 time. Let's go ahead and get going. Hi, I'm Claudia Guerra. I'm the ultimatum president for this year. And thank you everyone for coming. It's great to see such a big turnout. We've got a couple of really important things to talk about. So I'm going to rush through a few things to make sure that we get through some of the two big issues that I think a lot of people are here for regarding some of the properties and the development issues that are going on. But I don't want to skip out on our regular committee reports, including the budget which Anina is handing out. And I'm going to talk a little bit more about that. I was hoping that we would ratify our budget today. But I think we're going to put it off and I'll talk a little bit more about that. But I still want to talk about it so that we can prioritize where you think the money should be. Because this is after all your money. It's the AANA's money and I would like memberships to have more to say. So before we get too much further, I want to do a roll call on the board. And then the board members, if you would also just sort of stand, because I'm not sure everybody knows us all yet. So David Garza is our vice president. And also David Garza. I'm going to start right here. Anita Bella is our budget, our treasurer. Donna Garrett is the member at large. Our treasurer is still on the board, but she couldn't make it here together. So thank you everyone. And I do, before we go get started, I can't thank Erin enough for everything that she's done to get us to where we are. And I need to thank her again for helping us through this transition time. You know, there are these little things that you don't think about. It's like, how do I access the AANA email? How do I access our Facebook page? How do all those little things that need to be tidied up, that's kind of what we've been working on. So again, thank you Erin for being such a helpful person. Absolutely. So let's look at the minutes. The minutes have been handed out. These are the minutes from November. And I'm going to give everyone just a couple of minutes to go through them. And then I'd like to see what you get. Are there any changes in the sessions? If not, we're going to do as you'd like to point that out. And a couple of things that are on there, we're actually following up today, including the CCR request from the Councilman for updating our NCD standards. Move for adoption with any changes noted. Are there any changes? Is there a second? All those in favor? Aye. Good. Thank you. And now, Anita, can we have a quick treasurer's report? I have it out a year ago for 2016 based on the information provided over the course of the year. When you look at the numbers, revenues over expenses, we were positive 1708, 1703. We started off, we have an ending cash bounce of a little bit over $2,500. I tried to give some detail on the revenues and then the expenses that occurred over the course of the year. One of the reasons, and then we do have some designated funds which are noted at the bottom, so those are funds that can be used for just general purposes. We had talked about doing a budget at this meeting, but I thought that it was important and I spoke to Claudia about this, that, you know, that we get more consensus about what we want to see with the people going forward, is that you want some parties you want to do, other, you know, Claudia has mentioned some things that she wants to do, but frankly, our revenues have been pretty flat from 15 to 16. So, you know, the revenues that you see here is what we're going to probably have going forward unless we have a real uptick in fundraising or membership. So, that's money. So, you're saying that we talk a little bit more about it. So, most of our money, our income, is from membership dues and most of what we spend comes out of that membership dues. So, every time we have an expenditure for, say, the Christmas party, the way we look at that is if it costs us $400, that would cost us 40 members. So, I think what we want to do is, as a group, have a discussion about where we want those monies. Are we raising the numbers of our membership? Are we fundraising in other ways? Jim Koshman has done some great creative fundraising for our Moving Night Out, which pays for itself by using a girlfriend. And so, that ends up paying for itself. So, what we want to bring to you next time is some of the ways that we can spend our money. We've sort of spent it somewhat consistently and somewhat inconsistently. Sometimes we have a one-off type of expenditure. So, we as the executive committee want to regroup and look at that. And one of the reasons that we don't have it ready this time is that we're starting getting requests from people to fund other things. So, Jen turned it into an arts committee, fund the request, and we'd like to have time to go through that and see which of those as a membership we're willing to fund. And then coming down to the hard question about, well, if we're funding this, how are we paying for it? So, that you can see exactly how much it's going to cost us and what we would need to fund raise. As Anita said, there was something that we as a membership talked about doing last fall. One of those was having a Sharet with the AIA. That's going to cost us some funds. So, how we pay for that is part of our question as well. And so, I think it would be fun to do some fundraising, but we would need some commitments from people to help us do that. So, we'll go into a little more detail about that, and we'll do a little sort of a question and answer with you about what kinds of events, one of the things I'd like to point out is we do spend a lot of money on our social events. And that was a big commitment that we made two or three years ago. The membership wanted to see more community events, wanted to see more social events. It's happening and I think it's working. I think it's brought in a great membership. So, that I think is a success. But it's a success. So, I think we want to talk about where's the next level? What are we going to have to take back? So, we'll have a little more discussion about that. Are there any questions about the, about the traffic report? So, can we have a motion to accept the report? I don't have a good question. We followed up and we have not heard of it. I mean, I'm also hopeful that national not health, we're just going to have to put it, it's going to be a set up in the position. Cost of the, the total cost of the, we're going to talk about the moving act, the moving act, the age of the five, but actually between the five and the two hundred dollar contribution from Best Coffee, there, it was actually the name of 20 dollars, but there was, there was the net was positive 20. And the other one, the, the national money now was 427 dollars. No, that's, that's what we expended to, to national, for national money. We apply, there, there are just right there for us and we apply for that and we're waiting to find out what our kids can do. Yeah, and just to clarify a little bit, we can make sure it's all correctly, the fundraising that we do for the moving group is not for the, I can call it our fall fundraising. It does pay for the, like it's our fall fundraiser that we decided to use it for. So we're asking the same children or so as they have funds for that kind of thing. So just to make it clear, the fundraiser is just being called. Any other questions about the current treasure group? So if I can have a motion to accept, any second? Motion to accept. All right. All right, I'm going to give a quick president's report, which until 48 hours ago was actually kind of calm and quiet. So the executive committee met two weeks ago for the first time and we started to set some of our priorities. We did a lot of general working in terms of how we're going to set up our, just our office protocols, you know, we had an office, but a lot of it was really talking about our priorities. And I think they carry over from what they've been before, but they're also based on what we're seeing, what we see on Facebook, what we hear here, what kind of questions people sent to us by email. And so I'm just going to throw out the big ones, and then we can talk about other priorities that may, that you want on our radar. Because we've not finalized anything, we'll take that back to the executive committee in February. And then we can continue talking about each priority as we meet as a membership. So the big one that we've noticed is just the, what seems to be the increase of crime. I think we feel less and less safe. We feel our property is less and less safe. So we're trying to find out what can we do about that. I probably should send that around if everyone hasn't seen it. I don't know how many people here check on Facebook. Can I just have a quick show of hands? How many people here monitor what we do on Facebook? I put up a link to one of the crime trappers that the San Antonio Police Department uses. It's up on their webpage. And you can look at the types of incidents that are being called in on a weekly basis. You can even sign up and they will email you if you want it on a daily basis, weekly or monthly basis. So in looking at that, what I noticed is we really