 Thank you for being here. We haven't had a new floor. The air conditioning is controlled by the school district gods. That is the school district. So we have to get out of the ground for a bit. So thanks for being here. Let's say hello and welcome all our candidates while we're here. How many forms have you guys done so far? A work with a dozen? More? Yeah, more. So anyway, as you all know, early voting starts on Monday. We'll read a few notes. And I'll put this at the end as well. We'll be gathering at the Cape Town, right down the road for Jolly Merriment finish. If you guys would like to come and visit with us for more, then we'd love to have you. So the rules of engagement perhaps. So we have one microphone. We will pass it down. I will ask a question. This is my first time in officially moderating the forum. So please be gracious with the moderator. We will begin with a two minute opening statement. We have a few questions for you guys and we'll do a one minute closing statement. We did not plan and budget time for rebuttals. So please keep that in mind as you give your answers. We have been collecting questions from the neighborhood from our neighbors through an online submission for about two weeks. So we are not accepting questions from the audience tonight. But if you have a question for a specific candidate, drag them down in the parking lot and bring them to the picnic. Okay, great. So we'll get started with Ms. Udiennes for a two minute opening statement. Good evening and thank you for being here. I am very pleased to be a part of this wonderful group of familiar faces. We've actually been working together at different locations, either with HDRC and its own. I'm a neighbor down the street in Government Hill. And the reason why I'm actually in this race is because of the issues that we've been facing in Distritude, which it could still be in HDRC. Tier 1 has been addressing the responsibility of our developers dealing and working with our communities. We need to encourage that and continue that path. We've been successful, but we've also had some failures. But we need to work together as a community for the entire Distritude. Because if it's happening here, it will happen through our neighborhoods for the candidates that are here in front of us. So I'm very happy to be a part of this and a part of it would be. I am a political science major with UTSA. I'm actually from Brownsville, Texas. But I came here in ancient and I decided to come to UTSA. This is home and it is my home. Our home has no time to retire right now, especially now that I'm involved in this. He is a veterinarian in the area. But the fact is we hear the concerns of many of our residents in San Antonio. We have to hear, I haven't hear, we've been involved, we know we have issues that we all need to work together. So now I'm a science provider of this office with your support. I can hopefully have a better voice, a better voice for your concerns. Thank you very much. Hi, my name is Joseph Powell. I'm running for city council here in District 2. It's so great to be here in Maggie Park. I used to do jobs here when I was a beekeeper. We would go and trade out and switch out hives at the mechanical gardens with the yard that we had in Castroville. So I really like the neighborhood. I like the place I was there before. It was a little seedy. The 109, the 106. Yeah, that was, you know, I mean everybody went there. It didn't mean anything. Anyways, I'm saying too much. If you want somebody who will serve two full years as your council person, I guarantee you that I will. If you want somebody who isn't paid by the developers, I can promise you going in that also. If you want somebody who's actually studying public finance, I can help you with that as well. I do have a lot of interesting ideas about the city and I think what is the sustainable opportunities for the future of regarding development. Thank you so much. I grew up on Carson Street, so in Government Hill. Since I was 14 years old, I've been walking all of these streets because I had to walk down Carson through Fort St. Houston when it used to be open and work right here at Kitty Park. Since 14, so $1.40 an hour. I should mention that. A little child labor law, something that we should look at. I'm very familiar with this neighborhood between Sonic, Witty, everything else back in the day when it used to look like. I am well informed of everything that's going on to the needs that I want to work on. In this area, of course, is public safety, making sure we have access to transportation other than just vehicles. Because with all the construction, we have modes of transportation for this community. Of course, me growing up, we're living in a Harvard PC small where I went to Wheatley St. Houston in Phillips. I understand all of the dynamics that come around with it. I am a small business owner, both my husband and I have a construction company. I do have a not-for-profit that's called the Port River Project, where I teach young girls business using the Big Low Tech off of Walter. We have to make sure we have a streamlined appointment to become business owners with board leaders that will impact your lives as well as our own daily pieces. I do serve on the Port of Sarah sent each of your regional alliance to the public and I believe one of your neighbors for that is the E.T. as well. So, if you want to inquire about the work I've done, you can just ask your neighbor as well it's the weekend analysis that looks like. I look forward to not a politician, but a public servant. So, serving the community, serving the community as I have done before, during, and as I will continue regardless of what happens today for us. Thank you very much and Salinas, on behalf of us and I look forward to meeting all of you this evening. Thank you. Good evening everyone. I'm Tony and the former counselor here and I don't know if you've resolved your traffic issues from Fort Sam, my former employer retired from, but I know you've had those issues and I know that that's something that needs to be worked on because your streets became through waves and not streets and I assume that probably the same thing going on right now. So, we need to work on that. That's one of the things. Not only was I a former counselor, I spent 15 years as a school board member in the Fort Sam Houston ISD. I actually retired in Army. I'm a Vietnam veteran and I'm proud of the Bronze Star product back in Vietnam. I'm proud of the sense of service I brought back as well because before that it was about me, but Vietnam product is not about you. It's about service to other people and so that's why I'm running. I had no intention of running. My wife and I are retired. We talk about fixed incomes. We live on social security and retirement. So we're fixed income folks and we understand that. So that's why I'm running because people came to me and said you need to get back into this. We need you to get back into this. What do you do? It's about service. It's not about self. And so that's why I'm running and I appreciate your consideration for you both. Glad you're here tonight. I look forward to your questions. Well good evening everyone. I am Jada Andrew Sullivan. I am a life long resident of District 2. I was born and raised out of East Commerce and Honey and I still reside there with my mother and my children. I decided to step into this arena not