 are some of the San Antonio mayoral candidates. We're going to remind them that we are an LGBTQ plus community in the room tonight. We're going to remind them that we are a big part of D1 and we're going to ask them to address the LGBTQ concerns in our community and your thoughts and ideas for that community. They will give each kid two minutes and then we will turn back to your questions. So, we have, and I don't want to miss anyone today, so we'll be very careful. John Velasquez. You want to hear him here? Let's hear it. Now we're out in the dealer. We're doing a deal. Let's see what we can do. So, you will begin on this side and move across for this first two minutes. Each person will get two minutes. Okay, yay. Happy to be here. My name is John Velasquez. I'm a resident ward in Abilene, Texas. My family is from San Antonio and one group, Texas. I'm a psychologist. If you don't know what that means, I hope by the time we're done, you will. I attended University of Texas for my master's degree in psychology after a few years of high school teaching. Went over to Texas A&M University. So, I think that was a good, broad, cross-section of all of Texas to learn about that. My profession is a statutory license in the state of Texas to practice psychology, to the betterment of all people regarding the background, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation. It covers everything. I went into the profession because that is my passion to serve and help all people. I just happened to be also required by the state of Texas to do this. So, you have two really good reasons that you can count on me to fulfill the obligations to you and your interests. I want to tell you a great story to show you how I put myself out there. Many times in my practice at Thresa Community Center on South Thresa is to take referrals from schools, local schools, where parents are told that their children are misbehaving and they are immediately suspended, send home, and they must see a doctor before they can return to school. How many psychiatrists do you find the day a child is suspended? So, they come to me and they learn to know that I'm there when they need me. They can come in on a walk-in basis. And there was one child that came in once, a middle school girl, and was sent home for fighting. And apparently she was trying to catch other girls. And when I asked what was going on there, she said that she would be teased and bullied because she is lesbian. I said, okay, let's talk about this some more. What school is it you're going to? I didn't put it with the mom. She confirmed much of what was going on. Call the school, the counselor, the principal, set up an appointment. We got it down there. And I said, we have to solve this problem. And we have to solve this problem today. The mental health foreman, this young girl was going to have to stop. It wasn't going to be a plan over time. It was a school-related program. It had to stop today. So they said, what do you think we should do? I think you should assign a staff member to this child today to follow her everywhere she goes to be stopped. So I know how to intervene at an individual level to solve mental problems. And I know how to intervene at an institutional level to solve problems quickly by going where you need to go. So you can call me and say, we need your help here and I will be there. I'm having a sale tonight. My name is Ron Nirenberg. I am the District State City Councilman of part of town, which you know is one of the fastest growing in this entire state. It's also the place where the diversity pretty much in all things from associate comics to demographics to politics matches the city as a whole. I've been very proud to serve you. It has been the honor of my life to be a neighbor and to have a passion for the city and to seek to run for office and be able to serve you all. And I have, we can talk about the challenges of the city all night long but let me tell you what my vision for the city is. It's a place where the economy that works for everyone is creating good paying jobs for all parts of the community. It's a place where when you're out on the streets you're not stuck in gridlock. It's a place where you can feel free from the fear of crime in your neighborhoods, on your streets, in your balls, in all public places. It's a place where you know your public officials are being held to the highest standards of integrity and who face real consequences when they violate the public trust. And it's a place where we unapologetically take care of the people that we have here today all one and a half billion of them and take care of the future by planning properly the million and a half that will be coming and will suffer the consequences of poor planning if we don't get ahead of that. And I believe fundamentally that I... that we need to live out our values as a community and there are places where this whole community should meet in the middle. And so I was very blessed to come on council at a time when there was a lot of turmoil. And one of the first votes I faced on council was the non-discrimination ordinance. So I'm very proud that I have a voting record that puts aside politics and votes to support and be fair and to make sure that all members are our community on the basis of any measure. LGBTQ on the basis of veteran status or any other way you can categorize someone or treated fairly in the city of San Antonio because that to me is the city that we all deserve. Whether you can be proud of that your colleagues can be proud of that your children and your grandchildren can be proud of and that your neighbors can be proud of no matter who you are no matter where you live, no matter what you do no matter when you've got here that's the city you deserve and that's why I'm running for mayor. Thank you very much. Good evening. Each and every one of you I know it's not easy to do this to come out here and stand up for human rights. Stand up. I shouldn't run. I shouldn't run for public office because sometimes I just get too emotional. But so my first name