 Metro, a Calabarity Session. Mi nombre es Antonia Infante. I'm a leader with San Patrick Catholic Church and I will co-chair this assembly. I'm a member of the Archdiocese of San Antonio and a sister of Divine Providence. A few housekeeping items. Para los que necesitan traducción, pueden escoger un audífono a un lado de la mesa de registración. Take a minute to silent your cell phones. We ask that we be respectful to one another, clapping to recognize your leader for candidates who have committed to our agenda. Remember, we never move. Metro, please review the agenda and the questions on the back. If you agree with the agenda, cheer to the right of fighting. I now invite Father Juan Carlos Tejada, pastor of Saint Timothy Catholic Church, to lead us in an opening prayer. Let us be in the presence of God, a Creator. God, Father of the Mercies, here we are gathered. Hear you heaviness with our weaknesses, but gather in your name. Our hearts teach us what we have to do. Show us where we should walk. Inspire us what we should do. Be our only spider and the author of our decisions. Do not let us make mistakes against justice. You who estimate equity. Let ignorance not tear us, nor sympathy bend us. Invite us to you so that we are one and that nothing evades us from the truth because we are one. Amen. Thank you, Father Juan Carlos. Now, let's find out who's here. Mi nombre es Monica Muñoz de Saint Patrick's Catholic Church. Y me quedo aquí cuando la institución está llamada. Soy Father Jimmy David Drennan. Soy el pastor de Saint Margaret Mary Parish y un miembro de COPS, Metro Alliance. Desde el establecimiento de COPS y Metro Alliance, creamos una organización que ríe a través de la ciudad a través de las vidas de los hombres y mujeres, jóvenes y viejos, gente de cada comunidad religiosa, denominación y background, a formar una fabricación que cubre la ciudad para protegerlo a los que lo harán a nosotros. Estamos extremadamente orgullosos de los acentos increíbles que hicimos durante los años y estamos muy, muy confundidos que tenemos un futuro aquí en San Antonio que se va a pasar de una generación a la siguiente. Pero hoy, en este momento en el tiempo, estamos abandonados juntos, llevados aquí a desafiar esos candidatos para la oficina pública, para hacer lo que es correcto en los problemas de inmigración, de desarrollo económico y de desplazamiento de casa para asegurar nuestros futuros familiares. La única cosa que vamos a hacer hoy es que no uno de nosotros será dividido de uno a otro. Estamos unidos y nuestro care para nuestra ciudad se extiende a cada corner para que nadie se divide esta energía y que los cobs y retroalianzas reconocen la dignidad de cada persona humana incluyendo a los inmigrantes que encuentran a ellos en nuestra ciudad y en nuestra comunidad. Y, como reunimos, convenimos la absoluta certeza de que cada uno de nosotros es de las familias inmigrantes. Cada uno de nosotros es de las familias inmigrantes. Estamos todos sufriendo. Así que los desafíos son creados para los candidatos de la oficina pública para asegurar que nos ponemos necesidades para todos los que se encuentran en nuestra comunidad y que entendemos que no vamos a tolerar nada que separara a los niños de sus padres. Los cobs y retroalianzas siempre han sido detrás de la confianza de que podemos enseñar a las personas a asegurar un trabajo y a proporcionar para sus familias. Pero, cuando están cansados, tienen que recibir una compensación que es justa. No más. Podemos tolerar a nadie para recibir un salario que no les permite cuidar para ellos en su familia y para llevar a su familia con dignidad. No queremos un salario. De todo. Pero queremos ser reconocidos para el trabajo que estamos haciendo y vamos a combinar para asegurar que todos reciben un salario justo. Una de las más increíbles cosas sobre San Antonio que se traen de la fabricación de esta comunidad es la creación de Project Quest. La ciudad nos visitó a los miembros de otras comunidades a través de los Estados Unidos para aprender sobre cómo el proyecto de Project Quest es. Project Quest es una organización de trabajo, desarrollada por cobs y retroalianzas a través de la fabricación de esta comunidad increíble. Hemos provado, sobre y sobre, que nunca ha habido y no ha habido a este día. Si hay algo que puede equivocar a lo que hemos logrado con Project Quest, no queremos