understanding exactly what being a politician was but definitely as a concern community resident. I have done a lot of the things that Mr. Keith Tony has done in my life but as I look forward to being your District 2 representative I have worked with San Antonio City of San Antonio and I was appointed to the Martin Luther King Junior Commission. I worked with the NAACP on their veteran services. I also have moved forward with my church and making sure that we do community outreach by giving away gas, toys, food, clothes, our health care. Those are just some of the things that I look forward to continuing to do on a larger level for District 2. As I walk the neighborhood we heard many of the concerns of the community and I plan to address those as much as possible. We have worked with developers we have received our donations from some developers but it's all in the act of doing something before you get in the seat that makes the difference. So as I stand here today there are many great things that are coming to District 2 there are many great people that want to see a change in District 2 and if we work together in cohesiveness as one unit we bridge the gap to fight amongst each other we build amongst each other and as candidates we look forward to representing our District with our whole hearts. So thank you. Well hello everyone my name is Ruben Arsenega my family has a 300 year history in San Antonio specifically the east side and in terms of a quick story we have a small landscaping company called Boyka Landscapes and one of our first clients in 1993 was a Miss King who lives right here and I recall she had a 1967 El Dorado Cadillac but she's long just passed away but I'll never forget how open she was with this allowing her for us to service her yard but having said that I've been educated at Texas Lutheran University I've got my master's degree at UTSA where I currently work in the department of civil engineering but like we've said in many of these forums are in our communities specifically with the families the peoples and the leaders and looking here today I see the hallmarks of diversity which essentially are the cornerstone and the strength of our community to District 2 what has to happen is our vision needs to change we need to alter our trajectory we have the ability to lead San Antonio as a people and as a community and we create one District 2 we need to unify our own community lines I know we all have different needs like Memphis, Mankey Park, Denver Heights Wilshire, Roosevelt however we can unify among the shared experiences that we currently have we'll have more advocacy and a stronger unified voice in District 2 one of the major challenges that we do face is the issue of stability we've had a number of council people in the last five years but I look toward the future and I reclaim the notion that we can reclaim our future and we can lead San Antonio as we premiere District in all San Antonio remember we have the social capital we have the people, we have the youth so why can't we reach even further and higher I believe this is possible it can be done but it'll take hard work backbone and the ability to communicate those issues amongst all our clientele and our position in season so I look forward to the questions today and thank you thank you to the folks my name is Voss Perry I grew up in a local head kid I used to be a problem down the street my wife she's running for SAASD school board in District 2 we're running because we're invested in the district we bought our home three years ago we have six kids in the district and my wife works at St. Louis College we both graduate from St. Louis College so we're invested we feel like the best way to show that you love the community is to love the community so we bought our house right off of L Street and that area is very challenging gunshots, violence all sorts of things but we invested in that area because we believe in that area and we believe in the people our platform is simple we want community engagement like what we're doing right now we want to talk to you we want to get your ideas we want to get your opinions you guys got to feel safe I already grew up in St. Louis we're prostitutes to be right off the road so I know this city really, really well another thing is economic development we guys have done a two-minute job transforming this from pretty much for prostitutes to being so offensively safe and so you should give yourselves a hand because we need to emulate you guys and try to do what you guys are doing another thing is youth services I'm a really big champion for youth services, I'm in the program I'll suit up what we help after you give a head in life and then we get the brand new students to teach them how to talk to them simple things like that but the most important thing right now is your property taxes I'm going to be the champion for property taxes because as a new homeowner I'm just learning about my property taxes I need to know, I need to teach my kids and that's what we need to sit down and figure out how we get these taxes to stop keeping us out of our neighborhoods and the properties that talk to the deaf and the children just want to make a little money off of the taxes is more than what you're making off the property so we got to try to find a way to lower the taxes on free thank you, my name is Walter Perry and we're going to the job I'll just raise my hand this evening what issues do you see that basically she was going to be first which was it honestly, which should you say give me all right I do have a I have a strong opinion about this but y'all can probably make better opinions this is a more generalized type of thing I am just so set up with the fact that you can't drive through Fort San Houston anymore we as a city council probably don't have that much of a say but like how much longer will our city and this neighborhood keep being directly affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks I mean like come on open the base up let us use it that's where we used to play soccer that's where we had all of our childhood memories like come on I mean I think that's a very unique issue that faces the same and I think it would greatly improve I think her with jail we really do need to open up Fort San Houston as a child once again it was me sneaking on base I grew up on Carson street but having to walk through the base but ultimately seeing all the businesses and everything that closed down just doesn't allow for the congestion and if you really if we really did open and yes Fort San is a city in its own right like they literally want to dictate what happened that really has no influence but from people who had experience in the past or have been in these positions you know these are conversations we could have already established I'm all about connecting maybe relationships, having conversations there is something there should be no reason why we could not pressure that and make that happen but ultimately with all the traffic with all the bond, everything that's coming on Broadway and we do not find a parallel route that will lead to some of this traffic congestion I couldn't even get from Carson Street onto Broadway and I attempted like five different shortcuts so there's a lot that we can do and we'll do one of the issues I think I see for you is that you're landlocked I mean you are just happy just happy here