 Our agenda is our candidate. No campaign materials like signs, or buttons, or t-shirts, or a lab. We conduct ourselves with respect and dignity, and we'll refrain from doing. If we are not in agreement with something we hear, silence is the best response. Si necesitan traducción en español, tendremos aparatos disponibles para su uso. Hable con un miembro de equipo de piso, si necesitan ayuda. The bathrooms are in the front area by the door you came in. Please, set your cell phones on silent or turn them off. Everyone here should have an agenda and get out the vote card. Does everyone have both? Look for a party if you do not. We need approval of the meeting agenda. Cops Medru, ¿estás en favor de la agenda de hoy? Y ahora me gustaría invitar a cocheos, Simon Martinez y Steve Mendoza, a tomar lugares en la frontera, junto con los líderes de los cocheos y líderes. Vamos a dar a los cocheos de la frontera. Buenas tardes. Soy Simon Martinez de El Carmen Catholic Church. Soy el líder de Steve Mendoza de El Carmen Catholic Church. Siguela Aubiana, Alan Mills. device para todos los Arranianos danach, ¿cuál es el peor lanzamiento de este punishimiento? Se relaciona a Sl RD con las 11 de febrera de 2019. y para reconocer la dignidad de todos los personas, especialmente los modernizados y los armistas. Hacemos esto a través de la Starboard. Gracias, hermano. Estamos aquí hoy, como ciudadanos que han escuchado el llamado a actuar. Estamos enfadados con mensajes políticos que nos dividen. Hoy, en el otro lado de la ciudad, hay una reunión entre Peto Roar y Ted Cruz. Sabemos lo que van a decir. Sabemos que van a atacar a uno otro. Y sabemos que los ciudadanos van a estar en el fondo, el audio. Nuestra cultura de democracia no será revivida si estamos tratados como miembros de audio en el juego de alguien más. Entonces, hoy es sobre los que van a hacer una diferencia con nosotros. Y nuestro acuerdo es actuar. Los candidatos de la Comunidad Cosimétrica convierten en nuestras agendas de problemas, problemas como la inmigración, la educación pública, la desarrollación de la Tierra, y la ley de las Pueblas. Estos son los problemas que afectan nuestras vidas. No somos candidatos de cada parte. Nuestro candidato es nuestra agenda. Nuestro strenght es nuestra tendencia de actuar juntos. Llevo en el west side de San Antonio, en un área desplazado por un crimen, casas dilapidadas, y estrellas en rabia disparadas. Cosmetrol nos dio una voz y nos organizamos para cambiar el ambiente para lo mejor. No esperamos para que los políticos nos ayuden. Hoy, los problemas son diferentes, pero el método es lo mismo. Motivados y bien organizados, nos sucederán. Es para nosotros que continúe la negación de organizaciones para poder, dignidad, y servicio a nuestros negros. Y ahora, vamos a reconocer quién de Cosmetrol está en la sala. Soy Michelle Shearer, de la Comunidad Cosimétrica de la Tierra. Gracias, doctor. Desde el Unitario Universal de la Tierra. Estos son los primeros instituciones de Cosmetrol de San Antonio de la Tierra. Cuando escuches su nombre, por favor, estén y siga estando. Sistemas del Espíritu de la Tierra. Angelos Catholic Church. San Timothy Catholic Church. Los problemas son robados en conversaciones en nuestras instituciones. Hemos escuchado identificar las preocupaciones y ha hecho la investigación para saber cómo agresar estos problemas. Vamos a hablar de la agenda de Cosmetrol. La primera es la educación pública. La educación pública es crucial para la democracia y la prosperidad. En este año, Texas tendrá 3,6% menos a cada estudiante de la escuela que hicieron en 2010. El partido estatal de la educación pública ha bajado de 45% en 2008 a 35% en este año. Esto significa que hay pocos recursos, más taxas de propiedad y los estudiantes que sufren. El legislator de la Tierra debe pasar una reforma de la escuela de la escuela. Les invito a Ana Esfaza a compartir sus historias. Mi nombre es Ana Escoff-Sine de la Avenida de la Tierra de Cosmetrol. La Tierra ha estado sufriendo por los años, pero es mejor. En las últimas semanas de la casa, escuchamos historias de niños que fueron obligados a estar en los sueldos. Hemos tenido que poner a los estudiantes, los estudiantes, los programas de la escuela para los niños. Tengo un estudiante del año pasado que ha sido cortado de la escuela de la escuela que ayudó a las estudiantes para preparar para la escuela. No había conocido a los estudiantes y no sabía lo que iba a hacer. Hemos intentado pasar una reforma de la Tierra de la Tierra de la Tierra, pero se ha perdido, porque los estudiantes temen el incremento de las taxas de propiedad. No estaríamos en esta posición si el gobierno de la Tierra de la Tierra estaba sufriendo por su sueldo. Necesitamos un gran estado de la Tierra de la Tierra para subir y aumentar la fundación para los estudiantes de la escuela de la escuela, para que estos programas no sean cortados. Y podemos darles a estos estudiantes nuestro futuro, los niños que veo en la mesa Tomorrow's the day every Sunday that helps the paining. I have an issue this evening of paying-day lending. In Texas there are 3,500 pay-day lending businesses who operate by different rules than other lending organizations, and they victimize our neighbors and vulnerable with bad loans. We must challenge our elected