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GOOD AFTERNOON.WELCOME TO THE CULTURAL NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES COMMITTEE MEETING.
COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT.
I HAVE READ THE MINUTES AND WOULD, UH, MOVE THEY BE APPROVED.
[1. 20-2362 Approval of the minutes from the February 10, 2020 Culture and Neighborhood Services Committee Meeting]
I GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.UM, AND BEFORE WE GO GET ONTO THE, UM, THE AGENDA,
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I'M GONNA TAKE A PERSONAL POINT OF PRIVILEGE AND JUST GIVE A QUICK UPDATE ON A TOWN HALL I HAD THIS WEEKEND.I'D LIKE TO, UH, SPEAK BRIEFLY ON THIS TOWN HALL SATURDAY.
FIRST OFF, I'D, I'D ALSO LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AND PERSONALLY THANK THE PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES THAT WERE, THAT WERE THERE.
UH, DISTRICT FOUR, DISTRICT SEVEN AND DISTRICT NINE COUNCIL LEADS WERE THERE.
UH, PETE ESE FROM THE HOUSING TRUST WAS ALSO THERE.
AND, UH, OF COURSE, UH, OUR DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES AND, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD AND HOUSING SERVICES WAS THERE.
AND SO I JUST WANNA THANK THEM SPECIFICALLY.
146 PEOPLE WERE PRESENT TO PROVIDE INPUT TO UTILIZE IN THE DEVELOPMENT FOR A DRAFT MODEL FOR A RENTER'S COMMISSION IN SAN ANTONIO.
UH, IN A, IN, IN A MEETING THAT WAS MEANT FOR RENTERS.
14% OF THOSE WHO WERE THERE WERE ACTUALLY RENTERS.
UM, THIS SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO THE POINT AS TO WHY I SEE SUCH AN IMPORTANCE IN THIS COMMISSION.
THEY ARE UNDERREPRESENTED AND NEED A STRUCTURED BODY OF COMMUNITY TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THEIR ISSUES SO THAT WE DON'T SEE THEM DROWNED OUT BY A WAVE OF VOLUME IN OPPOSITION FOR A PLATFORM THAT WILL AND PROVIDES REPRESENTATION, EDUCATION, AND DIRECTION.
SO WE'LL HAVE MORE UPDATES COMING UP SOON.
WE HAVE A SECOND TOWN HALL COMING UP AND, UH, HOPE TO, UH, GET YOU GUYS TO MAYBE ATTEND OR COME OUT SOON.
AND, UH, I WILL TAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL AS MAYBE OTHER POSSIBLE LOCATIONS.
UH, ANYTHING THAT YOU MIGHT SEE, UH, WAS LACKING, I THINK COULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
ANYBODY WANNA MAKE SOME COMMENTS? YES, I'D LIKE TO MAKE COMMENT.
THANK YOU FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY.
UM, I WASN'T HERE AT THE LAST MEETING.
I UNDERSTOOD Y'ALL MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE IT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE RENTER'S COMMISSION.
UM, I'VE HAD A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MEETINGS WITH, UH, BUSINESSES, UH, INDIVIDUALS, AND I'VE GOTTEN A, A WAVE OF, OF, UH, WELL, MULTIPLE WAVES, IF YOU WILL, OF OPPOSITION TO THAT.
AND I'M GONNA CONTINUE TO DO MY RESEARCH ON IF THIS IS THE RIGHT THING FOR US TO DO.
AND, UH, IF THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT WE CAN DO INSTEAD.
FOR EXAMPLE, HAVING THIS A PART OF AN EXISTING COMMITTEE.
ALSO, BECAUSE I STRUGGLE TO FILL COMMITTEE POSITIONS, I DARE SAY THAT ANY COUNCIL MEMBER DOES NOT HAVE EVERY ONE OF THEIR COMMITTEES FILLED WITH MEMBERS.
AND HERE WE ARE ADDING ANOTHER COMMITTEE TO THE CITY.
WHAT DO WE HAVE OVER 80 SOMETHING COMMITTEES NOW? AND I STRUGGLE TO FILL THOSE.
AND WE NEED TO TAKE THIS VERY SERIOUSLY ABOUT CREATING ANOTHER COMMITTEE AND HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME FILLING THOSE POSITIONS.
UM, I, I UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ISSUES ARE, BUT I DON'T WANNA, UM, CREATE, CREATE ANOTHER BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATION THAT COULD BE DONE IN SOME OTHER COMMITTEE THAT WE, THAT WE ALREADY HAVE FILLED WITH MEMBERS FROM THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS.
SO, JUST WANTED TO LAY THAT OUT THERE.
AGAIN, I WAS NOT HERE TO EXPRESS THOSE CONCERNS, BUT I WANTED TO LAY 'EM OUT HERE NOW THAT, UM, I'LL CONTINUE TO BE VERY, UM, ENGAGED IN THIS PROCESS THROUGH IT AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYBODY'S INTERESTS ARE BEING LOOKED AT AND LOOKED AFTER IN WHICHEVER DIRECTION WE GO IN.
SO, THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT.
AND I JUST WANT TO REITERATE, WE DID NOT APPROVE A RENTER'S COMMISSION IN THIS COMMITTEE.
WE, UH, WE SIMPLY APPROVED MOVING FORWARD WITH A PROCESS TO CREATE A DRAFT MODEL FOR A RENTER'S COMMISSION.
UM, I HAVE TO AGREE WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, COUNCILMAN, IN TERMS OF EXPRESSING YOUR VOICE.
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OUR CITY.AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE TODAY.
UH, SO WE'LL, WE'LL CONTINUE WITH THAT.
AND, UH, YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE ABILITY TO EXPRESS YOUR THOUGHTS, MANY OF WHICH, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, EACH COUNCIL MEMBER WANTS TO HAVE ON THEIR OWN AS WELL.
AND WE ALL RECEIVE THOSE EMAILS AND THOSE, THOSE, UH, CONCERNS THAT PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT UP.
BUT I'LL DO MY BEST TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY CAN SEE, UH, THE ISSUE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BRING UP THAT AFFECTS NEARLY HALF OUR CITY.
[2. 20-1097 Approval of the Performing Arts Strategic Plan and Funding Guidelines and request for review by full City Council. [Lori Houston, Assistant City Manager; Debbie Racca-Sittre, Department of Arts & Culture]]
ON TO ITEM NUMBER TWO, THE APPROVAL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS STRATEGIC PLAN AND FUNDING GUIDELINES AND REQUEST FOR REVIEW BY FULL CITY COUNCIL, LORI.SO DECIDED I RATHER IT BE CENTRA DAY OR OUR MUSIC PLAN, OR OUR FILM STRATEGY.
AND SO DEBBIE IS GOING TO TALK TO US ABOUT OUR PLAN FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DEBBIE.
AND GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, CULTURE AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES COMMITTEE.
THE, UH, PERFORMING ARTS STRATEGIC PLAN PERFORM, UH, WENT THROUGH A PROCESS AND AS LORI SAID, IT'S A PART OF OUR CULTURAL ART CULTURAL PLAN, WHICH IS THAT COORDINATED PLANNING DOCUMENT, IDENTIFYING STRATEGIES FOR DIFFERENT FOCUS AREAS.
AND WE'VE ALREADY, UH, COMPLETED SIX FOCUS AREAS, AND THIS WILL BE THE SEVENTH FOCUS AREA WITH INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS, UH, AS THE NEXT FOCUS AREA COMING UP.
AS A PART OF THAT PROCESS, WE HAVE VARIOUS INFORMATION THAT WE TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION IN CREATING A PLAN.
UH, WE LOOK AT THE ECONOMIC IMPACT.
WE LOOK AT, UH, WHAT DID THE COMMUNITY WANT THROUGH A SURVEY.
UH, WE'VE HAD SOME WORK SESSIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY AND STAKEHOLDERS, AND WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE SAN ANTONIO ARTS COMMISSION AND IT'S ARTS FUNDING COMMITTEE AS WELL.
THE VISION FOR PERFORMING ARTS PLAN IS THAT SAN ANTONIO IS A PLACE WHERE PERFORMING ARTS THRIVE.
AND THIS PLAN HAS FOUR STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS, ALL CENTERED ON ENSURING EQUITY.
AND I'M GONNA GO THROUGH EACH ONE OF THESE GOALS.
THE FIRST GOAL WAS TO CREATE AND PROMOTE A STRONG PERFORMING ARTS IMAGE, DEVELOPED THE STORY AND MARKET PERFORMING ARTS AND BUILDING CROSS PROMOTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS.
OUR ACTION ITEMS FOR THIS GOAL IS TO BUILD AN ACCESSIBLE AND DYNAMIC INFORMATION RESOURCE DATABASE OR PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES AND HOST MARKETING WORKSHOPS TO ASSIST PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS TO GET THE WORD OUT.
THE SECOND GOAL IS TO ENGAGE PERFORMING ARTS COLLABORATIONS, DEVELOPING PLATFORMS FOR DIALOGUE AND INCREASING PERFORMING ARTS PRESENCE THROUGHOUT SAN ANTONIO.
THROUGH OUR 12 AND 2224 MONTHS ACTION PLANS PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW VENUES OUTSIDE OF DOWNTOWN AND FOSTER CROSS-DISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITIES TO ENHANCE ARTS PROGRAMMING.
THE NEXT GOAL, INCREASE AND DIVERSIFY PERFORMING ARTS REVENUES, LOOKING AT NEW TICKET MODELS AND FUNDING OUTSIDE OF THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX.
UH, IF YOU RECALL BACK IN SEPTEMBER, THERE WAS A CON THERE WAS A CONTRACT BEING VOTED ON BY CITY COUNCIL.
THAT WAS FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER.
AND, UH, ALMO DOME WITH TICKETMASTER AND TICKETMASTER WAS SELECTED AS THE VENDOR.
AND TICKETMASTER OFFERED $50,000, UH, ANNUALLY TO GO INTO A SPECIAL FUND.
AND THAT, UH, SINCE THAT TIME, IN DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CONVENTION SPORTS FACILITIES DEPARTMENT, UH, THEY HAVE AGREED TO DEDICATE 10% OF THE TICKETMASTER REVENUES FROM THE CITY TO THAT FUND.
ESTIMATED ABOUT $250,000 A YEAR.
WE'VE ALSO SENT LETTERS TO ASK OTHER VENUES TO PARTICIPATE.
THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT COUNCIL ASKED US TO DO.
UH, WE'RE WORKING ON DEVELOPING A DONATE TO THE ARTS PROGRAM WITH TICKETMASTER, SO WHEN PEOPLE BUY THEIR TICKETS, THEY CAN OFFER TO DONATE TO THIS FUND ALSO.
AND THE NEXT GOAL WAS TO DEVELOP OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE, AND DIVERSE VENUES.
WE WANTED TO CONNECT PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS WITH VENUES AND ASSIST WITH VENUE COSTS.
SO THIS IS WHERE SOME OF THAT MONEY, UH, WOULD BE POTENTIALLY SPENT.
WE HAVE DEVELOPED A FEE WAIVER PROGRAM FOR CITY OWNED VENUES.
SO IT WOULD BE WAIVING THE FEES FOR RENT.
AND WE ALSO HAVE SOME EQUIPMENT AT OUR DISPOSAL THAT WE OWN.
WE OWN A MARLEY FLOOR, WHICH IS A SPECIAL DANCE FLOOR FOR DANCE, BALLET AND DIFFERENT DANCE PERFORMANCES.
AND WE ALSO HAVE A MOBILE STAGE, UH, THAT THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT MANAGES THAT WE COULD OFFER FOR FREE OF CHARGE.
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UH, IF THERE WAS, WANTED TO GO OUT TO, UH, SOME VENUE THAT DIDN'T HAVE A PERFORMING ARTS PLATFORM, WE COULD BRING THE MOBILE STAGE OUT THERE AND THEY COULD DO A DANCE OR SOME SORT OF PERFORMANCE.WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT TWO GRANT FUNDING PROGRAMS FOR PRODUCTION COSTS AND FOR VENUE FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS.
THESE WERE BASED ON SOME BEST PRACTICES RESEARCH THAT WE DID WITH OTHER CITIES.
THE PLAN IS THAT PERFORMING ARTS, VENUE, FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS, UH, OR EQUIPMENT UP TO $10,000 PER ORGANIZATION FOR CURRENTLY FUNDED PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCING ORGANIZATIONS.
THOSE ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE OWNERSHIP OR A LONG-TERM LEASE OF THEIR FACILITY, OR THEY ARE IN A CITY BUILDING.
AND THIS COULD BE FOR, I THINK THERE WAS A MENTION, UH, IN ONE MEETING THAT, UH, THE GUADALUPE MAY NEED A NEW SOUND SYSTEM.
UM, THOSE KIND OF THINGS THAT THEY COULD BE UTILIZED TO HELP THOSE PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS AND VENUES MAYBE UPGRADE THE BATHROOM.
THE SECOND GRANT PROGRAM WOULD BE PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCTION COST GRANTS.
AND THIS WOULD BE FOR PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCING AGENCIES OR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS.
AND THIS WOULD BE FUNDING FOR THEIR BACK OF HOUSE COSTS, NOT NECESSARILY FOR THE RENTAL OF THE VENUE ITSELF, UH, BUT FOR THE PAYMENT OF ALL THE STAGE HANDS, THE SOUND AND LIGHTING CREW, UH, SECURITY.
AND IF THEY NEED TO RENT SPECIAL EQUIPMENT, UH, THOSE COSTS COULD BE COVERED WITH THIS GRANT AND IT WOULD BE NEEDING TO BE SPECIFIC TO AN EVENT THEY'VE ALREADY HAVE PLANNED.
WE ALREADY ISSUED A OPEN CALL FOR THESE, UH, THESE GRANTS AND WE HAD AN INTENT TO APPLY DEADLINE OF LAST FRIDAY, BUT WE DECIDED TO EXTEND IT, UH, WASN'T ENOUGH TIME, BUT WE ACTUALLY ALREADY HAVE, UH, ABOUT 34, UH, INTENT TO APPLY IS ALREADY SUBMITTED FOR DIFFERENT GRANTS.
WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT ALL OF THEM.
AND SEVEN OF THOSE ARE INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS, SO THAT'S PROMISING AS WELL.
WHAT WE PLANNED TO DO, UM, WE WERE LOOKING AT MARCH 19TH FOR CITY COUNCIL A SESSION.
WE WERE TOLD BY OUR CITY ATTORNEY THAT CITY COUNCIL HAS TO ADOPT FUNDING GUIDELINES.
UM, AND THAT WE WOULD LOOK AT THIS GRANT PROGRAM DEADLINE BEING APRIL THE SECOND.
THAT'S WHEN THEY WOULD NEED TO FINISH SUBMITTING ALL OF THEIR DOCUMENTS.
WE WOULD GO THROUGH THE ARTS COMMISSION FOR A FUNDING RECOMMENDATION, AND THAT CITY COUNCIL WOULD BE APPROVING THOSE CONTRACTS DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS IN SEPTEMBER FOR, UH, THOSE CONTRACTS TO BEGIN ON OCTOBER 1ST.
SO WITH THAT, I'M ASKING, UH, FOR YOUR, UH, REVIEW AND APPROVAL TO MOVE THIS FORWARD TO CITY COUNCIL.
AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I WOULD BE GLAD TO TO ANSWER THEM.
UM, AND THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PIECE.
UH, I KNOW, UH, YOU'VE BEEN HOLDING SOME, SOME INPUT SESSIONS AS WELL, SO, UH, THIS IS, UH, ONE SMALL PIECE OF A VERY LARGE PUZZLE, SO THANK YOU AND TO YOUR STAFF FOR ALL THAT YOU'RE DOING.
UM, I DO WANT TO ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS REGARDING THE, UM, THE TICKETMASTER ALLOCATION.
SO WE ARE IMPLEMENTING, UH, $50,000 ANNUALLY, UH, AND DEDICATING 10% OF CITY TECH CITY, UH, TICKET REVENUE.
IS THAT ALSO ANNUALLY? IS THIS, IS THIS GONNA REPEAT ANNUALLY? THAT'S PLANNED TO BE REPEATED ANNUALLY.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PLANNED? SO EVERYTHING HAS TO GO THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS.
UH, THE WAY I'M LOOKING AT IT IS THEY'VE ALREADY STARTED COLLECTING, THEY'VE COLLECTED THE $50,000, UH, AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, AND THEY'VE ALREADY STARTED COLLECTING THOSE REVENUES, AND THEY WOULD BE PUT INTO A FUND THAT WOULD ALREADY BE AVAILABLE AND SITTING THERE FROM FISCAL YEAR TWENTIES REVENUES THAT WE WOULD SPEND IN FISCAL YEAR 21.
THAT WAY WE KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH MONEY IS REALLY THERE BECAUSE 10% COULD BE, IT'S ESTIMATED AT 200,000.
IT COULD BE LESS, COULD BE MORE.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE MONEY, UH, AVAILABLE AND CASH ON HAND TO FUND GRANTS THAT WE TELL PEOPLE WE'RE GONNA FUND.
BUT IF YOU GIVEN, AND THEN EACH YEAR THEY WOULD BE DOING THE SAME THING.
'CAUSE THAT $50,000 IS AN ANNUAL CONTRIBUTION FROM TICKETMASTER, AND THE 10% COMMITMENT WAS FOR AN ANNUAL.
SO, SO THEN I, I GUESS I'LL ASK MORE DIRECTLY SO THAT, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT 10% IS FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
I CAN, I CAN GET THAT MATH, BUT WE'RE GONNA DEDICATE 10% OF CITY TICKET TICKET REVENUE TO THIS PROGRAM.
AND IT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT CITY COUNCIL PUTS INTO THE BUDGET.
AND SO EVERY YEAR THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS STAFF RECOMMENDING THAT 10%
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OF THE REVENUE BE ALLOCATED FOR THESE GRANT PROGRAMS. SO IT'LL BE APPROVED ANNUALLY THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS, AND THAT'LL BE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION, WHICH MEANS IT COULD CHANGE, IT COULD CHANGE IF COUNSEL DOES NOT APPROVE THE BUDGET.THE 50,000, CAN THAT BE CHANGED? THE 50,000, UH, IS SOMETHING THAT TICKETMASTER HAS TO PROVIDE PER THEIR CONTRACT.
NO, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT CAN IT BE, IT, IT'S STILL GOING INTO THE ARTS AND CULTURE FUND.
CAN THAT CHANGE IF, IF, IF YOU'RE GONNA INCLUDE IT IN THE BUDGET, CAN THAT, NO, THE ARTS AND COUNCIL CONTRACT, CAN CITY COUNCIL REALLOCATE WHERE THOSE FUNDS GO? NO.
CITY COUNCIL COULD REALLOCATE WHERE THE ARTS AND CULTURE FUNDS GO.
BUT WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING THAT THOSE ARTS AND CULTURE FUNDS BE USED FOR THIS SPECIFIC PURPOSE FOR THESE GRANTS.
SO THE WHOLE THING IS, IS IS SUBJECT TO CITY COUNCIL APPROVING? YES.
UM, THE, THE, UH, THE 1% ALLOCATION, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UH, FUNDING, HOW, HOW WE WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT TOUCHING ANY OF THE, THE OF OUR 1%.
SO THE 1% IS 1% FOR CAPITAL, UH, PROJECTS FOR PUBLIC ART.
AND THAT'S NOTHING, THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS FUND.
BUT IT, BUT IT CAN BE SEEN AS, AS SOMEWHAT SUPPORTIVE AS YOU MENTIONED, LIKE, UH, THE, UH, THE GUADALUPE AND, AND SOME OF ITS CAPITAL NEEDS.
WELL, SO THE 1% FOR PUBLIC ART IS FOR ART, RIGHT.
NOT NECESSARILY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO IF, UH, PART OF THE PLAN INCLUDES THAT IF THERE'S A VENUE LIKE THE GUADALUPE, WE CAN DO, LIKE, HAS BEEN DONE IN THE 2017 BOND, IF THEY HAVE AN IMPROVEMENT NEED, THEY COULD GO THROUGH THAT BOND PROCESS TO REQUEST THEIR NEED BE INCLUDED IN THE 2022 BOND.
BUT THAT'S PART OF THAT BOND PROCESS THAT WOULD HAVE TO HAPPEN.
WHAT ABOUT, UM, IS, IS ALAMEDA INCLUDED IN ANY OF THIS? NO.
ALAMEDA WILL BE INCLUDED ONCE IT COMES ONLINE.
IT'LL BE ELIGIBLE, WELL, FOR OPERATING FUNDS, RIGHT NOW, THE HOUSTON STREET TOURS HAS AN AGREEMENT WITH THE ALAMEDA THEATER CONSERVANCY TO PROVIDE THREE YEARS OF OPERATING FUNDS.
ONCE THAT IS DONE, THEN THEY'LL BE ELIGIBLE FOR OPERATING FUNDS FOR THE HOT.
DO WE KNOW WHEN, WHEN IS THE ALAMEDA, UH, SCHEDULED TO BE? UM, 2022.
WE GOT SOME QUESTIONS FROM MY COUNCIL, COLLEAGUES COUNCIL, UH, MEMBER, UH, ANDREW SULLIVAN.
THANK YOU FOR, UM, ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS.
PRIOR TO THIS, I KNOW WE WERE ABLE TO GET A BRIEFING AND YOU ARE ALWAYS VERY THOROUGH WITH HOW THE PROCESS WORKS.
UM, THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE ARE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCTION COST GRANTS.
WHEN IT COMES TO, UM, OUR COMMISSION, SUCH AS THE M L K COMMISSION, UM, I KNOW THEY DO A LOT OF THE CITY VENUES.
UM, THIS PAST YEAR, I BELIEVE WE USED THE MAGIC THEATER, UM, TO DO OUR YOUTH SUMMIT.
AND SO I WANTED TO FIND OUT, BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS END UP HAVING TO PAY FOR BACKSTAGE, UM, AND LIGHTING AND, AND SOUND SYSTEM, UM, WITHIN THE BUDGET MM-HMM.
SO IF THE ORGANIZATION IS NOT A PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCING ORGANIZATION, THEY WOULD NOT BE ELIGIBLE.
BUT IT'S NOT SPECIFIC TO CITY VENUES ONLY.
SO THEY COULD GO TO THE TOBIN, WHICH IS NOT A CITY OWNED VENUE, UH, AND APPLY FOR FUNDING.
SO YOU COULD HAVE, UM, SOMEONE WHO'S A DANCER WHO WANTS TO PUT ON A PROGRAM AT THE ALVAREZ THEATER, THEY COULD APPLY FOR THIS GRANT, UH, AND RECEIVE IT FOR TOWARDS THE BACK OF HOUSE COSTS FOR THE TOBIN.
SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A CITY VENUE.
AND SO IF THERE IS A, A GROUP OR PERFORMING ARTS GROUP OR AN INDIVIDUAL GROUP THAT IS PUTTING ON A SHOW SPECIFICALLY DURING THE TIME, SAY FIESTA, UM, OR, UH, THE CAESAR CHAVEZ MARCH, OR THE M L K MARCH, BUT THEIR, THEIR OWN ENTITY JUST PUTTING IT ON FOR THIS PARTICULAR TIME PERIOD WITH THEN THEY BE QUALIFIED TO APPLY FOR THIS GRANT.
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PROBABLY BE SOMETHING THEY WOULD QUALIFY FOR AS AN INDIVIDUAL ARTIST.UH, BUT, BUT IF THEY'RE AN ORGANIZATION, THEY NEED TO BE A PERFORMING ARTS PRODUCING ORGANIZATION AND NOT, NOT SOME OTHER TYPE OF ORGANIZATION.
SO INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS COULD DEFINITELY APPLY.
WE DO HAVE IN OUR GUIDELINES AND, AND WITH OUR ARTS AGENCY FUNDING GUIDELINES AS WELL, THAT FIESTA OFFICIAL FIESTA EVENTS GENERALLY DON'T QUALIFY.
UM, 'CAUSE THEY'RE GENERALLY FOR A PURPOSE OF RAISING FUNDS FOR A DIFFERENT PURPOSE.
UM, BUT THAT'S ONLY FOR THOSE THAT ARE SPECIFIC.
UM, SO I, I THINK IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT INDIVIDUALLY WITH THE, WITH THE APPLICATION.
AND SO I KNOW WITH THE, UH, CARVER, THERE'S BEEN SOME UPDATES DONE, HOWEVER, THERE'S STILL A NEED FOR A, A SOUND SYSTEM PER SE.
I BELIEVE THEY RIGHT NOW JUST USE THE DJ AND WHATEVER THE EQUIPMENT IS THAT THEY COME WITH MM-HMM.
DO WE, DO WE KNOW? I, I DON'T KNOW.
I'M SURE THERE ARE NEEDS AT THE CARVER.
SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE, THE VENUES THAT I WOULD LIKE TO, TO SEE LOOKED AT.
AND THEN ALSO, BECAUSE WE HAVE, WE RECEIVED THE REPORT ON HOW MANY VENUES ARE ACTUALLY IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
WE ARE NOT FINISHED WITH THAT, WITH THAT RESEARCH YET.
UM, BUT WE'RE, WE HAVE STARTED COLLECTING THE INFORMATION, UH, FROM DIFFERENT VENUES.
AND THEN FINDING OUT WHICH ONES HAVE SOUND SYSTEMS AND WHICH ONES DON'T.
THAT'S ALL INCLUDED IN, WE'RE ASKING THEM HOW, WHAT IS THE SIZE OF THEIR STAGE, WHAT TYPE OF EQUIPMENT DO THEY HAVE, SO THAT IF SOMEONE WANTED TO USE A PARTICULAR FACILITY, THEY COULD HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO SAY, LET ME REACH OUT TO THAT, THAT VENUE TO SEE IF IT'S GONNA FIT THE NEEDS OF MY PERFORMANCE.
AND SO I KNOW YOU WERE SAYING THAT THE TIMELINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED FROM THE PAST FRIDAY ON THE APPLICATION, THE INTENT TO APPLY, INTEND TO APPLY.
UM, HOW LONG HAS THAT BEEN EXTENDED FOR, AGAIN, FOR TWO MORE WEEKS TILL MARCH 13TH? TWO.
AND HAVE YOU UPDATED THE, THE FLYER FOR US TO SHARE? YES.
AND ALSO TO POINT OUT THAT THE DEADLINE DID NOT CHANGE, THAT'S APRIL.
APRIL THE THIRD? THIRD, I THINK, I THINK IT'S SECOND.
THEY EX YOU EXTENDED THE, YOU THE, UH, INTENT BUT NOT THE ACTUAL DEADLINE.
SO WE JUST WANNA BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
UM, I DO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS HERE.
AND I, UM, LET'S GO BACK TO THAT.
UH, RIGHT NOW WE DO HAVE THE $50,000 ANNUALLY FROM TICKETMASTER.
AND THAT'S WRITTEN INTO THE CONTRACT, RIGHT? YES.
SO WE CAN'T GO BACK AND CHANGE THAT CONTRACT LANGUAGE, BUT I MEAN, I GUESS WE COULD ALWAYS SAY WHERE IT GOES TO, UM, THAT'S JUST REVENUE COMING BACK TO THE CITY OR IS IT SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED FOR IS' SPECIFIC TO THE ARTS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT FUND SPECIFICALLY.
UM, DEDICATE 10% OF THE TICKET REVENUE.
LIKE GIVE A, GIVE ME A A GLOBAL NUMBER HERE.
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? SO WHAT WE WERE, UH, WHAT CONVENTION CENTER WAS PROJECTING WHEN THE TICKETMASTER CONTRACT CAME IN WAS THAT $2 MILLION WOULD BE THE TOTAL REVENUE FOR THE CITY FROM, FOR THE TICKETMASTER REVENUES.
AND THAT 10% WOULD BE $200,000.
SO THAT'S WHAT THEY HAD PROJECTED IN SEPTEMBER.
UH, AND THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON COLLECTING THOSE COLLECTIONS RIGHT NOW.
SO THAT WAS FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR, WHICH IS NOT YET, SO IT IT'S YOUR, YOUR PLAN TO PULL OUT 10% OF THAT TOTAL REVENUE.
IN OTHER WORDS, ABOUT $2 MILLION.
WE'RE EXPECTING TO GET, YOU'RE SAYING PULL 10% OUT AND SEND THAT DIRECTLY TO THE ARTS PROGRAM.
AND THAT WOULD BE FOR THIS PERFORMING ARTS, UH, GRANTS, WHICH IS WHY I AM WAITING FOR MORE OF THE REVENUES TO BE COLLECTED.
SO WE KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH IT IS BEFORE SEPTEMBER WHEN COUNSEL MAKES THE DETERMINATION OF AWARDING THE CONTRACTS.
UM, AND THAT'S GONNA BE, UM, PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL.
WHEN THAT WE CARVE OUT THIS 10% OR $200,000 OUT, IS THAT GONNA COME BEFORE THE BUDGET WORK SESSION OR AFTER THE BUDGET WORK SESSION? I DISCUSSED WITH JUSTINA TODAY THAT SHE FELT IT WAS SHOULD HAPPEN WITH THE BUDGET.
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WITH THE BUDGET.SO THAT'LL BE PART OF THE BIG THICK BOOK.
AND I WILL PRESENT IT IN MY BUDGET PRESENTATION FOR ARTS AND CULTURE.
WELL LET, LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS.
UM, WELL, I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT.
UM, BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS GRANT GUIDELINES.
DO YOU HAVE A, DO YOU HAVE A DRAFT OF THAT NOW? YES, IT WAS ATTACHED.
OH, IT'S, IT'S ATTACHED TO THIS.
WELL, I'M SORRY I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T LOOK AT THE ATTACHMENT, BUT I WILL LOOK AT THE ATTACHMENT.
'CAUSE I WANT TO SEE WHAT KIND OF GUIDELINES THE CITY IS PUTTING OUT THERE AS FAR AS PRODUCTION AND WHAT KIND OF PRODUCTIONS THAT ARE GONNA BE GRANTED THESE GRANTS, IF WE GET THE MONEY FOR IT, OF COURSE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE JUST WENT THROUGH A, AN ISSUE HERE, AND I, I THINK IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT AS PART OF THESE, UM, REQUESTS FOR PROPOSALS OR WHATEVER, WHATEVER YOU'RE ASKING FOR HERE, TO HAVE SOME OF THOSE GUIDELINES IN THAT AND NOT SO THAT THEY'RE AWARE WHAT OUR EXPECTATION ON WHAT TAX DOLLARS ARE GONNA BE FUNDING, UM, THROUGH THESE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT GRANTS MM-HMM.
