* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.
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          GOOD MORNING. 
          WELCOME TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF NOVEMBER THE 30TH, 2017. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER TRAVINO, COUNCIL MEMBER SHAW HERE, COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN IS OUT OF THE CITY TODAY, ATTENDING A WORLD HERITAGE FORUM. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER SALANA HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER BROCK HOUSE COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL HERE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ELIAS IS STILL ON I 10. 
          THERE WAS AN ACCIDENT AND HE IS ON HIS WAY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY HERE. 
          AND MAYOR NUREMBERG HERE. 
          MAYOR, WE DO HAVE A QUORUM. 
          GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. 
          WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL A SESSION. 
          THE TIME NOW IS NINE 14. 
          WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED WITH OUR, UH, INVOCATION, UH, GUEST OF COUNCILMAN SALANA. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          IT'S MY HONOR AND MY PRIVILEGE TO INTRODUCE US ALL TO SOMEBODY THAT WE MAY KNOW ALREADY. 
          SISTER CONSUELO TVA, UH, SISTER CONSUELO. 
          I'M JUST GONNA SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HER AND, AND HER WORK BEFORE SHE BEGINS. 
          SISTER CONSUELO HOLDS A MASTER'S IN MINISTRY FROM CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY, OMAHA, NEBRASKA, AND A BA IN HISTORY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION FROM MERRILL COLLEGE IN ST. 
          LOUIS. 
          SHE'S BEEN A MEMBER OF DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST. 
          VINCENT DEPAUL, PROVINCE OF ST. 
          LOUIS, UH, MISSOURI SINCE 1968. 
          SHE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INTEGRATION OF THE MISSION OF DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY SERVICES AND PROVIDES STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL OVERSIGHT OF ALL ADVOCACY FUNCTIONS. 
          THE ACTIVITIES OF THIS POSITION INCLUDES ALL STAFF AND VOLUNTEER FORMATION IN THE MISSION, IMPLEMENTATION AND COORDINATION OF ASCENSION HEALTH INITIATIVES, WORKPLACE SPIRITUALITY, ONGOING EXECUTIVE FORMATION PROGRAMS AND MODEL COMMUNITY. 
          SHE HAS OVER 25 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ORGANIZING WITH THE SOUTHWEST REGION OF THE INDUSTRIAL AREAS FOUNDATION. 
          TAM LIPPA, MEXICO WITH MEXICAN PROVINCE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY, WHO OPERATES A SHELTER FOR MIGRANTS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICAN DEPORTEES FROM THE UNITED STATES. 
          UH, SHE'S OF COURSE, A LEADER WITH COPS ORGANIZATION, WHICH IS, UH, COPS, WHICH IS THE COMMUNITY'S ORGANIZED FOR PUBLIC SERVICE AND HAS BEEN PRESENT AT CITY HALL ON, UH, A NUMBER OF ISSUES MOST RECENTLY, MOST RECENTLY WITH THE ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT FOR, UH, IMMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS. 
          SO WE, UH, ARE HONORED AND PRIVILEGED TO WELCOME SISTER CONSUELA. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. 
          THANK YOU ALL FOR, UH, INVITING ME TO BE HERE WITH YOU. 
          I'D LIKE TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THIS PECULIAR BLESSING, BUT I WILL TAKE CREDIT FOR CHOOSING IT FOR ALL OF YOU FOR TODAY. 
          I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE. 
          MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH DISCOMFORT, DISCOMFORT AT EASY ANSWERS. 
          HAVE TRUTHS AND SUPERFICIAL RELATIONSHIPS SO THAT YOU MAY LIVE DEEP WITHIN YOUR HEART. 
          MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH ANGER, WITH ANGER AND INJUSTICE, OPPRESSION AND EXPLOITATION OF PEOPLE, SO THAT YOU MAY WORK FOR JUSTICE, FREEDOM, AND PEACE. 
          MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH TEARS TO SHED FOR THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM PAIN, REJECTION, STARVATION, AND WAR, SO THAT YOU MAY REACH OUT YOUR HAND TO COMFORT THEM AND TO TURN THEIR PAIN INTO JOY. 
          AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH ENOUGH FOOLISHNESS TO BELIEVE THAT YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD SO THAT YOU CAN DO WHAT OTHERS CLAIM CANNOT BE DONE. 
          FINALLY, MAY GOD BLESS YOU TODAY WITH JUST SUCH COURAGE AND GRACE AS YOU DELIBERATE THE WELFARE AND THE WORK OF THIS CITY. 
          THIS WE ASK OF OUR GOOD AND GRACIOUS GOD, AMEN TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC 
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FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 
          THANK YOU, SISTER. 
          AT THIS TIME WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR TRANSLATION SERVICES. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          OKAY, THE FIRST ITEM 
          [3. Approval of Minutes for the City Council Regular Meetings of October
4 - 5, 2017]
ON OUR AGENDA IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTE, MINUTES, THE CITY COUNCIL MINUTES FROM OCTOBER 4TH AND FIFTH, 2017. 
          THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM OCTOBER 4TH AND FIFTH. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ALRIGHT, WE HAVE A FEW POINTS OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE. 
          I'D LIKE TO START, UM, BY WELCOMING BACK OUR COUNCIL COLLEAGUE SHIRLEY GONZALEZ FROM DISTRICT FIVE, WHO HAD A BABY GIRL. 
          UM, CONGRATULATIONS TO HER AND HER FAMILY. 
          YOU WANNA WELCOME YOUR DAUGHTER TO, UH, CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, EVEN THOUGH SHE'S NOT HERE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR FOR, UM, AND COUNCIL AND ACTUALLY ALL THE, UH, PEOPLE WHO SENT WARM WISHES. 
          UH, WE HAD A HEALTHY BABY GIRL ON NOVEMBER 9TH. 
          UM, UH, AND SO I DID MISS THAT ONE MEETING, BUT I CAME BACK AS SOON AS I COULD. 
          I, THAT WAS THE ONLY MEETING I MISSED, SO I'M HAPPY TO BE BACK AND HAPPY TO GET BACK TO WORK. 
          UH, AND SHE'S HEALTHY AND WE'RE DOING WELL AND ADJUSTING NICELY. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          HER NAME IS SELENA, UH, GONZALEZ BARTON. 
          AND, UH, THE BOYS, MY SON IAN AND ZACHARY ARE THRILLED TO HAVE HER. 
          SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH, UH, FOR THE WARM WELCOME TO MY DAUGHTER. 
          CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GONZALEZ FAMILY. 
          WE ALSO HAVE SOME GUESTS, UH, IN THE AUDIENCE FROM THE US ARMY ALL-AMERICAN BOWL. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO WELCOME TO THE TO THE PODIUM NOW, UH, GENERAL KEVIN VEREEN AND NATE SEAMAN TO PR TO, UH, PRESENT ON THE GREAT BULL. 
          COMING UP IN JANUARY, MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL FOR THE, UH, LAST 17 YEARS, OUR CITY HAS BEEN THE HOST FOR THE FINEST HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN THE COUNTRY. 
          PEOPLE LIKE VINCE YOUNG AND ADRIAN PETERSON AND TIM TEBOW, AND EVEN ZEKE ELLIOT FOR THE COWBOYS. 
          AND, UH, THIS YEAR THAT TRADITION'S GONNA CONTINUE, UH, AND FOR 16 OF THOSE 17 YEARS, UH, THIS GAME HAS BEEN HOSTED BY THE UNITED STATES ARMY. 
          AND SO WE'RE VERY PLEASED TO HAVE WITH US TODAY, BRIGADIER GENERAL KEVIN VAREEN. 
          UH, HE IS THE DEPUTY COMMANDING GENERAL OF OPERATIONS FOR US ARMY RECRUITING COMMAND. 
          UH, HE'S HAD A DISTINGUISHED RECORD, UH, OF SERVICE, UH, TO OUR COUNTRY, UH, ALL THE WAY FROM IRAQI FREEDOM TO BEING THE COMMANDANT OF THE MILITARY POLICE SCHOOL. 
          AND, UH, WE'RE VERY PLEASED TO HAVE, UH, THE BRIGADIER GENERAL WITH US TODAY TO TALK ABOUT THE GAME. 
          GOOD MORNING, MAYOR, UH, CITY COUNCIL. 
          UM, I AM HONORED REALLY TO, UH, TO BE HERE BEFORE YOU JUST, UH, TO TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT, UH, THE, UH, ALL AMERICAN GAME AND, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO, UM, THE UNITED STATES ARMY, AND OF COURSE, UH, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, WHICH IS TRULY MILITARY CITY U SS A. 
          WE ARE JUST HONORED AND PROUD TO, TO, UH, BE ABLE TO, UH, HAVE THE, UH, ALL AMERICAN GAME HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          YOU KNOW, FOR THE PAST 17 YEARS, MILITARY CITY U S A HAS BEEN GRACIOUS WITH HOSTING THIS, AND YOU'VE BEEN A, JUST A TREMENDOUS PARTNER, UH, AND HOST AND, AND WE'RE HONORED AGAIN TO, UH, BE A PART OF YOUR TRICENTENNIAL, UH, CELEBRATION THIS YEAR. 
          UH, AS WE, UH, CONDUCT THE ALL AMERICAN GAMES, I I KNOW THAT, UH, WE HAVE, UH, MANY OF THE CITY COUNCILMEN, COUNCILMEN, UH, UH, WHO HAVE, UH, SERVED IN OUR MILITARY. 
          AND SO I, I DO WANT TO ALSO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY AND, UH, NOT ONLY WHILE YOU'RE SERVING IN UNIFORM, BUT AS YOU'RE CURRENTLY SERVING YOUR COMMUNITIES. 
          UH, IT'S JUST AN HONOR TO, UH, TO BE A PART OF, UM, THIS, UH, GREAT FORUM TODAY. 
          AND I ALSO KNOW THAT, UH, WE HAVE TRE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS, EITHER CURRENTLY SERVING OR PRIOR SERVICE VETERANS, UH, SERVING, UH, HERE AND LIVING HERE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO IT'S JUST AN HONOR, UH, FOR US TO, TO BE HERE TODAY AND TO, UH, BE A PART OF, OF THE, THE FORUM. 
          UH, THE ALL AMERICAN BOWL, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, DEMONSTRATES THE ARMY'S COMMITMENT TO AMERICA'S YOUTH, AND IT HIGHLIGHTS SOME VERY EXTRAORDINARY, UH, MEN AND WOMEN, UH, WHO ARE, AND SOME OF THEM WHO ARE CURRENTLY SOLDIERS WEARING A UNIFORM TODAY. 
          AND, AND THE ALL AMERICAN BILL ALSO INCREASES AWARENESS, UH, FOR, UH, THE MILITARY, THE ARMY, UH, AND OUR SERVICES. 
          UH, I WILL JUST TELL YOU THAT MANY PEOPLE, 
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UH, WHO ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE MILITARY, UH, DON'T KNOW REALLY WHAT THE MILITARY, YOU KNOW, UH, HAS AND WHAT IT OFFERS TO, UH, YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN. 
          AND, AND JUST FOR THE ARMY ALONE, WE HAVE OVER 150 DIFFERENT SKILL SETS, UH, THAT OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN CAN, CAN CHOOSE, UH, IF THEY SO CHOOSE TO JOIN THE MILITARY, THE ARMY THAT WE CAN OFFER THEM, AND OF COURSE, WITH MOST OF THEM, ARE CERTIFICATIONS AND CREDENTIALS THAT ALLOW THEM NOT ONLY TO BE OF VALUE, UH, WHILE THEY'RE WEARING A UNIFORM, BUT ALSO A TRANSITION INTO OUR COMMUNITIES WHEN THEY SO CHOOSE TO EITHER RETIRE OR TO SEPARATE FROM THE MILITARY. 
          AND WE TRULY BELIEVE THAT, UM, IT'S A SOLDIER FOR LIFE MENTALITY. 
          UH, AND, UH, WE ARE SO HONORED AND AND GRACIOUS THAT YOUR BUSINESSES, FOR THE MOST PART, UH, HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY, UH, FORTHCOMING AND, AND WITH REGARDS TO, YOU KNOW, EMPLOYING SOME OF OUR SERVICE MEMBERS WHO SEPARATE FROM THE MILITARY. 
          AND IT'S AN HONOR, UH, FOR, FOR, FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. 
          AND, UH, WE'RE JUST SO GRACIOUS IN THAT ASPECT AS WELL. 
          AND SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THE EVENT FOR THE ALL AMERICA BE ALSO ALLOWS US TO CONNECT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND CONNECT WITH THE, THE PEOPLE OF, UM, OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          BUT IT ALSO ALLOWS, I'M IN THE RECRUITING FIELD, AND SO IT ALLOWS OUR RECRUITERS TO GET OUT AND TO INTERACT AND TO FOSTER RELATIONSHIPS WITH, UH, EDUCATORS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS. 
          AND, AND, AND I'LL TELL YOU THAT, UH, OUR, YOUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE AMBASSADORS FOR, FOR OUR ARMY AND FOR OUR MILITARY. 
          UH, IN SOME CASES WE JUST DON'T HAVE ACCESS, UH, TO SOME OF THE AREAS THAT WE NEED, BUT IT'S, IT'S, UH, THOSE INFLUENCERS THAT REALLY ARE THE AVENUES FOR OUR RECRUITERS TO BE ABLE TO DO THEIR JOB. 
          UH, SO EACH, ALL AMERICAN IS CHOSEN NOT ONLY FOR THE ATHLETIC ABILITY, UM, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THEY EMBODY SOME OF THE VALUES THAT WE TRULY BELIEVE IN THE ARMY WITH BEING A SOLDIER. 
          IT'S ABOUT RESPECT, LOYALTY, AND INTEGRITY. 
          AND, AND THOSE ARE SOME OF THE CORNERSTONES OF THE TRAITS THAT WE EXPECT LEADERS WHO WEAR THIS UNIFORM, UH, TO UPHOLD. 
          AND NOT ONLY ARE THEY INVALUABLE WHILE THEY'RE WEARING THE UNIFORM, BUT THEY'RE INVALUABLE, UH, AS THEY TRANSITION INTO THE CIVILIAN SECTOR. 
          UH, WE WANT HONORABLE MEN AND WOMEN, UH, TO GO BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITIES AND SERVE IN THEIR, IN THEIR CIVILIAN SECTORS. 
          AND, AND THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR US THIS YEAR. 
          THE ARMY HAS A TREMENDOUS MISSION. 
          WE ARE, UH, RECRUITING ALMOST 80,000 SOLDIERS TO COME INTO THE MILITARY. 
          IT IS ONE OF THE, THE, UH, LEVELS WE'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, UH, IN, IN, IN OUR RECENT HISTORY. 
          AND, UH, MOST OF, UH, THE PEOPLE THAT, UH, ARE WANTING TO SERVE CAN'T SERVE REALLY THREE OF 10, UH, YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN, UH, CAN SERVE IN THE, IN THE MILITARY. 
          UM, AND SO WE UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, IT IS ABOUT REACHING QUALITY, UH, AND WE TRULY BELIEVE IN IT. 
          AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE, UH, RECRUIT QUALITY MEN AND WOMEN TO SERVE IN OUR MILITARY. 
          AND IT'S ALL ABOUT QUALITY, BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, UM, WE CAN'T DO OUR JOB, AND WE CAN'T BE SUCCESSFUL, AND WE CAN'T DEFEND OUR COUNTRY WITHOUT HAVING GREAT MEN AND WOMEN, UH, DOING THAT FOR US. 
          TEXAS EX IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO US. 
          I I WILL TELL YOU THAT, UH, IN RECRUITING, UH, IF WE DON'T, UH, RECRUIT HEAVILY IN TEXAS, UH, THEN WE WON'T MAKE OUR MISSION. 
          AND, UH, AND THE STATE OF TEXAS IS, IS ONE OF TREMENDOUS ADVOCATES FOR WHERE WE RECRUIT OUR, OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN. 
          AND SO, I AM, I'M TRULY HONORED, UH, TO BE HERE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND BE IN SAN ANTONIO, WHERE I KNOW THAT, UH, YOU ALL ARE TREMENDOUS, UH, VALUE TO OUR RECRUITING EFFORTS. 
          SO I THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE. 
          I THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO IN THE FUTURE, UH, FOR HELPING US SUSTAIN OUR ARMY AND TO SUSTAIN THE, THE PROUD HERITAGE THAT WE TRULY BELIEVE IN. 
          SO, I WANT TO END WITH, UH, WITH A COUPLE THINGS FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR 17 YEARS, OF COURSE, THE ALL AMERICAN BOW HAS EXISTED, AND, UH, NOT ONLY FOR THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS, BUT PRIMARILY WE DO HAVE OTHER FOLKS THAT WE, WE LOOK AT FOR JOINING THE MILITARY, AND IT'S THE BAND MEMBERS WHO ARE SELECTED ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS WELL. 
          UH, AND SOME OF THEM, AND MO A LOT OF THEM HAVE SERVED IN OUR MILITARY AND SERVED IN OUR ARMY. 
          AND SO WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE, THE, THE BALL GAME IS, IS GOING. 
          AND WE'VE GOT SOME GREAT ATHLETES WHO HAVE GONE TO PLAY AT DIVISION ONE LEVEL SCHOOLS, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE HAVE SOME GREAT CANDIDATES THAT ARE GONNA JOIN OUR MILITARY AND WEAR THIS, UH, THIS UNIFORM CALLED THE UNITED STATES ARMY. 
          AND SO, UH, SO THAT IS A ANOTHER AREA THAT WE, WE LOOK AT WHEN WE, WE, UH, PARTICIPATE AND WE SUPPORT, UH, THE ALL AMERICAN BOW. 
          SO ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND THE UNITED STATES ARMY RECRUITING COMMANDS, SIR, UH, MAYOR, I WANT THANK YOU, UH, FOR ALL THAT YOU DO YOUR SUPPORT TO THE ALL AMERICAN BOWL. 
          UM, AND THANK YOU TO THE OUTSTANDING CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND ALL THE SUPPORT YOU HAVE GIVEN US, NOT ONLY FOR THE ALL AMERICAN BOWL, BUT THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN GENERAL AND, AND, UH, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, GENERAL. 
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AND, AND AS WE WERE TALKING EARLIER, UH, TODAY, EARLIER THIS MORNING, I, I MENTIONED THAT, UM, THE ARMY, ALL AMERICAN BULL IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          NOW A 16 YEAR TRADITION GOING ON 17 YEARS IS THE ONLY FOOTBALL GAME MY WIFE FAITHFULLY ENJOYS ATTENDING WITH ME. 