ver a nuestros cobs extranjados en programas que no elevan a nuestros gente donde pueden sostener a ellos con un salario de vida y dignidad. Si quieres servir esta ciudad lo sabes muy bien que creemos en Project Quest que ha sido proveido que es el programa de trabajo que esta ciudad ha visto y que cada otra ciudad necesitamos 100% de su apoyo para Project Quest. Esto es un gran reunión pero quiero saber que hace pocas semanas había otro reunión. Hace un reunión que fue llevado a uno de nuestros líderes. Archbishop Gustavo García C.M. ha llevado a la delegación de ministros, religiosas, y de las personas de nuestra comunidad, a vosotros, a la ciudad, y a ellos, él ha desafortunado el Council de la ciudad y el mayor. Con uno de los más difíciles problemas que tenemos ahora mismo, y eso es el desplazamiento de nuestras familias de sus hogares y de sus habitaciones. Nosotros estamos muy orgullosos de Archbishop en nos llevamos y él ha continuado a apoyarnos en estos empeores. Con esta experiencia increíble queremos reconocer, primero de todo, el poder de los copas y de la Metropolitana para efectuar el cambio inmediato. El cambio inmediato. Desde esa conversación hemos recibido el Plan de Displazamiento de la ciudad que está en lugar ahora mismo. No hay más estudios. No vamos a tener un año o un año y medio para saber lo que sabemos. Pero quiero que todos se sientan que eso se ha entrado en vosotros, a todos nosotros unidos. Eso es por eso que ahora tenemos este Plan de Displazamiento de la ciudad. La creación de esto va a proporcionar zonas de empoderamiento de la ciudad, reabrimiento de autónomas y navegadores de casa. Ese plan va a permitir que ayemos recursos que han sido sweatados todo a la ciudad y que le permiten que sea quieto en nuestras ciudades que están por afecto. Y por hiding nuestros familiares podiendo perder sus hogares y ser asistidos a sus hogares. Nosotros estamos duelos por posibilitar los taxas propuestas que nos preventan de estacionar en nuestras ciudades. ¿Qué para los taxas? Quiero que todos tienen tax abatements, no tienen que pagar taxas de propiedad y están construyendo condominios y hoteles, ellos tienen tax abatements, no tienen una tax abatementa, aquí, nosotros lo necesitamos, pero no queremos solo taxas, pero no vamos a poder tolerar estas tax abatements y incentivos que tocan taxas de nosotros en nuestras neighborhoods y les damos a los desarrolladores. Un desarrollador fue preguntado exactamente cuántos incentivos necesitas para venir aquí a San Antonio. El responsable de los desarrolladores fue, no es sobre cuántos incentivos necesito, es sobre qué tipo de ciudad quieres vivir en, y nuestra respuesta a vosotros, los miembros y candidatos de la Ciudad de la Ciudad, queremos vivir en una ciudad que investa en sus personas. Los topes de la Metrolíneas han sido acusados de preguntar por más, cada vez que vamos a la table de negociación, y hemos preguntado por qué necesitamos más, necesitamos más porque nuestra ciudad está creciendo, necesitamos más porque nuestras ciudadanas están deteriorando, mientras los invesos están realizados en áreas que no necesitan invesos, estamos perdiendo todo, no vamos a tolerar este tipo de comportamiento, como longas estamos en nuestras ciudadanas, vamos a demandar que estemos cuidados. Incentivos hacen a los desarrolladores ricos, quiero a todos saber que todo lo que Copes y Metrolíneas han preguntado, no hace ni la organización richa, lo hace nuestra ciudad rica, la verdad es que queremos ser parecidos hoy, a vosotros, los candidatos de la Ciudad de La Ciudad y a los que nos ayudan en la Ciudad de La Ciudad, queremos que sabrás que tenés una decisión, quizás tened Standard de Incentivos y monedas, y les diste a Staats y Defesores, que no son que from our city or state, or give it to the people who have lived in these neighborhoods, and just so you know, these people are the parents and grandparents and great-grandparents of our firefighters, police officers, teachers, our nurses, our construction workers, they are the ones who clean our city, they are the ones who clean our office in us. Join me, invest in us, invest in us, invest in us, invest in us. Today we ask for commitments that will be, that it will be implemented with great urgency. Corporation, a finance corporation, should be used to build affordable housing. Too often they are used to