 Here in San Antonio, voter turnout and citizen involvement in the day-to-day hand-to-hand combat of local government needs to improve. Public trust needs to be our top priority, and we need to ensure that more people are taking part in the ultimate act of local government. The governing, which is voting in the municipal elections. We know how dismal that has been. And so today I'm also proposing to our city's charter commission that we change our non-partisan municipal elections from May to November of even number of years. Before you get alarmed by that, this is not to change it to a partisan election. We can't have non-partisan elections in November, and what we have found in the city is not even 100 miles away, in this case Austin, is that their voter turnout in a non-partisan November election is four times higher from one election to the next than it was in the previous elections. We can do better. You've heard me talk for the last 20 minutes about how we're working hard online, out in the community to really get citizen engagement in this plan. How we create a new San Antonio, what can be more engaging than that, touches everything. But we're really having our own time doing that. And that's not a surprise. We're not prepared to call it a day. In fact, we know that that's because it's going to take a generation of changes, but we need to do what we can. So that's why I'm proposing the city charter commission that we change our municipal elections. I hope you'll support me with that. Because of the May 9th general election this year on a ballot that featured the most competitive mayoral race in a decade, 10 contested city council races and six ballot propositions drew only 12% of registered voters. This is something that we should be embarrassed to tell our kids. This is not an anomaly, but a larger trend in San Antonio that we can remedy. We can do better and we have to. Each vote cast is an investment in our future. The proposal to move our elections to November to help boost civic engagement is an easy step toward greater participation and more significant community input. As I mentioned, the city of Austin recently switched its municipal elections from May to November, yielding an increase in voter turnout from 10.7% to 44.4%. Can you imagine the day that we have a mayoral or a city council election that has 40% of voters turning out? It'll be a beautiful day in San Antonio. I'm going to pursue this change of elections until it's done. So I'm asking publicly for our Bear County delegation to sponsor needed changes to state law that would give us that option. We do have to pass some enabling legislation to make it happen. And today I formally asked our Standing City Council Charter Commission to take up the issue as well as our legislators. I hope you will join me in this call to unify San Antonio elections and ensure that more people have a say in how their local government functions. Your voices are important, whether they're helping us decide how to build our future or who you want as our representatives. And as elected officials, we should be doing everything in our power to reach out to you and to your neighbors and to solicit your opinions. We are going to do that. We're going to continue to do that. But we have to look at every option to really engage the future of San Antonio.