 We will now begin the citizen's period process. Over 60 minutes have been allocated for this portion of the meeting. Before we begin, I'll give a few guidelines, and I'll have to review a few of these at the beginning of the meeting. Those signing to speak will be called upon in the order that they sign in. Individuals that have not spoken at the last two meetings will speak first, I'll say that again. Individuals that have not spoken at the last two meetings will speak first. Those individuals that have participated in the previous meetings will speak last. We want to make sure that folks that haven't been heard, but that voice heard. That's the whole point of us being here. We ask that everybody is professional and respectful. There are a lot of time, so we can listen to all of those that have signed up to speak. Time will be allotted to individuals based on the number of speakers wishing to speak. Roots of organizations with three or more representatives may be given up in five minutes to speak. However, this allocation may be increased based on the number of speakers after this session of the meeting poachers. All right, persons organizations must sign in person by 6.30 p.m. So if you have a sign up, I'll be able to recognize you. In order to be recognized to speak. Persons registered to speak must be present in order to give their time to another registered speaker. No time they can give it to a person not registered to speak. We call the names of three speakers at a time. Allow them to be ready to present. So, after you're done speaking, I'm going to call the next three speakers. So I know everybody is very enthusiastic and wants to applaud for their particular projects that you hear with support. But try to be respectful of the folks next up in line. Prior to the beginning of your comments, we ask that each speaker please take their name, district, and the subject they will be addressing. This information will also be displayed on the screen for the community members and the public. We're getting better at this, guys. If you brought materials with you, staff will be passing those out to the community members on your behalf. If you did not submit your materials, when you signed up to speak, we ask that you please provide those items to staff at this time. Raise your hand if you have materials that you did not present them to staff. Without further ado, we will call the first three speakers. So we're doing, sorry, so it's one-and-a-half minutes per speaker and five minutes per group. One-and-a-half minutes per speaker and five minutes per group. And can I get a hand raised from whoever's doing the time? Thank you very much. Alright, so the first three speakers are actually groups. Jane DeBell, and this is the first speaker for Jane DeBell Park, District 7. And then Steve Hixon, or Phil Larker Park, District 9. And then Denise Brooks, for Larker Park, District 9. I'm Jane DeBell, and I'm here on behalf of Jane DeBell Park, District 7. It's a park that's only a year old, and we have six acres. And the only planned city park gave us was a walking path and a pavilion with four benches and tables. And I was able to get a federal grant from a group of people in Washington, D.C. to get some playground equipment. It was worth about $150,000. And the government had to investigate me, and all I had was one speed and ticket. So I passed. So they were able to put in playground equipment, bushes, trees. Beautiful, beautiful. And so all we have from the city is a portable pot. And it's ridiculous because they parked it right close to the pavilion. And when you're sitting at the pavilion eating, the breeze comes from the northeast. And I was there Monday with the picnic, and it was very embarrassing. And it smelled terrible. And they tell me they can't move it because they don't have the money to put it on another path. It's not sanitary. I went there last Sunday a week ago, and I opened a door for it. And I tell you what, I wouldn't have put a bird in there. It was so filthy at 7 o'clock Sunday morning. Thank you, Mr. Bells. Thank you very much. And we need more parking. Understood. Thank you very much. Thank you. So if you're looking for that park on your list of committee members, it's actually in District 7. It's part of that District 7 park. Next up on the list is Steve Hickson, for Hillard Burger Park, District 9. My name's Steve Hickson. I've lived in the District 9 for over 20 years. And I'm here to support the city staff's recommendation to fund the land bridge over a Bortsbach Parkway to connect the two parts of Hardburger Park. Please put it on in 2017 City Hall. Hardburger Park consists of 330 acres divided by the Bortsbach Parkway. It is a jewel on the north side that is teeming with residents from Oliver, San Antonio that flock to this green oasis to enjoy its trails, paths, fields, and playgrounds. However, across one part of the park to the other, you have to drive by car or bike and go down the busy northwest military highway and then on Bortsbach Parkway for over one mile to get to the trails on the west side of the park and to reconnect with the Howard P. Greenway Trail Project. If you're a whitetail deer, road runner, raccoon, awesome or wild turkey, you must cross Bortsbach Parkway with the center of the wall there where you can sell them on a speed limit of 60 miles an hour for the 25,000 cars traveled each day. You can imagine the amount of roadkill and vehicle damage. The land bridge will be in each neighborhood because its design allows for both wildlife and humans to cross in safety and natural beauty well above Bortsbach Parkway. No other bridge of which we are aware has been designed with this combination of functionalities. The bridge will also allow emergency and park services vehicles to travel quickly from one side to the other. So how can all that happen on one bridge? Well, the bridge itself will have about one acre of land in the park that will