Jun 11, 2020 City Council A Session on 2020-06-11 9:00 AM

[1. Invocation]

TO GET US STARTED TODAY, UM, WE HAVE AN INVOCATION I'D LIKE TO CALL ON COUNCIL MEMBER GRO.

HAVE A PLACE TO GO RATHER THAN BE IN THE STREETS.

IT'S MY PLEASURE TO INTRODUCE EDDIE MEDEL, WHO IS THE PASTOR OF MIRACLE CENTER.

THE MIRACLE CENTER IN THE SOUTH SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO.

HE HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE OF 30 YEARS IN MINISTRY, ASSISTING HIS FATHER, SENIOR PASTOR RUBEN, MADE, AND NOW FOUR YEARS AS A PASTOR AND HELPING BUILD AND ENCOURAGE THE BETTER ME BETTERMENT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.

PASTOR EDDIE MINISTERS WITH MOTIVATION AND ENTHUSIASM EVERY SUNDAY TO OVER 900 CHURCH MEMBERS.

HE IS THE CHIEF LEADER OF 12 DEPARTMENTS AND OVER 150 CHURCH STAFF.

HE IS THE LEADER OF MEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT, WHERE MEN ARE REDIRECTED TO BE A BETTER ROLE MODEL FOR THEIR FAMILIES.

HE HAS ALSO BEEN A TEACHER INSTRUCTING IN THE BASIC BIBLE FOUNDATIONAL TO MEN AND WOMEN WHO WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR COMMUNITY, AND WHICH HAVE LED MANY OUTREACHES FOR THE COMMUNITY, AND IS PRESENTLY WORKING ON HIS GOAL TO FINISH THE T M C GYM PROJECT SO THAT THE YOUTH AND THE COMMUNITY

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AND LASTLY, PASTOR EDDIE'S VISION IS TO BE A BLESSING TO THE FAMILIES OF OUR COMMUNITY AND PROVIDE THEM WITH A POSITIVE VIEW OF GOD THROUGH LOVE AND COMPASSION, ACCEPTANCE AND EMPATHY.

SO THAT THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO HAVE A QUALITY AND FRUITFUL WAY OF LIFE THROUGH JESUS.

THANK YOU, PASTOR FOR BEING HERE.

THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME AGAIN.

UM, RIGHT QUICK, I KIND OF JUST WANNA SHARE A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.

I KNOW THAT AT TIMES LIKE THIS, IT CAN BE A THANKLESS TASK TO BE A PUBLIC SERVANT.

SEEMS LIKE SOMETIMES YOU GET MORE CRITICISM THAN COMPLIMENTS, BUT I WANT TO JUST ENCOURAGE YOU FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING.

'CAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE SUCH AS MYSELF AND PEOPLE ON THE SOUTH SIDE AND THE WEST SIDE, THAT NOTICE ALL YOUR TIRELESS WORK AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO.

YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JESUS SAID WHEN HE HAD HIS FIRST, UH, PREACHING, UH, AND IT'S KNOWN AS THE SERMON, SERMON ON THE MOUNT.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JESUS SAID WAS THE BEATITUDES.

AND THE BEATITUDES QUITE SIMPLY JUST MEANS, UH, SUPREME BLESSEDNESS.

AND ONE OF THOSE BEATITUDES IS THAT IT SAYS THAT BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE PURE IN HEART.

AND THERE'S MANY THINGS THAT COULD MAKE US ASSESS IN OUR OWN LIVES THE PURITY IN OUR LIVES.

BUT TWO OF THOSE THINGS, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANT TO TELL YOU, UH, THIS MORNING, AND ONE OF THEM IS EMPATHY.

AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE, YOU FEEL FOR THE PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO.

YOU FEEL FOR, FOR THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST THEIR LIFE FOR THIS PANDEMIC.

AND SECONDLY, IT'S HONESTY.

SOMETIMES HONESTY CAN BE A, A KIND OF A CRUEL ASSESSMENT OF WHERE WE'RE AT.

AND SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES ABOUT OUR HONESTY.

AND YOU'RE HERE BECAUSE YOU'RE HONEST AND KNOWING AND SEEING THAT THERE ARE PROBLEMS IN THIS CITY.

THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON AND THERE'S THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO DO ABOUT THOSE THINGS.

WE HAVE THESE MEETINGS SO THAT WE CAN ASSESS WHAT'S HAPPENING AND HOW WE CAN ADDRESS 'EM.

AND I WANNA PRAY THAT GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU AND ALLOW YOU TO SEE THAT YOUR EFFORTS ARE NOTICED.

YOUR EFFORTS MEAN SOMETHING TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO.

STA MAYOR, THANK YOU.

I KNOW SOMETIMES YOU PROBABLY THINK, MAN, WHAT DID I GET MYSELF INTO HERE BY BEING THE MAYOR OF THIS CITY AND ALL THESE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING.

BUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS THE WORK OF GOD.

I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT AND UNDERSTAND THAT GOD IS DOING SOMETHING IN THE MIDST OF ALL THESE THINGS.

AND WHEN HISTORY'S WRITTEN AND THE 2020 GOES INTO THE BOOKS, YOU ARE GOING TO BE WRITTEN ALONG WITH WHAT HAPPENED IN 2020 WITH THE PANDEMIC, ALL THE SOCIAL UNREST, AND ALL THE THINGS THAT HAVE TO, THAT HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED.

BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE PRAYING FOR YOU AND NOTICE ALL THE GOOD WORK THAT YOU DO.

IF YOU COULD BOW YOUR HEADS, PLEASE.

FATHER, WE GLORIFY AND WE THANK YOU THIS MORNING, THIS BEAUTIFUL MORNING.

WE ASK YOU THAT YOU BLESS WHAT YOUR, MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS HERE ARE ABOUT TO DO.

THEY'RE ADDRESSING ISSUES AND THINGS THAT ARE HITTING NOT JUST THIS CITY, BUT THE NATION.

AND WE ASK YOU, FATHER, THAT YOU CONTINUE TO BLESS THEM AND ALLOW THEM TO SEE THAT THEIR WORK AND THEIR EFFORTS ARE NOT JUST NOTICED BY THE PUBLIC, BUT BY YOU.

WE ASK YOU THAT YOU CONTINUE TO BLESS THEM, MOTIVATE THEM, AND MOVE THEM FORWARD.

AND WE THANK YOU, FATHER GOD, AND WE ASK YOU THAT ALL THE THINGS THAT WILL BE ADDRESSED HERE THIS MORNING WILL COME TO FULL FRUITION AND BE OF, OF A BENEFIT TO THE PEOPLE OF SAN ANTONIO.

WE THANK YOU.

AMEN.

[2. Pledge of Allegiance]

UNITED STATES.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PASTOR.

ON OUR AGENDA TODAY, UH, IS THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OF APRIL 14TH AND APRIL 16TH.

ALL RIGHT.

THE FIRST ITEM

[3. Approval of Minutes from the City Council Meetings of April 14 and April 16, 2020.]

I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THOSE MINUTES.

SECOND, THERE'S A MOTION AND SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, MINUTES OF APRIL 14TH AND APRIL 16TH.

ANY DISCUSSION? IF NOT, PLEASE VOTE.

AYE.

MOTION CARRIES.

UH, AND AGAIN, UH, FOR THE BENEFIT OF OUR VIEWING AUDIENCE AND THOSE IN THE CHAMBERS, THE CITY COUNCIL IS PHYSICALLY DISTANCED ON THE DA.

SO WE DO HAVE FOUR MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL WHO ARE PARTICIPATING REMOTELY.

UH, AND WE DO HAVE PHYSICAL DISTANCING PROTOCOLS ESTABLISHED IN THE CHAMBERS AS WELL.

AND WE APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.

UH,

[Consent Agenda]

WE HAVE ONE ITEM FOR INDIVIDUAL BRIEFING, UH, WHICH IS OUR UPDATE ON THE C OVID 19 RESPONSE, AND THEN A FULL, UH, CONSENT AGENDA.

AT THIS TIME, I'D ASK MY COLLEAGUES IF THERE ARE ANY ITEMS

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FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA THAT WE'D LIKE TO PULL FOR CONSIDERATION.

SO FAR, WE HAVE ALL ITEMS SAY FOR ITEM FOUR.

AND TO NOTE ALSO, ITEM 17 HAS BEEN PULLED BY STAFF AND WE'LL BE HEARD AT THE LATER DATE.

ITEM 16.

COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.

ITEM 16, ITEM 11, I'M SORRY.

COULD YOU REPEAT THAT? ITEM 11.

ITEM 11.

ANY OTHERS, SIR? I WANNA HIGHLIGHT NUMBER NINE.

UH, IF YOU COULD JUST TAP IN, UH, OKAY.

WHEN WE ENTER, WHEN WE HAVE THAT MOTION FOR CONSENT.

ALRIGHT.

I HAVE FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION ITEMS FOUR, 11 AND 16.

IF THERE ARE NO OTHERS, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA.

STARTED THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE OF SENDING NATIVE PEOPLE TO EUROPE AND BRINGING AFRICAN PEOPLE BACK OVER HERE TO THIS CONTINENT.

THERE'S A MOTION.

WAS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.

THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA.

ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR FOUR 11 AND 16.

UH, WE DO HAVE A FEW CITIZENS SIGNED UP FOR ITEMS REMAINING ON CONSENT.

UM, AND I'LL CALL THEM NOW.

J GERALD.

BILL.

OH, I'M SORRY, MR. BILL, ONE SECOND.

I'M CALLING.

I'LL CALL YOU WHEN THAT ITEM COMES UP.

THAT ONE'S ON, ON, UH, INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.

UM, ANTONIO DIAZ.

MR. DIAZ, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY DEANNA ORGA.

ALI, GOOD MORNING.

AND AGAIN, I MEAN, THIS, THIS IS ITEM FOUR, RIGHT? THIS I WISH ITEM AM I SPEAKING ON NOW? FIVE.

AS WE KNOW, THAT'S A HISTORICAL AREA, AND THAT WAS WHERE NATIVE PEOPLE LIVED BEFORE THEY WERE EJECTED FROM THEIR REMOVED.

SO THAT'S WHY I'M SPEAKING ON THIS ITEM.

WE, AS NATIVE PEOPLE, HAVE NEVER BEEN CONSIDERED AS HUMAN BEINGS EQUAL WITH EQUAL RIGHTS.

SO I AM FOR THE STRUCTURE BEING REFURBISHED WITH A ROOF, BUT I WOULD BE MORE FOR IF THAT LAND WAS RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL INHABITANTS, THE 37 FAMILIES THAT LIVED THERE BEFORE THEY WERE REMOVED FOR RENOVATIONS IN THAT AREA.

YOU SEE, THIS IS AN INSTITUTION OF DECLARING WHO HAS RIGHTS AND WHO HAS NOT AND OR STILL WAITING FOR OUR RIGHTS.

THE BLACK LIVES MOVEMENT HELPS US RAISE OUR VOICE AGAINST THESE ISSUES OF INJUSTICE THAT WE HAVE FACED SINCE BEING INVADED BY CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, WHICH IS WHY I KEEP ASKING TO STOP HONORING THIS MAN IN OUR CITY AND TO REMOVE THAT STATUE AND RENAME THAT PARK ON WEST MARTIN STREET.

IT IS TIME.

IT'S PAST TIME.

IT IS ON YOUR BALL COURT.

NOW, MR. MAYOR, IT HAS BEEN, I'M HOPING YOU'LL TAKE SOME ACTION.

YOU KNELT DOWN AT THE COURT SIDE WITH THE PEOPLE FROM THE BLACK LIVES MATTERS MOVEMENT.

YET THERE'S NO ACTION OTHER THAN THAT PHOTO OP.

WE DEMAND ACTION.

WE DEMAND FOR YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN BRING IN EQUALITY TO US AS HUMAN BEINGS.

WE HAVE BEEN DENIED THAT FOR MORE THAN 400 YEARS.

WE HAVE BEEN DENIED THAT FOR OVER 500 YEARS.

THE CITY.

IT'S A COLONIAL CITY NAMED AFTER A SAINT FROM SPAIN ON OUR LAND.

WERE WE ASKED IF WE WANTED TO HONOR THAT? NO.

AND WE'RE STILL NOT ASKED TO PARTICIPATE.

WE ARE ASKING YOU TO PARTICIPATE.

TAKE DOWN THAT STATUE.

IT'S ABOUT TIME.

TAKE IT DOWN IT DOWN.

THEY CAN PUT IT IN THEIR HALL.

THEY CAN PUT IT SOMEWHERE FOR PRIVATE VIEWING OF THEIR OWN SELVES IF THEY WISH TO CONTINUE HONORING THAT SLAVE TRADER THAT

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WANNA CONTINUE TO DO THAT? PUT IT SOMEWHERE WHERE THEY HAVE PRIVATE VIEWING AND NOT ON OUR PUBLIC MONEY.

