 Go right through this and get you out of here as on time as possible. So I'll come, I'll, as for everybody who's walking in, we're gonna start going because we've got a very limited amount of time and oh we have a microphone, is that, is that recording? Is that on? Okay. So just to let everybody know, we have nowcast here. Nowcast will be recording all Alta Vista neighborhood association meetings going forward. We want to make our meetings accessible and the information we have accessible to the public in general. So welcome to everyone who doesn't know me, I'm Claudia Guerra, I'm the president for Alta Vista, y'all can't hear? So if I speak louder, is that gonna, is that gonna make a problem? Is that gonna be a problem? And that's not gonna mess up your, okay. All right, so I'm gonna speak very loud because I'm really good at that but when I have a microphone in front of me I'm afraid that I'm gonna blow out the speakers because, because I'm good at yelling. So I'm Claudia Guerra, I'm the association president for the neighborhood of Alta Vista. We have a few of our other officers here. We're gonna get going because we have a jam-packed agenda. So the first thing I wanna do is call the meeting to order by asking for a roll call of the officers. So I'm president, Claudia Guerra. We have Aaron Zyko who is not large board member. Mr. President, Anita Vella who's our treasurer and is busy taking new memberships. Do we have any other officers here? We will be joined later by David Garza and two other board members will not be joining us tonight. That would be Donna Guerra and Edwin Blanton, okay. So we're gonna go through our agenda in a little bit of a different order and that's because we have Councilman Trevino here today and he's going to give us our District 1 report and update before he moves on to another meeting that he has to go to. Thank you, Councilman. Thank you, Claudia. Thank you for allowing me to be here tonight. I'm Roberto Trevino, your City Councilman and just wanna thank everybody for being here tonight. Thank you specifically, Dr. Vella, for allowing us to host the public safety forum that we just had at SAC, a very robust discussion. I wanna thank all of those that attended. It was a great forum. We had the Chief of Police, the District Attorney and lots of folks from our HOPE team to other folks that deal with human trafficking, great, great discussion. One thing I wanna talk about is how we're very much addressing public safety in the bond and just know that in this area, north of downtown, we have planned for a $21.5 million facility for a new central substation, which is quite a big deal. I think it's gonna really, truly improve the efforts specifically in District 1 in our neighborhoods. I also wanna tell you about what we've been doing between the beginning of the year and now and that's our violent crime task force and working with five federal agencies to really tackle the issue of violent crime. What I can tell you in some of the stats we have is violent crime is down by 5.6% and property crime is down a percentage point as well. So we wanna be mindful that we're tackling some serious issues. We know that this is an important issue for all of us. Public safety is our number one priority and we're working very, very hard with all our partners and our SAPD to address. Also wanna talk about our bond and the 2012 bond status is at 93% complete or under construction. 7% of that has to do with the ALMO that you all know that is being master planned right now. April 12th, be on the lookout for the renderings that are coming out. It's gonna be a very, very neat time for all of us to discuss what is proposed for the ALMO master plan. It's a really, really great program. Speaking of the bond, we brought bond packets. So please, please pick up one of these. We got plenty. Get informed about what the bond means to you. I was proud to say we had three bond block parties that were, I think were very, very informative for folks and it helped get the committee members out to also meet the community. We had one of our bond block parties not too far from here at San Pedro Springs Park and we're very happy about that. Speaking of bond items, one of the issues that I take very seriously is sidewalks. I wanna give you some stats. In the 2012 bond, we invested about 12.795 million dollars towards sidewalks. Citywide, what we have is in the 2017 bond total is 48.1 million dollars. So we're listening to you. This is an important part of getting exactly what the community is asking for. Sidewalks is a big deal. In District 1 particularly, we have $10 million towards that effort, the highest ever. Also, I wanna say just happy to report that we did get the, we're getting the sidewalk on East Ashby on the north end of the park is finally being installed through our IMP process. So we're really happy about that. We just broke ground last week on that and very, very happy for this community on that. We also have a second installation coming for our precast concrete sidewalk solution, which is adding to the different options that we want for our city when it comes to how we build things, right? Sidewalks seem like a simple thing, but they're a little complex. And more options we have the better. So we have a second precast pilot program coming because we think that this is gonna add to the toolbox needed for building more sidewalks and making a huge impact. Speaking of another thing, Lions Field is gonna get a Portland Lou installation due to the success of the original installation downtown of that 24-7 bathroom. We are