be 150 feet wide, 150 feet long with up sloping sides that will be landscaped in such a way that users, both human and animal, won't even realize that they're crossing over a busy road below a gently sloping skywalk road around Bikers and runners, walkers, strollers to travel gently up into the tree canopy to reach the bridge. So of course now, what about the money? The bridge will cost 25 million. It seems like a lot to be compared to the bridge in Los Angeles for cougar migration, no humans. That will cost more than 56 million or the $250 million project in London to put a bridge over the Thames. We are asking for 15 million from San Antonio bottom funds. The Phil Hartberger Park Conservancy will raise the other 10 million from private funds to build a tricentennial land bridge. The 15 million being allocated by 7.5 million from the Parks and Recreation Open Space Committee and 7.5 million from the Streets, Bridges and Cyborgs Committee. Those allocations represent less than 1% of the $850 million bond initiative to each committee to resolve the world-class bridge for $15 million. The previous owners of the land is now Hartberger Park and the Vokers. They set up the Voker Fund and it has pledged $1 million to help complete the privately raised $10 million funding in the bridge. The Hartberger Park Conservancy has already committed $1 million into world-class designing construction plans. The Phil Hartberger Park Conservancy has raised and spent almost $730,000 for the facilities and amenities in the park, all of which are enjoyed by the people of San Antonio without any cost to them. My wife and I, through our family foundation, have given $15,000 to the Hartberger Park Conservancy. I put my money where my mouth is. The Phil Hartberger Park Conservancy will raise the $10 million to build this fantastic, visionary, world-class unique bridge. If you'll help us with the $15 million bond initiative, please. As Councilman Joe Pryor, District 9, said, 100 years from now, no one is going to ask, what did this bridge cost? Everyone is going to say, what a bridge it is to get to this. Thank you for your consideration. It's cheap. Brooks and Tom Guido from Phil Hartberger Park District 9, Brenda Contales and Jeff Jordan from Storm, and Michelle Stewart from Prince of Glen Creek Park District 10. Awesome. Thank you. Is Tom Guido also part of the group? My name is Tom Guido. I live in District 9. I've been a resident of San Antonio since 1951 when I was born in Nick's Hospital. I want to speak to what makes San Antonio unique, and the answer, who we are, the people that live here, all of us, and where we are, the place that we live in. The place is made up of many wonderful environments, downtown, neighborhoods, streets, roads, buildings, and parks. So I'm here to speak in favor of land bridge and Hartberger Park. As a member of the Hartberger Park Conservancy, I want to point out three specific items. One, the park is open to the public, and it's free at all times. Two, the conservation and habitat restoration is continuous and ongoing. I don't know if y'all have visited the park, but it's a fantastic place, and it's a tribute to a successful mayor, Phil Hartberger. The land bridge is a dynamic way. We'll join two parks to the total of 330 acres separated by the word block parkway. This structure will soon be recognized worldwide. It will enhance and support the tourism of a great world city, San Antonio, and will allow each and every citizen to commune with nature in an accessible and convenient way. We are getting much more than we are paying for, and the benefits to San Antonio this investment will last long into the future. Thank you. My name is Robin Lane, and I'm Jeff Jordan from Storm, and I'm speaking on McAlister Park, and I'll use the name. On Storm, the Salishans operate on hikers, and so do they. The hard anglers are 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, and they represent the United States and Japan. Back in a little bit more, so... So, as an umbrella contributing to the flood, they advocate for responsible mountain hiking, by adopting a sustainable trail building, trail healthcare, fire safety, and practices that ensure the success of the future. The history of collaboration between land managers, volunteer groups, and other local stakeholders, such as local businesses, private landowners, environmental organizations and community leaders. Storm approaches the advocacy and organizing of its base in a coalition building amongst these various trails and popular communities. So, Storm has been the local mountain bike advocacy group since 1997, except for last year, where we were working with San Antonio Parks and Rec to work out a long-run understanding of the city. We have performed trail movements at the L'Occitane Park, and we housed the park. We have been working with it for a lot of years. Also, at a time when the Texas Cross Country State championship race was held, at the Cal State Park, that because of the popularity of the sport and the size of the participants, this was moved to the Hill Country Park. This year, also, Brighton's bicycle shop will be putting on a four-part crew at the Cal State Park. In addition to our advocacy trail, we're storming the federal program into the safety and enjoyment of our sport. Storm Kids is held first Saturday every month at the Cal State Park. This promotes physical fitness, trail etiquette, and bike safety. We also have our Trillin' and Drillin' events. These are held at different locations throughout the city, the Cal State Park, OG, and other parks and really areas. This promotes physical fitness, trail etiquette, bike safety, and a strong safety community. We have a trail storage program, which is not the city program, this is within the storm. These people usually monitor the trails where they live and the parts of the new ways where they live, and they let us know about any trail maintenance that needs