUNTY EMPLOYEES, OR THE NEW FEDERAL COURTHOUSE THAT'S BEING CONSTRUCTED.
THERE IS GOING TO BE A DEMAND FOR PARKING.
SO, UM, WHAT KIND OF INVESTMENT DO YOU SEE US MAKING IN THAT PARTICULAR GARAGE? WE DON'T KNOW YET.
THAT'S WHY WE'VE PRESENTED THE OPPORTUNITY WE WANT THEM TO PRESENT TO US, UM, WHAT, WHAT THEY COULD DO WITH THAT GARAGE.
HOW MANY SPACES, HOW MANY COULD BE AVAILABLE DURING THE DAY? RIGHT NOW WE'VE BUDGETED SEVEN, I BELIEVE IT'S SEVEN AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS FOR PARKING GARAGE EXPANSIONS OR NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
UM, I APOLOGIZE FOR GETTING INTO THE DETAILS HERE.
UM, SO THE R F P, HOW IS THAT STRUCTURED? WE, WE ISSUE AN R F P ASKING A BIDDER TO DO WHAT? WE'RE ASKING DEVELOPERS TO SUBMIT A PROJECT FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE OLD CONTINENTAL HOTEL BUILDING TO INCORPORATE MIXED USE AND MIXED INCOME DEVELOPMENT.
AND THEY WOULD MOST LIKELY NEED TO PROVIDE PARKING AS PART OF THAT MIXED INCOME DEVELOPMENT.
AND WHAT WE'VE SAID IS, IN ADDITION TO PROPOSING YOUR PROJECT, IF THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO OVERSIZE YOUR PARKING GARAGE, SO WE COULD LEVERAGE PARKING OPPORTUNITIES WITH EMPLOYERS AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WE'D LIKE THEM TO PROPOSE THAT.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, THEY MAY BE BUILDING A 450 PARKING SPACE GARAGE.
MAYBE 200 SPACES WOULD BE AVAILABLE DURING THE DAY THAT WE COULD USE FOR PUBLIC PARKING, UM, OR EMPLOYEE PARKING.
IF WE COULD TALK ABOUT IT AFTERWARD.
UM, AT THIS POINT, I JUST DON'T FEEL SUPPORTIVE OF, OF THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT OF PUTTING MORE MONEY INTO ADDITIONAL PARKING WITHOUT KNOWING THAT IT'S GONNA BE FULLY, UM, THAT WE'RE GONNA GET OUR FULL MONEY BACK ON IT.
AND THIS WOULD BE REVIEWED AS PART OF THE R F P ANALYSIS AND THEN IT WOULD BE PRESENTED TO A COUNCIL COMMITTEE OR COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION.
AND IS THERE GOING TO BE A, UM, THE MARKET STUDY THAT THE MAYOR MENTIONED, IS THAT GOING TO HAPPEN IN THIS COMING FISCAL YEAR? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE WE'RE GONNA BE, WE ARE GONNA LOOK TO UPDATE THE, THE CURRENT ONE.
UM, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT.
UH, YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT COUNCIL AIDS.
THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN THE BUDGET FOR THAT.
SO THE PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES ABOUT $263,000.
UH, THAT INCREASES FOR ALL CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
AND THAT ACCOUNTS FOR A 3% PAY INCREASE FOR COUNCIL EIGHT.
SO AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, HOW THAT IS DISTRIBUTED.
AND THERE ALSO INCREASES THE I R A MATCH TO THE ONE.
SO EMPLOYEE PUTS $1 CITY MATCHES $2.
THERE'S ALSO AN INCREASE ON THE HEALTH, UH, ACCOUNT.
THE HEALTH PLAN FOR COUNCIL AIDS IS RENEWED EVERY JUNE.
SO WE ARE PUTTING MONEY IN THE BUDGET IF THERE'S AN INCREASE ON THE HEALTH, UH, COSTS FOR OUR COUNCIL AIDS AND THEY WILL THIS INCREASE WILL, UM, TAKE CARE OF THAT.
AND ALSO, UM, THERE, THERE'S, UH, FUNDING IN THE BUDGET TO BE ABLE TO RELOCATE THE THREE SPACES THAT WE HAVE AT THE DOLLAR LOT TO THE, UH, CITY TOWER GARAGE.
THE ADDITIONAL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT IS COVER IN IN THE BUDGET.
AND SORRY, WHY IS THERE AN ADDITIONAL COST FOR, FOR MOVING ONE THE PARKING SPACES? THE MONTHLY FEE AT THE CITY TOWER GARAGE IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN AT THE DOLLAR LOT.
SO THE, THE, UM, I KNOW THAT THE CITY TOWERS, I THINK IT'S ONE 20 A MONTH AND I DON'T REMEMBER THE DOLLAR ROSA, WE'LL GET THAT TO YOU, BUT IT'S, IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE AT THE CITY TOWER.
UM, 70, 75, 70 $8 AT THE DOLLAR LOT.
UM, IT, AND IN TERMS OF THE HEALTH, UH, BENEFIT, IS THAT, ARE THEY GONNA STAY WITH THE SAME, UH, THE SAME PROVIDER, THE SAME INSURANCE COMPANY? OKAY.
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BE A CHANGE, BUT WE DON'T KNOW AT THIS POINT AS WE JUST FINISH THE ENROLLMENT FOR THE, WOULD YOU, WOULD YOU LET US KNOW IF THERE'S GOING TO BE A CHANGE? OF COURSE.UM, I THINK, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT OPTIONS MY EMPLOYEES HAVE, UM, AND NOT JUST MANDATE THAT THEY ONLY HAVE ONE INSURANCE OPTION.
SO IF, IF I COULD TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT OPTIONS YOU'RE LOOKING AT, THEN WE CAN MAKE AN INFORMED CHOICE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES.
AND THEN, UH, SO THEY'RE PLAYING, PAYING FOR PARKING.
WE'RE, LET'S START WITH, UH, THE ELECTIONS.
LETICIA, IF, UM, ON YOUR CHART HERE FOR THE 2020 PROPOSED BUDGET, $1 MILLION, UM, THE OCTOBER 19 ELECTIONS, EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT ELECTION IF NECESSARY.
AND THEN, UM, THE NOVEMBER, 2020 ELECTION, IS THAT NOVEMBER, 2020? THAT'S REALLY THE 2021 BUDGET.
BUT BEXAR COUNTY ALWAYS REQUIRES A DEPOSIT.
SO WE, WE BUDGET FOR THE ENTIRE ELECTION AND WE WILL PAY OUT AN AMOUNT TYPICALLY IN SEPTEMBER TO BEXAR COUNTY.
BY THAT TIME, THEY SHOULD KNOW THE TOTAL COST OF THE ELECTION.
SO IF WE DON'T, IF WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING IN, UM, NOVEMBER, 2020, YOU'RE SHOWING TWO REAUTHORIZATION OF THE LINEAR CREEK WASTE SALES TAX.
IS THAT, IS THAT UP FOR REELECTION IN NOVEMBER? YES.
UM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH SA CONNECT SA, UM, I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHERE THAT'S COMING FROM.
IS THAT PART OF THAT ELECTION OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE THINKING MIGHT, 'CAUSE WE HAVEN'T AUTHORIZED ANYTHING ON THAT.
AND YOU, YOU HAVE NOT CALLED AN ELECTION.
YOU WON'T DO SO UNTIL NEXT YEAR.
AND YOU COULD AT THAT TIME INCLUDE, UH, BOTH OF THOSE TWO INTO ONE.
IF I MAY ALSO, LETICIA ALSO ON THAT DATE WOULD BE, UH, POSSIBLE RENEWAL CONSIDERATION BY COUNSEL TO RENEW, UH, THE PRE-K FOR SA SALES TAX AS WELL.
YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S IT, LETICIA.
UHHUH
ON YOUR PROPOSED BUDGET OF 173.4 MILLION, UM, SLIDE FOUR, EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FUND IS GOING UP ALMOST $4 MILLION.
WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT INCREASE DO TO? UM, A LOT OF THAT INCREASE WOULD BE DUE JUST TO THE, THE TREND OF HEALTH BENEFIT CLAIMS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ABOUT 26,000 MEMBERS ON OUR HEALTH PLANS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, HEALTH, HEALTH INSURANCE COST INCREASE EVERY YEAR.
BUT WE ARE ALSO CONTINUING OUR STUDENT LOAN BENEFIT FOR A FULL YEAR.
THE BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR WAS ONLY FOR HALF A YEAR.
SO THE INCREASE IN THAT STUDENT LOAN BENEFIT IS ALSO IN THERE.
SO YOU'RE SAYING IT'S AN INCREASE IN OUR, UM, HEALTH CARE.
IT'S THE TREND, THE TREND OF HEALTHCARE.
UM, I'M HAVING TROUBLE VISUALIZING HOW YOU ESTIMATED THAT.
DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE? SO THE INCREASE IN OUR CLAIMS BUDGET IS ABOUT 2.7 MILLION.
THE ADDITIONAL FOR THE LOANS IS ABOUT $400,000.
SO THAT'S THE MAJORITY OF THAT INCREASE THAT YOU SEE, UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ADOPTIVE BUDGET TO THE, UH, PROPOSED BUDGET.
BUT THAT'S ONLY COMING UP $3 MILLION.
IT'S, THERE'S SOME OTHER CON CONTRACTUAL INCREASES THAT WE HAD
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THROUGH, UM, T T P A THROUGH T P A OR THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR AS WELL.YEAH, IF YOU COULD GET BACK WITH ME ON WHAT, WHAT THAT $4 MILLION IS OR $3.9 MILLION, I'D APPRECIATE THAT.
AND THEN, UH, ON PAGE 303 OF THE BIG THICK BOOK THERE, IT SAID, UH, UH, ON YOUR, YOUR TARGETS FOR 2020, WE GOT A LINE ITEM PERCENT OF ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES THAT APPEALED DISCIPLINARY ACTION TO MUNICIPAL SERVICE COMMISSION.
WE, THERE WAS 7% ACTUAL, THE TARGET FOR 19 WAS 10%, BUT WE'RE ONLY ESTIMATING THAT THERE'LL BE 2.8%, BUT WE'RE STILL BACK UP TO OUR TARGET OF 10%.
WHY ARE WE USING THAT AS A GOAL? RIGHT.
WELL, IT, IT'S, IT'S A REASONABLE GOAL.
WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN, UM, PLEASED THAT WE HAVE SUCH A LOW NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES THAT APPEAL THEIR DISCIPLINE.
AND WE LIKE TO ATTRIBUTE THAT TO THE FACT THAT OUR PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINARY PROCESSES AND OUR COMMUNICATION WITH EMPLOYEES, THAT THE DISCIPLINE LEVELS ARE FAIR AND REASONABLE, AND EMPLOYEES ARE UNDERSTANDING WHY THAT LEVEL OF DISCIPLINE IS HAPPENING.
UM, ON ATTENDANCE RELATED, UM, DISCIPLINES, THERE'S AN ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTIVE THAT SPELLS THAT OUT VERY CLEARLY.
UM, BUT IT'S HARD TO SAY FROM ONE YEAR TO THE NEXT WHAT KIND OF DISCIPLINE.
IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT'S A, I MEAN, YOU'RE BEATING IT, IF THAT'S A, THAT YOU SHOULD REALLY REDUCE THAT GOAL.
UH, SOMETHING THAT, HEY, LET'S BEAT OUR ESTIMATE FROM LAST YEAR INSTEAD OF JUST LEAVING IT 10%.
UH, JUST A COMMENT ABOUT THAT.
UH, WHAT IS A CALL ABANDONMENT RATE? THAT'S IN OUR, UM, WE HAVE A, A, A PHONE SYSTEM AND CALLS COMING INTO OUR HR CUSTOMER SERVICE.
SO THAT'S JUST A MEASURE OF, OF ANY KIND OF PHONE SYSTEM THAT HAS THAT, UH, ROTATIONAL SYSTEM WHERE THEY GO THROUGH AND, AND DIRECT THE CALLS TO THE NEXT AVAILABLE PERSON.
SO THAT'S PEOPLE THAT, YOU KNOW, HANG UP BEFORE WE ANSWER THE CALL.
