* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [District H Redistricting Town Hall and CIP Meeting] [00:00:21] GOOD EVENING. HELLO EVERYONE. I'M COUNCIL MEMBER CARLOS ROS, AND I WANNA THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SWIMMING HERE TONIGHT. ANOTHER APRIL SHOWER. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE FOR THE, UM, THE REDISTRICTING AND THE CIP MEETINGS. THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION TO COVER IN TWO HOURS. WE KNOW THERE WAS A VERY SERIOUS UNDER COUNT IN THE CENSUS NUMBERS, AND WE'LL START TO TALK ABOUT THAT TONIGHT ABOUT WHAT IMPACT THAT WILL HAVE ON HOW DISTRICT H IS REDRAWN. WE'LL BEGIN WITH THE REDISTRICTING MEETING, AND THEN WE WILL FOLLOW WITH THE DISTRICT HCIP MEETING. BUT FIRST, MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME, UM, MY COLLEAGUE, UM, COUNCILMAN MAR ALCO IS HERE BECAUSE SHE'S AN AT LARGE COUNCIL MEMBER, AND I BELIEVE AT THIS TIME THAT'S NOT ONLY ELECTED OFFICIAL BESIDES OUR MAYOR BOARD. UM, AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO, UM, TO THANK THE CITY OF HOUSTON PLANNING AND LEGAL DEPARTMENTS FOR PREPARING THE MATERIALS THAT YOU WERE PICKING UP AS YOU CAME IN. AND, UM, IN A FEW DAYS, TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION AND OTHER RELATED MATERIALS FOR TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION WILL BE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT LET'S TALK HOUSTON ORG REDISTRICTING. SO AT THIS TIME, WE WILL NOW HAVE OPENING REMARKS FROM OUR MAYOR, MAYOR, ATTORNEY. THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH. UH, LOOK, THERE'S, AND IT'S GONNA BE IN TWO PHASES. ONE IS THE DISTRICTING. UH, THIS IS PRIMARILY, PRIMARILY FOR US. GET YOUR FEEDBACK, YOUR COMMENT, YOUR THOUGHTS ON, UH, MAPS HAVE BEEN DRAWN. SO WE THERE 12 OF THESE THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF MUCH AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS AND TO GET FEEDBACK, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS. WE TAKE THAT ALL INTO ACCOUNT. SO HAVING SAID ALL OF THAT, UH, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO MARGARET. MARGARET WALLACE BROWN IS, LEMME JUST SAY ALL OF ALL OF THE CITY, UH, UH, DIRECTORS, IF YOU, IF YOU'RE JUST STANDING UP, EVERYBODY, STAFF MEMBERS, THE DEPARTMENT. SO YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, PUBLIC WORKS LIKE READY FOR PUBLIC WORKS, A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. AND THEN A NUMBER OF THE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENTS ARE HERE AS WELL. SO EVEN BEYOND ISSUES, LEGAL AS WELL. THANK MISTY. THE CITY CHARTER, AS WELL AS STATE AND FEDERAL LAW REQUIRE THAT WE ADJUST OUR CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS FROM TIME TO TIME IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT THE DIFFERENCE IN DISTRICT POPULATIONS IS NEVER MORE THAN 10% OF AVERAGE DISTRICT POPULATION. THE LAST TIME THE CITY ADJUSTED CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES, AN ACTION CALLED REDISTRICTING WAS 10 YEARS AGO. SINCE THEN, OUR POPULATION HAS GROWN BY 9.8% AND IS MORE THAN 2.3 MILLION PEOPLE. EACH OF THE 11 COUNCIL DISTRICTS EXPERIENCED POPULATION CHANGE AT DIFFERENT RATES. AS A RESULT, ADJUSTMENTS ARE REQUIRED FOR OUR CURRENT DISTRICTS BY CITY COUNCIL BEFORE THE NEXT MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN 2023. THIS MEETING IS ONE OF THE FIRST STEPS IN THAT PROCESS. ACCORDING TO THE 2020 CENSUS, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DISTRICT WITH THE LARGEST POPULATION, DISTRICT C AND THE DISTRICT WITH THE SMALLEST POPULATION, DISTRICT H IS OVER 66,000 PEOPLE. THIS IS 31% OF THE AVERAGE DISTRICT POPULATION, FAR ABOVE THE MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE VARIATION. OTHER DISTRICTS ARE ALSO ABOVE OR BELOW THE ALLOWABLE RANGE AND [00:05:01] WILL HAVE TO BE ADJUSTED ACCORDINGLY. THE GOAL OF REDISTRICTING IS TO RECONFIGURE OUR DISTRICTS TO ACHIEVE AN EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION IN EACH DISTRICT TO MEET REQUIREMENTS OF STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS. STARTING IN 1964, THE SUPREME COURT RECOGNIZED THE PRINCIPLE OF ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE, AND THE APPLICABILITY OF THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE TO REDISTRICTING. AND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 AS AMENDED ALSO SETS FORTH REQUIREMENTS THAT WILL AFFECT THIS PROCESS. REDISTRICTING MUST NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, COLOR, OR MEMBERSHIP IN A PROTECTIVE LANGUAGE. MINORITY GROUP CITY COUNCIL HAS ADOPTED A RESOLUTION THAT ESTABLISHES THE TIMELINE CRITERIA AND RULES THAT WILL HELP GUIDE THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS. THE SPECIFICS FOR EACH OF THESE AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, VIETNAMESE, AND CHINESE, CAN BE FOUND ON A WEBSITE@WWW.HOUSTONTX.GOV. OUR REDISTRICTING TIMELINE IS GUIDED IN PART BY THE DATES THAT RESULTS OF THE 2020 CENSUS BECOME AVAILABLE AND BY THE TEXAS ELECTION CODE, WHICH PROVIDES THAT CHANGES IN ELECTION BOUNDARIES. EXAMPLE, COUNCIL DISTRICTS MUST BE ADOPTED MORE THAN THREE MONTHS BEFORE ELECTION DAY. IT IS ALSO INFORMED BY THE 12 MONTH RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT ESTABLISHED IN THE CITY CHARTER. AND THE CITY CHARTER ALSO REQUIRES THAT A REDISTRICTING ORDINANCE BE ADOPTED IN THE SAME YEAR AS THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION. SO THE PLAN ADOPTED BY CITY COUNCIL IN THE FALL OF 2022 WILL BE RATIFIED BY CITY COUNCIL IN EARLY 2023, AND THE NEW BOUNDARIES WILL BE EFFECTIVE ON JANUARY 1ST, 2024. WE HAVE ORGANIZED THESE TOWN HALL MEETINGS TO HELP KEEP YOU INFORMED AND AWARE OF WHAT WE ARE DOING AT EVERY STEP OF THE PROCESS. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, YOUR PARTICIPATION IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PROCESS, AND WE HOPE YOU'LL PROVIDE COMMENTS TO HELP GUIDE DECISIONS ABOUT THE CONFIGURATION OF OUR 11 COUNCIL DISTRICTS. THESE MEETINGS WILL HAPPEN ACROSS HOUSTON THROUGHOUT THE MONTHS OF APRIL AND MAY. IN JUNE, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, DEMOGRAPHER AND LEGAL COUNSEL WILL PRESENT A DRAFT PLAN AND MAP TO CITY COUNCIL. THREE. PUBLIC HEARINGS WILL BE HELD FOR CITIZENS TO COMMENT ON THE DRAFT PLAN AND MAP. THE FIRST TWO HEARINGS WILL BE ON JULY 13TH, ONE IN THE MORNING, AND ONE IN THE EVENING. AND THE THIRD WILL BE HELD ON JULY 20TH. CITY COUNCIL WILL APPROVE THE REDISTRICTING PLAN ORDINANCE IN SEPTEMBER. THE CRITERIA ADOPTED BY CITY COUNCIL, WHICH SHOULD BE FOLLOWED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE, INCLUDE DISTRICTS SHOULD BE RELATIVELY EQUAL IN POPULATION WITH NO MORE THAN A 10% VARIATION FROM THE AVERAGE DISTRICT SIZE. THEREBY ENSURING THE VITAL STANDARD OF ONE PERSON ONE VOTE. THEY MUST BE COMPOSED OF WHOLE COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS, WHICH ARE DEFINED BY THE COUNTIES, AND SERVE AS THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS. WHEN PRECINCTS ARE SPLIT BY THE CITY LIMITS, ONLY THE CITY PORTION OF THAT PRECINCT WILL BE USED. THEY SHOULD HAVE EASILY IDENTIFIABLE GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES SUCH AS MAJOR THOROUGHFARE OR BAYOU. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT NOT ALL COUNTY VOTING PRECINCTS FOLLOW CLEAR GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES, WHICH MAY MAKE IT NECESSARY FOR CITY COUNCIL BOUNDARIES. TO DEVIATE FROM A PREFERRED BOUNDARY, THEY SHOULD MAINTAIN COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST. NEIGHBORHOODS. THEY SHOULD BE COMPACT AND COMPOSED OF CONTIGUOUS TERRITORY, INCLUDING FUNCTIONAL AND GEOGRAPHIC CONTIGUITY. THE FUNCTIONAL DIMENSION MAY TAKE ON ADDED WEIGHT IN SITUATIONS IN WHICH GEOGRAPHIC COMPACTNESS MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE, IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT SOME AREAS ARE ATTACHED TO THE REMAINDER OF THE CITY, ONLY BY RELATIVELY LONG AND NARROW STRIPS OF LAND. FUNCTIONAL COMPACTNESS AND CONTINUITY INCLUDES CONSIDERING FACTORS SUCH AS AVAILABILITY OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION, EXISTENCE OF COMMON SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND OTHER SHARED INTERESTS. THE ABILITY OF CITIZENS OF A COUNCIL DISTRICT TO RELATE TO EACH OTHER AND TO THEIR REPRESENTATIVE ON CITY COUNCIL, AND THE ABILITY OF THE COUNCIL MEMBER TO RELATE TO HIS OR HER CONSTITUENCY. THEY SHOULD PRESERVE INCUMBENT CONSTITUENT RELATIONS BY RECOGNITION OF THE RESIDENTS, OF EXISTING MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND THEIR HISTORY IN REPRESENTING CERTAIN AREAS. THE PLAN SHOULD NOT FRAGMENT A GEOGRAPHICALLY COMPACT MINORITY COMMUNITY OR PAC MINORITY VOTERS IN THE PRESENCE OF POLARIZED VOTING SO AS TO CREATE LIABILITY UNDER SECTION TWO OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT. MORE DETAILS ABOUT THESE CRITERIA CAN BE FOUND ON THE WEBSITE IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, VIETNAMESE, AND CHINESE. TO HELP US MANAGE THIS COMPLICATED AND LENGTHY PROCESS, CITY COUNCIL ALSO ESTABLISHED THESE IMPORTANT RULES. THE CITY'S PLAN AND ANYONE ELSE'S PLAN SUBMITTED TO THE CITY FOR CONSIDERATION MUST BE IN WRITING, BE BASED ON THE 2020 FEDERAL CENSUS MUST REDISTRICT [00:10:01] THE ENTIRE CITY CONTAINING PROPOSED BOUNDARIES FOR ALL COUNCIL DISTRICTS WITHIN THE CITY. IF A PLAN DOES NOT REDISTRICT THE ENTIRE CITY, IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR COUNCIL TO ASSESS THE PLAN'S IMPACT ON ONE OR MORE PROTECTED MINORITY GROUPS. THIS REQUIREMENT DOES NOT PRECLUDE CITIZENS FROM PROPOSING THAT PARTICULAR VOTING, PRECINCTS, NEIGHBORHOODS, OR LOCATIONS BE INCLUDED IN A SPECIFIC COUNCIL DISTRICT. THE PLAN MUST CONFORM TO THE CRITERIA DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY AND BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN 4:45 PM ON JULY 20TH, 2022. TO RUPE KOSHI IN THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. WE ARE VERY INTERESTED IN HEARING FROM YOU AND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD REGARDING YOUR SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CONFIGURATION OF THE NEW COUNCIL DISTRICTS. YOUR INPUT MAY SIMPLY BE REGARDING NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARIES OR YOU MAY WANT TO SUBMIT A COMPLETE REDISTRICTING PLAN. EITHER WAY, THERE ARE SEVERAL POINTS AT WHICH YOU CAN SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS, OPINIONS, OR PLANS, ONE HERE AT THIS OR OTHER SCHEDULED TOWN HALL MEETINGS. TWO THROUGH OUR WEBPAGE@WWW.HOUSTONTX.GOV. THREE DIRECTLY TO RUPE KOSHI IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT THROUGH EMAIL AT RUPESH DOT KOSHI@HOUSTONTX.GOV BY US POSTAL SERVICE, OR HAND DELIVERY TO RUPE KOSHI, OR FOUR AT ONE OF THE THREE PUBLIC HEARINGS THAT WILL BE HELD IN CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF CITY HALL 9 0 1 BAGBY STREET. IF YOU WANT TO SUBMIT A PLAN OF YOUR OWN, IT IS VITAL THAT YOU FOLLOW THE PROCEDURES CRITERIA AND RULES FOR THE CONSIDERATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW COUNCIL DISTRICTS. WE'RE READY TO HELP TO ENABLE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP AND SUBMIT THEIR OWN PLAN. A COMPUTER KIOSK WITH REDISTRICTING SOFTWARE WILL BE SET UP IN THE OFFICES OF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT ON THE SIXTH FLOOR OF SIX 11 WALKER STREET, SEVEN SEVEN ZERO ZERO TWO. PLEASE CALL 8 3 2 3 9 3 6 5 5 2 TO SET UP AN APPOINTMENT SO A STAFF MEMBER CAN ASSIST YOU IN USING THE SOFTWARE. AGAIN, ALL PLANS MUST BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN 4:45 PM ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 20TH, 2022. NO MATTER HOW OR WHERE YOU JOIN THIS CONVERSATION, WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHERE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARIES ARE AND WHERE IT MAKES SENSE TO KEEP A COMMUNITY OF INTEREST TOGETHER. HOUSTON WILL BE STRONGER AS A RESULT OF YOUR PARTICIPATION. THANK YOU FOR JOINING IN THE CONVERSATION. OKAY, WE'RE GONNA, BECAUSE WE'VE LOST THE SOUND, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND LISTEN TO YOU THEN INSTEAD. UM, SO WELCOME TONIGHT. MY NAME'S MARGARET WALLACE BROWN AND I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. AND I WANNA REITERATE WHAT THE MAYOR AND WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER CISNEROS HAVE ALREADY SAID. AND THAT IS, THIS MEETING IS FOR YOU. WE VERY MUCH WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, WHAT YOUR BOUNDARIES ARE, WHAT YOU BELIEVE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, WHAT COUNCIL DISTRICT SHOULD LOOK LIKE WHEN WE REDISTRICT, AND HOW YOU THINK, UM, YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD FITS INTO THAT. SO WE'RE GONNA SPEND MOST OF THE NIGHT LISTENING TO YOU. I HAVE JUST A VERY FEW THINGS, UM, THAT I HAVE TO RE REPEAT. AND I WILL ALSO SAY THAT, UM, YOU CAN EITHER SPEAK HERE TONIGHT, WE'RE WILLING TO TAKE NOTES. WE'VE GOT OUR FOLKS HERE TAKING NOTES. YOU CAN SEND US EMAILS OR YOU CAN, UM, COME BY AND TALK TO OUR, TO TALK TO US IN OUR OFFICE. WE ALSO HAVE A COMPUTER SET UP IN OUR OFFICE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DRAW YOUR OWN DISTRICT BOUNDARIES AND YOUR OWN PLANS. AND BEFORE YOU LEAVE, IF YOU STOP AT THE DESK RIGHT OUTSIDE THAT DOOR AND GET RUPESH KO'S EMAIL AND PHONE NUMBER, YOU CAN CALL HIM AND MAKE ALL THOSE ARRANGEMENTS. SO I THINK I COVERED EVERYTHING. UM, JERRY WOOD IS HERE. HE IS OUR DEMOGRAPHER AND HE WILL BE TAKING COPIOUS NOTES, UM, ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY TONIGHT AND TAKES ALL THAT INFORMATION INTO ACCOUNT WHEN WE BEGIN TO ACTUALLY DRAW THE BOUNDARIES. AND SO IF YOU HAVE NOT FILLED OUT A CARD, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO DO THAT. THERE ARE CARDS AT THE DESK OUT BY THE BACK DOOR. THE REASON WE DO THIS IS THAT WE CAN KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOU AND WE'VE GOT A RECORD OF, UM, IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS, WE CAN CALL YOU BACK IF WE WANNA GET FURTHER INFORMATION FROM YOU. UM, SO PLEASE FILL OUT THE CARD AND LET US KNOW. SO I'M NOW, WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ADO, GONNA START CALLING PEOPLE UP TO THE MICROPHONE. UM, IF YOU FILLED OUT A CARD, SO, UM, STA UH, STACEY FAIRCHILD, COME TO THE MICROPHONE AND THEN, UM, MARK RODRIGUEZ RIGHT AFTER HER. AND WHEN YOU COME UP, IF YOU WOULD PLEASE SPELL YOUR NAME FOR US. STACEY. OH, STACEY'S PASSING. OKAY. UH, MARK RODRIGUEZ. THIS IS MY NAME'S MARK RODRIGUEZ. M-A-R-K-R-O-D-R-I-G-U-E-Z. THIS IS JUST FOR THE RE REDISTRICTING PART, RIGHT? YES, YES. IN MY OPINION. [00:15:01] NOW Y'ALL HAVE SEVERAL AT LARGE POSITIONS THAT WE NEVER REALLY EVEN SEE IN OUR COMMUNITIES COMING IN AND DOING ANYTHING. FOUR SECOND WARD, OR I'VE BEEN THE PRESIDENT OF OUR CIVIL GROUP FOR YEARS AND I DON'T SEE THEM COME IN HERE. THEY'VE NEVER BEEN IN NONE OF OUR MEETINGS. THEY NEVER SEND PEOPLE TO OUR MEETINGS. AND I THINK MAYBE THAT'S THE PROBLEM THAT Y'ALL NEED TO LOOK INTO BECAUSE THEY'RE GETTING PAID, THEY'RE TAKING OUR TAX DOLLARS, THEY'RE NOT REALLY COMING IN OUR COMMUNITY. THEY MIGHT BE GOING TO SOME OF THE OTHER COMMUNITIES, BUT I DON'T SEE 'EM IN OUR HISPANIC COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE WE'RE FROM. AND, UM, ON THIS REGISTERING IT WOULD TAKE PLACE WHEN, AGAIN, DO YOU WANNA ANSWER THAT? UH, THE, WE WILL BE PRESENTING A PLAN, UH, TO CITY COUNCIL IN JULY. UM, IT WILL FINALLY BE VOTED ON BECAUSE OF REQUIREMENTS OF CITY CHARTER, UH, IN JANUARY AND RATIFIED AT THAT TIME. THANK YOU. AND, AND I'LL JUST END WITH THIS. I JUST THINK THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY NEEDS TO GET MORE, UH, HELP FROM THE AT LARGE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE FOR EVERYBODY. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THOSE COMMENTS. THANK YOU. UM, I ALSO WANNA ADD THAT COUNCIL MEMBER DAVID ROBINSON HAS JOINED US TONIGHT. I'M SORRY I DIDN'T SAY THAT EARLIER. THANK YOU. UM, OKAY. UH, SELENA VALDEZ AND THEN, UH, MICHELLE ESELLA BLACKWELL. HI, UH, MAYOR. SO GOOD TO SEE YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER CARLO, VERY GOOD TO SEE YOU. IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU. UM, FIRST OF ALL, I'M COMING HERE NOT AS AN OFFICIAL PERSON. I'M COMING AS A RESIDENT OF EAST ALDEN AND I'M JUST HOPING AND PRAYING TO SEE THE ALDEN WESTFIELD EXPANSION PROJECT BACK ON THE CIP FROM LITTLE YORK TO BELTWAY EIGHT. I KNOW THAT IT ONLY GOES A CERTAIN AMOUNT UP TO KEITH WEISS PARK FOR YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER. BUT THE CITY OF HOUSTON, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, THIS MAYOR, YOU KNOW, HAPPILY OWNS ALL OF ALDEEN WESTFIELD AND IT'S SURROUNDED BY UNINCORPORATED HARRIS COUNTY ON EITHER SIDE, BEYOND THE, THE RIGHT OF WAY, OBVIOUSLY. SO WE ARE JUST HOPING TO SEE THAT, TO SEE THAT PROJECT BACK ON, UH, ON THE, UH, PLAN FOR, FOR THIS, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, PLEASE. SO, ALDEEN WESTFIELD EXPANSION, YOU KNOW, JUST LET IT MATCH WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. YOU KNOW, UM, SOUTH OF LITTLE YORK, IT'S FOUR LANES. IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, EASY TRAFFIC AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE BEYOND NORTH OF BELTWAY. AGAIN, IT'S FOUR LANES, GOT A BEAUTIFUL MEDIAN. YOU KNOW, WE NEED THAT FOR, TO HELP US, UH, IN THAT AREA. AND IT'S OF COURSE HOLDING WESTFIELD BEING A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE. UH, THAT WOULD JUST BE A BIG RELIEF FOR ALL THE COMMUTERS IN THAT AREA. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR EXPANDING ALDE AND WESTFIELD FROM LITTLE YORK TO BELTWAY EIGHT. THANK YOU. SURE. AND JUST A FOLLOW UP, UH, LEMME JUST ASK ERIC AND MIKE TO MAKE A NOTE OF THAT. OKAY. AND THEN WHEN WE COME BACK ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE SIDE, UH, YOU CAN SPEAK TO THAT AS WELL. SO THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING IS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE REDISTRICTING PORTION. SO IF WE COULD, UM, FOCUS ON THAT, THAT WOULD BE TERRIFIC. UH, MICHELLE ESTELLA BLACKWELL TO BE FOLLOWED BY ROY. ROY LIRA. UH, GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS MS. BLACKWELL. UH, THE QUESTION I HAVE IS SOMETHING DEALING WITH THE CIP CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. WHAT THAT WHAT MY QUESTION NEEDS TO WAIT UNTIL THAT PRESENTATION. YES MA'AM. IF YOU DON'T MIND, THAT WOULD BE TERRIFIC. OKAY. THANK YOU. ROY LIRA AND THEN LYNETTE TELE. GOOD EVENING Y'ALL. ROY LIRA, R-O-Y-L-I-R-A. AND I AM HERE AS A RESIDENT AND ALSO PRESIDENT OF THE SECOND WARD SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD. SO FIRST THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE THIS EVENING TO EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL AND RESIDENTS WHO'VE TAKEN TIME IN GOING THROUGH THIS TRAFFIC OUT HERE FOR THIS RING. COUNCIL MEMBER, CNOS, WE VERY MUCH AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT POTENTIAL UNDERREPRESENTATION IN THE CENSUS AT 17% BELOW, BUT WE THINK OF THIS AS DAY ONE. SO IN THIS REDISTRICTING PROCESS, WE'D LIKE TO THINK OF THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND OUR CULTURE, COMMUNITY, AND FOOTPRINT. WITH THAT IN MIND, MY RECOMMENDATION AS A RESIDENT WOULD BE TO EXPAND OUR DISTRICT TO INCLUDE [00:20:01] THE CENTRAL NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH IS WEST OF INDEPENDENT HEIGHTS, STARTING WITH SHEPHERD AND SIX 10 NORTH UNTIL PINE MONT WEST TO TC GESTURE. AND JUST TC GESTURE TO SIX 10. THAT'S A GEOGRAPHIC AREA. IN ADDITION, IT IS THE, I BELIEVE IT'S YALE AND 34TH STREET THAT THOSE SEVERAL BLOCKS THAT ARE PART OF THE AREA THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING. SO AS WE LOOK THROUGH THAT, DEMOGRAPHICS ARE SIMILAR IN TYPE TO OUR CURRENT DISTRICT. WHEN WE LOOK AT THE EDUCATIONAL LEVELS AND WE LOOK AT REAL ESTATE, THE COST, THEY'RE BOTH EXPERIENCING EITHER GENTRIFICATION OR REVITALIZATION. SO THERE'S SOME SPIRIT AND COMMUNITY AND CULTURE WITH THERE. SO I APPRECIATE YOUR FEEDBACK OR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. AND THANK YOU FOR LISTENING. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CHEERS. UM, FOLLOWING LYNETTE TELLO, WE HAVE LAURIE FLORES. HELLO, MY NAME IS LYNETTE THEO, RESIDENT OF SILVERDALE FOR 58 YEARS. I'VE BEEN HERE A LITTLE BIT AND SEEN A LOT. UH, FIRST QUESTION WAS ANSWERED WHEN I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW WE WILL BE INFORMED OF THE FINAL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. AND THEN MY BIGGEST QUESTION IS, WHAT DOES THE CITY OR, UH, OUR CITY COUNCILWOMAN CISNEROS THINK WOULD BE THE MOST EQUITABLE PLAN FOR DISTRICT H? I'VE GOT MY THOUGHTS, BUT I WANNA HAVE SOME TRANSPARENCY. 'CAUSE I THINK IT'S KEY. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON EQUITABILITY FOR DISTRICT H? AND MAYOR TURNER, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND I WOULD LOVE TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT A SITUATION THAT WE HAVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WE NEED A LOT OF HELP WITH BEFORE YOU LEAVE IT POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. THIS WILL NOT BE EQUITABLE BECAUSE WE KNOW THE UNDER COUNT, WE ARE GONNA BE STRETCHED THIN. WE ARE GONNA HAVE MORE PEOPLE. WE ALREADY HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICTS IN THE WHOLE CITY. AND SO NOW WE, YOU KNOW, IF WE ARE 17% LESS, THAT TRANSLATES INTO LIKE 35,000 PEOPLE, LESS THAN THE AVERAGE. IT WILL NOT BE EQUITABLE. SO THERE'S, I'M, I'M JUST AS INTERESTED IN YOU ARE AS, AS WHAT COULD, COULD BE. AND I KNOW THERE'S A, A LOT OF TALK, I'M HEARING OTHER PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT TOO, YOU KNOW, HOW TO, HOW TO LOOK AT OUR, AT LARGE FRIENDS. AND, AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT THIS IS JUST ME PERSONALLY, BUT I'M ALSO VERY INTERESTED IN MAYBE RE-IMAGINING HOW WE DIVIDE UP AND, AND THAT MAYBE WE COULD BE MORE DISTRICTS WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF COUNCIL MEMBERS. AND THAT WOULD FEEL MORE EQUITABLE TO ME AS A DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBER. BUT THAT'S, THAT'S JUST ME. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS THOUGH. I, IF I MAY, UH, REAL QUICK IN, IN RESPONSE TO YOU, UM, IN THE PAST AND IN DURING THIS REDISTRICTING PROCESS, UNDERSTANDING THAT WE HAVE STRUGGLED WITH UNDER COUNTS IN MINORITY, UH, COMMUNITIES ALL THROUGHOUT HOUSTON, UH, HISPANIC, AFRICAN AMERICAN, AND ASIAN. UM, WE HAVE PUT THE DISTRICTS, WHICH ARE PREDOMINANTLY NON-ANGLO, IF YOU WILL, UM, AT THE LOWER END OF THE RANGE OF ACCEPTABLE POPULATION. WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE CENSUS. WE HAVE TO ACCEPT THE CENSUS REALITY AS PRESENTED TO US BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF, OF THE INTERVENTION, THE POSSIBLE INTERVENTION OF COURTS. BUT WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO MITIGATE THE EFFECT OF THE UNDER COUNT IN, IN POPULATING THESE DISTRICTS. YES, SIR. AND, AND JUST SO FOR, FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE AVERAGE SIZE OF THE DISTRICT THAT WE'RE SEEKING TO SEEK? SO PEOPLE WILL KNOW THAT THE, THE AVERAGE DISTRICT POPULATION WOULD BE 209,000. SO THAT'S, WE ARE SEEKING TO CREATE DISTRICTS WITH A POPULATION OF 209,011 DISTRICTS. IN TERMS OF DISTRICT H, HOW FAR BELOW ARE THEY FALLING? NOW I KNOW IT'S 17%, BUT WHAT IS THAT IN, IN ACTUAL, IN THE ACTUAL NUMBER TO THE AVERAGE? IT, IT, THEY ARE 35,000 PEOPLE BELOW TO THE BOTTOM RANGE. THAT'S ACCEPTABLE FROM PAST COURT, UH, ORDERS, UM, THEY'RE ABOUT 24,000. OKAY, SO ABOUT 24,000 BECAUSE YOU CAN BE 10% BELOW OR 10% ABOVE 5%. 5%, 5%, 10% DIFFERENCE. OKAY. 10% DIFFERENCE. SO DISTRICT H RIGHT NOW IS ABOUT 24. DISTRICT H IS 24,000 AWAY FROM BEING AT THE BOTTOM RANGE OF THE ALLOWABLE POPULATION. THAT'S WHAT WOULD BE DEEMED ACCEPTABLE? YES, SIR. SO WE, I KIND OF UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT IN WHICH WE ARE, WE'RE TRYING TO WORK. OKAY. [00:25:07] WE NEED TO ADD MORE OR MORE. WHAT IS OUR, ARE WE LOOKING FOR AN BREAKDOWN OR DOES IT MATTER? NO, I THINK WE'RE PRETTY MUCH LOOKING FOR IT DOESN'T MATTER. RIGHT. BUT I THINK THE SAFEST WAY TO PUT IT IS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR ABOUT 24,000 PEOPLE TO BE AT THE, OF ANY ETHNIC RIGHT NOW. GENERALLY, YES. BUT YOU ALSO WANT TO BE SENSITIVE TO THE REPRESENTATION AND TO THE DEMOGRAPHIC MAKEUP. OKAY. THAT'S, THAT'S IMPORTANT TOO. OKAY. SO IT'S NOT JUST 24,000, BUT IN TERMS OF RAW NUMBERS, ABOUT 24,000. BUT WE ARE ALSO VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN MAKING SURE THAT WE MAINTAIN THAT DEMOCRATIC DEMOGRAPHIC MIX, UH, BECAUSE THE, UM, HISPANIC REPRESENTATION ON CITY COUNCIL IS IMPORTANT. AFRICAN AMERICAN REPRESENTATION, ASIAN REPRESENTATION, ANGLO, ALL OF THAT'S IMPORTANT. SO IT'S NOT JUST IN A VACUUM BECAUSE WE ALSO WANT THE REPRESENTATION TO BE ALSO AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE REFLECTIVE OF THE DIVERSITY OF OUR CITY, IF THAT. OKAY. THANK, I THINK THERE WAS ALSO ONE OTHER QUESTION THAT YOU A ASKED THAT HASN'T BEEN ANSWERED. AND THAT IS WHAT TIME, WHAT'S THE TIME FOR WHEN A DRAFT PLAN WOULD BE RELEASED? WELL, THE DRAFT PLAN TAKE BACK, BUT, UH, WHEN, UH, WE ARE EXPECTING TO ASK CITY COUNCIL TO APPROVE THE DRAFT MAP IN SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR. SO AS SOON AS THEY APPROVE THE MAP, IT'S FINAL AND THEN IT'LL GO INTO THAT JANUARY, IS THAT CORRECT? ESSENTIALLY? YES. YEAH, JANUARY. NO, NO. OKAY. UH, THE WAY IT WILL WORK AFTER, EVEN AFTER THIS MEETING HERE, THERE WILL BE THREE ADDITIONAL PUBLIC MEETINGS. OKAY. UH, I WANNA SAY THOSE PUBLIC MEETINGS WILL BE IN JULY. IN, IN JULY. SO YOU WILL BE THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS AND THEN THE MAPS WILL BE PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL FOR THEIR CONSIDERATION, UH, IN SEPTEMBER. OKAY. SO BETWEEN NOW AND SEPTEMBER, YOU'LL HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THESE PROPOSED MAPS, UH, AGAIN AND CAN PROVIDE COMMENTS ON THEM. OKAY. CITY COUNCIL WILL BE ASKED TO VOTE IN SEPTEMBER OF 23, I'M SORRY, SEPTEMBER OF 22. OKAY. THIS YEAR, SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR, CITY COUNCIL WILL BE ASKED TO VOTE. THE MAPS THEN BECOME EFFECTIVE. RIGHT. PEOPLE WOULD THEN BE RUNNING IN NOVEMBER OF 2023 BASED ON THESE MAPS. OKAY. SO WE GOT IT. CITY COUNCIL WILL BE ASKED TO VOTE IN SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR. OKAY. AND THEN NEXT YEAR PEOPLE WILL BE RUNNING FOR OFFICE BASED ON THOSE APPROVED MAPS. TAKEN OFFICE IN JANUARY OF 24. OKAY. ALRIGHT. YOU'VE BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY. MS. FLORES, LAURIE FLORES, RIGHT? YES. GOOD EVENING. I'M LAURIE FLORES, AND THAT'S L-A-U-R-I-E-F-L-O-R-E-S. UH, I LIVE IN, UM, OFF OF 59 IN CROSS TIMBERS A LITTLE BIT, UH, NORTH OF SIX 10. AND MY NEIGHBORHOOD GOES EAST OF THERE. UH, IT'S A NEIGHBORHOOD CALLED BONITA GARDENS. WE WERE ESTABLISHED IN 1936. UM, I WORKED THE CENSUS IN 2020 AND, UH, SO I COULD FAMILIARIZE MYSELF WITH THE PEOPLE LIVING AROUND MY AREA. AND THERE WERE MANY, MANY LATINOS THAT I WAS UNAWARE OF. UM, AND I'M SPECIFICALLY WANT TO TARGET THE AREA FROM 59 TO LOCKWOOD AND, UM, MAYBE LAURA, COPY TO KELLY OR SIX 10. UH, AND THERE HA, I'M, I'M GONNA SAY IT AGAIN. THERE WAS JUST A, A, A MAJOR INCREASE IN LATINOS IN THAT AREA. SO WHEN YOU'RE MAKING YOUR CONSIDERATIONS, MAYBE YOU CAN LOOK AT THAT. UH, AND THEN MORE SPECIFICALLY TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, THERE'S, UH, A COUPLE OF ASSETS THAT ARE, [00:30:01] ARE VERY PROFOUND TO MY, MY SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOOD, BONITA GARDENS. AND, UM, THERE'S A CHURCH AND, AND A PARK. THE CHURCH WAS BUILT BY THE PEOPLE FROM OUR COMMUNITY. HOWEVER, WHEN WE MOVED TO DISTRICT H, THE PARK, THE, THE, THE CHURCH WAS LEFT IN DISTRICT B AND THE PARK, WHICH IS IN MY SUBDIVISION, BONITA GARDENS, UH, WAS ONCE THE HOME OF 23 FAMILIES THAT WERE FORCED TO MOVE BY EMINENT DOMAIN SO THAT A SCHOOL COULD BE BUILT THERE, BUT THE SCHOOL WASN'T BUILT. AND THEN YEARS LATER IT WAS CONVERTED INTO A PARK. AND WHEN WE MOVED TO HI ALSO REQUESTED THAT THAT PARK AREA BE MOVED OVER TO H WITH US. AND IT WASN'T, BUT I WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO BE RECONSIDERED THIS TIME. THANK YOU MA'AM. I REMEMBER THAT PARK. YES. OH, OKAY. MAY I ASK YOU A QUICK QUESTION? THANK YOU. WHAT CHURCH ARE YOU REFERRING TO? OUR LADY OF ST. JOHN. THANK YOU. CATHOLIC CHURCH. YES, MA'AM. AND IT'S THE BONITA GARDEN. SBY PARK. OKAY. UH, NORBET NORTO MORENO, FOLLOWED BY MS. TALLEY. HI, UH, NORTO MORENO. N-O-R-B-E-R-T-O, MORENO, M-O-R-E-N-O. UM, I HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS, BUT SOME OF THEM ARE FOR CIP. SO LET'S START WITH SOME OF THESE. THE, I LIKE WHAT, UM, OUR MAYOR SAID WHEN IT STARTED HERE. UH, HE SAID, THIS IS BEYOND REDISTRICTING. SO I DO WANT TO ASK ONE QUESTION THAT'S NOT ASSOCIATED WITH REDISTRICTING. UM, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THE COMPLETE COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE WORKS. AND, UM, I'VE REACHED OUT TO AN OFFICE AND I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET AHOLD OF ANYONE. I WAS HOPING TO SEE A TABLE HERE FOR THAT, BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I DO WANT TO HEAR MORE ABOUT FROM YOU, UH, MAYOR TURNER. AND, UM, YEAH, SO I DID WANNA BRING THAT UP. MAY, MAY I RESPOND SLIGHTLY THAT THE DIRECTOR OF THE COMPLETE COMMUNITY'S OFFICE IS ACTUALLY SITTING HERE. OH, HI. SO WHEN YOU'RE FINISHED, SHANNON BUGS, WE'D PROBABLY BE HAPPY TO TALK WITH YOU. THANK YOU. UM, SO MY OTHER QUESTION WAS ABOUT THE GROWTH OF THE, LIKE THE ALLOWANCE OF GROWTH, BUT I THINK THAT WAS EXPLAINED TO ME. UH, HE EXPLAINED THAT SOME AS FAR AS, UM, WHAT THE ALLOWANCE WAS AND WHY WE'RE IN THE NEGATIVE. SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR CLEARING THAT UP. UM, I WAS READING ON THE WEBSITE, THE ONE, LET'S TALK HOUSTON. I, I WAS THERE BEFORE I CAME HERE AND I WAS LOOKING AT THE RULES. I SAW 'EM ON THE PAPERWORK AS WELL. AND THEY MENTIONED, UH, CRACKING AND PACKING, LIKE FOR US TO LIKE SQUEEZE THE SAME BLACK PEOPLE TOGETHER. UH, I GUESS IT REFERS BACK TO THE QUESTION THAT THE GENTLEMAN WAS ASKING ABOUT, UM, WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE DO WE ADD TO A DISTRICT? UM, AND I DO UNDERSTAND THERE IS A SENSITIVITY TO CULTURE. UM, BUT, BUT I DO WANT, I DO SEE THE DISPARITIES IN AN A MOSTLY ANGLO DISTRICT COMPARED TO A, A BROWNER DISTRICT LIKE MY OWN. AND, AND I, I SEE THE CORRELATION IN NOT FROM ONE, THERE'S TWO BROWN DISTRICTS THAT THAT'S, THAT'S HOW I'VE SEEN, THAT'S MY EXPERIENCE. THAT'S HOW I DEFINE THEM. SO IT'S H AND B, WHICH ARE THE TWO THAT KIND OF ARE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE I LIVE. IT'S, IT'S KIND OF SPLIT BETWEEN THOSE TWO, UH, DISTRICTS. SO IN, IN CRACKING AND PACKING, I'M, I'M TRYING TO, I, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS WHEN THE DISTRICT MAPS WERE DRAWN BEFORE, LIKE DO WE LOOK AT THAT PROCESS AND IF THERE WAS A FAIL THERE TO CONSIDER IN THE PLANNING OF THESE NEW DISTRICT MAPS? UH, THAT WAS ONE QUESTION. AND THEN MY OTHER QUESTION REFERRED TO OH, QUESTION I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT. UM, SHE ALSO ASKED ABOUT WHEN, WHEN WE CAN SEE THE PLANS THAT ARE BEING SUBMITTED. I KNOW THAT, THAT, THAT IN, IN SEPTEMBER OR AUGUST, THEY'RE GONNA BE SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW OR FOR APPROVAL. BUT DO WE GET TO SEE THEM AS THEY GET DRAFTED? OR DO WE JUST GET TO SEE THE, WHAT'S GONNA BE PROPOSED AS SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE PASSED? AND, AND THEN ALONG WITH PLANNING, DO, DO PLANS EVER GET MERGED TOGETHER? IF I DO GET MY COMMUNITY OR, OR MEMBERS HERE, OR PEOPLE THAT ARE INVOLVED TO CREATE A PLAN USING THE COMPUTER THAT'S AT THE OFFICE? UM, DO, IS THERE A CHANCE THAT PLANS GET MERGED? LIKE CAN PART OF MY PLAN, A PART OF HER PLAN? AND PART OF HIS PLAN IS, IS WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE CONSIDERED BEFORE INSTEAD OF SUBMITTING LIKE 10 WRITTEN PLANS, IF WE CAME TOGETHER 10 PEOPLE AND, AND, AND MADE A PLAN WITH, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT I, I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE GONNA HELP US. Y'ALL MENTIONED THERE'S A COMPUTER AND PEOPLE THAT CAN HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW THIS WORKS. SO I GUESS I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, DOES IT MAKE SENSE FOR US AS DIFFERENT? 