officials to apply Chapter 342 Incluidos a los lenders de la Tierra Bay y a los negociadores de la Tierra Bay, para asegurar que nuestros negros no siguen rotos en los caballos. Otro problema es el desarrollo de la Tierra Bay. 26 años anteriores, COPSMETRAL ha construido uno de los mejores programas de trabajo en el país, llamados Project Quest. Ellos son motivados a los individuos, y apoyan ellos cuando están preparados para los trabajos de la clase solidaria. Gracias a Project Quest, 7.050 personas en San Antonio han ido de poverty a la clase media. El impacto económico de los 25 años ha sido $1.67 billones, y el investimiento de cada dólar es más de $19. El dinero que sucede a Project Quest no es un desplazamiento económico, es un investimiento en nosotros y nuestras personas. Mi nombre es Alejandra Alejandro. Mi padre trabajó muy bien para la familia 6. El día de mañana, mi mamá observó el suelo para empezar su trabajo en la compañía de los negros. Un día, mi mamá se encontró en un desplazamiento horrible. El factor fue malo. Mi familia fue devastada, pero mi padre fue fuerte. Mi padre tomó dos trabajos, y mi mamá fue un otro trabajo. Otro de los trabajos, COPSMETRAL ha creado Project Quest. A visitar mi padre, subiste a y a mejorar sus conciertos con las interactividades. eventually it will help me reach my dream job and becoming a registered nurse. Two different babies limited supply and knowledge. She inspired me to become a nurse to help my community. As a single mom of two sons there were times where my goal was same unich ago. I traveled around to the sun, worked as a medical assistant, and completed my coursework. para ser una semáfora de una tienda para una semana. Me dieron, pero lo hicimos. Uniformes, gas vouchers, renta y un billete. Exactamente lo sé. Puedo estudiar todo el tiempo y trabajar todo el tiempo también. Y voy a empezar mi nuevo trabajo en octubre 22. 12.25 horas. Eso es right, 15.25. Pero el próximo mes de octubre 22, mi base total será $23 por hora. Y esto va a ser $40,000, $47,840. $20, eso es un 67% en mi peso. Y voy a llegar a los sueños. Y eso se llama a gente como yo. Candidate. Por favor, recuerda, mi historia de billete. Si viviste en San Antonio, tu voto en proposiciones A, B y C. El gran loser de la proposición de la ciudad será la democracia local. Digamos eso de nuevo. El gran loser de la democracia. Los advertisements on TV for propositions A, B and C talk about the city's triple A bond rating and raining in the city manager. The cops metro cares most about the effect on San Antonio's democratic life. For months, cops metro talked about the city and the firefighters. We asked the city to drop the lawsuit. We asked the firefighters to drop the petition drive. We asked them both to return to negotiating. Neither side moved. And here we are, cleaning up after that. Caught in the crossfire between go vote now and vote yes on the three charter amendments. Democracy is about negotiation and compromise. If you do democracy right, groups hash out their differences and arrive at mutually beneficial solutions. Democracy is messy, yes. Sometimes a revolution isn't perfect, but it does a more than decent job of getting state-filled to the table and hopefully a part of the solution. Our society can only govern itself if we have the patience and ability to compromise. So Proposition A will open a Pandora's box. Big money can and will throw democracy into chaos where they never end in series of referendum. We like negotiated solutions. If Prop A passes, every policy can be subject to recall. Instead of a system where each group gets some of what they want, Prop A ensures there will always be winners and losers. In the end, the real winners will be people paid to collect signatures and run a campaign. It will be the losers. This is not the city we want. The member institution of PropsMetal will vigorously turn off the vote against Proposition A because it threatens to undermine our democracy in San Antonio. Thank you very much. We urge everyone to vote now on it. Our next issue will be immigration. To our friends, and neighbors and fellow parishioners and immigrants. In my Catholic tradition, and it says in Matthew 25, I was a stranger and you took me in. Yet at the state and federal level there is hostility towards immigrants. Cops, metro, wants, citizenship for DACA and the TPA as recipients and better relations between our police and immigrants. Our strategy for the fall began the immigration postcard campaign that some of you may remember. We have some great and big news to announce tonight. For the Christian Gustavo, we commit ourselves to produce 11,000 postcards to censure our agenda. From across San Antonio and the Archdiocese we will be sending 27th the candidate stand on our agenda. We're the candidate stand on our agenda. We need to talk about Congressman Hurte. For two and a half months to get him he contacted Congressman Hurte office and office and offered him the opportunity to choose the date of this accountability session. Two continental leaders even went down to Den Rio to see him at a meeting with our sister organization, the border organization. But late August, our date for... As a nonpartisan organization we do not support parties or candidates. We have both republicans and democrats here