 First and foremost, I want to let you all, all of you, everybody know that we in the Palm Heights Neighborhood Association took a vote after our spirited discussion last month, and we are unanimously and emphatically opposed to the scheme of having a parking garage and a tram to take people in and out of the parks. We feel very strongly about it. We won't just stop at passing resolutions. We've talked to our councilwoman and we will do whatever else is in our power to stop that thing happening. Let me just say that I've been reading Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of American Cities, and her whole perspective is that cities are organisms that you don't just impose some kind of a plan. I know that it's attractive to look at Brackenridge Park and say, ooh, green space. Let's make it really, really green. I know the old environmentalists will be for that. But the thing is, Brackenridge Park has been used for a very long time, longer than I've been around, by people who love it, by families, and not just on Easter. They go out on Sunday afternoons. They go out and enjoy. Keep office workers going, eat their lunch out there. It's a wonderful resource. It is not a zoo. Yes, there's a zoo in the middle of it. But don't confuse this with some kind of a zoo where, as the gentleman said, we as invasive species come and visit it. No. The Brackenridge Park is a living, breathing part of our community, and I hope that the you all planners will take that into consideration and not impose a sort of grand idea on it, but will work everything that you do into what the people are already doing so that you don't uproot everything and make people do what they don't feel like doing. It's our park. It's our park. Now, that being said, there's a lot of good ideas in this plan, and we really do, we did not address that in my community meeting. It was just the idea that they were going to suddenly wall us off from the park and make us get into little trams, like it was Disney World or whatever, and go around to our little picnic tables. And that's really unacceptable. It's not in harmony with the way things are being used. If you want impervious cover, that's easy. It's easy to make parking lots into impervious cover, you know, covered by just, you know, to tear up the asphalt of course. You can even do that with the roads, and you can make life pass and all kinds of other stuff. But anyway, I think you get the idea of where we are as an organization and where I am personally. Thank you. Thank you. Might be more following lives than a singular. I might be more of living in San Antonio. I'm fourth generation San Antonio. I've been here all my life, and I grew up in Brackenridge Park, learned how to ride a horse there. To this day, I walk every day there. I walk two miles a day. You say you want to preserve, protect, and restore the park. I say if you're worried about pavement, impervious cover, lay down has, he said, pavers or porous concrete, or you can even grass and then mow the streets. I say you have to allow the owners of the park that are all sitting in this room. The citizens of the city own San Antonio. They own the park. And I say you can't say to the people that own a piece of property that they do not have complete and free access any way, any time that they want to go into their park, including accessing back and forth through Hildebrand in and out of the park. I don't think you should restrict any access at all in the park, and I don't think there should be parking garages. There's lots of free parking. There's a thousand, I went and counted them. There's a thousand spaces parking just up the hill from the zoo where people are parking all over the place, and 600 of those thousand spaces are shaded by the freeway overhead. I can't understand why there needs to be any parking garages. Certainly not trams. You need to involve the users of the park in all of your plans. These people and the people that use the park are not informed. I handed out 200 flyers since April as I walked through the park every day. And yet once, not once, have ever met a person who already knew what's going on with these plans. You guys are not informing the people. Thank you. I think that golf course lease expires next year. I think it should be taken back by the people. You have four and five generations of golfers that don't get to play golf there anymore because you've made it too expensive. The trees have been butchered. The river banks denuded and they are eroding. They dump fertilizer and chemicals into the river on a regular basis. And I guess what I'm wondering is it parks and recreation who oversees what those people are doing to the golf course vegetation? Who oversees them what they're doing? Yes, that is the charge of the city and parks and recreation. And so you're letting them butcher the trees and yet you're saying you want to do invasive species removal. Why aren't you doing it? And why aren't you taking care of the vegetation at the golf course? And why aren't the four and five generations of Mexican people that used to play golf there all the time not there anymore? And how come every time I go walking my dogs all over the golf courses because there's no golfers there? I don't know, it needs to be taken back. If you want a green space take back the golf course next year. And there's plenty of grand lawn there or take up the driving range and I'm going to finish so you can put the timer in your pocket. I think you should, I think you've spent $250,000 on advisors and landscape architects and I'm sure that's part of the planning for the parking garages. And I guess what I want to know Homer is you said the park use won't change and I'm curious how will the park use not change? You can't drive into the park. You're going to have to ride a tram to use the park. You're forced to use a tram to use the park. There's only one way streets. You can't park on the streets. There are turnarounds like when you come into Redbud that you can't drive back. You can't go on into the park. You're closing roads to cars or closing Avenue A at the Woodlawn Crossing. Well that will very much change how people use the park. I don't understand your