it just blows my mind that you guys are just landlocked so you just can't spread out for example you got to go vertically and then the city steps in and says you can't do that so that makes it tough for you now I asked Fort San back in 2014-2015 there was a plan there were several but there was a plan for an underground tunnel if you will that would come out on the other side on New Broncos Avenue and I don't know what happened to that I don't know if that was so or what but it was less than $25 million which is the amount of money Hartford got for that land bridge it's gone across the road so I just think there would have been money better spent to make it more convenient for you as residents tax-free residents so that's one of the options community and the biggest concern was your NCD is what everybody was concerned with the first one the original one worked well for the community however with all the changes and the different ordinances that have come with the NCD I've heard a lot of people say that it affects the community totally so when you talk about being beginning to your own community that needs to be resolved you need to have total access to where you live and we as a community as leaders for our district need to make sure that our residents come first so we need to address that along with making sure that everything that is needed within the community from the speed limits to the scooters to the developments are actually done properly so I want to let you take the conversation maybe a little bit of a different area so to speak obviously you are landlocked and that brings us on host of issues in terms of the LRE population in terms of one in the hospital so that's a potential problem and one that's already struck so to speak and that has to be addressed immediately but what I would say while doing some of the research in the neighborhood it would say that Airbnb this has one of the highest areas of density in terms of health and set of issues like we had said before in terms of people not necessarily respecting the area that they're in please have me come at different times in the night and that goes back to the notion of what the city is trying to address in terms of the tier one and tier two properties and what essentially what they're saying is if you're tier one Airbnb owner so to speak you actually live in homes that you're renting out or leasing in terms of the short term rental the second part of that it's a tier two property more immediate issue and that is to say you don't live in the actual building that you're leasing out you actually live in different residents all together you may not even be a district resident thank you can somebody correct me if I'm wrong this is the gate open I thought they opened the gate already oh part of the gate okay part of the gate is open I think the best they changed the gate okay the question pretty much is if I'm wrong to say what's the best way to connect with the rest of the east side well we kind of have the same type of issue in the property like I said you guys have done a tremendous job of transforming your neighborhood taking charge of your neighborhood and doing the necessary changes yourselves I think the best way to connect is to you guys have a lot of smaller bars and clubs over here and I think connecting with some of the small businesses over there on the east side some of the black, Hispanic, and Asian and other cultures and bring a different flavor down here so that way people can start seeing a different flavor down here you guys have the style it's just about bringing different types of cultures here and just making that commitment so our name is collaboration and just really taking the chance to know different cultures situation in San Antonio you have your CM right now there is better construction of the city park being moved into different parts and locals and the parents walking to the museum over to Lionsfield to the park really walking in the middle of the street who designed that and you have an e-store city along Broadway because you're going to increase traffic and take issues you also have a lot that will just recently so like create here there was a special thing in your community and not to be in a story there's really bad about being in a story I'm living in a historic district but the surrounding area of my government in your neighborhood is not we're fighting an uphill battle for this purpose in your neighborhood that are working to benefit you so this is what we need to deal with and we need to work together regarding your future in your neighborhood thank you Craig, Councilman Art, he supports the decisions of the neighborhood association and has made it on the neighborhood association issues if you are elected, at what level will you work with neighborhood association and district? I think we've, where we're at as a community and as a district for too long we've been fragmented we've been isolated whether it's Maggie Park or Government Hill people just feel left out people aren't talking from one side of the district to the other and we really shouldn't be united this is the time for us to come together we really say that at the end of the day we're all second-hand and we're all district two residents and how can we help each other because one issue on one side it's going to address the other and so forth we don't have to reinvent the wheel every single time I'm a firm believer that go beyond neighborhood associations not every neighborhood association is the end all beyond there are community groups community organizations outside of the NA so not only in addition to supporting the neighborhood association and instead of splitting them up in quadrants I'll actually pair up presidents that are more matured with more novice or neo-fights so that they can then work together to teach each other what have been going on and providing that history within a community so in what to get we need to make sure that we're mentoring each other but going beyond just the neighborhood association and our representation supports our communities neighborhood association for instance so I know the value of the neighborhood association is large, small, doesn't matter doesn't matter you are the voice of your neighborhood therefore you are the voice of your community you represent your community and as a council person again because I've been a neighborhood association I know how valuable it is to have a council person that has an open door policy for you many times you just want to be heard sometimes some things you can get done as a council person some things you can but the thing is have an open door policy for neighborhood associations so you don't feel like you're being neglected or just ignored and I've seen both happen I'm glad it's not to be said I thank you guys for having me and as you speak about neighborhood associations we've actually started going out sitting down talking to neighborhood associations all of you and we know that that can be a problem if we don't have that accessibility accountability transparency and action as I sat with the councilman Art Hall and I listened to some of the issues that came out of course dignitating with the H3 bridge and I listened to what was lacking and that was the voice that was not being listened to and that was the communication that wasn't being had in unity with making sure that those needs of that