          UH, AND I THINK THAT'S, UH, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE ENTIRE SAN ANTONIO SPIRIT. 
          WE, WE, WE CALL OURSELVES MILITARY CITY, U SS A, WE'RE ALSO A VETERAN CITY. 
          U S A ABOUT ONE IN 10 SAN ANTONIANS ARE, UH, MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS OR VETERANS. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BECOME A CITY OF THE WORLD WHERE 34 MILLION PEOPLE COME THROUGH OUR CITY EVERY SINGLE DAY VISITING. 
          UH, ONE THING, ONE IMPRESSION THAT THEY LEAVE BAR NONE, IS THAT THIS CITY IS THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE UNITED STATES DEFENSE AND THE NI UNITED STATES MILITARY. 
          WE TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN THAT. 
          UH, WE LIKE TO SEE THE FESTIVITIES AROUND THE BOWL, AND WE CERTAINLY ENJOY, UH, THANKING YOU AND ALL OF YOUR COLLEAGUES, UH, FOR YOUR SERVICE EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE WEEK. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, AND LOOK FORWARD TO ANOTHER GREAT BOWL GAME. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          NOW, THANK YOU, SIR. 
          ON BEHALF OF ALL AMERICAN GAMES, THE OWNER AND PRODUCER OF THE ALL AMERICAN BOWL, WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE TO HELP MAKE OUR EVENT A GREAT EVENT YEAR AFTER YEAR. 
          WE'RE PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE CITY AND ITS TRICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, AND WANT TO CONGRATULATE IT ON WHAT IT HAS BECOME TODAY. 
          SAN ANTONIO HAS BEEN THE PERFECT HOME FOR OUR EVENT, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO BE WITH A NEW TITLE SPONSOR BEGINNING NEXT YEAR WITH THIS, WE'LL COME A FRESH START IN NEW IDEAS. 
          AND OF COURSE, WE'D LOVE TO HAVE THE ARMY BACK IF THEY DECIDE TO CHANGE THEIR MIND. 
          WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE UPCOMING GAME AND HAVE THE BEST CLASS OF PLAYERS WE'VE HAD IN A LONG TIME, FEATURING 18 OF THE TOP 25 PLAYERS IN THIS YEAR'S CLASS, INCLUDING TWO FROM THE SAN ANTONIO AREA. 
          WITH THAT, WE'RE PRIMED TO HAVE ANOTHER GREAT BOWL WEEK AND A COMPETITIVE GAME ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 6TH IN THE ALMA DOME, LIVE ON NETWORK N B C. 
          THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE IN THE CITY FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 
          WE WILL LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT THE GAME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU, JOE. 
          AND, AND THOSE TWO SAN ANTONIANS YOU MENTIONED, UH, KARSTEN BATTLES WAS A LONG SNAPPER FROM LADY BIRD JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL, AS WELL AS CADEN STERN, WHO IS A DEFENSIVE BACK FROM STEELE HIGH SCHOOL. 
          SO IF THEIR PARENTS ARE WATCHING, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THEM, UH, IN THE ALAMO DOME. 
          SO, THANK Y'ALL, AND THANK, THANK YOU FOR COMING THIS MORNING. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WE ALSO HAVE, UH, A FEW DELEGATIONS HERE, AND I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE COUNCILMAN PERRY, UH, TO WELCOME A GROUP OF KUMAMOTO STUDENTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          UH, GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 
          UH, TODAY IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE TO RECOGNIZE A GROUP, UH, UH, FROM OUR SISTER CITY KUMAMOTO JAPAN, UM, PROFESSOR HERE IN NORO ITO AS, UH, LEADING THIS DELEGATION OF FOUR STUDENTS. 
          I GOT A PLEASURE OF MEETING THEM A WHILE AGO AND, AND, UH, TALKING TO THEM A LITTLE BIT. 
          AND IT'S, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE THEM HERE IN OUR ALAMO CITY HERE. 
          UM, THEY'RE FROM, UH, KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY, ACCOMPANYING THE GROUP THIS MORNING AS PROFESSOR STEVEN SONNO, WHO'S HELPED ORGANIZE THIS VISIT. 
          AND DURING THEIR STAY, THE STUDENTS WILL MEET WITH OFFICIALS AT U T SS A TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GRADUATE PROGRAMS. UH, THE DELEGATION WILL ALSO ENGAGE IN BEST PRACTICES EXCHANGE REGARDING PROTOCOL FOR DISASTER RESPONSE HERE IN THE US. 
          AND WE CERTAINLY EXPERIENCED THAT HERE IN, IN, UH, TEXAS, THIS, THIS YEAR AS WELL. 
          UH, GIVEN THE TRAGIC EARTHQUAKES THAT STRUCK KUMAMOTO IN APRIL LAST YEAR, I'M HAPPY TO SEE THIS SORT OF DIALOGUE TAKING PLACE. 
          AND I IMAGINE THE IDEAS EXCHANGED WILL BE BENEFICIAL TO ALL. 
          SAN ANTONIO AND KUMAMOTO HAVE A VERY SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP THAT DATES BACK NEARLY THREE DECADES. 
          EXCHANGES LIKE THESE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES OF THE JA JAPAN AMERICAN SOCIETY OF SAN ANTONIO, CONTINUE TO ENRICH THE SPECIAL BOND BETWEEN OUR TWO CITIES. 
          WE'RE HONORED TO THAT. 
          YOU HAVE TRAVELED SO FAR HERE TO BE WITH US THIS MORNING, AND HOPE THAT YOUR TIME HERE IN SAN ANTONIO'S PRODUCTIVE, INSIGHTFUL, AND ENJOYABLE. 
          ENJOYABLE. 
          SO BEAR WITH ME HERE, UH, MINA SAN SAN ANTONIO, A YOKO. 
          SO WELCOME TO SAN ANTONIO, EVERYONE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          SO, UH, GOOD MORNING, UH, MAYOR AND THE STATE COUNCILS. 
          UH, I'M ITO, I'M FROM KUMAMOTO, JAPAN. 
          SO IT'S, UH, A GREAT HONOR FOR ME TO, TO BE HERE WITH YOU TODAY. 
          SO, 
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UH, I AM, UH, HERE TO MAKE A EXCHANGE PROGRAM, UM, BETWEEN THE U T A S A AND C UNIVERSITY. 
          SO I'M JOINING WITH MY FOUR STUDENT, SO I APPRECIATE YOU ARE WARM. 
          WELCOME. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          VERY NICE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IF YOU COULD TURN AROUND, WE CAN SHARE A PHOTO. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          MOVE IN. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          LET'S, LET'S DO IT LIKE THIS. 
          1, 2, 3. 
          1, 2, 3. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK LOT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH, VERY MUCH, SIR. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          HOPE YOU'RE, HOPE YOU'RE ENJOYING YOUR TIME HERE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR COMING AND ENJOY YOUR STAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE COUNCILMAN COURAGE FOR A POINT OF PERSON PRIVILEGE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UH, IT IS INDEED A, A PRIVILEGE TO, UH, ANNOUNCE ANOTHER VISITING GROUP WITH US TODAY. 
          UH, THIS GROUP IS HEADED BY ONE OF OUR FORMER COUNCIL MEMBERS, ROBERT BERT JR. 
          UH, TODAY ROBERT IS A PROFESSOR AT THE NORTHWEST VISTA COLLEGE. 
          UH, AND HE'S BROUGHT WITH HIM AN HONORS GOVERNMENT CLASS TO KIND OF SEE OUR GOVERNMENT IN ACTION. 
          ROBERT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BRING THE CLASS UP? WELL, ROBERT, LOOKS LIKE YOU BROUGHT A, A FULL CLASS. 
          HE'S OUR SPOKESPERSON. 
          OH, I GUESS. 
          GREAT. 
          WELL, WELCOME. 
          THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. 
          UM, IT IS DEFINITELY AN HONOR TO BE WITH HERE AND TO SEE THE INNER WORKINGS OF OUR GREAT CITY. 
          UM, MYSELF, I'M PLANNING ON GOING INTO LAW AND EVERYTHING ELSE, SO THIS IS DEFINITELY A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO ME, FOR ME TO SHOW. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          IS THAT BETTER? YES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, YEAH, IT'S DEFINITELY GREAT FOR ME 'CAUSE I GET TO SEE HOW EVERYTHING IS GOING. 
          THE PASSION FOR YOU GUYS AND THE FIGHT THAT'S GOING ON. 
          HOPEFULLY ALL THIS CATCHES ON FOR THE FU FUTURE GENERATIONS, AND HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, ONE OF US ARE FLAMMABLE ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY KEEP THAT GOING ON FOR, FOR GENERATIONS ONWARD. 
          UM, IT'S DEFINITELY EXCITING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YEAH, WE REALLY WANNA WELCOME YOU. 
          YOU KNOW, I WAS A HISTORY TEACHER. 
          I TAUGHT FOR 27 YEARS. 
          I ALSO TAUGHT GOVERNMENT. 
          UH, I THINK THAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING TODAY IS A GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR YOU, AND WE WANNA WELCOME YOU ALL TO RETURN. 
          DON'T JUST COME BECAUSE IT'S A CLASS, COME BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR CITIZENSHIP IN SAN ANTONIO. 
          SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING OUT TODAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING OUT. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          AT THIS TIME 
          [Consent Agenda]
I'D LIKE TO ASK MY COLLEAGUES IF THERE ARE ANY ITEMS, UH, TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AT THIS TIME. 
          THERE ARE NO ITEMS, UH, LISTED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. 
          UH, SO FAR I HAVE ITEMS 19, 21, 27, 31, 14, AND 15, COUNCILMAN SHAW. 
          UH, 15 AND 20 ITEM 20. 
          MAYOR, IT'S 17 AND 31. 
          ITEM 17 AND 31. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SO I HAVE ITEMS 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 27, AND 31 PULLED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. 
          ANY OTHERS? OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION, UH, FOR APPROVAL OF 
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THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA SAVED FOR ITEMS 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 27, AND 30. 
          ONE SECOND. 
          ALRIGHT, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. 
          I HAVE ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK FOR AN ITEM NOT LISTED ON CONSENT. 
          JACK M FINGER, MEMBERS OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M. 
          FINGER, UH, WE JUST FINISHED WITH OUR THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION. 
          I, UH, HOPE YOURS WAS A PLEASANT ONE. 
          I KNOW MINE WAS, I WAS THANKFUL THAT, UH, WE DIDN'T HAVE A CITY COUNCIL MEETING FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS THERE. 
          , OUR WALLETS WERE ACTUALLY SAFE FOR A WHILE, BUT ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END. 
          AND SO, CONSEQUENTLY, LET'S LOOK AT, UH, A FEW OF THE ITEMS ON THE OLD AGENDA HERE. 
          WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE? WELL, JUST SKIPPING AROUND HERE. 
          I SEE ITEM 2020, UH, ITEM NUMBER 17. 
          THE IDEA OF, UH, WELL, I HAVE THE AUDIOVISUAL MAN PUT, PUT THIS ON, GO DOWN TO THE UNDERLINED AREA AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE PAGE THERE, IF YOU WOULD, IS A IT'S INITIATIVE TO, UM, EH, MAY KIND OF BLOW IT UP A LITTLE BIT TO PROMOTE COLLABORATION AROUND H I V PREVENTION, TESTING AND RAPID LINKAGE. 
          AND WHAT ARE WE GONNA SPEND ON THAT? WELL, YOU LOOKED AT THE BOTTOM, IT SAYS $20,000 THERE. 
          UH, IT, THE, UH, ALL THE DOCUMENTS ARE KIND OF VAGUE. 
          DOESN'T REALLY TELL US WHAT THEIR KIND OF PREVENTIONS OR TECHNIQUES ARE GONNA OFFER FOR THAT. 
          ONE LITTLE GLITCH I SAW IS THAT THEY SAY THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONNA USE IT FOR EQUIPMENT PURCHASES WHEN, WHEN IN FACT, ELSEWHERE IN THE DOCUMENT IT SAYS ONLY FOR CONTRACTORS. 
          YOU MAY WANT TO ASK ABOUT THAT, BUT, UH, ASK THEM, ASK THE STAFFERS, UH, IF YOU WOULD, WHAT, UH, EXACTLY WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO USE? ARE THEY GONNA USE A THING THAT ACTUALLY WORKS CALLED ABSTINENCE, ABSTINENCE ONLY, OR IF THEY'RE GONNA USE LIKE THE OLD CONDOM USAGE THERE YEAH. 
          PROMOTING THAT AND, UH, TO SEE HOW, HOW WELL THAT WORKS. 
          OKAY. 
          ALSO, I, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE, IT SAYS, WELL, I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING. 
          HE SAYS, WITHOUT FUNDING AND SUPPORT, THE CLA LAB CLINICS WILL CONTINUE TO WORK IN SILOS,  SILOS, RETURN THE CAMERA TO THE PODIUM, IF YOU WOULD. 
          YEAH. 
          SILOS. 
          I, I DIDN'T KNOW, LIKE AS IN FARM SILOS, UM, WITH GRAIN ELEVATORS, YOU KNOW, I, I DIDN'T KNOW OUR CITY HAD SUCH THINGS HERE. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          ALSO, SKIPPING AROUND TO ITEM NUMBER. 
          OH, LET'S SEE. 
          ITEM NUMBER, LET'S SEE IF I CAN FIND IT HERE. 
          ITEM 30 31. 
          YES. 
          HALF MILLION DOLLARS. 
          LET'S SEE. 
          PUT THAT ON THE AUDIO VISUAL. 
          MR. AUDIO VISUAL MAN. 
          YES. 
          IT SAYS, UH, UH, C P S ENERGY. 
          WELL, YOU, YOU WILL SPEND $500,000 OF YOUR RATE DOLLARS. 
          THAT'S RIGHT. 
          YOUR RATE DOLLARS THAT YOU SPEND ON GAS AND ELECTRIC BILLS ARE FOR CLIMATE ACTION AND A AND ADAPTATION PLAN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          RETURN THE CAMERA, IF YOU WOULD, THERE TO THE PODIUM. 
          UH, WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? EVERYTHING WAS KIND OF VAGUE THERE TOO. 
          DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT. 
          UH, YOU MIGHT ASK THEM JUST WHAT IF THAT MEANS OUR SHELLING OUT ADDITIONAL RATE, PAYING DOLLARS FOR THINGS LIKE CARBON FOOTPRINTS AND SO FORTH LIKE THAT THERE, IT DOESN'T REALLY TELL US MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND, UH, ELSEWHERE ON THE AGENDA. 
          WELL, UM, UH, MR. KERZ, YOU HAD SOMETHING ABOUT THE ELECTIONS. 
          UH, I'M, THAT'S A NICE INITIATIVE, BUT IT STILL DOESN'T GET THE, THE, THE, THE PROBLEM OUT DISPUTES OUT OF THE STATE COURTS THERE. 
          YES. 
          UH, WELL, TIME IS UP. 
          SO, SO, SO, SO MANY SCANDALS. 
          SO LITTLE TIME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU MR. FINGER. 
          UM, ITEM 31, WE'LL GO BACK ONTO CONSENT. 
          IS THAT CORRECT? OKAY. 
          UM, ALRIGHT. 
          ITEM 31. 
          WE'LL, WE'LL LEAVE ON CONSENT. 
          SO THE ITEMS PULLED, UH, AT THIS TIME ARE 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 27, AND 30, OR EXCUSE ME, NOT 31. 
          MOTION TO APPROVE BALANCE. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          SO, UM, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA, WHICH IS SAVED FOR ITEMS 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, AND 27. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ALRIGHT, 
          [14. An Ordinance for the first phase of the Lincoln Park Improvement
Project, a 2017–2022 Bond project, authorizing a task order to a Job
Order Contract payable to Davila Construction, Inc., in an amount not
to exceed $635,000.00 funded from a Donation Agreement with
Charles C. Butt and the Tricentennial Commission. [Peter Zanoni,
Deputy City Manager; Mike Frisbie, Director, Transportation & Capital
Improvements]]
WE'LL MOVE NOW TO ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. 
          WE'LL START WITH ITEM 14. 
          ITEM NUMBER 14 IS AN ORDINANCE FOR THE FIRST PHASE OF THE LINCOLN PARK IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. 
          A 2017 THROUGH 2022 BOND PROJECT AUTHORIZING A TASK ORDER TO A JOB ORDER 
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CONTRACT PAYABLE TO DAVILA CONSTRUCTION, INCORPORATED IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $635,000 FUNDED FROM A DONATION AGREEMENT WITH CHARLES C BUTT AND THE TRICENTENNIAL COMMISSION. 
          MIKE, HOW YOU DOING? MIKE? DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION FOR US? SURE, SURE DO. 
          YES. 
          ALRIGHT, WE'LL HEAR THAT FIRST. 
          GOOD, MOR. 
          GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          UH, WE'RE EXCITED TO COME TO YOU WITH THIS, UH, 2017, UH, BOND PROGRAM PROJECT, UH, THAT'S ALSO RECEIVING THE DONATION FOR THE FIRST PHASE, UH, WITH THE LINCOLN PARK IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT IN DISTRICT TWO. 
          YOU CAN SEE AN ASSORTMENT OF, UH, AMENITIES THAT WE'RE GONNA BE PUTTING INTO THIS GREAT PARK. 
          UH, SPLASH PADS AND WALKWAYS ARE GONNA BE PART OF PHASE ONE PLAYGROUNDS, SHADE, CANOPIES, SECURITY LIGHTING, FITNESS STATIONS, PAVILIONS WIFI, AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AS WELL. 
          WE WANT TO THANK, UH, MR. CHARLES BUTT FOR HIS $1 MILLION DONATION, UH, TO THIS PARK. 
          UH, WHAT A, WHAT A TREMENDOUS DONATION. 
          UM, AND THAT IS GONNA BE USED FIRST TO DO A, A PHASE THAT WILL BE DONE, UH, FOR THE TRICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, UH, THIS COMING SUMMER. 
          SO, AND THAT'S GONNA BE A, A SUBSTANTIAL, UH, SPLASH PADS AREA IN THE PARK, ALONG WITH SOME WALKWAYS AND CONNECTIONS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          WE ALSO HAVE A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE 2017 BOND PROGRAM THAT WILL BE, UH, PART OF THE PROJECT AS WELL. 
          SO IT'S LOCATED AT, UH, UH, 29 15, UH, EAST COMMERCE IN DISTRICT TWO. 
          AGAIN, THE FIRST PHASE OF CONSTRUCTION IS GONNA START SOON. 