repeated comment that park use won't change. I say you need to start over and you need to involve the real park users, the citizens that own the park. Thank you. And as for me, I love to drive through the park. I know people who read the paper in the park with their coffee every morning. And if you try to stop the people that own the park and if you decide to stop me from driving through my park, you are going to open yourself a can of whoop ass. Thank you. Susanna Segura followed by Jean Elder. I'm Susanna. I live here in District 4 and I just want the design team to raise their hands. For everybody that's in the room that's part of the design team, please raise your hands. Three people. How many people total are on the design team? Kirby Hightower. Two firms. So it's $227,000 to put together a drafted Bracken Rancher Master Plan. There was already a Bracken Rancher Master Plan and so now you're making proposed changes, correct? Okay. So I just want everybody in this room to be aware like who is on the design team. It's unfortunate that you received the money, I guess, April through a vote by the City Council. And we're just now getting community input. These are the experts right here. Everybody's sitting around me. They're experts. They know how to use the park. I come from a working class family. My parents raised three children on what I later found out in high school was a poverty income. That was our free space. We went there. When we would go to the park, it would cost a lot of effort and self restriction on our part to have enough money for all of us to go to this zoo. So then we'd park at the parking lot. We'd go into the zoo. We couldn't afford to buy drinks. We couldn't buy food. It's expensive. We would go back to the car during lunchtime and we would bust out the picnic, the ice chest. That's how it works. That's what people do. I'm opposed to closing off vehicular access. I'm not opposed to one way vehicular access to the park, but people need to be able to park wherever they want to be. I'm mobility impaired. I recently went on a neighborhood tour and I had to crawl into the van. That's embarrassing. You have to take that into account. People don't want to ride trams if they don't have to. If they can get themselves around, they will. I don't bring my walker. I don't bring my walking stick. I don't bring my wheelchair because it's embarrassing for me. I'm newly mobility impaired. It's a year and a half. I'm still dealing with it. But you have to understand that people use the park. And this is how they use the park. I would hate to see parking garages go up around the perimeter of the park that will then destroy the view shed of the park. That would be horrible. I wouldn't want people to have to pay more money just to use an amenity that's already free. That doesn't make any sense to me. Thank you. Gene Elder, followed by Mark Sullivan. Yes, hi. I'm Gene Elder and I live in the River Road area and I do observe the park on a daily basis. I go there and I drive through there and I see exactly what's going on. The entrance that you're proposing at the zoo, you have not included the fact that that is a two-lane path that goes up around to the Alamo Stadium in Trinity University, which when they have activities at the Laurier Auditorium or the football stadium, it is an impacted situation to the point of being dangerous because the traffic does not move. So to make the entrance to the zoo is not taking into consideration that that's making the situation worse. The way it is now, it seems to be fine. There doesn't seem to be a problem getting to the zoo. And of course, then you're talking about, you know, the park is talking out of both sides of your mouth about these roads situations. You say you're not going to do anything, but all you do is talk about how you're going to change it. And the Hildebrand entrance and exit would just make the situation even worse because people that are coming to go to the baseball diamond or just come into that part of the park, that is a very convenient way to do that. We're used to it, so why change it? And then if you're going to close it, then you're saying that we need to go over to the zoo to get into the park and wind all the way around to the other side. And then you can't get out, so you have to come all the way back around to get out. And then on the Red Oak Street, which is the street that goes into Mulberry, Mulberry between St. Mary's and Broadway is a two-lane path. And sometimes it's very convenient to be able to get out of those traffic jams by going into the park. And you're saying that you want to make a little roundabout at the end of the street. So in other words, you're saying you want to make a dead end. Is that correct? Yes, the idea is the turnaround is mid-block. And so what's the point of that? Why would you want to make a roundabout at the end of the street so that you can't get anywhere? And you know, the other thing is that I keep pointing up at the other two meetings that I've come to, is that when you screw up the roads into the park, this becomes a dangerous situation if there's any kind of emergency. You can't get a police car in there or an ambulance because you've got a roundabout at the end of the street where they... Then they have to go all the way back around and come in, you know, too late. Or, of course, they can't come in, hill to brand, to the emergency because you've closed that off. They have to go into the zoo. So you're screwing up the streets and we keep telling you not to do that and you're not listening. Thank you. Mark Sullivan, followed by Rebecca Alvarez. Thank you all for being here and taking your time out to be here. Appreciate it because we all do recognize this is an important issue. Our parks are very important to us all. Plato said, if you're not active politically, you risk being governed by those less intelligent than you. So I grew up in San Antonio and I know Brackenridge Park very well. I swam at the Boat House at Lambert Beach. I have enjoyed it as a child with my grandparents, with my parents, myself and my wife, my children, and now my grandchildren. That's five generations of my family have enjoyed this park. I know