THANK YOU MR. DIAZ.

DIANNA REGAS.

GOOD MORNING.

UH, I WANNA STOP, I WANNA TALK ABOUT STRESS ON THIS COVID.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE WORKING HARD, YOU KNOW, AND EVEN MOTHERS OR WIFE, YOU KNOW, LADIES WITH CHILDREN, UH, A LOT OF 'EM PUT A LOT OF HOURS TO THEIR WORK.

AND IF YOU GOT KIDS, YOU HAVE TO FIND SOMEBODY TO WASH 'EM.

AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE NOBODY TO WASH YOUR KIDS, CHARLIE, YOU GOT A DAUGHTER AND YOU, NUREMBERG, YOU HAVE A SON.

AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE NOBODY TO WASH YOUR KIDS, I KNOW Y'ALL DO, BUT US POOR PEOPLE DON'T.

SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO MISS WORK BECAUSE WE HAVE NOBODY TO WASH OUR KIDS, YOU KNOW? AND, AND SOMETIMES IT COULD EVEN TURN TO, LIKE, IF THEY'RE SINGLE MOTHERS, WELL, THEY GET, THEIR KIDS GET TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM BECAUSE OF THAT.

AND THAT'S NOT RIGHT, ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NURSES WITH KIDS THAT PUT IN A LOT OF TIME TO, UH, CURE US AND STUFF.

AND THEN THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT STRESS OF THEIR KIDS GETTING TAKEN AWAY.

WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT? WHY SHOULD THEIR KIDS BE TAKEN AWAY? IS IT TURNING AGAIN TO WHERE WE HAVE TO STAY HOME BAREFOOT AND, AND PREGNANT AND BEING IN THE KITCHEN? WHY CAN'T WE BE OUT THERE WORKING AND HAVE, YOU KNOW, NOT TO WORRY ABOUT OUR CHILDREN, CHILDREN BACK WHEN THEY USED TO TAKE AWAY ALL OUR CHILDREN AND JUST LEAVE US WITH ONE OR TWO, A BOY AND A GIRL.

SO I DO SAY, TAKE AWAY THIS STATUE FOR COLUMBUS AT THE COLUMBUS PARK AND RENAME THE PARK, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE EVERYTHING STARTED.

WE WERE SLAVE FIRST, AND THEN THEY BROUGHT THE BLACKS FROM AFRICA IN 1502.

OUR CHILDREN WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM US, AND THEY'RE STILL DOING IT.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

WE NEED JUSTICE.

WE NEED TO BE HEARD.

THANK YOU, MS. URI AGAS.

OKAY, THERE IS A, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA.

I DOT HAVE, UH, UH, ONLY COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY IN THE QUEUE AT THIS POINT.

COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.

THANK YOU, SIR.

I JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT NUMBER NINE.

IT'S FOR, UH, PARK PROJECT THAT WAS APPROVED IN THE , UH, CREEK.

AND THERE'S SOME, UH, UH, IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE DOING.

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THOSE.

UH, THIS WAS A, UM, PARK THAT WAS ESTABLISHED A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, BUT REALLY DIDN'T GET ANY, UH, WORK DONE TO IT OR FUNDING.

AND, UM, IT WAS ADDED TO THE 17 BOND.

AND, UH, WE'RE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS AND THE NEIGHBORS AROUND THIS AREA.

SO, UH, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO THE, UH, CITY STAFF, THE PUBLIC WORKS FOR PULLING THIS TOGETHER.

THEY'VE WORKED HARD ON, UH, PUTTING THE DESIGN PACKAGE TOGETHER, AND WE'RE READY TO GET STARTED ON THIS ONE.

SO, RAZZY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR WHAT Y'ALL HAVE DONE AND PUTTING THIS OUT AND GETTING THIS READY TO GO.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.

APPRECIATE IT.

MOVE TO, UM, ITEM NUMBER FOUR.

COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE

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CONSENT AGENDA.

ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR FOUR 11 AND 16.

JACK, I HAVE YOU, UH, FOR ITEM FOUR, SO YOU'LL BE UP IN A MOMENT.

17.

YOU'RE RIGHT.

17 IS NOT BEING HEARD TODAY.

IT'S BEING PULLED FROM THE AGENDA.

ALRIGHT, PLEASE VOTE.

[4. Briefing with possible action on the City’s response and preparedness for COVID-19.]

ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS A BRIEFING AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE CITY'S RESPONSE AND PREPAREDNESS FOR C OVID 19.

YEAH, I THINK OUR, YEAH, THIS SHOULD GO FAIRLY QUICKLY.

WHAT WE'RE ASKING COUNCIL TO DO THIS MORNING IS EXTEND THE LOCAL, UH, EMERGENCY ORDER RELATED TO COVID RESPONSE.

UM, SO THAT WE STAY ALIGNED WITH THE TEXAS GOVERNOR'S ORDERS.

I GAVE A FULL BRIEFING.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

I GAVE A FULL BRIEFING TO THE COUNCIL LAST WEEK IN TERMS OF WHAT THE GOVERNOR'S ORDERS DID.

IT ESSENTIALLY OPENED ALL BUSINESSES.

UM, BUT THERE'S STILL SOME RESTRICTIONS ON GATHERINGS.

ESSENTIALLY, IF YOU'RE HAVING A GATHER, YOU CAN'T HAVE A GATHERING OF MORE THAN 10 PEOPLE.

BUT AGAIN, THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO ALL THE DIFFERENT OPEN BUSINESSES AND EXEMPT BUSINESSES, UH, THAT ARE OUTLINED IN THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER.

SO ESSENTIALLY THE WAY WE'RE LOOKING AT IT IS YOU'RE LOOKING REALLY AT GATHERINGS, PRIVATE GATHERINGS IN YOUR HOME.

THEY SHOULD BE LIMITED TO 10.

THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER STILL RE IS ASKING PEOPLE OVER 65, UH, TO STAY AT HOME AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

UH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

THE MAYOR AND JUDGE ALSO REVISED THEIR ORDERS STARTING JUNE 4TH.

IT'LL EXPIRE, UH, THIS EVENING.

UM, AND THE, THOUGH THE LOCAL ORDER IS NOW A LOT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THE PREVIOUS LOCAL ORDERS ARE.

INSTEAD OF, UH, HAVING A LOT OF THE SUBSTANCE OF THE TEXAS GOVERNOR'S ORDER INCLUDED IN OURS, WHAT WE'VE DONE IS SIMPLY REFERENCED THE GOVERNOR'S ORDERS AS IT RE RELATES TO OPEN BUSINESSES AND RESTRICTIONS, UH, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.

UM, AND WHAT WE'VE TAKEN IS THE SPECIFIC HEALTH DIRECTIVES THAT WERE INCLUDED IN OUR LOCAL ORDER THAT AREN'T IN OUR GOVERNOR'S ORDER.

WE HAVE NOW MOVED THOSE.

THERE'S A HEALTH DIRECTIVE THAT WAS SIGNED BY THE HEALTH DIRECTOR THAT INCLUDES THOSE PROVISIONS IN TERMS OF, FOR EXAMPLE, REQUIRED REPORTING OF TESTING AND THE WARNINGS AGAINST, UH, SOME OF THE ANTIBODY TESTING.

THAT'S NOW A HEALTH DIRECTIVE ORDER ISSUED BY THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

UM, SO OUR LOCAL ORDER IS VERY SHORT.

UM, IT DOES THOUGH, UH, STILL ALIGN WITH THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER.

THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER THAT, UH, WAS RECENTLY ISSUED GA 26.

IT DOESN'T HAVE AN END DATE.

THEREFORE, WE'RE ASKING COUNSEL TO EXTEND THE LOCAL EMERGENCY ORDER INDEFINITELY.

IT'LL BE RESCINDED BY COUNCIL OR REPLACED BY A NEW DECLARATION FROM THE MAYOR.

AGAIN, WE'RE RECOMMENDING THIS TO STAY ALIGNED WITH THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER.

UH, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, TO THE EXTENT THERE'S ANY POTENTIAL REIMBURSEMENTS COMING OUT, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT OUR ELIGIBILITY ISN'T AFFECTED BY THE FACT THAT WE DON'T HAVE A LOCAL ORDER.

AND IT STILL PROVIDES US THE ABILITY TO PIVOT IN CASE THERE ARE LOCAL THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN WHICH WE HAVE TO ACT QUICKLY.

WE CAN STILL DO THAT IF THE LOCAL ORDER'S IN PLACE.

UH, SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING COUNCIL TO DO THIS MORNING.

TO DO NOT MAKE, UH, OUR GOD JWE.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

THANK YOU, ANDY.

UH, WE DO HAVE, UH, A FEW CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM FOUR.

SO I'LL CALL THEM NOW.

UH, NAZARITE RUBEN FLORES PEREZ.

AND MR. PEREZ, THERE IS A MICROPHONE ON A STAND THERE.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO MAKE CONTACT WITH IT.

WE'LL SANITIZE IT IN BETWEEN SPEAKERS.

JACK FINGER, YOU'RE NEXT.

UH, YES.

AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW BY NOW, MY NAME IS NA AND FLORES PEREZ.

AND AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW TOO, THAT HEAVEN AND THE LIBERTY LAWS.

NOW, UH, I, I, I DID WANNA REFER ABOUT THIS, UH, HESITATION THAT'S GOING ON.

THE, THE MONEY THAT THEY WANNA ELIMINATE FROM, FROM THE POLICE FORCE IN THE SENSE TO WEAKEN THEIR FORCE, THE FORCES, YOU KNOW, THEY CARRY.

AND, AND THIS, THIS, UH, VIOLATION OF LAW, BIBLICAL LAW, YOU'LL FIND IT IN ROMANS CHAPTER 13.

UH, THE GOD OF HEAVEN IS GONNA COME DOWN, BOOM.

I, I MEAN, UH, WHOEVER INTERFERES NOW, UH, THE BEST WAY TO DO IT IS, IS KEEP IT GOING LIKE IT IS, IS THERE'S A VIOLATION THAT THE LAW MAKES AND SO ON.

WELL, OF COURSE, THEY GOT TO PAY, UH, YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED FOLK.

NO, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

AND I RECOMMEND FOR, FOR YOU ALL TO, UH,

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DON'T MAKE 'EM YOUR ENEMY BY VIOLATING.

IF, IF THE VIOLATION, IF SOMEBODY VIOLATES THE LAW POLICE, WELL, HE'S GOTTA PAY FOR THAT.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S A REASON THEY GOT THEIR SUPERVISORS, THE ONES THAT ARE IN CHARGE, I MEAN, THE ONE THAT ARE IN CHARGE, SUPPOSED TO ORDER THEM TO, TO QUIT AND DO THEIR JOB.

AND, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE OLD TIMES, REMEMBER THEY USED TO PUT THE HANDCUFFS AND, YOU KNOW, ARREST THEM AND SQUEEZE IN THE NECKS AND SO ON.

HEY, MAN, I USED TO BE A PRIZE FIGHTER.

UH, I, I AM A SURE FIGHT, YOU KNOW, IN TV AND SO ON.

AND THOSE REGULATIONS, I KNOW I'M BY, BY HEART AND PROFESSIONAL, UH, WAS REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL AND, YOU KNOW, AND IN KARATE, BOXING AND SO ON, ALL KINDS OF OROS.

AND YOU, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE VIOLATING THE LAW.

SO STICK, STICK TO THE LAW AND, YOU KNOW, DO, DO YOUR BEST.

AND WHO VIOLATES THE LAW? IT'S GOTTA PAY, ESPECIALLY IF THIS INTENTIONAL USE THE HANDCUFFS, USE, UH, SOMETHING TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND SO ON.

BUT SQUEEZING SOMEBODY, HEY, MAN, THAT'S A SCENE.

YOU DON'T WANT GOD AGAINST YOU TO OR PRO YOU.

YOU GOTTA GO STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT THE LINE.

SO THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING FOR.

WHEN YOU VOTE ON, ON THINGS LIKE THIS, ON, ON WEAKENING OUR FORCE POLICE FORCE, IT'S, IT'S NOT ADVISABLE.

I REMEMBER WHEN I USED TO SPEAK THAT THE TIME WAS GONNA BE COMING, THAT IN EVERY CORNER THERE WAS GONNA BE, UH, POLICE BEING ATTACKED AND SO ON.

AND IT IS GOING ON.

IT IS IN BLACK AND WHITE.

YOU CAN FIND IT IN TAKANA, IN, IN, UH, LIBRARY WHEN I USED TO SPEAK ABOUT THAT.

THANK YOU, MR. PEREZ.

JACK FINGER, MR. FINGER WOULD BE FOLLOWED BY ANTONIO DIAZ.

WELL, MR. MAYOR, ANOTHER MEMBERS OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M FINGER, I'M GONNA TAKE OFF THIS USELESS THING.

