 and our safe officer, could you guys please introduce yourself and introduce your name? I'm Joel Malaga, I'm the Safe Officer. I can be reached at 210-275-2181. If you need something, just hold on a minute. I can give you my email address, it's going to be called. Text me out here. I have your movement letter, you can issue it to as well. All right. I'm going to leave you, if you have any concerns, please leave a comment. I'm glad to help you, okay? Good evening. My name is Nick Ruin, I live on Claremont. I've been there for about nine months and I'm very excited to be here. I look forward to meeting my neighbors and their associations. So there is a lot of stuff that's happening since December that has kind of been a surprise and there will be a lot of opportunities to deal with these issues this year. So since it's the birthday of the year, I kind of wanted to give an update on some things that have transpired that we're going to have to get on board with and get your feedback on some topics you'd like to see. Address and your meetings as well as community events that are upcoming. I'm curious what you mean. Some channel resources it stops. I'll have recommendations, but the first week of December in the state housing services sends an email to registered neighborhood association leaders and they had a private case that proposed revisions to the existing health and neighborhood associations in the city. Basically how it's organized now there are some requirements to be officially recognized and registered associations in the city and if you are registered it's like having an official status and that gives you the opportunity to do things like sending position letters and zoning issues and the like. What they want to do some of the suggestions potentially make sense they're going to allow neighborhood association to go across the boundaries to exist which is a thing a lot of people are concerned about but they also want more transparency in things like documentation and minutes, but they just send this out the first week of December is supposed to go up to the council for a vote the second week so to your neighborhood coalition different registered neighborhood associations send in feedback to the city requesting that they pull that until they could have the public input process which they did pull it but they haven't sent to the state so at any point in the next few weeks we could get another memo with suggested revisions in terms of our bylaws how we were meeting mid-availability things like that so we have been doing more of a presentation informational format of meetings for the general meetings most of the things that they voted on in terms of what we do have in our meetings but we may have to look at revising our meeting format in the event that this policy moves forward so in the event that that happens I kind of want to get feedback from neighbors about issues you feel the general meeting should address or have voted on the event that we have to move to that format in the meeting we'll update to be on that at this point I haven't heard anything about community housing to remove this I haven't sent any digital emails but I just wanted to make you aware that that's happened and basically what we do with our registered status now is when there's a zoning report of Justin Perry sending a position letter to the late use committee which is a group of neighborhood presidents that are very clear of these issues and have been working on them for a long time to work with members but other than that that's really all of you with our registered status here well I think that maybe one of the issues that this city was trying to address that was like one of the big problems I think was the government bill or the more others was complaints about having a neighborhood association where the same president had been in place for years and years with no parents votes or any kind of bylaws so I think this is a step in the right direction but I'm glad I also would be concerned about this you have to overlap and that and they have some requirements that they would want to have on their group or down in the nation purposes the reason why this is a concern is if they were more specific about whether they wanted bylaws in file how they format the minutes and things you know, etc. like formal requirements if they had put this forward that anybody who is registered from the association that by accident or intention didn't need these requirements where no one's registered and everything that they submitted to a council person or a committee could not be counted so I just can't answer they are wanting neighborhood leadership and feedback on this issue still they have announced a new meeting date so if you have thoughts or comments on it and are relatively working neighborhood leaders a really strong history of neighborhood leadership in this community I strongly encourage you to submit them to the neighborhood health service department I'm going to do it is this document available from the city? I don't know if it's posted on their website but I can definitely e-mail it to whoever has signed in or anyone else who's interested I'm just going to pull that up and ask if you have any questions do you want a hotspot? sure, that would be great so the other another thing that would affect us that's going on right now is that SAWS has a public advisory committee that is reviewing and revising the rate structure here it's familiar with okay, so SAWS is our modern utility company basically and periodically they assess and revise rates for the city and they are looking at and waiting for our affordability authorities the affordability related meetings are coming out in February and March they are available at the public and it's at these meetings so if water breaks or police issues are interesting to you to your nearest coalition like others is looking very strongly for people to attend and help support and get involved on the National Conservancy is having their annual meeting on January 30 earlier in 2019 they came to one of our meetings and gave a presentation on the assessment that they're doing to explore the history of the park making a World Heritage site and some of the non-funding projects that they're doing so that's coming up on Friday and it does potentially affect us so we're moving into part of the sculptures now the reason why the sculpture date was very significant is because for a long time the city's had a priority of connecting Brack and Ray Park with the Santa Martins using making art as sort of the obvious incorporation works connecting the point so currently one of the Bond projects that is being worked on from the 2077 to 2022 Bond is the Dr. McQuarter project the upper section of which includes the Broadway between basically it was just a process record so when Mason Trades Foundation proposed this project it fit in with that priority without cost of the city and money so and there isn't really hadn't really been a normal public input process for this sort of project where it's something that affects a