SO PEOPLE THAT ARE HANGING UP AND NOT.
UM, AND THEN THE TOTAL EXPENDITURES ON PAGE 3 0 4, IT'S GOING UP FROM 156 MILLION TO 166 MILLION, UH, FROM, YOU KNOW, IN 18 IT WAS 144 MILLION.
WE BUDGETED 162 MILLION, BUT IT'S ONLY 156 FOR 19, AND WE'RE GOING UP TO 166 MILLION.
WHY SUCH, WHY SUCH A DRAMATIC GROWTH? SO AGAIN, THE INCREASE IN OUR CLAIMS IS ABOUT $8.1 MILLION FROM WHAT WE'RE ESTIMATING IN FISCAL YEAR 2019 TO THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020.
BUT YOUR, YOUR BUDGET WAS FOR 133 MILLION AND YOU'RE ESTIMATED IT IS ONLY FOR 128 MILLION FOR 19.
WHY, WHY THE INCREASE FROM 19 TO 20? BECAUSE WE'RE SEEING THAT THE GROWTH IN THE MEDICAL CLAIMS IS ACCOUNTING, THE 20 FI, THE FISCAL YEAR, 2020 PROPOSED BUDGET ACCOUNTS FOR THE GROWTH IN THE MEDICAL CLAIMS. SO WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT 129 MILLION FOR MEDICAL AND PHARMACY CLAIMS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019.
AND DUE TO INCREASES IN, IN, UM, MEDICAL COSTS AS WELL AS PHARMACY COSTS, WE'RE INCREASING THAT BUDGET TO 136 MILLION FOR 2020 A HUNDRED POSITION.
ADDITIONALLY, THERE'S, WE ALSO HAVE, UM, A HUNDRED, A HUNDRED POSITIONS THAT WE'RE ADDING WITH THE FISCAL YEAR 2020 BUDGET.
THAT'S KIND OF A KEY THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.
AN INCREASE IN OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE, A HUNDRED POSITIONS ACROSS THE CITY.
COUNCILMAN, TO BE CLEAR THOUGH, ON WHEN WE'RE ADDING POSITIONS, UH, THAT'S GONNA ADD A LITTLE BIT IN TERMS OF CLAIMS COST.
THE BULK OF IT IS GONNA BE WHAT JUSTINE MENTIONED EARLIER.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR HEALTHCARE CLAIMS COSTS.
WE USE OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS AND ACTUARIES TO LOOK AT UTILIZATION, HOW MUCH OUR PLANS ARE BEING UTILIZED, HOW THEY'RE BEING UTILIZED, WHAT KINDS OF, UH, TRENDS WE'RE SEEING.
AND THEN OF COURSE, MEDICAL INFLATION GOES UP AT A RATE OF ANYWHERE FROM SIX TO 8% PER YEAR.
UH, PHARMACY MUCH HIGHER, PROBABLY 10 TO 12% PER YEAR.
UH, OUR PLANS HAVE PERFORMED WELL.
BUT GENERALLY OVER YEAR, OVER YEAR, YOU'RE GONNA SEE INCREASES IN CLAIMS COST.
WELL, I, I'M JUST LOOKING AT THAT OVER $20 MILLION IN, IN TWO YEARS, THAT, THAT TO ME IS EXORBITANT AND MAYBE WE SHOULD SHOP AROUND FOR ANOTHER PROVIDER.
I WILL TELL YOU THAT I, I THINK, UH, OUR TPAS GOT A VERY STRONG NETWORK AND VERY STRONG
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DISCOUNTS.YOU GOTTA REMEMBER WE HAVE OVER 25,000, UH, LIVES INSURED UNDER OUR PLAN.
SO NOT ONLY EMPLOYEES, BUT THEIR FAMILIES, DEPENDENTS AND SPOUSES.
UM, SO OUR TRENDS HAVE BEEN ACTUALLY PRETTY FAVORABLE, UH, WITH OUR CIVILIAN PLANS AND WITH OUR POLICE PLANS.
UH, BUT CERTAINLY THAT'S A CHALLENGE FOR ALL EMPLOYERS IS, IS HOW TO MANAGE THE COST OF HEALTHCARE.
AGAIN, $20 MILLION IN TWO YEARS, THAT'S PRETTY BIG, PRETTY GOOD, BIG GROWTH, BUT, OKAY.
UM, THAT'S ON MY QUESTION, LAURIE.
UM, NEXT ONE IS, UH, THE TOWER.
UH, BEN, YOU COULD PROBABLY ANSWER THESE JUST AS WELL AS ANYBODY.
YOU KNOW, I'M GOING BACK TO THE ORIGINAL AND WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION ALREADY, YOU KNOW, WHEN THIS WAS FIRST PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL, I THINK IT WAS SAYING A $1.2 MILLION, WE'RE GONNA SAVE $1.2 MILLION.
AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER, UH, PRESS RELEASE THAT IT'S GONNA BE COST NEUTRAL.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE SAVING, IT'S GONNA BE COST NEUTRAL, BUT I'M LOOKING AT THIS CHART ON PAGE 10.
WHAT IS THIS TELLING ME HERE? WHAT ARE, IS THIS SHOWING THAT IT'S GONNA BE COST NEUTRAL OR THAT IT'S GONNA COST US SOMETHING IN 30 YEARS? SO THIS CHART IS SHOWING YOU, THERE ARE CHANGES IN THE PROJECT BUDGET, BUT EVEN WITH THOSE CHANGES IN THE PROJECT BUDGET, WE WILL BE, UH, COST NEUTRAL TO THE CITY.
AND SO WE'RE RUNNING THAT 30 YEAR PERFORMER.
WE'RE BUILDING IN THE ADDITIONAL $2.7 MILLION IN NET COST THAT YOU SEE ON THAT TABLE ON THE BOTTOM.
WE'RE MAINTAINING THAT COST NEUTRAL POSITION TO THE CITY.
AND THE MOST RECENT UPDATE I'VE GOT IS OVER THE 30 YEARS, WE'RE SAVING ABOUT $2.3 MILLION.
AND SO OUR COMMITMENT WHEN WE DID THIS PROJECT FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO, WAS THAT WE WOULD, WE WOULD, UM, CONTINUE TO MANAGE IT TO ENSURE THAT IT WAS AT LEAST COST NEUTRAL TO US.
UH, RIGHT NOW, BASED ON THE LATEST UPDATE, IT'S 2.3 MILLION OVER 30 YEARS.
THIS IS A PROFORMA, THOUGH, COUNCILMAN THAT DOES AND CAN CHANGE VERY EASILY.
SO IF I WERE TO CHANGE THE PROFORMA BY HALF MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IN COSTS, THAT'S A $15 MILLION SWING.
IF I CHANGE IT BY A HUNDRED THOUSAND, IT'S A $3 MILLION SWING.
SO THERE ARE A LOT OF, UH, MOVING PIECES WITHIN THIS PROFORMA.
WE'RE COMFORTABLE THAT WE'RE STILL GONNA BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN A, A, AT LEAST A COST NEUTRAL POSITION TO THE CITY.
SO LET ME ASK YOU THIS, ALL OF THESE, UH, ADDITIONAL POSITIONS HERE, WAS THAT BUILT INTO THE COST? YES, SIR.
THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR HERE? YES, SIR.
THAT'S FOR MAINTAINING THE FACILITY AND, AND THE PARKING STRUCTURE.
SO AREN'T WE CURRENTLY WITH IN-HOUSE FORCES MAINTAINING SOME OF THE FACILITIES THAT PEOPLE ARE MOVING FROM? THAT'S CORRECT.
INTO WHY WOULD WE BE ADDING THOSE POSITIONS BACK IN? WHY AREN'T WE SAVING THOSE POSITIONS? WELL, 'CAUSE AT THIS POINT, THEY'RE STILL MAINTAINING THE BUILDINGS THAT WE HAVE.
SO WE HAVE BUILT ALL OF THAT INTO THE PRO FORMA.
WE'VE LOOKED AT WHEN WE NEED TO ADD COSTS FOR THE CITY TOWER, UH, BUILDING.
BUT ALSO AS WE START TO, UH, MOVE PEOPLE INTO THE CITY TOWER, WE START TO SAVE DOLLARS.
SO WE'RE ABLE TO SHIFT, UH, MAINTENANCE COST OVER, WE'RE GONNA SAVE, UH, DOLLARS ON LEASES.
SO ALL OF THAT IS BUILT INTO THE PROFORMA IN TERMS OF TIMING.
AND EVEN WHEN I MENTIONED THAT IT CAN MOVE, UH, EVEN THE TIMING CAN MOVE THE PROFORMA.
SO WE HAVE ASSUMPTIONS BUILT IN ABOUT, UH, WHEN LEASES WILL TERMINATE, WHEN WE'LL SELL BUILDINGS, WHEN WE'LL GET SALE PROCEEDS OF BUILDINGS.
ALL OF THAT IS BUILT INTO THE PROFORMA.
UM, BUT I CAN TELL YOU AT THIS POINT IS BASED ON THE LATEST UPDATE, WE'RE STILL POSITIVE AT ABOUT $2.3 MILLION THAT WE'RE SAVING, OR, THAT'S CORRECT.
SO 2.3 MILLION OVER THE 30 YEAR TERM WE'RE SAVING? THAT'S CORRECT.
DID EVERYBODY HEAR THAT 2.3 MILLION THAT WE'RE SAVING OVER 30 YEARS? WELL, THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT, UH, THIS PROJECT WAS ORIGINALLY SOLD ON, THAT WE'RE GONNA SAVE MONEY.
SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE KEEP ON TASK WITH THAT, THAT WE ARE SAVING THAT.
AND I KNOW THINGS CAN CHANGE IN THE FUTURE, BUT, UH, I HOPE, I HOPE NOT.
UH, THAT IT MIGHT COST US IN THE FUTURE.
THIS MIGHT BE YOURS ALSO, UH, FINANCE, WOULD THAT BE PROBABLY DEPENDS ON WHAT YOUR QUESTION IS.
I THINK PAGE 293 OF THE BIG BOOK I'M PROBABLY GONNA NEED HELP ON IF YOU'RE GOING IN TO PAGE 2 93, BUT OKAY.
CHAPTER, WHAT'S THE QUESTION? PAGE 293.
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OKAY.I SEE THERE THAT THE AUTHORIZED POSITIONS IS GOING DOWN BY FOUR.
WERE WHERE THEY GOING? LEMME ASK TROY TO COME UP AND HELP ME, UH, ANSWER THAT ONE.
HE DOES HAVE SOME REDUCTIONS WITHIN HIS DEPARTMENTS WHERE WE ARE REORGANIZING SOME, UH, FUNCTIONS WITHIN HIS DEPARTMENT THAT ARE GONNA RESULT IN SOME EFFICIENCIES.
SO WE'RE ABLE TO CAPTURE A COUPLE OF MANAGEMENT POSITIONS AND OFFER THOSE UP AS, AS CUTS OR REDUCTIONS IN SAVINGS.
UM, YEAH, 'CAUSE I THINK JUST LOOKING AT THIS, THERE'S SOME ADS IN, UH, THE, THE, UH, FOLLOWING PAGES AS WELL.
SO JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THING HERE.
I AND I, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO BRING IT UP, BUT, UH, UH, WE'RE SHOWING THIS, UM, ATTACHMENT ABOUT THE SAWS THING, THE $9.9 MILLION ALSO.
SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THE POSITIONS WHERE OVERALL IT'S SHOWING RE REDUCING FOUR POSITIONS.
THERE'S, IN LOOKING AT THE OPERATIONS OF THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, EVERY YEAR WE'RE GONNA HAVE A REORGANIZATION.
THERE IS A NET REDUCTION OF FIVE AND AN AD OF FOUR.
SO WE'RE SAVING ABOUT $122,000 OVERALL.
AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IS REALIGNING THE FUNCTIONS.
IT'S GONNA BE PRIMARILY OUR ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE SECTION AND REALIGNING THAT IN OUR GENERAL LEDGER.
AND THROUGH THAT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A NET REDUCTION OF ONE POSITION, A REDUCTION, A REDUCTION OF ONE POSITION OVERALL.
