 The other question is, I don't have the answer to mine. My guess is that I've been at work for the fairly long time. First of all, before I ask, it's wonderful to see all over 100% of the council, very friendly, very nice, you know, debated very well. So I appreciate you doing your work for this council. The two questions I have is, we are recently involved in construction and having all these things going on in our campus. And personally, I'm also involved in some of the construction. But you've already seen the city is so terrible. You know, just getting there, so only the poor can take one in a year or two years, getting this water permits, electricity permit, it just stays forever. So I would like to tell you what you can do to improve for builders and developers to keep the city growing. The second question I have is, I live right on my 10th, I live in a 20-year-old, and there's terrible construction going on for more than three years now. And you understand, it's just over the water gate, which was built in three years. So I would like to know when the construction gets started, what can you do in case of, you know, the completion of the project so we won't get affected in the future. Let's start with Tommy, he said two minutes. When it comes to cutting through the red tape, I think that's where my job experience will help with that. One of the things I do is I work as a project manager, and a lot of what I do is come up with the documented systems of procedures and looking for how to identify those so we can identify risks and opportunity to streamline it and it eliminates all the points of failure. So I think I can bring that skill set into City Hall for review. How is our current zoning process working? And we'll work with our city managers and their staff to identify points and then you'll have to report to them what kind of process you're making on the streamline. I know one of the other issues we have is sometimes construction happens, it is a nightmare, but we also have to be careful because certain parts of the road, like if it's eye-climbing construction, that's going to be your state and federal that's in charge of that. Sometimes when there's construction around my plunso, that's going to be the accounting that takes care of that. So when it comes to city level streets, that's what the city is involved and that's what we do for everything in town. So once again, I think I'll bring my skill set to bear what can we do to help streamline this little bit and in the process, hopefully achieve some foster connections because maybe we won't be spending our meals as much. I'm very fortunate to be talking to a lady that you presented to state and she explained to me that all this village that I was going to be resuscitated for people so that we could be in good terms. I purchased the building right on the side of the road and I understand your pain because I have a great physical pain which is getting in the way. We have about seven months or five, we're hearing our own ones and that's something being a lot of attention because I hear physical complaints that we're ready to start construction which is to purchase that building from the land and that building and they suck it because we don't know if it's going to work or not. So I've been through the process three times with that and I know what happens and I've been talking to the people that presented these things and they're working there and so I have a feeling I think we need to update the process so I'm going to talk about I think for your... I just don't compare and see that it's happening everywhere I will immediately by getting I think I will get to work on not only that one I don't know if I cannot say this though but they have been permanent construction for several years or months so that's something that we need to add to it and I think we need to so one of the things I'll call the manager one of the big companies is an answer to be an issue experience and tell me how that would provide a solution and what a potential solution would be so I'll come back to you so let's again I'll call the manager go ahead I would ask the city to change the way the contracts are set up to replicate the new construction a third, a third, and a third you don't get any money in front after a third of the project is completed then you get a third when you complete two thirds of the project you get two thirds if you complete a project under the designated time and under budget you get a bonus if you go over then you get people so that's right they're doing construction and this is construction thank you well anytime you start talking about development and construction projects it definitely can become a challenge sometimes I think the key for me is I will always have my door open for anyone who's having problems legitimate problems or at least they believe in legitimate problems and try to work through them and in my position on the council I would try to use my influence if I need to see a situation where things are coming down to property to try to develop a right track I think it's also the case that we may need more staff as well to review projects and figure out how to make them happen so that's something I'm looking into as well and then regarding the issues that I can in particular that is always a challenge to work with the state other accountants and so on but again as I'm aware of the issues I would certainly be involved in and try to come up with solutions I had said that regarding the situation there I can nearly always frame I don't know at this point I would be happy to look into it but this is the final one thank you the first question about how painful it is I'm going to give you a sad answer at the beginning but I think there's a solution I get my clients in schools and homeowner's associations and other people who have small businesses and because I'm just showing up I'm able to do it much more quickly and if you went on your own I shouldn't be able to feed my children by making the system go through so what I would do is I do know that one of the reasons it's so slow is that they are understaffed over development