this park very well. I have attended every meeting that the Parks and Recreation Department has put on regarding this Brackenridge Park Master Plan and nobody likes this plan. Sorry, Homer. Nobody likes this plan. I think it's one of those things where people say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So now I'm older and a little wiser and I've seen many things in my day and I can see that this is a poorly designed plan with many defects and it appears to be drafted by developers for the benefit of the developers and not for the benefit of the owners of the park. And that's all of us. That's you too. We're the owners of that park. We own our parks, the citizens of San Antonio. And we recently lost the headwaters of the Asseciamidre was covered over in Brackenridge Park. Did you know about this? We lost the headwaters of the very Asseciamidre and then you're talking about making this a protected site and then we lost the historic alligator gardens. Where did that go? It's paved over. So Brackenridge Park was dedicated as a public park for the people forever just like Hemisphere Park is. So I humbly request that you one, throw out this plan and start over. Two, do not ignore us and try to submit this plan to City Council. Three, do not ask us for any more money in this next bond until you can show us that you can be responsible stewards of our park lands and protect our parks and keep 3D developers out of our parks. So on that note, please get our Hemisphere Park back. It is your job to protect our parks. Now you're letting these developers build 430 apartments on our park and two hotels in our park. Does that change the park use? Is this how you protect our parks? How can we trust you with our parks? You lost Hemisphere, now get our Hemisphere Park back and don't ask us for any more money until you first get those developers out of our Hemisphere Park and you preserve and protect our cultural resources. Thank you, Mr. Sullivan. Next up, Rebecca D'Alvarez, followed by Maria Davila Salinas. First thing I want to say is that Bracken Ridge Park doesn't belong to the city of San Antonio, it belongs to the residents of San Antonio. And basically what I want to say is that I'm very leery of a master plan. This is the first meeting I have come to. I've heard very little about it on the news and media. I was handed a flyer when my husband and I were coming out of the Whitty Museum a few weeks ago and my first reaction was, they're going to mess it up. I just had that feeling. And after seeing your plan here, I do believe I was correct in that. So I'm very leery of a master plan that will significantly change our Bracken Ridge, our beloved Bracken Ridge Park. I believe some of the plans are improvements that will modernize the park, but I believe the parking changes and the road changes are what trouble me the most. And I believe this is also gentrifying Bracken Ridge Park that all have done to some of the neighborhoods. And that will push out most of the San Antonians that grew up using this park. And I think you're all aiming it more for the middle class, the tourists that are coming in, and you're taking the use away of that park from our own people, blocking our people out of the park. And these so-called plans that you say are quote, not set in stone, but sometimes when you see plans like this already drawn up, I think they are, and you're just trying to make us feel better by pretending to listen to us. That's what I'm saying, by pretending to listen to us. So history tells me that you're going to do what you want to do anyway and it's going to leave people out of our park. And remember, you just added parking spaces and picnic areas and walkways to the park that I see people using. And so what if there are a lot of folks there on Sunday? Those are San Antonians. They bring their cars. My husband and I don't, we've only been there a couple of times. But we do use the park. We have a membership at the Witte. We have a membership at the Zoo. We walk the trails and we enjoy the park. But when I saw this plan that y'all are going to change the roads and add parking garages and trams and things like that, I said I can go to Disney World to do that, okay? But, and if you want to really remove impervious cover, try removing it from the aquifer. That is where we need to have more good spaces. Thank you. Maria Davolo Salinas, followed by Cynthia. So my name is Maria Davolo Salinas. I'm the president of the Mission Democrats of Bear County. So I believe I should get my nine minutes. So let me first start off by saying that, you know, I came to this meeting and one of the first things that you say is that this is the sixth meeting and you make it sound so pretty and so good that Parks and Rec and City Council decided we're going to open this up to the community. Which is a total falsehood. Because you had two meetings with residents around the park and then someone found out and community activist, Maria Varezobo Esperanza Por Salunina. You had people that started getting basically on your butts saying we deserve to have community meetings. So to stand up here, and I feel like I'm talking to City Council because I've seen your reactions to most people talking and you're here because you have to be here. Not because you feel that this is the right thing to do. Not because you feel that the people have a right to speak, but because it's your duty and it's your job to be here. Well you know what? It's our duty as citizens to be here to speak up on behalf of all the people that never heard about this meeting. Part of the recreation is that there's hundreds of people around this area on this down the street. She never heard about this meeting. There was nothing done. It was community activists that fly her. It was my organization that sent out hundreds of e-mails and put it on Facebook and paid to put it on Facebook so that people would find out. But the people that truly used the park earlier you said, well we want to make it useful for the residents around there. Most residents around there probably have never stepped foot in that park. It's the poor people. It's the people that live on the south side, the west side, and the