build market rate housing attacks that provide truly of area medium income. This is a 30 for the family of four. Two years ago, COPS Metro began a campaign funds. We have increased the funds from 1.8 million to 11.65 million dollars, Metro. To continue to help these children and make sure that they have the legal protection that they deserve. Workers now start at a minimum of 5th source workers make as little as $7.25 per hour. We must require contractors to pay no less than $9.50 per hour matching the county's policy, 30 wages for those employees. That is proving to live a year to take to a living wage city. The city of San Antonio on trial for the unintended consequences of the decade of downtown. It will now come to order. We call the city of San Antonio to the stand. Please explain the decade of downtown. Where do I start? The city has been so generous to developers. We gave them 15.5 million dollars in sauce fee waivers, 3.5 million dollars in city fee waivers, 4.3 million dollars in interest free construction loans and almost 70 million dollars in property tax rebates. Was that all? Oh, I almost forgot. Also, tens of millions of dollars expanding the river walk to include pearl and 42 million dollars in bond money to improve the Broadway corridor. And what was the result? Tax payers dollars funded some beautiful luxury condos, 10 million dollars was given to developers of the arts residences at Thompson Hotel. Well, these condos will sell anywhere from 400,000 dollars to 4.5 million dollars. Cops Metro, just to be clear, your tax dollars were used to provide over 100 million dollars in incentives to developers. Tell me, who benefits, who pays? The city still incentivizing luxury properties. Like the sellers at the pearl down the street, they receive 3.7 million in incentives and rents reach as much as 14,000 dollars a month. You heard me right, the rents can reach 14,000 dollars a month. We're not incentivizing luxury apartments anymore, luxury properties. We now have requirements in place for affordable housing, but the developers have lots of leeway. A developer can build homes for sale up to 360,000 dollars or rent an apartment of 1,000 square feet for no more than 2,750 dollars a month to qualify for tax rebates. Are you expecting downtown workers to afford 2,750 dollars per month apartments or a home of 360,000 dollars? Citizens of San Antonio, can you afford that? We taxpayers are still subsidizing developers to build housing that we cannot afford to live in. We pay for developers to build housing, which then causes our taxes and rents to increase substantially. Cops Metro, who pays, who benefits? I'd like to call now District 5 resident Rose Educheta to the stand. Ms. Educheta, please tell us about your neighborhood in District 5. My name is Rose Educheta. I was baptized at St. Philip's of Jesus 59 years ago and I still live in that same house just around the corner from my church. My parents purchased this home in the 1940s and raised me and my eight siblings. My dad served in the army and became a chef at the St. Anthony Hotel. My mom was a housewife. For extra money, she would wash in iron people's clothes. We were not wealthy, but my family could thrive in this neighborhood of mine. My husband and I stayed in the house and raised five children. We stayed in our neighborhood because it was a strong and vibrant community of families who knew each other and we shared the same struggles and desires. Like my parents, I worked hard, but I too struggled with wages during my 30 years with the City of San Antonio as a 911 operator. As I have talked with my neighbors and childhood friends, it's changing so quickly and it's not all for the good. It is no longer a neighborhood where a 911 operator could live. A quarter of a million dollar apartments and condos are popping up everywhere. Taxes are rising. My friends who have inherited homes have had to sell because they cannot afford the high taxes if they chose to stay and rebuild or give hundreds of dollars to developers. I say to you, where are the incentives for our families who want to stay? Here from our council candidates is our time keeper. Candidates, you must first respond yes or no to each question. All the questions, mayoral candidates will be given one minute to explain and council district candidates, you will have 30 seconds. When you see, you