AND, UM, I'LL, I'LL GO THROUGH THAT TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THE GUIDELINES ARE AND, UH, SEE IF ANY OF THAT LANGUAGE IS IN THERE BECAUSE, UM, UH, I'M, I GOT CONCERNED OVER THIS LAST ISSUE ABOUT, WELL, WHAT ARE, WHAT IS IN OUR R F P CONCERNING THAT? AND AS I UNDERSTOOD IT, THERE WASN'T A LOT OF GUIDELINES IN THE R F P, BUT IF IT IS, THAT'S GREAT.
UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE STILL RESERVE THE RIGHT TO AGREE OR DISAGREE WHERE WITH A PRODUCTION OF SOMETHING.
SO IN THIS PARTICULAR GRANT, THEY'RE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT THEIR PROJECT, UH, WITH THE DESCRIPTION AND THERE WOULD BE A JURIED SELECTION PROCESS LOOKING AT ARTISTIC MERIT AS WELL AS APPROPRIATENESS FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, SO THE NEXT MILESTONE, I GUESS IS THE 19TH OF MARCH ON ADOPTING THE GUIDELINES.
AND THEN THE NEXT ONE WOULD BE, UM, DISCUSSION OF THIS ON THE BUDGET, WORKING, WORKING GROUP COMING UP IN MAY.
UM, TO SET THIS ASIDE, OUT OF THAT, OUT OF THAT REVENUE, THAT EXPECTED REVENUE COMING TO THE CITY, 'CAUSE ARE, AREN'T WE GETTING, AREN'T WE GETTING REVENUE FROM TICKET SALES NOW, EVEN THOUGH I, I MEAN, BEFORE TICKETMASTER, WEREN'T WE GETTING REVENUE FROM TICKET SALES? YES.
THE CITY HAS BEEN RECEIVING REVENUE.
AND HOW MUCH HAS THAT BEEN? SO MY UNDERSTANDING, 'CAUSE THIS IS NOT MY DEPARTMENT, MY UNDERSTANDING FROM, UH, CONVENTION SPORTS FACILITIES IS THAT THEIR REVENUES WAS AROUND A MILLION DOLLARS LAST YEAR, AND THEY WERE PROJECTING 2 MILLION FOR THIS YEAR.
AND HOW MUCH OF THAT REVENUE WAS KEPT BY THE CITY? THAT WAS THE AMOUNT THAT WAS KEPT BY THE CITY.
SO THAT'S THE TOTAL REVENUE COMING IN.
THAT WAS THE AMOUNT THAT WAS KEPT BY THE CITY FOR, UH, THE CONVENTION CENTER KEPT IT.
SO THEY'RE GIVING UP PART OF THEIR REVENUES FOR THIS ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT FUND.
AND, AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I WANNA DIG INTO A LITTLE BIT CLOSER, BECAUSE THE CONVENTION CENTER IS GIVING UP PORTION OF THEIR REVENUE.
WHAT ARE THEY NOT GONNA BE GETTING TO DO WITH LESS OF THAT REVENUE THAT THEY HAD PLANNED TO DO WITH THE CONVENTION CENTER? AND WE GOT A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON AT THE CONVENTION CENTER MM-HMM.
AND, UH, I, I, I'M, WHEN WE SAY WE'RE GONNA REDUCE ONE PROGRAM AND FUND ANOTHER PROGRAM, THAT'S ALL I, MY ANTENNA GOES UP SAYING, OKAY, WHAT ARE THEY GONNA NOT BE GETTING BECAUSE OF, BECAUSE OF THAT.
SO, UM, WELL, I LOOK FORWARD TO MM-HMM.
AND WITH THAT, SIR, I THINK, I THINK THAT'S IT.
AND YOU KNOW, I JUST WANNA POINT OUT, SINCE YOU BROUGHT UP THE GUIDELINES, THE CITY FOLLOWS, NUMBER ONE, I WANNA SAY DEBBIE AND HER STAFF HAVE ALWAYS DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR IN TERMS OF, UH, PERFORMING ARTS, THE ARTS IN GENERAL.
AND, UM, AS YOU BROUGHT UP, YOU SAID THAT THERE'S AN, THAT THERE'S AN ISSUE.
WE'RE ALWAYS, WE'RE ALWAYS GONNA BE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DEPARTMENTS, WITH THE ARTS COMMISSION.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO TOSS IT OVER TO LORI TO KIND OF MAYBE BE MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT SOME OF THE GUIDELINES THAT WE DID FOLLOW AND, UH, HOW THIS COMMITTEE IS, IS HERE TO POTENTIALLY LOOK AT, UH, SOME POTENTIAL POLICY
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DISCUSSION AROUND THESE KINDS OF ISSUES.LORI, AT OUR MEETING, UM, I'M SORRY.
WHEN WE, THE MEN, THE ISSUE REFERENCED REGARDING CENTRAL DE ARTIS, UM, THE ARTIST RESPONDED TO A CALL FOR, UM, APPLICATIONS THAT THE CITY ISSUED.
AND IN THAT SPECIFIC SOLICITATION, THE CITY SPECIFICALLY STATED THAT ANY ARTWORK MUST BE APPROPRIATE FOR GENERAL AUDIENCE VIEWING.
AND WE ALSO RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REMOVE OR DISPLAY ANY ARTWORK.
SO THAT IS UPFRONT, UM, BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE RESERVE THE RIGHT IT IS OUR FACILITY AND IT'S BEING PAID FOR WITH PUBLIC DOLLARS.
AND SO THAT IS WHAT WE ARE STICKING TO WHEN WE MAKE OUR DECISIONS.
SO WE'LL TOSS IT TO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA.
I'M GOOD ON PAGE NITON, BY THE WAY.
UM, I SEE THE RESTRICTIONS ON THERE AND THERE, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S VERY SPECIFIC.
ALSO, IT SAYS IN THE GUIDELINE, UM, IT ACTUALLY REFERS TO SECTION 43.21 OF THE PENAL CODE OF TEXAS.
AND I'M ASSUMING THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE, SO I'LL HAVE TO LOOK THAT UP.
SO THANK YOU LORI, UM, FOR CLARIFYING THAT ALSO ON PAGE 10, SO RIGHT NOW IT SAYS, CURRENTLY OWNED OR WHO HAVE A LONG-TERM LEASE OR OCCUPY A CITY BUILDING MIGHT BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE, UM, GRANTS.
BUT WHAT DO WE DO FOR CITY PROPERTIES? LIKE, SO WE ARE APPLYING, WE COULD POTENTIALLY APPLY FOR OUR OWN GRANT, LIKE, SO SOMEBODY THAT'S LEASING OUR SPACE, WE WOULD APPLY TO USE OUR OWN MONEY FOR THIS.
OR CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT? SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE, UH, FUNDING FOR THE FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS, AND THAT'S THE FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS, UH, ARE ONLY FOR THOSE PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE CURRENTLY RECEIVING AN OPERATIONAL GRANT FROM THE CITY.
AND SOME OF THOSE, UH, ORGANIZATIONS ARE IN CITY OWNED PROPERTY, LIKE THE MAGIC THEATER IS ONE EXAMPLE.
UM, THEY WOULD BE ELIGIBLE, BUT ALSO IF THEY HAVE A LONG-TERM LEASE, WHAT WE DIDN'T WANNA DO, AND OUR COM OUR ARTS FUNDING COMMITTEE DIDN'T WANNA DO, IS PROVIDE FUNDING TO IMPROVE A VENUE THAT THE ARTS ORGANIZATION WOULD THEN GET KICKED OUT OF.
AND THE LANDLORD THEN BENEFITED FROM THESE DOLLARS.
SO YOU COULD HAVE, UH, AN ORGANIZATION WHO HAS A LONG-TERM LEASE, NOT IN A CITY FACILITY, UM, THAT THEY COULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THAT FACILITY AS LONG AS IT WAS AT LEAST A FIVE YEAR LEASE.
DO WE HAVE A, DO WE HAVE A NUMBER, LIKE A PERCENTAGE OF HOW MANY ARE LONG-TERM LEASES? OR HOW MANY HAVE ACCESS TO CITY OWNED OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE NUMBERS HERE.
SO OF OUR AGENCIES WE IDENTIFIED, WE FUND ALMOST 50 AGENCIES, ABOUT 30 OR SO OUR PERFORMING ARTS AGENCIES AND 10 OF THEM WOULD BE QUALIFIED FOR THE FACILITY FUNDS.
AND THEN, UM, AND YOU MENTIONED THIS.
AND SO THE PERSON OR, OR THE, THE GROUP THAT MAKES THE AWARDS OR THAT RECOMMENDS THE AWARDS WOULD BE, WE WOULD HAVE AN EVALUATION PANEL.
THAT WOULD REVIEW FOR ARTISTIC MERIT, FOR MAKING SURE THAT THEY ARE QUALIFIED.
WE, WE LOOK AT QUALIFICATIONS FIRST.
THAT'S WHAT THE INTENT TO APPLY IS, BUT FOR ARTISTIC MERIT AS WELL AS FOR ELIGIBILITY.
DID THEY, IS THIS SOMETHING ELIGIBLE FOR THE FUNDS? UM, AND THEN THAT WILL BE SCORED AND THEN RANKED THAT WOULD THEN CODE, WE WOULD MAKE A RECOMMENDATION BASED ON HOW MUCH MONEY IS AVAILABLE TO THE ARTS FUNDING COMMITTEE.
AND, UH, ACTUALLY THE CHAIR OF THE ARTS FUNDING COMMITTEE IS DISTRICT FOUR APPOINTEE, UH, TO THE COMMISSION.
AND ONCE THE ARTS FUNDING COMMITTEE, UH, DELIBERATES ON THAT, THEY WOULD THEN MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE ARTS COMMISSION, AND THEN THE ARTS COMMISSION WOULD MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WOULD I, I WOULD BE TAKING TO CITY COUNCIL.
THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS, CHAIR.
UH, COUNCILMAN ROCHA GARCIA, UH, IN DEBBIE, THANKS AGAIN.
BUT I JUST, I WANNA, UH, END THIS PORTION OF OUR, UH, OF, OF OUR AGENDA BY, UH, SAYING THAT I, I WELCOME A DISCUSSION ABOUT SOME OF THE NEEDS IN OUR CITY.
AND WE, WHILE WE DO KNOW THAT THE CONVENTION CENTER HAS SOME CAPITAL NEEDS, UM, OUR ARTISTS LIVING, BREATHING, PEOPLE ALSO NEED FUNDING.
AND I, I WILL, I WILL SAY THAT, UM, SAYING WHAT WE'RE TAKING AWAY FROM THE CONVENTION CENTER, I WOULD, I WOULD, I WOULD POSE THAT SAME QUESTION.
WHAT ARE YOU TAKING AWAY FROM ARTISTS? WHAT ARE YOU TAKING AWAY FROM THE, THE, THE, THE HEART AND SOUL OF OUR CITY? UM,
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THIS IS ABOUT A BALANCE.SO I CERTAINLY WELCOME THAT CONVERSATION WHEN WE HAVE IT IN THE BUDGET COMING UP.
UH, I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT WE DO NOT FUND THE ARTS ENOUGH.
UH, THANK YOU, DEBBIE, FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM.
THE NEXT AGENDA, THE NEXT AGENDA
[3. 20-2281 Staff briefing regarding Status of Poverty Report recommendation related to enhancing the safety-net for low-income families. [Colleen M. Bridger, MPH, PhD, Assistant City Manager; Melody Woosley, Director, Human Services]]
ITEM IS A PRESENTATION ON THE POVERTY REPORT.PATRICK STACK, WHO IS THE INTERIM DI, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, WILL PRESENT THIS ITEM.
UH, I AM NOT MELODY WOOSLEY, BUT I AM, UH, HERE TODAY AS, UH, SHE'S UNFORTUNATELY ABLE, UNABLE TO ATTEND, BUT THAT'S LORI SETTA AND PATRICK STACK, INTERIM ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITH HUMAN SERVICES.
SO SEVERAL OF YOU HAVE PROBABLY SEEN A VERSION OF THIS PRESENTATION ALREADY, AS WE MAKE OUR WAY THROUGH SEVERAL OF THE COUNCIL COMMITTEES.
UH, SO BEAR WITH ME IF SOME OF IT LOOKS FAMILIAR.
HOWEVER, EACH PRESENTATION IS, UH, TAILORED TO THE DIFFERENT COMMITTEES BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS WE'RE BRINGING FORWARD.
UM, SO, AS YOU KNOW, LAST SEPTEMBER, UH, SINCE THIS DATA RELEASED SOME ONE YEAR ESTIMATE DATA THAT SHOWED SAN ANTONIO WITH THE HIGHEST RATE OF POVERTY AMONG THE 25 LARGEST METRO AREAS IN THE COUNTRY, AND, UH, HUMAN SERVICES AND METRO HEALTH WORK TOGETHER TO, UH, DEVELOP THE STATUS OF POVERTY REPORT, UM, THAT BUILT ON VARIOUS OTHER REPORTS IN THE COMMUNITY AND ANALYZES SOME CENSUS DATA AND, UH, BUILT ON CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD, UH, WITH, WITH PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO THIS IS THE THIRD OF SEVEN PRESENTATIONS SCHEDULED FOR VARIOUS COUNCIL COMMITTEES.
I'LL RUN THROUGH AN OVERVIEW OF THE REPORT AND THEN GET TO THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THIS COMMITTEE.
AND THEN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PLAN.
UM, SO THE, THE PARTY RATE IN SAN ANTONIO IS NEARLY 20%.
UH, THE RED LINE HERE IS, IS SAN ANTONIO.
YOU CAN SEE IT'S, UH, MARKEDLY HIGHER THAN TEXAS AND NATIONAL POVERTY RATE AVERAGES OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS.
UH, IN ADDITION, THE POVERTY RATE AMONG THE REPORT LOOKS AT DISAGGREGATES THE DATA BY RACE.
UH, THE POVERTY RATE FOR HISPANICS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS IS ABOUT 21%, WHICH IS HIGHER THAN OUR WHITE NON-HISPANIC RESIDENTS.
UH, WOMEN IN ADDITION, ARE MORE LIKELY TO LIVE IN POVERTY THAN MEN IN SAN ANTONIO AND IN THE NATION AND IN TEXAS.
AND THEN IN THE CITY INVEST ABOUT A $454 MILLION TO REDUCE BARRIERS TO VER TO SOCIAL SOCIOECONOMIC MOBILITY.
AND WE'LL GO THROUGH SOME OF THOSE AS WELL.
UH, SO AS I MENTIONED, EACH PRESENTATION'S TAILORED TO THE VARIOUS COMMITTEES, BUT WE DO INCLUDE THIS SLIDE BECAUSE EDUCATION AND THE CORRELATION WITH EDUCATION AND POVERTY IS SO IMPORTANT.
