 Yeah, this has an addition to the previous speaker. The Texas farm workers marched from, were separate and different from the United States, but they marched from Harlem to Washington, D.C., and Jimmy Carter wouldn't even meet with them. They both were, both were, like, three. But yeah, you might as well be two or no, it's a problem, but six people, so. Yes, what I thought there is that it was too much to put, so I just put another. Between 1960 and 1981, there were 32 organizations that were founded here in the Senate to remind men and women, like Mulder, like Cox, and others. To me, that's very important because all those organizations are now 50 years old, the ones that have Bob. We will be celebrating several in the year 2018, and those organizations, most of them are still doing good work, some of them nationally. What's important about that for me is that after 1981, there were a lot of other organizations that had created, and they continued to be active, like Esperanza, like personita, a lot of groups. And those groups are now doing what the Chicanos did in the 60s. In other words, they're the ones that are working outside the system, holding the system accountable, and they're not getting the press, they're not getting the support. And it's sad because a lot of the leaders right now are Latinos and Latinas. And we have to be very careful that as we celebrate what we've done in the past, that we recognize and honor those rebels of the 60s, and we know that they're the rebels of now, that maybe we'll be celebrating 50 years from now, but can we learn that we need to honor them now, and they're the promise. During this period of time, the world works forward. A local fellow named John Stanford, organized in this community and the areas around it, which ultimately led to a Supreme Court decision to dramatically expand free speech and the right access to the power for particular political ideologies. Okay, so in 1965, that kind of life, it was an urban renewal. 1965, hemisphere started construction, so we don't look for that. Of course, you have to demolish, pick out all these people, demolish the houses, and then construct the hemisphere. And then 1968, the hemisphere was created to have the world's fair, the hemisphere, and it was the world's fair. It was the hemisphere. That was fair. That's how I learned. Okay. And then somebody put working class communities marginalized. Move. Move. Okay. And two. Then 1970 put 1971 UTSA put far from inner city residents, so they had an opportunity to be downtown and they went 30 miles north to Bernie. In 1974, COPS Metro, or COPS was founded. So 1976, San Antonio City Council created member districts. Single member districts. 1976. So before that, it was the good government making decisions, having their token black and Latino and everybody else came from the north side, and so Maldiv basically was going to sue the city and I guess the city, agreed to some single member district. I don't know if you want to talk about it. No. I put both of those things down, but mainly it was actually childhood experiences more than anything else, because I remember the UTSA in particular. My oldest sister, Mary Alice, was on the second graduating class of UTSA, but she was one of the ones that had to travel so far. And she's actually a good friend of mine. He has like a sister to me. And then when I was in high school, I remember that battle to the member district and a lot of my teachers at Central Catholic, one in particular, a retired lieutenant colonel was very much against it and voiced it to all of us. And of course, I was hearing at home that you were in favor of it, so I voiced my displeasure. I didn't care what my teacher was. Yay! Can I do a little bit more? I didn't even know there was a San Antonio in those years. I grew up in southeast Michigan, right outside Ann Arbor. I grew up in the sister city, the other side of the tracks. I grew up in Ypsilanti, and I know there are a lot of people in the room that dies to University of Michigan. But I grew up on the other side of the tracks. U.S. 23 was in the early 60s with the intent of separating the clean white Ann Arbor from the factories of Ypsilanti. And when you go under U.S. 23, you go from Ypsilanti to Ann Arbor. And you go from Howard Johnson's on one side, the old Howard Johnson's, and the other side, the big new shopping mall and the Marriott. I'm the high-rise Marriott. My point is, I remember the integration in the early and mid-60s, school integration and what those freeways did to separate our working class communities from the intelligentsia in Ann Arbor. Eastern Michigan beginning to grow as a teacher school for the kids who couldn't quite work quite good enough to go to the University of Michigan and on and on. So I guess, even though I didn't know, the first time I met someone with a Latino surname was when I was in college. But the African-American communities is where I grew up. I went to high school. That was about 65 percent African-American. And I remember 1968, and the Detroit riots very well. And the cleansing of the urban white because Ypsilanti was an old town, factory town, and the same things were going on. My point is, the same things were going on in my work. That's what I grew up with. That's what I saw. And so it wasn't just here. It was an international thing. So I think we have to keep a world perspective in mind when we talk about what was going on in New