east side. The people that have no place else to go but to take their kids on a Sunday and drive to the park. Pain, you said no. You know what? The city lies. Everything that comes out of your mouth eventually what we all will say, well it was a private company that built the parking garage so they had their right to charge. Or the tram, they're privately owned so if they want to charge a fee, that's up to them. So the city washes its hands as it usually does. And we're supposed to say, oh yeah, well you have a good point there. What you're saying is that we demand that you listen to what because I'm speaking for hundreds of people, thousands of people that have no idea what you're going to do. That have no activists are putting out articles Susan Segura has not stopped what I'm not looking at of you right now to drive into the park. The south side people, the west side people, the east side people used to drive in there. We're used to being able to park wherever we want. The people, the poor, again it's gentrification just like Mission Trails was it's always comes back to gentrification. It's for the best. Okay you want to bring tourist skin. Tourist comes in once. They have for generations gone on Easter Sunday and spent their Easter there. You don't really know what's going to happen. Is there going to be fees charged to those families? Or are there... It says here that you can drive in to drop off. Okay so are you going to hire more park police to make sure that that's happening and that the flow is going through? Has any of that... I don't see anything about any of that. What's it going to cost? What more is it going to cost them? This needs to be taken back to the beginning not to developers as to what should be done. I'm embarking on my second career. One of the things that we're studying right now is conflict resolution. One of the things that I recommend is a book that I'm currently reading and that is called Managing Public Disfutes. Please write that down because what that means is they take the entire community special interest groups, civic groups, activists and they take residents from the neighborhood. They take the developers. They take the city. They take everybody within the entire fabric of the community. They bring them together and they select certain people to be representative like Ms. Maria Davala to be representative of her group and she speaks for those people and then they put these panels across the board and everybody writes down what's important to them and repeatedly said here today we need to start over. You need to do this for the people is to make this known to you. You need to start over and do it right instead of wasting our money and putting one man's vision to culminate a whole bunch of people and it just doesn't work. The vision was there so I'll repeat what I said then it's very awkward to be speaking to you because I know you're not the one that got up one day and said you were going to change Breckenridge Park but you're the one they sent and that itself is awkward because I still don't know who we are talking to and who all these comments are going to go to. I was told that they are for the team for the architects. They've been very good from the beginning all the architects and all the people who put that plan together would have been in front so we could talk to them and ask them the questions and this lady said a lot of what I was going to say about process and that's what I'll address again and that's process. As has been indicated already the reason these meetings were held is because some of us asked for them and I don't know if Councilman Trevino is still here. Thank you like I appreciate that he came and that he has stayed with us so he and the park staff facilitated having the meetings and that's good. However, I have I went to one meeting I attended this one I watched the videos of the others and I got reports of the ones that are not recorded and there is overwhelming opposition to certain parts of this plan. There are feelings that certain groups of people are being let down and it's messy because what should have been done at the beginning which is listen to the people is being done now so that's why people are frustrated and people have been let down and that's terrible. So I think in fairness again I don't know what's going to be done with the input of the people God bless in our cast because at least it's recorded but I don't think the city officially recorded anything and we want the city council to hear all this so what I read in the last page of the master plan that perhaps is still online it could have been taken off was that the plan would be taken to city council to the planning department in June and then the city council would vote on that in August I think that absolutely should not be done because that would mean that all these comments that all these people had that have brought out some issues that had not been discussed before we want the answers to all those questions and responses to all those comments this has to be the deadline has to be moved I think indefinitely I hope that nothing related to parking or lodges or parking which park is included in any bond issue because you'll take the whole bond issue down and that this work needs to be scratched and start all over again and I feel bad because that's an investment of almost a fourth of a million dollars that went to these architects so right now my suggestion request is to just stop listen to what the people said start all over again and do justice to the people who are using Brackenrich Park now and have been using it for generations and it's people who don't have backyards and don't have parks next to them and it's up close with a testimony that has already been mentioned of a lady that went to the Guadalupe she said she was a single mom had several children she drove through the park to entertain her children when she could and if she could spare twenty dollars she bought them some chicken for a picnic those are the users of the park all the comments that have been collected throughout the six meetings will be collated by the project team as we look at refining based on public input the plan and