don't have a lot of violent crime, but we have a lot of vandalism sort of crime. We have these petty thefts sort of crime. And even that is not as much as it seems when we're talking to each other or when we look on Facebook. It's really, it's not being reported. It's not being reported on their trapper. So either there's a higher incidence or a feeling of it or things are happening and not being reported or it just feels unsafe to us because we're hearing a lot more about it than we used to. So I think that's going to be an ongoing conversation at our membership meetings for the next few months just to figure out what we can do to make ourselves feel safer. And I think tracking the fuel free to go to that website and look at it and see whether anything you might have experienced has been reported and making sure that they are giving the right information is one way. But another way is to be able to work with police. And they offer several programs. I know we've tried to get a class here so that it's called cost is that right? So it sort of talks to us about setting up patrol, but there are other things that can be done. They have other classes. And even if we don't set what up here in the neighborhood, people can, citizens can sign up for it. They have them regularly. And I'm glad to see Kelsey here. Kelsey is going to sign up to take a ride along with the police so that she can kind of see what's it like to be a policeman and what's it like to make those calls. That's offered to every citizen. You can simply sign up on that. So if you signed up yet to know when you're going to do that, that's not. I have to wait until I can. So I'm going to encourage more people to do that. And if you'd like to volunteer to help us track crime, to help us figure out what to do about the safety issues, we can form a small committee. And maybe you can take a ride with Kelsey and some policemen, or maybe you can go visit a precinct. There are several programs, so we'll be writing about that in the newsletter. We did a short piece on it in the last newsletter, this next coming newsletter. We plan to have a longer piece so you can see what's on it. Can I get that tap on just so we know who's the idea of what this membership had discussed last year after the war analyzed the crime data and we found the pattern that crimes were happening in the morning between 10 and 12 on certain days. And so the idea was that we would form a citizens on patrol class and tailor it to what the data said. When do we need to get out of control in the neighborhood? We never were able to get that class together. We don't have to do it as a neighborhood association. We would take the class individually. But in order for us to be a recognized COP, which I think is important for us to take the class before we control, because the class teaches you to use and don't use the same controlling, we need people to take that class that could be fabulous. So we'll continue to promote that in our newsletter on Facebook so that you have that information on a regular basis and hopefully people will sign up for something and you'll let us know. Obviously the other major issue for us is development in our neighborhood and we're going to talk about that through the vacant building program presentation today and hopefully have some sort of presentation regarding development for all our membership meetings so that we can sort of see, so you're informed on how things happen in neighborhoods. There's also a long program coming up. I hope to invite someone from that to come and talk to us about what that means for this neighborhood. I know that in District 1 Report, Jay has a little bit of an update on that and how it's going to affect us. And then there's one other development issue over CCR. So we did submit that letter I think in the last meeting and you'll see that in a minute. We said that we were editing it and that we would send it off. We did. We know it's in the hands of our councilman and Jay's going to update us on what that process is like in a few minutes. And then we talked about budgeting and memberships and fundraising for our budgeting or treasurer's report in the future. So the way we've done the treasurer's report in the past is really it's been sort of something that the Executive Committee works on. We sort of have information come to us on a monthly basis. What we want to do is present to you a yearly budget this time. This is going to be our annual budget. This is what we're striving for in terms of expenses as well as income. And we'd like to have a discussion about that. And so you can tell us, well I think you're spending too much on this. We're not enough on that. So I can tell you right now we've sent close to $1,200 to you on social events and that's almost half of our income. So again, social events are a priority for us and I think it's really helped bring us together. So I think we want to talk about how to be sure that they continue and how do we make it sustainable in addition to doing some of the other things that we want to do. So for instance, the charrette that I've talked about, we know that that comes with a cost. It's about $1,500. I think we can appreciate that with the AI in it because we are a neighborhood association, but they will also help us fund raise. And Jay will talk maybe a little bit about CCPF funds so that everybody knows about that. That's what we were talking about, the city reimbursing us for Looney Nye out and the National Nye out. But maybe this time we put some of that money to a charrette. And the charrette would be to help us decide what kind of development is proper for this neighborhood. What should our CCP standards say now? What kind of changes do we want to make? And so this would bring professionals to the neighborhood to help us crowd back. But some of the other little things that we need help on, Facebook. I didn't know that I would have to monitor Facebook so much. Elizabeth Allen just walked out. Everybody's grown up. People self-monitor. For a great part, they do. They do self-monitor. And it feels like it's on the cusp of getting out of hand, but everybody reigns it in. And so I don't want to over monitor. But Elizabeth Allen has been really the one person doing it. So we need more people to talk and work. Let me put it this way. I know she gets pained by people because I think she's visible. And I know I'm getting pained by things. And by pained, I mean people have different levels of sensitivity about the discussion that's going on. I'm a little more relaxed and liberal and willing to let people kind of work out themselves. But I do not tolerate somebody being called to approve. I don't like that. I use it, but I've never used it on Facebook myself. And we had an incident like that this week. And I did delete that person from our membership list. And so we will do that. And what I'd like this group to do, and I talk to Tammy about this and thank you, Tammy, for agreeing to help, really look at our Facebook policies and maybe tweaking them, revising them. How do we make people really read them and pay attention to them so that we can enforce things a little bit more easily? And how do we train people who are monitoring to know what is it we should say to them? How do you stop them without them trolling them back? That will happen. So volunteers for that, please contact us through the A&M email. And then Colton Cowell. So Colton is our newsletter guy. He's the one who distributes everything. And we need more work captains, is that right? You want to talk a little bit about what a work captain does and what processes? Sure. So every monthly a sound quality of the newsletters, I pack them up for the block captains. And so depending upon the assignment that the block captain takes on, it's anywhere from 15 to 90 newsletters that they distribute. And those are broken up based mainly on streets that people live on, but there are a few like Ashby and then Kess and Kremkow that Colton Cowell has now decided to take on. Businesses along North Florida is a small assignment, but there are a few that are open that are definitely a need that have dominated since people have either moved out of the neighborhood or have taken on responsibilities that no longer allow them to be a block captain. So if you're interested, you can email me at Cowell.Colton at gmail.com or you can reach me on my phone at 719-930-746 and ask about the assignments that are open. I guess what those are telling. I think we're open to chopping those up if you're only able to take on a bit of one. Usually just before the view. So at the moment with the open, or with the blocks that are open at the moment, I still have those things that I was at home. But ideally I think you get an option for a few days to move in and see what they're doing. I have to thank children because we delivered them a little bit late. We had to look it up for the pink girls. They, I guess, weren't exactly there. They knew the new person and so they called. They called an escort member, they called Aaron, and then they lost them, which all seem connected to me. But anyway, we got there. So thank you for working with us. Are there any questions of us? And I'm sorry I'm