will have 10 seconds to finish your remarks. The red card means your time is up. There will be no personal attacks. COPS Metro, we only applaud when candidates commit to our agenda and there is no... Council and candidates, Petrovino, Justin Holly, Embron... Where is he? Where you commit to implementing the city new displacement probation plan, yes or no? Yes. Maintaining the $11.65 million in honor-occupied rehab, yes or no? Yes. Ensure that the public facilitates cooperation and finance cooperation, only participate in deals that found affordable housing at 60% of area median income. Yes. Do you commit to setting a wage floor of $9.50 per hour for contract workers? Yes. Pase the city line item budget investment and quest to $2.5 million? Yes. Did you commit to maintain the $500,000 emergency legal defense fund to citizen, children who have lost their parents? Absolutely, yes. You have 30 seconds. Thank you. Again, we work together on the mitigation or the funding for minor home repair. Amongst that is the under one roof program that we've seen an increase. What I'm here to say is we're increasing that partnership. It grew from just district one to now city wide. And now we're talking with a county to expand the roof program for the entire county. Super proud of that. Let's expand those resources. Did you mention the city's new displacement formation plan? Yes or no? Yes. Maintaining $11.65 million and owner occupied? Yes or no? Yes. And should the public facilitates cooperation and finance cooperation only participate in deals that found affordable housing at 60% of area median income? Yes. Did you commit to setting a wage floor of $9.50 per hour for contract workers? Yes. Yes. Item budget investment in quest to $2.5 million? Yes or no? Yes. Did you commit to maintain the $500,000 emergency legal defense fund for citizen, children who have lost their parents? Yes or no? Yes. You have now 30 seconds sir. Well thank you for having me today. I'm proud to be here. Our plan is to build our neighborhood associations back up. We have lost the neighborhood associations in terms of neighborhoods that are being torn apart because of a lot of things that are going on. So we're going to be working every day to bring those back as well as nonprofits. So those two things are going to go hand in hand and work very hard for it. Yes or no? Sí. Yes or no? Sí. Corporación and finance corporation only participate in deals that found affordable housing at 60% AMI? Sí. Did you commit to setting a wage floor of $9.50 per hour for contract workers? Yes or no? Of course. Of course. ¿Cree lines, item budget, investment and quest to do yes or no? Sí. Did you commit to maintain the $500,000 emergency legal defense fund for citizen, children who have lost their parents? Yes or no? Sí. Porque yo quiero ayudar comunidad latino. 22 years old, I'm running for City Council to give you and your family a voice at City Hall and a seat on the diaries. I'm fighting for working families and I'm fighting to move our city forward. I want to ensure that we are economically and socially prosperous city. And I'm ready to take off my jacket, roll up my sleeves and work tirelessly for you to have a city that's going to move forward and work for everyone. So thank you. God bless. Y para los latinos yo soy Cristian. Ana Orozco from St. Patrick's Catholic Church, District 2 candidates. Walter Perry Sr., would you commit to implement the city's new displacement prevention plan? A promise. ¿Yes or no? Yes. $11.65 million in owner occupant rehab? Yes. ¿Tenía en dios que funda el hogar? Sí. ¿Tendrían un salario de $9.50? Sí. ¿Investimiento en la pared y $2.5 millones? Most definitely. ¿Sí o no? Sí. ¿Enfatic, sí? ¿The $500,000 emergency? Sí. 30 segundos. Hola a todos. Mi nombre es Walter Perry y estoy trabajando en la District 2 City Council. Y la razón por la que estamos trabajando es porque queremos establecer las valiosas que se han perdido en el City Council. Tres cosas que puedo prometerte. Voy a trabajar, voy a luchar para ti y no voy a quitar. Tienes un campeón en tu district. Vamos a luchar para los taxas. Los 20-20 centímetros están saliendo, así que es importante que participes en tus centímetros porque es todo sobre la funda. Empecemos con los centímetros. Soy Walter Perry, gracias. ¿En el desplazamiento? Sí o no? Sí. ¿$11.65 millones en la reacción de la