to be done. There's downed trees, and we communicate with the city, we get the city out there to help us view these downed trees. If trails are a road, they're blocks and probably we get out there and do that. We also have some weekly storm rides that are held at different locations, but mostly Oak Beach Naval and the Cal State Park. This summer in July, we had a huge trail business event for the month of July. We did three parks in the Cal State Park, Oak Beach Naval Park, and all of those spaces. We had 41 involved in years, had four plus hours of keys that was brought up to 85 hours of trail maintenance. Just the natural surface trail that also could be on the community road. And so we're excited to have finalized our limber and limber streaming for San Antonio Parks and Recreation department, and we are ready to embark on a goal of providing ethical and sustainable trail access. We are also currently planning a fall maintenance project with RAI and San Antonio Parks and Recreation. These projects will address the extremely diverse trails in the Cal State Park. We would also like to extend our services to those districts here. We have experienced trail designers, builders, and they can really get back to the community. We'd like to be involved with Here's Elk Park, the practice to be ran. We'll be involved with friends in the Cal State Park and the updates that we'll be doing in the Cal State Park. We'd also like to be involved with the updates of Elk and San Antonio Park and the dog park if it's going to be encroaching on your business. We'd like to address that before you come in. Currently there's not anywhere in the entire park. We have continuing instances of poaching with ball hunters and they're be heading the deer and leaving the bodies behind. We also have log game trapping and we found a lot of traps in different areas of the park to dismantle and remove them. There's also ATV Dirt by 4x4 Traps at all hours in the park. We think that some surveillance might help deter that, really slow. We'd like to build a small dog park in the park. As of now, of course it'd have to be up at the top out of the flood area. We have a lot of dogs that are running off leash. Steve Elligan I'm going to see. Who was this again? Steve Elligan. You're going to log earlier. Thank you. We've run the entire park. Some of these loose running dogs are chasing the wildlife some causing injury to the wildlife and there's been at least one off leash dog that's died from the rattlesnake bite. These loose dogs also scare people and intimidate the leash dogs. We want all the dogs and all the people to be able to come out and enjoy the park. Building an enclosure would benefit all. This enclosure would be for the welfare of the off leash dogs, the wildlife and the park owners. It would be safer for all dogs. We'd also like water fountains because we have none. There's no water on the property at all for anybody to get water. We'd also like to assess and repair the rented and both natural surface trails. Nature's trails that are out there and a lot of people have actually stopped going because it's too hard to navigate right now. So we would want that fixed. We'd also like to install major friendly trail heads of markers along the trail so people can figure out when we're going because right now there's nothing. We'd like a pedestrian entrance as the second entrance because currently it only has a vehicle gate and there's a broken log and that's where the trucks are getting in. We'd like to get a little entrance there where people can get in and we can get another log for that gate. We'd like to install a small information on the key outs at the main entrance of the park where we can do updates, information, a community board and a detailed map for the park owners. And that's all I've got. Thank you. Thank you very much, Michelle. Next up we have Bill Harbour, Eddie Sutherland and Barbara Mark, obviously, in the District 9 and then we'll have Barbara Hall and then Michael Ray. Thank you. There's an opportunity to talk about the park that varies my name. I rise today to ask people to let us complete the park. We are three quarters complete in this park and I'd like to finish. As part of the master plan that I'm going to aim in eight years now, the current staff recommendation is also to let us complete the park. There is, as you know from around there, the Bartons and Tupac and they're separated by about 25,000 cars a day and it's not a good situation at all. By the way, 1,000 people today come into the park and while it is physically located in District 8 and 9 it serves all of the people of San Antonio at the rate as I said around 1,000 a day to come in there. Let me go over the math of this very quickly. This was very far that we bought in 2008 that's what the land cost. We also estimated it would cost 50 million to do all of the improvement to make a world-class park. We have spent and we have built 25 million of those improvements. Those would include the miles of the parking trails that would include the urban and colleges center, the dog parks and the savannas that we have built in South Texas what this landscape would look like at the time of the album. We also have, I believe, Otis and Barney's tree in San Antonio it's about 400 years old and I'm happy to say I think it will probably outlast me and maybe some of us in this room. But you know we're like a new house that doesn't have a roof and the rest of you to help us put the roof on that was originally planned and let us finish this. And I want to emphasize it isn't finished. This is not something we have to come back again and say we could like this or we could like that at some subsequent moment. This finishes it and it finishes it within budget. In fact, if we raise the budget sources which I believe we will spend $10 million on the budget. So I ask you to let us do that. You know, in San Antonio we like to say that we are world class