UH, I, UH, WAS LOOKING AT THE, UH, THE C OVID 19 , UH, RECOMMENDATIONS FROM OUR CITY ATTORNEY.

UH, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, THE RECOMMENDATIONS KEEP CHANGING FROM WEEK TO WEEK.

UH, THIS BUSINESS CAN OPEN UP AT 50% THIS WEEK.

UH, ANOTHER BUSINESS CAN OPEN UP AT 75%, AND THIS ONE CAN OPEN UP AT A HUNDRED PERCENT.

THIS ALL GETS VERY CONFUSING AFTER A WHILE, MR. MAYOR AND I, UH, I, YOU WON'T KNOW.

YOU CAN'T TELL THE BUSINESSES APART.

PARDON? UNLESS YOU HAVE A PROGRAM OR IN THIS CASE, A COMPUTER.

I THINK I HAVE A BRILLIANT SOLUTION TO ALL OF THIS.

IT'LL JUST MAKE THIS, THIS COVID, THIS CHINA VIRUS.

I THINK YOU JUST COMPLETELY GO, GO BY THE WAYSIDE HERE.

AND WHAT IS IT? RACE RIOTS, LOOTINGS, GENERAL PANDEMONIUM IN THE STREETS.

NOW, IF YOU THINK I'M KIDDING ABOUT THAT, WHAT WAS IT THAT PRACTICALLY EVERY SINGLE, WHAT I CALL YOUNG SKULLS FULL OF MUSH, WHICH CAME BY LAST WEEK AND UP TO THIS MICROPHONE, WHAT WERE THEY RECOMMENDING? DEFUNDING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

DEFUNDING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

I GUARANTEE YOU, MR. MAYOR, IF YOU CAN DO THAT, I GUARANTEE YOU THAT EVERY SINGLE HOMEOWNER AND AND CITIZEN HERE IN IN TOWN WILL BE TWO DARN BUSY FIRING ROUNDS AT THE, THE, THE, THE HOME INVADING MOB MARCHING DOWN THE STREET TO COME AND GET, GET THEM.

THEY'LL BE TOO DARN BUSY TO EVEN THINK OF ANY LITTLE PIDDLING CHINA VIRUS TO, TO, TO, TO WORRY ABOUT, ABOUT, UH, GETTING ANOTHER MASK OR, OR SOCIALLY DISTANCING.

NOW, WITH BRILLIANT IDEAS LIKE THAT, THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE PUT ME ON ON THAT, THAT, UH, REOPENING COMMITTEE.

I DICHO.

THANK YOU, MR. FINGER.

ANTONIO DIAZ, FOLLOWED BY DEANNA REGAS.

WELL, AGAIN, THERE'S A ITEM ON THE COVID NIGHT, UH, IS JUST, AGAIN, SOMETHING WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH.

AND, UH, AS NATIVE PEOPLE, AND I MUST BRING IT UP, WE FACED ALL THE DISEASES BROUGHT OVER HERE FROM EUROPE, AND IT DECIMATED

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OUR POPULATION, SOME SAY BY OVER A HUNDRED MILLION.

AND THIS IS BACK IN THE 15TH CENTURY.

SO WE KNOW ABOUT THESE SORTS OF ILLNESSES, AND I'LL SAY, UH, IN THE EAST COAST, SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT WERE COMING IN COULDN'T FIND ANY POPULATED VILLAGES.

AND THE REASON FOR THAT WAS BECAUSE THOSE NATIVE PEOPLE HAD ALREADY FOUND OUT THAT THEY WERE BEING KILLED BY INVISIBLE DISEASES.

SO THEY MOVED MORE INLAND AND AWAY FROM ANY OF THE WHITE SETTLERS THAT WERE COMING IN, SO THEY WOULD NOT BE INFECTED.

SO WE KNOW ABOUT SOCIAL DISTANCING TO TALK NOW ABOUT, I'VE HEARD, UH, MR. FINGER, WHICH IS RIDICULOUS COMMENTS.

WE, THE PEOPLE MAY HAVE BEEN SAYING DEFUND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT THEY WERE NOT MEETING STRAIGHT OUT ZERO.

THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ALREADY GETS OVER 60% OF THE CITY'S BUDGET.

WHAT WE ARE DEMANDING IS THAT THEY DO NOT GET AN INCREMENT.

NO MORE INCREASES THAT THEY GO TO OTHER SERVICES SUCH AS HOUSING, NUTRITIONAL PROGRAMS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT ARE VERY, VERY NEEDED IN OUR CITY.

SO THOSE 20 MILLION THAT ARE PROPOSED AND HAVE BEEN APPROVED AS ITEM SIX LAST WEEK SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE CONVERSATION WITH THE COMMUNITY.

SO THERE WILL NOT BE ANY TOTAL DEFUNDING OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

WE KNOW THIS.

I'VE ALWAYS SAID THE POLICE ARE NEEDED.

IT'S A VITAL PART OF OUR CITY'S INFRASTRUCTURE, BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE WOULD HAVE PEOPLE OUT THERE WITH RIFLES AND WHATEVER, SHOOTING EACH OTHER, ALL SORT OF MELEE.

WE DON'T NEED THAT.

BUT WE DO NEED THE MONIES TO GO INTO OTHER SERVICES AS WELL.

IT IS TOP HEAVY.

AND WE ALL OUR REPRESENTATIVES HERE, I AM SURE YOU'VE HEARD, IF YOU LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE DEMANDING THAT MONEY, BE GOING INTO THIS OTHER SERVICES, AND HOPEFULLY YOU WILL ACT ON THAT INSTEAD OF CONTINUING DOWN THE SAME ROAD OF MAINTAINING ONE DEPARTMENT TOP HEAVY, TWO TOP HEAVY VERSUS OTHERS.

I MISS BRIANNA TAYLOR.

I'LL SAY HER NAME WAS KILLED MONTHS AGO ON A NO-KNOCK ENTRY BY POLICE.

THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE WANT THOSE CUTBACKS.

THANK YOU, MR. DIAZ.

DEANNA ORGA.

SHE'S GIVING YOU YOUR TIME.

ANTONIO, DO YOU WANT IT? SURE, WHY NOT? OKAY, I'M HERE.

WELL, I WAS GETTING INTO SAYING BREONNA TAYLOR'S NAME, JUST LIKE GEORGE FLOYD'S NAME, A PART OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTERS MOVEMENT.

THESE ISSUES ARE COMING UP NOW BECAUSE FINALLY, SOME PEOPLE ARE LISTENING AND THEY NEED TO LISTEN.

WE NEED THE POLICE, BUT WE NEED THE POLICE TO BE PROTECTORS.

ONCE A FEW YEARS AGO, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT CHANGING THE TRAINING OF OUR POLICE OFFICERS FROM WARRIORS TO GUARDIANS.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL REMEMBER THAT PROGRAM AT ALL.

BELIEVE CHIEF MCMANUS WAS THE, HAD HAD MOVED OUTTA HIS POSITION AT THAT TIME, BUT HE'S BACK NOW.

HOPEFULLY HE'LL REVISIT THAT.

THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AN IN-SERVICE TRAINING FOR OUR POLICE OFFICERS TO LOOK AT THEIR COMMUNITIES, NOT AS ADVERSARIES, NOT AS ENEMIES, NOT AS CRIMINALS, BUT PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE THERE TO SERVE AND PROTECT.

THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THEIR GUARDIANS, NOT THEIR ABUSERS.

THAT IS WHAT WE'RE HOPING FOR.

WE'RE HOPING THAT YOU LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES, YOU LOCAL OFFICIALS WILL MOVE TOWARDS THAT.

IT'S IN YOUR HANDS, NOT IN OURS.

ALL WE HAVE IS A BALLOT WHEN WE VOTE FOR YOU.

AND AFTER THAT, IT'S IN YOUR HANDS.

BUT AS YOU KNOW, OUR LOCAL ELECTIONS ARE IN MAY.

I'M HOPING THESE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT TURNED OUT, AND THESE MASSIVE NUMBERS AND THIS PROTEST WILL ACTUALLY REGISTER TO VOTE AND TURN OUT TO VOTE AND VOTE AS THEY'VE BEEN TALKING.

WALK THE WALK AS THEY TALK THE TALK.

IF THEY SEE THIS PROGRAM AT ALL ON CHANNEL 21.

AND LISTEN TO MY WORDS.

I'M TELLING THEM, WALK, DON'T WALK.

DON'T JUST TALK THE TALK.

DON'T JUST COME OUT ONE OR WEEK OR

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ONE DAY.

YOU GOTTA DO IT 365 24 7.

BE WHAT YOU ARE.

AND I'M TELLING YOU ALL THAT TOO, AS OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, YOU HAVE TO BE THE GUARDIANS OF YOUR POPULATION THAT YOU REPRESENT TI THANK YOU MR. DIAZ.

OKAY, WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL DISCUSSION NOW.

UH, WE'LL BEGIN WITH COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL.

I THINK WE ARE THE MIC'S ON, ON THE DAES, BUT WE'RE NOT GETTING IT OUT IN THE, UH, GALLERY TESTING THAT GETS ON THIS SIDE.

TESTING.

HELLO? YOU CAN HEAR ME.

LOOKS LIKE THE LEFT SIDE OF THE DIOCESE IS NOT COMING OUT ON THE GALLERY HERE.

TRY MOVE TO APPROVE.

MOVE TO APPROVE.

OKAY, WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER PIAS.

UM, COUNCIL MEMBER PIAS .

UH, CAN YOU, I MEAN, CAN I SPEAK LOUD? IS THAT OKAY, ANDY? YES.

NEED TO BE ON THE MIC.

SO, HEY ANDY, I JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE TODAY IS WHAT'S HAPPENING, , IS IT? OKAY, UH, WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY IS WE'RE, UH, APPROVING AN ORDER THAT IS JUST GONNA SAY WE ARE IN LINE WITH THE GOVERNOR'S ORDERS, RIGHT? CORRECT.

BECAUSE AN EMERGENCY IS STILL UPON US.

AND THE REASON FOR DOING THIS IS SO THAT WE CAN PULL DOWN THE MONEY FROM FEMA AND, UH, MAYBE OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES FOR REIMBURSEMENT AND CORRECT.

THE ONLY WAY TO GET REIMBURSEMENT IS TO HAVE AN ORDER LIKE THIS IN PLACE.

THAT'S CORRECT, YES.

I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT'S, THAT'S THE MAIN REASON COUNCILMAN ON.

THE OTHER REASON IS IN CASE THERE IS SOMETHING THAT COMES UP, UH, YOU KNOW, LOCALLY THAT NEED, WE NEED TO SURE.

UH, ADD ADDITIONAL OR SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION OR SUPPLEMENTAL DIRECTION, AGAIN, CONSISTENT WITH WHAT THE GOVERNORS ARE.

WE, WE CAN PIVOT PRETTY QUICKLY IF WE ALREADY HAVE AN EMERGENCY ORDER IN PLACE.

AND IF WE DON'T ENTER THIS, IT FRUSTRATES OUR ABILITY TO PULL THAT MONEY DOWN FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

IT MAY POTENTIALLY FRUSTRATE THAT.

I I CAN'T IMAGINE ANYBODY BEING AGAINST THAT.

MAYOR I, I, SECOND AND SUPPORT IT.

THANKS.

COUNCIL MEMBER PIA, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.

THANK YOU, SIR.

AND, UM, COUNCILMAN LIAS KIND OF ASKED THE QUESTIONS THAT I WAS GONNA HAVE ON THIS, BUT ANDY, YOU MADE A STATEMENT A WHILE AGO WHEN YOU FIRST TALKED ABOUT THIS, THAT WE HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS, MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS IN THIS, OR THAT'S CORRECT.

UH, AND I'LL REMIND YOU OF THOSE.

COUNCILMAN PERRY.

THEY WERE A REQUIREMENT TO HAVE COVID TESTING REPORTED TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

UH, THERE WAS ALSO ADDITIONAL, UH, GUIDANCE ON OUR, UH, LONG-TERM FACILITIES, LONG-TERM HEALTHCARE FACILITIES, NURSING HOMES.

AND THEN THERE WAS ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE IN TERMS OF ALERTING THE PUBLIC ABOUT ANTIBODY TESTING.

ALL THAT, UH, THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN THE MAYOR'S EMERGENCY ORDER, HAS NOW BEEN PUT IN A HEALTHCARE DIRECTIVE.

SO IT'S STILL A REQUIREMENT, BUT IT'S NOW A DIRECTIVE ISSUED BY THE HEALTH DIRECTOR.

SO IT'S, UH, BECAUSE I'VE LOOKED IN THE, UM, THE ACTUAL DECLARATION HERE, AND I DIDN'T SEE ANY OF THAT LISTED.