'CAUSE IT'S STILL SHOWING AN ADDITION OF ONE POSITION OVERALL ON PAGE 294.
IT'S ONE, ONE IN AND AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 300,000.
THE TOTAL AUTHORIZED COUNT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 WAS 152 POSITIONS IN FISCAL YEAR 2020.
SO THERE'S ONE POSITION THAT WAS REDUCED THROUGH THE EFFICIENCY THAT FINANCE DEPARTMENT WENT THROUGH OVER THE SUMMER.
THERE'S ONE POSITION THAT WAS A DE UH, DEPARTMENT FISCAL ADMINISTRATOR THAT WAS REORGANIZED FROM THE PLANNING, UM, FROM THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT INTO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
AND THEN THERE WERE TWO POSITIONS THAT RESIDED.
THERE WAS A, A REORGANIZATION BETWEEN TWO PO POSITIONS THAT WERE FUNDED THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND, BUT MORE APPROPRIATELY FUNDED IN THROUGH THE HOT AS WELL AS THROUGH THE PURCHASING.
SO IT'S A NET OF TWO PO, TWO PO UH, REDUCTION, TWO POSITION REDUCTION.
IT IS SHOWING A PLUS UP OF ONE, BUT I THAT'S FINE.
MAYBE WE CAN GET TOGETHER AFTERWARDS AND LAY THAT OUT FOR ME.
'CAUSE DEFINITELY RIGHT NOW IT'S SHOWING PLUS ONE, BUT OKAY.
UM, THEN ACHIEVE PAYMENT TO VENDOR WITHIN TERMS, UH, OUR GOAL IS ONLY 80%.
WHAT, WHAT IS THAT TALK, WHAT IS THAT SAYING? ACHIEVE PAYMENT TO VENDORS WITHIN THE TERMS? YEAH, WE HAVE A PERFORMANCE METRIC TO, AND TYPICALLY WITH EVERY CONTRACT OR PURCHASE ORDER WE HAVE, THERE'S AN AGREEMENT TO PAY THEM WITHIN 15 DAYS OR 30 DAYS.
SO BASICALLY WHAT THIS IS SAYING IS THAT, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR 20 18, 80 PER 84% OF OUR PAYMENTS ARE WITHIN THOSE VENDOR TERMS. UH, AND THE REMAINING AMOUNT IS FALLING OUTSIDE.
THOSE AGREED UPON TERMS. WELL, PAYING ON TIME.
BUT OUR GOAL IS ONLY TO PAY 80% ON TIME.
WHY SHOULDN'T THAT BE? WHY WOULDN'T THAT BE A HUNDRED PERCENT? 'CAUSE WE'RE, WE GOT VENDORS WE'RE CONTRACTING WITH AND THEY EXPECT IT TO BE PAID ON TIME.
AND I, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD HAVE A LOWER RATE OF PAYMENT ON TIME THAN A HUNDRED PERCENT.
I THINK IN THE IDEAL WORLD, WE'D LIKE TO BE THERE A HUNDRED PERCENT.
UM, BUT BASED ON HISTORICALLY AND BASED ON THE RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE IN OUR PROCESSES, OUR GOAL IS 80%.
AND WE'LL KEEP CHIPPING AWAY AT THAT.
HISTORICALLY, AND YOU LOOK AT THIS OVER TIME, WE WERE DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN THIS.
AND WITH THE PROCESSES THAT WE PUT IN PLACE WITH REORGANIZATION, THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO INCREASE THAT DRAMATICALLY UP TO THE 75 TO 80%.
SO WE'RE STILL GONNA KEEP WORKING AT IT.
AND I AGREE WITH YOU, IT'S, WE SHOULD BE THERE AT THE A HUNDRED PERCENT, BUT RIGHT NOW, BASED ON THE SITUATION OF WHERE WE ARE, WE'RE ABOUT 80.
WELL, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT PERCENTAGE HIGHER BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WE'RE CONTRACTING THE CITY SHOULD BE PAYING ON TIME.
I, YOU KNOW, I DID A LOT OF WORK WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS WELL, AND THEY, IT'S PAY WHEN PAID AND, AND, UH, YOU GET
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PAID WITHIN SEVEN DAYS OF SUBMITTING YOUR INVOICE.AND SO I'M, I'M HAVING TROUBLE FIGURING OUT WHY IT'S TAKEN US SO LONG AND WHY WE DON'T HAVE THAT AS A HUNDRED PERCENT.
SO, LIKE TO TALK TO YOU SOME MORE ABOUT THAT.
UM, THEN PAGE 330, WHOSE IS THAT RISK MANAGEMENT? IS THERE SOMEBODY THAT CAN TALK ABOUT THAT? YES, SIR.
UM, THE CITY'S INCIDENT RATE, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT IS THE INCIDENT OF, UH, ACCIDENTS THAT WE ARE OCCURRING.
UM, I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT FORMULA, BUT THAT'S MEASURING, UH, OUR, UH, ACCIDENT RATES, THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS WE HAVE PER BASED ON A FORMULA.
LET'S, UH, BEN, IF WE COULD TALK ABOUT THAT.
I'M, I'M CONFUSED WITH WHAT THAT NUMBER MEANS.
IS THAT SIX INCIDENTS PER PERSON, OR SIX PER EITHER PER 100 OR PER 1000.
BUT I, I NEED TO GET THE EXACT DEFINITION FOR YOU.
YEAH, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THAT IS.
AND HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO NATIONAL OTHER CORPORATIONS AND NATIONAL NORMS? WE DON'T HAVE THE COMPARISONS TO THE CORPORATIONS, BUT WE DO HAVE SOME, UH, BENCHMARKING AGAINST SOME OF THE MAJOR CITIES IN TEXAS.
SO WE CAN SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
LIKE, AND THEN WE'RE ADDING TWO POSITIONS.
WHY ARE WE ADDING TWO POSITIONS TO THAT? UH, WE'RE ADDING TWO POSITIONS IN THIS CASE, I BELIEVE, TO SUPPORT OUR LIABILITY CLAIMS PROCESSING.
SO A COUPLE YEARS WE TOOK THAT, UH, IN-HOUSE, UH, WE'VE BEEN MANAGING IT IN-HOUSE BASED ON THE CLAIMS VOLUME.
AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE STANDARDS IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF, UH, CLAIMS THAT EACH, UH, ADJUSTER SHOULD BE PROCESSING, THIS HELPS US MEET THOSE TARGETS.
SO THIS IS THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY.
WE WORK CLOSELY WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, CLOSE COORDINATION THERE, UM, TO TRY TO GET THOSE SETTLED QUICKLY AND, AND, AND GET THOSE CLOSED.
AND IT SAYS INDUSTRY STANDARDS FROM 168 TO A HUNDRED.
UM, CAN WE, IF YOU COULD BRING THAT IN ALSO AND SHOW ME WHERE THE INDUSTRY STANDARDS TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE 168 TO 100.
I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE, SIR.
I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR THE CITY CLERK.
ALL RIGHT, THEN, UM, THEN LET'S START WITH, UM, WE'LL DO THE CITY ADMINISTRATION THEN.
THANK YOU, MARIA, FOR THE, FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR BREAKING THIS DOWN SO WE COULD CATCH IT ALL UP TOGETHER AT ONE, AT ONE TIME.
I THINK, UM, JUST FOR NOTE, I WANTED TO CLARIFY TOO, ON THE, UH, BUDGET CHANGES, THE HIGHLIGHTS, UM, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, THE ALLOCATION TO THE COUNCIL A, UH, AIDS AND THERE'S NO, UM, CHANGE IN POSITIONS.
AND YOU ALREADY, UH, YOU ALREADY DISCUSSED THE PAY INCREASES THAT ARE GONNA BE THERE.
AND YOU ALSO MENTIONED THE 4 0 1 KSS MM-HMM.
AND CAN YOU REMIND ME TOO, WITH THE 4 0 1 KSS, THAT ALSO MEANS THAT IT'S, IT'S CHANGING BECAUSE IT'S NOW GONNA BE A DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR.
THAT WHERE BEFORE IT WAS DIFFERENT.
IT'S CURRENTLY A DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR IS GOING TO BE TWO TO ONE.
SO IT'S ACTUALLY INCREASING NOW.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THE, THE INCREASES THAT WE'RE SEEING.
AND CAN YOU ALSO REMIND ME, IN THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, THE CHANGES THAT WE'VE ALREADY MADE TO THE COUNCIL AIDS, UM, CONTRACTS AND ENHANCEMENTS THAT WE'VE HAD IN THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS? BECAUSE I KNOW I'VE BEEN HERE FOR SIX YEARS MM-HMM.
AND WE'VE HAD A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF ENHANCEMENTS YEAH.
TO, UM, I CAN SPEAK TO LAST YEAR COUNCIL, I MEAN FISCAL, WHICH IS OUR CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, 2019, WE ADDED IN THE BUDGET ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS.
AND THIS WAS TO, UH, REFLECT, UM, ADDING A SEVENTH F T E FULLY FUNDING THAT SEVEN F T E.
SO WE ADDED THE ASSOCIATED, UH, SALARY AND THE OTHER, UH, BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
IN FISCAL YEAR 2018, WE ADDED ABOUT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS TO, UM, INCLUDE SOME ENHANCEMENTS TO PAY AND TO OTHER BENEFITS AS WELL.
I KNOW OUR, OUR TEAM WORKS VERY HARD AND WE ALL DO.
SO I THANK YOU FOR ALSO BEING A PART, UH, HAVING THAT INCREASE IN HERE FOR OUR, OUR, OUR
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MEMBERS AND OUR TEAM MEMBERS, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S VERY, IT'S VERY GOOD.AND IT JUST REFLECTS ALSO THE INCREASE THAT IS HAPPENING THROUGHOUT, UH, CITYWIDE TOO.
AND I THINK IT'S REFLECTED IN WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING RIGHT HERE IN THIS BUDGET.
UM, NEXT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET UPDATE FOR THE TOWER.
I'M JUST GONNA CALL IT THE TOWER.
I'LL LET COUNCILWOMAN GARCIA ROCHA TALK ABOUT THE OTHER NAME FOR IT.
UM, SO NOW OUR, THE APPROVED BUDGET WAS 1 28 0.5, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, OVER 132 MILLION POSSIBLY.
SO THE REVISED BUDGET IS 133.6 33.
THAT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THAT 2.7 MILLION, UH, INCREASED DUE TO, UH, SOME OF THE MECHANICAL PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL REPLACEMENTS THAT WE'RE HAVING TO MAKE.
AND IT ALSO TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE FINISH OUT PAYMENT FROM THE SOLID WASTE APARTMENT AS WE'RE MOVING IN AS A TENANT.
SO I KNOW WE'RE LOOKING AT SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS, AND I THINK I'M JUST GONNA GO INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAILS.
RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT IN SECURITY ENHANCEMENTS, BUT ARE WE STILL GOING TO BE ABLE TO PUT OTHER ENTITIES, LIKE OTHER TENANTS THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY CITY TENANTS IN THIS BUILDING AS WELL? YES, YES.
UH, IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDES THERE'S ABOUT, UM, THERE'S A NOTE THAT ABOUT 25% OF THE BUILDING WILL BE LEASED TO PRIVATE TENANTS.
AND IS THAT ON STREET LEVEL, ON BASEMENT LEVEL, OR JUST IN THE TOWER ITSELF? ERIC'S GOT SOME CLARIFICATION.
UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, TO ANSWER THAT LAST QUESTION, IT'S IN THE TOWER.
UM, BUT HIGH LEVEL THERE, THERE, THERE'S FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF INDIVIDUALS THAT'LL BE IN THAT BUILDING.
AND, UH, YOU HAVE EMPLOYEES, YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT'LL BE APPLYING FOR JOBS, YOU HAVE TENANTS, AND THEN YOU HAVE OTHER VISITORS.
UM, AND AS WE GO THROUGH THAT SECURITY UPDATE, UH, OR SECURITY PLAN, UM, I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO KIND OF WALK THROUGH WHAT SOME OF THE CONSIDERATIONS ARE OKAY.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY ON NUMBER 12, THE BINGO TAX STATE LAW CHANGE.
