 And at different meetings and different conversations I've heard going on in the neighborhood, there's been some interest or comments on things people would like to see in the park or not see in the park. And so I thought it might be interesting to have people come and share their ideas and see how we build on them and see what we can do to improve the park. So we'll start. First of all, thank you all for allowing us to have a captive lead there in the top of the park. Beautiful. And then secondly, I want to apologize because I realized that I had somebody outside in the space. For the next one, I didn't realize we had not actually done all these other things. So thank you and I apologize. Can you start? I've seen those, I think. What are they or I didn't know anything about them? What they even represent? Oh, yes, Catherine Lee. She'll be in the presentations. Well, Catherine Lee is an abstract artist originally from Tampa, Texas, which is in the northern part of the Panhandle. And she now lives in Moorley, Texas. And she takes generic, not generic, what am I trying to say, organic shapes and like monoliths and stones and makes them into sculpture. And so those are pieces called sorrow, I believe. And there's three different parts of sorrow. I'm going to like, love. I'm not going to remember all of them because I, between that and other things, like, life, love, sorrow, sorrow. Three sorrows. Life, love, death. And how would they pay sorrow? She loaned them to us. She loaned them to Dresden Pudes. Dresden Pudes is a, if you don't know that, is a non-profit organization that was started by two gentlemen who were lawyers, Bruce Tarver and John Wood. And I have been involved since pretty close to the beginning. They were always looking for a space and place in San Antonio to do these kinds of things. The idea of having a well-renowned sculpture park. And, you know, when you talk to other people like the city of W.I.S.A., you can use a millennium park in Chicago, as an example. Of course, that's a completely different from our park. But the idea that you can walk through both having a sculpture and nature interact so that you have that combination of creativity that happens both organically and creatively. So, and you guys were very kind to allow us to have a three-year loan from Ms. Catherine Lee. And then, out here today, we'll go to the presentation, but we're asking if you would allow us to add a sculpture to the park, which is by James Searles. James Searles grew up, I hate this moment. I feel like it's Temple, Texas, or Tyler, Texas. I get those confused. The roses are not the roses, but... Temple, Tyler, Texas. Yes, I know, but I'm not going to agree with you on this one. Oh. So he's been around for a long time. He was a Texas artist. You may be familiar with one of his pieces that's downtown on Main Street. They put that roundabout on Main, over by Baptist Hospital in the library, and then you go down towards downtown. They put down... So there's one there. So he uses kind of his idea, and you'll see images, his idea is to take organic shapes, like plant shapes, and that's what he does for sculpture. And he's been around for a long time. He's one of our master sculptors here in Texas. He's been collected by many, many institutions, including the Eastern Art Museum. I think the McNay has one. I think the... I think Samma has one. But they're not... They're small. They're not in a space where you can feel it. And I think, you know, this part particularly, because of all the amazing trees, and the fact that you can really do that part in a way that isn't square. I mean, I was... You know, parts are always starting with sometimes like a boss out or something, and you intersect it in certain ways. That linear way that moves because of the safety of the history of that is just amazing to me. And I'm also an artist, so I might get a little too poetic. Please stop. So that... Any other questions before I start? Okay. So this presentation was put together by Adam Ceil. He's in Berlin, and so he's also an artist in town. I am going to try to channel him. So that's us. So the part of the thing was in... This is the list of stars and non-profit foundation is all the amazing things that happen in Hemstor Park during the 68th World's Fair. We've had art from all over the world. And we still have some of that still in center today. There's a... Smith, that's in the big name. Big Q. But anyway, so we'll start our presentation. So that's... Uh-oh. She went the wrong way. So here's 68. And we have lots of people coming through from all over the world. And this is a two-lots culture that I think still resides or parts of it or something similar to it still resides in Ludi. So we still have some of these treasures. There's Hemisphere, of course. That was done by an artist, Robert Indiana. You may know that McNay has a piece on their patio that says Love. That's Robert Indiana. He actually made the poster for Hemisphere. So the idea that, essentially, it has a history of having, you know, artists from this echelon all the way through including the incredible creative community we have here. So that is our Tony Smith. An interesting... I've worked at the McNay for 13 years also. So I always wanted to see if we could sell tickets to have Tony Smith come help us watch this. When we watched this thing, it was like watching a mag truck. We had to climb on it and start from the bottom down. This is a Catherine Lee. So they also have a Catherine Lee. So we're a good company as art collectors I guess in a sense, or art borrowers. This Tony Smith is a legend that the 68 World's Fair, you know, they're like, okay, it's over. Let's dismantle all these things. And some of you made for this legend. So the workers came in. I will tell you this is three-quarter inch steel because I climbed on it. They took it apart and made barbecue pits and ice chess out of it. And I wish I had one of those today because that is a collector's item. So the McNay, when they chose to have it as their part of the collection, they made a deal with that. Actually, I think Robert Toe would pay for it to be redone. So that's why we have Tony Smith. But I like that combination. The way we live and the way we have rights. So this is a Richard Serles piece. And we're just showing you the parts that we've been showing you here now. It's called, we're taking excerpts from a store key, which is a huge sculpture part that goes