[ Super Neighborhood Alliance Meeting]
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I AM THE CHAIR OF THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE.I WANT TO, UH, WELCOME ALL OF YOU FOR, UH, JOINING US TONIGHT.
UH, WE HAVE, UM, A BUSY EVENING PLANNED, AND, UH, SO WE WILL GO AHEAD AND, AND, UH, GET THE, UM, GET THE MEETING STARTED.
UM, JUST TO KIND OF TELL YOU WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN, WE'RE GONNA DO ROLL CALL, FIRST OF ALL, THE MEMBERS OF THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS.
THEN WE WILL, UM, GO THROUGH AND, UM, INVITE ANY, UH, ELECTED OFFICIALS TO MAKE BRIEF COMMENTS.
THEN AFTER THAT, UH, ANY REPRESENTATIVES, DEPARTMENTS MAKE BRIEF COMMENTS.
I DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW IF WE'VE GOT ANY ELECT UH, CANDIDATES, BUT IF WE DO HAVE ANY CANDIDATES, IF YOU COULD WAIT TO THE END OF THE MEETING, AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY IF WE HAVE TIME TO JUST INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND SEE THE OFFICE YOU'RE RUNNING FOR.
SO, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO DURING THE ROLL CALL, AND THEN WE'LL GET INTO THE BUSINESS OF THE MEETING.
SO, UM, WELCOME TO THE MEETING.
UH, WE'RE NOW UP TO 48 PEOPLE IN THE MEETING, AND I WILL ASK, UH, MIKE VAN DUSEN TO, UH, LEAD US THROUGH THE ROLL CALL OF THE DIFFERENT SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS, MIKE? UH, YES.
UM, I'LL ANNOUNCE THE, OR ASK FOR YOUR, UH, TO SEE IF YOU SENDING, UH, SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ORDER, UH, AND, UH, WILL HAPPEN IF YOU'VE ATTENDED ANY OF THE LAST THREE MONTHS MEETINGS.
IF YOU HAVEN'T, YOUR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD WILL NOT BE CALLED, BUT IF YOU'RE PRESENT, YOU CAN, UM, YOU KNOW, SPEAK UP AT THE END OF THE ROLL CALL.
SO I'LL BEGIN WITH, UH, GREATER INWOOD.
NUMBER FIVE, PHILIP SALERNO, PRESIDENT.
UH, CENTRAL NORTHWEST, NUMBER 12.
UH, GROVE NUMBER 14, HUNTS NUMBER 15, MARK WILLIAMSON, PRESIDENT HERE.
GREG, SIR, PRESENT ALSO, BEFORE WE DO THE SEVEN MINUTES, I NEED TO RAISE A POINT.
I THAT UNTIL THE END OF THE ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
THAT'S WHY I SAID THIS IS JEFF BAKER.
UH, WASHINGTON AVENUE COALITION, MEMORIAL PARK.
STACY, I'M HERE, UH, NEAR TOWN, MONTROSE NUMBER 24.
HEY, WARHOL, VICE PRESIDENT HERE, ALE.
NUMBER 25, DOUG SMITH AND BARBARA QUATRO, ENGULFING.
NUMBER 27, UNIVERSITY PLACE, NUMBER 28, RAYBURN.
GINA VESTER, PRESIDENT, PRESENT.
UM, TON NUMBER 27, UNIVERSITY PLACE.
UH, LET'S SEE, BRAVE 32, UH, BRAESWOOD 32.
CINDY CHAPMAN, NEAR SOUTHWEST 38.
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WELCOME.BILLY GERMAN WILSON, PRESIDENT PRESENT.
VICKY MARTIN, VICE PRESIDENT PRESENT.
VICKI MARTIN, VICE PRESIDENT PRESENT.
THANK NORTHSIDE VILLAGE, 51 CASHMERE GARDEN, 52.
THE THIRD WARD, NUMBER 67, MAGNOLIA PARK, NUMBER 82.
TOMORROW, SPRING BRANCH, NORTH 84.
BARN, HARRIS, SPRING BRANCH, 86.
AND FINALLY, UH, LAWNDALE WAYSIDE.
HEY, MIKE, TWO, MIKE, I'M SORRY.
UM, NUMBER 13, TANYA DEBO DID, DID CALL IN, UM, FOR INDEPENDENCE HEIGHTS, NUMBER 13.
AND I DID KNOW IF YOU HEARD STACY SAY SHE WAS HERE BECAUSE SHE WAS MUTED.
AND THEN TANYA DEBO ON NUMBER 13 FOR INDEPENDENCE HEIGHTS, DID, UM, DID SAY THAT SHE WAS HERE AS WELL.
SO IS THERE ANYONE WHOSE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS NOT CALLED? IF YOU'RE HERE, PLEASE, UH, SPEAK UP AND GIVE US YOUR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD NUMBER.
YOU SKIP 55 GREATER FIFTH WARD.
THIS IS THE PRESIDENT JOTA STEVENSON.
UH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CALLED 41 OR NOT.
HAD A LITTLE DIFFICULTY GETTING ON.
AND WHAT'S YOUR NAME, PLEASE? MARY LOU VALLOW.
NEXT, MIKE, THIS IS GEORGE FRY.
GEORGE FRY FROM SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD 14.
AND THEN PASTOR DEB HAS HER HAND UP.
ANYONE ELSE? OKAY, CINDY, I THINK THAT'S, UH, ABOUT IT.
I WANNA, AGAIN, THANK ALL OF YOU FOR JOINING US.
I KNOW SOME OF YOU CAME IN A LITTLE LATE LATER AFTER WE HAD STARTED.
SO, UH, I WANNA MENTION ALSO AS PART OF ROLL CALL, WE WILL, UM, INVITE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO SPEAK, AND THEN ANY DESIGNEES, UH, CAN SPEAK.
UM, SO I THINK I SEE, UH, COUNCILWOMAN AND SALLY ALCORN ON.
AND, AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST ABOUT CONSERVATION DISTRICTS, SO THAT'S WHY I'M HERE.
I WANNA HEAR WHAT ALL OF YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT.
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US.UH, I SEE WE ALSO HAVE SOME REPRESENTATIVES FROM SEVERAL OTHER COUNCIL OFFICES.
I SEE COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER IS ON.
OH, UH, WHO ELSE WAS ON COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER? OH, I DIDN'T SEE.
COUNCIL MEMBER PLUMMER, PLEASE JOIN US.
UH, I'M JUST HERE TO SUPPORT AND LISTEN AS WELL, AND IT'S GREAT TO SEE EVERYBODY.
ON MY SCREEN, I SEE SALLY ALCORN BECAUSE SHE'S A, BUT, BUT I ONLY SEE THROUGH THE LETTER C ON MY SCREEN.
IT'S GREAT TO SEE EVERYBODY, OFFICIALS HERE.
OKAY, SO I'M, SEE WE ALSO HAVE, I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF, I'M, I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF SENATOR WHITMEYER.
SO THAT WAS RASHAD CAVE, IS THAT RIGHT? YES, MA'AM.
AND I SEE WE HAVE DE CHAVIS HERE.
UH, DEEDEE CHAVIS HERE ON BEHALF OF VICE MAYOR PRO TEM MARTHA GAS, TATUM, COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT K.
JUST WANTED, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO ALSO HEARING, UM, THE INFORMATION ON THE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS, AND ALSO WANT TO SHARE SOME INFORMATION.
OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING WILL BE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH AT 2:00 PM AND I'LL SHARE THAT INFORMATION IN THE CHAT.
DID I, IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE? HI, EVERYONE, THIS IS MARIA ANOS, UH, WITH COMMISSIONER ADRIAN GARCIA'S OFFICE.
HELLO, THIS IS OLIVIA WITH STATE REPRESENTATIVE PENNY MORALE SHAW.
UM, SO WE WILL SKIP, UH, TO, UH, THE, UH, BUSINESS PART OF THE MEETING.
WE HAVE, UH, SEVERAL SETS OF, OF MEETING MINUTES TO, UH, DISCUSS
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU'RE MUTED.
UM, UM, UM, SO WE HAVE THREE SETS OF, UH, MEETING MINUTES TO DISCUSS TONIGHT FROM NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, AND JANUARY.
THOSE WERE SENT OUT, UH, TO ALL THE MEMBERS.
UH, WE ALSO HAVE MEETING MINUTES, TWO SETS OF MEETING MINUTES.
IT'LL BE, UH, UNDER DISCUSSION, UH, NEXT MONTH AT THE MARCH MEETING.
UH, SO, UH, I HOPE ALL OF YOU HAD THE TIME TO LOOK THROUGH, UH, THESE MEETING MINUTES.
UH, I WANTED TO MENTION THAT BECAUSE OUR MEETING MINUTES ARE NOW, UH, BROADCAST ON HTV, UH, THAT THESE MINUTES ARE LINKED TO THAT, UM, BROADCAST, BUT THEY ARE NOT AS DETAILED AS THEY MAY HAVE BEEN IN THE PAST.
UM, SO THEY ARE SHORTER AND LESS DETAILED.
SO, UM, SINCE WE'VE GOT THREE SETS, RATHER THAN ACCEPTING THEM ALL AT ONCE, I WAS GONNA PROPOSE THAT WE JUST DISCUSSED THEM ONE AT A TIME.
SO, UM, THE FIRST ONE, CINDY? YES, CINDY.
I, AS I, AS I, THIS IS GREG ETT.
I HAVE A DATING ITEM THAT NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED BEFORE WE GO TO THE NEXT.
I, THE QUESTION IS, DO YOU, HE'S BREAKING UP.
HE HAS BEEN BREAKING UP SINCE HE STARTED TALKING.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? NO, YOU'RE BREAKING UP A LOT.
I'M AT A MEETING AT U OF H THIS EVENING, SO I'M ON MY, UH, SO THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THERE WAS PROPER AND TIMELY NOTICE PROVIDED FOR THE ACTIONS IN INTENDED TO BE VOTED ON AT TONIGHT'S MEETING? ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE MEETING, THE LAST MEETING, THE LAST MEETING MINUTES.
WE'RE GONNA BE HAVING ELECTIONS THIS MONTH.
THE, THE NOTICE FOR THE LAST MONTH'S HAD I SAID NOTICE FOR THIS MEETING, THE NOTICE FOR THIS TIMELY DELIVERED, THE MEETING MINUTES WENT, I MEAN, THE NOTICE, NO, I THINK HE'S ASKING IF THE NOTE WHEN THE NOTICE FOR THIS MEETING WENT OUT, WAS IT SENT ON A TIMELY BASIS? I THOUGHT IT WENT OUT THURSDAY.
THEY TYPICALLY GO OUT THURSDAY OR FRIDAY.
IS THAT WHAT YOU WERE ASKING, GREG?
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GREG, CAN YOU TYPE WHAT YOUR QUESTION IS? WE'RE WE'RE NOT UNDERSTANDING.I WISH WE WERE MEETING IN PERSON.
LEMME GO OUTSIDE AND SEE THIS.
WE ALL WISH WE COULD MEET IN PERSON.
IT'S EASIER TO DO THINGS IN PERSON.
SO THE, THE MINUTES, I MEAN, THE NOTICE WAS NOT TIMELY SENT OUT FOR EITHER THE ELECTION OF THE OFFICERS OR APPROVING THESE MINUTES.
SO THEREFORE, THOSE ACTIONS CAN BE, TAKE THE NOTICE FOR THIS ELECTION WAS SENT OUT IN JANUARY WHEN WE SENT OUT THE NOTICE FOR THE JANUARY MEETING, WE SENT, SAID THAT THE ELECTION WOULD BE THIS MEETING.
NO, IT DIDN'T SINCE I WAS GONNA, NO, AND THAT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN UP TIME ANYWAY.