UM, SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE EDUCATION ATTAINMENT BY, UH, PERCENT WITH HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE IS THE HIGHEST DEGREE, AND THAT'S BY ZIP CODE.
UH, YOU CAN SEE 18% OF RESIDENTS DO NOT HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA COMPARED TO ABOUT 12.7% IN THE COUNTRY.
16% OF HISPANICS IN BEXAR COUNTY, AND 26% OF AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE A BACHELOR'S DEGREE COMPARED TO 43% NON-HISPANIC WHITES.
UM, POVERTY EXISTS IN EVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT, BUT THERE ARE DISPARITIES, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THIS MAP HERE, AND, UM, MUCH MORE LIKELY TO SHOW CONCENTRATED POVERTY IN VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE AREA OF EDUC, OR, EXCUSE ME, EMPLOYMENT AND INCOME.
UH, WHEN WE LOOK AT INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT, LOW WAGE JOBS ARE DOMINANT.
MORE THAN A QUARTER OF WORKERS IN SAN ANTONIO ARE IN OCCUPATIONS WHERE THE MEDIAN WAGE IS LESS THAN 25,000 A YEAR.
THE CHART SHOWS, UH, GREEN BARS FOR SAN ANTONIO, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS, AND THE US AS THE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME.
AND THEN FIVE YEAR CENSUS ESTIMATES, UH, FOR THE POVERTY RATE.
SO SAN ANTONIO COMING IN HIGHER THAN THE COUNTY STATE AND NATIONAL AVERAGES AT ABOUT 18.6% WHEN THAT FIVE YEAR WEIGHTED AVERAGE IS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.
UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING HAS AN INTERSECTION, OF COURSE, WITH THIS COMMITTEE.
UH, 91% OF LOW INCOME RENTERS ARE COST BURDENED, MEANING THEY SPEND MORE THAN 30% OF THEIR INCOME ON HOUSING COSTS.
AND 70% THAT NUMBER IS 70% FOR LOW INCOME HOMEOWNERS.
OF COURSE, HOME OWNERSHIP IS A, A GREAT SOURCE OF WEALTH OR ASSET ACCUMULATION FOR HOUSEHOLDS AND IS DISPROPORTIONATELY LOW FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN AND HISPANIC RESIDENTS.
UH, 70% OF AFRICAN AMERICAN RESIDENTS AND 62% OF HISPANIC RESIDENTS ARE RENTERS COMPARED TO 54% OF WHITE NON-HISPANIC RESIDENTS.
AND, UH, RELATED TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS HOMELESSNESS.
THE, SO THE POINT IN TIME COUNT FROM 2018 TO 2019 SHOWED A, A SLIGHT DECREASE IN HOMELESSNESS IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT FAMILY HOMELESSNESS, UH, ALARMINGLY WENT
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UP 18% OVER THOSE TWO YEARS.UH, LOOKING AT WEALTH ASSETS AND FINANCIAL HEALTH.
UM, THE URBAN INSTITUTE DID ANALYSIS OF CREDIT SCORES ACROSS DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES AND, UH, FOUND THAT SAN ANTONIO RESIDENTS HAVE A LOWER MEDIAN CREDIT SCORES, HIGHER DELINQUENT DEBT, AND LITTLE OR NO SAVINGS.
UM, THE MEDIAN CREDIT SCORE IN RESIDENTS IN PREDOMINANTLY NON-WHITE ZIP CODES IS ABOUT 615, WHICH IS CONSIDERED FAIR, WHEREAS IN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE ZIP CODES, IT'S ABOUT 7 21, WHICH IS CONSIDERED GOOD.
UH, THIS OF COURSE, THE CREDIT SCORE, OF COURSE, IMPACTS YOUR ABILITY TO ACCESS FINANCIAL PRODUCTS AND THE INTEREST RATES THAT YOU PAY.
35% OF RESIDENTS AND PREDOMINANTLY NON-WHITE ZIP CODES HAVE MEDICAL DEBT IN COLLECTION STATUS COMPARED TO 18% OF RESIDENTS IN PREDOMINANTLY WHITE ZIP CODES.
AND THIS GAP IS LARGER IN BEXAR COUNTY THAN IN TEXAS.
TOUCHING ON THOSE INVESTMENTS, UH, THAT THE CITY IS CURRENTLY MAKING, THIS IS THROUGH THE CITY BUDGET, UH, REGARDLESS OF FUND SOURCE OF GENERAL OR STATE OR FEDERAL GRANT FUNDING, UM, 200, OR EXCUSE ME, 29 MILLION IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING INVESTMENTS.
AND THAT'S THINGS LIKE, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, UH, IMPROVEMENT OF EXISTING HOUSING STOCK THROUGH VARIOUS PROGRAMS. UH, FAIR HOUSING DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION AND AREA OF HOMELESSNESS IS ABOUT 36 MILLION TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES OF HOMELESSNESS.
UM, MOSTLY ADDRESSING UNSHELTERED AND CHRONIC HOMELESS IN THE COMMUNITY.
NOW GETTING TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE REPORT.
SO WE DIVIDE IT UP ACROSS VARIOUS COUNCIL COMMITTEES, THE RECOMMENDATIONS, THEY, THERE'S 15 IN THE REPORT THAT FALL INTO FIVE CATEGORIES.
UM, THIS COMMITTEE WILL LOOK AT A RECOMMENDATION WITHIN THE, UM, CATEGORY OF ENHANCING SAFETY NET PROGRAMS FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES.
AND SPECIFICALLY THAT'S INVESTING IN LEGAL SERVICES FOR DEBT COLLECTION CASES AND EVICTION CASES, UH, TO ENSURE FAIR REPRESENTATION AND OUTCOMES FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES.
UM, SO WITHIN THIS, WE, WE SUGGEST A COUPLE OF AREAS BREAKING IT OUT BY THAT DEBT, UH, DEBT CASES AND EVICTIONS, UH, WHERE WE COULD INCREASE WORK OR IN, OR, UH, CHANGE WHAT WE'RE DOING A LITTLE BIT.
UM, WE WANT TO GET YOUR FEEDBACK ON THESE RECOMMENDATIONS AND SEE WHAT WOULD RESONATE WITH YOU.
SO LEGAL SERVICES TO ASSIST WITH DEBT COLLECTION CASES ARE, UM, A SPECIFIC TYPE OF DEBT CASE.
IT'S A LAWSUIT TO RECOVER MONEY, UH, THAT'S OWED TO A CREDITOR.
UM, CURRENTLY OUR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT CENTERS, UH, WHICH ARE OPERATED BY HUMAN SERVICES OR THROUGH FUNDED AGENCIES, UM, WORK WITH RESIDENTS ON THEIR CREDIT SCORES AND THEIR CREDIT REPORTS AND CAN GIVE SOME ASSISTANCE TO DEBT COLLECTION CLAIMS. UM, BUT OF COURSE, THEY'RE NOT LAWYERS.
SO IF THERE'S LEGAL ASSISTANCE NEEDED, WE'D HAVE TO MAKE A REFERRAL.
AND SO WE WOULD, UM, SUGGEST TO THIS COMMITTEE, UM, INCREASING OR CHANGING THE, THE LEGAL SERVICES THAT WE CURRENTLY FUND IS PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON, UM, IMMIGRATION CASES, BUT WE ALSO FUND AGENCIES TO WORK ON, UH, SENIOR WILL SERVICES ID RECOVERY AND VETERANS HOUSING AND BENEFITS ISSUES AS WELL.
SO WE COULD INCLUDE THIS SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATION WITHIN OUR CONSOLIDATED FUNDING R F P, WHICH IS COMING UP SOON.
UM, SECOND IN THE AREA OF EVICTION LEGAL ASSISTANCE.
THE, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT PROVIDES FAIR COUNSELING SERVICES, WHICH, UM, ALLOWS FOR FAIR HOUSING COMPLAINTS TO BE APPROPRIATELY ADDRESSED AND REPORTED TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
UM, THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT ALSO IS FUNDING LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR RENTERS FACING EVICTION.
THAT'S A NEW, UH, THING THIS YEAR IN FISCAL 2020, A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IS, UH, ALLOCATED.
SO WE CONSIDER THAT A PILOT FOR THIS YEAR.
AND THEN IF WARRANTED, WE COULD LOOK AT EXPANDING, UM, OR, OR MAKING CHANGES TO THAT SO THAT THAT CONTRACT IS, UM, ABOUT TO GET STARTED AND ABOUT TO START PROVIDING, UH, ASSISTANCE FOR, AGAIN, THOSE REFERRAL CASES WHEN EVICTION, UM, RESIDENTS FACING EVICTION NEED, LEGAL REPRESENTATION OR ADVICE.
SO THOSE ARE THE TWO RECOMMENDATIONS.
UM, OVERALL NEXT STEPS, UH, SEVEN COUNCIL COMMITTEES, AS I MENTIONED THAT WE'RE TAKING THIS TO, THIS IS NUMBER STOP, NUMBER THREE.
UH, WE'LL SOON THIS WEEK START, UH, RELEASING OUR SURVEY OF RESIDENTS, PRIMARILY FOCUSING ON LOW INCOME RESIDENTS WITH OUR OUTREACH EFFORTS.
BUT THERE'LL BE AVAILABLE, OF COURSE, TO THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
WE'VE ALSO PRESENTED TO A NUMBER OF OUR DELEGATE AGENCY, NONPROFITS AND, UH, OTHER GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY ON A VERSION OF THIS PRESENTATION.
AND WE'LL BE SOLICITING THEIR IMPACT INPUT AS WELL,
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UH, WITH THE GOAL OF BRINGING TOGETHER INPUT FROM THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND RESIDENTS AND FUNDERS AND AGENCIES, UM, TO MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AT AN APRIL B SESSION.THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
UM, I'LL START OFF BY, UH, MENTIONING THE, THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL PROGRAM THAT YOU REFERENCED.
UM, IT'S ABOUT TO GET STARTED.
WHEN, WHEN EXACTLY IS THAT STARTING? UM, I BELIEVE IT'S THIS MONTH.
WE'RE WORKING ON FINALIZING THAT CONTRACT.
WE'LL GET THAT FUNDING TO AN AGENCY VERY SOON.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO WE, WE ONLY, I, WE ASKED THAT WE PEEL OFF ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PROGRAM.
SO I, I WOULD MAKE THE, THE REQUEST THAT AT AT LEAST AT, AT THIS MOMENT, IF WE CAN AT LEAST BOOKMARK SOME FUNDING FROM OUR MID-YEAR REVIEW JUST IN CASE, 'CAUSE THAT IS COMING UP.
SO I, I WILL ASK THAT WE LOOK AT EXPANDING, 'CAUSE I KNOW WHEN WE DO, WE WILL BE GETTING INTO THIS DISCUSSION IN OUR BUDGET, BUT THAT BUDGET SEASON, IT DOESN'T START UNTIL JULY.
UH, SO, UH, I WOULD ASK THAT, THAT WE CAN EXTEND THAT OR AT LEAST, YOU KNOW, UH, BOOKMARK THAT FOR OUR MIDYEAR REVIEW SO WE CAN TRY TO CONTINUE TO EXPAND THE PROGRAM, NOT LET IT HAVE IT SORT OF HAVE A HARD STOP, UH, SO QUICKLY.
WE ANTICIPATE A LOT OF CASES COMING.
UM, YOU ALSO POINTED OUT, UM, RENTERS, AND SO I, I APPRECIATE YOU ADDING THAT PIECE IN THE DISCUSSION.
UH, YOU KNOW, ONE, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE ASKED THIS WEEKEND WAS THE COMPARISON OF HOMEOWNERS AND RENTERS.
AND SO I, I WOULD ASK, AS YOU POINT POINTED OUT HERE, HERE, HERE'S KIND OF THE DIFFERENCE AS I SEE IT AS SLIDE NUMBER SIX.
AGAIN, 70% OF LOW INCOME HOMEOWNERS ARE COST BURDEN.
UM, BUT IF YOU WERE TO COMPARE SORT OF THE TOTALITY OF HOMEOWNERS VERSUS RENTERS, WHAT'S THE PERCENTAGE OF THOSE THAT ARE COST BURDEN BETWEEN THOSE WHO RENT AND THOSE WHO OWN THEIR HOMES? AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, BASED ON THE, THE GRAPHS HERE, I MEAN, EVEN ACROSS ALL INCOME BRACKETS, UM, THE RENTERS ARE ON THE, THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.
UM, THE RATES OF OF COST BURDEN ARE HIGHER AT EACH BRACKET, UH, THAN, THAN RENT THAN HOMEOWNERS, RIGHT? YEAH.
SO I, WE GOTTA, WE, WE NEED TO REEMPHASIZE KIND OF THAT, THAT BIG DIFFERENCE, UH, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
'CAUSE I THINK THAT'S AT THE HEART OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, RESOLVE IF WE'RE TRYING TO, UH, TACKLE THE ISSUE OF POVERTY, OF COURSE, AS IT RELATES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AS IT RELATES TO ALL THESE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO, TO, UH, ADDRESS.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, THE NEED FOR, FOR, UH, FOR ARTISTS FUNDING.
AND SO I'M GONNA ALSO JUST KIND OF THROW THAT OUT THERE.
AND THAT IN MANY CASES WE HAVE A COMPARISON OF HOW SOME OF OUR FUNDING CAN GO TO CERTAIN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OR PROJECTS OR UPGRADES.
AND, AND THAT SAME KIND OF DOLLARS CAN GO TO ACTUAL HELP FUND, UH, PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVELIHOOD AND WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO PRODUCE.
SO I WANT TO ALSO EMPHASIZE THAT THERE IS, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHERE, WHERE OUR MONEY'S GOING AND HOW CAN IT CAN ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE IN THEIR CURRENT SITUATION.
SO I'D, I'D LIKE FOR US TO LOOK AT THAT AS WELL.
UH, WE HAVE A COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ANDREW SULLIVAN.
UM, I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS WHEN IT COMES IN RELATION TO UNDERSTANDING THE LOWER MEDIAN INCOME AND POVERTY WHEN IT RELATES TO THE TRUE DEFINITION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WORKING WITH SABRE, THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION TO BRIDGE THE GAP, UM, IN THOSE THAT ARE IN THE MOST PROPERTY STRICKEN ZIP CODES AND EXACTLY WHAT DOES, UM, A COST BURDEN, UH, ALLEVIATION LOOK LIKE WHEN IT COMES TO HOME OWNERSHIP OR RENTER, UM, POSSIBILITIES.
I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT CORRELATION HAS BEEN MADE, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ZIP CODES, RIGHT? UM, OBVIOUSLY THE BUILDING OR CREATING MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS IS GOING TO, UM, FREE UP INCOME FOR OTHER DISCRETIONARY PURPOSES OR NOT SO DISCRETIONARY PURPOSES.
UM, SO I'M SORRY, I'M NOT, MAYBE I'M NOT FOLLOWING YOUR QUESTION CORRECTLY.
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE MEDIAN INCOME MM-HMM.