that strictly speaking is incorrect. We are not world class but we have done some world class times when the refugees came here from the two heraldies 35,000 of them we took care of them anybody in the nation. That's world class. So we can do them. This is Cheryl Stoney who is over there. She has brought our finances of the city to the three major rating companies to give us triple A. We are the only big city in the United States that has those triple A from all three ages. That is world class. When we build the haven for homes for all those poor souls that needed help we spent millions of dollars together and by the way, we've had 3,000 graduates that have transformed their lives from being home students to being taxpayers and having a decent life that's world class. We know that because people come from all over the world see what it is that we can be in. So we can do world class things we just open the Tobit Center for the Performing Arts which is now getting all sorts of prizes world class. Well that is world class so we can do world class. But you do that by working piece by piece making world class things you don't let them by making a part and quitting them three quarters absolutely no chance. You know, I know while I also want to mention one other world class thing and we did that too the river, the improvements of the river in 1940 or two miles long that's the view of the river it essentially stayed that way for 60 years except for the extensions that were made during chemistry but for essentially the river improvements stayed static 60 years now we have 13 months from two to 13 months and I was in the middle of that and I heard a lot of people say we can't afford it. Let me beg the ladies and gentlemen to be brave, we have to afford it in some times and if we hold our hands together we can rise up together we can rise this city together and house up that world class and then we will be considered. Thank you Mr. Harbour, thank you very much make sure society, district lunch we'll be speaking on Bracker Ridge and the spare, the CDO La Vida and the Bridgewalk of Harbour and Harbour will be Michael Ray on today's time at Harbour Currently Conservation Society was founded in 1924 to preserve not only historic buildings but also places of natural use. Many of our efforts over the last 92 years have focused on our historic parks and open spaces. In line with this mission we are in support of those bond proposals that will help restore and improve our historic parks. Our dedication to the conservation of San Antonio's parks and open spaces motivated us to farm the Bracker Ridge Park Conservancy. We are here today to support the 7.75 million in bond funding for Bracker Ridge Park. These funds will go toward vial restoration projects that will enhance the park and bring back its original beauty and function. These projects likely include the restoration of the 1776 dam and San Antonio the restoration of the river wall and the work of the foundation of the 1877 Pope House the oldest industrial building in the city. And thank you Xavier for mentioning that in your presentation. These projects and others have developed strong community support and will provide and resource to enjoy by all the citizens of the city. Thank you very much. Thanks to the partners from different ones Bracker Ridge Park. After that it will be entrees on the park and then Michaels will be there. There's a lot of interior and certainly I chose to speak here today on behalf of Bracker Ridge Park as there's a great need here at the core of our city and I think we all consider talking, think about all the magical events or experiences we've had in this park and I think it's important as a city we recognize the sort of visual importance of this place when you think of San Antonio a lot of it when you come to my mind that represents Bracker Ridge Park our historic structures the cities beautiful San Antonio river all things surrounding this park if you had to pick three images and ensure that we're casting those images out of the world and sharing who we are in the city I think San Antonio is a beautiful Bracker Ridge Park would be one of those images I just want to make sure that we're doing the right thing by keeping up with that and pushing it forward as much as possible so please continue to push forward with all of our parks and Bracker Ridge is definitely on that list Thank you. From H. Mark, they'll be speaking on a new spirit city park Miguel Svalda and then Bradley Stablewood Farms Park just a good evening city to the committee and to our co-chairs and a heartfelt thank you to take your time to volunteer to do this because it takes time to make progress in your community so thank you a little bit of Stablewood Park we're located on 410 Highway 19 we're in the west corridor San Antonio that is an ever-growing area in our park we have close to 28,000 homes this is a statistics from about 2 years ago that basically within a 3 mile radius it's up to 65,000 and 5 mile radius what I've done is I went through as a project manager myself I went through and looked at the actual cost for each of the improvements based on the city's cost for an item and I factored in what would be needed based on the highest level amount so currently our park does not have basic essentials for daily use such as restrooms, water fountains and living in the neighborhood myself I go out every Monday and I clean out a lot of water bottles out there because there's not a water fountain for our youth or anyone who could refill them so there's a lot of wastefulness that can be just done by putting in a water fountain so this is a recommended bond item by the city staff our recommendation is to help the amount up to the one billion mark that would include basketball cups for the existing court, restrooms and for a billion and I thank you for your time thank you Miguel next up I have Carol Brown who is speaking on behalf of the