'CAUSE IT'S, WE, WE HAVE A SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD [00:35:01] ALLIANCE. IT'S NOT JUST MY NEIGHBORHOOD. IT'S, YOU KNOW, 50 OF 'EM, WHATEVER, 68 PROBABLY. I THINK 88. 88. YEAH. WOW. THANK YOU. SO THE IDEA THAT IT'S JUST, IT, I'M TRYING TO CARRY THIS WEIGHT AND I DON'T THINK I SHOULD. SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT AS MULTIPLE COMMUNITIES, AS THE CITY OF HOUSTON, THAT WE DO WORK TOGETHER TO CREATE A PLAN THAT ISN'T CRACKED AND THAT ISN'T PACKED. UM, I, I DIDN'T WANT TO BRING TO EVERYONE'S ATTENTION HERE WHAT, WHAT IS GOING ON IN FLORIDA AND HOW, HOW THAT ISN'T GOING TO COURTS THERE. THAT THERE WAS CRACKING AND PACKING AND IT WAS ALLOWED AND THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE WERE ENCOURAGING IT. SO I, I JUST DON'T WANT TO FALL INTO THAT. OH, THAT HAPPENED IN HOUSTON 10 YEARS FROM NOW FOR US TO SAY, OH, 20 FOR 25 YEARS IN HOUSTON, THAT'S CRACKING AND PACKING. THAT'S THE DEAL. SO I, THOSE ARE MY CONCERNS FOR THE REDISTRICTING PORTION IN OUR MEETING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. JERRY, DO YOU WANNA ADDRESS THOSE? UM, WELL, LET, LET ME FIRST SAY THAT, UM, THE DRAFT PLAN PLAN WILL COME OUT AND WE'LL HAVE THE, THE PUBLIC HEARINGS IN THE CITY COUNCIL. YES. THE, THE PUBLIC HEARINGS ARE IN JULY, UM, AS, AS THE MAYOR SAID. AND SO THE DRAFT P PR PLAN WILL BE RELEASED PRIOR TO THE JULY PUBLIC HEARINGS. EVERYONE WILL GET TO SEE IT. THE, UM, PLANS THAT THE PUBLIC PUTS TOGETHER MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE THOSE PUBLIC HEARINGS ALSO. UM, BUT, BUT I ALSO LIKE TO SAY THAT, THAT THE PLANS, THE DRAFT PLAN DOES GET ALTERED. UH, IT HAS BEEN ALTERED IN THE PAST. IT'LL PROBABLY BE ALTERED IN THE FUTURE. AND SPECIFICALLY, UM, THE, UH, THE LADY FROM BONITA GARDENS, THE REASON THAT, THAT HER DIS, THAT BONITA GARDENS IS, IS LOCATED IN DISTRICT H WAS AS A RESULT OF TESTIMONY IN A, IN A MEETING LIKE THIS WHERE SHE SPOKE, UH, UH, ANOTHER WOMAN, A DIFFERENT WOMAN SPOKE OF THE COMMUNITY OF INTEREST THAT BONITA GARDENS HAD WITH THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD IMMEDIATELY ACROSS THE RAILROAD TRACKS THAT, UM, THAT HAD, THAT WAS IN AGE. UM, AND SO WE MADE CHANGES AT THAT TIME. SO CHANGES ARE MADE, THEY CAN BE MADE. IT WAS YOU, I'M SORRY, , SMALL WORLD . BUT ANYWAY, YES. CHANGES DO, DO, GET MADE. AND, AND ALL OF ALL, ANYTHING THAT ANYBODY SUBMITS WILL BE ANALYZED FOR THE FINAL REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL. SO CITY COUNCIL WILL, WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN OF AND PLANS THAT HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED, AND THEY'LL HAVE MY REPORT ON WHY I DID OR DID NOT FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THAT. AND THEN CITY COUNCIL GETS TO DECIDE WHETHER I HAD THE GOOD IDEA OR YOU HAD THE GOOD IDEA. YEAH. I'M SUSAN GRAHAM, AND I LIVE NEAR NORTHSIDE. I WAS, I'M SORRY, COULD YOU SPELL YOUR NAME PLEASE? SUZANNE. S-U-S-A-N-G-R-A-H-A-M. I JUST WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON HIS, THE GENTLEMAN'S QUESTION ABOUT THE, THE BURDEN OF HAVING TO DO A REDISTRICTING PLAN FOR THE WHOLE CITY AND WHETHER NEIGHBORHOODS COULD WORK TOGETHER, IF THAT WAS A POSSIBILITY. AND I'LL SIT DOWN. YEAH, I, I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION EITHER. THE GENTLEMAN THAT WAS AT THE MIC MM-HMM . KNEW HE, UH, HE SAID THAT HE FELT THAT IT WAS REALLY BURDENSOME TO, TO BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH A WHOLE CITY REDISTRICTING MAP AND WHETHER OR NOT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR DISTRICT COMMUNITY LEADERS OR CIVIC CLUBS OR SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS, WHATEVER, IT FELL OUT AS TO WORK TOGETHER ON THOSE PLANS. I, I UNDERSTAND. OKAY. THE, IF SOMEONE WANT IT IS USEFUL FOR SOMEBODY TO DO A FULL DIS, UH, CITY PLAN. IF SOMEONE DOES A PARTIAL PLAN, IT IS IN EFFECT A TESTIMONY AS TO HOW THEY SEE THEIR DISTRICT AND WHAT THEIR CULT COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST ARE. SO IT WILL BE CONSIDERED AND IT WILL BE REPORTED ON IN THE REPORT, BUT WE, WE LIKE TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO PRODUCE A FULL PLAN BECAUSE SOMETIMES A PLAN IS PRESENTED THAT, FOR INSTANCE, LEAVES, UM, A PORTION OF THE CITY THAT'S TOO SMALL TO, TO HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO BE A DISTRICT, UM, DISCONNECTED FROM THE REST OF THE CITY. SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHY WE ENCOURAGE A FULL PLAN, BUT IT'S NOT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I THINK FOR SOME PEOPLE THAT WILL BE AN HONORS UNDERTAKING TO DO FOR THE WHOLE CITY. SO I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU, MS. TALLEY. IT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT BECAUSE IN EFFECT, IF YOU'RE PROVIDING US A PLAN OF YOUR DISTRICT, IT IS, IT'S A, IT'S YOUR TESTIMONY AS TO HOW YOU SEE YOUR DISTRICT AND THE COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST THAT YOU SEE FOR YOUR DISTRICT. [00:40:01] SO THAT, JUST LIKE SOMEONE SAYING THAT BONITA GARDEN SHOULD BE IN DISTRICT H, SHE DID PRESENT A FULL PLAN, BUT SHE GOT CHANGES MADE TO THE, UH, THE PLAN THAT WAS PRESENTED. HI, MY NAME'S LUPITA MONTESE, LUTA, L-U-P-I-T-A, MONTE, M-O-N-T-E-S, TALLEY, TA DOUBLE LEY. I'M THE PRESIDENT OF SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 46 EAST SIX JENSEN. UM, AND AS WE CONSIDER REDISTRICTING, ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS IN OUR COMMUNITY IS THAT WE ARE DIVIDED INTO BNH. AND THE LINES ARE INTERESTING BECAUSE BASED ON THE CRITERIA, IT'S, IT WOULD ACTUALLY HELP OUR, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO BE UNDER ONE OR THE OTHER. AND MOST OF OUR COMMUNITY IS UNDER H RIGHT NOW WITH A VERY SMART SMALL PORTION IN B BY ONE STREET. HONESTLY, I THINK A LOT OF THOSE THINGS, THE PART THAT IS IN B COULD GO TO HI KNOW THAT THERE'S A NEGATIVE, UM, ONE IF I'M LOOKING AT THE DATA CORRECTLY AND B AND H HAS A NEGATIVE 17 AND THAT THAT LITTLE SECTION MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP, UM, I KNOW THAT WOULD INCREASE THE NEGATIVE NUMBER IN B, BUT THAT MIGHT HELP IN H. AND I ALSO BELIEVE, BECAUSE OF THE CRITERIA WE DO, IF WE CHANGE THAT SECTION OF B INTO H, IT DOES FALL INTO THE EASILY IDENTIFIABLE BOUN IDENTIFIABLE BOUNDARIES. OUR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARIES ARE HIRSCH ON THE EAST, LITTLE YORK, NORTH SOUTH SIX 10, AND WEST IS HARDY. BUT OUR DIS OUR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD IS DIVIDED, UH, BETWEEN TID, TIDWELL AND JENSEN IS WHAT DIVIDES B AND H. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THE CRITERIA, THAT SECTION SHOULD ACTUALLY BE ONE UNDER ONE OR THE OTHER. AND MOST OF US ARE UNDER H. FOR EXAMPLE, MY, MY AUNT LIVES THREE STREETS AWAY FROM ME, AND SHE FALLS UNDER B AND I FALL UNDER H. SO IF WE LOOK AT MAINTAINING THE COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST, THAT WOULD ALSO BE ANOTHER REASON TO BRING THAT PART OF OUR COMMUNITY INTO H AS WELL. MAY, MAY I REPEAT WHAT YOU SAID? WHAT I, BECAUSE I THINK JERRY MAY HAVE HEARD, HAD A HARD TIME HEARING YOU'D LIKE ALL OF THE EAST TEXAS JENSEN SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD IN ONE DISTRICT. CORRECT. PREFERABLY IN H BECAUSE YOU SPOKE ABOUT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX WHERE NO, NO, SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN OKAY. AND YOU CAN SEE IT RIGHT THERE LITERALLY IS WHERE RIGHT IN THE PURPLE ABOVE IT, IT'S GREEN AND INCLUDING THAT INTO THE PURPLE. OKAY. CORRECT THE KEYS. AND I THINK BASED ON WHAT I SAID, BUT ALSO IN THE WORK, WE HAVE TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS, TWO, UH, DIFFERENT COMMISSIONERS. AND THERE'S A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND I THINK IF WE FALL UNDER ONE, THAT WOULD DEFINITELY HELP US VERSUS HAVING MULTIPLE PEOPLE. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, ROB HELLER AND THEN PAUL BENS. OKAY. WELL, FOR OUR, FOR OUR PURPOSES OF CREATING THE NEW, NEW DISTRICTS, THE ONLY, UH, PLAN THAT, THAT WE ARE LOOKING BACK TO IS THE EXISTING PLAN THAT'S IN PLACE, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO THEN PROVE UP THAT WE HAVE NOT IN CHANGING THE, THE DISTRICTS THAT WE HAVEN'T INTERFERED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN OR HISPANIC VOTERS TO SELECT REPRESENTATIVES OF THEIR CHOICE IN THOSE DISTRICTS. BUT IT, I MEAN, IF YOU WANNA GO BACK FURTHER, YOU, THERE IS HISTORICAL INFORMATION THERE, BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE NECESSARILY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT IN THE PROCESS. DOES, DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? MY NAME IS ROB HELLER. H-E-L-L-Y-E-R. EXCUSE ME. I WAS STUDYING THEM AT THE EXISTING DISTRICT MAPS A LITTLE BIT THIS MORNING, EARLIER TODAY, PREPARATION OF COMING HERE. AND IT MADE ME APPRECIATE HOW MONUMENTAL A TASK THIS IS GOING TO BE. YOU'VE GOT REGIONS, PARTICULARLY IN NORTHWEST THAT LOOK LIKE A SPIDER WEB AND NOT WHAT YOU WOULD THINK OF THE CITY LIMITS. UM, I DON'T LIVE IN DISTRICT HI LIVE IN C IN THE HEIGHTS. UH, I COME TONIGHT 'CAUSE I HAVE A CONFLICT WITH THAT MEETING FOR DISTRICT C. WHEN I MOVED THERE, I WAS IN DISTRICT H AND THEN THE LAST TIME THE REDISTRICTING WAS DONE, WE WERE CARVED OUT OF H UH, WITH WHOM I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE MUCH MORE IN COMMON, UH, WITH OUR NEIGHBORS IN NOR HILL AND WESTMORELAND AND BEYOND. AND NOW WE'RE WITH BRAIDWOOD, TIMBER GROVE AND SOME OF THE NORTHWEST REGIONS. SO THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, THOSE AREAS FLOOD. WE DON'T, WE HAVE HISTORIC DISTRICTS. THEY DON'T. SO WE FEEL, I FEEL SPEAKING FOR MYSELF IN THE HEIGHTS, [00:45:01] THAT WE GET A LITTLE LESS RESPONSE FROM OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS. AND I THINK WHEN YOU DESIGN THESE DISTRICTS, IF THEY COULD BE A LITTLE MORE CONTIGUOUS, YOU KEEP PEOPLE WITH MORE INTERESTS. UH, THERE, THERE'S SOME INTERESTS THAT WE HAVE THAT TRANSCENDS ETHNICITY, CRIME, STREET CONDITIONS, TRASH PICKUP, THINGS LIKE THAT. UH, THERE ARE CERTAINLY THE AREAS THAT ARE MORE ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY, THOSE DO SEEM TO BE THE POORER NEIGHBORHOODS, WHICH ARE MORE PREDOMINANTLY NEIGHBORHOODS OF COLOR. SO I'M, I'M SENSITIVE TO THAT, BUT IF WE COULD DO SOMETHING, I CAN SEE HOW PEOPLE IN KINGWOOD AND CLEAR LAKE HAVING THE SAME REPRESENTATION ALSO HAVE A SIMILAR, UM, DIS DIS INTEREST DISCREPANCY ON WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO THEM, UM, THAN, THAN SOME OF THE OTHER DISTRICTS. SOME OF 'EM ARE FAIRLY CONTIGUOUS, BUT MANY OF THEM, INCLUDING DISTRICT C, MAY BE THE WORST, UH, WITH RESPECT TO THAT. AND IF DISTRICT H NEEDS MORE PEOPLE, YOU CAN CARVE SOME OF THOSE BACK IN THERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM, PAUL BENS, HI, MY NAME'S PAUL BEN. THAT'S P-A-U-L-B-E-N-Z. UH, I LIVE IN FIRST WARD. AND LOOKING AT THE CENSUS, UM, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WAS SPLIT DOWN THE MIDDLE. UH, WE ARE IN A BIG NEIGHBORHOOD. UH, THE BY THE, THE REPRESENTATIVE, UH, DISTRICTS WAS SPLIT DOWN THE MIDDLE. SO I JUST ASK THAT WE KEEP THE NEIGHBORHOOD TOGETHER. UH, IT'S FAIRLY DENSE, UM, AND, UH, WE DEAL WITH COMMON ISSUES AND THAT'S REALLY THE ONLY BIG ASK. MAY I ASK YOU A QUESTION? SURE. UM, MY UNDERSTANDING OF FIRST WARD IS THAT IT'S ENTIRELY INCLUDED IN DISTRICT H. IT IS INCLUDED IN DISTRICT HI WAS REFERRING TO THE CENSUS, KIND OF DID SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH IT. OH. AND WHAT'S A LITTLE CONCERNING IS WHEN THE CITY OF HOUSTON, UH, EXPLAINS WHAT REDISTRICTING, AS THEY SAY, IT'S BASED ON THE CENSUS. AND SO THERE IS A CONCERN THAT YOU'RE GONNA SPLIT THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SURE. AND, AND THE, THE I, IF YOU WANNA TALK AFTER THE MEETING, I CAN TELL YOU ALL ABOUT THE HISTORY OF, OF THE CENSUS TRACK THAT THAT WAS, UH SURE. AND I WOULD ENJOY THAT. WHENEVER YOU WANNA SHARE HERE. YEAH. BUT, UM, WE USE THE CENSUS DATA. WE DON'T, WE'RE NOT BOUND BY CENSUS TRACK LINES. OKAY. SO YOUR TRACK LINES THAT, THAT DON'T FOLLOW HOUSTON AVENUE ARE, ARE NO, NO IMPORTANCE IN THE REDISTRICTING PROCESS. SOUNDS GOOD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. UH, MARIAN WRIGHT AND THEN SARAH WATSON. HI. UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT THE REASON THAT WE WANT DISTRICTS IS SO THAT EVERYTHING CAN BE AS EQUITABLE AS POSSIBLE. THAT'S THE MAIN THING THAT WE ALL TRY TO ACHIEVE, RIGHT? AND SO BY DOING THAT, WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LETTING EVERYONE'S VOICE BE HEARD. UNFORTUNATELY, THE CITY, THE WAY THAT IT WORKS IS THAT THE CIVICS CLUBS OR THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS ARE THE PLACE THAT A LOT OF IDEAS. AND IF YOU REALLY WANT SOMETHING DONE, YOU GO TO YOUR CIVICS CLUB AND THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PUSHING FOR WHAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD WANTS. UNFORTUNATELY, IN A LOT OF HOUSTON, YOU DON'T HAVE EVERYBODY IN A COMMUNITY THAT'S PART OF THAT ORGANIZATION, WHICH MEANS YOU GET JUST A FEW PEOPLE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, IN SOME NEIGHBORHOODS YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE IT AT ALL THAT REALLY BOND TOGETHER AND THEY DECIDE WHAT THEY FEEL SHOULD BE PUSHED FORWARD WITH THAT COMMUNITY. AND THE LOUDER YOU ARE AND THE MORE YOU GET DONE. SO FOR INSTANCE, IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, WE HAVE RIGHT AT 2000 HOMES, WE HAVE A HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION THAT HAS 352 CURRENT MEMBERS. THAT'S IT. THEY PUSH THINGS AND THEY SAY THAT THEY SPEAK ON BEHALF OF OUR ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD WHEN NOT EVEN THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD'S PART OF IT. IT'S A CIVICS CLUB, IT'S A VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION. AND YET MISS CISNEROS REALLY GIVES A LOT OF WEIGHT TO WHAT THAT LITTLE ORGANIZATION DOES. AND A LOT OF TIMES THEY'LL HAVE EIGHT PEOPLE, THE BOARD MEMBERS THAT GO IN AND VOTE ON SOMETHING WITHOUT EVEN TALKING TO THE COMMUNITY AND FINDING OUT WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS INTERESTED IN OR NOT INTERESTED IN. AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD. I'VE GOT A BIG MOUTH, SO I'M NOT PART OF THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION AND I'M KIND OF THE COUNTERBALANCE. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM AND I KNOW THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF HEARING FROM ME. BUT I'LL CONTINUE TO TALK ON BEHALF OF THE NON CIVICS CLUB PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 'CAUSE IT IS KIND OF DIVIDED, YOU KNOW? AND THERE'S ACTUALLY MORE PEOPLE [00:50:01] THAT AREN'T IN THE STATE ZONE NOW THAT'S JUST MY NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT THEN YOU GET TO SOME OF THE LESS, THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT AREN'T REPRESENTED EVEN AS MUCH AS MY NEIGHBORHOOD IS, AND THEN THEY EVEN GET LESS REPRESENTATION. I LIVE IN THE WOODLAND HEIGHTS, SO WE'RE KIND OF A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS A LITTLE BIT OF FINANCIAL WEALTH IN IT, I GUESS YOU CAN SAY. AND WHEN I GO, YOU KNOW, JUST A LITTLE BIT IN OTHER DIRECTIONS WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT AND THEY DON'T HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT CAN BE CIVILLY CIVICALLY MINDED AND DO THAT. YOU KNOW, LIKE IF YOU WORK ALL DAY AND YOU HAVE KIDS AND YOU GET 'EM HOME FROM SCHOOL, YOU TRY TO DRESS 'EM AND FEED 'EM AND GET 'EM TO SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY, THE LAST THING YOU WANNA DO IS GO AND SIT AT A CIVICS CLUB MEETING TO TALK ABOUT THESE SORT OF ISSUES. SO MY QUESTION IS, OR THE THING THAT I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS WHAT DO WE DO TO GET EQUAL REPRESENTATION FOR EVERYBODY, FOR THOSE WHO DO WANNA PARTICIPATE IN A CIVICS CLUB, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T WANNA PARTICIPATE IN A CIVICS CLUB, WHAT DO WE DO TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE IS HEARD? ALRIGHT, BUT LET ME, LET ME, LET ME TRY TO BRING US A LITTLE BIT. UM, LET ME ASK, UH, BUT YOU LIKE THE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT THAT YOU'RE CURRENTLY IN? IS THAT, IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING? I'M HAPPY WITH WHERE I AM. I HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH BEING IN THE DISTRICT THAT I'M IN. I KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA BRING SOME MORE PEOPLE INTO IT. AND THAT'S GREAT WITH ME TOO. I DON'T MIND BRINGING IN MORE PEOPLE AND DOING WHAT WE CAN DO. WE'VE GOT SOME PROJECTS GOING ON IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THEY'RE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY ON, AND THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO, WE'VE GOT, THEY'RE TAKING A BIKE LANE THING AND THAT'S SUPPOSED TO HELP WITH TRAFFIC AND STUFF NOT ON, IT'S KIND OF CRAZY. IT'S A ROAD DIET. Y'ALL LOOK, MOST OF Y'ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH IT, BUT THEY'RE SPENDING $600,000 ON THIS THING. AND IT'S LIKE, COULDN'T WE BE SPENDING $600,000 TO GET BUS STOPS THAT AREN'T COVERED OR SIDEWALKS TO NEIGHBORHOODS THAT NEED 'EM? LIKE WHY ARE WE SPENDING SO MUCH MONEY? I GOT YOU ON THAT. AND THEN I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO BRING THOSE POINTS UP WHEN PUBLIC WORKS COMES UP SURE. AND EXPRESS THOSE SENTIMENTS TO THEM. MM-HMM . BUT AT LEAST WE KNOW THAT YOU LIKE BEING IN DISTRICT AGE. YOU'RE GOOD WITH THAT? OH, I LOVE IT. YEAH. ALRIGHT. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT. ALRIGHT, THEN LET ME, LET ME, LET, LET US, LET US WORK ON I GOT YOU ON THAT. OKAY. THAT, THAT HELPS THESE INDIVIDUALS. SURE. AND THEN WHEN, WHEN, WHEN THAT GUY OVER THERE COMES UP, GIVE HIM AN EAR FULL I'LL RIGHT. OKAY. I'VE ALREADY BEEN TALKING TO HIM. HE'S MY BUDDY. WE'VE TALKED ON MANY PRO. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY. AND THE LAST PERSON I HAVE A CARD FOR IS SUE SARAH WATSON. IF, OH, MORE CARDS COMING. HI THERE. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. UM, I AM ON THE BOARD OF THE NOR HILL NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND CARLA, IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU. UM, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO WITH US. WE ARE SUPER HAPPY BEING IN DISTRICT AGE. MY QUESTION'S A LITTLE BIT MORE ABSTRACT AND THAT IS FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS NO, UM, CITY PLANNING EXPERIENCE. I'M A SIXTH GRADE MATH TEACHER. BUT AS SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT, UM, WHAT THIS OUTCOME LOOKS LIKE, HOW SHOULD I BE EDUCATING MYSELF LEADING UP TO THESE JULY MEETINGS? WHAT RESOURCES DO I HAVE TO LEARN ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S MAYBE FEELING KIND OF ABSTRACT RIGHT NOW? OH, GOOD QUESTION. WELL, FIRST OF ALL, YOU'RE HERE I AM . AND THEN THAT, AND THAT'S, THAT'S A BIG THING. UM, THE KEEPING UP WITH WHAT WE ARE DOING EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, UM, IS PROBABLY THE BEST THING YOU CAN BE DOING IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PARTICULAR PROBLEM WITH THE DISTRICT LINES AS THEY'RE CURRENTLY DRAWN, LIKE THE FOLKS FROM EAST TEXAS JENSEN DO. UM, THEN MONITORING WHAT IS MOVING FORWARD TO SEE HOW IT MIGHT AFFECT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS PROBABLY THE BEST THING YOU CAN BE DOING AT THIS POINT. AND YOU CAN DO THAT THROUGH THE WEBSITE, BUT YOU CAN ALSO DO IT THROUGH YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER BY, UH, FINDING OUT FROM THEM WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED, UH, AS THIS PROCESS HAS MOVED FORWARD. AND IN JULY THERE WILL BE A DRAFT MAP AND I URGE YOU TO LOOK AT THAT DRAFT MAP TO SEE IF IT AFFECTS YOU IN A WAY THAT YOU THINK IS NEGATIVE. UM, AND COMMENT ON IT AND BRING FORWARD ALL YOUR CONCERNS AT THAT TIME. IT, IT'S REALLY JUST KIND OF KEEPING AN EYE ON WHAT WE'RE DOING. . SOUNDS GOOD. AND THEN I GUESS ONE THING TO ADD TO THAT IS JUST NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE, UM, TRYING TO ADVOCATE FOR SOMETHING, I GUESS CONSIDER THIS AN INVITATION FROM NOR HILL. WE WOULD LOVE TO SUPPORT YOU, UM, IN HOW YOU'RE DOING THAT AND WANT TO COLLABORATE. SO, UM, KEEP US POSTED AND MAYBE FROM EAST TEXAS WE CAN GET, UM, SOME SORT OF CONTACT BEFORE WE LEAVE TONIGHT. [00:55:01] AND LET ME, LET ME ALSO JUST, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR QUESTION AND YOUR COMMENT. IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT, AT THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION OF H OKAY, ALL OF THIS H AND THEN THIS WILL, THAT'S MY RIGHT. SO EVERYTHING IN BLUE, EVERYTHING IN BLUE IS H AND THEN BEAR IN MIND FOR H, H IS 17% UNDER WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE. OKAY. SO WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO ADD POPULATION TO H. AND SO THE QUESTION IS HOW DO WE ADD OR WHAT MAY COME OUT TO GO IN. NOW IF YOU ARE, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU ARE RIGHT IN HERE, ONE COULD PROBABLY SAY YOU'LL CONTINUE TO BE IN H BUT IF YOU ARE ON SOMEWHERE ON THE FRINGES, AS WE SEEK TO ADD, YOU KNOW, THINGS COULD SHIFT A LITTLE BIT. AND SO IF YOU, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU, IF YOU, LET'S SAY YOU WANT TO STAY NH THEN YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT, IT, YOU KNOW, CLEAR TO US MAYOR OF CITY COUNCIL, WE WANNA KIND OF, WE WANNA STAY IN EACH. AND IF YOU FEEL LIKE THERE ARE OTHER AREAS THAT COULD BE ADDED TO HI THINK THERE WERE SOME WHO, UH, FROM THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD TO MAKE IT MORE OF A COMMUNITY OF INTEREST, THEN YOU WOULD SAY, WE THINK THIS WOULD BE A GOOD FIX. SO PULL, BRING THESE AREAS IN. OKAY. OR CERTAIN AREAS YOU CAN SAY DON'T QUITE FIT, BUT YOU CAN TAKE THEM OUT AND PUT IN. SO IDEALLY, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD DRAW THE WHOLE YOUR AREA AND INCLUDE THE WHOLE CITY, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO, YOU COULD, YOU COULD DRAW WHAT YOU PERCEIVE TO BE THE BEST DISTRICT FOR DISTRICT H. OKAY. AND WE'LL TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT AS WELL. AND THEN GOING BACK TO A PREVIOUS, UH, A QUESTION AND COMMENT, WE DO ALSO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE DIVERSITY OF OUR CITY AND WANTING TO ALSO MAINTAIN THAT DIVERSITY ON CITY COUNCIL. SO WE BEAR THAT IN. SO THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT GO INTO THE MIX AND THAT'S WHY SOMETIMES YOU'LL SEE DISTRICTS BACK UP AGAIN BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO MAINTAIN THE POPULATION NUMBER PLUS OR MINUS FIVE ON, ON EITHER END. BUT YOUR THOUGHTS ON, YOU KNOW, I LIKE BEING IN DISTRICT HI LIKE THIS, I WANT TO STAY IN. AND WE FACTOR THAT INTO IT. AND THEN RIGHT AROUND JULY PERIOD, YOU WILL ACTUALLY SEE THE PROPOSED, AND I WANNA UNDERSCORE THE PROPOSED MAPS. OKAY. IT'S KIND OF HARD NOW 'CAUSE WE ARE TALKING IN THE ABSTRACT AND GETTING YOUR COMMENTS. BUT IN JULY YOU WILL SEE THE PROPOSED MAPS AND THEN THAT'LL GIVE YOU, YOU'LL HAVE SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY COME IN, YOU KNOW, MAYOR CITY COUNCIL, I LIKE THIS MAP OR MAYOR OF CITY COUNCIL, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING? YOU KNOW, WE DON'T LIKE THIS AT ALL. AND THEN, UH, WE ARE TAKING THAT INTO ACCOUNT WHEN WE VOTE IN SEPTEMBER. OKAY. SO THAT'S WHAT WE ARE DOING. AND IT, IT IS LIKE WE, WE, WE ARE TRYING TO EQUALIZE BUT EQUALIZE ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT FACTORS BECAUSE WE, AND BE QUITE CANDIDLY, WE DON'T WANT TO DRAW DISTRICTS AND FOR EXAMPLE, YOU JUST ELIMINATE HISPANIC REPRESENTATION THAT'S NOT COOL. OR AFRICAN AMERICAN NOT. SO WE, WE TRY TO STRIKE A BALANCE. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I HAVE A CARD FOR PEDRO ZOIA AND I KNOW I DID NOT PRONOUNCE THAT CORRECTLY. HELLO, MY NAME IS, UH, BERO, AIA. YOU SPELL THAT. A-Y-A-R-Z-A-G-O-I-T-I-A. IT TOOK ME EIGHT YEARS TO LEARN HOW TO SPELL THAT NAME. . UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING. UM, I HAD A, A FEW QUESTIONS. I KNOW A LADY MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT, UH, HER SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD BEING SPLIT UP INTO TWO DISTRICTS AND I THOUGHT THAT'S THE WAY THAT, THAT THEY WERE DRAWN UP. I COULD BE WRONG, BUT I THOUGHT THAT'S THE WAY THAT ALL THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS WERE GONNA BE SPLIT UP IN TWO DISTRICTS. SO IF SOMEONE CAN ANSWER THAT, AND MR. ROBINSON WANTS TO ANSWER BY [01:00:01] THE RECORD, THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS WERE DRAWN PRIOR TO THE 11 CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS. AND SO THEY WERE NOT ALL SPLIT BY COUNCIL DISTRICTS WHEN THEY WERE ORIGINALLY DRAWN. SOME OF THEM WERE, BUT SOME WERE NOT. UM, BUT WHEN WE WENT FROM NINE TO 11, THAT CHANGED DRAMATICALLY. YEAH. DEVELOPING THE SUPER NEIGHBORS WAS ACTUALLY MY PROJECT 20 OVER 20 YEARS AGO. HE DID A LOT OF THINGS. HE DID. YEAH. I DON'T GET PAID ENOUGH ANYWAY, UM, TALK TO HIM. UM, SO THE, THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS WERE AN ATTEMPT TO, UH, GIVE A DEFINITION BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS OF DEFINING NEIGHBORHOODS. WE CALLED IT SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS SO THAT NOBODY WOULD CONFUSE IT WITH WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT TELLING YOU WHAT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS. WE ARE, WE'RE TRYING TO GET A, A HANDLE ON THE CITY'S GEOGRAPHY SO THAT WE CAN CLASSIFY ALL OF THE DATA THAT WE HAVE AND PUT IT INTO A GEOGRAPHY THAT PEOPLE CAN RELATE TO. SO THAT WAS, THAT WAS THE ATTEMPT WITH SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS. WE'D LIKE FOR ALL THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS TO BE INCLUDED IN A SINGLE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT. JUST LIKE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE EVERY SUBDIVISION IN A SINGLE CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT. SOMETIMES WE'RE, WE'RE BOUND BY THE GEOGRAPHY THAT, THAT, UH, THE PRECINCTS, THE VOTING PRECINCTS GIVE US. SOMETIMES WE'RE BOUND BY THE, THE NEED FOR THE POPULATION. UM, THE HEIGHTS IS A VERY LARGE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD. IT HAS A VERY LARGE POPULATION. IT, IN, IN, WHEN WE REDID THE DISTRICTS, UM, UH, TO GO TO 11 DISTRICTS, UM, IT WASN'T POSSIBLE TO PUT ALL OF THE HEIGHTS IN A SINGLE DISTRICT. WE LUCKILY WE WERE ABLE TO USE A SINGLE, UH, THOROUGHFARE, STU STU WOOD, UM, UP TO, UH, NORTH MAINE AS A BOUNDARY INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS OTHER THAN THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ITSELF. UM, BUT IT, IT, IT'S NOT AN INTENTION TO SPLIT SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS. IT'S SOMETHING WE TRY TO AVOID IF WE POSSIBLY CAN. OKAY. IN THAT REGARD, MAYBE ADD TO WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HEAR YOU ON TAPE. SO LOVE THE QUESTION. I WAS A PRESIDENT OF THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLOWANCE BEFORE I GOT ELECTED. SO WITH THE 88 SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS DEFINED AND REALLY CREATED WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THIS BRILLIANT MAN THAT'S RIGHT HERE, UM, THOSE 88, THERE'S ABOUT HALF OF THEM THAT ARE ACTIVE. THERE'S A, BUT, AND THEN WHAT THE DIRECTOR WAS JUST WHISPERING TO ME IS AGAIN, HALF LESS THAT NUMBER THAT, UM, ARE REALLY DOING SOMETHING. WHAT I THINK THIS THE CURRENT SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE IS DOING. THEY'VE BEEN VERY ACTIVE AND I THINK ENGAGING PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC. I THINK IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BENEFITED FROM IS THAT IN FACT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ATTEND MORE MEETINGS BECAUSE THEY'RE CARRIED ON WITH ZOOM, UM, AND YOU KNOW, OVER THE INTERNET. BUT WHAT LUPITA IS SAYING WITH 46, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A UNIQUE CONDITION. SO WHETHER YOU'RE AN ACTIVE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD LIKE 46, THE EAST TEXAS JENSEN SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT THAT IS A REAL CASE TO BE MADE WITH OUR DEMOGRAPHER WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, WITH COUNCIL MEMBER CISNEROS, YOU'RE AT LARGE IS ALL OF US. SO THAT WE CAN HEAR AND HELP. IF THAT MEANS, UM, YOU KNOW, TO USE THE MAYOR'S WORD, THE FRINGES, YOU KNOW, AT THE PERIPHERY OF THE DISTRICTS, IF YOU'RE GROWING, THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE YOU'RE GONNA GROW. IF YOU HAVE TO COME IN A LITTLE BIT, TAKE A LITTLE NIP OR A TUCK, THEN THAT MIGHT BE SOMEWHERE WHERE WE PULL IT IN ON THE BOUNDARIES. BUT THE MORE THAT THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS CAN BE CARRIED BY A SINGLE DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBER, THE BETTER BY ORIGINALLY THE DESIGN. ANYTHING. THANK YOU. AND THEN IF I MAY, UM, I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK ON WHAT I BELIEVE MR. HILLIARD AND WHAT MS. WRIGHT MENTIONED ABOUT HOW THE HEIGHTS HAS BEEN SPLIT. WHEN I FIRST MOVED INTO THE HEIGHTS 15 YEARS AGO, WE WERE ALL PART OF DISTRICT H. AND THEN A FEW YEARS AGO WE GOT, WE GOT, UH, WE BECAME SPLIT BETWEEN C AND H RIGHT DOWN STUDIO WOOD. SO FOR INSTANCE, WHEN MY DAUGHTER WENT TO HARVARD, IF I HAD A PROBLEM, I COULD TALK TO ONE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER WHEN SHE WENT TO HOG, I CAN TALK TO ONE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER. AND THEN WHEN SHE WENT TO HIGH HIGH SCHOOL, I COULD TALK TO ONE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER. BUT IF IT WERE TODAY, MY DAUGHTER GOES TO HARVARD, WELL I GOTTA TALK TO DISTRICT C. AND THEN A FEW YEARS WHEN SHE GOES TO HOG, I GOTTA TALK TO SOMEONE IN DISTRICT H. AND THEN IN A FEW MORE YEARS, WHEN SHE GOES TO HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL, I GOTTA GO BACK AND TALK TO SOMEONE IN DISTRICT C. SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER WE HAVE PROBLEMS, YOU KNOW, I CALL CARLA BECAUSE SHE'S MY CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, BUT SOMETIMES CARLA'S LIKE, I CAN'T HELP YOU. THAT'S OVER, AND THAT'S TWO BLOCKS OVER INSTE WOOD. OKAY. OR IN THE OPPOSITE, WHEN I [01:05:01] TALK TO ABBY, ABBY SAYS, I'M SORRY, PEDRO, THAT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SUN BERGER. IF YOU KNOW WHERE SUN BERGER'S AT, THAT'S LIKE THE MM-HMM . THAT'S LIKE THE LANDMARK. OH, THAT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF BERGER. SO YOU HAVE IN STUDIO WOOD, AND I GUESS IT WORKS OUT GREAT FOR OTHER PARTS OF THE DISTRICT, BUT FOR THE HEIGHTS IT DOESN'T, IT SPLIT US RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN NOR HILL WOODLAND HEIGHTS AND SUNSET HEIGHTS, AND THEN HEIGHTS PROPER AND SUNSET HEIGHTS ON THE OTHER SIDE. SO, UH, I REALLY WISH WE CAN GET THAT BOUNDARY BACK TOGETHER IN WHAT WE, WHAT WE USED TO HAVE. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. UM, I HAVE A CARD FOR SUSIE TREVINO AND THEN ANOTHER CARD FOR ROY LIRA. SUSIE. HI, MY NAME'S SUSIE TREVINO. S-U-S-S-I-E-T-R-E-V-I-N-O. AND I AM THE SECRETARY OF SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 46. AND MOST OF MY QUESTIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE A STATEMENT THAT, UH, WE WOULD LIKE OUR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD TO HAVE. UM, JUST ONE REPRESENTATIVE, UH, DISTRICT H THAT WOULD BE IT. THANK YOU. OKAY. ROY LIRA AND THEN SUSIE FAIRCHILD, ROY LAUP, STILL SPELLING IT THE SAME WAY, SO WE'RE GOOD THERE. RIGHT. UM, MY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT I MAKE PREVIOUSLY ARE STILL, I STILL STAND BY THAT I WANTED TO SPEAK AS A RESIDENT OF THE SECOND WARD. AND IN THIS CAPACITY MAKING THE CASE TO TRANSITION THE SECOND WARD TO DISTRICT I, AND THAT REASON IS REALLY IS WE, WE'VE HEARD A THEME OF CONTINUITY AND CULTURE WITHIN THIS SPECIFIC SECOND WARD AS THIS, WE'LL TALK SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE'LL GO ALL THE WAY UP FROM A SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD PERSPECTIVE. WE GET GREAT SUPPORT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER C SANDALS. WE ALSO GET GREAT SUPPORT FROM COUNCIL MEMBER GALLEGOS WHEN WE HAVE A STATE ISSUE. WE HAVE GREAT SUPPORT FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE HERNANDEZ, BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE GREAT SUPPORT, UH, REPRESENTATIVE MORALES FROM A US REPRESENTATIVE. WE HAVE SHEILA JACKSON LEE AND SYLVIA GARCIA. THERE'S A THEME, AND IT'S DIFFICULT ON RESIDENTS. THIS IS TRULY SOULISH, IT'S DIFFICULT ON RESIDENTS BECAUSE WE ARE HAVING THE SAME SITUATION THAT'S BEEN MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES TODAY OF WE'RE HAVING TO, WE'RE VERY INTIMATE WITH OUR BOUNDARIES AND STREETS BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT WHICH, WHERE THE DISTRICT CUTOFF IS, WHERE THE STATE REP CUTOFF IS, WHERE THE US, OUR CONGRESS PERSON'S REPRESENTATIVE IS. SO, AS WE'RE LOOKING FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT TO DO WHEN WE DO HAVE, THERE'S NOT CONTINUITY FROM A LOCAL LEVEL. AND I KNOW WE'RE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AT THIS POINT DURING TODAY'S CONVERSATION, BUT FROM A REDISTRICTING PERSPECTIVE, THAT CONTINUITY AND EASE OF COMMUNICATION WITH OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS IS REALLY HELPFUL. AND WITH THE SECOND WARD SPECIFICALLY, IT'S ALSO PART OF THE EAST END DISTRICT OR THE EAST END MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. SO FROM THIS CONTINUITY, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO RETAIN THE CULTURE PREDOMINANTLY HISPANIC OVER, I THINK 78% HISPANIC IN THE SECOND WARD WITH COUNCIL MEMBER GALLEGOS AREA. IT DOES LEAVE DISTRICT HA BIND. BUT IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THE MAP AND WE TAKE THAT SAME CONVERSATION, WE LOOK AT DISTRICT C, WHICH IS 15% ABOVE THE AVERAGE, THAT NATURAL EXPANSION IN THERE TO THE NORTHWEST. WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, THE, UM, CENTRAL NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOOD IS ONE AREA THAT WE TALKED ABOUT. THAT THERE IS JUST A SIMILAR, UH, DEMOGRAPHICS TO THE SECOND WARD OR DISTRICT H, BUT ALSO AS THAT AREA GOES THROUGH GENTRIFICATION, YOU'RE LOOKING AT REAL ESTATE PRICES, IT STARTS TO LINE UP WITH MORE OF DISTRICT H. YEAH. WHAT COULD BE THE FUTURE DISTRICT H SO AS WE LOOK AT THIS SECOND WARD WOULD BE A GOOD FIT FROM A RESIDENT PERSPECTIVE. AND, AND I HEAR YOU IN, IN, IN WHAT WE HAVE TO WORK OUT TO FIGURE OUT IS THAT YOU HAVE H IN SALMON. YES. SALMON. SO, SO H IS ABOUT 24,000 PEOPLE SHORT AND I IS ABOUT 20,000 SHORT. YES. SO WHEN, IF YOU START AND YOU START PULLING FROM ONE, YOU SEE, AND WHICH MEANS IF WE, SO RIGHT. SO IT'S THAT SMALL PORTION BENEATH. I KNOW, BUT WHEN YOU TAKE FROM, AND, AND, AND I HEAR YOU. I I GOT YOU. I'M JUST SAYING THAT THE, THE DYNAMICS THAT WE HAVE TO ALL KIND OF WORK ALL THROUGH 'CAUSE IT CREATES A, A EFFECT. YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? AND SO THAT'S WHY THAT, THAT QUESTION WOULD BE A SECOND WARD WHERE IT DOES INCREASE THAT PERCENTAGE THAT'S BELOW FOR DISTRICT I, AND THEN THAT [01:10:01] CAPACITY TO INCREASE DISTRICT C, WHICH IS THE, THE MOST POPULATED COUNCIL DISTRICT IN THE COMMUNITY. SO IT WOULD BE A TWO-PRONGED APPROACH OF EXPANDING THAT OTHER DISTRICT H NORTHWEST PROBABLY CHANGE CHANGING SECOND WARD. OH. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THAT THAT WOULD REQUIRE US TO TAKE OUT DENVER HARBOR ALSO AND PUT IT INTO DISTRICT I. AND NOW YOU'RE COMPLETELY CHANGING THE, THE CHARACTER OF DISTRICT H AT THAT POINT, UH, BY ELIMINATING SOME OF THE MOST HISPANIC PORTIONS OF DISTRICT H. AND THAT WOULD BE THE CONCERN THAT I WOULD HAVE. OKAY. IT WAS WORTH A SHOT, BUT IT WAS, IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S A COMMON ITEM. AND SO THE RESULTS, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GONNA STAND BEHIND AS WE GO THROUGH THAT. THIS IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR GOOD CIVIC ENGAGEMENT. SO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME. CHEERS. OKAY. I'VE GOT, I'VE GOT THREE MORE. UH, STACY FAIRCHILD AND THEN ANNA, COULD YOU COME UP HERE PLEASE? ANNA? HELLO, MY NAME IS STACY FAIRCHILD. S-T-A-C-I-E-F-A-I-R-C-H-I-L-D. SORRY FOR THE LONG NAME. UH, I'M REALLY HERE TONIGHT. UH, THANK YOU MAYOR FOR BEING HERE AND DIRECTOR BROWN FOR AM I, ARE YOU NOT HEARING ME? MM-HMM . SORRY. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, DAVID, DAVID FIELDS. I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE AS WELL. UM, BUT REALLY MY COMMENTS ARE FOR THE AUDIENCE TONIGHT. I AM, I AM HERE IN THE CAPACITY OF THE SECRETARY FOR THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE. I LIVE, UH, IN, UH, SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 22, WHICH IS WASHINGTON AVENUE, UH, COALITION MEMORIAL PARK. AND, UH, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH, I, I FIND THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM TO BE, UH, AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO BRING ISSUES TO THE CITY ADMINISTRATION AND TO RESOLVE THEM, OR AT LEAST FIND SOME WAY TO MITIGATE OR, UM, ADDRESS THEM. AND WITH THAT SAID, MY COMMENTS ARE FOR, UM, ALL OF THESE CIVIC LEADERS WHO ARE HERE TONIGHT. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRAM AND THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE, PLEASE COME SEE ME AFTERWARDS. WE WILL BE AT, I WILL BE ATTENDING. AND ROY, WHO IS THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE, WILL BE ATTENDING THESE MEETINGS AND AVAILABLE TO YOU AS WELL. SO, UH, I THINK I HEARD YOU, SARAH. UH, WE SHOULD GET TOGETHER AFTER THE MEETING AND ANYONE ELSE, UH, WHO IS HERE TONIGHT IN A LEADERSHIP CAPACITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. DO NEXT, UM, MARK, MARK WILLIAMSON, AND THEN CONSUELA RAMIREZ. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU ALL. I'M MARK WILLIAMSON, W-I-L-L-I-A-M-S-O-N. I'M THE PRESIDENT OF SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 15, THE GREATER HEIGHTS. UH, I WAS HERE 10 YEARS AGO TALKING IN FAVOR OF HAVING THE GREATER HEIGHTS SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD, ALL IN ONE DISTRICT. AND WE WERE NOT AS, AS PEDRO REMEMBERS, ALL IN ONE DISTRICT. WE WERE ACTUALLY IN SPLIT AT SHEPHERD AND IT GOT MOVED OVER TO SPLIT AT STU WOOD AND NORTH MAINE. AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS A PROBLEM. BUT AFTER WORKING WITH BOTH COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE INCUMBENTS THEN AND THE INCUMBENTS SINCE THEN, UH, I THINK IT'S ACTUALLY AN ADVANTAGE OR CAN BE IF USED PROPERLY. SO I, I'VE WITHDRAWN MY REQUEST TO ALL BE IN ONE. AND WE WILL TALK ABOUT DETAILS BEYOND THAT, FURTHER DOWN THE LINE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CONSUELO. REMEZ, RAMIREZ, MEXICO MICROPHONE, MICROPHONE NAME IS CONSOLO. AND SHE'S BEEN HERE SINCE SHE IMMIGRATED FROM MEXICO. I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE DISTRICT AND I, I'VE WALKED THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF NEED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND, AND WE, WE NEED HELP AND, AND WE NEED TO BE [01:15:01] HEARD. I, SHE WORKS A LOT WITH THE ELDERLY POPULATION AND, AND SHE SAYS THAT THERE'S JUST A LOT OF NEED WITH THEM. AND, AND SHE NEEDS HELP AND THEY NEED TO BE HEARD AND, AND THEY DON'T GET TO GET OUT. AND, AND SHE, SHE NEEDS HER HELP. I SEE A LOT OF EMPTY SEATS HERE. AND, UM, AND I WONDER WHY. AND IS THERE ANYONE THAT'S GONNA BE TRANSLATING THESE MEETINGS IN SPANISH? I SPEAK SPANISH ONLY. AND WITH THE HELP OF MY FRIEND, UH, HE HAS TRANSLATED FOR ME. AND, AND YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO SEE MORE REPRESENTATION FOR THE SPANISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY. I REPRESEN MAYBE THE COUNCIL DISTRICTS ARE TOO BIG AND THEY NEED TO BE SMALLER SO THAT WE CAN BE BETTER REPRESENTED. I WANTED TO WORK AT THE CENSUS, BUT THEY TOLD ME THAT I COULDN'T BECAUSE I SPOKE SPANISH. BUT THEN THE PEOPLE THAT THEY HIRED TO, TO WORK AT THE CENSUS DIDN'T SPEAK SPANISH. HALF OF THIS COMMUNITY SPEAKS SPANISH, LIKE SHE SAID EARLIER, SHE WORKS WITH THE ELDERLY COMMUNITY AND IT'S VERY HARD FOR HER TO TRY TO TAKE THEM TO GO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO, ESPECIALLY WHEN THERE AREN'T ANY SIDEWALKS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WE NEED TO ALL WORK TOGETHER. UM, ENGLISH SPEAKING AND SPANISH SPEAKING IN ALL COMMUNITIES. WE'RE ALL ONE TOGETHER AND WE NEED YOUR HELP. GRA THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I HAVE NO MORE CARDS, SO IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, PLEASE SEE THE FOLKS AT THE TABLE RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DOOR. AND YOU CAN HAVE EMAIL ADDRESSES TO SEND TO RUPESH. UM, AND LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND WE CERTAINLY WILL MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE MATERIAL ON REDISTRICTING AND THE MAPS, UH, WILL BE IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES, INCLUDING SPANISH. UH, 'CAUSE WE WANT EVERYBODY TO BE INCLUDED, INCLUDED IN THIS PROCESS. SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WE'LL CERTAINLY MAKE SURE, UH, THAT THE MATERIALS, THE MAPS, THE LANGUAGES MAPS, UH, ARE IN SPANISH. AND I THINK WE ARE INCLUDING A COUPLE OF OTHER LANGUAGES AS CHINESE AND VIETNAMESE AS WELL. OKAY. UH, HAVING SAID THAT, AGAIN, THIS WAS ONE OF THE LISTENING PORTION ON, UH, FOR REDISTRICTING. UH, WE'LL GO THROUGH SEVERAL DIFFERENT STEPS, YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE GET THERE. AND YOUR INPUT IS CERTAINLY WELCOME AND APPRECIATE IT. NOW, LET US QUICKLY, UH, UH, UH, TALK ABOUT, UH, THE CIP. IF YOU GIVE IT UP, UH, GIVE A HAND TO, TO ALL OF THESE INDIVIDUALS HERE. AND MICHAEL, YOU RUSTY, WILL BE TAKING ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, UH, UH, FROM THIS PORTION GOING FORWARD. THE COUNCILMAN WILL BE HERE. I'M TRYING TO MAKE TWO MEETINGS IN ONE EVENING. SO, UH, AND SO I'M GONNA TRY TO RUSH THAT. YES, SIR. BEFORE I HEAD OUT, WHY DON'T YOU GO TO THAT MIC SO I MAKE SURE I CAN HEAR YOU. [01:20:02] UH, SO, UH, THE WOMAN THAT WAS JUST HERE, UM, SHE'S RIGHT THERE. YES. SHE HAS SOMEONE, SHE'S, SHE'S NOT ASKING FOR THE, FOR THE DOCUMENTS TO BE TRANSLATED, IF I'M UNDERSTANDING HER CORRECTLY. SHE'S MISSING OUT ON THE DYNAMICS OF THE CONVERSATION. AND SHE'S MISSING OUT ON, ON ACTUAL ENGAGEMENT CIVICALLY WITH THE LEADERS AND WITH THE PEOPLE THAT ARE UP HERE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT BEING TRANSLATED LIVE. WE, UH, I KNOW WE JUST WENT TO A-T-C-E-Q MEETING FOR SOMETHING AND THERE THEY HAD TRANSLATION EQUIPMENT FOR PEOPLE LIKE HER THAT, THAT, THAT, SO SHE CAN LISTEN LIVE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING SO THAT HER, SO THAT SHE CAN BE HEARD, SO SHE CAN HAVE ACCURATE INFORMATION TO PRESENT AND KNOW WHEN TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. 'CAUSE TECHNICALLY HER QUESTION HAS TO DO WITH CIP. SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ME, MYSELF, I'M GONNA TAKE THE TIME NOW TO COMMUNICATE THAT TO HER, THAT HER CONCERNS HAVE TO DO WITH INFRASTRUCTURE. RIGHT. POINT, POINT, WELL MADE. AND WE, WE'LL WORK ON THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD. I GOTCHA. I UNDERSTAND. ALL. ALRIGHT. MICHAEL RESTY IS HERE FOR THE, UM, CIP PORTION. COUNCILMAN WILL BE HERE AND I APOLOGIZE, I HAVE TO GET TO ANOTHER MEETING. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU MAYOR. ALL RIGHT. ON, ON BEHALF OF OUR DIRECTOR HADDOCK AND MY BOSS, ERIC DARGAN HERE IN 4,000 HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS, UH, EMPLOYEES THAT SERVE THE CITIZENS OF HOUSTON, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO COME HERE TODAY. UH, THE FIRST ONE IS, UH, NOTICE, UH, AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT I'VE BEEN ASKED TO, TO DELIVER. THE CITY CONTINUES TO ADDRESS THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF THE PANDEMIC. HOUSTON WILL RECEIVE 6607.9 MILLION FROM AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT PASSED BY CONGRESS LAST YEAR. WE RECEIVED HALF OF THE FUND LAST YEAR, AND WE WILL RECEIVE THE SECOND HALF IN MAY OF THIS YEAR. WE HAVE SET UP A WEBSITE, WHICH IS WRITTEN RIGHT HERE, UM, HOUSTON TX.GOV/APA. UH, FOR MORE INFORMATION, IT'S A REALLY A SIMPLE 22 QUESTION SURVEY. PLEASE COMPLETE IT FOR THEM. THEY DESPERATELY NEED YOUR INPUT. ALL RIGHT, UH, JUST TO KIND OF START UP, BEFORE I EVEN GO ANY FURTHER, ALTHOUGH I'M STANDING HERE BEFORE YOU, AS REPRESENTATIVE OF HOUSTON PUBLIC WORKS, THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM IS ACTUALLY MUCH LARGER THAN THAT. IT'S NOT JUST PUBLIC WORK ITEM, WHICH IS STREET DRAINAGE, WATER, AND WASTEWATER. WE DO HAVE THE GENERAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT HERE THAT DO THE VERTICAL STRUCTURES. SO THEY ARE ALL HERE TODAY. AND ALSO THE PARKS AND RECREATION, THEY DO HAVE MULTIPLE PROJECTS. SO THERE ARE TABLES HERE EVEN FOR PUBLIC WORKS. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY DETAILS ON A SPECIFIC LOCATION, PLEASE GO. AND THEN WE'LL, WE'LL, THEY'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP YOU AS WELL. SO IN GENERAL, IF YOU LOOK AT THE BUILD HOUSTON FORWARD, THAT WAS INSTITUTED BY THE MAYOR, UM, THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT WE ALWAYS LOOK AT. UH, BUILD HOUSTON FORWARD IS A PROGRAM TO ENHANCE AND IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE WITHOUT ACCRUING ADDITIONAL DEBT. NOW, IT'S BEEN IN PLACE SINCE 2012. UH, SO WE CALL IT THE THREE RS. PLEASE, IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT YOU TAKE TODAY, TAKE THE THREE RS. IT'S REPAIR, WHICH INCLUDES STANDARD OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE, MOWING DITCHES, PATCHING POTHOLES, AND CLEARING STORM LINE STORM LINES. TYPICALLY THIS IS DONE BY IN, IN OUR IN-HOUSE CREW. SO EVERY TIME THAT YOU CALL 3 1 1, THERE IS SOMEONE THAT'S GOING INVESTIGATING AND ADDRESSING IT NO MATTER HOW, UH, SOMETIMES THE ANSWER MAY BE WE, WE, WE CAN'T GET TO IT OR THERE IS, UH, OTHER THINGS THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE FURTHER. THE OTHER IS REHABILITATION. REHABILITATION IS EXTENDS THE LIFE OF THIS INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN JUST A REGULAR REPAIR. SO WE'RE TRYING TO ADD THAT. JUST EQUATE IT LIKE YOUR REGULAR CAR MAINTENANCE. WHEN YOU GO AND CHANGE THE OIL, WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOU'RE EXTENDING THE LIFE OF YOUR CAR. UH, IT'S THE SAME HERE FOR OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. SO WE DO STREET REHABILITATION, THE MAYOR'S STREET REHABILITATION INITIATIVE, INTERSECTION SAFETY, AND SEVERAL LOCAL DRAINAGE PROJECTS THAT ARE TARGETED. AND THEN WE COME TO THE THIRD, THE THIRD R, WHICH IS RECONSTRUCTION. THIS IS WHEN WE CANNOT REPAIR IT, REHABILITATE IT. NOW WE HAVE TO REPLACE IT. TYPICALLY, THESE ARE VERY LARGE SCALE PROJECTS [01:25:01] AND IT TAKES LONGER AND COMPLICATED. IT HAS UTILITIES, REAL ESTATE AND ALL THAT STUFF, AND THEY'RE MORE INVOLVED. UM, SO WE DO HAVE THOSE. BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR STRATEGY IS ALWAYS TO REHABILITATE AND KEEP OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AS MUCH AS WE CAN. SO I'M GONNA GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF HIGHLIGHT TODAY. THERE IS A LIST OF CIP PROJECTS THAT ARE AT THE TABLE THERE BY THE PUBLIC WORKS TABLE. THESE ARE UPCOMING OR WHAT CURRENTLY HAS BEEN FINISHED RECENTLY, AND, UH, WHAT OUR UPCOMING OR IN CONSTRUCTION AND, UH, SOME FUTURE UPCOMING PROJECTS THAT MIGHT BE OF IMPORTANCE. SO GO LOOK AT IT. IT'S NOT THE COMPLETE LIST, BUT IT IS SOME SUMMARIES FOR YOU ALL TO HAVE IT. SO I'M GONNA GO AND HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE PROJECTS. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PROJECT THAT'S HAPPENING IN DISTRICT H. MOST OF IT ACTUALLY, IT'S THE NORTH CANAL. IT'S ONCE IN A LIFETIME PROJECT. IT'S $131 MILLION FEMA HAZARD MITIGATION GRANT. AND THESE IMPROVEMENTS WILL EXTEND AND HELP REDUCE FLOODING IN THE DOWNTOWN AND ALONG WIDE OAK AND BUFFALO BAYOU. UPSTREAM, UM, HIGH FLOW DI DIVERSION CHANNELS WILL BE CONSTRUCTED OVERFLOW, CHANNEL AND BRIDGE AND CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS. IT'S SET TO BEGIN IN THE BEGINNING OF 2023, UH, BEGINNING, BEGINNING OF 2024, UH, END OF 2023. AND WITH THE COMPLETION OF WINTER 2027. UM, TODAY, THERE IS ACTUALLY THE PROJECT TEAM WITH THEIR EASES THERE. SO KEVIN IS RIGHT THERE. SO GO AND SEE HIM. AND HE LIVES AND BREATHES THIS PROJECT. SO, UM, THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, ANOTHER LITTLE YORK AREA IS, UH, IS CLOSE TO BE WRAPPING UP AND CORTLAND MEADOWS AND YORK MEADOW DRAINAGE AND PAVING PROJECT. THIS $10 MILLION IMPROVEMENT WILL PROVIDE NEW STORMWATER DRAINAGE LINES ALONG WITH NECESSARY UTILITY UPGRADES. AND THE CONSTRUCTION IS SENT TO FINISH LATER THIS SPRING. I KNOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS EVERY YEAR ON THE CIP. SO SOUTH LOCKWOOD, UH, LETTER. THIS FALL, ACTUALLY WE'LL START. THE FIRST PORTION OF THIS, UH, WE WERE ALMOST DONE WITH THE, WITH THE DESIGN, BUT, UH, THE METRO NEXT HAPPENED. AND THAT PARTICULAR, UH, UNIVERSITY LINE ACTUALLY GOES RIGHT THROUGH HERE, UH, THIS SEGMENT. SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH METRO AND THEY'VE BEEN LOOKING AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS. SO NOW WE HAVE COME TO A POINT THAT WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT. SO THE, THE SECTION BETWEEN CRIS AND, UH, SUBURBAN STREET, JUST SOUTH OF NAVIGATION, WE WILL START, UH, THE NEW CURB, STORM LINE DRAINAGE, UPGRADES, SIDEWALK DRAINAGE AND LIGHTING. UH, MAJOR TERRAIL WILL BE NEW VISION ZERO SAFETY STANDARD. THE PROJECT IS ESTIMATED TO COMPLETE IN SUMMER OF 2024. SO THAT'S ONE. AND I KNOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT BONITA GARDENS TODAY, THAT LADY GONE. BUT THIS IS ANOTHER AREA WHERE IMPORTANT DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING DONE. AS AS. AND, UH, IT'S A 9.4 MILLION PROJECT. IT IS UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW. AND THE AREA HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS MAP THAT YOU SEE, THIS PROJECT WILL MAXIMIZE DITCH CAPACITY CONVEYANCE AND WIDENING ROADSIDE DITCHES AND MAKING DRIVEWAY CULVERT LARGER WILL BE COMPLETED IN SPRING OF 2023. SIMILAR TYPE OF PROJECT, NORTHSIDE AND NORTHLINE. UH, WE ARE ALSO DOING THE SAME KIND OF WORK HERE. THE STREET'S HIGHLIGHTED IN THE MAP. WE'LL SEE WIDER ROADSIDE DITCHES, LARGER DRIVEWAY CULVERTS. AGAIN, THIS IS ALSO A 10 MILLION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT THAT WILL BE DONE IN WINTER. 2023 HOUSTON HEIGHTS. THIS IS, UH, 14 MILLION HOUSTON, UH, HEIGHTS AND JOHN BRAIER AND MEMORIAL HEIGHTS PAVING DRAINAGE. IT JUST STARTED ACTUALLY, UH, AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR. AND WE'LL PROVIDE NEW STREETS, DRAINAGE, CURB, SIDEWALKS, DRIVEWAYS AND UTILITIES, UH, TO THE AREA HIGHLIGHTED ON THE MAP. WORK WITH WRAP UP IN FALL OF 2023. NOW PART OF WHAT I TALKED ABOUT, OUR STRATEGY FOR REHABILITATION, THIS IS STORM RELATED REHABILITATION PROJECTS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN DISTRICT H. I TOOK A SNAPSHOT OF OUR BUILT HOUSTON FORWARD.ORG. THIS IS WHAT YOU'LL SEE. AND IF YOU SEE THOSE GREEN DOTS, THAT MEANS THERE'S SOME SORT OF STORM DRAIN IMPROVEMENT HAPPENING. UH, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S WINTER STREET WHERE THE CITY'S ACTUALLY EXPERIMENTING WITH THE FIRST PERMEABLE PAVEMENT. UH, THINGS LIKE THAT. SO THESE [01:30:01] PROJECTS WILL ADDRESS DRAINAGE ISSUES ACROSS THE DISTRICT. LOCALIZED NEEDS. YOU CAN FIND MORE THERE WITH THE GREEN DOTS OF COURSE. AND STAFF IS HERE WITH THE TABLE ACTUALLY TO SHOW YOU THE LIST OF ALL THE PROJECTS THAT ARE BEEN DONE THAT ARE IN THE WORKS BEING DESIGNED. UM, AND ONE OF THEM I KNOW THE COUNCIL MEMBER IS VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT IS DENVER HARBOR, RIGHT? THE STUDY IS BEING DONE AS WE SPEAK CURRENTLY. SO IN THAT AREA WITH THE ADDED AREA. UH, SO THE SAME THING HERE ON BUILD DISTANT FORWARD. IF YOU LOOK AT THE YELLOW DOTS WITHIN DISTRICT H, YOU'LL SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING FOR STREET REHABILITATION. THIS IS WHERE WE ARE RESURFACING THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARE ON LOCAL STREETS. THIS IS PART OF THE MAYOR'S, UH, UH, STREET REHABILITATION PROGRAM. WE'RE MAKING MAJOR INVESTMENTS IN THIS. UH, SOME, YOU KNOW, THINGS, STREETS LIKE PARKER ROAD, WALL, WASHINGTON AND OTHERS ARE THERE TOO. HI, I'LL SPEAK FOR OTHERS. NOW. UH, THIS IS HOUSTON PARKS, UH, PROJECT. IT'S, UH, SELENA PARK, DENVER HARBOR PARK. UH, WE RECENTLY RECEIVED A GRANT AWARD FOR $1 MILLION WORTH IMPROVEMENTS FOR SELENA DENVER HARBOR PARK. IMPROVEMENTS WILL INCLUDE UPGRADES TO THE PARKING LOT AND WALKING TRAIL, NEW PLAYGROUND, LIGHTING, FOOT FOOTBALL, FIELD EXPANSION, AND NEW PICNIC TABLES AND BENCHES. DESIGN WILL START THIS YEAR FOLLOWED BY CONSTRUCTION IN LATE 2023. ANOTHER PARK, THIS IS EAST SUNSET HEIGHTS PARK. THIS PROJECT IS IN DESIGN AND WILL BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN 2023. THE FORMER TRANSIT CENTER THERE BY ON NORTH MAINE, UH, WILL BE REDEVELOPED WITH A NEW PLAYGROUND SPRAY, GROUND PATH, PATHWAYS, LANDSCAPING, FENCING, LIGHTING AND SITE FURNISHING. HENDERSON PARK RECENTLY COMPLETED AND CELEBRATED HENDERSON PARK, ONE OF THE MAYORS LOVE OUR PARKS, UH, RECEIVE PARK, UPGRADE AND TREE PLANTING ALONG WITH THE NEW PLAYGROUND WITH A ART FULL BORDER. SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT PARKS AND REC IS DOING. SO FINALLY, I'D LIKE TO CLOSE THIS WITH A KEY WEBSITE THAT STACY IS HERE TODAY. UH, WE HAVE MAJOR DISCUSSIONS ON THIS, ON THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERSHIP TEAM. A KEY WEBSITE TO GET IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PROJECTS IN YOUR AREA IS ENGAGE YOUTH STENT.ORG. YOU CAN SIGN UP TO GET SPECIFIC INFORMATION, HIGH LEVEL WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. UH, WE HAVE NOTE CARDS WITH Q QR CODE, WHICH I HAVE HERE, AND IT'S ON OUR TABLE THERE. SO IF YOU HIT THE Q CARD AND, UH, TAKE YOU TO AN EMAIL AND YOU CAN SEND US, IT SAYS ASK US, UH, AND YOU CAN GET THAT. SO IN INTEREST OF TIME, THIS IS MY HIGHLIGHT AND LET'S GO TO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. YES, MA'AM. PLEASE, PLEASE. MY NAME IS MS. BLACKWELL AND, UH, I'LL SPELL MY NAME THE WAY I WRITTEN ON THE CARD. IT'S MICHELLE, M-A-C-H-E-L-L, MIDDLE NAME ESTELA, E-S-T-H-E-L-L-A. AND LAST NAME BLACKWELL, B-L-A-C-K-W-E-L-L. UM, JUST LETTING YOU KNOW, I JUST, I FELT A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED AND JUST UNFORTUNATE THAT I SAW THE MAYOR. I KNOW HE SAID HE HAD TO GO TO A SECOND MEETING, BUT, UM, BY THE TIME IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO SPEAK AND BY THE TIME THE CIP BY THE TIME THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING BEGAN, IT SEEMED LIKE, UH, PEOPLE HAD GOT A CHANCE TO CLEAR THE ROOM. SO IT WAS VERY UNFORTUNATE. BUT I'M STILL GONNA GO AHEAD WITH MY QUESTION. UM, I KNOW THERE'S, I SEEN A LOT OF PARKS AND DIFFERENT THINGS COMING INTO THE WORKS, BUT, UH, SOMETHING TO ME THAT, THAT HOLDS NEAR TO MY HEART IS I, EVERYWHERE I WALK, I DO A LOT OF WALKING. I LIVE RIGHT HERE IN THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX. IT'S RIGHT HERE AT 29 0 1 FULTON, THE IRVINGTON VILLAGE APARTMENTS. AND FOR ME, I WALK EVERYWHERE AND I LIKE TO HAVE DIFFERENT, UM, UH, FAST FOOD CHOICES. AND I TEND TO NOTICE THAT, UH, THAT BUILDING THAT'S RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE IRVINGTON VILLAGE, IT'S, UM, IT WAS ONCE A CHURCH'S CHICKEN. EVEN THOUGH I KNOW I SEE A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, I SEE ARTWORK AND EVERYTHING, BUT TO ME, IN MY EYES, THE BUILDING IS BORDERED. AND HONESTLY, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THAT CHURCH'S CHICKEN IS AT FRANCHISE GONNA RETURN. IS IT GONNA BE A POPEYE'S? IS IT GONNA BE SOMETHING ON THAT CORNER? I JUST FELT LIKE SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT KEEPS THE FLOW GOING. AND UH, HONESTLY, I WOULD LOVE FOR IT TO BE ANOTHER, UH, FAST FOOD IF SOME [01:35:01] TYPE OF FAST FOOD FRANCHISE OR SOMETHING. BUT JUST TO SEE THE BUILDING IS, TO ME, I SEE IT AS VACANT AND IT'S SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO, UM, IT'S RIGHT THERE. IT IS RIGHT THERE CLOSE TO THE BUTTERFLY PARK, AND IT'S LIKE EVERYTHING IS FLOWING AND IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A SPOT. I FEEL LIKE IT'S NOT BEING UTILIZED. SO I JUST, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE IT'S ANYTHING IN THE WORKS FOR THAT BUILDING TO BE, YOU KNOW, BECOME SOMETHING BESIDES JUST OKAY. AS, AS IT'S LOOKING VACANT. I MEAN, I KNOW I SEE EVERYTHING'S ABOUT THE PARKS, BUT TO ME I FEEL LIKE, UH, THAT LITTLE CORNER OF, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE COMING DOWN FULTON STREET, I FEEL LIKE IT NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING THERE. OKAY. AND, AND IT, FROM WHAT YOU DESCRIBED, IT, IT APPEARS TO BE A PRIVATE PROPERTY. UH, BUT WE WILL PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NUMBER OKAY. AND CONTACT INFORMATION. WE'LL TELL YOU WHO THE OWNERSHIP IS AND ALL THAT STUFF, AND, UH, WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU. BUT THAT IS A GOOD COMMENT. SO IF, IF WE CAN INFLUENCE ANYBODY IN OUR POWER, OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PERSON WHO'S HERE, UH, WE WILL DO IT. I MEAN, THE CITY IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO BRING GOOD THINGS TO NEIGHBORHOODS. THANK YOU. THANKS FOR SHARING WITH US. MM-HMM . I HAVE ONE QUESTION. I'VE BEEN ON THE ENGAGE HOUSTON, I'VE WRITTEN AN EMAIL. I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE. UHHUH , SOMETIMES Y'ALL DON'T RETURN EMAILS. OKAY. WHAT IS THE PATH TO RESOLVE THAT? SOMETIMES THERE ARE SIMPLE QUESTIONS, SOMETIMES IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE MM-HMM . AND I UNDERSTAND THAT SOMETIMES ANSWERING AN EMAIL MAY NOT BE THE BEST WAY, BUT I THINK THERE'S, UH, WHAT I'VE HEARD IS, IS I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH THIS EXPERIENCE. OKAY. SO WHAT IS THE PATH? NO, YOU LET ME KNOW THAT IT IS ACTUALLY, WE HAVE DEDICATED PEOPLE LOOKING AT THIS, SO WE NEED TO KNOW THIS TO GET THE FEEDBACK. SO PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I'LL GIVE YOU MY EMAIL. OKAY. AND WE DO HAVE THREE PEOPLE THAT ARE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT THIS AND RESPONDING TO PEOPLE. OKAY. NOW I UNDERSTAND IT'S NOT DETAILED INFORMATION. THE INTENT WAS EXACTLY THAT. WE'LL GIVE YOU THE HIGH LEVEL INFORMATION AND THEN YOU CAN CONTACT THE PROJECT TEAM SURE. AND THAT, YEAH. AND IF THAT'S BREAKING DOWN, DEFINITELY WE'LL HANDLE IT. OKAY. PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I WILL. THANKS. THANKS AGAIN. MY NAME'S MARK RODRIGUEZ. I DON'T THINK I HAVE TO REPEL MY NAME, BUT ANYWAY. OKAY. I HAVE THREE QUICK CONCERNS. ONE RIGHT THERE ON NAVIGATION, A MILE FROM DOWNTOWN, THERE ARE STREETS WITHOUT SIDEWALKS. AND JUST THINK THAT'S ONE MILE FROM THE CITY OF HOUSTON AND WE DON'T HAVE SIDEWALKS IN THE BACK OF THERE. NUMBER TWO, WE NEED TO DO, Y'ALL NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE COMMUNITY SEWER LINES, BECAUSE WE'RE STILL DEALING WITH IT AS A PROPERTY OWNER, I HAVE SEVERAL PROPERTIES IN SECOND WARD, SEVERAL OF MINE STILL HAVE COMMUNITY SEWER LINES, AND THEY'RE LIKE, OH, WE'RE GONNA FIX 'EM LATER. BUT YOU'RE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR 'EM. AND THEY THROW THE, THEY PUT, THROW THE JACKET BACK AT ME. NUMBER THIRD ONE, WE NEED Y'ALL, WE NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB WITH GETTING MORE POLICE INTO OUR COMMUNITY. AND THAT'S IN EVERY COMMUNITY. SECOND WARD, NORTH SIDE, DENVER HARBOR, DISTRICT HI MEAN DISTRICT I HAS THE SAME PROBLEMS, BUT WE REALLY NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE HELP WITH THAT. AND PLEASE TRY TO FIGURE OUT FUNDING FOR THAT. THANK YOU. OKAY, THAT'S A GOOD POINT. WE DO HAVE THE SUBSTITUTES, UH, SEWER PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE. AND YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. WE CANNOT, WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH FUNDING IN THAT PROGRAM TO REACH WHERE ALL THE NEEDS ARE. SO WE'RE, WE'RE CONSTANTLY REEVALUATING OUR LIST OF PROJECTS AND, UH, MOVING THEM UP AND DOWN. BUT, UH, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AS WELL EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE. AND, UH, SOMEONE WILL GET BACK TO YOU WITH WHERE THEY'RE AT IN THE QUEUE OR, UH, WHAT'S, WHAT'S IN THE PLANS. UH, PARTICULARLY . WE NEED TO COME BACK AND CONNECT THE SEW YES. ON OUR STREET, WE HAVE THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE SUBSTITUTES IT TYPICALLY THE SUBSTITUTE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, THEY ARE IN THE BACK, IN THE, IN THE ALLEYS. RIGHT. SO, WE'LL, WE'LL, WOW. OKAY. WOW. OKAY. OKAY. BUT