for, I think, 23 to 30 acres and just rolls down the hills. I'm taking it to work. But this is some of the things that we looked at to kind of inspire and figure out how we wanted to move as a combination. So we're just going to move through some pieces. I don't know everybody's piece, but I think this might be, doesn't seem like it has color, but it could be. No, I'm not even going to pretend I know. And these are bomber headboards. This is also a collection from, well, we don't collect these, but the McNay has a bomber headboard given to them by Tom Slick that started the Mind Science Center and was an adventurer's gentleman. So look at this beautiful thing. It looks like it was there forever and I'm not, I don't know the artist, I'm sorry, but look at that. Isn't that great? It's the one piece of path. It's like these, these are slate pieces that are put down the ground. This that I know is, this is the pieces of the mail. But these are the kinds of things that can happen part depending on what comes to us. We raise money to, we raise money to continue, hopefully to have a movie exhibition so nothing's permanent. At the moment we have agreements with the artist to have three year lots. Because we figured that we would get an idea of whether everybody is interested in how this works and how it's working. I mean we're in it together as a cultural and creative experiment, right? Going backwards. So this one is Anne Wallace, local artist who we all love to know, well I did. She saw it with my sister to me. But this is a fact of practice part which you of course all know, I'm sure. But these are the, you know, Anne was looking at, of course nature and how it was dissected. So this is Captain Lee and she's been, she was very generous to us to let us go to her studio and offer us works. And she's a Wimberley and at some point we'll arrange something so we can all whoever wants to go, she's so kind to, I'm sorry, I don't have control. This is also her studio. And then we move to the park. So this is just the way the park is now. Here's our Captain Lee's over here. And I'm not quite, this is just Anne's putting together a way that people are interacting with these pieces. So we'll talk to Captain Lee, we'll just put them in, this is a photoshopped in when we present this to you. And then she came out and placed some of the places where this is her, where this is her talking to us about these pieces. These are wall pieces. She has, Sam had just acquired a piece of hers. That's Captain Lee in and that's where you're obviously in front of our Facebook. That's okay. That's okay, we'll go back. This is me and my team putting them in. That was a fun day. It was cold. But better this way because I just switch on these things. I don't have to do that. Captain has his idea when we find that you have some kind of, you know our public activities, they're hollow. She wants the musician to come and play them. How much do they weigh? They weigh about three, not to pick up by yourself, but not too bad, they're hollow. But I think that they look lovely there personally and the way she plays them they obviously feel like they're dancing. Okay, so this is Mr. Searls. I can read that to you if you know how about it. I am Tarot Texas, Tarot. He's been around a while. He's been a great influence in Houston particularly and he is collected as you can see pretty extensively all over the world. So this is an example of his works. You can see that most of these are interiors except for, of course, this one. Some of his work. And you can see scale too because there he is and he's not a short piece. He's like a six foot something guy. These three are proposing for, this is actually coming as a moment for the Rockport Museum or our association and they are willing to lend it to us for three years. So that's where is the Rockport. You can see the dimensions. I think the white even though it's very, very, very organic up against the green and the branches and trees would be really lovely. It's like a reverse line drawing or something like that. So here's the location we're proposing and that's the apologies because something's already up there. Could you go back to that please? Yes, I'm sorry. I'm trying to figure out where I'm at. The fountain's in the front left. It's not very far. It's not very far from the Catholic League. It's maybe like a walk if you have one. Okay, I found it. My six houses there and there's the location if you look at it. The guy was out there but I think that they're having a way today. Yes. My apologies, that was my mistake. I thought things were further along. What was he? He was carrying a site and I again I apologize tonight. That was misunderstanding. I'm sorry. That's the piece there. That's the piece there. Well it's nice to see what they're planning. How big is that piece? 8 feet tall. That's the location. It was being and from the sidewalk do you have any dimensions in the area? Can you go back again? From the sidewalk does that go down? Yes. Nestle, I'm sorry. Nestle approach. Nestle approach is trying to approach the sidewalk. Well, there's a sidewalk there. Yeah, it's on the side. Oh that's true. That's a walking material. So that helps a little more for that. Yes sir. So it's in the narrow mozo? Yes, it is in the narrow mozo. And if we get approval, I don't know how to stop that. There'd be footings up so the flowers could grow around it. So the footings would keep it from being you know right on the grounds. There'd be footings up about 6 inches or so. 6-8 inches. So it'd be standing above and within the... How many posts or feet do you think it'll have? It'll have 5. 