 Okay, good evening. I'm Cheryl Scully city manager. We welcome you here this evening to our budget hearing We actually have two going on tonight, and I'm glad I'm here with you in district seven, but we Welcome everyone from the west side. So thank you for joining us this evening We use the input that we receive from these budget meetings to help us finalize budget recommendations for the city council's Consideration so thank you for making the time to be here, and I'm looking around the room And I see several of you have come to our meetings in the past, so we appreciate that very much As we get started let me introduce our newest council member, and she was Elected and appointed unanimously by the city council Just today, and so she's been a city council member now for just about six and six and a half hours Marty Aguirre Rodriguez our newest council member representing district seven You know that Marty is from this neighborhood We first met when she worked with mayor Phil Hardberger. We met during the weekend of hurricane Katrina and We worked together for about a year and a half, and she has a wonderful background having worked with Rackspace and Founded and put together through their community affairs department the first Rackspace Foundation And of course was the founder founding director executive director of Gen tax and has quite a background in education and business and now is her own small business owner and We're just delighted that she is our new council member I'm going to hand her the microphone to say a few words this evening, and then we'll get started with our budget activities for tonight councilwoman Thank you, and thank you for coming out tonight. I know it's 637 o'clock on a Thursday evening and for me it's been quite the world when I Cheryl's ride This has been five and a half hours on the job, so it's been an overwhelming day I've hardly talked to my husband, and he's been wanting to chatter at me all day But it's been you know I've been pretty overwhelmed with just trying to keep up with everything as many of you know Councilman Medina will be back October 10th I plan on taking good care of the seat until then but in that time I really I'm excited about going through a budget process I know that sounds a little nerdy But I'm excited about going through a budget process where we can affect change and work together as a community So I'm going to pay close attention this evening and walk to all of your tables to listen to what you've got to say Both about the district, but also city-wide I really want to know the challenges that you're facing and this for me again is a lot of learning So I want to make sure that I'm taking away a lot of great information that I can use beginning tomorrow And if you're part of a neighborhood association or a neighborhood association leader know that in the next well now I'm down to nine days frankly I made a pledge that I would meet with all of you in the next ten days So begin to look for those emails or calls because I do want to reach out to you And I want to understand even more deeply the issues of your Community in your area, so I'm very excited excited to hear and meet all of you I like me having new friends, so don't be shy come and approach me and I'll come and approach you Looking forward to serving the residents of district seven Thank You council woman Okay, as we get started tonight Let me introduce and talk with you for a moment about the staff that are here both of our chiefs are here tonight our police Chief Bill McManus and our fire chief Charles Hood are standing right over here to my left and at each of your tables Okay, go ahead and applaud for our chiefs We have staff at each of the tables to help facilitate the conversation this evening and to take your input and What we received this evening we will share with all of the council members so that they hear from all parts of the city as To what you would like to see incorporated into the 2015 budget our budget year begins October 1 and End September 30th, so we are required by law to maintain a balanced budget It's balanced today the proposed budget is also balanced And we manage that very carefully throughout the year to make sure that the revenues support our Expenses that reflect the council's priorities and of course the community's priorities So what we want to do is show you a quick video it's only about six minutes in length and it summarizes the proposed budget and what's included in Terms of projects and priorities of the city council and the community And then I have a couple of additional slides that will clarify a few points about the budget and then Brian Layton, where's Brian? Brian over here to my left is the assistant budget director and he'll give you some very specific Instructions on what we'll ask you to do in your table conversations this evening Okay, does that work some like a good plan our goal is to wrap this up by About 815 so that everyone can get on their way eight o'clock or 815 we started a few minutes late tonight But this is our biggest crowd so far, so thank you district seven for coming out and joining us this evening So let's roll the video and then we have a couple of slides before we get to our table discussion The city of San Antonio's fiscal year 2015 proposed budget provides recommendations for making it easier to get around becoming healthier more educated and Providing affordable public safety the city's 2.4 billion dollar proposed budget is a reflection of what is most important to the community The proposed budget