so they're very understaffed so they have to be confused between projects to them on priorities so they do need to increase that as far as the process itself there is this thing called the code based zoning and we put code based zoning in a place on some parcels on the south side very large parcels and when we designed that it worked and it's just a color by numbers way of knowing exactly what we can put, what we can put and how we can take but make those changes we figured it out in small courses in the city as far as traffic goes Cindy is absolutely right we don't what we should do is do achievement incentives where if you finish it way early those projects get very early what do you want to know yes I have to mention that this is something from my city building I think you might have doubted people they like to say this and that's what they need to feel a little bit longer I've had to change the process and I have to say that I think I was made up for that to be and they take care of me with the process but I've been through the process and I think I've heard about the code practices from people over in the town working in a five unit provided service I mean five and I think that's what we need to do in the future so that's why we need to continue the construction before we finish our time I also want to make sure that the subcontractors because many times the subcontractors are in large companies that are coming from abroad the subcontractor operations here the subcontractor operations here they don't make a contract and if you find yourself that they have not been paid they stop working and they can go buy and if you don't they can go hire people so I would say that the subcontractors especially in San Antonio are in large companies that are the subcontractors and they're not the only two Thank you, let's take a look Is there another question? Our current city councilman he thinks that we need to address and so we need to do something about planning something we can appoint someone from the district a question are y'all here to do this planning because it's the top of the city council so are all of y'all ready to go to the government to figure out an account for me and discuss this but at the same time let's keep these out of my mind I would kind of get as close as we can if you guys don't mind saying last night I'm very worried and if you need to learn about the question we want to talk about that I think I know about that case I came to be fair with you and I had the opportunity of listening about not the specifics but I am resolved to bring somebody to represent this three-day and sunny commission that understands the issues that we present here I always with people and I'm not a very clean idea or anything for etc I don't mind any of any kind that will get involved in this I want somebody who will be just dedicated to take care of the citizens and not just special interests and I make this promise today from the long view because I'm seeing that you're hearing these two tricks that are especially tricks that are happening and people show up and try to push this rain of system land so I promise that I will take care as soon as I violate it I will take care of this issue because I am not in agreement with what's going on I would make sure to answer this question because there's an echo in here where you ask me if we would appoint someone to zoning commission about the planning commission about the planning commission they try to change that there's an urgent account they want to do that they like the way it is because there are best interests to keep it going there's no person that's appointed for these visitors so you want to appoint someone to work with a development to make a change to the planning where it's just not people who are related to land development in real estate if I can summarize this it's a big question about for citizen engagement in the planning process that's supposed to be just for animals so I agree that's one of the big comments that we have is that city council who listen to the special interests and not the people and as your city council women I can tell you, I would make sure that your voice is heard that is how the government set out to be not to just listen to the special interests but in order for it to work we have to work as a community we have to have the people to play to do the work because one person cannot do it by themselves if you want to be heard you have to be willing to work with your council person to take the time off to go to work towards that and I agree, we have to have more transparency and the people's voice should be heard more so than a developer that's giving a city council person a donation so they're going to do what they want the people have to say so I would support that yes I think it's very important for citizens to be engaged in planning and I certainly would support of any changes to the current timing of the efforts of the city who's engaged in and whether the city goes through the planning process to increase the citizens' engagement I think it's absolutely critical so yes, I would definitely make changes to get more involved with citizens in the planning process can you repeat the question I'm kidding I'll tell you the answer for me is to make sure that the people who you can point to these boards know what they're talking about I certainly think it's important to have citizen representation from the neighborhoods and we've got so many smart people who work in the neighborhoods who are business folks who are not experienced with real estate and so many of them I would search into very, very thorough vetting of the kind of quality people that we've got not just somebody who paid the city council person $500 during the campaign number one, number two the apartment situation that you're talking about we've got to work on it I represent the homeowners association in the nearby area in Peru and our city council person took a lot of bruises on that case and I talk about that case a number of times before we actually took those bruises that case is not necessarily a study of zoning it's a study of leadership