Zealand. Do you remember the slang name for Ypsilanti? Ypsilanti? That was quite against white because the force found, you know, the, what was it? Ypsilanti. I actually grew up in Ypsilanti. They had come up and that's how they separated Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti, Tennessee, is what a lot of people call it because it was a mixture of poor working clients, working with factories. You couldn't call it poor. Okay, we're going to move on. Yeah, thank you for that. Thank you for those larger perspectives. So again, Ypsilanti's West Side Urban Removal. In 1979, Alvin Edo Aguilpe to engage in economic development in the West Side. So that's when they were coming in. That's what I think I lived with that night. I put the West, that was in the 70s was when my neighborhood was erased. The Guadalupe South and it's what we're calling the historic West Side. So thousands of, you know, everybody left the neighborhood, got pushed out over to homes out of the area and some of us were able to stay. But the whole history and culture and traditions from that community, like a canister, like so many other communities gets destroyed in the late 60s or the 70s. So then you're entering the 80s, 1980s, but 1980 West Side buildings demolish. Urban removal. Okay. Well, I call this renewal, but it's renewal. That's the main thing. I think the three goals, I just don't work. Third, good policies deal with liberalism. In 1981, Maria Villasalva was elected to stay. Yay! The policies were in there a day. Right. And with that single-member district, she would have never gotten into the West Side. But it was also early years, so actually you got to speak your mind at that time. It seems like... Well, I think for the community, which I think we feel some of our problems. Yeah. Well, that was the beginning of hate government, no government, you know, to the government for a while and all the money we had been receiving before. Those were the years where we began to feel government policies at a local level and there were various years. Right. Again, going back to Juarez, I'm certain all of these have national and international policies that have a global effect. I'm going to have to bottle off the college, a community-driven effort to locate the first institution of higher education on the South Side of the country. Go ahead. Okay. If I hadn't not written that, that would have been a blank spot and that would have been the South Side where there was nothing in terms of higher education on the South Side. The community stood up and said, we want to have something, an institution of higher education. That was a very good move. The trend now has been to, and this is kind of one of the concerns that we have, that it becomes a facade of higher ed and being watered down into jobs raining forward from the community was then not once there. The students, I wrote over here, wanted to, at some point have, keep the majors and visitors under transcripts of faculty who supported the students. They stood up and fought against it, because it's an independently versed college. The centralization movement of the community college took control of, basically, what happened at the local colleges and they said, no, no to the students, no to the faculty. And so they don't have, or some of the participants is the major on the transcripts. So it's like we're moving back in terms of trying to help the community and listening to them. It's, you know, you don't know what's best for you. Don't tell you what's best for you. Project, we just wanted to do more in the early 80s, maybe 90 days, even after the community wanted it real hard. And then we kept on fighting it for 10 years, the college was very active because they kept wanting more money and more money and more money. Followed her at the time. Am I right? And both of that, Barbara. I have her, you hit it. Yeah. Something about proposed office towers. Right. Over it, the developers came into the neighborhood, your later Tarlas neighborhood and started buying up single family homes that were mostly parishioners, older, Elkwood parishioners of our Lady of Sorrows. Where is that? Over at St. Mary's in Mulberry. And started buying it up and developing it in Walter Emory to put in office towers. And so because of that, I might go down the road on it a little bit, we wound up with Maria's help, thank God, getting some, we created a senior housing corporation to build elderly housing forplexes, which still exists. And we did not want it to be under a housing authority, which it still isn't. And that was, and we got the street close things to Maria for and the negotiated developer for the dirt to build those on. And a big victory was that it was a coalition of intercity neighborhood associations, not just the ones that were there, the neighborhood associations at the time saw that it meant something for them, so they went back together. And we kept the high, intense development, like Valero and so on, from coming to the other side of the expressway. Because that's what they wanted. They wanted to build two tall towers. Or saw towers? And now across the street, where our Lady of Sorrows is. Across the highway. In 1989, so it says Oldest Hood, Los Pastoros is demolished. Right. That was the same, where Valero is today, or what is it now, saws, sorry, there was a neighborhood, and it was the Olden, it was a neighborhood and his training was built to quarry. And so that