community were truly met so before you even get to the seat you need to start working to make sure that those communities are actually heard wholeheartedly to stop what you're doing and listen to take accountability for what your community is wanting to do and you serve them and you become a servant of everything District 2 needs thank you so what I would say is neighborhood organizations are the essential lifeblood of putting communities back together and they're advocates for a neighborhood they're voices for people but what needs to be recognized are the people that are necessarily not part of the neighborhood associations and ultimately that's really where the harder work comes in in terms of saying how we put them and allow them to be stakeholders in our community so that's where the neighborhood association becomes more effective what I would say going back to the notion of neighborhood associations is this not necessarily all of them have the same agendas and that's okay we can work along to shared experiences but I do know in some instances in certain neighborhood associations and I'll say this and be upfront there are certain elements that actually have come in view of the neighborhood associations and push a different agenda and they're pretty brave about it they don't necessarily hide something that they want to do so in all honesty you have to say you know what in the neighborhood associations if their notion is to commit and work for a community then let's work with them however if we know there's a different agenda then they need to be put to task as well well if I'm lucky to represent you we have a 90 day plan which includes we're going to meet frequently with our home counselors so that way we can provide a transition plan because he already has things in place we're going to meet to schedule a vision to achieve the plan and meet and we're going to meet with all the neighborhood associations I'm aware that he has a president's meeting or we're going on across from our home so we're going to keep that president's meeting going but we want to expand it to more neighborhoods inside the district too the problem is is that a lot of these neighborhood associations are not organized and so we want to work to get these neighborhoods organized on at home we don't want one neighborhood taking care of five neighborhoods to get these neighborhoods self-sufficient like you guys are and get no one to have to where they can help themselves it's all about the community helping themselves it's all about the community helping themselves thank you and one of them is in my neighborhood and yes we have issues because our neighborhood association no longer is representative of our neighborhood we all have two methods on our board right now but this is public information the fact is when that happened our neighborhood got together we put a sign over 200 signatures to go to the city to say you know what we want to voice on an upcoming project because we're not meeting her those two members represented the entire neighborhood we no longer had members we put here a lot to be members their membership was denied our meeting took over we're going on again when you have just recognized your own neighbors from joining the neighborhood this is what the city felt was to come in make sure everyone is heard don't be screwed the entire neighborhood for a specific group of people who actually haven't found to be working for a developer so I would love to on that note people working for developers our call is out of touch totally appoint a person to HDRC out of a million and a half people in San Antonio a person who was formerly heavily involved in Alamedia working for one of the most controversial firms in this whole debate over the use of the leanin that doesn't make any sense except that it happens in every single place you look there's a small group of developers and people who have influenced this election for the past five years so am I going to listen to the neighborhood associations? no way and I don't even want you to vote because most of y'all, sorry and I'm sure there's a lot of good people here thank you for having me but you did not represent the neighborhoods that you came to I'm not kidding I live in I see it all the time I see the way the developers come in and just put their own people run people out who are longtime members of the neighborhoods I'm sorry I always make you part rhythm drastically as we know the legislature is still moving it's still in flux y'all support so this is a two-pronged question I was born in 1952 to me this is an issue of morality versus immorality if someone bought a house the year I was born and they raised their family and they paid their taxes they paid their mortgages from a certain age it's immoral in the United States of America that they should have to worry about being removed from that home their home is dead where they raise their children because they can't afford they're struggling to pay taxes it's just immoral it's immoral and I'm glad that the legislature is addressing this while moving to that part of it but they're not doing enough it's almost too little it's too late it's too little too late we have to address this taxes should never be a reason for someone to lose their home so yes the legislature is moving in the right direction and they tend to do that moving far too slowly and they're not doing enough what's the issue of property taxes I look at my mother and I know that she is proud to have the legacy that my grandparents learned but I've also seen her go down to the tax assessor's office and stand there to make arrangements for me that's a problem I'm 100% certain connected to say go bet so for me if I was to buy my own home I would be 100% property taxes but that doesn't speak to everyone that sits here when you look at the issue of property taxes that are skyrocketing anywhere from 210% you're starting looking at displacing a community then who are we actually serving when the legislature said that they will implement a goal to help with property taxes then they're saying so for me who actually wins because now you're still passing that down to the person that is already struggling in one area to have to struggle in another so we as a city truly need to implement the true homestead encryption for people who have owned their homes for 15 years or more to ensure that you have a home and a legacy to pass for your generation to come so in terms of the property tax issue it's a very highly energetic issue because it's impacting pretty much I was in the majority of San Antonio but specifically in terms of District 2 I bought my home 10 years ago I'm from the east side I bought my 10 years ago I'm mother born in the early 80s and it was at that time she was right near the Almodome neighborhood when your mother told you that in 1988 you don't necessarily take it serious consider it a neighborhood but you know what the words were proven to be prophetic now we see that the city has used different measures in terms of talking about a potential tax freeze which is something that we can look at in this case and I'm definitely for we've looked at maybe issuing out what they call the city homestead act initiative they don't need to know that they have the homestead exemption that has to happen but in terms of the second portion which I think is more important in a sense it's related