 Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our second to be heard session, time is 6.03 PM. Thank you all very much for coming out. I see a lot of the neighborhoods represented. Welcome to the neighborhood today. I hear a great big applause for you. Now, we have lots of neighborhoods tried. That's wonderful. And so we have said, if several citizens sign up to speak this evening, individuals will have three minutes and groups will have an allocation of the nine minutes. And so I'll start by recognizing the first person signed up to speak. I will recognize also the next person line. So we'll start with Grace Rosales, followed by a group speaking on behalf of neighborhoods as Belma, Pena, Cynthia Spielman, and Colleen Brighamson. As a nation, scheduled for your consideration tomorrow. Because of tomorrow. It is agenda item Z7. Microphone. No. So it concerns a zoning change request for an HLV, scheduled for tomorrow to vote. It is agenda item Z number. The Celtic home is 1622 West Research. It's district one. I live at 1623 West Research. It's there 25 years. Myself and neighbors, I've got a lot of forms there, especially requests of that request. Prior to the zoning commission board meeting, which is approved to cast it on, I had been in contact with the case manager, Michael Pettiglian, since then. I've been in contact with district one's zoning and planning director, Seidel Brooks. I researched OHP's statement of significance and discovered numerous instances of agronious and inaccurate and misleading information that leads to wonder what actually is behind all this request for HLV. And submitted my findings to Mr. Brooks, who later informed me that corrections would be made and these corrections would be in the materials that would be forwarded to the city. But though that is not what was passed by the zoning commission, of more importance and long range of concern is the privileged use of number three and the criteria for the evaluation. The subject house, the home of former senate on your mayor are in white. I looked up that footnote, footnote 10, the only footnote they used to testify to this being mayor, San Antonio Light of October 21, 1954, page 2, is what they used. It's an interview with the mayor, his wife, his interest in his cars, his liking in senior drives, on and on. Makes you wonder, though, why didn't they use page 1 of the headline, All Caps? And I'll read it. White senior, third mayor of 1954, replaces son on council. San Antonio's third mayor, 1954, are in white senior. Third, they took the oath of office of minutes after being named a city councilman to replace his son. His son, R. M. White, Jr., resigned rather than to face a recall election. And so then senior is appointed councilman to replace that bank to see the son's big six then. And minutes later, as the first paragraph states, minutes later, he is appointed mayor for six months. Do you have an intro? Does that mean I'm done? Thank you very much, Ms. Rosales. We have a group now that's here, one neighborhood coalition in Belmont, Kenya, sent his fieldmen following my expense. And the group will be followed by, and has a re-proven for this case. Good evening. We have council members and mayor. Before my remarks, I would first like to just take a moment and give our condolences to the family and the San Antonio firemen of what the CHS is here. My name is Belmont, Kenya, from District 5. Today, neighborhoods throughout the city welcome you to the new council year. What we share is that we believe that people who live in San Antonio neighborhoods should have a voice in the decisions made about our neighborhoods and communities. We have a right to make and warn choices as we face the challenges of the future. We are here to remind you that we are your constituents, we are your voters. Tier 1 neighborhood coalition and neighborhoods coalitions and allies across the city stand together. We advocate for common sense and compatible development of our neighborhoods that includes respect and includes the respect of the local community, of the local existing community. Appreciate those of you who chose to stay and listen to your constituents. I know that we have a number of seats including a couple from the north side. So thank you. Thanks to each of you for caring about your community to engage in public service. Certainly, it isn't the same. My name is Colleen Wrayspack. I'm first president of Northside Neighborhood for Organized Development. You may ask yourselves, what is the representative from Northside who is standing here next to residents from the Air Force in San Antonio? This isn't about whether the neighborhood is on the west side or the north side or the center or the suburbs. Our neighborhoods each have unique challenges and opportunities. However, we hear a common commitment to protecting the integrity of our neighborhoods. In January of this year, the city council took steps to increase governmental transparency and accountability. The city has made progress towards this goal with expansion of SHB Cup initiative and taking city council sessions on road. However, the important that city leaders are listening, not just checking boxes, but X number of public meetings were held. Too often, residents still feel that decisions are made before all public input has been obtained. So as you said, listening to center input at council each week or during the public meeting, we ask that you listen with an open mind. We know your job is difficult and that you often have to make decisions which benefit one group to the expense of the other. And you can never think off. However, as you listen to citizen input, you might just hear that one hit in frame which will lead to a greater understanding of or solution to an issue. Our neighborhoods, regardless of their age or location, embody the history, culture, and character of San Antonio. San Antonio is not Houston, Boston, Chicago, or Seattle. While we need to examine best practices from other communities, it is important that we find solutions that work for our community. Every decision that council makes affects our lives, our communities, and our quality of life. As we plan for the growth of our city, we will all have to adapt to accommodate that growth. However, it is important that we maintain the rich diversity and heritage that makes San Antonio San Antonio. Today, we are here to remind our city leaders that as our city prepares for this coming growth, the voices of those who call San Antonio home today is still mad. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And as the rate room includes this, Tim Barr. 85, 26. 20 represents the difference in life expectancy by Zip Code here in San Antonio. 85 is $85,000. That's the difference, and that's the income inequality between our wealthiest neighborhood in Shabana Park and our neighborhood with the PUS resources, financial resources on the east side. 26 is percentage point difference in adults, white adults and Latinx adults in terms of having a high school diploma here in San Antonio. These disparities are not new. You're familiar with them. But the reason I point them out is because they require planning. They require policy and they require good leadership. They won't fix themselves. They require the kind of leadership that you showed recently in passing the paid sick time ordinance. Thank you. They require the kind of leadership that you've shown in tackling affordable housing and they require the kind of leadership that I hope you will demonstrate tomorrow as you pass the climate action adaptation plan. The thing I want to point out about that though is that tomorrow is not championship day. There will be no trophies passed out, not even any participation medals because the real work is still ahead of us. Tomorrow kicks off the beginning of the implementation process, hopefully, if it is passed. When more of your leadership will be required because these are long-term challenges that require long-term thinking and vision and they require your vision and they require your courage, most of all. Courage because we know that CPS Energy needs more democracy. To continue to think that we can burn coal for another 40 years is not acceptable. Courage because we know that equity has been included in the plan but needs to really truly be at the heart of the plan. It requires a shift in power and decision-making. It requires us to think not only about the benefits but who is burdened and to make sure there is equity there. This kind of courage does not necessarily build your donor base but I don't think that's why you've gotten into politics to begin with. So tomorrow and in the days and months and years to come, I encourage you, ask you, beg you to be courageous in your leadership to ensure that all residents of our city can reach their full potential regardless of their race, regardless of their neighborhood, regardless of their income or education level by passing the cap. See you guys, thank you, Lisa, peace. Mr. Mayor, Councilor, thank you so much for the opportunity to speak with you. My name is Pete Beller and what Tim said I will follow up with on the other half. He spoke well in terms of his requests to Council on the need for the passing of the Climate Action Adaptation Plan. I'm on the side of the Climate Action Adaptation Plan that says we appreciate it, we want to support it, we know that it needs to be passed and we'll be pushing to make sure that it's as stringent and as forward-thinking as it needs to be. So I would also say that we consider tomorrow to be the shot, the starting shot that begins with race to see that Climate Action Plan needs to be achieved the way it needs to be achieved. So you can look to us as your faithful allies in the process of making the Climate Action Plan the reality that must be presented to you soon. Thank you very much. Beller, Annalisa, peace. All the best, great, come on. This is all the two of you, speaking for Annalisa, peace. I'm sorry, what's your name, man? You have to be present. You don't have to be signed up to order to speak. Is it possible? You have to be signed up in order to speak. Is Annalisa here? No, she's not here. Are you signed up? No, I do not. Okay, of course, you won't be able to speak. Greg Harman, Mr. Harman, you'll be followed by Julianne Klein. I just want to say, working to cultivate the belief that all of us in here are here in common concern working for our cities of all, our communities, our families. But I also find that that conviction of strain, deeply strained when I see the use of bad data, unjustified economic forecast, falsehoods, whisper campaigns, and the cruelty of willful ignorance, find and sign and settle for over 100 years by the San Antonio Chamber, Valero Energy, Manufacturers Association, and sadly, Councilman Perry, who's not here to be here, and we've all read his editorial this morning, making use of all of that, as well as some of our county leaders. These place profits over people, profits that are already jeopardized to be swept away in our own failure to prepare if we don't pass the climate plan. The correct start of this conversation is not in the dollars category. It's within a confession that we are in a period of global climate crisis, that even if our emissions stop today, San Antonio is in store for 200 or more years of rising temperatures, stronger storms, and deeper floods. And that these are things that if we refuse to act on, if we continue to delay or deny, is to agree that these extreme hazards are worth the security of an imagined economic future, future of growth. And the saddest thing that I've seen through this whole process these last two years is to see council members from some of our poorest districts to come to accept the logics, these false logics of the oil and gas lobby who have never placed the well-being, concern for poor folks in our city over their bottom lines, and we can ask the families in Manchester about that in the shadow of the Valero refinery. The lesson of San Antonio's history, we know that these from the flood of 21 forward is that the most vulnerable in our city always pay the greatest price and will again now if we fail to act. The reality is, if you look at it more deeply for those who are, have some