5. They're 8 inch diameter and then there's a plate on this side of it. I may get this right or wrong but it's 12 inches by 8 inches. So I suppose that'll encourage people to trample the flowers to go take pictures of them. It's pretty close to the street. She said it's out of the mozo. It's in the no-mozo. It's in the no-mozo as well that they wouldn't trample things if it's in the no-mozo. So that's the presentation. So we're ready to discuss it. Okay, here's my comments. I'll just give you my comments. First of all, the one we have at the top of the hill, we did not approve it. We made the park or approved it. And then it kind of came in and said we're putting this at the top of the hill. So it came in as a surprise. It was in the bulletin. That's what I found out about it. It was actually... My recollection is that they asked us for input but my understanding from what the commission that they got together to propose this had indicated to us that they could proceed with city park approval only. Oh. So they asked us for input which we gave but that was approved by the city park. My point is the second point is a lot of these angles are much larger open areas making park is a very limited area. And I understand what artists are trying to do. Artists are trying to find a place for art. That's my next point. We're going from one going to two. How far are we going in this in main park? I mean are you going to put art all the way down to Breckenridge? Is there going to be a connection? How far... How many pieces of art are they expecting to put in this park? We need a number. I doubt if you stop... I doubt if you're stopping at two something just tells me there's going to be one and there's going to be two and there's going to be three and there's going to continue. That's just my guessing of course. Third point is personally I'm not personally attracted to this type of art. I mean that's just a personal opinion some people may think it's gorgeous I personally don't like the art. I'm not terribly happy with the ones that put it in top deal. They just look like geometric shapes to me. So I mean you can like it if you like it. I'm glad that you brought this to show us what you're trying to put there because when the top ones were in the top of the deal I had no idea. All I knew was art was coming I didn't know what. And again it could be a missed communication somewhere it's all about communicating. I'm just reluctant to go from one piece to two piece to where it's going because it boils down to you have artists they want to place the good art and they found many parts and all of a sudden many parts is becoming our art display place. So that's just the way I see it. So everybody else will comment on anything which Rick. There has been discussion that they're trying to create a outside art museum or sculpture museum from Broadway to Botanical Gardens. Okay well that's new to me too. Yeah well it's all in discussion and it's part of like the Broadway expansion and the museum reach and all of that sort of to bring culture and artwork of various natures and they're going to call it outside sculpture museum. So your points are about how many pieces we will have or would like to have in the art. So I think we had a meeting last week to discuss that issue specifically. So the next step for us will be to have a master plan exercise between present areas and many parts. So we can start mapping exactly if we, as we do acquire more art where would it go? How many pieces can we make it more art? More art because you have a lot of artists who want to display art. Right but the artists are not coming to us we're going to them, we're finding pieces that we want to make art. We decided to open a call for art work. Well I'm just looking at the dimensions. You have one at the top of the hill and your next one is only about what? 6 houses down? If they're going to do an evenly spaced and manky part I'm seeing 10 12 pieces of art not that you're going to do them evenly spaced but that's just what I see. Right. You haven't gone very far for your next piece don't tell me you're going to go to the other end of the art and put the next one there and you're done. So I mean just tell me it's just a piece after piece after piece after piece I personally you don't have a number to give me No, no, no, we're just working on the master and now to bring to you and I just want these two. I will sir also reminding that these are just loans? For three years. Right. Now for the top one at the top of the hill is up for three years are you going to put something else there in this place? That would be probably a replacement of That's another question. That's another question. That's what I'm saying. That's one of the discussion conversations. And once Manky Park becomes a place for artwork it will continue to be a place for artwork. I'm guessing and again I'm guessing because we don't have the answers to this. It's just going to rotate. It's just going to rotate a different piece of artwork because Manky Park is now designated an art to play a display area. A sculpture part. Now if everybody agrees to make Manky Park a sculpture part that's fine. Personally I'm a gardener. Manky Park Community Garden. I'm on the board. Nature is my art. I don't need I don't need it. I go to Manky Park. Nature is my art. I feel it. When in my face it's not on my you know I see the ground. I don't need it. You're changing the natural sculpture of a natural area. Manky Park was designated a natural area park. And you're changing it. So that's just me. I'm going to get a couple other comments. Sure. As someone who has frequented Storm Cave. Pepsico Garden is another sculpture. As someone who's frequented Storm Cave that you mentioned Pepsico Gardens in New York. And other beautiful sculpture gardens I would say I am very exciting and culturally very enriching. There is a difference. You would definitely hurt that already but thank you very much for you. Yes, man. I also love the wildflowers to me they're much more beautiful than any other sculpture. And I'm concerned with sculptures. And people are going to be walking to them. They're going to be trampling the wildflowers. And we already have some of this this year. There were some people that came with furniture to me. And there was another place I look like I've heard about and said trample the blue barn. So I'm thinking that people are there. And also they're going to come to walk through this where they're going to park. And my third thing is so who actually decides on this? Who has the power of making that decision? It sounds like from the other ones maybe we don't even have and ultimately the parks department has final say. Who does? The parks department. So they reminded this project months ago that we came to Manking Park. I'm a resident of Manking Park. I've been on the board before. So we came to the board to let them know what could be done and how they wanted it done. So there was input from Manking Park Board at that time to proceed and in what fashion we would proceed. So that's how it all played out so to speak. Just a comment for two. So I'm hearing, I mean I like art, I kind of like view on you know whatever art is and the city buys the sculptures. No. Okay you