sometimes you have to stand up knowing that you're going to lose the zoning commission he knew he was going to lose the city council and he still fought anyway and he was right on top of another neighborhood wasn't the right call for that one of that thank you for that first thank you for the question also thank you for taking up that after your path and thinking of other things I appreciate it and I go back to us as members of the community looking out for each other and doing what's right so talk about what's right that's one of the lessons that I learned at my school to stand up for myself and stand up for others not only two people I have the answer to and that's God and that's to myself and so I always understand what I feel is right even if it costs me and that's what I've done in my workplace and I'm not looking to sit back and complain that's why before I ran I volunteered to become special department coordinator for this committee I went out and pursued that opportunity nobody gave it to me because I wanted to make a difference working in business we have competing priorities and that's a skill set that I've developed how I work with not only my coworkers but also my superiors to get them to buy into my vision and that's what we're going to have to do as city council we hope in that time but now we have to talk more about that later thank you thank you I've been a resident of the district for almost 29 years and I've seen quite a bit of development in and around this area especially in the past 10 years we're talking about how repopulation has been going on quite a bit one of the things that I've noticed when we talked about a tree column was tree preservation and parks, things like that as developers come in for an outstanding and just want to build up their departments and just leave they're just going down trees and paying them for a small fine to get around the tree houses what we do to strengthen the tree houses and continue to keep our county alive and well and not create all these asphalt jungles that keep a parent especially around car lots I would also propose that new car lots that were cars being sold trees be placed at the end of each row at least in the parking lots because trust me trust me is this is attributed to what global farm it really is and I just I'm just concerned about how the country just gets moldy and thin and get plowed in the tree orchids need to be much stronger so what would you do? I'm a tree lover too so I'm here to help I'm just going to help our home there are a lot of trees on it the minimum of how many trees because this first one I'm sorry to say homeowner was notorious for doing exactly what you just said just plowed down so I would say that you need to pass the orchids to preserve the trees that are there to work around the trees that are there so that they're there and also to plant more trees so that we can have that canopy the trees are really good they also work the runoff you know where there's too much rain and so it also provides something beautiful to get to besides just asphalt a question that we can ask the orchids yes some of them are tree herbivores yes I think I say that yes how can you say that? well everybody loves trees so I'm not going to well I think what happens is that the developers they see money and they see that they can make more money despite loathing trees and I think yes we do need to have stronger orchids to prevent them from doing that but it needs to be part of any developed consideration is our trees going to be preserved and the developers can check in that regard yeah so we do have tree orchids and it's a very well worded tree orchid that is a need that can be very skinny and can easily be violated and the consequences for violating it aren't that impressive so there are lots of developers that will violate it and consider it a constant structure like all orchids is the only way people follow them is if you actually enforce them and so we do keep code enforcement with teeth we need to keep that power and development services and we do keep people going on property as part of the license that you get the part that you get in order to construct you have to be able to, as a city go along the property before they start knocking down trees cap the trees and say these trees better be up right when we come back other cities do this and we do too there's no reason to be sure so thank you again for your question and the amazing suggestion you had there too about the crops and farmland so one here in San Antonio it seems like we have a real problem with follow-up rules and when people break rules there are no consequences so we do need to add teeth to that to make sure that the rules are following because that's why they're there they have to make sure they have more and more engagement so we have ideas like that but can we have it more online or in person where we can share those ideas I have to work for great organization where we have an innovation that's open to anybody in the company where we have a whole line of ideas if you have a great idea you can share and then everybody in the company can see and come it up and we can refine it and a lot of those can implement it into the technology that drives our company forward why can't we do that here in the city so that all your voices will be heard and we can talk about how to solve this together thank you, bye I am very lucky that in my neighborhood we cannot touch the trees to handle as we wish so I am not a big problem I have only been living or was back from and two weeks ago I gave permission to the Chinese restaurant of my life to be able to have a parking lot but not much of their trees are mine so I came back after the weekend and a big tree was gone so I drove around and I drove Gale and I made a big deal out of it and they brought the arteries and they apologized when my tree was gone and I knew that now we move from those trees because now they are getting very close to my other trees I have six huge trees on the right side that means my area has trees everywhere green shade, green beauty and it's amazing I have a tiny front that people can