is balanced as required by law Includes no increase to the city's property tax rate for the 22nd year in a row Increases the street maintenance budget Significantly and strikes a balance among the community's many priorities does not include layoffs for uniform or civilian employees These are priorities that you shared with us during the five community budget meetings held in May More than 400 people attended and worked in small groups to identify the cuts that they would make as well as to add Funding to an existing service Following these community meetings the city council held a day-long goal-setting session and together agreed on the following budget Priorities to increase funding for streets and drainage Develop a multi-year plan to improve and acquire more parks Enhance the city's investment in education including more library services and adult literacy programs Maintain and strengthen public safety without crowding out other services like streets libraries parks and human services enhance animal care code enforcement and other programs to improve neighborhoods Keep the economic development toolbox equipped to attract new companies and jobs to San Antonio Fund and complete a comprehensive plan for the city including policies related to Transportation water air quality and public spaces Public safety is by far the largest expense in the city's budget two out of every three general fund tax dollars are spent on fire And police protection the fastest-growing driver of public safety costs is the health care benefits The city provides for uniformed employees Health care for uniformed employees costs the city nearly double what it costs for civilian employees in the city's recent community survey Conducted by an outside pollster 70% of respondents said they want to see uniformed health care benefits brought more in alignment with civilian health care benefits The fiscal year 2015 proposed budget makes changes to health care benefits for firefighters and police officers Saving the city millions of dollars while still continuing to cover 100% of on-the-job injuries and Offering better health care benefits than those provided to city civilian employees and better than those offered in other Texas cities This follows the council's direction to ensure that public safety does not exceed more than 66% of the city's general fund budget by maintaining affordable public safety costs The city can invest in other priorities The proposed budget adds an additional twenty-one point eight million dollars for neighborhood street maintenance and drainage projects to the current 52 million dollars in the infrastructure management program that is used for the continuous maintenance of San Antonio Infrastructure it will grow the infrastructure maintenance program by nearly 30% Which will significantly increase the number of roads fixed this year it adds funding for the maintenance and operation of a new library To new senior centers and new parks projects approved by voters in the 2012 bond program It funds the hiring of two city veterinarians to conduct spay neuter surgeries to keep the city's live release rate of stray animals at 80% it provides resources for a new program to regulate vacant buildings throughout our city and Finally it funds a code enforcement case management system to close cases faster and more transparently the fiscal year 2015 proposed budget does not include an increased storm water fee Instead the city will review a new storm water rate method and make recommendations to the city council and the community in the 2015 calendar year the budget also does not include any funding for via streetcar project There are a few fee increases Including an increase in the fee for being transported by EMS and a $1 increase in solid waste fees for garbage collection So there you have it the fiscal year 2015 proposed budget balanced No tax rate increase addresses the community's top priorities by keeping public safety costs Affordable and does not include any layoffs for uniform or civilian employees The city budget is the most important policy document the city council will consider in any given year and before the council Considered adopting it on September 18th. We want to hear from you There will be five community budget meetings held across the city and two public hearings at the city council chambers You can learn more at the city's website www.sanantonio.gov Okay, so a couple of comments about the what's included in the proposed budget You notice that it said that we are recommending an increase. Can we turn the lights up just a little bit? That we are recommending an increase in our street maintenance budget That is the number one thing that we hear from the community that in drainage How many of you want to see drainage continued drainage improvements for the west side? So of the seven million dollars that we're recommending in this budget to increase the drainage budget about half of that is For the west side of San Antonio and specifically projects here within district seven So we're going to keep going with the drainage improvements in the community I know that they're painful with all the construction, but we know that Flooding prevention is very important And so we're going to continue with that and we've recommended some additional projects in this budget Couple of other things I have a couple of slides to show you and the cost of public safety health care There's been a lot of conversation So let me explain a little bit more about what we're talking about About a year ago