 How many years have you been in this? How many years have I been in this? I don't know the answers to that. You can give back to them. Thank you. So next up we have Richard Dach. So I was just informed as part of the group that we have coming up with more strategies and progress. So if you all want to go ahead and take the mic as a group. They're from district 10. They'll be speaking on the county's department group. After that group we'll have Silva Pintet and then David Greenwald. Make sure you get a phone in my phone. Can you hear me now? Okay. Great. Thank you. I want to point out that the county's department founded 1964 as a natural nature of the habitat and as you've learned we want to keep it that way as much as possible. I want to point out that out of the 976 acres there's 300 acres of least four fields of the museum like the old dam in the holding area. So that 976 acres is not all over the company. And we have visitors from all over the United States coming to this park and surrounding counties on a weekly basis. It is at capacity for use. We want to complete the projects from the 2012 bond fund. I want to point out that the last large amount of improvements that the council park had was in 2003 where we received $1.6 million. In 2007 we only had $100,000. This last time in 2012 we had $1 million and we only received a parking lot that has only 28 spaces and does have some improvements and then also renovation of a paved path. Those two projects look very much over budget and that's why we're very sharp on what we have. Pavilion 2 is a major pavilion where we have a lot of large events. We really need to have that renovated, have it larger, and then also a driveway for events so they can unload. This pavilion, I don't know exactly what it was created but probably in the late 70s or early 80s you can see the roof support system is literally deteriorating and also there are holes in the roof. It needs a total renovation, tear down and start over and if you could make it probably twice as large that would be very nice. And also a bicycle skills part. This is just one example of something that you could have and then this is something called a pump track as you can note from this. You see the tennis courts in the back it kind of gives you an idea of the footprint of this and also it's for different type bikes. I suspect something like this in an open area near the practice fields could possibly be on no more than two acres. To put that in perspective our current dog part is 1.5 acres. We're in desperate need of trail signs. At one time in 2003 there were approximately 45 signs on a marked 10-day course and a 5-day course. There are very few left. I doubt there's 5 left in the park. They were made of wood and just normal paint. They have deteriorated. People get lost on a regular daily basis there so this is an urgent matter. The dog part, you could extend the dog part into the trees leaving all the trees there take out some of the understory you can probably increase that by about a half acre and there's not very many shaped structures for the people and then for the animals. It is very very popular. Along the tree which is the road is closed off and it's just a forgotten area of the park. It's literally deteriorating minute by minute. It's like it really really needs to be renovated as soon as possible. It's a beautiful area. We had a lot of heritage oak trees. Some of the oak trees in there are 200 years old and so all of those need attention. We need to have the forest come out and look at all those and see what can be done. The picnic tables are long deteriorated and there's a very old restroom there. It needs to either be removed or replaced. It is working but because we don't have the area open it is just deteriorated. And you can see how this whole area is never mowed so it does need a lot of attention to be beautiful again. This is where we do have our near water crop so it is a sensitive area for wildlife so we have to be mindful of that when doing any maintenance there. Also the park only has seven water plants for all these huge, huge number of users. So this is in urgent matter also. We used to have quite a few more but over the years there were PVC pipes going to the water gun that's just deteriorated. So we would also like to see some filtered water stations in all the conveyances. Okay. Alright I will get that power point information to everyone to see also do a PDF and get that to go. Thank you. Thank you very much. And those parking in the meantime feel free to ride down Congress Street downtown. I have a scarf for you. So next up we have Sylvia Benitez, David Ramon, and Memo Campos. I believe they're speaking as a group. Sylvia is that correct you guys are speaking as a group? Yes. Okay thank you. They're from District 3 and we speak on via Coronado Park and after Sylvia we'll have Beck McNeil and then Shannon here. Hi, my name is Sonia, I live with District 3. I'm here to extend the debt with an offer. One debt will amount back to any minus from 2012. And two are interested for a skate park. They skate the way down the street or to our park. They skate on our sidewalks. I'll take the basketball court. Which they tell them not to get out of the basketball court you can't do that. So we ask them to stop and they apologize and ask for a point that we haven't skated by ourselves. So you're in. So on spring, our spring in summer is really hot throughout the rich weather in this flash park for our kids. We are going to have 14 first acres for the spring to be approved. Our gym is fun and you can know that's not our splash pad. And it needs to be patched up and also there's competitive sports in our gym. They come from all over the boys' room only has one bathroom. Please give you a number used to