is Rhett and I'm going to tell you my mother's maiden name to show respect to her she recently passed from the English-Rosen quest. So I'm an immigrant. How wonderful is somebody that you if I could come to a community. So I'm going to tell you my kind of name is Whitefeather and it's a Native American name given to me by another Native American. So sometimes when I think of human rights I'm thinking of indigenous indigenous Native American rights because I know this community for many years has paid and paid and paid this community is still paying because this Texas state is previous is racist they say that they're predominantly Christian and live in the Texas Republican Party and the legislature I'm not trying to hurt other people I'm not trying to make you cry tonight I'm just saying I have a lot of emotion I have a lot of experience and when I look back on my life I was very blessed I was very protected and now how can we share that how can we create a safe space for every child for every happy man. Thank you. I'd like to start tonight's meeting a conversation with who asked for all of my meetings asking you are there any stand-in tools as chairman of the Barrett County came together and won 47 and 52 races hopefully won all 16 in a new sheriff in town our ability to advance the progressive agenda because it's a problem and we'd go home after that since I've been chair we've advanced the progressive agenda we started by campaigning fully passing pre-k for SA then we came together worked hard and campaigned and passed the MDO here in San Antonio then we came together to make sure that police officers are non-immigration officers here in San Antonio then we fought for our veterans at the state legislature to ensure the Hazelwood Legacy Act and right now we're fighting for a livable wage and making sure that this city banned the box so more important than the victory it's been advancing a progressive agenda because politicians will come up here and tell you and talk to you very beautifully but we have a record of advancing a progressive agenda but as you know I'm looking for a new job I'm running for so it's important that you know a little bit about myself I grew up on the south side maybe a little further south than you would think in a little place called Mexico my mom and I crossed the border maybe swam a little into the county then came here to San Antonio then to El Paso then to Los Angeles and I saw because I grew up as a Dream Act student but I also grew up as an American speaking English pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America saying our thanks as far as I go back but bottom line is ladies and gentlemen I am pro equality no if and I am guest San at Bill 6 no if names on one of these human rights activists indigenous human rights activists I've heard some from local government here city council you know it took me 14 years just to get in the city passed ordinance recognizing October 12th as indigenous people's day so I understand about identity I understand about someone trying to suppress or oppress your rights to declare who you are about self determination I know very well the government here easily is held up by the chambers of commerce and by those behind the full strength of money the ones that don't want equality quite very much the ones that only want it for those that already have not to have knots I'm here to represent to have knots that's been my life journey already I'm hearing a lot of politicians talking a lot of things they're just saying what you want to hear so you'll give them your vote and afterwards don't forget about everything they've said because I've seen this time after time time came to not go before city council year after year and remind them there were human beings with equal rights that why not allow us to get October 12th declared as indigenous people's day was a very hungry thing for me to do because I know it's the right thing to do and yet we have to try to convince elected officials of this I wasn't asking for money I wasn't asking that indigenous people we declare superiority to any other race simply equal and it took me 14 years just to get an ordinance passed by the city council so city here city councilman that was part of that just finished talking to any of these democrats to me the democrats republicans are the same thing there's no difference they can't do the money people that's all they do so I am for equal rights for equity for all people ethnic gender identity you name it I've been there I supported here we go and will do so as your mayor but I need your vote to get it out but if you really want to make a change if you really want to change if you want things to remain the same there you go if you want something different here I am thank you very much good evening I'm glad everybody's here if you support the LGTQ community stand up let's give them a round of applause the political leaders for allowing me to be here because all of the other forums only cater to the people with money but the candidates who have the most amount of money would be Nuremberg Medina and Taylor and I don't have a lot of money but I don't need money to get your vote because guess what voting is free right do y'all have to pay to vote? no I don't think so I'm from San Antonio born and raised I went to the public school system I went to the local university I started in nonprofit based off of health and wellness for me my biggest concerns are education health environment candidates transportation as well as culture okay and culture is a part of the LGTQ community inclusivity it doesn't concern me what restroom you're using it doesn't concern me who you're sleeping with at night it doesn't concern me about what your specific preferences are or your sexual orientation is that does not concern me what does concern me is that everybody is protected and you're treated as a human and you're treated fairly and that's what I'm going to fight for I'm going to fight to make sure that every human being no matter what you believe in you have the opportunity to shop