was the neighborhood of Los Pastoros. That was when... That was when... Right. This is one of the saddest things that happened in the Spartans. What happened was, the developers, same developers, tried to have people relocated. And what happened was, they were relocated to places like on the other side, down Walsham Road, crazy places they went, they went up Lucy. But that was when the developer actually said, because of the pressure of this, the same group decided to just, to relocate people. The Olden decision? Yeah. That's Christy Newton. He's the first major national trans decision, hard worker, decided and wrote the decision in this district. He said that the gender you're born with is the only gender you can ever have, and that started a national trans movement. But, and it is, for many years, it was other national decision that founded on that decision. And it wasn't overturned in Texas. And then other districts, like Houston, came up with the same, depending on the same decision. And so, you could get, different people could get marriage licenses in San Antonio and in Austin, depending on your name and gender marker changes. And so, it affected the LGBT community a lot in South Texas. And it wasn't overturned until after the marriage decision, June 26th of last year. Just a little bit, I don't know the exact facts of this case, but this case involved Christy Lee Milton John, who was a transgender woman who had married a man. And then he, it was a wrongful death suit and she had wanded a suit. I forget how much money. And it went, they appealed it. And when it went up on appeal, that's when, who was it, former mayor, Mark Berger wrote the opinion that said, that the marriage was invalid because Christy Lee Milton was not a woman and because the definition, at least in this opinion, of women was chromosomes. And basically, completely, you know, botched up the issue about what it means to be a transgender. And she was a Latino woman who married an Anglo man and by then she wound up marrying a relative of Latisha Vanderpute and they were related. And so it affected Texas politics again because they are the greatest supporter in the world, in my opinion, of Latisha. I'll just real quickly that in July of 1989, the city council voted to create apple wine, which would have been a reservoir on the south side of the city that would provide 40 million acre feet to supplement the aquifer up in the north side in case when it dried up. And that's when the city council passed. But fortunately in 1990, the community got signatures over several years and in 1994, 1991, it was defeated. The people defeated it. And even though we hadn't spent 50 million dollars, they had to abandon it. And then it came back. Nelson Love brought it again in 1994. That was apple wine too. And our community defeated it again. They wanted apple wine because at that time in the 1980s, you still had a lot of vacant land in the north side that is the land over the aquifer. And there were community people that if you built and you brought gas stations and impervious cover to that area, eventually we would pollute our only source of water. So the developers were real smart and they said, why don't we build this reservoir? It's really not going to take care of the problem but it will look like we're solving the problem. And also there was a clean water act of amendment that Henry B. Gonzalez passed that said if you build over there, you're not going to get certain federal assistance because it's the sole source of water. You just have one source. But if you build this puddle down there then you have another one so you would notify the amendment. And that's why they wanted it. It was a sneaky way to build more. And even though apple wine wasn't built, the powers that we and the community are so powerful that if you get a certain lobbyist like Bill Kaufman or Brown involved, they passed all the zoning cases. For ten years on the city council between 1981 and 1991, I voted against every single zoning case but every week they passed and passed and passed because there were never six folks who would go against the developers. And still today there are not six folks that would go against them. Isn't that what the pipeline is for now? The pipeline is the same thing. Now we're getting the water from over there because we know that eventually we might not have this one. And people want to go get somebody else's water and also because the people that run the city want to keep on having their golf courses and their grass lawns and pretending that we're not in their community. So they don't want us, they don't want to have to live by the limitations of the construction. So if we have all this water coming then they can go on living like they have on their own. They again, the city development organizes the parents to be aware and force the housing authority to do their work. I was a very successful experience for me and I had to go on that course because my department has done a lot here to help clean up the apartments and get them ready. Basically there were over 500 families that were on the waiting list for the apartments and the housing authority was not as easy as they were very, very slow in releasing the apartments so that only about two thirds of the apartments were actually occupied at any one time. So we had all of the people from the public school, every little thing in school and and a lot of young people volunteered