 Hello, my name is Carolyn Antons. I have not a date yet to come in. My grandkids lived in several parts of the city, including just up the street here to your San Francisco Jose. You've watched it live on Lake, where we would traditionally walk them all the time if they were on. And I got here as soon as I could, 45 years ago. And I've lived in several parts of the city, mainly the north-central part. But my concern is for the people of the whole city. And everyone here has spoken very well to that, but I won't underline it. I happen to live out in the far northwest. As I was driving here, I just remember Gillette, Gillette. I used to work at the original Woodville on the far south end of Pleasanton Road and travel quite a distance. It was quite a ways to come from New York, USA tonight. And I went, I rejoined to the side of Green Hill, nearest to me, a hardware group. Last week, it was already over by, well, after seven. So, yeah, and not very well marked. I know divided in half, and the new portions there, but there it was nothing to mark. Weirded that I went to both parts, you know, and I got a rich bond. Nothing to have marked it much less. But, you know, as I was sitting here, reflecting on the process again, I lived not far from where the park was, on Blanco, where it was being doubled in width at the time, in fact, my partner's face due to guards from where the deck cameras and all the family was carrying on at seven in the morning, fair to widen it. And at that time, the meetings were so well. Plans were starting to be made for Parker Park. And there were meetings held with the Jewish community center open for quite some time, early in the process. And there were, it was well publicized, there was a lot of input. And that process went on. I went on Nature Walks before, the different parts of the park, you can manifest and you can realize now. And before it really became what we named as Parker Park, a little bit more, please. So besides the fact that the meetings were held and publicized and are important to the process, one of the things that I remember reading in Express News was how that would become kind of a counterpart for other parts of the city, a parking lot park. I'm so glad that we have it because among other things, it's unique. And so many of the parks in our city are like this one outside. I'm glad this one is here. They're pretty pre-less, okay? And as someone spoke some time ago, that's something that we pray in this city is shade, okay? To be building sign on another earth so much we need them, but without shade, I could count livability, okay? And a phrase that came to me about the great long to refer to, okay? One of the prototypes of public park in our country is the great long concept, like the authentic park. We have a unique park and record and park in the unique city that is the head in Tonya. We've done the record thing of great longs besides not being appropriate for our climate before. Another part of that is the great long is seen as it is in chemistry, which I would redact that happens when you're back. I used to love to go to the chemistry between classes I taught at Inna. And I can't afford to go to chemistry for $10 for a question, so even for one person. Okay, so this is my chemistry part. But back to the livability part with that, if the idea of having great long as public space for entertainment or events and so forth, if that's part of the underlying purpose, I think they got something already included in the magic plan of doing some of the necessary restoration over at, I'm sorry, I don't know what to say, sunken gardens and we're so long, sunken gardens and the Japanese seed gardens just within total degradation, not even fine, I mean degradation until some citizens would undertake that on. And so that's where I like to see the emphasis go with parks and recreation is whether it's down where the river is putrid, just south or adjacent to River Road and it's its own putrid for lack of attention or long way sunken gardens, which passing views well in the past and can be again. And why would we need a brand of shadeless long then? And I certainly underlined the parts about accessibility, physical accessibility and community accessibility, both in words, stewardship, stewardship. So long after these improvements were made, they were cared for on a consistent basis, not just with that as how can we most efficiently do it and that this become an environment for all. That is my view points that this is the true range for all of us and not something that's kind of put aside as partially done or something that people for generations are much better. Thank you, Ms. Atkins. Tony, be on the way back. I've been at this city council district four, county precinct one. And I don't remember my school name, I think it's five. What to, I guess, think about is to be historically important, how critical it is for the life of our city, the life of our citizens to realize, of course, that we hold our lives to the inquiry board sisters because they make their life for our life. So the contribution of George Reckon makes a wise man that learned how to capitalize on that water hose and we're still