to the state level and if cap the rate, the state legislature has cap the rate of property taxes which is tied to your school financing at 2.5% now on the surface that looks great because essentially what it says is look we're the good guys who are helping your community but what's not told is the notion that it begins to drive school financing in areas like here like a Lamar like a Douglas like maybe everyone on the west side so at this point it becomes somewhat a partisan issue there's this notion or attitude that well the school is shrinking or they're becoming smaller so the issue isn't necessarily that impactful and what I would say is we need to address that today and tomorrow I'm taking social education as I said before I'm a 3 year homo and I was just talking about the homestead exemption last year and so a lot of people have been in their homes and they don't know that they talk about the homestead exemption I looked at my tax bill my homestead exemption went up from $10,000 to $13,000 my taxes went up about another $1,000 and so I'm trying to understand how the taxes are working out of my supports and others and so education is where it starts at and so for me if you are someone who's invested into the neighborhood and you're even a homo to a family and you're a pizza man on the street I think they should extend the homestead exemption to more than one I mean as long as you are here for the family and you don't have to go FB and B I think you should go ahead and let's you put that extra house on the homestead exemption if you're on the house and you're providing children for a family but for me, like I said this is about education and I'm going to be honest I'm not a tax expert but I'm learning every day I'm going down there, I'm reading and I'm talking to people and I'm learning as a homo because I'm invested and I want to know and I want to work with neighborhoods that are having problems with taxes and the biggest thing is that you guys just want to make a profit sometimes it's nothing wrong with making a profit off of something that you put your heart and money into and so as a counselor I'm not against development I'll just make sure I am Thank you So while you're taxing I have excuses they're not giving us numbers they're not telling us what our money is going to go to we know that for the incentives to the developers they're giving you years wouldn't you like to have your company tax free and frozen in the state segment for 10 years because the fact here is look at their taxes and what and I'm going on to be guide there's a map application on the internet look at your neighbors properties and see what their taxes the conversion to bars and restaurants means zero improvement on their tax bill that cost right now is $10,000 on the structure and you know they're going to be taxed because at the same time you have a neighbor's home down the street and they're being taxed out of your home why are they able to have your tax free and frozen or not actually in free for the homeowners this is what we think about legacy homeowners and legacy businesses we need to keep those people around with the state bill of community and we need to free their taxes thank you I'm not a tax expert either but I did work at one of those income tax places for a while but I quit because they were really predatory on the loans that they were giving people on every close and it's definitely my refund this year but it's going to be I wasn't able to pay my taxes on my house so it started the process it started with 12% initial fee and then additional 1% and then along with that is the letters from people who will help you pay your taxes you know if you sign over you can levelize your house so I don't see a huge difference between the pay day loans the predatory tax refund people and the way the city actually implements its policy to try to incentivize people to pay it makes the city more money for them not to pay whereas the actual rates everybody's saying oh they're so high, they're so high yeah they're high but we haven't had an increase in the cost of electricity in about 7 years for the most part that's a really long time especially when compared to the annual gain of the consumer price index if you look at how much CPS is a part of the actual city budget what do you think what do you think so there's a lot to this and I'm very solution oriented so I've already created or started something which means that I've been to the tax appraiser myself I had to create a due diligence checklist that was not ever done before so that home owners know how to go about testing their taxes both in English and in Spanish this was something that they've never had when you go in front of a five person panel and you have to protest your taxes the average citizen is not prepared for that battle so we need to make sure that we provide all of our benefits and tools and resources the knowledge they need to not only protest their taxes but to continue to fight for their property but I also want to state that in addition to homeowners our city is comprised of 55% renters so in addition to which also votes and when he's green and they pay taxes as well and you just not property taxes but if they're glad more for the tax increase on that house they're going to go ahead and pass that fee along because we're unable I too am a landlord so I understand that and I choose to eat at that cost because I know my tenants cannot pay that additional a thousand dollars per year it's unrealistic but we also need to be realistic here and say that it is the commercials that the companies, the very large companies that are not picking their share of fare and it's being put on us so unless you actually have someone that's willing to fight for you and not be moved into the chambers and everybody else you better just expect the same thing from leadership as it's been thank you Broadway when it comes to growth cutting our lanes and making people inaccessible to where they need to go we must address it now because as we continue to grow we know that many people are going to use our highways and our byways to get to and from the areas that they travel in we must ensure that our children's faith is met first within our school areas we must ensure that the buses can get through the parents can pick up their children and along this Broadway corridor you're not just sitting there idling for about 10 to 15 minutes at a time when you look at how Broadway is set up now coming into your neighborhood having one lane in the middle of 5 o'clock traffic is unpeakable we must start looking at different ways to access our roadways as we come up Broadway it's already narrow but many people are going to truly be able to access that without being stuck without having to waste gas without breaking emissions these are the things that we must look at as we continue to grow as a community and as a city to make sure that our populations that are critical to breathing and have asthma, COPD and things of that nature are not affected by how we shrink traffic thank you so again traffic at this point and there's no one easy and supportive but what I would say is there doesn't need to be a need a side promotion of the bonding and how transparent that it is and the work that's actually being done to me because Broadway has been worked on for a minimum I would say 10 years that I've seen that guy talk to a city planner when I was in my 20's so that tells me what we're at but in short what I would say is this there needs to be alternative forms of transportation a lot of our demographic is getting younger and they're more flexible in terms of saying look I don't necessarily need a car the jobs are being created in the same areas so what can't we look at bike lanes what can't we be comparable to something like Austin in terms of that the scooter issue I know is a very controversial one but they do help alleviate some of those concerns people have become more pedestrian oriented in the sense that they're willing to walk because now you have growth in terms of the bars the restaurants and museums so people are able to get there likewise but more importantly this adds to the notion of a moral issue and we need to see that process through well the big thing for me is that as more people are coming into this area they need to be safe we've had I think two or three bicycles killed T. 