 We have found our basics, information on nutrition, youth development, 4-H, heart culture, water, and the list goes on. Again, we are proven a number one in the state of the U.S. to provide research-based programs that have proven to be successful. Having said that, I am the program coordinator for SIFAR, which stands for Children, Youth, and Families Abris. And I believe this is a great fit for not only this area, but the majority of San Antonio, in which we provide opportunities for at-list individuals to teach them about healthy nutrition, sustainability, building gardens. And in doing so, we are trying to give the community to give back and collaborate with teens and lead by example to help kids in the middle of their community and grow in the process. And I know that in having a piece of foundation, we're going to have a commitment not only from the parents, but from the community so that these kiddos and the parents can move forward and give back so that they can grow in every capacity. So I believe that texts in an online extension would be a great fit because we are a research-based and we collaborate with women organizations within the community by giving back. For example, I know that we are impacting many individuals, so collaborating with communities in our city and addressing the needs they give back in terms of growing and giving the commitment that is needed to build our communities. I don't have much to say, but I think there is a fit in there that you can see is growth, not just in our city, but throughout the neighboring counties within San Antonio Fair County areas. That's all that I have to say. Thank you for allowing me the time to speak. Thank you very much. My name is Kirsten. I'm a citizen of a neighborhood called Collins Garden. This is going to celebrate its 100th year of living. Now, my wife and I moved here from Minnesota 10 months ago on the native of San Antonio coming home. Okay, her chief had told her 38 years ago that when they went on into life, to be sure that they never forgot that they had to work under communities. So I was really in control of what y'all were doing this. So thank you for having the task force working on this. Now, Collins Garden area has not grown the community, but the citizens that actually count on our streets are ready to just have it to our neighborhood. And so that means the city has grown waiting on a certain capacity for our little neighborhood. So anything that gets done can be great. Thank you. Thank you. Any effort? Good evening. I find this very interesting because I don't think that we've had enough information that we have enough to beat the citizens coming out. I think we're getting ready to do something very enormous and wondering where is the money coming from? We always don't need to be saying that there's plenty of money. So where is the money coming from? When we are talking about the value of the city, we are asking questions about whether or not seniors could live in downtown, but as soon as they have it out, they could not. So what are we really doing when that's an area we're concentrating on? We're concentrating on everything that moves forward. So what are we doing? What will the seniors do? I noticed that we did not place a senior advocate on the campus board. I thank it for the very good you've done from one of our formations. So the thank you for taking the information back and sharing it. So because I am an advocate for seniors, we have in excess of $340,000 seniors in our county. We're getting ready to have a tsunami of seniors and a longer-term repair. Does this mean that we're running out? Are we concentrating on something else? I think we are not getting that right now for people. This is not a very good turnout. We're going to have four more years or five closed hearings. And I know it's only because you can't have closed hearings in order to do what you're feeling. So we're not getting all the information out to the people on what we're feeling. So I hope that this staff source will go back and as you need, you'll take into consideration what I'm telling you. This is very important. I am going to tend to spend the rest of my life advocating for seniors because it's not until you know their talent. And I'm not going to give up on them so that they can take it up. So I'm thanking you. I know that if you take time on your business schedule to go to the meetings until the quarter of again, I'm answering you. Go back, make sure that I have a chair and all the county people know that we need to give this separation out to the people before anything is finalized or anything is done. Thank you very much. Thank you. I'm going to ask you to hold your applause so that you can hear the speaker until the translator can hear the speaker clearly before the translator. Thank you very much. Any email or readings? Can you? Yeah, go get them. Greetings and good afternoon. Hello ladies. I am in the West Side of San Antonio here in San Andreas in Congress. First of all, it's very difficult to convince corporate patroliers of operations and experiences in two minutes. In my lifestyle area, something called the West Side of Corporation which is a permanent deal of truth such as this national suit was created to help the development. The city of San Antonio already has an active development department but according to a council person at the time, she said that the city department wasn't having a similar development to them. So that's her problem. Well, anyhow, they created this company to see the West Side of Development Corporation. When I saw the makeup of this corporation