NOW, WHY WAS IT PULLED OUT AND MADE A HEALTH DIRECTIVE? IT WAS PULLED OUT AND MADE A HEALTH DIRECTIVE AGAIN, SO THAT OUR LOCAL EMERGENCY ORDER CAN SIMPLY BE NOW, UH, A REFERENCE TO THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER.

IT, IT, IT ESSENTIALLY HAS MADE OUR LOCAL ORDER A LOT SIMPLER IN THAT IT'S SIMPLY A REFLECTION OF WHAT'S THE GOVERNOR'S ORDER IS.

AND THE HEALTH DIRECTIVES, AGAIN, ARE NOW MOVED TO A HEALTHCARE DIRECTIVE ORDER.

OFFICE OR ANY OTHER STATE AGENCY THAT'S ISSUING SUCH GUIDANCE OR ORDERS.

AND IF THE GOVERNOR COMES OUT AND MAKES A CHANGE LATER ON THIS WEEK, THAT IS, UH, UH, FURTHER LOOSENING THE, THE ECONOMY IN TEXAS, HOW HAS THAT BEEN IMPLEMENTED? IN FACT, I'M GLAD YOU ASKED THAT QUESTION.

'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF I COVERED THAT IN MY PRESENTATION.

THE WAY WE HAVE, UH, STRUCTURED THE LOCAL ORDER IS, IT INCLUDES ANY ADDITIONAL ORDERS OR GUIDANCE OR DIRECTIVES THAT COME OUT OF THE GOVERNOR'S

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COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.

COUNCIL MEMBER GRO.

AND STARTS TO FIGURE OUT THE VARIOUS CONTACTS AND, UM, CAN DO THAT CONTACT TRACING THAT Y'ALL HAVE HEARD SO MUCH ABOUT.

UM, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT, UH, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION ON TESTING WHEN IT COMES TO C O V I D BECAUSE IT'S A COVID UPDATE, I CAN STILL ASK THIS QUESTION RIGHT NOW.

ABSOLUTELY COUNCILWOMAN.

AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE DR.

BRIDGER HERE.

OKAY, GREAT.

UH, DR.

BRIDGER, I THINK I, I WANNA JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE INCREASE IN POSITIVE CASES THAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING.

AND IF YOU CAN SHARE WITH US, UM, MAYBE THE REASONING, BUT THEN WHERE ARE WE? AND I KNOW, UM, IT WAS TALKED ABOUT AND WE GOT OUR MEMO AND UPDATE, BUT I THINK WE ALSO NEED TO VERBALIZE THIS AS WELL, JUST THE INCREASE OF THE REASON WHY WE HAD 180, ET CETERA.

AND THAT WAS THE HIGHEST JUMP WE'VE HAD, UM, IN ONE DAY.

AND WHY WE, WE HAVE, AS YOU'VE MENTIONED, SEEN A, UM, A NUMBER OF DAYS WITH VERY HIGH POSITIVE TEST RESULTS.

UM, SOME OF THAT IS DUE TO GETTING LUMPS OF DATA BACK FROM CERTAIN LABS, AND SOME OF THAT IS DUE TO AN INCREASE IN CASES IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND SO RIGHT NOW WHAT WE'RE FIGURING OUT IS, UM, WHICH IS WHICH.

SO AS, UM, JOHN'S UPDATE INDICATED, WE HOPE TO HAVE ALL OF THAT THAT WORKED OUT IN THE NEXT 48 HOURS SO THAT WE CAN SHARE THE SPECIFICS WITH YOU.

OUR WORKING HYPOTHESIS IS THAT IT IS, UM, LARGELY AN INCREASE IN CASES IN THE COMMUNITY, AND THAT THAT IS DUE TO, UM, MEMORIAL DAY, THE LOOSENING OF THE GOVERNOR'S, UM, RESTRICTIONS ON PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO GO OUT AND ABOUT.

AND, UM, JUST THIS, I THINK, UM, FEELING OF BEING TIRED OF DOING ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS.

PEOPLE ARE LESS SAFE IN THEIR BEHAVIORS.

UM, AND SO THAT'S ANOTHER REASON WHY WE, UM, WANTED TO ISSUE THE HEALTH DIRECTIVE, UM, THINKING THAT PERHAPS IF SOME OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT HOW TO BE SAFE CAME FROM A HEALTH PROFESSIONAL, IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE LESS POLARIZING, UM, THEN IT COMING FROM A POLITICAL BODY AND, UM, MIGHT ALLOW US TO HAVE SOME MORE TIME TALKING ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE DOING TO KEEP THEMSELVES SAFE AND THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE, UM, LUMP TESTS THAT ARE COMING BACK.

DO WE KNOW, WELL, HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN, UH, HAVE THEY BEEN OUT THERE AND WE'RE JUST GETTING THE RESULTS NOW? DO YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD TWO, I I KNOW LUMP IS NOT A VERY SCIENTIFIC TERM, BUT WE'VE HAD TWO LUMPS.

UM, ONE GO ONE WENT AS BACK FAR AS BACK AS MID-MAY, AND THEN THE SECOND ONE WAS LATE MAY.

AND SO WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW IS PLOTTING THAT BY DATE OF ONSET OF SYMPTOMS. AND AGAIN, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THESE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE TESTING POSITIVE DO HAVE SYMPTOMS. UM, SO WE ARE ABLE TO PLOT THAT ON OUR EPIC CURVE AND SEE WHEN THE ACTUAL ONSET OF SYMPTOMS OCCURRED AND WHAT THAT SAYING ABOUT THE DISEASE PROGRESSION THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY.

SO WE HOPE TO HAVE ALL OF THAT FOR YOU, UM, BY MONDAY.

AND I AM GONNA GET INTO THE WEEDS A LITTLE BIT FOR TECHNICAL TECHNICALLY.

UM, SO IF SOMEBODY GETS A TEST AND THEY GET THE PHONE CALL OR THEY FIND OUT WHAT THEIR RESULT WAS, WHEN IS THAT, SAY THEY TOOK THE TEST ON MONDAY AND THEY GET THE CALL THURSDAY OF THE RESULTS.

WHEN DOES THAT, IF IT'S A POSITIVE, WHEN IS THAT RECORDED? ON WHAT DAY? SO THAT'S A, THAT'S A, A REALLY IMPORTANT NUANCE IN HOW WE DO THIS.

UM, SO THE FIRST NUANCE IS THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF TESTS IN OUR COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW.

THE ONE THAT YOU'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH, WHICH IS THE, UM, THE P C R TEST, WHICH TAKES A SAMPLE FROM THE NOSE AND TAKES 48 PLUS HOURS TO GET THE RESULTS BACK.

THE SECOND KIND OF TEST THAT ROLLED OUT ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO IS AN ANTIGEN TEST.

AND WE GET THOSE RESULTS IN 15 MINUTES.

AND SO TEXAS MED CLINIC, FOR EXAMPLE, IS USING THAT TEST.

AND THE NICE THING ABOUT THAT IS THEY ARE ABLE TO INFORM THE PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY THAT THEY TESTED POSITIVE AND THAT THEY NEED TO GO HOME AND ISOLATE.

AND THAT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL BE CONTACTING CONTACTS, UM, FOR THE PEOPLE WITH THE P C R TEST.

THEY GET A CALL AS SOON AS WE GET THE RESULTS BACK FROM THE LAB.

UM, AND THEY'RE NOTIFIED OF THEIR RESULTS AS SOON AS WE KNOW THE RESULTS, IT MAY BE ANOTHER DAY OR SO BEFORE AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST CONTACTS THEM

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THANK YOU FOR, UM, SHARING THAT.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE NUMBER OF OF CASES THAT HAVE RISEN, I'M JUST TRYING TO, UH, UNDERSTAND IT.

BUT ALL THAT TO SAY ABSOLUTELY WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN ALL OF THE PRACTICES WE'VE BEEN DOING.

UM, AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE OUT DEMONSTRATING TO CONTINUE THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT, BUT TO PLEASE USE A FACE COVERING, UM, AS YOU'RE DOING THAT AND FOR THOSE, WHAT IS IT, 62% NOW HAVE RECOVERED OR MORE THAN THAT? UH, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE THE AMOUNT, BUT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE RECOVERED, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO PLEASE GO AND DONATE THEIR PLASMA BECAUSE IT HELPS IN THERAPY FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN THE HOSPITAL.

AND TWO, ONE OF THE POINTS MESH MENTIONED, UM, PLEASE BE SURE TO REGISTER TO VOTE FOR THE JULY RUNOFFS.

AND ERIC, I'M GOING TO ASK YOU HERE, UM, ABOUT EARLY VOTING SITES AND WHAT IS THE CITY DOING, AND ARE WE GOING TO BE PROVIDING EARLY VOTING SITES? AND, UM, IF YOU COULD GET US THE, ALSO THE SOCIAL DISTANCING MECHANISMS. 'CAUSE MANY OF OUR LIBRARIES HAVE BEEN LOCATIONS FOR EARLY VOTING SITES.

SO DO WE HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE FOR THAT? I COVERED MY CITY MANAGER'S REPORT TODAY.

COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN.

COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO.

THANK YOU MAYOR.

AND I JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE, THE POINTS THAT WERE MADE ABOUT THE SERIOUSNESS OF, UH, THE, THE, THE CONDITION WE'RE STILL IN.

AND I WANT TO THANK, UH, CITY MANAGER ERIC WALSH, AND ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, UH, DR.

COLLEEN BRIDGER.

UH, BECAUSE, UH, WE DID ASK, UH, THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT ASKED FOR SOME ASSISTANCE.

AS MANY FOLKS ARE GONNA BE COMING OUT TO THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT TO BE PROTESTING THEIR PROPERTY TAXES.

I WANNA ASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING THAT THEY CAN TO, UH, PROVIDE A, A SAFE PLACE FOR, FOR THOSE PROTESTS TO CONTINUE, UM, TO OFFER AS MANY OPTIONS, UH, AND, AND A SAFE PLACE AS POSSIBLE.

SO, UH, THANK YOU, UH, DR.

BRIDGER.

I, I KNOW YOU, YOU DID HAVE A, A CONVERSATION WITH THE CHIEF APPRAISER, MICHAEL LAQUITA.

AND, UH, AGAIN, JUST APPRECIATE THE, ALL THE HARD WORK THAT THE CITY'S DOING.

UH, NOT JUST WITH THIS ORGANIZATION, BUT HELPING OTHERS LIKE THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT WHERE WE KNOW THAT THERE'S GONNA BE, UM, UH, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF, OF PROTESTS WHERE, UH, NOT ONLY ARE IS THE ORGANIZATION ITSELF, BUT THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE VISITING ARE GONNA BE, UH, IN, IN CLOSE CONTACT, UH, HELPING TO CREATE A STRATEGY AND REASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT, UH, WE'RE TAKING EVERY MEASURE WE CAN TO KEEP THEM SAFE, TO, TO PROVIDE AS, AS, AS MANY, UH, GOOD STRATEGIES TO, TO HELP KEEP THE, THE CURVE FLAT IS, IS SO, SO IMPORTANT.

SO AGAIN, THANK YOU.

COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO.

COUNCIL MEMBER PALS.

THANKS.

TRYING THIS OUT AGAIN.

OH, IT LOOKS LIKE MY MIC IS WORKING FELLOWS.

UH, SO DR.

BRIDGER, I'M, I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, WE, WE HAVE A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS WHO ARE WORKING ON THE CONTACT TRACING.

WE PREDOMINANTLY HAVE PAID STAFF WORKING ON CONTACT TRACING AND CONTACT INVESTIGATIONS.

THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I APPRECIATE IT.

WE MOVE NOW TO ITEM NUMBER 11.

COUNCILMEMBER PALAI, UH, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER FOUR AND THE EXTENSION OF THE EMERGENCY ORDER.

PLEASE VOTE.

AYE.

MOTION CARRIES.

[11. Ordinance approving the submission of a Continuation Grant Application and the acceptance upon award of up to $800,000.00 to the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority for the Regional Auto Crimes Team Project; approving a project budget of up to $3,941,746.00, which includes the grant funds, a cash match of $561,746.00 funded by the City’s General fund ($474,547.00) and the National Insurance Crime Bureau ($87,199.00); and the City’s in-kind contribution of $2,580,000.00; and approving an Interlocal Agreement with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. [María Villagómez, Deputy City Manager; William McManus, Chief, Police]]

ITEM NUMBER 11 IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THIS SUBMISSION OF A CONTINUATION GRANT APPLICATION AND THE ACCEPTANCE UPON AWARD FOR UP TO $800,000 TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE CRIME PREVENTION AUTHORITY FOR THE REGIONAL AUTO CRIMES TEAM PROJECT APPROVING A PROJECT BUDGET OF UP TO $3,941,746, WHICH INCLUDES THE GRANT FUNDS AND CASH MATCH OF $561,746 FUNDED BY THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND, $474,547, AND THE NATIONAL INSURANCE CRIME BUREAU, $87,199.