AND IT NEEDS TO BE A SEPARATE NOTICE, AND IT HAS TO HAVE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ELECTION, AND IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER ANYWAY, BECAUSE THE NOTICE FOR THIS PARTICULAR MEETING WASN'T SENT OUT TIMELY.
I DON'T MIND HAVING THE REST, THE MEETING.
BUT WE CAN'T DISEN, DISENFRANCHISE OR HAVE ANY SUPPRESSION OF OUR OTHER MEMBERS ABOUT VOTING.
WE JUST NEED TO FOLLOW OUR BYLAWS.
UH, WELL, IT'S NOT EASY FOR ME TO CHECK THE BYLAWS DURING THE MEETING.
UM, BUT, UM, RHONDA,
CANDY, BY ANY CHANCE, RHONDA, DO YOU WANNA BE LOOKING THIS UP WHILE WE'RE TALKING THIS THROUGH? YES, I AM.
UH, WE WILL, UH, PROCEED WITH DISCUSSING THE MEETING MINUTES.
UM, AND, UM, CINDY, UH, UNDER THE RULES OF
IF YOU WANNA MOVE TO THE OTHER STUFF IN THE, IN THE, IN THE PRESENTATION, THAT'D BE GOOD.
WELL, I'M NOT AN EXPERT IN ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER, BUT, UH, UM, I THINK IN THE MEETING MINUTES, WE'RE MORE TRYING TO FIND OUT IF THERE ARE ANY ERRORS.
BUT WE WILL MOVE TO, UH, THE, UM, WHILE WE'RE WORKING THIS OUT, WE WILL, UH, GO TO THE SPEAKERS.
THEN, UM, WE DO HAVE A GUEST SPEAKER, UH, UH, TO BE TALKING ABOUT CONSERVATION DISTRICTS.
UH, SO WE CAN GO TO THAT PART OF THE MEETING IF THEY ARE READY.
UH, DIRECTOR MARGARET WALLACE BROWN AND, AND ROMAN, ARE YOU, UH, READY? TERRIFIC.
SO LET ME START BY THANKING ALL OF YOU FOR THIS TIME TONIGHT.
I KNOW THAT, UM, YOU GRACIOUSLY CARVED EIGHT MINUTES OUT OF AN INCREDIBLY BUSY CA SCHEDULE FOR US TONIGHT, AND WE ARE GONNA DO OUR BEST TO HOLD TO EIGHT MINUTES.
UM, I DO WANNA TELL YOU THAT THERE'S TWO MORE IMMEDIATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU TO LEARN MORE.
AND, UH, ONE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES IS A PUBLIC MEETING WHERE WE HOPE THAT, OR A PUBLIC HEARING WHERE WE HOPE YOU MIGHT WANNA, UM, ADD YOUR COMMENTS OR ASK YOUR QUESTIONS.
SO MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR, UM, NEXT WEEK.
UH, FEBRUARY 21ST, WE ARE PRESENTING CONSERVATION DISTRICTS TO THE LIVABLE PLACES ACTION COMMITTEE.
AND IF YOU GO TO LET'S TALK HOUSTON.ORG, YOU CAN GET THE LINK FOR THAT MEETING.
UM, AND THEN AT CITY COUNCIL BEGINNING APPROXIMATELY NINE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING ON THE 22ND OF FEBRUARY, WE WILL BE HOLDING A PUBLIC HEARING AT CITY COUNCIL WHERE THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO SPEAK AND ASK QUESTIONS, UM, ABOUT CONSERVATION DISTRICTS.
SO THOSE ARE THE NEXT TWO PUBLIC OPPORTUNITIES.
IF WE DON'T GET TO YOUR QUESTION TONIGHT, BECAUSE OF TIME, I ACTUALLY ASK YOU TO GO TO, LET'S TALK HOUSTON AND POST IT THERE.
UM, AND, OR SEND ROMAN OR ME AN EMAIL AND WE WILL, UM, TRY TO GET BACK WITH YOU.
SO, UM, WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAY, I'M GONNA HAND IT OVER TO ROMAN AND WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN WRAP THIS UP IN ENOUGH TIME TO TAKE SOME QUESTIONS.
EVERYBODY HERE, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
I'M THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER AT THE CITY OF HOUSTON.
I'M GONNA SHARE SCREEN NOW AND TURN OFF MY CAMERA SO THAT I CAN GET RIGHT TO THE POINT.
I'LL COME RIGHT BACK WITH THE CAMERA.
UH, TELL ME, AM I SHARING A SCREEN WITH Y'ALL NOW? YES, YOU ARE.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH.UM, SO LET ME START BY SAYING I'M DELIGHTED TO BRING TO YOU THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PROPOSED CONSERVATION DISTRICT ORDINANCE.
THIS IS AN ENABLING ORDINANCE.
SO IT, AND IT OFFERS A VARIETY OF NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTION TOOLS OR OPTIONS IN ONE FRAMEWORK THAT MAY BE EASIER TO USE THAN OTHER TOOLS.
THIS CONCEPT HAS BEEN CONSIDERED FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
AND WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF MAYOR TURNER, WE HOPE WE CAN BEGIN IMPLEMENTATION WITH INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS SOON ON THE SCREEN.
BEFORE YOU ARE SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF A CONSERVATION DISTRICT.
THEY CAN PROTECT THE CHARACTER, LOOK OR FEEL.
THEY MIGHT PROTECT THE CHARACTER, LOOK AND FEEL OF AN AREA OR NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THEY MAY HELP TO SUPPORT COMPATIBLE DEVELOPMENT AND NEW CONSTRUCTION.
AND THEY MAY BE A LITTLE EASIER TO IMPLEMENT THAN OTHER PROTECTIONS.
ROMAN, CAN I ASK YOU TO PAUSE FOR JUST ONE BRIEF SECOND? WE'RE NOT SEEING YOUR SCREEN ANYMORE.
IS THAT TRUE FOR EVERYBODY? YOU MIGHT BE SHARING.
IT'S, DUNNO WHAT HAPPENED THERE.
BUT, UM, SO THE, UM, THOSE ARE THE BENEFITS THAT, AND THEN PROMOTE LIVABILITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE AND INCLUDES ITS STRUCTURE OF NEH.
NOW, THE CRITERIA FOR CREATING HISTORIC DISTRICTS, UM, ARE, ARE THE COMMON THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE A COMMON STREET SCAPES, COMMON STREET PATTERNS, AND AN AREA MIGHT HAVE COMMON STREET SCAPES, STREET PATTERNS, SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY SITES OR LAND USE PATTERNS CREATED IN AREA IDENTITY.
THEY MAY HAVE COMMON PATTERNS OF IMPROVEMENTS, LANDSCAPING OR BUILDING SETBACKS ON THE PROPERTIES, COMMON SCALE OR BULK AMONG BUILDINGS OR STRUCTURES, ROOF HEIGHTS, LOCATION OF GARAGES AND OTHER BUILDING FOOTPRINT ELEMENTS.
AND WHETHER THIS IS, THEY ALSO ARE, WHETHER THE DISTRICT IS AN AREA THAT HAS BEEN PLANNED OR WAS PLANNED OR DEVELOPED BY HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED OR DISENFRANCHISED COMMUNITIES.
AND ANOTHER IS THAT THE VALUE THAT THE AREA HAS VALUE AS AN AREA, AS AN, AS AN, AS AN AREA, AS AN ASPECT OF COMMUNITY SENTIMENT OR PRIDE.
AND THE MOST IMPORTANT OF WHICH IS RESIDENT INPUT.
THE, UH, THE ORDINANCES, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WOULD ONLY TAKE THE INITIATIVE TO CREATE A CONSERVATION DISTRICT IF THERE IS THE DESIRE FOR ONE FROM ANY GIVEN NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE RESIDENT'S INPUT IS CRITICAL TO CREATING A CONSERVATION DISTRICT ORDINANCE.
WE WOULD ALSO POSSIBLY LOOK AT DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS IN AN AREA, UH, HISTORICAL STUDIES OF NEIGHBORHOODS AND CULTURE INSTITUTIONS.
ANALYSIS OF THE AREA MIGHT CONFIRM CONSISTENT IDENTIFIABLE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES.
SO, UH, OF CULTURAL HISTORY AND SCALED IN THE SCALE DEVELOPMENT THAT CAN BE PRESERVED BY PROTECTING OR ENHANCING ONE OR MORE OF THOSE ATTRIBUTES.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR AREAS THAT ARE CONTIGUOUS WITH BOUNDARIES.
UH, WE CAN, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU CAN PUT A MAP ON IT.
UM, OTHER DATA RELEVANT TO CONSIDERATION AS A CONSERVATION DISTRICT AS DETERMINED BY THIS OFFICE.
AND, UM, THE ANALYSIS MAY INCLUDE DETERMINATION OF THE NUMBER OF PROPERTIES OR THE SIZE OF THE DISTRICT.
THE ONE THING THAT DIFFERENTIATES THE IDEA OF A CONSERVATION DISTRICT FROM A HISTORIC DISTRICT IS THAT IN HOUSTON, IF YOU CREATE A HISTORIC DISTRICT, YOU AUTOMATICALLY ARE SUBJECT TO THE CRITERIA IN CITY OF HOUSTON'S CODE OF ORDINANCES FOR ALTERATIONS OR NEW CONSTRUCTIONS OR ADDITIONS.
WITH RESPECT TO A CONSERVATION DISTRICT, YOU DO NOT, YOU ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THOSE.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD CREATE ITS OWN.
AND WE ARE PRODUCING IN THIS ENABLING ORDINANCE A LIST OF THINGS THAT'S NOT MEANT TO BE, UM, CONCLUSIVE, BUT A LIST OF THINGS THAT MIGHT BE REGULATED.
SO BUILDING HEIGHT OR NUMBER OF STORIES, BUILDING SIZE AND MASSING, OR IN OTHER WORDS, THE GENERAL SHAPE AND FORM OF THE STRUCTURE.
UH, FRONT FACING BUILDING FEATURES.
SO, YOU KNOW, FRONT PORCH VERSUS, YOU KNOW, BIG GARAGE OUT FRONT, WHATEVER IT MAY BE.
LOT SIZE AND COVERAGE, FRONT AND SIDE BUILDING SETBACKS, OFF STREET PARKING OR YARD PARKING, ROOF LINE AND PITCH PAVING AND HARDSCAPING.
SO LOCATION OF AUXILIARY BUILDINGS, ET CETERA.
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE AND DETAILING, BUILDING MATERIALS, GARAGE ENTRANCE, LOCATION, FENCES AND WALLS, BUILDING LOCATION OR DEMOLITION OR ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING STRUCTURES.
THE KEY IS THAT NONE OF THIS HAPPENS WITHOUT A NEIGHBORHOOD COMING FORWARD TO WANT TO DO ONE.
THIS ENABLING ORDINANCE IS JUST LISTING THESE THINGS SO THAT IT'S POSSIBLE UNDER THE AUTHORITY GRANTED BY CHAPTER TWO 11 OF THE TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE TO DO THESE THINGS.
NOW, THE KEY POINTS FOR ESTABLISHING A DISTRICT IS BASED ON INPUT FROM NEIGHBORHOODS.
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UM, AND NE NEXT POINT IS THAT WE'LL WORK CLOSELY WITH PROPERTY OWNERS AND RESIDENTS TO DETERMINE POTENTIAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR AND IDENTIFY THE CHARACTER TRAITS THAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS TO PRESERVE.AND WITH THE PROPOSED STANDARDS DETERMINE, UH, THE OFFICE HERE WOULD HOST PUBLIC MEETINGS, AT LEAST ONE, BUT I THINK WE WOULD END UP HAVING A FEW PROBABLY IN TO CREATE ONE.