rushing through this, but I want to get to a discussion about the vacant building program and a couple of properties in our neighborhood. Before we do that, I just have a comment on that little crime issue. I know sometimes there's something that happens when you go out and we don't call it in. I'm just going to maybe just reiterate and make sure that we're calling that for free. I think it does. I think we should be calling things in. We should call things in. So if you've had a theft, if you've had some form of vandalism, call it in because it does happen. One other thing to be observed, which is interesting, and I'm sorry if you live on the street from the alley, but streets on the alleys were two thirds of the crimes happened on streets without us, that particularly home theft. So that's the kind of thing that we're looking forward to looking at this data, and it definitely helps when we call any of these people. I'll give them an accurate picture about that. And I'm glad you brought up alleys because there are some programs that we need to make alleys more fun, more local for us, and it could stack on time. So that will be some of the things that we'll be talking about. And then the technical committee doesn't know that yet. That's one of the things I'm going to charge. If you're on the technical committee, can you just raise your hand? I don't know who's here. Okay. Great. So the technical committee, if you'd like to join that, it's a phone group, I think. If there's a plus for rezoning, if there is an issue with the property, we ask them to go out, take a look at it and advise the executive committee to give us a recommendation. And we're going to see them in action tonight because they have a case that they're bringing forward to us. All right. Do you want to talk about the district owner report? Good evening. I'm Jake Jenska. I'm the Chief of Staff of Council, Interveno. Happy New Year to everybody. And we really are starting off from the year right with this many folks, including two other neighborhood presidents, Betty Afterton from Allspark Terrace and Cynthia Spillman from Naked Hill. So you really hit a homerun this month, the more the merrier, right? Just to piggyback on what was just discussed with regard to crime, the councilman just held a coffee with the councilman the past weekend at 10 with the senior center in Allspark Terrace. Chief McManus was there for about an hour to discuss crime and some issues that are going on in town. Property crime is definitely a concern and a problem. It is up. It always tends to spike around the holidays and it starts to up a little bit after the new year. We have a liaison that's a former SAP officer who I'd love to put in contact with. He does personal and kind of neighborhood crime safety seminars and he presents to neighborhoods talking about how you can be safe individually, how you can protect your car, your home, what you can do. So if that's of interest, let me know and I'd love to set that up. He can tailor his presentation. It's 20 to 40 minutes depending on what your needs are. Also we can help connect you with your SAP officer or a SAP officer. I know Officer Bigler is awfully busy but part of what SAP officers do is a home audit or the home safety inspection. So they can walk your property with you, look at your doors and windows, overgrown shrubs, interior lighting, exterior lighting, make recommendations on how your property could be safer. So if you can help facilitate that by all means, let us know. In fact, you mentioned ride along. The cop program is fabulous. We can try to create a regional program where I contact. He can hail Montevista to see if there are, there's a pool of more folks that would be involved in taking the classes. And part of that experience is a ride along. The councilman just has his third annual ride along on New Year's Eve. So every holiday, other Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve since he's been on council, he has done an overnight ride along with SAPD and it's very eye-opening to him. He gets to see firsthand what's going on, what the officers face overnight. So he's very much attuned to some of the concerns and problems that are going on because he's been in the car with an officer experiencing it. So however we can help you get involved with PD, experience those things, learn more, protect yourselves, protect your community. Let us know. We're happy to facilitate. The one thing that Claudia mentioned is the NCD review for Altavista. Last year, Councilman Trevina submitted a CCR to review the Beacon Hill. I had to request a Beacon Hill and working with the Neighborhood Association, working with them to review their NCD. That is a much longer process and I think Cynthia probably wanted to see but it's a very comprehensive review of the NCD, working with city staff, our officers and the neighborhood to really chart a course forward. These things have been in place now for 10 plus years and the nature of development has changed and so the nature of the NCDs must evolve as well. NCDs, Neighborhood Conservation District. CCR is a Council Consideration Request. That's the mechanism that Council members have to create organizations. So the city manager and the mayor can put anything on the Council agenda when they want to. Council members have got to get four additional Council members to support their initiative and then it goes to governance and then it goes to Council if approved. So that's the mechanism that Councilman had to use to get support from his colleagues to in being an example, in your example, review the city policy. As a result of both of those CCRs, and I apologize for the acronyms, city government, there's a lot of acronyms, the city has decided to review all of the NCDs throughout the city. I believe there's 10. Many of them are located in District 1 and the historic districts of San Antonio. So what we're going to push for, I just haven't heard from planning yet, what their plan is, but we are going to push since you made the request that you're the first one reviewed in that new process of reviewing all of them. They're a big chunk of the way through Beacon Hills, so that should hopefully come to fruition fairly soon and then our goal is to push the city to really crack open the Altamista NCD to start reviewing it as the first on the list. So that was a positive for us in that the work that we've done with your Nader Hoods has resulted in actually the city wanting to revisit all of these NCDs to improve them. With regard to the bond, I just wanted to let you know the bond packet went to Council last week for approval. It was approved to develop this name for your approval, my approval, all of our approvals, but for Altamista there is a significant amount of, and in all of the urban core of San Antonio, Altamista, Beacon Hill, Five Points, Montevista, within a mile radius of the intersection of Woodlawn and San Pedro is approximately $34 million worth of bond package. So there's $1.8 million to further the master planning and execution of that at San Pedro Springs. The Fred Road corridor, which we worked with Beacon Hill and the business community on Fred Road to really have a K-4 in push is a $9 million package, which will help turn from the Five Points intersection to Woodlawn into a complete street, more pedestrian friendly, some more on-street parking amenities, improved crosswalks. The Five Points intersection is also on the bond at $3 million, so really that corridor is going to get a transformative makeover. You were talking about public safety, the central police substation with park police is slated to be built. It's approved just south of SAC, between downtown and SAC on San Pedro. So just by virtue of that project being executed, and that's a $20 million project, you would see a lot more police presence up and down San Pedro because that is where they would be going to and from. So that is going to have a very positive effect on crime in this area. There's a $9 million pedestrian mobility package for District 1. Now, not all of that would be spent within this area, but that means more sidewalks, sidewalk capsules. And then finally, the San Pedro Cuycray project, the park component, which is a linear park, you may have seen, they're already starting to do work on the drainage component downtown in San Pedro Scrooge's park and the creekway right by Little Italy, is really the founding of San Antonio to where the first Alamo was. And so it's important that we really focus dollars and attention on that area, especially as we celebrate our birthday. So those are some of the things that are, you'll see in the bond, we encourage you to just Google 2017 San Antonio bond. You'll get a link to the bond package. You can see all the programs. There'll be six items on the ballot and get educated. There's a lot of transformative stuff that's a lot of, as Mayor, City Manager are calling it, kind of back-to-basic stuff. It's a lot of infrastructure. District 1 has a great need and so we're happy to see 25% of the bond is between citywide projects and district projects being spent in District 1. So, yes. What was on the bond committee for District 1? Well, there were 15 members that were