tonight from Texas House Districts 117 and 118. Because Congressman Hurte isn't here tonight we don't know where his dad's on our agenda and we have chosen to indicate his answers with a question mark. In our get out to vote effort we will not be able to report where he stands on our issues. We now invite these Jean-Louise Jones to stand as a candidate for professional district 23. Missed for these Jones he asked for yes or no answers. You will have time at the end to elaborate. As a reminder, our leaders watching should cheer if the candidates support our agenda if not, please remain silent. The first question for tonight is on workforce development. The department of funding used by Project Quest in San Antonio and other programs across Texas. If elected, will you commit to ensure that the federal budget leverages two million in funding for Project Quest? Yes. Questions on immigration is 40 in almost every member institution of the country. If elected provides citizenship to DACA and TPS recipients including by discharge petition of if House leadership does not agree to take up this issue. Yes. Archbishop Gustavo said in June the separation of families at the border is immoral for you work to pass legislation to make the separation of families at the U.S. border. If elected, will you meet with House Central within six weeks of taking office to develop a work plan for these issues? Yes. There will be a time keeper who will keep track of the time. A yellow sign will be displayed when 50 seconds are left and a red sign will be displayed when time is up. Wonderful. Well, thank you again. I wanted to, I know the leadership that you all have shown not only talking about issues but all of the strong leadership on immigration, education and even making sure people have control of their language. So thank you for your leadership. Thank you for inviting me this evening. Look, when I'm in Congress, you're not going to have to send me postcards to do the right thing. Lots of this are shaped by my own life experiences. I went to John Jay High School where you start with 900 kids, only 500 gradually. It was an Air Force, ROTC scholarship that invested me, allowed me to get an education. So that's why I think public education is the great equalizer. And that's why I think it's also important when we talk about leveling the playing field. It starts with investing in workforce development. I think that's key. San Antonio is now the second largest city in Texas. However, one in four children in San Antonio lives in poverty. So we have a challenge, all of us have a challenge with generational poverty and I think it's on all of us to make sure that we invest in education, not only as a city, but as a district and as a country. On immigration, I'm fully committed to this. I'm a first generation American. My mother came to this country after graduating from the number one university in the Philippines, but came here as a domestic helper. That's what I think about when I think about immigration, that for the vast majority of people on this planet, they know from a very young age that in order to live their best life they'll have to leave their home country. And for many people to try them is coming to our very special country. Yes, of course we have to reunite these families. If you look on your agenda, it only shows San Antonio, but this district goes all the way to El Paso. So the number of times that I've been to Tornillo, Tornillo with the 10 community where there's these kids, the 1500 kids now have been set up. I think that's a stain on the American conscience. I look forward to passing legislation immediately that puts an end to that. I'm going to turn to Texas House of Representatives to stand. The candidates for district 117 are both this and Michael Bernardo. 117 includes the far west side and south west San Antonio. It includes this church, Divine Providence, and part of San Bonaventure. The candidates for district 118 are John Lohan and Leo Pacheco. 118 includes most of the south side of San Antonio and South Beta County. It includes San Bonaventure, Tornillo's, and a Godman. Candidates, please remember that we are asking for yes or no answers for the first questions. You will have two minutes at the end to elaborate. Cops Mitchell and the candidates do not stand with our agenda. Please remember that Siding's is the best response. The first question is on public education. The state's share spending on public education has defined significantly. Please spend less per student now than before the recession. Mr. Fortes, if elected will you commit to increasing the state's share of funding for traditional public schools? Yes. Mr. Pacheco. Yes. The second question is on payday lending. Payday lenders in auto and non-tidal businesses play their own rig rule. Mr. Pacheco, if elected will you hold in payday lending in auto and non-tidal businesses in the same standards as other consumer lenders in Texas using chapter 342 of the Texas Finance Code? Yes. Mr. Pacheco. Mr. Pacheco. Mr. Pacheco. Mr. Pacheco. Mr. Pacheco. Mr. Pacheco. Mr. Pacheco. Mr. Pacheco. Yes. Mr. Pacheco. Mr. Pacheco. Yes. immigrant friends, family and neighbors, and make our cities less safe. Mr. Pacheco, did elected, would you commit to repeating Senate Bill 4 and working across the aisle