UM, AND THEN WE ARE LOOKING FOR BY THE ORDINANCE, 51% OF THE OWNERS ARE REQUIRED, UH, IN THE PROPOSED DISTRICT TO SUPPORT IT AT THE BOUNDARIES CAN BE MODIFIED.
THIS IS THE SAME AS A HISTORIC DISTRICT TO CREATE THE, TO, TO GET TO 51%.
UM, THE HOUSTON ARCHEOLOGICAL HISTORICAL COMMISSION WOULD HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, AT LEAST ONE, AND THEN MAY REFER THE ITEMS CITY COUNCIL, WHICH ALSO HAS TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARING.
UM, THIS OFFICE AND THESE SORTS OF THINGS NOW ARE SUBJECT TO THE, THE, UH, NOTIFICATION RULES REQUIRED BY THE STATE.
AND THEY'RE EXTENSIVE, BUT WE DO THEM NOW.
WE DO THEM FOR INDIVIDUAL LANDMARKS REGULARLY.
AND, UM, FINALLY, WHAT THEY DON'T AFFECT IS, WHAT THEY WOULD NOT AFFECT IS, OF COURSE, ORDINARY MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, OR REPLACEMENT OF EXTERIOR FEATURES THAT AREN'T STRUCTURAL.
UM, LANDSCAPING WITH PLANTS, TREES, SHRUBS, PARTIAL RECONSTRUCTION OR OF A STRUCTURE, UH, OR AN EXTERIOR FEATURE.
DAMAGES DESTROY BY FIRE OR STORM, UH, LIKE GOD FORBID HAPPENED OUT IN DEER PARK.
UH, WE DO JUST A REGULAR BASIS.
PEOPLE HAVE A FIRE AND THEY'RE REBUILDING THEIR PROPERTY.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH OUR OFFICE AS LONG AS THEY'RE BUILDING BACK ON THE SAME FOOTPRINT.
AND ANY TWO MINUTES REMAINING, PLEASE.
AND WELL, YOU, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S, WE'RE ALL IN BECAUSE I'M SURE THE QUESTION.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
COULD YOU REF, UM, GO OVER AGAIN THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE AFFECTED RESIDENTS WOULD BE NOTIFIED? YOU SAID THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO BUY INTO THIS.
I THINK THAT WAS CONCERN FROM SOME OF THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO, UM, IN GENERAL, THE, THE, TO, TO HAVE THE FIRST PUBLIC MEETING THAT THE CITY WOULD HAVE, WE WOULD NOTIFY EVERYBODY IN THE AFFECTED AREA PLUS 200 FEET.
SO ALL PROPERTY OWNERS, AND WE WOULD USE HCA TO LOOK FOR THE OWNERSHIP.
PROPERTY OWNERS WOULD RECEIVE THAT NOTIFICATION.
SO IT'S BASED OFF THE H HCA ROLES? YES.
OF COURSE, WE WOULD DO OUR BEST TO NOTIFY CIVIC CLUBS, SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD, THE COURSE, AND ANYONE ELSE THAT WE CAN, THAT WE WOULD, THAT THERE, THAT THESE, UH, AREAS ARE BEING, THIS AREA'S BEING CONSIDERED.
I APPRECIATE THAT CLARIFICATION.
A A QUESTION, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, YOU SAID THE, THE PUBLIC NOTICES WERE GOING OUT TO THE HOMEOWNERS IN THE AREA PLUS AN ADDITIONAL 200 FEET SURROUNDING AREA.
YES, THAT'S REQUIRED BY STATE LAW.
AND YEAH, UH, I HAVE A QUESTION.
I WAS GONNA SAY, ARE WE GONNA GO BY RAISED HANDS HERE? 'CAUSE YES.
CINDY, ARE YOU LOOKING AT PEOPLE THAT HAVE DOUG? DOUG IS THE FIRST, UM, SPEAKER WITH RAISED HAND.
SO DOUG, WHY DON'T YOU GO? OKAY, THANKS.
FIRST OF ALL, UH, DO YOU HAVE ANY AREAS OF THE CITY, UH, THAT YOU THINK THIS WOULD APPLY TO? 'CAUSE I'D BE CURIOUS TO LOOK AT THOSE AREAS AND, AND SEE HOW IT WOULD WORK.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, UH, I HAVE A REAL PROBLEM WITH THE FACT THAT 51% OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE AREA HAVE TO APPROVE THE, UH, UH, HAVE TO APPROVE THE DISTRICT.
AND THEN IF 51% DON'T APPROVE IT, YOU CAN EXPAND THE DISTRICT.
YOU RAN INTO THAT PROBLEM WITH A HISTORICAL DISTRICT YOU TRIED TO DO, UH, IN, UH, I'M NOT SURE, UH, WHERE IT WAS RECENTLY AND YOU DIDN'T GET THE VOTES YOU NEEDED, SO YOU EXPANDED IT AND YOU GOT THE NEIGHBORHOOD REALLY UPSET, UH, AT WHAT YOU WERE DOING.
I THINK THAT'S A REALLY BAD OPTION TO JUST BE ABLE TO EX EXPAND IT ENOUGH TO GET THE NUMBER OF VOTES YOU NEED.
IF YOU CAN'T DO IT WITH WHAT YOU DO INITIALLY, YOU SHOULDN'T DO IT, IN MY OPINION.
WELL, IT DID SOUND LIKE THERE WERE TWO POINTS THERE.
UH, UM, SO SIR, LET ME ADDRESS, LET ME DO WHAT NEIGHBORHOODS? WELL, THE ONLY NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE'VE BEEN STRONGLY TALKING TO IS INDEPENDENCE HEIGHTS, UH, AND THE INDEPENDENCE HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD.
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WE'VE BEEN TALKING WITH THEM THERE FOR A LONG TIME ABOUT, UH, THAT THERE ARE ONE SMALL HISTORIC DISTRICT THERE AND A SMALL NATIONAL REGISTERED DISTRICT.BUT THE AREA IS ONE AREA WE'RE LOOKING AT.
AND, AND WE HAVE ALSO AT TIMES TALKED TO PEOPLE IN FRIEDMANS TOWN, PLEASANTVILLE, UH, PINEY POINT, NOT THE, NOT THE WEALTHY ENCLAVE OFF OF I 10, BUT THE OTHER PINEY POINT, UM, AND A FEW OTHER NEIGHBORS HAVE, HAVE MENTIONED AN INTEREST IN IT.
UM, SO THAT ANSWERS THAT ON THE 51%.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT REDRAWING THE BOUNDARY TO GET 51, BUT IT WOULDN'T BE EXPANDING THE BOUNDARY.
'CAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE 51%, YOU'D BE SHRINKING THE BOUNDARY.
BUT REGARDLESS, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED IN ALL ON THE PR, ON THE, IT WAS REALLY A PROCEDURAL MATTER ON RIVERSIDE WHERE WE HAD AN INTERESTED PARTY THAT WAS DISTRICT IN A SMALLER DISTRICT, UH, STAFF, YOU KNOW, MA MADE A, A LARGER AREA BECAUSE THEY HAD SO MUCH BUY-IN.
IN RETROSPECT, THAT WASN'T THE BEST THING BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL APPLICANTS HAD COMMUNICATED VERY WELL WITH THEIR LITTLE, THEIR AREA WHERE THEY INITIALLY WANTED TO LOOK.
SO THAT WAS A PROCEDURAL SLIP THERE.
BUT, SO WE WOULDN'T THIS PROCESS IN THE CODE, AND BY THE WAY, IN THE CHAT, I HAVE PUT A LINK TO, UH, LET'S TALK HOUSTON, WHICH HAS A CURRENT DRAFT AND SOME DRAFT FACTS ABOUT IT, AND PLACES TO COMMENT.
UM, IN THE CURRENT DRAFT, WE WOULD NOTIFY ALL ALONG THE WAY, SO IF THERE'S ONE BOUNDARY IN THE BEGINNING AND A VOTE TAKEN, UH, IF THE MAP IS REDRAWN, THERE'S A NEW NOTIFICATION TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THEY'RE OUT OF THE DISTRICT, UM, OR STILL OUT OF THE PROPOSED DISTRICT OR IN THE PROPOSED DISTRICT.
UM, AS WELL AS THOSE NOTIFICATIONS WOULD INCLUDE THE PROPOSED REGULATIONS THAT DISCUSSED AND ARE BEING LOOKED AT FOR A NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND LET ME JUST GIVE YOU SOME IDEA OF THOSE REGULATIONS.
LIKE, AGAIN, I WANTED TO COME BACK, THAT WAS A LONG LIST.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'VE HEARD IN INDEPENDENCE HEIGHTS, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, IS THAT, AND YOU KNOW, OLDER PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO BACK OUTTA THEIR DRIVEWAY THESE DAYS.
AT ONE OF THE OLD LITTLE BUNGALOWS, THEY WERE USED TO HAVING THEIR OLD DITCH, WHICH WAS A GENTLE RAVINE OR THE GRASS.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WITH THE NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THESE OLD AREAS, AND I LIVE IN ONE LIKE THAT IN THE OLD WEST END, AND IN, UH, ALLRIGHT, WASHINGTON SHEPHERD, THERE USED TO BE A GENTLE RAVINE IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE.
IF YOU SLIPPED OFF THE DRIVEWAY, REALLY DIDN'T MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE.
BUT ONCE YOU START REBUILDING, YOU START DIGGING THOSE DITCHES OUT, NOW YOU GOT A BIGGER DITCH.
AND THEN SOME OF THESE NEW CONSTRUCTION HOMES HAVE A FENCE THAT COMES ALL THE WAY OUT TO THE PROPERTY LINE OUT FRONT.
AND THERE'S BEEN A SUGGESTION THAT THE PEOPLE MIGHT ASK TO HAVE THE SOLID FENCES STOP AT THE FRONT OF THE PROPERTY, LIKE SOME DEED RESTRICTIONS HAVE.
SO JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME IDEA HOW, UH, WHAT, HOW RELATIVELY SIMPLE SOME OF THE ASKS MIGHT BE.
WE HAVE SIX PEOPLE THAT HAVE THEIR HANDS UP.
I, UH, WE WANT TO GET AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THEIR COMMENTS.
UH, BUT WE DO HAVE A LOT OF BUSINESS.
I'M GONNA ASK ALL OF YOU TO MAKE YOUR COMMENTS OR YOUR QUESTIONS OR YOUR CONCERNS, UH, TO THE POINT.
UM, WE'RE GONNA TAKE THEM IN ORDER.
AND I APOLOGIZE, BY THE WAY, FOR, I, I HAD MY, UM, SOUND OFF AND, AND, AND TOOK ME A WHILE TO GET IT ON.
UH, MY, I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF ITEMS IN THE DRAFT DOCUMENT THAT WE WERE PROVIDED.
SO ON PAGE FIVE, UH, SECTION 33 DASH 6 0 2, SUBSECTION A, UH, SAYS THE CONSERVATION DISTRICT MAY ONLY BE INITIATED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
WHAT DEPARTMENT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE? SO THAT NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED.
AND THEN ON PAGES EIGHT AND NINE, UM, UH, SUBSECTION H ON THERE TALKS ABOUT THE INITIALS, HH, HAHC, THAT WAS NEVER DEFINED PREVIOUSLY IN THIS DOCUMENT THAT WE WERE PROVIDED.
AND THEN THAT CONTINUES TO BE USED.
AND THEN ON PAGE NINE, IT DOES DEFINE WHAT HAHC, SO, SO SOME, UH, POOR WRITING, UH, ON THAT ONE, NEED TO DEFINE THAT INITIALS AT THE FIRST USAGE OF IT, AND THEN USE THOSE INITIALS GOING FORWARD.
SO JUST SOME, UH, JUST SOME FEEDBACK ON THE, UH, DRAFT, UH, DOCUMENT.