see with all my trees and plants and they are about to touch I mean to cut my trees I got out of my office and I have a hard time and they gave me a glass and they said don't touch those trees and I sounded like that was hysterical but I was because if I could not have gone out I would have bought four beautiful trees so I'm going to do that thank you but I'm going to go out so I think something that's interesting is that I think it's an alternative obviously by processing and building by processing is very expensive but we do have a ton of commercial film lines that run across the city for example when we use the brand or when we work in the data center so I'm wondering as a council if we could be willing to help and engage in conversations with companies like the United States and technology to allow those commercial film lines to be simultaneously used with Castro thank you back did you say commercial rail lines? yes do you start commercial rail lines? no okay so there's commercial rail lines all over the city that are owned by companies like the city it's not leased so there would have to be some sort of pressure to put onto those companies to allow conversations again and technology to be invested into them so it allows for the passenger rail as well and not make us have to build completely different systems all across the city so you wanted to use existing rail lines? right which would save money and it would be easier but there would need to be technology invested so they could be used safely well I appreciate your question however I'm not a proponent of rail at all because of the cost it's a hundred million dollars a mile and with technology the way that it's going I see other things on the horizon so you're standing back up? yeah because like I said it's a good existing rail right so you're not going to be spending you're not going to know why it doesn't exist so you need to invest in technology that allows simultaneous use of the passenger and could be other thank you thank you it's rail and those rail lines don't go everywhere and so you're going to have to create more rail and in talking to Barney Cameron who's VP of VIA and he told me that the 20 SHR plate is to connect all the regional centers and so there will be casualties which means that if he has to plow through some of the tone they're going to do that and so I'm not a proponent of that and I would rather sit back and wait and see what's on the horizon and technology because I see things that are coming up like Skytree and those are the port of the pods they're utilized in the air but now if you call a proponent they implemented those and those are 110 of the cost of rail so that's why I'm not a proponent of that thank you Paul well I am a proponent of Blackrail I think that we will have to engage that in the foreseeable future we say as long as that is where it's a planning issue and we have to come up with solutions and I'm certainly using current rail lines is one solution that can be beneficial to reducing the cost for any rail system such as rail canings within the city I can even envision at some point asking the national rail line to build lines outside of the city and we can complete a convert of their rail lines into lots of means within the city I know it will be quite controversial but it's not yet that's one of the things I like to try to do is try to think outside of the box and try to think of other ways to do things and I think certainly converting existing rail lines and using them for convert trains could be a good use of those lines and so yes I would advocate considering doing that so your question is very specific in that you're not even talking about you're talking about existing rail lines already across San Antonio and using those rail lines and how San Antonio is getting acquainted with U-Bed that's a fantastic idea and actually that's something that I got to work on in 2004 we created a team that was called the Animal Rail District and we did that in reaction to Union Pacific's reluctance to work with us at all on getting certain parts of the manufacturers of Union and San Antonio they were charging us so much money because they knew they were the only one so what we did is we went and changed the law and we said that we're not going to buy a car we'll pay you with the law says it's going to cost us and Union Pacific and we now have a really cool rail district on the south side and it's accomplished in some way what you're talking about it's a great plan, I love it thank you for asking my question don't let's deal with it again well I think this goes right back to what I was talking to you people before I mean we have 1.4, 1.5 million people in here there's going to keep people like yourself that have amazing ideas why wasn't that something that we could put up on the website say hey bro this is the line and then you can have a conversation with the council the council and people can come back to you and say hey bro we're looking into this here's some of the challenges to the roadblocks we can talk about what are the legal barriers we can talk to TCI what are the costs that we have to we have to do to modify those rail districts to handle transportation but the point is we're not having these conversations it's easy for us as citizens that transparency is not there you can suggest that councilman may say yes I love it but then it dies when they're here but it's great transparency for the use of technology so we can all be on our own thank you for that I'm not using those old paper cracks I don't I have the trade that goes live in it is I just don't understand how the business is saving the roadblocks to transport people because I don't know because I think that they are using our tools so I would like to talk about there's more transparency about what's important each of them have their own interpretation I would like to try to learn more about these the things that are important that I would like to talk about thank you yes sir first of all my name is Muhammad Sajid Rana I'm from Rana I'm a chair from Salman Center New York has talked about all the streets construction trees