taxpayer funding resource but is it actually taxpayer funded not paying for these art installations so it's important to us because as a neighborhood we've had interest in getting to our park amazing natural area but it also has some additional amenities such as a sidewalk where it's not or benches yes and so the fact that this time it got pushed in, it's not just about the sculptures so it's just about how the park is used to affect our neighborhood so we have these Rolf 1 sculpture installed they presented back to the board in June of 2019 prior to their plan taking off and trying to get that passed through the public arts commission and the city and it was a similar sort of set up to the Catherine Lee which is supposed to be a temporary piece and so we had not heard because it was a transition period we had to see a lot of opposition at that point and then shortly after they presented the additional three Rolf sculptures and a plan that could get to be part of and so at that point we created to the city that we had to be part of creating this plan we didn't support the whole plan we had our social media not an impaired public input meeting in response to that they were willing to move the sculptures that they initially presented before the plan they had a public art committee being scheduled where those first sculptures were going to be presented and be compromised and said if you move them outside of the park and contact the residents immediately around them and make sure no one who is immediately in front of them is opposed to it you can install those who will not approve and you need to send us a timeline or just a plan to find the funding to pull them out and give us an advance notice and we can email the neighborhood before they go in and they know what to expect they do not be offered requests and install this sculpture which we have collected information on and are going to use in future discussions with them I met with Mr. Ponce last night it's in front of their house and they appreciate the sculpture but do not appreciate its application which is not the site that I have actually worked out with them when I met a contactee the day before I went to see the site and then he was supposed to give me and the board not just me a timeline where they were going to install within a week of that meeting and it happened the day before Christmas and it did not contract to me until the day it was installed and so I did not get to go to the site or check it out and I have been requesting for a process that they contact the board as a whole not just me because people work things happen so they haven't kept up their energy so strategically that will help us in sort of blocking anything in the future because the state health arts commission and our account so so before we want to have a committee or we have a first meeting in February it doesn't just address the sculpture it addresses all the things that we want to see maintainer and we have developed a relationship of parts to display so that if we want to propose a neighborhood plan for the part we can do so to submit for the next boarder where that stands and because of the nature of this project and it doesn't go before council vote there are really formal public participation that I would like to know because of the nature of the project so it's a parks and recreation project and the recommendations provide parts to the public which they have public meetings which are published when they are and tracing traces why don't they have to post the meeting I don't know if they have to or not they're just not posted I have been going to some of the other public art project meetings currently there's a community real project on the left side they have three public meetings they have a presentation thing that is part of that so the neighborhood is overseeing that process that is a different kind of project something that is funded partially through tax money and partially through non-profits that's based on the left side so it's a different kind of project but the fact that I've been going shows that we're interested and involved in understanding this yes so what are the guidelines for the non-public participation? there aren't really anything that I can tell but I will leave art for council meetings or city committee meetings Charlie council's board of commissions board of commissions basically throughout this process that this is not a project that had the precedent so they didn't really have a process outline and so the foundation's excuse has been well they didn't really know what they were going to do with this project because they're not funding it so as we go along we did a lot of touring for the one park to another park to another park to another park we're the four park so what did they do different than us to stop it? well we're residents using art so the other places that have been the two that come to me I'm just fair in that part I'm just fair in the public private partnership that is a large master plan project Travis was one so Travis had it but now for the park had benefits to the developers for building things on the parkway and they came together and are going to fund some public amenities projects along the line so that you have developers who have funding and it's interesting that trace and true there shouldn't be a client from those developers for their projects I wonder if that's because there really isn't a strong need felt for the particular project that trace and true is one that you give to the public do you have the board membership of that too? yes they did the only copy that you have is the list of board members who have been hit on the hands of the public oh my goodness but they don't have a website they don't have a social media page and they they seem scanty if you sat is that the commission you're talking about it's not a commission so it's a private foundation that is registered by 0103 and they have proposed to secure an acquisition of this in order to do that it has to get parks and recs to sign off on a registry contract and in addition to that registry contract and the recommendation to sign off on that was provided by the public arts committee after the foundation was based on trace and true how old is this a centurist foundation maybe check her status on that and it's the the trace centurist that's just what they need so it might be four years old so the only thing that you have is the fact that if they are to date with them they don't want them to do this and that's why it's a state that would state that yes you can it's not just a lot of information it's just the basic are they active or not which we check yes well that's updated they would like so what we have been able to get and so far what they wanted to do was have it and it did not have any budgetary guidelines just a plan it put guidelines in it and it was not created by within us so it's basically a foundation public private partnership basically and to put their artwork in the park it's not formal ok but my question would be does that exclude other foundations