UM, A COUPLE, IT SOUNDS LIKE TWO THINGS.
IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO AN HOAD CCRS.
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT? AND THE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE THAT PROBABLY A LOT OF PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW IS IT SAYS 51% OF OWNERS IS OWNERS JUST A RAW NUMBER.
SO IF I OWN LIST A LITTLE PIECE OF PROPERTY, I GET THE SAME RIGHTS AS SOMEBODY WITH, UH, ACRES OF PROPERTY.
I AN, LET ME TRY TO ANSWER THAT.
UM, SO THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN DEED RESTRICTIONS IN
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THAT THERE ARE SOME THINGS, THERE ARE THINGS IN OUR CONSERVATION DISTRICT THAT ONLY THE CITY CAN ENFORCE AND, AND, AND WOULD NOT NECESSARILY BE PART OF A DEED RESTRICTION PROGRAM.WE'RE NOT TRYING TO MIRROR DEED RESTRICTIONS OR REPLACE THEM WITH THIS AT ALL.
THESE ARE PRIMARILY FOR NEIGHBORHOODS THAT DON'T HAVE DEED, THE ABILITY TO HAVE DEED RESTRICTIONS.
SO, UM, SO THAT'S THE ANSWER TO THAT.
UM, OWNERSHIP IS DETERMINED BY PROPERTY.
AND SO, UM, BUT A PARCEL IS, UM, A PIECE OF LAND THAT'S UNDER COMMON OWNERSHIP.
SO IF SOMEONE OWNS MULTIPLE, UM, PARCELS OR MULTIPLE TRACKS WITHIN A PROPOSED DISTRICT, AND LET'S SAY THEY'RE ACROSS THE STREET FROM EACH OTHER SO THEY'RE NOT ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER, THEN THEY WOULD BE AFFORDED TWO VOTES IN, IN THE, IN THE PROCESS.
IF THEY HAD A SERIES THAT WERE ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER THAT MAYBE WERE UNDER A SIMILAR, UM, A SINGLE HCA ACCOUNT, OR WE'RE JUST SIMPLY ADJACENT TO EACH OTHER, THAT WOULD BE CON THAT WOULD CONSTITUTE ONE VOTE.
THAT'S THE WAY, UM, THE CITY DEFINES PARCELS.
AND SO IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, PURE NUMBERS, EVEN THE SMALLEST PARCEL GETS A VOTE BECAUSE USED TO GET EVERYTHING BEFORE I DID.
I DIDN'T GET THE, THAT'S JUST THE AGENDA, RIGHT? BUT I NEVER GOT THAT.
UH, NEXT UP IS, UH, COUNCILMAN SALLY ALCORN.
SO PHILLIP BROUGHT UP ONE THING ABOUT THIS BEING INITIATED BY THE, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, THE DEPARTMENT, BUT I THINK ROMAN, YOU TOLD ME THAT WAS GONNA BE CHANGED SOMEWHAT, AND IT WAS REALLY SUPPOSED TO BE INITIATED FROM THE, THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND THE OTHER THING, MARGARET, YOU KIND OF, UH, BROACHED, I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS ABOUT, WAIT, IS THIS FOR NON DEED RESTRICTED AREAS? IF, OR, OR IS IT FOR DEED RESTRICTED AREAS OR CAN IT BE IN DEED RESTRICTED AREAS? AND CAN YOU GO OUTSIDE? CAN YOU EXTEND YOUR BOUNDARIES OUTSIDE THE DEED RESTRICTED TO MAKE LIKE AN AREA LIKE FURTHER THAN YOUR DEED RESTRICTED AREA BE PART OF A CONSERVATION DISTRICT? HOW, HOW DOES THIS PLAY WITH DEED RESTRICTIONS? IT REALLY HAS NO RELATIONSHIP WITH DEED RESTRICTIONS.
IN THAT, IN THAT, WHETHER A NEIGHBORHOOD HAS OR DOESN'T HAVE DEED RESTRICTIONS IS NOT A DETERMINANT ABOUT WHETHER, UM, WE WOULD, WE WOULD WORK WITH THEM ON A CONSERVATION DISTRICT.
HOWEVER, WE WOULD USE THE INFORMATION WE FIND IN, YOU KNOW, IF THEY DO HAVE DEED RESTRICTIONS AND THEY, THEY ARE ABLE TO PROTECT THEIR HOMES AGAINST X, Y, AND Z, WE WOULD USE THAT INFORMATION AS WE'RE RESEARCHING THE AREA AND DETERMINING WHAT THE MENU OF, UH, REGULATIONS MIGHT BE IN THAT DISTRICT.
BUT THEN THEY COULD GO FARTHER THAN WHAT THEIR DEED RESTRICTIONS.
LIKE MORE BLOCKS OR OUT INTO A COMMERCIAL AREA OR WHATEVER.
SO IT CAN BE COMMER, IT'S COMMERCIAL AREAS ARE INCLUDED IN YES, IT'S PROPERTY.
WE'VE NOT MADE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL.
HOW DO Y'ALL, UH, A FEW ITEMS. ONE, WHAT'S THE
AND LASTLY, IT SEEMS LIKE THERE ARE SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOODS THAT FALL INTO THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM.
IF THAT'S MORE OF THE CASE, SHOULD THIS BE MORE OF A PUSH VERSUS PULL? MEANING THESE TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THERE ARE IDENTIFIED AREAS, IT SEEMS TO BE THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL MENTIONED THE OUTREACHES TO THEM VERSUS A GENERIC BLANKET STATEMENT TO COMMUNITIES WHERE THEY MAY NOT KNOW THAT THEY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY.
I CAN TAKE, UM, THESE, YEAH, GO AHEAD.
AND JUST ONE NOTE ON THE COUNCIL MEMBER'S POINT, THAT LANGUAGE, THAT THE NEW LANGUAGE OR REVISED LANGUAGE, IT'S IN THE LINK AT THE, LET'S TALK HOUSTON NOW.
SO THAT SECTION'S RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ORDINANCES, YOU'LL SEE THAT NEW LANGUAGE.
THERE'S NO MINIMUM SIZE, SIR, MR. LIRA.
AND, UH, THERE'S NO MINIMUM THE TIME TO ADOPT.
I THINK WE'VE GUESSTIMATE IT SIX MONTHS, BUT REALLY WOULD BE SIX MONTHS.
YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD REALLY HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF BUY-IN.
WE'VE LEFT OUT AN IMPORTANT I'VE LEFT OUT, MY APOLOGIES.
AGAIN, THIS ENABLING ORDINANCE IS GOING FORWARD, WHICH, AND THIS WOULD REQUIRE A SIMPLE MAJORITY AT CITY COUNCIL TO ADOPT.
IF A DISTRICT COMES FORWARD, IF A DISTRICT COMES FORWARD, UNLESS IT HAS A HUNDRED PERCENT BUY-IN, WHICH I WOULD SAY IS NOT EVER GONNA HAPPEN, PROBABLY
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YOU NEED, THEN THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD NEED THREE QUARTERS OF CITY COUNCIL TO SUPPORT IT TO CREATE THE DISTRICT.YOU'D ALSO NEED THAT AT THE HOUSTON ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL COMMISSION TO SUPPORT IT.
THEY WILL BE DIFFICULT TO MAKE STILL.
THAT'S, THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT.
THAT'S A HARD LEVEL, THAT'S A PRETTY HIGH BUY-IN FROM YOUR CITY COUNCIL.
BUT IF A COMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD STRONGLY SUPPORTS IT, AND THEN I, I'M HOPING THAT IF A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER HAS A SUPPORT OF HER GROUP, AND IT WOULD, THEN IT WOULD WORK.
I'M SORRY, I DON'T GOTTEN, UH, FEEDBACK HERE.
I HOPE I'VE ANSWERED THOSE QUESTIONS.
WE HAVE TWO MORE QUESTIONS AND NEED TO, AND SOMEBODY NEEDS TO TURN OFF THEIR, OKAY.
MY QUESTION IS, OOH, THAT'S A LITTLE DISTRACTING EVERYBODY.
MY QUESTION IS ABOUT OUT OF STATE HOMEOWNERS OR BUSINESSES THAT HAVE HOMES, COMMUNITIES, HOW WOULD THAT WEAKEN THE SUPPORT THAT A NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD WANT, UH, MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS TYPE OF APPLICATION? UM, IS THERE ANY CONSIDERATION FOR THOSE TYPES OF, OF SPACES WHERE THEY CAN POSSIBLY BE OMITTED FROM THE 51% NEED TO MOVE FORWARD? IS THAT, UM, AM I MAKING SENSE? I DON'T KNOW.
THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION WITH THE, WITH THE ECHO.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WERE ABLE TO HEAR ME, MS. CHAPMAN, IF, OR IF ANYONE COULD REPEAT, UH, FOR ME.
I DIDN'T QUITE FOLLOW THE QUESTION OR, OKAY.
MY QUESTION IS, ARE WE, IS THE APPLICATION PROCESS CONSIDERING BUSINESSES THAT OWN PROPERTIES OUT OF STATE, WOULD, WOULD THOSE BUSINESSES, UM, HINDER THE APPLICATION PROCESS FOR A COMMUNITY? THOSE OF US WHO ACTUALLY LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, WHO WOULD WANNA CONSIDER THIS TYPE OF APPLICATION? UM, DOES THE CITY CONSIDER THOSE, THOSE, UM, YEAH, I THINK IN, I'M SORRY.
THIS IS, I WOULD, MY, MY THINKING WOULD BE A PROPERTY OWNER IS A PROPERTY OWNER.
UM, EVEN IF THEY WERE OUT OF, OUT OF THE STATE, THEY WOULD STILL, OKAY, ONE THING TO CONSIDER AND ONE OF THE REASONS, LIKE, UH, DIRECTOR WALLACE GROUND WAS TALKING ABOUT THE TRACKS.
SO IF YOU HAD A PERSON WHO OWNS A WHOLE LOT OF TRACKS, 'CAUSE THEY'RE CLEARING A BUNCH OF LAND AND THEY'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING BIG, IF THOSE TRACKS ARE ADJACENT TO ONE ANOTHER ON A GIVEN BLOCK, THEY ONLY GET ONE VOTE FOR THAT GROUPING OF TRACKS.
SO THAT, IN TERMS OF THAT WAS, THAT'S SORT OF AN IDEA THAT IT SEEMS TO BE KIND OF AN EQUALIZER ON THE IDEA OF A BUSINESS, BUT I DON'T THINK IT DIRECTLY, UH, ADDRESSES THE ISSUE YOU'RE SPEAKING OF.
BUT, WELL, WE MAY NEED TO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL PRESENTATION AND QUESTIONS BASED ON THESE, BUT I'M GONNA GIVE TWO VERY BRIEF COMMENTS THAT NEED TO BE VERY, VERY FAST, STACY, AND THEN KEITH, AND THEN NO MORE COMMENTS.
AND THEY NEED TO BE VERY FAST.
ROMAN, IN YOUR THANK YOU, CINDY ROMAN, IN YOUR PRESENTATION YOU TALKED, YOU REFERRED TO THESE AREAS AS NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND SO MY QUESTION IS, IS WHAT CRITERIA, UM, IS DETERMINED A NEIGHBORHOOD? AND IF YOU REALLY MEAN AREAS, I, BECAUSE IT SOUNDS TO ME MORE LIKE AREAS AND PLOTS OF LAND VERSUS ACTUAL NEIGHBORHOODS.
BECAUSE WHAT WE SEE AS NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, YOU KNOW, CAN BE, YOU KNOW, A DIFFERENT DEFINITION.
SO JUST WHEN YOU'RE WRITING THIS AND, AND TAKING IT FORWARD AND EXPLAINING IT, MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL ARE, UM, SHARING THAT.