and I saw something how you say it, who's the other way around in Europe and who's told me. I was told how to be concerned because we as citizens were able to go before city council and if this organization was West Side of Corporation at any given time, we could talk to city council and we could change the minds. Now people, who is on this West Side of Development Corporation? Now here's let's say a thousand people show up okay, that's why I haven't been to council in the city but a thousand people, all you need is one person to show up and say that they were composed of at the time it was the President of Seniors University, the President of our Native American University, the President of the U.N. State, the President of ACCD plus you had four council people in a special capacity which was one, five, six, seven, seven. The most decision-making was being done by people at the time that it did not fit our different countries that it did not fit in our agreement. Our agreement we and if you audience would please collaborate and allow the speaker to speak with the translator to translate accurately I have not seen this PowerPoint because this is the first time I've seen it and so I guess where are our rights and our rights are being held this happened in June when socialists created corporations so that they would be able to control what was going on so that they would not have to bottom off so we need to wake up and then I heard that these sides are the same that we heard that these things are there to help people know us but when it comes time that they know that this is the moment your rights are done and if you're going to reason with someone do you think they're going to disagree that they're going to strike there and it's going to be impacted the thing that happened in our agreement would have to be permanent deals to become lots in our agreement I have here two hundred and sixty-two properties that were taken by an individual in addition to negotiation and no condemnation Mr. Williams you know what else that I want to tell you whenever it's congressional hearing content we allow you to speak to your mind because we're allowed to speak we're allowed to speak we're allowed to speak we're allowed to speak to your mind you're allowed to speak to your mind until you are heard this is very important we need more we need more experience so that we can all be very sure Marilyn Hockins Mr. Williams I've looked in this neighborhood which has always been a very diverse neighborhood I do over in Germany in the Spanish and Blacks all over the Mont Blanc area so I'm really happy and promising coming in the neighborhood the housing everything's looking good but I have some questions about incentives for people who like qualified for the possibility programs are there any programs or local interest models things for other incentives for other people to get their houses up and improve which I'd like to know I have one other issue that I want to bring up in regard to being a property owner here, what I do out here we have alleys behind the houses and those alleys are being used by the markets man on the street because they pick up the trash from the alleyways and these were maintained by the city now all of a sudden we have to be responsible for maintaining these alleyways when our property lines don't extend into the alleyways so why are the property owners now responsible for maintaining these alleyways that are not qualified for the property and I'd like to have an address another issue that I'd like to bring up is since we only have three minutes to speak up here is there a form for us to go on the internet and address this community through e-mail in some form where we can have our issues heard and address someone there on the other line that's going to take our questions like the other man and say three minutes is not enough to address some issues and this is a simple idea I thought it was just for just me so I came here under a wrong assumption but we have to be able to address questions that can't be answered or addressed at this one and can't be talked about in three minutes thank you thank you to reiterate there are comment parts available and they will all be aggregated and the entire task force will consider all the comments and questions that are provided in the comment parts and also through the public page that's that thank you good evening I'm from Texas Organizing Project first off to say that earlier speakers said that this task force tried to have public hearings and that's actually not true the draft report came out in January and initially there was no area of the draft report that said that they were going to use the public input these town hall leads are the direct result of pressure from community organizations and community members to make our official task force members accountable to the public these town hall leads would not be happening at all if those people had a voice they would be demanded that the public have a space to come and address the task force so I just want to make that point I got a public town hall meeting yesterday and I do appreciate the efforts we made to have Spanish translation to have a PowerPoint in Spanish I'm glad they all understand the needs of the community in this area I'd like to ask you to take it once further and release the draft report in Spanish all of the number of our members are right in both although some of them are Spanish speaking only I do not think that it's a well possibility for the city to understand but there are many community members who speak Spanish only and release