UM, THIS HAS BEEN A VERY BIG TOPIC OF CONVERSATION AT ALL OF OUR SENIOR CENTERS.
I WILL SAY, UM, THE ANNUAL REVENUE, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO BE COLLECTING THIS, UM, THIS MONEY.
WILL WE BE GIVING, WHAT PORTION OF MONEY WILL WE BE GIVING TO THE STATE, IF ANY? THE $1.1 MILLION IS OUR PORTION.
SO THERE'S NOT THAT'S OUR PORTION.
SO THEY'LL BE COLLECTING THEIR OWN PORTION AND WE'LL BE COLLECTING OUR PORTION.
THE STATE WILL COLLECTING THEIRS AND WE'LL COLLECT OURS.
AND BEN JUST REMINDED ME, THE COUNTY ALSO WILL BE COLLECTING THEIR PORTION.
SO YOU'LL HAVE THE STATE COLLECTING THEIRS, THEIR COUNTY, AND THEN THE CITY.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
AND I TOO WAS VERY HAPPY TO SEE YOU UP HERE WITH YOUR PRESENTATION.
UM, SLIDE NUMBER 16 ON THE BEXAR COUNTY VOTING SYSTEM.
NO, THESE ARE, THIS IS ALL FUNDING THAT THE BEX COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S COURT APPROVED FOR THE NEW VOTING SYSTEM.
SO I GUESS, SO THIS MONEY IS, WE ARE ALLOCATING THIS MONEY, OR YOU'RE JUST SHOWING US THIS? I'M JUST SHOWING YOU WHAT IT COSTS.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SPENDING ON THE NEW SYSTEM.
SO THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SPENDING ON THIS NEW SYSTEM.
AND THEN FOR THE, UM, FOR THE $1 MILLION, I WANTED TO FOLLOW UP WITH THAT.
THE $1 MILLION FOR THE ELECTIONS.
SO IT'S FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR BUDGET, BUT THEY WANT A DOWN PAYMENT.
SO IS THAT 1 MILLION GONNA BE THE ENTIRE DOWN PAYMENT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR? WELL, I'LL TELL YOU, UM, BY SEPTEMBER, THEY USUALLY KNOW HOW MUCH THE NOVEMBER ELECTION WILL COST.
AND IN SOME CASES THEY HAVE ASKED FOR A DOWN PAYMENT OR THE ENTIRE PAYMENT.
SO WE'RE BUDGETING THE ENTIRE AMOUNT JUST TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE MONEY TO PAY IT OUT.
IF IT'S NOT UTILIZED, OF COURSE IT GOES INTO THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
SO THAT MONEY WILL GO INTO THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR, UM, FOR YOU ALL IF, IF IT'S NOT BUDGETED OUT.
THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION THERE.
AND SO THAT, IF IT'S, CAN IT BE CARRIED OVER THEN? YES, IT CAN.
IT IS A CARRYOVER, THAT'S CORRECT.
AND JUST, UH, I KNOW THAT TWO OF MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO MY LEFT DON'T HAVE GOLD STARS ON THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSE UHOH.
YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO TAKE ANY DOMESTIC FLIGHTS.
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UM, SO ANYHOW, WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.AND MAYOR, I DO HAVE A COMMENT TO MAKE ABOUT THE ELECTION.
YOU MENTIONED THE PRE-K FOR ESSAY.
WE DO HAVE THAT PROGRAMMED IN 2021, BUT THE FIRST YEAR TO ACTUALLY CONDUCT THAT ELECTION YOU'RE RIGHT, IS NOVEMBER, 2020.
UM, NOW TO THE LORI STEWART, PLEASE.
UM, I WANTED TO FIRST STATE ALL OF YOUR, UM, THE NEW HEALTH PLAN INCENTIVES.
I'M GLAD TO SEE THE TRAVEL AND LODGING BENEFITS.
I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE A, A BURDEN THAT'S GONNA BE OFF OF THE FAMILIES AND VERY, AND VERY HELPFUL.
SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT, THAT WE'RE MOVING THAT FORWARD AS WELL AS A MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.
I'M ALWAYS VERY HAPPY TO SEE, UM, THE STORIES THAT YOU GIVE US TOO, OF THE WELLNESS PROGRAMS. UM, AND ALSO THE STORIES OF THE, THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE AND ALL OF OUR RESIDENT, ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES WHO DO TAKE PART IN ALL OF THESE GREAT PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE HERE WITH THE CITY.
I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE WANNA CONTINUE TO BE AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE AND WHY WE ARE ONE OF THE EMPLOYER CHOICE HERE AT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
I DID WANT TO GET INTO THE, UM, THE CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR WORKFORCE AND EMPLOYEE COMP COMPENSATION.
UM, THANK YOU FOR SOME OF THIS INFORMATION.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT I HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT AT THE PROPOSED BUDGET THAT I WANTED TO SEE HERE AND HAVE THE CONVERSATION HERE.
UM, JUST QUICKLY ON SLIDE NUMBER SIX, I THINK WHAT IS PART, PART OF THE THING THAT IS CONFUSING TO ME OR CONCERNING TO ME IS, UM, THE 3% ACROSS THE BOARD PAY INCREASE FOR STEP EMPLOYEES.
THAT'S A PAY INCREASE, NOT JUST COLA, IT'S JUST A PAY INCREASE.
SO MY, I THINK THE CONFUSION HERE IS WHERE IT SAYS 3% OF SALARIES FOR PERFORMANCE PAY FOR PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL.
THAT'S A LITTLE CONFUSING WHEN YOU PUT IT HERE.
'CAUSE WHEN I READ THIS, IT SOUNDS LIKE EVERY SINGLE SALARIED PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL THAT GETS PERFORMANCE PAY IS GETTING 3% INCREASE.
UM, NO, IT'S, IT'S BASED ON THE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION.
UM, FOR ACCEPTABLE PERFORMANCE, IT RANGE BETWEEN TWO AND 4%.
SO, AND IT IS A BASE PAY INCREASE.
IT'S AN INCREASE TO THEIR BASE PAY, IT'S AN INCREASE TO THEIR BASE PAY.
SO SOME CAN GET TWO, SOME CAN GET FOUR.
BUT WHAT ABOUT ZERO? AND ONE, IT COULD BE ZERO IF THEY'RE NOT MEETING THE STANDARDS OF THEIR JOBS.
SO WOULD THERE BE ANYBODY GETTING A 1%? NO.
FOR ACCEPTABLE PERFORMANCE? IT'S TWO.
AND THEN FOR IT'S TWO, EXCEPTIONAL THREE AND THEN OUTSTANDING IS FOUR.
SO THEN MY QUESTION IS ON, UH, THE SLIDE NUMBER FIVE FOR THE WORKFORCE.
OUR WORKFORCE, YOU HAVE THE PROFESSIONAL, WHICH ARE 2,231, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE MANAGERIAL AND APPOINTED 741.
ARE THOSE BOTH UNDER THE REALM THEN OF THE PERFORMANCE PAY? YES.
SO WE HAVE THIS GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE UNDER THE PERFORMANCE PAY THAT WOULD EITHER GET A 2% UP TO 4%, UM, INCREASE THIS YEAR.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.
IF THEY MEET, UM, THE, THE AREA THAT, THAT INCREASE, SO IN THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND I THINK, UM, MARIA AND ERIC, I ALREADY ASKED YOU ALL THIS QUESTION, BUT I I NEED YOU TO REMIND ME HERE MM-HMM.
SO EVERY YEAR IT'S BEEN A 1% COLA INCREASE.
THE, THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, IT, THE, THE COLA DOES VARY FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
THERE'VE BEEN SOME YEARS WITHOUT ONE AT ALL.
AND SO I THINK FOR, FOR ME, WHY THIS IS CONCERNING OR WHY THIS IS, UH, YES, CONCERNING IS JUST LIKE WE WANT COMPANIES AND SMALL BUSINESSES TO PLAN AND TO BUDGET THEIR BUDGETS FOR THE FUTURE.
WE WANT OUR EMPLOYEES AND OUR FAMILIES TO BUDGET AND KNOW WHAT THEY CAN RELY ON ON THE FUTURE AS WELL.
SO THAT'S WHY, UM, FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, I THINK TWO FISCAL YEARS, WE'VE HAD AT LEAST 1% COLA INCREASE ON TOP OF THEIR STEP, EITHER TWO OR 4%.
UM, SO I JUST, I WANTED TO SHARE THAT THAT IS MY CONCERN RIGHT HERE.
WE'RE WANTING OUR FAMILIES TO BUDGET THEIR HOUSEHOLD, AND IF WE KEEP GOING A BACK AND FORTH WITH A COLA AND NOT A COLA, AND THEN A 2%,
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MAYBE A 4%, HOPEFULLY THOSE THAT DID GET A 2% OR MAYBE EVEN A 3% LAST YEAR, WE'LL CONTINUE TO GET THAT 3%.BUT I'M JUST CONCERNED, UH, FOR THOSE THAT EVEN IF THEY HAD A 3% PERFORMANCE PAY OR A 2% PERFORMANCE PLAY, IF THEY HAD A 2% PERFORMANCE PLAY, THEY AT LEAST GOT ANOTHER 1% FOR A COLA.
SO THAT'S MY CONCERN FOR THIS AREA, UH, OF, UM, CATEGORY OF EMPLOYEES HERE AT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
ON TOP OF THAT, I THINK, I THINK YOU ALL GAVE ME THIS, WHAT IS THE AVERAGE, UM, TENURE OF THAT GROUPING OF THOSE TWO GROUPS, THE PROFESSIONALS AND THE MANAGERIAL, HOW, WHAT'S THEIR TENURE HERE AT THE CITY THAT THEIR AVERAGE TENURE? LET'S SEE.
JUST GIVE ME A MOMENT TO FIND MY NOTES.
AND WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THAT TOO, ANOTHER QUESTION THAT I HAD WAS, WHAT WAS THE AVERAGE SALARY OF OKAY.
THE PROFESSIONALS AND THE MANAGERIAL AND APPOINTED, GO AHEAD AND READ THE TENURE.
I'M ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITH HR.
SO THE AVERAGE TENURE IS NINE YEARS IN THIS REALM.
AND WHAT IS THE, UM, WHAT IS THE AVERAGE SALARY IN THIS AREA TOO? LOOKING AT OUR 2018, UH, TRANSPARENCY REPORT? FOR THE TOTAL PAY, SO FOR UM, PROFESSIONALS, IT'S 60,000.
FOR MANAGERIAL, IT'S ABOUT 92,000 EXECUTIVE, ONE 69,000.
WELL, I I KNOW EXECUTIVES MUCH MORE THAN THAT.
UM, SO 60, 60,000 PER PROFESSIONAL.
OF THE 2,231 OF THE 200,231, THEIR AVERAGE SALARY IS 60,000.
NOW, UM, AND I UNDERSTAND THE, THE 3% COLA OR 3% ACROSS THE BOARD SPECIFICALLY FOR THE STEP PAY AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD, AND I UNDERSTAND TOO, THAT PART OF THE DATA THAT YOU SHARED WAS, UM, THAT OF THOSE STEP PAY EMPLOYEES, THOSE OF THE 4% STEP, THAT WOULD'VE GOTTEN A 4% STEP PAY THIS YEAR, THEIR AVERAGE TENURE IS A YEAR.
IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH, JUST SLIGHTLY OVER A YEAR IN THEIR POSITION.
IT'S JUST SLIGHTLY OVER A YEAR.
THAT WOULD NOT MAKE THE 4% JUMP, BUT THEY WILL GET A 3%.
AND COUNCILWOMAN, THE OTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND IS THAT NORMALLY STEP MOVEMENT OCCURS IN JANUARY.
SO REALLY EVERY SINGLE EMPLOYEE IN THE STEP PAY PLAN WILL MAKE AT LEAST WHAT THEY WERE EXPECTING TO MAKE AND MOST WILL MAKE MORE.
AND PART OF THE CONCERN TOO, THAT, AND I SHARED THIS WITH THE, THE SENTIMENT, MY SENTIMENT WITH SOME OF YOU ALL, BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN HEARING A LOT FROM OUR MOST TENURED EMPLOYEES HERE, RIGHT.