be able to have these third skate and splash parks. Remember they would see nothing in 2012 park. Any kids in our area, there's father, there's champion on the beach at the bottom. They offer the lights on our parks so they can have. We live in an area where crime is going down keeping these kids active and what they enjoy and will help our community to help these kids out. Thank you. They are the venue couples and I'm speaking on for a vehicle now. That would be cool. We did have that splash pad there. Because we do have a lot of agents there and it would be nice. Because we play basketball there. It's kind of how we play ball. Going to do some splash pad. That's cool. Hello, my name is David Hogan. I myself was a skater and it would really be a good benefit for us youth to have a skate park because we have to go out of our community to another skate park and it's very dangerous on the highway on the expressway and it really will be good for us to keep us out of trouble too. So I just wanted to say thank you all. I guess have a nice night. I'm going to be a member of the vehicle now. On the district five parks package. The combination of Benevious, Collins Garden and Kennedy and Baudelaire parks is 63 years combined. So next up we have Becca McNeil, district one. We should be speaking on what you are. And Becca will be Shanon Perry and then Mary Clark. And Becca is not in the house. Next up is Shanon Perry. Shanon will be speaking for him. Shanon Perry. Is that part of the group? So that is a group. District one. We group an idea with Will Raney, Ann Parosi, and Will Marcus Office. So if you are on that list. Thank you all again for spending another long evening with us. I know you are missing the World Series Game 7. I also wanted to think I've got a small group in the back with my, we have a board member and a couple of hemispheres staff members if you all could stand up and raise your hands. And we'll stay here all night to answer the questions that you may have. My name is Omar Gonzalez. I'm the director of real estate for Hemisphere. And I wanted to walk you through really the crux of my presentation today. It's going to be about leverage. So I'm just glad that you have a lot of questions asked about leverage. So just to give you a bit of an oversight again. There was a master plan for Hemisphere that was developed between 2009 and 2012 approved by city council in 2012. And it created a series of higher army of parks. The first park is Yonahquant Garden in our southwest zone. Yonahquant Garden opened in October 2015 and it measures 4.1 acres. Phase 2 is Civic Park. And that's the park that we're here to talk about today. Phase 3 that will be developed in a later time is Power Park. Civic Park is 90 years. Power Park is almost 6 acres. When we look through the bond guiding principles that matched up really well with our mission and actually we checked all the boxes we thought that was really important. And the other piece that's really important is that this truly is a citywide project. This is a heat map that's based on the visitors that we have today at Yonahquant Garden. We've experienced in our first year 500,000 visitors. 84% of them are from San Antonio. If you look at the heat map all city council districts have visited the park. You can see there's even some areas outside of the city council districts that have visited the park. So this truly is the place where San Antonio meets. And if you look at the opportunity we have going forward for a 9 acre park that's bordered by 5.5 acres of developable land. You see how immense and how incredible situated this site is. Given to the east is the convention center and the river block. To the west you have La Vita and then down south we'll actually connect to Yonahquant Garden. So it really forms a crucial entry point that actually you'll walk in the half to the north is Alamo Plaza. So really a great location. We talked about the cost before I wanted to highlight two things. One was that as a signature urban park we're actually half of the average cost of signature urban parks throughout the nation. And the second thing I want to point out is that this is the right size for San Antonio. So when you look at a park this side, this magnitude with this location to truly be transformative we need $59 million to build this park. The way we're approaching it is that the bond would create $21 million. So about a third of the park cost would come from the 2017 bond. Another third actually comes from us leveraging P3 revenues. So public-private partnership developer revenues we will leverage that to pay for a third. And then the other third we're looking at other funding sources. These include tax increment refinancing zone, a state reimbursement project and fill out to pay. So in total taking that $21 million we're looking at the leverage of nine times that money when you total what that private investment could really bring in addition to what the bond could bring. P3s is public-private partnerships. We see that as a deal that we're close to inking. It would be worth about $165 million. And it will include 385 residential units including workhorse housing. It includes an office, hotel, local retail restaurant and over 600 public-private spaces. One of the other points of leverage that we'd like to point out is having tenants, having local businesses actually located within the park. And what we've done successfully in phase one is we've brought Paladena San Antonio a husband and wife company to sell their frozen popsicles. We also have the Indigo's Makers Collective which is a pop-up shop that's currently selling handmade dresses and other retail apparel. And then coming soon we have a series of restaurants, Consapos Cocina and Bar, Commonwealth Coffee and Bakery and