AND THE CITY'S IN KIND CONTRIBUTION OF $2,580,000 AND APPROVING AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

IS THERE A PRESENTATION CHIEF? GO AHEAD.

UM, WAS THERE A SPECIFIC QUESTION OR WOULD YOU LIKE A, AN OVERVIEW? WAS THERE A PRESENTATION? ERIC, ARE WE GOING

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STRAIGHT TO DISCUSSION? OKAY.

UH, I BELIEVE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN PULLED THE ITEM.

COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SEL, ACTUALLY, I'M SORRY, COUNCIL MEMBER, WE DO HAVE SOME CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.

SO LEMME GO AHEAD AND TAKE THEM NOW.

UM, GERALD BILL, MR. BILL, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY ANTONIO DIAZ.

HI, MY NAME'S GERALD BILLS.

I'M FROM, UH, DISTRICT SIX AND I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF SA STANDS.

UM, SO, UM, ABOUT THIS ITEM, UM, I FEEL LIKE I'VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE.

UM, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ASKED FOR MONEY AND YOU JUST GIVE THEM WHAT THEY ASK FOR.

UM, I'D LIKE TO READ A FEW PARAGRAPHS FROM AN F A Q ON DEFUNDING THE POLICE FROM THE ORGANIZATION.

M P D ONE 50, THAT'S MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT ONE 50.

UM, WON'T ABOLISHING THE POLICE CREATE CHAOS AND CRIME? HOW WILL WE STAY SAFE? POLICE ABOLITION WORK IS NOT ABOUT SNAPPING OUR FINGERS AND MAGICALLY DEFUNDING EVERY DEPARTMENT IN THE WORLD INSTANTLY.

RATHER, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A GRADUAL PROCESS OF STRATEGICALLY REALLOCATING RESOURCES, FUNDING, AND RESPONSIBILITY AWAY FROM POLICE AND TOWARD COMMUNITY-BASED MODELS OF SAFETY, SUPPORT, AND PREVENTION.

THE P THE PEOPLE WHO RESPOND TO CRISES IN OUR COMMUNITY SHOULD BE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEST EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH THOSE CRISES RATHER THAN STRANGERS ARMED WITH GUNS WHO VERY LIKELY DO NOT LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS THEY'RE PATROLLING.

WE WANT TO CREATE SPACE FOR MORE, FOR MORE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERS, SOCIAL WORKERS, VICTIMS, SURVIVOR ADVOCATES, RELIGIOUS LEADERS, NEIGHBORS, HEALERS AND FRIENDS.

ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY MAKE UP THE FABRIC OF A COMMUNITY TO LOOK OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER.

BUT WHAT ABOUT ARMED BANK ROBBERS, MURDERERS, AND SUPER VILLAINS? CRIME ISN'T RANDOM.

MOST OF THE TIME IT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO MEET THE BASIC THEIR BASIC NEEDS THROUGH OTHER MEANS.

BY SHIFTING MONEY AWAY FROM THE POLICE AND TOWARDS SERVICES THAT ACTUALLY MEET THOSE NEEDS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET TO A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WON'T NEED TO ROB BANKS.

SURE.

IN THIS LONG TRANSITION PROCESS, WE MAY NEED A SMALL, SPECIALIZED CLASS OF PUBLIC SERVANTS WHOSE JOB IT IS TO RESPOND TO VIOLENT CRIMES.

BUT PART OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS WHAT ROLE POLICE PLAY IN OUR SOCIETY RIGHT NOW.

COPS DON'T JUST RESPOND TO VIOLENT CRIMES.

THEY MAKE NEEDLESS TRAFFIC STOPS, ARREST PETTY DRUG USERS AND ENGAGE IN A WIDE RANGE OF BROKEN WINDOWS, POLICING BEHAVIORS THAT ONLY SERVE TO KEEP MORE PEOPLE UNDER THE THUMB OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

EVEN PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE POLICE AGREE.

WE ASK COPS TO SOLVE TOO MANY OF OUR PROBLEMS. AS FORMER DALLAS POLICE CHIEF DAVID BROWN SAID, WE'RE ASKING COPS TO DO TOO MUCH IN THIS COUNTRY.

EVERY SOCIETAL FAILURE WE PUT IT ON THE COPS TO SOLVE.

NOT ENOUGH MENTAL HEALTH FUNDING.

LET THE COPS HANDLE IT.

HERE IN DALLAS, WE'VE GOT A LOOSE DOG PROBLEM.

LET'S HAVE THE COPS CHASE LOOSE DOGS, SCHOOLS FAIL.

LET'S GIVE IT TO THE COPS.

THAT'S TOO MUCH TO ASK.

POLICING WAS NEVER MEANT TO SOLVE ALL THOSE PROBLEMS TO REALLY FIGHT CRIME.

WE DON'T NEED MORE COPS.

WE NEED MORE JOBS, MORE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, MORE ARTS PROGRAMS, MORE COMMUNITY CENTERS, MORE MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES, AND MORE OF A SAY IN HOW OUR COMMUNITIES FUNCTION.

UM, I WOULD LIKE TO READ, UM, SOME COMMITMENTS THAT ONE GROUP WAS ASKING OF THE MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL.

AND I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU TO COMMIT TO THE SAME ONE TO NEVER AGAIN VOTE TO INCREASE POLICE FUNDING OR TO INCREASE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET.

TWO, TO PROPOSE AND VOTE FOR A $45 MILLION CUT FROM SAP'S BUDGET AS THE CITY RESPONDS TO PROJECTED C OVID 19 SHORTFALLS.

THREE, TO PROTECT AND EXPAND CURRENT INVESTMENT IN COMMUNITY LED HEALTH AND SAFETY STRATEGIES.

INSTEAD OF INVESTING IN POLICE FOUR TO DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO COMPEL M P D, UH, S A P D, AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO IMMEDIATELY CEASE ENACTING VIOLENCE ON COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

THANK YOU, MR. BILL.

ANTONIO DIAZ.

UH, ONCE AGAIN, I SAY WE, AT LEAST FROM MY MY POINT OF VIEW, UH, THIS IS MY HOMETOWN.

I GREW UP MAINLY IN THE WEST SIDE AND THE SOUTH SIDE OF SAN ANTONIO.

THE POOR NEIGHBORHOODS IN OUR, IN OUR DAY, MY DAY I WAS HARASSED BY THE POLICE, SAT DOWN BY THE CURB MANY TIMES, SAW MANY INJUSTICES.

BUT AS A GROWN MAN, I I I UNDERSTAND ONE THING.

THEY'RE VERY NEEDED IN OUR COMMUNITIES AS LONG AS THEY PROVIDE THE SERVICE THE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE PROVIDING, WHICH IS TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE, NOT THE CRIMINALS, BUT THE PEOPLE.

BUT AT THIS TIME, SEEING WHAT WE'RE SEEING NATIONWIDE, CONTINUING TO HAPPEN WITH THE ABUSES THAT CONTINUE TO HAPPEN

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HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.

WE'RE ASKING FOR NO INCREASES FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND ESPECIALLY IF THOSE MOTOR VEHICLES ARE GOING TO BE GOING INTO HOUSES SERVING NO KNOCK ENTRIES.

IF WE'RE GONNA BE GETTING TANKS TO RAM DOWN DOORS WITH, WE SAY NO, WE DON'T NEED THAT IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

THAT'S BEEN ONGOING FOR FAR TOO LONG ON ALL THIS INCREASES BASICALLY ARE IF THE, IF, IF THE, IF THE POLICE REQUEST IT AND THEY'RE MATCHING FUNDS, FEDERAL GRANTS FROM AND ALL SO FORTH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE APPROVED READILY WITHOUT QUESTION.

AND THERE SHOULD BE QUESTION, ESPECIALLY DURING THESE TIMES, WE SHOULD QUESTION WHAT, WHAT EXACTLY ARE THESE VEHICLES GONNA BE USED FOR? WHY ARE THEY GONNA BE CONCENTRATED AGAIN IN WHAT YOU CONSIDER RED LINE AREAS, WHICH ARE THE POOR NEIGHBORHOODS? THE EAST SIDE, THE WEST SIDE, SOUTH SIDE.

I'D LIKE TO SEE A TANK STROLLING DOWN STONE.

OAK KNOCKED DOWN SOME DOORS OVER THERE.

NOT ON THE SOUTH SIDE, NOT ON THE WEST SIDE, NOT ON THE EAST SIDE.

BUT THAT WON'T HAPPEN.

WE KNOW THIS, IT HASN'T HAPPENED SO FAR.

WE'RE ASKING FOR EQUITY AND FOR EQUALITY.

SO WE NEED SERVICES SUCH AS JOB TRAINING, AS WAS DISCUSSED LAST WEEK.

WE NEED MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

WE ACTUALLY NEED PUBLIC HOUSING THAT IS BEING ERADICATED, TAKEN AWAY FROM EVERYBODY AT THIS POINT TALK ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT YOU DON'T TALK ABOUT PUBLIC HOUSING.

PUBLIC HOUSING IS BEING DEMOLISHED.

SO THE POOR COMMUNITIES DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO GO.

AND YOU SEE LARGER AND LARGER NUMBERS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE.

AND AGAIN, AS WAS STATED ALREADY TOO MUCH IS BEING PUT ON THE BACKS OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

THEY'RE NOT PSYCHOLOGISTS, PSYCHIATRISTS, THEY'RE NOT SOCIAL WORKERS.

THEY'RE THERE TO PROVIDE CERTAIN SERVICES AND THEY SHOULD BE MORE CONCENTRATED TOWARDS THAT.

NOT PUTTING EVERYTHING ON THEIR BACKS, THANK MONEY WILL NOT SOLVE IT AND PUTTING IT ON THEIR BACKS WILL NOT SOLVE IT.

THANK KEEP GOING.

MR. DIAZ.

DIANNA WAS GIVING YOU HER TIME AGAIN.

WELL, I, I KIND OF SPED THAT UP, BUT AGAIN, THAT IS THE MESSAGE.

I'VE, I'VE TALKED TO OUR SHERIFF WHO I CONSIDER A FRIEND AND HE'S HAD MUCH PLACED ON HIS SHOULDERS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE JAIL AND THE POPULATION WITHIN IT, TRYING TO SERVICE MENTAL SERVICES WITHIN THE JAIL HEALTH AND OTHER ISSUES THAT SHOULD NOT BE PLACED ON POLICE ENTITIES.

THAT IS WHY THAT FUNDING, WE NEED TO LOOK AT HOW THAT FUNDING IS SPLIT UP, WHAT DEPARTMENTS IT GOES TO TO GET MORE FUNDING FOR THOSE SOCIAL NEEDS OF MENTAL HEALTH, OF HOUSING, OF JOB TRAINING.

YOU CAN'T TELL A PERSON THAT'S HUNGRY NOT TO STEAL A LOAF OF BREAD.

YOU CANNOT TELL AN ADDICT THAT IS STRUNG OUT NOT TO BREAK INTO A HOME AND STEAL A TELEVISION.

THESE SERVICES, SOCIAL SERVICES ARE NEEDED AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CANNOT SUPPLY THEM.

WE SHOULD NOT JUST GIVE THEM MONEY AND EXPECT THEM TO SUPPLY THEM.

THAT'S NOT THEIR JOB.

SO WE NEED TO PUT FUNDING WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE, NOT JUST PUT IT INTO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S HANDS AND SAY, HANDLE ALL OUR PROBLEMS. THEY CAN'T DO THIS.

SO AGAIN, I WOULD BACK MY COMMUNITY IN OUR DEMANDS NOT TO JUST CONTINUE FUNDING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND PLACE ALL OUR PROBLEMS AT THEIR FEET.

THANK YOU MR. DIAZ.

UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN.

UM, WITH THIS PARTICULAR GRANT, OR ARE THEY NOT, UM, ELIGIBLE TO, TO PROVIDE A MATCH? UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, THE, THE COUNTY'S MATCH IS $354,625.

UM, I JUST HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS.

UM, WHEN IT COMES TO THIS PARTICULAR GRANT, I KNOW COUNCILWOMAN GONZALEZ YESTERDAY WAS REALLY, UM, ASKING THE QUESTIONS THAT HOW WE'RE USING OUR GRANTS AND WHERE OUR GRANTS ARE COMING FROM AND WHERE WE CAN PUT THEM TO.

WHEN IT COMES TO THIS PARTICULAR GRANT, WHAT STOOD OUT TO ME WAS THE IN KIND THAT THE CITY IS DOING OF THE TWO POINT, UH, 5 MILLION AND THEN THE OTHER 500,000, UM, THAT WE'RE MATCHING.

AND I HAVE QUESTIONS BECAUSE WE'RE GOING INTO THIS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY.