WHO ARE PART OF THAT STEP, UM, PAY IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S HURTING AS WELL IS THAT THEY'RE ALSO, UM, THE INCREASE OF PROPERTY TAXES, THEY'RE HAVING TO PAY MORE IN THEIR PROPERTY TAXES AND A COLA OR, UH, THEIR COLA WASN'T WORKING OR THEIR STEP WASN'T WORKING.
BUT ALSO WHAT YOU ALL ARE SHARING IS THE HEALTH CARE PLAN AS WELL AS A 3% ACROSS THE BOARD WILL BE HELPFUL.
BUT TO BE CLEAR, THAT 3% IS ALSO FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TENURED IN THE STEP PAY PLAN WHO'VE ALREADY MAXED OUT NOT GETTING A STEP INCREASE, THEY'VE ONLY GOTTEN MAYBE A 1% COLA INCREASE IN THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
THEY'VE ALSO GOTTEN THAT $800 DOLLAR CHECK TO HELP THEM NOT BE UPSIDE DOWN.
AND THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET THAT THIS TIME AROUND EITHER, CORRECT? NO, BUT THEY'LL GET THE 3% ACROSS THE BOARD.
BUT THEY'LL, THEY'LL GET THE 3%, WHICH WE ALSO KNOW IS STILL GONNA BE MORE THAN IF THEY HAD JUST GOTTEN A 1% AND AN $800 CHECK.
AND, AND, AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE CHART THAT'S ON THE SCREEN NOW, I MEAN THE, THE VAST MAJORITY, IF WE'D HAVE STAYED ON THE, ON THE STEP PLAN, THE VAST MAJORITY OF OF EMPLOYEES UNDER STEP PLAN WOULD BE GETTING ZERO.
AND, AND FOR THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ARE, UH, NEW, UH, THE $800 THAT THE COUNCIL COUNCILMAN VIAGRA IS REFERRING TO IS IN THOSE, IN SOME YEARS WE SAW WHERE EMPLOYEES WEREN'T REALLY RECEIVING ANY SORT OF INCREASE, BUT WE HAD INCREASES IN MAYBE HEALTHCARE PREMIUMS. UM, LAST YEAR WE GAVE, UH, A WHOLE BUNCH OF EMPLOYEES AN $800 PAYMENT, ADDITIONAL PAYMENT IN ORDER TO PREVENT THEM FROM BEING UPSIDE DOWN.
UM, THIS, THIS WHOLE, THIS GOES TO THE POINT OF, OF
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TRYING TO REDO WHAT STEP PLAN LOOKS LIKE FOR ALMOST 6,000 OF OUR EMPLOYEES GOING FORWARD BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, I, I THINK TAKING A STEP BACK IN THIS YEAR AND GIVING THAT 3% ACROSS THE BOARD TO EVERYBODY, WHETHER YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR A YEAR OR YOU'VE BEEN HERE 15 YEARS, WOULD BE THE BEST THING TO DO.UM, UH, ERIC, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT IS, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THE MOST RECENT, I THINK YOU HAVE SEEN THE MOST RECENT LETTER FROM AFSCME.
UM, AND PART OF THEIR LETTER, IT TALKS ABOUT HOW, IN FACT, AND THIS IS A QUOTE FROM THEIR LETTER, IT SAYS, IN FACT, WE ESTIMATE 22% OF STEP SYSTEM EMPLOYEES WOULD MAKE LESS MONEY IN THE F Y 2020 UNDER MANAGER WALSH'S BUDGET THAN THEY WOULD WITH A NORMAL STEP INCREASE.
AND ALL SALARIED EMPLOYEES WOULD MAKE LESS MONEY THAN THEY WOULD IN A YEAR WITH EVEN A MODEST COLA.
HAVE Y'ALL LOOKED AT THAT? WE HAVE, UH, YES, MA'AM.
AND, UH, I ACTUALLY SENT A LETTER BACK TO S E TO, UH, AFSCME, UH, THIS AFTERNOON AND, AND A COPY OF THE CITY COUNCIL, BUT SORRY, WHERE WE, WHERE WE OUTLINED EXACTLY WHAT THE LETTER SAID AND, UH, CORRECTED IT.
AND, AND FOR THAT POINT THAT YOU JUST POINTED OUT, UH, THE 22, THEIR CLAIM THAT 22% OF STEP EMPLOYEES WOULD MAKE LESS MONEY.
UM, THE, THE CORRECTION IS, IS THAT ALL STEP EMPLOYEES WILL RECEIVE THE SAME OR A HIGHER INCREASE NEXT YEAR, UH, THAN THEY WOULD WITH A NORMAL STEP BECAUSE OF THE 3% ACROSS THE BOARD.
SO THERE ARE A NUMBER OF AREAS THAT, UM, THAT, UH, THAT I CORRECTED AND, UH, HAVE SENT THAT BACK TO AFSCME.
I, YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE COPIES OF IT.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME KNOW THAT.
UM, SO IN THE SAME SLIDE, NUMBER FIVE, UH, IF YOU COULD, LORI, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, A, WHEN YOU BREAK DOWN OUR DEMOGRAPHICS AND THE, UM, THE HISPANIC WHITE, AFRICAN AMERICAN OTHER, COULD YOU BREAK THAT DOWN EVEN FURTHER FOR ME AND PROVIDE THAT AS FOLLOW UP FOR ME IN JUST WHAT THE AVERAGE SALARY IS IN EACH DEMOGRAPHIC TOO, AND ALSO THE AUTHORIZED CATEGORIES AND WHERE THE MAJORITY OF, LET'S SAY, UH, IF YOU CAN, UNDER THE, UM, A HISPANIC, UH, GROUPING OF EMPLOYEES, WHICH AUTHOR, WHICH CATEGORY AUTHORIZED POSITION ARE THEY IN? ARE THEY MAJORITY STEP? ARE THEY MAJORITY EXECUTIVE? IF YOU COULD OUTLINE THAT FOR ME AND BRING THEM TO ME, UH, GIVE THAT TO ME.
I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
AND, UM, I THINK THOSE ARE ALL OF MY QUESTIONS AND, UH, THOUGHTS, SO I APPRECIATE THAT, EV THANK YOU EVERYONE.
COUNCILWOMAN
UM, I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR MARIA.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION, MARIA.
UM, MY QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE IN REFERENCE TO THE COUNCIL AID SUPPORT PAY INCREASE, I KNOW COUNCILMAN TREVINO HAD INITIATED THE C C R TO REALLY, UM, LOOK AT THE EQUITABLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT THE COUNCIL A ARE PAID ACCORDING TO WHAT CITY STAFF IS PAID.
UM, I KNOW THAT YOU DID THE 3%, BUT DID THE FULL ACCOUNT OF THE C C R, WAS THAT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WHEN THE PAY INCREASE WAS LOOKED AT? UH, COUNCILWOMAN, TO ADDRESS YOUR QUESTION, WE HAVE NOT DONE THE, THE COMPLETE EVALUATION AS REQUESTED BY THAT C C R.
I BELIEVE THAT C C R IS STILL IN THE PROCESS OF GOING THROUGH, UH, GOVERNANCE.
SO THE PROPOSED BUDGET ONLY REFLECTS THAT, WHAT I DESCRIBED EARLIER, UH, UH, TODAY.
AND THEN AS FAR AS WHEN IT COMES TO THE ELIMINATION OF THE TWO MANAGEMENT IT POSITIONS, ARE THOSE FIELD POSITIONS RIGHT NOW? ARE THOSE VACANT POSITIONS, UM, THAT WE'RE ELIMINATING? UH, THE MAJORITY OF THE POSITIONS WERE, UH, VACANT.
I BELIEVE THERE WERE TWO POSITIONS THAT WERE FILLED IN ALL THE POSITIONS THAT WE ELIMINATED CITYWIDE.
AND SO THERE'S NO ONE THAT WILL ACTUALLY BE DISPLACED FROM A POSITION OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE? CORRECT.
NO, COUNCILWOMAN, WHAT WE TYPICALLY DO DURING, UH, THE BUDGET PROCESS, AS POSITIONS ARE IDENTIFIED TO BE ELIMINATED, THOSE EMPLOYEES ARE PLACED ANOTHER VACANT POSITION, WHICH IS WHAT WE'VE DONE THIS YEAR AS WELL.
THOSE ARE ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAVE.
THANK YOU MAYOR PRO TEM, AND THANK YOU TO ALL MY COLLEAGUES FOR DISCUSSING COUNCIL LATE PAY.
I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET ANSWERS ABOUT COUNCIL LATE PAY THROUGH A MEMO, EMAILS
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CARRIER PIGEON.UH, I'M GLAD WE'RE FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO IT.
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, UH, MARIA, JUST A COUPLE.
UM, I, I, I THINK THE QUESTION THAT YOU WERE JUST ASKED, AND I WANT TO THANK, UH, COUNCILMAN SULLIVAN FOR ASKING THAT.
I MEAN, IT WASN'T JUST THE C C R BEFORE THAT THERE WAS A MEMO, IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT.
AND BEFORE THAT MEMO, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS WITH DIRECTLY WITH YOURSELF? WE TALKED ABOUT IT BEFORE.
BUDGET WAS PROPOSED AT GOAL SETTING SESSION, AND THEN BEFORE BUDGET WAS PROPOSED AND AFTER MAYBE THREE, FOUR TIMES.
UM, SO I, YOU KNOW, I JUST, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE HEARING IS, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST THREE BUDGET CYCLES, UH, SEVERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS, INCLUDING MYSELF, HAVE ADVOCATED FOR AN EQUITY BASED COMPENSATION PACKAGE FOR COUNCIL A, LEMME BE CLEAR ON WHAT I MEAN BY THE PHASE.
EQUITY BASED PAY, EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK TO DATE COUNCIL A AIDES LEARN LESS, EARN LESS IN COMPENSATION, AS COMPARED TO CITY STAFF WHO PERFORM THE SAME JOB FUNCTIONS BASED ON EXISTING CITY OF SAN ANTONIO JOB DESCRIPTIONS, SOME SMALL GAINS HAVE BEEN MADE OVER TIME, BUT THE REQUEST FOR A FULLY FUNDED STAFF OF A FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES HAS, HAS BEEN IGNORED ON THE EVE OF THE BUDGET GOAL SETTING SESSION, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER THIS YEAR, I SENT A MEMO TO THE CITY EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP, AND MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES REQUEST ANY FORMAL DISCUSSION OF THE ISSUE IN THE BUDGET CONVERSATION.
SEVERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS VOICED THEIR SUPPORT DURING THE GOAL SETTING SESSION, AND THE ITEM WAS INCLUDED BY THE FACILITATOR AS A COUNCIL PRIORITY.
EVEN AFTER A FORMAL MEMO AND SUPPORT FROM FOUN, UH, FROM MULTIPLE COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE CONVERSATION ABOUT COUNCIL AID COMPENSATION WAS NEVER HAD.
AS A RESULT, I FILED A C C R LANE OUT A PATH FOR THE ITEM TO BE INCLUDED IN THE FISCAL YEAR 20 BUDGET, EVEN INCLUDED AS POSSIBLE, AS PARTIAL FUNDING SOURCE TO, I EVEN INCLUDED A PARTIAL FUNDING SOURCE TO PUT SOME COUNCIL SKIN IN THE GAME OR TO BE PART OF THE FISCAL YEAR, UH, 20 MIDYEAR BUDGET REVIEW.
THE REASONS FOR THE REQUESTS ARE STILL VALID.
THE COMPARISONS WITH CITY STAFF POSITIONS ARE STILL ACCURATE, AND THE BUDGET ASK HAS BEEN ARTICULATED.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOU, IT, IT'S EASY TO KINDA GET LOST IN A LOT OF THE, THE, THE MINUTIAE EARLIER IT WAS SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, UH, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE DOLO ROSA LOT, BUT THAT'S GOING AWAY, RIGHT? UM, WE TALK ABOUT COMMUTER PROGRAMS, BOTTOM LINE IS JUST PAY A FAIR WAGE.
UM, DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH PROGRAMS ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO COUNCIL AIDS OR COUNCIL.