          UH, AND THAT INCLUDES THE, UH, SPLASH PADS AND THE, THE WALKWAY CONNECTIONS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          UH, ADDITIONAL, UH, OBVIOUSLY THE BENEFITS HERE ARE THESE ADDITIONAL RECREATION, UH, OPPORTUNITIES, UH, FOR THE AREA. 
          UH, TURNING THIS INTO A REALLY, A SIGNIFICANT PARK. 
          THERE'S A VAST ACREAGE THERE TO WORK WITH. 
          SO WE'RE EXCITED TO GET THESE AMENITIES IN PLACE, UH, AND PROVIDE THOSE, UH, HEALTH AND FITNESS OPPORTUNITIES, UH, FOR THE COMMUNITY. 
          THE PHASE ONE, UH, CONSTRUCTION IS GONNA START PENDING YOUR APPROVAL, UH, IN JANUARY AND BE DONE IN MAY. 
          AND TIME FOR A CELEBRATION IN, UH, THE JUNE TIMEFRAME. 
          AND, UH, WE WILL KEEP THE PARK ACCESSIBLE DURING CONSTRUCTION, AND THEN PHASE TWO WILL CONTINUE RIGHT AFTER THAT WITH MORE PARK AMENITIES AS LISTED IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDE. 
          SO AGAIN, WE WANT TO THANK, UH, MR. BUTT FOR HIS GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION, UH, TO THIS PROJECT. 
          AND, UH, WE RECOMMEND AWARDING THIS JOB ORDER CONTRACT TO DAVILA CONSTRUCTION IN THE AMOUNT OF 635,000 TO GET IT DONE. 
          THAT I RECOMMEND APPROVAL. 
          ALL RIGHT, THANKS MIKE. 
          JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. 
          HAVE WE HAD ANY, UH, COMMUNITY INPUT REGARDING THE, THE DIFFERENT PHASES OF THIS, UH, CONSTRUCTION PROJECT? UH, YES, WE HAVE. 
          I CAN XAVIER'S HERE. 
          HE CAN, HE CAN. 
          HE'S WHISPER, WHISPER IN MY EARS, SO LET'S HAVE HIM CHIME IN. 
          . 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. 
          YES, WE HAVE. 
          SO THERE WERE A NUMBER OF PARKS PRIOR TO THE BOND PROGRAM OR DURING THE INCEPTION OF THE BOND PROGRAM THAT, UH, DISTRICT TWO HAD CHAMPIONED TO HAVE, UH, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT DONE AND CONCEPT PLANS OR IDEAS OF WHAT TYPE OF IMPROVEMENTS THE PUBLIC WANTED TO SEE. 
          SO LINCOLN WAS DEFINITELY ONE OF THEM, UH, SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE OF THE CONTRIBUTION THAT, UH, MR. BUTT HAD CHAMPIONED. 
          UH, HE DID THAT ACTUALLY PRIOR TO THE BOND PROGRAM AS A WAY OF TRYING TO INCENTIVIZE, UH, VOTER PARTICIPATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE PROCESS. 
          SO WE DID DO, UH, A NUMBER OF WHAT, UH, WERE CALLED POPUPS AND MAD LIBS TO ENGAGE THE PUBLIC AND SEE WHAT ARE THE AMENITIES THEY WANTED TO SEE AT LINCOLN. 
          WHAT ARE, UH, SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS, ADDITIONAL, UH, AMENITIES LIKE THE SPLASH PAD. 
          SPLASH PAD CAME OUT AS A HUGE ONE. 
          AND THE COMMITMENT WAS TO CHAMPION THAT TO GET THAT PIECE DONE, UH, AS PART OF THE 2018 CELEBRATION. 
          AND AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, ARE WE CONSIDERING ANY TYPE OF, UH, WIFI ACCESSIBILITY IN THE PARK? YES, THAT WOULD BE IN THE SECOND PHASE, COUNCILMAN. 
          SO THE REMAINING FUNDS AND THE ACTUAL BOND FUNDS, UH, WHEN THAT GETS DESIGNED AND, UH, WE COME FORWARD, UH, REQUESTING A CONTRACT FOR THAT SECOND PHASE, THE WIFI WILL BE PART OF THAT AS WELL. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, I JUST WANNA COMMEND BOTH XAVIER AND MICHAEL FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE ON THIS PROJECT. 
          IT'S A PARK AND, BUT WE UNDERSTAND THAT PARKS BRING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER AND THIS IS A HUGE PROJECT FOR OUR DISTRICT AND IT'S FOR OUR COMMUNITY. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          UM, I THINK IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT, UM, DIVING THE CONSTRUCTION IS ALSO A DISTRICT TWO BUSINESS. 
          SO WE'RE, WE'RE ACTUALLY KEEPING THE, THE EMPLOYEES THE MONEY AND EVERYTHING IN DISTRICT 
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TWO, WHICH IS VERY SUPPORTIVE. 
          THAT'S WHAT SHOWS WHAT COMMUNITY IS ABOUT. 
          SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT, UM, THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS. 
          SO AT THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR APPROVAL. 
          SECOND. 
          ALRIGHT, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 14. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ITEM NUMBER 15. 
          [15. Consideration of the following items related to railroad crossing safety
improvements in Council Districts 2 and 5: [Peter Zanoni, Deputy City
Manager; Mike Frisbie, Director, Transportation & Capital
Improvements]
15A. An Ordinance authorizing the execution of a reimbursement agreement
with Union Pacific Railroad Company to pay to the City fifty percent
of the cost, or $21,945.00, for the City's construction and installation
of two roadway clearance height curtains on S. St. Mary’s Street
between Jacobs Street and W. Whittier Street near the UPRR bridge
located at UPRR’s Milepost 210.98 (DOT#1 764297T) in Council
District 5.
15B. An Ordinance authorizing the execution of a reimbursement agreement
with Union Pacific Railroad Company to pay to the City fifty percent
of the cost, or $5,906.00, for the City's installation of railroad crossing
pavement marking refreshments on E. Commerce Street, Harriman
Place, Pendleton Avenue and S. Brazos Street, located in Council
Districts 2 and 5.]
ITEM NUMBER 15 IS CONSIDERATION OF TWO ITEMS RELATED TO RAILROAD CROSSING SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS IN COUNCIL DISTRICTS TWO AND FIVE. 
          ITEM 15 A IS THE ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A, A REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT WITH UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY TO PAY TO THE CITY 50% OF THE COST, OR $21,945 FOR THE CITY'S CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF TWO ROADWAY CLEARANCE HEIGHT CURTAINS ON SOUTH ST. 
          MARY'S STREET BETWEEN STREET AND WEST WHITTIER STREET, NEAR THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD BRIDGE, LOCATED AT THEIR MILEPOST TWO 10.98 D O T NUMBER 1 7 6 4 2 9 SEVENT AND COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE. 
          ITEM B IS AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT WITH UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY TO PAY THE CITY 50% OF THE COST, OR $5,906 FOR THE CITY'S INSTALLATION OF THE RAILROAD CROSSING PAVEMENT MARKER REFRESHMENTS ON EAST COMMERCE STREET, HARRIMAN PLACE, PENDLETON AVENUE, AND SOUTH BRAZO STREET. 
          LOCATED IN COUNCIL DISTRICTS TWO AND FIVE. 
          COUNCILMAN SHAW, AGAIN, IS THERE A PRESENTATION THAT WE CAN REVIEW? THANKS, COUNCILMAN. 
          SO, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, WE HAVE MULTIMILLION DOLLAR PROJECTS AT THE CITY, AND WE HAVE SOME VERY SMALL PROJECTS LIKE DOLLAR WISE, BUT THESE PROJECTS ARE REALLY CRITICAL AS WE TEAM WITH UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD TO SOLVE SOME OF THE SAFETY CONCERNS, UH, IN THE AREA. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS ASSOCIATED WITH TWO ROADWAY CLEARANCE HEIGHT CURTAINS, WHICH I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT THAT IS, UH, ONLY $22,000, UH, BUT AGAIN, CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. 
          AND THEN A SMALL DOLLAR AMOUNT AS WELL, UH, FOR SOME, UH, PAVEMENT MARKINGS RELATED TO THE RAILROAD. 
          YOU CAN SEE THE, THE LOCATION FIRST OF, OF THE, WHAT WE CALL THESE, UH, CLEARANCE HEIGHT CURTAINS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE ST. 
          MARY'S BRIDGE THAT IS NOTORIOUS FOR BEING HIT BY THESE HIGH PROFILE TRUCKS THAT COME THROUGH. 
          UM, AND, UH, WE HAVE DONE, OVER THE YEARS WORKING WITH THE RAILROAD, WE HAVE DONE FLASHING BEACONS, LOTS OF SIGNAGE OUT THERE, AND YET WE STILL HAVE, UH, THE HITS THAT HAPPEN OUT THERE. 
          SO, UH, THIS, THIS BRIDGE WAS BUILT IN THE 1930S. 
          UH, IT WAS, IT WAS BUILT BEFORE. 
          THERE WAS REALLY HEIGHT STANDARDS AND THERE WASN'T VEHICLES THAT HIGH AT THAT TIME THAT IT WAS AN ISSUE. 
          UM, SO, UH, THIS BRIDGE IS 11 FOOT THREE INCHES TALL. 
          THAT'S ALL IT IS. 
          AND, UH, THAT IS, UH, TWO AND A HALF, A LITTLE OVER TWO FEET SHORTER THAN A STANDARD SEMI-TRUCK, UH, TWO FEET SHORTER. 
          SO YOU CAN SEE, UH, THE CONCORDIA, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UH, CONCORDIAN EFFECT, UH, ACCORDION EFFECT OF THAT TOP OF THAT SEMI TRAILER WHEN IT HIT THE BRIDGE. 
          YOU CAN SEE IT JUST ROLLS RIGHT OFF. 
          AND SO IT'S A MAJOR SAFETY ISSUE, MAJOR DELAY ISSUE THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE NOW TO COME UP WITH A, A, A HELP TO THIS. 
          UH, SOMEONE WOULD SAY, WELL, WHY DON'T YOU JUST RE RECONSTRUCT THE BRIDGE? THIS IS A RAILROAD BRIDGE, SO IF YOU'RE GONNA RAISE THE BRIDGE OR LOWER THE STREET, IT'S, IT'S A MAJOR TO RAISE, RAISE A RAILROAD BRIDGE AND RECONSTRUCT IT. 
          YOU HAVE TO GO BACK A LONG WAYS TO GET THOSE GRADES RIGHT. 
          AND ULTIMATELY, THAT'S, THAT MAY BE THE FINAL SOLUTION TO DO THAT WITH A BIG, WITH A BIG PROJECT. 
          BUT FOR NOW, THIS IS A, AN INTERIM STEP. 
          UM, AND BASICALLY WHAT IT IS, UH, IT IS ADVANCE OF THE BRIDGE ON BOTH SIDES. 
          UH, THERE'S WHAT'S CALLED A HEIGHT CURTAIN. 
          THIS HAS BEEN DONE, UH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE RAILROAD IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT STATES. 
          AND BASICALLY THE, THE TRUCKS WILL, THEY WILL HIT THIS IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE TOO TALL, THEY'RE GONNA HIT THIS BEFORE THEY HIT THE BRIDGE. 
          UH, WELL, ABOUT A BLOCK IN ADVANCE OF THE BRIDGE, AND YOU CAN SEE THE, THE CHAINS COMING DOWN. 
          AND IT'S ACTUALLY, UH, UH, P V C PIPES AT THE END OF THAT, THAT ARE, ARE COMBINATION WHITE AND RED, UH, ACROSS THERE. 
          AND IT'S REFLECTIVE AT NIGHT AS WELL. 
          SO IN, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FLASHERS, THE SIGNAGE, NOW, THERE'LL BE SOMETHING PHYSICAL THAT THEY WILL HEAR AND SEE. 
          UH, THEY'LL SEE IT FIRST. 
          IF THEY, IF THEY TOUCH IT, THEY'RE GONNA HEAR IT AS WELL. 
          AND THAT'LL BE A, A VERY CLEAR ALARM THAT THEY'RE TOO LOW, UH, FOR THIS BRIDGE THAT'S COMING. 
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THE, UH, ITEM B HERE IS, UH, HAS TO DO THE, WITH THE RAILROAD SAFETY MARKINGS, THE STRIPING ON THE STREETS, AND CAN SEE, UH, FOUR DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. 
          ONE IN DISTRICT TWO, THREE IN DISTRICT FIVE TO GET THESE, UH, THE PAVEMENT MARKINGS UP TO STANDARD, GET 'EM REFRESHED, AND, UH, PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RAILROAD TO SPLIT THAT 50 50, UM, WITH THEM, YOU CAN SEE THOSE MARKINGS, THE RAILROAD SYMBOLS, THE STOP BARS. 
          UH, SO THIS IS, UH, ROUTINE WORK, BUT IT'S GOOD TO BE ABLE TO MATCH THE DOLLARS WITH THE RAILROAD. 
          AND HERE IT IS, UH, ITEM ITEM A AND B, UH, THE CURTAINS AND THE PAVEMENT MARKINGS, UM, AND PUT, GET, PUT THOSE IN PLACE. 
          AND THIS IS A SHORT FUSE PROJECT. 
          WE'RE GONNA BE DONE BY MARCH, UH, PENDING YOUR APPROVAL TODAY. 
          WITH THAT, WE RECOMMEND APPROVAL. 
          COUNCILMAN CHO. 
          THANKS, MIKE. 
          I ALSO WANNA THANK PETER FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING WITH THESE RAILROAD CROSSINGS. 
          UM, MANY OF US KNOW THAT IN OUR OLDER COMMUNITIES, WE HAVE RAILROAD RAILROADS TRACKS THAT GO THROUGH OUR COMMUNITIES. 
          AND, UH, IT, IT AFFECTS ALL THOSE HOUSES AROUND THAT AREA, AND IT AFFECTS THE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT, UH, ARE ADJACENT TO THOSE TRACKS. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR ADDRESSING THIS ISSUE. 
          UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION REGARDING OUR, OUR RAILROADS IN OUR CITY. 
          UM, WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN GOING ON AND ON ABOUT CONVERSATIONS REGARDING QUIET ZONE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          SO I CONTINUE, I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH YOU. 
          SO, UH, AT THIS TIME I HAVE MOTION FOR APPROVAL. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THERE IS A MOTION AND SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER, UH, 15. 
          WE DO HAVE A COUPLE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO'D LIKE TO MAKE COMMENT. 
          WE'LL START WITH COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          AND MIKE, CAN YOU BRING UP THAT, UH, IMAGE OF THE ONE AT ST. 
          MARY'S, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE? SURE. 
          LET'S SEE IF I CAN BRING IT UP. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          SO, AND THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING FOR MANY YEARS, MULTIPLE TIMES A YEAR, THE TRAIN, UH, A TRUCK GETS CAUGHT UNDER THERE AND, UH, CAUSES, UH, TREMENDOUS SUFFERING FOR THE COMMUNITY. 
          UH, AND ALSO COMPROMISES THE BRIDGE. 
          SO EVERY TIME A TRUCK HITS IT, THEN UP HAD TO COME OUT AND INSPECT TO CONFIRM THAT THE BRIDGES WERE, WERE SAFE. 
          AND THIS WILL HOPEFULLY ALLEVIATE THAT PROBLEM OF THE TRAIN OF THE TRUCKS GETTING STUCK UNDER THERE. 
          UM, AND IT SEEMS LIKE SUCH A SIMPLE SOLUTION. 
          WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG? SO, UH, WHEN WE'RE DEALING WITH OUR PARTNER, UM, THE RAILROAD, THERE IS A PROCESS THAT WE GO THROUGH AND IT'S, FIRST OF ALL, IT'S THE DESIGN PROCESS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT, THAT WE DO THE AGREEMENT. 
          SO EVEN THOUGH IT'S A SMALL DOLLAR AGREEMENT, IT DOES TAKE TIME TO GO THROUGH THAT AGREEMENT AND DESIGN PROCESS WITH THE RAILROAD. 
          UH, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE HERE NOW, WE'RE READY, AND WE'RE GONNA GET IT BUILT BY MARCH. 
          AND SO, JUST ALSO FOR CLARITY, IT'S SHOWING 21,000. 
          SO DOES THAT MEAN THE CITY GIVES 21 AND UP GIVES 21, OR IT'S A TOTAL OF 21,000? IT'S, UH, LET ME HAVE TO REFER THAT. 
          SO 10 AND A HALF FROM EACH, I'LL REFER BACK. 
          IT'S TOTAL 42. 
          IS IT? IT'S 21 EACH, YEAH, 21 EACH. 
          OKAY, 20. 
          SO THANK YOU, UH, FOR CLARIFYING THAT. 
          UM, AND ALSO THEY'RE ON ST. 
          MARY'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S AN OLDER COMMUNITY, IT'S AN OLDER, UH, PART OF TOWN. 
          AND SO TRUCKS WERE NOT THAT BIG AT THAT TIME. 
          AND I, I WAS GIVEN INFORMATION THAT PERHAPS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT TRUCKS KEPT HITTING IT, NOT JUST THAT THE TRUCKS ARE BIGGER, BUT THE DRIVERS USE G P S. 
          THEY DON'T KNOW THE ROUTES LIKE THEY USED TO, SO THEY USED G P SS, AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE OFTEN STUCK UNDER THERE. 
          IT DOESN'T GIVE THEM THAT CLEARANCE INFORMATION. 
          BUT IS, IS THIS SUFFICIENT TIME TO FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE? BECAUSE ONCE THEY GET HERE, IT'S HARD TO TURN AROUND. 
          WILL THEY HAVE, UM, WHEREVER THIS GOES, WILL THERE BE, WILL THEY HAVE AN, UH, OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ANOTHER ROUTE? YES, THEY'LL STILL HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO THEN MAKE A LEFT TURN, UH, AND GET TURNED AROUND THERE, UH, TO PREVENT IT. 
          SO THIS IS ABOUT A, A, A BLOCK BACK ON EACH SIDE. 
          SO RATHER THAN GOING STRAIGHT, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO, TO TURN LEFT AND THEN WORK THEIR WAY AROUND. 
          AND DOES IT TAKE 'EM THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD? UH, I DON'T BELIEVE SO, BUT I CAN DOUBLE CHECK THAT. 
          UH, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THESE BIG TRUCKS ALSO PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE GOING ON ST. 
          MARY'S ANYWAY. 
          I, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEIR ULTIMATE DESTINATION IS, BUT IF THERE'S A WAY TO TAKE THEM OFF OF THE STREETS ALTOGETHER AND ROUTE THEM, UH, ONTO THE HIGHWAYS SO THAT THEY'RE NOT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND 
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THEY CAN'T MAKE THOSE TURNS, UH, DOWN OUR STREETS ANYWAY. 