getting, this was mandated by the city manager. The program shows that it works. It's good news for parents and children playing at the playground there at Lions Field. And know that this is a great viable solution for a lot of parks, trailways. Restrooms are very, very important. So I'm very proud to report on that. Also want to talk about a couple of CCRs that I've filed. We did file the CCR, our demolitions in NCDs and making sure that we stiffened the penalties with regards to those demolitions. On top of that, we already have a process in place that allows for up to 30 days to review demolition and NCDs. We're adding an extra 30 days to that to make sure that we have adequate time to take a look at this very issue. Also filed, recently filed a CCR reviewing the existing regulations and ordinances to propose and make sure that we ensure the safety and health of residents of senior residential housing facilities. We all know what happened at the Aurora Apartments, and it's really important that we find ways to protect our most vulnerable citizens in our community. So this is going to certainly minimize or prevent the public health dangers to those who reside in those facilities. I think that's a no-brainer CCR, but just know that we always get pushed back regarding some of the inspections. I think this one we're being very specific about senior facilities. I also want to just congratulate Ms. Martinez on her new appointment at District 6 for SAISD. Congratulations for that. We look forward to a great partnership, lots of great things coming within the district. Mark Twain being a dual language academy, I think it's going to be a great fit in our district. Of course, we push for meaningful Spanish translation for the city at City Hall and other commissions as well, so welcome and congratulations. Also, again, I want to go back to Dr. Vela and all the great things that he's doing and how he's really helped to support us, our efforts. So many things that he's helping us with, but I do want to say one thing that I know he's, this is something I'm very proud of and just give you a quick brief. You know, we may have a flight school at San Antonio College, how cool is that? So, you know, a city that is steeped in aviation history and has five miles of run, active runway at any one time is a great city with regards to aviation and having a flight program at SAC is an exciting, exciting thing. Thank you for helping us with that. We're all very excited because this really touches on who we are as a city and all the great things that we want to preserve here for the history and well into the future. So thank you for that and I just want to say thank you for allowing me to speak briefly on these items because I did want to come out and say hello, but once again, well, thank you and my chief of staff will be around if you have any other concerns or anything else that he can get you, but I just want to make sure that I help to give you a quick update. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilman. It's always a pleasure to have you here and we appreciate hearing the update and also we very much appreciate the CCR to update our NCD standards. As you know, that's our big topic for today. So thank you for getting us going on that. That's great. Thank you. Okay, so let's go back to our regular order of business. Everyone, if you take a look at your minutes, we're going to give you just a few seconds to take a look at it and we'll ask for someone to make a motion to approve them and we'll look for a second. Any edits, any changes? Do I hear a motion to approve the minutes from our last meeting? A second? All those in favor? Aye. Any nays? Great, so we'll be moved. The next report is our Treasurer's Report. Anita is going to present our budget for this year. We're taking a little bit of extra time because we've created a budget for 2017 and we want your initial approval at the beginning of this year so that we can move forward on some of these decisions that are made in advance. We will have opportunities to change along the way as we go, but we want to be able to plan accordingly. And as she's getting this together, I will say it will become evident that we want to do some fundraising. I think we all have some big plans of things that we want to do, including the charrette that we've been discussing since about November, but it will mean we need to go beyond the membership dues that we usually collect, which is how we are allocating your money for some of the events that are already planned. So. Okay, thank you. Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming to the meeting. As Claudia told you, my name is Anita Villa-Johnson and I'm the new treasurer. I'm the new treasurer of the association. Thank you. I'm going to look at you so that you can, if you give me a thumbs up, that means you can hear me, right? Okay, so what I did is something Claudia really wanted to do was to present a budget to the membership because this is kind of something new that's being done this year. And so I just wanted to tell you briefly how I came up with the numbers. Alma, I don't know if Alma is here, but I had information from her from 2015 and 2016 for different line items. I took an average of those line items and I used them to create a draft budget. We then met with the, as an executive committee at the board, you know, the executive board met at the, it was in February, right? And kind of went over it and made some further suggestions towards the budget. And so that's what I'm presenting to you today. It's, you know, pretty