YOU'RE RIGHT. THE FIRST STEP IS TO PUT THE MAIN WITHIN THE STREET, AND THEN PEOPLE CAN TIE INTO THE MAIN THAT IS THE PROGRAM. SO ROY LIRA, R-O-I-L-I-R. A SIMPLE QUESTION ABOUT CLARIFICATION. SINCE THE FIRST PART OF THIS MEETING WAS ABOUT REDISTRICTING AND THERE'S LIKELY GOING TO, THERE WILL BE REDRAWN DISTRICT MAPS. IS THERE ANY IMPACT NEGATIVE FOR THE COMMUNITY AS FAR AS PRIORITIZATION? [01:40:01] SO THIS LIST THAT YOU'RE PRESENTING RUN SEPARATELY. SO AS A COMMUNITY, WE KNOW THAT THE WORK THAT YOU'VE STARTED WILL CONTINUE REGARDLESS OF ANY REDISTRICTING OUTCOMES FROM THIS EVENING OR THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS. YEAH. THE GREAT NEWS IS, UH, WATER AND TRAFFIC AND, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT WE DEAL WITH KNOW NO JURISDICTION. SO WE, WE LOOK AT THE CITY AS A WHOLE. SO WHEN IN, IN FACT, IF YOU NOTICE SOME OF THESE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE, THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS IN DIFFERENT MULTIPLE DISTRICTS. IT'S NOT JUST H BUT THERE IS C AS WELL. SO YEAH, THAT'S PROBABLY AFTER THE REDISTRICTING, THERE WILL BE SOME JUGGLING OF WHERE THEY BELONG AND ALL THAT STUFF. IT'S REALLY FOR RECORD PURPOSES, BUT IN TERMS OF OUR PLANNING AND HOW WE DO AND PRIORITIZE PROJECTS, YEAH. IT'S DRAINAGE IS DRAINAGE. SO, YES. SO I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU. WE WERE SITTING THERE TALKING ABOUT GETTING EQUAL REPRESENTATION AND EVERYBODY BEING HEARD AND THE CITY HAS PARTNERED WITH LIKE MIKE HOUSTON. YEAH. I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO GET A LOT OF ATTENTION AND A LOT OF STUFF GOING BECAUSE THEY HAVE, THEY'VE PARTNERED, I MEAN THEY'RE ON ALL OF THE, EVERYTHING YOU PULL UP BIKE, HOUSTON IS PLASTERED TO IT. WHY IS A PRIVATE ORGANIZATION PARTNERING AND PLASTERED AND HAVE SUCH A LARGE VOICE WHEN, WELL, UM, THERE AND HOW DO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS DO THAT? HOW DO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS PARTNER WITH THE CITY AND GET OUR NAMES PLASTERED ALL OVER EVERYTHING. OKAY. I, I WOULD TELL YOU YET, THEY, THEY MIGHT BE VOCAL, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE IS A SORT OF A, A METHOD TO HOW WE DEVELOP, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR PROJECTS. OKAY. SOME OF THE THINGS IS THAT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAS TAKEN ON IS THESE CONCEPTS OF VISION ZERO MM-HMM . RIGHT. UH, ALL THESE INITIATIVES LEAD US TO ACTUALLY BE MORE ACCOMMODATING TO MULTIPLE TYPE OF MODES OF TRANSPORTATION. SO THE CITY IS MAKING A CONCERTED EFFORT, AND IT IS TRUE, THEY'RE MAKING A CONCERTED EFFORT TO ACCOMMODATE TRANSIT BIKES, PEDESTRIANS INTO, UH, MOSTLY VERY VEHICLE DOMINATED TYPE OF PLANNING IN THE PAST. SO IT'S NOT REALLY, UH, US SAYING, YOU KNOW, GIVING MORE POWER TO SOME, SOME ENTITIES IT IS REALLY IS CONSIDERING THOSE INPUTS AS THEY COME TO SEE THAT MULTIMODAL TYPE OF APPROACH TO OUR CITY PLANNING. SO THAT BEING SAID, THERE'S A PROJECT THAT'S GOING ON AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY SIDEWALKS. MM-HMM . COULD BE USED. RIGHT. BUT WE'RE NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT LIKE, PUTTING IN SIDEWALKS FOR THE PEDESTRIANS THAT ACTUALLY HAVE TO WALK. WE'RE TOLD THAT THERE'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY OR TO DO THAT. SO SIDEWALKS AREN'T BEING PUT IN. WE CAN'T HAVE A CENTER TURN LANE WHEN Y'ALL ARE DOING A, A DIET, A ROAD DIET BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR A CENTER TURN LANE. EVEN THOUGH THAT WAS THE MAIN THING THAT Y'ALL WERE DOING IN THE BEGINNING. THIS WAS A SAFETY ISSUE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S NOT A SAFETY ISSUE. AND IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE BIKE LANES ON A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE. WE'RE PUTTING BIKE LANES INSTEAD OF PUTTING THEM ON ANOTHER STREET. IT'S JUST, IT'S CRAZY. BUT EVEN BIKE HOUSTON IN SOME OF THEIR COMMENTS HAVE SAID, EVEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS PLAN, EVEN IF YOU THINK IT'S NOT THE BEST PLAN, SHH, BE QUIET. DON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. BECAUSE ONCE THE CITY GETS ANY SORT OF PUSHBACK AND WE CAN SEND YOU THE TWITTER FEED, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY WERE SAYING IT, ONCE THEY GET ANY KIND OF FEEDBACK, IT'S GONNA BE NEGATIVE FOR CYCLISTS AND BIKERS AND WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE AS MUCH SAY ON THEIR WEBSITE. THEY ALSO HAVE LISTED THE PROJECTS THEY HAVE LINKS FOR. LET'S TALK HOUSTON, WHERE THE MOST UPDATED PLANS AND ARE FOR YOU? HIT IT THE LINK AND YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU GET. SORRY, CAN'T DIRECT YOU TO THAT PAGE. AND YET ON THEIR WEBSITE FOR BIKE HOUSTON, IT'S AN OLD PLAN. IT'S A PLAN THAT SHOWS THAT THEY STILL HAVE THE CENTER TURN LANES, WHICH THEY'RE DOING AWAY WITH. IT'S JUST, IF YOU'RE GONNA GET PARTNER WITH SOMEONE, SHOULDN'T THEY AT LEAST BE GETTING OUT THE CORRECT INFORMATION? OKAY. I'LL DEFINITELY, SOMEONE FROM BIKE HOUSTON CAME TO THE PUBLIC SESSION THE OTHER DAY AND SAT THERE AND SAID THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE BLOCK FOR THE 11TH STREET PROJECT THAT DIDN'T HAVE A CENTER TURN LANE. AND YOU KNOW WHY THEY SAID THAT? WHEN YOU GO TO THEIR WEBSITE AND LOOK AT IT, THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S ONE LITTLE TINY BLOCK FROM MISHU TO STUDI THAT DOESN'T HAVE A CENTER TURN LANE. WHEN IN ACTUALITY RIGHT NOW, FROM THE LAST PLAN THAT WE LOOKED AT, IT'S ALL THE WAY FROM YALE [01:45:01] STREET TO SHEPHERD THAT DOESN'T HAVE A CENTER TURN LANE. YEAH. I I WOULD TELL YOU, THERE IS A LOT OF THOUGHT GOING INTO THESE DECISIONS. IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT BY, YOU KNOW, AND I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN TALKING, YOU, YOU TOLD ME THE PERSON THAT YOU, YOU'VE BEEN DEALING WITH WITH PUBLIC WORKS. SO I KNOW HE WORKS VERY HARD TO IT. IT'S WHEN I LOOK OUT MOBILITY ON THE STREET MM-HMM . IT'S REALLY A BALANCE OF HOW TO USE THAT RIGHT AWAY. OKAY. SO I'LL TELL YOU THE, THE HONEST TRUTH IS VEHICULAR PRIORITIES HAVE BEEN DOMINATING IN HOUSTON STREETS FOR A LONG TIME. FOR A LONG TIME. SO NOW WE ARE REALLY LOOKING AT WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE, SOMETIMES IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT CORRECT ANSWER. IT'S, IT'S REALLY BALANCING THOSE, THOSE VIEWS WITHIN THAT LIMITED RIGHT OF WAY. SO YES, THE, WHAT YOU'RE FEELING IS, IS VERY UNDERSTANDABLE. I EMPATHIZE WITH THAT REALLY, THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE MAKING PRIORITY. SO WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE MOST USED FOR THIS CORRIDOR? SO WE TAKE A CORRIDOR SAFETY, THAT'S A MAJOR SAFETY THOROUGHFARE ABILITY THAT'S ALREADY OVER CAPACITY. IF THEY CUT IT DOWN TO TWO LANES FOR PORTIONS OF THE DAY, WE KNOW THAT IT'S ALREADY GONNA BE OVER CAPACITY. MM-HMM . WE KNOW THAT. BUT WE'RE GONNA TAKE AWAY THE DRIVING LANES. WE'RE GONNA TAKE AWAY PEOPLE'S ABILITIES TO MAKE LEFT HAND TURNS. SO THERE'S GONNA BE TRAFFIC JAMS AND WE KNOW THAT. SO WE KNOW THAT WE COULD PUT THESE BIKE LANES ON A DIFFERENT STREET. WE COULD HAVE BIKE OR ONE OR TWO. WE COULD HAVE BIKE BOULEVARDS, WE COULD DO THIS. BUT INSTEAD WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD FOR 0.4% OF THE POPULATION THAT ACTUALLY CYCLE. YOU KNOW, ACCORDING TO LAUREN GROVE, I PROBABLY COULD NOT CONVINCE YOU TODAY AT THIS MEETING, BUT PLEASE WRITE THOSE COMMENTS AND THEY'LL DEFINITELY BE CONSIDERED AS THEY MAKE THOSE DECISIONS. I DON'T THINK THEY ARE. AND I HAVE BEEN WRITING, AND YOU CAN ASK MR. FIELDS, THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE JUST BEING, IN FACT, HE DOESN'T EVEN ANSWER A LOT OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE ASK. WE ASK QUESTIONS. THE COUNCIL MEMBER KOSH HAS ASKED MR. FIELDS MANY TIMES, WOULD YOU THE BARRICADES LOOK THE BAR, THE THINGS THAT ARE GONNA KEEP THE CYCLES, THE BIKES AWAY. BARRIERS. YEAH. RIGHT. I HAD TO SEND COUNCIL MEMBER KOSH FINALLY WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE. YOU WERE ASKED IF BUCHANANS YOU AND HE SAID, ARE THESE THINGS SIX INCHES TALL? ARE THEY THREE FEET TALL? YOU SAID, I DON'T HAVE THE SPECIFICS, I DON'T HAVE THE SPECIFICATIONS. I'LL GET BACK TO YOU. NEVER DID. I'VE GONE AND SPOKEN AT PUBLIC SESSION MULTIPLE TIMES. COUNCIL MEMBER KASH IN PUBLIC SESSION SAYS, I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THESE THINGS LOOK LIKE. WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE? ARE THEY GONNA BE ARMADILLOS? WHAT? I'M LIKE, WELL, I'LL SEND YOU A PICTURE OF 'EM. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GONNA LOOK LIKE. I'LL SEND IT TO YOU. THIS WAS MONTHS LATER. WE STILL DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO CLEAN THE BIKE LANES. EVERY TIME WE ASK MR. FIELDS, HOW ARE WE GONNA CLEAN THESE BIKE LANES? CYCLISTS CAN'T EVEN USE THE BIKE LANES THAT ARE THERE. HOW ARE WE GONNA CLEAN 'EM? WELL, WE HAVE SOMETHING IN THE WORKS. WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING TO IT. THIS HAS BEEN MONTHS, PROBABLY CLOSE TO A YEAR. AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO CLEAN THE BIKE LANES THAT WE HAVE. I MEAN, THIS ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE. OKAY. AND WE CAN'T, SO NO, YOU SAY JUST ASK QUESTIONS, THEN THEY'LL GET ANSWERED. THEY DON'T. THEY DON'T. ALRIGHT. WE, WE'LL TAKE, I PROMISE YOU I'LL TAKE IT TO WHOEVER NEEDS TO SEE THESE QUESTIONS. WHO IS IT, WHO DO I SEND THE QUESTIONS TO? WHO DO I SEND QUESTIONS TO? TELL ME. 'CAUSE I'LL DO IT. I'LL SEND IT TO WHOEVER YOU TELL ME TO. YOU SEND IT TO ME AND THEN WE'LL RESPOND. GREAT. WHERE DO, DO I GET YOUR NAME AND YOUR INFORMATION? OKAY. WHERE DO I GET IT? I'LL GIVE YOU MY CARD. OKAY. CAN I GET YOUR NAME AGAIN? MICHAEL LORETI. MICHAEL LORETTA. RETI. RETI. OKAY. NORTO MORENO. N-O-R-B-E-R-T-O-M-O-R-E-N-L. UM, SO, UH, I WAS GONNA ASK WHAT CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS ARE ONGOING. I DID, I DID GET THIS PIECE OF PAPER HERE. UH, YOU DID MENTION A WEBSITE THAT I CAN LOOK AT. YEP. LIKE IF THAT'S CORRECT. YEP. SO I'LL GET MY INFORMATION THERE. THAT WAS ONE OF MY QUESTIONS. UM, YOU DID SAY WE RECEIVED HALF OF THE ARPA DOLLARS, SO I'M JUST, I'M JUST LIKE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF WE RECEIVED HALF OF THE ARPA DOLLARS. ARE THOSE ARPA DOLLARS GOING TOWARDS PROJECTS THAT ARE EXISTING? OR IS MONEY BEING ALLOCATED FOR NEW CIP? ACTUALLY, IF YOU GO TO THE WEBSITE, IT DOES HAVE A DETAILED LIST RIGHT NOW OF WHERE IT HAS GONE. AND NOW THEY'RE WORKING ON THE SECOND FOR SURVEY TO ASK. UM, SO I, I ALSO SAW ON THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT WEBSITE THAT THEY, IT DOES SHOW PREVIOUS THINGS THAT WERE PASSED AND IT HAS LIKE DOLLAR AMOUNTS AND WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD IT WAS IN. AND I GUESS I'M JUST TRYING TO, I'M, I I'M, MY QUESTION IS, IS ALL THAT, IS ALL THAT INFORMATION COMPILED TO WHERE WE CAN SEE IT? UM, WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE [01:50:01] OUT IS, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW MANY CIP DOLLARS PER DENSITY OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD OR, OR HOW MUCH IMPROVEMENT OR HOW, HOW IS IT THAT I KNOW IF CIP DOLLARS ARE BEING EVENLY DISTRIBUTED OR HOW, HOW WOULD I HOLD THE, THE, THE, THE, THIS DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTABLE TO BRING IMPROVEMENTS TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD? SO BECAUSE WE DON'T MONITOR LIKE THAT, THERE'S 10,000 HEAVY TRUCKS THAT RUN DOWN JENSEN EVERY DAY. OR, OR LIKE, BECAUSE THE STREET'S ALL BUSTED UP BECAUSE THEY DID NEW STOP SIGNS AND ON, I MEAN, NEW, UM, PADS FOR YOU TO GET OFF THE BUS AT. YEAH. AND, AND THERE'S A PAD WHERE YOU GET OFF THE BUS AND THEN THE IT, IT LIKE SECTIONS OFF AND MAKES YOU GO LEFT. YOU CAN'T TURN RIGHT. LIKE YOU CAN'T, IF YOU'RE IN A WHEELCHAIR, YOU CAN'T, YOU'D HAVE TO LEAVE THAT PAD, GET ON THE STREET AND RIDE IN GRAVEL TO GET TO MORE GRAVEL. 'CAUSE THERE ISN'T A SIDEWALK DOWN JENSEN BECAUSE IT IS TRAFFIC HEAVY, WHICH MAKES SENSE. LIKE THERE WERE 'CAUSE OF WHAT IT WAS BEFORE. UM, I JUST, I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT I, I CAN, ME AND MY COMMUNITY AND OTHER COMMUNITIES ARE WILLING TO WORK TOGETHER ON, ON, ON ADVOCATING FOR THESE CIP DOLLARS AND, AND THAT I CREATE PROJECTS THAT HAVE A LIKELIHOOD OF BEING APPROVED. SO I JUST WANT TO LIKE, I I, I REALLY, REALLY WOULD LIKE SOME GUIDELINES THAT SAY, MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE THIS, MAKE SURE YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED. MAKE LIKE A CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK. SO THAT, SO THAT I CAN BRING GOOD TO MY COMMUNITY. SO, SO THE THE WEBSITE HELPS. IT HAS ALL THAT INFORMATION. BUT SINCE IT'S ME HAVING TO LOOK AT THIS SPREADSHEET AND SAY, OKAY, THAT'S MANY PEOPLE. LOOK HERE AND LOOK AT THE ZIP CODE AND THIS IS HOW MANY DOLLARS THEY GOT. THEY GOT SIX PARKS AND EIGHT PROGRAMS. AND WHAT, WHAT EXACTLY IS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT? IF I SUBMIT A PROJECT TO YOUR DEPARTMENT THAT WILL HELP ME GATHER COMMUNITY INFORMATION FOR FUTURE PROJECTS, WOULD THAT BE CONSIDERED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT? BECAUSE THEN I'M ENGAGING MY PEOPLE LIKE TO, TO LIKE TECHNOLOGICALLY. SO THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND. LIKE YEAH. WHAT'S THE BEST WAY FOR ME THAT'S, I DON'T WANT TO BRING 5,000 PEOPLE HERE TO A MEETING SO THAT YOU CAN HEAR THEM ALL. IF, IF AS A SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD I CAN GATHER PEOPLE'S INFORMATION AND AND, AND BRING IT TO YOU IN A STRUCTURED SO THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT. SO THAT, SO THAT I CAN GET SOMETHING DONE. YEAH. I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO SEE. I WANNA SEE SOMETHING DONE LIKE PREVIOUS LEADERS, I'M SORRY, I'M STILL GOING 'CAUSE IT'S MY SOAPBOX. I LOVE IT HERE, BUT PREVIOUS LEADERS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, PREVIOUS PEOPLE PASSED, I, I I LEASE A COMMERCIAL SPACE THAT MAN'S BEEN LIVING IN THAT COMMUNITY FOR 50 YEARS AND NOTHING'S CHANGED. YEAH. HE SAID HE WAS 12 YEARS OLD LIVING DOWN THE STREET. IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME. THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S EXACTLY THE SAME. IF, IF ANYTHING, IT'S MORE RUN DOWN, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE TIME DOES THAT TO THINGS. SO IT, IN HIS ENTIRE LIFETIME, HE HASN'T SEEN CHANGE FROM MY NEIGHBORHOOD. AND, AND IN MY OPINION, IT'S, IT'S LACK OF ACCESS TO THE CORRECT INFORMATION AND HOW TO PRESENT IT TO YOU SO THAT YOU CAN SAY YES. SO IF YOU CAN HELP ME GATHER THAT INFORMATION SO THAT I CAN PRESENT IT TO YOU SO THAT I CAN TELL MY COMMUNITY, YES, WE DID IT HOW, LIKE, SO PLEASE HELP ME DO THAT TO HELP IN WHICHEVER WAY, WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE. I, I GUESS THE BEST THING TO, YOU KNOW, THE, WE DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE THE, THE STREET AND DRAINAGE REALLY THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE INTERESTED, RIGHT? WE DO HAVE WATER AND WASTEWATER. UM, WE DO IF THAT'S, BUT SEE THAT'S, I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING. LIKE YOUR DEPARTMENT IS PUBLIC WORKS. YEAH. BUT THIS MEETING IS CIP IT IS. SO IS PUBLIC WORKS CIP OR IS CIP THIS ALL ENCOMPASSING THING. THE, THE CIP BOOK THAT YOU SEE IN THE WEBSITE THAT COUNCIL APPROVES, IT ACTUALLY INCLUDES PUBLIC WORKS, AIRPORT PARKS, GENERAL SERVICES, AND ALL THE TARS AND, AND ENTITIES OTHER THAN THE, THE ACTUAL CITY OF HOUSTON, UH, IS