UH, YOU KNOW, AND, AND I THINK WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THE COLA AND CITY, CITY STAFF DOES NOT HAVE TO NECESSARILY WORRY ABOUT THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, BUT, BUT CITY COUNCIL AIDS DO.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, TO TO RECAP, YOU KNOW, HERE, HERE IT IS, I MEAN, LONG HOURS FOR COUNCIL AID, DIFFICULT JOB, LOW PAY, WEAK BENEFITS.
YOUR JOB MAY END IN TWO YEARS AND YOU MAKE LESS THAN AND CITY STAFF DOING THE SAME JOB, AND THERE IS NO PERFORMANCE PAY AVAILABLE.
UH, UH, YOU KNOW, ALL OUR STAFFS ARE WORKING HARD.
ALL OUR STAFFS, UH, ARE DOING TREMENDOUS WORK.
UH, THEY HAVE TO WEAR MANY HATS.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M REALLY HOPING THAT WE, THAT WE GET SOME ANSWERS AND THAT WE REALLY START TALKING ABOUT THIS.
I, I KNOW THAT IT'S NOT, UH, AS SIMPLE AS SNAPPING YOUR FINGERS, BUT WE GOTTA SET THE COURSE.
AND, UH, I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO WITHIN THAT PROCESS TO GET SOME ACTUAL ANSWERS.
I'M GONNA FINISH OFF BY THANKING ALL THE STAFF.
I MEAN, FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK, UH, LETICIA, I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO IN, IN YOUR OFFICE.
UH, YOU KNOW, KEVIN, UH, I'VE ALL ALREADY THANKED YOU IN AUDIT.
I MEAN, I THINK YOU DO AMAZING WORK, JORGE.
UH, YOU KNOW, WE TALK ALL THE TIME ABOUT BUILDING STUFF.
I DON'T HAVE TO THANK YOU ENOUGH.
AND, AND I THINK THERE'S WAYS FOR US TO BE, UH, VERY, VERY EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WITH, WITH WHAT'S COMING.
UM, BY THE WAY, BILL SAN ANTONIO GREEN, SOMEBODY WE NEED TO ENGAGE ON THAT TOWER.
UM, AND, UH, LORI, GREAT PRESENTATION.
BUT AGAIN, I'M JUST GONNA REITERATE ALL I WANT.
ALL WE WANT IS EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK.
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ROCHA GARCIA.SO THIS IS PROBABLY A QUESTION FOR BRIAN DILLARD.
SORRY, BRIAN, I CAUGHT YOU OFF GUARD THERE WHILE YOU WALK UP, UM, ON THAT, ON PAGE 3 0 9, UH, IN THE BUDGET BOOK, IT'S GOT A PERFORMANCE MEASURE FOR NUMBER OF PROCESS IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, AND THE ACTUAL FOR 2018 WAS FIVE.
THE TARGET WAS THREE FOR 2019, BUT IT'S ESTIMATED TO BE AT SEVEN THIS YEAR.
BUT OUR TARGET FOR 2020 IS THREE.
AND MY QUESTION TO YOU IS, WHY IS THAT SO LOW? RIGHT.
SO, UM, THE ESTIMATE FOR 2019, UM, ACTUALLY, SO THE 2019 ESTIMATE IS ACTUALLY WHAT WE ENDED UP TAKING ON.
SO WE CAN ESTIMATE TO TAKE ON THREE PROJECTS EVERY FISCAL YEAR, BUT, UM, WHEN WE GET COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS OR CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDATIONS, OUR DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, BASED ON OUR CAPACITY, WE'LL TAKE THOSE ON.
SO EVERY FISCAL YEAR, WE'RE IDENTIFYING THREE THAT WE CAN POTENTIALLY TAKE ON.
AND GOING INTO FISCAL YEAR 2020, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO AIM FOR IS MORE QUALITY PROCESS IMPROVEMENT RATHER THAN QUANTITY.
SO I'M TRYING TO RE REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF PROJECTS THAT WE'RE TAKING ON, BUT ALSO I'M TRYING TO INCREASE THE, THE QUALITY OF THOSE PRODUCTS COMING OUT.
SO, UH, WE'RE DOING A PROJECT RIGHT NOW, UH, FOR T C I AND IT'S CREATED A LOT OF, LOT MORE WORK THAN OUR TYPICAL PROJECTS WOULD, BUT IT, IT HOPEFULLY ENDS UP WITH A BIGGER IMPACT.
SO THAT'S ONE, UH, TRYING TO INCREASE THAT QUALITY RATHER THAN QUANTITY.
UH, SECONDLY, WE'RE ALSO, UH, EXPLORING AN INNOVATION ACADEMY PROJECT.
UH, AND THIS IS WHERE INSTEAD OF US DOING ALL THE WORK FOR 40 DEPARTMENTS, UH, WE ACTUALLY TRAIN SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS WITHIN THOSE DEPARTMENTS TO DO THAT WORK.
AND WE END UP BEING A CONSULTANT.
SO THAT COULD POSSIBLY TAKE US FROM THREE PROJECTS JUST WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT, AND THEN HAVING A PROJECT WITHIN EACH DEPARTMENT, AND WE BECOME THE CONSULTANTS UP TOP.
SO THOSE ARE THE TWO REASONS THAT YOU'LL SEE THAT NUMBER THERE.
I FIGURED THERE WAS SOMETHING.
IS THERE, HOW DO YOU DECIDE, LIKE FOR INSTANCE, ON YOUR THREE RIGHT TARGET GOALS? SO THAT'S REALLY A CONVERSATION BETWEEN CITY MANAGEMENT, UH, AND DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS.
IDENTIFYING ONE, THE FEASIBILITY OF HOW WE CAN TAKE THESE ON WITH OUR MANNING.
UH, AND THEN TWO, THE IMPACT THAT COMES FROM THOSE PROJECTS.
UM, SOMETIMES WE CAN WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND THEY CAN DO IT ON THEIR OWN IF IT'S A SMALLER PROJECT.
UH, BUT MOST OF THE TIME WE IDENTIFY THOSE WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR OF FEASIBILITY AND IMPACT THOSE PROJECTS.
IS THERE A POSSIBILITY THAT YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO MAYBE AT THE REQUEST OF A FULL COUNT, IF FELT FULL COUNCIL AGREED ON SOMETHING THAT THEY THOUGHT NEEDED TO, UM, BE LOOKED AT FOR AN INNOVATIVE PRACTICE THAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER ADDING THAT ON? OR WOULD WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF LOOKING FOR THAT DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR AND TALKING TO THEM? UH, WE TYPICALLY, THEM, TYPICALLY, WE TYPICALLY LOOK, LOOK TO TOWARD, UH, THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS FOR US BECAUSE HE HAS THE TOTAL OVERVIEW OF THE CITY OVERALL.
SO THEN I, I KNOW WHO TO GO TO.
I'M JUST THERE, THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS THAT I'M JUST THINKING, OKAY, WE COULD REALLY USE INNOVATION ON THIS, BUT I JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHO TO GO THROUGH, SO, AND I'M NEW, SO, AND ALSO, IS THERE A LIST OF THE PROJECTS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE MAYBE OVER THE LAST TWO TO THREE YEARS, JUST SO THAT I CAN BECOME FAMILIAR WITH IT? I CAN PROVIDE THAT, ABSOLUTELY.
YES, MA'AM, SIR, ON MY QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
ON THE NEXT, ON PAGE 2 56, WELL, NO, I HAVE A, SO CITY ADMINISTRATION, DOES THAT INCLUDE THE CITY MANAGERS AND THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL POSITIONS IN THIS PRESENTATION, OR ARE WE GONNA GET A PRESENTATION AT A LATER DATE? 'CAUSE I JUST HAVE SOME CLARIFICATION ON THOSE.
IT INCLUDES THE POSITIONS FOR CITY MANAGER'S, OFFICE, AND ALSO MAYOR AND COUNCIL SUPPORT.
ON PAGE 2 56 OF THE BUDGET IN THE CITY MANAGERS, UM, I ASKED A, A FEW WEEKS AGO ABOUT WHO GETS FUNDED OUT OF THE 19TH POSITIONS.
SO IF, MAYBE, IF WE CAN FOLLOW UP AND JUST GIVE ME A LIST OF THOSE 19 POSITIONS THAT ARE FUNDED OUTTA THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND THEN SIMILAR TO IT ON PAGE THREE 13 OF THE BUDGET UNDER THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL POSITION, UH, POSITIONS AGAIN.
SO I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT ON MY OWN, KIND OF BY YEAH.
GOING AND, AND ALLOCATING POSITIONS OF FOLKS THAT I KNOW, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I HAD THE, THE CORRECT, I GUESS, POSITIONS THAT ARE FUNDED OUT OF THERE SO THAT I COULD JUST DO SOME FURTHER ANALYSIS.
BUT THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS.
COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER ELAS.
THANK YOU MAYOR LETICIA, UM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAND UP.
WHAT, WHAT WOULD COUNCIL NEED TO DO, OR WHAT DO YOU NEED TO INCREASE THE PASSPORT FEE REVENUE? UH, WHAT KIND OF SUPPORT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR US? 'CAUSE I, I LOVE THAT YOU'RE HITTING THESE GREAT NUMBERS, BUT I WONDER IF WITH MORE TOOLS OR INCENTIVES, YOU'D HIT HIGHER NUMBERS.
CURRENTLY WE CANNOT INCREASE THAT FEE THAT IS SET BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
NO, I'M, AND I'M SORRY, I I UNDERSTAND THE FEE IS, I'M TALKING
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ABOUT THE REVENUES.WE, OUR REVENUES DERIVED FROM THE FEE THAT WE CHARGE THAT WE GET TO KEEP.
THAT IS $35 PER INDIVIDUAL THAT IS PROCESSED.
BUT THERE'S MORE REVENUE THE MORE INDIVIDUALS YOU HAVE, RIGHT? YES.
SO HOW DO I INCREASE? OR HOW WOULD YOU GO ABOUT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS THAT KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR AND GET OUTREACH? SO WHAT, TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.
WHAT, WHAT DOES OUTREACH LOOK LIKE FOR YOU? WELL, UM, CURRENTLY WHAT WE DO IS WE MAKE UP FLYERS AND WE TAKE 'EM TO THE PARA VIAL POST OFFICE AND LEAVE THERE.
A LOT OF THE FOLKS THAT GO TRY TO GET PROCESSED THERE ARE TURNED AWAY BECAUSE THEY ONLY PROCESS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF INDIVIDUALS.
UM, WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO UNIVERSITIES HERE WITHIN OUR LOCAL AREA.
UM, U T S A, THEIR ENTIRE FOOTBALL TEAM COMES IN.
UH, THEIR ENTIRE BASKETBALL TEAM COMES IN, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE GONNA TRAVEL IF THEY MAKE A GAME OUTSIDE OF THE US.
SO THEY ALL COME IN AND GET PROCESSED.
CURRENTLY TODAY, UH, THEIR ENTIRE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT COMES IN.
UM, WE'VE ALSO REACHED OUT TO OTHER UNIVERSITIES FOR STUDY ABROAD, UH, FOR THOSE FOLKS THAT DO STUDY ABROAD.
UM, JEFF COYLE, IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE, NO, NO, IT'S OKAY.
I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION, BUT IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO REALLY SPREAD THE WORD THAT IT'S A SERVICE THE CITY OFFERS.
I MEAN, IF IT'S A THERE, PEOPLE ARE GONNA GO GET THEIR PAPERWORK DONE SOMEWHERE.
RIGHT? AND IF THERE'S A LOT OF FOLKS OUT THERE THAT DON'T KNOW THAT THEY CAN GET IT DONE HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, UM, IT, IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD OWN AND MANAGE AROUND.
AND SO TO THE EXTENT THAT, I MEAN, LETICIA HAS DONE THIS ON HER OWN, RIGHT? AND, UH, A LOT OF FOLKS WILL ASK ME, YOU KNOW, UM, MY PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME WHAT IS A CITY CLERK? RIGHT? AND THEN SOMEBODY ONE TIME QUITE FOOLISHLY SAID THAT YOU'RE JUST A SECRETARY.