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Bramshaw and I've got a lot of out there around the community so safety is the biggest issue over here we have a lot of walkers this is a beautiful area the zoo there's so much stuff to do up here so many people have walked up and down Broadway across the street so I think safety is one of the things we need to focus on making sure that the other thing we come up with that the traffic is not competing on the tours that are around here because Easter's coming up this weekend so there's a lot more people around here so we gotta make sure that up and down Broadway not speeding people are respecting pedestrians and we'll just respect other cars as we pass by and I think it's all about respect it's all about when you drive you have to watch out for your neighbor so I think safety is the biggest important thing to focus on safety we also have to reevaluate how we get to and from work to appointments across town because not everybody is comfortable with the area because it doesn't mean so with that in mind we need to think about looking at that because we own the area and is that being efficient or something wrong with them so maybe even privatizing letting other companies in in respect to maybe working with other companies here in town we have Alma College with over 600 employees coming into our area maybe they even have something available for their employees because they won't work downtown more large shares to get them down here to work same thing with free homes we have free homes that go to the medical center we know we have people that made a data bank coming down to the museums coming down to the park coming down to the museum have free homes for them as well because we are going to keep cars and we will look around the park but now you have cars you can be happy to do we keep cars coming alright well there's a relatively new saying in Saudi Arabia it's that my father drove an automobile I have a jet and my son will ride a camel it's about the future of the fossil fuels in a way our society is changing if we say that we want the construction to end and we want to do construction the right way the first time we put it into a right way we know that the only way that we can have a sustainable road permit in San Antonio is to cut these lanes down it's what the experts have told us we're talking about billions of dollars in external costs of healthcare that's required because of having so many fossil fuel burning vehicles in such a dense area there will be a drastic change in the way society functions there will be driverless cars things will be very very different let's aim for it how many of y'all heard that they were going to close down wall bearing streets nobody? oh they have flags coming up for y'all nobody tells you it's also like recordage park three years ago when they were going to close down and make this to the cars but not enter once again I think all of us that have come up here because of election time they've been walking these streets since I was a young girl and when I worked at kidney park the best part of the send me was see all the low riders drive by on Broadway that was my favorite time and I still remember those days very clearly and we do not do something about our congestion if they closed down wall bearing as they did they wanted to do for recordage so cars could no longer enter and they're not even informing what recordage was going on what they had going on I had to go and tell them myself look I am a new cyclist I've cycled in Portland I've cycled in Amsterdam I've cycled in Vancouver but it wasn't until I came home and got hit on my bicycle in front of me in middle school and then on my way to a safety committee on top of that I could not make this step up so I understand the importance of having other modes of transportation but since I was a child 10 cents is what it used to cost us to get on the bus and we do not figure out something we are going to be in the same position as we have been not every option will fit every area of district or city unique again let me get back to that you are really congested here it is so bad you are a bottleneck right here in your little area on Broadway and again I know that cost is always rearing its head we need to know what the cost will be but we do have all of these companies that want to come in here these major corporations developers as a condition of doing business here built here and they are going to make a ton of money or they wouldn't want to come in why don't we have them kick in for something specific transportation so that we can and it can be targeted maybe not to the entire city but certainly your Broadway quarter so let's look at enhanced black lanes enhanced for safety and there has got to be more technology so enhanced black lanes and droppings thank you for having me a lot of that for the conversation earlier about art and tea so development is the big booky monster that we typically throw out there well specifically we need to look at the details of what that is essentially we have development that comes from the form of condos apartment complexes bigger entities like that the other part of it comes from the form of people doing individual rehab but at the end of the day we are going to have a lot of people doing individual rehab but at the end of the day no matter what entities you have you have to be able to push the notion that development is here where you have to grapple with the new reality of it but it can't come at the cost of people moving their home of people being taxed out of the area and then saying well that's progress you need to be able to sacrifice what has to happen is this it's a very simple approach you have to have a council lead that has a backbone that won't be able to say one thing that you want to hear in terms of pandering or whatever we need to see out here but then as soon as you meet with the developer they'll sit there and drive an agenda and you're used to conduit for it now that's happened before in terms of the common people that we've had not necessarily just D2 that's something that happens throughout San Antonio across the country so what I say is this I issue a challenge if you come to character tests and you shoot and let the backbone stand firm for your neighborhood as I said I will hope for the neighborhood associations hope for the community have talks and discussions like this