Alliance for San Antonio Missions she's a district 3 on World Heritage and Land Acquisition after her will have Travis Wilchire and then Bill DeVoe I'm from San Antonio Missions it's a group of about 300 plus San Antonio residents and business owners the majority of them live in the communities that need to be surrounding commissions the Alliance has long suggested that the city use 217 bond to acquire S.R.P. Cable's key properties in close proximity to the Missions to ensure that these properties are preserved and developed for the common good we have also suggested the Credition and World Heritage Cultural Center and again hopefully in process developing the center on a key property near the Missions would be an excellent way of accomplishing two buildings that could have a transformative impact on our local communities and the perception of our city we have a proposal to identify sensitive, at-risk sites near the Missions and acquire those properties for feasible one of these properties would be beside the World Heritage Cultural Center that would provide dedicated exhibition space for comprehensive local history and the heritage of the Missions and a flexible venue space for educational programming cultural events and community engagement Additionally this site would be the initial space for a local business incubator that would serve both San Antonio residents and our tourist guests by modeling a sustainable cultural heritage tourism we think there is no better way to show the world the authenticity of our civic values and our commitment to the innovative stewardship of our cultural heritage which is brought about of course the designation and we would like to work with the city or all to make that happen the most important take on message here is these properties need to be acquired now not later think of the gridlock landlock of the island that's going to happen for the rest of the Missions we don't take steps to preserve them there is still a good opportunity to acquire a number of spaces and we need to do it there's not many projects that are going to have such an impact for 500 years from now but it will be bad if these areas turn out like a new landlock of the island thank you thank you Mike I'm part of the Phil Harbour Park Conservancy Organization and then he'll be speaking on Phil Harbour Park and I'll have Bill DeVell and then Hennigan so Bill DeVell Jane DeVell Park District 7 District 7 Jane DeVell Park on Bill DeVell we have ten parking spaces and at times we have seen from 25 to 43 cars double-deck to visit our park we need more parking here we've got a lot of grass there we can get around 30 more next we have six acres and we estimate using about maybe 40% of the area because of the trees and thick underbrush and dark border we have a big huge voice dot green spot but we're afraid of dangerous species of reptiles some days so much going to work out there it's not about you if it's going to happen we'll see how this underbrush cleaned out we'd like to see a phase, second interest along the south border of this place so we can put more picnic areas in and we did estimate at a now so maybe 350 or 400 square put square could they investigate and see a small subtle dynamic going there we don't know if this is going to cause we don't know so we're experts in estimation when we're talking about to put a hell of a dent and a billion bucks, thank you very much and I don't say thank you we'll work out here I'm sure the charity job gets ticklish at times thank you thank you very much our is part of the H.S.R.E. Bridge Rescouration Organization our is part of the H.S.R.E. Bridge Rescouration Organization our is part of the H.S.R.E. Bridge Rescouration Organization our is part of the H.S.R.E. Bridge Rescouration Organization our is part of the H.S.R.E. Bridge Rescouration Organization I made most of my points at the last meeting but I wanted to emphasize a few the bridge project is not on the list of staff-regarded projects but it will certainly be and we they would request we're of value to do the right thing for the right reason and by the money to include the project and allow for the citywide aspect aspect. The Restoring Bridge and the Parkland was the project that we adopted in the text by the federal government and they agreed to do it. We signed the interview with the city and said we would provide the 20% match that the federal government required. Part of that match was the in-kind value of the land that the Dawson family agreed to donate. We asked them, don't donate it to us. Donate it to the city of San Antonio because it's going to be the citizens part. The Dawson's did that. The only thing they said was, name it after us. The current value is about $300,000. The city is reneging even though we went to try all of you won and we ran the appeal process now. You're still reneging and they want to turn that land over to commercial interests. I beg you to not let the city do that criminal act. Citizens need to the park which is a part of the Hike and Bike Trail that connects the museum reach of the river. The rule is directing the hill, the cemeteries and the Salado Creek Hike and Bike Trail. Do the right thing for the right reason. Don't let the city do this criminal act as a citizen's part. We'll be speaking on Salado Creek in District 2 after Smith. It's good to see everybody. I'm Tommy Calvary. I represent Districts 1, 2, 3, and 10 and the parks I'm speaking on today are in Districts 3 and Districts 2. I don't have time to go over the master vision of River East but I have this great drone video that gives you a look above from a thousand feet in the air to begin to see some of the things that I do along what can be River East. But I'm here today because the county has partnered with the City of San Antonio in numerous parts through the venue tax and health, create an environment to bring back residents to our historic communities through catalytic projects