* 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. [00:00:01] ALL RIGHT. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. THE TIME IS 9:06 AM ON THIS THURSDAY, AUGUST 20TH, 2020. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL NOW, UH, BEGIN OUR A SESSION. AND I'D LIKE TO BEGIN, UH, ACTUALLY, LET ME TURN IT OVER TO THE CLERK FOR A ROLE. COUNCIL MEMBER TIA. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GAN HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ROJA GARCIA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. PRESENT. COUNCIL MEMBER CODA. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER EZ. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. I'M SORRY. COUNCIL MEMBER EZ IS OUT TODAY. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY HERE. AND MAYOR BERG. HERE. MAYOR, WE HAVE A QUORUM. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. UH, WE'LL CALL OUR A SESSION AGENDA TO ORDER. UM, [1. 20-4870 Invocation] I'D LIKE TO BEGIN WITH AN INVOCATION GUEST OF COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. GOOD MORNING. IT'S MY GREAT PLEASURE TO WELCOME FATHER TONY BACK TO, UH, CITY COUNCIL. ALTHOUGH THIS TIME IT WON'T BE IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS. WE MISS MEETING YOU IN PERSON FATHER TONY. BUT THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. I'M GONNA SAY A FEW WORDS, UH, ABOUT YOU. UM, FATHER TONY IS THE COORDINATOR OF PASTORAL FORMATION AT THE ASSUMPTION SEMINARY HERE IN DISTRICT SEVEN, RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM WOODLAWN LAKE, AND HE IS A SUFFICIENT PRIEST. THIS IS HIS THIRD TIME SERVING IN SAN ANTONIO. HE IS A GRADUATE OF ST. MARY'S. HE SERVED IN PARISH WORK HERE, UH, AFTERWARD, AND THEN HE RETURNED JUST A FEW YEARS AGO IN 2017. HE IS ALSO THE SOCIOLOGY SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE AT ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. HE IS, HE HOLDS A MASTER'S IN DIVINITY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AND AN SS T L FROM ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY. AND, UM, I'M SORRY, AS A PHD IN SOCIOLOGY FROM PURDUE IS AN ACTIVE RESEARCHER AND AN AUTHOR IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION. AND HE'S ALSO ACTIVE IN LOCAL CHURCH AND COMMUNITY EVENTS. AND I CAN ATTEST TO THAT BECAUSE THAT IS HOW I MET FATHER TONY. SO THANK YOU, FATHER. THANK YOU. GO AHEAD, FATHER. OKAY. THANK YOU. LET'S TAKE A MOMENT TO QUIET OURSELVES, GOD OF HISTORY IN THE FACE OF HUMAN DIVISIONS YOU BRING ABOUT UNITY. HELP US TO RESPOND TO YOUR ACTIONS IN OUR LIVES AND COMMUNITIES. MAKE US INSTRUMENTS OF YOUR JUSTICE AND PEACE FOR ALL PEOPLE. WE PRAY FOR THOSE INFECTED WITH C OVID 19, AND FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS WHO SUFFER WITH THEM, GRANT THEM COMFORT IN THEIR SUFFERING WHEN THEY ARE AFRAID. GIVE THEM COURAGE, WHEN ANXIOUS. GIVE THEM PATIENCE. WHEN IN DESPAIR. AFFORD THEM HOPE. AND WHEN THEY ARE ALONE, ASSURE THEM OF THE SUPPORT OF YOUR PEOPLE. WE PRAY FOR THE ADULTS AND CHILDREN WHOSE LIVES HAVE BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, WHO HAVE LOST THEIR MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD AND SECURITY IN PRAYER. WE HOLD ALL THE SUFFERING IN THE DEPTH OF OUR HEARTS, THOSE SOCIALLY DISTANCE. MAY WE NEVER BE SPIRITUALLY DISTANT. WE PRAY FOR MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND CIVIL SERVANTS WHO RESPOND TO THE SUFFERING. SUPPORT THEM WITH YOUR POWER, COMFORT THEM WITH YOUR PROTECTION, AND GIVE THEM THE STRENGTH TO PERSIST IN DOING GOOD. WE PRAY FOR OUR MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. GIVE THEM WISDOM AND A GENEROUS SPIRIT AS THEY DELIBERATE SO THAT THEY MAY MAKE DECISIONS THAT TRULY SERVE THE NEEDY AND SUFFERING AND PROMOTE THE COMMON GOOD. [00:05:02] FINALLY, WE REMEMBER THOSE WHO HAVE DIED FROM C OVID 19 AND FROM VIOLENCE AND NEGLECT. MAY THEY REST IN YOUR PEACE ABOVE ALL. HELP US ALL TO DESIRE WHAT YOU PROMISE AMID THE UNCERTAINTIES OF THIS WORLD, AND TO CARRY OUT THE GOOD YOU COMMAND. WE PRAY TO GOD WHO IS, WHO WAS, AND WHO IS TO COME OUR GOD NOW AND FOREVER. AMEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. FATHER, I HAVE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. [2. 20-4871 Pledge of Allegiance] I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. OKAY, THE FIRST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA TODAY, UH, IS [3. 20-4872 Approval of Minutes from the City Council Meetings of May 21, 2020 and May 26, 2020.] THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OF MAY 21ST, UH, 2020 AND MAY 26TH. UM, 2020. SO MOVE SECOND MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, I BELIEVE I HEARD THE SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. ANY DISCUSSION, AND AGAIN, WE CAN USE, UH HA RAISE HAND, UH, BUTTON ON YOUR, UM, WEBEX PORTAL. OKAY. HEARING NO DISCUSSION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. AYE. UH, WE HAVE A COUPLE ITEMS, UH, LISTED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION AT THIS TIME. UM, [Additional Item] OKAY. WE HAVE A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE. COUNCIL MEMBER GRA. THANK YOU MAYOR. UH, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY. AND LAST WEEK, MANY, UH, WE ALL HEARD COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ADRIANA GARCIA SHARING ABOUT THE, UM, 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND THE RATIFICATION OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT, WHICH GAVE MANY NOT ALL WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE, BUT WE CONTINUE TO HONOR THAT IN A VERY SPECIAL WAY HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. TOMORROW AT 11:00 AM OUT OF STINSON AIRPORT, OUR AIRPORT IN SAN ANTONIO, WHICH IS 105 YEARS OLD, UM, STARTED BY CATHERINE AND MARJORIE SIMPSON AND HER BROTHER, THEIR BROTHER EDDIE. WE WILL BE HAVING OUR FLYOVER WITH SOME WONDERFUL FEMALE PILOTS WITH THE WOMEN IN AVIATION, ALAMO CITY CHAPTER. IT WILL START TOMORROW AT 11:00 AM LOOK TO THE SKIES. WE'LL START BY GOING OVER. THEY WILL START BY GOING OVER THE SAN ANTONIO MISSIONS UP TOWARDS BROOK CITY BASE, UM, OVER HERE, DOWNTOWN TAR AMERICAS TO PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL, ONE OF THE BEST HIGH SCHOOLS OUT THERE. UM, AND THEN TO PEARL. WE ALL KNOW THE STORY OF EMMA AT THE PEARL AND THEN TO FORT SAM, UNIVERSITY OF INCARNATE WORD AND INCARNATE WORD HIGH SCHOOL TO YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AND TO OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY, WE'RE SO PROUD. WE ASK YOU TO PLEASE BE ALERT AND BE LOOKING OUTSIDE FOR OUR FEMALE PILOTS. THREE OF THEM WILL BE IN FORMATION FLYING THROUGH HERE TO BE A PART OF IT. I WANNA INVITE MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES TO, UM, OR THE WOMEN OF MY COUNCIL, OF THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, JUST TO, TO JOIN US AT THE, UH, PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW AT 10 30. UM, IT WILL BE SOCIALLY DISTANCED AND IT, WE WILL BE THERE TO HONOR ALL OF THE MEMBERS, ALL OF OUR PILOTS WHO WILL BE THERE. SO I HOPE YOU'VE BEEN SEEING THEIR STORIES ALL THIS WEEK, AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF SAN ANTONIO IS INVITED TO CELEBRATE THIS VERY SPECIAL OCCASION TOMORROW AND ALSO TOMORROW ON FRIDAY. UM, IT IS WORLD SENIOR CITIZENS DAY, SO IF YOU KNOW A SENIOR CITIZEN IN YOUR FAMILY, PLEASE GIVE THEM A CALL. IF YOU ARE A SENIOR CITIZEN, PLEASE GIVE ONE OF YOUR OTHER SENIOR CITIZEN FRIENDS A CALL SO WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT [00:10:01] WE ARE STAYING IN TOUCH WITH OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU MAYOR. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. ALRIGHT, [Consent Agenda] UM, WE HAVE A PRETTY BUSY AGENDA TODAY, INCLUDING ZONING ITEMS. UM, I WILL LIST THE ITEMS I HAVE FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION AT THIS TIME AND ASK MY COLLEAGUES IF THERE ARE ANY ITEMS. OTHER ITEMS I'D LIKE TO PULL FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA SO FAR. WE HAVE ITEMS 4, 5, 27, AND 29 PULLED FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. ARE THERE ANY OTHERS? MAYOR, MAY I, I HAVE A LIST OF ZONING ITEMS. OKAY. YEAH, PLEASE GO AHEAD, MADAM CLERK. THANK YOU. I HAVE Z ONE FROM DISTRICT ONE. I HAVE Z TWO FROM DISTRICT ONE. I HAVE Z FOUR AND P ONE FROM DISTRICT ONE. I HAVE Z NINE AND P TWO FROM DISTRICT TWO Z 11 FROM DISTRICT THREE Z 18, FROM DISTRICT FIVE Z 19, ALSO DISTRICT FIVE Z 20, DISTRICT FIVE Z 21, DISTRICT SIX Z 24, AND P SIX FROM DISTRICT EIGHT Z 28 IS DISTRICT 10, AND P NINE IS CITYWIDE. AND THEN I HAVE Z THREE DISTRICT ONE HAS, UM, REQUESTED A POSTPONEMENT BY THE APPLICANT. I DID EMAIL THAT OUT TO YOU THIS MORNING. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, MADAM CLERK. UM, SO I HAVE THE ZONING ITEMS AS READ FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION, UH, AS WELL AS ITEMS 4, 5, 27 AND 29. ARE THERE ANY OTHERS, UH, FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION AT THIS TIME? OKAY, UH, IF THERE ARE NONE, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. COUNCILMAN VIA GRAHAM WANTS TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT TO THAT LIST. MAYOR, DID YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER ? I'M ON MUTE. UM, YOU SAID, YOU SAID, UM, 27 IS PULLED AS WELL AS THE 11, CORRECT? YES. UM, YES. YES. THE 11 IS, IS, UH, WILL BE INDIVIDUALLY CONSIDERED. ANY OTHERS? IF THERE ARE NONE, I'LL HEAR A MOTION, UH, FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT. EXCUSE ME, MAYOR, UH, FERNANDEZ IS, IS MOTION, UH, TO SPEAK? GO AHEAD. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? OKAY, YEAH, THERE YOU GO. UH, Z 15, I BELIEVE COUNCILWOMAN. UM, WE NEED TO GET THAT ON INDIVIDUAL. THIS IS FROM DISTRICT THREE. THANK YOU. UM, DISTRICT THREE, COUNCILMAN RUDY? YEAH, YOU'RE, YOU'RE MUTED. V 15? YES. V 15, PLEASE PULL IT. OKAY. VERY GOOD. ANY OTHERS? UH, MAYOR? YEAH, GO AHEAD. COUNCIL MEMBER , UH, YOU CAN, UH, ITEM NUMBER 20 WAS JUST TO HIGHLIGHT, UH, Z 20. UM, SO GIVEN THE LENGTH OF OUR MEETING, WE CAN, UH, REMOVE THAT FROM THE LIST. OKAY. STRIKE Z 20. UM, ANY, ANY OTHER CHANGES? AND, OKAY, IF I CAN GET A MOTION FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA, I'LL GO AHEAD AND REITERATE THOSE ITEMS. MOTION FOR INDIVIDUAL SECOND. ALRIGHT, WHO MADE THE MOTION? I'M SORRY. OKAY, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN WITH A MOTION AND SANDOVAL WITH A SECOND. UH, FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA, THAT IS ALL ITEMS SAVED FOR 4 5 27 29 Z ONE, Z TWO, Z FOUR, AND P ONE, Z NINE, AND P TWO Z 11, Z 15, Z 18, Z 19, Z 21, Z 24, AND P SIX, Z 28. AND UM, P NINE. UH, ALSO NOTE THAT Z THREE HAS BEEN POSTPONED, UH, BY THE APPLICANT AND [00:15:01] WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED TODAY. ALRIGHT, THERE ARE, UH, SEVERAL CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEMS REMAINING ON CONSENT. UH, SO IF YOU GIMME A MOMENT, I'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL, UM, CITIZENS TO SPEAK IN ORDER. AND IT LOOKS LIKE ALL OF THOSE ITEMS, UH, ARE ON ZONING. SO, UM, LET ME GO AHEAD AND START WITH ITEM Z THREE. UH, JACK FIGURE, HELLO. AND, AND, UH, JACK, YOU'LL BE SPEAKING ON MULTIPLE ZONING ITEMS. SO GO AHEAD. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. HELLO? HELLO. UH, THREE MINUTES FOR ALL THE ITEMS. IS THAT RIGHT, MR. MAYOR? YES, GO AHEAD, JACK. OKAY, WELL, YOU HAVE A, A BUNCH OF 'EM. UH, Z THIS IS FOR THE RECORD. THIS IS JACK M FINGER. YES. FOR YOUR, FOR Z TWO, YOU HAVE A SITUATION WHERE WHEREBY THE, UH, THE ZONING, ZONING COMMISSION HAS RECOMMENDED DENIAL. THE MONTE VISTA, UH, UH, ASSOCIATION ALSO OPPOSES IT MAINLY PROBABLY BEFORE COMMERCIAL ENCROACHMENT. Z THREE. THE, UH, THE ZONING COMMISSION, ONCE AGAIN, HAS, HAS SUGGESTED DENIAL. THE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OPPOSES ALTA VISTA NEIGHBORHOOD OPPOSES IT AS WELL. THEY PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE, UH, UH, UH, THE, THE, THE VARIOUS ISSUES THERE AS WELL. ALSO, YOU HAVE, I'M JUST GOING OVER, THERE'S SO MANY OF THEM HERE. UH, YOU, YOU HAVE, UH, OH MY, LET'S SEE. Z I'M, I'M LOOKING AT IT HERE. Z FOUR. UH, THE, ONCE AGAIN, THE ZONING COMMISSION HAS RECOMMENDED DENIAL. THERE ARE 11 NOTICES BEEN PUT OUT TO AT LEAST TO TWO OPPOSED, SAY, AND THAT'S A GOOD 20%. AT LEAST 37 LETTERS OF OPPOSITION CAME OUT AGAINST IT. THE, THE OAK PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OPPOSED IT OF 48 PEOPLE SPOKE AND WROTE AGAINST THIS. WHY? WELL, PROBABLY BECAUSE THE PROPOSED BUILDING DEMOLITION THE HIGH DENSITY USES FOR, FOR THAT ONE AS WELL. YES. THE, UH, ALSO Z Z NINE, UH, ONCE AGAIN, THAT ONE IS THAT SITUATION WHEREBY THE ZONING COMMISSION, ONCE AGAIN PROPOSED IN DENIAL. YOU HAD EIGHT 19 NOTICES GOING OUT, EIGHT OPPOSED THAT, THAT'S, I GIVE THAT THAT'S NEARLY HALF. AND WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU'RE DOING GOOD TO HAVE A FIVE OR 10% OPPOSE THERE AND 30 PEOPLE SPOKE, WROTE, OR EMAILED AGAINST THIS, UH, YES. 16 PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE 200 FOOT RADIUS SAID, SPOKE AGAINST IT, BUT THE CONSERVATION SOCIETY SPOKE AGAINST IT. YES. BECAUSE OF THE, THE VERY, AND PROBABLY 'CAUSE OF ALL THE INCREASED INTENSITY FOR UP TO Z C TWO FROM R SIX THERE. YES. UH, THEN YOU HAVE, UH, ALSO THE Z 12, BUT THE ONCE AGAIN, A PROBLEM WITH WHAT THE, AT LEAST TO 10 PEOPLE WERE WROTE OUT AGAINST THIS, THE REPUBLIC, UH, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ALSO POSES IT AS A GOLF COURSE AT THAT, UH, UH, APPARENTLY PEOPLE WILL WANT TO LESS DEVELOP THERE. AND YES, UH, THEN YOU HAVE, UH, Z 19, THE, UH, RECYCLING. THERE'S A RECYCLING PLANT. YES. OVER, OVER ON POP POPLAR STREET. YES. 28 NOTICES WENT OUT, UH, EIGHT OPPOSED. THAT'S A GOOD 28%. AND LIKE I SAY, YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE DOING GOOD. IF YOU JUST GET FIVE OR 10% OPPOSED IT, THE GARDEN DALE, DALE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATES OPPOSE IT. YOU HAD 16 WRITTEN VOICEMAIL COMMENTS OPPOSED IT. UH, THAT'S THE RECYCLING PLANT ON Z 19. THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. ALRIGHT, UH, UP NEXT ON ITEM Z FIVE, UH, WE HAVE MITSUKO RAMOS AND MS. RAMOS, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY PATRICK CHRISTENSEN. UH, SPEAKING ON A COUPLE OF ITEMS. THIS IS MITSUKO RAMOS, UH, REPRESENTING BRAUN ENTERPRISES, C P A, THE PREA REAL REALTY LIMITED FOR THE SOUTH PLEASANT PROPERTIES, WHICH IS WHERE THE TACO HAVEN STRIP CENTER IS LOCATED. I JUST WANTED TO THANK THE CITY STAFF FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND ALSO THE BOARD OF LACA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND KING WILLINGNESS ASSOCIATION, AS WELL AS THE SURROUNDING PROPERTY OWNERS. I ALSO JUST WANTED TO MAKE NOTE THAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR A LOCAL MURALIST TO PARTICIPATE IN PAINTING A MURAL ON THE BUILDING AT 10 35 SOUTH PRESA. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING SOME CONTACT FROM THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT HAPPENS. AND I WANTED TO THANK THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FOR THEIR CONSIDERATION. [00:20:02] THANK YOU, MS. RAMOS. UM, PATRICK CHRISTENSEN, WE FOLLOWED BY STEVE BRENNER. I THINK WE, UM, WE'RE NOT CONNECTED WITH, UH, MR. CHRISTENSEN, UNLESS YOU'RE THERE, PATRICK. OKAY. UH, WE'LL MOVE TO STEVE RENER AND MR. RENER, YOU'LL BE FOLLOWED BY JOHN BRENNEMAN. OKAY. MR. DRE IS NOT CONNECTED. UH, JOHN BRENNAMAN, BELIEVE ALSO NOT CONNECTED. KIM GIBBS ON Z 29. THAT'S, THAT'S ALL THERE ON, SIR, FOR THE CONSENT. ALL RIGHT. UM, I'M ON CONSENT. I HAVE TWO WRITTEN TESTIMONIES ON P SEVEN AND Z 27 FROM THE CONSERVATION SOCIETY FOR THE RECORD. I WILL NOTATE THEM IN THE MINUTES. OKAY? OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CLERK. OKAY. UH, THAT'S EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, WHO'S PRESENT. UH, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT, UH, AGENDA. UH, AS READ, I DO HAVE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT SOME ITEMS. SO LEMME START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ITEM NUMBER 17, WHERE WE'RE STARTING THE WORK ON OUR, THE RENOVATIONS FOR LIBRARY. THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING AND I'M VERY EXCITED FOR THAT. AND I BELIEVE THAT ALL THE WORK WILL GET STARTED AFTER THE ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER. SO, UH, THANK YOU TO ALL THE RESIDENTS WHO'VE BEEN A PART OF THE BOND PROJECT, BUT ALSO WHO USE A LIBRARY EVERY SINGLE DAY AND TO THE LIBRARY STAFF. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO KNOW. THANKS MAYOR. UH, JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT, UH, MY OFFICE ALONG WITH, UH, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO PARTNERS, UH, HAVE WORKED ON, UH, THIS INITIATIVE, UH, WITH CENTRAL CATHOLIC FOR OVER 14 MONTHS. THIS IS ITEM NUMBER 22, UH, ORDINANCE APPROVING THE CLOSURE AND VACATION OF, OF PORTION OF DALLAS STREET PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. UH, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK PAUL GARROW AND HIS CENTRAL CATHOLIC TEAM OF JASON LONGORIA AND PAUL VIS FOR THEIR COLLABORATION AND PATIENCE AS THIS MOVES FORWARD. CENTRAL CATHOLIC IS, IS A FIXTURE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE A LEADER ON THE NORTH SIDE OF DOWNTOWN FOR YEARS TO COME WITH THE MANY INVESTMENTS THEY ARE MAKING IN THEIR CAMPUS FOR THEIR FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND ALUMNI. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. ALRIGHT. UH, ANY OTHERS? ALRIGHT, IF THERE ARE NONE, UM, OH, MAYOR, I'M SORRY, I, I APOLOGIZE BASED OUT FOR ONE SECOND. UM, I'D LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT, UH, ITEM 12 THROUGH 14. THESE ARE BOND PROJECTS IN DISTRICT SEVEN THAT WILL FINALLY, UH, BE TURNING DIRT AS, AS THEY SAY, UH, THE FOREST HILLS LIBRARY. WELL, THAT'S NOT TURNING THE DOOR, UH, REMODELING. UH, VERY GLAD TO SEE THAT HAPPENING, BUT REALLY, BUT REALLY, I, I WANNA HIGHLIGHT, UH, THE CEILING CHANNEL PROJECT. UH, IT'S PHASE THREE. UH, THIS IS A LONG AND ARDUOUS PROCESS FOR ALL THE RESIDENTS WHO LIVE IN THIS AREA NOT FAR FROM WOODLAWN LAKE. IT'S IN THE HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD PLAIN. THERE HAVE BEEN OVER THE PAST, UH, SEVERAL DECADES, A LOT OF DAMAGE TO HOMES IN THOSE AREAS. SO WE'RE, UH, SLOWLY, UH, TRYING TO PULL THOSE HOMES OUT OF THE FLOOD PLAIN AND, AND, UH, ACCOMMODATE THE, THE WATER FLOWS THAT JUST KEEP GROWING WITH TIME. SO, GLAD TO SEE THAT MOVING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONSENT AGENDA AS READ. UH, AGAIN, UH, SHOW, UH, HANDS WHEN WE CALL THE VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ALRIGHT. MOTION CARRIES. WE'LL MOVE NOW [4. 20-4887 Resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis and establishing stronger efforts to promote racial equity in San Antonio. [David W. McCary, Assistant City Manager, Zan Gibbs, MPH, Chief Equity Officer]] TO THE ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION. WE'LL BEGIN WITH ITEM FOUR. ITEM FOUR IS A RESOLUTION DECLARING RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS AND ESTABLISHING STRONGER EFFORTS TO PROMOTE RACIAL EQUALITY IN SAN ANTONIO. [00:25:15] GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. I'M DAVID MCCAREY, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER. Z GIBBS, OUR DIRECTOR OF OFFICE OF EQUITY WILL DO THE PRESENTATION FOR US TODAY ON BEHALF OF METRO HEALTH AND THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, ZAN. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. THANK YOU SO MUCH, DAVID FOR THAT INTRODUCTION. MY NAME IS Z GIBBS. I'M THE CHIEF EQUITY OFFICER FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, AND I WANNA THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO HELP INTRODUCE A RESOLUTION DECLARING RACISM, A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. THIS RESOLUTION IS EXTREMELY MEANINGFUL TO ME AND THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO FOR SO MANY REASONS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. JOHN C OVID 19 DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE, BUT SYSTEMS DO. THIS PANDEMIC HAS HIGHLIGHTED NATIONALLY AND EVEN INTERNATIONALLY, SOMETHING THAT MANY OF US HAVE KNOWN FOR A VERY LONG TIME, WHICH IS THAT UNJUST AND RACIST POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND PROCEDURES HAVE LONG CREATED WORSE HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR BLACK PEOPLE. BROWN PEOPLE LET NEXT PEOPLE, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR. THE C OVID 19 PANDEMIC IS NOT CREATING THE BEGINNING OF HEALTH INEQUITIES. IT IS EXACERBATING ALREADY EXISTING ONES. SYSTEMIC RACISM IS REAL. SYSTEMIC RACISM EXISTS IN OUR PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. SYSTEMIC RACISM EXISTS IN SAN ANTONIO AND SYSTEMIC RACISM IS KILLING PEOPLE OF COLOR, ESPECIALLY BLACK PEOPLE. AS WAS SAID LAST NIGHT ON NATIONAL TELEVISION AND HAS BEEN SAID MANY TIMES BEFORE, THERE IS NO VACCINE FOR RACISM. WE MUST ALL DO THE WORK TO FIX IT. AND, AND ALL FORMS OF RACISM FROM INDIVIDUAL TO INSTITUTIONAL TO STRUCTURAL. ALL OF US AT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO MUST DO THE WORK. DISMANTLING RACISM AND ADVANCING EQUITY MUST BE A PART OF EVERYONE'S JOB DESCRIPTIONS NATIONALLY. CITIES ACROSS THE NATION ARE RECOGNIZING THIS AND FORMING OFFICES OF EQUITY MUCH LIKE OURS, HIRING CHIEF EQUITY OFFICERS VERY RAPIDLY AND PASSING RESOLUTIONS. SIMILAR TO THIS ONE, AT LAST COUNT, THERE WERE OVER 80 CITIES WHO HAVE PASSED RESOLUTIONS DECLARING RACISM, A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, JOHN. RACISM HARMS US ALL, BUT IT ESPECIALLY HARMS PEOPLE OF COLOR. HUNDREDS OF STUDIES HAVE PROVEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN THAT ALL FORMS OF RACISM INCREASE THE STRESS LEVELS OF PEOPLE OF COLOR WITH ENOUGH SIGNIFICANCE TO IMPACT THEIR HEALTH OUTCOMES, DECREASE THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY, AND NEGATIVELY IMPACT THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. RACISM IS NOT JUST AN ISSUE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED FROM A MORAL STANDPOINT, RACISM MUST BE ELIMINATED BECAUSE IT IS A LIFE AND DEATH ISSUE FOR MANY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO WITH ALL OF THAT BACKGROUND, IT IS WITH GREAT PLEASURE THAT WE CREATED A VERY COLLABORATIVE PROCESS TO DRAFT THIS RESOLUTION. THIS RESOLUTION WAS CREATED OF PASSION AND CONVICTION AND NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS SUPPORTED THIS EFFORT, INCLUDING DISTRICTS TWO AND DISTRICT SEVEN, COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND RESIDENTS WITH STRONG CONVICTIONS TO ELIMINATE RACISM AND ADVANCE EQUITY. THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY COMMITTEE, THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND METRO HEALTH, AND THE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM AND THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, JUST TO NAME A FEW OF THE COLLABORATORS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME AND THE OFFICE OF EQUITY WITH THIS RESOLUTION WAS THE INCLUSION OF ACTIONABLE COMMITMENTS. OUR JOB IS TO MAKE SAN ANTONIO A PLACE WHERE ALL RESIDENTS, INCLUDING RESIDENTS OF COLOR, ARE AFFORDED THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE, NOT JUST SURVIVE. IN THE LAST SECTION TITLED NOW THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE CITY [00:30:01] COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, WE INCLUDED FOUR SPECIFIC SECTIONS WITH A VARIETY OF EQUITY COMMITMENTS IN THE LAST SECTION, SECTION FOUR, WE SAY THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL ADDITIONALLY COMMIT TO ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY EFFORTS BY REVIEWING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR THE PURPOSES OF ERADICATING IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT RACIAL BIAS. WE ARE COMMITTING TO ENGAGING HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLICY SOLUTIONS. WE WANNA IMPROVE OUR DATA SYSTEMS IN ORDER TO DISAGGREGATE HEALTH DATA BY RACE, ETHNICITY, AND INCOME. WE WANNA ADVANCE HEALTH EQUITY BROADLY. AND LASTLY, WE WANNA MER WORK TO MITIGATE HOUSING AND JOB DISPLACEMENT FROM DRIVING FURTHER RACIAL AND INCOME SEGREGATION. PROMOTING RACIALLY, EQUITABLE CITY SERVICES, PROGRAMS AND POLICIES IN ALL REALMS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING AT ALL TIMES. WE ARE HERE FOR SYSTEMIC CHANGE AND NOT JUST FOR CHECK THE BUCK, CHECK THE BOX EXERCISES. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO WITH THAT, I WANNA THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN ELIMINATING RACISM AND ADVANCING EQUITY. PASSING THIS RESOLUTION. WE'LL DEMONSTRATE YOUR SUPPORT FOR ALL OF THE RESIDENTS WHO CALL SAN ANTONIO HOME AND WHO DESERVE TO LIVE IN A JUST AND EQUITABLE CITY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. UM, UH, GREAT JOB. LEMME TURN IT OVER NOW TO COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. UM, THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU ZAN. UM, THANK YOU DAVID. COUNCIL MEMBER, I, I APOLOGIZE. WE DO HAVE SOME CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK AND LET ME GIVE YOU, UH, THE FLOOR AS SOON AS THEY'RE DONE SPEAKING. APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. OKAY. UM, WE HAVE SEVERAL CITIZENS SIGN UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM FOUR. SO, UH, I WILL CALL THE NAMES IN ORDER IF YOU CAN BE PREPARED TO STEP FORWARD. UM, AND TO, UH, MAKE YOUR COMMENTS, I'LL CALL THE FIRST NAME, UH, AND THEN THE SECOND TO BE READY. UH, WE'LL START WITH HERBERT NAT, FOLLOWED BY ISABELLA SENIO. HELLO. GO AHEAD, MR. THANK YOU. YOU THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. HELLO, MY NAME IS HERBERT NANCE AND I'M THE PRESIDENT AND C E O OF THE UNITED COMMUNITIES OF SAN ANTONIO INCORPORATED, OR U C S A. THE FOCUS OF U C S A IS ON THE MULTIPLE MANIFESTATIONS OF BULLYING, EXCLUSION, HATRED, HARASSMENT, OPPRESSION, PREJUDICE, RACISM AND VIOLENCE. U C SS A THROUGH ITS HUMAN RELATIONS WORK, ADVOCACY, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES ASSISTS ALL IN UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY, APPRECIATING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, ENGAGING, FACILITATING, AND PARTICIPATING IN RESPECTFUL DIALOGUE AND PRACTICING EFFECTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO SHARE A BIT OF MY PERSONAL HISTORY AND CURRENT REALITY. MY PARENTS INSTILLED IN ME LIFE LESSONS RELATED TO HOW I MAY INEVITABLY BE TREATED AND OR JUDGED BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF MY SKIN. THEY SHARED THEIR OWN LIFE EXPERIENCES WITH ME AS THEY ENCOUNTERED RACIAL CHALLENGES FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE UPBRINGINGS IN TAYLOR, TEXAS AND FORT WORTH, TEXAS. THEIR COLLEGE YEARS WHERE THEY MET IN THE 1960S AT HOUSTON TILLISON UNIVERSITY IN AUSTIN, A HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY WHERE THEY BECAME MEMBERS OF OMEGA TCI PHI AND DELTA SIGMA THETA, WHICH ARE TWO OF THE NATIONAL PANHELLENIC COUNCIL OR DIVINE NINE REFERENCED JUST LAST NIGHT IN SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS'S VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. TRULY A HISTORIC MOMENT AFTER COLLEGE, THEY MOVED TO EL PASO, AND AFTER MY DAD'S SERVICE IN VIETNAM, THEY MOVED TO SAN ANTONIO IN 1976, ALL THROUGHOUT CONTINUING TO BE VICTIMS OF RACISM. I WAS BORN AT NORTHEAST BAPTIST HOSPITAL HERE IN SAN ANTONIO IN 1978, AND WAS BLESSED TO BE RAISED BY TWO AMAZING PARENTS ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE, WHOM MAY STILL LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD I GREW UP IN AND LAKESIDE OFF FOUR 10 SOUTH AND HIGHWAY 87 IN DISTRICT TWO. I WAS ALSO VERY FORTUNATE IN 1993 DURING MY FRESHMAN YEAR AT EAST CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE INTRODUCED TO U C S A YOUTH PROGRAMMING. AND AT THE TIME, SURROUNDED BY THAT SPECIFIC COMMUNITY WHO HELPED ME PREPARE BY UNDERSTANDING RIGHTS, RISKS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES RELATED TO THESE NEGATIVE AILMENTS OF SOCIETY. I HOLD A BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN GOVERNMENT FROM UT AUSTIN WITH ALMOST 20 YEARS BUSINESS OPERATIONS EXPERIENCE AND ENERGY GOVERNMENT FOR-PROFIT, CREATIVE ARTS, AND NON-PROFIT INDUSTRIES. AFTER 13 YEARS WORKING IN [00:35:01] SAN DIEGO, IT WAS SYSTEMIC RACISM THAT CAUSED ME TO RELOCATE BACK TO MY HOMETOWN OF SAN ANTONIO IN 2019. I WAS SO OPTIMISTIC IN COMING BACK TO SAN ANTONIO, WHERE SINCE MY INITIAL DEPARTURE IN 1996, THERE HAD BEEN A SHIFT OF DEMOGRAPHICS WHERE THE MINORITY, A SPECIFIC MINORITY HAD BECOME THE MAJORITY. HOWEVER, AFRICAN AMERICANS OR BLACKS ONLY STILL MAKE UP 6.4% OF THE 75% CITYWIDE TOTAL AVERAGE OF PEOPLE OF COLOR. MY PERSONALLY PAINFUL TRUTH IS I TOO HAVE DIRECTLY EXPERIENCED AND BEEN A VICTIM OF NUMEROUS FORMS OF RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION THROUGHOUT U C S A. THE UNITED COMMUNITIES OF SAN ANTONIO, ON BEHALF OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, IS IN FULL SUPPORT OF THIS RESOLUTION. THE POSITIVE DECISION THIS COUNCIL CAN MAKE TODAY WILL NOT ONLY BE THROUGH GENUINE WORDS, BUT METHODICAL CONVERSATIONS, TANGIBLE SETS, AND DELIBERATE ACTIONS. I'M THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. NANCE ISABELLA ENO, FOLLOWED BY MORGAN CRAVEN. HI, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, GO AHEAD. MS. UH, MS. ENO. HI. HI, ISABELLA ENO. I'M WITH TEXAS RISING. SOMETHING TO CONSIDER. UM, I AGREE THAT RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, BUT IT'S ALSO A WORKING FEATURE OF OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT THIS RESOLUTION, AND I SUSPECT ANY SUBSEQUENT BONES THROWN AS A RESULT ALONE, CANNOT FIX. AND A SURVEY OF 22,000 PARTICIPANTS, PUBLIC SAFETY IS RANKED FORCED IN A LIST OF BUDGET PRIORITIES. HISTORICALLY, THIS ITEM HAS RESTED IN THE TOP THREE. LISTEN TO SAN ANTONIO DEFUND, S A P B AND FUND PUBLIC HEALTH AND EDUCATION. WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR PUBLIC SAFETY TO ONLY TAKE UP 64% OF THE BUDGET AND FOR THE CITY TO DUST OFF THEIR HANDS AND PASS THE RESOLUTIONS. SS A P D NEEDS SIGNIFICANT CUTS AND FURTHER FUNDING TO BE MOVED TO OTHER RESOURCES. SAN ANTONIANS WANT TO DEFUND S A P D AS A RESULT OF THE RECENT NATIONAL CALL FOR RACIAL EQUITY THAT YOU REFERENCED NOT FOR THEM TO GET EVEN THE LOWEST PER PERCENT INCREASE IN THEIR BUDGET. YOU CAN'T BRUSH OFF WHAT PEOPLE CONTINUOUSLY SAY IS THE SOLUTION TO THE FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES WITH S A P D'S NAMES IN THE CITY'S OWN BUDGET PRESENTATION THAT THE CITY EVEN HAS TO IDENTIFY FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES WITH S A P D IN THE VERY SAME PRESENTATION IN WHICH THEY SPEAK OF 16 NEW POSITIONS. AND A BUDGET INCREASE FOR S A P D IS DISCUSSING AND REFLECTS A BASE LACK OF CARE FOR THE ISSUE. TO MEET THESE FACTS AND DEMANDS WITH EMPTY ACTIONS IS INSULTING TO ALL OF US AND IS ESPECIALLY DISRESPECTFUL TO THE MEMORY OF SAN ANTONIO, WHO'S LIVES HAVE BEEN RUINED BY, OR EVEN LOST TO S A P D. LISTEN TO US AND MEET WITH, UM, WHAT YOU WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS WITH APPROPRIATE ACTION. DO FIND SS A P D AND INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MS. MORGAN CRAVEN, FOLLOWED BY YES. UH, JOANNA ICK. HELLO? OKAY. HI, MY NAME IS MORGAN CRAVEN. I'M THE NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF POLICY ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AT I D R A, AN EDUCATIONAL EQUITY ORGANIZATION BASED HERE IN SAN ANTONIO, AND ARE SPEAKING IN SUPPORT OF THE RESOLUTION TO DECLARE RACISM OF PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. UM, AS A BIT OF BACKGROUND, SINCE SINCE 1973, I D R A HAS FOUGHT FOR EQUAL ACCESS TO EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL STUDENTS. AND OUR FOUNDER, DR. CARDENAS, WAS A SUPERINTENDENT IN EDGEWOOD, I S D AND LIKE SO MANY OTHERS, HE OBSERVED, UH, HIS LATINO AND BLACK STUDENTS AND FAMILIES HAD FAR FEWER RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES THAN THEIR MOSTLY WHITE PEERS AND DISTRICTS THAT WERE JUST A FEW MILES AWAY. UH, DR. CARDINALS FOUNDED I D R A WITH A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT RACISM AS CODIFIED IN FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS AND CARRIED OUT THROUGH LOCAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES, WAS LEADING TO POOR LONG LASTING OUTCOMES FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR AND THEIR COMMUNITIES. WE CONTINUE TO SEE THIS NEGATIVE AND PERSISTENT IMPACT OF A LONG HISTORY OF RACISM TODAY BECAUSE EDUCATION IS A KEY SOCIAL DETERMINANT OF HEALTH. RACIALLY UNJUST POLICIES THAT IMPACT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT CAN COMPROMISE THE HEALTH AND LIVES OF PEOPLE OF COLOR. SO, INEQUITIES IN OUR PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM ARE DEEPLY ROOTED, BUT WE KNOW THERE ARE SEVERAL MAJOR POLICY DECISIONS THAT WERE ROOTED IN RACISM AND NOW THAT MUST BE UNDONE, THAT HAVE HAD CLEAR AND PROFOUND IMPACT ON SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SANCTIONED RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION PRACTICES KNOWN AS REDLINING, DENIED OPPORTUNITIES TO BUILD WEALTH TO COMMUNITIES OF COLOR WHO WERE INSTEAD CORRALLED INTO NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WERE INTENTIONALLY AND SYSTEMATICALLY UNDERSERVED AND UNDER-RESOURCED. IN TURN SCHOOL FUNDING POLICIES THAT WERE BASED ON PROPERTY WEALTH. LIKE THOSE CHALLENGED IN SAN ANTONIO B RODRIGUEZ, GUARANTEED THAT THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT WERE SERVING THESE COMMUNITIES WERE SIMILARLY UNDER-RESOURCED, CONTRIBUTING TO DIFFERENCES IN FACILITIES, INSTRUCTIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, AND EDUCATIONAL AND HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR BLACK AND LATINO CHILDREN THAT CONTINUE TODAY. SO THE QUESTION THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE [00:40:01] HAVE WITH RESOLUTIONS, LIKE THE ONE THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING IS, WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO NAME RACISM AS THE CRISIS? UM, WE MUST RECOGNIZE THINGS AS THEY ARE SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY DO THE WORK TO FIX THEM. IN NO OTHER CONTEXT WOULD WE TRY TO WORK ON SO MANY ISSUES WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMMON UNDERLYING PROBLEM. YET, WE DO THIS WITH ISSUES RELATED TO RACIAL INJUSTICE BECAUSE IT CAN BE SO UNCOMFORTABLE TO BE CLEAR. UH, BUT WE MUST BE CLEAR HERE, JUST AS WE NAME THE VICTIMS OF RACIAL VIOLENCE, WE MUST BE CLEAR ABOUT THE ROOTS OF THAT VIOLENCE. AND THIS RESOLUTION AND THE CONVERSATIONS AROUND IT ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR RESTORATIVE WORK AS A COMMUNITY. AFTER THIS RESOLUTION, HOWEVER, WE MUST ACT, WE MUST BE CLEAR ABOUT ENDING BAD POLICIES, ADOPTING RESEARCH-BASED STRATEGIES, COLLECTING ACCURATE DATA, AND FUNDING THE PROGRAMS THAT WE KNOW LEAD TO SYSTEMIC AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE. I JUST WANNA WRAP UP BY WITH A QUICK PERSONAL NOTE. UM, I HOPE THAT YOU CAN'T TELL JUST FROM MY VOICE, BUT I'M A BLACK WOMAN. I HAVE TWO BLACK SONS. UM, I'VE BEEN DISTRACTED ALL MORNING BECAUSE I HAVE A SISTER, A BLACK WOMAN WHO IS GIVING BIRTH AS WE SPEAK, AND WE ALL KNOW THE STATISTICS RELATED TO OUTCOMES FOR BLACK BOYS AND BLACK MOTHERS IN SO MANY CONTEXTS. SO ON BEHALF OF THEM, MY SON, ME, MY SISTER, MY BRAND NEW NEPHEW WHO'S ON HIS WAY, I URGE YOU TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND DO THE WORK TO ACTUALLY BACK IT UP. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MS. CRAVEN, AND, UH, CONGRATULATIONS TO YOUR FAMILY. UH, JOANNA, FOLLOWED BY KAYLA. UH, GOOD MORNING, MAYOR. I ACTUALLY REGISTERED AS A GROUP. DO WE ALSO HAVE MARK FRYER WITH ME OR JUST ME? UH, I BELIEVE WE HAVE MR. FRYER CONNECTED. UM, MR. FRYER, ARE YOU THERE? OKAY. WHO ELSE IS WITH YOU? UH, MS. TONIC. UM, MARK FRIAR SHOULD BE ON THE OTHER LINE. OKAY. IS THAT THE ONLY OTHER PERSON IN YOUR GROUP? YES. OKAY. UH, MARK AND JOANNA, YOU HAVE, UM, SIX MINUTES. GO AHEAD. GO AHEAD, MARK. OKAY. UH, MY NAME IS MARK FRIAR AND I'M A YOUTH AND YOUTH ADVISOR FOR MY BROTHER'S KEEPER SAN ANTONIO NETWORK. I ALSO ATTEND SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE. UM, BEFORE I READ THIS LETTER, I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT MYSELF. UM, I GREW UP GOING TO SCHOOL IN THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF TOWN AT A MOSTLY MINORITY HIGH SCHOOL, BUT, UM, STILL THERE AS A BLACK STUDENT. AND THE OTHER BLACK STUDENTS REALLY FACED DISCRIMINATION. UM, I FELT THAT THE TEACHERS DIDN'T PAY AS MUCH ATTENTION TO US WITH COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS AND ACADEMICS, AND THAT THEY REALLY ONLY PAID ATTENTION TO US WHEN IT CAME TO SPORTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES LIKE THAT. BECAUSE OF THAT, UM, I STARTED TURNING TOWARDS STREET CULTURE WHERE I WAS ACCEPTED BY PEOPLE I KNEW BECAUSE I DIDN'T FEEL ACCEPTED AT SCHOOL. UM, MOVING FORWARD, I'M GONNA READ THE LETTER, BUT NOT IN FULL, AND I'M ONLY GONNA HIGHLIGHT KEY PIECES. DEAR SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, AS A COLLECTIVE OF 32 CROSS SECTOR PARTNERS WITH MORE THAN 150 INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS, WE AT I K SA HAVE VARIED EXPERIENCES, EXPERTISE, POWER, AND PRIVILEGE. WE'VE COMMITTED TO MAKE CHANGES AT OUR INDIVIDUAL INSTITUTIONS AND AS A COLLECTIVE TO REMOVE SYSTEMIC BARRIERS TO SAFETY, EDUCATION, AND CAREER SUCCESS. FOR BOYS AND YOUNG MEN OF COLOR, YOUNG MEN OF COLOR LAG BEHIND THEIR WHITE PEERS AND COLLEGE DEGREE ATTAINING. THOUGH 90 TO 95% OF BOYS AND YOUNG MEN OF COLOR GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL M B K S A FOCUSES ON ENSURING THEY'RE READY FOR COLLEGE. BLACK MEN GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE AT ALMOST HALF THE RATE OF THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS AND LATINX MALES. AT ALMOST A THIRD, THE RATE OF WHITE MALES RIGOROUS INVESTIGATION INTO CAUSES HAS SHOWN WHY THIS IS HAPPENING. OVERWHELMINGLY, IT'S NOT YOUNG PEOPLE'S LACK OF DESIRE AND ABILITY IS BECAUSE OUR SYSTEMS OFTEN FALL SHORT OF GIVING THEM THE SUPPORT AND OPPORTUNITIES THEY DESERVE. AS A NETWORK, WE ARE AWARE OF THE LINKERS BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES AND HEALTH. WE ALSO HAVE STRONG COMMITMENTS TO HEALTH LED APPROACHES THAT ACTUALLY ADDRESS RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES. FOR STUDENTS OF COLOR, WE ARE IN FULL SUPPORT OF DECLARING RACISM AS THE HEALTH, AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. ADDITIONALLY, WE WOULD BE REMISS TO NOT ACTIVELY STAND WITH COMMUNITIES MOST IMPACTED. WE URGE THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO TO NOT ONLY SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION, BUT TO ALSO REALLOCATE APPROPRIATE FUNDS DIRECTLY TO COMMUNITY HEALTH LED APPROACHES DEDICATED TO SOLVING EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES. WE BELIEVE SOLUTIONS LIKE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, NEAR PEER MENTORSHIP, AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT SUPPORT CONNECTIONS TO SCHOOL OR WORK FOR JUSTICE INVOLVED YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS. RESPECTFULLY, KEEPER OF SAN ANTONIO, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MARK. UM, GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND [00:45:01] THE COUNCIL MEMBERS. UH, MY NAME IS DR. YANA. I'M A PUBLIC HEALTH SOCIAL WORKER, EDUCATOR, AND A RESEARCHER, AND I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF MY BROTHER'S KEEPER, SAN ANTONIO NETWORK. TOGETHER WITH MARK. I'M ALSO A DISTRICT ONE RESIDENT. UM, I SUPPORT THE RESOLUTION TO DECLARE RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS IN SAN ANTONIO BECAUSE RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT STRUCTURAL RACISM AND NOT ONLY INTERPERSONAL DISCRIMINATION CAN LITERALLY MAKE PEOPLE SICK. AS A RESEARCHER, I HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING RACISM EMBEDDED IN K TO 12 EDUCATION AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AS ONE APPROACH TO UPROOTING IT. SO LET ME EXPLAIN WHY THIS MATTERS. FOR HEALTH. FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL MEANS LIVING LONGER AND REPORTING BETTER OVERALL HEALTH, LESS PAIN, AND LESS DEPRESSION. ACTUALLY STAYING IN SCHOOL IS IMPORTANT. FINISHING WITH A DIPLOMA MEANS BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES COMPARED TO DROPPING OUT OR ACTUALLY GETTING A G E D. SO, UM, WHILE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION HAS IMPROVED OVER TIME, BLACK LATINO, NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH ARE LESS LIKELY TO GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL THAN WHITE STUDENTS. ZERO TOLERANCE DISCIPLINE POLICY. SO, SUSPENSION EXPULSIONS ARE AMONG FACTORS THAT PREDICT HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT THAT'S CORRELATING TO POOR HEALTH OUTCOMES AS WELL. BLACK, LATINO AND NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH DO NOT MISBEHAVE MORE THAN WHITE PEERS. I WANNA HIGHLIGHT THIS RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT BLACK, LATINO AND NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH DO NOT MISBEHAVE MORE THAN THEIR WHITE PEERS. YES, THIS, THIS REMAINS A SIGNIFICANT PREDICTOR, BUT OUTOF SCHOOL SUSPENSIONS REGARDLESS OF THE SEVERITY OF BEHAVIOR. SO WHY IS THIS FULL AND DISTRICT RACIAL AND ECONOMIC SEGREGATION, WHICH HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED EARLIER, BOTH PAST AND PRESENT STRUCTURE, SCHOOL DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION? THIS LIMITS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH OF COLOR AND ALSO PREDICTS THE HARSHNESS OF DISCIPLINE POLICIES. GOING TO A SCHOOL WITH A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF BLACK AND BROWN STUDENTS INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD OF PUNITIVE SCHOOL DISCIPLINE. SCHOOLS PERSONNEL, INTERNALIZED BELIEFS WHICH REFLECT HISTORICALLY GROUNDED RACIST VIEWS, SUCH AS THE PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN WHITE. PEOPLE PLAY A POWERFUL ROLE, BUT HISTORY AND RESEARCH TELL US THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY WE HAVE IN THE PAST AND CAN AGAIN, NOW MAKE A DIFFERENCE. EVIDENCE SUPPORTED CHOICES THAT DO NOT HARM BLACK AND BROWN CHILDREN. ONE WAY TO DO THIS IS TO IMPLEMENT RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN SCHOOLS, A RELATIONAL APPROACH TO COMMUNITY BUILDING, ENSURING MEANINGFUL ACCOUNTABILITY, BELONGING, AND REPAIRING HARM. SCHOOL-BASED RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IS NOT A PANACEA. ECONOMIC INTERVENTIONS BEYOND SCHOOLS TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY BLACK AND BROWN FAMILIES ARE A MUST. HOWEVER, RESEARCH DOES TELL US THAT SCHOOL-BASED RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, IF IMPLEMENTED WELL, CAN CONTRIBUTE TO DISMANTLING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN OUR CITY. WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RESTORATIVE JUSTICE IN SCHOOLS OR OTHER ANTI-RACIST INTERVENTIONS, ENSURING THE COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS HAVE THE RESOURCES THEY NEED TO DO THIS WORK WELL WILL BE ESSENTIAL FOR A SUCCESSFUL RESOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. DOK AND MR. FRYER. UH, WE'LL GO NOW TO KAYLA MIRANDA, FOLLOWED BY CELESTE BROWN. UH, GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS MIRANDA. I AM A ARIZONA APACHE RESIDENT IN HAWK, AND I WORK WITH HISTORIC WEST SIDE RESIDENT ASSOCIATION. AND I SIT ON THE POLICE JUSTICE CENTER, ACTUALLY SPEAK LOUDER THE WORDS, I AM SORE, CLAIMING, UH, DECLARING RACISM AS A PUBLIC CRISIS. BUT THAT IS JUST THE FIRST STEP. THE WORDS HAVE NO MEANING IF THERE'S NO ACTION BEHIND THEM. AND THOMAS MOORE'S UTOPIA, HE SAYS, IF YOU SUFFER YOUR PEOPLE TO BE EDUCATED, AND THEY'RE MANAGED TO BE CORRUPTED FROM INFANCY AND THEN PUNISHED THEM FOR THE CRIMES TO WHICH TO FIRST EDUCATE AND DISPOSE THEM, WHAT ELSE IS TO BE CONCLUDED THAT THIS, THAT YOU FIRST MAKE THESE AND THEN PUNISH THEM. OUR NEIGHBORHOODS ARE SORELY UNDERFUNDED. WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE SAME RESOURCES THAT OTHER PEOPLE IN THE CITY DO. OUR HOMES ARE DEMOLISHED, OUR PEOPLE ARE DISPLACED. GENTRIFICATION IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS CAUSES EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIFE TO BE UPHEAVED. THIS IS NOT THE SOLUTION. PRESERVING OUR CULTURE, PRESERVING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, PRESERVING OUR LIVELIHOOD, THAT IS THE STEP TO MAKE THIS RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. MIRANDA. CELESTE BROWN, FOLLOWED BY CODA REO GARZA. CAN YOU HEAR ME? [00:50:01] YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. CAN YOU HEAR ME? OKAY, GREAT. SORRY. UM, MY NAME IS CELESTE BROWN. I'M A DISTRICT TWO RESIDENT, GRADUATE STUDENT AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZER. UM, I FIRST WANNA THANK COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL, ANDREW SULLIVAN, JAN GIBBS, AND THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY COMMITTEE FOR BRINGING THIS RESOLUTION FORTH AND INVOLVING COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS IN ITS CREATION FROM BEGINNING TO TODAY. THIS IS A GREAT FIRST STEP. NOW THAT THE CITY HAS NAMED RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. THERE, THERE MUST BE TANGIBLE ACTION THAT ADDRESSES SAID CRISIS SYMBOLIC CELEBRATIONS ARE SHORT-LIVED. SO IT'S TIME TO FRANKLY PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS AT. CURRENT PUBLIC HEALTH IS SLATED TO RECEIVE $19.3 MILLION IN THE UPCOMING BUDGET WHILE POLICING, WHICH IS FAR MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE SOURCE OF RACISM WITHIN OUR CITY IS SLATED TO RECEIVE $487 MILLION. IF THE CITY ACTUALLY VIEWS RACISM AS THE PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS THAT IT IS, WE MUST EQUITABLY FUND PUBLIC HEALTH. ON THE DAY THE BUDGET WAS PROPOSED, 347 PUBLIC COMMENTS WERE PROVIDED WITH 335 BEING E-COMMERCE AND 12 BEING ORALLY. AND OF ALL COMMENTS, 90% WERE FOR REALLOCATING FUNDS FROM POLICING TO PUBLIC HEALTH, HOUSING AND HUMAN SERVICES. 22,000 PLUS, AS THEY SPEAK UP, SURVEY RESPONDENTS DID NOT PRIORITIZE POLICING IN THE TOP THREE PRIORITIES. YET, THE CITY IS FUNDING IT AT A HIGHER RATE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. THE COMMUNITY IS TELLING YOU WHAT IT IS THAT WE NEED. WHEN IS IT THAT YOU'LL LISTEN? I, I, WHAT I FORESEE IS THAT MOST OF YOU'LL VOTE IN SUPPORT OF NAMING RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. BUT AGAIN, NOW IS THE TIME TO PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS AND TO FUND PUBLIC HEALTH AT AN EQUITABLE LEVEL TO WHERE WE CAN ACTUALLY ADDRESS THE THINGS THAT KEEP OUR COMMUNITIES DOWN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. BROWN. CODA REO GARZA, FOLLOWED BY JACK FINGER. GOOD MORNING. MY NAME IS CODA REO GARZA, AND I'M HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF Y W C A. SAN ANTONIO. Y W C A SAN ANTONIO IS DEDICATED TO ELIMINATING RACISM, EMPOWERING WOMEN, AND PROMOTING PEACE, JUSTICE, FREEDOM AND DIGNITY FOR ALL. THE Y W C A NATIONAL IS THE OLDEST AND LARGEST MULTICULTURAL WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD, SERVING THE SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY FOR 110 YEARS. Y W C A SAN ANTONIO JOINS IN SUPPORT OF THE RESOLUTION TO DECLARE RACISM A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, AND TO PROMOTE RACIAL EQUITY IN OUR COMMUNITY. MULTIPLE HEALTH STUDIES OVER THREE DECADES HAVE CONCLUDED THAT HEALTH INEQUITIES AT THEIR CORE ARE DUE TO RACISM. AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL, BLACK WOMEN ARE UP TO FOUR TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DIE OF PREGNANCY RELATED COMPLICATIONS THAN WHITE WOMEN. BLACK MEN ARE MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE KILLED BY POLICE AS WHITE MEN. AND THE AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IS FOUR YEARS LOWER THAN THE REST OF THE US POPULATION. APPEARANCE SAN ANTONIO OVERALL, UH, WHITE WOMEN ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO START PRENATAL CARE IN THEIR FIRST TRIMESTER OF THEIR PREGNANCIES COMPARED TO LATINA AND BLACK WOMEN. DATA FROM THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S COMMISSIONED REPORT ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN REVEALS THAT IN 2017, THE LOW BIRTH RATE WEIGHT RATE WAS HIGHEST FOR BLACK INFANTS WITH 14%, BLUNTLY LESS THAN FIVE POUNDS. LA BABIES WERE ALSO APPROXIMATELY TWICE AS LIKELY TO DIE BEFORE THEIR FIRST BIRTHDAY COMPARED TO BABIES OF WHITE AND LATINO MOTHERS. SYSTEMIC RACISM DIVIDES THEIR CITY BY NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AND ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE. RACISM IS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH. RACISM LIVES IN THE INSTITUTIONALIZED PRACTICES THAT FAVOR ONE HUMAN OVER THE OTHER, BASED ON THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN. TO ELIMINATE RACISM, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT AT EVERY SPACE AND LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT, WE ACKNOWLEDGE STRUCTURAL RACISM AND TAKES STEPS TOWARDS DISMANTLING IT. Y W W C A SAN ANTONIO PROUDLY JOINS OTHER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, ADVOCATES AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS IN SUPPORT OF THE RESOLUTION TO DECLARE RACISM A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, AND LOOK FORWARD TO POLICY CHANGE AND ACTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MS. RAO GARZA, JACK FINGER, FOLLOWED BY DEBORAH HERNANDEZ. UH, YES. UH, MAYOR NURNBERG, ANOTHER MEMBERS OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS JACK M. FINGER. NOW LET ME TRY TO GET MY HEAD AROUND THIS WHOLE THING. DECLARING RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, LIKE, LIKE THAT OF A, A DISEASE, A QUESTION MARK. I MEAN, I, I, I, WHEN I THINK OF A DISEASE, UH, A HEALTH CRISIS, I THINK OF, UH, AN EPIDEMIC. I THINK OF A, UH, UH, GERMS THAT HAVE INVADED SOMEONE'S BODY AND THAT WE TAKE MEDICINES TO, UH, UH, KILL OFF, TO ERADICATE. UH, AND, AND, AND WHEN YOU'RE DECLARING RACISM AS SUCH, UH, AM I TRYING TO GET THE IMPRESSION THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SAY, UH, [00:55:01] MAYBE IN PRISON OR WORSE? UH, PEOPLE WHOM YOU CONSIDER AS BIGOTS? YES. BIGOTS, YOU KNOW, AS, AS, AS DESPICABLE AS A RACISM ATTITUDE AND IDEAL, OR, UH, AS SUCH IS IT'S STILL JUST THAT, IT'S JUST STILL JUST A THOUGHT PROCESS. IT'S A MENTAL ATTITUDE. AND YET YOU ARE GOING TO CRIMINALIZE SUCH POLITICAL THOUGHT. UH, ARE YOU, WHAT ARE YOU, WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH, WITH PEOPLE WHOM YOU CONSIDER RACIST? UH, I JUST, AND I'M, I'M JUST LOOKING AT YOUR BACKUP DOCUMENTS HERE IN SECTION FOUR, IT SAYS, QUOTE, TO IMPROVING EFFORTS TO ENSURE THE CREATION OF RACIAL AND ECONOMICALLY MIXED NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGH PLANNING, HOUSING, REGULATIONS, ET CETERA. WELL, WELL, WELL, WHAT IF YOU CONSIDER THERE BEING, SAY, TOO MANY WHITE PEOPLE IN A PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD, ARE YOU GOING TO BUST THEM OUT OF THERE AND FORCE OF RE RELOCATE THEM TO LIVE IN, IN, IN NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THERE AREN'T SO MANY WHITE PEOPLE? UH, WHAT IF A PERSON SIMPLY SAYS, SAYS THE WORD CHINA VIRUS. DO YOU, AND YOU CONSIDER THAT RACIST? ARE YOU GOING TO IMPRISON SUCH A PERSON FOR SUCH? UH, ARE I, TO ME, IT, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE GOING TO FINALLY GET A CHANCE TO, UH, USE THIS AS ANY, AS AN ENDEAVOR TO, TO RIGHT. ANY PERCEIVED WRONGS THAT, THAT YOU HAVE HERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. IF YOU THINK THAT, UH, UH, THAT THERE, UH, IF YOU THINK ABORTION IS A GOOD THING, AND YOU THINK THAT, THAT NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE HAVE A, A, A SHOT AT HEALTH ABORTION BECAUSE IT IS A HEALTH ISSUE. WELL, I MEAN, ARE YOU GOING TO REQUIRE ABORTION ON DEMAND? I MEAN, AFTER ALL, , LAST WEEK, YOU APPOINTED TO DR. JUNE DVU, THAT PLANNED PARENT ABORTIONIST TO BE THE LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITY. WHY WOULDN'T SHE MANDATE SUCH THINGS USING THIS AS THE, UH, THE, THE, THE, THE THANK YOU MR. FINGER, DEBORAH HERNANDEZ. WELL, I BELIEVE WE AREN'T, UH, ABLE TO CONNECT WITH DEBORAH. UM, WE'LL GO TO JENNIFER FALCON, FOLLOWED BY MICHAEL KKI. UH, YEAH, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. UM, SO AS A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT SEVEN, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL FOR THIS RESOLUTION. UH, WHILE I SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION, IT IS EMPTY WITHOUT MEANINGFUL ACTION. FOLLOWING IT FROM THE MAYOR AND THE ENTIRE COUNCIL TO REALLOCATE FUNDING FROM THE BLOOD OF POLICE BUDGET TO TAKE TO TAKING CARE OF OUR HOUSELESS POPULATION TO FIGHT SYSTEMATIC RACISM, YOU MUST ADDRESS THE ISSUE AT THE ROOT, NOT CONTINUE TO FUND THE SAME FALSE SOLUTIONS. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO CRIME. THEY DO NOT STOP IT. THE LACK OF ACTION FROM THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED TO ADDRESS THE IMPLICIT BIAS YOU ALL HOLD IN YOURSELVES. AND I'LL ASK AGAIN THAT THE MAYOR COUNCIL AND THEIR STAFF TAKE ANTI-RACISM TRAINING SO THAT YOU CAN TRULY UNDERSTAND THE DEPTH AND THE URGENCY OF ERADICATING RACISM FOR THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE. UM, WHEN I WORKED FOR DISTRICT FIVE, THE POLICE WERE COMMONLY USED TO SHUFFLE THE HOUSELESS POPULATION AROUND TO APPEASE RESIDENTS. WE NEED TO TREAT OUR HOUSELESS POPULATION WITH CARE AND COMPASSION, JUST THAT THEY DESERVE THEIR FAMILIES AND THEY'RE A PART OF OUR SOCIETY. UM, PEOPLE WITH ADDICTION PROBLEMS ARE STILL PEOPLE. THEY JUST REQUIRE HELP, UH, NOT, UH, OVER-POLICING OR BEING SHUFFLED INTO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. UH, THE POLICE RESPOND TO A CRISIS. THEY DO NOT PREVENT IT. AND AN INCREASE TO THE POLICE BUDGET DOES NOT CREATE A SAFE CITY. ADDRESSING THE ISSUES DIRECTLY AT THE ROOT IS REALLY WHAT HEALS OUR CITY. AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO NOTE THAT THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL COMMITTED, UH, COMMITS TO ADDRESSING RACIAL INEQUALITY. BUT YOUR A HUNDRED YEARS OF SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN ERASED THE HISTORY OF BLACK, INDIGENOUS, AND WOMEN OF CO OF COLOR ACHIEVING VOTING RIGHTS. AS A WOMAN OF THE NATIONS OF A O SHAY KOI, MY VOTE WAS NOT PROTECTED UNTIL OVER 40 YEARS AFTER WHITE WOMEN, MY BLACK AND LATINA SISTERS HAD TO WAIT EVEN LONGER LIKE THIS. HISTORY MATTERS. WE CANNOT ADDRESS RACISM IF WE CONTINUE TO IGNORE THAT. IT HAS POISONED EVERY SYSTEM, BLACK, INDIGENOUS, AND PEOPLE OF COLOR NAVIGATE IN AMERICA. UH, THIS NEXT STEP AMONG MANY OTHERS, HIGHLIGHT THE NEED FOR ANTI-RACISM TRAINING FOR YOU AND YOUR STAFF SO THAT YOU CAN REPRESENT US ADEQUATELY. YOU ARE ELECTED TO LEAD AND DO WHAT IS BEST FOR SAN ANTONIO, ESPECIALLY THE MOST VULNERABLE AMONGST US. SO YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO WORK, PUT IN THE WORK FOLLOWING THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR. DO MICHAEL KKI. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU CITY COUNCIL. I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED ON THIS, UH, ON THIS, UH, DECLARATION. UH, I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE, UH, OPPOSITION TO THE, UH, TITLE [01:00:01] RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. I'M CONFUSED. THE NON-DISCRIMINATION ORDINANCE THAT WAS PASSED, UH, A FEW YEARS AGO, UH, WAS IS IT NOT DOING THEIR JOB OR IS THE CITY NOT DOING THEIR JOB? DO WE NEED TO PASS RACISM, DECLARATION AND ORDINANCES EVERY TWO OR THREE YEARS? IS THAT THE IDEA HERE? MY OPPOSITION IS THAT BLACK AMERICANS, LATINOS, AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR NEED REAL HELP, NOT JUST DIVIDING WORDS LIKE THIS, UH, DECLARATION. IT SEEMS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL IS NOW CALLING OR NAME CALLING US DURING AN ELECTION SEASON. HOW, HOW CONVENIENT IT SEEMS ARE WE NOT MILITARY? U SS A AND MOST PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE US ARMED SERVICES BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO ACCOMMODATE ANY ETHNIC COMMUNITY. NOW, WE SHOULD INDEED BE VERY CONCERNED THAT 52% OF ALL MURDERS IN AMERICA ARE FROM 13% OF THE POPULATION, NAMELY BLACK AMERICANS. THIS IS A UNDENIABLE, UH, NEED FOR NATIONAL ATTENTION. BUT HOW DO WORDS AND COUNCIL DECLARATIONS LIKE THIS IS, UM, HELP WHEN THEY NEED REAL ACTION AND REAL LOVING DEEDS? IS THAT THE FACT THAT WE'RE NOT DOING OUR JOB? EVERYONE DESERVES REAL RESPECT AND HUMAN DIGNITY NO MATTER WHAT, BUT THESE WORDS ARE DIVISIVE FOR THE CITY TO ESSENTIALLY CALL ITS CITIZENS' RACIST. IS IT NOT A RACIST ACCUSATION IN ITSELF? MOST PEOPLE ARE OFFENDED BY THIS TYPE OF LANGUAGE, AND IT IS, APPEARS TO BE BOMB THROWING AND CREATES DIVISION. AND IT DOES NOT UNIFY THE CITY IN ANY WAY. SAN ANTONIO IS ALREADY A VERY DIVERSE COMMUNITY. WE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, EVEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE MISSIONS WHERE THE CHURCH HELPED INDIGENOUS PEOPLE TO LEARN AND TO FARM. NOW WE ALL KNOW DEMOCRATS CLOAKED AS NONPARTISANSHIP CITY OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN ESSENTIALLY RUNNING THE CITY SINCE 1970S. SO HOW HAS THAT WORKED OUT FOR US? THE TRUTH IS THAT MAYBE WE HAVEN'T BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THE, UH, MINORITIES IN, IN, IN THE POOR OF THE COMMUNITY. I'D LIKE TO, UH, HIGHLIGHT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, UH, BACK IN 1939, STOOD ON THE STEPS OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE PARISH ON EL PASO STREET AND DECLARED ONE OF THE POOREST OF THE POOR OF AMERICA, AND THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND HER HUSBAND WERE GONNA FIX IT. SHE STATED THAT THE ROOT OF THE WHOLE PROBLEM, I THINK THAT'S QUOTE, I THINK THE FACT THAT THE COUNTRY IS NOT EDUCATING THE VALUE OF HAND WORK. SHE GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT, SHE'LL REMOVE THE OPPOSITION AND, AND, AND GET SOME HOUSING. ONE CAN STAND OF THOSE EXACT SPOTS WHERE ELEANOR STOOD IN 1939. AND NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED. RHETORIC, ALL RHETORIC, LIKE THE DECLARATION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE, ONLY SPURS THE VISION, NOT UNITY. AND IT DOES NOTHING TO REALLY HELP THE CITIZENS OF COLOR. THANK YOU MR. KKI. ALRIGHT, UM, GIVE THE FLOOR NOW TO COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU ZA. THANK YOU DAVID. UM, THANK YOU LIZ AND THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. VALISE. UM, THANK YOU TO COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. COUNCILWOMAN . UM, THANK, THANK YOU ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, THE RELIABLE REVOLUTIONARIES. THANK YOU TO CELESTE BROWN, MARLON DAVIS. UM, THERE ARE SO MANY THAT I COULD NAME THAT HELP US TO DRAFT THIS RESOLUTION. UM, I LISTENED TO THE CALLERS AND I LISTENED TO SOME OF THE RHETORIC THAT WAS SPOKEN IN REFERENCE TO, UH, THIS MESSAGE BEING DIVISIVE. AND THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW FROM THE INCEPTION OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WAS ALREADY CREATED. WHEN MY MOTHER MOVED TO SAN ANTONIO WHEN SHE WAS 13 YEARS OLD, HOW DID SHE FEEL DIVIDED IN HER SPIRIT WHEN SHE HAD TO WALK THROUGH HEMISPHERE PARK AND HAD TO DRINK OUT OF A WATER FOUNTAIN THAT WAS LABELED COLORED BECAUSE SHE WAS OF A BROWN SKIN TONE? WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE INCEPTION OF RACISM WITHIN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, YES, LET'S START FROM THE BEGINNING. LET'S START FROM THE ALAMO. WHEN BLACK PEOPLE WERE THERE HELPING TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WERE FED, BUT THEY WERE NOT LISTED BECAUSE THEY WERE COLORED. LET'S SPEAK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF SAN ANTONIO WHEN IT COMES TO RACISM AND GROWING UP AS A BLACK AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN IN THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, BUT STILL NOT BEING ABLE TO GIVE OR BE GIVEN THE RIGHTS THAT MANY OF MY OTHER FELLOW STUDENTS THAT WERE NOT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN DESCENT WERE GIVEN WHEN IT COMES TO JOBS. AND I LOOK AT MY 22 YEAR [01:05:01] OLD DAUGHTER WHO DECIDED THAT CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WAS NOT FOR HER BECAUSE SHE WAS NOT ABLE TO RECEIVE A JOB OR AN INTERVIEW BECAUSE OF HER NAME OR WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE ONCE SHE GOT INTO THE INTERVIEW. SO SHE MOVED. I HAD TO HAVE A DIVISION IN MY OWN HOME. AND WHEN I, I STARTED TO SEE MY SONS QUESTION, IF BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, MOM, AM I SAFE ENOUGH TO GO OUTSIDE? MOM, IS IT OKAY FOR ME TO DRIVE A CAR? MOM, I DON'T EVEN WANNA LEARN HOW TO DRIVE BECAUSE THE COLOR OF MY SKIN WILL BE HOW I AM PERCEIVED. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THIS DECLARATION AND THIS RESOLUTION SPEAKS TO INCLUSIVENESS. NOT ONE ARE WE LEAVING OUT, BUT WE ARE ADDRESSING THE MONSTER THAT HAS DIVIDED OUR NATION FOR FAR TOO LONG. WHEN YOU LOOK INTO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, WE AS BLACK PEOPLE ARE STILL ONLY SEEN AS THREE-FIFTHS HUMAN. SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THE INCEPTION OF THE HISTORY OF RACISM AS WE GO FORWARD. WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THIS BEING A DIVISIVENESS, NO LONGER WILL WE STAND DIVIDED, BUT WE UNITED, WE WILL CONQUER WHAT HAS ALREADY PLAYED THIS COUNTRY FOR FAR TOO LONG. THE WORDING IN THIS DOCUMENT, IF IT HURTS YOU, THAT IS WHAT IT IS MEANT TO DO. IT IS MEANT TO BRING OUT THE AREAS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED. AND THAT IS WHAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL IS HERE TO DO. NO LONGER WILL WE BE IN FEAR OF WHAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED WITHIN OUR CITY. AND THAT IS THE FIRST STEP WHAT WE WILL TAKE WITHIN THIS RESOLUTION. I'M SO THANKFUL THAT WE ARE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION THAT HAS BEEN FAR TOO LONG NEEDED TO BE HAD. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, MAYOR, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. I THANK EACH AND EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER. THIS IS WHAT WE MUST DO TO TRULY SPEAK ABOUT INCLUSION, TO TRULY SPEAK ABOUT BRINGING TOGETHER A COMMUNITY, NOT ONE, NOT FOR ANYONE ELSE, BUT FOR US ALL. WE ARE ALL HERE TO DO WHAT MUST BE DONE. THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HAS A HISTORY OF RACISM, AND RACISM TRULY IS A HEALTH CRISIS. IT IS ALSO A SIN. YES, IT IS. BECAUSE IF YOU ARE NOT LIVING UNDER THE RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT GOD HAS ALREADY PUT IN FORTH, FOR US TO LIVE UNITED, TO MATURE, AND TO GROW AS WE ARE NO LONGER CHILDREN, WE MUST NOT THINK AS CHILDREN. BUT WE MUST GROW AND LIVE IN THE DIGNITY THAT GOD HAS LAID BEFORE US. WE STAND AS A MORAL COMPASS FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. AND THAT'S WHAT THIS DOCUMENT IS. SO MAYOR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. UM, I YIELD THE FLOOR, UM, AND IF YOU NEED ME TO READ THE RESOLUTION NOW, I CAN, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER IF YOU'D LIKE TO, UH, YOU, YOU CERTAINLY, UH, SHOULD. AND, UM, AND THEN I CAN TURN OVER TO THE NEXT COUNCIL MEMBER. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I ALSO WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO CHILDREN'S FIRST TRANSFER, UH, TRANSFORMING EDUCATION FOR THEIR LETTER OF SUPPORT. UM, THEY HAVE BEEN DOING AND WORKING ON EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE AND REFORM SINCE 1973. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LETTERS OF SUPPORT AS WELL. SO THIS IS A DRAFTED RESOLUTION BY MANY AND IT STATES WHEREAS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO HAS MADE A COMMITMENT TO ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY AND GOVERNMENT WITH THE FORMATION OF THE OFFICE OF EQUITY IN AUGUST OF 2000 HAS SINCE THE BUDGET EQUITY TOOL AND INTERNAL CITYWIDE EQUITY COMMITTEE AND NUMEROUS DEPARTMENT EQUITY ASSESSMENTS DESIGNED TO ENSURE RA RACIAL EQUITY AND THE DELIVERY OF CITY SERVICES. AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO METRO HEALTH DEPARTMENT ESTABLISHED AN OFFICE OF HEALTH EQUITY IN 2017 TO IMPLEMENT POLICIES, PRACTICES, SYSTEMS AND CHANGES TO THE ENVIRONMENT THAT REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES, IMPROVE THE HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES IN SAN ANTONIO, AND IS COMMITTED TO OPERATIONALIZING HEALTH EQUITY AND TO APPLYING AN EQUITY LENS TO ITS PLANS, PRACTICES, AND POLICIES. AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO RECOGNIZES THE PERSISTENT HEALTH INEQUITIES EXPERIENCED BY GROUPS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT ARE MARGINALIZED BASED ON RACE, ETHNICITY, INCOME LEVEL, ABILITY OR DISABILITY STATUS, IMMIGRATION OR REFUGEE STATUS, EDUCATIONAL LEVEL, GEOGRAPHIC AREA, OR ANY COMBINATION OF THESE FACTORS, THE CITY LEADS WITH RACE EXPLICITLY BY, NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN ITS HEALTH EQUITY APPROACH BECAUSE RACIAL INEQUITIES AND OUTCOMES PERSIST IN EVERY SYSTEM, INCLUDING HEALTH. [01:10:01] AND WHEREAS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION HAS DECLARED RACISM AND ONGOING PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS THAT NEEDS OUR ATTENTION NOW. AND INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRICS, AND AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS HAVE ALSO RECOGNIZED RACISM AS AN URGENT THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH. AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY HAS EXPERIENCED A HISTORY OF STRUCTURAL, INSTITUTIONAL, INTERPERSONAL, AND INDIVIDUAL RACIST PRACTICES AND LAWS INCLUDING SLAVERY, JIM CROW, SEGREGATION AND REDLINING, WHICH PROVIDED PER PREFERENTIAL OPPORTUNITY TO SOME AND BARRIERS TO BLACK AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR. AND THESE RACIST PRACTICES AND LAWS RESULTED IN UNEQUAL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HOUSING STATUS, ECONOMIC SECURITY, AND WEALTH BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR BLACK AFRICAN AMERICANS, LATENESS AND OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, NOT ONLY IN THEIR LIFETIMES, BUT ACROSS SUB SUBSEQUENT GENERATIONS. AND WHEREAS FEDERAL RED LIGHTING POLICIES DESIGNED IN SAN ANTONIO AND OTHER CITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AS SANCTIONED BY FEDERAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT BEING MEXICAN AND BLACK AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN SAN ANTONIO, UNFIT FOR INVESTMENT BASED ON RACIST CHARACTERIZATIONS, SUCH AS HAVING AN UNPRODUCTIVE CLASS, WHICH CONSTITUTES A BURDEN TO COMMUNITIES. THIS TYPE OF INSTITUTIONAL RACISM, FURTHER SEGREGATED SAN ANTONIO AND REPRODUCE RACIALLY DIVIDED COMMUNITIES AND LEFT A LEGACY IN WHICH COMMUNITIES OF COLOR OFTEN STILL HAVE LESS ACCESS TO JOBS, SERVICES, HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION, SAFE STREETS, RELIABLE TRANSPORTATION, AND OTHER, OTHER ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SUCCESS. AND WHEREAS UP UNTIL MARCH 16TH, 1960, SAN ANTONIO LUNCH COUNTERS WERE RACIALLY SEGREGATED. AND BLACK AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESIDENTS WERE REFUSED SERVICE AT MANY BUSINESSES SUCH AS WOOLWORTH'S LUNCH COUNTER DOWNTOWN. SINCE THE INTEGRATION OF LUNCH COUNTERS WAS AN ESSENTIAL STEP, AND DESI OR DESEGREGATION, THE SAN ANTONIO INTERRACIAL COMMITTEE WAS FOUNDED THE NEXT MONTH WITH THE GOAL OF SWAYING PUBLIC OPINION AGAINST SEGREGATION. FIVE YEARS LATER, AFTER THE FIRST MOVEMENT OF INTEGRATION, CITY COUNCIL INTEGRATED ALL PUBLIC AREAS WITH PASSING OF AN ORDINANCE. AND WHEREAS TEXAS ENSHRINED WHITE SUPREMACY IN ITS 1836 CONSTITUTION WITH ANGLO SLAVE HOLDERS SUCCEEDED FROM MEXICO AND THE PEOPLE OF MEXICAN DESCENT EXPERIENCED MOB VIOLENCE, LYNCHINGS, WHIPPINGS BEING BURNED ALIVE AND BEING SHUT OR SHOT AT CLOSE RANGE, WELL INTO THE 20TH CENTURY. IN THE 1850S, SEVERAL COUNTIES IN TEXAS EXPELLED MEXICANS, AND IN 1854, THE CITY OF AUSTIN ORDERED EVERY MEXICAN TO LEAVE UNLESS VOUCHED FOR BY ANGLOS. ON JANUARY 28TH, 1918, A GROUP OF ANGLO CATTLEMEN, TEXAS RANGERS, A UNITED STATES ARMY CALVARY SOLDIERS DESCENDED ON A VILLAGE IN WEST TEXAS. AS FAMILY SLEPT, THEY SEIZED 15 MEN AND BOYS, THE YOUNGEST OF WHOM WAS ONLY 16, MARCHED THEM THROUGH BLUFF OVERLOOKING THE RIVER, AND FAMOUSLY SHOT THEM AT CLOSE RANGE AND THEN BURNED THE VILLAGE. AND WHEREAS THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM AND ITS ADVERSE IMPACTS ON OUR COMMUNITY HAS LONG BEEN CHAMPIONED BY BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICAN LATENESS, OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR AND OTHER ALLIES FIGHTING FOR JU RACIAL JUSTICE THROUGH HISTORIC AND PRESENT DAY PROTESTS, ACTIONS AND PETITIONS. AND WHEREAS THE, WELL, THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION [01:15:01] DEFINES PUBLIC HEALTH AS THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PREVENTING DISEASE, PROLONGING LIFE, AND PROMOTING HEALTH THROUGH THE ORGANIZED EFFORTS OF SOCIETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH ACTIVITIES RANGE FROM RESEARCHING DISEASE AND INJURY PREVENTION TO EDUCATING PEOPLE ABOUT HEALTH. EDUCAT. AND THE FIELD OF PUBLIC HEALTH ULTIMATELY WORKS TO CREATE THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN BE HEALTHY. AND WHEREAS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION DEEMS RACISM AS A BARRIER TO HEALTH EQUITY AND HAS NAMED RACISM AS A DRIVING FORCE OF HOW THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH ARE DISTRIBUTED, THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH DEFINED AS A SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND ECONOMIC FACTOR THAT INFLUENCES HEALTH, INCLUDING EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING, EDUCATION, ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, NUTRITIOUS FOOD AND PUBLIC SAFETY IMPACTS LIFELONG HEALTH OUTCOMES EVEN BEFORE BIRTH. AND WHEREAS THE NONPARTISAN NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES AND AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION HAS FOUND THAT IN THE UNITED STATES HEALTH AND RACISM ARE IN EXACERBATE LINKED, CREATING A HARMFUL IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND THEIR SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH, INCLUDING UNEQUAL ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, LIVABLE WAGES, NUTRITIOUS FOOD, ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, STABLE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND SAFE, SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES. AND WHEREAS THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS HAS FOUND THAT BLACK AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PARTICULAR ARE AT A HIGH RISK OF BEING SUBJECTED TO DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE AGAINST THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, ENDANGERING THEM AND EVEN COSTING THEM THEIR LIVES. AND WHEREAS OVER A HUNDRED STUDIES HAVE LINKED RACISM TO NEGATIVE HEALTH OUTCOMES, SUCH AS AN INCREASE IN STRESS, HORMONES AND ACTIVATION OF THE IMMUNE AND INFLAMMATORY SYSTEMS, CHANGES IN BRAIN STRUCTURE, ELEVATION OF BLOOD PRESSURE AND BLOOD SUGAR, AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES, WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED RISK FOR NUMEROUS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS, INCLUDING HEART DISEASE, CANCER, ASTHMA, STROKE, ALZHEIMER'S, DIABETES, DEPRESSION, AND SUICIDE. AND WHEREAS RESEARCH SHOWS THAT ADVERSE EXPERIENCES IN CHILDHOOD ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY EXPERIENCED BY BLACK AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN, LATENT CHILDREN AND OTHER CHILDREN OF COLOR WHEN COMPARED TO WHITE CHILDREN, AND RESULT IN NEGATIVE IMPACTS ON PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, AS WELL AS CORE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE. AND WHEREAS BLACK AFRICAN AMERICANS AND PEOPLE OF COLOR IN SAN ANTONIO EXPERIENCE WORSE OUTCOMES IN HEALTH, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, HOUSING, AND ACROSS MANY OTHER MATRIX, ACCORDING TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S OFFICE OF EQUITY IN 2019, RACIAL EQUITY INDICATOR REPORT. AND WHEREAS THE RATE OF INFANT MORTALITY AMONG BLACK AFRICAN AMERICANS IN BEXAR COUNTY IS 9.5 OUT OF 1000 BIRTHS, WHICH IS ALMOST 50% HIGHER THAN THAT OF LATENESS AND WHITES. AND THE RATE OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, BIRTH AMONG BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICANS IN BEXAR COUNTY IS 14.6% OF NEARLY 60% HIGHER THAN THAT OF LATE AND WHITES. AND WHEREAS [01:20:01] BLACK AFRICAN AMERICANS LATE AND OF COLOR IN DISPARATE ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES. AND THERE IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THAT IN THE RESOLUTION, AND IT BREAKS IT DOWN ACCORDING TO THE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME, WHICH FOR A BLACK IS $44,964 FOR THE LATENESS COMMUNITY, $46,329, AND FOR THE WHITE COMMUNITY $70,019. WHEREAS THERE IS A NEED FOR ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES AND TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY IN SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS TO CONTINUE TO BUILD ALLIANCES WITH ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE WORKING AGAINST RACISM AND TO CONTINUE TO PROMOTE EQUITABLE PRACTICES AND HEALTH, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND ALL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS. NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, THAT THIS COUNCIL DECLARES RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE EFFECTS OF SYSTEMIC AND STRUCTURAL RACISM ARE A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS IN SAN ANTONIO, AND COMMIT TO ADVOCATING FOR RACIAL JUSTICE AS A CORE ELEMENT OF ALL POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND PROCEDURES IN SUPPORT OF THIS COUNCIL WILL INCREASE ADVOCACY TO INCLUDE STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE PRO PRIORITIES FOR CITY EFFORTS TO FURTHER RACIAL EQUITY AND TO ELIMINATE ALL FORMS OF RACISM FROM SYSTEMIC TO STRUCTURAL, TO INSTITUTIONAL, TO INTERPERSONAL TO INDIVIDUAL THAT THIS COUNCIL SUPPORTS COMMUNITY-BASED GROUPS AND INITIATIVES THAT PROMOTE RACIAL EQUITY AND WILL WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO EDUCATE AND FIND INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO SPECIFIC EFFORTS TO DISMANTLE RACISM. THE CI THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL PROVIDE BIANNUAL PRESENTATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, UPDATING THE COMMUNITY ABOUT SOLUTION ORIENTED POLICIES AND PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED BY THE CITY TO IMPROVE RACIAL EQUITY, THAT THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO WILL ADDITIONALLY COMMIT TO ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY EFFORTS BY REVIEWING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR THE PURPOSE OF ERADICATING IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT RACIAL BIAS AND PROMOTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT ADVANCE RACIAL EQUITY, INCLUDING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT GOVERN BO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND ENGAGING HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLICY SOLUTIONS FOR LOCAL ISSUES RELATED TO HEALTH EQUITY AND IMPROVING DATA SYSTEMS IN ORDER TO DISAGGREGATE HEALTH DATA BY RACE, ETHNICITY, AND INCOME, AND FACILITATE DATA INFORMED DECISION MAKING PROCESSES TO ADDRESS THE HEALTH DISPARITIES AND ADVANCING HEALTH EQUITY AND SUPPORTING HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES AND WORKING TO MITIGATE HOUSING AND JOB DISPLACEMENT FROM DRIVING FURTHER RACIAL AND INCOME SEGREGATION BY DEVELOPING STRATEGIC INITIATIVES SUCH AS LAND USE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCE REGULATIONS AND HOUSING STABILITY PROGRAMS, WHILE IMPROVING CITY SERVICES THAT STRENGTHEN HISTORICALLY, HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES IN PLACE AND PROMOTING RACIALLY EQUITABLE CITY SERVICES PROGRAMS AND POLICIES IN ALL REALMS FROM NEIGHBORHOOD INVESTMENT TO INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORTATION TO ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. UH, GREAT JOB AND, UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS VOTE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO SIGNING THIS RESOLUTION. LET ME TURN IT OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, VINNO. [01:25:01] THANK YOU MAYOR. AND, UH, THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN AND, UH, THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE. UM, THE FIRST STEP TOWARD HEALING FROM THE REPERCUSSION IN YEARS RACISM IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS IS EXISTENCE. UH, WE MUST ALSO RECOGNIZE HOW ITS HARM HAS AFFECTED COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, ESPECIALLY OUR AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESIDENTS. SYSTEMIC RACISM IS MASKED IN PLAIN SIGHT WITHIN OUR ARCHAIC LAWS. WE MUST TAKE THIS DECLARATION AND PLACE ACTIONS BEHIND IT BY WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH A COMMUNITY TO STRENGTHEN OUR LOCAL HOUSING INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC SAFETY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. THERE'S A LOT OF RECOVERY WORK THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE AND A LOT OF TRUST THAT NEEDS TO BE BUILT. THE COMMON, THE COMMENT THAT STUCK OUT TO ME WAS DO THE WORK. AND ONE WAY WE CAN DO THE WORK IS TO INCREASE OUR RISK. MITIGATION FUND PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE RENTERS, BE RENTERS, AND ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY LIKELY TO BE LOW INCOME AND RENTAL COST BURDEN. HISTORICALLY, AFRICAN AMERICAN AND LATINX PEOPLE CONSTITUTE 80% OF EVICTIONS. I'M GRATEFUL HOUSING AND DISPLACEMENT WAS INCLUDED IN THE RESOLUTION, AND WE MUST NOW DO THE WORK TO ADDRESS ONE OF THE MOST SY SY SYSTEMATICALLY RACIST STRUCTURES. THIS IS A KEY FIRST STEP TOWARDS ELIMINATING RACISM, BUT IT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING OF A NECESSARY DIALOGUE. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION AND THE ACTIONS THAT THIS WILL BRING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. COUNCIL MEMBER RIDGE. OKAY. THANK YOU. MAYOR, CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. OKAY. GOOD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK ALL OF US HAVE, HAVE READ THIS, UH, PROPOSAL, AND OF COURSE, WE'VE JUST HEARD, UH, COUNCILMAN SULLIVAN, UH, READ IT TO US. AND AS I LISTENED TO THIS, UH, I TRIED TO RECALL, UH, MY YEARS HERE IN SAN ANTONIO AND WHAT I'VE SEEN AND WHAT I'VE SEEN OTHERS EXPERIENCE MY OWN OBSERVATIONS. I HAVE TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE 19 PREDICATES TO THIS RESOLUTIONS OR, OR 19 WHERE STATEMENTS, AND I MAY NOT AGREE WITH THE WORDING OF EACH ONE OF THEM, UH, BUT I HAVE TO SAY FROM MY EXPERIENCE IN LIVING IN THIS CITY AND RECOGNIZING THE CHALLENGES THAT PEOPLE OF COLOR FACE, UH, WHETHER IT'S THEIR HEALTH LIKE THIS ISSUE OR MANY OTHER ISSUES, UM, I NEED TO SUPPORT, UH, THIS CALL FOR ACTION BY OUR CITY. YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT JUST LOOKING AT RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. RACISM IS A PUBLIC SAFETY CRISIS. RACISM IS A PUBLIC HOUSING CRISIS. RACISM IS A PUBLIC EDUCATION CRISIS. RACISM IS A PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT CRISIS, AND RACISM IS A PUBLIC MORAL CRISIS, NOT JUST IN OUR COMMUNITY, BUT THROUGHOUT THIS STATE AND THROUGHOUT THIS COUNTRY. SO I'M COMMITTED TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, FOLLOWED BY COUNCIL MEMBER RE, UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. AND, UH, AND THANK YOU FOR, UH, THE TEAM WHO WORKED, UM, SO HARD TO PUT TOGETHER THIS RESOLUTION. UM, YOU KNOW, I I FEEL LIKE WE'VE BEEN BUILDING UP TO THIS FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS, UM, WITH THE POVERTY REPORT AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN REPORT AND THE HOUSING REPORT, FINALLY, ALL OF IT COMING TO FRUITION TO GET, UM, THIS RESOLUTION TOGETHER AND PASSED. UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S LONG. UM, AND I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY WAS TRYING TO PUT EDITS IN BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE SO MANY OF US HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS KIND OF DISCRIMINATION AND, AND, UH, UM, IN SOME WAY OR ANOTHER. AND, AND, UH, AND I THINK WE'RE SEEING THE RESULT OF THAT, UM, WITH THE NUMBER OF FATALITIES IN MY DISTRICT DUE TO, UH, THE COVID CRISIS. SO, UM, I, I DO, UH, URGE US ALL TO TAKE ACTION, UH, ON THIS. AND, UM, I KNOW I, I'M HEARING SOME OF THE REMARKS THAT WE HEARD LAST NIGHT, UM, IN THE VIRTUAL CONVENTION ABOUT THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, UH, BECAUSE IT IS ONE THING TO HAVE A RESOLUTION. UM, YOU KNOW, MY COLLEAGUES NOW HAVE NEVER BEEN A BIG FAN OF RESOLUTIONS. [01:30:01] UM, BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT IT GIVES US A STARTING POINT, UH, AND, AND GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ACTION WHEN WE SEE THINGS HAPPENING IN OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES, IN OUR CONTRACTING, IN OUR SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS, UM, IN THE WAY THAT WE, UM, UH, DIRECT OUR CITY BUDGET. UM, I KNOW THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH TALK, UH, OVER THESE LAST FEW MONTHS ABOUT REDIRECTING RESOURCES TO REALLY WHERE THAT THE AREAS ARE. AND IF WE'RE SERIOUS ABOUT IT AND WE WANNA DO THE WORK AND NOT JUST SUPPORT A RESOLUTION, BUT DO THE WORK, UH, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT. WE, ON THIS COUNCIL TODAY, WHEN WE APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION, CAN ALSO DO THE WORK NECESSARY TO START MAKING THOSE CHANGES. UH, WE KNOW THAT RACISM CAN BE VERY SUBTLE. UH, IT CAN BE SYSTEMIC IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE DON'T EVEN RECOGNIZE IT WHEN WE SEE IT, AND WE HAVE TO CALL IT, WE HAVE TO CALL IT. AND WE HAVE TO BE FIRM, UH, AND ALSO, UH, BE UNAPOLOGETIC, UH, WHEN WE SEE IT HAPPENING. UH, AND, AND WE NEED TO DO THAT TODAY, AND WE NEED TO DO IT EVERY DAY. UM, SO I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN AND HER EXPERIENCE THAT SHE BRINGS TO THIS COUNCIL, UM, TO ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES WHO WORK SO HARD TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN, UM, TO MY SEVEN, MY SIX, UH, FEMALE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO ARE, I BELIEVE, UH, LEADING THIS COUNTRY IN THE WAY THAT WE TAKE CARE OF OUR CITIZENS. UM, I'M VERY PROUD TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION TODAY. UM, BUT THE WORK IS HARDER. IT'S EASIER, UM, TO SAY THAT WE SUPPORT THIS. UH, BUT I LOOK TO GUIDANCE TO MY COLLEAGUES, UH, AND TO THE MAYOR TO MAKE THE DIFFICULT DECISIONS NECESSARY, UM, TO, UH, SUPPORT THE WORK OF THIS RESOLUTION. UH, ALSO TO ERIC, UM, WHO I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE IS THE BEST CITY MANAGER IN THE COUNTRY. UM, AND I URGE, UH, ALL OF US TO SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION AND ACT ACCORDINGLY. THANK YOU, MAYOR, AND, AND THANK YOU, UM, TO MY COLLEAGUES, UH, FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, COUNCIL MEMBER CAB HDA, FOLLOWED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ROSA GARCIA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. TODAY, I, I SUPPORT THIS ITEM KNOWING THAT COMMUNITY WAS ENGAGED, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, BECAUSE IT IS A FIRST STEP TOWARDS ERADICATING THE HUMAN INDIGNATION THAT RACISM ENABLES. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS ECONOMIC ENFRANCHISEMENT, OPENING THE DOOR TO HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, ECONOMIC MOBILITY, AND A TAX BASE THAT CONTRIBUTES TO ALL PEOPLE OF COLOR. I ENCOURAGE THE COMMUNITY TO CONTINUE TO ENGAGE AND TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH US AND STATE AND FEDERAL LEADERS TO MAKE CHANGE. I'M VERY GRATEFUL THAT A LOT OF THE ORGANIZATIONS, UM, HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH ME SOME ON A WEEKLY BASIS, AND I, I, I NEED THAT, I NEED TO HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO, TO MOVE FORWARD. SO I KNOW THAT, UM, SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THAT THIS IS A RESOLUTION, BUT IT IS JUST A START. IT REALLY IS JUST THE KICKOFF TO REALLY MAKE CHANGE. SO I, AGAIN, ENCOURAGE EVERYONE, UM, TO CONTINUE TO, TO CONTACT US AND MEET WITH US AND LET US KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON OUT IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER. COUNCIL MEMBER RO GARCIA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, AND THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES, AND I WANTED TO START OFF BY THAT TODAY. JUST THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. ANDREW SULLIVAN. I THINK YOUR WORDS ALWAYS INSPIRE ME EVERY TIME YOU SPEAK. UM, IT REALLY, UH, SPEAKS TO MY HEART AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING THE GOOD WORK, UH, ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS OF, UH, SAN ANTONIO, AND THEN ALSO TO MY COUNCIL, COLLEEN ANNA SANDOVAL. AND SO I KNOW THAT SHE HAS BEEN PUSHING FOR, UM, THINGS THAT REALLY GET THE NEEDLE MOVING, AND I APPRECIATE HER WORK ON THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EQUITY COMMITTEE AND, AND LEADING THAT CHARGE. SO THANK YOU BOTH VERY MUCH. IT'S REALLY GOOD TO, UM, BE AMONGST COLLEAGUES THAT REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT SOMETHING LIKE TODAY, UH, WHAT A RESOLUTION LIKE TODAY'S DOES FOR THE CITY. AND SO, UM, I, I SPOKE, I THINK, MOST OF MY, UM, UH, EXPERIENCE LAST WEEK. AND SO IT'S, UH, BASED ON, ON PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, BUT BASED ON SOMETHING THAT I, I DO THINK ADDS TO THE NEED FOR A RESOLUTION LIKE THIS. SO I AM JUST GOING TO, UM, SAY IT AGAIN. UH, SYSTEMIC RACISM IS KILLING OUR PEOPLE, AND WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. AND THIS RESOLUTION IS THE FIRST STEP OF MANY THAT WE WILL TAKE. BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO THE JOURNEY, AND I APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUES FOR [01:35:01] STARTING THE CONVERSATION. I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE ORGANIZATIONS AS WELL, WHO HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH ME AND MY COLLEAGUES, AND, UH, GIVING SOME INPUT AND FEEDBACK INTO WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT ADDRESSING, UM, THESE INJUSTICES. MAYOR, THOSE, THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS FOR TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER GRO. ALRIGHT, THERE WE GO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER JTA, ANDREW SULLIVAN, AND COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER. I KNOW, UH, ANDREW SULLIVAN. I KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN TOP OF MIND FOR ALL YOUR LIFE, BUT MORE THAN A YEAR NOW. AND I'M GONNA TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK YOUR MOM FOR, UM, HER INVESTING IN YOU AND HER SUPPORT. UM, YOU KNOW, DECLARATIONS AND RESOLUTIONS ARE IMPORTANT THINGS. THEY SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY OR FEARLESSLY IN A DECLARATION. WE ARE MAKING KNOWN, FORMALLY, OFFICIALLY A FIRST STEP. WE ARE RESOLUTE. WE ARE FIXED WITH PURPOSE ON THIS ISSUE OF DECLARING RACISM, A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS AND EMERGENCY WITH THIS RESOLUTION. WE REMEMBER THE HURTS AND THE SINS OF OUR PAST, BUT WE DO NOT STAY THERE. THOSE STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS THAT TRY TO KEEP US DOWN AND KEEP US OUT, OBVIOUSLY THEY'RE NOT ANYMORE, AND WE HAVE TO DO OUR PART TO SAY NO MORE. AND THE REALITY IS, UPON US IN DISTRICT FIVE AND DISTRICT THREE, THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF C OVID 19 DEATHS AND DISTRICT FOUR, WITH SOME OF THE HIGHEST NUMBER CASES OF C OVID 19, WITH THE NEED OF HAVING TO HAVE A HEALTHY CORNER STORE IN THE DISTRICTS AND DIGITAL AFFORDABILITY THAT'S NOT EQUITABLY SHARED THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY. THIS IS WHY WE NEED THIS DECLARATION, IF NOT US, A MAJORITY OF FEMALE COUNCIL WOMEN OF COLOR, THEN, WHO I DO WANT TO JUST POINT OUT, ONE THING THAT I READ LAST NIGHT, AND I THINK IT WAS PRETTY POIGNANT, UM, IT WAS FROM THE WRITER AT ELAINE AALA. SHE WROTE SOMETHING THAT SAID, MEXICAN AMERICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS. BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT OUR STORY AND THAT WE HAVE, YOU LOOK AT OUR STORY AND THE STORY THAT IS ALSO OUTLINED IN THIS RESOLUTION, YOU SEE OUR HISTORY AND YOU SEE THAT WE ARE TOGETHER, THIS STORY, WE ARE TOGETHER, AND WE ARE TOGETHER OF UPROOTING AND MAKING THOSE CHANGES THAT WE NEED. BUT AS WAS MENTIONED MANY, MANY TIMES BEFORE, THIS IS NOT JUST WORDS. WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION. WE SET OUT A NEW DIRECTION, WE COURSE CORRECT, AND WE TEST, WE TAKE STEPS TO MAKE CHANGES TO BREAK THESE CHAINS, AND WE MAKE THESE CHANGES EVEN TODAY ON THIS AGENDA. BUT THANK YOU, MAYOR, AND THANK YOU AGAIN TO EVERYONE WHO PUT THEIR HANDS AND VOICE IN IT. THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO ALLOWED ME TO PUT, UM, SOME VOICE TO THIS AS WELL. AND WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO, BUT THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER VERAN, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAYOR, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. I KNOW WE'RE, UM, IT'S SORT OF A, A LUXURY TO TO EXTEND THE DISCUSSION THIS WAY. AND I, I THINK THIS IS WELL WORTH IT. I HAVE A FEW REMARKS I WANNA SHARE. FIRST, I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL THE COMMUN COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO, UH, TOOK THE TIME TO CALL IN TODAY OR SENT A LETTER IN ADVANCE OR WORKED WITH US ON THIS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THIS ACTION TODAY IS LONG OVERDUE. UM, WE ARE CELEBRATING THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WOMEN'S, UH, SUFFRAGE OF, UH, SUCCESS. AND AS A CALLER SAID EARLIER TODAY, THAT DIDN'T GIVE EVERYONE, EVERY WOMAN THE RIGHT TO VOTE. AND SHE'S RIGHT. IT TOOK 99 YEARS OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BEFORE SAN ANTONIO HAD ELECTED A MAJORITY FEMALE COUNSEL. SO IT TAKES A LOT OF WORK AFTER LAWS HAVE BEEN CHANGED FOR THINGS TO HAPPEN. 102 YEARS AGO, THERE WAS ANOTHER PANDEMIC. IT WAS, UH, THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC. AND AT THAT [01:40:01] TIME, PEOPLE OF COLOR ALSO SUFFERED DISPROPORTIONATELY. HERE WE ARE 102 YEARS LATER, SEEING THE SAME THING HAPPEN AGAIN. THERE WERE WORDS ABOUT THE WORDS OF THIS RESOLUTION. UM, THERE ARE A MILLION WAYS TO SAY THIS, TO OPEN UP. UH, THE, THE COMMENTARY, UH, THE WORDS IN THIS RESOLUTION IN OUR, IN OUR 19 WHEREAS IS OUR PREDICATE SAYS, UH, TEACHER COURAGE SAID ARE, ARE UNPLEASANT. AND SOME PEOPLE MAY THINK THEIR DEVICES, UH, SOME PEOPLE MAY THINK IT'S ON PURPOSE, UM, BUT IT'S NOT. THERE IS NO FINGER POINTING IN THIS RESOLUTION. IT IS A STATEMENT OF FACTS. AND IT IS NOT PLEASANT TO HEAR. IT IS NOT PLEASANT TO READ. BECAUSE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THOSE THINGS THAT HAPPENED THAT INITIATED THIS LEGACY OF RACISM, THEY WERE HORRID ANCESTORS LIVED THROUGH IT. AND PEOPLE WHO ARE ALIVE TODAY, LIKE JADA'S MOTHER, LIVED THROUGH IT. I DID NOT KNOW ALL OF THESE THINGS. I HAD WHAT I THOUGHT WAS A GREAT EDUCATION IN SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC SCHOOL. UM, I DID NOT KNOW ALL OF THESE THINGS. HISTORY WAS LITERALLY ERASED. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT A STATUE THAT CAME DOWN. I'M TALKING ABOUT WORDS THAT WERE NEVER ALLOWED TO GO AND PRINT IN A PAPER. AND THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO RECOGNIZE THEM. NOW. IT'S REALLY TEMPTING TO WANT TO TOUT THE PROGRESS WE'VE MADE AND TO DOWNPLAY THE HARM OF THE PAST. THESE CONVERSATIONS ARE TOUGH , BUT THE WORDS SPEAK THE TRUTH, AND IT EXPLAINS HOW LARGE IS THE MOUNTAIN THAT WE HAVE TO SCALE IF WE ARE REALLY GOING TO OVERCOME THE HARMS OF THE PAST. AND IF THE PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCED IT CANNOT SPEAK THEIR PAIN, THEN HOW CAN THEY TRUST US TO WORK TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE? SO THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING ALL THOSE WHERE AS COUNCIL WOMEN, WE CAN'T REST OUR ON OUR LAURELS AT A TIME WHEN BLACK AMERICANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO GET INFECTED WITH C OVID 19 AND MORE THAN TWICE AS LIKELY TO DIE FROM IT, AS HAS BEEN SAID, RESOLUTIONS ALONE DO NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS. THEY BEGAN THE CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS. THEY OFFICIALLY PUT THIS ITEM ON OUR AGENDA AS A COUNCIL. AND THE TRUTH IS, OUR CITY ORGANIZATION HAS ALREADY INHERENTLY ADOPTED THIS RESOLUTION BECAUSE THEY'VE ESTABLISHED AN OFFICE OF EQUITY THAT FOCUSES ON RACIAL EQUITY. THEY'VE ESTABLISHED AN OFFICE OF HEALTH EQUITY. IT'S MY INTENT TO MAKE SURE THIS RESOLUTION IS FOLLOWED UP WITH ACTION AND WITH AN EXPANSION OF OUR PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM. I THINK WE NEED TO BEGIN BY LOOKING VERY CLOSELY AT OUR C OVID 19 PATIENT DATA AND DISAGGREGATING THAT, UH, BY RACE AND BY ETHNICITY, NOT JUST IN OUR FINAL REPORT, BUT IN THE WORK THAT WE DO ALONG THE WAY IN THE PEOPLE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO HELP. I WANNA THANK MY BROTHER'S KEEPER, THE Y W C A I D R A, THE NEW AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS INSTITUTE, AND THE SAN ANTONIO COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS ASSOCIATION FOR THEIR LETTERS OF SUPPORT. I ALSO WANT TO THANK VAN GIBBS AND DAVID MCCAREY FOR THEIR HARD WORK AND COLLABORATION. AND I WANNA CONGRATULATE COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN AND THANK HER FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, YEAH, THIS IS, UH, THIS IS A BIG STEP. I AGREE. BUT LET ME, LET ME BACK UP A LITTLE BIT HERE. UM, FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO THANK JOE, JOSIE, DEBRA, AND PHARAOH WITH THE RELIABLE REVOLUTIONARIES FOR TAKING THE TIME ON MONDAY TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT, UM, THEIR EXPERIENCES AND INSIGHTS ON RACISM AND RELATED ISSUES. TO ME, THESE ARE THE RIGHT TYPES OF CONVERSATIONS THAT WE CAN TRULY BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER, LEARN FROM EACH OTHER, AND GROW. I'M ALSO GRATEFUL TO HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH MANY OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS BY D 10 TEAM AND MANY OTHERS ABOUT THESE VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES. THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT WE LIVE IN A COMMUNITY FILLED WITH A DIVERSE [01:45:01] GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH UNIQUE EXPERIENCES AND IDEAS ABOUT HOW WE CAN CONTINUE TO IMPROVE ON OUR CALL WITH Y'ALL. I, I MENTIONED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD GROWING UP IN, IN GIDDINGS, TEXAS, AND I'M OLD ENOUGH ON THIS COUNCIL. THERE'S ONE OTHER PERSON THAT'S OLDER THAN ME THAT MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED THESE THINGS AS WELL. BUT, UM, I WAS BORN IN 1955 AND I GREW UP, UH, SEEING RACISM. I GREW UP AND I WENT TO RESTAURANTS AND PLACES THAT HAD FOR WHITES ONLY AND COLORS ONLY. SO I EXPERIENCED THAT. AND AS A LITTLE KID, I, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT. I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT HAPPENED. UH, I HAD LOTS OF FRIENDS OF COLOR AND I PLAYED WITH THEM EVERY DAY. IN FACT, THERE WAS AN OLD SAYING AT ONE TIME, I LIVED ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS. AND I, I ENJOYED MY TIME WITH THESE OTHER KIDS AND GREW UP WITH THEM. THE, UH, WHEN SCHOOL, WHEN I SAW THE SCHOOLS GROWING UP, THEY WERE SEGREGATED. IT WASN'T UNTIL I THINK, I DON'T KNOW, END OF END OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT, UH, THEY WERE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, BROUGHT TOGETHER. THEY WERE UNIFIED. AND I, I'VE SEEN ALL OF THAT, AND I'VE SEEN THE ILLS AND THE PROBLEMS THAT THAT HAS BROUGHT, BROUGHT ABOUT. UM, I THINK DIVIDING PEOPLE UP AND KEEPING 'EM SEPARATED AND DEVALUING GROUPS BASED ON THE SKIN COLOR IS WRONG. I WAS RAISED AS A CHRISTIAN TO BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATED US IN HIS OWN IMAGE, AND THAT WE'RE ALL EQUAL, AND WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER. HAVE A LOT OF FAITH IN SAN ANTONIO, RESTORING TRUST AMONG EVERYONE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND WORKING TO GAIN A BETTER APPRECIATION FOR EACH OTHER. JOE AND JOSIE, I WANT Y'ALL TO KNOW I WANT THE SAME FUTURE FOR MY GRANDKIDS AS MUCH AS YOU DO WITH YOUR CHILDREN. I WANT THEM TO GROW UP IN A WORLD WITHOUT BARRIERS TO A HAPPY, HEALTHY, AND MEANINGFUL LIFE. I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUED DIALOGUE WITH THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVE OUR BLACK COMMUNITY AS WELL AS OTHERS THAT I'VE HAD THE HONOR OF WORKING WITH SINCE I'VE BEEN ELECTED TO OFFICE. LIKE OUR ANGEL IN DISTRICT 10, MARION THOMAS WITH BLESSED ANGELS COMMUNITY CENTER, DR. LAUREN SCOTT, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE COMMUNITY FOR LIFE FOUNDATION, DOUGLAS RAY, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ALPHA EDUCATIONAL FUND TO SAN ANTONIO, AND THE UNITED COMMUNITIES OF SAN ANTONIO, RUN BY HERBERT NANCE, WHO WE'VE HEARD FROM TODAY. I HAVEN'T MET HIM IN PERSON, BUT I'VE READ HIS LETTERS AND ATTENDED AN EVENT THAT HE ACTUALLY INVITED ME TO AND AGREE WITH THEIR MISSION. DR. EVERETT FLY. HE IS, UM, BEEN WORKING ON HYSTERICAL HISTORICAL BLACK COMMUNITIES AND ACTUALLY HELPING HIM WITH THE RENOVATION AND, UH, REHABILITATION OF THE HOCKLEY CEMETERY, A BLACK CEMETERY RIGHT UP HERE IN DISTRICT 10. SO I THINK THROUGH THAT CONTINUED DIALOGUE AND MUTUAL RESPECTFUL CONVERSATIONS, I'M CONFIDENT AND MORE POSITIVE OUTCOME IS POSSIBLE FOR OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY. I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT RACISM HAS NO PLACE IN OUR SOCIETY. I, I'VE SEEN THAT THE DA DATA AND STUDIES SHOW THAT RACISM HAS LED TO NEGATIVE HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR OUR BLACK AND HISPANIC NEIGHBORS. I KNOW THAT PAST MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE, AND I AGREE THAT WE SHOULD ALWAYS STRIVE TO ENACT POLICIES THAT DO NOT REPEAT THE ERRORS OF THE PAST AND ALWAYS PROMOTE RE RACIAL EQUITY IN SAN ANTONIO REGARDING THIS RESOLUTION, UH, BEFORE US TODAY, THERE, THERE'S SOME WAREHOUSE STATEMENTS THAT I FEEL ARE OUR DIVISIVE, AND IN MY OPINION, DO NOT NECESSARILY ADD STRENGTH TO THE RELEVANCE OF THE ARGUMENT THAT RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. I KNOW AND RESPECT THE WORK THAT MANY PEOPLE PUT TOWARDS THIS DOCUMENT. AND IN NO WAY DO I WANT TO DISRESPECT OR FAIL TO ACKNOWLEDGE ANYONE'S PAIN OR EXPERIENCE WHO'VE HAD A HAND IN CRAFTING, CRAFTING THIS RESOLUTION. I JUST BELIEVE THAT THIS RESOLUTION HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE A UNIFYING DOCUMENT. AND WHILE I AGREE WITH ITS PREMISE, I'VE ASKED SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES TO CONSIDER REVISING THE DOCUMENT AND JOE JOSIE PHARAOH, UH, I DID THAT. BUT, UM, THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE TURNED DOWN. I BELIEVE THAT, I BELIEVE SOME OF THOSE WORDS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY LEAD TO UNNECESSARY DIVISIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY. REGARDLESS OF MY VOTE, I'M CONFIRMING TO YOU IN THE COMMUNITY THAT I AM OPEN TO CONTINUALLY LEARN AND GROW IN THESE IMPORTANT ISSUES. [01:50:01] I, I TAKE MY OATH OF OFFICE TO SERVE THIS ENTIRE COMMUNITY VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY. ALSO, THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER HOW FAR WE'VE COME IN THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY. AGAIN, I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER, UM, PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN THE MID SIXTIES, PUSHING THROUGH HIS AGENDA FOR THE GREAT SOCIETY, AND LISTEN TO WHAT THIS HIS VISION WAS AND WHAT HE STARTED TO PUT TOGETHER. THE GREAT SOCIETY. THE GREAT SOCIETY, WAS TO END POVERTY, REDUCE CRIME, AND LISTEN TO THIS ABOLISH INEQUALITY AND TO IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT. THESE POLICIES HAVE BEEN GETTING BETTER SINCE THEN. BUT THINK ABOUT THAT. THAT'S THE MID SIXTIES, 60 SOMETHING YEARS AGO, ALMOST 70 YEARS. SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT. CAN WE STILL IMPROVE ON THOSE? ABSOLUTELY. AND I'LL, I'LL DO MY PART FOR THAT. TO ME, THE BIGGER CHALLENGE TO ALL OF THIS IS HOW CAN WE CHANGE PEOPLE'S HEARTS? THAT'S WHERE THE, THAT'S WHERE THE ROOTS OF RACISM ACTUALLY BEGIN. HOW CAN WE WORK TO CHANGE THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THOSE WHO ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN TO ME? I, I, I LOOK AT A COUPLE OF, UH, BIBLE PASSAGES. AS I SAID, I'M CHRISTIAN. I LOOK AT MATTHEW SEVEN, VERSE 12. DO UNTO OTHERS, AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU. I LOOK AT ANOTHER, ANOTHER BIBLE PASSAGE. THIS IS ALSO IN MATTHEW, UH, THIS IS MATTHEW 22, VERSE 37 THROUGH 39. AND LISTEN TO THIS, JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND. THIS IS THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT. AND THE SECOND IS LIFE UNTO IT. THOU SHALL LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF. SO I'VE TRIED TO LIVE THAT MY ENTIRE LIFE, AND I KNOW THAT I HAVE DONE THAT. AND IN MY HEART, I KNOW THAT I HAVE DONE THAT. TO ME, THERE'S NO ROOM FOR HATE. AND JUST BECAUSE YOU MIGHT HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS ON ANY GIVEN POLICY, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THERE SHOULD BE HATRED BETWEEN THOSE INVOLVED. AND I, I HOPE THAT, AND PRAY THAT THAT IS THE CASE HERE. I'LL STAY COMMITTED TO LEARNING AND COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER AND GROWING AS INDIVIDUALS, AS WELL AS GROWING TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. ALRIGHT, I'LL, I'LL JUST, UH, WRAP UP WITH SOME FINAL COMMENTS HERE. UM, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA SAY THANK YOU, UH, TO COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL FOR THE WONDERFUL WORK ON THIS ORG AND ON THIS, UM, RESOLUTION AND IN COORDINATING WITH THE COMMUNITY, UH, I THINK A VOICE THAT'S, UH, UNIFYING AND, UM, UH, ACKNOWLEDGING OF A LOT OF STORIES, UH, THAT WE'VE HEARD IN OUR HISTORY. I WANNA THANK YOU ZAN AND YOUR TEAM OVER THE OFFICE OF EQUITY. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T, UH, DON'T REMEMBER. SAN ANTONIO IS ONE OF ONLY TWO CITIES IN THE STATE OF TEXAS TO ESTABLISH AN OFFICE OF EQUITY A FEW YEARS AGO. AND THAT SHOULD MAKE US VERY PROUD, BUT ALSO, UH, RECOGNIZE THAT WORK ON RESOLUTIONS, UM, LIKE THIS, UH, IS SIMPLY, UM, A STATEMENT OF VALUES IN WHICH WE INTEND TO BUILD ACTION UPON. AND THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO JUST REFLECT ON FOR A MOMENT. I, WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE THINGS TO HAPPEN IN MY VIEW, UH, FOR THIS CITY COUNCIL IN THE LAST 10 YEARS, IS THAT MEETING THAT WE HAD IN THE B ROOM, UH, WHEN CHRISTINE RENAN CAME AND TALKED ABOUT THE HISTORY OF HOW SAN ANTONIO WAS BUILT, IDENTIFYING, UH, REDLINING POLICIES OF THE PAST, UH, AND HOW THAT HAS AFFECTED THE ADVERSE OUTCOMES OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR AND LOWER INCOME COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE BOARD HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. IT WAS AT THAT POINT WE DEDICATED OURSELVES TO CHANGING IT. YOU KNOW, YOU HEAR THE WORD EQUITY USED, UH, ALL OVER THE PLACE NOWADAYS. UM, BUT X WILL BE QUICK TO REMIND US WHAT THE DEFINITION OF THAT IS. UH, AND, AND THAT IS EQUITY IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE IT IS ACKNOWLEDGING THE DISPARITIES IN OUR HISTORY AND WHAT'S LED TO THE ADVERSE AND UNEQUAL OUTCOMES THAT WE LIVE WITH TODAY. AND WHAT I'M PROUD OF JADA, UH, AND ANNA AND, AND, UH, MY COLLEAGUES, IS THAT WE'VE CHOSEN, AGAIN TODAY NOT TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY AND ACCEPT, UM, THE CONDITION THAT WE LIVE IN AS THE WAY IT OUGHT TO BE AND, AND THE WAY WE'RE WE'RE GONNA BE RELEGATED TO, [01:55:01] UM, OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, I RECALL THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE, UH, WITH THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, WITH ESTABLISHING ONE OF THE FIRST BIG CITY POLICIES IN THE NATION TO USE EQUITY AS A MEANS FOR BUDGETING OUR RESOURCES FOR THE HOUSING EQUITY WORK THAT WE'VE DONE, UH, TO THE PASSAGE OF ALAMO PROMISE, UH, TO THE CLIMATE ACTION ADAPTATION PLAN THAT WAS BUILT ON SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY, UH, TO EVEN THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IN NOVEMBER FOR, UM, EDUCATIONAL ACCESS AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. THESE ARE ALL ACTIONS THAT I THINK SPRING FROM THE VALUE THAT'S BEING DECLARED TODAY, UH, IN, UH, IDENTIFYING RACISM AND OTHER ROOT CAUSES OF THE ADVERSE OUTCOMES THAT COMMUNITIES HAVE EXPERIENCED. UM, I ALWAYS, UH, MY, ONE OF MY FAVORITE, UM, QUOTES FROM A RABBI AND ALSO FROM, UM, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING IS THE ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE IS, BEN IS LONG, BUT IT'S BEEN TOWARD JUSTICE. AND EVERY NOW AND THEN, WE GET A CHANCE TO, TO USE OUR STRENGTH TO BEND IT A LITTLE BIT. AND TODAY WE'RE DOING THAT, AND I'M PROUD OF Y'ALL. UM, AND THANK YOU TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO HAVE STEPPED UP. UM, IT'S SOMETIMES, UH, DIFFICULT TO HEAR ALL THE THINGS THAT NEED TO CHANGE, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE IN THE, IN THE MIDDLE OF TRYING TO CHANGE THEM. UM, BUT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THOSE VOICES SO THAT WE KNOW NOT TO LET THIS REST ON SIMPLY A DECLARATION OF VALUES, BUT WE INTEND TO BUILD ACTION ON. SO GREAT WORK. UM, I'M GONNA ASK, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, UH, TO REPEAT A MOTION AND, UH, WE'LL GET TO THE VOTE. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND. OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE APPROVAL OF, UM, THE RESOLUTION ITEM FOUR. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? I ABSTAIN. OKAY. UM, ONE EXTENSION AND, UH, THE REST ARE EYES. UH, MOTION CARRIES. [5. 20-4401 Ordinance authorizing the adoption of the new Large Commercial Power - Green Tariff to expand CPS Energy’s renewable energy product offerings. [Paula Gold-Williams, CPS Energy President and CEO; Ben Gorzell, Chief Financial Officer, City of San Antonio]] MOVING NOW TO ITEM FIVE. ITEM FIVE IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE ADOPTION OF THE NEW LARGE COMMERCIAL POWER GREEN TARIFF TO EXPAND C P S ENERGY, RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCT OFFERING. OKAY. UM, I THINK WE HAVE, UH, PAULA GOLD WILLIAMS WITH US TO MAKE THEIR PRESENTATION. YES, SIR. OKAY. PAULA, WELCOME. AND THE FLOOR IS YOURS. UM, THANK YOU. UM, TYPICALLY, UH, WELL, EVERY DAY MY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO, UH, AND HONOR IS TO RUN C P SS ENERGY. AND, UM, I'M A NATIVE OF SAN ANTONIO. AND, UH, FROM TIME TO TIME, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO LISTEN TO THE COUNCIL AND SEE THE MANY SIGNIFICANT TOPICS AND ISSUES THAT YOU ALMOST DEAL WITH AS LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND, UM, AS A CICI AT A, AS A CITIZEN OF SAN ANTONIO, UH, AS A PERSON WHO GREW UP IN THIS COMMUNITY, UM, AND EXPERIENCED, UH, MANY OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT TODAY AS A PERSON OF COLOR. YOU KNOW, EVEN WHEN YOU'RE A C E O, YOU ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THE THINGS YOU, YOU EXPERIENCED AND SEEN, AND, UM, AND YOU WANT BETTER. UH, YOU WANT, YOU WANT ALL OF YOUR, YOUR EMPLOYEES AND YOUR COMMUNITY TO BE TREATED WITH DIGNITY AND HONESTY AND FAIRNESS. SO I KNOW THAT THIS TOPIC IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND REAL FOR THIS COMMUNITY, AND, AND IN MANY WAYS CONTROVERSIAL. UM, THANK YOU. UM, THANKS TO ALL OF YOU AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. THE CONVERSATION WAS VERY INTERESTING ON ALL POINTS, AND I JUST COULD NOT, COULD NOT RESIST THE OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK. UM, TODAY, I, I WILL, I WILL MAKE MY, UM, MY PURPOSE, UH, CLEAR IN, IN TERMS OF WHY I'M ON THE AGENDA TODAY. UM, I ALSO WANNA THANK, UH, YOU MAYOR AND ALL OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR, UH, GIVING US TIME TODAY. WE ARE WORKING AS HARD AS WE CAN TO KEEP THINKING ABOUT HOW TO KEEP SAN ANTONIO AT THE FOREFRONT OF PROGRESS IN TERMS OF BLENDING OUR TRIED AND TRUE PROCESSES, ACTIVITIES, ABILITIES, [02:00:01] UH, TO GENERATE POWER AND DELIVER IT RELIABLY TO THIS COMMUNITY AND AFFORDABLY TO THIS COMMUNITY. AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT ALONG THE WAY THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP LOOKING FOR NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. SO I THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO US TODAY. WE'RE COMING FORWARD WITH A RECOMMENDATION. WE WANT TO ADD A NEW TARIFF OF AVAILABILITY. UM, IT'S A PRICING MECHANISM, AN ABILITY FOR US TO OFFER A NEW SERVICE, UH, ON, IN THESE RENEWABLE SOLAR SPACE. UH, I WANTED TO BE CLEAR THAT WE ALREADY HAVE, UH, MULTIPLE, UH, RENEWABLE PRODUCTS. UH, WE'VE HAD ELECTRICITY FOR YEARS. C P S ENERGY HAS BEEN IN THE WIND BUSINESS FOR APPROXIMATELY 20 YEARS. AND, UH, WE HAVE SOLAR FARMS ALL ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS. WE, IN TURN, DEVELOPED A PRODUCT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO CARVE OUT FOR OUR CITIZENS WHO WANT TO BE ABLE TO DESIGNATE THEIR ENERGY SOURCES AS COMING FROM WIND. SO WE HAVE ELECTRICITY PRODUCT. UH, WE'VE ALSO HAD REBATES FOR, FOR A VERY LONG TIME. SOLAR REBATES AND THE ABILITY FOR INDIVIDUALS, SMALL BUSINESSES AND LARGER BUSINESSES TO GET REBATES TO SUPPORT, UH, THEM PUTTING SOLAR INSTALLATIONS ON THEIR PROPERTY, ON THEIR ROOFTOPS. WE HAVE A SOLAR HOST PROGRAM, UH, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE THAT, UH, SOMEONE WHO DOES NOT OWN THEIR HOME CAN STILL GET A SOLAR INSTALLATION ON THEIR HOME. OR IF THEY DO OWN IT ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, THEY CAN HAVE THE INSTALLATION PUT ON THERE WITH NO COST TO THEM. WE THOUGHT THIS WAS ONE OF THE, THE BEST THINGS WE COULD DO. THE, THERE'S NO, UM, NO STAR, NO CHARGE. AND SO THERE'S NO NEED FOR A REBATE, BUT THEY DO GET A MONTHLY CREDIT. AND SO SOME OF THE BEST TESTIMONY WE'VE EVER RECEIVED HAS BEEN FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE GLAD TO BE ABLE TO GET INTO SOLAR AND SUPPORT, UH, THAT NEW TECHNOLOGY AND EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY, AND THEN BEING ABLE TO GET A, A CREDIT ON THEIR BILL. UM, AND THEN WE HAVE COMMUNITY SOLAR, WHICH ARE INSTALLATIONS THAT WE HAVE AROUND OUR SERVICE TERRITORY. AND THOSE INSTALLATIONS ALLOW INDIVIDUALS TO BUY A PANEL OR A GROUP OF PANELS. THEY ACTUALLY OWN THOSE PANELS. AND THEN THE VALUE OF THE ENERGY PROVIDED FROM THOSE PANELS IS USED TO REDUCE THEIR BILL. AND SO WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DEVELOP PRODUCTS, UM, OVER, OVER THE YEARS, UH, THAT MEET CUSTOMERS DEMANDS AND, AND REALLY ALLOW EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE. WE HAVEN'T HAD, UH, A PRODUCT THAT WAS, UM, SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR LARGER COMPANIES TO MAKE A MEANINGFUL INVESTMENT INSIDE OF SOLAR, AND TO DO IT SO THAT IT'S IT'S REVENUE NEUTRAL. IT DOESN'T AFFECT ANY OTHER CUSTOMERS. WHAT WE'VE DONE IS MADE SURE THAT IT WAS DESIGNED TO CAPTURE THE FIXED COSTS, BUT IT ALLOWS THEM TO PUT A SOLAR PACKAGE OF ENERGY ON TOP. IT'S A PRETTY SOPHISTICATED, UH, UH, STRUCTURE BECAUSE THE ENERGY HAS TO BE PROVIDED WHEN ENERGY DOESN'T SHOW UP, WHEN THE SUN DOESN'T SHINE, OR WHEN, UM, IT'S AT NIGHT AND THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH, UH, STORAGE, THEN THAT THAT CUSTOMER HAS TO WORK, UH, ON THE BACKUP OF THAT POWER. AND IN, IN MANY CASES, WE CAN HELP THEM. BUT, BUT USUALLY BY THE, THE BIG SIZE AND COMPLEXITY OF SOME OF THESE BUSINESSES, THEY'RE ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER A PACKAGE THAT WE CAN SUPPORT ON OUR, ON OUR DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. SO WE DESIGNED THIS CALLED THE GREEN TARIFF, AND IT DID TAKE US SOME TIME. WE TOOK A LOT OF INPUT AND, UM, TRIED AGAIN TO GET THE, THE CORRECT DESIGN TO MAKE SURE THAT NO OTHER CUSTOMERS HAD TO, TO SUPPORT OR TAKE ON THE COST TO IMPLEMENT THIS PRODUCT. BUT WE, WE BELIEVE WE HAVE DONE THAT VERY APPROPRIATELY. UM, AND, UM, WE HAVE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH OUR BOARD EXPLAINING, UH, THE COMPLEXITIES, BUT THE BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS NEW TARIFF. AND, UM, WE RECEIVED THEIR, THEIR APPROVAL RECENTLY. AND WE ARE HERE TODAY TO MAKE A PRESENTATION TO YOU AND TO HUMBLY, UH, AT THE CONCLUSION, UH, REQUEST YOUR APPROVAL. UM, JUST A COUPLE OF ADDITIONAL THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND. THE, THE SOLAR IN ITSELF, ALL, ALL ENERGY HAS, UH, POSITIVE AND, UH, AND, UH, ASPECTS OF IT, AND THEY HAVE CHALLENGES. UM, SOLAR, AGAIN, WHEN THE SUN DOESN'T SHINE AND THE WIND, AND WHEN THE WIND DOESN'T BLOW OR AT NIGHT AND YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BACKUP, YOU'RE NOT GETTING SOLAR STORAGE, BUT IT IS CLEAN AND IT IS INCREASINGLY MORE ECONOMICAL. AND, UM, IN ITS ABUNDANCE, IT REALLY DOES COMPLIMENT THE TRANSITION TO, UH, READING OUR NET, MEETING, OUR NET, UM, ZERO EMISSIONS GOALS. SO WE ARE EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE OF IT. THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING THE FLEX POWER BUNDLE. WE ULTIMATELY WANNA DO UP TO 900 MEGAWATTS OF MEANINGFUL SOLAR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SAN ANTONIO. AND THEN WE WANNA COMPLIMENT IT WITH HAVING THE GREEN TARIFF [02:05:01] AVAILABLE FOR CUSTOMERS THAT WANNA MAKE A PRETTY GOOD INVESTMENT IN THIS, IT WILL HELP. WE, WE HAVE MULTIPLE PILLARS THAT, YOU KNOW, SAFETY, SECURITY, UH, RESILIENCE, RELIABILITY, ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND VERY MUCH CUSTOMER AFFORDABILITY. THIS PRODUCT, SOLAR PRODUCTS, UH, VERY MUCH HELP WITH RESILIENCE. THEY VERY MUCH HELP WITH THE ENVIRONMENT, AND THEY MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING EVERYTHING, UH, FOCUSED ON FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. SO HAVING A SOLID FOUNDATION FOR THE UTILITY AND FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. SO, UM, THAT IS GOING TO BE OUR FOCUS TODAY. WE HAVE, I THINK, LESS THAN 10 SLIDES. UM, WE WANNA TELL YOU THAT THIS IS A PART OF OUR, OUR APPROACH TO MOVE THROUGH OUR FLEXIBLE PATH TO PUT MORE SOLUTIONS THAT ARE MEANINGFUL HERE FOR THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. AND THAT, IN TURN SHOWS THAT SAN ANTONIO, THE CITY COMPREHENSIVELY, CONTINUES TO BE PROGRESSIVE AND A LEADER. UH, WE WERE RECOGNIZED AND, AND MUCH TO YOUR SUPPORT. AND THANK YOU AGAIN TO ALL OF YOU. UM, WE WERE RECOGNIZED AS A SHINING CITY. WE MOVED UP IN THE RANKING FROM SEVEN TO FIVE AND THINGS LIKE THIS. THE GREEN TARIFF. HELP US GET THERE. I HAVE TWO, UH, TWO, UH, EXPERTS WITH ME TODAY. EXECUTIVES WHO'VE WORKED ON THE CREATION OF THIS TARIFF AND KNOW THE INTRICACIES OF IT. UH, AND, UH, ONE OF THEM IS COREY KACZINSKI. HE IS OUR INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT OVER STRATEGIC PRICING AND ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT AND SOLUTIONS. AND THEN WE HAVE CHAD, CHAD HOOP AND GARNER, UM, CHARLES, BUT WE CALL HIM CHAD. UH, HE'S BEEN WITH US FOR FIVE YEARS. HE'S AN EXPERT IN, IN PRICING AND IS OVER OUR STRATEGIC PRICING AREA. SO, SIR, IF YOU, UH, SIR, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I'D LIKE TO TRANS, UH, TRANSITION TO COREY KOSKI. GREAT. THANK YOU, PAULA. UH, APPRECIATE THE INTRODUCTION. AND, UH, HELLO, MAYOR. UH, HELLO, COUNCIL MEMBERS. GOOD TO BE HERE WITH YOU TODAY. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, A REALLY GOOD INTRODUCTION AND APPRECIATE, UM, PAULA GIVING THE ADDITIONAL CONTEXT, UH, AROUND OUR GREEN TARIFF, AND WE'RE EXCITED TO TALK MORE ABOUT IT. UM, PAULA DID, DID, DID A REALLY GOOD JOB, KIND OF TEEING US UP. AND, AND I THINK I'LL REITERATE A FEW OF THE, THE POINTS THAT SHE MADE. UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE POINT ABOUT THE GREEN TARIFF, UM, NOT STANDING ALONE AS A ONE-OFF RENEWABLE OFFERING, UM, IS A REALLY IMPORTANT POINT. UM, THE WAY WE VIEW THE GREEN TARIFF IS THAT IT'S REALLY ANOTHER TOOL IN THIS TOOLBOX THAT ENHANCES ALL THE RENEWABLE OFFERINGS, UH, THAT PAULA JUST MENTIONED. UM, AND AS SHE ALLUDED TO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK BACK OVER DECADES, YOU KNOW, WE'VE LAUNCHED ALL THE VARIOUS PRODUCTS MENTIONED TO MEET A WIDE RANGE OF EVOLVING CUSTOMER NEEDS OVER THE YEARS. AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE BEEN INCLUSIVE OF ALL CUSTOMERS, OUR RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS, SMALL BUSINESS CUSTOMERS, AND LARGE BUSINESS CUSTOMERS. AND THE APPLICABILITY OF THESE PRODUCTS RANGE FROM, UH, ALL THE DIFFERENT GROUPS TO, UH, A SUBGROUP. SO THE GREEN TERRACE IS REALLY JUST ANOTHER PRODUCT TO HELP MEET THESE EVOLVING NEEDS. UH, AND IN THIS CASE, AS PAUL ALLUDED TO, IT'S FOR OUR LARGE CUSTOMERS. UM, A FEW OTHER POINTS TO, TO, TO PUNCTUATE HERE ON THE GREEN TARIFF. UM, IT IS A, A VOLUNTARY, OPTIONAL PRODUCT. UM, AND IT'S STILL THAT THESE VERY LARGE CUSTOMERS, THEY TOO CAN HAVE AN OPTION TO PURSUE THEIR OWN RENEWABLE ENERGY GOALS, WHICH IS BECOMING MORE COMMONPLACE, YOU KNOW, WITH LARGER ORGANIZATIONS AS WE'RE AWARE. AND THEY CAN DO THIS IN A NEW WAY, AS WE ALLUDED TO, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF C P S ENERGY, FACILITATING THAT ACCESS TO THESE LARGE RENEWABLE PRODUCTS THROUGH THIS TARIFF, EXCUSE ME. UM, AND SO, AS PAULA ALLUDED TO ON OUR GUIDING PILLARS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT IN THE GUIDE, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. AND IMPORTANTLY, AS SHE, SHE EMPHASIZED, THE GREEN TERRACE IS BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR US, UM, IS THAT IT IS DESIGNED AND IT'S PRICED ACCORDINGLY. AND WE'RE GONNA STRESS THAT POINT A FEW MORE TIMES FOR THIS PRESENTATION. I'LL THINK, GO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE ALREADY MENTIONED HOW THE GREEN TARIFF, UM, COMPLIMENTS THE E EXISTING SOLAR OFFERINGS THAT WE HAVE. UM, AND I'LL ALSO POINT OUT, YOU KNOW, THE GREEN TARIFF, UH, ALLOWS THESE CORPORATE, UH, ENTITIES TO, TO ACHIEVE THE RENEWABLE GOALS, WHICH MIGHT USE A GREAT ATTRACTION FOR BUSINESSES TO SAN ANTONIO. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, THIS ALSO HELPS STRENGTHEN, UH, THE BUSINESS MODEL BY PROVIDING, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONAL PRODUCT OPTIONALITY FOR OUR COMMUNITY. AND, YOU KNOW, QUITE FRANKLY, THIS IS AN OPTION THAT'S WIDELY AVAILABLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND WE BELIEVE THAT WE'VE DESIGNED IT IN A WAY THAT WORKS FOR OUR COMMUNITY HERE IN SAN ANTONIO. UM, AND WE'LL, WE'LL PUNCTUATE THAT POINT, UM, IN A FEW OTHER SLIDES LATER. UH, WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE GREEN TARIFF ALIGNS VERY WELL WITH THE CLIMATE ACTION AND APPLICATION PLAN. UM, AND IT DOES SO IN A WAY THAT RECOVERS COSTS APPROPRIATELY FROM THOSE CUSTOMERS WHO ARE [02:10:01] ON THE PRODUCT. AND IMPORTANTLY, UH, IT DOES NOT BURDEN ANY CUSTOMER THAT IS NOT ON THIS PRODUCT. AND THAT WAS A VERY IMPORTANT FEATURE FOR US, UH, AND WE DIDN'T COMPROMISE ON THAT IN THE DESIGN OF THE PRICING. UM, SO WITH THAT AS KIND OF A BACKDROP, UM, UH, OF THE, AND TARIFF, YOU KNOW, LET ME INTRODUCE CHAD AND GARNER, WHO, WHO PAUL ALLUDED TO. UM, I'M GONNA DIVE INTO A FEW MORE PARTICULARS OF THE GREEN TARIFF, THE CHANNEL TO ON SLIDE SIX. THANK YOU, CORY. UH, GOOD MORNING COUNCIL MEMBERS. IT'S A PLEASURE TO SPEAK WITH YOU ON A TOPIC AGAIN TODAY. UM, OUR JOURNEY TO DEFINE A GREEN TARIFF FOR THIS COMMUNITY STARTED QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO. UM, AND WHENEVER WE DEVELOP A NEW PRODUCT, ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO IS WE GO AND LOOK AT WHAT OUR PEERS ARE DOING ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. AND ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE, UH, THERE, THERE'S A GRAPHIC FROM AN INDUSTRY TRADE GROUP CALLED THE WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE THAT TRACKS GREEN TARIFFS LIKE THE ONE WE'RE PROPOSING. AND THE MAIN MESSAGE IS THEY'RE, THEY'RE COMMON. THEY'RE, THEY'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE, BUT EVERYBODY DOES IT SLIGHTLY DIFFERENTLY. UH, AS WE LOOKED, UM, AT OUR PEERS, WE SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS TO US IS DESIGNING A GREEN TARIFF THAT CONTINUES TO COVER THE COST OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE BUILD ON BEHALF OF THE COMMUNITY, SPECIFICALLY GENERATION COSTS. UH, AND SO THE DESIGN THAT WE'VE COME UP WITH, WE THINK IS, UH, VERY RESPONSIBLE IN THAT REGARD. FACT, IF YOU TURN TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UH, SLIDE SEVEN, UM, THE DESIGN OF THE RATE ITSELF IS VERY WELL ALIGNED WITH HOW WE INCUR COST OF SERVING CUSTOMERS, SPECIFICALLY THE FIXED COST VERSUS THE VARIABLE COST. UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE TOOK THIS AS AN, UH, AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE UPON, UM, CURRENT RATE STRUCTURES. UH, WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE DESIGN OF IT, UH, HAS GUARANTEED WE'LL, WE'LL SEE THE SAME TYPE OF REVENUE IN THE SAME CITY PAYMENT. UM, SO FROM A FINANCIAL POINT OF VIEW, WE FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE THAT, UH, THAT WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING AS STEWARDS OF, OF, UH, THE COMMUNITY'S INFRASTRUCTURE. UM, SO, SO WHAT IS THE GREEN TURBINE? HOW DOES IT WORK? SO THE MEAT OF IT IS ON THE NEXT SLIDE. UM, IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO OUR OTHER LARGE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS IN THAT IT HAS THREE COMPONENTS. IT HAS A MONTHLY FEE, IT HAS, UH, WHAT WE CALL DEMAND CHARGES. THOSE ARE INTENDED TO RECOVER FIXED COSTS. THE MAGIC OF THE GREEN TARIFF REALLY IS IN THIS LAST PIECE, THE, WHAT WE ARE CALLING A RISA. IT'S A RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLY AGREEMENT. UH, AND THAT'S WHERE C P S ENERGY WILL PARTNER WITH A SPECIFIC CUSTOMER TO IDENTIFY A RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE THAT MEETS THEIR ENERGY NEEDS, UH, FROM A, HOW MUCH THEY USE AND WHEN THEY USE IT. UM, AND WE WILL IDENTIFY TOGETHER A SPECIFIC SOURCE. UH, IT MIGHT BE A WIND FARM IN NORTH TEXAS, OR A SOLAR FARM IN WEST TEXAS, OR SOME OTHER RENEWABLE RESOURCE CLOSER TO HOME. UH, AND WE WILL CONTRACT TO PURCHASE THAT ENERGY ON BEHALF OF THE CUSTOMER, AND THEN PROVIDE A BILL TO THE CUSTOMER. THAT'S A COMPONENT THAT HAS BOTH COMPONENTS IN IT, THE GREEN TARIFF RATES THAT YOU SEE ON THE PAGE, PLUS THE ENERGY COSTS THAT, THAT WE'VE INCURRED ON THEIR BEHALF, UM, TO, TO BUY THIS RENEWABLE ENERGY. THEIR BILL WILL BE A, A COMPOSITION OF BOTH PIECES. AND WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SORT OF OUR, OUR JOURNEY OF RENEWABLE PRODUCTS. UM, THE GREEN TARIFF. YOU KNOW, WE KNOW IT'S NOT GONNA MEET ALL OF THE NEEDS, UH, OF, OF ALL CUSTOMER SEGMENTS. IT'S SPECIFICALLY TARGETED AT REALLY LARGE COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS. BUT WE DO HAVE A PLAN, A VERY THOUGHTFUL PLAN OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS. AND IN FACT, ON THE NEXT SLIDE, IT IS SORT OF A PREVIEW OF THAT PLAN. UM, RELATED TO THE GREEN TARIFF. WE'LL BE, UH, WE HOPE TO COME BACK IN THREE TO SIX MONTHS, UH, WITH ADDITIONAL SOLAR SOLUTIONS FOR OTHER CUSTOMER SEGMENTS. UH, BEFORE THAT, WE BELIEVE WE'LL BE BACK WITH, UH, SOME REALLY INNOVATIVE RESILIENCY, UH, AND WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION OFFERINGS. UM, AND WE WILL, UH, ALSO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR ELECTRIC VEHICLE PILOTS. UH, THOSE ARE PILOTS. THEY'RE DIFFERENT THAN NEW RATES, UH, BUT IT'S ALSO SOMETHING THAT IS ALIGNED WITH THE CAP, UM, AND WE BELIEVE IS ALIGNED WITH, UH, OUR CUSTOMER'S NEEDS AND DESIRES AS WELL. SO THAT, THAT REALLY CONCLUDES OUR COMMENTS. OF COURSE, WE'RE, WE'RE HERE TODAY TO ASK FOR YOUR APPROVAL OF THE LARGE COMMERCIAL GREEN TARIFF. UM, BUT I, I'D LIKE TO TURN IT BACK TO PAULA FOR ANY, UH, CLOSING COMMENTS. WELL, VERY GOOD. WELL, WELL, THANK YOU. UM, AGAIN, UM, WELL, THERE'S A, THERE'S A WRITTEN TARIFF THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT, BUT WE ARE MAKING A COMMITMENT THAT, THAT HAS BEEN REFINED. ALL OF THE COMPONENTS THAT, THAT ARE NEEDED TO MAKE IT FIT IN THE LARGE PORTFOLIO OF ALL OF OUR TARIFFS, UM, HA HAVE BEEN CHECKED OFF AND DONE. AND SO, AGAIN, I THINK I WOULD ALSO CONCLUDE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK, YOUR WORK IN TERMS OF OTHER POLICIES THAT YOU HAVE TO DO, AND THEN THE SUPPORT OF GOOD PRICING AND [02:15:01] GOOD SERVICES THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE TO OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE PROUD TO SERVE. SO I STAND READY TO HELP, UH, UM, UH, ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE, AND COREY AND CHAD WILL JUMP IN, UH, IF NECESSARY. BUT, BUT PLEASE, UM, LET ME KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING I CAN DO TO, TO HELP IN YOUR DECISION MAKING. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PAULA. UM, WE DID HAVE ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, UH, ON THIS ITEM, BUT I, I WE'RE NOT ABLE TO CONNECT WITH THEM. SAMUEL ARIA. OKAY. UM, WE'LL GO NOW INTO, TO, UH, DISCUSSION. SO LEMME START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. HI, PAULA, GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. HI, CHARLES AND COREY, UM, VERY THOROUGH PRESENTATION AND THE DOCUMENTS THAT YOU GAVE US. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, FOR REACHING OUT. UM, I AM, UH, I'M GLAD TO SEE THE EXPLORATION INTO THIS AREA. UM, THE ONLY TOUGH THING FOR ME IS I'M IN A TOUGH SITUATION. 'CAUSE A WHILE BACK I TOLD THE MAYOR, MAYOR, I AM NOT APPROVING ANOTHER C P S RATE INCREASE UNLESS WE HAVE A PUBLIC INPUT RATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AS PART OF THE PROCESS. UH, SO I UNDERSTAND THIS, THIS IS NOT A REVIEW OF ALL OF YOUR RACE, IT'S REALLY JUST ONE OF THEM. BUT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO GET AN UPDATE ON THE RATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. UH, YES, COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. THANK YOU FOR ASKING. UM, A COUPLE OF THINGS. SO THE WAY THIS, UM, THE FIRST THING I WANTED TO CONFIRM, THE WAY THIS RATE IS DESIGNED, IT'S NOT AN INCREASE AND IT IS A REDESIGN OF AN EXISTING RATE. SO MAYBE IT WILL HELP IN TERMS OF MAKING YOU FEEL BETTER THAT YOU'RE NOT, YOU'RE NOT DRIVING A RATE INCREASE, BUT HOPEFULLY GREAT THINGS . OKAY. AWESOME. UM, AND, AND THE RATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, THE, THE BOARD HAS, UH, PROVED IT WITH THE MAYOR'S LEADERSHIP ON THAT. UM, WHAT WE ARE DOING IS WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO HAVING A CONSULTANT. WE WANT A CONSULTANT TO COME IN. AND WHEN WE'RE ABLE TO, UM, GET IT ALL ESTABLISHED, HELP FACILITATE THOSE MEETINGS. 'CAUSE I THINK I EVEN GOT THAT FEEDBACK FROM YOU THAT PERHAPS HAVING AN INDEPENDENT SORT OF FACILITATOR HELP US GET THROUGH SOME MORE OF OUR CONVERSATIONS WOULD BE GREAT. AND SO WE'RE GONNA APPLY THAT TO, TO THIS SITUATION. SO WE DID SOME OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING HAVE HAS BEEN AROUND TRYING TO FIND A GOOD FACILITATOR, UH, TO HELP US WITH THAT. UM, WE ALSO HAVE A CHECKLIST OF THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. WE'RE WORKING ON, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING ON A PORTFOLIO OF ITEMS THAT WE CAN PROPOSE BACK TO THE BOARD AND GET THEIR COMPLETE FEEDBACK ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE MISSING? SO WE'VE GOT A VISION STATEMENT. WE'VE GOT, UH, THE SCOPE AND PURPOSE. WE'VE GOT THE MEETING DESIGN WORK, WE'VE GOT SOME RESEARCH AND WHITE PAPERS, UH, AND SOME OTHER THINGS. SO IT'S COMING TOGETHER. SORRY THAT IT'S TAKEN SO LONG. UH, YOU KNOW, AS I TELL EVERYBODY, IT FEELS RIGHT NOW LIKE WE ARE REBUILDING OUR PLANE, UH, WHILE WE'RE FLYING IT THROUGH A STORM, UH, TO TRY TO GET EVERYTHING AND KEEP EVERYTHING GOING. AND SO I WOULD TELL YOU, UH, THE MAYOR HAS BROUGHT UP THAT TOPIC AGAIN VERY RECENTLY, AND, UM, HAS ASKED THE CHAIR TO CONSIDER GETTING ON THE AGENDA VERY SOON SO WE CAN HAVE AN UPDATE OF WHAT WE HAVE, HAVE THE BOARD GIVE US SOME COM, UH, COM COMMENTS BACK, CLEAN IT UP. I MEAN, I'M, I'M HOPING BY THE FALL THAT WE'LL HAVE IT IN A GOOD SHAPE. I, I CAN'T, I CAN'T. I'M SORRY. OH, PAUL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. PAULA. MAYOR, I MOVE TO APPROVE. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDAL, THERE IS A MOTION, UH, UH, BY COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, I THINK A SECOND BY COURAGE. IS THAT RIGHT? OKAY, GREAT. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER VINNO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, THANK YOU, UH, FOR THAT PRESENTATION. UH, PAULA, IT, IT REALLY, UM, I, FIRST I WANNA SAY HOW MUCH I I I REALLY APPRECIATE WORKING WITH YOU AND, UM, HAVE REALLY ENJOYED, UH, OUR CONVERSATIONS AND REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TEAM. UH, YOU'RE TRULY, UH, ONE OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE TO WORK WITH. UM, I THINK YOU ARE LISTENING TO US, YOU ARE WORKING ON, ON WAYS TO HELP, UH, IMPROVE OUR COMMUNITY. AND I HAVE TO THANK YOU FOR, FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR, UH, THE MORATORIUM ON, ON UTILITY DISCONNECTS. THAT WAS TREMENDOUS. AND, UM, I'M, I JUST ON BEHALF OF THE COMMUNITY, WE'RE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR THAT. UM, THIS IS, I I'M GONNA BE SUPPORTIVE OF THIS PROGRAM [02:20:01] AND, UH, I'M GONNA JUST ACTUALLY JUST TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT, UH, THE ROOF PROGRAM. THAT, AGAIN, I WANNA HIGHLIGHT THAT AS YOU'RE DOING THESE, THESE NEW PRODUCTS. UM, YOU KNOW, I HAD A CHANCE TO, TO SPEAK WITH, UM, PRESIDENTIAL, UH, UH, NOMINEE VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN JUST TWO DAYS AGO. OH. AND IT, AND IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, IT'S HIS, HIS HOUSING PLAN RIGHT HERE, UH, REALLY SPEAKS TO A LOT OF THE THINGS YOU JUST SPOKE ABOUT, UH, TALKING ABOUT STABLE, ENERGY, EFFICIENT, RESILIENT HOMES. UH, AND WITHIN THAT, HE'S PROPOSING A $10 BILLION, UH, INFUSION INTO, UH, PROTECTING EXISTING HOUSING STOCK. AND, UH, DEALING WITH, UH, ENERGY EFFICIENT, UH, HOMES AND, UH, LOWERING, UH, THE, THE IMPACT OF, OF ELECTRIC BILLS. AND SO I, I WOULD ASK THAT, UH, AGAIN, WE, UM, WE RE REALLY TAKE A LOOK AT IT. THE ROOF PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE ESTABLISHED HERE, SAN ANTONIO UNDER ONE ROOF, IS A SILVER PROGRAM. AND, UH, LOVE TO SEE THAT BECOME, UM, A A SOME KIND OF A PRODUCT, UH, WITH C P S AS, UH, YOU KNOW, BUT THERE'S A POTENTIAL FOR, UM, SOME SERIOUS INFUSION INTO THESE KINDS OF, UH, RETROFITS AND, AND THINGS COMING, UH, UH, FOR, FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AND HOPEFULLY IN SAN ANTONIO. SO WORKING WITH C P S, UH, IT'S MY HOPE THAT WE CAN, UM, FIND A WAY TO WORK TOGETHER ON THAT. THANK YOU, SIR. WE WILL DEFINITELY LOOK INTO THAT AND APPRECIATE THE SUGGESTIONS. AND THE LAST THING I WOULD SAY IS, UM, YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT AND YOU, YOU'VE TALKED TO ME AND MY TEAM ABOUT THIS QUITE OFTEN. TRYING TO FIND THE SYNERGIES TO, TO PULL IT ALL TOGETHER AND CREATE A COMPLETE PACKAGE TO, TO CUSTOMERS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. AND I'M LOOKING FOR MORE RESOURCES, SO WE CAN DO THAT, TRYING TO GENERATE THEM. SO VERY, VERY VALID POINTS. AND WE HAVE THAT ON OUR LIST. WELL, GREAT. WELL, I'M GONNA TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO, TO INVITE YOU. UM, WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO GET TO OUR ONE THOUSANDS, 1001 THOUSANDTHS RU WOOHOO, UM, HERE VERY SOON. AND, AND WE, WE WANNA MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT. AWESOME. I WANNA INVITE YOU TO, TO JOIN US. AND SO AWESOME, FIRSTHAND, UH, WE'LL SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO, TO HIGHLIGHT, AND YOU CAN SEE THE IMPACT IT HAS ON FAMILIES, UH, FIRSTHAND AS WELL. BUT AGAIN, THANK YOU AGAIN. I JUST WANTED TO, UH, TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU AND, AND SHOW MY SUPPORT FOR ALL THAT YOU'RE DOING, AND, UH, HOPEFULLY CONTINUE TO GROW MORE PROGRAMS THAT, THAT ARE GONNA ACTUALLY HELP, UH, OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. I WILL TAKE YOU UP ON THAT INVITATION, AND I'M EXCITED A THOUSAND, RUTH. THAT'S AMAZING. THANKS FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP THERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH MS. PAULA GOLD WILLIAMS, UM, ONE OF MY SCHOOL ALUMNI. UM, , IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU, UM, BE A PART OF THE CONVERSATION, AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING SO MANY NEW AND INNOVATIVE WAYS THAT WE AS A CITY TRULY SPEAK ABOUT ENERGY AND HOW WE'RE GONNA PUSH FORWARD. UM, THE QUESTION THAT I HAVE IN RELATION TO THE GREEN TARIFF IS, WITH THIS PROGRAM, WILL THIS HAVE ANY EFFECT ON THE NUMBER OF YEARS, UM, THAT WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY LOOKING AT CLOSING, UM, THE ACTIVE OLDEST PLANTS, UM, THAT WE HAVE, UH, AT THIS TIME? I, I WOULD SAY ABSOLUTELY. I THINK EVERY STEP WE MAKE TOWARDS, UH, UH, CLEANER RESOURCES, UH, COLLABORATION, PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR CUSTOMERS, UM, TRYING TO ALIGN THEIR OBJECTIVES WITH THE CITY'S GOALS WITH C P S ENERGY'S CAPABILITIES AND, AND GOALS. IT ABSOLUTELY DOES WORK. UH, WE HAVE CUSTOMERS THAT ARE TRYING TO THINK ABOUT THIS TRANSITION. I THINK THIS CHAIR HELPS THOSE WHO HAVE THOSE GOALS LEAN INTO IT, UM, AND REALLY, REALLY THINK THROUGH HOW THEY GET THERE. AND THEN THOSE MEGAWATTS THAT WOULD'VE BEEN CONSUMED OR GENERATED BY OUR EXISTING FLEET CAN NOW BE SUBSTANTIALLY COVERED BY RENEWABLE RESOURCES. SO I THINK, UM, OUR APPROACH IS THAT WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE KEEP TRYING TO ADD A LOT OF, UM, SERVICES AND PRODUCTS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND CUMULATIVELY, UM, OUR PERSPECTIVE IS THAT WE'LL HAVE A WHOLE ECOSYSTEM OF THINGS THAT ARE GONNA HELP US CLOSE THE OLDER PLANTS, THE HIGHER EMITTING PLANTS, THOSE KIND OF THINGS. YES, MA'AM. AWESOME. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. UM, FORWARD, I KNOW THAT THIS IS FOR COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS, LARGE COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS ONLY. UM, DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH [02:25:01] OR HAS A, UM, RELATION BEEN PUT IN PLACE TO SEE, UM, EVEN WITH OUR CITY BUILDINGS THAT WE'RE USING, HOW THIS WILL HELP US, ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS BUDGETARY TIME, REDUCE SOME OF THE COSTS THAT WE'RE, WE'RE USING WITHIN OUR, OUR BUDGET FOR, UH, SERVICES? UM, I, I WILL TELL YOU THAT, UH, THE, UH, THE, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO MANAGEMENT TEAM, UH, IS VERY INTERESTED IN THIS SUBJECT AND, UH, IS LOOKING AT THE WAY TO SCOPE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. I DON'T THINK WE'VE DEFINED EXACTLY, YOU KNOW, ROOFTOPS AND, AND THE WHOLE, THE WHOLE SCOPE YET. AND SO WE DON'T HAVE THAT FINAL OUTPUT, BUT THE TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY ON THAT. AND OUR ROLE IS TO SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR EFFORTS TO DO IT. SO I WILL TAKE AN ACTION ITEM AND TRY TO GET AN UPDATED STATUS, BUT THAT IS THE LAST THING THAT I HAVE HEARD. OKAY. AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS, AS FAR AS, UM, THE BUSINESSES THAT MAY NOT HAVE A, A STRUCTURAL, UH, FOUNDATION FOR THIS, UM, IS, IS, ARE THESE GONNA ALL BE ROOFTOP INSTALLATIONS? ARE THEY ON THE GROUND INSTALLATIONS? DO WE KNOW HOW THAT'S GONNA LOOK? UM, ACTUALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, A BUSINESS HAS, UH, SOME FLEXIBILITY THERE. THEY CAN USE AN OPEN PIECE OF LAND, THEY CAN USE A ROOFTOP. UM, THERE IS AN ABILITY TO PUT, UH, THESE, PUT SOLAR ARRAYS ON TOP OF, UM, UH, CARPORT STRUCTURES, THINGS LIKE THAT. SO ANYTHING THAT, YOU KNOW, DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ON THE BUILDING, UM, IT, SOME OF THAT VARIES AGAIN, BY, YOU KNOW, WHAT PEOPLE HAVE AVAILABLE TO THEM. BUT, BUT WE WILL WORK WITH ANYBODY IN TERMS OF WHAT, WHAT THEY WANNA TRY TO, TO LOOK AT AND SEE WHAT'S THE BEST FOOTPRINT FOR THEM. AND ARE WE LOOKING AT THIS WITHIN THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, DEVELOPMENT AS, UM, A STRUCTURE TO MAYBE HELP, UH, WITH THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND, AND BILLS AND, AND ELECTRICITY REDUCTION, UH, FOR THOSE UNITS, UM, SUCH AS LIKE THE, UM, N R P GROUP, UH, PUT UP THE STELLA, UM, WAS THIS LIKE A CONVERSATION THAT WAS MAYBE HAD WITH THEM OR IS THIS SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW FOR THAT INDUSTRY? WELL, I, WHAT, WHAT I WOULD SAY THIS, THIS, THIS GREEN TARIFF IN ITSELF IS SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, NEW FOCUSED ON THE COMMERCIAL SIDE. WE DO HAVE, WE, WE DO HAVE, UM, INSTANCES WHERE WE WORK WITH DEVELOPERS WHO ARE INTERESTED. SOME OF THEM ARE LOOKING AT SOLAR FARMS, CLOSE TO THEIR HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS. AND WE, WHERE WE CAN ALSO, SOMETIMES THAT'S A GREAT CANDIDATE TO PUT A COMMUNITY SOLAR, UM, UH, UH, INSTALLATION. AND SO WE JUST STAND READY TO TALK TO ANY DEVELOPER OR ANY, ANY, UH, AUTHORITY THAT WANTS TO HELP US, HAVE US HELP THEM WITH DESIGN TO HELP THEM, INCLUDING RELATIVE TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS, UM, PROGRAM GOING FORWARD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCILWOMAN COUNCILWOMAN. ANDREW SULLIVAN. THIS IS DAVID MCCAREY, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER. I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU THAT, UH, OUR OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY, UH, DOUG MELNICK AND OUR, OUR TEAM HAS ALREADY STARTED ENGAGING IN CONVERSATIONS WITH CHRIS STER, PAULA BOLT WILLIAMS TEAM. SO WE'RE IN THAT DISCOVERY MODE NOW. WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD, UH, TO ADVANCING OUR KNOWLEDGE SO THAT WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT OUR CITY FACILITIES TO SEE HOW WE CAN LEVERAGE SOME OPPORTUNITIES THERE, AND ALSO OUR LOCATIONS OF PROPERTIES AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DAVID. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, JUST A COUPLE OF GOOD, PAULA, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOU AND YOUR STAFF ON THE PRE BRIEFINGS AND EXPLAINING THIS AND, UM, WHAT THIS PROGRAM IS ABOUT. BUT NONE OF THIS, NONE OF THIS COST OR, YOU KNOW, ON BUILDING UP TO THIS, IS GONNA BE PASSED TO ANY KIND OF, UH, RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS OR OTHER BUSINESSES OUT THERE, RIGHT? NO, SIR. OKAY. THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE I'M ALREADY GETTING INFORMATION FROM FOLKS SAYING, ARE WE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE AN INCREASED ELECTRIC BILL BECAUSE OF THIS? NO, SIR. AND, UM, WE JUST NEED TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT TO, TO OUR ESPECIALLY RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS OUT HERE THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A VOLUNTARY PROGRAM, UM, TARGETED SPECIFICALLY FOR, UM, BUSINESSES AND INDUSTRY. SO, UH, JUST, I JUST WANTED TO EMPHASIZE THAT. YES, SIR. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT MY, [02:30:01] MY RECOMMENDATION WAS ON THIS PROGRAM IS THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THIS FROM TARIFF. YOU KNOW, TARIFF, TARIFF BRINGS ALL KIND OF BAD CONNOTATIONS. AND, AND I, I KNOW IT WAS EXPLAINED TO ME, THIS IS AN INDUSTRY STANDARD TERM, BUT I THINK WE OUGHT TO BE LEADERS AS WE ARE ON EVERYTHING ELSE. WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD COME UP WITH A DIFFERENT TERM SO THAT IT DOESN'T COME OFF WITH A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION ON THAT. UH, I, I JUST DON'T LIKE THE WORD TARIFF. AND, UH, I, I WISH WE COULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING ELSE FOR SAN ANTONIO AND MAYBE OTHERS WOULD FOLLOW. I WILL TAKE YOU UP ON THAT SUGGESTION. I DON'T LIKE THE WORD EITHER. I THINK IT'S NOT, IT'S, YOU KNOW, THE, THE WHOLE CONNOTATION, IT'S A SERVICE. IT'S THE, IT'S THE PRICING FOR SERVICES, UH, THAT ARE RESPONSIVE TO WHAT CUSTOMERS NEED. SO, UM, I'LL TAKE YOU UP ON THAT AND I'LL PROPOSE SOME THINGS TO THE COUNCIL. WE, IN THE BACKGROUND, IT'S ALL THE STUFF BEHIND THE CURTAINS THAT HAVE TO HAPPEN BECAUSE OF OUR REGULATION, BUT IN TERMS OF HOW WE LOOK AT IT AND UTILIZE IT IN A CONVERSATION, WE, WE WILL DEFINITELY COME FORWARD WITH YOU FOR YOU ON THAT. WELL, WELL, I REALLY THANK YOU FOR THAT, BECAUSE TELL YOU THE TRUTH, WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS GREEN TARIFF, I SAID, UHOH, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, ? SO, UH, YEAH, I'D REALLY APPRECIATE Y'ALL TO, UH, COME UP WITH SOME SUGGESTIONS ON THAT. THAT WOULD BE GREAT. THAT'S ALL I HAD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, PAULA, I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE YOU AND YOUR TEAM ON THIS PROJECT. I KNOW THAT IT'S COME ABOUT BECAUSE THERE WERE SEVERAL MAJOR CORPORATIONS IN SAN ANTONIO THAT WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE MORE TOWARDS ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, UH, AND TO SHOW THAT THEY'RE COMMITTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT. AND ONE OF THE BEST WAYS FOR THEM TO DO THIS IS TO GO AHEAD AND MAKE THAT A BIGGER PART OF THEIR ENERGY PORTFOLIO AND UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S WHAT THIS GREEN TARIFF IS SET UP TO DO, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME BEING COST NEUTRAL TO C P S. AND, UH, SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT IS A GOOD PROGRAM AND, UH, I THINK YOU DID A GOOD JOB OF EXPLAINING IT. AND THEN IT'S UP TO US, MAYBE AS THE COUNCIL TO, UH, REASSURE THE CITIZENS THAT IT ISN'T GOING TO BE MORE MONEY OUT OF THEIR RESIDENTIAL BILLS IN ORDER TO GO AHEAD AND PUT THIS FORWARD. AND I THINK YOU'VE EXPLAINED THAT, AND I, I THINK IT'LL BE SOMETHING WE'LL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO EXPLAIN THE INNOVATIONS THAT C P SS ENERGY HAS BROUGHT FORWARD OVER THE YEARS, UH, CONTINUES TO MAKE US ONE OF THE, THE BEST ENERGY SUPPLIERS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND AROUND THE COUNTRY. AND SOMETIMES THE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY DON'T ALWAYS RECOGNIZE THAT. UH, AND I, I COMMEND YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND, AND TALKING ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENTS THAT C P S ENERGY HAS ACCOMPLISHED, BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S AN OLD SAYING, I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN HE WHO BLOW US, NOT HIS OWN HORN, HEAR US, NOT ITS SWEET SOUND . AND SO I, I APPRECIATE HOW YOU EXPLAINED THIS GOING FORWARD, BUT I DO WANNA GO AHEAD ALSO AND REITERATE WHAT WE'VE HEARD FROM COUNCILWOMAN SANDOVAL. AND THAT IS WE WANT TO HAVE A CITIZEN MOVEMENT, UH, ON RATE HIKES. UH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO ENGAGE MORE IN THE COMMUNITY IN MAKING THAT DECISION. I REALIZE WE HAVE AN ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR C P S ENERGY, AND THEY'VE LOOKED AT MANY, MANY ISSUES OVER THE YEARS AND OFFERED THEIR INPUT, UH, WHICH I KNOW THAT YOUR STAFF IS ALWAYS CONSIDERED VERY IMPORTANT TO THEM. UH, BUT THE SENSITIVITY OF UTILITY RATES IS SUCH THAT I THINK IT NEEDS TO HAVE A, A STANDING COMMITTEE THAT'S GOING TO ADDRESS THOSE AND ALLOW MORE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN THAT PROCESS. SO I, I WISH YOU WELL IN MOVING THAT FORWARD TO YOUR BOARD, AND I HOPE THEY'LL BE SUPPORTIVE OF IT. OTHER THAN THAT, I CAN, I CONTI CONTINUE TO BE PROUD OF THE WORK THAT C P S ENERGY DOES FOR ALL THE CITIZENS OF SAN ANTONIO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CURTIS. AND, AND LEMME JUST WRAP UP BY, UH, THANKING YOU AND, AND THE STAFF OVER AT C P S, UH, PAUL, I KNOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR SOME TIME, UM, THAT RECOGNIZES NOT JUST THE MOVE IN THE MARKET, BUT ALSO, UH, THE NEED FOR US TO GROW A MORE RESILIENT PORTFOLIO. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M GLAD WE TOOK A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, UH, TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT'S FAIR, BUT ALSO SOMETHING THAT I THINK WILL HELP ACCELERATE, UH, THE MOVE TO RENEWABLES FOR A LOT OF OUR LARGEST CUSTOMERS. UH, WHICH IS NOT JUST IMPORTANT FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR GRID, BUT ALSO FOR THE BOTTOM LINE FOR THE AVERAGE RATE PAYER AS WE MOVE TO A MORE SUSTAINABLE PORTFOLIO. UM, JUST BECAUSE IT'S [02:35:01] COME UP AND IT IS, UM, UH, SOMEWHAT GERMANE. I I WILL SAY, UH, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MY COLLEAGUES THAT, UH, IT'S, IT'S, WE HADN'T TALKED ABOUT IT IN A WHILE, BUT THE RATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE WAS PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE C P SS BOARD. UM, WHAT'S, WHAT'S NEXT IS OUR, IS THE STEP TO STRUCTURE IT APPROPRIATELY, UH, AND HAVE THE PROPER CHAIN OF COMMAND SET UP, ET CETERA. SO, UH, IT IS MOVING FORWARD. I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT AS WELL. UH, BUT AGAIN, UH, GREAT J GREAT JOB TO THE STAFF OVER AT C P S AND, UM, ALSO LOOKING FORWARD TO THE RESPONSES FOR THE R F I AND THEN THE R F P GETTING OUT IN THE STREET, WHICH WILL MAKE SAN ANTONIO, UH, CITIZENS HAVE OWNERSHIP OF THE LARGEST, UH, SOLAR, UH, GENERATOR, I BELIEVE OF ANY BIG CITY IN THE COUNTRY. ONCE IT'S, ONCE IT'S ONLINE BY FAR. UM, SO THE PROGRESS IS SIGNIFICANT. SOMETIMES IT COMES IN SMALL DOSES, OTHER TIMES IT COMES IN GREAT LEAPS. AND I THINK YOU'VE MADE A COUPLE BIG LEAPS HERE, UH, PAULA, SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TEAM AND THANK YOU MY COLLEAGUES, FOR THEIR SUPPORT. ALRIGHT. UM, WITH THAT THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR, UM, APPROVAL OF ITEM FIVE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? ANY OPPOSED? OKAY. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU ALL. UM, WE'LL GO NOW TO ITEM 27. UM, THERE IS NOT A PRESENTATION ON THIS, BUT WE DO HAVE, UM, FOLKS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, SPEAK ON ITEM 27. SO LET ME CALL THEM NOW AND I'LL TURN IT OVER, UH, TO OUR COLLEAGUES. UM, WE HAVE, UH, THREE FIXES SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM 27. UM, ANALISA PEACE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY JACK FINGER. YES. UM, I'M SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE 18 MEMBER GROUPS OF THE GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE THAT ARE WITHIN THE SA SERVICE AREA. I WAS SADDENED TO LEARN THAT A MAJORITY OF YOU DECLINED TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF ROBERT POTTS TO THE HAWS BOARD ON AUGUST 6TH, ESPECIALLY GIVEN HIS RECOMMENDATION BY THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE. THIS BREACH PROCESS DOES NOT REFLECT WELL ON SAN ANTONIO. THIS IS A SAMPLE OF THE FEEDBACK WE GOT FROM THROUGHOUT THE STATE WHEN WE ANNOUNCED G'S ENDORSEMENT OF MR. POTTS. ROBERT POTTS IS A ROCK STAR OF CONSERVATION AND ETHICAL DECISION MAKING. I'M AMAZED THAT HE AGREED TO SIT ON THIS BOARD AS HE HAS MANY OTHER CONSERVATION GROUPS, UH, VYING FOR HIS ATTENTION. HELLO? YEAH, WE HEAR YOU . OH, OKAY. SORRY. UH, BASED ON LONGSTANDING WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH ROBERT POTTS, I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT HE IS A CONSENSUS BUILDER WHO CAREFULLY BALANCES COMPETING NEEDS WHEN MAKING DECISIONS. IT WOULD GREATLY BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY TO EMPLOY HIS EXPERTISE IN THE OVERSIGHT OF SAS. AT THIS TIME, WHEN SAS FACES A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES, IT IS VITALLY IMPORTANT THAT CITY COUNCIL CHOOSES THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO REPRESENT US. ANTICIPATED SAS RATE INCREASES MUST BE STRUCTURED FAIRLY. THE ADDITION OF LARGE VOLUMES OF WATER FROM VISTA RIDGE SHOULD NOT CAUSE US TO ABANDON THE CONSERVATION PRACTICES THAT ARE AN EXAMPLE TO OTHER CITIES NATIONWIDE. THE EXPENSE OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT OVER THE EDWARDS AQUIFER, UH, DEMANDS A SERIOUS DISCUSSION ON HOW SAWS POLICIES IMPACT WATER QUALITY AND WATER PRICING, AND A RECORD OF ALL TWO FREQUENT WATER QUALITY VIOLATIONS THAT OSE R'S WEIGHT WA WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, AS WELL AS PROBLEMS IN MEETING THE EPAS DECREE TO FIX OUR AGING SEWAGE INFRASTRUCTURE, INDICATE THAT WE CANNOT AFFORD TO BE COMPLACENT. SA PLAYS A RAISE MAJOR ROLE IN THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY. WE NEED SOMEONE ON THE BOARD WHO REPRESENTS OUR ENTIRE CITY, AND WHO WILL BE ABLE TO WORK HARD TO ENSURE THAT SA PRACTICES AND POLICIES ARE FAIR, COMPETENT, AND SUSTAINABLE. I URGE YOU TO VOTE TO APPOINT ROBERT PODS AS A SAS BOARD TRUSTEE TODAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MS. HAYES. JACK FINGER, FOLLOWED BY COLLEEN WAGON. OKAY. YES. UH, MAYOR NURNBERG, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL. THIS IS FOR THE RECORD. THIS IS JACK MFIN. YES. UM, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, MR. MANELA FROM DISTRICT EIGHT, UH, UH, SUGGESTED THAT, UH, Y'ALL HOLD OFF ON YOUR DECISION FOR THAT SLOT ON THE SAWS BOARD BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO LOOK AT THE IDEA OF, UH, NOMINATING MR. UH, [02:40:01] FERNANDO REYES, AS I RECALL. AND YES, I, I KNOW THAT MR. REYES IS A, IS A MAJOR, UH, BUSINESSMAN ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF, OF TOWN AND, AND MAY EVEN KNOW, UH, SOMETHING ABOUT, UH, GOVERNMENT SINCE HE SAT ON ON A GOVERNMENT BOARD OR TWO. BUT, BUT THE FACT REMAINS THAT I BELIEVE WE AS, AS RATE PAYERS OF THE, OF THE, THE, OF THE CITY, THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY WHO OWN THE, THE SAN ANTONIO WATER SYSTEM, WE, WE DESERVE SOMEBODY WHO REALLY KNOW, KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT WATER. YES. WE, WE, WE, WE NEED TO, UH, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO, WHO KNOWS THE INTRICACIES ON, ON JUST WHAT THE, THE COST WILL BE ABOUT, UH, OF OBTAINING WATER AND, AND PRODUCING IT AND DISTRIBUTING IT AND SO FORTH. WE, UH, AND ESPECIALLY FOR, FOR THOSE OF US WHO, WHO, UH, US BUT POOR GUYS WHO, WHO, UH, ARE TRYING TO PAY THE BILLS ON THIS STUFF THERE INSTEAD OF, UH, AND, AND, AND PREVENTING, UH, WE TALK ABOUT EQUITY ALL THE TIME. WELL, WE'D LIKE TO SEE SOME EQUITY FOR, FOR, FOR, FOR THE AVERAGE RE RESIDENTIAL PEOPLE, BUT VERSUS, UM, THE, THE, THE SWEETHEART DEALS FOR, FOR ALL THE, UH, UM, UH, THE, THE BUSINESS OWNERS HERE IN TOWN. YES. SO, UH, YEAH, PLEASE, UH, PLEASE CONSIDER MR. POTTS FOR SOMEBODY WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT THE SUBJECT THERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. UH, COLLEEN WABA. I DON'T BELIEVE WE'RE ABLE TO CONNECT WITH HER. [27. 20-4792 Resolution appointing a person to the South Sector of the San Antonio Water System Board of Trustees, for the remainder of an unexpired term ending May 31, 2024. [Tina Flores, Acting City Clerk]] SO, ITEM 27 IS THE, UH, VOTE ON THE CONFIRMATION OF THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION OF MR. POTTS OR DR. POTTS, UH, FOR THE SOUTH SECTOR OF SAS APPOINTMENT. UM, I'M TURN IT OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, THANK YOU, UH, MR. POTT FOR BEING WITH US, UH, AGAIN TODAY. UM, LIKE I DID AT OUR GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETING A FEW WEEKS AGO, I WILL BE SUPPORTING THE APPOINTMENT OF ROBERT POT THROUGH THE SAS BOARD SOUTHERN SECTOR. I HAVE A FEW COMMENTS, BUT I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND PUT THE MOTION ON THE TABLE. I MOVE TO APPOINT ROBERT PARK TO THE SOUTH SECTOR OF THE SAN ANTONIO WATER SYSTEM BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR AN UNEXPIRED TERM ENDING MAY 31ST, 2024. A FEW WEEKS AGO WHEN WE MET. OH, OH, THANK GOD. I HAVE A SECOND SECOND MOTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM, A FEW WEEKS AGO WHEN WE MET AT THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE, WE HAD A GREAT SLATE OF CANDIDATES TO CHOOSE FROM, AND THAT'S, THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE THE SOUTHERN SECTOR COVERS DISTRICTS ONE THROUGH SEVEN. UH, SOME OF THOSE ARE COVERED NOT ENTIRELY, BUT IN GREAT PARTS. IN OUR SELECTION PROCESS, WE TOOK MANY FACTORS INTO CONSIDERATION, INCLUDING, OF COURSE, BUSINESS CONCERN, REPRESENTATION, AS WELL AS THE STEWARDSHIP OF THE EDWARDS AQUIFER. WE RECOMMENDED FORMER ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, JILL BURLEY, TO CHAIR THE BOARD, AND MS. UNA TO REPRESENT THE SOUTHEAST SECTOR. SOME OF THE CANDIDATES WE HAD INCLUDED DR. FEMI ELLI, DR. JIM SMILEY, AND ROBERT POT, ALL NATURAL RESOURCE EXPERTS. SO WHEN I SAID THAT WE ARM WRESTLED AND HAD A TOUGH TIME DECIDING, YOU CAN SEE WHAT I WAS REFERRING TO, ALL OF THEM WERE FANTASTIC CANDIDATES. JUST LAST WEEK, WE VOTED 10 TO ONE TO PUT A WORKFORCE INITIATIVE ON THE BALLOT. SOME OF THE ORGANIZATIONS WHO SAT ON THAT LEADERSHIP GROUP HAVE OPPOSED TODAY'S NOMINATION. THE IRONY IS THAT IN VOTING ON OUR WORKFORCE INITIATIVE, WE PRECLUDED THE ABILITY TO CONTINUE THE AQUIFER PROTECTION PROGRAM AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS. IN FACT, THE MAYOR HAS TURNED TO SAS TO HELP US CONTINUE THE PROGRAM IN SOME FORM. SO AT A TIME WHEN THE AQUIFER PROTECTION PROGRAM IS IN TRANSITION, I BELIEVE IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL THAT WE HAVE A CANDIDATE WHO IS INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THE EDWARDS AQUIFER AND CON CONSERVATION AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF SUSTAINABILITY AND WATER MANAGEMENT. WITH ROBERT POTS, WE HAVE THE CHANCE TO [02:45:01] APPOINT SOMEONE WITH EXPERIENCE MANAGING THE EDWARDS AQUIFER AUTHORITY AND A WATER BACKGROUND. I'D ALSO, I'D LIKE TO SHARE A FEW MORE COMMENTS THAT, AND THESE ARE OFF SCRIPT, SO I HOPE MY STAFF DOESN'T FLIP OUT ABOUT THIS. BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE ALSO ADOPTED A RESOLUTION ON RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS TODAY. AND WE, YOU KNOW, WE GOT TO SHARE, UH, HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THAT. AND, UH, AT SOME POINT THAT HAS REARED ITS HEAD INTO THIS APPOINTMENT PROCESS TOO. I, I WANNA SHARE A LITTLE BIT OF MY EXPERIENCE, UH, ON THAT. UM, I HAVE STUDIED, UH, NATURAL RESOURCES, WHETHER IT'S AIR OR ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN MANY DIFFERENT WAYS. UM, IN OVER A LONG COURSE OF TIME AT MULTIPLE SCHOOLS. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE ONLY LATINO OR LATINA IN ANY OF THOSE PROGRAMS. IT IS SO HARD TO FIND PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THOSE PROGRAMS, AT LEAST AT THE SCHOOLS THAT I ATTENDED. UH, WHEN I WENT TO M I T I HAD A WONDERFUL GROUP OF MEXICAN AMERICAN FRIENDS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN FRIENDS. AND LET ME TELL YOU, THE CAREERS THAT THEY WERE DRAWN TO WERE CAREERS THAT WERE GOING TO BE TRANSFORMATIONAL FOR THE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THEIR FAMILIES. WHY? BECAUSE THEY WERE FIGHTING GENERATIONS OF SYSTEMIC RACISM. AND THIS WAS THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO JUMP FORWARD TO SOMETHING LIKE BEING A DOCTOR, BEING A LAWYER, BEING AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER. UM, I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT I DECIDED TO GO. WELL, I CAN TELL YOU LOTS OF REASONS WHY INTO THE ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD, BUT I KNEW THAT IT WAS, IT WAS RARE. AND IT CONTINUED TO BE RARE WHEN I, UH, STUDIED MY MASTER'S AT STANFORD. AND WHEN I STUDIED MY MASTER'S AT, UM, AT HARVARD IN PUBLIC HEALTH, IT WAS NOT EASY, UH, BEING THE ONLY LATINO IN THOSE PROGRAMS. BUT NONETHELESS, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, UH, BECAUSE THERE'RE AQUIFER IS IMPORTANT, AND HOW WE RUN THESE PUBLIC AGENCIES IS IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE SOMEONE WHO BRINGS THAT EXPERTISE TO THE TABLE. AND YES, HE HAPPENS TO BE, UH, A WHITE MAN. AND FROM SOMEONE WHO WHO HAS BEEN IN THE FIELD, I'LL TELL YOU, IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND SOMEONE OF COLOR. AND I, I TO, I TRULY WISH, UH, WE COULD, NO OFFENSE MR. POTS, BUT I, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THE LA TO SEE THE LATINO COMMUNITY BE AT A POINT WHERE THEY CAN PICK CAREERS THAT SEEM A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, UH, MORE, UH, THAT THEY COULD HAVE MORE OPTIONS FOR CAREERS. UM, RIGHT NOW, I'LL THINK OF A BETTER WAY TO SAY THAT. I'M SURE ONCE MY TIME IS, UH, ONCE MY TIME IS UP. BUT I WANNA THANK, UH, MR. POT FOR YOUR, FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND FOR YOUR INTEREST AND YOUR DEDICATION, UH, TO THIS FIELD. SO, UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ROJA GARCIA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, AND THANK YOU FOR, AND THIS HAS BEEN A, A REALLY, UM, I, I THINK HEART TUGGING PROCESS, AND I APPRECIATE THAT WE TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME. AS I UNDERSTAND, UM, SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE THAT WHO HAD QUESTIONS HAVE CONNECTED WITH DR. POTS. I TOO REACHED OUT TO DR. POTS AND I ASKED HIM SOME QUESTIONS THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAD, UM, BECAUSE I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, A PORTION OF THE AREA, UH, THAT I REPRESENT WAS GOING TO BE WELL REPRESENTED. AND, UH, I, I WAS DOING A LOT OF, UM, UH, JUST GOING BACK AND LOOKING AT NOTES. I REVIEWED THE INTERVIEW SESSION FROM THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE TO MAKE SURE AND EXTRA SURE THAT I DIDN'T, UH, MISS OUT ON ANYTHING. I WENT BACK AND I LOOKED AT, UM, AT THE 1 21 HOUR, UH, MR. REYES, UH, 1 53 HOUR MR. POTTS, IF YOU'D LIKE TO, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, PULL THOSE UP, UM, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. AND WHAT I DID SEE IS THAT, UM, WHEN, WHEN I ASKED, AND, AND SO ALL THE CANDIDATES HAD HAD GREAT, UH, IF, IF YOU WILL, UM, POINTS. AND SO WHAT I THINK I WAS COMPELLED WITH MISS, WITH DR. POTTS, UH, IS THAT WHEN I ASKED SPECIFICALLY ABOUT, UM, PRICING, UH, HE, WELL, ACTUALLY, HE BROUGHT UP PRICING, UH, AS AN INNOVATIVE WAY. HE SPOKE ABOUT, UM, THINKING CONSIDERATION FOR BASIC LEVELS OF USE AND INCENTIVES TO USE LESS WATER. UM, BUT HE ALSO BROUGHT WITH HIM SOME EXPERIENCE, AND HE'S DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH ON THIS. AND SO I WAS HAPPY THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE INNOVATIVE ABOUT PRICING STRUCTURES, BECAUSE I HAVE AN APPOINTEE, OF COURSE, LIKE WE ALL DO TO THE SA RATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE. AND THAT'S THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT MY RESIDENTS ARE CONCERNED WITH AFFORDABILITY. AND SO I WAS HAPPY THAT, UH, DR. POS HAD BROUGHT THIS UP. UM, ADDITIONALLY, I WAS LOOKING AT THE [02:50:01] SAS MISSION, AND BY THE WAY, I LOVE THE SAUCE MISSION BECAUSE IT'S CLEAR AND TO THE POINT, IT'S FOUR WORDS, UH, SUSTAINABLE, AFFORDABLE WATER SERVICES. AND SO IN DR. POTTS, I SEE HIS BACKGROUND WITH SUSTAINABILITY, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, I SEE THAT HE CARESS ABOUT THE AFFORDABILITY OF SOMETHING AS IMPORTANT AS OUR WATER SOURCE. AND I WANTED TO, UH, THANK HIM AND I WANTED TO EXPLAIN THAT, UM, I HAVE ASKED HIM SOME ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, AND I WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF THESE ANSWERS. AND DR. POTTS, YOU'RE WELCOME TO CHIME IN HERE IN JUST A LITTLE BIT, BUT LET ME EXPLAIN TO MY COLLEAGUES WHAT I ASKED HIM, UH, AS I GAVE HIM A SECOND ROUND OF INTERVIEWS, BASICALLY. UM, AND SO WE KNOW, UH, LIKE COUNCILMAN SANDOVAL MENTIONED EARLIER THAT WE WILL BE, UM, UH, WE HAVE LAST WEEK, UH, VOTED FOR, UM, A, A SHIFT IN THE SALES TAX. UH, AND I BELIEVE THAT WE STILL HAVE TO SUPPORT OUR, UM, OUR WATER SYSTEMS PROPERLY. AND, UM, DR. POTS SAID IN HIS, UH, INTERVIEW QUESTION WOULD MEAN NOT ONLY THAT THERE SHOULD BE EQUITABLE PAY AND SERVICES FOR FOLKS WHO, BY THE WAY, HE MENTIONED, UM, HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND. UH, BECAUSE HE BELIEVES THAT INVESTING, AND I'M QUOTING, INVESTING IN RES REPLACING SYSTEMS AND INFRASTRUCTURE ON THE SOUTH SIDE, UH, HAS BEEN LONG NEGLECTED. AND I APPRECIATED DR. POTTS FOR SAYING THAT, FOR TELLING ME THAT HE HAS BEEN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR FIVE YEARS WORKING WITH, UH, HIS, HIS, UH, THROUGH HIS CHURCH GROUP. HE'S LISTENED TO SOUTH SIDE NEIGHBORS. HE HAS ALSO, UM, UNDERSTANDS THAT, UH, HE, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON WITH SASS. FOR A LONG TIME, I'VE KEPT HEARING PEOPLE'S VOICES ARE NOT BEING HEARD AT THE SAS BOARD. AND SO I TOLD DR. POTS THAT I MET, I MEET QUARTERLY WITH MY APPOINTEES. AND I SAID, AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS, UM, PART OF TOWN THAT, THAT I LIVE IN AND THAT MY RESIDENTS OBVIOUSLY RESIDE IN, I EXPECT TO HAVE QUARTERLY MEETINGS WITH YOU. AND I EXPECT YOU TO LISTEN TO WHAT THE RESIDENTS ARE ASKING FOR AND ADVOCATING FOR, WHICH HAPPENS TO BE AFFORDABILITY. AND SO, I, UM, HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION. AND, AND DR. POTTS, I WANT TO ASK YOU NOW TO, UM, TALK TO ME, UH, UH, TELL, TELL ME, UH, WHAT YOUR RESPONSE WAS WHEN I ASKED YOU IF YOU WOULD COMMIT TO WORKING WITH ME AND MEETING WITH MY RESIDENTS ON A QUARTERLY BASIS TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THEIR NEEDS. I BELIEVE I TOLD YOU, UH, THAT I WOULD WELCOME THAT THOSE MEETINGS, AND I FEEL VERY MUCH THAT WAY. THANK YOU, DR. PODS. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO HAVE THAT COMMITMENT, UM, CLEAR ON THE RECORD. AND SO, UM, I, I BELIEVE THAT, UH, DR. PODS HAS THE EXPERIENCE, AND AGAIN, WE HAD GREAT CANDIDATES AND, UH, I APPRECIATE, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO HAVE HAD THE CONVERSATION WITH YOU. THANK YOU DR. POTS FOR, UM, HELPING ME, UM, MAKE SURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE REPRESENTED. I DO BELIEVE THAT AFFORDABILITY, LIKE IT IS IN OUR SAS MISSION, SHOULD BE AT THE FOREFRONT. AND I THANK YOU FOR, FOR PUTTING THAT IN YOUR REMARKS, UM, DURING YOUR, YOUR, YOUR CONVERSATION WITH US AT THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETING. UM, MAYOR, THOSE ARE ALL MY COMMENTS, AND I MIGHT CHIME BACK IN HERE SHORTLY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ROSA GARCIA, COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, YOU KNOW, UH, AS A MEMBER OF THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE, I HAD LOOKED AT ALL OF THE CANDIDATES WHO CAME FORWARD. AND QUITE HONESTLY, UH, I HAD, UH, STRONG SUPPORTIVE FEELINGS FOR THREE CANDIDATES. AND MR. PX WASN'T ONE OF THOSE THREE CANDIDATES WHEN WE ORIGINALLY WENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS. UH, BUT I RECOGNIZED THAT THE, THE PROCESS WE EMPLOYED WAS FAIR. IT GAVE ALL OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS OPPORTUNITIES TO INTERVIEW, TALK WITH, AND THEN COME TO A CONSENSUS ON WHAT WE FELT WERE THE THREE BEST CANDIDATES TO RECOMMEND. UH, AND SO I FELT GOOD ABOUT OUR FINAL RECOMMENDATION, INCLUDING, UH, MR. POTTS AND I, I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE WHEN WE HAVE A, A DELEGATION THAT WE APPOINT TO GO AHEAD AND EXAMINE SOMETHING FOR THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFORT THAT THEY PUT IN AND THE COMMITMENT THEY MAKE TO COME FORWARD WITH THE VERY BEST RECOMMENDATIONS THEY CAN. AND I THINK WE DID THAT IN THIS CASE. AND, UH, I HOPE THE COUNCIL WILL CONTINUE TO HONOR THE WORK OF THE MEMBERS THAT THEY APPOINT, UH, OR THAT THEY RECOGNIZE ARE UNDERTAKING EFFORTS ON THEIR BEHALF. NOW, IF THERE'S AN ISSUE THAT GOES UNDETECTED [02:55:01] OR SOMETHING THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT FORWARD, I THINK THAT'S ALWAYS APPROPRIATE IN THIS PARTICULAR CONDITION, UH, AND SITUATION. UH, I DON'T THINK ANYTHING LIKE THAT EXISTS. AND I, I THINK THAT WE'VE COME THROUGH WITH THREE GOOD CHOICES, TWO HAVE BEEN APPROVED. LET'S APPROVE THE THIRD ONE, AND LET'S GO AHEAD AND ENCOURAGE ALL OF THOSE MEMBERS TO DO A GREAT JOB ON THE SAS BOARD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, AND I, I WANNA THANK, I WANNA THANK ALL THE, UH, APPLICANTS. UH, YOUR WILLINGNESS TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS SHOWS A COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITY THAT IS, THAT IS NOT COMMON, UM, AT THIS TIME, OR WILL BE SUPPORTING, UH, THE APPOINTMENT OF ROBERT POTTS. POTS, UH, DR. POTTS, UH, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN AQUA PROTECTION ARE NEEDED, UM, AS, AS THE CITY WEIGHS THE FUTURE OF THE EDWARDS AQUIFER. UM, I DID HAVE A CHANCE TO, TO SPEAK WITH, UH, MR. POTTS AND, UH, BELIEVE THAT, UH, HIS APPOINTMENT TO THE SAWS BOARD WOULD BRING CONFIDENCE TO THE DISTRICT ONE RESIDENCE, FOR WHOM WATER CONSERVATION, HIS TOP OF MIND, UH, FURTHERMORE, HIS LEGAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE BACKGROUND WILL ALSO PROVIDE, UH, BALANCE TO THE BOARD. UH, AGAIN, UH, THANK YOU TO ALL THE APPLICANTS. I LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, THE SERVICE, UH, UH, OF MR. POTTS, UH, AS HE, AS HE WORKS AS A SAW TRUSTEE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO, COUNCIL MEMBER VIA GRANT. THANK YOU, MAYOR. CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME? YEAH. OKAY, GREAT. UH, THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE APPLICANTS, UH, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, AND TO MY, UH, COLLEAGUES AND TO DR. POTTS. UM, I WILL NOT BE RE I WILL NOT BE SUPPORTING THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE GOVERNMENT GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE. UM, I HAD RESERVATIONS TWO WEEKS AGO, AND THEY REMAIN, I BELIEVE THAT WE HAD A BETTER PROCESS AND A SYSTEM, AND I BELIEVE WE HAD A BETTER PROCESS THAT WE COULD HAVE DONE AFTER THE TWO WEEKS OF THE DELAY TWO WEEKS AGO. BUT NOTHING CAME OF THAT DELAY. AND I'M SURE THAT I, AND I THINK I DID HEAR, UM, THAT WE WILL BE HEARING NEXT TIME, NEXT TIME, WE WILL MAKE IT BETTER. UM, WELL, I DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY OF NEXT TIME, AND I CAN'T SETTLE IF THERE, I'M NOT SETTLED IN MY SPIRIT ON THIS. ADDITIONALLY, I AM STILL WAITING ON A PROCESS TO FIX OUR C P SS ENERGY BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ALLOW MORE COUNCIL INCLUSION ON THOSE REVIEWS AND SELECTIONS. AGAIN, I WANNA THANK ALL THE APPLICANTS FOR STEPPING UP TO SERVE. AND I KNOW WE HAVE, WE EACH HAVE THOUGHT OF WHAT SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT BE THE NEXT STEP FOR SAS POLICY PHILOSOPHY. MY MAIN CONCERN IS THE RESIDENTS OF THE SOUTHERN SECTOR, AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE SOUTH OF 90, THOSE THAT WE HAVE SEEN AS PART OF OUR DISPARITIES IN OUR COMMUNITY, THAT NEEDS TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION. NOT JUST DISCOVER WHAT THEIR ISSUES ARE, BUT HAVE A FAMILIARITY WITH THEM. 'CAUSE REPRESENTATION MATTERS. DR. PRO IS A PROFESSIONAL, AND YOU HAVE WORKED MUCH OF YOUR LIFE IN WATER, AND I THANK YOU HOW YOU CONNECT WITH PEOPLE AND THE ISSUES OF THE SOUTH SECTOR IS WHAT I CANNOT WAIT ON. AND I'M GRATEFUL THAT MANY OF THE SOFT STAFF ARE EXPERTS IN WATER MANAGEMENT TOO. AND I AGREE WITH THE ASSESSMENT JUST SHARED THAT WE NEED MORE PEOPLE IN THESE ARENAS. I KNOW THAT TOO, BECAUSE I LIVED THAT TOO WITH MY BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN PLANNING AND WORKING IN GEOLOGY. I WAS THE ONLY LATINA ON MY GEOLOGY FIELD TRIP LOOKING AND DIGGING. AND IN THE HEAT OF SUMMER NEAR, UM, STUDYING ROCKS, WE KNOW WE NEED TO BUILD THAT PIPELINE. AND I'M HOPING THAT'S WHAT WE CAN GET WITH OUR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, UH, PROGRAM THAT WE'LL BE DOING. SO, AND BECAUSE THE WORDING ON THAT HAS BEEN AGENDIZED SAYS, APPOINT SOMEONE, I MOVED TO APPOINT FERNANDO REYES TO THE SOUTH SECTOR REPRESENTATIVE OF SAS, AND DEEMED THE TERM MAY 31ST ON EXPIRED TERM, MAY 31ST, 2024, SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER. UM, THAT'S A, UH, SO THE VOTE TODAY IS TO REAFFIRM THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE, UH, RECOMMENDATION. [03:00:01] UH, SO IF THE VOTE IS A YES OR NO, IF IT'S A NO VOTE, THEN THE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE WOULD GO BACK, UH, TO REVIEW APPLICATIONS OR OPEN THE APPLICATION PROCESS. LIZZIE, CAN YOU CLARIFY THAT? YES, MAYOR, THAT IS, THAT IS CORRECT. GO AHEAD, COUNSEL. EVEN IF, EVEN IF IT'S AGENDIZED AS APPOINT SOMEONE, CORRECT. COUNCILWOMAN, WE DON'T HAVE, UH, MR. REYES NAME AS IDENTIFIED IN ANY OF THE DOCUMENTATION FOR THE POSTING. AND AS A RESULT, THE MOTION, UM, WOULD NOT HAVE PROPER NOTICE OF THE, THE PERSON WHO WAS BEING CONSIDERED FOR THIS TODAY. SO THE, SO I, I THINK I NEED CLARIFICATION ON THAT BECAUSE AS OF SUNDAY, UM, ALL OF THE RESUMES AND THE APPLICATIONS WERE UP. UM, ALL OF THOSE THAT WERE INTERVIEWED, IT WAS UP. AND THEN YESTERDAY IT WAS JUST MR. POT. WHEN DID THEY TAKE DOWN ALL OF THE OTHER APPLICATIONS? I CAN GET THAT ANSWER FOR YOU. COUNCILMAN ? I'M NOT SURE THE PRECISE DATE, BUT YOU'RE CORRECT THAT THEY WERE UP AND THEN THEY, THEY, UM, WERE REVISED. I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WAS A, A REVISION ON MONDAY. MM-HMM. . OH, OKAY. WELL, UM, SO WHERE WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT SOMEBODY UP, UM, THANK YOU FOR THE SECOND, BUT IF I'M GOING TO BE SHUT OUT FROM MAKING THIS MOTION, THEN I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES TO VOTE NO, OR ABSTAIN IF THEY DO NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THIS PROCESS OR THIS ELECTION. UM, THIS IS SO WE CAN STAY TRUE TO OUR RESOLUTION. WE JUST PASSED WHERE IT SAYS, QUOTE, REVIEWING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR THE PURPOSES OF ERADICATING IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT RACIAL BIAS AND PROMOTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT ADVANCE RACIAL EQUITY, INCLUDING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT GOVERN BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. END QUOTE. SO I HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGES. IF THIS DOES NOT, UH, MOVE FORWARD, AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO, TO SHARE THEM WITH YOU, BUT THERE'S TOO MUCH AT STAKE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GRO. OKAY. UH, THAT'S EVERYONE WHO IS, UH, ASKED TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM. SO, UH, AGAIN, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE SOUTH SECTOR, UH, RECOMMENDATION OF DR. POT. UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE A, A VOICE VOTE. ALRIGHT, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? AYE. A. OKAY. I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO TAKE A, UH, ROLL CALL VOTE. UM, SO, ALRIGHT. UM, MADAM CLERK, IF YOU CAN GO THROUGH, UM, THE, UH, ROLL AND AFTER EACH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND, AND CUE THE VOTE. COUNCIL MEMBER TRIVIA. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. NAY. COUNCIL MEMBER GAN NAYYY, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHE GARCIA. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ NAYYY, MAY NAYYY, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER ELIAS IS ABSENT. COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY NAYYY AND MAYOR NUREMBERG. AYE. I HAVE A FIVE, FIVE SPLIT WITH ALIA'S. ABSENT MAYOR. OKAY. ALRIGHT, SO, UH, MOTION FAILS. AND SO WE WILL TAKE THIS ITEM UP AT THE, UH, NEXT OR AT A GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE, UH, FUTURE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE AGENDA. ALRIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON NOW [29. 20-4433 Ordinance approving two agreements with Parent/Child Incorporated with options to renew which will provide a cumulative amount of up to $97,920.00 inclusive of renewals to the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District’s Oral Health Program for the provision of oral health services to children enrolled in Head Start programs with terms ending August 31, 2021 and September 30, 2021. [Colleen M. Bridger, MPH, PhD, Assistant City Manager, Interim Director, Health,]] TO ITEM NUMBER 29. ITEM 29 IS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A ONE TIME FIVE YEAR EXTENSION OF THE FOOD SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH ALL RK CULINARY GROUP L L C FOR THE OCTOBER 1ST, 2025 TO SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2030 TERMS, AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF A 500,000 RENEWAL FEE TO BE DEPOSITED IN A COMMUNITY AND VISITOR FACILITIES FUND. I BELIEVE THIS ITEM GOES TO, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER TRAVI. UH, NO, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S MINE THERE. UNLESS COUNCIL MEMBER [03:05:01] AS WELL. SO IF THERE'S QUESTIONS, UM, OH, OKAY. I THINK THERE'S A PRESENTATION. YES. GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR, UH, THE RECORD. MY NAME IS PATRICIA MUS. I AM, UH, THE DIRECTOR OF THE CONVENTION AND SPORTS FACILITIES DEPARTMENT. ITEM 29 IS CONSIDERATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, UH, TO THE FOOD, UH, SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH THE RK CULINARY, UH, GROUP, L L C A JOINT VENTURE, UH, FOR THE HENRY B. GONZALEZ CONVENTION CENTER. THE FOOD SERVICE, UH, AGREEMENT FOR THE CONVENTION CENTER WITH THE RK CULINARY GROUP WAS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL IN MAY OF 2015 FOR A 10 YEAR TERM, A COMMENCING OCTOBER 1ST, 2015 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025. AND IT HAS A ONE FIVE YEAR RENEWAL OPTION. THE AGREEMENT IS AN EXCLUSIVE, UH, CONTRACT THAT COVERS ALL FOOD AND BEVERAGE SERVICES FOR EVENTS AT THE CENTER IN 2015. UH, IN ORDER TO GROW OTHER VENDORS, THE CITY AWARDED, UH, POINTS TO PROPOSALS WITH A JOINT VENTURE. THE RK CULINARY GROUP, L L C IS A JOINT VENTURE, UH, BETWEEN THE RK GROUP, TROOP FLAVORS CATERING, AND BLACK TIE AFFAIRS. HISTORICALLY CATERING AND CONCESSION COMMISSIONS, UH, FROM THE JV HAVE ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT ONE THIRD OF THE TOTAL CONVENTION CENTER FACILITY REVENUE THAT WE HAVE. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO, THE JOINT VENTURE HAS BEEN AN EXCELLENT, UH, PARTNER WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUCCESS OF THE CENTER FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. UNDER THIS CONTRACT, THEY HAVE INVESTED OVER 1.4 MILLION IN EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES TO THE CENTER. THE, UH, THE JOINT VENTURE ALSO GETS VERY HIGH SATISFACTION, UH, RATINGS FROM OUR CUSTOMERS. THEY'RE KNOWN IN OUR INDUSTRY TO BE A HIGH QUALITY, UH, CATERER. IN ADDITION, THE JOINT VENTURE IS EXCEEDING ALL OF THEIR CE BETA SUBCONTRACTING GOALS. UNDER THE CONTRACT, THEY PARTNER WITH 1616 LOCAL, UH, SVES AND MWBES AND HAVE PAID OVER $15.2 MILLION TO THESE LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES. THE JV IS ALSO AN OUTSTANDING EMPLOYER. THEY PROVIDE HEALTH INSURANCE TO ALL ITS EMPLOYEES AND THEY COVER, UM, 86% OF THE EMPLOYEES HEALTHCARE INSURANCE COSTS. FURLOUGHED EMPLOYEES ARE COVERED AT A HUNDRED PERCENT THROUGH THE END OF THIS YEAR. THE JV ALSO PROVIDES THEIR EMPLOYEES OTHER FRENCH BENEFITS, SUCH AS FREE MEALS, FREE PARKING, AND FREE SHUTTLE SERVICE TO THE CONVENTION CENTER, AND ALL OF THE JV EMPLOYEES WILL MAKE AT LEAST $15 PER HOUR BEGINNING IN 2021. WITH REGARDS TO THE PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVE, THE RK GROUP ALSO SUPPORTS A VARIETY OF LOCAL NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY. EACH YEAR THEY DISCOUNT, UH, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, WAIVE FEES, AND MAKE DONATIONS TO THE LOCAL NONPROFITS IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND SINCE THE COVID OUTBREAK, THE RK HAS HELPED FEED THOUSANDS OF SAN ANTONIO FAMILIES AT THREE, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, AT THREE FOOD FROM THE HEART EVENTS, AND THEY HAVE ALSO HELPED THE SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK, UM, FEED APPROXIMATELY 500 FAMILIES OF HOSPITALITY WORKERS AT A FOOD DISTRIBUTION EVENT THAT WAS HELD AT THE ALAMO. DO. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. NEXT SLIDE. AS YOU KNOW, THE COVID PANDEMIC HAS HAD AN UNPRECEDENTED IMPACT ON THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX COLLECTION AS WELL AS OUR FACILITY REVENUES. ECONOMISTS PREDICT THAT IT WILL TAKE THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX FUND APPROXIMATELY FOUR TO FIVE YEARS TO RECOVER AND GET BACK TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVELS. LEISURE BUSINESS IS EXPECTED TO RECOVER FIRST WITH CONVENTIONS AND MEETINGS TAKING LONGER TO RECOVER. NEXT SLIDE. THANK YOU. THE CONVENTION CENTER'S ADOPTED REVENUE AND FISCAL YEAR 20 OF 20.4 MILLION WAS REDUCED BY 10.6 MILLION AND IS ESTIMATED TO BE 9.9 MILLION BY THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR, WITH ONLY 1 MILLION GENERATED BETWEEN MARCH THROUGH SEPTEMBER AND MOST OF IT BEING GENERATED IN EARLY MARCH. MOREOVER, THE CONVENTION CENTER IS PROJECTING CONTINUED IMPACT FROM THE PANDEMIC IN THE FIRST AND SECOND QUARTER OF, UH, FISCAL YEAR 21, RESULTING IN ABOUT, UH, 9.1 MILLION IN TOTAL REVENUES FOR, UH, THIS COMING YEAR WITH NO BUSINESS ACTIVITY SINCE MARCH. THE GEN, THE JOINT VENTURE HAS ALSO [03:10:01] SEEN SIGNIFICANT, UH, SALES, UH, REVENUE REDUCTIONS, PROJECTING ONLY ABOUT A HUNDRED, UM, 79,000 IN REVENUE FROM MARCH THROUGH, UH, SEPTEMBER, WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE WOULD'VE BEEN IN EXCESS EXCESS OF 11 MILLION DURING THE SAME TIME PERIOD. UH, PRE COVID FOR FISCAL YEAR 21, ASSUMING NO FURTHER, UH, REVENUE REDUCTION OR, UH, REDUCTIONS IN BUSINESS. THE JOINT VENTURE IS PROJECTED TO HAVE REVENUES OF 8.8 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR AT 21, WHICH IS ROUGHLY ABOUT ONE THIRD OF THEIR ANNUAL REVENUES. IN ADDITION, CONSISTENT WITH THE PREDICTIONS FROM ECONOMISTS, THE THE JOINT VENTURE PREDICTS A CONTINUED, UH, LOSSES IN REVENUE FOR THE NEXT FOUR TO FIVE YEARS. ON AVERAGE, THE CONVENTION CENTER, UH, HOLDS ABOUT 300 EVENTS A YEAR. IN FISCAL YEAR 20, WE WERE PROJECTING TO HAVE 295 EVENTS, BUT DUE TO THE PANDEMIC, WE WILL END THE YEAR WITH 128 EVENTS. SIMILARLY, IN, UH, FISCAL YEAR 21, WE WILL BE DOWNED, UH, WITH ONLY ABOUT 182 EVENTS PROJECTED. NEXT SLIDE. DUE TO THE CHALLENGES PRESENTED BY THE PANDEMIC, THE JOINT VENTURE ANTICIPATES SIGNIFICANT LOSSES FOR THE BALANCE OF THE CONTRACT, MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO OBTAIN FINANCING. THEY ARE IN NEED OF SECURING A LOAN TO PAY FOR PAYROLL INSURANCE PRODUCT AMONG, AMONG OTHER ITEMS IN ORDER TO SERVICE EVENTS. WHEN BUSINESS RETURNS, THE JOINT VENTURE HAS MADE A REQUEST TO EXERCISE THE EXTENSION THAT IS AVAILABLE UNDER THEIR CONTRACT. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE JOINT VENTURE HAVE THE RESOURCES THAT THEY NEED IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THE HIGH QUALITY SERVICES THAT OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE COME TO EXPECT, SO THAT WE CAN BOTH SUCCEED WHEN BUSINESS RETURNS. NEXT SLIDE. WITH THAT STAFF RECOMMENDS AUTHORIZING A FIVE YEAR RENEWAL OF THE FOOD SERVICE AGREEMENT, UH, FROM OCTOBER 1ST, 2025 TO SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2030 WITH THE JOINT VENTURE AND ACCEPTING A $500,000 RENEWAL FEE AS OUTLINED IN THE CONTRACT. THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, PATRICIA. UH, WE DO HAVE CITIZENS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM 29. UM, GO AHEAD AND CALL EVERYONE IN ORDER. WE'LL START WITH GREG KOWALSKI, FOLLOWED BY JOHNNY HERNANDEZ. HELLO. GO AHEAD, GREG HERE. CAN WE HEAR YOU? GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR BERG, CITY COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER WALSH. I'M GREG KOAL, THE C E O OF THE RK GROUP, AND A PARTNER OF THE RK CULINARY GROUP THAT CURRENTLY HOSTS THE FOOD SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH THE CONVENTION CENTER. FIRST OFF, WE GREATLY APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY, THE PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO EVERY SINGLE DAY. WE WORK HARD TO DO THE ABSOLUTE BEST JOB WE CAN FOR THOSE. VISITING THE SAN ANTONIO CONVENTION CENTER BUSINESS WAS BOOMING AND WE HAD A STRONG SPRING AND FALL IN OUR SITES, AND LITERALLY OVERNIGHT, ALL BUSINESS EPICENTER STOPPED. ALL OF THE EVENTS FOR 2020 HAVE BEEN CANCELED. THE ANNUAL CAR SHOW CANCELED, I THINK, DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY. WHAT FEW EVENTS REMAIN ON THE BOOKS ARE EXTREMELY DEFINITIVE AND WILL MOST LIKELY CANCEL. WE DO NOT KNOW, NO ONE CAN PREDICT WHEN BUSINESS WILL COME BACK. WE'VE HEARD PREDICTIONS OF 4, 5, 6 YEARS TO REACH PRE COVID LEVELS AS THE CONVENTION CENTER HAS NOW BEEN CLOSED SINCE MID-MARCH. THERE IS NO REVENUE AND WE ARE HURTING. WE HAD TO FURLOUGH 90% OF OUR CONVENTION CENTER STAFF, THOUGH WE CONTINUE TO PAY 100% OF THEIR BENEFITS. MANY OF OUR STAFF AND COWORKERS HAVE WORKED WITH US FOR YEARS. WE ARE PROUD OF THE LONGEVITY OF OUR STAFF AND THEY ARE FAMILY TO US. IT HAS PERSONALLY BEEN A PAIN PROCESS TO HAVE TO FURLOUGH SO MANY AS BUSINESS RETURNS. WE HOPE TO BRING BACK FURLOUGHED STAFF. WE NEED TO MAINTAIN THE CORE BACKBONE OF THE STAFF AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, AND WE ARE DOING THAT. THESE STAFF MEMBERS KNOW THE BUILDING, KNOW THE CUSTOMERS, AND WHEN IT IS TIME TO REOPEN OPEN, WE WANT TO BE STRONG AND WE WANT THE RETURNING CUSTOMERS TO SEE THAT THE RK THREE STAFF IS STILL THERE. JUST AS THEY REMEMBER. WE WANT TO BE THAT POSTER CHILD FOR HOW YOU REOPEN A MAJOR CONVENTION CENTER AFTER A PANDEMIC. AND WE MUST KEEP THIS CORE GROUP TOGETHER. IN ORDER TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS AT THE CENTER, WE MUST NOW BORROW FUNDS FROM OUR LENDERS AS [03:15:01] WE ARE PROJECTING REVENUES TO BE DOWN FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. THE LENDER IS INDICATING THAT THE EXTENSION THAT IS CALLED FOR IN THE CONTRACT BE SOUGHT AFTER SO THAT THE LOAN IS SECURED DESPITE THE SETBACKS. WE ARE WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH CITY STAFF AND B S A EVERY DAY TO TRY TO SECURE BUSINESS FOR THE CENTER. THE RK CULINARY GROUP IS PROUD TO BE THE CITY'S PARTNER. WE HAVE WORKED SUCCESSFULLY TOGETHER FOR MANY YEARS. WE ARE RESPECTFULLY ASKING FOR YOUR SUPPORT TODAY FOR THE FIVE YEAR EXTENSION THAT IS, IS OUR CURRENT TENURE CONTRACT TO ALLOW US TO BE READY, STRONG AND PREPARED FOR THE RETURN OF THE CLIENTS OF THE CITY. AND THE ARCADE CULINARY GROUP. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE OUT THERE LISTENING TO THAT ABOUT THE WORK THEY DO AT THE, AND LOOKING FORWARD TO RETURNING AND YOU TAKING CARE OF THOSE CLIENTS OF THE CITY AND THE RK CULINARY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR. KOWALSKI. JOHNNY HERNANDEZ, FOLLOWED BY KNOWING MARTINEZ MAYOR, COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU. I HAVE TO SAY THAT I APPRECIATE AND LOVE EVERYTHING THAT THE COUNCIL HAS DONE. I MEAN, I KNOW THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN SO TO DO SO MUCH EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY. THE PANDEMIC HAS BEEN DRAINING. AND, UH, I JUST HAVE TO, UH, RECOGNIZE AND, AND SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK IN THE COMMUNITY. GREG HAS OUTLINED IT VERY CLEARLY AND, AND, YOU KNOW, IN, IN HIS POINTS AND WHAT THIS EXTENSION MEANS TO US, YOU KNOW, THE CATERING INDUSTRY HAS BEEN GUTTED. CATERING EVENTS ARE NON-EXISTENT. THIS REP CATERING REPRESENTS MORE THAN 50% OF OUR COMPANY. YOU KNOW, TRUE FLAVORS IN OUR FAMILY BUSINESS. SO THIS IS A SUBSTANTIAL, UH, PIECE OF, OF WORK, A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF WHAT KEEPS US MOVING FORWARD IN THE COMMUNITY. AND, UH, THIS EXTENSION IS, IS VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR, FOR OUR PERSONAL BUSINESS. AS A SMALL BUSINESS PARTNER WITH THE RK GROUP, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE RECOVERY IS CRITICAL. WHEN YOU WALK THROUGH DOWNTOWN, WHEN YOU DRIVE THROUGH DOWNTOWN, IT IS EMPTY. IT IS TOURISM, IT IS THE CONVENTION CENTER THAT FUELS THE, THE ECONOMY. IT FUELS THE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS. IT ALLOWS OUR BUSINESSES ON THE RIVER TO THRIVE SO THAT WE ARE A PART OF WHAT MAKES ALL OF THAT SUCCESSFUL AND GROW AS A COMMUNITY AND A CITY. AND AS A CITY, WE HAVE TO BE AGGRESSIVE, WE HAVE TO BE STRATEGIC, AND WE HAVE TO BE CAREFULLY SMART ON HOW WE OPEN, HOW WE OPERATE, HOW WE EXECUTE OUR PLAN MOVING FORWARD. THIS EXTENSION IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE DO HAVE TO GO BACK TO REFINANCING, TO, TO FUND THIS. WE HAVE TO SELL BUSINESS TODAY. WE HAVE TO SELL SAN ANTONIO TODAY FOR NEXT YEAR. WE, WE CANNOT WAIT. I MEAN, WE HAVE TO INVEST. AND THAT'S WHAT WE CONTINUE TO DO HERE IN, IN, IN CATERING AND IN OUR RESTAURANTS. YOU SEE US IN THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE NOT STOPPED BECAUSE THE, WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO BUILD RIGHT NOW THAT THINGS ARE VERY DIFFICULT. AND THIS EXTENSION IS WIDELY IMPORTANT FOR US. SO, YOU KNOW, I I WOULD, I WOULD ASK YOU TO, TO PLEASE CONSIDER THIS EXTENSION TO SUPPORT US BECAUSE THIS, THIS MEANS A LOT TO EVERYBODY WHO WE, WHO TOUCHES, YOU KNOW, OUR TOURISM IN OUR DOWNTOWN. BECAUSE IT JUST, IT ERIC'S IT JUST SCARES ME WHEN I DRIVE THROUGH DOWNTOWN AND, AND IT'S, IT'S DEAD. THERE'S NO BUSINESS. AND WE NEED THIS HELP AND WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TO REBUILD. AND I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT IT WILL TAKE FIVE YEARS. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT IT WILL TAKE FIVE YEARS. BUT WE WANNA WORK AGGRESSIVELY, WE WANNA BE CONFIDENT, AND, AND THIS SUPPORT OF THIS EXTENSION WOULD BE CRITICALLY IMPORTANT AS WE WORK TOGETHER WITH THE CITY VIA SAY, YOU KNOW, THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY, THE TOURISM, THE RIVER, EVERYONE NEEDS TO WORK TOGETHER TO REBUILD WHAT WE HAVE LOST. SO THANK YOU AND I APPRECIATE YOU, UH, EVERYONE WHO, WHO CAN SUPPORT THIS. THANK YOU, MR. HERNANDEZ. NOE MARTINEZ, FOLLOWED BY JACK FINGER. GOOD AFTERNOON. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. OKAY. GOOD AFTERNOON. UH, MY APOLOGIES. THE, THE OWNER OF THE COMPANY IS OUT OF TOWN, RICHARD OJEDA. SO I WILL SPEAK ON, ON OUR BEHALF. UH, MY NAME'S NO MARTINEZ, JR. I'M THE GENERAL MANAGER FOR BLACK TIE AFFAIRS CATERING. I HAVE HELD THIS POSITION FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS, UH, BUT HAVE WORKED FOR BLACK TIE AFFAIRS CATERING FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS. UH, MY ENTIRE FAMILY WORKS FOR BLACK TIE AFFAIRS CATERING, UM, NO SURPRISE, C OVID 19 HAS [03:20:01] DEVASTATED OUR INDUSTRY. THE APPROVAL OF THIS EXTENSION WILL HELP SO THAT WE CAN SECURE FUNDING FOR THE FUTURE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S GONNA BE A SLOW ROAD BACK TO NORMAL, YOU KNOW, QUOTE UNQUOTE NORMAL. BUT WE ARE COMMITTED TO HELPING THE CITY BE, UH, BOOK FUTURE EVENT TO THE CONVENTION CENTER. WHEN BUSINESS DOES RETURN, WE WANT TO BE IN A POSITION TO FULFILL THE COMMITMENTS THAT WE AS A MINORITY PARTNER OF THE RK CULINARY GROUP, UM, HAVE, HAVE, HAVE, HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN. UM, THESE FULFILLMENTS ARE ONLY POSSIBLE FROM OUR SIDE, BUT BEING ABLE TO MAINTAIN OUR EMPLOYEES, UM, WE NEED TO BE RESPONSIVE AT THE CENTER. AND THIS EXTENSION WOULD TREMENDOUSLY, TREMENDOUSLY HELP US KEEP OUR HEADS ABOVE WATER. THE EXTENSION WILL HELP US BASICALLY STAY IN BUSINESS FOR WHENEVER BUSINESS DOES RETURN. SO I JUST HUMBLY THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR. MARTINEZ. UH, JACK FINGER? YES. UH, MAYOR NUNBERG, ANOTHER MEMBERS OF OUR ILLUSTRIOUS SAN ANTONIO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD. MY NAME IS JACK FIN. YES. WHAT I SEE HERE IS JUST ANOTHER BIG SWEETHEART DEAL. THE, THE, THE ROSEMARY KOWALSKI CATERING COMPANY. IT, IT HAS OVER THE YEARS, IT'S GOTTEN A LARGE PORTION, IF, IF NOT THE LION'S SHARE OF ALL THE CITY, UH, CITY GOVERNMENT, UH, CATERING, CONTRACT DOLLARS THERE. AND, AND, AND NOW, UH, WHAT, WHAT YOU'RE PLANNING ON DOING IS GIVING TH THIS WITHOUT ANY BIDDING, WITHOUT ANY BIDDING, ANOTHER FIVE YEAR CONTRACT FOR THIS COMPANY. AND IT'S NOT EVEN ANYTHING THAT'S GONNA START SOON. IT IS GONNA START ABOUT FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, FROM, AND STARTING IN 2025 AND GOING UP TO 20, 20 30. SO, NO, NO BIDDING. AND, AND YES. AND, AND WHY? BECAUSE IT, THE ROSEMARY KOWSKI IS SUFFERING WITH THE ECONOMY. WELL, I'M SORRY, BUT OTHER, UH, COMPANIES ARE SUFFERING WITH, WITH THIS ECONOMY AS WELL. I I KNOW ONE PROMINENT CATERING COMPANY, THE DON STRANGE CATERING COMPANY, BEEN AROUND FOR 70 YEARS. IT IS CUT, IT'S, IT'S STAFFED DOWN TO THE BONE. IT'S BARELY SURVIVING, BUT IT HASN'T ASKED THE CITY GOVERNMENT TO HELP THEM OUT WITH ANY, WITH ANY CON SPECIAL CONTRACTS SO THEY CAN SECURE A LOAN. NO, I'M SORRY. UH, THE ROSEBURY QUALITY COMPANY REALLY NEEDS TO, UH, UH, USE ITS OWN RESOURCES INSTEAD OF US. THOSE ARE THE TAX PAYER. AND, AND IF YOU REALLY WILL WANT TO, TO, TO, TO PROVE THAT TO, TO, TO, THAT YOU DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, SPECIAL INTEREST WITH THIS COMPANY, WELL, WELL PUT THE CONTRACT OUT FOR BIDS INSTEAD, INSTEAD OF JUST OUTRIGHT GIVING IT TO THE KOWSKI COMPANY. AND, AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE KOWSKI COMPANY'S PHILANTHROPY OVER THE YEARS, WELL, I'M SORRY, BUT I I DO SPECIFICALLY RECALL SEEING ROSEMARY KOWSKI HAVING, GIVING A CONTRIBUTION TO YES, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, THE NATION'S BIGGEST ABORTION PROVIDER. I'M, I'M JUST VERY SORRY TO SEE THAT SINCE MS. MS. COSTON CLAIMED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH. NO, I'M SORRY THAT THIS IS A BAD IDEA. AND, AND THE CITY COUNCIL NEEDS TO SAY NO TO IT AND GET OUT A, A, A BETTER SYSTEM OF BIDDING IT SO THAT WE, THE TAXPAYERS AREN'T LEFT ON THE HOOK FOR IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ, UM, UH, PATRICIA, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE SCREEN ABOUT, UM, I THINK IT'S THE VERY FIRST ONE ABOUT THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT STARTING AT, IN 2014, I THINK. AND, UH, SO I JUST, I, I, I WANNA START THERE. UM, BECAUSE I MEAN, THIS IS A 10 YEAR CONTRACT. WE ONLY HAVE A FEW REALLY LARGE CONTRACTS, UM, IN THE, IN THE CITY, THE CONVENTION CENTER, UH, THE BARGES. THERE WAS A RADIO CONTRACT. THERE'S VERY FEW, UM, THAT LOOK LIKE THIS. AND SO I THINK THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, WE, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE JUST HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT AS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE ASKING TO EXTEND THE CONTRACT, WHICH WOULD THEN BE 15 YEARS. UM, BECAUSE RK HAS HAD THE CONTRACT AT CONVENTION CENTER SINCE 1968. OR WHAT, WHAT, HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN? YOU'RE MUTED, [03:25:01] TIA, YOU NEED TO UNMUTE PATIA. YEAH, I, I GOT IT. MA'AM, GO AHEAD. OKAY. GOT, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, JOHN. UH, SO, I'M SORRY. UM, SO MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE, UM, THE, UM, R K GROUP, UM, AND THE JOINT VENTURE HAS BEEN WITH THIS CONTRACT AND THE ONE PREVIOUS TO THAT SINCE 1997. BUT THEY'VE BEEN HERE FROM, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR NUMEROUS YEARS DATING BACK TO THE 1970S. UM, I MEAN, SO IT'S, IT'S, I THINK, THE LONGEST CONTRACT THAT I'VE EVER SEEN, UH, IN THE CITY. SO I THINK THE LONGEST, UM, UH, CONTRACTS I'VE SEEN ARE WITH FROST BANK AND WITH, UM, RK FOR THE CATERING. SO WE KNOW THEY'VE HAD IT A REALLY LONG TIME. SO REALLY NO QUESTION THAT THEY PROVIDE EXCELLENT SERVICE. UM, NO QUESTION THAT, I MEAN, I, I HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND, UM, SOME CONFERENCES IN OTHER PARTS OF THE, OF THE COUNTRY, AND PERHAPS, UM, NOBODY DOES IT BETTER. AND, AND I THINK THERE'S NO QUESTION THERE. UM, I, I DO SEE THAT THIS JOINT VENTURE, UM, IS THIS THE FIRST JOINT VENTURE WHERE THERE'S BEEN A MINORITY PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT, OR WAS THAT ALSO TRUE? IN 97, 97, THERE WAS A GOOD FAITH EFFORT PLAN WITH SUBCONTRACTING GOLD. AND, UM, SOME OF THESE PARTNERS WERE A PART OF THAT AS WELL, BUT IT WAS UNTIL THIS CONTRACT THAT THE JOINT VENTURE WAS CREATED. OKAY. AND SO I DON'T GO AHEAD CARLOS, COUNSEL. I'M SORRY. SORRY TO INTERRUPT, CARLOS. UM, THAT WAS INTENTIONAL. THE, THE R F P REQUIRED A JOINT VENTURE. WE WERE TRYING AT THAT TIME TO BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THE LOCAL CATERERS. THIS IS A, AS YOU KNOW, VERY LARGE CONTRACT, UH, CONVENTION BUSINESSES TAKES, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY THEY'RE NATIONAL FIRMS, NOT LOCAL FIRMS. UM, AND SO THAT, THAT WAS INTENTIONAL TO REQUIRE A JOINT VENTURE, UH, IN, IN, IN 2014. YES, MA'AM. MM-HMM. , RIGHT. SO JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. SO, UM, AND THEN, UH, I GUESS, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE OF PATRICIA, BECAUSE I WAS CONCERNED THAT I DIDN'T SEE, UM, THAT TONY G'S PARTNERSHIP MENTIONED IN THERE. SO I SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE BLACK TIE, UNLESS THEY'RE UNDER SOMEBODY ELSE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT A PARTNER UNDER THE JOINT VENTURE THEY ARE ONE OF THE SUBCONTRACTORS THAT THEY HAVE. OH, OKAY. SO THERE WAS A MENTION OF X NUMBER OF SUBCONTRACTORS MM-HMM. . AND SO, UM, WHICH HAVE A VERY SMALL OR SO THEY JUST GET CONTRACTED WHEN THERE'S BUSINESS. SO IF THERE'S NO BUSINESS, OBVIOUSLY, WELL, NOBODY'S HAVING BUSINESS. I I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT. SO THE SUBCONTRACTORS ARE JUST BASED ON THE, UM, WHENEVER THEY'RE, THERE'S AN EVENT. CORRECT. UM, OKAY. SO, BUT I WILL, I WILL EMPHASIZE AGAIN THAT THEY, UH, THEY HAVE EXCEEDED THEIR 16, UH, SUBCONTRACTORS THAT THEY PARTNER WITH. THEY'VE PAID 'EM, LIKE I I MENTIONED, UH, DURING THE PRESENTATION OVER 15.2 MILLION. UM, SBE, THEY'RE EXCEEDING THEIR 20% GOAL BY OVER A MILLION DOLLARS. THEY'RE M W B E, THEY'RE ALSO EXCEEDING THAT GOAL BY OVER $5 MILLION. G A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK THAT THEY'RE A PARTNER BECAUSE THEY'RE HERE ALL OF THE TIME. THEY'RE DO, THEY DO THEIR BAR SERVICE. AND SO, UM, THEY'VE BEEN, UH, AND THEY'VE PARTNERED WITH, UM, THE JOINT VENTURE AND ALL OF THESE PARTNERS FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. THE COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, I WOULD THEY WORK PARTNER. YEAH, THE R F P REQUIRED BOTH JOINT VENTURE AND SUB SUBCONTRACTING REQUIREMENTS. OKAY. UH, SO I MEAN, I, UM, AGAIN, LIKE AS FAR AS THE INFORMATION THAT YOU'RE PRESENTING, I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT THERE, UM, AN EXCELLENT, UH, SERVICE PROVIDER. UH, WE KNOW THAT THEY HELP SELL THE CONVENTION CENTER. I THINK THAT'S TRUE. AS I MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD OPPORTUNITIES TO ATTEND EVENTS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND, AND PERHAPS NOBODY DOES IT BETTER. SO THAT, THOSE ARE NOT REALLY MY CONCERNS. THE, THE CONCERN I HAVE IS THAT IT'S JUST SUCH A LONG CONTRACT, AND WE KNOW THAT THESE ARE VERY DIFFICULT TIMES, AND THAT'S WHY IN MY CONVERSATION I'VE ASKED, IS IT POSSIBLE TO EXTEND IT ONE YEAR, JUST GIVEN THAT WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS. AND GIVEN THE RESOLUTION THAT WE JUST APPROVED THIS MORNING, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR, FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION, UH, IN ALL AREAS, WHETHER IT'S IN BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, OR WHETHER THERE'S IN BIG CONTRACTS, LIKE WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY EVEN WITHIN THE CONTRACT TO ALLOW FOR ONE OF THE [03:30:01] MINORITY PARTNERS TO BECOME THE MAJORITY PARTNER? AND I MEAN, I, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THOSE ARE PRIVATE DECISIONS. THAT WOULD BE A BRAND NEW R F P. UM, BUT THAT COULD BE DECIDED IN 2024 WHEN WE, OR 25, IN FACT. BUT COULD YOU GO BACK TO THAT SCREEN? I, I KEEP GETTING MY TIME AGAIN. UH, IN 2024 WHEN WE GET LIKE A BETTER PICTURE OF, OF WHAT'S HAPPENING, UM, HERE, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH CONVENTIONS, I MEAN, I THINK LIKE MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES WE'VE BEEN WATCHING, UM, THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION ON TELEVISION, IT'S BEEN A FABULOUS, UH, UH, PRESENTATION OF EVENTS. UM, I KNOW THAT, I MEAN, THERE'S SEVERAL OTHER CONVENTIONS, UM, THAT I'VE BEEN ATTENDING VIRTUALLY, AND THAT'S GAINING MOMENTUM. AND I HAVE A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CONVENTIONS, UM, NOT JUST FOR SAN ANTONIO, BUT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. AND SO, YOU KNOW, MAY IT, THE CONTRACT LOOKED COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, UM, UH, FOUR YEARS FROM NOW. AND WE KNOW THAT FOOD IS ALWAYS GONNA BE AN IMPORTANT PIECE, AND PRESENTATION IS GONNA BE AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF THAT. BUT THERE'S OTHER CATERERS IN TOWN. THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE THAT MAY BE EMERGING, UM, THAT COULD DO FLORAL AND, UM, DESIGN WORK. UM, WE DON'T KNOW. WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, OUR, EVEN OUR ARTS COMMUNITY IS TRYING VERY HARD TO REESTABLISH ITSELF. I JUST DON'T THINK THAT IT'S FAIR, UH, FOR US TODAY TO EXTEND A CONTRACT ANOTHER FIVE YEARS, GIVEN ALL THE UNCERTAINTY. LIKE, WE KNOW THINGS ARE BAD NOW. AND SO WHEN, UM, WHEN MR. ALTI COMES AND SAYS THAT THERE IS NO BUSINESS, AND JOHNNY, AND WELL, HEATHER ARE SAYING THERE'S NO BUSINESS, I ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE THEM. I MEAN, WE WITNESS IT EVERY DAY, UM, THAT THINGS ARE BAD, BUT PERHAPS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE CONTRACT LOOKS DIFFERENT. MAYBE IT'S MORE VIRTUAL. MAYBE IT'S, UM, MORE IT SUPPORT, UH, AND PERHAPS THERE'S NOT THE NEED FOR SUCH, UH, EVEN, UM, LARGE, UH, COMMITMENTS BACK TO THE CITY IF THE, THE SITUATION LOOKS DIFFERENT. SO I, I DON'T SUPPORT THIS CONTRACT. UM, I WOULD URGE MY COLLEAGUES NOT TO SUPPORT THE EXTENSION OF THE CONTRACT. THERE'S STILL FIVE MORE YEARS IN THE CONTRACT. WE CAN DECIDE THAT, OR, AND THE FUTURE COUNCIL CAN DECIDE THAT WHEN THE TIME COMES, UM, UH, CURRENTLY, UM, WE KNOW THINGS ARE BAD AND, AND, AND THEY'RE, THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE THEY'RE GONNA GET ANY BETTER. UH, AND SO EXTENDING THIS CONTRACT, UM, I DON'T NECESSARILY THINK WILL BENEFIT OUR CITY, UM, AT ALL, GIVEN THAT WE JUST DUNNO WHAT TO EXPECT. SO THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS, MAYOR, AND, AND THAT I DON'T, I DON'T SUPPORT THE STAFF RECOMMENDATION. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH ESIA FOR, UH, MAKING THE PRESENTATION, BEING THAT THE, OUR KEY GROUP IS IN DISTRICT TWO AND ALL OF THE INVESTMENTS THAT THEY PUT INTO THE COMMUNITY MAKES THEM A VITAL ASSET FOR THE COMMUNITY. UM, NOT ONLY ARE THEY A GROUP THAT HELPS WITH CATERING AT THE CONVENTIONS, THEY ARE A VITAL ASSET TO ACTUALLY OVERCOMING THE ECONOMIC SEGREGATION AND, UM, ECONOMIC DISPARITY THAT WE HAVE SEEN IN DISTRICT TWO. WITHOUT THE LACK OF, OR WITH THE LACK OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS HAPPENED IN DISTRICT TWO, RK GROUP TOOK UP THE REIGNS OF MAKING SURE THAT THEY BROUGHT IN SOMETHING THAT WAS TOTALLY UNIQUE AND TOTALLY DIFFERENT TO THE DISTRICT TWO AREA. I REPRESENT DISTRICT TWO BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHANGES THAT WE NEED TO SEE, AND THAT IS BASED ON WHY WE PUSH FORWARD WITH THE RESOLUTION DECLARING RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT RRK GROUP AND HOW THEY HIRE, HOW THEY GIVE TO THEIR EMPLOYEES, HOW THEY ARE MAKING A STANCE WITH EVEN MAKING SURE THAT THEIR EMPLOYEES ARE BEING HOUSED DURING THIS PANDEMIC, IT SPEAKS TO THE TRUE EQUITY AND INCLUSION THAT THEY BRING TO THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO. IF THIS IS AN EXTENSION FOR JUST THE CONTRACT WITH THE FACILITIES, THEN MAYBE THERE IS A PROBLEM. BUT THIS IS DEFINITELY SPEAKING TO WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN WHEN YOU PUSH FORTH WITH TRUE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SPEAKING TO RACIAL EQUALITY. UM, THIS IS WHAT THIS WILL DO FOR THIS COMPANY. IT'S NOT ABOUT JUST THE COMPANY ITSELF, BUT LOOKING AT HOW THEY'RE REALLY DEDICATING THIS COMPANY TO BEING A PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW YOU ACTUALLY ELEVATE AND LEVERAGE WHAT YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT OTHER LIVES ARE IMPROVED IS WHY I'M SUPPORTING THE EXTENSION OF THIS CONTRACT. AND I MOTION, UH, FOR APPROVAL. OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION, UH, FOR THE APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 29. DID I HEAR A SECOND [03:35:01] MOTION? UH, AND A SECOND BY PERRY. UH, GO NOW TO COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU, PATRICIA, FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR REACHING OUT, UH, TO ME, UH, TO ENSURE MY QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED. UM, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND ASK SOME OF THEM, UH, AGAIN, UH, TO THE KOWALSKI FAMILY. UM, I WANT TO THANK YOU. YOU HAVE, UH, YOU HAVE HELPED US ON SOME COMMUNITY EVENTS. UH, YOU, YOU SAVED US BECAUSE YOU HAD TEMPS AVAILABLE FOR, FOR AN EVENT THAT WE WERE HAVING. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING SO GENEROUS AND FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS YOU'VE MADE AT THE CHURCH, UH, THAT I GREW UP WITH, UH, ST. PAUL'S CATHOLIC CHURCH ON ST. CLOUD. UM, SO SPEAKING OF 10TH, I'M GOING TO ASK, UH, CARLOS OR PATRICIA A QUESTION. WHEN THIS CONTRACT, UH, WENT OUT TO BID, UH, WHAT SORT OF REQUIREMENTS WERE THERE FOR THE, UM, FOR LIKE, WHAT KIND OF CAPITAL DOES A, DOES A BIDDER HAVE TO COME WITH EVEN TO BE CONSIDERED FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS? MM-HMM. . SO COUNCILMAN, UH, COUNCILWOMAN PART OF THE REQUIREMENTS WAS A $1 MILLION, UM, SIGN ON BONUS FEE, AND THEN THIS, YOU KNOW, 500,000 RENEWAL FEE THAT THEY HAD TO DO. ALONG WITH THAT, THEY NEEDED TO PROVIDE, UM, 10,000, UM, PIECES OF PLACE, HIGH QUALITY PLACE SETTINGS. THEY NEEDED, UH, TO PROVIDE UNIFORMS FOR, UM, THEIR EMPLOYEES. THEY NEEDED TO ALSO PROVIDE A POINT OF SALE SYSTEM, UH, FOR THEIR OPERATIONS. THOSE WERE SOME OF, UM, THE ITEMS ALONG WITH, YOU KNOW, UNDER THE CONTRACT, THE, THE, THE CONTRACTOR OR JOINT VENTURE NEEDED TO DO ALL OF THE MAINTENANCE AND THE CLEANING IN THEIR AREA. THE, THE CITY BASICALLY PROVIDED THE KITCHEN AND THE KITCHEN EQUIPMENT. SO, UH, THEY ALSO HAVE TO PROVIDE ALL OF THE FOOD PRODUCT, ALL OF THE, UH, EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH THE EVENT THAT IS ON THE, THE, THE, THE CONCESSIONAIRE. UM, AND THE JOINT VENTURE, UH, NO DOUBT HAD TO TAKE OUT ALONE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT EARLY ON ALL THE STARTUP THOUGHTS. SO THAT NEW JOINT VENTURE, UM, JUST FOR, AS A REMINDER, THIS IS THE, THE JOINT VENTURE CAME INTO EXISTENCE BECAUSE THE CITY REQUIRED IT. AND ESSENTIALLY, RK, WHICH HAD HAD THE CONTRACT FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, WAS EFFECTIVELY TEACHING OTHER LOCAL, UH, LOCAL, UH, PROVIDERS, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW TO, HOW TO COMPETE AND HOW TO DO THIS. AND SO IT WAS, IT WAS INTENTIONAL. WE WANTED TO GROW OTHER OPTIONS WITHIN THE CITY. AND SO IT WAS SUCCESSFUL IN DOING THAT. UH, SO THE, FOR INSTANCE, HAVING THOSE MILLION DOLLARS EVEN TO SIGN ON, UM, COULD THEY TAKE A LOAN OUT FOR THAT OR DID THEY HAVE TO HAVE THAT? I'M NOT SURE HOW THEY DID THAT, BUT DID YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID FOR THAT, FOR THEIR WORKING ? I, I SEE. WAS THEIR REQUIREMENT FOR IT, WAS IT REQUIRED TO BE CASH ON HIM? YES. YES. THE, THE MILLION DOLLARS WAS DUE, UM, YOU KNOW, SHORTLY AFTER, UH, THE CONTRACT COMMENCED. AND, AND WE DO HAVE, LIKE, IN EVERY R F P, WE DO HAVE A FINANCIAL REVIEW TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE FINANCIAL ABILITY TO DELIVER. THAT'S IN EVERY ONE OF OUR CONCESSION AGREEMENTS IS AN ANALYSIS OF THE RESPONDENT'S FINANCIAL RESOURCES. AND MANY THAT CAN'T DO THAT, UH, OR ARE NOT, ARE NOT CONSIDERED BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES. RIGHT. IT, IT SEEMS TO ME WITH THE, WITH THE THRESHOLD BEING SO HIGH, AND I, AND I CAN UNDERSTAND IT'S EXTREMELY, UH, IT MAKES OUR JOB THE WHOLE LOT EASIER, RIGHT? IF THE CATERER CAN COME WITH ALL OF THAT. BUT THE, BUT THE THRESHOLD IS REALLY, REALLY HIGH, SO IT'S EXTREMELY UNLIKELY THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOCAL COMPANY OR A MINORITY OWNED COMPANY TO, TO DO THAT. HAS THERE EVER BEEN THOUGHT TO, UH, BASICALLY BREAKING UP THE REQUIREMENTS BEFORE THE BID IS ISSUED? YES, THOSE ARE DEFINITELY, UM, THERE WERE CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES IN 2015 WE WERE ABOUT TO OPEN THE EXPANSION, BUT DEFINITELY THERE'S OPTIONS AVAILABLE. UM, YOU KNOW, IN, IN, IN THE FUTURE. I WILL TELL YOU, JUST LIKE CARLOS MENTIONED, UM, AGAIN, RK UM, YOU KNOW, IT, AND, AND IT'S NOT RK IT'S THE JOINT VENTURE, IT'S THE, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE TRUE FLAVORS. THEY WERE, THEY ALL CAME TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, TO, UM, COME UP WITH, YOU KNOW, THE REQUIREMENTS, ONE OF THEM BEING THE MILLION DOLLARS. BUT ALSO JUST TO EMPHASIZE, YOU KNOW, THE EXTENT OF WHAT CARLOS MENTIONED, UM, AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING WITH ALL OF THESE [03:40:01] PARTNERS AND ALL OF THESE SUBCONTRACTORS, THEY'RE REALLY BUILDING AND THEY'RE HELPING A LOT OF THESE LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES. AGAIN, THEY'VE PAID OVER $15 MILLION JUST IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS TO, UH, ABOUT 16 LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES. OKAY. HAVE WE EVER HAD A, UH, A LOCAL BUSINESS OF COLOR BID AS A PRIME LAST, UM, DURING THIS LAST CONTRACT, UH, PROCESS, WE ONLY HAD TWO, UH, TWO BITS. ONE WAS FROM THE RK CULINARY GROUP, AND THE OTHER ONE WAS FROM CENTRAL HOSPITALITY AND NATIONAL COMPANY CENTER PLACE, THAT IS IN OTHER, UH, NATIONAL, YOU KNOW, OTHER, UH, CONVENTION CENTERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WE ALSO HAD A THIRD PROPOSER THAT BASICALLY BACKED OUT, BUT IT WAS ANOTHER NATIONAL COMPANY. SO WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF HAVING A LOCAL, UH, MINORITY OWNED, UH, COMPANY BID IN IN FIVE YEARS? COUNCILWOMAN? UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S ALWAYS AN OPPORTUNITY, YOU KNOW, TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. I WILL TELL YOU THAT THIS OPERATION, THE, YOU KNOW, THE CATERING AND CONCESSION OPERATION AT THE CENTER IS VERY, VERY COMPLEX. IT REQUIRES, UM, YOU KNOW, A PROVIDER TO, YOU KNOW, BE MANAGING SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS FROM, YOU KNOW, AT ONE TIME, BEING ABLE TO FEED OVER 5,000 PEOPLE AT ONE TIME FOR SOME OF THESE, UM, EVENTS OR HAVING TO FEED MULTIPLE EVENTS, YOU KNOW, COMPRISING OF LARGE CROWDS AT ONE TIME, THEY HAVE TO ALSO MEET ALL OF THE, UM, YOU KNOW, CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS, WHICH THEY'RE DOING, YOU KNOW, THE, THE JOINT VENTURE IS DOING. AND THEN ABOVE ALL, WE WANT THEM TO HAVE HIGH, YOU KNOW, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION RATINGS, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE'RE ABLE TO BASICALLY GAIN MORE BUSINESS AND MAJOR CONVENTIONS AND MEETINGS TO SAN ANTONIO. SO A LOT OF JUGGLING THAT HAS TO GO ON BY A PROVIDER OF CATERING AND CONCESSIONS IN THIS CENTER. THANK YOU. UH, PATRICIA, COULD YOU CONFIRM THAT WITH THE LOAN, UH, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO, UH, CONTINUE PAYING BENEFITS FOR THOSE FURLOUGHED EMPLOYEES? MY, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY ARE PAYING A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE HEALTHCARE PREMIUMS THAT, UH, INSURANCE COSTS OF THEIR FURLOUGHED EMPLOYEES THROUGH THE END OF, UM, THIS CALENDAR YEAR. AND THE REASON FOR WHY THIS END OF THE CALENDAR YEAR, BECAUSE AGAIN, WE HAVE A, YOU KNOW, OUR, UH, CALENDAR, YOU KNOW, JANUARY AND BEYOND, WE STILL HAVE A LARGE PROPORTION OF OUR MEETINGS. YOU KNOW, NOT MANY HAVE CANCELED. THEY'RE REALLY KIND OF ON STANDBY. AND THERE WAS A, THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, A COMMENT ABOUT VIRTUAL MEETINGS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. I FIRMLY BELIEVE THAT WE WILL HAVE IN-PERSON MEETINGS, AND WE WILL HAVE, JUST FROM THE DISCUSSIONS AND THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD WITH A LOT OF OUR CUSTOMERS, THEY WANNA COME, THEY WANNA HAVE THEIR MEETINGS. THEY KNOW THAT I, I DON'T DISAGREE, BUT IT'S USING UP MY TIME AND I WASN'T ASKING THAT QUESTION. OKAY. I'M SORRY, I GET THAT TIME BACK. I, I'M SORRY. CAN YOU DO THAT, UH, RIGHT NOW? UM, SO, AND IS THAT FOR THE ENTIRE JOINT VENTURE, WE'LL BE PAYING THOSE BENEFITS? YES. THIS IS THE JOINT VENTURE. ALL OF THE EMPLOYEES ARE EMPLOYEES OF THE JOINT VENTURE. AND HOW MANY EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN FURLOUGHED? 137 EMPLOYEES WERE FURLOUGHED. SO THOSE ARE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR TONY G'S FOR, UH, TRUE . THOSE ARE EMPLOYEES THAT WORK FOR THE RK CULINARY GROUP, THE JOINT VENTURE MADE UP OF THESE THREE PARTNERS. UM, SO OKAY, I AM A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED, UM, BY THAT, BUT, UM, AND WHAT ELSE WILL THEY BE DOING WITH THE LOAN? PAYING FOR PAYROLL, PAYING FOR INSURANCE, UH, INSURANCE COSTS, AND PAYING FOR PRODUCT THAT THEY WILL NEED IN ORDER TO SERVICE EVENTS WHEN THEY COME, AS WELL AS, UH, DEBT PAYMENTS FOR, YOU KNOW, DEBT THAT THE JOINT VENTURE HAS. OKAY. UM, MY, UH, MY LAST QUESTION, UH, YOU, YOU DID BRING UP IN-PERSON MEETINGS, AND I, I DO HAVE TO TELL YOU, WE WERE VERY CONCERNED WHEN WE READ THE NEWS ABOUT THOSE IN-PERSON EVENTS HAPPENING AT THE HEIGHT OF THE PANDEMIC. AND, UH, I HAVE ASKED THE CITY MANAGER TO GIVE US, UM, BASICALLY, UM, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT WHEN ARE, WHEN IS IT GOING TO BE OKAY TO HAVE EVENTS AND WHEN NOT? UM, WE'D LOVE TO GET THOSE, UH, AND I, AND I HOPE IT COMPLIES WITH WHAT WE ARE RECOMMENDING, UH, THAT PEOPLE DO. SO, UM, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. MAYOR, LET ME JUST JUMP IN THERE. UM, OBVIOUSLY COUNCILMAN, UM, [03:45:01] WHAT WE DO, WE'LL COMPLY WITH, UM, UH, THE GOVERNOR'S ORDERS AND THE LOCAL ORDERS, AND, UH, CARLOS AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, DR. BRIDGER, PATRICIA AND I ARE, UH, CONTINUING TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND WE'LL MAKE SURE WE SHARE THAT WITH COUNSEL. UM, OKAY. WHAT'S THE TIMELINE? QUICKLY? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL. COUNCIL MEMBER VIA, OKAY. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, PATRICIA, UH, I JUST WANNA SAY FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. I KNOW THIS HAS NOT BEEN EASY WITH EVERYTHING IN HOT MANAGING, THE ALAMO DOME, THE CONVENTION CENTER, EVERYTHING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. UM, AND THE, THE STRESS TOO THAT I'M SURE IT IS TRYING TO BOOK, TRYING TO KEEP EVERYTHING, AND NOW TRYING TO DEAL WITH THIS. SO THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK, , I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. UM, AS WELL AS YOUR DISPOSITION THROUGH IT ALL TOO. I'M SURE IT'S NOT, I'M SURE IT'S NOT EASY. UM, ABOUT THIS EXTENSION, UM, IS THERE ROOM, SO FIRST THEY HAVE TO GET THE LOAN, CORRECT? YES, MA'AM. MM-HMM. . SO FIRST THEY HAVE TO GET THE LOAN, AND WHAT IF THEY DO NOT GET THE LOAN FROM THE BANK? WHAT HAPPENS THEN? IT DOES THEIR CONTRACT STILL CONTINUE UNTIL 2030? COUNCIL MEMBER? IT DOESN'T, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ONCE AN EXTENSION IS, UH, IF AN EXTENSION WERE GRANTED BY THE COUNCIL, IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT? CORRECT. CORRECT. OKAY. YEAH, THEY'RE OBLIGATED UNDER THE, UNDER THE CONTRACT TO, TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE. IF THEY WERE FINANCIALLY UNABLE TO DO THAT FOR WHATEVER REASON, WE WOULD HAVE TO ADDRESS THAT ISSUE AT THAT POINT. BUT THEY ARE, UM, THEY'RE OBLIGATED UNDER THE CONTRACT. THE JOINT VENTURE IS, UH, THEY NEED, THEY TOLD US, AND, AND WE, WE BELIEVE IT. 'CAUSE IT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING IN TERMS OF LOSS OF REVENUE. THEY NEED TO WORK IN CAPITAL TO CONTINUE TO, TO DO THAT, EVEN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. THEY NEED THE WORKING CAPITAL. THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE EXTENSION IS, IT MAKES IT EASIER. IT MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO GET A LOAN BECAUSE THE NEXT FIVE YEARS THEY'RE EXPECTING LOSSES. IT, IT IS NOT UNTIL THE FOLLOW THE SUBSEQUENT FIVE YEARS THAT THEY COULD GENERATE REVENUE TO BE ABLE TO PAY WHAT THEY NEED TO PAY FOR. SO, UM, SO, SO IF THE, THE COUNCIL CHOOSES FOR THIS EXTENSION, WHERE ARE THE CHECK-INS? WHERE ARE THE BACKSTOPS THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT IF THEY DO GET THIS LOAN THAT THEY ARE PAYING, UM, THE, THE HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THE FURLOUGHED, WHERE IS THAT BUILT INTO THIS AGREEMENT? IF IT'S NOT, IT SHOULD BE . WE CERTAINLY CAN MAKE IT PART OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT. I THINK THAT WOULD BE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE, UM, THAT, THAT WOULD BE WORKED INTO TO THIS, THAT WE HAVE CHECK-IN POINTS, UM, EITHER WITH THE, UM, AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY OR WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO HAVE THESE CHECK-INS AND THESE BACKSTOPS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, THOSE EMPLOYEES ARE GETTING, UM, THE BENEFITS AND, UH, THE INSURANCE PAID. UM, WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A PRIMARY, UM, WOMEN, WOMEN OWNED LOCAL BUSINESS HERE AND, UM, TO COUNCIL. AND, AND I AM, UH, I'M HEARING BOTH MY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, GONZALEZ, BECAUSE BECAUSE OF STRUCTURES IN PLACE IN THE PAST, IT DIDN'T ALLOW OPPORTUNITIES OR ACCESSIBILITY, UM, FOR, FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR. THEN I HEAR MY, UM, COUNCIL COLLEAGUE ANDREW SULLIVAN, THAT THEY, RK GROUP HAS ALSO, THE JOINT VENTURE HAS ALSO SEEN THE, THE ERRORS AND THE NEEDS AND HAVE MADE ADJUSTMENTS AND TO THEIR BENEFIT AND TO ALL OF THEIR BENEFITS. UM, SO WHAT ABOUT IF SOMETHING DIRE HAPPENS AND WE SEE, GOD FORBID, UM, A ANOTHER SPIKE AND SOMETHING COMPLETELY OFF, IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK DOWN THE LINE TO RESTRUCTURE THE AGREEMENT, THE, THIS AGREEMENT AS IN MOVING A SUB UP OR, OR WHAT HAVE YOU? IS THERE OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT OR WOULD IT BE IF IT'S BANKRUPTCY, GOD FORBID. 'CAUSE WE DON'T WANT THAT. [03:50:01] UM, SO IS THERE OPPORTUNITY THERE OR WOULD THEY HAVE TO COME TO US WITH ANOTHER REQUEST COUNCIL MEMBER? IF, IF, IF THINGS GO SOUTH, UH, AGAIN, AND WE CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE OVER EXPERIENCING TODAY A LACK OF BUSINESS, THERE'S GONNA HAVE TO BE A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE PROCEED FORWARD. UH MM-HMM. WITH THE, WITH THE DEPARTMENT, WITH THE FACILITIES, WITH, UH, WITH ALL OF OUR PARTNERS. THERE'S MORE THAN JUST THEM AS PARTNERS, ALL OF OUR PARTNERS THAT ARE IN THE CONVENTION CENTERS. SO THIS JUST PROVIDES THEM A FIGHTING CHANCE TO, TO STAY ON AND REMAIN AT A JOINT VENTURE AT. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS WOULD ALLOWS THEM TO DO. AND THIS, THIS EXTENSION OR, OR IF THEY ARE GRANTED THIS LOAN, THIS WOULD NOT GO TO ANY OTHER PORTIONS, LIKE TO THE RED BERRY OR TO ANYTHING, UM, LIKE THAT, IS THAT CORRECT? ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. COUNCIL MEMBER, THIS IS JUST FOR THE JOINT VENTURE, THAT LINE OF BUSINESS. AND SO, UH, REMIND ME, HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING THEIR EMPLOYEES? THEY'RE CLOSE TO PAYING, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THEIR EMPLOYEES, THE, THE $15, BUT ALL OF 'EM WILL GET PAID AT LEAST $15 AN HOUR STARTING IN 2021. THEY HAVEN'T, THEY BUILT A PLAN TO IT. THEY'RE CLOSE TO THE 15TH, NOT THERE YET, BUT THEY WILL BE THERE IN 21. AND WHEN YOU SAY THEIR EMPLOYEES, IS THAT, UM, IS THAT ALL OF THE, UM, HOW MANY ARE STILL, ARE NOT FURLOUGHED THAT ARE GOING TO GET PAID THAT MUCH? UM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THE EMPLOYEES, ALL 154 EMPLOYEES. OKAY. UM, THEY HAD 154 BEFORE FURLOUGHING 137. SO AS THEY BRING BACK ALL OF THEIR EMPLOYEES, ALL OF 'EM WILL GET PAID AT LEAST THE $15 AN HOUR. OKAY. OKAY. UH, I HAVE ONE OTHER QUESTION I CAN'T REMEMBER, BUT THANK YOU FOR, UM, THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS, AND IF SOMETHING ELSE COMES UP, I'LL RAISE MY HAND AGAIN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER GRA AND COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. I JUST WANT TO PUT A LITTLE BIT INTO THIS AS WELL. THIS TEAM HAS BEEN A GREAT PARTNER OF THE CITIES AND HAS SATISFIED CUSTOMERS AND ACTUALLY I THINK HELPED TO ENCOURAGE CONTINUED CONVENTIONS COMING HERE TO SAN ANTONIO. AND WE CAN'T IGNORE THAT. AND ALONG WITH ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE DONE DIRECTLY FOR THE COMMUNITY HERE, WE'VE GOT A GREAT PARTNER THAT THIS IS IN THE CONTRACT, IT CAN BE EXERCISED. THEY'RE COMING TO US ASKING US FOR HELP TO SECURE A LOAN SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE THEIR OPERATIONS AND CONTINUE PAYING THEIR PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH THIS AT ALL. AND THIS IS, UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK WE SHOULD DO MORE OF FOR OUR GREAT PARTNERS HERE IN THE CITY, IN THESE BUSINESSES, WHETHER IT'S SMALL OR LARGE, WE NEED TO, UH, HELP TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTINUE TO WORK HERE FOR THE CITY AND, UH, CONTINUE TO THAT GREAT PARTNERSHIP. SO I TOTALLY SUPPORT THIS, UH, REQUEST AND HOPE THAT WE CAN PASS THIS AND LET THEM CONTINUE TO OPERATE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER SANDOVAL, DID YOU, UH, CUE BACK IN? OKAY. ALRIGHT. UM, I THINK THAT'S EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. I, I'LL, I'LL JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS PANDEMIC HAS HURT, UH, EVERYONE, AND IT'S HURT OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY, LARGE AND SMALL. IT'S HURT OUR CONVENTION BUSINESS. IT'S HURT EVERY SECTOR OF THIS CITY JUST ABOUT. AND, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT THESE ARE LARGE CONTRACTS, UM, THAT INVOLVE A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF, A LOT OF, UH, OUR NEIGHBORS, UM, AND, UH, COMPANIES THAT HAVE STRONG TRACK RECORDS FOR THIS CITY. UM, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE IS THAT WE ARE BEING ASKED TO, UH, HELP, UM, TO SUSTAIN, UH, IN THE WAYS THAT WE CAN. UH, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OBVIOUSLY HAS, UH, RESOURCES TO DO SO, UH, THROUGH P P P AND OTHER RELIEF EFFORTS. UH, WE DON'T HAVE THOSE SAME, UM, ABILITIES, BUT WE ARE MAKING, UH, SOME HEADWAY INTO THE CHALLENGES WITH OUR RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY PROGRAM, WHICH INCLUDES RELIEF FOR SMALL BUSINESSES, UH, WHEN THERE ARE, UH, NON-MONETARY WAYS THAT WE CAN [03:55:01] BENEFIT, UH, A LOCAL BUSINESS, UH, WE SHOULD SEEK IT, UH, ESPECIALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A CRISIS. AND THAT'S WHAT I SEE THIS AS, UH, THE ABILITY TO EXTEND, UH, AND APPLY FOR THEIR OWN FINANCING, UH, IN ORDER TO SUSTAIN A BUSINESS. ONE THAT'S BEEN CRITICAL TO THE HISTORY OF SAN ANTONIO AND FOR OUR COMMUNITIES HERE. UM, AND, AND ONE THAT WILL NEED TO BE COUNTED ON, UH, IN AN INDUSTRY WHEN IT SPRINGS BACK TO LIFE, IS GOING TO NEED, UH, STRONG PARTNERS THAT HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE LOCAL BUSINESS COMMUNITY ALREADY ENGAGED. UH, IT IS TOUGH. I KNOW THAT, UM, UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES AND I THINK THAT THE, THE ASK IS REASONABLE, UH, FOR THIS PARTICULAR, UM, EXTENSION, GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES. SO I'LL BE SUPPORTING THIS. UH, THERE ARE NO OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, IN THE QUEUE FOR THE DISCUSSION. SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE UP THE MOTION MADE BY COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. UM, WE'LL TAKE A VOICE, VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? NA. OKAY. MOTION CARRIES. ALRIGHT. UM, WE'LL MOVE NOW, UH, TO OUR ZONING AGENDA [Z-1. 20-4642 ZONING CASE Z-2019-10700288 HL (Council District 1): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "RM-4 AHOD" Residential Mixed Airport Hazard Overlay District to "RM-4 HL AHOD" Residential Mixed Historic Landmark Airport Hazard Overlay District on Lot 4 and Lot 5, Block 30, NCB 3036, located at 214 Lotus Avenue. Staff and Zoning Commission recommend Approval.] AND WE HAVE MANY, UM, ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION ON THE ZONING AGENDA. UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE 'EM IN ORDER NOW. UM, FIRST ITEM FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION ON OUR ZONING AGENDA IS ITEM Z ONE. CAN YOU HEAR ME, SIR? YES. ALL RIGHT. Z ONE IS REZONING FROM ARM FOUR TO ARM FOUR HL, LOCATED AT TWO 14 LOTUS AVENUE. STAFF AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL. THERE WERE 32 NOTICES MAILED THREE IN FAVOR, ONE OPPOSED LAVACCA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS IN SUPPORT AND DUE TO THE OWNER'S OPPOSITION, THIS WILL REQUIRE NINE VOTES TO IMPROVE. MAYOR. ALRIGHT, UH, THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER T UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. UH, YOU KNOW, THIS PROCESS TO INITIATE HISTORIC DE DESIGNATION OF THIS CASE WAS APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. I INTEND TO SEE THIS PROCESS THROUGH AND PRESERVE THE HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE PRIMARY STRUCTURE. UH, THE HISTORIC DESIGN REVIEW COMMISSION AND I BOTH TOOK A VISIT TO THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION TO BETTER EVALUATE THE HISTORIC NATURE OF THE STRUCTURE. UH, BASED ON MY PERSONAL EVALUATION, TOGETHER WITH THE SUPPORT OF H D R C AND ZONING COMMISSION, I LIKED A MOTION, UH, FOR APPROVAL OF THE HISTOR HISTORICAL DESIGNATION. OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION OF SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM Z ONE. I, I MISSED THAT. WE DO HAVE ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM Z ONE. SO LET ME CALL THAT, UH, PERSON FORWARD. NOW, JOSE GALLEGOS IS, UH, MR. GALLEGOS CONNECTED? ALRIGHT, UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND TAKE A VOTE THEN. UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM C TWO [Z-2. 