          SO HOPEFULLY WE GIVE THEM SUFFICIENT NOTICE SO THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO COME DOWN ST. 
          MARY'S. 
          AND WE KNOW THAT THESE UNDERPASSES, UM, ALSO CREATE, UH, A LOT OF, UM, ISSUES. 
          THEY'RE NOT TYPICALLY NOT DESIGNED ANYMORE AS UNDERPASSES UNDER BRIDGES BECAUSE, UM, THEY'RE VERY EXPENSIVE AND ALSO COULD CREATE FLOODING OR OTHER ISSUES. 
          SO THIS PARTICULAR DESIGN IS NOT COMMON, UH, ANYMORE. 
          THAT'S CORRECT. 
          AT LEAST IN OUR CITY. 
          UH, WE DON'T SEE VERY MANY UNDERPASSES CONSTRUCTED, UH, FOR THAT REASON. 
          UM, THAT IT'S VERY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          YEAH, THAT IS TRUE COUNCILWOMAN. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT, EVEN WITH AN ELABORATE PUMPING SYSTEM, WHEN A BIG STORM HITS, TYPICALLY THAT STREET'S GONNA BE SHUT DOWN FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. 
          YOU JUST CANNOT GET THE, THE STORM WATER DRAINED QUICK ENOUGH, UH, OUT OF AN UNDERPASS LIKE THAT. 
          AND THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A CONCERN FROM MOBILITY AND SAFETY. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, ON AN ARTERIAL STREET ESPECIALLY, YOU GET A LOT OF TRAFFIC THAT A LOT OF FOLKS THAT NEED TO BE USING THAT STREET. 
          IF IT'S GONNA BE CLOSED DURING A, DURING A MAJOR RAIN EVENT, THAT'S A PROBLEM. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          AND, UM, UH, I KNOW THAT WAS, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON AT LEAST, AT LEAST SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE FOR FOUR YEARS. 
          UH, SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT FINALLY WE GET APPROVAL AND CAN MOVE FORWARD ON THIS, UM, UH, REDIRECTION OF THE TRUCKS. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN. 
          COUNCILMAN CURRY. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          YOU KNOW, MIKE, I'M STILL SKEPTICAL. 
          UH, I LOOKED AT, UH, THE SETUP YOU HAVE, AND FROM YOUR DESCRIPTION, YOU'VE GOT, UH, PLASTIC MARKERS HANGING FROM CHAINS THAT WILL GIVE US THE HEIGHT, UH, THAT THE VEHICLE WOULD HAVE TO PASS UNDER. 
          BUT I, I KNOW ON A LOT OF THESE, UH, YOU KNOW, THESE LARGE RIGS, THE CAB IS LOWER THAN THE TRAILER IN THE BACK. 
          AND SO, AND, AND THESE ARE VERY LOUD SOUNDING ENGINES. 
          HOW ARE THEY GONNA HEAR A COUPLE OF THOSE PLASTIC THINGS HITTING THE BACK OF THE TRAILER TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY'RE REALLY GOING INTO A LOWER AREA? IS THERE GOING, OR COULD THERE BE A SIREN OR SOMETHING? THAT WOULD REALLY BE SOMETHING THEY WOULD HAVE TO NOTICE OTHER THAN JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS, THINGS CLACKING ON THE ROOF. 
          IF THEY EVEN HEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'VE GOT THE RADIO GOING, UH, THEY MAY HAVE HEADPHONES ON. 
          YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER THINGS THAT CAN KEEP THEM FROM HEARING A COUPLE OF PIECES OF PLASTIC HITTING THE TRAILER. 
          WELL, THIS IS A UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD BEST PRACTICE IN MULTIPLE STATES. 
          THIS HAS BEEN TESTED AND NOW HAS BEEN DEPLOYED, UH, IN MULTIPLE STATES BECAUSE OF, OF ITS EFFECTIVENESS. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHY IN WORKING WITH THEM IS WHAT, WHAT ARE ALL THE SOLUTIONS? THEY'VE SAID, THIS IS, THIS IS THE ONLY STEP BESIDES THE BRIDGE REPLACEMENT. 
          THIS IS THE NEXT STEP. 
          AND IT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE. 
          SO THE NOISE IS THERE. 
          IT'S ENOUGH NOISE BETWEEN THE CHAINS, THE P V C, AND HITTING MANY OF THEM AT, AT THE SAME TIME. 
          IT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE. 
          NOW, WILL IT, WILL IT ENSURE NOBODY CONTINUES AND HITS THE BRIDGE? IT WILL NOT DO THAT. 
          IT'S, IT'S NOT GONNA PREVENT SOMEBODY FROM DOING IT, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN THE OTHER STATES. 
          SO THAT'S WHY I WANNA DEPLOY IT HERE. 
          OKAY. 
          I'LL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT UNTIL THE TRUCK HITS THE BRIDGE AGAIN. 
          . 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. 
          COURAGE. 
          THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 15. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ITEM NUMBER 17. 
          [17. An Ordinance authorizing the acceptance of funds from the National
Association of County and City Health Officials for the Improving HIV
Outcomes through Collaboration: Supporting Partnership Development
and Action Planning between Local Health Department and
Community Health Centers Grant in an amount not to exceed
$20,000.00 beginning December 1, 2017. [Erik Walsh, Deputy City
Manager; Colleen M. Bridger, MPH, PhD, Director of Health]]
ITEM NUMBER 17 IS AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING THE, UH, ACCEPTANCE OF FUNDS FROM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY AND CITY HEALTH OFFICIALS FOR IMPROVING H I V OUTCOMES THROUGH COLLABORATION, SUPPORTING PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND ACTION PLANNING BETWEEN LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER GRANTS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $20,000, BEGINNING DECEMBER 1ST, 2017. 
          COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, I JUST WANTED TO COMMEND METRO HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING ON H I V PREVENTION, AND JUST RECOGNIZE HOW SERIOUS THIS, THIS PROBLEM IS AND HOW GREAT IT IS THAT YOU ARE WORKING TO STEM THE TIDE OF H I V HERE IN COUNTY. 
          UM, SO JUST TO REMIND MY COLLEAGUES, WE DISCUSSED THIS AT, UH, AT OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY COMMITTEE MEETING, THAT EVEN THOUGH H I V INFECTION RATES ARE ON THE DECLINE NATIONALLY, WE SEE THEM RISING HERE IN BEXAR COUNTY. 
          AND THAT'S, UM, THAT'S JUST NOT RIGHT. 
          WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT UNCHECKED. 
          WE DON'T KNOW WHAT COULD END UP HAPPENING 
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HERE. 
          SO, UH, THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT YOU'VE PUT TOGETHER A COALITION AND, UH, YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB BRINGING, UH, SOME RESOURCES IN. 
          SO, UM, I JUST WANNA THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND I'D LIKE TO MOVE TO APPROVE THE ITEM. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 17. 
          COUNCILMAN SHAW. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          IT'S PROBABLY THE MOST OF SPOKEN ALL YEAR IN TERMS OF COUNCIL MEETINGS, BUT, UM, WE HAD A GOOD DISCUSSION WITH THE DOCTOR ABOUT THIS, AND HONESTLY, I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS SOONER THAN LATER. 
          AND LIKE I SAID IN THE COMMITTEE MEETING, I WOULD LIKE TO CHALLENGE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES ON A CAMPAIGN ON GETTING TESTED. 
          LET'S, UM, WORK TOGETHER TO SEE IF WE CAN INCREASE THE NUMBERS OF THOSE GETTING TESTED IN OUR RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN REACH THE GOAL INTENDED FOR THIS PROGRAM. 
          SO THAT'S JUST MY, MY CHALLENGE TO YOU ALL. 
          WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT OFFLINE, BUT I REALLY LIKE TO SEE US MOVE FORWARD AND BE ANY OF ASSISTANCE ON THIS PROGRAM. 
          SO, THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN SHAW. 
          THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 17. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ITEM NUMBER 
          [19. An Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 2017-05-25-0384 and
Ordinance 2017-08-17-0571 which authorized the submission of grant
applications and acceptance of funds upon award, to the Office of the
Governor, Criminal Justice Division, for the Texas Anti-Gang Program
and the Rifle-Resistant Body Armor Grant Program. [Erik Walsh,
Deputy City Manager; William P. McManus, Chief of Police]]
19. 
          ITEM NUMBER 19 IS AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 20 17 5 DASH 25 DASH 3 84, AND ORDINANCE NUMBER 20 17 8 DASH 17 DASH 5 71, WHICH AUTHORIZED THE SUBMISSION OF GRANT APPLICATIONS AND ACCEPTANCE OF FUNDS UPON AWARD TO THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION FOR THE TEXAS ANTI-GANG PROGRAM AND THE RIFLE RESISTANCE BODY ARMOR GRANT PROGRAM. 
          COUNCILMAN SHAW. 
          THANKS MAYOR. 
          UH, ERIC, CAN YOU KINDA EXPLAIN BOTH PROGRAMS TO US BRIEFLY? SURE. 
          UM, THE, UH, THE FIRST ONE IS THE, UH, TEXAS ANTI-GANG, UH, GRANT. 
          UH, THE, UH, THE CITY RECEIVED, UM, ABOUT A YEAR AGO, $1.9 MILLION TO HELP SET UP, UH, A LOCAL, UM, ANTI-GANG, UM, EFFORT. 
          AND THAT INCLUDED A FACILITY, UH, THAT FACILITY IS ACTUALLY SCHEDULED TO OPEN UP, UH, NEXT YEAR. 
          UM, THE, UH, THE ANTI-GANG EFFORT, UH, IS A JOINT, UH, MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL, UM, EFFORT, BOTH MADE UP OF LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL AGENCIES THAT WILL ALL OPERATE OUT OF THE SAME FACILITY. 
          AND, AND, UH, UM, THE, UH, THE, THE CITY HAS AN APPLICATION INTO THE STATE FOR THE SECOND YEAR FUNDING OF A MILLION DOLLARS. 
          AND ALL THAT MONEY IS PRIMARILY BEING USED FOR THE FACILITY AND EQUIPMENT FOR THOSE, UH, ENTITIES THAT ARE BEING INVOLVED. 
          UM, THE SECOND ITEM IS A, UH, BODY ARMOR GRANT PROGRAM THAT THE CITY APPLIED FOR, UH, FOR $1.3 MILLION. 
          AND THAT'S, UH, ESSENTIALLY, UH, THROUGH THE STATE TO HELP FUND, UH, NORMALLY, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THROUGH THE GENERAL FUND PURCHASES AND REPLACES BODY ARMOR, UH, FOR THE POLICE OFFICERS. 
          THIS WAS A GRANT OPPORTUNITY TO GET A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY FROM THE STATE IN ORDER TO, UH, UH, UTILIZE THOSE GRANT FUNDS. 
          THE ITEM BEFORE YOU TODAY IS A, UH, UH, A, UM, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, A CLEANUP ITEM. 
          THERE WERE TWO ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS THAT THE STATE HAD IN BOTH GRANT APPLICATIONS. 
          UH, ONE WAS THAT, UM, THAT THE CITY AGREED THAT IN, IN THE, IN THE LOSS, IN THE EVENT OF LOSS OR MISUSE OF, OF, OF THE GRANT FUNDS THAT THE CITY WOULD RETURN THE FUNDS. 
          THAT'S PRETTY STANDARD LANGUAGE THAT WAS INADVERTENTLY LEFT UP OUT OF BOTH, UH, GRANT APPLICATIONS. 
          AND THAT THE, UH, THE CHIEF OF POLICE, UH, OF THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT IS THE, UH, GRANTEES AUTHORIZED OFFICIAL. 
          SO TODAY IS JUST A, A CLEANUP ITEM. 
          BOTH GRANT APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY UP IN AUSTIN, WAITING FOR CONSIDERATION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN SHAW. 
          COUNCILMAN COURAGE? YES, ERIC, UH, COULD YOU DESCRIBE THE, THE BODY ARMOR, HOW MANY UNITS WE'RE GONNA GET? HOW WOULD THEY BE UTILIZED? ARE, ARE THESE PROTOTYPES OR, OR NEW COMPARED TO WHAT IS STANDARD ISSUE NOW? I'LL LET DEPUTY CHIEF REYES KIND OF TALK ABOUT THE SPECIFICS. 
          YES. 
          GOOD MORNING, MAYOR. 
          COUNCIL MANAGER. 
          UH, YES, THE BODY ARMOR WOULD BE FIRST, UH, DEPLOYED TO THE FIELD UNIT. 
          SO ANY FIRST RESPONDER, ANYBODY THAT'S, UH, UH, GONNA RECEIVE A CALL FOR SERVICE OR IS, UH, IN A MARKED UNIT OR IN UNIFORM AND LIKELY TO, UH, BE FLAGGED DOWN IN FOR AN EMERGENCY OR RESPOND TO A, UH, DISPATCH CALL WOULD BE ISSUED THE BODY ARMOR FIRST IF WE WERE AWARDED THE GRANT. 
          WELL, DOES THAT MEAN EVERY, JUST, JUST EVERY PATROL OFFICER? YEAH. 
          SO IT WOULD DEPEND ON, ON THE COST OF, OF THE BODY ARMOR, THE AWARD WOULD BE, IF WE WERE AWARDED THE GRANT WOULD BE FOR ONE $43 MILLION. 
          THEN OF COURSE, DEPENDING ON THE COST OF THE BODY ARMOR, WOULD DEPEND ON HOW MANY WE COULD ACTUALLY PURCHASE IN THE SIGN OUT TO, TO THE OFFICERS. 
          SO WE'RE GETTING AN AMOUNT, BUT WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY THAT WOULD ACTUALLY 
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BE ABLE TO PURCHASE RIGHT NOW. 
          I, I DON'T HAVE, UH, THAT INFORMATION, UH, WITH ME NOW, SIR, ARE, ARE THESE UPGRADES TO WHAT STANDARD ISSUE TODAY? THE STANDARD ISSUE IS REALLY, UH, NOT, UH, REALLY RIFLE RESISTANT. 
          SO THE BODY ARMOR THAT THE OFFICERS CURRENTLY WEAR IS REALLY DESIGNED MORE TO STOP A, UM, UM, A PISTOL. 
          A PISTOL ROUND, REALLY NOT A RIFLE ROUND. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          YES, SIR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          COUNCILMAN SAL. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          AND, UH, THANK YOU TO COUNCILMAN SHAW FOR PULLING THIS ITEM. 
          UH, WE'VE BEEN HEARING A LITTLE, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, WHAT, WHAT THIS TAG GRANT CAN DO. 
          TAG IS THE TEXAS ANTI-GANG PROGRAM, AND YOU, IN, IN THE BACKUP MATERIAL THAT YOU HAVE FOR US, YOU COMPARE IT TO THE HAIDA CONCEPT, UH, WHICH IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN THE HAIDA CONCEPT, AND I'LL DO MY BEST TO TRY TO GIVE YOU A HIGH LEVEL, WHICH IS THE IDEA THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE MULTI AGENCIES WORKING TOGETHER ON ANTI-GANG UH, EFFORTS. 
          SO I GUESS THE QUESTION IS, IS THAT NOT HAPPENING TODAY? AND THE, THE THEORY HERE IS THAT WHEN WE BUILD THIS FACILITY, WHEN WE HAVE MULTI AGENCIES, WHETHER FEDERAL LEVEL, STATE AND LOCAL, ALL IN ONE PLACE, IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY. 
          OBVIOUSLY, WE CAN SEE WHETHER WE'RE WATCHING THE NEWS OR WE HEAR THESE REPORTS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITIES ABOUT AN INCREASE IN VIOLENT, UH, GANG ACTIVITY, UM, THAT THERE'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE OR SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DO DIFFERENTLY. 
          SO IS IT THE CASE THAT SOMEBODY COULD DESCRIBE WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING AS NOT NECESSARILY WORKING WITH, UH, THE STATE OR THE FEDERAL LEVEL? YOU MIGHT SAY, YES, WE ARE, BUT YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S GONNA BE A BETTER WAY TO DO THAT ONCE WE IMPLEMENT THESE FUNDS? Y YES, SIR. 
          AND I, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE HAIDA CONCEPT, UH, IS, UH, PRIMARILY FOCUSES ON DRUG TRAFFICKING AND, UM, IT INVOLVES, UH, DIFFERENT LEVELS OF, UH, OF, UH, LAW ENFORCEMENT. 
          AND THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID ABOUT HAVING THOSE, UM, UNITS AND AGENCIES ALL, UH, HOUSED TOGETHER, UH, AND WORKING JOINTLY ON INVESTIGATIONS. 
          THERE'S A, THAT MAKES IT MUCH EASIER TO DECONFLICT UH, INVESTIGATIONS AND TO, UH, JOINTLY COOPERATE. 
          AND I THINK PROBABLY A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT IS, UH, THE VIOLENT CRIME TASK FORCE, WHICH INVOLVES A NUMBER OF AGENCIES WHO ALL REPORT TO ROLL CALL IN ONE OF OUR EXISTING BUILDINGS. 
          AND, AND ALTHOUGH, UM, UM, THE, THIS IS A PERMANENT FACILITY THAT'S FUNDED BY THE STATE, UH, THE STATE IS UTILIZING THIS HAIDA CONCEPT. 
          AND, AND THE HAIDA, I'M SORRY, UH, FOR THE PUBLIC STANDS FOR HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREA. 
          AND IT'S A FEDERAL FUNDED GRANT PROGRAM, UM, THAT IS SET UP, UH, THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY THAT, UM, HOUSES MULTI AGENCIES IN ONE LOCATION AND FOSTERS JOINT, UH, INVESTIGATIONS. 
          THE STATE'S EFFORT IS TO REPLICATE THAT HAIDA CONCEPT FROM A FEDERAL STANDPOINT, UM, AND FOCUS ON GANG ACTIVITY. 
          AND SO THE HAIDA PROGRAM HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. 
          IT PRIMARILY HOUSES, UH, UH, A FAIR AMOUNT OF OUR UNDERCOVER, UH, WORK, UH, AND NON-UNIFORM TYPE INVESTIGATIVE WORK. 
          AND, UH, SO THIS IS A NEW VENTURE FOR THE STATE. 
          UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE SETTING UP, UH, SEVERAL OF THE ANTI-GANG, THESE AN, THESE TAG, UH, BUILDINGS OR FACILITIES, UH, THROUGHOUT THE STATE. 