ALSO THE, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW MUCH NOTICE ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE WITHIN 200 FEET AND 200 FEET? SEEMS REALLY SHORT.
AND I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HOW YOU CAME UP WITH THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THAT MEASUREMENT.
UM, RESPONSES, FAST RESPONSES.
A AREAS IS, UH, IS, WE'RE GONNA FIX THAT.
AND THEN, BECAUSE ACTUALLY WE COULD ENVISION, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME HISTORIC DISTRICTS IN THE MONTROSE AREA THAT ARE CLOSE TO ONE ANOTHER, AND WE KNOW THAT, AND THERE'S GAPS IN BETWEEN.
WE KNOW THAT THEORETICALLY THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS MAY GET TOGETHER AND WANT TO PUT A CONSERVATION DISTRICT AROUND THAT GROUPING OF HISTOR, FOR EXAMPLE.
JUST NOT GONNA, NOT NECESSARILY COULD HAPPEN.
UM, AND THE NOTIFICATION IS SET BY STATE LAW.
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BEYOND WHERE WE NORMALLY WOULD'VE BEEN.UH, KEITH DOWNEY, ONE LAST COMMENT.
UM, HOW MANY PUBLIC MEETINGS ARE REQUIRED PER CONSERVATION OR NEIGHBORHOOD APPLICATION? I MIGHT HAVE MISSED THAT.
UH, YOU ARE REQUIRED FOR AT LEAST ONE THAT'S BEING HELD BY THIS OFFICE.
AND THEN AT LEAST ONE PUBLIC HEARING AT HHC AND AT LEAST ONE PUBLIC HEARING AT CITY COUNCIL.
I COULD BE WRONG, BUT THAT IT'S ONLY THREE ADVERTISED EVENTS, IF YOU WILL.
UM, THAT'S A VERY BARE MINIMUM, VERY BARE MINIMUM.
I DON'T EXPECT THAT TO BE THE CASE, BUT, OKAY.
THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL YOUR QUESTIONS AND THANK YOU DIRECTOR WALLACE BROWN AND, AND ROMAN, FOR PRESENTING.
I I THINK WE HAD SO MUCH INTEREST IN SO MANY QUESTIONS.
I REALLY THINK, UH, MY PLAN ON COMING BACK NEXT MONTH TO, UH, ADDRESS SOME OF THESE ISSUES, ISSUES AND QUESTIONS.
UH, WE DO HAVE A VERY BUSY SCHEDULE GOING ON AND BEHIND THE SCENES, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF, UH, ACTIVITY AND COMMUNICATION ABOUT SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE RAISED EARLIER, UM, ABOUT THE BUSINESS PART OF THE MEETING.
UM, SO, UH, RON SODER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, DO WE WANNA TALK ABOUT, UH, THE QUESTION THAT WAS RAISED ABOUT MEETING NOTICE? UH, YES.
SO IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT, UM, GREG STATED THAT WE DID NOT HAVE A BEGINNING NOTICE FOR THE ELECTIONS.
ACCORDING TO YOUR BYLAWS, YOU NEED 30 DAYS PRIOR TO THE MEETING IN WHICH THE ELECTIONS ARE SCHEDULED.
UM, NOTICE DID GO OUT IN A JANUARY 9TH, UM, NOTICE TO ALL OF THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO THAT 30 DAY TIMELINE HAS BEEN MET.
NO, RHONDA, IT DIDN'T, IT DIDN'T HAVE THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE IN THERE.
AND THAT'S NOT THE ONLY NOTICE THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT EITHER.
I, I PUT IN THE CHAT WHAT THE OTHER ONE IS.
BUT THERE'S ALSO IN THAT SECTION, UH, ITEM TWO, UNDER SUBSECTION C, CONTESTING NOTICE OF ELECTION, ANY ACTIVE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD WISHING TO, TO OBJECT TO A LACK OF NOTICE OR DEFICIENCY NOTICE MUST DO SO AT THE MEETING.
IF A MAJORITY FINDS THE NOTICE TO HAVE BEEN INSUFFICIENT, THE ELECTION AND INSTALLATION SHALL BE SCHEDULED.
SO THAT MEANS THAT WE CAN NOW HAVE A VOTE TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE MAJORITY FINDS THAT THE NOTICE WAS SUFFICIENT.
PHILIP, PHILIP ARE, OKAY, WELL, LET'S BACK UP FOR A SECOND.
THERE'S ALSO A REQUIREMENT FOR THE ACTUAL NOTICE FOR THIS MEETING.
I, THAT, THAT'S NUMBER SECTION ONE.
NO, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT, I'M TALKING ABOUT ARTICLE SEVEN, NOT ARTICLE SIX.
WE'LL SAY LEMME, AND I'LL ALSO, OKAY.
UH, ASHA FRANCIS HAS HER HAND UP.
UM, ACTUALLY, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.
I JUST WANTED TO, UM, MOVE FORWARD.
UH, I'M NOT CLEAR WHAT PART OF THE BYLAWS ARE BEING REFERRED TO IN TERMS OF THE NOTICE.
I'M LOOKING IN MY EMAIL AT THE NOTICE FROM JANUARY 9TH THAT WAS GIVEN THAT ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD TODAY.
THAT'S MORE THAN 30 DAYS ACCORDING TO YOUR BYLAWS.
LOOKING AT THE BYLAWS, THERE ARE NO SPECIFIC, UH, REQUIREMENTS AROUND NOTICE OUTSIDE OF SENDING IT TO EMAIL ADDRESSES OR LAST KNOWN PHYSICAL ADDRESSES.
AND AT THIS POINT, UM, I THINK THAT YOU ALL SHOULD MOVE TO TAKE THE VOTE TO SEE IF THE MAJORITY IS IN FAVOR OF WHETHER OR NOT THE NOTICE THAT PRESIDENT CHAPMAN SENT OUT WAS SUFFICIENT, SO THAT YOU ALL CAN MOVE ON WITH THE BUSINESS OF THE EVENING.
OKAY, SO I NEED, I NEED TO FINALIZE THIS BECAUSE THAT IS, THAT IS NOT WHAT MY POINT IS.
AND FIRST OF ALL, EVERYBODY HERE HAS A FIDUCIARY DUTY OF LOYALTY AND CARE TO NOT ONLY YOUR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT ALSO THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE.
IF YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND VIOLATE THE ARTICLE SIX, SECTION TWO, WE'RE GONNA DO IT BY A ROLL CALL VOTE.
BUT THAT IS NOT THE OTHER ONE I'M TALKING ABOUT.
BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, THAT DOES NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF WHAT THE 30 DAY NOTICE IS.
THE OTHER NOTICE IS I PUT IN THE CHAT IS ARTICLE SEVEN, SECTION TWO OF THE BYLAWS.
THERE IS NO ARTICLE SECTION TWO UNDER ARTICLE SEVEN.
ARTICLE SEVEN COMMITTEES SECTION TWO, ARTICLE SEVEN IS COMMITTEES.
WHAT ARE YOU REFERRING TO, SIR? OKAY, I'M SORRY.
LET'S GO AND LOOK BECAUSE I'M, I'M SORRY, I'M OUT OF,
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I'M OUT.UH, IT SAYS ARTICLE SEVEN, SECTION TWO.
I THINK WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO IS ARTICLE EIGHT, SECTION TWO.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT? THAT'S CORRECT, YES.
SO IN LOOKING AT THAT, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE THE BYLAWS BEFORE THEM, IT SAYS THE CHAIR, SECRETARY, OR OTHER DESIGNATED OFFICER OR APPOINTEE SHALL SEND WRITTEN NOTICE TO THE LAST KNOWN PHYSICAL OR EMAIL ADDRESS OF AT LEAST ONE REPRESENTATIVE OF EACH ACTIVE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD FIVE DAYS PRIOR TO ANY GENERAL MEETING.
THIS NOTICE SHALL SPECIFY THE TIME, PLACE, AND IF KNOWN AGENDA OF THE MEETING.
THIS WRITTEN NOTICE SHOULD INVITE MEMBERS TO SUBMIT ITEMS FOR THE MEETING AGENDA WILL SHALL BE PROMPTLY FORWARDED TO THE CHAIR OR DESIGNEE AND PLACED ON THE AGENDA.
NO ITEM IS REQUIRED TO BE PLACED ON THE AGENDA.
IF IT'S NOT RECEIVED AT LEAST SEVEN DAYS PRIOR TO THE MEETING AT THE CHAIR'S DISCRETION, A MEMBER MAY BE LIMITED TO THREE AGENDA ITEMS PER MEETING, INCLUDING ANY PRIORITY ITEMS SCHEDULED PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE.
SO LOOKING AT THAT, WHAT I'M ASSUMING YOU'RE CONTESTING IS, UH, NOT NECESSARILY THAT YOU DID NOT GET TIMELY NOTICE, BUT I'M, AND I DON'T, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST GOING OFF WHAT I'M HEARING HERE.
IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE SAYING IS THAT IT WASN'T TIMELY.
OKAY, THAT'S FOR AGENDA, IS IT? AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY.
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE NOTICE BASED ON AGENDA ITEMS? AND ARE YOU PUTTING THE ELECTION AS AN AGENDA ITEM THAT YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED NOTICE OF FIVE DAYS BEFORE TODAY? IS THAT YOUR ARGUMENT? THAT'S THERE'S TWO NOTICE PROVISIONS, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE TWO.
AND YES, THAT WOULD BE IN THERE TOO.
SO, UM, I, YOU KNOW, I WILL YIELD TO THE CHAIR, UM, BUT I THINK THAT I WOULD, I WOULD TAKE THE MOTION TO HAVE A VOTE WHETHER SUFFICIENT NOTICE HAS BEEN PROVIDED.
CAN I GET A MOTION THAT'S I WAS, THAT I WOULD SUGGEST YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
YOU'RE VIOLATING THE BYLAWS AND I'LL MAKE THAT NOTICE.
SO YOU'RE DISENFRANCHISING PEOPLE BY GOING FORWARD WITH THIS VOTE.
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU SUFFICIENT.
UH, WHO MADE THAT MOTION? WAS IT PHILIP SALENO? YES.
UH, WHO WAS THE SECOND? TOMORROW BELL.
UH, MIKE VAN DUSEN, WOULD YOU DO A QUICK ROLL CALL TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE, UM, A VOTE YES OR NO, WHETHER SUFFICIENT NOTICE HAS BEEN MADE TO PROCEED WITH THE AGENDA.
CINDY, I THINK TOMORROW WAS GONNA ANNOUNCE THE, UH, THE PEOPLE RUNNING? NO, WE HAVE TO DO THIS FIRST.
DO THE NOTICE GO OUT AND MIKE, SO WE GOTTA DO THAT FIRST.
ALRIGHT, LET'S BACK UP FOR A SECOND.
DID IT GO OUT FIVE DAYS BEFORE OR DID THAT'S A QUESTION OF, OKAY, GREG, IT'S TIME FOR THE VOTE.
INWOOD NUMBER FIVE, SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD.
FIVE VOTES THAT WE DID RECEIVE IT IN SUFFICIENT TIME.
LITERALLY SPEAKING, WE DID NOT RECEIVE IT AS SPECIFIED.
UH, MEMORIAL 16, I'M ASSUMING NO.
UH, DALTON 27 UNIVERSITY PLACE 28 RAYBURN 30.
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NEAR SOUTHWEST 38.FORT BEND 41, TRINITY HOUSTON GARDENS 48.
NORTHSIDE VILLAGE 51 GARDENS 52.
I THINK THEY WERE IN THE CALL, SORRY, UH, HARRISBURG, MANCHESTER 65.
UH, SORRY, THEY WEREN'T THERE EITHER.