that draft report in Spanish I think the city and the task force can do a better job of making this information public I do not even have to look for the draft report which I said was released in January which is very difficult to find it is not an accessible piece of information for community members so I think they all do make that information available for everyone I've read the draft report I was disappointed by the language the language treats the issue of displacement as something that is inevitable they want to compensate for people who are pushed out of their homes and we say that these people should not be pushed out of their homes that they have a right to stay in their homes please I'll remind you for the translator to translate so displacement is not inevitable and we would like to see policy solutions, clear policy solutions that are going to keep people in their homes maybe I've announced I'm a resident of District 1 and I live right at North St. Mary and we are also seeing a lot of interesting effects of what's happening so in an interesting time and to respect your life three minutes I'll say the issue I want to bring down is to recognize, act and react recognize a few years ago the history of the story was released about two high school students from the West Side who went on to Ivy League schools and came back in January because they couldn't afford to live because their parents and their grandparents didn't go to Ivy League schools their parents and grandparents still probably were at the Grand High which, as I remind everyone there is still the boycott of the Grand High for their inability and their loudly appreciation for the people who cleaned that place this one on the West Side from over on here they give a nice and lovely for all of our visitors I'll say this as I was saying that the workforce is developing a few months ago and he then really said that this city has been built on the backs of underpaid labor and this is on and you know I want to give our people our cultural right to agree with one another and support one another in a vocal way by clapping and from then so understand the new college people, riverbats and you don't recognize our service industry from what it does in this town you do not even know proper place as people who spent their children to yell and stare for ever return because not because they didn't afford to go to school or because they couldn't afford to go to school or something like that because they didn't afford to live in a fossil because they didn't afford to live in these these coastal places that we want to send them we keep saying education to the answer to so we turn on the part of acting and we react to these kinds of things I would say to be put pressure, say kind of pressure to register your pressure at the local and state level to make a local wage in Texas make a local wage for all people who are going to marry at least 60 minutes and you recognize people who respond to it and maybe bring that up initially but there are things we are bound by at a state and federal level let's figure those things out and let's not have a lack of creativity and let's not have a lack of education as we know what they are saying because if you don't feel like it we're all going to be creative we're all going to be creative I'm assuming that if there is a single person I cannot let them say I'm going to have a student because I don't have children in my home I'm going to take up these different points where I'm going to be an official for the block wall and hire fans to get people out day by day so I'm going to call John Williams John Williams Charlemagne Bush BAM alright I'm here alright Miss Miss St. Cornwall you're going to talk about me in the app on the Zones Committee and everything else I'm here, I'm Charles English I'm the Founder and President of the Justice Association I'm also one of the coordinators The, uh, there was a lot of work, I say a lot of work, and I've worked a lot of these people in here, so I coordinated them with the PGA Brigade. I see what's he got sitting there in the cold, but I didn't see all the L.A.D. lighting. You see the solar and so forth, and it's common as a enemy of our state. She needs the gatekeeper of this military case, but if she needs to do something, go to Detroit and pick step block, where she's from. Sir, are you asking me to please major? I'll make my comment, ma'am. I'm a civil rights figure, decorated in a plastic district court, and the judge's problem is that this district court is a lot you don't know about me. Yes, sir. Everybody hates me. I know why, because I'm the one who's getting things done. Do I have to please the director on this to make a question to the task force and make a question to what you think it is? Yes, it is. And I'm addressing the task force. Is this, uh, this black lady that she owns the task force? Yes, sir. Okay. So, uh, as to, oh, no, there was a call to the community economic revitalization agency on the Iowa and also our military. And then, uh, Ms., uh, she, like, yielded away with it, and the $750,000 was what the judge liked. He went to save the paid salaries, because it's going south. And then they created the same senatorial, uh, senatorial on the east side. It's not about going to the east side, because the mayor, she's very surprised. They've been taken by Jefferson Heights here. I'm the president. And if you know where Jefferson Heights is, it's what the whole neighborhood is, did about a lot of paperwork according to his needs and restrictions until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So