in the same stores you have the opportunity to use the restroom that you choose and you have the opportunity to be educated education the biggest thing is we have to protect the youth if we don't protect the youth then we're going to continue to have this stratification of the have and the have nots I would advocate for a United San Antonio school district health we have some of the highest obesity rates and overweight rates in the nation obesity and poverty are highly likely so we need to not only advocate for health and wellness we need to put in strategies that dissuade people from doing unhealthy lifestyle environment you know I do something called the Missouri Bash every year San Antonio is polluted our rivers are polluted I will not put a toe in the San Antonio river and we need to have a candidate who would advocate for that cannabis people should not be going to jail for a joint and then the last piece of course education health environment cannabis and transportation like Mr. Duraberg said we should not be gridlocking if we have lots of people coming to San Antonio we need to make sure that we have life around but for this group right here in Pacific I would like to have a pride center like they were talking about earlier or a civic center for the LGBTQ community and how are we going to make that happen let's not talk about it let's find money let's find funds for it if I have to go out there with bricks and mortar I will help y'all build that because you have to have a community center to build the community so my name is Stephen Lucky you can check out my website StephenLucky.com or my Facebook it's those things that I need thank you so much all of you to keep your responses to the questions to one minute and I will be I will be a little stronger I will be an extra than she was I promise not to felt anyone a pervert like she did but please credit keep your responses to one minute so from San Antonio Progressive Alliance Carol is here and Carol will be asking the question I'm going to be asked Hi Is everyone there? Ok so what methods on what you feel what is in place in order for us to look at your word around when you get into office or back in in a city council or what have you that we can trust you and sometimes even trust you because of voting records so Thank you for the question. So the question is ultimately why should you trust any of us? And it's a very good question I think the first thing you shouldn't do though is listen to a politician say trust me. Because we know how that usually turns out. What I should tell you to do is watch me. It doesn't mean we'll always agree, but it means when I say I'm going to do something, I will do it. That's why I put out a 30 page document that you can download at govron.com that has all of the initiatives that I intend to put in place. I did the same thing when I was running for district A and go back and look at it and we checked everything off. Because you deserve to know who you're elected. And the worst thing that we can do is have a bunch of politicians coming up here making wild promises and then breaking those promises because inevitably we excite new voters and if we break those promises you've lost that voter for life. It's not Watergate, it's not Russia, it's not Hitler's scandal that has created the lowest turnout that we've ever had. It's the fact that people have gotten used to not trusting the person that is on the stage when they get into office. So watch me and look at my record. Thank you very much. To guarantee what you're talking about, I want to have more open meetings, more accessible meetings. I know some of you did ask the business position and a lot more of the city council business is open to the public. I would press on that, especially the New York City manager. I'm not trying to integrate somebody that's holding an office, but I'm saying if we do not know what we do not know about what goes on with the city manager, we are at a great disadvantage. And so I am really alarmed I've been going to the city council many times. And I can tell you without the first amendment rights without your ability to advocate and be present, then you've lost your right. And I can't submit that with you for human rights and civil rights or gay rights or women's rights or children's rights or LGBT rights. And what happens is we advocate and give up the way and we allow our public officials to advocate secretly. An indicator of where your electoral fissure will go is where they get their money. There are two candidates in this race that are going to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars for special interest and for the Chamber of Commerce. Right now we know who those candidates are. And that matters because who are they going to listen to? We know those two candidates that are accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars already on what side they're going to fall. Because they have a record. When it came to picking between the people of the Mission Trailer Park and the developers, those two candidates voted with the developers. When it came to our park and Hemisphere Park or Zachary Corporation as a hotel, they voted for Zachary Corporation as their hotel. When it came to our water and Mr. Ridge, they voted, well, not for environmentalists, they voted for Mr. Ridge. When it came to our environment and when it had to do something simple as plastic bags, instead of voting for the environment, they voted for Walmart Stamps. So we have two candidates in this race that have a record and they continue to take money from special interest and they're going to at the end of the day, think to you beautifully, but at the end of the day vote with a special interest, a lobbyist, that Chamber of Commerce and developers here at the City of San Antonio, that they always have. Everybody, here's one of them. Thank you, bro. The only way to hold this accountable is when you become elected office. It's already happened. That's when they have terminements, right? They used to be extended to four years and they're shortened. And