paying for it. If we mess up, and I think we have, because we see the conflict that was between the River Neighborhood Association with a project on a field of bread, those citizens pay the price to voice their concern and their loss, a quarrel. Because there's always outsiders and I'm not against progress. I'm not the person that things should be because that's the way they've always been. There has to be some progress, but not at the depth of our interests, of our needs. We are not experienced and I think the big question remains is if it's being stayed over and over, who phones the park? And I think Mr. Reckon would say that the citizens of San Antonio only park. And I was wondering, is there a copy of his testimony, of his statement in giving us that land? Is there a number of honors that we can request? I was an educator for 30 years when I still am. And I remember one of the highlights of our year was who we could take the little ones to break each part. Not only to the zoo so they could be able to see, touch and smell and God's creation on the creatures, but also to the freedom, enjoying free and open space because we would go there. But also the valuable assets that are there, the Chinese garden, the contribution that they've given our society. The Oruitya, Oruitya State, do you realize how important it is for our children to know what contribution the Oruitya's made to our history? You know, they wonder, we knew how to read and write, we had scholars, we had people of greatness that came to build our city. And the Oruitya State is there, I think only a couple of breaks or so, but I'm probably not gonna be gone too. And again, the question is, why are we being treated like we are a group of people that need to be a colony of indigenous people? Somebody tells us, this is what we need, we know this is what we need, so you need to want it. Oh, by the way, you have to pay for it too. In the world, I think consider one of the 46% that never paid taxes, and heck, I've never met a single one yet that doesn't pay taxes. I haven't met a soul yet, that's even my dog does also who paid the tax. We need to be told, this is what we need, we know what we need, and this lands, we can look and pay for it over and over and over again. Look at the tax statement, I do pay taxes, I don't know 46% of the thing. But the final comment is, you know, these people that think they know what we want and what we need and what is best for us are very well, I know developers have an extreme power over elected officials and our system, and it's silly for us to deny that. And talking about the war, and look what happened to bare men in sauce, how many times a day do we not suffer the same things that bare men was accused of, sexual abuse, corruption, dirty water with a sword, and on and on, but the National Guard doesn't come and resolve the problem. And my last statement is, I will repeat what Donald Trump and Senator said, that system is great. Thank you. Tony Ianueva, followed by Alfonso de Leon. Good evening, my name is Tony Ianueva and I am a professor at Palo Alto College nearby and that's four minutes away. First of all, I want to thank Kate Constance for being here, I appreciate that. She's been here throughout the evening and that's been very good, that's been hectic. A lot of very good things that we've made. And you know, I'm holding classes this summer talking about the renovations, why ask my students? And you've been to the park and everybody's there. Sure, you've been there. I ask them, do you know about the renovations? What renovations? I bet if we have all the students, they're gonna say, they think, what renovations? I encourage them to be here. They have families and they have kids. It's gonna be a park for them to show. I mean, we should take it as a meeting to the college, another one in breakfast. They would really want me to put it everywhere. I don't think this represents everybody, I think one person represents a lot of people but there's a lot more than to be heard. You mentioned several times, park use will not change. I think that's a hypothetical. And it changes if you make it affect park use. So I need to clarify what you mean by park use will not change. I think it will change. I don't know that we've done any studies to say definitively that it will not change. I mean, we're gonna significantly change the, restrict the entrance, the number of entrances, of course, it cannot affect park use. Number three, my third point, what's wrong with multiple access points? I never thought that was a problem. Not an issue. I heard it was for common park entrance theme. And for rebranding. I'm not sure who came up with this idea that it needs to be rebranded. Most of us who lived here for many years knows that the park is there, it doesn't need rebranding, it is an icon how we know how to get there. Again, I mean who came up with it? And who came up with the five strategies? I'm not even serious because I'm reading each one and I'm thinking, well, when you teach you about your rational assumptions, who came up with the five strategies? Because they're all based on assumptions. And I'm not sure those assumptions are valid. We