opción? Sí o no? Sí. ¿Tienes que participar en los centímetros que tienen la funda? Sí o no? Sí. ¿Seguimos un desplazamiento de $9.50? Sí. ¿Un desplazamiento de $2.5 millones? Sí o no? Sí. ¿Seguimos un desplazamiento de $500.000 en la reacción? Sí o no? Les falta más. Sí. ¿Tienes 30 segundos? Soy Denise Gutiérrez Homer, y esto es mi perro en mi comunidad de Government Hill. Yo veo muchas veces aquí. Conozco muchas caras aquí en este paroque. Y hemos estado lutando difícil. Las cuestiones que escuchaste, hemos estado lutando difícil. Esto es por eso que estamos aquí juntos hoy. Nuestros negros, tú y la ciudad de San Antonio, hemos estado lutando. Vamos a la HDRC. Vamos a la zona. No nos escuchan. Mi barrio no se vende. No se vende. Soy la hermana Gabriela, una hermana de Espíritu, y voy a llamar al otro candidato de la District 2. Candidate Jada Andrew Sullivan. ¿Quién comienza el plan de desplazamiento de la ciudad? Sí. ¿De mantener $11.65 millones en la reacción ocupada? Sí. ¿Pero que only participate in deals that fund affordable housing at 60% of area median income? Sí. To setting a wage floor of $9.50 per hour for contract workers. Sí. And raise the city's line item budget investment in quest to 2.5 million. Sí. You now have 30 seconds. Good evening. I am Jada Andrew Sullivan. I live, work, and move in District 2. My family is here. You are my family. As a community, working in cohesiveness, working together, we rise above anything that can ever try to bring us down. With a city council person that has access, accountability, and action, you get your voice, not only her, but you get your motion and your mission move to the next level. Again, I'm Jada Andrew Sullivan, and thank you for having me. Sí. A la line item budget investment and raise it to $2.5 million. Sí. Do you commit to maintain the $500,000 emergency legal fund for children who have lost their parents? Sí. Now you have 30 seconds. Thank you for being out here. Thank you for listening to us. I'm a former councilman in District 2, so others can talk about it. I've been about it. In 2014, when Sister Gabriel came to me and said, Councilman, I'd like to get an additional $100,000 for Project Quest. We didn't get her an additional $100,000 for Project Quest. We got her an additional $200,000 for Project Quest. Because I know how important it is. I know the work you've done. I've been there. I'll continue to do it for you. God bless. San Tobáñez Guzpat. Take note that she is not here. Mr. Aztinago, Will you commit to the city's new displacement prevention plan? Yes. Maintain $11.65 million in owner occupied rehab? Yes. Only participate in deals that fund affordable housing at 60% of area median income? Yes. Set a wage floor of $950 per hour for contract workers? Yes. And keep Project Quest as a line item in the budget and raise it to $2.5 million. Yes. Will you commit to maintain the $500,000 emergency legal fund for children's citizens who have lost their parents? Yes. Thank you. You now have 30 seconds. Well, my name is Ruben Aztinago. I'm a candidate for District 2. I'm proud that I'm from District 2 and on the east side. But I want to tell a quick story. My father told me of a time in the 50s when they were segregated here at the St. Patrick Church. And they practiced mask in the Old Hanger. That was wrong, but that changed. And that was the right thing to do as we move forward. So when we change those things, we need to look forward to the future and be able to change our situations with housing, change our situations with immigration and change our situations with workers. These are two forever. Buenas tardes. My name is Vicente Arrigin from McCarmon Church. District 3 Councilwoman. Come forward. We invited other councilmen, but they didn't respond to the invitation. Will you commit to the new Displacement Protection Plan? Yes or no? Yes. Ownership Occupied Rehab? Yes or no? Yes. The affordable housing at 60% area median income? Yes. Setting a wage floor of $9.50? Yes. City line item budget, investment and quest? Yes. $500,000 emergency legal defense fund? Yes. You now have 30 seconds. Thank you everyone. My name is Rebecca Villagran and I am the proud council member for District 3, the south and the southeast side of San Antonio. I am a proud daughter of the south side and a proud product of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church