on, three members per five categories of committee. I can send you the list now if you'd like. They met regularly in the committee bond meetings, but the councilman in our office conducted three, what we call block parties, where we got the committee members out on the weekend. And that was a part, a part for them to participate was, we told them we're going to do these events, but we're going to have them come. We want the community to come meet and talk about projects, advocate for the needs of your neighborhood. And so we did that. Our first one was at San Pedro Springs. We did one on West End Park and then one at Shear Hills, Ridgeview Walking Trail to really try to hit the different corners of the district to get those committee members out into the community to hear from you. So, I know a number of you did come and we appreciate that. Yes. I was on the Royal Committees six years ago when we first started to avoid the linear parks at the time and not coming around the other side. San Pedro Creek was included and there was already money for that linear park. Now, we're asking for more money for, how is it being funded? I'm kind of confused about the funding that they had before the linear parks and now the new funding for the same project. Well, the linear creek ways is more than just the San Pedro Creek. Yeah, I understand. But San Pedro Creek is one of them. It is. And I would have to look to see how that money was spent and where the new investment is. But again, there's a big chunk of it that's drainage that's downtown and that means from where the dam is right by Christopher Columbus Park south. That component is being redone in terms of drainage and that they're going to build an amphitheater right across from the Alameda. It could be akin to the more park-like version of the river walk that has the commercial development right on the water. So, some of that money that was previously allotted to it is currently for projects that are happening right now. So, if you were to go to there and I know because I was there this morning, there was a huge traffic backup. They are currently working on San Pedro Creek right by the Bronx Tech. So, a lot of that money was spent. My question was about the funding. Right. So, that funding. So, what I'm trying to answer is what you asked, what happened to that funding? It's being implemented now. So, the fund is for the additional improvements along the creek that go all the way from basically forth on my own street is all the way down to, you know, near where the Bear County believe near Alameda Street. Okay. Do you think that's happening members? No. Okay. So, we know that the funding went like the way you said. It's been in the paper. That's how I know about it. It's been in the paper. It's on the city website. So, what I can do is post some of this information on our Facebook page. Do you come to our Facebook page? Uh, yeah. Okay. So, we'll figure out how we get that information. And majority of those monies for that project are not city funds. They're the San Antonio River Authority and Bear County took the lead of that project. The city had a very, very very small role in funding those improvements. It is now this bond money that the city is going to invest dollars to approve by the owners. Just go to the website, Bear County website, and you'll get a breakdown of all of the money that is spent in the different phases. And I'll give you my card. I'll be happy to do any research to answer specific questions, but that's typically, especially when we're talking about large-scale drainage projects and the creek waste projects, are those with the parks project on top? And it was just kind of confusing because I was on the O'Royal Creek projects and then with the new funding, that's part of the O'Royal Creek. Yeah, they tend to take you back on one another, again, especially with drainage projects, because they have to be phased. So, but again, I'll give you my contact and permission. I'll be happy to research that for you. Chair, I'd like to recommend that you forward that breakdown that you read to us so that it can be part of the minutes for the next meeting. Certainly. Certainly. For the bond, that is, right? Yes, but what the year is free. Most definitely. Any other questions? And then you've got an action-tact agenda tonight, so. All right, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Committee, I want to change the agenda with this and get the vacant building program up here because I think we have a lot of things that we want to discuss with that and I want to get back to them and read back to them. So, I'm very pleased that John Stevens, who is the program manager for the vacant building program, is here tonight. I talked to John about this back in October and he had agreed, so I was happy he was coming. I'm even happier now because we have a property that we can talk about how the vacant building program can apply to it. Just a quick little background. I started hearing about the vacant building program a long time ago. That was when Councilman Diego was the very last person. And he and I had talked about it and at that time, Alta Visa was supposed to be part of that program. And so, I was a little sad when it got cut back and really was only going to be enforced in historic districts and around military bases. So, I'm excited that it's come back to, that it's been expanded, come back to the original vision. And I want to thank Councilman Trevihio and the other Councilmen who were really pushing forward on this and voted that it should be expanded. And of course, that means a lot more work for John, but he here he is to tell you what it's all about. All right. Thank you all for listening to me tonight. Thank you for inviting me here. I work in the office for preservation. I manage the city's vacant building registration program. We're very excited about the expansion. I think there's a lot of great opportunity to do some good in this neighborhood and then a lot of the surrounding neighborhood. This expansion doesn't just impact Alta Vista, it impacts Beacon Hill, a lot of the corridors, the north-south corridors and major thoroughfares. You know, we're incorporating a lot more area, filling a lot of gaps that kind of fell outside the program. Really, the goal is to make movement on the long vacant buildings, un-maintained structures. A couple of those in your neighborhood are 441 West Summit directly across the field here as you go up the park and walk. You can see a long border building there and it's an opportunity. So we will be working with that property owner to try to create positive outcome. Others are 505 West Woodalong and 503 West King's Highway. At a very high level, I want to talk with you about how this works. It is not a quick process. It is a lot of effort. It's a lot of relationship building. We work with property owners. No property owner is just dragged court. We give property owners 90 days in which to register their property with our office after we provide them with notice. At that point in time, after we provide those 90 days to register, they submit a reasonable plan for correcting violations of the standard of care. So all the maintenance, exterior maintenance issues with the building that you would anticipate, a responsible property owner to maintain a building to. And at that point, we work with them to ensure that they actually commit to and follow that plan and resolve the issues. And so I would be your point of contact with all properties like that. They have to be vacant for 30 or more days. But I would like you all to know who I am, know our goals, be able to understand how the program works, and come to me. You know, there are ways for you to anonymously report buildings on our website. So if there's a property on your block, I want to hear from you. We will do surveys of the neighborhood regularly. We'll be out in this neighborhood. I live fairly close to this neighborhood. We're going to spend time here, but we won't be here as often as you all are. And we really need that level of cooperation with the neighborhood. So please go ahead and always note that you can go to our website and report a structure. You can also always call our offices. I am personally responsible for this area. We have a team of six. Thankfully with the expansion, we're able to get some more staff. I have now a team of six. We're over a hundred and nine square miles. And the way we've broken it out is that I will be responsible for all of these stuff. Beacon Hill, downtown, most of this kind of area of district one. And so if you see anything in the community that you're concerned with, I'm happy to be appointed on that and I'm happy to try to direct you to resources. But in a nutshell, we're trying to make change in situations where oftentimes there hasn't been much progress. So I'm using that property across the street here as a private example. That is an opportunity for us. Traditionally, buildings like that were kept secured. They were essentially deemed to be within compliance of our property rights. So we're trying to be a little bit more assertive, a little bit more proactive, and we're trying to create that change. I want to be able to answer