uncertainty, this is an equity document that holds that those who are most at risk will receive the greatest investment. The net failing to recognize that simple facts to tell your constituents that they need to be holding more fake sales, that when their grandparents are hospitalized and heat stroke or their homes are washed away, they'll need to turn to Kickstarter rather than the city of San Antonio for a hope of recovery. To deny the needs of our most vulnerable for the toxic rhetoric of the most powerful is the ultimate betrayal of your office. And again, I wish Perry were here to hear this today. I hope others who may be on the fence will take this to heart. But we will remember that these turns against the most vulnerable and beyond the shadow of climate doubt, we will center this conversation and develop the storms for those who may be at risk. Do we have a plan? All of that is going to go through. In and here on behalf of the zoning case in 2018 107-0019 which has to do with the ultimate revitalization of that life road. Right now on the working side, we have a disproportionate amount of multi-family housing. And I find it really sad that in Camelotland right now, unfortunately our president of our neighborhood association said and told, it's sad that most Camelotland neighborhood association, sorry, just president, choose to avoid the issues of our area. And the problem with this is it doesn't identify. So I have started petitioning this in the past few days and so far everyone I have spoken to has not heard about this. So I feel something that needs to be corrected in our neighborhood. And the reason that I'm opposing this is that again, we have a disproportionate amount of multi-family housing but our neighbor's plan actually states due to the number of businesses and they get lots substantial amount of multi-family housing. Community wishes to focus on more diverse development and balance the uses in the area. So I respectfully request that this zoning be denied in the hopes that we will continue with revitalization of the Northeast side and Walls and Road. And I'd like to thank the council woman for spending the hearing for tomorrow. One more approval. It's a approval to be followed by Antonio Diaz. For this country entered World War II, it entered a battle for the survival. It's too old up for this battle in a matter of months. Haughty after made anti-aircraft guns, Cadillac turned out light tanks. All over America we mobilized for war. We need to do that again in the face of climate change. I applaud our city leaders for being on the brink of passing a climate action and adaptation plan but I caution that the cap is only an outline. It's only as good as our mobilization effort will be. One of the key players in our plan, city public service, CPS, which used to be a visionary utility has turned timid. If it were Cadillac in World War II, it would still be building cars, not tanks. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that the world has 10 years to cut its CO2 emissions by 45% on the way to carbon neutrality by 25%. San Antonio is committed to that goal but CPS in its flex path plan contemplates burning coal and gas possibly into the year 2060. That's no path to carbon neutrality. Many cities and states have far more ambitious plans. California has committed to generating 60% of its energy from renewables by 2030 and 100% by 2045. Austin plans to have 65% renewables by 2027. And renewables are cost-competitive and respected power evaluation companies said in a recent report, replacing the coal plants with a portfolio of non-emitting resources would likely save money for CPS renewables. Our coal and gas plants produce 48% of San Antonio's emissions. Shut them down and we need our goal of reducing emissions by 45% by 2030. And there's a boat to close in the coal plants, our helms, particulates from burning coal contribute substantially to cases of asthma, heart problems and pulmonary problems. Especially Emily Young and the old and the poor. Let's put simply coal pills. If we shut down our coal plants, we improve our economy. Unlike Cadillac or Pontiac companies that switched overnight to making tanks and anti-aircraft guns, CPS already knows how to make pollution free. CPS now needs to mobilize for a more visionary plan to stop burning coal in the gas. Just like World War II, it's a matter of our support. Thank you so much, Antonio Diaz. Mr. Diaz, are you here? Okay, I think Gianna Ariegas, I'm also here. Okay, we're gonna move to a group, the Southwest Workers Union. That's Alice, the Mysterio Garcia. And I'm called Garcia and Isabella's a bit. They'll be followed by Roseville. And I just wanted to start off by letting you all know that we let a campaign to collect petitions. I just wanted to give a little bit of a report back. Comments of hours off, walking, and going back to the district, all of the 10 districts. We've collected 2,041 signatures. And we'll be done, we'll be done by the district. We've got 24 for district one. 512, which is just to 63, 513, 34. 465, about 228, district 6, 8124, district 9, 11 and district 10, 10. And I just want to remind you to handle that all of the people have registered to vote. And I will pass the roll to you with Alice. I'm following up a little bit on that district, 2.6 regarding the cold killings. This is for the residents. We know that our mother, the plan that we're going to find no matter what, pass the climate action and adaptation plan. Passing cap is a step forward in the process to lessen respiratory illness, as the climate action and adaptation plan. The plan will also reduce the number of people who die prematurely every year here in South America, 52 a year, because of our poor air quality. So let's pass the climate action and adaptation. This message is intended to inspire those who might need to register to vote yet. You may have heard this very authentic allusion on those that risk from the cold and the air, which leads to asthma and even lung cavities. So let's pass the climate action and adaptation plan. It will improve the quality of life and create and stop human extinction. So let's