from doing things is that an exclusive deal so if what they have been allowed so far is in a contract to increase and increase foundation and the state is going to go to second person for that all it's been allowed so far so the first four capital E sculptures that are in the top the first contract and the third one and that's all it's been allowed they wanted to have that again that would be for their whole plan and it would be exclusively with prison turrets and parts of the project that's not to say a different foundation or organization or another type project possibly maybe out of the blue maybe put a playground or something like that just tossing thoughts out is what I'm saying like go play the game with other people who are in similar situations to see who's kind of a better bachelor out there you know this is a terrible metaphor but I'm just saying one guys is treating you let's go find one that's treating you a little better and see if if the sculpture in the park you want to have a golf park in the park well I think I think the best since we have shown that they haven't done things in good faith at this point in our compromise we included was a specific thing expecting some of them not to be why do you feel you're in compromise I feel you have the so the way this whole thing started was because what Trace and Therese tend to communicate to the city is that they had actively communicated with their association and with the cap release office they didn't communicate with the board it seemed like a small scale project nobody was particularly close to that time prior to the so and that was apart from this whole cool scale plan that they had developed I don't need to answer that question they came to the neighborhood association and proposed the installation of the top of the park the landings committee what recommended approval and then the board approved it if all this was before anything was done but they technically did not need the board to approve it they didn't need the board's requirements regarding that particular installation so they didn't finish up from day seven they looked at each other so they took the first tuition rate and they didn't follow through with anything so then they came back to ask me for the dancing so I were on the other board I mean and I was on the landings committee and I was with the committee and at that time that was a standalone project everybody on the board thought it was a good idea and we approved it now does the neighborhood have to approve but this is a city park it belongs to the entire city of San Antonio all the citizens of San Antonio those of us who live on the park get a little bit of pride here about it sometimes when we think it's our park we've had fights over the lining of the park we've had fights over the playground the parking garage tennis courts in the park we have a huge fight about it but the city doesn't have to listen to us but now as a matter of courtesy and as a matter of good public administration they do listen to the neighborhood association the members we had a huge fight a few years ago about putting a garden in one of the pocket parks and basically what the city representative told us at that time is that if anybody that lives on that street for that park is a gesture of this, we're not going to approve it and somebody did and so they did and so that's why it's now in a different piece of property in the community garden so the city it's not of the neighborhood association any obligation to have any input on this whatsoever I understand there should be some time in the process nevertheless we have their own process and so because we have we are in some sense a key stakeholder as the neighborhood and we do understand the importance of agency as we have a strong pursuit that is where when they started snowballing after that initial stand alone and a small scale presentation they did that's what we pulled the current floor we pulled the right line and said hey this doesn't seem right it's not that we necessarily all go sculpture to find a a path forward that the majority agrees to but you can't expect this to go well if you don't engage the public in this process considering I think this was probably a new thing for the city going together probably done something like this and so we are right now it's not technically a public art project but it should be a public art project but you know that's overseen by the public art department as the city is actually part of the public department funds in some where it organizes missioning or installation of art and this will not the other question I would have is whether the public art department sought this project whether this project came to them directly or whether it was wanted to be a public art department by equal needs for people I feel like it would be more because this is now the fourth time we've talked about this going rehashing prior history and although we asked you it's important for people to understand where we've been I think it's more important given this what's happened what's the next step the first point what we've seen so far is to come together as a community and visit the area's president did this with Digwood Park to say these are things that we think are priorities for the park we've used the park we're key stakeholders of the park it may include art but there are some other things that we value whether it be the natural environment whether it be access whatever for a group of people and potentially other to be a consistent item to get funding for anything that we wanted to I think we should have some the pocket parks well the pocket parks have been mentioned multiple times as I think in this for the plants or the park though to keep the excellent for many parts because this one always seems to get singled out and so we want to take out their green spaces as well they could be affected but the name of the park the strategy now is to advocate for what we would like to see in the park or not see in the park and to do it in an organized manner well I know if I ever wanted to leave something to the city I'd rethink it because it's my understanding that could be wrong and when Mr. Brackenrich donated that park space in the name of his goods for Mr. Mankey it was to be an open space green space for the wildflowers and a place for people to go not contemplate art and it becomes a venue we have liability what if some of that stuff gets damaged and that is already our courage because kids think that dancing flower is not an art or a good thing it's not the climb on one indication is the term pocket parks used to purchase three triangles and there's also Mr. Thor's park that's the fun except that's the park there's one up who purchases that are they allowed or purchased to become a park by the city I don't know history but I get created by the early years they've always been an individual a city can I ask another question because it doesn't involve Mankey Park and our property faces it I come to the meetings about how this has been influenced the whole community especially