self-explanatory. It's divided into revenues and expenses. We are anticipating, but obviously the main source of revenue for the organization right now is dues. That's the primary source of revenue. We do get some revenue from advertising. And then I also included in the budget anticipated fundraising dollars, which are the last three line items under revenue. For Movie Night, we're anticipating that press once again. Hopefully we'll donate towards the Movie Night. And then fundraising for the charrette, which I believe Claudia is going to talk about later. Now, when it comes to the charrette, I just want to point out to you that it's under revenues, but it's also as an expense, so it zeroes out. So just so that you understand that. Now under the expenses, it's PayPal fees, newsletter. I mean, I'm not necessarily going to go over all of these unless you all really have a question. But the, you know, the major line items that we're looking at is for National Night Out, the holiday party, and the charrette. And then we also received from Jennifer a anticipated arts and entertainment budget line items, which was for a bike tour, a history tour in picnic, a porch fest, and the Movie Night. Now the porch fest is a wash. There's not going to be any expenses, but I included it just so that I could represent what had been sent to me by her. And the Movie Night, obviously, you have the expense, you have the revenue up at the top, which should, God willing, take care of all of the necessary expenses. So at the end of the year, if everything works out, we'll have $207 left in the bank for what I call unrestricted funds, okay? Then under what's called designated funds, we have five different line items. Pet fund, cable box fund, scholarship, beautification fund, and then we received a request a few years ago from Mr. Contreras. And so I wanted to kind of discuss that a little bit because I had an opportunity to speak with, you know, I'm new to the neighborhood. I just moved here in May of last year, so it gave me a good opportunity to meet people and try and figure out what these designated funds were for because I didn't know. And so I was going to suggest some things to the membership, which then can be made into motions if people agree. And one is the pet fund. Right now we've been carrying this balance for a while of $89. You know, my suggestion would be that we liquidate that and give it to either animal care services or some other type of pet advocacy group so that we don't continue to carry those funds on our books because they haven't been expended over the last couple years. That's just a suggestion, obviously that's open for discussion. Additionally, with the cable box fund, this was money that the neighborhood received several years ago, I think, from grande communication when they put in those boxes. And so they gave the neighborhood association $300 so that if people wanted to plant bushes or something to cover up the boxes, the money could be expended. Money's never been expended. We've been carrying it on our books for years. So I think we really need to talk about what we can do with that money because it's there. It's there for people to use. The scholarship, I don't know if Ms. Hines is here, but that is money that is actually at the San Antonio Area Foundation. It's accruing interest. And then on a yearly basis, $500 is awarded to a student, a former Mark Twain student who has now graduated and is getting ready for college. And it's to support them whether they're going to college, to community college, or for a trade school. So it's not just directed out of four-year institution. And then the beautification fund is for the public areas that the neighborhood association maintains, which are the islands right on Gramercy and then West King's Highway and then under the bridge on Fulton Street where the train tracks go over it. And so that's what that money is for, for being able to continue to beautify those areas. And my suggestion was that we might wanna consider using some of those funds to have someone come in to tell us how to work on making those look a little bit better. And then finally, the conterres bequest is almost $11,000. And what I've been able to understand from that is that was really not designated funds in terms of Mr. Conterres saying, I only want it used for this. And I've asked several people, if anyone knows different, I'd like to hear. But that's something that can be used for other uses but we carry it as a separate line item, I guess, to keep track of how much is left in that fund. And so that pretty much concludes my presentation. What I would like to ask Claudia and I'm not sure how to go about this, but I would like to at least make some motions about some, not just first about approving the budget as presented, but then also to go through those different designated funds so that we can be able to move forward with how we wanna treat those funds. So what I would suggest, Anita, is for right now, because we've got so much, that we'll set a separate time to talk about those designated funds. I think what we're looking for right now does this make sense to you? Are we spending your money where you want us to? Do you have other suggestions of where this money should be going? Knowing now that you see what kind of funds we have to work with. And then one thing to keep in mind, as Anita said, we did meet with Janice Hines regarding the scholarship fund and she had a fundraiser on February 23rd and she raised almost $800 that's going into that, which is totally dedicated to that and hopefully she will