that day and we weren't doing hard but they made a point of having each of the crew leaders, the people who would live in the Al-Qaqjals apartments and had subsequently been able to move to their own homes in the neighborhood so they were really inspiring to work with them and hear about how Qaqjals apartments had actually been a step up for them. So I have 1991 for 1994 Sanita comes to being after they're pushed out of their jobs when they buy drugs and moves to Costa Rica. It's also the same time frame where Clinton comes to San Antonio to sign NAFTA, the NAFTA, the American Retreat Agreement. COPS Metro presses SAWS to charge full impact fees to developers who want to sell them their apartments. So basically for the entire time that the city has been developing infrastructure for having water mains and sewers and so forth to new neighborhoods the developers were getting their expenses paid for out of the costs that were borne by the existing residents and so it for many many years COPS Metro was trying really hard to try to force them to make the developers pay for the part that should go become part of the price of the houses or the buildings will be built. So they finally pressed SAWS to charge the impact fees and very next year the state legislature and the request of the developers put a cap on it such that now only one of the state legislature raises the cap that any of that is living from. So all of the existing residents have been subsidizing the infrastructure to build all of the new homes, everything outside of the interlude for all of these years and basically they are forced to. I just want to tell a little bit more about the aquifers because this is a moment in 1992 in 1993 there was a huge effort by the communities by the Apple way to put a moratorium on development over the aquifers and so the city in response appointed a special committee including Gene Dawson in order to allow Gene Dawson to be on that committee they had to enact a special resolution waving him from the concept of interest permissions of the state government that committee came out with a draft moratorium which was passed by city council to an overflowing crowd of cheering community finally were going to be able to save the aquifer and so the moratorium was passed in December of the same year the city attorney together with Gene Dawson and other members of the committee announced to the press oh my goodness there was a mistake in the moratorium and it's not effective and so we're going to work to get an effective one so then for the next five or six weeks Gene Dawson plotted filed property planes or property plans virtually all of the aquifer land after that they enacted another moratorium but by that time because Dawson and others had filed these plots they were quote grandfather so they were not subject to the moratorium that was PGA well we discovered that in PGA but the fact is that Gene Dawson and the bill he did can I have just a little bit on senate bill 66 what the developers did when they went to the legislature and capped the impact fees they also made sure that Texas could not do what other states do in other states developers actually pay for other things like drainage there are a lot of things they can pay for with impact fees and what it is is the impact your development has on the public and it was a whole bunch of things so they made sure that the only thing that they can pay for is water they eliminated drainage they eliminated everything else we do we do okay quickly again out of the movies 1992 first movie festival at the Guadalupe San Antonio Leslie all in the early 90s City of San Antonio offers up some new gardens for these that's me and river run we shaded on it and it became so detailed that all of the potential developers left and then the parks foundations came in and it was Patty Radle was on the council at the time and it was agreed upon at the council level that there would never be a charge to enter the sunken gardens coalition forces those came to not the witty garage right the witty garage was not the witty garage that's a hard part because there are so many signs that say witty parking but the park the garage on avenue B between Toledo and Kitty Park Mulberry is basically a city garage that is never supposed to charge and it was the first of the garages now there's a lot of them being proposed in Bracken Ridge Park and the idea at the time the idea that it is now that people would park there and take their things into the park but there was never any talk of people movers or anything like that but that was the first garage that was built now there's subsequent proposals but that was it 1997 as Fadanza gets defunded again targeting our LGBT work but we know that it's because more posting gatherings like this and challenging the developers some of the road battles Seattle opens up dialogue about neoliberal capitalism 1997 United Students Against Sweatshops is founded the Sapa Pista Rise Up actually 1994 La Gloria Falls in 2002 PGA Struggle starts around 2001 and goes on for five or six years 2001 as Fadanza wins the Boston Against the City Federal Court St. Bridge and then there's like an arrow the boat's all the way through and who wrote the speech? Is that the one about the line there? About the East Side Resident St. Pastry Okay, please share your charges That one is a it's the new London decision where the Supreme Court of London said that a city could