said that was acquired from the Colorado defined loan. So that means loan. Well that's good when I paint anything. Okay and then if we that's how it works. So now he makes a very valid point because there's an argument still to make funds in one way towards Botanical coming around Lamar in and out. I don't like that at all. You talk about disturbing the looking kill of the neighborhood with the one way traffic pattern and we have parking problems in Manking Park. Now Gary made a point that maybe they can park at the Botanical Center because they have all that parking area that's usually not full because it would be, i.e. ultimately a tourist attraction which has pluses and minuses. So I mean you know I'm up for stuff. I like culture myself. I love the wall flowers you know and I went to Lamar and word them there. But I mean I'm just, the Parks of Recreation in other words has final say. So unless you have representation on it you'll you'll forget it right wrong or different like it or not like it. They decide but they're being polite. It doesn't matter what we think. Yeah. That's why we're here to have this open dialogue and that's why we want you guys to be a part of the master plan so that you can give us this feedback so that we can go plunk something down where you don't want it. And more than likely we're not going to want to plunk it down right in the middle of a bunch of wildflowers either. So that's what the whole master plan process is about is identifying the best places to place new art. I personally like I do have art but I know that there's a lot of enthusiasm and sensitivity about the wildflowers especially those who are planted or re-seated every year in memory of deceased residents and so and I think there's some particular areas that are kind of more designated for that purpose than others and I think that it would be best if you would avoid those sensitive areas. The first priority of the master plan would be to identify all the places excuse me a second. Would be to identify those places where we would not want to put art and then plan accordingly so it's a thoughtful process. This would be a good time to do that because the pattern of mowing is the same every year and so there's the upper level of art of just to the west of the Crescent and there's a big area that's a NOMO area and then down close to my house there's a NOMO area going down to the drainage area and then but since they haven't noted yet you can see it right now. You can see the pattern. I want to give it to Justin. I know he has a drone and take a fly over for us so that we can see exactly where the planting areas are right now. Because this year the wildfire is really great but they got up to about four feet tall so I'm thinking putting that in an area where we almost have to cover it up. It's not the best place to do it. Especially where you mentioned the guy was packing away out of the wildfire so I'm not going to get all into a different spot where you don't have that situation. We can do that. Yes ma'am. I'm in a peculiar position here because I'm a resident of the neighborhood but I'm also a journalist and I tend to as a journalist just shut up and listen but in this case I'm very curious about how this process conformed with the city's public participation guidelines that were passed by the city council in terms of public input and public participation in this decision. It doesn't sound like it met with those guidelines. Well in my point of view the board is your representation. I mean that's why they're here. Yes. They speak for you. You've elected them and they speak for you. I mean we can't have everybody in making part flow into one building and have a discussion and make a decision. That's what the board is for. So that's what we want to do. Who presented us on this situation? Good. I'm sorry I have to go take up an extra kid who came back from job to father. There's so much disagreement. I think it's a great way to do it together with the additional talk about. Yes the information has been slow to come about. The installation itself was actually late and arriving and the previous board and the current board have been alerted to its slow movement. We're really glad to have them here and we're excited to present what's going on. It was well over a year ago. Well over a year ago and we had the land use committee and the board all come together. I don't know if you folks know who's on the land use committee but there was at least four members of the land use committee and the board. We had a joint meeting and we got the thumbs up to go ahead so that's what we did. So I believe that there was community participation throughout the entire process although it was not needed to satisfy the parks department requirements. That was something that we did to get more input and make it more a cohesive decision. In this new phase we brought this to you now before it's installed so we can get more feedback for the first installment since we also have more information as a board now that we did previous. I think it is a great issue that the first one came out where I saw it in neighborhoods that that part comes coming next month. That's when I first heard about it. That part being a natural park. I mean how come sculptors can go in and you won't even put stones along the sidewalk for people to have respite seating when they're trying to go from the bus on Broadway to the bus on New Braunfels or trying to walk dogs and my back kills me and there's no place to sit. But that's a side issue. What's there what's been placed there I think is questionable but to just make it into a sculpture garden when it's supposed to be a natural park and that's in the neighborhood plan and it's been like this for I don't know a hundred years probably I don't I don't understand the the reasoning. There are a few misconceptions about what exactly is the park supposed to remain it's not supposed to be quote or quote developed but there's a large interpretation of what that actually means to a lot of different people and as far as the parks department is concerned it does not mean sculpture violates the spirit of that agreement so that was one of the first hurdles that we discussed with the board and beyond with the city as well Has there been an extra plan done for Minky Park for the park itself from the park itself? No there was one master plan that was done from an UTSA grad student about a year and a half ago