20-4713 ZONING CASE Z-2020-10700023 CD (Council District 1): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "R-4 AHOD" Residential Single-Family Airport Hazard Overlay District to "R-4 CD AHOD" Residential Single-Family Airport Hazard Overlay District with Conditional Use for a Professional Office on Lot 9 and Lot 10, Block 7, NCB 2800, located at 116 Annie Street. Staff recommends Approval. Zoning Commission recommends Denial. (Continued from June 18, 2020.)] C TWO IS REZONING FROM R FOUR TO R FOUR CD WITH A CONDITIONAL USE FOR A PROFESSIONAL OFFICE LOCATED AT ONE 16 ANNIE STREET. STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDS DENIAL. THERE WAS 16 NOTICES MAILED FIVE IN FAVOR, ZERO OPPOSED. AND THE MONTE VISTA TERRACE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS OPPOSED, AND I BELIEVE THERE CITIZENS SIGNED IN TO SPEAK. MAYOR, YES. THANK YOU'LL GO NOW START WITH, UH, JACK FOLLOWED BY REYES. MR. FINGER. HELLO? HELLO. GO AHEAD, MR. FINGER. YES, SIR. WELL, I JUST WANTED TO RE RE REITERATE THAT, UH, UH, THERE'S SEVERAL ZONING CASES HERE THAT, THAT NEED TO, YOUR ATTENTION HERE IS Z TWO IS IS ONE WHEREBY THE, UH, THE ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED DENIAL. ALSO, THE MONTE VISTA, UH, UH, ASSOCIATION ALSO OPPOSED IT, AND IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE, BECAUSE OF THE, UH, COMMERCIAL ENCROACHMENT THAT THAT WAS CITED THERE. THE, THEN YOU HAVE, UH, A Z FOUR YES. THE, UH, UH, THE ONE DAY DEALING WITH, I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT HERE. YEAH, Z FOUR. THERE HAVE BEEN CASES HERE. UH, THE, UH, ONCE AGAIN, THE ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED DENIAL FOR THIS BECAUSE OF THE PROPOSED, UH, UH, THE, THE, AND THERE'S [04:00:01] ABOUT 11 NOTICES I NOTICED THAT WERE SENT OUT TO, TO TWO PEOPLE FROM THE SURROUNDING AREA POST THAT'S, UH, GOLLY, ABOUT A GOOD 20% WHEN, UH, A FIVE OR 10% IS WHAT, WHAT YOU NORMALLY GET. THAT INDICATES A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF OPPOSITION. YOU HAD AS MANY AS 37 LETTERS OF OPPOSITION, UH, FOR IN THE AREA. AND, UM, AND THE OLD PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ALSO, UH, OPPOSED IT. 48 PEOPLE I NOTICED ACCORDING TO DOCUMENTS SPOKE, WROTE OR, UH, AGAINST THIS AND WHY? WELL, APPARENTLY BECAUSE OF THE HIGH DENSITY USES OF THAT WAS CITED IN THE, UH, IN THE DOCUMENTS THERE. YOU, YOU HAVE, UH, ALSO THE, UH, AND ALSO I GUESS PERHAPS IT'S THE PROPOSED BUILDING DEMOLITION AS WELL, THE VARIOUS OTHER ITEMS ON THIS PORTION OF THE AGENDA. THE, UH, UH, YOU HAVE Z UH, THE ONES THAT I THINK IT WAS Z NINE Z. UM, ANYWAY, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT I, I HAVE MENTIONED ALL THESE EARLIER AND I'D APPRECIATE IF Y'ALL WOULD, UH, ABIDE BY WHAT THE CITIZENS HAVE HAVE SAID WHEN THEY, THEY QUOTE THE, THE, THE VARIOUS ISSUES SUCH AS IN, IN A, UH, IN COMMERCIAL ENCROACHMENT, THE, THE, THE OVER INTENSITY OF, OF THE, UH, THE VARIOUS CASES THERE. UH, THERE, THERE ARE GOOD REASONS WHY PEOPLE ARE, I MEAN, I, I SAW RECORD NUMBERS OF PEOPLE EMAILING AND COMMUNICATING. IS THAT, THAT, THAT THESE ARE BAD IDEAS ON, ON THE ONES THAT YOU HAVE PULLED FOR CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. FINGER. GO NOW TO RUSSELL RE UH, I'M SORRY. UM, YES. RUSSELL REYES FOLLOWED BY MR, CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. CAN I BE HEARD? THANK YOU. I WANNA THANK THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK REZONING ONE 16. ANNIE WOULD HELP MY FAMILY'S RESTAURANT BUSINESS PANCHITO'S DOWNSIZE OFFICE SPACE AND THUS SAVE A SUBSTANTIAL, SUBSTANTIAL MONTHLY RUN EXPENSE. MY GRANDFATHER IN 1970 HAD A VISION, UM, TO FEED AND SERVE AND EMPLOY WESTSIDERS OF SAN ANTONIO. TWO YEARS LATER, THAT RESTAURANT BATON WAS PASSED ON TO MY PARENTS WHO BUSTED THEIR TAILS TO MAKE IT IN THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS. WHAT WAS, AND STILL IS, THEIR MOTIVATION IS THEIR PASSION FOR PEOPLE HELPING THEIR EMPLOYEES, GETTING THEM BACK ON THEIR FEET THROUGH DIFFICULT SITUATIONS, BOTH EMOTIONALLY AND FINANCIALLY. HELPING THEM DURING THESE UNFORTUNATE PERIODS IS WHAT MY PARENTS TO LIVE FOR, IS JUST BEING THERE FOR THEM. I'VE SEEN MY PARENTS LOSE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS ON UNPAID LOANS FOR EMPLOYEES WHO, WHO QUIT AND NEVER PAID THEM BACK. BUT THAT'S, THAT'S MY PARENTS. THEY, THEY LIVE FOR HELPING OTHERS. COVID HAS, UH, HAS CRUSHED OUR FAMILY BUSINESS AND REZONING 1 60 80 WOULD HELP US WORK OUR WAY BACK TO A, SUSTAIN A SUSTAINABLE POSITION AND PROVIDE US MORE BREEDING ROOM TO BRING BACK STAFF. HOW YOU ASK. WE CURRENTLY OCCUPY AN OFFICE SPACE AT 41 18 MCCULLOUGH AVENUE, WHERE WE PAY A SIZABLE RENT. WE'LL NOT HAVE A RENT EXPENSE IF WE REZONE, IF THE REZONING WERE APPROVED, I PRAY YOU PLEASE CONSIDER REZONING 1 60 80 FOR THE SAKE OF MY PARENTS, OUR SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY EMPLOYEES. CHEETOS CONCLUDE. WE SPENT TIME SPEAKING TO NEIGHBORS. WE'VE BEEN VERY WILLING TO ENTER INTO DEEDED RESTRICTIONS TO HELP KEEP THE BEAUTIFICATION OF THAT HOUSE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. IN FACT, THE PRESIDENT OF THE H O A MARY JOHNSON, UM, I QUOTE, DID NOT FEEL, WAS AN UNREASONABLE REQUEST, UM, QUOTE, BUT SHE HAS ONE RESIDENT WHO IS STRONGLY IN FAVOR OF DENIAL. ON THE OTHER HAND, WE'VE SPOKEN TO MULTIPLE RESIDENTS WITHIN 200 FEET OF THE HOUSE. UM, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY, A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF MR. MARTINEZ. FINE, FINE GENTLEMAN WHO'S OWNED THE HOME FOR OVER 20 YEARS. AND, UH, AFTER THEY, ALL OF THEM HEARING US OUT AND TAKING A TOUR OF THE HOUSE, UM, WE NOT ONLY IN SUPPORT, BUT RELIEVED TO KNOW THE PLANS WITH THE HOUSE, UH, IF THE HOUSE IS APPROVED TO BE REZONED. THANK GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU, AND THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME. THANK YOU, MR. REYES. MS. SUKO RAMOS, FOLLOWED BY ELIANA REYES. THANK YOU MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. FOR THE RECORD, THIS IS MIKO RAMOS WITH GOVERNMENT RELATIONS GROUP OF TEXAS. I REPRESENT AND REYES LIMITED, WHICH OPERATES A SMALL MINORITY BUSINESS ENTERPRISE AND FAMILY OWNED LEGACY [04:05:01] BUSINESS, THE BELOVED PANTOS RESTAURANT, SANTOS RESTAURANT. UM, MY CLIENT ALSO OWNS A THREE BEDROOM HOUSE AT ONE 16 ANNIE STREET, WHICH IS LOCATED ON THE WEST END OF ANNIE STREET, ACROSS FROM CHEETO'S PARKING LOT. AND THEY'RE REQUESTING A CONDITIONAL USE AUTHORIZATION, WHICH IS REALLY LIKE A PERMIT TO, UH, ALLOW TWO OF THEIR OFFICE WORKERS TO, UM, OCCUPY TWO ROOMS IN, IN THEIR HOUSE THAT ALREADY HAS DESKS. THEY CAN WORK ON THEIR LAPTOPS RATHER THAN, UH, GOING THROUGH WITH AN ADDITIONAL EXPENSE TO MAINTAIN A LEASE, A CORPORATE LEASE JUST FOR THOSE TWO EMPLOYEES. UM, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO THEM TO KEEP THEIR BUSINESS ALIVE. THEY ARE APPLIED FOR THIS ZONING CASE BEFORE COR, JUST BEFORE CORONAVIRUS BECAUSE THEY WERE ALREADY EXPERIENCING SOME FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. AND NOW WITH, WITH CORONAVIRUS, THEY ARE STRUGGLING GREATLY. SO, UM, I DID SEND A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION YESTERDAY, AN UPDATED POWERPOINT TO, TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. I, I HOPE THAT YOU HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW IT, BUT IF NOT, UM, I JUST WANT TO REITERATE THAT THE BASE ZONING WILL REMAIN AS R FOUR. UM, WE HAVE MET WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND RESIDENTS WITHIN 200 FEET WHO ARE EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE. UM, THE FAMILY IS VERY CLOSE TO THE COMMUNITY AND RESPECTS THE NEIGHBORS, AND THIS SHOULD HAVE ZERO IMPACT, YOU KNOW, ON THE AREA. SO MY REQUEST IS TO, UH, PLEASE SUPPORT THIS, UM, THIS REQUEST. I KNOW, MAYOR, YOU HAD STATED THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO USE NON-MONETARY, UH, WAYS TO HELP BUSINESSES SURVIVE IF POSSIBLE. AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE, UH, REQUESTS THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR IS TO ALLOW A CONDITIONAL USE AUTHORIZATION TO PERMIT TWO OF THEIR OFFICE EMPLOYEES TO, UH, USE THIS HOME OFFICE RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM CIOS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU, MS. RAMOS. ELIANA REYES. IS MS. REYES, UH, CONNECTED? OKAY, WE'LL GO TO, UM, AND THAT'S EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER TREVINO. THANK YOU MAYOR. UH, THE, THE MONTE VISTA TERRACE, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION HAS MADE IT VERY CLEAR THAT, UH, THEY INTEND TO MAINTAIN OR OR INCREASE THE HOUSING STOCK AVAILABLE IN THE AREA. UH, I BELIEVE ESPECIALLY IN THIS UNPRECEDENTED TIME, UH, THIS IDEAL SHOULD BE SUPPORTED. UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, THAT, THAT THIS IS A VERY DIFFICULT SUBJECT. UH, I AM GONNA AT THE MOMENT, MOTION TO, UH, TO DELAY FOR, FOR 30 DAYS FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION. UH, WE UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE MAY HAVE, HAVE, HAVE REQUESTED, UM, SOME MORE COMMUNICATION. UM, SO MOTION TO, UH, TO DELAY FOR 30 DAYS. SECOND, IT IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR, UM, A POSTPONEMENT OF ITEM Z TWO FOR 30 DAYS, UH, TO THE NEAREST, UH, COUNCIL AGENDA, UH, CONTINUANCE TO SEPTEMBER 17TH. OKAY, MOTION TO, UM, POSTPONE TO SEPTEMBER. WHAT WAS THAT AGAIN, KAT? SEPTEMBER 17TH. SEPTEMBER 17TH. UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ALRIGHT. MOTION CARRIES. ITEM Z FOUR AND [Items Z4 & P1] P ONE. THIS IS AMENDING THE SAN ANTONIO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT VICINITY LAND USE PLAN FOR MIXED USE TO HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL AND REZONING FROM OH TWO C THREE AND A AND C TWO CD. WITH THE CONDITIONAL USE FOR CONSTRUCTION TRADES CONTRACTOR FACILITY TO MF 33, LOCATED AT 5 38 EDWARDES STREET. STAFF AND PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDS DENIAL. 11. NOTICES MAILED FOUR IN FAVOR TO OPPOSE, UH, THE APPLICANT AND REPRESENTATIVE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CONNECT, UM, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A PRESENTATION. SO I'VE INFORMED, UH, THE CLERK'S OFFICE JUST TO LET THEM KNOW SO THAT WAY THEY SHOULD BE, THEY SHOULD BE CALLING IN SHORTLY AND THERE'S SOME PEOPLE SIGN IN TO SPEAK. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. UM, WE'LL START WITH JANET PV FOLLOWED BY MEGAN SANDERS. YES, MAYOR, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU NOW. HELLO. OKAY, THANK YOU. THIS DEVELOPMENT WILL ADD TO THE DIVERSITY OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AND ALLOW POTENTIALLY DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS TO ATTEND SOME OF THE BEST SCHOOLS IN TEXAS. GOOD EDUCATION BREAKS NEGATIVE ECONOMIC CYCLES. CHANGE IS HARD AND OPPOSITION TO CHANGE IS SUBTLE. IF THIS CAN COME IN FORMS OF SAYING [04:10:01] TO SOMEBODY, YOU'RE NOT QUITE RIGHT FOR THIS JOB IN THIS INSTANCE, IT IS OPPOSITION THAT HAS ACTUALLY BEEN DISPROVEN. A LOT OF THE OPPOSITION THAT I HAVE READ THROUGH HAS TO DO WITH TRAFFIC. THIS HAS ACTUALLY BEEN DISPROVEN BY AN INDEPENDENT TRAFFIC REPORT, UM, THAT SHOWS THAT NOT ONLY WILL THIS NOT ADD TO THE TRAFFIC, IT MAKES IT BE SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN THE EXISTING LANDSCAPING BUSINESS THAT OCCUPIES THE SPACE. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE CITIZENS OF THIS AREA ARE VERY DISHEARTENED BY A RECENT SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS ARTICLE TALKING ABOUT THE RACIST HISTORY OF THIS PARTICULAR SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE CITIZENS THAT I KNOW AND LOVE ARE NOT THESE KINDS OF PEOPLE. PLEASE LET US SHOW OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT WE ARE NOT THESE TYPES OF CITIZENS AND ALLOW THIS DIVERSITY AND TO TAKE PLACE IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. AGAIN, CHANGE IS HARD AND INTERNAL BIASES CAN BE SUBTLE, BUT LET'S TAKE A SOLID STAND ON THIS ONE AND SHOW THAT WE SUPPORT THESE, UM, KINDS OF DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR, IN OUR COMMUNITY. FURTHER, THIS IS A COMMUNITY THAT HAS PROVEN TIME AND AGAIN, THAT IT IS CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING STUDENTS LIKE THIS. THIS PROPOSAL COMES WITH THE SUPPORT OF DR. DANA RAS, THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, AND EXISTING PROGRAMS LIKE SNACK PACK HEIGHTS CLOSET, TB GIFT CARDS ARE MORE THAN, UM, AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT STUDENTS THAT MAY COME FROM THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I APPRECIATE THAT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. THANK YOU MS. PBE. MEGAN SAMS FOLLOWED BY VICTOR AND DONNIE. HELLO. ARE Y'ALL, CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. HELLO. OKAY, WELL, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO REBUT WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT THE SCHOOL. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS FINE, BUT THIS IS NOT ABOUT, UM, RESIDENTS NOT WANTING THESE PEOPLE. IT'S ABOUT THAT WE ARE A VERY SMALL COMMUNITY. WE'RE ACTUALLY NOT A PART OF ALMA HEIGHTS. WE LIVE IN THAT ZIP CODE AND WE GO TO THAT SCHOOL, BUT WE ARE NOT A PART OF ALAMO HEIGHTS. UM, AND WE ACTUALLY ARE A LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD LOCATED BETWEEN FOUR 10 AND SUNSET. SUNSET AND EMBROIDERED BY BROADWAY. ON THE TRAIN TRACK ON 2 81, WE COMPROMISED MAYBE 10 BLOCKS. AND WITHIN THAT 10 BLOCKS WE HAVE FIVE HIGH DENSITY COMPLEXES ALREADY. ONE OF THE NEWER ONES ACTUALLY HAD TO BUY, BUILD A PARKING GARAGE INSIDE A THREE STORY GARAGE, JUST SUPPORT PARKING. SO IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT TRAFFIC, IT'S ABOUT PARKING ON OUR STREETS. AND WE GET OVERFLOW FROM THE CURRENT, UM, COMPLEXES FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH THE SMALL LOTS AND FROM THE BARS NEXT TO US. WE JUST HAD A RECENT, UM, SHOOTING OF 10 PEOPLE AT REBAR ON THE ONE SIDE. SO, UM, WE ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD THAN ALMA HEIGHTS. WE ARE ALREADY HIGHLY MIXED. OF THOSE FIVE COMPLEXES, TWO OF THEM ARE SECTION EIGHT. AND I ACTUALLY LOOKED IT UP ONLINE BECAUSE LAST TIME THE DEVELOPER WAS SAYING THERE WAS NO SECTION EIGHT WITHIN TWO MILES. THAT'S NOT TRUE. THERE'S TWO OF THEM WITHIN TWO BLOCKS THAT COMPRISE OF 252 UNITS TOTAL. UM, ONE OF THEM IS THE SENIOR APARTMENT, UM, PECAN HILL, AND IT'S MANAGED BY SAN ANTONIO HOUSING AUTHORITY. AND THE OTHER ONE IS THE RIDGECREST APARTMENT. THEY HAVE 152 UNITS AND THEY ARE ACTUALLY RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME. I KNEW THAT WHEN I MOVED IN. BUT WE ARE, AS WITH THE, WITH THOSE LOWER INCOME HOUSING, WE ARE VERY DIVERSIFIED. WE ONLY HAVE ABOUT 200 SMALL FAMILY HOMES THAT ARE UNDER LESS THAN 1200 SQUARE FEET. UM, AND THEN IF YOU ADD THE OTHER APARTMENTS THAT AREN'T EVEN SUBSIDIZED, WE'RE AT A FIVE TO ONE RATIO. RENTERS TO HOMEOWNERS, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAVE BEEN HERE FOR 50 YEARS AND ADDING SO MANY TRANSIENT RESIDENTS IN AND OUT GREATLY AFFECTS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. AND WE ARE OVER SATURATED WITH JUST APARTMENTS AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY ADDING TO THE CULTURAL, UM, BENEFITS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. AND AS I SAID, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT STREET TRAFFIC, IT'S ABOUT THAT. IT'S A VERY SMALL ROAD ON A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU'RE PLANNING TO BUILD A FOUR STORY BUILDING WITH INADEQUATE PARKING, AND IT BUTTS UP TO THE OTHER TWO APARTMENT COMPLEXES VERY CLOSE. IT OVERSHADOWS THE ONE SINGLE ONE STORY HOUSES THAT ARE LESS THAN 1200 SQUARE FEET. AND IT'S NOT A MAIN THOROUGHFARE, IT'S A RESIDENTIAL THING. SO WHILE I UNDERSTAND THE, UM, ISSUES THAT YOU WANT A GOOD SCHOOL AND STUFF, YOU ALSO WANT DIVERSIFICATION. AND YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO PUT THIS, WHY NOT PUT IT IN A PLACE THAT ISN'T SO HEAVILY CONCENTRATED? UM, WE ARE COMPLETELY SEPARATE NEIGHBORHOODS THAN THE ALAMO HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD. AND OF COURSE THEY WON'T LET YOU PUT ONE IN BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN CITY COUNCIL. SO, I MEAN, IT'S KIND OF UNFAIR TO US TO PUT THIS ON US IN THIS LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD AND OUR INFRASTRUCTURE CANNOT SUPPORT IT. AND, UM, THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE SO MUCH OPPOSITION TO THIS. UM, AND SO I DON'T, I UNDERSTAND THAT WE NEED GREATER HOUSING AND GREATER HOUSING FOR RESIDENTS, BUT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DIVERSIFY AND I MEAN, WE HAVE 200. IT'S JUST, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE IF YOU WANNA ASK ME QUESTIONS. [04:15:02] THANK YOU, MS. SAMS, UH, VICTOR ANDONI, FOLLOWED BY CINDY MUNCH. UH, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY, AND I THINK CINDY IS BEHIND ME. UH, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT A COUPLE THINGS, UH, AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. THE FIRST THING IS WORKFORCE HOUSING. 'CAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CONTROVERSY ABOUT THIS. THE WAY THE ECONOMICS OF WORKFORCE HOUSING WORKS IS DEPENDS ON THE SUBSIDIES THAT ARE GRANTED BY THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND, AND THE COMMUNITY AFFAIRS. WITHOUT THOSE SUBSIDIES, THE WORKFORCE HOUSING IS, UH, WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT. AND, UH, WE NEED A LOT OF WORKFORCE HOUSING IN SAN ANTONIO. THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. BUT THE WAY THE SYSTEM WORKS IS THAT THERE'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY FOR ALL THE, UH, UH, COMPLEXES THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED. AND, UH, THERE ARE NINE COMPLEXES APPROVED RIGHT NOW, AND THERE'S ONLY ENOUGH FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THREE OF THEM. SO IF WE ARE A CHAMPIONS FOR WORK FOR HOUSING, WE SHOULD REJECT THIS PROJECT BECAUSE THE NEXT PROJECT IN LINE WILL MOVE UP ON THE LINE. AND THAT PROJECT IS GONNA, UH, BUILD 80 UNITS VERSUS 64 ON THIS ONE. SO IT BECOMES A QUESTION OF MAXIMIZING THE, THE AVAILABLE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE. AND YOU SHOULD REJECT THIS PROJECT, UH, AND, AND, AND SO THAT THE NEXT PROJECT CAN MOVE UP ON THE LINE. I JUST WANT TO COMMENT ON SUMMER GREATHOUSE OF SONY COMMISSIONER FOR, UH, DISTRICT ONE. AS YOU KNOW, SONY COMMISSION, UH, DECLINED THIS PROJECT. UM, AND SUMMER, UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, FOR DISTRICT ONE, SHE'S, UH, UH, DURING THE DAY, SHE'S A, A REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY AND HER SPECIALIZATION IS, IS DEFENDING OR PROMOTING WORK FOR HOUSING PROJECTS. WELL, SHE, UH, SHE, SHE QUITE, SHE QUITE SAID THAT THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT, UH, SITE FOR THIS PROJECT. AND SHE, UH, PRESENTED THE MOTION TO THE CLIENT. I HAVE A COUPLE OF, UH, MAPS, UH, THAT I'VE ASKED, UH, MR. JOHN PETRICK TO SHOW IT TO YOU. I DON'T KNOW IF HE, UH, UH, IF YOU CAN PUT IT FROM UP THERE, PLEASE, MR. PET, WE'RE, UH, PUTTING THAT UP RIGHT NOW. OH, THANK YOU, SIR. THEY'RE UP, SIR. OKAY. I, I GOT A DELAY ON MY COMPUTER, BUT I ASSUME YOU'RE SEEING THE, THE, THE, THE MAP THAT SHOWS THE, THE, THE BIG NEIGHBORHOOD AREA. I WANNA POINT OUT TO YOU, THE ITEMS, UH, THAT THE SITES ARE SHOWN IS, UH, IN RED, THE 5 38 EVEREST. THE SITES IN, UH, IN GREEN ARE THE, THE SEVEN OR EIGHT, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS RIGHT NOW IN THE ONE BLOCK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BA BASICALLY 94 SINGLE FAMILY DETACH HOMES THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION NEAR THIS NEIGHBORHOOD ACROSS THE STREET, AS YOU CAN SEE, ARE THE LAND TOWER APARTMENTS. AND RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO THE LAND TOWER APARTMENTS, YOU CAN SEE THE, THE WASH STOVE. UH, YOU, YOU CAN'T SEE IT ON THIS PICTURE, YOU'LL SEE IT ON THE NEXT ONE. BUT, UH, THE LAND TOWER APARTMENTS, THEY PARK ON THE STREET, UH, UH, AND, UH, THE, THE WASH STOVE IS ABOUT TO START OPERATIONS DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM 5 38 EVEREST. AND THE LAND TOWER ALSO HAS AN ENTRANCE, UH, TO THEIR PARKING STRUCTURE ON EVEREST. SO ALL THESE CARS THAT I PUT THERE ON THE MAP ARE, ARE CONFLICTED. LET, LET ME KNOW WHEN IT'S UP BECAUSE I'M, I'M, THERE'S A DELAY. IS, UH, IS CINDY MUNCH CONNECTED? CINDY'S NOT ON, AND JACK ALSO HAS, UH, HUNG UP. OKAY. JACK FINGER IS NO LONGER CONNECTED? NO. ALRIGHT, WE'LL MOVE TO JENNIFER GWEN. HI THERE. UM, YES. UH, SO I, WHEN I SAY ALAMO HEIGHTS, I DO MEAN THE DISTRICT. 'CAUSE I REALIZE I, I LIVE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD TOO. UM, AND I KNOW IT'S NOT ALMA HEIGHTS, BUT I GREW UP IN ALMA HEIGHTS. I ATTENDED K THROUGH 12 THERE, AND I ACTUALLY LEFT ALAMO HEIGHTS JUST AS SOON AS I COULD. AND HONESTLY, I DID NOT THINK THAT I WAS GOING TO RETURN, UM, BECAUSE I WANTED TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD, YOU KNOW, OUTSIDE OF THE SHELTERED AND MOSTLY WHITE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE DISTRICT. UM, I SOON LEARNED HOW IMPORTANT RACIAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC DIVERSITY ARE TO ME AS A HUMAN BEING. AND NOW TO MY OWN CHILDREN. CIRCUMSTANCES BROUGHT US BACK NOT ONLY TO SAN ANTONIO, BUT TO THE ALM HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND I WAS CONFLICTED [04:20:01] WITH THE PROMISE OF A GOOD EDUCATION. PROXIMITY TO MY FAMILY AND THE EVER-GROWING DUAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM SETTLED SOME OF MY DISCOMFORT. MOST OF THE DISTRICT WAS WAY OUT OF OUR PRICE RANGE, BUT THANKFULLY WE FOUND AN AFFORDABLE HOME IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CLOSE TO THIS PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. WITHIN THE FIRST WEEK OF MOVING IN, OUR NEIGHBORS TOLD US OF A RUMOR THAT A BIG DEVELOPMENT COMPANY WAS LIKELY GOING TO BUY UP OUR STREET. UM, SO NOT TO PUT MUCH INTO OUR HOUSE, WELL, IT WAS A LITTLE DEPRESSING, BUT SO FAR THAT'S JUST BEEN A RUMOR. DURING THESE SIX YEARS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WE HAVE OBSERVED THE DWINDLING OF THE AFFORDABLE HOUSES AS HIGH-END CONDOS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES BUY UP BLOCKS OF PROPERTY FOR DEVELOPMENT. I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, IS THERE ANY TYPE OF LEGISLATION THAT MIGHT BE IN PLACE TO ENSURE AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITHIN THE ALMA HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT? WHAT WOULD BECOME OF THIS DIS DISTRICT IF EVENTUALLY IT WAS ONLY OPEN TO THE UPPER, MIDDLE, AND UPPER CLASS? UM, AND BECAUSE THAT KIND OF ENVIRONMENT BREEDS RACISM, ENTITLEMENT, AND HONESTLY LACK OF COMPASSION. SO I WAS SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT THERE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE SOMETHING IN THE WORKS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO SUPPORT ALAMO HEIGHTS' DIVERSITY AND PROVIDE AN AFFORDABLE LIVING OPTION FOR ALL SAN ANTONIANS. LASTLY, I DO FEEL THAT THIS IS JUST ONE SMALL PIECE OF THE SOLUTION TO DISMANTLE THE HISTORICAL RACIST HOUSING POLICIES THAT OUR CITY WANTS HELD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM, MS. GWEN, UH, THAT'S EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM Z FOUR AND P ONE. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER TRAVINO COUNCIL. THANKS MAYOR. UM, PROMOTING HIGH QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE WAKE OF THIS UNPARALLELED PANDEMIC IS A PRIORITY. THE VISTA AT EVEREST WAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST RANKED HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROJECTS IN OUR CITY AND IS SET TO RECEIVE $15 MILLION IN FUNDING. WHEN THIS COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTED THIS PROJECT IN FEBRUARY, WE WERE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE PUSHING FOR QUALITY HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL RESIDENTS. WE ALL SUPPORTED THE IDEA THAT EVERY RESIDENT SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO HOUSING OPTIONS IN OUR CITY WITHOUT BEING RESTRICTED OR CORNERED INTO A SPECIFIC AFFORDABLE PART OF TOWN. BUT TO WHICHEVER AREA BEST MEETS THE NEEDS OF ANY FAMILY, THE LOCATION IS IDEAL FOR THIS PROJECT. IT IS WITHIN ONE MILE OF A GROCERY STORE, PUBLIC TRANSIT PARK, AND MEDICAL FACILITY, ENSURING THE COMPLEX WILL HAVE DIRECT ACCESS TO THE EVERYDAY NEEDS OF OUR ESSENTIAL WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES. ADDITIONALLY, THE CURRENT ZONING DESIGNATIONS AT THE LOCATIONS OF OH TWO AND C TWO ALLOW FOR MUCH MORE INTENSE USES THAN MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING. REGARDING TRAFFIC CONCERNS WITH THESE USES, THE OUR COMMUNITY INCORPORATED GROUP HAD AN ENGINEER CONDUCT A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS REVEALING THE MULTI-FAMILY FAMILY DEVELOPMENT WOULD GENERATE A LOWER NUMBER OF PEAK HOUR TRIPS COMPARED TO AVAILABLE USES SUCH AS AN OFFICE BUILDING OR A RESTAURANT. VARIOUS CONCERNS WITH A NEW WASH TUB, CAR WASH NEAR, UH, THE LOCATION HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED WITH THE BUSINESS THAT EVERETT ON EVER STREET WILL. IT WILL ALSO BE USED AS AN EGRESS OR EXIT ONLY TO PREVENT ANY ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC IMPACT ON EVEREST. I WAS SADDENED AND DISAPPOINTED TO HEAR VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITION GROUP SPEW BIASES AGAINST WORKING CLASS AND LOWER INCOME RESIDENTS. THE COUNTLESS CLAIMS I RECEIVED THAT RESIDENTS OF THE COMPLEX WOULD BRING CRIMES IS HAVE NO REALISTIC BASIS OR IMPACT ON MY POSITION. LOUD CLASSES, ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE WORKING CLASS CANNOT GUIDE OUR DECISIONS AS ELECTED OFFICIALS. I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT AND CREATE NEW HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL SAN ANTONIOS WITHIN DISTRICT ONE I MOTION TO APPROVE THIS PROJECT. SECOND. OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEMS Z FOUR AND P ONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? FUNCTION CARRIES. GO NOW TO ITEMS [Items Z9 & P2] Z NINE AND P TWO. AMENDING THE GOVERNMENT HILL NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN FROM LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL TO MIXED USE AND REZONING FROM R SIX AND R SIX CD WITH A CONDITIONAL USE FOR TWO UNITS TO C TWO. LOCATED IN THE 2,600 BLOCK OF NORTH INTERSTATE 35. STAFF AND PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDS DENIAL. 19 NOTICES MAILS FIVE IN FAVOR, EIGHT OPPOSED. AND THE GOVERNMENT HILL ALLIANCE IS IN FAVOR. [04:25:01] MAYOR? YEAH, GO AHEAD. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, ALRIGHT. WE HAVE SEVERAL CITIZENS SIGNED WITH SPEAK ON ITEMS P TWO AND UM, D NINE. TAKE THEM IN ORDER. WE'LL START WITH STEVEN TI FOLLOWED BY ETTE COLE. MR. TI THERE MR. VERSTEEG, YOU'RE CONNECTED. UH, WE NEED YOU TO GO AHEAD AND TAKE YOUR TIME, OTHERWISE I'LL MOVE TO THE NEXT PERSON. OKAY. UH, ETTE COLE, FOLLOWED BY MATTHEW BATTERS. HELLO? YES, MS. COLE, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YEAH, WE CAN HEAR YOU. YEP, GO AHEAD. OKAY. THIS IS DI COLE. I LIVE AT 1 0 5 RENO STREET. GOOD AFTERNOON COUNSEL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK OUT AND ABOUT AND IN DEFENSE OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. I SAY IN DEFENSE BECAUSE IF YOU VISIT OUR CORNER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU WILL SEE MORE THAN 75 SIGNS THROUGHOUT, PROUDLY POSTED ON FENCES, STANDING IN FLOWER BEDS AND FRONT YARDS SAYING QUOTE, NO SEA TO COMMERCIAL REZONING NEIGHBORHOODS NEIGHBORS FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND DON'T KILL GOVERNMENT HILL. WE'RE IN A FIGHT TO SAVE OUR COMMUNITY. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS FRAGILE AND DESERVES PROTECTING. WE ARE PREDOMINANTLY HISPANIC, MULTI-GENERATIONAL, OLD SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE NEIGHBORS LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER. OUR HOMES ARE MODEST, WELL LOVED, AND WE ARE EXTREMELY HOUSE PROUD. WE DESERVE TO BE TREATED AS A PRIORITY, NOT DISRESPECTED. AS AN EASY PLACE TO UP ZONE AND SQUEEZE IN A GAS STATION. PLEASE LISTEN TO OUR VOICES. THE 200 FOOT MOST IMPACTED NEIGHBORS WHO FOR ALMOST A YEAR NOW HAVE OVERWHELMINGLY OPPOSED THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD FOR A GAS STATION. IT'S SIMPLE. C TWO REZONING EQUALS GAS STATION. THESE APPLICATIONS FOR REZONING ARE ASKING THE CITY FOR THE GIFT, THE AWARD OF REZONING, OUR SIX RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES ALL THE WAY UP TO C TWO FOR SPECULATIVE REAL ESTATE DEALS THAT ARE LOOKING TO SELL OUT A CHUNK OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. AND OUR ONE CONVERSATION WITH MR. WYNN, THE APPLICANT, HE WAS VERY CLEAR THEY'RE PURSUING C TWO BECAUSE IT WILL BRING IN THE GREATEST MONEY PERIOD. IN OUR MEETINGS WITH OUR D TWO COUNCILWOMAN JADA, ANDREW SULLIVAN, SHE UNDERSTANDS THE NERVOUSNESS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. SHE'S ON OUR SIDE. SHE WANTS HEALTHY OPTIONS. SHE'S FOR DEVELOPMENT THAT SUPPORTS FORT SAM, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THE PERSING ELEMENTARY KIDS. IN KIND. WE THE MOST IMPACTED RESIDENT, HOMEOWNERS AND THE COUNCILWOMAN ARE OFF THE SAME PAGE BECAUSE ANY DEVELOPMENT WILL ABUT RIGHT UP TO OUR FRONT YARDS. WE WANT NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDLY BUSINESSES. IN OUR MEETINGS WITH COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN, SHE HAS HEARD OUR VOICES AND CONCERNS. SHE AGREES A BLANKET ZONING TO C TWO WITHOUT THE APPLICANT'S DISCLOSING WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH THE PROPERTY, HOW IT WILL BE DEVELOPED, HAS TOO MANY UNKNOWNS, TOO MUCH RISK. IT'S THROUGH WORKING WITH THE COUNCILWOMAN THAT WE, THE 200 FOOT MOST IMPACTED NEIGHBORS HAVE COME ALL THE WAY UP FROM SUPPORTING ONLY R SIX TO C ONE WITH LOW DENSITY MIXED USE. THIS IS COMPROMISE. PLEASE DON'T LET THIS BE AN UNEQUAL OUTCOME TODAY BY AWARDING C TWO REZONING. PLEASE CHOOSE TO DO THE RIGHT THING, THE FAIR THING, THE HONEST THING, AND SUPPORT OUR COMPROMISE FOR A MORE NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDLY COMMERCIAL C ONE WITH LOW DENSITY MIXED USE. WE REALLY ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. DON'T KILL GOVERNMENT HILL. THANK YOU MS. COLE. UH, MATTHEW BATTERS, FOLLOWED BY LOGAN FULMAR. YES, GOOD AFTERNOON. CAN I CONFIRM THAT EVERYONE CAN HEAR ME ALL RIGHT? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. OKAY, GREAT. I'M CALLING TODAY, UH, REPRESENTING NOT ONLY THE NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH, BUT FOR PURPOSES OF EFFICIENCY, REPRESENTING THE NEIGHBOR TO THE, THE APPLICANT IN THIS CASE FROST BANK AS WELL. I'M JOINED ON THIS CALL WITH, UH, ROBERT WYNN, A SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF FROST BANK. AND, UH, WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER NOT ONLY AS APPLICANTS BUT AS DEVELOPERS, UH, ON THIS PROPERTY, UH, BOTH FROST BANK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CLMA JACKSON TRUST AND ON THE PROPERTY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY, AND THE NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH THAT WE'LL HAVE A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT NEXT MONTH. UH, THE PROJECT FOR THIS PROPERTY IS NOT TO SELL IT TO A DEVELOPER, BUT FOR THE PROPERTY OWNERS TO DEVELOP IT THEMSELVES. IN PARTNERSHIPS, UH, WHAT WE SEEK TO ATTRACT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS A CLASS, A NATIONAL BRAND RESTAURANT, OR LIMITED USE SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH IS WHY, UH, THE HARD CORNER OF INTERSTATE 35 AND THE MULTI-LANE THOROUGHFARE OF WALTERS AVENUE IS A CRITICAL LOCATION. [04:30:01] UH, AS IT WAS MENTIONED, WE AGREE THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE OF THIS HARD CORNER ON THE HIGHWAY IS COMMERCIAL. IF YOU'LL NOTICE, UH, IN ITS CONTEXT, IT'S COMMERCIAL ON ALL OTHER CORNERS. NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, AND SOUTHWEST. THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY IS IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER. UH, THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS 32,000 SQUARE FEET. UM, AND IT IS, IT IS THE INTERSECTION THAT FEEDS SOUTH FROM THE WALTER GATE OF FORT SAM. WE'VE WORKED WITH THE COUNCILWOMAN AND HEARD THAT IN ORDER TO ENTICE FORT SAM TO REOPEN THAT GATE AND BRING THOSE OFFICERS AND THOSE UH, DOLLARS INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE HAS TO BE DEMAND INSIDE OF FORT SAM FROM THE OFFICERS THAT ARE THERE FOR AMENITIES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND WE'RE NOT SEEKING TODAY TO TAKE AWAY ANYBODY'S HOMES. UH, THIS PROPERTY IS A CONGLOMERATION OF FIVE DIFFERENT RESIDENTIAL ZONED LOTS. UH, ONLY ONE OF WHICH HAS A STRUCTURE ON IT THAT'S IN RATHER, UH, CONSIDERABLE DISREPAIR. UH, WE'VE WORKED LONG AND HARD TO CONSIDER SOME ACCOMMODATIONS HERE. UM, NUMBER ONE, THIS APPLICATION IS FOR C TWO, NOT C THREE, WHICH WOULD BE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF COMMERCIAL USE RIGHT OFF THE GATE. UH, WE SUBMITTED OUR APPLICATION FOR A LOWER CATEGORY OF COMMERCIAL USE. UH, WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE CONCERNS OF ALL NEIGHBORS, AND THERE'S QUITE A FEW, UH, ONE OF THE CHIEF ONES IS LIQUOR SALES. UH, WE DO NOT SEEK TO ATTRACT OR HAVE A LIQUOR STORE AS A TENANT IN ANYTHING WE DEVELOP THERE. UH, I THINK A FAIR ALTERNATIVE MIGHT BE FOR THE COUNCIL OR THE COUNCILWOMAN TO CONSIDER C TWO AND A, WHICH BANS ALCOHOL SALES. UH, AND OF COURSE IT WOULD BECOME TOTALLY UNATTRACTIVE TO A GAS STATION TO NOT BE ABLE TO SELL ALCOHOL. UH, AS A FURTHER ACCOMMODATION, WE'VE CONSIDERED PROPOSED DEEDED RESTRICTIONS AGAINST, UH, THE UNDESIRED USES FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THANK YOU, MR. BATERS. OKAY, WE'LL GO TO LOGAN FULMAR, FOLLOWED BY ROSE HILL. MR. FULLER, ARE YOU THERE? OKAY. ROSE HILL, FOLLOWED BY ROBERT WYNN. UH, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. GO AHEAD. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT HERE IN SUPPORT OF THE C TWO COMMERCIAL REQUEST. UH, FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY, WE HAVE HAD A GREAT DEAL OF CONCERN FROM OUR, OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR SENIORS WHO SEE THE VISION AND WANT TO IMPROVE THIS AREA. THIS LAND HAS BEEN UNDERDEVELOPED FOR OVER 30 YEARS, PLUS THE MIXED USE CHANGE DOES FIT IN WITH OUR MASTER PLAN OF GOVERNMENT HEALTH. IN 2010 , THIS AREA, UH, CONDUCTED A SURVEY. ITS DIVISION, AND MANY COMMUNITY MEETINGS WERE DONE AND NEW DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE COMING. HERE WE ARE 10 YEARS LATER AND IT'S, IT'S HAPPENING. RECENTLY, WE LOST A GREAT REST. WE RECENTLY, WE, WE LOST IT. WE LOST A GREAT RESTAURANT CALLED EAST SIDE KITCHENETTE. THEY LOST THEIR JOBS AND THEY LOST THEIR INCOME. DUE TO THE COVID 19, OUR COMMUNITY CAN NO LONGER WAIT. WE URGENTLY NEED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. OUR BUSINESSES ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE. BY ENHANCING THIS CLIENT, IT WILL BRING SAFETY TO OUR CHILDREN WHO WALK THE TO A NEARBY SCHOOL. AT FIRST ELEMENTARY, THIS CORNER COMPLIMENTS THE GATEWAY IN ENTRY ENTRYWAY TO FORT SAM'S AND MANY ENTERING SAN ANTONIO FROM AUSTIN OTHER SURROUNDING CITIES COMING FROM IH 10, I URGENTLY ASKED YOU TO VOTE YES TO C TWO. LET'S EMBRACE THIS CHANGE. LET'S WORK TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY. THIS CHANGE WILL BENEFIT NOT ONLY OUR SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE HURTING RIGHT NOW AND LOSING AND, AND LOSING THEIR INCOME. IT'LL HELP OUR SENIORS, IT'LL HELP OUR ENTIRE COMMUNITY, AND IT WILL HELP GOVERNMENT HILL AS A WHOLE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. MS. HILL, ROBERT QUINN. FOLLOW UP, FOLLOWED BY DORA EZ. I BELIEVE ROBERT WYNN WAS WITH THE OTHER CALL. THAT'S WHAT HE MENTIONED. HE'S NOT THIS ROBERT WYNN. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, SIR. GO AHEAD. THIS ROBERT WYNN? YES. ROBERT WYNN HERE. YES, GO AHEAD. WE HEAR YOU WITH FROST BANK. OKAY, THANK YOU. I'M WITH FROST BANK AS TRUST OFFICER, AND WE REPRESENT THE CLMA JACKSON TRUST, WHICH OWN THE PROPERTY. DISCUSSION HERE TODAY, AS MR. BATTER'S INDICATED, UH, AT THE HARD CORNER, WALTERS AND IH 35, VERY, UH, BUSY CORNER AS FAR AS TRAFFIC AND, UM, ACCESS SENT STRAIGHT INTO, UH, I 35, AS WELL AS OVER TO THE, UH, PORT SAM THROUGH THE THOROUGHFARE WALTERS. WE HAVE, [04:35:01] UH, OUR NEIGHBORS ON BOTH SIDES HAVE INDICATED THEY'RE IN FAVOR OF, OF THE C TWO ZONING. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE NEIGHBORS AND HEARD, UH, FROM OTHERS THAT, UH, ARE AGAINST THE GASOLINE STATION. AND SO WE HAVE EXECUTED AN AFFIDAVIT. I HAVE MYSELF HAVE EXECUTE AN AFFIDAVIT INDICATING THAT WE WOULD, UH, INSERT A DEED RESTRICTION ON CONVEYANCE OF THE PROPERTY, INDICATING THAT NO GASOLINE OR REFUELING STATION WOULD BE ALLOWED ON THE PROPERTY. WE HAVE SUPPORT FROM TOMMY CALVERT, UH, WITH, UH, THE, UH, TAR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRECINCT FOUR, UH, STATING THAT HE IS IN FAVOR OF THE, UH, COMMERCIAL USE OF THIS PROPERTY, AND BASED ON ITS LOCATION, WE, UH, WOULD ASK THAT THE COUNCIL VOTE IN FAVOR OF A C TWO ZONING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR. WYNN. DORA PEREZ, FOLLOWED BY LORENZO ORTIZ. DORA PEREZ, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, I CAN HEAR. WE CAN HEAR YOU. HELLO. GO AHEAD. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS DORA PEREZ. I LIVE AT 7 25 SHAN MEYERS. I LIVED IN GOMAN HILL FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AND MY HUSBAND 23 YEARS. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS EXISTED SINCE 1889 AS A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD WITH JUST A FEW HOMES. THIS NEIGHBORHOOD BOOMED IN THE 1930S DUE TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING NEAR FORT SAN HOUSTON. MY PARENTS' HOME WAS BUILT IN 1935. MY FATHER, WHO SERVED IN THE MILITARY, ALONG WITH MY MOTHER, BOUGHT THEIR FIRST AND ONLY HOME IN 1953 BECAUSE IT WAS AFFORDABLE. THEY LIVED IN THEIR EAST SIDE GOVERNMENT HILL NEIGHBORHOOD FOR 63 YEARS. I NOW, ALONG WITH MY HUSBAND, LIVE IN MY CHILDHOOD HOME. IT'S OUR RETIREMENT HOME. IT'S OUR FOREVER HOME AND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. THE MAJORITY OF THE HOMES HAVE BEEN OWNED BY THE SAME FAMILY FOR OVER 30, 40, 50, 60 AND 70 YEARS. OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS CALM, IT'S PEACEFUL, AND IT'S FRIENDLY WITH AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND A PARK ONE BLOCK OVER FROM THE REZONING. PROPOSAL ZONING SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED TO MIXED USE C TWO COMMERCIAL TO ALLOW CELL TO, OR CELL OR LEASE TO UNKNOWN DEVELOPERS THAT COULD POSSIBLY BRING A SUPER GAS STATION WITH MANY GAS PUMPS, DANGEROUS FUMES, POLLUTING OUR AIR. NOBODY WANTS TO LIVE NEXT TO A GAS STATION. AND THE COMMERCIAL TR TRAFFIC PROBLEMS IT COULD CAUSE FOR OUR SCHOOL ZONES AND SAFETY CONCERNS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS WALKING TO AND FROM SCHOOL. JUST ONE BLOCK OVER THE, THE NOT KNOWING WHAT'S GOING TO, UH, BE DEVELOPED IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS SCARES US. BUT WE ALSO UNDERSTAND DEVELOPMENT IS COMING AND WE, THE NEIGHBORS ARE WILLING TO COME TO A COMPROMISE. WE HAVE TAKEN PLANNING ZONING AND THE D TWO CITY COUNCIL OFFICE ADVICE AND REACHED OUT TO THE APPLICANT. APPLICANT, I'M SORRY, UH, TO TALK ABOUT A COMPROMISE. WE, THE NEIGHBORS THE MOST IMPACTED BY THE REZONING ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT A COMPROMISE WITH A C ONE LIKE COMMERCIAL LOW DENSITY MIXED U ZONING BECAUSE AGAIN, WE DO NOT WANT A GAS STATION CONVENIENCE STORE THAT WE ALREADY HAVE FIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE APPLICANT, THE APPLICANT IS NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT A COMPROMISE, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE WANT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO MATTER NOW AND IN THE FUTURE WITH DEVELOPMENT THAT FITS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND AVOIDS GAS STATIONS CONVENIENCE STORES. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD COMPROMISE WITH LOW DENSITY MIXED USE AND A C ONE LIKE COMMERCIAL. I AM A HOMEOWNER IN THE 200 FEET. WE, THE NEIGHBORS WANT TO BE HEARD. NO MIXED USE, NO SEAT COMMERCIAL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. MS. PEREZ. LORENZO ORTIZ, FOLLOWED BY LIZ FRANKLIN. YES, SIR. I WANT TO GET, SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. MY NAME'S LOREN SOFI. I OWN THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT, UH, 25 47 I H 35. I'M ON THE FRONTAGE ROAD. I'M APPROXIMATELY 8 75 FEET OF THE ACTUAL SET PROPERTY THAT'S LOOKING TO REZONE. I I BELIEVE EVERYTHING ACTUALLY STUMPS OR COMES FROM COMMUNICATION. UH, UH, ALL THE COMMISSIONS THAT WE'VE ACTUALLY, UH, GONE TO, UH, THE MEETINGS, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR DISTRICT TWO, UH, UH, UH, REPRESENTATIVES TOLD US TO REACH OUT. WE, THE COMMUNITY HAS ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO THE ACTUAL, UH, PETITIONER, UH, THAT'S LOOKING TO, TO, TO CHANGE THE ZONING OF THE COMMUNITY, UM, WHEN THEY PURCHASE THE PROPERTY. AND IT'S CURRENTLY, UM, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTIAL, THEY KNEW THAT IT WAS RESIDENTIAL. WE'RE NOT OPPOSED TO ACTUALLY, UH, UH, CHANGE, BUT TO DO FROM RESIDENTIAL TO C TWO. I THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT TOO ERUPT. UM, WITH C ONE, IT'LL BRING JOBS. IT'LL, IT'LL, IT'LL HELP THE COMMUNITY DOCTOR'S OFFICE. AND THIS, I MEAN, IT [04:40:01] IS A LITTLE BIT MORE FRIENDLIER FOR THE COMMUNITY. THAT'S ALL WE'RE LOOKING FOR. WE'RE LOOKING FOR A COMPROMISE. AND WITH ONLY ONE SIDE TRYING TO COMPROMISE VERSUS THE OTHER SIDE, IT, IT MAKES IT DIFFICULT DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEY'VE NEVER REACHED OUT TO US AND OUT OF THE ACTUAL BOAT ONCE AGAIN, THIS MONTH WE'RE GONNA COME BACK BECAUSE THE NORTHERN PROPERTY'S GONNA COME. YOU KNOW, THE, THE REAL ESTATE AGENT OWNS A, A PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT THE VOTE IS YES. THAT THEY WANT IT. UM, MS. MARTINEZ HAS ANOTHER THREE VOTES. SO I MEAN, IT, IT'S, IT'S REALLY, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S TOUGH, UM, ON HOMEOWNERS THAT, THAT HAVE WORKED HARD TO, TO, TO PUT EQUITY SWEAT IN THEIR HOMES, TO ENJOY THEIR, THEIR PEACEFUL LIFE, TO TO BE DISRUPTED. FOR SOMEBODY THAT JUST WANTS C TWO, I DON'T THINK IT MAKES SENSE DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE'RE HOMEOWNERS. AND PLEASE TAKE CONSIDERATION OUR, YOU KNOW, OUR HOMES AS WELL. I MEAN, WE ARE IN A COMMUNITY. IT, IT, IT HAS TO DO WITH HOMES. YOU KNOW, I I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND MAYOR, UM, STEVE IS ACTUALLY STILL ONLINE. HE'S BEEN ON HOLD FOR FIVE HOURS, BUT I DO APOLOGIZE HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY, UH, HEAR HIS NAME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR. DO LIZ FRANKLIN, FOLLOWED BY CALEB JAMES? YES, SIR. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. HELLO. ALL RIGHT. LIZ FRANKLIN, FIVE 15 EIGHTH STREET. UM, THE VERY FIRST THING I WANNA DO IS, UH, THANK, UH, ANNA SANDOVAL AND JADA ANDREW SULLIVAN ON THE, UH, WORK DONE. ON THE WHAT THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESOLUTION, UH, RACISM IS PUBLIC HEALTH, ABSOLUTELY INSPIRING. UM, COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN WE'RE WITH YOU. THE, THE PASSION AND THE, AND THE FEVER YOU SHOWED IN PRESENTING THOSE 19 ES WAS ABSOLUTELY INSPIRING. AND THEN WHAT I HEARD FROM THE REST OF THE COUNCIL IS EVEN MORE INSPIRING THE WORK THAT HAS TO BE DONE TO FOLLOW THROUGH THAT. SO I WANNA GO ON RECORD AS SAYING, THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND WE'RE WITH YOU. NOW, LET'S MOVE ON TO THE C ONE VERSUS C TWO VERSUS ALL OF THE REST OF THIS. I'M INVITED IN BECAUSE THE FOLKS WITHIN 200 FEET HAD TO JOCKEY WITH THREE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS WANTING WHAT THEY WANTED WITHOUT REALLY CONSIDERING WHAT THE FOLKS WITHIN MOST IMPACTED TO INCLUDE THE CHILDREN WITHIN THAT 400 FEET. OKAY. C ONE WAS A COMPROMISE. THEY WERE ALWAYS WILLING TO DO. C TWO WAS THE ONLY THING BOTH OF THE APPLICANT APPLICANTS CAME, CAME UP WITH. THE REALITY OF THE SITUATION IS COUNCIL MEMBERS A BLANK C TOO, WITH THE PROMISE OF SOMETHING ELSE TO FACILITATE A SALE IS NOT THE BUSINESS YOU'RE IN. IT'S NOT THE PRECEDENCE YOU WANNA SET. AND IF IT IS, I'D LIKE THAT EXPLANATION AS YOU VOTE A BLANK C TWO TO FACILITATE THE HIGHEST DOLLAR VERSUS THE BEST USE IS NOT WHAT I UNDERSTAND OUR REPRESENTATIVES TO BE ABOUT. JADA, ANDREW SULLIVAN, I'M HOPING THIS IS STILL CORRECT. MET WITH THOSE, THOSE FOLKS WITHIN THE 200 FEET, YET AGAIN AND ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED TO A C ONE. NOW, I'M WORRIED THAT IT'S THE C TWO WITH NA, WHICH IS WHAT ZONING APPROVED OR RECOMMENDED ZONING FOR THE SECOND TIME, SAID C TWO. NO, THOSE ARE YOUR DIRECT REPRESENTATIVES WITH BOOTS ON THE GROUND HEARING THIS CASE YET AGAIN. OKAY. MR. WYNN ACTUALLY IS IN AN IDEAL, IN MY OPINION, AND THAT DOESN'T MATTER NOW, WAS IN AN IDEAL SITUATION. IT WAS A SMALLER PARCEL. HE WASN'T GONNA BE ABLE TO FIT A GAS STATION. HE CHOSE TO PARTNER ALL THE WAY THROUGH. HE CHOSE THAT WITH THE OTHER PROPERTY. NOW WE'RE HEARING ABOUT THESE RESTRICTIONS. NONE OF WHAT MR. BATARD SAYS THAT HAS EVERY COMFORTABLE FRUITION IN WRITING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. FRANKLIN. UH, CALEB JAMES, FOLLOWED BY STEVEN VERTI. HELLO. HELLO, THIS IS CALEB JAMES, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. GO AHEAD. ALRIGHT. WELL, UM, YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN ON, UH, ON WEBEX LISTENING TO PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IS GETTING DEVELOPED IN NEXT TO THEIR PRIVATE HOMES. AND HERE WE ARE BEGGING YOU GUYS TO ALLOW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT INSTEAD OF A GAS STATION. SO THROW US A BONE HERE, [04:45:01] VOTE C ONE INSTEAD OF THE C TWO, AND ALLOW APARTMENT COMPLEXES TO BE BUILT NEXT DOOR TO US. WE'RE BEGGING FOR THIS INSTEAD OF A GAS STATION. A C ONE IS JUST TOO ABRUPT. UH, WE'RE RIGHT NEXT TO A HIGHWAY. UM, UH, OR A C TWO IS JUST TOO ABRUPT RIGHT NEXT TO A HIGHWAY. THEN YOU HAVE C TWO, A GAS STATION, AND THEN RIGHT NEXT DOOR YOU HAVE RESIDENTS AND A SCHOOL THAT, THAT JUST DOESN'T FLOW WITH THE COMMUNITY. IT DOESN'T FLOW WITH HOW THE RESIDENTS, THE REAL RESIDENTS ARE TRYING TO DEFINE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. DEFINE THE SCHOOL, DEFINE PERISHING PARK. LIKE, UH, GIVE US A TRANSITIONAL SPACE FROM THE HIGHWAY HERE. GIVE US A WELCOMING LOOK INTO FORT SAM, A GAS STATION. ANOTHER GAS STATION IN THIS COMMUNITY. IS, IS NO STATEMENT AT ALL. IT'S JUST, OH, HERE'S MORE MONEY HERE. WE'RE GONNA SELL THIS LAND FOR MORE MONEY. THAT'S WHAT WE DECIDED. COME ON, STAND WITH THE PEOPLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. MR. JAMES. UH, STEVEN . HELLO. YES, I'M HERE NOW. SORRY, I'M AT WORK. I MISSED IT EARLIER. BUT, UM, EVERYONE'S JUST SAID THIS REALLY WELL, AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I AM IN VERY MUCH AGREEMENT WITH EVERYTHING I'VE HEARD FROM THE NEIGHBORS. UM, I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO STILL ALWAYS BE THINKING ABOUT EQUITY. I HEARD, UM, A MOTION EARLIER TO, UM, CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, A NOT VOTING OR VOTING AGAINST JUST BECAUSE EQUITY HADN'T BEEN CONSIDERED. AND I THINK THAT'S THE SAME THING HERE. UM, THE, THE U D C PROCESS JUST IS, IT'S FAIR FOR DEVELOPERS, BUT THERE'S JUST NO EQUITY. THEY, THEY DIDN'T, THE APPLICANT DID NOT MEET WITH US, NEGOTIATE WITH US. WE, WE HAD TO GO THROUGH D TWO. THE COUNCILWOMAN HAD TO DO ALL THE WORK TO TRY TO COME UP WITH A COMPROMISE THAT WASN'T EVEN A COMPROMISE BECAUSE THE APPLICANTS DIDN'T COMPROMISE. I MEAN, THIS IS JUST, IT IS JUST NOT FAIR. AND, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE, THIS MOTION FOR C ONE IS, IS, IS THE BEST WE CAN DO. BUT, YOU KNOW, IN THE FUTURE WE CAN IMPROVE THIS U D C, WE, WE CAN DO A LOT BETTER. WE CANNOT LOSE HOUSING. LIKE WE'LL LOSE TODAY. IF WE APPROVE THIS C TWO, WE'LL LOSE A HOUSE SOMEONE'S LIVING IN RIGHT NOW. SO LET'S CONTINUE TO THINK ABOUT EQUITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. TY, COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE GOVERNMENT HILL RESIDENTS, ESPECIALLY MR. , MS. COLE, UM, AND, AND SEVERAL OTHERS WHO CAME AND SPOKE TO ME. UM, NOT ONLY DID THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH ME, THEY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH MS. HERNANDEZ. AND SO THANK YOU KAT FOR HAVING THAT MEETING WITH US AS A WHOLE. UM, I WANNA THANK, UH, COMMISSIONER CALVERT. UM, I DO HAVE HIS LETTER THAT I HAVE SUBMITTED TO TINA TO PUT ON THE RECORD, AND I JUST WANNA JUST BRIEFLY STATE A FEW COMMENTS IN HIS LETTER. UM, IT'S BASICALLY ASKING FOR THE RESIDENTS OF GOVERNMENT HILL TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF COMMERCIAL USE OF THE PROPERTY WITHIN THE 2,600 BLOCK OF INTERSTATE 35 AT WALTERS. HE'S ASKING THAT THE DEVELOPER ARE THE BUYER ACTUALLY SUPPORT PUTTING A STARBUCKS AT THAT LOCATION BECAUSE COMMUNITY MATTERS. THAT'S A SUMMARY, NOT THE WHOLE STATEMENT. UM, I ALSO HAVE ENTERED INTO THE RECORD, UH, PARTINA AN AFFIDAVIT, AFFIDAVIT FOR MR. ROBERT KEITH WIN. AND IN THIS HE STATES UPON CONVEYANCE OF SAID PROPERTY, THE DEEDED SHALL CONTAIN A RESTRICTION STIPULATING THAT NO GASOLINE OR REFUELING STATION SHALL OPERATE ON THE PREMISES CONVEYED HEREIN. SO THOSE HAVE BEEN ADDED INTO THE RECORD SO THAT THEY CAN BE RE UM, BE READ IN FULL. UM, MY QUESTION THAT I HAVE KATT AT THIS TIME IS LOOKING AT THE C ONE, WHICH IS THE LOWEST COMMERCIAL USE. ARE THERE AREAS SUCH AS LIQUOR CELLS THAT CANNOT BE PUT INTO THE RESTRICTIONS? C ONE ALLOWS RESTAURANTS, UH, C ONE ALLOWS CONVENIENCE STORES. UM, SO IF THE, UH, COUNCILMAN OR THE NEIGHBORS WANTED TO RESTRICT ALCOHOL SALES, IF IT WERE TO BE C ONE, IT WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO BE DONE THROUGH D RESTRICTIONS [04:50:01] ONLY THROUGH DEED RESTRICTION. OKAY. C1. CORRECT. SO UNDER THE C2 A, ALONG WITH THE RESTRICTIONS AND THE AFFIDAVIT THAT HAVE BEEN PUT INTO PLACE, ARE THOSE LIQUOR SALES THEN, UH, RESTRICTED? YES. WITH C TWO AND A NA MEANS NON-ALCOHOLIC SALES, THAT MEANS NO ALCOHOL SALES CAN BE DONE ON THE PROPERTY. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE CITY CAN ENFORCE. AND THAT IS WHETHER IT'S A RESTAURANT, A CONVENIENCE STORE OR, OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE. CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT, MA'AM. OKAY. SO I KNOW THAT MY, MY RESIDENTS, UM, OF DISTRICT TWO ARE MY HEART BECAUSE I STILL SEE THEM AND I SEE THEM WHEN I'M SHOPPING AND I HEAR THEM WHEN WE'RE IN THE GROCERY STORE AND WE HAVE A CONVERSATION. AND KNOWING THAT OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN FAR LEFT BEHIND IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC INFLUX, IT PAINS ME TO KNOW THAT WE ARE CONTINUING TO HAVE TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION. BUT KNOWING THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE DEVELOPERS AND AGENCIES THAT ARE WILLING TO STEP UP AND PUT INTO WRITING THE RESTRICTIONS THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO PLACE, I AM EXCITED ABOUT THAT. KNOWING THAT WE HAVE AN AFFIDAVIT THAT WILL STATE IN WRITING NO GASOLINE AND NO REFUELING STATIONS IS A WIN FOR US ALL. AS WE PUSH FORWARD WITH THIS CONVERSATION OF UNITY AND ENSURING WE ARE ADDRESSING EQUITY, ECONOMIC SEGREGATION, AND BRINGING ABOUT A CHANGE TO SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC SEGREGATION THAT HAS PLAGUED THE DISTRICT AREA FOR FAR TOO LONG, IT IS WITH GREAT HOPE THAT WE CONTINUE TO BRIDGE THE GAP AND MAKE SURE THAT UNITY IS PUT BACK INTO GOVERNMENT HILL. I WANNA THANK MS. ROSE HILL FOR CONTINUING TO MAKE SURE THAT THE VOICES OF GOVERNMENT HILL ARE HEARD AT THIS TIME BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE RESEARCH THAT HAS BEEN DONE AND LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY, KNOWING THAT THEY DO NOT, AND I DO NOT WANNA SEE ANY LIQUOR SALES CLOSE TO A SCHOOL ARE A PARK WHERE OUR CHILDREN WILL BE SUBJECT TO HAVING INFLUENCE TO THESE THINGS. I RECOMMEND THAT WE PUT IN PLACE WITH THE DEED RESTRICTIONS UP IN THE AFFIDAVIT, A C TWO NA, WHICH MAKES SURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS HAVE ALL OF THE NEEDS THAT THEY NEED MET, ALONG WITH MAKING SURE THAT OUR CITY, OUR CITY, AND OUR DISTRICT TWO HAS FULL COMMERCIAL USE AND HAS PRODUCTIVE COMMERCIAL USE. I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THIS CONVERSATION AS WE GO FORWARD. AT THIS TIME, I WOULD REQUEST THAT MR. ROBERT WIND, ALONG WITH MR. MATTHEW BATTERS, CONTINUE TO MEET WITH MR. STEVE SIEGE, MS D COLE, AND MS. ROSE HILL AS A UNITED FRONT TO ENSURE THAT THE RIGHT SUBJECT OF PRODUCTIVE DEVELOPMENT IS ON THAT CORNER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN, COULD YOU RESTATE, UH, YOUR MOTION PLEASE? A MOTION THAT C TWO A ALONG WITH THE DEED RESTRICTIONS IN PLACE FOR NO GASOLINE OR REFUTING STATION ARE PUT IN PLACE AND THAT THE MR. WYNN CONTINUES TO MEET WITH MR. STEVE SIEGE, MS. VIEKO, AND MS. RO HILL AS A UNITED GOT IT. AND MAYOR, IF I COULD CLARIFY, IT WOULD ALSO BE APPROVAL OF MIXED USE FOR THE PLAN AMENDMENT. OKAY. UM, THERE'S A MOTION, UH, FOR C TWO NA, UH, WITH, UH, AMENDMENTS AS READ. UH, IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION AND SECOND, UH, FOR APPROVAL OF ITEMS Z NINE AND P TWO AS READ. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? AYE. OH. UH, ALRIGHT. UM, I'M NOT SEEING IT ON MY SCREEN. WOULD THAT COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE? YES, MAYOR. OKAY. ALRIGHT. MOTION CARRIES. [Z-11. 20-4704 ZONING CASE Z-2020-10700066 (Council District 3): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "C-2 AHOD" Commercial Airport Hazard Overlay District to "C-2 IDZ AHOD" Commercial Infill Development Zone Airport Hazard Overlay District on Lot 12 and Lot 13, Block 79, NCB 3347, located at 103 Bailey Avenue and 107 Bailey Avenue. Staff and Zoning Commission recommend Approval. (Continued from August 6, 2020.)] ALRIGHT, WE'LL MOVE TO ITEMS Z 11. ITEM Z 11. Z 11 IS REZONING FROM C TWO TO C TWO I D Z LOCATED AT 1 0 3 BAILEY AVENUE AND 1 0 7 BAILEY AVENUE. STAFF ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL. 35. NOTICES MAILED SIX [04:55:01] IN FAVOR. ONE OPPOSED HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS OPPOSED, AND I BELIEVE THIS WILL BE CONTINUED TO SEPTEMBER 3RD. COUNCIL MEMBER ? YES. THANK YOU. IT IS, UM, AT THE REQUEST OF THE HIGHLAND PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, THERE'S STILL SOME MORE CONVERSATION THEY HAVE TO HAVE IN REGARDS TO ONSITE PARKING. SO I MOTION TO CONTINUE FOR TWO WEEKS TO SEPTEMBER 3RD. OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION FOR CONTINUANCE TO SEPTEMBER 3RD. WAS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. ALRIGHT. ALL RIGHT. IF YOU, IF THERE'S SOME VIDEO TROUBLE HERE. SO IF YOU CAN IDENTIFY WHO YOU ARE BEFORE YOU MAKE THE MOTION. UH, WHO IS THE SECOND COUNCIL? COURAGE. COURAGE. OKAY. MOTION BY . SECOND BY COURAGE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEMS OR ITEM [Z-15. 20-4735 ZONING CASE Z-2020-10700123 (Council District 3): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "MF-33 AHOD" Multi-Family Airport Hazard Overlay District to "C-2 AHOD" Commercial Airport Hazard Overlay District on 1.596 acres out of NCB 10979, located at 2819 Southeast Military Drive. Staff and Zoning Commission recommend Approval.] Z 15. ZIF Z 15 IS REZONING FROM MS 33 TO C TWO LOCATED AT 28 19 SOUTHEAST MILITARY DRIVE. STAFF AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL. NINE. NOTICES MAILED ZERO IN FAVOR. ZERO OPPOSED. AND THE HIGHLAND HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS IN SUPPORT AND I BELIEVE THIS IS ALSO A CONTINUANCE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 3RD. UM, YES. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER WITH COUNCIL MEMBER . YEAH. THANK YOU MAYOR. UH, YES. THANK YOU. UM, HIGHLAND HILLS IS IN, IN SUPPORT, BUT THE PROPERTY IS ALSO ADJACENT TO OUR FORMER SOUTHEAST SERVICE CENTER, WHICH WE ARE WORKING WITH CITY STAFF RIGHT NOW. UH, TO REDEVELOP THAT THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BOND, THERE ARE STILL SOME SIGNAGE ELEMENTS THAT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL WORK ON THIS CASE. I WANNA THANK MR. RILEY FOR HIS PATIENCE AND HIS WORK. UM, AND WE'LL BE REACHING OUT TO HIM. SO I MOTION TO CONTINUE FOR TWO WEEKS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 3RD. OKAY. THERE'S A, UH, MOTION. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. ALL RIGHT. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR, UH, POSTPONE TO SEPTEMBER 3RD. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES ITEMS. UH, [Z-18. 20-4743 ZONING CASE Z-2020-107000089 CD (Council District 5): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "C-2 CD MLOD-2 MLR-1 AHOD" Commercial Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 2 Airport Hazard Overlay District with Conditional Use for Auto and Light Truck Repair to "C-2 CD MLOD-2 MLR-1 AHOD" Commercial Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 2 Airport Hazard Overlay District with Conditional Use for Welding Shop on Lot 9 and Lot 10, Block 2, NCB 8086, located at 1720 Castroville Road. Staff and Zoning Commission recommend Approval, with Conditions.] Z 18 Z 18 IS REZONING FROM C TWO CD WITH THE CONDITIONAL USE FOR AUTO AND LIGHT TRUCK REPAIR TO C TWO CD WITH CONDITIONAL USE FOR A WELDING SHOP LOCATED AT 1720 CASTROVILLE ROAD. STAFF AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS. A SOLID SIX FOOT SOLID SCREEN FENCE WELDING WORK TO BE LOCATED INSIDE THE BUILDING ON THE PROPERTY AND WORK HOURS FROM 8:00 AM TO 6:00 PM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, AND 8:00 AM TO 1:00 PM ON SATURDAY. 31. NOTICES MAILED, ZERO IN FAVOR. ZERO OPPOSED. AND LAS THOMAS AND WESTWOOD SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ARE IN OPPOSITION. OKAY. UH, WE HAVE ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS VELMA PENA. I BELIEVE WE ARE, UH, UNABLE TO CONNECT WITH MS. PENA. SO WE WILL, UM, GO TO COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALEZ. UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. UM, MOTION TO APPROVE WITH THE CONDITIONS AS READ. UH, THERE WAS A MOTION, UH, AND SECOND BY WHO? SECOND COUNCILWOMAN ANDREW SULLIVAN. OKAY. MOTION AND A SECOND BY ANDREW SULLIVAN. UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM Z [Z-19. 20-4753 ZONING CASE Z-2020-10700118 (Council District 5): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "R-4 AHOD" Residential Single-Family Airport Hazard Overlay District and “I-2 AHOD” Heavy Industrial Airport Hazard Overlay District to "IDZ-3 AHOD" High Intensity Infill Development Zone Airport Hazard Overlay District with uses permitted for a Recycling Facility with Outside Storage and/or Processing (Excluding Metal Recycling Entity) on Lots 11,12,23 and 24, Block 8, NCB 2118, located at 1203 North Colorado Street and 1406 West Poplar Street. Staff and Zoning Commission recommend Approval.] 19 C 19 IS REZONING FROM R FOUR TO N I TWO TO I D Z THREE WITH USES PERMITTED FOR A RECYCLING FACILITY WITH OUTSIDE STORAGE AND NO PROCESSING, EXCLUDING METAL RECYCLING. LOCATED AT 1203 NORTH COLORADO STREET AND 1406 WEST POPLAR STREET. STAFF AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL. 28 NOTICES WERE MAILED THREE IN FAVOR. NINE OPPOSED GARDENDALE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IN WEST. HOPE IN ACTION IS IN OPPOSITION AND THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING A CONTINUANCE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 17TH. UH, THANK YOU. I'M, WE HAVE ONE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. I DON'T THINK HE IS CONNECTED ANYMORE. JACK FINGER. ALRIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBER GONZALES. UH, THANK YOU MAYOR. A MOTION TO, UH, CONTINUE TILL SEPTEMBER 17TH. SECOND, REBECCA. OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GRO, UH, FOR CONTINUANCE TO, TO, UH, SEPTEMBER 17TH. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. A AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM [Z-21. 20-4752 ZONING CASE Z-2020-10700055 CD (Council District 6): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "R-6 MLOD-2 MLR-1 AHOD" Residential Single-Family Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 1 Airport Hazard Overlay District to "C-2NA CD MLOD-2 MLR-1 AHOD" Commercial Nonalcoholic Sales Lackland Military Lighting Overlay Military Lighting Region 1 Airport Hazard Overlay District with a Conditional Use for Motor Vehicle Sales (Full Service) on Lot 2, Block 16, NCB 16526, located at 2206 Pinn Road. Staff and Zoning Commission recommend Approval, with Conditions.] Z 21 Z 21 IS REZONING FROM R SIX TO C [05:00:01] TWO AND A C D WITH THE CONDITIONAL USE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE SALES. FULL SERVICE LOCATED AT 2206 PIN ROAD STAFF AND ZONING COMMISSION. RECOMMEND APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS, HOURS OF OPERATION MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 7:00 AM TO 6:00 PM AND ON SATURDAYS 8:00 AM TO 5:00 PM AND SUNDAYS 8:00 AM TO 3:00 PM A 15 FOOT LANDSCAPE BUFFER YARD ABUTTING RESIDENTIAL ZONING AND OR USES AND NO TEMPORARY SIGNAGE. 25 NOTICES MAIL ZERO IN FAVOR. ZERO OPPOSED. AND CABLE WESTWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS OPPOSED AND I BELIEVE THIS IS A CONTINUANCE UNTIL SEP SEPTEMBER 17TH. OKAY. WE HAVE, UH, ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM Z 21. I ALSO THINK HE'S, UH, NOT CONNECTED ANY LONGER. ABEL HERNANDEZ. ALRIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBER CAB. AND MAY I MOVE TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM FOR ONE MONTH IN RESPONSE TO AREA RESIDENCE FROM THE CABLE WESTWOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, WE PROPOSE A CAR SALE OPERATION ON THIS SITE, SECOND BY CROM. OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR CONTINUANCE TO, UM, SEPTEMBER 17TH. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES ITEMS [Item Z24 & P6] Z 24 AND P SIX. THIS IS AMENDING THE NORTH SECTOR PLAN FROM SUBURBAN TIER TO GENERAL URBAN TIER AND REZONING FROM R SIX TO M X C AND ALLOWING FENCE UP TO EIGHT FEET IN HEIGHT LOCATED AT 12,400 BLOCKS OF SOUTH HAUSMAN ROAD. STAFF PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL. THERE ARE 33 NOTICES MAILED TO IN FAVOR. 12 OPPOSED FIELDSTONE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION IS OPPOSED AND I BELIEVE THIS IS ALSO REQUESTED TO BE A CONTINUANCE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 3RD. ALRIGHT. UM, THERE IS ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, NO LONGER PRESENT. UH, JACK FINGER. OKAY, THIS IS, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER PAL'S ITEM. UM, SO I'M SEEKING A MOTION FOR CONTINUANCE TO SEPTEMBER 3RD I COUNCIL HERE, UM, MOTIONING TO, UM, CON, CONTINUE TO SEPTEMBER 3RD. COUNCILMAN ROCHA GARCIA SECOND. OKAY. THERE IS A MOTION, UH, BY TRAVINO FOR CONTINUANCE TO SEPTEMBER 3RD. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER ROCHA GARCIA. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AND THE OPPOSED MOTION CARRIES ITEM Z [Z-28. 20-4718 ZONING CASE Z-2020-10700078 CD (Council District 10): Ordinance amending the Zoning District Boundary from "C-3NA AHOD" General Commercial Nonalcoholic Sales Airport Hazard Overlay District to "C-2NA CD AHOD" Commercial Nonalcoholic Sales Airport Hazard Overlay District with Conditional Use for Construction Trades Contractors on 1.514 acres out of NCB 17365, located at 14726 Bulverde Road. Staff and Zoning Commission recommend Approval with Conditions.] 28. THE REZONING FROM C THREE AND EIGHT IS C TWO AND A C D WITH THE CONDITIONAL USE FOR CONSTRUCTION TRADES CONTRACTOR FACIL FACILITY LOCATED AT 14,726 BULVERDE ROAD. STAFF AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS AND THE APPLICANT HAS AGREED TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS WITH AN AMENDED SITE PLAN. ABIDE BY THE NOISE ORDINANCE AND INSTALL A 90 TO A HUNDRED FOOT OF NEW VEGETATION PER THE AMENDED SITE PLAN TO BE PLANTED IN MID-OCTOBER WITH NON-INVASIVE SPECIES SPECIES AS PER THE U D C RECOMMENDED PLANT LIST. 36 NOTICES WERE MAILED. FIVE IN FAVOR. 12 OPPOSED. B ERWICK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IS OPPOSED. OKAY, WE HAVE ONE CITIZEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON Z 28. EMILY CHRISTIAN WEISLER. MS. WEISLER ARE MAYOR, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS EMILY WEISLER WITH KILLING GRIFFIN AND FAIRMAN ON BEHALF OF THE PROPERTY OWNER AND APPLICANT. AFTER EXTENSIVE WORK WITH THE BRIAR WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OVER THE LAST FIVE MONTHS, I JUST WANTED TO GO ON THE RECORD AND STATE ALL OF THE CONDITIONS AND CONCESSIONS OF THE REZONING THAT HAD BEEN AGREED TO BY ALL PARTIES. THE PROPERTY OWNER AGREES TO ALLOW ADJACENT RESIDENTS UTILITIES TO REMAIN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND WILL ALLOW THOSE UTILITIES SUCH AS AT AND T TO ACCESS THE UTILITY LINES FOR MAINTENANCE AS NEEDED. THE PROPERTY OWNER AGREES TO ABIDE BY THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO'S NOISE ORDINANCE AT ALL TIMES. PROPERTY OWNER WILL INSTALL THE VEGETATION BUFFER AS STATED BY CAT, UH, WHICH IS 90 TO A HUNDRED FEET, UH, WITHIN THE DESIGNATED AREA ON THE ATTACHED SUBMITTED EXHIBIT. AND WE'LL PLANT ONE OR MORE OF THE NON-INVASIVE NATIVE SPECIES SPECIFIED IN THE AGREEMENT IN MID-OCTOBER TO ESTABLISH THIS VEGETATION IN THE BEST CONDITIONS AND WE'LL MAINTAIN THE VEGETATIVE BUFFER THROUGHOUT OWNERSHIP. WE HAVE SUBMITTED ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTATION TO COUNCILMAN PERRY IN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. THIS REZONING THE OUTLYING CONDITIONS WILL BE A GREAT BENEFIT TO THE BRIER WHITE COMMUNITY AND TO THE PROPERTY OWNER. WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THE COUNCIL SUPPORT FOR THIS REZONING WITH THE CONDITIONS AS STATED TODAY. THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. THANK YOU, SIR. I JUST WANTED TO, UH, SAY FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS REALLY HOW SOMETHING LIKE THIS CAN BE WORKED BETWEEN A NEIGHBORHOOD AND A BUSINESS AND TO KEEP A BUSINESS IN [05:05:01] RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO A NEIGHBORHOOD. AND IT TOOK A LONG TIME TO WORK OUT THE DIFFERENCES, BUT WE'VE COME TO, UH, AN AGREEMENT. I WANNA THANK MY STAFF MEMBER, SAMANTHA WICKWIRE, WHO PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN, IN GETTING ALL THE PARTIES TOGETHER AND GETTING THE AGREEMENTS MADE. SO, UH, THIS WAS, THIS IS A GREAT COMPROMISE, UH, AND I'M REALLY, UH, GLAD TO SUPPORT THIS. SO WITH THAT IN MIND, I SUPPORT THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE APPLICANT AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD. I MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE Z 28 WITH THE CONDITIONS REGARDING NOISE AND VEGETATIVE BUFFER. SECOND BY VRAN. OKAY, THERE'S A MOTION, UH, AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER VRAN. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ITEM P NINE. [P-9. 20-4644 PLAN AMENDMENT CASE PA-2020-11600027 (All Council Districts): Ordinance amending the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Military Protection Area Land Use Plan, a component of the Comprehensive Master Plan of the City, by changing the future land from “Agricultural” to “Urban Low Density Residential” on Lot P-66 and Lot P-40D, CB 4708, located at 9135 Dietz Elkhorn Road. Staff and Planning Commission recommend Approval.] ITEM P NINE IS AMENDING TO E T J M P A LAND USE PLAN FROM AGRICULTURAL TO URBAN LOAD DENSITY RESIDENTIAL LOCATED AT 9 1 3 5 DETS ELKHORN ROAD. STAFF AND PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMEND APPROVAL. THREE NOTICES WERE MAILED. THREE IN FAVOR. ZERO OPPOSED. AND THE APPLICANT HAS AMENDED THEIR REQUEST TO REDUCE THE ACREAGE FROM 21.9 ACRES TO 20.6. ALRIGHT, UM, THIS IS, UH, ITEM FOUR, UH, PLAN AMENDMENT ONLY. I DON'T HAVE THE OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER RIDGE. SORRY. OH, I'M SORRY. WE DO HAVE, UH, ASHLEY MONT, UM, SIGNED UP. FAIRMONT AVAILABLE. HI MAYOR, IT'S ASHLEY FAIRMONT. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. GO AHEAD ASHLEY. OKAY, GREAT. GREAT. UM, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. IT'S ASHLEY FAIRMONT WITH KILLING GRIFFIN AND FAIRMONT. UM, I'M JUST HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF THE OWNER AND THE APPLICANT. I DID REQUEST TO SIGN IN SO THAT I COULD FORMALLY MAKE THE AMENDMENT TO REDUCE THE ACREAGE SUBJECT TO THE, UH, PLAN AMENDMENT REQUEST. THIS IS PART OF THE E T J MILITARY PROTECTION AREA, UM, NEAR CAMP BULL AND THAT'S WHY WE, WE DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC COUNCIL DISTRICT. SO, UM, I'M REQUESTING THE AMENDMENT BECAUSE THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS ABOUT A PORTION OF THE PROPERTY BEING OVER THE RECHARGE ZONE. IT'S ABOUT 0.2 ACRES, SO WE'RE REDUCING THE AREA SUBJECT TO THE PLAN AMENDMENT AND THEREFORE THE DEVELOPABLE AREA BY ABOUT 1.3 ACRES TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL BUFFERING AROUND THAT RECHARGE ZONE AS WELL. UM, SO WITH THAT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, BUT, UH, PLEASE ACCEPT, UH, MY SPEAKING AS FORMAL REQUEST TO REDUCE THE AREA SUBJECT TO THE PLANNED AMENDMENT. THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, THIS IS IN THE E T J, UH, OUTSIDE OF CAMP OLI. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER S AND COUNCIL MEMBER COURAGE, THE ADJACENT TO YOUR DISTRICT, ALONG WITH COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY. COUNCIL MEMBER PERRY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND JUMP IN? YES. UM, YOU KNOW, TAKING A LOOK AT THIS, THIS BRINGS IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, BUT, UH, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE WITH THE CONDITIONS AS THEY WERE, WERE READ SECOND BY ROGER GARCIA AND I'LL SECOND THAT. OKAY. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND. UH, I THINK I GOT COUNCILMAN GARCIA. UH, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I DON'T HAVE THE QUEUE ON THE SCREEN ANYMORE. UH, SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPEAK, UH, LEMME JUST SEE YOUR HAND AND I SEE GENERAL YALA HERE IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS FOR HIM. ALRIGHT. IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS, NO FURTHER DISCUSSION, UH, THERE'S A MOTION, A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM P NINE. UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ALRIGHT, THAT'S ALL THE ITEMS ON OUR, UH, BUSINESS AGENDA TODAY. UM, IS THERE A CITY MANAGER'S REPORT? MAYOR, WE'LL JUST ROLL IT TO NEXT WEEK. UH, THAT WAY YOU, THE COUNCILS CAN GO STRAIGHT INTO EXEC. OKAY. UM, WE ARE GONNA GO TO EXEC, BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, UM, WE HAVE TO SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN THIS TIME TO OUR FAVORITE COUNCIL MEMBER FROM DISTRICT FOUR. ADRIANA. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADRIANA. ALRIGHT, SO, UH, WHO'S GONNA LAY IT OFF? LA LA. YOU MAN. HAPPY. I LOVE IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I APPRECIATE IT. AND [05:10:01] MANNY, TO CALL HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME. NOW SINCE HE MISSED IT, WE'LL PLAY HIM BACK THIS TAPE, ADRIANA, THAT, THAT'LL BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM, I'M SURE. ALRIGHT, THANK Y'ALL. UH, SO WE [Executive Session] DO HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TODAY. VERY IMPORTANT. SO, UM, THE TIME IS NOW, UH, 2:16 PM ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 20TH, 2020. THE CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO, WILL I MEET AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONSULT THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 1 AND THE DELIBERATE OR DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATES AND PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 0 8 7, THE PURCHASE EXCHANGE LEASE OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.072 DELIBERATE THE DUTIES APPOINTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT OF CITY CLERK CANDIDATES PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 4 PERSONNEL MATTERS. AND CONS, CONSULT CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LITIGATION, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LITIGATION AGAINST THE CITY CVID 19 PREPAREDNESS AND THE CITY CLERK INTERVIEW PROCESS PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0 7 1. OKAY, SO WE WILL, UH, SWITCH TO THE EXECUTIVE LINE NOW. SO, UH, WHY DON'T WE SAY WE WILL MEET BACK THERE IN FIVE MINUTES AT 2 22. THAT WAY PEOPLE CAN RUN TO THE RESTROOM AND, UH, BE READY. ALRIGHT, GOOD AFTERNOON. UM, THE TIME IS 3:24 PM ON THIS THURSDAY, AUGUST 20TH, 2020. THE CITY COUNCIL'S RECONVENED FROM ITS EXECUTIVE SESSION. NO OFFICIAL ACTION WAS TAKEN. UH, I'D LIKE TO TURN THE FLOOR NOW OVER TO COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW SULLIVAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I WOULD, WE'RE NOT GETTING YOUR AUDIO COUNCIL MEMBER, CAN YOU HEAR ME? OKAY. , I MOVE TO DIRECT STAFF TO PROCEED WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS AS OUTLINED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION SECOND. I, I CAN'T HEAR WHAT SHE SAID. THAT'S OKAY. WE CAN HEAR YOU, MAYOR. OKAY. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, I'M SORRY, WE'RE HAVING AUDIO ISSUES ON THIS END. CAN YOU REPEAT YOUR MOTION PLEASE? I MOVE TO DIRECT WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS AS OUTLINED IN EXECUTIVE SESSIONS SECOND. OKAY, GREAT. SORRY ABOUT THAT. UH, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND, UH, FOR, UH, RESUMING THE NEGOTIATIONS, UH, WITH REGARD TO THE CITY CLERK. UM, FURTHER DISCUSSION. ALL, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ALRIGHT. MOTION CARRIES. THE TIME IS 3:25 PM AND, UH, THE CITY COUNCIL A SESSION AGENDA IS NOW ADJOURNED. * 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.