take a neighborhood and hand it over to developers and then the state legislature in Texas said no you can't do that in Texas and I'm not a lawyer I'm wondering if we haven't ever used that law to protect exactly that kind of thing Well I mean it's true that they haven't done that either I don't think there's any evidence that they did have a sphere but it's unlimited that protection is very limited Re-opened in 2006 2005 someone holds reopened after long wait Innovation Alliance was founded in 2009 Does anyone who's from the WK want to post that? I took a break Let's just go I'm ready for lunch I'm also in the West Side Family Channel Alliance and we decided that the only way we're going to tell our history is by documenting ourselves and what we've done is we've talked to different residents we've talked about kind of did our own survey of what buildings we thought had to qualify for historic destination and just talked to people and we've been doing that for several years now and we've been able to landmark several buildings So we're always looking for new members to come help us and tell us stories about their particular neighborhoods in the West Side and stay active with that We were involved with the Pacific Rocks Building which is that sewing factory on Sasamora and West Martin and that was bought by a developer that wanted to make a family dollar store there that wanted to demolish it That building was built in 1929 It was a sewing factory and it was very prominent and has been a manufacturer of women's ready to wear clothes There have been several dress factories in San Antonio and I believe that's the last one that the building is still there It's been several business over the year and we had a meeting with the developer and told them what we felt that that was a strong building that should not be demolished We're still talking about that They withdrawn their demolition order but it's just like that's too much of our history of San Antonio Can I say something I think it's a terrible looking building besides the manufacturing that was done at the top part it was an EFW and to that it's been empty all windows are broken the bottom is terrible There's not much history to that building It's just sitting there looking very ugly and they could have built a new building there We need some new buildings to enable them because some of the old ones they've been buried there's nothing to do with it there's no history I used to go to the dentist there's not what they wanted it was a piece of piece but you don't have to worry about it We need to tear down that building Thank you Not all buildings we're trying to cite are perfect You know, it's there They look in terrible shape with the Apostle Lentry Parry but there is a lot of history to that building I'm going to look at it but unfortunately parents don't always that marks are not always beautiful She's asking a question I heard a commotion No, no, don't Okay She's asking about time that was late I was asking about they work a lot on the east side and there was a big change when the east side terrace housing projects were torn down and then a lot of people at that time were displaced and also set in the homes but I don't remember the exact date It was seven nights and east side terrace No, actually the night because east side terrace was huge you had a huge displacement of people from the east side to the northeast side These two apartments CRAS Oh, I see I have good information from Maria I don't know the exact detail because in my opinion it was gone very quietly and some people that are usually away from paying attention were totally unfamiliar with it and it's a type of infill housing and they can do it anywhere now and they like to come in in the lower income neighborhoods because people are less organized they have to go to work every day they can't go downtown and fight sleep and what's going on is they try to tear down houses and build up to eight houses in a spot if you want to see a prime example they didn't tear anything down but that's what our future looks like right across from Hay Street's bridge they call it north Cherry Street modern and if you know anything about construction they have ten Meadowton Roof they have to be used for chicken coops on their porches and whatever and these people came from somewhere else to pay over $200,000 for these boxes and that's what they want to bless us with in the inner city wherever they can squeeze it in and they will pound you with that wonderful glue from Houston with the help of your local realtor and if you resist to have personal experience then they will send you coal compliance and make your life miserable and that's nothing new but they're also doing it in downtown areas wherever it's popular right now in south town somebody referred to this disco district and they're bringing in arts and restaurants which is fine but they should provide parking and they should stay out of people's front yards everywhere else if you want to build a bar or a restaurant or whatever you have city ordinances well in the lower less developed area they throw the baby out with water and we're looking at big problems you guys better stop pay attention and fight there was a case that was won by thank you for that it's actually 12 I want us to finish this for maybe 15 minutes so we have one more thing we want to kind of look at a power nap if y'all interested in that who's making all these