as I'm at the school here and I was concerned and there was talk of making a one way street up back down the way on Harlem so now and I understand people upset about infringement of Broadway, lots parking lots and stuff now we have motor cars going up and down when you have a school on one side I rent to children and I certainly don't want them out in the street and I feel it's okay usually the garden center and the venues are ignite the big streams of traffic I don't see a bunch of cars as such and I also just want to show them I'm concerned about that too we all are, World Heritage is like it's not like the United Nations but something like other people have input other than us maybe foreigners even and personally I love the way it is I don't think there's any interest in that in Mankey Park I don't know anything that's being discussed it's unclear to you whether it's something that's being discussed in the Mankey Park thing but Lynn Hobbit did call me to ask him to go to the meeting and she also specifically asked about the park which is why I think it's important that we have a neighbor for us is that enough and where is it January 30th, 8th the winning museum is in the man's room I believe it starts at 7 o'clock 4 o'clock at the winning museum so it's 4 o'clock on the 30th in the maze so I have not yet had a chance with Lynn on the phone but the fact that she is aware of the student art of the park is the reason that she's actively taking steps because if she's interested in it I don't know what you're interested in but because it's having a learning city it's important that we start after getting through what we want to see because otherwise we're going to see some people here don't want it strongly mainly if people live on funstead and park I shouldn't say that there's people who do want it but I think our concerns are bigger because this park is different than any park that you can go to but I think this is a park we drive home in our instance it's technically part of our front yard and any involvement that they have with it bringing in people and that such is affecting the park across from us I suppose we're looking for volunteers yes we're looking for volunteers so I kind of wanted to give an update on since this rule of one is there how it does to be there and why it's there and how we're going to move forward basically I think the other thing they're doing is they're going for streets they install a few pieces of art in the park they want between 17 and 25 pieces of art in the park between the sites I'm clear about that that means that is one site so that could be between 14 and 17 but it's an even work just sort of saying well are you a bit well but I think with any art all of us can agree the correct term here is I'm talking about I think we all agree that we all have to start from people coming into our neighborhood so I think we'd like volunteers for a committee to kind of stand up specifically for our larger park and our larger park I want to create a standing committee for parks second all in favor the board makes the decision so this is what the issue is I'd like to suggest that the board created a committee and that perhaps some people would like to volunteer now that the board could be the one with the most in a second so you can make a decision but it was very dramatic but that's the fault of it the states are very conservative so we're around for people to volunteer yes I think you ought to hold a regional document that founded the park so he did and all that is thinking is that I'd like a definition of public parking public space well I think we're going to discuss those things because if your partners are not public parking public space so that is where that is if you'd like to be on today please find out can you just ask a quick question I'm trying to just kind of wrap my head around it are there any concerns about the the type of park or is it concerning that the park is the largest thing right now we've all kind of been through this meeting we've been through these conversations the board has, we've talked, we've met with them we've listened to them we've read what they have to say at this point are the largest concerns that we're not enjoying the way that we're doing business we're not enjoying the way that they're doing business we're just pointing to the park the RR is kind of not even the one so we just want to make sure that we're doing in place a plan where we can do that are we being respectful and I kind of like to know where the centurias they get their submissions and what's the qualification of those artists to be wrecked by them I think it's an internal criteria is Texas their own six plans they are their own jury and they called us the three of them but they're not happy to spend there's such a vision so yes so that is how the committee meets or that regardless of what they decide we have to make sure the committee is very well okay so next item of business there is a proposal for development on IRA there is a group of four blocks so I don't remember the street where the post boundary comes up against Elmore and IRA those houses right there it's the four blocks behind them it is technically zoned MF33 so it could be a very dense development at this point the developer has proposed putting in eight town hall condo life structures what's the answer it's a 400 block it's a 407 I pulled the permit it's a 400 block requirement 407 it's each attended for IRA and oh it's on the other side it pushes itself against Sam the representative that we think we do have their development information they are already putting in another development on how do how do in IRA it's a unit of four bones and apparently it's been very instructive to the residents that are there staff in Joplin have basically they live on and have kind of kind of a point on being sure they will be able to help her about our concerns this is property and so far we have met with them with Carlin Ricks and some of the other residents but the developer has seen particularly good plans he's met with some of the people who live around their existing problem this way that it's been very instructive and we have a lot of concerns about their mobility so we may there's not a lot we can do at the end of 33 other than express our concerns yes I have a beer is it I don't understand will the homes face the street or is it going to be at one of those the homes are supposed to face the street from the end of the year so it looks like it's a pumping problem can you report if there's still concerns there's already isn't on that section some like condos or town homes do you also speak from that so because there should probably not be more drainage than anything else right so technically there's like I said there's not we can't just really close it they have no pipeline for an investment but the residents have organized very strongly against this release to be involved about what's going on so these but so there's organizations about that project if you want I can forward the emails to anyone is that does that fall