join us today. So that sort of works on its own. Our other things of priority here are we spending, we spend a lot of money on arts and entertainment and that's been a good thing for us. I would advocate for it because it's really brought us together as a community and that was one of our priorities. Are we still comfortable with that or is it time for us to think about other priorities? We're open to hearing any discussion you might have on that. And Tammy, I know you're very involved with the arts and entertainment. I think you're right on. Okay. Anantonio Area Foundation and he wanted to use the interest for a scholarship for an architecture student. So, and we just never followed through on that but that's a possibility but it's not written in leds or whatever. Tammy? Yeah. And I think that the idea of an architecture student is very appropriate because I think the next level, we've done a great job of arts and entertainment and building community. The next thing that we wanna address which is obvious again by tonight's discussion is our built environment. And I'm gonna take this opportunity to do a little segue because Dr. Vela from San Antonio College is here and they have a wonderful architecture program and he's going to speak to us about a few things in a minute or two but perhaps we can come and meet and talk about your architecture program and how that might work with what altivist needs are. Thank you. Thank you. We already have a list. We have a list. Great. Great. Paige? So are you saying you're moving to approve the budget as is? All right. Great. Is there a second? All those who approve? Any nays? Wonderful. It's passed. Yes. I think we'll, yes. I think at a subsequent meeting we will talk more about some of these other funds that we still have to figure out how to handle. Yeah. All right, I'm gonna rush through. Thank you, Anita. I'm going to rush through the president's report because we have a few guests here. The first thing I want to say again, Christina Martinez, thank you. I've known Christina for, I don't know, how many years now, 10 maybe? Christina was a program manager at San Antonio Youth Literacy when I was on the board there and was the chair and I'm very, very happy to see that she's not only in our neighborhood but she is continuing to represent children in education and would you like to say a couple of words? Well, her introduction. I do want to bring up one property which we'll probably lead into some of the conversation we're having later but I got a lot of calls about 2511 North Flores. That is near Russell. It's between Russell and West French Place. You've probably seen a large fence go up around the property. Please know that what happened there is there was a person who had been living in it, has since sold it to a developer, is what we have heard. We noticed that the building was vacant and left open and so we called it into code compliance and thank you to our code officers who are back here who came and handled it, made sure that the building was secured from vagrancy, from transiency, it's got a fence around it and so it's not very pretty but I know it's safe. Our safe officer, Officer Bigler is not here because he and his wife just had a baby. He will be joining us next meeting but know that he parked in front of that building every day to make it notice that somebody was keeping an eye on it until it could be secured. So please continue to bring to my attention any properties that you're worried about. There are ways to deal with it. You're going to hear a little bit more about it tonight and again thank you to our code officers for taking care of that and for being here tonight. Finally, I'm going to do a plea. I'm gonna beg. We didn't get a newsletter out this month. It is very, very difficult to manage all these other things that we're trying to get out for you today, including making sure key city staff is here, making sure a councilman came today, making sure we have now cast covering this and still get a newsletter out. So we need help on that. So as you exit today, I hope that you will go right down by your name as you signed in, a little note if you can help. Basically what we're looking for is someone to write, more than one person to write. The writing actually doesn't have to take that long but putting it together in a format, getting it to the printer and then distributing it. That's the kind of help we need. I think for the meantime, we also will be sending out more emails, regular emails to our membership until we know that the newsletter is going to get out on time. And I'm gonna keep that short because I would like to introduce formally Dr. Vela from San Antonio College. He has a few words to say and I wanna make sure we get to hear from him. Thank you all so much for the invitation. First of all, it's a pleasure to be here. We share our backyard, we share common interests and it's just a pleasure to be here with you but I'm here to talk about the bond election that's coming up for the Alamo Community College District. And San Antonio College makes up one of four other colleges. When you look at St. Phillips College, Northwest Vista College, Northeast Lakeview College, Palo Alto College, right? But San Antonio College is in your backyard. So the bond election for May is really a $450 million bond to address four major areas within these community colleges as well as some of the rest of Bear County. One point of just a notation, the bond will not increase taxes. That's important. We've got triple A bond rating, we've been really good stewards of our financials and this is not going to cost the taxpayer anything. And really, those four areas really revolve around renovations. 