* 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. [00:00:03] GOOD MORNING [Additional Item] EVERYONE. WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL A SESSION AGENDA. THE TIME IS NINE 18. WE'LL GO AHEAD AND START WITH THE ROLL CALL COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER VIRON. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER KADA. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER PEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE PRESENT. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY HERE. AND MAYOR BERG HERE. MAYOR, WE HAVE A COURT. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. WELCOME TO OUR CITY COUNCIL A SESSION AGENDA. WE DO HAVE A FULL AGENDA TODAY, BUT AS WE HAVE BEEN DOING OVER THE LAST MONTH OR SO, UH, WE'RE GONNA BEGIN WITH A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN THE HEARING OF THE BELLS OF THE SAN FERNANDO CATHEDRAL AND RECOGNITION OF ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE LOST HERE, UH, AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN THIS C OVID 19 PANDEMIC, AS WELL AS RECOGNITION OF THE HARD WORK OF MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. TO SAVE THOSE OF US, UH, WHO ARE, UM, MISSING LOVED ONES AND, AND THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING THIS ILLNESS. AND PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, UH, DO WANNA ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT PART OF THOSE FRONTLINE EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS ALSO INCLUDE THE TEACHERS OF THIS COMMUNITY. AND WE DO WANNA RECOGNIZE OUR TEACHERS, UH, DURING TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK. SO, UH, LET'S GO AHEAD AND OBSERVE OUR MOMENT OF SILENCE, LISTENING OF THE BELLS OF THE CATHEDRAL, AS WELL AS THE MISSIONS SAN JUAN'S CONCE AND HUE, AND BEGIN TODAY, UH, WE'LL START [1. Invocation] IN VACATION. UH, AND IN LIEU OF THE BELLS THEMSELVES, WE HAVE OUR VERY OWN ARCHBISHOP GUSTAVO GARCIA SEALER ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN ANTONIO, THE MOST. REVEREND GUSTAVO GARCIA SEALER WAS NAMED ARCHBISHOP OF SAN ANTONIO BY POPE BENEDICT THE FIFTH 16TH ON OCTOBER 14TH, 2010, INSTALLED BY, INSTALLED AS ARCHBISHOP. ON NOVEMBER 23RD, 2010, HE SUCCEEDED ARCHBISHOP JOSE GOMEZ AS THE SIXTH ARCHBISHOP OF SAN ANTONIO. HE WAS APPOINTED AS AN EX AUXILIARY BISHOP OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO ON JANUARY 24TH, 2003 BY POPE JOHN PAUL II AND ORDAINED ON MARCH 19TH, 2003 BY ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO, FRANCIS CARDINAL GEORGE, BORN DECEMBER 21ST, 1956 IN SAN LUIS POTOSI, MEXICO. ARCHBISHOP GUSTAVO WAS THE ELDEST OF 15 CHILDREN. IN 1975, ARCHBISHOP GUSTAVO PROFESSED AS A MEMBER OF THE MISSIONARIES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. HIS MORE THAN 42 YEARS OF PRIESTLY SERVICE HAS TAKEN MANY FORMS, INCLUDING MINISTERING TO THE COMMUNITIES WITH VARIED CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS. AND ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, ARCHBISHOP GUSTAVO HAS SERVED AS A, ON A NUMBER OF COMMITTEES FOR THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, AND MOST RECENTLY, RECENTLY SERVED AS A COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN FOR THE U S C C B CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE CHURCH. PLEASE WELCOME OUR FRIEND, ARCHBISHOP SILLER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, HONORABLE MAYOR AND ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO PRAY WITH YOU AND TO SEEK GOD'S BLESSINGS FOR OUR CITY AND OUR WORLD. THESE TRYING WEEKS, WE HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED BY THE C OVID 19 VIRUS. PANDEMIC HAVE COME TO US AS A TIME OF SHOCK, BUT ALSO AS A REMINDER FOR ALL OF US TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR, TO CARE FOR OUR COMMUNITY, TO BE RESPONSIBLE WITH OUR OWN LIVES AS WELL AS THE LIVES OF OTHERS. IN ADDITION, THIS TIME HAS SHOWN US CLEARLY THAT WE ARE CONNECTED TO THE WHOLE HUMAN COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THIS SUFFERING REMINDS US OF OUR FRAILTY AND VULNERABILITY. [00:05:02] THE HOLY FATHER, POP FRANCIS HAS GIVEN HIS BLESSING, ORBI AT ORBI, THAT IS TO THE CITY AND THE WORLD PRAYING FOR AN END OF THIS CRISIS. IF WE HAVE EVER WONDERED WHETHER THE CITY AND THE WORLD ARE SO CLOSE CONNECTED, NOW WE KNOW FOR SURE. I ALSO WISH TO COMMEND YOU FOR YOUR DILIGENT EFFORTS TO DEFEND OUR COMMUNITY, TO PRESERVE OUR HEALTH, AND TO REACH OUT TO THE SICK AND SUFFERING MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. IT IS NORMAL DURING THE REGULAR RUN OF EVENTS FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL TO HAVE DIFFERING VIEWS AND OPINIONS OF MATTERS, OF IMPORTANCE FOR OUR CITY. HOWEVER, IN THIS TIME WHEN UNITY AND CLARITY OF DIRECTION HAVE BEEN SO MUCH NEEDED, YOU HAVE CONDUCTED YOURSELVES WITH DIGNITY AND UNANIMITY OF PURPOSE. SO I EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO EACH OF YOU PERSONALLY. LET US PRAY GOD'S SOURCE OF LIFE AND OF EVERY BLESSING WE ASK FOR YOUR SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND RIGHT COUNSEL FOR THESE LEADERS OF OUR CIVIC COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW EACH ONE OF THEM AND YOU CARE FOR THEM. HOLD THEM AS THEY MAKE DECISIONS FOR THE BENEFIT AND WELLBEING OF OUR CITY. GIVE THEM HEARTS OF LOVE OR, AND MINDS OF TRUTH THAT THEY MAY DISCERN WISELY AND WELL. THE DIRECTIONS WE MUST TAKE, MAY THEY SPEAK AND ACT WITH THE POWER OF TRUTH, BEAUTY, AND LOVE. LET THEM BE INSPIRED BY MERCY WHICH NEVER LOSES HOPE. ON THESE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, UNITE OUR CIVIC LEADERS ALONG WITH OUR CITIZENS AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS, TO THE PROTECTION OF EVERY HUMAN LIFE. WE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL AND FOR THEIR CARETAKERS. WE LIFT UP TO YOU OUR HEALTH WORKERS, DOCTORS, NURSES, HOSPITAL STAFFS, EMERGENCY PERSONNEL, RESEARCHERS, AND THOSE ENGAGED IN THE TRAUMATIC FIGHT AGAINST THIS PANDEMIC. WE THANK YOU FOR SANITATION WORKERS, TRUCK DRIVERS, DELIVERY PERSONNEL, GROCERY WORKERS, RESTAURANTS, STAFF, AND THOSE WHOM WE SO OFTEN TAKE FOR GRANTED WHO HAVE PLACED THEMSELVES IN THE FRONT LINES OF SERVING THEIR COMMUNITY. MAY YOUR BLESSINGS BE UPON THEM AND UPON US INCREASE OUR LOVE, OUR LOVE TO SERVE. THIS WE PRAY IN YOUR MOST HOLY NAME, AMEN. [2. Pledge of Allegiance] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THANK YOU ARCHBISHOP. WE CAN GO AHEAD AND, UM, ROLL THE TRANSLATION TAPE. PLEASE INTERPRET. OKAY. FIRST ITEM [3. Approval of Minutes from the City Council Meeting of March 26, 2020.] ON OUR AGENDA TODAY IS THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES, UM, OF MARCH 26TH, 2020. SO MOVE SECOND. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING. MINUTES OF MARCH 26TH, PLEASE VOTE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OKAY. UM, FOR THE RECORD, COUNCIL [00:10:01] MEMBER SANDOVAL'S, UM, VOTING SYSTEM IS NOT, UH, UM, UP. SO, UH, WE RECORD HER VOTE AS A AYE. OKAY. MOTION CARRIES, UH, FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR, OF OUR PUBLIC AND AUDIENCE. DO WANNA NOTE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, FOUR MEMBERS ARE APPEARING AS WE HAVE BEEN, UH, VIA REMOTE SO THAT WE CAN MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCING UP HERE ON THE DIOCESE. WE APPRECIATE ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND THE CHAMBER AS WELL WHO ARE DOING THE SAME. OKAY. UM, WE DO HAVE A FULL AGENDA. TWO ITEMS, UM, ARE LISTED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION, ITEMS FOUR AND FIVE. AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO [Consent Agenda] ASK MY COLLEAGUES IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER ITEMS FROM WHICH THEY WOULD LIKE TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION ITEMS. WELL, MARRIAGE 10, ITEM 10, ITEM 11 AND Z. TWO ITEMS 11 AND Z TWO. I DO HAVE ITEM NINE. AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. I HAVE NOTED ITEMS P ONE AND Z ONE FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. YES, SIR. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO TO READ THAT AGAIN, UH, FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION, WE HAVE ITEMS 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 P ONE, AND Z TWO. IF THERE ARE NO OTHER ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. SO MOVE SECOND. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE. WELL, WE DO HAVE ONE CITIZEN SIGN NOTE TO SPEAK ON ITEMS REMAINING ON CONSENT. I'LL CALL YOU NOW. JO JACK FINGER. AND WE DO HAVE A, WE DO HAVE A MICROPHONE ON A STAND. YOU DON'T NEED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH A MICROPHONE. UH, WE WILL SANITIZE IT IN BETWEEN SPEAKERS THOUGH. GO AHEAD, JACK NURENBERG, OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD. MY NAME IS JACK M. FINGER, IF YOU, COUPLE ITEMS WISH TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION ON THE CONSENT PORTION OF THE AGENDA. ITEM NUMBER 14, WHICH HAS NOT BEEN PULLED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. BASICALLY IT WILL SAIL RIGHT ON THROUGH FASTER THAN SANTA SLEIGH RESOLUTION, DECLARING A NEED FOR TEXAS HOUSING FOUNDATION. BASICALLY, IT'S A, UH, RESOLUTION ASKING FOR THAT. WE HELP, UH, REHABILITATE VARIOUS PLACES FOR WELFARE HOUSING HERE IN TOWN. YES, THAT'S IN A COUPLE PLACES IN DISTRICT THREE. THAT'S, UH, THEN, UH, YES, MS. MS VIA GRANDE'S DISTRICT THERE YES. ON CLARK AVENUE AND, UH, ROOSEVELT AVENUE. AND, AND IN DISTRICT SEVEN, MS. SANDOVAL'S DISTRICT. YES. IF YOU, UH, LIVE ANYWHERE NEAR, UH, ON FLYNN DRIVE AND MISS SANDOVAL'S DISTRICT OR ON CLARK AVENUE. AND, UH, WHERE IS IT? UH, YES. ON CLARK AVENUE AND ROOSEVELT AVENUE IN THIS VIA GRADS DISTRICT, YOU'LL, YOU'LL WANT TO TALK TO 'EM ABOUT, UH, OUR FACILITATING WELFARE RECIPIENTS LIVING NEXT TO YOU. YES. WHEN THE TIME COMES. LIKEWISE ON, UH, ITEM NUMBER, HERE IT IS ITEM NUMBER P ONE AND Z ONE. THESE ARE SOME ZONING ISSUES THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON. YES. UH, MRS. SULLIVAN IN YOUR DISTRICT. THIS IS WHERE THESE ARE HAPPENING. AND BASICALLY IT'S THE IDEA OF SHOEHORNING SHOEHORNING SIX UNITS INTO, INTO A PLACE JUST BUILT FOR THREE. AND THIS IS OVER, OVER ON NORTH HACKBERRY STREET. YES. MS. SULLIVAN. UM, MAYBE WE'D WANNA SAY NO TO THIS. UH, THE IDEA , I'M JUST, I MEAN, WHY DO THE PEOPLE LIVING AROUND THE AREA HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THAT IS OUR, OUR QUESTION? YOU? NO. UM, TH THIS IS A BAD IDEA. UH, PEOPLE WOULD LI LIKE TO KNOW, KNOW WHY THEY HAVE TO LIVE IN A SUCH A DENSELY POPULATED AREA WHEN THEY, IT WASN'T BUILT TO BE LIKE THAT. NO. UH, MS. SULLIVAN, WE THINK THAT'S A BAD IDEA. AND PERHAPS YOU MAY WANT TO, ALL OF YOU MAY WANNA SAY, SAY NO TO THAT WHEN THE TIME COMES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. OKAY. WE DO HAVE, UH, ONE COUNCIL MEMBER SPEAKING TO HIGHLIGHT [00:15:01] AN ITEM. I'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL COUNCIL MEMBER GRO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I DID WANT TO HIGHLIGHT ITEM NUMBER 14 BECAUSE THESE ARE TWO PROJECTS IN DISTRICT THREE. ONE, THE, THE SAN JOSE APARTMENTS THAT HAS BEEN ABOUT 40 YEARS IN NEED OF REHABILITATION. AND THEN THE OTHER WHITEFIELD PLACE, WHICH ACTUALLY ONE OF THE UNITS WAS, UH, BURNED DOWN. AND SO IT'S GETTING THE REHABILITATION. SO THIS IS, UM, GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE, UM, AFFORDABILITY UNIT AS WELL AS, UM, REHAB OF THESE UNITS. SO I APPRECIATE, UH, SAHA AND TEXAS HOUSING COMING TOGETHER AND WORKING THROUGH THIS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF, UM, ALL OF THOSE INVOLVED. AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO STAY IN THERE NOW. SO, THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. OKAY. WE DO HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA. THAT'S ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 P ONE Z ONE, AND Z TWO. PLEASE VOTE. AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. ALRIGHT. UM, BECAUSE WE ARE TRYING OUR BEST TO PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND, AND ALLOW OTHERS, UH, TO DO THE SAME. I KNOW THERE ARE A COUPLE FOLKS HERE THAT ARE HERE FOR JUST ONE ITEM. UH, THAT SHOULD GO PRETTY QUICKLY. SO WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS SHUFFLE THE DECK A LITTLE BIT TO MAKE SURE WE CAN CLEAR FOLKS OUT THAT DON'T NEED TO STAY FOR THE ENTIRE PERIOD OF TIME. UH, AND SO I'M GONNA TAKE THE TWO ITEMS THAT WERE PULLED FOR ZONING FIRST. [Items P1 & Z1] UH, WE'LL BEGIN WITH ITEMS P ONE AND Z ONE, AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM Z TWO. ALL RIGHT. WE GOT, UH, P ONE AND Z ONE. UH, WE'RE AMENDING THE DIGNITY NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN FROM LOW DENSITY TO LOW DENSITY MIXED USE. AND WE'RE CHANGING ZONING FROM I D Z TO ALLOW FOR THREE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES TO I D Z TWO TO ALLOW FOR SIX SINGLE FAMILY HOMES. UH, THIS PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT 9 0 9. NORTH HACKBERRY STAFF PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION HAVE ALL RECOMMENDED APPROVAL. UH, 26 NOTICES WERE MAILED OUT. SEVEN CAME BACK IN FAVOR AND THREE WERE OPPOSED. WE ALSO HAD EIGHT NOTICES COME BACK IN FAVOR AND FOUR OPPOSED FROM OUTSIDE THE 200, UH, FOOT AREA. THE DIGNITY HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS IN FAVOR OF THE REQUEST, UH, OF AN AMENDMENT, AMENDING IT DOWN TO FOUR UNITS. AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THE APPLICANT IS HERE TO, TO AMEND, UH, THE ZONING CASE TO ASK FOR FOUR UNITS AS OPPOSED TO SIX. THANK YOU, ROD. UH, TURN IT NOW TO COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. I'M SORRY, COUNCIL MEMBER. WE DO HAVE THREE CITIZENS SPEAK ON THESE . I'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL YOU NOW. UM, I'LL CALL THE FIRST PERSON UP IF YOU CAN APPROACH, AND THEN, UH, I'LL CALL THE SECOND NAME ON THE LIST. AND IF YOU CAN BE READY TO COME FORWARD, LIZ FRANKLIN, YOU'RE GONNA LOWER THAT TOO, ABOUT THE GROUND. OH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR MOVING THE AGENDA AROUND. UM, I'M TALKING ABOUT 9 0 9 HACKBERRY IN THE AMENDMENT. I WANT TO GIVE THANKS TO, UH, COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN. IT'S COMPLICATED. I, I'LL SAY ONE OR THE OTHER, UM, FOR STICKING WITH IT, BECAUSE MIKE'S PLAN WAS AMBITIOUS. SIX. I WAS LIKE, OKAY, I LIVE ABOUT, I LIVE THREE LOTS OVER OUR BLOCK AND IT'S A PRETTY DESIRABLE, SKETCHY BLOCK. WE'RE ONLY 50% CAPACITY. THE FACT THAT HE HAS STUCK WITH THIS AND STUCK WITH IT AND DONE EVERYTHING HE COULD. AND, UM, OUR COUNCILWOMAN WAS PRETTY, SHE WENT A LITTLE LOWER THAN I WOULD HAVE. I JUST WANT SOMETHING OTHER THAN 13 PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA GET EITHER HIT BY A CAR, UH, PULL IN MATTRESSES OR ROB THE STORE AROUND THE CORNER. HE'S BEEN INVESTED FROM DAY ONE. HE'S DONE EVERYTHING HE COULD TO MAKE THIS AS RIGHT AS POSSIBLE. AND I PERSONALLY, I ADMIRE THAT. STICKING WITH IT. I PROBABLY WOULD'VE SOLD MAYBE KIND OF, I DUNNO. BUT, UH, ANYWAY, I WANNA THANK, UH, EVERYBODY THAT DID STICK WITH IT, AND TWO UNITS WITH TWO ACCESSORY DWELLINGS ON THAT BLOCK IS APPROPRIATE [00:20:01] IN MY OPINION. AND IT'S GOT ALLIE ACCESS AND HE'S THERE ANYWAY. DO WE WANT HIM TO SELL AND GO BACK UP TO THREE THE NEXT PERSON OR KEEP GOING AND GOING? UH, AND HE'S BEEN THERE FOR MORE THAN A YEAR. HE'S THE ONE THAT PICKS UP THE CODE COMPLIANCE ISSUES. HE'S THE ONE THAT MAKES SURE THAT WE, WE, WE TRY AND KEEP IT AS NEAT AS POSSIBLE WITH SQUATTERS. AND I HAVE TO RECOGNIZE AND ACKNOWLEDGE HIM FOR THAT. SO THAT'S ABOUT IT. AND THEN THE LAST THING, I HATE TO HIJACK IT, BUT YOU GUYS ARE GONNA KEEP ME ON TIME. I ONLY GOT 50 SECONDS ANYWAY, IS ELLA AUSTIN. AND THANK YOU FOR TURNING AROUND, UM, LAST WEEK AND TELLING US YOU'RE NOT GONNA ABANDON US. LET ME MAKE SOMETHING REALLY CLEAR. WE'RE NOT A CHARITY CASE. WE NEED TO MEET THE STANDARDS. WE NEED TO MEET THE STANDARDS. AND I BELIEVE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF COLLEEN, UH, DR. COLLEEN BRIDGER AND HER STAFF, WE'RE GONNA WORK VERY CLOSELY TOWARDS THAT. THE REASON I'M REALLY TALKING TO YOU IS I'M COMING BACK TO YOU FOR MONEY. WE'RE GONNA NEED MONEY LATER. WE'RE GONNA MEET THE STANDARDS. AND WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT DR. CHERRY, WHO JUST TOOK OVER ONE JANUARY, HAS DONE SOME EXTRAORDINARY THINGS IN TRYING TO TURN THE TITANIC. YOU KNOW, WE WERE SINKING, RIGHT? WE'RE NOT A CHARITY CASE. WE PROVIDE A NECESSARY NEED TO THE COMMUNITY AND WE'RE GONNA EARN YOUR MONEY. AND I MEAN THAT FOR MY CONSERVATIVE BROTHERS THAT MIGHT BE INCLINED TO SAY WE'RE NOT WORTH IT. AND SISTERS, SORRY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. FRANKLIN. MIKE GARRON, SWAY WAY. MR. GARRIN SAY WE FOLLOWED BY JACK FINGER. GOOD MORNING. I'M MIKE GARRIN, SWAY OWNER OF THE PROPERTY AT 9 0 9 NORTH HACKBERRY. IT'S PULLED OFF THE CONSENT AGENDA TODAY 'CAUSE I'M PROPOSING THAT WE, UH, TAKE THE I D Z TWO SIX UNIT REQUEST AND DOWNSIZE IT TO I D Z TWO FOUR UNITS FOR THE SITE PLAN THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE NUITY HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND IS ON FILE WITH THE ZONING COMMISSION AND, UH, COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN'S OFFICE. I'M ASKING THAT YOU MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE AS AMENDED FOR THE NEW FOUR UNIT SITE PLAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR. RINS WAY. JACK FINGER? YES. MR. MAYOR, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL? ONCE AGAIN, MY NAME IS JACK M FINGER AND ONCE AGAIN, UH, MS. ANDREWS, UH, IT'S COME TO OUR ATTENTION THAT, UH, WELL AS MANY AS THREE PEOPLE IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS DIDN'T THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE YOU SHOEHORN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU'RE PLANNING OVER ON NORTH HACKBERRY AS WELL. THAT'S ABOUT THREE OUTTA 10, THAT'S 30%. AND WHEN YOU GET ANYTHING OVER FIVE OR 10%, UH, THAT IS SOMETHING WORTH LOOKING AT. THAT MEANS THAT THERE'S ENOUGH INTEREST IN THERE THAT THAT TELLS YOU THAT THE PEOPLE LIVING AROUND THAT AREA DO NOT WANT TO BE, WHO HAVE TO LIVE NEXT TO THIS DENSE, DENSELY POPULATED, UH, ZONING REQUEST. THEY DON'T WANT IT. THEY DON'T NEED IT. THEY ARE THE ONES LIVING THERE. YOU ARE NOT LIVING THERE, BUT YOU'RE THE ONE MAKING THE DECISION HERE. UH, MAYBE JUST, MAYBE JUST HAVE A LITTLE CONSIDERATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE LIVING THERE SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO LIVE IN A, IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT APPARENTLY IS GOING TO GET RUN DOWN EVEN FURTHER BECAUSE OF THIS. YES. NOW, SUPPOSEDLY THE REQUEST WAS DOWNGRADED FROM SIX TO FOUR, BUT IT'S STILL, IT'S STILL ABOUT A THIRD AND MORE POPULATED THAT THEN IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING. NO, IT, IT'S A BAD IDEA. MS. ANDREWS SAY NO TO THIS. LIKE, LIKEWISE, IN, UH, AND YES, IN DIGNITY HILL SIX. YEAH. THAT, THAT'S WHERE IT IS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU MR. FINGER. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREWS SULLIVAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. A MOTION TO APPROVE WITH THE AMENDMENT OF THE FOUR UNITS. I HEARD A, UH, MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEMS P ONE AND Z ONE WITH AMENDMENTS. PLEASE VOTE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. [00:25:05] MOTION CARRIES. MOVE NOW TO ITEM [Z-2. 20-2721 ZONING CASE Z-2019-10700292 (Council District 10): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "I-1 IH-1 AHOD" General Industrial Northeast Gateway Corridor Airport Hazard Overlay District to "C-3 IH-1 AHOD" General Commercial Northeast Gateway Corridor Airport Hazard Overlay District on Lot 4, Block 2, NCB 14952, located at 11407 Wayland Way. Staff and Zoning Commission recommend Approval. (Continued from April 2, 2020)] Z TWO. ITEM Z TWO, UH, IS A ZONING CASE FROM I ONE TO C THREE. IT'S LOCATED AT 11 4 0 7 WAYLAND WAY STAFF AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED APPROVAL. EIGHT NOTICES WERE MAILED OUT ON THIS CASE. ZERO, UH, CAME BACK IN FAVOR AND ZERO OPPOSED. AND, UH, THIS ITEM, WELL, I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MAY BE A MO UH, A REQUEST FOR A CONTINUANCE TO, UH, JUNE 18TH ON THIS ITEM. THANK COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREWS SULLIVAN. MOTION TO CONTINUE. I'M SORRY, . I WAS, UH, COUNCILS MEMBER, PERRY'S ITEM, BUT, UH, COUNCILS MEMBER IF YOU WANNA, UM, YES, UM, GO AHEAD. I'LL MOVE TO, UM, CONTINUE THIS ITEM TO 9:00 AM ON JUNE 18TH. SECOND. ALL RIGHT. THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FORER CONTINUANCE OF ITEM Z TWO. AYE, PLEASE VOTE. AYE. AYE. AYE. I. MOTION CARRIES. MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. WE DO HAVE, UM, A FEW OTHER ITEMS TO GET TO, AND THEN WE'LL GO TO OUR ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED INDIVIDUAL ITEMS. UH, LET'S GO, UH, NOW TO ITEM NUMBER NINE. [9. 20-1965 Ordinance, on behalf of SAWS, authorizing the acquisition through negotiation or condemnation, for project purpose of privately-owned real property located in County Block 4006 and declaring the project to be a public use project and a public necessity for the acquisition to construct a water treatment facility (wetlands) related to the Mitchell Lake Wetlands Water Quality Treatment Project located south of Mitchell Lake and east of Pleasanton Road in Council District 3. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Razi Hosseini, Public Works]] WE'LL GO ITEMS NINE THROUGH 12. WE'LL CLEAR THOSE OUT AND THEN WE'LL GET TO OUR BIG PRESENTATIONS FOR THE DAY. IBER NINE AND HIS ORDINANCE APPROVING THE ADVANCED FUNDING AGREEMENT WITH TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, ACCEPTING GRANT REIMBURSEMENT IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $880,000 FROM TXDOT RELATED TO THE PLANNING COSTS AND AUTHORIZING PAYMENT IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $6,160 TO TXDOT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE OVERSIGHT FOR FEDERAL FUNDS. FROM THE MULTIMODAL PLANNING STUDY FOR COLLIBRA ROAD FROM I EIGHT 10 TO LOOP 1604 AND AMENDING FISCAL 2020 THROUGH 2025, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM BUDGET FUNDING, THE AMOUNT, TOTAL AMOUNT OF $400,000 HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED FROM FISCAL YEAR 2019 TO FISCAL YEAR 2020 GENERAL FUNDS FOR THIS PROJECT. AND ITEM NINE B IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT BETWEEN W S P U S A INC. AND THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AND THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $979,400 TO PROVIDE DESIGN PLANNING CONCEPTS FOR THE MULTIMODAL PLANNING STUDY FOR COLLIBRA ROAD FROM IH 10 TO LOOP 1604. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, GOOD MORNING, RAZZIE. I'D LIKE TO HEAR THE PRESENTATION, PLEASE. GOOD MORNING, COUNCILWOMAN. I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE PRESENTATION COUNCILMAN, BUT I CAN TALK ABOUT THE PROJECT IS COLLIBRA FROM 1604 TO I 10, APPROXIMATELY 13 MILE LOCATED IN COUNCIL DISTRICT. BOND FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN HAS EXTENSIVE CRASH THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH OF THE ARTERIAL, SINCE, HAS A WIDER CROSS-SECTION IS GOING TO GIVE US OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE BY PROTECTED BIKE LANE, WIDER SIDEWALK. AND ALSO TRANSIT IS GOING TO IMPROVE ACCESS CONDITION, IMPROVE A D A CONDITION. AND OF COURSE, WE ARE GOING TO ALSO LOOK FOR THE LAND USE AND ZONING. THIS AREA, WE ARE ANTICIPATING TO HAVE A MINIMUM OF FOR COMMUNITY MEETING ONE IN EACH COUNCIL DISTRICT. AND IF IT REQUIRES MORE THAN THAT, WE HAVE DONE VERY SIMILAR PROJECT IN COUNCIL DISTRICT THREE ROOSEVELT. WE GET SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVEMENT FROM COUNCIL'S OFFICE AND THE PUBLIC WHAT THIS ROAD TO SHOULD LOOK LIKE. AND WE ARE GOING TO CREATE NUMBER OF THE PROJECT FROM THIS STUDY FOR FUTURE 2022 BOND OR FEDERAL FUNDING OR OTHER SOURCE OF FUNDING TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A PROJECT TO BE ABLE TO DESIGN AND BUILD IN NEAR FUTURE. THANK YOU, RAZIA. I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. UM, CAN YOU TELL US, UH, HOW CULEBRA ROAD FROM THE STRETCH OF IH 10 TO 1604 WAS SELECTED FOR A PLANNING STUDY? WE HAD A NUMBER OF THE PROJECT IN SAN ANTONIO. WE WERE LOOKING FOR, THIS IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST PROJECT HAD A CRASH BECAUSE OF THE VISION ZERO IS A VERY LONG PROJECT. IT AGAIN, GOES THROUGH FOUR COUNCIL DISTRICT. THIS WAS THE NUMBER ONE ON THE TOP. WE HAVE FUTURE PROJECT ALSO, WE ARE DOING POSSIBLE AUSTIN HIGHWAY AND OTHER PROJECT [00:30:01] WILL BE COMING IN NEXT YEAR AND SO ON. SO THE FUNDING FOR THE STUDY ITSELF IS 80% OF THAT IS COMING FROM FEDERAL FUNDS, RIGHT FROM CORRECT, 80% IS COMING FROM FEDERAL FUND THROUGH THE TEXT. THAT AND 20% IS LOCAL MATCH. AND IN TERMS OF, UH, WHEN IT'S TIME TO MAKE THE CAPITAL INVESTMENT, UH, AFTER THE PLANNING HAS BEEN DONE, WHERE IS THAT FUNDING GOING TO COME FROM? WE ARE LOOKING FOR NUMBER OF THE SOURCES. ONE IS THE 2022 BOND. THE OTHER ONE IS FEDERAL FUNDING AND ALSO SOME OTHER SOURCE. OUR IDEA FROM THIS STUDY, OF COURSE, 13 MILES IS A VERY LONG LENGTH OF THE ARTERIAL TO BE ONE PROJECT. WE ARE ANTICIPATING TO CREATE NUMBER OF THE PROJECT WITH THE COST ESTIMATE. WE CAN GO THROUGH THE, BASICALLY THROUGH THE BOND PROCESS AND FEDERAL FUNDING. AND THIS PROJECT, BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE PROJECT, IT DOES MEET THE FEDERAL FUNDING REQUIREMENT. OKAY. THANK YOU RAZZY. UM, I JUST HAVE SOME COMMENTS I WANNA SHARE WITH, UH, WITH THE STAFF AND WITH MY, UH, MY COLLEAGUES. SO THE STRETCH THAT'S BEING LOOKED AT RUNS ALL THE WAY FROM, UM, ALL I H 10 TO 1604. IT'S VERY, VERY, VERY LONG. UM, I, THE PART OF IT THAT RUNS THROUGH DISTRICT SEVEN INSIDE, UH, FOUR 10 IS REALLY, UH, AN AREA THAT NEEDS A LOT OF INVESTMENT FROM OUR COMMUNITY. UH, YOU KNOW, FORMERLY GBRA ROAD, UH, WAS IT, IT'S A HIGHWAY, RIGHT? SO BEFORE IH 10 EXISTED, UM, THAT'S WHAT IT WAS USED FOR. SO WE SEE A LOT OF REALLY HIGH SPEEDS AND UNFORTUNATELY, FATALITIES, UH, PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES IN THAT AREA. BUT IF YOU'VE EVER DRIVEN BY THERE, UM, YOU'LL SEE THAT IT NEEDS A LOT MORE THAN, UH, THAN JUST A PRETTIER ROAD. UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A CHILDHOOD POVERTY RATE IN THOSE CENSUS TRACKS OF ABOUT 50%, UH, SOME OF THE MOST NEEDY AREAS IN, IN THE CITY. SO I GUESS WHAT I'D LIKE FOR STAFF TO CONSIDER GOING FORWARD IS, UM, POSSIBLY A ROAD DIET. THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, THREE, THREE LANES BOTH WAYS IN THE SUICIDE LANE. AND WE KNOW WE'VE HAD A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH, UH, WITH PEDESTRIANS. AND, UM, YOU HAVE TO WALK VERY FAR TO GET TO A SAFE CROSSING, UH, LOCATION. I THINK THERE'S ALSO ROOM FOR A LOT OF TREES AND POSSIBLE SHADE, UM, FOR PEOPLE WHO, WHO HAVE TO WALK IN THAT AREA. ABOUT 20% OF PEOPLE WALK TO WORK, UH, WALK OR TAKE THE BUS TO WORK IN, IN THOSE AREAS. SO I THINK, UM, THAT ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE WILL BE, WILL BE NEEDED THERE. AND I WOULD, IF WE, WE DO NEED TO PHASE IT. I WOULD LIKE TO PRIORITIZE THE INVESTMENTS IN THE, UH, INNER PART OF, UH, RA ROAD. FIRST, THE PARTS THAT GO THROUGH ONE FIVE AND, AND, UH, SEVEN, SORRY, COUNCILWOMAN, BUT . UM, BUT I, I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THIS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO, TO THE WORK THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE GOING TO DO. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, RAZZI. I MOVE TO APPROVE. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER NINE. OH, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. I'M SORRY I DIDN'T SEE YOU IN MY QUEUE HERE. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, UH, I, I JUST, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AGAIN, SORT OF REGARDING THE FUNDING. UM, I THINK COUNCILMAN HIGHLIGHTED, YOU KNOW, THE IMPORTANT THINGS. I KNOW AS I'VE BEEN, UH, ON THE COUNCIL AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON VISION ZERO, UH, INITIATIVES. COULD, LABA WAS ONE OF THE HIGH CRASH CORRIDORS. I KNOW SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE COUNCIL, WE'VE HAD AT LEAST 13 FATALITIES ON SAR SAMURA UNDER THE STRETCH. THAT'S DISTRICT FIVE, WHICH IS AROUND SAR SAMURA TWO 36TH STREET. SO WHY ANOTHER PLANNING STUDY AND GRANT? UM, AND WE'VE STUDIED THIS CORRIDOR PRETTY EXTENSIVELY OVER THE YEARS. UM, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ELSE NEEDS TO BE DONE? C COUNCILMAN, I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAD DONE REALLY A DETAILED STUDY. MOST OF THE STUDY WAS TRAFFICKED. THIS IS GOING TO BE TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY IDENTIFIED THE LAND USE ZONING. THIS IS ONE OF THE ROADWAYS, REALLY IDEAL AS COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL SAID, TO CREATE REALLY EVERYTHING YOU LIKE TO HAVE ON THE ROADWAY, NICER, WIDER SIDEWALK SHADE TREES, L I D, LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT, PROTECTED BIKE LANE, NOT JUST A BUFFERED BIKE LANE BECAUSE OF THE RIGHT OF WAYS IS THERE TRANSIT AND ROADWAY. EVERYBODY COULD BE ABLE TO USE THIS ROADWAY AND BENEFIT AND ALSO TO BE SAFE. SO, UM, I MEAN, IS IT A TOTAL, 'CAUSE I'M LOOKING AT A AND B. SO IS IT 9 79 PLUS EIGHT 80? I MEAN, NO. 979,000. ONLY 9 96. WE ARE GETTING FROM TECH M P O THROUGH TECHSTAR $880,000. THEN WE ARE GIVING A SMALL AMOUNT FOR TECHSTAR, [00:35:01] BASICALLY MANAGING THIS MONEY COMING THROUGH US AND $970,000 GOING FOR THE CONSULTING FIELD. THE PROJECT SCOPE SCOPE IS PROJECT SCHEDULE GOING TO START IN THIS MONTH AND FINISH APRIL OF NEXT YEAR. THEY WILL BASICALLY STUDY ENTIRE 30 MILE, WHICH IS, GOES THROUGH FOR CONSERV DISTRICT AND PROVIDE THE LAND USE, ZONING, PARKING CONDITION, SAFETY ISSUE, TRAFFIC, AND OTHER. OKAY. WELL WE KNOW THIS IS DEFINITELY, UH, NEEDS TO, THAT CORRIDOR NEEDS TO CHANGE. SO NOT ONLY DOES IT HAVE HIGH FATALITY RATES FOR PEDESTRIANS, BUT ALSO FOR AUTOMOBILES. UM, AS WE HAD BEEN DISCUSSING, UH, YOU KNOW, PREVIOUSLY WITH, UM, OUR LARGE MULTIMODAL PLAN, IT WAS IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE MAJOR CORRIDORS FOR, UM, FOR AN A R T OR A, UH, WE CURRENTLY DO HAVE A, MAYBE A, IS IT A B R T ON THE LINE OR WHAT MM-HMM. , WE HAVE SOME TYPE OF ADVANCED, OR MAYBE IT'S JUST ONE OF THE MAJOR PRIMO LINES. CORRECT. CURRENTLY ON THERE, IT WAS ONE OF THE ONES THAT WAS IDENTIFIED AS POTENTIAL FOR A B R T OR AN A R T, UH, IN THE FUTURE. IS THAT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION WITH THIS? UH, I, I THINK WE ARE WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH VR AND WE WILL WORK WITH VERY CLOSELY. ANOTHER THING IS THIS STUDY IS GOING TO PROVIDE COUNCIL WOMEN IS GOING TO PROVIDE REALLY A PROJECT COST ESTIMATE, HOW MUCH IT COSTS, WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO, AND PROVIDE NUMBER OF THE PROJECT. AND OUR INTENTION IS TO INCLUDE SOME OF THEM PART OF 2022 BOND AND THE OTHER GO AFTER FEDERAL FUNDING. OKAY, GREAT. WELL, UM, WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, HOW SOME OF THESE PROJECTS MAY EVOLVE. UM, I KNOW THAT IN, UH, PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS THERE WAS, UM, A DESIRE TO SEE SOMETHING OTHER THAN TRAFFIC COUNTS INCLUDED. WE WERE LOOKING AT A MORE HOLISTIC APPROACH TO NEIGHBORHOODS BECAUSE THE AREA WITHIN FOUR 10, I'M SORRY, WITHIN I 10, UM, WAS MORE RESIDENTIAL. AND OF COURSE, AS IT GETS OUT TO 1604, IT GETS MUCH WIDER. IS THERE ANY CONSIDERATION, UM, FOR THIS OTHER THAN TRAFFIC COUNT? OR IS THERE GOING TO BE A, CAN WE REQUEST FROM THE, UH, CONSULTANT THAT THEY DO THAT THEY TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION? OTHER THINGS LIKE PERHAPS, UM, I DON'T KNOW, SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT OR TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT ALONG THE CORRIDOR VERSUS JUST TRANSIT OR JUST LEVEL OF SERVICE? COUNCILMAN TRAFFIC COUNT IS ONLY A SMALL PART OF THIS PROJECT. WE'RE GOING TO LOOK INTO OUR CORRIDOR FOR LAND USE, ACCESS MANAGEMENT, BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN CONDITION, A D A CONDITION, TRANSIT AND PARKING CONDITION RIGHT AWAY. AND DID INVESTIGATION LAND USE FOR FUTURE AND MANY OTHER THING WE WILL LOOK FOR. WE REALLY WANNA HAVE A GOOD VISION MASTER PLAN PROGRAMMING FOR THIS ROADWAY, WHAT THIS SHOULD LOOK LIKE WHEN WE HAVE THE FUNDING TO BUILD THIS PROJECT. OKAY. WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, FOR THE PRESENTATION. I KNOW THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE IS THAT THEY TAKE SO LONG TO BUILD. SO THE WAY THAT CULEBRA IS CONSTRUCTED NOW WAS DESIGNED PROBABLY 15 YEARS AGO. SO BY THE TIME IT COMES TO FRUITION, PERHAPS THE NEEDS HAVE CHANGED A LOT. SO I WOULD HOPE THAT ONCE WE GET A PLAN, UM, THAT IS APPROPRIATE FOR THE CURRENT NEED THAT IT GETS FUNDED QUICKLY. SO THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER ELAS RAZZI. NO, NOT A PARTICULAR QUESTION. JUST A, JUST A COMMENT AND LET YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT JUST GONNA BE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO ARE, WHO ARE, UH, HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS, BUT THE BICYCLE COMMUNITY HERE IN SAN ANTONIO IS ALSO GONNA BE LOOKING AT THIS. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THIS, UH, THIS PROJECT, UH, THE PROTECTED BIKE LANES ARE GONNA HELP CONNECT THE LEON CREEK GREENWAY TO THE, UH, WEST SIDE CREEK TRAILS. AND, UH, FOR THOSE OF US THAT BIKE THOSE TRAILS, UH, WE'RE WATCHING RAZZIE, DON'T SCREW IT UP. . THANKS. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PALELLA, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM D NINE. EXCUSE ME. NINE, PLEASE VOTE. AYE. AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. MOVE NOW TO ITEM 10. [10. 20-2718 Ordinance authorizing the acquisition, through negotiation or condemnation, of interests in land sufficient for project purposes of two parcels totaling 0.506-acre (22,042 square feet) of privately-owned real property, located on Bulverde Road from Jung Road to north of Green Spring Drive within NCB 17365 P-1 in Council District 10, for the Bulverde Road Phase 1 (Butterleigh Drive to North of Quiet Meadow), a 2017 Bond Project; declaring it to be a public project and a public necessity. The fair market value for the two parcels is $98,250.00 as determined by an independent appraisal. Funding is included in the FY 2020 - FY 2025 Capital Improvement Program. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager, Razi Hosseini, Director, Public Works.]] [00:40:05] ITEM 10 IS AN ORDINANCE ON BEHALF OF SASS AUTHORIZING ACQUISITION THROUGH NEGOTIATION OR CONDEMNATION FOR PROJECT PURPOSE OF PRIVATELY OWNED REAL PROPERTY LOCATED IN COUNTY BLOCK 4 0 0 6 AND DECLARING THE PROJECT TO BE A PUBLIC USE PROJECT AND A PUBLIC NECESSITY FOR THE ACQUISITION TO CONSTRUCT A WATER TREATMENT FACILITY. WETLANDS RELATED TO MITCHELL LAKE WETLANDS WATER QUALITY TREATMENT PROJECT LOCATED SOUTH OF MITCHELL LAKE AND EAST OF PLEASANTON ROAD IN COUNCIL DISTRICT THREE COUNCIL MEMBER VIA GRANT MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM TO MAY 21ST AGENDA. OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR CONTINUANCE OF ITEM 10 UNTIL MAY 21ST. PLEASE VOTE. AYE. AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. ALRIGHT. ITEMS 11 AND 12 ARE, UH, FOR PURPOSES OF READING, UH, COMMENTS INTO THE RECORD. SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND WITH ITEM NUMBER 11. [11. 20-2718 Ordinance authorizing the acquisition, through negotiation or condemnation, of interests in land sufficient for project purposes of two parcels totaling 0.506-acre (22,042 square feet) of privately-owned real property, located on Bulverde Road from Jung Road to north of Green Spring Drive within NCB 17365 P-1 in Council District 10, for the Bulverde Road Phase 1 (Butterleigh Drive to North of Quiet Meadow), a 2017 Bond Project; declaring it to be a public project and a public necessity. The fair market value for the two parcels is $98,250.00 as determined by an independent appraisal. Funding is included in the FY 2020 - FY 2025 Capital Improvement Program. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager, Razi Hosseini, Director, Public Works.]] ITEM 11 IS AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZED IN ACQUISITION THROUGH NEGOTIATION OR CONDEMNATION OF INTEREST OF AND LAND SUFFICIENT TWO PROJECT PURPOSES FOR TWO PARCELS TOTALING 0.506 ACRES, 22000.0, SORRY, 20 2042 SQUARE FEET OF PRIVATELY OWNED REAL PROPERTY, LOCATED ON BO BOULEVARD ROAD FROM JUNG ROAD TO NORTH OF GREEN SPRING DRIVE IN NEW CITY BLOCK 1 7 3 6 5 P ONE COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 FOR THE BULL ROAD FOR PHASE ONE BUTTER BUTTERLY DRIVE TO NORTH OF QUIET MEADOW IN 2017, A 2017 BRONZE PROJECT DECLARING IT TO BE A PUBLIC PROJECT AND A PUBLIC NECESSITY. THE FAIR MARKET VALUE OF TWO PARCELS IS $98,250, AS DETERMINED BY AN INDEPENDENT APPRAISAL FUNDING IS INCLUDED IN FISCAL YEAR 2020 THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 2025 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. I MOVE THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AUTHORIZED THE USE OF POWER OF IMMINENT DOMAIN TO ACQUIRE PRIVATELY OWNED REAL PROPERTY FOR A PUBLIC USE PROJECT FOR THE BULL VERDE ROAD, BUTTERLY TO NORTH QUIET PROJECT BY ACQUIRING THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY DESCRIBED BY THE CITY CLERK AND INCORPORATED AS PART OF THIS, THIS MOTION. SECOND. OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL. I HAVE TO READ ANOTHER, OH, I HAVE TO READ ANOTHER SECTION. OKAY. GO AHEAD AND CLERK THE PRIVATELY OWNED PROPERTY FOR A PERMANENT EASEMENT INTEREST LOCATED IN SAN ANTONIO, BEAR COUNTY, TEXAS COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 IS OUT OF THE FOLLOWING TWO PARCELS OF LAND CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY 0.0506 ACRES, 20 2042 SQUARE FEET OF REAL PROPERTY AND N CCB 1 73 6 5 P ONE LOCATED IN VERDE ROAD FROM JOHN ROAD TO NORTH OF GREEN SPRING. THE PROPERTY IS DEPICTED IN OVER ALL PROJECT DRAWING MAP IN EXHIBIT TWO OF THE ORDINANCE AND ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS PART OF THIS MOTION. OKAY, NOW WE DO HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 11 AS READ BY COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, PLEASE VOTE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. MOVE TO ITEM 12. [Items 12 - 12C] ITEM 12 IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING ORDINANCES ON BEHALF OF SAUL'S AUTHORIZED AND ACQUISITION THROUGH NEGOTIATION OR CONDEMNATION OF INTEREST IN PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY PARCELS OF LAND, SUFFICIENT FOR PROJECT PURPOSES OF PRIVATELY OWNED REAL PROPERTY AND DECLARING THE PROJECT TO BE PUBLIC USE PROJECTS AND PUBLIC NECESSITY FOR THE ACQUISITIONS. ITEM 12 A IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE ACQUISITION THROUGH NEGOTIATION OR CONDEMNATION OF INTEREST AND LAND SUFFICIENT FOR PROJECT PURPOSES OF PRIVATELY OWNED REAL PROPERTY AND DECLARING THE PROJECT TO BE FOR PUBLIC USE AND PUBLIC NECESSITY FOR THE ACQUISITION RELATED TO THE HE LOTUS CREEK GRAVITY, MAINE, AND LIFT STATION NUMBER 2 4 6, UM, ELIMINATION PROJECT, GENERALLY LOCATED NEAR OLD BENDERA ROAD STATE HIGHWAY 16, ITEM 12 BEING ORDINANCE, APPROVING THE ACQUISITION THROUGH NEGOTIATION OR CONDEMNATION OF INTEREST AND LAND SUFFICIENT FOR PROJECT PURPOSES OF PRIVATELY OWNED REAL PROPERTY AND DECLARING THE PROJECT TO BE FOR PRIVATE, I'M SORRY, TO BE FOR PUBLIC USE AND A PUBLIC NECESSITY FOR [00:45:01] THE ACQUISITION RELATED TO THE RE TRACK SEWER MAIN EXTENSION PROJECT LOCATED NEAR BRIDGEPOINT PLACE, STATE HIGHWAY 16 AND NEW CRAFT, NEW CRAFT PLACE IN THE EXTRAJUDICIAL JURISDICTION OF CITY OF HELOTES. AND ITEM 12 C IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE ACQUISITION AND NEGOTIATION OR CONDEMNATION OF INTEREST IN LAND SUFFICIENT FOR PROJECT PURPOSES OF PRIVATELY OWNED REAL PROPERTY AND DECLARING THE PROJECT TO BE FOR PUBLIC USE AND PUBLIC NECESSITY FOR THE ACQUISITION RELATED TO THE TURTLE CREEK WATER TRANSMISSION MAIN PROJECT GENERALLY LOCATED BETWEEN FREDERICKSBURG ROAD AND IH 10 AND ALONG BLUFF DEAL DRIVE, FAIRHAVEN STREET AND DATA POINT DRIVE. THANK YOU MADAM CLERK, COUNCIL MEMBER PIAS MAYOR MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 12 IN ITS ENTIRETY AND TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN TO ACQUIRE PRIVATELY OWNED REAL PROPERTY FOR A PUBLIC USE PROJECT FOR THE SAWS WATER AND SEWER REPLACEMENT PROJECT BY ACQUIRING THE PROPERTIES DESCRIBED BY THE CITY CLERK AND INCORPORATED AS PART OF THIS MOTION. SECOND. SECOND. OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 12, WHICH IS ITEMS 12, A, B, AND C. THE PRIVATELY OWNED PROPERTIES FOR TEMPORARY AND PERMITTED INTEREST LOCATED IN SAN ANTONIO, BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT SIX AND EIGHT ARE OUT OF THE FOLLOWING, A CITY OF HE LOTUS APPROXIMATELY 13 PARCELS OF PROPERTY ALONG APPROXIMATELY TWO AND A HALF MILES SEWER MAINS LOCATED ALONG OLD BENDERA ROAD AND ALONG THE WESTERLY RIGHT OF WAY OF STATE HIGHWAY 16, CLOSEST TO COUNCIL DISTRICT SIX B. CITY OF HE LOTUS REBE TRACK SEWER MAINE EXTENSION PROJECT CONSISTS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATELY 150 FEET OF SEWER MAINE, LOCATED IN THE EXTRAJUDICIAL JURISDICTION OF CITY OF HE LOTUS, CLOSEST TO COUNCIL DISTRICT SIX C 5,000 FEET OF WATER TRANSMISSION LINE STARTING AT 4 6 4 1 BLUFF DRIVE, TURTLE CREEK PALM STATION NUMBER THREE, AND TO THE INTERSECTION, INTERSECTION OF FAIRHAVEN STREET, THEN SOUTHWESTERLY TO THE INTERSECTION DATA POINT DRIVE, THEN WESTERLY AND CROSSING FREDERICKSBURG ROAD TO THE POINT OF 8 3 1 1 FREDERICKSBURG ROAD MEDICAL CENTER TANK SITE, AND LOCATED IN COUNCIL DISTRICT EIGHT. THE PURPOSE PROPERTIES ARE DEPICTED IN THE OVERALL PROJECT DRAWING MAP, EXHIBIT TWO A TWO OF EACH RESPECTIVE ORDINANCE ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS PART OF THIS MOTION. THANK YOU MADAM CLERK. THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 12. PLEASE VOTE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. ALRIGHT, NOW WE WILL MOVE TO THE [4. 20-3059 Briefing on the City's response and preparedness on COVID-19] TOP OF OUR AGENDA NOW AND TAKE OUR TWO ITEMS SCHEDULED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. WE'LL BEGIN WITH ITEM NUMBER FOUR, MORNING MAYOR AND COUNSEL. UH, WE'VE GOT THREE PARTS OF THIS PRESENTATION. UH, MARIA WILL BEGIN WITH, UH, AN UPDATE ON OUR BUDGET CALENDAR AND, UH, FEDERAL FUNDING THAT WE'VE RECEIVED. UH, LORI WILL GO SECOND WITH A BRIEFING ON A PROPOSED NOTICE OF TENANT RIGHTS, UH, PROGRAM. AND THEN ANDY WILL WRAP IT UP, UH, WITH, UH, A BRIEFING FOR THE COUNCIL ON, UH, GOVERNOR ABBOTT'S, UH, RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT ON REOPENINGS. UM, SO BEFORE MARIA STARTS, LET ME, UH, LET ME TRY TO FRAME SOME OF THIS, UH, FOR US, BECAUSE, UH, THIS PART OF THE PRESENTATION, UH, THIS MORNING, UM, IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PRESENTATIONS THAT THE COUNCIL HAS RECEIVED, UH, SINCE WE STARTED, UM, DEALING WITH THE PANDEMIC. UM, AS A REMINDER TO THE COUNCIL, WE TOOK QUICK ACTION. THIS, THIS ORGANIZATION AND THE COUNCIL TOOK QUICK ACTION EARLY, EARLY ON TO KEEP OUR BUDGET BALANCED BY SUSPENDING, SPENDING AND PROGRAMS, IMPLEMENTING A HIRING FREEZE, AND TAKING ALL NECESSARY ACTION. AND DEPENDING ON WHAT HAPPENS, UH, WE FORESEE THE STAFF FORESEE, UH, MAJOR CHALLENGES FOR FISCAL YEAR 21. UM, THERE'S STILL A GREAT DEAL OF UNCERTAINTY, AND I KNOW YOU, YOU HEAR THAT, UH, YOU HEAR THAT FROM US ON A WEEKLY BASIS. YOU PROBABLY SEE IT ON TV, UH, BUT IT IS FACT. UM, QUESTIONS SUCH AS, UH, WHEN WILL THE EMERGENCY END? WHEN WILL RECOVERY BEGIN? AND WHAT WILL RECOVERY LOOK LIKE AND HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE? UM, THIS MORNING WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR F Y 21 BUDGET PROCESS, UH, THE CORONA RELIEF FUNDS AND OTHER FEDERAL GRANTS, UH, BY, UH, WHICH WE WILL NEED TO, UH, REALLY ACHIEVE FOUR OBJECTIVES, I THINK ALTOGETHER. ONE, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UH, OUR ONGOING C OVID 19 RESPONSE AND EXPENSES ARE, UH, TAKEN CARE OF BOTH NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. UH, ALIGN OUR SPENDING TO THE NEW FISCAL REALITIES OF FISCAL YEAR 21, UH, THE DELIVERY OF BASIC SERVICES AND, AND, UH, AND MOSTLY AND, [00:50:01] AND JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THOSE OTHER THREE, UH, HELPING OUR COMMUNITY RECOVER. SO IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, UH, WE'LL NEED TO DO THIS TOGETHER, UH, WHILE WE, WHILE, WHILE WE STILL ARE LEADING THE EFFORTS IN DEALING WITH AN EMERGENCY. SO, UH, A LOT OF, A LOT OF BALLS UP IN THE AIR. UH, IT WILL BE A BALANCING ACT AND, UH, I'LL ASK MARIE TO KICK IT OFF, UH, TO, UH, BEGIN THE TOPIC. THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I'M MARIA VIE GOMEZ, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. UH, MY PRESENTATION TODAY IS GONNA FOCUS ON GIVING YOU AN UPDATE ON THE CITY BUDGET, AS WELL AS AN UPDATE ON THE FEDERAL GRANTS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED SO FAR, AND THOSE GRANTS THAT ARE FORTHCOMING AS WELL. SO, I'M GONNA BEGIN THE CONVERSATION WITH YOU THIS MORNING TO, UH, TALK ABOUT THE 2021 BUDGET CALENDAR. THE CITY MANAGER PROVIDED THE FINAL CALENDAR TO THE CITY COUNCIL YESTERDAY. THIS HAS BEEN POSTED ONLINE FOR THE PUBLIC TO BE AWARE OF THE KEY EVENTS THAT I WILL REVIEW WITH YOU THIS MORNING. ALSO, WANNA GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE, UH, SPENT OR COMMITTED IN TERMS OF THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE THAT WE STARTED IN LATE JANUARY, 2020, UH, THROUGH MID-APRIL. AND FINALLY TO TALK ABOUT OUR FEDERAL GRANTS. SO LET ME START THIS CONVERSATION, UH, BY ALLUDING TO WHAT THE CITY MANAGER JUST SPOKE ABOUT. WE ARE IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES, NOT ONLY THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, BUT MANY CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE FACED WITH HANDLING A PANDEMIC, RESPONDING TO OUR COMMUNITY, ADJUSTING THE SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE TO THE PUBLIC, AND ALSO HAVING TO BALANCE A BUDGET DURING THIS UNCERTAIN TIMES. SO WE HAVE DEVELOPED A FRAMEWORK THAT WE ARE GOING TO USE, UH, IN THE UPCOMING, UH, MONTHS TO BE ABLE TO DELIVER A BALANCE BUDGET TO THE COMMUNITY. THIS FRAMEWORK INCLUDES DETERMINING THE COST OF THE ONGOING RESPONSE. UH, WE, UH, WILL BE DEVELOPING AN ESTIMATE THROUGH THE END OF THE CALENDAR YEAR, DECEMBER OF, UH, 2020, THAT, UH, ASSESSMENT AND AND DETERMINATION OF THE COST WILL BE PROVIDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL WHEN WE PRESENT OUR MID-YEAR REVIEW, UH, LATER THIS MONTH. WE ALSO, AS PART OF THIS FRAMEWORK, UH, WE HAVE TO MANAGE THE FISCAL CHALLENGES THAT WE ARE SEEING IN THIS FISCAL YEAR. WE'VE MADE, UH, SEVERAL PRESENTATIONS TO THE COUNCIL TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE IMPACT TO OUR CITY BUDGET. UH, WE HAVE TAKEN IMMEDIATE ACTION WITH YOUR SUPPORT TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN A BALANCED BUDGET AND STAY WITHIN OUR FISCAL DISCIPLINE AND OUR FISCAL POLICIES. AND AS WE CONTINUE WITH THIS PROCESS, WE ALSO GONNA HAVE TO MAKE AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT TO CITY SERVICES. UH, WITH THE IMPACT THAT WE SEE IN OUR REVENUES. WE KNOW THAT, UH, CUTS AND CITY SERVICES ARE LIKELY TO HAPPEN. SO WE WANNA START THAT CONVERSATION WITH THE COUNCIL, UH, EARLIER THAN WHAT WE HAVE DONE THAT IN THE PAST. AND VERY IMPORTANT, WE ALSO NEED TO ASSIST THE COMMUNITY IN THE RECOVERY OF THIS PANDEMIC IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS. SO THIS IS SOME OF THE KEY EVENTS IN OUR FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET CALENDAR. ON MAY 28, WE'RE COMING BACK TO THE COUNCIL WITH OUR MID-YEAR REVIEW AND A RECOMMENDATION FOR A MID-YEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENT. UH, WE WILL PRESENT THAT IN THE WEEK AFTER. UH, WE ARE GONNA ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER AMENDING THE CITY BUDGET TO REFLECT THAT, UH, MID-YEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENT. ALSO, UH, WHEN WE PRESENT THE MID-YEAR BUDGET REVIEW, WE ARE GONNA BRING TO THE COUNCIL A PLAN FOR PUBLIC INPUT AS IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET WITH THE CURRENT CONDITIONS THAT WE HAVE. OUR TYPICAL BUDGET INPUT PROCESS DOESN'T LEAD ITSELF TO HAVE A LARGE COMMUNITY MEETINGS. SO WE ARE THINKING ABOUT HOW WE ARE GONNA BE, UH, OBTAINING INPUT FROM OUR COMMUNITY. SO THAT PLAN WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL ON THE 28TH. ON JUNE 18, UH, WE ARE GOING TO BE PRESENTING THE FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL FORECAST. AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF OUR CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, WE ARE GONNA BE PRESENTING A TRIAL BUDGET. WHAT THAT IS, IS THAT WE ARE GONNA PRESENT OUR ASSESSMENT OF REVENUES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021. AND BASED ON THOSE, UH, UH, FISCAL ASSUMPTIONS AND, AND BASED ON, UH, REVIEW OF OUR FINANCIAL POSITION, WE ARE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT POTENTIAL BUDGET REDUCTIONS TO THE CITY BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021. THIS IS EARLY IN THE BUDGET PROCESS 'CAUSE WE WANT THE INPUT FROM THE CITY COUNCIL BEFORE WE PREPARE THE PROPOSED BUDGET. SO THAT DISCUSSION WITH THE CITY COUNCIL WILL TAKE PLACE ON JUNE THE 26TH, WHICH IS OUR CITY COUNCIL GOAL SETTING SESSION. WE'LL HAVE THE, THE ANNUAL SESSION FROM [00:55:01] NINE TO FIVE, AND WE'LL HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, FOR THE COUNCIL TO DISCUSS A TRIAL BUDGET THAT WILL PRESENT THE WEEK BEFORE THEN IN THE MONTH OF JULY. UH, WE WILL, UH, PREPARE THE PROPOSED, UH, BUDGET, AND WE ARE SCHEDULED TO PRESENT THAT TO THE COUNCIL ON AUGUST THE SIXTH. WE'LL HAVE, UH, MORE THAN 30 DAYS BETWEEN, UH, BUDGET PROPOSAL TO DISCUSS THE BUDGET IN DETAIL WITH THE COUNCIL TO GET INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY. AND WE'RE SCHEDULED TO APPROVE THE CITY BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021 ON SEPTEMBER 17. THIS SLIDE JUST PROVIDES YOU WITH A SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE BRIEFED THE CITY COUNCIL SO FAR IN TERMS OF THE, UH, REVENUE IMPACT TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO FISCAL YEAR 2020. BUDGET IN TOTAL $200 MILLION. THOSE ARE OUR PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES. 89 MILLION OF THE 200 IS IN THE GENERAL FUND. UH, THE OTHER TWO LARGE, UH, FUNDS THAT WERE IMPACTED AS A HOTEL ANCY TAX, OUR AIRPORT AND OTHER, UH, REVENUES AS WELL. AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE TAKEN MEASURES TO KEEP THE BUDGET, UH, BALANCE IN THE GENERAL FUND AND RESTRICTED FUNDS. AND THAT INCLUDES THE SUSPENSION OF SOME OF OUR SUMMER PROGRAMS. UH, THE POSTPONEMENT ON SOME OF OUR PROJECTS, DELAYING THE STREET MAINTENANCE PROGRAM IN, IN PARTICULAR FOR $50 MILLION. AND OTHER PROGRAMS THAT WE CAN, UH, BEGIN TO DISCUSS WITH THE COUNCIL AS PART OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET PROCESS. NOW, AS WE ARE, UH, IN CONTINUE COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 'CAUSE WE WANNA KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THEM AS THEY CONTINUE TO MANAGE FINANCIALLY THROUGH THIS, UM, THROUGH THIS, UH, FISCAL, UH, PROCESS. AND, UM, WHAT WE HAVE HEARD IS THAT AS WE CONTINUE WITH THE UNCERTAINTY ON THE UPCOMING MONTHS, AND WE HAVE TO BALANCE OUR BUDGETS, UH, WE HAVE TO BE LOOKING AT BEST PRACTICES, BUT NOT NECESSARILY BEST PRACTICES, BUT ALSO NEW PRACTICES. WE ARE CHALLENGED IN HOW WE DELIVER SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY, HOW WE WORK WITH OUR, UH, EMPLOYEES AND, AND WITHIN OUR CITY ORGANIZATION. SO THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY WILL BE CRITICAL. UH, TELEWORK WILL CONTINUE TO BE CRITICAL AS WE CONTINUE WITH, WITH THIS PROCESS. NOW, ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IS THAT IT'S VERY CRITICAL FOR CITIES TO BE FISCALLY SOUND TO BE ABLE TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY. SO, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED WITH OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY IS HOW DIFFERENT THIS ECONOMIC EVENT HAS BEEN. FOR INSTANCE, COMPARED TO THE GREAT RECESSION IN 2008, 2009, WE STARTED TO SEE A SLOW DECLINE IN REVENUES. THIS EVENT IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, AND I WANTED TO USE A COUPLE OF SLIDES TO ILLUSTRATE THAT. THIS IS A SLIDE THAT WE SHOW, UH, TO YOU BEFORE ON OUR SALES TAX REVENUE. YOU CAN SEE ON THE DARK GREEN THAT IS THE ADOPTED BUDGET FOR THE FIRST, UH, FIVE MONTHS OF THE FISCAL YEAR. UH, THE AQUA COLOR REPRESENTS ACTUALS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED, AND THEN WE SEE A SHARP DECLINE IN, IN THE MONTH OF MARCH. AND THAT DECLINE CONTINUES NOT ONLY FOR ONE MONTH, BUT THE, FOR THE SIX MONTHS OF THE, OF THE FISCAL YEAR. SO THE $200 MILLION THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE, WE ARE SEEING THAT IMPACT ON THE CITY BUDGET IN ONLY SIX MONTHS OF OUR, OF OUR FISCAL YEAR, WHICH IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN THE GREAT RECESSION. UM, THAT POSES A CHALLENGE BECAUSE THERE'S STILL A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY AS WE CONTINUE TO, UH, REFINE THOSE PROJECTIONS. AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT THAT TREND WILL CONTINUE INTO FISCAL YEAR 2021. HERE'S OUR HOTEL CAPACITY TAX, UH, WHICH YOU CAN SEE THERE'S A SHARPER DECREASE IN REVENUE BEGINNING IN MARCH. UM, WE ARE PROJECTING THAT PROBABLY BY JUNE, JULY WE'LL START TO SEE SOME REVENUE, UM, COMING IN. UM, HOWEVER, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOT ONLY THROUGH THE END OF THE, THIS FISCAL YEAR, BUT THROUGH 2021 IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT, WHEN WE HAD THE GRAY RECESSION, THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX WAS A REVENUE THAT TOOK THE LONGEST TO RECOVER TO THE LEVELS THAT WE WERE BEFORE 2008. IT TOOK US FIVE YEARS TO RECOVER. THE AIRPORT REVENUES WERE THE QUICKEST TO RECOVER WITHIN A COUPLE OF YEARS. OUR REVENUES WERE, UM, UH, TO THE LEVEL THAT THEY WERE BEFORE THE, THE RECESSION. WE DON'T KNOW HOW REVENUES ARE GONNA BEHAVE UNDER THE CURRENT CONDITIONS, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL CONTINUE TO EXAMINE AND CONTINUE TO UPDATE THE COUNCIL. SO, UH, TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE SPENT ON [01:00:01] THIS RESPONSE, AS I MENTIONED, WE STARTED, UH, WORKING WITH THIS EVENT, OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT, OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, PRIMARILY WORKING SINCE THE END OF JANUARY. UH, WE HAVE NOW, UH, MANY OTHER DEPARTMENTS ENGAGED IN THE RESPONSE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CODE COMPLIANCE, UH, PARKING ENFORCEMENT, OUR LIBRARIANS, UH, PRE-K FOUR S SA, AND OTHER EMPLOYEES THAT ARE PARTICIPATING IN THIS EFFORT. SO, UM, SO FAR WE HAVE SPENT 16 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, UH, 7.7 MILLION IN PERSONNEL COSTS, AND ROUGHLY ABOUT $8.8 MILLION IN SUPPLIES AND CONTRACTUAL SERVICES AS WELL. SO THE NEXT, UH, PIECE OF MY PRESENTATION, I WANNA TALK ABOUT FEDERAL FUNDS. AS WE HAVE BRIEFED THE COUNCIL, WE HAVE RECEIVED, UH, SEVERAL GRANTS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS PART OF THEIR STIMULUS, UM, UH, PACKET. UH, AND I'M GONNA START WITH THE LARGEST, UH, GRANT THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HAS RECEIVED, WHICH IS A CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND, OR THE C R F. SO, TO GIVE YOU SOME CONTEXT, UH, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PASSED $150 BILLION FOR CITIES, UH, WITH POPULATION OF 500,000 OR MORE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. UM, THAT $150 BILLION WAS DISTRIBUTED, UM, WITHIN THE PAST WEEK AND A HALF, AND THOSE DOLLARS CAME DIRECTLY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT. SO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HAS RECEIVED $270 MILLION FROM THE 100, 150 BILLION ALLOCATION OVER THE PAST WEEK AND A HALF, UM, BANGOR SOUTH CARLOS CONTRARES, A CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH THE US TREASURY AND OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO DETERMINE THE ELIGIBILITY OF USES FOR THIS FUND. THE GUIDANCE THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE US TREASURY INITIALLY WAS LIMITED, AND SOME OF THE AREAS WERE VERY BROAD. UM, THIS GRANT, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER GRANT THAT IS PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WILL BE SUBJECT TO AUDIT LATER. AND, UH, THOSE AUDITS, UH, WE HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH, WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T PUT THE CITY IN A LIABILITY POSITION, BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY SPENDING THIS DOLLARS, UH, IN A MANNER THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE FEDERAL GUIDELINES. SO ON THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, YOU, YOU'LL SEE PERHAPS ON, ON YOUR, ON YOUR IPADS THAT WE HAVE THE THREE MAIN CRITERIA THAT IS COMING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND HOW WE CAN USE, UH, THIS FUNDS. SO THIS FUNDS, UH, ARE SUPPOSED TO BE USED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE RESPONSE TO C OVID 19, UH, FOR EXPENSES THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE MOST RECENT BUDGET OWE THE MUNICIPALITY. SO THAT WILL BE OUR FISCAL YEAR 2020 BUDGET. AND ALSO THIS, UH, DOLLARS HAVE TO BE SPENT, UH, FOR THE PERIOD OF MARCH ONE TO DECEMBER 30TH, 2020. SO THOSE ARE THE THREE, UH, GUIDING POINTS, IF YOU WILL, THE, THE, THE UMBRELLA BY WHICH WE ARE OPERATING. NOW, WE, UM, WORK AGAIN WITH THE US TREASURY AND ASK SEVERAL QUESTIONS ACROSS WITH US, UH, OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AND, UH, WITH THE GUIDANCE THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED. UH, WE ARE FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PRESENTATION ON SLIDE 11, UM, PROVIDING YOU WITH THE, THE USES OF, OF THE FUNDS. WE DIVIDED THEM IN TWO CATEGORIES, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AND ALSO HOW WE CAN ASSIST THE COMMUNITY IN THE RECOVERY PHASE. AS I MENTIONED, ONE OF OUR, UM, PILLARS ON OUR FRAMEWORK FOR THE, FOR THIS BUDGET CYCLE IS THE ASSISTANCE TO THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THIS RECOVERY PROCESS. SO IN TERMS OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO RESPONSE, ELIGIBLE COSTS INCLUDE OUR PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH PERSONNEL. THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE SUBSTANTIALLY DEDICATED TO THE RESPONSE, THE PAYROLL EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE EMPLOYEES IS REIMBURSABLE PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES THAT WE HAVE PURCHASED, UH, IS ALSO ELIGIBLE FOR REIMBURSEMENT, UH, TESTING AND CONTACT TRACING, UH, QUARANTINE AND ISOLATION FACILITIES. UH, EMERGENCY RECOVERY PLANNING. THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA ALLOW US TO, UM, PLAN FOR HOW WE RECOVER FROM THIS DISASTER, AND THAT THAT'S AN ELIGIBLE EXPENSE AS WELL AS FOOD DELIVERY TO SENIORS AND OTHER, UH, VULNERABLE POPULATION. SO THAT IS THE SUMMARY OF HOW THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, UH, CAN GET REIMBURSED FOR THE EXPENSES THAT WE HAVE INCURRED. AND AS I MENTIONED, WE ARE GONNA BE DEVELOPING OUR ESTIMATED COSTS BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF DECEMBER AND PRESENT THAT TO YOU. WHEN WE, UM, UH, PRESENT THE MIDYEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENT. AS OF NOW, WE'RE THINKING THAT OVER [01:05:01] $100 MILLION OF THE 270 MILLION COULD BE ALLOCATED TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO RESPONSE. WE ANTICIPATE THAT NUMBER TO BE HIGHER. WE GOT, UH, REVISED, UM, GUIDANCE FROM, UH, THE US TREASURY ABOUT TWO DAYS AGO ON MAY THE FOURTH. UM, SO WE ARE REVIEWING ALL OF OUR EXPENSES AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO RECOVER ADDITIONAL COSTS, SPECIFICALLY IN THE PUBLIC SAFETY AREA AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL. IN TERMS OF THE ELIGIBLE USES FOR OUR COMMUNITY, UH, THIS IS A SUMMARY, JUST, UH, GROUP AND CATEGORIES. UM, HOUSING SECURITY IS AN ELIGIBLE EXPENSE, RENTAL ASSISTANCE, UH, HOMELESS HOUSING. I WILL TELL YOU THAT IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH OTHER CITIES, UTILITY ASSISTANCE CAME UP AS A QUESTION BECAUSE WE ARE OWNERS OF THE UTILITY. WE HAVE SUBMITTED A QUESTION TO THE TREASURY, UH, TO DETERMINE IF WE CAN USE THESE FUNDS. THEY HAVE BEEN VERY CLEAR THAT WE CANNOT USE THE CARESS ACT FUND TO RECOVER FOR ANY REVENUE LOSSES. SO, UM, SINCE WE OWN THE UTILITY, WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S AN ELIGIBLE EXPENSE. DIGITAL DIVIDE IS AN AREA THAT IS ALSO, UM, ALLOWABLE TO BE USED UNDER THIS CATEGORY. IMPROVEMENTS TO, UH, FACILITATE DISTANCE LEARNING, SPECIFICALLY SUPPORT TO SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH, UM, GRANTS, SPECIFICALLY BUSINESSES THAT WERE IMPACTED BY C OVID 19. UH, AND THEY HAD INTERRUPTION IN THEIR DAY-TO-DAY ACTIVITIES, UH, WORK. SO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT IS ANOTHER AREA THAT IS ELIGIBLE FOR REIMBURSEMENT AND PLANNING FOR AND SUPPORTING COMMUNITY COMMUNITY RESILIENCY. AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU'LL SEE LATER IN THE PRESENTATION, THAT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON, UH, UTILIZING THESE FUNDS. NOW, THERE ARE OTHER FEDERAL GRANTS THAT THE CITY HAS RECEIVED. UH, FOR EXAMPLE, THE AIRPORT GRANT OF 39.7 MILLION. WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF SUBMITTING THAT APPLICATION. WE HAVE BEEN APPROVED, UH, FOR THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS IN HEALTH GRANTS TO OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT. UM, OTHER HOUSING RELATED GRANTS LIKE C D B G E S G AND HAA $11.9 MILLION. AND WE HAVE PUT THOSE DOLLARS INTO PRODUCTION WITH OUR EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, UH, AND ALSO OUR ASSISTANCE FOR A, UM, FACILITY THAT WE CAN HOUSE VULNERABLE, HOMELESS, UH, INDIVIDUALS. UH, WE ARE ALSO, YOU'RE GONNA SEE ON THE AGENDA NEXT WEEK, A $2.7 MILLION GRANT FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SPECIFICALLY FOR PERSONNEL COST AND EQUIPMENT. UM, WE'RE ALSO HAVE AVAILABLE TO THE CITY REIMBURSEMENT THROUGH, UM, FEMA, WHICH IS A DISASTER RELIEF FUND. SO THOSE ARE KNOWN, UH, FUNDING, UH, SOURCES THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL, UM, I'M SORRY, FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THERE ARE OTHER GRANTS THAT WE KNOW ARE COMING. HOWEVER, WE DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC DOLLAR AMOUNTS, UH, IN A SPECIFIC TIMEFRAME. BUT WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT THERE WILL BE MORE, UM, C D B G OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS COMING TO SAN ANTONIO HEAD START, UH, UH, FUNDS, COMMUNITY SERVICE BLOCK GRANT, UH, CHILDCARE AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS AS WELL, AND ASSISTANCE TO OUR FIREFIGHTERS. AND AS A MATTER OF FACT, YOU'LL SEE AN ITEM ON THE AGENDA NEXT WEEK, UH, FOR A GRANT THAT THE FIRE, UH, DEPARTMENT WAS ABLE TO, UH, TO GET FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SO GOING BACK TO THE C R F OR THE CORONAVIRUS RELIEF, UH, FUND, UH, THIS IS A $270 MILLION, UH, GRANT THAT, THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED. UH, WHAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING IN ORDER TO, UM, LOOK AT THE COMMUNITY SIDE OF, OF THIS, OF THIS ALLOCATION. UM, ONE, WE PLAN TO USE, UH, A PORTION OF THE TWO 70 FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO RESPONSE. THAT, AGAIN, IS OUR, UH, FIRE AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS, OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT, AND ALL THE EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE BEEN DEDICATED AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE DEDICATED TO THE RESPONSE, AS WELL AS OUR PLAN FOR TESTING AND CONTACT TRACING. DR. EMRICH WILL BE PRESENTING THAT PLAN TO THE CITY COUNCIL NEXT TUESDAY, AND WE'LL BE USING A PORTION OF THIS FUNDS TO PAY FOR, FOR THAT PLAN. AND THEN THE CITY RECOVERY, WHICH IS NOT ONLY THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, BUT ALSO OUR COMMUNITY. AND THEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMUNITY RESILIENCY, UH, PLAN. SO WHAT WE'RE THINKING IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY RESILIENCY, VERY IMPORTANT. WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE IMPACTFUL. WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, ARE TO BETTER PREPARE OUR COMMUNITY, UH, FOR THE FUTURE. OUR GOAL IS TO BE STRONGER THAN WHERE WE WERE BEFORE THIS PANDEMIC, UH, STARTED. WE ALSO WANNA LEAD WITH EQUITY. WE UNDERSTAND [01:10:01] THAT THIS PANDEMIC HAS IMPACTED INDIVIDUALS ACROSS OUR CITY IN DIFFERENT WAYS, AND WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THOSE DIFFERENCES AND BE ABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT. AND ALSO VERY IMPORTANT. OUR RESILIENCY PLAN NEEDS TO BE TIMELY. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S SOME ACTIONS THAT WE CAN TAKE IMMEDIATELY SHORT TERM, AND THERE ARE OTHER ACTIONS THAT ARE GONNA TAKE SOME TIME. SO THAT'S GONNA BE SOME LONG-TERM ACTIONS. UM, WE, UH, WOULD LIKE TO USE A PORTION OF THE C R F FOR SOME OF THE SHORT TERM ACTIONS, SINCE AGAIN, WE MUST SPEND THE DOLLARS BY DECEMBER 30TH, 2020 AND UTILIZE SOME OF THOSE OTHER FEDERAL GRANTS THAT WE KNOW ARE COMING IN FOR SOME OF THE LONG TERM, UM, ACTIONS THAT MAY COME UP OUT OF THIS, UH, COMMUNITY RESILIENCY PLAN. SO I RECOMMENDED TIMELINE THIS MORNING, UM, ON MAY 14, WHICH IS, UH, NEXT TUESDAY. UH, DR. EMRICH WILL PRE, UH, PRESENT A HEALTH IMPLEMENTATION PLAN THAT WILL INCLUDE, INCLUDE ADDITIONAL TESTING AND CONTACT TRACING, UH, CITY COUNCIL THAT MADE YOUR BUDGET REVIEW. AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO TELL YOU WHAT IS THE COST OF THE CITY RESPONSE THAT WE CAN CHARGE TO THE 270 EMAIL HUNDRED AND $70 MILLION. AND THEN ON JUNE THE THIRD, THAT WOULD BE OUR, OUR, UH, TIMELINE TO PRESENT TO THIS COUNCIL A, UH, COMMUNITY, UH, RESILIENCY, UH, PLAN. SO THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION, AND I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO THE CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MARIA. SO, UH, A COUPLE OF, UM, BIG POINTS I WANTED TO EMPHASIZE. UM, THERE, THERE HAS BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT POTENTIAL FUTURE FEDERAL ALLOCATIONS. UH, SO FACTORS THAT, UH, MARIA JUST TALKED ABOUT COULD CHANGE. OUR RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE KEEP MOVING FORWARD WITH WHAT WE KNOW, UH, FOR SURE, AND, UH, AND NOT WAIT FOR ANY POTENTIALS. WE NEED TO START MOVING FORWARD TO PREPARE FOR FISCAL YEAR 21 AND, AND MANY OF THE ISSUES THAT MARIA TALKED ABOUT. UM, SECONDLY, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, I THINK WE ALL RECOGNIZE IS THAT THE PRIORITY ISSUES THAT, THAT THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL HAVE HAD, THAT THIS CITY HAS HAD, UM, WILL BE THERE, UH, IN THE FUTURE. AND I'M, AND I'M TALKING ABOUT, UH, ISSUES SUCH AS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OR, OR MENTAL HEALTH. UM, UH, COUNCILMAN POLI AND I TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST NIGHT ON HIS SHOW. MANY OF THE PRIORITIES THAT WE HAD BEFORE WILL EXIST IN THE FUTURE. AND, AND, AND WE HAVE A DUTY TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE THERE AS A CITY, UH, AND FINANCIALLY SOUND TO HELP AND SERVE AND CON CONTINUE TO HELP AND SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. UM, THIS ORGANIZATION AND PAST COUNCILS HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH, UH, PAST RECESSIONS OR NINE 11, UM, AND HAVE ALL ALWAYS DEMONSTRATED THE ABILITY TO BE THOUGHTFUL AND FOCUSED ON WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THROUGH A RECOVERY PROCESS. ALL OF THOSE EXAMPLES PALE IN COMPARISON, UH, WITH WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH RIGHT NOW. AND, UM, I WANT, UH, THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL TO KNOW THAT THE STAFF IS PREPARED, UH, TO FOCUS ON THOSE FOUR ISSUES THAT, UH, BOTH MARIA AND I TALKED ABOUT, OUR, OUR RESPONSE AND OUR EXPENSES, BOTH NOW AND IN THE FUTURE, ALIGNING OURSELVES IN, IN WITH OUR NEW FISCAL REALITIES IN 21, UH, BASIC SERVICES AND, UH, AND HELPING THE COMMUNITY, UM, RECOVER. LASTLY, THE ONLY THING I'LL SAY IS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THINKING THROUGH, UM, OUR OWN STRATEGIC, UH, OBJECTIVES, UH, AS AN ORGANIZATION, I THINK, UM, UM, RECOVERY, FINANCIALLY, REBUILDING OPERATIONALLY, UH, AND RETHINKING MARIA TALKED ABOUT THIS. RETHINKING SERVICE DELIVERY IS GONNA BE KEY. AND COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ AND I TALKED ABOUT, UM, ONE OF OUR DEPARTMENTS THAT SHE HAPPENED TO RUN INTO HOW THEY'RE RETHINKING OPERATIONS. AND, UM, WE'RE ALL GONNA NEED TO BE DOING THAT. AND, UH, I'M CONFIDENT THAT WE HAVE A GREAT TEAM. SO WITH THAT, I'M GONNA PASS IT OVER TO LORI TO DO PART TWO. THANK YOU, DAVID. JUST MAKE SURE YOU DON'T GET ON THAT ONE. OKAY? OKAY. OKAY. GOOD MORNING. MY PRESENTATION THIS MORNING IS GONNA PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE EVICTION PROCESS. I'M GOING TO ALSO BRIEFLY DISCUSS THE TENANT PROTECTIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN PLACE, TALK ABOUT THE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH THAT THE HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND OUR PARTNERS ARE PERFORMING. AND THEN FINALLY PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF OUR NOTICE OF TENANT'S RIGHTS THAT STAFF IS PROPOSING. SO BRIEFLY, A RECAP ON THE EVICTION PROCESS. A LANDLORD MAY EVICT A TENANT FOR THREE REASONS, FAILURE TO PAY RENT, VIOLATION OF LEASE TERMS, OR ILLEGAL ACTIVITY, OR UNSAFE BEHAVIOR. TO BE ABLE TO INITIATE THE EVICTION PROCESS, THEY MUST FILE OR POST A THREE DAY NOTICE [01:15:01] TO VACATE OR QUIT FOR THE TENANT. SO THEY MUST GO AHEAD AND INITIATE THAT PROCESS THROUGH THE NOTICE TO VACATE. NOW, FOR PROPERTIES THAT RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDING, INSTEAD OF A THREE DAY NOTICE, THAT IS A 30 DAY NOTICE, BUT TEXAS LAW REQUIRES A THREE DAY NOTICE, AND THEN THEY HAVE 21 DAYS TO FILE A SUIT IN JP COURT, THERE IS A HEARING IN JP COURT, THE TENANT HAS FIVE DAYS TO APPEAL, AND THEN THERE IS A WRIT OF PO POSSESSION THAT IS ISSUED. NOW, WE ALREADY HAVE SEVERAL PROTECTIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN PLACE DUE TO C OVID 19, AND ALSO THE TEXAS PROPERTY CODE PROVIDES PEN, UM, PROTECTIONS BOTH PRE COVID, UM, AS WELL. SO FIRST, THE CARES ACT. THE CARES ACT HAS PROVIDED A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON EVICTION FILINGS FOR 120 DAYS. THAT 120 DAYS STARTED ON MARCH 27TH, AND IT'LL END ON JULY 24TH. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT A PROPERTY OWNER IN A CARES ACT PROPERTY, WHICH IS ANY PROPERTY THAT EITHER HAS HOUSING TAX CREDITS, HOUSING VOUCHERS, C D B G FUNDING, THEY CANNOT FILE AN EVICTION FOR THAT 120 DAYS, AND THEY CANNOT CHARGE ANY FEES OR PENALTIES OR OTHER CHARGES RELATED TO NONPAYMENT OF RENT. FURTHERMORE, IF A LANDLORD WANTS TO INITIATE THE EVICTION PROCESS FIRST, THEY CAN'T DO IT UNTIL AFTER JULY 24TH, AND THEN THEY HAVE TO NOTICE THAT 30 DAY NOTICE. SO FOR ANY PROPERTY THAT HAS FEDERAL FUNDING, THEY HAVE TO DO A 30 DAY NOTICE TO VACATE. NOW, IN SAN ANTONIO, WE HAVE ABOUT 260,000 RENTAL PROPERTIES. RENTAL UNITS, 50% OF THOSE ARE ABOUT 130,000 ARE COVERED UNDER THE CARES ACT. OTHER PROTECTIONS IN PLACE ARE THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT. THEY HAVE PLACED A MORATORIUM ON EVICTION PROCEEDINGS, AND THAT'S THROUGH MAY, MAY 18TH RIGHT NOW. AND THEN BEXAR COUNTY, JP COURTS ARE CLOSED THROUGH JUNE ONE, SO YOU CAN STILL DO FILINGS, BUT THEY WILL NOT BE HEARD UNTIL AT LEAST JUNE ONE. AND THEN THE TEXAS PROPERTY CODE PRE COVID, I, IT ALWAYS PROHIBITED LANDLORDS FROM ILLEGALLY DENYING ACCESS TO TENANTS THROUGH LOCKOUTS AND PROHIBITS THEM FROM DISCONNECTING UTILITIES FROM NONPAYMENT OF RENT. SO WE DO HAVE SOME PROTECTIONS IN PLACE FOR TENANTS ALREADY, BOTH DURING THE COVID CRISIS AND PRE COVID. SO WHAT ARE WE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR TENANTS ARE AWARE OF THOSE RESOURCES? SO, ONE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A PRIORITY. SO WE ALREADY HAD AN OFFICE THAT WAS READY TO RESPOND TO THE COVID PANDEMIC BECAUSE IT WAS A PRIORITY. WE HAVE OUR FAIR HOUSING COUNSELING OFFICE. WE HAVE A WEBSITE AND A HOTLINE THAT PEOPLE CAN CALL WHO NEED HOUSING ASSISTANCE. THEY CAN CALL AND GET COUNSELING FOR EVICTIONS, REPAIRS, SECURITY DEPOSITS, ANY ISSUES THAT THEY MIGHT BE HAVING WITH A LANDLORD. AND THAT OFFICE EXISTS TODAY. WE ALSO HAVE A RIGHT TO COUNSEL PROGRAM THAT WAS FUNDED AS PART OF THE FISCAL YEAR 20 BUDGET. AND WE HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TEXAS RIO GRANDE LEGAL AID, AND THEY PROVIDE US LEGAL SERVICES FOR TENANTS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING EVICTIONS AND HAVE OTHER CONCERNS WITH THEIR LANDLORDS. WE HAVE THE C OVID 19 EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM THAT WAS ADOPTED BY COUNCIL ON AUGUST 23RD. BUT THAT PROGRAM IS REALLY A MODIFICATION OF THE RISK MITIGATION FUND THAT WAS ADOPTED BY COUNCIL ON OCTOBER OF 2018. BEXAR COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS A RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS WELL, AND THAT WAS ADOPTED ON MAY 5TH. AND THEN WE HAVE OUR NONPROFIT COMMUNITY THAT IS PROVIDING A LOT OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE, EITHER IT'S CATHOLIC CHARITIES, SAM OR ST. VINCENT DEPAUL, AND THERE ARE OTHERS WHO PROVIDE RESOURCES. SO WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT THERE ARE PLACES FOR OUR TENANTS TO GO IF THEY HAVE QUESTIONS. NOW, IN RESPONSE TO C OVID 19, AND IN RESPONSE TO THE CARES ACT, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT TENANTS, LANDLORDS, AND CITY STAFF HAD A RESOURCE TO, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PROPERTIES WERE COVERED BY THE CARES ACT. SO WE HAVE CREATED AN INTERACTIVE MAP THAT IS ON OUR WEBSITE. A LANDLORD, A TENANT OR CITY STAFF, CAN GO ON THIS TYPE IN AN ADDRESS TO SEE IF THE PROPERTY THAT'S IN QUESTION IS COVERED BY THE CARESS ACT. THIS IS A GREAT MAP THAT IS BEING USED BY CITY STAFF AS WE PROCESS OUR EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE APPLICATIONS BECAUSE YOU CANNOT CHARGE PENALTIES FOR THESE PROPERTIES. AND SO, AS WE ARE PROCESSING PAYMENTS, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT PAYING FOR FEES OR PENALTIES THAT HAVE BEEN CHARGED BY THE LANDLORD IF IT IS PROTECTED UNDER THE CARESS ACT. WE ALSO WANT TENANTS TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THEY LIVE IN A PROPERTY THAT'S PROTECTED BY THE CARES ACT. AND THEN ALSO LANDLORDS, [01:20:01] THEY MAY NOT KNOW THAT THEIR PROPERTY HAS HOUSING VOUCHERS IN IT. MOST LIKELY THEY DO. BUT JUST IN CASE CASE, WE HAVE THIS RESOURCE. AND SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WENT LIVE THIS WEEK. WE ALSO SENT OUT A TENANT PROTECTIONS LETTER THAT WAS SENT OUT THIS WEEK BY CITY MANAGER ERIC WALSH, AND COUNTY MANAGER DAVID SMITH. WHAT THAT LETTER SAID IS IT PROVIDED AN OVERVIEW OF THE FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL PROTECTIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN PLACE. TALKED ABOUT THE PENALTIES FOR THOSE VIOLATIONS. ALSO RECOGNIZED THAT LANDLORDS AND PROPERTY OWNERS ARE ALSO HURTING AS WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT LANDLORDS HAD RESOURCES AND KNEW WHERE TO SEND TENANTS FOR ASSISTANCE WITH PAYMENTS. SO WE PROVIDED INFORMATION ON THE CITY AND COUNTY RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, AND THEN WE ATTACHED THE HUD FAQS THAT THEY HAD DISTRIBUTED TO ALL OF THEIR CARESS ACT PROPERTIES. NOW, WE ALSO ATTACHED A LINK TO OUR CARESS ACT MAP. SO IF LANDLORDS OR TENANTS HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEIR PROPERTY WAS A CARES ACT PROPERTY, THEY HAD A RESOURCE TO GO TO. WE ARE MAILING THIS LETTER OUT TO ALL THE CARES ACT PROPERTY OWNERS, THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION DATABASE, PROPERTY OWNERS THAT FILED AN EVICTION IN THE LAST ACTUALLY 16 MONTHS. WE WENT THROUGH THE BEXAR COUNTY EVICTION FILINGS AND EXTRACTED ALL THE UNIQUE ADDRESSES OF PROPERTY OWNERS WHO HAD FILED EVICTIONS. THERE'S ABOUT 5,500 OF THOSE. WE'RE SENDING THEM THIS LETTER AS WELL. WE ALSO HAVE AN ABSENTEE LANDLORD DATABASE THAT IS MANAGED BY THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT. THERE'S ABOUT 1100 PROPERTIES ON THAT DATABASE. AND THEN WE'RE WORKING WITH BCA TO HELP US IDENTIFY THE SMALL LANDLORD INVENTORY, SO THOSE LANDLORDS THAT RENT OUT SINGLE FAMILY HOMES OR UNITS THAT ARE LESS THAN FIVE IN A COMPLEX. SO WE ARE DOING A VERY COMPREHENSIVE OUTREACH OF THIS LETTER THROUGH SEVERAL MEANS. WE ALSO ARE HAVING AN EMAIL TO THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION MEMBERS AND THE BOARD OF REALTORS, AND THERE'LL ALSO BE A PRESS RELEASE. SO WE WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW SPECIFICALLY TENANTS, THESE ARE THE PROTECTIONS IN PLACE, THESE ARE THE PENALTIES. BUT IF YOU HAVE A TENANT THAT NEEDS ASSISTANCE WITH PAYMENT, PLEASE REFER THEM TO THIS WEBSITE. UM, WE'RE PLEASE CALL THIS NUMBER. AND WE HAVE SEVERAL, UM, TENANTS AND LANDLORDS WHO ARE WORKING TOGETHER. AND ACTUALLY WE HAVE SEVERAL LANDLORDS WHO ARE FILING PAYMENTS, I MEAN, SORRY, FILING APPLICATIONS FOR THEIR TENANTS. NOW WE HAVE TARGETED OUTREACH SPECIFICALLY FOR TENANTS. SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT TENANTS UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS. SO WE ARE DOING FLYERS TO PROPERTIES THAT ARE FREQUENTLY THE SUBJECT OF AN EVICTION FILING. SO WE'VE IDENTIFIED 90 PROPERTIES, AND THESE PROPERTIES WERE IDENTIFIED THROUGH OUR FOR EVERY HOME INITIATIVE, UM, THAT HELPED IDENTIFY THOSE LANDLORDS AND PROPERTIES THAT FREQUENTLY UTILIZED THE EVICTION PROCESS. SO, 90 PROPERTIES REPRESENTING ABOUT 13,000 UNITS. WE ARE HAVING PEOPLE HAND DELIVER FLYERS, BOTH IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH THAT TALK ABOUT THE TENANT'S RIGHTS, AND ALSO TALK ABOUT THE RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO HELP THEM. WE ALSO ARE WORKING WITH OUR TEXAS RIGHT TO COUNCIL GROUP, THE T R L A, UM, THE ON A RIGHT TO COUNCIL, UM, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS TRAINING TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE PROVIDING TRAINING TO TENANTS IN BUILDINGS THAT ARE OFTEN SUBJECT OF EVICTION FILINGS. UM, ALMO CLUB APARTMENTS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS. WE ARE DOING A TENANTS TRAINING ON MAY 20TH. WE ALSO HAVE THE COMMUNITY HEALTH TEAM WHO IS DISTRIBUTING FLYERS IN AREAS WITH LOW EQUITY SCORES AS THEY TALK ABOUT C O AND TESTING. AND THEN WE HAVE SOME GREAT PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS, COPS, METRO SA STAND, OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS, BOTH FOR-PROFIT AND NON-PROFIT AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES. WE HAVE DONE A TRAINING SESSION WITH COPS METRO, AND THEY ARE CURRENTLY IN SEVEN CHURCHES ACROSS THE CITY, AND THEY ARE TAKING INTAKE AND HELPING PEOPLE APPLY FOR A HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. THE SAME WITH SA STANDS WE ARE, WE ARE STAFFING RESOURCE CENTERS FOR PEOPLE TO GO TO, TO GET HELP WITH APPLYING FOR RENTAL ASSISTANCE. OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS, BOTH FOR-PROFIT AND NON-PROFIT. THEY'RE HELPING US REVIEW APPLICATIONS. WE HAVE 32, UM, STAFF FROM OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS HELPING US REVIEW APPLICATIONS. AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES IS TAKING INTAKE AND REFERRING PEOPLE TO OUR PROGRAM. IT IS ALL HANDS ON DECK. WE ARE A COORDINATED SYSTEM, AND WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE GETTING HELP TO THE TENANTS THAT NEED THE HELP. AND IT'S ONLY THROUGH THESE STRONG PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT. NOW, TARGETED OUTREACH TO TENANTS IS IMPORTANT, BUT TARGETED OUTREACH TO LANDLORDS IS IMPORTANT AS WELL. SO, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, WE DID SEND THAT LETTER OUT, AND SOME LANDLORDS MAY GET THAT LETTER FOUR TIMES. IF, IF THEY'RE A MEMBER OF DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, THEY MAY GET A LETTER BECAUSE THEY'RE ON THE, UM, DATABASE [01:25:01] THAT D S D MANAGES. BUT THAT'S OKAY. THE MORE THE BETTER. BUT WE ALSO ARE PROVIDING OUTREACH TO THOSE LANDLORDS THAT USE THE EVICTION PROCESS AS A TOOL, FREQUENTLY, WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE AWARE OF THESE PROTECTIONS. WE ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY UNDERSTAND, WE KNOW YOU NEED TO GET PAID, AND IF, IF YOU HAVE TENANTS THAT NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE REFER THEM TO THIS PROGRAM AND YOU CAN GO ONLINE AND HELP THEM APPLY FOR THIS APPLICATION, APPLY FOR THIS ASSISTANCE AS WELL. AND ONCE AGAIN, OUR PARTNERSHIP ORGANIZATIONS ARE HELPING US TARGET THESE LANDLORDS AND PROPERTY OWNERS, THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION, SABOR REAL ESTATE COUNCIL, AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY MANAGERS. WE ARE WORKING WITH THOSE WHO HAVE MEMBERS WHO MIGHT BE PROPERTY MANAGERS OR LANDLORDS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE GETTING THE EDUCATION THAT THEY NEED SO THEY ARE AWARE OF THE PROTECTIONS AND THE RESOURCES IN PLACE. I REALLY WANTED TO MENTION OUR STAKEHOLDER OUTREACH, AND SPECIFICALLY TWO GROUPS, THE RISK MITIGATION FUND STAKEHOLDER GROUP, AND THE RIGHT TO COUNCIL STAKEHOLDER GROUP. THE RISK FUND STAKEHOLDER GROUP HAS MEMBERS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED EVICTIONS WHO HAVE BEEN HOMELESS. AND THIS GROUP WAS THE GROUP THAT HELPED US CREATE OUR RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM THAT WAS ADOPTED IN OCTOBER OF 2018. AND BECAUSE OF THEIR WORK, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WAS ABLE TO RESPOND IMMEDIATELY WITH ASSISTANCE. AND THEY CONTINUE TO BE A SOUNDING BOARD AND A RESOURCE FOR US. AND THEY CONTINUE TO GIVE US ADVICE ON OUTREACH AS WE GO THROUGH THIS RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND THESE GROWING PAINS THAT WE'RE HAVING THE RIGHT TO COUNCIL STAKEHOLDER GROUP, THE SAME THING. THIS IS A GROUP OF SEVERAL MEMBERS THAT REPRESENT DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. AND BECAUSE OF THEIR EFFORTS WHEN ALMOST CLUB HAPPENED, WE HAD A RIGHT TO COUNCIL PROGRAM THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO ACCESS TO GIVE THEM ASSISTANCE. AND I JUST WANT TO THANK THOSE TWO STAKEHOLDER GROUPS THAT WERE ABLE TO HELP US STAND UP THOSE PROGRAMS SO WE COULD REACT IMMEDIATELY. NOW, WE HAVE BEEN ASKED, WHAT OTHER PROTECTIONS CAN WE PROVIDE? WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO? WE HAVE HEARD CONCERNS. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE MOR MORATORIUM ARE LIFTED? UM, TENANTS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THEIR RIGHTS. WE NEED TO TARGET THE TENANTS THAT ARE IN CRISIS AND NEED HELP IMMEDIATELY. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND WORK WITH THOSE TENANTS THAT NEED TO BE ABLE TO CATCH UP ON RENT. THERE NEEDS TO BE A REMEDY BEYOND THE EMERGENCY PERIOD, AND THERE NEEDS TO BE A PROCESS THAT THE LAY PERSON CAN UNDERSTAND AND THERE NEEDS TO BE RELIEF IMMEDIATELY. AND SO WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP WITH THESE THINGS? AND SO WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING IS A NOTICE OF TENANT'S RIGHTS. WHAT THIS DOES IS IT EMPHASIZES THE NOTICE TO VACATE DOES NOT REQUIRE THAT THE TENANT LEAVE IMMEDIATELY. IT ADDRESSES THE PAYMENT PLAN WITH A LANDLORD. WE ENCOURAGE THE TENANT TO WORK WITH THEIR LANDLORD TO COME UP WITH A PAYMENT PLAN. WE ALSO PROVIDE THEM A RESOURCE. AND WE SAY, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE WITH PAYMENT OF RENT, PLEASE CALL THREE ONE ONE. OR YOU CAN CALL THE GUADALUPE COMMUNITY CENTER, WHICH IS STAFFED BY CATHOLIC CHARITIES BECAUSE WE KNOW NOT EVERYBODY FEELS COMFORTABLE CALLING THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. OOPS. AND THEN IT OUTLINES THE EVICTION PROCESS. THIS IS WHAT THIS MEANS. YOU GET THIS NOTICE TO VACATE, AND THEN THERE HAS TO BE A FILING WITHIN 21 DAYS. AND THEN THERE IS A HEARING, AND WE ALSO PROVIDE THEM A LINK TO WHERE THEY CAN GET SELF-HELP ON WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY'RE GOING THROUGH EVICTION PROCESS. THIS FORM WILL GET IN THE HANDS WHO ARE OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOST VULNERABLE. SO HERE IS THE, THE ACTUAL NOTICE. I'M GONNA GO THROUGH FOUR SLIDES. THIS IS VERBATIM WHAT IS ON THAT NOTICE. I'LL JUST BREEZE THROUGH IT. BUT ONCE AGAIN, IT SAYS, YOU'VE, YOU'VE RECEIVED THIS NOTICE BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO PAY RENT. IF YOU NEED HELP, PLEASE CALL 3 1 1 OR CALL, UM, THE GUADALUPE CULTURAL CENTER, I'M SORRY, THE GUADALUPE COMMUNITY CENTER. AND PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LANDLORD IMMEDIATELY TO TRY TO WORK OUT A PAYMENT PLAN. WE ALSO GO ON TO SAY THAT THE LANDLORD MAY FILE AN EVICTION SUIT OVER THE NEXT 21 DAYS. IN A JP COURT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A HEARING AND HERE IS A SELF-HELP GUIDE TO WALK YOU THROUGH THIS PROCESS. AND THEN FINALLY, IT TALKS ABOUT ENCOURAGE YOU TO WORK WITH YOUR LANDLORD. WE WANT PEOPLE TO WORK TOGETHER BECAUSE THIS IS, THIS IS CYCLICAL. IF A LANDLORD DOES NOT GET PAYMENT, THEY CANNOT MAKE THEIR MORTGAGE PAYMENTS OR SERVICE THAT PROPERTY. SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS WORKING TOGETHER AND WE FEEL THAT THIS TOOL IS PROBABLY THE BEST APPROACH TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE GETTING THE RESOURCES IN THE HANDS OF THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST. AND THEN THIS IS A LINK TO THE SELF-HELP LEGAL INFORMATION PACKET THAT TALKS ABOUT THE EVICTION PROCESS. NOW, THIS NOTICE OF TENANTS RIGHTS, IT'S GONNA BE ENACTED THROUGH ORDINANCE. THAT'S WHAT STAFF IS PROPOSING. [01:30:01] IT IS BEYOND THE EMERGENCY PERIOD. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES HAS BEEN TRYING TO DO FOR QUITE SOME TIME. WE FEEL THAT THIS IS A GREAT TOOL TO EDUCATE TENANTS WHO ARE THE MOST VULNERABLE, WHO ARE EXPERIENCING AN EVICTION. IT GETS THEM THE RESOURCES IMMEDIATELY SO THEY KNOW WHERE TO CALL IF THEY'RE IN TROUBLE. AND THEN IT APPLIES TO ALL LANDLORDS. WE HAVE HEARD COMMENTS THAT THEY WANTED TO APPLY TO THE SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING LANDLORD. AND WE ARE DOING THAT, AND WE ARE WORKING TO IDENTIFY THAT INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION THAT REPRESENTS THEM. SO WE CAN EDUCATE THEM IF AND WHEN THIS GOES THROUGH. AND THEN THERE IS A FINE OF $500 FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS. AND THAT $500 CAN BE OVER SEVERAL DAYS. THERE CAN BE MULTIPLE CITATIONS FOR NON-COMPLIANCE. UM, AND HOW IS IT REPORTED? THE TENANT WILL REPORT FAILURE TO PROVIDE THE NOTICE TO RIGHTS. THEY CAN CAN SUBMIT A COMPLAINT TO THE CITY. IF THE INVESTIGATOR FINDS A LANDLORD FAILED TO PROVIDE THE NOTICE, WE WILL FILE A CASE IN MUNICIPAL COURT. THERE'LL BE AN ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING, AND THEN SUBSEQUENT REPORTS COULD LEAD TO ADDITIONAL VIOLATIONS. THIS IS A CITY VIOLATION BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT TO INTERFERE WITH THE EVICTION PROCESS THAT IS REGULATED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS. NOW, WE DO HAVE STAKEHOLDER INPUT THAT IS ONGOING. SO FOR TENANTS, WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OUR FAIR HOUSING HOTLINE. LISTEN TO WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THOSE TENANTS. UM, WE HAVE EMERGENCY HOUSING APPLICATIONS. WE ARE GETTING A LOT OF GREAT FEEDBACK THROUGH THOSE WHO ARE APPLYING FOR IT, ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES THEY'RE HAVING WITH TENANTS AND ALSO THE SERVICES THEY NEED. UM, WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR HOUSING PROVIDERS, GETTING FEEDBACK FROM THEM BECAUSE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, UM, N R P, THEY ARE HELPING THEIR TENANTS APPLY FOR THIS FUNDING OR THEIR HOMEOWNERS HABITAT HEARS FROM THEIR HOMEOWNERS. THEY JUST BOUGHT THEIR HOME THAT THEY NEED ASSISTANCE. SO THEY'RE HELPING THEM APPLY. AND WE GET THAT FEEDBACK FROM HABITAT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE APPLICATION COULD BE IMPROVED THIS WAY. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HEARING WHEN THEY CALL CITY STAFF. SO CAN YOU HELP US CLARIFY THIS? UM, THE RISK MITIGATION FUND STAKEHOLDER GROUP, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THEM, GET THEIR FEEDBACK AS WELL AS THE RIGHT TO COUNCIL, STAKEHOLDER GROUP, UM, PROPERTY OWNERS AND LANDLORDS WORKING WITH THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION, THE SAN ANTONIO BOARD OF REALTORS, THE REAL ESTATE COUNCIL AND NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REAL ESTATE PROPERTY MANAGERS WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE TARGETING THE LANDLORDS AND PROPERTY OWNERS THAT ARE THE ONES THAT ARE RENTING THESE PROPERTIES TO OUR TENANTS. AND THEN WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITY GROUPS COPS METRO HAS BEEN A GREAT RESOURCE FOR US, AND THEY'VE BEEN GREAT HELP. CATHOLIC CHARITIES HAS BEEN A GREAT PARTNER AND THERE ARE MANY MORE. UM, I JUST DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GO OVER THEM IN MORE DETAIL, BUT WHAT ARE OUR NEXT STEPS? OUTREACH AND EDUCATION. I CANNOT STRESS THAT ENOUGH. WE NEED TO EDUCATE BOTH TENANTS AND THE LANDLORDS. WE NEED MORE STAKEHOLDER INPUT. WE NEED TO HEAR FROM TENANTS WHEN THEY GET THIS NOTICE, WHAT WOULD INTIMIDATE THEM? COULD IT BE IN A DIFFERENT FORMAT? ARE THE THINGS THAT WE COULD SAY BETTER ARE THE THINGS THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND? AND WE'RE GOING THROUGH THAT RIGHT NOW. AND THEN WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THIS NOTICE TO VA A NOTICE OF TENANT'S RIGHTS TO CITY COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION NEXT THURSDAY. AND SO THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION, AND I'M GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO CITY MANAGER, ACTUALLY. CITY ATTORNEY ANDY SEGOVIA. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER THAT WAS ISSUED, UH, MONDAY. AND ALSO TO HIGHLIGHT SOME GUIDANCE THAT WE CONTINUE TO GET FROM THE STATE IN TERMS OF INTERPRETATION OF THEIR STAY AT HOME ORDER. UM, I WAS HOPING TO GET A RESPITE FROM REPORTING ON THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER THIS MEETING, BUT AS I SAID, HE ISSUED A NEW ONE. EXECUTIVE ORDER, 21. UH, THIS MONDAY. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AGAIN, IT MAINTAINS THE SAME FRAMEWORK OF HAVING, UH, NOW THREE BUCKETS, ESSENTIAL SERVICES, NON-ESSENTIAL SERVICES, AND THEN THIS BUCKET OF REOPEN SERVICES THAT WERE, UH, NON-ESSENTIAL SERVICES THAT ARE NOW OPEN. AND HE'S CADENCE THAT OVER, UH, A COUPLE DATES, WHICH I'LL GO OVER. UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO, JUST TO, UH, REMIND THE, UH, COUNCIL, THE, UH, REOPEN SERVICES THAT WERE PART OF THE PREVIOUS, UH, GOVERNOR'S ORDER INCLUDED DIN RESTAURANTS, RETAIL STORES, MOVIE THEATERS, UH, UH, MALLS, ALTHOUGH THEIR FOOD COURTS PLAY AREAS REMAIN CLOSED, MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES. ONE OF THE NEW THINGS THAT THOUGH HAS, THAT HAS COME OUT, UH, SINCE THAT REOPENED SERVICES, AS I SAID, IS FURTHER GUIDANCE, UH, IN TERMS OF WEDDING, UH, VENUES, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, THOSE ARE NOW OPEN INDOOR WEDDINGS THAT, UH, ARE NOT INSIDE A CHURCH CONGREGATION OR HOUSE OF WORSHIP ARE LIMITED TO AN OCCUPANCY LEVEL OF 25%. UH, WEDDING RECEPTIONS THOUGH, [01:35:01] UH, ARE TREATED MORE LIKE RESTAURANTS IN THAT THEY'RE, UH, MUST BE AT A FACILITY WHERE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THERE WOULD BE LIMITED TO 25% OF THE TOTAL LISTED OCCUPANCY. UH, ANOTHER ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE THAT HAS COME OUT SINCE, UH, OUR LAST PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL IS THAT THE GOVERNOR HAS, UH, STATED THAT, UH, FLEA MARKETS ARE, SHOULD BE TREATED AS MALLS. UH, THEREFORE THEY WILL BE OPEN CONSISTENT WITH HIS PREVIOUS ORDER. UM, AND HE ALSO PROVIDED SOME GUIDANCE ON FUNERALS, MEMORIALS, AND BURIALS. THOSE SHOULD FOLLOW THE SAME GUIDANCE THAT HAS BEEN G GIVEN IN TERMS OF HAVING, UH, IN-PERSON, UH, SERVICES AT HOUSES OF WORSHIP. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO THE, UH, WHAT, WHAT HE DID ON MONDAY, I, AS I SAID, WAS HE INCLUDED NOW MORE BUSINESSES IN THE REOPEN SERVICES CATEGORY. THESE BUSINESSES THAT HE, UH, IDENTIFIED WILL BE OPEN STARTING MAY 8TH THIS FRIDAY. UH, THESE ARE COSMETOLOGY SALONS, HAIR SALONS, BARBERSHOPS, UH, NAIL SALONS AND TANNING SALONS. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME, UH, CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY, THEY WILL BE OPEN, UH, IT SHOULD BE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. UH, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ONE PERSON PER CUSTOMER IN TERMS OF PROVIDING THE SERVICES, THOSE WAITING, UH, MUST MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCES. AND THEY'RE REQUIRING SIX FEET OF DISTANCE BETWEEN THE ACTUAL WORKSTATIONS WEARING A MASK BY BOTH THE SERVICE PROVIDER AND THE CUSTOMER IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED UNDER THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER. WITH RESPECT TO SWIMMING POOL, SWIMMING POOLS, INDO INDOOR POOLS MAY OPERATE AT 25% OF THEIR OCCUPANCY. OUTDOOR POOLS MAY OPERATE AT 25% OF NORMAL OPERATING LIMITS AS DETERMINED BY THE POOL OPERATOR. UH, AND THEN LOCAL POOLS IN ORDER. THOSE THAT ARE ACTUALLY OWNED BY THE CITY OR COUNTY MAY OPERATE AS DETERMINED BY THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. OFFICE BUILDINGS. AND THE WAY WE'RE INTERPRETING THIS IS OFFICE BUILDINGS THAT WERE NOT, UH, PART OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES BEFORE. UH, THEY CAN NOW, UH, THE, THE OFFICE BUILDINGS THAT WERE, UH, NON-ESSENTIAL CAN NOW BE OPEN, UH, THE GREATER OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS, OR 25% OF THAT OFFICE WORKFORCE CAPACITY. THE GREATER OF, UH, CAN COME INTO WORK. UH, SOCIAL DISTANCING MUST BE MAINTAINED. HOWEVER, UH, THERE WAS A SPECIAL CATEGORY NOW OPEN FOR NON-ESSENTIAL MANUFACTURING SERVICES. UH, THEY MAY NOW OPERATE AT 25% OF LISTED OCCUPANCY, UH, AND UNDER THE, UH, STATE, UH, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROTOCOLS, THEY MAY, UH, I'M SORRY, THEY MUST INCLUDE STAGGERED SHIFTS AND MAINTAINING OF SOCIAL DISTANCING AS THEY OPEN UP THEIR OPERATIONS GYMS IS A, IS A CATEGORY THAT'LL OPEN ON MAY 18TH, UM, UNDER, AGAIN, CERTAIN CRITERIA THAT THEY NEED TO FOLLOW. UH, LOCKER ROOMS AND SHOWER FACILITIES MUST REMAIN CLOSED. UH, THE LIMIT, THOUGH, ON TERMS OF 25% OF TOTAL OCCUPANCY DOES NOT APPLY TO OUTDOOR CLASSES AS LONG AS SOCIAL DISTANCING MAY BE MAINTAINED. SO IN OTHER WORDS, YOU CAN HAVE A CLASS, LET'S SAY, INVOLVING 30 PEOPLE OUTSIDE, AS LONG AS THOSE 30 PEOPLE MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCING. UH, THERE'S ALSO OTHER PROTOCOLS THAT ARE REQUIRED, INCLUDING DISINFECTING OF EQUIPMENT BETWEEN USES, WEARING OF GLOVES, UM, THAT COVER THE HANDS AND FINGERS WHEN YOU'RE USING EXERCISE EQUIPMENT AND OTHERS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH GUIDELINES. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UH, SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT CAME OUT IN TERMS OF, AGAIN, GUIDANCE IN TERMS OF WHAT THE REOPEN SERVICES CAN OR CAN'T DO IN TERMS OF IDENTIFYING THE 25% CAPACITY, UH, THE STATE HAS BEEN CONSISTENT IN SAYING THAT STAFF MEMBERS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN DETERMINING THE OPERATING LEVELS. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, AS RESTAURANTS TRY TO LOOK AT 25% OF OCCUPANCY, THEY'RE LOOKING AT NOT COUNTING THEIR STAFF AS PART OF THAT 25%. ONE THING I DID FORGET TO MENTION ON RESTAURANTS AS WELL, IS ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE CAME OUT SAYING THAT FOR OUTDOOR, FOR OUTDOOR UH, SEATING AREAS, THE 25% CAPACITY DOES NOT APPLY. BUT WHAT STILL APPLIES IS THE OTHER DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, UM, RECOMMENDATION OR REQUIREMENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT TABLES BE SIX FEET APART, UH, AND THAT, UH, THEY'RE LIMITED TO SIX PEOPLE PER TABLE, UH, ET CETERA. THOSE MUST STILL BE FOLLOWED IN OUTDOOR DINING AREAS. ANOTHER KEY THING THAT CAME OUT OF THE, UH, GOVERNOR'S ORDER, AGAIN, CONSISTENT WITH HIS PREVIOUS ONE, IS THAT, UH, THE USE OF FACE COVERINGS IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, AND THAT BUSINESSES MAY REQUIRE CUSTOMERS, UH, TO HAVE A FACE COVERING BEFORE THEY ENTER THEIR PREMISES. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. CLOSED BUSINESSES. UH, UH, THE GOVERNOR DID, UH, AGAIN, HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE BUSINESSES THAT REMAIN [01:40:01] CLOSED. HE PARTICULARLY, UH, FOCUSED ON BARS, UH, SAYING THAT, UH, THEY'RE DILIGENTLY AT WORK, UH, AT THE STATE LEVEL. UH, TRYING TO COME UP WITH THE APPROPRIATE GUIDELINES IN TERMS OF REOPENING BARS PRETTY SOON. UM, UH, AND BOWLING ALLEYS, UH, INTERACTIVE, UH, UH, VIDEO ARCADES, AMUSEMENT PARKS, THOSE STILL REMAIN CLOSED NOW. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THERE WAS MORE, UH, GUIDANCE ALSO PUT OUT ON MONDAY WITH RESPECT TO GRADUATION CEREMONIES. I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, SCHOOLS THAT ARE, ARE STRUGGLING AS TO HOW TO PROVIDE A MEANINGFUL GRADUATION CEREMONY, UH, FOR, FOR THEIR CANDIDATES. UM, AND SO THE GOVERNOR PUT OUT SOME GUIDANCE ON THAT. AGAIN, VIRTUAL CEREMONIES ARE ABSOLUTELY ALLOWED, UH, WHERE THEY TAKE PLACE ENTIRELY ONLINE. UH, THEY ALSO THOUGH, LOOKING AT HYBRID CEREMONIES WHERE YOU COMPILE VIDEOS OF INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS BEING RECOGNIZED, AND THEN YOU CAN PUT ALL THAT TOGETHER AND HAVE A, A, A, LIKE A HYBRID CEREMONY OR VEHICLE CEREMONIES WHERE THE GRADUATES DRIVE UP WITH THEIR FAMILIES. UH, THOSE CAN ALSO BE CONSIDERED. UH, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, AFTER JUNE 1ST ON OR AFTER JUNE 1ST, UH, SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS MAY HAVE OUTDOOR CEREMONIES AS LONG AS THE APPROPRIATE SOCIAL DISTANCING, UH, MEASURES ARE PUT IN PLACE. AND I, I THINK I'VE HEARD ALREADY SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ARE PLANNING OUTDOOR, UH, GRADUATION CEREMONIES AFTER JUNE 1ST, THE, UH, TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY, UH, WILL BE PROVIDING THE GUIDANCE TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS TO WHAT SPECIFICALLY IS ALLOWED OR NOT ALLOWED. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SOME KEY THINGS THAT CARRIED OVER FROM THE, UH, GOVERNOR'S PREVIOUS EXECUTIVE ORDER IS THE CONTINUING PROHIBITION ON NURSING HOMES TO TRY TO MINIMIZE THE MOVEMENT OF STAFF BETWEEN FACILITIES. UM, THE GOVERNOR, UH, DID AGAIN, RETAIN DISCRETION TO IMPOSE SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS ON A COUNTY OR REGION IF A SPIKE OCCURS. UH, AND AGAIN, THE HIGHLY ENCOURAGING OF THE FACE COVERINGS IS ALSO INCLUDED IN HIS ORDER. WE HAVE THE EXACT SAME LANGUAGE AS WE'VE HAD IN HIS PREVIOUS EXECUTIVE ORDERS. IN TERMS OF WHAT IS SUPERSEDED AGAIN, THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER DOES NOT SUPERSEDE ALL LOCAL ORDERS. WHAT IT SAYS, IT'S SUPERSEDED ONLY TO THE EXTENDED CONFLICTS WITH HIS ORDER. WITH RESPECT OF REOPENING BUSINESSES AND ESSENTIAL BUSINESSES. AND AGAIN, BUSINESSES MAY REQUIRE CUSTOMERS TO WEAR, UH, A FACE COVERING. UH, ONE THING THAT DID COME OUT, UH, LATE BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING IS THAT THE GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED THAT UNDER HIS ORDER, NO LOCAL ENTITY CAN, UH, PROVIDE, UH, JAIL SENTENCE TO ANYONE VIOLATING THE ORDER. UH, I AM HERE TO TELL YOU THOUGH, THAT UNDER OUR CURRENT ORDER, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO ORDER, WE HAD CLASS C FINE. SO IT DOESN'T REALLY IMPACT OUR ENFORCEMENT TOOLS WITH, IN TERMS OF WHAT THE GOVERNOR JUST SAID THIS MORNING. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THE GOVERNOR ALSO TALKED ABOUT SURGE RESPONSE TEAMS, UM, AND THAT HE HAD DEVELOPED THAT WITH THE STATE TO ADDRESS, UH, FACILITIES LIKE NURSING HOMES, PRISONS, UH, AND PACKING PLANTS WHERE YOU MIGHT FIND, UH, SURGES IN, UH, C O UH, 19. AND THAT HE'S DEVELOPED A, A, A, THIS, UH, SURGE RESPONSE TEAM TO AID IN THE, FOR EXAMPLE, PROVIDING PPES, UH, WORKING WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS ON TRYING TO ESTABLISH FURTHER STANDARDS TO TRY TO MINIMIZE THAT, THAT SURGE. UH, ONE THING I DID WANT TO HIGHLIGHT TO THE COUNCIL WAS WHAT THE GOVERNOR WAS LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF, UH, MAKING THIS ADDITIONAL, UH, MOVEMENT IN TERMS OF REOPENED BUSINESSES. UH, FROM HIS COMMENTS ON MONDAY, IT'S, HE'S LOOKING AT THREE THINGS IN TERMS OF THE DATA, UH, FROM, UH, FROM, UH, THE C OVID 19. UH, ONE IS CONTINUOUS DAYS OF MORE RECOVERED CASES THAN ACTIVE CASES. THE SECOND THING HE'S LOOKING AT IS CONTINUED DECLINE OF THE POSITIVITY RATE. POSITIVITY RATE, MEANING THE NUMBER OF POSITIVE TESTS AS COMPARED TO THE NUMBER OF TESTS RUN THAT DAY. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, HE'S LOOKING AT NUMBER THREE HOSPITALIZATION RATES. UH, WHAT THAT MEANS IS THOSE HOSPITALIZED AS COMPARED TO TOTAL ACTIVE COVID CASES, UH, IN THAT COUNTY. UH, SO THAT'S AGAIN, THE HIGHLIGHTS OF BOTH HIS ORDER AND THE CONTINUED GUIDANCE. WE, WE, WE CONTINUE TO GET FROM THE STATE IN TERMS OF INTERPRETING, UH, THE ORDERS THAT HE HAS, THAT HE HAS PROMULGATED. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE. AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO THE CITY MANAGER. THAT'S IT, MAYOR. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU, UH, LORI, MARIA, UH, ANDY FOR THE PRESENTATIONS. WE DO HAVE, UH, A NUMBER OF FOLKS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, AND THEN WE'LL GET INTO THE COUNCIL DISCUSSION. I'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL, UH, FIRST PERSON SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. I'LL CALL THE NEXT PERSON IN LINE IF YOU CAN GET PREPARED TO COME FORWARD. AND AGAIN, WE HAVE A MICROPHONE [01:45:01] ON A STAND, SO YOU DON'T NEED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH ANYTHING, BUT WE WILL SANITIZE BETWEEN SPEAKERS. WE'LL START WITH DEANNA ORGA. MS. ORGA, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY JACK FINGER. HI EVERYBODY. UH, GOOD MORNING. UH, I WANTED TO SAY STUFF ABOUT, UH, RANT AND, UH, IT WAS TAKEN CARE OF HERE. YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY THE PEOPLE, UH, WILL SEE THIS AND, UH, GET THEIR ANSWER THERE. 'CAUSE THEY WERE ASKING ME ABOUT RENT SOLUTIONS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, AND, UH, ABOUT THE OPENINGS OF THAT. ANDY OVER HERE SPOKE OF WITH THE MAYOR OPENING, UH, TOMORROW, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE PLACES, YOU KNOW, IT WAS TAKEN CARE OF. BUT NOW I'M GONNA SAY, UH, I, I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY CONDOLENCES TO EVERYONE THAT HAVE LOST A LOVE MEMBER, YOU KNOW, UH, DUE TO THIS VIRUS. 'CAUSE I, I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE. I LOST MY DAUGHTER AT 25, YOU KNOW, TO A VIRUS THAT WAS KEPT HUSH HUSH, THAT H ONE N ONE ON OH NINE. SO I KNOW THE FEELING. ALSO, I WOULD LIKE TO, UH, SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO, TO ALL THE GRADUATES FROM THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, 2020. AND I'M SORRY ABOUT EVERYTHING THEY'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH, ALL THE CHILDREN IN THE WORLD. SO, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE'RE, WE AS PARENTS, WE'RE NOT TEACHERS. THANKS TO THE TEACHERS, YOU KNOW, ALL THE TEACHERS TOO BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DO FOR TEACHING OUR, OUR CHILDREN, YOU KNOW? AND I ALSO WANNA SAY, UH, UH, HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO TOO. . AND, AND ALSO I WANNA SAY THAT, UH, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO EVERY WOMAN, A MOTHER OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, IN THIS CITY, EVERYWHERE, ALL OVER THAT COULD HEAR ME RIGHT NOW. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO YOU AND TO MY SISTER. SHE'S IN A, UH, NURSING HOME. I CAN'T SEE HER, YOU KNOW, COULD I SEE HER ? BUT NO, I DON'T THINK SO. BUT ANYWAYS, THANKS FOR, UH, EVERYTHING. I ALSO LIKE TO SAY ABOUT THIS STIMULUS CHECK, YOU KNOW, I RECEIVED, I DON'T WANNA CASH IT IF IT'S, UH, BLOOD MONEY. THANK YOU, MS. AREA. I GUESS, CAN I GIVE IT BACK TO YOU, ? WE CAN, UH, HAND IT TO THE CLERK AND WE CAN, UM, OVER ON THE SIDE AND WE CAN HELP OUT WITH THAT. THANK YOU. WHAT'S THAT? OKAY. NO, ACTUALLY NO, THAT'S YOUR STIMULUS CHECK. WE DON'T WANT THAT. OH, OKAY. NO, I MISUNDERSTOOD. ALRIGHT. JACK FINGER. MR. FINGER, YOU'D BE FOLLOWED BY PAULA HILLIARD. UH, UH, WELL, THE MAYOR IS NOT THERE. I HAVE A, HAVE A QUESTION. FIRST OF ALL, SOME HOUSEKEEPING. UH, I SIGNED UP FOR ITEM BOTH, BOTH ITEMS, BOTH FOUR AND FIVE. WILL I BE ABLE TO SPEAK ON ITEM FIVE WHEN IT'S PRESENTED, OR MUST I SPEAK ON, ON, ON BOTH 'EM AT THE SAME TIME? WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SPEAK ON ITEM FIVE WHEN IT'S PRESENTED. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UH, AUDIO VISUAL MAN, UH, MAY PRESENT THESE TO YOU HERE. YES. UM, WELL TO THE MAYOR BERG AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, IF, IF WITH THE CITY CLERK, JUST ZERO IT BACK TO THREE MINUTES AGAIN, PLEASE, SIR. YES. UH, TO MAYOR NURENBERG AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M FINGER, [01:50:01] UH, THE, UH, THE WHOLE REASON WE'RE DOING THIS, THIS WHOLE, UM, ALL THESE RESTRICTIONS UPON C CITY CITIZENS' MOVEMENTS, THEY'RE STAYING AT HOME. WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF DYING FROM THE CORONAVIRUS? THAT'S MY QUESTION. YES. AND I'VE LOOKED AT SOME STATISTICS ON THIS, AND YES, MR. RIDGE. MAN, BLOW THAT UP IF YOU WOULD, A LITTLE BIT THERE. SO WE CAN SEE THE, THE LIT, THE, THE WRITING THERE. YEAH. YEAH. THERE WE GO. WELL, THE ODDS OF DYING FROM HEART DISEASE AND FROM CANCER ARE, PRESS THAT DOWN IF YOU WOULD A LITTLE BIT. SO WE CAN SEE IT ONE IN SEVEN, I THINK IT IS THE ODDS OF DYING FROM CR A CHRONIC LEVEL OF RESPIRATORY DISEASES. THAT'S ONE IN 28. AND IT GOES ON INTERNATIONAL SELF-HARM LIKE SUICIDE, ONE IN 95, SCROLL ALL THE WAY DOWN IF YOU WOULD, THERE. BORDER OF VEHICLE, UH, UH, ASSAULTS BY FIREARM, ONE IN 70, THE CORONAVIRUS IN THAT. THIS IS AT THE, AT THE WORST. AND WE DID SOME STATISTIC. ONE IN 1,001 IN A THOUSAND OF DYING FROM THE CORONAVIRUS. IT MAY BE ACTUALLY ONE IN 6,000. AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING ALL THIS, ALL OF THIS, ALL THESE RESTRICTIONS, ALL THESE DRACONIAN RESTRICTIONS ON OUR MOVEMENTS, ON WEARING THESE MASKS AND SO FORTH, UH, SOCIALLY DISTANCING OURSELVES FROM EVERYBODY. WHY DO YOU SEE, CAN WE PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE? WE, WE, THE FLU, WE KNOW, DON'T GET THIS, THIS BAD, AND YET THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW. LIKEWISE, YOU, YOU'RE CONTEMPLATING ON, UH, PUTTING MORE RESTRICTIONS ON BUSINESSES. ARE YOU ACTUALLY, YOU'RE ASKING THEM TO VOLUNTARILY, VOLUNTARILY, UH, SOCIALLY DISTANT DISTANCE SOCIALLY FOR WITH EVERYBODY YOU'RE ASKING THEM TO, TO WEAR A MASK. YOU'RE ASKING, IN FACT, MS. SANDOVAL CAME OUT WITH THE IDEA OF, OF HAVING THE CITY INSPECT THEIR HEATING AND, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS. WHAT THAT'S REMINISCENT OF NAZI GERMANY. HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU POSSIBLY THINK OF DOING SUCH THINGS? THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. PAULA HILLIARD, FOLLOWED BY CELINE WILLIAMS. I HOPE I REMEMBER WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY. FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU ALL. I KNOW YOU'RE WORKING EXTREMELY HARD. UM, I WANTED TO SHARE SOME EXCITING NEWS THAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BE AWARE OF, BUT THERE'S BEEN SOME GREAT RESEARCH. IT'S ON THE SLIDE HERE, UH, SHOWING SUCCESS OF VITAMIN D. UM, THREE COUNTRIES WERE LOOKED AT. IT'S EXTREMELY STRONG SIGNIFICANCE LEVEL. UM, IF YOU SCROLL UP WHERE IT'S YELLOW, YOU CAN SEE WHERE IT'S HIGHLIGHTED. UM, YOU CAN SEE THAT THE LOWER SOMEONE'S VITAMIN D LEVEL, THE MORE LIKELY THEY ARE TO DIE BY A FACTOR OF OR P VALUE OF 0.0001. UH, ALSO FOR CATCHING COVID HAS TO DO WITH VITAMIN D. VITAMIN D HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN TO BE PROTECTIVE AGAINST ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS. SO AS STUDIES LIKE THIS COME OUT, IT'S VERY EXCITING, BUT WHEN WE SAY STAY HOME TO BE SAFE, WE'RE ACTUALLY DEPRIVING PEOPLE OF THE KNOWLEDGE THAT VITAMIN D IS VERY PROTECTIVE. YOU ALSO LOOK AT THE POPULATIONS THAT HAVE LOW VITAMIN D. MOST OF US DO 'CAUSE WE'RE JUST, THAT'S OUR LIFESTYLE IN AMERICA. SORRY, I'M VERY NERVOUS RIGHT NOW. , UM, OBESE PEOPLE, NURSING HOME PEOPLE BECAUSE IT'S HARDER TO MAKE VITAMIN D THE OLDER YOU GET. AND SO WE LOOK AT WHOSE VICTIMS OF COVID MORE THAN NOT. AND IT IS PROBABLY, IT COULD BE A FUNCTION, I'M NOT GONNA SAY PROBABLY IT COULD BE A FUNCTION OF VITAMIN D. SO AS WE GO FORWARD WITH OUR MESSAGING AS A CITY, COULD WE, WHEN WE SAY STAY HOME, ADD, SIT OUTSIDE, READ A BOOK. 'CAUSE NOT EVERYBODY'S GONNA GO RUN OR WALK, BUT MAYBE A LITTLE HEALTHY SUNSHINE WOULD HELP. IN CASE THIS DOES GET WORSE, WE CAN COME OUT AND BE A LITTLE MORE PROTECTED. UM, ALSO, I JUST WANNA SAY, WOULD YOU MIND PUTTING THE NEXT ONE ON PLEASE? WHEN WE LOOK, I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A STATISTICS BACKGROUND, AND WHEN WE LOOK AT PROJECTIONS AND THINGS, UM, IF WE MAKE AN ASSUMPTION, WE OUGHT TO DESIGNATE WHAT IT IS. THE TOP ONE IS THE I H M E. VERY, VERY COMMON. UM, WHAT IS IT? TRACKING SYSTEM. BUT CAN'T REALLY SAY THAT THERE HAVE BEEN NO COVID CASES UNTIL THAT DATA POINT, BECAUSE THERE WASN'T TEST FOR IT. IT'S LIKE A TEENAGER SNEAKING OUT OF THE HOUSE, BUT HIS PARENTS THINK THE FIRST TIME HE DID IT IS THE FIRST TIME HE GOT CAUGHT, BUT HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SNEAKING OUT FOR MONTHS BEFORE THAT, WE DON'T KNOW. AND SO I THINK MAYBE DESIGNATING THAT, THAT'S STILL, IT'S A LARGE ASSUMPTION THAT WE'RE MAKING. IT COULD BE THAT WE HAVE ALREADY HAD SOME OF THESE CASES. WE HAD 25,000 [01:55:01] INFLUENZA-LIKE, UM, INCIDENCES IN TEXAS BACK IN THE FALL THAT TESTED NO VIRUS AND NO FLU KNOWN VI FLU VIRUS THAT COULDN'T IDENTIFY WHAT THAT WAS. IT'S JUST A POSSIBILITY. AS WE GO FORWARD, LET'S ASK THESE HARD QUESTIONS. I WANNA COMPLIMENT, UH, DR. ROCHA GARCIA. I THOUGHT YOUR QUESTIONS LAST TIME AT THE LAST MEETING ABOUT PLASMA WERE EXCELLENT. KEEP GOING DOWN THAT TRACK. I WANT TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THE HEALING, ABOUT THE HOPE, BECAUSE IF WE WANNA BRING THIS ECONOMY BACK, WE NEED HOPE. WE NEED TO KNOW IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT JUST COUNTING CASES. WE NEED TO COUNT SUCCESSES AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. HILLIARD. CELINE WILLIAMS, MS. WILLIAMS BE FOLLOWED BY KIM BRAGMAN, JACQUELINE BELL AND KRISTEN WALK. SEATED THEIR TIME TO ME. MY NAME IS CELINE WILLIAMS. I AM, UH, I LIVE IN DISTRICT SIX. I'M THE PAST PRESIDENT OF THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION AND I MANAGE MULTIFAMILY APARTMENT COMMUNITIES. WE MANAGE, UM, ABOUT 6,000, OVER 6,000 UNITS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. FIRST I WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITY COUNCIL, TO THE MAYOR AND THE CITY STAFF FOR YOUR CONTINUED HARD WORK DURING THIS C OVID 19 PANDEMIC. SAN ANTONIO HAS DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB IN ADDRESSING ALL THE VARIOUS ISSUES. AS A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF SAN ANTONIO, I'M VERY PROUD TO BE FROM THIS CITY, SO THANK YOU. I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE POTENTIAL OF SAN ANTONIO TO PASS A 60 DAY PRIOR NOTICE TO VACATE, ALSO KNOWN AS A 60 DAY RIGHT TO CURE AS, UM, THE CITY'S STAFF PRESENTED EARLIER. THERE IS A BETTER SOLUTION TO THAT, BUT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WHY I AM OPPOSED TO THE POTENTIAL PROPOSAL OF THE 60 DAY PRIOR NOTICE TO VACATE. FIRST, THE CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN ADVISED IN PUBLIC SESSION BY THE CITY ATTORNEY THAT IN HIS OPINION, THAT COUNCIL DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ENACT SUCH AN ORDINANCE. PROPERTY CODE ESTABLISHES A STATEWIDE STANDARD FOR ALL LANDLORDS AND TENANT DUTIES. IT DOES NOT PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CURE AN EFFORT TO CHANGE IT AND MAKE IT RETROACTIVE. RETROACTIVE IS A VIOLATION OF BOTH THE US AND TEXAS CONSTITUTIONS. IF THE COUNCIL KNOWINGLY ENACTS AN ORDINANCE THAT VIOLATES A TEXAS BILL OF RIGHTS, THE CITY MAY FILE A LAWSUIT AND BE LIABLE FOR HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. ALSO, A 60 DAY NOTICE SENDS A MESSAGE TO RUNNERS THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY THEIR RENT, AND THIS COULD HURT EVERYONE IN THE LONG RUN. RENTERS, UM, AND LANDLORDS. UH, THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE GIVES US 60 DAY GRACE PERIOD, UM, WHICH MEANS IT COULD BE TILL AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER BEFORE A COURT DATE IS SET. THIS COULD CAUSE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES FOR RENTERS THAT THEY FALL SO FAR BEHIND THAT THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO CATCH UP AND GET THE ASSISTANCE THAT THEY NEED. MOST RENTAL HOUSING OPERATORS IN SAN ANTONIO ARE SMALL BUS BUSINESS OWNERS AND THEY RELY ON RENT AND PAYMENTS TO COVER THEIR FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS LIKE MORTGAGES, MAINTENANCE, UTILITIES, TAXES, AND SO ON, AND PAYROLL. IF PEOPLE STOP PAYING THEIR RENT, THEN WE WON'T BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE COMMUNITIES AND DO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE PLANNED. RENTAL HOUSING PROVIDERS WILL ALSO HAVE TO CONSIDER REDUCING PERSONNEL AND STAFF HOURS. WE'VE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD TO TRY TO KEEP OUR ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED, UM, BUT NOT HAVING THE INCOME THAT WE NEED, WE WON'T HAVE A CHOICE, BUT HAVE TO CONSIDER CUTTING SOME OF THOSE POSITIONS. IT WILL CREATE A RIPPLE EFFECT. UM, DELAYED OR CANCELED EXPENDITURES CAN HURT OTHER SMALL BUSINESSES. THERE'S A LOT OF BUSINESSES THAT HELP OPERATE AND RUN OUR PROPERTIES, AND SO IT COULD AFFECT OTHER SMALL BUSINESSES AS WELL. AS WAS SAID EARLIER, OVER 50% OF OF THE COMMUNITIES IN SAN ANTONIO ARE ALREADY COVERED BY THE CARESS ACT, SO THERE ARE ALREADY PROTECTIONS IN PLACE THAT PROTECT THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. UM, SAN ANTONIO LANDLORDS HAVE REALLY STEPPED UP AND SHOWN EMPATHY AND COMPASSION FOR OUR RESIDENTS. UM, WE'VE WORKED DIRECTLY WITH RESIDENTS TO COME UP WITH RENTAL PAYMENT PLANS, WAIVE LATE FEES. MS. WILLIAMS, YOU SAID MS. BELL GAVE YOU TIME. JACQUELINE BELL AND KRISTEN WALK? YES, SIR. UM, MS. BELL, ARE YOU HERE? OKAY. AND YOU SAID MS. WALK. OKAY. YOU HAVE SIX MORE MINUTES. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, MS. I WAS SAYING WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH RESIDENTS, UM, TO COME UP WITH RENTAL PAYMENT OPTIONS, UH, DELAY LATE FEES, WAIVE LATE FEES, UM, AND WAIVED TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF RENT PAYMENTS IN IN LATE CHARGES. WE HAVE REFRAIN, REFRAIN FROM FILING EVICTION SUITS EVEN BEFORE THE MORATORIUM WAS DECLARED. ALTHOUGH LANDLORDS CAN FILE ONLY 54 EVICTION CASES HAVE BEEN FILED THROUGH APRIL 20TH AS COMPARED TO 612 THE MONTH BEFORE, THAT'S A 91% DECREASE. MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE STEPPED UP AND OFFERED TO MATCH CITY RISK MITIGATION PAYMENTS WITH A 25% RENT FORGIVENESS FOR APRIL AND MAY TO HELP THE CITY FUNDS GO FURTHER AND HELP MORE PEOPLE. EVICTION IS ALWAYS OUR LAST RESORT. WE WANT TO KEEP OUR RESIDENTS, WE NEVER WANT TO [02:00:01] ISSUE A NOTICE TO VACATE OR PROCEED WITH EVICTION. IT'S ALWAYS A DIFFICULT DECISION. WE DON'T WANNA SEE OUR RESIDENTS EVICTED NOW OR TWO MONTHS FROM NOW OR EVER IF WE CAN GET HELP TO PREVENT IT. PROPERTY OWNERS ARE DOING ALL THEY CAN WITHIN THEIR OWN FINANCIAL MEANS TO MAKE ACCOMMODATIONS, AND WE ARE WORKING REALLY HARD TO HELP ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS AND PROVIDE THEM ALL THE RESOURCES THAT THE CITY AND AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HAVE. THE UNATTENDED CON CONSEQUENCES OF THE PROPOSED C C R IS THAT IT CAN TRIGGER AN AVALANCHE OF EVICTION FILINGS. WHEN THE ORDINANCE SUNSETS, IT CAN MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR OWNERS TO HELP RESIDENTS WITH THE 25% RENT FORGIVENESS THAT THEY'RE DOING. NOW, THIS WILL HAVE A CHILLING EFFECT ON PROPERTY TAX OR PROPERTY VALUES AND FORCE MANY OWNERS INTO BANKRUPTCY AND WILL LEAD TO LOWER PROPERTY TAX COLLECTIONS. AGAIN, I IMPOSE TO THE POTENTIAL PROPOSAL OF THE 60 DAY PRIOR NOTICE TO VACATE, ALSO KNOWN AS THE 60 DAY RIGHT TO CURE. HOWEVER, IN LIEU OF SUCH AN ORDINANCE, I AM SUPPORTIVE OF THE ALTERNATE SOLUTION THAT THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION, COPS METRO, AND SEVERAL OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON AS PRESENTED BY THE CITY STAFF. UM, I WILL SAY MY, MY DAUGHTER LIVES IN AN APARTMENT COMMUNITY. SHE WAS AFFECTED BY C OVID 19. SHE'S A SERVER AND SHE LOST HER JOB. AND SO I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE. I'VE BEEN THERE. I'VE BEEN A SINGLE MOTHER BEFORE. UM, SO, SO I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE. AND I, I WILL TELL YOU THAT AS A PROPERTY MANAGER, WE ARE, WE HAVE COMPASSION AND WE DO HELP OUR RESIDENTS. UM, AND THE, THE, UM, THE PRESENTATION THAT THE CITY STAFF MEMBER PRESENTED EARLIER, I THINK WILL HELP EDUCATE OUR RESIDENTS AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY KNOW WHAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE AND EDUCATE LANDLORDS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY KNOW THAT THERE'S RESOURCES AVAILABLE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TO LISTENING TO MY CONCERNS AND CONSIDERING THE NEEDS OF ALL CI CITIZENS AND IN ALL DISTRICTS, INCLUDING SMALL BUSINESS PROPERTY OWNERS WHO PROTECT THE CITY'S PRECIOUS HOUSING SUPPLY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. WILLIAMS. KIM BRAGMAN. MS. BRAGMAN, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY MINDY STRANGE. GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS KIM BRAGMAN AND I'M THE 2020 CHAIRMAN OF THE SAN ANTONIO BOARD OF REALTORS. ON BEHALF OF OUR MORE THAN 12,000 SAN ANTONIO AREA REALTORS, WE WANNA THANK MAYOR NUREMBERG AND CITY COUNCIL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND DEDICATION TO PUBLIC SERVICE. DURING THIS UNDE UNPRECEDENTED TIME AND FOR ADOPTING THE EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, SABOR SHARES YOUR CONCERNS REGARDING THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY. OUR MEMBERS ARE PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AND CARE ABOUT THE WELFARE OF ALL OF THEIR NEIGHBORS. WE RECOGNIZE THAT SHELTER IS A REAL NEED, WHETHER IN RENTED OR OWNED PROPERTY, AND IS CRITICAL FOR RESIDENTS TO HAVE ACCESS TO DURING THIS PANDEMIC. THAT IS WHY MANY LANDLORDS AND PROPERTY MANAGERS THROUGHOUT SAN ANTONIO ARE STEPPING UP AND OPERATING IN GOOD FAITH TO WORK WITH TENANTS OFFERING TO WAVE LATE FEES AND ENTERING INTO INDIVIDUALIZED PAYMENT AGREEMENTS, OR UTILIZING FUNDING RESOURCES PROVIDED BY THE EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. IN LIGHT OF THE 60 DAY NOTICE ORDINANCE, SORRY, 60 DAY NOTICE ORDINANCE PROS BY COUNCILMAN TRAVINO, WE RESPECTFULLY ASK TO SEE COUNCIL TO, TO FULLY EXPLORE AND CAREFULLY WEIGH THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF SUCH MEASURES. NEARLY ONE IN FOUR RENTER HOUSEHOLDS IN BEXAR COUNTY LIVE IN SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, AND MANY OF THOSE RENTAL HOMES ARE OWNED BY RESIDENTS OF THE CITY WHO ARE ALSO EXPERIENCED THE SAME FINANCIAL CHALLENGES RELATED TO THE C OVID 19 CRISIS. THIS IS SIGNIFICANT AS A LARGE PORTION OF SAN ANTONIO RESIDENTS WHO OWN THESE SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL PROPERTIES HAVE A MORTGAGE ON THE PRO ON THE PROPERTY. AND WITH THAT, A GROWING FINANCIAL BURDEN TO MAKE PAYMENTS IN A TIMELY MANNER. THE ORDINANCE DOES NOT EXTEND THE SAME 60 DAY PRODUCTION TO OWNERS FOR FORECLOSURE NOR PROHIBIT ACTIONS BY TAKEN BY BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO COLLECT MONEY OWED. WE ARE CONCERNED FOR THESE PROPERTY OWNERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. I CAN'T STRESS THIS ENOUGH. WE URGE THE COUNSEL TO CONSIDER IF IT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE SUCH AN ORDINANCE. FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER ACTIONS ARE GOVERNED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS PROPERTY CODE. SUCH CASES ARE HEARD BY THE JUSTICE IN COUNTY COURTS, WHICH IN SAN ANTONIO'S CASE, FALL UNDER THE PURVIEW OF BEXAR COUNTY. IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT SUCH ACTIONS BY THE CITY WOULD BE CHALLENGED AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL UNDER THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION. WE ARE CONSIDERING, AS YOU CONSIDER ADOPTING ANY EMERGENCY ORDINANCE RELATED TO THE HOUSING NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS OF SAN ANTONIO. WE ASK THAT YOU CONSIDER INCENTIVIZE PROGRAMS FOR LANDLORDS TO COLLABORATE WITH TENANTS, WHICH OFF WHICH FOSTER PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS. WE ENCOURAGE THE CITY TO CONTINUE ITS PROMOTION [02:05:01] AND UTILIZATION OF EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUNDING PROGRAMS. DEPLOYMENT OF THESE FUNDS WILL PROVIDE SUPPORT DESPERATELY NEEDED BY MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY WHO HAVE SEEN A REDUCTION IN WORK HOURS OR LOSS OF EMPLOYMENT DUE TO C OVID 19. THANK YOU, MS. BRAGMAN. THANK YOU. MINDY. STRANGE. MS. STRANGE. YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY TERRY BILBY. GOOD MORNING. I'M MINDY STGE. I GET CALLED STRANGE A LOT. . I WANNA PRESENT A TYPE OF LANDLORD THAT PERHAPS DIDN'T GET THOUGHT OF WHEN THE BLANKET EVICTION MORATORIUM WAS ADOPTED AND CERTAINLY WASN'T THOUGHT OF WHEN CONTEMPLATING TO ADD NEW LAYERS TO IT, MAKING IT EVEN HARDER FOR THE MOM, POP LANDLORDS TO SURVIVE. DURING THIS TIME, MY HUSBAND AND I CASHED IN OUR I R A AND CONVERTED IT TO A SELF-DIRECTED I R A LAST YEAR TO INVEST IN REAL ESTATE. WE BOUGHT A HOME IN SAN ANTONIO AND FIXED IT UP AND CONTRACTED WITH A COMPANY TO MARKET IT TO TRAVELING PROFESSIONALS WHOSE TYPICAL EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT LASTED THREE MONTHS. WE FULLY FURNISHED THE HOME FROM FURNITURE TO NEW APPLIANCES, DOWN TO THE EATING UTENSILS. WE PROVIDED MATERIALS TO THE OCCUPANTS TO PROMOTE THE GREAT CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, IT'S BUSINESSES, PARKS, AND EVENTS. OUR FIRST TENANT CAME AT THE END OF DECEMBER. LEASE TERMS WERE DECEMBER 28TH THROUGH THE AP THROUGH APRIL 10TH TO COINCIDE WITH THE DURATION OF HER EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT. SOUNDS LIKE MINIMAL RISK, RIGHT? IN MARCH, WE REMINDED THE TENANT ABOUT THE EXIT PROCESS, DISCUSSED THE WALKTHROUGH THAT NEEDED TO BE SCHEDULED AND CONTEMPLATED AND COMPLETED A FEW DAYS BEFORE APRIL 10TH. WRITTEN COMMUNICATION ALONG WITH SIGNED LEASE CONFIRMED HER UNDERSTANDING. WE WERE MARKETING OUR HOME ONLINE, WHICH GOT MANY HITS AND WE HAD ANOTHER TENANT APPLY AND GET ACCEPTED. A TRAVELING NURSE WITH A THREE MONTH TERM WHO WOULD MOVE HERE IN ON APRIL 17TH. HER CREDIT BACKGROUND SHACK EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION AND ELECTRONIC ELECTRONIC PAYMENT REGISTRATION WERE ALL COMPLETED IN THE LAST DAYS OF MARCH. THE CURRENT TENANT STARTED QUESTIONING THE EXIT PROCESS, LAID OUT TO HER AND WOULD NOT CONFIRM TIME FOR THE WALKTHROUGH. SHE STOPPED RESPONDING TO ME ALTOGETHER. APRIL 1ST CAME AND WENT WITH NO RENT. APRIL 3RD, NO RENT, NO COMMUNICATION, NO RESPONSE TO CALLS AND TEXT. APRIL 7TH, I WENT TO THE HOME WHERE I FOUND A GENTLEMAN IN THE HOME, WHICH THE NEIGHBORS TOLD ME HAD BEEN THERE THE WHOLE TERM. SHE WOULD NOT LET ME IN THE HOME TO DO THE WALKTHROUGH AND WANTED ME TO COME BACK THE NEXT DAY. YET SHE HAD A U-HAUL PARKED OUTSIDE MY HOME WITH ALL THE FURNISHINGS IN THE HOME BELONGED TO ME. I DIDN'T WANNA USE MY LANDLORD RIGHTS ON THE LEASE AND ENTER THE HOME. AS HER SO-CALLED LABS WERE IN FACT PIT BULLS AND DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY SAW ME ENTER WITHOUT HER WANTING ME IN THE HOME. I HAD TO CALL THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ARRIVE TO HELP ME DELIVER THE DOCUMENT TO HER TO REMIND HER THE LEASE WAS UP ON APRIL 10TH. I ALSO HAD AN OBLIGATION TO THE NEW TENANT, THE TRAVELING NURSE, WHO HAD SIGNED HER LEASE TO START APRIL 17TH. YOU CAN SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING. SHE NEVER PAID AND NEVER LEFT, NEVER GAVE ME A VALID REASON. SHE JUST KNEW SHE WAS UNTOUCHABLE DUE TO THE EVICTION MORATORIUM. SO I HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO TERMINATE THE NEW TENANT'S LEASE, LEAVING HER TO CALL, HAVE HER CREDIT PULLED AGAIN BY ANOTHER LANDLORD IN HOPES THEY WEREN'T IN THE SAME SITUATION AS ME, AND SHE COULD FIND SOME PROPER HOUSING THAT WAS FURNISHED, HAD A YARD AND ALLOWED HER PETS. GOOD LUCK. MY HUSBAND AND I CONTINUE TO PAY ALL UTILITIES, INCLUDING HIGH-SPEED INTERNET, THE HOMEOWNER'S INSURANCE, PROPERTY TAXES, MAINTENANCE, PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY, AND ATTORNEY FEES. I CAN ONLY HANG ONTO THE PROPERTY IN THIS MANNER FOR SO LONG AND STRESS ABOUT THE CONDITION OF MY HOME AND ITS BELONGINGS. WE ENTERED INTO THIS WITH SUCH OPTIMISM AND A MEANS TO WORK TOWARDS OUR GOAL TO PAY FOR COLLEGE TUITION AND RETIREMENT BY CONTINUING TO INVEST IN SAN ANTONIO REAL ESTATE. NOW, I'M NOT SO SURE THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO BE INVESTING FOR MY FUTURE. THANK YOU, MS. STRANGE. TERRY BILBY. MS. BILBY, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY JOSE MASCARO. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR NUREMBERG AND COUNCIL. MY NAME IS TERRY BILBY AND I AM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION. OUR ORGANIZATION IS MADE UP OF 931 MEMBER COMPANIES WHO PROVIDE RENTAL HOUSING AND THE PRODUCT SERVICES REQUIRED TO OPERATE RENTAL HOUSING WITH OVER 211,000 RENTAL HOMES, MOST OF WHICH ARE IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. OUR FOCUS DURING THIS CRISIS HAS BEEN TO CALL ON PEOPLE TO WORK TOGETHER, TO CREATE A VIABLE SOLUTION TO HELP PEOPLE, KEEP PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES AND KEEP A VIABLE HOUSING SUPPLY. AS A SOCIETY, WE MUST ENSURE THE EXISTENCE OF OUR COMMUNITY'S HOUSING SUPPLY. A SAFE, WELL-MAINTAINED HOME AND COMMUNITY IS WHAT IS NEEDED BY THE MOST AFFECTED NOW AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE A BASIC HUMAN NEED. TOMORROW, TODAY, TOMORROW AND EVERYDAY FOLLOWING. WE OPPOSE THE 60 DAY NOTICE TO CURE A K A GRACE PERIOD ORDINANCE THAT WE HAVE LEARNED WILL BE TAKEN UP FOR CONSIDERATION NEXT WEEK. LAST WEEK YOU VOTED TO APPROVE THE EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE PLAN AND FUNDED IT WITH $25 MILLION. THIS IS A HUGE STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. THIS PLAN AND THESE FUNDS ARE CRITICAL TO HELPING EVERYONE, RENTERS AND HOMEOWNERS ALIKE, WHO HAVE BEEN DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY C OVID 19. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO HELPING OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH THIS DIFFICULT TIME. AND ALTHOUGH OUR CITY HAS PASSED THE LARGEST RELIEF FUNDING PACKAGE [02:10:01] IN TEXAS, IT IS PROBABLY GOING GO NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH. BECAUSE OF AS OF THIS WEEK, YOU'VE ALREADY SPENT OVER 40,000 OF THAT BUDGET, AND THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE WHAT IS NEEDED FOR MAY. WE URGE YOU TO KEEP YOUR FOCUS ON HELPING OUR COMMUNITY GET THROUGH THIS TIME OF CRISIS BY INCREASING FUNDING FOR RELIEF OF THOSE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO NEED IT. THAT INCLUDES HOUSING, UTILITIES, GROCERIES, GAS MEDICINE, AND MEDICINE NOW, BUT ALSO SHOULD INCLUDE A PLAN FOR HOW WE GET OUR COMMUNITY BACK TO WORK AFTER THIS CRISIS ENDS. WE KNOW THAT MANY IN OUR COMMUNITY HAVE HAD TO STOP WORKING TO STAY SAFE AND HEALTHY, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THEIR FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS FOR RENT, UTILITIES AND OTHER NECESSITIES DIDN'T STOP. OUR MEMBERS, AS WELL AS OTHER RENTAL HOUSING PROVIDERS HAVE ALREADY STEPPED UP TO HELP. THEY'VE WAIVED LATE FEES, WORKED OUT PAYMENT PLANS, RESTRUCTURED LEASES, AND HELD OFF ON FILING EVICTIONS FOR RESIDENTS WHO ARE COMMUNICATING WITH THEM AND WORKING WITH THEM. THEY PROVIDED DISCOUNTS ON RENT AND MANY ARE CONSIDERING ARE AS WELL AS A RENT FORGIVENESS OF 25% FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL AND ARE CONSIDERING DOING IT AGAIN FOR MAY MANY AT HARDSHIP. SO HELPED RESIDENTS FILE THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS, APPLY FOR ASSISTANCE, SET UP FOOD PANTRIES AND FOOD DELIVERIES AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS THEY'VE LEANED IN IN A BIG WAY, AND TO HELP THEIR RESIDENTS AND OUR COMMUNITY GET THROUGH THIS CRISIS WHILE A GRACE PERIOD SOUNDS LIKE A NON-FINANCIAL PENALTY ON LOCAL SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS. IT'S IMPORTANT THAT BEFORE YOU ENACT SUCH A POLICY THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT A 60 DAY NOTICE TO CURE ORDINANCE WILL HAVE MANY UNINTENDED SHORT AND LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES ON SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, CITY TAX COLLECTIONS, AND OUR CITY'S HOUSING SUPPLY. ONE OF THESE CONSEQUENCES WILL INCLUDE A RUSH TO FILE EVICTIONS BEFORE THE ORDINANCE GOES INTO EFFECT IN ADDITION TO THE AVALANCHE THAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER THE 60 DAY NOTICE TO CURE ORDINANCE EXPIRES RIGHT NOW. RENTAL HOUSING PROVIDERS ARE CHOOSING, I'M SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE ASSOCIATION, SO DO I HAVE ADDITIONAL TIME? MS. BILL? UM, IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE WHO CAN YIELD TIME TO YOU, UH, WE HAVE A FEW FOLKS THAT, THAT ARE HERE STILL THAT COULD YIELD THEIR TIME TO YOU. MR. MASCARO IS NEXT. I'LL, THAT'S YOU, MR. MS. COURT? YES. OKAY. YOU'LL HAVE THREE MORE MINUTES. OKAY. RIGHT NOW, RENTAL HOUSING PROVIDERS ARE CHOOSING NOT TO FILE EVICTIONS FOR NON-PAYMENT OF RENT. THIS IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE, WHILE THE RENTAL HOMES COVERED UNDER THE CARESS ACT, AND THAT'S AT LEAST 50.6% OF THE 260,000 RENTAL HOMES AVAILABLE IN SAN ANTONIO THAT, UH, MS. HOUSTON REPORTED ON ARE NOT ABLE TO FILE FOR EVICTION THROUGH THE LATE JULY, THE OTHERS THAT CAN FILE HA CAN FILE, BUT HAVE CHOSEN NOT TO DO SO. AS OF THE THIRD WEEK IN APRIL, THERE WERE ONLY 54 EVICTIONS FILED IN BEXAR COUNTY COMPARED TO 612 IN MARCH DURING THE SAME WEEK, THE NEWS THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO ORDINANCE WILL BE PA I'M SORRY, THE NEWS THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL BE PASSING A 60 DAY NOTICE TO CURE ORDINANCE NEXT WEEK, WILL FORCE RENTAL HOUSING PROVIDERS INTO HAVING TO CHOOSE TO PROTECT THEIR BUSINESSES AND LIVELIHOODS WHEN PREVIOUSLY THEY WERE CHOOSING TO WORK WITH THEIR RESIDENTS. IT HAS BEEN STATED BEFORE, AND I'LL REPEAT AGAIN. EVICTION IS A LAST RESORT FOR RENTAL HOUSING PRO PROVIDERS. BESIDES THE FACT THAT THEY CARE ABOUT THEIR RESIDENTS, IT DOESN'T MAKE FINANCIAL SENSE TO EVICT SOMEONE WHO IS COMMUNICATING AND WORKING TO MEET THEIR OBLIGATIONS AS IT COSTS MORE TO EVICT SOMEONE THAN IT DOES TO WORK WITH THEM. THE POSSIBILITY FOR ANY PROFIT IN APARTMENT BUSINESS REQUIRES THAT ALL THE UNITS BEING RENTED TO PAYING ARE BEING RENTED TO PAYING CUSTOMERS. FOR MANY SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, A FEW NON-REVENUE PRODUCING UNITS CAN MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, MEAN, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING IN THE BLACK AND BEING IN THE RED. WE NEED OUR PAYING RESIDENTS AS MUCH AS THEY NEED OUR APARTMENTS. AS A CITIZEN OF THIS GREAT CITY AND CITY COUNCIL, DISTRICT NINE, I'M PROUD OF THE WAY OUR LEADERSHIP HAS HANDLED THIS CRISIS. SAN ANTONIO HAS DONE MORE TO HELP CITIZENS GET THROUGH THIS INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TIME THAN ANY OTHER