under the land use committee okay people who want to do anything have to follow some of the building codes right included in the building code is part of conservation district which is something OOA and it has restrictions that otherwise would not apply if somebody builds something that's in conformance with all those requirements we've got that such they can do whatever is permitted by the conservation district and going to build it if they want to do something that does not comply with the OOA the conservation district then they have to do a variance and that's when we get involved if somebody asks for a variance they say you know we want you to support this variance we're not opposed to the variance and so that's when we have some input and if we oppose it and then go ahead with it that we can go to whatever meeting it is where the zoning commission does and oppose it and sometimes we win and sometimes we lose so right now this is developed so they have expressed the layer and it can be seen and it can be seen before and then it does look through the design and it's like it's a three-story structure which would be in violation of the zoning so I've found that we've dealt with some of the development stuff sometimes if you're opposed and you really don't have any standing to do anything with the city in regards to code and whatever you still have the opportunity to massage things okay and sometimes it works and it's helpful to perhaps offer up constructive ideas and concepts to these developers because their bottom line is they have a bottom line to deal with and who better than to offer up legitimate constructive you know I'm not going to say criticisms but thoughts to these developers in the neighborhood and I think at times we tend to forget that we do have a fairly good pretty good amount of sway in something it presents the right way so I want to be just heartin' about what's going on but I would look to how can you prove what they've got maybe with the exterior or landscape or whatever just the thought there instead of button-patch it's basically where we are and because not everybody is familiar with part of this is the point I bring this up with actually is to familiarize more if you can name it so yes you said from your building and I guess one of the things I don't know is what's going to happen but the coverage of that slide and at what point this code that it's not I don't think it's in our NCD it can be somewhere unicy and at what point is it multiple units is it acreage when the permeability is keeping it for small projects like this there are no big subdivisions then you have to deal with the grains but for small things like this there's no drainage requirements they can build the pervious cover on as much of that property as is allowed by the front and side yard except they do have to be concerned about storm well any houses are affecting drainage on their houses there's something to state about if you change the drainage to affect your neighborhood yes in the constitution yeah well okay it's a common law concept and it's a statue basically what it says is you cannot affect drainage from the underdeveloped status of your property so that you damage somebody else's property either by putting more water on it or putting less water on it it's a practical matter you know nobody's ever going to sue anybody else for doing that you know first thing to do is you go to an attorney and say I want to sue this guy and he says give me a $20,000 I'm an attorney by the way so so well yeah and as we know from Comanche Collins they've built over 50 of those properties and they have some drainage consequences and some other consequences and they basically got a development by buying a concrete because he's getting as a one off it didn't have to be looked at as a 42 unit development again we're going to report on this but the scheme that's going on if you have your community product we're a developer and as part of this is just to have you guys understand how you're doing things in any way so that you know there has been a series of inquiries and staff changes in the district to the council office which is already having a district to rep here recently our person who was assigned a J-100 yes he was yes so we have a good assigned person any time they submit anything to the council or submit a letter she's been very supportive we don't have someone assigned to us so that is something that's ongoing to make people aware of and then 2020 elections are coming up so if you have a message to people please do local offices that will be people have the opportunity to go for a little food but aren't the opportunity to share local judges the council will be there in 2021 but since you're starting to see signs of the area make sure you register those with the local offices will be voting for and then stay tuned because we've brought away a quarter of our plan for our section and we'll at some point be presented and as I mentioned before how the park fits into that will be something to be impressed with so those are some of the big updates that basically have been going on um we do have a sign up sheet for a park committee but they aren't interested in reactivating or making better use of committees making sure that meetings progress with interest that you all would like to see addressed and that we take on community events or projects of interest to you so since January is starting to be here we are taking feedback from the floor about things that people would like to see for about 5 minutes because Cynthia Cabral from Senator Menendez is here with the update so if you have 5 minutes if you can talk to somebody you'll talk to your head and you'll know it's not important but anyone has a topic about rates increases and um what does that mean uh they they are I can have a question I don't want to be emailed to I know that this is walk to the door yeah but everybody has an email now and it seems like everybody put these on the local media I guess but you know we shouldn't have any posting costs if you don't have a walker but if we can send us more information because I don't go to the website too busy in my business and I don't do social media so would you like to see like a monthly or maybe a five or some phone numbers and contacts like I thought the smoke detector information here the single family can get a free smoke detector these are the things that I think the community does and I always want to drive safely signs on Alishworth where we have so many kids they can come in and store a park with their thoughts but they don't do things to help our people that live here and you know why haven't we had park benches okay I would speak to that because we've been I'm going to speak as an example the issue with emails is that that we've kept things in spreadsheet for me and I kind of got turned over to where I became the secretary and that volunteer I did it's a lot more difficult than I thought in that time so we have some new new blood superstars so we can do this maybe a little more you mean like an email last yeah