WHAT IS THE COUNTY'S MATCH,

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AND ALL OF THE FUNDS THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN ARE FROM THE GENERAL FUND.

I'M SORRY, MA'AM.

I DIDN'T HEAR THAT.

ALL OF THE FUNDS THAT WE ARE MATCHING AND INKIN ARE FROM THE GENERAL FUND.

YES, MA'AM.

WAS THAT ALREADY ALLOCATED IN THE 2020 BUDGET? YES.

SO, UM, JUST WONDERING, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE LOOKING TO CONTINUE? DO WE HAVE THE OUTCOME OF HOW THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN WORKING? WE'VE HAD THIS, UH, JUST FOR SOME BACKGROUND, WE'VE HAD THIS GRANT FOR 26 YEARS, I THINK THIS IS THE 27TH YEAR.

AND IT PROVIDES US WITH SEVEN, UH, DETECTIVE INVESTIGATORS AND ONE, UH, NON-SWORN ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL.

THANK YOU, CHIEF.

UM, I JUST WANTED THAT TO BE ON THE RECORD, SO I APPRECIATE YOU STATING THAT INFORMATION.

UM, THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE, UM, AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME BECAUSE THERE WAS NO BRIEFING THAT WE HAD ON THIS.

AND I REALLY WANT THE INFORMATION TO GO ACROSS TO HOW THESE FUNDS CAME INTO PLAY AND WHERE THESE FUNDS ARE COMING FROM.

AND, UM, AT THIS TIME, THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE.

MAYOR, THANK YOU.

OF ALL CRIMES OR PROPERTY CRIMES IT? I, IT'S BEEN REPORTED TO US BEFORE, SO I KNOW THAT THE NUMBER IS VERY HIGH.

COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER OF GONZALEZ.

UH, THANK YOU.

UM, AND THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN FOR, FOR PULLING THIS ITEM.

AS WE KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE LARGER DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THIS.

SO COULD YOU JUST EXPLAIN WHAT EXACTLY THE OFFICER DOES? ARE THEY STRICTLY INVESTIGATING WHEN A CAR IS STOLEN AND, AND I, I COULD DO THAT, BUT I HAVE THE SERGEANT HERE, SERGEANT GONZALEZ, WHO OVERSEES THE UNIT AND HE CAN PROVIDE MUCH MORE DETAIL AND CLARITY THAN I WOULD EVER BE ABLE TO.

SO, CARLOS, GOOD MORNING.

I'M SERGEANT CARLOS GONZALEZ.

UM, I'M ONE OF THE SUPERVISORS AT THE AUTO THEFT UNIT, THE VEHICLE CRIMES UNIT FOR THE SAN ANTONIO POLICE DEPARTMENT, TOGETHER WITH THE BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF'S.

WE ARE A TASK FORCE THAT IS PARTIALLY FUNDED FROM THE STATE THROUGH, UH, FUNDS THAT COME FROM THE INSURANCE.

UH, EVERY VEHICLE THAT GETS INSURANCE, $4 COME FROM THAT, UH, POLICY GOES TOWARD CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS. AND SO THERE'S GRANTEES THROUGHOUT THE STATE THAT GET THESE FUNDS.

THESE ARE FUNDS PRIMARILY FOR AUTO THEFT INVESTIGATIONS, FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS SUCH AS TITLE FRAUDS, ODOMETER FRAUDS, AND, UH, THINGS OF VEHICLE CRIME, NATURE.

BUT DID YOU SAY PREVENTION? YES, MA'AM.

SO WE ALSO PREVENT WHAT MIGHT PREVENTION LOOK LIKE.

SO WE ALSO PROVIDE, WE, UH, ATTEND, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, CAR SHOWS.

WE PASS OUT MATERIAL ON CRIME PREVENTION FOR BURGLARY AND THEFT OF VEHICLES.

WE'LL ATTEND NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS, SUBSTATION MEETINGS WITH THE COMMANDERS OR WHEREVER.

UH, EVEN HAVING MEETINGS WITH, UH, CAR DEALERSHIPS, THEY'LL SOMETIMES HAVE NEW CAR BUYER CLINICS.

SO WE'LL ATTEND THOSE.

WE PASS OUT INFORMATION.

UH, NOTHING ABOUT, UM, I, I GUESS, DO YOU KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE GOES INTO THE PREVENTION SIDE? SOUNDS LIKE VERY LITTLE.

I JUST IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT PERSONNEL, I DO NOT KNOW THE PERCENTAGE.

MA'AM, I'M SORRY.

I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

I, I DON'T KNOW THE PERCENTAGE OF OH, OKAY.

UM, UH, PERHAPS WE COULD DO A LITTLE BIT OF INVESTIGATING.

SO I, I, I KNOW THAT THIS IS GONNA BE A CONVERSATION THAT WE'LL HAVE, UM, FROM HERE ON OUT, I HOPE, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, IS THAT THE BEST USE OF OUR GENERAL FUND? SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE, UM, I KNOW THAT PROPERTY CRIMES HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN THE MAJORITY OF CRIMES.

UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THAT OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD, PROPERTY CRIMES WERE SOMETHING LIKE 80% OF ALL CRIME COMMITTED, UH, PROPERTY.

YES, MA'AM.

PROPERTY CRIMES DO OUTNUMBER THE, UH, THE VIOLENT CRIMES IN THE CITY, UH, SIGNIFICANTLY.

RIGHT.

I'M SORRY.

IT VERY SIGNIFICANTLY LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE ALL CRIME, UH, ALMOST ALL CRIMES WERE PROPERTY CRIMES.

SO, UM, WHICH, UH, I THINK AS WE, UM, START TO REALLY ANALYZE THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT AS WE'RE TRYING TO DISCUSS THE BUDGET OF THE POLICE, IF WE KNOW THAT THE MAJORITY, AND I, I THINK SOMEBODY KNOWS THIS NUMBER.

MARIA, DO YOU KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE

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UM, NO, IT IS, COUNCILMAN, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S, UM, UH, PROPERTY CRIMES IN SAN ANTONIO FARLEY OUTWEIGH.

THERE'S PR PROBABLY, UH, MY GUESS IS ABOUT 90%.

YEAH, I THINK THAT 80, WHAT I THOUGHT 8% WAS THE LAST TIME I THOUGHT WE, WE TALKED ABOUT IT.

LET ME, LET ME GIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIFICS ABOUT THE GRANT.

I MEAN, THERE, I, I THINK THAT THE ISSUES THAT, THAT ARE BEING RAISED BY, BY THE COUNCIL, WE, THE, THERE'S, WE SPEND ALMOST $4 MILLION TOTAL ON THIS UNIT, AND IT'S A COMBINED UNIT AS A SERGEANT MENTIONED BETWEEN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE BEX COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 28 OFFICERS, UH, 24 FROM SS A P D AND FOUR FROM THE BEXAR COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

UM, THE, THE ITEM BEFORE YOU TODAY IS ON THE, UH, REQUEST TO APPLY FOR THE INSURANCE PART OF THE GRANT FROM THE STATE, UH, THAT'S FUNDED THROUGH AUTO INSURANCE THAT WE ALL PAY HERE IN THE, IN THE STATE.

THAT $800,000 WILL GO TO PAY FOR SEVEN OF THE 24 SS A P D OFFICERS.

SO THE MAJORITY OF THIS UNIT IS FUNDED IN THE GENERAL FUND.

AND AS COUNCILWOMAN SULLIVAN MENTIONED IS INCLUDED IN THE FISCAL YEAR 2020 BUDGET.

IF THE, IN, IN THIS CASE, AND I SUSPECT WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION WITH, WITH EVERY GRANT POLICE RELATED BASED ON YESTERDAY'S CONVERSATION, THE INCREMENT HERE BEFORE YOU IS THAT IF WE DON'T, IF IF WE CHOOSE NOT TO, UM, APPLY FOR THIS GRANT, THEN SEVEN OFFICERS WILL NOT BE FUNDED AND WE WILL NEED TO MOVE THEM BACK INTO THE GENERAL FUND AND, AND MAKE ALLOCATIONS OR REDUCE THE POSITION COUNT.

AND I THINK THAT'S THE INCREMENT, UH, THAT, THAT I THINK YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT YESTERDAY.

UM, AND, AND I THINK WHAT WE'LL DO FROM NOW ON, THIS WAS ALREADY ON THE AGENDA AND WE WERE, YOU WERE BRINGING THIS ISSUE UP YESTERDAY, GOING FORWARD, WE WILL CLEARLY OUTLINE TO THE COUNCIL ON THESE AGENDA ITEMS, WHAT IS THE DECISION POINT YOU'RE, THAT WE'RE ASKING YOU TO MAKE THAT WAY, THAT WAY YOU KNOW IT ON THE, ON THE BACKUP MATERIAL.

AND WE'LL START DOING THAT GOING FORWARD TO HELP AID THAT, THAT KIND OF THOUGHT.

UM, THANK YOU.

AND I KNOW OVER THE YEARS WE'VE ALSO HAD DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, UH, IN FACT, I THINK LED BY YOU CHIEF, UH, MORE, UM, TARGETED EFFORTS, UH, AT PEOPLE FOR NOT SECURING THEIR PROPERTY.

THAT WENT VERY BADLY.

UM, UH, I, I REMEMBER HAVING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, SHOULD PEOPLE GET FINED IF THEY DIDN'T LOCK THEIR PROPERTY AND DIDN'T SECURE THEIR PROPERTY.

AND A RESULT, UM, THERE WAS, UH, THEFT, UH, THAT WAS NOT, UM, UH, THAT WAS NOT, UH, DID NOT GO WELL.

UM, I DUNNO WHAT YOU, I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, THAT PEOPLE GET FINED FOR NOT SECURING THEIR PROPERTY IF IT'S STOLEN.

IT WAS A, OR PERHAPS NOT FINED, BUT, UM, THAT THERE WOULD BE, UM, MORE EDUCATION AND IT MAYBE IT WASN'T IN REFERENCE TO THE COUNCIL.

IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN REFERENCE TO SOME OTHER, UM, MEETINGS THAT I ATTENDED WITH THE BAT NET, UM, WITH THE BUSINESSES AGAINST CRIME NETWORK, UH, WHERE THERE WAS MORE EMPHASIS PUT ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S, UH, SECURITY OF THEIR OWN PROPERTY.

UM, PERHAPS THAT WAS, UH, IN, OR PERHAPS IT WAS RELATED TO THE, MY BUSINESS THAT THERE WAS DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT IT DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE.

SO, UH, I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO MENTION.

UM, BUT I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, AS WE JUST CONTINUE TO DISCUSS THESE ISSUES, IF 7% OF SEVEN OFFICERS WHOSE JOB IT IS EXCLUSIVELY, UM, TO ADDRESS ISSUES OF AUTO THEFT, SO JUST CARS THEFT, NOT ALL PROPERTY CRIMES.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I, WE'LL JUST, WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS.

SO I MEAN, I, IT LOOKED LIKE THIS IS ACCOUNTED FOR, UM, AND IT'S PART OF AN INSURANCE.

UM, MAYBE IT WAS THE INSURANCE COMPANIES THAT WERE ASKING THAT, UH, TO HAVE MORE RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PROPERTY OWNER.

BUT I'LL, I'LL, I'LL LEAD THE YIELD THE FLOOR AS I, I, I SUSPECT MY TIME IS, IS WINDING DOWN HERE.

UM, BUT I, YOU KNOW, I, I, I THANK YOU TO THE COUNCILWOMAN FOR, UM, BRINGING THIS ONE UP.

I THINK I MISSED THIS ONE, UM, AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THE AGENDA.

AND SO JUST, I LOOK FORWARD TO MORE CONVERSATIONS.

SO THANK YOU, MAYOR.

COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.

YEAH, GO AHEAD.

COUNCIL MEMBER, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, 86% OF ALL CRIME IS PROPERTY CRIME ON A YEARLY AVERAGE.

THANK YOU, CHIEF.

COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE, UH, WHO AGREED.

UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, ANDREW SULLIVAN PULLED THE ITEM AND, AND LEFT A LOT OF TIME, BUT SHE DID HAVE A COUPLE POINTS TO MAKE.

SO, UM, I ASKED THE COURTESY OF THE

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SO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, WILL YOU WANNA FINISH YOUR, YOUR COMMENTS? UH, YES, MAYOR, UM, AS WE HAVE ALREADY ACCOUNTED FOR THIS, THIS MONEY FOR THE 2020 BUDGET, AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS GOING FORWARD.

UM, THANK YOU CITY MANAGER FOR MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THE INFORMATION AS WE CONTINUE.

SO I'LL MOTION TO APPROVE.

OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR ITEM, UH, NUMBER 11.

GO NOW TO COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.

CHIEF, YOU'RE NOT OFF THE HOOK.

EXCUSE ME.

CHIEF, YOU'RE NOT OFF THE HOOK YET.

COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.