Dilly, Syria. We also have events and activations and that provides even more opportunities for local people to get involved. For instance, we have a mix of health and wellness opportunities. We have the gentlemen from Rotin, Protango speak last time. We have a lot of food opportunities, so food trucks like Box Street Social, vendors like Frank Hotdogs. And then we have a ton of art and culture so through our collaboration with Magic Theater and our other tenants like the Instituto Pucarral de Mexico or UNAM. Just in closing, I really wanted to encourage y'all to go there. We have our first Friday event this Friday and on Saturday we have the South Town Cinema. Thank you. Thank you very much. First I want to thank the committee for being here tonight. It's very important one and I appreciate y'all very much. My name is Larry Clark and I live and work in play in District 1 and I'm here at Merritt Park tonight. I've talked about a lot of the works that we need to talk about tonight. Parks are absolutely essential to quality of life downtown so we're just talking about a large park. I'm talking about a very small park on lower Broadway. We have one park, Merritt Park, that will serve now over 5,000 new residents in the next two years. It's in District 1, it's near the San Antonio Museum of Art. It's in the Broadway Cultural Coral and though we need a lot more parks in our city, this park needs some upgrades and really needs to better serve those future tenants of the residents that are coming in. We formed Friends of Merritt Park about 12 years ago and we decided to relocate our office downtown and recently we've developed natural plans and conceptual plans for the park that support this live work in play concept. We want to see those activities downtown. I've scratched through a million remarks that I had here but I'm just going to cut to the chase and say that we have strobe, financial commitments for local property owners, for private funds to substantially increase the budgeted amounts for this. We'd like to have you consider increasing the amount from Merritt Park to $250,000. This would provide us with a shovel ready project that's going to be implemented in the medium living in a long passage by the end of the interest of taking us a little more time. I want to thank all of you for all of your good work on this committee and to help contribute to the health of our city. Thank you. Next up we have Fred Gonzalez who will be speaking on normal park District 5 and Fred as part of the group. We'll have Joe Coward as part of the group and then Roberto. My name is Bill Altman. I'm president of the San Antonio Senior Softball League. I'm speaking in favor of the normal park softball complex in District 5. Just to give you a little information about senior softball, it happens to be the largest, fastest growing sport of choice for seniors nationwide. There's about 1.5 million seniors now that are playing senior softball. There are 40 different cities that sponsor senior softball tournaments. I just came back from Las Vegas and we had the World Championships there. There were 560 teams 10,000 players and families attended. There were 4 different countries including China, Japan, Hawaii which is not a country. And the United States and Canada were all represented. So it's a huge sport nationwide. Now locally we also have the largest senior softball league in the country. It's called the San Antonio Senior Softball League, SASSL We have over 700 seniors playing female and male playing every week at normal 9 months out of the year. We expect within the next 2 years to 5 years we'll have over 1,000 seniors playing senior softball. I notice a lot of people here are old. You can go back. What we're proposing is right now we're playing senior softball at Normal Park which happens to be located in District 5. Seniors come from every single one of these districts to play in our league. They also come from every single surrounding town to play in our league. As I said we have over 700 active participants right now. We were entered into a contract in 2009 to utilize the normal facility. At that time there were 2 fields that were not acceptable fields for any kind of sport. We put money into it when the parks department cooperated. We made 2 of these fields 2 on the left. Our proposal is to take Normal and make it into a class A first class facility by adding 2 more fields. The field over next to the 2 fields on the left is already a youth softball field. It's not very good condition. We're going to propose to completely renovate that. The field further over is going to be a new field, a fourth field, which will be a combined senior softball and soccer field. We don't intend to use it for senior softball. Most of the time except for tournaments, that will be primarily used for the youth to do your soccer. So that's our proposal. The shocker is that we were allocated $650,000 to do this project. We brought in two very prestigious firms Bartlett Partners, which is an architectural firm and Bartlett Koch, which is a big construction company. They put together a 22 page plan which you see the plan up there. The plan we figure is going to cost about $3 million to complete. As I said, we were only authorized $650,000, so we're asking this committee because we are a city project and when we draw from all over we're asking this to up our allocation to $3 million so we can complete the project. I'll show you a couple of the architectural renderings. This is the entrance to the park and the next one is an architectural rendering of what the park will look like. It will be a first-class facility. Something San Antonio could be very proud of. One of the projects in the plan is to renovate a restroom. We have a very poor restroom, which is, well I can't explain it. There is a restaurant in this, I'll be replaced. Thank you very much. We're at the park, but not necessarily for that scope. What we've added to the unfunded list, you'll see that no more senior softball, the $2,000 consideration. Just to clarify, what's on the accepted project list, to see here. Right, it's for the part of the general and every reward we need to see what that's going to be raised and what's not specifically for the senior someone. Okay, alright, thank you. Thank you Mike. Next up we have Joe Calvert from District 1 who will be speaking right from his park as a group. After Joe, we'll have Roberto on the auto and then Lewis Hall's over. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Thank you many for all the work that you do. My name is Joe Calvert and I have the honor of serving as president of the Brackridge Park Conservancy. This is a dedicated group of people who are committed to the park and it is our mission to be advocates for and stewards of Brackridge Park. However, even though Brackridge Park is a well-loved park, we are in danger as a community of failing to be good stewards of one of the most historically significant municipal parks in the country. Our good friend Charles Bernbach who is CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, DC has said that Brackridge Park is the most significant municipal park in the country. Think about that. The most significant, the most significant park in the country. That's an amazing asset for San Antonio to have and we need to make sure that that asset is well cared for. The condition of the river channel walls and historic structures that have been mentioned before by some of the other folks who got up to speak is not only an aesthetic issue but is increasingly becoming a safety concern. As you can see, this is not under construction. These are just holding up the walls. They are literally falling down. These are historic walls from the Depression era and if those walls go it's going to be a problem. Those big trees that line the back there may come down with them. So this is really a serious issue. Fortunately, the city staff recognized and stabilized this infrastructure and allocated $7.75 million for the bond. Although a complete renewal and restoration of the park is going to take decades of committed and focused work and could cost up to $200 million. However, we must address this immediately and the further maintenance can no longer be ignored. Skip on through a few of these. This building here in the background is the old pub house number one and this is from Lambert Beach picture probably from the 1940s. The big white thing is a movie screen that they used to show the movies on. And of course this is the low water crossing. My wife told me before I came down here that she was driving through the park today that she drove through the low water crossing. Anyone who grew up here remembers driving through it, opening the door and seeing the water pass as she drove through that. So, the bond money will make possible the restoration of these channel walls, the restoration interpretation of the 1776 Spanish Colonial of the Bordam in Ezequia, which is part of the oldest water works municipal water works in the country excuse me, at the oldest water delivery system. And the stabilization of house number one. These are some of the pictures of the 1776 of LeBord, Ezequia. I'm sure you all recognize these areas of commitment to the park. And this is part of Wilderness Trails. Again, a picture, great picture of house number one. So, I'm going to turn this now over to one of our board members. Kim Walsh, who's going to talk about Mary Flores, which is next to the other LeBord. I'm also on the Japanese tour of the Friends of the Park. And I strongly urge you to support Full Bending of the Braggridge Park. My favorite memory of the Braggridge Park was my oldest daughter's birthday, Arjun Jasky Pavilion, 16 years ago on a cold and drizzly December day. We had a warren fire in the fireplace and we had coffee and tamales for the parents and we sugared up the kids and nobody wanted to leave because it's a magical place. We all have great memories of Braggridge Park. I've spent 10 years working at Restoring Parks of the Idupoitas, which is a very unknown and very underused portion of the Braggridge Park. We call it a niche park, much like the Japanese Tea Guards, is a niche park within the Braggridge Park. All extremely significant to San Antonio's cultural heritage. So again, I urge you to commit Full Bending of the Braggridge Park. Thank you. I'm Lynn Bobbin and I'm Executive Director Oh, dear. There's been some uncertainty. One other comment, we are here to also support the parking garage that somebody brought up a little earlier because once you get to the park you do need to park there and this is on the side by the zoo. So please consider the Full Bending of the Braggridge Park in the garage. Thank you. So we have Roberto Aguilaro, District 3, speaking on the Phase 2 Lines of the A-Maximum Limb. After Roberto, we'll have Elaine Ortiz, our group, and then Rachel Barretti. My name is Boroban Campbell, District 3, and I'm thinking this is part of the Department of T.A. So a lot of time I was sitting at the happening and I mentioned that we were able to secure about what we do out on and we were able to work with the YMCA and we secure another $2.5 million and we have a $5 million put together and we proceeded to fill Phase 1. And that's what we're talking about. Phase 1 is under construction right now and it should be completed April next year and we're also now we need to do Phase 2 of a swing pool and a play area and we were here and we asked for a $4.5 million to complete that project so we'd like to address and to consider that this