RIGHT? THAT STAMPS DOCUMENTS OR SOMETHING STUPID LIKE THAT.
UH, THE, UH, WHAT YOU ARE, HOWEVER, IS AN ENTREPRENEUR, AN ENTREPRENEUR, YOU KNOW, THAT HAS MANAGED TO PRODUCE CLOSE TO, WHAT, $900,000 LETICIA JUST THIS YEAR ALONE.
UM, AND NOT BECAUSE SOMEBODY ASKED YOU TO DO IT, JUST BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT, HEY, THIS IS A GOOD IDEA TO DO.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPRESSIVE.
UH, AND I, AND I THINK IT DESERVES, UH, SUPPORT FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
UM, WHICH YEAH, GO AHEAD, JEFF.
UM, AS, AS THE CLERK, UH, MENTIONED EARLIER, WE, WE WORK TO PROMOTE A LOT OF THEIR PROGRAMS AND EFFORTS.
WE DO, UH, POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
WE SEND OUT MEDIA RELEASES ABOUT THE PASSPORT PROGRAM.
UH, WE CAN SHARE SOME OF THOSE THINGS WITH YOU.
AND I GET YOUR MESSAGE, THOUGH, THAT THAT HEAVIER PROMOTION ABOUT THE SERVICE WILL HELP DRIVE UP REVENUES IF MORE PEOPLE ARE USING IT.
I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY ASTUTE OF YOU TO, TO, TO HELP HER OUT.
I I'M TALKING ABOUT HELPING HER OUT WITH A GOAL TOWARDS HITTING METRICS, RIGHT? SO IF YOU GUYS FIGURING OUT EXACTLY WHERE SHE IS NOW, AND THEN SEEING WHETHER OR NOT YOUR MESSAGING IS ACTUALLY IMPROVING, RIGHT? THE, THE AMOUNT OF FLOW THAT COMES IN HERE.
AND I, AND IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE THIS IS ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BRIAN DILLARD AND AND HIS TEAM TO LOOK INTO WHAT WE NEED, WHAT WE COULD DO TO MAKE IT, YOU KNOW, A MILLION 0.8 NEXT YEAR.
UH, I, I, I DO BELIEVE THAT WE'RE NOT TAPPED INTO A HUNDRED PERCENT OF YOUR BANDWIDTH OVER THERE, UH, TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
UM, THE OTHER THING IS, AND AND I, I DON'T KNOW WHO, ERIC, UH, I NEED TO, I'M SORRY, I, ERIC'S TRYING TO RUN AWAY.
UH, I, I DON'T KNOW WHO, RIGHT.
BUT, UH, AND AGAIN, THIS IS, THIS MAY BE A BRIAN DILLARD ISSUE, BUT, UM, IT'S FREEZING IN HERE.
I MEAN, IS EVERYBODY COLD LIKE ME? I MEAN, IT'S FREEZING AND, UH, IT'S REALLY COLD, BUT I MEAN, YOU GUYS ARE WEARING WOOL.
YOU GUYS ARE WEARING WOOL JACKETS.
BUT THE, THE REASON I'M MENTIONING IT IS BECAUSE I WONDER WHAT OTHER ROOMS, YOU KNOW, IN BUILDINGS THAT WE OWN ARE BEING COOLED AT TEMPERATURES THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY WELL, AREN'T NECESSARY.
UH, I WONDER IF WE'VE GOT CONFERENCE ROOMS RIGHT NOW, OR IF THERE'S ENTIRE BIG ROOMS IN THE CONVENTION CENTER THAT ARE ALSO BEING CHILLED AT TEMPERATURES THAT AREN'T BENEFITING ANYBODY.
UH, YOU COULD STORE MILK IN, YOU COULD STORE MILK IN, IN THIS TEMPERATURE.
UM, AND THE REASON I BRING THAT UP IS BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, HAVING WORKED FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, AND DONE WORK WITH CLIENTS WHO HAVE LARGE PHYSICAL PLANTS WITH MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF SQUARE FEET OF ROOF, UM, YOU KNOW WHAT A LOT OF THESE CLIENTS INSTALL, BRIAN IS, UH, YOU KNOW, SENSORS IN THEIR BUILDINGS THAT, AND THOSE SENSORS ARE TI SMART, RIGHT? THEY'RE TIED TO ANTICIPATED NEED, RIGHT? SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY TIME, UH, WHEN AC GOES ON
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AND OFF, AND YOU CAN EVEN TIE 'EM TO SCHEDULES, RIGHT? THAT PEOPLE ENTER INTO, I'M GONNA USE THIS CONFERENCE ROOM AT SUCH AND SUCH TIME, OR, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA USE THE, THE CANTILEVER ROOM AT THE, YOU KNOW, AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.THERE SEEMS TO BE AN OPPORTUNITY THERE, AND I, I'VE NEVER REALLY GOTTEN A FEEL FOR WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE DOING IT, AND IF WE ARE TO WHAT EXTENT, BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT JUST OUR ELECTRIC BILL AT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, UM, WHAT THAT MEANS IN TERMS OF MAYBE ONE DEGREE LESS IN THIS BUILDING.
AND, YOU KNOW, IN ALL THE OTHER BUILDINGS WE MAY, I MEAN, WE MAY SEE SOME KIND OF, UH, SAVINGS THERE, SOME EFFICIENCY, RIGHT? SO, MARIA, MAYBE YOU'RE THE ONE TO, TO TELL ME WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT Y'ALL TALK ABOUT, RIGHT.
UM, ON, ON A LARGE SCALE OR, OR YOU, I, I DON'T KNOW.
WHO, IS THIS SOMETHING WE'RE DOING, COUNCILMAN? I WOULD LIKE, I BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS THAT PARTICULAR QUESTION.
WE DO HAVE BUILDING AUTOMATED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS IN PLACE, AND THE MAJORITY OF CITY BUILDINGS THAT ARE OF LARGE SCALE AT THIS BUILDING RIGHT HERE, WE REMOTELY CONTROL THE TEMPERATURES.
WE HAVE TEMPERATURE SET POINTS THAT WE SET UP.
THIS PARTICULAR ROOM NORMALLY IS COOLED DOWN QUITE A BIT PRIOR TO THE COUNCIL MEETINGS BECAUSE THE ATTENDANCE AT THE COUNCIL MEETINGS CAN RAISE SIGNIFICANTLY, ESPECIALLY DURING THURSDAY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
SO DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WE'RE GONNA ANTICIPATE TO HAVE IN THIS ROOM, WE BRING THE TEMPERATURE OF THIS ROOM TO A CERTAIN LEVEL TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S COMFORT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MEETING ROOM.
TODAY, IT HAPPENS TO BE A LOW OCCUPANCY AFTERNOON, AND THE TEMPERATURES OUTSIDE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS HAVE REALLY HELPED US OUT TREMENDOUSLY.
AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, AT THE AIRPORT, AND THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY, WE MAINTAIN A TEMPERATURE RANGE BETWEEN 74 TO 78 DEGREES, DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF USE IN THAT PARTICULAR BUILDING.
WITH THE BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM, WE'RE ALWAYS A CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING THE TEMPERATURES IN THOSE BUILDINGS TO CONSERVE ENERGY.
WE'RE ENGAGED IN A COUPLE OF FACILITIES WITH C P S ON WHAT IS CALLED THE DEMAND RESPONSE PROGRAM, WHERE WE ACTUALLY ENABLE C P SS TO HAVE ACCESS TO OUR SHE WATER PUMPS AND OUR COMPRESSORS, AND BE ABLE TO ADJUST TEMPERATURE TO THOSE BUILDINGS.
IN PARTICULAR, WE HAVE INTERNATIONAL CENTER, WE HAVE THE PUBLIC SAFETY HEADQUARTERS, WE HAVE POLICE ACADEMY FACILITIES OF THAT SIZE, WHERE WHEN THE DEMAND IS SUCH FOR ELECTRICITY C P S AND COMMUNICATION AND IS ABLE TO LET US KNOW THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE ADJUSTING FOR PARTICULAR HOURS DURING THE DAY BETWEEN THREE AND 6:00 PM IN THE AFTERNOON IS WHEN THE HIGHEST DEMAND FOR ELECTRICITY ON THE SERVICES THAT C P S PROVIDES.
AND THAT'S WHEN ADJUSTMENTS ARE MADE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY.
C P S PROVIDE THOSE PROGRAMS AS WELL FOR RESIDENTIAL USERS.
YEAH, I HAVE THAT IN MY HOUSE MYSELF.
THAT, THAT'S A GOOD EXPLANATION.
UM, AND I THINK THAT THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING, EXCEPT THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT A LAYER THAT I'M NOT HEARING ABOUT.
AND THAT IS, AND, AND BRIAN, I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT? I MEAN, UH, ONE THING IS AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM, THE OTHER ONE IS AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM, RIGHT? UH, THAT IS FED A LOT OF DATA POINTS IN ORDER TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS, UM, AS NEEDED.
UM, AND, AND ANYWAY, IT'S A CONVERSATION WE CAN HAVE LATER, BUT THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR.
AND, AND AGAIN, BRIAN, IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE THAT'S THE KIND OF THING THAT WE, WE OUGHT MAYBE TO BE LOOKING AT, UM, AT FROST TOWER, RIGHT? OR THE NEW CITY TOWER, RIGHT? I MEAN, IF THIS SEEMS LIKE THE KEY OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO REALLY SHOWCASE WHAT WE COULD BE DOING AND WHERE WE'RE GOING IN THE FUTURE AS FAR AS CITY FACILITIES WITH REGARDS TO THOSE, THESE KINDS OF THINGS.
AND SO IT REALLY ISN'T AN ASK RIGHT NOW, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S JUST A CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE THAT, YOU KNOW, I'LL PUT IN FRONT OF YOU AND, AND HOPE THAT WE CAN HIT SOME KIND OF, UM, UH, MEASURABLE, YOU KNOW, SMART IMPACT WITH THAT KIND OF TECHNOLOGY.
UM, THE OTHER THING I WANT TO, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS, AND, AND I WASN'T PLANNING ON IT, BUT THIS 80% OF, UH, THE VENDOR PAYMENT PROCESSING CYCLE TIME THAT, UH, COUNCILMAN PERRY BROUGHT UP, UM, I DON'T KNOW.
I MEAN, IF THERE IS BEST IN CLASS, WHAT IS 80% COMPARED TO BEST IN CLASS? DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT? LIKE, IN OTHER WORDS, IS IS AUSTIN AT 80% AND ARE THEY PROUD OF THAT ACCOMPLISHMENT? OR, I MEAN, ARE WE BEHIND THE TIMES HERE? WE HAVE LOOKED AT IN THE PAST, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT AUSTIN'S DOING, BUT WE ARE ACTUALLY IN KIND OF THE, THE AVERAGE AS FAR AS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WE'VE LOOKED AT, UM, AP ORGANIZATIONS THAT ACTUALLY TRACK THOSE METRICS.
AND WE'RE RIGHT ON TARGET MAYBE RUNNING A LITTLE BIT BEHIND, BUT WE'RE NOT TOO FAR FROM THE NORM.
IS, IS, IS C DO WE KNOW WHAT C P S AND SAWS ARE DOING AND VIA ARE DOING WITH REGARDS TO AP? I DON'T.
'CAUSE I, YOU KNOW, AND THEN CAN YOU
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JUST COME VISIT ME AT SOME POINT GUYS? I WANNA UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS THAT 20% OF OUR 20% OF THE INVOICES, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT IS, RIGHT? 20% OF THE INVOICES AREN'T GETTING PAID WITHIN THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT INVOICE TERMS ARE SET.THAT WE'RE NOT BASICALLY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE DISCOUNT OR WITHIN THE INVOICE IN, IN THEIR TERMS. WE ARE DOING SOME THINGS IN THIS BUDGET TO ACTUALLY HELP THAT.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE REORGANIZATION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AS FAR AS THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, WE ARE SHIFTING SOME PEOPLE INTO THE ACCOUNTS PAYABLE DIVISION TO HELP, HELP FACILITATE THAT.
UM, AND WE ARE LOOKING AT SOME TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS WITHIN SOME ENHANCEMENTS WITHIN ACCOUNTS PAYABLE FINANCE, STREAMLINE THAT AS WELL.