we actually yes, our past has been presidents at several of the meetings and we also have a videographer here as well so the city is also recording that as well so we've got a couple of a couple of entities that are doing that but thank you for your comments next up is Juarez thank you and Juarez, is Ed still here? No okay, so next up is Olga Monica Cruz I'm not a native San Antonio I didn't come to San Antonio until I was at St. Mary's University I was a student and I grew up in the Rio Grande Valley where we had no parks we might have a little little placita somewhere but that's about it so we wanted to play in the green beautiful nature we would have to go play in the cotton field or the corn field so which is no fun so when I got to San Antonio a bunch of my friends that lived here took me to Breckenridge Park and I thought it was there was greenery there was water it was beautiful and it was free and you could park anywhere you wanted and walk anywhere you wanted and I fell in love with it we were just sunken gardens we went to the zoo and it was very affordable for a really poor college student when I grew up and got married and had kids my kids had the privilege of going to Breckenridge Park and they're only 14 months apart so it's like having twins and if you ever had two toddlers to the park you know how much stuff you have to carry two strollers two diaper bags a bunch of meals a lot of food and we didn't have to worry about that because we just put everything in the car we park and just take everything out we didn't have to worry about taking a tram or finding a parking garage and it became a family weekend tradition they learned to ride horses there they did all these things and I would hate to think that all of that is going to go away and that my grandchildren will be able to enjoy that and have the privilege of growing up in Breckenridge Park so I think that some of these plans that you had asked any families like me or anyone in this room that would have said no we don't want the roads closed we don't want a parking garage we don't want trams you can't take two toddlers and all that stuff and shove them in a tram and get to where you want to go grandmother can't walk all the way to the tram and get on the tram and get off the tram so I think some of this are not designed for the people that today use the park and we need to continue that this park belongs to the people in 1899 this park was founded on land that was deeded to the city by George Breckenridge and the park was meant to be used by all San Antonians well except Mexicans I think there was a deed in there no alcohol no Mexicans so we still need to use the park anyway but I think that some of these new changes are going to keep some of the poorest and most grateful families that love Breckenridge Park and consider part of their family tradition I would advise the committee or whoever is in charge of this to start over and please make sure that you get community input if you want to make any changes in the park thank you Hello good evening I'm here also just to public and state my concerns regarding the plan for the park all the points that have been made prior regarding accessibility I too am concerned about I think we certainly have to think about the multi-generational use of families that use the park when we think of having individuals park in a parking garage and take a tram and all that I think we are neglected to really take into consideration the beauty of many of our intergenerational families that are big families and so you will go through as many of us go through Breckenridge and you will see the beauty of families getting together on a Sunday afternoon you have Tios and Tias and Primos and Abuelos and you take two or three cars to get your familia down there and you try to go early so that you can all park together and when you think about a picnic out there we don't, you know our families we are not like cheese and crackers and fruit kind of things we bring our fajitas with coolers and our pollo our potato salad and that's a lot of food to haul sometimes so we really, you know I guess I'm here to ask for all of those that are part of this process right now to really open your doors open your minds let's say you know be a city that exemplifies inclusivity and not exclusivity when you think about public policy and when you think about decision making, for other cities around the country with all that we're hearing these days with the divisity that's happening and the pain that's happening in many of our communities let us be an example where we think and we ask ourselves who's sitting at the table but who is not sitting at the table obviously you have many hearings already and you have I think very you know, key individuals that I think can offer very sound advice and thoughtfulness about the process and so I encourage you and our city officials to consider bringing those individuals to the table to begin this process and to really rethink it and to do it well I think that's very important I guess my last point is a quote that I often think about when you want to do something fast you do it alone but when you want to do something well we do it together so let's try and do that Good at all I grew up in San Antonio and I took out a few points that I'm going to bring up first of all I did read about I'm concerned about the meet-up lotus section of the park as well and I did find somewhere online if there's already a master plan for that is that correct? Yes and that's being carried out in conversation they've been in conversation with this plan or is it being done separately by a different group of people? I think it's RVK doing that the architecture also Right so as part of the time process one of the things the project team did look at was taking consideration the master plan that has already been placed for the meet-up lotus but that project is separate from this one Okay so is the meet-up lotus master plan about making it accessible to all people or is it still going to stay in a fenced off area of that to the candidates? So in that master plan it does look at how we can make that open accessible to the public at that point when I'm at