one also I will form a special projects community so that way we can go into the community and talk to people who know what's going on because I know there's a lot of stuff that's going on I know a few of them and for me I think it's it's important to get people who know the area who know how to talk to different people and just make sure that we have a proper oversight one of the biggest things that I have I was at the same age I was working as a senior and the biggest thing that we saw out of the developer was that none of them came with impact studies they wanted to do development but there was no impact study to show how that development would impact that neighborhood to make money and so I think everybody should be honest and tell the community how it is, how it would impact the community and help the community thank you I was distracted because the foundation is waiting for somebody to do development it's a quick build it's that quality build when you're living in a home that's over 100 years old and it still has care up there yeah, it's like a little wall to make sure it's up to money meaning you're competing it but it's still there, it has care up there and we're telling the neighborhood it's not care up there it's money and it's free I'll just start out and start with the spurts of feelings but these skinny houses over here I understand what they built oh yeah, I did a lot of block walking here too and everybody knows that the department matters so much to district 2 and district 2 candidates because this is where you can get the most donations so it's a really great place to go and knock on the doors so I was going around knocking on the doors it's such a great place to do that depending on the skinny houses at least some of them are being built with green materials so I guess it's all right but I mean they're so close together I don't see how the mud I don't see how the grass is ever going to grow between them I'm feeling it's just going to turn the mud and erosion eventually and the lean quality as well I think maybe we're in the same example but we don't want to build it at least what I've been seeing in the background I see a lot of homes that are repaired or have turned into Airbnb but they're except hard work so you have people coming in doing half jobs and not really fulfilling the needs that they have to by co-compliance and so forth so that's just a quick turnaround in which we can improve things right now just in building our homes because we want these homes to last for very long the second thing is we want people onto our boards and commissions that actually reflect not only your council member but the community itself and not selecting friends or selecting individuals you know, stretch your back and I stretch yours they have zoning is or anything else like that they just you know that's really why our city does not move forward this is why our district does not move forward because we keep on having the same mediocre mediocre leadership instead of having people push forward and representing the community as a home suddenly not all the people you live and make the park then the heights it's not unusual to have 100-year-old homes you don't have to say it's 100% correct and those homes have character now how do you define that? it's like a train wreck, you know it when you see it you may not be able to define it but you know a 100-year-old home has character and you look at some of these things that they're building now absolutely no character and I try to think what will this thing look like in 60 years I won't know, but I try to project that and I think it's just going to be friends if it's still there in 60 years I really do because the workmanship is shoddy and you can tell our communities just can't be sale folks I mean it's okay we can't stop and I guess it's development's America if you have the money and you want to develop and go through the system but that's where the problem lies downtown, if you say but you wanted to one of the first things is increased transparency between constituents and the city council I may not be the most fluidist but I'm straight up, I won't lie to you and you can always talk about another thing is I'm going to work really hard to make this place a lot better especially on this side and work on solving crime and I want to work hard and work with you both there and get those people on the right track and get those neighborhoods back on the right track so you can expect that from me I'm going to you tell us that we have a partnership that is responsible for our allies we know we're responsible for us right now but we also know that we can explore and demand that it develops from either through their part in my first 90 days I will book the yes I think it's one of the most important things we live in an ever changing world and it seems that as time goes on we are at the close of being ourselves an ecological catastrophe I think the way it comes to deciding whether to act or not to act when the end and final and worst possible outcome is the death of all mankind even if that is only one tenth of one hundred and one percent we should act against that that is what a proper management policy would involve it starts with showing up at the Colbert plants which is the ones that are in slave the second Scruces unit has to go and you're not going to let me win so we need to raise the utility fees we just have to raise it okay by 12 percent over the four year period thank you various industries various chambers yeah just why our city has not moved forward right not only our city but our district ridership organization because of the safety and so I'm going to make sure that all of our bike line things we have parallel routes are already addressed and figured out being proactive versus reactive not waiting until which we shouldn't have lost those lives to begin with at like 12 month mark is by having jobs 4719941 47199 4919941 in office out of office doesn't matter call me everywhere I know that from experience but when I can I'll come I'll come make bridges that but I'll come and open door policy to listen to you to listen to your concerns thank you so much and making sure that you come to the table making sure that your voice is heard making sure that the community has the transparency full accountability full access is exactly what you'll hear from me until the day that so there's two parts of this answer in terms of our vision like I said we want to alter where we're at we can lead San Antonio but that can be done by unifying all of the district to again we can't be fractured and then when we approach city hall say well we want to push this policy and this agenda because the second part to that which is more effective and we're not talking about is although we have these views when you get to city hall you're going to have to negotiate a contact with people that have a different viewpoint a different agenda a different type of constituency if you're going to lay down if you're going to give up if you're going to say well I can't do these things with them or gain up in the same place in two years so we ask that you just answer yes or no with no elaboration if you really have to talk about it not question yes or no only do you support the city ordinance city yes yes I support yes I mean I support yes well we yes yes yes yes yes the limit changed 25 miles an hour on residential