THEY WERE NOT PRESENT TONIGHT.
SHALL I TALLY 'EM UP? WELL, I TALLIED THAT THERE WERE TWO NOS AND THE REST WERE YES.
IS THAT RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT.
SO THAT THERE WAS SUFFICIENT NOTICE TO PROCEED WITH THE BUSINESS OF THE MEETINGS AND THE ELECTION.
I WANNA MAKE SURE, I WANNA MAKE SURE IT GOES IN THE NOTICE IN THE, IN THE MINUTES THAT THIS IS NOT A QUESTION FOR A ROLL CALL.
THIS IS A QUESTION WHAT THE BYLAWS SPECIFICALLY SAY.
AND THE, AND AT THIS MEETING, YOU CANNOT OVERRIDE THE BYLAWS.
IT'S EITHER WAS GIVEN FIVE DAYS NOTICE OR IT WASN'T.
WE'RE NOW GOING TO THE DISCUSSION OF THE MEETING.
CINDY, CINDY, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE VOTED ON.
ARE YOU MEETING MINUTES? DOES ANYONE HAVE, UH, WE HAVE THREE SETS OF MEETING MINUTES.
I'LL FIRST ASK ABOUT THE NOVEMBER SET OF M MEETING MINUTES.
DID ANYONE HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR CORRECTIONS ABOUT THE NOVEMBER SET OF MEETING MINUTES? YES, I DID.
THIS IS GREG, SIR, JUST GUTTER.
I SENT A NOTICE WITHIN AN HOUR AFTER THEY WERE SENT OUT, BUT I HAVEN'T HAD A RESPONSE ABOUT ANY OF THAT.
UH, I REVIEWED THE, UH, ROLL CALL AT THAT MEETING.
MIKE, YOU CAN LOOK IN THE CHAT.
YEAH, MIKE, YOU CAN LOOK AT THE CHAT.
STACY EVEN EVEN TALKED TO ME IN THE CHAT ABOUT STUFF.
I WAS THERE BECAUSE THAT CAUSED ANOTHER ISSUE.
SO I WOULD PROPOSE THAT THE CORRECTION BE MADE THAT, UH, GREG ERGAS CUTTER ATTENDED THE NOVEMBER MEETING MINUTES.
I MEAN, THAT HE WAS AT THE NOVEMBER MEETING.
SO THAT IS, ARE THERE ANY OTHER CORRECTIONS OR COMMENTS ABOUT THE NOVEMBER MEETING? MINUTES? OKAY.
UH, OTHER THAN, UH, GREG'S ATTENDANCE, UH, ANY COMMENTS OR CORRECTIONS ABOUT THE DECEMBER MEETING? MINUTES.
UH, AND HOW ABOUT THE JANUARY MEETING MINUTES? UH, YES.
THERE I WAS NOTIFIED OF THE MISSPELLING OF PAR, UH, PAULA PARCEL'S NAME? THAT'S CORRECT.
SO MISSPELLING OF PAULA PARTIAL.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? DID, THANK YOU,
SO WE HAVE, UH, AN ADDITION TO THE ATTENDANCE FOR THE NOVEMBER MEETING MINUTES.
WE HAVE A SPELLING CORRECTION FOR JANUARY.
ANY OTHER, UH, CORRECTIONS OR REVISIONS FOR THE MEETING MINUTES? OKAY.
WE CAN VOTE ON THEM INDIVIDUALLY OR WE CAN VOTE ON THEM TOGETHER.
UM, I MOVE THAT WE A VOTE TO APPROVE THEM IN LUMP TOGETHER.
SO THE MOTION WAS BY WHO? CHERYL.
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AND WHO MADE THE SECOND TAMARA BELL? TAMARA BELL TO CONSIDER ALL THREE TOGETHER IN ONE VOTE? YES.YOU CAN WE APPROVE BY SHOW OF HANDS RATHER THAN HAVE TO GO THROUGH ROW HALL AGAIN? HEY, TERRY, HOW YOU DOING? PRETTY GOOD.
TERRY, DO PEOPLE FEEL, DOES EVERYBODY HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO, UH, RAISE YOUR HANDS.
EVERYBODY KNOW HOW TO DO THAT? YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
IN THAT CASE, UH, I'M FINE WITH EVERYBODY DOING, UM, HANDS UP.
SO I SEE A LARGE NUMBER OF HANDS UP.
NOW, LET'S GO THE OTHER DIRECTION.
UM, DOES ANYONE I, UH, MANY, MANY, MANY HANDS ARE UP.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OBJECTION TO, UM, ACCEPTING THE MEETING MINUTES? OKAY.
IN THAT CASE, I WILL SAY THAT THE MEETING MINUTES FOR NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, AND JANUARY HAVE ALL BEEN APPROVED BY THE MEMBERSHIP.
SO EVERYBODY NEEDS TO CLEAR THEIR HAND RAISING NOW.
UM, THE, UH, THERE'S ONE FINAL LAST BIT OF BUSINESS, UH, THAT IS ELECTIONS.
UH, I'M JUST GONNA DO THE CHAIR PRIVILEGE FOR JUST ONE MINUTE TO, UH, THANK, UH, EVERYONE THAT I HAVE WORKED WITH THIS YEAR, UH, AS CHAIR OF THE ALLIANCE, UH, I AM TERM LIMITED OUT.
I WANT TO, UM, START BY THANKING, UH, THE WONDERFUL SUPPORT WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS.
UH, RHONDA SAUTER AND HER TEAM HAVE BEEN AN AMAZING RESOURCE AND AMAZING HELP THIS YEAR.
AND I ALSO WANNA THANK, UH, DIRECTOR AKASHA FRANCIS FOR HER ASSISTANCE.
UH, Y'ALL HAVE BEEN AMAZING AND THANK YOU ALL.
UH, I WANT TO THANK, UH, ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE CITY, CITY COUNCIL AND THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS FOR FUNDING, UH, BROADCASTING OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS.
UH, THAT WAS, UH, SOMETHING THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE FOUGHT VERY, VERY HARD FOR, BUT SOMEBODY HAS TO PAY FOR IT, AND IT'S COMING OUTTA THE BUDGET, BUDGET OF THE DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS.
I THINK IT'S A VERY WORTHWHILE PROGRAM, UH, AND I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU IN THE FUTURE AS THE BUDGETING SEASON COMES UP, THAT YOU ADVOCATE AND, AND EXPRESS YOUR SUPPORT, UH, FOR THIS, UH, PROGRAM.
CONTINUING TO BE BROADCAST ON HTV.
AND FINALLY, UH, UH, NO ONE RUNS AN ORGANIZATION BY THEMSELVES, UH, THIS YEAR.
UH, I I WANT TO THANK, UH, THE OUTGOING EXECUTIVE TEAM, UH, VICE CHAIR ROY LIRA, OUR SECRETARY, STACY FAIRCHILD AND SCOTT KUBLER, FOR ALL THE ENERGY AND PASSION THAT YOU, UH, EXERTED THIS YEAR ON BEHALF THE SUPER NEIGHBOR RELIANCE.
UH, THERE ARE MANY THINGS YOU COULD HAVE BEEN DOING WITH YOUR TIME AND YOU CHOSE TO DEVOTE YOUR TIME TO HELPING THE ALLIANCE BE A BETTER ORGANIZATION AND TO HELP ME, BUT REALLY TO HELP THE ALLIANCE.
AND, UH, I GREATLY APPRECIATE ALL YOUR IDEAS AND, AND ALL THE EFFORT YOU PUT FORTH THIS YEAR.
Y'ALL, Y'ALL WERE A GREAT TEAM.
AND NOW I WILL TURN IT OVER TO, UH, THE NOMINATING, UH, COMMITTEE, TAMARA BELL AND MIKE VAN DUSEN, UH, TO TALK ABOUT THE ELECTION PROCESS.
FIRST OFF, UH, I WANT TO THANK YOU, CINDY.
UH, I STILL REMEMBER WHEN I CALLED YOU AND ASKED YOU, UH, ABOUT BEING THE LEADER.
UH, MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA, UM, THE COMMITMENT, UM, THAT IT TAKES, UH, TO DO THIS.
AND I MEAN, TIME IS THE MOST PRECIOUS COMMODITY THAT YOU HAVE.
AND WHEN YOU ARE WILLING TO VOLUNTEER TO THE HOURS, AND I MEAN THOUSANDS OF HOURS THAT WE VOLUNTEER TO THIS, IT DESERVES A, A, A, HALLELUJAH AND AMEN.
AND LIFE CHALLENGES DON'T STOP BECAUSE YOU'RE VOLUNTEERING.
AND WHEN YOU CONTINUE YOUR LEADERSHIP THROUGH THE CHALLENGES, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT WHAT THAT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANNA SAY AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH, CINDY.
I MEAN IT, I, I, UH, FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, I, I THANK YOU SO MUCH, UM, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
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YES, THAT'S RIGHT.I WANT A REAL CLAP, NOT A VIRTUAL.
OKAY, NOW, NOW RE MUTE YOURSELF.
TONIGHT, UH, THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE, UH, MET AND THIS IS, UH, ONUS TAKE IN ITSELF, UH, UM, LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP THAT, UH, REFLECTS WHAT, UH, THE FOUNDATION OF SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE IS ABOUT.
AND IT IS ABOUT COMMUNITY SERVICE AND INCLUSIVENESS.
UM, IT IS ABOUT MAKING SURE, HELLO, IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT ALL NEIGHBORHOODS ARE INVOLVED, UM, AND FEEL WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE, UM, NO MATTER, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU LIVE, UH, THAT YOU CAN BE A PART OF THE LEADERSHIP AND THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO MAKE SURE IT IS INCLUSIVE.
AND WHEN YOU GET THESE POSITIONS, IT IS ONLY FOR A MOMENT.
UH, SOMETIMES IT'S FOR TWO YEARS, SOMETIMES IT'S FOR ONE.
YOU ARE A CUSTODIAN OF THE STUDENT NEIGHBOR LINES.
YOU DON'T OWN IT, IT AIN'T YOURS.
YOU CAN'T PASS IT DOWN AND PASS IT TO WHOEVER YOU LIKE.
IT IS A BODY OF COLLECTIVE MINDS THAT VOTE FOR WHAT THEY WANT AND HOW THEY WANT IT.
AND YOU KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU ARE LOOKING FOR LEADERSHIP.
UM, SO TONIGHT'S SLATE, UM, UH, WE ARE GONNA TAKE, UH, EACH POSITION BY ITSELF AND ASK ARE THERE ANY NOMINATIONS FROM THE FLOOR? UH, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE ARE MIKE, GIVE ME THE SPECIFICS BECAUSE
UM, BASICALLY ANY ACTIVE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE LAST THREE MONTHS MEETINGS IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE TONIGHT.
UH, THAT'S THE QUORUM REQUIREMENT.
UH, WE HAD, UH, 33, UH, 27 ATTENDING, UH, SECRET NEIGHBORHOODS THIS EVENING.
AND THE QUORUM REQUIREMENT WAS 17, WHICH IS 50% OF THE PREVIOUS THREE MONTHS ATTENDEES PLUS ONE.
SO, UM, WE START WITH THE SECRETARY, AND THEN WE GO TO THE PRESIDENT.
OUR NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY IS SYLVIA REVA.
DO WE HAVE ANY NOMINATIONS FROM THE FLOOR FOR SECRETARY? GO ON ONCE, GOING TWICE, THREE TIMES.
I, I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE TAKE A VOTE ON OUR SECRETARY.
ARE WE GOING IN FAVOR? WERE YOU GONNA INTRODUCE EACH OF THE, UH, CANDIDATES FOR EACH POSITION AND THEN WE CAN DO THE ROLL CALL? VOTE NO.