the mayor and council appointed a task force To examine pension and health care expenses for uniform as well as for civilian employees And that was composed of representatives of our employees Active employees civilian and uniform as well as retirees the unions were represented and half of the committee Included business leaders who work in the field of pensions and health care so we had subject matter experts and then employees who were affected and Who received the benefits that task force worked over the course of Several months had numerous meetings and spent about 30 hours in meetings studying the issues and came up with a series of Recommendations now as was shown on the chart public safety represents two-thirds of the general fund and Those expenses are growing faster than our general fund revenues and what happens then is those budgets increase We have to cut elsewhere because we're required by law to maintain a balanced budget So those cuts have to come from all those other departments shown here in one-third of the circle And that includes everything else we do street maintenance parks and recreation our health department animal care services code enforcement the libraries Municipal court the administration of the city in terms of our human resources department and finance and accounting so all of those other things fit into that one-third and Over the past five years public safety has grown by more than 10 percent as a percentage of the general fund One of the major cost drivers is health care And so what we're asking is that the employees contribute toward the cost of health care today? Uniform employees don't pay any premiums have very low out-of-pocket and low deductibles And so their expense is very limited We know that the cost of health care have escalated for everyone health care expenses are very high So what we're asking them to do is contribute similar to what our civilian employees pay about 30% of the total cost of health care So with their premiums their deductibles their out-of-pocket our civilian employees pay about 30% of the total expense for health care in A year our public safety employees only pay about nine percent and the national average is that employees Contribute 43% of total health care expense So we're trying to more closely align our civilian and uniform health care costs And you can see in other cities. They are more closely aligned We we spend the most per employee for uniform health care last year It was about 13,000 as compared to 7,000 per civilian employee and you can see in the other cities They have similar they spend similar amounts for uniform and civilian employees Here's the amount and what I've included in the proposed budget is something in the middle something better for the uniform employees but Having them contribute more toward their cost of health care than they do today so that we can control our costs as a city and with this and Maintaining their budgets at 66% not letting it become a larger percentage of the general fund We're able to redirect those dollars into the services that you have identified as being most important Street maintenance drainage improvements human services for the community those who need them the most Not reducing our library hours making sure that we can continue to maintain our parks and expand our park system This year. We're adding 123 acres of parks with projects that have been approved by the voters So we need to be able to maintain those parks and keep them in great shape Here is total compensation just to give you an idea our uniform personnel are very important to the city it's part of our core service and We're grateful for the work that they do and they are compensated for the work that they do in their chosen profession here You see a police officer and we're ranked number two on this chart San Antonio was just under the city of Austin and not by much and here our Firefighters are tied for number one with Austin in terms of total compensation So we pay our employees well for their work and what we're asking as part of this budget and in our union negotiations Is that they contribute toward the cost of health care so that we can maintain and keep our Expenses for public safety affordable to the taxpayers So that's it The budget is structurally presented to you in a balanced way and There are so many priorities and I know that we all have different ideas as to how we should be spending the monies and the Information that we receive from you tonight as I said will be used as we formulate the finalization of the budget Budget adoption will be on September 18th The city council is required by charter to adopt the budget before the end of September and our new fiscal year Begins October 1 So Brian come on up Brian's going to give you some instructions and before we begin Could I ask each of our city staff at each table just to stand and be recognized in the other staff in the room? Just to wave let us know that you're here These are department heads and assistant department heads of the city that are here tonight to help facilitate the conversation So that we can work with you to gather your input Brian That they are going to be discussing. Do you have news for us of the 32 million that was gonna use So she asked about monies for streetcar There are no dollars included in the proposed budget for streetcar number one number two The city council has not decided how to spend those dollars in the future and I want to explain to you It's not as if there's 32 million in a pot Being wait wait, we're