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WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THESE ZIP CODES THAT ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANTLY IMPOVERISHED TO FIND A TRUE GAP, OUR BRIDGING OF THE GAP WHEN IT COMES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND RENT OUR OWNERSHIP AND HOW TO MAKE THAT MEET WITH THAT MEDIAN? WELL, LET ME ANSWER THIS DIFFERENTLY.SO CURRENTLY WE'RE IN THE PROCESS PROCESS OF LOOKING AT, UM, OUR HOUSING FRAMEWORK AND IDENTIFYING, YOU KNOW, PRODUCTION GOALS, LOOKING AT REHAB GOALS, AND THEN DOING, LOOKING AT THE TOOLS THAT WE HAVE TO ADDRESS EACH OF THOSE INDIVIDUALLY.
RIGHT NOW, SABOR AND THOSE AREN'T PART OF THE CONVERSATION BECAUSE IT'S REALLY THE HOUSING TRUST AND THE HOUSING AUTHORITY IN THE CITY THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE OF FOR THE PRODUCTION.
SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING WHAT WE'RE REFERRING TO AS A HOUSING IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
SO TAKING WHAT THE MAYOR'S HOUSING TASK FORCE FRAMEWORK SAID, AND THEN CREATING A PLAN ON HOW WE IMPLEMENT IT.
SO HOW DO WE INCREASE PRODUCTION FOR 30% A M I UNITS? HOW DO WE INCREASE REHAB OF HOUSING OWNER OCCUPIED HOUSING UNITS IN THE AREAS THAT HAVE THE MOST NEED? AND THAT'LL BE A REALIGNMENT OF ALL OF OUR TOOLS THAT WILL BE PRESENTED TO THIS COMMITTEE MOST LIKELY IN JUNE.
AND THEN ONCE IT IS PRESENTED TO THE COMMITTEE AND IT GOES TO CITY COUNCIL AND IT'S ADOPTED, IT'LL ALSO GO TO THE HOUSING TRUST FOR ADOPTION, THE HOUSING AUTHORITY FOR ADOPTION.
AND ACTUALLY WE'RE WORKING WITH THE SAN ANTONIO REGIONAL ALLIANCE AND HOMELESSNESS FOR ADOPTION.
AND SO WE'RE WORKING WITH ALL OF OUR PRODUCTION PARTNERS AND OUR REHAB PARTNERS TO HAVE ONE UNIFIED HOUSING POLICY.
'CAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE ALL KIND OF DOING EVERYTHING AND NO ONE'S SUPPORTING, YOU KNOW, YOU DO THIS THE BEST, HOW CAN WE SUPPORT YOU DO THAT? AND THEN HOW DO YOU SUPPORT WHAT WE DO THE BEST? AND SO THAT CONVERSATION IS, IS HAPPENING.
AND SO I THINK THAT IS THE BIGGEST THING WE'RE DOING NOW, IS MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ALL IN ALIGNMENT AND GOING TOWARDS THAT ONE GOAL.
DOES THAT HELP ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? YES, MA'AM.
UM, THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE I WANTED TO FIND OUT IF THERE WAS A WAY TO, MAYBE EVEN WITH SABOR AND THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION, FIND OUT WHAT THEY HAVE IN THEIR STOCK MM-HMM.
UM, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF, SOMETIMES THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT, UM, STOCK THAT THEY CAN, CAN PROVIDE AS WELL.
DO YOU PRESENT A PLAN TO THEM AS A STAKEHOLDER FOR THEIR INPUT? WE'LL PROBABLY DO A SMALL FOCUS GROUP WITH THEM TO GET THEIR INPUT, AND WE'LL MAKE SURE WE DO THAT BEFORE WE PRESENT TO THIS COUNCIL COMMITTEE.
AND THEN WITHIN THE LEGAL PROCESS RECOMMENDATION, UM, IS THERE, UH, ABILITY TO OFFER ASSISTANCE WITH, UM, PROBATE AND DEEDS? WE, WE CURRENTLY HAVE THAT AS PART OF OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN.
THERE IS SOME FUNDING SET ASIDE.
UM, DISTRICT FIVE ASKED FOR IT.
IT'S KIND OF A PILOT, BUT IT'S AVAILABLE CITYWIDE.
THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES WE HAVE, IS IDENTIFYING HOMES THAT COULD BE AVAILABLE OR PUT PLACED IN THE MARKET, BUT THEY'RE STUCK IN PROBATE.
SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DO HAVE SOME FUNDING FOR IT, UM, WE COULD USE MORE.
AND THEN, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, ARE WE WORKING WITH ANY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO HELP WITH MAYBE SECOND CHANCE BANKING TO HELP WITH INCOME BUDGETING AND BUDGET ANALYSIS TO HELP THOSE THAT ARE WITHIN THAT LOWER POVERTY UNDERSTAND THE MEANS OF HOW TO, TO MAKE THE DOLLARS WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY? I'LL LET PATRICK ANSWER THAT AND THEN I'LL ADD SOMETHING TO THAT.
SO THROUGH OUR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT CENTERS IS THE PRIMARY, UH, VEHICLE FOR THAT.
SO THERE'S THREE ACROSS THE COMMUNITY, UM, LOOKING AT THE HOUSEHOLD BUDGET, HELPING, UH, UNDERSTAND INCOME, CREDIT SCORE, UM, SOME OF THOSE BASIC THINGS OF HOUSEHOLD BUDGETING.
AND THEN, UM, WE ALSO DO, ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT IS, UM, WORKING WITH OUR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO OFFER, UM, PRODUCTS THAT ARE MOST ACCESSIBLE.
UM, THERE'S A, A CERTIFICATION CALLED BANK ON, UM, THAT WE WILL LOOK AT APPLYING FOR SO THAT SAN ANTONIO CAN BE A BANK ON COMMUNITY.
UM, AND THAT'S JUST, UH, IT'S A CERTIFICATION PROCESS THROUGH THE CITIES FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT THAT A FINANCIAL PRODUCT IS, IS, UM, MEETS THE NEEDS OF CONSUMERS, ESPECIALLY LOW INCOME, INCOME CONSUMERS.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT PURSUING THAT AND PROMOTING THOSE FINANCIAL, UM, INSTITUTIONS THAT OFFER THAT KIND OF PRODUCT.
AND THEN SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN SIDE IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE,
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UM, HAVE BROUGHT OUR COMMUNITY BANKS TO THE TABLE BECAUSE WE CAN LEVERAGE OUR DOLLARS A LOT FURTHER IF THEY'RE HELPING US WITH THE INITIAL UNDERWRITING.AND THEN THE CITY IS ENGAGED IN THE, THE PORTION THAT THE PROPERTY OWNER CANNOT, CANNOT, UM, TAKE ON.
AND SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING WITH JEFFERSON FROST, BB AND T, ALL OF THOSE COMMUNITY BANKS, AND THEN ALSO WORKING WITH LISC AND SOME OF THE NON-PROFIT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO SEE HOW WE CAN BETTER LEVERAGE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE FUNDING AVAILABLE TO THAT 30%.
UM, AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION I HAVE IS IN RELATION TO THE MEDICAL DEBT, ARE WE WORKING WITH OUR HOSPITAL SYSTEMS TO ASSIST THOSE WHO ARE CREDIT BURDENED BECAUSE OF THE HOSPITAL DEBT AND FINDING OUT IF THERE'S A PROGRAM THAT CAN BE SET UP TO HELP, UM, ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE HOSPITAL BURDEN OF A, OF A PERSON THAT IS POVERTY STRICKEN AND THEY'RE TRYING TO DEBATE IF THEY'RE GONNA HAVE MEDICAL CARE OR FOOD ON THE TABLE? WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH OUR HOSPITAL SYSTEMS TO HELP KIND OF FIND THAT BALANCE? YEAH, AGAIN, THROUGH THE FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT CENTERS THAT WOULD BE LOOKING AT, AT ANY DEBT THAT THEY HAVE, UM, IN WORKING WITH ANY CREDITOR, UM, THAT THEY OWE TO.
UM, SO THAT COULD BE HOSPITAL SYSTEMS. UM, RICHARD, DO YOU, DO YOU KNOW IF THAT'S HAPPENED YET? AND WE CAN LOOK AT EXPLORING, UH, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITIES WITH OUR PROVIDERS HERE AS, AS FAR AS BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP AND, AND SEEING WHAT CAN BE DONE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A LEGAL ASPECT TO IT.
THAT'S WHERE THIS RECOMMENDATION COMES IN OF, OF GETTING LEGAL ASSISTANCE AND REPRESENTATION.
I'M RICHARD KEITH AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.
JUST TO ADD TO WHAT PATRICK SAID, UH, WE KNOW THAT METHODIST HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES HAS A REALLY HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN, UH, MEDICAL DEBT AND ADDRESSING THAT FOR LOW INCOME RESIDENTS.
UM, WE'VE HAD SEVERAL TALKS WITH THEM OVER THE LAST YEAR OR TWO ABOUT, UM, THE ISSUE OF MEDICAL DEBT.
AND I THINK AS PART OF THE ROLLOUT FOR, UH, THIS, UH, STATUS OF POVERTY IN SAN ANTONIO ACTION PLAN THAT FOLLOWS THE REPORT, WE'LL BE HAVING MORE TALKS WITH THEM AND LEADING TO ACTION.
COUNCILWOMAN, UH, COUNCILWOMAN ROCHA GARCIA.
UH, CAN YOU REMIND ME, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU MENTIONED THIS, BUT THE PILOT PROGRAM WILL FIRST BE IMPLEMENTED OR IS IT JUST A PILOT PROGRAM ACROSS THE CITY FOR THE, UH, EVICTION LEGAL SERVICES? YES, THAT'LL BE AVAILABLE FOR ALL, ANY RESIDENT.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, WILL WE STILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE OR MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS AGAIN, UM, AS A COMMITTEE? AND I GUESS THIS IS MORE OF A QUESTION FOR CHAIR AF AFTER THIS MEETING.
LIKE IF WE HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL TIME TO KIND OF DEBRIEF AND, AND THINK ABOUT SOME ADDITIONAL, WILL THERE BE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR INPUT THROUGH THIS COMMITTEE RIGHT.
TO COUNSEL? WELL, FOR, FOR ANY, ANYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH, 'CAUSE I NOTICED THAT ON THE LAST SLIDE IT TALKS ABOUT, UM, UH, ABOUT GATHERING INFORMATION.
I THINK IT WAS YOUR LAST SLIDE.
I CAN'T, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE IT WAS.
UM, THE B SESSION PRESENTATION IS GOING TO BE PRIORITIZED RECOMMENDATIONS FROM EACH CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE.
SO I'M WONDERING WHEN WE AS A GROUP, RIGHT, ARE ARE IS GOING TO GIVE YOU IDEAS AND THEN WE'RE GONNA PRIORITIZE THEM.
I'M, I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT THAT PROCESS SO WE CAN COME BACK IF THERE'S, UM, THE DESIRE TO DO THAT.
UM, WE'LL BE GOING TO SEVERAL OTHER COMMITTEES AS WELL.
SO WITHIN THE WHOLE POVERTY REPORT FRAMEWORK, UM, UH, THERE WILL BE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THAT AS WELL, I THINK FOR MOST OF YOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS.
BUT AS THIS COMMITTEE, UM, YEAH, IF THERE'S AN OR DESIRE TO COME BACK, ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK, PATRICK, LEMME JUST INTERJECT.
I, SO I THINK HE'S TA WHAT, WHAT THE RECOMMENDATION'S GONNA BE HAS TO DO WITH, WITH THIS PARTICULAR REPORT.
AND IF YOU'RE TALKING MORE SPECIFICALLY, SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL PROGRAM, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE, THAT IS GONNA, UH, SEE FURTHER, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS AND, UH, WE WANNA, YOU KNOW, BE, UH, VERY FLEXIBLE WITH AS, AS WE GROW THAT PROGRAM.
BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THAT IS NECESSARILY PART OF THIS REPORT.
THE RIGHT TO COUNSEL IS, IS BEING SHAPED AS A PILOT PROGRAM IN, UH, IN, IN ITS OWN SEPARATE, RIGHT? IS THAT CORRECT? THERE IS A RECOMMENDATION FROM, IN THE POVERTY REPORT TO EXPAND LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR EVICTION CASES.
SO THAT THAT PROJECT, UM, I THINK SORT OF STARTED PARALLEL.
UM, AND IT IS, WE WOULD CONS, WE WOULD RECOMMEND IT AS A PILOT AND THEN, UM, MOVE FORWARD, UH, AFTER EVALUATION AFTER SOME PERIOD OF TIME WITH RESPECT TO THAT SPECIFIC, BUT WE CAN STILL ADD RECOMMENDATIONS CERTAINLY AS A COMMITTEE, RIGHT? LIKE IF WE, I MEAN, IF COUNCILMAN PERRY COMES UP WITH SOMETHING BRILLIANT OR COUNCILMAN ENCOURAGER OR JADA UNDER SULLIVAN, SOMEBODY COMES UP WITH SOMETHING, ESPECIALLY IF COUNCILMAN PERRY COMES UP WITH SOMETHING
UH, BUT WOULD, SO WE WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, HEY, BY THE WAY, WE HEARD THIS GREAT THING GOING ON IN X CITY, CAN WE CONSIDER IT? WE'D STILL
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HAVE THAT.I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY STILL TO SAY THAT.
UM, AND THEN, UH, WITH THAT SAID ON PAGE 10, UH, YOU ALL HAVE ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT, THE VERY LAST, UH, BULLET OFFER ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT TO NONPROFITS TO ENHANCE LONG-TERM VIABILITY AND OUTCOMES.
CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT IS? AND LET ME TELL YOU WHY.
UH, I'D LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS.
WE WERE IN, UH, A MEETING A FEW WEEKS AGO ON EQUITY SPECIFICALLY, AND I LEARNED THAT NOT ALL NONPROFITS ARE, UM, ARE TRAINED IN EQUITY BY THE CITY.
AND SO THAT TO ME WAS A CONCERN, UM, BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EQUITY AND EVERYTHING THAT WE DO, BUT THE FACT THAT WE'RE NOT TRAINING ORGANIZATIONS, WOULD THAT BE ONE OF THESE THINGS THAT WE MIGHT CONSIDER AS ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT OR, OR HOW DO WE, UM, HOW ARE WE DEFINING ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT? YEAH, IT COULD BE.
UH, SO WITHIN THOSE, WITHIN THAT AREA, UM, THE REPORT RECOMMENDS, UH, A COUPLE THINGS.
AND ONE IS, IS ESSENTIALLY HELPING ORGANIZATIONS COORDINATE BETTER, UM, WITH THE GOAL OF, OF MAKING EFFECTIVE CHANGE, BUT ALSO POTENTIALLY GETTING FUNDING SOURCES ALIGNED FOR THEM.
AND THEN, UH, INVESTING IN THE CAPACITY OF NONPROFITS.
SO WITHIN THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE STARTED A LOT OF THAT WITHIN HUMAN SERVICES, UM, WITH BRINGING OUR DELEGATE AGENCY GROUPS TOGETHER BY ISSUE AREA, UM, QUARTERLY OR MONTHLY, DEPENDING ON THE GROUP.
AND SO WORKING THROUGH THAT GROUP, I THINK THERE COULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO TRAIN ON THE EQUITY WORK THAT THE CITY'S DOING, AT LEAST SHARING WHAT WE'RE DOING AND TALKING WITH THEM ABOUT HOW THEY COULD IMPLEMENT IT AND, AND EXTEND THE REACH OF THAT.