now I'm the first local nurse assistant in the city of San Antonio. Yes, I'm a senator by 18, Ms. Farman. So it was one of the body legal zone needs. So if we're setting up and trying to talk about jobs, they have nothing to do with jobs, we know what she's trying to do. She's trying to become an economic developer in our city to make our way and to make our way. We know what she's doing. Again, could you please start? I'm sure, I'm sure. Let her, let her drop. Let's tell the truth. So, we're taking this acquisition. So the other thing is, So the other thing is, this young lady here is from Texas A&M, and she's representing the A&M, and you know who I am. I'm one of the board members. But I'm not your brother. This is A&M. I'm the board. I have to put that board together. See, if that's the only thing you don't know, I might sound crazy. But I'm going to educate you. I have an education for William Baptist University and business administration. I started my education at West University MBA program. After I got this community in 2009 and 2010. So that's something to be celebrating about. I love my community. I was born here on the East Side of San Antonio. Right in East Church on 106th County Street. Then we went to a cafeteria in 1964 when I was just five years old. The cafeteria meal. Let's talk about my father, who was the first half American. Security officer, first half, he was in 1941. And yes, he's 20 years older than my mother. She was only 15 when they met, and he was about 40. Yes, they had me. And so I want to say here. Don't let me finish my talk out. You guys need to involve the neighborhood association. I found out about this, that Ms. Barrosova was on television last night. Ms. Brownman did not want me to be here, but I'm here. And thank God he sits high and looks low. Watch out Ms. Brownman. Yeah. Pastor Karen Brandt. Yes? Right. I'm here also because I happened to text in the news last night. And I lived on the east side. I had a real property on the east side, a cash on the east side that I was raised. On the east side of Austin, Texas. And the neighborhood where I was raised, went to church, went to school, is now not recognized by me or any of the other members that were raised in the 1970s, 1980s because of this kind of development. So I'm really interested in how the neighborhood and paramount zone is going to work so that my confidence can be aware as to how this diversity will impact them. So I don't know how it's going to impact me as a homeowner and as a landlord in this process. Thank you. Thank you. Was there anyone who did not speak, who did not have an opportunity to sign up because you came in late? Yes, ma'am. Would you tell us your name? Yes. My name is Barbara Witt-Howell, and I'm both a neighborhood activist and a senior activist. And the reason I wanted to come tonight was because, as Ms. Eckert said, we both sit on the City County Joint Commission on Urban Affairs. And one out of every 4.5 people in this region are seniors. And because of that, I think that there should be a senior component, a senior housing component, as part of these discussions. As I read, I was reading online the plan and I was reading the handout you gave. And I live in River Road neighborhood and I've had five generations live there. And we recently were the recipients of a 41-bedroom apartment complex on the old stables, if you all are old enough to remember that. By a developer who, along with all of the developers up and down Broadway, have been the recipients of lots of our tax dollars and lots of abatements from our city-owned utilities, CPS, and SAWS. Now, to me, I mean, it's millions and millions per project and it's just amazing if you look on the website and count it how much it is. And I think those dollars, some of those dollars should be diverted to our housing. Because we do not want another landslide of buy-in-out houses that has happened a couple of different times in our city's history, but I really think we need to push those monies not just towards economic development of new housing because then, after a certain amount of time, those developers who get those benefits are selling those buildings. That's happening over two of those buildings. And it seems to me that the people who are paying those taxes, that have been paying those taxes, that are still paying those taxes, need to benefit from those taxes in a way that helps them in their homes. Thank you so much. Thank you. You didn't get a chance to sign in? No. Okay. I will just take two more. No. Please give us your name when you get to the microphone. Good evening. My name is Barbara McDonald. I live in the Alamo Donuts Garden neighborhood which was originally Denver Heights. I would just like to say that I'm sorry. I have been to so many of these meetings that it's just unbelievable. Past the block, you should say we've been studied and studied and studied and studied enough. It's time for action. I appreciate the fact that this is a mayor's task force and it started whenever. But it's always the same thing. You know, I always feel like there's a hidden agenda that we always find out about things last. I found out about the carnival coming to my neighborhood right on top of us a week before when the city had years of planning for that. And so, you know, I just don't understand sometimes how we can get left out. But I'm going to talk about my community, my area. I live on the 50-yard line of the Alamo Donuts. That neighborhood was starting to have six phases. They stopped at the third to be historically, politically, whatever you call correct because they