pass the climate action and adaptation plan. My name is Elizabeth Aguilera, and currently I'm five months pregnant. As I grow this baby inside of me, I question whether San Antonio is a healthy and safe space for my baby to grow in. I recognize this comes with privilege to be able to even think of moving away from position. It's not something everyone can, and it's not something anyone should be forced to do. But let's not only think about babies and children, what about our elders, adults, youth, the water, plants, and animals in San Antonio? I also ask you to think about those folks that have been here for thousands of years, that were Native American, the Native American community of San Antonio. How will your votes tomorrow honor their health? How will your votes tomorrow honor the health of all of the families in San Antonio? How will your votes honor your own family's health here in San Antonio? How will your votes honor the earth? What kind of legacy will you leave? One that prioritizes money, businesses, and extractive companies, or one that honors life, earth, and community? Rose Hill, Ms. Hill, you can follow by Antonio Diaz. I'm going to, there's three minutes that I can speak and then the other person will be able to have the case. Okay, Ms. Hill, you're signed up individually, your reference group, who is that? Yes. Sure, yeah. What's your name? Ms. Devno, okay. And is there someone else sometimes? Laura? All right, Ms. Ho, Ms. Devno, your senior time to, Ms. Hill, okay. Ms. Hill, you'll have nine minutes, that's at the time. Yeah, I'm going to have three minutes. Okay, so all of you will have nine minutes, and then the group will be followed by a group. Today, I'm standing for you, the Beach of Breasts around the table, a group that consists of 20, 90 groups in District 2. The group came together when we got, when, in January 2019, we felt that many of our communities had so much in common, regardless of our issues. It started over a cup of coffee, and then grew and grew. The presence came up with a plan on how to resolve some of the issues that we face in the day-to-day basis in our community. We created a form that was able to help each of them by each member of the association and put it in a book to make it simplified for our District 2 staff and our councillors. The golden book would give to the new elected councilman, Jada Sullivan, our staff. At this point, our neighborhood's RCE accountability and action. She committed to meet with the presidents every month, and she and her staff kept their word. That tells us a lot as presidents, that we never have had that in District 2. These meetings are hosted by the presidents. They are called meetings, and I don't know the public for the quality reasons. We have only had limited time to address issues and concerns, and right now we're taking a basic step. The councilwoman on September 4th, 2019, at our presence meeting, she and her staff did their homework and gave us a detailed update on that book we gave her. I feel to mention that I know we're taken. So here are the councillors from this group. We put a plan in place, and it worked. Second, we are organizing registered neighborhoods to come that have gone dormant. Hart Village is the first one to maintain a line. And today I would like to announce real quickly, Hart Village, where is the time? East Village, Camelot 1, Sunrise, Willshaw, Woodwood, Meckley Park, Jefferson, Mike's, Krueger, Salado Creek, Deverman Hill, and Eastwood Village. Thank you for all coming together to meet our district leaders. And Eastwood Village. District 2, we have actually talked about zoning. We've talked about the neighborhood stacking. When I use the term stacking, I'm talking about the overpopulation of some areas in the neighborhood. We've also talked about the population and what we would actually like to do in zoning is to ensure that when we talk about zoning, that we actually have something that's beneficial to the community, not just to an individual that wants to buy into zoning, and then they talk about the number of jobs that you get, but then they reduce those jobs in zoning. I also like to talk about sunrise. Sunrise neighborhood has changed over the last two years. With the help of city officials, with the help of police, with the help of Ms. Jena and a number of officials, sunrise is not on any longer considered sunrise. That is one name that is stuck with sunrise based upon the number of people that came from different areas in 93 to 95. When they closed down, a number of those other areas, Victoria Courts, almost, disenfranchised areas, when they closed them down and brought them into sunrise, they were supposed to actually be dispersed over the city. And they saw opportunity to bring them into one area. So for the last two, three years of sunrise, we have actually gotten rid of a number of people. A lot of things have made the term gun ride go away and become sunrise. With the help of city officials that said earlier, the neighborhoods have changed. Our neighborhoods have changed. They've become a better and prosperous neighborhood. We have the intention to still try to make it better based upon what we have. So I stand, we, the situations that come into sunrise, just speaking for based upon D2, I'm proud of being a member of D2 and actually forming D2 and helping forming D2 with Ms. Rosen to make D2 District 2 a better place to live. So for my time, thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Okay, Antonio Diaz, followed by Deanna Frears. Y'all gonna be together, okay? Yes, okay, go on, six minutes. Good to see all these people. I'm here on this people's day, going to another group of demonstrations for the old renovation. It's not a good deal as far as our constitutional rights, freedom of speech, freedom of petition or government, those things are being impacted by these renovations. We've seen, by the GOO, a certain vision in front of the, it used to be the Plaza of Public Area, very limited to the one hand to petition our local government now because of the GOO. Now it's actually under follow-up of the GOO today. So I couldn't really