and St. Leo Cops Metro. It is because of Cops Metro that I first got involved in elected office and to continue to serve. I am proud to have been working with Project Quest to ensure that we got more money for the budget. And I commit to doing that further. Thank you. My name is Ana Esparza from St. Bonaventures Catholic Church. District 4 candidates, please come forward. Adriana Rocha Garcia and Maria Perez. Okay. Now the other candidates declined to come. Ms. Garcia, will you commit to implementing the city's new city development prevention plan? Yes. The owner occupied rehab? Yes. Affordable housing at 60% of area medium homes? Yes. A wage floor of $9.50 per hour? Yes. Is the city's line budget item for Project Quest a $2.5 million? Yes. A $500,000 emergency legal fund defense? Yes. You now have 30 seconds. Hi, I'm Adriana Rocha Garcia and I've lived and worked with Project Quest. I was part of the team that created the 25 year economic impact study to prove that we were successful. $1.67 billion that you all, Quest and Cops Metro have advocated for and that can continue through the years. I'm really excited about representing you all and I hope that I get to work together in the future. Also shout out to St. Bonce, which is in D4. That's not my parish, but every time I'm late to church, I go to St. Bonce. Hello, St. Timothy's Church. District 5 candidates, please come forward. Councilman Shirley Gonzalez, will you commit to implementing the city's new displacement prevention plan? Yes. Maintaining $11.65 million in owner occupied rehab? Yes. Participating deals that fund affordable housing at 60% of aerial medium income? Yes. Do you commit in setting a wage floor of $9.50 per hour for contract workers? Yes. And raise the city's line item budget investment in Quest, $2.5 million? Yes. Do you commit to maintaining a $500,000 emergency legal defense fund for citizen children who have lost their parents? Yes. You now have 30 seconds. Thank you. I'm Shirley Gonzalez, your councilwoman for District 5. For the last six years, I have worked to get us infrastructure drainage parks libraries. If you give me the opportunity to serve you for the next two years, I will focus my attention on the human capital that we have in District 5. Towards workforce, education, working together with our delegate agencies to make sure that our community and our children have bright futures to look forward to. Mr. Gonzalez, will you commit to implementing the city's new displacement prevention plan? Yes. ¿Maintain $11.65 million in owner-occupied rehab? Yes. ¿Participating deals that fund affordable housing at 60% of aerial medium income? Sí, yes. ¿Do you commit to setting a wage floor of $9.50 per hour for contract workers? Yes. ¿And raise the city's line item budget investment in Quest, $2.5 million? Yes. ¿Do you commit to maintaining a $500,000 emergency legal defense fund for citizen children who have lost their parents? Yes. ¿You now have 30 seconds? Mi nombre es Anthony Caniz, soy candidato de District 5 City Councilman. Tengo tiempo para desfrutar. Quiero trabajar con todos los individuos, con todos los hogares, con todos los residentes, porque eso es donde vivo. Tengo tiempo para trabajar con los consumidores para que podamos llevarnos a nuestra familia, incluyendo District 5, y todos los pueblos de nuestra familia. Me aprecio tu tiempo. Gracias por haberme venido, chicos. Mi nombre es Father Pat Syce. Soy de Holy Family Catholic Church, con el District 6. District 6, Candace, por favor, por favor. Mi nombre es Melissa Garejo-Hoverta. Estoy trabajando en el District 6 City Council. Voy a decirles muy rápido por qué. Cuando era un niño pequeño, fui a caminar en la calle con mi padre. Era un hombre educado, trabajó con sus manos, pero fue todo para mí. Y le pregunté, ¿por qué no estamos caminando en los coches? ¿Por qué no tienes coches en tu habitación? Y él me dijo, porque no les importa. En District 6, tenemos las habitaciones fríosas. Y commito a la agenda de los coches. Porque nosotros importamos. Buenas tardes. Soy su consejada, Ana Sandoval. Soy una inmigrante nacida en el país de México. Buenas tardes. Soy Ana Sandoval. He estado serviendo los últimos dos años, porque creo que estamos en la cruz, con una gran oportunidad de ver cómo grande y rápido nuestra ciudad está creciendo. Tenemos que asegurar que nos protegemos