they're called elections. Your vote is what keeps us in office or keeps us out. And we do not keep our promises. I'm saying, I'm not doing it myself because I'm learning. I've been learning now a few times. Because I figured out that I'm one of the founders that says I'm just going to be coming up in time. I want to recognize that because I started out at the fields. I wanted to be in the field. So for the first 15 years of my life, I was a micro worker. So I wanted to do something for somebody that doesn't, something for my family and for us if I could be directed. Now, I'm learning now because you have to be on the inside in order to be able to change things. I've protested for like 30 years now from Washington to Austin to Mexico here and the best way that I've figured out now is get on the inside. Get on the inside. You really want to do something for the people. You have to be on the inside. You can keep like Mr. Nero says, watch me. Like, not just watch me. If I don't do what you want, vote me out. Well, like Mr. Medina has been saying, most politicians are smooth talkers. So they're going to tell you what you want to hear. And just like Mr. Diaz said, there's elections. Elections for a reason. In two years, I don't do what I'm going to say I'm going to do. Don't vote for me. So what I will say is that the priority for me is to create a pride civic center. Once again, we have to create a community around this. And in this pride civic center, essentially what I would like to have are psychologists like Dr. Velazquez are counseling, are having workshops to help people through their journey of sexual orientation. And so the biggest piece, again, is about communities and galvanizing for community. The mayor, we have a weak mayoral system. Do y'all know who really controls the city? What's your name? So she controls the city. So you have a weak mayoral system. The mayor is the speaker, is the voice for the people. And I will speak for you. I will represent you. I am from the city. I understand you. I have friends across the sexual orientation scale. For me, you are a person and I'm going to represent you. And if I don't, like you said, vote us out. Oh, by the way, I'm not one of the two people that Mr. Medina said. I've not been voting. You're not having an old public voting record. So we say psychology has behavior, predicts future behavior. So my past behavior has been a promise to every single of my core students that I will continue to work with you throughout your career and just let me know when you need my help. So they'll say, hey, Dr. Beacon, you're writing a letter. Yes, but please remind me that you've done that. And I believe them when they say you said you would do this for me. So I make a promise that I will forget them. I am human, but you're recording them. But it is part of my heart and my life to serve you. You ask me, you know better than I do about your issues. I will listen to you and I promise you I will help you in whatever capacity I can. If I can, it's because someone gets in the way, but I'll still find them. Thank you. So the plan for the question of the evening is blood clears. Are we on one minute? Not a political one. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Analyzation that detrimental effects will benefit both sex and women. The city is one of the top cities with queer folks, immigrant and working class individuals, and where easily a traffic violation or use in a bathroom can be a reportable effect. So if I understand the question correct, it's about the criminalization of the LGBT community. Is that correct? No. A document. You said what? A documented or un-documented. Well, once again, we at the city level of the municipality aren't in charge of the entire state, and it's our Texas legislature that is governing our state, as well as the federal level. But what we can do, like Mr. Michael Wentine spoke about earlier, we can create our own ordinances for our municipality. And so it's about taking what our constituents want, and if it's about the bathroom bill or if it's about undocumented immigrants, then we can create ordinances or advocate for them. Once again, I'm a speaker of the people. And the mayor has the biggest soapbox. The mayor represents 1.5 million constituents. So it's up to me as the mayor to galvanize our constituents and then to advocate at the state and the federal level. So for me, the biggest part is about creating a soapbox for San Antonio, essentially to advocate to the higher levels to create legislation that is going to affect all of us. Sanctuary. Our first person at Dono to be a sanctuary city has been said, we write our own ordinances so we can go against the state bill. Get our lawyers up there. The bill rights and constitution is not just for citizens. It's for all of you. Once you're here, you have rights. And what's going on right now, like you're hearing that it's a nation of laws. It's a nation of laws when you choose it to be. When you want to violate somebody's right, human rights, it's no longer a nation of laws. It's a nation of laws when you want to use it to the laws against the people but not to the protection of the people. So I'm very strongly to be advocating for San Antonio to be a sanctuary city. And these misdemeanor crimes would not get you reported, would not get you incarcerated because of your immigration status. That is wrong. Thank you. Thank you. Last year, we had a presidential candidate that insulted every single one of us. Whether you were a woman, disabled, and of course his favorite targets were Hispanic and immigrant. What did this council, what did this mayor say? Nothing. What he did was insulting every single one of us. This mayor and this council said nothing. Now this candidate is president of the United States. As he's implementing his policies and surely, as mayor of the city of San Antonio, we have to find common ground. When he talks about creating jobs, let's do it. When he talks about a bestiary project, let's do it. When he talks about protecting the American worker, let's do it. At