decisions can we pass over to the park that got here we're actually there now we're in 2010 so the reason why we wanted to do this timeline was because it's like so I just want to say my age I'm going to out myself I'm 23 years old I know right especially because I spend so much time with my grandmother with other people who know this history I have a better sense of okay this is not new but there's too many people who say this is new so that's why we're doing this but yeah 2010 2010 to 2020 and definitely in downtown really is this idea of like this revamping of downtown and so that's where you have all these locks that we're seeing that are in downtown that's where you start seeing downtown expanding into the west side east side south side and that's kind of what's happening now you have the haystree bridge lawsuit which is 2013 to now this is another battle where public spaces becoming privatized someone who speaks to that later if they wanted to there's some folks that were part of that battle here the hemisphere hotel fight started in 2012 four years ago okay so I'm from related lake university area my park is on the floor park four years ago there was they wanted to revamp that area and I remember the rhetoric of the president who was there at the time of the president of the university saying that we need to make this area better because people who are coming to school here don't like think it's ghetto and they don't want to live they don't want to go to school there and I said I live in that area and I went to school there I said well I don't watch like races in my school that's why they wanted to revamp the park and they said the community came out they just gave us our pool they got rid of the pool and now we don't have it and they said maybe five years from now you'll have a pool yes me too so then we have domesticas we need us created in 2012 we have the destruction of univision 2013 we have another community folks another community organizations came together to save the univision building because it's a historic site but as you know that was lost and if you go downtown it's right across from Tennessee those are the agave apartments now and I looked up the cheapest apartment it started at like 1,500 for a studio and then it goes for a loft and they're supposed to be for people like me who are young millennials I could not afford that I would not live there it's for the awesome millennials that's right they kind of put awesome in there too many college debt now we work your house sorry to bring people back we have even for a full campus in 2012 you have mission trails it was a big site 2014 one quick statement about that one of the populations we haven't mentioned at all we've talked about neighborhood etc what about the displacement of homeless a great example is a survivor's loss they built the survivor's loss in a project of the county and they cleaned it up and rid of the homeless youth who've been there so do you think a couple months later when they busted multiple trafficking trap houses two blocks from there that it was an accident? absolutely not the only ones who really profited from the building of the survivor's loss are the developers and the traffickers because there was no they weren't displacing any communities but in reality they were how many beds do you think there are emergency beds in this city for the LGBT community under the age of 18 zero zero 41% of the homeless population youth population in this city is LGBT 10% of the general national population is a high investment the point is when we're displacing homeless youth especially we have to have forethought in where those people are going to go just like we're talking about communities and displacement of communities and people who own homes and things like that in many cases they stand a better chance than those homeless individuals especially the homeless youth of myself so I just want to mention these because I know a lot of us know about these just so that we can move on to the power map and then we can discuss it if we have time we can stay here longer to talk about them more and also just wanted to throw it out here we do want to continue these discussions and have more meetings so that we can really delve into what's happening currently now that we have this historical view so that we can actually strategize further so we have the okay so I said I said this fight the master plan started last year being developed being members were not invited and then that's when you have this summer when and other folks realized we weren't invited for community meetings and that's what happened recently then I put 2017 this is more looking for what's happening now to the future that we're kind of focusing we talked about this storage pipeline how it's bringing water into San Antonio but the water grid is going to be all over Texas bringing water from Oklahoma and Louisiana so that's the way to major cities in Texas and so that's going to really vamp up for the cities and really have it in all the major cities in Texas where they're just going to be very you know all of the laws very congested so that's what's happening what we wanted to get through was Gregory, Kate Doxton these are just some of them you kind of have this idea you have the tech which is a new kind of subsection of developers like Rackspace, Eatsum, TechBlock and actually they put into all three but Mr. Weston who was the founder of