that point right now in doing that Can we see that master plan? Is it open? Are you going to find it? Yes I'll get your project information that we do have it available for public viewing so most definitely we can get that information You can put it on your website just as you know related if documents of interest that everyone would like to keep as Good idea, thank you Okay I'll just briefly on the great run you know we're shade seekers here in San Antonio and I've enjoyed the great long time apart many times but that climate and the range of temperatures makes it exciting and inviting to go out to a great run here I would just run you know like get me out of that space I need a tree I need some shade So it really doesn't work for our area It's not San Antonio relevant I think I just want to say that I agree with a lot of the people that have spoken here about you know behind I think the creative team you know certainly is creative but we're here having all of these all of this dynamic conversation because as public servants you all you know you work for us and this process has been you know best efforts as you think you will and so we wouldn't be here if the process had originally included us the people you work for and so just I don't know if people have said it I hope it's a learning moment for our public government I hope something good comes out of this but it's very distressing that we have to even be here and then it's conducted that way you know I think part of what I perceive is or I think I've heard it said that you know this whole Broadway corridor development people families that can't afford the $12 per person entry fee of the museum right everything along I'm like I can because you know I'm an ordinary class I can go there once in a while I can use the pearl I can use all the fancy places once in a while I can't do it a lot a little break in my bank but so the idea it seems like this park is being run just the Broadway corridor and I just think that's wrong this has been a people's park this has been a community park I mean I have a wide sense San Antonio all over not just the west side not just the east side even the north side people use the park what will be taken away I really haven't found a problem with cars in the park I think keeping the cars run in the park would be a I want that to remain I have you know family photos I'm sure you'll know too we have super great films that show us you know having fun in the park his birthday parties whatnot I don't I'm just thinking gosh do I have to start a website it's you know the history of the Breckenridge park the people's park don't let us do that we don't want to memorialize we want to stay current we want to continue to be a people's park and the Broadway corridor rising of it will be a huge mistake I'm sorry I'm taking a little bit long as that I can't remember the swivel so my own current use of the park is that I work at Cartwork and so when I need to get out of the office you know I'll grab my lunch and I'll drive my car to a picnic table or the banks and just sit there and enjoy my lunch and get away in this beautiful spot and or sometimes driving home I'll take the other drive through the park because it's so pleasant I've never had a traffic jam I've never had an issue I really don't think honestly the park is an issue which you know goes to say I think parking garages no you know so I'll please keep this a people's park it's been a San Antonio line park this will change that this will change the use of the park the joyful spontaneity of going to the park I was absolutely left out of the additional meetings that came up you know and heard already the story of how it came up so I don't want to be too redundant but I do want to reiterate my concern as much as many people concern around the process right Maria Davos Salinas brought up you know that we're hearing this my story of how it all so have these meetings yes you added them you should have had them in the first place once you added them you still had a really good part of the city happens so there is much work to be done around this process it is not only the Department of Parks and Recreation we know that this is unfortunately part of a much larger much deeper much nastier culture within our city government of excluding communities most impacting by the decisions that have been made with it and I'm so glad that that many more people are what happens next right so you gave us the meetings you're taking your notes you brought a camera out for the last meeting now pass you know pick up the stuff for you and they're meeting with that what happens next how do we know that our ideas our suggestions our questions how are those being addressed where do the follow up so as far as the next steps all of the meetings that have been occurred to date comments whether they've been e-mail public comments by citizens and at the speed the support based on the vision boards in the back all of that is going to be correlated by the project team and we will provide and make that information available to the public next step will be for the Parks and Recreation Department to update the Neighborhoods and Livability Committee which is chaired by Councilman Travino and so that would be the next step in the process was to make sure they have an understanding of where we're at in the process and then develop further steps from that point forward but everything that's been made available to the project team through input from the public that information will be shared thank you and I appreciate sort of getting a little bit of a dialogue in this setting which we don't see in a lot of other community meetings but there's much more dialogue in exchange for that and I'm going to ask when you say that it will be made available to the public house do you know how much? Yes so for example we have comment cards in the back that we're going to be scanning and uploading to our website because that's been some of the things that citizens have asked is you know what about the information how are we going to see that exactly as written that'll be uploaded to the Parks and Recreation website we do have a dedicated a dedicated webpage for