CITY IN TEXAS AND PROBABLY THE NATION. YOU DESERVE RECOGNITION FOR THAT, BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH. OUR COMMUNITY IS STRUGGLING, AND WE NEED YOU, OUR LEADERS, TO BE FOCUSED ON FINDING THE RESOURCES TO HELP OUR MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE GET THE HELP THEY NEED WITH THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE. THAT INCLUDES GETTING BACK TO WORK NOT ON PASSING ORDINANCES THAT WILL NOT STAND UP TO A LEGAL CHALLENGE, AND THAT WILL WASTE TAXPAYER DOLLARS AND HURT TAXPAYING SAN ANTONIO SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS FOR WHOM THERE WILL LIKELY BE NO RELIEF FOR THE DAMAGE INFLICTED ON THEIR FAMILIES BY THOSE THEY TRUST TO REPRESENT THEM. TO THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME. THANK YOU, MS. BILL B BRETT FINLEY, MR. FINLEY, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY JEANIE FULLER. THANK YOU FOR THE BOOST. UH, GOOD, GOOD MORNING. I, I SHOULD STILL SAY, UH, MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL. UM, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO SPEAK, UH, THIS MORNING. UM, AND FIRST OFF, I JUST WANNA, I'D BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SAY, UM, THANK YOU TO YOU ALL AND WE'VE BEEN TUNING IN EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY AS YOU HAVE NAVIGATED TECHNOLOGICAL, UH, DIFFICULTIES, UH, WITH WEBEX. UH, BUT WE'VE ALSO BEEN NOTICING, [02:15:01] UH, YOU ALL IN THE COMMUNITY, YOU'RE WORKING SEVEN DAYS A WEEK NONSTOP PARTNERING WITH THE SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK, SHOWCASING, YOU KNOW, QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSIONS WITH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND, AND REALLY GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND FOR THIS COMMUNITY. AND, AND SO ON BEHALF OF, OF BOTH THE SAN ANTONIO BOARD OF REALTORS AND JUST AS A PROUD RESIDENT, UH, OF THIS COMMUNITY AND DISTRICT 10, UH, I COMMEND YOU ALL FOR YOUR EFFORTS DURING THIS TIME. I, I CERTAINLY, UH, HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT'S LIKE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS DIOCESE, BUT I UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY THAT, THAT YOU ALL ARE FACED WITH DEALING WITH THESE, THESE DIFFICULT CHALLENGES, UM, AND, AND TRYING TO PROBLEM SOLVE A LOT OF THE SCENARIOS. UH, THERE'S CERTAINLY NO BLUEPRINT, UH, THAT WE COULD POINT TO, TO, TO SAY, HEY, THIS IS, THIS IS HOW WE CAN PROVIDE, UH, REASONABLE, UH, HOUSING AVAILABILITY AND MEANS OF SERVICES FOR, UH, THE RESIDENTS OF SAN ANTONIO. AND, AND YOU ALL ARE, ARE PUTTING YOUR, YOUR, YOUR COLLECTIVE MINDS TOGETHER TO COME UP WITH REASONABLE SOLUTIONS. AGAIN, TO REITERATE WHAT, UH, OUR CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD KIM BRAGMAN HAD SAID, UH, WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, THAT THERE ARE NOT UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AND ADVERSE IMPACTS. UH, ON THE LANDLORD'S SIDE, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT THIS COMMUNITY WHO RENT OUT TO FAMILIES, UH, AND RESIDE IN SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL RENTAL PROPERTIES. AND, AND THEY HAD, THEY TOO HAVE BILLS UNFORTUNATELY, THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO PAY, UM, MORTGAGE, UTILITY, UM, TAXES, INSURANCE, THINGS OF THE LIKE, AND, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE, UH, THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY AND PERHAPS THAT THERE'S NOT POLICY PUT FORWARD, UH, NEXT WEEK OR IN, IN THE WEEKS AHEAD. BEYOND THAT, UM, PERHAPS WITH A 60 DAY OPPORTUNITY CURE THAT THAT LOSES SIGHT AGAIN, OF, OF THE LANDLORD TENANT RELATIONSHIP. I KNOW COUNCILMAN PLAZ REFERENCED, UH, THE SYMBIOTIC, UH, RELATIONSHIP, ONE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT THE OTHER. AND, AND IT'S SO TRUE. I I KNOW, UH, MANY LANDLORDS WHO ARE OPERATING RIGHT NOW IN GOOD FAITH, UM, AND THEY'RE DOING SO, YOU KNOW, NOT MALICIOUSLY. THEY'RE, THEY'RE WAIVING FEES. THEY'RE WORKING ON PAYMENT PLANS. WE COMMEND THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE IN PUTTING TOGETHER THE TENANTS RIGHTS ALONG WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER RESOURCES THAT, UH, BOTH THEM AND NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES DEPARTMENT HAS PUT TOGETHER DURING THIS TIME. AND WE'RE HOPING THERE'S NO PERFECT SOLUTION TO, TO THIS, BUT WE'RE HOPING THAT, YOU KNOW, COLLECTIVELY, YOU KNOW, OUR ORGANIZATIONS, UM, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW, ALONG WITH YOU ALL IN THIS ROOM, CAN COME TOGETHER, UM, AND WORK ON REASONABLE SOLUTIONS THAT, UH, PERHAPS DO NOT HAVE, UH, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. AND DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF OUR HOUSING PROVIDERS DURING THIS, THIS DIFFICULT TIME. UH, BUT THANK YOU AGAIN. WE LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH YOU ALL IN THE FUTURE, AND, AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR HARD WORK. THANK YOU, MR. FINLEY. JEANNIE FULLER, MS. FULLER, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY KAREN FISHER. I WANT TO THANK THE CITY COUNCIL FOR ALL THE DECISIONS YOU HAVE MADE TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO. MY NAME IS JEANNIE FULLER. I'M A FORMER EDUCATOR FROM THE JUDSON I S D. I'M IN CITY COUNCIL NINE NOW. MY HUSBAND IS A MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER, UH, AND PROFESSIONAL, AND OUR BACKGROUNDS DIRECTLY IMPACT THE DECISIONS WE MAKE AS WE ARE ALSO SMALL MOM AND POP APARTMENT OWNERS. UM, UH, WE TAKE, UM, UH, STRUGGLING PROPERTIES, CLASS D, CLASS F, CLASS C PROPERTIES, AND TURN THEM INTO SAFE AND WELCOMING PROPERTIES, UH, FOR FAMILIES TO LIVE AND TO ALSO FLOURISH. WE'VE ACTUALLY WON AWARDS IN AUSTIN AND TEXAS FOR THE EFFORTS THAT WE HAVE DONE. I'M ALSO THE, UH, 2020 I R O CHAIR, UH, INDEPENDENT RENTAL OWNER CHAIR OF THE SAN ANTONIO APARTMENT ASSOCIATION. WE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT WE DO. OUR GOAL IS TO PROTECT AND PROVIDE HOMES FOR THE RESIDENTS WE SERVE. WE BELIEVE EVERYONE IN THIS CHAMBER TODAY HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO FIND EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS IMPACTING BOTH THE RESIDENTS AND ALSO THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, UM, MANY OF WHICH ARE ALSO MOM AND POP, UH, OWNERS LIKE WE ARE. UH, WE MUST FIND SOLUTIONS THAT IMPACT POSITIVELY DURING THIS CRISIS TIME, BOTH THE RESIDENT AND THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER AS WELL, SO THAT IT PREVENTS INADVERTENTLY CREATING CRISIS TOMORROW BY EVERYONE WHO WILL BE AFFECTED. UH, WE ARE OPPOSED TO THE 60 DAY NOTICE TO VACATE. UH, AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THIS WILL HAVE A SERIOUS UNIN UNINTENDED NEGATIVE IMPACT ON BOTH THE RESIDENTS, UH, WITH THAT EFFECT THAT IT'S GOING TO HAVE ON, UH, THE OWNERS, UH, OWNERS MUST CONTINUE TO PAY THEIR MORTGAGES, THEIR UTILITIES, THEIR TAXES, THEIR STAFF, AND CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AT THIS TIME, WHEN ACTUALLY THOSE NEEDS AND COST HAVE INCREASED. UH, BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEING ISOLATED AT HOME, UTILITIES ARE GOING HIGHER BECAUSE THERE'S MORE PEOPLE IN THEIR, IN, IN THEIR APARTMENTS. UM, AND ALSO WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THOSE. I ASK FOR DISCERNMENT AND WISDOM IN THE SOLUTION AND DECISION [02:20:01] THAT Y'ALL ARE MAKING, UH, AND THAT YOU, UH, IN, UM, SOLICIT INVOLVEMENT OF BOTH RESIDENTS AND OWNERS, UH, AS YOU MAKE THESE DECISIONS. UM, IF APARTMENTS GO INTO FORECLOSURE, IT WILL CREATE A GREATER CR, UH, UH, HOUSING CRISIS THAN EVEN EXIST, UH, PREVIOUSLY. IT WILL CREATE A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS AS WELL, AND DISPLACEMENT FOR THE PEOPLE WE ARE ALL TRYING TO SERVE. I WOULD LIKE TO SEED MY REMAINING TIME TO KAREN FISHER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. FULLER. UM, YOU CAN TAKE YOUR TIME OR SEED YOUR TIME, SO MS. FISHER WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. FISHER. YOU'RE NEXT MORNING, Y'ALL. I'M KAREN FISHER. I'M A FEMALE OWNED BUSINESS OWNER. I AM A MINORITY DISABLED VETERAN. I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY AND PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS A REGISTERED NURSE IN THE AIR FORCE, AND THEN I ALSO SERVED AND CONTINUED SERVING MY DISABLED VETERANS IN THE VA AT OTIE MURPHY, AND NOW I CONTINUE TO SERVE MY COMMUNITY. SO I AM SAN ANTONIO, AND I JUST WANNA LET YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE SEVERAL PROPERTIES IN 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, AND ONE. SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT MY OPPOSITION ON THE 60 DAY NOTICE BEFORE DELIVERING THE NOTICE TO VACATE. I LOVE BEING A BUSINESS OWNER. I LOVE MY RESIDENTS. I LOVE THE FACT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO, UH, PROVIDE THEM WITH A CLEAN, FUNCTIONAL PLACE TO LIVE AND MAKE IT AFFORDABLE FOR THEIR, FOR THEIR INCOME BRACKET. I'M DOING THE BEST THING THAT I CAN FOR MY COMMUNITY AND FOR MY RESIDENTS. WE'VE ALSO COLLABORATED WITH OUR RESIDENTS IN HELPING UTILIZE THAT RISK MITIGATION PROGRAM. I'VE WORKED WITH THEM AND I'VE ALSO PROVIDED A LOT OF RESOURCES IN THE EVENT THAT THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO PAY THEIR RENTS. HOWEVER, THIS IS MY ONLY SOURCE OF INCOME. THIS IS AFFECTING ME. THIS IS AFFECTING MY FAMILY. NOT ONLY THAT, THIS IS AFFECTING THE BUSINESS THAT WE HAVE FOR SAN ANTONIO. UM, WE PROVIDE JOBS, WE'VE CREATED JOBS FOR IMPROVING OUR, OUR PROPERTIES, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO PROVIDING ASSISTANCE BY MAKING THAT COMMUNITY MUCH BETTER. BUT, AND THE, THE, THE EFFECT OF THIS IS THAT IT IS NOW AFFECTING WHAT I CAN PROVIDE FOR MY WORKERS. THEY HAVE, THEY'RE LOSING THEIR JOBS. THEY'RE LOSING MINIMUM TIME. THIS, THIS DOES IN FACT, JUST IMPACTS MAINTENANCE THAT'S PROVIDED ANY TYPE OF RESOURCES. WE AS SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, STILL HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PAYING OUR TAXES, INSURANCE, MORTGAGES, AND YET WE AS SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, BECAUSE I'M MY MY BUSINESS, MY PROPERTIES ARE PRIVATELY FUNDED THROUGH PRO SMALL BANKS, THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO PROVIDE THOSE AT THE LARGER CORPORATIONS. SO AS AN INDEPENDENT RENTAL OWNER, WE FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS. AND SO THIS IS A HUGE IMPACT ON OUR PERS MY PERSONAL LIFE AND AS FAR AS MY FAMILY. SO I, MY MAIN THING IS I JUST WANTED TO REQUEST, PLEASE, I IMPLORE YOU TO CONSIDER OPPOSING THAT 60 DAY, UH, PRIOR NOTICE TO VACATE FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS. AND I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. FISHER. THAT'S EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM. SO WE'LL NOW MOVE INTO COUNSEL DISCUSSION. UH, AND LET ME START BY THANKING OUR, UH, COMMUNITY WHO CAME OUT TO SPEAK ON ALL THE ASPECTS OF WHAT WE HEARD TODAY, AS LONG AS WELL AS OUR CITY STAFF FOR THE PRESENTATION. WHAT YOU HEARD TODAY FOR TELLS, UH, SOME VERY SERIOUS CONVERSATIONS, UH, THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE, UM, OR THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AS A COUNCIL AND AS A COMMUNITY. UH, AND SOME IMPORTANT DECISIONS THAT WE'LL MAKE, NOT JUST IN TERMS OF THE CRISIS RESPONSE THAT WE CURRENTLY ARE DEALING WITH, BUT ALSO THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY AND GENERATIONS TO COME. I DON'T THINK I HAVE TO TELL ANYONE, UM, THAT WE ALREADY KNOW THIS, THAT THE C OVID 19 PANDEMIC IS THE BIGGEST ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS OF OUR LIVES. WE SHOULD ALL BE GRATEFUL AND HONORED THAT OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY HAS COME TOGETHER, WORKING AS A TEAM TO PROTECT OUR COLLEAGUES, OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR PARENTS, OUR PARTNERS, SPOUSES AND CHILDREN, TO KEEP THEM SAFE. AND AS WE'VE HEARD FROM OUR PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS, OUR COLLECTIVE EFFORTS [02:25:01] ARE IN FACT WORKING. WE ARE FLATTENING THE CURVE OF THE FIRST WAVE OF THIS DISEASE, AND WE SHOULD BE PROUD OF THAT. WE'VE ALL PLAYED A ROLE. ALTHOUGH WE DO REMAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS STORM, OUR COMMUNITY MUST BEGIN MOVING TOWARD RECOVERY AND COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION. AND AT THE SAME TIME, WE MUST ENSURE THAT WE ARE PREPARED FOR A POTENTIAL SECOND WAVE OF C OVID 19 CASES. IT'S ESSENTIAL THAT WE GET THIS RIGHT, AND I'M DETERMINED TO CRAFT THE RECOVERY IN A WAY THAT BUILDS OUR COMMUNITY IN A STRONGER, MORE RESILIENT AND MORE EQUITABLE WAY. THIS IS OUR TIME TO REBOOT. SO I'M ASKING US ALL TO THINK ABOUT THE PICTURES THAT WE'VE SEEN OVER THE LAST MONTH, AND HOPE THAT WE CAN COLLECTIVELY NOT BE SATISFIED IN GETTING BACK TO THE WAY THINGS WERE, BECAUSE I REMIND YOU THE WAY THINGS WERE BEFORE OUR FOOD BANK LINES DOUBLED IN THE MATTER OF A WEEK TO 120,000 PEOPLE SAW THAT NORMAL FOR MANY OF US IN THIS COMMUNITY, MEANT THAT 60,000 FAMILIES WERE DEPENDING ON THE FOOD BANK FOR FOOD. NORMAL MEANT THAT DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE HAD A CHURNING ECONOMY THAT FEATURED 3% UNEMPLOYMENT, THAT WE HAD ROUGHLY 20% OF FAMILIES LIVING IN POVERTY IN SAN ANTONIO. AND OVER A QUARTER OF ALL CHILDREN, UH, MANY MORE THAN THAT, UH, EXPERIENCING, UH, WHAT WE KNOW AS THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND NOT HAVING ACCESS TO THE INTERNET FOR SIMPLE THINGS LIKE CHECKING THEIR HOMEWORK. WE SHOULD CHALLENGE OURSELVES TO EMERGE FROM THIS CRISIS AS A COMMUNITY THAT NO LONGER ACCEPTS GENERATIONAL POVERTY AS A FACT OF LIFE. AND IT STARTS NOW, THE INTERNET, JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, AS A UTILITY, AS ESSENTIAL AS WATER AND ELECTRICITY. SO AS WE'VE HEARD, THE DIGITAL DIVIDE MUST BE BRIDGED. WE MUST HAVE A BROADBAND NETWORK THAT REACHES EVERY FAMILY IN SAN ANTONIO BECAUSE EVERY RESIDENT HAS A RIGHT TO INFORMATION. IF WE'RE COMMITTED TO EQUITY, WE NEED TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT DIGITAL INCLUSION. FOOD AND HOUSING SECURITY IS A NECESSITY AS WELL. THAT'S WHERE WE STARTED. AND SO WE MUST NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO LOSE THEIR HOME OR GO HUNGRY BECAUSE OF THIS CRISIS. AND WE MUST FOCUS ON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, JOB TRAINING, AND ENSURING THAT LOCAL BUSINESSES WHO ARE PROVIDING FOR JOBS FOR SAN ANTONIO CAN FLOURISH. WE COLLECTIVELY MUST CONSIDER $270 MILLION IN FUNDING THAT SAN ANTONIO HAS RECEIVED THROUGH THE CARES ACT AS A GENERATIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO BE BOLD, TO PUT UP, AND TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON WHAT WE ALL KNOW NEEDS TO BE DONE. THE NECESSARY PRIORITIES FOR THESE RESOURCES ALLOTTED FOR SOCIAL GOOD ARE ALL TOO CLEAR. THESE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE FOR RECOVERY EFFORTS AND MUST BE TARGETED AT UNIVERSAL INTERNET ACCESS, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING SECURITY, AND OF COURSE, SUPPORT FOR OUR SMALL BUSINESSES. AND SO THAT DURING THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, WE WILL DIG IN THE DETAILS, BUT WE KNOW WHICH WAY WE MUST MOVE AND WHERE WE MUST END, AND WE MUST REBOOT. IT'S NOT ACCEPTABLE TO GO BACK TO THE WAY THINGS WERE. OUR NORMAL MUST BE HEALTHIER. WE MUST END AS AN EQUITABLE CITY WHERE RESIDENTS HAVE A FAIR CHANCE, ALL RESIDENTS AND AN EDUCATION, AND A GOOD JOB, AND TO THRIVE IN THE POST COVID ECONOMY. SO WE'LL MOVE NOW TO COUNCIL DISCUSSION ON THE PRESENTATIONS. WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER GRO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME? YES, BECAUSE I CAN'T HEAR YOU. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, LORI, I HAVE, I WANNA START WITH YOU, PLEASE. SLIDE NUMBER THREE, IF YOU COULD BRING THAT UP. YOU TALKED ABOUT HOW THERE ARE 260,000 RENTAL UNITS THROUGHOUT SAN ANTONIO. IS THAT CORRECT? YES. AND 60% OF THOSE ARE COVERED UNDER THE CARE ACT. UH, 50% ARE COVERED BY THE CARES ACT. OH, 50, OKAY. MM-HMM. , IS THAT JUST APARTMENT OR IS THAT ALSO SINGLE FAMILY RENTALS? IT INCLUDES SINGLE FAMILY RENTALS. AND SO WE, WE LOOKED AT APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND THEN THOSE THAT USE VOUCHERS FOR SINGLE FAMILY RENTALS. OKAY. AND WHAT I'D ALSO LIKE TO ENCOURAGE YOU, UH, I'M SURE YOU'RE DOING THIS IN YOUR OUTREACH, THAT YOU ALSO REACH OUT TO THE RADIO STATIONS, NOT JUST MAIL OR, OR DOOR ANCHORS, BUT ALSO RADIO STATIONS. [02:30:03] THANK YOU. AND I WANNA THANK ALL THOSE WHO CAME AND SPOKE TODAY. I THINK IN PARTICULAR, ONE INDIVIDUAL, UH, LANDOWNER, , I SHOULD SAY, WHO HAD TO DEAL WITH THAT SPECIFIC ISSUE. AND I KNOW, UH, MANY PEOPLE IN DISTRICT THREE ARE ALSO HAVING TO, TO DEAL WITH THOSE KIND OF SITUATIONS. SO THANK YOU, LORI. THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR YOU, ANDY. UM, I, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PRESENTATION. UM, SO IN, I, FOR POINT OF CLARIFICATION, SIX PEOPLE PER TABLE IN THE RESTAURANTS. IT, DO THEY HAVE TO BE FIXED AWAY ON THE TABLE? AND CAN IT BE MIXED HOUSEHOLDS AT ONE TABLE OF, UH, I'M SORRY, COUNCILMAN. YOU WERE, YOU WERE COMING IN AND OUT, UH, WAS THE QUESTION, COULD IT BE SIX FROM THE SAME HOUSEHOLD OR DIFFERENT HOUSEHOLDS AT ONE TABLE? THEY DIDN'T MAKE THAT DISTINCTION. SO, UH, GIVEN THAT THEY DIDN'T MAKE THAT DISTINCTION, MY GUESS IS THEY CAN BE FROM DIFFERENT HOUSEHOLDS. OKAY. AND THEN WAS THERE ANY CLARIFICATION ABOUT BANQUET SERVICES WITHIN HOTEL, UH, BANQUET SERVICES? THE, UH, RIGHT, SO THERE'S A WEDDING RECEPTION YES. IN A HOTEL. THERE WAS, UH, THERE, THERE WAS SPECIFIC MENTION OF WEDDING RECEPTIONS, WHICH IS, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE GOVERNOR WAS VERY SPECIFIC ON. UH, WEDDING RECEPTIONS CAN BE HELD EITHER, UM, INDOORS, IF THEY'RE HELD INDOORS, THEY HAVE TO BE AT THE 25%, UH, CAPACITY OF OCCUPANCY, NOT INCLUDING STAFF. AND THEY STILL HAVE TO HAVE THE TABLE SIX FEET APART, NO MORE THAN SIX PEOPLE PER TABLE. ESSENTIALLY, ALL THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE IMPOSED ON RESTAURANTS NOW FOR WEY RECEPTIONS OUTSIDE, UM, THO THOSE ARE, ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE 25%, BUT YOU DO HAVE TO STILL HAVE THE SIX FEET APART OF TABLES, SIX PER PEOPLE PER TABLE, ET CETERA. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND FOR COSMETOLOGY, YOU'RE NOT DONE YET, ANDY, FOR COSMETOLOGY THE SANITATION INSIDE OF NAILS, SALONS HAIR SALON. SO WHEN THEY, THEY'RE DOING THEIR APPOINTMENT, IT CAN ONLY BE ONE APPOINTMENT AT A TIME PER STYLIST, CORRECT? IT, IT COULD BE ONE, YES. THEY WANT IT BY APPOINTMENT ONLY ONE PERSON PER, UH, SERVICE PROVIDER, IF THERE'S A WAITING AREA, THEY NEED TO MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCING IN THE WAITING AREA. OKAY. BECAUSE SOME HAIRSTYLISTS, THEY'LL TAKE TWO PEOPLE AT A TIME, SO IT CAN'T HAPPEN, ACTUALLY THEN. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION, COUNCILWOMAN, BECAUSE IT WAS PRETTY, PRETTY CLEAR THAT THEY WANTED TO LIMIT IT ONE PERSON AT A TIME. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MARIA. I THINK I WANNA SPEND MOST OF MY TIME WITH YOU ON THE CARES ACT. I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR PUTTING ALL OF THIS FORWARD. AND I KNOW ONE THING THAT WE'RE WORKING ON, WHAT, WHAT I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO SEE, AND I THINK IN THE FEDERAL, UM, ADVOCACY ASPECT, WE'RE ALSO HOPING THAT AN IN INFRASTRUCTURE WILL BE PART OF A BILL IN THE FUTURE, TOO. CAN WE GO TO, I THINK SLIDE NUMBER 11 ACTUALLY, UNDER THE, UH, QUARANTINE AND ISOLATION FACILITIES? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT? THAT PARTICULAR CATEGORY COUNCILMAN WOULD APPLY, FOR INSTANCE, FOR THE HOTELS THAT WE, UM, LEASE FOR EITHER OUR EMPLOYEES OR THE, UM, GENERAL POPULATION, WOULD THAT ALSO GO TOWARDS PAY FOR HOPE? YES. OKAY. UM, ANOTHER QUESTION ABOUT IS SLIDE NUMBER TWO? SO I AM ABSENT SUPPORT OF WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE DIGITAL DIVIDE, I, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT HIGHLIGHTED IS THAT WE ALREADY MAGNIFIED THAT WE ALREADY KNEW THAT WAS HAPPENING. NUMBER TWO, IF THERE'S ANY WAY THAT WE CAN, UM, USE THESE DOLLARS TO HELP AND AMPLIFY THAT MORE , I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE THAT, UM, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT , IT IS A UTILITY THAT WE USE. UM, I BELIEVE WITH TESTING AND CONTACT TRACING, LET'S PUT OUR DOLLARS TOWARDS THERE, [02:35:02] AS WELL AS, UM, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. BUT SPECIFICALLY, YOU KNOW, PRE COVID, WE AL ALREADY HAD HEARD FROM COMPANIES SAYING THAT SAN ANTONIO NEEDED A, A STRONGER SKILLED WORKFORCE. NOW IS OUR OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY INVEST IN THAT AND HELP ALL OF THE EMPLOYEES IN SAN ANTONIO PIVOT INTO THE AREAS THAT THEY WANT TO DO AND GO TOWARDS CAREER DEVELOPMENT AS WELL, AND CREATING THESE OPPORTUNITIES. I THINK WE ALSO NEED TO WORK IN MAKING SURE THAT, UM, ORGANIZATIONS OR COMPANIES ALSO DO UPSKILLING AND TRAINING IN THEIR, IN THEIR PROTOCOLS WHEN THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD. I ALSO THINK WE NEED TO WORK ON HELP MICRO AND SMALL BUSINESSES, AND THE IMPACT THAT C OVID 19 HAS HAD TO THEM AND THEIR RESPONSE. SO THE SMALL BUSINESS AND BUSINESS INTERRUPTION GRANTS IS SOMETHING EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. UM, I WOULD SLIDE 13, MARIA. SO ALL OF THESE OTHER FEDERAL FUNDING SOURCES, THESE GRANTS ARE ON TOP OF THE 270 MILLION, IS THAT CORRECT? YES. COUNCILWOMAN, THAT IS CORRECT. COUNCIL MEMBER, WE LOST YOUR AUDIO. OH, SORRY. IF YOU CAN GO TO SLIDE NUMBER 16, PLEASE. OH, OH, FIRST, CAN YOU TALK TO ME, MARIA, ABOUT DO WE HAVE THE DOLLARS OF THE IMPACT FOR C P S AND SAWS RIGHT NOW, AND WHAT THAT INFORMATION IS FOR THE REMAINING OF 20 AND 2021? UH, YES. COUNCILMAN FOR C P S, UM, THE SAME ESTIMATE THAT WE PROVIDED TO THE COUNCIL A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. UM, WE ARE ESTIMATING THAT C P SS WILL BE 15 MILLION BELOW THE BUDGETED AMOUNT. 8 MILLION OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH C OVID 19 AND THE BALANCES DUE TO OUR MILE WEATHER FOR SAW, WE'RE ANTICIPATING, UM, OUR TOTAL REVENUE TO BE ROUGHLY ABOUT 600,000 BELOW BUDGET. 1.2 MILLION IS RELATED TO COVID TO 19. WE WERE AHEAD OF BUDGET FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS. UM, SO THOSE ARE THE IMPACTS FOR BOTH, UH, UTILITY REVENUES. OKAY. UM, YOU KNOW, WE DID GET A RACE INDICATOR REPORT THAT CAME OUT, AND SO IT REALLY HIGHLIGHTED WHAT WAS HAPPENING PRIOR TO, IN OUR STATE OF SAN ANTONIO MARIA, FOR OUR FURLOUGHED EMPLOYEES, HAVE OUR 270 FURLOUGHED EMPLOYEES RECEIVED THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT CHECKS, YET I WELCOME, COME FROM THAT WITH THAT COUNCILWOMAN. I, UM, MY UNDERSTANDING THEY WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GET IT AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS WEEK, BUT, UM, BE BEFORE WE CONCLUDE THIS MEETING, I'LL, I'LL FIND OUT FROM THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT AND ANSWER THAT QUESTION. AND I ALSO WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE DEMOGRAPHICS, MEANING THE RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER OF ALL OF THE CITY FURLOUGHED EMPLOYEES. AND, UH, FINALLY, WHEN IT COMES TO, UM, TO OUR COMMUNITY. AND AS PEOPLE CONTINUE TO BE FURLOUGHED AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THIS, MAYOR, THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY FOR A RECONSTRUCTION OF OUR BUDGET. AND, UM, I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP EQUITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES WITH ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND OUR MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY. SO, I'LL SIGN BACK IN IF I DIDN'T GET ANYTHING, UM, ANSWERED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GRA. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, SOME YEARS AGO, I, UH, RAN INTO A CONSTITUENT AND, UM, HE SAID THAT HE, UH, HAD BEEN LIVING IN A HOUSE FOR A WHILE, AND, UM, THE PERSON WHO OWNED THE HOUSE HAD DIED, AND THE HOUSE HAD GONE UP FOR AUCTION AND WAS PURCHASED BY SOMEBODY ELSE. UH, AND THE PERSON WHO PURCHASED THE HOME WANTED TO UPGRADE IT, INCREASE THE RENT, AND HAVE HIM SIGN A LEASE. AND HE SAID HE HAD NEVER SIGNED A LEASE BEFORE. UH, AND HE WAS VERY RELUCTANT TO SIGN IT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE OBLIGATIONS WERE IN SIGNING A LEASE. HE WAS A GROWN MAN. IT WASN'T HIS FIRST APARTMENT. HE HAD A FAMILY, UH, OR HIS FIRST HOME. [02:40:01] UM, BUT BECAUSE HE CAME TO THE OFFICE, UH, THROUGH MY STAFF MEMBER, DAN MAA, HE WAS ABLE TO CONNECT HIM WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, AND HE WAS ABLE TO, UH, PURCHASE HIS OWN HOME RIGHT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE WE WERE. AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS STORY THAT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE, BECAUSE IT GIVES, UH, AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK WE CAN DO AS A CITY TO HELP PEOPLE STABILIZE. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THAT SCENARIO, UH, THAT CAME TO MY ATTENTION WAS THAT THE PERSON DID NOT HAVE A LEASE. AND AS A COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, REPRESENTING THE AREA THAT I DO, IT, IT WAS VERY COMMON FOR US, ESPECIALLY AT FIVE O'CLOCK ON A FRIDAY TO HAVE A FAMILY OR A COUPLE, OR, UM, SOMETIMES JUST SINGLE PEOPLE COME TO OUR OFFICE AND SAY THEY HAD JUST BEEN EVICTED. AND, UM, I KNOW THAT SOME OF MY STAFF MEMBERS OPENLY GAVE FROM THEIR OWN POCKETS TO PUT PEOPLE IN A HOTEL. UM, WE OFTEN CALLED KENNY WILSON AT HAVEN FOR HOPE AND SAID THAT WE HAD AN EMERGENCY SITUATION. I SUSPECT KENNY ALSO TOOK MONEY STRAIGHT FROM HIS POCKET TO PUT PEOPLE IN A HOTEL TILL WE COULD FIND OUT BETTER ARRANGEMENTS FOR WHAT TO DO WITH THE, THE, THE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE WERE CHILDREN INVOLVED. UM, AND SO DEALING WITH THIS CRISIS THAT WE, AN CAN ANTICIPATE COMING IS NOT NEW TO ME. IT'S NOT NEW TO MANY OF THE STAFF MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS A LONG TIME. BUT WE DID FIND THAT THE, ONE OF THE NUMBER ONE COMMONALITIES OF PEOPLE GETTING EVICTED WAS THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE A LEASE. UH, THE OTHER ONE WAS THAT THEY OFTEN DIDN'T HAVE STABLE HOME TO BEGIN WITH. I, WHICH I THINK IS PART OF THE HOMELESSNESS ISSUE THAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING, IS THAT THEY'RE LIVING WITH FAMILY, UH, OR FRIENDS. AND THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UM, THE HONEYMOON PERIOD ENDED AND THE PERSON THEN NEEDED TO QUICKLY FIND A PLACE TO LIVE. AND SO WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE BURDENS ON THE FRONT SIDE. TO GET INTO AN APARTMENT, YOU HAVE TO SHOW, UM, THAT YOU HAVE, UH, A JOB. YOU HAVE TO SHOW THAT YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PREVIOUSLY EVICTED. YOU HAVE TO SHOW THAT YOU, UM, UH, CAN PROPERLY MAINTAIN THAT LEASE. AND, AND, AND A LOT OF, UH, BARRIERS TO ENTRY. UM, BUT NONE OF THESE ARE PARTICULARLY NEW FOR, UH, I KNOW FOR ME AND FOR THE STAFF, AS WE'VE BEEN WORKING THROUGH THESE ISSUES FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE EXPECT FOR THE POPULATIONS THAT'S DEALING WITH THESE THINGS TO GROW. AND SO WE NEED PARTNERS, UM, LIKE THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION, LIKE OUR, UH, UH, INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE RENTING HOUSES, UM, TO, TO BE, UH, UM, FLEXIBLE TO WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS, UM, BUT ALSO TO PROVIDE QUALITY HOUSING. SO ONE OF THE CONCERNS I HAD FROM THE VERY, VERY BEGINNING WHEN THIS CAME OUT BACK DURING SPRING BREAK, AND I HEARD THAT CITIES WERE GOING THROUGH A SAFE, LIVE, SAFE STATE, WORK SAFE, UM, WAS THAT I KNEW THAT SO MANY PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE. AND SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE US AND FOCUS OUR ATTENTION ON SOME OF THESE ISSUES RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, STABILIZING EXISTING HOUSING, STABILIZING EXISTING HOUSING STOCK. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS COME UP OVER THE MANY YEARS IN MY DISTRICT IS THAT, UM, SO MANY OF THE HOUSES ARE OLD AND NOT IN LIVABLE CONDITIONS. AND SO WE'VE BEEN INVESTING ON THOSE, BUT VERY SMALL, JUST, UM, USUALLY FOCUSED ON, I KNOW MY DISTRICT, BECAUSE I'VE FOCUSED A LOT OF MY ATTENTION ON THAT. BUT WE KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO DO THAT. WE'RE GONNA NEED TO DO THAT. WE'RE GONNA NEED TO EXPAND OUR SAFE HOUSING OPTIONS. WE'RE GONNA NEED TO BRING HOUSES UP TO, UH, A DISTANCE STANDARD OF LIVING SO THAT THEY DON'T END UP VACANT SO THAT THEY CAN BE ELIGIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE IN. AND PEOPLE CAN SIGN LEASES AND HAVE SOME CONSISTENCY, BECAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS COME UP ALWAYS, UM, IS THAT PEOPLE, UH, THAT WERE GETTING EVICTED VERY SUDDENLY WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS NO LEASE. SO, UM, AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THESE TENANT RIGHTS, I HOPE WE CAN PUT THAT IN THERE ON BOTH SIDES, TO ENCOURAGE THE LANDLORD AND THE TENANT TO HAVE A LEASE SO THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE. THAT SO THAT THERE IS SOME, UM, CONSISTENCY IN WHAT WOULD HAPPEN. SO PERHAPS THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN ADD TO THE OUTREACH, UM, AS WE'RE JUST TALKING THROUGH, UM, THE, UH, KIND OF SOME OF THESE ISSUES. UM, AND, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UH, US FOCUS ON THE PART THAT WE ALREADY DO THAT WE KNOW HOW TO DO VERY WELL. UH, AND IN MANY WAYS, I THINK SAN ANTONIO WAS SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF, OF THE DANGERS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW, BECAUSE WE WERE ALREADY FOCUSED ON POVERTY, WE'VE BEEN FOCUSED ON EQUITY, WE'VE BEEN FOCUSED ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ALL THE THINGS I THINK WE'VE BEEN DOING. AND I'M PROUD OF THE, THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR. AND I THINK WITH THE, UM, PRESENTATIONS WE SAW TODAY WITH THE GUIDANCE WITH THE LEADERSHIP FROM THE MAYOR, UM, AND ERIC AND THE TEAM, LIKE WE'RE REALLY ON THE RIGHT TRACK. UH, BECAUSE AGAIN, [02:45:01] A LOT OF THIS STUFF IS NOT NEW. UH, AND I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO ADD ADDITIONAL LAYERS TO COMPLICATE THIS SITUATION ANY FURTHER. LET'S JUST CONTINUE TO INVEST REALLY WELL IN THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WELL, AND THAT'S REGARDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, TRYING TO GET PEOPLE IN HOMES, TRYING TO BUILD MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, PUTTING MORE MONEY TOWARDS EQUITY, PUTTING MORE MONEY TOWARDS, UM, REALLY THE FAMILIES THAT NEED IT MOST. AND I, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE SEEING THAT, UM, TODAY'S, IN TODAY'S PRESENTATIONS, I FEEL LIKE WE WERE ON THE RIGHT TRACK. WE JUST REALLY NEED TO INVEST HEAVILY IN FOCUS ON THOSE AREAS. AND I THINK THAT, UM, IN MARIA'S PRESENTATION AND, UM, YOU KNOW, COINCIDENTALLY THE AREAS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE USES FOR THE COMMUNITY, HOUSING, DIGITAL DIVIDE, SMALL BUSINESS WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING, UH, FOR SUPPORTING COMMUNITY RESISTANT RE RESILIENCE SEAT. WE ALREADY WERE DOING THAT IN SOME OF OUR COMMITTEES. SO I KNOW I'VE TALKED TO THE MAYOR ABOUT ASKING US TO GO BACK TO OUR TRADITIONAL, UM, COMMITTEES, PERHAPS DIFFERENTLY, BUT THESE WOULD BE OBVIOUS ONES. I KNOW MY COUNCIL MEMBER PALICE WAS WORKING ON DIGITAL DIVIDE ISSUES. WE'D HAD A COUPLE OF PRESENTATIONS ON THAT BEFORE, I DON'T THINK WE FUNDED THEM. UH, SO PERHAPS WE COULD EXPAND ON THAT. UM, ALSO REGARDING THE HOUSING AND SECURITY, UM, AGAIN, WE WERE DOING A LOT THERE. AND, AND I, I WOULD LIKE TO GET AN UPDATE, UM, BECAUSE I, I AM LIMITED IN TIME, BUT IF WE COULD FIND AN, UH, ANOTHER WAY TO PRESENT HOW WE'RE DOING WITH SOME OF THE HOMELESS. WE KNOW THAT WE MOVED 300 PEOPLE, OR WE HAD AVAILABLE 300, UH, PLACES FOR HOMELESS. IF THOSE ARE STILL BEING OCCUPIED, I KNOW THAT THAT WASN'T AN EMERGENCY PLAN, BUT IF THERE'S FUNDING AVAILABLE WITH THAT TYPE OF A PLAN, UM, COULD WE EXPAND IT OR SOMETHING SIMILAR? UH, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US, UH, UH, REALLY FOCUS ON THESE ISSUES. SMALL BUSINESS AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PASSION OF MINE. AND, UM, I FELT LIKE I, I HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO FOCUS ON IT AS MUCH AS I WOULD HAVE LIKED BECAUSE WE HAD SO MANY NEEDS IN THE COMMUNITY. BUT I THINK WE'RE FINDING NOW THAT SMALL BUSINESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE GENERATOR FOR IT, UH, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THIS COMMUNITY. AND SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE US FOCUS ON THESE FEW AREAS, UM, THAT ARE LISTED HERE AS ELIGIBLE USES. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING BACK TO SOME TYPE OF NORMALCY IN OUR COMMITTEE SO WE CAN ACTUALLY VOTE AND DEDICATE MONEY TO, IF WHATEVER MONEY IS LEFT OR WHATEVER WE CAN USE WITH THE STIMULUS. SO PERHAPS ERIC, UM, I, IS THIS THE FUNDING THAT'S AVAILABLE, IT CANNOT BE USED CURRENTLY FOR THOSE ISSUES, RIGHT? WOULD THAT JUST BE GOING FORWARD? SO CAN WE, UH, USE THAT TO PAY FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, THE HOTELS THAT WE NEEDED FOR THE HOMELESS, OR IS, IS IT JUST GOING FORWARD? WELL, THE, UM, PART OF THAT IS, IS AS MARIA DESCRIBED, THAT WE'VE, WE'VE GOT THE CORONA, UH, RELIEF FUND, UH, BUT THEN WE HAVE OTHER FEDERAL GRANTS. THE, THE, THE ACTION THAT WE TOOK SEVERAL WEEKS AGO TO SECURE THAT HOTEL FOR A THREE MONTH PERIOD. WE UTILIZED, UH, FEDERAL FUNDS THROUGH C D B G OR NOT, C D B G, THE EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT. UM, SO SOME FUNDS, UM, WE'VE ALREADY EMPLOYED, UH, MARIA INDICATED ON THE SLIDE, THERE ARE OTHER ALLOCATIONS THAT ARE COMING, UH, THAT SHOULD BE COMING, BUT HAVEN'T BEEN, UM, UM, ALLOCATED BY THE FEDERAL AGENCIES. ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF LIKE A JIGSAW PUZZLE THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DEAL WITH TOGETHER, IS THAT EACH ONE OF THESE POTS OF FEDERAL FUNDS HAVE A DIFFERENT TIMELINE ON WHICH THEY HAVE TO SPEND. UM, SOME OF THEM, UH, LIKE THE HEALTH GRANTS MARIA TALKED ABOUT, HAVE TO BE SPENT BY, UH, BY, UM, UH, EARLY FALL OF 2021. THE, UH, THE C R F, THE CORONA RELIEF FUNDS HAVE TO BE SPENT BY THE, BY DECEMBER 30TH OF THIS YEAR, UM, FOR SERVICES OR GOODS OR WHATEVER, IN INCURRED BY DECEMBER 30TH. THERE'S NO CARRY FORWARD. UM, UM, SO WE WILL NEED TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO MOVE QUICKLY, UH, UH, TO PUT, UH, ACTIONS IN PLACE, UH, TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. AND, AND, UM, WHILE, WHILE, UH, THE, THE CURVE MAY HAVE FLATTENED IN TERMS OF OUR NEED TO, TO MOVE QUICKLY, OF COURSE, WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR EYE ON THE EMERGENCY. WE WILL NEED TO MOVE QUICKLY, UH, IN THIS CASE TOO. AND, AND THE REASON WHY WE INCLUDED IN THE, THE BUDGET CALENDAR PRESENTATION IS THAT ALL THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING AT ONCE. AND, UM, UH, WE WILL NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR OWN BUDGET IS, IS SOUND. WE WILL NEED TO MAKE AN, WE'RE GONNA NEED TO MAKE A LOT OF ADJUSTMENTS FOR 2021. SO EVERYTHING IS AN EMERGENCY RIGHT NOW, INCLUDING THIS. OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU. I KNOW I'M OUTTA TIME, AND ALSO I'LL CHIME BACK IN, BUT, UM, I, I DO THINK PERHAPS THE, UM, GIVES THE MAYOR SOME, UM, DESIRE TO MOVE BACK TO TRADITIONAL COMMITTEES SO WE CAN VOTE ON THINGS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, I WANNA THANK THE STAFF FOR AS ALWAYS, THEY'RE EXCELLENT AND VERY [02:50:01] THOROUGH PRESENTATIONS. UM, THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HEALTH PLAN. UH, VERY GLAD TO SEE THAT. WE'LL BE HEARING THAT, UH, ON TUESDAY. I THINK YOU CALLED IT A HEALTH IM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, BUT YOU'RE REFERRING TO THE C OVID 19 RESPONSE IN PARTICULAR. OKAY. UH, THANK YOU. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AS WE, WE HEARD ABOUT THAT LAST WEEK, A GREAT PRESENTATION BY DR. EMMERICH. UM, BUT SINCE THEN, SOME THINGS ARE CHANGING, UH, WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENTS MADE BY THE GOVERNOR. SO, UM, I'M, YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE CONCERNS THAT WE MAY SEE, UH, SOME SPIKE IN CASES, CERTAINLY SINCE THERE'S GONNA BE MORE OPPORTUNITY FOR TRANSMISSION, UH, WITH SOME ACTIVITIES, UH, BEING TAKEN ON AGAIN. SO I JUST, UH, I HOPE WE WILL ADDRESS HOW WE CAN QUICKLY RESPOND TO ANYTHING THAT MAY, UH, RESULT FROM THAT. UM, BUT THANK YOU, UH, VERY MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE, UH, MARIA, UM, IN TERMS OF, UM, UH, THE ECONOMY AND, AND WORKFORCE RESILIENCE AND, UH, HOW WE'RE GOING TO, UH, MOVE ON FROM THIS. I, I AGREE WITH COUNCILWOMAN, UH, GONZALEZ AND, UH, . I, I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO RECONVENE OUR COMMITTEES. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT WE CAN DO THROUGH THEM. UH, CERTAINLY ALL THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE, UH, HAVE A LOT TO, TO OFFER. AND WE'VE LEARNED A LOT OVER THE PAST, UH, FEW WEEKS THAT WE CAN CERTAINLY, UH, PUT TO PUT TO WORK. UM, I THINK WE ALSO HAVE TO BE MINDFUL THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, MARIA, YOU SAID IT TOOK FIVE YEARS TO RECOVER FROM THE RECESSION, RIGHT? IS THAT SOME OF OUR REVENUE SOURCES? IS THAT RIGHT? YES, COUNCILWOMAN, SPECIFICALLY THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX, THAT WAS THE REVENUE SOURCE THAT TOOK THE LONGEST. OKAY. UM, I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE HOW IT'S GONNA HAPPEN THIS TIME AROUND, BUT BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION, NOT JUST THE, THE RECESSION, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE MAY SEE, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY LACK OF CONSUMER CONFIDENCE, NOT JUST BECAUSE THERE'S NOT INCOME, BUT BECAUSE PEOPLE, UH, MAY NOW BE SCARED TO HAVE ANOTHER, UH, TYPE OF INTERRUPTION LIKE THIS. I THINK ALL OF US HAVE HEARD, UM, NOT DIRECTLY BECAUSE WE WEREN'T THERE, BUT STORIES ABOUT THE GREAT DEPRESSION. LIKE, OH, I HAD A GRANDMOTHER WHO WAS RAISED IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION, OR AN AUNT, AND WHAT DO WE HEAR FROM THEM IS THAT THEY WERE VERY THRIFTY PEOPLE, RIGHT? THEY DID NOT SPEND, UH, PROBABLY THE WAY WE SPENT, UH, LAST YEAR, LET'S SAY, OR BOUGHT THE TYPES OF, OF THINGS THAT WE HAVE. SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO SEE A, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FOLKS. I PREDICT A CHANGE IN, UH, CONSUMER BEHAVIOR, BUT I, I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THAT, AND THAT WILL PROBABLY AFFECT OUR, OUR TAX, UH, REVENUES AS WELL. UM, BUT OF COURSE, UH, THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES. SO I LOVE HEARING THE MAYOR TALK ABOUT WHAT'S OUR ECONOMY, WHAT'S OUR WORKFORCE GOING TO LOOK LIKE, UH, WHEN THIS, UH, WHEN WE GET OUT OF THIS AND WITH THE CARES MANY, WE HAVE A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE SEEN BEFORE. I AGREE WITH COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ. LET'S BUILD ON SOME OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT WE HAVE. BUT I THINK, UM, WE ALSO HAVE OPPORTUNITIES OF NEEDS RIGHT NOW FOR WORKFORCE THAT MAYBE WE CAN INVEST IN. SO, UH, I'VE BEEN TALKING TO, TO SOME, UM, TO SOME COLLEAGUES AND, UH, TO SOME FOLKS HERE ABOUT WHERE I THINK WE CAN INVEST SOME OF THAT. SO I'M GOING TO ECHO SOME OF THE MAYOR'S COMMENTS AND ADD ON TO THAT A LITTLE BIT. UM, NUMBER ONE, UH, WE WILL ALWAYS NEED CARPENTER'S HANDS WORKERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION FIELD, UH, WHETHER IT'S HOUSING REHAB IN DISTRICT FIVE OR IN MANY OF THE OTHER DISTRICTS, WHETHER IT'S WITH OUR CIRCULAR ECONOMY THAT O H P, THE OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION IS WORKING ON. UM, BUT WE NEED THEM TO BE GOOD JOBS TO, UH, I MEAN, APPRENTICESHIPS, I MEAN, GOOD PAYING JOBS, I MEAN, OSHA CERTIFICATION, SO THAT THOSE CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEES ARE ALSO SAFE. THAT IS THE MOST DANGEROUS JOB. WE THINK THAT IT'S IN OTHER SECTORS, BUT THE DEADLIEST JOB IS IN JOBS, ARE IN CONSTRUCTION, UH, BECAUSE OF THE POTENTIAL INJURIES AND, UM, AND FALLS. SO I'D LIKE TO SEE US INVEST IN SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UM, IN GREEN ENERGY, UH, YOU SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED, OF COURSE, TO HEAR THAT FROM ME. NOT LONG AGO, WE ADOPTED THE PACE PROGRAM, WHICH IS PROPERTY ASSESS CLEAN ENERGY. THAT'S STILL IN EFFECT. THAT MEANS WATER EFFICIENCY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS. THERE IS FINANCING AVAILABLE FOR THOSE, AND THAT MONEY WILL ONLY NEED TO BE PAID BACK WITH THE SAVINGS IN ALL WATER COSTS AND, UH, AND ENERGY COSTS. SO, UM, THAT'S AVAILABLE. ANY, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S AVAILABLE FOR MULTIFAMILY, FOR COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES, AND WE CAN PUT OUR FOLKS TO WORK IN THAT, WHETHER THEY'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY BE INSTALLING THE, THE INFRASTRUCTURE OR WHETHER THEY'RE DOING THE ENERGY AUDITS. THIS IS A WHOLE NEW FIELD, UH, I THINK FOR US IN TERMS OF THE ENERGY [02:55:01] AUDITS. UH, NOT TO MENTION, OF COURSE, THE POSSIBILITY OF, OF PLACING SOLAR ON EVERY ROOFTOP IN SAN ANTONIO, DUNNO EXACTLY HOW WE'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT, BUT IT'S A POSSIBILITY. UM, I THINK, UM, WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, ESPECIALLY AROUND DISTANCE LEARNING, HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE, THE DEARTH OF DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE HAVE. AND NOT JUST IN RURAL AREAS, BUT HERE IN THE, IN THE CITY WHERE PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN. AND THEY DON'T, STUDENTS DON'T ONLY NEED TO LEARN DURING THE PANDEMIC, BUT ALL YEAR LONG THEY NEED ACCESS TO, TO THE INTERNET. IT'S, UH, IT'S HARD TO, YOU CAN'T GET A JOB NOW WITHOUT ACCESS TO THE INTERNET. SO I DO THINK, UH, WE DO NEED TO MAKE SOME SORT OF CER CONCERTED INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AND WE CAN TRAIN, UM, FOLKS TO LEARN HOW TO DO THAT. AND NOT JUST IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT IN THE LITERACY ASPECT AS WELL. I SAY, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU DRIVE A CAR, YOU JUST PUT YOUR KEY IN AND YOU GO, AND IF IT DOESN'T WORK, YOU TAKE IT TO THE MECHANIC AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE STROKES, THE ENGINE, UH, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR COMPUTER, YOU DO HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT, DO I HAVE A VIRUS, UH, AN ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE? DO I KNOW HOW TO DOWNLOAD THIS? IT REQUIRES A LOT MORE HANDS-ON KNOWLEDGE AND, UM, AND WE'RE GOING, YOU KNOW, EVEN I NEED HELP WITH, WITH THAT. SO, UH, I CAN'T IMAGINE FAMILIES THAT HAVE NEVER HAD A COMPUTER IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD, HOW, HOW WOULD THEY, UH, BE ABLE TO DO THAT? SO THAT IS ANOTHER, I THINK, EMPLOYMENT SECTOR, UH, THAT WE CAN, THAT WE CAN BOOST. UM, AND OF COURSE, UM, MANUFACTURING, WE'VE ALWAYS INVESTED IN THAT. IT'S, UH, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE INVESTED IN. UM, BUT WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH OUR BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT WORKING GROUP, UH, THIS WEEK AND LAST, AND HOW CAN WE PROMOTE NOT JUST LOCAL, BUYING LOCAL, UM, BUT THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH A GOVERNMENT CAN DO, RIGHT? WE HAVE RESTRICTIONS ABOUT WHERE WE SPEND OUR, OUR CONTRACT DOLLARS OR OUR SERVICE DOLLARS. UH, WE'RE, WE'RE LIMITED BY THE STATE. PRIVATE INDUSTRY DOESN'T HAVE THOSE RESTRICTIONS. THEY HAVE OTHER RESTRICTIONS, RIGHT? THEY CERTAINLY HAVE TO BALANCE THE BOOKS, BUT HOW CAN WE, UM, CONNECT THEM TO LOCAL OPPORTUNITIES? SO, UM, ONE PROJECT THAT WE'RE TAKING ON IS BASICALLY, UH, SURVEYING SOME OF THE BIG RETAIL, SOME OF THE BIG COMPANIES IN SAN ANTONIO TO SEE WHAT ARE THEY BUYING A LOT OF AND WHAT CAN'T THEY FIND IN SAN ANTONIO, AND DOES THAT CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE FOR SOME OF OUR MANUFACTURERS? SO I, WHETHER THIS IS THROUGH SMALL BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT, SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE, OR WHETHER THIS IS THROUGH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, I THINK THIS IS ALSO, UH, AN OPPORTUNITY. AND CERTAINLY THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY WITH P P E, UM, THAT I KNOW WE JUST SPENT, UH, A HEFTY AMOUNT ON THAT. I'M NOT SURE ANY OF THAT WAS LOCALLY PRODUCED, YOU KNOW, IS THERE A POSSIBILITY, UH, FOR THAT? UM, WE KNOW SOME MANUFACTURERS ARE MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION, BUT NOW THAT WE HAVE THE BUYING POWER FOR IT, PERHAPS WE CAN EVEN HELP THOSE SMALL BUSINESSES OR THOSE MAN LOCAL MANUFACTURERS INVEST IN THE EQUIPMENT THAT THEY NEED TO PRODUCE THE SUPPLIES THAT WE NEED, UH, LOCALLY, BECAUSE WE WILL BE NEEDING THEM FOR SOME TIME GOING FORWARD. AND THEN LASTLY, UM, UH, I'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE, AND SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE, IS, AND IT SEEMS A LITTLE BIT UNRELATED, BUT WE HAVE A NURSING SHORTAGE ALL OVER, ALL OVER THE STATE AND IN SAN ANTONIO, AND THIS IS REALLY MORE ABOUT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. UM, WE KNOW THAT THERE IS SOME NEED IN TERMS OF, UM, FACULTY, NURSING FACULTY AND, UH, POSITIONS FOR PEOPLE TO, FOR TRAINING NURSES TO DO THEIR PRACTICE. I THINK I'M, PERHAPS I'M BEING A LITTLE TOO OPTIMISTIC, BUT I THINK THOSE ARE SURMOUNTABLE. AND NOW THAT WE HAVE FUNDING FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, I THINK, UM, WE SHOULD REVISIT THAT IF WE HAVE A NURSING, UH, SHORTAGE OF SAY, 3000 OR 6,000 NURSES THAT COULD BE TRANSFORMATIVE FOR THE ECONOMY OF SAN ANTONIO. UM, THAT'S PROBABLY THE AMOUNT OF JOBS THAT WE HAD AVAILABLE AT KELLY AIR FORCE BASE WHEN THAT BECAME, UM, REALLY THE PATH TO THE MIDDLE CLASS FOR THE HISPANIC POPULATION IN SAN ANTONIO. SO I FIND IT VERY EXCITING TO THINK THAT THAT COULD ALSO, UH, TRANSFORM OUR COMMUNITY. UM, SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS REGARDING THAT, UH, REGARDING HOUSING, I THINK I'LL WAIT AND, UH, CHIME IN ON THE, ON THE SECOND TIME. SO THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREWS SULLIVAN. UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. THANK YOU TO THE CITY MANAGER AND TO ALL CITY STAFF. UM, AS WE GO FORWARD. I JUST WANNA SAY, UM, THANK YOU TO MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES. A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE ASKED ON TUESDAY ABOUT CREATING MANUFACTURING JOBS, UM, BRINGING THAT [03:00:01] BACK TO THE FOREFRONT, NOW THAT WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE AVAILABILITY TO DO SO, IS REALLY AWESOME. SO THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, MARIA, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND THE HOMELESS HOUSING, AND, UM, IF THAT RELATES TO US BEING ABLE TO, UH, KICK UP THE RISK MITIGATION OR, UM, DOES THAT HELP US WITH THE PLAN THAT WE HAD PRIOR TO COVID WITH REHABBING THOSE HOMES THAT WE WERE LOOKING TO DO WITHIN THE PILOT PROGRAM? UH, YES. COUNCILMAN, UH, REGARDING RENTAL ASSISTANCE, AND I'LL JUST SAY THIS APPLIES FOR ALL THE USES OF THE CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUND, ALL EXPENSES HAVE TO BE TIED TO C OVID 19 TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES THAT WERE IMPACTED BY C OVID 19. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE AS AN ORGANIZATION, HAVE TO PROVE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS WE USE THOSE DOLLARS. SO SPECIFICALLY TO RENTAL ASSISTANCE. UM, THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE IMPACTED BY C OVID 19, THE LAWS OR JOBS OR THEIR HOURS WERE REDUCED, UH, OR WERE LAID OFF, UH, THEN, THEN YES, UH, THE, THE FUNDS WILL BE, UH, ELIGIBLE FOR RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE AS WELL. UM, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THEY WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR, UM, MINOR HOME REPAIR. UM, WE CAN DEFINITELY CLARIFY WITH THE US TREASURY, BUT BASED ON THE INFORMATION, WE KNOW, UM, THAT THAT WOULDN'T BE AN ELIGIBLE EXPENSE, BUT WOULD WE BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY ADD MORE MONEY INTO THE RISK MITIGATION BASED ON THIS, UM, ELIGIBLE EXPENSE? WILL THERE BE ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE RISK MITIGATION? UH, THE ANSWER IS YES. IF THE COUNCIL, UH, WAS TO, UH, MAKE THAT A PRIORITY ON THE COMMUNITY USES, UH, THE ANSWER IS YES, WE COULD. OKAY. AWESOME. THANK YOU. AND THEN WHEN IT COMES TO THE SMALL BUSINESS, UM, INTERRUPTION GRANTS, THIS IS OUTSIDE OF THE P P P PROGRAM, CORRECT? WOMEN AND, UM, ALSO WANNA ADD THAT, UM, AS WE MENTIONED, WE MAY GET ADDITIONAL C D B G DOLLARS, OR WE WILL GET ADDITIONAL C D B G C D B G DOLLARS THAT COULD BE USED ALSO FOR THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OR THE RISK MITIGATION. OKAY. AWESOME. THAT IS GREAT. THANK YOU. UM, FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS UNDER THAT, UH, PARTICULAR, UM, ELIGIBLE EXPENSE, IS THAT ON TOP OF THE P P P THAT WAS PROVIDED TO THE SMALL BUSINESSES? YES, MA'AM. IT'S IN ADDITION TO THAT. OKAY. AND THEN AS WE GO FORWARD, HOW ARE WE GONNA ASSIST THOSE BUSINESSES THAT HAVE ACTUALLY, UM, CLOSED, NOT JUST BEEN INTERRUPTED, BUT HAVE ACTUALLY CLOSED? IS THIS A WAY FOR US TO, UM, GET THOSE BUSINESSES BACK UP ONLINE, OR HAVE WE JUST COMPLETELY LOST THOSE BUSINESSES BE FOCUSING ON THE BUSINESSES THAT, AGAIN, ARE NEGATIVELY AFFECTED BY THE C OVID 19 AND HAVE HAD TO CLOSE BY VIRTUE OF EITHER SOCIAL DISTANCING REQUIREMENTS OR MANDATES BY THE LOCAL OR STATE GOVERNMENT OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SO THAT IS AN AREA WE'RE CERTAINLY WE'LL LOOK, BE LOOKING AT. OKAY. AND THEN, UM, CARLOS, CAN WE UTILIZE THESE SMALL, UH, FUNDS TO HELP WITH ON-THE-JOB TRAINING TO GET THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN DISPLACED DUE TO THE CLOSURES BACK ONTO, UH, JOBS THAT ARE GONNA BE, UM, ESSENTIAL FOR POST COVID COUNCILMAN AS, AS MARIA INDICATED, THERE IS, DEFUNDING IS ELIGIBLE TO BE USED FOR WORKFORCE TRAINING, SO ALL THE JOB TRAINING WOULD CERTAINLY QUALIFY. UM, WE HAVE NOT DEVISED A PROGRAM YET, BUT WE'RE WORKING ON THAT RIGHT NOW. THAT WILL PRESENT TO THE COUNCIL THAT LIKELY LOOKS AT REALLY SMALL BUSINESSES, THE SO-CALLED MICRO BUSINESSES THAT WE OFTEN REFER TO, UH, THAT HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EITHER THE P P P PROGRAM OR THE SMALL BUSINESS LOANS. WE KNOW THERE'S A NUMBER OF BUSINESSES OUT THERE THAT SIMPLY WEREN'T ABLE TO CAPITALIZE ON THAT. SO THAT'S GONNA BE ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE WILL FOCUS ON. THANK YOU, CARLOS. UM, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR LAUREN AND LORI. UM, WHEN IS THE MORATORIUM FOR THE COUNTY DUE TO LIFT? I KNOW THAT YOU SAID JULY 24TH IS FOR THE CARES ACT, BUT WHEN IS THE MORATORIUM ON EVICTION SUPPOSED TO LIFT HERE IN, IN BEXAR COUNTY? SO BEXAR COUNTY HAS PLACED A MORATORIUM, UM, ON EVICTION PROCEEDINGS. SO THAT WILL END JUNE ONE, AND THAT MEANS THAT THEY WILL NOT HEAR ANY EVICTIONS IN EVICTION COURT. YOU CAN STILL FILE. [03:05:03] OKAY. AND THEN HOW ARE WE ASSISTING WITH THOSE LANDLORDS THAT ARE ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY? UM, I KNOW YOU'RE DOING A LOT OF OUTREACH FOR THE LANDLORDS, BUT HOW ARE WE CONTACTING THOSE THAT ARE MILITARY, UM, SERVICE MEMBERS? I'LL HAVE TO LOOK INTO THAT. LIKE I SAID EARLIER ON MY PRESENTATION, WE'RE WORKING WITH THE MAJOR, UM, PROPERTY AND LANDOWNER ASSOCIATIONS LIKE SABOR, UM, THE DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATION, THE PROPERTY MANAGER ASSOCIATION. I DON'T KNOW SPECIFICALLY HOW WE'RE CONTACTING VETERAN LANDLORDS, BUT WE'LL LOOK TO SEE HOW WE CAN TARGET THEM. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, WHEN IT COMES TO THE PROPERTY TAX, AND WE KNOW THAT COUNCILMAN TREVINO AND MANY HAVE BEEN, UM, WORKING ON HAVING THE PROPERTY TAX, UM, ISSUE, UH, BROUGHT UP TO THE FOREFRONT WITH THOSE PROPERTY TAXES THAT ARE CONTINUING TO RISE, HOW ARE WE WORKING WITH THE LANDLORD, UM, AND RENTERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MAINTAINING AFFORDABILITY? I, I DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION, AND I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ON IT. OKAY. UM, THOSE ARE REALLY ALL OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAD AT THIS TIME. MAYOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, COUNCIL MEMBER ELA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, MARIA, I, I, I WANNA, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT SLIDE IT WAS, AND I DON'T WANT TO REVISIT THE SLIDE. I JUST, I, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTOOD IT THOUGH. THE, THE THREE CONDITIONS PLACED ON THE $270 MILLION THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UM, ARE ONE THAT THEY ARE NECESSARY EXPENDITURES INCURRED TO RESPOND TO THE, TO THIS PANDEMIC. TWO, UM, THE COSTS CANNOT BE ACCOUNTED FOR IN THE BUDGET MOST RECENTLY APPROVED. AND THREE, WE HAVE TO INCUR THOSE COSTS BETWEEN MARCH AND DECEMBER, RIGHT? YOU ARE CORRECT. OKAY. SO FOCUSING JUST ON NUMBER TWO, UM, WHICH IS, UM, THE COSTS CANNOT BE ACCOUNTED FOR, RIGHT? UM, IN OUR MOST RECENTLY APPROVED BUDGET, I'M, I'M WORRIED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN HEARING OUT IN THE PUBLIC THIS FALSE IDEA THAT THE FEDERAL TREASURY GAVE THE CITY VERY WIDE DISCRETION IN LATITUDE TO SPEND THESE FUNDS ON WHAT WE DEEMED BEST. UM, BUT SIMPLY THEY DIDN'T, UH, THOSE FUNDS COME WITH SOME PRETTY TIGHT RESTRICTIONS. AND, UM, I, I GOT, YOU KNOW, WHILE WE'VE BEEN UP HERE, I'VE BEEN READING THE APRIL 22ND, UH, GUIDANCE DOCUMENT PUBLISHED BY THE TREASURY, AND IT'S, THEY REALLY DO TIGHTEN, UH, THOSE RESTRICTIONS IN THAT DOCUMENT, MARIA. AND, AND SO, UM, IT, IT TROUBLES ME BECAUSE AS, AS I READ THEIR INTERPRETATION OF THAT SECOND REQUIREMENT, IT SAYS THAT A COST MEETS THIS REQUIREMENT IF EITHER ONE, THE COST CANNOT BE LAWFULLY FUNDED USING A LINE ITEM ALLOTMENT OR ALLOCATION WITHIN THE BUDGET, OR TWO, THE COST IS FOR SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT USE FROM ANY EXPECTED USE OF THE FUNDS IN SUCH A LINE ITEM, ET CETERA. AND THEN IT ALSO SAYS THAT, UM, EXPENSES THAT HAVE BEEN OR WILL BE REIMBURSED UNDER ANY FEDERAL PROGRAM CANNOT BE USED, UH, FOR THIS MONEY. AND SO I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO MAKE OF THAT , UH, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE. RIGHT? AND THEN LOOKING AT OUR BUDGET, UM, I, I, I MEAN, THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH OF THINGS THAT WE DID A LOT FOR. AND SO I'M, I'M SITTING UP HERE LISTENING TO MY COLLEAGUES, AND I'M EXCITED AT THE ENTHUSIASM FOR HOW WE'RE GONNA INVEST THIS MONEY FOR THE BENEFIT OF, OF THE COMMUNITY. BUT I, I, I WANT TO BE THAT SOBERING VOICE, AND I HATE BEING, YOU KNOW, THE, A WET BLANKET HERE. BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE NEED TO BE REALLY CAREFUL TO NOT SET FALSE EXPECTATIONS IN THE MINDS OF THE PUBLIC OR EVEN OURSELVES, RIGHT? AND START SPENDING CHECKS WITH OUR MOUTH THAT WE NOT BE ABLE TO CASH AT SOME POINT DOWN THE ROAD BECAUSE OF THESE RESTRICTIONS. UM, AND SO I LOOK AT, FOR EXAMPLE, MEAL DELIVERIES FOR SENIORS, RIGHT? I'M NOT SURE HOW THAT'S GONNA FIT BASED ON WHAT I JUST READ OUT, CONSIDERING THERE'S FEDERAL PROGRAMS THAT PAY FOR THAT, RIGHT? UM, AND THEN I'M NOT SURE HOW WE'RE GONNA SPEND THIS MONEY, UH, NOT KNOWING JEFF, FOR EXAMPLE, YOUR TEAM. YOU KNOW, WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT MONEY IS COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE, UH, FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT MAY CANCEL OUT OUR USE OF, YOU KNOW, THIS $270 MILLION. [03:10:01] AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT, I READ JOHN TH'S, UM, SENATOR OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND ALL THE OTHER SENATORS WHO ARE LINING UP BEHIND HIM SUPPORTING THIS STATEMENT. I THINK MOST OF US FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE ON THE GROUNDS OF GIVING STATES FLEXIBILITY WITH WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN APPROPRIATED, I MEAN, TELEGRAPHING, THAT THE SENATE IS NOT IN FAVOR OF SENDING MORE MONEY DOWN TO CITIES FOR REVENUE SHORTFALLS AND ALL THAT. SO, UM, I KNOW THAT $270 MILLION IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALREADY SPENDING, UH, IN OUR HEADS, RIGHT? BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY DANGEROUS, UH, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU START THINKING $270 MILLION SOUNDS LIKE A LOT, BUT IT REALLY ISN'T. UH, YOU KNOW, MARIA, YOU TOLD US THAT WE HAD HOW MUCH IN RESERVES AND HOW LONG WOULD IT LAST US? SO WE HAVE THE EQUIVALENT OF LESS THAN THREE MONTHS IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR OPERATING RESERVES. SO THAT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT $200 MILLION THAT PAYS FOR 300. I MEAN, THAT PAYS FOR THREE MONTHS OF OPERATION. SO, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THIS, THIS WANTING US TO NO LONGER, BECAUSE ALL THE PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN LISTED OFF HERE TODAY, BUT $207 MILLION IS NOT THE PANACEA AND IS NOT THE SILVER BULLET TO CURE THOSE ILLS. AND, UM, I FEAR THAT BY GOING AROUND TELLING EVERYBODY THAT WE'RE FUNDAMENTALLY GONNA CHANGE SAN ANTONIO WITH $270 MILLION FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO COME. UH, I THINK WE'RE SETTING FALSE EXPECTATIONS. AND SO I'M OPTIMISTIC AND I WANT TO BE, YOU KNOW, A MEMBER OF THE TEAM HERE AND SPEND IT ON THINGS THAT REALLY ARE GONNA BE IMPACTFUL. BUT, UM, I, I, I THINK THAT WE NEED TO BE REALLY CAREFUL. AND SO THE OTHER, THE OTHER THING WE TALKED ABOUT TODAY WAS RENT, UM, EVICTIONS. AND LORI, I, I THINK YOU DID AN EXCELLENT JOB AT SORT OF PUTTING, PAINTING THE PICTURE FOR US OF WHAT'S OUT THERE AND THE PROBLEM THAT WE'RE FACING. UH, AMERICA HAS NEVER HAD TO DEAL WITH WHAT, THANK YOU, MARIA. UH, AMERICA HAS NEVER HAD TO DEAL WITH WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH TODAY. THERE IS NO PRIOR PRECEDENT FOR WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. THE CLOSEST WE CAN COME TO, UM, TRYING TO FORECAST WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IS IF YOU LOOK AT HER POST HURRICANE KATRINA, POST HURRICANE HARVEY, POST HURRICANE IRMA AND MATTHEW IN FLORIDA, AND, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT WHETHER OR NOT, YOU KNOW, AFTER THOSE DISASTERS, 'CAUSE ALL THOSE, BY THE WAY, THEY HAD, UH, EVICTION, MORATORIUMS, UH, YOU KNOW, IMPLEMENTED. AND THEN AFTER THOSE MORATORIUMS WERE LIFTED, WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS A RUSH TO THE COURTHOUSE AND THERE WAS, UH, THERE WAS A BIG RUSH TO THE COURTHOUSE TO EVICT FOLKS. UH, BUT IF YOU REALLY DIG DOWN, THERE WAS A RUSH TO THE COURTHOUSE TO EVICT FOLKS BECAUSE FOLKS LEFT, UH, THOSE CITIES AND THEY NEVER CAME BACK. UH, AND THE, UH, APARTMENTS WERE ALMOST DESTROYED. AND, YOU KNOW, LANDLORDS HAD TO GET IN THERE AND, UM, YOU KNOW, EVICT PEOPLE ON PAPER SO THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY START, YOU KNOW, REHABBING BUILDINGS AND ALL THAT BUILDINGS AND ALL THAT. UM, I'M NOT SURE THAT IT'S FAIR OF US UP HERE TO FORECAST A TSUNAMI OF, YOU KNOW, UH, EVICTIONS, UM, WITHOUT US TRYING TO FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, EXACTLY WHY IT IS THE, YOU KNOW, OTHER TSUNAMIS OF EVICTIONS HAPPENED. AND I'M NOT SURE THAT, UM, HERE IN SAN ANTONIO WE'RE FACING THE EXACT SAME PHENOMENON. IT'S NOT LIKE THE PROPERTIES HAVE BEEN DESTROYED AND, UH, PEOPLE HAVE MOVED OUTTA SAN ANTONIO. I MEAN, IF ALL OF THESE LANDLORDS WHO HAVEN'T BEEN PAID SUDDENLY EVICT EVERYBODY WHO ARE THEIR NEXT CUSTOMERS, IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S A WHOLE, YOU KNOW, POPULATION OF PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT AREN'T GETTING INTO APARTMENTS BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY OCCUPIED, RIGHT? I MEAN, THEY'RE THE PEOPLE THEY'RE GONNA EVICT ARE GONNA BE THE NEXT CUSTOMERS, RIGHT? AND SO IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME YET THAT, UM, SOMEHOW, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE LANDLORDS ARE GONNA BE EVICTING PEOPLE THE VERY NEXT DAY. UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY'S GOTTA LIVE IN THERE BECAUSE THOSE LANDLORDS STILL HAVE TO PAY THEIR MORTGAGES AND STILL HAVE TO PAY TAXES AND, UH, UTILITIES. UH, AND SO THERE'S THREE, THERE'S THREE, UH, NOT THREE. THERE'S TWO PEOPLE THAT I, I COME TO MIND WHEN I THINK ABOUT THIS. ONE OF HER, ONE OF THEM IS A FRIEND OF MINE NAMED ANNA. UH, ANNA IS A SINGLE MOM, ANNA, I GOT DIVORCED. HER WEALTHY HUSBAND LEFT HER WITH NOTHING AND REALLY HAS NOT BEEN CONTRIBUTING MUCH AT ALL TO HER SON'S, UH, COSTS AND ALL THAT. BUT ANA'S, UH, TOOK WHATEVER LITTLE MONEY SHE HAD, AND SHE BORROWED TO BUY HERSELF A COUPLE OF LITTLE RUNDOWN HOUSES. AND TODAY SHE USES THAT RENT TO PAY FOR HER SON'S SCHOOL AND HER SON'S FOOD, AND HIS CLOTHES AND ALL HIS ACTIVITIES. THERE'S ANOTHER WOMAN HERE IN TOWN NAMED JESSICA. UM, JESSICA MORGAN, HER BROTHER, UH, HELPED HER OUT BY LENDING HER SOME MONEY. AND, UM, SHE WENT OUT AND ALSO GOT A MORTGAGE FOR TWO OTHER LITTLE HOUSES. AND SHE FEEDS HER ONE AND ONLY DAUGHTER, UH, BECAUSE HER, I THINK HER FATHER PASSED AWAY AND SHE WAS, YOU KNOW, HER FATHER USED TO PAY HER A SALARY AND ALL THAT. ANYWAY, LONG STORY SHORT, THESE AREN'T THE BOOGEYMEN, UH, LANDLORD. AND I'LL TELL YOU, THE MAJORITY OF LANDLORDS THAT I'VE EVER MET AREN'T THE BOOGEYMEN EITHER. UM, THAT A LOT OF US LIKE TO IMAGINE. UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, THOSE LONG MUSTACHIOED PEOPLE TWISTING THEIR [03:15:01] MUSTACHE AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO HURT PEOPLE. UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT VILLAINS. AND SO, I'M A, I'LL TELL YOU, I'M A CARD CARRYING MEMBER AND A DUES PAYING MEMBER OF THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION. 'CAUSE I REPRESENT A LOT OF THOSE FOLKS IN OUR LAW FIRM. I'VE YET TO MEET A SINGLE ONE OF MY CLIENTS WHO'S SITTING AROUND RIGHT NOW RUBBING THEIR HANDS, PLANNING HOW TO DESTROY FAMILIES, AND THROWING THEM OUT, AND REALLY ITCHING FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO EVICT PEOPLE. UM, SOMEBODY SAID IT TODAY, THEY NEED TENANTS AS MUCH AS THE TENANTS NEED THEIR APARTMENTS AND HOUSES, BECAUSE WITHOUT TENANTS, UM, MORTGAGES DON'T GET PAID. AND TAXES DON'T GET PAID, AND NOBODY MAKES ANY MONEY. AND SO, UM, I I JUST WANNA REMIND FOLKS THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD AND TALK ABOUT EVICTIONS AND RENTS, THAT WE'RE NOT PAINTING, YOU KNOW, A WITH A VERY, VERY BROAD BRUSH AND CONDEMNING ALL LANDLORDS TO, UM, THIS STEREOTYPE THAT THEY'RE, THAT THEY'RE BAD PEOPLE. UH, AND SO, AND THEY'RE NOT. AND SO, ANYWAY, I'M, UH, THANK YOU, LORI. I'M, I'M SUPPORTIVE OF WHAT YOU PUT, OF WHAT YOU PUT FORWARD. AND THANK YOU, MARIA, FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK. I DON'T ENVY YOU AT, AT ALL. THANKS, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PIAS. COUNCIL MEMBER KEO. HDA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I COMMEND THE CITY ON THE, THE MEASURES THAT YOU'RE TAKING TO INFORM BOTH THE LANDLORDS AND TENANTS OF THE, UM, THEIR RIGHTS OR OBLIGATIONS AND THE AVENUES TO ASSISTANCE, AS WELL AS THE, THE LANDLORDS, THE VAST MAJORITY OF LANDLORDS WHO ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING AND BEING PROACTIVE AND TRYING TO HELP THEIR OWN TENANTS AND, UH, THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION AND COX METRO FOR ENGAGING AND, AND WORKING WITH THE CITY TO TRY TO, TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY. UH, LORI MADE NOTE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ISSUED THE 120 DAY MORATORIUM ON EVICTION. UH, IT'S ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ROUGHLY FOUR MONTHS THROUGH JULY 24TH OF, UH, THIS YEAR IF, IF THOSE PROPERTIES RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDING COMPRISING ABOUT 50% OF SAN ANTONIO'S PROPERTIES. I THINK THIS QUESTION IS FOR YOU, ANDY. UM, WILL YOU EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FEDERAL CARES ACT FUNDING, UM, NOT FUNDING, BUT THE, THAT PARTICULAR MORATORIUM, AND THEN WHAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED WITH THE 60 DAY MORATORIUM OTHER THAN THE TIMEFRAME? CORRECT. I I I CAN DO THAT. COUNCILWOMAN. YES. THE, THE NOTICE REQUIREMENT UNDER THE CARESS ACT, AGAIN, IS, AS YOU MENTIONED, IS SPECIFICALLY GEAR, UH, AIMED AT, UH, FEDERALLY FUNDED, UM, HOUSING. AND BECAUSE IT'S FEDERAL, IT OVERRIDES WHATEVER THE STATE WOULD HAVE IN TERMS OF REQUIREMENTS FOR NOTICE. UH, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN DO THAT BECAUSE, AGAIN, THEY'RE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE, THE, THEY ARE AIMED AT THOSE, UH, HOUSING UNITS THAT ARE FEDERALLY FUNDED. SO THERE'S A DIRECT TIE, THERE'S A DIRECT FEDERAL INTEREST, UH, TO THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THAT NOTICE. UM, THE, ON THE 60 DAY, THAT WOULD APPLY TO ALL RENTAL PROPERTIES, EITHER COMMERCIAL OR RESIDENTIAL, DEPENDING ON WHETHER, HOW THE ORDINANCE IS WRITTEN. UM, AND SO THAT WOULD APPLY TO ALL THOSE PROPERTIES, UH, AND NOT JUST THE ONES THAT WOULD BE FEDERALLY FUNDED. OKAY. SO IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE, THE, WHAT THIS COUNCIL MIGHT MAY CONSIDER NEXT WEEK IS, UH, FILLING THAT GAP OF THE OTHER 50%, AND IT CAN BE, CAN BE SEEN AS AN EXTENSION OF WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS ALREADY DOING. AND WE, AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE SPECIFIC LEGAL ISSUES IN, IN AN EXECUTIVE SESSION. BUT, UH, IN TERMS OF ADDING THAT YET, IT WOULD BE SIMILAR IN TERMS OF THE DAYS OF NOTICE. UH, BUT THE, THE LEGAL STRUCTURE WOULD BE DIFFERENT. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, DIFFERENT QUESTION, I THINK FOR YOU, ANDY. CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT WOULD TRIGGER THE GOVERNOR TO IMPOSE RESTRICTIONS ON, ON THE COUNTY OR THE CITY WHEN AN IT, WHEN, AND IF ANOTHER SPIKE WERE TO OCCUR? WHAT, WHAT WOULD HAVE TO TRANSPIRE FOR THAT TO HAPPEN? AND, UH, THAT, THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION, AND HE WASN'T SPECIFIC ON IT, BUT THAT'S WHY I DID PREFACE MY REMARKS WITH THE THINGS THAT THE GOVERNOR WAS LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF REOPENING BUSINESSES. SO, AGAIN, AS A REMINDER, HE, HE WAS LOOKING AT THREE THINGS, CONTINUOUS DAYS OF MORE RECOVERED CASES THAN ACTIVE CASES. TWO, CONTINUED DECLINE OF THE POSITIVITY RATE AND THE POSITIVITY RATE MEANS POSITIVE TESTS AS COMPARED TO THE NUMBER OF TESTS RUN THAT DAY. UH, AND THIRD IS HOSPITALIZATION RATE, WHICH IS, UH, THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS HOSPITALIZED AS COMPARED TO TOTAL ACTIVE CASES. SO AT LEAST HE'S SIGNALED THAT THAT'S WHAT HE'S LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF, OF OPENING. I, I WOULD IMAGINE HE WOULD BE LOOKING AT THE SAME THINGS IN TERMS OF, UH, WHERE HE WOULD NEED TO PUT ADDITIONAL RESTRICTIONS OR, OR PUSH BACK, UH, PULL BACK FROM SOME OF THE OPENINGS AND FROM A COUNTY OR REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE. OKAY. WHAT THEN IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN FLAGGING THE GOVERNOR IF THAT SPIKE OCCURS? [03:20:01] WHAT, WHAT KIND OF REPORTING? THAT'S ANOTHER GOOD QUESTION. WE, WE ARE GONNA WORK WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UH, IN TERMS OF IDENTIFYING OUR OWN DATA THAT WE THINK WOULD INDICATE, UH, THERE'S A SURGE OR THAT WE NEED TO RECONSIDER THE REOPENINGS. AND, UH, THE GOOD NEWS IS WORKING WITH THEM, WE'LL HAVE AN OUTLET. WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH JEFF'S TEAM SO THAT WE CAN DIRECTLY COMMUNICATE THOSE CONCERNS IN A TIMELY MANNER, UH, TO THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND THE STATE'S OFFICE, UH, SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN OPEN THAT DIALOGUE AND HOPEFULLY, UH, GET THEM TO ACT ON IT. WELL, I'M GONNA QUIT WHILE I'M AHEAD ON QUESTIONS, 'CAUSE I GOT TWO GOOD ONES IN A ROW. BUT, UM, I DO WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO ECHO COUNCILWOMAN VIE GRAND'S STATEMENT, UM, ON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. I THINK THIS IS A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND OUR JOB TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR COMMUNITY. AND, AND MAYBE, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT GONNA BE THE IMPACT THAT WE'RE HOPING FOR, BUT ANY IMPACT IN THAT REGARD I THINK WILL BE HELPFUL. THAT'S ALL. MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CAB HDA, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I'D LIKE TO START OUT BY THANKING, UH, EVERYBODY WHO'S BEEN WORKING ON THESE REPORTS TODAY, UH, MARIA AND LORI AND ANDY. I THINK IT'S VERY INFORMATIVE FOR US. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO HAVE A FOUNDATION, UH, ON WHICH WE BASE OUR DECISIONS AND YOU, YOU GIVE US A GOOD FOUNDATION FOR THESE DISCUSSIONS. I ALSO WANT TO CONCUR WITH SEVERAL OF MY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS TODAY ON SOME OF THE POINTS THAT THEY'VE BEEN MAKING. AND I STRONGLY AGREE ON, YOU KNOW, THE, PROBABLY THE NUMBER ONE CONCERN THAT MOST OF US HAVE RIGHT NOW IS RESTARTING OR REOPENING BUSINESSES. NOW, UH, I'VE, I'VE NOT BEEN A BIG FAN OF DOING IT TODAY OR DOING IT AS QUICKLY MAYBE AS, UH, THE GOVERNOR HAS KIND OF MOVED US FORWARD. BUT THE FACT IS THAT WE NEED TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF RESTARTING OR REOPENING BUSINESSES IN THIS COMMUNITY, WHICH SUPPLY THE JOBS, WHICH GIVE PEOPLE THE INCOME TO SPEND ON THEIR RENT AND ON FOOD AND GROCERIES AND OTHER THINGS THAT THEY SPEND, WHICH GENERATES SALES TAX FOR US, ET CETERA, ET CETERA. SO IT'S, IT'S LIKE A SNOWBALL EFFECT IF WE CAN GET PEOPLE WORKING AGAIN. BUT TO GO ALONG WITH THAT, I THINK A LOT OF US REALIZE A LOT OF BUSINESSES AREN'T GONNA REOPEN. AND SO THE WORKFORCE TRAINING BECOMES A DIRECT, UH, RESPONSIBILITY OF THE C OVID 19 VIRUS. PEOPLE ARE OUTTA WORK 'CAUSE BUSINESSES ARE CLOSED, THEY'RE NOT GONNA REOPEN. PEOPLE NEED TO GET RETRAINED TO GET INTO THOSE BUSINESSES THAT ARE OPEN AND THAT DO WANT MORE EMPLOYEES. AND SO I THINK IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT PART OF THIS FEDERAL MONEY COULD EASILY BE USED TO HELP TRAIN PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR JOBS, WHOSE JOBS ARE NOT OPEN, SO THAT THEY CAN GET TRAINED FOR NEW JOBS THAT WILL BE OPENING. UH, AND I ALSO WANNA JUMP ON BOARD, UH, WHAT THE MAYOR TALKED ABOUT, AND I THINK SEVERAL OTHER COUNCIL PEOPLE ABOUT THE, THE, THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND HOW ADVERSELY IT'S AFFECTING SO MANY PEOPLE. LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. UH, I'VE BEEN WORKING ON, UH, THE, UH, THE SOCIAL, UH, SERVICES COMMITTEE ON TRYING TO ADVANCE, UH, HAVING BETTER COMMUNICATIONS AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE IN MANY PARTS OF THE CITY THAT DON'T HAVE THAT ABILITY TO GET ON THE INTERNET OR TO CONNECT WITH THEIR SCHOOL OR TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CITY. 'CAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT CONNECTIVITY. AND MAYBE THEY, THEY DON'T GET ENOUGH OUT OF THE NEWS AT, AT FIVE OR SIX OR 10 AT NIGHT, BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE OUT THERE ON THE INTERNET THAT PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW AND TO INTERACT WITH, WITH THE GOVERNMENT. IF PEOPLE WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND APPLY FOR UNEMPLOYMENT, YOU CAN, YOU CAN MAKE A HUNDRED PHONE CALLS OR YOU CAN GET ONLINE AND SUBMIT, UH, BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO GET ONLINE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE LOCKED OUT OF THAT. SO OBVIOUSLY EXPANDING THE AVAILABILITY OF INTERNET ACCESS, UH, CROSSING THAT DIVID DIGITAL DIVIDE IS, IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD. UH, AND, AND C OVID 19, I THINK HAS PROVEN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PEOPLE NOT BEING ABLE TO CONNECT PARTICULARLY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS WITH SCHOOL. UM, THE THE NEXT ITEM THOUGH THAT, THAT REALLY, REALLY HAS ME MOST CONCERNED, UM, IS HOUSING AND, AND THE POTENTIAL PROBLEMS WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT. NOW, WE'VE HEARD, UH, FROM THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION FROM OUR OWN STAFF, THAT THERE'S ABOUT 260,000 APARTMENT UNITS IN THE CITY. AND IF, AND, AND HALF OF THOSE ARE PROTECTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S INVOLVEMENT IN, IN FINANCING SOMEHOW. AND SO [03:25:01] THEY'VE LAID OUT WHAT THEIR EXPECTATIONS ARE. ONE OF THOSE EXPECTATIONS IS IF YOU'RE A PROPERTY OWNER, IT'S A HOUSE, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HAVE A MORTGAGE AND IT'S FEDERALLY BACKED OR ANYTHING, THEN EVEN IF YOU CAN'T MAKE YOUR MORTGAGE PAYMENT, YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET FORECLOSED ON BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA ADD THAT PAYMENT TO THE END OF YOUR MORTGAGE AND JUST EXTEND YOUR MORTGAGE. THAT'S WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S SAYING ON THOSE THINGS. UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PROPERTY OWNER MAY BE OUT CASH TODAY, BUT THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE OUT OF A PROPERTY. UM, AND SO THERE'S ALSO THE RESTRICTION THAT THEY CAN'T EVICT TENANTS. SO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS STEPPED IN ON ABOUT HALF OF THOSE 260,000 UNITS THAT LEAVES 130,000 UNITS, 130,000, EITHER INDIVIDUALS OR FAMILIES THAT ARE, ARE LIVING IN A PROPERTY THAT HAS HAD SOME KIND OF A COMMERCIAL FINANCING OF PRIVATE FINANCING THAT DOESN'T HAVE THOSE TWO PROTECTIONS. NOW, LET'S PRESUME HALF OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THOSE, UH, AREN'T AMONG THE 300,000 OR 20% OF THE POPULATION WHO ARE POOR IN POVERTY. SO THEN MAYBE HALF OF THAT 130,000 ARE ABLE TO PAY THEIR RENT OR PART OF THEIR RENT OR NEGOTIATE WITH THEIR PROPERTY OWNER BECAUSE THEY'VE PAID SOME, OR THEY CAN PAY SOME, OR MAYBE THEY'RE STILL WORKING AND THEY'RE PAYING THE WHOLE THING. BUT THAT TO ME STILL LEAVES IN QUESTION MAYBE HALF OF THAT 65,000 UNITS THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT WORKING. THEY DON'T HAVE INCOME, THEY DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO SIT DOWN AND TELL THEIR PROPERTY OWNER, WELL, WE'LL PAY THIS MONTH, BUT WE'LL, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO PAY NEXT MONTH. MAYBE WE'LL PAY HALF MORE THAN LIKELY THERE'S A GOOD 50, 60,000 OR MORE UNITS WHERE PEOPLE HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING ANYTHING AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO WORK WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER TO SAY, WELL, UH, WE'LL PAY MORE LATER IF WE, IF WE THINK ABOUT THAT KIND OF A NUMBER, 60, 65, 50,000 PROPERTIES SOMEWHERE IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, YOU KNOW, THE AVERAGE RENT I WOULD EXPECT FOR PEOPLE IN THAT SITUATION IS AT LEAST $700 A MONTH. MAYBE SOME, A LITTLE BIT MORE, SOME A LITTLE BIT LESS. AND WE'VE SET UP A PROGRAM TO TRY AND HELP PEOPLE IN THAT SITUATION. AND THAT PROGRAM SAYS THAT WE CAN GO AHEAD AND PAY UP TO THREE MONTHS RENT FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S BEHIND OR IS FALLING BEHIND. UM, AND IF IT'S AROUND $700 A MONTH, THEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT $2,100 WE COULD PAY. WELL, RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT A, A, A BUDGET OF $25 MILLION, BUT NOT ALL OF THAT IS FOR RENT. SOME OF IT IS FOR FOOD, SOME OF IT'S FOR UTILITIES. SOME OF IT'S FOR TRANSPORTATION. AT BEST, WE CAN HELP MAYBE EIGHT OR 9,000 PEOPLE GO AHEAD AND PAY THAT $2,100 IN BACK RENT TO STAY IN THEIR UNITS, BUT THAT'S FOR THREE MONTHS. BUT IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH A RIGHT TO CURE, AND WE TELL PEOPLE, WELL, NOW IT'S NOT JUST THE MARCH PAYMENT YOU DIDN'T MAKE, OR LET'S SAY THE APRIL OR MAY, OR PROBABLY JUNE, BUT NOW IT MAY BE JULY AND AUGUST, AND NOW IT'S NOT $2,000 THEY NEED TO MAKE UP. IT'S MAYBE 3000, 3,500. WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO DO THAT. UH, THAT WOULD COME IF, IF WE WERE GONNA HELP. IF 60,000 PEOPLE MAKE UP THOSE KINDS OF PAYMENTS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT $130 MILLION, 60,000 PEOPLE AT, AT 3000 EACH. THAT'S $180 MILLION. WHERE DO WE GET THAT KIND OF MONEY? ON THE OTHER HAND, HOW DO ALL THE PROPERTY OWNERS FOREGO THAT KIND OF MONEY? SO I THINK WE HAVE A, A LEGITIMATE CONCERN, AND I UNDERSTAND VERY MUCH WHAT, WHAT, UH, COUNCILMAN LIAS HAS SAID THERE. THERE AREN'T A LOT OF BAD PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT WANT TO THROW PEOPLE OUT, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE LIVING ON THE INCOME FROM THESE PROPERTIES AND WHO HAVE MORTGAGES TO PAY AND WHO HAVE TAXES TO PAY, WHO MAY FEEL THEY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO TRY AND GET SOMEONE IN THERE THAT THEY THINK IS MORE LIKELY TO PAY. AND IT MAY NOT BE 30,000 TO 40,000 PEOPLE WHO GET ALL EVICTED IN JULY OR AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER. WE COULDN'T AFFORD TO HAVE 10,000 OR 15,000 IN THAT SITUATION. SO WE NEED TO BE THINKING MORE LONG TERM. WE'VE GOT $271 MILLION IN FEDERAL MONEY, AND I THOUGHT I SAW UP THERE ON SLIDE 12 THAT PART OF THAT MONEY CAN GO TO HELP PEOPLE TAKE CARE OF THOSE HOUSING NEEDS BECAUSE THEY'VE LOST A JOB AND THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO DO THAT. [03:30:01] WE'VE ALREADY SAID A HUNDRED MILLION OF THAT IS LIKELY TO GO TOWARDS ALL OF OUR EXPENSES FOR HEALTH AND MEDICAL AND, UH, FIRST RESPONDERS AND EVERYTHING DIRECTLY RELATED TO C OVID 19. WELL, THAT LEAVES 171 MILLION. AND I THINK WE NEED TO CONSIDER ADDING A VERY, VERY LARGE SEGMENT OF THAT INTO OUR HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM TO MAYBE HELP 10 OR 15,000 MORE FAMILIES, UH, TO KEEP FROM BEING EVICTED, UH, LATER ON DOWN THE LINE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A BIG CONCERN I HAVE. THE PROPERTY OWNERS CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO BEAR ALL OF THE BURDEN ON THEIR OWN FOR THIS LOST INCOME. IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT. AND THEY, THEY NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR OBLIGATIONS. NOW, IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COULD GET THE BANKS TO STOP FORECLOSURE AND SAY, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, IF PEOPLE CAN'T PAY THEIR MORTGAGE RELATED TO C OVID 19, ADD IT TO THE BACKEND, FINE, THEN YES, THE PROPERTY OWNERS MAY LOSE A LITTLE BIT RIGHT NOW, BUT AT LEAST THEY'RE NOT GONNA LOSE THEIR PROPERTY. AND THEY'RE MORE LIKELY TO DEAL WITH TENANTS WHO ARE BEHIND. BUT WITHOUT THAT KIND OF BACKING BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IT'S JUST AS LIKELY THAT THEY'RE GONNA THROW UP THEIR HANDS AND SAY, WE NEED TO GET SOMEBODY IN THERE WHO CAN PAY. AND THEY'RE MORE WILLING TO DO THAT IN THE THOUSANDS COME JULY OR AUGUST, IF NOT SOONER. SO I JUST WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT THERE FOR US TO CONCERN AS A, UH, CONSIDER AS A COUNCIL ON HOW WE CAN, UH, WORK ON THAT. 'CAUSE I REALLY, REALLY BELIEVE IT'S GONNA BE A PROBLEM. I DON'T EXPECT 60,000 PROPERTY OWNERS TO SAY, WELL, THEY CAN STAY LONGER. THE LAST QUESTION I WANTED TO ASK WAS OF ANDY. IT'S TOTALLY SEPARATE FROM THAT. AND AS ANDY, UM, WHAT ARE THE REGULATIONS ON NEIGHBORHOOD SWIMMING POOLS IN HOAS AND, AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES, THINGS LIKE THAT. ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER, IN INDOOR SWIMMING POOLS CAN, UH, OPERATE AT 25%, UH, CAPACITY COUNCILMEN, OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOLS, THE SAME THING, BUT THAT THOSE ARE DETERMINED BY THE OPERATOR OF THE SWIMMING POOL. SO SORT OF, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO LOOK AT SQUARE FOOTAGE, HOW MANY POOLS YOU HAVE OUTSIDE, ET CETERA, TO MAKE SOME DETERMINATION AS TO WHAT THAT 25% IS. NOW WITH RESPECT TO PLAYGROUNDS AND OTHER THINGS, THE THE CITY'S CURRENT ORDER, I DON'T THINK IS IMPACTED BY THAT. SO THOSE REMAIN CLOSED. GREAT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHE GARCIA. THANK YOU MAYOR. AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES, UH, FOR YOUR WELL THOUGHT OUT DISCUSSION TODAY. UM, I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH MY COLLEAGUES THAT, UH, I WOULD LOVE TO RECONVENE SOME OF THE COMMITTEES. I HAVE A PARTICULAR IDEA HERE THAT I'D LIKE TO SHARE IN JUST A SECOND. UM, BUT I ALSO, UM, WANT TO SAY THAT I AM, UM, VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THE CITY STAFF HAS DONE. I THINK THAT THEY'VE DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB, AND I THINK WE'RE THE TALKING FACES, UH, BUT WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD, IT'S THE STAFF THAT'S DOING THE WORK. AND SO WE, WE, WE GUIDE THEM AND, UM, WE ASK THEM FOR, UM, ADVICE AND RECOMMENDATIONS, AND THEN, UM, THEY COME BACK AND THEY PRESENT BRILLIANT WORK. SO I JUST WANNA, UM, COMMEND THE STAFF AND THANK YOU, ERIC AND, AND MARIA AND THE TEAM. UM, I ALSO HAVE, UH, THE US TREASURY HAS SPECIFICALLY APPROVED USE OF PAYMENTS, UM, TO COVER, UH, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EMPLOYEES THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN OBVIOUSLY DISPLACED. UM, THE DOCUMENT SPECIFICALLY THAT I'M REFERENCING IS, UH, UPDATED. IT'S AN UPDATED DOCUMENT. I KNOW COUNCILMAN ELIAS REFERENCED THE APRIL 22ND DOCUMENT. I BELIEVE THAT WAS A FOUR PAGE DOCUMENT. THIS IS MORE OF A FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. IT LOOKS LIKE PEOPLE HAVE SUBMITTED DIRECT QUESTIONS. IT'S A SEVEN PAGER THAT WAS UPDATED ON, ON MAY THE FOURTH. AND I FEEL COMFORTABLE, UH, AND CONFIDENT THAT WHAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED WE CAN, UM, BE USING FOR THAT. SO I JUST WANTED TO, UM, TO, TO LET MY, UH, FELLOW COLLEAGUES KNOW THAT THERE'S A DOCUMENT THAT'S UPDATED BY THE US TREASURY, UM, THAT I THINK MIGHT BE VERY HELPFUL AS WE START THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN OR WHERE WE CAN SPEND THESE FUNDS. UM, I DO BELIEVE THAT, UH, EDUCATION IS GOING TO BE, IS THE ONLY WAY TO BREAK THE CYCLE OF GENERATIONAL POVERTY. I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT, UM, UH, YOU ALL KNOW MY PARENTS HAVE A FIRST AND SECOND GRADE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. AND SO I, I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF EDUCATION AND I WILL ALWAYS APPLAUD EFFORTS. UM, I'VE BEEN HAVING, UH, CONVERSATIONS WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, UM, AND I DO THINK THAT IT WOULD BE WORTH CONSIDERING A GREATER INVER IN, UM, UH, A GREATER INVESTMENT SPECIFICALLY IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. THE CITY. WE'RE NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF UPSKILLING. WE'RE NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF TRAINING, BUT WE DO HAVE WONDERFUL PARTNERS ACROSS THE COMMUNITY THAT CAN DO THIS, THAT CAN PARTNER WITH US. AND I THINK THAT IT'S A CRITICAL TIME, AND WE SHOULD TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW, UM, TO [03:35:01] REALLY BUILD THIS RESILIENCY STORY FOR SAN ANTONIO. UM, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT CONVERSATION. UM, WITH THAT, I, I WANTED TO, AS I'M HEARING MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, AND AS I'VE BEEN THINKING FOR THE LAST FEW WEEKS ABOUT THIS, UM, I'D, I'D LIKE TO HAVE MY COLLEAGUES, UM, CONSIDER SOMETHING, UM, THAT JUST HAS BEEN, UH, ON THE TOP OF MY MIND. AND AS I KEEP GETTING INFORMATION, UM, LOOKING THROUGH THE DOCUMENT, UH, DOCUMENT AFTER DOCUMENT ABOUT ETHICS, UM, IN, IN, AND, UH, SPECIFICALLY AS IT RELATES TO, UM, DISEASE AND OUTBREAK, ET CETERA. I'D LIKE TO, UM, CONSIDER SOME IDEAS THAT, THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON. UM, AT MY STAFF, UH, AND I SPECIFICALLY, I, WE ARE LOOKING AT IT AS AN ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS, IF YOU WILL, UM, THAT MIGHT GUIDE OUR POLICIES AND, AND ORDINANCES AND, AND THE FUTURE REALLY OF SAN ANTONIO. AND WE KNOW THAT COVID HAS REALLY SHOWN THAT WE HAVE INEQUALITIES. WE KNEW THIS, WE WERE WORKING ON IT. MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE COUNCILWOMAN, UM, GONZALEZ SAID IT PERFECTLY. SO WE WERE AHEAD OF THE CURVE, UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE WE WERE ALREADY, UH, IN SO MUCH DIRE POVERTY. BUT IF WE ENSURE THAT ALL OUR CITIZENS ARE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO GROW AND TO ACCOMPLISH TOGETHER, OUR ENTIRE REGION WILL BENEFIT FROM IT. AND THIS IS WHY I WANTED TO, UM, TALK TO MY COLLEAGUES ABOUT THIS. UH, A REMINDER, WE'RE ALMOST IN THE MIDDLE OF 2020. WE'RE WAY PAST, IF YOU WILL, THE DECADE OF DOWNTOWN. WE'RE PAST SA 2020, UM, AND WE'RE PAST SA TOMORROW. AND SO WE HAVE THE TOOLS AND WE HAVE THE FRAMEWORKS. UH, I KNOW I'M NEW TO THE COUNCIL, BUT YOU ALL AND AND MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUE, UH, HAVE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER TO INVEST IN THESE GOALS, UH, TO FIGHT INEQUALITY. AND I APPRECIATE THAT. AND I THINK THAT WE'RE IN A GOOD POSITION. AND SO, AND, AND WITH THAT SPIRIT, THE ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS THAT, UM, WE HAVE BEEN THINKING OF PROPOSING A AS, UH, LIKE I SAID, MY STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS, IS IT INCLUDES THINGS THAT YOU ALL HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TODAY, UM, RIGHT TO ACCESS TO FOOD. SO EVERYBODY NEEDS, UM, FOOD. WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO LOW COST OR FREE FOOD, EVEN COMMUNITY GARDENS, ET CETERA. UM, RIGHT TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. UM, I, A DIVERSE, AFFORDABLE HOUSING STOCK. WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS. UH, IT'S NOT NEW, THE RIGHT AND ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE BECAUSE OF C OVID 19. WE SEE THAT THAT IS CRITICAL. AND SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE OF AN, OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY, THE RIGHT TO ACCESS ALL FORMS OF HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION. UM, WITHIN THAT, WE THINK ABOUT THE ACCESS TO, UH, CONNECTIVITY. SO INTERNET CONNECTIVITY. UM, WE CAN'T LET THE DIGITAL DIVIDE CONTINUE. AND WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESET, UM, THE RIGHT TO HIGH WAGE, HIGH QUALITY JOBS, WHICH IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER AND WHAT I WAS REFERENCING, THAT WE CAN WORK WITH PARTNERS ACROSS THE COMMUNITY TO UPSCALE AND TO TRAIN PEOPLE FOR THE JOBS OF THE FUTURE. I KNOW COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL REFERENCED, UM, MANUFACTURING, UM, LOGISTICS IS ANOTHER ONE. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IS STILL GONNA BE IMPORTANT. HEALTH AND BIOSCIENCES, WE HAVE ONE OF THE BEST BIOMED ECONOMIES, UM, IN THE NATION HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. AND WE SHOULD BE TRAINING A LOT OF FOLKS, UH, FOR THESE CAREER FIELDS THAT WILL GENERATE SOME, UM, ADDITIONAL INCOME FOR THEIR FAMILIES. UM, THE ACCESS, UH, OR THE RIGHT TO AFFORDABLE TRANSPORTATION SHOULD BE ONE OF THESE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. IF WE'RE, UH, CREATING A DOCUMENT AND, AND, AND POLICIES THAT WILL REALLY GUIDE THIS, THE RIGHT TO RECREATION, UM, PARKS, ACCESS TO PARKS, THAT WOULD MEAN CONNECTIVITY AS FAR AS SIDEWALKS. HOW DO WE GET OUR, UH, OUR, OUR LITTLE ONES TO BE ABLE TO SAFELY GO TO THE PARK AND PLAY THE RIGHT TO A SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD IN GENERAL IS IMPORTANT. AND SO WE HAVE WONDERFUL WORK GOING ON WITH, UH, DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, UH, AND WE HAVE OUR, OUR SAFE OFFICERS THAT KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE. BUT THERE'S A LOT OF PROCEDURES THAT I THINK WE WOULD STILL, UM, BE ABLE TO LEVERAGE RIGHT NOW SPECIFICALLY, UM, THAT, THAT WE SHOULD CONSIDER. AND THEN THE RIGHT, UH, SPECIFICALLY TO LOCAL SAFETY NETS. AND SO I'M TALKING ABOUT IN GENERAL, NOT JUST, UM, FOOD, BUT UTILITY ASSISTANCE, THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, WE JUST COMMITTED, UM, TO A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. UM, YES, HOME REPAIR ASSISTANCE, AND SPECIFICALLY RIGHT NOW, DURING THE TIME WHEN WE HAVE TO STABILIZE OUR FOUNDATION DURING THIS, UH, THIS TIME CRUNCH, IF YOU WILL. UH, I THINK IT'S CRITICAL THAT WE MOVE NOW THAT WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION THAT WE UNFORTUNATELY HAVE BEEN PLACED IN. UM, I KNOW THAT A LOT OF THE CARES ACT FUNDING, WELL, NO, WE HAVE TO SPEND THE CARES ACT FUNDING BY DECEMBER, UM, OF THIS YEAR. AND SO I THINK THAT THE TIME TO INVEST IS NOW RATHER THAN, THAN LATER. AND I REALLY THINK THAT WE SHOULD, UM, FIGURE [03:40:01] OUT HOW WE CAN WORK WITH THESE COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND LEVERAGE AND REALLY GIVE THEM ACCESS TO, UM, TO THE FUNDING. I DID ALSO, UM, READ IN THAT DOCUMENT THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT IN THE, FROM THE US TREASURY THAT, UH, WE COULD WORK WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. AND SO, UM, WE DO NOT HAVE TO USE THE MONEY DIRECTLY. SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE WOULD HAVE TO DO THE TRAINING OURSELVES. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER. UM, AND THEN ALSO NOW I'LL GET TO MY, MY, IT'S QUICK QUESTIONS. LORI, CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND, UH, WHO IS ON THE RISK MITIGATION AND STAKEHOLDER GROUP? UM, TASK FORCE, THE RISK MITIGATION STAKEHOLDER TASK FORCE IS A SUBGROUP OF THE HOUSING COMMISSION AND INCLUDES JESSICA GUERRERO, MARINE GALINDO, AND NIKKI, I BELIEVE HER LAST NAME IS, UM, I FORGET HER LAST NAME. I'LL GET THAT FOR YOU. UM, BUT THOSE THREE INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH US FOR THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS. UM, THEY EVALUATED THE PROGRAM, THEY'VE DONE PRESENTATIONS OF THE HOUSING COMMISSION AND BEEN A GREAT SOUNDING BOARD FOR US. AND WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS NEW RENDITION OF OUR RISK MITIGATION FUND FOR RENTAL ASSISTANCE. OKAY, GREAT. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE, OR MAYBE I CAN, UM, TALK WITH YOU OFFLINE, LORI, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE, UH, REPRESENTATIVES IN EACH STAKEHOLDER GROUPS, UM, THAT ANY DECISIONS THAT ARE GONNA BE TAKEN ARE REPRESENTED BY EVERY STAKEHOLDER GROUP, NOT JUST A COUPLE. AND I'M SURE YOU ALL ARE DOING THAT, SO I JUST WANTED TO CLEAR THAT UP. UM, BUT WITH THAT, MAYOR, I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER, UM, QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FOR NOW. SO THANK YOU AND THANKS FOR ALL YOU ARE DOING. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, GOT A FEW QUESTIONS HERE. ANDY, LET ME START WITH YOU. BASED ON THE, THE GOVERNOR'S COMMENTS YESTERDAY, UH, ARE, DO WE HAVE ANY CONFLICTS WHATSOEVER BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE STATE RIGHT NOW ON WHAT HE CAME OUT WITH? UH, UH, WE HAVE NOT REVISED THE, UH, THE, UH, HEARINGS, UH, UH, I'M SORRY, THE MEASURES ADDENDUM, THAT'S PART OF THE, UH, GOV, I'M SORRY, THE MAYOR'S ORDER. UH, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GONNA, UH, ADHERE TO, UH, WHAT THE GOVERNOR, UH, OUTLINED AND PROPOSED. OH, NOT PROPOSED. WHAT IS ORDER ISSUED ON MONDAY? WE'RE GONNA COMPLY WITH THAT. OKAY, GREAT. UM, AND THAT'LL COME OUT THIS NEXT WEEK. WE HAVEN'T WORKED OUT ON THE TIMING. COUNCILMAN, AGAIN, THE WAY WE SET THIS UP, UH, FORTUNATELY BECAUSE OF THE STRING OF ORDERS WE'VE HAD, THE WAY WE SET IT UP IS THE MAYOR DOESN'T HAVE TO ISSUE A NEW DECLARATION. WE JUST ISSUE A NEW ADDENDUM OF THE MEASURES THAT WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH THE, UH, GOVERNOR'S ORDER. OKAY. BUT IN THE MEANTIME, I'M ASSUMING THAT THESE, UH, FACILITIES ARE ADDITIONAL BUSINESSES THAT HE'S ADDED TO THE LIST THAT THEY CAN OPEN UP, CAN GO AHEAD AND OPEN UP, UH, STARTING TOMORROW? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. ALRIGHT, GREAT. THANK YOU. UM, MARIA, I THINK, UM, LET'S SEE. ERIC MADE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS WHEN WE GOT THAT $270 MILLION THAT Y'ALL WERE GONNA BE DOING AN ANALYSIS ON WHAT IS ELIGIBLE TO BE, UM, REIMBURSED FOR ON THAT MONEY. HAVE Y'ALL COME OUT WITH THE, THAT TOTAL LIST OF WHAT, WHAT YOU'RE GONNA BE RECOMMENDING THAT, THAT THAT CAN BE USED FOR? UH, COUNCILMAN? UH, YES. IN THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE US TREASURY, ALONG WITH, UH, OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING WHAT I PRESENTED TODAY AS A SUMMARY OF THOSE USES, UH, THOSE THAT CAN BE USED BY THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AS AN ORGANIZATION FOR THOSE EXPENSES THAT WE HAVE INCURRED AND WILL INCURRED UNTIL DECEMBER 30TH FOR OUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AS WELL AS THOSE USES THAT, UM, ARE, UH, ELIGIBLE TO BE USED FOR COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE. AGAIN, THE LIST IS A SUMMARY. THERE IS A MORE, UM, EXTENSIVE LIST THAT WE CAN PROVIDE TO THE COUNCIL, UH, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED BY THE US TREASURY AS COUNCILMAN ROCHA GARCIA MENTIONED IN A, IN A FORM OF A Q AND A BASED ON THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE SUBMITTED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT. SO WE'LL BE HAPPY TO PROVIDE THAT. OKAY, GREAT. YEAH, APPRECIATE THAT. I, I, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN PLY WHEN HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, UM, WE'RE READY TO START SPENDING THAT MONEY AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE KIND OF COUNTING OR COUNTING ON DOING A LOT [03:45:01] WITH THAT MONEY BEFORE WE EVEN HAVE IT, UH, TOTALLY UNDERSTOOD WHAT THAT MONEY IS GONNA BE AVAILABLE FOR. ALONG WITH THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M ASSUMING THAT IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE ON A, UM, REQUEST TYPE BASIS WHERE THE GOVERNMENT'S STILL GONNA HAVE TO APPROVE IT, YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE, UH, WE SUBMIT SOMETHING DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT IT'S GONNA BE APPROVED. AM I, IS THAT CORRECT? IT'S ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. COUNCILMAN, THE 270 MILLION, WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED THOSE DOLLARS. SO WE HAVE THAT IN, IN THE BANK, IF YOU WILL. UH, THEY'RE PROVIDING THE GUIDANCE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO USE THOSE DOLLARS FOR THOSE USES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE AT A LATER TIME. LIKE WITH ANY OTHER GRANT, WE WILL BE AUDITED BY THE INSPECTOR GENERAL. THEY HAVE RECOMMENDED THAT WE MAINTAIN DOCUMENTATION AS TO OUR JUSTIFICATION FOR THE USE OF THOSE FUNDS. UM, SO THAT WAY WHEN WE ARE AUDITED, WE CAN DEFEND WHY WE USE THE FUNDS FOR THAT REASON. IN THE EVENT THAT THE INSPECTOR GENERAL DETERMINES THAT WE DID NOT USE THE FUNDS IN A PROPER MANNER, WE WILL BE REQUIRED TO RETURN THOSE DOLLARS TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THAT'S THE REASON WHY WE'RE BEING VERY CAUTIOUS ON, ON THE USE COUNSEL. LET, COUNSEL, LET ME JUST ADD REAL QUICK THAT, YOU KNOW, AS PART OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS, I HAD TO CERTIFY AS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER WITH THE TREASURY. AND SO THE, THE PROCESS, THE INTERNAL PROCESS THAT MARIA HAS DESCRIBED, UH, WE HAVE FORMULATED INTERNALLY TO ENSURE THAT WHEN AND IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMES BACK TO AUDIT, THAT WE'VE GOT THOSE PROCESSES IN PLACE AND THAT WE'VE CERTIFIED THAT ALL EXPENSES ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO COVID. OKAY. GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MARIA AND ERIC. APPRECIATE THAT. UM, GREAT. UH, LET ME MOVE ON TO THE NEXT AREA, UH, ABOUT THIS, THIS EVICTION THING. UM, WE HEARD A LOT FROM, UH, SEVERAL DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS. AND LORI, I HAVE TO SAY THAT I TOTALLY AGREE WITH, UH, WHAT YOU HAVE WORKED OUT OR WHAT THE CITY STAFF HAS WORKED OUT IN CONJUNCTION WITH COPS TO, UM, ADD THAT INTO, UM, THE NOTIFICATION PROCESS ON, ON RENTER'S RIGHTS AND WHAT THEY HAVE, UH, AVAILABLE TO THEM WHEN THEY, UM, WHEN THEY RECEIVE THESE NOTICES. SO I, I TOTALLY, UH, I, I'M TOTALLY IN LINE WITH THAT AND HOPE WE CAN, UM, GET THAT IMPLEMENTED. WHEN I LOOK AT, UH, DOING OTHER THINGS OUTSIDE OF THAT, THAT WE HAVE NOT COORDINATED WITH OR WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN ORGANIZATIONS TO BUY INTO, UM, USUALLY WHEN THE GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTS SOMETHING THAT'S NOT FULLY VETTED AND FOLKS AGREE WITH, UH, THERE'S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. AND WE HEARD A FEW OF THOSE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES TODAY, UH, THAT IF WE DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT, UH, COULD VERY WELL HAPPEN. AND THAT'S WHAT CONCERNS ME IS, UH, THOSE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OR EVEN LEGAL ACTIONS THAT, UH, UM, COULD OR COULD NOT HAPPEN AND WHAT OUR LEGAL STANDING IS. AND, AND, UM, ANDY, COULD YOU ADDRESS THAT A LITTLE BIT? UH, YES, COUNCILMAN, UH, UH, SOMEBODY HAD MENTIONED THAT I, I HAD MADE SOME PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENTS ON, UH, THE, UH, LEGALITIES OF THE PROPOSAL. BUT, UH, OTHER THAN SAYING THAT THERE, WHICH IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE MAY BE SOME LEGAL CHALLENGES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN SPECIFIC OR MADE ANY PRONOUNCEMENTS, AND FRANKLY, UH, TO THE EXTENT I WOULD CONVEY THAT TO COUNSEL, IT WOULD BE UNDER AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE COMMUNICATION, LIKE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION. OKAY. I, I FIGURED YOU SAY THAT, ANDY , BUT I WAS GONNA TRY ANYWAY. BUT ANYWAY, UM, THAT COULD HAPPEN AS WELL, WHICH AGAIN, IS A DRAIN ON OUR CITY RESOURCES, PARTICULARLY OUR GENERAL FUND ON, UM, DEFENDING LAWSUITS THAT, UH, UM, IF WE HAD GONE ALONG WITH WHAT WAS AGREED UPON, UH, WOULDN'T NECESSARILY HAVE HAPPENED. SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S MY COMMENTS ON THAT. UM, LET'S SEE. I, I THINK THOSE ARE MY GENERAL COMMENTS. THIS IS GONNA BE A VERY INTERESTING BUDGET SEASON. I'M, I'M, UM, I DON'T WANT TO SAY I'M EXCITED ABOUT GETTING STARTED ON IT, THE, AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, BUT IT'S SOMETHING WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO. AND AS I'VE SAID IN THE PAST, OUR DEVELOPING A BUDGET AND THE PRIORITIES IS TO ME, THE MOST SINGLE IMPORTANT JOB THAT WE DO HERE ON CITY COUNCIL YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT. AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DEAL WITH THESE, UM, [03:50:01] UH, COSTS AND SHORTAGES, AND, UM, UH, THAT'S, THERE'S GONNA BE SOME TOUGH CHOICES, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE THOSE AND, UH, UH, MOVE ON AND PREPARE FOR 2021 AND, UM, UM, HOPE FOR THE BEST. SO, WITH THAT, SIR, THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND I THINK PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY AS A COUNCIL. UM, C OVID 19 WAS A PRESSURE TEST ON ALL OUR SYSTEMS, AND THAT SH THAT TEST SHOWED MOST OF OUR SYSTEMS DO NOT PASS THE