give the answers to my questions as far as the loss of First Amendment rights. I will continue to pursue that issue. It seems to be the only option for us because as I explained to the one gentleman I spoke to the most time is that Texas pursuing the policies of extermination of Native Americans when it was in the public, continued with those policies when it became state under the United States. And so there's no change. None of us will recognize Native Americans. The Mexicans are finding sort of people but not the indigenous. We cannot protect very much. We cannot speak out at places where there were our ancestral gathering places for thousands of years. Now we're restricted by government that does not recognize us or Native. So there's these, these topics, this dialogue has to expand within this government state. Our state means it still pursues that eliminate the way I see it. We have to equate us to a national or a state entity that's been given to us and won't accept us as we were prior to colonization and occupation. That's one subject matter that I will be pursuing. And the other is I'm very grateful that we finally have this surprise me pleasantly with the way that she's directed. It's a long time in coming, I think, once along the road. And I think right now it's to see, to see this as needed. This we do right now still is facing these challenges because in shortcomings as far as development and economically, we want to take to center and this conversation. And I don't think it needs that. It needs employment, but not that. I pushed when I was running for district two for more employment at Fort Sack for more employment opportunities to that road and to other opportunities when we start thinking of my mind right away goes to a concentration camp. Pretty sure those people in Germany had employment to those avenues who didn't want to have employment. And I'm hoping that that is also the case with the residents that the employment in district two is that they would rather be employed doing something else. Gainfully employed doing something else. Yes, as I drove down here, I see a lot of development. Some of the guidance is employers over here will start employing the residents located within district two. There's much talent, as I always said when I ran in district two and there's no need to seek outside employees, prioritize hiring within the district before you go elsewhere. Thank you very much. Ross, welcome. So I'll have you be followed by Otis and Hans. Welcome to the State's Neighborhood Association. I'm really just here to congratulate you on some of the issues. I'd like to congratulate you all on the election or election in the case of maybe. And I would like to review that about a year ago I came to Fort New Citizens to be heard with some of my neighbors from the state to ask for help passing the Neighborhood Planning Protection Ordinance. That really hasn't gone very far. I was happy to let everybody win the reelection but I deeply appreciate the consideration of that now. Through the Council of Consideration request. The band is not here so long. It's just I'm in the Council meeting for a video. I'm sure I'll end up tormenting you for as I apologize that I think it's a good cause. Welcome to the State's Better Neighborhood in the building since we ran in Excellency in the 74th because we've been outside the Lucius 46th. One thing that I really haven't noticed is with the planning department in my estimation pushing for density fairly low in sleep, the burden is falling on the older neighborhoods. This is partly because they probably want density closer to the central room than the fort, but it's also because most neighborhoods developed since 1970 are primarily gated and they all have very powerful restrictive components so that they really can't be invaded with density or as the others have to see. So we would appreciate consideration of that ordinance and I'd like to thank Mr. Sanchez, who has been instrumental in, I'll say, keeping the neighborhood of things alive pending the activity planning department but we really would like that to be addressed. Thank you very much. Thank you Mr. Lawyer. Otis Thompson, followed by a group of the Historic West Side Resident Association that's Terry and Steele, and Elio Guerrero and LaPizia Sanchez. Good evening everyone. I'm Elio Otis Thompson, we are county precinct chairman 43rd and 6th representing the Dell press community on the east side. I must also say that I am a straight, carousel alpha male. My goal is to develop Martin Luther King Park as an international, world-pilgrimage, cultural and heritage tourist destination like reversing the MLK malls from Kitton Southern Park. We ended at the MLK Park at the Wheatley High Sports and Entertainment Stadium. The construction of Lake MLK is just as important. The 2005 Wheatley High MLK Park National Plan illustrates the construction of Lake MLK in the area located south of the right road at Salado Creek. The 22-acre lake will be supplied water by Salado Creek itself. Lake MLK is expected to be a focal point of the community for outdoor recreation. Funding is now available through the voter approved $80 million 2015 hotel venue sale. And with that, I ask your support to build Lake MLK. Thank you very much. At the request by the Resident Association, Tara Castillo, Natalie Guerrero, and Lisa Sanchez, they will be followed by Richard Garcia. Elected by her constituents, not multi-million dollar developers, nor was she elected to carry out her own personal business and political career to represent the best interests of our community, which entails personally meeting and engaging with constituents to learn about our needs and respect their needs. We ask for a clear, transparent, and accountable process as well as the seat at the table with the discussion of development in our neighborhood and not just to have a check off the box, but to integrate our concerns in the broader discussion and policymaking process. Additionally, in the face of the prioritization of multi-decade volumes, tax abatement for developers, we urge you to prioritize property tax relief for the