like the Museum Reach, River North, Pearl, Mission Reach, River South along our missions, San Pedro Creek, which I call River West, connecting downtown and going forward for the next day and decade I hope. I'll work to create a River East on the Salado South extension from Port Sam Houston to Southside Lions Park. I'm here today specifically to ask the committee to support the beautiful jewel that is the Leighley Heights Sports Complex with additional safety, phones, lighting, cameras, security, fencing, landscape architecture, connecting Salado Creek. Park Bench is historical and ecological markers, signage, access points, wayfinding, mile markers, art, adding some supports. A portion of the soccer fields. I respectfully ask for the group time. I'm just going to finish this last sentence here. And most importantly, supporting the $14 million the county already invested in the track and stadium with proper locker rooms and administration facilities. That would be awesome. Thank you so much. Without objection, could I give it just a few minutes to add? I have to be fair to everyone here. I can't do that. You know, I love you Tommy, but I can't do that. I have to move on to the next speaker term. In the letter you mentioned, I have to move on to the next speaker term. In the letter of the committee, we'll see the details of the actual specific monitor. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Next up, we have Allison Hugh. We'll be speaking on Public Space East, organization of Public Space East for District 2. We'll be speaking on Dignity of Monaco Arts and Lane Currently. I think I'll actually see in my time. Gotcha. Thank you, Lane. Then you'll have three minutes. Thank you so much. We're here to, again, advocate for all these side parks on the list, as part of a new bike staff, including Lockwood and Dignity Parks, Lincoln Park, MLK Park, and also I would encourage the committee to consider as a working project. We're here to really show that there is collective momentum to inspire a new generation of stewards for inner city parks. We are sort of following the footsteps of great insurgencies that have really brought to bear the incredible parks that we know today, Bracken Ridge Park, Young Iguana Park, for example, McAllister Park. These are all built on a combined investment of our public funds and private stewards, and we are hoping to raise that generation on the east side. We are also leveraging existing funds of already 300K and over the past year in cash and in-kind donations. This park really represents a place where community services are already accessible to people, but have the opportunity to fix access far, far more if we just invest in the basic infrastructure that can bring people to the park on a big basis and integrate that into their daily routines. We really think that this is extremely critical on the east side, and the money is spread thin. We want to do the best for every single park, and this is the beginning of that trend. This is about building a coalition between all the neighborhoods on this side. As time passes and success is shown. We've already started to see that by coordinating our efforts with the existing community health service providers, programming goes a long way. We hope that this process continues past the bond as if it is accepted by the committee, this process will continue. That's for donation and potential all we grow. Elaine Kearney with TBG Partners, we've been donating pro-bono landscape recognition design services. I just want to point out a few of the existing challenges in the Know-Any-Lock Wind Park. First, while the park is a beloved icon for the neighborhood, it faces a number of design challenges. First and foremost, Burnett Street bisects the park into two halves, which substantially decreases the use of the water on either side. And despite the fantastic views of downtown from this park, it's really dramatically underutilized, aside from the basketball courts and the Martinez Street Community Center. Perhaps for this reason, personal safety has also been a major concern. I'm not going to cut you off because Karen, that was a timer. You've allocated your time to Allison and that was three minutes. Thank you very much. I'm sorry. Is this considered a group presentation? The staff wants to clarify that because I have it as individuals, which is why Elaine allocated her time over to you. So who's the group? Let me ask. I need three people or that's what I need. Okay. So who is my third person? What's your name now? Staff, can we give them another two minutes? Thank you. So this means I'm going to have to take coffee all with this. So in order to do the vision that we have for addressing these design challenges as follows, the major move is to actually close Burnett Street, which is a low traffic street, thus reuniting the two halves of the park. And this would allow new activities, which will help to activate it, including new shade structures and expand an upgraded place-gated dog park in the pinking areas. A renovation of the existing Community Center in the addition of an outdoor amphitheater will expand the community programming for events. In terms of safety, wider sidewalks with planting buffers along Hackberry and group site lighting and more activity in the park will contribute to a safer experience for all. You haven't utilized that time? My name is Cotton. I work with Lake Plateau Architects and we both have been deputy and co-owner of architectural services for this amazing project. So here I just wanted to say design so far focuses on really building upon the existing programming, stunning views and successful spaces within the park. Landscaping and minor renovations to the existing Community Center on the left here will create more opportunities for community programming, sports and recreation. The new pavilion design offers a shaded outdoor area with views overlooking the city. It includes public restroom facilities, which the park currently lacks. So this is a place for large community groups to gather for special events or for small groups to picnic in the shaded and watch their kids play. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Next up we have Katherine Smith from District 1. Let me speak a little bit more specific. I have a right for which parks. After Katherine, we have Dominic Ortiz and then Ellen from District 2. Good evening. My name is Katherine Smith. I'm from District 1. Thank you all for being on the committee and taking the time to look at all the parks. I am in support of the bond funding for the San Antonio Park, specifically Hemisphere Park and Bradford Park. I first came to San Antonio World Square in 1968. So that was my first sight of Hemisphere Park. I've now been in San Antonio for 33 years and really over just the last three years, I started using Hemisphere Park in the opening of the one kind of park. I'm excited about the future of Hemisphere Park, the opening of the civic park. We just need the funding to finish Hemisphere Park. I frequent that park with my costa kids. I'm a costa advocate. I have a granddaughter. I ride my bike there. When I'm there, I see kids from all over the city, the county, and the state. So this park is serving lots of people from lots of districts, as it's already pointed out. As far as Bradford Park is concerned, that's another park that I've frequented in the past 30 years. I've taken my children there. I've been to numerous parties there. I've taken friends from out of town there. That's another park that the whole city uses, the county uses, the whole state uses as part of this park. So I would just encourage you to continue finding those parks. Thank you. Thank you very much. From District 3, we'll be speaking on Stinton Park, five-diamond parking lot paving. All right. And then after that, it will be Ellen. Good evening, parks not committed. My name is David Partiz. I'm here to speak to half of five diamonds in District 3 and their effort to get the park paid for 2017 parking. Five diamonds is a little bit located in District 3. At District 82, 14 South Florida. I probably played five diamonds from when I was four to 18. And in my humble opinion, my humble opinion, it's the best place to play baseball on the South Side. Over the course of the last seven years, the parks made many improvements and improvements to the surroundings. So it's a great place to be and parents and kids can obviously see where their inexpensive things have gone to. Parents have appreciated the preparedness and the safe and healthy environment that's been provided by our board so far. And now that this has come to pass, knowing the limits of the board of directors, I'm actually not able to find a big ticket item like paid parking. I'm here to ask you if you could pay the parking F5 diamonds, at least help you with the parking for 1,800 kids that play there, kids that go to visit. Thank you for your consideration. This park is not part of the staff recommendations initially, but it is on this main list of other projects. Ellen will too. From District 9, she'll be going to Hartford Park Land Bridge. After Ellen will meet Deborah Hernandez. Hi, I'm Ellen. What? I'm from District 9 and I'm here to support the tricentennial Land Bridge for Bill Hartford Park. I walk over there with my dogs. I go there and meet my friends there. I ride my bike. It's so amazing to me to see the families and diversity and the use of the park. The terrible thing is it's two halves. And like the woman said about Digno Winnie and Lockwood, you would have to close your road to make it even more functional. Well, you can't very well close or spot partway. And I don't really want to ride my bike over to the other half of the park. I'm the type of bike rider that's dressed in yellow with Christmas lights on and an helmet. Because I don't want to get hit. But the main thing is, what separates this park from all the other parks we've heard about is it has the opportunity to give national recognition for this Land Bridge. It's just, you know, it's phenomenal. It'll be animals and people will get to use it. People, it'll be in the national press. It'll create tourism. And it'll bring all those young, geeky people talking about that love eating spaces in San Francisco and New York to come here. And that's what we want. We want to create, we want to keep on the momentum that we've already built with San Fernando Cathedral. Mission reached out. Thank you. Thank you very much. Hi, I'm Debbie Hernandez and I just wanted to say a few words. Thank you whoever put our five diamonds on the list and recommended it. Thank you whoever did that. My son's been going there since he was eight. And the fee right now, the fee is like $80 for kids on the south side. This is so vital to our area. Our, our little five diamonds, I mean half the stuff there is donated. The Fiesta Commission gave us bleachers. The honors were given, I think, through city money possibly. But everything else, get us picnic tables that we hire from different places. Every single thing has a handout for five diamonds. And you know what, for the south side, it really is the nicest part that we have. We don't have anything brand new in that except our concession stand. So this, you paving this, the grounds for us parents and for the people to go is really important. Please don't take this off the list. It's really important for us to have something nice on the south side to offer these kids. And that's all I wanted to say. Thank you. Next up is Peggy Bramble. She'll be speaking on Dignity and Lockwood Parks. She's representing District 2. After Peggy will be Melinda Lachuga. And then we'll have a group representing my elbow and jaw. Hi, good evening tonight. I'm here in support of Dignity and Lockwood Parks. I want to talk to you from the perspective of a local entrepreneur. I am the co-founder of one