will be the first ever YMCA building in Southside. Full service YMCA and the location I don't know if you're all familiar with the mission driving site in the yard that's what we're talking about that site is one and a half mile away we've got about nine neighborhoods nine neighborhoods some of those neighborhoods already reaching essentially their old neighborhoods and we need to keep sustainability in the area besides the old neighborhoods we have in the area we have five low income projects directly across the street from the proposal and so we're asking to help us complete this project we need to help if you don't know the health issues in the Southside we've heard a lot of stuff about health concerns and what have you and the other day I was picking up an old from the Southside express and he says that Bear County I did a great time to run and tell him also that 71% of the residents are overweight Mr. Agua if we can get those materials from you that would be good I've got to control sir I said if we can get those materials from you for the committee members and I'm sorry I'm late at times right now okay anyway I'm going to ask to support us and help us complete our project in the Southside so phase two of the YMCA that's going to be part of the initial staffer conditions so we're going to be part of the main like where will YMCA be this is the YMCA that's now in construction now in the commission site and phase two this would be a YMCA the only members from YMCA the YMCA has a lot of programs let's save that discussion for another committee time so next up we have the Elaine Ortiz District 3 should be speaking on five diamonds and Elaine is part of the group after Elaine will have Rachel and then Gail Sider good evening everyone I'm Elaine Ortiz I'm a member of the Five Diamonds Little League Board of Directors of District 3's Stinson Park for the health and safety of the 1800 children who play there we are asking for paid parking and five diamonds to be included on the 2017 bomb program and we were pleasantly surprised to learn that we have been moved by staff recommended projects over the course of the 60 years the Five Diamonds has been on the south side we have maintained the program in some form or fashion there we now offer baseball and softball programs to boys and girls ages 3 to 16 Five Diamonds is not just a place for Little League we have supported our community the way a partner can we host kinetic kids who play a spring and fall season for the past five years however there is no ADA parking we are home field for St. James School for Ivy Ideas South and Brooks Academy when Harleville High School built their branding baseball field Five Diamonds lent their field to the JV for practice when youth football teams in our area make playoffs and have no practice field with lights we lend the outfield for their practices we do this all for free because we strongly believe in partnering with our community we make improvements when and where we can between the daily maintenance chores we add academies on all fields we replace those floorboards on all fields through vigilant donation seeking we have been able to obtain big and small items for Five Diamonds among other things we have obtained pinking tables that were being thrown away food and pretzel warmers when Verizon and the theater was closing we have obtained artificial turf for batting cages pitching mounts and batters boxes when a football field was replacing their turf we have gotten planter boxes and when we partnered with Kaboom for a one day build of the playground we purchased a field groomer from a company that was going out of business we have gotten plant donations from Sam's wholesale club we have purchased aluminum bleachers from the yes to commission we have sought and received donations of bleachers from the local school district we have even gotten railroad ties from Union Pacific Railroad we have gotten donations of miscellaneous and discontinued items from academies, sports and outdoors donations of we have got a donation of actual storage contents from a company we relocated and left it behind and of course we have received donations from Toyota Motor Manufacturing over the course of the past six years because we were unable to fund a big ticket item like paid parking we were asking for the bond committee's help we know that a $1 million project cannot be built on the backs of our blue colored hardworking parents we would be very grateful for any dedication of money to our paid parking project we are asking for paid parking for the health of the children who pay at 5 diamonds instance of car the dirt and dust picked up by the vehicle aggravates allergies, asthma and other respiratory problems we are also asking for paid parking for the safety of the children who play at 5 diamonds instance of car and the other users of the playground with no designated parking space adults can park every which way making parking difficult and the children are crisscrossing between vehicles to get to their fields although and I did send electronically a parking plan that we had put together in 2012 nothing has changed specific to paid parking except maybe the $1 million project price tag we are asking the committee to commit to any portion of the paid parking project for the 2017 bond program thank you this is part 5 5 diamond parking lot it's not part of the initial staff recommendations I want to make sure I clarify this list this list everybody gets on this list but basically it's all about a project that gets on this list it's not necessarily a recommendations list it's just a list of those unfunded projects that are currently being used to consider thank you Mike next up we have Rachel Grim district 10 she'll be speaking on this part after Rachel and Gail