on Facebook and that just showed in a very wide range possibilities My husband and I should both in the architecture and we have been directly involved with the project that happened at Minky Park and it was a great example in which the neighborhood got together and discussed what they wanted from the park and worked together with the city of San Jose department to develop a master plan and acquire bonds for projects and move forward from that but it seems that Minky Park hasn't had that and so there hasn't been any input on what exactly there's a lot of voices about if you remain in nature but there's never been anything formally done on it I would agree with that and that's what the master plan is now can investigate all the intricacies of this agreement that's a hundred and so many years old and see exactly what it says what we can and cannot do so that everybody is on the note I believe in the neighborhood plan which had broad community input in there was a stated desire to enhance the presence of artwork in the neighborhood if not in the park specifically so that should also be that goes back to number if somebody is thinking in number how many pieces of this art they planted at the end that would be six nobody can give you a number what are you saying? that's part of the plan you don't have a number you don't have a master plan yet but we need one before we do that and that's where we are right now I know that they're already putting the art in before the plan is made, it's my point the art is coming in, you're kind of planning and if you put the art in you say we're going to make a plan but the plan is not made we have a plan that says we're going to put one here and here and there and there at least I know there's going to be four or there's going to be ten there's going to be 50 but somebody please give me a number that's represented as not liking what is there that are just as many as not more but I'm really glad to see something happening in this completely undergirded I didn't say I didn't like it I'm just saying I need a plan I just need more than just saying we're going to put a piece of artwork here it's an unknown quantity that's the part of the plan that's the part of the plan it's not like we're destroying it these are temporary sculptures we haven't had an experiment but that goes back to three years but are they going to replace it with new art is it going to move on isn't that the discussion of course it I can tell you from the installations that I've done and did both the May and Friday I'm at the top of the hill those footings will go out because they don't fit in any other art they're specifically made pieces that are going in so they don't work for anything else so they would go away so the four-ton griddle does not well the pudding is eight inches there's only four inches in the ground so it's not like we're destroying the landscape it's four inches in the ground so I just want to say thank you very much for bringing this great presentation and I love I love interaction and what George said just to me it goes very important while we can look at the flower patterns and the growths and this and that if we don't do that now then your plan won't work at all because it destroys the natural and I want to know who's going to be on that committee so we make sure it's covered George can you be on that committee? My question is with the discussions that are happening with the questions that are happening the discussions that are happening related to the city's long-term plans to increase connectivity with Rockbridge Park and both would have asked your presentation principles and went through the typical stakeholder process of the city's managing of regional planning that are fitting with the other layers of planning that are going on with the new regional planning system the parks department has final input and they do develop this master plan in the direction that they're going where does it fit in with the corridor plan and the midtown plan and the other projects that are going on because those processes are already starting Well I think that everybody would like to see some type of better connection between many parks and residents you know see if you're walking with your dog during your family and you want to get across Broadway to enjoy both of these jewels that we have right next to each other but you have this huge barrier in Broadway that really makes it an uncomfortable area to navigate if you have your family pets and whatever so I think that would be one of the priorities that we would discuss going forward and integrating those plans is how to get more people safely in a much better environment so Broadway is supposed to be narrowing there's supposed to be trees we're using lanes all that so that in itself is going to slow traffic down it may make it more congested but it will be slower so I think for making park we should be definitely involved in that process in figuring out what works for us as we try to connect these two pre spots so since you mentioned the master plan being the next step the parks department initiated that process to have their big conversations about it how many? no it's really not a parks department exercise it's more of an internal exercise to get feedback on making park as we move forward so can you explain a little bit more of the relationship between Trace and Toreas and the parks department and how this original project installment is going to be a process that might be used we were completely unknown to the parks department we basically submitted an application and opened up the dialogue between the two parties and came to an agreement rather quickly I think it's misstated that you're saying we're connecting right to which part we're making park we're connecting the wrong way with the patented gardens and that's the lead into the main entrance and that's why the heart is being put there this is separate from this art situation so the city as a whole the concept that's being discussed is to connect the wrong way with the patented gardens so the way that it's being drained at this particular moment the city's perspective is connecting back to which making park with the patented gardens and so this application may have been something to be aware of that all of these layers of planning are going on at various stages one comment if you're getting traffic because it would be kind of an outside gap this is just comments