to ensure the main, moderate and immigration policies? Yes. Two questions on local control. COPSMENTUAL has won major victories that set the standard for the state, including our immigrant wages, but state government couldn't interfere and undo many of these victories if they don't permit cities to make decisions for themselves. Mr. Cortez, if elected, will you commit to vigorously to prevent local control for issues such as local tax rates, wage increases, and immigration enforcement? Yes. Mr. Luján. We're keeping a scorecard at higher answering, okay? So last question for you all. Within six weeks to develop a work plan on these issues, and would you like to hold the account? Would you be with us? Yes. Mr. Luján. Let's meet tomorrow. Good evening COPSMENTUAL. I want to stand here today working side-by-side and fighting side-by-side with many of you for many years, now public service recently. In fact, ever since I was working back at City Hall as a council assistant for Land Right Barza, I've been working with many of you to ensure that we continue to fund and point issues that COPSMENTUAL is fighting for each and every day. When I was elected to City Council, each and every year you held me accountable. And you said, will you support funding, project quest, and increasing that funding? Each and every year I voted yes on the City Council. That is the type of commitment that you have for me. This isn't just something I decided to do recently. I've been fighting for my community, whether it's the St. Bonaventure Area where I'm from, or the Helotus Area, which I currently represent. I've been fighting for this community to ensure that we do have living wages for all families, that all families have access to good-pay jobs, that we treat our immigrants with respect, and that we ensure that our senior citizens have a voice at the State Capitol. And the reason I have this agenda, and I've been doing this each and every day, because you gave me this agenda. You continue to call me, you continue to meet with me, and you tell me these are important priorities to you and the families that you represent. And I'm proud of each and every day of the St. Bonaventure Alliance. You've held me accountable. Now I've been very blessed to be an elected official since 2007. We're on the San Antonio City Council now in the State House. You've held me accountable each and every year. I hope and pray that you will continue to hold me accountable as we move forward to pass each and every one of these issues on your legislative agenda. Thank you so much for allowing me to say a few words this evening. I look forward to seeing all of you at the State Capitol beginning in January when we begin our next legislative session. May God bless each and every one of you. May God bless Texas. Thank you very much. It's been long as he said. I'm the son of a Mexican immigrant. You wouldn't know if I'm in fair skin, but my grandfather died during the Mexican Revolution. My father came over as an infant. And my grandmother was a professor of English. Spanish rather, to those who couldn't speak Spanish. I was at St. Anthony's Seminary when my father died suddenly of a stroke. And the calling wasn't to be a priest as many of you have given that calling. But I bless you in my memory because I know without your support from those in the religious order, I wouldn't have gotten to be a Catholic in three years I wouldn't stand before you with a master's degree in tax. My life has been about lowering people's taxes because people of church and charity make the difference. In my life they make the difference in the lives of many who rise above the ability to be limited by what the government will do for us versus what we can do without the government. So my position is this. If you should elect me, my priority issue is to lower property taxes so we are not renting from the government our homes. That we recognize that there is a time and a place for all of us because the message of Christ is clear. Feed the hungry, heal the sick, and care for the weakest among us. I am President of the Christian Chamber of San Antonio. It is not a partisan organization. And I recognize that the opportunity to find Republicans to learn how to find Democrats. When two-thirds of Republicans do not have a Democrat friend and two-thirds of Democrats do not have a Republican friend, I can tell you, as a Christian, I will leave from that core value and I will tell you also that as a Christian I will happen the lean either way as we need to get progress accomplished. I am not a Republican who goes to church on Sunday. Thank you very much. Thank you. My name is Chau Luan, running for State Representative District 118. At one time I was a State Representative for one year. And one of the things that I learned, I'm a retired San Antonio firefighter for 25 years. I'm a small business owner. And one of the things that I learned, that this job is not so much in Austin, but it's collaborating with people like Cops Metro to get things done in our community. We have the second largest tire up in the city of San Antonio District 118. He been there for years, didn't know about it. When I became a man, we fought that thing. I got an apartment call me and said, we have a community out there with no rules. We got together, we