          UM, SO THERE, THERE IS, UM, UM, THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID TO HAVING THAT JOINT ABILITY UNDER ONE ROOF TO BE ABLE TO FOCUS ON THINGS THAT CROSS, UH, AGENCY LINES OR CITY LIMITS OR COUNTY LIMITS WHEN YOU'VE GOT, UH, OTHER, OTHER AGENCIES REPRESENTED. 
          SO AS, AS A SUMMARY OF WHAT I'M HEARING, THE, THE CONCEPT OF HAVING, UH, AGENCIES FROM THE STATE, THE FEDERAL LEVEL, FROM LOCAL LEVEL, ALL HANDLING ISSUES LIKE DRUGS OR DRUG TRAFFICKING, UH, THERE'S MORE OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIVIDUAL CASES OR INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING ON CASES TO RUN INTO ONE ANOTHER. 
          SHARE NOTES, UH, TALK ABOUT AN INSTANCE THAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED ON A SPECIFIC SIDE OF TOWN AND HOW IT'S CONNECTED TO A LARGER NETWORK THAT GOES BEYOND SAN ANTONIO. 
          UH, AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE I THINK WE WANT TO BEST DESCRIBE WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON HERE AS A DIRECT RESULT THAT WE HOPE TO HAVE IN THE FUTURE, NAMELY THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO BETTER COORDINATE THE SOLVING OF THESE CRIMES OR THE SOLVING OF THESE VIOLENT ACTS, UH, BECAUSE WE'RE DOING A BETTER JOB OF TALKING TO EACH OTHER. 
          AND I THINK IT JUST POINTS TO THE IDEA THAT, YOU KNOW, SAN ANTONIO DOESN'T HAVE, UH, A CRIME PROBLEM. 
          SAN ANTONIO HAS PROBLEMS THAT LEAD TO CRIME, AND IN MANY CASES, THOSE PROBLEMS ARE PROBLEMS WITH DRUGS OR DRUG TRAFFICKING, UH, ISSUES WITH TURF OR, OR THE ENCROACHMENT OF TURF FROM ONE GANG TO THE OTHER. 
          UM, THOSE CAN'T BE SOLVED BY JUST ONE DEPARTMENT, UH, WITHOUT REALIZING THAT, HEY, NEXT DOOR, SOMEBODY ELSE IS ALSO TRACKING THIS WORK. 
          UH, AND IF WE JUST STARTED SHARING NOTES, IT MIGHT BE EASIER FOR US TO START CRACKING SOME OF THESE CASES EARLIER. 
          ABSOLUTELY, YES, SIR. 
          OKAY. 
          WELL, UH, THE ONLY THING I, I I WORRIED ABOUT WAS THAT THERE IS THIS STAGE OF FUNDING, BUT THERE'S ALSO A PENDING STAGE OF FUNDING THAT YOU'RE HOPING TO GET AS WELL. 
          SO THIS IS NOT YET, UH, A, A COMMITMENT OR PROMISE WITHOUT THAT SECOND PIECE OF FUNDING. 
          CORRECT. 
          SO THE, 
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THE, THE, UH, SECOND PHASE OF THE TAG APPLICATION GRANT, THE, FOR A MILLION DOLLARS IS PENDING, AND THAT'S FOR, UH, NEXT YEAR'S FUNDING. 
          UH, WE'VE CURRENTLY ALREADY RECEIVED $1.9 MILLION. 
          OKAY, SO THAT IS SECURE. 
          THAT IS SECURED, YES, SIR. 
          OKAY. 
          AND, UH, WHAT KIND OF TIMELINE DO WE LOOK AT? 'CAUSE I KNOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE LEASE OF THIS SPECIFIC FACILITY. 
          WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A PHYSICAL BUILDING. 
          IT, IT'S A PHYSICAL BUILDING. 
          UH, THAT BUILDING, UH, IS SCHEDULED TO OPEN UP NEXT WEEK. 
          NEXT WEEK, YES. 
          GREAT. 
          YES. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANKS FOR THE UPDATE, ERIC. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          THANK YOU MARY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN AL. 
          SIA AND I, I WOULD LIKE TO LEND MY VOICE OF SUPPORT. 
          UM, THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT WE'VE GREATLY BEEN ANTICIPATING, SO IT'S GOOD TO SEE THIS, UM, GETTING UNDERWAY, UH, PARTICULARLY AT THIS TIME. 
          SO, UH, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND. 
          OH, I'M SORRY. 
          UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE A MOTION  AT, SO COUNCILMAN SHAW. 
          THANKS MAYOR. 
          AT THIS TIME, MOVE FOR APPROVAL. 
          SECOND MAYOR. 
          THERE NOW IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 19. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ITEM NUMBER 20. 
          [20. An Ordinance authorizing the submission of an application to the US
Department of Transportation for the Nationally Significant Freight and
Highway Projects Infrastructure For Rebuilding America Grant
Program in an amount of approximately $35 million for the
construction of the Zarzamora Street at Frio City Road Railroad
Overpass Project in Council District 5. [Peter Zanoni, Deputy City
Manager; Mike Frisbie, Director, Transportation & Capital
Improvements]]
ITEM NUMBER 20 IS AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE SUBMISSION OF AN APPLICATION TO THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE NATIONALLY SIGNIFICANT FREIGHT AND HIGHWAY PROJECTS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REBUILDING AMERICA GRANT PROGRAM IN AN AMOUNT APPROXIMATELY 35 MILLION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOUTH SAMMO STREET AT RIO CITY ROAD. 
          RAILROAD OVERPASS PROJECT IN COUNCIL DISTRICT NUMBER FIVE, COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ. 
          AND WE ALSO HAVE THREE CITIZENS TO SPEAK ON THE SIDE. 
          OKAY. 
          I THINK MY, THE PRESENT, DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION? I DO. 
          WE'LL HAVE THE PRESENTATION FIRST AND THEN CITIZENS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, SURE. 
          THANK YOU, UH, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. 
          UH, TODAY WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AN APPROVAL OF A GRANT SUBMISSION FOR A PROJECT THAT YOU ALL ARE FAIRLY, FAIRLY FAMILIAR WITH. 
          AND THAT'S THE ZZA MORE ROAD RAILROAD GRADE SEPARATION DOWN THERE, JUST SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 90 IN DISTRICT FIVE. 
          SO THIS GRANT IS THROUGH THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BUILDING AMERICA GRANT PROGRAM. 
          YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE LOCATION. 
          YOU CAN SEE ON THE, ON THE MAP, ON THE, UH, THE AERIAL ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE. 
          ZAMORA IS UP AND DOWN ON THAT. 
          UH, AND THEN FRIO CITY ROAD COMES IN, IN AN ANGLE AND YOU'VE GOT THE RAILROAD, UH, PARALLELING THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME BUSINESSES THERE ON THE LEFT, SOME RESIDENCES ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, UM, RIGHT THERE IN DISTRICT FIVE. 
          THIS HAS BEEN A LONG-TERM ISSUE THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING TO ADDRESS THROUGH THE, UH, M P O, UH, PROCESS AND THE CITY BOND PROGRAM. 
          YOU, YOU WILL REMEMBER, WE HAVE $10 MILLION IN THE BOND PROGRAM THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE VOTERS. 
          SO THAT WAS GREAT NEWS TO GET OUR, OUR CITY MATCH IN THERE. 
          UM, RIGHT NOW THERE'S 16,000 VEHICLES A DAY ON ZARZA MORA THAT'S GONNA DOUBLE IN 25 YEARS. 
          UH, WE'VE HAD AN INCREASE IN THE, IN THE CRASHES OUT THERE. 
          UH, WE HAD 32 CRASHES BACK IN, IN 2012, AND NOW IN 2016, WE HAD 54 CRASHES. 
          SO THEY'RE GOING UP AND WHAT, WHAT HAPPENS? IT'S NOT SO MUCH CRASHES WITH THE TRAIN. 
          IT'S CRASHES THAT RESULTING FROM THE TRAIN, YOU KNOW, CLOSING DOWN ZAMORA, ENDING UP WITH REAR END CRASHES AND SO FORTH. 
          UH, YOU CAN SEE THE AVERAGE WAIT TIME THERE SEVEN MINUTES. 
          NOW SEVEN MINUTES IS A LONG TIME, BUT THAT'S THE AVERAGE, MEANING THAT THERE'S SOME WEIGHTS THAT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER THAN THAT. 
          AND SO IF YOU'RE TRYING TO GET AROUND, IF, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO GET TO THE STORE, TRYING TO GET TO WORK, THAT'S A MAJOR ISSUE, UH, OBVIOUSLY. 
          SO, OF COURSE, A LOT OF BENEFITS OF, OF GETTING THAT RAILROAD SEPARATED FROM, FROM THE STREET OF ZAMORA. 
          UH, SAFETY MOBILITY FOR VEHICLES, THOSE THAT ARE IN BUSES, BICYCLISTS, UH, PEDESTRIANS AS WELL. 
          SO THE OPPORTUNITY HERE IS, UH, WE, WE SHOW A $35.5 MILLION TOTAL. 
          UH, WHAT THE, THE FEDS ALWAYS COMBINE THE, UH, LOCAL MATCH WITH THAT. 
          SO WE'RE SHOWING THEY'RE UP IN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER. 
          THE $10 MILLION BOND PROGRAM IS A, IS A PART OF THAT MATCH. 
          AND THEN AS, AS YOU ALL APPROVED, WE, WE ARE SUBMITTING TO THE M P O FOR, FOR THE TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. 
          UH, THAT CALL FOR PROJECTS. 
          ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS IS, UH, THIS, THIS, UH, RAILROAD GRADE SEPARATION. 
          UM, AND THEN 17 AND A HALF MILLION WOULD COME FROM THIS NEW, UH, GRANT OPPORTUNITY. 
          SO, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S WORTH GOING AFTER. 
          YOU KNOW, IT'S, UH, WE HAVE THE MATCH ALREADY AND IT'S GONNA BE A, A FEDERALLY FEDERAL PROCESS THROUGH THIS PROJECT ANYWAY. 
          SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GO AFTER THIS, THIS FUNDING AND SEE IF WE CAN SHORE UP, UM, THE TOTAL FUNDS FOR THIS PROJECT. 
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THE 35 AND A HALF MILLION IS THE TOTAL PROJECT COST AT THIS POINT. 
          THIS IS THE ESTIMATE. 
          AND SO WE WOULD COMBINE LOCAL AND M P O AND THIS NOW, THIS OPPORTUNITY THROUGH THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO TRY TO MAKE THAT WHOLE, UH, THE GRANT, UH, SCHEDULE. 
          UH, WE NEED TO SUBMIT IT SOON, AND THEN WE WILL KNOW BY SPRING AND SUMMER OF NEXT YEAR IF IT'S AWARDED OR NOT. 
          AND, UH, TIME, INTEREST IN TIMING. 
          WE DO HAVE A COUNCILWOMAN, AS YOU KNOW. 
          WE HAVE A COMMUNITY MEETING TONIGHT, UH, SIX 30 AT, UH, COLLINS GARDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO GO OVER THIS PROJECT IN, IN MORE DETAIL. 
          WE'VE HAD SOME COMMUNITY MEETINGS. 
          NOW THIS IS ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR FOLKS TO COME, AND WE'RE GONNA SHOW, UM, OVERPASS OPTIONS. 
          WE'RE GONNA SHOW AN UNDERPASS OPTION, UM, AND, AND TALK ABOUT THE PROS AND CONS OF THOSE AT THE MEETING. 
          UM, AND UNDERPASS. 
          UH, WE DO HAVE SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH THAT. 
          UM, I, I WANNA POINT SOMETHING OUT REAL QUICK ON THE MAP. 
          ONE OF THE CONDITIONS OF A, OF A, UH, UNDERPASS WITH UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD IS THAT THE UNDERPASS HAPPENED PERPENDICULAR TO THE RAILROAD. 
          SO YOU CAN'T COME IN AT AN ANGLE. 
          AND SO YOU CAN SEE HOW, UH, ZAMORA COMES INTO AN ANGLE WITH THE RAILROAD TODAY, A SIGNIFICANT ANGLE. 
          SO TO DO AN UNDERPASS HERE WOULD REQUIRE, UM, MAJOR RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION. 
          WE WOULD, WE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE, UH, SIGNIFICANT BUSINESSES AND THOSE RESIDENCES THAT ARE THERE ON THE, THE RIGHT HAND SIDE. 
          IT WOULD BE, UH, A MAJOR, UH, REAL ESTATE ACQUISITION RELOCATION PROCESS AND SO FORTH. 
          UH, IT'S DOABLE, MORE EXPENSIVE, BUT THEN YOU END UP WITH AN UNDERPASS, UH, THAT AGAIN, AS MUCH AS YOU HAVE AN ELABORATE PUMPING SYSTEM IN A BIG STORM, IT'S GONNA FLOOD AND IT'S GONNA CLOSE. 
          SO THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU WANNA DO AFTER, AFTER SPENDING MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO SOLVE ONE PROBLEM, THEN CREATE ANOTHER PROBLEM. 
          SO, BUT WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT THAT THOROUGHLY TONIGHT, UH, WITH THE COMMUNITY, AND, UH, HAVE SOME GOOD DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT. 
          SO WITH THAT, WE RECOMMEND APPROVAL, UH, OF SUBMITTING THE GRANT AWARD, OR GRANT, UH, UH, PACKAGE. 
          THANK YOU, MIKE. 
          COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ. 
          PARDON ME. 
          WE HAVE THREE CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 20. 
          WE'LL START WITH ALAN TOWNSEND. 
          ALAN TOWNSEND, I LIVE AT 1 43 WALTON AVENUE. 
          UH, I'M PRESIDENT OVER, OH, SORRY. 
          OKAY. 
          THERE YOU GO. 
          TRY IT AGAIN. 
          ALLEN TOWNSEND. 
          I'M, UH, AT LIVE AT 1 43 WALTON AVENUE, AND I'M PRESIDENT OF THE PALM HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, AND THEREFORE, I DO REQUEST SIX MINUTES. 
          UM, THIS SHOULD BE A MOMENT OF JOY AND THANKSGIVING FOR OUR ORGANIZATION. 
          WE HAD ADVOCATED FOR A BYPASS OF THE RAILROAD SINCE PROBABLY OUR INCEPTION, OR PRETTY CLOSE TO IT ANYWAY, WHICH WAS IN 2000, IN THE YEAR 2000. 
          WE HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THIS WAS A SUPER PRIORITY, AND YET WE FIND THAT THE UNDERPASS HAS NOT BEEN MENTIONED IN PUBLIC DOCUMENTS OR PUBLIC ADVOCACY, NOT A, EVEN THOUGH IT'S OPTION NUMBER TWO IN THE, IN THE ENGINEERING REPORT. 
          THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY HEARD A WORD SPOKEN ABOUT THE UN UNDERPASS, AND YET IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE PRESENTED TONIGHT. 
          NOW, WE WERE FOR AN UNDERPASS BECAUSE IT'S LESS DISRUPTIVE TO BUS LOCAL BUSINESS AND TO, UM, RESIDENTS THERE IN, IN THAT AREA. 
          AND SO WE THOUGHT THAT THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS ON THE TABLE. 
          IT TURNS OUT, THOUGH, THAT THE UNDERPASS WASN'T MENTIONED, AND WE DID NOT HAVE A FORUM TO DISCUSS IT. 
          WE HAD A SHOW AND TELL, WHICH I THINK IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TONIGHT. 
          WE WERE ASSURED BY CITY STAFF THAT NO, THAT'S GONNA BE A LIVE OPTION. 
          WHAT'S HA WHAT YOU'RE BEING ASKED TO VOTE ON TODAY SHOWS IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A LIVE OPTION. 
          I THINK WHAT'S GOING ON HERE IS THAT WE HAVE A CLASH OF NOTIONS ABOUT WHAT CITY COUNCIL PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. 
          WE THINK CITY COUNCIL PEOPLE SHOULD BE REPRESENTING US IN A DIALOGUE 
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WITH US. 
          AND YET, I THINK THAT OUR COUNCILWOMAN, UH, COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ BELIEVES THAT WE LAY DOWN THE BURDENS OF CITIZENSHIP ONCE WE'VE VOTED, UH, FOR HER OR FOR ANY COUNCIL PERSON, LIKE AN OLD COAT, LIKE A HEAVY COAT IN SUMMERTIME, THAT WE LAY IT ASIDE. 
          WE'RE NOT WILLING TO DO THAT. 
          WE'RE, WE TAKE UP THOSE, THOSE, UH, BURDENS OF CITIZENSHIP GLADLY. 
          AND WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN CONSULTED ON THIS, AND WE'RE NOT OPPOSING AN OVERPASS CARTE BLANCHE, BUT WE ARE OPPOSING THE PROCESS OF BEING TOLD THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE AN OVERPASS OR NOTHING AT ALL. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S OUR MAJOR CONCERN. 
          AND SO I WOULD VOTE, I WOULD ASK YOU TO VOTE AGAINST THIS AND TO PUT IT OFF UNTIL WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO, UM, MAKE OUR DECISIONS KNOWN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MR. TOWNSEND. 
          DIANE LANG. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          UM, MAYOR NURENBERG AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          UH, I AM DIANE LANG. 
          I ALSO LIVE AT 1 4 3 WALTON AVENUE. 
          UH, AND WE HAVE BEEN, UH, ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, SINCE WE MOVED HERE IN 89. 
          UM, I THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, UH, FOR JUMP STARTING THIS BYPASS FOR THE ZARZA MORA, UM, RAILROAD TRACKS AT FRIO CITY ROAD. 
          UM, SO MANY DIFFERENT GROUPS HAVE BEEN AGITATING FOR THIS, AND, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE KEEP PRESENTING IT AND PRESENTING AND, AND PRESENTING IT, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE REALLY GOT SOME HOPE THAT IT WILL HAPPEN. 
          HOWEVER, UM, WE REALLY WANT TO, UH, HAVE YOU GET THAT $35 MILLION GRANT FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 
          UH, AND YOU, WE WANT YOU TO USE ANY, UH, POSSIBILITY OF GETTING FUNDS TO THIS PROJECT. 
          UM, HOWEVER, UM, BY STATING THAT THE OVERPASS IS WHAT THE VOTERS VOTED ON AT THE BOND ISSUE IS NOT REALLY TRUE BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR THE BOND TO GET IT DONE. 
          AND I THINK THAT, UM, PEOPLE REALLY NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND HAVE THE, UM, THE INPUT, UM, THAT WILL REALLY MAKE THIS PROJECT MUCH SMOOTHER, MUCH, UM, MORE, UH, THOUGHTFUL. 