UM, PART OF THAT TALKS ABOUT ENHANCED LONG-TERM VISIBILITY AND OUTCOMES.
WOULD ANY OF THAT ALSO BE, UH, MAYBE SOME AVAILABLE RESOURCES TO GET SOME OF THESE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS EVENTUALLY TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY? UH, YEAH, I THINK SO.
I THINK COORDINATING, UM, THE WORK OF NON-PROFITS SO THAT THEY CAN APPLY FOR, FUND OTHER FUNDING SOURCES AND GO AFTER OTHER FUNDING SOURCES, I THINK THAT SUSTAINABILITY QUESTION WOULD, WOULD FALL IN THERE.
AND THEN MY NEXT QUESTION, UM, ON PAGE NINE, CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND, I SEE THAT IT'S $36.1 MILLION IN HOMELESS INVESTMENTS.
I SEE THE FEDERAL LINE, I SEE THE LOCAL LINE, BUT I DON'T SEE ANY OF THE RED.
IS IT BECAUSE MAYBE THERE'S JUST NOT FEDERALLY FUNDED PROGRAMS SPECIFICALLY, UM, BUDGETED OR, UH, SO THE RED IS STATE.
AND I THINK THE LEGEND WAS JUST COPIED ON EACH SLIDE.
SO THERE THAT THERE IS NOT STATE FUNDING PER SE THAT RUNS THROUGH THE CITY'S BUDGET.
UM, DO WE KNOW IF, IF MAYBE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY OR IF THERE'S SOME GRANTS OUT THERE THAT INDIRECTLY BENEFIT, UM, HOMELESS AND, UH, HOMELESSNESS INITIATIVE INVESTMENTS? YEAH.
THERE IS, UM, A STATE PROGRAM THAT FUNDS THE LARGEST EIGHT METRO AREAS.
UM, SO STATE RESOURCES ARE DIRECTED.
SO IN SAN ANTONIO, UM, THOSE DON'T APPEAR ON THE CHART, BUT IT'S, UM, I BELIEVE IT'S ABOUT 4 MILLION THAT'S DIRECTED STRAIGHT TO HAVEN FOR HOPE.
SO THERE ARE STATE RESOURCES GOING TOWARDS HOMELESSNESS, UM, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE GOING FOR HAVEN FOR HOPE'S OPERATIONS.
UH, AND THEN THE FEDERAL, I THINK, UH, IS THERE ANY OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU ALL SEE? SO, SO FOR INSTANCE, THE, UM, RELATION MAYBE BETWEEN HOMELESSNESS AND SPECIFICALLY, UH, MAYBE WOMEN, AND IS THERE ALSO OPPORTUNITY? ARE WE LOOKING AT OTHER GRANTS AVAILABLE MAYBE THROUGH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS WELL, UM, TO LEVERAGE THE REPORT ON POVERTY THAT WE JUST GOT? YEAH, SO MUCH OF THE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR HOMELESSNESS RUNS THROUGH SOUTH ALAMO REGIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS THROUGH SARAH.
UM, THEY RECENTLY SECURED A, A LARGE GRANT FOR YOUTH HOMELESSNESS.
UM, BUT WITH RESPECT TO WOMEN, WE CAN TALK TO THEM ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR FEDERAL FUNDING.
THOSE ARE MY QUESTIONS, CHUCK.
AND, AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US THAT WE SHOULD ALWAYS BE NIMBLE AS A COUNCIL AND TALK ABOUT WAYS WE CAN MAKE IMPROVEMENTS.
SO I A HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE AND SUPPORT THAT, ESPECIALLY WITH PROGRAMS LIKE RIGHT TO COUNCIL.
UH, THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION.
I'VE GOT A FEW LITTLE COMMENTS HERE AND SOME QUESTIONS.
UH, GOING BACK TO SLIDE THREE, NOW I'M LOOKING AT, UH, THAT BOTTOM BULLET THERE.
I SEE THAT THE, YOU KNOW, WE TOOK A BIG JUMP BETWEEN 2017 AND 2018 UP TO 20%.
WHEN WILL WE BE GETTING 2019 DATA? I WOULD ANTICIPATE THAT IN SEPTEMBER.
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OUR BUDGETING PROCESS.SO IF WE'RE TODAY INVESTING 454 MILLION TO REDUCE THESE BARRIERS, HOW MUCH MORE DO WE NEED TO INVEST? I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT ELSE DO WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE THAT TREND LINE? I MEAN, WHAT'S GONNA BE YOUR RECOMMENDATION? 800 MILLION, A BILLION.
WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? YEAH, SO WE DON'T HAVE A EXACT DOLLAR AMOUNT RIGHT NOW THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING.
THAT'S THE INPUT PROCESS ON THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE RUNNING THROUGH THE COMMITTEES RIGHT NOW.
UM, WELL, HERE'S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS I, I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT THAT $454 MILLION IS BROKEN OUT TO.
UH, WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT INCLUDE? HOW MUCH FOR THIS PROGRAM, THIS PROGRAM, THIS PROGRAM? BECAUSE THAT DOESN'T TELL ME ANYTHING.
THAT GIVES ME A BIG NUMBER, BUT IT'S NOT TELLING ME WHERE WE'RE FOCUSING IN.
AND MAYBE, MAYBE WE'RE NOT FOCUSING IN THAT $454 MILLION TO THE RIGHT PLACES TO MAKE THE BIGGEST IMPACT.
WHAT'S THE BIGGEST RETURN ON INVESTMENT TO MAKE THAT LINE GO DOWN THE OTHER WAY? SO I'D CERTAINLY WANT TO HAVE THAT CALLED OUT, BROKEN OUT AND, UH, SHOWN WHERE, WHERE THE, WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING.
THAT, THAT NUMBER TO ME IS STAGGERING.
IS THAT PER YEAR? YES, THAT'S A ANNUAL THROUGH THE CITY'S BUDGET.
SO I DON'T THINK WE INCLUDE IT IN THIS PRESENTATION, BUT WE DO HAVE IT BY CATEGORY IN THE REPORT.
SO THE MAJOR COMPONENTS, I MEAN, THERE'S THINGS LIKE TRANSPORTATION, UM, STREET MAINTENANCE, UH, PRE-K FOR SA LIBRARY DEPARTMENT.
I, I WOULD EXPECT TO SEE THE WHOLE LONG LAUNDRY LIST OF WHAT, WHAT THAT, SO WE HAVE THAT.
BUT IT, IT'S JUST, THAT STRIKES ME, YOU KNOW, GETTING CLOSE TO HALF A BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR.
AND WHAT BUDGET DOES THAT COME OUT OF? DOES THAT COME OUTTA GENERAL FUNDS OR IS THAT COMING OUT OF, UH, WHERE IS THAT MONEY COMING FROM? YEAH, PARTS OF IT ARE, AND PARTS OF IT ARE FEDERAL DOLLARS AND STATE DOLLARS THAT ARE INCLUDE, THAT ARE GRANTED TO THE CITY.
SO THESE ARE ANYTHING, THEY ARE IN THE CITY'S BUDGET.
UM, A GOOD CHUNK OF THEM ARE GRANT FUNDS FROM STATE.
YEAH, I WANNA SEE THAT BREAKDOWN ALSO.
WHERE'S THAT $454 MILLION COMING FROM? WHAT'S THE CITY'S PORTION? THE STATE'S PORTION? THE FEDERAL'S PORTION.
YOU KNOW, I, WELL, I, THAT, THAT JUST REALLY JUMPS OUT AT ME.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT DOES Y'ALL, BUT THAT, THAT JUMPS OUT AT ME.
UM, LET'S GO TO, UH, NUMBER FIVE, SLIDE FIVE.
AND, AND THIS TO ME, THIS IS A, AND I DON'T, I HOPE YOU CAN DO THIS, IS WE BOUNCE AROUND BETWEEN SAN ANTONIO AND THEN THE, THE, THE COUNTY AND THEN THE STATE HERE WE INCLUDE SAN ANTONIO AND NEW BRAUNFELS.
UH, WE GOT, UH, BEAR COUNTY AND TEXAS AND THE US BUT WE'RE COMBINING SAN ANTONIO AND NEW BRAUNFELS.
SO CAN WE KEEP APPLES TO APPLES THROUGHOUT THE, THESE, UH, FIGURES SO THAT WE'RE NOT MIXING AND MATCHING WITH OTHER, OTHER GROUPS OR OTHER, OTHER TOWNS OR OTHER COUNTIES IN THIS? IF WE CAN JUST KEEP EVERYTHING APPLES TO APPLES ALL THE WAY THROUGH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A BIG HELP.
SOMETIMES WE'RE AT THE MERCY OF HOW CENSUS DATA IS RECORDED.
WE'LL DO OUR BEST TO LOOK AT THAT.
THE 91% OF LOW INCOME RENTERS IN SAN ANTONIO ARE COST BURDENED.
WHAT, EXPLAIN TO ME AGAIN WHAT COST BURDEN MEANS.
SO COST BURDEN IS, UH, YOU'RE SPENDING 30% OR MORE OF YOUR INCOME ON HOUSING, HOUSING RELATED COSTS.
AND WHERE DOES THAT, WHERE DOES THAT FIGURE COME FROM? THAT'S FROM CENSUS AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY.
SO THE CENSUS SAYS, SAYS THAT IF YOU'RE PAYING MORE THAN 30% OF YOUR TOTAL INCOME, THAT'S CONSIDERED COST BURDENED.
HOUSING COST BURDEN FOR HOUSING.
I'M NOT GONNA ARGUE WITH THE CENSUS BUREAU THAT, BUT I, I THINK THAT FIGURE CAME, COMES FROM HUD, THE CENSUS TAKES DATA.
SO IT'S, IT'S A HUD DEFINITION, BUT CENSUS, I'M SORRY.
BUT IT'S A, IT'S A RECOGNIZED DEFINITION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE COST BURDEN FOR YOUR HOME.
AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE USE CONSISTENTLY THROUGHOUT ALL OF OUR REPORTING AS WELL.
UM, I, I, I JUST LOOK AT MY SITUATION.
I, I KNOW I'VE BEEN MORE THAN 30% AND I DIDN'T CONSIDER MYSELF A COST BURDEN FOR HOUSING, BUT MAYBE, MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE, MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE APPLIED FOR SOME OF THIS MONEY TO GET ME OUTTA
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THIS COST BURDENING, UH, STUFF.BUT ANYWAY, UM, TO ME IT JUST SEEMS LIKE A LOW NUMBER, 30% OF YOUR INCOME GOING TO, UH, GOING TO HOUSING.
I MEAN, WHAT IS, WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE AVERAGE HERE FOR? ARE THOSE THE, THE PERCENTAGES DOWN THERE FOR OKAY, 40.
WHAT, WHAT IS THE 46.8% ON THAT FIRST FIRST GRAPH? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT DOES THAT TELL ME? IT'S 46.8% OF INDIVIDUALS MAKING 20 TO $35,000 A YEAR ARE COST BURDEN FOR THEIR HOME PAYMENTS.
UM, I THINK, OH, HERE, HOUSING INVESTMENTS, UH, SLIDE EIGHT.
THIS IS PER YEAR OR THIS IS WHAT WE FUNDED FOR 2008? UH, 20.
UM, THIS INCLUDES THE C D B G AND EVERYTHING RIGHT.
DO WE HAVE, DO WE HAVE PRIOR YEARS? AND I KNOW I'VE ASKED THE HOUSING FOLKS THIS PREVIOUSLY, AND I THINK THEY'RE WORKING ON IT, MELODY, WHERE, HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE TOTALLY INVESTED IN EACH DISTRICT AROUND SAN ANTONIO IN THESE TYPES OF INVESTMENTS.
ARE THEY GETTING CLOSE TO GETTING THAT DATA TOGETHER? I BELIEVE YOU'VE ASKED THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT FOR THAT DATA AND YES.
AND I BELIEVE WE PROVIDED IT, BUT I'LL CONFIRM.
UM, YEAH, I DON'T REMEMBER RECALL SEEING IT, BUT YES, I'D REALLY LIKE TO GET THAT BECAUSE I, I THINK IT WOULD SHOW A SNAPSHOT IN TIME OF WHAT OUR INVESTMENTS HAVE BEEN ACROSS SAN ANTONIO.
AND I THINK IT WOULD ALSO TELL A STORY, JUST A SMALL PORTION, JUST OF THE HOUSING INVESTMENTS WE'VE DONE ACROSS SAN ANTONIO AND WHERE THAT MONEY HAS GONE INTO WHICH DISTRICTS, BECAUSE THAT ALL, THAT ALL IS A PORTION OF THAT $454 MILLION A YEAR GOING INTO, UH, TRYING TO RAISE, RAISE THE LEVEL OF PEOPLE'S QUALITY OF LIFE HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
SO YEAH, REALLY, REALLY WOULD LIKE TO GET THAT.
AND THEN SLIDE NINE, MELODY, YOU PROBABLY FIGURED I WAS GONNA HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS.
I'VE HEARD WHERE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS $36.1 MILLION AND I'M, THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY IN ITSELF, BUT I'VE HEARD THE FIGURE OF $50 MILLION.
I'VE HEARD THE FIGURE OF $80 MILLION A YEAR GOING TOWARDS HOMELESS HOMELESSNESS INITIATIVES.
SO WHERE'S THE 50 AND $80 MILLION? IS THAT NO GOOD ANYMORE? OR WHERE DO THEY GO THIS $36 MILLION? THESE ARE CITY EXPENDITURES, GRANT AND GENERAL FUND, UH, FROM MULTIPLE DEPARTMENTS THAT YOU CAN SEE, THE, THE NUMBER THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, THE 50 MILLION, THAT'S A COMBINED, UM, CITY DOLLARS THAT ARE INVESTED IN HOMELESSNESS IN THE COMMUNITY, AND THEN DOLLARS THAT DON'T COME THROUGH THE CITY.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF FEDERAL MONEY THAT GOES TO OTHER AGENCIES DIRECTLY.
THERE'S STATE MONEY THAT GOES TO AGENCIES DIRECTLY, AND THEN THEY, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE DON'T KNOW IS HOW MUCH THEY'RE ALSO FUNDRAISING NECESSARILY.
WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THAT INFORMATION.
THE $80 MILLION NUMBER, THE ONE I'M THINKING I THINK IS MORE OF, UM, YOU KNOW, WE KEEP A, A RUNNING TOTAL OF THE AMOUNT THE CITY IS INVESTED IN HAVEN FOR HOPE, AND THAT'S IN THE AREA OF $80 MILLION.
SO THAT MAY BE WHAT YOU'RE THINKING OF THERE.
WELL, UM, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE ADD THOSE DOLLARS IN HERE.
ALSO, THE FEDERAL DOLLARS, WHETHER IT'S COMING TO THE CITY OR NOT, BECAUSE THOSE ARE RESOURCES GOING TO THIS SPECIFIC GROUP, AND WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF THAT TO SEE WHAT THE TOTAL PICTURE IS.
YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW MUCH OF AN INVESTMENT IS A CITY MAKING VERSUS THE STATE VERSUS THE FEDERALS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
SO I WOULD SUGGEST THAT EITHER THERE'S ANOTHER BAR ON HERE THAT SHOWS STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDS, NOT NECESSARILY COMING THROUGH THE CITY, BUT GOING TOWARDS THE HOMELESSNESS INITIATIVES HERE, UH, TO GIVE A CLEARER PICTURE.
NOW, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY WAY THAT WE COULD FIND OUT THROUGH, UH, FAITH-BASED GROUPS, THROUGH OTHER
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NONPROFITS THAT DON'T DEAL WITH THE CITY, BUT THEY'RE OUT THERE PROVIDING THOSE SERVICES AS WELL.AND IF THERE'S SOME WAY THAT WE COULD CAPTURE THAT AS ANOTHER BAR TO PUT ON HERE, SAYING, YOU KNOW, UH, FAITH-BASED GROUPS, OTHER NONPROFITS, AND THAT KIND OF THING, TO CAPTURE THAT, THAT DOLLAR FIGURE, BECAUSE THAT THOSE ARE RESOURCES THAT ARE GOING OUT INTO THIS CATEGORY OF FOLKS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.
AND, YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN YOU ADD UP ALL THE MONEY, THAT $454 MILLION PLUS ALL OF THESE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE COMING INTO THIS CITY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A LOT OF MONEY THAT I, YOU KNOW, I GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE, UM, RIGHT UP FRONT.
SLIDE NUMBER THREE, HOW CAN WE NOT MAKE MAKING AN IMPACT, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT MANY RESOURCES COMING HERE TO SAN ANTONIO, I, YOU KNOW, NOW WE'RE DOING ALAMO PROMISE, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ADDING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
WE'RE, YOU KNOW, THOSE PROGRAMS ARE CONTINUING TO GROW.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO GET MY ARMS AROUND THE UNIVERSE OF DOLLARS THAT ARE COMING HERE TO SAN ANTONIO, NO MATTER WHAT PROGRAM IT IS TO MAKING IN, MAKE AN IMPACT IN WHERE THAT, WHERE THAT LINE IS GOING.
UH, IT JUST, UH, IT'S ANOTHER THING.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW, HOW THIS CAN BE IT, YOU KNOW, ARE WE, AGAIN, IF WE BREAK EVERYTHING OUT, SHOWING WHERE THE DOLLARS ARE GOING, MAYBE WE CAN SEE TRENDS AS TO WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING DIFFERENTLY, FUNDING OTHER THINGS DIFFERENTLY THAN WHAT WE HAVE IN THE PAST TO MAKE THAT LINE GO DOWN.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, SIR.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
AND I, I BET THE LAST TIME $20,000 A YEAR WAS A LOT OF MONEY WAS WHEN YOU WERE, WHAT, 15 YEARS OLD? 15 YEARS, YEAH,
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST QUICK COMMENT REGARDING THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE CO THE ISSUE OF COST BURDEN, UH, HOUSEHOLDS REALLY IS AS, AS THEY TRY TO DEMONSTRATE IN THESE GRAPHS, IS DEPENDENT ON HOW MUCH THEY'RE MAKING.
SO SOMEBODY WHO'S MAKING A LOT MORE MONEY, LET'S SAY A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR, CERTAINLY HAS A LOT MORE EXPENDABLE INCOME AND CAN, CAN AFFORD SO MUCH MORE.
BUT SOMEBODY WHO'S MAKING LESS THAN 20,000 IS LEFT WITH $13,000 ESSENTIALLY TO SURVIVE WITH FOOD, WITH, WITH, WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, TAKING CARE OF, UH, THEIR LIVELIHOOD.
AND, UH, I THINK THAT'S THE ISSUE THAT WE'RE, WE REALLY WANNA TALK ABOUT AND UNDERSTANDING WHERE THE, THE NEED IS.
AND SO AS, AS YOU CAN, AS YOU POINTED OUT, THE GRAPH IS SHOWING THAT THE, THE PROBLEM IS GROWING.
SO WE NEED, PART OF THE, THE BRIEFING TODAY, I THINK IS THE DEPARTMENT IS ASKING FOR SOME STRATEGIC, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS ON, ON WHAT YOU THINK CAN, CAN HELP, UH, THE SITUATION CAN HELP, UH, STRATEGICALLY, UH, ALLOCATE SOME OF THESE FUNDS IN A WAY THAT CAN HELP THE SITUATION.
SO AGAIN, I, I APPRECIATE MY COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR HELPING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THESE CONCERNS.
UH, BUT IT, IT'S GONNA TAKE A LOT OF, A LOT OF EFFORTS.
AND I, I BELIEVE THE, THE OVERALL NUMBER IS JUST TO SHOW ALL THE, ALL THE FUNDS AND RESOURCES AS THEY'RE APPLIED, UH, IN, IN MANY, IN MANY WAYS.
UH, I JUST WANT TO, UM, ASSURE MYSELF THAT THE PRESENTATION YOU'VE MADE TODAY IS PRETTY MUCH BASED ON THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY, RIGHT? UM, ALMOST ALL DATA IS FROM THAT.
AND WHEN DID WE RECEIVE A FORMAL COPY OF THAT? UM, I KNOW IT'S BEEN, UH, ATTACHED WITH, UH, THESE COUNCIL ITEMS. I BELIEVE WE SENT IT OUT IN DECEMBER, BUT I'LL HAVE TO CHECK THAT.
WELL, I DON'T, I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING THE SURVEY, SO I WOULD ASK IF YOU COULD RESEND IT.
UH, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT AGAIN.
AND IT'S SAN ANTONIO SPECIFIC, CORRECT? I'M SORRY, WHICH SURVEY WERE YOU REFERENCING? THE AMERICAN, UH, COMMUNITY SURVEY.
SO THAT'S ADMINISTERED BY, BY THE CENSUS, UH, RIGHT.
AND THE REPORT THAT GENERATED SAYING WE GOT 20% POVERTY CAME FROM THOSE FIGURES.
AND THAT REPORT THAT WE GOT, WAS IT BROKEN DOWN JUST FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO? YES.
AND SO I COULD GET A COPY OF THAT AND I COULD, I COULD LOOK AT IT, YES.
BECAUSE I WANT HAVE MORE SURE.
YOU GET THAT UNDERLYING UNDERSTANDING OF, OF WHERE WE'RE GETTING TO THIS STARTING POINT.
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TALKING ABOUT HERE.I, I SHARE, UM, MY FELLOW COUNCILMAN'S WONDER, I GUESS, AT THAT, THAT NUMBER OF $454 MILLION.
AND I HONESTLY, I THINK WE HAVE DONE A DISSERVICE TO THIS COMMITTEE AND TO THIS COMMUNITY BY LUMPING ALL OF THAT MONEY INTO SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND SAYING THAT'S WHAT WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON TO FIGHT POVERTY OR TO FIGHT SOCIOECONOMIC IMBALANCE.
BECAUSE WHAT WAS SOME OF THE INGREDIENTS IN THAT, AGAIN, UH, TRANSPORTATION, UM, VARIOUS EDUCATION INITIATIVES OF THE CITY.
LIBRARIES, HOUSING, I MEAN, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT EVERY EVERYBODY CAN USE.
AND I WOULD'VE PREFERRED THE BREAKDOWN, AS THE COUNCILMAN HAS SAID, SO THAT WE CAN SEE WHAT ARE ACTUAL DOLLARS STRATEGICALLY TARGETED TO ASSISTING PEOPLE WHO ARE BELOW POVERTY TO RAISE THEMSELVES.
OTHERWISE, YOU KNOW, THAT LOOKS LIKE SOME KIND OF A HUGE NUMBER THAT WE'RE SPENDING ON POVERTY, AND WE'RE REALLY NOT SPENDING THAT MUCH MONEY ON POVERTY.
BUT YES, EVERYBODY CAN BENEFIT FROM IT WHETHER YOU'RE WEALTHY, MEDIUM INCOME, OR POOR.
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT, THAT, UM, THAT'S THE BIG PICTURE FOR ATTACKING POVERTY IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO I, I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT BREAKDOWN.
UH, ON THE SLIDE, ON SLIDE NUMBER FIVE, FOR EXAMPLE, IT SAYS, UM, A FAMILY EARNING 49, ALMOST $50,000 A YEAR, 18.6% OF THEM ARE, UH, HOUSEHOLD CHALLENGED, OR, OR EXCUSE ME, THEY ARE, UM, THEIR MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME, UM, IS, UM, LET ME, I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER HOW I WANTED TO SAY THAT.
I, UH, 18.6% RECOGNIZES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY.
BUT IF SOMEBODY'S EARNING HALF THAT MUCH, THAT NUMBER'S 24, 20 5%, ISN'T IT MUCH HIGHER LIVING IN POVERTY? RIGHT.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE SAY, WELL, PEOPLE LIVING EARNING 49 OR $50,000, ONLY 18% OF OUR ARE IN POVERTY.
BUT WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE EARNING 35 AND 25 AND 20, THERE'S LARGE NUMBERS IN THAT AREA LIVING IN POVERTY.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE WE NEED TO PUT IN THERE TOO, TO GIVE A BROADER, DEEPER UNDERSTANDING AND VIEW OF THE SITUATION AS IT EXISTS.
I HAVE NEVER FELT COMFORTABLE THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT THE HUD A M I TO DETERMINE HOW PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY LIVE, BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT'S WAY OUTTA WHACK WITH THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.
THEY LOOK AT NEW BRAUNFELS AND THEY LOOK AT OUTTA THE BEDROOM COMMUNITIES, AND THEY LOOK AT THE COUNTY AND THEY TRY AND SAY, THE AVERAGE MEDIAN INCOME IS RIGHT NOW $71,000 A YEAR.
BUT THERE ARE LITERALLY RIGHT NOW 300,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN POVERTY.
20% BEL UH, AT 20% OF THE, UH, POVERTY RATE 300,000 PEOPLE.
AND THEY'RE NOT LIVING AT 71% A M I, UH, OR, OR LIVING AT 71,000 OR A HUNDRED PERCENT OF A M I OR EVEN 50% OF A M I, WHICH WOULD BE 36,000.
A LOT OF 'EM ARE LIVING AT BARELY, YOU KNOW, $10 AN HOUR, $21,000 A YEAR IF THEY'RE LUCKY.
SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK MORE OF THAT DATA SHOULD BE TRANSMITTED TO US, BECAUSE I PRESUME THE GOAL OF THESE PRESENTATIONS IS TO GET FROM COUNCIL SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON WHAT WE SHOULD DO, BUT WE DON'T HAVE GOOD ENOUGH DATA IN THIS PRESENTATION FOR ME, OR I THINK ANY OF US TO REALLY MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS EXCEPT COUNCILMAN PERRY, WHICH WOULD BE TO SPEND LESS.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I JUST DON'T THINK THAT WE ARE RECEIVING ENOUGH INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION TO MAKE ANY KIND OF RECOMMENDATION TO MOVE FORWARD.
UH, AND SO I HOPE THIS COMMITTEE WILL GET A MORE IN-DEPTH PRESENTATION, UH, AND, AND RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOUR DEPARTMENTS ARE, ARE LOOKING AT AND ASK US MORE WHAT DO WE THINK OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS AND INVITE US TO OFFER MORE OF OUR OWN AS WE GO FORWARD.
THAT'S WHY I WANNA SEE THOSE NUMBERS, AND I WANNA SEE A BETTER DEFINITIVE, DETAILED OUTLINE OF THIS PRESENTATION FOR ME TO ASK MY STAFF TO SAY, WHAT CAN WE FIND IN OTHER CITIES? WHAT DO WE HEAR? WHAT DO WE SEE? WHAT CAN WE COME UP WITH? SO THAT'S MY COMMENT.
WE'LL MAKE SURE YOU GET THE, THE FULL REPORT, AND IT DOES HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL DATA AND GRAPHS IN THERE AS WELL.
BRENDAN, I THINK PATRICK, YOU,
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YOU OFFERED, UH, TO COME BACK WITH, WITH MAYBE SOME, SOME MORE, UH, SPECIFIC INFORMATION AT OUR NEXT MEETING? SURE.SO MAYBE WE CAN DO THAT AND, UM, EVEN OFFER A BRIEFING BEFORE THAT MEETING IF YOU HAVE THAT INFORMATION.
AND PLEASE DISSEMINATE TO THE REST OF THIS COMMITTEE.
UM, BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, I, I, WHILE I DO AGREE THAT WE NEED MORE INFORMATION, I THINK THAT'S PART OF WHAT YOU'RE ASKING HERE TODAY, IS HOW CAN WE BE MORE, BECOME MORE STRATEGIC WITH THE RESOURCES THAT WE DO HAVE? AND YOU WERE SIMPLY TRYING TO GIVE US A GLOBAL PICTURE OF WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO EITHER IMPLEMENT OR ADJUST MOVING FORWARD.
SO, UM, WE'LL, WE'LL DEFINITELY LOOK AT THAT, UH, BECAUSE I THINK THE NEXT ITEMS IS, IS REALLY SPECIFICALLY GONNA ANSWER SOME OF THE QUESTIONS YOU JUST BROUGHT UP.
AND COUNCILMAN PERRY BROUGHT UP, UH, YOU'VE, YOU'VE HEARD ME TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT, PATRICK, THANK YOU FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
[4. 20-2361 Overview and discussion on draft Culture and Neighborhood Services Council Committee Dashboard [Lori Houston, Assistant City Manager]]
ITEM IS ITEM, UH, NUMBER FOUR.AND, UH, IT IS ABOUT, UH, SOMETHING THAT I ASKED AT THE LAST COMMITTEE TO, FOR US TO CREATE A DASHBOARD OF SOME OF THESE, UM, THINGS OR GOALS AND OUTCOMES THAT WE'D LIKE TO SEE.
UH, AND STAFF HAS CREATED, UH, UH, A NICE DASHBOARD THAT, UH, I THINK CAN HELP US, YOU KNOW, SORT OF AT LEAST UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE IN TERMS OF OUR OUTCOMES AND MAYBE EVEN HELP WITH, UH, SOME OF THE STRATEGY THAT WE'D LIKE TO, TO SEE MOVING FORWARD.
LORI, DO YOU WANNA PRESENT THAT? YES.
AND THIS IS REALLY OUR, OUR FIRST CRACK, UH, SUCH A DASHBOARD.
UM, WE'D LIKE YOUR FEEDBACK ON IT TO SEE IF THERE ARE OTHER METRICS YOU'D LIKE US TO COLLECT, UM, OR MORE DETAIL IF YOU'D LIKE US TO INCLUDE THAT.
BUT THE FRONT PAGE REALLY IS A SUMMARY OF ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE'VE HEARD FROM SEE.
SO THERE WAS QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TREES ADOPTED, TREES PLANTED, UM, UNDER ONE ROOF PROJECTS COMPLETED, COMMERCIAL PERMITS ISSUED, AND THEN RESIDENTIAL PERMITS ISSUED, AND THEN MILES OF SIDEWALK COMPLETED.
IN THIS DOCUMENT, WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS WE HAVE THE GOAL FOR EACH OF THOSE ITEMS, AND THEN THE PERCENT OF GOLD MET AS OF THIS FIRST QUARTER.
SO THE INFORMATION WE HAVE INCLUDED IN THIS DASHBOARD IS OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER.