I'm very proud of our park it's never full of trash it's clean thank you I pick it up every day every morning I want you to know I've heard the whole room's worth plus really appreciate that like we don't put up things for barbecues you can't have food or drink stands I mean I know a couple of the rules I'm not an expert on it but I mean it kind of excited me one day when I was at my place on Fuston where people brought their match to exercise in the park you know that's a use that's something where people can get together no they don't have drinks we don't have do we have a water fountain I don't think we have a drinking fountain I brought a drink well I'll look for that also another thing and then who's going to empty it but thanks for leaving comments that's all I have I really appreciate y'all coming we would just I guess not ready for this presentation but it was a great one and is there anything besides modern art y'all can put in there I'm sorry 300 years is 300 years of all kinds of stuff why is it just you know why is it you know I wanted to also mention that you know the recent goals of some of the more recent boards have been to connect more community actions together so we are now meeting here at Lamar we're trying to have different events afterwards you know we've historically dealt with a lot of development and just fighting over things and this is an opportunity for something that we can all have in common a gathering place maybe we can start to use it more instead of just being an underutilized space so I see this as a positive thing and yes it is temporary and yes we cannot make everyone happy but I would hope that we can kind of look at it as a whole maybe we can have some designer art bitches I hope that's not a comment I use the park every day so you know I don't buy this underutilized thing I use it every day I know other people that use it every day families that walk there people that walk their dogs people who look at the flowers in the park and appreciate that it's wild and like to think of it as the last little bit of country in the middle of the city I don't think of it as a space to put stuff and I'm concerned that in looking for spaces to put things that our park got chosen I'm I'm kind of tired of all the new stuff and all the encroachment on the neighborhood that the city of San Antonio has encouraged beginning with the pearl it has a lot to do with money and not that much to do with neighborhood any other comments apart I know people of varying opinions have expressed a desire to do some benches and at least a fresh granite tap on the side of the park that is that's a real fun society are there any other priorities she has a comment she would like to make I just said I like single benches not sleeping benches because we don't need that thank you because we will have sleeping in the park that's a great comment I just wanted to clarify I don't mean I don't mean underutilized by individuals but I can't I've taken my kids over there and we've walked in the park and walked the dog but if we're going to a park we're going to cross Broadway and go to Brackenridge I just mean as a community gathering spot we're not going to get a bunch of our neighbors and say hey let's all go hang out and make a park this is what I mean by that I know where you work with Parkler I've been here for a long time and we do have a lot of friends in the neighborhood who couldn't make it tonight but I know it feels similar to being with young kids but I have never been able to take my kids there to play in the park because people would be upset if I'm a two year old and they're beautiful but he still doesn't understand that and so not allowing connectivity we're not going to have to cross because it's strange to walk into a different area of neighborhood or people would like to play out because it's underutilized from that perspective that's a bit different than the Brackenridge and my point would be that Brackenridge Park is here and Brackenridge Park is here why don't you go to Brackenridge Park and it's a hundred acre park so why I walk my dog in Brackenridge Park and I cross the street and I go to Brackenridge and I totally understand I totally understand that crossing Brackenridge is probably the light's too long it's dangerous to some part but it does have it does have benches it does have kiddie playground it needs a dog park but it's not even go there and there are other green spaces in park besides park that are empty green spaces that perhaps some of this art better in but I still think they're trying to do the connection and I understand it I'm not arguing with it but there are other green spaces in Brackenridge Park as well to be considered that are empty unused spaces these are probably the grades I can just see one suggestion is that if there is going to be a structure in the park to have a path so maybe people wouldn't just walk over the walk I was attracting down everybody will stay on the path but it's nice a way to make it more walk it's a great point it's not people are going to walk the path to look at a piece of art they're going to drive by on the park and look at it they're going to drive by and look at it many park is used by walkers they're not walking it to look at it they're walking it because they're walking the art is going to be there the way it is now do we have any other comments? I bet y'all want a connection welcome to democracy in action you mentioned something before our meeting are there going to be a plexiglass titles we're trying to figure out some better lighting situation something that's nice small, sensitive a little bit more effective than what we have they're already misplaced they're very small lights they'll be aimed directly at the sculptures they're not going to be blinding anybody or shining into anybody's bedroom it's going to be a small light are they solar lights? we have solar lights right now we're looking for a better product if we don't have any other questions or comments you can go ahead and adjourn I do have a copy of the presentation that was created by me to say for our students that I can share to interested parties or post I want to make sure that it's a paper because it was some of these projects before I do but for internal purposes if you're interested in that I wasn't able to pull up some of the resources I received from the various people who have been involved in the town plan but I do have some