33% of our facilities in the Alamo College's districts are 25 years and older. That equates to over two million square feet that are old and a lot of those are over 50 years old. New facilities, new facilities really is to address the high need, high demand jobs in our community. We are calling those centers of excellence in order to keep up with the demands of our businesses in order for us to stay relevant to our community and ensure jobs for our community, we have to make sure that we have the right programs and the right facilities to prepare those students. And then we have another geographic expansion. We're looking to expand not colleges but campuses or centers to help really target some of these neighborhoods that need a center in their neighborhoods. There's some in the south side, there's some expansion to the west side, there's some land that we have near Bernie to really service that part of the community. And that would be to expand some centers there to be able to offer some course offerings there and programs. And technology infrastructure. Technology infrastructure is always a big deal, especially with cybersecurity. We are under attack all the time and if we're not up to date, we're vulnerable. Students information, personal information is vulnerable. Along with that is of course our teaching and learning, making sure that we are providing the best for our students. So what does that mean for SAC? San Antonio College, your college in your backyard. We're looking out of that 450 million, SAC's portion is 83 million. And really for SAC, we're looking at a first responders academy. It's not physically at San Antonio College because we have no space for a first responders academy. But our academy is located in Vaughan Army. Still in Bear County, but it's in Vaughan Army. And we have portables right now. We have a burn building. We have all kinds of things. We have a partnership with the FBI where we built a million dollar shooting range and that we can partner with them and utilize it. But it's, they're portables. So this would ensure that we have a true first class responders academy to ensure that we prepare future firefighters, that we prepare future law enforcement, future EMTs, Swiftwater Rescue, all these things that we need in our community to ensure our safety and to ensure that someone's going to be there when we need them. It also is a renovation of the chance building that will update some of those labs that need to be state of the art now when you look at anatomy, physiology, chemistry. I mean, these are things that we need to keep up with to ensure that our students are coming out well prepared. There's a renovation of the Fletcher administration building. I know that sounds bad, administration. Why do you want to update an administration building? That's been the name over years, but really what lives there is our enrollment center. That's where students walk in for admissions, for financial aid, for testing, for all those things. Now, the leadership does live on the third floor, but those areas aren't going to be really touched. It's really the first two floors that require state of the art enrollment processes. And in addition to that, we're looking at eliminating the surface parking in front of Moody, the iconic Moody, to be able to provide green space, to be able to provide a pocket park for our community. Everyone here to participate during the weekend or with concerts or all kinds of things that we can do that we just traditionally don't have the space for. So that would really create that buffer between the community and the college to ensure that we can team up and do some very creative planning. You talk about the arts and all those things that facility, that open area, that outdoor classroom could be at your disposal. A parking garage off of San Pedro Boulevard. We have two parking garages right now, but they're off of Main Street. This would put a parking garage off of San Pedro Boulevard right where the tennis courts are. What that would do would ensure that the first floor, we could also put our early childhood center there because, well, I have to be careful because I cannot advocate for the bond. And it's so difficult because that's all I do as an educator is advocate for students. So I can just tell you what is. So I'm gonna have to take a breath sometimes because I can't go into the need other than it's a new childcare center on the first floor. On the fifth floor, we're looking to put the tennis courts. How cool is that? Play tennis up on the fifth floor, right? What's that? On the fifth floor, if you notice on the garage that we have students don't like to park there. Why? Because it's not covered. So the fifth floor is always kind of open. So why do we want to force students to go to the fifth floor if they're not gonna park there? And if we're going to, let's just put the tennis courts there and create a nice space for not just students but for the community to utilize the tennis courts in the evenings. Well, no, we, yeah, no, I mean, we're gonna secure them. Yeah, I know that 18 year old is gonna want to knock it out of the park. I know I've been there and I've done that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And again, all this is to eliminate surface parking and create more pocket parks, more green space. And if you look at SAC, it's a large urban institution. And the only thing I can compare it to is like the University of Houston, if you've