didn't want to mess up the neighborhood. I don't know where that came from when they put the Alamo Donuts there. But they didn't want to mess up the neighborhood anymore. Our neighborhood has not been finished. It hurts my heart when I drive up by the new convention center with all the pretty trees and all the lights and all of that. And then I come up to Montana Street and my neighbors look like, what is it? You know, what is it? I have four or five people in my neighborhood who have taken their own money, their own time and have been done. Beautiful houses. I have a vacation home in front of my own property that's owned by a gentleman who came into my neighborhood. The city has never come up and said, how can we help you? What can we help you do to help beautify this area? I have a neighbor that has taken one of these houses from the, let's just say wheelie courts. And he said they moved on to a vacant lot that was burned down because of drug activity. He said they moved on to my street. That's how you fill up vacant lots. You buy the city can easily buy up houses and fill up vacant lots. You know, if I get the person that can take their own money to do that, where does the city get these ideas from? If I get the city to think of something like this, whether they have my neighborhood had very far and with all these vacant, vacant, vacant, vacant, vacant, vacant, vacant lots. You know, it's totally unnecessary. So a task force, I don't know when y'all started or how y'all started, what your plans are. But I'm just tired. You know, they have 30 plus years left to live. And I really would like to see my neighborhood look like what's enough believed that people is going to move into my area with their own money, own time, and own energy to make it different. So whatever this task force takes back to y'all having a meeting for tomorrow or whatever, you know, be positive. Hear what everybody has to say. We're just tired. Thank you, Ms. McDonald. Please give us your names, sir. My name is Jesus Lopez. And I'm just here to let you know that this is where y'all had a meeting with my wife and like my grandma. She wasn't able to attend. My aunts, my uncles were also part of y'all living in the West Side. Mr. Rod Reynolds has been there for years. He should have known that he should have interpreted it in Spanish. The majority of the people in here understand what they were saying. And you were how touching everybody. You didn't let nobody talk. They could do it now. So the majority of the people weren't even there and they were calling me what happened and we can also, they're doing what they want to do quick. And so I can't walk you home. Can you take me to my grandma's way in the East Side now? I can't take you. Why? Because he knows what he's done. He works with banks. Hold on. You're getting fixated by me. He works with banks. There's a lot of people here that they know what they're doing. I know that they know they're going black and white here. But she wants to talk for a quick. That's all I want to let you know that this is a hush-hush meeting and try to do it quick. Thank you, Mr. Lopez. Thank you. I'm Liz Franklin. I live over in Dignity Neighborhood Association. I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name. Liz Franklin. I live over in Dignity Hill. And I want to thank the board for coming together and the patients that you exhibited. Although we deserve it. But having said that, I was looking at the success measures and my one comment or question to the board would be to focus the funds under your success measures. It's all about housing, affordable housing, economic disparity. And then all of a sudden here's our solution. We're going to use funds raised in leverage by the 2017 bond for fulfilling the goals outlined in this document. That would be great if it's focused on those that need it. I mean, and I would like to see that the task force actively and aggressively work at back. Focusing those funds that you're going to ask us to vote on that they go legitimately to those with the greatest need to really get the numbers up in your success measures because if you do an even split, like it's typical when I hear dialogue from the city, well, everybody wants their cut so your streets we don't have any money left to get those fixed. Well, that's not necessarily true in one of the newer districts that hasn't had any streets go down in the last 30 years and been moved off the list. I think you understand what I'm saying. What I'm saying is I'm asking the task force to do due diligence, extra and focus in a very tight shot group that that money 100% goes to the folks that most deserve it to get there. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you. Hi, my name is Graciela Sanchez. I'm with the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center and I'm a lifelong resident of San Antonio starting out in the west side and the Esperanza represents all of San Antonio, not just any one neighborhood. I wanted to make sure again for many of you who weren't at yesterday's meeting, Esperanza submitted a couple of pages worth of questions and I hope that this is online as well so that people know the questions we asked and so that also, again, the committee, the staff is held responsible to answering those questions because yesterday we weren't able to even ask those questions and it seems like we run out of time again to ask and answer those questions. I thought this was going to be a Q&A where we actually also got answers. And there was also that other report that the Right to the City Committee also submitted on February 