and then Theresa thank you all very much for your time I won't make a mistake in the market about mentioning a little serious I'm currently back on Yannick Gordon Gardens celebrated its first anniversary last month we joined over 500,000 party visitors and thank you for your kind donation to the Conservancy your generosity and thoughtfulness and the hemisphere has become a place for San Antonio meets you are making magic happy in our city I recently received this card and mail after I made my annual donation to the hemisphere what I love most is that every donation no matter how big or how small receives a handwritten note from the executive director and not to mention a place on the dinner board adjacent to the climbing structures over 500,000 party visitors in its first year that's amazing and what's even more amazing is that it's only the first phase of what is going to be a world class city park our city park but it's going to take more than a small donation that I can manage every year the bond allocation is needed to help build the hemisphere and the city have Hemisphere is truly a public-private partnership in every sense without the bond money and philanthropy the vision is based too will not be achieved I cannot wait to see what the number of the visitors will be for phase two and with the help and the allocation of city bond the numbers will skyrocket as former mayor Bill Hartberger said tonight you don't finish a world class park three-fourths of the way through please help him as much as you can thank you very much is this Wartham Houston ISD joint partnership after Dale we've increased the volume and then a group represented by my name is Gail Siller and I'm superintendent of Fort Sam Houston independent school district working with ACOG we are asking the city of San Antonio to provide support for a new limited access road running from Redmond Road across John Janice Park to Wynons Road Wynons right here on the installation this is Redmond and this will be prepared now there's only one road allowing access to school district facilities we're seriously concerned about the safety of our children our students and staff in an emergency requiring evacuation such as a trailer element of the 35 upon age 35 if Wynons Road was blocked by traffic or other reasons then they would not not only would these students our district employees be in danger and we have the students in the district but depending upon the time in May of the week over 1200 occupants of Wynons are here many of them are working for years still receiving treatment and sensing would be seriously impacted and all the other organizations including the armory the two armories would be impacted because everything has to go through the Wynons gate Wynons is out we sincerely hope that the $2 million cost of this project could be shared between this community and possibly the Road Community Street thank you very much Gail this one being a public street in a park this is more suitable for the streets community next up we have Theresa and she'll be speaking on Mission R.T. Fine C.A. from District 3 after Theresa will have William Evans which is a she'll be part of the group and then Fernando Cagall good evening District 3, Theresa White is President of Mission South of St. Andrews Association our association is requesting that the parks, recreation and open spaces are $4.5 million in sports play fields as part of the plans for Base 2 in the White M.C.A one master plan at the Mission Drive-In in 2012 Bond funded Base 1 with $2.5 million we want the city to finish the investment they began in 2012 we also want to point out that this project fulfills the goals of SA Tomorrow for neighborhood supporting community health and wellness on another note I would like to know why each of the five Bond categories have public art monies earmarked public art projects should be funded by the hotel tax funds the $8,494,000 should be used for projects under the five Bond categories in fact, you can use that for funding Base 2 of the Mission Marquee YMCA thank you for your time Evans, district 6 and her and three will be speaking on and if you can come up to her correctly made in your park will be Fernando Figueroa and then Amber Garza my name is Lydia Evans and can you hear me okay? Mara I'm coming brother's name I grew up in a neighborhood and it's around areas apartment complexes and many other residents retired military families young children lots of teenagers our park is not yet on the list not yet but we are really hopeful first of all in our neighborhood association if I said I'm your president our classman in district 6 Ray Lopez and his staff remember he was about the possibility of a park for 30 years I lived in this area I'm from San Antonio born here we do not have a park that young people old people, retired people can walk to my second point here is there is an abandoned county side off England Road at the corner of Bay and Joeville street it is a few acres on the green area near the Leon Creek trailhead near the Ingram Mall which most of you know where that is there is a via bus transit center nearby if we could get this property for a park it would be ideal since it is near our neighborhood and thousands of other residents in that neighborhood right now we're seeing some deterioration some teenagers who are very little to do my son and my daughter love to ride bikes and so do a lot of other teenagers we could get a park there and a path down to the trails it would be wonderful keep them busy our area is losing green space very quickly developers want to build many I mean many more apartments and buildings so before all the green space in our area is gone it is vital to acquire land for a park a green space before it turns into a small bridge so please committee