the Brackenridge Park master plan in addition we uploaded the last public meeting that was recorded and we'll be doing so again with this one so all of those comments that come in we'll be providing that information on our website that's one way after we're going to update the neighborhoods of mobility we are looking at how we can also report out to the community possibly another setting like this getting back out saying here's what I guess occurred today here's what came out of the neighborhoods of mobility committee meeting and then share that information with the public what's the name of the website yes the website we have a banner that's scrolling so uh sent Antonio Parks and Recreation dot gov and then on that website or on that front page you've got the scroller and it's front and center that the Brackenridge Park master plan process and it includes these vision boards we have here this evening it includes the video that we uploaded from last week the comic parts as well those items that we talked about uploading and you'll find it on our webpage and you click on that banner yes ma'am so it's in casehanding.gov gov slash parks and there's no space for that so www.sandantunio.gov slash parks and Bracken and on the front page you'll see the Brackenridge Brackenridge park pc thank you for clarifying thank you for that and if I could just suggest also or make sure that you know that many organizations and community groups are represented here and I'm sure they've been represented well the meetings that you've had I would suggest contacting them as well just to see if we can help facilitate the information because not all of our community members can get to a computer that gets really complicated even if they do have online service on their phone. So maybe we can start to work a little bit better together with those groups that can help you connect to the city. I'm sorry for the community. And I know my time is running out, but you took some of it and I appreciate it. So let me just add on my theme quick. And I've been on to a few groups that can take about 90 minutes, but I won't. I just wanted to say really quick that a few of us did do some firing at Brackenwich Park, also at Woodlawn Park, and people were very, very afraid that some of the things that they see happening at Brackenwich Park, at Chemistare, might soon come to Woodlawn. We were talking to people that had a camp there overnight. People that were coming in from who had a town then had camp there overnight. Again, it's an affordable option for people. And we also did our small mail-out. We've had it much better with the organized Still Women's Day march. And everybody that we've talked to is absolutely, again, just to reiterate a lot of what people said, do not want to pay in any way for any type of use of Brackenwich Park. And just one more concern that I wanted to ask about is, can you tell us more, Keith, about what you're referring to around the quality of the water in terms of the palatable rights and in terms of any other concerns around water quality? And also, if I could just ask you to start thinking now about what that process is going to be for how you tell the story of the history of water, because I saw that in the plan and I hope that you really do take to heart that the processes that the city uses are not efficient or not adequate. The water story is our story and we need to be a part of that. Thank you. Water quality, what does that mean? So the example I use is on the east side of the park is the Catalpa Pershing, which is a man-made channel. So by restoring that to, which basically conveys the water, all the runoff from the streets into the river and then on down. So by restoring that to a natural setting, it allows the water to be cleaned, filtered, maybe to a rain garden, and before it ends up in the river. So that's one example of how looking at preserving those cultural or historic assets within the park. We can do that in a way that improves the water quality but allows it to retain its functionality for conveying water during periods of heavy rain. The Catalpa Pershing joke is non-functional. It is not carrying any blood orders when it's been blocked by a parking lot and it's totally not a thing. I have no problem with you wanting to make it look like so don't kid yourself about what it's doing. So I would just add that to the many reasons for why this time needs to be paused. There are many issues of, you know, water contamination concerns throughout the city and I think we would all love to take a closer look at what that means within this time frame. Yes, ma'am, thank you. I can tell you that I'm looking online at this thing in there about what a rich park process. So where do we go? There's a banner scrolling at top so I'm going to ask Liv to... Why don't you tell the audience, everybody would like to know how to find what you just got to be saying, what you just got to be saying, where it is. It's not there. Is it the mobile display? I think it may be just the mobile display. So you have to look at it on a computer or an iPad. It's not mobile friendly. I can look into it. Thank you. Do you get it? She got it on her so maybe it's my... Thank you very much. Thank you. Monica Arriaga. Hello everyone, my name is Monica Arriaga and I would just like to start out by to make my concerns as well and echo the sentiments of concerns over this process being ministerial in nature and that even though you are taking time to put a report together with comments and videography to memorialize everything that's being said, how do we know that City Council is going to take any of that into consideration? And I would also like to know will City Council be in any way held accountable to actually watch and read any reports and video history on the comments of the citizens of San Antonio? So with regards to, I guess, the sincerity or listening to all the comments that have been collected, you know, when I started I kind of pointed out that through the civic engagement and leadership of Maria Bede Osalvo identifying the need and lack of additional public input in this process reached out to Councilman Revinio and through his leadership he did engage