6th that was not incorporated into any of the information on the planning department's website. Just like Miss McDonald and so many of you have already said we already are the victims of this displacement and the city of San Antonio staff and the developers and the lobbyists that represent them are working really hard to push us out. You can see it, just read code compliance means CDBG monies go to hire at least four code compliance officers and those folks come into our neighborhoods and say you're home, you're home, you're home and continue to harass people and then all of a sudden people don't own more and then the homes are no more and they're vacant, as Miss McDonald said. I know that's exactly what's happening on the west side as well but we know that the developers are ready to come in. The peanut factory that everybody talks about on the west side which had been vacant. I was excited to see it go up. Well the city gave it incentives for students but you know what, the smallest the smallest room apartment costs for 410 square feet it will cost you $859 to live there. That's not student housing I don't know any student that can pay that much money and ultimately as we raise our communities what one of the desires of this committee was to maintain the historic cultural vibrancy. When you kick us out, when you kick out the enditas, when you when you raise communities that's genocide. That's cultural genocide. We're watching and we're holding the city staff because you know what these people they're also being used and I hold you the task force members because I believe in you we need to hear you speak out and we need you to hold the city staff account of your plan. Thank you. Is there anyone who did not have an opportunity to speak yet who wants to speak? Yes sir. If you will just give us your name sir. I'm Gilbert Murillo I'm the first president of the Government Hill Alliance How much time do I have? Three minutes sir. I want to speak directly to the issue but first a little introduction I've been around for a while quite a while and one of the honors I've had was to serve in formulating the President City Council composition of ten warren districts that was in 1977 since then I've seen a lot of these kind of things happening in Mexico during the 60s we used to call it the Gran pronunciation that means we make a statement and things are going to happen and you know we put it on the shelves and things just don't happen and you come back and you ask people you know what's going on you know the city made this study and the city has the books on the shelves and I can name three or four of them the elderly study the study of the Office of Historic Preservation a quarter of a million dollars for each study that's my introduction and what I'm saying is to me what we're doing tonight is a top down kind of structure a top down planning and it looks good on paper and you know maybe some good things will happen but it'll be forgotten given the view priorities of the city and the city of San Antonio so I'd like to speak directly to the issue and that's that in Government Hill it's typical of what's going on our people are getting letters being badgered by developers they buy the $40,000, $50,000 homes and then they flip it just today I took a look at something happening on Willow and Carson a house that was I would say worth $60,000 a year or two ago is being sold for $182,000 today $1440 Willow is an example I've also seen things happening in San Antonio and basically the idea is the right to the city where who is really going to protect the people who need protection the long time residential owners that's the issue that's the issue and unless we really push push push particularly to the city council level things will not get done so I'm saying the plan is fine it's going to be forgotten unless we really get together talk with each other and push for real change thank you please give us your name Amelia Valdez I was I think the last one last time I'm also a Esperanza stat I've also been doing block blocks in the neighborhood pretty much since last year I want to invite every task force member to come out and see how the areas operate conversations that are taking place between these individuals so you can hear them out we have had a displacement a place where the house is locked down be a part to see and I know some of you are unfamiliar with I know some of you but I want to invite you this Saturday to come out and see my part of the neighborhood born and raised in the west side of San Antonio I live in a casino park where if you have to convert to a casino park you have to pay $200 it would be nice we can take the $200 we'll give it to you if the toilets were clean if the drugs were out of there if the pavilion was clean if you have electricity if the grass was cut if at least you give them a reason because when they come to my house to ask me for electricity when they come to my house to use the restroom because this is not provided I think it's kind of sad that you're taking monies and you're not providing what they need to be given I also heard a rumor that I would tell you did not want to come tonight to the east side only because I guess talking to individuals I gave 20 years to the east side providing youth development to the east side neighborhood I don't know as far as task force members if that's true but I made a point to comment not only about the west side but the east side also where we had a lot of things going on in certain areas but I do want to say this I want to invite all task members whoever shows up on Saturday morning 