never been at the University of Houston. A physical plant to make sure that we keep up with the air conditioning. I mean, those things need expansion. The McAllister Fine Arts, that's an area that needs to be renovated. That's an area that gets used a lot by the community. Day in, day out. Schools use them during the day. Community uses it in the evenings. So that's an area that needs to be renovated. Talked about the Law Enforcement Academy and a physical plant out there. So that's what equates to our bond and what it means to San Antonio College and your own college here in your backyard. But that's the bond proposal. No tax increases, $450 million bond. And each of the colleges has their own specific areas that they're looking at, right? This is specific to San Antonio College only. The $83 million as part of the bond is for San Antonio College. So I wanted to make that clear. But the big piece here is no tax increases. Yes, sir? It does not. No, this is within SAC. So we're not buying land to expand. So this is confined within SAC. The only other area is the Von Army piece that we've got some acreage out there that we can build and we can go every direction but not at our current college campus. Yes, sir? Well, because I think that could be a potential source spot for folks that, say, I don't want an eight-story building blocking the view or, I mean, it seems like four floors, five floors has been the sweet spot where folks aren't saying, I don't want you to block my view. I don't want something very tall in our community. So it's a balance and we found that four floors, five floors seems to work and it's a good balance and it's a good harmonious place for our community. Yes, sir? Okay, that's, yeah, that's not, you're talking about the district headquarters? The Playland Park. That is not part of the bond. That was through the internal budgets that they used to be able to triple A rating and there was able some savings that they were able to utilize to fund that internally. So that is not going to be a part of the bond. Great question. Yes, ma'am? No, no, that's assuming that the assessment's value stayed the same. Again, I think it's because of our triple A bond rating. We've been very efficient with our finances that we're able to still secure this without going out to raise taxes. So the specifics on that, I can get you specifically something in writing if you'd like to show you exactly what that means. And we've got a phenomenal CPA that can explain it a lot better than I can. The what ma'am? I'm sorry? Yes, yes. So if you notice that used to be an old state hospital, and it was converted to make it kind of fit a childcare center, it's not appropriate for a childcare center. So that would probably have to be potentially either repurposed or demolished. But we've got some phenomenal trees there that's got, I think, potential for a beautiful pocket part for the community or maybe like an outdoor classroom, amphitheater kind of thing, since the way it's kind of laid out. There's all kinds of possibilities that we can do with that. But that facility, it would take a lot of money to renovate. Yes, sir? Well, no, I don't have a crystal ball, but right now that, yeah. Yes, sir. That could happen, yeah. I can't control that, right. But in its current state, yeah. Appreciate that, yeah, thank you. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, and a lot of this is out of context at times when it's reported. It's a very difficult kind of thing to do. It really has nothing to do for us. Again, we've been here for 90 years, but as a result, we've now got four new colleges where students now have more options than before, where before they stuck to one college, we have over 12,000 students that swirl. What I mean that they swirl, they take classes at different colleges because it's so seamless. They don't have to transfer credits. They don't have to re-enroll or reapply. They simply just show up at pack because I work on the south side, and I take an evening class there. So that has hit us hard because we've been kind of the center of that. But also, there's such a need in our own backyard that as we've got our doors wide open for students, and students don't, if they're not growing up in a college going culture, they're not even coming to our college. So we are very intentionally going out to all our ISDs and working with students from elementary up through high school. We've got a program with Mark Twain where we, they've got a phenomenal national renowned program where they work with over-aged middle schoolers and get them ready and they've been very successful. And some of those end up in our early college high school who's been nominated for a blue ribbon award. And we volunteer here to provide mentorship for those students right here in this school. So we're doing that in addition to what we do to simply ensure that our students are coming, your students are coming to college and getting a better chance at life. Yeah, yes ma'am. Thank you all so much for your time. I really appreciate it. I just wanna thank the councilman because he's such an advocate for the community. And now he's put a lot of pressure on us to ensure that that aviation program takes off. So we're gonna do everything we can to ensure that we do that. So thank y'all very much. Thank you, Dr. Vela, that was great. And AVNA is looking forward to partnering with you. Sounds like we have a lot of opportunities to do so. All right, thank you. I'm going to play with the schedule a little bit because I know we're all here to hear about the NCD updates