UH, SYLVIA RIVAS, UH, ALL IN FAVOR? UH, HIT YOUR HAND ON YOUR, ON YOUR, THERE YOU GO.
ALL RIGHT, MIKE, WE'RE STILL COMING IN.
MAKE SURE WE ONLY COUNT THE ONES THAT WE CAN COUNT.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S GONNA WORK.
SINCE WE CAN'T, DO WE CURRENTLY WE HAVE 17 HANDS UP.
RIGHT? BUT WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE VOTING HANDS, BUT WE THE ELIGIBLE VOTE NOW, RHONDA.
SO, SO, SO MIKE'S GONNA HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE GO THROUGH.
CAN, MAY I ASK A QUESTION FIRST PLEASE? SURE.
WHO, WHO ELSE WHO THIS, THIS IS NAOMI OSTFELD.
I'M ACTUALLY SECRETARY OF BRAZO SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD I SEE DOWN THERE AND SYLVIA'S PRESIDENT.
AND MY QUESTION IS, I NOTICED THAT SYLVIA DID NOT PUT UP HER HAND VOTING FOR HERSELF.
UH, I CAN TELL YOU SYLVIA IS AN OUTSTANDING CANDIDATE.
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CONSEQUENTLY, DOES THIS MEAN THAT I VOTE IF SHE'S NOT GONNA VOTE FOR THE, YOU KNOW, IN OUR POSITION, I, I, I ALWAYS SUGGEST THE TWO OF YOU TEXT EACH OTHER.YOU GET ONE VOTE FOR SUPER, SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU ALL TEXT AMONG YOURSELVES.
WHO'S GONNA VOTE? WELL, IF SYLVIA VOTES FOR HERSELF, I WON'T VOTE.
BUT IF SHE DOESN'T, I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR HER.
I'LL REMIND PEOPLE WE'VE GOT 18 MINUTES LEFT OF THIS MEETING, SO WE DO, YEAH.
MAY I SUGGEST THAT WE DO A LUMP VOTE, BUT LET TOMORROW PRESENT THE SLATE.
AND THEN ASK IF THERE'S ANY FROM THE, THAT'S FLOOR FOR ANY OF THEM AND THEN, ALRIGHT.
YEAH, WE, I DIDN'T WANNA
SO FOR SECRETARY AND SYLVIA, RE REVA FOR VICE CHAIR IS KEITH DOWNEY FOR CHAIR IS SHER O'BRIEN.
WILL ALL THREE OF YOU ALL RAISE YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR? RAISE THEM LIKE YOU JUST CHAIR
THESE ARE THE NOMINEES FROM THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE.
ARE THERE ANY NOMINEES FROM THE FLOOR POINT OF INFORMATION? IS THIS STACY FAIRCHILD'S FIRST OR SECOND YEAR AS SECRETARY? STACY SERVED ONE TERM, BUT SHE'S NOT RUNNING THIS TERM.
SO ONE YEAR OR TWO YEAR? IT WAS HER FIRST YEAR.
THE FIRST YEAR SHE, SHE STEPPED DOWN FROM THE, FROM THE POSITION? YES.
BUT IT'S, SHE HAS A TWO, SHE HAS A TWO YEAR TERM, AND I'M NOT SURE ANY ABOVE SCHOOL.
AND YOU COULD RUN FOR THE SECOND YEAR OR NOT IS YOUR CHOICE? NO, NO, NO, NO.
THE SECRETARY IS A TWO YEAR TERM.
WE DON'T FORCE PEOPLE TO CORRECT.
SO DOES, SO DOESN'T THAT MEAN THAT HER TERM HAS TO BE CON UH, LIKE YOU HAVE TO FINISH HER TERM OUT? SO WHOEVER TAKES HER JOB IS JUST FINISHING OUT HER TERM, RIGHT? THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR OF HER TERM.
SHE WOULD BE FILLING THE UNFINISHED TERM POINT.
THE UNFINISHED TERM IS THE POINT.
WAS THIS, WAS THIS INFORMATION EVER SENT OUT ABOUT STACEY RESIGNING FROM HER TERM AND THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE? IT DOESN'T.
SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO RE UM, WE HAD SOMEBODY WHO WAS GONNA RUN, WHO GOT ILL.
SO SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO SIT ON NOTICE.
WE DON'T, WE DON'T FORCE PEOPLE TO STAY IN POSITION.
SHE DECIDED THAT SHE DIDN'T WANNA RUN.
SO IS THERE A NOMINATION FROM THE FLOOR FOR SHE HAS, SHE HAS, SHE HAS AN, WE HAVE AN UNEXPIRED TERM FOR THE SECRETARY.
I'M NOW HEARING THAT SHE HAS RESIGNED FROM THAT POSITION.
THE ONLY POSITIONS I THINK ANY OF US WERE MADE AWARE OF UNTIL TONIGHT WAS THE PRESIDENT, UH, OR WHATEVER THEY, THE, THE PRESIDENT AND VICE CHAIRMAN, THOSE TWO, GREG THERE AS CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR AT THE TIME NOTICE WAS SENT OUT.
SO I THINK IN THIS CASE, WE SHOULD PROBABLY DEFER ON THIS ONE.
UNLESS THE COMMITTEE ITSELF, THE EXECUTIVES COMMITTEE.
WHAT YOU, LEMME LET, ALL I HEAR IS NO, BECAUSE I'M, LEMME, LEMME SEE, BECAUSE WE'RE WE NOT GIVING AN OPPORTUNITY? LEMME 15 MINUTES.
DO WE HAVE ANY NOMINATIONS FOR ANY OF THESE POSITIONS FROM THE FLOOR? EITHER SECRETARY, VICE CHAIR, OR CHAIR.
ARE THERE ANY NOMINATIONS FROM NOMINATION FROM THE FLOOR? OKAY.
UM, UM, MIKE, I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ACCEPT THE SLATE AS PRESENTED.
ALL IN FAVOR? HIT YOUR HAND A SECOND.
GINA SYLVESTER, SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD PARTY.
I MOVE THAT WE ELECT ALL THREE CANDIDATES BY ACCLIMATION.
UM, SO WHAT DO WE WANNA DO? DO WE WANT, HAVE EVERYBODY HOLD OUR HANDS UP? THEY ALL
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IN FAVOR? SAY I ALL AGAINST, YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT.LEMME, LEMME JUST, LEMME SAY THIS.
IS THERE ANYONE OPPOSING THIS? SPEAK UP, PLEASE.
UH, I'M JUST SUPPOSING BECAUSE PROPER NOSE WASN'T DELIVERED.
ANYONE ELSE? AND BY, UH, PROCLAMATION, UH, OF ALL BUT ONE, UH, VOTING MEMBER, UH, I'D SAY THAT THE SLATE HAS NOW BEEN ELECTED.
THAT, THAT, UH, THANK YOU CONCLUDES THE BUSINESS PORTION.
IT'S BEEN A LITTLE CHAOTIC TONIGHT.
A LITTLE MORE CHAOTIC THAN USUAL, BUT I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU STICKING THROUGH THE BUSINESS PART.
UM, AND, UM, WE DO HAVE JUST A FEW MINUTES HERE.
I REALIZE WE SKIPPED THROUGH THE ANNOUNCEMENTS.
DOES ANYONE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT, UM, THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE FOR THEIR COMMUNITY? UM, KEITH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK EVERYBODY.
UM, THANK EVERYBODY FOR YOUR CONFIDENCE.
LET'S, UM, LET'S WORK ON SOME OF THESE THINGS, UH, WITH THE CITY TO TRY TO, UM, MAKE OUR COMMUNITY STRONGER AND HEALTHIER.
UM, BUT I ALSO WANT TO THANK EVERYONE THAT CAME OUT SATURDAY TO KME GARDEN.
WE WERE ABLE TO PLANT 700 TREES IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND WE GAVE OUT ANOTHER 500 WHERE WE HAVE SOME MORE LEFTOVER, ANYBODY WANT PECAN, UH, SAPLING.
UH, BUT WE HAVE, UH, WE GAVE ABOUT 551 SAPLINGS AND WE STILL HAVE SOME LEFT OVER.
THERE ARE ABOUT 14 MORE TREES TO BE PLANTED IN THE COMMUNITY.
BUT, UH, IT'S, UH, TRYING TO WORK ON COMBATING THAT HEAT ISLAND EFFECT IN THE COMMUNITY WHERE THAT INDUSTRIAL PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY IS.
BUT ANYWAY, I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY HERE.
LET'S PUT OUR HEAD TO THE GRINDSTONE AND LET'S HELP THE CITY TO BE A STRONGER CITY.
AND I WANNA WELCOME ALL OF THE INCOMING SLATE.
CHERYL, KEITH AND SYLVIA, I KNOW YOU ALL ARE GONNA HAVE A WONDERFUL YEAR FOR 2023.
UH, ANYTHING I CAN DO TO SUPPORT YOU, I WILL DO 100%.
AND I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE LEADERSHIP THAT YOU ALL TAKE THE SNA TO NEXT YEAR.
I THINK IT'S GONNA BE A WONDERFUL YEAR.
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR AGREEING TO SERVE THIS YEAR.
I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU.
AND THANK YOU JANE, FOR BEING ON THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE.
YI REALLY APPRECIATE, UM, Y'ALL, UH, TAKING YOUR TIME OUT THROUGH THIS, UH, PROCESS MEANS A LOT.
I SHOULD HAVE THANKED THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE.
AND, UH, AND, AND THANK MIKE FOR STEPPING IN TO DO THE ROLL CALLS FOR US TODAY.
UH, I SEE WE HAVE SOME MORE HANDS UP FROM DIRECTOR TASHA FRANCIS.
SO ACTUALLY, SORRY ABOUT THAT.
I JUST WANTED TO HOP ON SCREEN, UH, EVERYBODY JUST TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE ALLIANCE AND THE OUTGOING LEADERSHIP, UH, MR. UH, KLER, UH, MS. CHAPMAN, UH, MS. FAIRCHILD AND MR. LEARY, YOU ALL HAVE DONE AN AMAZING JOB.
AND TO THE NEW LEADERSHIP COMING IN, I'M EXCITED TO BE WORKING WITH YOU ALL, UH, AND, UH, THE REST OF THE ALLIANCE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME AMAZING THINGS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY TEAM FOR STEPPING IN THE GAP FOR US THIS EVENING, AND LET'S HAVE AN AMAZING AND WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL YEAR.
AND THANK YOU TO OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR JOINING US TONIGHT.
YOUR SUPPORT MEANS A LOT, UH, BECAUSE IT NOT ONLY LETS US KNOW THAT, UH, WE HAVE THE ATTENTION OF OF CITY HALL, BUT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR CITIZENS TO KNOW THAT CITY HALL IS LISTENING AND, UH, VERY SPIRITED CONVERSATION THIS EVENING, GUYS.
SO THANKS FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT VALUE.
I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU.
I'LL BE QUICK 'CAUSE I KNOW OUR TIME IS LIMITED.
UM, SHERRY CORTEZ WITH THE HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
UM, SO I WANNA GET, ENCOURAGE EVERYONE ON THURSDAY AT 10:00 AM TO WATCH A, UH, PRESS RELEASE THAT WILL COME OUT, UH, MOST LIKELY BE POSTED ON THE CITY OF HOUSTON AND THE MAYOR'S, UH, FACEBOOK PAGE.
UM, BETH ISRAEL IN, UH, UH, PARTNERSHIP WITH, UM, THE HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
H-P-D-A-T-F-F-B-I, I HOPE I DON'T MISS ANYBODY.
UM, WE, WE ARE ROLLING OUT A NEW SAFE STORAGE PROGRAM, UM, THAT'S GOING TO INCLUDE
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GUN SAFES THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE GIVING AWAY, UH, TO THE PUBLIC.UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HOPE STOPS ALL THE GUNS BEING STOLEN FROM VEHICLES.