any questions that you have, but I want to give you a real quick primer on how this works. And I do want to emphasize that it's not a silver bullet. It takes a lot of effort. It takes a lot of relationship building. In many instances, many of these people may not have really been pushed to do much for many, many years. You know, or in many instances, there's ownership issues with the property where in order it might be dead or, you know, there are a lot of complicated factors. And we've got to work through a lot of those issues. But I can tell you, we're very committed to solving the few problems that are in your community. Thankfully, you have a very stable, very strong neighborhood with a lot, you know. I see obviously progress and I don't anticipate that you're going to have an enormous number of problem structures, but we want to be there for the ones that you have. And I also want to explain that we'll be working both on buildings where there's no activity and where there's construction activity. So throughout that timeline of someone completing a project, we're going to be monitoring it. We're going to be in contact with them. You know, that does not mean that if there are construction stops and small issues, those things are going to be natural in any project. But I wanted to stress that we are there to be in contact with the owner and to make sure that we communicate well with them and that we're available to you all if there are any questions. So that is the very short intro I have for you. And I just want to open it up if there's any questions. I have a question. Now, what are the mechanisms you speak of? Your office, co-enforcement, building permits, things like that. Because there seems to be, there is clear has been a disconnect. Is this going to change that disconnect? So you say there is a disconnect. First, this is not applied in this area. So there hasn't been a disconnect today. There is the opportunity, as you mentioned, that there are three different areas of the city, actually more than that, that are often working on similar properties at the same time. And it's our role to coordinate. One of the things that I do not do, I mean I ensure that the building owner is between permits. I don't do permit inspections. A small team of 6,000, 19,000 miles, that's the size taken for. So we are not the people going to properties to do it. We do inspections of whether or not a building meets the standard of care, but we're not doing construction the way that a firm needs to do it with inspections. And so we ensure that property owners can team them. And we try to make sure that it will be the worst that we can communicate with those offices. As far as food is concerned, if it is a vacant structure, generally the interpretation is to properly make this purchase not apply if the building is secured. So if it is a secure, vacant building, the example being this one across the street, I'm sorry if I'm using that. People aren't aware of that. Can you speak a little bit louder? I'm sorry. I woke up without my voice this morning. Sorry about that. That's clearly being talked about in the world, is that better? I'm talking about this building, if you're right out of the parking lot in the summer. So, oh, the corner house right here. I'm sorry, I will try to speak louder. My voice is pretty much dead today. So that property there, the traditional interpretation of our code, is that that is in compliance, inventive, secure. And so we are trying to take a different approach to that. So for those properties, there should be no confusion. Those are within both in the background. They're not dangerous premises. They're not dangerous premises. They're not issues where we're applying all aspects of the code. We've agreed that those are properties that I'll be working on to address. Now, there will be properties that are dangerous premises and I will coordinate the code on those properties. Yeah, the specific reason I asked that was because of 503. Yes. And in the age of alternative facts, they applied alternative facts. And when you watch them long enough and you're keeping in touch, you start to realize that they're not being entirely honest with all of the units of the city who are dealing with it. So I want to see you guys be able to do your job. There's always an opportunity to answer a job. When you have 12,000 employees in 38 departments, we see that happen. And they've been awesome. And the people who have come out, the code enforcement officers, that's no criticism of them. I know that their job is different. Absolutely. So as an example of 503, both my staff, myself, and the code enforcement have been out there. We're both coordinating, speaking with their managers. We know what we're doing. We have an understanding that we're all in touch with the property owner. Yeah, we're finally seeing some success today. And so that's both the result of the code's action and the result of the part, making that contact. And so we'll continue to coordinate. There's anything to do with respect. We will continue with respect. But I'm confident that that is not going to be a decision. It's looking good today. With that being said, if I made John and I, we don't sit too far from each other. I'm the zoning impermanent supervisor for the city of San Antonio. And we are coordinating a lot better nowadays since he doesn't sit too far from me. And if he needs help with the property, he lets me know on the binding of the property, I let him know. And what's your name? My name is Michael E. Resting. Michael E. Resting. Michael E. Resting. Michael E. Resting. I'm the zoning impermanent supervisor. I work closely with John, and he helps me out a lot. And he has been helping out with this new program he has. And we're really excited because that's going to help us get a lot of these buildings back up to code and off our books. So if you have any questions, I mean, you can always call John and you can get the coordination going. So to answer your question with that, I think you can take it. And that is part of the reason it's important that, and I stress this, and it might sound silly, but it's important that you contact staff. I can contact, I will know well whether or not this building is a potential dangerous premise that needs to be awarded to code. Or Michael will know if it's a property that potentially is in my, more of the realm of my program. But we need to have that coordination here. So do you need a program that uses apps to coordinate things? So you can report things through 3-1 1. I can tell you that most things you report through 3-1 1 that are code related are going to go to code. And so I would ask personally that if it is a vacant structure that you reach out to me directly, there's things we can improve with 3-1 1. And then I need a work to do that. But I can tell you that definitely it will come to me at a higher percentage if you reach out to me correctly and move in to work out faster. So I do. Sorry, just real quick. My phone number is 207-7999. I'm going to leave a stack of business cards with Claudia. And my number is also on the website. And you can report structures at any time anonymously through a link on the website. And my email in case you want it is johnjohn.stevens3. It's hidden until you're back up. So that's all good. How do you spell Stevens? S-T-E-E-E-N-S. And we'll put all of this up on our website so that you can go to it easily. Yeah, it's a lot to consume right now. But I will definitely follow up and provide Claudia with some information that you can share. And I broke in a brochure on the program. And I feel free to follow up with me with any questions. Yes, please. Do you maintain a list on the website of properties that are registered so that we can chat for more probably money in to save time here and there? We do. And it is up. This is an awkward time of year for us because technically properties are required. Once they register the first time, they're required to register by January 31st of each year. So we're in this kind of like little holding pattern where we're waiting for the registrations to come in. Then we'll be pushing owners who fail to register, that did in past years. So right now what you'll see is the list from December before the program expanded. But in the future months, there's an inventory link on the website that you can check. But especially if you see change or negative change, report it. Just because it's on that page doesn't mean that I've seen the property in the last several weeks. I mean, we're trying to be vigilant and present but that's not something we can always do. Yes, sir. You're doing some big buildings and houses. You're not doing the vacant lots? No. This is, it relates only to vacant structures. So vacant lots are important for this role. And so that would be, you should report those to 311 if they're overgrown. Jim, you have your own page on the OHP by component of the website. So that's the way for you to go directly. Do you know what the URL is for them? Oh, we have sanitary.gov backslash, vacant buildings. And then can you let everybody know since the program has just evolved what it was and now what it is and how it's grown, I think they might