and I wanna move to that. So a couple of things, settle in. We have cupcakes in the back from Scratch Bakery. Please, yes, and they are delicious. So please make yourself comfortable as we move into the next part of our conversation. And also I want to recognize our technical team. The technical team is something we put together late last year. And suddenly they've gotten very busy dealing with zoning issues, dealing with questions about property in general. So they work together very closely with our zoning department for one thing to talk about a property on Magnolia. You might remember we had that property on the agenda last month. We approved the zoning change. It went to the zoning commission and it sailed through with flying colors. So we have a happy neighborhood and we have a happy resident who's able to work on her property now because of compatible zoning changes. So if you're a member of the zoning team, would you either stand or wave your hands so everybody knows who you are? David, you're the only one. Erin, Erin, raise your hands all the way. So thank you very much. I know they've done some great work. I'll send them a situation and I'll say please research it. They do, they go and they meet, they huddle. I don't know what they do, but they come back with a recommendation and the board has never questioned anything they've sent us. So thank you very much. So without further ado, I want to introduce the city staff. And after that we're going to hear a presentation about safety and empowerment for the community. And then we'll listen to the candidates who are here. Partly the candidates who are here, I want you to hear some of the issues and some of the concerns we have. So maybe sitting through this will help you think about what you might want to say when you speak with us. And for the representatives from Diego Bernal's office, Congressman Doggett and Senator Menendez, we will make time for you as well. So city staff, we have Melissa Ramirez and Cat Hernandez from Development Services. We have Rudy. So the board will take this up for consideration. Paige? So let me interject here. The reason we're meeting tonight is to talk about the NCD standard updates. Paige, I hear you, I agree. So what I want to make sure is that we have enough time to discuss what we were here for and not to turn it into a political forum. And that's what I'm going to suggest. And the board will take it up. We're meeting in a few weeks. We'll talk about it in the board because we're talking about changing the entire policy that the AV&A has had for some time. And we will bring it back. In fact, one of the things we're going to talk about is there a second? All those in favor? All those opposed? So let me repeat this because I want us to move on. So the motion was that the board, we're going to move on. All right, let me begin the introductions again. We have staff from City Development Services, Melissa Ramirez and Kat Hernandez. We have from the Planning Department, Michelle Cruz and Rudy Nino. We have from the Office of Historic Preservation, Kathy Rodriguez, the deputy director. And I'm sorry I didn't say titles for everyone else. I don't always keep them straight, but we can say that when you're up here. And then we have four code officers. I'm very impressed. I know Mindy, I know Ida and the other two, very nice to meet you. And I think Ida, you are the one assigned to Alta Vista. Ida, you are the person assigned to Alta Vista or all four of you? Okay, so thank you all for coming. So I think the way we want to do this is really have a dialogue. So I don't know if you want to come up here. I think that might be nice so everybody can see you. What we'd like to know is what is the update process for the NCD standards? How does that work with the comp plan? What does that mean for our current NCD standards and enforcement? And then I know that there's a lot of questions about how that compares to historic preservation. So, yes, stand up, come up here. City staff, stand up here, firing line, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, okay, yeah, don't stand it. Now you see why I look blind at the time. And I'm sorry, there's one person I did not introduce. That's, I'm sorry. Okay, nice to meet you, so. All right, so maybe Rudy, do you want to start with what the process is going to be for the NCD updates? Sure, well understood, all right. Well, good evening everyone. Thank you all for the invitation to participate here with y'all tonight. We look forward to having a really good dialogue with you about the future of conservation districts in the city of San Antonio, the bright future for conservation districts in our city. You have a very distinguished and brilliant group of people up here, so I'm glad to be here with them to share some information with y'all tonight and to take the questions that you may have. In terms of how conservation districts relate to the city's newly adopted comprehensive plan, really the essay tomorrow comprehensive plan actually recommends support and continuation of the conservation district program and support, further support for conservation districts and the expansion of conservation districts to other areas of the city where they're needed and where we find that there is a unique fabric in certain neighborhoods that we want to protect and we want to continue to preserve. And so it is a policy within the city of San Antonio's comprehensive plan to support that effort and to work with our partners to make sure that the effort is done efficiently and that we are running a very effective