gas, dog, everybody else my specific concern is every time something happens in the United States there's one of the difference in your side when you are the mayor chief of the police or something will come and give us a big line about don't you like what nothing will happen to you so this is just a failed promise and they come and they say don't worry about it while we are waiting something happens in any minority church or our Islamic center but there is a temple sacred for Muslims all the minorities specifically minorities why can't we provide them with this is the number one minority it should be the city providing the security why today do we have anybody policemen here today you see somebody walking, shoot everybody all the people in CNN and the city will come up and have a big beating don't worry about it so we need to city I expect at least I know you guys are ready for in the city one of the thousand men of course no but I am here would you promise us to provide security from the city because we cannot afford to have four or five policemen, three policemen on a regular basis if they cannot provide at least one special day we have some special holidays so I guess while we are waiting something happens in the city for the dark community I want to say these words so when we are going to make up and have somebody I expect you guys to understand the name of the city so do you need any clarification on the question I think he is asking if you want to there are all of the country there are lots of maybe hard down people from the CNN just a judge personally I think a judge so the question is what kind of security do you provide for the federal I agree that is one of the things that you have to do when you have a problem especially if for example if they are being attacked then absolutely you have to deploy your mind forced into control those areas and that is how you reduce crime in fact I did a research project on this and it was if you are having a crime issue you deploy your police officers where the problem is at you don't just oh where are you if you are a target you provide the support and you control the neighborhoods and you make sure everything is okay and that is how you control it once they see that they are protected then they go away you don't allow the federal to do the neighborhood thank you of course our police department is stretched I will mention that my experience is that usually when there is an event or a facility where there is some concern about security police officers are available or willing to work under all powers and I will say it is very condescending for that by the organization so I would say it is mainly up to any organization where they feel they need security to look into hiring security they are open to visiting the people about their operations and their security concerns and it was a situation where it seemed like it would be appropriate for the city police to be involved in helping the security and certainly we were looking into that but usually the first step is for the community or the organization to make their own plans for what their security means are but I would certainly be able to talk about that if that is not out of the idea before we get you into it I would like to ask you a question we started late so we are going to thank you so much for the question you asked about promise yes you are going to have more police here often because I will ask the city council do you know why they show up because we city council are in charge of their salaries and they really want to make city council happen city council people ask the police to spend more time in one neighborhood because they are getting complaints all you have to do is pick up the phone and call that is pretty simple thank you you bring up that concern now I truly understand where you are coming from I think my own experience has been avoided to see people just because they look a little different or at least something different to have most vulnerable members they think it is not right so that is possible we can lead by example let's make sure we are protecting these people it is more than just a sound and to start that we are going to put our city manager and our police force because we are short of 225 officers maybe even a little more so we need to get to the bottom of how do we recruit other officers but also the right time so they can provide the services to truly protect the service and yes just like Annie said you give me a call and I am here to help you lead by example thank you we have always been and we need to be aware of what is happening we need to work at we have a team we need to be vigilant around to the neighborhood to the church my building another building is where she comes to speak and works back and all the employees we met we talk to them about the second time around me and then we have we have more policemen and then we have more police men and then we are always looking and making sure that we are not in danger so I think it is a two ways we need to work together with the police in order to make the city manager more police thank you so what we are going to do now is I am going to ask the next five people to ask their questions continuously and assuming they are safe on the team I am going to ask you guys to answer them it is a challenge for you guys do you have any questions do you have any same questions me not how do you speak to a police officer when I ask that question you come to the microphone good my name is I am from the city of TSA my question is what are we all about what is your opinion if like that as a councilwoman they will control changing the future of the whole city not just about history so what I want to ask you is what is the biggest challenge in your view that faces the city over the last few years and what are your plans for the future ok thank you what are your plans for the future beyond history ok but as you know San Antonio has over 8000 refugees from other countries these are women and children who fled countries where they lived in the victims of genocide chemical weapons, torture, addings and other horrible things today many