street with the least enforcement of that stuff yes yes but it better be enforced how would you we said about the full name of the that was a lot of that but right now I'm just reading all these policies of primary market movement moving in the hood and the roughness movement is taught all night by the day of work so in acting I'm going to keep a little on the shirt a movie that I really really enjoy and for my guys I hope you the movie first I'll just say once and in the country-run election my market sister she's a lot of herself but shantara 900 pages ladies and gentlemen I'm an avid reader I'm a voracious reader in addition to shantara I'm just a movie buff but lover but now there's so many good ones this is really putting me on the spot I really haven't even thought of one so I'm just a foreign film lover so anything from foreign films I'll just and my favorite movie of all time just truly step outside and be kind of so in terms of reading I read the same to a heroine which is a blog, it's a community blog which I wrote and then the book it blessed me who came on I wrote it for 90 years one of my favorite books my favorite and in terms of movies I don't want to get over dramatic or sad but third grade at St. George we watch Glory and that's the first time that the young boy I've seen where good didn't necessarily always win it really shouldn't be and that movie always saved me and I love that movie the movie that I read from the company cover is called The Master Key System by Charles Hino it's a very good book they have audio version of it too also my favorite movie is Anything, Eddie Murphy Trade Place series Beverly Hills Top 48 Hours Delirious Country America so I'm a really big Eddie Murphy thing and so if you put on Eddie Murphy then we can add more thank you Hello folks, anything you have my name is Walter Perry and I'm asking you to go I'm asking you to go to the city I have about five thousand people in history too and over the years I will put the numbers in the dictionary so right now I want to remember call to action to all of you folks to go to the quote and let's send the message to City Hall history too thank you Mark and all of the members are engaged we are ready to change the direction of our city and people want to take control of our own lives and we decided. So I want you guys to vote. It's a really good people up here. We're all passionate about the community. Even if you don't vote for me, vote for somebody. But go vote, because a stroke won't happen. We want to send an message. So I'm gonna ask them for at least 20,000 votes. I want to see that go early vote. Please make me proud and please, please, please go vote. Thank you. Once again, thank you over this evening. And essentially what I'd say is this, I believe district 2 can be the lead community in all of San Antonio. And I believe it with all my heart. But more importantly, there was a number of issues that we have to address. But that has to be done by unifying all our communities, no matter what part of the east end that you live on. And to the end of what I say is this, no matter the outcome of what happens, I don't ask that you commit to me. I just ask, respectfully ask and request that you continue committing to your community. Because if that happens, then we'll be transformative and we'll change the thing that we want to change. If that doesn't happen, then we'll be back in the same place two years with other candidates. Thank you. Just remember, I'm not a politician. I'm just a concerned community member. I look like you. I speak like you from my community. There's harmony in unity. And there's harmony when we speak together. If we stand with each other, if we stand connected as a unit within district 2, we move mountains. We are the shining light that can lead an example. So what you can do when you truly work to ask that you speak for your district, that you speak for me. And I don't want any other political office after this. I'm not qualified to be a judge. So you don't have to worry about that. I don't want anything else. I don't need any more titles. I've been called the President's Award. I've been called a councilman. I've done all that kind of thing. And the best title in the world, other than Pennsylvania, I mean, somebody told me for 43 years, but it's that I have five young people on this earth who call me father. And that's the best thing in the world. I'm not a politician at all. And I'll tell you this. District 2 is comprised of what folks call the North East Side, the South East Side, the Near East Side, and the property court. So that's like having a child that doesn't have the same last name as everybody else in the family. So I take it to call you Broadway East. So you're East too. Because we're all in this together. Well, you've heard us all say that everybody's unique, but we're all District 2. I know you may not feel like that sometimes, but we're all District 2. I've never forgotten it. I won't forget it. Thank you for having us tonight. Vote Selena. Vote Selena. At the end of the day, I did not just show up on the scenes. I've been walking and working since I was 14 years old. It's not effort. Look for just what was put up the books, right? I have been working, and I know that many of you have been working that long. It's not longer in your lifetime. And you deserve better. You deserve to have leadership that's not only going to speak on your behalf, but you should report and see that all of the donors are individual, small donors, community members and residents, developers. There are no people. There are no president. I have signed up more votes. That is not about me. That is about us as a district. That's for your votes. Thank you. Once again, I'm Joseph Powell. As I think most of us have already observed, we've growth rate in this city is absolutely unsustainable. And the only way to stop that is to have policies that slow growth rate. The reason we should slow that is because those upon the people of the price shocks associated with raising rent increases faster than a certain percent amount per year otherwise would be sustainable at this point. It's not. And the people who suffer from this are not the people who can afford housing in this new economy. Anyways, it increases crime, increases crime, and adds to exacerbates the modification of human suffering and the corporate profiteering of the typical justice system within our city, within our nation. We need to do things to slow growth, we need a massive shift in the tax burden from individuals to business, capitalism as an object failure. Thank you. You remember when I take a confirmation sign, I love our history. We live in a country that does not mean that we can go forward without respecting our history. We know we have the important future. Who we actually used to be since yesterday was noted on in fire. And the artist I'm part of will be thinking, can't it be safe and when and how it will be safe? Congratulations to the city council right now that have dealt with the hour long. If we have an opportunity to voice our opinion and have the respect of our Texans to say, no, this is the law to us. Who gives you the right to give the hour long away? Gives you the right to close it off. Disrespect the war worth building. There's many things happening right now and your council person will be your voice and will be the vote of our city. Thank you.