CAN YOU TELL US HOW MANY AUTOMOBILES ARE REPORTED STOLEN PER MONTH IN SAN ANTONIO? Y UH, I CAN TELL YOU THE AMOUNT.

LAST YEAR, I BELIEVE IT WAS ABOUT JUST OVER 7,000.

7,800.

SO THAT WAS FOR THE YEAR, LAST YEAR? YES, MA'AM.

UH, YES SIR.

DO WE, DO WE HAVE ANY ASSESSMENT OF WHAT THE VALUE OF THOSE WERE? I DO NOT, SIR.

IT'D BE INTERESTING TO KNOW THE VALUE, SINCE SO MANY OF THESE VEHICLES TODAY ARE WORTH 20, 30, 40, $50,000.

UH, HOW MANY WERE RECOVERED? BECAUSE I KNOW, THAT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE ROLE OF THIS DEPARTMENT.

I, I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER FOR YOU, BUT I, I COULD PROBABLY GET IT.

UH, BECAUSE I, I MEAN, THAT'S, THE CHARGE OF THIS GROUP IS TRYING TO RECOVER AS MANY OF THOSE VEHICLES AS POSSIBLE.

SO I WOULD HOPE TO GET A REPORT, WHICH I HAD ASKED YOU TO TAKE A LOOK AT, UH, AND LET US KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, THE NUMBER STOLEN, THE VALUE, THE, UH, NUMBER RECOVERED, UH, AND, UM, ANYTHING ELSE RELATED TO THIS.

I, I'VE ALREADY ORDERED IT UP.

COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.

COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO.

UH, AND THANK YOU JADA FOR PULLING THIS, UH, I, I HEARD IT TWICE NOW THAT, UH, THIS IS COMING OUTTA THE FISCAL YEAR, UH, 2020 BUDGET, BUT ON THE BACKUP LANGUAGE THAT I HAVE HERE IN FRONT OF ME, IT SAYS FISCAL YEAR 2021.

CAN WE HAVE SOME CLARIFICATION ON THAT? UH, CAN I HAVE SOME? GOOD MORNING.

MARIA VIE GOMEZ, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER? YES.

THE GRANT IS FOR FISCAL YEAR, UH, 2021, BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER, UH, OF 2020, WHICH IS, UM, A PORTION OF FISCAL YEAR 2020.

AND THE MAJORITY OF, OF THE, OF THE GRANT IS IN 2021.

THE FUNDS WERE BUDGETED IN FISCAL YEAR 2020 FOR THIS MATCH.

SO THEN, WALK ME THROUGH THIS, BECAUSE I THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS, THE STEPS.

SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE APPROVING THE APPLICATION, BUT THERE'S OPPORTUNITY HERE TO, UH, MAYBE SEE THIS GO TO PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE, MAYBE EVEN INNOVATION COMMITTEE, UM, YOU KNOW, WALK US THROUGH THAT, BECAUSE AGAIN, IF I READ REALLY FISCAL YEAR 2021, THEN, THEN THERE'S TIME FOR DISCUSSION.

IS THERE NOT? WELL, THE ITEM TODAY, COUNCILMAN, IS TO APPROVE THE APPLICATION OF THE GRANT.

UM, WE CAN DEFINITELY HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE COUNCIL ABOUT THE, THE WORK THAT IS DONE WITH, WITH THE FUNDS AND, UM, AND BRING THIS BACK TO THE COUNCIL WHEN WE GET THE AWARD.

SO THIS IS JUST THE APPLICATION AT THIS POINT.

I MEAN, I THINK THAT MAKES SENSE.

AND, UH, UH, I ASKED MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES MAYBE, UH, UH, THIS, AT LEAST THIS IS WHAT I'M HEARING FROM, FROM, FROM, FROM THE DAAS AS WELL, JUST ASKING ABOUT THE PROCESS.

UH, THE, THE, WE'RE WE'RE ASKING TO TAKE A CLOSER LOOK ON AND ALL OUR FUNDING.

AND SINCE THIS IS PART OF THE, THE UPCOMING BUDGET THAT WE WILL BE DISCUSSING, UH, YES, I WOULD ASK THAT, UH, WE BRING THIS, UH, FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION.

UH, AGAIN, I THINK MAYBE, AGAIN, I THINK MAYBE EVEN THROUGH, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE OR, OR INNOVATION COMMITTEE, UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION AND BACK TO THIS DAAS, UM, UH, REGARDING THE, THE IMPACT TO FISCAL YEAR 2021.

COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO.

COUNCIL MEMBER ELIAS.

UH, I CHIEF, I'M, I'M, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I, I'M GETTING THIS RIGHT.

WE'VE APPLIED FOR THIS A, FOR THIS, UH, GRANT FROM THIRD PARTY NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS FOR 26 YEARS, AND FOR 26 YEARS WE'VE RECEIVED THIS GRANT.

YES, SIR.

AND SO WE'RE REALLY NOT DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENT HERE OTHER THAN SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION.

YOU'RE ASKING US JUST TO GIVE YOU THE OKAY.

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SUBMIT AN APPLICATION.

AND THEN IF WE GET THE MONEY, WHICH I'M PRETTY SURE WE'RE GONNA GET, 'CAUSE WE'VE ALWAYS GOTTEN IT, UH, IT'LL BE USED TO SOLVE, UH, CAR THEFT, UH, AND, YOU KNOW, CRIMES AND TO HELP PREVENT CAR THEFT CRIMES.

YES, SIR.

I, I MEAN, ASIDE FROM CAR THIEVES, CAN YOU THINK OF ANYBODY WHO WOULD OPPOSE THIS? WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE.

COUNCIL MEMBER PALAIS.

COUNCIL MEMBER GRO.

I HAVE A QUESTION, AND MAYBE YOU ALREADY, UH, WENT OVER THIS, BUT IF YOU COULD INDULGE ME AND DO THIS AGAIN, UM, ON THE, IT SAYS THE CITY'S IN KIND CONTRIBUTION OF 2.8, 2.5 MILLION.

WHAT IS THE CITY'S IN KIND CONTRIBUTION? SAY AGAIN, MA'AM.

I'M SORRY.

IT'S THE, UM, IT'S THE, UM, PORTION OF THE, OF THE DIVISION OR THE UNIT THAT IS BUDGETED WITHIN THE GENERAL FUND.

UM, AND, AND, AND IT'S, IT, I SUSPECT UNDER THE GRANT, IT QUALIFIES AS AN IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION BECAUSE THAT'S THE INVESTMENT THAT THE CITY'S MAKING TOWARDS THE GRANT APPLICATION.

SO WE, THAT'S HOW WE LEVERAGE WHAT IN THE APPLICATION PROCESS.

UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GRO.

COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY.

THANK YOU, SIR.

UM, CHIEF, YOU ALREADY SAID THAT ABOUT 7,000 VEHICLES, UM, A YEAR, 7,800.

7,800.

AND HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A GRANT PROCESS TO FUND BASICALLY SEVEN PEOPLE TO HELP, UM, RECOVER, PREVENT AUTO THEFT HERE IN SAN ANTONIO.

H HOW DOES SAN ANTONIO COMPARE WITH OTHER, UM, CITIES FOR CAR THEFT? DO YOU HAVE THAT? UM, ANY IDEA? I, I DO NOT.

I CAN CHECK ON THAT, BUT I DO NOT.

SO HERE, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO APPLY FOR A GRANT TO HELP US STEM THAT TIDE OF AUTO THEFT.

AND I, I'M, I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, JUST CURIOUS, UH, WATCHING THE LINE OF QUESTIONING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, JUST GOING AFTER A GRANT AND HOW WE'RE GONNA SPEND THAT MONEY, I AM REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS YEAR'S BUDGET DISCUSSIONS, BECAUSE IF IT'S TAKING THIS LONG JUST TO APPLY FOR A GRANT WHERE WE'RE GETTING THIS KIND OF MONEY TO HELP US SOLVE A PROBLEM, I'M, ERIC, WE MIGHT AS WELL PUT ON AN ADDITIONAL SIX MONTHS ON THIS YEAR'S BUDGET PROCESS JUST TO GET THROUGH IT, BECAUSE I HOPE WE GET THESE KIND OF DISCUSSIONS ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT AREAS WITHIN THE CITY'S BUDGET AND THE SCRUTINY THAT SHOULD BE APPLIED TO OTHER AREAS ON THIS BUDGET THAN JUST ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

SO, UH, JUST MY COMMENTS ON THAT, AND, UH, CHIEF, YOU GOT MY FULL SUPPORT ON GOING AFTER THIS, BUT I DO LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING SOME OF THE, UH, RESULTS OF THIS PROGRAM AS COUNCILMAN COURAGE SAID, ON WHAT THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT IS.

SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.

APPRECIATE IT.

MUCH FOR YOUR PATIENCE, UH, CHIEF AND, UH, FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS.

COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, CAN YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME? ALRIGHT, THANKS.

UH, THANK YOU CHIEF, UM, UH, FOR BEING HERE TODAY, AND THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN FOR, FOR PULLING THE ITEM.

UH, I, I UNDERSTAND SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES IS, UM, SORRY.

I HAVE TWO MICS ON.

UH, CONCERNS ABOUT ALL THE QUESTIONING ALL OF A SUDDEN FOR SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE, UH, DONE FOR, FOR 26 YEARS, I THINK, UH, WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO START GETTING USED TO THE QUESTIONS FOR MOST THINGS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT COMING THROUGH HERE.

AND THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY A, A BAD THING.

UM, UH, I AGREE, UH, THAT WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING TO PURSUE THIS GRANT FUNDING.

IT'S, UH, THE MONEY THAT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE PAID THEIR INSURANCE BILLS, AND THEY DESERVE TO GET THE BENEFIT FROM THAT, UH, OUR COMMUNITY DOES.

SO I, I AM COMPLETELY SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.

I THINK THE, THE QUESTION HERE, AT LEAST FOR ME IS THE, IS THE MATCHING FUNDS.

IT'S A LOT OF MONEY FROM, FROM OUR BUDGET, AND WE KNOW THAT, UH, POLICE OFFICERS ARE PROBABLY, UM, SOME OF THE HIGHEST PAID, UH, EMPLOYEES THAT WE HAVE, EXCEPT FOR MAYBE MARIAME SOME OF THE HIGHEST PAID EMPLOYEES THAT, THAT WE HAVE.

SO I THINK WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE USE THAT MONEY, WE USE IT AS EFFICIENTLY AS AS POSSIBLE.

UM, SO I, UH, CONCUR WITH THE COUNCILMAN COURAGES QUESTIONS ABOUT, WELL, LET'S SEE, HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE PROGRAM? YOU KNOW, HOW MANY VEHICLES ARE WE RECOVERING, AND IS THERE A WAY TO MAKE IT MORE EFFECTIVE? SO THOSE ARE, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE, UH, MY THOUGHTS ON THAT.

THANK YOU VERY

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MM-HMM.

, THANK YOU.

COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, COUNCIL MEMBER KIO HDE.

A A QUICK COMMENT AND REALLY MAYBE A REQUEST THAT THESE TYPES OF ITEMS START TO BEGIN GOING THROUGH PUBLIC SAFETY, JUST SO WE CAN OPEN THAT LINE OF COMMUNICATION AND, UM, AND VET THEM, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THEY GET TO COUNCIL.

THIS WAS, I THINK, ON, NOT ON A LOT OF OUR RADARS, BUT, UM, THIS WAS MENTIONED BY COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL.

THEY'RE GONNA START, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO REALLY START SCRUTINIZING THESE A LOT MORE.

SO, UM, JUST, YOU KNOW, REQUEST THAT THEY, THEY START MAYBE A PUBLIC SAFETY WHERE WE CAN START TO WORK ON THEM AND THEN THEY COME TO FULL COUNCIL.

HDA, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.

UH, SO THERE WAS THE, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER HAD THE REQUEST TO GO TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY.

I WAS GONNA SUGGEST IT GO TO THE AUDIT COMMITTEE, UM, THAT WE, UM, JUST DETERMINE OF, UH, HOW MANY, AND, UM, AND, AND, AND I THINK THAT PERHAPS A COMMITTEE CAN DECIDE THE PARAMETERS OF WHAT, UH, THAT LOOKS LIKE.

UM, BECAUSE I, WE KNOW THAT MOST OF, WELL, I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW, SO PERHAPS THAT COULD BE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT GO TO THE COMMITTEE, THE AMOUNT, THE MATCHING, UM, HOW, UH, WHAT IS THE OUTCOME OF, UM, THE RETURN, UH, IF AUTOMOBILES IN FACT ARE RETURNED, UM, AND, UH, HOW MANY EACH OFFICER IS INVESTIGATING.

UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE DETAILS.