16.35pm to see I can show you what happens and yes we're tired we're so tired sometimes I can't sleep at night because I have to be watching hi my name is Houdie Vega I know some of the people here but I'm here today as a lifelong inner city resident and here on behalf of my family and specifically my mother who is a an amputee on dialysis with congestive heart rate who is very ill and she owns a house in a neighborhood near downtown and she we are harassed weekly we started with letters we were inundated with letters from developers from other states we have had people come and knock on the door to look for my mother to offer to buy her house you know it's getting to the point that every week we get people knocking on our door looking for my mother so I also had the great fortune to live in other communities and to live in the other inner city communities of color that for status near downtown LA so I've observed this process before but it's hitting really homes it's hitting hard, it's hitting homes I grew up in a neighborhood where people had so standard housing I mean how many people I grew up with had lead poisoning grown up that is nobody can afford to fix their house nobody still can afford to fix their house and so we really need we need policy changes we need funding we need people to be able to live with dignity and we're urban pioneers but we've been here from the beginning and we deserve that respect to get that ability to continue to live and to be able to live in dignity like we haven't been able to live before thank you we have time for one more speaker if there's anyone left who has not already spoken who signed up who signed up yesterday good afternoon I signed up but because I worked late my name is Sara Seria my name is Sara Seria thank you well I want to say the first thing I want to ask are you the mayor of the city are you listening why do we allow this humiliation why don't we why don't we why do we make sure of ourselves in that way how are we going to be sure that we're going to make sure of our words that we're going to do what we need that we're going to listen that we're not going to disown if the people who have power aren't here if they have power I thank you and I respect you but the mayor must be here facing this problem appear and scream that we want you to be the mayor that we demand you to be the mayor because these gentlemen are not a game it's our community it's our life with how many sacrifices we buy a house we bury the humiliation in that place each son of ours who has been born in each tree in each plant we're not any people we're not any people who move from here to there our race has traditions has cultures has pride why didn't they protest why didn't they leave why don't they protest and demand that the mayor be here and that if the next meeting isn't here let's go don't be fooled by us because we're going to repeat because they want to invest the money here they're here in the city they have the ambition for our land and you know why? because they love our traditions our food, our food the rice to allow you also have things in Elisa where they've buried like the most dangerous valley in the city the valley where there's prostitution because we didn't decide to go to the salario because they humiliate us because they exploit us because they give us money and they steal our neighborhoods in parts of the students thank you Mr. Herrera thank you everyone who took the opportunity to speak this evening at this time I'd like to wrap up the meeting I'd like to hand the meeting back to Jackie Gorman from the Mayor's Task Force so thank you all for coming out this evening we heard some really interesting things I learned a lot I took a lot of notes I hope that you all heard some things that you didn't know heard some things that made you think about things a little differently the only way that things get better is if we talk to each other as neighbors is if we continue to exchange information to find that common ground but I do want to correct a misconception though that I really think we need to correct seniors were represented and had very vocal advocates as part of our Task Force three of them are sitting right over there you know they held us to a standard and kept saying what about our seniors they did that and did it well the other part is from the very first meeting that this Task Force held Task Force members asked staff where was the public input we have been advocating for opportunities to hear from our fellow citizens on these issues since the very beginning so you may not have seen it in one of the draft reports I can't tell you why or why not I can tell you that from the very beginning we wanted to have these public meetings so thank you so much for coming out today thank you for having the courage to stand at that microphone and let us know what you thought thank you for for being patient and for being considerate to your fellow citizens and listening to them even when maybe you didn't agree with them because we all have a right to our opinion now what you do with your opinion that's totally up to you but it's yours and you have the right to have it so thank you so much I hope you will come out again to the town hall meeting these meetings are being recorded we will capture everything that you said and we will try to incorporate that in the work that we do we got some really good suggestions I really like that suggestion about if you could go online and provide input and I know that's a question that I'm going to ask so we are catching this stuff so thank you so much and have a great evening