waiting to spend it But rather this is capacity for us to issue debt service in the future And so those dollars could be used for more street Improvements for any type of capital project in the future, but the council has not decided that yet And so we would we would welcome your input on the use of those dollars for the future You're welcome to comment on that. Okay, Brian. Let's a few instructions Okay, so you've heard a little bit more about the budget. We need your input now At each table like Cheryl said we have a director assistant director that will help take notes and They will also help answer any questions you might have so we need two things from you first is We'd like to hear three Priorities that you have in the budget that you've seen that we've added That you want to sit see stay the same that you want to see continue for example the additional 15 million for street maintenance if that's important to you, please let us know mark that down So three things that are important to you that you'd like to see remain Unchanged in the budget also part two. We'd like to hear from you up to three areas that you'd like to see change We'd like to see added or different. So as Cheryl said the budget is balanced So if you'd like to see an addition someplace, we also would like to hear any ideas you have for where to reduce from another area So three things you'd like to see stay the same and up to three things that you'd like to see changed or added At the end of the discussion a resident from the table will share with the group what your table has decided and We budget staff is here. We're compiling all the answers will compile from all the meetings and share with city council next week You can also share your thoughts and ideas of city council Directly at the community budget hearings the citywide hearings and those are at 6 p.m At city council chambers on August 20th and September 10th And we also have the hearings for a delegate agency funding on August 19th and August 26 And those are at 6 p.m. As well. So go ahead and get started We have about a half hour for this exercise and we'll be around to answer any questions you might have so go ahead I'm Marta Reina. I'm an intern with now cast a say Hi, I'm Marty. I get our Rodriguez and I'm the interim city council woman for district 7 How long have you been? This is six hours on the job right now and how long It's a 60 days roughly until October 10th What are you? What are the most important issues to you? So right now? I'm very concerned about infrastructure Streets drainage all of the issues that affect all of our residents as we drive to work drive to school I'm also very concerned about education all of our parks and our libraries are so many in district 7 I'm interested in going to visit all of them and making sure they all meet the needs of our residents There's lots of ways and one of the ways was tonight they can come to a budget hearing We're gonna have two additional ones one in city council chambers actually coming up very soon next week August 20th And residents can come here and they can also come share what they're thinking and their concerns in their neighborhoods And what are you looking forward to the most in these two months? That's a great question. And you know no one's asked me that yet You know, I'm excited to learn this is so interesting to make so many new friends to reconnect with so many people I had a baby a year ago, and I really focused on my family and on starting my new business in the past year So I'm really excited to get kind of back out there and meet people and re-engage with old friends Thank you so much appreciate it Thank you lack of a expenditure, but it's part of the budget too So our first was streets and infrastructure. Everybody's got their pothole in their neighborhood that they have a name for We have parks pretty much everybody's experiencing really positive things about the walking paths and the parks are just beautiful they're just great and We want to make sure there's no tax increase and that's part of the budget too. So then we pick something to Increase her change we want to make sure the Victims advocacy here, okay was increased in their funding and maintaining those positions that are Proposed to be cut. We wanted to add funds to job training in particular quest it which is doing great things in the health care industry and To fund it we want to reduce the city attorneys and need to make a little bit better decisions and stay out of courts courts are bad and We wanted to reduce it by four million dollars And we think that the four million probably would adequately fund those two things and that's what we got at table three. Thank you Okay, so Just so you know on the victims advocacy unit There are no recommended cuts in the budget for victims advocacy and someone said maybe increase Which will take that recommendation, but there are no recommendations in the budget to reduce the victims advocacy unit And there is no property tax rate increase recommended in the budget We as a city have not done that for 22 years There's no tax rate increase recommended in the budget either But there are increases in the budget for spending on street maintenance. So that's consistent. Okay, which table would like to go next? Okay, right here Do we have table numbers tonight? I guess I a table number one. Okay Okay, so we like first the West Side Development Corporation and Sage to be reduced We like to increase and keep the victims advocacy unit in SAPD And as an increase total compensation