the same time, we've got to demand respect. Respect for our natural resources and our Edwards aquifer. Respect for our community policing policies that they build, the ways they're profiling, stop and frisk, and show me your pay for that. Thank you. Excellent question. So I'm going to head to the first amendment to religion. This is a sanctuary nation. Do you understand? Do you understand, do you understand Governor Abbott and whatever your name is, Governor Patrick? This is a sanctuary nation. We will stand up with our first amendments, with our faith, with our right to do it. I'm on the interfaith Welcome Coalition. I work with the legal organization Refugee and Immigration Center for Education, but, you know, getting a standoff with Donald Trump and saying, okay, we're going to go to, you know, we're going to turn this into an indigenous city where we're in lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit. I'm not going to do that. We don't have to do that. We're already exercising our first amendment rights to reach out to immigrants and undocumented people and refugees, and if Donald Trump comes after us, we will fight back. But right now, we need you to just do something. Just stand up for those that just can't stand up for themselves. Thank you. First, I think it's very important that we don't, thank you for the question, that we don't confuse strength with the met volume of your voice. I think we have to use every available tool that we have to fight bad legislation, which is why you need the strength of the city of San Antonio fighting SB4, SB6. And this is important. Pick your reason why to support why to oppose bad legislation whether it's economic or it's the impact of particular communities. The reason why we should fight SB4 and SB6 is not only will it make our community more dangerous, but they are targeting members of our transgender community. They are targeting immigrants. They are targeting people that we consider are the foundation of San Antonio. The best thing we can be doing is not raise our voices, but begin to build a culture of compassion so that we have every member of this community voting better people into office. The timing is really critical of state legislature in this session. As we speak, I'm afraid these laws will pass by the time we have the election. So we probably should come together and develop a contingency on how to respond and how to react in the event that this kind of thing happens. As mayor elect, I would start from that day May 7th, working with you to go to Austin and work with other cities perhaps who want to file a lawsuit to stop it to file an injunction, put it on hold until we get reasoned through this and develop a better system of immigration reform and overturn through the court system these bad, very minute moments. So we're going to ask the mayor candidates to stay up here for a couple of minutes, but we're going to do what we did with other candidates who couldn't be here at their allotted time is we're going to give three minutes to a city council person who's running for August and a district line where we're going to talk to their email so we're going to start with three minutes to the FWD community at least if they're very secure. Thank you Lauren and thank you for hosting tonight thank you for all you're doing and all the events that you attended at our city council district point copies we've had many copies, we've had many copies like this one right here in this very spot I've attended the Pride SA Bray actively supported the NDO I've gone up to Austin to steam against SB4 and SB6 I've got many, many events to try to help educate the community about all the great things that we're doing I'm currently working on getting an LGBTQ senior center for district one so we're currently working with Pride SA to find them we have a potential location and hopefully that can work out so I just want to say again we want to work together we want to continue the great work that was championed here in district one NDO was born in district one we want to continue that work and I'm very proud to be in your city council person I want to continue that work with compassion with thoughtfulness and with inclusivity very much I do have one quick question what do you do with me when you said you were working in a senior center I understand there's someone on the patio who has a question this will be our last question of the evening and I was asked to allow them to ask them questions hello someone to speak Lauren gentlemen come up front come up front what's being done now all promising students to get into college and funding what's being done now and what do you propose to do to help students get into college in the future what are you going to do to help bring money so in general the question is very proud what will you do and keep it on to me let's generalize this to a question that was asked earlier what are you going to do for LGBTQ youth to assist them not with homelessness because did you know in the 300 movie 30 page essay tomorrow you know how many times there were homeless appears zero so what are we going to do to help youth for the LGBTQ youth being kicked out of their homes what are we going to do a great world so LGBTQ youth can get educations without being arrived in schools in one minute part of my proposal is to expand mental health access to everyone there's not enough clinics where you can go in on a walk in basis so that if you are suddenly struggling homeless or a victim of crime there's somewhere to go it's much easier to get service and break an arm and get immediate care than it is if your heart is broken or you have been tormented and been a victim of crime so we have to carve out money in the budget because the state is not giving us the federal government is going to take away from us to provide mental health access care to all of our citizens I would lobby specifically on the educational level to reduce the risk on student loans or killing students and getting them for a lifetime and I would hope to increase the funding of