ALL COMBINED INTO ONE. SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE ENTIRE BUDGET FOR THE CIP, WHICH IS A FIVE YEAR PLAN. OKAY. I THINK WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS HOW DO WE DETERMINE THOSE PROJECTS INTO THE CIP FOR THE PORTION OF THE STREET AND DRAINAGE? UM, NO, I'M ASKING FOR IT IN GENERAL. OKAY. NOT ABOUT DRAINAGE. I'M ASKING IN GENERAL SINCE I THOUGHT THIS WAS A CIP MEETING ABOUT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS IN GENERAL. SO BECAUSE, BECAUSE I AM WORRIED ABOUT PEDESTRIANS, I AM WORRIED ABOUT MM-HMM . WHAT BUSINESSES DO OPEN IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND, AND WILL IS THERE A CIP DOLLAR FOR BUYING THE EMPTY LOT? IS IS, ARE THERE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO IMPROVE MY NEIGHBORHOOD? IF, IF I CAN PRESENT IT IN A FASHION THAT WILL MOVE SOMEONE TO ACQUIRE THIS PROPERTY TO BUILD ON THIS PROPERTY? UH, THERE'S A, THERE'S A COMMUNITY CENTER ON HERE. THERE'S TWO OF 'EM. YEP. I I WANT ONE OF THOSE. SO IT, LIKE IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS, HOW DO, WHERE DO I GET IN LINE TO GET A COMMUNITY CENTER IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD? I GUESS THAT'S MY QUESTION IN A [01:55:01] NUTSHELL. BEFORE, BEFORE HE ANSWERS, UM, MY NAME IS MISTY FROM THE CITY OF HOUSTON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. WE ARE RUNNING UP AGAINST THE EIGHT O'CLOCK TIME AND WE WANT TO HEAR FROM EVERYONE. IF YOU CAN LIMIT YOUR, UM, YOUR COMMENTS TO THREE MINUTES, THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA TALK AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA GO BACK TO THEIR FAMILIES AND HAVE DINNER. SO ABSOLUTELY, PLEASE LIMIT YOUR TIME TO THREE MINUTES. OKAY. SO HOWEVER YOU ANSWER THAT, I'M GONNA SIT DOWN OKAY. AND I'LL, I'LL BE MORE THAN HELP TO HELP YOU WHERE TO FIND THE FINANCIAL THINGS IN THE CIP WHERE ALL THOSE ARE ALLOCATED FOR THE FIVE YEAR PLAN. IT IS ON THE WEBSITE WHERE IT HAS THE ENTIRE BOOK. IT'S ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 500 SOME PAGES OF BUDGET LINE ITEMS AND SOME OF THEM ARE ACTUALLY BROKEN DOWN BY PROJECT, UH, WHAT'S FOR DESIGN FOR CONSTRUCTION AND WHAT YEAR THAT IT IS BEING PROGRAMMED. SO, SO I WILL, I'LL LEAD YOU TO THAT. SO IN FACT, IF YOU GO TO VALERIE OVER THERE, SHE PROBABLY CAN TELL YOU WHERE THE CIP WEBSITE IS. OKAY? MM-HMM . YEAH. HI. UM, I WAS LOOKING AT THE SLIDESHOW AND UM, I NOTICED, UM, A LOT OF AREAS GETTING CIP IMPROVEMENTS AND, UM, I SAW THAT A NEIGHBORING COMMUNITY OF OURS WAS LIT UP. YOU KNOW, I AM IN SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 46 AND I AM A NEIGHBOR OF NEAR NORTHSIDE AND NORTHLINE AND THEY HAVE TONS OF CIP UM, AND IN, UH, EAST TEX JENSEN, WE HAD ONE STREET AND WE HAD TWO SEWER SITUATIONS. UM, AND I'VE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR A PARK FOR OVER TWO YEARS NOW AND HAVE HAD NO RESPONSE FROM ANYBODY. UM, AND I ACTUALLY USED TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE OTHER SIDE, SO BEFORE I WAS EVEN ON THE EAST EX JENSEN SIDE BECAUSE I HAD NO IDEA THERE WAS A SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ON THAT SIDE. UM, BUT WHAT INFLUENCES, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR NEIGHBORING COMMUNITY WHO IS ALSO IN OUR SAME DISTRICT TO GET ALL THESE AMENITIES AND WE HAVE NO ROADS, WE HAVE NO RESTAURANTS, WE HAVE NO PARKS. UM, WE HAVE, UH, WE'RE A FOOD DESERT AND WE ARE A PRIMARILY A BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITY. SO WHAT, WHAT, WHAT INFLUENCES THE, UM, CIP, YOU KNOW, FOR NEAR, NEAR NORTH SIDE AND NORTHLINE COMPARED TO EAST TEXAS? JENSEN, WHICH IS JUST, UM, ON THE OTHER SIDE. HARDY. YEAH. THE, THE, THE ONE YOU SAW ON BON BONITA GARDEN AND NORTH. NO, NO, NO. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT BONITA GARDEN. I'M TALKING ABOUT AND NORTH LINE. NEAR NORTH SIDE AND NORTHLINE. CORRECT. THOSE TWO PROJECTS. YEAH. WERE ACTUALLY, UH, IDENTIFIED FOR A LONG TIME AS NEEDING, YOU KNOW, DITCH MAINTENANCE AND ALL THAT STUFF. YEAH. IT WAS PART OF THAT. SO THE DR 17, WHEN, WHEN, UH, THE HUD MONEY WAS AVAILABLE, WE KIND OF LUMPED THEM ALL AS MUCH AS WE CAN INTO THAT FUNDING. AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THAT SIZE OF LARGE OF REHABILITATION TYPE. YEAH. BUT NOW WE'RE WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, ON SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 46, WE ARE HAVING A REALLY HARD TIME GETTING ANYTHING DONE. OKAY. YEAH. WHEN I WAS VOLUNTEERING WITH THE OTHER SIDE, YOU KNOW, SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 51. UM, WHAT, WHAT I WOULD TELL YOU IS REALLY, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE OUR PEOPLE HERE WITH THE PLEASE LET THEM KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED. AND THAT IS ALL CONSIDERED INTO THE PRIORITIZATION, YOU KNOW, SO SHOULD I DO A PETITION REHABILITATION? NO, WE, WE REALLY, IN ALL THE, WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GET MY PART DONE, . THAT'S THE BEST WAY. THE PETITION? NO, IT'S, IT'S REALLY TO, TO LET US KNOW WHERE THE NEEDS ARE AND THEN BY EMAIL. YEAH, BY EMAIL. 3 1 1 IS ANOTHER WAY. I'VE ALREADY SENT YOU EMAIL RIGHT HERE WE HAVE AND CALLED, UH, THAT QR CODE. OKAY. WHERE YOU CAN, AND THIS IS WHERE IT GOES INTO THE, THE PROCESS OF CONSIDERATION FOR THE NEXT BATCH OF PROJECTS AS WE, AS WE DO IT WITH FUNDS AVAILABLE TO US. REALLY? YEAH. WELL THERE IS A LIMITATION THAT I HOPE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS NEAR NORTHSIDE AND NORTHLINE. WE'RE LIT UP ABOUT 15 PROJECTS. WE HAVE THREE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU THOUGH. THANK YOU. HI, I JUST WANNA SAY, UM, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. MY NAME IS RICKY CARDENAS, I'M A SECRETARY FOR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 63. I'M A GRADUATE OF THE COMPLETE COMMUNITIES UNIVERSITY. UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR, UM, ALL THE EFFORTS THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING TO, UM, KIND OF HELP WITH BIKE LANES AND BIKE TRAFFIC, CALMING VEHICLE TRAFFIC. UM, A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF VEHICLE TRIPS [02:00:01] ARE LESS THAN THREE MILES. SO I APPRECIATE ANYTHING TO KIND OF CALM TRAFFIC SO PEOPLE CAN WALK AND, YOU KNOW, TRAVEL THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS, OTHER METHODS BESIDES VEHICLES. UM, I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT ALSO THERE'S STILL KIND OF, YOU KNOW, IN OUR DISTRICT, UM, AREAS WHERE PEOPLE ARE SPEEDING A LOT, UM, ESPECIALLY ON NAVIGATION WHERE THE ESPLANADE IS, IT'S REALLY NOT NICE ESPLANADE ON NAVIGATION AND THERE'S TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC ON EITHER SIDE, BUT CARS ARE STILL, YOU KNOW, SPEED THROUGH AND IT JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR EVENTS THERE ON THE WEEKEND AND IT'S ONLY TAKES ONE TIME FOR A CAR TO, YOU KNOW, NOT BE PAYING ATTENTION, MAYBE GO ONTO THE ESPLANADE. SO I KNOW THAT A LOT OF HEAVY TRUCKS PASS THROUGH THERE, BUT YOU KNOW, ANY, ANY MORE TRAFFIC CALLING MEASURES IN THAT AREA ARE APPRECIATED, WHETHER IT BE SPEED BUMPS OR WHATEVER. BUT AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, MR. DAVID FIELDS, AND WE APPRECIATE ALL THE EFFORTS TO HELP CALM TRAFFIC, IMPROVE BIKE LANES INSTEAD OF JUST HAVING A WHITE PAINT. MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE PROTECTION THERE. OKAY, THANK YOU. PLEASE PUT ALL THOSE COMMENTS IN THE QR IF HE CAN. SO, HI ESI AGAIN, PRESIDENT OF SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 46 AND RETA AND SUZI HAVE EXPRESSED SOME OF OUR CONCERNS AND COUNCIL MEMBER CIRO HAS HEARD THIS IN OUR MEETINGS AS WELL. BUT I THINK ONE OF THE BIGGEST THINGS THAT WE HAVE PARKS, ALL OF THOSE THINGS IS JUST BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE UP AND DOWN JENSEN, WE CONTINUE TO HEAR IT'S TOO MUCH MONEY. IT'S TOO MUCH MONEY. AND AT SOME POINT WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR THE ENTIRE ROAD TO BE REDONE. BUT EVEN IF A SECTION RIGHT, I I DRIVE DOWN SHEPHERD FROM SHEPHERD 59 TO WESTHEIMER, THAT IS COMPLETELY BEING REDONE, RIGHT? SO WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR IS GIVE US SOMETHING, RIGHT? JENSEN HAS CON CONTINUOUSLY BEEN UNDERREPRESENTED. WE CONTINUE TO GET TOLD THE SAME THING. THERE'S NO MONEY, NOT ENOUGH MONEY WE GOT, BUT FOR HOW MANY YEARS? I'VE LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR 30 YEARS AND TO ROBERTO'S POINT, THIS COMMUNITY HAS NOT IMPROVED. IT'S ACTUALLY DETERIORATED. AND YES, WE HAVE CERTAIN PARTS, RIGHT? BARRY GOT REDONE, PARK HAS BEEN REDONE, BUT THE MAIN THOROUGHFARE, WHICH IS JENSEN METRO RIDES ON JENSEN, WHICH CONNECTS OUR COMMUNITY INTO THE INTO TOWN LINK HOUSTON STUDY THAT WAS JUST DONE, SHOWED THAT A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF THE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE USING METRO TO GET TO WORK. SO HOW CAN WE IMPROVE OUR COMMUNITY'S ECONOMIC STANCE, UM, BUSINESSES IF THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOT THERE. SO AS WE CONTINUE TO GROW THE CITY, WE AS A COMMUNITY SEE EVERYTHING AROUND US BEING LIFTED AND WE GET LITER. IT SEEMS LIKE WE GET THE CRUMBS JUST ENOUGH SO WE DON'T SAY ANYTHING. AND THAT'S NOT OKAY BECAUSE AGAIN, WE'VE LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY FOR YEARS AND SO WE NEED SOMETHING, EVEN IF IT'S, EVEN IF YOU TELL ME IT'S JUST FROM BERRY TO THIS STREET, EVEN IF YOU TELL ME IT'S FROM PARKER TO TIDWELL, BUT AT SOME POINT JENSEN NEEDS TO GET REDONE. THE DRAINAGE. TO YOUR POINT, COUNCIL MEMBER, YOU'VE SAID DRAINAGE HAS TO GET DONE. SO WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO TO AT LEAST START THE PROCESS? WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT EXPECTING IT TO GET FIXED TOMORROW, BUT WE NEED TO BE ON THAT LIST AND, AND THE EXCUSES OF NOT ENOUGH MONEY ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. NO, I HEAR YOU. UH, PART OF THE, OKAY, GO AHEAD. YOU, YOU WERE SO RIGHT. I WOULD TELL YOU THAT, AND YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY, THAT EAST TEXAS JENSEN IS THE NEEDIEST PART OF THE WHOLE DISTRICT. IT IS. AND AND IT'S TIED AND IT IS TIED TO MONEY. I HAVE, I'VE ADVOCATED FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON JENSEN AND THEY'VE SAID THERE, THERE'S SO MUCH WORK THAT YOU KNOW THAT IT'S VERY EXPENSIVE, BUT THERE'S HOPE BECAUSE THERE'S AN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL RIGHT NOW AND, AND PUBLIC WORKS. VERONICA DAVIS, WHO'S YOUR BOSS IS TO WHO'S WHO'S SAID, UM, SHE'S ALREADY IN CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FEDERAL PEOPLE THAT SHE KNOWS ADVOCATING THAT THAT WOULD BE ONE OF THE AREAS BECAUSE BECAUSE THAT'S, IT'S GONNA TAKE FEDERAL MONEY. SO, SO IT'S NOT FORGOTTEN. IT ISN'T KEEP KEEP BEING A STRONG ADVOCATE. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR OTHERS TO HEAR THE, THE, UH, THE NEEDS. BUT, BUT PUBLIC WORKS. THEY'RE, THEY'RE AWARE. I'M AWARE. BUT, BUT I MEAN, AND, AND WE'VE GOT PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO GET HOLD OF FEDERAL DOLLARS. THANK YOU. OKAY, THANK YOU COUNCILMAN? UH, MY NAME IS MARTA TREVINO, M-A-R-T-H-A, TREVINO, T-R-V-I-N-O. AND I'M PART EAST JACKSON, JENSEN, ABBY, THERE SINCE 9, 19 75. I MEAN, YEAH, 1975. AND NOTHING, EVERYTHING LOOKS THE SAME, EVEN WORSE BECAUSE WHEN I GOT THERE 40 SOMETHING YEARS AGO, IT WAS A FINGERS, IT WAS TWO GROCERY STORES IN JANSEN. IT WAS A LOT OF, UH, GOOD FOOD AROUND IT. BUT NOW WE HAVE NOTHING. WE HAVE TO CROSS THIS SIDE OF THE ROAD TO GET OUR FOOD. EVEN PARKS. WE HAVE NO PARKS. ALI, UH, CLOSE TO BERRY ELEMENTARY, AND WE HAVE A PARK, BUT THE PARK IS, IS NOTHING BEFORE THEY HAVE, UH, UH, UH, UH, BASEBALL, UH, FIELD AND EVERYTHING. NOW WE HAVE NOTHING. I MEAN, THE STREET BERRY ROAD WAS FIXED LAST YEAR, BUT I WAS PART OF THAT PROJECT BECAUSE, UH, WE, WE WORK IN THIS SIDE OF, UH, UH, NORTHLINE. OKAY? [02:05:01] SO WHEN, I MEAN I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 40 SOMETHING YEARS AND NOTHING'S BEEN DONE AND IT'S WORSE THAN SINCE I START LIVING IN, IN NOR, UM, IN, IN THAT AREA. SO HOW LONG WE HAVE TO WAIT, HOW MANY YEARS WE HAVE TO WAIT TO GET SOMETHING DONE IN THAT AREA. I JUST SAW TWO PRO, TWO BIG PROJECTS. ONE PARK OR $2 MILLION AND ANOTHER ONE OR $1 MILLION. SO WHERE, HOW MUCH TIME THAT WE GONNA NEED TO GET SOMETHING DONE AND EAST, EAST ST. JENSEN. OKAY. I MEAN, I MEAN WE WAITING FOR SO LONG I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN THERE LIVING THERE FOR 40 SOMETHING YEARS. MY KIDS, THEY ALL GROW. THEY HAVE KIDS, THEY LEAVE. I MEAN, THEY LEFT THE, THE, THE, OUR, OUR, OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THE SAME MOM, IT'S TOO DANGEROUS, MOM. IT'S THESE MOM IS THAT, I MEAN, I LOVE MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND I, I WISH ONE DAY BEFORE I DIE, I CAN SEE SOMETHING BE DONE IN EAST, EAST JACKSON. ALRIGHT, I HEAR YOU. AND AS, AS THE COUNCIL MEMBER SAID, IT'S REALLY, IT'S OUR RADAR. WE, WE BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THESE KIND OF PROJECTS, THIS LENGTH TAKES A LONG TIME TO DEVELOP AND TYPICALLY REQUIRES SOME SORT OF OTHER FUNDING. SO THAT'S THE START RIGHT HERE, WHAT THE COUNCIL MEMBER IS DOING. THANK YOU. BUT ONE THING I'M SEEING IS LIKE HIGH HEIGHTS RIGHT HERE. THIS, THE AREA HEIGHTS, AREA NORTHLINE, EVERYTHING I SEEING, LIKE IT WAS THE SAME LIKE MY SIDE AND NOW IT'S, UH, BEAUTIFUL. IT'S A LOT OF BEAUTIFICATION. SO, OKAY. SO I MEAN, I HOPE I STILL HAVE HOPE THAT WE GONNA GET SOMETHING DONE. YES, MA'AM. LIKE, IN MAYBE TWO, THREE YEARS I CAN SAY, I DON'T KNOW. I WISH THOSE SIZE OF PROJECTS TAKES A LONGER TIME. TYPICALLY. YEAH. I SEE. OKAY. BUT THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I HEAR YOU. AND THE LADY THAT WAS TALKING ABOUT ALDI AND WESTFIELD IS, IS THIS, SHE STILL HERE? SHE LEFT. DANG. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. NO, THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR COMING AND LETTING US KNOW WE'RE TAKING NOTES AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. HAVE A NICE EVENING. OH, OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER. I'M SORRY. THANK YOU MICHAEL. THAT WAS, YOU DID A GOOD JOB. UM, AS WE LEAVE, I WANNA JUST SAY THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE FOR COMING. AND I WANTED TO JUST GO BACK TO SOMETHING ELSE THAT WAS SAID ABOUT AN ARPA SURVEY. UM, PLEASE GO AND, AND, AND, AND WEIGH IN ON WHAT YOU THINK THAT, THAT THE, THAT ARPA DOLLARS THAT ARE STILL TO COME, HOW THEY SHOULD BE ALLOCATED. UM, THE CITY HAS, THIS, HAS HAD THE SURVEY UP SINCE THE END OF LAST YEAR. AND THEY'RE COLLECTING INFORMATION. IT IS NOT LIMITED TO WHAT IS LISTED ON THERE. I THINK THEY IDENTIFY ABOUT FIVE DIFFERENT AREAS, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SAFETY OR SOLID WASTE OR, UM, I MEAN, FOR INSTANCE, IT'S, IT'S NOT EVEN JUST, UM, INFRASTRUCTURE THINGS, BUT, BUT IF CHILDCARE IS AN ISSUE FOR YOU, THERE'S A PLACE TO PUT SOMETHING ABOUT THAT TOO. THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE THE CITY IS CONSIDERING. IS THAT IMPORTANT? LET LET THEM KNOW. UM, BUT IF YOU, I, I'VE GOTTEN CALLS AT MY OFFICE ABOUT, UM, FUNDING FOR, FOR THE ARTS AND THAT'S NOT ON THE LIST. IF THAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU, LET THEM KNOW. OKAY. 'CAUSE THEY SAID THAT THE INFORMATION THEY COLLECT WILL GUIDE THOSE DECISIONS. SO THANK YOU FOR HANGING WITH US TONIGHT AND, AND, UM, AND YOUR COMMITMENT TO MAKING OUR CITY A BETTER PLACE. YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE EACH ONE OF YOU. UM, THANK YOU. HAVE A GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.