do you want to see some sort of I don't know if you can guarantee like a monthly newsletter maybe a bi-monthly or maybe even a seasonal do you do facebook because if you go on facebook if you go on extort if you go on info at metthewpark.org which is really easy to find that's the easiest way to do it and let people see it out rather than that's what I'm saying I don't think people are going to be able to like work an effort to do what we can but if we have basically an ongoing sign of list call throughout the year it's been challenging to make sure that everybody who wants to add and gets added and you can see some needed information we also can identify what people want to secure this way for the greater gains that really happens in their case that go on all the time like the issues or board adjustment submissions that the board gets to provide their registered people in the city but how do you communicate with the neighborhood that gives to everyone you know things like that we're trying to get a better deal of work so it's helpful to hear about things like this local sector opportunity or you know if you want to know how to do with what state department you need to call if you're interested in getting those times installed or if you have a journey that you want to report things like that if that's what you're interested in hearing about just let us know and start hearing meetings or information okay so I could probably get to like mankypark.org I mean next door you put an email and then it changes or kicked out or whatever I could try it will always be easier for us to post information in one place mankypark.org so you don't have to pass through this stuff through a mankypark but like the SAWS rate meetings that affects everyone in the neighborhood and I personally call it the SAWS Hall and I don't really like the rate increases because I know the projects we're pursuing aren't signs and if that's what it will be like could you speak to some of the existing committees or committees as of yesterday so it's a combo right now I think we would like to see it in the past but end use is the most active a lot of current members are long-term residents and George really speaks to this more but there are two recommendations to the board based on their expertise working with them issues whether or not something conforms to the entity reasons to support or oppose and we are checking this problem because we don't have an injection to things that go in but they review land issues for us and make recommendations to the board we are interested in having a park committee which we have a sign for we also would like to do welcoming committees so that for all of the people who come to meetings for the first time or neighbors who can't attend meetings we need to be able to make sure they get welcomed and we have a present committee that form a board member working with clinics about any issues with things about neighbors questions about the entity anything we have someone who can answer more quickly we have a lot of what happens when they come to the board and we have a committee that would be trying to bring in initial funding and help to use the information those are the existing committees open to more when you are trying to find the time and the entity what would be your main thing to support the school or the schools we have in the past invited the school to different meetings that we've held about service or programs schools doing volunteer opportunities to take advantage of that they make sure it will include them in the newsletter so other than that we haven't really done anything when we have the home tour a rather large amount of money was donated to the school after and home tour is something we've seen doing again this year it did not happen on tour it's a lot of work so we've had a local home tour where people buy tickets and visit homes in the neighborhood and I think we would have done it to study a thousand dollars to the school and that would have occurred I'm sure it would have yeah we have three right? the largest school in the world we had a presentation at one of our meetings this year hoping that the head of the schools were there and they told you how you could get involved yes but other than that we were just doing something and there's tutoring and the training on GPs and they we have a specific contact here from our organization being involved with this school and we have another contact for the school if you want to get involved it's going to send you out and I'm going to use their facility and then bring back and forth any other suggestions? I'm very concerned about using money from the Office of Education yes and I just came from another city meeting so things to know we have a council manager for the government we could go over our meeting but we have Office of Education currently is allocated towards pre-K4SA Office of Protection fund and something else and that's one of the things that's up for debate or discussion at the upcoming meetings because there isn't funding for the Office of Education they're going to remove it and give it to transit yes but this is the removal of money from the Office of Education is nothing but a question so we can make out our favorite meeting topic and also send out some information about that if that would be of interest how much money do we have in our bank account after the speech? I have to pay both around $2,800 right now that was funny excuse me I can give you an account I just can't have a big statement here we have drum roll drum roll drum roll the state December 31, 2067 there you go and we have some additional checks to deposit because Gary is on vacation I think I'm going to make him so some of the memberships that have come in since so that would be a good standpoint to your point about information about the Office of Education we can also do an overview about the next meeting how the city government structure is organized and funding happens since there's a lot of things on the table in the next few months with the city with its reallocation of funding for programs and also how to access the city council and if you can do the sort of workshop on that for the next meeting if that's going to be of interest I'd say that's important yes so if that's going to be of interest we can make that in just the next meeting I saw a great increase and there was something else that you mentioned I'll get to this if there's anything else and you've gone to some of the meetings the sauce one is the biggest one because the next they started their in the fall and then February and March specifically about the way structure February and March and you can find all of these visual on this on the website but I can also get it to just to thank you alright so we'll be back we'll be back oh you're here hi so I just wanted to let you know I think I mentioned the last time well I'm Cynthia I'm Cynthia so I don't know how many of y'all have got received this last time is anyone not received this newsletter okay okay okay so in this newsletter okay so in this newsletter