non-proper organizations and local churches are helping Hispanics in need of basic services English classes financial emergency health training to pay the services so the other question is I just simply agree I will look into the face of the page and found the following comments you made about women don't need them to send them back they can't speak the language they can't listen to the language because they're foreigners things such as going to the parks to call on the terrorists and also going to the parks to talk about the Second Amendment the Second Amendment rights ok thank you oh do you stand by to comment and let's get into one more my name is Dr. Dee I'd like to thank you all for being here for us my quick question is about Islamophobia and the bullying of our children and women with covers and so on I am receiving daily accounts of a lot of hate crimes against our community all over the United States of America unfortunately my quick question is how can we take measures in the city a beautiful city of San Antonio to make it really a model for peace and coexistence and respect yes, thank you good evening my name is Naziris Abdubi and I am a member of the Muslim community and along with the other members of the community I appreciate you being here my quick question is actually started with a comment as we all know that a lot of our economy draws from small businesses it is energized with the response of small businesses I am aware of programs that the city has for small businesses and we wrote including the UDSA Small Business Administration program at the beginning but what additional ideas you'll have that will benefit small businesses in the city thank you good evening, my name is John Bryan I am an immigration attorney I am the executive director of the refugee and the member of the Center for Education and Legal Services we're a refugee who settles an agency we're also a legal services agency for refugees and immigrants here in San Antonio I'm an immigrant and I'm also a homeowner here at District 8 I was asked tonight to come and speak but I didn't want to do that I represent refugees and immigrants I organize with them but I don't intend to speak for the community I was told that they would like to speak because members of the community were asked but they were afraid and now right there is the subject of my question the people that we work with and you're going to be leading a district that is known for its connection with the refugee community a diverse part of our city many of the different countries that we know are predictable as I work with refugees they're not leading those despots the people, the names in those applications of the ones who are hurting harming oppressing people are local officials in those countries and people who come to this country may associate you that they fled and we're entering into a country now those people who do those actions in countries we associate with refugees and you're doing so because they're operating under that permission structure that was set by that radical, erratic leader this permission structure is also opening up we are seeing attacks on communities like it has never happened before and it's not just theoretical we have a bill in the Senate of Texas as before which is prepared to turn our cities into instruments of this oppression what are you going to do as someone who's job is to protect our communities and who has the power to do so you cannot say that this is a Washington issue this is a San Antonio issue what are you going to do to protect me, my friends and our communities last question I want you guys to address the immigration of refugee issues a slow one I'm a support engineer so I'm not going to ask you so many questions you can actually hold on this gentleman here but my question is you've seen a lot of issues in America in terms of the Muslims the hijab of Muslim women or people along in America not just fire national leaders but also by a local individual so my question is what do you guys actually believe about Muslims what do you believe our location is San Antonio our position in San Antonio is supposed to be are we Americans do we not belong the reason I asked this is because it's written there has been a question there's a lot of people that are pushing that they don't belong here they shouldn't be wearing hijab they shouldn't be exercising their food so that's why I want you guys to address that thank you I think the last question is we're obviously fully out of time Paul also gave me an answer to the refugee question and the last question last question it's possible well yes these are very important issues obviously they've become more important these are the things that have been going on not only the rest of the world but the United States as well and I think certainly we need to stand up to keep America diverse and to support those who immigrate here this is a nation of immigrants basically except for the Indians we're all immigrants of course they were immigrants about 10,000 to 20,000 years ago themselves I suppose I think that's actually what's there to be great is the fact that we are a nation of immigrants so I would definitely work as hard as I can to support Muslims and other minorities in dealing with whatever issues they need to face thank you if you want to continue you can first of all thank you for what you do for that organization I'm actually thinking of voting for you for District 8 you are San Antonio District 8 is the most diverse district in this city 8,000 refugees living in San Antonio almost every single one of them I'm not here 30,000 families that call themselves Muslims living in San Antonio all of them living in District 8 what would I do if I found out that somebody was being discriminated against my employer or by law or by anybody else or feeling unsafe in their home or attacked I would step down from that dynamics and I would stand with you and I would sue whoever it was and that's what the city needs to do more often is to fight the fights even if we know it's going to be a hard fight so when the Texas Legislature decided to change the redistricting to make