state and federal fail grants and education grants to our system of public schools starting with possible consolidation so there's more equitable resources to provide for services at the school district level for identified needs such as working with the LGBTQ youth in our community in addition to that we need to listen better it's one of the reasons why I think the city should support the Pride Center is because we can work directly with the affected in addition to that we have to make sure that all of the Pride Center and other organizations like it are providing the right services so it's not just enough to have the risk of murder as Steven said we need to make sure that we have psychologists there we have counselors there we have all the resources that youth will need we have taken a first step with regard to the non-discrimination ordinance to make sure that it's an effective tool for the city to use we have a diversity of inclusion in office but we need to make sure that it's more than just an event center but in it actually reaching out in the community and identifying needs identifying populations that need service and better serving them directly from the city one question I mean we all need a little bit more money but we need to talk about anti-robin you know about that so we went out to the schools it's just a young man who wanted to talk about anti-robin in the schools and I'm going to say I've been to the Alamo community colleges and I'm thinking we've got to find a way to make sure that a lot of those forces you should be getting dual credit in other words when you get out of high school you should already have your associate degree as well because these young people can handle it and they can get dual credit in other financial problems but also let's get back to the mental health issues here you know this is a state this is a state let me just tell you that mission 22 what does that mean 22 veterans committing suicide every day in the year 2012 there were over 8000 veterans suicides folks we've got a serious problem we want to talk about mental health we'll talk about mental science we want to talk about this is a state that needs it and I will not give up on that thank you whether it's housing, whether it's health care whether it's education we need to stand up, speak up and fight back because frankly speaking with this administration progress is going to be challenged when it comes to don't ask don't tell it will be challenged when it comes to hate crimes legislation when it comes to federal services legislated by previous administration they will be challenged when it comes to executive orders don't learn the first that are going to be on the chopping block executive orders that allow us to visit state family members at hospitals legislation that's related to opening up a business getting health care when it comes to education all of these things are a chopping block we need to stand up, speak up and fight back therefore I'm ready to sign a pledge and I'm going to read it to you and I'm hoping the rest of the people on this table too over 200 mayors and councilmen across America have pledged to support the LGBT community unfortunately San Antonio is the largest city in the nation without a pledge of support for these human rights I hereby pledge that as mayor of San Antonio I will join mayors against LGBT discrimination signed by Manuel Medina on today's day I'm hoping that everyone else here on stage will do the same if the issue is funding there's a $450 million bond coming up before the ACCD now that's the taxation so we have something to say about it how that money is spent how it is used for the LGBT community you're right here we have to get involved that's the issue that's a $450 million bond that they want right now if they want it then they should include issues affecting the LGBT community shouldn't they we have to take it off so I see now the way that schools are funded here in Texas is very very weird those that have get more those that don't have don't get anything that's the way it's been done 3K4SA is a private program so some of these children are benefiting from it but not all so it needs to be more inclusive all these bonds that are passed need to include issues that we want to include that we want to include that we need to be more involved in these things Republican Democrats they're the same team party the team party wants to cut all these social services from both questions the first one is about education the second one is about helping LGBT youth so the first one about education the city manager Cheryl Spoli gets $400,000 for four incentives it costs about $1,000 and I've heard different numbers I've heard that the Alamo Community College has from 30,000 to 90,000 students that's between 30,000 to 90,000 dollars per semester so essentially let's take the high rate 90,000 a semester for free every student should be able to go the second piece it's about that pride center on an LGBTQ civic center if issues about homelessness and having the LGBT community have inclusivity we need to have some housing in that center so I think that we need to include that in the center and I think we need to take some money from Cheryl Spoli's salary from on scholarships for higher education so before we wrap up Ashley Smith we used to end up with Ashley and I are there any other volunteer voter registrars in the room? Carlos Jorge there's a bunch of us if you're not registered to vote do not leave here without registering with one of us please there's more over here so all of our voter registrars are here we're happy to register you the candidates are here they're happy to talk to you they're happy to to speak to you one-on-one after we're done thank you so thank you all for being here their jobs don't matter without us so let's thank them we're going to go with Martinez from we're a couple of closing remarks and I just want to say one last time all the candidates in the room we're all going to be using your facilities your public accommodations regardless of what happens in Austin