need to go back to the five strategies and see their even value. Increase visibility and pedestrian access. But where are the numbers that say we need to increase it? What is the flow of it? All the data, we have a citizen needs to have to be able to make good judgment. I mean, I think a few people have access to this, but we don't. So we just trust, we trust that these five strategies is what's needed. So really in the spirit of transparency, give us the information that you have to question these assumptions and make sure that they're valid. There's a statement, there will be no fees as said. I think you've heard this statement many times. Nothing is free. It won't be free. There won't be fees as said. They're just gonna come in the form of tax increases, municipal bonds, full paper, one way or the other. And we will. So there won't be fees, there just won't be immediate and we're all gonna pay for it. So my recommendation is, like everybody has been saying, and I hope we need to really listen to the strongest recommendations being made, I think. It was off on the wrong foot. This time it includes the people who used the park from the beginning. Not now, yeah. We got a 250, we got a nice plan. We should have included the people before the plan. You know, like, what do you think? Having surveys, asking the community, what do you think you can think before we begin to talk about it? Process has been mentioned a lot. Respect the process is what I have here. If you violate the process, you violate trust. Let's respect. Process, respect, trust and respect. Hello, Lillio. I'm the last one, Steve. I've been a bartender for 25 years at the higher-ups at the Downtown, which is a union hotel, and I'm a shop steward there. A proud shop steward. I just want to let you know that Brackenridge Park hasn't been lost yet. You haven't lost it yet. What I'm going to talk to you more briefly is that you're losing Hemisphere Park. It's not even a park anymore. I'm coming to Reno, who's leading the charge to put a hotel inside the park. I'm not even talking to people about it, because we're running a campaign against it. It's called Hands Off Our Park. So this is what I tell people. I said, have you heard what's happening at Hemisphere Park? Guess what people say. Just like with Brackenridge Park. I said, are you aware that the cities can use your taxpayer money to put a hotel inside that park? I don't know. So the city sort of found a loophole in the system to bypass an election, because usually in Texas, when a city wants to exchange land with a private company, there needs to be some kind of election. Well, that didn't happen. Luckily for you people who are strong community leaders of Brackenridge Park, you know, brought this to the people's attention. But Hemisphere Park is, once they put that hotel there, it's no longer a park. How can you say it's a park when you see a hotel inside it? You can't. It's not a park anymore. So, on August the 3rd, I believe, so we're gonna have a rally down in City Halls. We invite everyone to come. We have flyers. But I just wanna let you know that you haven't lost Brackenridge Park yet. But you're getting ready to lose Hemisphere Park. Thanks for coming to me. Thank you. So that concludes the portion of Citizens sign up to speak. Is there anybody that I missed? Or are you signing them? Yes, ma'am. Any other questions? Councilman Trevino is chair. We have District 6, Councilman Ray Lopez, District 7, Councilman Christina, District 2, Councilman Warwick. Did I miss them all? Did I get them all? Councilman Saldana, those. So once we provide the update, the answer is yes. Once that we provide the update, we will receive direction from them on how parks needs to proceed in next steps of this process. So again, the meeting's in August and it'll be by that point. Our project team will combine all the data that we've accumulated over the six meetings, comment cards, comments, emails, surveys, dots on boards, everything. The purpose of that meeting is to provide exactly the share with them what the strategies were. Here's the comments and public feedback on each and then receive direction at that time. But that's long version of yes. Did I miss them all? Yes. Right now it is, has it been set yet? 2 p.m. in the afternoon. Can you change to an evening? Okay, so Councilman Trevino's here, Councilman Saldana's here. We'll take back that feedback and evaluate how we can again make information available to the public and the Parks Department, the Parks Department is committed to doing additional public meetings and Council will be invited to attend to provide a report back the same information that the Neighborhoods and Ability Committee will receive in August. So we're basically, if you provide that information to them and then the public. And that the ability really requires having a woman's perspective as well on there and that is what happens. Were there any other citizens that I did not call by accident that wanted to speak on the Breckridge Park Master Plan? Okay, so that concludes the portion of the citizen's time to speak. I do wanna acknowledge Pearl D. Grooth. She is with a Senator Jose Menendez's office in