el mejor de los coches. Y, por favor, voy a decirles, que quédate a los coches. Muchas gracias. Thanks, thanks. Maintaining $11.65 million in owner occupied rehab. Yes. Affordable housing at 60% of area median income. Yes. A wage floor of $950 per hour. Yes. Raise the city's line item budget investment in quest to $2.5 million. Yes. $500,000 of emergency legal defense fund. Yes. You now have $32 million. Gracias. Hi, folks. My name is Manny Pelaes. I'm from District 8. Yo sueño de un San Antonio que nos conoce no solamente por nuestro equipo de basketball, la comida y las lanchitas en nuestro río, pero también un San Antonio que se conoce por cómo trata con compasión a nuestros ancianos, a nuestros hijos, a la gente pobre y al inmigrante. Courage, please come forward. Candidates were invited but declined to come. Courage, will you commit to the new city's displacement prevention plan? Yes. To $11.65 million in owner occupied rehab. Yes. Ensure the public, the affordable housing at 60% of area median income. Yes. Commit to setting a wage floor of $950 per hour. Yes. And raise the line item budget investment in quest to $2.5 million. Yes. And do you commit the $500,000 for the fund for citizen children who have lost their parents? Yes. You have 30 seconds. I want to represent everybody in our community. We have affordable housing needs. We have workforce development needs. We have needs for security in all of our neighborhoods. And I will support all of those issues as your council person. Thank you. Well, Miss Maria Perez, please come forward. Miss Perez. Do you commit to implementing the new displacement prevention plan? Yes. $11.65 million in owner occupied rehab. Yes. In public, 60% of area median income. Yes. Setting a wage floor of $950 per hour. Yes. Budget of $2.5 million for project quest. Yes. And the fund for children who have lost their parents at $500,000? Simplemente. Yes. You have 30 seconds. Yo les escucho. Yo les despido. Yo se entiendo. A mí también no era pobre. So, yo les entiendo. I am running for district 10. Yo me llamo María Perez. Yo voy a hacer todo lo posible para emitir distrudo. Gracias. And speak to who were glad that you are here. Selena, Santa Banyos, Rispach. Will you please come forward? kommen. Espero que toda laensions tend inlandre los miembros civicos, señor presidente. Peroazedo, es un Vallahi. Está bien. Gracias. Con estas manifestaciones, americana mied analyze y mírala. sécurismo, estranización, debates e para contratar a los trabajadores. Sí. Un investimiento de 2.5 millones de dólares en las cuestiones del proyecto. Sí. ¿Puedes mantener la fundación de defensa para los niños ciudadanos que han perdido sus padres? Sí. Tienes 30 segundos. Buenas tardes a todos. Soy Selena Santibáñez. Yo viví aquí en Carson Street, caminando desde Carson, a la extranjera desde que estuve 14 años trabajando en Kiddie Park para una hora de $1.40. Mi esposo también es un trabajador. Nosotros tenemos un negocio de construcción. Entendemos lo que hace para que trabaje difícil para cada día de nuestras vidas. Yo currently fostering two babies that are not mine, so I understand what it means to grow up through the system, not only as a homeless child who owns her own business. Gracias por tu tiempo. Please come forward. Would you commit to implementing the new city displacement prevention plan? Yes or no? Yes. Maintaining the $11.65 million in honor occupied rehab? Yes or no? Yes. And should the public facilities and finance corporation only participate in deals that fund affordable housing of 60% of AMI? Yes. Do you commit to sitting a wage floor or $9.50 per hour for contract workers? Yes or no? Yes. And raise the city's line item budget investment in quest to $2.5 million Yes or no? Yes. Did you commit to maintain the $500,000 emergency legal defense fund to citizen children who have lost their parents? Yes or no? Now you have a minute. Good afternoon. Thank you all for being here today. I want to first say thank you to the congregants and all of you who make up COPS Metro. You for greater than a generation to the voice of conscience in this community. And I'm glad to be in a city where we are building ourselves on compassion. And how is that being implemented? Today in our city, for the first time in our city's history we are building a city on equity so that everyone, no matter which neighborhood