please consider putting this potential new park back on the bond project it would mean a lot to us and to many other people around town young and old and believe me we will use it to full capacity there are thousands in our area in nearby areas so thank you so much for your time and if there's any questions I'm ready to take them no questions well thank you for your time this is not part of the vision staff recommendations but it does show up in district 6 on the unfunded list for hypermedia's homeless association new park next up we have let me speak a little bit about the land bridge after Fernando will have Amber Barza and then we'll leave 10 I would like to speak on behalf of the Philharborger park we're addressing the land bridge good evening ladies and gentlemen I just want to tell you the address of the land bridge is an iconic project for the city of San Antonio putting our city in the main building and other ecological systems for our region this land bridge will connect the Philharborger to our park bridge the land bridge will feature skywalk trails for exercising hiking and nature watching it will also allow continuation for the popular Salado Creek Trail this unique project will feature large streets and natural habitats for local wildlife and the promotion of our ecosystem it's also one of the few projects that will have public funding committed to the project exploit we know the city staff supports the project and with the help of the parks and bonds committee we can have this amazing project in the back for next year we'll take the opportunity to take this tremendous project and put it in front of the city of San Antonio to do something fantastic thanks for your time thank you very much so it requires three people for a group I don't think everyone who spoke here as a group had a person I can confirm that what you have in the meeting but right now I can't I'm sorry, you're signed up as one person and yeah sorry okay, so good evening my name is, oh wait first I included information about the square park and you should have a sheet in your packet put your back sheet for something similar so my name is Amber Garza and I'm here tonight to raise an issue for discussion and possible action it's past year meetings we've heard from many citizens talking about parts that are important to their community and why parts they care about because they're funding from this bond program or have even suggested new parts be built the fact that there are limited amount of bond dollars in a separate project no matter how great it may be yet that doesn't seem to be true right from the square park I'll kind of skip the part about the hemisphere park being managed by H park which is a non-government a local I'm sorry, non-government corporation created by the city of San Antonio so for the 2017 bond program H park is recommended to receive $21 million in funding no other park project even comes close to that amount for all the money Hemisphere is recommended to receive I'm really surprised about the lack of discussion about it $20 million is a lot for any project not to mention the five that is also included in the streets parts and bridges for streets inside Hemisphere park in 2007 Hemisphere park received $2 million for park improvements in the 2012 bond program Hemisphere park received $15 million for park improvements and another $15 million for streets in Hemisphere park thank you Ms. Garza thank you next up is we'll be speaking on Dawson Park and Martin Luther King Plaza after William will be Richard McKinney and then Noah Almanza district 7 we'll be speaking on Crystal Hills Park my name is Richard McKinney I'm the president of the Retreating from Hills Association and my empathy goes out to the Piper's Beto people who want to park in that area down I think the committee if you look at this a leveraged project you can also get more money for your budget and service to communities that want to park the land that we do have it is at Pink Room in 410 and since we only got a minute and a half I'm going to do the slides pretty quick there are community coalitions that are gathering signatures for the committee to leverage our voice this is some of the things we can get as a leverage of $20,000 donation from the city of Leon Valley we also want to reduce the LED lighting costs to the park we can do 4 LED lights to the cost of 1 city light at $10,000 we're also going to make a land donation at the entrance of the Greenway Trades this is this is the proposed option B that was voted on by residents in 2008 this is the site of the lot donation this is an ideal spot for an anchor park at 410 Pink Room like the Piper's Beto People said it's a very underserved park down for parks one last thing I want to say that 96% of the money for parks of District 7 is for existing parks only 4% for new parks we can get a little more share of the pie thank you Mr. Mayor yeah there you go Crystal Hills Park is part of the Stafford Foundation thank you Mike so William Harper we've had to step out of the room for a second so William is back with us and William Harper is in District 2 he'll be sitting on Dawson Park in L.A. Plaza partly the King Plaza my name is William Harper I'm here to speak with two projects Dawson Park Dawson Park was built in the late 1980s and in 1929 it was named episode limber who was an aviator who died on the prime birthday the first black aviator who was named Dawson was named the Dawson Park by the 1960s around 1968 before the change right now we're asking about $750,000 for all kind of renovations all has been at no major no major work done this time that something has been done to it so that this black legacy can be done now the second part is the lighting wall space even if the renovated the second project is the