District 26. So I'm gonna thank you for being here and his office being engaged through these meetings and they've been to other meetings as well. And I also wanna welcome up Councilor Salzania. If you wanted to offer some closing remarks to the group, please. I wanted to just say, stand up and say thank you to a few folks. Let me start by saying thank you to the city staff. I know that that creates some time into this that they wouldn't otherwise. And for that I wanna also thank the reason we're here which is the community members who asked me this. Welcome to Ramirez Park. This is actually my neighborhood park. I grew up down the street here. This is where I used to practice basketball when I was kind of 11 years old. We need Wi-Fi. And I'm not gonna let you see what this is. Salzania's gonna be working on Wi-Fi. So there's things that we still need to work on here. The issue is that this park is open to not just district four residents. So those people like me who live two minutes away from here, this is open to many folks because our parks don't take boundary lines and they don't ask where you're from and you live in the district. Which is the same case for back in the day. And I just wanna say that change happens very often in this city. The question is whether we're actually getting the input of people about that change and if we're leaving people behind when things are changing around them. Sometimes we just are spectators to something that pops up or something that surfaces, in this case, a plan about changing track and range. And I've said something before that I think is worth repeating and I have to actually ask myself whether I always believe it can be true. Because we've proven so many times in our city's history that sometimes it's not always true. Which is that it's not about the people of power, it's about the power of the people. Well, sometimes it is about the folks who are in positions of power who are making decisions without the input of the community. And I have no doubt that what would have happened is the city council would have gotten a plan. And sometimes whether we're making changes or not and we're leaving people out, sometimes it is intentional. There's been cases in this city's history that we know well where folks' opinions have been left out. And sometimes it happens unintentionally where folks truly want to see something happen. And nobody here in this room is opposed to improvements that rack in their department. But what they are opposed to is having those improvements made without a community voice and community input. And I'm glad to see that you all are here. I'm here to thank you all because democracy is not a spectator sport. It's a full contact sport. And we're getting people who are here who are actually involved in using your voice because I have no doubt about this that it do not raise this as an issue that we should be talking about rack and reach not just in one district but the entire city because I know how folks down in the south side can read rack and reach for a number of different pages not just on holidays. They care about this. And you've surfaced this level conversation that now we're getting more input because it would have been one direction. It would have been change happening to you and not change with you. And so I'm glad that we're at least having this conversation and I want to thank you all specific folks that I'm looking at. And I know how hard it may be sure that you get people here to talk about this because it's important that we get your input and this is not just change, the sake of change without your input because you've seen that happen too often in the city and I've seen that even happen in five days when we get on council. So I want to make sure that you are acknowledged and that you are getting credit for coming forward. And I want to thank Councilor Trevino because he was the first on some of those emails to say, hey, this is something we need to actually consider doing and bringing us to the community. He did not hesitate, he brought us all in and said, this is not just something that's in my district or around my district, we need to bring everybody around now because of that we're having a community meeting right here in my backyard and the folks from the south side, folks from the north side come to visit because these parks are for everyone and we all pay it into them so we all should have the voices of what they look like in the future. So nothing is set in stone, it has to come to the city council. There's nothing that's on this plan that needs to be on there, there's also nothing on this plan that might not find its way but we'll give them that without a wrinkly. We have a final say because at the end of the day, they need funding from the city council and they need to vote from the city council. So I carry your word, a lot of weight. And so I want to thank you all for coming out here tonight and that's still a comment I want to make and say thank you to the fact that I will be the first to sign up to the folks who are here as part of this community who's commissioned that task. Thank you guys for being here. Thank you so much for your time.