of the tech startups here in San Antonio. And I return to San Antonio from visiting all kinds of triple A-rated parks around the world. I've been to the Hudson Park in New York City, Central Park, Boston Parks, Parks in Barcelona, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Mexico City, as well as Toronto and Colombia. And I will say this, parks are maybe number two in terms of where I get my ideas as a tech entrepreneur to my own private shop. And so, just like anybody else, you get your best idea when you're washing your hair, but nothing else feeds being able to come up with your better idea when you're riding a bike or running around. And the reason why I came back to San Antonio is because while I was a big family, I realized that this was the only city that was able to provide me a multi-generational experience. So, in other cities, I only hung out with myself, the young eeks who were everywhere studying and being part of the university crowd. But here, when I go to a park, I get to talk with grandparents and I get to hang out with babies. And that's what's very important about doing this, and especially on the east side, where you do need that interaction. Thank you very much. Before, we should be speaking on Blackland Terrace Park. And then after, Melinda will have a group represented by Oliver and Dung, and then Bradley and Alexander. To share my feelings, my name is Melinda Chabot and I'm a minister for Young. Helene, answer the mic a little bit this time. Yes, my name is Melinda Chabot. And I'm a minister for Young. And I'm a minister for Blackland Terrace Park. Namely, I lived in this area for 30 years. And I have the distinct honor of listening every morning to my worry and retreat. That reminds me that I live by one of the top air force bases in the United States. All of our kids go and receive training. That being said, I'm very proud to live in Blackland Terrace, New York. And my children have gone to that park. They played Tino. Over the years, we have had numerous improvements to the park. But we need more. And these are the top items. We need an addition of a covered basketball court. Covered for our kids in the playground here. We have a summer program that is there every year. That would be so wonderful to have. We have need of additional signage for the community center itself. It has been there for many, many years. And also, we need to replace the signs that are outside of the building so we can have the correct total number longer. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Thank you, Melinda. Thank you very much. Blackland Terrace Park is part of the additional staff. Thank you, Michael. Next up is Elba Rendon, who will be speaking on the Anita's Park District 5. After Elba, we'll have Richard Baggins and then Silva, David Tett. Hello, my name is Elba Rendon. So my name is Elba Rendon. I'm from District 5, and I'm sitting in the Anita's Park. And it's a master plan that's been approved by the City Council. It's right in the middle of the heart of the west side. I read it called 72-07. It's the west side. And the Anita's Park is targeted by 2,500 single-family units, over 800 family multi-minutes from Zaha, totaling about 300 people that can utilize that park. This is David's Park. Neighborhoods, existing schools and center centers around the Anita's Park are Rhodes Middle School, Armor Hall Elementary, Syracuse Elementary, Rural Elementary. We got two center centers, Intimidus Center and Putzamerica Center. All these were right where half a mile or less from the park. The centers utilize this park every morning to exercise. And therefore, multi-family housing around the neighborhood consists of great tremendous homes. Casiado Homes, Zaha, Diaz de Medidad, and San Juan Projects. All these people utilize this park every day that I see. So I go to the park myself. Father of the Anita's Park is almost 80 acres, 7.96 acres. It was built back in 1973 and has had no love in the past 45 years. Just three years ago, we started doing some massive planning on the park. And we currently have our natural night out, which we have for 1,000 people attending that park every year ahead of us in October. And these are the things we're recommending to you. My name is Dan Valley, Tovar District Park. Also, I'm a member of this park. Like I said, it's about four years. We've been working on this park and it was very, very neglected and our community was even in the news because we were so neglected. And the community became very upset because that park was run down by drug dealers and murderers and we had prostitution and everything going on. So in the last four years, we started at least a million dollars in order to make that park look decent. And right now, the children are very happy to make that park. But we are now working on asking for funding for our second phase to include 1.2 million. And the family think there is requirements to improve the park for this second phase. Are there any two new soccer fields with covers for the fans to replace the baseball fields with covers for the fans? Apple parking? They think areas with shelters, a large pavilion with electricity for our advance, water feature playground, ADA type playground, a skate plaza, the recreation facility, a wider jogging or walking path, we place bullsign logs to the ADA panel, new covered basketball courts, drainage improvements we have upon type flooding that happens there. And other things that are on our basketball plan are covered basketball courts, and multi-use pavilion for special events that empower those to include a skate plaza. This has been the works for five years and we do have that master plan being approved by the city. And for the future, after we acquired this 1.2 million, we're looking for another 1.2 million to have our community center built there. And we have an example like sign of entrance community center for our center. Thank you for your consideration.