Rackspace also founded Eatsum and TechBlock and he's behind the Uber he's behind really kind of bringing Google Fiber into San Antonio and why that might be good is also bringing a certain they're saying they want these people to go into the law so when you think of millennials the people that work at TechBlock and have tech jobs and have lots of money to spend $3,000 on law what is the color represented um do you do you want to explain the colors they don't mean anything they don't mean anything okay, all right there you go public power public power does anyone do you want to speak to this arm public power so the green part is also growing into an estimate it's like the slower amount of power than after what has to go into power so corporate mostly concentrate on the law and until there's going to be something so green is corporate and money power pink is policy power red is political and blue is people power thanks I've been working on on a paper with years of problems and it's not done yet but I wanted to share when we look at this there are certain areas that connect all the issues there are different issues as water is developed and it's policies what are those things one of them is the policy and one of them is the one that you mentioned for example the night crib, inner city reinvestment into policy it is effective all inside loop 410 so right now everything inside loop 410 is at risk because they can get incentives they can get new zoning they can get waivers they can get grants they can get things such as parking so the eye crib is very very important the policies the exclusion the voices are being shut out you can go to meetings you have three minutes at a meeting but sometimes you'll get two minutes if you're lucky so the policies that have been enacted that are exclusionary and the process that has been elected to me the biggest example of the violence that's been occurring right now that has to do with displacement mission trails and we should put that on the top because to me mission trails shows what this community is capable of in other words if that was done to that group of people it can be done to all of us and one of the things that's happening with mission trails is they have to leave close to 1604 where there's no city services or county services so right now there are people creating the new favelas of the future new Polonias and that's very very dangerous another area that connects everybody is the removal of the city oversight we have created these quayside public groups like the Tobin Hill Conservancy the Red Enriched Park Conservancy the Hemisphere Conservancy the main class of Conservancy so what that does is the policies the policymaking is being removed from the elected officials that are elected under one person one vote and that mirror the community so the people that are making a lot of decisions are not only the business people but they are the officially sanctioned city Conservancies that tend to be white and powerful men because they want them to have to produce the money so the authority is being taken away from the people the other one that I think is very very important is that we have so many different issues and we're limited in time so everybody concentrates on their issue it's water it's neighborhood associations it's demolitions it's all the issues that we've mentioned so all of us are limited in time so each of us concentrates on our issue so to me the biggest thing that I have seen in many years that stands in the way of community addressing the problems is that they are so diverse and that we're split and it's divide and comfort and unless there's we as a community find a way to work across all kinds of communities we're not going to do it because they're going to cause these problems and it's not and I don't blame anybody for that because you think for your own so for example the official neighborhood association system that I credit myself for helping back in the early 80s need to understand that the issue of gentrification affects everybody and it affects them too it's not as long as we say that group doesn't affect me it's not good if water rates affect them too they're affecting us too so to me those are just thoughts to have on this and the final one is one that's very personal to me because I was asked by Julian Gastro to serve on the mayor's task force on preserving dynamic and diverse neighborhoods and I did better judgment and it was fair, it was a farce and under the new leadership so we need to be also careful how we are used and for me I like it better to be outside the system and holding it accountable and being together and strong because this is what we have to address and it's going to see allies me to address the issue of controls and I wish all of you would read my book because I explained it there, it's no big secret but I call it the 17 white men who run the city because it doesn't matter what the name of the person is it matters that it's the people who have the power because they have businesses that can hire thousands of people on their own it's the construction companies that are going to build it's the engineering companies like Dave Dawson it's the banks, it's the media and they sit together they sit together and they're the ones that decide on these big issues so until we know that that's what the cost or the ones that are creating the changes and it's two words that we have had in San Antonio since the 1950s