like to hear. So initially this program was launched covering the central business district, city's historic districts, and areas within a half mile of active military bases. And historic play farms. Now the expansion really is much broader. It is, we're adding neighborhood conservation districts and a half mile buffer around them. All of the city initiated TERS, which are tax increment for investment zones. I wouldn't anticipate that anybody here needs to know what that is. But they're large areas that include much of the east side and much of the west side. And then a half area, a half mile buffer around those. The defense base authorities, like Fort and Brooks and the area around them. And so those NCDs and those TERS, that expansion is 74 square miles. So we cover the most of district one now, much of the east side, the near west side, the mission and historic district and a half mile buffer around it. And then the areas around Lackland, Fort and Brooks City Base. So that is, so we're north of almost part of TERS basically down to the missions and then much of the near east and west sides. So we cover 20% of the city at this point, which 20% sounds small, but a hundred and nights per mile is a significant growth for us. We're still surveying those cracked those areas. We have done initial surveys of Alta Vista. And so we're gonna get started setting out the notices to those properties. They will have just gone out. So the building owners that we've identified thus far will have been notified over the next, they should have already received the notices, but if they haven't, it will be the next few days. Do you have any examples of success stories that might give us an idea of what it's turning to? And so one of the primary successes and one of our first successes that I like to refer to is 645 East Park in Covingill. I refer to it not because it's the most recognizable property, but on Park Avenue and Park and St. Mary's Street. There was a very long, dilapidated property. It's been sitting in that condition for 10 years. The grass when I first went there was literally above my waist. Most of the windows were open and it had been owned by a military member who has been overseas and a viable investor for a long time. We worked with them, we gave them an opportunity. He chose to sell the property, which is one of the avenues that people can take if they're not willing to make repairs. Because under this program, we will provide them an extension if they're willing to list the property for further value, which that owner did. And it was purchased by someone who renovated the home. It's a very pretty home. It's a very significant change on a very, it was a hard plumber. It was a very prominent house and you're going up a significant street. At this point, 180 buildings that were once subject to the ordinance are now exempt. So in the course of the two years, we've worked with about 500 properties in total and about 180 is ever now exempt. There are lots of examples of buildings becoming occupied or being renovated to the point where they meet our standard of care. And for single family homes, they're exempt when sitting in standard of care. So that's another important point is that if there is a well-maintained vacant home in your neighborhood or if you're thinking about selling your home, that is outside of the scope of my program. I have, you're not to spend resources on properties where the property owners are keeping the home. John, real quickly, a lot of homes in this neighborhood have carved or are used for a variety of labs that have been converted to apartments. Will these structures be subject to this policy? So technically any structure can be apart of the policy but we're looking at structures like if it's a significant garage apartment, then it's something that we would pursue. And if it is in a state that needed to be addressed. Now it is important to recognize that we are a small team with a very specific focus. We're not taking on the entire code enforcement role. We're not doing grass or some of those things that you might think of as traditional code enforcement. But if there's a real problem structure reported to me and we can at least discuss it, we'll go from there. But if it's a car park that needs a code of paint, that's probably not what we're not going to do. We're talking about stuff that would be converted to be powerful units that are required. Yes, then it would. A lot of these back arrives are just on slats and not even built right, so I'll be fine with the ride. Gas stations, the old gas stations, abandoned gas stations, I don't know that one's there. Special. I'm sorry, sir, can you see anything? There's a couple of points here. What do we do when somebody can't or won't take action? I skipped over the enforcement aspect of this ordinance. Most of it, because it's not our goal. Our goal is not to pursue people in punitive ways to work with people. But the reality is that people fail to comply. There's a risk of municipal court cases being filed against them for all the maintenance issues on the home. Now, we want to work with people as much as possible to prevent that from happening. We try to give people every opportunity to produce positive outcomes. You have to remember that these are vacant buildings. We're not upending anyone out of their home. We're not, you know, it's not that we're throwing someone's life in the turmoil because we're evicting them from their property. That's not what's happening. This is a property that's been vacant for 30 or more days, and they haven't taken action often times they've been vacant for a long time, and we give them an opportunity to come up with a reasonable plan, which can potentially sell you the property. Bonnie, am I going over? We're going to need to. Perfect. Well, I will be available after this. If you have any questions, I apologize if I wasn't speaking loudly enough. I have no voice. But anyway, thank you. I put up all of this information on our website so you know how to contact him very easily and how to monitor and handle these nine areas. And now that he's here, we, as neighborhood association, can help spread that word and keep you up to date on what's going on. I want to talk about 503 West Keyes Highway. I mean, our committee, after the technical committee, did a great job. But I would like the technical committee to update us on what's happened with 503 West Keyes Highway. And one of the things that John and I did talk about, and so did Mike, is that we can bring a monthly update to the neighborhood association on that property if we need that. So that's one strength about having this program here is we really have access to information much more easily. So, David, would you give the update on what's happened with 503 West Keyes Highway? OK. So I'm David Bowel, and I'm the first man to name the employees' husbands. And as the technical committee person that's sort of handy, I was asked to look at this one. So 503 West Keyes Highway is under construction. I don't know how long it's been baking, but I got a handy summary sheet here from our code, Zoning and Permitting Supervisor, Michael Eresti, who introduced himself earlier. So the degree has been removed. I understand the defense was up today. Planned viewers visited the property, reviewed the status of the NCD requirements, and it appears that it was applied when they submitted plans for renovation. And the NCD enforcement will check it out as it's built to make sure it still applies. The contract has been notified. The exterior must be replaced with STUCO. Contractor on Cycle, work with the crew. The owner has to, oh, the fence is done. Sorry. Storage pod will be removed from the street by 26 tomorrow. The dumpster will be emptied and moved off the right-of-way by the weekend. And then we'll be checking the status of the property daily with visits by the code officer. Looking for degree files, ensuring the work site is properly secured, and that their policy will be approved by the NCD department. And just for context, this is what it looked like before it was stripped and gutted. And this is, as of Wednesday, I believe, of those days, it was a young Monday. So that's what we're making sure of. Is this the King's Highway? From behind you. Yes. Yeah. So it's changed a lot since I was there. When I was there last, the existing framing was on the facade, and the existing windows on King's Highway were still framed. There is an NCD requirement for window openings on the frontage, and that would be, in this case, on Western's Highway frontage. So our NCD standards aren't very sensitive. They are not requiring them to rebuild the house or the apartment building the way it used to be. One of the reasons we want to look at revising the NCD standards. Yeah, David. Because in this specific case, a very, very small part of it is actually front on West King's. Where you see it is when you come up from the summit of West King's Highway, and that's our gateway into that section of the neighborhood. And you see this big ugly. And so that's one example of an NCD requirement that needs to be. So the neighborhood is what? It's not historical, but it's neighborhood conservation. It's word for