for uniform police to increase Uniform contribution to health care should match civilian decrease and then Then civilian contribution to health care should match uniform and increase and then one million to haven for whole prospects Courtyard security should be reduced Okay, thank you. All right next table. All right We also went of course with the potholes streets and drainage and One of the things that on the police Whoever lives right around the area here we had asked the police that we wanted patrolling Because there's a lot of burglaries. There's a lot of and and their hub Station is way over there at Ingram. So we never see them patrolling. So guess what they gave us because I I Addressed it here in a town meeting and we got radar There's a difference between between radar chief and manners and patrolling so we need to have more patrols around here and Also, we need to get the community needs to start having meetings on crime prevention and We can do it We've done it before and we can do it again. So those are one of the things that in the code compliance Code compliance, there's needs to be a better process There's a lot of problems in that area They come and they give us their what the problems are And they really are not working with the community to see what we can do about it And then they find people and then we have to go to hearings and all of that so it needs to be a better process and If you're going to be given fines Especially for the dogs We have a lot of problems with the roaming of the dogs So we're gonna be getting fine and going to the to to the court we need to have a Process where we see we have meetings with the departments before we go Been before they find us and that's what you called you process Okay, and the other one is economic development and of course in there we I Think in district 7 we do find with the economic development But of course, there's always a need and also have better funding There was a long time ago. They did some funding for economic development and Fredericksburg Road and Of course, it's my fault I never went to meetings, but But You know how much I paid for those palm trees 50,000 For all those palm trees they put we have to be careful about those things because they're all dead They didn't water them So So we need to be at those meetings for economic development and I'm for it more jobs More services and all I'm for it in fact the police has a in a Empty office and they need to use it and that of course the seniors and that's my priority I work with the seniors all the time every day every week you know, they closed seven nutrition centers and the west side and And Because the churches wanted more money and the city wouldn't give them any more money So we need to find ways to fund them. They want them to go to and It's great. There's two centers. They're coming in for district 7. You know where there are and 410 You think they're gonna get to go over there? They just spread in the centers that we already have in the community This is not right We need to organize for other entities that can sponsor those centers other than one mad Well mad is doing a great job. We have others other medical places. They'll say If you want a center in there and to just find the place Well-funded and that's the University Hospital and That's it Thank you. Thank you so much. That was That was extensive. All right next our proposal would be to keep streets and drainage Big keep big victim services keep economic competitiveness increase property taxes Decrease tax abatements, especially big biz. Thank you very succinct Okay next When Linda. All right, my goodness. It seems like this year. We've had a lot of shy people Because it's hard to find someone who will speak This group had a lot of ideas. We definitely had their priorities We also want to maintain streets and drainage the libraries and the victims advocacy program They wanted to keep that in the budget. I know that it has been included But we wanted to make sure that you all knew we think it's a great program and for our changes We want to Fund social services including project quest because everybody needs a job and we also want some changes on animal care services and We want better lighting. I understand that on the bike trails a lot of times they don't have the proper lighting and They want nice streets so that they can roam around their neighborhood and enjoy the great outdoors of San Antonio That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you All right Edward your table. Okay ours is short and sweet so we supported the increase for Streets drainage and sidewalks We also support the increase for the library and for the adult literature Education that would go on inside that live the new libraries Also the increase for animal care Services that would be the two new veterinarians and the support programs. There's a new pilot program We learned about that's kicking off, too And then we also put the senior center support that would be ongoing They talked about district seven so we live in seven and our senior centers opening But that's already been funded in the 2014 budget. So it's that's what's not on the 2015 as an increase and then changes we couldn't really agree the only thing we agreed on was a tax increase for the hotel Motel tax, but we had a lot of discussion about those pieces. That's the only page we had. Thank you Thank you, Bianca. All right next table who okay in In the back corner, and then we'll work back around this way. All right Directly into the mic, okay I'm