SO IT COULD GO TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

MY SENSE IS THAT IT WOULD, SHOULD GO TO AUDIT, UM, TO DETERMINE, UM, THE, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'D WANNA CALL THE SUCCESS, BUT THE OUTCOME.

UM, SO, UH, I'LL JUST MAKE THAT FORM A REQUEST.

I THINK IT'S UNDER COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE.

IF YOU COULD BRING THAT TO YOUR COMMITTEE AT THE NEXT AVAILABLE DATE.

GREAT.

16 IS A ORDINANCE APPROVING FIVE ON-CALL PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENTS WITH COX MCLEAN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING, INC.

UH, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, AND, AND I AGREE.

UM, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE DISCUSSIONS THAT ARE TAKING PLACE ABOUT HEALTHY BALANCES IN CITY BUDGETS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE MORE UNIFORM AND, AND, UM, EXPECTED, INCLUDING THIS, THIS PARTICULAR GRANT.

I WOULD ALSO REMIND OURSELVES THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT SHOULD BE ROUTINE AS WELL AS THINGS RELATED TO WOMEN'S HEALTHCARE THAT QUITE OFTEN, UH, CREATE FIRESTORMS ON THE DIOCESE THAT WE CAN PROBABLY AVOID IN THE FUTURE.

SO, UM, WITH THAT, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND, PLEASE VOTE.

[16. Ordinance approving five on-call professional services agreements with Cox McLain Environmental Consulting, Inc., PaleoWest, LLC, Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc., Center for Archaeological Research-UTSA, and Hicks & Company, Environmental/Archeology Consultants each in an amount not to exceed $600,000.00 per contract year, for as-needed professional cultural resources (historic above-ground and archaeological resources) consulting services related to federal transportation projects, capital improvement bond projects, and other City projects. Each agreement is for a term of one year with options to renew at an additional amount not to exceed $600,000.00 per contract year at City’s discretion, for a total amount not to exceed $3,000,000.00 per contract. [Roderick Sanchez, Assistant City Manager; Razi Hosseini, Director, Public Works]]

PALEO WEST L L C, DAWSON ENGINEERING, INC.

CENTER FOR ARCHEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, U T S A AND HICKSON COMPANY ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHEOLOGY CONSULTANTS, EACH IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $600,000 PER CONTRACT YEAR FOR AN AS NEEDED PROFESSIONAL CULTURAL RESOURCES, HISTORIC ABOVE GROUND AND ARCHEOLOGICAL RESOURCES, CONSULT CONSULTING SERVICES RELATED TO FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BOND PROJECTS, AND OTHER CITY PROJECTS.

EACH AGREEMENT IS IN A TERM FOR ONE YEAR WITH OPTIONS TO RENEW AT AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT, NOT TO EXCEED $600,000 PER CONTRACT YEAR AT THE CITY'S DISCRETION FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $3 MILLION PER CONTRACT.

UM, I BELIEVE IT WAS WHO PULLED THIS ITEM? I DID.

COUNCILWOMAN, WHEN WE HAVE FEDERAL FUND ON ANY PROJECT, WE HAVE TO USE A DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE OR D B E, WHICH IS, IN THIS CASE, THEY ARE COMMITTED TO USE 10%.

COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ.

UH, THANK YOU.

HI, RAZZIE.

UM, SO I JUST, I I WANTED TO PULL THIS ITEM.

I DON'T IMAGINE YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION, UM, BECAUSE I DID IT AT THE LAST MINUTE.

DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION COUNCILWOMAN? I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTION YOU, YOU MAY HAVE.

AS MENTIONED, WE ARE ASKING APPROVAL OF OUR FIVE CONSULTING ENGINEER TO PROVIDE US ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DURING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF OUR FEDERALLY FUNDED PROJECT.

FOR LAST FEW YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN VERY AGGRESSIVE APPLYING AND GETTING FEDERAL FUND.

WHEN WE ARE USING FEDERAL FUND, WE HAVE TO APPLY WHEN WE ARE SELECTING CONSULTING ON CERTAIN PROCESS.

FOR EXAMPLE, WE WILL USE THIS ONE ON ZARZA OVERPASS, WHICH HAPPENED TO BE IN YOUR CONSULT DISTRICT.

WE HAVE M P O FUNDING, IF YOU REMEMBER LAST WEEK YOU APPROVED THE THREE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT, WHICH WE HAD SIGNIFICANT FEDERAL FUND, AND WE USED THESE CONSULTING ON THOSE PROJECT.

UM, SO I GUESS MY QUESTION WAS PROB WAS WOULD'VE BEEN MORE RELATED TO, UM, THE SMALL BUSINESS, UH, PROCUREMENT PROCESS.

UM, WAS THAT, WAS THAT PART DONE ON THIS OR IT WAS NOT DONE BECAUSE THESE ARE FEDERALLY FUNDED.

UNFORTUNATELY,

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EVERY FUND OF THEM IS, EVERY FIVE OF THEM IS COMMITTED TO USE 10% DURING THE LIFE OF THIS CONTRACT.

SO ONLY 10% BECAUSE IT'S A FEDERALLY FUNDED PROJECT.

EVEN THOUGH, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PROJECT THAT YOU MENTIONED THAT'S IN MY DISTRICT, UH, WAS SUPPORTED BY THE BOND AND M P O DOLLARS.

SO, UM, AS WE ARE MOVING ALONG WITH THE ZAMO PROJECT, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE A LARGER PERCENTAGE THAT WOULD GO TO SMALL MINORITY BUSINESSES.

COUNCILWOMAN, UNFORTUNATELY, NO MATTER HOW SMALL AS THE FEDERAL DOLLAR ON OUR PROJECT, WHEN WE HAVE FEDERAL FUNDING INVOLVE ONE PROJECT, WE HAVE TO FOLLOW SELECTION OF OUR CONSULTING AND CONTRACTOR THE, THE TAX THAT REQUIREMENT.

WELL, I WOULD JUST LOOK FORWARD TO, UM, JUST ENSURING THAT AS THESE FUNDS GET DISTRIBUTED, UH, THAT THEY, UH, YOU SAID THAT THEY HAVE A 10% REQUIREMENT MINIMUM, CORRECT.

10% MINIMUM.

SO, BUT THERE'S NO MAXIMUM THEY COULD USE 50% MINORITY AND, AND DEPEND OF THE NATURE OF THE WORK.

SOMETIME THEY EXCEED THAT 10%.

SOMETIME THEY USE MUCH, MUCH MORE THAN 10%, BUT THEY CANNOT BE LESS THAN 10%.

WELL, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT.

I JUST WANTED A BRIEFING ON THAT, GIVEN THE LARGE DOLLAR AMOUNT, UH, OF, UM, THE CONTRACTORS AND, AND GIVEN THAT THE ONES HERE MENTIONED DON'T SEEM TO BE MINORITY, ALTHOUGH PERHAPS, UH, SOME OF THEM ARE SMALLER THAN OTHERS.

SO WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO, UM, FURTHER, UH, DISCUSSION ON THESE PROJECTS AND JUST THE ASSURANCE THAT OUR CITY BOND PROJECTS ARE USING, UM, AT LEAST, UH, WHAT THE CITY'S, UH, HAS FROM THE SWEE.

THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 16.

COUNCIL MEMBER VILLAGRA.

THANK YOU, RAZZI.

I DO HAVE A QUESTION.

I WAS LOOKING AT THE SCORING MATRIX.

UM, SO HOW MANY OF THESE ONE, UM, HOW LONG HAVE THESE, UH, THESE, UH, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE THESE IN PARTICULAR HAD THIS ON-CALL AGREEMENT AND HOW MANY YEARS OR IF THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEY'RE COMING ON BOARD? AND THEN, UH, SECOND QUESTION IS, WHICH ONES ARE, UH, MINORITY WOMEN DONNED, UH, UH, BUSINESSES, C COUNCILWOMAN? I, I, I HAVE TO GET THOSE LISTS FOR YOU.

SOME OF THEM, THIS IS REPEATED, SOME OF THEM IS BRAND NEW, BUT LET ME GET THOSE LISTS FOR YOUR OFFICE SHORTLY.

HMM.

'CAUSE I WOULD BE INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW MANY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS BEFORE AND MAKING SURE THAT, ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME, UM, ERIC AND MARIA, AND I DON'T KNOW IF TROY HERE AND BEN, I THINK RIGHT NOW AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD AND TRYING TO REBUILD AND, UH, REBUILD OUR ECONOMY, WE HAVE TO LOOK LOCALLY AND AT OUR SMALL MINORITY BUS, UH, WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES TOO.

SO, UM, IF THEY'RE AVAILABLE AND IF THEY CAN DO THIS, THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AT THEM AND, UH, HOPEFULLY THE MEMBERS OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE CAN HAVE THAT SAME, UH, PERSPECTIVE AS THEY GO FORWARD.

SO, THANK YOU, MAYOR.

THAT'S ALL THE ITEMS ON OUR AGENDA TODAY.

COUNCIL MEMBER VERON, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM 16.

PLEASE VOTE.

AYE.

MOTION CARRIES.

[18. City Manager's Report]

IS THERE A CITY MANAGER'S REPORT? UH, YES, SIR.

UH, JUST QUICK THREE ITEMS. UM, THE FIRST IS, UM, IN THE MIDST OF THE, UH, OPENING DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC.

UM, WE HAD BEEN, UH, ACTIVELY RECRUITING FOR A NEW BUDGET DIRECTOR AND OUR, I THINK WE INTERVIEWED HIM BACK IN MARCH, BUT THERE WERE HIGHER PRIORITIES.

UM, AND I WANTED TO INTRODUCE, UH, SCOTT SINGA, UM, WHO BEGAN, UH, WITH THE CITY ON MONDAY.

SCOTT IS, UH, UH, FORMERLY THE, UH, THE, UH, BUDGET DIRECTOR FOR THE CITY OF KANSAS CITY.

AND, UH, IT'S BEEN A, A LONG PROCESS.

I THINK WE ALL KIND OF, BOTH SIDES PUT IT ON THE BACK BURNER WHILE WE WERE DEALING WITH HIGHER PRIORITIES.

BUT, UM, AS, UH, AS WE TALKED YESTERDAY AND WE TALKED TODAY, UH, THE, UH, BUT THE BUDGET, WHICH WE WILL BEGIN, UH, GETTING KNEE DEEP INTO NEXT WEEK, UM, WILL BE A, A HUGE EFFORT THIS SUMMER.

AND, UM, I'M HAPPY TO HAVE HIM START ON BOARD THIS WEEK.

HE HAS BEEN A, HE HAS BEEN GETTING ADJUSTED, UM, SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH STAFF.

UM, JUSTINA WILL BE, UH, CONTINUE TO WORK, UH, THROUGHOUT THE TRANSITION.

AND I WANTED TO INTRODUCE SCOTT TO THE COUNCIL AND WELCOME HIM TO, UH, TO THE ORGANIZATION.

THANKS, SCOTT.

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THE SECOND ITEM, UH, IS, UM, AN EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT.

AND TODAY'S, UH, QUICK VIDEO REALLY, UH, I WANTED TO FOCUS ON, UH, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES.

THEY HAVE TAKEN, THAT TEAM HAS TAKEN ON A, UH, HUGE WORKLOAD, UM, OVER THE LAST THREE AND A HALF MONTHS, PRIMARILY IN TWO MAIN AREAS.

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES DOES A LOT THIS FOR THIS, THIS COMMUNITY.

UM, BUT IN TERMS OF MEAL SERVICE TO SENIOR PARTICIPANTS AND SERVICE AND, AND CARE TO THE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS, UM, I, I REALLY WANNA THANK THE TEAM FOR ALL THEIR WORK OVER THE LAST THREE AND A HALF MONTHS.

AND, UH, IN PARTICULAR, MARJORIE WHITE WHO'S HERE IN THE AUDIENCE TODAY, SHE'S, SHE'S GOT A LITTLE PIECE IN THE VIDEO.

OUR HOMELESS, UH, SERVICE ADMINISTRATOR, ALL OF YOU KNOW, MARJORIE.

UM, SHE'S DONE A GREAT JOB ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE TEAM.

AND, AND, UH, LET'S ROLL THE VIDEO OF ALL OF OUR HUB SITES.

WITHIN THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, THERE'VE BEEN 128,000 MEALS THAT HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED.

WHETHER THE MEMBER COMES BY AND, AND PICKS UP THAT MEAL OR WHETHER WE DELIVER THE MEAL WITH THE CITY'S DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, WE PROVIDE HUMAN SERVICES AT SENIOR CENTERS.

WE CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE MEALS.

SO THAT WAS, UH, ONE OF THE MAJOR PROGRAMS THAT CONTINUED RIGHT AWAY WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT.

WHEN PEOPLE DRIVE THROUGH, WE'LL TRY TO GAIN AS MANY SECONDS AS WE CAN SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE SEE HOW THEY'RE DOING AND CHECKING UP ON 'EM.