WE DID GO FROM 3,200 TO 4,400 IN ONE YEAR.
AND SO THE DA'S OFFICE, UH, SAT DOWN LAST SUMMER.
WE ALL GOT AROUND A TABLE AND WE DECIDED WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT, SOMETHING PROACTIVE, BUT SOMETHING THAT NO ONE HAS DONE NATIONWIDE.
SO WE ENDED UP PARTNERING UP WITH ACADEMY, WHO WORKED WITH US ON, UH, THESE GUN SAFES.
WE HAVE OVER 6,000 TO GIVE OUT.
UM, AND THEY BE BRANDED WITH OUR, UM, THE HPD BRAND, WITH THE DA'S OFFICE AND THE CITY OF HOUSTON.
AND, UM, THEY WILL BE ROLLING OUT IN YOUR PIP MEETINGS THROUGH HPD, SO THAT, THAT IT IS GOING TO BE WONDERFUL.
UM, AND SO WE HOPE THIS HELPS.
AND PLEASE REMEMBER, ALTHOUGH WE DON'T WANT GUNS STOLEN FROM CARS, YOU CAN ALSO USE THESE GUN SAFES FOR YOUR CELL PHONE, FOR YOUR ID IF YOU WANNA LOCK 'EM UP IN YOUR CAR AND NOT WANNA RISK GETTING THEM STOLEN OUTTA YOUR CAR.
SO THE GUN SAFES HAVE A LEASH ON THEM THAT YOU WOULD, UH, LATCH ONTO THE, THE BASE OF YOUR CAR.
UM, THAT'S ALREADY BOLTED DOWN, BUT WE'LL BE DOING A DEMONSTRATION WITH THAT THROUGH TRACY HICKS WITH HPD.
UM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ALL GONNA START ROLLING OUT IN ON THURSDAY.
I'VE BEEN CHOMPING AT THE BIT TO TELL YOU GUYS ALL ABOUT THIS, UM, BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR SO LONG.
BUT THIS THURSDAY IS THE MAGIC DAY THAT EVERYTHING'S GONNA COME OUT AND, AND YOU'LL GET TO HEAR FROM EVERYBODY.
UM, SO I WILL KEEP REITERATING THIS IS SAFE STORAGE MONTH.
PLEASE STOP LEAVING YOUR GUNS IN YOUR CARS AND HANDING 'EM OVER TO CRIMINALS TO USE AGAINST US.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO STOP IT, AND THIS IS IT.
SECOND THING IS ILLEGAL DUMPING.
PLEASE CONTACT HPD IF YOU SEE ILLEGAL DUMPING GOING ON.
THEY'RE THE ONES THAT DO THE INVESTIGATION.
AND ONCE THEY DO THE INVESTIGATION, THEY WILL DETERMINE IF IT GOES TO THE DA'S OFFICE FOR CHARGES, MEANING THEY'VE PROBABLY GOT VIDEO OF LICENSE PLATES AND WHATNOT TO HAND OVER TO THE DA'S OFFICE FOR CHARGES.
WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL HPD DOES THEIR INVESTIGATION.
SO PLEASE CONTACT HPD IF YOU SEE ILLEGAL.
PLEASE JOIN US ON NEXT DOOR AND YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE THROUGH HARRIS COUNTY AND YOU WILL SEE THAT WE ARE THERE.
AND YOU CAN, UH, UNDERNEATH THE HARRIS COUNTY EMBLEM.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON EVERY DAY WITH THE DA'S OFFICE.
WE POST SEVERAL TIMES DURING THE DAY OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE'RE UP TO.
UH, COUNCILWOMAN SALLY ALCORN.
I JUST WANTED TO MENTION TOMORROW AT 10:00 AM UH, DIRECTOR FRANCIS WILL BE PRESENTING ON OUR DANGEROUS BUILDING PROCESSES THAT WE HAVE AT CITY HALL.
SO YOU MIGHT WANNA TUNE INTO THAT ON HTV.
UM, EVERYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH WHAT, WHAT ALL IS ENTAILED WHEN WE HAVE A DANGEROUS BUILDING THAT NEEDS TO COME DOWN.
THERE'S ABOUT TO BE A BUNCH OF DE DEMOLITIONS COMING UP IN THE NEXT YEAR.
AND ALSO, I KNOW CINDY, YOU, YOU ASKED THAT MAYBE PLANNING COME BACK NEXT MONTH.
I THINK THIS IS KIND OF, UH, THIS CONSERVATION DISTRICT.
I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO READ IT AND GET IT OUT TO YOUR, TO YOUR MEMBERSHIP AND TO YOUR CIVIC CLUBS AND EVERYBODY IN, UH, THAT'S INVOLVED IN YOUR SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD.
BECAUSE IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THIS IS COMING, YOU KNOW, PRETTY SOON TO CITY COUNCIL.
I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S TIME FOR THEM TO COME BACK, ALTHOUGH I, I THINK THERE SHOULD BE MORE TIME.
UM, AND I'M GONNA CERTAINLY ADVOCATE FOR MORE TIME BECAUSE YOU, YOU SAW, YOU HEARD A LOT OF QUESTIONS, BUT REALLY, UM, LET'S TALK.
HOUSTON.ORG HAS A PLACE FOR YOU TO PUT YOUR QUESTIONS IN.
YOU CAN CERTAINLY EMAIL ANY OF YOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS, ME FOR SURE WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT THE CONSERVATION DISTRICTS.
I'LL MAKE SURE THAT, UM, PLANNING GETS IT.
THIS IS A BIG DEAL AND I NEED EVERYBODY TO REALLY BE PAYING ATTENTION TO IT.
SO JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
LET'S SEE, UH, IS IT, DOES, UH, SORRY.
MARK WILLIAMSON TWO, UH, THREE, THREE QUICK THINGS.
UH, I'M GLAD I WAS ABLE TO MAKE, MAKE A MEETING BEFORE I REACHED THE, FINALLY REACHED THE END OF MY, UH, LONG LIMITED.
I'VE BEEN OUT OF TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITED OUT OF MY OFFICE FOR FOUR OR FIVE YEARS THAT I COULDN'T FIND A REPLACEMENT.
I THINK I FINALLY FIND A REPLACEMENT, BUT I HAD TO COME MAKE A MEETING
SO I'M GLAD I SAW A NEW SET OF LEADERS COME IN.
I'M SORRY I WAS A LITTLE TOO LE LITERAL WHEN I VOTED EARLIER.
I'M DOUBLY SORRY BECAUSE I FAILED TO GO BACK AND NOTICE THAT YOUR JANUARY NOTICE ACTUALLY INCLUDED THE DATE OF TODAY'S MEETING.
SO IN JANUARY YOU SENT OUT THE NOTICE OF THE DATE OF TODAY'S MEETING.
AS PART OF, AS PART OF THE AGENDA.
UH, LOOK, UH, SALLY, I, I'M GLAD YOU'RE STILL ON ASHA SINCE THERE ARE SO MANY CHANGES GONNA BE MADE, A DRAFT THAT THEY PUT OUT.
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I DON'T, I THINK THEY NEED TO HAVE ANOTHER MEETING.UH, OTHER THAN THE, JUST THE ONE ON THE 22ND.
SINCE THIS IS CHANGING SO DRASTICALLY ACCORDING TO THE LANGUAGE, I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE RUSHED TO THAT NEXT MARCH.
IF THEY'RE GONNA CHANGE AS MUCH AS THEY, UH, 'CAUSE I SPOKE AS, YOU KNOW, AT THE MEETING LAST THURSDAY AND ALL THE CHANGES THAT THEY'RE SAYING, IT LOOKS NOTHING.
A ALLEGEDLY LIKE THE DRAFT, WE DON'T HAVE A CHANCE TO EVEN REVIEW IT, UH, BEFORE THE MEETING COMES.
SO I THINK THAT THEY NEED TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE MEETING FOR SOME THIS, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE'S HOMES, RIGHT? WHENEVER YOU'RE DEALING WITH PROPERTY RIGHTS, YOU, YOU GOTTA MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS IT.
I NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT DESMOND, HIS CHANCE ONE OF DESMOND ALLEN HAS HAD HIS HAND UP.
UH, WELL I SAW HIS HAND WAS UP AND THEN IT WENT DOWN AGAIN.
SO, UH, MY NAME IS DESMOND ALLEN.
I'M WITH THE CITY OF HOUSTON, SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT.
UH, JUST WANTED TO MAKE A QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT.
UM, WE ARE HOSTING A TRUCK ARTS COMPETITION, UM, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HISD.
UH, THE THEME IS I RECYCLE HOUSTON.
UM, IF YOU DO HAVE A CHILD, UH, THAT IS CURRENTLY ENROLLED AT HISD SCHOOL, UH, PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM TO VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO CHECK OUT THEIR PARTICULARS AND ENTER, UM, ANY INTERESTING ART THAT THEY HAVE INTO THE ARTS CONTEST.
THE, THE CONTEST WILL END FEBRUARY 28TH.
SO JUST WANTED TO GIVE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT.
I LAST, UM, DID SOMEBODY MAKE NEED TO MAKE A COMMENT? MY, MY APOLOGIES.
I WAS SPEAKING OUT OF TURN AHEAD.
I WANTED, UM, TO SAY, UH, MR. MCALLEN, COULD YOU PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THE REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL MEETINGS TO DIRECTOR WALLACE BROWN? I DID.
I THINK SHE MAY NOT STILL BE ON THE CALL.
AND TO THE, UH, NEW ADMINISTRATION, IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL WOULD LIKE TO TAKE UP, THEN, YOU KNOW, WE CAN KIND OF HELP FACILITATE THAT DISCUSSION.
AND I THINK MR. ROMAN HAS HIS HAND UP, SO, OKAY.
WELL I
UH, SYLVIA, YOU'VE GOT A FEW LESS THAN A MINUTE.
WHEN IS THE MANCHESTER MEETINGS HELD ON THE SITE WEBSITE? I WANNA SAY IT'S THE FIRST OR SECOND SATURDAY OF THE MONTH.
THIS IS PRISCILLA WITH THE MATTRESS AND THEY POST THOSE ON THE WEBSITE.
I, I'M ON ARE YOU ASKING FOR THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING OR THE CIVIC CLUB MEETING? NO, I'M JUST, I, I I USED TO LIVE IN MANCHESTER, SO I'M VERY EAGER TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE MEETINGS TO SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE.
SO THERE'S, THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT MEETINGS.
THERE'S THE CIVIC CLUB MEETING.
THEY HAVE THEIR MEETINGS EVERY THIRD TUESDAY AT HARTMAN PARK.
AT 6:30 PM AND THE SUPER NEIGHBORHOOD MANCHESTER SMITH EDITION, HARRISBURG, WHICH IS 65.
UH, WE HAVE OUR MEETINGS ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF ODD MONTHS AT 10:30 AM AT HARTMAN PARK.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PRISCILLA.
UH, I WILL SAY THAT WE'RE AT EIGHT O'CLOCK, WHICH IS THE OFFICIAL END TIME OF WHEN HTV ENDS.
UH, JEANETTE AND TANYA, DO YOU HAVE JUST A VERY, VERY BRIEF COMMENT, JEANETTE? EXTREMELY BRIEF.
JEANETTE GARZA, LINDNER JUST WANTED TO, UM, INTRODUCE MYSELF AS YOUR CANDIDATE FOR, UH, CITY COUNCIL IN DISTRICT H.
SO I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL AND YOUR VOTE.
IF NOT, I WOULD TAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN AT 8 0 1.
I MAKE A MOTION AND WE SECOND VAN WHO OTHER SECOND VAN? I, MIKE VAN DUSEN.