          AND EVEN THOUGH YOU TH FEEL THERE IS A, UM, A TIME THING, I, I REALLY URGE YOU, AND THIS IS THE WHOLE REASON I'M SPEAKING THIS MORNING, IS THAT WE NEED TO START CALLING IT A BYPASS. 
          BECAUSE UNTIL THERE REALLY IS BUY-IN, MEANING THAT THIS, THE END INPUT FROM THE CITIZENRY AROUND IT, AND IT'S NOT JUST PEOPLE ON ZAR ZAMORA AND NOT JUST PEOPLE ON NO GTOS OR IN DISTRICT FIVE THAT USE THAT AREA, THAT IS A WELL-TRAVELED ROAD, ZARZA MOURA GOES ALL THE WAY UP THE, UH, WEST SIDE OF THE CITY. 
          AND YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IS WHAT AFFECTS A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE. 
          SO, UM, I REALLY, UM, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE, AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN REALLY HAVE INPUT BECAUSE ALL THE, THE PLACES WHERE WE WERE, WERE INVOLVED IN WITH, UH, SUCH THINGS AS THE HB PLUS WHEN IT WAS NO GOLETA SARS, AND WE'RE A COALITION. 
          UM, IT'S ALWAYS BETTER WITH CITIZEN INPUT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, MS. LANG. 
          MARIA VELAZQUEZ. 
          YES. 
          VERY SHORT . 
          GOOD MORNING, UH, MAYOR AND GOOD MORNING CITY COUNCIL. 
          MY NAME IS MARIA VELASQUEZ, AND I LIVE AT 6 59 TAFT BOULEVARD. 
          I VERY OFTEN TELL PEOPLE I LIVE ON THE RAILROAD TRACKS BECAUSE I AM RIGHT BY THE RAILROAD TRACKS. 
          AND I AM HERE TODAY TO OBJECT TO THE OVERPASS LABEL ON EVERYTHING, BECAUSE WAY BACK SINCE JANUARY OF THIS YEAR, UH, WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO HAVE GOOD COMMUNICATION WITH DISTRICT FIVE COUNCILWOMAN. 
          UH, MY SON SENT, UH, EMAIL TO DISTRICT FIVE REQUESTING THAT WE MEET BEFORE, BE THAT BEFORE 
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THE, THE APPROVAL OF THE, UM, LANGUAGE THAT WAS GOING TO BE USED ON THE, UM, REQUEST FOR FUNDING. 
          AND, UH, HE NEVER RECEIVED AN, UH, UH, AN ANSWER. 
          WHAT WE HAVE BEEN REQUESTING SINCE THIS PROJECT WAS MADE, KNOWN, MADE, MADE KNOWN TO US, HAS BEEN WE REQUESTING, UH, INCLUSION BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT BEEN INCLUDED AS A NEIGHBORHOOD AND AS A COMMUNITY. 
          YOU HAVE THE MAJOR, UM, ORGANIZ NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTED HERE TODAY, WHICH ARE OPPOSED. 
          THAT SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT HOW THE COMMUNITY FEELS ABOUT AN OVERPASS. 
          UH, WE'VE ASKED FOR INCLUSION OPTIONS, AND, UM, WE HAVE GOTTEN NONE OF THAT. 
          WE HAVE ASKED FOR TRANSPARENCY, AND WE HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN TOLD DIFFERENT INFORMATION. 
          WE WERE TOLD THAT THE OVERPASS, EVERYTHING WAS OFF THE, THE BOOKS. 
          THEY WERE STARTING FROM, FROM SQUARE ONE BY THE, UH, UH, RIVERA, RJ RIVERA. 
          AND IT TURNS OUT THAT NOTHING HAS WAS EVER PUT ON, ON, ON HOLD. 
          THEY'RE NOT STARTING ANYTHING NEW. 
          I HAVE, UH, MR. ROBERT ESCOVEDO IS GOING TO SHARE MY SIX MINUTES WITH ME. 
          I AM REALLY VERY COMPLETELY DISENCHANTED WITH THE WAY THAT THIS PROJECT HAS TAKEN PLACE. 
          THE COMMUNITY HAS NOT BEEN ADVISED, HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED, AND HAS, HAS NOT HAD TRANSPARENCY FROM CITY STAFF AND, UM, AND THE, UM, ARCHITECTS OR THE ENGINEERS. 
          THANK YOU, MARY. 
          MY NAME IS ROBERTO STO. 
          I'M A BOARD MEMBER, PAST PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGES GARDEN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. 
          AND, UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA SAY GOOD MORNING TO, UH, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UH, MEMBERS GONZALEZ GON GON, AND, UH, I'M, I'M OFFERING, UH, I'M SORRY. 
          IS THAT OKAY? ? UM, SIR, YOU'RE NOT SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, SO THE COUNCILWOMAN IS RECOGNIZING YOU. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          SO GO AHEAD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND, UH, ANYWAY, I'M, I'M HERE TO, TO SPEAK ON THE, UH, THE ISSUE OF, UH, THE, THE, THAT YOU'RE CALLING THE UNDERPASS. 
          AND, UH, I, I, UH, WOULD LIKE TO, UH, CONVEY TO YOU THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE, THE CITIZENS AND THE MEMBERS OF THE COLLINS GARDEN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, OR IN FAVOR OF AN UNDERPASS MORE SO THAN AN OVERPASS, UH, BECAUSE WE, WE FEEL THAT, UH, IT WOULD BE A LESS OF AN OBSTRUCTION TO THE HORIZON AND THE SKYLINE. 
          WE THINK OUR PART OF THE CITY IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE, EVEN THOUGH SOME OF YOU MAY NOT COME DOWN OUR WAY AS OFTEN AS WE DO. 
          I LIVE THERE EVERY DAY AND I HAVE TO CROSS THOSE RAILROAD TRACKS EVERY DAY. 
          AND, UH, I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT THAT SEVEN MINUTE, UH, AVERAGE ESTIMATE OF WAITING TIME THAT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER IS FAR BEYOND, UH, THE REALITY. 
          I HAVE STOOD THERE GOING TO THE GROCERY STORE 30 TO 40 MINUTES, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE RAILROAD WILL BACK UP, STAND AND IDLY, UH, ACROSS THE RAILROAD TRACKS. 
          SO WE DO NEED, UH, SOME, SOME KIND OF RELIEF THERE. 
          SO I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, AND I HOPE YOU CONSIDER OUR REQUEST. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THANK YOU, MS. VELASQUEZ. 
          COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ. 
          THANK YOU MAYOR. 
          AND, UH, THANK YOU TO, UH, MR. TOWNSEND AND DIANE LANG, UH, AND ALSO MS. VELASQUEZ AND MS. VELA FOR COMING TO TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE. 
          THEY ARE ALL RIGHT IN THE AREA WHERE THIS, UH, THIS PROJECT WILL OCCUR. 
          AND, AND IT WILL BE VERY IMPACTFUL TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOUR BUSINESSES. 
          IT'S A HUGE PROJECT, WHETHER IT'S AN UNDERPASS OR WHETHER IT'S AN OVERPASS, IT'S GONNA BE EXTREMELY DISRUPTIVE TO THE COMMUNITY THERE IN THE SHORT TERM. 
          UH, IN THE LONG TERM, WE DO HOPE THAT IT'S GONNA ELIMINATE THE WAITING TIME THAT MR. GU, MS. ESCOBEDO MENTIONED. 
          UH, SOMETIMES AS LONG AS 45 MINUTES, UH, WAITING FOR THE TRAINS. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, WE EXPECT THAT THAT WILL CONTINUE. 
          WE DON'T EXPECT THAT THAT WILL, THERE'LL BE ANY CHANGES IN THAT. 
          AS MANY AS 26 WAS MENTIONED HERE, 24 TRAIN EVENTS A DAY, UH, GO THROUGH THAT AREA. 
          IT'S ONE OF THE HEAVIEST TRAVELED TRAINS, UH, ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY. 
          AND MIKE, CAN YOU, I'M GONNA ASK YOU A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS JUST REGARDING THE TRAIN TRAFFIC. 
          UM, ISN'T IT, ISN'T 
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THIS WHERE THE MAJORITY OF TRAINS COME NORTH TO SOUTH, EAST TO WEST, ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY TRANSFER, RIGHT IN THAT AREA AROUND THE SOUTH SIDE? YES. 
          OVER THE YEARS, WE'VE WORKED WITH UP TO SEE WHAT, WHAT IS THEIR PLAN FOR THIS ROUTE, AND, AND THEIR PLAN IS EXTENSIVE. 
          THEY PLAN TO, TO DOUBLE THE TRAINS OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS. 
          IT IS A MAJOR ROUTE TO THE SOUTH FOR ANY, ANY EAGLEFORD, SHALE AF ACTIVITY THAT'S GOING ON. 
          THIS IS, THIS IS THE ROUTE. 
          SO, AND IT'S GONNA BE, CONTINUE TO BE A DOMINANT ROUTE. 
          SO JUST CLARIFY FOR ME SOME OF THE FUNDING. 
          SO WE KNOW THAT WE HAD $10 MILLION APPROVED IN THE BOND. 
          THE BOND LANGUAGES DOES SPECIFY OVERPASS. 
          UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE WE WANNA BE OPEN TO ALL OPTIONS. 
          UH, BUT THAT WAS THE ONE THAT WAS CONSIDERED BECAUSE IT WAS THE ONE THAT HAD BEEN DETERMINED TO BE THE MOST VIABLE OPTION WAS AN OVERPASS. 
          RIGHT? SO COULD, COULD YOU CLARIFY HOW, WHAT THE FUNDING SOURCES ARE LIKE, BECAUSE YOU DO SHOW IN YOUR SLIDE TWO FEDERAL FUNDING SOURCES. 
          SO YOU HAVE THE CITY, AND THEN YOU SHOW TWO SEPARATE POCKETS, ONE FOR 8,000,001 FOR 17 MILLION. 
          RIGHT? SO IN THE, UH, IN THE M P O CALL FOR PROJECTS, UH, WE WENT THROUGH A PROCESS WITH CITY COUNCIL, AND CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE SLATE THAT WE SUBMITTED, UH, JUST RECENTLY TO THE M P O. 
          AND ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS IS THIS PROJECT, THE GREAT SEPARATION OF, OF, UH, ZARZA MORO WITH THE RAILROAD. 
          AND SO WE ACTUALLY SUBMITTED 23 MILLION FOR THAT CALL, FOR PROJECTS FOR THAT PROJECT. 
          NOW WE'RE SHOWING EIGHT HERE, BECAUSE IF, IF WE'RE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO GET 17.5 THROUGH THIS GRANT, WE WON'T NEED AS MUCH THROUGH THE M P O, UH, WHICH WOULD HELP FREE UP MONEY THROUGH THE M P O FOR OTHER PROJECTS, OTHER, OTHER OF OUR PROJECTS AND OTHERWISE. 
          SO, UM, TO MAKE THIS PROJECT WHOLE, THAT 35.5, IT'S A TOTAL OF THE 10 MILLION FROM THE BOND PROGRAM THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE VOTERS, UH, 17 AND A HALF MILLION THROUGH THIS GRANT OPPORTUNITY THROUGH THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, AND THEN 8 MILLION, UH, THROUGH THE M P O, THROUGH OUR M P O. 
          AND IT'S ALL FEDERAL EVERYTHING. 
          I THOUGHT THAT SOME OF THE M P O MONEY CAME FROM PROP $7 OR ANOTHER SOURCE? NO, UH, PROP SEVEN AND PROP ONE, THOSE ARE STATE FUNDS COMING THROUGH THE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION THROUGH THE STATE. 
          AND SO NONE OF THAT IS STATE FUND. 
          IT'S ALL FEDERAL. 
          THIS IS ALL, UH, WE HAVE OUR LOCAL MATCH, AND THEN THE REST IS FEDERAL MONEY THAT'S BEING PROPOSED. 
          AND SO, UH, YOU, YOU DID, YOU, WE APPLIED FOR THE GRANT TODAY. 
          YOU SHOWED A TIMELINE OF, YOU KNOW, SEPTEMBER OR SO THAT WE, WE WOULD POTENTIALLY GET AWARDED THE PROJECT, BUT WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD OF, OR WHAT IS THE TIMELINE FOR THE ACTUAL FUNDING IF IN FACT, WE, WE ARE AWARDED THE GRANT, UH, THAT, THAT AWARD THEN, UH, SEE THIS PROCESS, THIS PROJECT IS JUST STARTING DESIGN. 
          SO WE'RE GETTING THE, THE CONCEPT OF OVERPASS UNDERPASS. 
          YOU KNOW, SEVERAL YEARS AGO, TXDOT TOOK A STAB AT THIS AS TO LOOK AT A CONFIGURATION AS TO WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DO THIS. 
          IS IT A, IS IT AN UNDERPASS? IS IT AN OVERPASS? THEY CAME UP WITH A, A, A PROJECT THAT AS A COMMUNITY, AND AS, AS A CITY, WE THOUGHT, THIS IS NOT PALATABLE BECAUSE IT ELEVATED SARS, AMORA, AND FREO CITY ROAD TOOK OUT A, A MAJOR BUSINESS AND OTHERS, AND THAT WAS LIKE A $75 MILLION PROJECT. 
          WE SAID THAT WE'VE, WE'VE GOTTA FIND SOMETHING ELSE. 
          AND SO WE CONTINUED THAT WORK. 
          SO, UH, I APOLOGIZE IF THE, IF THE COMMUNITY FEELS LIKE THEY'VE BEEN LEFT OUT, A LOT OF THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT COMING UP WITH THE, WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS HERE, UM, OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS. 
          BUT WE HAVE THAT NOW. 
          SO WE'VE GOT THE COMMUNITY MEETING TONIGHT, UH, WHERE WE'LL BE GOING THROUGH THAT VERY THOROUGHLY WITH A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION AND HAVE A LOT OF TIME FOR Q AND A AS WELL. 
          GOOD. 
          WELL, I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT, UM, TO THAT MEETING. 
          UM, BUT I, I GUESS YOU KNOW, THE TIMELINE FOR WHEN WE, THE MONEY WOULD LET, UM, IN THE EVENT THAT WE ARE AWARDED, BECAUSE I, I, RIGHT, I KNOW THAT THE COMMUNITY FEELS LIKE THEY HAVEN'T HAD ENOUGH OPPORTUNITY, BUT IF WE ARE GIVEN THE GRANT, UH, STAFF, I DON'T IMAGINE THAT IT WOULD BE IMMEDIATE. 
          THERE, THERE WOULD STILL BE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO, TO GET INPUT. 
          UH, AND, AND, AND ALSO, IS THE FEDERAL GRANT FUNDING TIED TO THE DESIGN? SO YOU MENTIONED THAT THE DESIGN WAS STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION. 
          UM, SO THE, YOU KNOW, THE GOING AFTER THE GRANT, UH, THAT'S FOR THE GRADE SEPARATION FROM THE RAILROAD, UNDERPASS, OVERPASS, WHATEVER IT IS, THE GRANT, UH, THAT, THAT, THAT'S IMMATERIAL FOR THE GRANT ITSELF, U THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION GRANT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK THE TIMING OF THAT GRANT. 
          WELL, THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT. 
          SO THERE, RIGHT, I MEAN, IN THE EVENT THAT WE DETERMINE THAT ONE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER, RIGHT? IT DOESN'T MATTER. 
          WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT GRADE SEPARATION. 
          THIS ACTION TODAY DOES NOT IMPACT THE ACTUAL DESIGN, UM, OF WHETHER IT'S AN OVERPASS OR 
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OVERPASS. 
          WE WILL KIND OF FINALIZE THAT DISCUSSION WITH THE COMMUNITY, UH, AS WE GO. 
          BUT, UM, THE, THE YEAR THAT THIS, THIS FUNDING IS PROGRAMMED FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IS 2022. 
          UH, SO IT'S OUT THERE, BUT WHAT IT DOES IS IT MAKES THE PROJECT WHOLE, BECAUSE THIS IS GONNA TAKE ABOUT A YEAR TO DESIGN, YOU KNOW, FROM, FROM HERE. 
          AND THEN, UH, WE NEED TO DO ALL THE ENVIRONMENTAL DUE DILIGENCE, ALL THE REAL ESTATE ACTIVITIES TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE TAKEN CARE OF PROPERLY AND SO FORTH THROUGH THAT. 
          SO WE'RE NOT LIKELY TO SEE ANY PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION UNTIL 2022. 
          UH, IT'S PROBABLY 2022 IF, IF THIS FUNDING COMES. 
          EVEN THE M P O FUNDING THAT WE'RE SEEKING IS IN THAT SAME TIMEFRAME. 
          SO, YOU'RE RIGHT. 
          AND A FEDERAL PROCESS FOR DESIGN, UH, AND, AND THE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE, IT'S GONNA TAKE ABOUT THAT LONG TO GET THERE. 
          SO, YEAH, I, I, I SUSPECTED THAT IT WAS MANY YEARS IN THE MAKING. 
          SO, UM, BUT FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT HAPPENED ON SOUTH PRESA WHERE THE PROJECT WAS DETERMINED TO NOT BE FEASIBLE, UH, THEN THE FUND, THE MONEY WENT BACK TO THOSE, THAT PARTICULAR AREA TO DO STREET IMPROVEMENTS TO DO, UH, MORE LIGHTING TO IMPROVE THE AREA. 
          IN THE EVENT THAT THIS PROJECT, UH, DOES NOT GET FUNDING, BECAUSE WE CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT THE FEDERAL MONEY. 
          THERE'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY IN OUR LOCAL BOND TO, UM, TO DO THE PROJECT. 
          SO IF THE FEDERAL FUNDING DOES NOT COME, THEN AT WHAT POINT DO WE THEN TURN IT BACK OVER TO THE CITIZENS AND SAY, THIS PROJECT DIDN'T WORK. 
          WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND JUST DO REGULAR STREET MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENTS AND WALKABILITY AND THAT SORT OF, OR, OR SOMETHING TO IMPROVE THE SAFETY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          WELL, WE'RE CONFIDENT THAT THIS PROJECT WILL BE FUNDED IN WHOLE ALONG THE WAY. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TEED THIS PROJECT UP AT THE M P O, UH, A COUPLE YEARS AGO WITH THE CALL FOR PROJECTS. 
          YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THAT OUR M P O, UH, LEADERS ON THE M P O WORKED TO GET THIS PROJECT POSITIONED IN WHAT WAS CALLED CATEGORY D, WHICH, WHICH WAS, OKAY, WE'RE PUTTING IT IN THIS PLACE. 
          IT DOESN'T HAVE FEDERAL FUNDS YET, BUT IT IS NOW BEING ALLOWED TO BE FEDERALIZED AND START, THE CITY CAN START THAT PROCESS, AND WE'LL LOOK FOR THE NEXT CALL. 