information and images about what city documents are being produced related to plans to connect them that I'd be happy to share so that we're more informed of the overall planning process I can email them I don't know if we have email address spaces on the back but since I have all this I'm the best student plan is that just something we did or something that was posted on for Daniel, I was not on the board at the time this was a graduate student that you can say? yes so well I've already tried to email her and see if she wants to be part of the discussion again she declined last time but I just thought it might be good to have her input so there was her vision for the entire part obviously we're not going to do or execute her entire vision but she has a lot of history that she gathered and a lot of cognitive thinking and creative thinking went into that plan that she did so I thought it would be a really good start it would be our major and to start yes we've also we've been working for quite some time to look at the agreement that was originally made when the land was given by George McRach and some of the previous plans a white paper but this information for people to look at and see what's allowed and what isn't and what currently has been planned over time so that's an ongoing project that we've had that we've also been working on where what is the mechanism for the city park or whoever it is I am still trying to figure that out which is why I was asking some of those questions not in a necessarily cynical way but just because it isn't super clear to me as I've been extending those meetings you know how that has worked over time or now that they've kind of recently even the public participation law was passed and ordinance was passed and this switch to this regional planning model is relatively new so there's still a lot of education that the city is trying to do or not trying to do depending on your perspective about how those plans interact and who gets to be involved and so getting to the bottom of that I was trying to suggest reaching out to people in the association always we will definitely do that so we can give you more information about what that has to process look like and see if it's great for us but it has to be modern art right? I love the bust of Mr. Mankey you know and something that stays some little history something well I'd like to suggest some other forms of a bust a little history lesson and if you have additional thoughts or comments that you want to give to the board we can definitely start working on what this looks like Mr. Uresti is here for our representative you're going to comment on some updates for us thank you thank you all for your time let's talk about art actually I'm very happy as to what we all do here and all the association throughout San Antonio that I visited because in my part of town we don't have an able association and we have a piece of art right now that we don't see but I'll try to put a chain to it of course we need to get a closer look the session is over as you all know the 140 days are over so the representative of the government happens to take about a week off and then she took the open the new office and we'll go to the contact list meanwhile you all have my contact information as far as the legislation that was passed two major things that we want to touch on of course the school funding it's going to vary throughout the different districts in San Antonio some districts are going to receive $34 million we're not going to receive an additional $12 million some districts like Alamo Ice will not have to give it back as they normally do but they will keep the overflow that they have so it's going to be a benefit for everybody from all the way across the board a tremendous amount of money was put into public education, mental health and the piece of legislation that the representative worked on is a great unfortunate piece of legislation it was unique and unfortunately because of what's happening now in our world one of the piece of legislation that she passed and it's going to be a sign deal with the government down here in San Antonio is a bleeding kit that's going to be installed in all schools a bleeding kit and it's unfortunate but it's something that has to be because of what's happening and it's an order so children and students will be able to learn how to utilize this equipment in case of something major would happen in one of our schools again it's very unfortunate but it's a step that has to be taken and the representative stepped up to do this what she did wasn't able to get and she's looking into an accession was to have chips installed in each one of these in each one of these kits so that if there was a shooting and our first responders had to get there they'll know where that bleeding kit is and where that injured individual is that's what gets that worse it's sad sometimes it's it's worse than sad but it had to be done something that both sides of the aisle were getting it done and I don't think anybody's passing that it's these places has that passed yet? but it chipped in all the kids no no no chips I'm sorry no but it is there will be a chip inside the kit so that one is being used I'm sorry so that they don't know where to go where that kit is being that kit so they'll know where to go where that kit is being used and so that firefighters are first responders so they don't know where to go but that didn't get approved that's going to go well probably in the next session again the school funding is a major issue that's gotten through, that's going to help Elmohyche tremendously it's going to help the other districts tremendously and what I've done, I've given given me four piece of legislation so hopefully she's not going to make you into your website and so I hope we can get a copy of it I can promise everybody and a personal big plus for me is that my wife starts teaching here this year she's starting here this year we ate down the street of Berg right before the meeting she wanted to show off from your school I've already seen it so you'll have my wife here Leslie you're resting Leslie you're resting oh she's teaching she's been teaching for 25 years so you're going to have a master teacher it'll be a big plus for everybody so anyway if there's any other questions for me I guess I do because I don't follow everything like I should soundbite on how this financial legislation is nobody cares