conservation. And we have a standard that's eight and a half. Yeah. Which is interesting. So I'm glad to see that they will be required to skin it with stucco. Is that because of our NCD? Because when I looked at the NCD, I thought, oh, this does not have enough teeth. I want to talk about keeping materials in mind. I don't remember what the exact word means. But that's positive. Because I think that adds a lot to the character of this particular. I think the NCD says you can use different materials. But I think that it's not as important to say. But I think in this case, because they're trying to keep. We have neighborhood NCDs. We're able to push that a little bit more. But our NCDs are different. Because it's not required. Who stops them? Because I talked to the construction manager, and they're originally, we're going to put up siding. And then at some point over the last four or six weeks, they switched to stucco, apparently it's not. Who tells them to do that? We stop them, sir. The code enforcement is on the permitting team. We're working along with the code enforcement. We're working with John. Was that a happenstance? You happened to pull by and you saw that they were about to be stopped? We did get some calls on it. We had gotten some calls that it was dirty. It wasn't secure, that it was being the nuisance for the children in the school area around there. So what we did is we sent the officer out there zoning the permitting and the normal code enforcement officers. So we could ensure that we resolved all the issues and what we did was we got a comprehensive plan working with John and code and land development to ensure we got everything taken care of. And if you look at the NCD requirements, if you look at the Vista and the building materials it says rehabilitation is the building material so it maps the infrastructure and the scale and the proportion and or profile. So that's why we say you got to do this stuff. Okay, so if we see things that are happening we should call you and say, because if they put it up, they're going to tell them to take it down. They put it up, you call us and we'll go ahead and site them for being in violation of the NCD requirements and building outside the scope of the permit if the permit isn't allowed. The people are often made to break things down but that's fine. So I also was the end of the sheet which is what the developer was told when they got approval of NCD and it does include in here it says regarding building materials regulations do not prohibit changing the materials when done comprehensively. So... Hopefully they will cover the building comprehensively. That's fine. We're going to be working to ensure they adhere to the NCD and to keep it as much as they can using this code in compliance of what they would like to do as much as they can. Great. All right, I do want to move because we do have a request to rezone some properties and we do need to take a membership vote on this. So, David, you can be concise. So the applicant, Lauren is here. She's a resident on the 424, the one on the right. No, I live at 430. 430, the one on the left. I just purchased the house next door at 424. And she requested the neighborhood association to support her rezoning activity. So, the committee looked at it and 430 West Magnolia, the one on the left, sorry. The one on the right. 430 West Magnolia is currently a single family home and it is zoned currently multi-family 33. So, she's requesting to rezone it to R6 to conform with the existing single family use. And the technical committee thought that was a very good idea. The 424 West Magnolia is currently a duplex and is deteriorated and it's however it's zoned R6. So, to do work on it she needs to rezone it. Explain the R6. R6 is the zoning designation which is suitable for single-family homes on one value unit. So, she can operate a duplex at that. Right. You can self as a duplex or restore it as a duplex with that zoning. But it's been sorry to hear, but it historically has been a duplex. Yes. So, today I just want to real I was clear as to actually what the happenings mean first of all trying to know what the place that was that should happen. But, so to be clear though the R6 means that it's a single-family residence but in the agenda it's said that it would operate as a duplex so I wanted to see the family. So, historically the property has operated as a duplex. What we mean by that and from what we can tell from its origin and I did do some research through this in newspaper archives it appears that it has always been a duplex. It appears that there is an apartment upstairs and an apartment downstairs. Why zone for a single-family we don't know. We think that's just simply a mistake because there are there's a historical record that shows that it's a duplex. So, when the property owner was trying to get permits to do the right thing to rehab the building she wasn't able to get that because it was stoned as a single-family and the work she's trying to do is for a duplex. So, in order for her to operate as a duplex she needs to change the zone. So, basically what she's doing she's changing the zone in both houses to make them right for both houses. And they have to be next to each other where she owns both of them. And because of the overall property size she's able to do the both on the same zoning application. So, the single application that she's filled out is for both of these properties to change. So, we're not flipping the property we're just recognizing what it really is the right change. They're really separate cases in our analysis. That's why I'm presenting it that way. Especially when you look at this I mean, to think that it's developed for multi-family 33 which would be a huge complex. Probably there was a mistake because this is really what I think. So, the applicant seeking to rezone the duplex to RN4 and our technical committee wants to support that it be re-zoned RM6. We've talked about that with her with the applicant. The RM6 would allow the duplex as a right but it's the least intensive zoning that would allow the duplex. So, it would allow fewer units if it were redeveloped on a Sunday than the one that she originally solved. So, what we'd like is to recommend the association support that would be re-zoned RM6 and then once she does that better she would change her request to the zoning commission to go that route. That's a scenario we're looking for. So, any questions for me or the applicant? I move that the neighborhood association write a letter in support of the property owner for both the RM6 and the RM6 to RN4. To RN4? Yeah, the right way. The thinking on our committee was let's support the one that's the least intensive. The fewest permissible dwelling units that applies with the duplex. And that seems to be kind of the way neighbors want to see redevelopment here. I spoke anyway. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? All in favor. Sure, well I was talking about seeing that fence go on. Yes, thank you. But we took a look at the newsletter that came out. I posted it on Facebook several days ago. I understand it came out today. There was an update that is very, very clear. We haven't moved Jen Poshpin who is also on the committee is here. It hasn't moved very far forward yet. We're just kind of in our first phase of discussing things. The mural committee, yes. The second meeting will be held on it looks like and so we will be brought up to speed on the process that will be used to choose artists, to evaluate artists, so on and so forth for the mural. Can you just give the context of where the mural is going to be? The mural that we're discussing for anyone who's not familiar with that is the Fulton Street underpass. It's just right down from the weekend the railroad goes over it uh Twyla Martha's wonderful mosaic wall extends through that section and we have funding uh to go ahead and commission a mural for that underpass. And so that's what we're doing and we will be keeping you guys informed as things go forward. There's not a lot to report by hand but we will keep you informed as things go forward. Any questions? I may or may not be able to answer. We can't be deterred from underpass. So I want to go back to our budget very quickly and I just want to see a show of hands and some ideas. So as I said the majority of our funds go for social events. So just a quick idea, is everybody still okay? All right. What other things do you think we should be budgeting for? We're going to the to the little train depot here on the street on the tracks on Missile Road We talked about it a long time ago this meeting but I don't know what the context is. I don't think everything will be well different. Would we be interested in having some seminars? We gave an honorarium to somebody who talks about historic gardens and what we can do in our neighborhood for gardening. Something like that. Would we be interested in bringing people in like that? So maybe an educational series too. And then thinking about people who come with us. I'm certainly interested in some neighborhood possibly tree planting. Things like that. We would like to enhance the street ways and the public right way. So I don't know