we'll see on page 9 and 10 it's the last couple pages we're asking people to give us some feedback as to what it is that they'd like to see and he's at the legislature that's page 5 we'll see in 6 pages 5 and 6 so on those pages if you want to just submit things that you are concerned with things that you'd like to see him address laws that you'd like to see him pass you can submit that on those pages and then turn it into as you can email it or you can email it to or you can come by the office which we love to see visitors come by the office with us so where is that again our office is at wonderland of the Americas yes so that was crossroads wonderland crossroads wonderland of the Americas does everyone have a business card or would y'all like does anyone not have a business card no I'll take one just to get the ball rolling so I am Cynthia but of course as soon as you walk in as soon as you walk in anyone that's in the office can help you so we're all of the same card and I am Cynthia I know that a lot of you are familiar with the staff a lot of you have been working with us for a while so anyone else need a card so if y'all want to do submit that if y'all have any questions about that y'all can always call us as well I wanted to mention that I don't know if you're new but this past Saturday we had a law clinic basically we opened up we worked with an organization here in San Antonio it's called it was a people's law school but this one was it's an organization it's a group of college students at UTSA in St. Mary's and they basically are working with different lawyers here in San Antonio on giving free legal advice to people who can afford so we had that it's a great service that they're doing we basically opened it up this Saturday to our constituents to come and talk to and I set up with it where we had groups of them like Jeff Davis and a whole bunch of others were there and they basically sat in different areas and we had people come and talk to them about what they need and help with and then they're going to carry that over to these particular lawyers and help them with that at no cost that's really cool so it turns out it was a hit we were kind of working this the first time for me it was a hit I mean it's kind of hard to ask them to donate their time and all to get some sort of credit we do, yeah you know they do get certain credit from the courts but it's from the school if they're still in school too oh the students, yes they do get credit I thought you said not the lawyers well that's a different story so yeah the students do get credit for it depending on what their degree is and who the professors are and are involved so yeah that's another opportunity for that I guess piggybacking on that we're actually going to be partnering we're partnering and helping spread the word with St. Mary's University School of Law they're going to be holding their own event and it's going to be on Saturday February 15th that one is going to be at the School of Law which is there on I don't know what that is one of us was 36 straight off St. Mary's St. Mary's so I just had this one so anyway their method they're going to be doing breakout sessions so in the breakout sessions they're covering certain topics like they're going to tutorial about the topics so this is basically what they're going to be working at I can hand these out to for y'all or to for y'all to get to people that you think might be interesting I'll leave them up here if y'all don't mind or I'll leave mine here actually so if y'all want to attend those are there you can pass them along so we're going to be doing that again too thank you for asking about that without that support too we're going to be doing on in March and as Charlotte was nice enough to do that to film it for us it's on if y'all want to see the video of that it's on our website and I believe it's on y'all's website which is the full half hour that we did it there's more than that but the really cool thing is that I went through it line by line so you can just jump to the part that you're interested in you don't have to watch the whole two hours if you pull off the story you can go to where you can get help doing living will it was such important stuff it was really really great it's helped with advanced directors and anything everything dealing with the elderlies different dignitaries here as y'all know we will be doing another one I believe in March so luckily thank goodness the senator did not get an appointment for the election so we can concentrate on the constituents putting the events together so we haven't dug in on how the planning is yet we're kind of taking everything project by project but that one is definitely coming up in spring so yeah that was really awesome if y'all want to see a video of it I'm sure that we've got it on our website and we've got it on her website and we'll be doing another one I'll come back and do this with y'all prior to that meanwhile we've got on Blin State February 12th we're holding the senior sweetheart dance everybody's welcome it's free people absolutely look forward to this a lot they dress up and they wear they bring their dates so they bring their husbands they bring their kids and they miss dancing it just keeps changing it it's going to be the lucky bar where's that it's on Halloween it's supposed to be on Halloween yeah so it's from 10 to 1 so it's the middle of the day it's fun I was like who's going to go it's going to be cool people stand outside dressed up we have a photographer so it's really cool your parents your siblings anyone you think will join I'll leave the flyers up here for y'all okay so last year on Thursday the city of San Antonio was called the point in time count we do it every year we go throughout the whole city and we count homeless and we try to get federal money to assist them so if you know of any locations in this area or any area and you forward them to me either by text or email email jz518 at hotmail.com it's jz518 I'm sorry that's my personal address that's wrong thank you but it's j-o-l-e-o do like a v-u-l-a-i-t I'm going to subject I don't know if you know a location where there are homeless that are camping or hanging out we appreciate that information so that we can do the counting and have an accurate count so that we can assist the homeless do you have anything to add to that? I have a question about the homeless the homeless population is San Antonio experiencing the camps like other Southwestern cities I don't believe I've been on vacation to like different cities in the past couple of years I'm sorry yeah we just cleaned that we went on May the 35 we get people from other cities to think that we're pretty aggressive as far as trying to help that's the number one vote we try to get them on place to go but also besides that we get a lot of complaints about the homeless that are there and the safety of the homeless being there so it's kind of twofold that we attack it and we stay on top of it compared to other cities that I've seen we do have to give them notice I think it's 72 hours