representing our table, and it is primarily comprised of the Jefferson neighborhood association But the three things that we want to stay the same are public police fire budget to stay as is and capped at 66% Continue to fund domestic violence programs sales tax to stay the same Changes public safety deductibles to be more in keeping with civilian employees deductibles Increased street infrastructure to include curbs alleys street lamps and sidewalks my family has been living in the area where we currently live and Since 1957 we have not had new streets curbs sidewalks, and we do not have an operational alley We need that Full disclosure of all commercial high-end property tax evaluations to Go to state legislation Does that make sense? Okay, good. Thank you. All right Paula's table back there. All right Hi, good evening everyone. My name is Sandra Lam and I live just about two minutes from here So that is why I brought my bike if you're wondering whose bike that is I just kind of felt bad about driving, you know Since it's one block away Anyhow our group is in regards to maintain maintaining and continuing continuing Facilities or improvements we thought about street maintenance maintenance, which I think has been mentioned before a drainage resources Of course, we know we get a lot of the flooding that comes from the north down to the Woodland Lake And a lot of us who live in this area love and really enjoy that lake And that's actually one of the closest parks in this area to be able to drive to we would like to support and Continue to pay for family members health cares But not the officer not officers. I think that was what the police that was articulated since it you mentioned a It was a very expensive But it's expensive all around so we all know that we also would like to continue to maintain the victims Advocacy program and I think that was mentioned as well Library services we want to continue that we want the revenues to stay obviously. This is more than three So we already have broken the rules, but Perhaps we can prioritize in a little bit in in regards to changing or adding My proposal personal proposal was to increase the bike lane that goes from St. Cloud and Donaldson here all the way to Fredericksburg just because we have the Jefferson Terrace business there. We have the new Via bus the double bus Decker I guess it's called they go to Fredericksburg and we have a lot of Students and people who ride their bikes up and down Donaldson The another suggestion would be to increase funding for crosswalks in particularly the five points area here that has already generated some city planning Suggestions I actually have three suggestions and Councilor Medina's office was looking to see if he could find more funding at the end of this year so I was hoping he would be here so I can beg him for money for a crosswalk that is Located right here near this school and to bus stops and there's no crosswalks No lights and students and parents have to run across this area, and it's a different kind of Road system, you know, it's an older neighborhood, so it's it is a five points area Another change or addition is to increase curbs sidewalk funding I think someone in this table mentioned that and My neighbor actually asked me to advocate for solar street lights So she's a very eco-friendly person and she thought perhaps that would save the city money So that's a good thing to incorporate street lights in our neighborhood That are that are solar. I don't know how costly that would be or that would save you money in the end But that was a suggestion. Thank you Okay, I'm sorry. There was there was more At one of the ideas that that I had suggested to the Maverick music festival It's similar to the Austin City Limits music festival or part of the proceeds go to maintain their parks the gentleman didn't call me back, but someone just alerted me to the the the budget input box and We would increase revenue to the animal care services by perhaps collaborating with the Maverick music festival They would be win-win Part of the revenues would go for monies to the city to help us that with animal care services And perhaps in exchange he could get some tax incentives or venue or something and I'm sure He would more than likely get more sponsorship from dog Related companies that they knew that he was funding a cause for animals And I know a lot of dog livers would purchase more tickets if part of the revenue He was going to be generating would be going to a good cause. So that was another suggestion as well. Thank you. Thank you That was great. All right We appreciate it Did you want okay? We right here, and then we'll we'll come right there there. They jumped up ahead of you You're next though. Okay. My name is Rick. I live on East Quill we came up with Three items that we want unchanged and the no particular order also The first one was of course the uniform benefits. We want them to stay the same. They deserve what they got They've bargained for it and they've earned it number two social services with particular Significance is the domestic violence program we've got some people at our table that are very interested in keeping that and That's something that we need in the society and the community and as a whole and The services to seniors. We want to keep everything that they get they need that our Population is getting a lot older. We're gonna be there one day and we want something there when we get there also Priorities that we want changed Again, no particular order They want to eliminate