what happens at Elmohyche but the rest of the school districts how does it benefit them well San Antonio ISD for example is going to receive 34 million dollars additional from the state and those monies rather than the original plan where they're going to give $5,000 to each teacher is going to be left up for the discretion of the boards because you still have your librarians your paraprofessionals the districts are going to be left up to them I just saw SAISD doing an across the board raise for all permanent full time they just came out with that they've come up with a 3.5% of things across the board with additional stipends it's mixed up a little bit we need to pair teachers better I think they're adding an additional 175 master teachers also so yeah each district is going to be up to the discretion to decide where the money is going to go how much federal funds involved in anything that supports the school a lot you get a fortune in terms of a lot but it gets portioned out on the average school district across Texas about 7% of their revenue comes from the federal government 7% most of it comes from property taxes that's what the majority of the district does so again there's a lot of legislation out there there's thousands of pieces that were written you can begin to go over everything we're going to touch on what Gov. Hawkins touched on when she spoke last if you're interested in education issues that's what our August meeting is going to be next month next month is going to be about public safety because we've had some challenges in the neighborhood in the last few months I was just going to ask when are you going to be discussing the changes happening to lower Broadway Midtown that is the other reminder that I have the first public meeting related to the lower Broadway changes that go with the FON project for 2017-2022 is happening it's the 27th I posted the photo of it and the event into the Facebook page I haven't posted it to next story yet but if you signed up on that email certainly email you the specific information if there is public input meeting a lot of the planning has already been done and I did a request that some of the people involved with that come to this meeting and they turned me down they didn't want to present it in any of the associations until after they have this first public meeting but if you're very invested or interested in that it's a good one to attend because pretty much every group as anything to say about Broadway has been posting on their Facebook pages in the 20s there so if you have an opinion it's a good one to go to so can you re-post that on yes I can, thank you I'm going to go off for a second here the property taxes I know that does just come up again right now if you have a parent that you're taking care of their paperwork for them or the property of your own anybody that's 65 or older they get the exemption for the senior citizen the purpose of the district has been doing for many years is that they add a form in there that you have to fill out the question is forget how it's worded but something like are you still over 65 and it's an affidavit form that you need to have tonight and it's very important because basically what they're asking are you still alive because some children keep the exemption and a lot of people just go to the track they say well why am I going to say I'm still over 65 but if you don't fill it out you lose your exemption the person who is the owner is over 65 with these taxes so spread the word to your friends and neighbors your parents they don't send it to everybody they only send it to certain areas certain areas so if you've ever gone so and I can if people are interested in this since you mentioned this I can post the form on their county and prehistoric website but if you've purchased a new home or changed the title to your home or somebody who received a home from Dye's and you inherit it they will send you a property tax information form basically that has the ownership information and there's a section on it I believe it's section at what point would you receive it it's random there is no time so you could get it so double check you never know this is not a state issue but I talk to my brother every day and we talk about these things and I brought her up at everything so she would be surprised if she had lost it what's the form or what's the website if you go to bear county appraisals history I believe it's the dot word address I'll pray to you it's clear I'm sorry again they sent them out randomly they say it's a separate form I haven't seen a form but I know it's been in there for a long time I just wanted to bring it up because something that I talked about I'd like to keep you informed y'all do a great job spreading the word depending on the word it's form 50-114 it's the resident's home setting section application it's the first form it comes up if you search the website if you need help filling it out I did it all the time in my last job now let's meet my last name I don't know yet I'm going to be with the representative this week where she wants to go now so if it is my last name where do we have your information you have my cell phone number can you call me again so I can call me hi I'm sorry I'm a senator I couldn't find you all but I'll just make a quick announcement hi my name is Ana Alicia Romero I'm the senator Menendez's office it's good to see you all again I know y'all are ready to go so senator Menendez will be giving legislative briefings across the district so we have four scheduled across senate district 26 the first one will be next if you'd like to take one and pass it on senate district 26 next Wednesday 6.15pm you see all the dates there probably the closest one to you physically is the one at the education service center region 20 and the central library so both of those are pretty close to you all we hope you can make it out try to vary the dates it's an opportunity for the senator to give you a summary of what happened most of the time will be dedicated to Q&A so if you have specific questions about property taxes appraisal system what happened any other ideas that you have for the senate to study before next session so they can queue up for next session that's also what we're going to be asking what is the legislative process is continuous so we hope you can make it out call us if you have any questions invite your friends if you want to share thank you so much