his colleagues and even this evening Councilman Saldana walked in the street so they're here, they're listening and they know that our charge is to come back and share with them exactly what has transpired, what is the public sentiment regarding these strategies and we're going to do that at the Neighborhood and Locability Committee meeting in August and that's an opportunity for direct dialogue with the Council Subcommittee regarding the public comments, the inputs and where we go next. So their Councilman Revinio's leadership and engaging his colleagues to help deliver these meetings and quadrants across the city is a reflection of their commitment to the process and part of response to stepping up and meeting that challenge and sharing that commitment. Thank you. I also have a follow-up question regarding the Neighborhood and Locability Committee. You just mentioned that if the City Council Subcommittee that will be in attendance of that particular meeting, is that what I understood you to say? The last part that... A City Council Subcommittee that will be in attendance at the Liberability Committee meeting? Okay, so the... Our Community meeting? The Neighborhood and Locability Committee is a Council Subcommittee and so typically the process is we provide a briefing and update and then from that point forward receive direction before it comes back to the full Council. And where is the information derived that's going to be shared or discussed at this Liveability Committee meeting? So the information is derived from the public comments from each of the meetings. It's derived from the coming cards that we'll be uploading. It's derived from the boards in the back which are large versions that you have in your hand. There's a scale at the bottom from each meeting. We've been tracking the level of support through the placement of dots so that would be tabulated and all of that will... I mean the update will reflect all of that information. So in multiple forms we have surveys on iPads in the back that allow citizens a different way if they know specifically what they feel and maybe they'll need the one-on-one questions by the station. So all of that information is where all those forms is how we're getting that information back. And on the website that this more was asking about there's an email address dedicated to comments for this Brackenridge Park Master Plan. So those email comments as well will be part of that process. I would also like to state that as a mother of a handicapped child who was wheelchair bound his entire life I am very aware of access for that particular part of our community and it seems to me that the way the form of the park right now and the ability of those to drive through the park and spaces that are close to picnic areas and picnic tables are very accessible to wheelchair bound or mobility challenged people. And my concern is that if we have trams and if we have any kind of van access where are these people going to be dropped off how far are they going to be expected to get to a picnic area if you will. I was just in the park about two or three days ago driving through as I believe one of our other citizens mentioned that she does sometimes during lunch or after work and I noticed that there was a young lady in a wheelchair who had just arrived to the park she was able to park in a slot that was maybe twenty to fifty feet away from a picnic area with her family and they began to have a celebration which I thought was a very beautiful thing because the way our park is now it is very inclusive of our entire community and I think that we need to have voices from all factions not just socioeconomic areas but also those citizens who have a vested interest as we all do in the park remaining the way it is rather than trying to make changes to areas if you will that are not broken that don't really require fixing and to not take in an account for the opinions of us as citizens to meet is very disturbing and if the Livability Committee meeting is going to take place in August how far in advance of the actual city council vote will that be that is going to occur in August? So there is no council vote that occurs in August the purpose of the neighborhood Livability Committee meeting will be simply to update them on the public comment and where we are at thus far at that point we will take direction from the Livability Committee and you know it is likely to be that we still need to report out to the public and refine based on all of the feedback from the multiple meetings, refine the strategies maybe some are moved forward maybe some don't but that is going to be before there is any type of council vote by the council to adopt the master plan that is still quite a way down the road no date has been set yet for that to happen just to update the Livability Committee in August and then receive further direction at that point while we work to refine the master plan Thank you very much, I just also want to add that I'm also a member of Mission Democrats of Baird County and I invite anyone here and everyone here to attend our meeting brief which will be held on July 21st at the Latuna restaurant, thank you The reason I'm here is because you told me we were going to put a new swimming pool here first of all, I do want to thank all our citizens and I know not to be home eating or doing whatever so I commend you all for being here and also I commend Councilman Perrino and Councilman Caledonia for being here I think Ray, you're a newbie, aren't you Ray? So what do we do with Ray here and Councilman Perrino and of course our assistant city manager Mr. Yagomas, thank you for being here I will add that the Woodlawn Park Firework Swing was great but seriously, what I'm asking here is that you all when you do make the final decision that you take all the input that's been given not only here but throughout the city that you consider it and that you weigh everything that's been said and I'm not going to repeat everything that everybody said but please consider it, please weigh it and people have a lot of good ideas and that's all I'm asking so I just want to come by and let you all know that so thank you very much Thank you