conservation district and historic district program. Right now, now that we have a newly adopted comprehensive plan, we're all actually gonna be at the table working together internally for a couple of meetings to ensure that the conservation district policy is updated. For those of y'all who don't know, there's a number of different items of text in the policy that need to be updated. It references the previously adopted comprehensive plan, so we need to update it with the newly updated goals and policies from the essay tomorrow comp plan. Additionally, there are references to departments that don't exist anymore. They're the director of the planning and development services which needs to be updated. So in order to have an enforceable policy, we wanna make sure that it is updated and that it is tight and that all of the items that need to be included in the policy are in fact in there. So the goal here is to go to the neighborhoods and livability council committee sometime in June so that we can present an updated policy related to conservation districts. Having said that, our goal is to also have some community engagement and representation specifically from all of the neighborhood groups that have conservation districts. Alta Vista will of course have a seat at the table given the fact that there is a conservation district in this community. So we look forward to good robust dialogue. We don't anticipate very significant changes to the policy. Really we think of it more as an update. So that is the program that we're looking at and ultimately Alta Vista will be the very first neighborhood association that will be updated following the review of the current NCD policy. Yes sir. Now I didn't say upgrade. I said that we don't necessarily see significant issues with the current policy now. I wouldn't anticipate. Well hold on a minute, hold on a minute. I will speak specifically to the Alta Vista conservation district. I'm talking about the city wide NCD policy which are basically the goals and policies related to all conservation districts and what all conservation districts can include within their zoning district. It is not specific. Hold on a minute, hold on a minute. It is not specific just to the Alta Vista neighborhood conservation district. So I want to make that clear. This is the. Not really. No, to be fair, to hold on a minute, hold on a minute, to be fair what, and I'm going to turn it over to Kev, but one thing that I do, I'm sorry to Melissa, but something that I want to say is that the planning department works very closely with the development services department and we think that the conservation districts while there may need to be some updates. Yes, they are zoning districts. They are by ordinance. They have to be followed. There is no perfect ordinance. There is no perfect district, but there's always room to make improvements and so we look forward to working with DSD to make sure that those improvements are done. And then I'll give it, I have a question and maybe you and Melissa can answer. So I think, Rudy, what you were describing, and I'm asking this because I'm also coming into the fold of what this process is going to look like and what the task at hand is going to be for staff. And I think what you were describing is talking to council committee about the policy and what you're talking about is the fact that we even have NCDs in San Antonio. That as a city, we, as a city, we feel that NCDs is a program we want to have so we want to make that codified. We want to give staff direction on how to process those and staff direction on how to update those, but not so much to impact all to Vista's specific standards at that pre-meeting, at that level that you're talking about. Is that, is that true? Sure, sure, the idea again is that we're going to look at what's adopted in the unified development code. We just want to make sure that that policy is updated. And I can give, and like the examples that I gave you before, when you go to the very first section of the text where it talks about the intent of conservation districts, it refers back to the 1999 master plan policies. We need to make sure that it references our updated essay tomorrow comprehensive plan policies that support conservation districts and historic districts, but specifically conservation districts. So it's an update to what we have in the code right now to ensure that it is, that it's updated, that it has all of the correct information that's necessary in order to have a legally enforceable very strong code related to conservation districts. I'm Melissa Ramirez. I'm the assistant director for land development. So I oversee all of the code master development plans for zoning, plotting, rights determination, trees, et cetera. I also oversee all of the boards and commissions for land development. So planning commission, zoning commission, and board of adjustment. So we understand that you have concerns with the NCD, Alta Vista, and the way our interpretation was. We are happy to sit down with you. All of us will be happy to sit down with you when we are that, when we're asking for participation, we want you to provide feedback so we can ensure that your NCD is doing what you want it to do in your neighborhood. Anybody else? And I think that's what Rudy was talking about. The goal really is to do a review of the policy over the next couple of months, have an update to the city council's neighborhoods and livability subcommittee sometime in June, so that over the summer then, once we've done that briefing, provided there aren't any additional.