sure that fewer Latinos voted and more Republicans got out there in poverty, you know what I'm talking about I stood up and I went and filed the necessary makers to make sure that we helped set that aside I'm happy to tell you that Supreme Court that is the most racist thing we've ever seen and that is not Texas you are Texans you know who delivers babies in a cell must be doctors the first person oftentimes that a Texan meets is a Muslim it is not acceptable for that person then to be afraid of the adult that person is the better way it is going to become not in my San Antonio thank you so to hear about you know the figure that the Supreme Court needed to be asked it outstrips my heart and to hear what the other two have recorded that we have a kid who says something about you know immigrants come here and not putting the language that they don't love that makes me upset he graduated from high school started family went to work realized that the importance of education he started interviewing with the administration officers so we're not going to teach language and that pissed him off he said you know what I'm going to graduate from the University of Michigan that's exactly what he did he looked at the marriage agreement and I'm here to stand up for everybody so they can look at that I came here just like you I come from Mexico and I've been through my hard times getting my great part my US citizenship getting it just like you and I you know how you feel but through business I have to be I think that's what I'm going to do because we immigrants we bring a lot to this country we're mostly small business owners and then we bring business, we bring jobs, we bring opportunities I will in my building I have 70 different nationalities of small businesses we talk about the issues that we're discussing here and we we think that by doing business you know we're doing this for others like us we are able to become stronger unify a different culture I promise but this is what it's like to be discriminated against I was raised here in San Antonio I was raised in Amarillo, Texas my mother was born here but she moved away and up there I'm brown olive but I was a white so I know what it's like to be discriminated against so I feel you're kind too and it's not right but you know that's really bad it doesn't matter which country you're from prejudice is there from around the world and I don't understand it and I don't know why but it's just there in my expanded family prejudice on my white-sided prejudices and I know from other countries you're prejudiced too and it's just there it's not right we all have to work together if you are an American citizen and you have everybody to be here and you should be discriminated against it's against the law so I'm sorry go ahead I was going to give you so for almost out of time I'll assume one minute I'm really sorry Sydney and the gentleman asked you about six or seven statements that you made on the Facebook page calling refugees terrorists and you should be discriminated against those people who escaped those worst couple of the worst and are speaking only neighbors and friends and kindness and you're running for city council and then you're going to have all this in here and tell these people that it's wrong to not like people like that what are you talking about? we'll come back and put it in your post so my words are it's discouraging to say that you don't want to insult your refugees I'm a Christian and I believe in the scripture Jesus tells us whatever we do to the least of us we do to him so when we see people playing a pressure that are hurting, that are hungry it's our child I would like to say that especially in the world because I have a little bitch off you I want to close by telling the next few times opportunities for a small business because I want to help her I know how to do it and I'm going to make sure that I talk to her I want to close by saying that I'm very honored to be here your questions are amazing I I really believe that you have the right to be in this country and I have the right to be in this country I want to tell you that I believe that everyone of my brothers and sisters because I believe in them so I want you to see what's happening here someone stood up in a political room and made accusations saying I said something really I haven't seen it I want to see it tomorrow morning you'll be seeing those comments I'm going to show you exactly those comments so there you go my opponent right here is making accusations about something that I said that's not fair I want you to believe somebody just because they said it's not a discrimination it might not be a discrimination but something that somebody said if you're saying I don't recall seeing that saying that and even if I did I want to see what context it was said one more please one more please one more please right here here's your question what I said I'm just fighting kills my country now we need to end that's not fair I'm ready to end I'm just going to stop I'm just going to stop I'm just going to stop I'm just going to stop I think it's true people are just important things that should be the matters that should be the matter this situation is going to be anything if you're going to do that just look at it for our option our communication our reports I'm just saying that if you're sour all get out of this give me the time to get back to you what we can have in 30 years thank you we're taking you away from all the time we'll just stay together okay well I think it's clear that we all believe that discrimination is a thing all of it she didn't say something contrary to what was said I know perhaps I hope that you all need to see the understanding that we're all here because we believe in a diverse country a diverse community and we believe in human rights and the individual rights to conduct yourselves as you see fit with regard to religion and the way that you live I mentioned that my parents in Tehran were shocked about I had a lot of muslims very different and so I consider myself one a little bit of discrimination in my body at this point thank you all 24 24 24 24 24 24