UM, SO THAT IS THE FIRST QUARTER FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020.
AND, UM, YOU'LL HAVE THIS INFORMATION, UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THE, THE PERCENT INCLUDED IN THE BEHIND EACH OF IT IS MORE DETAIL.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEXT PAGE, IT TALKS ABOUT TREES ADOPTED AND PLANTINGS.
WE'VE BROKE IT OUT BY COUNCIL DISTRICT.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, IN DISTRICT 10, THERE HAVE BEEN 200 TREE ADOPTIONS AND ZERO TREES PLANTED.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE, UM, LET ME SEE.
SO IT'S THE 200 AND THE GOAL WAS 4,600.
I'M SORRY, THE, THE TREES ADOPTED TOTAL 4,669.
THE MAJORITY OF THOSE WERE IN DISTRICT ONE.
AND THEN THE SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON, WE TELL YOU WHAT WE DID FOR JANUARY, UM, ONLY SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE ARE FOR A MONTH SNAPSHOT.
AND THEN THESE FIRST FOUR MONTHS, I APOLOGIZE, IT'S NOT THE FIRST QUARTER, IT'S THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF THE YEAR.
UM, AND THEN IF YOU GO DOWN, YOU'LL SEE THE NEXT PAGE.
IT GIVES YOU THE DEMOLITIONS, UM, BY CITY.
WE DON'T HAVE A GOAL FOR DEMOLITIONS.
WE DON'T, WE DON'T AIM TO DEMOLISH STRUCTURES.
BUT THIS, THIS KIND OF TELLS YOU HOW MANY DEMOLITIONS HAVE TAKEN PLACE AND WHERE THEY HAVE TAKEN PLACE BY COUNCIL DISTRICT.
AND THEN WE DO THE SAME FOR THE PERMIT ACTIVITY, WHICH THIS EXCLUDES THE TRADE PERMITS AS PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON NEW CONSTRUCTION FOR COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL AND RESIDENTIAL OR, OR REHAB CONSTRUCTION.
AND THEN WE DO THE SAME FOR THE UNDER ONE ROOF PROGRAM.
AND THEN THE BACK PAGE, THERE'S A, THERE'S A PAGE THAT TALKS ABOUT THE AVERAGE MEAL SERVED BY SENIOR CENTER.
UM, WE BROKE UP ALL THE SENIOR CENTERS AND EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT TO INCLUDE THE ONES THAT ARE OPERATED BY THE CITY, BUT THEN ALSO THE NONPROFITS THAT PROVIDE THESE SERVICES.
AND SO YOU'LL SEE THE SENIOR CENTER, THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS, THE ACTIVE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS, AND THE AVERAGE MEALS SERVED DAILY IN THAT SERVICE CENTER IN THAT SENIOR CENTER.
AND WE'VE BROKEN IT UP BY COUNCIL DISTRICT.
AND IN THE BACK THREE PAGES FOCUS ON EVENTS THAT ARE HAPPENING BY DISTRICT.
SO THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, THEY, THEY HANDLE A CALENDAR FOR THE ADULT AND SENIOR CENTERS.
SO WE GAVE YOU A SNAPSHOT OF MARCH AND APRIL FOR SPECIAL EVENTS, AND WE BROKE IT UP BY COUNCIL DISTRICT TO SEE THE MAJOR EVENTS
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THAT ARE HAPPENING PER EACH SENIOR CENTER.AND THEN, UM, D H SS PROVIDED THEIR CALENDAR FOR THEIR SENIOR CENTERS AS WELL.
AND THEN THE VERY LAST PAGE IS A CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE DEPARTMENT AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MARCH AND APRIL.
UM, WE, THIS IS, LIKE I SAID, A DRAFT.
WE'D LIKE YOU TO KIND OF DIGEST IT, LET US KNOW WHAT OTHER INFORMATION YOU'D LIKE US TO PROVIDE, IF IT'D BE HELPFUL TO SHOW THE INFORMATION DIFFERENTLY.
UM, BUT IT WAS A VERY GOOD EXERCISE FOR US TO GO THROUGH.
SO I ASKED, I THANK THE COUNCILMAN FOR, FOR SUGGESTING THIS.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MEETING YOUR EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT YOU WANTED TO SEE IN A DASHBOARD.
WELL FIRST I'LL, I'LL, I'LL ENTERTAIN SOME QUESTIONS FROM MY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, CAN WE PUT THIS ONLINE? YES.
SO THAT WE COULD JUST, AND, AND I'D LIKE TO, I ENVISION THE KIND OF DASHBOARD WHERE WE GO TO THAT PAGE AND WE CAN JUST CLICK ON WHAT'S THERE AND IT'LL TAKE US AND, YOU KNOW, JUST CLICK, CLICK AND IT'LL TAKE US, INSTEAD OF HAVING A DOCUMENT THAT YOU, YOU KNOW, GO FROM PAGE TO PAGE.
SO I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE MORE WORK FOR IT TO PUT IT TOGETHER, BUT THAT'S A REAL DASHBOARD WHERE IT'S EASY TO PULL UP.
YOU JUST CLICK ON WHAT YOU WANT AND IT'LL TAKE YOU TO THE SUBSECTION AND ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE THAT.
AND, AND I MAY SUGGEST SOME OTHER THINGS TO ADD TO IT IN TIME, BUT I, I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE GOT.
COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.
UM, SO AS I FLIP THROUGH THIS, THE MOST CONCERNING THING THAT I SEE IS THAT THERE'S NOT TOO MUCH, ONCE AGAIN, FOR OUR SENIORS IN DISTRICT TWO.
I MEAN, I KNOW THEY'RE IN THE STOREFRONT AND IT'S NOT TOO MUCH ROOM FOR THEM TO DO A LOT OF ACTIVITIES.
AND OUR DISTRICT TWO OFFICE DOES A LOT OF THINGS WITH THEM BECAUSE OF SPECIFICALLY THE PROBLEM THAT I SEE ON HERE, WHICH IS THEY'RE KIND OF EXCLUDED.
UM, WOULD LOVE TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT CAN HAPPEN, UM, FOR OUR SENIORS, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO EVENTS THAT PARKS AND RECREATION CAN DO WITH THEM.
UM, WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE LIMITED IN SPACE, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HEAR THEM TELL US DURING OUR EVENTS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR DISTRICT TO, UH, FACILITIES, IS THAT THEY FEEL LIKE THEY ARE OVERLOOKED.
AND LOOKING AT THIS, I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.
UH, I TOO, WANT TO GO THROUGH IT AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL ITEMS TO PUSH PUT ON HERE.
I'M, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN I LOOK AT METRICS, I'M REALLY USED TO, YOU KNOW, THE, THE AXES WITH A GOAL GOING ACROSS AND WHERE THAT LINE CROSSES A GOAL, THAT, THAT WOULD BE MY COMMENT ON THIS.
INSTEAD OF HAVING A GOAL AND ESTIMATE LISTED OUT THERE, YOU HAVE AN ACTUAL CHART, X AND Y AXIS.
YOU GOT THE GOAL LINE, AND THEN YOU SHOW THAT LINE HOW IT GOES.
WE'LL CROSS THAT GOAL LINE AT SOME POINT IN TIME OR HOPEFULLY CROSS THAT GOAL LINE.
UM, THAT'S MY ONLY COMMENT ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE, OF THE, UH, BENCHMARKS AND METRICS ON THAT.
BUT I'LL GO THROUGH IT AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL THINGS TO ADD ON HERE.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE, THE BEGINNING OF, OF SOME OF THE REQUESTED DATA, UH, HOW IT'S, UH, TRANSLATED AND, AND, UH, PRESENTED.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, STAFF COULD CERTAINLY WORK ON THAT.
UM, THIS WAS DONE, UH, FAIRLY QUICKLY, SO I WANNA THANK THEM FOR, FOR, FOR PUTTING IT TOGETHER.
UH, BUT AGAIN, I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO JUST POINT OUT A FEW THINGS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT BEFORE.
LET'S, LET'S USE THIS INFORMATION THE BEST WE CAN TO, TO FIND OUT WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH OUR TRAJECTORY, HOW IT LOOKS.
OBVIOUSLY, YOU'RE GONNA, YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME SAY THAT.
UH, I'M, I'M CLEARLY DISAPPOINTED IN, IN THE, UH, PROJECTS COMPLETED FOR UNDER ONE ROOF AT 9%.
WE ARE APPROACHING THE, UH, THE END OF THE SECOND QUARTER.
UH, SO I FIND IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO, TO SEE THAT WE'RE GONNA MEET OUR GOAL FOR, UH, THE, THE, THE FUNDING LEVEL THAT WE, WE HAVE, UH, PUSHED SO HARD FOR.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S EXAMPLES LIKE THIS THAT I THINK WE CAN, WE CAN UTILIZE TO OUR BENEFIT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING TRACK OF SOME OF THE, THE CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE AS A CITY SO THAT WE CAN ALSO, UH, APPLY IT TO ITEMS AS WE SAW EARLIER ON OUR, ON OUR AGENDA.
THIS IS, I THINK, USEFUL DATA FOR ALL OF US.
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UH, WE EXPECT TO SEE THIS, UH, EVERY SINGLE MONTH SO WE CAN TRACK THE PROGRESS.AND, UH, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY I, I WILL SAY THAT I'M, I'M LENIENT ON HOW THE, THE DATA'S PRESENTED FOR ME THAT, UH, PRESENTING LIKE THIS IS FINE IF WE, IF IF STAFF CAN, UH, WITHOUT IT TAKING TOO MUCH TIME, SORT OF ADDRESS YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT BEING ABLE TO CLICK ON SOMETHING AND, AND, AND MAKE IT MORE INTERACTIVE.
I THINK WE CAN GIVE THEM MORE TIME IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S POSSIBLE.
BUT CERTAINLY I WON'T PUSH FOR THAT.
I, I'M MORE CONCERNED WITH THE ACTUAL DATA AND IF IT'S PRESENTED LIKE THIS, I'M, I'M, I'M HAPPY.
BUT, UM, I, I WELCOME MORE OF THESE, UH, DATA POINTS THAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT SO THAT WE CAN QUICKLY GLANCE THROUGH, UH, WHERE WE ARE AS A CITY.
UH, WHETHER IT'S DISTRICT 10 OR DISTRICT TWO, UH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THIS IS GONNA HELP US IDENTIFY OUR RESOURCES.
UH, YES, LORI, I DID WANNA ADD THAT ALTHOUGH, YOU KNOW, FOR THE SENIOR CENTER STUFF, WE HIGHLIGHTED THOSE ITEMS THAT WERE NOT THE REOCCURRING ITEMS. SO WE PROGRAM OUR SENIOR CENTERS DAILY.
AND SO WHAT WE CAN DO IS WE CAN PRINT OUT THE CALENDAR FOR EVERY SINGLE SENIOR CENTER AND ATTACH IT TO THIS PACKET SO YOU CAN HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK.
WHAT WE DID IS WE, WE PICKED THE ITEMS THAT WERE NOT THE ROUTINE ITEMS THAT WERE SOMETHING THAT WAS BEING HELD IN THESE SENIOR CENTERS, BUT WE CAN PRINT OUT THE INDIVIDUAL CALENDAR FOR EACH SENIOR CENTER AS WELL.
IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THIS COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE IN THE PACKET.
WELL, I MEAN, I THINK, UH, WE, WE DEFINITELY WANNA HAVE THE INFORMATION AND I, I WANNA HONOR COUNCIL, UH, MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN'S REQUEST.
SO I THINK THAT IS, THAT IS CRITICAL DATA IS, IS MOST IMPORTANT HERE.
UH, IF THERE'S TO SAVE PAPER AND PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION, I'M SURE STAFF CAN CAN FIND THAT WAY.
IT'S ABOUT
SO WITH THAT, AGAIN, THIS WAS A BRIEFING ON THE DASHBOARD THAT, UH, WE DON'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY GO OVER EVERY SINGLE COMMITTEE MEETING, BUT WE, WE WILL, WE WILL GET A COPY OF THIS AT THE START OF EVERY COMMITTEE MEETING SO THAT WE CAN QUICKLY GLANCE THROUGH IT AND, AND BRING UP ISSUES AS WE SEE THEM.
[5. 20-2364 Discussion on future agenda items for the Culture and Neighborhood Services Council Committee and closing remarks]
ON TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE, WHICH ESSENTIALLY A DISCUSSION OF, UH, FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS, UH, ENTERTAIN ANY, ANY IDEAS IF ANYBODY WANTS TO, UH, DISCUSS ANYTHING IN THE FUTURE MM-HMM.AND, AND I WILL ADD, WE HAVE THE DECONSTRUCTIVE INITIATIVE, UM, THAT'LL BE PRESENTED AT THIS COMMITTEE AND THE APRIL MEETING, UM, THAT IS THE INITIATIVE THAT O H P HAS BEEN WORKING ON THAT CAME OUT OF COUNCILMAN TREVINOS.
UM, SOME OF HIS DISCUSSIONS THAT HE'S HAD AND SOME IDEAS THAT HE HAS ABOUT HOW WE CAN DECONSTRUCT HISTORIC HOMES OR BUILDINGS AND REPURPOSE THOSE, THOSE MATERIALS.
AND IT'S A GREAT, UH, WE HAD A LOT OF FOLKS COME IN AND VISIT RECENTLY, UH, THAT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ANDREW SULLIVAN AND I GOT TO MEET.
SO IT'S EXCITING TO SEE, UH, A GREAT WAY TO ADD ANOTHER LAYER TO OUR, OUR ABILITY TO CREATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION WHILE, UH, PRESERVING, UH, MATERIALS AND, UH, MAYBE REUSING THEM IN A WAY THAT, UH, IT MAKES, UH, OR HELPS WITH OUR EFFORTS IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
SO, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO THAT.
COUNCILMAN, UM, CHAIR, IF I COULD MAKE ONE RECOMMENDATION IF WE CAN.
UM, I KNOW IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT, UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON WITH C P S AND, AND MS. PAULA GOLD WILLIAMS TO SEE IF THERE'S A WAY TO GET, UM, LIGHTING OR DARK SPOTS, DIGITAL DARK SPOTS IN OUR COMMUNITIES TO FIND OUT WHERE OUR LIGHTING IS, IS NOT, IF ARE SUFFICIENT ENOUGH FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
IF WE COULD WORK ON THAT PROJECT AS A CITYWIDE INITIATIVE, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT HAPPEN.
IN FACT, WE HAVE AN URBAN LIGHTING PLAN MM-HMM.
THIS IDEA OF, OF HOW WE CAN MAP OUT THE, THE, THE QUANTITY OF LIGHT, BUT ALSO THE QUALITY OF LIGHT.
'CAUSE THE LAST THING WE WANNA DO IS JUST SIMPLY CONVEY THE CITY IN, IN THE SAME KINDA LIGHT, EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD DESERVES TO HAVE QUALITY LIGHTING.
AND, UH, SO I WELCOME THAT AND WE'LL, WE'LL CERTAINLY MARK THAT AS A, AS A BRIEFING THAT WE CAN HAVE HERE IN THIS, THIS COMMITTEE.
ALRIGHT, WITH THAT WE'RE ADJOURNED.