vulnerable homeowners so all tenants can have an affordable place to live. Because the neighboring developers without policy protections or plans for the working class in court is pouring gasoline on San Antonio's already growing homeless problem as well as our growing... pouring gasoline on San Antonio's growing homeless problem as well as our increase in poverty rates. We demand that the city of San Antonio host SAHA accountable for their unjust treatment of their tenants. The intentional lack of maintenance and focused lease funds on tenants are leading to a surge of evictions. We are also here to remind you that the proposed demolition of the Alessandro for the tree saw is an economic attack on San Antonio's already struggling residents and is an act of past warfare. Do you really just walk out? Wow! Go ahead. We urge you to join us in strategizing on how to keep Westside residents who want to stay in the Westside to do so affordably. We are also here to remind you that the city council, although you are elected to represent your own district, you also represent San Antonio as a whole. We strongly encourage that you not give rage to vote against other council members, especially when there is overwhelming constituent concern and opposition. Those surely continue to decline our invitation which meets every second too big of the month at 6 p.m. at the Guadalupe Parish Hall. Thank you, council, and we look forward to working together. Good to have you. Richard Garcia. Mr. Garcia. Okay. You'll have three minutes. You'll be followed by Mr. Garcia, who are you receiving your time for? Ms. Vega. I don't see you a little bit. I'm Mr. Sanchez. You can think about that as Mr. Garcia. Please. Good evening, council members, mayor, my name is Richard Garcia, president of the Memorial High-State Good Association. First of all, I want to just condolences to the all the first founder, Mr. Garza, talking first with him. Also, we just recently celebrated our national night out in October the 3rd. Recently, and I want to thank city manager, I know he was in and out of here, also chief back manager for taking time on your busy schedule to attend our meeting. Thank you very much. Also, I wanted to mention that the recent word that existed in the Memorial High-State is for three reasons. In three reasons, Tony, we advocate, advocate, advocate for a legal association. And so far, the councilman is in support of us. However, I think I want to mention to the councilman that this past month, we're having two diet trainers and they're both in the south side. I think we want this Quintana and we want to say Roosevelt, so it would be helpful if we had some in the west side coming up part, Roosevelt part. Please, if we can have some diets first in our area. The second one is that we contract in 5G for the next week. Again, Memorial Press, we would like to for you to attend our meeting, if you can possibly can. And also, just wanted to make sure you all know that we're proud members of the West Side Legal Association Foundation and also of tier one. And again, we will keep advocating and advocating for our daily lives in the best interest. Thank you very much and have a nice evening. Thank you. Judith is not here. Well, Judith is not signed up so she wouldn't be able to take time. If you want to take your time. We'll move on right now to James Devnell. Can you see if you're talking to Mr. Devnell? Okay. We have a group. My city is my home. That's Jennifer Acosta, Richard Acosta, and Glenda Honis. They'll be followed by Evelyn Farah. Richard Acosta, president of Mr. Dades Mikasa. My city is my home. In case you don't know who we are, my city is my home is a non-profit organization. Our mission is to educate, support homeowners and renters to increase their housing choices. We receive no city funding, space funding, or federal funding. One of our services is helping homeowners be able to afford to keep their homes by helping them protest their property taxes for free. This year we saved over $3 million in lower-value tax and help homeowners in every single one of their districts. Joining me here are some of our superhero realtors using their special abilities to help out their community. We are here trying to keep our neighborhoods together and not be taxed out of their homes. I wanted to share with you some data I collected for a separate project, so remember these numbers because you're going to be hearing them again soon. This information was gathered for public records, so it's city's record, city's data, not our data. Since 2012, San Antonio has invested over $90 million into luxury apartments, most if not all through tax abatements. Houston Street on board at the Riverwalk received $4 million as a pet spa, and I don't know why they needed our money for the $60 million project. I love visiting the Perl, but I'm not sure they really did our $8 million with our taxpayer funds. Please think about this when someone says that there's not enough money to give whole-set exemptions. Think about this when it's too expensive to help out the city homeowners. Though I point out these projects, I want to move on and say that we're not against developments, but I don't think that that has to mean that we are wanting our taxpayer funds to be used for luxury apartments, that some of them charge over $2,000 for one bedroom. Once more, not against developments, but against the city not thinking of homeowners when improving these large developments. After speaking to city planners, city staff and going to various presentations for large projects like the San Pedro Park Creek, the UTSA expansion, the opportunity for UZOMS, no work has been done to ensure the homeowners in the area has their homestead exemptions. As for homestead exemptions, there's a multi-four effort including sacred, Texas houses, interface San Antonio alliance, and much more. We have found that there's over 80,000 homeowners throughout San Antonio that do not apply for their homestead exemptions. These exemptions, they qualify for. This includes veterans and senior citizens that do not have these exemptions. We are now visiting the board