notice when we see a camp where people set up tents and give them notice we all work well for services and we offer them everything that they can imagine that they would need and most of them say no we're offering it out here the numbers, the information, everything else we're going to be back in 72 hours and we're going to remove everything from here so we've been pretty done pretty well with that and they have moved we had a big camp in River Road along the river and they've alerted me to it I went to visit it I went back several days after and I didn't know if my car but they started clearing out because I think they'd seen me go in and out we're not seeing the problems in other cities but we're seeing more volume it seems like but we're pretty good about trying to get it somewhere this is probably a silly question I just didn't know what to do at the time but maybe two weekends ago in our park by the fountain there seemed to have been a small camp that had just been abandoned and all the stuff was left by the fountain and it was there for a few days and I might go tripping to investigate if there was a body in there I just didn't I had some kind of just poked around there was no narrative is that a preview of the fall stuff that's left out either 3-1-1 or let me know but we get with TCI traffic and they have cleanup proof it'll come out pretty quickly especially if stuff's abandoned we don't want to leave trash abandoned but there's a bit of a camp where there's like tents and property yeah it's a 3-1-1 talk it's under the fountain on the back because it's covered so they don't need a tent if you see it I'll take care of it there's currently a truck that's periodically on market they're actually friends with the property owner Eleanor she was trying to get them started I believe she was back yeah I found them on IRA this morning he did have all the debris on this truck normally he dumps it on IRA but I didn't see anything that he left behind yeah I'm sure he's gone oh yeah and see people like that you know we're number one goal like I said we have we work with and try to get them into housing that way they're trying they need a little distance to get to that point so we're trying to help them two questions what day is your roundup it's the 21st and 23rd it's a morning now we're going to be out like Friday and we'll show like four years I believe it's when our first crew to go out and start counting and this is under all the bridges this is under like a lot of overcasts have a lot of them it used to be a maze how many homes are under the bridges especially at San Pedro and like with the drive trains we're in a process we're going to count workbook after we do the count we're going to do a process of convincing around there so that they can't go back because they go back quite a bit and then they hook up the electricity though tear up wires and hook up and it's crazy that the lengths that they go to get electricity and stuff like that and then late until about one to one Thursday night that's where it is the other question we have and came from someone by email there's a question about mental health issues and what the city has to offer in that regard as far as mental health I mean we do have with the police department I can't really answer the city but with the police department we do have a mental health unit that is grown I think it's doubled and tripled in size from its inception we used to have two officers for the whole city now I believe we have 24 hour coverage that are two officers per shift for the whole city though but they offer for chronic type of mental health issues on the address and they have clinicians that work with the city now that can administer medications stuff like that to different people they don't have to be need per se the clinicians go there and maybe administer some medications for them if they need it there was an actual article I think last year and maybe the Sunday paper on that there are a lot of there are a lot of like I get we get phone calls all the time I think it was that Francisco PD Lieutenant from them had called and wanted information on our mental health unit because they're kind of lagging a little bit they wanted information number to her and she said get more information so we're kind of leading the way for that but I mean there's always room for improvement I think that the more information the police department gets about specific individuals the better off that individual lead to get help yeah so for instance the other night there was a man reacting with what I think might have been he was right he had a horse he got a horse he got a horse he was doing some voice and then I had a little concert situation and then so I called and it wasn't that I felt like he was endangering anybody I just wanted I just thought that the more of a track record these individuals have more like they are to be in health is that correct I mean the more we learn about people the more that we're able to help them and if you allow that person they're in practice you can be allowed to say that way nobody calls them they'll normally get worse they'll self medicate with medication or narcotics so if we can catch them and we talk to them if we feel like they're either dangerous they used to be we'd only emergency if they were dangerous themselves you know if they're suicidal or homicide or dangerous others right and that was pretty much it now if they have we consider mentally incompetent whether it's shower issues or what they're thinking or all their thoughts we can we can be based on that so it's a lot less that we need to to emergency change somebody but most doctors have been training the academy and every year we go back through for additional training and a lot of that so definitely follow it and so that we can be aware and then try alright I think now very much yes before she left the senator stepper said he would like to come and visit with the near current association if you would send back a signal about when and one more thing to add to your what you can do to help the school and it's really easy enough to you saw that coat rack in the lobby that's there for kids and they take donations also send a library and the one next to the food bank both have racks in the middle where you can leave a coat for somebody because the library is actually a daytime place for a lot of people who spend their evenings in the middle of the school there and there are plenty of beverages so that concludes this evening's meeting I've been out coming back in just here this last month too we're having issues with mansions coming in you know investors are not playing necessarily better than that is there somebody here who can you talk to the best thing to start is to send in you have to turn your issue to the board we have someone who is the chair to be present for a while so it's you know I thought it was going to help her to get in for grades and ladies but people put you in that direction I'm going to suggest some things and we'll see what we can but developers we're we're okay thank you