          SO WE DO ANTICIPATE SUCCESS HERE IN MAY FOR THE M P O CALL FOR PROJECTS. 
          UH, THIS WAS JUST ONE MORE OPPORTUNITY TO SHORE UP FUNDS. 
          UM, I, I WOULD SAY THAT, UH, THERE'S A HIGHER CHANCE THROUGH THE M P O OF GETTING FUNDS THAN THIS US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, BUT WE HAVE ALL OF THE FACTS HERE THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR THE CRASH STATISTICS, THE TRAFFIC VOLUMES, ALL OF THESE ISSUES IS WHAT THEY LOOK AT WHEN THEY FUND THESE GRADE SEPARATIONS. 
          SO IT'S A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY. 
          NOW, IN THE EVENT THAT WE, WE CAN'T GET IT FUNDED, EVEN WITH A FUTURE BOND OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 
          YES. 
          THEN, THEN IT COULD BE DECLARED BY THE CITY AS, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING ELSE AS A FATAL FLAW IN THIS PROJECT, BUT I JUST DON'T SEE THAT HAPPENING IN THIS CASE. 
          WELL, GOOD. 
          UH, SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO, TO A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT. 
          HOWEVER, THE DESIGN, UM, UH, HAPPENS. 
          WE, WE KNOW THAT IT, IT REALLY IS, UM, THE COMMUNITY WILL BE HEAVILY IMPACTED EITHER WAY. 
          UH, SO I DO THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO, UH, UH, BE, THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO BE AWARE OF THAT. 
          I MEAN, IT WILL BE VERY DISRUPTIVE, UH, IN THE SHORT TERM. 
          UM, COUNCILWOMAN YOU JUST MENTION TOO, THAT, UH, AS WE PROCEED INTO THE DESIGN PROCESS, THERE'S GONNA BE, UH, A LOT OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN THAT DESIGN. 
          UH, WHEN WE DO, UH, IF IT ENDS UP AS AN OVERPASS, WHICH IT LOOKS LIKE IT NEEDS TO, UM, THE AESTHETICS OF THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT. 
          WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S, IT'S NOW, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S A VISUAL, POTENTIALLY A VIS VISUAL OBSTRUCTION. 
          UH, SO THE AESTHETICS ARE VERY IMPORTANT. 
          AND, UH, THERE'S WAYS TO, TO DESIGN THOSE BRIDGES THAT LOOK VERY NICE, VERY SUITABLE FOR THE AREA. 
          AND THERE'S WAYS TO DO IT TO MINIMIZE GRAFFITI IMPACTS. 
          I KNOW THAT WAS A CONCERN THAT WAS RAISED AT ONE TIME. 
          UM, AND SO IT WOULD BE A BEAUTIFUL BRIDGE AND, UH, WE WOULD LOOK TO DO IT VERY WELL. 
          GOOD. 
          WELL, I, I, I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS SUITABLE, BECAUSE IT'S, IT IS, IT'S STILL A NEIGHBORHOOD, RIGHT? UH, RIGHT AROUND THERE. 
          AND THERE'S STILL LONGTIME BUSINESSES AROUND THERE. 
          AND I MEAN, IT NEEDS TO BE APPROPRIATE FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD AND NOT NECESSARILY AN INTERSTATE. 
          UH, AS 90 IS, THAT CROSSES RIGHT THERE, UH, AS WELL. 
          AND WE KNOW THAT IT'S A MUCH NEEDED PROJECT. 
          UM, I KNOW THAT THIS WAS, UH, SUPPORTED BY THE VOTERS BECAUSE IT HAD BEEN MANY, MANY YEARS, UH, REQUESTED, UH, THAT WE DO SOMETHING HERE. 
          AND, UH, I KNOW THAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT, IT, IT'S COMPLETED IN A TIMELY MANNER SO THAT PEOPLE CAN USE IT AND SEE IT, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN SO MANY YEARS, UH, 
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REQUESTING, UM, THAT, AND ALSO IT'S, UH, UH, WILL OPEN UP ALL THE SOUTH SIDE. 
          UM, I THINK THE COUNCILMAN SALANI HAS MENTIONED MANY TIMES THAT SAAM MORERE IS REALLY THE GATEWAY TO THE SOUTH SIDE. 
          SO AS MUCH AS, AS THERE'S INTERFERENCE THERE THAT DOESN'T ALLOW PEOPLE TO CROSS THROUGH, IT CREATES A, A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON EVERYBODY THAT LIVES SOUTH OF 90. 
          SO HOPEFULLY THIS WILL OPEN IT UP AND BRING MORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ALLOW PEOPLE TO FLOW THROUGH, UH, SMOOTHLY. 
          AND, AND IT IS A HUGE, YOU KNOW, $35 MILLION PROJECT, MAYBE MORE, UM, AS WE DEVELOP IT. 
          AND SO THERE IS STILL OPPORTUNITY FOR INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO MOVING, UH, MOVING FORWARD. 
          WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYBODY TONIGHT AT KONGS GARDENS ELEMENTARY, NOT AT THE LIBRARY, RIGHT. 
          SO ELEMENTARY AT SIX 30 TO HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSION, UH, ABOUT THERE. 
          AND, AND WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL THERE. 
          SO, UM, THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILWOMAN SUN GONZALEZ. 
          COUNCILMAN EZ. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MIKE. 
          UM, IS A NEPA UM, COMPLIANCE REVIEW GONNA BE NECESSARY FOR A PROJECT LIKE THIS? 'CAUSE I KNOW I SEE THAT YOU HAVE TO START EXECUTING BY 2018 IF YOU'RE GONNA GET THIS GRANT, RIGHT? YEAH. 
          SO THE, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL DUE DILIGENCE, IF IT'S LOCALLY FUNDED, WE HAVE A, A LEVEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL DI DUE DILIGENCE THAT WE ALWAYS DO ON OUR PROJECTS. 
          BUT WHEN IT'S FEDERALLY FUNDED OR STATE FUNDED, IT TRIGGERS THAT FULL-BLOWN, UH, NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, NEPA DOCUMENT. 
          AND SO, UM, YES, THAT WILL BE PART OF THIS PROJECT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, IS THIS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE APPLIED FOR THIS MONEY FOR THIS INTERSECTION? THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE WOULD APPLY FOR THIS GRANT, THIS TYPE OF GRANT FOR THE INFRA GRANT? YES. 
          SO THIS IS NOT OUR, LIKE, OKAY. 
          UM, I, I HAVE HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING STUCK IN TRAFFIC AT THAT, UH, AT THAT LIGHT. 
          AND I WANT TO, YOU KNOW, PULL MY HAIR OUT AND SCREAM EVERY TIME I'M THERE. 
          UH, IT IS, IT IS A VERY FRUSTRATING, UM, EXPERIENCE TO DRIVE THROUGH THERE SOMETIMES. 
          AND I'VE, I'VE EXPERIENCED IT FIRSTHAND AND, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR, UM, COUNCILWOMAN FOR YOUR, FOR YOUR, UM, RESIDENTS AND VOTERS WHO ARE DOWN THERE, I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE TO ENDURE THAT ALMOST EVERY DAY. 
          I, YOU KNOW, I ONLY DO IT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE. 
          UM, SO I, I, I DO THINK IT'S FAIR TO POINT OUT THAT I GOT TO GO TO WASHINGTON DC WITH COUNCILMAN SALANA AND, UH, WITH SOME OF OUR FOLKS, UM, AT THE CITY, UH, STAFF LEVEL. 
          AND WE WENT UP THERE TO ADVOCATE SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS GRANT, UM, AND FOR, UH, THE NEED TO ADDRESS THIS ONE, UH, PAIN POINT FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS. 
          AND I, I REALLY WANT TO TELL THE FOLKS WHO ARE HERE TODAY FROM DISTRICT FIVE THAT I, I SAW SOMETHING THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, AND THAT IS, UH, THIS, THIS VIDEO THAT, UM, THAT YOU DID COUNCILWOMAN THAT WHERE YOU, WE SHOWED IT TO THE FOLKS UP THERE TO REALLY EXPRESS AND BRING HOME THE PAIN, UM, THAT THIS, THAT THIS PROJECT, IF NOT, UH, IF NOT GRANTED, AND IF NOT NONE, WILL, YOU KNOW, WILL EXACERBATE FOR, FOR THE NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          AND YOUR COUNCILWOMAN HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB AT ADVOCATING IN DC UM, AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US UP HERE ON THE DAIS KNOW EXACTLY HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS, NOT JUST TO YOUR DISTRICT, BUT TO ALL OF SAN ANTONIO. 
          UM, AND YOU'VE RAISED THE BAR REALLY HIGH COUNCILWOMAN FOR US TO ADVOCATE, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR OUR PROJECTS. 
          AND NOW I GOTTA FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY VIDEOS I GOTTA DO, UH, TO, TO GO AND ASK FOR A GRANT. 
          AND SO, BUT I DO THINK THAT MAYBE IT NEEDS TO BE POINTED OUT AGAIN THAT NOBODY TODAY, I MEAN, IT'S AS, AS LONG AS FAR AS WHAT YOU'RE ASKING US TO DO, MIKE, YOU'RE NOT ASKING US TO APPROVE AN OVERPASS OR AN UNDERPASS. 
          ALL YOU'RE ASKING US TO DO IS TO APPROVE FOR YOU TO GO TO DC AND SEND A REQUEST UP THAT THEY PLEASE SET ASIDE SOME MONEY SO THAT WE CAN PAY FOR A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM. 
          RIGHT. 
          THAT, THAT IS CORRECT. 
          AND I CAN'T IMAGINE ANYBODY WOULD DISAGREE WITH US NEEDING OR US DOING THAT. 
          RIGHT. 
          JUST A ASKING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CONTRIBUTE TO PART OF THE SOLUTION. 
          I'M, THAT'S WHY I'M VERY MUCH IN FAVOR, UH, OF DOING THIS. 
          AND I'M SURE THE COUNCILWOMAN AND YOU WILL WORK HARD WITH THE NEIGHBORHOODS TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY HAS INPUT AS TO WHETHER OR NOT IT SHOULD BE AN OVERPASS OR UNDERPASS. 
          NOW, SELFISHLY, FOR DISTRICT EIGHT, I'LL TELL YOU, I CAN, WE HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS GRANT FOR, UH, WURZBACH AND, UH, UH, IN NORTHWEST MILITARY. 
          AND I MEAN, I, I KNOW IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M BEING CUTE, BUT, UH, CAN WE DO THAT QUICK? SURE. 
          YEAH. 
          THANKS. 
          I, THAT, THAT'S 
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REALLY IMPORTANT. 
          AND SO, UM, COUNCILMAN, YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT ON THIS, AND, UM, I, I'D LIKE TO JOIN IN THE MOTION TO, TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I FORGOT TO MOTION. 
          SO, UH, MOTION TO, WELL, HE ONLY SAID HE'D JOIN YOU. 
          SO, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, I HAVE MOTION TO APPROVE. 
          OKAY. 
          THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 2120. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN PALAI. 
          COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL, OR COUNCILMAN SALDANA? SORRY, GUYS. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          AND I'LL BE SHORT BECAUSE WHAT, UH, WHAT HAS BEEN SAID BY COUNCILMAN PEL AND COUNCILMAN GONZALEZ IS EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT THIS IS A PROJECT THAT WE'VE ONLY HEARD ABOUT, UH, MOSTLY THROUGH THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND THE COMMUNITY HAS TOLD US FOR, I'VE BEEN HERE FOR SIX YEARS, BUT EVEN BEFORE THAT, I, YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT RIO, UH, CITY ROAD AND SARA SAMMO. 
          YOU NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU CAN GET PEOPLE THERE. 
          YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH UNION PACIFIC. 
          YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, DOT, DOT, DOT. 
          AND, UH, NOT A LOT OF ELECTED OFFICIALS, UH, ARE GONNA STAND UP AND TRY TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM BECAUSE IT'S SO BIG, MEANING THAT THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN THAT NEED TO HAPPEN CORRECTLY. 
          UH, SO I APPLAUD COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ, UH, NOT PUSHING THIS OR KICKING THIS DOWN THE ROAD TO A FUTURE CITY COUNCIL PERSON. 
          AND IN FACT, EVEN IF SHE IS PERFECT IN HER EXECUTION, WE FIND THE MONEY. 
          WE'VE ALREADY FOUND 10 MILLION WITHIN THE BOND THAT WE CAN SECURE FOR THIS PROBLEM, GO OUT, FIND A SOLUTION. 
          WE'RE LOOKING FOR IT. 
          NOW, EVEN IN PERFECTLY EXECUTING, THIS WILL STILL TAKE CLOSE TO, UH, HALF A DECADE, UH, FROM TODAY, FROM THE COMMUNITY REALIZING, AND I, I THINK ABOUT IT BECAUSE, UH, AS I REPRESENT THE SOUTH SIDE, COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ IS RIGHT. 
          IF YOU ARE GOING UP THROUGH THE WEST SIDE INTO THE DOWNTOWN, INTO THE, THE NORTH SIDE, IF YOU'RE GOING NORTH FROM THE SOUTH SIDE, THE FIVE 20 BUS THROUGH SARA MORA OR ANY OTHER, UH, VEHICLE TRAFFIC GOES THROUGH FRIO CITY ROAD. 
          AND IT REALLY, AT THE END OF THE DAY, IS A SAFETY HAZARD AS WELL, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE APPLYING FOR THIS FEDERAL GRANT. 
          THE FEDERAL GRANT IS NOT JUST GONNA GIVE YOU MONEY BECAUSE YOU ASK, YOU HAVE TO GIVE THEM A VERY SOLID REASON. 
          AND THE, THE HIGHEST PRIORITY FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT PROJECTS BECAUSE THEY'RE GETTING ASKED FOR MONEY FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, IS THAT IF THIS IS GONNA SOLVE A BIG SAFETY CONCERN, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS WILL DO, I, I'VE SEEN A LOT OF CARS, AS SOON AS THE GATES EVEN START SIGNALING THAT THEY'RE GONNA COME DOWN, THEY KNOW THAT IF THEY DON'T BEAT THIS, THEY CAN BE THERE FOR 20, 30, 40 MINUTES. 
          AND I'VE SEEN CARS DART THROUGH THERE. 
          I'VE SEEN PEOPLE RUN THROUGH TO TRY TO PASS AND GET IN FRONT OF THIS TRAIN BECAUSE THEY REALIZE THAT THE ALTERNATIVE IS TO HAVE TO WAIT THERE, UH, AND MAYBE GET, BE LATE TO WORK. 
          THEY'RE LATE TO ANY OBLIGATION. 
          UM, AND IT SPEAKS TO THE TYPE OF NEGLECT THAT THIS PARTICULAR PART OF TOWN HAS SEEN FOR TOO LONG, WHICH WAS THAT THIS WAS A PROBLEM THAT WAS, WAS SOLVED OR WILL BE SOLVED AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, BUT NOT NOW. 
          AND I REALLY APPLAUD THE COUNCILWOMAN BECAUSE WE'RE, UH, TRYING TO GO THROUGH THAT FIRST PHASE, WHICH IS JUST FINDING THE MONEY FOR IT. 
          AND, AND THAT SOMETIMES IS THE HARDEST PART, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GET PEOPLE TO CARE ABOUT IT. 
          AND THIS IS A PART OF THE COMMUNITY THAT, UH, THE COUNCILWOMAN DESCRIBES IN, IN MANY DIFFERENT ITERATIONS WHILE SHE'S BEEN UP HERE ON THE DIOCESE, THAT IT'S, IT'S HARD ENOUGH JUST TO GET PEOPLE TO CARE ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY. 
          THE SECOND PART IS TO GET THEM TO INVEST IN IT. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. 
          AND, AND I KNOW THAT THE COUNCIL IS, UH, COUNCILWOMAN IS GONNA LEAD A COMMUNITY DISCUSSION TONIGHT. 
          UH, AND I HOPE THAT THAT COMMUNITY DISCUSSION IS, IS FAIR TO WHAT, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL CONSTITUENTS AND RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN SAYING IN THAT COMMUNITY, WHICH IS DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 
          AND I THINK EVERYBODY AGREES SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE ABOUT IT. 
          IT'S, IT'S THE QUESTION OF HOW THE WHAT. 
          BUT WE REALLY DO NEED TO FIND THE FUNDS AND THE RESOURCES, WHICH IS WHY IT'S REALLY EASY TO SUPPORT, UH, MOVING THIS FORWARD, UH, AS A REQUEST FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UH, TO TRY TO SUPPORT IT. 
          AND WE DON'T KNOW. 
          THEY MAY SAY NO, AND THEN THAT MIGHT MEAN THAT WE HAVE TO WAIT ANOTHER THREE OR FOUR YEARS JUST TO FIND FUNDING FOR IT. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO CATCH FISH, YOU GOTTA PUT A HOOK IN THE WATER. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, UH, WITH THIS APPLICATION. 
          SO JUST TO APPLAUD THE COUNCILWOMAN, SHE'S BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD, UH, AT THIS. 
          AND I THINK ABOUT, UH, THE ONE WOMAN WHO SAID, I SAID, YEAH, WE WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO PUT SOME MONEY INTO THIS, UH, THIS PROJECT TO TRY TO CREATE A BYPASS TO GET PEOPLE OVER THE BRIDGE OR ON YOU. 
          SHE WAS LIKE, OH, , YOU GUYS NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT. 
          IT'S BEEN SO LONG THAT I'VE LIVED HERE, UH, THAT NOBODY'S EVER DONE ANYTHING ABOUT IT. 
          WE JUST LIVE WITH IT. 
          WE JUST FIGURED THAT WAS THE, THE NATURAL PART OF LIFE THAT NOTHING WILL EVER BE FIXED. 
          SO, UH, THE COUNCILMAN'S BEEN DOING SOMETHING ABOUT FIXING THAT. 
          SO I, I'M GLAD, AND THIS IS GONNA BE AS SLOW AS WE MUST. 
          THIS IS NOT AS FAST AS WE CAN. 
          UM, AND IT'S GONNA BE SLOW, BUT, UH, WE'LL MAKE SURE TO BRING THE COMMUNITY ALONG, AND I APPLAUD THE COUNCILWOMAN FOR LEADING US IN THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN SALDANA. 
          MIKE, WHENEVER, UH, THIS SUB AND, AND I KNOW HOW LONG THE COUNCILWOMAN HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS, SHE'S BEEN ON THE M P O FOR, UH, FOUR YEARS ADVOCATING, AND NOW ALSO IN DC ADVOCATING FOR THIS. 
          WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT A NUMBER OF TIMES. 
          WHENEVER WE TALK ABOUT FREIGHT IN SAN ANTONIO, THOUGH, I ALWAYS ASK YOU, HOW MANY FREIGHT, UH, UM, AT GRADE CROSSINGS DO WE HAVE WHERE THEY 
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CONFLICT WITH OUR ROADWAYS? UH, I DO TWO 40, YEAH, 240. 
          WE HAVE 240 AT GRADE CROSSINGS FOR RAILWAYS, ACTIVE RAILWAYS IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO THAT HAVE GUMMED UP TRAFFIC, UH, IN SOME CASES HAVE DERAILED. 
          UH, MANY, UH, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN ACCIDENTS, UH, SOME CRITICALLY INJURED OR OR KILLED, AND WE'RE DOING ONE TODAY. 
          AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE ILLUSTRATE THE FACT THAT THIS ONE IS PROBABLY THE WORST OF THE WORST, BUT ALSO, UH, IT'S CAN COST US SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY TO DO SO. 
          UM, THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM FOR TRAFFIC CONGESTION, FOR, UH, AIR QUALITY AND A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS IN OUR CITY, UH, HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TRANSIT. 
          UH, AND I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT, UH, DURING THE INITIAL LONE STAR RAIL DISCUSSIONS AT THE M P O, ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE PARTS OF THAT DISCUSSION FOR SAN ANTONIO WAS THE FREIGHT BYPASS PORTION OF THAT CONVERSATION. 
          UM, I STILL BELIEVE THAT, UH, AT EVERY LEVEL, WHETHER IT'S THE M P O, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR ADVOCACY, UH, IN DC WE NEED TO BEGIN TO TALK MORE ABOUT, UH, GETTING ALL OF THE FREIGHT OUT OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH A FREIGHT BYPASS OR SOME OTHER MEANS. 
          UM, BUT THIS IS A, A GREAT ILLUSTRATION OF THE, THE QUALITY OF LIFE IMPACT, UH, THAT IS, UH, IMPROVED WHEN WE GET RID OF ONE, UH, BUT ALSO AS NEGATIVELY IMPACT AS, AS PEOPLE WAIT, UH, FOR THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE DESIGN, UH, AND THINK THAT THINGS ARE GONNA MOVE TOO QUICKLY. 
          I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH THE COUNCILWOMAN AND, UH, COUNCILMAN SIA MENTIONED THIS AS WELL. 
          UH, THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE PHASE, AND WE HAVE TO ENSURE THAT THEIR MONEY IS THERE BEFORE IT EVEN GETS DONE. 
          UH, AND FOR ANYONE WHO'S, WHO'S CONCERNED ABOUT THIS MOVING TOO FAST, UH, WHEN I THINK ABOUT, UH, UH, AT GRADE CROSSINGS AND, AND, AND BYPASSES AND GRADE SEPARATIONS, MY MIND ALWAYS GOES BACK TO MY TIME IN DISTRICT EIGHT, UH, WHEN WE SAW FINALLY THE CONCLUSION OF THE FREDERICKSBURG AND MEDICAL GRADE SEPARATION, UM, WHICH WAS A LONG TIME COMING. 
          AND JUST TO ILLUSTRATE HOW LONG THAT TOOK, UM, ONE OF MY MENTORS, UH, BONNIE CONNOR, WHO WAS A FORMER DISTRICT WOMAN, DISTRICT EIGHT COUNCILWOMAN, BEGAN THE PROCESS OF PLANNING FOR THAT WHEN SHE WAS A COUNCILWOMAN IN 1999. 
          UH, IT WAS JUST COMPLETED ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. 
          SO, UH, WE NEED PLENTY OF PUBLIC INPUT. 
          THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THE ROAD TO CHANGE, UH, THE, THE BYPASS AND TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVES. 
          AND THAT IS THE END GOAL FOR THE COUNCILMAN AND FOR THIS COUNCIL, IS THAT YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE WILL IMPROVE WHETHER YOU'RE A NEIGHBOR THAT'S, UH, HALF A BLOCK AWAY FROM THE CROSSING, OR WHETHER YOU'RE A COMMUTER THAT HAS TO DRIVE THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION. 
          WE WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR LIVES. 
          UH, AND SO WE'LL WORK WITH YOU TO DO THAT. 
          UH, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 20, PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES ITEM NUMBER 
          [21. An Ordinance amending the City Code regarding residency verification
requirements for candidates for municipal election. [Leticia M. Vacek,
City Clerk]]
21. 
          ITEM 21 IS AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY CODE REGARDING RESIDENCY VERIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR CANDIDATES FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTION. 
          COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          AND, UH, THANK YOU FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS. 
          I KNOW YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS SINCE, UH, I FIRST BROUGHT IT FORWARD AS A A C C R, AND THAT IT HAS, UH, GONE THROUGH, UH, SEVERAL COMMITTEE DISCUSSIONS. 
          UH, MANY OF YOU KNOW THE REASON WHY I BROUGHT THIS FORWARD WAS BECAUSE IN MY PARTICULAR RACE FOR CITY COUNCIL, UH, THERE WAS A FRAUDULENT APPLICATION THAT WAS PUT IN FOR SOMEONE WHO WANTED TO, UH, UH, RUN FOR THE SAME SEAT. 
          UH, APPARENTLY AN OATH IS NOT RELIABLE ENOUGH WITH SOME PEOPLE WHEN THEY SIGN A DOCUMENT, SWEARING THAT THEY LIVE WHERE THEY, WHERE THEY DO. 
          AND SO THIS SITUATION, UM, CAME TO, UH, BE OF CONCERN TO ME, AND I BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE CONCERN TO THE PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO, WHICH IS WHY I BROUGHT THIS FORWARD, AND ARE ASKING THAT THE CITY SET ADDITIONAL, UH, DOCUMENT FILING REQUIREMENTS TO, IF NOT AT LEAST ENSURE THAT WHOEVER IS RUNNING LIVES WHERE THEY SAY THEY LIVE, BUT TO AT THE VERY LEAST, SET UP A, A HIGHER BAR, UH, TO, UM, ALLOW ANYONE WHO QUESTIONS THAT TO BE ABLE TO DETERMINE BASED ON ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE IF SOMEONE REALLY DOES RESIDE IN THE DISTRICT THAT THEY'RE RUNNING FOR. 
          AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT THIS DOES BY, UH, ALLOWING THE CITY CLERK TO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL FORMS OF 
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IDENTIFICATION SHOWING THEIR RESIDENTS. 
          AND SO I WOULD, UM, ASK ALL OF YOU TO HEAR THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE AND VOTE ACCORDINGLY. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          COUNCILMAN COURAGE. 
          WAS THERE A PRESENTATION, JOHN? YES, MAYOR. 
          IT'S A VERY SHORT, UM, SO THE SUMMARY IS THAT THIS WAS A C C R SUBMITTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE, AND THIS ITEM DID GO BEFORE THE GOVERNANCE COUNCIL COMMITTEE AND THE ISSUE AS STATED BY COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE, UH, WE'LL GO ON TO THE RECOMMENDATION. 
          THESE ARE THE REQUIREMENTS CURRENTLY IN PLACE FOR QUALIFICATION TO RUN FOR OFFICE, AND THESE ARE STATE MAN MANDATED AND ALSO CITY CHARTERED MANDATED. 
          SO IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR CITY ATTORNEY AND COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE, WE CAME UP WITH THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          SO THE REQUEST, WE ARE GONNA REQUEST NOW CANDIDATES SUBMIT TWO SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENTS FROM THE LIST BELOW WITH THEIR APPLICATION SHOWING THEIR ADDRESS, A VALID VOTER REGISTRATION CERTIFICATE, A COPY OF THEIR ORIGINAL CURRENT UTILITY BILL, A COPY OF AN ORIGINAL BANK STATEMENT, A COPY OF AN ORIGINAL GOVERNMENT CHECK, A COPY OR ORIGINAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT WITH THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS SHOWN ON THAT DOCUMENT. 
          THAT IS THE RECOMMENDATION BEFORE THE COUNCIL TODAY. 
          UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT, I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT AT THE COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETING, THE GOVERNANCE MEETING, THE COUNCIL DID MAKE A SUGGESTION TO POSSIBLY SUBMIT, UH, THIS THROUGH OUR STATE LEGISLATIVE, UH, NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION FOR CHANGES TO, UM, THE STATE LAW AND ALSO THESE RECOMMENDATIONS WOULD AMEND THE CURRENT, UH, CITY CODE. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCILMAN GEORGE? UH, THANK YOU, LETICIA. 
          I THINK, UH, YOU AND, UH, OUR CITY ATTORNEY DID A GOOD JOB OF KIND OF COMING UP WITH, UH, A LIST THAT PEOPLE CAN CHOOSE FROM TO MAKE IT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE TO OFFER ADDITIONAL VERIFICATION FOR THEIR RESIDENCY. 
          AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF THESE ARE, ARE BEYOND A, A TYPICAL PERSON'S ABILITY TO PRODUCE. 
          AND IF THIS IS PART OF OUR CODE AND IT'S, UH, IT'S PROVIDED AHEAD OF TIME TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PRESENT THEMSELVES AS A CANDIDATE, IT SHOULDN'T CREATE ANY BARRIER TO ANY LEGITIMATE CANDIDATE BEING ABLE TO FILE FOR ANY OFFICE IN THE CITY. 
          SO I REALLY FEEL LIKE, UM, IT IS A, A STRONG IMPROVEMENT TO OUR, OUR CITY CODE, CITY ELECTION CODE. 
          AND I WOULD MOVE THE, UH, PASSAGE OF THIS ORDINANCE. 
          THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 21. 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ITEM NUMBER 27, 
          [27. A Resolution casting the City's 890 votes for the City's Nominee,
Roberto C. Treviño, to the Bexar Appraisal District Board of Directors
for a term of office to begin on January 1, 2018, and expire on
December 31, 2019. [Leticia M. Vacek, City Clerk]]
I OWE YOU 22ND. 
          ITEM NUMBER 27 IS AN ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION, RATHER CASTING THE CITY'S 890 VOTES FOR THE CITY'S NOMINEE. 
          ROBERTO CINO TO THE BEARER APPRAISAL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR A TERM OF OFFICE TO BEGIN ON JANUARY 1ST, 2018, AND EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2019. 
          AND JUST AS A WAY OF BACKGROUND, MAYOR, THE, THESE ARE THE VOTES ALLOCATED ANNUALLY FOR REPRESENTATION ON THE BOARD. 
          THE NUMBER NEEDED TO ENSURE A CANDIDATE, UH, IS ELECTED VARIES, UH, DEPENDING ON THE ENTITIES AND THE NUMBER OF VOTES ALLOCATED TO EACH ENTITY. 
          CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WAS ALLOCATED 890 VOTES, AND THIS RESOLUTION, CASTING THE VOTES, WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE CHIEF APPRAISER BY DECEMBER 15TH. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THIS ITEM WAS PULLED FOR RECUSAL. 
          UH, SO I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 27. 
          SO MOVED. 
          THERE'S A MOTION AS SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 27 . 
          PLEASE VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES. 
          ALRIGHT, WE DO HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION, UH, WHICH WILL, UH, BE PRECEDED BY A CITY MANAGER'S 
          [33. City Manager's Report]
REPORT. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          TWO QUICK ITEMS THIS MORNING. 
          VERY POSITIVE ONES. 
          UH, TODAY I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT EARLIER 
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THIS MONTH, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. 
          COMMISSION SELECTED MR. EDWARD DAVIS, A LOCAL EAST SIDE RESIDENT AT AS THE WINNER OF THE THIRD ANNUAL CITYWIDE ARTWORK CONTEST. 
          MR. DAVIS'S ARTWORK TITLED, YOUR AFRICAN AND AMERICAN HISTORY WILL BE USED AS THE OFFICIAL ARTWORK FOR THE 2018 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. 
          CELEBRATION IN JANUARY FOR WINNING THE CONTEST. 
          MR. DAVIS WILL RECEIVE PUBLIC RECOGNITION AS THE CREATOR OF THE 2018 COMMEMORATION ARTWORK, AND THE PIECE WILL BE DISPLAYED AT THE CARVER COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTER. 
          THE SELECTION COMMITTEE INCLUDED COUNCILMAN SHAW, UH, M L K COMMISSION CHAIR, NATE DAVIS, LOCAL ARTIST JOHN COLEMAN AND STAFF FROM THE OFFICE OF EAST POINT, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ART AND CULTURE, THE SELECTION COMMITTEE. 
          UH, ALSO SINCE 1987, THE CITY HAS CELEBRATED THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DR. 
          KING WITH A SERIES OF ANNUAL EVENTS LEADING UP TO ONE OF THE LARGEST MARCHES IN THE COUNTRY WITH OVER 250,000 PARTICIPANTS. 
          UH, THE 2018 MARCH AND COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAM WILL TAKE PLACE ON MONDAY, JANUARY 15TH, SO THAT WE CAN ALL MARK OUR CALENDARS BEGINNING AT 10:00 AM IN FRONT OF THE M L K ACADEMY SCHOOL, LOCATED ON M L K DRIVE, I DO WANT TO THANK THE EAST POINT OFFICE LED BY MIKE, A T N FOR STAFFING, THE M L K COMMISSION AND OVERSEEING, UH, THE MARCH ACTIVITIES. 
          AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN SEEING THE ARTWORK AND PARTICIPATE IN THE UPCOMING MARCH, PLEASE VISIT THE M L K COMMISSION'S WEBSITE FOR THE LATEST SCHEDULE OF EVENTS. 
          UH, AND THEN SECONDLY, OUR 10TH ANNUAL HUMANA ROCK AND ROLL MARATHON WILL TAKE PLACE THIS WEEKEND ON DECEMBER 2ND AND THIRD, UH, MORE THAN 26,000 RUNNERS ARE REGISTERED, UH, FROM ALL 50 STATES AND 21 COUNTRIES. 
          AND I'LL NOTE THIS YEAR THAT 60% OF THE REGISTRANTS ARE WOMEN. 
          THIS YEAR, WE ALSO HAVE 230 LEGACY RUNNERS, AND THAT IS PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMPLETED IN ALL 10 OF THE MARATHONS FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS, SINCE THIS IS OUR 10TH. 
          UH, LAST YEAR, THE EVENT HELPED GENERATE MORE THAN 32 MILLION IN ECONOMIC IMPACT. 
          THERE WERE MORE THAN 20,000 HOTEL ROOMS OCCUPIED AS A RESULT OF THE MARATHON, AND WE ANTICIPATE A SIMILAR ECONOMIC IMPACT THIS YEAR. 
          OF COURSE, IN ADDITION TO THE HOTEL ROOMS, THE RUNNERS, UH, EAT IN RESTAURANTS AND BUY, UH, RUNNING GEAR AT THE EXPO THAT IS HOSTED AT THE HENRY B. GONZALEZ CONVENTION CENTER AS WELL. 
          IT'S ALWAYS, UM, LARGELY ATTENDED BY THE COMMUNITY. 
          IN THE 10 YEARS OF THE ROCK AND ROLL MARATHON, WE'VE SEEN OUR COMMUNITY FURTHER EMBRACE FITNESS, AND THAT REALLY WAS PART OF THE EFFORT TO, UH, GET THE ROCK AND ROLL SERIES HERE TO SAN ANTONIO. 
          PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE HAVE TAKEN THOSE FIRST STEPS TOWARD A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE THROUGH THIS RACE, WHICH TRULY WELCOMES EVERYONE. 
          AND IT'S NOT ABOUT HOW FAST YOU RUN, BUT THAT YOU'RE OUT THERE MOVING, WHETHER YOU'RE WALKING OR RUNNING. 
          IN THE EVENT, THERE ARE MORE THAN 250,000 SAN ANTONIANS WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS. 
          AND OF COURSE, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF RACES ASSOCIATED WITH THE RACE WEEKEND. 
          THERE'S A FIVE K AND 10 K AND THE KIDS ROCK ON SATURDAY. 
          KIDS ROCK REALLY IS MY FAVORITE EVENT TO WATCH AND CONGRATULATE. 
          THE CHILDREN WILL HAVE MORE THAN 1400 CHILDREN, AGES FIVE TO 13. 
          UH, IT BEGINS ON SATURDAY MORNING AT ALAMO PLAZA. 
          THESE CHILDREN OVER THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF SCHOOL, HAVE BEEN RUNNING A HALF MILE TO A MILE EACH WEEK AND WILL COMPLETE THEIR FINAL HALF MILE AND MILE ON SATURDAY MORNING AND RECEIVE A MEDAL FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE RACE. 
          AND THEY'VE BEEN TRAINING, UH, WITH, WITH THEIR, THEIR PARENTS FAMILIES AS WELL AS TEACHERS. 
          AND I, I DO WANT TO THANK SAN ANTONIO SPORTS, UH, FOR HELPING US, UH, WITH, WITH THAT EVENT. 
          SO NO MATTER THE DISTANCE. 
          UM, AND AS YOU KNOW, ON SUNDAY WILL BE THE HALF MARATHON, THE FULL MARATHON, AND THE RELAY OF THE HALF MARATHON. 
          AND IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHAT DISTANCE THE PARTICIPANTS WILL GET TO SEE SOME OF SAN ANTONIO'S, UH, BEST SPOTS, INCLUDING OF COURSE, THE ALAMO, THE PEARL COMPLEX BRACKENRIDGE PARK, AND THE WORLD HERITAGE MISSIONS ALONG THE MISSION TRAILS. 
          UM, THE COURSE IS FLAT AND SCENIC WITH MINOR CHANGES FROM 2016, AND OF COURSE, THE RACE ROUTE IS AVAILABLE ONLINE. 
          OUR SPONSORS INCLUDE HUMANA, SAN ANTONIO SPORTS, AND THE RACE IS PRODUCED BY THE COMPETITOR GROUP. 
          WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A VERY POSITIVE EVENT THIS YEAR AS WE CELEBRATE 
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THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY. 
          HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL OUT THERE. 
          THANKS MAYOR REPORT THIS MORNING FOR OUR EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          GREAT, THANK YOU CHERYL. 
          UM, SO WE DO 
          [Executive Session]
HAVE A COUPLE ITEMS LEFT OVER FROM YESTERDAY'S EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          UH, SO WE WILL RETURN, UH, TO IT. 
          THE TIME RIGHT NOW IS 11:08 AM ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH, 2017. 
          THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL NOW MEET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.071, AND DELIBERATE OR DISCUSS THE ITEMS POSTED BUT NOT REACHED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION YESTERDAY.
* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.