TEST. UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THIS IS KIND OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HERE. UH, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, UH, I'LL START OFF FIRST WITH HOW WE CAN HELP, UM, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY WITH SMALL BUSINESSES, I SAID THIS, UH, THIS PAST WEEK. UH, I HOPE THAT WE CAN, WE CAN LOOK AT, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT MANY THINGS, AND I, I, I CAN APPRECIATE THAT WE ARE, WE WANNA BE CAREFUL TO NOT SPEND MONEY, UH, NOT NOT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT WE CAN SPEND IT ON JUST YET, BUT I WANNA REMIND US THAT, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF BUSINESSES THAT COULD USE SOME RELIEF. UH, LET'S, LET'S PEEL BACK THAT RED TAPE, LET'S NOT PILE ON AS JUDGE WOLF, UH, ELOQUENTLY, UH, SUMMED UP WHAT I WAS SAYING, WHICH WAS REALLY, WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT WE DO AS A CITY, UH, THAT CAN HELP SMALL BUSINESSES NOT HAVE THAT EXTRA LIABILITY, THAT EXTRA EXPENSE? SO, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M GONNA ASK STAFF HERE FORMALLY TO PLEASE LOOK INTO THAT AND REPORT BACK TO US, UH, ON WHAT THOSE THINGS ARE, BECAUSE I HEAR IT A LOT. IN FACT, WE JUST HAD A MEETING, UH, YESTERDAY WITH JARED PENA ON SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HIS INDUSTRY'S LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF COST CUTTING MEASURES, EXPENSES, THAT, THAT, THAT THEY SEE. AND EVERY BUSINESS DEALS WITH THE VERY SAME THING. IT'S TWO THINGS, ASSETS AND LIABILITIES. WHAT ARE THE LIABILITIES? LET'S NOT BE A PART OF THAT. SO THAT'S ONE WAY WE CAN HELP PEOPLE STAY ON THEIR FEET. UM, ALSO WANT TO COMMENT THAT, UH, I DO THINK THAT, THAT THE, ONE OF THE BEST INVESTMENTS WE CAN MAKE IS CERTAINLY IN THE DIGITAL DIVIDE. WE HEARD IT MANY TIMES. UM, I HOPE THAT WE CAN, UM, REALLY TRULY INVEST IN THIS. THIS IS SEEN AS A MAJOR PROBLEM. WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT IT IN OUR WORK GROUP. UH, WE KNOW IT'S NOT GONNA BE EASY, SO THAT'S GONNA BE VERY COSTLY. UM, AND, AND YES TO, TO JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE, BUT I, I THINK WE NEED TO GET BACK THAT REPORT ON WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T SPEND THIS MONEY ON THAT, UH, SIMPLY IS, IS NOT ENOUGH. SPEAKING OF NOT ENOUGH RISK MITIGATION FUND. SO THE RISK MITIGATION FUND, WE CELEBRATED $25 MILLION BIGGEST IN THE COUNTRY, OR TEXAS, AND IT, IT'S, IT'S NOT BIG ENOUGH. AND, UM, WE KNOW THIS, UM, BUT IT GOT TO $25 MILLION BECAUSE OF ONE SIMPLE IDEA, WHICH WAS THAT FEDERAL DOLLARS WERE LEAVING PEOPLE OUT. IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT. THAT'S A FACT. AND SO WE ADDED MORE DOLLARS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT NOBODY IN OUR COMMUNITY FALLS BETWEEN THOSE GAPS, THOSE GAPING HOLES. AND IT, I, WE CAN'T DO THAT. WE CAN'T KNOWINGLY DO THAT. UM, AND, AND SO WE ADDED THOSE FUNDS. I, MY HOPE IS THAT $25 MILLION, UH, CAN HELP TO BRING TO LIGHT THE, THE INCREDIBLE NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE TALKING TO THE PHILANTHROPY GROUPS. UH, I'VE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE CALL ME AND THEY ASKED, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN THEY DO? AND I SAID, MATCH THE $25 MILLION RISK MITIGATION FUND. MATCH IT, UM, AT MINIMUM. SO, SO NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT I THINK IS, IS A COMPLIMENTARY ITEM, WHICH IS THE RIGHT TO CURE. AND I WOULD SAY A LOT, A LOT OF THE SAME PARALLELS ARE BEING DRIVEN HERE. UM, YOU KNOW, WE JUST, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW THERE ARE ABOUT 50% OF THESE RENTAL PROPERTIES FALL UNDER THE CARESS ACT, WHICH GIVE THEM 120 DAYS MORATORIUM ON EVICTIONS. AND, UH, YOU WANNA THANK MY COLLEAGUE AND, UH, MELISSA GABRIEL HODRA FOR HER, HER QUESTIONING AND HER POINT, WHICH I THINK WAS, WAS REALLY WELL MADE, WHICH IS, HOW CAN WE NOT FOLLOW THE POINT [03:55:01] THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS MAKING, WHICH IS PROTECTING SOME OF ITS CITIZENS, SOME OF ITS COMMUNITY, KNOWING THAT WE HAVE A BIG GAPING HOLE ONCE AGAIN, THAT WOULDN'T, THAT WON'T BE PROTECTED. SO, UH, I ALSO AGREE, YES. UH, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, ADRIANA ROCHA GARCIA HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT, AND WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT IRAS AND RETIREMENT FUNDS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOOD AND SHELTER, REALLY BASIC THINGS. AND I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO REFLECT ON THAT. NO, WE ARE NOT CALLING LANDLORDS EVIL. THEY DON'T HAVE TWIRLY MUSTACHES LIKE THE ONE THAT, UH, WHEN A COUNCIL, COUNCIL COLLEAGUE IS WEARING ON HIS MASK THERE. UH, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT. IN FACT, WE KNOW THAT MOST LANDLORDS ARE GOOD, GOOD PEOPLE. MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN SAN ANTONIO ARE AMAZING. WE'VE SEEN IT JUST IN ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING ALL OVER OUR CITY. BUT THEN THERE'S PEOPLE LIKE THE ALMOST CLUB APARTMENTS THAT THEY DO WHAT THEY DO, I'LL CALL THOSE PEOPLE, CREEPS ALL DAY LONG. WE HAVE A RIGHT TO COUNSEL PROGRAM BEFORE WE EVER THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN TO OUR COMMUNITY. WE ALREADY HAD A SERIOUS CRISIS ON OUR HANDS WHEN IT CAME TO EVICTIONS. IT'S WELL WRITTEN AND IT'S RIGHT BEFORE US. UH, I THINK WE NEED TO BE, UM, VERY, VERY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT THE WAY WE RESPOND AND THE FACT THAT WE, WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THE THINGS WE CAN TAKE CARE OF AND HELP PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY, ALL OF THEM. I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS VOTE NEXT WEEK. MAYOR, THANKS FOR PUTTING, UH, THE RIGHT, UH, TO CURE ON THE AGENDA. WE'LL CERTAINLY MAKE A CASE FOR WHY IT IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF WHAT WE DO AS A COMMUNITY. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. COUNCIL MEMBER GROM. THANK YOU, MAYOR. A COUPLE OF THINGS. UM, FIRST ONE IS COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, UH, ROCHA GARCIA. THANK YOU FOR YOUR IDEA OF THE ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO OPENING THAT UP AND DISCUSSING THAT MORE. NEXT, I AM IN AGREEMENT THAT WE DO NEED TO RESTART OUR COUNCIL COMMITTEES BECAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE TIME TO WASTE. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO GET DONE. UH, LASTLY, I WOULD SAY THAT THIS IS NOT A PRESSURE TEST. THIS IS A HEALTH AND GLOBAL CRISIS THAT HAS COME IN AND FLIPPED AT THE TABLE OVER FOR EVERY WORLD ECONOMY AND CITIES. AND TO THAT END, I THINK TO REMIND YOU, ERIC, AND THE TEAM AND EVERYONE INVOLVED, THAT THOSE WHO ARE PARTICIPATING AND RECONSTRUCTING AND REVOLUTIONIZING, UH, OUR WAY OF OUR CITY OUT OF THIS AND RECOVERING THAT THE PEOPLE DOING THIS NEEDS TO REFLECT THE FACES AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AND THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN MOST IMPACTED BY THIS, WHICH ARE, UH, WHICH IS THE LATINO AND PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR. SO, THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. DID YOU CHIME, TAP AGAIN? OKAY. ALRIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, TO FOLKS WHO STAYED, UH, AND COMMENTED, AND ALSO TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR A VERY GOOD DISCUSSION HERE. UH, JUST TO SUMMARIZE, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I AGREE. THIS IS NOT THE SILVER BULLET, UH, BUT I THINK WHAT THIS CRISIS HAS DONE FOR US AS A COMMUNITY, ARE YOU SIGNALING MY CUE ISN'T WORKING. SO I WAS GONNA GO AROUND IN A SECOND ROUND. SORRY. NO, GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, HOUSING AS WELL. I ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONVERSATION NEXT WEEK ABOUT, UM, RIGHT TO, RIGHT TO CURE. AND, UM, I HAD SOME QUESTIONS FOR THE STAFF REGARDING THE RISK MITIGATION, UH, PROGRAM. AND, UM, I MEAN, I AGREE WITH, UH, WITH BOTH OF MY COLLEAGUES HERE, THAT, YOU KNOW, TENANTS, OR SORRY, LANDLORDS ARE NOT THE BOOGEYMAN. I MEAN, WE SAW SOME VERY, YOU KNOW, FINE, UPSTANDING CITIZENS COME AND TALK TO US TODAY. I THINK OUR CONCERNS ARE THE ONES WHO ARE NOT HERE, WHO ARE NOT MEMBERS OF THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION. UM, SO, UH, LORI, HOW MANY, [04:00:01] UH, LANDLORDS HAVE CONTACTED THE CITY, UH, TRYING TO GET HELP FOR THEIR RESIDENCE? I'LL HAVE TO GIVE YOU THE EXACT NUMBER. I CAN TELL YOU THAT I'VE TALKED TO SEVERAL, UM, PROPERTY OWNERS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROVIDERS, BOTH FOR PROFIT AND NON-PROFIT, BUT I CAN GET YOU THE ACTUAL NUMBER. GREAT. SO, UM, SAY WE CONSIDERED THAT ORDINANCE NEXT WEEK. UM, IT, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S A 30 DAY OR A 60 DAY NOTIFICATION, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO, IF A LANDLORD IS INTERESTED IN, NOT INTERESTED IN, IT FEELS LIKE THEY MUST EVICT SOMEONE FOR LACK OF PAYMENT, UM, CAN THEY COME TO THE CITY AND SAY, I HAVE A TENANT WHO HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO PAY BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN IMPACTED BY, UH, THE PANDEMIC. CAN, UM, CAN THE CITY HELP ME, YOU KNOW, APPLY FOR FUNDING FOR THAT TENANT? YES. WE, WE, WE, WE WE'RE DOING THAT NOW WITH SEVERAL LANDLORDS AND, UM, WE'VE EVEN DONE SOME TRAINING ON A COUPLE OF HOUSING PROVIDERS TO SHOW THEM HOW TO ACCESS OUR SYSTEM. UM, WE HAVE FLYERS THAT THEY'RE SHARING WITH THEIR TENANTS, BUT YES, IT'S, LANDLORDS ARE PART OF THE SOLUTION AND THEY'RE HELPING US PROVIDE THIS RESOURCE TO THEIR TENANTS. OKAY. SO IF THAT ORDINANCE WERE ADOPTED, THAT WOULDN'T CHANGE. THE MONEY WOULD STILL BE AVAILABLE FOR YEAH, THE MONEY IS THE, THE, THE PROGRAM IS OPERATING NOW. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, THANK YOU, LORI. UM, I ALSO WANT TO, UH, CONCUR WITH, THANK YOU, UH, WITH COUNCILMAN AT VINNO. UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, UH, SORT OF A BLESSING AND A CURSE THAT SOMEONE AT THE SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS WAS, UH, NOMINATED FOR, UH, A JOURNALISM AWARD. AND I, THAT'S GREAT THAT WE HAVE GREAT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS, BUT IT WAS FOR THE EVICTION CRISIS THAT'S HAPPENING HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. AND LIKE YOU SAID, IT'S WELL DOCUMENTED, BUT THAT WAS BEFORE C OVID 19. UM, SO IT'S QUITE POSSIBLE THAT THIS IS A POLICY, UH, WE SHOULD HAVE CONSIDERED, UH, NONE NONETHELESS. UM, BUT I DO THINK WE ARE, UM, IT BEHOOVES US TO EVALUATE IT. I, UH, LOOK FORWARD TO SPEAKING WITH THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION. UM, I'D LOVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE CAN, UH, MAKE THAT WORK AND, UH, WITH THE BOARD OF REALTORS. I KNOW BRETT, UH, WAS HERE. UM, SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS ON THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR. MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. AND SO, UM, LEMME JUST CLOSE UP AGAIN BY SAYING THANK YOU TO OUR STAFF, UH, MY COLLEAGUES, AND TO THE PUBLIC, UH, FOR, UH, THE PARTICIPATION IN THIS PROCESS. UM, I THINK WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, PALAI AND SEVERAL OTHERS HAVE STATED IS TRUE. THIS IS NOT, THIS IS NOT A SILVER BULLET. THIS ISN'T GOING TO CURE ALL OF OUR, UH, ALL OF WHAT AILS US, UH, HERE IN THIS CITY OR ANY OTHER CITY IN THE COUNTRY. BUT WHAT THIS PANDEMIC HAS DONE IS FORCED US INTO A PERIOD OF SELF-REFLECTION, AT LEAST TO UNDERSTAND, UH, THE PRIORITIES THAT WE HAVE AND TO ADJUST THEM ACCORDINGLY. UH, AND I, AND I APPRECIATE, UH, THERE SEEMS TO BE GREAT CONSENSUS BEHIND THE FACT THAT WE DON'T WANT TO BE SATISFIED WITH SIMPLY GOING BACK TO A, A, A CITY WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING. AND TO THE EXTENT THAT WE CAN UTILIZE EVERY TOOL IN OUR TOOLBOX TO DO THAT, UH, SO MUCH, THE BETTER. UM, TO EMPHASIZE OUR GOAL HERE AS WE GET INTO RECOVERY WITH ALL THE TOOLS THAT WE HAVE, UH, BUT PARTICULARLY WITH THE CARESS ACT, IS TO GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK, TO ALLOW THEM TO STAY IN WORK IN THIS POST COVID ECONOMY, WHICH REQUIRES OBVIOUSLY, SOME CHANGE IN DIRECTION AND EDUCATION AND TRAINING, UM, TO ALLOW THEM TO CONNECT TO THE ECONOMY IN THE POST COVID ERA. AND ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT NOBODY IS FORCED OUT ON THE STREET OR GOES HUNGRY BECAUSE OF THIS CRISIS. UM, THE, UH, PRIORITY IS IDENTIFIED BY MARIA AND THE STAFF I THINK ARE, ARE RIGHT ON THE MONEY I, AND VERY IMPORTANT. SO ERIC, I'D LIKE, UH, FOR US TO COME BACK AS A COUNCIL, UH, PERHAPS THE WEEK OF THE 18TH TO TALK ABOUT THE PLAN, UH, THAT YOU ALL CAN PUT TOGETHER FOR US TO, UH, UTILIZE THOSE FUNDS ACCORDINGLY, AND THEN WE CAN GO FROM THERE. UM, I ALSO WANT TO, UM, RECOGNIZE THAT WE'RE NOT IN THIS ALONE. UM, THE CITY IS WORKING, AS WE'VE SEEN OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS WITH THE COUNTY. UH, WE WILL BE WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR RESOURCES ARE USED APPROPRIATELY, UH, AND WITH THE GREATEST IMPACT. AND WE'RE NOT ALONE THERE EITHER. THERE ARE MANY PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS AND, AND INSTITUTIONS THAT THEMSELVES ALSO HAVE SUFFERED, UH, DURING THIS PANDEMIC AND WILL ALSO BE RECEIVING ASSISTANCE. AND TO THE, UH, GREATEST EXTENT, WE WILL BE [04:05:01] COLLABORATING WITH THIS ENTIRE COMMUNITY SO WE CAN SHAPE A MORE EQUITABLE AND RESILIENT FUTURE FOR EVERYONE. UH, I DID HEAR THE, THE COMMENTS AND AS I'VE DISCUSSED WITH SEVERAL OF MY COLLEAGUES, UH, OVER THE LAST WEEK, UM, WE WILL BE GETTING BACK TO, UH, COMMITTEES. UH, THE WORKING GROUPS, UH, WILL BE, UH, FINISHING UP THEIR CHARGE BY THE END OF THE MONTH. AND SO WE'LL BE WORKING THROUGH COMMITTEES, UH, ON THE NEXT STEPS OF THE COVID RECOVERY RESPONSE OR THE COVID RECOVERY, UH, AND COUNCIL COMMITTEES. SO LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. AND WE'LL BE COMMUNICATING A LITTLE BIT MORE OVER THE NEXT WEEK OR SO, UH, BECAUSE SOME OF THE, THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEES OBVIOUSLY WILL CHANGE IN THIS NEW POST COVID AREA AS WELL. SO, WITH THAT, UM, THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR THE DISCUSSION, THE BRIEFING. THIS HAS GIVEN US SOME VERY GOOD, CLEAR DIRECTION AND, UH, LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT STEPS. ALRIGHT, UH, WE'LL GO NOW TO ITEM [5. 20-3124 Resolution affirming the City’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all community members and combating hate-speech.] NUMBER FIVE. ITEM FIVE IS A RESOLUTION AFFIRMING THE CITY'S COMMITMENT TO THE SAFETY AND WELLBEING OF ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN COMBATING HATE SPEECH. WHEREAS SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF THE COVID VIRUS, MORE THAN 3,222,107 CASES, AND MORE THAN 228,756 DEATHS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED WORLDWIDE AS OF APRIL 30TH, 2020, ACCORDING TO THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY CORONAVIRUS RESOURCE CENTER. AND ACCORDING TO THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, 1,005,147 CASES, AND 57,505 DEATHS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE UNITED STATES AS OF APRIL 30TH, 2020. AND WHEREAS C OVID 19 WILL NOT BE STOPPED BY POLITICAL BOUNDARIES AND WAS NOT CREATED OR CAUSED BY ANY RACE, NATIONALITY, OR ETHNICITY. AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HAS CAUTIONED AGAINST USING GEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS THAT CAN FUEL ETHNIC AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. AND WHEREAS C OVID 19 HAS INFECTED PEOPLE FROM ALL RACIAL, NATIONAL AND ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS, AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO IS FULLY COMMITTED TO THE SAFETY, SECURITY, AND EQUAL TREATMENT OF ITS RESIDENTS, AS IT CONFIRMS CONFRONTS THE C OVID 19 PANDEMIC. AND WHEREAS EACH INDIVIDUAL HAS THE ABILITY TO PROMOTE INCLUSIVENESS, CELEBRATE DIVERSITY, SUPPORT, ALL FELLOW COMMUNITY MEMBERS PREVENT THE SPREAD OF MISINFORMATION AND REJECT HATE AND BIAS IN ALL FORMS. AND WHEREAS HATE CRIMES, DISCRIMINATION AND AGGRESSION AGAINST ASIANS AND JEWS ARE ON THE RISE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, AS THESE GROUPS ARE BEING BLAMED FOR THE C OVID 19 OUTBREAK AND SPREAD. AND WHEREAS AS OUR HISTORY HAS SHOWN TIMES OF GREAT FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, AND UNREST CAN LEAD TO THE DEMONIZATION, BLAMING AND SCAPEGOATING OF GROUPS AS THE OTHER. AND WHEREAS EXTREMISTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF C OVID 19 TO SPREAD THEIR HATEFUL IDEOLOGIES, INCLUDING ANTISEMITISM, RACISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA, AND XENOPHOBIA. AND WHEREAS AMID THE GROWING SPREAD OF C OVID 19, THERE ARE SURGING REPORTS OF BIAS MOTIVATED INCIDENTS TARGETING MEMBERS OF THE ASIAN AND PACIFIC PACIFIC ISLANDER COMMUNITY IN THE US. AND WHEREAS C OVID 19 IS A HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE, NOT A RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, OR ETHNIC ONE, AND THE DELIBERATE USE OF THE TERM SUCH AS CHINESE VIRUS AND KUNG FU VIRUS TO DESCRIBE C OVID 19 ONLY ENCOURAGES HATE CRIMES AND INCIDENTS AGAINST ASIANS AND FURTHER SPREAD MISINFORMATION AT A TIME WHEN COMMUNITIES SHOULD BE WORKING TOGETHER TO GET THROUGH THE CRISIS. AND WHEREAS THE JEWISH COMMUNITY HAS BEEN TARGETED WITH BLAME, HATE, ANTISEMITIC TROPES AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT THEIR CREATING, SPREADING, AND PROFITING FROM C OVID 19, AND WHEREAS TO TARGET THE ANTI ANTI, UM, STIGMATIZE THANK YOU SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES FOR THE C OVID 19 OUTBREAK IN WORLD WIDESPREAD CREATES AN EX INEXCUSABLE RISK TO ALL COMMUNITIES. AND WHEREAS IT IS CRITICAL THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO TAKE LEADERSHIP AND STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH ITS ASIANS AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES TO SEND A MESSAGE THAT DISCRIMINATORY AND HATE MOTIVATED BEHAVIOR OR VIOLENCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. AND WHEREAS ALL PERSONS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY ANTI-SEMITIC DISCRIMINATORY OR RACIST INCIDENTS TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES FOR INVESTIGATION. AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WISHES TO AFFIRM ITS COMMITMENT TO THE WELLBEING AND SAFETY OF ITS ASIAN AND JEWISH COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND ENSURE THEY KNOW THEY ARE NOT ALONE, AND THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO IS COMMITTED TO ENDING THE SPREAD OF ALL FORMS OF HATE AND BIGOTRY NOW [04:10:01] THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, SECTION ONE, CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, DENOUNCES, ANTI-SEMITIC, ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-ASIAN BIGOTRY, AND ALL, AND HATEFUL SPEECH, VIOLENT ACTION, AND THE SPREAD OF MISINFORMATION RELATED TO C OVID 19 THAT CAST BLAME PROMOTES RACISM OR DISCRIMINATION OR HARMS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, ASIAN, AND SPECIFIC ISLANDER JEWISH IMMIGRANT, OR OTHER COMMUNITIES. SECTION TWO, CITY OF SAN ANTONIO JOINS CITIES, COUNTIES, AND STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN AFFIRMING ITS COMMITMENT TO THE SAFETY, WELLBEING OF ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS, INCLUDING ASIAN AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES, AND IN COMBATING HATE CRIMES AGAINST ASIAN JEWS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS. SECTION THREE, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL CONTINUE ITS EFFORTS TO PROMOTE, PROTECT RESIDENTS AND TARGET THE VICTIMS OF HATE TO PROSECUTE AND CURB HATE. ACTS RELATED TO C OVID 19, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NOSTER ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OTHER LAW ENFORCE ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS. SECTION FOUR, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PLEDGES TO SUPPORT THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF ALL PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO SHOULD BE TREATED WITH RESPECT AND MUST REMAIN SAFE DURING THE PANDEMIC. WE CALL UPON ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS TO TREAT EACH OTHER WITH RESPECT. SECTION FIVE, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO URGES RESIDENTS TO JOIN US IN CALLING ATTENTION TO THESE HARMS AND DENOUNCING HATE TO HELP KEEP US ALL SAFE DURING THIS UNPRECEDENTED PAN PANDEMIC AND BEYOND. SECTION SIX, THE CITY CLERK IS DIRECTED TO FORWARD A COPY OF THIS ACTION TO THE COUNTY JUDGE OF BEXAR COUNTY ON BEHALF OF THE CITY, SECTION SEVEN. THIS RESOLUTION IS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON THE RECEIPT OF EIGHT AFFIRMATIVE VOTES. OTHERWISE, IT IS EFFECTIVE 10 DAYS AFTER PASSAGE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CLERK. UM, AND I WILL, UH, GO AHEAD AND TAKE, UH, ONE CITIZEN SIGNED, BUT TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, UH, JACK FINGER. WELL, MAYOR NURNBERG, OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M. FINGER, YOU KNOW, WE CITIZENS WHO COME BY HERE TO SPEAK, AND THOSE OF YOU VIEWING THIS, THESE THINGS, UH, BEAR IN MIND THAT, UH, THIS OCCASION IS NOT JUST BASICALLY WHERE YOU AS VIEWERS GET A CHANCE TO SEE US AS CITIZENS, BUT IT MAY ACTUALLY BE A DOCUMENTARY WHEREBY YOU MAY EVEN ACTUALLY SEE CRIMES BE COMMITTED BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES. YES. THIS, UH, THIS ITEM WHEREBY YOU'RE, UH, CLAIMING THAT PERSONS ARE CAUSING HATE SPEECH, HATE CRIMES, BY MEANS OF SIMPLY SAYING THAT THE SOURCE OF THE BIG VIRUS THAT, THAT WE ARE ALL EXPERIENCING CAME FROM CHINA AND THEREBY CALL IT THE CHINA VIRUS. WELL, YOU'RE SAYING THAT I'D BE CO COMMITTING A HATE CRIME BY SAYING THAT WOULD, WELL, WOULD I BE COMMITTING A HATE CRIME IF I SAID THAT THE ASIAN FLU CAME FROM ASIA OR THAT THE WEST NILE VIRUS CAME FROM THE WEST NILE AREA? WOULD I BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THOSE FOLKS? WELL, APPARENTLY THROUGH THIS ORDINANCE, YOU'RE SAYING I, OR THIS RESOLUTION, YOU'RE SAYING I WOULD AND YOU'D WANT TO THROW ME IN JAIL FOR, FOR THAT. THERE. WELL, BEFORE YOU DO THAT, MR. MAYOR, BUT PLEASE ALLOW ME TO JUST TRY TO MITIGATE MY, MY SENTENCE IF YOU WOULD. I I THINK I CAN PLEA BARGAIN WITH YOU ON THIS. YOU SEE, UH, MR. VIS MAN, PUT THAT, THAT FIRST ONE UP THERE ONCE AGAIN, SOMETHING I SHOWED LAST WEEK THERE WHEREBY THROUGH, THROUGH, UH, YEAH. BLOW THAT UP AGAIN. ONCE AGAIN, MR. SANDOVAL'S OFFICE PUT, PUT, ESPECIALLY EMPHASIZE THIS, IT SAYS, UH, THAT IF YOU THINK COURT, IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE SEEN A, A LITTLE, LITTLE BIT MORE MORE, MR. AMAN, IF YOU THINK YOU'VE SEEN A VIOLATION OF THE STAY HOME WORKSAFE ORDER, PLEASE CALL TWO TEN TWO FOUR SEVEN S A P D OR EMAIL CA COVID 19 SECRETARY.GOV. YES, THANK YOU. RETURN THE CAMERA TO THE PODIUM IF YOU WOULD. I THINK I CAN HELP MITIGATE THIS. AND I, I, I'M GONNA PLEA BARGAIN WITH THIS BY MEANS OF, OF, OF REPORTING VIOLATIONS. YOU SEE, SEE, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND, AND SNITCH AND, AND, AND SAY THAT I HAVE SEEN, UH, YES. UH, WELL, I THINK IT WAS CITY COUNCILMAN TREVINO AND, AND CITY COUNCILMAN PAEZ EARLIER, YOU GUYS WERE, WE'RE NOT WEARING YOUR MASK. AND EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE, YES, WE HAVE HAVE MEASURED. [04:15:25] THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. FINGER CALL. MR. PERRY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR CONSIDERING THIS ITEM. UM, AND I'LL JUST SUMMARIZE, YOU HEARD THE RESOLUTION, UM, WHICH HAS BEEN SIM SIMILARLY PASSED IN OTHER COMMUNITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY, UH, AT A TIME OF CRISIS. UH, THIS CITY HAS ALWAYS SHOWN THAT WE STAND UNITED, WE STAND TOGETHER, AND THERE'S NOT ROOM FOR DISCRIMINATION OR HATE WHEN WE SEE IT. SO WE SHOUT IT OUT COLLECTIVELY, UH, THAT SAN ANTONIANS AS A COMMUNITY WILL NOT TOLERATE IT, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS RESOLUTION IS. AND SO I WOULD ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER PALIS. THANK YOU. UM, MAYOR, THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO AT THE RIGHT TIME. UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A VERY LONG HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES, UH, AND A TRADITION SADLY OF, OF XENOPHOBIA. IT'S IN OUR D N A, UM, IT'S ALIVE AND WELL. AND I, I BELIEVE THAT IT'S MORE DANGEROUS AND MORE CONTAGIOUS THAN A VIRUS. UM, THANKFULLY, HOWEVER, THERE IS A VACCINE. THAT VACCINE IS LIGHT. THAT VACCINE IS, UH, DRAWING MORAL LINES IN THE SAND AND SAYING, UM, YOU KNOW, WE WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS. UM, YOU KNOW, AND SINCE THIS CORONAVIRUS HAS LANDED ON OUR SHORES, WE'VE SEEN AN ALARMING UPTICK IN ATTACKS ON ASIAN AMERICANS AND PACIFIC ISLANDERS. AND THAT'S WHAT THIS IS, DESPITE THE BAD DINNER THEATER THAT WE JUST HAD TO SIT THROUGH. UH, REALLY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS DEFENDING PEOPLE'S RIGHTS TO EXIST IN THE UNITED STATES WITHOUT HARASSMENT, UM, AND IN DIGNITY. UM, WE'VE SEEN ATTACKS ON JEWISH AMERICANS, UM, AND THOSE ATTACKS ARE BORN FROM THE NASTIEST OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN LIBELS, UM, CLAIMING THAT JEWISH AMERICANS ARE SPREADING THIS VIRUS AND, UM, THAT THEY'RE EVEN PROFITING FROM IT. UM, AND IT BREAKS MY HEART THAT IMMIGRANTS CONTINUE TO BE, UH, TIED TO DISEASE AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AS A PLAGUE OR AS AN INVASIVE THREAT, UM, THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE CLAIM THAT THEY'RE CARRIERS OF CONTAGIONS AND, YOU KNOW, UH, WHO ARE GONNA COME AND DESTROY THE UNITED STATES. AND WE'VE HEARD THIS BEFORE, SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL, AND WE CONTINUE TO HEAR IT TODAY. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AND INSTEAD OF BRINGING US TOGETHER, WE'VE GOT NATIONAL LEADERS IN THE UNITED STATES WHO SPEND THEIR DAYS COMING UP WITH CREATIVE NEW WAYS TO MALIGN, UH, PEOPLE WHO THEY CONSIDER TO BE OTHER. AND SO I THINK WITH THIS RESOLUTION, WE ALL SAY RESOUNDINGLY THAT NOT IN MY SAN ANTONIO, THAT WE STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER WITH OUR ASIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND OUR JEWISH BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND OUR NEIGHBORS, AND WE STAND, UM, AND DECLARE OURSELVES NOT AGAINST ANYTHING, BUT IN FAVOR OF LOVE AND DIGNITY AND RESPECT, AND THAT WE RESOUNDINGLY REJECT PREJUDICE AND PROSECUTION OF ANY PERSON BECAUSE OF THEIR COLOR OR THEIR ETHNICITY OR THE NATIONAL ORIGIN. AND SO, MAYOR, YOU GOT MY SUPPORT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, FOR BRINGING THIS TO US. AND I MOVE SECOND THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER PLY. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU MAYOR, FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. I TOO LOOK FORWARD TO, UM, SUPPORTING THE, THE RESOLUTION AS WE GO FORWARD. UM, I WANNA SEE ALSO HOW WE, HOW, HOW THIS PHILOSOPHY PERMEATES THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT WE DO IN OUR C OVID 19, UH, RESPONSE. AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT'S REALLY WHAT, WHAT IT'S ABOUT. AND, UM, I THINK IT'S VERY FITTING THAT YOU INVITED THE ARCHBISHOP TO GIVE OUR INVOCATION THIS MORNING. HE SPOKE ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY HAVING A UNITY OF PURPOSE IN PROTECTING OUR NEIGHBORS. AND I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE ACCOMPLISHING WITH THIS RESOLUTION. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, WE HAVE A MOTION, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I KNOW THAT AMERICA HAS, UH, A TENDENCY OF, OF CREATING OBSTACLES AND ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO AS A CITY TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR CITIZENS ARE PROTECTED, NOT JUST CERTAIN WITH YOU. UM, WE NEED TO DO THAT AND NOT TO BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT THIS RESOLUTION IS ALL ABOUT. UM, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE US DO MORE FOR MORE OF THOSE THAT ARE VULNERABLE TO HATE CRIME. SO, UM, I'M IN SUPPORT OF THISS WILLMAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND, SIR. SIR, THIS IS QUITE MY, I TRIED TO CHIME IN, BUT DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO, BUT COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, THANK YOU. UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN I GOT THIS, DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TIME TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT, BUT, UH, UM, WHEN I FIRST LOOKED AT IT, I SAID, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT [04:20:01] A N D O ALREADY. IS THIS SOMETHING IN ADDITION TO, TO THAT, THAT WE REALLY NEED? BUT I DID REACH OUT TO THE, UM, ASIAN COMMUNITY, THE ASIAN, UH, COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND TALKED WITH THEM, AND THEY ASKED THAT I DO SUPPORT THIS, UH, TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE THERE WERE, WERE A COUPLE OF INCIDENTS HERE IN TOWN AND, UM, I, I'M GONNA SUPPORT THIS AND VOTE FOR IT, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, INITIALLY I SAID, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT LOTS OF PROTECTIONS HERE IN THE CITY ALREADY. UH, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED IN ADDITION? BUT, UH, UM, I, I DID REACH OUT AND TALK TO FOLKS AND, AND THEY WANT ME TO SUPPORT IT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE MAIN REASON THAT I'M GOING TO BE SUPPORTING THIS. SO, THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER FIVE. PLEASE VOTE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. AND THANK YOU AGAIN TO MY COLLEAGUES. UM, WE DO, UH, DO WE HAVE A CITY MANAGER'S [City Manager's Report] REPORT? OKAY. UM, JUST, UH, UH, ONE ITEM, COUNCILMAN OR MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UH, LET ME ANSWER A QUESTION THAT COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL ASKED EARLIER ABOUT THE P P E PURCHASE FOR SMALL BUSINESSES THAT WE TALKED ABOUT ON TUESDAY. UM, THE VAST MAJORITY OF ALL THOSE PPES WERE SO SOURCED LOCALLY. THE ONLY ONES THAT WE WERE NOT ABLE TO DO THAT WERE THE, UH, THE, UH, THERMOMETERS, BUT ALL OF THE OTHER EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS WERE SOURCED LO LOCALLY, AND THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO US, UH, AS WE DEVELOPED THAT PROGRAM. THE OTHER ITEM THAT I HAVE, UH, FOR MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UH, TODAY IS TO JUST A, UH, AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THIS WEEK MARKS THE 36TH ANNUAL, UH, PUBLIC SERVICE RECOGNITION WEEK. AND SINCE 1985, UH, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS ESTABLISHED, UH, THIS WEEK TO RECOGNIZE FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES WHO, WHO SERVE COMMUNITIES. AND SO TODAY'S EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT VIDEO, UM, WILL SHOW YOU, UM, OUR EMPLOYEES AND HOW A LOT OF OUR REMOTE EMPLOYEES HAVE STILL BEEN ENGAGED IN THEIR WORK AND WITH EACH OTHER. UM, I'M REALLY PROUD OF THE CITY TEAM, UH, AND EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED. OUR ROUTINES HAVE CERTAINLY CHANGED, UH, FOR A LOT OF OUR EMPLOYEES, BUT, UH, WE ALL REMAIN COMMITTED TO OUR, UH, MISSION. SO WITH THAT, LET'S RUN THE VIDEO SO THAT THAT GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT OF LOOK OF, OF WHAT A LOT OF OUR OTHER EMPLOYEES ARE DOING AND HOW THEY'RE CONNECTING. UM, WE TRY TO STAY CONNECTED THROUGH EMPLOYEE CHECK-INS, UM, THROUGH WEEKLY EMAILS FROM ME TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY'S GOT THE LATEST AND GREATEST. I ASKED ALL DEPARTMENT HEADS LAST WEEK TO ENSURE THAT THEY MADE DIRECT CONTACT WITH EVERY EMPLOYEE OVER THE COURSE OF A WEEK. [04:25:01] AND WHILE THAT IS A CHALLENGE IN A BIG DEPARTMENT LIKE POLICE, UH, AND FIRE AND PUBLIC WORKS, UM, I'M PROUD OF THE FACT THAT WE HAVE CONTINUED TO REMAIN, UH, HAVE THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION OPEN TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR EMPLOYEES, WHETHER THEY'RE RE UH, REDEPLOYED TO OTHER EFFORTS, UH, REMOTE WORKING OR CONTINUING IN THEIR CURRENT JOBS OF BASIC SERVICES, THAT THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND WE'RE TAKING CARE OF 'EM. THANKS, MAYOR. THANK YOU ERIC. AND, UH, VERY WELL DONE ON THE VIDEO AS WELL. UM, WE DO HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TODAY, AND I THOUGHT I HAD THE SCRIPT, MADAM CLERK. THANK YOU. UM, THE TIME IS NOW 1:45 PM ON THURSDAY, MAY 7TH, 2020. 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 TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.087, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE LEASE OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTIES PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.072 AND CON CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR LE LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LITIGATION AGAINST THE CITY AND C OVID 19 PREPAREDNESS PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.071. CONSULTATION WITH ATTORNEY. * 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.