RIGHT? AND, AND, AND THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO HEAR IS WHERE THE BOTTLENECK IS AND WHAT WE'RE DOING TOWARDS CLOSING THAT BOTTLENECK.
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST A MATTER OF NOT PAYING VENDORS ON TIME.
IT'S A MATTER OF US NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE DISCOUNTS THAT COME WITH PAYING VENDORS ON TIME.
AND THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY THAT JUST, YOU KNOW, 20% IS A LOT OF MONEY.
UM, AND SO I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT, WHAT THOSE DISCOUNTS ARE THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN GETTING.
UM, AND UH, IF YOU GUYS CAN JUST COME AND COME AND VISIT WITH ME.
'CAUSE I THINK THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S WORTH, UH, AT LEAST A CONVERSATION.
RIGHT? AND, AND WE DO TRACK DISCOUNTS LOST AS WELL, BUT NOT ALL THESE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PAYING ON TERMS, HAVE DISCOUNTS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM.
THEY JUST MAY NOT BE WITHIN THE 30 DAY TERM.
I MEAN, THEY MAY NOT ALL HAVE DISCOUNTS, BUT THEN THAT JUST MEANS WE'RE NOT PAYING A VENDOR WHAT WE OWE THEM ON TIME.
UH, AND YOU KNOW, IF I WERE A VENDOR, UH, RELYING ON THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT OF SAN ANTONIO AND, YOU KNOW, ALSO OUR REPUTATION, UM, YOU KNOW, AND THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO PAY THEIR BILLS ON TIME AND NOT US, UH, YOU KNOW, 20% IS NOT SOMETHING, I MEAN, IF I WERE LATE ON MY BILLS 20% OF THE TIME, I WOULDN'T GO AROUND BRAGGING TO PEOPLE AND TELLING PEOPLE I'M RIGHT ON TARGET.
YOU KNOW? AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WORRIES ME IS THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THESE FOLKS ARE WOMEN OWNED AND MINORITY OWNED AND SMALL BUSINESSES WHO RELY, YOU KNOW, FOR WHO FOR EVERY DAY A SINGLE WEIGHT OF, OF A DAY, YOU KNOW, IS A REALLY BIG DEAL FOR US.
IT'S SMALL, BUT FOR THEM IT'S BIG.
AND I, I THINK I'M BEATING A DEAD HORSE.
YOU KNOW, I WANT TO CONCUR WITH WHAT MY, UH, COUNCIL COLLEAGUE JUST TALKED ABOUT.
'CAUSE I HAD HEARD FROM SOME BUSINESSES AS WELL THAT, UH, A LOT OF TIMES AWAITING AND EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF TIME TO, UH, GET PAID BY THE CITY.
SO I'D LIKE TO SEE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE RECORD OF, OF HOW WE ARE ACTUALLY PAYING AND, UH, THE, THE AMOUNT OF DAYS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
I ALSO WANT TO, UH, CONCUR WITH A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WERE SAID BY A COUPLE OF OTHER CO UH, COUNCIL COLLEAGUES ABOUT OUR, UH, CITY, THE COUNCIL STAFF.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF STAFF POSITIONS WE HAVE AND THE AMOUNT OF, UH, PAY AVAILABLE TO THAT.
AND I, IF I HAD DIVIDED OUT EVENLY, I WOULDN'T BE PAYING ANYBODY ON MY STAFF, EVEN THE CITY AVERAGE SALARY YET.
WE WERE LOOKING AT, UH, THE PROFESSIONAL SALARY THAT WE OFFER ON AVERAGE, WE JUST HEARD THAT WAS $60,000.
AND THE AVERAGE SALARY FOR, UH, FAMILY IN SAN ANTONIO IS ABOUT 54,000.
SO WHEN WE CAN'T MEET THOSE KINDS OF NUMBERS FOR THE STAFF THAT WE HAVE, WHO DOES SO MUCH WORK, UH, I THINK WE'RE FALLING SHORT.
I CAN TELL YOU THIS, YOU CAN GO OUT INTO MY DISTRICT AND YOU CAN TALK TO PEOPLE WHO ARE ACTIVE IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, AND YOU ASK THEM WHAT KIND OF WORK MY STAFF ARE DOING, AND THEY'LL SAY IT'S GREAT, AND THEY THINK IT'S, UH, CERTAINLY SOME OF THE BEST SERVICE THEY'VE GOTTEN.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MY ABILITY TO, UH, RECOGNIZE THAT IN, UH, A DECENT SALARY FOR, FOR MY STAFF.
SO I JUST WANT TO ADD MY CONCURRENCE ONTO THAT.
UH, WE WERE LOOKING AT PROFESSIONAL SALARIES ALSO, AND, UH, WE, UH, WE SAID THAT PROFESSIONALS, UH, AREN'T JUST GUARANTEED THEY'RE 3% OR ANYTHING.
THEY'RE ON, UH, A SCALE WHERE THEY ARE EVALUATED.
IS THAT RIGHT? UH, IS THE, UH, EVALUATION IDENTICAL ACROSS THE BOARD FOR EVERYBODY WHO'S A PROFESSIONAL? OR DO DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS HAVE DIFFERENT METHODS OF EVALUATING THEIR STAFF? WELL, THERE IS A COMMON EVALUATION FORMAT THAT THE WHOLE CITY USES, BUT IT'S BASED ON THE, UM, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO THAT JOB.
SO THE EMPLOYEE AND THE SUPERVISOR OF THAT EMPLOYEE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR SIT DOWN AND IDENTIFY THE OBJECTIVES AND THE GOALS THAT THEY NEED TO ACCOMPLISH FOR THAT YEAR.
SO IT WILL VARY DEPENDING ON THE JOB.
WHEN WE LOOK AT THE PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY, AND WE'RE SAYING THAT THE AVERAGE SALARY ARE AROUND 60,000, AND WE SAY WE WOULD PAY FROM A UP TO A 4%, UH, CORRECT SALARY
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UP TO UP TO A LITTLE LESS PERCENT MM-HMM.THEY'RE ALSO EVALUATED SIM SIMILAR TYPE OF VALUATION.
UM, THEIR VALUATION TOOLS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
HOWEVER, THE PAY HAS NOT VARIED IN THE STEP PAY PLAN.
THE STEP PAY PLAN IS, IS JUST SO IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW THEY'RE EVALUATED, THEY'LL STILL GET A 3%, IF THAT'S RIGHT.
OR, OR IF THE STEP IS FOUR, WHATEVER, IT'S, YEAH.
THIS IS A, WE'RE CONSIDERING THIS A TRANSITION YEAR FOR THE STEP PAY PLAN.
NORMALLY, IT, IT DOES VARY DEPENDING ON THE JOB AND WHERE THEY ARE IN THAT STEP.
BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE WANNA LOOK AT AND WORK WITH OUR EMPLOYEES TO SEE HOW WE CAN RE REDESIGN THAT STEP PAY PLAN.
SO WITH CIVIL SERVICE, YOU HAVE OTHER, UH, PROTECTIONS AS AN EMPLOYEE.
BUT IN, BUT IN A PROFESSIONAL REALM OR THE EXECUTIVE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE KINDS OF PROTECTIONS, IS THAT RIGHT? WELL, IT'S NOT, YEAH, IT'S NOT COVERED BY THE MERIT SYSTEM.
FOR THOSE THAT ARE CONSIDERED UNCLASSIFIED, RIGHT? I MEAN, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF, UH, OF ENTRY-LEVEL PROFESSIONALS THAT, THAT ARE COVERED.
HOW MANY, UH, PROFESSIONALS FALL IN THAT REALM? HOW MANY, WHAT'S THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT ARE, WHAT'S THE NUMBER? UH, WE'LL HAVE TO PUT THAT TOGETHER FOR YOU, COUNCILMAN.
PARDON ME? WE'LL, WE'LL PUT THAT TOGETHER FOR YOU.
'CAUSE I GUESS MY POINT IS THIS, DO, DO WE SAY, OKAY, THERE'S X AMOUNT OF PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES AND THEY COULD HAVE UP TO A PAY A 4% PAY RAISE.
DO WE ALLOCATE ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY TO GET 4% OR DO WE ALLOCATE THAT? WELL, THE WHOLE THING MIGHT COME TO 3%, OR RIGHT.
IN OTHER WORDS, WE'RE SAYING AHEAD OF TIME.
WELL, THERE'S SOME PEOPLE WHO CAN'T GET 4%.
WELL, THE BUDGET IS BASED ON 3%.
THAT, THAT'S WHAT IS BUDGETED.
I WAS JUST GONNA ADD THAT WE BUDGET A 3% POOL OF DOLLARS, BUT BASED ON AN EVALUATION, WE EXPECT IT TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT LIKE A BELL CURVE.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME THAT ARE GONNA MEET EXPECTATIONS ON THE JOB.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE SOME EXCEPT EXCEPTIONAL AND THEN SOME OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE.
SO, UH, OUR BELL CURVE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS ON THE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL PROBABLY LENDS A LITTLE BIT, LEANS A LITTLE BIT, UH, TO, TO HIGHER PERFORMING ORGANIZATION.
BUT THAT'S WHERE THAT 3% POOL COMES FROM.
AND THAT EVALUATION IS BASED ON, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, MEETING EXPECTATIONS OR EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS.
AND, UH, WOULD IT, WOULD WE BE ABLE TO TELL IF WE GAVE OUT ALL THAT MONEY OR IF WE DIDN'T GIVE OUT THAT MUCH MONEY THAT WAS SET ASIDE FOR THAT? UH, WE DO TRACK WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
YOU KNOW, WE DON'T GIVE OUT SPECIFIC NUMBERS TO DEPARTMENTS, BUT DEPARTMENTS HAVE A 3% POOL TO WORK WITH.
SO WE EXPECT THEM, THOSE EVALUATIONS TO FALL WITHIN A NORMAL DISTRIBUTION ALONG THAT BELL CURVE.
SO YES, WE CAN TRACK WHETHER WE'RE GOING OVER OR UNDER, BUT TYPICALLY WE CAN MEET THAT BUDGET AT THE END OF THE YEAR.
I GUESS I'D JUST LIKE TO KNOW IF WE'VE BEEN TRACKING THAT TO FIND OUT IF THERE ARE CERTAIN PROFESSIONALS, CERTAIN DEPARTMENTS, CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO WORK IN CERTAIN AREAS WHO YOU MAY SAY, WELL, WE'RE GONNA POOL 3%.
'CAUSE THAT SHOULD BE WITH THE BELL CAP, WHAT THE BELL CURVE SHOWS, BUT DO WE ACTUALLY REACH THAT OR DO WE NEED MORE OR ARE WE FALLING SHORT? NO, I THINK THAT HELPS US.
HR ACTUALLY TRACKS THAT BY DEPARTMENT.
SO AS, AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS, THEY'RE WORKING WITH DEPARTMENTS TO LOOK AT THAT HIGH EVALUATIONS ARE COMING IN, UH, AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AGAINST THE BUDGET.
I MAY WANNA TALK WITH YOU MORE ABOUT THAT LATER.
THAT'S ALL THE QUESTIONS I HAVE NOW.
THANK YOU EVERYONE, UH, FOR, UH, THE GREAT PRESENTATIONS TODAY.
THAT'S EVERYONE WHO'S SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
ERIC MAYOR, JUST, UH, ONE QUICK NOTE.
UH, SO TOMORROW AFTERNOON, UH, WHEN WE GATHER, UH, WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT, UH, POTENTIAL BUDGET AMENDMENTS.
AND, UH, SEVERAL OF YOU HAVE, UH, SPOKEN TO EITHER MARIA OR MYSELF ABOUT, UH, A HANDFUL OF ITEMS. AND SO IF THERE'S, UH, IF WE HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO CONNECT, UH, PLEASE, UH, WE EITHER MARIA OR I WILL BE CONNECTING WITH, UH, WITH EACH OF YOU JUST TO MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT THAT TOTAL LIST LOOKS LIKE SO WE CAN PREPARE IT AND BE READY TO PRESENT IT TOMORROW AFTERNOON TO YOU.