how much costs or what kind of labor we have to get together to do that but I like that. We'll look into what costs might be and we'll start building that into the budget. We can also work the saws on that. And then with the City Arborists who has already talked about maybe coming out and giving us fruit trees. All that note, the total of 26,000 fruit trees in the show are over here. It's so sad. The question has to be where do we build these things in the building? Do you want to do that? We already have beautification funds and we've tried to figure out what to do with them. Maybe that's pretty okay. Well the little island at Breeden in Gramercy by the 503 that needs some assistance. So that would be my suggestion. So we struggled. We had struggled to maintain those islands. The two traffic islands at Kingsley Gramercy are dedicated to past members of the association who have since passed on. And we maintain those islands in memory of those individuals but we struggle every year to maintain them. We try to bring two work dates together and we don't always get enough people and we have the same people consistently showing up and it's difficult. So we have those two islands to maintain, those are ours. The city does not maintain them. And then we also have the Fulton Street underpass area where Twyla Arthur's tile work is. So we are also responsible for maintaining all of that greener middle on there. It's a lot of work. So we all need to show up and help and beautify those areas when those work days can come together or maybe we can look at spending some money because we could do that before the week. And then season, well it gets done more often so that it doesn't turn into like those poor practices just look terribly sad there after it's finished. So I think that's just an idea. Maybe we can look at a maintenance. I didn't know if we used those works. I didn't know there are ours. There are ours. Another recommendation ahead is sidewalks. We have a lot of places for people from roots or from swelting or something like that. You can actually sort of soft cut those diamond pieces and smooth some of that stuff out. We've seen it in other cities where they have maintenance crews from the city chop off that little angle piece and sort of smooth out those transitions. So that's something that's fairly cheap and fairly easy to do. We can do it, I suppose as a neighborhood or something like that. There's actually a city that has many things that the property owner may think they're sidewalks in good order. But the city does have a cost sharing program for the repair of sidewalks that was initiated last fiscal year and has continued this fiscal year. So I think everything Claudia the information she can link to it on your social media and your newsletter and send that out. Unfortunately last year it was very underutilized. There are some neighborhood associations that are kiddie of money that also do their own cost sharing with the residents of the neighborhood. So they were able to leverage those monies to do a lot more but it's a great way to fix those problem areas that pop up in older areas with lots of mature trees and definitely victims to that happen. Right, and this can cover some of the entire property's running. But if you just got one area where you got a tree running you're going to want to say it's up to the poor sector country. Is that what you're talking about related to that pilot program that you're talking about? No, that's a different thing. That's Councilman Javino's pilot program on precast concrete sidewalks. They're almost finished installing those panels. And now the city will be evaluating the afforded place traditional sidewalks versus the precast panels. Yes. So when I understand the precast panels were temporary for the future construction they were looking to be a permanent one. No, it's permanent. So the Lava number association said that those panels were there in case the future construction would be able to remove them without breaking up the whole site. Well that's the benefit of precast panels is that they connect and are likely better for the kids. So if there's work that needs to be done or if they're swelling they can move a little bit more than a traditional sidewalk. And then if there's work to be done they'll come up to do the work off the back lawn. They're asking for a permanent but I understand from Councilman that there's work permanent. The precast panels are permitted installation. So I'm going to just move it off the back lawn. Are we responsible? Are we responsible for the posts down by the underpass? Because one of the lights, the one on our side is following right here. That's about it. It's in the artist. It's in the artist. Thank you for pointing that out. I'm just saying that there might be some funds for doing some work here within this project or generating the lighting and things like that. It's definitely something that is what our mission has been to run a normal school in Toronto to be more accessible. But it's part of the working market that's part of the budget and we'll have that to learn from. So on that note, we're going to have I'm sorry, Robin, we're in the same van right now. Hi, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Robin Harvey. I'm the director for stake-up presented for all. I'm really happy to be here. I wasn't expecting to be here because we're almost at the Austin legislative session. And on that note, we're looking for people to represent us at neighborhood associations. We're trying to figure out the best way to do that and we're about to release a call for volunteers. Rafael was an intern at our office for a week. It was a great experience for young people who want to get involved and learn how the legislature works. I can give you our office number which is 512 463 0532 and you should ask for Anita who's our chief of staff. And on the note of trying to make the legislative process a little bit less okay, we're hoping to have a meeting probably towards the end of February, maybe some place at the friendly spot on this one day afternoon to talk about how the legislature works and how you can get involved. I think a lot of people are really creating that kind of information right now. So we'll talk about our agenda but also just how it works in general. So if you want to talk to me about our agenda, please stick around for a little bit. So, thank you. Can you repeat that number one in terms of this? 512 463 0532 And I was going to announce that the executive committee is meeting on February 21st and we will be talking about the budget. Those meetings are open to everybody so if you would like to come you are welcome. I will post where we want to be. I don't know yet where we want to be. We kind of drove around. Last time we were at my house we may do that again but I'll let everyone know, especially on the budget I think it would be great if people wanted to listen in or get some more ideas. Any other announcements? Yes. We've got So, we were in the studios that are down by the train tracks on West Russell and West Craig We're part of On and Off Fredericksburg Road Studio Tour How many have been to the billboards? I mean It's a cool place if you have Isn't it nice? It's nuts. We've got about 52 artists that have studios and photographers so if I can have one custodian who can assist me in the front office really quick so I'll just leave one custodian to the front office and thank you so much for everything you do every evening you make this group look absolutely amazing in a long fall soon from the beginning of the family and all of our teachers and staff so thank you for doing a great job Thank you so much and have a great evening So we've got studios if you all don't know what awesome there's like what 90 studios open all over this area Beacon Hill, Monimist, Altimist anything on Fredericksburg Road we're kind of a big hub so there's a ton of really amazing artists a lot more like museum level that you don't see except at museums or in really high end galleries and they're just there to talk with you so we're open both days Saturday and Sunday you can get catalogs at the Beale House which is up Fredericksburg and it's got all the studios that are open it's really cool the 18th and the 19th but there's a giant party at Beale House which is in the Primrose retirement community it's a little weird but it's this really cool gallery that's about the size of this and Calvin McIntyre runs it and she's the one that orchestrates this every year so you're all welcome at the mill it's totally daffy but you'll love it there's an ad at the back of this month's newsletter it's got the details about Monimist and we have a huge show from New York that we did a big exchange with the Hispanic Society which was a big stinking deal and we'll see the response from New York, Brooklyn, Kansas City and Vermont lots of San Antonio thank you thank you very much 60 second announcement the one day all pink event that's for this school right here after this Saturday and the enrollment the interest is growing up and there event next year has been accepted and we hope you guys continue to love the event thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you