of these exemption forums personally. This is an issue on every side of San Antonio. Through our mapping, it's throughout homestead exemptions that homeowners haven't applied for. It's perfect in the north side, the west side, south side, and so on. I've uh, I I'm sorry about that. This is an issue on every side of San Antonio. We, why not use just a small part of those millions of dollars to ensure that the homeowners in the areas of the new development have their exemptions. I recently asked this of the Saha Alizan Lofts Project. Have they reached out in some way to ensure the homeowners are protected from indirect increase of their property tax evaluations and ensuring that they have their homestead exemption? The Saha staff around the presentation said that that's up to the council member to do. Though that's probably not the best answer to give, it does make sense. Why doesn't each district of San Antonio, not anyone does, all districts in San Antonio, have a housing person and since this is their top priority, they can work towards the housing issues in that district and ensuring that they're reaching out to the homeowners of these large development project new areas and ensuring those homeowners have their homestead exemptions. We want to make sure that these people have safe neighborhood and it's affordable. Affordable to who you might ask. Affordable to the people that have lived in those areas before these multi-million dollar projects dropped in their area. As for these improvements projects go, I know it must be difficult for some to understand what are we all complaining about. Don't we all want new developments in our areas in these areas that haven't had any infrastructure investments in the decades or much longer than that, then the city approves a large project, a new road, a new park and then we come out and complain. The issues is not these developments. It's less about the developments but the lack of support to ensure the residents being asked for these basic improvements to be able to afford to enjoy these improvements and not be taxed out of their areas. Also, I want to mention the forgotten population. Mind you, when I speak of supporting neighborhoods I'm also including the 50% Antonio that are our neighbors, our teachers, our police officers, our veterans. They are part of your neighborhoods. They are also a part of neighborhoods. Remember that and ask how are you helping them. Currently if you're a renter living in a home in an area of town for five years or a decade they and their landlord gets no help with property taxes so a law-abiding ethical landlord with no choice but to raise their rents because their property taxes are lazy. Some people say renters don't pay property taxes I say they're correct and this is only true if they are renting a luxury apartment that the city gave a 15 year taxable to. In the future I hope that people think about this as support renters and neighborhoods. So please treat neighborhoods as you would treat luxury apartment developers. Thank you. Thank you, Brandon. This is Brandon. You can follow by Estaral Spears. To show concern that we have a new owner and we thought by the circle that they're here that you all could probably put together a kind of task force to look at other neighborhoods before we let the origin tear them down and participate in a labor-affiliated war. You all got a budget to deal of your inner structure and your neighborhood. But I don't think anybody coming to their neighborhoods to walk around and actually say, oh, maybe we can save this house. Maybe we can save this house. A little paint, a little, maybe, of some kind of boards that would fit the house and maybe the foundation. That would really work. Plus, it would be personal opportunities to either remain in that house or the city could turn around and say, oh, how does this work? We'll accommodate some of the businesses that we have and we can talk about it in the street. And just thinking about the government that's both housing, you are a very important building. Too many expensive apartment houses. People then come and get 10 dollars an hour. You know, they can't come out for a $1,500 or $2,000 a month if you're renting it. And I just think any really good job is going to depend on other than tourism. You can't make that one thing. Maybe you ought to do something about that. Think about a walking neighborhood for a while sometimes. And think about some of the housing that are there for shade that could be repaired. So, Mr. Peter, soon you'll be followed by Johnny Harris. Good evening, Mayor and your in-group and city council. I'd like to encourage you to pass the CAAP, which I think is very important to our future. I agree with people who've spoken before that CAAP does not look as strong as I would like it to be basing out of the card in our CPS. And I think that's something that we should address. I think looking back when we look back at this in the future, no matter what we do, it will not seem like we've done it now. So we should do as much as we possibly can. Well, let's go in brown. Let's go in brown and be followed by Patrick Longdell. Thank you for staying and listening. I live in Beacon Hill, which is a district one. And I write a column for our local neighborhood newsletter. And I recently turned my attention to services for the elderly and have run into a lot of frustrating things when I do that. We have only four adult senior centers, full service senior centers, which would be fine if there were transportation, but there is no transportation provided to these senior centers, which then shows up a lot of our senior population. And I do have a vested interest in this, obviously. But we used to have a model where families took care of their elders. And that model is breaking down. And I don't think we're looking enough at what we can do because of that. Then I turned to looking at the pre meals for seniors. And there is a list of the places where they're provided. But again, when I tried to call and get information, I couldn't get somebody on the phone. You just got voicemail all the time. I also tried to find out about transportation, and that was even harder to find about transportation that's provided for seniors, other than what VIA does for the disabled. And I found contradictory statements on the city's webpage. So that the city is contradicting itself on some of these issues. I think the thing, services are there. The problem is the information is not provided in a way that seniors will understand and have access to. If I try to do a web search, it's an eternal loop. One website points you to another website, which points you to another website, which points you back to the first website. And you don't even get any actual information. So I'm asking that you look at your senior policy and find out where you're not communicating with your districts. And finally, get that information to seniors when we have a difficult time with our modern forms. And I think that, thank you. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Appreciate the opportunity to our citizens be heard. It's nice to be able to come over here to the East Education Center for SA and see what a beautiful building it is and the taxpayer dollars at work. And it's great to have a happy fall. And hopefully we're gonna experience some cooler temperatures and as we have enjoyed a great summer and some opportunity to enjoy the summertime heat and even in the fall. I'm here to talk to you about the San Antonio Climate Action Outfitation Plan. My name is Patrick Bondo, on behalf of the San Antonio Family Association and hundreds of members and thousands of supporters that help educate the child life on the Climate Action Outfitation Plan. It will require San Antonio to go carbon neutral by the year 2050, as assuming wind and solar will become cost effective without backup power. The San Antonio cap requires all city vehicles, including via buses to become electric vehicles. They run great and efficiently on natural gas now. It might be a mistake to change them. The cap will also add tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of buying a new home. CPS Energy has already spent $100 million on solar panel rebates. What we're seeing here now is less about the environment and more about policy and not just policy, but policy overall for the reaching policy that will reach into wealth redistribution and control of citizens. In a natural climate assessment, I'm sorry you don't have an overhead projector to see it tonight, but there's a lot of misinformation out there that a heat wave has come upon us. And that statistics have shown since 1960, that's true, but if you go back to the 1900s, you'll see that we're in a lower heat index since actually the 1930s. Hidden data also shows that the amount of acreage burned in forest fires has decreased since before 1982. Statistics that people tend to show as climate activists tend to show as after 1982. Satellite indexes, by the way, we landed on the moon in 1969 when you were born and we've been measuring, United States has been measuring atmospheric and water activity since that time, since before that time, and missing satellite data that's not shown before 1980, shows that sea levels have actually decreased since before the time frame in which the climate activists tend to show in 1979. We're going to read to you some real quick. Satellite observations have been used to map sea ice that extends routinely since the 1970s. The American Native Joint Ice Center has produced weekly charts, which have been disguised, which have been digitized by the national oceanic and atmospheric association. Here's the key. Since 1976, the aerial extent of sea ice in the northern hemisphere is varied about a constant climate law school level. In 1972-1975, the sea ice extent was significantly less. I'm here to tell you that this climate action plan needs to be delayed and postponed to more scientific and sustainable. It needs to be done in time. Ratsman? Ratsman? Yeah, Brett, as far as that. Followed by Simon Pissarca. I'm in District 9, John Courage's district. And I took time to come out here tonight. So if you guys could just get off your phones on council. Hello. We elected you, most not all. But if we did take the time out to come out here, please show some respect. And pay attention to what we're saying. We elected the citizens of San Antonio. You have a responsibility to listen and to take to heart professionally, personally, what we are saying. I am born and raised in San Antonio and serve on the board of the Supreme Oaks Rumors Association, and I work full-time. My name is concerned that I'm not in favor of climate change. I'll make that perfectly clear. I wish that we had taken this to vote for the citizens of San Antonio. I would like to see some ordinances passed, which would be growing concern that we have on Panhandley all over the city. We have a growing number of issues with trash on our frontage roads, our highways, and in our neighborhoods. We've got a growing issue of homeless people. There isn't a place you can go to in San Antonio at any intersection and have four or five people come at you in your car. They're coming at you from the right side, the left side, they're crossing in front of us, and it is becoming dangerous. So I believe that it's time that we step up and I want to challenge you to start working together to come up with something that's going to benefit our city. We have a lot of people moving to the state, a lot of people moving to the city. We don't see the crews anymore out there picking up trash. Tech stop is nowhere to be found. And we've got mattresses and trash, we want to talk about climate change, but yet we let all this stuff get our drainage system and we let it sit on our properties, our highways, 35 or 10, everywhere. There's mattresses, bottles, plastic, you name it. You can see it anywhere. And what's more concerning than the largy is that we've got this growing issue of hand handling and the homeless people. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Sparza. Simone Sparza followed by Maylene and Tuba. And Ms. Sparza, Maylene and Tuba. I think that then concludes our citizens to be heard. Thank you everybody for coming.