get to fight those things. When we get together, not so much you coming to me, I'm going to be coming to you. We talk about education. Two painting school districts in my district. In one district, 118, that's not acceptable. We need more money, but it's more than that. It's a school board reform. It's going to be tough things that we're going to do that are Republicans men, that are going to make people look like Democrats men, but it needs to be done for the betterment of our people. I wanted to take those stands. I've been blessed with my church service that I do, with me being a police officer for six and a half years and then retired firefighter and now a businessman. And I'm telling you, I'm big on workforce development. We can break cycles of poverty by teaching technology. I'm doing that with my company right now. We went from three people in 1999. We have over 450 people, employees, in our company today. God has been good to us, but I've learned a lot of experiences and things along the way. I ask for your support. I'm ready to get things working, put those things to practice. John Lujan, District 118. Thank you very much. Thank you sir. Mr. Pacheco. Thank you very much for having me here for the community service all my life. I've been here at St. Louis for over 35 years before he passed away. And I was always working with him in the St. Vincent's DePaul Society. He would go get bread from the day old bread from HV. He would give it out to the poor. And this is something that we did. It was just something instilled in me, community service. I was the first one in my family to get a college education. And it wasn't the easy way. I went to high school, graduated, and I did the typical thing. I went one semester in San Antonio College and dropped out. You know, I had no money for, you know, I had no money for gas, I had no money for cafeteria and I did the typical thing. I got married. It was not until I was in my 40s working hard during the day, $8 shifts, $9 shifts, going to college. And I graduated from San Antonio College. Went on to Texas A&M San Antonio. Went on to the University of Texas San Antonio to get my master's. Today, I'm an example of the hard work of what somebody can do using the community college system. I graduated from Harlindale High School. I still live in the Harlindale School District. And I remember back in the late 70s when I followed my father at St. Leo Catholic Church starting the COPS organization. This was something that was brand new at the time. Unfortunately, the Parishime Act, St. Lawrence doesn't have a COPS chapter and I want to look into that. I think it's very important. But moving forward, currently I'm the head of human resources at Palo Alto College and I also teach as an adjunct professor at San Antonio College for public administration and I'm teaching urban planning this semester. So I want to continue to help the community. Thank you very much. Thank you, candidates. This election doesn't end tonight. It begins tonight. Thanks to our work this summer, we have up-to-date contact information for 3,148 voters in these three districts alone and another 6,000 across San Antonio. This election. Two objectives. The last election in Texas House District 117, the difference between the winner and the loser was only 1,500 votes. The last election in Congressional District 23, the difference between the winner and the loser was only 3,000 votes. COPS Metro, you will impact this election by getting your people up to vote. Before the election, we will be holding 6 get out to vote events. Phone banks and block walls. We want everyone in this room to participate in the democratic process and come to at least one of these get out of the vote events. Take the commitment card on your chair. Take two minutes to talk to the person next to you about which event you will attend. Fill out the card and pass the card to the middle. Take two minutes. For a few more seconds here, please pass the cards to the center at our Forteco Gallery. That's more to the center. This is the events that are taking place. Look in the back of the card. Okay, real good. Tonight we have heard stories about the issues that are important to us. COPS Metro. We have also heard where the candidates stand on our agenda, COPS Metro. Now it's time for us to act on what we've heard tonight. Are you ready, COPS Metro? If you want something different from politics as usual, join your member institutions to make a difference in this year's peak term elections beginning with a government tomorrow night. Conclusions of our meeting right now before we go to the final period. Just a few words of thanks for joining us here this evening at our meeting while opening a paper being here. The other thing is to your left is a scorecard. After your institutions, you're going to talk to your members and say this is where the positions are. Do they or do they not support our agenda? So remember that. So she's a player, no se puede. We're going to do a safe, biometric Catholic church to close our meeting with the prayer. The sound and the whole spirit. To be the voice of the voice. To stand for your voice. To stand as no fight for justice. We as deems to Christ our Lord. So this meeting is officially adjourned. Thank you for your attention this evening.