modern King Plaza it extends from a long stretch to a long street main part of the statue is most of the work is done but the landscape all around is kept up for most of the time where it's $650,000 for renovations remember the modern King is the largest parade in San Antonio the largest parade in the world that's another black legacy we need to keep on the matter we've added those to the underfunded list that Dawson Park and the modern King Plaza so the plan is now right in the center of the modern King Park it's at the top it's at the intersection but it comes scored again so they're on 5-1 thank you all for being here my name is Noel Almanza I'm the president of the San Antonio Parks Foundation I don't have a lot of time I didn't even start my own clock an effort of not being booed by my comrades over here I will just skip to the point and say for a modern group the people whether it's celebrating our spurs I think that drives what San Antonio truly means to those around the country and around the world our parks are a big part of that therefore the San Antonio Parks Foundation we really are advocating for and behind the projects and the enhancements as recommended by the city staff that's all projects because they've gone through a lot of work and they've been at these projects for good reason namely speaking though I'd say Breckenridge Park in the zoo park which is a huge tremendous deal from the city of San Antonio Harberger Park and finishing that project Emmysburg Park Maggard Dog Park which is part of the Dog Park McAllister Park and Locke would have made me what he did and I do want to highlight the fact that they were not included on the leverage resources information she knows passed out in a memo and I think they've done a tremendous job utilizing volunteers almost $300,000 or over leveraged funds already and this is a group of volunteers that have come together a lot of public engagement in that project so as you all consider please keep them in your thoughts. Thank you Thank you very much This is for two I'll be speaking on Hay Street Bridge and Whitman's Olden Park after Barry will be Murray Fisher Mr. Gillard I'm apologizing for confusion to concede my time to her and get she needed it and it's the first time that I've been acting as Eddie's wingman and she hasn't eaten more time so I'm here first to talk about Pippin's Olden Park I'm a resident of the Denver Heights District too we have had a problem there for years which is the flooding of center field the baseball league was easy where children who used that park football soccer as well as baseball got muddy knees for weeks after a rainfall at least muddy for at least the first week we had a lake there it becomes a swamp after the second year or so so we have additions to the recreational problem, the public health problem there because it brings mosquitoes we have neighbors who have talked about mosquito viruses, Zika other things related to that I'm hoping that the $550,000 that Mr. Cruiseby has referred to can be loaded some of it's designating lighting but there is a need for drainage culverts and some re-engineering of center field to re-park don't have to talk to me secondhand but pastry bridge needs public support public space and we would like to see the city at least develop parking their unknown space around the bridge thank you Mr. Huston the park area is not park the staff recommendations that we used to meet we give you up on this new list of unfunded projects that we solved in the parking project thank you Mike next up is Mary Fisher she'll be speaking regarding Brackenridge Park conservative team Mary you're in the house and you all know this now they named it off one day so you have time to make a baseball game that is all our citizens here for the night we'll talk about that I'm going to take a quick watch on some of the committee remember that we have two meetings after this I'm going to go with Juana Grace and then and then Richard so for the districts in general the district park packages is it possible for us to get a list of what they're going to do to get it to each park this is kind of a project the reason we put these together is that typically there are smaller parks so they're in fairly close proximity to each other and then we get once the voters approve it we get with the community and design firm and we just have a discussion on what are the elements of our each park so for that reason we don't say it's going to be this much of a park it's much more efficient and cost effective could you send us the acreage on each of these parks places because they're eye-catching sure we have that and then we can try to get on the ones that start one meeting together but the way you might respond if you break those out and then Juana will break out Richard Richard, did you have a question? are you good? not I almost forgot that was good to ask you is it possible for us to get additional literature or material with regard to some of the percentages that went up to date other than what we have do you want to get it from my side? my that's not working don't worry don't worry I was just asking is it possible for us to get some of the percentages that went up to 90 because we're probably moving the tables can I consider trying to make an email? I think that's possible with the videos and all that you need to link to those videos maybe we're already set in the phone I thought that was too that's a sign there's three people on it I think you can't that would be great um Jesus that's it we still need a couple minutes we have two committee meetings after this we have plenty of time in between that we still have communications so thank you everyone for your participation our next meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 14th at 6pm