the executive bonuses For the city No more bonuses for executive staff Number two got pretty quiet there Number two was increased transparency in the city department spending and number three offset the funds For street repair with some of the money that was going to streetcar if we can find it for streetcar we can find it for for street repair Now Another untapped source is via via themselves have so much money They can help in repairing the streets that they help damage also And that's about all we have Okay Thank you. I am representing Table seven which is so funny because it's district seven. My name is Vanessa. We've just moved into the company I mean the neighborhood me and my husband we've been here for two years. So this is my first time never done this our three priorities to keep the same were street maintenance which kind of umbrellas under like the streets Street sidewalk street lights anything pertaining to you know every day movement that goes through there through the neighborhood another one is safety to keep Again street lights a three million dollar Budget right that's correct and then code enforcement, which means abandoned houses tall weeds overgrown yards and graffiti Ours we kind of did different our three things to stay the same We kind of also put things to umbrella under that that can be improved also So our things to be improved for our three parties are See for code enforcement when we make a call it's Seems like nowadays you just make the call as somebody comes in nothing really gets done And then you have to make the call again in another couple of months. So it's pretty good I mean if they have the same houses that are being Not enforced on correctly. Maybe they should just keep on top of those people in those homeowners and then also For the parks like I guess within the neighborhood to kind of beautify them better I know they're working on the drainage around wood lawn and the sidewalks in the streets But also to update the tennis courts I know they just did the playground and the basketball court, but the landscaping Two should be an option and I know not everything can be done so soon But it would be really nice for them to keep on top of that and also the small little parks that we have in the neighborhood People tend to forget about them There's one located by Longfellow and I know people have started planting trees and plants and everything But it's kind of good to keep on top of that because then you know if you don't want to go to a busy park Then you have those families that just want that kind of you know Quietness and just really serene for their kids and then also for the safety We also put police under there to have them maybe patrol a little bit more In our day and age, I mean times are getting a little crazy now with you know different people moving in from different areas It just be nice if the police can make a little bit more of a presence. I know I gave an example Awesome or long I pass through the same street every day on my way to work During the school year you see the cops there. You see them at the corner You see them driving around early in the mornings all summer long I have not seen a single cop and to me that's the best time for you to make more Patrols around the neighborhood because that's when kids are more vulnerable to be doing things that they're not supposed to be doing And then also to reduce the executive wages. That was one thing mentioned All right, thank you for your input Josie your it has your table gone. Yeah Yeah, my name's Alejandro Soto. First of all, we want to keep current support on street infrastructure and parks maintenance parks as you're increasing the acreage You're spreading out the maintenance patrol and all that With the same personnel and that that has to it has to increase We also want an additional funding for streets curbs and sidewalks and Animal control animal control again. I guess that that's a real common issue I live by Woodlone Lake Park, which is a probably the dog dumping ground of the city We need we need more but more patrol and enforcement With other ideas we talked about tax increase and we said even though there's not a tax increase rate Your appraisals go up so your taxes go up until you reach that golden age like I do and you can just kind of keep the same rate We've talked about maybe Plan some smart growth inside loop 410 Increased aerial density. We have some major streets Fredericksburg, Vendetta Things that can be developed with proper planning Safety improvements for neighborhoods patrols lighting school zones protected bike lanes and Planning for multi-modal transportation one possible cut that I mentioned is the Council members discretionary funds a lot of times these end up being seems to be more like vanity projects for themselves If it's city funded let the city fund it and don't put a councilman's name on it and that's what do we have? All right. Thank you. Did we miss any tables? No Okay, well we've been true to our word It's just a few minutes after 8 o'clock and we appreciate everyone coming this evening to give us input as I said We gather up all of these comments and we share them with all of the council members We conduct these meetings throughout the city and we'll share the information with the entire city council We appreciate your being here tonight. So on behalf of the mayor and council. Thank you for coming Thank you for your input. We have public hearings coming up in August and September and Budget adoption is on September 18th. Have a good evening