you live in, no matter who you are, when you got here what your status is, deserves to live safely with dignity and affordably. In addition, I'm so happy that for the first time in a generation this city, your city, is making housing a priority. And we are delivering that on the consciousness and the advocacy of COPS Metro. We are going to continue to work on behalf of defensive immigrants. We are going to make sure that everyone in this community has the opportunity to get a good career and to get prosperous education. And I will be working with you every day as hard as I possibly can as your mayor. Thank you very much. Please come forward. Will you commit to the new displacement prevention plan? Yes or no? Yes. Maintaining 11.65 million in owner occupied rehab? Yes. Making sure that affordable housing is at 60% of area median income? Yes. To setting a wage floor of 950 for contract workers? Yes. Raising the city's line item investment request to 2.5 million dollars? Yes. And the $500,000 emergency fund for children who have lost their parents? Yes. You have one minute. I'm thankful to be here today. I'm blessed to represent District 6 for the last two years. I want to thank you to anybody in this community from District 6. I'm very happy to be here and represent you. Thank you to COPS Metro and every faith-based organization in here. Since the day I got elected, the number one thing I've been doing is making sure that the neighborhoods are not forgotten. And as your mayor, three things are going to drive me. I'm going to think about your families helping you keep more of your money, lower property taxes and fees and allowing you to keep more of your paychecks so you can stay in your homes and grow up in generational families where your neighborhoods, your homes, your communities need to be yours. I'm then going to come around and talk a lot about making sure we take care of each other and that means faith. I'm not sure if those things happen as well, but at the end of the day, we're a community, we've got to work together, so we're not going to agree on everything, but I can fight for you and I think for far too long, City Hall has ignored neighborhoods across this city. It's the decade of downtown needs to end. I've been fighting for that since day one, so the millions, all those dollars go to neighborhoods, communities and families first. Thank you. Thank you. We have heard what our candidates have said. They have said they will support our agenda, our items. Do not join us today. Don't forget that. The ones who declined our invitation. Thank you for those who came. It is their job now to be faithful to their commitments and you can be sure that we will be holding you to your commitments. We will be willing to get our family commissioners and make sure they know what happened today and that they have to vote. Todos están iguales, no. Conoces a alguien que sí puede se comprometa. You have a commitment card. You also have a pencil. Let's take a moment to fill it out. Information on the left-hand side of the card. I will check that I will vote. I also commit to get 30 people from my religious congregation from my friends, from my coworkers, from my parish, people I know. Do you know 30 people or 20 people or 10 people? Your church, parents from religious education, friends, family neighbors you can ask to get out to vote and put that number here. Remember, we know for, we simply tell them we are committed to our agenda. And pass the side you filled out to the middle. You commit to vote and even if you cannot vote yourself get others to vote in this election stand up and be recognized if you commit to vote. Stand up. Stand up if you're going to vote. All right. Now invite Reverend Joshua Snyder from First Unitarian Universalist to give us the closing prayer. God of justice and love we are grateful for this afternoon to do the work of COPS Metro we ask a blessing on all those who are present who had the courage to speak their concerns and their interests. We also ask for our transition guests we pray not only hearing the people but doing the work of the people when they return to their job so that our city may be a place of justice and love for all. Go in peace. Blessed be. Thank you for attendance. Candidates, please join us and the cafeteria for evaluation and don't forget to vote. This meeting is adjourned.